Bu YaLong Portfolio

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PORTF OL IO | B U YAL ONG APPL YING F OR ADMISSION TO ML A L ANDSC APE ARC HITEC TU RE, U NIVERSITY OF EDINB U RGH

BU YALONG Bachelor of Arts from Xi'an Academy Of Fine Arts, P.R.China Email: yalong.bu@gmail.com Tel: 86-18656509017

WORK 2009-2013

This is a typical Chinese landscape painting, Including the mountains, water, blank, house, woods. This is a typical Chinese garden landscape, If the boundaries of the painting as a wall, then the house is pavilions, center of the pool, the pool in front of stones and trees.

Wang Shu, a famous architect who won the Pritzker Architecture Prize, once said: "Narrow room[ 容 膝 斋 图 ]" means: if people can live in picturesque limits of scenario, the artist would rather make the house as small as possible. As for building a house, it just likes to build a small world and then everything within the boundaries is the full content of this architecture. So that as an architect, one should keeps a reasonable attitude towards the nature and world and has unique perspective thought and method to create a new world.

In the school curriculum,In addition to landscape,I also try to practice the principle mentioned above by many other different mediums. Including architecture, urban planning, photography and fine art. The forms of expression may be different. but the inherent cores are obvious the exploration to link tradition and reality. This portfolio selects my four representative works in the foregoing fields.

CONTENTS

[Regeneration Community]

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[Jade Pool ]

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[Between Water and Mountains]

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[Natural and Narrative]

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Artwork

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-- Xi'an Academy of Fine Arts teacher residence renovation

-- Hefei "Yao hai(Jade Pool)" Park Master Plan Design

-- Artist Studio Design

Nee Zan[ 倪瓒 1301–1374],Narrow room[ 容膝斋图 ],Yuan Dynasty.

-- Xi'an University New Teaching Building Landscape Design

[Regeneration Community]

-- Xi'an Academy of Fine Arts teacher residence renovation Personal work Tutor: Mr.Wu Xiaodong Site: Xi'an, Shanxi, China May,2013

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With the development of China’s economy and technology, the changes of people’s lifestyle and the improvement of people living standards, the residences which were built in 1970s to 1980s has become the old, backward and high energy consumption ones and can not meet the requirement for people’s daily life.

Therefore, it is necessary to make transformation for the old buildings to extend the use fixed number of year and improve their functions.

The teacher residence renovation site selected residence located in Xi’an Academy of Fine Arts which is a typical representative old building of the 1970s to 1980s. The reason of choosing this residence is that it is the boundary of Xi’an Academy of Fine Arts and Xi’an City and has the properties of both the residential and urban.

Xi'an, Shanxi, China

Current Situation

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Site seasons sunshine analysis Spring

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Summer

Autumn

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Architecture Age

Winter

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Daily living space focuses on the space’s cultural and social attribute which means a full range of interactive relationship between space and people. Daily living space can not only meet people’s needs and create a new way of life, but also can promote the rational distribution of urban public space and changes of urban social structure. Thus, its spatial pattern and evolution rules play an important role for urban public space system composition.

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Before the 1990s, China's housing construction is planned economy, does not involve the market can not fully reflect the wishes of the residents.

In the old house renovation, it should be organized and implemented in the government community developer by the Government under common control designers and residents, and largely controlled by the residents.

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Only in public participation in order to ensure the most effective way transform old house in order to make the transformation results closest public opinion.

Historical Context

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Evolution

Solar radiation analysis

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Elevations

Roof shape by external factors such as solar radiation, can effectively control the solar radiation, rain, etc.

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Decomposition diagram

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Renderings

Master Plan

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Section

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[Jade Pool ]

-- Hefei "Yao hai(Jade Pool)" Park Master Plan Design Studio work Site: Hefei, Anhui, China August,2011

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"Huagudeng" Folk Art path

Introduction:

Hefei,Anhui

Streamer

Yaohai Park is located in the northeast suburb of Hefei, built in 1990, the park covers an area of ​​approximately 16.67 hectares, of which 7.33 hectares waters.

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circular road system

circular road system

Streamer Center of the square "Huagudeng" sculpture square

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Inspired by "Huagudeng" Folk Art

Current Situation: 1. The park is not coordinate with the surrounding environment and the status of the city.

Yaohai Park is positioned to Anhui's largest farmers Park "Huagudeng" spread in the Huaihe River Basin is a kind of dance as the main content of the comprehensive art form."Huagudeng" more in rural areas before the harvest is completed next year's spring show.

Partition function

Visual line analysis

2Nd Entrance Gate

2. Recreation facility for children is scattered, disrepair and poses a safety hazard.

3. Partition is not clear and public facility is in shortage which can not meet the requirements of residents’ leisure activities.

