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PORTFOLIO For MA City Design

REN XUANMING

EDUCATION BACKGROUND

Beijing University of Technology 9/2016 – 7/2020

•College of Art and Design

•Degree: Bachelor of Arts in Environmental Design •GPA: 3.90/4.00 Average: 88.84/100

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES

Jul. 2019 - Present 7/2019 – 9/2019 7/2019 – 9/2019

•Participated in the architectural design practice projects of different scales and types (e.g., interior design of airport lounges, the space renovation design of the community cultural centre, the space renovation and renewal planning and planning design of the old factory);

•Responsible for the collection of project concept data, computer 3D model-ling, basic rendering, and production of colour drawings for flat and elevation •Produced drawings, established models and followed up on implementations by using Rhino, Photoshop, Illustrate and InDesign; •Participated in 4 projects and learned western thinking mode •Produced drawings and established models using CAD, Sketch Up and Photoshop

HONOURS

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•Excellent Graduation Design,

•Outstanding Student Scholarship,

•Excellent Student Leader Scholarship,

•CAD, Sketch Up, Lumion,

Rhino, Illustrate,

Software CONTENTS 01 Made in

02 Common House 03 Community Park 04 Factory transformation 05 Sandy hook memory 06 Other work 07 Sketch & Model 4 14 24 34 44 50 51

Beijing University of Technology

Beijing University of Technology 6/2020 10/2019 10/2018 SKILLS

Photoshop,

InDesign, Premiere

Bianjing

FIELD Research Office (FRO) | Junior Architect FIELD Research Office (FRO) | Intern - Design Department Beijing Sunshine Landscape Co., Ltd. | InternDepartment 3 of Design

01 Made in Bianjing

Team work Location:Hong Kong

Collaborator:Zhao liqun,Zheng danni From May. 2019 to Jul. 2019

This research is based on the background mentioned above from a study of the ‘Along the River During the Qingming Festival’ and catalogues different typologies of adaptive social spaces as seen in the painting to create a dictionary for architectural use.

In this project, I studied the spatial types of markets and bridges in the Riverside Map of Qingming Festival, and drew all kinds of spatial diagrams. After that, I worked with the team members to design the device.

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Social

The tea house of the Song Dynasty can not only serve as a tea party, but also bear the role of an intermediary. The Song Dynasty is the beginning of the tea house. The number of teahouses is increasing, the forms are diverse, the functions are complete, and the close relationship with people's lives begins. Meeting people's dietary needs is also a place for people to spend their leisure time.

Diet and wine culture

Since the Song Dynasty, Chinese food began to transition from lack to prosperity. The introduction of Zhancheng rice, the development of farmland, the improvement of breeding, and the promotion of deep-cultivation techniques have enabled people to obtain more generous gifts from nature.If you make a koji privately and do not obtain permission to sell wine privately, it is a felony and you can be sentenced to death. Regardless of the store or the foot store, the sales area is strictly regulated, and cross-border sales are strictly prohibited. And there is a special management official - the wine tax.

Under roof creating the relation between inside and outside by using architecture element interface

Chinese architecture, under strict construction of the Ying Zao Fa Shi system, Architectural forms with different types of levels and complexity, But most of them are the relationship between the sloping roof and the column under the wooden structure system. From the sophisticated nodes, it forms an ever-changing architectural style;

But what's more interesting is how the walls, the columns, the people define the wall elements, the opening and closing, and other functions, the relationship with nature, the relationship with the site, and the relationship with society;

The richness of the interface is functional and social.

In-Between Surface

Creating different scenario and filed The relation between outside and inside space

URBAN

RURAL

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culture through space

rural to urban BRIDGE FABRIC STORE MUTTON SHOP TEMPLE WOODEN GOODS STORE CITY GATE HOTEL WINE SHOP TAVERN TEA HOUSE CLINIC SHOP BOAT FI-03 EN-04 AD-01 WA-01 CA-07 AD-02 BR-03 WA-02 FI-04 BR-04 AD-04 AD-03 TO-02 FR-03 CA-01 FR-04 CA-02 CA-03 CA-04 BR-02 FR-05 EN-02 EN-03 CA-05 FI-02 FR=Front TO=Tower BR=Bridge EN=Entrance CA=Canopy FI=Field AD=Advertising WA=Wall The Catalogue FR-01 FR-02 TO-01 BR-01 FI-01 EN-01

