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FANZHE SUN
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Resume of Fanzhe Sun
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Year 3 Project 2 - Guild of Craftsmaster/Sheffield
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Year 3 Project 1 - Take the Water [pool or bath]/Scarborough
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Year 2 Project 3 - House for Children/Burngreave
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Year 2 Project 2 - Histor y Librar y/Manchester (85 A+ project)
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Year 2 Project 1 - Threshold [Walkers' refuge]/Castleton
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(cooperated project designed by me and my par tner)
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Year 1 Project 4 - Climate House/Sheffield
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Year 1 Project 3 - Community Kitchen/Sheffield
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Year 1 Project 5 - Matter Reality/Sheffield (Group project)
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Daily sketches Year 1 Project 1&2 are preliminary projects not design projects, so not being shown in this portfolio; All are individual projects except Y1 P5 and Y2 P1
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P er s o n al
i n f or mat i on :
Nationality: China Birth:1995 E-mail: fsun15113 @ gmail.com yinliuyin @ qq.com Tel: 0044 7490 201397 (UK) 0086 18679336927 (China)
S o ftwares : Photoshop InDesign Illustrator AutoCad Vectorworks[BIM] SketchUp Rhinoceros Ecotect Premiere
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H e llo I AM
FANZHE
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I am a confident and creative individual, with a keen eye for detail and a desire to make a positive impact on the world. Throughout my studies, I have developed strong self-study ability, interests in material, sustainability, construction detailing and assembly techniques, a passion for technical drawing and model making as well as excellent visual and verbal communication skills. My graduation dissertation is about the analysis of a postsecond-world-war architecture to talk about its preservation, which also largely uses the diagram analysis visually.
Hand drawing Measured technical drawing Concept collage Digital illustration Graphic design Machine/hand tool model making Wood work Laser cutting Diagram analysis
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E x hi b i t i on s : SSoA London Exhibition Spitalfields Market, London, UK June, 2018
L ang uag e s:
CHINESE native
ENGLISH advanced
Exhibition for RIBA Examining Arts Tower, Sheffield, UK Oct, 2017 'Library & Theater designed for Manchester' Exhibition Sheffield station, Sheffield, UK April, 2017 SSoA Summer Exhibitions Arts Tower, Sheffield, UK June-July, 2016,2017,2018 UNNC Architecture Summer Exhibition Ningbo, China June-July, 2015
A cadem i c
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University of Sheffield, UK Architecture RIBA part I graduate Bachelor of Arts Sep 2015 - June 2018 University of Nottingham Ningbo China (UNNC) Architecture part I fisrt year Sep 2014 - June 2015
A r c hi t ec t u r e
ex per i en c e:
Architecture Intern Shushe Architecture,Beijing, July-Aug 2017 Design the facade for a small hotel project individually, assist a small housing project and work on research stage of a rural reconstruction project as well as present the result to Government.
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i n t er es t s :
Architecture, landscape and character drawing Illustration/Concept art Hiking/Travel Comic/Vedio Game/Novel
C ertific a tio n s : The Head's Scholarship for Academic Excellence University of Nottingham, 2014 Business Plan Competition 2nd Runner up AXA China Region Insurance Company Limited, 2014 Coursera course certifications: Introduction to Imagemaking, Feb 2017 Certificate No.VWU8KJ6FJ2CW Fundamentals of Graphic Design, Sep 2016 Certificate No.CF9EAX9VDMBC Introduction to Typography, Sep 2016 Certificate No. ZQLVZ8TUAYPR
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Voluntary teacher Laligurash Bright Future English Boarding School, Nepal June 2014, one month Contribute to the secondary education of children in the village of Mirge, Staff of Comic Club in UNNC, Ningbo Sep 2014 -June 2015, one year Do some design works for the club activities, include posters,brochures,entry tickets,vedios, etc and also work on event planning like School Day. Project manager of the team for Business Plan Competition AXA China Region Insurance Company Limited,Hong Kong July 2014 Join the business internship and Business Plan Competition about the suggestions to the development of Asia-Pacific Regions SWOT analysis of company as both project manager and designer of a team. Volunteer Nottingham University Business School China,Ningbo 2014 Participate in research simulation on Industrial price negotiation,acquiring skills and experience in negotiation.
