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Architecture Portfolio Yili ZHOU 20151788 RIBA Part 1 ARCHITECTURE First Class Honor yilizhou15@outlook,com
Selected Works from 2015-2019 For 2020 Fall Application Architecture M.Arch (ARB/RIBA Part 2)
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Yili ZHOU
1997.05.07 Phone: +86 18569538893 E-mail: yilizhou15@outlook.com Zhuzhou City, Hunan Province, China
WORK EXPERIENCE / PROJECT EXPERIENCE 2019.6.28 Continuation Studio -2019.8.28 Architecture Internship Responsible for the initial generation of architectural concepts;
Complete the model making and plan drawing drawing of the project.
2015.09—2019.07 Xi'an JiaotongLiverpool University (XJTLU) Architecture Department Class ranking: First Class Honours
2019.02
Freelance
2015.09—2019.07 University of Liverpool Degree of Bachelor of Engineering Class ranking: First Class Honours
2018.10
Educational Experience
2018.09-2019.06 University Academic Excellence Award – University Scholarship Major Courses Design Thinking and Articulation, Structures and Materials, Construction and Materials, Humanities and Architecture, Environmental Design and Sustainability, Design and Building Typology, Small Urban Buildings, Urban Studies, Architectural Theory, Small and Medium Scale Buildings, Final Year Project (Academic Year), Philosophy of Art and Aesthetics.
Skills
Microsoft Office Adobe lightroom Adobe InDesign Rhino V-Ray Adobe Illustrator Sketch Up Adobe photoshop Adobe Indesign AutoCAD Drawing Photographing English Fluent TOEFL 95 Chinese Native 2015 - 2019|RIBA Part 1 ARCHITECTURE|First Class Honor
Small house design by individuals; Participated in and completed the whole process of the project, including conceptual design, layout planning, preliminary drawing, Party A's negotiation, etc.
2019.10
XJTLU Architecture’s Yearbook 2017-2018
Publications of Department of architecture, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Publication of design works in the first semester of the third year of University - collective housing design.
XJTLU Architecture’s Yearbook 2018-2019
Publications of Department of architecture, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Publication of design works in the first and second semester of the fourth year of University - medium scale architectural design / graduation design
2019.01.21 Bamboo&Rattan Material Workshop at XJTLU -2019.01.25 Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Group 2
Fan Chengzong from Taiwan, China, led the students to discuss the possibility of bamboo, a traditional Chinese material, in the way of construction; In 5 days, students use bamboo and rattan to make simple unit structure, and then repeat or enlarge its characteristics to create a 2m * 2m * 2m device with clear structure and vein; In this industrial design workshop, I realized the importance of scale in industrial design and architectural design, and another direct way to explore the possibility of materials.
2018.02.26 International Architecture Workshop – Mecanoo Architecten (Delft, Netherlands) -2013.03.02 Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University and Mecanoo Architecten Nuno Goncalves Fonterra led the students to plan and redesign a seaport city in Rotterdam. In this process, the relationship between architecture and city scale is the key point of design.
2017.04.01 The twenty-second session The Association for Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia Workshop 5 -2017.04.03 The Association for Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia and Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Yunying Chiu (mecanoo) and Yuya hosomi (CAD developer) hosted workshop 5 – programming Soundscape; The two teachers introduced their students' achievements in computer-aided architectural design in their professional life, and led them to use processing for programming, so that a piece of sound material can be transformed into a three-dimensional acoustic figure through algorithm; Finally, it is arranged and combined to become a unit that can be used as a vertical section or related building components.
2017.06.18 Chinese volunteers -2017.07.10 IVHQ Fiji Local kindergarten
Repair and maintain the local kindergarten building; Tutoring and assisting Basic Early Childhood Education.
