Submitted in partial fulfilment of MArch Architecture application for University of Edingburgh
N i n g x i n Y e s1573389 2012 - 2015
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I’m Ningxin (Alice) Ye, completed my part 1 course at Newcastle University in 2014. Presently, I work for an American architecture company, Zeybekoglu Nayman Associates, Inc (Beijing, China) as a junior architect. In this year, I have been working with many different types of buildings in their distinctive context, which were 400sqm-clubhouse in Yunnan, 8000sqm-middle school in Chongqing, 160,000sqm-resort hotel in Saipan. Every project was one of the kind which allowed me to develop a strong charm of architecture. During this period, I have gradually gained professional skills and realized my shortages and advantages. The more difficulties I met in the process the more I certainly understand what I need for my future direction of career. Therefore, I decided to go back to school, which would help me to be an architect I want to be. One of the reasons that apply my part 2 course in Edinburgh University is due to my two excellent tutors of graduation project, James A Craig and Matthew Ozga-lawn, founders of studio STASUS. They were all graduated from the Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (ESALA). Their project, pleasure beach, is the most fantastic and challenging project I had ever come across before. They guided me to explore a brand new way to consider the diversity of architectural design, which had a very positive impact on me. And they had a high regard for their alma mater. Thus, I have high expectation to explore my part 2 course in ESALA.
Personal Statement
The other reason is because I find part 2 programme of ESALA is based on this city, which is attracted me very much because I enjoy experiencing and searching for the special relation among people, architecture and the city, which was exactly the topic of my graduation dissertation and will also be one of the essential direction of my architectural research in the future. Moreover, I’m really fond of Edinburgh City, which is one of the most beautiful and architecturally important cities I have ever been. This programme allows me to explore this charming city from many different aspects. Besides, the March programme of ESALA links with other specialist postgraduate programs within the College of Art. This interaction among the related majors is exactly a vital part of what I want to learn from postgraduate course, which is not limited to architectural design itself. Last, I would like to say that now I feel more than ready to be a student again and to explore further possibilities in architectural design and to continue my research on an academic platform.
Curriculum Vitae
N i n g x i n Y e
Education:
Newcastle University (School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape) RIBA/ARB Part 1, BA Architectural Studies with 2-1 class Hons degree, 2011-2014
Achievement:
Work selected to be included in the school design yearbook every year, 2011-2014 International Undergraduate Merit Scholarships, 2011 “ZHUJING” Landscape design competition, Outstanding Award, 2010 National Scholarship Of China, 2010
Experience:
Junior Architect in Zeybekoglu Nayman Associates, Inc (Beijing, China) Octorber 2014 - Present
Diagram drawings, research, Collages for an International School and Institute, Oct, 2014 (won & ongoing) Design proposal for a Resort Hotel at Saipan, Nov, 2014 (on going) Design proposal for Villas of Fuxian Lake at Yunnan, Jan, 2015 (under construction) Collgaes & Plans for a Clubhouse at Yunnan, Feb, 2014 (on going) Shematic design for Jiangbei Middle School at Chongqing, March, 2015 (won & ongoing)
Interns at AZL Architects (Nanjing, China) Jun-Aug 2013
Attended study model making and sketchup drawing in Yangzhou Science Museum Project and Guangfu Resettlement Community Project site researching and analysing in Nanjing Software Technology Design Center Project Interns at LUYUAN Architecture Ltd (Xiamen, China) July-Sep 2012 Attended AutoCAD drawing in Xiamen Xiang’an Passenger Transportation Hub Project Volunteer in Tibet Pandedajie Vovational Technical Welfare School, Apr 2010
Relevant Skills:
Auto CAD, Sketchup, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Indesign, Adobe Illustrator, Dialux, Freehand Drawing, Basic skills in Revit and Rhino
Language:
Fluent in written and spoken English Fluent in written and spoken Chinese Fluent in spoken Taiwanese
Reference:
Dr. Katie Lloyd Thomas Tutor of Dissetation Katie.lloyd-thomas@ncl.ac.uk
James A. Craig Tutor of Graduation project, Co-Founder of Stasus James.craig@ncl.ac.uk
Pleasure Beach
Can Ricart
Big Data International School
Saipan Resort Village
Jiangbei Middle School
Dissertation
Tynemouth Civic Centre
Youth Housing/ Working Mix
Section Alley
Yangzhou Science Museum
Pleasure Beach Project - Afternoon tea factory
Yr3, School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape, Newcastle University
January 2014 - May 2014 Project Location: Blackpool, UK
In British tradition, afternoon tea is an essential part of daily social life. Everything stops for afternoon tea, the social gathering of friends and family around the tea table signified an important pause from other daily activities. People gossip and dance and share their life during the afternoon tea time. In other words, afternoon tea is an attitude and style of life.
