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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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of Architecture, produced in an effort to bring together,
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The 2017-18 YEARBOOK is a publication by the Department
2017-2018 YEARBOOK
2017-18 YEARBOOK has benefitted enormously from the generous advice and input of Gisela Loehlein and Peta Carlin, along with support from Yurui Li, Xinping Jiang, Zhaoyuan Lin and Mingyu Wang. The YEARBOOK was designed by Designtang.
© 2018 Department of Architecture, XJTLU Edited by Jing Yang Building DB 111 Ren’ai Road SIP Dushu Lake Science and Education Innovation District Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, P. R. China 215123 www.xjtlu.edu.cn
Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Department of Architecture
CONTENTS
005 Introduction
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B Eng Architecture Programme Introduction
Level 00 Year 1 013 ARC001 Introduction to Architecture and Visual Culture 015 ARC002 Architectural Representation and Communication
Level 01 Year 2 019 ARC107 021 ARC110 023 ARC103
History of Western Architecture Humanities in Architecture Introduction to Environmental Science 025 ARC104 Structures and Materials 027 ARC108 Construction and Materials 033 ARC101 Design Studio | Design Thinking and Articulation 047 ARC105 Design Studio | Small Space Design 061 ARC102 Design Studio | Rediscovery of Learning for the Elderly
Level 02 Year 3 077 ARC203 History of Asian Architecture 079 ARC206 Urban Studies 081 ARC201 Environmental Design and Sustainability 083 ARC202 Structural Design 085 ARC205 Design Studio | Design and Building Typology
097 ARC204 Design Studio | Small Urban Buildings
Level 03 Year 4 113 115 117 119 121
ARC301 ARC303 ARC306 ARC308 ARC305
Architectural Technology Architectural Theory Professional Practice Philosophy of Art and Aesthetics Design Studio | Small and Medium Scale Buildings 133 ARC304 Design Studio | Final Year Project
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B Eng Architectural Engineering Programme Introduction
171 ARC111 173 ARC112
Integrated Design of Small Buildings Architectural Technology and Innovation 175 ARC207 Building Typology in Integrated Architectural Design
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Practice Introduction
Practice Year 1
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Master of Architectural Design Programme Introduction
Level 04 Year 1 191 193 195 197
ARC403 ARC407 ARC402 ARC406
Applied Technology in Architecture Architectural Theory and Criticism Advanced Professional Practice Topics in Architectural History: Modern Architecture as a Transnational Discourse 199 ARC405 Design Studio 1 | A Soft Urban Regeneration in Suzhou 209 ARC404 Design Studio 2 | 2042–Networked Urban Towers 221 ALA Additional Learning Activities
Level 04 Year 2 225 ARC409 Architectural Design and Research Methods 227 ARC411 Practice Based Enquiry and Architectural Representation 229 ARC408 Thesis 231 ARC413/ARC410 Design Studio 3+4
Practice Year 2 255 RIBA PART 3 MEAP Access Course
O Other Activities 259 Creative emergencies - International Workshop XJTLU – University of Tokyo 261 Lecture Series Fall 2017
263 International Architecture Conference and Exhibition 265 International Architecture Exhibition Mecanoo Architecten 267 Rotterdam New Waterfront - Mecanoo International Workshop 269 Exhibition: Bruno Taut’s Hyuga Villa in Atami, West of Japan / East of Europe 271 Research workshop “Mapping Architectural Criticism in China” 273 Cardboard Shelters 275 MArchDes Students Win 3rd Prize in CTBUH Student Design Competition 277 Students Present Design Proposals at Footbridge2017 International Conference 279 Freestyle Bridge Design Competition 281 Materials Library 283 Research Workshop - “Smart/Eco Cities and Distributed Renewable Energy Systems in China and in the Uk” 285 Multiple Awards for Outstanding Final Year Projects 287 BDP-Farrell Prize
R Research 292 Research Outputs 2017-2018 295 PhD Candidates 309 311 313 326
Students Academic Staff Alumni Academic Position Statement
INTRODUCTION
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2017-2018 YEARBOOK
Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
Department of Architecture
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建筑系
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This yearbook is a testimony to the achievements of students and academics in the undergraduate and postgraduate courses of the Architecture Department at XJTLU. The undergraduate cohort clearly demonstrates a dynamic, analytical approach to architecture with a strong sense of social and cultural sensitivity that is exhibited in the diverse modules recorded within this publication. The postgraduate cohort explored design challenges in depth and pursued the architectural design opportunities these offer with a relentless rigour and clear passion for architecture. XJTLU architecture students have a remarkable drive and unique approach that is clearly reflected in the student works captured in this yearbook, yet it merely presents a snapshot of the incredible work that our students and colleagues do. The international workshop by MECANOO held in Spring 2018, led by Nuno Fontarra, was attended by Bachelor and Master students. Students developed self-motivated and diverse design solutions to the given design challenge of an urban intervention in Rotterdam port. It is great to see that some of these initial ideas from the workshop continued into the design studio of the following semester. The BEng Architecture Programme is the powerhouse of our Department, attracting the largest student cohort. The work is explorative, vibrant, and holistic in its approach, demonstrating both the strength of modules taught as well as the skills and abilities that our students attain during their tenure at the Department. The Master in Architectural Design Programme received RIBA Part 2 validation and I would
like to thank all staff members and students for this achievement. This makes the Architecture Department at XJTLU the only one in mainland China that offers RIBA Part 1+2 validated degree programmes. In addition, we offered for the first time in mainland China RIBA Part 3 preparatory courses. This is 100 years after The University of Liverpool first offered these courses in the U.K. We are very pleased that we managed to achieve this milestone. Two of our staff members received teaching awards, and our students won diverse national and international competitions once again this year. We are very proud to have such an active architectural educational environment that is conducive to such achievements. The Department’s PhD candidate cohort is growing to currently 8 students, which form the nucleus of a young, proactive, vibrant research community that firmly positions itself in between eastern and western schools of thought. Our staff are actively engaged in fostering this research momentum by organizing a series of interactive workshops and symposia, through their own research, and through participation in forums and conferences nationally and internationally. Three of our academic staff published books this year in association with well renowned publishing houses, a further testimony of the research strength and research momentum we are currently gaining. Our international student intake numbers are rising across the undergraduate and postgraduate cohort, evidence of the Architecture Department’s success and growing recognition within the world of architecture.
This year has seen the transfer of Department Head from Professor Pierre Alain Croset, who left us to return to Italy to continue on in his academic work. We are grateful for the focus and rigour he provided in developing the building and the Department with a cultural focus. It is an honor for me to lead the Department into its next stage of development, which aims to become recognised as a top internationally renowned Architecture School. I take this opportunity to thank all colleagues for their support in the transition phase and I look forward to the dynamic drive and synergy of the students and colleagues that will enable the next stage to come into being.
Professor Gisela Loehlein Head of Department of Architecture
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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 yearold 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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Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
Department of Architecture
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 humanitiesbased 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 2017-2018 Programme Director
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LEVEL 00
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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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ARC001
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Introduction to Architecture and Visual Culture
建筑系
Jiayi Yang
西交利物浦大学
Level 0 ( Year 1 | Semester 1 ) Module Credits 2.5 Module Leader Martin Fischbach Wei Li
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Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
Department of Architecture
Shuling Sun
Xinci Lin
Teaching Team Pierre-Alain Croset Kwok On Philip Fung Yongpeng Liu Paco Mejias Villatoro Sofia Quiroga Fernandez Yiwen Zhang Chengcheng Li (L.C.) Ann Brantingham (L.C.) Xiucai Lu (L.C.) Jiaci Chen (T.A.) Number of Students 402
Zhujun Zhao
Wanting Shen
This module is a general overview of various forms of graphic expression in art, architecture, landscape and design. It provides a visual and cultural basis for the understanding, analysis and presentation of the relationships between space, structure, form and visual composition. Focusing on graphic and spatial thinking, this module aims to introduce students to architectural imagination and visualization through lecture and course-based work, including a wide range of activities. A series of graphic and plastic experiments combine to form a structural entity, and lay the basis for the understanding, analysis and representation of architecture and visual culture. This module provides both theory and practice. The lectures present various form of visual arts related to architecture, outstanding works from artists and architects, and information to experiment with different media. The seminar time gives the opportunity to use different techniques: freehand sketching, conic perspective, axonometric, drawing rendering with black ink and watercolor, collage materials, photography, photomontage, digital manipulation and modelling. Each task brings the student a step closer in the methods and principles (both pragmatic and poetic) to visualize the spatial experience through two- and three-dimensional representational techniques. Basic architectural concepts are used through a gradual sequence of exercises, culminating in a three-dimensional proposal. Introduction to Architecture and Visual Culture aims to awaken the students’ creative abilities, develop latent aptitudes, and encourage their interest for architecture by introducing ways of seeing and analyzing, ways of making and exploring, and ways of communicating.
Level 00 – Year 1 B Eng Architecture Programme
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ARC002
Kexin Qian
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Architectural Representation and Communication
建筑系
Yuyin Xiao
西交利物浦大学
Level 0 ( Year 1 | Semester 2 ) Module Credits 5 Module Leader Philip Fung
Department of Architecture
Teaching Team Martin Fischbach Christian Gänshirt Caterina Tiazzoldi Junjie Xi Florence Vannoorbeeck Kevin Sun
Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
Language Tutor Peiling Xing Number of Students 196
Focusing on graphic and spatial thinking, this module aims to introduce students to architectural thinking and visualisation through lectures and course-based work, including a series of activities, progressing through sketching, drawing, collage, photography, reports, photomontage, digital manipulation and modelling. Each task brings the student a step closer in the methods and principles (both pragmatic and poetic) to visualise the spatial experience through two- and three-dimensional representational techniques. Basic architectural concepts are used through a gradual sequence of exercises, culminating in a three-dimensional proposal. A series of graphic and material experiments combine to form a structural entity, and lay the basis for the understanding, analysis and representation of architecture and communication. This module is organised in three parts: The first part, From Image to Object, consists of analysing, redrawing and interpreting an Image in two dimensions in order to create a threedimensional Object. The second part, Architectural Analysis: Representation & Communication, invites students to do complete research on an architectural building by synthesising the relevant theoretical texts and redrawing the building from the collected graphic documents. The third part, From Object to Space, explores graphically and spatially the potential of the previously produced object in order to adapt it and transform it into an architectural and urban proposal, a house in a block. In this part, many tools of representation and communication are used.
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Architectural representation and communication aims to awaken the students’ creative abilities, to develop latent aptitudes, and to encourage their curiosity for architecture by focusing on three particular aspects in a logical progression: observing to interpret, representing to learn, and transforming to communicate.
Zhizheng Li
Level 00 – Year 1 B Eng Architecture Programme
LEVEL 01
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Department of Architecture
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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 Structures 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
西交利物浦大学
Level 1 ( Year 2 | Semester 1 ) Module Credits 5 Module Leader Paolo Scrivano
Department of Architecture
Teaching Team Paolo Scrivano Junjie Xi Jonathan Ford (LC)
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Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
Number of Students 225
This module, focussed on Western Architecture from ancient times to the 21st century. The aim was to introduce students to the history of architecture and to engage them in a critical reading of buildings and urban settings. Buildings, cityscapes, plans, and drawings were used to illustrate how architecture reflects the culture of specific geographical locations in diverse historical moments. In addition, architectural artifacts were analyzed from different perspectives (social, cultural, economic, institutional, etc.) with the goal of helping students acquire skills in understanding the built environment and develop a critical attitude towards architectural projects of the past, the present and the future. The module was organized through lectures and readings, but also included drawing and written exercises meant to initiate students to the analysis and interpretation of architectural examples, in the expectation that the familiarity with architectural history will foster future design thinking. A short research essay required students to conduct independent research and discuss a specific building or urban setting. Some sessions were delivered by a Language Centre tutor who assisted students with language/study skills requirements. Moreover, students were provided with online language/study skills support to help engaging with the module’s content. During the term, students participated in a field trip to Shanghai to analyze a select building on the Bund: the outcome of this exercise was a poster that included text, photographs, and drawings (plans, volumes, elevations, and architectural details).
Sassoon House
Level 01 – Year 2 B Eng Architecture Programme
ARC110
021
022
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Humanities in Architecture
西交利物浦大学
Level 1 ( Year 2 | Semester 2 ) Module Credits 2.5 Teaching Team Glen Wash Ivanovic (module leader) Jing Yang
Department of Architecture
Number of Students 225
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 through subjects crucially connected to the humanities, including social sciences, geography, sociology, anthropology and history. In this version of the module students had three routes in Suzhou available for them to explore. Students had to undertake three different research projects in their selected route. In their first project they worked in groups of four to five students, later progressing to individual exercises. Each project familiarised students with specific theories and methodologies that they had to apply in their chosen route. The work was recorded in a module report, a log book which documented the student's work and their reflections of it.
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Humanities in Architecture introduces students to architecture and the built environment as a broadly humanistic concern, and supports their future studio work by presenting them theories and methods on the relationship between humans and place. The module aims not only to give students more analytical approaches to architecture and design, but also to emphasise the relationship between architecture, people, and society.
Sample images of the work produced by students during the module.
Level 01 – Year 2 B Eng Architecture Programme
ARC103
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建筑系
Introduction to Environmental Science
西交利物浦大学
Level 1 ( Year 2 | Semester 2 ) Module Credits 5 Module Leader Moon Keun Kim
Department of Architecture
Number of Students 220
Introducing undergraduate students to the principles of environmental science in buildings, this module focuses on the quantitative aspect of building science where students learn fundamental thermodynamics and building physics essential to the understanding of building energy performance and urban environmental impact. 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; 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.
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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. 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 as low carbon building design strategies and the impact of building energy consumption on climate change and global warming.
Trends in the different drivers for global heating and cooling thermal energy
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consumption in residential and commercial buildings. Source: Ürge-Vorsatz et al. (2013) with projection data (2010 – 2050) from frozen efficiency scenario. Image source: IPCC report 2014.
Level 01 – Year 2 B Eng Architecture Programme
ARC104
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Structures and Materials
西交利物浦大学
Level 1 ( Year 2 | Semester 1 ) Module Credits 5 Module Leader Christiane M. Herr
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Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
Department of Architecture
Song Lu: Drawing-based exercise 6 – Steel Pavilion.
Construction site visit to Yangcheng Lake Visitor Centre (Kengo Kuma).
Number of Students 219
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. To support architecture students’ ways of working in the design studio, students are encouraged to learn through designing and building of largescale 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 teamworking 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.
Level 01 – Year 2 B Eng Architecture Programme
ARC108
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028
建筑系
Construction and Materials
西交利物浦大学
Level 1 ( Year 2 | Semester 2 ) Module Credits 2.5 Module Leader Li-An Tsien
Department of Architecture
Teaching Assistants Adam Brillhart Marco Cimillo Davide Lombardi Lina Stergiou Richard Hay
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Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
Number of Students 227
Fan Jiawei | 范家玮
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. This module 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. The course is taught through lectures, seminars and practical exercises. In the lectures technical materials and construction principles are taught in relation to the broader architectural implications of sustainability, aesthetics and technology. Key concepts are critically discussed and reviewed through case studies and visual examples during the seminars. For the applied exercises students work in groups to design and build scale models of insulated cabana shelters during seminars and applied exercises. The aim of the module is 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 and environment within the discipline of architectural design. Awareness and understanding of construction principles helps students to translate their design ideas into buildable, innovative concepts through detailed representation techniques. Lectures foster and encourage awareness of construction issues pertaining to global and local future trends. Group works nurture an understanding of the interdisciplinary quality of the architecture discipline, and of the constraints brought by, sometimes, large collaborative efforts.
Level 01 – Year 2 B Eng Architecture Programme
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Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
Department of Architecture
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建筑系
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Wang Shuting | 王舒婷 Liu Yueya | 刘玥雅
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Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
Department of Architecture
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建筑系
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Lin Wei | 林蔚
Gu Yu | 古钰
Wu Yubang | 吴煜邦
ARC101
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COLLAGE 034
Haoning Zhang
西交利物浦大学
建筑系
Design Studio Design Thinking and Articulation
Level 1 ( Year 2 | Semester 1 )
Between Body and Building: Experiments in Architecture
Module Credits 5
This first design studio in the undergraduate degree programme introduces students to the fundamental relationship between body and building. Students are initiated into the richness of this analogy through a series of cumulative exercises which reveal a number of architecture’s key conceptual, theoretical and material foundations. Correlations between façade and mask, and typology and character feature, as does the association between a group of people coming together and the formation of an enclosure, along with the demarcation of space and its significance in establishing a place through considerations of a variety of situations and their setting. Emphasising the research-led and human-centred nature of architectural design, conceptions and representations of space are investigated through material explorations, with the twice-weekly studio tutorials supported by a series of lectures and integrated workshops.
Module Leader Peta Carlin
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Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
Department of Architecture
Teaching Team Peta Carlin Bert de Muynck Junjie Xi Martin Fischbach Tordis Berstrand Yiping Dong Antonio Berton Dirk Zschunke Ercument Gorgul Florence Vannoorbeeck Joan Cane Jue Qiu Liang Xu Julian Ramirez Rentero Nicola Pagnano Teo Hidalgo Nacher Xiani Wang Yiting Pan Number of Students 220
PARTI COLLAGE
Jiawei Fan | 范家玮
At the outset, students establish groups and are assigned a specific set of characters, with role-playing used to explore the relationship between individual users, as well as between designers and users. In the first exercise, students design an individual bodily adornment, followed by group-work in which an enclosure for three people is designed at 1:1 scale. This is presented at an architectural picnic staged in week two of the semester which includes a range of activities and forms of documentation. In the following two exercises, the students work individually between scales of 1:20 and 1:100, undertaking translations between models and drawings, exploring relationships between solid and void, and between activities and designed space. The final exercise encourages the students to reinterpret the book as both an object and as a site of exhibition in itself. Carefully selecting examples of work produced during the course of the semester, including drawings, models, process-work and research, the compilation is accompanied by a brief text. The resultant Design Books are conceptual and well-crafted, presenting and illustrating narratives that are imaginative, analytical, and reflective in tone.
Level 01 – Year 2 B Eng Architecture Programme
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BODY-BUILDING CHARACTER-TYPE
Lu Song
建筑系
Yingying Shen
BODY-BUILDING CHARACTER-TYPE
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BODY-BUILDING CHARACTER-TYPE
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Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
Department of Architecture
Cheng Runhao
BODY-BUILDING CHARACTER-TYPE Zhixin Deng
BODY-BUILDING CHARACTER-TYPE Feijie Guo
BODY-BUILDING ENCLOTHE-ENCLOSE
038
Zhang Boran
建筑系
037
西交利物浦大学
BODY-BUILDING ENCLOTHE-ENCLOSE
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Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
Department of Architecture
Ying Chen
BODY-BUILDING ENCLOTHE-ENCLOSE Yingying Shen
BODY-BUILDING ENCLOTHE-ENCLOSE Liu Yichang
BODY-BUILDING ENCLOTHE-ENCLOSE Zhixin Deng
2017-2018 YEARBOOK
Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
Department of Architecture
西交利物浦大学
建筑系
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SOLID-VOID Zhixin Deng
SOLID-VOID
Li Yurui | 李禹锐
2017-2018 YEARBOOK
Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
Department of Architecture
西交利物浦大学
建筑系
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042
SOLID-VOID SOLID-VOID
Yingying Shen Liu Yichang
2017-2018 YEARBOOK
Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
Department of Architecture
西交利物浦大学
建筑系
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044
SPACE-TIME SPACE-TIME
Fan Jiawei Cheng Runhao
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Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
Department of Architecture
西交利物浦大学
建筑系
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DESIGN BOOK Ying Chen
DESIGN BOOK
Yurui Li
DESIGN BOOK Zhixin Deng
ARC105
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048
建筑系
Design Studio Small Space Design
西交利物浦大学
Level 1 ( Year 2 | Semester 1 ) Module Credits 5 Module Leader Claudia Westermann
2017-2018 YEARBOOK
Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
Department of Architecture
Teaching Team Peta Carlin Adam Brillhart Martin Fischbach Junjie Xi Antonio Berton Dirk Zschunke Ercument Gorgul Florence Vannoorbeeck Joan Cane Jue Qiu Julian Ramirez Rentero Liang Xu Nicola Pagnano Teo Hidalgo Nacher Xiani Wang Yiting Pan Dong Chen Yiwen Zhang
ARC105 Small Space Design is the second studio module in the Bachelor programme. It runs for the second half of semester 1 for seven weeks. For this year’s ARC105 entitled “A House in Wonderland, or a Guardian of Dreams” the students undertook first steps in designing architecture. They designed a house for one of the characters from the famous novel “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” by Lewis Carroll. Students were guided to approach architectural design through an experimental and conceptual approach, and to present their proposals effectively by employing visual communication in a variety of media, including standard architectural drawing. The students developed a sensibility for the desires and necessities of inhabitants and the possibilities of architecture to frame but not limit; to produce and present conceptual design ideas as the basis for creative processes, and to engage in form development and experimentation as part of design practice.
