Portfolio to UCL March AD, 2023

PORTFOLIO Tianxia Jia (Mr) 2018-2023 Selected Works

Southeast University, Nanjing, China Bachelor of Architecture UCL Application Number: 23141520 Programme: March Architectural Design Mobile Phone: +86 13007526097 Email: jiatianxia19991005@163.com

Model of Nanjing, 1:1000, 2018

" What the architect can give to our society that others cannot give, is to create a spirit. " ——John Hejduk

CONTENTS Main Works Urban Fantasy: A House for the Artist Ⅱ

Conservatory for Reviving Vernacular Ecosystem: Yangtze River Museum of Ecology and Geology

Rotating Modules: Prefabricated Residential Tower for Migrant Workers

Hive Modules: Robotics Research and Exhibition Center Geodetic Puzzle: Parameterized Device Design: Modular Variable Micro Settlement Camp

Conceptual Exterior Render

Unban Fantasy: A House for the Artist Ⅱ He Hua Tang, Nanjing, China Bachelor 4, Spring 2022 Instructor: Pan Hui

Under the research of roof variation and structure objectification with my partner, Tianyu Li, we applied our research in a project of housing for an artist. This is the second design completed individually by me. The site of the house is located in the He Hua Tang, which is in the old city in the south of Nanjing. The original building was demolished due to its aging structure. As a replacement, a two-story courtyard house is designed for Southeast University art Professor Zhao Jun. The building meets two functional requirements: living spaces and artist studio which can also be used as a small gallery.

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The old city in Nanjing is cluttered and dense, and the environment is chaotic and disordered. The design strives to control various factors: sight, noise and lighting, so as to minimize the influence of surrounding environment on the life quality of the artist.

At the same time, the concrete structure balances functions and atmosphere of internal spaces in a coherent and artistic way.

Distance: 240m San Shan Road Station

Subway

Area: 40536m2 Coverage: 57.40％ Site Area: 1040m2

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Texture of City In order to protect the urban texture of the old city, the design was developed based on both volume and height, to make sure that the house can perfectly integrate the plane fabric of the old city and the city skyline.

Noise The high population density issue leads to the heavy distribution of the noise. The design aims to minimizes the impact of noise on the artist's life by means of structural sound insulation, optimization of window orientation and sound absorption of vegetation.

Lighting Due to the lighting requirements of the special functions of the studio and gallery, the design makes the studio and gallery receive great lighting and keeps the users' sight away from the chaotic scene of the old city by controlling the structure and the orientation of windows.

Function In order to meet different needs of residence and studio, the two functional spaces are superimposed and nested vertically to create two sets of continuous spaces with varying heights. At the same time, different functions are arranged orderly according to the change of privacy requirements.

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Conceptual Exterior Render

Conservatory for Reviving Vernacular Ecosystem: Yangtze River Museum of Ecology and Geology Mufu Mountain, Nanjing, China Bachelor 4, Fall 2021 Instructor: Ge Ming

The project site locates in the riverside belt of Mufu Mountain, adjacent to the Yangtze River in the north. The project is designed to be the Yangtze River Museum of Ecology and Geology, aiming to protect and revive the ecological system of the Yangtze River.

Based on the terrain, the project massing has been raised up from the river to the mountain. The elevated part of the building was placed close to the ridge, so the volume of the building corresponds to the mountain. The building massing follows the trend of the valley and the Yangtze River in both plane and height, so as to show its respect for nature. The design introduces the mountain and water into the building, making the building a medium where mountains and rivers coexist.

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The project site is located on the riverbank where the Mufu mountain and the Yangtze River meet. Inspired by the cross section of the site, the massing is designed to be elevated by three levels in general from the river to the mountain. The environment of the site also changes with elevation, from silt bank to mountain land.

SECONDARY ENTRANCE

Space and Program The interior programs are divided into three parts corresponded to the three-level elevated massing. The independent spaces can be regarded as "rooms" connected and partly overlapped with one another to interact with each other, creating series of spatial systems.

Influenced by the topography of the environment, the themed exhibition spaces are placed from river to mountain environment as the terrain rises, using the traffic corridor located at the second elevation as the medium. While visiting, the themes of exhibitions echo with the environment outside, letting visitors experience the narration of nature.

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Meanwhile, there are thousands of aquatic and terrestrial plants endemic to the Yangtze River growing around the site, which are living specimens of the Yangtze River ecosystem and its history. In this case, two elevated parts of the building are set up as greenhouses, which are used to cultivate and display them.

Axonometric Diagram

Site Analysis

Massing Generation

Massing Adjustment

Structure Design

Design Processs

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2.1 Entrance 2.2 Reception 2.3 Toilet 2.4 Security room 2.5 Management Office 2.6 Reference room

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1.1 Exhibition Hall Ⅰ 1.2 Exhibition Gallery Ⅰ 1.3 Transportation Corridor 1.4 Exhibition Hall Ⅱ 1.5 Exhibition Gallery Ⅱ 1.6 Conference Hall 1.7 Temporary Exhibition 1.8 Outdoor Exhibition

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Spatial Organization Far: 0.51 Coverage: 27.00％ Site area: 20000m2 Building Foot Print: 5390m2 Building area: 10210m2

The interior programs are distributed based on the natural terrain. Programs are connecting with each other by the traffic corridor located at the middle-elevated massing.

