Portfolio

Selected Works (2018-2021) for Architectural Internship

Education

Internships

2016-18 Mark Twain International School of Bucharest, Romania

May 2019 - August 2019 Shengxia Decoration Engineering Co., Ltd

International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme

2018 - 2022 University of Toronto, Canada

Completing professional site visits Participated in the deisgn of a service room of a Park in Wenzhou, China Drew the construction drawings and modelling of a residential building in Wenzhou, China

Bachelor of Arts in Architecture Specialist in Architectural Studies: Design of Architecture, Landscape, and Urbanism Stream Minor in Visual Studies Certificate in Sustainability and Built Environment

June 2021 - August 2021 AICO(SHANGHAI) Architecture Design CO., Ltd Designing concept diagrams and generating site analysis Participated in design seminar disccussions

2022 - In Progress George Brown College, Canada

Certificate in Revit for Architecture Program

Competitions

Qiongsen Jin I will be graduating from University of Toronto (St. George Campus), Canada at the end of April.

The learnings through the last four years allowed me to grow and reflect upon the notion of architecture not only as a combination between form and function but rather as a tool that responds and interacts with built-form, people, and community. Studios, Study trips, internships, community interactions have further enabled the exploration of architecture as an instrument in questioning the existing forms and ideologies, as a part of the form and spacemaking process, such that the process, the spatial experience, and the interaction within spaces and people hold more value than the end product.

Toronto +1 416 -821-8356 qiongsen.jin@mail.utoronto.ca jinjonson00@gmail.com

May 2020 Mooo3 ISO[Nation] Architectural Competition

Honourable Mention, TOP 36 Project Name: FLEXi-OFFi-HOMiE Group Members: Jiachen Du, Yuxuan Lin, and Qiongsen Jin A furniture design that improves work-from-home experience during global pandemic

July 2020 Brewed Cafe Design, UNI Architectural Competition Editor's Choice, Shortlisted Project Name: The Nexus Group Members: Yi Lin, Zhicheng Wang, and Qiongsen Jin

Interests Painting, Photography and Video Editing

Software Skills Rhino Grasshopper Sketchup 3Ds Max AutoCAD V-ray Enscape Lumion Photoshop Illustrator InDesign Premiere Pro Revit

Language Mandarin(Native), English (Fluent), Romanian(Fluent), and German(Beginner)

Table of Contents 01 The Refraction House A House Design Project Course: ARC361 - Architecture Studio III Date: Fall 2021

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02 The Chinatown: Void A border study and analysis of Toronto's Chinatown Course: ARC465 - Advanced Topics in Architecture Date: Winter 2021

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03 The Cloud Pavilion A Pavilion that houses the work of Brian Jungen Course: JAV101 - How to Design Almost Anything Date: Winter 2018

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04 Nobody's Land A Border Study of Dundas Street W Course: ARC465 - Advanced Topics in Architecture Date: Winter 2021

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05 By Chance?

120Hours Architectural Competition A Self Assembly System Providing Live Stream of the Pacific Garbage Patch Date: September 2020

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06 The Suspend Microhome Architectural Competition Date: Novemeber 2021

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The Refraction House Course: ARC361 | Instructor: Nova Tayona | Date: Fall 2021 Location: Kensington Market, Toronto Duration: 3 months

The house is located at Kensington Market, where the original building on this site was a two-story garage. Since I am replacing the garage with a residential house, I decided to approach my design by starting with a typology study of the surrounding garage on the site. Based on the research, I realized that the utility of garages in the Kensington market has shifted from private to public (commercial). However, what has been changed is only their function with no adaptation of form based on their utility. Kensington Market is a place that represents a unique shopping experience, a community worth living in, an artistic haven. Hence, I think the “garage shops” in Kensington Market should reflect the cultural meaning of the site. The house is a mirror of my response to the site, where I want to challenge the existing typology of the garage and introduce the notion of “form follows function.”

