Portfolio for MArch Urban Design UCL

[ A Public Space Mediator ]

Application Number: 22083097 Portfolio of CHEN JINGYI Apply for Urban Design MArch programme Selected Works From 2017 to 2021

Million Years Ago ...

"Human" is the key element of the space.By measuring the dimensions of space elements such as furniture, corridors, and doors with different functions, I found that all space designs were based on human scales. In other words, there is no so-called "space" without human participation.

In today's many erroneous urban constructions, the connection between public spaces and humans is gradually weakening. The contradictions between different groups of people, and those between people and the city have also become prominent. Considering the strong connection between public spaces and humans, fallacies in public space can lead to errors in people, activities, and even to negative developments of the society. To change the space, the activities of people in the space must also be altered.

3000 BC ...

Different Behaviors And Needs

The Birth Of Cities

My Ambition Join in the Public Mediation After The 20th Century...

From the perspective of a public space mediator, I think that the existence of public space is build upon activities.

The Birth Of Mankind

Creators & Planners Mediate The Public

Project 01 Threatening Building

Now

How to mediate the public?

What Can I Do For Urban Mediation

I believe a good urban design combines space with people's self-growth.

The great urban space does not have a clear theme but contains opposition, spanning time and accepting changes. Cities carry people's activities, and because of cities, people form diverse groups and create wealth and culture. Only with cities can there be human beings of sociological significance.

Project 02 Antiquated Street Project 03 Useless Idle Land

Architectures Landscapes Citys ...

Project 04 Abandoned Apartment

After Mediation

Future

Positive Building Active Street Effective District

Better Human habitation "Our tumultuous world needs to be infused with hope for all as we fight to remake the future of human habitation."

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Sustainable House

CHEN JINGYI Date of birth: 03/11/1998 Phone Number: +86 13228199038 Email: chenjingyi_uk@outlook.com

EDUCATION Southwest Jiaotong University ,Chengdu, China

Sep.2016-Expected Jun.2022

Bachelor of Engineering in Landscape Architecture (expected)

2017-2022

Bachelor of Engineering in Bioengineering (already transferred)

2016-2017

Average score: 86.06/100 (ranking 5/48, top 10%)

Contents

EXPERIENCE "Civil Engineering Science and Technology Month" of Southwest Jiaotong University Study on the Optimization of suburban Linpan in Chengdu City based on Parametric Design

May.2018 Aug.2020-May.2021

Beilin International Garden Construction Festival

Oct.2020

Intern at LAY-OUT Planning Consultants Co., Ltd.

Oct.2021-Dec.2021

HONOR

Knock Out The Tumor

P4-9

Prison building renovation design in Lapaz, Bolivia

Lijiatuo Street Action Guide

P10-16

City Neuron

P17-22

Urban street renewal design in Chengdu

Honorable Mention, 12th Yuanye International Competition for University Students

Aug.2021

Outstanding Student Leader at School of Architecture and Design (top 5%)

2017-2021

Scholarships for Academic Excellence (top 10%)

2017-2021

Bronze Medal, Singapore Art Design Contest

Aug.2020

First Prize, 9th NCDA National Competition

Sep.2021

2nd Prize, 3rd Beilin International Garden Construction Festival

Oct.2020

Gold Award, 2020 College Students Extracurricular Scientific and Technological Innovation Competition

Dec.2020

Urban idle land planning and design in Chengdu

Nature In The Cement Forest

P23-28 Urban housing landscape renewal design in Hongkong

SKILLS Photoshop

Illustrator

Language skills:

Sketchup

Vray

English (IELTS 6.5), Chinese (Native)

Rhinoceros

Indesign

Interests:

AutoCAD

Enscape

filming and editing, painting, vocal music and composition,

ArcGIS

ENVI

fitness

Other Works

P29-30

Knock Out The Tumor Prison building renovation design in Lapaz, Bolivia Individual Work completed in the senior year (2020.09.10-2020.11.01) Tutor:Letian Bai E-mail:bltsrorm@Outlook.com

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History of the swamp development

Project Introduction Taking san pedro prison as the research object, I tried to improve the living conditions of prisoners in the "world's most terrifying prison" through architecture design, using space as an opportunity to guide the positive development of prisoners' behavior. Before the reconstruction, this prison was filled with class oppression, violence, drugs and other disturbing factors that endangered the optimistic development of La paz’ society. It occupied the center of the city like a huge malignant tumor, continuously expanding and devouring the surrounding positive space. I tried to research the psychology of prisoners as a design breakthrough to find the factors that can really change their criminal tendency. In the end, I chose "behavior transparency" as the solution strategy for design. The negative spaces in the prison will be transparent. The behavior and gaze of residents will be supervision and guidance for prisoners.