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Personal Statement During my college study, the huge contrast between my school and my city (Suzhou) made me understand the city and architecture again. Suzhou, an ancient Chinese city with a history of nearly 2500 years, has left a large number of traditional Chinese architecture and landscape architecture samples. On the one hand, I try to learn and accept different western thoughts and theories. On the other hand, I can carefully observe the paradigm of traditional Chinese cities and try some practical activities from the Western perspective. In this way, I have a different understanding of my country - not only the city but also the policies, economy and thoughts. In the course of learning, the design course and theory course take the existing problems of Suzhou City as the background and realize the inspiration of traditional space to modern design and the possibility of modern design in a traditional city. When I communicate with the old people in Suzhou, I often hear them complain about the serious damage to the old city. They think it is a loss of tradition. However, the views of the public and the critical thinking education I received in school make me think whether the traditional protection should focus on formal protection? Does the transformation or destruction of traditional materials mean that tradition is losing? In China, people may lament the disappearance of traditional cities, but they are eager for the convenience and speed brought by modern cities. This contradiction tells us that how to view the game between tradition and modernity is a very important issue in China's current construction, and it is also a question I have been thinking about.
design an amalgamated dwelling in the south of the ancient city. I hope this design can have the simplicity and efficiency of modern society, and at the same time, there is a reconstruction space that residents can inherit as tradition. First of all, I transform the spontaneous, trivial public life scenes into a series of prefabricated modules. Then, according to the residents' long-term living habits and area needs, the prefabricated modules are arranged in a box space to separate the spaces with different privacy levels. Finally, different typology planes are formed. Therefore, modern and traditional buildings should be able to display complex and profound traditional culture through simple and efficient modern forms. I have the ability of traditional architectural design. It is very important for me to learn more advanced modern architectural knowledge and experience more advanced modern architectural practice. Based on this, I hope to have the opportunity to think about my country in the western environment. University College London of Architecture is a pluralistic and inclusive institute. The teaching idea of University College London transcends the traditional architectural teaching idea. Diagrams, digital media and text can be new tools, which give us the most freedom to study and research, and we can choose our own interests in the field of architecture. I can strengthen my understanding of architectural design theories and methods, and at the same time, I can gain more extensive practical experience during my study. I believe that my professional ability will make me a qualified candidate.
For example, in the design class, we need to
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Foreword
From my perspective, my four-year learning journey of architecture has offered me a unique way to scrutinize Chinese society and also myself. Almost all architectural structures are under the influence of technology, aesthetics, philosophy and social ideology of the time while the architect digests and translate this information into a complex work. Modern architecture is the one that exert great influence on me. As Marx put it, "All that is solid melts into air." In the scope of modern architecture, everything complicated is transformed into purity, simplicity and efficiency. At the same time, the process of creating architecture is also a process of self-introspect and self-expression from different dimensions. For me, all existing problems and issues in Chinese society may serve as inspirations to start a project. First, Chinese housing has become a serious problem as huge population flood into cities. In this case, I think commercial housing which used to be the mainstream should be eliminated. Housing that considered humanities should be valued to adapt to the ongoing problems and those that may arise in the future. Second, I am looking forward to building a more systematic understanding toward architecture engineering. In China, many people in cities choose to go to "Agritainment", a unique activity, to experience farming during their holidays. This is an expression of the Chinese people's longing for rusticity. However, the existing farmhouse is not ideal in architecture and planning, which greatly affects the customer’s experience and the economic benefits of farmhouse. I think architecture engineering can help farmhouses complete a huge upgrade while people can experience rusticity in environment friendly and invigorating spaces.
Contents
{Threshold}
-- Suzhou Nanmen Residence Complex
{Layering the Faith} -- Modern Religious Space in Shanghai
{Moon Living} -- The first Individual Professional Project
{Daily Absurdity} -- Theory Architecture of Chinese 'Ideal City'
{Reception and Restaurant in ZORING PARK} -- The Professional Project in Team Work
During the long lasting final year project, I had the opportunity to design a project to describe a daily absurdity, as the brief came from the textual and ideological research of a fantastic novel - ‘Five Spice Street’ written by Canxue. For me, the significance of this project does not solely lie in designing a complete and practical project, but more importantly, it helps me rethink what a modern city in China should look like in the future.
