Jiaqi Yao's portfolio for Architectural Design MArch

Yao Jiaqi Portfolio Application for MArch Architectural Design The Bartlet School of Architecture University College London Tel: +8618202302050 E-mail: yaojiaqi9901@163.com

Yao Jiaqi BArch|(+86)18202302050|yaojiaqi9901@163.com

EDUCATION 09.2017-Present Chongqing University, chongqing, China Bachelor of Architecture

INTERNSHIP 12.2021-Present East China Architecture Design and Research Institue Intern, Reasearch and Drafting 07.2020-08.2020 Chongqing Tianhua Design Co.Ltd Intern, Technical drawings and Modeling

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ACADEMIC PROJECT 06.2020-07.2020 Mapping Group, Historical Building Survey, Chongqing University Team, Old Buildings Mapping and Report Writing

ACTIVITIES

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OTHER Award: National Grand Prix of Art Works for Students of Architecture and Environmental Design in Higher Education Institutions (2019) Software: PS, Sketchup, CAD, Pr, Lumion(Proficient), AI, InDesign(Moderate)

Office+

10

Architectural renovation Individual work

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The Residence for Women Living-alone

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Residential housing Individual work

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09.2018-09.2019 Sports Department, Student Union, Chongqing Univeristy Team, Organizing Sports Events at the Collage 09.2017-09.2019 Visual Arts Club, Photography group, Chongqing University Team, Photographing and Writing Tweets

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Urban renewal Individual work

07.2019 Global Vision Summer Study Tour to G5 Super Elite University in the UK Team, Photographing and Group Report 07.2018 Architecture Investigation of Xijiang Thousands of Hmong Village Team, Filed Trip and Drawing

Community of The Nature& Man-Made

Dual Stone

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Gymnasium Collaborated with Liu Jiannan, Liu Yingzhuo, Yang Shaogang

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Memory Booth

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Landscape installation Individual work

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Other Work Physical model, graphic, photography

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1 Community Type: Urban Renewal Time: Apr.2021 to Jul .2021 Location:Shapingba District, Chongqing Individuale work

PROJECT OVERVIEW The design is based on both the development increment and the optimization of the stock. According to the existing urban environment, the development of urban land and the improvement of the community environment are the goals. The water plant office land and weather station within the land are considered to be changed and set up with new functions. The factory leased by Chongqing University is now The area can be re-adjusted to use functions and open space as a design condition. For existing communities, the environment and traffic conditions should be improved, public facilities and public spaces should be supplemented, and reform guidelines should be established.

SITE PRESENTATION

The site is located in the Sand Magnetic Cultural Belt, Shapingba District, Chongqing. Facing the Jialing River, backed by Gele Mountain. The south is adjacent to universities and the core business district, the north is connected to the ancient town of Ciqikou, the southwest is the Shapingba Main Street and the light rail ring line, and the east is the Jialing River.

SITE SECTION TYPE

Residential Area

SITE AREA

Mountain Forest

Jialing River

The site is low in the northwest and high in the southeast. The terrain is complex and the height difference is large, which presents three-tire platform as a whole. The use of elevation difference can form a good riverside landscape sight corridor.

SITE IMPRESSION Residential zone

Residential Commercial School Cultral Construction Landscape Road Metro Line

There are many residential configurations around the site, but few or missing phenomena such as urban green space and cultural attractions.

Cable Works

The factory has obvious industrial characteristics, and the structural skin can be directly retained, the internal space can be transformed.

Weather bureau

The architectural model has a single structure, weak functionality, and no clear features. The site’s vitality is poor and the building without functional value should be demolished.

Water plant

The plant is huge and the shape has no characteristics.

Its coordination with the surrounding environment is so low that should be considered more of the relationship with the city.

SITE STATUS ANALYSIS Transportation

Pathway

Density Distribution

Green Space

Residential

The bus station is close to the site,and the service basically covers the surrounding area.

The green footpath is created by connecting the landscape and funcation nodes into a loop.

As an important hub in the surrounding area, countless people gather and disperse here every day.

The ecological green open space mainly includes square, waterfront area, forest, etc.

