UCLA MSAUD Portfolio by Shike Yin by Shike Yinn

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“The past was a part of the building of the future.” In my first 12 years, I experienced identity confusion due to cultural shocks. Thus, as an architecture student from mainland China, I became aware of the conflicts and values brought about by identity differences at quite an early stage. Whether as a transfer student from the small city of Wenzhou to the large city of Hangzhou in middle school or as a mainland Chinese high school student participating in cultural studies during a summer in London, I have had deeply felt the exclusivity from mainstream groups.

To overcome the fear of differences and a lack of confidence on the journey of personal growth, I once temporarily distanced myself from my own identity, much like observing a drainage ditch on the streets of Cambridge in the UK. Seemingly ordinary, it revealed a carefully designed slope and carving, reflecting the intention of the designer. This stood in stark contrast to the drainage ditches I had observed in China, which were solely focused on efficiency. And it is precisely this kind of experience that gradually shaped my longterm architectural contemplation. After undergoing numerous cultural collisions, I realized that my architectural thinking might be a journey to rediscover identity and self-worth. In other words, my understanding of architecture is rooted in a humanistic, dynamically urbanized cultural context. It is this ambiguity of identity during the journey that sparked and shaped the sensitivity of this boy in observing the surrounding society and architecture. Gradually, I began to realize that each society under different economic and political systems, regardless of size, have their own logical deduction and principle reasons.

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01. Live or Life

2022 Fall Studio project

Instructor: Prof. Zhang Jingang

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Site: Hangzhou, China

Live+Mall

18000 ㎡

With the rise of internet technology, numerous emerging industries have sprung up, but they have also brought about many contradictions.

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After 2010, the live streaming e-commerce industry took root and flourished in Hangzhou. Subsequently, it almost became a symbol of the city's industry. Unlike any previous methods, whether it be television direct sales or offline physical marketing, the live streaming e-commerce industry is impacting people's traditional production and lifestyle with its high efficiency and universality. However, as a large number of offline physical stores face closure, the traditional balance of supply and demand between traditional retailers and the original producers is disrupted

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The design concept for this project began with the conflict between the virtual and the real in things, aiming to trigger people's critical thinking at the climax of this conflict. Firstly, it starts by mapping the characteristics of the industry onto architectural space. Secondly, the combination of different spaces makes consumers aware of the usually concealed production areas: live streaming spaces.

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MAPPING OF MODERN HANGZHOU

Hangzhou, once acclaimed as a paradise on earth, has been a tourist city. With the development of the live streaming industry and internet technology, the traditional urban structure is rapidly dissolving, leading to a more tightly interwoven industrial layout in terms of space.

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ANALYSIS OF FOUR LIVE STREAMING TYPES

The traditional live streaming e-commerce industry primarily consists of three types, each with its own distinct advantages in the elements of the supply chain, policies, professionalism, and the market. The fourth type, which is the focus of this design study, is developed based on these considerations.

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PHILOSOPHICAL METHOD

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Influenced by Slavoj Žižek and Harman's object-oriented ontology, I perceive architecture as a form of universally regarded object-building. Following this, I used "comparison" as a structural method to visualize the commercial conflicts occurring online and offline in reality, originally considered invisible forms.

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Subsequently, I attempt to construct commercial-relations-asobjects from the perspectives of functional research assumptions, extreme spatial functionality, and architectural form, which compares oppressive and monotonous live broadcast room composed of a closed wall and column system with the dynamic commercial space mapped by a free column network system.

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Based on this, when the live streaming sales space symbolizing online commerce collides with the physical commercial space, this live mall constitutes a conflicting contradiction, which triggers people's reflection on the rapidly developing sales anchor industry.

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The live streaming e-commerce industry is a multi-disciplinary assembly line that requires close collaboration among various job roles. Efficiency, professionalism, but also monotony and tension are its hallmarks.

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RENDERING 1

Worker's Live

RENDERING 2

Customer's Life

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The design of the architectural walls aims to strengthen these repressive features. The characteristics of efficient work demand that workers and broadcasters maintain an intense schedule, with many broadcasters even needing to work continuously for up to 12 hours. Therefore, despite facing a world of virtual freedom, the physical bodies of these workers are confined within invisible cages. At the same time, the constraints of the physical world echo and contrast with the virtual hustle and bustle.

In contrast, there is probably a frenzy of physical shopping. In the offline world, although people may lack the interactive pleasures of virtual experiences, the rare instances of real and tangible experiences prompt individuals to reconsider the impact of the live commerce industry on their lives. In this context, the expansive open spaces of the architectural structure provide people with opportunities for free-flowing movement, thereby generating a conflict with the physical realm in the reverse direction.

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02. Wenzhou, Never Fall

2023 Spring

Studio project

Instructor: Chen liyi

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Site: Wenzhou, China

Antique market & Museum 15100 ㎡

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This renovation project focuses on my hometown: Wenzhou City.

