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SELECTED WORK 2014-2022

CLAN, COMMUNITY, COUNTRYSIDE

Task Urabn Design location:Kuming, Yunan province

Date: JUNE-JULY,2018,8 weeks

Tutor:ZHIHONG WU

Group work :Concept generation,Diagram Drawing,Rendering,graghic design

SPECIFICATION:

The first step is to strengthen social ties between members of the existing community through the renovation of traditional public spaces and the introduction of new communal areas. local villagers should be mobilized to renovate common open spaces. traditional architectural techniques and associated cultural industries can be reintroduced. new communal areas should be introduced to foster better communication within the existing community.

The second step is to build a new community of clans and communal space by sorting out existing resources and establishing cooperative infrastructures such as a canal, the main street, and a lake. The large family and small clan name should be combined, and the neighborhood should be developed in conjunction.

Third, after the initial success of the building community, hydroponic vegetables are introduced in Haiyan village to mitigate the effects of pollution of Lake. While this ecological strategy can promote cooperation among neighboring communities along the Lake to create a larger community-oriented by mitigation of water pollution and controlled popularization of the Dianchi Lake.

RESEARCH OF CHINESE RURAL AREA

STEP1: Reintegration of Dispersed Public Space (patriarchal clan system-oriented )

The first step is to reinforce the existing community of family name, renovate the original activity space, and improve the quality of the current population. Specific sites are chosen to rebound the existed community which shares the same family name.

Based on the site survey, It is concluded that the current situation of the site is that people use the public space to grow vegetables, chat, hang clothes and raise poultry. By reintegrating these existing behaviors, the loose bonds will be reinstated, a robust connected patriarchal clan system will be established

STEP 2: Integration into New Community (Clan+Regions Oriented)

After the re-integration of the clan, the clan was reintegrated with different regions to form a new community-oriented by the district and family. Such a new community was bound together with three elements of Shared resources, future development direction and spatial connection, which was respectively carried out in three linear Spaces: canal, main street and dianchi lake coast.

RAMMED EARTH BULILDINCi DEMONSTRATION DETAILS

DEMONSTRATION RENOVATION FOR HOTEL

DEMONSTRATION RENOVATION FOR TEAHOUSE

DENSE YET SPARSE

Task：Studio Design location：DALI, Yunan province

Date: SEP. 2018, 4 weeks

Tutor: None

Partnership: Individual

SPECIFICATION:

In this project, it is an experiment in the translation of traditional Chinese aesthetic philosophy into a universally understandable architectural language. In the art of classical Chinese calligraphy and seal cutting, it follows the principle of "BEING SPACIOUS ENOUGH FOR A HOUSE TO GALLOP IN BEING SO DENCE THAT NOT A BREATH OF AIR CAN PASS THROUGH," starts from the existing formal language of the existing architecture, combines the function of the studio with the traditional Chinese aesthetic principle, and aims at connecting the so-called mysterious classic Chinese aesthetic with modern architecture. From the plan to the section, the spatial density brings different spatial feelings and endows various spatial programs.

AUTORITÆRE GRÆNSER, EN FALSK EN AUTHORITARIAN BOUNDARIES, A FAKE ONE

This is a daily dystopia in a city on the border between China and North Korea. The design is a watchhouse, a border market, a square, residences, and children's playgrounds.

Here, the legacy of communism and the prosperity of the market economy, juxtaposition, tittytainment and propaganda coexist, and monuments and daily life interact.

Here provide dark corners for defectors

Here provides a bright tower for the army

This is where Mao Zedong is an icon and also a consumed icon, and so is Kim.

Life itself is dispelling huge in this dystopia, and building this dystopia is resisting idols. This is a hodgepodge of semantic metaphor and iconic symbolization, the exploding gesture of architecture from the perspective of daily life.

It is no longer a spectacle, but like the signboards of cafes and supermarket advertisements, the routine of this dystopia.

It is a challenging narrative, not about war, ideology, God's perspective, Western theory, and rationalism here. These single narratives become the background, and people are the protagonists.