Understand social

From

Riverside

Space: outside the roof Function: sunshade Element: Add roof Space: catering Function: display + viewing Element: table and chair

Space: pendulum outside the coast Function: dining outside Element: Fence + Platform Space: corridor Function: connection Element: aisle

Space: platform Function: viewing Element: Fence

Space: stairs Function: Ascend Element: ladder + fence

Space: doorway Function: pass + closed Element: City Gate

Space: base Function: increase height + defensive Element: bauxite + brick

Space: fence Function: Security + Trust Element: wooden railing

Space: bridge deck Function: Passivity Element: wooden board

Space: Bridge base Function: increase height + passability Element: wood structure

Door City Gate Tower

Side

Space: Canopy for Outside Businses Area Function: Shading Element: Fabric

Space: Canopy for Outside Businses Area Function: Shading Element: Grass Mat

Space: Facade Function: Separate +Ventilation Element: Wooden Grille

Space: Support Column Function: Support and Space Boundaries Element: Wood Structure

Space: Side Door Function: Space Conversion Element: Wood

Space: Column Base Function: Support Element: Wood Structure

Space: Stairs Function: Passing + Turning Element: Strip Stone

Space: Roof Function: Shading Element: Wood + Tile

Space: Exterior Wall Function: Enclosure Element: Wood

Space: Shelf Function: Defining Space and Business Attributes Element: Wood + Woven Mat

Space: Top of the Tent Function: Enclosure, Sunshade, Rain Element: Straw Mat

Space: the Roof of the Ship Function: Site Area Division Element: Wood Structure

Space: Facade Boundary Function: Seat Element: Bench

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Cheng Zhao’s Functional Facade Bridge under the Main Bridge Side Door Stern Shed Front Sunshade Small Tent at the Stern Decorative Doorway Fabric Shop City Gate Tower Temporary Connection Bridge Boat House Entrance Rooftop Tent Riverside Outdoor Platform Farmhouse gazebo Flagpole Riverside Home Restaurant Lookout Tower Countryside Bridge Curtain Stall Fortune Telling Showcase Riverside Restaurant Riverside Corridor Bridge Home Entrance Fabric Shed Outer Canopy Rooftop Dining Table Frame Seat wall Interface type Front Tower Bridge Entrance Canopy Field Advertising Wall

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Space: Outside Space Function: Open, Show Element: Column Farmhouse gazebo

Space: Roof Function: Shading Element: Wood, Tile Corridor Bridge Outer Canopy Frame Seat wall

Dismantling & analysis

The final result of the research on the Riverside Map in Qingming Dynasty is an installation art. Taking the architectural interface analyzed above as a reference, the installation integrates front, tower, bridge, entrance, canopy, field, advertising and wall, allowing visitors to experience different spatial feelings.

Back

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Plan Left Front

Right

Flat Advertising & Cnopy

Wall & Front Entrance Tower Bridge Field Flat Bridge Bridge

Concept Drawing

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02 Common House

Team work

Location:Cool Park,Chaoyang,Beijing Collaborator:Zhao liqun,Huang mighui From Aug. 2019 to Oct. 2019

This project is based on the current status of the development of urban centralization in China, exploring how to disperse the flow of people in different regions to achieve regional centralization.

In this project, I mainly carried out the design of the second floor space and the first floor interface, and in the later stage, I drew the space diagram, plan and axonometric drawings.

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Typology of cities

This structure guides the development of the city to a single central structure.

This structure on the development of city in the central zonal structure, dendritic structure between the two transfer station route traffic is relatively high, show that this line in urban traffic trunk road.

Centralized Decentralized Distributed

Due to the structure of the circuit of even distribution, each point in the area of the network coverage reaches difference is similar.

Most cities in our country have a single center structure. Taking Beijing as an example, urban development is still an outward expansion method that extends concentrically to the surrounding urban areas. In satellite cities, a large number of people live and work in the city center, and traffic flows to and from get off work are highly concentrated. However, the disadvantages of a single center are obvious:

1.Traffic congestion in the city center. 2.People travel more distance. 3.The center's population is too dense, the environment is polluted, and the quality of life is degraded.

If a central area is dispersed into multiple centers, then we can focus the center in each community, so that we want to complete different entertainment activities in a close community complex.

