YEARBOOK 2015 - 2016 | XJTLU DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE

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bring together, represent and communicate the diversity of academic and architectural outcomes generated by our of staff and students. This publication would be not have been possible without the careful selection of texts, projects and activities done by all members of staff.

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The 2015-2016 YEARBOOK is a publication by the

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The 2015-2016 YEARBOOK has benefitted enormously from the generous advice and input of Pierre-Alain Croset, Claudia Westermann and Christian Gänshirt, along with support from Bert de Muynck. The YEARBOOK was designed by Designtang with many of the photographs kindly provided by Milan Ognjanovic. © 2017 Department of Architecture, XJTLU Edited by Peta Carlin Building DB 111 Renai Road SIP Dushu Lake Science and Education Innovation District Suzhou Jiangsu Province P. R. China 215123 www.xjtlu.edu.cn

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CONTENTS 01 Introduction 03 The New Design Building as A Pedagogic Instrument

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B Eng Architecture Programme Introduction

Level 00 Year 1 15 ARC001 17 ARC002

Introduction to Architecture and Visual Culture Architectural Representation and Communication

Level 02 Year 3 65 ARC203 67 ARC206 69 ARC201 71 ARC202 73 ARC205 85 ARC204

History of Asian Architecture Urban Studies Environmental Design and Sustainability Structural Design Design Studio | Small Urban Buildings Design Studio | Design and Building Typology

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Level 03 Year 4

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History of Western Architecture Humanities and Culture Introduction to Environmental Science Structure and Materials Construction and Materials Integrated Design of Small Buildings Architectural Technology and Innovation Design Studio |Design Thinking and Articulation Design Studio | Small Space Design Design Studio | Small Scale Architectural Design

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Architectural Technology Architectural Theory Professional Practice Philosophy of Art and Aesthetics Design Studio | Small and Medium Scale Buildings Design Studio | Final Year Project

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Applied Technology in Architecture Architectural Theory and Criticism Advanced Professional Practice Topics in Architectural History Design Studio 1 Design Studio 2 Additional Learning Activities

Level 04 Year 2 167 ARC409 Architectural Design and Research Methods 169 ARC411 Practice Based Enquiry and Architectural Representation 171 ARC408 Thesis Dissertation 173 ARC413 Design Studio 3 175 ARC410 Design Studio 4

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Suzhou International Architecture Workshop

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Tour to Italy

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Research Trip to the Old Pugao Village

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Freestyle Bridge Design Competition

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Summer Undergraduate Research Fund

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Cardboard Bridges

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2015 Architecture Study Trip to Nanjing-Wuxi

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Timber translations

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Independent & Inquisitive

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Senseable Cities

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Masterplanning the Future

Research 204 Staff Research 2015-2016 211 PhD Candidates

221 Students 222 Academic Staff 224 Academic Position Statement

INTRODUCTION

This third issue of the Yearbook of the Department of Architecture contains a number of important developments. Firstly, the Department moved last summer into the new Design Building in the South Campus, shared with the Department of Industrial Design, with building’s facilities of the highest international standards, and with a strong architectural identity, which offers an ideal showcase for its staff and students in spaces with a particular character.

Secondly, this Yearbook not only includes work from the BEng Architecture Programme but also, for the first time, the design activity of the Master of Architectural Design undertaken during the 2015-2016 the academic year. The quality of the work produced by the Masters students has been recognised by the RIBA Visiting Board who awarded candidate course status to the Master of Architectural Design programme, the first for a Chinese University, and a preliminary step towards RIBA validation (Part Two) of the programme following the graduation in Summer 2017 of the first cohort of Master students.

Thirdly, the research activity of the Department has improved, despite the increasing number of university faculties (26 at the end of December 2016), and focuses on three strategic headline research areas.

History, Theory and Heritage addresses questions pertaining to multiculturalism and trans-nationalism.

Computational Design and Fabrication explores the innovative capacity of digital tools in design processes and professional practice; and, Urban Ecologies engages with the changing nature of global urbanisation, with an emphasis on radically new approaches to the study of cities and their environment. The Department is also committed to Research by Design.

To this end, a new Design Research Centre was established in 2016 in order to facilitate small-scale pilot projects, the centre emerging from Design Research Institute (founded in 2013). Other new facilities, a Building Physics Lab and a Materials Library, will

be completed shortly and will further reinforce the research and teaching activity of the Department.

In the appendix to this Yearbook, the Academic Position Statement describes the Department’s Identity and Vision, which is encapsulated far better in images than in words; the selected works of the students a testament to the high quality of our programmes. For this reason, I would like to thank again all the teaching staff for their passion and expertise, together with the students for their enthusiasm and engagement.

Pierre Alain Croset Head of the Department of Architecture

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THE NEW DESIGN BUILDING AS A PEDAGOGIC INSTRUMENT

The new Design Building, inaugurated in August 2016 and shared with the Department of Industrial Design, is conceived of as a pedagogic instrument.

The Department of Architecture has been responsible for the choices regarding the general layout and the interior design, with the building programmed for 450 architecture students, it presently occupied by about 350 along with 30 or so academic and support staff members.

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Ground Floor: The Factory Entry into the building opens up to a double-high lobby space: with a large auditorium located on the one side, and on the other, a large window enabling views into the workshops, which are organised around the central core of a materials library. The workshops include: a laser cutter shop, a wood and metal workshop, a printing shop, a 3D-printing shop, a CNC machine along with an archive. The materials library, still under construction, will house a permanent exhibition of approximately 500 samples. The two lateral corridors are separated from the workshops by a row of long glass shelves which will allow the best student works produced to be exhibited.

First Floor: The Exhibition Courtyard The central space of the building features a four-storey glazed-roof atrium, which can be used for small exhibitions, with its design allowing for the hanging of drawings and photographs from the balconies.

This central exhibition courtyard is surrounded by design studio spaces used by the Industrial Design department, and two seminar rooms used by both departments.

Second and Third Floor: The Design Studios as a Small City The second and third floors are the centre of student activity. As designers, it is the place where they

spend the greatest part of the day (and often night, because the studios are open 24/7). The studios have been designed to give a “Chinese feel” to the building, with the corridors evoking the streets of a traditional Chinese village, with their wooden facades and wooden doors.

Each studio is possessed of two-leaved doors with their outer faces painted and their inner faces clad in cork. When all the doors are closed, only the continuity of the facades painted in the four typical colours of the Chinese tradition: yellow, red, dark blue and dark green, is perceived. When the doors are open, the cork surfaces are revealed, expanding the surface area used for the presentation of students’ work.

As in a city, where the streets are public and the houses private, these design studios enact a clear separation between spaces for individual work, and spaces for the social interaction. Every student works in a small unit of six or eight students, which offers optimum conditions for individual work, with the space of the central “streets,” at a width of four metres, operating not only as a connective spaces, but as shared social spaces.

The work units are organised following the progression of the years in the programmes. In the western part of the building, Year 2 students are located towards the building’s centre, and the Year 3 students along its edges, these areas interconnected through the central corridors. In the eastern part of the building, situated around the central courtyard, the Year 4 students occupy the space along the southern facade, with the Masters students positioned along the north face. This organisation offers the possibility of a stronger interconnection between all the students, which is evident especially during informal reviews.

The progression of the years is reflected in the

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dimensions of the studios: 4 m2 for every Year 2 student, 6 m2for the Year 3 students, 8 m2 for the Year 4 students and 10 m2 for the Masters students.

The same organisation characterises the third floor, with the only exception being that the Master design studios are missing at the north-east corner, and are replaced instead by a number of Department staff offices.

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Each workplace is equipped with a table covered with PVC (90 × 180 cm), a seat with a screw for regulating the height, and a small locker. Complementary shelves and tables are available in the studios for archiving the work in progress and for shared activities.

Fourth floor: the Offices Staff offices (for both departments), secretarial offices and meeting rooms are located on the top floor.

Other teaching facilities are also located on the third and fourth floors, including two computer rooms with each equipped with 30 PC workstations.

Interior Design Pierre-Alain Croset, with the collaboration of Quanqing Lu, Qian Lin, Li-An Tsien.

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Project Management Yunpeng Liu, Campus Management Office ( CMO, XJTLU ).

Photography Milan Ognjanovic

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Contemporary China is at the threshold of a new era in thinking urbanism and architecture. It presents exciting opportunities for an architectural education at the forefront of architectural discourse and with an international outlook. Against the backdrop of fastpaced modernisation, the Department of Architecture at XJTLU engages with the challenges and contradictions of architecture in China in an open-minded and forward thinking manner. Our students profit from the experiences of a highly international academic faculty, and critically engage with the questions facing architecture today both locally and internationally.

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Innovation and development of the built environment derive from critical observation, constructive debate, speculation and experimentation. As academics and architects we involve ourselves in debates, challenge common perceptions and evaluate traditions. We profit from our unique location in Suzhou, a famous 2,500 year-old city with UNESCO World Heritage status, just half an hour by train from Shanghai. Confronted with the past and engaged in the present our students are guided to design for the future.

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The four-year full-time BEng Architecture aims to provide a comprehensive foundation in architecture. Students are guided to develop an understanding of the centricity of human needs and desires in relation to architectural design tasks, and to develop creative and responsible responses by taking into account the social, cultural, ecological, economic as well as technological contexts within which architecture is situated. The programme is centred on applied architectural design studio modules (50% of credits). These studio modules are supported by a balanced mix of humanities-based modules (25% of credits) and technical modules (25% of credits).

B ENG ARCHITECTURE PROGRAMME INTRODUCTION

The BEng Architecture programme at XJTLU has become the first programme of its kind at a Chinese university to receive validation by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), thus demonstrating XJTLU's commitment to providing world-class, internationally recognised education to students from China and abroad.

The Royal Institute commended “the Department and staff body on creating a distinctive environment in which students learn from an international and Chinese context with an ambition to produce a new type of graduate, with an emphasis on human-centred architecture, for the emerging global context.”

Claudia Westermann 2015-16 Programme Director

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Staff and Bachelor students on the 2015-2016

Jianling QIAN presenting her design studio work for ARC204

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field trip to Nanjing

Bachelor students participating in Admissions Day, 2015

the International Workshop

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Year 1 prepares students for the subsequent three years. Classes on English language for academic purposes are taught alongside modules on mathematics, Chinese culture and physical education. Year 1 also includes two modules that serve as an introduction to visual culture and architectural representation. ● ARC001 Introduction to Architecture and Visual Culture (2.5 credits) ● ARC002 Architectural Representation and Communication (5 credits)

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Introduction to Architecture and Visual Culture

Level 0 ( Year 1 | Semester 1 ) Module Credits 5 Module Leader Jiawen Han

Department of Architecture

Teaching Team Pierre-Alain Croset Bert de Muynck Tordis Berstrand Marian Macken Christian Gänshirt Stuart Donaldson ( Language Centre ) Number of Students 345

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Focusing on graphic and spatial thinking, this module aims to unleash students’ imagination regarding architecture and space. This module includes a series of small projects and workshops, progressing from sketch ideas, to cut-and-paste procedures through to digital manipulation.

Each project brings the student a step closer to visualising space twoand three-dimensionally. Various independent projects and workshops combine to form a structural entirety, thus establishing the basis for the understanding, analysis and representation of architecture and visual culture. The module sequence begins with a series of freehand studies in the first half of the semester (Exercise 1 and 2), then progresses towards digital manipulation of the drawings/assemblages/sform in the second half of the semester (Workshops, Exercise 3 and 4).

He Yuxin | 何昱欣

Photograph of Collage and Model

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Architectural Representation and Communication

Level 0 ( Year 1 | Semester 2 ) Module Credits 5

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Module Leader Marian Macken Teaching Team Marta Anaya Antonio Berton Joan Cane Thomas Fischer Eoin Patrick Jordan Marian Macken Peiling Xing

Architectural Representation and Communication familiarises students with architectural perceptions and expressions. Students are introduced to basic architectural communication and its representational languages.

Key objectives of this Year 1 module are to introduce students to design thinking and to basic techniques of architectural visualisation, to familiarise students with notable architects and their works, and to further enable students to use English as a medium to engage with architecture, in parallel with the English language modules they take in XJTLU’s Language Centre.

Number of Students 224

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Year 2 provides the basis for the subsequent years of the programme.

Students are introduced to the history and theory of architecture, building science, structure and construction as well as building technology, in parallel to modules on English language. Experimental studio modules introduce the presentation, modelling and design of architectural spaces and small buildings. ● ARC101 Design Studio: Design Thinking and Articulation (5 credits) ● ARC102 Design Studio: Small Scale Architectural Design (10 credits) ● ARC103 Introduction to Environmental Science (5 credits) ● ARC104 Structure and Materials (5 credits) ● ARC105 Design Studio: Small Space Design (5 credits) ● ARC107 History of Western Architecture (5 credits) ● ARC108 Construction and Materials (2.5 credits) ● ARC110 Humanities and Culture (2.5 credits) ● EAP107 English Language and Study Skills III for the Built Environment (10 credits)

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History of Western Architecture

Level 1 ( Year 2 | Semester 1 ) Module Credits 5

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Module Leader Edoardo Piccoli ( Associate Professor Politecnico di Torino Visiting Lecturer at XJTLU fall semester 2015 ) Guest Lecturers Pierre-Alain Croset Christian Gänshirt Christiane Herr Number of Students 120

History of Western Architecture introduces students to key moments and sites in architectural and urban development from Antiquity through to the twentieth century, and is largely lecture-based and draws from key readings. While the main narrative follows a chronological order, lectures are also concerned with specific themes, terms and concepts, which are essential to understanding the development of Western architecture.

In-course exercises include the construction of a model of the ‘primitive hut’ and the production, in small groups, of A1 posters on specific architectural themes. Meetings with small groups in the Library are also held, introducing students to the library while instilling in them the value of the printed page and the architectural book. A visit to Shanghai focuses on the identification and analyses of architectural elements and motifs from the Western tradition, as displayed in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century architecture of the Bund. As part of their learning students are required to keep a ‘log’, a personal notebook / sketchbook which documents course topics and case study analyses, in order to develop and demonstrate their design thinking through the connections made from sketches and personal remarks.

Emphasis is placed throughout the course on developing a set of concepts and terms, related to an essential grid of time- and site- specific information, that will enable students to successfully navigate through more advanced issues in architecture history and theory in the following years.

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Humanities in Architecture

Level 1 ( Year 2 | Semester 2 ) Module Credits 2.5 Module Leader Glen Wash Ivanovic

Through the application of theoretical approaches and tools of spatial analysis students engage with real sites in the city of Suzhou, understanding architecture, urbanism, space, and the built environment as subjects crucially connected to the humanities and social sciences, including geography, sociology, anthropology and history.

Student’s Cadastre of Windows and Openings found in the Gardens of Canglang Pavilion

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Number of Students 115

Humanities in Architecture introduces students to architecture and the built environment as a broadly humanistic concern, and supports their future studio work by introducing them to theories and methods on the relationship between humans and place, aiming not only to give students more analytical approaches to architecture and design, but also to emphasise for them the relationship between architecture, people, and society.

Sample of the Students’ Interviews with the Residents of the Studied Routes.

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Introduction to Environmental Science

Level 1 ( Year 2 | Semester 2 ) Module Credits 5 Module Leader Moon Keun Kim

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Number of Students 120

Students learn about: bioclimatic design; the fundamental principles of heat transfer mechanisms; the role of construction layers in domestic walls; window lighting and thermal performance, the impact of building fabric on the energy consumption; urban microclimates; fundamental passive heating and cooling systems; the difference between building energy efficiency and energy consumption; fundamental thermodynamics; heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC); moisture condensation; thermal comfort; psycrometric chart; domestic water; solar principles; fundamentals in lighting (day light, and artificial light); fundamental architectural acoustics.