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Site Analysis: The Refraction House From the typology analysis, I examined different types of garages and their relationship to their surroundings. I then extracted two case studies of the garage and investigated the design challenge they are currently facing and used them to develop the base rules for my design. In this first case study, I investigated the issue of privacy. Since our site is situated on one of the main streets of Kensington Market, the pedestrian can see the indoor space. Hence, in order to create more privacy, I pushed one of the walls inwards to a point. In response to the site and the surrounding buildings, which prevent light from entering the house, I pushed the roof upwards to a point to create a skylight.

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Step 01 : Extrude The house occupies the full size of the existing site and extrudes to 12 meters.

Step 02 : Rotate The windows on the second floor rotate towards Augusta Street to expand the view.

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Step 03 : Point-Push A public parking space is created by pushing through a point. In this way, what was taken by the house is returned to the public.

Step 04 : Tapper and Trim to Create Skylight The skylight connects the third and second floors with direct light.

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Step 05 : Push Form to Create Skylight Another skylight is generated for a resting/ reading space.

Step 06 : Outcome: Sunpath Created Due to the tight site conditions, point push is the main technique in the form-finding process.

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Area: 50 m2

Living Room Area: 22 m2 2

Kitchen Area: 19 m2 3

Playroom + Work Space Area: 20 m2 4

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Step 05 : Push Form to Create Skylight

Step 06 : Outcome: Sunpath Created

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Parent's Bedroom Area: 16 m2 5

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Kid's Bedroom Area: 13 m2 7

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Area: 43 m2

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The Chinatown: Void Course: ARC465| Instructor: Anne-Marie Armstrong | Group Members: Yuxuan Lin and Qiongsen Jin Date: Winter 2021 |Location: Spadina Avenue and Dundas Street, Toronto | Duration: 2 months Role: responsible for modelling and drawings (tyological, isometrics, street elevation, street view, and timeline)

Where is the boundary of Toronto’s Chinatown?

With the Toronto urban renewal project that took place from the 1950s to the 1970s, the old Chinatown was demolished and replaced by the new city hall. As the planned development zones had left Chinatown with a limited option for relocation, most early Chinese immigrants decided to rebuild Chinatown on Spadina Avenue and Dundas Street. This project focuses on architectures and urban planning relationship with borders of Chinatown in terms of political, ethnical, and typological conditions. The border of Toronto’s Chinatown is divided into 1) visible boundary, that is, the architectural and street typology boundary 2) invisible boundary, that is, the political and economic boundary. The visible boundaries of Chinatown are shaped by political and economic forces connected to global interests that form an invisible boundary.

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Questionnaire: Defining the Border from Pubic Perspectives

Throughout the questionnaire, we can see a boundary condition defined by volunteers who are familiar with Toronto’s Chinatown. According to the questionnaire, most people use the streets as a reference to delineate the boundaries, especially Spadina Avenue, Dundas and Baldwin Street. This is because these streets have most of the Chinese shops and restaurants.

Field Survey: Defining the Border from "translated roadsigns"

We intended to find the correlation between the results of the questionnaire and the actual situation in Chinatown. We noticed that many road signs in Chinatown have Chinese translations, so we spent some time on site investigation to find all the translated road signs and where these signhs end.These signs extend to residential areas and are made for Chinese residents living nearby.

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1867-1887: “Primitive" Stage

Chinese labourers first came to Canada, mostly for fortune making or escape from war and poverty.

1907 -1927: "Second Wave"

Chinese immigrants trying t start their life in Toronto under severe discrimination by starting small business.

1947 -1967: "Fourth Wave"

1967 - Present

Abolishment of Exclusion act and period of urban renewal project, many of Chinese immigrants' gain legal citizenship

Chinese population continued to grow and spread out among the city, immigrants policies are more friendlt with Chinese peope.

The "Architectural" Border

The old architectural style of Chinatown is defined based on the following three characteristics: 1) the Stair Entrance, 2) the Row-house, where a building is shared with multiple retail stores, and 3) the Multi-storey retail, usually the first floor is commercial area, the top floors are residential areas. With the development of Spadina & Dundas Chinatown, many international developers decided to concentrate their business in Chinatown. Therefore, there are a rising number of modern architectures that are gradually replacing the old ones. However, it can be seen that the borders of Chinatown have become more transparent. Today's Chinatown is no longer regarded as a slum, but a city-scale economic development zone.