In the 1980s, when China was about to emerge from material poverty, Wenzhou, as a pioneer in reform and opening up, set a fast track for the country. A bottom-up market economy is rapidly blooming in Wenzhou.

The project selected a declining antique market in the old city of Wenzhou, and attempted to continue its main function of selling antiques, fill the gaps in local cultural exhibitions, and become a comprehensive antique display space.

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THE LOST "WENZHOU FEDERATION"

Wenzhou is a region with a highly developed county-level economy. In the early stages of reform and opening up, Wenzhou witnessed the rise of numerous wholesale markets from the grassroots level, and the Miao Guo Temple Antique Market located in the city center was one of them. However, with the rapid development of the economy and the upgrading of power structures, the flourishing grassroots economy quickly declined, leaving behind many abandoned market spaces.

THE LOST MIAOGUOSI MARKET

The Miaoguosi Antique Market emerged in the early 1990s and was one of the most representative bottomup trading markets in Wenzhou at that time. Unfortunately, after a millennium in which China's economy has integrated into globalization, Wenzhou's grassroots economy has been forgotten by mainstream society, and this outdated market has also declined. Fortunately, its space has been preserved intact.

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Wenzhou administrative area map

Main city map

Urban transformation records

Main city map

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Unlike the other cities in the China or Europe, Wenzhou city is deeply mixed with street blocks and natural fragiles including the rivers and mountains. At the same time, the addition of factors such as religion and commerce further disrupted the traditional city texture. Therefore, Wenzhou City has formed a state of mixture of East and West, natural and artificial.

SECTION: The Sacred Historical Significance of the Octagonal

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SECTION OF PODIUM BUILDING

The project focuses on updating and optimizing the spatial characteristics of the original antique market. Starting from the transformation of the atrium space of the most representative octagonal building, to the retention of the old structure of the podium and the insertion of new corridors, the project maintained the original spatial pattern as much as possible. At the junction of the new corridor and the old structure, a continuous sense of separation is created through the lifting of the top, allowing a better view of the market's treasures and cultural relics.

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03. The Parallel Imperative

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2022 Fall Studio project

Instructor: Prof. Zhang Jingang

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Individual

Site: Shanghai, China

Apartment renovation

7500 ㎡

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In the past one hundred years of Chinese society, the society has undergone many social changes, and family relationships have also changed accordingly. From the initial closed and stable big family, it evolved to the small family that was forcibly integrated into the large group during the Red Special Period, and to today, the relationships within the family have also changed.

The relationship between parents and children in China is no longer a psychologically subordinate relationship in the past. It has gradually evolved into a parallel independent relationship. Children crave more independence that current designs ignore. Therefore, the design focuses on how to protect the children's unit space through assembled plug-ins based on building parallel relationships.

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The existing Ruihua Apartment is located in Shanghai. Its building plan has an L-shaped layout along Changshu Road and Yanqing Road. There are two entrances to the east and south around the garden, with a total of four units. The

METHOD OF PLUG-INS

This is a hypothetical transformation: an experimental design that uses existing apartment layouts to adapt to the changes in psychological relationships among contemporary Chinese families.

Rendering of the children's joint room

Rendering of the parents' room

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The design mainly focuses on the children's unit space, and the entire unit is installed in the form of replaceable prefabricated plug-ins. The sloped corners are embedded into the interior of the room to create a semi-wrapped feeling in the interior space. When in use, the two sets of "slopes" correspond to the relationship between open and closed respectively, implying different states of use. In addition, when facing different ages and needs, plugins with different slopes can be changed accordingly.

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The traditional master bedroom and living room are combined to form a new definition of parents' living room.

Rendering of the children independent unit

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Children's individual units are conceived as interchangeable assembly spaces. Plug-ins can be adapted to children of different ages and needs.

This is the space between a children's unit and is completely separate from the family unit.

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04. Hidden and Show

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2022 Spring

Studio project

Instructor: Chen liyi

Individual

Site: Ningbo, China

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Museum+Library

6000 ㎡

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Traditional Chinese architecture is rooted in considerations of hierarchical order, which has led to the establishment of numerous boundaries and axes, thereby emphasizing the obedience and subservient relationships within the populace. As a result, the tightly regulated traditional urban life lacks sufficient spaces for civic interaction, consequently diminishing the utility of various types of public edifices.

The deeply ingrained influence of tradition is manifested in the contemporary urban development of the old city area of Ningbo, inevitably reflecting characteristics of fragmented and enclosed spatial zones.

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MAPPING OF HIDDEN LIFE

METHODS OF CONNECTION

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The eastern sector encompasses the renowned Tianyi Pavilion scenic area, historically acclaimed for its bibliophilic significance. The southern extent accommodates the entrance plaza to the scenic attractions. Upon analysis of both the project requisites and the existing site conditions, it becomes evident that the site parcels exhibit a disjointed and fragmented configuration, thereby lacking a museum space that adequately embodies the essence of traditional bibliophilic functions, alongside a communal interaction space catering to the residents' public engagement activities.