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YEAR 3
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Year 3
P2 Guild of craftsmaster sheffield As a kind of organization forming in around 11th and 12th centuries in Europe, the craftsmaster guild had significant influence on the production, life and society of medieval period, because of its role governing and regulating the craftsmasters’ economic activities and inheritance when the handicraft was the major producing method of daily supplies. It reached their greatest development in 14th century achieving a large measure of self-government and the growing number of highly developed craft guilds was a major contributing factor in the rapid economic upsurge of the Western European countries. With the fast development of industry, the change of economic and production mode influenced the function of the guild. What should this craftsmaster guild be as a contemporary guild, especially when Yorkshire is regarded as its service scope and Sheffield city center with industry background as the location of this building ? What functions and what kind of craft should this guild serve under the contemporary background to promote the development of contemporary craft features in this area? A specific type of guild serving the metal craft, that has special relationship with the background of the city, will be chosen to explore the questions in this design.
Past scene: Medieval street for craft works & trade and guild hall
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P 2 . 1 G ROU P ST U DY P ROJ E C T
Facade study
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B C. The WateRoyal Bank of Scotland Architect: Flockton and Abbott Construction year: 1908
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A. The White Building Architect: Flockton and Gibbs Construction year: 1908
D. The Waterworks Building Architect: Flockton and Abbott Construction year: 1867
B. The WaParade chaxmbers Architect: Charles Hadfield Construction year: 1883
E. Sheffield City Hall Architect: Vincent E Harris Construction year: 1932
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The site is located at city centre, beside a portal area of fargate commercial street with the function of outdoor market. There are several important or iconic buildings and public places around the site, attracting a lot of citizens and tourists, some of which are historic projects and some are new projects. Many of these projects are built to improve the econimic of city centre, because the city regenation plan in 1980s promoted the development of lower Don Valley but reduce the economic viability of city centre. However, the attractions are far from enough. So the project on this site could be designed as an attraction by creating some interesting public areas like exhibition and craft market, which respond to the fargate market area beside the site and encourage the communication between craft and public.
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P UBL IC S PACES
A. One type of public space beside the site is the busy commercial street for walking and shopping people
B. Another type of public space beside the site is the busy road (Church St) for supertrams and cars 10
SITE ANALYSIS AND SITE STRATEGIES
Group 1:500 site model
Corner effect
Interaction with surrounding
Interaction with opposite square
Noise
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CON C EP T & K EY STRATEGY
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metal crafts craftsmaster s public
With the site features as background, the collage illustrates the transparency and open of lower floors to the surrounding busy public area and more private upper floors. Relevant functional rooms are arranged near the street in lower floors, to interact with the outside public areas and that important corner. This arrangement and interaction promote the dialogue idea between contemporary metal crafts and public in and outside the building. The “craft performance� window at the corner will be the key point to achieve this idea, through which people outside could see both the making process of large crafts and final works. Inner spaces will also encourage the dialogues, like middle atrium for market/exhibitions and ceremony hall with different activities. Dialogue idea promotes interest in contemporary metal craft of the city with specific metal history and the whole Yorkshire, as well as extend the boundaries of metal crafts' contemporary possibilities.
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SPAC ES FO R DIALOGUE
Communication atrium-exhibition/market
Vertical craft archive to dialogue with each floor
Workshop with display windows 15
DE V E LOP M E N T
After preliminary stage, I tried several massing plans and chose some to test models according to my concept and space consideration. All of them are put together like a catalogue in this page.
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T E ST ED MO DELS IN CONTEXT
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Performance about the craft-making process 26
Displaying the finished craft
The metal workshop is located at the front corner part facing the road joint through the large craft show window, which is across two floors (workshop and upper craft couse studios). The craft-making performances through this show window only happen in the time without direct sunlight. Only comparatively simpler processes, like cutting or bending components and assembling are made in this workshop, for the main purpose of communication to display making processes and finished crafts, as well as some other purposes like testing ideas and new designs, because a messy and dirty workshop is not suitable for the site context in the busy city centre. So the guild has other workshops away from the city centre, delivering the finished or unfinished works here for displaying and secondary operations. This workshop uses a lot of timber to absorb noise, being also decorated with metals. The layout is flexible with movable tables, shelves and walls.
