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QI YAN 2011-2016
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Education MArch Architecture with Distinction Nottingham Trent University
2014-2016
BArch (Hons) Architecture (2.2) Nottingham Trent University
2011-2014
*FC in Art & Design Nottingham Trent International College
2010-2011
Architecture Year 1-2 China Central Academy of Fine Arts
2007-2009
Tongsheng High School
2004-2007
Experience Skills Digital: AutoCAD 2010 – 2014 Rhinoceros Google Sketchup 3D Max and Vray Grasshopper Adobe Illustrator CC Adobe Premiere CC Adobe InDesign CC Adobe Photoshop CC Microsoft Office Analog: Surveying Technical Drawing by hand Using AutoCAD to use a laser cutter Model Making Decorating Graphic Skill Seal Cutting Formal Presentations, individually and in groups
Company: Environment Art and Design Advisory Co. Ltd (Beijing, China) Position: Interior Architecture assistant - Site surveying; Coordination with client, consultant and contractor. Company: Linfen Kaifaqu Secondary School (Shanxi, China) Position: Tutors Assistant – translator, organize data Company: Yaoxin Print Shop (Shanxi, China) Position: Graphic design
06.2013 - 09.2013 06.2012 - 09.2012
10.2009 - 04.2010
Projects Huaqiang Square Show room and Reception (Shi Jiazhuang, China)
2013
In this project, I participated in the survey, interior design, construction drawing and meeting the client expectation. Sou Fujimoto Architects- Crossing (Beijing, China)
2009
This project is to commemorate the first anniversary of Wenchuan earthquake. The National Art Museum of China hosted an exhibition entitled “Crossing: Dialogues for Emergency Architecture. I am involved in making model and display in gallery. Honors & Awards
Fabrication: Laser Cutter
MArch Best Studio Project Nottingham Trent University
Language: Chinese and English
MArch Best Technological and Sustainable Response Nottingham Trent University-
2016 2016
TABLE OF CONTENTS
URBAN ARCADIA
INTERVENING IN THE CITY
VERTICAL STUDIO “I” + “II” Perspective Drawing: Street View
VERTICAL STUDIO “I” + “II”
THIRD SPACE
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P1. URBAN ARCADIA
URBAN ARCADIA
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MANIFESTO The act of building is an opposition to nature, we build to protect us from wind, rain snow heat and cold. The elements that constitute the natural world are our enemies. The natural materials we use to build are treated and detailed to resist organic growth and decay. The very processes that the cycle of nature survives on. This project takes on this dichotomy by converting wall into vertical garden and urban piazza into garden in a suggestive gesture to indicate a redemption of nature. The project aims to improve, or at least find a compact between nature and construction, by prompting an eco-infrastructure architecture. A building constructed mainly of organic material (wood) and encouraging an abundant growth of plants and habitat on its vertical and horizontal surfaces. The inherent ambiguity in growing plants on buildings at once gives the uneasy impression that the building is in decay while the nature flourishes. This ambiguity is tested in an extensive ecosystem and biodiversity to enhance the habitat on the building façade. It aims to improve the environmental conditions and also benefit the sense of the architectural experie nce. A healthier environment and richer architectural experience for the people who work in the building. The majority of architectural historical ornament draws heavily on the abstraction of plants and nature, here we subvert this with a building heavily laden with growing technologies, intent on abstracting the context of living planting. The use of the renewable material of wood instead of steel and concrete for the building construction reduces the greenhouse gas emissions and stores carbon in the building. The use of natural wood in the internally and externally aims to provide delight and human interaction with nature within the building. Water eco-infrastructure, through rainwater harvesting, grey water recycling, and sustainable drainage promotes and maintains the green systems.