The traffic corridor becomes the central link of circulation, transportation and equipment piping arrangement, and also the transition space between exhibition spaces.

Joint Structure Ⅰ

A-A Section

Joint Structure Ⅱ

Hiden Frame Window Structure

Planter Structure

Section - Narration The elevation of the building rises continuously from lower sea-level to h i g h e r. S e r i e s o f i nte re st i n g p e d e st r i a n c i rc u l at i o n s a re d e s i g n e d fo r v i s i to rs t o ex p l o re . W h i l e wa l k i n g a l o n g t h e d e s i g n e d c i rc u l a t i o n s , v i s i t o rs w i l l fe e l a s i f t h e y a r e h i k i n g i n t h e w i l d a n d e x p e r i e n c i n g t h e n a r ra t i o n o f n a t u r e .

Green House Two green houses are designed to be at the highest elevation, cultivating a variety of plants vernacular to the Yangtze River inside. Unique ecological landscape along the Yangtze River are here for visitors to watch, smell and even touch. The greenhouses in this case become the lung of the whole building, regulating the thermal environment and natural ventilation inside the building. The greenhouses are supported by wooden truss structure to correspond with the vegetation displaying inside and obtain proper lighting, forming a soft and easeful atmosphere.

North Elevation View from Model ( 1: 300 )

South Aerial View from Model ( 1: 300 )

Conceptual Street View Render

Rotating Modules: Prefabricated Residential Tower for Migrant Workers Nanjing, China Bachelor 4, Fall 2021 Instructor: Bao Li

Sites

Nanjing has about 2 million migrant workers, most of whom are young people engaged in various industries. However, most of them do not own a fixed residence. For them, their most urgent need is to have a home in Nanjing, with decent environment and people in similar situations living around to associate with.

At the same time, in the process of urban renewal in Nanjing, there are many idle lands with different shape and area among the city texture. We aim to design a universal module to build residence towers for migrant workers on these lands. As the number of migrant workers increases rapidly year by year, the design adopt prefabricated steel structures, which can greatly reduce the time cost of construction, to meet the increasing needs.

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Prefabricated Module Frame ×4 SLAB SHIPPING

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Assembly and Shipping

Vertical Parking

Axonometric Analysis

Detail Analysis

Conceptual Construction Render

Partial Section

4 Types of Layout With the traffic cylinder as the center, the spaces of the tower rotate up floor by floor, so that the roof gardens can be connected with each other in a spiral way and have enough space height for vegetation growth, while ensuring the lighting of each house type and platform without affecting each other.

Balcony - Roof Garden Due to the rotation of the module, the residents can enjoy not only the roof garden on their own floor, but also the view of other gardens on other floors at any time, even from their balconies or windows.

Layout Variation Migrant workers have different requirements according to their conditions. Based on the basic module, multiple plans including single room, double room, couple room, shared rental room and family room are designed.

These plans are flexibly combined to produce multiple combination plans to meet the diverse living needs.

Living Space In addition to the given plans, residents can also flexibly self-define the interior layout. Because of the external placement of the equipment pipe space, residents can even choose not to install the suspended ceiling.

Cross-section

Hive Modules: Robotics Research and Exhibition Center Campus of SEU, Nanjing, China Bachelor 3, Fall 2020 Instructor: Zhou Lin

In order to encourage students to study advanced technologies, Southeast University plans to design and build a Robotics Research and Exhibition Center on an empty site in campus. Due to the unique site conditions of the campus, the construction was required to minimize the impact on the daily life of the students.

The design uses prefabricated steel structure umbrella units to meet the needs of transportation and rapid construction. The construction takes only one month to complete under ideal conditions. The motif of hexagon also spatially divides the building into hive modules, which not only meets the flexible combination of internal spaces, but also represents the hive for cultivating talents.

Foundation Pouring

Pillar Installation

Staffolding

Prefabricated Structure Installation

Skin Installation

Completion

Construction

Axonometric Analysis

Module Combination

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3 PUBLIC SERVICE AREA 3.1 Public Office 3.2 Cafe 3.3 Conference Hall 3.4 Reading room 3.5 Office 3.6 Auxiliary Space 3.7 Corridor

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2 OFFICE AREA 2.1 Reception 2.2 Laboratory 2.3 Office 2.4 Meeting room 2.5 Storage 2.6 Reference room

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1 EXHIBITION AREA 1.1 Entrance Hall 1.2 Reception 1.3 Robot Exhibition Hall 1.4 Control room 1.5 Auxiliary Space

First Floor Ground Floor

Far: 0.49 Coverage: 41.74％ Site area: 12800m2 Building Foot Print: 5340m2 Building area: 8550m2

Exhibition area

Parameterized Device Design Modular Variable Micro Settlement Camp: Geodetic Puzzle (2022)

Starting from the theme of this "micro settlement", we found that the formation of different forms of settlements can be seen as the result of interference of different forms and magnitude.