Upon completion of this module, students are able to specify and design building walls and carry out relevant scientific approaches with numerical calculation and computer simulation to deliver thermal building energy performance. And students understand how to specify and design recommended lighting levels by window size and location in a wall, and the shading impact on daylight quality in typical rooms. This module also requires students to understand the energy load associated with space heating, cooling and ventilation in a building and the impact of building energy consumption on climate change and global warming.

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Introducing undergraduate students to the principles of environmental science in buildings, this module focuses on the quantitative aspect of building science where students learn the fundamental thermodynamics essential to the understanding of the building energy performance and urban environmental impact.

Global Energy Use 1990-2010.

Image source: IPCC report 2014

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Structures and Materials

Level 1 ( Year 2 | Semester 1 ) Module Credits 5 Module Leader Christiane M. Herr

To support architecture students’ ways of working in the design studio, students are encouraged to learn through the designing and building of experimental models. Structural understanding is approached primarily through visual means, case studies and applied exercises. Structural and material appropriateness are discussed with a focus on architectural design concerns and in the context of different regional building cultures.

The module further encourages inter-disciplinary learning and awareness as contemporary architectural practice involves and requires teamwork between architects and engineers. As part of this module, engineers and architects are invited to give guest lectures or guest reviews to foster architecture students’ cross-disciplinary learning and awareness.

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Structures are integral to buildings. They contribute not only to functional aspects by supporting loads but also form spaces and thus help to create architectural qualities. ARC104 provides students with an understanding of basic structural principles, basic types of structural systems and their relationships to common construction materials. The module introduces students to holistic design approaches that aim to integrate architectural intentions and structural considerations with a view to local construction contexts.

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Yaxin Jiang Roof Model Study and Drawings

Level 1 ( Year 2 | Semester 2 ) Module Credits 2.5 Module Leader Li-An Tsien

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Teaching Team Li-An Tsien José Hidalgo Number of Students 115

Materials and Construction introduces students to the fundamental principles and elements of construction, as well as to local, contemporary and innovative materials and building techniques within a global and local cultural context.

Understanding the logic behind materials and construction is fundamental to being able to design, conceive and represent buildings, and thus to building and materialising them.

Technical materials and construction principles are taught in relation to the broader architectural implications of sustainability, aesthetics and technology.

Key concepts are critically discussed through case studies and visual examples as well as reviewed during seminars and applied exercises.

The module aims to provide students with an understanding of the basic logic underlying construction, and to allow them to bridge their acquired knowledge of main construction principles with key concepts of aesthetics / sustainability / culture / environment within the discipline of architectural design. Awareness and understanding of construction principles will help students translate design ideas towards buildable / innovative concepts and appropriate representation. Lectures will foster and encourage awareness of construction issues pertaining to global and local future trends. The module will further nurture an understanding of the interdisciplinary quality of the professional practice and its constant requirement of sometimes large collaborative efforts between architects and various fields of consultants / builders.

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Integrated Design of Small Buildings

Level 1 ( Year 2 | Semester 2 ) Module Credits 5 Module Leader Christiane M. Herr

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Teaching Team Christiane M. Herr Jose Hidalgo Number of Students 5

The module is provided for the BEng Architectural Engineering Programme (offered by the Department of Civil Engineering). It is a technically-oriented studio module, geared to students from an engineering background, that invites students to develop high quality buildings through carefully integrating a variety of factors, including aesthetic and technical aspects. A high level of integration of architectural and engineering concerns from the very beginning of the design process is essential in this context. The studio module addresses collaboration between architects and engineers already early on in the design process, to establish a holistic and cross-disciplinary perspective on architecture and engineering. Principles and practice of design are integrated with principles and practice of technology and construction, with particular attention given to the unifying overall framework of an architectural design concept. Students are offered a first opportunity for conceptual design thinking and cross-disciplinary collaboration to establish core competencies for bridging the fields of architecture and engineering.

The module provides a series of theoretical lectures on techniques of architectural site analysis as well as on typical materials employed in architectural structures, including concrete, steel, masonry, timber and glass. As main task in the module, students develop a technically focused design proposal for a given brief and a given architectural design concept, in informal collaboration with volunteering architecture students of the same year. Guest reviewers are drawn from both the Department of Architecture as well as the Department of Civil Engineering.

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Architectural Technology and Innovation

Level 1 ( Year 2 | Semester 1 ) Module Credits 5 Module Leader Christiane M. Herr

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Number of Students 5

The module is provided for the BEng Architectural Engineering Programme (offered by the Department of Civil Engineering) and provides students with a broad understanding of architectural design, its history and theory. The module further prepares students for the following studio modules, also provided by the Department of Architecture. The design and construction of high quality buildings involves a holistic and cross-disciplinary perspective on architecture and engineering. This module provides students with a broad background of the history and theory of technology as drivers of innovative design in architecture and civil engineering, with a particular focus on intersections between the two fields. Students are introduced to the principles and practice of building design technology and construction procedures within the overall framework of an architectural design concept. Moreover, students are offered an overview of modes of collaboration and innovation between the fields of architecture and engineering. The module employs both theoretical lectures and applied modes of learning to prepare students for subsequent technically oriented architectural design projects. To this end, a series of short exercises integrating architectural and engineering components are conducted. Students develop the ability to analyse, understand and creatively employ skills of research, problem solving and communication, with a particular focus on using drawing as a catalyst of interdisciplinary exchanges. Students are introduced to a variety of buildings at different scales, which students research thoroughly in the form of detailed case studies. A variety of guest lectures and field trips is offered to engage students in learning.

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ARC101 Design Studio Design Thinking and Articulation

Level 1 ( Year 2 | Semester 1 ) Module Credits 5 Module Leader Marian Macken Teaching Team Marta Anaya Hanan Bensho Tordis Berstrand Joan Cane Bert Hugo Raf De Muynck Theodoros Dounas Thomas Duggett Christian Gänshirt Jiawen Han Marian Macken

This design studio, the students’ first, introduces relationships between the conception and representation of space through material explorations. The module is structured through a series of three integrated and cumulative exercises, completed and documented in a design book.

The exercises are undertaken in groups and individually, with students working between scales of 1:1, 1:100 and 1:200. The main media of the module are physical models - as a combination of prescribed materials, techniques and intentions - drawings, and digital media. The exercises encourage ongoing research and use of precedents.

This work is translated into a design book, which contains documentation of the exercises undertaken in ARC101, and additional material. It is an edited, designed artefact that is a compilation of work, carefully selected from process work, models, and research, with accompanying text. It is interpretive of narrative and presents works that is analytical, emphatically edited, sequential and reflective in tone.

Number of Students 120

Architectural Picnic.

Photograph by Marian Macken

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WEAR Huang Yifei | 黄逸飞 Tian Zhaoxi | 田兆犀

Wang Yuchen | 王雨晨

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Huang Yaoxian | 黄耀贤

WEAR Jiang Yaxin | 姜亚昕

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Wang Liu | 王柳

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VOID SOLID VOID Bai Yuxin | 白雨馨

VOID SOLID VOID Zhang Xinyu | 张馨予

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MOVE // RECORD: DOCUMENTING ACTION

Pan Hongyu | 潘鸿瑜

VOID SOLID VOID

Wei Zheng | 魏铮

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Zhou Jian | 周简

MOVE // RECORD: DOCUMENTING ACTION Ran Yulin | 冉煜麟 Tu Ouli | 涂欧犁

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Design Studio Small Space Design

Level 1 ( Year 2 | Semester 1 ) Module Credits 5

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Module Leader Tordis Berstrand Teaching Team Antonio Berton Joan Cane Theo Dounas Christian Gänshirt Marian Macken Bert de Muynck Caterina Tiazzoldi Number of Students 114

The Endless House The ‘Endless House’ is called ‘Endless’ because all ends meet, and meet continuously … All ends meet in ‘Endless’ as they meet in life. Life’s rhythms are cyclical. All ends of living meet during twenty-four hours, during a week, during a life-time. They touch one another with the kiss of Time. They shake hands, stay, say goodbye, return through the same or other doors, come and go through multi-links, secretive or obvious, or through the whims of memory … The events of life are your house guests.

-Frederick J. Kiesler, ‘The Endless House: A Man-Built Cosmos’, 1962 Of all the spaces that the architect designs, the living space is of a particular kind. Not simply because most humans require a place to live, but because of the special relationship between inhabitant and space that develops and also changes over time. The living space comes to live and breathe with us through all the things that we do. It is a space that we take charge of and inscribe ourselves into it in certain ways. We place our belongings in it, in the hope that this placing will make us feel like we belong – the living space drawing a circle around our life-world.

The architect’s challenge is to design this space for someone else – most likely a stranger that s/he has never met. On this occasion, in ARC105, students worked with a fellow student to invent a character that s/he would design for. If the habits and hobbies of the invented stranger therefore were not completely unknown, they nevertheless left a challenge. Drawing a living space around someone else’s unruly house guests is always in some ways an attempt at circling the unpredictable.

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THE ENDLESS HOUSE

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THE ENDLESS HOUSE

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THE ENDLESS HOUSE Xia Jianqiang | 夏坚强

THE ENDLESS HOUSE Hao Shuyi | 郝姝仪

THE ENDLESS HOUSE Pan Hongyu | 潘鸿瑜

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Design Studio Small Scale Architectural Design

Level 1 ( Year 2 | Semester 2 ) Module Credits 5 Module Leader Bert de Muynck

Department of Architecture

Teaching Team Marian Macken Theodoros Dounas Christian Gänshirt Li-An Tsien Joan Cane Marta Gomez Anaya Antonio Berton-Lowres

2015-2016 YEARBOOK

Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University

Number of Students 118

SENIOR HOUSING PROJECT Zhou Jian | 周简

According to the United Nations Population Division, China has entered the “rapidly aging population” growth stage, and the number of individuals over 65 will reach 200 million in 2025 and exceed 300 million in 2050. However, as the recent Colliers International report states, the current stock of senior housing in China is limited in both total units and variety. As a consequence, in the next few years, China will face a considerable challenge in the construction of buildings that can address and facilitate the needs of growing numbers of senior citizens. In response to this situation China is therefore planning to expand their elderly care and to build a wide range of new nursing homes.

While cultural traditions and economic motives influence current attempts to create large-scale multi-generational mini-cities, this ARC102 studio explores and examines the relation between advanced age and architectural scale/lay-out as a small-scale design exercise. Departing from a detailed analysis of and research into existing senior housing precedents (contemporary and historical case-studies from Europe), the studio asks students to re-imagine and adapt the underlying architectural, spatial and material principles, supported by site analysis, to a given site in the Suzhou Industrial Park area.

For the ARC102-studio, the inhabitants of the future senior housing project represent a new generation of elderly for whom independence, self-reliance (both individual and communal) and quality of life are central conditions of daily life. Within this context the studio deals with the human scale in senior housing. Students are asked to design a 6 to 8 unit senior housing environment (with complementary public, social and healthcare facilities) modeled through interpretations and adaptations of existing (contemporary and historical) European, American and Japanese precedents. The final project inhabits an area of approximately 500 to 800 square metres, with individual housing units varying in size between 40 and 60 square meters with the inclusion of shared outside space and communal programme, divided over 1 or 2 levels on a rather small plot.

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SENIOR HOUSING PROJECT Hao Shuyi | 郝姝仪

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Xia Jianqiang | 夏坚强

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THE ENDLESS HOUSE Jiang Yaxin | 姜亚昕

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Li Jinghong | 李静虹

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In Year 3 students pursue design projects in studio modules that require the integration of a more complex range of contextual parameters on the basis of a coherent design process. Students continue to learn about building technology and the history and theory of architecture and urban developments. ● ● ● ● ● ●

ARC201 Environmental Design and Sustainability (5 credits) ARC202 Structural Design (5 credits) ARC203 History of Asian Architecture (5 credits) ARC204 Design Studio: Small Urban Buildings (10 credits) ARC205 Design Studio: Design and Building Typology (10 credits) ARC206 Urban Studies (5 credits)

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History of Asian Architecture

Level 2 ( Year 3 | Semester 1 ) Module Credits 5

Visit to San-He House by Wang Shu,

Module Leader Yiping Dong

2003, at the Sifang Art Musuem, Nanjing.

Department of Architecture

Photograph by Milan Ognjanovic.

Guest Speakers Dr. Raffaele Pernice ( UPD ) Dr. Leng Tian ( Nanjing University ) Prof. Wang Xiaoqian ( South East University )

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Teaching Team Yiping Dong Glen Wash Christiane Margerita Herr Austin Williams Jiawen Han

History of Asian Architecture provides an introduction to architectural history in Asia, from ancient times to the present day. The history of built architectural form is introduced with selected references to associated theoretical discourses. Cultural and philosophical background is introduced in order to explain the specific characteristics of Asian architecture. The module focuses on Chinese architectural traditions, and includes some additional materials on the wider Asian architectural context such as Indian and Japanese architecture. The module also briefly introduces students to the history of urban design and to key concepts of Asian town planning.

The module uses lectures and readings, case studies and field trips to explain key developments in Asian architectural and urban history.

Through study trips, students apply and present specific methods of building survey and documentation. Essays test individual learning and presentational skills, with drawing exercises assisting students to form a visual memory of architecture. An examination tests their learning and invites students to articulate their understanding of the historical environment.

After undertaking this module, students will be able to recognize and identify main periods and principal features of Asian architecture and urban development, with a focus on China. Knowledge gained from their study of Asian built forms will also lead to a greater understanding of the influence of architectural history and theory on the spatial, social and technological aspects of architecture.

Number of Students 55

Class Photo in Front of The Great Hall, Nanjing University.

Photograph by Milan Ognjanovic.

Level 02 – Year 3 B Eng Architecture Programme

ARC206

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Urban Studies

Level 2 ( Year 3 | Semester 2 ) Module Credits 5

2015-2016 YEARBOOK

Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University

Department of Architecture

Module Leader Austin Rhys Williams Teaching Team Ganna Adrianova Aleksandra Raonic Glen Wash Lina Stergiou Tordis Berstrand Number of Students 55

The module provides students with a basic understanding of Urban Design including some of the key debates, terms, writings, ideas and spatial and social qualities about urban formation. We address some theories and practical examples of city development - including global case studies to indicate how urban planning and architectural decisions can be better informed. The module should help students understand the city as a dynamic, social system.

It is a module that intends to stimulate students' creative engagement with their surroundings as well their ability to assess, appraise and critique various urban and cultural phenomena. Students will be encouraged to read a variety of journals, books and academic papers. They must be ready to think, formulate their opinions, and argue for their ideas.

The module will be conducted as a series of lectures exploring the history of urban ideas, including sociology, urban theory and historical context.

Over the course of the semester we will touch on planning policy in East and West for practical applications, explore several examples within China, but also look to formative moments in Western urban design. The module covers examples from Beijing to Barcelona, Chicago to Chandigarh, Tokyo to Tianjin. We regularly utilise XJTLU's international staff to provide first-hand evidence about the cities in question.

The module is made up of weekly lectures and seminars to explore a range of ideas. The module seeks to raise students’ awareness of a variety of urban forms - their benefits and drawbacks - and to encourage them to cultivate opinions about the nature of cities, the formation and transformation of their urban forms and to obtain basic urban design skills. It is a critical forum that seeks to get the students to think about what they think.

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Environmental Design and Sustainability

Level 2 ( Year 3 | Semester 1 ) Module Credits 5 Module Leader Moon Keun Kim Integrated Low Exergy Building Systems Combined with Ground and Solar Thermal Source Heat Exchangers.

ETH Zurich.

