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Interior Architect Selected works 2017-2020
KEXIAN LU
Portfolio
Biography
09/2014 - 06/2018 CN-SHANGHAI
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
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Wutopia Lab
Home Worderland
KEXIAN LU
Education Shanghai Jiaotong University (SJTU) Environmental Art Design (School of design) Third-class Scholarship, School of Design, SJTU Third-class Scholarship, School of Design, SJTU Exellent Graduate, School of Design, SJTU
09/2014 - 06/2018 GPA: 3.7/4.0 12/2017 12/2016 06/2018
Royal College of Art(RCA) Interior Design (School of Archtecture) China Scholarship Council (CSC)
10/2018 - 07/2020 13200 £/year
Kexian LU
10/2018 - 07/2020 UK - LONDON
Royal College of Art
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2020
03/2018 - 06/2018
HWCD
10/2018 -06/2018
06/2019- 09/2019
10/2019-06/2020
Proximity Inhabitation Identity
Hipanda Office
Sheppey War Museum Tutor: Graeme Brooker
Fresh in RCA
Work Experience Wutopia Lab Design assistant Home Worderland(Dream Reformer/ 梦想改造家 )
Office Coastline
REUSE platform
Technical Proficiency 06/2017 - 10/2017
HWCD Design Assistant
03/2018 - 06/2018
Office Coastline Design Assistant Hipanda Office
07/2019 - 09/2018
English Autocad Rhino Sketchup Vray Adobe Creative Suite Microsoft Office Hand sketching Model making
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Artefact in RCA wip show 2020
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CONTEXT 2020
Graduation project in RCA
reuse
Sheppey War Museum
2019
site context proximity inhabitation identity prime
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First year works in RCA 106 Commercial Street
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Bird's Nest
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Elements: Floor
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Santa's Factory
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Jungle Beats
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2014-2018
Selected works in SJTU
reuse
Reading within Green
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Monki
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store
Belong Anywhere
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Projects in practice
office
Office Coastline Wutopia Lab
Inner Street
Home wonderland
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Graduation Project
2020
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01 Sheppey War Museum Graduation project in RCA Best drawing nomination 2020
In times of war, the island of Sheppey has always been pivotal has proved pivotal as a strategic location for the protection of London, and Chatham Docks. Sheerness docks have provided warship building capacity, as well as a fortified barrier, resistant to invasion. The islands history is formed through its approach to warfare. This project is the latest element in this narrative of attack and defence, and the reuse of the church provides the location for the latest invader in this story: the Sheppey war museum.
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Graduation Project
2020
Kexian LU 5 Cor-ten Steel The apparently simple theme of geometries reveals a degree of complexity as the intersecting volume and the articulate muti-aperture facade contribute to its recognized war identity. It takes the form of a serious of parallel oblongs coasted in rusty corten steel with interstices in between. on it. At the top of the experience, the invader offers views across to the sea and focusses the view on a series of concrete bastions, remaining monuments to the last great war and the structures of resistance that have inspired this project.
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ruin garden museum wateryard landscape garden auditorium
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Ground Floor
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pop up exhibi. media play archive& reading area meeting space Shipping display shelf
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Graduation Project
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Graduation Project
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The main entrance of the museum is expressed by a long inclined corridor, sliding out between the bu models, maps, media and imagery showing Sheppey's war stories since the 15th century.Those interior beams. The structure of the museum combines the cor-ten cladding, reinforced conc
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uildings portico. Once inside the museum unfolds in a journey from the basement to the tower, where display elements are all connected by the steel structures, having the lighting systems within those steel ncrete armature, steel skeleton with the interior display frames and racks all together.
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Graduation Project
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(upper left) Protrusive entrance (upper right) Inclining corridor (lower left) Dockyard models display (lower right) Reception
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(upper left) Shipping Display (upper right) Fortification Theme Exihi. (lower right) Interactive Map Room
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Graduation Project
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Graduation Project
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Section B-B Sheerness War Museum crossing to the coastal bastions and sea.
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Monument The museum is designed to monumentalise the islands position as an obstinate yet enduring symbol of the communities resilience to attack and their defence. Its inhabitation of the exiting building is designed to reflect the fact that this narrative is not always a comfortable or straight forward story.
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Proximity 1
Commercial Steert
Spatalfields Market
Old Spatalfields Market
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2019
02 Site Context: 106 Commercial Street Modeling the site Group Research 2019
A site at 106 Commercial Street, London E1 will provide the context for all first year works. 106 Commercial Street is a mutlisensory joy to experience. The feel of the brick, the scent of the wood and quality of warm and cool lighting lend to a rich environment that engages and inspires. A sense of adventure and the unexpected seem to await around every corner.