Where are the people？

PLAYABLE, WATCHABLE, WALKABLE

Task：Stadium design location：Kuming, Yunan province

Date: April-May，2018，8 weeks

Tutor: Wei Guo

Group work :Concept generation, Diagram Drawing, Rendering, Model making SPECIFICATION:

This design comes from the in-depth exploration of the typology of gymnasiums and proposes that gymnasiums should be designed as a public building to stimulate the vitality of places and for people's activities, while traditional Chinese gardens are handled adequately based on the relationship between site and people's movements. Therefore, this design is proposed based on understanding the artistic conception of Chinese gardens, which is " mountain-like, water-like, earth-like" in form and " playable, watchable, walkable" in function. Based on satisfying the existing tasks of gymnasiums, it follows the ancient laws and promotes humanity..

A VILLAGE, A RUIN, A MUSEUM

Task: Museum Design location : Wulong village,Kunming, Yunan province

Date: March-May. 2016 8 weeks

Tutor: JIANFENG YE

Partnership: Individual

SPECIFICATION:

The design is a purely conceptual proposal. Facing the problem of the considerable scale difference between the villages on the edge of the urban area and the newly developed areas around it, I conceptualized a part of the existing town as the museum itself, to preserve the rarely seen texture and space in the city.

the building USES the relationship between the village's nolli map and the boundary to form the volume, sorting out the original negative space of the town. Then, the column is used as a medium to play a transitional role between the entity and space and can bring the corresponding sense of ruins and sanctity to the site. Finally, the repetition, the divinity and transparency of pillar elements are used to build a landscape along the dianchi lake. The regeneration of village texture, the creation of deity, and commemoration are the critical points of this design.

ANOTHER SECTIONAL HIGHRISE

Task: high rise

Design location: KUNMING, Yunnan province

Date: 2018, 8 weeks

Tutor: JIAN FENG YE

SPECIFICATION:

This design hopes to add a more hierarchical public space to the conventional high-rise design. Through the adjustment of the structure, I set aside an exclusive public space in the space, and created a split-level public space in a conventional high-rise building in the spatial language of floor height, section, scale, column type, and stairs.

BACK TO KUNMING

Task: Residential Area

Design location: KUNMING, Yunnan province

Date: MAY-JUNE. 2018, 8 weeks

Tutor: JIAN FENG YE

Partnership: leader of two, concept design, model, rendering SPECIFICATION:

The design aims to propose a new approach to the development of large blocks of land frequently seen in urban planning in China these days. In terms of planning ideas, under the guidance of new urbanism and city image in traditional Chinese cities, an atmosphere of old neighbourhoods and narrow paths that seems back to Kunming will be created. Within the planned residential area, the combination of people aims to create a united living state among families of different ages and compositions. The ground floor is open to the community, becoming a place where public space, commercial space and other communities interact.

Finally, in terms of the design of apartment types, in the face of Kunming's actual and future development, I designed different apartment types for other groups of people. However, due to the soaring housing prices in contemporary China, many families are faced with the dilemma of "having money to buy a house without money to decorate."

Then I developed the expandable apartment types aimed at different families and crowds. When the prospective economic condition is mature, after adding a new member to the home, they can decorate the store content space that did not decorate to become a new door model.

It is hoped that through this design, the quality of an entire block will be improved from the micro-level of each people's family type, the expanding family, to the middle level, the arrangement between different families and different family types, and finally, to the macro level, to create a neighbourhood relationship and life-bearing the traditional Chinese lifestyle.

GRASS, SOIL, TEAHOUSE, A ROMANTICIZED SUSTAINABILITY SPECIFICATION:

This project emerged from a supposedly poetic wandering in Amager.

We were looking for the earth in the ruins of industry, looking for nature on the basis of artificial, fantasizing about ourselves in the artificial wilderness, and projecting our shallow cognition of nature, green, sustainable, romanticized nature.