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*All pictures unnamed were made by myself
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Threshold
Residential Architecture Collective Housing Location: Suzhou Academic|Sept 2017 - Jan 2018 2017-2018 Year3 1st semester Individual Work Tutor: Aleksandra Raonic (Aleksandra.Raonic@xjtlu.edu.cn)
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New Threshold to Old Suzhou
《苏州旧宅》 <Traditional House in Suzhou, anonym, n.d.>
According to recent research, a sign that clearly indicates China’s economic advance is the rate of growth of the urban population. Urban growth has been one of the most important aspects of China’s development over the past 30 years. By 2030, urban dwellers are expected to rise to 75%. This rapid rise brings along major challenges for architects and planners: new houses, infrastructures, water, food and jobs, as well as rising pollution and social inequality issues. The main objective for students will be to investigate the process of generating “new housing models” with particular attention to typological solutions, taking into consideration different criteria such as culture, environment, economic and tradition in order to guarantee highquality and responsible living. Influenced by policies and history, the main type of dwelling in China is commercial dwelling held by the real estate. Most of them are composed by similar mode of typologies and circulation. Although they brought neat and efficient life to people, in some way they destroyed the traditional morphology and city landscape especially in old city such as Suzhou. In this project, I extract some authentic space elements – ‘threshold space’ in Suzhou as my design concept and space strategy. I hope it can bring tradition life style back to people in Suzhou but also keep the efficiency and cleaning of modern life. New City
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The fragment courtyard spaces in ancient town in Suzhou is the main concept and strategy of this housing project. It inspired me of how Chinese people understand and apply space in a traditional way. Inheriting this kind of ability in form of modern is the maintarget of this project.
Research Direction
During the site visit, I found that people will define this secondary transition space as an important communication which is different from western countries. Then I pick these kind of space as my research subjects to figure out the possibility to translate them into my project. 150m*150m
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Research of the 'Threshold' Spce in Suzhou 1950s-1990s
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The threshold space located between house and street, silence and noisy. This offered a void, poetic time in a rigid, repeating place.
"Gardening Edge"
Although quality of the threshold space here is unsatisfied, it still offered a temporary leisure threshold for lost cost income people around.
"Colonnade Edge"
This threshold are both barrier for community and connecting commercial space for it. The shops served for local community and visitors.
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Compact layout without transition fuction
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Courtyard for transition and spontaneous activity
The threshold space located between buiding and building , community and community which became a "private square" space for residents.
Small alley as chating room
Efficient circulation without communication function
Efficient circulation without communication function
Canal space as both communication and trade space
Shops on the ground as the division but also communication and trade space
Fence and walls as the division of each community
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Typology generation
Based on the concept of threshold space between different types of public space, I draw the diagram on left to define relationship between indibidual, couple, family, community and public. According to this, I try to transfer these outcomes to space. The spaces defined as threshold were designed into relevant flexible constructional elements. Then, these elements will insert into
leisure chair studyroom 1.7m*5.7m
refrigerator staircase 1.7m*3.9m
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Typology 1 washroom 2.0m*5.7m
studyroom 1.7m*3.7m
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balcony 2.2m*3.7m
Typology 2 washing machine
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kitchen 2.0m*4.7m
storage 1.7m*4.35m
shower connection for suit 2.0m*8.2m
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four basements with different size according to requirements. For example, the threshold could be study room between 2 kids or couple and kids which become a square for them. Also, the threshold could be kitchen between family and neighbourhood which connect these space. These element, together with micro-square in each floor, returning Chinese traditional space pattern in moern residential building.
