| of Science, Architecture and Urban Design | 2024-2025
• Current student in UCLA
• Receive Departmental Award of $10,000
| of Architecture | 2019-2024
• Honored as “Best Student in Final Year of Architectural Studies”
• Honored as “First Class Outstanding Student” in 2020, 2021
• Won the Longhu Enterprise Scholarship
| of Arts, Architectural Studies | 2023-2024
• An exchange program with Wuhan University
• Graduate with First Class Honor
• Won the Dundee Civic Trust Scholarship awarded by a panel of architects and government officials
| Architectural Design Intern
Feb 2023 – Apr 2023, July 2022 – August 2022 | No.1 Design Department
• Architectural schematic design, detailed modeling, construction drawing preparation, rendering production, departmental collaboration, and presentation delivery.
• In a sport center project, my design proposal has been selected by clients and now is under construction.
• Completed the developable façade design of a large sports stadium slated for construction.
| Digital Media Assistant
Sep 2024 – Present | School of Architecture and Urban Design | Workshop
• I am currently working as the digital media/video assistant, documenting photos and videos of school events, editing them into nice-looking videos on UCLA AUD'S social media.
Feb 2024 | Critical Subjects
• Been selected to attend this academic workshop by RIBA.
• A three-day workshop where we completed a rapid architectural design proposal at Heatherwick Studio.
• Our work received high praise from renowned architects such as Thomas Heatherwick and Patrik Schumacher and was selected as one of the best team.
| Cofounder
Nov 2021 – June 2023 | Design director
• Set up design studio with friends, help realizing graphic design, videos, exhibition design for clients, gain skills of management and communication.
| 2023 eVolo Skyscraper Competition | World Student Architecture Award | China College Students Advanced Drawing and BIM Competition | 20th Asian Design Award
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Architectural designer blending space, innovation, aesthetics, and storytelling to create immersive experiences and humanistic well-being. Seeking opportunities to bring my designs to life!
NOMAD METROPOLISES
REVIVE THE COURTYARD VENNELS
REBORN OF RAILWAY TRACK
THE VOYAGER
PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE
CINEMATIC STILLS
REVIVE THE COURTYARD VENNELS
Inspired by Herzberger, I strive to explore a systematic architectural approach, incorporating it into the nuanced operations of the ancient site; seeking coexistence between old and new, while carefully designing based on human behavior and experience. The idea of this “structure” comes directly from the vennels on the site. A series of walls are generated alongside some divisions of ancient territories as a historic call back to Stirling.
Year: 2023-2024
Type: Academic Project Site: Stirling, Scotland, UK
Program: Community center design Role: Individual Work
A typical layout of medieval age can be found somewhere in Scottish cities and towns. A plan originating from the reign of King David I, 1124-1153, who viewed the planning of burghs as a way of gaining control. As the same as Edinburgh and St Andrews, The “Royal Burgh” in Stirling developed on the steep slopes below the castle before the 19th century, with a medieval layout in which land was divided in long narrow plots, which are called “vennels” in Scottish word.
The characteristic division of the territory causes each building around the courtyard to extend inward along the direction of the vennel, creating a series of nearly parallel spatial boundaries in today's urban maps. Behind the bustling high street, the semipublic space between public and private appears to be a neglected area. Instead of fostering neighborhood interactions, these spaces not only block connections between different corners of the courtyard (due to geographical factors) but also become chaotic places where nobody wishes to linger.
Stirling hieroglyph
Edinburgh hieroglyph
St Andrews hieroglyph
1 Site map and strategy
2 Sketch model shows the “vennel wall” strategy
3 Axonometric drawing of community center
In this situation, an architecture system can be a catalyst to revive the courtyard space. It will create new functions that bringing people together, relink the circulation around courtyards, reorganize the space to avoid the mess, and increase the diversity of life.
