Yimin Yang Portfolio 2020 by Yimin Yang

Yimin Yang ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO Selected Works 2013 - 2019

CONTENTS

PANORAMA COMMUNITY

Urban Village Facilities Design in Shenzhen, China

HIGH RISE RESIDENTIAL APARTMENT

High Rise Residential Apartment Design in Zurich, Switzerland

Rather than merely a pure form of expression, the essence of architecture is functions, intentions and symbols.

FLOATING HOUSE

Tokyo (Anti) Library, Japan

WALDEN LODGE

Forest Lodge Design in Grand Teton National Park, USA

RE-ENVISAGE FACTORY

Factory Reform Design in Chongqing, China

PROFESSIONAL WORKS International Airport Surroundings Re-construction in Shenzhen, China Skyscaper Design in Shangdong, China Surveying and Mapping of Ancient Buildings in Chongqing, China

PANORAMA COMMUNITY Urban Village Facilities Design

Individual work, Studio Alpha From October 2018 to November 2018 Site: Shenzhen, China Advisor: Wenli Li

In the process of urbanization in China, urban village emerged as a phenomenon in many cities. While other regions are constantly being updated and developed, these regions have remained as they were decades ago. As time goes by, the environment in the village is no longer livable, life is crowded, facilities are old and there are potential hidden dangers. The site of the project is located on the west side of the Baishizhou site in Nanshan District, Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, China. It is a modern apartment with clean and comfortable living environment and convenient facilities. The east side is a villa community, the buildings in the community are single-family villas, with a very good landscape environment - including a large area of green areas and a natural lake area; the south side is the window of Shenzhen World, because it is in the younger crowd It is very popular and has a huge flow of people, which also makes the area where the venue is located has great commercial potential. In fact, 90% of the buildings in the site are old residential buildings with no more than 8 floors, stacked irregularly. The number of people living in the area is very large, and this community lacks the necessary public facilities. The purpose of this program is to change the status quo of the venue and re-given the new vitality of these forgotten corners.

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Golf Club

Residence Community

Site

Villa District

100m

Amusement Park

Apartment

Urban Village

Villa

In the process of modernization in China, apartments have emerged as a collective residence, and modern apartments are still the primary choice for many people because of their price/performance ratio.

Urban village has not changed much with the development of the city. Today, the surrounding environment and facilities are constantly updated, and people are still accustomed to its backward lifestyle.

The villa area has an excellent natural landscape environment, very small building density and perfect supporting living facilities, which is a living choice for a small group of people.

[1] Break the MAZE

[4] Rebuild the SKYLINE

In the villages of the city, the distance between the buildings and the buildings is very small, which makes the lighting and ventilation of the buildings very poor, and the living environment is suffocating. To change the status quo, it is necessary to widen the gap between buildings. In the existing site texture and building density, this step can only be done by removing some of the buildings.

At the city level, the original site is more like a forgotten corner in the surrounding urban environment. People will selectively ignore the people living in it, and the emergence of new buildings will change the existing city, whether it is Look outside or stand in the distance and look at it.

Before

[2] Recombine the FACILITIES

Shopping Mall

After

Playground Museum

Community Garden

In the original environment, life-related facilities are very scarce â&#x20AC;&#x201C; there are not enough medical and educational facilities, and there are no cultural buildings like theaters and exhibition halls. Such an environment is lacking in vitality, and people can only choose to go out when they complete many basic activities of life.

The circular shape is a result of excluding specific characteristics of site. As the core and the mode of running stay the same, in more practical situations, the form should vary and accordingly adapt to its site and its urban context, displaying evolving patterns.

Clinic

[3] Reflect the CITY

[5] Possible Mutations

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3.2

Theater

[6] Site Plan

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In order to change the line of sight barrier that forms the occlusion due to the texture of the original site, the bottom of the new building is a reflective aluminum alloy. Such a device acts as a mirror â&#x20AC;&#x201C; reflecting the distant urban landscape, which will make the narrow streets less boring.

