Han's Portfolio

PORTFOLIO Yihan Shi

Name: Yihan Shi Prev. College: Wuhan University

Selected Works including architecture, urban design and interaction from 2015-2021

PROLOGUE The final-year exchange study experience in the UK of my five-year architectural background, allowed me to experience a more systematic British education and broaden my understanding of architecture. I am both critical and romantic, who is passionate about chasing pioneer theories and critical concepts, obsessively in topology and chaos theory. I attempt to understand architecture from a higher level and more complex dimensions for finding a way to transcend the possibilities of architectural boundaries. Through this exploration, I have also continuously improved my own worldview and theoretical system.

Architecture is a territory where I can not only reflect my critical thinking ability, but also give play to my romantic feelings, which enables me to release my rebellious nature and give play to my creativity that does not drift with the tide. There is no doubt that architecture is an extremely complex subject, which requires a huge knowledge reserve and a strong curiosity desire. It can be said that while exploring architecture, architecture also maximally develops my thinking ability. In addition to mastering the spatial experience, physical technology and structural design of architecture based on the school system, many fields of art and design intersecting with architecture have aroused my strong interest and desire for creation.In particular. In addition to course projects, I have strong creative skills based on various media, such as images, photography, films, music and performance. Through creation, I constantly form the expression of ideas, the transmission of information, the record of memory, the adaptation of narrative, and constantly explore new unique relationships between objects and objects, as well as between objects and environment. Under the traditional thinking system, these seem not to be pure exploration of architecture, but gradually form my broader understanding of architecture.

Yihan shi

CONTENT 01 CITY FRAGMENTS - Architecture and urban design within interaction - Small 'houses' and installations within the function of gallery in Verona - Regenerate and connect the city to bring back the vitality and eliminate the seperation

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02 AUTO-HOUSING - Architecture design within parametrization - Cluster housing in Wuhan - Quantifying people's personality, hobby and so on to establish a cluster community by using self-organization

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03 NESTIFICATION - urban design within interaction - A worldwide conceptual design - Extract the nestification of the real world to establish a new subworld logic and predict the future trend of the world, so as to allude to the future of the real world by reducing to absurdity

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04 MOUNT, MOON - Architecture design within parametrization - New V&A museum contains chinese and british culture in Wuhan - Based on the urban environment, construct the Chinese mountain by parameterization, and hold up the harmonious moon by the preciseness and order of British culture.

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00 OTHER WORK - Role play card game - Photography

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CITY FRAGMENTS

01 CITY FRAGMENTS

CITY FRAGMENTS

BACKGROUNDS

NEW NEW OLD NEW NEW Between Venice and Milan(further into France), South to Austria(further into Germany) and South to Rome, Verona is a sophisticated city as a crossing road in Europe. As a traffic center, years of wars and development had teared it into pieces culturally and geographically. Verona has extremely clear layers in the city plan which is caused by several historical events. And because of that brings segmentation and distribution.

The railway and the huge track yard at the center divide the city into two part, and the two parts of the city just work alone like they are two different cities. And because of that, brings more serious problem that people will not want to connect, because it also cause a huge segementation on information sharing. Without information sharing at that age at a non-internet world, each part would be more independent. The city didn't work as a whole which caused the extremely slow develoment on Verona. They should be connected to integrate the resources. However, it means that there are lots of stories to be told and opportunities to reunite the city elements. We have to create a centripetal force to connect the city to complete the puzzles.

GUIDEBOOK

First of all, figure out what happened to Verona. We have an almanack after which means we have time and information(history) in hand. This Almanack will serve as an important guide to the project, explaining what happened, when and where, and where it corresponds to the project.

How to read this Guidebook?

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VERONA

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ITALY EUROPE

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There are two timelines, one for Italy and Europe, the other for Verona with When you read the Guidebook a circle to emphasis. horizontally, you will notice that it is mainly divided into two parts. Below are the existing main buildings built 05

by Verona in various periods for the construction of City Typology. And above that is the history summary, BC452 which needs to be read vertically.

