Hongxin Yang Portfolio
Curriculum Vitae I. Education
2019 - 2020
Architectural Association Intermediate 15
2019 -
Tongji University Digital Futures studio
2018 - 2019
Architectural Association First year studio
II. Work Experience
2019 -
Culture Group in Licheng District, Quanzhou City, Fujian, China Project Participated Assisting Design Renovation of Zhongshan Road project
III. Software Skills
2D Work 3D Work Graphic Film Making
Autocad Rhinoceros / Sketchup / Vray / C4D / Maya / Zbrush Photoshop / Illustrator / Indesign After Effect / Premiere
IV. Information
Name Birth Mail Phone
Hongxin Yang 06 / 04 / 1998 268876@qq.com / Hongxin.Yang@aaschool.ac.uk +86 18759996655 / +44 7517141284
Content Academic Projects
I. New Southwark Town Hall - Intermediate 15 Projects 2020 II. Welbeck Street Renovation - First Year Erika Studio Project 2019 III. Samsung Headquater - First Year John NG Studio Project 2018 IV. Architect, Practice, Works - First Year Patricia Studio Project 2018 V. Shadow and Darkness - First Year Erika Studio Project 2018
Selected Project
VI. Holotectonics parametric sculpture - Tongji Digital Future Studio 2019
Film Project
VII. Danger of Cyborg - Architectural Association Suspence of Green Studio 2019 VIII. Atrium - Architectural Association First Year Medis Study Studio 2018
Academic Projects I. Intermediate 15 - New Southwark Town Hall II. First year Studio - Welbeck Street Car Park Renovation III. First year Studio - Samsung Headquater IV. First year Studio - Architect, Practice, Works V. First year Studio - Shadow and Darkness
I. New Southwark Town Hall Type : Academic Project Year: 2020 AA Intermediate School Unit 15
‘‘...(O)nce a thing is encouragred too much, ina way it becomes respectful, and soon after that, it becomes socialized not in the sense of politics, but it becomes a right of everyone. That’s what is messing up interactive television, which is almost seen as a right. Or these awful radio programmes in which you’re invited to ring in with, your views, which makes for rather cheap radio but very dull listening for the rest of the population. I don’t want to hear what forty-five random people who have been asked to ring up the radio station think about this or that! Because it has been unoffcially recognized by thepowers that be, and has been grabbed onto by those who realize that it’s a cheap form of television or radio, it’s almost asif everything is justified because the audience can participate. And therefore you get bad theatre, bad films, bad radio, bad television....’’ Cedric Price
The whole project aims at broadening the boundary of typology of municipal architecture,
discuss the relationship between architecture and the democratic environment, and how architecture can form a better connection with citizens and politics. Also thinking about what kind of municipal buildings can better fit the current political environment in today’s rapidly changing world political pattern.
My project is the new city hall for the borough of Southwark, located in elephant & castle
, the middle part of Southwark, south London. In this project, I try to bring together civic community space and official city hall space together. To see how the relationships of two space could be place properly and see what could happen when we fused them and how formal expression and informal expression can happen at the same time and place.
WALTHAM FOREST
WANDSWORTH BUILDING DATA:
BUILDING DATA: Name: Architect:
Wandsworth Council Town Hall Edward A Hunt.
Name: Architect:
Waltham Forest Town Hall Philip Dalton Hepworth
Date: Programs:
Date: Programs:
1941 Council chamber,assembly hall
Hours of operation: Total building area: Area accessible to public: % accessible to public: Council Chamber visible? Exterior building materials:
1937 Ceremony rooms, Council Chamber, Offices Weekdays(9am to 5pm) 12,000 sqm Ground Floor, Council Chamber 25% No Bath Stone, Slate roofs
Hours of operation: Total building area: Area accessible to public: % accessible to public: Council Chamber visible? Exterior building materials:
8 hours, 5 days 5090 m² 413 m² 8.1% No Portland stone, glass, bronze
Interior building materials:
Terrazo, stone, wood, marble
Interior building materials:
Portland stone, glass, bronze, brick
Public Plaza Adjacent: Distance to closest train stop:
No 17 minutes by walking to East Putney Tube Station
Public Plaza Adjacent: Distance to closest train stop:
Yes 1470 meters
BOROUGH DATA:
BOROUGH DATA: Borough Name: Population: Area: Density: Open space per person: Urban Villages:
Wandsworth 326,474 34.26 sq.km 25,000 person/sqm 7.97 sqm/person Balham, Clapham Junction and Battersea, Putney, Tooting, Wandsworth Town
Landmarks:
Battersea Park, Battersea Power Station Jane Cooper 60 https://www.wandsworth.gov.uk/
Mayor: # of councilors: Website:
Borough Name: Population: Area: Density: Open space per person: Urban Villages:
Landmarks: Mayor: # of councilors: Website:
Waltham Forest 265,797 28 sq.km 18,000/sq mi (7,100/km2) 37.2 m2/person Bakers Arms,Cann Hall, Chingford,Chingford Hatch,Friday Hill,Hale End,Highams Park,Leyton, Leytonstone,Upper Walthamstow, Walthamstow,Whipps Cross William Morris Gallery, Lloyd Park,Queen Elizabeth's Hunting Lodge Cllr Christopher Robbins 60 https://walthamforest.gov.uk/
Here is three city halls I use to situate my new project, we can see here is Wandsworth town hall and walthomforest town hall two of them were built between 18th – 19th , at the period most of town hall are still totally like a monument which has high comparison with surrounding houses definitely not fit to the democratic environment today.