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Students learn: climate change and global warming impacts on buildings; the site conditions that are relevant to the principle of sustainability; urban heat island effect; advanced passive cooling, and heating technologies; advanced heating, ventilation and air-conditioning systems; green building technologies; renewable energy systems; lighting and acoustical design in buildings; advanced thermodynamics and heat transfer; low exergy technologies (super insulation, high temperature cooling and low temperature heating, hybrid radiant cooling and heating system, CO2 capture device and energy saving, advanced geothermal heat pump system, hybrid solar panel system, decentralized ventilation system) and zero emission architecture; In a case study, students design a window or a set of windows for occupant well-being. Students are expected to demonstrate an understanding of different functions of a window and experiment with design strategies that can deliver these functions. The case study exemplifies bioclimatic design principles (daylight and solar shading) and integrates facade design within the precepts of sustainable building design.

Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University

Department of Architecture

Image Source: Chair of Building Systems in

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This module engages students with a wider understanding of how various environmental and human factors interact and influence building design.

It focuses on the qualitative understanding of different building environmental designs and advanced building system design strategies through the learning of various sustainable building concepts and technologies and how these are applied in architectural design through case studies.

Upon completion of this module, students are able to develop methods of implementing environmentally responsive approaches to building design.

Low Exergy Building System Concepts for Zero Emission Architecture.

Image Source: Chair of Building Systems in ETH Zurich.

Level 02 – Year 3 B Eng Architecture Programme

ARC202

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Structural Design

Level 2 ( Year 3 | Semester 2 ) Module Credits 5 Module Leader Christiane M. Herr

2015-2016 YEARBOOK

Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University

Department of Architecture

Number of Students 49

In the context of architectural designing, structural design describes the conception and articulation of building structures that integrate architectural qualities with structural requirements. This module provides students with an understanding of different types of structural systems and their potential to support and enhance given architectural intentions.

In this module, structural design is approached primarily through visual means architecture students can easily relate to, focusing on the integration of structural and programmatic patterns, scales and proportions in structural layouts. Throughout this module, lectures are accompanied by applied structural design exercises during seminar classes. As part of these exercises, students produce a series of structural design proposals addressing a variety of structural types and scales. In addition, students participate in a bridge design competition that requires students to design, build and test bridge models for their structural performance.

The module also includes construction site visits as well as guest lectures / reviews by internal and external engineers and architects. As part of an ongoing cooperation with JAE (Jiang Architects and Engineers, Shanghai) students are offered guest lectures as well as professional reviews of their structural design proposals on campus as well as in the Shanghai office of the company.

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Design Studio Design and Building Typology

Level 2 ( Year 3 | Semester 1 )

Living in a Dense City: High-Density Living = High-Quality Living

Module Credits 10

This studio asks students to generate new models and typologies for collective housing for people that are currently being relocated from their original living environments (rural or suburban areas) to the city. In short, it calls for new models of Relocation Housing, set on a site located on the south side of the dense and vibrant old Suzhou centre.

2015-2016 YEARBOOK

Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University

Department of Architecture

Module Leader Aleksandra Raonic Teaching Team Ganna Andrianova Yiping Dong Edward Farrell Austin Williams Number of Students 55 Guest Critics Lin Bing ( OLI Architecture Shanghai | New York )

The studio brief is user-focused, and anticipates a user-driven design process that requires the students to clearly define a user group typology, according to which different relocation housing types will be developed to fit the users’ specific needs. A detailed portrayal of users, their activities, needs and desires will help envision scenarios which can be both visionary and realistic.

Students begin with the development of a ‘basic living unit’ that can be adapted to a variety of different users’ demands and living scenarios.

Using different spatial operations (multiplying, clustering, scaling), students achieve variability of spatial configurations on both architectural scale as on the scale of an urban block configuration. By operating on a range of scales, while exploiting issues of grounding, verticality and site constraints, students are able to achieve higher levels of programmatic and social diversity, and to test issues of proximity, accessibility, light, and connectivity on a single unit as well as on the larger number of units (assemblies), or on parts of the block configuration.

This studio invites students to use experimental and innovative design approaches in developing new models for high-quality, high-density living in a relocation housing development that successfully negotiates between collective and individual interests, between public and private.

Final designs seek to offer a new urban form that has the capacity to catalyse vibrant and exciting opportunities for dense and intensive city life in a contemporary Chinese context.

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Living in a Dense City Li Shaokang | 李少康

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Wu Hao | 吴昊

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Living in a Dense City Ding Xiao | 丁笑

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Living in a Dense City Shao Fuwei | 邵富伟

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Living in a Dense City Yang Shihao | 杨世豪

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Design Studio Small Urban Buildings

Level 2 ( Year 3 | Semester 2 ) Module Credits 10

2015-2016 YEARBOOK

Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University

Department of Architecture

Module Leader Ganna Andrianova Teaching Team Aleksandra Raonic Austin Williams Lina Stergiou Jose Angel Hidalgo Arellano Number of Students 50

Creative Hub. / Co-working Space in Suzhou Increasingly people today are not bound to work in traditionally structured office settings, but are free to work anywhere as a result of contemporary forms of digital communication and new technologies. This newfound freedom, however, often results in isolation, along with an inability to build trust and relationships with others, with restricted opportunities for collaboration and networking. One emerging solution to these drawbacks is co-working spaces: communal offices used by freelancers, start-uppers, digital nomads and remote workers which can be hired for flexible periods of time with varying fees. Co-working environments provide the necessary infrastructures for efficient work to take place and have the potential to offer a strong sense of community, with participation, however, not necessarily compulsory. Co-working spaces are, as a consequence, becoming increasingly popular work-place options worldwide, not only in western nations, but also in China.

Set on the site of an existing wedding dress factory, slated for demolition, located close to Shantang Street in Old Suzhou, this design studio offers students the opportunity to develop a co-working space in an historical urban context, responding not only to the brief but to its site-specific conditions, with an emphasis on developing strategies for the re-use of existing industrial buildings.

The design studio is a continuation of the International Architecture Workshop ‘Urban Conservation and Tourism along Shantang River’, held in February 2016 with students encouraged to engage with the ideas that were developed during the course of the workshop.

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Shao Fuwei | 邵富伟

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Chen Yukun | 陈玉坤

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Li Shaokang | 李少康

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Shi Haoyu | 石浩宇

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Ding Xiao | 丁笑

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In their final year, students demonstrate an understanding of the complexity of architectural design processes from initial concepts to the design of buildings, taking into account human needs and desires as well as structural, material and environmental considerations. Modules on digital design and building technology, theory, aesthetics, and professional practice are designed to support the studio tasks. In Year 4 students have the opportunity to select their studio projects from a series of parallel briefs.

ARC301 Architectural Technology (5 credits) ARC303 Architectural Theory (5 credits) ARC304 Design Studio: Final Year Project (10 credits) ARC305 Design Studio: Small and Medium Scale Buildings (10 credits) ● ARC306 Professional Practice (5 credits) ● ARC308 Philosophy of Art and Aesthetics (5 credits) ● ● ● ●

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Architectural Technology

Level 3 ( Year 4 | Semester 1 ) Module Credits 5 Module Leader Theodoros Dounas

This module aims to give students an overview of the significance of architectural technology, from the design of simple small-scale structures, to highly ordered views of project coordination, to the architect as a maker of tools and an inventor of new, innovative, architectural technology.

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Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University

Department of Architecture

Number of Students 47

Technology contributes to the autonomy of architecture as a discipline.

It defines and shapes the field through its capacity to bring into effect the next generation of building performance. Stemming from a deep understanding of past and current buildings, architectural technology is defined as both an outcome and a process, and thus negates perceived boundaries between digital design and our physical understanding and experience of the world. Understood as an agent of change and as an enabler of design ideas, technology provides the link between design and production, research and development, and, design exploits and social ambitions. Seen through the lens of human capital and potential in the built environment, architectural technology has the potential to erase the boundaries between dream and reality, between drawings and construction. Considered in this way, architectural technology needs be understood as necessary to the full realisation of human ability rather than a constraint, in both processes and output.

Level 03 – Year 4 B Eng Architecture Programme

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Architectural Theory

Level 3 ( Year 4 | Semester 1 ) Module Credits 5 Module Leader Christian Gänshirt Teaching Team Jiawen Han

Department of Architecture

Guest Lecturer Edoardo Piccoli

Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University

Number of Students 47

Architectural Theory critically reflects on written discourses in and about architecture. A series of lectures, accompanied by weekly readings and alternating between a Chinese and a European point of view, introduce the students to the main concepts of architectural theory, and provide a framework for the understanding of on-going discourses in the field. The themes and topics of the lectures address historical debates, including the role and development of theory in architecture, the question of style, and the historical foundations of modernity, and also encompass areas such as criticism of high modernism, the rise of postmodern and post-structural theory, critical regionalism and architectural criticism, as well as to contemporary discourses, and the mutual influence of Asian and Western concepts of architecture.

Further areas of dialogue and debate respond to interest articulated by students and/or faculty members. Two research seminars accompany the lectures, of which the students chose one, with the themes and topics varying from year to year. The main task in the seminars is for the students to conduct their own research within the given thematic framework, to present and discuss their individual research in one of the seminar sessions, and to eventually write and submit an essay on their chosen topic. To enhance their research and academic writing skills, the students receive in-class instructions, individual tutorials, as well as lectures and continuous support from the language centre. A final written exam stimulates the students to rethink what they have learned throughout this course.

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General Post Office Building in Shanghai

by Stewardson & Spence, 1922-1924.

Photograph by Christian Gänshirt.

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Professional Practice

Level 3 ( Year 4 | Semester 2 ) Module Credits 5 Module Leader Edward Farrell

Department of Architecture

Guest Speakers Don Pak ( Business School ) Wang Tao ( BDP architects ) Dr. Christiane M. Herr Dr. Jiawen Han Austin Williams

2015-2016 YEARBOOK

Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University

Number of Students 48

Professional Practice in architecture introduces Level 3 students to the management of architectural practice, the role of the architect as a professional and the role of the architect in the construction industry and the built environments of China and the West. It provides students with background into the management of professional practices, the management of design projects and design teams, and the management of staff.

It sets out the duties and responsibilities of architects to clients, staff and the public. Students develop an awareness of how architecture practices operate. They understand how buildings are designed and built in the context of architectural and professional best practice and the framework of the construction industry within which it operates. Building users’ needs, legislation and performance standards all form part of the learning process.

The module familiarises students with forms of procurement and contract types and sets out the role that architects play in dealing with contractual matters. An understanding of health and safety requirements both at design and construction stages also forms part of the syllabus.

Students are introduced to the organisations, regulations and procedures for negotiating architectural designs, land law, development control, and building control. Students develop an understanding of cost control mechanisms and an awareness and understanding of the principle of whole life costing. Principles of behavior, ethics and codes of practice for architects also form part of the module.

Site Visit to the South Campus under Construction Photograph by Edward Farrell

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ARC308

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Philosophy of Art and Aesthetics

Level 3 ( Year 4 | Semester 2 ) Module Credits 5 Module Leader Claudia Westermann Teaching Team Tordis Berstrand

2015-2016 YEARBOOK

Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University

Department of Architecture

Number of Students 48

Philosophy of Art Aesthetics provides an introduction to the wider cultural framework that forms the basis for architecture and architectural design.

It introduces critical reflections at the border of architectural discourse, from both East and West, in order to facilitate a better understanding of cultural contexts and their influence on positions and expressions in the fine arts and architecture. Students demonstrate their understanding of how philosophy, art, and architecture mutually influence each other in short coursework exercises related to the seminar discussions, as well as in an essay, which offers an optional link to the Final Year Project studio project.

This year’s course responded to the theme ‘Art, Architecture and the Poetics of the Living Rule’ with a specifically designed series of lectures and seminars, addressing notions of living rules in art, design and architecture. Philosophical writings, reflecting the theme in an explicit or implicit way, were given as reading assignments and discussed in the seminars in relation to selected works of art, such as paintings, installations, films, poetry and other forms of creative writing, but also to works generally categorised as design. An excursion to the Bernard Tschumi and Datong Dazhang exhibitions at the Power Station of Art offered an additional opportunity for reflection particularly on contemporary positions.

Field Trip to the Bernard Tschumi and Datong Dazhang exhibitions at the Power Station of Art, 2016.

Photograph by Claudia Westermann.

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Design Studio Small and Medium Scale Buildings

Level 3 ( Year 4 | Semester 1 ) Module Credits 10 Module Coordinator Claudia Westermann

Department of Architecture

Teaching Team Li-An Tsien Glen Wash Lina Stergiou

Shanghai’s Old City provided the framework for this design studio, offering opportunities to rethink the future of Shanghai in relation to its past, and to think new possibilities for urbanity and density. Four different briefs each took a different approach to the questions that the Old City is confronted with, and with it Shanghai as a whole.

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Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University

Number of Students 48

During recent decades, China has undergone incredible transformations.

It has re-inscribed itself into the world’s attention through the creation of new superlatives. Both the speed of the urbanization process in China and the size of its new developments are unprecedented; and not surprisingly, skyscrapers have become increasingly taller and have never been so high. China has successfully managed to create a narrative of power through projects of urban design and architecture. The tensions that the big ubiquitous narrative creates are felt strongly in the historical part of the city of Shanghai. The Old City’s apparently unresolved relation to the new city raises many questions - about urbanity, about density, affordable living conditions, about how a city might be able to continuously integrate enormous numbers of migrants.

Site Analysis by JIN Tian

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Zhang Yanzhe | 张艳喆

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Zhang Rongfeng | 张榕峰 Duan Yawen | 段雅文

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Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University

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TEN Stanislav JIN Tian | 金恬

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Design Studio Final Year Project

Level 3 ( Year 4 | Semester 1 and 2 ) Module Credits 10

2015-2016 YEARBOOK

Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University

Department of Architecture

Module Leader Glen Wash Ivanovic Teaching Team Jiawen Han Pierre Alain Croset Yiping Dong Tordis Berstrand Aleksandra Raonic Claudia Westermann Christiane Herr Thomas Fischer Edward Farrell

The Final Year Project Studio is set to ensure a diversity of approaches to Architectural Design, allowing for parallel briefs, and briefs defined to a greater extent by the students themselves. The five briefs written for this year’s final year studio respond in various ways to the challenges that Architecture is confronted with in China and beyond. They open a conversation on Architecture that is to be reframed and redefined by the students in the course of their research and design process.

The five individual briefs deal with issues including aging society, urban regeneration, non-standard social architecture, urban-rural boundaries and urban transitions. They invite students to design buildings that respond to specific urban and socio-cultural conditions while at the same time paying attention to human needs and desires. On the basis of their proposal and in connection with a coherent design process, students need to demonstrate their understanding of architecture as informed by inter-dependent cultural, historical, technological and contextual issues.

Number of Students 50

Level 03 – Year 4 B Eng Architecture Programme

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Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University

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Bian Zhifan | 卞之凡

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Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University

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Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University

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You Jie | 游洁

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Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University

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Ni Yunqian | 倪韵倩

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Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University

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RIGON Marcus

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Shen Yue | 沈越

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Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University

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The Master of Architectural Design (MArchDes) is a 2-year, full time, professional postgraduate programme, designed to deliver learning outcomes as defined by the General Criteria and the Graduate Attributes to qualify for RIBA Part 2 validation. It prepares students for two main purposes: to work as fully qualified professional architects; and/or as independent researchers, enabling them to undertake further post-graduate studies. Upon successful completion, an international Master of Architectural Design (MArchDes) degree is awarded from the University of Liverpool, United Kingdom. On 7 December 2016, the programme was awarded RIBA Part 2 Candidate Status, with the programme also registered with and recognised by the Chinese Ministry of Education (MoE).