It was used to be as a ancient library for collecting all different kinds of precious books from all over the country.

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Tianyi Pavilion is a classic scenic spot that combines gardens and exhibitions. Due to its age, the existing warehouse can no longer meet the needs of book collection and display. Most of the buildings on the other side of the moat are office buildings,

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Most of the residential areas were built in the 1980s and 1990s, with brickconcrete structures.

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He is the man who is famous for setting up the TianYi Pavilion during the Ming Dynasty in China.

MAPPING OF HIDDEN LIFE

With the aim of reconstructing and reinstating the nexus between civic life and the bibliophilic museum, this project endeavors to discern perceptual cues of the historic Ningbo urban river on the fringes of the disjointed site fabric. Consequently, it establishes an oblique intersecting spatial framework, facilitated by a circuitous procession, to link the eastern and western extremities of the site. This architectural intervention, progressing from the inward to the outward, from enclosure to openness, thereby furnishes the city with the prospect of such intermediation.Through strategically positioned entrances, it draws external foot traffic inward, permeating into public squares. Simultaneously, the design maintains the unified integrity of the facade, responding to the classical and dignified atmosphere of the collection.

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Rendering of the outside facade view

PERCEPTION

The exhibition area and display cases serve as the central components for spatial presentation, rendering a multi-dimensional portrayal of the entire process of showcasing the collection to the public from both the perspectives of exhibited and nonexhibited items. This endeavor serves to enhance comprehension and perception of bibliophilic culture among the audience.

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PARTICIPATION

Functioning primarily to serve the neighboring residents, the reading area not only offers the citizens a purposeful space for reading and communication but also extends the usability and significance of the bibliophilic museum. This extension, from a utilitarian standpoint, enriches the experiential integration of bibliophilic culture into everyday life.

Collection&Show Box

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05. Atypical Industrial Park

Ground floor plan & other plans

In this project, strongly inspired by the productive spatial landscape, the author intends to highlight and emphasize the industrial characteristics of the production sequence while also attempting to combine the multidimensional landscape features of the new retail format. Especially in the design of facades and profiles, we mainly focus on the production convenience and environmental sustainability brought by standardization.

Axis side scene

2023 Spring Final design project

Instructor: Prof. Zhang Jingang Individual

Site: Ningbo, China Garment industrial park 22000 ㎡

INDUSTRY CONVERGENCE

As a productive landscape in the fashion industry, it not only serves as an industrial production space, but also blends with more formats to derive more green space system functions.It can also bring more services to the development of humanity and the entire area, such as increasing workers' economic income and helping them obtain more land additional rights.

In the design vocabulary, special attention has been paid to the basic principles of unifying the proportion and order of the facade, but specific division and

Physical model

Rendering of facade

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More than 10 cities & regions 21493 Km

- now Individual photography works

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I have always believed that images can describe what words cannot express. Therefore, I regard photography as a medium for observing cities, architecture, and society. During my past undergraduate studies, I visited major regions in China and took photos of my personal understanding. This includes the impact of urban infrastructure on social space and the potential contradictions in China's rapid modernization process.

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Jt's bookshelf

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2024 spring

Individual practical work

Hangzhou, China

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One day, as I sat in a small art gallery in the city run by my friend Jt, he expressed to me the need for a bookshelf installation. His request was simple: a stylish display unit for showcasing books and surrounding products. I quickly identified the missing element in the space he described.

Subsequently, through efficient communication, we gradually clarified the materials, dimensions, and location for the bookshelf. Additionally, in this design, the tilt of the bookshelf was intended for presenting the display surface, and the elevated axis provided the possibility of hanging products.

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Green Screen

(other works)

2022 spring

Individual photography works

Shot on Ningbo, China

More than 50 chosen sites

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They are like a green channel transmitting code, a language almost mosaicized into crystalline particles, silently elucidating the events of construction that have occurred but not yet fully occurred.

They serve as the most direct testimony of transition, like the final relics people leave to this world. They obscure the side we cannot see, just like everything in the world, where we assume we see both sides (A and B), although in reality, we do not possess such an ability. Behind the obscured side, events are unfolding, the everyday occurrences that we mistakenly believe we perceive but, in fact, overlook.

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(other works)

2023 winter

Individual photography works Shot on Wenzhou, China

2024 CityDisc Wenzhou City Image Photography Exhibition

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In the late 1980s, wholesale markets, represented by the Miaoguo Temple Market, rapidly emerged in the small city of Wenzhou. Its main products initially focused on clothing wholesale but declined in the trade of antiques and calligraphy. Despite the market's entrance being a must-pass route during my childhood school days, for some unknown reason, I never ventured further inside. This familiar yet unfamiliar curiosity lingered until I left Wenzhou at the age of 14 without finding an answer. It wasn't until an opportunity arose through a project that I was finally brought back to this almost forgotten world of antiques.