Pleasure Beach - Afternoon tea factory
CONCEPT SOUVENIR
CONCEPT COLLAGE (FROM SOUVENIR TO BUILDING)
The concept is sourced from my own experience in Blackpool. We stayed at the ballroom of Blackpool Tower for escaping from the extremely bad weather with fierce storm. In the ballroom, we shared peaceful and unforgettable afternoon tea moments and were totally released from the exhausted journey. This project focus on explore the pleasures about afternoon tea. Firstly, the building itself is conceptually designed from the traditional three tiers cake stand in British afternoon tea. In traditional British afternoon tea, theses three tiers carry three different types of food which are cucumber sandwiches, scones with cream and jam, and fruit tarts from bottom to top respectively. And this is also the order of eating afternoon tea, and people eat from the bottom to the top and from the salty to the sweet.This vertical factory with three production lines of different food types (Sandwich, Scone and Fruit Tart) is designed to respond this order spatially.
FOOD QUANTITY INFORMATION DIAGRAM
Relation with context
Revolving Milking Ring Construction Section
These three food factories (Sandwich, Scone and Fruit Tart) distribute into 4 worktables respectively which are concentrated on a steel chimney in the middle spirally. The production process inside are shown as a performance to the city by transparent glazing walls. Moreover, this food factory is self-sufficient with a milking circle with 36 cows, a roof green house for planting strawberries and cucumbers specially.
Pleasure Beach - Afternoon tea factory
SECTIONAL ELEVATION
AXONOMETRIC PLANS
FOOD CIRCULATION
AFTERNOON TEA FACTORY PRODUCTION LINE
SELF-SUFFICIENCY DIAGRAM
PEOPLE CIRCULATION
Pleasure Beach - Afternoon tea factory This project is an afternoon tea factory sited on the Blackpool’s seafront, which aims to respond to the tradition and the weirdness of British culture and also provide not only tourists but also the locals with a leisure and happy afternoon tea time with their family or friends. The site is carefully chosen at the intersection of accomodation areas and entertainmental areas and towards the sea. The production line spreads afternoon tea sets and leads to the city with three different directions. The ends of them are food stalls located on the beach, the street side and the accommodation area respectively. The beach one serves tourists mainly; the street side one serves people who travels with car; the accommodation one serves the locals.
Can Ricart Project - Theatre of Social Life
Yr3, School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape, Newcastle University
Octorber 2013 - December 2013 Project Location: Barcelona, Spain
This project designed for La Machine, a street performance company is located in historical industrial area of Barcelona, Can Ricart. La machine as a street theatre company focus on using machine to bringing city spaces to life. They hope to use special scale machines to encourage have a new perspective to the city they live. As we know, the social life is essential part in Barcelona. If social life is interpreted as an ongoing drama on public stage, there should be affinities between the domains of stage and street. Everyday life was theatrical in itself and therefore the city was the backdrop of these everyday performances.
Can Ricart Project - Theatre of Social Life According to site analysis, the surrounding of site is a very vibrant community with many educational buildings include two nurseries, a primary school and a youth centre which are all on the west of site. Every day after school around 4pm, large amount of parents and their children are full of streets, which brings dynamic social life. Moreover, the Blovia axis on the back of site is important in future economic develop plan. In this axis, the Can Ricart connects cultural area and industrial area. The site is accessible easily with all directions, which is designed to open to the public.
WHAT ARE PEOPLE DOING AT 4.30PM AROUND THE SITE?
