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Jiahan Ding

+86 17676115410

Chaozhou, China hyuvvvooo@gmail.com

Graphic Designer

Participation】Poster Design, Interface Design, Logo Design

CSSA- NEWCASTLE 09/ 2019 to 08/2021 - Using Photoshop/Indesign to design cohesive looks in multimedia websites and project materials (e.g. posters, Instagram Selfie Frame...)

-Creating a clear interface for the app and adapted design work accordingly by using InDesign and Illustrator.

Internship 05/2022 to 11/ 2022

Newcastle University 2018-2021

K100 BA Architecture LANGUAGES

Part 1 Architecture Student English Chinese Cantonese Good Excellent Good

ARCHDAILY, CHINA 2:1

Participation】Interview Script, Project Description, Product Introduction

- Demonstrating outstanding research skills, collecting the latest information and articles and contributing to the 10 million subscribers on Archdaily China.

Intern 08/2022 to present 08/2020 10/2022

Participation Project Type】High-rise Building Design, Interior Design

Yao DI Studio, CHINA - Participating in the project Huatai Headquater as a team member for massing design, site analysis, 3d site modeling and drawing analysis diagrams

- Participating in the project CSCEC Headquater lobby design as a team member for document of concept design, interior design and 3d site modeling.

- Participating in the project RFATT interior design as a team member for portfolio design, analysing and poster design.

My determination to become an architect was further confirmed after experiencing a period of time in hospital during a lockdown. I was exposed to the reality of which the minority of society faced with. The capability architecture has in changing lives inspired my goal to create designs which resonate with places and communities by creating solutions for specific communities. Therefore, I am eager to build upon my architectural knowledge foundation by studying Architectural Design Programme whilst continuing my journey in becoming a qualified professional.

Conscious of architecture’s function, I aim to address social, environmental, or even political issues on a given site. Naturally, when I embrace projects with such concepts, I grow to appreciate the narrative thinking and forward-looking consideration behind the output through the publication of Bartlett. I was enamoured by the beautiful synthesis of problem-solving and empathetic artfulness inherent, as well as the essence of narrative architecture to the functioning of society. During the process of solving realworld issues, my experience gradually taught me the complementation of other disciplines enables the possibilities of adopting architecture to cultivate and resolve potential crisis. In order to receive the toptier methodologies and progress my problem-solving ability, I am looking forward to studying within the complex and multifaceted project settings at Bartlett’s studios.

I continually persevere to generate proposals focused on empathetic solutions in my academic studies and working practice. For my graduation project, I designed a wind turbine manufacture factory in Redcar built upon an abandoned steelworks legacy. I focused this project on the interaction between the community, surrounding industrial transformation and economic development whilst drawing upon Derrida’ s Deconstruction theory which sharpened my interest in narrative creating, interpreting, and serving the community. The site Redcar was faced with the dilemma of unemployment, cultural identity loss and economic recession following the decline of the steel market. By rearranging a technical-relevant factory, the hiring wave and industrial upgrading can appear at the same time. Throughout this project, my determination to provide architecture which benefits marginalised communities was fundamental where I intend on bringing this focus to future projects.

Besides, this past summer I interned at the Yaodi Studio, where I was exposed to work which required a global view whilst utilising multidisciplinary knowledge. In a headquarter design project, I identified that to resolve increasing ratio plot and urban expansion, a new solution is required to overcome present challenges. Through embedding a transportation-oriented design, urban planning and interior design intersect with our headquarter design concept, increasing the community connection and working comfort at a macro scale. During this internship, I managed the pressure and workload well and am exposed to the essence of inherent structural principles behind the solution of environmental and social challenge.

I am looking forward to joining the Bartlett’s studios which explore design solutions as a mechanism to tackle social and environmental challenges. As the conflict between humans, the climate, economics and politics are exacerbated globally, studying in an institution centered on empathetic design suited to a complex multifaceted future has been fundamental in inspiring my application to this course. Furthermore, the emphasis on studying architecture from a technical lens whilst using software to develop design intrigues me in the oppertunities this course grants by developing an comprehensive view of architecture.

