WORKING AGAINST PERCEPTION
WORKING AGAINST PERCEPTION
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Yuan Yi
WORKING AGAINST
PERCEPTION
I believe personal perception is one of the most self-evident way to connect the outside world with our inner world. It is also the peculiar factor to push me into discovering the new after contemplating myself . My works focus on this concious behavior but with a critical perspective. I pay unusual attention to the process of how the phenomena diffuse into our perception and the reaction from individuals. The extent I could reach in exploring the truth behind the dazzling phenomena largely depends on the way I perceive. The methods in which I interpretate from the information varies and thus lead to unique result...
Leaf in the Grid
Earth sheltered architecture design, Nanjing, 2007
Academic
Sympathy Catalyzer
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Exhibition at Wind, Water, Work Field
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Space from the Mirror
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Smile Pavilion
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Generic Office Unit
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Omnipresent Classroom
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Installation design, Nanjing, 2007 Phrase 1: urban design, Historical site perservation & renewal , Shanghai, 2008
Personal
Phrase 2: architecture design, Historical site perservation & renewal, Shanghai, 2008 Installation design for EXPO volunteers, Shanghai, 2010
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Retrospective Reflection on Three Professional Projects, Shanghai, 2011 A Virtual Classroom, application design , Shanghai, 2011
Leaf In The Grid | architecture school addition Earth sheltered architecture design, Nanjing Academic work, 2007 Turor: Professor Zhou Qi
This sudio offers some fundamental knowledge of earth sheltered architecture, and this program locates at a sensitive position of the old campus in downtown, Nanjing. The project goes beyond a space underground, and is reevaluated as an essential part of urban life. Starting from the perception of the site, this work focuses more on the subtle influence from context, and try to find a way to balance the underground functions and the different requirements of urban life. By inserting a new layer upon the campus, a new order is achieved to respond to the site context, and a leaf-shape canopy finally come into fact as a stimulant as well as a coordination to the muti-requirement of various expectations. 1
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Located in the downtown of Nanjing, the historical campus is one of the most famous place for sightseeing. It also fully opens to the suroundings and thus it naturally becomes an important part of urban life. An underground building at a critical spot of the campus should play as more than an underground role.
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As An Open Landscape
Reformed By Various Urban Life
Different roles derive from expectations of different people, and three layers are concluded: the upper layer for exhibition, middle layer for urban activies as well as free walk, and the underground layer offers comfortable spaces for compund functions of the architecture school.
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A layer covers the ground level, offering a necessary shelter to the activities below.
The layer wraps the space below to define a boundary, strengthening the sense for people to gather.
Considering the exsiting route of traversing the site, the upper layer raises up, and the underground connects with the architecture shool.
Small squares are sliced from the ground layer, thus letting the light natually penetrate to the underground.
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Consequence
The site is a rectangle in a rigid grid system and is embraced by four buildings of different characters: library to the west, architecture shool to the north, self-studying building to the east, and lecture building to the south.
After a series of separate and corresponding actions to the site, a south-to-north vaulted layer intersects with a layer sunken in the middle. Then, a semi-rhombus has appeared upon the rectangle site.
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The ground layer sinks and a slice of sunken layer is uncovered for the access from the western library and eastern garden.
A ground layer is interlaid between the shelter and underground floor, to offer an extra area for campus activities.
The upper layer has been smoothed as an independent exhibition, especially for the expectation from the viewers on the boulevard.
At the request of ground campus activies, only sensible squares are left open to the sky, most areas are sewed up.
Section Generating Process
Zhongshan Building for Lecture
Mutifunction hall
To arch school
Architecture shool
Section From South To North
Library besides the boulevard
Section From East To West
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Exhibition
Lecture hall
As a compensation for the exsiting usage of the buildings nearby, compund functions are deliberately filled in the underground level; the middle level offers the most flexible area for various activities; the most essential part is the upper layer, and the question comes as how the result would be when there is a conflict with different directions of the configuration.
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Birdview From East
Plan Grid
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Space Grid
Extrusion
Intersection
Surface
Generation Of The Leaf In The Grid
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Urban activities in the campus, landscape around the grassground, functions of the underground achitecture school are interweaved by the piece of leaf. It invites urban visitors to appreciate the beauty around; it inspires local residents as well as students to carry on various activies below; it offers both definite and ambiguous space at different levels...
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Various Activities
The leaf-shape canopy slightly stands at the cross of two axes. Posing a guesture of conversation with the surrounding buildings, It may further vitalize this oldest campus in China.