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The MArchDes programme reflects the unique situation of our university, which is located in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, China.

Classes are delivered by predominantly international (rather than Chinese or British) educators and are conducted in English to British university standards and in accord with their procedures. Here, we are searching for innovative ways of balancing the conditions of a globalised economy against the constraints of individual, local, and regional realities. The Department’s special location stimulates students, as well as faculty members, to critically review the ideas and habits, values and ideologies that shape our professional identities. Embracing diversity as a key value, and developing a dynamic and supportive studio culture is crucial for us. The education we offer has three main concerns: state-of-the-art technical skills and knowledge; ample design practice; and a humanities-based education that assists students in navigating between eastern and western cultures in the development of their critical thinking skills.

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The programme offers a progression pathway for architecture graduates from the Department’s BEng programme, within the same educational framework, and a closely-related approach to pedagogy, which consolidates and builds upon previous learning.

It also attracts graduates from other architecture schools in China, and from overseas. From a more global perspective, the programme offers graduate students from the United Kingdom, as well as other English-speaking countries with similar architectural qualification systems a unique opportunity to learn about contemporary China, with language and cultural barriers largely mitigated. It prepares international students for a career-start in China, while it provides local students with opportunities for national as well as international careers.

Our MArchDes programme, however, does not simply mirror the MArch programme offered by the University of Liverpool, but rather covers the same list of RIBA criteria, and has similar learning outcomes. Special care has been taken to ensure equivalent learning

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outcomes in Semester 3, in order to facilitate student exchanges with the MArch programme at the University of Liverpool upon the full validation of the course.

Similar to many professional MArch programmes in Europe, the design studio is central to the department’s teaching practices, and encourages critical enquiry in the form of analysis, reflection and speculation. Learning-by-doing and learning-by-thinking lie at the core of the curriculum with 50% of the teaching and learning time devoted to architectural studios. Studio teaching is provided in small groups on the basis of structured briefs. Through individual projects, students are led through the learning experience, which spans from conceptual, theoretical and historical research along with site analyses in the earlier stages of their studies, to a highly-resolved architectural proposition at the end of their degree. As students advance through their studies, the increase in complexity is accompanied by greater choice in studio briefs. In Year 2, and especially in the Final Thesis Project, students develop their own studio briefs, aligned with research interests and expertise of their chosen tutors.

A special feature of our programme is a strong stream of modules in the humanities, including theory, history, and scholarly research.

This continues the basic structure of our undergraduate programme, which we believe is crucial in fostering cross-cultural awareness and understanding. Over the five years of architectural education, students are lead towards increasing levels of individual choice and responsibility.

On successful completion graduates will possess advanced skills and demonstrate independence of thought which allows them to tackle contemporary built-environment problems through intellectual analysis, considered assessment and design decision-making.

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The first year of the Master's programme focuses on design and practice, with the second on design and research. A special feature of our programme is a strong stream of modules in the humanities, with an emphasis on theory, history, and research. This continues the basic structure of our undergraduate programme, which is crucial in fostering cross-cultural awareness and understanding. Over the five years of architectural education, students assume increasing levels of individual choice and responsibility, culminating in the last year of the Master's programme. Here they choose their individual design studio tutors and together with them develop their own research and project briefs.

Year 1 (Semester 1) ● ARC403 Applied Technology in Architecture (5 credits) ● ARC405 Design Studio I (10 credits) ● ARC407 Architectural Theory and Criticism (5 credits) Additional Learning Activities Year 1 (Semester 2) ● ARC402 Advanced Professional Practice (5 credits) ● ARC404 Design Studio II (10 credits) ● ARC406 Topics in Architectural History (5 credits) Additional Learning Activities

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Applied Technology in Architecture

Level 4 ( Year 1 | Semester 1 ) Module Credits 5 Module Leader Thomas Fischer

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Number of Students 9

This year’s theme is the medium-rise tower. The module focuses on the integration of architectural and technological concerns in two interrelated ways; firstly through a focus on the schematic design of a medium-rise tower with a load-bearing façade; and secondly, by extending the scope of the conceptual design by integrating façade technology and considerations of environmental impact and occupant comfort into the design.

The module invites students to engage with a wide range of technologies and technological considerations in the design, construction and use of buildings. Learning takes place in seminar and small lecture settings, with discussions, readings and exercise assignments.

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ARC403 introduces the mutually-challenging relationships between architecture and advanced technology which have characterised architecture and construction throughout history. It examines and explores architectural case studies that demonstrate technological innovation, as well as case studies of advanced technology applications in the design, representation, evaluation, project management, construction and operation of architectural projects. The module is taught in a variety of teaching modes, including lectures, seminars, workshops and group tutorials. Visits to local construction sites are arranged subject to availability.

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Architectural Theory and Criticism

Level 4 ( Year 1 | Semester 1 ) Module Credits 5 Module Leader Andrew Johnson

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With an eye to the global and Asian context of XJTLU, the module pursues the intersection of architectural thinking and practice as a space where students come to critically examine their own work. They do so for the purpose of positioning themselves as future practitioners and to deepen their appreciation of theory and writing as active tools in the design process. Above all, they strengthen their ability to articulate a theoretical argument in a consistent manner as an integral part of the architect’s task.

Students reflect on a series of reading assignments in weekly coursework submitted for grading and eventually marking in revised form. In-class discussions, exercises, and presentations build up the skills required for the final essay submission, a draft of which is graded halfway through the semester. Academic standards are observed across all submitted work, and language teachers from the university’s Writing Centre contribute with lectures and tutorials throughout. A final Folio submission eventually concludes the module by compiling all material produced as a statement of the individual student’s achievement and learning.

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The module introduces central themes in architectural theory and criticism informed by current debates within and beyond the discipline. Framed as challenges confronting contemporary society on a global scale, these are issues of the present that call upon architects to respond and act. If this is not simply a call to build and make, it is an invitation to think, again, about the critical potential of built and imagined environments.

The London Sky Framed by Yona Friedman Hyde Park, 2016.

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The Gate of the Orient on the West bank of Jinji Lake, Suzhou Industrial Park, 2015.

This module examines the practice of architecture as a complex form of professional advocacy. The course introduces students to the basic framework of building laws, building economics, procurement models and professional ethics within the practice of architecture. The profession of architecture is contextualized in its relationships to social, economic and political backgrounds as they pertain to China and the UK. However, this is a globally appropriate module and seeks to provide students with a solid understanding of professional approaches and behaviour. To this end, the module looks at the philosophical meaning of professionalism, ethical practices, acceptable and reasonable behaviour, moral duty and other universal ambitions of the professional.

We will read and discuss some philosophy - from Kant to J. S. Mill - but will also explore a range of ideas from Confucian virtues to Contract law.

There will be weekly homework reading, discussion and writing and the seminars will be conducted on the model of an Oxbridge tutorial; with students reading homework out loud to encourage the others to critique and develop the discussion. On the practical side, students are encouraged to examine how buildings are planned, managed and constructed in professional practice through individual research and through seminar presentations and discussions allied to their design studio module. The implications of various building codes and forms of practice on architectural processes will also be discussed in a variety of formats, among students, teaching staff and invited guests.

In 2016, the External Examiner wrote of this module: “There were some very interesting, imaginative and current examples of the integration of contemporary architecture into the coursework, whether as part of the technical analysis, cultural studies and in professional practice. These are exemplary and suggest that the school has taken care to design a relevant and appropriate curriculum.”

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Topics in Architectural History: Modern Architecture as a Transnational Discourse Level 4 ( Year 1 | Semester 2 ) Module Credits 5 Module Leader Paolo Scrivano Teaching Team Paolo Scrivano Pierre-Alain Croset

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The aim of the module was to start a discussion on the transnational character of modern architecture and to verify to which extent the paradigm of transnational history can be applied to modern architecture as a historical subject. In doing so, the seminar considered a narrative that covers the 20th century but that, at times, includes events that took place during the 18th and 19th centuries. While the module was rooted in history, it also addressed theoretical questions that are relevant within the discourse of contemporary architecture, such as the effective impact of transnational mobility on professions and building practices and the actual applicability and sustainability of global notions of design.

Students were asked to read and respond to the referenced literature in order to contribute to the discussions in class. They were also encouraged to actively seek out and engage with historical evidence beyond the brief’s bibliography, and to reflect on their own developing research methodologies.

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In recent times, the field of history has been characterized by the growth of studies adopting a “transnational” perspective, a phenomenon that has touched on disciplines as diverse as the history of international relations, the history of social policies, cultural history, migration history, and intellectual history. This increasing interest reflects the mounting consideration for a variety of phenomena that are often referred to as globalization, a term which seems to have gained currency not only at academic level but also in popular discourses.

Zaha Hadid, MAXXI, Museum of 21st Century Art, Rome 2009, interior [photo Paolo Scrivano]

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Guest Reviewers Marco Trisciuoglio ( Politecnico di Torino / Nanjing SEU ) Lei Sun ( Planning Bureau of Gusu District, Suzhou ) Li Bai ( Independent architect, Suzhou )

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Number of Students 9 ( 7 XJTLU + 2 visiting students from Politecnico di Torino )

The area in the famous Ping Jiang Map of Suzhou ( 1229, Song Dynasty )

The challenge for this studio was to give urban and architectural form to the redevelopment of the unique large empty space in the historic city of Suzhou: Xiang Men Area at the eastern gate of the city, bounded on the north by a UNESCO World Heritage Garden and the Suzhou Zoo; on the east by the canal and the recently rebuilt Suzhou city wall; on the south

by Gan Jiang Street; and, on the west by the famous Ping Jiang Historical District. Our partner in this studio was the China/Suzhou Institute of Architectural Design (CSIAD), who had been invited to participate in an urban design competition for the redevelopment of the area.

While the students needed to respect the parameters decreed by the competition organisers (100.000 m2 to be built on an area of 125.000 m2, F.A.R. 0.8), they were, however, free to criticise the morphological and stylistic prescriptions (maximal height of 3 floors and pitched roofs).

The studio was divided in three phases: 1- Analysis and Reflection on the historic city (3 weeks), with site visits and exercises of urban morphology; 2- The Urban Design Plan (5 weeks), introduced by exercises on the design of multi-functional porous urban blocks, and on the formation of an artificial topography inspired by the traditional Suzhou gardens (hills and water) and with the reuse of the excavated earth for the underground parking; 3 Architectural and Urban Design (7 weeks) of one of the three sectors of the Urban Design Plan.

The students explored innovative ways of interpreting the historical city of Suzhou as a reference for new urban form. While no deference to stylistic imitation was paid, the dense structure of courtyard houses, lanes and canals was adopted in order to give a sense of place to the urban and architectural composition.

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Design Studio 2 Printed Space

Level 1 ( Year 1 | Semester 2 ) Module Credits 10 Module Leader Caterina Tiazzoldi Xiaohan Chen, Shasvari Shanmugam Subramaniam, Christian.Gaenshirt, Pierre-Alain-Croset, Caterina Tiazzoldi, Han

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Architecture and Building Technology have faced alternating synergistic and competitive interaction in relationship to the culture of craftsmanship. While both architecture and building technology have systematically applied research and results derived from craft practices, they have also historically claimed supremacy above the traditional crafts.

The architecture of religious buildings in particular has expanded the expressive potential of new materials through the use of advanced technologies resulting in a holistic synthesis between sacred architecture and building technology.

Over the last 20 years, digital fabrication in the building industry has witnessed the rapid integration of Computer Control Numerical tools. For the first time in history, with thanks predominantly to the research of D. Khoshnevis, new, innovative methods are now capable of generating processes for the manufacturing of building components at a 1:1 architecture scale. In light of these developments, the interrelationship between architectural design manufacturing, transport logistics, material resources, safety and environmental sustainability are well-disposed to be revisited. The Printed Space studio engages students in design-based research that explores the potential of rapid prototyping with a view to full-scale 3D printing technologies in the design of a new place of contemplation and worship.

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Printed Space is a research-driven design studio that explores architectural potentialities and new forms of craftsmanship through the design a religious building on Xandai Avenue, near Lake Dushu, Suzhou, via the use of full-scale 3d printing, a contemporary tool that is currently used in the design and construction industries.

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Level 4 ( Year 1+2 ) Module Credits 0 Hours 200 / Semester

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All Master programmes in our university require 200 hours of Additional Learning Activities (ALAs) to be undertaken each semester, the majority of which are chosen by the students. These allow our students to address their individual learning needs whilst contributing to the community beyond the confines of the university. Some of these activities must be undertaken during teaching periods, while others can be pursued over the winter and summer breaks. At the beginning of their studies, students with their individual Academic Advisors plan their ALAs for the whole two years of the programme; this plan is then updated at the beginning of each semester.

ALAs do not contribute to the marks of the students, but are assessed on a pass/fail basis and are therefore non-credit bearing. The learning activities students may choose include English, Spanish and Chinese language and culture modules, personal and career development courses, independent studies with a tutor, teaching and research assistantships, select Level 3 and 4 modules, internships with architecture firms, study trips, as well as a series of ALAs which accompany and support the design studio modules. ● ● ● ●

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In the fifth and final year of architecture studies at XJTLU, the focus is on strengthening the abilities of the students to develop their individual approach to architectural research and design, and communicate research outcomes and architectural proposals based on critical engagement with a given framework. Through a coherent design and research process, the work produced is informed by the evaluation of theoretical concepts, the consideration of context, regulations and user requirements, as well as the integration of technical knowledge. The design studio aims at the development of design tools and strategies that will be investigated and developed further in the subsequent thesis project and thesis dissertation to be produced in the concluding Design Studio 4.

Year 2 (Semester 1) ● ARC409 Architectural Design and Research Methods (5 credits) ● ARC411 Practice-Based Enquiry and Architectural Representation (5 credits) ● ARC413 Design Studio III (10credits) Year 2 (Semester 2) ● ARC408 Written Thesis (5 credits) ● ARC410 Design Studio. IV / Thesis Project (15 credits)

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Architectural Design and Research Methods

Level 4 ( Year 2 | Semester 1 ) Module Credits 5 Module Leader Paolo Scrivano

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In this module, students conduct research as part of their own thesis project. Each student produces a thesis prospectus, engaging questions in the practice and theory of architecture. In the prospectus, students propose a thesis question, explore and demonstrate their command of the appropriate bodies of architectural research, and identify and develop a specific set of theories and methods appropriate to their research work.

The module runs in parallel to Design Studio 3 and prepares students to the development and completion of the design and written components of their thesis in Semester 4.

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Practice Based Enquiry and Architectural Representation

Level 4 ( Year 2 | Semester 1 ) Module Credits 5 Module Leader Claudia Westermann Teaching Team Aleksandra Raonic

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The module introduces advanced practice-based methodologies in critical creative problem solving and communication. Students are encouraged to explore a range of different art practices.

Through re-presentation of architectural projects and through shifting between different media – such as drawings, models, video, sculpture, interactive digital media, installation art – the students learn new ways to identify questions, how to address them, and how to communicate to audiences that have differing understandings of what architecture is or could be, including audiences that are not trained in reading architectural plans and models. They are guided to critically and creatively engage with the presented concepts in a consistent manner.

The course also aims at initiating reflections on differences and commonalities between Chinese/Asian and Western aesthetic positions, so as to facilitate a better understanding of a cultural context's influence on positions and expressions in architecture and its relation to questions of representation.

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Texts reflecting thoughts on practice-based knowledge, on art, design and architecture are read, and discussed in weekly seminars in relation to works of architecture and design, films, examples of creative writing, and artworks - such as paintings, sculpture, installations, and performance works, and introduce critical engagement with ways of knowing through practice.