SOUTHWARK
SOUTHWARK BUILDING DATA: Name: Architect:
160 Tooley Street Allford Hall Monaghan Morris
Date: Programs:
2008 Offices, Public Studying Rooms
Hours of operation: Total building area: Area accessible to public: % accessible to public: Council Chamber visible? Exterior building materials:
9am-5pm 18600 sqm 1700 sqm 9.13% No Council Chamber Brick and Glass
Interior building materials:
Concrete, Brick, Glass, Stone
Public Plaza Adjacent: Distance to closest train stop:
no 500 meters
BOROUGH DATA: Borough Name: Population: Area: Density: Open space per person: Urban Villages: Landmarks: Mayor: # of councilors: Website:
Southwark 314,232 28.85sqkm 10,892 per sqkm n/a Borough and Bankside, Camberwell, Dulwich, Peckham and Nunhead The Shard, London Bridge, Tower of London, Tower Bridge Cllr Sandra Rhule 61 https://www.southwark.gov.uk/
And another case is the town hall of southwark which is built in 20th, compared to the two city halls, it does have higher accessibility, and it’s a part of the urban artifacts. But city hall like southwark which is completely fused into context or even can say it will be ignored when you walk by it on the street. And it can not attract people to engage into social life at all.
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The diagram in the left showing how many council tax we need to pay in
London depend on the band of our property.
Diagrams in the previous page showing how government run and how
to connect with citizens. And the relationship between the different levels of government like the govenment of the United Kingdom, the government of Great London and the government of the borough of Southwark and their respective functions and responsibilities, as well as the ways in which they are connected with the lives of their citizens. To find out what the problem is and to see from what angle we should try to increase or return the right to participate in public life to citizens.
Obviously, people mostly connected by council tax with the city hall
today, and this is the almost the only way people interact with city hall nowaday. what worst is that most people will pay the council tax online. So we need to find a better way to connect people living in the city hall except capitalism.
Two council meetings in exisiting Southwark town hall
Except the formal expression inside the city hal
Atlas of informal ways of citizens express themselves in city
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1. Graffiti 1.Physical Graffiti 2. 2.Sign Physical 3. 3.Poster Sign 4. 4. Poster
Atlas of Spaces that building shares witn public
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lding shares witn public
Blue represents the grey space in corners of city
During the eighteen century, as new bridges were built across the Tha area was transformed into a fashionable Georgian commuter suburb a Victorian period, industry and transport had led to a population increa Between the 1890s and the 1940s that elephant and castle really came earning its reputation as the ‘Piccadilly of the south’.
Denisty of city before and afte
Bombing destroyed much of the area during the second world war. Afterwards, 50 acres were identified for redevelopment. High density, slab – block estates which inspired by the ‘ bright city’ proposed by Le Corbusier and a large gyratory road system replaced terraced streets and bombsites. The dance hall at the roundabout’s centre was replaced with an electricity substation named the Michael Faraday Memorial.
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Southwark Council now insists on full demolition of the existing building to make place for anther new monument building
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CHANGE OF URBAN DENSITY IN ELEPHANT & CASTLE Site Plan The area was transformed into a fashionable Georgian commuter suburb because of the built of bridge cross Thames
river and high speed of developing transportation condition, Between the 1890s and the 1940s that elephant and castle earned its reputation as the ‘Piccadilly of the south’. Although it thrived in the late 19th and 20th century, after the bomb destroyed in world war 2 and the redevelopment of area which followed the trend of bright city proposed by Corbusier. High density, slab – block estates and a large gyratory road system replaced terraced streets and bombsites. The traditional urban fabric just been destroyed. The previous community become a transit point for Londoners to the northern London.
