Architecture Portfolio of Sock Xu

Hey! How are you guys going these days?

Not bad I guess.

Fuck it. stop complianing.

Umm...

H e y, t h o s e a re m y friends. They are kind of noisy.

B u t I h a te t h e f u c k i n g weather. I was fucking wet from head to foot.

Complex[city].

Portfolio of XU TONGDA, 2014-2016 Department of Architecture design, School of Architecture, Tsinghua University. a

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-----Notebooks (Summer 1886 – Fall 1887) Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

it is precisely facts that do not exist, only interpretations

COMPLEXITY

00.XU TONGDA

B. Arch candidate in Tsinghua University 3D visualizer, Department of Architectural History and Heritage, Tsinghua University [Email] x.tongda@ucl.ac.uk [Linked-in] https://www.linkedin.com/in/xutongda/ [ISSUU] https://issuu.com/xutongda/docs/portfoliofenye

01.The Chronicle of Horniman Museum [Awards & Academic] Summer Studio Prize, Bartlett, UCL [Site] The Horniman Museum, London [Critic] Nick Elias, Farlie Reynolds [Theme] Old building refurbishment and historical study

02.The Hybrid Peking Proposal

[Awards & Academic] Honorable Mention, UIA-HYP Cup 2016 [Site] Beijing City, China [Critic] CUI TONG, ZHU XIAODI, TANG KEYANG [Theme] Urban complex design concerning cultural context

03.The Mountain and more

[Awards & Academic] Intermediate Studio, Tsinghua University [Site] Kaifeng, China, the Capital of Song Dynasty [Critic] LI LUKE [Theme] Critical culture heritage and city

04.The Heidegger's Hu[ge]t

[Awards & Academic] Drawing Studio, Tsinghua University [Site] XI ZHIMEN, BEIJING, CHINA [Critic] ZHOU RONG, ZHANG LI [Theme] Exporing the possibility of architectual drawing

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01.The Chronicle of

The world is all --Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatu 02

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that is the case --us Logico-Philosophicus, P17 03

On how to virtualize an real space with technotics in a fictional way: The site of this project is at Horniman Museum, London, UK. Folded with tremendous amount of intriguing andetodes of Sir Horniman, the museum is amazingly popular for its variety and incrediable span of objects and exhibitions.

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100mm glass-wool 1mm rubber layer 200mm thermal insulation 25mm fire-resisting fibre-bounded sheeting 150/300mm steel joint Double glazing aluminium frame

90mm two layer protection 2 layer plastic seal 200mm thermal insulation 150/300mm steel joint 30mm ventilation tube Double glazing aluminium frame.

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CE 7500 When the history of history comes to an ultimate end, and all the history is contained in the house.

BC 7000 as erected in Egypt. It's the of human civilization.

BC 15000 The architype of human civilization was generated in the Africa.

BC 36,000,000,000 The First life form appeared on Earth. The Earth was alive.

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The Drum age of Horniman Musum, This illustrate the Ultimate architecture and containing all possible history of human kind.

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02.Hybrid Peking On how to form a space and tell a stroy

Many things are formidable, and none more formidable than Man! Man are skillful! He together build cities. He together build up species stronger than He, in big cities like BJ. Archetypes of things are erected, morphed, copied, pasted, reproduced, generation cascading through generation. Man haven’t got time to deal with the things in this city; He haven't got time to acquire some knowledge of how to deal with those things in this city. He must be: More quick good energy-saving.

Hybrid Beijing is more of a piece of context than an architecture project. It tries to explore a new way of story telling and space making in an information age like now.

The site of the project is at Wangfujing. A historical place with mixed context and complicated condition. The area is surrounded with architects which context could be derived from Western, Chinese, historical, contemporary.

So the best word to describe the site is "Hybrid".

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Delirious Beijing/Peking

The Youth: Mr.Zhang

The Youth: Miss.Guo

The Qing: Mr.Cha

The Boss: Mr.Wang

The Peking: Mr.Lee

Delirious Beijing/Peking

The Alien: Mr.Wai

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Mr.Zhang

Mrs.Wann

The Baby: Mr.Bao

The Bike: Mr.Zee

The Car: Mrs.hoo

The dog: Mrs.wann

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Big Model Picture The Comprehensive model of the Hybrid Peking.

Photographed in 2016.