Through the experiment of interference simulation in fixed areas, we have obtained several representative forms of micro settlements, including five different types, such as single center and double center. The different types of simulation results are mapped with the micro settlements to form the distribution scheme of the theme micro settlements in the camping area.

As for construction, we designed the smallest unit of the device as a diamond of 16 square meters, which is the smallest available area for a series of activities such as selling and medical treatment. On this basis, monomers can be combined and spliced into a variety of forms, including horizontal expansion, semi enclosure and complete polymerization. Different combination forms have different impacts on the surrounding tents. As shown in the general drawing, there will be multiple settlement forms such as single center, multi center, linear, etc. A variety of space types can serve different outdoor camping activities.

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Data Collection and Processing

Sun Lake

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Gravitational Force - Interference Algarithms

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Model Output

We found that the formation of different forms of settlements can be seen as the result of interference of different forms and magnitude. Through the experiment of interference simulation in fixed areas, we have obtained several representative forms of micro settlements, including five different types, such as single center and double center. Using such forms, various layouts of the campsite are deduced.

Single center

Double center

Multicenter

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Central radiation

Multiple Layouts

Canvas roof In terms of the choice of roof material, we hope the roof to be soft and light, but also has a certain light transmission. So the design chose canvas as roof material. When ever the night falls, the lights in the tent will map the texture woven by bamboo, just like blooming flowers on the ground.

Bamboo stripe roof For the construction of the curved roof, the structural material needs to have the ability to bend, we chose the bamboo strip weaving method for roof construction. The woven roof will make people inside the device feel like covered by trees.

Precast steel secondary beam Steel secondary beams are set between the curved beams to increase the lateral resistance of the whole structure, keep the roof upright without structural distortion.

Prefabricated curved beam We wish the device to show a more natural and soft impression in the campsite. In the process of contour line, trigonometric function is used to design it like waves. At the same time, it can make better use of the bending ability of bamboo and show the characteristics of bamboo structure.

Prefabricated bamboo bent column In order to make the whole device lighter, the design fabricate a number of bamboos into curved strips, then bundled them together into columns as the vertical support system of the whole device.

Axonometric Analysis

Flea Market

Prefabricated bamboo bent column: 28 Bundle column barrels: 7 Prefabricated steel structure connectors: 7 Prefabricated curved beam: 42 prefabricated steel secondary beams: 28 Function Setting: Selling, medical service

Prefabricated bamboo bent column: 36 Bundle column barrels: 9 Prefabricated steel structure connectors: 9 Prefabricated curved beam: 54 prefabricated steel secondary beams: 36 Functional Setting: book bar

Prefabricated bamboo bent column: 48 Bundle column barrels:12 Prefabricated steel structure connectors: 12 Prefabricated curved beam: 72 prefabricated steel secondary beams: 48 Functional Setting: Selling, mini bar

Prefabricated bamboo bent column:40 Bundle column barrels: 10 Prefabricated steel structure connectors: 10 Prefabricated curved beam: 60 prefabricated steel secondary beams: 40 Functional Setting: Tent rental

Prefabricated bamboo bent column: 52 Bundle column barrels: 13 Prefabricated steel structure connectors: 13 Prefabricated curved beam: 78 prefabricated steel secondary beams: 52 Functional Setting: Book bar, yoga bar

Prefabricated bamboo bent column: 56 Bundle column barrels:14 Prefabricated steel structure connectors: 14 Prefabricated curved beam: 84 prefabricated steel secondary beams: 56 Functional Setting: Small cinema

Prefabricated bamboo bent column: 72 Bundle column barrels: 18 Prefabricated steel structure connectors:18 Prefabricated curved beam: 108 prefabricated steel secondary beams: 72 Functional Setting:Indoor Reading Club

Prefabricated bamboo bent column: 76 Bundle column barrels:19 Prefabricated steel structure connectors: 19 Prefabricated curved beam: 114 prefabricated steel secondary beams: 76 Functional Setting:Small outdoor theater

Prefabricated bamboo bent column: 96 Bundle column barrels: 24 Prefabricated steel structure connectors: 24 Prefabricated curved beam: 114 prefabricated steel secondary beams: 96 Functional Setting:Indoor theater, yoga bar

Prefabricated bamboo bent column: 124 Bundle column barrels: 31 Prefabricated steel structure connectors: 31 Prefabricated curved beam: 186 prefabricated steel secondary beams: 124 Functional Setting: outdoor performance

Outdoor Concert

Conceptual Sketch, 2022

" Exploring a new architecture for contemporary era, nothing can be more attractive to an architect ! " ——Tianxia Jia