The Nottingham Wildlife Trust is the proposed client for the public activities in the project. To relocate the Trust to this key central area, adjacent to a new large public square and tram stop gives the Trust a possibility to have a clearer relationship with Nottingham city centre. The 8 storey building contains 9,260 m2 of commercial office, and through the community infrastructure agreements for development, it includes an education space for the Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust. This provides a space for students, researchers, professionals and others who are interested in protecting wild animals and places, and educate people about protecting nature. NWTC is a valuable open space for the local community, it would develop and maintain a living landscape for local communities and influence people on the importance of nature, and encourage action for nature conservation. The NWTC is divided by levels in three different functions. The lower three levels of the building combine with different facilities are used for Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust Organization, which provides a library & archive, classrooms, and café. Upper floors are the office spaces, which are used for Wildlife Trust Organization and commercial offices. The flexible exhibition space in the mid levels contains a large external green terrace. The accesses from different entrances and exits are differentiated and in places combined to provide clear circulation for different users. The building façade aims to improve environmental conditions, with an emphasis on enhancing the habitat and biodiversity. The building façade is covered by 2 to 3-meter height trees and shrubs, oriented to make best use of light and shade in containers on cantilevered terraces. The loadbearing façade walls are combined with different sized perforations, allowing insects and other species to cohabit the façade. This approach contributes to increase urban biodiversity without expanding the city land. The building structure is entirely made of wood. Glued laminated timber column and beam structure with mass cross-laminated wall and floors establish the building structure. Three vertical cores are located on the each corner of the site to support the structure. The building capitalises on the aesthetic value of the wood and provides a sustainable strategy of using timber structure in a medium-rise building.
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Site Plan
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Typical Floor Plan: 7th Floor
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Southwest Elevation
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Section A-A
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Isometric Drawing of Nottingham wildlife trust center
Isometric warm eye view
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Night View
Street View
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Facade
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Office Space
Library and Archive
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Lobby
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Courtyard
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External View
Warm’s Eye View
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Street View
Model Photo
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Detail: Isometric drawing of cantilevered terrace connection with
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Detail: Isometric drawing of green roof with glulam
Isometric drawing of facade bay shows column beam and floor system
Detail: Isometric drawing of Glulam column and beam connection with
1. Glulam column is intersected by two pairs of glulam beams 2. CLT floor system covered with the fire-retardant coating 3. Cantilevered terrace overlapped on the beam 4. Beam- to -Beam Connections using Concealed Plates
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P2. INTERVENING IN THE CITY
Perspective Drawing: Street View
INTERVENING IN THE CITY
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Manifesto Modern industry and technical innovation have brought a variety of convenience, benefit and comfort to humans. At the same time, it also brings some negative effects to our city’s wellbeing in the form of the heat island effect; pollutions and the risk of extreme weather are harms to our life (living green city, 2014). Installing a vertical garden has numerous wide-ranging benefits, such as social, economic and environmental (climate change, flooding, biodiversity, reduce noise pollution and air pollution). It is not only improving the place which you are living but also very beneficial to the wellbeing of its surroundings. The main objective of this project is to create a sustainable strategy to improve an external circulation space and therefore allow it to become a new social public ground for people to stay and ultimately become the “new Landmark” of Nottingham. It also could improve social behaviour and reduce crime in the centre of Nottingham. Tokenhosue Yard will gather all 8 of the surrounding alleys to create a new Nottingham green infrastructure. The project focuses on material investigation, which is combining the recyclable material Poly Lactic Acid, with a hydroponic system to create a hydroponic structural panel wall, which allows for the growing of high nutritional value fruit (such as cranberry, raspberry, strawberries, blackcurrant and acai berry) in tall buildings inside the city limit. Use twisted form as building structure. It will feel like being in the forest, under trees. The use of twisted columns is also respected to the historic relevance of the site which alleyway was a public garden in the 18th century.
