Portfolio作品集2023_Jiayi Xia

If life is a journey, I keep turning around along the path of design, and the sense of accomplishment got in the process of design keeps guiding me forward. I own the perspective of big scales with a landscape background, and at the same time interested in dive into details. However, I know my destination is a designer who creates for humans/users. Now, I'm exploring with more fun and hope to design in the future...

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APPETIZER

Small Projects 2019-2021

- GROWING

- SPACE ODDITY

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- CHATEAU DE VERSAILLES-SALON DE LA GUERRE

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FROM 'MY' YARD TO 'OUR' PARK

Individual Project in 2015

MIGRATORY CUBES

Individual Project in 2019

MULTIFUNCTIONAL STAGE COULD BE RE-ASSAMBLED SERVE FOR THE COMMUNITY, COPENHAGEN

THE DIALOGUE BETWEEN OLD AND NEW

Individual Project in 2021

SKIRTING BOARD ON BUNKER

Individual Project in 2020

FOCUS ON SPATIAL ELEMENT- SKIRTING BOARD TO CREATE FUNCTIONAL INDOOR SPACE COPENHAGEN

RADISSON HOTEL INTERIOR DESIGN

Working Project in 2021-2022

RADISSON-TELEGRAPH HOTEL INTERIOR SPACE DESIGN TBILISI

URBAN RENEWAL STATEGIES FOR OLD AND MIXED COMMUNITY SHANGHAI

RETHINKING CITY DEVELOPMENT IN WENZHOU, A CITY IN CHINA

"Growing"

Aging is a basic human condition: we all grow older. The process affects our physical and mental state; age-related functional impairments challenge our mobility and minor disabilities deteriorate with time. This project wants to create an abstract experience in the journey of life through the spatial separation of di erent lighting equipment and di erent materials.

Using di erent kinds of materials to test how the light come throngh with, then we can use this to design the density of the fabric in the exhibition.

/Space Oddityerre

This corner piece is an investigation of the religious architecture of Vor Frue Kirke. It is a two-faced threshold with more dimensions; the perfect and the imperfect. The strict seamless architectural artifacts represent the strong practice of architect C.F. Hansen as opposed to the rough surface with the trace of the ritual, the body, time, and the sacred.

Mapping Concept Mapping Concept idea sketches

As the design intervention, I try to use some plant elements to show the re ection of the garden and use some exotic plants and animals for that time to shower the power of the emperor.

/ Design /

The Hall of Mirrors is the most famous room in the Palace. We made a 1:50 model and extracted the element of the mirror to make the spatial installation. The space behind the mirror would be a private space for the visitor, compared with the space in front of the mirror.

Château de Versailles — Salon De La Guerre

Academic 3Rd Year Project

Individual Project 2015.9-2015.11

Adviser: Xiaoshaung Li (lxs_sit@163.com)

Location: Shanghai, China

Area: 13ha

Introduction:

/ Urban Renewal Stategies For Old And Mixed Community /

New Village ( 工人新村 ) refers to urban housing projects built in the 1950s to the late 1990s and it is the most typical built environment' of shanghai. it somehow indicates the lack of public space, service facilities, and a mix of locals and outsiders. the project intends to form an interconnecting open space system providing sports courts, communicative space, productive elds, and boxes. this new open space system comes from the contribution of a 'private' yard and aims to become a 'public park' to involve all the community to enjoy it.

FROM 'MY' YARD TO 'OUR' PARK

First Stage: Introduction Of New Village

New village first introduced in shanghai in 1919, built as a complement of factory for workers. Which had a strong political significance for the working class.

Second Stage: Blowout Of New Village In Shanghai Center

During 1949 to 1965, with the development of industry, new village as a symbol of socialism. Most of them located near factory with basic facilities.

Third Stage: Trend Fading Away In City Center Occur In Suburb

During 1979 to 1990, the trend which happened in city center was gradually fade away, instead new village occuring in suburb where new factories move to there at the same time.

WHAT IS 'NEW VILLAGE' ?

New village is a historical product of a specific period in China and firstly was built for workers. There were three stages in the new village's development, first introduced in 1919, then blowout in 1936 and finally fading away in the city center, after 1979 as the development of real estate and moved to the suburb with factories. Firstly it represented the advance of the socialist system as an award for excellent workers. Nowadays, the old "new village" with no elevator also means low rents appealing to migrant workers. At the same time, the young generation won't choose to live here again, leaving lots of elder people who still live in today's "new village". With the development of the economy, the "new village" becomes a symbol of the old residential area.