Grass : We inevitably found the grass, specifically, the weed, the unwanted grass. We measured the weed, sorted the weed, picked names, collected them, and pulled them out of the earth.

Then we consciously picked them, weaved them, we weaved weeds into the fabric. Weeds weave us into the material in the name of aesthetics and sustainability they become ropes, knots, nets, coasters, and later the structure, our dissatisfaction with the artificial world.

Earth/ soil/ terra： We touch the soil, pick the soil, measure the soil, smell the soil, and barefooted stand on the soil; the soil is not soil. Air, water, rotten vegetation, sand, silly, and clay are all soil. Colour from the minerals and water, smells from the organic matter, texture from human s perception

eventually, we rammed the soil together, revealing the agenda. We try to turn them into walls.

the wall： To be a wall, the soil is flesh, and grass should be bone. We rammed the earth dried the soil weaved a net of grass, and tied the grass net in the soil, organic, natural, raw, and fragrant.

the teahouse ： We propose a teahouse. We promise to use wood, earth, grass, natural wind, and human hands. Wood, earth, grass, wind, and human hands promise us a coarse, organic, natural, primitive, fragrant, more prone to collapse, uncomfortable, premature the houses of the first folk.

HOUSING FACTORY IS HOUSING

Task: HOUSING &FACTORY&PREFAB

location: KALSOY, FAROE ISLANDS

Date: 2020-2021

Tutor: Beata hemer

Partnership: Individual

SPECIFICATION:

The proposal is a housing factory which produces walls, rooms, plugins.

The people who produce the products are the owners of the products, the process of production will be staged, like the middle class’ obsession with craftsmanship, streamline workers, the room producers deserve the recognition.

Also, the factory itself would become the site of people’s new house. The more rooms and houses the factory produces, the sooner the factory will die and become housing itself.

Housing crisis

Urban myth in the Faroe Islands states that the emergence of a housing association is responsible for the soaring divorce rate in the Faroe Islands.

A decade ago, Faroese people would not get divorced. Since the housing association introduced a renting system in the Faroe Islands, Faroese people have started getting divorced. The Faroese government's focus on renting was prompted a decade ago when several Danish teachers left the country because they could not find a place to rent near the capital.

There will be a shortage of nearly 3 000 homes on the rental market for the foreseeable future, which includes roughly a fifth of a country's population of just 50 000

ASIAN BRIDE

More than 300 women from Thailand and the Philippines live in the Faroes. It doesn't sound like a lot, but in a population of just 50,000 people, they now make up the most significant ethnic minority in these 18 islands. In new millennia, the Faroes have experienced population decline, with young people leaving, often searching for education, and not returning. Women have proved more likely to settle abroad. According to Prime Minister Axel Johannesen, the Faroes have a "gender deficit" with approximately 2,000 fewer women than men. This, in turn, has led Faroese men to look beyond the islands for romance. Many, though not all, Asian women, met their husbands online, some through commercial dating websites. Others have made connections through social media networks or existing Asian-Faroese couples. For new arrivals, the culture shock can be dramatic.

SQUARE

Task：Culture Complex Design

Date: MAY.- JUN. 2019，8 weeks

Tutor: HUI ZHAI

Partnership: Individual SPECIFICATION:

In this design, I want to explore the use of some primary architectural languages in the context of traditional architecture in contrast to the traditional Chinese aesthetic concepts learned in the previous design. The site of the building is in vast farmland, and its site spirit is the basis of all architectural means. The vastness of the site and the simplicity of the basic form also make it possible to design abundant architectural Spaces within. The combination of arch, wall, the column, also became a design highlight. Here, the autonomy of architecture, self-evident, proportion and scale, massiness, become the keywords in the design. This is an exercise of original architectural style, Beaux-Art aesthetics.This is a design that learns from history, and this is a design that goes back to the primary architectural language.