The area along the riverside of the site has good green landscape resources, but the space under the bridge along the river is not used well, resulting in a waste of landscape resources.

Dilapidated residential building

The buildings are dilapidated, with a strong sense of closure, a messy layout, and a poor sense of scale and experience. These buildings should be completely demolished to redefine the function of the area.

RESIDENTS' ACTIVITIES & NEEDS ANALYSIS

CONCEPT ILLUSTRATION Ecosystem Industrial heritage Public Life Working

Shopping

Exercise

Relax

Sightseeing

Stroll

Ecosystem + Industrial heritage

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Public Life

Working

Ecosystem

DESIGN STRATEGIES

Natural landscape

Ecology Management Green space infiltration

Square

Community Garden

Park

Waterfront Park

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FUNCTION REQUIREMENT DIAGRAM RESIDENTS pathway

old plant

VISITORS

small shop

WORKERS

small shop

square

VENDORS playground

cafe

Industrial layout adjustment

Transformation

Functional update

Working

ACTIVITIES CIRCLE PATTERN RESIDENTS

VISITORS

VENDORS

Due to the extreme height difference of the site, a two-streaming strategy was adopted in the planning, and a circular streamline was used to connect the old and new areas in the site.

Strategy 2

Streamlined Garden

Regarding the water factory site, according to its original characteristics, transform it into a site park in the core area of the site.

Construct

Strategy 3

The original site has poor spatial accessibility, and the various nodes of the site are connected by re-planning the pedestrian and vehicular road system and adding new communities.

Residing Leisure

Entertainment

Multi-dimensional Landscape

The complex height difference in the site provides good conditions for the multi-dimensional landscape.

Retail

FURTHER NEEDS

WORKERS

Working Leisure Social Open event

SPATIAL FRAMEWORK Road system

Residential system

PLAYGROUND

METRO LINE

Metro line passes through the site through a tunnel.

HOUSING

According to functional requirements, the site is zoned and route planned. Change the current situation that the pedestrian roads of the original site are blocked and people and vehicles do not diverge, forming a loop on the whole.

Strategy 1

New & Old COMBINATION

The site has a relatively high proportion of residential land, and the urban function is relatively single, lacking diversified features. Take the display and use of the unique space of the old factory as the starting point, and implant related new functions and public services to activate the site.

Public Life

PARKING

FREIGHT

EXERCISING

LEISURE

ARTS SHOW

GATHERING

BUSINESS

TEA PARTY

MARKET STALL

PANIC

CO-WORKING

RUGULAR NEEDS

CONVERSATION

BASIC NEEDS

SHOPPING

CULTURE PRESENTS

SIGHTSEEING

STROLL

RESIDE

Co-working community

The building in this site as an industrial symbol of the past has a certain retention value. In order to make these buildings suitable for the current demand for space use. For the factory building relics on the site, it will be preserved and remodeled as an industrial relic to display.

Transform

Heritage Protection

Rebuild

Landscape system COR

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CITY ROAD

People can get here by car, taxi and bus.

PLANTING

The community provided space for planting trees and vegetables In the courtyard and roof garden.

ENTERTAINMENT

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MULTI-DIMENSIONAL LANDSCAPE

LEIS

CO-WORKING

PARK

Behavioral and visual multi-dimensional landscape experience

WATERFRONT SPACE TYPE

WET RETAIL

PARKING

The space under the bridge provides a place for temporary parking.

There are resident-owned retail stores on the first floor of the community.

PAVILION BOAT

Waterfront wharf makes shipping possible.

PARKING LOT

The open-air parking lot adopts the form of separate stations.