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When you view it vertically, you can see that the title describes the scope of the yearbook: Year, Occupation and Event.

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Each event has a number that will help you find the location of the event on the field.

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PROJECT

On Verona's timeline, each point in time will have a diagonal line with direction.

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This diagonal line represents the direction of the important events occurring at this important time point, which is also the basis ITALY EUROPE for the subsequent Then, you will find three main geometric abstraction columns, including a more detailed of the event. history of Verona, as well as a brief history of Italy and Europe at the same time that influenced Verona.

The purpose of this is to create a sense of geometric intersection of history in the later period.

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Meanwhile, I will be able to learn more specific information about this event corresponding to the position in the project.

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A

The track of Verona’s development related tightly to the main road in central city from North to South. Put the timeline onto the road.

B

Then we input the information by extend the point into a certain line. The information line is a sector. The direction of a certain line depends on the proceeding direction of the attached event.

1.First Romes led the millitary through 2.They led the millitary downside 3.New empire Galliano enlarged 4.Some orthometric roads are 5.The Scaligery family extended 6.Venice made the improvement VIA POSTUMIA . They went cross the the hill and built the first grid city. boundary of Verona and built new replaced by the organic roads because the city boundary further and built on the fortification by adding the new fortification and moats. of Arena and the public space. arrow-shaped bastion.

Adige river and built home on the hill. fortification.

1.There is a point at some point.

2.We attach certain historical 3.With a certain meaning, the point 4 . T h e d i r e c t i o n o f t h e l i n e 5.point to line, line finally turn into represent the direction that the a sector with a certain direction. events to the meaning of the point. will turn into a line. event proceeds.

C

Lack of geographic information. Refine the fundamental geometric elements from the city plan.

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Put ‘time’ and ‘events’ line we got in step 2 onto the ‘city’ (included some of edges, geometries or fragments of people, brands, architectures, photos and so on.

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1.The typology of the huge track yard 2.The typology of the main river of the 3.The typology of the main urban 4.The typology of the main road. which causes the urban segmentation. city. living area.

5.The typology of the minor road.

6.The typology of five elements of the city.

1.Collect sectors of variuos history 2.The length of the main road time 3.Put timeline and event sectors 4.I also extraxt the typology of old 5.I also extraxt the typology of old 6.Put together all the elements on the events and put them on the timeline. line is based on AD476-AD2020. onto the city map. drawings. photography. city map based on main road timeline.

Line to stream(pipe). The intensity depends on the impact of the event.

1.Line to pipe of various event 2.Line to pipe of huge track tard. 3.Line to pipe of river and park. 4.Line to pipe of urban living area.. 5.Line to pipe of the main road. 6.Line to pipe of the minor road. sectors. diameter small to large. diameter small. diameter small. diameter medium. diameter large. diameter large.

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Get rid of all intersections. All streams are separated. Obtain lots of new independent fragments.

What these fragments have in common with is that they all have another information left by another stream in or out their own bodies.

1.Now I've got everything piped on the urban. They intersect with each other to form a completely new prototype.

2.Use Boolean operation to eliminate 3.Filter out small objects that are 4.Expand the area occupied by all the overlap between them.Then the new too trivial. these individuals to cover a large individuals are completely separated, enough urban area. and many individual individuals with various traces are obtained.

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CONCEPT

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EXPLOSIONS

The fragment at this point carries two pieces of information, one is the complete information of itself, and the other is the information left by other flows during the course of intersection.

The size of the debris varies due to the size of the flow, with the larger being used as a building and the smaller as a small sculpture or other interactive device.

A semi-random distribution of fragments (two intersecting fragments that are adjacent to each other) is carried out in new areas of the city, large pieces are placed in open Spaces for architectural use, and small pieces are placed in public Spaces for interactive use.Two kinds of information are carried on the debris. The information of this fragment is recorded on the outside, while the clues of intersecting fragments are left on the inside, and the same information can be found at the same place of corresponding fragments.

