Architecture Portfolio_Yi Huizhong_Internship

Architecture Portfolio Yi Huizhong

Edinburgh College of Art rachelcestbon@gmail.com

YI HUIZHONG

EDUCATION

SKILLS

2015-Present Architecture (BArch, Year 2) University of Edinburgh (UK) 2012-2015 Green Building and Sustainability (Diploma) Temasek Polytechnic (Singapore) 2012-2015 Cross-Cultural Studies (Diploma) Temasek Polytechnic (Singapore)

•Modeling Autodesk Revit (Architecture and MEP) Autodesk AutoCAD Rhinocerous 5.0 SketchUp Pro 3D Printing Lazer Cutting Casting

Birth date 14-04-1993 China PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Address 10/4 St Patrick Square

EH8 9EZ, Edinburgh, UK 2016 An Hui Architecture and Nationality Chinese Urban Planning Studio (China) Profession Architecture Student Architecture Intership Email rachelcestbon@gmail.com

in Residental Housing Project Telephone number +44 (0)7864818490

Antique Commercial Centre Website http://y2u.be/tBox7TpCiS8 2014 Surbana International Consultants https://www.linkedin.com/in/ Sustainable Design Assistant huizhong-yi-611814b7/

in Community Recreation Centre https://issuu.com/rachelyi

Ampitheatre Modification

LANGUAGES Mandarin Chinese Mother tongue English Advanced level

OTHER EXPERIENCE 2014 Audible Heart (Singapore) Charity Management team

•Presentation Hand Drawing Adobe Photoshop Adobe Illustrator Adobe Indesign Microsoft Office Writing and Oral Presentation •Simulation and Environmental Design Ecotect IES Green Strategies for Building System Green Assessment schemes Project Management Building Management Energy Management and Audit •Others iMovie Java Script

INTERESTS Art | Film | Fashion | Photography | Travelling | Sports

Curriculum Vitae

Theatre Library

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Heart School

Bakery House

Writer's Retreat

Situated in the very heart of Rome in 41.890753, 12.479411, the site is surrounded with past glory of Roman civilisation, including Temple of Apollo Sosiano, Temple of Pietas, Forums, and most importantly the second stone theatre in Rome - Thetro Marcello dated back to 2000 years ago.

It had witnessed the dynastic sucessions, religious transformation, and numerous wars or triumpa processions. The place had been long served as a public stage for soical gathering and the spread knowledge and was left in delapidation. It is now found back in suspended time and been brought back to its primitive functions in the form of Theatre Library. The coming and leaving of citizens and tourists in this Theatre Library are embraced to find and argue about truth in the form of performance.

Like knowlege in books, theatre and performances offer another perspective to look into history and life in a more subtle and sensuous way. The complex layers of history on site are just akin to acts and scenes transfered in scripts.

In the witness of surrounding ruins, opinions are encouraged to be expressed exaggerately, and opinions generate knowlege. When the pain and pleasure are exacerbated, our understandings are to be felt more in depth.

The coexistance of occupants forms networks of human movements. People are seeing and seen perfroming subconsiously on the various stages or found spaces in the contemporary theatre library, reverberating the truth human thought after painstakingly.

The design aims to bring back the primary value of performance - expression - in a contemporary context to form a culture phenomena respond to our time. Aiming to find the common root of human civilisation through reading, watching, listening, navigating and experiencing through the Theatre Library.

Site map

Historical Plan

Site sketches of column elements

Precedent of Castelvecchio Museum

Diagram of Theatre

The Theatre Library is composed of three spaces as the Library, the Foyer and the Theatre. The Library is a space for studying, presenting and debating, providing books in theatre, film, philosophy, religion, science and art. The Foyer is a multidirectional transition space of gathering, rehearsing and anticipaing. Three flight of stair join the entrance ground, the Theatre, the Cafe and the Library. A spiral towers in centre allows temporary inhabitation of play writters and serves as a sign of judgement. The Theatre utilizes the existing facade of temple ruins as a backdrop of stage setting in an angled way for a spatial depth and immediatly brings people back to Rome.

Section through Foyer

1 | Theatre Library

North Elevation

Basement Plan

The repeating column elements on site are reallocated for space generation, and the architectonics of theatre library follows the gridlines from existing church and context. The rythemical repetition of columns forms complete and uniform measurement in space. The various space and stages are of different characteristics, wheather serene, tragic, funny, serious or satire. The character of individuals are hence evoked through the spatial experience, thoughts are arouse subconsiously as well. Like spring, it satisfies the thirst of our souls.

South Elevation

Ground Floor Plan

The actors, the stage, the audience and the scenes are all happening simultaneously in the Theatre Library.

The communications through time are not restricted merely in silent reading and writtings here, just as the transition in space provides more than a visual experience. Individuals experience the space and truth in touch, in verbal expression, in heat, in fluidity of air across. Here, passion and enthusiasm emerge, sensibilities and rationalities mix, instant and immortal oppose and reproduce. Truth and fallacy come from languages, thoughts and lies distinct from performance.

First Floor Plan

East and West Elevation

1 | Theatre Library

Serene Space

Serious Space

Funny Space A short video clip of spatial experience can be seen on url link on: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBox7TpCiS8

Sequence of Spatial Experience

“Play of the Library Theatre” Scene I

Act 1

PANEL 1 1.INT. THAT CAFE. ROME - DUSK The colonnade café of theatre Library sits itself comfortably between the gap of Roman ruins and the foyer. The space is not bustling but only few seats are left for upcoming theatre goes. A drama enthusiast STEVEN is in his window booth as usual which can look into the rehearsal stage on top.

