Portfolio Zeng Tingyu 2010-2015

EXPRESSION ZENG TINGYU 2010-2015 Applying for MSc in Architecture Program Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment Delft University of Technology B.Arch, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China Add: 800 Dongchuan Rd, Minhang District, Shanghai, 200240 Email: zengtingyu@outlook.com Tel: +86 18501701301

f(x)=y The sites of each project are always providing many opportunities with architects, which we regard as the variables. Rather than just an answer, The function is a set of outcomes since there exist more than one suitable expressions. We, architects, express our talents, opinions, insights, responsibilities, cultures and etc. through our designs. Architecture is a complicated and extraordinary melody for me, which I wish I could play well.

The tidal land on the cover was photographed in Wanggong, Taiwan in the year 2012 when I was an exchange student there at National Cheng Kung University. This land, which has been renovated into a tourist attraction, used to be an important trading port in the Qing Dynasty until the harbour silted up. The expressions of this land in its two phases were both struggling efforts to maintain the stability of society and economy.

The ideal expression of an individual site stems from distinctive contradiction in local society, as well as the impetus of economic level and the philosophy rooted in the culture and tradition. In other words, this mechanism is a intimate linkage between substantialized buildings and abstract spirits in our ordinary life. Although its corresponding balance might be disturbed by the wheel of history, the expression is still the paradigm of the underlying concepts from our reality during a given period.

I therefore believe that the field of architecture concerns more than merely graphic design.The buildings we moulded characterize the city and vice versa, requiring the architects to be of profound multifaceted insights. In the process of design, I enjoy the reflections generated by the combination of practical issues: the indication of its context, the interpretation of atmosphere with the architectural glossary, the interrelationship between spatial structure and programmes, the role it plays in the city, etc. I will be seeking the ideal expression of architecture through my whole life.

As far as I have known, TU Delft offers a vigorous and rigorous course combining research with design, which would equip students with ability to fully understand and carry on as well the social and cultural spirits of architecture. Your program’s emphasis on different but closely linked area of environmental design parallels my goals perfectly. Learning from and competing with the best and brightest future architects of the time would undoubtedly hone my skills and help me become an architect of society and culture. I would greatly appreciate it if you would give favorable considerations into my application.

Three representative works of mine are selected with regard to aforementioned concerns in this portfolio.

Contents

Fly Like a Bird

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Vertical Interaction

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Diagonal Park

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Other Works

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Campus Club Centre

Headquarters of Garment Company

Vertical Campus

[Fly Like a Bird]

Campus Club Centre Academic individual work, year 2 Site: Shanghai Date: April, 2012 - May, 2012, total 6 weeks Tutor: Ms. Zhao Dongmei (3375382@qq.com) The project is located in the woods at the campus of Shanghai Jiaotong University (SJTU). The emphasis of the design is on the personal feeling of the woods, which generates the ambiguity of birds and humans. The design aims at creating an extraordinary experience of light and shadow in the building. It also contains a small research into the carbon storage of the woods with the help of another department of SJTU, the School of Agriculture & Biology, providing solid suggestion of the specific location of the site.

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The axis

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Five elements on site

Pedestrians' path

The site is located on the axis of the new campus of Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, China, about 25 kilometres away from the city centre.

Facing an increased demand for a wider area from students, the authority decided to establish a new campus in 1980,from when this location has developed from a farmland into a modern campus.

Negative site While other spaces on the axis provide students with many activities, serving as attracting points at campus, the site is considered to be a boring point according to a survey. In fact it used to be a experimental field of an eco-system research, studying the carbon storage of trees on site, the metasequoia. However, after the end of the research, this site seems to be forgotten.

It is adjacent to two main spots of campus, the library in the south and the dining hall in the east. But hardly a small number of people would notice the site and visit it. Most pedestrians regard it as an obstruction between these two places.

Fly like a bird In order to stimulate the negative site, the design aims at creating an extraordinary experience for people. Since the site has already become the habitat of several types of birds, it would be a great idea that the visitors feel they are flying like birds.