[7] System 3 High Level Building Offices rise from the garten to offer a more private and quite working area for companies or self-employed people. Office Center

Individual Office

2 Middel Level Platform Middle Level Platform contains several functions, the units are connected by a bridge.

Studios

Art Academy

Assemble Hall Shopping Mall

Gymnasium / Garden Kindergarten

Library / Garden

1 Low Level Load-Bearing System The overall structure of the support structure consists of 17 columns.

The solid reinforced concrete column only serves as a support, and the location of the landing avoids the original building. The landing position is chosen in the corner where no one cares, reducing its damage to the original building texture of the ground.

The hollow core tube structure plays a supporting role while exerting the traffic function of connecting the upper and lower layers. Some of them are raised from small squares with dense crowds on the ground, while others are transformed with existing houses to make full use of the roof space to form small platforms.

[8] Level 1 Plan

[9] Construction Details

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01 Assembly Mall 02 Shopping Center 03 Community Library 04 Kindergarten 05 Gymnasium 06 Studios 07 Art Academy

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20m

In the middle layer, there are seven main units, Assembly Hall, Shopping Mall... to perfect the original community's functions. As analyzed front, the new integrated platform will also provide a series of sky gardens, people can choose after work. Go to the supermarket, go to the park walk dogs, and end the day. For urban villages with lower overall heights, the integrated platform also lifts people's daily life stream into the air through these functions, improving land utilization.

The units are supported by a large Y-pillar, and the secondary column extending from the column serves as an auxiliary support. The ground floor and top floor slabs of the aerial platform are truss structures connected by dense columns. In some special units, the top floor is covered with a layer of vegetation to form a layer of vegetation, and the raised columns of the top floor support a new small office platform.

[10] Construction

[12] Unit Unit 1 1 2

1 2 3

6 5 4 3

In unit 1, the bottom layer is a public use area, the middle floor is a sky garden covered with soil structure, and the upper layer is a small office space. It has 2 core cylinders and a triangular column.

5 Construction of Glass Screen Wall

Construction of Truss Floor

1 Angle Steel 2 Connector 3 Jamb 4 Crosspiece 5 Support pad 6 Glass

1 Wooden board 2 Wooden grids 3 Reinforced concrete floor 4 Truss 5 Reinforced concrete floor 6 Main keels 7 Cross braced keels 8 Mineral wool decorative acoustic board

Unit 2

7 8

Unit 2 is the main large public space of the platform, which contains a small theater and two exhibition halls. It has 2 core cylinders and a triangular column.

Unit 3 [11] Ground Plan 1

Unit 3 is a medium-sized public place with a terrace. It has 2 floors and is used as a public place with a large traffic volume and a small occupied area. It is supported by a triangular prism and a core cylinder.

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100m

14 This diagram shows the location of the structure where the triangle column is a solid reinforced concrete column, which only serves as a support, and the original location is avoided. Destruction of the building texture. The core cylinder for traffic is placed in a place with a large flow of people to improve the efficiency of the entire system.

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Unit 4

The unit 4 is a relatively private place with three floors, and the functions provided therein include areas where the traffic of the kindergarten, studio, etc. is relatively stable. Supported by a triangular prism and a core cylinder.

Outro

Urban village, as part of the city, offers a cheap living environment where many of the bottom workers choose to live, and they are also part of the city and should also enjoy some other areas of public service. Panorama Community grows out of the dilapidated urban village like a sapling, bringing new environment and living experience to the people in order to face the new challenges in the process of urbanization.

HIGH RISE RESIDENTIAL APARTMENT DESIGN Academic Work From August 2019 to December 2019 Site: Zurich, Switzerland Advisor: Patrick Gmuer

This project is a part of high rise residential apartments design in Zurich. Thinking about the future of Zurich city, the proposal is to design six high rise buildings in different sites which are located among the railway. People who come to Zurich by train, which is a main transportation method in Switerland and even in Europe, can see these buildings one by one and then end their tour in Zurich Main Station. These high rise residential buildings also aim to figure out the problem the city may meet- what the buildings mean to the youth, what the benefit they can earn for the city, what troubles they can solve with its function in city. Concept of my design is to provide the city different image of a changeable facade. As people live in this apartment, the activities within could influence the view for the city. Inside the buildings, different types of plans are designed for families with different needs.

Height Difference

Hard Turm Park

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4.5~6M 10M 93M

Duttweilder St.

Renaissance Tower

Prime Tower

Pfingstweid St. Duttweilder Bridge

Site 2 Surrondings Office & Commerce Factory

Hard Bridge

Residential Buildings Office & Residential

Hohl St.