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Typo 1 is mainly design for single people and couple Typo 2 is mainly design for couple with 1kid Typo 3 is mainly design for couple with 2 kids Typo 4 is mainly design for grandparents take care of 1 kid or parents with 2 kids Typo 5 and 6 can offer seperate but connected life for old generation and young people Typology 3
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Traveling through 'Threshold'
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To combine these typologies, I also learned from space in old town. In this project, 3 floors are organized as a small community and the elevator will only stop at the middle floor. This could help to strengthen the communication between neighborhoods. Also, there are small and trivial spaces leave between each home which could be freely designed by residents. Those different scales of threshold space can bring tradition to residents and also keep an efficient life.
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Watching Gathering
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Traditional Life Complex
This project layered the traditional life in a vertical way which can adapted to high density population and low accessible land
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Tectonic Drawing
Structure Diagram
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-Prefabricated concrete panel 150mm -Thermal Insulation 100mm -Waterproofing membrane -Fixing battens 30*40mm -Plywood 20mm -Plaster 12mm
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-Steel structural wall 50mm -Thermal Insulation 50mm -Plaster 10mm
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-Concrete flooring 35mm -Screed 40mm -Waterproofing membrane -Thermal Insulation 50mm -Gypsum board 15mm -Steel keel 30*50mm -Steel cantilever 450*650mm -Gypsum board 10mm -Steel keel 30*40mm -Plywood 20mm
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Layering the Faith
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Public Architecture Modern Religious Architecture Location: Shanghai Academic|Sept 2018 - Jan 2019 2018-2019 Year4 1st semester Individual Work Tutor: Glen Wash (Glen.Wash@xjtlu.edu.cn)
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Jing'An District - The oldest part in Shanghai
Blocks are one of the most essential elements of any built environment. Surrounded by streets, their morphology, sizes and characteristics play a fundamental role in defining the relationship between ratios of inside and outside, open and close, public and private, new and old, close and far. They can have different degrees of strictness or permissiveness in the way in which they shape our gaze or allow different buildings to interact with each other. However, in China, blocks seems to be subordinated to a rigorous form of urban organization-gated communities and large commercial complex.Their scale, layout and top-down implementation seem to have created the opposite, and their sense of neighborhood and community are far lower than those found in more traditional Chinese ways of planning like the one’s seen in Beijing’s Hutong, Shanghai’s Longtang and Suzhou’s old town.
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In this brief, 6 students were distributed with 6 different block and became 1 group. We are required to design different projects with functions that can regenerate this site. After negotiating with my group members, I decided to create a building for people to do their daily religious activity and other additional functions.
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Ground Floor Plan 1. Entrance 2. Preparation Room 3. Worship Hall 4. Library 5. Washwoom 6. Buddhist Shop 7. Tea House 8. Missionary Room 9. Convenience Store 10. Vegetarian restaurant 11. Kitchen 12. Storage 13. Lobby 14. Office
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Vegetarian Restaurant
Selfintrospect Room
Worship Hall
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West Elevation
Layering Facade for A Religious Building These basic elements weaken massive and rigid part of the architecture. Also, it weaken the seriousness of a religious architecture and it was integrated into daily life. Entrance
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Tectonic Drawing
Tatami 60mm Wool Insulation 50mm Glulam Frame 30mm x 50mm Waterproofing Cross Laminated Timer 150mm Glulam Frame 20 x 15mm Plywood Ceiling 20mm
Cross Laminated Timer 150mm Wool Insulation 50mm Glulam Frame 30mm x 50mm Waterproofing Glulam Frame 10mm x 20mm Plywood cladding 15mm
Anti-friction Concrete Floor 35mm Waterproofing Screed 35mm Waterproofing Cross Laminated Timer 150mm Glulam Frame 30mm x 40mm Plasterboard Ceiling 20 mm
Structure Diagram
Anti-friction Concrete Floor 35mm Waterproofing Screed 35mm Waterproofing Glulam Frame 30mm x 40mm Wool Insulation 50mm Waterproofing Concrete Slab 150mm Concrete Foundation
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Moon Living
Private Architecture Residetial House Location: Hunan Province, China Underconstruction Professional|Jan 2019 - Feb 2020 Individual Work Tutor: Paco mejias Villatoro (pacomejiasvillatoro2@gmail.com) Client: Zhusheng Tang Contact: +86 13607487421
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Transforming volume in fixed L shape site Linking Old and New
Shared Space
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Circulation Old part of the house: Living room Site map
Living room Guest toilet Ancestral hall
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Storage Ventilation
Linking of new and old
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Multi-functional space: Tea room-Additional Bedroom Suit
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At the end of the 2018, I had the honor of being invited to design a professional project individually. The client required a residential house with wood structure and they want to move to it after they retire from work. Also, they want to keep some traditional and old form from the previous building. Generally, the rarget is to organize the layout according to clients life and designing a modern residential house with tradional memory for them.