Connection between birds and humans The study of different elements on site indicates that the trees are the most important one between birds and humans. The trees are where birds live, while they give people the first impression of the site. Trees would be the bridge connecting birds and humans, therefore help people to feel that they are closer to the birds. Wandering among trees in this project will convince people that the trees are everywhere, even though they might not be able to notice the trunks and branches.

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Connection between trees and humans

The flying trees

Being close to the birds requires being close to the trees at first. According to a field survey, the average height of trees on site are 18 metres.

These 18 metres can be divided into three parts.

The birds’ habitat belongs to the higher part, while the humans’ activities mainly happen within the lower part. If humans are able to build interaction with the higher part, the boundary between humans and birds would be ambiguous.

Due to the fact that the branches are likely to sway in the wind, the woods represents are like a bottle of turbid liquid. The higher part creates an impression of lightness on visitors, the same feeling as flying. The design aims at amplifying the swaying phenomenon within the site, therefore making people to feel like a flying bird above the woods.

This design would base on the natural scenery, which requires a pre-study on visualizing this swaying phenomenon and sustaining this landscape.

This establishment of connection should be more than raising the building to the higher part. One of the significant features of the higher part is its swaying branches in the wind. If the connection is base on this swaying branch, people are likely to feel it even when they are standing with the back towards trees.

Reimaging the flying trees

Sustainability of the flying trees

The trees’ appearance changes with the season.

It leads to the various forms of ambiguity of the flying part.

Since the design is base on the trees, it is necessary for the natural landscape to be sustainable.

Summer

Winter

The growth tendency Graph 1 shows in the next 20 years the height of the trees will not change significantly, while the figure for the thickness of the trees is projected to increase*. This rise means a growth in the carbon storage of trees, which distributes to different parts of the tree by a certain ratio. The branch stores less and therefore its swaying is expected to be more easily noticeable as we can see from graph 2.

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The carbon storage The diagram indicates the carbon storage according to the related survey conducted by the School of Agriculture & Biology, SJTU. The lighter the color is, the more carbon the point contains.

The construction should avoid harming the lighter parts.

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1 The height of trees

2 Eyesight consideration

3 The thickness of trees

4 Carbon storage

Input the data of the average height of trees in the grid, which varies from 12 meters in the southeast corner to 20 meters in the south west corner.

The pinnacles of representative trees form a curved surface, which indicates the best line of vision to observe the swaying branches.

The thicknesses of the trees vary from 9.75 centimetres in the northeast corner to 22.75 centimetres in the southwest corner.

The thicker the trunk is, the more carbon storage it contains. The specific location of the building should avoid as many lighter points as possible.

5 Location of building

6 Respence to the site

7 Eyesight correspondence

8 In-between

In an attempt to keep the balance of the Eco-system in the site, the student centre is located in the northeast corner where comparatively less carbon is stored.

The open spaces facing the axis of the campus offer a transition from outside to inside while the one facing the wood provides with the best place to observe the wood.

Curve the roof according to the curved surface created by the wood so that the swaying branches could be easily seen.

Three volumes are added to organize the circulation, which introduce the umbrella structure and provide inbetween space as well.

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The flying strategy

Two approaches with regards to the swaying phenomenon are involved in this project: Direct and Indirect.

Direct eyesight

Direct Eyesight The direct eyesight strategy concerns mainly designing direct view from different directions to the woods, which contributes to the formation of the design.

Indirect Eyesight This strategy magnifies the atmosphere created by the distant swaying branches as if they are filling every inch of the building. Although visitors could not keep looking directly into the woods, the shadow of the branches could be casted upon the walls of architectural concrete, the stairs and the translucent glass walls, indicating the existence of the swaying part of trees.

Indirect eyesight

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Narrative plan of flying stair A

A staircase is located in the corner of the building, with an orientation towards south so that people walking on the stair would easily notice the sway of branches according to the sway of the shadow. The pattern of shadow changes due to the time.

Narrative section of flying stair B Another staircase is facing the inner garden, with the shadow of vegetation in the garden projecting to the wall which bear the weight of the stair.

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Analysis of materials

Landscape type

Four main materials are taken into consideration in this project in oder to create the flying atmosphere: Architectural concrete, galvanized steel, polished marble and transparent/translucent glass.

