2021 part ii graduate
Tianyi Wen CV & Portfolio
Willa Tianyi Wen tianyiwen9715@gmail.com
+44 7720824161 Tianyi Wen (Linkedin) tianyiwen.sampleworks (ig) 51 whitworth street west, Manchester m1 5ea I like to explore the genuine meaning of architecture and its relationship with the built environment under different contexts and urban paradoxes. I theoretically agree that architecture is a human-oriented subject and is missioned to serve the associated society as much as possible throughout its whole life cycle socially, environmentally
and economically by discussing the meaning of be sustainable.
I am a person who takes professionalism and works rigorous. The coupling of efficiency and quality is what I have been pursuing during practice. Apart
from design, i have strong interests in research.
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am able to bring my research ability into the architecture practice when there is a requirement.
Education 09. 2019 - 06. 2021
Manchester School of Architecture riba part 2 - awaiting final grade
Master of Architecture, with all modules in 1st class grade. Studyed inclusive urban/architecture design, green building design and sustainability. Have knowledge in zero-carbon/low-carbon city. 09. 2015 - 06. 2018
Queen’s University Belfast riba part 1 - higher 2:1
Bachelor of Science, with two 1st class design modules, one technical module and the professional studies module. Completed essential training course in Autodesk Revit. 09. 2014 - 06. 2015
Shenzhen University
Joint international foundation with Queen’s University - 1st class foundation degree, with 1st class grade in language modules (highest grade among the year), management (highest grade among the year) and economy. Completed Mathematics and Pogramming as secondary modules.
Professional Experience 08. 2018 - 08. 2019
Professional Skills 3d modelling
Rhino (6yrs) Grasshopper (5yrs) Sketchup (4yrs) Revit (1yrs) Vectorworks (1yrs)
animation & Rendering
Unity (1yrs) Unreal Engine (1yrs) Vray (5yrs) Twinmotion (3yrs) Lumion (1yrs) Enscape (1yrs) Fuse (1yrs) Premiere (1yrs) After Effect (1yrs) Mixamo (1yrs)
2d Drawing
Photoshop (6yrs) Illustrator (4yrs) Indesign (4yrs) AutoCad (6yrs) Procreate (1Yrs)
China Construction Design International (CCDI), China
Architecture Assistant Participated in varies project stages with different types and scales(tendering of architecture & master planning, design development of housings, construction design of office building, computational facade design and cultural conservation). Participated in meetings with clients. Be responsible of the graphic design of company promotion(school recruitment posters, studio greeting cards and reward board). 06 - 07. 2016 and 07 - 08. 2017
A.P.E.C.LAND Design Co., China
Internship Particpated mostly in diagram making and 3d-modelling. Conceptual design of a kiosk in a planning project. Participated in presentation layout making and hand draw diagrams.
Research & Workshop 07 - 09. 2020
‘The delimma in the post-humanist environment’, Online
Researching and designing the distribution of data centre in Shenzhen urban village, supervised by Fengqi Li(Phd in Architecture, Rensselaer Polytechnic University)
Academic Field Inclusive Architecture Design Sustainability Green Building evaluation Anthropocene Urban Design Urban Village Game Development
Language Maindrain (native proficiency) English (working proficiency) Cantonese(elementary)
08. 2020 - 02. 2021
Chinese Anthropocene, UK
Composing a PHD proposal Supervised by Dr Kim Förster and Professor Stephen Walker (Title: Entangled Lives, Shenzhen’s urban villages and the Chinese Anthropocene)
Reference Professor Stefan White s.white@mmu.ac.uk
Honours & Awards Unconditional PHD Offer
(04. 2021). University of Manchester, School of Environment, Education and Development.
‘Best Design Award’
(09. 2020). ‘The delimma in the post-humanist environment’, Canopy Institute of design.
Dr Kim Förster
kim.forster@manchester.ac.uk
Architect Wenyuan Wu apecsz@vip.163.com
Highest Grade of the Year (90%)
(06. 2020). Achieved in the Professional Studies 2 Module
Foundation Scholarship
(09. 2015). Queen’s University Belfast.
