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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 2016-17 YEARBOOK is a publication by the Department
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2016-17 YEARBOOK has benefitted enormously from the generous advice and input of Pierre-Alain Croset, Christian Gänshirt, Claudia Westermann, and Christiane M. Herr along with support from Bert de Muynck, Stanislav Ten and Nikhil Seewoo. The YEARBOOK was designed by Designtang with many of the photographs kindly provided Milan Ognjanovic.
© 2017 Department of Architecture, XJTLU Edited by Peta Carlin 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
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Level 00 Year 1 023 ARC001 Introduction to Architecture and Visual Culture 025 ARC002 Lecture with studio elements Architectural Representation and Communication
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History of Western Architecture Humanities and Architecture Introduction to Environmental Science 035 ARC104 Structures and Materials 037 ARC108 Construction and Materials 039 ARC101 Design Studio | Design Thinking and Articulation 051 ARC105 Design Studio | Small Space Design 059 ARC102 Design Studio | Small Scale Architectural Design
Level 02 Year 3 073 ARC203 History of Asian Architecture 075 ARC206 Urban Studies 077 ARC201 Environmental Design and Sustainability 079 ARC202 Structural Design
081 ARC205 Design Studio | Design and Building Typology 095 ARC204 Design Studio | Small Urban Buildings
Level 03 Year 4 109 111 113 115 117
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Architectural Technology Architectural Theory Professional Practice Philosophy of Art and Aesthetics Design Studio | Small and Medium Scale Buildings 127 ARC304 Design Studio | Final Year Project
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Integrated Design of Small Buildings Architectural Technology and Innovation 177 ARC207 Building Typology in Integrated Architectural Design
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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 211 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
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259 Second Suzhou International Architecture Workshop 261 Workshop W.A.Ve.2017 in Venice 263 Bamboo Workshop 265 Sergio Pascolo Architects - Total Housing
267 Lecture Series Spring 2017 269 Re-Signifying the Water Town: A Survey of Shengjiadai (Surf) 271 Concepts of Heritage in Conservation Practices in Rural Villages in China (Surf) 273 Challenges to the Adoption of Bim in Chinese Architecture, Engineering and Construction (Surf) 275 Caadria2017 Conference 277 Caadria2017 Exhibition: Towards A Digital Architecture 279 Deyang International Student Construction Competition 281 Masterplanning the Future 283 2016 Architecture Study Trip in Fujian Province 285 Hong Kong Study Trip 287 Hangzhou Research Field Trip 289 Le Corbusier Vivant Study Trip 291 Freestyle Bridge Design Competition 293 Cardboard Shelters 295 BDP-Farrell Prize 297 Outstanding Design Brief and Outstanding Design Studio Coursework 299 Graduate’s Project Shown at Riba President’s Medals Student Awards Exhibition
R Research 304 Research Outputs 2016-2017 313 PhD Candidates 319 Students 321 Academic Staff 323 Academic Position Statement
INTRODUCTION
This issue of the XJTLU, Department of Architecture Yearbook showcases the work produced by our students during the academic year 2016-17. This year we are pleased to announce the completion of our Masters in Architectural Design, marked by the graduation of the first six students in July 2017. Starting this Masters Programme and building an international reputation in the department has required a huge effort by the department leadership and staff. However the positive results are now emerging and we have seen a steady growth in the number of students enrolled on the Masters course. We now have twenty Masters students, ten are international students from seven different countries and ten are Chinese students. On 22-23 November 2017, the initial RIBA Validation visit for the MArchDes programme took place with the programme largely well received. RIBA’s Education Committee will make their decision regarding validation in February 2018. With the arrival of new colleagues, research in the department is also growing and the number of PhD students has increased to seven. The BEng Architecture Program remains at the center of the teaching activity of the Department and the quality of results continues to grow as evidenced by the impressive work of students published in this yearbook. Two of our most innovative teachers received education awards and our top students have won awards in two international competitions. The attendance of staff at conferences continues to strengthen the international reputation of the Department. The international character of the Department is highlighted not only in the rich melting pot of the academics, representing fourteen nationalities, but also on the occasion of exchanges with European Universities. Our second Suzhou International Architecture Workshop in February 2017, was attended by eleven teachers and fifty-four students from five European
Schools of Architecture (University of Liverpool, Graz University of Technology, Politecnico di Torino, ENSA Paris Val-de-Seine, Sapienza University of Rome). Our students also had the opportunity to attend workshops in Venice and London, and to travel to France to discover the work of Le Corbusier. An exchange programme has been activated with Politecnico di Torino, and the first two Italian students have been hosted at XJTLU in the academic year 2016-17, and four XJTLU students invited to Turin for the academic year 2017-18. I conclude this brief introduction to thank again all my colleagues for their expertise and generosity, together with the students for their creativity and engagement. While concluding my work as Head of Department, I wish my successor Gisela Loehlein every success in continuing to grow this unique department, for which I was committed with the utmost passion and enthusiasm, and with which I will continue to collaborate as Honorary Professor. It was an honor for me to contribute not only to forge the cultural identity of the Department, but also to design as an architect the interior spaces of the new Design Building, this has proved a great opportunity to reflect critically on the relationship between space and architectural education. At the end of the first year of activity, the Design Building has been admired by many Chinese colleagues and foreign visitors, and the academic journal “World Architecture”, published by Tsinghua University, chose it as the cover image of a special issue dedicated to Architecture Schools in China (“Where We Started: Spaces for Architectural Education (1)”, July 2017). In the following pages, you will see republished my critical reflections on a process of design and realization that I never imagined could be so complex. Pierre Alain Croset Head of the Department of Architecture
THE THIRD TEACHERTHE NEW DESIGN BUILDING AT XJTLU: HOW STUDENTS BECOME ARCHITECTS
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On arriving at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (XJTLU) in Suzhou 2015 as the new Head of the Department of Architecture, I was informed about the construction of a new ‘Design Building’ on the South Campus to jointly house the Department of Architecture and the Department of Industrial Design. I realised this new building could represent a great opportunity to reflect critically on the relationship between space and architectural education. Nevertheless, at the time, I couldn’t imagine the difficulties involved in the process of decision, design and realisation. The new Design Building opened in August 2016, with a capacity of 450 students and 40 academic staff for Architecture, and another 250 students and 20 academic staff for Industrial Design, with a total floor area of around 7,000 square metres. At the end of this first year of activity it is now possible to sketch a critical reflection on the process, and on the results, with the support of the photographs of Milan Ognjanovic who documented the everyday life in the building during all the academic year.
A Critical Reflection on the General Layout Exhibition “Sergio Pascolo Architects _ Total Housing” (April 2017)
The double height ground floor with workshop equipment, the four upper floors organized around the central courtyard used as an exhibition space.
When I arrived at XJTLU the construction of the new design building had already begun. The base design had been made by the Shanghai branch office of a British architectural company BDP (Building Design Partnership), also responsible for the overall master plan of the XJTLU South Campus. The main constraints were contained in the particular shape of the plan, resulting of the assembly of three different types of space: an elliptical part for hosting the big lecture theatres, an irregular four-sided part for the classrooms organised around a central void with skylight, and a connecting glazed bridge between *Reprinted from World Architecture , n. 2017/07, July 2017, pp. 48-57
the two main volumes. The only changes already proposed by the Department, and accepted by the design company, were the elimination of the lecture theatres in the upper floors, replaced by generic “design studios”. From a first examination of the plans I verified that the general layout had remained quite vague about the repartition of spaces between the two departments, and that nothing had been proposed for a clear partition of the design studios, organised as generic “open space” with groups of students organised around rectangular tables, with only 60 cm for each student. It was impossible to change the structure and the facades of the building but the senior management of XJTLU offered the possibility to modify the general layout. It was possible to imagine a more rational organisation that could highlight the most significant spaces to be shared by the two departments. It was also necessary to find a place for some new equipment approved in the strategic planning: a Materials Library, an Exhibition Gallery and an advanced Lab for Digital Fabrication and Prototyping. I proposed to group all the workshops and archival spaces on the ground floor around the central Materials Library, following the inspiring image of an industrial factory with double height volumes partially covered by mezzanine floors for the storage of materials. In this way, the first experience on entering the building is the intense activity of students producing models and objects. The workshop provides a coherence of identity for a School of Design strongly related with the processes of building construction and industrial fabrication. On the first floor, the central void could easily be transformed to an Exhibition Gallery, to be considered the heart of the entire building with the upper floors organised around it: the spaces of
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Industrial Design on this floor, the second and third floors for the Architecture design studios, the fourth floor for the offices of both departments.
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How to design specific spaces for architectural education? In my opinion, to become an architect the student needs to be educated through the daily practice of the design activity, and for this reason a key concept of the Design Building was to put individual workspace of the students in the centre of the school, not traditional classrooms. I had the occasion to reflect on these questions working with a group of students of the Master program in Architecture at the Politecnico di Torino in a studio dedicated to the design of a new School of architecture 1) in the well-known “Palazzo delle Esposizioni”, realised by Pierluigi Nervi in 1947. As a reference for this design work, I used the famous theories of the pedagogue Loris Malaguzzi, successfully experimented in the “kindergartenmodel” of Reggio Emilia, but fundamentally appropriate also to form architects and designers: students learn from teachers and from other students, but also from the “third teacher that is the space”.
The large corridors evoke the streets of a traditional Chinese city, with wooden façades and wooden paired doors, to be used as a public space for exhibiting and discussing the students’ work. The Design Studios as flexible spaces.
For architecture student, this “third teacher” is particularly important, and I remembered some beautiful schools as the Crown Hall of Mies van der Rohe in Chicago, the Architecture School of Oporto designed by Àlvaro Siza, or the School of Nancy designed by Livio Vacchini, where fortunate students are stimulated by the space to become architects. At XJTLU the fact that the building was already designed and in construction restricted a lot the possibility for invention. Other constraints were the necessity to comply with the budget and limited time. I decided for these reasons to concentrate my attention on the relations between three different categories of workspace: the individual desk which every student takes possession at the beginning of the semester, becoming a “second home” for the working everyday life; the small work unit (the design studio) in which the student learns from other students in the teamwork, and learns from the teacher in the weekly tutorials; the collective space in which the student has to exhibit and discuss publicly the design work in front of other students, of the teachers and of the visiting critics.
How to organise these three categories of space in an uneven shape of the building? How to ensure good working conditions for each student, regardless of the location in different parts of the building, and at the same time how to avoid an excessive fragmentation? Since my first visits to the traditional courtyard houses and gardens of Suzhou, I was fascinated by the modern character of the wooden façades, with paired doors offering a dynamic, ever-changing composition. I considered this image of “Chinese modernity” as a powerful source of inspiration for an international Department of Architecture in China, and at the same time I remembered the famous quote of Leon Battista Alberti: “In fact, if the City, according to the judgment of the philosophers, is like a great House, and the opposite the House is a small City, why don’t we say that members of it as the courtyard, the loggias, the Hall, the porch, and all these are still the same like small houses?” 2) With these two references in mind, I decided to organise the work space along two large corridors which could evoke the streets of a traditional Chinese city, with wooden façades and wooden paired doors. As in a city, where the streets are public and the houses private, it was possible to obtain a clear separation between the spaces for the individual work, and the spaces for the social interaction. Every student could stay in a small work unit offering the best condition for the individual work, but at the same time the space of the central “streets”, with a width of four metres, could be used as a common social space, and not only as a connective space. In the same way as the traditional Suzhou façades associate modular repetition and flexibility, I imagined how the paired doors could be moved continuously following different uses. For this reason, the doors have double faces: one face painted, and one face covered with cork. When all the doors are closed, you perceive
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Due to the great thickness of the building, I was conscious that the central working spaces could not benefit from natural light, but at the same time I wanted to offer to all the students the same basic equipment: a table of 90 × 180 centimetres facing a wall covered with cork for collecting sketches, drawings and photographs. To organize the spaces in relation with the different years of study, it was necessary to consider the special condition of XJTLU, with a double degree that offers Bachelor students the chance to migrate to the University of Liverpool after the second year. By the fact that this option is presently taken by more than 50% of the students, it is necessary to organize design studios for very variable numbers of students: more than 200 students in Year 2, less than 100 students in Year 3 and Year 4, and a maximum of 25 students for the Master program every year. I decided for this reason to concentrate on the 2nd- year students in the central space, offering them only the basic equipment of the individual table with the cork wall, while the other design studios would have gained an additional space between the partition walls and the irregular shape of the façade, to be used for the teamwork and for producing big urban models. In this way, the students who will remain after the second year will have a better working space. Following the progression of the programme, the students occupy four square metres in the second year, six in the third year, eight in the fourth year, while the Master program offers ten square metres for every student. This organization of the design studios allows for constant interaction between students of different years, especially when reviews are organized along the corridors: in this way students learn from other students, with year 3 students facing year 2 students in the same corridor, and year 4 students facing Master students on the both sides of the central void.
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At the end of the semester, every student is invited to use the space of the corridors for an individual exhibition.
The difficulties of design and realisation were mainly related to the fact that anything was done in the absence of any formal assignment as an architect. As Head of Department I was legitimately authorized to represent the interest of the users, but I was totally ignorant about how to design and build in China. Without a professional office, it was at the beginning very difficult to communicate my intentions, but
something changed when LU Quanqing, who just graduated from Politecnico di Torino, arrived in Suzhou in June 2015 as an incoming PhD student under my supervision. From this moment, she became responsible for the drawings of the new layout and she participated to all the first meetings with the Campus Management Office and with the construction company. Successively a second PhD student, LIN Qian, arrived in March 2016 and assisted me on the definitive drawings. Finally, my colleague TSIEN Li-An collaborated as a consultant in the last phase of construction. At the beginning, I thought that it would have been possible to become a consultant of the architects in charge of the design, in the hope that any decision regarding the interior design could be founded on a set of complete and coherent drawings. However, I quickly realized not only that the local design institute couldn’t interpret correctly my sketches, but also that nobody wanted to change the approved plans, in the face of the risks of slowing the construction, or increasing the costs. After many misunderstandings, I finally realized that I should follow a different strategy, proceeding step
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by step according to the different phases of the construction, and waiting for the questions of the construction company. LIU Yunpeng, the project manager for XJTLU’s management office, helped me in this process, proposing me to speak directly with the building company, bypassing the architects and facilitating in this way the mutual understanding. The first decisions for materials and building details were to be taken on the ground floor. To highlight the industrial character of the workshops area, I proposed to leave the floor with the bare concrete, and to separate the central core from the lateral spaces by a long row of glass shelves, to be used as a permanent showcase for the best models produced by the students. Many discussions were needed to make them understand the importance of moving the glass to cover the heavy pillars in concrete, so that all the bearing structure could be hired for producing an image of transparency and lightness.
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View of the ground floor, with the Materials Library to the left, and the glass wall used as a showcase for the students’ work.
Entrance lobby, with the big glass opening the view towards the workshop facilities.
Little by little grew the mutual trust with the building company, so that it became increasingly easier to propose changes for increasing the quality of the spaces. For example, the cladding of the central void was originally with panels in aluminium imitating wood for the long sides, and with glass along the short sides, as it has been realized nearby in the Environment Building. In the face of the need to transform the central void in an exhibition space, I proposed to unify along all the four sides the cladding with aluminium panels, but at the same time to vivify this space using bright colours, following a graduation from the darkest to the clearest which appears inverted with respect to the natural intensity of sunlight: red top, orange in the middle, yellow down. The most delicate issue was the door construction, because I wanted a “Chinese touch” to be recognisable, but at the same time avoiding any risk to obtain the image of a fake. With the help of many photos of doors in historical gardens of Suzhou, together with survey drawings, I was convinced of the need to observe a thickness of at least five centimetres, not only for respecting the original proportions, but also for obtaining something solid enough to respond to the function of rotating display panel. We produced a complete set of drawings in scale 1:1 for obtaining the possibility to test the solution with a mock-up realised by the wood handicraft company. I wanted the closed-door surface to be on the same plane with the basement and the lintel, so that, when all the doors are closed, it would have been possible to perceive only the continuity of the wooden facades. Many discussions
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The wooden doors of the design studios are painted with alternating traditional Chinese colours: yellow, red, dark blue and dark green.
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The Materials Library used for the final Masters Exhibition (June 2017), with the central double height space
on the site were needed to obtain this precision in assembling the doors, with four different modules (180, 190, 200 and 230 centimetres) for adapting the doors to the irregular geometry of the building. Other problems concerned the final choice of colours. I wanted to use the four typical colours of the Chinese tradition (yellow, red, dark blue and dark green), but nobody could indicate me how to find the exact composition of these traditional colours. In the end, I proposed to use some paintings, as a Portrait of the Qianlong Emperor and a View of a Civil Servant Exam, as a reference for painting directly some samples of colour on the doors. Along the two internal streets, the colours are alternate, with the red and yellow for the central design studios in continuity with the bright colours of the exhibition courtyard, and the blue and green for the external studios. These alternate colours are inverted between the second and third floor, so that it is possible to perceive simultaneously all four colours from any part.
houses the best models produced by our students, the bamboo wall crowning the Materials Library will be a showcase of the creativity of the students.