Site analysis

Exposure of the event

Social relationship analysis

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Prisoner Cognitive Maps Prison Physical Classification

San Pedro Prison Physical Space Characteristics

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San Pedro Prison Dsesign Strategy

"Bubbles" Fight Place

Poor Basic Conditions Poor living conditions, poor sanitation, low income and low education.

Solidification Of Inner Class People in prisons continue to be exploited downwards, and it is difficult for outsiders to intervene in control.

Opaque Management

Punishment & Oppression

Space Disorder The gray space breeds here, and the abandoned space is difficult to use, accommodating people far beyond the serviceability of the space.

Spiritual Islanding Low-collar children are violent and aggressive, prisoners are socially disconnected, and they lack a sense of right and wrong.

Crime Rampant Illegal trading , murder, fighting , gambling, alcoholism.

Change the prison capacity, break the original class, and correct the prisoners .

Steal Point

N o r m a l i zat i o n f ro m 3 0 0 0 prisoners to 500 prisoners, return to normal development.

Hideout Place

Massacre Place

Hedonic Point

Transparent For Prison mechanism

Supervision & Guidance

For Office management area

Transaction Point

Dirty Breeding Point

Dirty Breeding Point

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Rebuild Prison Rules

Peeping Place

A f te r p r i s o n e rs e nte r t h e prison, they enter the dormitory according to the degree of crime, they are released after serving their sentence, and the dormitory is changed to a public space .

The increase of public space will correct the psychological state of prisoners, and play a role of warning and supervision.

For Prisoner activity area

For Prisoner's cell area

After a period of metabolism, the public space of the prison has increased, and the prisoners' introspection has become stronger, which is a positive cycle.

Intra-partition Space Update Strategy

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Retail Area Dormitory

Some prisons will be converted into indoor sports rooms to reduce waste space and increase friendly exchanges between prisoners.

The ground floor space in the prison is set up as a variety of grocery retail stores, selling prisoners’ labor products. It is isolated from the outside world by glass material, but it can enable prisoners to communicate with the outside world.

Panoramic Surveillance Office

A three-story building is added to the original office area of the prison, and the entire prison is monitored through a high tower, and a visiting area is set up here to maintain the authority of the prison administrator.

Rooftop Viewing Area A fully transparent roof space is set up on the top of the dormitory area, so that prisoners can observe the outside world at any time, maintain connectivity to the external society, and allow the outside crowd to examine the crowd in the prison.

Labor Workshop

Classroom

Garbage disposal Library

Half-open basketball court Central Canteen

A central cafeteria was added to the center of the entire prison. The transparent cafeteria allowed the prisoners to correct their behavior under the scrutiny of the entire society.

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Through the glass material and hollow setting, the basketball court inside the prison is made transparent, and the outside residents can exercise with the prisoners, increase the prisoners' sociality and return to an active life.

San Pedro Correction Center

A Renewed Prison Community ,

Landscape recreation

Prison scene in the center of the city

Look up to the sky

Indoor activities Visitors

Prisoners work every day

Alone Watch the outside world

Bright playground

Central canteen

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High wall and guard tower

Lijiatuo Street Action Guide Urban street renewal design in Chengdu Individual Work completed in the senior year (2021.05.01-2021.6.30) Tutor:Qingjuan Yang E-mail:yqj@swjtu.edu.cn

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Street Evaluation

Project Introduction "Just like a spider has a web, each subject weaves the relationship between itself and the specific attributes of the object; then, many threads are woven together to form the basis of the subject's existence."

Block A

Block B

Block C

Block D

-Biologist Weike Jakob von Uexküll Lijiatuo Street is an old community but with a strong flavor of life. It used to be the largest industrial cluster in Chengdu. Most of residents living here are old employees. However, the public space here has not been well designed and cannot satisfy the residents' daily entertainment and leisure. To renovate the old neighborhoods with a strong imprint in life, I have to respect the needs and opinions of the residents. I renewed the streets through public participation strategies, returning the power to build communities to the residents here. I updated the four blocks in different directions. Residents have a"Street Action Guide" here. They can change the streets they live in during play and leisure.

