UCL portfolio Zhang Xiaoxuan UD

PORT FOLIO Student number: 20158125 Title - MArch Urban Design Code - TMHURBSDES01 Academic Year - 2020/21.

Mode of Attendance - Full-time

Xiaoxuan Zhang

Xiaoxuan Zhang

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30/07/1997 Female Education 08/2015 – 07/2019

Xi’an Jiao tong-Liverpool University Major : Architecture

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Memory Library

Experience

06/2016 – 07/2016

26/02/2018 – 02/03/2018

Practice in Xiamen Hordor Design Group

Mecanoo Architecten (Delft, Netherlands) International Architecture Workshop Guided by Nuno Fonterra from Mecanoo Architecten, Group work with International students, solute the renewal of Rotterdam harbor environment.

02/2018 – 10/2018

1st XJTLU Interdisciplinary Learning Program Cross-disciplinary cooperation with students and professors from Urban Design, Civil Engineering, Environmental Sciences and Humanity & sociology, research on ‘ inheriting and developing of tangible and intangible culture heritage of Dong’.

07/2018 – 08/2018

Joint Workshop on Rural Revitalization of Baojing Dong Village in Guizhou Field investigation and field design with local students from Guizhou Minzu University about the rural revitalization of Baojing Dong village in Guizhou.

27/08/2018 – 31/08/2018

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BIM Workshop (Revit Architecture) Study and Improve BIM skills with the Autodesk Certified Professional and Trainer Giancarlo Di Marco.

27/10/2018 – 28/10/2018

The 2018 2nd International Conference on Water Ecological Civilization and Green Urban-rural Integration Development Give a presentation of ‘The culture inheritance and modernization construction in rural revival——Based on the research and design in Baojing Village’ behalf of team.

29/10/2018 – 02/11/2018

Digital Visualisation Workshop (Rhinoceros + V-Ray + Photoshop) Study and improve skills on digital visualization with Matus Nedecky and Lukas Filip from FlyingArchitecture.

21/01/2019 – 25/01/2019

Cheng Tsung Feng Bamboo Interdisciplinary Workshop Guided by Traditional handicraft designer Chen Tsung Feng, learning to create a design from tradition, activating the ceiling, light and patterns, creating a bamboo shelter with students from Industrial Design.

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Urban Sound Absorber

Live Museum

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Between Architecture and Landscape Workshop (Environmental and sustainable design for future cities) Guided by Rajeev Kathpalia, the senior associate and partner of Balkrishna V. Doshi ‘s studio, had an online video-conference with Doshi, try to establish a strong relationship between contemporary needs, traditional life and cultural identity by landscape approach in Suzhou old town.

Publication 05/2019

‘Research on the Design-led Lifecycle Rural Revitalization approaches for Baojing Dong Village, Guizhou’ was published in Proceedings of the academic annual meeting of architectural society of China 2019

Software

Auto CAD, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Premiere, Rhino, Very for Rhino, Sketch up, Lumion

Skills

Others

Sketch, Gouache paint, vedio clip

Other Works

Memory Library — Design of residential house in Shikumen building area, Shanghai

Level 3 2018-2019 Semester1 ARC305 Small and Medium Scale Buildings Academic individual work Tutor: Richard Hay

Site Analysis about Shikumen

Concept Model

Nowadays, there are many social problem occured because of social differentiation.

However, in the past, life in Shikumen Linong is really harmonious with various public activities in the street. Result from the living system of Linong, residents are friendly to each other and full of communication.

From the research, we can know that there are no public activites space in Linong at that time , all the public activities happened in the main steet of Linong (see diagram behand). People from different ages, different jobs are met around their circulation of Linong system.

According to the contrast between modern time and old time because of the change of lifestyle, I want creating s o m ew h e re to re m i n d p e o p l e t h e harmonious living atomosphere in Linong in the past. people living here could reduce pressure from modern society and enjoy the public activtiy with neighborhoods, which could close the distance between people.