MAPPING THE EXITING OPEN SPACE SYSTEM AND FUCTIONS

TYPICAL RESIDENT UNIT

NO.1 NEW VILLAGE

The building is two-story. the private yard is used for vegetable planting. some private yard has extensions to put their tools.

OPEN SPACE

NO.2 NEW VILLAGE

The no2 new village has more organic combination with two-story and three-story buildings. they all have extensions occupying the semi-open space as the laundry and storage place.

ROAD AND FACILITY

Three kinds of spaces in no.1 new village have balanced proportion. But no.2 new village has no big open spaces for daily activity.

No.1 village has higher road density than no2 village. And no.2 village has more equipment facility than no1 village.

STRATEGY 1 ZIP THE COMMUNITY

POSITIVELY DEFINEING SEMI OPEN SPACE FOR MAXIMUM FUNCTIONALITY

Because of the organic form of the building, the no.2 Village has no centralized open spaces for activities. To solving this problem, i would like to provide a semi-open system that coming from the contribution of certain part of dweller's private yard. The semi-open system seamless walking area, various activity space and also link people together.

RECONFIGURATION OF UNDERUTILIZED SEMI OPEN SPACE

It shows four steps to positively de ne semi-open space system by relocating houses, rearrange the extensions and open the bounding wall in several neighbors to create seamless walking and active area for their daily activities.

STEP 1

Existing conditions. Low space utilization,without enough space for daily activities.

Carriage-Way(5M)

Walk Road(2.5M)

STEP 2

Open some clusters or use some semi open spaces for relocating the moving houses.

Carriage-Way(5M)

Alley(2.5M)

Semi-Open

STEP 3

Redefine new access routes to increase permeability and functional spaces.

Carriage-Way(5M)

Walk Road(2.5M)

House To Be Relocated Main Avenue

Rede ned Walk Road

STEP 4

Relocated houses and put open spaces resources together. Create a new semi open space system with kinds of new functions.

Badminton Square & Mini Volleyball Playground

Sun Quilt Square & Children Playground

Pingpong Square & Chess Playground

Basketball & Parking Lot

Relocated House

STRATEGY2 LET US PLANT AND PRODUCT TOGETHER

CREATE COMMUNITY PRODUCTIVE PROCESS

One issue of the 'new village' is that there are lots of low-income people. This strategy aims to form a productive loop that can provide additional income for the community and also involve people to the productive process. The 'planting box' would become a place support the productive process and connect people together to have both economic and social bene t.

The basic module is based on the frame of stainless steel, and people could use di erent kinds of basic material such as bricks, waved plates, woods, glasses, weathering steels with numbers to make combination with several functions.

COMMUNITY PRODUCTIVE PROCESS

This productive process welcome all the membership in the community to join in. In this system, different people would take responsible for certain steps from nursery, planting, storage, selling to co-cooking and compost. The planting eld is in the middle of community and other process will happens in the 'planting box' utilizing the existing empty space along the community main road.

MASTER PLAN

MASTER PLAN AFTER RENEWAL

Envisioning a total addition of about 9500m2 of productive area for 850 households on site, and about 11% to the addition semi-open space for their daily life.

Seed Nursery

Community Store

Store Room

Community & Co-Cooking Space

Composting Room

Main Avenue

Badminton Square & Mini Volleyball Playground

Sun Quilt Square & Children Playground

Pingpong Square & Chess Playground

Outdoor Livingroom

Basketball & Parking Lot

FROM MY PRIVATE YARD TO OUR FRIENDLY AND PRODUCTIVE GARDEN

Here people could assign a certain area of land for planting or hlep others for growing plants, the volunteers work for community would count the working hours for 'working points'. When it comes to the season of harvest, 'working points' could use to change foods.

FROM MY PRIVATE YARD TO OUR SAFE AND ACTIVE PLAYGROUND

The main avenue is easy to access to di erents functional open spaces, at the same time there are lots of outdoor living rooms next to the main avenue for diverse needs

MIGRATORY CUBES

Postgraduate 1st Year Project Privacy & Power

Individual Project 2019.9-2020.1

Adviser: Ane Pilegaard(apil@kadk.dk)

Location: Blågårds Plads, Copenhagen, Denmark

Type: Landscape Installation

Introduction: Koncertkirken (concert church) is situated centrally in the nørrebro district and right in the center of blågårds plads. The so-called gang-related problems have received massive coverage in the media which unfortunately colors many people’s pictures of the area around blågårds plads. The idea is that residents should also use koncertkirken as a meeting place and a space to use for activities. But as the thickness of the facade and the great e ect of soundproo ng sometimes the concert church was not attracting lots of people. Also, this plaza is without too many shelters to prevent people from rain and winds. would like to introduce a cube system that could assemble in di erent situations like jazz festivals and normal days to cater to people kinds needs. And by the process of cube migration, hope the community could join together, and narrow the boundary of people from different nations and races.