OFFICE�BUILDINGS COMMERCIAL�CENTER SHOPPING�MALL S TECHNOLOGY�CENTER AIRPORT THE�RAILWAY�STATIO N LOGISTICS �CENTER TIAL�ARE A TIAL�AREA TIAL�ARE A SUBCENTER RESIDEN- TIAL�AREA RESIDENRESIDEN- TIAL�AREA COMMERCIAL�CENTER THE�EXHIBITION�CENTER TECHNOLOGY�CENTER THE�GOVERNMENT�DEPARTMENT THE�RECREATION�CENTER LOGISTICS �CENTER RESIDENRESIDENRESIDEN- TIAL�ARE A RESIDENTIAL�AREA 16 17

Development of city scale Beijing Seoul Barcelona 1984 Beijing SITE Beijing Chaoyang Nanmofang Centralized Single centre Multiple centres Decentralized Distributed 1996 2008 2020 New York Moskow Los Angeles

Analysis

Program Useland Beca&Jerry They want to watch a movie She drink coffee every morning They go to reading He has to work online He is hungry Rose James Lucy&Lili Peter Transportation Parking area Site Site Park greening Traffic greening Site Gallery Cinema Book store Gym Musuem Cafe Metro station High way Roads Site Residential area Undeveloped area School Leisure area Green Land Business Consumers Programs Type Activities CAFE GARDEN CINEMA GALLERY MUSEUM WATCH MOVIE GIVE A LECTURE WINE PARTY DRINK COFFEE STUDY TALKING WITH FRIENDS READING SPEECH ATTEND A CONFERENCE CHILEDREN AREA FRESH AIR ART SALON DISCUSSION BOOK STORE P M

of site

By categorizing various activities and behaviors that people often hold into the space, six different space types can be derived: cinema, gallery, library, coffee shop, lecture hall and garden.

Function & space

stair door plants desk & seat seat vedio entrance window

exhibition bookshelf

wall stair entrance sphere display exhibition

Putting different objects into the column network space can not only eliminate the obstacles of the column in the space, but also play a role in achieving functional use.

CLUB READING WORKING DISCUSSION EXHIBITIONS CONCERT WINE PARTY BIELD ASLEEP SMOKING TALKING WITH FRIENDS DRINK COFFEE BEVERAGES SNACKS RELAXATION ENTERTAINMENT DISPLAY SPEECH SEE A MOVIE GIVE A LECTURE AMUSEMENT ROOM FOR CHILDREN SUNBATHE DRINK TEA FRESH AIR VIEW CHAT ART SALON ATTEND A CONFERENCE STUDY ROOM MEETING ROOM LIBRARY GALLERY OFFICES MUSEUM STUDIO GARDEN BOOKSTORE TOILET CINEMA VIDEO HALL WORKSHOP THEATRE 18 19

Concept

Section Perspective

N 20 21 Drawing 1st floor plan 1.Exhibition Hall 1.Office A 2 3 4 5 6 9 10 11 7 8 2 8 6 7 A A B B A' A' B' B' 5 4 3 2.Mini Museum 2.Office B 3.Vedio Room 3.Office C 4.Storage room 4.Mini Museum 5.Library Corridor 6.Reading Area 5.Cafe 6.Reception Area 7.Sunshine Garden 7.Step Classroom 8.Children's Area 8.Toilet 9.Meeting Room A 10.Meeting Room B 11.Toilet 2nd floor plan

Glass Vedio Room Step Classroom Stair Armrest Facade Section A-A'

B-B'

Section

22 23 Bookstore Dynamic interface Stair class Vedio room Display rack Cafe Spherical interface Gallery entrance Museum Windows Door

drawing

Axonometric

03 Community Park

Individual work

Location:Dahongmen,Fengtai,Beijing

From Jan. 2020 to Jun. 2020

This project starts from the relationship between the floating population and the city, and explores the urban spatial changes in the Dahongmen area. The departure of the floating population, the transformation of the clothing industry, and the relationship between the site and surrounding residents have become the main content of this project.

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Analysis of site

Beijing is the capital of China. It is a leading city in terms of politics, economy, culture, and greening. For a long time, many people from all over the country have traveled to Beijing to seek employment opportunities to earn a living.

Timeline

POLIRTICAL HISTORY

Many people from Zhejiang came to Beijing to make a living and started small businesses.

Leather jackets produced by Dahongmen are popular all over Beijing, and many foreign clothing dealers also come here to purchase.