CHAIR-LOKIT

location：Architacture Studio

Date: May.2015 (6 weeks)

Property: Group work (leader of 3

LAMP-CUBES

Date: JUN.2017 (2 weeks)

Property: Group work (leader of 3)

VERNACULAR ARCHITECTURE SURVEV AND JIAMA

Date: JULE, 2017 (2 WEEKS)

Property: Group work (leader of 4)

China-Japan Urban Renewal Workshop 2018

• Collaborated with four graduate students from Waseda University and Hunan university to develop

solutions for the regeneration of an ancient city -- quality improvement design of public space in Phoenix Town, Hunan Province.

• Analysed site conditions and problems, Conceptualised the instalments and Introduced a project to activate the local community.

Bio-Architecture Formasana

2019

Architectural Intern Taipei, Taiwan

• Revised facade design and modified the solar system of the roof in Taoyuan Waste to Energy Plant BOT Project, Taiwan

• Developed facade modifications, Calculated and collected dates for LEED in Taipei Nanmen Market, Taiwan

• Coordinated with the senior architects with the plan arrangement and Revised material of the renewal project of Multipurpose Gongguan Distribution Pond, Taiwan

• Model making and PPT sorting for the Elderly hospital of national Chengkong university

• Assessed preliminary research and drafted the proposal for the project in the Taipei YWCA building project, Taiwan

Kungong Fanya Design Group 2018

Architectural Intern Kunming, China

• Participated in the site analysis, designed each block in the key area urban design in Baoshan, Yunnan province

• Participate in the urban concept design, drafted several facades for the market in urban design and market design of a hot spring town, Anning, Yunnan province

• Organised for the Christiania Mapping Workshop

• Helped to set up the floating community project

Henrik Valeur 2022 Student helper Copenhagen, Denmark

Sean Li

YUXIANG LI

expected MAA Master of Architecture(2023)

Bachelor of architecture

+45 91191535

yuli2093@edu.kglakdemi.dk

liyuxiangsean@gmail.com

https://www.instagram.com/seanandxiang/

PERSONAL STATEMENT:

Collaborative, upbeat, comprehensive are the three words I heard most in both the social, professional sphere. I am good at making people work together and bringing good energy into the space; like my professor said, good karma.

Also, I equipped the unique visualising skills, diagrammatic thinking, a wide range of case studies, comprehensive review (from various scales to social-economic), and the skill to thrive in multiple tasks in the last 7 years, since the day I became an architecture student.

Through five years of traditional architecture study, more than nine months of internship, thousands of hours of related academic activities, volunteer jobs all over the place, and now as a more rounded master student at KADK, I have never been better prepared to a new challenge

EDUCATION:

The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts

(KADK) 2020-2023 Expected Master of Achitecture

Political Architecture：Critical Sustainability

Kunming University of Science and Technology (KUST)

Kunming, China, 2014-2019

Bachelor of Architecture(HONOR)

Faculty of Achitecture and City Planning

GPA: Upper division 3.78/4.0

EXHIBITION& PUBILICATION:

CHANGE DISPOSITION 1.0

Müllers Pakkhús,Tórshavn 100, Faroe Islands

CHANGE DISPOSITION 2.0

Korsgadehallen, 2200 København

Kaark_magasin KÅRK no. 41

<GRASS, SOIL, TEAHOUSE, A ROMANTICISED SUSTAINABILITY>

Kaark_magasin KÅRK no. 40

<THE TURE VOID>

Magasin for Bygningskunst og Kultur no.4

<FREJA - SOCRATIC YET HEDONISTIC>

SKILLS:

software

Sketch Up/Vray

Auto CAD

Rhinoceros

Adobe Suite

Lumion

ENSCAPE

Art Photography

Model Making (lasercut, Handmaking, ..)