/ Multifunctional Stage Could Be Re-Assambled Serve For The Community /

SITE ANALYSIS

HOW THE INFORMATION PRESENT ON THE SITE

Posters on Library's Windows 4

On the site, the concert church is hidden from the public view, compared with the library, stores on the street, and the poster column on the plaza. And because of the solid facade without windows, the information presentation of the church is kind of introverted way, compared with the surrounding buildings with windows. As for the church, information about the concert becomes hard to get.

Surrounding Restaurant And Food Price

Thailand Cuisine

Drink Course Course Course

Tempura 65-95dkk

Goi Pla 85dkk

Thai Spring Rolls 75dkk

Satay Kylling Spyd 75dkk

Hoi Yang 85dkk

Thai Fish Cakes 85dkk

Yam Bli Goui 85dkk

Sum Dam 85-125dkk

Drink

Bear 36dkk

Co ee 35dkk

Jasmine or Oolong 45dkk

Cocktails 105dkk

red wine 80dkk

white wine 75dkk

cider 50dkk

ginger bear 54dkk

pilsner 30dkk

black lager 28dkk

guld 67dkk

ckili tripel 60dkk

double Ipa 85dkk

cuvee van de keizer 180dkk

marinated ank steak strips 99dkk

Marinated chicken 99dkk

Ahaaa mix 139dkk

kubbeh 89dkk

Falafel ret 89dkk

Vegetarian ret 129dkk

Ahaaa special 99dkk

Halloumi salad 59dkk

Avocado salad 59dkk

Chicken salad 69dkk

Mix salad yourself 79dkk

Pizza 99dkk

Snacks 29-49dkk

Linsesuppe 69dkk

Quinoa Salad 89dkk

Sandwich 79dkk

choko mousse 39dkk

squash cake 30dkk

snickerskage 35dkk

cheese cake 40dkk

As for the information on the concert church which is hidden behind the wall, and put in a very random way, almost all the posters were on the wall, paste directly on the old one. the pamphlets were on the reception and sill under the windows. there is also some sign to guide people where is the restroom and smoke outside.

Street Furnitures On The Plaza

DESIGN STRATEGY

On the new stage, people play instruments which makes the music performance much more visible to the public, on the other hand, enhances the function and the symbol of the concert church. At the same time, the other three pieces of street furniture increase people's intimacy in this neighborhood.

I. Current Stages During Music Festival

During the current music festival, people now use a very simple way to make a stage, like a stand on the carpet, on an easily assembled stage, under the awning and ag banners. They just use a simple way to create a feeling of space on the ground or overhead.

on the carpet on easy assembled stage Under awning Under ag banners

II. Elements From The Concert Church

There are some typical elements from the facade of the concert church, like archs, stairsteppings outline and rectangle shape. would like pick the stair-steppings shapes to demonstrate the linking with the concert church.

Church Facade

III. Test Of The Basic Assemble

There are some typical elements from the facade of the concert church, like archs, stairsteppings outline and rectangle shape. would like pick the stair-steppings shapes to demonstrate the linking with the concert church.

Seat Pavilion Of Simple Joint Pavilion Of Lap Joint Ceiling 1 Ceiling2

Food Truck Poster Tower

Step 1: Take o Stainless Steel Cable

Take o the stainless steel cable which use to stable the installations.

Step 2: Take O The Pin And Safty Clip

Cause the stage is made of the cube putting together, it should be easy assemble so design a node which can easily be take apart.

Step 3: Electric Crane

The woker who work for this will be treat by the concert tickets during the music festival. And when after the music festival these cube will be take apart by electric crane.

Step 7: Take O All The Cube And Start A New Circulation

When on next year's music festival, the three outdoor furniture will be seperate again and start a new circulation.

Step 4: Pallet Truck

The woker who work for this will also be treat by the concert tickets during the music festival. And when after the music festival these cube will be move to the right place by pallet truck.

Food Track

Stage Food Track Pavilion Poster Tower

Poster Tower

Step 5: Put Pin And Safty Clip On

After using the pallet truck and pallet truck put these cube on the right place, volunteers can use their hands to pu the pin and make the safty clips on.