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Design Scheme and Circulation Diagram
Isolation: Alleyway
Connect: Existing Building (First Floor)
Isolation
Connect: Courtyard
Isolation: Vertical Garden (Ground FLoor)
Hydroponic Area 1
Connect: Vertical Garden (Second Floor)
Hydroponic Area 2
Hydroponic Area 3
Aeroponics Area
Communal Space
Office
Design Scheme and Circulation Diagram
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3D Plan
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Roof Plan1:200 Roof Plan1:200
Roof Plan
Technical Section 1:200
Technical Section Technical Section 1:200
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Matrix of Differentitation: Structure
Structure 1: Basic • core with column • top hung cladding
Structure 3: Skew • cantilevered slab • cladding post tension • skew 15 degree
Structure 2: Basic • cantilevered slab • cladding post tension
Structure 5: primary structure • cantilevered slab • steel column • skew 15 degree • twist 30 degree
Structure 4: Skew & Twist • cantilevered slab • cladding post tension • skew 15 degree • twist 60 degre Structure 5: secondary strcuture • steel frame core
Structure 5: Skew & Twist • cantilevered slab • cladding post tension • skew 15 degree • twist 30 degre Structure 5: structure solution • cantilevered slab • skew 15 degree • twist 30 degree • steel frame core • cladding post tension with hydroponic panel
Matrix of Differentitation: Structure
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Axonometric drawing: hydroponic panel 1. 50mm post tension cable 2. Component connection: dovetail joints 3. grodan and frame connection: swallow tail tenson joints 4. Panel overlap connection : screwed by 400mm cable connection 5. Panel connection: cogged- scarf tenson joints 6. grodan and frame connection: swallow tail tenson joints 7. 150 mm grodan Joints Detail 1: Component connection: dovetail joints
Joints Detail 2: cogged- scarf tenson joints
Joints Detail 1
Joints Detail 2
Hydroponic Panel Elevation
Component dimension in 1:1 scale
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Detail : Axonometric drawing of hydroponic panel fixing to floor
Detail : Axonometric drawing of steel frame core fixing mechanisms to floor
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Perspective Drawing: Internal Space
Perspective Drawing: Internal Space
Perspective Drawing: External Space
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Final Model
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P3. VERTICAL STUDIO I + II
VERTICAL STUDIO II: ROCK
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Vertical Studios II The brief explores façade treatments and investigating its architectural properties. The material assigned is Rock. At the beginning of this project, we explored casting in sand. After experimented with different type of sand, I have found out Mansfield sand is the most successful material for sand casting. While working with sand, we used tools, essentially combs, to alter the surface and create patterns. Each tool was progressively modified to adapt to the behaviour of the sand and façade design. Use sand as a casting method that is suited to sustainable design strategy, because sand is cheap material and also can be recycled for other use. Cast concrete in the site instead of prefabrication also have benefits for economic and environment aspect. This design have extended the façade from the Nottingham Contemporary galley toward to the train station by following the tramline. The extension of the façade is highly considered the context of the site. The huge size components that add up to create even bigger forms which correspond to the size of the entire site. Curvature is used to reduce the bending moments. It also allows for longer span with less reinforcement. The curvilinear form of the façade can help to reduce the wind pressure. The curvilinear forms create aesthetic value and make the façade to become an ornament.
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500mm
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3243mm
443mm
900mm
Component dimension in 1:1 scale
1206mm
788mm
Arch Radius of curvature
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Fabrication Drawing of facade structure
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Main Entrance
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Isometric drawing of facade structure Ventilation shows on the Isometric drawing Sun Movement
Red line shows the location of facade on the site plan
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Isometric drawing of Steel roller
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Steel imprinting tool dimension in 1:1 scale
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Tilt-up the concrete wall after it dry and lock it in place
Pour 100mm concrete on the top of insulation panel, make the surface smooth.
Put XPS insulation panels with fiberglass pins into the concrete base (This step only for the wall located on the Nottingham contemporary gallery facade).
Put reinforcement bar on the top of the concrete base before it dry.
Pour 100mm concrete on the top of the Mansfield sand.
Use imprinting method to print lace pattern and use steel wheel to create the wave form on Mansfield sand.
Put Mansfield sand into the metal box prepare for imprinting lace pattern
Metal plate fixed in to the tram track to create a place for casting concrete facade. Cast in site and tilt up
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Structure Wall Detail 1 Plan (Nottingham Contemporary Gallery)
Structure Wall Detail 2 Plan (external facade
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Structure Section Wall Detail1 (Nottingham Contemporary Gallery): 1: XPS insulation panel:100mm 2: Fiberglass pins 3: Lace ornament 4: Steel fixing from wall to the foundation 5: Reinforcement bar 10mm
Structure Section Wall Detail 2 (external facade
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Detail 1
In this project, use metal plate fixed into the tram track to create a place for casting concrete facade. It could save the material for creating make box or cart. Use tram track as cast place is engage with the context, the form of the wall following the existing tram tracks. Tram track is not straight so I have divided it into five segments. The length of the each wall will totally follow the tram tracks. The xps insulation panels that are inserted into the thermomass walls are equipped with fiberglass pins that keep the insulation centered in the concrete wall. Building constructed with insulated concrete wall, using the thermomass insulation system in conjunction removable form panels, can save energy costs.
