PORTFOLIO Hewen Jiang
CONTENTS
MEMORY a recall of past Museum design - nostalgia of banyan tree [p.01]
OUTLOOK a plan for future Revitalization of river corridor - landscape urbanism about connectivity [p.08]
Hybrid a typology about balance New town design - typological approach [p.14]
arousal a prototypical solution Timescape school - monumentality about time [p.18]
flow Skyscrapper Design - a future skyscrapper system
Glow
Installation Design - new material with interaction
rulecraft
Form and Algorithm research
01 Memory
Museum design - a recall of past
Type: Academic Architecture Design Third Year Design Studio Supervisor: Dr. Ke Xiang
04/2014-07/2014, Guangzhou Team Work, Individual Redraw Partner: Yifan Cai Contribution: Concept and Schematic Design, Location Research, Modeling, Physical Model Making Award: 1.Top 10% in 2014 Chinese Contest of the Rookies' Award 2.The Second Award of A+E Design Schorlarship
“The "tyranny of the private realm" is destroying our cities.�----Court and Garden by Professor Michael Dennis Under the rapid urbanization process, a lot of culture and substances carried with memories are diminishing. This project is not only to bring back the memories of traditional social spaces by reproducing the scene of banyan tree and its associated life but also a protest to some selfish modern buildings.
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01 Memory - a recall of past CHALLENGE “The "tyranny of the private realm" is destroying our cities.� ----Court and Garden by Professor Michael Dennis To gain more profit, more land has been used for intensive exploitation. Instead of being friendly to the city and citizens, some developers nowadays only cares about their own benefits while designing architectures. Moreover, some memory and culture such as leisure lifestyle under the old banyan tree also have gone with the land. As a result, there will be no place for southern Chinese to comfort their nostalgia of banyan tree.
Stretch as high as possible.
Unwelcome citizens.
The diminishing banyan trees and culture
Occupy the land as much as possible.
Strange shape was adopted to be special.
SITE ANALYSIS
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1.Ferris Wheel 2.Curve Bridge 3.Little Wharf 4.Lingnan Boutique 5.Landscape Island 6.Lotus Paradise 7.Ecological Floating Bed 8.Central Island 9.Plants Island
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This architecture locates in the southeast of Baiyun Lake Park, a typical Lingnan landscape. There are several important landscape points in the park. The design, in order to be the real part of the park, is supposed to have connection with these landscape points. Firstly, in the design visitors should be able to have perception of other landscape points in vision. Secondly, in other parts of the park, the design should be harmonious visually with the park to the visitors. Thirdly, there are banyan trees in the design site originally. The design should response to these information. 02
01 Memory - a recall of past DESIGN CONCEPT The core design ideas are banyan tree and relationship of architecture, visitors and the park. According to the banyan tree, the architecture should provide friendly space for visitors to bring back the memories of traditional social spaces by reproducing the scene of banyan tree and its associated life. To make the relationship close and friendly, instead of being distinct, the museum should blend in the park and provide space for visitors to have activities.
Generating Process 1.Origin
2.Windmill
The architecure should make response to the surrounding.
Windmill, a typical toy, will increase the visual possibility to the scenery, decrease the sensation of volume.
3.Core
4.Crown
Adding a banyan tree in the core of the windmill to strenghthen the topic of the museum.
The third floor moves closer to the lake, providing grey space and decreasing the sensation of volume.
5.Aerial Roots
6.Leaf Crevices
Columns stretches from the museum to the ground, which defines the grey space and supports the building.
Using shutter, a typical ecological technique in Lingnan, as roof to make the outside environment a part of the interior design of museum.
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01 Memory - a recall of past landscape showcase Lingnan Landscape in the Baiyun Park is also an important part of Lingnan Culture. To make this culture a part of exhibition in the museum. "Landscape Showcase", referring to the "enframed scenery" principle in classical Chinese garden, is designed in this museum. With "Landscape Showcase", which is equally important to other substantial exhibits, visitors can feel the outside environment while visiting the museum.
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01 Memory - a recall of past WINDMILL INSIDE THE MUSEUM Circulation
Exhibition
Orientation
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Windmill shape is suitable for single-line-circulation in museum design. It also provides more exhibition possibility and makes the orientation of interior space obvious.