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In this project, I kept the traditional pitched roof in a new and practical way. Also, I kept some traditional symbol of Hunan residential house on the facade and structure which gives a familiar sense of old memory. Although this project is small and simple, it taught me a lot of differences between professional profect and academic project.
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Firstly, the project will be used as home after the clients getting retired. So I tried to create more 'practical' functions for them to have more activities during their leisure time (Diagram). Also, the site got a mountain at the south side which means the sunshine is not enough for this project. Therefore, I set the balcony at west and have a doubleheight space linked whith it to transmit more heat in to the house. Additionally, better ventilation.
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Activity Diagram
Project Requirements and Solutions
West balcony for getting more sunshine
Double-height space for better ventilation
More heat transmission into the house
Staircase
Double-height space
Livingroom
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Galvanized steel sheet roof Waterproofing membrane Structural Plywood 15mm Glulam Frame 40mm x 50mm Wool Thermal Insulation 150mm Structural Plywood 20mm Roof Structural Rafters 150*200mm
Wood Floor 15mm Structural Plywood 15mm Glulam Frame 30mm x 50mm Sound Insulation 150mm Structural Plywood 15mm Wood Beam 150*200mm Structural Plywood 15mm
Structure Diagram
Plaster 12mm Structural Plywood 15mm Glulam Frame 60mm x 100mm Thermal Insulation 100mm Structural Plywood 15mm Waterproofing Glulam Frame 20 x 15mm Structural Plywood 10mm Plaster 12mm Stucco 20mm
Anti-friction Concrete Floor 50mm Screed 30mm Waterproofing Glulam Frame 50mm x 80mm Wool Thermal Insulation 80mm Waterproofing Concrete Foundation
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Daily Absudity
Culture Architecture Theory Architecture Location: Shanghai Academic|Sep 2018 - Jun 2019 2018-2019 Year4 2nd semester Individual Work Tutor: Aleksandra Raonic, Claudia Westernman, Tordis Berstrand (Tordis.Berstrand@xjtlu.edu.cn)
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'Five Spice Street is one of the most astonishing novels of the past twenty years. Exploring the collective consciousness of this little street of ordinary people, Can Xue penetrates the deepest existential anxieties of the present day—whether in China or in the West—where the inevitable impermanence of identity struggles with the narrative within which identity must compose itself.'
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-Yale UNIVERSITY PRESS
Process of general literature writing
A House for Madam X
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The novel “Five Spice Street” revolves around its main character Madam X, or rather, it revolves around the incapacity to define who or what Madam X is. There are many stories about Madam X. Most likely she is a person, but maybe she is not. She is the site of endless suspicion, but also of love and admiration. She is the projection of a community’s dreams and fears, while at the same time responding to this very community’s desire to frame these dreams and fears in understandable narratives. She is reported to be the weirdest
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person on the street, accused of what no one dares to speak about, and betrayed until she is honored as a visionary who “represents a society of the future”, and she is elected representative of the street. Shortly after this, her house collapses, and whether or not it is symbolic of the collapse of the society and the times that created the story of Madam X, it is an opportunity for a new house – one that houses the “society of the future”. This is the rebirth of the future.