The Materials Library, still under construction, will house a permanent exhibition of about five hundred samples, and is divided into three rooms: a central room with a double height for small exhibitions and seminars, the lateral ones organized in two levels. The space has been used this year for hosting the final exhibition of the Master Thesis. Many discussions regarded the façade. In one of my first sketches, I represented the simple idea of a cladding with three materials: polycarbonate, steel and bamboo. The technical solutions for realizing the cladding in polycarbonate and steel were easily defined with the excellent team of the Campus Management Office, but they continuously asked me to have some drawings related with the final part to be realized in bamboo. I answered: “Bamboo is a beautiful material used in China, please find some excellent craftsmen and we will do it, we cannot draw a solution”. Two colleagues of both departments, Juan Carlos Dall’Asta and Ruggero Canova, proposed to organize a bamboo workshop with twenty students, offering the opportunity to experiment some ways of creating an interesting pattern. Three excellent craftsmen, coming from Shanghai, instructed the students of Architecture and Industrial Design about the art of building with bamboo, offering them the possibility to experiment with their hands, at a scale 1:1, how to create the beauty of a bamboo fence. At the end of this workshop, the four best proposals have been selected for the realisation, to be completed during the Summer. In this way, as for the glass wall used as a permanent exhibition which
one double height, comprised of 3 materials (polycarbonate, steel and
The idea of the Materials Library as a Pavilion with 3 rooms, the central bamboo), a mix of traditional and contemporary materials.
[1] Design unit directed by Pierre-Alain Croset (Architectural Design) and Luciano Re (Building Heritage), together with Michela Comba (History) and Caterina Tiazzoldi (Smart Building), first semester 2009-2010. [2] Leon Battista Alberti, De Re Aedificatoria (On the Art of Building), 1452, Liber I (Book 1), De Disegni (On Design), MIT Press, 1988, p. 27.
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Interior Design Pierre-Alain Croset, with the collaboration of Quanqing Lu, Qian Lin, and Li-An Tsien. Project Management Yunpeng Liu, Campus Management Office (CMO, XJTLU). Photographs Milan Ognjanovic Drawings Qian Lin, PhD student XJTLU, 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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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).
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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.”
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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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Focusing on graphic and spatial thinking, this module aims to introduce students to architectural thinking and visualisation through lecture and course based work, including a series of small projects and workshops, progressing through sketch ideas, into cut-and-paste and on through photography and digital manipulation. Each project brings the student a step closer in the methods and principals (both pragmatic as poetic) to visualize the spatial experience through two- and three-dimensional representational techniques. Varied independent projects and workshops combine for form a structural entirety, and lay the basis for the understanding, analysis and representation of architecture and visual culture. Introduction to Architecture and Visual Culture seeks to awaken the students’ creative abilities, develop latent aptitudes and encourage their passion for architecture, through concentrating on three particular aspects: ● Understanding how to see: To introduce a new way of seeing and understanding creative activities through analogous experimentation based on modern and contemporary artists’ research; ● Understanding how to do: To introduce and explore spatial relationships through various media; ● Understanding how to communicate: To understand architecture not only about space and building but also about something that happens in and around it, and that through various times and locations, or from various angles and perspectives.
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Sketch morphing exercises by Haomiao Zhai.
ARC002 familiarises students with architectural perceptions and expressions. In a lecture setting with studio characteristics, students are introduced to basic architectural communication and its representational languages. This includes the reading and the production of different kinds of drawing, sketching, 3d thinking, model making, writing, photography, collage, and architectural writing, addressing architectural concerns such as buildings, spaces and objects. Additionally, this module familiarises students with some notable architects and buildings. Students attend lectures, demonstrations, and work on a series of individual in-class and homework exercise assignments. Assessed deliverables are two models and a poster, as well as a final report document containing outcomes of all in-class and homework exercises. This year, student produced sketch morphings of different objects, as the ones shown here. Students also produced architectural typograms (architectural objects rendered using typography only), a piece of critical architectural writing, several photographic exercises under different lighting conditions, collage exercises, visual texture samplings, as well as drawings and models of dormitory rooms before and after “architectural interventions”.
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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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The aim of this module, focusing on Western Architecture from ancient times to the 21 st century, is 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 are 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 toward architectural projects of the past, the present and the future. Organized through lectures and readings, the module included also drawing and written exercises intended 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 requires students to conduct independent research and discuss a specific building or urban setting. Some sessions are delivered by a Language Centre tutor who assists students with language/study skills requirements. Moreover, students are provided with online language/study skills support to assist in engagement with the module’s content. During the term, students participate in to a field trip to Shanghai during which they analyze a select building on the Bund: the outcome of this exercise includes a poster that included text, photographs, and drawings (plans, volumes, elevations, and architectural details).
Students Shangtong Huang, Miao Yu, Siqi Guo, Linmei Li, and Yan Chut Bryan Jonatan Fong Choy, Poster exercise.
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Level 1 ( Year 2 | Semester 2 ) Module Credits 2.5 Module Leader Glen Wash Ivanovic
Department of Architecture
Number of Students 229
Through the application of theoretical approaches and tools of spatial analysis students engage with real sites in the city of Suzhou, understanding architecture, urbanism, space, and the built environment as subjects crucially connected to the humanities and social sciences, including geography, sociology, anthropology and history. 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 had to work in groups of four to five students, later progressing to their individual exercises. Each project familiarises students with specific theories and methodologies and requires them to apply them in their chosen route. The results are compiled in the module report: a sort of log book which collects the student’s work and their reflections on it.
Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University 2016-2017 YEARBOOK
Humanities and Architecture introduces students to architecture and the built environment as a broadly humanistic concern, and supports their future studio work by introducing them to theories and methods on the relationship between humans and place, aiming not only to give students more analytical approaches to architecture and design, but also to emphasise 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
033
034
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 219
Students learn about: bioclimatic design; the fundamental principles of heat transfer mechanism; 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 system; the difference between building energy efficiency and energy consumption; fundamental thermodynamics; heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC); moisture condensation; thermal comfort; psycrometric chart; domestic water; solar principles; fundamentals in lighting (day light, and artificial light); fundamental architectural acoustics. Upon completion of this module, students are able to specify and design building walls and carry out relevant scientific approaches with numerical calculation and computer simulation to deliver thermal building energy performance. Students also learn 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 further requires students to understand the energy load associated with space heating, cooling and ventilation in a building and the impact of building energy consumption on climate change and global warming.
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Introducing undergraduate students to the principles of environmental science in buildings, this module focuses on the quantitative aspect of building science where students learn the fundamental thermodynamics essential to understanding the building energy performance and urban environmental impact.
Final building heating and cooling energy use in 2005 and in scenarios from the global energy assessment (GEA) for 2050, Image source: IPCC report 2014.
Level 01 – Year 2 B Eng Architecture Programme
ARC104
035
036
建筑系
Structures and Materials
西交利物浦大学
Level 1 ( Year 2 | Semester 1 ) Module Credits 5
Drawing-based exercise in progress. Photograph by Christiane M. Herr.
Module Leader Christiane M. Herr
Department of Architecture
Teaching Assistants Chitraj Bissoonauth
2016-2017 YEARBOOK
Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
Number of Students 219
Zhao Anqi Drawing-based exercise 4 – Shell Structure.
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
037
038
建筑系
Construction and Materials
西交利物浦大学
Level 1 ( Year 2 | Semester 2 ) Module Credits 5 Module Leader Li-An Tsien
2016-2017 YEARBOOK
Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
Department of Architecture
Teaching Assistants Chitraj Bissoonauth Deng Siqi Number of Students 115
Annan Zuo Micro-house design, ARC108 Coursework.
Understanding the logic behind materials and construction is fundamental to being able to design, conceive and represent buildings, and thus to building and materialising them. Technical materials and construction principles are taught in relation to the broader architectural implications of sustainability, aesthetics and technology. 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. Key concepts are critically discussed through case studies and visual examples as well as reviewed during seminars and applied exercises. During the semester, students are asked to approach construction through designing and detailing a micro-dwelling’s building envelope and foundation details. Design proposals and construction details are reviewed during weekly tutorials 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 / environment within the discipline of architectural design. Awareness and understanding of construction principles will help students translate design ideas towards buildable / innovative concepts and appropriate representation. Lectures will foster and encourage awareness of construction issues pertaining to global and local future trends. The module will further nurture an understanding of the interdisciplinary quality of the professional practice and its constant requirement of sometimes large collaborative efforts between architects and various fields of consultants / builders.
Level 01 – Year 2 B Eng Architecture Programme
ARC101
039
040
建筑系
Design Studio Design Thinking and Articulation
西交利物浦大学
Level 1 ( Year 2 | Semester 1 ) Module Credits 5 Module Leader Claudia Westermann Architectural Picnic
Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
Department of Architecture
Photograph by UMC, University Marketing and Communication.
Teaching Team Tordis Berstrand Antonio Berton Joan Cane Theodoros Dounas Dong Chen Dong Fanzheng Han Jiawen Silvia Martin Bert de Muynck Nicola Pagnano Qiu Jue Jose Remon Lina Stergiou Xi Junjie Xu Yizhou Dirk Zschunke
This first design studio in the undergraduate degree programme initiates through a series of cumulative exercises architectural design as a research-led and human-centred design discipline, and introduces relationships between the conception and representation of space through material explorations. A series of lectures and integrated workshops support the two weekly afternoons of studio tutorials. This year’s course, entitled ‘A Hat for Three and Other Experiments in Architecture’, engaged the students in a 1:1 design project for the first exercise. Working in groups, the students designed a ‘Hat for Three’ for an architectural picnic that was staged in week two of the semester. Each student group was given a specific set of picnic characters. The exercise involved role playing as a means to explore the relationship between individual users, and between designers and users. In the subsequent two exercises, the students worked individually between scales of 1:20 and 1:100, translating between solids and voids, and exploring the relation of activities and designed space. The main media were physical models - as a combination of prescribed materials, techniques and intentions drawings, and digital media. The final exercise encouraged the students to re-think an everyday object. Re-interpreting the book as an artefact that also defines a reader’s interaction space, the students compiled the work undertaken during the course of the semester, carefully selected from process work, models, and research, with accompanying text into design books that are interpretive of narrative and present work that is analytical, emphatically edited, sequential and reflective in tone.
2016-2017 YEARBOOK
Teaching Assistants Chitraj Bissoonauth Deng Siqi
Design Books Photograph by Milan Ognjanovic
Number of Students 217
Level 01 – Year 2 B Eng Architecture Programme
041
042
WEAR
WEAR Chen Danhua
Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
Department of Architecture
西交利物浦大学
建筑系
Di Yang
WEAR
WEAR
Kong Lingsen
Zhao Anqi
WEAR Wang Zhihan
WEAR
2016-2017 YEARBOOK
Shi Yun
WEAR He Yuxin
2016-2017 YEARBOOK
Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
Department of Architecture
西交利物浦大学
建筑系
043
SPACE-SOLID-VOID
044
Ye Chenwei
SPACE-SOLID-VOID
Chen Danhua
SPACE-SOLID-VOID
Di Yang
045
046
建筑系
SPACE-SOLID-VOID
Department of Architecture
西交利物浦大学
Su Yifan
ACTIVITIES IN SPACE Space-Solid-Void Su Yifan
2016-2017 YEARBOOK
Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
SPACE-SOLID-VOID Li Yuchen
SPACE-SOLID-VOID He Yuxin
Kong Lingsen
047
BOOK 048
建筑系
Chen Danhua
西交利物浦大学
ACTIVITIES IN SPACE
2016-2017 YEARBOOK
Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
Department of Architecture
Shi Yun
ACTIVITIES IN SPACE Ye Chenwei
ACTIVITIES IN SPACE Zhao Anqi
BOOK Dai Yiqing
2016-2017 YEARBOOK
Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
Department of Architecture
西交利物浦大学
建筑系
049
050
Kong Lingsen
BOOK
BOOK
Zhang Tao
BOOK BOOK
Milan Ognjanovic Di Yang
ARC105
051
052
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 Theodoros Dounas
Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
Department of Architecture
Teaching Team Kostas Chatzigiannis Jiawen Han Teo Hidalgo Nácher Lina Stergiou Junjie Xi Joan Cane Antonio Berton Dirk Zschunke Nicola Pagnano Dong Chen Qiu Jue Xu Yizhou Jose Remon Silvia Martin Dong Fanzheng Wu Penghan
In this studio, students are asked to develop spaces for the female characters from Dream of the Red Chamber , written by Cao Xueqin, in the eighteenth century, the book one of the four classic novels of Chinese literature. The students were asked to study their prescribed character and design a space for them, not when the novel was set, during the Qing Dynasty, but for contemporary life in China. This approach thus required students to not only reflect upon their character, but to interpret how they could be accommodated if they were alive today. Interesting questions arose from the critical reflection: Do the characters keep their traits? Do imperial Chinese social conventions still apply today? Decisions regarding what to keep and what to leave behind, which areas of life must continue to adhere to tradition and which needed to be ‘modernised’ helped position the students’ understanding of their character. Through the analyses of a typical gesture or movement of the character, based on performance and recording, key frames were selected in order to generate a space, resulting from a process of abstraction. Approximately 200 models with associated drawing were produced, which provided settings for the characters Xue Bao Cai, Lin Daiyu, Jia Yuan Chun, Grandmother Jia, or Shi Xiangyun. In each instance the students developed the spaces in the spirit of experimentation using unique animation techniques to transform movement into form and space.
2016-2017 YEARBOOK
Number of Students 220
Dream of The Red Chamber Render frame: still from an animation. Design and render by Theodoros Dounas.
Level 01 – Year 2 B Eng Architecture Programme
DREAM OF THE RED CHAMBER Dai Ruoyun
DREAM OF THE RED CHAMBER Zuo Annan
2016-2017 YEARBOOK
Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
Department of Architecture
西交利物浦大学
建筑系
057
058
DREAM OF THE RED CHAMBER Dai Yiqing
ARC102
059
060
建筑系
Design Studio Small Scale Architectural Design
西交利物浦大学
Level 1 ( Year 2 | Semester 2 ) Module Credits 10 Module Leader Peta Carlin
Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
Department of Architecture
Teaching Team Peta Carlin Bert de Muynck Caterina Tiazzoldi Davide Lombardi Junjie Xi Lina Stergiou Martin Fischbach Philip Fung Ross T. Smith Sofia Quirago Antonio Berton Chen Dong Jue Qiu Joan Cane Nicola Pagnano Wu Penghan (Jiang Dong)
Place and Play Wherever we are is always some place, whether landscape, street or room. This Small Scale Architectural Design Studio introduces students to the significance of place, and seeks to emphasise its foundational role in the design of meaningful architecture through the design of a PlaySpace for children in Suzhou. Set on a site in Baliu Park on the east bank of Dushu Lake, the project acknowledges the educational nature of the precinct, with its numerous schools and universities, and recalls that Dushu in Mandarin, 独墅 , translates as “reader.” While the studio recognises the significance of traditional scholarly and academic modes of erudition, it focuses instead on the value of imagination and the importance of play as ways and means of discovering and creating the world. A joyous, spontaneous activity play is often devoid of prescribed outcomes and is instead, more often about immersion in the process rather than a predetermined end-outcome. In this module the focus is on the learning aspect of play; on play being essential to the development of not only children, but architects too. In designing a Play-Space in Suzhou, its scope, form and function are defined in response to the site, as it proposes new models of architecture for children.
2016-2017 YEARBOOK
Teaching Assistant Li Jiayi Number of Students 220 Early research on the potential of language to inform design by student Meng Zeyuan 孟泽原 .
Level 01 – Year 2 B Eng Architecture Programme
2016-2017 YEARBOOK
Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
Department of Architecture
西交利物浦大学
建筑系
061
062
A PLAY SPACE FOR CHILDREN IN SUZHOU Zuo Annan | 左安南
2016-2017 YEARBOOK
Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
Department of Architecture
西交利物浦大学
建筑系
063
064
RUINS
Geng Biaotong | 耿彪童
PLAYING SPACE
Zheng Haiyu | 郑海瑜
FLOWING MOUNTAINS Kong Lingsen | 孔令森
2016-2017 YEARBOOK
Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
Department of Architecture
西交利物浦大学
建筑系
069
070
RUINS
Geng Biaotong | 耿彪童
SHADOW PLAYGROUND
Ye Chenwei | 叶宸维
LEVEL 02
071
2016-2017 YEARBOOK
Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
Department of Architecture
西交利物浦大学
建筑系
072
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 2016-2017
ARC203
073
074
建筑系
History of Asian Architecture
西交利物浦大学
Level 2 ( Year 3 | Semester 1 ) Module Credits 5 Module Leader Yiping Dong
Department of Architecture
Teaching Team Austin Williams Christiane M. Herr Glen Wash Jiawen Han Raffaele Pernice (UPD) Jessie Cannady (LC)
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 6-night-7-day field trip in Fujian Province during the reading week (Oct.22-28, 2016). Additional on-site lectures about historic pagodas and gardens in Suzhou was provided by the module leader and a local heritage researcher.
Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
Guest Speakers Yiting Pan He Yan Hong Ji Ting Zhao Teaching Assistant Li Jiayi
2016-2017 YEARBOOK
Number of Students 45
Field Trip to the Fujian Province, 2016. Photograph by Yiping Dong.
Level 02 – Year 3 B Eng Architecture Programme
ARC206 Urban Studies
Level 2 ( Year 3 | Semester 2 ) Module Credits 5 Module Leader Austin Rhys Williams Number of Students 45
The module provides students with a basic understanding of Urban Design including some of the key debates, terms, writings, ideas and spatial and social qualities about urban formation. We address some theories and practical examples of city development - including global case studies to indicate how urban planning and architectural decisions can be better informed. The module should help students understand the city as a dynamic, social system. It is a module that intends to stimulate students’ creative engagement with their surroundings as well their ability to assess, appraise and critique various urban and cultural phenomena. Students will be encouraged to read a variety of journals, books and academic papers. They must be ready to think, formulate their opinions, and argue for their ideas. The module will be conducted as a series of lectures exploring the history of urban ideas, including sociology, urban theory and historical context. Over the course of the semester we will touch on planning policy in East and West for practical applications, explore several examples within China, but also look to formative moments in Western urban design. The module covers examples from Beijing to Barcelona, Chicago to Chandigarh, Tokyo to Tianjin. We regularly utilise XJTLU’s international staff to provide first-hand evidence about the cities in question. The module is made up of weekly lectures and seminars to explore a range of ideas. The module seeks to raise students’ awareness of a variety of urban forms - their benefits and drawbacks - and to encourage them to cultivate opinions about the nature of cities, the formation and transformation of their urban forms and to obtain basic urban design skills. It is a critical forum that seeks to get the students to think about what they think.
Level 02 – Year 3 B Eng Architecture Programme
ARC201
077
078
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
Department of Architecture
Number of Students 43
Since two thirds of the final energy performance of a building depend on basic architectural decisions, such as building form, orientation and percentage of glass, awareness and competence on these issues are an essential part of the skill set of a contemporary designer. ARC201 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 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.
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We spend up to 90% of our time indoor and our comfort, health, productivity and well-being are heavily affected by the environmental conditions inside buildings. At the same time buildings are major consumers of energy and natural resources and among the main responsible for greenhouse gases emissions. The way they are designed and built is therefore key to sustainable development, especially in a fast urbanising country as today’s China.
Students take instrumental measurements to assess daylighting performance of their designs. The task is part of a more comprehensive coursework on window design, through which a number of implications are analysed by making use of manual calculations, digital simulations, and physical models.
Level 02 – Year 3 B Eng Architecture Programme
ARC202
079
080
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
Department of Architecture
Number of Students 47 Field Trip to pedestrian bridges around Suzhou Industrial Park.
2016-2017 YEARBOOK
Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
Photograph by Christiane M. Herr.
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 visual means architecture students can easily relate to, focusing on the integration of structural and programmatic patterns, scales and proportions in structural layouts. Lectures are accompanied by applied structural design exercises. For these exercises, students produce structural design proposals addressing two building types that are closely related to structural design concerns: a pedestrian bridge for an urban site and a high-rise tower. 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.
Liu Wang: Façade detail for high-rise building.
Level 02 – Year 3 B Eng Architecture Programme
ARC205
081
082
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 Aleksandra Raonic
Department of Architecture
Teaching Team Yiping Dong Philip Fung Juan Carlos Dall' Asta
Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
Guest Critics Xu Liang ( Atelier XUK Shanghai ) Hu Ying (Suzhou University of Technology and Science ) Vice Dean ( School of Architecture and Urban Planning ) Zhang Weiping ( Design Director, Studio IFUP )
Learning Spaces for Children Re-Imagined This brief responds to the stated intention of the Chinese government to prioritise education and to re-think the primary school educational model currently in operation in China. Aside from the readiness for change of the curriculum and the pedagogies used, this studio advances the significance of the physical environment that children learn both within and from. As such, students are asked to consider learning spaces as educational devices and to conceive of them as the Third Educator. The nature of spaces for learning in primary schools and kindergartens have been studied and proven to significantly impact upon children’s learning abilities and development. Through research and critical consideration of different educational models and theories in China and beyond (conventional, or alternative, traditional, or progressive, green or technology-focused) students are asked to gather a body of knowledge that enables them to develop an approach to primary schooling, and to envision how architecture’s often overlooked role in education can be challenged and re-imagined. The resulting designs ideally offer new primary school models for China that seek to successfully meet all the complexities and demands of modern Chinese society, are capable of embracing the high intensity of its continuous transformation, and are possibly even able to transform in response.
2016-2017 YEARBOOK
Number of Students 44
Huang Yifei, Façade Detail
Level 02 – Year 3 B Eng Architecture Programme
2016-2017 YEARBOOK
Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
Department of Architecture
西交利物浦大学
建筑系
083
084
LOST PARADISE
Gao Hanzhi | 高含之
2016-2017 YEARBOOK
Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
Department of Architecture
西交利物浦大学
建筑系
085
086
Huang Yifei
2016-2017 YEARBOOK
Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
Department of Architecture
西交利物浦大学
建筑系
087
088
ABSTRACTION & RUDUCTION Wang Liu | 王柳
2016-2017 YEARBOOK
Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
Department of Architecture
西交利物浦大学
建筑系
089
090
INTERACTIVE LEARNING PALACE
Namgay Tshomo
2016-2017 YEARBOOK
Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
Department of Architecture
西交利物浦大学
建筑系
091
092
THROUGH EXPLORATION TO WISDOM Jianqiang Xia | 夏坚强
2016-2017 YEARBOOK
Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
Department of Architecture
西交利物浦大学
建筑系
093
094
LEARNING FROM NATURE Zhu Siwei | 朱思为
ARC204
095
096
西交利物浦大学
建筑系
Design Studio Small Urban Buildings
Wu Zhouying
Level 2 ( Year 3 | Semester 2 ) Module Credits 10
2016-2017 YEARBOOK
Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
Department of Architecture
Module Leader Juan Carlos Dall’ Asta Teaching Team Juan Carlos Dall’ Asta Federico De Matteis Teresa Hoskyns Aleksandra Raonic Austin Williams Number of Students 47
Urban Creative Hub / Rethinking Suzhou Innovation is one of the key features of contemporary society and, consequently, of cities. Innovative potential is directly tied to creative ability as a manifestation of attitudes and cultural values. Today creativity and its related outputs are considered as a resource for the development and transformation of the city, involving multiple disciplines such as economics, politics and sociology. Creativity is particularly relevant at a moment in which a new paradigm of strategic urban planning oriented to the reactivation of urban reality through a variety of “creative actions” is being developed. This design studio aims to investigate the new paradigm and associated case studies. The main objective is to investigate the process of generating “creative clusters” with particular attention to hybrid multifunctional spaces, as well as to understand their role in the generation of a new identity in medium or small scale urban contexts. The resultant projects are expected to experiment with new models for the creation of hubs which are capable of becoming meeting places establishing connections between creative minds, entrepreneurial actors and citizens. The studio seeks to investigate how innovation is able to regenerate “historic districts” and initiate urban regeneration processes which are capable of enhancing the “existing value” of the site. Key to the studio is how “urban memory” and the continuation of traditions (living heritages) engage with contemporary modes of production in order to create significant social benefits for the community.
Level 02 – Year 3 B Eng Architecture Programme
2016-2017 YEARBOOK
Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
Department of Architecture
西交利物浦大学
建筑系
097
098
Wu Zhouying
2016-2017 YEARBOOK
Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
Department of Architecture
西交利物浦大学
建筑系
099
100
Zhang Houzhe
2016-2017 YEARBOOK
Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
Department of Architecture
西交利物浦大学
建筑系
101
102
Huang Yifei
2016-2017 YEARBOOK
Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
Department of Architecture
西交利物浦大学
建筑系
103
104
Yu Yulin
Xia Jianqiang
LEVEL 03
107
2016-2017 YEARBOOK
Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
Department of Architecture
西交利物浦大学
建筑系
108
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 2016-2017
ARC301
109
110
建筑系
Architectural Technology
西交利物浦大学
Level 3 ( Year 4 | Semester 1 ) Module Credits 5 Module Leader Theodoros Dounas
Department of Architecture
Teaching Team Li-An Tsien Jose Hidalgo
2016-2017 YEARBOOK
Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
Number of Students 48
Wind Pavilion, Preliminary Form and Generation by Hao Wu and Chenke Zhang.
This year’s course developed in two parallel strands in which technology was considered in terms of a product as well as a process. In the first instance, students had to optimize and improve a construction detail selected from contemporary buildings recently constructed in and around Suzhou. In the second instance, technology as a process focused on the parametric design of pavilions for a small exhibition space to be located in the Suzhou’s higher education town precinct. Through their designs students sought to challenge limiting boundaries and perceptions in terms of what technology and design is, through the use of generative systems and parametric tools, designing their own systems and tools as part of the process. Technology contributes to the autonomy of architecture as a discipline, defining and shaping the field through which to realise building performance. Stemming from a deep understanding of past and current buildings, technology, defined both as outcome and process, fuses the digital and physical understanding of the world. Seen as an enabler of design ideas, technology provides the link between design and production, research and development, design exploits and social ambitions. Seen through the lens of human capital and potential in the built environment, architectural technology may erase the boundaries between dream and reality, potential and realisation. Through such a frame, architectural technology should be understood as a recovery of human ability rather than a constraint, in both processes and output.
Level 03 – Year 4 B Eng Architecture Programme
ARC303
111
112
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
Department of Architecture
Teaching Team Jiawen Han Jessie Cannady (Language Center)
2016-2017 YEARBOOK
Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
Number of Students 51
Students interviewing Wang Shu
Architectural Theory critically reflects on written discourses in and about architecture. A series of lectures, accompanied by weekly readings and alternating between a Chinese and a European point of view, introduce the students to the main concepts of architectural theory, and provide a framework for the understanding of on-going discourses in the field. The themes and topics of the lectures address historical debates, including the role and development of theory in architecture, the question of style, and the historical foundations of modernity, and also encompass areas such as criticism of high modernism, the rise of postmodern and post-structural theory, critical regionalism and architectural criticism, as well as to contemporary discourses, and the mutual influence of Asian and Western concepts of architecture. Further areas of dialogue and debate respond to interest articulated by students and/or faculty members. Two research seminars accompany the lectures, of which the students chose one, with the themes and topics varying from year to year. The main task in the seminars is for the students to conduct their own research within the given thematic framework, to present and discuss their individual research in one of the seminar sessions, and to eventually write and submit an essay on their chosen topic. To enhance their research and academic writing skills, the students receive in-class instructions, individual tutorials, as well as lectures and continuous support from the language centre. A final written exam stimulates the students to rethink what they have learned throughout this course.
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Guest Speakers Philip Fung Christiane M. Herr Jiawen Han Austin Williams
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Selection of slides taken from student presentations
Professional Practice in architecture makes links with architectural practices, as a way of engaging students with ‘real-world’ perspectives and practice opportunities in the field of architecture. The course examines diverse international and Chinese practices as a basis to explore opportunities for students completing part 1 of their architectural training. Students examine opportunities ranging from: starting your own office; to working in large scale mainstream practices; to small scale interdisciplinary and research led practices. The module introduces Level 3 students to the management of architectural practice, the role of the architect as a professional and the role of the architect in the construction industry and the built environments of China and the West. Students develop an awareness of how architecture practices operate. They understand how buildings are designed and built in the context of architectural and professional best practice and the framework of the construction industry within which it operates. The module familiarises students with forms of procurement and contract types and sets out the role that architects play in dealing with contractual matters. An understanding of health and safety requirements both at design and construction stages also forms part of the syllabus. Students are introduced to the organisations, regulations and procedures for negotiating architectural designs, land law, development control, and building control. Students develop an understanding of cost control mechanisms and an awareness and understanding of the principle of whole life costing. Principles of behaviour, ethics and codes of practice for architects also form part of the module.
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Philosophy of Art and Aesthetics
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Level 3 ( Year 4 | Semester 2 ) Module Credits 5 Module Leader Claudia Westermann
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Teaching Team Tordis Berstrand Guest Speakers Adam Brillhart (CAA, Hangzhou)
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Philosophy of Art and 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 Studio Project. This year’s course responded to the theme ‘Beyond Form: Plays with the Formless in Art and Architecture’ with a specifically designed series of lectures and seminars, addressing notions of formlessness 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 James Turrell exhibition ‘Immersive Light’ at the Long Museum in Shanghai offered an additional opportunity for reflection.
Field Trip to the James Turrell exhibition ‘Immersive Light’ at the Long Museum, 2017. From left to right: Dong Yiping, Zhang Wen and Chen Yukun. Photograph by Claudia Westermann.
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Design Studio Small and Medium Scale Buildings
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Teaching Team José Ángel Hidalgo Arellano Teresa Hoskyns Glen Wash
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Building Creative Cities Long emblematic of the fast speed urban development that resulted from the country’s breakneck growth; engendered by massive urban development strategies, Chinese cities have perhaps come to embody the socio-economical factors that led to their creation. It could be surmised that, after enabling the most important environmental transformation in China’s history, they have become both the symptom and the illness of a China in constant need of transformation. In recent years, the speed of the economy has radically slowed. Experts widely agree that the country needs to undergo a painful transformation from an industry driven economy to a service economy based on innovation. Cities all over the country are now facing a number of important urban challenges, including rising inequality, migratory pressure, pollution, resources and water consumption, population aging… etc. Are Chinese Cities, once the unchallenged drivers and standard bearers of an emerging new China that was built on the prosperity of millions of citizens lifted out of poverty over decades of intensive urbanization, in dire need to be re-invented? If Chinese cities are to help facilitate the urban and socio-cultural transition that the Chinese economy and, per extension, the Chinese society are undergoing, is their most important challenge the need to somehow re-think themselves in order to become something else, something driven by innovation, creativity, culture and society? In the context of this studio, we shall explore the relationship between built urban spaces and creative societies.
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The studio aims at equipping students with the necessary skills to design small and medium-scale buildings, taking into consideration a wide range of architectural, urban, socio-cultural, economic and political issues that are inherently connected with architectural practice.
Section by Fuwei Shao
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REVERSE CITY NEIGHBOURHOOD FICTION Shao Fuwei | 邵富伟
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Sun Chenxing | 孙晨星
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Li Shaokang | 李少康
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Xiao Ding | 丁笑
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Design Studio Final Year Project
Level 3 ( Year 4 | Semester 1 and 2 ) Module Credits 10
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Module Leader José Ángel Hidalgo Arellano Teaching Team Pierre Alain Croset Jiawen Han Theodoros Dounas Li-An Tsien Yiping Dong Tordis Berstrand Claudia Westermann Aleksandra Raonic Christian Gänshirt Guest Critics Florence Vannoorbeeck ( Ir Architect Urban Designer and Planner ) Elodie Degrave and Fabien Dautrebande ( ULB Université Libre de Bruxelles ) Darren Zhou ( Skew Collaborative ) Chen Yang ( Tongji University ) Mengjia He ( Founder Playze Architects ) Zhao Deli ( CAA China Academy of Art ) Bee Kuang-Chein ( Wuhan University ) Zheng Jing ( Wuhan University ) Number of Students 53
The Final Year Project Studio is the last studio module in the course of the BEng in Architecture at Xi’an Jiaotong- Liverpool University (XJTLU). 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. In year 2016-2017, the academic staff of the Department of Architecture offered five briefs that are to be read as provocations, guiding students to pose critical questions in relation to current discourse in Architectural Design, in order to develop contextually responsive architectural propositions that integrate social, cultural, technical, and environmental knowledge at an advanced level. The five briefs for this year’s final year studio respond in various ways to the challenges that confront Architecture in China and beyond. They open a conversation on Architecture that is to be reframed and redefined by the students in the course of their research and design process. Each brief, regardless, requires students to design buildings that respond to specific urban and socio-cultural conditions. Social values and the primacy of human needs and desires are central in the development of the proposals. On the basis of their propositions and in connection to a coherent design process, students must demonstrate an understanding of architecture informed by inter-dependent cultural, historical, technological and contextual issues. The studio module actively encourages students to embrace a culture of risk and experimentation, but at the same time requires them to fully resolve their projects responding to human, technical and environmental needs.
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Active Ageing in an island of Suzhou
What is Active Ageing? Active ageing is the process of optimizing opportunities for health, participation and security in order to enhance quality of life as people age. The burning question to be addressed in this studio is: can architecture support the elderly to participate in all aspects of community life in contemporary China? Students are required to investigate the possibilities and potentials of shared space in terms of typologies and public space in fostering friendly communities for all generations: shared living space between the old and the young; shared living space between young adults and their parents who temporarily visit them; shared space between caregivers and those people with disabilities; shared space for preparing group meals, hosting visitors and facilitating group meetings; and shared space for various religious rituals, etc.