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01 Memory - a recall of past Under the banyan tree South China Art& Culture Museum as a public architecture has its responsibility to give something back to the public. In this project, the museum is not a arrogant and indifferent building, which usually look distant from the most noteless and homely villager. On the contrary, it acts actively as a community space and nostalgia space to comfort the lose of the old Banyan tree in everyone's memory.
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02 Outlook
Revitalization of river corridor - a plan for future
Type: Academic & Personal Urban Design/Lanscape Design "SCUT+UCB" International Urban Design Workshop Supervisor: Prof. Peter Bosselmann 12/2014, Guangzhou Individual Work
"New Orleans is wide-awake, but they are not yet discussing these questions(water issue) in the great Chinese, Vietnamese or Indian deltas. It’s high time that that changed. There are tens of millions of people living there!" ----Prof. Peter Bosselmann This design is to use landscape urbanism as a method to deal with the existing problems of the site: segregation, infrastructure and the relationship between villagers and river. Further, water level rising in 100 years is also considered, according to which the design can coordinate.
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02 Outlook - a plan for future CHALLENGE The village locates in a relatively low lying land, which may suffer from flood of the adjacent river, though it may be not so obvious nowadays. Moreover, the present situation of the river leads to the isolation of the village to some extent. The polluted water from agriculture and dwelling makes the river dirty and may cause the bloom of algea.
Insider(village)
Wall
River
Wall
Market
Parking Lot
Grove
Grove
Parking Lot
Garbage
Dwelling
Temporary Building
Outsider(city)
SITE ANALYSIS
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02 Outlook - a plan for future GENERATING PROCESS
STEP 1
DESIGN ANALYSIS
STEP 2
STEP 3
STEP 4
MASTER PLAN
SECTIONS OF DESIGN
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02 Outlook - a plan for future
SECTION 1-1
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02 Outlook - a plan for future SECTION 2-2
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Water level is rising. The structure is improving. Trees are growing. People are aging.
1. Soil 2. Little Gravel 3. Big Gravel 4. Geotechnical Cloth 5. Pipe 6. Irrigation Pipe 7. Plants Net 8. Wooden Deck 9. Rock 10.Waterproof Cement 11.Aluminum Structure 12. Reinforced Glass 13.Replaceable Hanging
DEVELOPMENT PROCESS
2015-2045
2045-2115
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In 2015, building a 0.9m-height levee can provide places for people to play and run. Also, it can protect the village from damage of water level rising in 30 years.
In 2045, building a 2.5m-height glass wall and decks can provide places for people to play, rest and run. Also, it can protect the village from damage of water level
In 2115, increasing the height of glass wall can protect the village from damage of water level rising and flood.
rising in 70 years.
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02 Outlook - a plan for future
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03 Hybrid
New town design - a typology about balance
Type: Academic ThirdDesign Year Design Studio Urban in Architecture Design Fourth Year Design Studio
05/2014-07/2014,Guangzhou Supervisor: Dr. Yimin Sun, Dr. Yigang Zhou Team Work Role in Team: Concept Development, 04/2015-06/2015, Guangzhou Location Research, Diagram Drawing Team Work,in Individual Redesign and Redraw 1.Top100 Competition Shinjinsen Initial Design Partners: Yitong Yao, 2.The Second awardBairong of A+E Wu, Design Schorlarship 3.Excellent Design Award of 2014Wu, National Bilin Chen, Kunting Chen, Zhenxing Yi Hu, Architecture College Exhibition Xinglin Cai, Qiao wang, Students Yueyi Li, Work Yaqing Liang Contribution: Team Leader, Research, Concept Generation, Diagram Drawing, Modeling Follow-up Design: Individual
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03 Hybrid - a typology about balance CONDITION OF URBANIZATION In China, in the first place, conflicts between citizens, architecture and environment are mild. When urbanization got rapid, high rise buildings with podium buildings and wide roads, in order to get profits, occur deliriously, which have occupied public space. Furthermore, connection between citizens, architecture and environment has become weak.