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Even though the shopping centre is not that successful when we see it today, but you can find many interesting minority culture group, non-governmental organization and independent business-
which are serving people who lived around and even in Southwark. And most important is those business and groups are becoming fragile because of the soaring rental fees and the high speed of gentrification of the area. So I think the insert of city hall can help create a community with virtuous circle and cooperation between official and civilian power.
MANIFESTO OF NEW TOWN HALL
I. The city hall must become a part of people’s daily life. II. City halls must be a place where citizens has opportunity to engage in
social act. III. City halls must be a place where informal/civic and formal/offical ex
pression can coexist, where diverse culture, thinking, business can be saved. IV. New typology of city hall should not be simple monument or totally
looks like a normal building which will be ignored in context. But some thing between them. V. The city hall should be as transparent as possible, which citizens can
totally see through. But the physical space should keep certain detach ment from street.
I. The city hall must become a part of people’s daily life. II. City hall must be a place where attracts citizens and allows them to engage in social act.
II. City halls must be a social intersection where informal/civic and formal/offical expres-
sion can coexist, where diverse culture, thinking, business can be saved.
MARKET
IV. New typology of city hall should not be everyday monument or totally looks like a
normal building which will be ignored in context. But something between them.
V. The city hall should be as transparent as possible, which citizens can totally see
through. But the physical space should keep certain detachment from street
SKATEPARK
COUNCIL CHAMBER
EXHIBITION SPACE
LIBRARY
CHAOTIC
QUITE
Environment of surroundings ( relative character of programs)
HIGH
LOW
Density of traffic ( flow )
flow of people
Distribution of ground floor
PUBLIC
Data storage
Reception
Relaxing area
Canteen
Office
Office
PRIVATE
PRIVATE
COUNCIL CHAMBER
Relaxing area Meeting rooms
Registrar
Reception
Consulting rooms
PUBLIC
Distribution of office floor
Flows - how to achieve office floor
From this section-perspective drawing we can see Compared to other pure monu the site, new city hall can be called as a soft monument with urban fabric inside t
And as the transparent I mentioned in the manifesto, People standing on library stall you can see what is going on in office and council chamber and when you w pening inside the city hall space.
Also Most independent business are placed into the abandoned office tower as I for increasing social communication among different floors. not only relied on th
umental skyscraper and buildings which are the result of the gentrification around the perimeter.
y can see what people doing in the committee room , when you sitting on market working out on the roof of city hall office, you are able to see everything is hap-
talked, and Spiral staircases are added on the tower to create more public spaces he elevator .
Compared to the original shopping centre , in the design I used large scale of slope to open the entire sunkun space where people can walk through freely without strong intention even for the commuters who pass by . In the ground floor I tried to insert different functions that allow citizens can find their own interesting, and the small scale and dense street shaped by functions on the ground floor trying to repair the damage of modernist rough planning to the traditional urban fabric. Interior of Ground floor (market part)
NEW SOUTHWARK TOWNHALL Ground Floor Plan 1. Market 2. Skatepark 3. Transportation 4. Council chamber 5. Training studio 6. Flexible space(relaxing area) 7. Committee rooms
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8. Library 9. Studying area 10. Exhibition space 11. Tube station 12. Pub 13. The Cornet Theatre 14. Michael Faraday Memorial
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About the distribution of the city office floor, the council chamber will in the centre of the structure and it will be most public space for the city hall office. So the programs far away the centre will be functions relatively private like office, meeting room. The programs close to the council chamber will be more public like consulting rooms,registar etc. Interior of office floor
NEW SOUTHWARK TOWNHALL Office Floor Plan 1. Council Chamber 2. Reception 3. Consulting rooms 4. Meeting rooms 5. Toilet
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6. Office 7. Canteen 8. Kitchen 9. Data storage (library) 10. Relaxing area (flexible area)
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Because of the fragile of the independent business, I place some in the high rise abandoned office tower which create certain detachment from street and help save diverse cultures, thinkings and business. And spiral staircases are added on two side of the tower to create public spaces for increasing more chance to happen stories among different floors. Interior of independent business tower
NEW SOUTHWARK TOWNHALL Typical Independent Business Floor Plan
1. Independent business 2. Toilet 3. Stadium runway 4. Relaxing area
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II. Welbeck Street Car Park Renovation Type : Academic Project Year: 2019 AA First Year Erika Suzuki Studio
This project is located in Welbeck Street, London. It was a car park structure serving
Selfridge Shopping Center. Now it is going to be renovate into a public house with diverse programs serving the area and Westminister. In this project. I tried to explore how to activate the block and community and provide the proper function to the site and community. In the design I applied the concept of Fun Palace designed by Cedric Price and the shape leaf of clover into the design of structures, by rotating those leaves with different height of platform the space can be shaped to fulfill different need of different time in a day, like night and daytime.