Number of Students 221
Lin Zhaoyuan, House for Mr. Melon Seed, Section Collage.
Level 01 – Year 2 B Eng Architecture Programme
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Department of Architecture
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建筑系
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Chen Xuanyang | 陈宣仰
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Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
Department of Architecture
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建筑系
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Feng Leilin | 冯蕾霖
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Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
Department of Architecture
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建筑系
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Lin Zhaoyuan | 林赵圆
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Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
Department of Architecture
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建筑系
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Mu Hongyuan | 穆宏源
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Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
Department of Architecture
西交利物浦大学
建筑系
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Wei Wenxin | 魏文欣
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Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
Department of Architecture
西交利物浦大学
建筑系
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Chen Ying | 陈颖
ARC102
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062
建筑系
Design Studio Rediscovery of Learning for the Elderly
西交利物浦大学
Level 1 ( Year 2 | Semester 2 ) Module Credits 10
Scenario Imagination, by student Yubang Wu.
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Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
Department of Architecture
Module Leader Jiawen Han Teaching Team Jiawen Han (module coordinator) Peta Carlin (year coordinator) Adam Brillhart Martin Fischbach Junjie Xi Lina Stergiou Jing Yang Antonio Berton Yiwen Zhang Qiu Jue Lorenzo Acciai Ecrument Gorgolc Teo Nacher Liwen Zhu Florence Vannoorbeeck Xiani Wang Liang Xu Nicola Pagnano Darcy Chang Nan Ye
Suzhou's population has been ageing rapidly. The spaces and architecture that cater to the elderly should give them more self-confidence, social connections, and vitality. Such designs have been extremely inadequate in China. Learning plays an important role in active ageing; lifelong learning enables elderly people to maintain the quality of their lives by enhancing their self and coping areas of physical health and social relationship. This design studio is primarily concerned with the ageing population, who prefer to spend most of their time in their own neighbourhoods. At the same time, students also reflect on how to improve the elderly’s engagement with other age groups, especially with children. In other words, the studio creates more links between people who would not otherwise connect with each other through learning. Learning is a core for active ageing. Yet for the elderly, participation in and engagement with learning activities are difficult in Suzhou and in China. The studio design is to reflect and create optimal conditions for learning activities with spaces that address the primary concerns of the elderly and also invite users of all ages to learn, exercise, play, and meditate.
Teaching Assistant Nan Ye
Scenarios on the final design proposal, by student Yubang Wu.
Number of Students 225
Level 01 – Year 2 B Eng Architecture Programme
2017-2018 YEARBOOK
Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
Department of Architecture
西交利物浦大学
建筑系
063
064
Wu Yubang | 吴煜邦
YOUTH
2017-2018 YEARBOOK
Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
Department of Architecture
西交利物浦大学
建筑系
065
066
Lin Zhaoyuan | 林赵圆
EXPLANATION OF PERSPECTIVE VIEW
2017-2018 YEARBOOK
Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
Department of Architecture
西交利物浦大学
建筑系
067
068
THE POETICS OF GARDEN SPACE Fan Jiawei | 范家玮
2017-2018 YEARBOOK
Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
Department of Architecture
西交利物浦大学
建筑系
069
070
REDISCOVERY OF LEARNING AND COMMUNITY FOR ELDERLY Yao Yiming | 姚艺铭
2017-2018 YEARBOOK
Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
Department of Architecture
西交利物浦大学
建筑系
071
HIDING IN NATURE
072
Xu Xiaotong | 许晓彤
Chen Ying | 陈颖
SITE ANALYSIS
2017-2018 YEARBOOK
Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
Department of Architecture
西交利物浦大学
建筑系
073
074
ELDERLY CENTER
Guo Yefei | 郭烨非
LEVEL 02
075
2017-2018 YEARBOOK
Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
Department of Architecture
西交利物浦大学
建筑系
076
02
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)
B Eng Architecture XJTLU ARCHITECTURE YEARBOOK 2017-2018
ARC203
077
078
History of Asian Architecture DAY 2 - Qing'an Guild Hall Theater
建筑系
DAY 2 - Baoguo Monastry
西交利物浦大学
Level 2 ( Year 3 | Semester 1 ) Module Credits 5
DAY 3 - Liuhe Pagoda Group Photo
DAY 3 - Hangzhou Phoenix Mosques
Teaching Team Christiane M. Herr Glen Wash Jiawen Han Raffaele Pernice(UPD)
Department of Architecture Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University 2017-2018 YEARBOOK
Module Leader Yiping Dong
DAY 4 - Imperial Street Shelter
DAY 4 - CAA Folk Art musuem with Wangxin
Guest Speakers Yiting Pan Xin Wang Li Shen Shulan Fu Ming Du Teaching Assistant Quanqing LU
DAY 5 - Tadao Ando Liangzhu Art Gallery Group Phote
DAY 5 - Wencun New Building
DAY 5 - Wencun New Village
DAY 6 - Dongziguan New village
DAY 6 - Dongziguan Village Guide
DAY 6 - Shenao Village Image
Field Trip to Zhejiang Province, 2017. Photograph by Milan Ognjanović
History of Asian Architecture provides an introduction to Asian architecture with its associated technologies, cultural connections, urban settings and its development from ancient times to the contemporary age. It focuses on Chinese architectural history and its relationship to other areas in Asia, such as Indian and Japanese architecture. The module further briefly introduces the history of urban design and key concepts in historical Asian urban planning. The history of built architectural form is introduced with selected references to associated theoretical discourses. The module uses lectures and readings, case studies and field trips to explain key developments in Asian architectural and urban history. The students explored traditional urban structures, timber structures, vernacular settlements and earlier modernization architecture with a 5-night-6-day study trip in Zhejiang Province during the reading week (Oct.22-26, 2017). During the study trip, students visited Ningbo and Hangzhou as the key historic cities of Zhejiang and new rural village projects in Tonglu and Fuyang County. Apart from these, the students also visited a couple of modern buildings designed by famous contemporary architects such as Wang Shu, Zhang Lei, Tadao Ando, Kengo Kuma and David Chipperfield. A series on-site lectures delivered by Module leader and guests from Zhejiang University, Zhejiang University of Technology and CAA built a clear connection between the historical data and the reality for students and tutors.
Number of Students 83
Level 02 – Year 3 B Eng Architecture Programme
ARC206
079
080
建筑系
Urban Studies
西交利物浦大学
Level 2 ( Year 3 | Semester 2 ) Module Credits 5 Module Leader Juan Carlos Dall’ Asta
Department of Architecture
Teaching Team Jose Angel Hidalgo Arellano
2017-2018 YEARBOOK
Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
Guest lectures Christian Gaenshirt Jiawen Han Caterina Tiazzoldi Glen Wash Number of Students 84
Shanghai Future City, by Li Ziyi
Layered City: Toward a Sustainable City The main objective of the module is to promote an understanding of the forces that shape the human-made environment and the role played by design professionals. It aims to help students - as future designers - to understand that the city is a complex and dynamic system, and to stimulate their active thinking and positive responses to various urban phenomena. Students were introduced to appropriate strategies for the urban sustainability in order to effectively solve design problems. Through a series of lectures on urban history, case studies, design theories and methodologies, this module aimed to enhance students’ awareness of the nature of cities and the formation and transformation of their urban conditions, as well as providing basic urban design skills. The module provided students with an introduction to key debates, terms, writings, ideas and spatial and social qualities in Urban Design. Theories and practical examples of city development - including global case studies were presented, in order to demonstrate how urban planning and architectural decisions can be better informed. The module thus engaged students in understanding the city as a dynamic, social system. The lectures stimulated students' creative engagement with their surroundings as well their ability to assess, appraise and critique various urban and cultural phenomena. The module covered examples including Barcelona, Brasilia, Rome, Mexico City, New York City, Paris, Tokyo, amongst others.
Level 02 – Year 3 B Eng Architecture Programme
ARC201
081
082
建筑系
Environmental Design and Sustainability
西交利物浦大学
Level 2 ( Year 3 | Semester 1 ) Module Credits 5 Module Leader Marco Cimillo
2017-2018 YEARBOOK
Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
Department of Architecture
Chenwei Ye, Office daylighting design
Teaching Assistant Xi Chen Number of Students 83
The way that buildings are designed and built is key to sustainable development, especially in a fast urbanising country such as today’s China. Other than being among the main responsible for greenhouse gases emissions, buildings are major consumers of energy and natural resources. Up to two thirds of their final performance depend on basic architectural decisions, such as form, orientation and percentage of glass. We spend up to 90% of our time indoors, and our comfort, health, productivity and well-being are heavily affected by the environmental conditions inside buildings. Awareness and competence on these issues are an essential part of the skill set of a contemporary designer. This module addresses environmental quality, energy efficiency and sustainability in architecture. The topics cover a general introduction to the environmental and climate issues and how they affect and are affected by the built environment, in addition to human comfort and energy efficiency in buildings. Students learn theories and methods to understand, design and assess daylighting, natural ventilation, passive heating and cooling, as well as methods to develop strategies for building services and integrated renewable energy production. Sustainability is also studied from a wider perspective, giving consideration to the entire life cycle of buildings and to the international assessment methods.
Level 02 – Year 3 B Eng Architecture Programme
ARC202
083
084
建筑系
Structural Design
西交利物浦大学
Level 2 ( Year 3 | Semester 2 ) Module Credits 5 Module Leader Christiane M. Herr
Design review at RFR Structural Engineering Shanghai. Department of Architecture
Photograph by Christiane M. Herr.
Number of Students 45
Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University 2017-2018 YEARBOOK
Teaching Team Davide Lombardi
Pedestrian bridge for the XJTLU Campus. Elevation by Zhihan Wang, Rendering by Yixiu Shang.
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, considering engineering values of efficiency and utility alongside architectural values concerning human experience and spatial quality. In this module, structural design is approached primarily through intuitive visual as well as digital means, focusing on the integration of structural and programmatic patterns, scales and proportions in structural layouts. Lectures are accompanied by applied structural design exercises and advanced digital design tutorials. In the first half of the module, students produce structural design proposals addressing pedestrian bridges, which integrate architectural with structural design concerns. In the second half, students develop structural concepts for their design studio projects. As part of this module, 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 field trips, construction site visits and guest lectures / reviews by internal and external engineers and architects. This year the module was taught in collaboration with RFR Shanghai, who contributed lectures as well as detailed design reviews in the RFR Shanghai office.
Level 02 – Year 3 B Eng Architecture Programme
ARC205
085
086
建筑系
Design Studio Design and Building Typology
西交利物浦大学
Level 2 ( Year 3 | Semester 1 ) Module Credits 10 Module Leader Juan Carlos Dall’ Asta
2017-2018 YEARBOOK
Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
Department of Architecture
Teaching Team Philip Fung Jiawen Han Teresa Hoskyns Aleksandra Raonic Lina Stergiou Caterina Tiazzoldi Li-An Tsien Guest Critics Hu Ying Tian Zhen Frederic Boreder Number of Students 84
Drawing by Ye Chengwei
Sustainable Housing for a Better Living Contemporary housing design has to correctly address the complex web of human necessities and desires in order to produce a better quality of life and therefore enhanced social conditions. Sustainable housing was interpreted by students in multiple modes: urban, social, and technological. Consequently, strategies aimed at preserving culture, encouraging social interaction, and building a sense of community. Further the brief emphasised the importance of exploring solutions where open spaces can be more ecologically responsive in relation to water conservation and retention, and the use of solar shading and natural ventilation for summer cooling. Rather than developing a design that might contain a large palette of available “sustainability techniques,” the students were instead required to develop and understand the most effective concepts of sustainability. One of the key aims for students was to provide socially sustainable design solutions to foster spontaneous relationships between the inhabitants dwelling in communal areas. Nowadays, in many residential developments, in China as well as abroad, there is little consideration of the relationship between private and public common spaces. Considering this relationship was fundamental in order for students to propose a design that engendered a vibrant social life for future inhabitants. Chinese traditional architecture has long fostered social interactions between inhabitants through the use of courtyards. Students reflected on how to re-consider this tradition. Their designs provided public spaces at various scales and types for social interaction, as well as comfortable private spaces.
Level 02 – Year 3 B Eng Architecture Programme
2017-2018 YEARBOOK
Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
Department of Architecture
西交利物浦大学
建筑系
087
088
Ye Chenwei | 叶宸维
2017-2018 YEARBOOK
Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
Department of Architecture
西交利物浦大学
建筑系
089
090
Wang Hongmeng | 王鸿蒙
2017-2018 YEARBOOK
Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
Department of Architecture
西交利物浦大学
建筑系
091
092
Cui Qichen | 崔琦琛
2017-2018 YEARBOOK
Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
Department of Architecture
西交利物浦大学
建筑系
093
094
Zhou Yili | 周依黎
2017-2018 YEARBOOK
Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
Department of Architecture
西交利物浦大学
建筑系
095
096
Yao Yuzheng | 姚羽筝
ARC204
097
098
建筑系
Design Studio Small Urban Buildings
西交利物浦大学
Level 2 ( Year 3 | Semester 2 ) Module Credits 10 Module Leader Paco Mejias Villatoro
2017-2018 YEARBOOK
Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
Department of Architecture
Teaching Team Paco Mejias Villatoro Tordis Berstrand Dong Cheng Yiping Dong Richard Hay Teo Hidalgo Sofia Quiroga Fernandez Caterina Tiazzoldi Marco Cimillo (floating tutor) Number of Students 85
A bridge-building proposal by Louis Kahn (Palazzo dei Congressi, Venice. 1968-1974)
“Marco Polo describes a bridge, stone by stone,'But which is the stone that supports the bridge?' Kublai Khan asks. 'The bridge is not supported by one stone or another,' Marco answers, 'but by the line of the arch that they form.' Kublai Khan remains silent, reflecting. Then he adds: 'Why do you speak to me of the stones? It is only the arch that matters to me.' Polo answers: 'Without stones, there is no arch.” Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities (1972) “(A bridge is) not truly a bridge while men do not cross it. A bridge is a man crossing a bridge.” Julio Cortázar, A Manual for Manuel (1973) Italo Calvino poetically explains that a bridge is defined by the controversy between the autonomy of its different parts and the overall strategy that organizes these parts into a whole. This idea of a reciprocal connection between the parts and the whole is one of the deepest characteristics of architecture. In architecture, addition is not just a sum of parts but a synergetic cooperation between them in the search of a much broader aim. In the case of bridges, this cooperation becomes vital in various conditions. Firstly, bridges are singular structures where every part has an essential role in the functioning of the whole. Secondly, bridges provide a special human experience based on the idea of conquering the other side. As Cortazar reminds us, a bridge’s idiosyncrasy is based on the fact of the person crossing it, a singular circumstance of inhabitation that is concretized through the defeat of reaching the other side. Lastly, bridges are socially motivated through the desire of interconnecting communities and extending neighborhoods in more effective ways. In the English dictionary, the composed word bridge-building means “the efforts to establish communications and friendly contacts between people in order to make them friends or allies”.
Level 02 – Year 3 B Eng Architecture Programme
2017-2018 YEARBOOK
Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
Department of Architecture
西交利物浦大学
建筑系
099
100
BRIDGE BUILDING IN SHANTANG
Li Qianru | 李倩茹
2017-2018 YEARBOOK
Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
Department of Architecture
西交利物浦大学
建筑系
101
102
COLONIZE THE SHANTANG STREET
Chen Fanyun | 陈凡云
2017-2018 YEARBOOK
Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
Department of Architecture
西交利物浦大学
建筑系
103
104
Cui Qichen | 崔琦琛
LAYERING
2017-2018 YEARBOOK
Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
Department of Architecture
西交利物浦大学
建筑系
105
106
BRIDGE BUILDING ON SHANTANG RIVER
Yu Xinning | 郁歆宁
2017-2018 YEARBOOK
Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
Department of Architecture
西交利物浦大学
建筑系
107
108
LIVINGTHEATRE
Shang Yixiu | 尚奕秀
2017-2018 YEARBOOK
Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
Department of Architecture
西交利物浦大学
建筑系
109
110
SHANTANG SMALL PUBLIC BUILDING SYSTEM He Yuxin | 何昱欣
LEVEL 03
111
2017-2018 YEARBOOK
Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
Department of Architecture
西交利物浦大学
建筑系
112
03
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) ● ● ● ●
B Eng Architecture XJTLU ARCHITECTURE YEARBOOK 2017-2018
ARC301
113
Algorithmic shape generation 114
Hanzhi Gao, Houzhe Zhang, Zhuoying Wu
建筑系
Architectural Technology
西交利物浦大学
Level 3 ( Year 4 | Semester 1 ) Module Credits 5 Module Leader Davide Lombardi Algorithmic geometric study Siwei Zhu, Sizhou Li, Jingying Lin
This performance has been determined and evaluated over the preceding centuries using analogue models to simulate forms as well as physical behaviours, and through drawings to prefigure the outcome of a whole building, and/or small parts of it.
Department of Architecture
Since digital tools have come to inform the discipline of architecture, the focus has progressively shifted from manual or digital drawing to digital simulation. New theoretical approaches have resulted in the introduction of simulation into the design stage, changing the classical design paradigm, based on the addition of elements, resulting in a new strategy based on the inter-articulation of different components. This computational design workflow, enables designers to increase the level of complexity of their research, implementing the idea of technological performance and retrieving new data to improve their proposals. Within this framework, architectural technology and computational design are joined to explore new solutions and processes through a holistic approach. The aim of the module is to provide an overview of the potential of technology and computational strategies as a means to transform dreams in consistent proposals.
Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University 2017-2018 YEARBOOK
Number of Students 37
History demonstrates that every advance in architectural design is strictly related with advances in the field of technology. From Egyptian to contemporary architecture the main goal has always been of increasing the building’ performance, be it an aesthetic, energetic or structural one, through the combination of new materials and shapes, and consequently pushing the boundaries of Architecture.
Radiance analysis and panelling proposal Ouli Tu, Jiayi You, Jieyu Wang, Lincheng Zhou
Level 03 – Year 4 B Eng Architecture Programme
ARC303
115
116
建筑系
Architectural Theory
西交利物浦大学
Level 3 ( Year 4 | Semester 1 ) Module Credits 5 Module Leader Christian Gänshirt Jiawen Han
Department of Architecture
Teaching Team Patrick Hubbuck Karissa Kilgore (Language Center) Number of Students 37
A series of lectures, accompanied by weekly readings, alternating between a Chinese and a European point of view, introduced students to the main concepts of architectural theory, and provided a framework for the understanding of the on-going nature of discourse in the field. Themes and topics of the lectures initially addressed historical debates, such as the role and development of theory in architecture, the question of style, and the historical foundations of modernity, and later, the criticism of high modernism, the rise of postmodern and poststructural theory, critical regionalism and architectural criticism, as well as contemporary discussions, and the mutual influence of Asian and Western conceptions of architecture. Further areas of dialogue and debate responded to interest articulated by students and/or faculty members. Two research seminars accompanied the lectures, of which the students chose one. Each year the themes and topics of the seminars vary. This year, one seminar focused on the writings of Wang Shu, the other explored Suzhou as a basis for proposing a new theoretical discourse. The main task in the seminars is for the students to conduct their own research within the given thematic framework, present and discuss their individual research in one of the seminar sessions, and 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.
Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University 2017-2018 YEARBOOK
It has been said that “there is no architecture without theory” (Patrick Schumacher). As a consequence, Architectural Theory critically reflects on written discourses in and about architecture, in order to deepen and enhance students’ understanding of the thinking that underpins the discipline.
ARC303 Seminar on Suzhou Photo Christian Gänshirt
Level 03 – Year 4 B Eng Architecture Programme
ARC306
117
118
建筑系
Professional Practice
西交利物浦大学
Level 3 ( Year 4 | Semester 2 ) Module Credits 5 Module Leader Sofía Quiroga Fernández
2017-2018 YEARBOOK
Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
Department of Architecture
Guest Speakers Philip Fung Christian M. Herr Jiawen Han Paco Mejias Gisela Loehlein Richard Olweny Michael Crittendon (Interior Designer) Tao Wang (GF Greenberg and Farrell) Christina Luk (LUK architects) Alton P. Chow (AIA - American Institute of Architects Vice President and Managing Director - Central China of AECOM) Florence Vannoorbeeck Mengjia He (PLAYZE Architects)Liang Xu (CONCOM studio) Theo Nacher (ECADI - East China Architectural Design & Research Institute) Number of Students 37 Selection of slides taken from students presentations. Presentation International Cooperation. Students: Zhang Yingqi
There are many different forms of architectural practice and many methods of practising architecture. This course examines diverse international and Chinese practices opportunities for students completing part 1 of their architectural training, ranging from starting your own office to working in large-scale mainstream practices; to small-scale interdisciplinary and research led practices, in order to give students the scope and tools to begin to formulate their own approach to architectural practice. The Professional Practice module examines the professional tools and technical skills required for procuring and delivering architectural projects. The course includes a range of professional inter-relationships of individuals & organisations and how they are defined through contractual and organisational structures. These include: the legal, professional and statutory responsibilities of the architect in the construction of the built environment; the role of the architect on the construction team and the potential impact of architecture on communities; as well as fundamental management theories required in managing both an architectural practice and architecture projects. We also studied the necessary business skills, including starting your own business, cost control management and the financial factors implied in varying construction systems. Students develop an awareness of how architecture practices operate, an understanding of organisations, regulations and procedures in design and construction, including planning procedure, land law, developmental control, building control, accessibility and health and safety. Students researched how to develop a project in different countries, international cooperation, and social projects, giving a seminar presentation on their findings. Through the research, the students have studied the professional interrelationships of individuals & organisations in procuring and delivering projects and how they are defined through contractual and organisational structures, as well as the regulations and procedures in different countries. This academic year the professional guest speakers have been an essential part of the ARC 306 module, making possible to share with the students their real background concerning the actual professional practice.
Level 03 – Year 4 B Eng Architecture Programme
ARC308
119
120
建筑系
Philosophy of Art and Aesthetics
西交利物浦大学
Level 3 ( Year 4 | Semester 2 ) Module Credits 5 Module Leader Claudia Westermann
Department of Architecture
Teaching Team Tordis Berstrand Guest Theme Adam Brillhart
2017-2018 YEARBOOK
Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
Teaching Assistant Yaqin Zuo Number of Students 37
Field Trip to the Nam June Paik exhibition at the How Museum, 2018. Photograph by Claudia Westermann.
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 ‘The Potentiality of Absence in Art and Architecture’ with a specifically designed series of lectures and seminars, addressing notions of absence 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 exhibition “Walking on the Fade Out Lines” in the Rockbund Art Museum, as well as the exhibition “Lettres du Voyant” in the How Museum, showing works of Joseph Beuys and Nam June Paik, offered additional opportunities for reflection on key positions in art.
Level 03 – Year 4 B Eng Architecture Programme
ARC305
121
122
西交利物浦大学
建筑系
Design Studio Small and Medium Scale Buildings
Level 3 ( Year 4 | Semester 1 )
Architecture and Identity: prospects for future Shanghai
Module Credits 10
Now that the swift and unprecedented Chinese urbanization process is slowing down we can see the results, achievements and consequences of this development more clearly. The urgent process, centrally fueled and controlled, aimed to rapidly urbanize a country by doing it bigger and faster is now shifting, and issues which were ignored in favor of the urgency of urbanization are starting to arise; somehow, during the miraculous years of growth, something was lost.
2017-2018 YEARBOOK
Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
Department of Architecture
Teaching Team Glen Wash Ivanovic (module leader) Sofía Quiroga José Á. Hidalgo Paco Mejias Villatoro Number of Students 38
The need for recovering and strengthening Chinese identity was then centrally promoted and fueled, generally stating that identity was contained by and generated from tradition. The idea of “traditional Chinese” is applied very loosely, and it seems to refer to any customs, forms and aesthetics from before the establishment of the People’s Republic of China. Now we see inane replicas of “traditional buildings” being built, new villas following a western layout yet decorated in traditional Chinese style. Identity appears to be rooted only in a past that seems to be artificially brought back and imposed. Could we think otherwise? Can modern architecture actually provide, change or enrich identity? This studio provided four different briefs, inviting students to explore the explored the unique opportunities that the ongoing modernization process have to offer for reflecting, discussing and designing contemporary identity by engaging in a series of architectural interventions and transformations in Shanghai’s Pudong.
Level 03 – Year 4 B Eng Architecture Programme
2017-2018 YEARBOOK
Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
Department of Architecture
西交利物浦大学
建筑系
123
124
Bai Yuxin | 白雨馨
2017-2018 YEARBOOK
Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
Department of Architecture
西交利物浦大学
建筑系
125
126
Huang Yifei | 黄逸飞
2017-2018 YEARBOOK
Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
Department of Architecture
西交利物浦大学
建筑系
127
128
Xia Jianqiang | 夏坚强
2017-2018 YEARBOOK
Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
Department of Architecture
西交利物浦大学
建筑系
129
130
Yu Yulin | 俞裕林
2017-2018 YEARBOOK
Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
Department of Architecture
西交利物浦大学
建筑系
131
132
Zhang Houzhe | 张厚哲
ARC304
133
134
西交利物浦大学
建筑系
Design Studio Final Year Project
Level 3 ( Year 4 | Semester 1 and 2 )
The Final Year Project Studio is the last studio module in the course of the BEng Architecture degree at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University.
Module Credits 10
The framework of the FYP Studio module is set to ensure a diversity of approaches to Architectural Design, allowing for parallel briefs which are defined to a greater extent by the students themselves.
Module Leader José Ángel Hidalgo Arellano
2017-2018 YEARBOOK
Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
Department of Architecture
Teaching Team Juan Carlos Dall’ Asta Bert De Muynck Philip Fung Christian Gänshirt Teresa Hoskyns Gisela Loehlein Li-An Tsien Glen Wash Guest Critics Jianfei Zhu (University of Melbourne) Darren Zhou (Skew Collaborative) Eva García Pascual (Aura Shanghai) James Lew (Greenberg Farrow, Shanghai) Zhao Deli (Zai-Zao Architecture / China Academy of Arts, Hangzhou) Setting up the Degree Show, June 2018, Department of Architecture, XJTLU. Photograph by Christian Gänshirt.
Number of Students 37
In 2017-2018, four briefs were offered which were framed as initiations, guiding students to discover questions on the edge of current discourse in Architectural Design, requiring them to develop contextually responsive architectural propositions that integrate social, cultural, technical, and environmental knowledge at an advanced level in their resolution. The four briefs written for this year’s final year studio responded in various ways to the challenges that Architecture is confronted with in China and beyond. They open a conversation on Architecture that is necessarily reframed and redefined by the students in the course of their research and design process. Each brief requires students to design buildings that respond to specific urban and socio-cultural conditions, with emphasis placed on social values and the centricity of human needs and desires. On the basis of their proposal and the development of a coherent design process, students were required to demonstrate an understanding of architecture informed by inter-dependent cultural, historical, technological and contextual issues. The studio module actively encouraged students to embrace a culture of risk and experimentation, but at the same time required them to fully resolve their projects responding to human, technical and environmental needs.
Level 03 – Year 4 B Eng Architecture Programme
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Vertical Suzhou, Change & Growth
This FYP design studio is set up as an experimental studio, addressing the issue of mass housing through architectural design. The experimental set-up is defined by two spatial conditions which currently define the course of the contemporary Chinese city: the first, the tendency towards horizontal urban expansion; and, the second, vertical architectural growth. This design studio thus calls into question what happens when we combine the urban and architectural concepts and qualities of both spatial evolutions (vertical and horizontal) in an innovative way through the incorporation of landscape design at both levels. The classical Chinese gardens of Suzhou represent a radical challenge to the Western understanding of architecture, dwelling and organization. Conventionally called gardens, they were originally highly cultivated places in which people lived. Conceivably, they can be considered as a house, the rooms of which have been taken apart and distributed within a garden, connected by covered, half-open corridors named long. The buildings themselves are punctuated by openings, from tiny light wells to courtyards. The most important structures are carefully arranged around a larger open space, often with a pond at its core. Here, the Western dichotomy of culture versus nature, of the object-like house versus the surrounding garden has been dissolved by an integration seeking to balance both elements. The principal design task of this studio is to rethink the concept of modern high-rise housing from the point of view of the Classical Chinese garden, seeking to provide a different type of space for living, with a better local microclimate. Starting with the analysis of one of the gardens, architectural principles were identified, evaluated and eventually translated into contemporary architectural forms. In parallel, research focused on high-rise architecture with strong relations to vegetation and/or open space, from Le Corbusier’s Immeuble Villa and Mies van der Rohe’s Villa Tugendhat through to recent projects by Sou Fujimoto, Amateur Architecture Studio, Roberto Burle Marx, Piet Oudolf, Thomas Heatherwick and Stefano Boeri’s Bosco Verticale (Milan) and his projected “vertical city” for the Chinese city of Liuzhou (in planning).
TEACHING TEAM Christian Gänshirt Bert De Muynck
VERTICAL GARDEN Zhang Houzhe | 张厚哲
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AWAKENED SEASONS Gao Hanzhi | 高含之
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STORIES IN-BETWEEN SHANSHUI Wu Zhuoying | 吴卓颖
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BRIEF B Fast City / Slow City
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Zou Yina | 邹依娜
This studio explored how the ‘spectacle’ impacts on notions of ‘fast city’ and ‘slow city’ and how these concepts can be applied to the central station district of Shanghai. ‘Fast city’ refers to transport links and communication as well as the general acceleration of the urban condition. Alternatively, ‘slow city’ is about the former unity of life, the concept describing a sustainable approach to urban development that focuses on local production, local economy and the unique historical context of a town. Students critically reflected on the two concepts in order to formulate the direction of their proposals. Continuing interrogations raised by Guy Debord, the studio questioned our urban habits, the media through which we express and perceive
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ourselves, as well as our urban borders, from a visual, spatial and temporal standpoint. These investigations, the studio proposed, may in turn lead us to change the way we envision the physical boundaries of the spaces around us, through integrating notions of fluidity, superimposition, distortion, etc. into students’ designs, thus “stripping back space and time from the realm of spectacle and returning it to the world of human interaction” (R. Zaretsky, in Trump and the ‘Society of the Spectacle’, New York Times, Feb. 20 2017). In so doing, students were encouraged to critically examine how the screen, in its various contemporary forms, as a means to see, to be seen, receive and transmit information, has assumed an increasingly prominent role in both public and private lives, considering the impact it
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TEACHING TEAM Teresa Hoskyns Li-An Tsien
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BRIEF C Meeting Calamities: Buildings that Morph
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Feng Xueyang | 冯雪妍
Japanese cities and architecture have been adapting in response to earthquakes; demanding the use of certain materials, advancing sophisticated construction techniques, determining building heights and urban densities, and fueling the pursuit of new technologies in order to attenuate the potential damage and casualties which strong earthquakes generate. The last great Tohoku earthquake showed that the role of architecture when confronting earthquakes and calamities is not only integral to the event itself but also to its aftermath. The studio thus called into question how can we think of buildings that not only withstand earthquakes, but
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also how can earthquakes provide us with a timely opportunity to adapt and evolve in the face of them. With a focus on new types of public institutions, students were asked to design buildings that morph in the event of an earthquake, changing both their function and physical form in order to assist and relieve the affected population. In short, the studio explored the idea of buildings that can change indefinitely, becoming not only a temporary solution but, in some cases, a definitive one. At the same time, this project invited students to reflect on the relationship between Chinese and Japanese architecture and their different approach to how cities should be built. Both countries are undeniably connected, having influenced each other over centuries. While Japanese architecture is always alert and insightful about the issues affecting its built environment, foreigners’ eyes can offer a different and valuable perspective. In this light, students were asked to be aware of the potential opportunity for further exploring and
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SEASONAL LIFE Huang Yifei | 黄逸飞
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BLOSSOMING GATE Tu Ouli | 涂欧犁
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Vertical Community in Hong Kong
Hong Kong is famous for its hyper-density with shortage of land resulting in great efficiencies in spatial planning. Typically, the creation of different levels is achieved through the stacking up of volumes. While vertical construction is one way to realise an increased efficiency in land usage and livable density, in the past, horizontality prevailed, with villages, houses and plazas occupying predominantly the same plane. This studio called into question how communal life has changed or evolved in response to vertical living; how people, as a consequence, live differently; and, what impact does this have on communal life which now occurs at multiple levels.
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The project aimed to address the complex paradoxes between Density, Verticality and Community. The program was defined by students and asked them to consider a mix of housing, markets, shopping malls, temples, prisons and/or fitness centres. At least 40% of the space needed to be assigned to housing. Students studied the specific site context at the centre of Hong Kong, with land use, living habits, and consumption patterns. Students, in response, were required to develop new typologies that addressed complex issues relating to programming, public/private spaces and circulation. Students were also expected to reflect on their research design processes at three different scales: 1. The urban scale: relating the city life to the new proposal and emphasizing the dialogue with the site; 2.The building scale, focusing on relationships between the skyline, basement, lower floors and streets, in order to creating a whole community in which all areas are related in terms of function, space and life; and, 3. The unit scale focusing on at least one detailed housing/dwelling unit, with attention paid to materiality, the qualities of the space in response
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the domestic programme.
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VERTICAL STREET IN HONG KONG 垂直都市
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THE PAUSE – MICRO CITY INSIDE OF MEGACITY Li Sizhou | 李四周
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ROOTING IN THE AIR
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The Bachelor of Architectural Engineering is a new programme run by the Department of Civil Engineering at XJTLU. It provides students opportunities to specialize in aspects of engineering centred on buildings and is professionally accredited by the JBM (Joint Board of Moderators), a UK based accreditation body for civil engineering. The Department of Architecture contributes four modules to the programme, of which one is shared with Architecture (ARC110), and three are provided specifically for the programme: ARC112 Architectural Technology and Innovation, ARC111 Integrated Design of Small Buildings and ARC207 Building Technology in Integrated Architectural Design. The modules are designed to introduce students of civil engineering to crossdisciplinary skills of teamworking, design thinking, crossdisciplinary understanding and innovating, and a broad skillset ranging from using various types of drawing to express and discuss ideas to historical background knowledge in the history of engineering and architecture. Two of the modules are studio modules, where students learn in applied ways, often collaborating with architecture students in the design of buildings.
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Cheng Zhang Programme Director (Civil Engieenering) Christiane M. Herr Programme Leader (Architecture)
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● ARC 111 Integrated Design of Small Buildings (5 credits) ● ARC 112 Architectural Technology and Innovation (5 credits) ● ARC 207 Building Typology in Integrated Architectural Design (5 credits)
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Level 1 ( Year 2 | Semester 1 ) Module Credits 5 ARC 111 Mai Haolin Floating house concept- middle floor is a open air terrace
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In this studio module students learned to apply theoretical skills on materials and structural systems into a series of small buildings design exercises. The studio specifically addressed design skills suitable for engineering students, who learn about the integration of technical and architectural design requirements. Students were initially introduced to typical materials employed in architectural structures, including concrete, steel, timber and glass. Based on this knowledge, students learned to design with materials and structures in the spirit of an architectural design concept in a series of weekly design exercises. They explored model making skills on a series of assignments and examined their tectonic impact upon a structural design, exploring the relationship between the two fields. Students learned how to use model making as a design tool and not an end product in the design process. Following this stage, students were introduced to architectural site analysis and its impact upon design conception. Students worked with volunteering students from ARC 102, which is the architecture students’ parallel cohort, structural design solutions to a design and developed together along the guidelines of the brief the tectonic resolution of the design. Students collaborative design proposal should clearly demonstrate the process of design development from initial design conception to a final architectural design. The final proposal should demonstrate students’ ability to design a series of spaces using appropriate technical means to support architectural concepts and realization of architectural qualities. Design proposals should respond creatively to the site context as well as spatial, structural and technical requirements by the architectural design brief.
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The project work was developed through group and individual tutorials and presented for public discussions and reviews. As series of lectures and additional tutorials was provided by architectural engineers and architects. The final project design compiled together the assignments throughout the semester in a final folio submission.
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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.
Haolin Mai: Conceptual Structural Design Process for a “Flying Box House”.
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High quality buildings are typically the result of carefully integrating a variety of factors, including both 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. This studio module encourages holistic thinking as well as the integration of technical and artistic concerns. A typology-oriented approach serves as a framework to explore the architecture, structure and construction of a specific building type based on in-depth research of typical case studies. As part of a holistic and cross disciplinary approach to design, the module encourages collaboration between architects and engineers already early on in the design process. 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 learn and build skills through critical thinking, analysis and research as well as through applied design.
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Most countries, including China, the UK and the US, require a minimum of two years of practical experience, in a registered architect’s office, to register as a fully qualified architect. Our Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees have Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) part 1 and part 2 international validation and this qualifies our students to take the UK pathway to qualification as well as the Chinese pathway to become a class 1 registered architect.
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For those students who wish to gain work credentials in the UK and obtain registration with the UK Architects Registration Board (ARB). They will need to complete an RIBA part 3 examination and a minimum of 2 years practical experience. Students who do not wish to register in the UK can become a Chartered Member of the RIBA through taking the Part 3/MEAP examination. For this course they need to have completed 5 years post foundation education (with or without RIBA validation) and 2 years practical experience.
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The first practice year can be completed before the Part 2 examination and at XJTLU we consider this period of work experience to be an important year of learning for intellectually understanding the workings of the construction industry. We (as well as the RIBA) consider it desirable and recommend our graduates to do their first year of practice after completing their undergraduate studies. For some of the most highly ranked professional postgraduate programmes worldwide it is mandatory to complete to the first practice year after the bachelor’s degree.
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Our Department has developed, and continues to develop, links with architectural firms, design institutes and industry as a way of engaging students with 'real-world' perspectives. My role as Professional Studies Advisor (PSA) is to work with employers and students in a joint effort to ensure the best possible professional development and experience for students. We will also advise employers and students on all aspects of professional experience, including commenting on matters such as salary levels and student capabilities. We support and monitor students work experience throughout the practice years. Graduates may ask the PSA or any other teacher in our department for advice on how to find such a position, or on how to monitor their years of practice. Our practice procedures are based on the UK PEDR, Professional Experience and Development Record (www.pedr.co.uk). The PEDR is a structured as a three-month record that must be verified by a suitably qualified employer and PSA within two months of the completion of the period. The PSA is responsible for reviewing the PEDR sheets quarterly and commenting on the breadth, scope and adequacy of the professional experience gained by the student. The RIBA provides guidance for students and employers on the PEDR website, and encourages students to gain experience either under the supervision of an architect or another qualified construction industry professional at this stage. Teresa Hoskyns, Professional Studies Advisor 2017-2018
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PLAT-ASIA Bookshelves.
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Photograph by C Company.
Adjaye Associates New York, Office.
Adjaye Associates New York, Office.