SITE ANALYSIS
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03 Hybrid - a typology about balance BENEFIT ANALYSIS
TYPOLOGY APPROACH Adjacent
Run Through Laterally with One-story Height
Run Through Laterally with Two-story Height
Run Through Inside
Tower
Separated
Type A-2
Type A-3
Type A-4
Type A-5
Type B-1
Type B-2
Type B-3
Type B-4
Type B-5
Type C-1
Type C-2
Type C-3
Type C-4
Type C-5
Type D-1
Type D-2
Type D-3
Type D-4
Type D-5
Four-story Podium building
Three-story Podium building
Two-story Podium building
Type A-1
TYPE C-4
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03 Hybrid - a typology about balance
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04 Arousal
Timescape school - a prototypical solution
Type: Personal Architecture Design UIA-Hyp Cup 2015 International Competition 07/2015-08/2015, Guangxi Team Work, Individual Redraw Partners: Yifan Cai, Qi Wang, Zhuoqi Lin Contribution: Concept Development, Modeling, Rendering, Diagram Drawing Award:Finalist
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04 Arousal - a prototypical solution CHALLENGE
Teenagers in cities barely treasure their chance of education and barely understand the meaning of it. We've witnessed that so many students became totally confused and went astray after attending college. In villages of China, on the contrary, numerous children have been left behind by their parents who work in the city. They have no ability to make their living, no chance to study at school, and no one to accompany them. Their life are full of desperation.
SITE ANALYSIS
Guangxi Province in China Front Facade of Stilted Building
Guilin City Side Facade of Stilted Building
School
Longji Terrace
Village
The design site locates in Longji Terrace, where contains poor villages. The special local building and landform contribute to the design.
Terrace
The local building, stilted building, emphasizes horizontal division, which is also an obvious characteristic of terrace. This character guide the design of architecture.
OPERATION MECHANISM
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City
TARGET STUDENT
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Left-behind in village
PROBLEM
CAUSE
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PROBLEM
unawareness of the benefit of knowledge
unawareness of the benefit of knowledge
daily heavy rural work
unawareness of preciousness of education
resourceless
passiveness to future
NET addiction
smoking
bullying
current solutions 1 Complusive teenager camp
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CONCEPTUAL SOLUTIONS
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knowledege
self-actualization esteem
skills learning
love
communication
safety
basic physiological needs
physiological
Work time = Currency
work
Maslow’s hierarchy of need as prototype
Function in the school
reshape
1 Availability of resources by work
MEANING
current solutions
RESULT Low participation
Little effect RESULT
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Mix students from city and village
A few hope schools 1
2 Nothing is free
Shape the architecture
3 TIME is fair to everyone
Availability of resoures by work 1 MEANING
Students can realize thier flaws 1 and learn from each other
Direct function of knowledge to life 2
MEANING
Pre-experience of society 3
1 Realize the preciousness of education
GOAL
2 Realize the benefit of knowledge 3 Self-actualize with own effort
We need a balance. Children from cities should be educated to be grateful and gain their resource on their own; children from villages also deserve a chance to gain education with all the effort they have made.
This is what we propose, a utopia of study, where students will gain all their resources, including food, shelters and, most importantly, education, with their labor. 19
04 Arousal - a prototypical solution
NAMASTE
STUDY just costs a few work hours. I will graduate soon with enough study time.
Enjoy the marvelous scenery of terrace.
Learning some skills can promote my working efficiency.
Talking to my friend makes me feel better. I would rather to take care of flowers.
I am relaxing myself and thinking of the meaning of knowledge.
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Sport is healthier than surfing the internet.
ollow the rhythm, ance with me, rothers.
I have to work to gain work hours.
I still have enough HOURS to sleep.
With the knowledge I learned from the book recently, I can work faster and easier. I come to watch movies with my friends.
HEY, focus on class.
I can feel the nature. PLEASE tell me your study tricks!
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04 Arousal - a prototypical solution CHANNEL
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Ratio of view
4.8m
7.8m
3.3m
100°
Scale
Commucation Room
80%
41°
Meditation Room
4.8m
3m
50%
17m
109°
6m
60%
4.8m
40%
4m
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The Channel is a place for students to feel the nature, consider about themselves and communicate with others deeply. Terrace, a marvelous native landscape, provides a chance for students to forget the flashy things brought by the hustle and bustle of city and calm down to contemplate. Rooms with different scales provide different feelings to meet different needs. In addition, the shadow of channel is an essential part of courtyard space.
Cafetaria
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04 Arousal - a prototypical solution MASTER PLAN
SHADOW AS SPACE DIVISION
In different time in a day, the situations of shadow place and sunshine place are different. It makes possible for the same place suitable for different activities in different times in one day, which will recommend a reasonable schedule to students. The school is also a teacher.
