Jiachen Wei Portfolio 2019.6

PORTFOLIO Architecture Design Selected works from 2012-2019

Wei Jiachen

M.AAS from USC B.Arch from Guangzhou University

Introduction

the Salk Institute

designed by Louis Kahn

Party at the Salk Institute

by Heinrich Klotz

I was astonished when I saw the first photograph, I was so addicted to Louis Kahn’s tranquil space, which aroused my passion for architecture. Gradually, I grew to be fond of the second photograph about Salk Institute. The personage and objects in the middle of the photography were relieved against the blue sky and ocean and the elegant gray buildings. The foreground was about harvest time, yellow haymow and fresh fruits. Mid-shot and background were about many tables and chairs, I believed there would hold speeches and performance activities. The square space which Louis Kahn created satisfied the needs to hold large-scale speeches. The long-range perspective was about a new temporary theater instead of quondam boundless sea. When the night screen had hung down, there would be many glamorous performances, so the quondam and sacred space was replaced by various activities. The empty space began to connect with human life, which moves me the most.

What I have always pursued for is to be a good architect. I hope my architecture designs are the integrity of human-oriented needs, which including the basic functions and subtle human scales and tracking movements.

The architect should facus on the life of common people and the spaces connected to it.

Contents Part 1 01

Collective Housing

Concept and prototypes for the global-local housing

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Discrete Economy

Food Truck Restaurant Design for Local residence

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Prefabrication's Second Coming Commerial Complex Design

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ARCHIBRIDGE

Public Space Design and Bridge Design

Part 2

(Other works)

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ZENS Flagship Store 06

PLAYTIME 07

Underground City 08

the Dancing Moment 09

A Stroke of China 10

Plug-in House 11

Combinatorial Nest (Combo-nest)

01.COLLECTIVE HOUSING Afforadble Housing Design Academic Design Studio Location: Los Angeles Date: 2018.5-2018.8 Individual Work Tutor: Gary Paige

Place the block into site and the building is 5 storey high to match the surronding

Place two slabs on the two sides of the building to face the street.

Make the terrace towards the south and let the light get into the building.

Dig the space into the block to make the entrance of the apartment.

Concept Diagram To face the different needs of local residence, I design 10 different units to match the people group from single person to a large family. The idea behind the building is simiple: Every units will have a small outside countyard.

Oblique Drawing in Site Form the oblique drawing in the site, we could see that the whole building is based on a square modular system, which is 10",10" square to contain the space. Because of the help the system, I could design the living space and the terrace or the facade in a logic way. In this case, the small units for the single people only has three squares space and the large familyparents with two kids and their old parents would have 10 square space in the building. The terrace also follow the square pattern of the building to have different materials as the pavement such as the different kinds of grass, the sand and the yellow ceramic tile ground.

Building Facade Towards the Vermont Ave The costom organization of differen units would generate the new kind of the facade and the outside countryard would left more opening of the elevation. I choose the corrugated metal as the main material for the facade towards the Vermont Ave. The colorful painting of the wall would enrich the visual quality of the facade.

SITE PLAN 1/32"=1'-0"

Site Plan SITE PLAN 1/32"=1'-0"

The site plan would see the different materials of the terrace on the units. The two slabs on the blocks could generate a big courtyard toward the south.

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Ground Plan The ground plan has one restaurant and a retail shop near the street. The vehicle entrance of the building would just lead the cars go into the scend and third floor, which the parking lot located.

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Unit A in SLab: Area: 200SF Scale: 3/16"=1'-0" User: Single Quantity: 48

Unit B in SLab: Area: 300SF Scale: 3/16"=1'-0" User: Young Couple Quantity: 12

Unit C in Area: 400 Scale: 3/1 User: Fam Quantity:

Unit C in Block: Area: 400SF Scale: 3/16"=1'-0" User: Family Quantity: 8

Unit D in Block: Area: 500SF Scale: 3/16"=1'-0" User: Family Quantity: 16

Unit D in Area: 500 Scale: 3/1 User: Fam Quantity:

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Block: 0SF 16"=1'-0" mily : 16