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Scattered Model Picture The Scattered model of the Hybrid Peking. Illustrating the architectural and living character of this mad city. photographed in 2016.

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Big hole as a holy and alienated space.

The infrastructures go underground the huge monster.

The main Elevator shooting at the highest point.

The Zaha Unit as the main staircase.

The bridge connecting every single jitting people in the sky.

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The Urban house unit as a hotel containing sex of people.

hahahaha

The Qing is gonna to Building good enough fall! t o khappened? e e p M eHow tro what I connectivity. crossed?

Shut up ladies, I've been for a long time.

Niu let's go, ignore these strange people, the aliens also have TV.

I am the energey of universe and the sum of ... ...

I run, I'm burning ...

Ahhh how else?

How I'm here?

I was just walking in a Park, how is it?

H e l l o e v e r y o n e I a m M r.W a i , t h e messenger is from Mars, I represent love and peace, I studied Chinese a year and a half, My Mandarin is not very good ...

Really nothing new there, or my big Qing Well ... ...

Wwwann...wan...

There is a large space to accommodate all the overhead ground.

Beast who have no money can't come up.

Of course, the relationship with the overhead ground is the same.

And good enough memories.

Where i s m y fucking dog??

In this alone can catch a few good boyfriends or girlfriends, I have a endless charm.

Structure has enough freedom.

And in this time I met you again, damn car thieves!

Where is my bike?

Although this is a long ramp, it is also a good place for walking the dog.

Also nice for birds.

Some Singular exports, I will not know where it goes.

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03.The Mount Study and Explore the beauty of Chinese Drawing

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tain and more art, and its paradoxical part with the modern world

Latitude View Picture South Facet View of the Mountain and more. photographed in 2017.01

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The site is located in Kaifeng, HeNan Province, China, which was the biggest city in the world during Song Dynasty 1000 years age, while now has dramatically declined.

The residents here have serious Song complex. Most of the nearly constructed architecture are Song Style with poor quality.

So for this special urban context, we Started to research from Song drawing, aimed at extracting abstract element and trying to coordinate with modernism architecture system.

The project is a study, and a cultural sarcastic.

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Section View and Scenery Picture Two Section model View of the Mountain and more. Illustrating the Roof and the detail. photographed in 2017.01

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Section View and Scenery Picture Two Section model View of the Mountain and more. Illustrating the Roof and the detail, and the configuration of Scenery inside the mountain.

Photographed in 2017.01

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04.The Heidegger's Museum On how to create a mini-size universe of meaning

The site of this project is at Xi Zhimen Bridge, Beijing.

The bridge is famous for its absurd complexity which is necessary to meet the function of transportation.

The bridge itself is a notorious labyrinth as the transportation centre for Beijing.

The project aims to exploring the paradoxic of the site and the city. Revealing the complexity and blur of the crazy Beijing city in an ironic way.

The project itself is a self-contained Mini-Universe.

Mixing the conceptual meaning of Heidegger, the Chinese architecture elements, conceptual diagram -based form manipulation, a small but rich inner universe is given birth.

Here is Beijing, a mad city full of complexity and paradoxical.

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House for die Erde

House for die Göttlichen

The house is for Earth. The great Earth bear and unfolding all of The house is a church for god in a Chinese way. us.

I took the prototype of the floating temple. A traditional temple The prototype of this house is some mediums in an alien plan- build on the cliff. Combined with the centre archetype in westet. After the heterization to nature, the earth has became a pre- ern culture, The temple was rolled and centralized as rendered. cious specimen which needed to be protected and raised with The temple is an attempt to combine Chinese God and Westgreat care. ern God.

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House for der Himmel

House for die Sterblichen

This house is a symbol of sky, or to say, a monument to sky.

This is the house for those about to die, or to say, people.

There is no real house here. Only a big landscape fall down The house is composed of layers of floor extracted from the from floor, with a giant spotlight erecting at the centre. The light architects all over Beijing. Just like a CCTV's floor, a T3 airport's is always glittering to the sky, to the Himmel above. floor and many houses else. So the architecture itself is a monument of people,or civilization in Beijing.

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Portfolio of Xu Tongda

Email: x.tongda@ucl.ac.uk Linkedin:[XU TONGDA] https://www.linkedin.com/in/xutongda/ Cargo:[Sock XU] http://cargocollective.com/Sock_XU

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