Reflection

Sparkle

Shadow

Transparency

While the glass lead the external scenery into the internal space, constituting the ambiguity between inside and outside, the other three materials focus on reflecting or receiving the shadow of the swaying branches.

Architectural concrete

Galvanized steel

Polished marble

Transparent glass

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Solid

Translucent

Conceptual collage

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Detail of installation The lightening poles, the installation in the south of the building, provide visitors with a n interactive experience. While some poles function as part of the structure, others could be pushed and pulled in the track. The interactive lighting would enhance the flying illusion.

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Still state The poles are translucent

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Reinforcing steel bar 15 mm rockwool acoustic panels Extension bolt Synthetic resin ÎŚ60 mm t=5 mm glass tube Groove of trolley wheel 10 mm steel pole 0.5 mm mercury plating t=30 mm x 63 mm hard rubber Light emitting diode Wiring slot Conductor

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Swaying state Related poles are lighting

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1 ENTRANCE 2 INNER GARDEN 3 AISLE 4 CAFÉ 5 BAKERY 6 KITCHEN 7 INFORMATION 8 TOILETS 9 OFFICE 10 EQUIPMENT ROOM 11 GALLERY 12 WORKSHOP 13 OPEN DISCUSS AREA 14 STORAGE

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First floor plan

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Double skin roof truss structure

Interaction with structure

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[Vertcial Interaction]

Headquarters of Garment Company Academic individual work, year 3 Site: Tainan, Taiwan Date: October, 2012 - November, 2012, total 6 weeks Tutor: Prof. Maw-Chang Yen (archyen@hotmail.com) The infrastructure construction overbalanced in the renovation and development projects of old town in Tainan city, putting residences to a great deal of inconvenience.

The scheme, broadening the road next to the site and developing a underground traffic system, was supposed to improve the local economic condition. Without followup approaches’ support, the site has experienced a loss of the lively neighbourhood instead of economic boost. The design would recall the old time when dwellers were close, incorporating the arrangement of programmes of garment industry.

Analysis of the site

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The site is located in the old town of Tainan city. The road next to the site was extended, with a underground transport system established a few years ago. but other roads’ condition has not been improved to the same degree. The overall traffic network cannot suffice the circulation of replenishing and distributing in the garment industry w o r k f l o w. A s a c o n s e q u e n c e t h e underground system did not function well as expected. The outdated policy of dividing functional zones results in the homogeneity and separation of each area.

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evaluation

test market

quality control

redesign

feedback

communication

exhibition

mock up samples

sample production

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detailed sketch

fabric selection

decision

financial analysis

industry analysis

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logistics storage

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brain storm

A reflection on the general process of garment manufacturing focus on how three main types of different users involve in the typical apparel industry workflow. Analyzing activities of these groups lead to a better understanding of which activities will happen within the building. In addition, the analysis help us to find out the possible interaction between a local clothing brand with inhabitants, which could give rise to a good reputation and an increase in profits. Different programs would be arranged within the site organically, offering more chances for residences to communicate with each other and therefore stimulating the site.

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Analysis of garment creation and marketing process

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Experience instead of product

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READING

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interaction SALER

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STUDIO DESIGN 3D PRINTING DRAW

MONEY CLOTHES PROFIT

WINDOW-SHOPPING

CREDIT CARD BAG MUSIC RELAX ATM CAFE TALKING DRINKING MOVIE ENTRANCE SEWING CREATION CUTING FABRIC MACHINE FACTORY DISTRIBUTION ACESS OUTSIDE STORAGE MEETING RECEPTION

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HEADDISCUSSION BRAND IMAGE QUARTERS CUSTOMER SERVICEVIP

Target garment industry workflow

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The activities here will help to regenerate the spirit of this street, acting as a significant part of Tainan and reminding people of the old time when every family had a close relationship.

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Typical garment industry workflow

HEADQUARTERS

The building will provide places to exchange ideas between customers and stuff, encouraging the customers to participate into the garment creation.

Therefore the design would satisfy the customer.

It would be a revolutionary workflow of garment industry, which offers extraordinary shopping experience to customers.