This continued learning will support my intention of serving the community by creating places suited for future demands and needs. In the long-term, as UCL is located in an international metropolis and enjoys a worldwide prestige with students, I plan to work with an architect in London focusing on social impact such as Thomas Heatherwick and get involved with social housings and public architecture. I will continue to pursue the social project embodied in architecture. Therefore, it would be a privilege to grow under Bartlett’s guidance and become an astute architect.

CONTENTS

ABOUT ME 05 Golden Stone of Qianhai High-rise building design

02 Pigeon Post

urbanization, traditional culture, lockdown policy

01 The Resilience of the Steel Giant industrial recession, cultural root, land contamination 03 Wild Cemetery monumental architecture, cultural trauma, sea level rise 04 Immersive Theater refurbishment, tradtional architecture 06 Other works model making, illustration

THE RESILIENCE OF THE STEEL GIANT

Project 1: Academic Project (Individual)

NCL Studio: Ghosts in the Machine

BA Architecture Level 3

Time: 10/2020 -6/2021 (3 semesters)

Location: Redcar Steelworks in Redcar, UK

Supervisor: Mattew Margetts (matthew.margetts@ncl.ac.uk)

Cara Lund ( cara.lund@ncl.ac.uk)

Introduction:

Suffering from economic decline, Redcar people is looking for a solution to maintain their families and rejuvenate their town. Situated at the west coast of this town, Redcar Steelworks is famous for steel making in the 20th century and contributes to the economic support of the local. However, the steelworks were closed due to the decline of world steel market. The local is faced with the dilemma about the lost of cultural characteristics and economic recession.

Within this rich industrial setting, the project‘the Resilience of the Steel Giant’intends to cultivate the potential of its industrial characters and create a new economic circle. As a traditional industrial factory can have a radiation effect on the area, the design would like to adjust the steel making industry to a tech-related wind turbine making industry. This steel-recycled industry will energize Redcar’s economy that badly needs replacement.

The Condition of Redcar Steelworks

With the decline of steel market, the Redcar Steelworks was abandoned left with a bunch of materials and constructions. While some constructions are regarded as the witness of the past, tons of architecture materials are expected to be sorted and recycled.

The Link of Town

regenerate a new industry, the project proposes a strategy that can maintain the industrial identity and encourage economic development. Rather than elinminating the steel industry, the project suggests an expansion of industries. The Resilience of the Steel Giant will leave the jobs for former steel workers and attract the local residents to create a new character from an innovative industry. Redcar

Steelworks

Attitudes toward Demolition

Ben Alex Jack Anna

（Redcar Steelworks Mayor （Redcar Steelworks Mayor （former steel worker ） (Student)

(Former steel worker) (Local Student) (Shopkeeper)

“The pollution and economic situation forced us to demolish everything. After that, I believe we will introduce new industries and provide more jobs to the

“After demolition, I believe we will introduce new industries and provide more jobs to the local.”

“The pollution and economic situation forced us to demolish everything. After that, I believe we will introduce new industries and provide more jobs to the

The

“The pollution and economic situation forced us to demolish everything. After that, I believe we will introduce new industries and provide more jobs to the

“The pollution and economic situation forced us to demolish everything. After that, I believe we will introduce new industries and provide more jobs to the

“It’s a lot of doom and gloom, and people are depressed about what’s happened with the steelworks. My son is at coke oven. My father used to be a worker in the

“It’s a lot of doom and gloom, and people are depressed about what’s happened with the steelworks. My son is at coke oven. My father used to be a worker in the

“It’s a lot of doom and gloom, and people are depressed about what’s happened with the steelworks. My son is at coke oven. My father used to be a worker in the

“It’s a lot of doom and gloom, and people are depressed about what’s happened with the steelworks. My son is at coke oven. My father used to be a worker in the

“people are depressed about what’s happened with the steelworks. It has lots of memories there.”

“I had all the skills, but there was no work. My options were limited: either retrain and start all over again, or uproot my family and move to another part of the country to find a job which suited my

“I had all the skills, but there was no work. My options were limited: either retrain and start all over again, or uproot my family and move to another part of the country to find a job which suited my

“I had all the skills, but there was no work. My options were limited: either retrain and start all over again, or uproot my family and move to another part of the country to find a job which suited my

“I had all the skills, but there was no work. My options were limited: either retrain and start all over again, or uproot my family and move to another part of the country to find a job which suited my

“I had all the skills, but there was no work. My options were limited.“

“I decided to leave my town after graduate. It’s upset to leave my family. but there is no opportunity left here for young people.