Unit D in Block: Area: 500SF Scale: 3/16"=1'-0" User: Family Quantity: 16

Unit E in Block: Area: 600SF Scale: 3/16"=1'-0" User: Family Quantity: 8

Unit D in Block: Area: 500SF Scale: 3/16"=1'-0" User: Family Quantity: 16

Unit E in Block: Area: 600SF Scale: 3/16"=1'-0" User: Family Quantity: 8

02.Discrete Economy

Food Truck Restaurant Design Academic Design Studio Location: Los Angeles Date: 2018.9-2018.12 Group Work for Board Games Teammates: Bike Qu, Forest McMillin, Xue Bai Individual Work for Architecture Design Tutor: Jose Sanchez

There is an old market and restaurant locating at the western region of USC, which we think could been re-design to meet the needs of location.

We perfer to use the board game method to begin the thinking of how could the architecture could benefits their surrondings.

We design the different space pieces such as the green space, restaurant and market to play with.

Food Truck Park Board Game We choose the food truck near to site to help us to play the board game and have more results in the site. The shape and space of the building could be slided by the motion trails of the food trucks. Through the gameplaying of the board game. we could play different results such as a good restaurant and combiniing with a market and green landscape.

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Discrete Architecture We want to discover a new method to generate the detailed elements of the building. To use the simple componets to generate the dynamic forms, we should use the parts so called "Elobe parts" to change the direction of the the chunks. However, the porportion of the baisc elements and elobe elements should be 4:1 to ensure the form not becoming so wired.

Interior Perspective The columns of the building have the same directions with the facade. All the enclosure of the building is 45 degree toward the sky. Different layers of the wall could form different layers of the space, which could be defined as the eating space, greem space and the maket space.

Section Perspective

Outdoor Perspective From the elevation of the building, we could see the pattern of the components and the direction of the elements. The different gap of the facade would become the entrance of the building. To enforce the dynamic form of the building, the small column also become oblique.

03.Prefabrication's Second Coming Commerial Complex Design Graduation Design Location:Guangdong Date: 2017.3-2017.7 Individual Work Tutor: Xie Xiaofeng, Zhao Yang

19.12.2017 Tuesday 10AM

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ARCHITECTURE NEWSPAPER T H E D I P LO M A P RO J E C T A S K WE TO EXPLORE PREFABRICATE SYSTEM

C h i n a i s a f a s t- b u i l t c o u n t r y. H o w e v e r, influenced by uncertain architecture atmosphere and unskilled constructing technologies, the quality of the finished building always has many problems. We believe the prefabricated technique can solve these problems well. Because such technology can reduce the pressure of workers by dispersing all the stress from the construction site to constructing workers.

In the meantime, the construction quality can also be greatly improved.

A NEW CONSTRUCTIVE SUSTEM HAS CAME OUT AND THIS SYSTEM CAN BE BUILD IN A SHORTER TIME

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New System

Based on the pouring technology of reinforced concrete, the traditional domino system heavily relies on and restricted by the on-site construction technology and environment. Meanwhile, its linear architecture construction calls for four steps: (1) To make the concrete frame; (2), to construct the vertical side and space division; (3), to add the pipelines and the ceiling; (4), to replenish the room with furniture. The whole process can be improved by using prefabricated constructive system. We can divide the construction system into four parts: the pillar, the girder, the floors

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THE NEW SYSTEM ALSO COULD REACTED FROM THE SPACE OF THE UNITS AND THE STRUCTURE

Hertzberger Rem Koolhass The original purpose of the entire design comes from the words, Koolhaas ever said, “Architecture is too slow�. In the 21st century, the mass production has been applied into different industries.

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connected with secondary beam and the shear wall.

Different overlapped details among the four elements ensure the elements closely overlapped. Because the hollow girder and the shear wall themselves can through the pipelines, reserved ceiling room can be ignored.

Since under the new system, elements production, the on-site overlapped construction and pipelines installation can be done at the same time, more buildings can be constructed faster and better.

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CONSTRUCTION PROCESS Comparing with the old constructive system, the whole construction of the new system could be finished in a very short time, the workers could transport all components including the main beams, the floors, the column and the shear walls to the site.

With help of the new system, workers could complete a building in a relative short time period.