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who are ill; shared space for recreation between young adults and older
TEACHING TEAM Pierre Alain Croset Jiawen Han
ACTIVE AGING BRIDGE Shi Haoyu | 石浩宇
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ACTIVE AGING IN AN ISLAND OF SUZHOU THE SENSORY JOURNEY : MEMORIES AND SENSES IN A PARK Du Hanxi | 杜涵茜
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A NATURAL-CITY-BASED SHARED AGEING COMMUNITY Sui Yingda | 隋英达
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Open Fabrication: Spaces to Live and Make
This studio invites students to research and design spaces that foster innovation in and through ‘making', focusing on new types of factories and spaces for experimentation in production. Students are asked to design buildings that will house a fabrication laboratory allowing industry, research, design, IT and other programs to meet and crossfertilize, a place where both sole inventors and collaborative teams can excel in bringing their ideas into realisation. At the same time the students are asked to build an understanding of the constraints and challenges surrounding the question of building a new fabrication space, its impact on communities and to explore current and future
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understandings of means of production. Stepping away from what a traditional factory should look like and further away from the innovative potential of laptops and 3-D printers, the studio calls into question how does the future look like when one can, and needs to, produce their own clothes? What about food? Infrastructure? Electronics? Beyond the imaginary utopias where everything is possible this studio will explore the constraints and limits of what is truly realisable today.
TEACHING TEAM Theodoros Dounas Li-An Tsien
Nikhil Seewoo
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SPACES FOR HUMANS AND ROBOTS
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Charging the Void – Collecting a House
The brief invites students to consider strategies for the urban regeneration of an historical quarter in central Shanghai, engaging with a set of premises to be interpreted critically for the purpose of designing a house for a (re)collection of their own choice. The building is to house the past in the present, a museum of sorts, a space to drop by or drop something off, generating a shared accumulation of stuff to gather around or inside; a place where something new is nesting within the old. Alternatively, the design can be a memorial to a person, event, or thought, or a combination of these housed in one place. Students need to consider how occurrences, material as immaterial, can be acknowledged, celebrated, and even reanimated within the framework of a built
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structure that they will design. The studio begins with the implementation of a void space on a chosen location within the larger site area outlined by the brief. This gesture will serve as an initial siting of the (re)collection, while the insertion of a negative space in the fabric of the megacity reverses conventional practices in regards to the settlement of the site. Students will charge the void that they insert – we might call it a courtyard space – around which the (re)collection, its visitors and caretakers are held by the proposed building. As such, a gathering which takes the form of negative space, or perhaps rather a space awaiting its charge is proposed.
TEACHING TEAM Yiping Dong Tordis Berstrand
COMMUNICATION SPACE & READING SPACE Chen Jiaci | 陈嘉词
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Framing Indeterminacy Polyark 4 / Fun Palace Futures
In light of recent developments in China that prioritize form as image, this studio asks students to re-consider concepts of openness, participation, and performance as fundamental questions of architecture. In this context China’s rich tradition in conceiving of art as interactive is foregrounded, with the proposed outcomes ideally offering a new architecture that operates in a manner similar to a three-dimensional version of a scroll painting in which multiple vanishing points corelate and accommodate a complexity of narratives, in the making of meaningful places. Recalling that the old Chinese Masters asked that they be depicted as if alive, the studio calls into question how we might discover new options for our cities, and new possibilities for creating that turns spaces into places, and enables users to fully inhabit them. The students will develop architectural projects for cultural exchange that will include fixed and mobile parts. At the same time, they will engage in exchanges with students in the UK within the framework of an initiative that has been set up by RIBA and connects 30 schools of architecture worldwide.
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architecture as an interface that allows for a new form of participation -
TEACHING TEAM Claudia Westermann Aleksandra Raonic
SOUND LABORATORY Zhang Chenke | 张晨珂
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SHIFTING PERSPECTIVES IN THE SOUND LABORATORY URBAN THEATRE - A PROPOSAL FOR AN Zhang Chenke | 张晨珂 ARCHITECTURE OF INDETERMINACY
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A PALIMPSEST OF OLD SHANGHAI
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Learning + Leisure: Spaces for Contemplation
Children and old people do not live in the ‘world of workers’. They share the domestic and urban space with the middle age working class but they experience time in different ways. Children and old people have plenty of time to learn, think, play, understand and contemplate in two different ways: dynamic and static, so to say. In most cultures, especially in Chinese culture, children and grandparents establish close relationships, with many children even living with their grandparents. This studio poses the question: how is it possible to create a space to help young and old alike to experience their
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shared and special time outside their own houses? While a number of studies in education have been developed engaging children and elderly in daily school routines with success, this brief asks students to propose an architectural solution to specific needs of contemporary educational centres. Students are, thus, invited to develop a mixed programme: School for Children + Residence for Old People.
TEACHING TEAM Christian Gänshirt José Ángel Hidalgo Arellano
ELDREN VILLIAGE Zeng Jiacheng | 曾嘉诚
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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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B ENG ARCHITECTURAL ENGINEERING PROGRAMME INTRODUCTION
Cheng Zhang Programme Director (Civil Engieenering) Christiane M. Herr Programme Leader (Architecture)
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Students’ final proposals should clearly show a process of design development from an initial concept to a final architectural design proposal. The final proposal should demonstrate students’ ability to design a series of spaces using appropriate technical means to support architectural concepts and the realization of architectural qualities. Design proposals should respond creatively to the site context as well as to spatial, structural and technical requirements required by the architectural design brief.
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In this studio module, students learn to generate a small-scale design proposal based on an initial brief. The studio specifically addresses design skills suitable for engineering students, who learn about the integration of technical and architectural design requirements. Students are initially introduced to typical materials employed in architectural structures, including concrete, steel, masonry, timber and glass. Based on this knowledge, students learn to design with materials and structures in the spirit of an architectural design concept in a series of weekly design exercises. Following this stage, students are introduced to architectural site analysis. Considering the results of the site analysis, students develop a technically focused design proposal for a given brief and a given architectural design concept, in informal collaboration with architecture students of the same year (volunteering ARC102 students).
Project work is developed through group and individual tutorials and presented for public discussion in interim and final reviews. A series of lectures and additional tutorials will be provided by structure, environmental and/or construction experts. External guests are invited to participate in project reviews. Following the final review, work presented in interim and final reviews will be compiled and submitted in form of a final concluding report. Only the final report is assessed.
Second Interim Review, March 2017. Photograph by José Á Hidalgo
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FINAL EXERCISE Miao Pengyun | 苗芃芸
Tong Huiyi | 童慧怡 ( ARC102 student )
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Structural Design Review With Guest Critics Mary Polites and Jose Hidalgo.
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Photograph by Christiane M. Herr.
Module Leader Christiane M. Herr Number of Students 10
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.
Ziming Zhao: Structural Design Process Documentation for a “Flying Box House”.
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Building Typology in Integrated Architectural Design
Yuzhe Li: Structural Design Process in
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Module Credits 5 Module Leader Christiane M. Herr
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Yuelong Liu: BIM Model Supporting Collaborative Design with Students of Architecture.
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Teaching Team Philip Fung
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 relationship of 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 students of architectural engineering and students of architecture 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 designing.
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Yuelong Liu (Architectural Engineering) and Sizhou Li (Architecture) discussing and revising architectural building layout for structural viability. Photograph by Christiane M. Herr.
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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 2016-2017
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PLAT-ASIA Bookshelves.
Photograph by C Company.
Photograph by C Company.
Adjaye Associates New York, Office.
Adjaye Associates New York, Office.
Photograph by Adam Brillhart.
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, designed to deliver learning outcomes as defined by the General Criteria and the Graduate Attributes to qualify for RIBA Part 2 validation. It prepares students for two main purposes: to work as fully qualified professional architects; and/or as independent researchers, enabling them to undertake further post-graduate studies. Upon successful completion, an international Master of Architectural Design (MArchDes) degree is awarded from the University of Liverpool, United Kingdom. The MArchDes programme was awarded RIBA part 2 Candidate Course status in December 2016. The second, socalled Initial RIBA Validation Visit took place in November 2017, with the programme well received. The report awaits confirmation by the RIBA Education Committee; it is expected to be published in February 2018.The programme is also registered with and recognised by the Chinese Ministry of Education (MoE).
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M ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN PROGRAMME INTRODUCTION
The MArchDes programme reflects the unique situation of our university, which is located in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, China. Classes are delivered by predominantly international (rather than Chinese or British) educators and are conducted in English to British university standards and in accord with their procedures. Here, we are searching for innovative ways of balancing the conditions of a globalised economy against the constraints of individual, local, and regional realities. The Department’s special location stimulates students, as well as faculty members, to critically review the ideas and habits, values and ideologies that shape our professional identities. Embracing diversity as a key value, and developing a dynamic and supportive studio culture is crucial for us. The education we offer has three main concerns: state-of-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 critical thinking skills. The programme offers a progression pathway for architecture graduates from the Department’s BEng programme, within the same educational framework, and a closely-related approach to pedagogy, which consolidates and builds upon previous learning. It also attracts graduates from other architecture schools in China, and from overseas. From a more global perspective, the programme offers graduate students from the United Kingdom, as well as other English-speaking countries with similar architectural qualification systems a unique opportunity to learn about contemporary China, with language and cultural barriers largely mitigated. It prepares international students for a career-start in China, while it provides local students with opportunities for national as well as international careers.
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Our MArchDes programme, however, does not simply mirror the MArch programme offered by the University of Liverpool, but rather covers the same list of RIBA criteria, and has similar learning outcomes. Special care has been taken to ensure equivalent learning outcomes in Semester 3, in order to facilitate student exchanges with the MArch programme at the University of Liverpool upon the full validation of the course.
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A special feature of our programme is a strong stream of modules in the humanities, including theory, history, and scholarly research. This continues the basic structure of our undergraduate programme, which we believe is crucial in fostering cross-cultural awareness and understanding. Over the five years of architectural education, students are lead towards increasing levels of individual choice and responsibility.
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Similar to many professional MArch programmes in Europe, the design studio is central to the department’s teaching practices, and encourages critical enquiry in the form of analysis, reflection and speculation. Learning-by-doing and learning-by-thinking lie at the core of the curriculum with 50% of the teaching and learning time devoted to architectural studios. Studio teaching is provided in small groups on the basis of structured briefs. Through individual projects, students are led through the learning experience, which spans from conceptual, theoretical and historical research along with site analyses in the earlier stages of their studies, to a highlyresolved architectural proposition at the end of their degree. As students advance through their studies, the increase in complexity is accompanied by greater choice in studio briefs. In Year 2, and especially in the Final Thesis Project, students develop their own studio briefs, aligned with research interests and expertise of their chosen tutors.
On successful completion graduates will possess advanced skills and demonstrate independence of thought which allows them to tackle contemporary built-environment problems through intellectual analysis, considered assessment and design decision-making.
Xiaohan Chen ARC410 final presentation
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The first year of the Master's programme focuses on design and practice, with the second on design and research. A special feature of our programme is a strong stream of modules in the humanities, with an emphasis on theory, history, and research. This continues the basic structure of our undergraduate programme, which is crucial in fostering cross-cultural awareness and understanding. Over the five years of architectural education, students assume increasing levels of individual choice and responsibility, culminating in the last year of the Master's programme. Here they choose their individual design studio tutors and together with them develop their own research and project briefs. Year 1 (Semester 1) ● ARC403 Applied Technology in Architecture (5 credits) ● ARC405 Design Studio I (10 credits) ● ARC407 Architectural Theory and Criticism (5 credits) Additional Learning Activities Year 1 (Semester 2) ● ARC402 Advanced Professional Practice (5 credits) ● ARC404 Design Studio II (10 credits) ● ARC406 Topics in Architectural History (5 credits) Additional Learning Activities
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Applied Technology in Architecture
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Level 4 ( Year 1 | Semester 1 ) Module Credits 5 Field Trip and project review with façade experts Rebecca Cheng and Fausto Nunes at KPF Shanghai. Photograph by Christiane M. Herr.
Module Leader Christiane M. Herr
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Teaching Team Marco Cimillo Teaching Assistant Chitraj Bissoonauth
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ARC403 invites students to engage with a wide range of technologies and technological considerations in the design, construction and use of buildings. Learning takes place in seminar and small lecture settings, with discussions, readings and exercise assignments. Students are expected to complete several individual coursework assignments to practice techniques, and subsequently assemble the works into a holistic technically oriented design proposal in their individual final reports. The theme for this year is the medium-rise tower. The module focuses on the integration of architectural and technological concerns first in the schematic design of a medium-rise tower with a load-bearing façade in its first part. Students employ digital design tools and processes (Rhino3D and Grasshopper) as well as interior lighting analysis to design the tower layout and generate high quality interior spaces. The second part of the module subsequently extends the scope of the conceptual design by integrating façade technology and considerations of environmental impact and occupant comfort. The module is taught in collaboration with offices based in Shanghai: JAE (Jiang Architects & Engineers), specialists in high-rise tower design, and KPF (Kohn Pedersen Fox), specialists in façade design.
Jiayi Li: Façade detail.
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Architectural Theory and Criticism
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Module Leader Tordis Berstrand Contributors Yiping Dong Irene Chiotis (LC) Jessie Cannady (LC)
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The module introduces central themes in architectural theory and criticism informed by current debates within and beyond the discipline. Framed as challenges confronting contemporary society on a global scale, these are issues of the present that call upon architects to respond and act. If this is not simply a call to built and make, it is an invitation to think, again, about the critical potential of built and imagined environments. With an eye to the global and Asian context of XJTLU, the module pursues the intersection of architectural thinking and practice as a space where students come to critically examine their own work. They do so for the purpose of positioning themselves as future architects, yet also to strengthen the ability to articulate a theoretical argument as an integral part of this architect’s task. As a means through which thinking and making can be bridged, writing is at the centre of activities whereby it becomes a site for architecture to emerge. Students reflect on a series of reading assignments in weekly coursework submitted for grading and eventually marking in revised form. In-class discussions, exercises, and presentations build up the skills required for the final essay submission, a draft of which is submitted and graded halfway through the semester. Academic standards are observed across all submitted work, and language teachers from the university’s Writing Center contribute regularly with lectures and tutorials. A final Folio submission concludes the module by compiling all material produced as a statement of the individual student’s achievement and learning.
A walk in the park, 2016. Photograph by Tordis Berstrand.
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ARC402 Advanced Professional Practice
Level 4 ( Year 1 | Semester 2 ) Module Credits 5 Module Leader Austin Williams
The aim of this module is to provide students with a solid understanding of professional approaches and behaviour. The course introduces students to the basic framework of building law, economics, procurement models and professsional ethics within the practice of architecture. Further, the professsion of architecture is contextualized in its relationships to social, economic and political backgrounds. Students are encouraged to examine how buildings are planned, managed and constructed in professional practice through individual research and through seminar presentations and discussions.
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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, migration history, and intellectual history. This increasing interest reflects the mounting consideration for a variety of phenomena that are often referred to as globalization, a term that seems to have gained currency not only in an academic context but also in popular discourses. The module aims 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 considers a narrative covering the 20th century but that, at times, includes events that took place during the 18th and 19th centuries. The module also addresses 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 is placed on the relation between Western and Asian architecture. Students are asked to read and respond to the referenced literature in order to contribute to the discussions in class. They are also encouraged to actively seek out and engage with historical evidence beyond the brief’s bibliography, and to reflect on their own developing research methodologies.
Affonso Eduardo Reidy Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro 1953 [ photo Paolo Scrivano ]
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Design Studio 1 A Soft Urban Regeneration in Suzhou
Level 4 ( Year 1 | Semester 1 ) Module Credits 10
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Module Leader Pierre-Alain Croset Teaching Team Pierre-Alain Croset Bert De Muynck Quanqing Lu ( teaching assistant ) Guest Reviewers Bing Lin (Shanghai) Bart Mahieu (Suzhou) Christian Nolf (UPD) Number of Students 9
The challenge of this studio is to reflect on the processes of “soft regeneration” of an urban village located near the south-west gate of the old city of Suzhou (Pan Men). Originally a farming village, the site is presently a kind of “island”, bounded on the eastern, southern and western sides by the canals of the Xitang River, and on the northern side by Panmen Road, with very few connections to the surrounding urban area, creating a negative condition of isolation and segregation. The Planning Bureau of Suzhou has long been interested in a radical redevelopment of the area, due to its strategic situation near the historic city, however the remaining residents are opposed to relocation and demolition. In this studio, students are required to develop their designs at both the scale of the housing type, and that of the larger urban realm. Drawing inspiration from the traditional courtyard houses of Suzhou, students are asked to adopt a critical attitude towards the tradition, using as a reference point the body of work concerning the “critical reconstruction” of European cities in the Post-War period, as well as contemporary interpretations of “carpet housing” typology. In order to ensure greater density, this low rise / high density housing is to be designed (one to three floors) along with small residential towers (“slim towers,” eight to fifteen floors), in which to relocate the residents. Through this studio, a strong sense of collaboration between teachers and students of the architecture programme and XJTLU’s Masters programmes in Urban Planning, and Urban Design continues to develop, and owes much to their module leader Christian Nolf, UPD Department, whose work focuses on the same urban region of Suzhou.