Activities Year-two Mentor
(03 - 06, 2017). Architecture Society Peer Mentoring Programne, Queen’s University Belfast. UK
Director of Etiquette
(02. 2017). Chinese New Year’s Gala, Queen’s University Belfast. UK Scan to view my work on my website
01 Inclusive Pecuniary Spatial Ideology 09. 2020 - 05. 2021, Manchester School of Architecture Thesis project (individual) Baishizhou urban village, Shenzhen, China
Inclusive Pecuniary Spatial Ideology is an agglomeration of two paradoxical urban ideologies in the current capital-oriented world. Its construction is completed by studying the existing gentrification strategies of six iconic urban forms(in south china) and then repeated deliberation. The master plan was designed to mingle the inclusiveness of urban village and the social order of a modern city under its extremely crowded exterior. The group of people to be inclusive in this project is the undocumented migrant.
Skills: Unity, Rhino, Grasshopper, ArcGis, Fuse, Maximo, Premiere, Photoshop, CAD, Visual Studio, Illustrator
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World Building Low Floor Area Ratio urban space like the urban village in the central city represents either a deliberately carved cultural protection or inevitable gentrification in developing frontier city. The inclusive pecuniary urbanism requires compromisation and consensus from both upper and lower classes to assure the economic prosperity of the collective party. The tentation of the agglomeration has an iterative revision process before delving into the design of key fields. The spatial layout has an incongruous feature, with detail research and studies of different urban building typologies, such standard office building, residential high-rise and urban village houses.
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The original urban grain
The official gentrification plan
A conflict between the remain anad the commercial area
Thus, the lifting up of the commercial blocks can reduce the demolition of the existing village houses
Those village houses that conflict with the new development will be lifted, some overlap the residential while the others are ‘inserted’ into the office buildings.
Village houses on top of residential buildings are moved down to a lower level, to ensure the deck level’s security and overall spatial quality.
The Agglomeration The agglomeration process started with the massing of the original urban grain and the new development. The massing of the new development was extracted from Chinese open resource, released by the developer. It was followed by using the concluded tactics with deliberation from the spatial prototypes to revise the master plan. Due to the complex spatial configuration of the new development and the existing in different ways, space is interweaved vertically and horizontally after the strategic adjustment. However, it could be mainly addressed into six typical levels, which further informed the levels of plan drawing in this project. Titles of six levels from bottom to top are the incongruity, undocumented floors, pecuniary residences, sky mall, the deck and the lifted lives. 9
Daylight Compromisation The disadvantage to the remained urban villages from the new development is the lighting problem. Shenzhen has a dimension of 23.5 , which is to the south of the Tropic of Cancer. Therefore, the sun’s altitude angle is greater than sixty degrees throughout the year. The vast deck will block most of the direct light. The simulation on the right shows the shading condition relatively on the winter solstice and summer solstice(8 am – 4 pm), simulated by the ladybug plug-in in the grasshopper. The darker the area, the less sunlight gaining.
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Complexity of Transportation The meaning behind the coexistence of inclusiveness and order is cooperation and compromise between classes. To meet the new social management, the tenants in the remained urban village need to sacrifice their daylight time while the new residents have lost absolute privacy while gaining the convenience and intimacy brought by the urban village. The efficient transportation system requires the close cooperation of the two classes as well. Unlike other ordinary urban territories, the inclusive transportation aims to deliver different classes of people to places. 12
Incomplete Property Right Low house price in urban villages is an essential condition to ensure urban inclusiveness. Therefore, whether it is a remained, elevated or inserted village house, the homeowner will have the use-right of the property. Similar to the incomplete property right in the original urban village, the economic activity will not influence the price of the village house.
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Commentarial Immersion This commentarial immersion takes the audience to the main public spaces of inclusive pecuniary master plan from a first-person perspective, including the incongruity of level one, the sky deck of level 5 and the lifted lives of level 6. The lift button panel is used to remind the audience of the vertical position of the space.
00. Route in the immersion 01. The field of play 02. Video screenshot: Field one, The Incongruity 03. Video screenshot: Field two, The Deck, 04. Video screenshot: Field three, Lifted Lives 18
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* Exclamation mark * The exclamation mark represents characters/objects that can be interacted with.