Section 1-1
Section 2-2
Section 3-3
In the public spaces, the building incorporates a series of user-operated adaptable features, such as foldable canopies in the central courtyard and horizontally rotating doors in the activity center, to respond to weather changes, fostering a close connection between people and nature, allowing them to enjoy the pleasant temperatures of Scotland's spring and summer.
In Hertzberger’s design, “humanism” is often to be considered under his “polyvalent” structuralism. He often designs elements in the in-between spaces to encourage social interaction, such as the recessed areas and halfheight walls in De Drie Hoven, which resonate with human scale. In this project, I also designed lots of comfortable details for human beings in life.
Accessible Bedroom in Care Home Unit
This section will mainly use renderings to tell the experience of people living in this building, aiming at creating cozy feeling and sense of belonging, and express my attitude towards communicating architecture design and interior design.
Accessible Atrium in Care Home
Interior of Library
Rainwater reuse & Solar heating system
To express the locality of building materials, reduce the significant carbon emissions associated with concrete usage, and provide a warm, artisanal texture to the atmosphere of the care home, I chose gabion walls for the wall surfaces. The stones are sourced from local quarries and constructed in an environmentally friendly manner alongside CLT frames The design of the walls also integrates seating, window sills, bookshelves, and air conditioning systems while maintaining a smooth surface without protrusions
PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE
March 2023
Internship Practice Project
Shijiazhuang, Hebei, China
Program: Sports Venue Role:
Sports Hall / Badminton Hall / Natatorium Façade Design and Rendering in team Work
DigitalModel and Rendering
Up: Model of Sport Venues Down: Renderings of Sport Center Block
During the last 2 months internship in Central South Architectural Design Institute, we continually designed different sports venues, including smaller scale gym hall, badminton hall, to massive stadium.
My skills of façade and space design, digital modeling, rendering construction drawing and team cooperation are highly involved in the working process.
Up: Site Plan of Sport Center Down: Aerial View of Sport Center Block
This giant sports complex consists of a standard grandstand stadium, a swimming hall, and a badminton hall, unified by a ribbon-like façade. In this design, I first explored how to create smooth curved forms, then optimized the canopy shape into a surface composed of pure circular arcs and tangential curves. This approach facilitates construction, controls costs, and ensures aesthetic appeal.
Façade development
Development and modeling process
Year:
March - April 2023
Type:
Internship Practice Project
Site:
Fangxian, Hubei, China
Program:
Stadium Complex
Role:
Façade Design & detailing, rendering in team Work
Rendering of the Stadium Complex
Stadium stands development
Developable Surface - Geometry Analysis
This was another sport and cultural complex located in Nanzhang county, Xiangyang city. I received a massing volume from my department, and then developed the space and façade by myself. It was once only a side-project created for client to choose, but finally my design caught client’s favor and won the bid. It stared construction on January, 2025.
Year: Feb 2023
Type:
Internship Practice Project
Site:
Nanzhang, Hubei, China
Program: Sports Venue
Role:
Architecture Design and Rendering in team Work
Schematic Design
Up: Commerical street design in Xingshan village
Left: Landscape design in Water Street, Hefei
Bottom: Nanzhang Cultural Plaza Design
Year: Apr 2023
Type:
Internship Practice Project
Site:
Huangshi, Hubei, China
Program: Residential
Role:
Technical drawing in team
Work using Revit
5th floor plan
Accessible toilet + elevator plan
Toilet plan
NOMAD METROPOLISES
Over-centralized urbanization contribute to the soaring of housing prices in major cities of the globe. Meanwhile, the opportunities in those metropolises also lead to more frequent migration, further exacerbating the burden of settlement. This project illustrates a brand-new model of our future inhabitation: One metabolistic agglomeration, achieved through mechanical means for flexibility, could formulate communities of all kinds and could be placed wherever the tenants want.