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Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)
Can Xue (1953- )
Wang Shu (1963- )
Process of general architecture design
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“A House for Madam X” – as the brief is entitled – sets the task for an architectural project that will shelter the life of a community. For a site in Shanghai on the banks of Suzhou River, students will develop new methodologies to explore the possibilities of architecture as a stage from which social communication can merge in its most poetic forms. Working on a site on the banks of Suzhou River in Shanghai, this brief encourages students to rethink Architecture in China and its relation to individuals, society, and the future. In this project, I tried to found design concept from Five Spice Street in terms of two dimensions which is literature skill and philosophy in it. Firstly, the author used a lot of metaphors to indicate her purport of how to being an individual. She used authentic Chinese semiology to replaced daily life that people are familiar with which will re-make the daily life become absurd. She want to let Chinese people to rethink about our society, about culture and about ourselves through this way. Secondly, she wrote amount of debate to narrate a spurious affair in the Five Spice Street. It is really a way to describe because no one will do a serious debate for an affair in real life. This tell readers
Site visit that the affair is must be not just an affair. She gave a meaning of it. Additionally, Canxue’s philosophy also rooted in her writing. Different from western philosophy which gives the supreme position for intelligence, Canxue thinks that the modern Chinese philosophy sho u ld b e compos ed of both intelligence, emotion and intuition, For example, she regarded the literary creation as part of her daily life which had an equal status as doing laundry, eating, exercising and sleeping. In general, other authors always think wiring is kind of process of thinking and it is an outcome of intelligence. How about architecture? Generally, architecture is always experienced by body rather than intelligence. Therefore, I want to design an architecture that people could ‘read’ by their mind rather than body. In this case, I want to create an unfamiliar daily life scene to help people know our city and our architecture in another way. For me, the significance of this project lies not only in designing a perfect, comfortable and practical building, but more importantly, it helps me to rethink what kind of city could be called unique modern Chinese city.
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ABSURDITY Architecture
Re-experience of our daily life
2015 - 2019|RIBA Part 1 ARCHITECTURE|First Class Honor
|Yili Zhou|Architecture Portfolio| Toilet
What is an toilet? What is the privacy? Why the toilet have to be hide in somewhere? Why not open it?
Restaurant
What is a restaurant? What is the relationship between each diners in this whole space? Are they separated from each other or attached each other infact? What about built wall between them?
Gallery
What is an gallety? What is the relationship between art and gallery? How about transforming artworks to products in the storage? How to do it?
Theatre
Questioning Space
The very first thing that I need to do to question the meaning of each daily life space. It is necessary to figure out the relationship between space and behavior, production and place. Once I get the code behinde them, the meaningness and usefulness should be annihilated by new architectural language. In this page, I mapped a real simplified life in a modern Chinese city, and you can see a normal life of most Chinese people. This is thing that the project want to change. 2015 - 2019|RIBA Part 1 ARCHITECTURE|First Class Honor
What is a theatre? What is the relationship between each audience in it? How some one was disturbed by another people during the show? How can use architecture language to strengthen this experience?
Office
What is an office? What is the relationship between work and office? Why people have to be locked by house? How about working in nature?
Store
What is a store? What is the relationship between products, owner and guests? How the owner monitor products and guests? Can there be a fully trust store? How about reverse the spce relationship?
Elevator
What is an elevator? Why the elevator now is important to almost architecture? How about creating a low efficient elevator? How about combine several to one?
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New Typologies
Restaurant Theatre
Washroom
Store
Restaurant
Gallery Store
Theatre
According to the new space model for each function, I create another architectural language to make this small space became more unfamiliar to people. Although they do not look like conventional architectures, I think they already have the necessary meaning of architecture which is meaningful space. It aimed to use useless space to help visitors to rethink things happened in our daily life, to question the city, to question the architecture, to question the society.