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Design Studio 2 2042–Networked Urban Towers
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Level 1 ( Year 1 | Semester 2 ) Module Credits 10 Module Leader Christiane M. Herr Studio Group Discussion About Masterplan Layout.
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Teaching Team Thomas Fischer Marco Cimillo Jiang Chun (JAE)
CFD Analysis of Wind Flow Across the Project Site, Guided by Marco Cimillo. Photograph by Christiane M. Herr.
The second studio module in the MArchDes 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 Shanghai. Students are asked to develop contextually responsive architectural design proposals that integrate social, cultural, technical, and environmental knowledge at an advanced level. Working individually, but with a strong focus on a highly integrated overall masterplan, students developed their proposals informed by lighting and wind analysis. The studio was supported and co-taught by Jiang Chun, director of Shanghai-based practice JAE (Jiang Architects & Engineers), specialists in high-rise tower design. A selection of proposals were further developed and submitted to the 2017 student competition of the Council for Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, of which one was awarded third prize.
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ALA Additional Learning Activities
Level 4 ( Year 1+2 ) Module Credits 0 Hours 200 / Semester Coordinator Christian Gänshirt
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
Reconstruded historical brick kiln Imperial Kiln Museum, Suzhou
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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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Module Leader Paolo Scrivano Teaching Team Paolo Scrivano Tordis Berstrand Number of Students 6
The module aims to familiarize students with research strategies related to the design work they concurrently undertake in ARC 413 “Design Studio 3”. In the first instance, students address theoretical questions concerning design and research in the architectural field through literature and specific case studies; then, under the supervision of the teaching team, they developed their own research strategies and put them in practice in their studio work. The first part of the module has a seminar format and is organized through in-class discussions and reading of assigned texts, with lectures providing context for debate. This aspect considers general areas of research - specifically, in relation to site and architecture, to the thinking that defines the practice of architectural design, to the representation and prefiguration of architectural ideas, to materials and the material component of architectural practice, and to the actual processes of designing. The second part of the module is structured as a laboratory for the preparation of the Thesis Prospectus, under the supervision of the teaching team. Each student produces a thesis prospectus that prompts and engages with questions in the practice and theory of architecture. In the prospectus, students propose a thesis question, demonstrate their command of architectural research, and identify and develop a specific set of theories and methods appropriate to their research work. Guest lecturers are invited to share their research experiences; and special sessions are organized in coordination with ARC 413 to foster discussion between students and thesis supervisors on chosen research themes.
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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
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View of the installation by Sharvari Shanmugam. Photograph by Sharvari Shanmugam.
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 reflecting 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, to initiate 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, and of documentation and presentation of spatial principles, as well as with the practices and theories of practice that are discussed in the weekly seminars. They learnt to understand this engagement as a form of critical enquiry into architectural practices of presentation and representation.
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Level 4 ( Year 2 | Semester 2 ) Module Credits 5 Module Leader Paolo Scrivano
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Teaching Team Paolo Scrivano Pierre-Alain Croset Number of Students 6
Building on the module ARC 409 “Architectural Design and Research Methods” and running in parallel with Design Studio 4 (ARC 410), this module guides individual students in the preparation and production of a research thesis in the field of architectural design research in a largely self-guided and otherwise seminar-based learning mode. Students conduct and document, in thesis format, a research project in the field of design research, working on a written document explaining their design thesis’s principles and giving theoretical support to their design projects. The module alternates discussions with individual students on the preparation of the thesis’s written part with internal group seminars on research, with the participation of both students and tutors of the Design Studio 4. Students are also invited to attend seminars offered by invited lecturers. The module’s final objective is to enable students to individually design, execute, and report self-contained research projects in the context of applied architectural design.
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In this module, students develop and complete the writing component of their Masters’ thesis, conducting and documenting a research project in the field of design research.
Views of the Exhibition presented at the RIBA part 2 Exploratory visit in October 2016
Imperial Brick Museum, Suzhou, by architect Liu Jiakun
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Level 4 ( Year 2 | Semester 1+2 ) Module Credits 10+15 Module Leader Christian Gänshirt
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Teaching Team Pierre-Alain Croset Christiane Herr Glen Wash Juan Carlos Dall' Asta Paolo Scrivano Philip Fung
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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 ensures a diversity of approaches allowing students great freedom in defining their methods of learning and their approaches to architectural design. Over the summer break, they already define the scope and topic of their projects in close cooperation with their individual tutors, which are 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 will support the artistic side of the student’s design work, and ARC409 Architectural Design and Research Methods informs the theoretical and research aspects of the work. Students regularly present their work for discussion in reviews to all tutors involved in teaching this studio, to other faculty members, invited reviewers from other schools, as well as practicing architects. In the final semester of the Masters programme, students are supposed to demonstrate self-reliance in the framing of architectural problems and in the research required to engage 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 summarizes the years of studies, and, for the first time, clearly addresses the wider professional public.
MArch Des Graduation Exhibition in the Materials Library, 2017
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Many cities in China (Suzhou included) have undergone changes in urban form and construction at unprecedented speeds and magnitudes, creating cities in which urban environments have reached unforeseen scenarios and contrasts. The speed in which these changes are occurring occasionally appear excessively fast, to the point that citizens and public spaces cannot ‘hold together’ the city anymore. Can a city’s main urban characteristic be dissolved, changed or replaced to the point in which it becomes unrecognisable? What is the potential of architecture to adapt to social, economic and environmental changes not by being demolished and rebuilt, but by reacting and responding to those changes? This master thesis “RE/ ACTING: Rethinking Recent Suzhou Architecture” addresses some of this questions by proposing design strategies aimed at interacting and reacting with some of the newest (and somehow failed) projects in Suzhou's Central Busines District.
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The first part of the thesis explores and analyses six malls located in CBD, and proposes initial conceptual transformations and architectural reactions to each one of them. The second part of the thesis develops an urban intervention in Suzhou's CBD by proposing 3 new axes which interact and transform the existing fabric. The thesis also develops a new version of Xinghai Square that depicts the way in which the proposed axes enact the idea of renovating and refurbishment of new, recently built architecture.
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Driven by in-depth research on the architectural history and local resources of Mauritius, the Master thesis “Regenerating Creole Architecture: Engaging Creole Identity” developed an artisan market and cultural center located in Grand Baie, Mauritius. The thesis responds to the local culture of Mauritius, which has historically been a place of amalgamation of a wide spectrum of different cultures, including French, British, African, Indian and Chinese influences. The concept of the Creole defines a type of identity that develops through this type of multicultural setting – an identity that is defined not so much by preserving, but by flexibly accommodating and adopting from various sources. The Creole is however more than a mixture of external influences: in the process of adapting what is encountered, influences are edited, reinterpreted and transformed to suit the purposes and preferences of local contexts, climates and lifestyles. Creole identity can be found in historical architecture as vernacular, but it can also be expressed in contemporary built form. This studio project combines research and design to examine and generate Creole processes of productive amalgamation and adaptation as an alternative to anonymous globalised architecture. This studio project extends and applies an approach to Creole architecture that is based on the previous studio’s research process. Where during the earlier research phase, the main source of inspiration was Creole vernacular architecture, particularly heritage architecture, this studio project addresses primarily new and larger scale architectural programmes such as multi-storey residential and commercial buildings. The studio project employs local climate and materials as essential factors in developing a Mauritian Creole architectural identity and proposes alternative ways of building taking into account not only geometric and spatial, but also local material, structural and climatic aspects.
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Mauritius is a small island in the Indian Ocean with 1.3 million inhabitants. During the last 15 years its main economic source has progressively changed from the sugar industry to the textile industry to tourism. 3 years ago Mauritius’ annual tourist arrival was 1 million. Currently the island receives 1.3 million tourists every year. However, this has also generated a number of conflicts and problems such as beach erosion, coral reef bleaching with diminished access to the beach for the locals.
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How to deal with an increasing demand in tourism industry and lack of coastline on the island? This is the question that the Master Thesis “Living on Water: Floating Landscapes” addresses by proposing a new floating settlement on the coastline of Mauritius. The first part of the thesis is focused on defining the cultural, historical, environmental and contextual issues which may play a role when designing a water settlement on the island. It also provides site analyses which identify potential locations for different types of water settlements on the Mauritius coastline. At the same time, it develops a prototype settlement, exploring issues such as the floatability and flexibility of floating architecture. The second part of the thesis focuses on the architectural development of a representative settlement, proposing different buildings for housing, commerce, utilities and production. Each one of these facilities have different requirements in terms of floatability and distribution. The project also develops a flexible and movable circulation system which keeps the settlement unified while generating the settlement's public spaces.
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The Master Thesis “Tongli: Rethinking, Revitalization and Regeneration” explores the tensions, conflicts and design opportunities behind the relationship between rural environments and urban environments in China. The economic growth of China's urban centres has impacted the country's agrarian communities in recent decades. It is estimated that about 1.1 million villages disappeared between 2000 and 2010. Once culturally and economically rich, villages are currently at a crossroad; are they going to dissipate, leaving behind disjointed patches of urban fragments embedded in the rural landscape? Or perhaps this is an opportunity to explore and propose new ways of architecture for rural development.
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The first part of the thesis identifies 3 types of villages (semi-urban, semi-rural and fully rural) and selects 3 villages representative of these categories; Tongli, Bishan and Nanping. After undertaking a site and morphological analyses, the thesis proposes village-scale projects aimed to ignite different types of rural regeneration in each of the studied villages. The second part of the thesis fully develops one of these proposals at an architectural scale, creating a new entrance and regeneration area in the water town of Tongli.
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With the title “Suzhou Museum of Music”, the Master Thesis developed a design research in two phases. In the first phase (semester 1), the research was focused on some basic questions related with the type of the museum as a driver of intellectual and artistic progress in contemporary China, and with the specific functional programme of a Museum of Music. They were mainly three concerns: how to exhibit music, how to present the traditional Suzhou music culture in an exhibition, and how to relate to the particular urban fabric of the city. In the second phase (semester 2), the design research has been concentrated on the interaction between the programme of the Museum of Music, and the specific site of Changmen in the historical core of Suzhou. The functional programme has been step by step better defined, using as consultants local musicians and music instrument makers. As a reference for the design, the traditional Suzhou garden has been used for defining an original structure of pavilions and covered corridors, exploring different forms and different materials for giving a strong architectural identity to the exhibition rooms (based on specific properties of materials) and performance rooms (based on acoustic rules).
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With the title “Recycled Landscapes: A Buddhist Monastery in a Quarry”, this Master’s Thesis design research was developed in two phases. In the first phase (semester 1), the research focused on basic questions related to soil pollution and waste- landscapes in China, as well as the analysis of successful landscape architecture projects. Zhongliangyunfeng village near Chongqing was selected as the site for the project, a site that had been extensively transformed by agriculture and stone mining. Through site investigation, three main quarries were chosen to be further developed through landscape reparation, with each quarry associated with a different functional scenario. Drawing from Buddhist philosophy the concept of recovering, which means the recovering of nature as well as the recovering of human beings came to underpin the project.
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In the second phase (semester 2), design research concentrated on one particular quarry to be recycled as a Buddhist Monastery, providing permanent living quarters and surrounds for Buddhist Monks and further providing hospitality for visitors. As a complement to this basic program, other functions were hosted by the site, including a small vegetarian restaurants, a tea house, a Buddhist bookstore, dedicated rooms for Buddhist Chanting and lectures. The project developed through the association of analytical work with speculative thinking, and deployed techniques of decontamination and remediation in order to determine the uses of regenerated sites, in the pursuit of an ideal combination of natural landscape and man-made artifacts.
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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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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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Urban Conservation and Modern Interventions in Changmen Historical District February 19-25, 2017
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Participants University of Liverpool (UK) Andrew Crompton, Torsten Schmiedeknecht, Soumyen Bandyopadhyay, 10 students (all BA)
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Technical University Graz (AT) Wolfgang Dokonal and Martin Grabner, 9 students (4BA + 5MA) + 2 PhD students Politecnico di Torino (IT) Alberto Bologna, 8 students (2BA + 6MA) Sapienza University of Rome (IT) Simona Salvo, Alfonso Giancotti, Luca Reale, 11 students (6BA + 5MA) + 2 PhD students
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ENSA Paris Val-de-Seine (FR) Nathalie Régnier-Kagan, Jean Mas, 12 students (all BA) Xi’an Jiatong-Liverpool University (CN) Department of Architecture Juan Carlos Dall’Asta, Federico De Matteis, Teresa Hoskyns, Aleksandra Raonic, Austin Williams, 57 students (48BA + 9MA)
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Coordination Pierre Alain Croset, XJTLU, Head of Department of Architecture Juan Carlos Dall’Asta, XJTLU
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This Workshop explored an innovative approach to the urgent problem of the urban conservation in China. Characterized by the presence of the beautiful Garden of Cultivation, founded during the Ming Dynasty (Yipu Garden, UNESCO World Heritage site), the Changmen Historical District is a dense and lively neighbourhood in a high-end residential and tourist area. While strict planning guidelines control and regulate historic buildings, including the materials, the form of the roofs, the openings and the heights of the buildings, these regulations do not apply to the modern buildings inserted in the middle of the traditional urban blocks, many of them realized in the years between 1970 and 1980. The workshop proposed to demolish the modern buildings, and to imagine new interventions in the historical blocks. The voids created in the middle of the traditional urban fabric could thus offer scope for innovation, and means to explore a contemporary language more sensitive and more elegant, or, alternatively to create pedestrian connections through and between the blocks. 11 teachers and 54 students from 5 European Schools of Architecture (University of Liverpool, Graz University of Technology, Politecnico di Torino, ENSA Paris Val-de-Seine, Sapienza University of Rome), and 5 teachers and 59 students from the Department of Architecture of XJTLU participated in the workshop. The participants were divided into 14 groups, corresponding to the 14 sites in the Changmen District, with each group developing a “restoration plan” for one block, with a precise image of the urban quality of the block after the intervention, and with clear indications of the mix of functions. Critical of the idea of “stylistic reconstruction,” the workshop strove to forge a stronger connection between urban and architectural design, and between conservation and innovation as it interrogated the role of architects as creative interpreters.
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Thanks to a Memorandum of Understanding recently signed between XJTLU and the Università Iuav di Venezia, 5 students from the Department of Architecture (Yu Xinning, Zhang Tao, Yan Haonan, Yao Wenxuan, Zhai Huihong) were invited to the prestigious W.A.VE. WORKSHOP in Venice, from 26 June to 14 July 2017.
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Proposed Future Syrian City Model produced during the WA.V.E Workshop
In 2017 W.A.Ve. dealt with the reconstruction of Syria and was organized in collaboration with United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia and select UN agencies and NGO’s. As such, W.A.Ve. 2017 was an opportunity to focus attention on the global architectural phenomenon of urbicide, with the membership of Syria augmented emphasizing the value of cultural heritage and the shared responsibility for its reconstruction. W.A.Ve. 2017 reasserted Venice’s and Iuav’s key role in addressing critical global and the vital role that architecture plays in reconstruction, conservation, and urban transformation.
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Every year for three weeks in June and July, Università Iuav di Venezia turns into a big open campus, or a festival, thanks to the W.A.VE. Workshops that sees the participation of over 100 teachers, professors and assistants, and 1800 students enrolled in undergraduate courses. W.A.VE. is formed by 28 workshops, each with a main professor and a group of assistants. Each workshop is attended by approximately 60 students and is self-organized by the professors on the basis of instructions given by the organization.
View of Palmyra with the Temple of Bel, Syria, 2010. Photograph by Bernard Gagnon.
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Workshop Leaders Juan Carlos Dall’ Asta Ruggero Canova Winning teams Yuanxin Zhao and Rui Lu Yu Yulin and Yuqi Shen Zou Yina and Luo Cong Lu Xiaohui and Yuanfeng Hu
Arising as a shared initiative between the Department of Architecture and the Department of Industrial Design, the Bamboo Workshop was organized by Juan Carlos Dall’Asta (ARCH) and Ruggero Canova (IND) as the first didactic initiative hosted by the Materials Library located in the Design Building on 23rd November 2016. The workshop’s intention was that students experiment with different ways of using bamboo to generate constructive patterns for the Materials Library’s feature walls. In only 7 hours, ten Year 3 Architecture students and ten Year 4 students of Industrial Design, organized in mixed groups of two students, had an excellent opportunity to explore the importance of “thinking with their hands”, to investigate research methodologies through making or, as it is otherwise known, research by design. The workshop enabled students to transform abstract concepts into technical solutions in the knowledge that ideas must be open to improvements during the construction stage, highlighting how the building process itself plays an important role in design. Three established craftsmen from Shanghai instructed the twenty Architecture and Industrial Design students in the art of building with bamboo, providing them with the opportunity to experiment through making at 1:1 scale, drawing out the inherent beauty of the material. After many hours of prototyping and testing their concepts students gained in confidence and became quick and adept in weaving and assembling bamboo poles and strips. And by late evening everybody involved was astonished by the ten huge and diverse installations surrounding the central room of the Library.Each work expressed, albeit in different ways, delicate and clever designs which brought out the potential of this meaning-rich material.