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MASTER PLAN

Economical & Technical Indexes Land Area: 15.1ha Building Area: 197000 ㎡ Plot Ratio: 1.8 Green Rate: 30% Max Building Height: 84m

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Mountain Trail

Riverside Street Suspended Path Cycle Path

Rromenade

PARTITION DESIGN

SECTION

ELEVATION

GROUND PLAN Residential

Heritage Park

Co-working Zone

2 Office+ Type: Architecture Renovation Time: Apr.2020 to Jul .2020 Location:Shapingba District, Chongqing Individuale work

PROJECT OVERVIEW The project is based on the design of the previous city to further transform and design the buildings on the site. It starts from the consideration of social environment and natural environment, in order to stimulate the vitality of old buildings, create a place suitable for more people to participate, take the cultural and creative industry as the leading factor, and locate the cultural and creative community in land use. On the basis of retaining the original building structure and partial walls, inserting a new building volume, on the one hand, forms a regional symbol mark, on the other hand, the new volume has a certain ecological effect and improves the environmental quality of the building space.

INDUSTRIAL ANALYSIS

The site located in the Shapingba Cultural District with Chongqing University as the center, is surrounded by rich cultural, educational, scientific research and tourism resources. The area where the venue is relatively complete.

The cultural industry is in the rising stage of development, and the area where the site is located and its surroundings constitute a complete cultural and creative industrial zone.

STORYBOARD—Life scene collage SURVIVAL CONTENT

AUTOMOTIVE

ELECTRONIC INFORMATION

TOURIST AGRICULTURE High-tech industrial zone

DAILY ACTIVITIES

Village

Collage town

Cultural tourism zone Industrial Parks

Industrial zone

Microelectronics Industrial Park

3km Tourist attraction

Meteorological administrtion

Residential zone

Plant D

Plant A Plant B Plant C

TARGET CONSUMER ANALYSIS

Based on the surrounding survey of the previous plan, considering the “resurrection” of the “dead” buildings, the scope of the target group was expanded. And determine the type of space based on the crowd's seasonal activity preference data.

JAN

FEB

MAR

APR

MAY

JUN

JUL

AUG

SEP

OCT

NOV

INSPIRATION & CONCEPT DRAWINGS

DEC

Tourist Sightseeing Art Exhibition Shopping Dining Rest

Resident Sightseeing Walk Shopping Dining Rest Exhibition Exercise

Space-time

Extracting elements

Plane composition

Space compostion

The design inspiration comes from the time difference and spatial parallelism between the past and the present.

The circular elements of gears in watches produced in the industrial period are extracted as spatial word order to express a dialogue in time and space.

Student Sightseeing Art Exhibition Shopping Dining Reading Exercise Walk

CONCEPT COLLAGE

Shops

Model making& show room Design office

Designer Working Conference Dining Rest Exercise Exhibition

Designer Working Conference Dining Rest Exhibition

Art gallery

Cafe

FUNCTION STRATEGY

Crowd analysis has obtained the basic space requirements, which are divided into eight types according to functionality, and placed in the original building. Each functional space has multiple activities for more people to enjoy.

PlantA

Gymnasium

Skate park

Rest area

GENERATION

PlantB

Site Connecting

Site Connecting

Landform

Overal Relationship

Roof Form

Facade Dividing

Extrude

Final Form

PlantC

OVERALL PERSPECTIVE RENDERING AERIAL VISUAL

OUTDOOR ‘CORE’ VISUAL

Visual view from the bridge on the northwest side of the site.0 Location-The Gaojia Garden Bridge, ShaPingba District.

LECTURE HALL +SPORTS GROUND ART GALLERY CO-WORKING

SLOPING GARDEN

THE GAOJIA GARDEN BRIDGE

CULTURE CREATIVITY MALL

Basement floor plan

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03 01.MAIN ENTERANCE 02.RECEPTION 03.DUTY ROOM 04.LIFT 05.SKATE AREA 06.SKATE SHOP 07.SEATING AREA 08. TOILETS

09.STAFF ROOM 10.CAFE 11.OTHER ENTRANCE 12.STORAGE 13.RESTAURANT 20.GALLERY 24.KITCHEN 25.SERVERY

INDOOR RENDERING

SKATE AREA VISUALFirst floor: Visual view from indoor skate park.

Ground floor plan

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GALLERY VISUAL

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Second floor: Visual view from the art gallery.

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08 08.TOILETS 13.CAFE 14.LOUNGE 15.MEETING ROOM 16.TEA ROOM/BAR 17.FITNESS ROOM 18.VIEWING BALCONY 19.FIRE EXIT

CAFE VISUAL

Ground floor: Visual view from the Cafe.