As a result, I would like to set the viewing on exterior facade which could also let pedestrain could enjoy the viewing of the residents' public activities (see concept models) . Just like Linong's life could be seen throught the entrance 'shikumen' (see collage).

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Space strategy -public space

Circulation Analysis

Function of 'Sharing Room'

classes

reading

chatting

Transforming the street life of old Linong, Sharing Rooms are set around the main vertical circulation(staircase) of the building. people could enter the activity room in every landing of stairs on their way to home.

Public Activity Space The 'Sharing Room'

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¡ Space strategy -living space Though there are many advantages of Linong system, because of the social environment at that time, residents of old Linong did not living with good life quality. High residential density bring many problems in daily life, which are need to solute in our living space.

Thus the strategy of living space are following:

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skylights are set for more lighting

Lighting

louvers are set for privacy

Privacy

green space are set for envimently

Section A-A' Planting

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Ground Floor (exhibition)

Forth Floor (Library)

First Floor (residential space for travelers)

Roof Floor

Second Floor (Residential space for young family and old people)

Third Floor (Residential space for young family and old people)

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Construction Details

Construction Model

Vitreous armrest

Double glazing window

louver

Double glazing window

timber cladding

concrete block (self-insulation)

brick tiles

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Street Viewing

Entrance

Library

Indoor View

The Sharing Room

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Slope — Design of Children Play Structure in Bailuyuan Park, Suzhou

Level 1 2016-2017 Semester1 ARC102 Place and Play: Play-Space for Children in Suzhou Academic Individual Work Tutor:Lina Stergiou

Children lack of play space in public. Traditional play facilities limit children's ability to play. Parents worring about the way of accompany.

Good play sounrroudings is heathy for child development.

Site Plan kindergarten & primary school

green space 13

young family 14

Top Plan

1 kitchen 2 restaurant 3 toilet

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4 office

7 Toilet

5 reception

8 workshop

6 meeting room

9 balcony

Ground Floor

First Floor 16

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Urban Sound Absorber — Design of Comprehensive Public Architecture in Central Shanghai

Level 3 2018-2019 Semester2 ARC304 Final Year Project: A House for Madam X Academic Individual Work Tutor: Tordis Berstrand, Aleksandra Raonic, Claudia Westermann

Concept From: ‘Five Spice Street’ by Can Xue

FIVE SPICE STREET 《五香街》

by Can Xue

The novel revolves around its main character Madam X, or rather, it revolves around the incapacity to define who or what Madam X is. There are many stories about Madam X. Most likely she is a person, but maybe she is not. She is the site of endless suspicion, but also of love and admiration.

She is reported to be the weirdest person on the street, accused of what no one dares to speak about, and betrayed until she is honoured as a visionary who "represents a society of the future," and she is elected representative of the street. Shortly after this, her house collapses, and whether or not it is symbolic of the collapse of the society and the times that created the story of Madam X, it is an opportunity for a new house - one that houses the "society of the future.” This is the rebirth of the future.

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Acoustic Geometry Research Step1. information offer

Step2. interaction

Step3. preliminary summary

Step4. final summary

Elbe Waterfront Park Riesa

Sonic Playground

Negative Sound Library

When visitors speak into one of the sculpture's horns, the travels through the installation before being played out through another horn.

They place these sounds simultaneously in the same box to create an archive, a small library.

Lullaby Factory

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-- basic Information points

-- major opinions

- expression - Interaction - discussion - controversy

final results

Thematic play options were designed to experience the park by whispering, calling or listening.

-- final result

A secret world is revealed that cannot be seen except from inside and cannot be heard by the naked ear, only by tuning in to its radio frequency or from a few special listening pipes.

→ more convincing → tend to public opinion → more favorable

The process of Information spreading in public announcement

Acoustic Geometry Research

(borrow from gossiping) Technical Sound Pinciple

Acoustic Geometry Cases

Sound Mirrors in the first World War as Warning System The Sound Mirrors, also known as Acoustic Mirrors, Concrete Dishes or Listening Ears, are large concrete structures designed as an early warning system to detect enemy aircraft in the first World War.