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At the completion of the workshop, four teams were awarded the “best design” which will be ideally realized in the completion of the Materials Library.
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Dates 20 April to 12 May 2017 Curator Sergio Pascolo
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Total Housing presented the work of the Italian architect Sergio Pascolo, based in Venice and active in urban planning, and the design of public and residential buildings, predominantly in Italy and Germany. The exhibition sought to illustrate the architect’s research trajectory and emphasized the interrelated significance of individual dwelling space as a component of the civic and social space of the city in an ongoing dialogue between interior and exterior places. Pascolo’s research is concerned with three major themes: housing design and the nature of its roominess; building configuration in light of the possible mix of residences along with other functions; and, the study of building typology in order to define forms of urban space that promote and enable social life and sustainable living. Sub-themes include: flexibility; notions of proximity; variation, compactness, and cost effectiveness. The projects presented each sought to address specific issues and to provide opportunities within neighborhoods, urban projects, building projects, housing and individual homes. Recognising the dual role of housing projects as dwelling spaces and as features of the wider environment, their capacity to host other functions such as cultural and educational centres highlighted their livable significance.
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The Department of Architecture organized a series of 5 lectures during the second semester of the 2016-17academic year. In the first lecture (23 February), Nathalie Régnier-Kagan presented “From the Housing to the City” which showcased the work of Kagan Architectures, established by her and Michel Kagan in 1989, a practice which focuses on social housing in urban contexts. With the title “Ontological Response” (14 March), Zhu Xiaofeng discussed the work of his office Scenic Architecture founded in Shanghai in 2004, which has emerged as one of the most influential young practices in contemporary China, with works widely published in international and local professional media. Li Zhang (27 March) used the concept of Playfulness to introduce the work with of his firm Atelier TeamMinus, and his design philosophy as a Professor at the Tsinghua University. Zhang Li’s research focuses on pre-industrial oriental philosophy and its contemporary reinterpretation, and with his partners at TeamMinus they have completed a variety of buildings and urban renewal projects in China, which have been published internationally. The lecture of Sergio Pascolo (20th April) was organized on the occasion of the his exhibition “Total Housing” at the Department of Architecture (see in the following pages).
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With the title “History Re-storied” (8 May), Wang Hui presented a sequence of projects realized with his partners in the firm URBANUS, including the regeneration Five Dragons Temple project in Ruicheng City (2016) which gave rise to a heated debate on the protection and regeneration of cultural relics in contemporary China.
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RE-SIGNIFYING THE WATER TOWN: A SURVEY OF SHENGJIADAI (SURF)
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As part of this Undergraduate Research Project we surveyed the current conditions of Suzhou’s canal streets. Over the years, Suzhou has lost 80% of its original canals. Today, great emphasis is given to Suzhou’s emblematic canal streets like Pingjiang Lu and Shangtang Jie, yet these streets are predominantly commercial and tourist-centred. Hence, they may not be able to truthfully represent the original dwelling qualities of the canal street. However, there are still canal streets in Suzhou which retain many of their original qualities. One of them is Shengjiadai: the only diagonal canal in Suzhou’s old town. We undertook a survey and analysis of Shengjiadai, searching for traditional aspects that could have implications/applications for modern architectural design.
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The “new rural village,” the construction and beatification of villages, has attracted numerous architects and considerable investment to villages. Focusing on conservation practices at a village level, this research surveyed and analyzed the concepts of “heritage” from the point of view of various stakeholders. Heritage conservation is considered an effective method to revitalize the decline of rural settlements. Different approaches of internal and external stakeholders and other efforts have shaped these practices, each with their own understanding of heritage and conservation. Through field visits to different villages, and semistructured interviews and questionnaires, this research sought to identify and map the different understandings of “what heritage is” by experts and non-experts across a range of practices. This research project is a collaborative undertaking with Tianjin University, Ruanyisan Heritage Funding and Shanghai Tongji Urban Planning & Design Institute. The poster won the Student Choice Award on the SURF Poster Day.
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CHALLENGES TO THE ADOPTION OF BIM IN CHINESE ARCHITECTURE, ENGINEERING AND CONSTRUCTION (SURF)
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The separation of architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) professions has been criticised for stifling design quality, innovation and building performance. BIM* (Building Information Modelling) offers the AEC professions means to cooperate using shared digital project representations, and thus a potential to bridge professional separations. Despite high awareness of BIM strategies, BIM adoption rates in the Chinese construction industry are still relatively low. Besides some high profile projects, Chinese AEC practices also tend to maintain professional separations, implementing separate project models and defeating the potentials listed above. This project investigates challenges to the adoption of BIM specific to the Chinese AEC practices, with a view to formulating strategies for increased BIM adoption.
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Final Project Presentation at XJTLU SURF Poster Day 2016. Photograph by Christiane M. Herr.
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Group Photo of CAADRIA2017 Conference Participants. Photograph by Milan Ognjanovic.
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In April 2017, the Department of Architecture at Xi’an JiaotongLiverpool University hosted the prestigious 22nd international conference of the Association for Computer-Aided Architectural Design in Asia: CAADRIA2017. Researchers from all over Asia as well as the wider global digital architectural research community spent three days at XJTLU presenting and discussing cutting-edge research. Projects discussed included those related to digital fabrication, robotics in architecture, Building Information Modelling, interactive architecture and architectural-scale 3D printing, among others. The four public keynote speeches reflected the current state-of-the-art in the field as well as visions for the future, ranging from a discussion of digital tools in collaborations between architects and engineers by Professor Manfred Grohmann from Bollinger + Grohmann engineers, Germany to a critical reflection on the relationship between digitally designed and fabricated architecture and the local Chinese context by Professor Philip Yuan (Tongji University, China). Architect Zhenfei Wang (HHD_FUN, China) presented projects from his architectural practice, illustrating how advanced digital design practice can engage with local village craftsmanship. Professor Weiguo Xu, Chair of the Department of Architecture at Tsinghua University, gave insights into the way architects across China now engage in digital architectural design practice in a keynote speech entitled ‘Towards a New Digital Architecture’. Professory Xu’s speech also accompanied an exhibition of related works presented in the new exhibition space of the Design Building on the University’s South Campus.
CAADRIA2017 Keynote Speech by Prof. Manfred Grohmann. Photograph by Milan Ognjanovic.
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CAADRIA2017 EXHIBITION: TOWARDS A DIGITAL ARCHITECTURE
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Exhibitors include: GAO Yan, LI Daode, LIN Qiuda, MAD, SHAO Weiping, SONG Gang, SU Chaohao, LIN Kangqiang, WANG Zhenfei, WANG Luming, Philip F. YUAN, ZHANG Xiaoyi, ZHONG Huaying, ZHU Pei, Beilida, BIAD UFo, HU Biao, HUANG Weixin, JI Guohua, LI Biao, Steven MA, SHI Xinyu, WANG Wei, WU Jiangmei, XU Feng, XU Jiong, XU Weiguo, YU Lei, Sam CHO, Alain Renk | MU Wei, South China University of Technology, Southeast University, Tongji University, Tsinghua University.
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Exhibition Curator Weiguo Xu Department of Architecture Tsinghua University
The CAADRIA2017 exhibition was held as part of the CAADRIA2017 Conference in April 2017. 38 Representatives of advanced digital design in China were invited to showcase their work in the atrium of the Design Building of XJTLU’s new South Campus. Including cases from architectural design practice as well as academic research, the exhibition presented new developments in digital architecture made in China.
CAADRIA2017 Exhibition Opening, April 2017. Photographs by Milan Ognjanovic.
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Introduction In this Deyang International Student Construction Competition, Xi’an Jiangtong Liverpool University was allocated a traditional farmhouse with six sectors in Longdong Village. In early July, several students did research work on the house including climate, house dimensions and the expectation of the owner. Then, Philip Fung led the team to do the design concept and construction drawings. Four Generations under the Roof is the main idea hence there will be four generations living in the house, four bedrooms and a shared living room will be designed. The rammed earth wall will be reserved with reinforcement and a new house will be added in the right side. Therefore, the whole house including the courtyard will be a unified space. In the construction period in August 2017, Philip and all participating students were actively involved, supervising at the construction site. Students learned a lot, especially in terms of creative ideas and construction procedure through this competition.
Design Idea After asking after the expectation of the owners and a visit to their house, we figured out that there will be four generations living in the house so that they need four bedrooms for each generation. In addition, the owner required a specific place for worshipping ancestors. Therefore, the team came up with the main idea of this design plan which is Four Generations under the Roof (四世同堂). The living, dinning and walking connection through the visual perception and the flow between each room could be tighter in a separate pattern and the entire house is a combination of open and independent spaces. Furthermore, in China, the pronunciation of the “generation” and “bedroom” are the same, thus we made this homophonic as another highlight of the idea.
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The departmental magazine, Masterplanning the Future (MPTF) has had a significant impact within and outside the University. It is the only independent online architecture magazine in China, written in English that aims to bring Chinese architecture to an international audience. Since its inception, MPTF has organised the Department’s speakers programme with local and international visiting architects. Students have used the opportunity to interview all speakers and post resulting articles, which has been a way to network with architects and build professional relationships for potential internships.
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We are now moving into film, recording interviews and planning a short documentary. We will also launch round-table, filmed discussions where students debate issues facing China.
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This magazine is a great way to enhance students’ critical skills and to develop good journalistic and English-speaking skills. We hold regular meetings to promote, train, engage, take questions and help students in this endeavour. We are always looking for new editorial members! To view Masterplanning the Future online and for further information go to: http://www.masterplanningthefuture.org/
Master Planning the Future 5th Anniversary Edition, designed and produced by Yiqing Dai.
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The tour commenced with a visit to “Three Lanes and Seven Alleys,” a national heritage site originally built during the Western Jin Dynasty. The site features buildings and urban patterns resulting from stratification over more than sixteen centuries, and includes the water-side Pavilion and performing stage in Yi Jin Fang, dating back to 1573. In Fuzhou, the students also had the opportunity to visit the Hualin Temple, one of the finest wooden structures built under the North Song dynasty. This Buddhist sanctuary, like several other buildings encountered during the trip, was surveyed and sketched on site. The two days in Fuzhou were concluded with a visit to the Jiu Ma residential dwelling and the “Stepped Courtyard”, a contemporary architecture project inspired by the Tulou, a vernacular residential type peculiar to this area, with several other superb examples later visited in Heken village, a UNESCO world heritage site. On the way to Xiamen, other exciting stops were encountered through the mountainous Western Fujian region. These included Anlian Castle, a fortification dating back to 1810 in Jiyang Village; the contemporary Bridge School, an awardwinning project designed by Li Xiaodong aimed at promoting community development and environmental sustainability in the village of Xiashi and the Hakka houses in Yongding. At the Bridge School a special Asian Architecture History lecture was presented with students later engaging with local villagers against the backdrop of the sunset. This was one of the unforgettable moments of the trip. The colonial architecture of Gulangyu Island and a visit to the spectacular campus of Xiamen University were highlights of the stay in Xiamen. Here too, the opportunity to learn how materials and technology can influence aesthetic design and decoration was exemplified by the traditional settlement of Cai’s Family, characterized by its red striped bricks, which result from a particular traditional manufacturing process.
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Three cities, one island and several villages and settlements, a total of more than 20 sites were visited over a period of seven days by XJTLU’s Year Three students in October 2016.
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The trip was concluded with two days in the historic city of Quanzhou, where the group, besides visiting the Maritime Museum, West Street and the Zhongshan Road Historical District, experienced the diverse religious life and architecture of the city. Important buildings including the Quanzhou Confucian Temple, built during the 10th century, the Buddhist Kaiyuan Temple in West Street, originally erected during the Tang Dynasty, the Qingjing Mosque, dating back to 1009, and the Guandi Temple and Mazu Temple, where worship has continued to take place since the Song Dynasty, brought to the fore Quanzhou’s historical significance as major harbor city and the starting point of the Maritime Silk Road. The week was very instructive, with a group of students introducing each site, along with contributions from local academic experts from Fuzhou University, Xiamen University, Datian Museum and Quanzhou Historic Town Regeneration office, enriching the experience and the knowledge base.
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The Hong Kong Study Trip took place from 14-18 February during the Winter Break, just before the beginning of 1st Semester. It was conceived as part of the Final Year Project teaching (Brief E) and provided students with the opportunity to study the city, reflect on the relation between the natural environment and high-density urban areas and to visit compelling works of contemporary architecture including designs by Norman Foster, I.M. Pei, Zaha Hadid, Daniel Libeskind, amongst numerous other notable architects. During the trip, the students joined with a master’s students group at The University of Hong Kong, both teams, XJTLU and HKU, sharing tutorials and critique sessions.
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Tour Leaders Christian Gänshirt Junjie Xi Students Cindy Anthony Jiaci Chen Yukun Chen Jie Cheng Xiao Ding Hanxi Du Wei Kuang Jiaxu Li Shaokang Li Shiyu Qian Fuwei Shao Xiaoya Shen Tianyu Su Fengzhu Sun Lanke Tang Weiwei Wang Xiaoyuan Wang Hao Wu Tianyuan Yang Tshering Yangzom Kaifeng Yin Weijie Yu Xing Zhan Wen Zhang Xu Zhang Xin Zheng Ruidi Zhou Ruoyi Zhu Jianglin Qian Dates 18-19 November 2016
Over a period of two days in November 2016, the ARC303 seminar group undertook a research field trip to Hangzhou, where students explored several sites and buildings by Amateur Architecture Studio, established by Lu Wenyu and Wang Shu. The aim of this ARC303 Seminar A research project of was not only to gain a better understanding of Amateur Architecture Studio’s built and un-built projects, but to learn more about its two founding architects. Meeting with Lu Wenyu and interviewing Wang Shu, students were able to discover where and how they were educated, how they commenced their careers, whilst also learning more about issues that underpin their research and how this informs how their projects, and how they think and write about architecture. Students were then able to better reflect upon how their approach to contributes to architectural theory in light of discussions of it by critics and the broader profession. As founders of the China Academy of Arts in Hangzhou, how Lu Wenyu and Wang Shu’s theoretical and practical work informs their teaching at the architecture school was also a topic of interest. Works visited during the field trip included the Old Town Conservation of Zhongshan Street, the Vertical Courtyard Apartments; Xiangshan Campus Part I and II; the CAA Student Refectory, the Shui An Shan Ju Hotel, and a visit to a construction site with Deli Zhao, with a talk presented by Adam Brillhart. Students also took the opportunity to explore around West Lake and visit the China Crafts Museum by Kengo Kuma.
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The Le Corbusier Vivant Study Trip took place from 16-26 June following the end of 2nd Semester. It was conceived of as a unique opportunity to explore Le Corbusier’s work in situ from different and new perspectives. For while Le Corbusier’s work is well-known to students of architecture all over the world, many aspects of his oeuvre can only be discovered through direct encounter. The nature of materials, shifts in scale, and the play of light in space provided students with numerous memorable experiences. The tour started in Lyon and ended in Paris, with inspiring examples of historic and contemporary architecture visited along the way. The trip as a whole enriched students understanding of the history of western art and architecture, while providing a new appreciation of urban culture.
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The Freestyle Bridge Design Competition is an annual event conducted as part of the module ARC202 (Structural Design). The competition gives students an opportunity to experiment with complex structural systems and a variety of self-chosen materials in the realisation of architecturally driven design ideas. The competition task this year was to build a bridge model for a given urban site in the city of Berlin, 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. This year, three of the best bridge proposals were further developed, submitted to and presented at the Footbridge2017 Conference held in Berlin, Germany.
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The Cardboard Structures event is an annual event conducted as part of the module ARC104 (Structures and Materials). It is the culmination of students’ first attempt at building a life-size structure made primarily from cardboard, without the use of glue and relying purely on mechanical connections. This year, the task was to build shelters for school children of about 10-11 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 2016 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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The Department of Architecture at Xi 'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University awarded its second annual BDP-Farrell prize to Year Four student Shao Fuwei, 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 the 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, the 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. Fuwei 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 Sofia Quiroga from the Department of Architecture and Beili Peng from BDP presented the award. Li Shaokang, already the recipient of the Best Performance in the Final Year Project in Architecture Award, received the BDP-Farrell second prize, with graduate Xu Zhang being honoured with the third. 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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OUTSTANDING DESIGN BRIEF AND OUTSTANDING DESIGN STUDIO COURSEWORK
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 2016 National Architectural Education Annual Symposium in Hefei, China.