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a Video Link: https://youtu.be/2wvBD0va1qk Download: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1hfoI1YY0NXezoBN_SCt1U1rY0XFK5De9
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Commentarial Immersion The second ones are three downloadable open worlds of three different ‘field of play’. Audiences can further discover the world by their own. The targeted program of this open world is PC. Three fields are packaged in three different unity files relatively and being uploaded on Google drive, with a public shared link. 00. Concept of Serious Game a. Video screenshot: Starting screen b. Video screenshot: Operation c. Video screenshot: Trigger a dialogue 01. Event 1: Lumination Man 02. Event 2: The Threshold 03. Event 3: The Threshold 20
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Mr Wang (45)
Miss Liang (22)
Mr Ma (21)
Second-hand furniture shop owner
Student
Security Guard
Mr Wang opened a second-hand furniture store in 2000. He wants to earn money as much as he can to support his family in his hometown.
Miss Liang is studying in the USA since high school. Her parents migrated to Shenzhen in the 1980s. She loves the nightlife in Baishizhou.
Mr Ma is a migrant who has just arrive in Shenzhen. Security guard is his first job in the city.
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Mr Peng (39)
Journalist
Research Architect
Ms Fang is a journalist in charge of the Baishizhou development in the local news agency she works in.
Mr Peng is a research architect. He migrated to Shenzhen in 2000 and obtained citizenship in 2002. He is passionate about urban village and resolving social issues.
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Mr Qiu (63)
Mr Xie (29)
Bank Manager
Mrs Li (37)
Inspector
House Agency
Ms Zhao lived in Baishizhou for 2 years after graduated in 2015 and started to work in Shenzhen for a high-paid high-tech company. She wants to buy an apartment for herself.
Mr Qiu is a speculative investor. He was the first group of people whose arrival in Shenzhen in the 1980s who has Invested a lot in real estate.
Mr Xie is a motivated property agency. He focuses on Baishizhou development to seek potential clients and migrants who need accommodation.
Events Starting point Field Boundary In-field Boundary Door
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04. Event 4: The Boundary 05. Event 5: The Private Zone 06. Event 6: Transportation
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Ms Zhao (27)
Mr Peng (39)
Senior Employee
Research Architect
Ms Zhao lived in Baishizhou for 2 years after graduated in 2015 and started to work in Shenzhen for a high-paid high-tech company. She wants to buy an appartment for herself.
Mr Peng is a research architect. He migrated to Shenzhen in 2000 and obtained citizenship in 2002. He is passionate about urban village and resolving social issues.
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Mrs Gao (57)
Miss Liu (23)
Tatto Artist
Mr Yin (65)
Indigenous Villager
Waitress
Mr Yin runs his tattoo business for over 25 years in Baishizhou. He wants to have citizen identification for social welfare.
Mrs Gao is an indigenous villager of Baishizhou, owning 4 seven-storey tenement houses. Rents are her primary revenue for her family.
Miss Liu is a waitress in a nearby popular restaurant in Baishizhou Urban Village. She aims to be financially independent in the city.
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Mr Qian (35)
Mr Peng (39)
Bartender
Research Architect
Mr Qian is a bartender in a bar in Baishizhou. He admires modern lives and wants to earn a lot of money in the future.
Mr Peng is a research architect. He migrated to Shenzhen in 2000 and obtained citizenship in 2002. He is passionate about urban village and resolving social issues.
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Sample interaction: Event 4 Dialogues with Mr Qian and Mr Xie
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02 The Delimma of Post-humanist Environment 07. 2020 - 09. 2020 Canopy Institute of Design pre-thesis project (individual) Shenzhen, China This workshop studied the geographical distribution of land value and the corresponding commuting cost of the specific group: CIT worker who undergoes finantial saving. The design method is to re-imagine a contemporary social issue in the post-humanist environment. It is a pre-thesis while providing a detailed site analysis for the Inclusive Pecuniary Spatial Ideology. The workshop came out with a solution of decentralised data storage distribution in to each social housing so as to reduce the inevitable physical daily commute of the elite migrant group, reducing the burden of transportation in the central city through the deconstruction of data centre and converting into a urban scale’s imaginary.