Gallery
Modern City
Office
2015 - 2019|RIBA Part 1 ARCHITECTURE|First Class Honor
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Ground Floor Plan
2015 - 2019|RIBA Part 1 ARCHITECTURE|First Class Honor
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1. Office 2. Caffee Room 3. Conference Room 4. Washroom 5. Viewing Platform 6. Theatre
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7. Taking walk 8. Make a meeting 9. Drinking coffee 10. Chatting to people 11. Dancing 12. Attending a conference
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2015 - 2019|RIBA Part 1 ARCHITECTURE|First Class Honor
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ETFE membrane
Plywood floor 20mm Waterproof membrane Wood rafters 50mm*100mm Thermal insulation for ETFE 100mm Waterproof membrane Concrete slab 120mm Steel structure 150mm*150mm
The grid will be the mail force load of reinforced concrete to shape the plug-in. Anti-friction concrete 35mm Waterproof membrane Screed 35mm Concrete slab 120mm Steel structure 150mm*150mm
Structure Diagram
Sand 200mm Fine gravel 150mm Screed 100mm Coarse gravel 500mm Soil Concrete grid foundation
Technology Guidance 2015 - 2019|RIBA Part 1 ARCHITECTURE|First Class Honor
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Tree Bridge
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Bridge Construction Location: Suzhou Academic|Feb 2018 - Jun 2018 2017-2018 Year3 2nd semester Group Work Yili Zhou Xinrui Dan Yuzhou Wang Fanyun Chen Tianyuan Fang Mingxuan Ze Tutor: Christiane M. Herr, Davide Lombardi
2015 - 2019|RIBA Part 1 ARCHITECTURE|First Class Honor
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Karamba Test (deformation scale: 25) 10kN
20kN
Maximum displacement: 0.0052
Maximum displacement: 0.0066
30kN
40kN
Maximum displacement: 0.0080
Maximum displacement: 0.0094
50kN
60kN
Maximum displacement: 0.0108
Maximum displacement: 0.0122
Section Site
The site is located at the Wenjing Road in SIP and the bridge will connect north campus and south campus in XJTLU. The bridge could solve the problem of inaccessibility bewteen two campus.
Concept
Our proposal is inspired by trees which is located around south campus. To enhance the relationship between river and banks, we use branches growing principle as the main logic. Branches are designed as structure which will be steel to construct. Moreover, as decorated elements to show harmony with the nature. People who walk through the bridge will have special experience which seems to wander in the forest.
Construction Drawing STEEL
STEEL
AIR DOUBLE-GLAZED GLASS
STEEL
Concept Diagram
2015 - 2019|RIBA Part 1 ARCHITECTURE|First Class Honor
Glass
Foundation
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By means of processing with bare hands to be acquainted with unfamiliar rattans and bamboos, and without any existing knowledge and reference, attendees build an new understanding of the perspectives and possibilities in the materials, The practice, as a stimulus to the students, would make them maintain the curiosity to learn practically, like ancient people discover the nameless universe, see the moon, feel the wind, and realize the fire.
Bamboo & Rattan Material Workshop Art Installation Location: XJTLU Design Building, Suzhou, China Experimental|Jan 21st 2019 - Jan 25th 2019 Team Work: Yuhui CAO, Ziting XIONG, Yili ZHOU, Siyi XIA My work: Designing, Hand making Advisor: Cheng Tsungfeng, Sofia Quiroga (continuation_stu@126.com)
LIMITATIONS ASSIGNMENT|to devise a finely-constructed entity within 5 stages of the design process (value of the length+width+height must over 600cm) TIME|2019/01/21-25 (5 days/30 hours) MATERIALS|bamboo tubes, thin bamboo strips, rattans, rattan cores
2015 - 2019|RIBA Part 1 ARCHITECTURE|First Class Honor
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Group 2 - "Odd"/ " 奇 " Day 1, Mission 1
Spontaneously carry out at least 10 distinctive trials with apparatuses and equipment provided by the workshop. Each group should initially choose 3 trials for further development.