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Schools and departments of architecture around China were required to submit architectural design studio briefs and related resulting students’ work. Design studio modules form the central core of architectural degree programmes. In a design studio module, students are asked to respond creatively and responsibly to questions posed by a design brief. Students’ projects are typically developed in a studio space in which they all work, and they are encouraged to discuss and think critically as a baseline for collaborative learning. A teaching team of five tutors, including Ganna Andrianova, Aleksandra Raonic, Austin Williams, Lina Stergiou and Jose Angel Hidalgo Arellano, led by module coordinator Ganna, won in the ‘Outstanding Design Brief’ category for their brief ‘Creative Hub/Co-working Space in Suzhou’ in the Shantang Street area of Suzhou. Andrianova developed the brief as a continuation of efforts made by the Department of Architecture to equip students with methods and tools that would enable them to act creatively in response to the question of urban regeneration, in the local Chinese context, as well as to locations that are not familiar to them. Two individual XJTLU students’ work won prizes in the ‘Outstanding Design Studio Coursework’ category for their designs that were developed within the ARC204 design studio module. Fuwei Shao, supervised by Andrianova, won for his ‘vibrant’ joint office environment design concept that was informed by research on biological processes and the growth of plants. Shaokang Li’s winning design, supervised by Raonic, reflected on processes in the human body to create a space around which creativity flows, in a similar way to oxygen circulating around the body.
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GRADUATE’S PROJECT SHOWN AT RIBA PRESIDENT’S MEDALS STUDENT AWARDS EXHIBITION Sun Chenxing, a 2016 graduate from the Department of Architecture at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (XJTLU), has had his work included in an award exhibition hosted by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) in London (beginning of December 2016 to the end of January 2017). The annual RIBA award recognises outstanding projects that architectural students have developed during their Bachelor and Master programmes at departments of architecture around the world and is known as the RIBA President’s Medals Student Awards. Each year a selection of projects entered into the awards competition are showcased alongside the awarded projects to promote excellence in architectural education, and to initiate architectural debate on what architecture could be, and how architectural education addresses these questions. The inclusion of Sun Chenxing’s work in the award exhibition is a sign of the high quality that XJTLU’s Department of Architecture has achieved in its education in recent years, and highlights the Department’s commitment to providing its students with an architectural education that addresses questions on the edge of international discourse, while providing them with the best possible basis for a start into the life as young architects and designers. The RIBA President’s Medals are widely regarded as the most prestigious international awards in architectural education. Having the work of a graduate included in the RIBA President’s Medal Exhibition also confirms the positive feedback that the Department of Architecture received during the last visit of the RIBA committee in October 2014. The committee very positively valued the department’s achievements specifically in regards to creating a new type of international architectural graduate with Chinese roots. The Final Year Project entitled “Urban Mountain Retreat” was supervised by Dr. Christiane M. Herr and Dr. Thomas Fischer from the Department of Architecture at XJTLU. After his graduation, Sun Chenxing worked for a year in an office in Beijing. He received offers to continue his education in professional postgraduate programmes in Architecture from a range of prestigious institutions, including the University of Edinburgh UK, the University of Melbourne AU, and the National University of Singapore (NUS). In the autumn of 2017 he commenced studies in a professional MArch Programme at the University of Hong Kong.
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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.
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Strengths of the Department of Architecture’s academic staff, the recent establishment of XJTLU’s Research Institute on Industrial Design and 3D Printing, and emerging relationships with related local industry offer our Department an opportunity to assume a position of leadership in this field.
Urban Ecologies To address the challenges of contemporary urban environments creative solutions are needed. This applies in particular to China, where cities currently face the challenges of enormous transformations at an unprecedented pace. Within this context, urban ecologies seeks to research the changing nature of the urbanising world; to link questions of human interactions within developing cities to the political, social and cultural and environmental discourse; to explore and critique the sustainability and liveability of contemporary urbanism.
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Being initiated by XJTLU’s Department of Architecture, the urban ecologies research platform offers a unique opportunity for interdisciplinary and comparative approaches that consider the design and the design processes of the built environment. Urban ecologies allows for existing paradigms to be questioned, and for radically new approaches to the study of cities and their environment that take into account scientific
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Interrelated and not exclusive, these three areas of expertise cover a wide range of interests. More than rigid research groups, they support the formation of open research platforms; they link the Department of Architecture to other departments and research institutes at XJTLU, to other Chinese universities and to professional figures outside academia; and they foster international collaborations. A particular concern of the Department is to explore the possibility to develop a form of research that is specific to the architectural discipline: Research by Design. This is an experimental form of applied research with other less conventional research outcomes (including prototypes, projects, buildings, components, and exhibitions). In this way, the Department differentiates itself from the research work produced in the big design institutes of the major Chinese state universities by developing an experimental design activity at a small scale, with a flexible staff structure.
HISTORY THEORY AND HERITAGE
Publications Carlin, Peta. “Bauhaus Weaving Theory.” The Journal of Modern Craft 9, no. 2 (2016): 255-57. Croset, Pierre-Alain; Peghin, Giorgio; Snozzi, Luigi. Dialogo sull’insegnamento dell’architettura . Siracusa: LetteraVentidue Edizioni, 2016.
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Croset, Pierre-Alain. “Álvaro Siza: Nature and Architecture as a Living Body.” In Nature Modern, Landscript 4 , edited by Albert Kirchengast, 189-213. Berlin: Jovis, 2017. Croset, Pierre-Alain. “The Third Teacher: The New Design Building at XJTLU: How Students Become Architects.” World Architecture no. 7 (2017): 48-57.
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Croset, Pierre-Alain. “Il Tempio dei Cinque Draghi. Il merito di aprire un dibatito/Five Dragons Temple. The Importance of Starting a Debate.” Domus , no. 1011 (2017): 62-73. Fischer, Thomas. “Defaceable System MK 4 and Brent Shopping Yr 3.” In Ranulph Glanville : Art Architecture Cybernetics Design. London and the 1960s , edited by Marianne Ertl, Werner Korn and Albert Müller, 63-70. Vienna: Echoraum, 2016. Fischer, Thomas; Richards, Laurence. “From Goal-Oriented to Constraint-Oriented Design: The Cybernetic Intersection of Design Theory and Systems Theory.” Leonardo Journal , 50, no. 1 (2017): 36-41.
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Fischer, Thomas. “In Ranulph’s Terms.” Cybernetics and Human Knowing 21, no. 1 (2016): 87-97. 山形灵璧石 ‘ Rock in the Form of a Fantastic Mountain’, Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), c. 18-19th Century. Black Lingbi Limestone; Wood Stand. H. (with stand) 26 in. (66 cm); W. 31.5 in. (80 cm); D. 15 in. (38.1 cm). Rosenblum Family Collection, Gift of Anna Rosenblum Palmer, 2011. From The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Gänshirt, Christian. “The Presence of the Atlantic Ocean - Swimming Pool on the Beach at Leça de Palmeira.” in: Mallgrave, Harry Francis (ed.). The Companions to the History of Architecture, Volume IV, Twentieth-Century Architecture. Edited by David Leatherbarrow and
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Herr, Christiane M.; Gao, Hanzhi. “Technical Irrationality.” In Footbridges for Berlin , edited by Mike Schlaich and Arnd Goldack, 18688. Berlin: Jovis, 2017.
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Herr, Christiane M.; Huang, Yifei. “Spree Encounter.” In Footbridges for Berlin , edited by Mike Schlaich and Arnd Goldack, 189-91. Berlin: Jovis, 2017. Herr, Christiane M.; Wu, Zhuoying. “Berlin Spirit.” In Footbridges for Berlin , edited by Mike Schlaich and Arnd Goldack, 192-94. Berlin: Jovis, 2017. Herr, Christiane M. “Modes of Collaboration between Architects and Structural Engineers: A Report from China.” In Proceedings of the 4th Annual International Conference on Architecture and Civil Engineering , 2016, 85-92. Singapore: GSTF Publications, 2016. Herr, Christiane M.; Fischer, Thomas; Glanville, Ranulph. “Foreword: The Past Presidents’ Day of the 2014 50 Years Anniversary Conference of the American Society for Cybernetics.” Cybernetics and Human Knowing 23, no. 1 (2016): 5-8. Herr, Christiane M. “What Can Cybernetics Learn from Design? Open Peer Commentary.” Constructivist Foundations 11, no. 3 (2016): 583-85.
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Herr, Christiane M. “Between Contemporary and Traditional: The Ongoing Search for a Chinese Architectural Identity.” In Handbook of Cultural Industries in China , edited by Michael Keane, 452-67. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2016. Hoskyns, Teresa; Stratford, Helen. “Was (is) Taking Place a Nomadic Practice?” Architecture and Culture 5, no. 3 (2017): 407-21.
urbana, 1965-1973.” In La scoperta della città antica. Esperienza e conoscenza del centro storico nell’Europa del Novecento , edited by Davide Cutolo and Sergio Pace, 163-83. Macerata: Quodlibet, 2016. Stergiou, Lina. “Architecture, Avant-Garde, and Topographies of Progress.” Volume , no. 51, (October 2017). Stergiou, Lina. “1960s, Institution Architecture: Avant-Garde Roots and Function.” In Cultural Production in the 20th and 21st Centuries: Art Collectives, Institutions and Culture Industry , edited by Ana Varas Ibarra and David Murrieta Flores, special issue of Re·bus - a journal of art history and theory 2, no. 8 (Spring 2016): 1-34. Xi, Junjie. “Evaluating the Functional Performance of Demountable Buildings.” Zhuangshi Journal 276, no. 4 (2016): 48-50. Xi, Junjie; Lu, Feng. “The Architectural Features and Existing Problems of Huizhou Folk Residence-Gen Xin Tang in Hongcun.” Journal of Anhui Polytechnic University 31, no. 3 (2016): 40-3. Xi, Junjie; Ren, Wei. “Analysing British Urban Planning Education.” Urban and Rural Development , Vol. 499, no. 4 (2016): 85-7. Xi, Junjie; Wang, Hui. “Analysing the “Grey Space” of Huizhou Traditional Residence.” Journal of Xi’an University of Architecture and Technology (Social Science Edition) 35, no. 2 (2016): 62-6.
Conferences and Lectures Carlin, Peta. “The Lure of the Image.” Artist’s Talk, Stills Centre for Photography, Edinburgh, April 22, 2017. Croset, Pierre-Alain; Hoskyns, Teresa; Dall’Asta, Juan Carlos; Dong, Yiping. “Urban Pins: Modern Intervention as a Method for Urban Conservation and Urban Regeneration in the Changmen Historical
Scrivano, Paolo; De Pieri, Filippo. “Rappresentare il “centro storico” di Bologna. Politiche di conservazione e reinvenzione di un’identità
district of Suzhou, China.” Paper presented at the “UIA World Architects Congress, Special Session on Urban Regeneration,” Seoul, 2017.
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Gänshirt, Christian. “Baugeschichte und Entwerfen.” Invited lecture at Jade-Hochschule Oldenburg, Germany, June 6, 2017
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Lecture presented at the conference series “The Long 1950s: Popular Culture and the (Un)Making of Italian Identity,” Canadian Centre for
Han, Jiawen. “Suzhou as a Historical and Cultural City: Assessing the Role of the Ageing Population in Upgrading the Ancient City.” Paper presented at “The 23rd International Seminar on Urban Form, ” Nanjing, July 8-10, 2016. Herr, Christiane M. “Teaching Architects to Design Pedestrian Bridges.” Paper presented at the conference “Tell a Story: Footbridge 2017 Conference ,” Berlin, September 2017.
Architecture, Montréal, February 8, 2017. Scrivano, Paolo. “The Cross-eyed Look: A European Architectural Historian and China.” Paper presented at the symposium “Historycode:
A Wakeup Call? Or A Death Knell? ,” Nanjing Art Festival, Nanjing, February 27-28, 2017. Scrivano, Paolo. “Housing, non-Communist Unions, and the ‘middle ground’ of the Cold War.” Paper presented at the international seminar
Hidalgo Arellano, José Ángel. "Sir John Soane at 12-14: home, house, museum." Paper presented at the conferencen "House&Home. International Architecture and Urban Studies Conference ," Istanbul, March 2017.
between Politics and Ideology ,” Politecnico di Milano, Milan, June 13-
Hidalgo Arellano, José Ángel. "Materials and the creation of Atmospheres." Lecture given at Central South University, Changsha, 21 April 2017.
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Hidalgo Arellano, José Ángel. "Archiphany: Architecture as Manifestation. Four Visions of the Roman Pantheon". Paper presented at "ATINER - 7th Annual International Conference on Architecture Inter and Transdisciplinary Relationships in Architecture ," Athens, July 2017 . de Muynck, Bert. “Return to Reality - the experimentation and future development direction for architecture education.” Keynote Speech, “Architecture Education Leadership Forum”, Department of Architecture, China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China, April 8-11, 2017.
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Scrivano, Paolo. “Architecture in the Face of Italy’s Postwar Change.”
Scrivano, Paolo. “Between the ‘Educated’ and the ‘Popular’: Italian Architecture in the Postwar Years.” Lecture presented at the conference series “The Long 1950s: Popular Culture and the (Un) Making of Italian Identity,” McGill University, Montréal, February 7, 2017.
“Cold War at the Crossroads: 194X-198X. Architecture and Planning 14, 2017. Scrivano, Paolo. “Stonorov and post-war Italy.” Paper presented at “The
City and Regional Planning History ,” Cleveland, October 26-29, 2017. Stergiou, Lina. “NEXT. Avant-Garde Praxis.” Paper presented at the
Free School of Architecture , Los Angeles, July 2017. Stergiou, Lina. “1960s: ‘Avant-Garde’ Roots, Function. A Terminological Approach.” Paper presented at the Architectural Association , HTC/ PHD Debates, London, March 2017. Stergiou, Lina. “competitions@avant-garde.domain.” Paper presented at the “ICC 2016 Conference - The Sixth International Conference on
Competitions ,” Leeds Beckett University, Leeds, October 27-29, 2016. Xi, Junjie; Williams, Austin. “Comparative Analysis of Key Environmental Criteria: Chinese Eco-city to Western City.” Paper presented at the “2017 International Conference on China Urban
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Organization of Conferences, Seminars, Conference Sessions, Exhibitions Carlin, Peta. Organization of the exhibition “Urban Fabric: Greige.” Stills Centre for Photography, Edinburgh, April 22-23, 2017. Scrivano, Paolo; Jannière, Hélène. Organization of the international workshop “Toward a Geography of Architectural Criticism: Disciplinary Boundaries and Shared Territories.” Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art - Académie d’Architecture, Paris, April 3-4, 2017.
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Scrivano, Paolo; Jannière, Hélène; Leoni, Giovanni. Organization of the international workshop “Actors and Vehicles of Architectural Criticism.” Università degli Studi di Bologna, Bologna, October 4-5, 2016. Scrivano, Paolo. Organization of the international symposium “West of Japan/East of Europe.” Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Suzhou, October 18, 2017. Xi, Junjie. Organization of the exhibition “China Britain International Design Week/China Britain Smart Cities Conference.” London, October 2016.
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Publications Herr, Christiane M.; Fischer, Thomas. “An Extended BIM Adoption Model.” In Protocols, Flows and Glitches , edited by Patrick Janssen, Paul Loh, Aleksandra Raonic, and Marc A. Schnabel, 179-87. Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Computer Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia , XJTLU, Suzhou, 2017. Fischer, Thomas; Herr, Christiane M. “ 展示新选择 : 参数化珠宝设计和
制作展 .” In DADA2015 数字建筑国际学术会 , edited by Weiguo Xu and Weixin Huang, 479-89. Beijing: Tsinghua University Press, 2017.
of the Chinese Scholar Garden.” In Protocols, Flows and Glitches, Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia , 2017, 335-44. Suzhou: Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, 2017. Herr, Christiane M.; Fischer, Thomas. “Challenges to the Adoption of BIM in Chinese Architecture, Engineering and Construction.” In Protocols, Flows and Glitches, Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia , 2017, 179-88. Suzhou: Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, 2017. Herr, Christiane M.; Ford, Ryan C. “Cellular Automata in Architectural Design: From Generic Systems to Specific Design Tools.” Automati on in Construction 72, no. 1 (2016): 39-45. Lombardi, Davide. Acheiropoietic Architecture-Beyond Digital Drawing . Brixen: Immagini, 2017. Lombardi, Davide. “Il coraggio di disegnare.” In Simplified Complexity , edited by Giancarlo Di Marco, 419-23. Brienza: Le Penseur Publisher, 2017. Lombardi, Davide; Tedeschi, Arturo. “The Algorithms-Aided Design (AAD).” In Computational is the new black , 33-38. Milan: Springer, 2017. Raonic, Aleksandra; Christiane M.; Wash, Glen; Westermann, Claudia; Zhang C. (eds). CAADRIA 2017 - Protocols, Flows and Glitches: Short papers, posters, workshops . Hong Kong: The Association for ComputerAided Architectural design Research in Asia (CAADRIA), 2017. Tiazzoldi, Caterina. “Combinatorial Architecture: A Methodology to Engage Quantitative and Qualitative Phenomenology in the Design of Urban Spaces, in Ambiance Demain/Ambiance Tomorrow.” In The international symposium Volos 21-24 September 2016 , Vol. 1, edited by Nicolas Tixier and Nicolas Remy, 865-72. Volos: University of Thessaly Department of Architecture, 2016. Tiazzoldi, Caterina. “Combinatorial Architecture: A Methodology
Herr, Christiane M.; Wang, Haofeng. “Measuring the Perceptive Intricacy
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Conferences and Lectures Gänshirt, Christian. “Tools for Ideas.” Guest lecture at the Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Nov. 20, 2017.