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05 Flow
Skyscrapper Design - A future skyscrapper system
Type: Academic Architecture Design 09/2016-12/2016
Team Work Partners: Boqun Huai, Yue Peng Contribution: Concept Development, Modeling, Rendering, Diagram Drawing
Nowadays, human-computer interaction have infiltrated virtually every industry on the planet. However, architectural design has not followed this global technological trend as closely. Therefore, this project proposes a self-conscious and metabolic building model: the building should interact with the environment and people, making the three become a complete symbiotic system.
05 Flow - a future skyscrapper system ELEVATION
PROPOSAL This project proposes a self-conscious and metabolic building model: the building should interact with the environment and people, making the three become a complete symbiotic system. Like plants in nature can produce photosynthetic capacity to transport nutrients, the building can detect its own energy needs, regulate transmission, and perform post-analysis on information collected, emulating nature's own comprehensive self-regulation.
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Grow to get more resource(Sunshine, view, land efficiency, social status)
Use adajustable exterior to adapt the environment.
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Human was regarded as a kind of nutrion for building. And building uses rapid elevator to transport people.
PHYSICAL MODEL
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05 Flow - a future skyscrapper system DETAILED SECTION
INTERIOR DESIGN
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06 Glow
Installation Design - A try of new material
Type: Academic Installation Design 09/2016-12/2016
Team Work Partners: Xiaoyu Zhao, Jianbo Zhong, Hadeel Ayed Mohammad Contribution: Concept Development, Physical Model, Interactive System
INTERACTIVE SYSTEM
BENDING FRAME
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07 Rulecraft
Form and Algorithm research
Type: Academic Algorithm Research 09/2016-12/2016 Individual Work
2D RULECRAFT
1ST Line
Randaom 1ST Line
Black 2rd Line
1ST Line Grey 2rd Line
1ST Line White 2rd Line
3D RULECRAFT RULESET CHANGING EXAMPLE
Black/ Grey /White 2rd Generation Ruleset Changing 1ST Generation
2nd Generation
2rd Generation Ruleset Changing 1ST Generation
1ST Generation
2D PATTERNS
2D PATTERNS
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08 Resume
Hewen Jiang
3900 Chestnut St, Philadelphia, PA 19104 (+1) 267-776-9414 hewen@upenn.edu
Education 2016 - 2018
Master of Architecture University of Pennsylvania(UPENN)
2014 - 2016
Bachelor of Architecture South China University of Technology (SCUT)
2011 - 2014
South China University of Technology (SCUT)
Competition August 2015
August 2014
GPA: 3.73/4.0, RANK: 17/115
Major: Urban Planning, RANK: 2/54
UIA-HYP Cup 2015 International Student Competition in Architectural Design Finalists
2014 Chinese Contest of the Rookies' Award Top 100
May 2013
Honor July 2014
September 2014
August 2013
GUT "Rest Station for Sanitary Workers" Competition Third Prize
Scholarship for Academic Performance Third Prize
A+E Design Enterprise Scholarship Second Prize
KinLong Scholarship Third Prize
July 2013
National Encouragement Scholarship First Prize
July 2012
China Poly Group Corporation Enterprise Scholarship Second Prize
Relevant Experience January 2015
International Urban Design Workshop "SCUT + U.C.Berkeley" Director: Prof. Peter Bosselmann Role: Participant
October 2015January 2016 June 2015
Nanya Designs Co., Ltd Role: Intern
Study Trip of Urban Design in America
Director: Prof. Michael Dennis, Prof.Peter Bosselmann, Prof. Roy Strickland, Prof. Yimin Sun Role: Participant March 2014March 2015 May 2015
"Effect of Roof Green on Rain Runoff" Experiment and Research Role: Participant
"Cities in Film" Workshop Director: Prof. Roy Strickland Role: Participant
November 2013
International Urban Design Workshop "SCUT + U.C.Berkeley" Director: Prof. Peter Bosselmann Role: Volunteer
November 2013January 2014
Kazuo Shinohara Exhibition Role: Voluntary narrator
Software Skills
Rhinoceros, Maya, Grasshopper, Processing, Maxwell, Pyhton, AutoCAD, Adobe Photoshop/ Illustrator/Indesign, Sketch Up, Revit, Lumion, Vray, Ecotect, Keyshot, Premier
(+1) 2677769414 hewen@upenn.edu 3900 Chestnut St, Philadelphia, PA 19104, US