Day 2, Mission 2
Plainly define the attributes of the 3 trial units and make deductions of related variations. These possibilities, within considerations of the patterns, make the units develop their orders.
Concept The 'Odd', which means not divisible by two and it is different from what is normal and expected. Many of the three circles woven by a single complete cane constitute our work with its subtle inclination. The immediate scene will change whether you are in or not.
" 奇 ", 古怪、奇妙，并且不可预测。它是由 很多个单根藤条编织成的三圈结构组成，象征 着数学中的奇数。每个三圈结构都有微妙的倾 角，于是 " 奇 " 在不同人的眼中便拥有了奇形 怪状。无论你置身于内或脱身于外，眼前的景 象都会迥然不同。
Step 1 第一步
Step 2 第二步
Outside 360°
Inside 360°
2015 - 2019|RIBA Part 1 ARCHITECTURE|First Class Honor
Tea Culture Museum
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Public Architecture Museum and Complex Building Location: Wugong Mountain, Jiangxi Province, China Professional|Jun 2018 - Aug 2018 Team Work (My work: Report Making, Drawing Making) Designer: Continuation Studio (continuation_stu@126.com)
2015 - 2019|RIBA Part 1 ARCHITECTURE|First Class Honor
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Structure
Tea museum
The project is located in Wugong Mountain in Jiangxi Province where is a famous place for tea industry. The client asked the studio to design and plan a complex project including factory, museum, stores and handcraft tea yard. Visitors can buy and experience the process of tea production. Therefore, the project should also be a cultural architecture to show the tea culture. During the internship, I attended the work of the tea museum.
Plan
Space Generation
Load-bearing Wall
Column-Beam System
Function layout Factory and office
Shops and living
Three different types of space
Block
Wall
2015 - 2019|RIBA Part 1 ARCHITECTURE|First Class Honor
Large Span Space
Tea museum
Tea handcraft yard
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Tea storage room
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Entrance & Reception Conference Room Storage & Toilet Tea Room Exhibition Space Courtyard Tea Storage Room Toilet Tea Ceremony Room Tea culture exhibition 2015 - 2019|RIBA Part 1 ARCHITECTURE|First Class Honor
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1 Roof Tiles 40mm Waterproof membrane Glulam frame 60*80mm Thermal Insulation 60mm Structural plywwod 28mm 2 Wall Waterproof painting Reinforced concrete 400mm Waterproof painting
Water landscape 2015 - 2019|RIBA Part 1 ARCHITECTURE|First Class Honor
Large span structure
3 Floor Concrete floor 30mm Sand screed 50mm Reinforced concrete 450mm Waterproof membrane Sand screed 45mm Gravel base 450mm
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Reception and Restaurant in ZORING PARK Public Architecture Reception and Restaurant Location: Zhoushan, Zhejiang Province, China Underconstruction Professional|Jun 2018 - Feb 2020 Team Work (My work: Designing the Plan, Drawing) Designer: Continuation Studio (continuation_stu@126.com) Client: ZORING PARK
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Plan
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2015 - 2019|RIBA Part 1 ARCHITECTURE|First Class Honor
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Plywood panel 30mm Wood rafters 35*50mm Sound insulation 50mm Plywood panel 30mm Waterproofing Roof Metal Sheet
Wood roof structure as the ornament of the architecture
Concrete floor 300mm Thermal Insulation 150mm Waterproofing Screed 60mm Gravel
Each component has 4 different length wood material which composed a simple truss unit
2015 - 2019|RIBA Part 1 ARCHITECTURE|First Class Honor
All components are connected by steel pipe beam to prevent displacement and transfer the load from roof to the strong concrete wall.
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Photographic work
Urban life (Zhou, 2016)
2015 - 2019|RIBA Part 1 ARCHITECTURE|First Class Honor
|Yili Zhou|Architecture Portfolio|
2015 - 2019|RIBA Part 1 ARCHITECTURE|First Class Honor