Portfolio yihanxu

SELECTED WORKS OF YIHAN XU 2014-2017

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CONTENTS

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Plug-in Stadium

Reconceiving the urban Stadium

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[Cooperative Academic Work]

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Collage

Community Museum Design

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[Individual Academic Work]

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Utopia

Typological Corrections of Residential Infrastructures in Bronx

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[Cooperative Academic Work]

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Life on Pedlar Dwelling Design

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[Individual Academic Work]

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Jade

Long-span Thin Shell Structure Design

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[Cooperative Academic Work]

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Glith

Facade Renovation Structure Study [Cooperative Academic Work]

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Plug-in Stadium Reconceiving the Urban Stadium 2016.9-2016.12 Cooperative Academic Work

Plug-in Stadium Reconceiving the Urban Stadium 2016.9-2016.12 Cooperative Academic Work

Stadium is a huge presense in the city, and its gigantic walls block public. In this project, we wanted to weaken the existence of walls, redefine walls, and reconceive the urban stadium. We came up with several typologies that can separate space and keep the function of walls, those typologies make space physically separated but visually connected, thus weaken the existence ot walls.

We continued our experiment by lofting the section of those typologies, and lots of new possibilities of space emerged.

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Bryant park, located in the central of midtown, Manhattan, next to which stands the NYC Public Library, is an excellent choice for site. There are 2 subway lines crossing each other under bryant park, and the stack of NYC Public Library is also underneath bryant park.

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Collage Community Museum Design 2014.3-2014.7 Individual Academic Work

Collage Community Museum Design 2014.3-2014.7 Individual Academic Work

�By combining separate scenes in a certain sequence, the significance of them will be much more enriched than solo ones �

And as a community history museum, the very responsibility of it is to record the change within this period objectively and faithfully just like a documentary. This design combines Montage method with the enframed scenery methodology of traditional Chinese architecture design, linking the complex and collaged scenes and the navigation of the museum organically, which enables viewers to appreciate the outdoor scenes frame by frame just like watching an old movie.

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Through a supposed spatial experiences of viewers, the sequential scenes connect different era themes in series, integrating the corresponding enframed sceneries together, and constitute adocumentary of the development of the traditional community of Changsha. At the meantime, the mixture of walls and interfaces at the corespace blurs the boundary of time and space, taking them to the state of chaos, in which different eras joins together. There is a way to compress the space and present it to the viewer at the same time.

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Utopia Typological Corrections of Residential Infrastructures in Bronx 2016.6-2016.8 Cooperative Academic Work

Utopia Typological Corrections of Residential Infrastructures in Bronx

Private Garden

2016.6-2016.8 Cooperative Academic Work

Before Correction

Commnity Garden

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Utopia This affordable housing residential area is basically serving the low-income/no-income group, low productivity, severe security issues, low efficiency of space using are the basic problems. This new typology is aiming at increasing the security condition, refining the space, and most importantly, changing the living mode of the residents, and provide them work opportunities.

After Correction

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Typical Floor Plan Corrections

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Life on Pedlar Dwelling Design 2014.7-2014.9 Individual Academic Work

Life on Pedlar Dwelling Design 2014.7-2014.9 Individual Academic Work

In the rapid process of urbanization, there are still some backward zones in the city, most of which are constructed by the dwellers themselves. Lacking the macro control, there are many problems and contradiction left over by history in the buildings. I chose one building in the shanty town, which has the sharpest conflicts, to design and reform, to express my attitude and opinion towards this urban phenomenon. This attitude is based on the city research at a macro level, and finally settled in practice and specific design. I hope to propose such a method to solve the problems and relieve the contradictions.

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Before Reconstruction

After Reconstruction

Jade Long-span Thin Shell Structure Design 2015.3-2015.7 Cooperative Academic Work

Jade Long-span Thin Shell Structure Design 2015.3-2015.7 Cooperative Academic Work

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Glitch Facade Renovation Structure Study 2016.9-2016.12 Cooperative Academic Work

Glith Facade Renovation Structure Study 2016.9-2016.12 Cooperative Academic Work

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Residential Building Design

Hotel Design

Professional Work

Professional Work

Time: 06/2013-07/2013 Location: Chongqing China

Time: 06/2013-08/2013 Location: Chongqing China