Daytime
Night
The operation logic of the public house About how entire architecture run and rotate, first in order to guarantee the safety of
kids,kid center is relatively isolated and the platform of kid center is fixed.
In the daytime, the platform of teachers office room will be rotated to connect with the
platform of library of kid center. And for the platforms of two public towers, they will be organized continuously just like a vertical spiraling square with different functions. But at the evening the connection between office tower and two public towers will be
disconnected by rotating platform. Two public tower will be shaped into a club ,visitors will listen to the music and dance from two upstair platform. The downstairs platform will be the core of club.
WELBECK STREET PUBLIC HOUSE Site Plan
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WELBECK STREET PUBLIC HOUSE Ground Floor & First Floor & Second Floor Plan Section A-A & Section B-B 1. Staircase 2. Lift 3. Toilet 4. Kids library 5. Kids entertainment room 6. Kids classroom
7. Reception 8. Council leader office room 9. City council office room 10. City council meeting room 11. City council reception 12. City council consultant room
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13. Stage (dancing floor) 14. Exhibition space 15. Market 16. Adult learning room 17. Media learning room 18. Mechanism
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III. Samsung Headquater America Type : Academic Project Year: 2018 AA First Year John NG Studio This is a research for exploring the architectural typology of office building of American high-tech companies.
SAMSUNG HQ AMERICA Typical Entertainment Floor Plan Typical Office Floor Plan Section A-A Section B-B
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project unkown
project 3
project 2 project 1 project 3
project 2
ARCHITECTURE DESIGN
project 1 INTERIOR DESIGN
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project 1
BE CONTINUED
LIGHT DESIGN
project 2
PRODUCTION TEAM
MAKE UP & PROSTHETICS
project 3
INDUSTRIAL DESIGN
ELECTRONICS & ANIONICS
DESIGN TEAM
quaility control
ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIAN & CO-FOUNDER
FILM SCHOLAR & CO-FOUNDER
MEDIA DESIGN
ENGINEERING ASSISTANT
GENERAL MANAGER
PAINT SHOP
INTERIOR ARCHITECT & CO-FOUNDER
CORPORATE TEAM
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MOLDING & SCULPTURING
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COSTUME MEDIA & WEBSITE
INTERIOR DECORATION
ARCHIVE
CONSTRUCTION TEAM MINIATURE &MODEL
OUTSOURCING TEAM
total number of staff first two years
(2026 - 2028)
15-25
second step
(2028 - 2030)
30-50
third step
(2030 -2033)
50+
fourth step
(2033-
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IV. Architect, Practice, Works Type : Academic Project Year: 2018 AA First Year Patricia Studio
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In this project, I start imagining and speculating possible roles of being an architect and
having an architecture practice, like how to set up a architecture practice, and what is the corporate structure and form for architecture firm in the future . And then I use three diagrams to show what does the practice make? How can architectural work happen in the practice and how the space of an architectural firm will be.
Those diagrams show the organization structure of the practice in different period , what
tool the practice need in different periods. Meanwhile, and the space design in response to the change of organization structure and need.
I planned the growth of the practice into four steps, and represent them in four different
depths of blue. In the first, the practice might only have 4 co-founder, an architect , an interior architect, a architectural historian and a film scholar. Our team will expand gradually and have design team, production team, media team to
hold curation and publish and manufacture team to participate in model making and set building.Due to the insufficient experience in the early stage, we will ask …….