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Gänshirt, Christian. “Gestaltungslehre: entwerfen, erforschen.” Invited lecture at Dresden University of Technology, Dresden, Germany, Sept. 28, 2017.
URBAN ECOLOGIES
Publications Croset, Pierre-Alain. “L’utopia realizzata del lago Inle.” In L’attualità dell’utopia , edited by Valerio Paolo Mosco and Claudio Triassi. Siracusa: LetteraVentidue Edizioni, 2017.
Conferences and Lectures Gänshirt, Christian. “Every House, Street, District, City is Different.” Presentation and discussion at the Suzhou Institute of Architectural Design (SIAD), Suzhou, 2016. Gänshirt, Christian. “Theory, History and Contemporary practice of Urban Design.” Invited lecture at the School of Architecture, Nanjing Tech University, Nanjing, May 18, 2017.
2016-2017 YEARBOOK
Gänshirt, Christian; Pernice, Raffaele; Chen, Bing. “SAIC Motor Corporation Research and Development Centre Shanghai – Conceptual Design Ideas for Urban and Architectural Development.” Presentation at SAIC Motor Corporation, Shanghai, April 27, 2017. Gänshirt, Christian. “Vertical Paradise: High-density High-rise Housing with Suzhou Garden Qualities.” Series of seminar talks, studio tutorials, design reviews, and a study trip to Suzhou and Hangzhou, delivered for the MArch programme at The University of Hong Kong, spring 2017.
Kim, Moon K.; Barber, C.; Srebric, J. “Traffic Noise Level Predictions for Buildings with Natural Ventilation in Urban Environments.” Science and Technology for the Built Environment no. 0 (2017): 1-10. Kim, Moon K.; Shixin, Cui. “A Feasibility Study of Trombe Wall Design in the Cold Region of China,” Paper presented at “The 9th International Conference on Indoor Air Quality Ventilation and Energy Conservation in Buildings”, Incheon Songdo, October 23-26, 2016. Wash, Glen; Miyazaki, Shinya. “Visualizing Patterns of Occupation in the Old Pugao Village.” Paper presented at the “11th International Symposium on Architectural Interchanges in Asia,” Sendai, 2016. Wash, Glen; Miyazaki, Shinya. “Visualizing the Human-Landscape Relationship in Rural China.” Paper presented at the “18th International Conference on Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia,” Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Suzhou, 2017. Han, Jiawen. “From Gated to Non-Gated Communities: Reconstructing Vital Physical and Social Street Environments in Suzhou.” Paper presented at the “The Great Asian Streets Symposium,” Singapore, December 12-13, 2016. Westermann, Claudia. “Creating Spaces of Possibilities - The Bachelor in Architecture at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University.” Presentation at the symposium “A Road to Explore: Teaching Reform Experiments in China for the Bachelor of Architecture,” Wuhan University, Wuhan, December 3-4, 2016. Westermann, Claudia. “The Order of Blandness: Rethinking Performance, Potentiality and Interaction.” Presentation at the international conference “Consciousness Reframed: Art and Consciousness in the Post-biological Era,” DeTao/M50, Shanghai, November 26-27, 2016.
LIVEABILITY AT THE LEVEL OF RESIDENTIAL STREETS IN SHANGHAI
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Department of Architecture
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Aura Luciana Istrate PhD Candidate Department of Architecture Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (XJTLU)
In China, there are very few studies that assess liveability at the local level. In addition, the meaning of liveability varies from area to area based on natural conditions for living, on culture, on people’s background, on social groups. In this way, the principles of liveability that have been previously concluded in Western countries may not apply in the same way in China, therefore the need to specifically assess liveability in the Chinese context. This study focuses on the attributes in terms of design and planning that enhance liveability on local Shanghai streets. Cases are selected based on the different physical characteristics of the streets, including historical periods of formation and traffic considerations. A framework of objective and subjective indicators that affect liveability at the local level of analysis has been established based on an extensive literature review and on a survey with Shanghai professionals interested in liveability issues. Theoretical findings indicate that liveable streets depend on a number of qualities including: safety, a humanised environment, local economic development, a sense of belonging, social interaction and physical facilities for living. Empirical research will further investigate these concerns through engagements with local residents.
Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University 2016-2017 YEARBOOK
This research problematises the understanding of liveability at the local level in urban settlements. The importance of studying urban liveability nowadays is reflected in the major differences that appear between aspirational plans and liveability outcomes in cities all over the world.
The relationship between the physical characteristics and liveability at the street level is of particular importance at this moment with the Chinese Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development announcing that gated communities will gradually open towards the street space. The outcomes of this research thus seek to assist authorities in the formulation of effective urban policies for liveable streets.
Aura Istrate, Area of Shanghai with Selected Streets for Empirical Inquiry Using Maps from Liu (2014) and http://www.icanvas.com (2016), 2016
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RESEARCH ON AN IDEAL MODEL OF COMMUNITY HOUSING FOR THE ELDERLY COMMUNITY IN SUZHOU
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Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
Department of Architecture
西交利物浦大学
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Qian Lin PhD Candidate Department of Architecture Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (XJTLU)
With the number of elderly people growing, ageing is becoming a crucial social issue in China. The “One Child Policy” of 1980s limited the number of newborns and resulted in a 4-2-1 structural morphology of population across three generations: namely current families are typically composed of 4 grandparents, a couple, and a child. Due to pressure of modern fast-paced life, the younger generation born later than 1980s tends to live differently from their predecessors. Regardless of choosing to marry late, or establishing Dink families, their lifestyles are leading to an increasing elderly demographic. According to statistics, by 2030 the elderly population of China will reach 400 million, which means China will have the highest level of population ageing in the world then. However, in China the current approaches to design living spaces of the elderly are relatively insufficient that may hardly meet demands of its ever-growing population. Old people have their own pace of life and daily activities, and design strategies should be developed to effectively address their specific needs. In China three types of elderly care are promoted by the government: Home-based Care, Community Care, and Institutional Care. Home-based Care provides the elderly with daily care, housekeeping service, health care, etc., which is carried out in the form of home service. Community Care functions as a support to Home-based Care by offering daytime caring services. Its major service targets are the elderly without care or attention in the daytime. Institutional care focuses on developing facilities such as nursing homes or assisted living facilities, where the disabled or fragile elderly are housed and served together. Given custom and living habits of Chinese, many elderly people prefer ageing at home. As such, this research seeks to propose an ideal model of community housing which caters for the elderly in Suzhou.
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ANOTHER MODERNIZATION: URBAN TRANSFORMATIONS OF SUZHOU, 1949-1986
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2016-2017 YEARBOOK
Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
Department of Architecture
西交利物浦大学
建筑系
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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
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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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Quanqing Lu PhD 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 then as one of the nation’s historic and cultural cities. Current research and literature on urban form in Suzhou indicates, however, that this period has been less discussed and there is a significant lack of information on the city’s urban history. Focusing on social factors that contributed to changes in urban form, surveys of Socialist urban planning and associated ideologies have been undertaken, these forming the basis of a literature review. Forthcoming research will consider the social factors that might have contributed to the preservation of urban form prior to the instigation of the national law, that is, unsanctioned practices that were executed in the absence of a planning authority. Research will then take into account the dynamic between the promotion of change and the advocacy for preservation that were at play, with a focus on the interactions and contradictions they created. Research case studies have been identified and are based on a number of different key focus points. The first considers the Xiang Men Area in Ping Jiang District, the only remaining large empty space in the historic city of Suzhou, which has witnessed significant industrialisation over the past 60 years, including: the tearing down of the city wall for the use of its materials in the construction of nearby industrial sites; the transformation of courtyard houses into small manufacturing workshops; the filling in of canals in order to create more space for industrial sites; and, the relocation of industrial sites in order to improve the city’s urban landscape and natural environment. The second case study focuses on Ren Min Road, the main axis through the historic city, which is one of the most important sites of construction undertaken during Socialist era. Following its enlargement and reconstruction, which included the installation of 2 new bridges and a new city gate, Nan Men Gate, Renmin Road connected Suzhou Railway Station with the Nan Men area, which was a site of heavy industry during the period of Japanese colonisation.
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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DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE XI'AN JIAOTONG-LIVERPOOL UNIVERSITY STUDENTS
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西交利物浦大学
建筑系
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Department of Architecture
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Pierre Alain Croset
Theodoros Dounas
Teresa Hoskyns
Sofia Qiuroga
Claudia Westermann
Supporting Staff
Head of Department Dipl. Arch., Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Switzerland) Registered Architect (CH and IT)
Ph.D., Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (GR) Dipl Eng Arch, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (GR) Chartered Architect (GR)
PhD , The Bartlett, University College London (UK) MA, Royal College of Art, London (UK)
Ph.D., ETSAM, Madrid (ES)
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)
José Ángel Hidalgo Arellano
Martin Fischbach
Jiaqi Fu, Built Environment Administrator Lili Chen, Department Secretary Ma Lin, Department Secretary Jian Chen, Lab Technician Jiang Dong, Lab Technician Li Wenhao, Lab Assistant Yin Jianhao, Lab Assistant
PhD Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (ES) Dipl Arch Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona (ES)
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Juan Carlos Dall’Asta Ph.D. , Politecnico di Milano (IT) MArch, Politecnico di Milano (IT) BArch, Politecnico di Milano (IT)
Tordis Berstrand 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)
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)
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Marco Cimilo
Ph.D., Paris1 Pantheon-Sorbonne (FR) MA, Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne (FR) MA, ENSA. Paris-Belleville (FR) Registered Arch DPLG (FR)
Thomas Fischer Ph.D., Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University (AUS) Ph.D., University of Kassel (DE) MEd equiv., University of Kassel (DE)
Moon Keun Kim Ph.D., Architecture, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich) M.Sc, Architectural Engineering, Pennsylvania State University at University Park (USA) M.Sc, Engineering Acoustics, Technical University of Denmark (DK) M.Sc, Architecture, Yonsei University (ROK)
Davide Lombardi
Paolo Scrivano Ph.D., Politecnico di Torino (IT) Dipl. Arch., Politecnico di Torino (IT)
Ross T. Smith Ph.D. University of Melbourne (AU) Grad. Cert. University Teaching, University of Melbourne (AU) MArch, University of Auckland (NZ) BArch (Hons) Victoria University, Wellington (NZ)
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)
MArch, Chinese University of Hong Kong (CN)
Ph.D., School of Advanced Studies 'G. d'Annunzio' (IT) BA+MA, Università degli Studi Gabriele d'Annunzio, Department of Architecture (IT)
Christian Gänshirt
Federico De Matteis
Ph.D., Brandenburg University of Technology (DE) Dipl-Ing Arch, Universität Fridericiana zu Karlsruhe (DE) Licensed and registered Architect, Berlin Chamber of Architects (DE)
Ph.D., Sapienza University of Rome (IT) M.Sc, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (US) Laurea (BA+MA) Sapienza University of Rome (IT)
Caterina Tiazzoldi
Bert de Muynck M.Arch, Architectural Engineering, Catholic University of Leuven (BE)
Li-An Tsien
Jiawen Han
Philip Fung
Ph.D. Environmental Design, Sapienza University of Rome (IT) MArch, Sapienza University of Rome (IT)
Ph.D., Architecture, University of New South Wales (AUS) M.Arch, Dalian University of Technology (CN)
Yiping Dong
Christiane M. Herr
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)
Aleksandra Raonic 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)
Ph.D., Architecture, Politecnico di Torino (IT) M.Sc, GSAPP Columbia University, Advanced Master, Architecture (US)
ISACF-La Cambre, Diplôme d'Architecte, (BE) ISACF-La Cambre, Diplôme de Candidat Architecte (BE)
Glen Wash Ph.D., University of Tokyo (JP) MEng, University of Tokyo (JP) Dipl Arch, Catholic University of Valparaiso (CL) Licensed Architect (CL)
Austin Williams Dipl Arch, Birmingham Polytechnic (UK) BSc(Hons), Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London (UK) Chartered Architect RIBA (UK)
Junjie Xi Ph.D, University of Liverpool (UK) M.A. University of Leeds (UK) B.A. Anhui University of Architecture (CN)
Part-time Tutors Antonio Berton Joan Cane Kostas Chatzigiannis Dong Chen Dong Fanzheng Silvia Martin Teo Hidalgo Nácher Nicola Pagnano Wu Penghan Jue Qie Jose Remon Xu Yizhou Dirk Zschunke
Teaching Assistants Chitraj Bissoonauth Xiaohan Chen Siqi Deng Ornella Kei Jiayi Li Qian Lin Quanqing Lu Sharvari Shanmugam Alessandro Zuccolo
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Introduction
the international make-up of the Department of
Founded in 2011, the Department of Architecture at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool 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 which it shares with the Department of Industrial Design, the building’s facilities of the highest international standards.
together traditions and opportunities from the East
Set in China, but closely connected with the University of Liverpool and the UK framework of architectural education, the Department’s aim is to offer a new global model of architectural education. The fostering of the students’ 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 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 longer-term future.
Architecture at XJTLU is unique in China. It brings and the West, and seeks to provide the best of both perspectives in architectural and urban design, offering new views on the local context as well as on global issues. As China continues to undergo processes of 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 through urban regeneration and the refurbishment
Recent exceptional areas of activity
● Computational Design and Fabrication develops partnerships with innovative high-tech industries in the context of Suzhou Industrial Park (SIP), with research in the processes of design and professional practice key areas of interest.
Institute of British Architects (RIBA) in February
● Urban Ecologies engages with the changing nature of global urbanisation, with a focus on radically new approaches to the study of cities and their environment that are informed by research in science, technology and sustainable construction, as well as by studies in sociology, art, design, and aesthetics.
of existing building stock. These issues and concerns are viewed by the Department as a challenge and as an opportunity, and it responds through its focus on new human-centred approaches to learning, practicing and researching architectural design, in order to nurture attitudes that will prove valuable in the future. For there is a need – not only in China – for Architects who are critical thinkers and highly qualified professionals. Both the undergraduate and the postgraduate programmes centre on applied architectural design studio modules (50%), which are supported by a balanced mix of humanities-based and technical
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● History, Theory and Heritage offers connections with Suzhou and other heritage sites in China, addressing, in particular, questions pertaining to multiculturalism and trans-nationalism.
Department Identity and Vision
modules (25% each).
With a faculty that contributes experiences in practice and research in more than twenty countries,
The Department’s research concentrates on three headline research areas:
The Department is also committed to Research by Design, an experimental form of research that is specific to the architectural discipline, with less conventional research outcomes, such as prototypes, projects, buildings, components, and exhibitions. To this end, the Design Research Centre has been established to facilitate small-scale pilot projects. It has a flexible staff structure, and involves a number of permanent faculty members, along with local professional architects who will contribute their specific competences in architectural design, planning, and construction.
Academic Agenda The following key points are based on staff views, student feedback, internal University reports, and external reports by examiners and professional bodies:
● International validation of the BEng (Hons) Architecture programme at Part 1 level by the Royal 2015, a first for a Chinese university.
● Award of candidate course status to the Master of Architectural Design programme by RIBA in December 2016, also a first for a Chinese University. ● Excellent profile of an international faculty with experience in practice and research in more than 20 countries directly supporting undergraduate and postgraduate learning. ● Location of the Department in a new building, shared with the Department of Industrial Design, with a strong architectural identity, offering an ideal showcase for its staff and students in spaces with a 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 Future (MPTF), which is student-led and has a continuously growing number of students actively participating.
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Individuality of the learning environment in the Chinese context ● 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.
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● Unique offering of undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in English in China, taught by international educators. ● 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 ideas and skills, with a focus on the attainment of personal and professional confidence in order to take advantage of practice experience.
● MArchDes programme: fosters student autonomy and responsibility in pursuing individual interests in view of future professional career development opportunities, with the second year framed as a “research by design” year. ● MArchDes programme: connection with XJTLU’s Master programmes in Urban Planning and Urban Design (with the Urban Planning and Design Department) in year one creates unique possibilities for interdisciplinary design research.
● 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
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. ● Establishment of a Design Research Centre which seeks to actively involve staff, students and local practicing architects in the development of pilot projects. ● Graduates work in top architectural offices, and assist in strengthening the connections of the Department to local practice.
Creative criteria delivering course content ● Innovative learning environment that fosters independent, creative and responsible designers with a thoughtful, research-led and imaginative approach to place-making.
extend core learning whilst still maintaining criteria fulfilling content.
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