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Photograph by Adam Brillhart.
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After completing their BEng studies, our graduates now are qualified to work as RIBA part 1 Architectural Assistants, usually earning reasonable salaries. We recommend that students complete one year in practice before starting a Master’s degree. This year is not a gap year, as it counts towards the two years of practice experience required to become a fully qualified architect in the UK. For many students the first year in practice is a transformative experience, the first step into doing real architecture. We recommend our graduate students to work in a renowned, small or medium sized architectural practice (which are usually much more educative than the larger firms). Students who complete a practice year are well prepared to profit more from their studies when they join our Master’s programme the following year. For many Master’s programmes overseas one year of practice is a mandatory entry requirement. You may choose to work for longer than one year to save money or to gain additional experience. Other options include taking time out to work in the wider construction industry, work overseas, volunteer or travel.
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The Master of Architectural Design (MArchDes) is a 2-year, full time, professional postgraduate programme, delivering the learning outcomes as defined by the General Criteria and the Graduate Attributes to qualify for RIBA Part 2. It prepares students for two main purposes: to work as fully qualified professional architects; and as independent researchers, enabling them to undertake further post-graduate studies. Upon successful completion, an international Master of Architectural Design degree is awarded from the University of Liverpool, United Kingdom.
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After successfully concluding the two required RIBA validation visits, and with its first cohort of six graduating students, the programme was awarded unconditional RIBA Part 2 validation in February 2018, a first for a mainland Chinese university. The programme is also registered with and recognised by the Chinese Ministry of Education (MoE). The RIBA visiting board comprised of renowned architects and educators including: Professor David Dernie, Director of David Dernie Architects and Dean of the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, University of Westminster, London; Lilly Kudic, Head of Architecture at London South Bank University; and Xiaofeng Zhu, founder of Scenicarchitecture and Visiting Professor at Tongji University School of Architecture & Urban Planning, Shanghai.
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In its official report, the board confirmed that all Part 2 graduate attributes and all Part 2 criteria were met by the graduates. The board commended ‘the intention of the programme to provide a rich alternative to post-graduate provision in architecture within China’, the Department’s ‘extensive facilities, the design of the studios, digital equipment and in particular the materials library’ as well as ‘the engaged staff and student body and the low student/staff ratio that enables a focus on the learning pathways of individual students’, also commenting on the ‘evident improvement in studio outputs over the three initial cohorts’ of students. The visiting board also offered advice and recommended several action points or areas for improvement that we are now seeking to address. One key aim is to build on previous exchanges and workshops to forge more and deeper connections with other international schools of architecture. In order to address this, starting from next academic year, we are offering student exchanges with the MArch programme at the University of Liverpool. The first two exchange students from the Liverpool School of Architecture are expected to arrive in September 2018. The Masters programme reflects the unique geographical situation
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of our university, which is located in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, China. Being part of the metropolitan area of the Yangtze River delta, we continue to search 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-theart 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 creative and critical thinking skills. 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. 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. 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 their research interests and the expertise of their chosen tutors. The programme offers a progression pathway for architecture graduates from the Department’s BEngArch 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.
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At the end of the 2017/2018 academic year I handed the programme leadership over to Dr Christiane Herr, and wish her all the best for the future of the programme.
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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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Daylight simulation of a proposed canopy by Daniela Marilu Pico Perez.
Applied Technology in Architecture introduces the mutually-challenging relationships between architecture and advanced technology, which have characterised architecture and construction throughout history. It examines and explores case studies of architectural impetus on technological innovation, as well as advanced technology applications in the design, representation, evaluation, project management, construction and operation of architectural projects. This module invites students to engage with a range of technologies and technological considerations in the design, construction and use of buildings. Learning takes place in seminar and small lecture settings, with demonstrations, discussions, tutorials, readings and exercise assignments. It is delivered in a variety of teaching modes, including lectures, seminars, workshops and group tutorials. Students complete several individual coursework assignments to practice digital design and representation techniques and subsequently assemble the works into an individual, integrated and technically oriented final report. The theme for the academic year 2017/2018 was glass and steel enclosures (roofs and canopies). During its first part, the module focused on the integration of architectural and technological concerns in the schematic design of a glass-clad enclosure structure with a steel load-bearing system. The second part of the module then extended the scope of the conceptual design by integrating façade technology and considerations of environmental impact and occupant comfort.
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The module introduces students to 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. This is not simply a call to build and make, it is an invitation to think again, critically, about the potential of built and imagined environments. With an eye to the global context of XJTLU, the module pursues the intersection of architectural thinking and practice as a space where new ideas can be critically examined and discussed. Students read key texts and practice theory through in-class exercises, weekly coursework submissions, and a final essay. The ability to articulate an informed theoretical argument and stand up for one’s own ideas is rehearsed and practised as an integral part of the architect’s task. This year, the module focused on the notion of place – a term at the heart of architectural debates in our time. What is a place? How to design places? Have we lost our sense of place? In a time of flux and change, such questions become increasingly urgent. The students confronted profound meanings ascribed to the experience of this place in an attempt to locate themselves in the space between the known and the new.
A locked door in Wencun village. Photograph by Tordis Berstrand.
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Module Leader Teresa Hoskyns Guest speakers Richard Hayes Paco Mejias Gisela Loehlein Visiting lectures Nuno Fontarra (Associate Partner, Mecanoo) Christina Luk (LUK architects) Alton P. Chow (American Institute of Architects (AIA) Vice President and Managing Director - Central China of AECOM) Florence Vannoorbeeck Mengjia He (PLAYZE Architects) Liang Xu (CONCOM studio)
This year Advanced Professional Practice used research led teaching methods to investigate the diverse meanings of professional practice in China and throughout the world. We particularly focused on international architectural practice in China, international firms operating in China and their collaborations with Chinese practices. The course was taught through combination of weekly visiting lectures of practitioners and staff, seminars and practice visits: For the seminars Students were required to do weekly readings on the different aspects of professional practice in China and actively engage in seminar discussions to develop a critical approach for their coursework. Students examined the diverse roles of the architectural professional for example, the social, public, and ethical responsibilities the architect and how these may change in different countries. The course introduced students to a framework of moral codes, good practice, building practices, construction management, contracts, costing and procurement models. For the coursework students were required to undertake detailed research into an architectural offices practicing in an international context to examine the responsibilities and challenges the architectural professional faces. The research led teaching techniques that involved students visiting architectural offices and sites to do original research, interview architects to develop case studies on diverse forms of practice. We were lucky to receive a Teaching Development Fund from the University that supported the extra activities of the module.
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Topics in Architectural History: Modern Architecture as a Transnational Discourse
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Level 4 ( Year 1 | Semester 2 ) Module Credits 5 Module Leader Paolo Scrivano
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Teaching Team Paolo Scrivano Yiping Dong Jonathan Ford (LC)
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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, history of migrations, and intellectual history. This increasing interest reflects the mounting consideration for a variety of phenomena that are often referred to as globalization, a term that seems to have gained currency not only at academic level, but also through popular discourse. The module aimed 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, this seminar considered a narrative covering the 20th century but that, at times, included events that took place during the 18th and 19th centuries. The module 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. A particular focus was placed on the relation between Western and Asian architecture. 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 engage with historical evidence beyond the brief’s bibliography, and to reflect on their own research methodologies.
Great Hall of the People, Beijing 1959 [ photo Paolo Scrivano ]
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Design Studio 1 A Soft Urban Regeneration in Suzhou
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Level 4 ( Year 1 | Semester 1 ) Module Credits 10 Module Leader Pierre-Alain Croset
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Teaching Team Pierre-Alain Croset Mengjia HE (part time teacher) Mengchuan Liu Jiang (Johnny) Dong Quanqing Lu (teaching assistants)
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Guest Reviewers Bing Lin (Shanghai) Bart Mahieu (Suzhou) Lei Sun (Planning Bureau, Gusu District) Christian Nolf Yiwen Wang (UPD Department, XJTLU)
The challenge for this design studio was to reflect on the architectural and urban effects produced by the arrival of new Subway lines in the centre of the old Suzhou, as an occasion to create new urban gates in relation with the specific identity of Suzhou as a water town. These new gates consider the idea to interconnect the pedestrian traffic generated by the subway stations, and the boat navigation on the historical canals. Urban sites were selected on the basis of the analysis of the possible interactions between the waterway system of Suzhou and the new subway network. Five stations along the subway lines 4 and 6, running in the direction north-south, that connected to the canals running in eastwest direction. were chosen. In terms of architectural experience the new Gate needed to be imagined as a place of transition between two different spaces and two different times: the “abstract” space of the subway tunnel to be associated with the time of the high-speed transportation, and the space of the historical city characterized by a slower and more relaxed time. The students were invited to explore freely the formal identity of these places of transition, but at the same time they had the possibility to reflect critically on two reference “types” of the Chinese architectural tradition: the Pavilion and the Courtyard. The designs were developed at two scales: urban design, in the first phase and architectural design, in the second phase. The students reflected on some innovative ways of considering the interpretation of traditional forms of living in the Chinese city.
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Mengchuan Liu Diagrammatic map of the five sites, Interconnecting the subway stations and the waterway system.
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TRANSITION AS EXPERIENCE Daniela Pico Pérez
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Duan Yawen | 段雅文
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Design Studio 2 2042–Networked Urban Towers
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Design Review at Atkins Shanghai Office. Photograph by Christiane M. Herr.
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Teaching Team Thomas Fischer Marco Cimillo Yaqin Gong (Atkins) Eric Seymour (Atkins) Number of Students 12
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Module Leader Christiane M. Herr
Studio Group Discussion About Masterplan Layout. Photograph by Christiane M. Herr.
The second studio module in the MArch Des programme focuses on establishing and developing mutually inspiring relationships between technical and environmental requirements and design ideas. The studio addresses increasing systemic interdependencies of human habitation, built form, technology, society, natural and urban environments in contexts of high population density, as they are typically found in the fast-expanding cities of Asia. Design proposals must be based on a strong research background, which is intended to lead to a diversity of individually defined and well-argued architectural design approaches. Project work is developed in a studio setting supported by lectures, group and individual tutorials. Reviews of students include departmental staff, visiting experts from other schools as well as practicing architects. The brief invites students to develop experimental future-oriented mixed-use towers on a site in Shenyang. Students are asked to develop contextually responsive architectural design proposals that integrate social, cultural, technical, and environmental knowledge at an advanced level. All projects are required to develop tower proposals that employ timber for the load-bearing structure as well as other parts of the building. Working individually, but with a strong focus on a highly integrated overall masterplan, students developed their proposals informed by detailed lighting analysis and a strong focus on sustainable construction. This year, the studio was taught in collaboration with Atkins Shanghai, who shared a project site and provided critical feedback at all stages of the project. Several interim design reviews took place in the Atkins Shanghai office.
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RISING GREEN TOWER Cindy Lai Tong
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Additional Learning Activities
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Level 4 ( Year 1+2 ) Module Credits 0 Hours 200 / Semester
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Coordinator Christian Gänshirt (sem. 1) Davide Lombardi (sem. 2)
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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Postgraduate English (mandatory, if required by the programme director) Postgraduate Spanish Chinese language (mandatory for international students) Chinese culture (mandatory for international students) Graduate teaching assistantship Graduate research assistantship Graduate practice placement/internship Participation in Level 3 or 4 lecture based modules in the built environment cluster Participation in Level 3 or 4 modules from other XJTLU departments or the Language Centre Selected topics in design tools and methods Selected topics in advanced digital design Selected topics in architectural research methods Selected topics in architectural representation Independent studies with an architecture tutor Scholarly presentation of a research paper Publication of a paper in a peer-reviewed architecture-related journal Personal and employability skills
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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
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Level 4 ( Year 2 | Semester 1 ) Module Credits 5 Module Leader Paolo Scrivano
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The first part of the module was in seminar format and included in-class discussions and reading of assigned texts, with lectures providing context for debate. This aspect focused on the thinking that must necessarily underpin the practice of architectural design, including the relation between site and architecture, the prefiguration and representation of architectural ideas, as well as materials and the material components of architectural practice, in relation to actual design processes. The second part of the module was structured as a laboratory for the preparation of the Thesis Prospectus, under the supervision of the teaching team. Each student produced a Thesis Prospectus, in which they proposed a thesis question, demonstrated their command of architectural research, and identified and developed a specific set of theories and methods appropriate to their research work. Guest lecturers were invited to share their research experiences, with special sessions organized in coordination with the design studio ARC413 which further promoted discussion between students and thesis supervisors on their chosen research topics.
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The module aimed to familiarize students with research strategies related to the design work they concurrently undertook in ARC413: Design Studio 3. Addressing theoretical questions concerning design and research in the field of architecture through literature and specific case studies; students then, under the supervision of the teaching team, developed their own research strategies and put them in to practice in their studio work.
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Practice Based Enquiry and Architectural Representation
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Level 4 ( Year 2 | Semester 1 ) Module Credits 5 Module Leader Claudia Westermann
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Teaching Team Aleksandra Raonic Guest Reviewers Peta Carlin Juan Carlos Dall’ Asta Tordis Berstrand
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Chen Liuyi, Cinematic Life, multi-media installation. Photograph by Claudia Westermann.
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 representation 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, to address them, and to communicate to audiences that have differing understandings of what architecture is or could be. The course also aims at initiating reflections on the 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. In this year’s course, texts that reflect thoughts on practice-based knowledge, on art, design and architecture were 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. This initiated a critical engagement with ways of knowing through practice. Through a series of exercises in the remaking and translation of Architecture, students engaged with questions of experience, the documentation and presentation of spatial principles, and the practices and theories of practice that are discussed in the weekly seminars. They learnt to understand this engagement as a form of critical enquiry into architectural practices of presentation and representation.
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Imperial Brick Museum, Suzhou, by architect Liu Jiakun 2018 March (Des) theses in hard copy.
This module accompanies and supports students in the individual production of their architectural Master's thesis document, a substantial piece of academic writing. Subject matters addressed in the thesis document originate both in the previous module “Architectural Design and Research Methods” and in Design Studio 4, under the supervision of studio tutors. In turn, methods, techniques and tools introduced in this module are also expected to inform and to enhance students’ design research development in Design Studio 4. The module introduces academic reading, writing, research and productivity techniques as well as related methods and tools. It is delivered in a variety of teaching modes, including lectures, seminars, workshops, as well as group and individual tutorials. Demonstrating the abilities, amongst others, to delineate a research focus, to identify and utilise intellectual arguments and resources, to creatively structure and organise knowledge, and to produce quality academic writing, the Master’s theses provide background, and theoretical support, delineate arguments, lay out design development processes and presents the design research findings of the Design Studio 4 projects. Theses are expected to demonstrate a rigorous stance towards the students’ enquiries, taking into account critical commentary and evaluation in studio tutorials, design reviews, and other contexts such as student-initiated expert interviews.
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Level 4 ( Year 2 | Semester 1+2 ) Module Credits 10+15 Module Leader Bert de Muynck
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Teaching Team Juan Carlos Dall' Asta Bert de Muynck Christiane Herr Teresa Hoskyns Glen Wash Claudia Westermann (primary tutors) Marco Cimillo Martin Fischbach Thomas Fischer José Á. Hidalgo Aleksandra Raonic Paolo Scrivano (secondary tutors) Number of Students 8
Midterm Review Exhibition. Photographed by Jiang Dong.
In the final year of the Masters programme students develop their own design briefs and choose their individual tutors. The module ARC413 Design Studio 3 framework consequently 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, students defined the scope and topic of their projects in close cooperation with their individual tutors chosen at the end of May. During the autumn semester, the project is then developed in the usual studio setting supported by in-class presentations, group and individual tutorials, as well as lectures and seminar discussions. Students are guided to develop design tools and processes that allow them to explore their topics critically and in-depth, informing their design project, and initiating the thesis process that continues during the final semester of the Masters programme. Close connections with the other two modules in the semester support and inform the student’s enquiries: ARC411 Practice Based Enquiry and Architectural Representation supports the artistic side of the students’ 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. In the final semester of the Masters programme students need to demonstrate self-reliance in the framing of architectural problems and in the research required to resolve these problems. Building on the design and research outcomes achieved in the previous semester, in ARC413 Design Studio 4 students address an individually chosen design thesis project, resolving design and research challenges identified in the thesis prospectus written at the end of the previous semester. The outcome is a self-contained thesis design project supported by a thesis dissertation written in the parallel module ARC408 Thesis. Effectively, the work produced at this very special moment of life has two objectives: It concludes and summarises the years of studies, and, for the first time, clearly addresses the wider professional public.
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As one of the most influential metropolises, Hong Kong is rapidly moving towards the concept of the ‘meta-city’ which is characterized by the interwoven patterns of economic, political and social dynamics. The urban centres of Hong Kong are unique places where the natural and artificial blend together, creating a dense elixir of concrete jungle. With a history of urbanisation from the mountainsides to reclaimed land in the sea, Hong Kong has come to face critical urban problems such as land scarcity, pollution of diverse types as well as the staggering effects of global warming and climate change. While Hong Kong continues its land reclamation practices, the developments of the city have been criticised as “unsustainable urbanisation”. As a result, my project; Reef Towers Hong Kong, addresses an alternative approach to land reclamation and urban extension in Belcher Bay located on the northern shore of Kennedy Town, Hong Kong Island. The proposed masterplan integrates the water and the existing city to create a singular system which aims to activate the waterfronts as well as surrounding regions while looking at possibilities of growth in the future. The two towers developed throughout the course of this semester incorporate the natural and the man-made to create an environment where its inhabitants are in a constant feedback relationship with their immediate surrounding. The towers employ innovative facade strategies to amplify their inhabitants spatial experience as well as respond to the strong climate of Hong Kong.
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The phenomenon of urban transformation and globalization has drastically impact to the city development, which caused the dilapidated and abandoned housing in the city. The project is proposing an alternative solution for the dilapidated heritage buildings in the decayed areas. The site is situated in George Town, Penang, Malaysia, which nominated as UNESCO World Heritage Site in July 2008. The project research and investigation is developed in two states, from the urban level introduced urban regeneration (urban acupuncture) as method to change the urban condition. The next step is introduced intervention on architecture level to replace the dilapidated plot into new programme to activate the old town. The project also focused to inherit the local tradition and culture. In holistic approach, the programme of the project is aimed to echoing the vision of the state to develop Penang into a Creative and liveable City.
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This project is called Cinematic Architecture for Urban Regeneration ( 电影建筑学在城市更新中的运用 ). The primary tutor is Glen Wash and the secondary tutor is Paco Mejias. The main purpose for this project is to try to extract the cinematic element and apply it to the architecture design. To be specific, this project is to explore the interactions between the characters, the characters and the space, the characters and surroundings in the movie and use this as a design tool to regenerate the new village in Shanghai. Consider the movie concept in the term of architecture, add the element of obstacles or boundary to enrich the space. After analyzing the interactions in the film, the same explorations will be done at the site to satisfy the local residents’ walking experience.
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When doing the design, the streets which have the potential will be selected first. Then, based on the walking experience analysis from the residents, some points on the street will be picked out as the central area to design. Each two points will be considered together when designing to create the multi-layer in the space. Afterward, with the guidance of the circulation, more details will be added into the design. Finally, it is hopeful that the visitors will have the feeling of seeing and be seen in this new space. It is expected that this project can change the original single and boring living environment of the old new village in Shanghai, create more stops on the residents’ way home and activate the interactions in this community.
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Writing, or calligraphy, in China, is strongly influenced by ancient techniques of making art. Chinese characters have developed from diagrams and drawings. China’s earliest hieroglyphs usually retain the traces of their origin in paintings. These paintings usually recorded daily life, and the related Chinese characters have changed from these with general, simplified, and abstract features. Meanwhile, the composition that makes Chinese characters is a manifestation of ancient Chinese philosophy, of which Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism are the three key strands. They have affected Chinese culture and aesthetics in all dynasties. Chinese philosophy emphasizes the integration of individuals in their surrounding environment.