Sound Mirrors in Modern Times as Installation Elmo Vermijs used manure, compost, and sea clay to make the sounds of the meadow birds, which depend on these materials for their food supply, audible for visitors of the polder.

Sound Bounce and Create Echo

Acoustic Shells / Flanagan Lawrence These ‘Acoustic Shells’ act as a stage and shelter for the local community.

O n e s h e l l fa c e s t h e to w n a n d forms the principal bandstand.

The acoustic design of the interior creates a reflective surface to project the sound of the performers to the audience. The other shell faces the beach and forms a more intimate structure as a shelter for listening to the sea or for buskers to perform.

Acoustics of 3 Spaces

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Technical Sound Pinciple

Acoustic Geometry Cases

Typology Study Forest Megaphone These architectural objects are “gigantic wooden megaphones� for the forest, part of an acoustic installation for amplifying the sounds of the landscape.

Exhibition: Ceramics and Sound This funnel-shaped ceramic loudspeakermakes it possible to reproduce ultra-low frequency sounds.

Ecotone Hotel In Biwako - Sound Of Wind / Ryuichi Ashizawa Architects The chapel is assumed a space filled with strong natural wind blowing from Lake Biwa. Therefore, it make the project as an instrument played by the natural wind. It is a calm space to echo the sound of the waves of Lake, high wind began to hear, tone will change depending on the direction and speed of wind.

Wind instrument sound by vibrating columns of air inside tube.

Geometry: Cone

Study Models

Beased on the researches, we can know this kind of geometry could be use in architecure for accustic transform by sound reflection.

Thus I chose the cone as basic element.

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Concept Drawing

Model Photoes

Site Plan 25

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Facade(Batten or Metal Pipe) Fixed Structure

Insulation Waterproof

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Concrete Shell (with wire structure inside)

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Groud Floor Plan

Construction Section 1. Main Entrance (Urban Noise Absorption) 2. Experience Plaza 3.Percussion Instrument Interaction 4.Whisper Interaction 5. Space for Writing Drifting Bottle 6.Space for Throwing Drifting Bottle 7.Toilet 8. Dock Office

9. Dock and Bottle Stop 10. Dock 11. Accoustic Transform Interacton 12. Projector Exhibition 13. Office 14.Visitor Center and Reception 15.Tolilet 16. Coffee and Theater Seats

17.Coffee and Theater Seats 18. Boat Stop 19. Bottle Storage 20. Dock and Bottle Stop 21. Bottle Exhibition 22.Water Terrace and Theater Seats 23. Shout to Urban 24.Underground Theater

Instrument Research in Facade

Metal Xylophones By knocking on metal pipes of different lengths and thickness to make different sounds.

Wood Xylophones

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By knocking on pieces of wood of different lengths to make different sounds.

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Salute John Milton Cage - The artist of experimental music When Sound meets Life & Art The design USES acoustic architecture as medium to transmit and digest the impetuous emotions of the city through human voice. Using the principle of experimental music, the design enables "voice to talk with voice", enjoying the emotional expression by urban life through sound, breaking down the barriers of art and life.

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Live Museum — Design of rural reconstruction in Baojing Dong Village, Guizhou

2018-2019 Baojing Dong Village Rural Revitalization of inheriting and developing of tangible and intangible culture heritage of Dong Practical Group Work Group Memmbers: Xiaoxuan Zhang, Keyan Li, Linfei Gong Tutor: Bing Chen

Location

Industry situation

Residential Building Evolution

Narrow access road to produce Limited use of agricultural machinery High production costs Villagers go out to work, farmland abandoned

Planting Industry Mainly planted rice, corn and peanuts

Time of primitive society, basic living demand of avoiding danger, damp and hot, wind and rain 1.7 million years ago 'nest dwelling'

