JIALIN WANG
Architectural design portfolio
London ｜ Shanghai ｜ Hangzhou 2015-2020
Jialin Wang Architectural Designer E-mail: jialin.wang@network.rca.ac.uk Tel: +44 07421807280
During the practice of urban space design, she explores space as a humanistic communication carrier and experimentally discusses the combination of commercial space and sustainable development issues. With the help of academic research opportunities, she also tries to respond to the urban intergenerational relationships, cares about the iteration of architecture, and imagines the possibility of future urban development.
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EDUCATION
2008-2012 Zhejiang Sci-tech University, Hangzhou, China - BA Artistic Design (Environment Art) 2019-2020 Royal College of Art, London, UK - MA City Design 2019 MA City Design Field Trip (RCA), Barcelona, Spain 2020 MPavilion International Exchange Student, Melbourne, Australia 2021 Central Saint Martins (UAL), London, UK - Costume Design for Performance
EXPERIENCE
2011-2012 Longfor Properties Co., Ltd., Hangzhou, China - Interior Design Intern 2012-2013 VBD Design Group, Hangzhou, China - Interior Design Assistant 2013-2014 SANTIKU Decoration Engineering Co., Ltd., Shanghai, China - Interior Designer 2015-2019 WUWEI Design Studio, Shanghai, China – Founder & Interior Architect
ACHIEVEMENTS
2010 UAcity International Architecture Competition, China - Shortlisted Candidate 2012 China National Scholarship 2016 Jintang Prize China Interior Awards - Excellent works of the year 2017 Idea-Tops International Space Design Award – Shanghai Area of China: Office Design Silver Award； Shortlisted Candidate for The Best Office Design 2020 Royal College of Art: MPavilion Travel Scholarship
SKILLS
MS office, Hand drafting, AutoCAD, SketchUp, Rhino, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Premiere
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COMMERCIAL PROJECTS 2015-2017
JIANGNAN 1535 MAKERSPACE, 2016BAILEQIAO LEISURE TEAHOUSE, 2015 No.168 HOMESTAY HOTEL, 2017
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This chapter selects three projects that Jialin Wang participated in as the chief interior architect, reflecting her comprehensive ability in different stages, from the commercial project's conceptual design to constructive cooperation. Since 2015, Jialin has had the honour to participate in projects mainly in Shanghai and Hangzhou, including office, catering, homestay, and other commercial projects. Besides the drawing and communication of design plans, her work also involves on-site cooperation between the construction site and the furniture customization factory. At this stage, the interior architect has accumulated experience that she could not learn in the undergraduate study and the previous pure design work, especially the new knowledge and problem-solving methods through communication with people of different majors. Most importantly, it strengthened her team organization and scheduling ability and prompted her to operate different projects efficiently.
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JIANGNAN 1535 MAKERSPACE Idea-Tops International Space Design Award – Shanghai Area of China: Office Design Silver Award； Shortlisted Candidate for The Best Office Design 4,000 ㎡｜ Hangzhou, China ｜ 2016
Jiangnan 1535 Makerspace, an office design project located in Hangzhou, China, providing multifunctional and flexible office space for internet finance start-ups since 2016. From investors and users' perspective, it has achieved the office culture of 'Come to Jiangnan 1535, drink tea, start a business, and find dreams'. From an architectural perspective, it serves as a container for working and life needs, implanting office and life function modules within the spatial framework, responding to long working hours, unstable team size, changeable office environment, and insufficient living facilities. It inherits the essential functions of the traditional office. Moreover, it combines functional areas such as catering, fitness, farm, supermarket, games, social and rest, providing users with a one-stop officelife collection space in the process of flexible evolution. 05
Multi-function Atrium
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This project is the first big office design project that Jialin realized as the chief designer. In this process, she was fortunate to work with users and understand their needs, completing the high-intensity work from design concept communication, drawing to construction cooperation. She is very grateful to the team partners and experts who have provided her with technical support for at least one year and formed a long-term cooperative relationship. This project's success has also provided Jialin with confidence in studying architectural design and pursuing an architect career.