Herdern St. Transprtation Train Station

Tram Station Bus Station Train Route Line 31

Transportation Transport Station Transport Route

High Rise Buildings Train Route Zurich Main Station Site 2 Other High-rise Buildings Buildings Beside Track

City Texture Site 2

Satellite Map Site 2

Lake Zurich

Limmat River

Elevation East (With Shutters Open)

Elevation South (With Shutters Close)

Facade Analysis

Axonmetric Drawing OF

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21th Floor Plan Typical Plan C1

22th Floor Plan Typical Plan C2

Shutters Close

21F

14F

Shutters Open

13F

13th Floor Plan Typical Plan B1

14th Floor Plan Typical Plan B1

Structural Analysis

12F

5th Floor Plan Typical Plan A

12th Floor Plan Residential Gymnasium Plan

3rd Floor Plan Public Office Plan

4th Floor Plan Typical Plan A

FLOATING HOUSE Tokyo (Anti) Library Design

Individual work, Chongqing University From June 2018 to July 2018 Site: Tokyo, Japan Advisor: Gang Chen

Japan and its people have been at the forefront of a digital revolution since the past four or five decades. The country has long existed between two realms. On the one hand, we have the traditional “old world” of temples, tea ceremonies and calligraphic cherry blossoms. On the other hand, there shines a futuristic “new” world of bullet trains, AI dogs, anime pilgrimages, 2.5-dimension theaters, digital currency like J-coin and receptive gaming consoles. Japan has been a place of fascination throughout the years, particularly to those interested in media and popular culture, business, science and technology, and other related areas such as transport and tourism. With almost everything available to people virtually on the Internet and a click away on the mobile applications, people in Japan are the most exposed to a digital culture than most of their contemporaries in the world. Psychologists may debate the adverse sociological effects of digitization on the Japanese culture, but it has made the country a curious case study and example for futuristic models of digitization. Whether it is futuristic mechabots stomping on the ancient slopes of Mount Fuji, J-Pop stars shimmering like plastic dolls in silk kimonos or the electronic sushi, there are some extraordinary examples of Japanese digital revolution.

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JR Central Line

The site for the intervention is located at an edge of Kabukicho district and against the railways coming from Shinjuku station. The site faces the Yasukuni Dori promenade which runs adjacent to it providing easy access and visual access from multiple locations in the vicinity.

Business District

Nearby Activities

02 Shinjuku Station

04 Kabukicho

06 Shopping Mall

07 University 01 Site 02 Shinjuku Railway Station 03 Underground Shopping Mall 04 Kabukicho 05 Samurai Museum 06 Shopping Center 07 Shinjuku High School 08 Kogakuin University

05 Tourists

Workers 04

For the site locates the position of the center of the Shinjuku District, many different groups of people are active nearby who have different requirement from this place. The crowd is mainly divided into four groups by their purpose to this place.

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07 08 Consumers

To let these people with different interests study or relax together is one of the main goal of the design.

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[1] Skateboarding Culture

[4] How we combine Skatepark and Library

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Exhibition

Roof

Reader

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The combination has its own reading rooms and skate vert, all people can enjoy their reading and skateboarding in this building. The main space in this library is shared.

Skateboarding is an X Sport which involves riding and performing tricks using a skateboard, as well as a recreational activity, an art form, and a entertainment industry job.

Skater

Skateboarding is also a representation of Revolt, Freedom, and Breakthrough.

[2] Why we combine Skatepark and Library

[5] Possible combinations

Library

Skatepark Roof

Cafe

Facing the information explosion in the era of knowledge economy, modern people's pace of life is getting faster and faster, work pressure is getting bigger and bigger, living space is getting smaller and smaller.

The regular space shape is a result of excluding specific characteristics of the site and the activities. As the core space stay the same, in more practical situations, the form of Anti-Library is changeable, displaying evolving patterns.

Open Seating

I suppose to create a community space for those who suffer from the high pressure. It's not hard to find the common features between Skate park and Library.

Exhibition Entrance Reading Room

Group Discussion

Skate Vert

[3] Some conflicts between Skatepark and Library

Noise

When two completely different functions mixed up into one buildings, some inevitable conflicts will the design meet. Three main factors we should consider about is Noise, Safety, and Interruption.