Through a series of exercises in the remaking and translation of Architecture, students engage with questions of experience, and of documentation and presentation of spatial principles, as well as with the practices and theories of practice that are discussed in the weekly seminars. They learn to understand this engagement as a form of critical enquiry into architectural practices of presentation and representation.

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Thesis Dissertation

Level 4 ( Year 2 | Semester 2 ) Module Credits 5 Module Leader Paolo Scrivano

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Teaching Team Pierre-Alain Croset Christiane M. Herr Glen Wash

In this module, students develop and complete the writing component of their Masters thesis, conducting and documenting a research project in the field of design research. Departing from research questions developed in the previous module ARC409 ‘Architectural Design and Research Methods’, students produce a written document that explains their design thesis’ principles thus lending theoretical support to their design project. The module runs parallel with Design Studio 4 with individual students given feedback on the preparation of the thesis’ written component in conjunction with group seminars focusing on their design in a studio setting.

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Design Studio 3 Individual Briefs

Level 4 ( Year 2 | Semester 1 ) Module Credits 10 Module Leader Christian Gänshirt

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Teaching Team Pierre-Alain Croset Christiane M. Herr Glen Wash Number of Students 6

Close connections with the other two modules in the semester support and inform the student’s enquiries: ARC411 Practice Based Enquiry and Architectural Representation focuses on the artistic side of the student’s design work, and ARC409 Architectural Design and Research Methods informs the theoretical and research aspects of the work. Students regularly present their work for discussion in reviews to all tutors involved in teaching this studio, to other faculty members, invited reviewers from other schools, as well as practicing architects.

Note: This module has been taught for the first time in autumn 2016.

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For this design studio module, students are given the opportunity to develop a design brief in an area of architectural enquiry in which they are interested. This framework ensures a diversity of approaches allowing students greater freedom in defining their methods of learning and their approaches to architectural design. Over the summer break, they define the scope and topic of their projects in close cooperation with their individual tutors chosen at the end of the previous academic year.

Over the autumn semester, the project is then developed in the usual studio setting supported by in-class presentations, group and individual tutorials, and seminar talks. Students are guided to develop design tools and processes that allow them to explore their topics critically and indepth, informing their design project, and initiating the thesis process that continues during the final semester of the Master programme.

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Design Studio 4 Individual Briefs

Level 4 ( Year 2 | Semester 2 ) Module Credits 15 Module Leader Christian Gänshirt

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Teaching Team Pierre Alain Croset Christiane M. Herr Glen Wash Number of Students 6

At this level, students are required to demonstrate self-reliance in the framing of architectural problems and in the research required to propose viable solutions to them. Building on the design and research outcomes achieved in the previous semester, students address an individually chosen design thesis project, resolving design and research challenges identified in the thesis prospectus written at the end of Semester 3. The outcome is a self-contained thesis design project supported by a thesis dissertation written in the parallel module ARC408. Effectively, the work produced at this very special moment of life has two objectives: it concludes and summarises years of study, and clearly addresses the wider professional public, and enables a new voice to be heard for the first time.

This subject will be offered in the 2016-2017 Academic Year.

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In architectural education the final design studio is of special importance. Here the students are expected to demonstrate the full range of skills and abilities they have acquired over the years of their studies at university, as well as through internships and study trips. Now they are presenting themselves as fully educated architects, putting forward an architectural statement that expresses their personal interests and marks their individual position in the field of architectural culture.

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Urban Conservation and Tourism along Shantang River February 21-28, 2016

Participants University of Liverpool ( United Kingdom ) Andrew Crompton Torsten Schmiedeknecht 9 students

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Technical University Graz ( Austria ) Irmgard Frank Claudia Gerhäusser 10 students Politecnico di Torino ( Italy ) Mauro Berta Matteo Robiglio 10 students Xi’an Jiatong-Liverpool University, Department of Architecture Ganna Andrianova José Àngel Hidalgo Arellano Aleksandra Raonic Lina Stergiou Austin Williams 51 students Coordinator Pierre Alain Croset

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This workshop produced ideas and visions for the urban regeneration of the fourth and final sector of Shantang River near Tiger Hill. Six architects and twenty-nine students from three European Schools of Architecture (University of Liverpool, TU Graz, and Politecnico di Torino), along with five architects and forty-seven students from the Department of Architecture at XJTLU, participated. Every instructor was responsible for the development a specific “vision” for the site, and worked with an international team of 7 to 8 students (1 from Liverpool, 1 from Graz, 1 from Torino, and 4 to 5 from Suzhou).

For the XJTLU students, all from the 3rd Year of the Bachelor in Architecture, this short-term intensive experience proved to be very different in comparison with normal design studios; not only in terms of the international composition of the design teams, but also because they acted as “local guides” for the foreign teachers and students, introducing them to the specificities and nuances of Chinese cities and Chinese culture.

As the workshop ran for only one week, the schedule was demanding.

After a Welcome Event following the arrival of the foreign groups on Sunday, an all-day tour along Shantang River enabled the participants to undertake a complete survey of the site, in addition to visiting tourist features, including Yuhan Hall and Tiger Hill on the Monday. The models and drawings for the proposals were produced in 4 days, with an Interim Review on the Wednesday, prior to the final exhibition and presentation on Saturday afternoon.

As a result of the workshop, the Department of Architecture intends to develop a critical dialogue with the Planning Bureau of the Central District of Suzhou, discussing a number of important topics with an emphasis on relationships between tourism, heritage, creative industries and urban regeneration.

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Visit to the Spanish Pavilion at the 15th Venice Architecture Biennale.

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Dates 25 June – 02 July 2016

The tour offered the students the opportunity to visit both contemporary and historical buildings in the aforementioned cities. Particular attention was paid to the work of a number of architects including Andrea Palladio, Carlo Scarpa, and Stefano Boeri as well as contemporary Italian architects, with several UNESCO World Heritage Sites included.

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Additional visits included “The Floating Piers” installation by Christo (in Sulzano), the Prada Foundation (OMA/Rem Koolhaas), Palladio Museum (in Vicenza, with a tour of the Museum led by the Museum Director Guido Beltramini) and Milano Triennale (both in Milan), Crespi d’Adda [UNESCO World Heritage site], Castelvecchio Museum [Verona], Palladio Museum [Vicenza], Villa Malcontenta [in-between Vicenza-Venice] and the 15th Venice Architecture Biennale. In Milan, the students were taken on a tour through the inner city, the tour led by Professor Juan-Carlos Dall’Asta.

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From 25 June to 02 July 2016, a group of 26 XJTLU architecture students [selected from YEAR 2 (6), 3 (8), 4 (11) and Masters (1) ] undertook a ten day study trip to Italy (Milan, Bergamo, Brescia, Vicenza, Venice). The tour was organised by Bert de Muynck (Lecturer Department of Architecture XJLTU) with logistical support provided by Lu Quanqing and Lin Qian [both PhD candidates at XJTLU].

The trip included a 3-day visit to Venice and the world-renowned 15th Venice Architecture Biennale, curated by Chilean architect and 2016 Pritzker Prize winner Alejandro Araveno. Overall this tour was an unique opportunity for the students to experience life in a foreign country and to become familiar with some of its cities and their historic and contemporary architecture.

Head of Department, Architecture, XJTLU, Pierre Alain Croset in Conversation with Palladio Museum Director Guido Beltramini and Students.

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View of Dr. Stergiou students’ exhibition at E9, Redtory Art & Design Factory, Guangzhou.

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With the support of XJTLU’s Research Developing Fund, we visited the old Pugao village in Yunnan province, where we surveyed some of its unique characteristics while also recording patterns of occupation in the village’s rice terraces.

Rice agriculture in China remains highly labour intensive. The crops need to be manually transplanted into different pools during its agricultural cycle. Industrialization of rice production is minimal, and still uses traditional farming methods and large numbers of people, resulting in significant migration of farmers during harvesting seasons. Pugao village is perhaps one of the most representative examples of vernacular architecture linked to rice agriculture.

The relationship of Pugao with its terraces is extremely intertwined and cohesive; some terraces are located inside the village, creating very unique openings and public spaces within the otherwise dense and narrow village.

While this activity can be understood as ordinary farming, we also recognize its unique architectural qualities, wherein concepts like rhythm and appropriateness exemplify ideal relationships between environment and activity.

In order to capture this relationship we recorded its characteristic by taking time-lapse photos of different activities and parts of the terraces.

Then, using Activity Counter Maps we generated graphic visualisations that allowed us to better understand the hidden patterns behind these activities and to find relationships that could be applied to contemporary architectural design.

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The Freestyle Bridge Design Competition is an annual event conducted as part of the module ARC202 (Structural Design). The competition gives students an opportunity to experiment with complex structural systems and a variety of self-chosen materials in the realisation of design ideas.

The competition task is to build a bridge model with clear span of 1.07m, supported only at the ends. Bridges should be as lightweight as possible while supporting a weight of 4.5kg placed at the centre of the bridge. As in a real-life competition for bridges, models should not only perform well in terms of load-bearing capacity, but also demonstrate innovative ideas, concern for the pedestrian experience while crossing the bridge and quality of details and general craftsmanship. To determine the winning team, the competition integrates numerical performance evaluation with a general qualitative assessment by guest reviewers from the Departments of Architecture and Civil Engineering. Winning bridge models must demonstrate good structural performance as well as good integration of architectural ideas and structure. The competition has been conducted for several years and is often described as a key learning experience by participating students.

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Advances in 3D printing technology have reached architectural scales and materials, and SIP-based company Winsun (盈创) is establishing itself as a global leader in this emerging research field. Taking a research-through-design approach, and engaging Winsun as an industrial partner, this project investigated the potential of 3D printing for online parametric mass customisation of small concrete buildings to address varying client needs and site contexts. The research was conducted jointly by three undergraduate 2nd year students and the supervisors over the course of the summer of 2015. Research findings include a suitable form language for 3d printable small buildings, a set of structural design and construction constraints, and a parametric customisation approach.

The project employed experimental programming, model making and expert interviews to explore and evaluate possibilities of customising 3d concrete printed buildings. It was conducted through alternating cycles of design exploration and synthesis, informed by sketching, model making, data collection and expert feedback focused on material, fabrication, transportation and construction constraints, functional aspects, and structural evaluation. 3D concrete printing is an emerging research area, and currently in the early stages of its technological development. This project extends the scope of previous research to investigate architectural (functional, aesthetic, structural, economic) aspects of 3D printing within the framework of parametric design. Findings resulting from this project will be presented and published at the international conference CAADRIA2017, held at XJTLU.

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The Cardboard Structures event is an annual event conducted as part of the module ARC104 (Structures and Materials). It is the culmination of students’ first attempt at building a life-size structure made primarily from cardboard. This year, the task was to build structures able to bridge a gap of 1.5 meters and support a load of at least 40kg – the weight of an average 10-11 year old school child. Besides additional connection materials such as screws, glue and string, the bridge structure must be made entirely of cardboard. Students work in teams of four or five, and collaborate on all stages of the design. The project is was run in cooperation with Suzhou SIP Foreign Language School, with their primary-level 4 students performing both as ‘clients’ and eager test subjects. The bridge design proceeds through a series of interim models and their review, including a review of half scale prototypes at the collaborating school. The final review takes place at XJTLU and consists of a playful load testing by the school children. During the review, the children also voted for the “2015 Cardboard Bridge Award” by attaching stickers to their favourite bridge designs. In this process, architecture learn essential skills comprising design work in teams, planning and execution of work, assembly of 1:1 scale models as well as matching their design ideas with functional requirements as well as the preferences of the users of their structures.

Part of ARC104, B Eng (Architectural Engineering)

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Tutors Yiping Dong Edward Farrell Aleksandra Raonic Ganna Abdrianova Quanqing Lu ( TA ).

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During reading Week 26-30 October of Semester 1 2015/2016, the Year 3 students from the Department of Architecture took a five-day study trip to Nanjing. The trip was designed to give the students a unique educational experience by providing encounters the reality of Asian architecture and the built environment from a broad-based perspective. The trip followed the main themes of ARC203 and focused on ancient urban planning and architecture in China as well as the period of modernization. Students, consequently had the chance to observe the works of earlier generations of architects such as Lv Yanzhi, Yang Tinbao, as well as contemporary Chinese Architecture Masters, including Wu Liangyong, Qi Kang, and younger architects’ projects such as Wangshu, Ai Weiwei and Zhang Lei, as well as the works of famous western architects including Zaha Hadid and Steven Holl and his recent project in Nanjing.

Nanjing is a typical historic city, containing a variety of urban planning remains and heritage timber structures which date from the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Students were thus able to understand the urban construction activities and timber structural improvements, with learning premised upon real world experience. Buddhist buildings, in particular Pagodas and Temples, such as Qi’xa Monastery and Ji’ming Monastery, while established during different Dynasties demonstrated Western cultural influences which enabled Chinese Architecture history to be understood in an Asian Context.

This study trip also gave the chance to enhance the understanding of the ritual spaces in China, which include the Palace ruins of the Ming Dynasty and Mausoleums and memorial spaces from different historical periods in Nanjing. The early buildings in the campus started from1900s and the Sun-Yen-san mausoleum area illustrated for students how the question of “tradition and modernity” was considered in the Modernization period in the former Capital of the Republic China.

Professor Wang Xiaoqian of the Architecture School, South East University, and Dr. Leng Tian of the Architecture Department, Nanjing University, gave two academic lectures to XJTLU Architecture students and faculty members and were also provided with guided tours of two of China’s most Architecture Schools.

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(Vertical Studio 2015/16) April 18 - May 6 WSA Cardiff / Wales A . Benjamin Spaeth Wassim Jabi Y1 and Y2 students XJTLU Suzhou/China Theodoros Dounas Y1 and Y2 students

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UAS Wiesbaden/Germany Joachim Kieferle XJTLU Student Participants Kang Wenzhao Yang Chaohui Liu Bowei Zhang Chenke Wu Hao Wang Liu Zhu Runzi Yu Yulin Gao Hanzhi

This vertical studio is conceived as an international collaboration between the Xi’an Jiaotong -Liverpool University (XJTLU) in Suzhou / China, the University of Applied Science (UASW) in Wiesbaden / Germany and the Welsh School of architecture (WSA) in Cardiff. The 3 week English speaking studio took place at XJLTU and at WSA respectively and accommodated students of WSA at XJTLU and students of XJTLU and UASW at WSA. In this vertical studio we explored traditional timber joints and their potential to be transformed into contemporary design and fabrication methods, with a research focus on Chinese and Welsh traditional timber joints in order to understood the mechanics of these force-lock and shape-lock connections. The principles formed the bases of parametric models resulting in a series of developed designs which efficiently apply them. The aim was to design a spatial structure which unleashes the three dimensional potential of force-lock joints to create a temporary space for the celebration of the final year exhibition of the Welsh School of Architecture as well as the Department of Architecture at XJTLU and the University of Applied Science in Wiesbaden. The spatial structure was designed to accommodate the vernissage of the final year exhibition, it forming part of the exhibition itself and its closing event. The structure provided seating, a bar, tables, a stage for small performances. The area covered did not exceed 50m² in total. The design concept premised upon tectonic principles, and was therefore able to respond to the different requirements of the respective sites at three different locations.

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Recent Works & Ideas by Chinese Architects | Fall 2015 Lecture Series Convenor Bert de Muynck

The Fall 2015 lecture series at the Department of Architecture at XJTLU focused on introducing the cultural, architectural and professional backgrounds, thought and works of a selection of independent and contemporary Chinese architects.

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Hailing from four distinct metropolises in China (Shanghai, Hangzhou, Guangzhou and Shenzhen), the architects presented work that focuses on the urban and architectural constraints they face while forging architectural design solutions for a series of urgent social, economic and cultural issues within the Chinese context.