1887 - 1907: "First Wave"

Chinese labours fled to Toronto due to poverty, war and discrimination.

1927 -1947: "Third Wave"

"The Bachelor Society" - 24 years of prohibition of Chinese immigrants.

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The Zhong Hua Men Archway in Chinatown East pays tribute to the Chinese pioneers who helped build Canada’s transcontinental railway.

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The Chinatown East: Isometric View

A Comparison with Chinatown East I Broadview & Gerrard The Chinatown East, located in Riverdale, developed in the 1960s as a satellite Chinatown. Unlike Spadina Chinatown, Chinatown East is not considered as a tourist attraction even though they built an ornamental gate in a parking lot. The commercial streets are also completely surrounded by a residential neighbourhood that includes established ethnic Chinese residents. The businesses cater to their everyday needs in contrast to downtown Chinatown, where many residents are students, especially international students. The businesses and cultural elements reflect the constant turnover of student residents and proximity to other tourist destinations.

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The Dundas & Spadina Chinatown: Isometric View

A Comparison with Chinatown East II Spadina & Dundas

A key factor of Toronto Chinatown's development lies on the transformation from residential area to commercial area. We observered that during 1965 to 1992, Dundas street undertaking large transfomation from residential housing to commercial buildings. Standing at the master scale, the area of study has made a clear distinction between building types, which made a clear boundary between commercial and residential area.

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Blurring Border

No Significant Hierarchy

Street View: East Chinatown Broadview & Gerrard According to the figure ground drawings, the streetscape and building typologies are more integrated into its residential neighbourhood. It is a perfect combination of residential and commercial areas. The form of the street has not been changed due to its commercial value, but instead maintained the consistency in relation to its neighbourhood.

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Solid "Fortress"

Street Hierarchy

Street View: Chinatown Spadina & Dundas

After the construction of Dundas & Spadina Chinatown, the area quickly became a commercial representative of the city Toronto. The sidewalk width and building typology have been planned to facilitate commercialization, especially the staircase entrance. This unique typology can only be seen in Dundas & Spadina Chinatown and part of Yorkville because the land-use efficiency regulations later believe that such design is not conductive to improve land utilization, so it is no longer carried out. Street have clear hierarchy in terms of street width.

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- The Cloud Pavilion -

The Cloud Pavilion Course: JAV101 | Instructor: Scott Sorli | Date: Winter 2018 | Duration: 1 month Location: Bellevue Square Park, Toronto

The project is a pavilion, located at Bellevue Square Park, which is also an exhibition gallery for the artist - Brian Jungen. The pavilion is an extension of Jungen’s concept - using the quality of the cloud to depict the elusiveness of Jungen’s work. The blurry vision and the foggy characteristic of clouds allude to the core characteristic of Jungen’s work. His sculptures often appear to be made of traditional materials from a distance, yet upon closer inspection, one realizes that the materials are in reality, contemporary. In this way, Brian reconciles tradition and contemporaneity. The pavilion is located at the East entrance of Bellevue Park, and locals usually use it as a shortcut to Kensington Market. The irregular and clean form of cloud made a contrast with the heavy commercial buildings surrounded. Therefore, the role of the pavilion is not only to display the artist’s work but also to invite people to slow down from this fast-paced neighbourhood and enjoy the journey of the exhibition.

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Step 01: Define Circulation

The circulation is defined by the vertical wooden columns, where they also function as the structural support of the pavilion.

Step 02: Insert Irrigation System

The irrigation system helps to clean and preserve the rainwater from the “cloud” roofing and apply them to the surrounded green spaces.

Step 03: Create Enclaves

The enclaves have been created that act as a wall in order to separate different gallery spaces.

Step 04: Insert Artwork

The artwork is inserted into different gallery spaces. With the vertical columns and enclaves, the visitors are invited to look at the artwork from different perspectives.

Step 05: Cap with Cloud Roofing

The Cloud Roofing made a contrast with the heavy commercial buildings surrounded, and also filtered the sunlight path towards the artworks.