Outdoor Landscape
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Ground floor layout
1 Reception 2 Self-service Supermarket
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3 Multi-function Atrium 4 Farm/Pet Park 5 Meditation 6 Gym 7 Canteen 8 Sunshine House 9 Cafe
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Open Workspace
Self-service Supermarket
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Axonometric view Sunshine House
Color Container
Cafe
Multi-function Atrium
Canteen
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Open Workspace
Farm/Pet Park
Working facilities are divided into six open areas around the Farm/Pet Park, and entertainment/social spaces are scattered. A colour container is equipped with a private meeting function for each open workspace, combined with the online meeting reservation system to satisfy the partition self-service management. 11
North-south section
Open Workspace
Open Workspace
Private Workspace
Reading Stairs
Conference Container
Open Workspace
Multi-function Atrium
Culture Show
Cafe
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Open Workspace
Farm/Pet Park
Conference Container
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Outdoor Recreation Area
Reading Stairs
Gym
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LEISURE TEAHOUSE Jintang Prize China Interior Awards - Excellent works of the year 400 ㎡｜ Shanghai, China ｜ 2015
Leisure Tea House is a commercial tea culture project located in Shanghai, China, which includes spaces for exhibition and sale of tea products, collection of traditional Chinese crafts, and Kungfu tea experience. The project provides a roaming path for Chinese culture lovers - smelling traditional tea, listening to classical music, watching tea performance, tasting refreshments. It uses the traditional Chinese wooden grille as the main element of space separation, making people desire to explore the process of conversion between open and semi-open spaces. Another highlight of the spatial design is the reference to the traditional Chinese roof structure. After simplifying and redesigning reference, a doublelayer tea space concept has come true within limited space requirements. 15
Public Tea Hall
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Culture Performance Area
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The difficulty of this project lies in the selection and experimentation of materials, especially the wooden structure. Therefore, the construction team and the interior architect spent at least two months on the site discussing the use of wood, metal and bricks, while taking into account the furniture design and ordering. Jialin was also mainly responsible for communication with customers and construction drawings, which have accumulated practical experience for her and provided a basis for discussion in other traditional Chinese style projects. 18
Ground floor layout
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Corridor on the first floor
Staircase
Public Tea Hall
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West elevation The corridor window lattice simplifies the traditional Chinese pattern and chooses the old treatment similar to the pillar's elmwood finish.
The Cashier's decoration is made of grey roof tiles overlapped with fish scale patterns, and the back is treated with warm light. It is one part of the indirect ambient light source.
Longitudinal section Woven fabric base + Beige latex paint treatment
Elm custom door
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Elm custom furniture
Blue brick
Elm sliding door
Fake window lattice with back lighting
North-south section Chinese traditional beam-column structure is simplified and applied to the roof design. The slightly inclined roof changes the visual experience of the original cement frame structure. It combines with the newly added elmwood pillars to form China's 'tea pavilion's artistic conception.'
Elm decorative frame
Bronze pillar base
Elm grille is the most commonly used partition form in this space. Its arrangement density and light transmittance separate public, semi-open and private area. The warm light through it creates a gentle and mysterious atmosphere. Besides, the combination of plants, traditional handicraft decoration and wooden grille enriches the space.