Compund Functions
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Sympathy Catalyzer | for blind busker Installation design, Nanjing Personal Study, 2007
Performing both visually and acousticly, with spectators standing at a fixed perspective is the typical model for acobatic buskers. While this blind erhu busker performs in a unique way on the overbridge. This study tries to explore how the specific factors influence walking people on the bridge, and try to represent the performance in an architecral way. By establishing a series of slides which embraces the busker, the installation rearranges the perceptive paces of the performance. The key image is deliboratedly emphasized and the whole visual progess becomes more impressive without compensation of accoustic effects. Thus a dramatic effect is achieved and sympahthy from passerby would be better catalyzed when they walking along these slides. 13
VS Peculiar model for the blind ErHu busker
Typical model for acobatic busker
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Plan
Elevation
Visual Integrity
Acoustic Clarity
Synthesized Effect
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Progression Of Passing By
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To minimize the side effect to the propagation of sound, both the vertical and wavy slides are exactly orenting to the instrument of ErHu. So the performance of the instrument could be appreciated fluently.
During the progress of walking through the overbridge, the slides grow dense when people approaches, while with a sharp slit emerging in front of the blind performer, the climax of the whole performance arrives. Hardly impairing the acoustic effect, the experience is rearranged like plots in a novel and the sympathy becomes easier to evoke.
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The horizontal slides waves up and down according to the perspectives from viewers. Together with the vertical ones, the complete experiece begins with a side elevation image, reaches the climax in front of the figure, and ends with another side. Any passerby would join in most parts of this sequence.
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Seperated Perspectives In Unfolded Elevation
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Exhibition at Wind, Water, Work Field | urban design Historical site perservation & renewal at Jiangnan boatyard for EXPO 2010, Shanghai Collaborator: Yao Xinyue, Jiang Tian, Jin He, Li Bangjian Turor: Professor Wang Jianguo, Professor Gong Kai, Professor Zhong Dekun Exellent Work Prize, "Revit" Cup National Graduation Design Competition, 2008
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Urban life in Shanghai drives people away from nature. A waterfront site besides the Huangpu River offers an oppotunity for visitors to enjoy nature again. The wind, water and the gigantic remains constitute the most impressive and characteristic elements on the site. This site was once a totally closed block and any outside visit was forbidden. However, at the request of EXPO, the Shipyard agreed with a relocation out from the city center. Considering with the exsiting elements such as empty shell of shipyard, abandoned constructions, we introduce both wind and water as two active elements to intervene between visitors and existing environment. By a muti-layered influence of the factors, we strive to make the whole site unique, more accessible, and finally closer to nature.
Site in EXPO, besides Huangpu River
Work Field
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WindField
A Patten For Seasonal Wind
Flovent At 5th Meter Phrase 1
Flovent At 5th Meter Phrase 2
Flovent At 5th Meter Phrase 3
The height of the buildings gradually declines toward the southeast, which could give the way for wet and cool wind in summer, and block the dry and cold wind in winter.
The huge volume of the shipyard interrupts the wind flowing, and the narrow and long passway between two buildings forms a wind valley.
Splitting the huge and adding the small or tall buildings, we create passages through huge blocks and make ways accessible for breeze.
Optimizing of each building, the micro climate has been introduced; and we achieved a wind enviornment that matches the ideal wind model.
A Patten For Waterfront Site
A Workfild Without Water
Reuse Of Rainwater
Landscape & Exhibition
As the different thermal capacity, a waterfront site offers the opportunity to create a suitable micro enviornment for exhibition. We explore the best way to tap out the potentiel of the waterfront site.
The buildings of shipyard fully occupy the whole site, and water is only used during production process and the consumption of daily life.
The vast area of roofs could collect much rainwater. We insert a water purification and reuse system and use water for irrigation, as well as landscape.
Combined with landscape, we lay two fluent routes. One route guides visitors from the main entrance , to those buildings of high historical value. Another leads to a flowing water factory.
WaterField
WorkField
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Building & Construction On Site
Preservation & Clean
Layout Strategy
Optimazation Of Each Block
As an "exclave" in Shanghai, the site seems chaoic and the buildings are arranged only to meet the basic requirement of ship production. The shift of function would lead to a change of the plan.
After a revision of redline, buildings of bad conditions or low value are removed. Those of large space or long history, and constructions of feature are preserved.
According to investigation and the layout pattern of wind, we developed three deffirent volumes of buildings: the small besides the Huangpu river, the medium in the middle, and the large stands outmost.
After the optimization according to the functions of each block, three function zones are achieved: waterfront for leisure, commerce and exhibition; museums in shipyards; new office buildings for rent.