Site Analysis

Architectural Form

Street Green Rate

Street Space Form

Street Section

Street Crowd Classification

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STEP1 1Street Streetplanning planningpositioning positioning STEP

STEP 2 Provide space Planners

Block A

Country fair

Block B

Tradition

STEP STEP33Use Usespace space Residents

Volunteers

Street offices

Funders

STEP STEP44Feedback Feedbackspace space Social Designers organizations

Facade renovation Fully preserve and increase

Traffic improvement

Block C

Country fair block

Parent-child

Tradition block

Greening promotion Reduce or remove it

Suitable for aging Block D

Ecology

Old space reconstruction

Parent-child block

Ecology block

Reduce or remove it

Street furnitures

STEP 5 Reservation and integration of space Country fair + Tradition

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Country fair + Parent-child

Country fair + Ecology

Tradition + Parent-child

Tradition + Ecology

Parent-child + Ecology

Participatory Space Generation

Pingfu Market Flea market Wine market Spring rally

Riverside Garden Marathon Lantern Festival Kite flying

Campus block Graffiti corner Parent-child paradise Book club

Community Square Sichuan Opera Stage Construction festival Tea tasting day

Market space

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Bystreet space

Fence space

Focused design area Renewable facade Renewable buildings

Public park

School gate

School corner

Lawn space

Riverside space

selling

stall

construction

parent-child

waiting

assembly

sport

entertainment

assembly

greening

opinion collection

greening

comminicate

study

construction

rest

stall

entertainment

graffiti

assembly

stall

rest

greening

running

hoarding

rest

greening

construction

parent-child

reading

parent-child

play in the water

Node 2

Node 3

A friendly street serving students or parents, with a variety of street furniture, where people can play and rest. The bicycle lane has been widened and a fitness track has been added.

This is a street node that mainly serves community residents.

Street furniture is mainly based on neighborhood activities, including reading, screening, carnival, etc., to promote neighborhood exchanges.

This is a street by the river, and the road is wider.

We set up space along the street and interactive lighting installations. Carry out time-sharing transformation of roads, and organize residents to run and ride during car-free hours.

N

Node 1

N

N

Flower pond

Trash can + tree pool

Bookshelf

Chair + tree pool

Tree pool

Indicator+ Tree pool

Node 2

1:3000

Indicator

Node 1

1:3000

Exhibition

Relax chairs

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Furniture

Assembly

Node 3

Party

1:3000

Sports Equipment Athletic track

Stalls

Lights

STREET PARTICIIPATION MONOPOLY Through the implantation of various activities, p l a n n e rs e n a b l e co m m u n i t y re s i d e nt s to independently choose and participate in the renewal of streets and carry out street autonomy.

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The streets are being reshaped ...

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Morning Marathons

Afternoon Flower Fair

After the planner widens the sidewalk, so residents can hold sports games and community marathons at any time, and use the sidewalk as a runway .

The riverside park will be transformed into a green space that can be planted. In spring, community residents can plant flowers and trees, create community gardens by themselves, and get closer to nature, promote parentchild and neighbor relationships.

Nightfall Take A Rest

Evening Movies

The campus street is transformed into a childfriendly space, so that children and students can play, rest and read.

D u r i n g t h e fe s t i v a l , parents and children can interact.

In the vicinity of residential buildings, various unused areas will be changed into spaces for community activities, and community public exhibitions and community construction seminars will be held from time to time.

City Neuron Urban idle land planning and design in Chengdu Individual Work completed in the junior year (2019.03.06-2019.5.20) Tutor:Letian Bai E-mail:bltsrorm@Outlook.com

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Project Introduction

College Students Analysis

In the context of the explosive development of knowledge and information in contemporary urban society, the exchange of information between universities is very necessary. I took the idle land between Sichuan University, West China Medical College and Sichuan Conservatory of Music as the research object. I classified and sorted out the majors, interests and life trajectories of the students in the three universities, summarizing their needs and skills. In design, I sorted out the gathering points of all the crowds, using the mode of human neuron transmission as the background of spatial planning, and transformed the idle land between the three schools into a hub for effective exchange and communication. The public space is a medium that exchanges information and knowledge between different universities, making their lives more efficient and redefining the way universities will be integrated in the future.