SHOP

TRUCK TRUCK TRUCK TRUCK TRUCK TRUCK TRUCK

Interaction catalyst: Unstable levels

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Analysis of circulation

Section 1-1

STEPPED TERRACE

STUDIO GALLERY HEADQUARTERS VERTICAL CIRCULATION

WORKSHOP

SHOP SERVICE

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FACTORY

DISTRIBUTION CITY UNDERGROUND TRANSPORT SYSTEM

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1 SQUARE 2 CAFE 3 KITCHEN 4 EQUIPMENT ROOM 5 RETAIL 6 FITTING ROOM 7 STORAGE 8 READING 9 WORKSHOP 10 HEADQUARTER 11 GALLERY 12 STEPPED TERRACE 13 STUDIO 14 OPEN DISCUSS AREA

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Experience in succession Different scenes are linked together through a straight flight stair so that customers will receive a continuous experience from shopping to participating in the garment creation.

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Extend the experience

2 HEADQUARTES

Added some volumes within the staircase will extend the route of customers.

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From moving to staying

Instead of just providing an access to another level, the staircase offers places for customers to sit down and communicate.

5 SERVICE 6 SHOP 7 CAFE

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Attracting pedestrian

the staircase links inside and outsider, encouraging pedestrian to get out of their comfort zone.

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Partial section 1:250

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The design would be an urban catalyst of Tainan city, which organically connects different programs in the site, with the almost abandoned underground traffic system involved.

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1 Fixed glazing single-layer safety glass 8 +10 cavity +8 mm 2 20 mm diameter steel tube crossbreeding 3 Aluminium angle section

4 30 mm marble flooring 5 40 mm screed on separating layer 6 40 mm impact sound insulation 7 100 mm thermal insulation

8 100 mm vapour barrier 9 200mm reinforced concrete 10 4 mm folded aluminium panel 11 200/100/15 mm steel

angle section suspended ceiling support 12 140/100/15 base plate with 40/40/100 steel tube mandrel 13 IPE 120 steel section 16

[Diagonal Park] Vertical Campus

Academic individual work, year 4 Site: Shanghai Date: November, 2013 - January, 2014, total 8 weeks Tutor: Dr. Xuan Huang (xuanh@sjtu.edu.cn) The site is located in the northeast corner of Shanghai Conservatory of Music, a noted college in China. The only open green space in this area is diagonally linked with the site naturally in this design, encouraging the public access to the green area. This project aims at serving the faculty and student as a vertical campus, which not only offers educational programs but also acts as the catalyst for a better urban conditions with a focus on the balance between humans activities and the natural sustainability.

Site analysis The site is located in the north corner at the campus of Shanghai Conservatory of Music, facing mainly Huaihai road, one of two major shopping street in Shanghai. Two main underground railways pass the site. In this neighborhood, merely one park is serving the pubic as the open green space.

SHANGHAI CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC SITE

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Different approaches to the green space Xiangyang park is the only place in this area serving as the public green space, offering a chance to be close to the vegetation. With a population density of 32795 people per square kilometre in this district, This provision is far from enough.

Obviously some designers are aware of this issue, which can be noticed according to different approaches to the green in these buildings n e a r b y. I n f a c t , s u c h connections have not taken the ecological sustainability into consideration. Maintaining these green space would be an unavoidable expense.

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Diagonal Park's approaches to the green space

School's terrace bar

City complex

Element 1: Garden

Residences

Office's roof garden

Element 2: Connection

Private luxury hotel

Xiangyang park

Element 3: Endless Scenery

The diagonal park in the vertical campus consists of three main elements with regards to the nature, which could be noticed in the different approaches to the green space in buildings nearby. More importantly, The elements enable the park to connect with Xianggang Park diagonally, expending the area of public-friendly green space.

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1 Make full use of the site

2 The first element: Garden

3 The skycraper: avoid blocking the sunlight

4 The second element: Connection

5 Open to the campus

6 The cutting: receive more sunlight

7 The third element: Endless Scenery

8 Modify to get the final form

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Analysis of plan

Third floor plan

Element 1 Garden

The garden in this project serves as the connection between Huaihai Road and existing campus. It has two different levels: one for relaxation of the customers on the ground floor and the other for organizing the circulation of mainly students on the great terrace. The green space sprawls from the ground to the roof of skirt building where people can enjoy the great view of this area , creating the endless scenery in the project.

