Portfolio of Yixuan Zhang
Email: yixuankmu@outlook.com
Application Number: 23160575
Selected Works 2018-2022
Major in Architecture
For application to UCL
MArch Urban Design
YIXUAN ZHANG
Tel: +86 182-1343-0759
Email: yixuankmu@outlook.com
EDUCATION
Kunming University of Science and Technology (KUST)
Bachelor of Architecture | Major: Architecture
GPA: 3.56/4.00; 86.83/100 | Ranking: 8/63
AWARD
KUST Top-class Scholarship (Top 1%) & KUST Third-class Scholarship
KUST Third-class Scholarship & KUST Class Construction Contribution Award
KUST Class Construction Contribution Award
COMPETITION
Yuanye Cup Award International Competition for College Students
Third-class Prize; Team Leader
Project: Homing -- The Urbanized Residential Community of Landless Farmers under the Village Cluster
2022 TEAM ZERO Award International Architectural Design Competition for College Students
Team Leader | Project: Bridge -- Window of World
2022 ASIAN DESIGN AWARD
Team Leader | Project: Feeding the City - The Spring Tree
Excellent Award of Urban Design Group; Team Leader | Project: Reduce and Simplify —— New Social Vision
2022 China Human Settlements Design Academic Year Award
Team Leader | Project: Thread the Needle, Break the Siege -- Urban design based on an urban village perspective
RESEARCH
Mapping Research of Longmen Grottoes, Xishan District, Kunming Mapping and preserving the surviving cliff carvings through site survey and analysis
Mapping Research of Earthen Palm Houses in Podie Village, Yuxi City Researching the earthen palm houses’ spatial form and characteristics through field visits, mapping, and modeling
Surveying and Mapping of Traditional Yi Villages in Leju Village, Kunming Exploring the direction for the protection and development of Yi villages through mapping and analysis
ACTIVITY
Debater of KUST Top Ten Classes Debating
Yunnan Province Advanced Class and the Second Place of KUST Top Ten Classes
Secretary and Financial Officer, KUST X Inference Club
Class Deputy Monitor
Class Monitor
Anchor, Entertainment Group of KUST Radio Station
Third Place in Himalaya "New Voice Live" Campus Audio Anchor Competition
Member, Art Club of Faculty of Architecture and City Planning, KUST
Second Prize in KUST Golden Autumn Dance Competition
Second Prize and Best Screenwriter of KMUST Campus Psychodrama Competition
Deconstruction: Reinventing the Future
A new vision of society in the metaphor of the aeroplane
Individual work 2022.03-2022.06
Year 4, Secend Semester
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A chapel renovation echoing the new town
Individual work 2021.11-2022.01
Year 4, First Semester
SKILL
Computer: Rhino, Grasshopper, Photoshop, Lumion, Auto CAD, Adobe After Effects, Sketch-Up, In Design, Adobe Illustrator, V-ray, AU
Hobby: Classical guitar (professional level 9); Broadcasting; Hosting; Basketball
01 Deconstruction: Reinventing the Future
A new vision of society in the metaphor of the aeroplane
Individual work
Tutor：JIAN.YANG
124301293@qq.com
Academic work
Time：2022.03-2022.06
Year 4, Secend Semeste
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Herbert A Simon used the watchmaker's parable to demonstrate the relationship between complex systems and hierarchical structures. Complex systems inevitably give rise to hierarchical structures, which in turn contribute to the stability of the system.
In modern society, which is a sophisticated machine, the complex division of labour also gives rise to social stratification and the formation of different class relations. At the same time, social networks dominated by kinship and affinity with colleagues and inlaws have been entrenched, reinforcing the solidification of social classes.
The project uses the metaphor of an air crash to destroy the existing social structure and to imagine a parallel social system in the rebirth and recovery of a new community. Using deconstruction as a tool, the project uses a playful perspective to advocate a rational state with initial conditions, equal opportunities and people surviving by virtue of their own talents and abilities, reflecting and looking at today's social relations from an ironic and critical perspective.