The three layers --- Wind, Water, and Workfield, are focused and interwaved during the formation process of configuration. Passages or voids which are created and laid where in the way of seasonal wind provides a comfortable walkways for promenade and terrace for scenery of Huangpu River. Besides a compensation water for daily use, another part of rainwater is reused in landscape, which breaks the closed area and bring visitors to the waterfront, or buildings of historical value. Buildings and constructions are preserved according a evaluation of their historical value and space features.
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Green Windway, Water Landscape & Constructions
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View From Southeast, At The Direction Of Seasonal Wind
View From Huangpu River
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Before: Empty Shell
the exhibition sequence for visitor
After: Automobile Museum
Space from the Mirror | architecture design Historical site perservation & renewal at Jiangnan boatyard for EXPO 2010, Shanghai Individual academic work Turor: Professor Wang Jianguo, Professor Gong Kai, Professor Zhong Dekun Exellent Work Prize, "Revit" Cup National Graduation Design Competition, 2008
The unparalleled space itself goes beyond the touch of human body and thus becomes the most impressive exhibition object. The only way to feel and appreciate this space is visional. Base on studies of individual visitor's experience of sight and in order to maximize the shock of the space, A space mirror is introduced as a stimulant into the void space under the immensive roof. After laying a delicate route into the empty shell, a core passage inside and a big slope outside are formed and then exist in shape contradiction. Indoor exhibition halls and ourdoor exhibtion terraces are interweaved around these two elements. A continuous and exotic experience is expected in this mirrored space. 25
Sight Tracing In Plan And Section
Sight Tracing In Model
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As a successive part of previous urban desin, ventilation analysis is still used in this phrase. But FLOVENT is used more in shaping detailed space, rather than as a tool only for inspection.
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The plaza locates at the cross of southward pedestrian axis and eastward entrance axis of this building. The Space Mirror stands at another end. Starting from the core passage, the space exhibition journey begins. Approaching to the end of the core passage is also the turning point of the whole space. When visitors arrive there, the climax is achieved withe the Space Mirror and an illusive space in reality emerges...
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ROOF PERSERVATION
ROOF
ROOF REMOVAL
20.000M Roof
THE SPACE MIRROR INDOOR EXHIBITION HALL 3 WIND VALLEY INDOOR EXHIBITION HALL 2 WIND TOWER
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Core Passage
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OUTDOOR EXHIBITION 1 STORAGE THE BIG SLOPE OUTDOOR EXHIBITION 2 COMMERNCE OUTDOOR EXHIBITION 3
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CORE WALL
CURTAIN WALL
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As a respondence to the problems caused by automobiles in China, I select this largest boatyard as automobile museum. Indoor exhibiton halls along the center passage have well controlled situation for items which concerns the future, while outdoor exhibition terraces and the big slope are ideal places for items of any scale, which reminds visitors the current problem. Aided with the gigantic constructions, their atmosphere are greatly intensified from this continuous journey. Mirror!
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Continuous Experience
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Smile Pavilion | for EXPO volunteers Installation Design, Shanghai Professional Work, 2010 Second Prize, Pavilion Design Competition, 2010
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Thousands of five-square-meter pavilions would be laid all over the metropolis and its neighborhoods during the EXPO 2010 in Shanghai. They offer necessary shelters to EXPO volunteers for inquiring and exhibiting. More than a static or dull configuration only for its functions, I wonder whether it could contribute to the whole atmosphere for the EXPO festival. Inspired by Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2, Marcel Duchamp, I found a way to express successive behaviors as a smiling image by an installaion rather than a series of static strokes on a drawing.
Originnal Work
Body Of Recognizable & Locomotive
Smile Pavilion
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roof for solar power equipment
LED screen inside with video capture device track
Not only exhibition in brochures, this pavilion is equiped with screens for virtual exhibition. Thus the service could extend the range of exhibition by visiting virtual EXPO and it elongates the service of pavilion even when volunteers are absent or back home.
LED screen outside
acrylic counter with suspender on track
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Plan Of Open & Close
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Generic Office Unit | proposal from retrospective reflection Retrospective reflection on three professional projects Architecture Design, Shanghai Professional Work, 2011
CURTAIN WALL
SCENIC CURTAIN
A generic unit in practical projects means the most universal space for daily activities. Each generic unit alone with well-enclosed insulation, and all other decorations or symbols are transformed to necessary components for other behaviors and activities.
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Waterfront Ecological community in Shanghai, phrtase 3 under construction, phrase 1&2 completed. 2009 - present. Collaborator: Shu Yu
During frequent shuttle between office and construction site, I find a clinging picture in the sample room could well protect views from the chaos outside, and more important, it consititutes a controlable way to establish a comfortable atmosphere.