20.GALLERY 21. COURTYARD 23.DISCUSSION ROOM 24.UTILITY ROOM 25.REST AREA 26.MODEL MAKING ROOM

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Second floor plan

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RESTAURANT VISUAL

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Lower floor: Visual view from the reataurant.

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INDOOR RENDERING

OFFICE VISUAL

Third floor: Visual view from entrance to office area.

Third floor plan 27. ART OFFICE 28.TEA ROOM 29.LEISURE AREA 30.RECEPTION HALL 31.FUNCTION HALL 32.CO-WORKING SPCE

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'CORE' VISUAL

Second floor: Visual view from the access to art workshop.

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SECTION RENDERING

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AXIAL ANALYSIS DIAGRAM

NORTH ELEVATION

Membrane Structure Roof

Pitched Roof &Glass Roof

Steel Structure

SECTION B-B 3F Office & Art studio

2F Office & Rest area

WEST ELEVATION

1F Gymnasium & Cafe

B1 Skate park & Shop

B2 Restaurant

Sighting Flow Logistics Flow Office Flow

NORTH ELEVATION

SECTION A-A

PHYSICAL MODEL

3 The Residence for Women Living-alone Type: Residential housing Time: Feb.2021 to Apr.2021 Individuale work

PROJECT OVERVIEW The proposition of living alone is becoming more and more obvious in our field of vision, and we realize that living alone may have become the dominant lifestyle of some young people today. Women constitute the majority of the contemporary population living alone.

This design aimed at contemporary young women living alone explored their daily activities and considers the relationship between public activities and private activities. The open and private spaces are connected by the walkway, creating multiple public platforms for communication and activities to alleviate the sense of loneliness of living alonerelationships.

RESEARCH DATA DIAGRAM

Through the analysis of the data on youth living alone, it is found that as the number of women living alone increases, some social problems have emerged, such as the safety of living alone and emotional problems like loneliness.

women living alone face loneliness, they have a lot of free time to engage in any activities of WOMEN LIVING ALONGE VENUES MAP Although interest which the city can provide places for. These venues provide ideas for architectural design—— treat the places in the city as units, shrink them and place them in the building volume to create a more convenient and comprehensive place to meet the daily life of women living alone.

LIVE-ALONE YOUTHS WORLDWIDE

LIVE-ALONE YOUTHS IN CHINA

SITE ANALYSIS

According to previous data analysis, Beijing, as a first-tier city in China, has the largest proportion of women living alone and has the fastest growing trend. Therefore, the venue was chosen near the International Trade Center in Chaoyang District, Beijing.There are many surrounding communities in the area, and the infrastructure and business types can meet daily needs, suitable for female white-collar workers living alone.

SITE

Venue

Transportation node

Commercial

Cultural&Art

park & greening

DESIGN STRATESGY

DIAGRAME OF THE TIMELINE DURING WORKDAYS PRIVATE AREA

DIAGRAME OF THE STREAMLINE BETWEEN PRIVATE & PUBLIC ROOMS PUBLIC AREA

CONCEPT COLLAGE Private room

PRIVATE AREA

CONCEPT GRNERATION 1

Video hall

3

The Overall Generation

Layered Generation(Habitable Space)

Bar

basic volume

Yoga studio

connections 2

add & cut away

roof deck

vertical transport

special space

vertical greening

further division

holing

exterior wall

double

Layered Generation(Public Space)

Kitchen

yard& atrium& public

vertical division

units

Salon Garden

accumulation

vertical transport

floor layering

retaining

final form

The lower floors of the building are open public spaces in the vertical direction. Starting from the third floor, the residential and shared spaces each occupy about half of the space area. The central area and above are dominated by residential areas.

PLAN A

B

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B

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3F

4F

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The apartment layout is divided into three floors.

Many people live in the low area, which is more open and suitable for social interaction. The high area is mainly for living alone, with better privacy and a quieter environment.

