YANG QING XI'AN
SHAANXI
CHINA
21/09/1996
PORTFOLIO FOR AALTO UNIVERSITY
Graduating student Southeast University, China
A Crowd of Cats [Individual House]
Architecture is not only a structure or space, but also what people feel in the space. Architects demonstrate their kindness to surrounding context, to environment, to society, to culture and to humanity. They create inclusive space, which makes different projection in different people’s inherence during the process people approach and experience. In other words, the observer makes impact on the observed. I firmly believe that a good architecture process is created in the architect’s self-examination, and explores people’s experience and awareness on themselves and the outside world. This exploration will never terminate.
Vertical Garden [Urban Commercial Complex of Shanghai]
Four Lightyards [Culture&Art Center in Campus]
Historic Building Reorganization & Expansion [PE department & Gym in Campus]
Gardens Image [Chinese Classical Gardens Image Design]
A Crowd of Cats [Individual House] Nanjing China, Sep 21. 2019, Individual Work, Grade 5, Academic Project Dwelling is a common architecture type. There are lots of exploration to different dwelling modes. However, dwelling aimed at animals' live in human dwelling is still rare. My interest is to concern on a Chinese granny who has been succouring nomad cats for already nineteen years because of her belief and has spent almost all her asset. Therefore, I researched the way they live together in several modes in this project.
Site Plan
Behavior Prototypes
This site is in an old urban village Taoyuanxincun, Nanjing, China. There are amount of individual old houses with yards. As to the poor physical condition in this old village, most of the residents here are the olders. site
Characters This is a house for an old granny who lives alone. She has been taking care of nomad cats for several years. This individual house provides free space for nomad cats to live in. Nomad cats can get food from granny and play around the house independetly without danger.
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drill Cats love drilling in holes of their scale.
close to familiar people
territorial awareness
active at nigjht
Cats are willing to play with people who is familiar with them.
Cats have territorial awareness on a certain extent.
Cats are always active at night.
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hide Cats love hiding behind shields or in corners.
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On the ground of cats' habits such as different active time from human, it's necessary to avoid influence that cats may take to granny's own life.So the house separates cats' space from granny's own space but let them able to see each other. According to cats' scale, the cats' corridors are 400 mm wide. 3:00
jump Cats can move around several high levels.
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fight
sleep
climb
Cats usually fight with each other in open space.
Cats pretend to sleep inside when feel cold and outside when feel hot.
Cats love climbing to high levels to relax themselves.
go to sleep
take a shower
watch TV
have dinner
go for a walk
take care of cats
enjoy tea & reading
have a rest have lunch
do housework
work in study
have breakfast
get up
awake & active
sleep
awake & active
sleep
awake & active
sleep
awake & active
sleep
awake & active
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awake & active
sleep
curiosity
love nature
group residence
Cats are likely to be curious about many things, especially human.
Cats are keen on nature as to theri habit of shooting.
Cats are gregarious in their own domain.
Study Livingroom
Cats Room
Cats' domain for activity
Granny's private space
Granny & cats' common space
Cats' corridors in house Âą0.000m plan
Cats' Maze
Cats' Livingroom
+2.480m plan
Balcony
Bedroom
+3.000m plan
A-A section
B-B section
C-C section
D-D section
E-E section
F-F section
G-G section
H-H section
7:00 A.M.
The granny wakes up and finds cats walking across the corridors in her bedroom watching at her.
8:00 A.M.
11:00 A.M.
The granny works in the study with cats playing on the shelf under the stairs.
14:00 P.M.
The granny enjoys tea and books in the livingroom accompanied with cats playing in their livingroom and the garden.
16:00 P.M.
The granny hangs clother on the balcony. Cats climb to the balcony.
18:00 P.M.
The granny takes care of cats in the cats room inside.
The granny comes back after going for walks, finding cats waiting for her.
Vertical Garden [Urban Commercial Complex of Shanghai] Shanghai China, Sep.17. 2018 Individual Work, Grade 4, Academic Project Instructor: Chen Di | E-mail: di.chen@mj-sekkiei.com When processing the new phase of urban renovation, the question of generating active urban space while responding local cultural characteristic and carrying it forward is a problem worth discussing. The total area of the site is about 47970sq.m, located in Shanghai. I want to design it for an energetic and deligthful block with local context, innovative block culture, compact space which is open, complexed, orderly, dynamic and sustained.