Year: 2022-2023
Type:
Academic Project
Site:
Designed in Wuhan, but replicable Program:
Residential Complex
Role:
Group work for concept in studio, self developed for materials in this portfolio
Rotation is a way to fold space
The existing house price calculation makes the floor area the only unit of measurement Walls and ceiling usually serve the floor, but if we consider all of them as the interface equally, the use area will be three times larger. By folding the four sides together and allowing the house to rotate, we can enjoy a fourfold area in only one floor space, thus reducing the economic burden of buying houses.
How the nomad system work
After customizing four living sides, your home is about to be manufactured and delivered to your city. When you want to move to a city far away, you will first check your destination’s vacancy Worry about future neighbors? The system provides their self-introductions according to your preference Then it’s time to board a ship to your new city.
Flexibility in Various Scales
The method of mechanism is adopted in various scales of this system For the single capsule, it can be rotated, extended and pulled out for transport For the larger scale, the residential block could be built along the central columns to flexibly occupy the sky space of the city. Each block contains one residential module and two commercial services modules. Those form a small social unit of residential complex
The furniture is designed to adapt rotation Sofa and tables can serve as multiple functions Some handrail, bookshelves, folding table, even dish rack are carefully designed to prevent things fall during the rotation Light design is also important to create a cozy feeling.
Leisure side – Tatami
Party side – Sofa, side table
Sport side – Yoga mat
How to release young’s stress in buying a house? During the brainstorming, we absorbed the idea from the space station, a place where gravity doesn’t exist. The gravity identifies floor, walls, and ceiling, but without gravity, every side is a living surface. On the earth, the existing house price calculation makes the floor area the only unit of measurement. However, by folding the four sides together and allowing the house to rotate, we can enjoy a fourfold area in only one-floor space, which means we can save 75% budget! In this design, the capsule is separated into a fixed part and a rotatable part. Functions like the kitchen and toilet are arranged in fixed parts to connect the pipe systems. The other living areas are placed on 4 sides of the rotatable part, which users can customize their functions, such as bedroom, study, party room and so on. The furniture is well designed to suit rotating. For instance, cabinets can rotate to keep horizontal, while some sofas and desks can use in two dimensions.
City size adaptation
Landscape adaptation
Water level adaptation
Explosion Diagram
Rendering of thenomadmetropolises
In the city level, those nomad residential systems stand in the urban context with minimum occupancy of land.
REBORN OF RAILWAY TRACK
Click link to watch POV video of roller coaster:
https://youtu.be/St_QHfbZ Zik?si=ySzNbyJEngOpTNVe
What happens when mechanical means are introduced into the expression of narrative architecture? Based on the transportation infrastructure of the old train station, I creatively reintroduces the element of rail - the roller coaster. It skillfully extracts emotional nuances from various historical events, translating them into the physical experiences of speed, acceleration, and force, enabling visitors to encounter historical stories through motion.
Year: 2022
Type: Academic Project
Site: Wuhan, China Program: Heritage renovation, Entertainment Role: Individual Work
The shape is generated from the roller coaster track, which is physically calculated workable for a train to run through Different types of spaces are formed underneath the track, using the method of parametric design to give a coherent facade
Architectural Diagram
The space of architecture cuts through the old train station like a continue silk. Underneath the track is the space for railway museum and other theme entertainments.
Up: Renovation interior design of the old railway station hall
Left: West entrance of the railway culture center
The old station is used for waiting room of roller coaster, just like 80 years ago when people wandered here waiting for the train
The roller coaster runs through indoor space over people’s head, make the trip more exciting
To divide the interior and exterior, two polycarbonic curve surfaces are hanging on the roof to let the rail go through the atrium
Left: Perspective from the gate of station
Bottom left: North view through the metro station
Bottom right: POV on the front row of roller coaster
When the roller coaster is running, it will produce vibration. This leads to the damage of old Dazhimen railway station. To prevent the vibration of old architecture, I designed two structure systems for static load and dynamic load. So, when the structure of roller coaster is shaking, the Dazhimen stands still.