Language

Chinese (Native speaker)

English (Flunent )

Danish(Beginner)

AWARDS & RECOGNITION:

Graduation with Honors (2019)

Graduation project Competition in KUST

Third Place Award (2019)

Scholarship for Academic performance

(2015,2017, 2018)

China-Japan Joint Urban Renewal Workshop

Third Place Award (2018)

the Asian Architecture And Urbanism Alliance Workshop

Outstanding Student(2018)the Best Debater in KUST（2017）

Regional Pubilic Speaking Contest First place (2018)

National Public Speaking Contest Third Place Award （2017）

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Henrik Valeur

Student helper

• Organised for the Christiania Mapping Workshop

• Helped to set up the floating community project

Det Kongelige Akademi

Student tutor

2022

Copenhagen, Denmark

Arkitekter Uden Graenser

• coordinator with the board member with event and publication

China-Japan Urban Renewal Workshop

2021

Copenhagen, Denmark

• Looked through and give feedback on our digital study start material and developed and planed social activities and tours at campus

• Discussions with/feedback to the Study administration, Carried out planned activities during the study start week and follow-up activities during the autumn semester

Atelier cnS

2019

Architectural trainee Guangzhou, China

• Revised the facade and the public space of the renovation of a beer factory in Guangzhou

• Originated demonstrative facade for rural revitalization in Foshan

Bio-Architecture Formasana

2019

Architectural Intern Taipei, Taiwan

• Revised facade design and modified the solar system of the roof in Taoyuan biomass energy waste incinerator, Taiwan

• Developed facade modifications, Calculated and collected dates for LEED in Taipei Nanmen Market, Taiwan

• Coordinated with the senior architects with the plan arrangement and Revised material of the renewal project of the Water supply building, Taiwan

• Model making and PPT sorting for the Elderly hospital of national Chengkong university

• Assessed preliminary research and drafted the proposal for the project in the Taipei YWCA building project, Taiwan

Kungong Fanya Design Group

2018

Architectural Intern Kunming, China

• Participated in the site analysis, designed each block in the key area urban design in Baoshan, Yunnan province

• Participate in the urban concept design, drafted several facades for the market in urban design and market design of a hot spring town, Anning, Yunnan province

OTHER EXPERIENCE:

CPH Architecture Festival Summer School

• Focused on the intersection of film and architecture

2022

• Explored the process of filmmaking, focusing on learning-by-doing and gaining substantial knowledge about organising, guided by professionals in producing a 3-minute-long film documenting inclusive and non-discriminatory design solutions in an immediate environment.

2022

2018

• Collaborated with four graduate students from Waseda University and Hunan university to develop solutions for the regeneration of an ancient city -- quality improvement design of public space in Phoenix Town, Hunan Province.

• Analysed site conditions and problems, Conceptualised the instalments and Introduced a project to activate the local community.

Architecture study students union

2016-2018

Mediated a considerable number of salons and lectures such as the 2017 architecture salon of the University of Miami, 2017 cross-strait university design conference.

Delegated in the Window magazine by transferring it into a contemporary context in social media.

Architectural Anthropology Museum of Yunan Province

lanned architectural anthropology salon in the museum.

2016-2017

Conducted a field survey of architectural anthropology on the Dai ethnic group in Mengla, and provided materials for anthropological documentaries.

The Contemporary Architecture Forum of China

Arranged timetable and accommodation for guests and lectures recording

VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE:

Akademisk Arkitektforening

2014

2022

As a member of Task Force for Diversity and Equality, increased insight through data collection, greater cooperation with other organisations and institutions, international collaboration and a permanent select committee continuing the work within the Association.

Shanshui Conservation Center

2016-June/2019

Participated in daily documentary film screening and teaching elders and villager to record oral history.

Bridge to China Charitable Foundation

2015- 2019

Collaborated with 24 student volunteers from different universities of Hong Kong and the Mainland China.

Took actions to improve the community environment including fixing the steps and paving the road outside the local school, building a new incinerator and a septic tank, retrofitting the pig pen etc, striving to improve the villagers’ livelihoods in Naliu Village,Funing County.

Surveyed the site for the best locations of the new bridge projects.bridge and assied others in bridge design projects.

Hongtu Aid Education Association

July-August 2015

Taught in the poverty-stricken areas in Guizhou province, including English, contemporary China geography and other subjects engaged in correspondence learning for teenagers.