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Brief Distribute The site is divided into three parts: the foyer part is ready for "proximity", while the main building block area is for "inhabitation", and the independent building is for "identity". They are all for academic projects.
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The size and volume of the site is imperceptible from the street because the entrance is a tunnel like passage under a curved arch that leads to an inner courtyard.
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Proximity 2
North Pole
Movie 《Santa's Factory》
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02-1 Santa's Factory The proposal for a Chiristmas museum foyer Proximity 2 2019
The brief: designing the entrance experience and foyer of a temporary pop up Christmas Museum, called ‘My story of the story of Christmas’, the entrance will be located on Commercial Street, the area for foyer to consider is the passagway from the street and the central courtyard. The project explores a narrative sequence of the entrances to my story of story of chrimas museum. It is to tansform the winter atmophere in to a new factory world, provides the vavious experience for the visitors to define their memories and identities to reveal the notion of what christmas mean to them.
wishlists
gifts made in the factory
workshop
Inspiration
For me, Christmas is a kind of a festival of celebration, especially the christmas eve, when a lot of adventure happened in that night and you would receive surprising gifts when you wake up. I got the inspiration from the movie called‘Santa's Factory’. It is said near the far North Pole in a distant land, Lives Santa Claus with a merry band, of tiny elves who sing and work, They're making toys for girls and boys!
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Proximity 2
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entrance santa's grotto reception area meeting space second floor platform
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The factory is a unique structure. It is a contemporary space for people to have fun with friends, family together, which opens a plurality of directions along a main trajectory, providing multiple layers, spaces and ambiances for the visitors.
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Santa Grotto The santa grotto in the process of building up with the spot light , which opens an important public entrance on commercial road by putting a spot light.
I explored the fragments of fac extracted from the real produci By closely relating itself to the new extension engages public e multifaceted interior platform, inner activities created by th The project represents the appearance and
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ctory which is the abstraction ing spaces or certain drawing. the factory and machine, eye, not only with its shimmering but through glimpses into the he modulation of its forms. e stage of a santa  facotory d abstraction.
Red Staircase
A central staircases act as a valve standing in the central of the whole factory a platform bridge connected the central staircase with the second floor directly.
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1:50 Model
The design utilizes a simple, continuous, interlocking steel structure systerm,a transcurrent and impending red bridge, round centripetal seat to creat and articulate functions, while offering an efficient and flexile structure requiring no supporting elements. The fluid spaces of the Factory offer differing qualities, characters, and scales for the museum’s varied activities.
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Proximity 2
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Inhabitation
2019
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02-2 Bird's Nest A post brexit pub Inhabitation 2019
The brief: You will design a pub. A place which reacts to this strange moment in time, culturally and politically, a place which reflects a post Brexit future. The pub must provide an appropriate environment for social discourse and enjoyment in public spaces such as music, readings and meetings etc . We must develop further desugning through the researcheds on the existing british pubs. The pub I researched is called Cenor Ceviche, which is featured for its three layers of styles and center staircase. One can feel the transition of different layers when you walk through the staircase.
Sketching of Cenor Ceviche interior
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Inhabitation
2019
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Attitude to Brexit
European Union  is like a nest where a lot of  eropean country live together. Time goes away, when british want to be independent,which is like a bird had grow up ,getting out of the nest. so the botton of the nest is warm and dark, when it going up, it becomes open, free and also risk.
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Inhabitation
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Space Strategy
The space and journey I want to create in my pub is somewhere brings people into the feeling of transition and contrast in terms of mood, material, color and light condition in between different layers. The main staircase serves as an introduction to each layer's quality.
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Inhabitation
Roof Plan
First Plan
Ground Plan
Basement
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1:20 Modeling
Deatails are considered as much as possible while the quality of each layer is varied through the making of materials.
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Inhabitation
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Identity
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02-3 Bird's Nest A drum shop Identity 2019
The brief: the prime focus of this project is the consideration of the ways in which you can create an identity for a space that is appropriate for the proposed use and the site conditions. The music vedio tells a story happened in between the forest and a warm wood cottage,with which I begin the thoughts with an installation showing the relationship between the three elements: forest, cottage and Bjork(people).It is the evident of fighting with the reality she was facing. The idea developed into the concept of inserting a cottage into the existing volume. People walking in the shop would feel like going around a cottage. This song is produced in a time when she is facing the first time breaking up with her previous band Sugarcubes, leaving her hometown and exploring new life in London. At the time she wrote it she was referring to her childhood and probably talking about how she felt more comfortable on her own walking outside.
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F-5 Bjork's shelf F-6 cymbol room F-7 meeting space
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Strategy The proposal is having a tree house in the center of the space, with its facade enclose the main circulation.