CITY FRAGMENTS

RULES

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02 AUTO-HOUSING

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BACKGROUNDS Nowadays, the young start-ups are enthusiastic with their own thought about their career and life. They want their life to be customized and unique in the mass customized era, which is really suitable to be a nonlinear self-organized system. In this case, I focus on three different dimensions (three vital parameters), the individual, the group and the whole swarm, to test the formation of a nonlinear self-organized micro social system. Jane Jacobs said that social relations happened spontaneously. But the point is what the principle leads the shape of the neighbourhood.

Accordingly, with the development of the technology, I may say that I have parameterization to deal with the problem nowadays by calculating several variables'relationship.

Without initial analysis of the influence of the outside world like the site or the form, we mainly focus on the force that are inside the swarm. We are eager to know how individuals, groups and the entirety influence each other and what will be the consequence.

Site Analyse

The site is located in the old French concession in Hankou District, Wuhan city, Hubei Province, China.The area, once a commercial center, now exists as an old commercial residential area, but its status is in jeopardy because of its old facilities.Because of the low housing prices and the core location, there are a lot of young entrepreneurs in this area.

Backgrounds It can be said that this is the mass production era which enables human beings to become rich through mass production of commodities on assembly lines, but the world also rapidly enters a state of homogenization.In China, large number of commercial highrise housing, and these mass-produced buildings also bring great inconvenience to the life of young people in the new era, and restrain their personality.

Parametrization

One person always has various traits. For instance, there is one man called Jack whose favourite is coke and cat will connect to another named Tom who is keen on the same things. And several Toms and Jacks will form a group with a trait of loving cat and coke.

And the coke and cat group will have connection with another group, maybe dog and spirit group.

AUTO-HOUSING

CONCEPT

Find the Needs This generation of young people is independent and more social, more emphasis on privacy, overall needs can be divided into three major areas, work, social and personality.Therefore, in this project, we should include and emphasize the relationship between young people and work, social contact and personality, so as to build interpersonal connections from similarity, thus achieving the purpose of maximum customization.

Results

With parameterization we can achieve customized production work.Once built such an incubator, young people on the job can have a better work efficiency, higher team cooperation spirit, more convenient and more efficient and can save time cost of commuting, in the life can be more personality, more intimate, more convenient to make friends with social, because to live and work, also can let young people more personality, more can learn to share.In summary, young people will have co-working, coliving, and customized sharing of residential space.

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EXPERIMENT

The people who differ in characteristics and preference (which will influence each other) in the swarm are regarded as points to track and analyse their movement. As a result, they tend to gather together as a group. The group also have characteristics and preference that can influence the groups around them (push away or pull nearer). This movement will in return cause the individuals to change their characteristics and preference which will lead to their leaving of the previous group and their join in another group. That individuals influence the group and the group in return influence the individual tends to have an active balanced stage which is what we are looking for in 2D & 3D.

Horizontal

The points represent individuals. And after the movement, the points become squares---small houses. Then, Adjacent houses are made to be a group with a central core.

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FORMATION

Vertical

Initially, we've got may be 2 or 3 layers of squares. With the movement in 3D, the squares make a connection interactively. With the establishment of the core, the squares seems to be like inosculating on core, and that is what we call a group.

Module

From the perspective view, It is clearer to see that the group have four elements: the central core, the squares, the inosculation and the communication.

Smooth

The prototype didn't work in concert with the concept. It's too square. Therefore, we think we should smooth it. The way we smooth the group is like that we set some control points to be anchors. Then release the surface to be like a spring diaphragm. After adjustment, we finally get a ideal shape.

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As the self-organization has been done, there should be a prototype which contains private space and sharing centers. The basic living space could be simple with a big window to have a communication with the outside world. The sharing space on the other hand is a connection with the inside.