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COMMERIAL COMPLEX We analysis the component of programing of the successful commerial complex.

Commerial complex needs three main parts,the commerce, office and residence.

The three main parts of commerial complex have several different secondary components.

The begining of the design started from the basic data of a working people.1200mm*1500mm for Minimum station

Double the Minimum station then we could get two stations and a passway.

Double the former stations then we could get The length of 6 meters for basic life

Copy and lengthen the basic cross and then we could get the rate: Regular ∶ co-working=1 ∶ 1

Copy and lengthen the basic cross and then we could get the `: Regular ∶ co-working=1 ∶ 0.92

Array the retails shops and the restaurants to form the corridor

Rotate the corridor to the crossroad to get the maximum benefits

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Commercial parts have three main components, the corridors, the retails shops and the restaurants.

The office parts should have two saparated components, the coworking space and regular offices.

The residences should have three saparated components, the hall and two kinds of suites

6m*6m squares fit all basic needs of a person

Double the former stations then we could get the space for coworking

Rotate the co-working spaces and connect it with the regular stations.

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Add the auxiliary rooms and the vertical traffic to form the facade.

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36m2 each 12 working stations There are 8 private station rooms each floor

36m2 each 8 working stations There are 8 window counters each floor

72m2 each 24 working stations There are all 4 regular open stations each floor

54m2 each 10 seats There are all 2 conference room each floor

AXONOMETRIC DRAWING TWO

Regular Open Stations

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26m each 8 working stations There are all 4 regular open stations each floor

36m Random working stations All 864 m2 each floor

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The co-working space could be used for the group discussion and the single workers who could enjoy a more flexible space

REGULAR STATIONS

The regular stations are designed for the more traditional workers or teams, which could get a more tranquil space

STATION DETAILS 20mm composite board 50*30*2 L-angle steel 30mm composite board 20mm aluminium-plastic panel

50*50*2 square steel tube

200mm pre-embedded steel slab 200mm precast concrete plank

REGULAR STATIONS

When the worker are sitting, they could look at their own table.

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The void not only separate the regular stations but also provide the sunshine from the sky.

REGULAR STATIONS

When the workers are standing, they would look through the whole floor and the upper ones.

FACADE DETAILS 20mm composite board 50*30*2 L-angle steel 30mm composite board 20mm aluminium-plastic panel 50mm double glazing 50*50*2 square steel tube

100*50*5 L-angle steel

aluminium alloy window frame 200mm precast concrete plank

04.ARCHIBRIDGE

Public Space Design Guyu Cup Architecture Competition Location: Guangdong Date: 2017.3-2017.8 Team Work Collaborator: Cao Geng, Lv Jianguang My works: Team Leader, Design, Diagram drawing How should we deal with the Chinese countrysides? this design is confronting to the various problems questioned by the Chinese villages. Nowadays, amounts of Chinese architects remove their constrcution from the cities to the countrysides due to the increasing demands of the tourists came from cities. We should take care of the increasing functional needs of the tourists. Comparing with the local residents, the tourists also play an important role in the villages.

Site Mapping

SITE

the Xiaozhou Village

the xiaozhou village locates in the central green land of the Guangzhou, which also fully be separated by the rivers to several different parts. Those parts has different kinds of bridges to connects with each other. The residents and

Concept Diagram

Box beam structure

Truss structure

Site Section

The concert bridge structure could provide enclosed space for those activities. The truss bridge structure could provide open space for the passer-by to look out.

The slope caused by the two structures could create different spaces with different height. Based on the human scales, those spaces could fit the verious needs of people, from the lying position to the standing position.

STRUCTURE ANALYSIS

Concert box beam bridge section

Steel-framed footbridge section

Steel-framed footbridge

Compress the beam based on the conditions of sites.

Compress the beam based on the conditions of sites.

Concert box beam bridge

Separate the column for a more continuous space.

Widen the top of the bridges for bigger space

Adjust the two structures to create new space.

STRUCTURE MODEL

The upper part of the structure is supported by four big columns and the hollow center of the beam could contain equipments.

The lower part of the structure is supported by two big concrete truss beam, which would also created a quick access.