Skills: ArcGis, Grasshopper, Rhino, CAD, Adobe Suite
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Industries distribution and active daily commute Two maps above demonstrate the geographical distribution of Shenzhen and the significance of urban village to people’s daily commute. Shenzhen is divided into ten districts. Each district has govermental designated active industries. The active industry in Nanshan District is high-tech, with significant daily commuting that closely related to human activities. In addition, Futian District and Luohu District are active in modern service industry and tourism respectively. Moreover, inudustries least relevant to active daily commute are manufacturing, land logistics(railway, land transportation, and ports), and nature conservation industries. They are mainly distributed in Bao’an District, Guangming District, Longhua District, Longgang District, Pingshan District and Dapeng District. 28
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Commuting cost and housing land value Commuting cost is the collective term for housing rent and daily commuting time. For the first category of housing mentioned before, the commuting cost in Shenzhen is closely related to the land price in Shenzhen. In places where the basic land price is more expensive, the commuting time to the high-tech park is relatively short. Where the basic land price is lower, commuting time are required several times than the former and accompanied by more sopisticated transportation systems. However, urban villages like Baishizhou have been against this “constant” capital urban phenomenon in the past two decades. Its land price is similar to that of Hightech Park, with only one station of metro away from it. People living in Baishizhou village are very convenient to work, and the rent is as low as the first category housing in Longhua district and other peripheral area. This is unattainable by the first category of housing. The reason why urban villages can provide such cheap housing is because they exist outside the formal real estate market. Their land use rights belong to the villagers. 31
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Deconstructing Data Centre Cloud computing is the main electronic technology that supports remote office, and the data center is its core hardware facility. Tencent’s data centers have spread all over the world, and large companies to individuals are using their cloud computing services at different levels to store their own data and information.
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contemporary CIT distribution in Shenzhen .01 post-humanist CIT geographical distribution .02 the obsolescence of office space .03 decentralised data centra .04
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03 Continuity in Attachment 02. 2020 - 06. 2020 Manchester School of Architecture, Academic design project (group of two), Northern Gateway, Manchester
The project includes the design of a community hub to help to manage the grief of the existing community through place attachment. The design had a structural challenge to reuse the abandoned arches on site, with a strict alignment on UK building regulation(fire safety, accessibility, services, etc) and low-carbon envelop design.
Skills: Sefaira, 3D Modeling(Rhino, Vectorworks, V-ray), Visualisation(Photoshop and Illustrator), UK Building Reg Alignment, Remote Group-work, Drone Operation Knowledge
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01 The ‘Disgrace’ as a Community Tressure The space under the arches is acting as a stepchild of progress - a hidden. abandoned urban space waiting for the community to discover. Unlike other space, the construction of the arches had only high embodied energy rather than cost since it has been abandoned for ages. The current usage of the arches in the Manchester are vary, but all charged. 38
the attachment between arches and the existing community .01 arches distribution in the Manchester City Centre .02 sketched analysis of the arches on site .03
Old railway
Boxing centre & Game Centre Publicity
Extension for MOT Test Centre & recruiter
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Stel Birdair Standard Extrusion to stretch and connect the single layer EFTE membrane Glulam Beam 270*225 mm choose to reduce the on-site environmental pollution to the existing community Transparent EFTE membrane environmental friendly and easy assemby, with low maintaining cost
Curved metal structure to support the outer EFTE membrane Cable reinforcement further stablise the extrution and the extruded membrane
Long-reach truss 400 mm the top anchor bearing longreach truss is used to support the internal floor span, filled with insulation. trusses are pre-fab Strap hanger applied with nails on each side through blocking
Long-reach truss 400 mm bottom chord bearing trimmable end floor truss is used to support and floor at the same time connect to the primary side truss Primary side truss 1000 mm primary side truss is the main support of the facade and the truss system of the building
Brick the existing brick construction of the railway arches Triple ply triple due to flatness and low depth of roof
Corten steel cladding weather proof
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Pipe hanger used to stablise the rainwater pipe to the structure Rainwater pipe pipes to transport collected rainwater to the tank
Metal capping to cover and protect the ending of the GLT wall
Timber cladding Timber cladding is chosed to be the interior facade material Timber counterbatten the facade is utilised a ordinary timber cladding structure
Plasterboard plasterboard is used as the interior linear, with skim coat finish
Timber flooring 50mm timber is again used as the main material of the interior flooring
Glulam supporter 135*90mm the supporter is constructed to support the floor system above
Long-reach floor truss 400mm bottom chord bearing trimmable end floor truss is used to support and floor at the same time connect to the primary side truss Glulam column 315*300mm bottom chord bearing trimmable end floor truss is used to support and floor at the same time connect to the primary side truss Moisture protection protecting the Glulam from moisture uptake Steel post shoe with possibility to reat the end grain in order to prevent moisture upptake
Concrete foot outdoor concrete foot
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04 Co-binning Economy 09. 2019 - 12. 2019 Manchester School of Architecture Academic design project (individual) Collyhurt, Manchester
Co-binning Economy addressed the bin crisis of the existing community in the Collyhurst through bin centralisation. It explored how to use co-living to develop a sense of community by promoting collective responsibility for public services and the environment. It included the design of community master plan, two detailed building typologies and a community plastic workshop.