“I decided to leave my town after graduate. It’s upset to leave my family. but there is no opportunity left here for young people.

“I decided to leave my town after graduate. It’s upset to leave my family. but there is no opportunity left here for young people.

“I expect the redevelopment so that I can stay here with my family.“

Although the link beteen the steelworks and the local is strong, the steelworks has to be dismantled since the toxic wastes are permeating into the water and having effects on the town residents' health.

Money

Shop

School Facility Transportation Product

Family Worker

The town's cultural root is deep into steel making history. The decline of the steelworks influences the whole community in Redcar.

Ben (Steelworks Mayor)

Alex Jack Alice

Ben Alex Jack Anna

（Redcar Steelworks Mayor （Redcar Steelworks Mayor （former steel worker ） (Student)

Ben Alex Jack Anna

（Redcar Steelworks Mayor （Redcar Steelworks Mayor （former steel worker ） (Student)

Ben Alex Jack Anna

（Redcar Steelworks Mayor （Redcar Steelworks Mayor （former steel worker ） (Student)

Steel production on Teesside begins

1905

1900 The production is equivalent to 8.5% of the entire country's total output.

1929

1979 1875 It became the largest producers of Steel in the UK.

Dorman Long who by this point is also struggling financially.

Europe’s biggest blast furnace

2003

The production at Teesside Cast Products (TCP) as a surplus to its needs

2009

Partial mothballing of the Teesside blast furnace.

2015

Production paused due to the decline in steel prices

Percentage of manufacture industry in local industries

Timeline of Steel Making in Redcar

Job employed in all industries Population

The timeline shows the number of job offers decreases following the decline of steel making. Meanwhile, the population in Redcar flopped when the production paused in 2009.

<The Drowned Giant>

The Death of A Giant

The body of a giant was lying on the beach.

'The Drowned Giant' talked about how the body of a giant dispeared but its impact comes to people constantly.

Love, Death + Robots

The Death of Body

The putrefaction urges people harvest the giant's body.

The Storage of Memory

philosophical context 1 2 3

Pieces of the body being utilized by the towns people

After a storm, the body of a drowned giant was washed ashore on the beach. A scientist continuously visits the site, watching the process of the body’s disappear. As time goes by, the body was harvested by butchers and finally gone. When he walks through the small town, spotting pieces of the body being utilized by the towns people, he remembered him and his impact again.

(the bones) better convey the essence of the giant's magnificence than my last memories of his bloated appendages

--The scientist in The Drowned Giant

Conclusion:

The Economic Opportunity - green industry

The green industries like wind power in Redcar are still developing, which stiil have great potentials to invest. For The Resilience of the Steel Giant, manufacturing wind turbine can corporate with steel industry by using steel products as materials. It will also generate jobs for former steel workers and other opportunities for Redcar residents.

To maintain the historical past and the local’s living, it is significant to cultivate an economic opportunity from those leftover.

Future

Measures and Aims of the Project

There will be an industry expansion from steel making to wind turbine manufacture, creating a circular economic, by upgrading the technique and recycling surrounding steels. The wind turbine manufacture will make use of the steel scraps and help the local become low-carbon economies. Meanwhile, the new industries provides job opportunities to local workers.

The Relink of Town

Industrial Gospel

Redcar has a long history of steel making, which gives the town characters. The Resilience of the Steel Giant aims to help the local people rebuild their industrial gospel, by cultivating a potetntial from its steel making past.

The steelwork legacy Reconstructed wind turbine industry

the blast furnace the EAF wind turbine industry steel structure

steel product

smelting reconstruct

upgrade recycle

steel worker builder manufacturer

The wind turbine factories will be arranged next to the original steel legacy, bridging the post-industrial past and the regeneration.

The implement of the wind turbine factory intrigues a new round economic circle around the area and prepares for future industrial replacement by building up a innovative steel-recycled industry.

wind turbine nacelle manufacture wind turbine hub manufacture wind turbine blade manufacture

Phase 1: 0-5 years

The first phase is the demolition of the old Redcar Steelworks to leave space for steel production, nacelle and wind tower.