HOUSE TYPE DESIGN Type1 House for 1

Type2 House for 2

Type3 House for 3

SECTION Type1

Type2

Type3

SECTION A-A

INDOOR RENDERING

SECTION B-B

SECTION C-C

4 Dual Rock Type: Gymnasium design Time: Feb.2021 to Apr.2021 Location:Campus B of Chongqing University, Shapingba District, Chongqing Team work( I'm mainly responsible for the general plan and architectural form design, as well as internal space division.)

PROJECT OVERVIEW The project is designed for a 5,000-seat medium-sized gymnasium. The design is used as a sports competition and training venue. The shape conveys the breath of the times and shows the new modern style; structure and architecture are combined.

The design responds to the location and the viewing effect of the main display surface by echoing the mountains behind it in the architectural shape. Through the staggered structure, a corridor is naturally formed, which strengthens the connection between the two ends of the site, and at the same time, the corridor is used to smooth the height difference.

SITE ANALYSIS

The venue is located in Zone B of Chongqing University, Shapingba District. There is no large sports center in this area. This project is not only used as a campus gym, but also has the function of undertaking district-level sports events and daily sports activities for residents around the school.

Teaching building Civil Engineering College Residential zone Site area Laboratory building

GENERATION

Competition hall

Training hall

Stadium layout

Plane cutting

Stadiumconnection

Venue connection

Plane composition

Stadium size

Volume cutting

Roof undulation

Volume connection

Final composition

SPATIAL ELEMENTS

MASTER PLAN 0

20m

40m

60m

GROUND PLAN 0

5m

STRUCTURE DESIGN

10m 15m 20m 25m Alloy roof panel

External facade & curtain wall Combination of mesh plane and surface

Grid plane positioning structure location Curtain Wall Structure Generate plane structure based on grid

Stretching a planar structure to form a space truss

Light steel roof

Main structure

Space truss

5 Memory Booth Type: Landscape installation Time: Sep.2021 to Oct.2021 Location:London, England Individuale work

PROJECT OVERVIEW This project explores the possibility of prism refracted light spots in shaping space, and childhood memories endow the color of light with a memorial meaning. Childhood memories are stacked up in our minds in the form of colorful scraps. The most impressive parts for me are where I lived and where I received education, and those regarding games, playmates, and food. These elements remind me of colorful light, so I use a prism as a medium to capture the light and shadow refracted by the light, and discover the possibility of creating a spatial form.

MEMORY MONTAGE

The colors and shapes remind me of various colors refracted from a prism when light passes through it. It is a combination of many colors and patterns of various shapes. While the prism has a definite shape, I attempted to transform my personal memories into tangible parts via it’s outline.

CONCEPT&GENERATION

Our brands are stimulated when our eyes meet colors and light in space. On the one hand, our emotional response, or even resonance with space, is aroused. On the other hand, such emotions bring back childhood scenes, which are images with specific shapes and colors. lively

excitied

happy

placid

relaxed

lively excitied

Plane Sktech

happy

placid

relaxed

Based on the colorful light-and-shadow ground displayed in the experiment, I illustrated the installation's 2D form and colorful atmosphere, which were associated with the events to determine how to divide the space into subareas.

Block Type

I created spaces of different forms via paper-folding based on the form of the plane.

The interior space is, to some extent, affected as the form changes. In the next step, I confirmed the final form of the space.

I selected the space that is better adaptable to the event in the final design. The basic skeleton is triangular, and some parts of it were hollowed out to ensure better lighting and ventilating effect adaptable.

EXTRACTED FORM

Those memories are reminiscent of prisms, through which various colors are refracted. In the experiment, through a prism light is broken out into various colors, casting different geometric shapes. The intertwined colors and shapes are made as a fundamental language forming a space.

Handwork

ACTIVITY DIAGRAM B

A

AClimbing

C

B Performance

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C Skating

D Painting

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OPPOSITE - VR WORLD

Gaming Room

Bar

Digital Art Exhibition Outdoor music stand

OTHER WORK

GRAPHIC

PHYSICAL MODEL

PHOTOGRAPHY

High-level design model, Dec 2020

Neon night in Cambodia, Jan 2020