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The arts of ancient China consequently combine skills that relate to the artificial, constructed, and natural patterns. Chinese characters make a perfect example of this. The thesis outlines the research that I have undertaken on the relation between Chinese calligraphy and architectural space, between writing and constructing environments. It also presents that experimental design research develops from the above mentioned basic research new architectural typologies that are contemporary, resonant, and sensitive to the Chinese context for Guo Dong village. This innovative architectural language has been developed from the traditional Chinese cultural connotation and foundation, which is characterized by calligraphy. The new architectural language provides the possibility for the development of contemporary Chinese architecture that also responds to the local culture. It also answers the question of how architectural design can be modernized while at the same time preserving the past.
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Deng Siqi | 邓斯琪
Claudia Westermann
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"Cities must urge urban planners and architects to reinforce pedestrianism as an integrated city policy to develop lively, safe, sustainable and healthy cities. It is equally urgent to strengthen the social function of city space as a meeting place that contributes toward the aims of social sustainability and an open and democratic society." (Jan Gehl, 2010) The project is in the Northern East part of the old town of Suzhou. The originality of this venture is to expand the concept of sustainability from a purely functional and environmental view towards the integration and implication of social and cultural aspects.
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It is an approach to the creation of spatial pattern and organisation that would enhance and generate social cohesion in a sustainable environment. The choice to focus on the existing market, considered as the heart of the chosen area, is due to the fact that markets in general are living proof of social human interaction which currently are in a danger of extinction as a result of growing alternative forms of commerce such as e-commerce. Additionally, with the upcoming construction of 'luxury villas' in the northerly part; the statuses of society would drastically jump from the current local inhabitants of low and middle class to the coming of high-income earners which can create disparity. Thus the proposed renovated market is the ideal opportunity to challenge an interclass exchange to temporize gentrification through the current functional purpose of the marketplace but also develop a socially ecological diverse sector through the addition of a cultural layer that would guaranty a stimulated flexible architectural space.
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STUDENT LEUNG KEI Ornella
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Bert deMuynck
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The practice year 2 is generally made after the completion of the Master’s degree. RIBA part 2, graduates now are qualified to work as RIBA part 2 Architectural Assistants. To sit the part 3 examination, graduates are required to undertake a total of 24 months of experience under the direct supervision of an architect. For students intending to take the UK part 3 examination, 12 months minimum should be undertaken in the EEA, Channel Islands or the Isle of Man. At stage 2 practical experience graduates will be given more responsibility on projects. At this time graduates should begin studying a part 3 course which covers aspects of practice, management and law. During this time graduates can also become a RIBA Associate Member, which provides a range of services and benefits appropriate to their needs at this stage of their career.
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Co-ordinator Teresa Hoskyns
Co-Working Space SOHO Fuxing Lu, Shanghai. Photographed by Sun Fengzhu.
After completing practice year 2, graduates now are qualified to sit the RIBA part 3 examination. Due to XJTLU's status as the largest joint-venture University in China with a strong connection, through Liverpool University to the RIBA, we have been selected to become the first institution in mainland China to host the International Part 3/MEAP access course, as presently running in Hong Kong, Singapore and the Gulf. In October 2017, Alison Mackinder from RIBA North visited the University to propose and discuss the conditions of the course.
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The Membership Eligibility Assessment Panel (MEAP) is a panel of prominent academics and practitioners who meet twice a year to assess the applications of international architects and academics, working outside the UK and do not necessarily hold RIBA-recognised qualifications, but want to become international RIBA Chartered Members.
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Successful completion of the RIBA Part 3/MEAP course enables architects and non-UK graduates with 5 years architectural education (with or without RIBA validation) and two years’ experience in practice to apply for RIBA Chartered Membership. It is planned that the first access course will run in June 2018 for three days. In preparation for the course, applicants receive seven web based monthly study packs, provided on www.architecture.com to supplement the delivered course on campus. These monthly study packs can be started during the Practice Year 2.
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For further information, please contact Teresa Hoskyns, Professional Studies Advisor (PSA).
Co-Working Space SOHO Fuxing Lu, Shanghai. Photographed by Sun Fengzhu.
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Creators and Organizers Glen Wash Ivanovic Juan Carlos Dall' Asta (XJTU) Co-organizers and Hosts Kengo Kuma Toshiki Hirano (KumaLAB – University of Tokyo) Supporting Teachers Yiping Dong Jose Hidalgo (XJTLU) Matteo Belfiore (KumaLAB) Supporting Teachers Yuanxin Zhao Bingqi Liu Jieyu Wang Lincheng Zhou Xueyan Feng Jianqiang Xia Aijing He Yunjia Ma Ouli Tu Jingying Lin Yifei Huang (XJTU)
The Creative Emergencies workshop was a design event proposed by XJTLU and hosted by the KumaLAB from the university of Tokyo. It took place in March 2018, and during 4 days invited students from XJTLU and Tokyo University to think about architecture that could transform and react in the event of an earthquake. The last Tohoku earthquake and tsunami showed that the role of architecture when confronting earthquakes and calamities should not only be circumscribed to the event itself but also to its aftermath. Could we think of architecture that can not only better withstand earthquakes, but can also see them as an opportunity for adapting and evolving in order to assist and relieve the affected population? During 4 days students worked in teams designing new types of public buildings that would morph in the event of an earthquake, changing both its function and physical form in order to assist and relieve the affected population. The workshop also explored the idea of buildings that can change permanently, becoming not only a temporary solution but, in some cases, a definitive one. Each team of students had design projects addressing three stages of a calamity-driven transformation: Precalamity, During-calamity and Post-calamity. Interestingly, the final projects presented transformations with a great focus on the symbolic aspects of buildings that could bring people together after the event. Students from XJTLU continued working in this project during the semester as part of the Final Yea Project brief: Meeting Calamities: Buildings that Morph
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LECTURE SERIES FALL 2017
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The Department of Architecture organized and promoted a series of 4 lectures during the first semester of the academic year 2017-18, with a strong focus on the critical dialogue between East and West in the present architectural culture.
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In the first lecture (7th of September), Andrea de Stefanis presented under the title “Innovation through Renovation: Urban Renewal Practices” the architectural work of the office KokaiStudios, an award winning architecture and interior design firm founded in 2000 in Shanghai by Italian architects Filippo Gabbiani and Andrea Destefanis, with a focus on urban regeneration projects involving the requalification of heritage locations in China.
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With the title "Architecture and Tropicality: Shifting Paradigms in subSaharan Africa" on the 31st of October, Mark Olweny the Associate Dean, Uganda Martyrs University, Kampala introduced an innovative reflection on the contemporary architecture in Africa, discussing questions of post-colonial identity and sustainability in a critical perspective. In the third lecture entitled “Italian Seoul” on the 6th of November, Simone Carena and Marco Bruno presented the work of MotoElastico, an orbiting Space Lab founded in Seoul in 2001, explaining how in all its projects MOTOElastico is using irony to critically challenge and playfully celebrate local customs and behaviors, following the goal to challenge local cultures through unexpected combinations of original ingredients. With the title “Topology as Founding of Architecture” on the 17th of November, Laurent Salomon (professor of architecture at the ENSA of Rouen-Normandie) concluded this lecture series and presented his architectural work with Judith Robart from Paris, based on a strong modernist approach, explaining how the modern nature of architecture is migrating from the typological research to a topological one. Laurent Salomon & Judith Rotbart, Collège Daurat in Le Bourget (France), 2015 (photo Sandro di Carlo d’Arsa)
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INTERNATIONAL ARCHITECTURE CONFERENCE AND EXHIBITION
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‘Dialogue Between Italy and China and Design’ Architecture Made in Italy - Italian Architecture Prize 2016
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The exhibition ceremony on March 15th was part of the conference ‘Dialogue Between Italy and China and Design’. The conference included the participation of Pietro Chiodi - Studio Boeri Architetti, John Yang – TUS Design Group, Enzo Eusebi- Enzo Eusebi + Partners, Bing Lin – Oli Architecture, Daniele Belleri – Studio Ratti, Kwok On Philip Fung – Fly Concept.
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The Department of Architecture at Xi´an Jiaotong -Liverpool University hosted a conference and exhibition in collaboration with the Italian Trade Agency and CNAPPC- ITALIAN National Council of Architects Planners, Landscapers and Conservationist. The exhibition, curated by Davide Lombardi in collaboration with Daniela Pico Pérez (Master year 1 student), displayed through interactive media a selection of the work of Italian architects who participated in the 2016 edition of the Italian Architect and Young Architectural Talent Prize.
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Dates 26 February - 18 March 2018 Curator Davide Lombardi
Curated by Davide Lombardi in collaboration with Daniela Pico Pérez (Masters Year 1 student), the exhibition, relied predominantly on interactive media. Projects included The Kaohsiung Train Station and The Kaohsiung Performance Art Center in Taiwan; The Taekwag Country Club and The Namdaemun Office Tower in Seoul, South Korea; The Palace of Justice in Cordoba, Spain; The Municipal Offices and Station in Delft, The Netherlands; The Library of Birmingham, United Kingdom; La Llotja Theatre and Conference Centre in Lleida, Spain; The Keukenhof Entrance in Lisse, The Netherlands; The Eurojust Offices in The Hague, The Netherlands; and Three Cultural Centers and One Book Mall in Shenzhen, China.
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The Department of Architecture at Xi´an Jiaotong-Liverpool University hosted an exhibition in collaboration with the Dutch architecture office Mecanoo Architecten, based in Delft. Over a period of three weeks, the exhibition showcased a selection of Mecanoo’s latest projects in Europe and Asia, it featuring in association with the International Architecture Workshop lead by Mecanoo´s Associate Partner, Nuno Gonçalves Fontarra.
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ROTTERDAM NEW WATERFRONT
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Mecanoo International Workshop
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MArchDes and BEngArch Year 3 took part in an International Workshop led by the Dutch firm Mecanoo Architecten. Based in Delft, The Netherlands, Mecanoo have designed numerous landmark buildings including the Birmingham Library, The Taiwanese Arts Centre, and the Delft University Library, receiving numerous awards and honours for its work.
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The workshop was led by Nuno Goncalves Fontarra, an associate partner in the firm, with its focus on developing solutions to redevelop a harbour area in Rotterdam. Students worked in groups of five or six, each overseen by an academic staff member, with consultation and advice from Nuno, with each group proposing complex and exciting ideas at urban and architectural scales. The first exercise considered density in an area of approximaltey 500,000 m2 versus the natural environment (the water system) was undertaken during the initial days to find the breaking point where site characteristics were lost, or when living conditions became impossible. All groups incorporated the pre-existent natural environment into an explorative masterplan investigating different building typologies in order to understand the consequences of mass and volume in the future development, with the scale of housing, cultural facilities or office blocks, considered in terms of the impact that each program had in terms of density and liveability in light of the masterplan.
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The final results demonstrated critical thinking by design, and a varied approach to topics from multiple perspectives. Urban density, sustainability, landscaping and futuristic urban ideas emerged as some of the key themes.
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EXHIBITION: BRUNO TAUT’S HYUGA VILLA IN ATAMI, WEST OF JAPAN / EAST OF EUROPE
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Dates 18th October – 3rd November 2017 Curators Marco Capitanio Pierre Alain Croset Juan Carlos Dall’Asta Glen Wash
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The Hyuga Villa in Atami, Japan, designed by German architect Bruno Taut (1880-1938), was completed at the end of a three-year period spent in the country. The Department of Architecture at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University hosted an exhibition and event, ‘West of Japan/East of Europe’, in order to discuss the history of the building in the context of interactions between Western and Eastern architectural cultures. The exhibition was devoted to the only existing project Bruno Taut realized during his three-year stay in Japan, Hyuga Villa (Kyu Hyuga Bettei) in Atami, built in 1936. The project embodies a deeply personal refection on Japanese architecture, mediated through Taut‘s European sensibilities. The result represents a unique example of cross-cultural integration, which, at the time of its completion, stood at odds with mainstream Modernism in Europe on the one hand, and with the local architectural language on the other. The complete, detailed plans of Hyuga Villa were presented for the first time in China, paired with large-format photographs by the architectural photographer Dave Clough. By juxtaposing drawings and pictures, the aim was to immerse the visitor in the realm of Taut‘s architectural obsessions, in particular, the concept of appropriateness (Proportion), manifest in all aspects of the building, especially in its materiality and atmosphere.
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RESEARCH WORKSHOP “MAPPING ARCHITECTURAL CRITICISM IN CHINA”
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Dates April 24, 2018 Organizers Yiping Dong Paolo Scrivano Xiaohan Chen Participants Tabe Bergman (Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University) Tordis Berstrand (Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University) Bert de Muynck (Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University) Chris Gänshirt (Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University) Plácido González Martínez (Tongjii University) Jiawen Han (Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University) Hua Li (Southeast University) Andong Lu (Nanjing University) Keyang Tang (South University of Science and Technology) Kai Wang (Tongji University) Claudia Westermann (Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University)
Building upon a research begun in 2014 and aimed at undertaking the construction of a historical overview of architectural criticism in the Western world, the workshop intended to discuss extending a similar study to China, charting past and current Chinese notions and forms of architectural criticism and placing them in a comparative perspective. Among the questions the workshop addressed were: what is the state of architectural criticism in today’s China? Has anything that can be called architectural criticism existed before and under which forms? Who have been and who are its major stakeholders? To which extent architectural criticism in China developed in relation to comparable experiences in the rest of the world? And to which extent it unfolded in an autonomous and independent way, with traits peculiar to its context? What can we learn from the history and current practice of architectural criticism in China? And how the latter can interact with architectural criticism in the rest of the world? By involving researchers with different academic affiliations and cultural backgrounds, the intention of the workshop was to initiate a debate about architectural criticism in China and in the West, foster a dialogue intending to create the conditions for future research collaborations.
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CARDBOARD SHELTERS
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Final review of cardboard shelter designs by primary school children. Photographs by Milan Ognjanovic.
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, without the use of glue and relying purely on mechanical connections. This year, the task was to build shelters for school children of about 11-12 years old. Besides additional connection materials such as metal screws, cable binders and string, the bridge structure must be made entirely of cardboard. Students work in teams of five to seven, and collaborate on all stages of the design. The project is run in cooperation with Suzhou SIP Foreign Language School, with their primary-level 6 students performing both as ‘clients’, giving students initial creative inspiration, and eager test subjects once structures are completed. The shelter design proceeds through a series of interim models, 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 and client assessment by the school children. During the event, the children also vote for the “Best Cardboard Shelter 2017 Award” by attaching stickers to their favourite shelter designs. In this process, architecture students learn essential skills such as design work in teams, planning and managing the 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.
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MARCHDES STUDENTS WIN 3rd PRIZE IN CTBUH STUDENT DESIGN COMPETITION
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Event Organiser Christiane M. Herr Students Chitraj Bissoonauth Jingxiang Tan
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Design Proposal for CTBUH Student Competition. Renderings by Jingxiang Tan and Chitraj Bissonauth.
Two students in their second year of the Master of Architectural Design programme were awarded the Third Prize in the prestigious CTBUH (Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat) 6th International Student Tall Building Design Competition. The prize winners were selected in three rounds of review from 229 submissions. Working as a team, Chitraj Bissoonauth and Jingxiang Tan developed a future vision for Shanghai entitled ‘Networking Tradition and Future for a Livable Urban Shanghai’. The annual CTBUH student idea competition typically calls for design proposals that are future-oriented in both programmatic and functional as well as technical aspects of architecture. The theme for 2017 was ‘Connecting the City: People, Density and Infrastructure’. Final competition winners were selected by a jury composed of professionals from well-known practices based on in-person presentations of the five finalists at the annual international 2017 CTBUH conference which was held from October 30 to November 3 in Sydney, Brisbane, and Melbourne, Australia.
CTBUH Student Competition Winners With Ron Klemencic, CTBUH Jury (Jingxiang Tan and Chitraj Bissonauth second and third from the left)
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STUDENTS PRESENT DESIGN PROPOSALS AT FOOTBRIDGE2017 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
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Supervisor Christiane M. Herr Students Hanzhi Gao Zhuoying Wu Yifei Huang
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Zhuoying Wu Presenting Bridge Design Proposal “Berlin Spirit” at the Conference. Photograph by Christiane M. Herr.
“Technical Irrationality” and “Spree Encounter”: Bridge Proposals by Hanzhi Gao and Yifei Huang.
In September 2017, three of the best bridge proposals resulting from the structural design module ARC202 of the preceding academic year were further developed, submitted to and presented at the prestigious Footbridge2017 International Conference held in Berlin, Germany. With the theme “Tell a Story”, the conference was hosted by the Technical University of Berlin, Germany. Providing an interdisciplinary forum for practitioners, researchers and educators, the conference this year called for not only academic papers but also for bridge design proposals for given sites in Berlin. All three submitted proposals were accepted for presentation and discussion at the conference. In addition, proposals were included in a dedicated book collecting all submitted bridge proposals, titled ‘Footbridges for Berlin’. The conference encourages interdisciplinary and collaborative approaches to design between architecture and engineering. This approach is widely recognised in Europe and beyond as a key ingredient in high-quality built environments, but not yet well established in China. Future professionals in both architecture and engineering will increasingly rely on collaborative design competence. Participating in the conference, gaining awareness of current developments in leading research and practice as well as networking with peers provides invaluable opportunities for participating students.
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Guest Reviewers Jun Xia (Department of Civil Engineering) Isaac Galobardes (Department of Civil Engineering) Jose Hidalgo (Department of Architecture) Juan Carlos Dall’Asta (Department of Architecture)
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Bridge design review with guest reviewers from the Departments of Civil Engineering and Architecture. Photographs by Christiane M. Herr.
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 architecturally driven design ideas. The competition task this year was to build a functional model of a bridge connecting the XJTLU North and South campuses, with a span of 27m and supported only at the ends. Bridges should be as lightweight as possible while supporting a weight of 6kg distributed across 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, usability, 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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Head of the Materials Library Ruggero Canova Collection Ruggero Canova Christian Gänshirt From left: Christian Gaenshirt , Jack Dunne, David Goodman, Pierre Alain Croset, Caterina Tiazzoldi, Ruggero Canova, James Champion,
From left: Christian Gaenshirt , Wenwen Li, Derrick Tate, Pierre Alain Croset, Ruggero Canova (Head of the Materials Library), Yunpeng Xiang, Caterina Tiazzodi, Chen Lin, Hongchao Wang, Stanislav Ten, Andrew Harvilla.
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Exhibition Design Caterina Tiazzoldi Interior and Furniture Design Ben Wu – Honchao Wang XJTLU Rubber Installation Caterina Tiazzoldi
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In December 2017, the XJTLU Materials Library opened on the Ground Floor of the Design Building, located in the South Campus of Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University. The library is a collaborative project between the Departments of Industrial Design and Architecture. Its mission is to create a direct connection between the materiality of the built environment and design procedures adopted in higher education. In a cultural environment with a predominance of ‘digitally native’ students, access to different construction and design materials aims to strengthen the relationship between design conception and physical implementation, where technical properties can also be read and understood as the expression of both function and aesthetics. According to Ruggero Canova, “the Materials Library can [also] act as a networking platform for materials producers, manufacturing companies, design and architecture firms, as well as academic research, teaching and learning.” With a 300 square-meter space in the heart of the Design Building, and surrounded by workshops and advanced manufacturing labs, the Materials Library supports a strategy where research by doing, and learning by design, in both Industrial Design and Architecture can be combined. The scientific project of the Library was developed by Ruggero Canova and Christian Gänshirt following conversations with Materials Libraries located in different parts of the world including: Materió, Rematerialise at Kingston University, Central Saint Martin Materials Library, Institute of Making at UCL, MatTo at Politecnico di Torino, and Neuni Materio. As part of this cross-fertilization process, a permanent partnership and research programme has been established with Materioteca Milano and its founder Diana Castiglione, who is a member of the scientific committee of XJTLU Materials Library.