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This space functions as an open activity spaces for public, with some days as metal craft market selling works from other craft studios in the Yorkshire and rest of the days as exhibition spaces, or being planned for other activities like public lectures. Schedule and details of the activities will be planned by the guild management group. It is one of the major spaces for dialogue between metal crafts, craftsmen and public, as all of these activities are good chances to share the new designs, the excellent traditional skills or the new craft-making technologies and encourage the learning and thinking. A market is set up in the guild being situated in this busy site for the publicity of those studios. The interior design of the space largely uses metal claddings combining tiles and some stones. The vertical exhibition wall uses variety of metal materials to make people touch different metal materials closely.
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Middle atrium as craft market (one type plan)
Drawing is one important part of the craft design. This space in second floor is located at a transition area between the course/training studios and the hall, so it functions as a circulation space, as well as a collection and displaying space. The drawings or photos of both final works and processes of the award-winning works, fantastic crafts, famous traditional works and new innovative works are collected here as a permanent exhibition. Public or craftsmen could understand the craft works deeper by watching the drawings and photos, which could be regarded as deeper visual dialogues with craft works and craftsmen behind the works.
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Year 3
P1 Take the water（pool/bath) Scarborough
The project 1 is a bath/ pool project being located at scarborough - a beautiful coastal tourist city. The city is famous for its sea-side attractions and the site choosen for the project is also beside the sea at the top of the cliff. This site features the nature like water, cliff and rocks. The function of the project is also closely related to water. So the design thinking is largely inspired by the nature, especially the rock and water. “Water is H2O, hydrogen two parts, oxygen one, but there is also a third thing, that makes it water and nobody knows what it is.” For me , the water and experience about water in this building are not only reflected in the swimming pool or bath, but also rising up to a kind of spiritual sublime. That is the “third thing” which I want to explore in this design. The natural cliff and sea view as site features are also related to “sublime” in philosophy, as an aesthetic preference to irregular nature form and epic of nuture, which guides the direction of developing the idea of “sublime” in form. So the interior about water should be related to spirit and exterior form being situated on cliff will be related to “sublime” in philosophy. Both of interior and exterior are also related to “ water and rock” as the main features of the site and building functions. As a result, the project is not only to “take the water” but also to “take the spirity”.
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Photo about the stone and water
LARGE CONTEXT
The site is located in the medieval area with a quiet context. But larger context of this city, like foreshore which is full of tourists and shops, is more lively than the site context. So putting the design in this quiet site area is to attract more people and might take the vitality here.
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E N V I R O N M E N T A N A LY S I S
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S I T E F E AT U R E S A S D E S I G N L A N G U A G E - R O C K & W AT E R
There are lots of elements about the ‘stones’&'water’ around the site; ‘stone’ includes the seaside stones, cliff stones, mountains, stone-like building masses, stone castle, etc; 'water' is the wide sea area of north bay. Features and atmosphere of stones and water will influence the design.
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INTERIOR SPIRITY AND SUBLIME-INITIAL The thinking at the beginning of the design is about the “entity and spirit�. The activities in a bath could be thought as a kind of enjoyment and relax of human body, but I would like to pursue the spiritual sublimation of these activities by this design. For this purpose, four aspects, being related to behavior, atmosphere, function and space, are considered by concept collages and corresponding interior sketches to inspire the thinking of the relevant elements in this design. 36
Precedent: Sacred Museum and the Plaza of Spain in Adeje
INTERIOR SPIRITY AND SUBLIME - SECTIONAL MODEL TESTING
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DEVELOPMENT After thinking about the interior sublimation, the next step is to develope an irregular nature form with the feeling of rock, being relevant to the definition of “sublime� in philosophy. The building functions and needs are considered at the same time, especially the shape and need of the underground floors, like light.
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U N D E R G R O U N D W AT E R J O U R N E Y - R O C K , W AT E R , N AT U R E & I N T E R I O R S P I R I T Y
This space show the idea about the water stair journey from the main space of that sectional testing model about interior spirity.