Each lecture and architect focused on programmatic and design challenges such as local culture and its modern representation (Tong Ming), bamboo construction, materiality and local knowledge in China’s countryside (Chen Haoru), renovation and adaptation of derelict industrial heritage (O-Office) and navigating in-between architectural and urban design in Shenzhen and Hong Kong (Else Design). The lecture series concluded with a critical overview of contemporary Chinese architectural developments and practices by the renowned Chinese scholar Li Xiangning.

Each of these select architects have each made significant contributions to the architectural field by building critically acclaimed projects in each of their cities amidst the swift-changing urban and rural environment.

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Lecture by Carlo Ratti

On 13 May 2016, the Department of Architecture organised the first XJTLU Interdepartmental Lecture, an initiative promoted by Paul Kadetz in collaboration with five other Departments (Public Health, Urban Planning and Design, Biological Science, English Culture and Communication, IBSS).

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The inaugural lecture was presented by Carlo Ratti, Director of the Senseable City Lab at the MIT (Cambridge, USA) and owner of the design company Carlo Ratti Associati in Turin, who has an established reputation as a global thinker and innovator. Ratti’s lecture, illustrated by many of his brilliantly innovative projects, critically discussed how increasing deployment of sensors and hand-held electronics in recent years has enabled new approaches to the study of the built environment, with innovations in the tools used to design it impacting on its physical structure, and radically transforming the way we understand and describe it.

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An architect and engineer by training, Carlo Ratti has co-authored over 250 publications and holds several patents. His work has been exhibited in a number of venues worldwide, including the Venice Biennale; MoMA New York; and, MAXXI in Rome. Two of his projects – the Digital Water Pavilion and the Copenhagen Wheel – were hailed by Time Magazine as one of the ‘Best Inventions of the Year’. He has been included in Blueprint Magazine's ‘25 People who will Change the World of Design’ and in Wired Magazine’s ‘Smart List: 50 People who will Change the World’.

He was curator for the ‘Future Food District’ at Expo Milano 2015, and is currently serving as Chair of the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on Future Cities.

Carlo Ratti in the Digital Water Pavilion at the Zaragoza Expo 2008.

Photograph Ramak Fazel.

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The departmental magazine, Masterplanning the Future (MPTF) has had a significant impact within and outside the University. It is the only independent online architecture magazine in China, written in English that aims to bring Chinese architecture to an international audience.

Since its inception, MPTF has organised the Department’s speakers programme with local and international visiting architects. Students have used the opportunity to interview all speakers and post resulting articles, which has been a way to network with architects and build professional relationships for potential internships.

This magazine is a great way to enhance students’ critical skills and to develop good journalistic and English-speaking skills. We hold regular meetings to promote, train, engage, take questions and help students in this endeavour.

We are always looking for new editorial members!

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We are now moving into film, recording interviews and planning a short documentary. We will also launch round-table, filmed discussions where students debate issues facing China.

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History, Theory and Heritage History, theory and heritage are fields of expertise of increasing importance in contemporary China. In the context of profound economic and social transformation, focus on the relationship between modernisation and tradition has taken centre stage. This applies in particular to the Suzhou region, where a number of significant historical sites and artefacts are located.

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Our staff possess strong and diversified backgrounds in the history and theory of architecture and building heritage, the Department of Architecture is ideally placed to engage in studies and research on these subject matters. The history, theory and heritage research area covers a variety of fields of interest, including history and theory of architecture, urban history, landscape history, building heritage, cultural and material history, and industrial heritage.

Computational Design and Fabrication Digitally aided design and construction are key areas in which the Chinese building industry has potential for development and a need for innovation. These areas have only recently found significant recognition amongst Chinese universities.

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Strengths of the Department of Architecture's academic staff, the recent establishment of XJTLU's Research Institute on Industrial Design and 3D Printing, and emerging relationships with related local industry offer our Department an opportunity to assume a position of leadership in this field.

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Urban Ecologies To address the challenges of contemporary urban environments creative solutions are needed. This applies in particular to China, where cities currently face the challenges of enormous transformations at an unprecedented pace. Within this context, urban ecologies seeks to research the changing nature of the urbanising world; to link questions of human interactions within developing cities to the political, social and cultural and environmental discourse; to explore and critique the sustainability and liveability of contemporary urbanism.

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Being initiated by XJTLU’s Department of Architecture, the urban ecologies research platform offers a unique opportunity for inter-disciplinary and comparative approaches that consider the design and the design processes of the built environment. Urban ecologies allows for existing paradigms to be questioned, and for radically new approaches to the study of cities and their environment that take into account scientific

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and technological research as well as research in sociology, art, design and aesthetics.

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Interrelated and not exclusive, these three areas of expertise cover a wide range of interests. More than rigid research groups, they support the formation of open research platforms; they link the Department of Architecture to other departments and research institutes at XJTLU, to other Chinese universities and to professional figures outside academia; and they foster international collaborations.

A particular concern of the Department is to explore the possibility to develop a form of research that is specific to the architectural discipline: Research by Design. This is an experimental form of applied research with other less conventional research outcomes (including prototypes, projects, buildings, components, and exhibitions). In this way, the Department differentiates itself from the research work produced in the big design institutes of the major Chinese state universities by developing an experimental design activity at a small scale, with a flexible staff structure.

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2016 Publications Berstrand, T. “Arne Jacobsen.” Routledge Encyclopaedia on Modernism 2016, – https://www.rem.routledge.com.

Berstrand, T., “Peder Vilhelm Jensen-Klint.” Routledge Encyclopaedia on Modernism 2016, – https://www.rem.routledge.com.

Berstrand, T. “Jørn Utzon.” Routledge Encyclopaedia on Modernism 2016, – https://www.rem.routledge.com.

Carlin, P. 2016. "Sophie Taeuber-Arp: Today Is Tomorrow (Book Re-

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view).” Textile: The Journal of Cloth and Culture 14(1): 142-5.

Dong, Y. 2016. “Growing Industrial Heritage Conservation and Research Community”. TICCIH Bulletin 71: 5-6.

Dong, Y. 2016. “Reports on European Industrial Heritage Museum 欧洲工 业博物馆散记 ”, Metamorphosis of Old Factories, World Heritage Geogra-

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Renfer, C. and Dong, Y. (translation) 2016 “Considerations of a Swiss Monument Preservationist during a Visit to Traditional Villages in China – The Shaxi Rehabilitation Project as an Opportunity 瑞士遗产保护 工作者对中国传统村落的思考 - 从沙溪复兴工程谈起 ” , Heritage Architec-

ture,2016(2):108-119.

Croset P.-A., G. Peghin and L. Snozzi. 2016. Dialogo Sull' insegnamento Dell' architettura . Syracuse: LetteraVentidue.

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Croset, P.-A. 2016. “Kenneth Frampton: Lezioni di Autentica Modernità/ Kenneth Frampton: Lessons on Authentic Modernity.” Domus 1002: 16-19. 太湖赏石 ’ Rock in the Form of a Fantastic Mountain’, 20th Century. Taihu Limestone; Epoxy Stand.

Fischer, T. 2016. “Defaceable System MK 4 and Brent Shopping Yr 3.”

In Ranulph Glanville. Architecture | Art | Cybernetics | Design. London

Rosenblum Family Collection, Gift of Anna Rosenblum Palmer, 2011.

and The 1960S , ed. M. Ertl, W. Korn & A. Müller, 63-70. Vienna: edition echoraum.

H. (with stand) 46 in. (116.8 cm); W. 28 1/2 in. (72.4 cm); D. 20.5 in. (52.1 cm).

From The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

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Fischer, T. 2016. “In Ranulph’s Terms.” Cybernetics and Human Knowing 21, no. 1: 87-97.

Herr, C.M. 2016. “Between Contemporary and Traditional: The Ongoing Search for a Chinese Architectural Identity.” In Handbook of Cultural Industries in China , ed. M. Keane, 452-67. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing.

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Scrivano, P. and F. De Pieri. 2016. “Rappresentare il 'Centro Storico' di Bologna. Politiche di Conservazione e Reinvenzione di Un’Identità Urbana, 19651973.” In La Scoperta della Città Antica. Esperienza e Conoscenza del Centro Storico Nell’Europa del Novecento , ed. D. Cutolo and S. Pace, 163-183. Macerata: Quodlibet.

Stergiou, L. 2016. “Fabricating the Future. Progress, Global, and the Avant-garde.” New Architecture (Have We Ever Been Modern? ) 3 Xi, J. and F. Lu. 2016. “The Architectural Features and Existing Problems of Huizhou Folk Residence-Gen Xin Tang.” Journal of Anhui Polytechnic University 31, no. 3: 40-43.

Wang, H. and J. Xi. 2016. “Analysing the ‘Grey Space’ of Huizhou Traditional Residence.” Journal of Xi’an University Of Architecture & Technology (Social Science Edition) 35, no. 2: 62-6.

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Wash, G. 2016 “Silk Prosperity Reminiscences in Suzhou’s Urban Fabric.” iaSU2016, Archi-Cultural Interactions through the Silk Road, Mukogawa Women's University, Nishinomiya, Japan , 130-33.

Conference Papers Berstrand, T. 2016. “Passe-Partout, Or Five Times

around the Living Space.” 5th Derrida Today Conference , 8-11 June 2016, Goldsmiths, University Of London, United Kingdom.

Dong, Y. 2016. “Industrial Remains to Industrial Heritage - Heritage Production in Booming Cities: A Critical Analysis of Waterfront Industrial Area Conservation Process in Shanghai.” ACHS 2016-What does Heritage Change? 03-08 June, 2016. Montreal, Canada.

Han, Jiawen. “From Gated to Non-Gated Communities: Reconstructing Vital Physical and Social Street Environments in Suzhou.” The Great Asian Streets Symposium , 12-13 December 2016, Singapore, Han, Jiawen. “Suzhou as a Historical and Cultural City: Assessing the Role of the Ageing Population in Upgrading the Ancient City.” The 23rd International Seminar on Urban Form , 8-10 July 2016. Nanjing, China.

2015 Publications Croset P.-A. 2015. “The Palimpsest and the Archipelago: The ‘Danwei’ as a New Urban Project.” In Beijing Danwei: Industrial Heritage in the Contemporary City , ed. M. Bonino and F. Pieri, 178-81. Berlin: Jovis.

Fischer, T. 2015. “Circular Regeneration.” In Change Ahead: How Research and Design are Transforming Business Strategy , ed. C. Verschoor, 219-20. BIS Publishers, Amsterdam.

Fischer, T. 2015. “Wiener’s Prefiguring of a Cybernetic Design Theory.” IEEE Technology and Society Magazine 34(3): 52–9.

Fischer, T. 2015. “Designing Together.” Cybernetics

and Human Knowing 22(2-3): 131–44.

Fischer, T. 2015. “Blind Spots Obscuring Circular Causality in Design and Elsewhere.” Kybernetes 44(8-9): 1233-39.

Fischer, T. 2015. “Participation, Not Conservation: A Computing Approach to Traditional Craft.” In Emerg-

ing Experiences in Past, Present and Future of Digital Architecture. Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Computer Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia , ed. Y. Ikeda, C.M. Herr, D. Holzer, S. Kaijima, M.J. Kim and M.A. Schnabel, 499–508. Hong Kong: CAADRIA. Hidalgo, J. Á. 2015. “La Modernidad Construida con Historia. Sobre la Casa-Museo de Sir John Soane en Londres.” In Enseñanza y pensamiento , ed. Ignacio Vicens y Hualde. Buenos Aires: Diseño.

Hidalgo, J. Á. 2015. “De cuando lo inútil se vuelve esencia. Sobre el muro del Pecile en Villa Adriana.”

In Enseñanza y pensamiento , ed. Ignacio Vicens y Hualde. Buenos Aires: Diseño.

Stergiou, L. 2015. ‘Charles Esche: Guided by Anger and Hope,’ Volume , 10 October, 2015. http://volumeproject.org/volume-22-charles-esche-guided-byanger-and-hope Wash, G. and J. Tamura. 2015. “Core–Housing and Collaborative Architecture: Learning from Dandora.”

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ARCC2015, Architectural Research Centers Consortium , ed. A. Aksamija, J. Haymaker and A. Aminmansour, 363-68. Chicago: Perkins+Will.

Conference Papers Berstrand, T. 2015. “Four Times around the Living Space: or How Derrida Provided a Language for the Architect.” Jd15, Derrida and Architecture , 26-27 June 2015, The Royal Danish Academy Of Fine Arts, Schools Of Architecture, Design And Conservation, Denmark.

Han, Jiawen. “Confronting the Psychological Complexity: The Everyday Chinese Landscape in the Middle of Nowhere.” In International Conference on

East Asian Architectural Culture , 10-14 November 2015, Gwangju, Korea.

Stergiou, L. 2015, “Fabricating the Future,” What is architecture? What can architects do? International Conference , 18 – 19 May, 2015, Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, China.

Westermann, C. 2015. “Inhabitable Theories. Re-Initiated.” This Thing Called Theory, 12th International Conference of the AHRA - Architectural Humanities

Research Association , 19-21 November 2015, Leeds Beckett University, United Kingdom.

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ceedings of the DADA International Conference on Digital Architecture , 04-05 July, ed. W. Xu and W. Huang. Tongji University, Shanghai, 75–83.

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Herr, C.M. and R. Ford. 2015. “Adapting Cellular Automata as Architec-

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tural Design Tools.” In CAADRIA 2015. Emerging Experiences in the

of the 34th eCAADe Conference , 22-26 August 2016, Vol. 1, ed. H. Aulikki, T. Österlund and P, Markkanen, University of Oulu, Finland, 241-9.

Past, Present and Future of Digital Architecture, Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia , 23-26 May, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Korea, 169-78.

Spaeth, A.B, T. Dounas, and J. Kieferle. 2016. “Complexity and Simplicity

Herr, C.M. 2015. “Second-Order Cellular Automata to Support Design-

- Tensions in Teaching Computation to Large Numbers of Architecture

ing.” Kybernetes 44 (8-9): 1251-61.

Dounas, T. and A.B. Spaeth. 2016. “Ubiquitous Digital Repositories in the Design Studio - A Case study.” In Complexity & Simplicity - Proceedings

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Students.” In Complexity & Simplicity - Proceedings of the 34th eCAADe Conference , 22-26 August 2016, Vol. 1, ed. H. Aulikki, T. Österlund and P, Markkanen, University of Oulu, Finland, 229-36.

Urban Life.” In Proceedings for the 22nd International Seminar on Urban Form ISUF, 22-26 September, Sapienza University, Rome, 1991-98.

Fischer, T. and C. M. Herr. 2016. “Parametric Customisation of a 3D Concrete Printed Pavilion.” In Living Systems and Micro-Utopias: Towards Continuous Designing. Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia , 30 March – 02 April, University of Melbourne, Australia, 549-58.

Wash, G. and S. Miyazaki. 2016. “Visualizing Patterns of Occupation in the Old Pugao Village.” In Resilience and Diversity: Rethinking Asian

Architecture for the Next Generation. ISAIA2016 Proceedings for the 11th International Symposium on Architectural Interchanges in Asia , 20-23 September, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, 673-76.

Xi, J. 2016. “Evaluating the Functional Performance of Demountable Buildings.” Zhuangshi Journal 276 (4): 48-50.

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Wash, G. 2015. “‘Clustering Places’: City as Organism. New Visions for

Publications Fischer, T. and C. Herr. 2015. “Showcasing the New Choosing: A Parametric Jewellery Design and Fabrication Exhibit.” In Digital Factory: Pro-

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2016 Publications Dall' Asta, J.C. 2016. “Segni deboli, tracce permanenti.” In Infrastrutture minori nei territori dell’abbandono , ed. E. Corradi and R. Massacesi, 14556. Rome: Aracne Edizioni.