Site Selection And Analysis

Chengdu China

Site

Sichuan

Bus Station Subway Station

Format Analysis

Situation Analysis

Residential area

Commercial consumption

Leisure and convenience

Living infrastructure

Offices

Cultural education

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Urban green system

Motor vehicle system

Building height

Pedestrian system

Cultural facilities

Building texture

How to Gather the Crowd?

Life Route Risplay Where do they meet?

West China Medical College, Sichuan University

Mix

Connect

Interactive

For Street

For Architecture

For Public space

Sichuan Music College

Sichuan University

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Design Principle

Urban Idle Land Planning

How does the nervous system of the human brain work?

The brain is composed of neurons, and the neuron group realizes the analysis function of the brain through the information exchange of each neuron, and then realizes the exchange output of samples.

Brain

Synapse

Thought People Integration

Integrate various resources

Architectures Neuronal Pattern Intervention

Transfer Roads

Block Renewal System Heterogenization

Action Exchange Resources Sport

Commercial

Science

Cutural

Music

Neuron Ontology

Office

Entertainment

Dance

External Environment Assimilate Into

Synapse Construction

Cell Construction

Commercial

Sport

Neuron

Sport

Commercial

Music

Dance

Science

Cutural

Office

Entertainment

Music

Dance

Office

Entertainment

Science

Cutural

Space Planning Implementation

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Enhance Cell Communication

The derivation process Site

Radiation range

N Hot spot

Shortest route

West China Medical College

1

Sichuan Music College

2 Core area

3

Segmentation

4

5 Morphology drawing

7

6

Extend

8

Road generation

Architecture generation

9

Sichuan University

College Community 1 Sports and Music Park

4 Youth Theatre

7

College Stundents Workshop

2 Activity Center

5 Science Studio

8

Cultural and Creative District

3 Business District

6 Performance stage

9

Entertainment District

Master Plan

1:3000

100

0 50

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200

What are college students doing here ?

Set up a multifunctional square in the public green space for different college students to use.

Sports Plaza

Central Theater

Establish a central theater in the center of the venue to attract different groups of people from the three schools through music activities and activate the functional interaction of the entire venue.

Commercial street

Science Studio

Commercial and Office Buildings S e t u p b l o c k- t y p e commerce in areas c l o s e to t h e o u te r highway.

Combining the needs of scientific and technological innovation research and cooperation needs of the campus population, s et u p s c i e nt i f i c a n d technological office buildings.

Cultural and Creative Street

Commercial street Set up commercial office buildings between the science and research office building and the block business.

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Set up literary creations and commercial buildings along the corridor .

MixMax Functions Through this design, all the functions are effectively mixed to achieve the effect of 1+1+1+1>4.The new buildings are composed to maximise the social meeting spaces by breaking up the form and scale, joining program functions, sharing facilities and planning for new uses in the mix. The social values are multiplied by synergy of overlapping the existing educational and sport functions with new housing, workplaces and higher education.

Office

Science

Music

Commercial

Facades of Buildings

Business District Section View

Entertainment District Section View

Science Studio Section View

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Vegetable Farm In The Cement Forest Urban housing landscape renewal design in Hongkong Individual Work completed in the senior year (2021.03.01-2021.4.15) Tutor:Luye Yang E-mail:betty.yang1@aecom.com

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Project Introduction

Location

High-density residential buildings are all over the Sham Shui Po area of Hong Kong, which are called "Tong Lau" by the locals. Most of residents living here have low level of education, lack of social security and stable jobs.

In a city with a large gap between the rich and the poor, such people are on the verge of being abandoned by society. Living in a “Tong Lau”, they rarely come into contact with nature, lack of social care. I want to renovate the Tong Lau buildings, taking urban agriculture which is gradually being practiced as an entry point to provide a place for residents to contact nature and perform manual labor. They can gain income through farming, and increase connections with society, changing the status quo of life and negative emotions. At the same time, such environmental improvement also eases the contradiction between urban development and nature, and builds a sustainable community.