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L O O K D O W N A N D U P T H E T O W E R - R O C K , W AT E R , L I G H T & I N T E R I O R S P I R I T Y
Left: a view angle from top of the tower. seeing the reading tables along the stair in the tower, the water in the pipes and in the bottom pool. Right: a view angle from underground floor, seeing the water pipes and light well in the tower. The library and light well in the tower respond to the upper part with tower of that testing sectional model and the initial sublimation idea.
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1:20 construction detail
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E X T E R I O R - R O C K , W AT E R , N AT U R E & S U B L I M E
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YEAR 2
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Year 2
P3 House for children Burngreave
Brief proposes a project to develope a house or flat in the burngreave, sheffield for the normal fammilies and an additional group, which may be informed by a chosen manifesto. In my project, the manifesto chosen is ‘children ’s paradise ’ serving large number of children in the Burngreave, so that the additional group are young parents with children. There are three types of houses in my project. Two types are normal two-beds and three-beds family houses. The former is one-floor house being situated on the ground floor facing Ellesmere Rd and the latter is two-floors house facing Buckenham St. The third house type mainly focus on children (3-12) ’s need, which is three-beds slide house on the top of that one-floor two-beds house type. Public workshop and playing areas are supported to both children living here and outside to make the whole community become a safe place to live, an interesting area to play and a beneficial environment to study. Houses and garden for children
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M E N I F E S TO
The greatest misfortune of children in modern era is that they cannot have the spaces “to do something following their ideas creatively”. When I was young, the empty grounds were full of everywhere in the city. The time after school was deservedly free time. In these areas without rules made by adults, children had fun to play, thought, and grew up with peers. Children learnt the way to get along with nature and suffered from getting into dangerous places… the modern economic society takes away the empty spaces and freedom after school from children. Tadao Ando ‘architecture for children’
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The manifesto chosen is ‘children ’s paradise ’ serving large number of children in the Burngreave, so that the additional group are young parents with children. The definition of ‘paradise’ here is a safe and comfortable living environment for children in the community, with areas to play and learn as well as a place to support education to the children living here and outside. In a word, this proposol is to support a beneficial environment to children.
B I G C O N T E X T A RO U N D T H E S I T E
Burngreave area and its center
Collage - impression of the whole burngreave
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SITE Personal impression to site
Group 1:200 A1 site model
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SITE SECTION
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PERSPECTIVE SECTION SHOWING COURTYARD
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A safe shared courtyard surrounded by houses is the major playing area for the children in this community, which consists of three levels with different heights, connected by ramps. The gaming platform is put in the middle of the courtyard where wood gaming infrastructures are placed. Running, playing games and toys, dreaming, laughing, exploring, lying on the grass and getting along well with nature compose a happy living environment for children in this community.
TYPE AND AREA DIAGRAMS
There are three types of houses: one house type mainly focus on children ’s need, which is threebeds slide house; other two types are normal two-beds and three-beds family houses. Public workshop and playing area will be supported to both children here and outside to give a hand to the children lacking of education in burngreave and create interesting ‘free places’. Additionally, vegetables will be grown as part of the workshop and these vegetables can be supported to the restaurant of the house community
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Three-beds slide house type
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Year 2 A+ (85) project
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Histor y librar y Manchester Ancoat
Brief requires a design to reinterpret the library for the 21st Century, which should be relevant to Manchester city or the particular areas of Manchester. The design is a medium-size public building functioning as a community library. And my site is site A1 which is located at a construction site beside the historic hostel ( being reconstructed to a house now) in the Ancoat as an industrial area in the past. The ‘type’ of this design is a specific collection of old books, old articles and historical books about Ancoat and Manchester and this design is defined as a transition to bring people back to the history. The concept is a journey to bring visitors to different thresholds and then, to different spaces, so that the floors of the front half and back half are misplaced, being connected by stairs surrounding the central volume with beautiful light in order to create a dramatic journey.
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S U R R O U N D I N G A N D H I S T O RY
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SITE
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S I T E - S I T E E L E V AT I O N A N D F U T U R E P R O P O S A L S
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C O L L A G E S H O W I N G H I S T O RY I S B E I N G F O R G O T T E N H E R E I want to recal the history especially the history of the prosperous industrial era. So the ‘TYPE’ of my design is a specific collection of old articles, old books and historical books about Ancoat and Manchester. The site is in a transition state and this building is defined as a transition to bring people back to the history. 70
1:50 sectional model showing space relationship
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Front facade of the library in context
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A. Middle main space, stair sitting and circulation areas of the library, being seen from entrance in cafe. B. Skylight and exhibition boxes in the middle main space of the library. C. Private reading library in the front part , behind the front facade.