Kim, M.K., and L. Baldini. 2016. “Energy Analysis of a Decentralized Ventilation System Compared with Centralized Ventilation Systems in European Climates: Based on Review of Analyses, Energy and Buildings.” Energy and Buildings 111: 424-33.

Ren, W. and J. Xi. 2016. “The Dimensions, Development and Challenges of Effectiveness Assessment Methods for SEA in the UK.” Environmental Impact Assessment 38(2): 53-6.

Tiazzoldi, C. 2016. “Combinatorial Architecture: A methodology to engage quantitative and qualitative phenomenology in the design of urban spaces.” In «Ambiance Demain / Ambiance Tomorrow »: Proceedings of

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the International Symposium Volos , 21-24 September

Bonino, M. and P.-A. Croset. 2015. “Waterfronts:

Xi, J. and G. Zhang. 2015. “What China can Learn

International Urban Design Workshop, School of

2016, ed. N. Tixier and N. Remy, Vol. 1, University of

Regenerating the ‘Ribeira das Naus’ in Lisbon.” Shijie

Thessaly, Greece, pp. 865-72.

Jianzhu 300(6): 110-13.

from the Bilbao Effect.” Urban and Rural Development 486(3): 87-9.

Architecture & Applied Arts, Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, China, and workshop’s exhibition at E9, Redtory Art & Design Factory, Guangzhou, 11 Decem-

Xi, J. and W. Ren. 2016. “Analysing British Urban

Bonino, M., P.-A. Croset and F. De Pieri. 2015. “Pechi-

Planning Education.” Urban and Rural Development

no come Arcipelago: La Trasformazione delle Danwei

499(4): 85-7.

Industriali.” Territorio 74: 56-63.

Cimillo, M. 2015. “Efficientamento energetico (En-

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ergy efficiency upgrading).” In RE-Cycling Social

Research Experiences.” Shanghai Urban Planning

Housing , ed. M. Perricioli, 196-97. Naples: CLEAN.

versity, Liverpool, 8 September 2016

Croset P.-A. 2015. “Da Torino a Suzhou/From Turin

Kim, M.K. 2015. “Introduction of Decentralized Ventilation Systems in Buildings.” The First Inter-

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to Suzhou.” Domus 987: 34-7.

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Cimillo, M. et al. Flexibility for adaptation and resilience in architecture . IBEE conference 2016: “Achieving Excellence” Liverpool John Moores Uni-

Zhang, G. and J. Xi. 2016. “Learning from Advanced

Review (forthcoming).

Conference Papers Cui, S. and M.K. Kim. 2016. “A Feasibility Study of Trombe Wall Design in the Cold Region of China.”

The 9th International Conference on Indoor Air

Dall'Asta, J.C. 2015. “Creativity? Urban and Architectural Design Strategies for the Contemporary City.”

In Architecture for a Creative City , 92 -101. Santarcangelo Di Romagna: Maggioli Editore.

Quality Ventilation & Energy Conservation in Build-

Kim, M.K. and H. Leibundgut. 2015. “Performance of

ings , 23-26 October, Incheon Songdo, Republic of

Novel Ventilation Strategy for Capturing CO2 with

Korea.

Scheduled Occupancy Diversity and Infiltration

Kim, M.K. 2016. “Ventilation impact of outdoor CO2

Rate.” Building and Environment 89: 318-26.

concentration increase.” In The 14th international

Kim, M.K., L. Baldini, H. Leibundgut, J. A. Wurzbach-

Conference of Indoor Air Quality and Climate: In-

er and N. Piatkowski, 2015. “A Novel Ventilation

door Air, 03-08 July, Ghent, Belgium

Strategy with CO2 Capture Device and Energy Saving in Buildings.” Energy and Buildings 87: 134–41.

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Stergiou, L. 2015. ‘Athens Here and Now,’ Architects , Period C, 16:8-9.

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Tucci, F., A. Battisti, M. Cimillo, and F. Calcerano.

Bonino, M., P. Repellino, and P.-A. Croset. 2015.

2015. “Natural Ventilation and Passive Cooling for

“Learning from Places, as One of the Tasks of Urban

Energy Efficiency of Residential Buildings in Medi-

Design.” Urban Design 2, ZHU Wenyi, Tsinghua Uni-

terranean Climate.” CSE - City Safety Energy Journal

versity Press (CHN), 44-53.

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national Conference on Sustainable Buildings and Structures , 29-31 October, Suzhou, China.

Ruggiero, R.P., L. Ridolfi, M. Cimillo, N. Viviani. 2015.

IACP 2.0 (Public Housing 2.0). International Confer-

ence of Architecture Living the Future . University Federico II, Naples, CLEAN. Westermann, C. 2015. “Speculations on the Poetic City, with a Skyscraper Skyline in View and WeChat on Stand-By.” MEDIACITY 5 - Reflecting on Social

Smart Cities , 01-03 May, Plymouth, UK

Workshops Cimillo, M. et al. Flexibility for adaptation and resilience in architecture . International workshop at Sapienza University of Rome, 8 May 2016. Organised

by Northumbria University and Sapienza University, Funded by CHOBE–Councils Heads of Built Environment and British Council-Newton Fund.

Stergiou L. 2014-15. “On Ceramic Works (Urban Morphology and Spatial Dynamics)” Shipai Village

ber, 2014 - 14 January, 2015.

Westermann, C. and H. Liang. 2015. “The Potentiality of Blandness: A Journey via the East to Rethinking Interaction.” CHI'15 (ACM SIGCHI) Workshop W27: Leveraging and Integrating Eastern and Western Insights into Human Engagement Studies in HCI .

Seoul, South Korea.

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In China, there are very few studies that assess liveability at the local level. In addition, the meaning of liveability varies from area to area based on natural conditions for living, on culture, on people’s background, on social groups. In this way, the principles of liveability that have been previously concluded in Western countries may not apply in the same way in China, therefore the need to specifically assess liveability in the Chinese context.

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This study focuses on the attributes in terms of design and planning that enhance liveability on local Shanghai streets. Cases are selected based on the different physical characteristics of the streets, including historical periods of formation and traffic considerations.

A framework of objective and subjective indicators that affect liveability at the local level of analysis has been established based on an extensive literature review and on a survey with Shanghai professionals interested in liveability issues. Theoretical findings indicate that liveable streets depend on a number of qualities including: safety, a humanised environment, local economic development, a sense of belonging, social interaction and physical facilities for living. Empirical research will further investigate these concerns through engagements with local residents.

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This research problematises the understanding of liveability at the local level in urban settlements. The importance of studying urban liveability nowadays is reflected in the major differences that appear between aspirational plans and liveability outcomes in cities all over the world.

The relationship between the physical characteristics and liveability at the street level is of particular importance at this moment with the Chinese Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development announcing that gated communities will gradually open towards the street space. The outcomes of this research thus seek to assist authorities in the formulation of effective urban policies for liveable streets.

Aura Istrate, Area of Shanghai with Selected Streets for Empirical Inquiry Using Maps from Liu (2014) and http://www.icanvas.com (2016), 2016

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Qian Lin PhD Candidate Department of Architecture Xi’an Jiaotong Liverpool University (XJTLU)

Old people have their own way of life and daily activities, so it is imperative that design for the elderly community first satisfy their needs. In China there are generally three types of elderly care: institutional care; community care; and home-based care. Institutional care is operated by either governments or private agencies, and includes facilities such as nursing homes or assisted living facilities, where the elderly are housed together to receive services. Community care mainly refers to businesses that provide services to residents in their communities, including food, home maintenance, and home care, facilitating the daily life of the elderly people. It also includes the provision of recreational facilities, such as card rooms, dancing rooms, and sports halls, where they can enjoy leisure time together. And finally home-based care generally means that elderly people live at home with their children. Given Chinese culture and customs, most Chinese people prefer home-based care, however this option is becoming increasingly less plausible. As such, this research seeks to propose ideal models of community housing which will cater for the elderly community in Suzhou.

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With the population of elderly people increasing, ageing is becoming an important social issue in China. The “One Child Policy” of 1980s limited the number of children born and has resulted in a 4-2-1 structural morphology across three generations with a nuclear family typically defined by 4 grandparents, a couple, and one child. Due to the pressure from contemporary fast-paced life and increased opportunities, the younger generation born in the 1980s and 1990s no longer live a traditional way of life. Regardless of whether they choose to marry late, or establish a Dink family, their lifestyles are contributing to an increased elderly demographic. According to statistics, by 2030 the elderly population of China will reach 400 million, surpassing that of Japan. And by then China will have the highest level of ageing in the world. But currently, design for the elderly community in China is still relatively backward, which may hardly keep pace with the demand of ever-growing population of the elderly.

Senior Citizens across China celebrating the Chongyang Festival, China's day for the elderly, 9 October 2016. Source: http://news.xinhuanet.com/

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Quanqing Lu PhD Candidate Department of Architecture Xi’an Jiaotong Liverpool University (XJTLU)

My research aims to understand how Suzhou’s urban form was transformed during the Socialist period. It spans from the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949 to 1982 when planning and practices of urban conservation were first initiated with the announcement of the national law for conservation, with Suzhou then identified then as one of the nation’s historic and cultural cities. Current research and literature on urban form in Suzhou indicates, however, that this period has been less discussed and there is a significant lack of information on the city’s urban history.

Focusing on social factors that contributed to changes in urban form, surveys of Socialist urban planning and associated ideologies have been undertaken, these forming the basis of a literature review. Forthcoming research will consider the social factors that might have contributed to the preservation of urban form prior to the instigation of the national law, that is, unsanctioned practices that were executed in the absence of a planning authority. Research will then take into account the dynamic between the promotion of change and the advocacy for preservation that were at play, with a focus on the interactions and contradictions they created.

Research case studies have been identified and are based on a number of different key focus points. The first considers the Xiang Men Area in Ping Jiang District, the only remaining large empty space in the historic city of Suzhou, which has witnessed significant industrialisation over the past 60 years, including: the tearing down of the city wall for the use of its materials in the construction of nearby industrial sites; the transformation of courtyard houses into small manufacturing workshops; the filling in of canals in order to create more space for industrial sites; and, the relocation of industrial sites in order to improve the city’s urban landscape and natural environment.

The second case study focuses on Ren Min Road, the main axis through the historic city, which is one of the most important sites of construction undertaken during Socialist era. Following its enlargement and reconstruction, which included the installation of 2 new bridges and a new city gate, Nan Men Gate, Renmin Road connected Suzhou Railway Station with the Nan Men area, which was a site of heavy industry during the period of Japanese colonisation.

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'OUTSTANDING EDUCATOR OF SUZHOU OF THE YEAR 20152016' AWARD

Aleksandra Raonić, a lecturer in the Department of Architecture, XJTLU was honoured to receive the Outstanding Educator of Suzhou for the year 2015-2016 Award from the local government.

Aleksandra is an accomplished architect and a passionate teacher. Her work as an educator is informed as much by her experience in design practice as it is by her research on the overlapping aspects of design education, design practice and design research.

In her teaching, Aleksandra emphasises that architecture relates much more to the shape of social life, the shape of culture, of human relationships, of resilient nature, than to the ‘shape of an object’. Rather than exposing students to a specific formal language in architecture, she challenges them to reflect upon the intricate network of relationships within a given context and also about new possible roles for an architect within it.

This is not always easy, and requires sensitivity and openness to a variety of viewpoints and approaches. Consequently, Aleksandra works with a great diversity of methods including the application of a computational logic in an analogue design setting, media shifts that provoke exploratory design thinking, various model making techniques, and explorations of different material properties. With her pedagogic creativity, and her ability to initiate innovation, she encourages students to embrace a culture of risk and experimentation as the basis of innovation in design practice.

Aleksandra contends that teaching and learning cannot be based on the imposition of static knowledge, rather it is a collaborative process in which the teacher is a co-learner herself. Likewise, a school of architecture should operate as a unique platform for creativity, experimentation and exploration that allows the discipline to go beyond what is expected of it, in order to transform and redefine itself, to find new ways and forms of professional, creative, technical, and ethical practice, which is in conversation with a continuously changing society.

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We are very happy that the local government of Suzhou has decided to reward our lecturer in her commitment to the education of new generations of architects to come.

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The Department of Architecture at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University awarded the inaugural BDP-Farrell prize to Year Four student Chenxing Sun, for his final year studio work.

Named after Ed Farrell, the first academic member of staff to join the department in 2011, and sponsored by UK architecture practice BDP, the prize recognises the undergraduate architecture student with the best studio performance in the final year. Studio modules allow students to apply the skills they have learnt throughout their degree to practical projects, with two studio modules featuring in the fourth year.

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Chenxing was presented with his award at a ceremony held in the XJTLU Museum, during the University’s graduation week. Three other students were awarded joint second place: Marcus Rigon, Yanzhe Zhang and Jie You. The award is a gift of Professor André Brown, Vice President for Academic Affairs at XJTLU. Originally involved in setting up the department at XJTLU, Professor Brown invited BDP, the architecture practice who designed XJTLU’s newly-opened South Campus, to be a sponsor, thus establishing the award.

BDP have close links with the Department of Architecture at XJTLU, with Wang Tao, one of the principal designers of the South Campus, lecturing for a number of years in the architecture programme’s professional practice module.

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LIU ZIHAN 刘子涵 SUN CHENXING 孙晨星 SUN QIUJIE 孙秋洁 GONG JIAMING 巩佳鸣 ZHANG HUANQI 张欢奇 HAN YUXI 韩雨 希 LI JIAYI 李佳忆 YANG ZHENYUAN 杨振源 ZHANG YANZHE 张艳喆 LIAO LONGTAI 廖隆泰 LI ZHAOHAN 李兆晗 BIAN ZHIFAN 卞之凡 SUN FENGZHU 孙凤翥 WANG WEIPING 王蔚屏 SUN XIAO 孙潇 LINARDI FELIX LUO BAOMING 罗宝明 SONG ZENING

宋 泽 宁 ZHOU XIAOCHEN 周 啸 尘 WANG XIANGLONG 王 湘 龙 MA YUNJIA 马 韵 佳 FENG LU 冯 璐 ZHU RUNZI 朱 润 资 WANG AOLI 王傲立 WANG JIEYU 王婕妤 YOU JIAYI 尤珈仪 TANG LANKE 唐蓝珂 DENG YUSHENG 邓禹晟 CHEN YUKUN 陈玉坤 ZHOU

RUIDI 周睿迪 JIANG HAO 姜浩 SHEN JIALIANG 沈佳梁 DING XIAO 丁笑 SHAO FUWEI 邵富伟 ZENG JIACHENG 曾嘉诚 ZHAO

PhD, University of California, Berkeley

Thessaloniki (GR)

(USA)

Chartered Architect (GR)

MArch, University of California,

Dipl. Arch., Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Switzerland) Registered Architect (CH and IT)

江琳 WANG WEIWEI 王惟惟 ZHANG JIAQI 张家启 LIU BOWEI 刘博巍 WEI ZHENG 魏铮 YU WEIJIE 余蔚洁 ZHENG XIN 郑昕 SUI

Construction and Architecture (UA)

WANG XIAOYUAN 王小元 ZHANG YINGQI 张英琦 WU HAO 吴昊 YANG SHIHAO 杨世豪 WANG SHUANGYI 王爽懿 SHI HAOYU 石 浩宇 WEI ZHUO 魏卓 ZHANG JINQIAO 张近桥 QIN YUANYUAN 秦源苑 LIN SHU NUNG 林书侬 KHINE KHIN KISTAMAH RYAN ANTHONY CINDY 张欣妮 TEN STANISLAV RIGON MARCUS HE JING 何婧 WEI SUZHEN 韦苏真 YANG CHAOHUI 杨朝晖 LUO Department of Architecture