Skills: Problem Solving, 3D Modeling(Rhino), Visualisation(Photoshop and Illustrator), UK Building Reg Alignment
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the master plan development .01 housing typology one render .02 community waste economy .03 plaster workshop allotment housing typology 1 housing typology 2 weekly market
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05 Home for the Homeless 01. 2018 - 05. 2018, Queen’s University Belfast, Year three design project, Social Housing, University Road, Belfast
The final project of my undergraduate was the design of a social housing in Belfast. Physical model making was one of the most significant method I used to test the structure, form and cladding typology. The design tempted to be spatial efficient but ensure the sense of safety, welcoming and daylight access for temporary occupiers.
Highlight Skill: Model making 01. The public area 02. space model(1:50) 03. final model(1:100) 04. struture model(1:100) 05. facade test model(1:100) 06. structure test model(1:1000) 07. final model on site model(1:100)
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06 Porto Restaurant 09. 2017 - 01. 2018, Queen’s University Belfast, Year three design project, Restaurant, R. Das Oliveiras, Porto, Portugal
The project aimed to build a place that embracing both the local and the tourist in the food culture of Porto. The atmosphere was design to provide people with sense of inclusive in the Bolhao market. Model making of fine steel elements in the dinning area was the challenge of the production process.
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06 China Silk Industrial Park Mix-used Complex Haikou, Hainan Province, China Design Development
Jing Studio (CCDI) Architecture Assistant 07.2018 - 01.2019
Drew all GA of two residential highrises, two office buildings and the sale centre. Computalised and optimised the facade of the sale centre. Participated in the modelling of all buildings. Coordination with structure and MEP engineer about the dimension of beams and columns. Skills: GA(autodesk CAD), Computational design(grasshopper)
01. silk industrial park(team work) 02. residential typology 1 03. Residential elevation 1 04. Apartment standard floor plan 05. podium detail section 06. final model(team work) 07. sale centre gh final script 08. facade panalisation and detail 09. 10. 11. scale centre GA 12. isometric 13. sale centre section
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07 Bauhaus Cultural District Culture conservation commercial area Zhengzhou, Henan province, China Tender
Jing Studio (CCDI) Architecture Assistant 01.2018 - 03.2018
Participated in the initial design of master plan and landscape design. Participated in the drawing of final master plan diagrams. Participated in the design & modeling of affiliated buildings. Participated in the general diagrams making. Skills: knowledge of tender, knowledge of large scale project and teamwork
01. master plan render(team work) 02. isometric of main conservatory bauhaus factory(participated) 03. sky walkway(team work) 04. interior of the main bauhaus factory(team work) 05. landscape furniture 06. landscape master plan(participated) 07. master plan designs 08. culture centre isometric(participated) 09. culture centre render (team work)
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08 Tongchuang Co-working Office renovation Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, China All stage (constructed)
Jing Studio (CCDI) Architecture Assistant 03.2018 - 07.2018
Participated mainly in the schematic design, design development and construction design of master planning, interior layout, furnish design and landscape design. Highlight skills: knowledge of renovation project, regulation alignment
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