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Year 2 A+(85)project
P1 Threshold Castleton
With brief being entitled “walk”, this project is about a small building functioning as a refuge to accommodate the resting hikers after a long walk. The chosen site is site two being situated at the wide grass land on a mountain, with features of the dense grove behind it and the open landscape before. It is around 2 km far from Castleton. The ‘threshold’ is a key inspiration and the threshold of our design is ‘from closure to open landscape” as features of both the site and the building. The boundry of the inner space and peaceful landscape is blurred by the slope big glazing. Accompanying by the landscape, eating, cooking, dancing, drinking, chatting, resting, cleaning, telling stories and dreaming happen in differnt groups of hikers in different time, who are from differnt places with different destinations.
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Journey of a lonely walker
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SITE AND THRESHOLD - MAPPING SITE TWO Threshold is the boundry between closure trees and open view, the design also expresses the transition from closure to open, emphasising the quality of nature at the end of the building space.
RED LINR is route, WHITE LINE is wind
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Concept: Users, building and surrounding landscape 86
Photos of the 1:50 model showing both eye-level views and bird views 87
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Killer drawing: Exterior view of refuge
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Killer drawing: Interior view of the main communication space in the refuge
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Diagram shows water, electricity, ventilation, heating, thermal and power strategies of this project for an off-grid environment
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Year 1
P4 Climate house Sheffield
This project is located beside the cross of the Eyre Street and the St Mary’s Road. It is a roadside public greenland linking to other four areas by subways. Thus, elements like frequent passersby, running cars, noise and a sunk river challenge the design. The brief requires this project to function as an urban weather station, housing a small classroom and a lab with necessary climate measuring instruments, as well as the accommodations for a female researcher, her partner who suffers from autism slightly and two student assistants. Beyond the basic consideration to satisfy the particular features of clients as well as balance the working and living areas, the approach how the building responds to both circadian (24-hour) and seasonal rhythms is shown by the design of openings, space arrangement, shelters and roof . The site is also re-planned, formming a ‘path’ leading the passersby to walk through the building. The working and living, or public and private areas on the ground floor are divided by that path, but both visual and physical connection are built on the first floor to make the two parts as a whole. collage-understanding and concept of the project
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Group site model, 1682 x 1682 mm
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E NVI RO NM EN TA L ST RAT EGY DI AGRAM
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1:100 final model in context
1:50 sectional perspective in context when printed in A1 size
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1:50 space relationship diagram when printed in A1 size
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Poetic light - interiors
Sun light testing
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Year 1
P3 Community kitchen Sheffield
The location of this project is a gap between the Elim church and a historical pub named Three Tunes, beside the Silver street head, being located in the Sheffield City Center. And the clients chosen are students especially international students, and unemployed people, after the particular survey about the site and society. The brief requires roughly to design a small public building in urban context functioning as a kitchen, while my developed brief defines this building as a food lab, being mainly used by students to cook food creatively and also as a themed restaurant, which supports jobs to unemployed people at the same time. In this building, students help the original unemployed people by paying for the food lab or restaurant and they also share the cooking ideas from different countries. Considering not only about the architecture itself but also the urban relationship, the narrative of the site is recreated when the the new design works as a knot to connect the two social groups and the discontinuous facade in site. It is bound up with the will of the city as well as the need of the people. Life status of unemployed people - inspired thinking
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1:50 model
1:100 model in context
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Photos of 1:50 model show interior and exterior views
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P5
Matter Reality
1:1: installation to interact with people
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Daily Sketches I like to record the architecture, landscape and life by drawings and fast sketches. Here are some selected drawings to show the architecture in my eyes.
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Flying Buttresses
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T H A N K YO U Please contact me by... Tel: 07490201397 Email: fsun15113@gmail.com yinliuyin@qq.com
Y1, P5, Reality process If you still need to see more imagines to Matter explain these projects in detail or any full-size imagines in scale, please contact me. I can support more details as you wish.