Open Seating

[6] Elevation

Library is a place where a quiet reading environment is required, so polymer composites are used on the skateboard runway, so that the noise generated by the skateboard can be controlled within 50 decibels.

Drop protection is what should be noticed by skaters so encloure will be set to avoid them dropping from verts. For readers, physical barrier will be set between skate pipes and open seating area.

Safety Different functional partitions and marching lines are designed for the space and function inside the building to avoid conflicts caused by streamlined chaos.

Interruption 13

Level 5 Constructed by serval skate verts, the roof also play a role as city garden and city skateboarding park.

Level 4 The space divide into three areas with different height - reading rooms, research rooms, and group study area.

Site Plan 5m 10m

Level 3 Third floor contains a lagre open reading seating, a lecture theater and leisure area.

20m

Space Strategy

Level 2 Second floor contains a lagre open reading seating. A skate vert is set here to offer space for the skateboarding lovers. Different from the traditional library reading area, which consists of many independent reading spaces, the internal space of the anti-library is composed of many unique functional spaces. In the open reading area of large space, readers have the opportunity to get more attention and communication. Have a conversation and be able to relax and play skateboarding in specific areas. Providing a new possibility for people to read, breaking the boring reading barrier, different readers and skaters can easily and happily communicate.

Speacial Level 1 The ground floor has the main entrance of the library, also a large exhibition area open for public.

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10m

Ceiling Construction

Reinforced concrete floor 8mm Rebar 50mm*70mm Main keels 50mm*50mm Minor keels 50mm*50mm Cross braced keels 25mm Mineral wool decorative acoustic board

Wooden Board Construction 25mm Wooden board 20mm Hair plates 50mm*50mm Wooden grids 20mm Leveling layer Reinforced concrete floor

Skateboarding Track Construction 25mm Polymer composites surface 50mm*50mm Concrete grids 20mm Cement slurry waterproof layer 20mm Leveling layer Reinforced concrete floor

Outro

The onset of digital revolution has questioned the existence of many institutions and technologies around the world. High speed internet and communication systems have made available a large pool of data online. It is easier than ever for any person to gain, share and spread knowledge on the internet than through traditional methods and institutions. Libraries have been considered as the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Temples of learning and knowledgeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; through ages. Libraries are knowledge-dispersion centers with a large pool of books, documents, manuscripts, papers and what not.â&#x20AC;? Because people so often identify libraries with physical books, new digital information and communication technologies have spawned speculation whether libraries, as such, are obsolete. Digitization creates new challenges and opportunities, however, forcing libraries to both take on new roles and perform traditional roles in new ways.

WALDEN LODGE Forest Lodge Design

Studio work From October 2018 to December 2018 Site: Wyoming,USA Advisor: Yin Huang Collaborator: Jiahui Liang

"We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aids, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn, which does not forsake us even in out soundest sleep. I know of no more encouraging fact whan the unquesionable ability of man to elevate his life by a conscious endeavour. It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very armosphere and medium through which we look, which we look, which morally we can do. To affect the quality of the daym that is the highest of arts.''

Harem Hill

Steamboat Mountain

Mountain Berry

Mountain Reid

Dave Adams Hill

Jackson Lake Overlook

[Curved]

20 Elk Ridge

Pilgrim Mountain

Owl Peak Grand View Point

Colter Bay Village

Doane Peak Jackson Lake Louge

[Split]

Jackson Lake

Two Ocean Lake

Eagle Rest Peak

Window Peak

Emma Matilda Lake

Oxbow Bend

Mountain Moran

Signal Mountain Leigh Lake

Signal Mountain Lodge

Jenny Lake

Potholes Turnout Grand Teton National Park

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Spalding Bay

Jackson Lake The Grand Teton National Park

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Chapter 1: Economy 3

4.5

Chapter 2: Where I lived, and what I lived for.

4.5 Chapter 3: Reading

2.4

Chapter 4: Solitude

4.5 Chapter 5: Visitors

4.5 Chapter 6: The Bean-Field 3

Chapter 7: Brute Neighbors

4.5 Chapter 8: Spring 4.5 Chapter 9: Conclusion

Section The functional layout of the floor follows the chapter of Walden, and the bedroom from the top floor to the ground floor is also a process in which people gradually open their hearts.