As you see the points which are seen as the representative of individuals have a selforganization due to their influences. The small box in the diagram are their basic units for living, while the big box in the diagram are for their customized sharing place, in which there will be living rooms, kitchen, meeting rooms and everything they want to share.

With push, pull and the group's internal force, the points are tend to shape like groups which evenly distribute in the square. And then with the group get more compact, the central core shapes. Eventually, with the connection of each part, all things turn into an entirety.

Reaction

FUNCTIONS INSIDE

AUTO-HOUSING

PROTOTYPE

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Ground Floor Plan

SECTION

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03 NESTIFICATION

NESTIFICATION

REDEFINITION Antient time ~ A.D.2000

Look at the old world dialectically from the new world

We live on a spherical planet, an incomplete regular sphere formed at some unknown time.

1.PLANET 1.PLANET: For several years, the surface of the planet was in a state of nothingness, until regular triangular intersecting orbits of unknown materials divided the world into several parts.

2.NATURE 2.NATURE: There was life in orbit. In these regions of intersecting formation, other creatures, rules of the world, geological landscapes begin to appear, except for nothingness, by communicating with the nonlinear material energy of the orbit.These regions are rich in variety and are interrelated and even continuous.

3.HUMAN 3.HUMAN: Beginning with the utilize of the tools, Human was born. Over the long years, mankind has also slowly substituted its own behavior into the construction of nothingness.

4.CITY 4.CITY: In the intersection area, because it is in all directions, there will be a large triangular integration. We call such area as 'city'.

5.SCIENCE Mankind have entered information technology era.

1.PLANET

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3.HUMAN 2.NATURE

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A.D.5000 ~ B.C.2020

Individual

Humans have tried to explain the triangular orbits, whether humans came first or first, whether unknown humans built such orbits or whether unknown orbits gave birth to humans, which upset the original balance of the world and caused it to begin to change exponentially.

NESTIFICATION

NESTIFICATION Sapiens：fractal to nestification

Mass

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NESTIFICATION

AXIOM The world as it is today Now at B.C.2020

1.NATURE: The enigmatic triangular orbital space is widely believed to have existed before humans, and according to current human technology, it should have run through the globe.Its surface is a matte, breathable material that is firm but soft to the touch and highly permeable in local areas with obvious geometric properties.As organisms or abiotic has been plagued by human scientists, but in any case, it can secrete a variety of inorganic salt and water molecules containing silicon, that all kinds of inorganic salt bred the microbes, and today we can see the triangle area of mountains, lakes, deserts, such as terrain, and all kinds of creatures.And it seems that something that biology produces will in turn serve as the raw material for it to repair and sustain itself.

2.COMMUNICATION: In the recent industrial design products, more and more people began to use such a basic unit of human survival.It is a triangular pyramid, which seamlessly fits into the building and is transferred through triangular orbits, and exists as a subset of the world system.It provides all human needs, both physical and mental, and is capable of performing a high standard of industrial operations for the replacement and maintenance of human organs.However, this transformation is not yet complete as a basis for human survival, but has matured as a basic unit of transport.

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3.LIFE: from the Angle of the cells, shares a feature of human nature and other creatures, all through the cell division to grow and mature, and also with most of the same all through the combination of sperm and egg cells to achieve the purpose of breeding, which on the one hand, triangle supporting the orbit the theory gave birth to the human beings, but opponents say it fails to explain who created such a track, because from which Angle to understand it, is like a outside interference for the planet.

4.REPRODUCTION: From the murals in orbit, humans began recording sexual intercourse at an early age.Modern reproduction no longer requires the participation of other individuals. The basic living unit can achieve in vitro fertilization with the opposite sex by ingesting the germ cells in your body. In this process, the basic living unit will release the appropriate dose of dopamine, making you feel the same amount of pleasure.You also don't have to worry about your child, who will thrive in the new basic unit of life and receive a public education.