CHOOSE YOUR CHARACTER AND START THE NEXT PART OF THE
SOCIAL ARCHITRCTURE
CHINA IN THE COUNTY
HERBERT A. SIMON WATCHMAKER'S PARABLE
Uniform production
Variable
Inefficient
Category production
hierarchical structures class relations
Attraction creates Monopoly higher class better social wealth
METAPHORICAL RELATIONSHIPS
Social Class Entrenchment
Efficient Solidified Class influences Values
SOCIAL PRODUCTION SYSTEM
The production unit is deconstructed using the engine profile as a mother to form the production area in the new society. People are concentrated in production units to carry out the scientific research and work which required by society
SOCIAL EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM
New society favours an egalitarian and talent-driven model of teaching, similar to the Sun City, where people learn along the walls and eventually echo the monuments The Walls of Atlantis quoted from<illustrated guide to utopia>
MONUMENTS
SOCIAL RECREATION SYSTEM
The recreation system is translated from the original cabin. Carries the life, entertainment and cultural dissemination of the new city
1. Players will be given a 10*10 grid at birth
2. As abilities increase, players can gain access to a greater number of grids, but the limit is 10
Residential units: Stage 3
4. After a player dies, all the grids they own are reclaimed and new grids will grow back
3. The grid will continue to change and expand and fade in colour as we age
5. Players grow spontaneously in the grid, forming the beginnings of a residential community
Residential Clusters
02 HUMAN // MACHINE
Group work with RUOXUE.HUANG XINYI.GONG
Tutor：CHUNYUAN.SHA
shachunyuan@sina.com
Duration: Concept 33% <Design of 'Human Part'(100%)> Model 50% <Model of 'Human Part'(100%)> Academic work
Time：2022.07-2022.09
Year 4, Secend Semester
Self disciplining occurs due to the rationality and systematic ordering during human society developments. Meanwhile, digital revolutions allows artificial intelligent to self-renewing themselves even to certain levels of disorders. Ironically, these role-shifting tend to happen spontaneous but with a cautionary note.
As a metaphor, architecture invariably attach the values of the times, especially the collective unconscious of the society, one of the theory proposed by Jung, which deemed that reside in the multitude, but cannot realized.
With Jung’s collective unconsciousness as the model prototype, the design employs intelligent and entropy increase as the framework, by means of architectural typology, through two lines of the evolution of human and machine under the four industrial revolutions to disclose the changes of spatial form reflected by unconsciousness with the development of technology, finally formed the collective unconscious architecture, and issuing a warning to future relationship of human and machine.
ARCHITERAL FRAMWORK
3-Dimensinal Structure
Key-connections &Distance
Steam&Electricty // Orderly Finale Electricty //Conway&Swarm
Simulacrum
//Omnic Crisis Heterogenesis
Black line: Human Blue line: Robot Stage 1 Stage 3 Stage 2 Stage 4 FOUR STAGES OF HUMAN // ROBOT
03 Reuse the Lake Chapel —San Giovanni in Val di Lago
A chapel renovation echoing the new town
Individual work
Tutor：YI.YANG
Location：San Lorenzo Nuovo Viterbo, 120129918@qq.com
Academic work
Time：2021.11-2022.01
Year 4, First Semester
Italy
The Via Francigena bear the weight of Historical Details and Religious Culture as an ancient road and pilgrimage route running from Canterbury to Rome. After the road been designated Major Cultural Route of the Council of Europe, The Lake Chapel of San Giovanni along the Via Francigena is expected to gain its glory again
As a symbol and totem of the abandoned city, the chapel carries the memory of the history of the city and its inhabitants of San Lorenzo Novo. The reconstruction of the project should be endowed with historical memory and human temperature .Therefore, the overall design of the building echoes the texture of the new city to reflect the inheritance, and Upside-down Map-base Relationship of the City implies thinking about the relationship between people and religion in our new era.Under Religious life’s Secularization, the church is not only a spiritual sustenance, but also a window of culture and a witness of history, which is endowed with more possibilities.