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The plan view of pavilion that shows people's circulation

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The plan view of pavilion that shows bird's circulation

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Nobody's Land

Course: ARC465| Instructor: Anne-Marie Armstrong | Group Members: Yuxuan Lin and Qiongsen Jin Date: Winter 2021 |Location: Dundas Street West, Toronto | Duration: 1 month Role: responsible for modelling and drawings (tyological, isometrics, street elevation, and site plan)

The project aims to examine the border conditions between the patio of Joey Restaurant and the parking lane. Throughout the border study, I realized that how different decisions influence the utility of the space. We found three types of borders.1) Government Authorized Border: this border has a legal effect.

Failure to follow specific rules and regulations will result in a legal penalty. For example, road marking, road closure by the authority. 2) Authorized Border by Usage (spontaneous border): these borders are not officially recorded. However, they have formed the invisible and spontaneous boundary on the street. For example, buses and bicycles pull over to drive, and pedestrians are waiting along the sidewalk.3) Autonomous Border: The construction of these borders required government approval and was autonomously generated (example: patio).

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Vehicle & Vehicle

Streetcar & Vehicle

Vehicle & Pedestrian

Pedestrian & Vehicle

Vehicle & Patio

Pedestrian & Patio

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A. Pedestrian & Streetcar B. Pedestrian & Vehicle C. Pedestrian & Patio D. Pedestrian & Biker E. Streetcar & Vehicle F. Streetcar & Patio G. Streetcar & Biker H. Vehicle & Patio I. Vehicle & Patio J. Patio & Biker

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The street we study has six “power classes”: Pedestrian, Biker, vehicle, streetcar, Restaurant, government. We are most interested in the tension between these powers, how they are “pulling” each other to negotiate for their territory. We specifically choose the patio as our focal point. We researched how the street arrangement changed during the pandemic with the publish of relative “patio policies”

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By Chance?

A Self Assembly System Providing Live Stream of the Pacific Garbage Patch Date: Sept 2020 |Duration: 120 hours Competition: 120 hours

"People have always dumped undesirable objects in the ocean" but how about dumping something desirable?

This project is a response to a proposal to decrease the amount of garbage discarded into the sea. Instead of abandoning worn-out objects into the ocean, we plan on making the action of "dumping" the 1st step of their meaningful existence - Plastic Tetrahedrons, each with a photovoltaic panel and a camera, ready to capture live footage and reply to us with the journey of their own.

We shall not be apprehensive about their journey; in the currents of the pacific garbage patch, they will find their fellow mates, and assemble on their own. Dropped from around the pacific ocean, 100 years might it take for all pieces to meet and assemble to a full sphere. Or never, should there be too much garbage to interfere.

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Form Finding

People Architecture

Festival

A Camera is placed on each tetrahedrons

Automatic Assembly

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Or - to make the act of "dumping" be desirable; To fest, on the occurrences of "letting go" the plastic tetrahedrons, consciously we do. So we may think once more, afore we unleash more garbage from our fingertips.

To fest, on the occurrences of "letting go" of the plastic tetrahedrons, consciously we do. So we may think once more, afore we unleash more garbage from our fingertips.

And to make the result of "dumping" be desirable; the sphere on the bridge is a mimesis of - the sphere that is forming in the ocean. Let the live footage captured by the cameras on each of the released tetrahedrons be projected onto analogous window panels of the assemblage.

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Pacific Garage Patch

Bridge Typology with the "Dome"

Since the project is presented as a form of "ceremony", the dome will be built on different bridges around the Pacific Ocean.

Reflected Ceiling Plan

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(The render on the right depicts the commemoration in action, with people placing the tetrahedrons into the sea.)

Now we have a mosaic interior in the sphere - each pane showing a distinct image. Tetrahedral pieces launched into the ocean act as mosaics in a puzzle, each lost in a different corner of the ocean, struggling to find each other. In their process of reuniting and self-assembly, a coherent image is composed in the sphere as the pieces slowly come together; generating a harmonious image.

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Group Members: Yilun Jiang, Jiachen Du, Tianyu Zhang and Qiongsen Jin | Responsible for Modelling and Rendering | Duration: 2 months

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Thank You

for Your Time and Consideration

Toronto +1 416 -821-8356 qiongsen.jin@mail.utoronto.ca jinjonson00@gmail.com