Waitress TINA is busy serving the customers in the saturated atmosphere filled with the chitchat in pleasure and probably some arguments about play.

STEVEN, the black-haired, beautiful young man with grey eyes, takes another look at the theatre entrance down the café, and the meditation tower bathing under the sunlight of dusk. On the tower clock it reads “7:34”. The waitress approaches him with espresso he usually orders.

Sensuous Spatial Experience

TINA Espresso.

STEVEN Grazie.

Steven looks back with a smile.

Atmopheric Sketch

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PANEL1

Scene VI Act 1

6.

EXT. THAT COURTYARD– DAWN Film collector ANTONIO walks out from the dark room and finds it is dawn already and the apprentices are practicing the plot in the stepping levels in the entry of our theatre library.

He walks out through the revolving wall and shallow pool to the lovely street of mundane.

ANTONIO (pleased)

What a lovely new day of our Theatre Library.

FADE OUT THE END 1 | Theatre Library

Sections

The site for a Architecture School project in Edinburgh old town is located near ECA and Grassmarket, currently used as a car park with little obstruction from surrounding buildings that are no taller than 14 meters a street away, its size was about 60mx30m, compact but not too tight.

There were two evergreen trees with wide canopy in north, potentially block view to castle and might need to be removed.

The noise was minimum in the school and residential premise. There doesn’t seem to have ample direct sunlight due to the high laltitude in Edinburgh.

The spatial sequence started from a narrow street along the double historical wall besides George Heriot School, to a large open space at a gentle ramp of height difference of 3m, to a several flight of stairs leading to grass market and then up to the Edinburgh castle.

The key concept is to establish a vibrant Architecture School that engages the neibourhood and functions as a heart for a more dynamic city within the threshold of the historical wall and residential buildings.

The school is formed around a centralised atrium space serve as a stage and veins that connect to various chambers. There has been a complete loop circulation for each floor for ease of access as all the coming ways are connected to the path leading away,.

The recompose of common elements give life to its new possibilities and fluidity of multi-directional movement.

Site Impression Collages

Central atrium

Architecture School Overview

2 | Heart School

Ground Floor Plan

First Floor Plan

Second Floor Plan -Credit to Gina Jiang

The Architecture schools are emcompassed by academic space, staff space, functional space, event space, and recreational space. The lecture theatre, workshop and cafe gallery is located on groundfloor and some service space extended on basement. The studio, group discussion space and common room is located the first floor.

The office, tutorial rooms, library, space for meditation, computer lab and bar are located on second floor. The open plan allows visual continuation between all functional spaces and flexibility in alternative use. The perspective of knowing happenings in adjacent spaces fosters a sense of community and unity. ‘Architecture is the masterly, correct and magnificent play of masses brought together in light’ - Le Corbusier

Spatial Model

Site Plan - Credit to Gina Jiang

"In combination they embrace continuity and discontinuity, going and stopping, clarity and ambiguity, cooperation and competition, the community and rugged individualism.�

- Learning from Las Vegas

Site Collage - Credit to Gina Jiang

Spatial Model in Function Zone

2 | Heart School

Site Sections

The bridge across atrium is a metaphor of linking the past and head to the future.

The island for meditation gathers gazing at the thin beams of faltering light.

Aisle is a space to anticipate passing visitors.

Sections -Credit to Gina Jiang

Spatial Experience in Atrium

Spatial Experience in Walkway -Credit to Gina Jiang

Model on site showing materiality

Computer lab and Library -Credit to Rachel Dunne

2 | Heart School

Top Perspective views to Atrium on Ground and Second Floor

-Credit to Gina Jiang

Top views to Atrium

The building material is a combination and meet of concrete and corten steel representing thinking and making in architecture learning. The porous concrete surface absorbs light while dull corten steel reflects the light. They both bounce back sound, spaces become container of sound and echo, making the space a symphony. The coldness of building materials might potentially stop us from staying late or keep us more clear-headed in the middle of the night.

We shape our buildings and thereafter the building shapes us.

We invade in space and being invaded, we define space and being defined.

Increasing integration in materials on each floor

-Credit to Gina Jiang

Floor Plan Diagram

2 | Heart School

Axonometric model showing spatial composition layering

Site Impression Collage

Roof and Ground floor Plan

The small scale residential/commercial project requires a house for the backery on the portobello beach, Edinburgh. The project aims to achieve balance and smooth transition in inhabitation and working in the very restricted site. The design process questioned the way of life targeted audience expected and the way to sell ideas. Only by establishing a clear atmosphere and spirit of the space can the space be activated, forming its unique identity and merge into existing context. Immediate emotional response are evoked through differences in spatial experience in the feasible and aesthetic design.

Second Floor Axonometric

First Floor Axonometric

Ground Floor Axonometric

3 | Bakery House

Increasing privacy in volumes

The projects requires a small temporary retreat house for a writter (less than 2 5 m 2) i n t h e t r a n q u i l f o r e s t o f R i v e r Almond, Edinburgh. To achieve complete isolation, the small retreat house rests itself comfotably in the middle of the river linking the bank by a slim bridge above the floodline. Two volumes for writing and resting are seperated completely and interlocks to hide a small courtyard.

The organic shape of building roots deeply to the ground just as the rest of canopy comprising the context.

4 | Writer's Retreat