From this series of project, two basic elements impressed me. The first is the over-consumed decoration symbols, and the second is two kinds of space: indoor and space open to outside. Combined with these observations, I began trying to find a new way to balance the decoration and usage, the curtain on the balcony inspires me later. 41
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From section study , I find no matter how roofs change, the fundamental space under the ceiling almost remains the same. But there is some difference: under a sensible lighting situation, the larger the roof grows, the more space offered not merely for appearance, but for a possible shelter for activities.
North China Electric Power Grid in Beijing. Completed, 2009 - 2010. Collaborator: Shu Yu, Xu Lei
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Then, I find a plausible way to balance the decoration and usage...
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Office building for China Guangdong Nuclear Power Group. skematic design, 2010.
manager office office for the head of a department public open to the nature
office for section chief A office for section chief B meeting room
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Equiped with a scenic installation as an indoor curtain wall, the over-consumption of symbols transforms to an alternative and plausible choice: the generic space unit could easily shifting from a rural scenery to a living style of Renaissance. The outside curtain wall evolved from loping roofs is adjustable according to weather outside or views inside. Each generic unit alone with well-enclosed insulation, could be rearranged by different occupiers to provide the most flexible space for various functions. This is not a compromise, but a new stimulant for exploring every suble aspects in current China, and then to innovate.
A generic unit with one choice of curtain wall
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Omnipresent Classroom | for "left-behind" children Application design, Shanghai
Collaborator: Xu Feng Personal Study, 2011,Debuging at http://www.atomegg.com
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Traditionally, teachers teach mainly in schools and communications occur only face-to-face in reality. Gradually, with encouragement of general education in China, some resources are open to the media and thus lectures, which are recorded as videos, become available after professional production. But can a whole education system could be built online as a complement to the real education, and can any netizen could take part in the classroom and even rebuild an more convenient one at their will? As a respondence to the most urgent and serious education problem to the "left-behind" children, I establish a virtual classroom to break the restraint both from physical wall in reality and the professional procedure of producing in skill. By setting up a self-sustaining online application, it may lead to a promising solution to the education problem in China.
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Social Networking Services Active Student Blackborad
Netizen
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Hope School
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THREE ROLES INVOLVED
POTENTIAL ARCHITECTS OF THE OMNIPRESENT CLASSROOM
Teacher:
Most education resources aggregate in cities and in China, eastern cities occupy the largest part. With the improvement of equipment, more and more slide projections are applied in teaching activity.
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As a result of the distribution of teachers, there is a lack of fundamental diversity in education and what students could be taught varies from different areas and even different classes in the same shool. In the classroom, taking pictures and recording becomes more often in note-taking.
"Left-behind": Their parents engage in the urbanization process and search for jobs in cities while leaving them home without basic provision in education. The Hope Shool Project could solve the problem of place but fail in attracting and settling teachers.
Students contribute a large part of the virtual world in SNS. They become more familiar about the daily activities online, and comfortable to communication with each other by internet. It is likely for them to carry materials of lecture that they attend to the omnipresent classroom.
Amateur Content Producer: The vedio website cultivates a large number of netizens to produce and share their recordings as well as visional works. As the procedure of produnction online becomes more accessible and popular, it is natural and easy for them to produce contents in the omnipresent classroom.
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StartUp ModelPrep
ViewPrep View Components Edited By User
Data Objects
Controller Progress Question
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Pattern language, which was first invented and applied in architecture by Christopher Alexander last century, now I bring it back to architecture again, and try to establish the classroom which is intensively needed in China. Starting from FLASH, aided by an ActionScript PureMVC frame, this application is totally based on separated components and all the contents of single UI components(pictures by camera, audios by recorder, cartoon images by drawings, comments etc.) could be uploaded and edited by individual users. All parts of the classroom could be assembled separately, which makes possible for successive creations and editions from different users. Just imagine that, an user uploads pictures to create some lecture, and then another user could add the corresponding voice recording to the same lecture! Different from professional production, it is an application of online class that runs in a self-sustaining way.
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A rule is set up for facial interpretation with different spectrum from volumes.
The omnipresent classroom acts as not merely a complement to real class, but its antenna could reach beyond the classroom in reality. People who live in a house where only signal could reach can participate in the activities in the omnipresent classroom.
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01.2012 Design foresees the future, and I want to play a part with you. 08.2008 - 12.2011, East China Architectural Design & Research Institute Co.,Ltd, Shanghai. 09.2003 - 07.2008, Southeast University, Nanjing. 01.1985, born in Shaoyang, Hunan, China.