Road System

Children's Playground Lounging Terrace (Upper )

Central Plaza

4.Plants monotonous, simple configuration, p o o r g r o w t h , plant landscape monotonous.

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Main Entrance Gate Promenade

Current Situation

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Two Circular Road System: 1.Circular road by lakeside; 2.Connecting the main square with circular road by lakeside.

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Four axis: 1.Original owners inlet and Nanhu Island center axis formed sculptures; 2.New entrance plaza sculpture with Nanhu Island center axis formed; 3.North Lake North Island secondary entrance and view of the sea floor to form the axis of the; 4.North Lake Island west entrance with view of the sea floor to form the axis of the.

Master Plan

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2Nd Entrance Gate section

2Nd Entrance Gate plan

Main Entrance Gate

Lakeside Landscape

Lakeside plan

Lakeside section

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[Between Water and Mountains] -- Artist Studio Design

Personal work Tutor: Mr.Pu Suwei Site: Hefei, Anhui, China March,2012

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Lake Chao, Anhui

Site is located on the beside of Lake Chao. Lake Chao, one of China's five largest freshwater lakes, is located in central Anhui Province.

Eastern China

Design inspired by studies of Chinese gardens:

Said Mr. Tong Jun gardens such as painting.

Every object, in fact, is just as it should appear in a painting.

A Chinese garden is indeed a landscape painting in three dimensions, but like Chinese painting, it is subjective.

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"If a visitor to a Chinese garden, after entering and before wandering too far, should pause(hesitation is wise, for he is embarking upon something not unlike an adventure),and by glimpses transcend space and volume and resolve the whole into one flat surface, he would be thrilled to realize how closely the garden resembles a painting.

Before his very eyes stands a landscape, not drawn with the painter's brush, but a pictorial composition of arbor, brook and weeping willows unmistakably recalling that familiar pattern which one associates with a Chinese painting-the same crooked into a grotto. The visitor, by the way, could well be satisfied with just this much and turn away, leaving yet unseen the landscape beyond as new discoveries and new surprises for another day.For this reason, the past owner of a Chinese garden seldom lived in it and only occasionally paid it a visit. Well worth preserving was the distance that lent enchantment."

Outside

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Outside Inside

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Outside Traffic flow line is designed like wandering among the Chinese gardens

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Isometric view

Master Plan

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Elevations

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[Natural and Narrative]

-- Xi'an University New Teaching Building Landscape Design Personal work Tutor: Mr.Hua Chengjun Site: Xi'an, Shanxi, China November,2012

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Xi'an city

Xi'an University

White Deer Plain A' B

Xi'an University is a comprehensive university. The teaching building is the architecture with comprehensive function, modern modeling and some traditional Chinese elements in parts. The main characteristic of the building is the four sinking courtyard.

For landscape design surrounded the school buildings, I took university's culture and ecological requirements into account to meet the requirement of teachers and students’ rest and exchange and also to improve the whole university environment.

The design idea for the sinking courtyard taken from the ancient Chinese literati’s game:" 曲水流觞 "[(of a gathered crowd) drink water from a winding canal with one wine cup floating on it so as to wash away ominousness)].

I put it into the public furniture landscape structures. As long as the ground size is large enough, it can extend indefinitely. Based on the arc size and the different sitting position, the relationship between people is also different. The greater the arc, the relationship between people is more alienated. Just because of its vague forms, people can decide its usage ways according to their own ideas.

This landscape structure and composition of the relationship between people is interactive. Completion of the design does not exist at the time of finished the work, but in the variety usages ways of people.

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Master Plan

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School is located in Shaanxi Province, wheat, corn, sunflower crops typical of the local school seasonal planting these crops, giving a clear seasonal campus landscape; only low investment, easy to manage and form a unique, economical campus pastoral landscape.

Surrounding ecological landscape design, according to the seasonal planting seasonal crops, the main choice of wheat, corn, sunflower as a landscape plant, making the plant with local agricultural campus atmosphere, seasonal color clear. Sinking courtyard dominated by vertical greening, giving students a lot of space.

Economic crop yield

Different crops so that the campus has a distinct seasonal color.

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Punica granatum

Cinnamonum camphora

Cedrus deodara

Triticum aestivumLinn

Koelreuteria paniculata

Populus tomentosa

Ginkgo biloba

A--A' section

B--B' section

Platanus hispanica

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Cinnamonum camphora

Koelreuteria paniculata

Populus tomentosa

Triticum aestivumLinn

Acer palmatum

Ginkgo biloba

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Supplement-Artwork, Photography

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oil painting

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2009

Sketch

2009

Copying Monet

2009

Watercolor painting

2010

Architectural sketches

2010

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Architectural Drawing

2011

Photography

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2009-2013

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