THE VOYAGER
Wuhu, situated along the Yangtze River, has an abandoned industrial area in its city center, which needs to be transformed and revitalized into a cultural industry park. Here lies an abandoned railway ferry bridge where a complex of museum & river shipping bureau is planned to be constructed adjacent to such an industrial site. The architecture embarks on a dialogue with the old trestle ruins, following the design language of rusty industrial age.
Year: 2023
Type:
Academic Project
Site: Wuhu, China Program:
Site renovation: Museum
Role: Individual Work
The inspiration for this building is derived from the deconstruction and recombination of materials used in train ferry bridge which consists of rugged concrete bases and delicate steel supports. The new building respects this material contrast, utilizing yellow concrete and black steel as the two main materials. The metal sections expose tectonic and structural design elements, responding to the complex structure of the ferry bridge.
South Elevation Drawing
The architectural mass is divided into a podium and a tower based on the primary functions of the museum and shipping bureau. The tower resembles a massive ship's sail, becoming a new landmark in the city's riverside skyline. It also serves as a navigational beacon for passing ships. The podium is designed to accommodate the height differences brought by the dam and railway. Additionally, in terms of form, it uses a series of fragmented surfaces to represent the power and potential energy of a ship cutting through the water surface on the river.
North Elevation Drawing
N-S Section Drawing
W-E Section Drawing
Entrance Hall of Museum
First Glance of Exhibition Space
Exterior of the tower shipping bureau
Walking along the old train ferry bridge
View from the Yangtze River
THE STORYTELLING OF SPACE
This year I am in entertainment studio of MSAUD, UCLA. Based on the ability of designing architecture and space, we are focusing on how to build the world to tell the story. Using spatial design, lighting, assets and characters to reflect the environment, the space will tell the story itself. It will strongly enhance my ability to visualize the architecture design at the end.
Year: 2024 Fall Type: MSAUD Academic Project Program: Short film Role: Group work with Yizheng Sun
The theme revolves around imagining spatial transformations over time based on a given photograph and rendering a short film using Unreal Engine. We drew inspiration from Thomas Demand’s Control Room and the Fukushima nuclear disaster behind it to conceptualize a layered control system based on the opacity of power. From this, we created a story centered on an extraterrestrial signal exploration project.
Up: Red light flashing, alien signal detected Bottom: The camera pull out, indicates the whole alien signal experiment was fake and under monitoring
This worldbuilding is generated through the catalyst of “garage”. In the world of garages, people are all creating their own interests in small garages. However, when the company grasps this idea of creation space, they built thousands of garage suites, professional and clean, white and efficiency, setting rules to garage creators. It finally leads to a dead end of escape.
Up: Original garage houses in the suburban of Las Vegas Bottom: Company owned modern garage units
OTHER WORKS
01 Virtual Herbaria Project, screenshot in VR headset.
02 Virtual Herbaria Project, my cactus design, screenshot in AR application.
03 Exquisite Corpse of Sunset Blvd, physical model using paper to fold the developable surfaces.
01 Design Research Unit, 3D Translation of Remixing Music, melodic dubstep version
02 Design Research Unit, 3D Translation of Remixing Music, heavy metal version
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04
Case Study Model, represent the structure, material and junction of 15 Clerkenwell Close building in London
Case Study Model, represent the structure, material and junction of 15 Clerkenwell Close building in London
A section perspective drawing of elder apartment design, showing the interior design of the apartments.
Left: An architectural-style table calendar design, with poster, dog doll and date cards design. The set was designed to decorate the date to hard-working architecture students. It also contains a pen holder and a card holder to serve as a reminder.
Bottom: An interior design practice. The client want me to design his bedroom, create an elegant, colorful and vibrant space with carefully selected furniture.
As a field closely related to architecture and design aesthetics, photography is also a passion of mine. I incorporate the composition, color, and aesthetics I have learned from photography into architectural design and visual expression. Photography has also given me a deeper understanding of light, geometry, storytelling, and communication.