Sham Shui Po

Current Problems #High density life #High house prices

Urban Green Space Crowd Gathering Point

Sham Shui Po The Sham Shui Po District is one of the earliest development areas in Hong Kong, and it was once an industrial, commercial and transportation hub. This area is the poorest area.

Sham Shui Po hides the largest number of poor people in Hong Kong. Many elderly people also struggle to survive here, and there are elderly people begging at the subway entrance in the early morning.

#Employment difficulty

#Cramped corridor

#Individual loneliness

#Big gap between rich and poor

#Mental health problems

#Environmental degradation

#Social hazards

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Portraits of people's lives

#Poor living conditions #Difficulty in providing for the aged

#Low-income elderly #Crowded

Tong lau Space Analysis In Sham Shui Po semi-enclosed space There are a large number of idle and abandoned spaces on the roof of the Chinese building where motor boxes and TV antennas are placed, and there is a large amount of domestic and construction waste.

roof enclosed space At present, these roofs are mainly used for drying clothes and stacking debris.

overhanging space T h e re a re m a ny s m a l l cantilevered spaces built by the residents themselves in the Tang House, which mainly helps the residents in the building to dry their clothes, obtain light, and have a larger living area.

Roofs Available Areas In Tong Lau

other roof space

75%

68%

42%

86%

68%

21% 63%

66%

68%

48%

33%

34%

41%

42%

71%

32%

54%

21%

86%

75%

54%

42%

67%

56%

62%

75%

79%

72%

Narrow staircase There is no elevator in the building.

73%

34%

92%

68%

Connect

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corridor space

mezzanine space There are many mezzanine floors, split floors, roofed or unroofed in the Tang Mansion, most of which are used to place sundries and also have a certain function of passing through.

Vegetable Farm

63%

40%

67%

Border irrigation

Border irrigation

6000

4000

Rooftop Farm System Planting Pattern

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0

N

Tong Lau Roof Farming

External elevator and greening

Crops greenhouse on the roof

25 50(m)

Removable pergola for roof

Greening of staircase mezzanine between tall buildings

Greening space for mezzanine and patio renovation

Greening device on vertical wall

Master Plan - 29 -

1:2000

Block after renovation Through the agricultural landscape transformation of various abandoned spaces in the tenement house, people who live here get the opportunity to embrace nature, learn a skill, and increase their income.

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Block before renovation People do not have the opportunity to be exposed to the sun and embrace nature. They live in a 10-square-meter family of three, depressed.

Other works Artworks Photography

Sketches of Caojiaxiang Folk Houses, Created on October 2018

Sketches of an elementary school, Created on June 2019

Four Seasons in the Mountains, Chinese Painting Created on March 2020

Manual models

Huizhou Architecture, Taken in Anhui, October 2020

Sanhe house, April 2018

Topography, October 2019

Research Project

In Prof. Qingjuan Yang' research team , Study on the Optimization of Suburban Linpan in Chengdu City based on Parametric Design Sep.2020 - May.2021

Cantonese style arcade, Taken in Guangzhou, May 2021

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The purpose of this research project is to find the optimal design of the disc-shaped forest in Chengdu Plain based on parametric technology.

We optimize the design plan through theoretical models and visualize the parameterized forest landscape model. I mainly use grasshopper software to simulate the distribution and morphology of forest settlements.

Villa design, December 2018

Bridge design, May 2019

Built Structure Project

Landscape geography works

In Zhou Sixiang's team, 2020 Beilin International Garden Construction Festival, Oct.2020 Tunnels are a powerful tool for human beings to use courage and wisdom to pass through obstacles and access the "secret realm". The bamboo structure is like the outline of a mountain, the tunnel with mottled light and shadow, and the space transition in the central "basin" part, which is a metaphor for the flame that leads to the secret realm.

In Chuan Xiong' research team, Research of the urban expansion land in Nanyang City in 20 years, Apr.2021

Experimental works

In 2000

In 2020

Culture iPS cells into nerve cells, Nov.2016 - Dec.2016

Week 1

Week 2

Week 3

Onion epithelial cell section

Human oral epithelial cell section

Cultivation of plant cells , Mar.2017

After a few months, it accompanies people to celebrate the new year...

Middle lamella section

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Application Number: 22083097 Portfolio of CHEN JINGYI Apply for Urban Design MArch programme Selected Works From 2017 to 2021