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1 CORRIDOR 2 RETAIL SHOP 3 MAIN ENTRY 4 TEACHING BUILDING ENTRY 5 UNDERGROUND PARKING ENTRY 6 DUTY ROOM 7 LOBBY 8 SUBWAY ENTRY 9 SUPERMARKET ENTRY 10 GARDEN 11 PRACTICE ROOM 12 CLASSROOM 13 PANTRY 14 MEETING ROOM 15 FACULTY LOUNGE 16 READING ROOM 17 OFFICE 18 LECTURE HALL 19 DIAGONAL PARK

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Ecological design

Best location of skyscraper

Best orientation of skyscraper

Stack effect

The core idea of the green space is to be environmentally benign. According to the psychrometric chart, thermal mass and natural ventilation enlarge the comfort zones.

Only when located in the west corner of the site can the skyscraper block less sunlight, which is essential to the green space, an important part in conceptualizing the idea of Diagonal Park.

The skyscraper faces the best orientation with the annual sun path taken into consideration.

The subtraction forms a buffer zone, which is beneficial to solar and thermal protection.

There are two types of flues in the skyscraper.

One faces the best orientation, serving as a solar chimney, while the other is in the centre, introducing new fresh air to related floors.

Psychrometric chart

Shadow range diagram, Dahan day

Sun path diagram, the whole year

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Natural ventilation strategy of the skyscraper Prevailing winds in summer are from south and west, while in winter from west.

The atrium brings in the stack e ff e c t t h ro u g h b u o y a n c y pressure. The components, which decorate facades, enable cross ventilation. above Summer below Winter

Stack effect and cross ventilation, north to south, summer

Cross ventilation, west to east, summer

Component design, west to east, winter

Thermal mass, north to south, summer

Thermal mass, north to south, winter

Buffer zones, north to south

Thermal strategy of skyscraper The floors made of the high thermal mass of concrete benefit temperature regulation.The atrium f un ctions a s a s ola r a nd thermal flue, introducing sunlight evenly and new fresh air slowly to the building. above Summer below Winter

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Detail of ecological component s=1:20 1 Security double glazing, low-E solar control 2 Silicone seal with bottom of polyethylene gasket 3 Rubber gasket 4 Steel window 5 Trim galvanized steel 1.5mm 6 Waterproofing sheet of rubber 1mm 7 Raised floor column 8 Raised floor board 9 Gypsum board 10 Reinforced concrete beam 11 Reinforced concrete slab 12 HILTI HST M10x110/30cm 13 Outtaking of moisture 1 3 4 5 6 7 8

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Hall of residence

Office

Dining hall

Teaching building

Music art centre

Retail shop

Green space

Vertical circulation

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Structure analysis The series of mega columns on the lower floor level carries the tower and the skirt building. The overall layout of structure are designed with a regular grid concerning the spatial demand of living units on the upper floors. Its uncommonly form,meanwhile, requires a cutting-edge structure mainly in the skirt building. The hanging block is supported by the truss system, which at the same time decorates its facade.

Basement floor structure

Skyscaper's structure

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PHOTOGRAPHY

The amazing part of photography, I think, is the distinctive narratives of the same scenery. For me, it is a personal way to express my emotion. Rural landscape is my favorite theme with regard to photography.

On the way

(film) Taiwan, 2012

The day I leave NCKU

(film) Taiwan, 2012

Rural Graphics Guangxi, 2013

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Morning

Yunnan, 2013

Natural Parameter Guangxi, 2014

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Acknowledgement

Thank you for your time reviewing this portfolio.

I would like to express my sincere appreciation to my instructors: Dr. Xuan Huang, Dr. Liu Shixing, Mr. Liu Xiaokai, Prof. Lu Shaoming and Mr. Seiichi Hirokawa, for their helpful guidance and valuable criticism.

I want to express my deepest thanks to my parents who support me with their endless love. Thanks to all of my friends who share knowledge and happiness with me, especially Luoxi, Lyu Chenghao, Su Wei, Shi Panpan, Wu Tianang, Sha Lei, Tian Yutong, Huang Keshi, Suo Xiaodie and Tao Xinyu.