5.RELIC: We have not yet found evidence of hominid life in areas other than triangular orbits, which means that the triangular orbits have not yet bred the chronological age of the material in the triangular region, and humans have not even set foot in the region of nothingness. We can imagine that perhaps nothingness brings immediate death.Therefore, there are a large number of well-preserved historical sites in the track for us to fully understand the history, and the triangle track will also repair and maintain the complete function of the building, so that the building can maintainthe consistency of the past and the future, and can be in a completely objective position.Whether it's Notre Dame, Hiroshima, Yuanmingyuan, Stonehenge and so forth, what we see with the hominids or the creatures of more ancient times will be an architecture.

B.C.2020 ~ Future

NESTIFICATION

CONJECTURE What will world become in the future?

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In the Future

What will world become in the future?

NESTIFICATION

CONJECTURE

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04 MOUNT, MOON

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MOUNT, MOON

the point of view of form, the building as a whole FLOW From has two large Spaces, and a derivative of a small space.

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FORMATION

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The hole building is consisting of 5 parts, which I numbed A, B, C, D, E. Because the forces in each of its two main girders are essentially planar, a truss is usually modeled as a two-dimensional plane frame.

However if there are significant out-of-plane forces, the structure must be modeled as a three-dimensional space.The analysis of trusses often assumes that loads are applied to joints only and not at intermediate points along the members. The weight of the members is often insignificant compared to the applied loads and so is often omitted; alternatively, half of the weight of each member may be applied to its two end joints. Provided that the members are long and slender, the moments transmitted through the joints are negligible, and the junctions can be treated as "hinges" or "pin-joints".

Under these simplifying assumptions, every member of the truss is then subjected to pure compression or pure tension forces – shear, bending moment, and other morecomplex stresses are all practically zero.

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MOUNT, MOON

The main structure is consisting of the wavy curve and the framed steelstructure.

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PLAN1

3M Level Plan

10M Level Plan

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CITY FRAGMENTS

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GAME

Role Playing Card Game: WHO ARE MY ROOMMATES? I invite ten of my friends to take part in this game. Basically, it is a turn-based, role play strategy game. The principle of the game is to find partners to shape groups by calculating the similarity of one person to the others. It means that if you most similar to some person, you will most likely to group with him or her. Once you have a group, it does not mean that it is fixed. One person always has an influence on the other one, whatever good or bad. You are changing with others' influence, so that it will lose your similarity to your group and even change to another group. And it maybe is just what you want. It is an active balance system.

CARD TYPES

At the beginning, I will give each of them a set of cards which include 5 main types to decide their random characters.

A. Basic information, like: A1: gender, A2: age and A3: occupation.

B. Personalities, which will affect your similarity judgement.

It's always easier for outstanding people to find friends. There are four main types: B1: pet, B2: type of person, B3: Introversion and Extroversion, B4: the perceptual and the rational(there are some cards with specific statement which means it has special effect) C. Hobbies in 5 acpects (C1: sport, C2: food, C3: book, C4: film type, C5: music) D. Habits or other special attributes, good and bad. Good attribute will increase the possibility of having one similarity point with others while the bad (with a (×)) will decrease. (The card itself also have to add to the count of similarity point.)

E. Striving cards: People can change by themselves if they have strong willing.(Three types: '+1' means add one similarity point with someone you want; '-1' means minus; blank card means you can join another team immediately.)

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A.Boy, over 30, doctor B.Duck, rational, extroverted C.Jazz, documentary, realist film D.nature optimistic, body builder, good at cooking, intemperance(×)

ZKZ

A.Girl, over 30, doctor B.Perceptual(must in team with least people) C.Football, cake, manga, documentary D.The crowdpleaser, charismatic(×), good at cooking, body builder, intemperance(×), chain smoker(×)

ZJP

A.Boy, 25-30, lawyer B.Duck, Dutiful, Introverted C.Swimming, table tennis, badminton, manga, classic D.Body builder, clean and tidy, rocks in head(×)

PD

A.Girl, 25-30, artist B.Pig, facetious, extroverted, perceptual C.Basketball, swimming, popular, jazz, philosophy D.The crowdpleaser, charismatic(×), good at cooking