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“SMART/ECO CITIES AND DISTRIBUTED RENEWABLE ENERGY SYSTEMS IN CHINA AND IN THE UK”
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Dates July 11, 2018 Organisers Dr Marco Cimillo, XJTLU Dr Esra Kurul, Reader at Oxford Brookes University Dr Maurizio Sibilla, Oxford Brookes University Dr Ying Long, Tsinghua University Participants Prof Gisela Loehlein, XJTLU Dr Marco Cimillo, Lecturer, XJTLU Dr Esra Kurul, Reader at Oxford Brookes University Dr Maurizio Sibilla, Oxford Brookes University Dr Ying Long, Tsinghua University Dr Fei Xue, XJTLU Dr Suo Hua, Guangzhou University Dr He Qi, China Construction Science and Technology Shenzhen Dr Yi Zhang, Tsinghua-Berkeley Shenzhen Institute Dr Zhen Tian, Associate Professor, Soochow University Prof Yan Xiao, Zhejiang University Dr Cristoforo De Martino, Nanjing University of Technology Prof Zhou Guoyan, SooChow University Dr Claudia Westermann, XJTLU, Dr Sofia Quiroga, XJTLU Xi Chen, XJTLU Wenting Ma, XJTLU Xiaotong Xu, XJTLU
The International Research Workshop was held at XJTLU as part of the Research Project "Users and distributed renewable and interactive energy systems (DRIS) a comparative study between the United Kingdom and China", carried out in collaboration among XJTLU, Oxford Brookes University, and Tsinghua University, and funded by a Global Challenges Collaborative Research Award from OBU. The event was also supported by the Department of Architecture at XJTLU, to debate more broadly on these topics, with experts in different disciplines, joining the discussion from prestigious institutions in Suzhou, Beijing, Nanjing, Hangzhou, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, and Oxford. The group shared research and ideas for a full day at the International Academic Exchange Centre, and is now working towards a more solid network and new collaborative, multidisciplinary projects.
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MULTIPLE AWARDS FOR OUTSTANDING FINAL YEAR PROJECTS
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Staff and students from the Department of Architecture at Xi’an JiaotongLiverpool University celebrated the award of a number of prizes at an architectural education competition for universities in China. Submissions from the department won the Outstanding Design Brief and Outstanding Design Studio Coursework at the 2017 National Architectural Education Annual Symposium in Shenzhen, China.
Shaokang Li ‘A Palimpsest of Old Shanghai’
Schools and departments of architecture around China were required to submit architectural design studio briefs and related resulting students’ work. The prizes received by the two XJTLU staff members and two students were for a Final Year Project studio brief and two related studio projects. Only six awards were given in the Final Year Project category in this year’s competition, for which there were 327 submissions of architectural design studio briefs and related students’ work.
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The Outstanding Design Brief award was received for ‘Framing Indeterminacy’, a brief developed collaboratively by teachers Aleksandra Raonic and Claudia Westermann for the Final Year Project studio in Year Four. The ‘Framing Indeterminacy’ brief guided the students in an experimental approach to developing a new architecture of participation and exchange for a site located in Shanghai on the West bank of the Huangpu River, around 800 metres southeast of the historic Bund waterfront area. In light of recent developments in architecture that prioritise form as image, the brief suggested that students reconsider openness, participation, and performance as fundamental questions of architecture. Two related Final Year Studio projects developed by the 2017 graduates Shaokang Li and Fuwei Shao each received an Outstanding Coursework award. Shaokang Li’s Final Year Project, ‘A Palimpsest of Old Shanghai’, captured an understanding of indeterminacy by translating a Chinese shadow play into an exquisite series of conceptual models and drawings, and subsequently into architecture. Story fragments overlap and interlace in the multi-universe of the proposed architecture. It blurs the boundary between time and space and generates new stories. Graduate Fuwei Shao questioned compositional approaches to the design of architecture with a focus on function, form and material to determine the meaning of space. His Final Year Project ‘Shifting Perspectives in the Urban Theatre’ sensibly addresses issues of control and participation in architectural design, arriving at new ways to activate and promote social interaction.
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Jiangsu Province Excellent Final Year Project Prize Shaokang Li’s ‘A Palimpsest of Old Shanghai’ was also awarded a second prize in the Excellent Final Year Project competition of Jiangsu Province in 2017. The project was awarded among thousands of research papers and projects presented from students at universities and colleges in Jiangsu Province.
Fuwei Shao ‘Shifting Perspectives in the Urban Theatre’
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The Department of Architecture at Xi 'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University awarded its second annual BDP-Farrell prize to Year Four student Yifei Huang for his final year studio work. The award is sponsored by BDP - the architecture firm that designed XJTLU's South Campus including the Design Building that is home to the Department of Architecture. The award is also named in honour of the first faculty member of the Department of Architecture at XJTLU, Edward Farrell, and recognises the undergraduate architecture student with the best studio performance in the final year of the BEng(Hons) Architecture programme. 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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Yifei, already the recipient of the Best Performance in the Final Year Project in Architecture Award, was presented with his award at a ceremony held in the Design Building’s exhibition hall, during the University's graduation week. The prize ceremony was chaired by Professor Gisela Loehlein from the Department of Architecture.
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Yifei Huang was supervised for his Final Year Project by Juan Carlos dall’Asta and Glen Wash. The semester 1 studio project of year 4 was supervised by José Ángel Hidalgo Arellano. The same tutors also supervised Jianqiang Xia who was honoured with the BDP-Farrell second prize. Graduates Houzhe Zhang and Yulin Yu shared the BDP-Farrell third prize. Their studio projects of the final year were supervised by Glen Wash and Sofia Quiroga in semester 1. Houzhe Zhang’s and Yulin Yu’s Final Year Projects were supervised by both Christian Gaenshirt and Bert de Muynck, as well as José Ángel Hidalgo Arellano and Philip Fung. The award is a gift of Professor Andre Brown, former Vice President for Academic Affairs at XJTLU. Originally involved in setting up the Department at XJTLU, Professor Brown invited BDP 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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The research strategy of the Department of Architecture is focused on three research areas:
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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.
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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. 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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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 and technological research as well as research in sociology, art, design and aesthetics.
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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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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.
RESEARCH OUTPUTS 2017-2018
Publications Berstrand, Tordis. “La possibilité d’un espace-mur.” In Murs , exhibition catalogue, Musée de Beaux-Arts de Caen, edited by Emmanuelle Delapierre and Marie-Claire Sellier, 28-37. Caen: Musée de Beaux-Arts de Caen, 2018. Carlin, Peta. On Surface and Place: Between Architecture, Textiles and Photography . Abingdon - Oxon: Routledge, 2018. Lombardi, Davide; Tedeschi, Arturo “INPUT/OUTPUT DATA”, in “Informed architecture”, edited by M. Hemmerling, Springer, 2018.
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Lombardi, Davide. “Il coraggio di disegnare”, in “Simplified Complexity”, edited by G. Di Marco, Le Penseur, 2018. Quiroga, Sofía. “The divided screen, composition and visual decomposition. Space and Film, Montreal 1967.” Constelaciones 6 (2018): 131-144.
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Quiroga, Sofía. “Poesía de un paisaje urbano nocturno” in Tesis recientes . Madrid: COAM editions, 2018. Scrivano, Paolo. Against the Contingencies of the Italian Society: Issues of Historical Continuity and Discontinuity in Italy’s Postwar Architectural Periodicals in Torsten Schmiedeknecht and Andrew Peckham (eds.), Modernism and the Professional Architecture Journal: Reporting, Editing and Reconstructing in Postwar Europe . London - New York: Routledge, 2018: 184-96.
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Scrivano, Paolo; Capitanio, Marco. “West of Japan/East of Europe: Translating Architectural Legacies and the Case of Bruno Taut’s Hyuga Villa.” Built Heritage 2:2 (June 2018): 50-61.
靈璧賞石 Rock in the Form of a Fantastic Mountain. Qing dynasty (1644–1911), Kangxi period
Wash, Glen; Miyazaki, Shinya. “Drawing the Invisible: Creating Visualizations of Rice Farming in Rural China”. In Proceedings for CUI’ 17 - V International Contemporary Urban Issues - Informality. DAKAM. 2017, 87 -94 Istanbul.
(1662–1722), China. Black Lingbi limestone; wood stand. Dimensions overall (with base): H. 18 3/8 in. (46.7 cm); W. 12 7/8 in. (32.7 cm); D. 6 5/8 in. (16.8 cm). Gift of Richard Rosenblum Family, 2009. From The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Westermann, Claudia. “On delight: Thoughts for tomorrow.” Technoetic Arts: A Journal of Speculative Research 16:1 (2018): 41-49.
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Hoskyns, Teresa; Loehlein, Gisela; Jassi, Manju. “Public Space and New Urban Territories: A comparison between Suzhou, China and Dubai, United Arab Emirates,” ISUF Conference, Bari.
Raonic, Aleksandra. “Framing Indeterminacy – Pedagogical Journey into Experimental Architectural Thinking,” presentation at the international conference “Consciousness Reframed XX: Subtle Cybernetics and the Art of Mind” China Central Academy of Fine Art, November 25-26, 2017.
Westermann, Claudia. “On Delight: Thoughts for Tomorrow,” presentation at the international conference “Consciousness Reframed XX: Subtle Cybernetics and the Art of Mind” China Central Academy of Fine Art, November 25-26, 2017.
Lombardi, Davide. “Acheiropoietic Architecture”, paper presented at the International Conference “IMMAGINI?”, Free University of Brixen, December, 2017.
Scrivano, Paolo. “Natural and Artificial in Western Architecture and Urban Space,” lecture presented at conference “Architecture - City - Nature,” Nanjing Tech University, December 9, 2017.
Westermann, Claudia. “The Industrialisation of the Romantic Spirit,” presentation for the Summer School of Hong Kong University, Shanghai Study Centre. Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, June 28, 2018.
Lombardi, Davide; Dounas, Theodoros. “Creating new cities – Cellular automata and social condenser”, paper presented at the International Conference “CAADRIA 2018 – Learning, Adapting, Prototyping”, Tsinghua Univeristy, Beijing, 2018.
Scrivano, Paolo. “Le transfert culturel comme approche méthodologique,” lecture presented at the conference “L’historiographie de l’architecture sous l’angle des transferts culturels,” École nationale supérieure d’architecture de Strasbourg - Université de Strasbourg, February 2, 2018.
Conferences and Lectures
Lombardi, Davide; Herr, Christiane; Galobardes, Isaac. “Parametric Design of Sculptural Fibre Reinforced Concrete Façade Components”, paper presented at the International Conference “CAADRIA 2018 – Learning, Adapting, Prototyping”, Tsinghua Univeristy, Beijing, 2018. Lombardi Davide. “Data driven design”, key note lecture presented at Universidad De Las Americas Puebla (UDLAP), Mexico, 2018.
Scrivano, Paolo. “Bruno Zevi, A Transnational Cultural Mediator,” keynote lecture presented at the conference “How to Narrate the History of Architecture,” The Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, May 7, 2018.
Quiroga, Sofia. “The Mylar mirror and other devices at Pepsi pavilion (Osaka 1970),” paper presented at the International Conference “Mirror, Mirror: Perceptions, Deceptions, and Reflections in Time.” London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research, March 10, 2018.
Scrivano, Paolo. “L’America di Bruno Zevi: scambi, contatti, strategie di legittimazione,” paper presented at the symposium “Intellettuali di confine. L’emigrazione intellettuale tra Italia e Stati Uniti e l’avvio della guerra fredda culturale in Italia (19381950). Giornata di studi dedicata alla figura di Bruno Zevi a cento anni dalla nascita,” Centro Studi Americani - Fondazione Bruno Zevi, Rome, June 20, 2018.
Quiroga, Sofia. “Utopic Theatres,” paper presented at the “3rd Arts and Humanities Conference,” University of Economics, Prague - Department of Philosophy and Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, May 17, 2018.
Wash, Glen. "Visualizing the Place-Space Boundary". The Place of Memory and Memory of Place Conference, University of London Centre of Interdisciplinary Research. London, June 16, 2018.
Exhibitions Quiroga, Sofia. “Light and technified image, from Moholy-Nagy to CAVS”. Spanish Pavilion, 16th International Architecture Exhibition Venice Biennale Architettura 2018, May - November 2018.
Others Loehlein, Gisela. Design Consultancy: Kloster Reute, Bad Waldsee, advising on scoping, masterplanning and design for the future of the convent 2017-2022. Jiangsu University Natural Science Research Programme (18KJB560018) 2018-2020, ‘Weak Tectonics: the Role of Materiality in the Work of Japanese Architects SANAA’, PI: Dr Jing Yang, collaborators: Dr Bing Chen, Dr Adam Brillhart, Nan Yang, Yaqin Zuo. SIP/ XJTLU Research fund 2019-2022, 'Advanced Low Energy Technologies for Zero Emission Architecture', PI: Dr Moon Kim, collaborators: Prof Gisela Loehlein, Dr Bing Chen, Dr Huiqing Wen, Dr Changhyun Jun, Prof Stephen Sharples, Dr David Chow, Dr Juan Carlos Dall'asta.
MAPPING ARCHITECTURAL CRITICISM IN CHINA
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Chen Xiaohan Ph.D. Candidate Department of Architecture Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (XJTLU)
Since the early 1980s, there has been a renewed interest in Chinese architectural criticism. In 1986, for example, in his article “Architectural theory, criticism and creation” ( 建筑理论，评论和创作 . Jianzhu lilun, pinglun he chuangzuo ), architecture professor Zou Denong pointed at the importance of architectural criticism in China (LI L., ZHI W. 2014). According to architecture professor Duan Xiaodan, in recent times critics in China have been turning to social views, even to journalism, in a perspective where ontological architectural thinking seems to be absent (DUAN X., YANG Y. 2009). Since 1990, the phenomenon of “sociologism” in Chinese architectural criticism has become rather common. In this view, architectural criticism has become more about the accumulation of popular social discourses and less about focusing on ontological questions such as theory, design context, and technological characteristics. For the moment, historical research on Chinese architectural criticism is still limited to a number of pioneering studies (ZHU T. 2008; ZHU J. 2012). In common understanding, architectural criticism is often indistinctly positioned somewhere between architectural history and theory and the promotion of specific buildings or practices (HEYNEN H., GENARD J.-L. 2012). Based on this premise, “Mapping Architectural Criticism in China” intends to map out past and present definitions of Chinese architectural criticism by encompassing different characterizations of the discipline.
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ARCHITECTURAL DEVICES AS CATALYSTS FOR URBAN TRANSFORMATION
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Guillermo Sánchez Sotés Ph.D. Candidate Department of Architecture Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (XJTLU)
Chinese urban environments are experiencing significant changes due to rapid modernization. The prevalence of top-down planning results in generic urban environments that presume generic inhabitants and remain indifferent to their inhabitants’ ways of living. On closer observation, inhabitants can, however, be observed to adapt these generic urban spaces, often with simple but effective means. One can observe a range of objects and devices on various scales – from small furniture to temporary structures – being used to transform spaces to produce markets, breakfast spaces, sites for entertainment and learning, and much more. This is a proposal for a thesis project to investigate these devices as indicators of shortcomings in current architectural and urban planning approaches, and to identify ways in which architectural design may be employed as a partial methodological route to address these shortcomings. The proposed project comprises an observational stage, an analytical stage, as well as a subsequent experimental research through design stage during which the outcomes of the previous stages will be further developed and evaluated. Findings are expected to inform the urban planning of public spaces in China as well as architectural design of sustainable public spaces at various scales.
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ANOTHER MODERNIZATION: URBAN TRANSFORMATIONS OF SUZHOU, 1949-1986
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Department of Architecture
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View From Bei Si Pagoda towards Ren Min Road, 1982,
View From Bei Si Pagoda towards Ren Min Road, 1940, photos from
photo taken by Shizhao Liu
Xu.(ed), Traditional Suzhou Street and Lanes, 2005, Yangzhou.
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Jie Jia Qiao, 1960s, photos from Xu.(ed),
Jie Jia Qiao, 1980s, photos from Xu.(ed),
Traditional Suzhou Street and Lanes, 2005, Yangzhou.
Traditional Suzhou Street and Lanes, 2005, Yangzhou.
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Yin Ma Qiao, 1950s, photos from Xu.(ed),
Yin Ma Qiao, 1980s, photo from Xu.(ed),
Traditional Suzhou Street and Lanes, 2005, Yangzhou.
Traditional Suzhou Street and Lanes, 2005, Yangzhou.
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Quanqing Lu Ph.D. Candidate Department of Architecture Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (XJTLU)
The research is aiming 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 1986 when planning and practices of urban conservation were first initiated with the announcement of the national law for conservation, with Suzhou then identified as one of the nation's historic and cultural cities. Current research and literature on urban form in Suzhou indicates a significant lack of information and discussion on this period of the city's urban history.
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RESEARCH ON THE ELDERLY’S DAILY LIFE AND THEIR LIVING ENVIRONMENT: A COMPARISON OF SUZHOU OLD TOWN AND SUZHOU INDUSTRIAL PARK
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Qian Lin Ph.D. Candidate Department of Architecture Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (XJTLU)
With a growing number of elderly people, ageing is becoming a crucial social issue in China. The "One Child Policy" of the 1980s limited the number of newborns and resulted in a 4-2-1 structural morphology of population. Due to the pressure of fast-paced life, the younger generation born later than the 1980s tends to live a life that is different from their predecessors. Regardless of choosing a late marriage, or establishing Dink (Double Incomes No Kids) families, the younger generation’s way of living leads to a rapid population ageing. However, the methods and the approaches for dealing with this issue are insufficient, and thus can hardly meet the demands of this group of the population. In China, “Home-based Care” is advocated by the government at the policy level. Besides, given the custom and living habits of Chinese people, many elders prefer ageing at home. As such, this research seeks to study the ageing issue by looking at the living condition of Suzhou elders who age at home, and drawing a comparison between those living in the Suzhou Old Town and Suzhou Industrial Park, thereby laying a foundation for proposing strategic and tactical measures on housing and community for the Suzhou elderly.
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THE ENERGY RETROFIT OF THE EXISTING RESIDENTIAL BUILDING STOCK IN JIANGSU PROVINCE
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Xi Chen Ph.D. Candidate Department of Architecture Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (XJTLU)
Abstract Buildings in China represent almost 1/4 of the total national energy consumption, from which urban residential buildings represent over 38% of the total floor area in urban area and 23% of total energy consumption in building sector. It is also predicted that the energy consumption and carbon emission for housing will increase sharply in the future, while China is already the largest carbon producing country in the world. Thus, China has committed internationally and established policies to promote clean and renewable energy and energy efficiency buildings to decrease carbon emission by 60%-65% by 2030. The low-energy retrofit of the existing housing stock can significantly reduce energy consumption and carbon emissions. Apart from sustainable and low-energy technologies and approaches, the experiences of companies, users and policy-makers play an important part in organising the building and energy system. Thus, this research is expected to explore the applicability and the potential of standard and innovative measures, policies and approaches to low energy retrofit for the residential building stock that fit different future social and climate context scenarios in Jiangsu Province.
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SITUATING CHINESE INDEPENDENT ARCHITECTS 1949 ONWARDS
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Nan Ye Ph.D. Candidate Department of Architecture Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (XJTLU)
Abstract The history of Chinese independent architects could trace back to the early 1920s when Chinese architectural students returned after studied abroad and established private design practices. However, they encountered a temporary termination after the socialist transformation of the new China from 1949 to 1956. After the 1950s, it took decades for the architectural profession to reclaim the freedom of private practice. Finally, from the 1980s onward, individual practice began to flourish and multiply in number. Yet before the 1980s, Chinese architects still tried to release their creativity in restricted opportunities. This research proposes to study the history of Chinese Independent Architects, while comparing with contemporaneous western counterparts and to look for, with a focus on the emergence and re-emergence of private architectural practices, the essence of independent practice.