Site Analysis
city commercial artery
The site is located in the central part of Shanghai Xujiahui CBD, west of the commercial artery Huaihai Road, with a total area of about 47970sq.m. There is an old factory date back to 1950s in the site, redeveloped as the Shanghai Urban Sculpture Art Center in 2005. The site was used to being developed as an art creative park, including a large green plaza surrounded with commercial, culture and office buildings since 2005.
main road site secondary main road
Nowadays, when processing the new phase of urban renovation, the question of generating active urban space while preserving local cultural characteristic and carrying it forward is a problem worth discussing.
traffic conjunction
COMMUTERS
residential area
KIDS & PARENTS
THE OLDERS public greenspace
original greenland HOUSEWIVES
the old factory
VISITORS
PATIENTS
commercial center in city
Concept
part of factory open & greenspace reintroduced
dispersal commericial inserted
concentrated commercial inserted facing to the factory
towers inserted as office buildings
greenspace layers inserted compelete the skyline & contaict the towers
parts open & arrangement enriched
Space Modes Commercial Space
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main store shop lobby restaurant & cafe logistics management sculpture exhibition souvenir store fitness
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Greenland Space
sculpture plaza for exhibition
gather-around space for commericial
outdoor sports space
relaxing space for office
Four Lightyards [Culture&Art Center in Campus] Nanjing China, May 4.2018, Individual Work, Grade 3, Academic Project Instructor: Liu Jie | E-mail: 532253978@qq.com When the architecture itself isn't the theme no longer, what will become the issue of space? This culture&art center situated in a typical campus,to be sclient and lissome.This is a space without any special programming. Everything here is in equal importance and scale. Architecural members dissolve and make the space transparent.People feel themselves instead of the archtecture in this invisible space.
Concept
Formation
Dissolve the boundary of space to turn it transparent, making people be the issue in the space.
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Site Analysis Object People
Students Social public
concert hall inserted outward for social public
activity boxes inserted inward for students
four light-yards as visual corridors built eye-contact
platform connected boxes & made oriented experience
the perimeter dissolved & partition as guidance
horizontal restriction dissolved & space interpenetrate vertically
transparent & semi-transparent interface definition
nature element inserted
in the campus from outside main roads in campus
SITE
range of campus
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storage
rehearse room
office open exhibition
It's time for the music club! library
concert hall
This's the new model from arch college.Perfect!
Mom, that sakura tree is so beautiful!
cafe
The latte in this cafe is my favourite.
How romantic the music is! Look, outside performance!
I still have so much work... Two tickets, please.
Fantasitic art exhibition!
Wow, a new concert is coming soon!
I want to be relaxed there.
internal exhibition
Do you enjoy the last performance?
Why not go for a concert this weekend?
club
lobby
Historic Building Reorganization & Expansion [PE department & Gym in Campus] Nanjing China, Nov 12.2017, Individual Work, Grade 3, Academic Project
With the passing of the classical era, many old buildings have been preserved as cultural and historical heritage, which pushes us to think about how to protect, renew and reuse old buildings, and how to preserve and inherit the spirit and space of the classical old buildings.The design is for the renovation and expansion of an old gymnasium on a historic campus. I took the classical axis and spatial sequence of the old building as the core goal, and tried to preserve and reproduce them with modern spatial techniques.
History & Context
Old Gym |1924
Concept
Library | 1902
Auditorium | 1930
Jianxiong College | 1935
Zhongda College | 1935
regeneration: classical axis & texture
SITE regeneration: slope roof in classical & modern form
cut-through & accessibility
N landscape & counter-slope strengthening axis
new roof: folding slooping roof old roof: gable and hip roof
old structure: truss
old structure: brick-concrete structure
steel structure in extended building reinforced structure in old buliding
office
office
meeting
office
meeting
office
lobby rock climbing
fitness area
squash
exhibition
cafe
outdoor playground
storage
multifunction gym
changeroom
first aid
PE classroom
bar
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5m
20m
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yoga rock climbing
badminton
squash
lecture theatre
pingpong
billiards library
+4.200m plan
A-A Section
Fluorocarbon sprayed metal decorative panel Anticorrosive wooden keel (drainage) Waterproofing materials Polystyrene heat preservation plate Vapour barrier Steel roof boarding Steel structure Fluorocarbon sprayed metal decorative panel
Stone floor tile Bed of mortar Leveling blanket Insulating layer Vapour barrier Moistureproof film Concrete foundation slab Lean concrete
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B-B Section
Titanium zinc alloy roof protection plate 1mm 1:5 Bituminous mortar leveling blanket 30mm Seamless secondary waterproof layer 22mm Thermal insulation layer 120mm Cement mortar leveling blanket 15mm Reinforced concrete roof boarding 120mm Vapour barrier 22mm Batten 24mm*48mm Gypsum plaster board lining 12.5mm
plaster Brick masonry Insulation yanmian Gypsum plaster protective layer
25mm 350mm 100mm 12.5mm
Gardens Image [Chinese Classical Gardens Image Desgin] Nanjing China, Dec 1.2017, Individual Work Grade 3, Academic Project