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Private Space on the first floor
Display Wall in Public Tea Hall
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BAILEQIAO No.168 HOMESTAY HOTEL 200 ㎡｜ Hangzhou, China ｜ 2017
Baileqiao Homestay is a small hotel project located in the scenic spot of Hangzhou Lingyin Temple. It bases on reconstructing an aboriginal building and only provides four rooms and catering services for tourists. This project's primary focus is to immerse the interior and exterior of the building in the rustic and elegant cultural atmosphere so that the visitors will feel like living in a local's home after entering the environment. Therefore, we tried wood, bricks, cotton and linen fabrics and other materials consistent with the local environment as much as possible without too much decoration. Also, through the transformation of doors and windows, the outdoor landscape is introduced into the interior. The interior decoration also echoes the exterior space, creating an immersive experience as a whole. 06 25
Canteen on the ground floor
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Entrance Hall & Check-in
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In this project, the interior architect was mainly responsible for concept design and communication with the clients. From a technical point of view, it did not have too many complicated details. The main difficulty was choosing the original design standpoint to maintain its current value despite the budget reduction and changes in the clients' wishes. Besides, using Ecofriendly materials as much as possible and ensuring the hotel's sustainable development was also a significant issue.
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Ground floor layout
First floor layout
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Second floor layout
The interior design has maintained some traditional Chinese village and Zen elements, combined with modern minimalist lines. The ground floor is mainly used for checkin, social and catering. There are four rooms with different layouts on the first and second floors, which are matched by the furniture design with traditional artistic conception. C
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ACADEMIC PROJECTS 2018-2020
GRAFTOPIA!-THE MANIFESTO FROM WOOD GREEN, 2020 IMMERSIVE THEATRE FOR YAOCHEN LI, 2019 SWAPPER & GEEK SPACE 2.0, 2018
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This chapter mainly includes Jialin's graduate studies and two experimental projects she did before the MA application. During the RCA study, her research projects base on the current situation of the population, housing, and employment issues in Wood Green (London). She critically considered the possibility of future collaborative lifework models from different scales. In addition to research in London, she also visited social housing and public cultural facilities in Barcelona and Melbourne through field trips and international workshops, proposing collaborative community ideas from intergenerational and social care perspectives combined with previous architectural typological research. Besides, Jialin also tried to study some spatial experience topics when working in Shanghai, doing conceptual experiments from a theoretical point of view. Based on more research, she hopes to embed these ideas into future practical projects.
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GRAFTOPIA! THE MANIFESTO FROM WOOD GREEN Royal College of Art ｜ London, UK ｜ 2020
Graftopia! It is an urban lifestyle in the future. The grafting system focuses on inspiring more people to become active and productive identities, living and working in an inclusive and cooperative environment. It discusses the future life-work system through a new and old building combination that could be grafted and grown from an architectural perspective. Based on the test site - Wood Green (London), it tries to preserve the typical Victorian terraces while expanding public space and integrates the expandable community working facilities into the living area to stimulate the inactive groups’ participation. At the same time, it responds to the affordable housing, population, and employment issues. Under this intervention, people could redefine their living and working spaces freely under the context of public facility sharing, knowledge exchange, skill development, and social care. Therefore, every identity would be unique and connectable in the urban system, spaces could be transformed and copied, interaction is diverse, and citizens’ high participation becomes a vibrant trigger for an active city. 33
Manifesto
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3D model Community scale
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Axonometric view Building scale
'Negotiate Rooftops' As a private or rentable work space
Multiple living units It is renovated from the basic plan of Victorian terraces to meet the living needs of single, couple, student sharing or families with 3-4 people.
Original Victorian terraces
Elevator
'Walkable Ground' + 'Growable Tables' Residents obtain free food and the right to use kitchen/education/fitness facilities by co-planting indoors and outdoors and participating in community activities. Commercial brands are also introduced into the community based on residents' votes and evaluations. They have free space use rights on the ground floor but must provide the community with clean and corresponding brand services.