About the tool,I divide those tools into three categories, production team, design team
and manufacture team.The intersection of the three patterns is the tools they all need or share. And five items in the centre are the tools all team will use. Similarly, I’ll use the different depths of blue to match the tools what we will buy in each period. As to the space……
VR motion platform
drone
DSLR camera tripod
rail for light source
VR motion platform
testing light source 2
iphone testing light source 1
VR headset
sofa
drone
ruler
DSLR camera
telephone
tea cup
handheld 3D scanner
tripod projector
plotter
rail for light source
tracing paper script & book knife
sketch material
testing light source 2
iphone testing light source 1
VR headset
sofa office chair
DESKTOP
handheld 3D scanner copier & printer
cutting mat 3D printer
robotic arm
ruler telephone
tea cup
projector
plotter
laptop
tracing paper
script & book knife
sketch material
construction drawing shovel
saw
glue
mobile ladder
welding machine CNC machine electric scissor lift
construction helmet
chisel
office chair
construction ruler
DESKTOP gloves
copier & printer
cutting mat vise
welding mask
shear
laptop wrench
drill
electronic drill
saw
glue
mobile ladder
trolley
welding machine CNC machine
paint
electric scissor lift construction ruler
construction helmet
chisel
forklift
brushes
construction drawing shovel
vise
gloves
welding mask
shear
scaffold
sanding machine hammer wrench
drill
electronic drill
forklift
brushes
trolley
paint
first two years second step
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2
third step
1 PRODUCTION TEAM 2 MANUFACTURE TEAM
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fourth step
3 DESIGN TEAM
first two years second step
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third step fourth step
robotic arm
scaffold
sanding machine hammer
3D printer
1 PRODUCTION TEAM 2 MANUFACTURE TEAM
3
3 DESIGN TEAM
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2030
FILM ARCHITECTURE OFFICE Floor Plan in first two year Floor Plan after early development
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V. Shadow and Darkness Type : Academic Project Year: 2018 AA First Year Erika Suzuki Studio
“Deep Shadows and darkness are essential, because they dim the sharpness of vision, make depth and distance am-
biguous, and invite unconscious peripheral vision and tactile fantasy.” Juhani Pallasmaa, The Eyes of the Skin, 2005 This project is aiming at mastering light and shadow. Learning how J.MW Turner, Biritish artist used shadow to
trigger sensation and certain feelings. So this a drawing of JMW Turner about a Italian church. And I use physical model and artificial light to test whether the drawing are actually represents the sensation. And by redesigning the structure and space , the placement of light sources,camera ,mirror to achieve the sensation of drawing maximumly.
Two light source (one is soft light and one is hard light) to achieve the sense of layering. And because artist will spend couple of hours on drawing, so the light of scene will be changed.
Mirror - to replicate more layers
Blue glass piece behind window to create cold light
Selected Projects
VI. Tongji Digital Futures Studio - Holotectonic
VI. Holotectonics Type : Selected Practical Project Year: 2019 Tongji Digital Futures Studio
“The machine has no feelings, it feels no fear and no hope ... it operates according to the pure logic of probability. For this reason I assert that the robot perceives more accurately than man.”
Max Frisch, Homo Faber:A Report
“The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.” Jean Baudrillard
In this project we try to combine the aspects of construction with aspects of spatial articulation. Technology has the potential to generate novel condition as well as serving as
universal language between disciplines.
Film Projects
VII. Suspence of Green Studio - Danger of Cyborg VII. First Year Media Study - Atrium
In the videoďźŒobjects I created are the monitors of the future society that I envision. They are distributed around every corner of our lives, collecting analyzing and monitoring people's lives. These monitors directly alienate people into instantly available data, just as those internet technology companies like facebook and google are doing to us today, using algorithms gather our data and shape our lives .
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But the people who live in them are hardly aware of their existence. They live in the world images created by these tools (modern technology). The most frightening thing is that no one realizes the seriousness of the problem. I try to use this video to warn people the dangers of technology and cyborg.
Danger of Cyborg Suspense On a Green Screen
DANGER OF CYBORG
Type : Film Project Year: 2019 Suspence of Green Studio
Hongxin.Yang
In the video, objects l created are the monitors of the future society that l
envision. They are distributed around every corner of our lives, collectina analyzina and monitoring people’s lives.
These monitors directly alienate people into instantly available data, just
as those internet technology companies like facebook and gooale are doina to us todav, usina alaorithms aather our data and shape our lives.
But the people who live in them are hardly aware of their existence. They
live in the world images created by these tools (modern technology). The most frightening thing is that no one realizes the seriousness of the problem. So I try to use this video to warn people the dangers of technology and cyborg
Video Link: https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1QJ411q77G
VII. Atrium Type : Film Project Year: 2018 First Year Media Study Studio
This video tells the story of a person who tries to get a heart in the atrium
in order to become a relatively complete human being, but at the same time he is distorted by the distorting space. And this space also represents the inner world of the character, and his inner world is gradually collapsing as he keeps chasing the heart.
In the original concept, the character will fall into multiple spaces in turn,
and lose certain things in each space for leaving that space. This corresponds to the core idea of existentialism: If you gain something, you must lost something accordingly. And this video is one of all the spaces.
Video Link: https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1ot41197C5