1

Demolition

The demolition of the old steelworks is going to assess and disassemble most structures. Except for some memoral constructions, steel structures will become raw materials for the EAF.

Parts Position

Over 80% of parts of this wind turbine belongs to the furnace factory and the battery plant. Following the number, every components can be located in the map.

Phase 2: 5-15 years

The wind turbine manufacture starts to produce whole wind turbines individually for nearby areas.

parts assembly truss assembly

Phase 3: after 20 years

The resilience of the strategy compromises the industrial, cultural and economic aspect.

The factories start production. Phytoremediation is applied by planting birch trees.

2 Reconstruction 3

Resilience

New community will be linked with the new factory. The new factories respond to the global tendency for low carbon industry, becoming the pioneer for industrial upgrading and the device to consume the steel scraps in the green industry transition period.

NO.1 wind turbine

T he Resilience of the Steelwork Giant creates two special wind turbines, completely made from the machines and structures left by Redcar Steelworks. Accompanied with the normal wind turbine production line, these two special versions will represent and echo the existance of the steelwork past.

ladle scaffolding polisher gas container

processing machine

parts oxygen holder columns assembly

pipeline

position number machine adjust new structure

Parts Position

The main supportive structures of this wind turbine are taken from the furnace factory and the gas holder.

furnace

NO.2 wind turbine

Through the recycle process, the postindustry memory will be stored in these new medium. The body of the steelwork giant dispeared but its impact can still come to people.

PIGEON POST

Project 2: Academic Project (Individual)

NCL Studio: Small Dwelling

BA Architecture Level 1

Time: 10/2018 -1/2019 (2nd semester)

Location: Beijing, China

Supervisor: Kati Blom (katriina.blom@ncl.ac.uk)

Introduction:

Beijing is famous for pigeon whistle which has existed for thousands of years. Due to the civilization process and the increasing building density, there are fewer and fewer people keeping pigeons in the city. The disappearance of pigeon whistle culture is the representation of urbanization aggression and coexisting failure with nature.

The Pigeon Post, aims to rejuvenate the pigeons whistle culture and cure the citizens' anxieties of insecurity and fears in the pandemic condition by designing a series of special construction,creating ‘charming’ pigeon whistle for people who are isolated at home. Pigeon Post also responses to the dilemma of the vulerable people in a lockdown condition. Through research carried out by analyzing Chinese lockdown policies, the project develop a ‘pigeon post’ to benefit those fragile people confronting the lack of medicine under strict lockdown.

Referred to the precedent ’exchanging prescriptions and urgent medications with a sanatorium’ by Julius Neubronner, the project dealt with the complaint of pigeon keeping in the flat and emphasized the giving back to neighbours. The ‘Pigeon Post’ are applying the concept of 'contactless ' to design community facilities. The sound of whistles are appreciated in the designs to delivery hopes of a lockdown city.

img: Lockdown in Beijing

Background

High Risks of Death

pharmacist

Pigeon whistle

Negotiation with Neighbours

Why pigeon keeping disppears?

Pigeon keeping will influence other residents in the apartments after the plot ratio increases.

How pigeons effect people?

Smell

Diseases Pollution

A pigeon whistle is a device attached to a pigeon such that it emits a noise whilst flying mainly for entertainment, which creates impressive memory for traditional Beijing. Owing to increasing urbanization and regulation of pigeon keeping, it is now gradually disappearing. Within minutes of feeding, pigeons poop.

In order to build a structure on public space, people now have to negotiate with other residents within one building. To get an approvement, the pharmacist provides a series of systematic strategies and promises to give back to his neighbours from pigeon feeding, aiming to deal with their worries about pigeon droppings and diseases.

'Noah's Ark ' in Lockdown

Referencing the symbol of pigeons and their application in the history, the project tends to provide a Noah’s Ark‘ led by pigeons for an isolated lockdown island.

Finally

nurse university student designer

I don't mind it. It will be better if you can water my flowers.

I would like to build a pigeon loft on the rooftop. To mitigate the negative effect of pigeon feeding on our neighbours, I would set a variety of constructions which gives back to you including delivering pigeon eggs, flower watering and recycling water. I don't want pigeons bite my flowers Their droppings make my balcony dirty.