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LMH

A.Boy, under 25, farmer B.Dutiful, rational C.Football, cake, rock D.Extremely ugly(×), body builder, chain smoker(×)

A.Boy, under 25, doctor B.Introverted, perceptual(must in team with most people) C.Realist film D.1000 degree myopia(×), lovelace(×), lame(×), loss of hearing(×), extremely ugly(×)

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WJW

A.Girl, over 30, jobless B.Duck, bird, Sociable, Introverted, rational C.Novels, affection film, hiphop, Lidl’s waffles D.The crowdpleaser, beyond beautiful E.+1, -1, blank

A.Boy, over 30, farmer B.bird, Dutiful, rational C.Vegetarian, Sichuan cuisine, affection film, fiction film, classic D.chain smoker(×), The crowd-pleaser, nature optimistic

HXY

YXR

A.Girl, over 30, lawyer B.perceptual(must in team with most people) C.Football, cake, manga, documentary D.The crowdpleaser, charismatic(×), chain smoker(×), intemperance(×), body builder, good at cooking

A.Girl, 25-30, doctor B.Extroverted C.Gym, fiction film, rap D.1000 degree myopia(×), loss of hearing(×), charismatic(×), extremely ugly(×), nature optimistic, good at cooking

1.Firstly, you have all your cards in hand with nobody knows except yourself. And each turn, you should decide at least one card to show to others. At the end of each turn, the similarity of two people will be recorded. The people with most similarity in some aspect will group up.If everyone is in a group, it will proceed to second stage. This is a process in which strangers get to know each other and form their own social circle.

OTHERS

TWO STAGES

2.In the second stage, you can change one card with others, group with most people will have biggest possibility of exchange successfully. And also you can receive a new or miss an old card. And similarity will change with card changes and then lead to a change in group. It's a process that simulates how individuals and relationships change over time. People with strong personalities are more likely to have an impact on others.

Interpersonal communication can also change because of an individual's personality.

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OTHERS

PHOTOGRAPHY

Photography has always been a means of self-analysis and self-expression. My love for photography is that I can always find out some interesting events and things from it, so as to achieve self-satisfaction. I think a good photograph is that it can reach a consensus with the viewer in a certain moment and a certain space. Although the photo itself is a dead object, the people and things it carries can be fascinating enough to make one read a story, a truth or a feeling that the frame brings. These two pages are divided into virtual and real topics to expand, the first page is virtual, the second page is real.

ESCAPE It's a series of emotional simulations. Terrified by flashing warning lights, the escape is simulated through a series of positive and negative exposures, as well as image shakes.

Finally reaches a relatively clear three basis points, into the steady mood.

RELIC For nature photography, few people can put himself into it, like a photograph in addition to the photographer is you, other all has nothing to do with the photography itself, unless there is a mountain and you are of a similar emotional wavelength have so a bridge blanking gradually form associated with the thought of you, is that from the banana's geometry line and colour, let a person feel full and warm.

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There was a time when I was in a state of extreme depression. During this period of time, my photography mainly consisted of photography with a single object as the subject, but other elements in the picture except the subject were pure and psychedelic.When I came to understand these pictures later, I felt more enriched than ever before. Except for the subject, the other positions in the picture were filled with a single and pure force, which squeezed the whole picture and made the subject very small.

OTHERS

These photographs are documentary photographs, all taken in China. China is a country with extremely fast development speed, which also leads to the uneven distribution of social resources, thus causing conflicts in various meanings.

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CITY 01 A bus stop 02 The sculpture of Zhidong Zhang against the city 03 Mother and son on high speed rail 04 Old ladies played mahjong under modern architecture 05 People rested in Kengo Kuma's folks museum in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China.

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TOWN 06 A slogan for the Communist Party of China.

07 A charcoal stove and New Year pictures on the wall 08 A noisy and crowded bazaar in a small town

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