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Second floor layout Workspace - 'Negotiate Rooftops'
First floor layout Multiple living units
Ground floor layout
'Walkable Ground'
'Growable Tables'
Collaborative community 'Walkable Ground' + 'Growable Tables'
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The system has three narrative boards - Growable Tables, Walkable Ground and Negotiate Rooftops. They are indoor and outdoor planting, cooking, education, entertainment, fitness, and business spaces derived from the typical Victorian terraces, which complements the original residence's missing public space. According to the system, we discuss the sustainable use of residential buildings and the cooperative relationship between people with various social roles in the same community. Drone transportation, rainwater irrigation technology, and community credit payment system are also considered in the entire collaborative community's operation system, which is expected to be discussed in depth in the future. 39
'Negotiate Rooftops' –
an inside-out display of personal work-life status, where people show, sell, rent and share their work products, private facilities or space with neighbours for more benefits. The building structure on the roof could be connected or separated according to people's work and life's openness.
'Walkable Ground' –
common rooms of houses, which is transformed from the ground floor of Victoria Terraces, providing shared kitchens and educational facilities. The previous residents use the ground floor in exchange for the right to use community shared facilities and have the right to build rentable or self-use working areas on their roofs.
'Growable Tables' –
a plaza of diverse workspaces - people participate in outdoor planting and public performances here, obtain food and meet entertainment needs through collective activities.
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IMMERSIVE THEATRE FOR YAOCHEN LI Pingyao, China ｜ 2019
This project is an experimental architectural design based on an immersive space topic. It uses narrative techniques to provide space experiencers with a free path to explore drama and architecture. The theatre serves a single play, and the story script is developed around the true stories of China's last famous escort Yaochen Li. There are five building components derived from these stories. Furthermore, the spatial form, light, and internal decorative elements also changed according to the script's ups and downs. Therefore, the visitors walk into the theatre and experience the mysterious, surprise, excitement, and tranquil dramatic changes instead of sitting in a fixed seat to watch the drama. This project also provides the interior architect with design experience in implanting immersive experience spaces into commercial projects.
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Section - 'Hall of praise'
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Audiences are led to the unpredictable story by the blue walls, low roof, and gleaming lights of the entrance space, embarking on a tortuous road of exploration. Indoor light and outdoor natural light shuttle through the corridor with small holes in the wall, creating a mysterious atmosphere. In the free-roaming space, people inside peek at the outside, and outside visitors peek at the drama chapters inside. Anxiety and hope fill every corner of the space, and the unknown future calls people forward. 43
Section - 'The gate of life story' & 'The way to exploration'
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Exploded axonometric
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Actor position Main entrance Main indoor routes Secondary indoor routes Outdoor roaming path
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Indoor Theatre - 'The way to exploration'
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Model
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Stairs to the roof
'Mirror access'
Roof perspective
External exploration
External exploration
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SWAPPER & GEEK SPACE 2.0 Shanghai, China ｜ 2018
This is a continuation of an undergraduate subject related to landscape architecture installations. It is a temporary social space for exchanges of second-hand goods and skills and a supplement to the community's public entertainment and education space. The installation structure is inspired by traditional Chinese puzzle games, which produce dynamic points, lines, surfaces and bodies in human interaction. Through repeated experiments and refinements, this geometric combination is used in landscape architectural design. The anticorrosive bamboo is the primary material, and the fine cotton and linen mesh cloth has a sunshade effect. People can build different installations according to the site and add furniture for exhibitions and rest inside or outside the structure. Therefore, its variability and movable characteristics enable the landscape architecture to be copied and used in various places in the city. 49
Aerial view
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Service design is also taken into consideration in the overall design system. For example, users register for a free membership through a mobile app, then publish items or skills they want to exchange online, establish contact with other users, and finally realize exchange activities through offline interaction. The higher the user's activity, the more points they can get, and the points can be exchanged for more commercial coupons and space lease rights. The space management can be operated by a commercial management team or by non-profit organizations, including users. 51
External view
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Circulation
Internal path
Furniture
External path
Internal furniture
External furniture
Material & Scale Bamboo + Translucent cotton and linen mesh cloth
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Rooftop view
Internal view
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Jialin Wang E-mail: jialin.wang@network.rca.ac.uk Tel: +44 07421807280