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PROMENADE AND YI BU YI JING: MOVEMENT, DISCOVERY AND SCENERY IN THE CASES OF LE CORBUSIER'S VILLA AND TRADITIONAL CHINESE LITERATI GARDEN
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Zuo Yaqin Ph.D. Candidate Department of Architecture Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (XJTLU)
Abstract The Chinese literati garden and Le Corbusier's villa are examples of dwellings which emphasize the experience of yi bu yi jing and promenade as part of the living experience. Through a parallel study, questions are raised about how the yi bu yi jing and promenade in two cases have been conceived and realised with particular focus on movement, discovery and scenery, and how to interpret the two cases which expressed identical aspirations with regards to spatial strategies, organisation and experience. The thesis studies ways in which chosen examples of gardens in Suzhou and villas in France have been laid out to facilitate experience that both belongs to and exceeds the framework for dwelling which can be identified in other periods and places. These examples and analyses open further questions related to concepts of dwelling in traditional China and twentieth-century Europe which the thesis seeks to examine about the theme of spatial strolling. The study draws on architectural history and theory, philosophy, art and aesthetics as means to understand and critically engage with the influences that have informed the chosen case studies. The thesis aims to discover the underlying dynamics and possibilities for the purpose of identifying strategies for dwelling and the design of living spaces applicable in the contemporary age.
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DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE XI'AN JIAOTONG-LIVERPOOL UNIVERSITY STUDENTS
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Sun Xiao 孙潇 Linardi Felix Ma Yunjia 马韵佳 Feng Lu 冯璐 Wang Aoli 王傲立 Wang Jieyu 王婕妤 You Jiayi 尤珈仪
Guan Xueli 关雪丽 Zhu Qiniu 朱骑牛 Song Wenxuan 宋文萱 Huang Wenyi 黄文逸 Chen Xinyi 陈辛夷 Chen Ying 陈颖
伟 Zhou Lincheng 周麟丞 Zhang Yingqi 张英琦 Zhang Jinqiao 张近桥 Zhang Hongru 张洪儒 Feng Xueyan 冯雪妍 Wu
翔 Lin Zhaoyuan 林赵圆 Qian Jieyu 钱婕虞 Shen Yingying 沈迎莹 Zheng Qi 郑琦 Chen Zeheng 陈泽衡 Ni Shuyu 倪抒
Deng Yusheng 邓禹晟 Cao Ruichen 曹瑞晨 Zhao Yuanxin 赵元新 Cheng Jie 程婕 Chen Zhaoyuan 陈昭元 Zou Wei 邹
Danyang 吴丹阳 Wang Jiapeng 王佳鹏 Zhou Yilin 周依林 Sun Zhiwei 孙志伟 Xia Jianqiang 夏坚强 Qiao Jiatun 乔稼
屯 Cao Shan 曹珊 Li Rui 李睿 Tong Da 童达 Tu Ouli 涂欧犁 Wu Zhuoying 吴卓颖 Li Sizhou 李四周 Xu Yile 徐乙乐 Wang Liu 王柳 Zhu Siwei 朱思为 Lin Jingying 林婧蓥 Yu Yulin 俞裕林 Gao Hanzhi 高含之 He Aijing 何艾璟 Zhou Yinuo 周宜
诺 Zou Yina 邹依娜 Qi Xiaozhi 齐啸之 Wang Ducheng 王渡程 Liu Bingqi 刘炳圻 Wu Yiyang 吴艺扬 Zhai Huihong 翟 珲宏 Zhang Houzhe 张厚哲 Huang Yifei 黄逸飞 Xu Mingyang 徐铭阳 Bai Yuxin 白雨馨 Dei Gabriella Gratia Wirjana Michelle Natasha Tjandra Ricky Dharma Mulyono Joshua Bryan Koromila Eirini Theodora Huang Yu 黄 羽
Gong Lingfei 龚凌菲 Wang Hongmeng 王鸿蒙 Li Zhao 李钊 Wang Zehao 王泽浩 Jiang Yi 蒋翌 Wei Wenxin 魏文欣
Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
Department of Architecture
Qiu Mingyu 仇明玉 Liu Jiazheng 刘家正 Wang Zhihan 王知涵 Yu Miao 禹淼 Zhou Xiaoyang 周笑阳 Zhu Yue 朱玥 Yu Xinning 郁歆宁 Chen Fanyun 陈凡云 Lu Yizhe 陆怡哲 Wang Yuzhou 王煜洲 Ye Chenwei 叶宸维 Wang Yu 王煜 Yang
Ruizi 杨蕊滋 Zhou Yili 周依黎 Zhang Xiaoxuan 章晓萱 Wu Bi 吴比 Zhuo Jinbing 卓锦冰 Wu Yan 伍衍 Chen Danni 陈 丹妮 Dan Xinrui 但欣芮 Li Dexin 李德馨 Li Ziyi 李子懿 Tong Xuan 童轩 Zhang Weizhen 张伟臻 Li Guangyuan 李光远 Xue Wenya 薛温雅 Ye Wenxuan 叶文轩 Li Xian 李贤 Zhang Lingke 张零可 Tu Kaixi 涂凯茜 Jiang Ruochen 蒋若辰 Tong
Shuoyu 佟朔宇 Zhang Xinyi 张 馨艺 Chen Haokun 陈昊坤 Yao Wenxuan 姚 文 萱 Chen Zitong 陈梓橦 Wu Jianghan 吴江浛 Zhang Yining 张怡凝 Ha Ziyu 哈姿羽 Zhang Yi 张亦 Cai Shiyu 蔡诗雨 Qiao Kefei 乔柯斐 Shui Shumin 水淑敏
Chen Menghan 陈梦晗 Cui Qichen 崔琦琛 He Yuxin 何昱欣 Jia Yifei 贾逸飞 Xu Ziying 许子莹 Yao Yuzheng 姚羽筝 Shi Luhang 时露航 Zhang Zixuan 张子璇 Li Linmei 李林镁 Zhao Zihao 赵子豪 Zhang Yang 张洋 Shang Yixiu 尚奕秀 Li
Qianru 李倩茹 Yan Haonan 鄢淏南 Cheng Jingyuan 程婧媛 Fang Tianyuan 方天圆 Ze Mingxuan 则铭暄 Liu Ziyan 刘 紫烟 Jiang Kunhui 蒋坤辉 Qi Simiao 漆思淼 Wang Ruihao 王睿豪 Zhang Boran 张博然 Ding Yuxin 丁宇欣 Ma Dongjie
马东杰 Ma Mingxun 马铭勋 Wang Lingyu 王聆雨 Li Yunyan 李昀燕 Liu Weikang 刘唯康 Lyu Yidi 吕祎迪 Wei Shubo 魏
书博 Wu Yunxi 吴韫希 Zhang Zijing 张紫荆 Zheng Qinyuan 郑钦元 Ge Tiantian 葛田田 Lyu Danyang 吕丹阳 Li Keyan 李可言 Liang Yuhaoyuan 梁玉皓元 Wang Qiaosheng 王乔生 Mu Congyu 穆聪雨 Luo Tian 罗恬 Li Peijia 李佩珈 Sun Weicheng 孙 炜 程 Li Jiayao 李 家 耀 Christy Natasha Yan Chut Hang Fong Choy Bryan Jonatan Nursalim Ivan
Permana Tshomo Namgay Wong Derry Wibowo Guo Yilin 郭奕麟 Zhou Yingtong 周映同 Liu Yueya 刘玥雅 Deng Zhixin 邓致欣 Huang Kuolin 黄扩霖 Chen Yinhai 陈寅海 Zhang Tianzong 张天纵 Wan Zijian 万子健 Xiao Yixin 肖奕欣
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Xue Qi 薛骐 Xue Ningzi 薛宁紫 Xu Jiawei 许佳炜 Zhu Chenghan 朱澄涵 Li Lingbo 李凌波 Huang Minyu 黄珉钰 Zhu Qi
朱琦 Kong Xinyi 孔心怡 Zhang Zhaohan 张照晗 Bai Yuliang 白宇梁 Zhou Xiaofei 周笑非 Zhao Rui 赵睿 Liu Zecheng
Chen Yujian 陈予健 Guo Hanshen 郭瀚绅 Huang Xinyi 黄心怡 Yang Jiaye 杨佳叶 Zhan Panyuan 詹攀远 Zhan Xiang 詹
予 Qiu Zili 裘子立 Shi Xiongzhe 施雄哲 Wang Qiuhao 王秋昊 Xia Runhan 夏润涵 Xie Wenze 谢文则 Xu Xinyi 徐昕逸 Yu
Yiyin 俞奕吟 Zhu Tianfeng 朱天丰 Lu Xuerong 路雪融 Ma Rongsen 马荣森 Song Yufeng 宋雨峰 Liu Yichang 刘奕苌 Lyu Jiaheng 吕佳恒 Luo Chunwen 罗淳文 Miao Yiyuan 苗译元 Tong Xin 童心 Wang Shuting 王舒婷 Zhuang Yinfei 庄寅霏 Guo Yefei 郭烨非 Li Jianuo 李佳诺 Gu Yu 古钰 Qiao Haoyue 乔皓月 Sun Sitan 孙斯坦 Yan Jiayi 闫佳宜 Zhao Xiayu 赵
夏雨 Chen Ziqi 陈紫琦 Li Lun 李伦 Liu Xiangli 刘湘礼 Wang Jiaqi 王嘉琪 Zou Yuanjie 邹元杰 Feng Yi 冯怡 Li Jiayang
李佳杨 Liu Chang 刘畅 Xiong Manxin 熊曼馨 Yang Yuxi 杨雨曦 Chen Yimu 陈怡沐 Feng Leilin 冯蕾霖 Feng Tinghao 冯 庭淏 Zhai Haomiao 翟浩渺 Zhang Jinyu 张锦宇 Zhang Zhengyang 张正阳 Zhao Xinzhuo 赵鑫卓 Lin Wei 林蔚 Chen
Yixi 陈羿西 Tang Yingxuan 唐颖璇 Cai Zhuoling 蔡卓玲 He Linzhi 何林芷 He Zhengcheng 何政承 Yang Jiarun 杨佳 润 Jiang Xinping 蒋心平 Lu Lanxin 鲁兰心 He Jiaying 何佳 莹 Li Yilun 李 逸伦 Shi Yue 施 越 Zhang Zhiyuan 张 致 远 Chen Xuanyang 陈宣仰 Song Lu 宋鹿 Chen Sijia 陈思嘉 Xu Xueyan 许雪妍 Cheng Runhao 程润昊 Cheng Yiming 程
奕明 Gao Tianyi 高天轶 Li Xu 李栩 Tang Yifan 唐一凡 Wang Bingyao 汪丙尧 Zhang Dayong 章大勇 Mei Xinyun 梅馨云 Cheng Anran 程安然 Lin Yuanyuan 林园园 Zeng Muyuan 曾慕远 He Huiling 何蕙伶 Ding Yanwen 丁彦文 Yang Lujia 杨璐嘉 Hu Qixuan 胡启铉 Mao Xuesong 毛雪松 Dai Xinru 戴昕茹 Gao Chuanlin 高川琳 Luan Chenqi 栾 晨琦 Song
Jiahui 宋家辉 Xu Xiaotong 许晓彤 Zhang Jingjing 张晶晶 Zhao Jinsong 赵劲松 Zhang Yunfan 张云帆 Jia Haochun 贾皓淳 Tang Weiyin 唐维寅 Sun Jiaxu 孙家旭 Wang Shen 王申 Fan Jiaqi 樊嘉麒 Li Rongcheng 李容丞 Li Yuanxin 李 沅欣 Wang Yixuan 汪逸轩 Ye Yuhan 冶钰涵 Wang Wenxi 王文茜 Jin Hanlin 金瀚林 Wang Haiyi 王海懿 Gao Jian 高鉴
Jian Yujie 简钰杰 Li Yurui 李禹锐 Liu Yuheng 刘雨蘅 Liu Ziyu 刘梓钰 Mu Hongyuan 穆宏源 Xia Fengyun 夏凤云 Xu Zihui 徐子惠 Gong Yifu 弓益夫 Pei Zhizhen 裴至真 Wang Qi 王祺 Huang Wenjunlan 黄雯君兰 Li Yusong 黎雨松 Qiao
Yuhe 谯雨荷 Song Dingkun 宋定锟 Wang Lilin 王俪霖 Yuan Gujunfeng 袁谷俊峰 Zhang Haoning 张昊宁 Zhang Xinran
张鑫然 Zheng Xiayi 郑夏怡 Che Yue 车越 Sun Chenlu 孙晨露 Yao Yiming 姚艺铭 Gao Huanyue 高欢悦 Gao Tong 高 彤 He Yuting 贺钰婷 Hou Wenyu 侯文钰 Kang Bohan 康博涵 Duan Chongyuan 段崇源 Li Siyi 李思懿 Li Yunfei 李昀 霏 Su Qinze 苏沁泽 Sun Zhuoping 孙卓平 Wang Haochong 王昊翀 Wang Mingyu 王茗宇 Wang Yiteng 王奕腾 Wang
Yingzhuo 王樱焯 Xue Haotian 薛皓天 Zhang Hanzheng 张涵峥 Zhang Min 张敏 Liu Mengting 刘梦婷 You Wenjing 尤 文静 Liu Su 刘苏 Gopari Ricky Chan Tak Ming 陈德铭 Lee Woonyoung Nachimuthu Senthilkumar Sachin Kumar Pandowo Andrew Sadien Iohans Shekar Tjahjadi Deilsika Jenness Benjamin Colin Madiarova Aimeerim
刘则呈 Chen Xi 陈曦 Wang Hefeng 王河峰 Chen Sisi 陈思思 Ge Yunlin 葛韵琳 Shen Xinyu 沈欣语 Zhang Yu 张宇 Bian
Deng Siqi 邓 斯 琪 Duan Yawen 段 雅 文 Ma Bo 马 博 Wang Yitong 王 乙 童 Chen Jiaci 陈 嘉 词 Li Jiayi 李 佳 忆
王 Li Shuqi 李书琦 Lyu Zheng 吕铮 Ren Chenjia 任晨嘉 Shao Ziyi 邵紫怡 Wang Zhiling 王智灵 Wu Yelun 吴冶仑 Wu
Isabella Chen Liuyi
Xingchao 卞兴超 Chen Jingyuan 陈静媛 Fan Jiawei 范家玮 Gu Feijie 顾斐杰 Hu Wenxuan 胡文轩 Jin Siwang 金思
Yubang 吴煜邦 Xu Shuyang 徐书扬 Yang Kaiwen 杨楷文 Yang Yue 杨玥 Zhang Junrui 张君睿 Zhang Yuqing 章宇晴
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Zhaorui 刘赵 蕊 Pico Perez Daniela Marilu Yan Limei 严丽玫 Zhang Caoyi 张曹谊 Espitia Garcia Camilo Eduardo
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Head of Department Ph.D., Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff University (UK)
Ph.D., Tongji University (CN) MArch, Tongji University (CN) BArch, Tongji University (CN)
Ph.D., University of Hong Kong (HK) MArch, University of Hong Kong (HK) Dipl-Ing Arch, University of Kassel (DE)
Tordis Berstrand
Martin Fischbach
José Ángel Hidalgo Arellano
Ph.D., University of Tokyo (JP) MEng, University of Tokyo (JP) Dipl Arch, Catholic University of Valparaiso (CL) Licensed Architect (CL)
Ph.D. Fine Arts, Paris 1 P-Sorbonne University (FR) MA Fine Arts, Paris 1 P-Sorbonne University (FR) MArch, ENSArchitecture ParisBelleville (FR) Registered Arch DPLG (FR)
PhD. Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (ES) MArch, Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya, Barcelona (ES) Registered Architect (ES)
Ph.D. Candidate, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya, Barcelona, 2015 - (ES) M.Arch, Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Frankfurt (DE) Dipl.-Ing. Arch., University of Belgrade (RS)
Antonio Berton Bing Lin Darcy Chang Dirk Zschuncke Dong Cheng Ercument Gorgul Florence Vannoorbeeck Joan Cane Jue Qiu Julian Ramirez Rentero Kevin Sun Liang Xu Liwen Zhu Lorenzo Acciai Nicola Pagnano Teo Hidalgo Nacher Xiani Wang Yiting Pan Yiwen Zhang Yongpeng Liu
Ph.D., Architecture, University of Kent (UK) M.Sc, Architectural History, Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL (UK) M.Arch, Architecture, Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts (DK) Licensed Architect (DK)
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Adam Brillhart Ph.D., China Academy of Art (CN) MSc, Columbia University (US) B. Arch, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Albert Dorman Honors College (US)
Peta Carlin Ph.D., RMIT University (AU) M.A. (Media Arts), RMIT University (AU) B.A. (Hons) (Visual Communications), RMIT University (AU) B.Arch., RMIT University (AU)
Marco Cimilo Ph.D., Sapienza University of Rome (IT) MArch, Sapienza University of Rome (IT) Registered Architect (IT)
Pierre Alain Croset
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Dipl. Arch., Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (CH) Registered Architect (CH and IT)
Juan Carlos Dall’Asta Ph.D., Politecnico di Milano (IT) March, Politecnico di Milano (IT) BArch, Politecnico di Milano (IT) Registered Architect (IT)
Thomas Fischer Ph.D., Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University (AU) Ph.D., University of Kassel (DE) MEd equiv., University of Kassel (DE)
Philip Fung MArch, Chinese University of Hong Kong (CN) BSSc (Architectural Studies), Chinese University of Hong Kong (CN) RIBA
Christian Gänshirt Ph.D., Brandenburg University of Technology (DE) Dipl-Ing Arch, Universität Fridericiana zu Karlsruhe (DE) Licensed and registered Architect, Berlin Chamber of Architects (DE)
Teresa Hoskyns Ph.D., The Bartlett, University College London (UK) MA, Royal College of Art, London (UK)
Moon Keun Kim Ph.D., Architecture, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (CH) M.Sc, Architectural Engineering, Pennsylvania State University at University Park (US) M.Sc, Engineering Acoustics, Technical University of Denmark (DK) M.Sc, Architecture, Yonsei University (KR)
Davide Lombardi Ph.D., School of Advanced Studies 'G. d'Annunzio' (IT) BA+MA, Università degli Studi Gabriele d'Annunzio, Department of Architecture (IT) Registered Architect (IT)
Paolo Scrivano Ph.D., Politecnico di Torino (IT) Dipl. Arch., Politecnico di Torino (IT)
Lina Stergiou 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 (US) Diploma (Dipl.-Ing.), Professional, School of Architecture, National Technical University of Athens (GR)
Caterina Tiazzoldi Ph.D., Architecture, Politecnico di Torino (IT) M.Sc, GSAPP Columbia University, Advanced Master, Architecture (US) Registered Architect (IT)
Li-An Tsien
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Bert de Muynck
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Claudia Westermann Ph.D., University of Plymouth (UK) Pgr Dipl Media Art, Karlsruhe University of Art and Design (DE) Dipl-Ing Arch, University of Karlsruhe, TH (DE) Chartered Architect (DE)
Junjie Xi Ph.D., University of Liverpool (UK) M.A. University of Leeds (UK) B.A. Anhui University of Architecture (CN)
Jing Yang Ph.D., University of Nottingham (UK) MArch, Southeast University (CN) BArch, Southwest Jiaotong University (CN)
Teaching Assistants Stanislav Ten Nikhil Seewoo Robert Ward Daniela Pico Wenwen Li Cindy Lai Tong Ornella Leung Kei Jiaci Chen Mengchuan Liu Yinxiao Zhu Qian Lin Quanqing Lu Nan Ye Xi Chen Yaqin Zuo Xiaohan Chen
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Further Studies Master of Architecture, University of California, Berkeley, since 2017
Since the first graduation of students from the Bachelor degree in 2014 and the Master’s degree in 2017, our network of alumni continues to grow, and to make us very proud. Future graduates of XJTLU’s Department of Architecture can now look forward to joining a global network of successful alumni who are making a difference in universities, organisations and recognised award-winning architecture practices – all over the world. Many alumni have stories to tell that are extraordinary and provide evidence of their excellence. This year, we have introduced a new section to the yearbook to give our alumni space to tell their stories. On the following pages, you will find the stories of eight exemplary graduates of the Bachelor degree. They give a sense of the achievement that has come to typify XJTLU’s Architecture alumni in general.
