PORTFOLIO Selected Works from [2013 - 2021]
CAI Qingyu Architectural Designer Perkins Eastman Master of Architecture & Bachelor of Engineering Tongji University
PROLOGUE
‘ ACTS OF HYBRID ’ The rapid development of cities have overlooked human needs of personal space where they have had in the past years before urbanism. Current newly-built spaces are duplicated infinitely. However, individualism and diversity are what make up the quality of urban life. How to bring back those kinds of elements in both architectural and urban perspective has always been my focus. How to create quality for future vertical life? How to reconstruct culture under the crazy destruction of urbanism? How to keep individualism while connecting people together?
CONTENTS
01 PARALLEL Combination of Service Apartment and Apartment Hotel with In-between Changeable Space 2020 Spring Master Graduation Thesis Project
02 CONDENSOR OF MEMORY Experiential Living Complex Design 2017 Spring Bachelor Graduation Design Year 2017 8+1+1 Joint Thesis Design of China Silver Award Nippon Paint & iColor “Design for Future” Asia Young Designer Competition
How to bring diversity to spaces we create? In the following series of projects including both individual and team ones, I have continuously persisted in seeking for answers to those questions and tried to find various solutions accordingly. Parallel focuses on breaking the normal settled space and inserts changeable space so as to provide a space in-between the service apartment and apartment hotel for potential possible activities. Condensor of Memory collects typologies of scenes originating from the industrial age, and by recapturing those memories, reminders of culture evoke people’s identity and a sense of belonging. Type and Individualism is a project starting from personality and lets those single-living people find the quality of diversity by creating cluster of interest. In this way, apartment will no longer be an isolated part from the city but a public core attracting and welcoming people. Strolling around aims to seeking for solutions to bring urban quality into vertical high-rises by turning the nolli plan to nolli vertical to create a vertical life space for high-dense cities. There will always be unsolved and ongoing issues in the process of urbanism. Designing, while echoing urban issues demands highly interactive ways of thinking which draw from diverse fields including society, culture, economy and politics. Conventional researches and methods are facing the risk of being unable to solve such problems in this new world. There is a need for novel horizons and responses to the new world by engaging the various aspects of cultural life more than just design itself.
03 TYPE & INDIVIDUALISM Housing with Diverse Clusters 2017 Li Dehua & Luo Xiaowei Chair of Design& Tongji-MVRDV Collaborative Design Studio Pubilshed in The Dwelling Diary: MVRDV Tongji Teaching Experiment
04 STROLLIG AROUND Vertical Life - Bring Urban Context to Highrise 2018 Spring Academy for Architectural Culture (aac) Workshop I founded by gmp Pubilshed in Concretegmp:Completed! Exhibited in The Qianhai Superposition Section I The 8th Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture(UABB)
05 SIGN LANGUAGE Installation Design for the Deaf-blind 2016 Autumn Seminar Project
06 INSTRUCTION MANUAL FOR MODULAR HOUSING User Mode Research of Mini-housing Spaces 2017 Spring Interior Design Studio
07 HUMAN ENGINEERING RESEARCH Use Ergonomics to Rethink Tray Recycling Design 2016 Autumn Seminar Project
08 OTHER WORKS