Exploded View The main support structure of the building is a steel frame structure, and the room is staggered on the steel frame to obtain different viewing angles.

Viewing Platform

Reading Room (2F)

Meditation room

Guest Room (2F)

Plant Platform

Animal Rescue House 3m

Night Perspective Building as a lonely existence in the forest provides a space for those tired individuals to liberate themselves from an impetuous society.

Bedroom 20

Outro

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aids, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn, which does not forsake us even in out soundest sleep. I know of no more encouraging fact whan the unquesionable ability of man to elevate his life by a conscious endeavour. It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very armosphere and medium through which we look, which we look, which morally we can do. To affect the quality of the daym that is the highest of arts.'' However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are richest. The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise. Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poorhouse. The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the almshouse as brightly as from the rich man's abode; the snow melts before its door as early in the spring. I do not see but a quiet mind may live as contentedly therre, and have as cheering thoughts, as iin a palace. --<Walden; life in the woods> Henry David Thoreau

RE-ENVISAGE FACTORY Factory Reform Design

Academic work From March 2018 to May 2018 Site: Chongqing, China Advisor: Gang Chen Collaborator: Yi Ma

The development of cities and their physical environment is a process of continuous evolution over time. The historical changes of the lungs have accumulated a profound cultural heritage, become the medium for the growth of new culture, create local cultural identity, seek cultural identity, and mark and maintain Local independent culture. Urban space and architecture are inevitably incorporated into the current process of cultural production and consumption. For example, the production method is labor-intensive, giving way to the intelligenceintensive, traditional handicraft industry. How to make the old traditional industrial production space applicable to new, diverse and changing contemporary urban creative activities, which has become a prominent problem in urban spatial adjustment; this process makes the building itself beyond the meaning of traditional static functional carriers. It has been given more rich meanings of love and consumption, and has further expanded cultural productivity and formed a development model of "Culture + Place = New Growth Vitality".

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Outro

Old industrial buildings take on new social functions in modern life, which not only effectively protects the physical entities of old industrial buildings, but also the aesthetic characteristics and unique images of early industrial buildings have become fashionable consumer objects and cultural symbols, and early industrial buildings have been renewed. Its identity and identity continue to be active on the stage of contemporary urban life and cultural life. It can meet the needs of the development of the entire city, but also become the local city coordinates in the place and space. The exterior and interior of the building are an organic whole, and the interior design and architectural design should be synchronized in the same concept. The modern building interior is the process of creating the internal space of a specific building entity. It fully utilizes the visual environment processing means to further solve the functional problems and aesthetic problems of the original factory space.

Professional Works

Shenzhen International Airport Surrondings Reform Design

Professional work From Februnary 2019 to May 2019 Site: Shenzhen, China Company:Shanghai Tianhua Architural Design Co., Ltd My Responsiblity: Designer, Modeling

Professional Works Skyscaper Design

Professional work From March 2019 to June 2019 Site: Shangdong, China Company:Shanghai Tianhua Architural Design Co., Ltd My Responsiblity: Designer, Modeling

Prototypes Design

Cardboard Construction

Other Works Construction, Professional Works, Surveying and Mapping of Ancient Buildings From 2014 to 2017

Chongqing University May 2014 Site Location: Chongqing University, Chongqing, China Instructor: Xiaoyin Huang, Qiusi Dai My Responsibility: Construction, Designer

The theme of the design is to build a temporary building with corrugated cardboard. We cut the cardboard into triangular elements and spliced them with bolts. This method makes full use of the stress characteristics of materials. The shape of the building appears to be folded by components. The final results also fully reflect the mechanical properties of the material.

Other Professional Works Hunan Architectural Design Institute Internship, October 2017 Site Location: Changyuan, Henan, China Instructor: Ying Yang My Responsibility: Drawing, Modeling

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Surveying and Mapping of Ancient Buildings

Chongqing University Planning & Design Institute Co., Ltd. From July 2016 to August 2016 Site Location: Fuling, Chongqing, China Instructor: Di Feng, Xingguo Zhang My Responsibility: Surveying & Mapping of the Lujia Courtyard (Plan*2; Elevation*2; Section*1; Node Sample)

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