Food Track Pavilion Pavilion

Step 6: Put On Stainless Steel Cable

Put on the stainless steel cable to make the three installation much stable.

/ CUBE MIGRATION / X 25 X 9 X 10 X 6

Poster Tower

During the jazz festival, the cubes will be assembled on a stage by the festival organizer. The facade of the church serves as the background of the stage, and they have a similar composition. There is a connection between indoor and outdoor spaces. The stage can be regarded as the logo of the church during Jazz Festival.

During normal days, the stage will be separated into three individual installations, food truck, poster tower, and pavilion, serving di erent functions. The food truck provides a place to grab a drink in winter; posters could hang on the tower and attract locals; the pavilion provides shelter during the rainy season.

The rst part of the disassembled stage will be used for hanging concert church performance information and the announcement of community information.

The second part of that will be used as a food truck since here is a huge public plaza and meets a lot of people's need for drinks and snacks.

The last part will be a pavilion severing for people on rainy days.

THE DIALOGUE BETWEEN OLD AND NEW

Postgraduate 2st Year Project Thesis

Individual Project

2021.2-2021.6

Adviser: Nicholas Thomas Lee(nlee@kglakademi.dk)

Location: Xinyu, Whenzhou, China

Type: Landscape and Buildings Renovation

Introduction:

The urban village is a very important issue in China’s urban development. The project, The Dialogue Between Old And New, Rethinking city development in Wenzhou, a city in China, deals with establishing a better relationship between the old and new in urbanization. The project aims to make the old urban village more attractive, improve the function of the community, using more sustainable ways to transform urban villages in China.

This project is located in Wenzhou, China, covering an area of 5,000 square meters. It involves the transformation of extra floors, which have been informally added to existing apartment buildings by residents into a continuous roof garden system, and introducing roof planting garden and community activities spaces to connect the whole community. This modest way of urban renewal is also a criticism of the government's current strategy, which involves the demolition of urban villages.

/ Rethinking city development in Wenzhou, a city in China /

DESIGN LOGIC LEARNT FROM TRADITIONAL VERNACULAR STUDY

STEP.1

This picture shows that since 2010, people have gradually added construction based on four floors. At the same time, the facade of the building has become richer. Metal cages have been added to the facade, and the informal additions now have balconies.

STEP.2

This picture shows the design strategy for the building, removing walls and ceilings of addition floors, removing accessories such as doors and windows, and leaving only the structure of the columns and beams of the added oors.

WenLiang Yan,"Kitchen" 1920

Life

STEP.3

After the removal of the excess structure, the remaining column and beam structure becomes the rst layer of the design strategy. Like beams and columns in traditional vernacular buildings, they serve as the skeleton of the entire space. The next step is to design walls and ceilings based on this structure.

STEP.4

The next step is to ll the structure with walls and ceilings (the green part) because the structure is two floors, the first floor as the main planting space and part of the indoor space for residential activities in the building, or storage of agricultural utensils. Two oors are connected by stairs, and the second oor will hold some planting boxes. The blue part is the third layer, where traces of people's lives, such as planted areas, will change over time in the future.

STEP.5

Three main spatial elements can be extracted from the painting "Kitchen". The first layer is the structure of beams and columns, the second layer is the wall and the ceiling, and the last layer is the traces of people's daily use of the space. want to learn the 3 layers of spaces from the painting, and use them in my design. In my design, the first layer is the structure of the building and the second layer is lled in panels, the third oor may change with people's daily use.

In this project, the retaining beam-column structure of the added oors is a xed frame. What I need to design is to ll in the structure and how create di erent spaces.

The last picture shows the state of the roof garden in 2030, gradually covered with plants, where people work and take activities here, and the community becomes more vibrant because of the roof garden.

Structures Wall&Roof Traces Of Daily

Bird view after the intervention 1:300

BIRD VIEW AFTER INTERVENTION 1:30

12 buildings were connected by bridges after the intervention, the central plaza will activate the whole part. the whole garden including two parts, one is a central public space with a children's playground, workshop, public meeting rooms. The outer circle will be a continuous roof planting garden.

PERSPECTIVE WITH DETAIL DESIGN

3 MOMENTS ON THE ROOF PLANTING GARDEN

The three scenes visually show how the roof garden is used by residents in residents daily life.

The main planting area on the roof is raised 45cm to allow the roots of the plants to grow better. The sky window is the entrance to the garden from the interior of the building. The irrigation system is connected to the pipes downstairs to provide water to the plants during non-rainy seasons.