SITE SURROUNDINGS
MAIN ENTRANCE
THE BLOVIA AXIS (PUBLIC AMENITIES ANALYSIS)
Can Ricart Project - Theatre of Social Life
ACTIVITIES AREA DIAGRAM PLANS
SECTION
Can Ricart Project - Theatre of Social Life
MODEL
NORTH - WEST ELEVATION
NORTH - EAST ELEVATION
Can Ricart Project - Theatre of Social Life
FROM THE EXTERIOR
TRANSITION AREA
FROM THE INTERIOR
CHONGQING BIG DATA Project - International School & Institute Office: Zeybekoglu Nayman Associates, Inc
Octorber 2014 - December 2014 Project Location: Chongqing, China Situation: Wining the bid Program: Construction Area 69059.9 m2 Site Area 21598 m2 Responsbility: Site Analysis, Diagrams & Collages
This project designed for a Science and Technology Industrial Valley in Chongqing. It is aimed to serve children of emloyees who live in the valley with different nationality and cultural backgrounds.
Chongqing Big Data Project - International School & Institute
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Main People flow between the Inside and the Outside Main People flow between the semi-open and the Outside Main People flow in open space Secondary People flow in open space
Vivid elements of activities
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Garden Garden Garden Garden
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Activities Landscape Traffic Sports
Cosy elements of communication
Court Garden for Juniors Court Garden for Seniors Court Garden for Institute
Model made by myself (Render by others)
Chongqing Big Data Project - International School & Institute
Forming the Institute
Skylight
Collage (North Entrance)
Chimney Effect
Collage ( during process)
Saipan Wing Beach Project - Resort Hotel & Apartments Office: Zeybekoglu Nayman Associates, Inc
November 2014 - January 2015 Project Location: Saipan, USA Situation: uncompleted Program: Construction Area 305,650 m2 Site Area 168,000 m2 Responsbility: Site Analysis & Research, Participated in the design, Diagrams & Collages
This project is located in the north of Saipan’s San Roque area. It aims to be a luxury resort village which contains center hotel, apartments, conference center, spa, shopping street, themed entertainment park, gallery and etc...The requirement of client is beautiful sea view should be provided by each room for residents.
Model made by myself (Render by others)
Saipan Wing Beach Project - Resort Hotel & Apartments
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Ocean View Winning Stratege Diagram
3 Sketches in progress
Service Facilities Scale Compare Diagram
Chongqing Jiangbei Project - Jiangbei Middle School Office: Zeybekoglu Nayman Associates, Inc
Feburary 2015 - April 2015 Project Location: Chongqing, China Situation: Wining the bid Program: Construction Area 160765 m2 Site Area 108000 m2 Responsbility: Scheme Design, Site Analysis, Diagrams & Collages
This project designed for the hundred-year-old Jiangbei Middle School in Chongqing. It is a new campus which will serve more than 4000 boarders and 500 teachers.
Model made by myself (Render by others)
Chongqing Jiangbei Project - Jiangbei Middle School
Living Zone
Main Entrance
Teacher Dormitory
Student Dormitory
Teaching Zone
Canteen
Public Zone
Main Entrance
Function Diagram
Concept planning Diagram
Planetarium
Culture Centre
Office Building
Academic Building
Library
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Collage (Comprehensive Area between Teaching Zone and Living Zone)
Collage (Main Entrance of Teaching Zone)
Research Sample - Park life in museum?
Exploring an interior form of urban public space at Kanazawa 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art
An ordinary day in a corner of Kanazawa city, visitors wandering around with their cameras, children playing between white thin pillars beside, mothers strolling with their pre-schoolers in lightweight wagons, the elderly reading on long benches, couples enjoying the sunshine not far away, shoppers meeting here between errands for tea, young art students sketching the view, groups engaging in discussions behind them. The mixture of outdoor activities described above is usually staged in the urban public space such as the street or park, but these activities takes place in the interior of a building - the Kanazawa 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art in Japan, designed by Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa of the architectural firm, SANAA. The building doesn’t only welcome art professionals but also the citizens. The museum zone is clustered in the centre of the building and wrapped by the public zone located around the periphery. Composed of a public zone and a museum zone, this energetic museum mixes daily life and high art becomes a hub of activity at all times of the day, which vacillates between playfulness and composure. According to researcher Ashle Fauvre, it wouldn’t be a quiet, serious space of a typical art museum, and it wouldn’t be an open, rowdy space of a park. It would be something in between.But what space it is? Would this mixing space result in a change of behaviour? Or would it invent a special form of urban public space?