The two structures could provide a quick access for the local residents and a flexible space for the tourists

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Section Perspective

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20mm aluminium-plastic panel 20mm waterproof layer 3mm Bending steel plate 50*30*2 L-angle steel 20mm composite board 30mm double glazing 100*50mm gutter

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20mm composite board 50*30*2 L-angle steel 3mm Bending steel plate 20mm aluminium-plastic panel 20mm Ventilated blinds

SITE MODEL 1:100 The resident and the tourists from different roads could notice the bridge immediately when they near the rivers. This building would be the fast entrance and bridge for the XiaoZhou Village. The resident would use this bridge to go outside and maybe they would be curious about what happened in the 2rd floor. And when the tourist wants to attend the village, they could choose to get into the building to have a rest.

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SITE MODEL 1:100 The entrance of the building has a facade towards the village, we choose to use the glass to give the whole building a transparent shell. The people outside would look across the glass and find out what happened in the building.

AM 10:00 In the morning, there is a sculpture exhibition from the artists who are living in the Xiaozhou Village. the tourists would have a very close look to the sculpture and they can have a rest on the cushion of the floor.

PM 8:00 In the evening, the workers in the building re-oganize the space and there will be a small concert of a string quartet of the villages. The local residents and tourists all love the music and they could have interaction with others.

AM 10:00 All pivoted windows are closed and the window reflect the light from the sky. residents would notice many silhouettes inside the hall but they don't know what happened in the building.

PM 8:00 All pivoted window are opened and the water reflect the light from the hall. Hearing the music and the seeing the light from the building, many passer-by are curious about the activity and want to have a look.

Part 2

This section is my own-designed or participant projects excerpts and all have a profound impact on my design concept. All designs are based on the actual sites. Such as the design of 07. Medium Garden was inspired by a large number of abandoned drawing boards at the teaching building of Architecture. The design of 06. PLAYTIME was influenced by the severe off-peak season of tourism in construction sites. At the same time, most of these programs are completed projects, which also assisted me to accumulate a lot experiences of building construction on site. In China, the implementation of all programs is very difficult. Sometimes the drawings on the computer are very weak at the scene, because the construction site itself is very complicated, and sometimes the construction team does not have the superb building technology that could be equivalent of the architects image. Such condition makes the constructive process become very uncontrollable.

I think architects must have enough courage to accept the actual problems, carefully cooperate with the workers and bravely solve problems. Only in this way can make the design on the drawing be true.

Otherworks 05.ZENS Flagship Store Interior design

06.PLAYTIME Hotel design

07.Underground City Installation Design

08.the Dancing Moment Installation Design

09.A Stroke of China Installation Design

10.Plug-in House Residence Design

11.Combinatorial Nest (Combo-nest) Pavilion Design

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05.ZENS Flagship Store interior design Internship works Location:Beijing Date: 2016.12-2017.1 Tutor: Jason Guo My works: Design,Detail design

We want to use the curving form as the basic element of the design and these cuvring wooden slab would be the platform to display goods of ZENS. The curving form causes whole space to flow and this kind of flowing could benefits store to attract more customer. As the internship works, what the architect can operate is the furniture and they could use furnitures to generate the spaces.

Bungee Jumping

Children's Slide

Roller Coaster

Guest Room

Sliding Structure Seafood Restaurant Coastal Stand

Sand Sliding

06.PLAYTIME Sky Wheel

Hotel Design Location:Guangdong Date: 2015.3-2015.7 Individual works Tutor:Shen Zhongbo Globel tower, from the delirious new york, inspire me to add the amusement park to the hotel to attract the tourists to spend their vacation inside the building, revolting the cyclical traveling craze in the site.

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Bearing Pulley Swimming Pool

Turbo Drop

Open Hall Artistic Installation Canopy

Stairs

07.Underground City

City Design and Renovation Location: Guangdong Date: 2016.3-2016.7 Tutor: Jason Guo Team work Collaborator: Wu Yifei, Ning Zhengyang My works: Design, Diagram drawing

The design begins with several times of investigation on the Dongshan Kou, the old downtown of Guangzhou. From the basic routes of investigation, we find out abandon places and buildings to renovate and design.The site have massive abandoned space and most of it is underground. Besides, there are many local youngsters who work on art and sports needing more spaces to practice and to exhibit their works. We want to use the abandoned spaces.