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Ground Floor G-1 entrance G-2 reception G-3 drum sets G-4 percussion G-5 staircase to second floor
G-6 testing&listening area G-7 show window G-8 moveable shelf G-9 storage
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1:10 modeling
I choose a section to built up the 1-10 model,shelfs and thresholds are contained.
Identity
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Prime
03 Elements: Floor Group research and individual responce 2018
As we all know the floor is a very clean and simple surface , but if you look deeper in the inside ,it has a lot of intelligence ,cables and messy structures… That's why we did a divided box for each section to represent our research . We selected a particular example that is the movable floor in Paris in the “ maison de l’architecture” done by CORBASSON architects. This scheme occupies a 17th century building that was originally a chapel. It’s not only a cultural space or a work space but also a public space that can be transformed.
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Moveable Floor
we represented this mechanism in a 1/15 scale model, showing how the seats turn out and into the platform. As the third stage, we group of 5 created a serious of degree of 0°， 30°，45°， 70°， 90° installation as the artefact.
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Reconstruction
2017
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04 Reading within Green Reconstruction of Shanghai Cultural Commercial Builidng Group Research and individual design 2020
The project lies in  Fuzhou Road,which is a well-known street of cultural goods. Fuzhou Road is an old but important gathering place for the cultural stores. The famous iterest: the Bund lies 800 meters to the east of the building and the People's Square is to the west of it. The Linear Mentropolis & Bus Station and their general ways to the site Shanghai Cutural Building sits adjacent to the Fu Zhou Road,which is composed of two parts:the lower building selling commodities and the higher one used for official business.There many competitive stores around it and a lage commuty sits behind it . The brief is to get an insight into its context and transform it into
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Proposal
Shanghai Cltural Building was constructed in 1959. It is developed to sell various kinds of cultural goods and its quite popular then. The management mode of floor 1 and floor 2 is diffirent from that of floor 3 and floor 4.The former one is managed by the the shopping arcade,while the latter one is managed by the marketing department to rent to the public.
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Second floor 12 workshop reception 13 workshop
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Ground floor 1 information 2 discount book area 3 pop up exihi 4 Green & Safe Kitchen 5 dining area 6 staff room 7 foreight entrance 8 office entrance
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Office
Space Strategy
Explore into Airbnb's culture and propose the design method inspiration from Hedjuk's work.
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05 Belong Anywhere Conceptual office for Airbnb Individual project 2017
The project choose Crown Hall as the context for designing an office of Airbnb .I selected the upper floor which is an unristricted square space with no weighing column. Airbnb's business philosophy also permeates all aspects of employee’s benefits, revealing aspects of the restaurant culture, brand history, and sporting patterns, and the company also offers the most comfortable atmosphere to its employees.
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Office
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Logic
The design is orieted form the box which is varied of its shresholds, coming the forms and functions all together.
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Office
Ground floor 1 2 3 4
Business Development Department Technical Section Design Department Research Department
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Data Analysis Department Marketing Department Entrance Hall Reception
9 Conference Room 10 Cafe 12 Interaction Room 14 Reading 15 Toilet
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Interior Urbanisim
The interior is departed as independent islands. Each of them is composed of well- functional structures.
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Changle Road, endless fashion can not be endless personality shop, soak in there Reconsduction of ShanghaiCultural Commercial Building all street day no It is called "Harajuku The project lies in Fuzhou Road,which is a well-known ofproblem. cultural goods. in Shanghai" when it is home to a flock of Fuzhou Road is an old but important gathering place for the cultural stores. local designers and tidethe brands The famous iterests-the Bund lies 800 meters to the east of the building and People’s Square is to the west of it. The Linear Mentropolis & Bus Station and their general ways to the site Shanghai Cutural Building sits adjacent to the Fu Zhou Road,which is composed of two parts:the lower building selling commodities and the higher one used for official business.There many competitive stores around it and a lage commuty sits behind it . There is an entrance on the reverse side of the building to bring convenient to the residents in living in the near communities.
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06 Monki A conceptual fashion store Individual project 2017
. With metal texture of the hanger to reflect the softness and tailoring of clothes, with pieces of face to reflect the accessories with a certain degree of gloss to contrast the clothing, to achieve more than the essence of clothing display space to stimulate consumer consume desire.
Context
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Store
Cactus Partition based on monki's business model in order to carry out a reasonable layout. The store has two locker rooms, located in the former district and the latter district separately, but the two adjacent to each other. The triangle lamp tubes in the ceiling play a beautiful and practical role.
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Pattern The rose gold and pastel colors continue to be behind the bar area, with an artistic pattern on the wall, blending the wood and the mint green paint.
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Office
Inner Street Hipanda Office 2019
We designed the ground level, the main area of the building, as one space connecting inside and outside areas, to make use of its depth. Primarily we created “Inner Street�, multifunctional open space, by using half of the ground level.
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Office
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Home
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Home
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