China

For better natural resource and Tr i b a l ga t h e r i n g , fo u n c t i o n a l dwelling was born

Breeding Industry

Meet the basics Individual breeding, low income

Cattle, sheep, chickens, ducks and other poultry

7000-2000 years ago 'stake dwelling'

Forestry Industry 1500 years ago Stilt Style architecture

Dong minority make living by traditional agriculture, as a unit of family, their residences are use for Grain storage, drying and processing

Guizhou Province

Rich in tree resources, many valuable tree species are preserved

Measures to protect trees: ban on tree-felling, Grain for Green Project Villagers have a strong sense of protecting mountains and forests

Zhenyuan County

500 years ago Wooden Grounding architecture

Dong people in modern society request better living environment and personal healthy, thus Human and Animal Separation is adopted in their residences

characteristic industry in Baojing professional female embroider

Textile Industry

small scale, inorganization, less-known

Traditional textile technology, Dong embroidered and batik are unique

Southeast of Guizhou Province

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since 2014 (after fire) Brick-wood Grounding architecture

Since the fire disaster in 2014, villagers chose fireproof building materials instead of wood. New residence adapted to modern lifestyle but traditional lifestyle were hindered(eg. fireplace, sunning grain)

'Baojing March 3rd' was listed in national nonmaterial cultural heritage list in 2014, Traditional festival celebrations are unique

Tourism Industry

Lack of development funds

Traditional Dong festival 'Baojing March 3rd'

Middle The new rural architecture will be more flexible with the development demand of modern dong villagers

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‌ Baojing Dong Village

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Building Update in 1.0 & 2.0 & 3.0

New Kitchen : open space, safe

Traditional Kitchen : narrow space with fire hazards

NewBathroom : larger space, comfortable

Traditional Bathroom : narrow, low life quality

Moving bathroom and kitchen to the front and back of house

The households could combine the open kitchens with each other

Adding feeding space and leisure space in the front and back of house

Leisure space in the front of house offering public communicate space for neighborhood

Creating personalized residential, meet the distinctiveness and perspectiveness of new residential

Creating personalized residential, meet the distinctiveness and perspectiveness of new residential

New Corral: concentrated feeding, space reuse

Traditional Corral : attached anywhere, Occupied public space

New Leisure space : improve residents' interaction

Traditional : no public space for chatting

Original texture: village texture were broken because of modernization construction

New : creating customize semiopen space accrding to household preference

New : Connecting customize space by communication plank road

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Practice of a Public Shelter

Transformation Process

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Transformation Idea Construction Details

Villagers build shelter

Keep the original structure

spontaneouslly

Fill in the broken part of roof tiles with glass tile

K e e p t h e original building materials

R o o f o f additional space: using waste wood, take a few for light

Add plank road, c re at i n g s m a l l courtyard, with natural confluence

Daily use by villagers

Eating

Singing

Embroiding

Attract visitors

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Wall of additonal space: traditional bamboo mud wall, with strong permeability

1. Ecological Collective Livestock Breeding Site 2. Baojing Traditional Craft School 3. Baojing Traditional Craft Experience Center 4. Baojing Drum Tower 5. Villa with Field Scenery 6. Chatting Plaza 7. Mogapo 8. Wishing Ginkgo 9. Primary School 10. Baojing Dong Village Intangible Culture Heritage 11. Baojing Dong Village Tangible Culture Heritage 12. Baojing Dong Village Exhibition Hall 13. Villa with Forest Scenery 14. Viewing Platform 15. Baojing Dong Village Visitors Center 16. Public Parking

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Other Works

Sketch of a corner in Suzhou Garden

Cheng Tsung Feng Bamboo Interdisciplinary Workshop bamboo installations, group work

Sketch of a shoemaker in Suzhou oldtown

Between Architecture and Landscape Workshop concept poster, group work

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Digital Visualisation Workshop renderings, individual work

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