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08.the Dancing Moment

Installation Design Location:Guangzhou Date: 2016.7-2016.9 Group works Tutor:Jason Guo Collaborator:Ma Jianshen,Chen Xiangfan, Huang Danlei My works: Construction

This project is an art exhibition shown in the FangSuo Bookstore, which is supported by the Guangdong Modern Dance Company (GMDC). They ask we to design the installation to help the public to understand the modern dance.Inspiring by the famous painting Nude Descending a stair case No.2 by Marcel Duchamp, we decided to catch every moment of a modern dancer to get the basic form. With three triangle pointing at the dancer's hand and knee, we could get a series of image of changing form of different triangle. When we overlap those images and we could express the whole process of a modern dancing. This design would help the public to understand the modern dance in a motionless point of view.

09.A Stroke of China

（笔尖 • 指尖上的中国）

Installation Design Location: Shanghai Date: 2016.7-2016.9 Tutor: Jason Guo Team work Collaborator: Ma Jiansheng, Pan Junwen My works: Design, Detail design, Research This design based on an exhibition on Shanghai HWC. The curator wants the traditional Chinese calligraphy could be approachable to normal modern people.

The Chinese calligraphy now become more and more unsearchable to people and we think we could re-connect the bridge.

We extract the trajecture of writing process of traditional calligraphy and we utilize the curvature of the trajectureto express the power of writing.

Concept Diagram

10.Plug-in House

Residence Design Internship works Location: Beijing Date: 2016.10-2017.1 Tutor: James Shen, Zang Feng, He Zhe My works: Detail Design, Construction

When I was interning in the People's Architecture Office (PAO), I was selected to the Plug-in House program. We were asked to build a new house to satisfy the client's need. The client is an old resident living in Beijing Hutong for many years. I was mainly responsible for the upper part of the house—The stairs and steel frame, which serve as a quick access for the client to go to the roof and enjoy the sunshine and fresh air. We use the Plugin Panels as the main material for building the bouse, which is a new kind of Polyurethane sandwich panel. This panel is only 50mm thick and has good heat-insulating property.

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11.Combinatorial Nest (Combo-nest) C3-1

Competition Design Internship works Location: Tallinn Date: 2018.12-2019.02 Tutor: Jose Sanchez, Brendan Ho Collaborator: Ban Sheni, Dechen Zeng My works: Design Develop, Rendering and diagram drawing C4

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This design won the The Third-prize of Tallinn Pavilion Program Competition, Tallinn Biennial 2019. Combo-Nest is a discrete open-ended tectonic system, that relies on the patterning of material units to grow volumetrically with different motifs.

We want to use the toy of our design to guide the local residence to design their own pavilion and help the community to participate in the whole process instead of that the architect designs everything. Our proposal believes that such a process of identifying culturally relevant patterns (what we could call beauty) is a process that is participatory and collaborative, in which architects can engage in a dialogue and develop consensus with the community.

I participated in the design developing process and make the 3d-model and rendered it. I also charge for the 3D-printing part of the design and the final instruction diagram of the toy.

Combo House In Prairie Region

11-1/2.Combinatorial Nest With Combo House Competition Design Internship works Location: Tallinn Date: 2018.12-2019.02 Tutor: Jose Sanchez, Brendan Ho Collaborator: Ban Sheni, Dechen Zeng My works: Design Develop, Rendering and diagram drawing

When the Combinatorial Nest came to the real use for the people, seems that the combinatorial couldn't hold the basic use of the residence. The combo-house is prefabriced house what could fit different needs of people. By creating different shape of the Combinatorial Nest that could connected the house, the combinatorial could generate different space conditions for the resident. In this design, I mainly charged the image making parts of the whole process include the rendering and photoshop process. By putting the whole building in different site like the prairie, mountain and forest. We could see that the combinatorial Nest and Combo House have its own potiential to fit in different environment and have a lot of form potiantials.