Due to the development of e-commerce, the clothing industry and Zhejiang people are gradually withdrawing from this land. 1988 1992 1993 1995 1996 201X

The Beijing-Wenzhou Clothing Center was completed and put into use.The Government decided to clean up the villages in the city, and the survival of Zhejiang people in the Dahongmen area was threatened.

Most people in Zhejiang have begun to return. Most of them rent high-rise buildings at high prices, but they still maintain contact with the clothing industry. 1980 1990 1998 2019

Factory Market

Demolished

Concept

TIANTAN

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The demolition of the "Zhejiang Village" began, and people began to look for the next base area.

HUTONG

Buildings Parkings Traffic Nature

The site is located in Fengtai District, Beijing, on the central axis of the city. It is an important political, economic and technological development zone.

The clothing industry has brought huge economic benefits and popularity to Dahongmen, but due to changes in economic types, the physical clothing stores on the site have been demolished, and the former market has been razed to the ground. The new urban space serves the purpose of urban life. It can gather the activities that citizens often perform to form an urban square, and use a large area for outdoor activities.

1. The north and west sides of the site are community public buildings, and the east and south sides are adjacent to city streets.

2. Keep the original planning texture of the site to form a path.

Program

3. The triangle near the community forms a cone-shaped building, and the slope and the ground are the scope of people's activities.

4. Inclined roof to increase greenery.

5. Building blocks with different functions, adding sports functions to the green space.

6. Ultimately, it is an urban space that combines architecture and landscape.

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The public space on the fourth floor has plenty of light, which can be used as a social venue and temporary exhibition space. Structure Comercial Lighting Workshop Green&Seat Exibition Route Theater

N A B A' B' 0 25 50 100 30 31 Strategy 1 3 2 4 5 8 6 7 1.Entrance A 2.Entrance B 3.Entrance C 4.Stair & Seat 5.Square 7.Football field 8.Basketball court 6.Tennis court Section Section A-A' Section B-B'

32 33 Axonometric drawing L5-Theatre

L1-Retail

L3-Exhibition L2-Workshop

04 Factory transformation

Team work

Location:Luoyang,Henan Collaborator:Zhao liqun,Lin Ziyang From Jan. 2019 to Apr. 2019

Luoyang is the ancient capital of 13 dynasties in Chinese history and a famous heavy industrial city in New China. With the changes in the economic system, Luoyang’s heavy industry factories have gradually moved from outside the city to the suburbs, and the original old industrial areas also need to be updated to adapt to urban development.

In this project, I carried out site planning in the early stage, and the design aspect was mainly responsible for landscape and museum design.

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Analysis of site

Luoyang has a history of more than 4,000 years of urban history, and more than 1,500 years of history as a capital. Luoyang is one of the birthplaces of Chinese civilization, the eastern starting point of the Silk Road, and the center of the Grand Canal in the Sui and Tang Dynasties. In history, more than a dozen dynasties established their capitals in Luoyang.

OFFICE EX2070 1949

Background

Luoyang Refractory Factory, the first largescale refractory enterprise built by itself after the founding of New China. It covers an area of 839,500 square meters, with a construction area of 249,900 square meters. Several generations of people grew up around the refractory brick factory and became the memory of the people of Luoyang.

SQUARE Xia

CULTURE BUILDINGS Shang Western Zhou

FACTORY LIFE STYLE Northern Wei Northern Song

However, due to environmental, economic, and policy impacts, the processing plant has been completely moved to an industrial park in the suburbs, and the original buildings and parks are now in a state of desolation.

The site can be divided into three groups according to the use function and production flow line of the factory area, which constitute linear space, semi-open space and settlement space respectively. The promenade is a linear space with the main axis connecting the three parts of the space.

Central

CITY CITY CITY Central China Jin Sui Tang Western Jin Western Han Eastern Han Eastern Jin

Museum Common Group Square

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High way Railway Residential area Public building Factory

OPEN

Art sculpture Assembly Hotel Festival Gallery Museum Landscape Theatre Library Science Cafe Restaurant Market Shopping Garden Lobby Entrance

TRANSPORTATION

axis Central axis

Concept Timeline axis

The site is located at the end of the central axis of the city, where Luoyang’s thousands of years of history and culture can be displayed in the city.

The overall plan not only inherits and shows the history and culture of Luoyang for thousands of years, but also brings a new way of life to the citizens.

Modification method

The ground floor of the building is raised and the area is returned to the outdoor public space.