Detail 2
Section A-A
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P3. VERTICAL STUDIO I + II
VERTICAL STUDIO I: ROOF
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Vertical Studios I The project is focus on hybrid conditions between society and relationship to manufacturing and consuming. The preliminary research will be focussed on the articulation of a ceiling element. Ceilings are the most primitive of architectural interventions, yet are not often employed as a primary vehicle for the articulation of space and function. A ceiling, and by association a roof, from the primitive shelter to the contemporary envelop, has collected together an extended range of tasks: structure, enclosure/light, ventilation, shelter, shading, energy generation, acoustics. The theme of the ceiling focused by constraining the material and geometry to a thin sheet material (steel); the resulting structures evolve through a study of cutting, bending, laminating and connecting thin sheet material to achieve long spanning geometrically intricate structures.
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Section A-A
3D view (Axo)
South Elevation
Cell 1: Photo on Site
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Narrative Theme for Component (leaf form) This exploration is a contemporary interpretation of the gothic architecture of the Arkwright building which is characterized by features such as the lancet windows, vaulted roofs, flying buttress and spines. The petal flower is a symbolism of nature. This can be linked to the fact that the building historically once housed a nature history museum, which was relocated to Wollaton hall in 1927 and a public library which was moved to another site in the city in 1977. The petal conveys the essence of the Arkwright history with subtle reference or mimicry of the gothic style.
DESN30165 vertical Studio: Cell1 Student: Kirisnathas Nalliah Hauwa Yuri Zampirolli Alex Amadi Qi Yan
Model on site
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Form generation, structural analysis and optimisation
Although modelled as previous forms, Its principles were derived from form exploration techniques invented by Frei Otto and others. Having explored precedents ranging from the Shell star Pavilion an installation in Hong Kong designed by Andrew Kudless and Riyad Joucka to the Weald downland museum, it became imperative that the model be designed and assembled in similar fashion. The use of parametric tools such as Kangaroo for grasshopper would be required to simulate the parametric nature of the proposed installation. To build a physical prototype a ststem which allows for variation in anchor heights is recommended.
Aerial view of the model
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Anchor points and edges
Petals laid out and connected using hexagonal grid
Flat hexagonal grid
Formation of catenary curves
Digital simulation of hanging prototype
Manipulation of edges and anchor point
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First Floor plan
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Unfolded Fabrication Drawing Fabrication Instructions Join the following connections: 1. A1 + C2, A2 + B1 2. B2 + C1 Line indicates mountaion fold Line indecates cut lines
Cut Mountain fold Score Valley fold
Fabrication drawing explaining connections of the model
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P4. THIRD SPACE
THIRD SPACE
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Manifesto Different sounds can change our mental state and evoke memories of past events and emotionally replay thoughts and feelings of that time. Music can be very powerful tool in with the ability to change between the various states and also have a positive impact on our health and general well-being. Meditation and music cannot be separated. Use music to calm the mood and elevates our spirit. The building use nature material such as wood and stone combine with the water feature to creative a concert hall for meditation function. In the design emphasis on use of nature light. Different room is like a small unit; use the material, light, water feature, pathway to link it together.
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Site Plan
External View: Entrance
Street Elevation
Concert Hall
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Lobby
Internal View: Meditation Area
External Courtyard
Internal View: Meditation Area
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P5. AND / OTHER
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P5. AND / OTHER MARKER RENDERING
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P5. AND / OTHER HAND DRAWING
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P5. AND / OTHER 3D MAX RENDER
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P5. AND / OTHER PROJECT
Installation: Crossing Location: Beijing, China Year: 2009 Architect: Sou Fujimoto Architects This project is to commemorate the first anniversary of Wenchuan earthquake. The National Art Museum of China hosted an exhibition entitled “Crossing: Dialogues for Emergency Architecture.
Huaqiang Square Show room and Reception Location: Shi Jiazhuang, China Year: 2012 Company: Environment Art and Design Advisory Co. Ltd This mix used commercial building located in the city center of Shi Jiazhuang. The building combine with different facilities include offices, shopping mall and residential. It aims to become the largest recreational area of Shi Jiazhuang.
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P5. AND / OTHER STONE CARVING
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