Over the four years that I studied architecture in XJTLU, I developed a deep understanding and love of architecture. In the second semester of my third year, a workshop brought me to Cape Town. The aim of the workshop was to generate equitable guidelines for future urban planning and to increase access to affordable housing. It was the first time I thought about the social responsibilities of architecture and the architect. After my undergraduate degree I have worked for one year in practice in Shanghai. I realized that architecture is a very broad discipline. Except designing buildings, during my Master’s I have also learnt to work with technology, such as VR and AR. It adds a new dimension to architecture. I interned in the landscape department of AECOM office after finishing the first year of postgraduate studies, learning landscape design and how to design architecture and surrounding landscape as a whole. I believe my experience will be beneficial to my future study and practice.
If you are a graduate of our Architecture programmes but are not yet connected to our alumni WeChat groups, please contact the Department’s alumni coordinator Claudia Westermann at Arc.Alumni@xjtlu.edu.cn, so you can be added. Claudia will also be happy to receive updates from you. E-mail to let her know where you are and what you do. We look forward to hearing from you.
▲ Sequential section LA Music Center
▲ Rendering LA Music Center
A project that I designed in the first year of my master study in UC
A project that I designed in the first year of my master study in UC
Berkeley. The sequential section shows the the different spaces in the
Berkeley. The rendering shows the rhythm that is created by the
building and their rhythm.
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Further Studies Master of Architecture, McGill University, Montreal, Canada; graduated May 2018.
Current Employer Arno Matis Architecture, Vancouver, Canada
I had four years of wonderful architectural study at XJTLU, and then continued my studies in a Master programme at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. After graduation, I was recruited by an up and coming Vancouver architectural company for seven months. I have registered in the Intern Architect Program of AIBC, which is the first step to obtain the Canadian Architect License. Life is an adventure. Each move required me to adapt to a different climate, culture, pace of life, as well as different local building codes. Even though I have now been a couple of years in Canada, I still miss the time I spent at XJTLU. Professors offered me great favors. I also remember the many nights we spent in the studio with diligent classmates, an unforgettable memory.
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Dai Anni | 戴安妮
XJTLU Degree BEng(Hons) Architecture, 2016 Further Studies Master Program (MArch), University of Applied Arts Vienna, Studio Greg Lynn, since 2018.
XJTLU influenced me profoundly not only by teaching me fundamental knowledge of architecture but by educating me as a critical architect. Having acquired the ability to constantly challenge myself and to learn independently, I was able to seek my own goal in the architectural profession. I took the chance in my Final Year Project to elaborate my vision of an architecture based on living rules. My architectural projects and interests fostered at XJTLU led me to Studio Lynn at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, where I will continue my professional exploration. After my undergraduate degree at XJTLU, I worked at Farrells (Shanghai) for over 1 year and Farrells (Hong Kong) for 6 months. It was the broad knowledge learned at XJTLU and the ability to take up new challenges and to study by myself that allowed me to learn new skills and knowledge efficiently within short time. The directors at Farrells appreciate this ability in XJTLU students.
Xiamen Winland International Finance Center (under construction)
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Shenzhen Bay Super HeadquartersEvergrande Center (Competition)
A rendering of Xiamen Winland International Finance Center that I worked on at Farrells (Shanghai) for Winland, in collaboration with Thornton Tomasetti, Aurecon, PFT, BIAD.
Hangzhou Winland Daguan Mixed Use Development
A mixed-use development, including high-end hotel, retail, as well
A group of three residential buildings is located at Westside of
as a residential tower by office Arno Matis in Downtown Vancouver,
Vancouver by office Arno Matis. This is the project I am involved in
A rendering of Hangzhou Winland Daguan Mixed Use Development that
A rendering of Shenzhen Bay Super Headquarters-Evergrande
as a new gateway of Burrard Street. I worked on the project for five
right now. It is at the Development Permit stage. I work on producing
I worked on at Farrells (Hong Kong) for Winland, in collaboration with
Center that I worked on at Farrells (Hong Kong) for Evergrande, in
months. It just passed the rezoning inquiry stage.
the drawing package and solving design problems with the team.
ARUP, UAD.
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Li Yirong | 李依融
XJTLU Degree BEng(Hons) Architecture, 2015
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Further Studies Master of Architecture, Greg Lynn Studio – University of Applied Arts Vienna, since 2017.
Further Studies Master of Architecture, University of New South Wales, 2018
Current Employer DEM (Aust) Pty Ltd, Sydney
I enjoy how the discourse of architecture can engage in different social, technological and cultural contexts and conditions, and how architectural knowledge is constantly challenged by the transformations of the cities, technologies, science, etc.
As a junior architect, I really enjoy the variety of options the profession offers, not only in projects, but also in the role we could play. Working in a multi-disciplinary practice, I am exposed to all aspects of the building process, which helps me develop continuous skills from sketch stage to contract documentation.
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Since graduation, I have worked in Shanghai, Taiwan, Helsinki and Vienna on various projects from urban renovation to participatory design-build with refugees. These projects have taught me how to realize the potentials of architecture beyond aesthetic and programmatic requirements.
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The three years in XJTLU offered me opportunities to study architecture from different perspectives. I learnt architecture in a multi-disciplinary context, which provided an important basis and has allowed me to practice in all phases of the design and construction process and to successfully address inconceivable challenges.
XJTLU and UNSW both play a vital role in preparing me well for working within the industry. Over the six years as a student, I was exposed to critical ways of thinking about built architecture and learnt to keep questioning apparent facts. One of the highlights during my undergraduate studies was to be engaged partly in the design of the XJTLU Museum, and to be able to witness the whole process from concept design to construction. Running parallel to education and practice, being a teaching assistant in UNSW is something else I enjoyed. By teaching and helping students, I have learnt to test and reshape my idea of the built environment. It has provided me with a broader knowledge of the architecture profession.
◀ Physical Model of Tensile-based Tensegrity Structural Design Research Developing from Frei Otto’s tensile structure design methodology, the project investigates how tensegrity structures can be driven by designed-form/surface and can support space in between multiple layers.
◀ Augmented Reality Projection on Physical Model
A sectional perspective of the civic tower designed in UNSW graduate
A perspective of the civic tower designed in UNSW graduate studio,
studio, named Inside out +Outside in.
named Inside out +Outside in.
An augmented reality (AR) representation of the digital model of tensile-based tensegrity structure, projected onto a physical model. The AR technique assists in the calibration
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of digital structural behavior by matching it with the physical behavior.
A series of rendering of the civic tower designed in UNSW graduate studio, named Inside out +Outside in.
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Shen Xiaoya | 沈筱雅
XJTLU Degree BEng (Hons) Architecture, July 2017
Occupation Internship architect
Further Studies Master of Architecture, University of Michigan, since 2017.
Further Studies Master of Science, Politecnico di Milano, since 2018
Former Employer Kokaistudios, Shanghai
I received my Bachelor degree from Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University with first class honors in 2016. Before going to graduate school, I worked in Shanghai as a junior architect with TM Studio, Shanghai, where I gained experience on historical district renovation and cultural designs. I will graduate from the University of Michigan with a Master of Architecture degree in 2019. Currently I am working as a summer intern in San Francisco.
Studying at XJTLU for me was a process of self-exploration. Architecture is a subject that relates to various fields of knowledge. Over the four years that I studied at XJTLU, I learnt to think independently and follow my own interest. After graduation, I joined Kokaistudios for a year in practice. This one-year work placement expanded my horizon. I worked on a varied range of projects from a small-scale interior renovation to a largescale urban renewal. I realized that working on projects that make use of existing structures and adapt them was deeply attracting. The design skills, and the knowledge in the humanities, and in environmental and structural design that I learned at university were all indispensable in design projects of adaptive reuse. Although renovation projects are not the most popular among architects, I have decided to follow my interests. For my postgraduate studies, I have therefor enrolled in a programme at the Politecnico di Milano with a focus on working in historical contexts. The education in XJTLU taught me to think independently and walk the way that fits me, not the way that seems to fit everybody.
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The architectural education I gained in XJTLU is unique and incredible. I really cherish the memory of my studio life in EB building. It was hard but full of joy. For me, XJTLU is where my architectural life began, and the things I have learnt there build up who I am now. The courses I have taken there are so useful, and some of the reading materials in my graduate school’s theory course were even the same as those I read in XJTLU’s philosophy of art classes. As one of the first few graduates of Department of Architecture, I am so glad to see the great progress our department has made. I am so proud to be an XJTLUer.
◀ Changning District Urban Regeneration Department of Architecture
Schematic Design This is a rendering of an urban regeneration project that I assisted in designing at Kokaistudios. This project encompasses a building renovation as well as a new
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◀ Shopping Mall Interior Renovation This is a rendering of an interior renovation project that I assisted in designing at Kokaistudios. This shopping mall is located in the city center of Shanghai. It aims to provide a new shopping experience for
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women of the 21st century. Studio work: SO-SCOPIC The project is an exploration of scopic regimes based on Cyberpunk and postmodernism architecture.
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Former Employer Greenberg Farrow, Shanghai
Sui Yingda | 隋英达
XJTLU Degree BEng(Hons) Architecture, 2014
Wu Dong | 吴冬
Occupation Architectural Designer
During my year of practice after graduation from the undergraduate programme, I experienced the architectural market from multiple perspectives, first as an intern of historical building conservation in ECADI, then as research assistant in XJTLU’s Department of Architecture, and finally as an architect with Greenberg Farrow Shanghai. The three different jobs allowed me gain insights into both professional research and real industry, ranging from a medium scale regeneration project to a high-rise complex. Faithfully, the variety of training I received during my undergraduate studies in XJTLU has provided me with a strong basis to take all of the above mentioned opportunities. The SURF project I did in 2016 has led me into the realm of conservation. The module ‘Professional Practice’ enabled me to understand the RIBA system of workflow and management in Greenberg Farrow quickly. Additionally, I am very grateful for the support from all my tutors in successfully applying for the Master’s at TU Delft, even after graduation.
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Current Employer Lukstudio Shanghai
“We believe that the ‘value’ of architecture lies in the quality of space, in the experience of its most architectonic dimension. “_ Sofia von Ellrichshausen Over the past four years since graduation, I have worked with the offices Neri & Hu, and Lukstudio, both based in Shanghai. They have offered me opportunities to be involved in design projects of various types and scales, such as hospitality, retail, office, building renovation and product design. The experience of working in practice has assisted me to develop an understanding of materiality, details and construction methods, and how these factors together shape space and its spatial value. Studying architecture at XJTLU was an unforgettable experience that helped me to know what design is and how to design, as well as how to use drawing as a tool to represent design ideas. Importantly, the programme helped me to understand how architecture and other disciplines interact. During my short career, I have also learned that the spatial value of architecture needs to be thought always from two directions. There is not only a designer, but also someone who uses the space, and who also has emotions and memories. ◀ Bloomberg office renovation, Eeri & Hu The client’s brief was to design a staircase to connect the 3 different floors of their office with the explicit rule that this stair should to be used daily as the only vertical connection within the office to encourage employee interaction.
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◀ MCM Seoul Flagship store, Eeri & Hu
The project brief asked for a renovation of an existing 5 story building with an attached parking tower as the new flagship store for MCM in Seoul’s luxury district of Gangnam.
◀ ARTHAUS Retail store, Eeri & Hu Located in the cosmopolitan Xinyi district of Taipei, the brand’s department store flagship An aero-view rendering of the Jiangbei CBD A2-A5 Towers I helped design in Greenberg Farrow.
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You Xinzhu | 由馨竹
XJTLU Degree BEng(Hons)Architecture, July 2017
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Zhang Chenke | 张晨珂
Current Employer GreenbergFarrow, Shanghai
I am interested in art, history, philosophy, science and technology and I pursue architecture as a profession because I regard it as a subject where everything comes together. Additionally, over the undergraduate years of architecture study, I generally realized the gap between economic developments and the aesthetic levels of the public in China. Architecture serves people and it is the kind of art that can be touched and experienced by the majority people in their daily lives. The purpose of architecture is to raise men's spirits. I have always appreciated my undergraduate study. Majoring in architecture in Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, has equipped me with a solid foundation for architecture and opened a door for me to Europe. I am now looking forward to starting my next academic voyage at KU Leuven which is one of the most innovative universities in Europe.
The variety of courses in XJTLU has ensured that I have become a qualified architect being able to address architectural tasks from all perspectives. I excelled in Construction and Materials, which helped me a lot in my practice afterwards. I learned how to view architecture from a critical perspective through the Architecture Theory module. Philosophy of Aesthetics profoundly influenced me by bringing sensibility to my design. All these experiences in XJTLU have become solid foundations for my future career. Currently, I am working on a high-end commercial complex named JC Mandarin located in West Nanjing Road in Shanghai. My tasks include construction detailing design, design of detail parts (soffit, canopy, roof MEP fence, lighting strategy…). I have also coordinated with Curtain Wall Consultants and Lighting Consultants, adjusting the design based on tech codes and in response to technical difficulties. Apart from this, I am honoured to be responsible for XJTLU Film School in the construction documents review and site coordination stage. I have learned a lot in practice, such as project management, BIM coordination, building techniques, team cooperation and so on.
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◀ Chenghua industrial heritage conservation
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project Renderings of the Chenghua industrial heritage conservation project that I participated at OUR for Chengdu government.
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After completing my Bachelor at XJTLU, I worked for a year in practice as Assistant Architect while also working as a part-time film production designer. Subsequently, I went to London to study for a Diploma In Architecture, RIBA Part 2, at the Architectural Association School of Architecture. XJTLU was my starting point in Architecture. Most importantly, the undergraduate programme assisted me to develop critical approaches to architecture from various viewpoints. While I was given a solid foundation in Architecture, I was also taught that it is important to find my own way, to maintain passion for Architecture, and simultaneously, not to be afraid of competitive environments.
ACADEMIC POSITION STATEMENT
Introduction Founded in 2011, the Department of Architecture at Xi’an JiaotongLiverpool University (XJTLU) is part of a young Sino-British university situated in Suzhou, a city which falls within the greater Shanghai area. With construction of the university’s new South Campus underway, in 2016, the Department moved into its new Design Building two years, which it shares with the Department of Industrial Design, the building’s facilities of the highest international standards. Set in China, but closely connected with the University of Liverpool and the UK framework of architectural education, the Department’s aim is
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to offer a new global model of architectural education. The fostering of the students’ creative and critical thinking skills is an important and distinctive characteristic 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
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professional,” which has only recently become an option in China, and offers new ways of practicing architecture for 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 longerToday, circuses and zoos are shut down due to various shifts in human sensibilities. This project proposes the redefinition of the circus typology by re-considering the relationship between humans and animals. Chisinau Circus is transformed into an
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Animal Research Centre for local and endangered species where the animals
term future.
Department Identity and Vision With a faculty that contributes experiences in practice and research in more than twenty countries, the international make-up of the Department of Architecture at XJTLU is unique in China. It brings
inhabit luxury cages providing adequate
together traditions and opportunities from the East and the West, and
environments, while human visitors enjoy
seeks to provide the best of both perspectives in architectural and urban
the spectacle of the animals’ daily routine
design, offering new views on the local context as well as on global
instead of a rehearsed performance.
issues.
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As China continues to undergo processes of
industries in the context of China and beyond.
modernisation, the Department is particularly aware of its responsibility in educating a new generation of architects who face enormous challenges. There is an emerging interest in topics such as the environment, building tectonics, cultural heritage, and usercentred design, as well as growing recognition of the necessity to reinvest in the extant built environment
in our Architectural Deisgn programmme at Part
● 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 inter-and trans-disciplinary research between the humanities, science, technology and sustainability.
through urban regeneration and the refurbishment of existing building stock.
The Department is also committed to Research by
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Design, an experimental form of research that is
2 level by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) in February 2018, this also a first for a mainland Chinese University. ● In the Summer 2018, the first time in mainland China that the RIBA Part 3 MEAP course was offered by a Chinese University, 100 years ago our partnering university in Liverpool offered this course for the first time in the UK.
These issues and concerns are viewed by the
specific to the architectural discipline, with less
Department as a challenge and as an opportunity, and
conventional research outcomes, such as prototypes,
it responds through its focus on new human-centred
projects, buildings, components, and exhibitions.
● Excellent profile of an international faculty with
approaches to learning, practicing and researching
To this end, the Design Research Centre has been
experience in practice and research in more than
architectural design, in order to nurture attitudes
established to facilitate small-scale pilot projects. It
20 countries directly supporting undergraduate and
that will prove valuable in the future. For there is a
has a practice and research academics staff structure,
postgraduate learning.
need – not only in China – for Architects who are
and involves a number of permanent faculty
critical thinkers and highly qualified professionals.
members, along with local professional architects
● Location of the Department in a new building,
who will contribute their specific competences in
shared with the Department of Industrial Design,
Both the undergraduate and the postgraduate
architectural design, planning, sustainability and
with a strong architectural identity, offering an ideal
programmes centre on applied architectural design
construction.
showcase for its staff and students in spaces with a
studio modules (50%), which are supported by a balanced mix of humanities-based and technical modules (25% each).
Academic Agenda The following key points are based on staff views,
The Department’s research concentrates on three
student feedback, internal University reports, and
headline research areas:
external reports by examiners and professional bodies:
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● International validation of the MArchDes degree
● History, Theory and Heritage offers connections with Suzhou and other heritage sites in China, addressing, in particular, questions pertaining to multiculturalism and trans-nationalism. ● Computational Design and Fabrication develops partnerships with innovative high-tech
Recent exceptional areas of activity
particular character.
● Initiatives such as international workshops, student competitions, and, summer research projects within the framework of XJTLU’s Summer Undergraduate Fellowships (SURF), positively impacting the programmes’ development.
● Establishment of the first online architectural magazine in English in China, Masterplanning the
● The following key points are based on staff views, student feedback, internal University reports, and
Future (MPTF ), which is student-led and has a
external reports by examiners and professional
continuously growing number of students actively
bodies:
participating.
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Individuality of the learning environment in the Chinese context
● MArchDes programme: fosters student autonomy in view of future professional career development
● Positioned in Suzhou, both a heritage city (classical gardens recognised as UNESCO World Heritage Sites) and an extremely dynamic new city, now the fourth largest concentration of economic activity in China in terms of GDP.
opportunities, with the second year framed as a “research by design” year.
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● 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. ● Excellent building resources supporting a vibrant studio culture, with dedicated spaces for design studios, reviews, and physical modelling, as well as for a materials library.
● Recruitment of students from amongst the top 5% of Chinese high school graduates, and a progressive increase of international students.
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Differences between Bachelor and Master degrees ● BEng programme: provides a clear sequence of design studios with the gradual introduction of
● Innovative learning environment that fosters independent, creative and responsible designers with a thoughtful, research-led and imaginative approach to place-making.
● MArchDes programme: connection with XJTLU’s Master programmes in Urban Planning and Urban Design (with the Urban Planning and Design
● Unique offering of undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in English in China, taught by international educators.
Creative criteria delivering course content
and responsibility in pursuing individual interests
Department) in year one creates unique possibilities for interdisciplinary design research.
Relevance to professional practice ● Design studio themes are strongly connected with real-world problems and necessities in China and beyond; lecture courses and coursework are related to contemporary issues and current concerns.
● Practicing architects in Suzhou and Shanghai contribute as part-time tutors and visiting critics, and present guest lectures, lead site visits, and offer internships for students.
● The Design Research Centre which seeks to actively involve staff, students and local practicing architects in the development of pilot projects.
● Establishment of the Built Environment Physics Lab, to offer cutting edge research in the realm of sustainability.
ideas and skills, with a focus on the attainment of
● Graduates work in top architectural offices,
personal and professional confidence in order to take
and assist in strengthening the connections of the
advantage of practice experience.
Department to local practice.
● 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 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.
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