0 800 1600 3200M
Religious area (Political and Religious buildings)
Religious living area early planning buildings)
Residential area (new buildings)
History Analysis
strategic importance incite the ongoing struggle between Lords and Church
City ceded to Church again
Village
Founded in AD 770
major pilgrimage route to Rome from the north. Via Francigena formed City ceded to Papal State
legend of Saint Appearing and Asking for a boy church built malaria earthquake poverty abandon home City ceded to Church
new town was built an octagonal square formed the prototype of the new town
city develops freely without planning rules plans to reuse Italy and rebuild pilgrimage routes church plans to converted
Architectural Language: Religious Symbols Incorporated in Architecture
Religion affects life
Religion Country
Produce Dominant
Restrict Imprison Force
Passive oppressed
Religious power decline
Thinking imprisonment
Produce Form
Build
Religious Architecture Cities under religion
Subjective faith
Religion divorced from life
Human rights awake Transform Integrate (art and architecture ) Build
Inspiration release
New religious architecture in the context of modern design Religion in Cities Religious life’s Secularization
SPIRITUAL PHYSICAL
Church Renovation Program
Religious Symbols Incorporated in Architecture
Religious City under New Relationship Religious Life’s Secularization
Upside-down Map-base Relationship of the City
Epitome of Urban Functional Architecture
Church Renovation Design
City construction revolves around religion
Religion City Architecture
Religious Secularization
New towns develop away from religion
Clear religious symbols
Independent architectural language
Religious Symbols Incorporated in Architecture
Religious Flex Penetration
Religion Influences Linked Cities
Religion influences architectural expression
Cross voids hidden in between gaps which merge at specific angles
Formal: Upside-down Map-base Relationship of the City
Rubin Negative Space
The bottom of the figure forms different spaces
Figure:
building
Urban Planning Drawings
Underground part
Through inversion of bottom of the picture, the city and the church are connected, the church and the city face each other in ancient and modern times to form a connection
Function: Epitome of Urban Functional Architecture
Religious area
Religious living area
The project is based on the relationship with the city and religion from the three aspects of architecture: language, form and function, in order to carry out the renovation design of the churchl.
City function division Simplified function division Building functions division
The function of the church implicits the function of the city
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North Elevation
West Elevation
The new part revolves around the old church, and the main body of the church stands in the center, highlighting the status of the core
A Cement mortar protective layer 1:2.5 30mm
B Double layer SBS
waterproofmembrane
C 1:3 Cement mortar
to find slope 1~2% >20mm
D concrete floor 100mm
E steel deck
F Structural steel frame
B light slit detail
A vegetation
B growing substrate
C filter sheet
D gravel 8/16 100-200mm
E enkadrain 20mm
F Styrofoam 140mm
G waterproof liquid applied membrane 3mm
H beton 480mm
I sandwashed glass 15mm
J galvanized steel
K double glazing heated glass 4-12-2/4
L galvanized steel frame
G keel
H Multilayer board 12mm
I wood veneer
J angle
K T-head bolt
L nut
M halfen serrated washer
N shim
O bracket
P screw rod
Q expansion screw
R Self-tapping
screws fixed keel
S old wall
Continuing Haiyan Village
Individual work Tutor YI.YANG
120129918@qq.com
Location: Kunming,Yunnan,China
Academic work
Time 2021.03-2021.04
Year 3, Secend Semester
As the largest freshwater lake in Yunnan Province, Dianchi has nurtured countless civilisations. Relying on its unique natural advantages, the village of Haiyan, located on the eastern shore of Dianchi, has developed over the centuries into a unique Yunnan residential landscape and fishing culture
Rapid urban development has eroded much of the original tradition and culture, and a large number of ancient villages have died out. Faced with the problems of industrial transformation, population loss and cultural extinction, Haiyan Village, known as the last ancient fishing village in Dianchi, is facing unprecedented challenges.
The project attempts to find a balance between the ancient and the modern, the old and the new, and heritage and development. On the basis of conforming to the overall village texture and preserving a large number of the original traditional dwellings on the site, the project uses transcreation to translate the 'fishing action' into architectural language, and at the same time immerse the fishing village culture through the flow of the arms during fishing. The result is a living museum that integrates exhibition, cultural heritage and villagers' lives.
The project site is located on the eastern shore of Dianchi Pond, the village retains relatively complete traditional Yunnan residential architecture and cultural heritage, while the village is adjacent to the ecological axis of Dianchi Pond wetland, with a good natural and cultural landscape
Preserved Old rammed earth wall
Addition: New concrete wall
Visiting Streamline
Top
beam: 120mm x 300mm
rafter: 38mm x 140mm φ455mm
galvanized steel sheet asphalt roofing structural plywood t=9mm styrofoam t=30mm roofing board t=12mm
Mapping and Research of Leju Village, Xishan District, Kunming
Heritage Conservation Surveys at Longmen Grottoes, Xishan District, Kunming