Combo House In Mountain Region

Combo House In Prairie Region

Double Combo House In Mountain Region

Single Combo House In Mountain Region

Single Combo House In Mountain Region

Double Combo House In Mountain Region

Representation Model

12.Drawing and Representation Assignment for Course Arch564 in USC Individual work Date: 2019.01-2019.05 Tutor: Yaohua Wang Course discripation: Geometry lies at the core of the architectural design process. It is omnipresent, from the initial formfinding stages to the actual construction. While design and geometry share a fundamental interest in form and shape, Descriptive and Computational Architectural Geometry aims to address the various natures of the historical relationship between mathematics, geometry, computation, and architecture. Through the display of historical mathematical models with formal affinities to contemporary architectural production, the course will provoke discussion about the origins of design technique, the epistemology of geometry models, and the justification for mathematical surfaces in architecture.

Representation Drawings In this Course, Yaohua told us to choose different historical drawings and represent the drawings in a new way. I pick up the drawing Design for a house with a castellated wing by John Smythson in 1600 as my final project. I notice that there exist different drawing are combing together in only one drawing such as the elevation, the axonometric drawing and the prespective drawing. I studied some drawings from Bryan Cantley and learned how to add more details to simply drawings.

Finally, I give different spacial qualities to the drawings and produce the new model that would generate new spacial meanings.

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Education 05.2018-06.2019

Master of Advanced Architectural Studies - University of Southern California

09.2012-06.2017

Bachelor’s Degree of Architecture - Guangzhou University

Experience 05.2019-06.2019

Research Assistant in University of Southern California - Participated in video making for Assistant Professior Jose Scanchez's Exhibition in Prague

12.2018-02.2019

Intern in Plethora Project - Participated in design development and diagram drawing in Combinatorial Nest (Combo-nest)

07.2016-02.2017

Intern in People’s Architecture Office - Participated in preliminary stage of Hong Kong K11 Design - Participated in the whole process of Beijing BNC Interior Design - Participated in the construction drawing design and construction of Mr Zhao’s Plug-in House - Participated in the drawing and video-making of Baita Temple Reforming Competition

01.2016-06.2016

Intern in Turtle Hill Studio - Participated in the install of The Dancing Moment in Fangsou Commune .

- Participated in Shanghai A Stroke of China exhibition and made modules and connection construction - Participated in the whole design of Beijing Parkview Green ZENS Flagship Store

Honors 05.2019 02.2019 05.2018 07.2017 03.2016 08.2013

- The Director's Award of Master of Advanced Architectual Studies in Wes Jone's studio - The Third-prize of Tallinn Pavilion Program Competition, Tallinn Biennial - The Half Tuition Merit Scholarship of University of Southern California - The First-prize of Guangzhou University Construction and Structure Competition - The Third-class Scholarship of Guangzhou University - The Third-prize of Guangzhou University Photography Competition

Skills Language 3D Modeling Architectural Drawing 3D Rendering Adobe Family

Mandarin (Native), English (Proficient) Maya (Skilled), Rhino (Skilled), Revit (Skilled), Sketchup (Basic), Dynamo (Basic), Grasshopper (Basic) Autocad (Skilled), Revit (Skilled) V-ray (Skilled), Enscape (Skilled) PS (Skilled), AI (Skilled), ID (Skilled), PR (Skilled), AE (Basic)

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT The completion of the portfolio owe to my instructors, Mr. Jose Sanchez, Mr, Wes Jones, Mr. Gary Paige, Mr, Yaohua Wang, Mr. Jason Guo, Mr. Yang Zhao, Mr. Xiaofeng Xie and Mr. Zhongbo Shen, for their valuable criticism on my works and great advices.

I would like to thank Mr. James Shen, Mr. Feng Zang, Mr, Zhe He and other companions and friends who has been working with me in PAO. They share their profound knowledges and penetrating insights with me.

I also would like to thank Miss. Bike Qu, Miss. Xue Bai, Mr. Yihuai Chen, Mr. Geng Cao, Mr. Jianguang Lv, Mr. Ruibin Li, Mr. Rubio Ning and Mr. Mason Wu. They are my genuine partners and my sincere friends.

Lastly, I would like to express my deepest thanks to my parents. they help me to get through the hardest hours in my life.