The pharmacist presents his strategiesto get an approvement before building a pigeon loft. The Ark supports the neighbourhood.

I like pigeons because their sound wakes me up.

LOCKDOWN AREA

PIGEON'S ARK

Dovecote Cleaning and Feeding

Attaching Pigeon Whistle Releasing Pigeons

To make pigeons emit a noise, the pharmacist will attach a whistle on pigeons one by one before releasing them.

The handle on the column controls the roof. Then the roof is lifted.

The pharmacist mixes pigeon feed proportionly and sweeping the dovecote floor by water.

After entering the loft, the pharmacist collects all types of feeds in proportion from different boxes hanging on the door.

Early in the morning, the pharmacist will go upstairs to clean the loft, preventing smell and pigeon diseases from spreading. Floorings will be rinsed and washed with water and got rid of droppings. This dirty water will flow into the bio tanks and be treated for irrigating plants.

Citywide Covid-19 Testing, Allocation of Supplies and Closed Management

To stamp out the epidemic, many areas across China have implemented " closed management" strategy on a community-basis when cases are tested out. Allocation of supplies will be proceeded by the community. However, sometime this one-sizefits-all approach will prevent some chronic or acute patients from getting in-time treatment. Such tragedies happen when these groups are ignored and sacrificed either as a result of restriction or medical system collapse.

SPRINKLER EXTENSION LADDER

Covid-19 Lockdown in China

WATER COLLECTOR

CRANE

LIFT ROOF

BIO TANKS

LOCKDOWN LOCKDOWN

The pharmacist

The old man

I will try my best to give back to my neighbours.

The pharmacist puts pigeon eggs into the crane every morning.

Every house has a pipe linked with the dovecote. Filtered water can be used to water the flowers

Thanking you for bearing my pigeons. Here are some manure supplements.

Thanking you for bearing my pigeons. Here are some manure supplements.

Manure fertilizer made from pigeon poops will be very nutritious for plants.

The nurse

The housewife

Pigeon eggs for you everyday. Thank you for your patience.

Every house has a lever to control the crane which can deliver them pigeon eggs.

The designer

I can't bear the life of working at home.

I will release my pigeons every morning. Don't forget to watch them.

I don't have time to water my flowers.

Don't worry about your flowers. My construction will water them on time.

Due to Covid-19, the nurse doesn’t stay at home as usual. Thanks to the watering construction, her flowers are taken good care.

The

university student

It’s nostalgic to hear pigeon whistle again.

Enjoy!

With pigeon whistles, she gets up regularly to study for the application of postgraduate.

She watches pigeons flying when she feels bored about working from home.

Vulnerable People in Lockdown

Pigeon Selection

I run out of my medication.

The old post box is reused to container pigeon feed in the pigeon loft. At the bottle, a structure to allow feed to drop out is added.

No problem!

The community is too busy to meet specific patients' detailed demands. The pharmacist provides pigeon delivery services for these people.

As the minority, these vulnerable people can't get enough attetion during pandemic. Under the strict restriction, they sometimes can't get timely assitance when their diseases flare up.

Pigeon has an innate ability to fly back home. To send medicine in time during lockdown, the pharmacist started to train his pigeons when the lockdown was lifted. He sent different pigeons to his patients' home regularly, making sure the pigeons can remember their homes.

Pigeon Delivery

But my area is under lockdown. I can't go outside.

I will use the pigeon we trained before to deliver the medicine.

WORKING AREA

Packaging Medicine

Selecting a Pigeon

The pharmacist gets into the pigeon loft searching for pigeons to deliver medicine. One pigeon can deliver the goods to a specific address.

During the lockdown, the pharmacist will go to the rooftop through his extension ladder, avoiding passing through public channel.

LADDER

During the lockdown, the pharmacist will go to the rooftop through his extension ladder, avoiding passing through public channel.

LOFT

Successful Delivery

The pharmacist has a packing platform in his balcony. The cover can be taken down, making it convenient for the pharmacist to put the pill bottle on the pigeon. Pills in small bottle is tied on a designed strap.

The pigeon is then released to fly its way back to the patient's home

STUDIO

In the context of covid-19 pandemic, the pigeon post tries to help all types of people.