Andrew Johnston (until 02/2016)

Dipl Eng Arch, Aristotle University of

Ganna Andrianova

YINGDA 隋英达 KANG WENZHAO 康文钊 QIAN SHIYU 钱时宇 HU SHIXIN 胡世欣 DU HANXI 杜涵茜 ZHANG CHENKE 张晨珂

Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University

Theodoros Dounas

Head of Department

YUANXIN 赵元新 KUANG WEI 况蔚 CHENG JIE 程婕 SHEN XIAOYA 沈筱雅 ZHANG XU 张旭 ZHU JIRUI 朱吉锐 LI JIAXU 李家旭 CHEN ZHAOYUAN 陈昭元 ZOU WEI 邹伟 ZHANG WEN 张雯 ZHOU LINCHENG 周麟丞 LI SHAOKANG 李少康 QIAN JIANGLIN 钱

FANGZHOU 罗方舟 LI XINRAN 李欣然 LI ZEYU 李泽宇 ZHANG HONGRU 张洪儒 WANG ZIYU 王子玉 ZHAO XIAOSHU 赵小舒

CUI HAOCHEN 崔昊宸 LV XIAOHUI 吕晓慧 FENG XUEYAN 冯雪妍 WU DANYANG 吴丹阳 WANG ZHE 王喆 WANG JIAPENG 王佳 鹏 WANG JIANXUAN 王建轩 ZHOU YILIN 周依林 SUN ZHIWEI 孙志伟 WU XIN 邬欣 XIA JIANQIANG 夏坚强 XU ZHENHAO 许真

豪 LI JINGHONG 李静虹 ZHAO KUN 赵琨 QIAO JIATUN 乔稼屯 XU DUO 许多 ZHANG SHIYUN 章诗韵 YUN JIAXIN 恽佳欣 CAO SHAN 曹珊 JIANG YAXIN 姜亚昕 LI RUI 李睿 WU JUNHAO 吴君豪 YI JIE 伊婕 ZHOU JIAN 周简 HUA ZHEN 华真 TONG DA 童

达 WANG XIN 汪昕 WANG XINDI 王心迪 SHI JIAJING 石嘉靖 ZHOU JIER 周吉尔 LIN HUADONG 林华栋 SU CHEN 苏晨 HUANG

YUDI 黄雨笛 PAN HONGYU 潘鸿瑜 ZHENG JINRI 郑金日 RAN YULIN 冉煜麟 TU OULI 涂欧犁 WU ZHUOYING 吴卓颖 LI SIZHOU 李四周 WANG SHIWEN 王诗雯 XU YILE 徐乙乐 YANG ZHUXUAN 杨竹萱 WANG LIU 王柳 ZHU SIWEI 朱思为 LIN JINGYING 林婧

PhD, Odessa State Academy of MArch, Odessa State Academy of Construction and Architecture (UA) BArch, Odessa State Academy of Construction and Architecture (UA)

WENFEI 康雯菲 GAO ZHENLIANG 高臻良 LI YANGKENAN 李阳柯楠 XU MINGYANG 徐铭阳 YANG YIMING 杨艺鸣 ZHANG XINYU

张馨予 CONG XINYUE 丛新越 LIANG KUN 梁坤 BAI YUXIN 白雨馨 QIN LANG 秦朗 DEI GABRIELLA GRATIA WIRJANA MICHELLE NATASHA TJANDRA RICKY GRETCHENKO ULIANA DHARMA MULYONO JOSHUA BRYAN SEEWOO NIKHIL KOROMILA EIRINI

LYLE HENRY JACK COWAN CHAN SZE WING CHLOE SAANTHAKUMAR SHANKAR ROBERTSON ANDREW OVSIUKAS ANDRIUS TSHOMO NAMGAY YANGZOM TSHERING

Studies, University College London (UK) BArch, University College, Dublin (IE)

Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH

Thomas Fischer

MEd equiv., University of Kassel (D)

Catalunya, Barcelona (ES)

M.Sc, Architectural History, The (UK) M.Arch, Architecture, The Royal

Bert de Muynck M.Arch, Architectural Engineering, Catholic University of Leuven, Faculty

Planner (USA)

Ph.D., Architecture, Swiss Federal

Dipl Arch Universitat Politècnica de

Kent (UK)

Registered Architect and Certified

Specialist Conservation Architect (UK)

PhD, University of Kassel (D)

Ph.D., in Architecture, University of

BA, Hampshire College (USA)

Moon Keun Kim

Madrid (ES)

Tordis Berstrand

MSUD, Pratt Institute (USA)

RIBA Chartered Architect and

Technology University (AUS)

XINYU 马鑫钰 WANG CHENGCHENG 王程程 DING YAXIN 丁雅欣 YE ZIWEI 叶紫薇 ZOU YINA 邹依娜 HAO SHUYI 郝姝仪 LI YU-

AN 樊子瑄 LI TONGXI 李彤曦 ZHAI HUIHONG 翟珲宏 DU JINGWEI 杜经纬 ZHANG HOUZHE 张厚哲 HUANG YIFEI 黄逸飞 KANG

MSc, Bartlett School of Graduate

PhD Universidad Politécnica de

Danish Academy of Fine Arts (DK)

ZHE 李宇喆 QI YUE 亓越 SUN YITENG 孙一腾 LIU XINPING 刘心平 QI XIAOZHI 齐啸之 TIAN ZHAOXI 田兆犀 WANG DUCHENG

Edward Farrell

PhD, Royal Melbourne Institute of

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LI ZHUOJUN 李卓君 YAN TIANHAO 晏天浩 YU JIAYU 于佳玉 XU XINYU 徐新宇 JIN ZHUORAN 金卓冉 ZHOU YINUO 周宜诺 MA

Berkeley (USA)

José Ángel Hidalgo Arellano

Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL

王渡程 WANG YUCHEN 王雨晨 HUANG YAOXIAN 黄耀贤 LIU BINGQI 刘炳圻 WU YIYANG 吴艺扬 YANG XINYI 杨馨诒 FAN ZIXU-

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Pierre Alain Croset

Christian Gänshirt PhD, Brandenburg University of Technology (D) Dipl-Ing Arch, Universität Fridericiana zu Karlsruhe (D) Licensed and registered Architect, Berlin Chamber of Architects (D)

Jiawen Han

Zurich) M.Sc, Architectural Engineering, Pennsylvania State University at University Park (USA) M.Sc, Engineering Acoustics, Technical University of Denmark (DK) M.Sc, Architecture, Yonsei University (ROK)

Marian Macken PhD, University of Sydney (AUS) MArch, University of Technology Sydney (AUS) BLArch, University of New South Wales (AUS) BSc (Arch), University of Sydney (AUS)

Ph.D., Architecture, University of New South Wales (AUS) M.Arch, Dalian University of

Aleksandra Raonic PhD Candidate, Universitat

of Architecture (BE)

Technology (CN)

Yiping Dong

Christiane M. Herr

PhD, Tongji University (CN)

PhD, University of Hong Kong (HK)

Bildende Künste, Frankfurt (D)

MArch, Tongji University (CN)

MArch, University of Hong Kong (HK)

Dipl.-Ing. Arch., University of Belgrade

BArch, Tongji University (CN)

Dipl-Ing Arch, University of Kassel (D)

(RS)

Internacional de Catalunya, Barcelona, 2015 - (ES) M.Arch, Staatliche Hochschule für

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Austin Williams

PhD, Politecnico di Torino (IT) Dipl. Arch., Politecnico di Torino (IT)

Dipl Arch, Birmingham Polytechnic (UK) BSc(Hons), Bartlett School of

Founded in 2011, the Department of Architecture at

Architecture, University College

Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (XJTLU) is part

Lina Stergiou

London (UK)

of a young Sino-British university situated in Suzhou,

Ph.D., Faculty of Art, Design & Architecture, Kingston University, London (UK) M.Arch, Post-professional, Graduate School of Architecture and Urban Design, Pratt Institute, New York (USA) Diploma (Dipl.-Ing.), Professional, School of Architecture, National Technical University of Athens (GR)

Chartered Architect RIBA (UK)

a city which falls within the greater Shanghai area.

Caterina Tiazzoldi

Marta Gomez Anaya

PhD, Architecture, Politecnico di Torino (IT) M.Sc, GSAPP Columbia University, Advanced Master, Architecture (US)

Li-An Tsien ISACF-La Cambre, Diplôme de Candidat Architecte (BE) ISACF-La Cambre, Diplôme d'Architecte (BE)

Glen Wash PhD, University of Tokyo (JP) MEng, University of Tokyo (JP) Dipl Arch, Catholic University of Valparaiso (CL) Licensed Architect (CL)

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PhD, University of Plymouth (UK) Pgr Dipl Media Art, Karlsruhe University of Art and Design (D) Dipl-Ing Arch, University of Karlsruhe, TH (D) Chartered Architect (D)

Part-time Tutors Hannan Bensho Antonio Berton Joan Cane Ting-Ting Dong Paul Ebell Alexandre Edouard Emmanuel Gilot

With construction of the university’s new South Campus underway, in 2016, the Department moved

tives in architectural and urban design, offering new views on the local context as well as on global issues.

ernisation, the Department is particularly aware of its responsibility in educating a new generation of

Set in China, but closely connected with the University of Liverpool and the UK framework of

Liang Ma

tion. The fostering of the students’ critical thinking

Bart Mahieu

skills is an important and distinctive characteristic

Lili Chen, Department Secretary

West, and seeks to provide the best of both perspec-

facilities of the highest international standards.

to offer a new global model of architectural educa-

Administrator

er traditions and opportunities from the East and the

As China continues to undergo processes of mod-

Justin Johnston

Jiaqi Fu, Built Environment

tecture at XJTLU is unique in China. It brings togeth-

the Department of Industrial Design, the building’s

architectural education, the Department’s aim is

Supporting staff

international make-up of the Department of Archi-

into its new Design Building which it shares with

Harry den Hartog

Li-An Tsien

tice and research in more than twenty countries, the

of its Bachelor, Master and PhD programmes. In an environment that is fast-changing, the Department seeks to educate students in order to enable them to take advantage of arising opportunities. This includes the possibility of working as a “liberal professional,”

Xiru Ma, Department Secretary

which has only recently become an option in China,

Jian Chen, Lab Technician

and offers new ways of practicing architecture for

Chen Sun, Lab Technician

current and future generations of architects.

As a relatively new and uniquely positioned architecture school, the Department thus affirms and advances the merits of architectural education as vital to developing critical thinking skills for the longerterm future.

architects who face enormous challenges. There is an emerging interest in topics such as the environment, building tectonics, cultural heritage, and user-centred design, as well as growing recognition of the necessity to reinvest in the extant built environment through urban regeneration and the refurbishment of existing building stock.

These issues and concerns are viewed by the Department as a challenge and as an opportunity, and it responds through its focus on new human-centred approaches to learning, practicing and researching architectural design, in order to nurture attitudes that will prove valuable in the future. For there is a need – not only in China – for Architects who are critical thinkers and highly qualified professionals.

Both the undergraduate and the postgraduate programmes centre on applied architectural design studio modules (50%), which are supported by a balanced mix of humanities-based and technical modules (25% each).

Department Identity and Vision With a faculty that contributes experiences in prac-

The Department’s research concentrates on three headline research areas:

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● History, Theory and Heritage offers connections with Suzhou and other heritage sites in China, addressing, in particular, questions pertaining to multiculturalism and trans-nationalism.

Recent exceptional areas of activity

● Computational Design and Fabrication develops partnerships with innovative high-tech industries in the context of Suzhou Industrial Park (SIP), with research in the processes of design and professional practice key areas of interest.

2015, a first for a Chinese university.

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● Urban Ecologies engages with the changing nature of global urbanisation, with a focus on radically new approaches to the study of cities and their environment that are informed by research in science, technology and sustainable construction, as well as by studies in sociology, art, design, and aesthetics.

The Department is also committed to Research by Design, an experimental form of research that is

● International validation of the BEng(Hons) Architecture programme at Part 1 level by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) in February

● Award of candidate course status to the Master of Architectural Design programme by RIBA in December 2016, also a first for a Chinese University.

● Excellent profile of an international faculty with experience in practice and research in more than 20 countries directly supporting undergraduate and

● MArchDes programme: connection with XJTLU’s

Sites) and an extremely dynamic new city, now the

Master programmes in Urban Planning and Urban

fourth largest concentration of economic activity in

Design (with the Urban Planning and Design Depart-

China in terms of GDP.

ment) in year one creates unique possibilities for

● Unique offering of undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in English in China, taught by international educators.

● Location of the Department in a new building, shared with the Department of Industrial Design, with a strong architectural identity, offering an ideal

● Excellent building resources supporting a vibrant studio culture, with dedicated spaces for design stumaterials library.

showcase for its staff and students in spaces with a

increase of international students.

projects, buildings, components, and exhibitions.

To this end, the Design Research Centre has been

within the framework of XJTLU’s Summer Under-

established to facilitate small-scale pilot projects. It

graduate Fellowships (SURF), positively impacting

has a flexible staff structure, and involves a number

the programmes’ development.

competences in architectural design, planning, and

● Establishment of the first online architectural magazine in English in China, Masterplanning

construction.

the Future (MPTF), which is student-led and has a

fessional architects who will contribute their specific

Academic Agenda The following key points are based on staff views, student feedback, internal University reports, and external reports by examiners and professional bodies:

participating.

Individuality of the learning environment in the Chinese context ● Positioned in Suzhou, both a heritage city (classi-

beyond; lecture courses and coursework are related to contemporary issues and current concerns.

● Practicing architects in Suzhou and Shanghai and present guest lectures, lead site visits, and offer internships for students.

● Establishment of a Design Research Centre which seeks to actively involve staff, students and local

● Initiatives such as international workshops, student competitions, and, summer research projects

of permanent faculty members, along with local pro-

real-world problems and necessities in China and

dios, reviews, and physical modelling, as well as for a

● Recruitment of students from amongst the top 5% of Chinese high school graduates, and a progressive

conventional research outcomes, such as prototypes,

Relevance to professional practice

contribute as part-time tutors and visiting critics,

particular character.

specific to the architectural discipline, with less

interdisciplinary design research.

● Design studio themes are strongly connected with ● Excellent resources on a new campus, open to the vibrant life of one of China's flagship development projects, the Suzhou Industrial Park (SIP), within which the University and more than 100 Fortune 500 companies operate, offering a high quality of life.

postgraduate learning.

continuously growing number of students actively

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cal gardens recognised as UNESCO World Heritage

practicing architects in the development of pilot projects.

● Graduates work in top architectural offices, and

Differences between Bachelor and Master degrees

assist in strengthening the connections of the De-

● BEng programme: provides a clear sequence of design studios with the gradual introduction of ideas

Creative criteria delivering course content

partment to local practice.

and skills, with a focus on the attainment of personal

● Innovative learning environment that fosters

and professional confidence in order to take advan-

independent, creative and responsible designers with

tage of practice experience.

a thoughtful, research-led and imaginative approach

● MArchDes programme: fosters student autonomy and responsibility in pursuing individual interests in view of future professional career development opportunities, with the second year framed as a “research by design” year.

to place-making.

● Close collaboration with the two other Departments of the Built Environment Cluster (Urban Planning & Design and Civil Engineering), as well as with the Department of Industrial Design (with

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shared facilities in the new Design Building), developing a culture of teamwork and a multidisciplinary approach to design.

● Flexible programme design, with the active participation of a dynamic faculty, delivering responsive, changing projects that complement and extend core learning whilst still maintaining criteria fulfilling content.