Three interior spaces in museum
Reflect city life
This dissertation aims to explain these questions by using various methodologies which are based on a long field trip such as photography analysis, diagrams on spatial layers and people’s activities, and clips of a video.
12 Seatings in Kanazawa Museum and Kanazawa City
Daily life in gallery space of museum and City Centre Park
From the park-like gallery space to the plaza-like foyer space to the streetlike corridor space in Kanazawa museum, in the process of exploring these three interior public spaces, we found all of them are interactive performance spaces in which people’s action is promoted as something necessary in their building process. It reflects a new notion of weakness in SANAA’s architecture which relinquished itself as the central theme and facilitates the predominance in it of objects, people and their actions.1 Instead of creating a space of looking and thinking, they eroded all the visual aspects in their architecture and strengthened the aspects of tactile sensation, paving way to their real concern – interrelation. This thought that put the intersubjetivity and the actions of people and their value as the main concern of the architecture of our time benefits for the improvement of the relationship between people and between people and city. The exploration of this kind of interior public space is meaningful and could inspire the thought of designing urban outdoor spaces in present days.
Civic Centred Project - Bridge bridges to the park
Yr2, School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape, Newcastle University
January 2013 - April 2013 Project Location: Newcastle, UK
This civic center serves for tynemouth village in a historical disused tidal pool. The civic center aims to build bridges between urban context and nature context, history and present, land and sea, the locals and tourists, culture and leisure. And this civic center is located in an intersection of very popular resort and the downtown, People meet here, walk the dog, jog, enjoy the sea view, play beach football. Therefore, the site could be defined as a seaside park. The civic center links to five local nature context (sky, grass, cliff, sand, sea) at different levels, which could be seemed as a hub provides people many opportunities to touch the context and more understand the tynemouth.
Simplicity, Economy, Home Project - Interact with context Yr2, School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape, Newcastle University
November 2012 - December 2012 Project Location: Newcastle, UK
The experience of being young are mediated by different places and social identities ----<<Young people, Place And Identity>> By Peter Hopkins
This project is a small housing/working complex designed for 8 young people together with a furniture workshop and a self-contained flat for their tutor. There are at least 11 trees in the site including a gorgeous maple tree which combines the environment to form a attractive maple garden. The design tries to create an atmosphere of park, whcih is expected to interact with bothe natural context and social context. The double curved treepaths run through buildings and trees, which provides a unique journey for residents and visitors. The natural open space is supposed to be a gathering place for local community.
Section Alley Project - Music Festival in Plummer Chare Yr2, School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape, Newcastle University
April 2012 - May 2012 Project Location: Newcastle, UK Spread the rhythm to the every corner of Newcastle through pipes
Plummerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Chare served to be one of a number of routes which allowed human traffic to climb the ascent to the city centre. In its original state, before the great fire of Newcastle and Gateshead in 1854, Plummerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Chare was infamous for the activity which occurred after trading hours ended, notably prostitution. The lightweight and temporary shelters connect and isolate both the audience and performer. The vocal tones of the spoken word dissipates into the tubes, dislocating the performance and the performer. A more powerful ensemble is carfted once all the tubes are connected and layered in the terrace. The larger picture overwhelms the individual pieces.
Yangzhou Science Museum Project - Civic Center & Science Museum Office: AZL Architects
July 2013 - August 2013 Project Location: Yangzhou, China Situation: Wining the bid Responsbility: Model Making (by physically and on software), Collage
This project is supposed to be the main landmark for commemorating and celebrating 2500 anniversary of Yangzhou city. Integrating elements of the Han Tang-style building, they paid attention to the traditional regional culture. Architects designed it as an urban life organism combined technology demonstration, planning exhibitions, youth activities, education and training, public services, culture and leisure, which serves the citizens of Yangzhou city.
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