The pharmacist then receives a message telling him that the pigeon arrives.

Conclusion:

To help the fragile people restricted by the lockdown policy, the project built upon the concept of 'contactless' develop a pigeon post service for medicine delivering. The sound of whistles are appreciated in the designs to delivery hopes of a lockdown city.

Can you deliver me some medicine?

FEEDER

KITCHEN

BEDROOM

FLOWERPOT

The flowerpot is made from old wooden chairs.Timber sheets are used to enclose a container for soil.

FEED CONTAINERS

As pigeons require various types of cereals, old mail boxes are recycled to contain these feeds.

SEPARATOR

Separators are recycled from traditional steel doors used to guard against theft.

PIGEON STAND

Abandoned old sewing machines are collected and nailed on the wall, acting as rows of pigeon stands.

The roof is designed to be lifted up, allowing pigeons to fly out in one direction, which helps reducing the possibility of pigeon droppings on balconies.

Rainwater is collected and treated by this construction to feed the pigeons. Rainwater will be filter through facial masks and filter core. Then, the solar panel will help disinfecting rainwater.The bucket is linked with infusion bags recycled from hospital to deliver water to the pigeon loft.

NOZZLE

The nozzle is recycled from old phonograph. It can spread water to the flowerpots.

BIO TANKS

Bio tank, recycled from tea tank, is transformed to a micro sewage treatment plant that safely processes all household wastewater and recycles it as clear odourless water back to the neighbours’ room.

Conclusion:

The pigeon loft is a sustainable and ecological system by adopting a series of mechanical designs. Most objects are recycled from the neighbours and then transformed to assist pigeon feeding.

Watering the Flowers

LIFT ROOF

WATER STORAGE BUCKET

Pigeon Egg Crane

Every morning, the pharmacist will pack new pigeon eggs and puts them in the container on the top of the crane. When the neighbour downstairs turns the handle, the crane will be told the position of the neighbour by its processor at its bottom and then starts to adjust its jib. During the pandemic, this construction helps reduce direct contact and reinforces the relationships between neighbouts.

The jib and the conveyer extend at the same time, allowing the precisew delivery

A Box of Pigeon Egg

Every 6 pigeon eggs will be packed in a box.

Topview

Overview

WILD CEMETERY

Project 3: Academic Project (Individual)

Competition: Tiny Community

Time: 9/2022 -11/2021 (8 weeks)

Location: Squamish, Canada

Introduction:

Squamish, the north end of the Howe Sound, has abundant natural reserves and travel resources. Owning to policies to assimilate indigenous cultures in 20th century, indigenous people is suffering from cultural genocide and looking for mourning the sacrificed people and reclaim their culture.

Inspired by the concept ‘ Wild Eden ’ proposed toward natural reserves, the project creates a ‘Wild Cemetery’ studying indigenous attitudes toward death and how they coexist toward nature. Through research carried out by looking into Squamish legends, the project identified ‘incarnation’ as architectural theme for the cemetery. The ‘Wild Cemetery’ claims the same status between peoples and nature, going through six nodes described in the legends, experiencing the sense of peace and returning the body to the nature. This deals with the emotional fracture due to culture genocide, resonance with an architectural vernacular, whilst also creating a platform for nearby residents to heal their pain towards any lost. The gradual increasing sea level would serve as a constant reminder of death and the impact of climate on the land.

img: Squamish people abandoned their home so the city of Vancouver could expand.

Squamish Spit Squamish territory Canada

A spit cuts the mouth of the Squamish River off from the estuary, preventing the town from flooding.

Site Analysis

Located at the north end of Howe Sound, Squamish is a community growing with the First Nation history. The site selected is a central delta extending from the low water line to over 200m depth so that its land area follows the daily change of tide height. It separates the Squamish River from the estuary, isolating itself from the town and industrial area.

Sea Level

Canada Government & Squamish People (Indigenous People)

Owning to polices issued in 20th century, Squamish indigenous culture is fading and now only 10 people can speak their own language. Nowadays, indigenous people is looking for to mourn the sacrificed people and reclaim their culture. To present indigenous culture in an understandable way, the design tends to explore indigenous legends to say farewell to the dead people and creatures.