The special-shaped holes on the roof increase the lighting of the building, and a membrane structure is added to the facade of the building as a curtain for media technology.

Balconies of different heights are added to the facade on the north side, which fits with the stepped building next to it, so that indoor people have the opportunity to fully enjoy the outdoor space.

The second section of the museum is connected with the factory and office buildings next to it, forming a new spatial form.

On the basis of the original building, four new longitudinal modules were added to strengthen the connection between the corridor and the building cluster on the other side and the outdoor space.

The original workshop was transformed into a cultural street market. The openings above the roof not only increased the lighting area, but also formed a courtyard inside the building.

The new building takes advantage of the original stepped distribution, plus a new building facade to make it a kind of edge space.

In the third section of the promenade, a large window is added to the surface, and the window is spatially connected with the market, so that the gallery and the sales space become a whole.

After the green space was added, the original groupstyle building space evolved into a settlement space, and many outdoor courtyards appeared on the flow line inside the building.

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Original Original Original Original Lobby Hotel Musueum Museum Method Method Method Method Original Original Original Original Theatre Market Gallery Comercial Method Method Method Method

Focus on new media technology and interactive experience to form a new exhibition space. And the promenade is distributed horizontally to connect the other three groups of the site.

The Luoyang Art Plaza is built through public outdoor artworks, incorporating the concepts of technological interactive lighting, sports facilities, and smart parks.

With the extension of cultural content, indoor space and outdoor space are combined to form a commercial format of urban cultural experience.

The open space and Luoyang's history and culture are used to create a market space that intersects indoors and outdoors.

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0 50 100 200

Square Commercial space Culture market N Masterplan

partition A A' Architecture Reception Corridor Bridge Entrance Performance Land art Road greening Garden Bus station Motorway Office Residence Factory Greenhouse Traditional Arts Modern Arts Retail Market Theatre Hotel Route Landscape Traffic Surroundings System

Culture

gallery

Art

Functional

The abandoned industrial park has become a part of the city. This land has witnessed the development of Luoyang since ancient times and has been integrated into the life of the citizens. The renovated park can attract people from all over the city to experience Luoyang culture and enjoy city life.

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Section & Perspective Section A-A'

05 Sandy hook memory

Individual work

Location:Newtown Township, Connecticut, USA

From Jun. 2019 to Jul. 2019

A total of 26 people were killed in a shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut, USA. in 12.14.2012.After the incident, the Newtown government decided to build a memorial park in the open space around Sandy Elementary School, hoping to bring some healing to those who lost their loved ones in the incident.

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The site is located about 400 meters north of Sandy Elementary School, and is connected to a main road to the northwest. Most of the site is surrounded by local residents. There are a large number of broad-leaved and evergreen trees, and there are two ponds.

1.Change the middle part of the slope to a stepped shape to facilitate walking, and create barrier-free ramps next to it.

1. There is a steep soil slope in the northwest with a height difference of about 6m, which is the only way to enter the site.

2. Undeveloped wasteland can be used as a rest park.

3.It is connected to a trunk lane in the northwest direction, suitable as a park entrance.

3.Build a parking lot in the open space next to the entrance distribution center.

2.Seats in the middle of the park for people to rest.

4.. Northwest-Southeast direction has a clear axis.

5.There are two ponds in the center of the site.

6.There is a 3m hillside in the southeast.

5.Form the pond into rectangles, and pile up soil and dig pits around it to form two paths around the lake. People can rest on the slope.

4.Place 26 white hollow square pillars in the direction of the main axis. Each square pillar is engraved with the name of a deceased person.

6.Construct a retaining wall on the northwest and northwest side of the hillside to form a enclosed memorial space.

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SITE 400M

Location & Site analysis Strategy

SANDY HOOK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

48 49 5 10 9 7 6 8 1 4 2 3 11 Analysis Masterplan 1.Entrance 2.Parking 3.Gathering Space 4.Grass Stair 5.Wheelchair Accessible Passage 6.Memorial Column 7.Planting Pond Seat 8.Path 9.Wood Deck 10.Pond 11.Retaining Wall Route Pond Plants Terrian A B A' B' 0 10 30 50 100 m Section Section A-A' Section B-B' North pond Resting area Resting area Wood deck Seat Memory Downhill Uphill Wilderness Wilderness South pond Grass stair Corridor Retaining wall