This picture shows the second oor of the roof garden, where one side is the planting box, and the other side is set with seating for people to rest. Rainwater collected by the eaves will be stored. You can see people using roof beams to dry sh.

This space also shows 3 layers of design logic, second layer is the wall which could be diversity used as a window and sitting area for taking a rest and communication area for the residents.

Details of planting box 1:10

Details of sitting area 1:10

Planting box: Because of the shelter of the roof, shadetolerant plants are mainly planted here.

'ROOF GARDEN' INTERACTIVE SYSTEM

A community farming app enhances residents' interaction with the roof garden. Residents can irrigate through the app, rent agricultural tools, and sell daily harvested agricultural products.

Rainwater collection pipes: used to collect rainwater during the rainy season and store it in the water tank downstairs.

Water Tank: Rainwater is stored here and watered through the irrigation system in times of drought.

THESIS REPORT OVERVIEW

The thesis report includes preliminary analysis, research, background elaboration, and the process of design evolution.

SKIRTING BOARD ON BUNKER

Postgraduate 1st Year Project

Re-designing: spatial elements of extraordinary

Individual Project 2020.2-2020.6

Adviser: Natalie Koerner(nako@kadk.dk)

Location: Teaterøen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Type: Interior Renovation

Introduction:

/ Focus On The Spatial Element- Skirting Board To Create Functional Indoor Space /

Over the centuries, the city of Copenhagen implemented several types of defense facilities. The bunker complex originally consisted of an additional eastern flank of 120 meters, which was demolished in 1980 with the construction of the water purifying plant, lynetten. Today several of the buildings serve more as scenography than buildings the bunker included. To the situation and construction of the bunker, the walls are too thick to go through the electric wire or tube. I would like to preserve the integrity of the wall and introduce the skirting board systems to hide these architectural infrastructure systems to help reorganization in the bunker building. At the same time, I want to explore the multifunction of the skirting board integrated with indoor furniture and reorganize the space in the bunker to meet modern use.

SKIRTING BOARD ANALYSIS

I analyzed the skirting board in the bunker, including the material, hight, and texture. The exploding drawing shows clearly the interior space and its relation with the skirting board.

/ ARCHITECTURE INFRASTRUCTURE INGREDIENTS /

/ ARCHITECTURE INFRASTRUCTURE OGANIZATIONS / EXPOSURE / COVER

PLAN DRAWING WITH FUNCTIONAL DIVISION

This drawing shows functional division and the plan as an art gallery. Because of the lack of sunlight and limitation of space, I transfer it to an art gallery with storage, o ce, toilet, and reception.

SECTION PERSPECTIVE AND DETAILS

SECTION PERSPECTIVE AFTER RENEWAL

select two main sections, which show di erent functional partitions and construction details of di erent height skirting boards.

Spatial element-detail and material

process model to show indoor spcaes

DETAILS OF SKIRTING BOARD

The isometric drawing shows di erent layers of the skirting board and the radiator which hidden behind the skirting board.

RADISSON HOTEL INTERIOR DESIGN

Working Project

2021.10-2022.9

Location: Tbilisi, Georgia

Type: Buildings Renovation and Interior Design

Introduction:

/ The Telegraph: A messenger to the world /

Built in the 1970s, the Telegraph building is one of the city’s most recognisable Soviet-era buildings. The building is located on Rustaveli Avenue, complementing Silk Road Group’s other properties on Republic Square. Silk Road Group considers the proximity to its existing Radisson Blu Iveria is crucial to this project allowing the redevelopment of the square to become a leading tourist attraction. The redevelopment will be built to LEED Gold standards for environmental impact, making it the rst building in the Caucasus to do so.

The ground floor and first floor are used as public areas to serve tourists in the city, and the third to sixth oors are used as guest rooms of Radisson Hotel, with a total of 220 rooms. I am mainly responsible for the interior design of the public area. Here mainly choose northern thai restaurant, barber shop and grill as the expansion.

In the thai restaurant, raw steel, wood and mutina concrete brick are used to create a northern thai atmosphere.

In the barber shop, wood, textile wood, mesh metal, and mosaic tile are used to create a modern and retro style. The counter and shelve are millwork accented with copper details. The height of the counter conforms to the height of the human body, and reservation location for POS.

grill

create an atmosphere

Wood, copper, tile, stainless steel, and green leather are used in the

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of American barbecue. Customers can watch the chef's operation in the open kitchen, and there are barbecue grill and craft beer behind it.