The Funeral Hall

This hall is the beginning of the cemetery. Within this timber setting, the Funeral Hall intends to create an embracing ambience, allowing the families accompany the dead.

1 2

The Bridge of Farewell

People lift the dead in a canoe going through this open timber bridge, similar to a forest journey in a traditional funeral. The bridge creates a silent journey between two key nodes allowing emotional interaction between nature and people.

The Platform of Departure

Shaman and the dead’s families will finally arrive at the platform to send the canoe into the crematory incinerator through a watercourse. This process is inspired by the rituals of leaving time for soul to escape from the body.

The Forest of Death

Referring to the Squamish legends, the experience to the crematory incinerator is designed to go through forest, river and finally arrive at coast. The staffs in cemetery will stop the canoe and ‘guide’ the body to resomation as in the legends.

The Dining Longhouse

The Dining Longhouse is located on the other side of the river. After saying farewell to the dead body, people will walk through a long path either along a river or through a forest to the longhouse for dinner.

The Ocean of Farewell

The ocean of farewell is the final scene. After the resomation, the resulting liquid will be released to the ground and then the daily tide will take it away. Luminescent bacteria will be added to serve as a reminder of death and detect the water pollution.

Wild Cemetery fades into the sea with death and memory as the sea level rises.

Axonometric

IMMERSIVE THEATRE

Project 4: Academic Project (Individual)

Building Restoration

Competition: Chaozhou Reconstruction

Time: 5/2022 -6/2022 (3 weeks)

Location: Chaozhou, China

Introduction:

The Haiyang Temple is a reflection of the architectural legacy of a academy representative of Chinoiserie, that bears the scars of revolution and urban transformation. The solution to preserve it should propel the architectural afterlife into the heritage of tomorrow instead of depending on pure restoration and preservation.

In line with the culture of Chaozhou, the Haiyang Temple is transformed to an immersive theater that encourage the redevelopment of the declining Chaozhou opera culture The heritage is renovated by retaining its most classic dougong structure and gable roof and replacing the brick walls with polycarbonate boards to introduce light inside on the one hand. On the other hand, the changeable temporary set design installations maintain its playfulness and enhance economic impact by attracting young visitors. Through interweaving with traditional theatre and immersive feature, the architectural afterlife that has seen repossession of an architectural typology formerly serving the community, and an afterlife that has narrated historical stories.

img:The Elevation of the Haiyang Temple

actor's route actress's route actress's route watching area

Theatre Tour Route

Referring to one of the earliest Chaozhou dramas ‘A Love Story in Lantern Festival’, the stage is designed for its development plot and climactic plots that the man and woman pledge to marry without the permission of parents. Visitor can follow either actors or actress's route and stop to watch the plots in only three areas due to the limited interior space.

close before after

open when people standing on the sensor installation

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4 2: 3:

5

2 3

1:20 B-B Detailed Section

5: floor joist: 125×90mm floor joist: 60×30mm

natural resin varnish finish: 70×20mm gravity sensor larch multiplex floor board: 120×13mm laminated timber floor: 12mm

thermal render insulation: 20mm

roughcast mineral render: 20mm

natural stone wall: 340mm polycarbonate board: 40mm 4:

The section shows the details on the joist between new deck and existing stone wall. Besides, referring to script, the flower in an umbrella-shaped installation will blossom conveying the actress’s happiness when she stands on the gravity sensor.

GOLDEN STONE OF QIANHAI

Project 5: Professional Project (Group)

Super High-rise Building Design

Theme:Huatai United Security Headquarter Design

Time: 7/2022 -8/2022 (4 weeks)

Location: Shenzhen, China

Team: Tao Li (+86 13560252774)

Xinde Lin, Qianqian Chen, Jiahan Ding

Introduction:

The intention is to integrate the Huatai United Securities cultural characteristics with the desire of creating a brand new medium in Qianhai area: Responding to environmentally friendly workplace, the project is expected to cooperate with culture and ecology, generate convergent and radioactive effects as well as provide innovative, scientific, diversified and ecological working and living experiences.

Participation:

1. produce the site model

2. Join the team in the concept and preliminary design phase.

3. Design the Tod system and sunken plaza

4. generate concept diagrams

5. Working on the Tod renderings

6. Working on the glass facade design