TENG XUE Hi! This is Teng. Let's start with some fun facts about me... Five years of undergraduate study trained me with academic strength and potential to be good in architectural fields but ever since the beginning, in addition to work hard, I’ve been holding the belief of there's no boundary for creativity. Therefore, I've been testing the limit of design every now and then. The following several work experiences of different pathways within the creative industry were great opportunities to dive deeper into my mind and broaden my horizons whilst collaborating with great people on spectacular projects. Consequently, my mindset changed while undertaking my further degrees and jobs, getting good grades became same old vital but basic. When talking about design and creativity, grades are not always the most convincing facts of satisfaction, I prefer to not “behave” and crave more. Thus, I fed my desire by directing a film inspired by a bad dream I had, making an XR game for the queer subculture that I felt belonged, coding for my spirit animal, producing animation about alien invasion and turning my dissertation into a screenplay... Now I'm ready for breaking new boundaries, facing unexpected encounters and bringing out new sparks along the journey.
EDUCATION 2015-2020
B.Eng in Urban Design and Planning School of Landscape Architecture, Beijing Forestry University.
2022
Worldwide Selected Students of Festival University A Collaborative Project betweet Ars Electronica and Johannes Kepler University Linz.
2021-2022
M.Arch in Design for Performance and Interaction (Interactive Architecture Lab) Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London.
Grade:
87.3/100
Grade:
Distinction
INTERNSHIP & WORK EXPERIENCE 01-05/2017
Intern — Architectural Survey and Design Institute of Lanzhou University of Technology (Lanzhou, Gansu) Supervisor：Haihong Yang Participated in Qingyang City Gymnasium, Gansu Province (site analysis diagram, digital model, powerpoint), Street Road Forest Farm Courtyard Reception Center (Site research, digital model, plan drawing, sturcture design).
06-08/2017
Intern — Beijing Municipal Institute of City Planning & Design (Beijing) Supervisor: Jun Wang Participated in the Renewal of Changxindian (resident interviews, oralization of oral history and memory maps drawing).
07-11/2019
Intern — Institute for Urban and Environmental Studies Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (Beijing) Supervisor: Xiaomeng Yuan Participated in research on the space of high-tech area based on emotional experience (analysis diagram, data analysis), research on urban travel environment based on big data (data collection, mapping, schematic design, nodes design).
01-08/2020
Junior Architect — PLAT ASIA Atelier - DH Jung Studio (Beijing) Employer: DH Jung As a designer within a group of five, I was honoured to be one of the main characters who were in charge of several interesting cultural and public architecture projects including hotels, museums and restaurants and gain the oppotunity to communite with suppliers and clients directly. During that period I was the main designer who participated in Jinshanling Mountain View Restaurant, Anaya Beach Hotel design. I was also one of the main designers of the preliminary analysis, conceptual design and final structural design of Lushan West Sea Art Center which has successfully been build last year. (Featured Publication: https://www.hhlloo.com/a/Lushan-West-Sea-Art-Center.html )
08/2020 - 08/2021
Interaction Designer — OneFlipped Interaction Design Studio Employer: Li NiuNiu Mainly responsible for the interactive space, installation and exhibition design in this company. During my tenure, I was luck to have several individual built design projects including the interactive installations and spaces for the 3rd anniversary of Nylon China magazine, the main entrance of the interactive space design for Da Vinci and Raphael's art exhibition held at Today Art Museum, One of the main art installation design for Solana 2020 Light Festival and an art installation design for Qixi (Chinese Valentine's Day) in collaboration with an intangible cultural heritage artist.
08/2021 - 04/2022
Junior Landscape Architect (Part Time) — BAM (Ballistic Architecture Machine) Employer: Jake Walker Participated in the interactive installation and Landscape design for the Shanghai Urban Space Art Festival. NSR(New Silk Road) urban design project.
ACADEMIC AWARDS & HIGHLIGHTS 2017
Participated in “Homesick Beijing” social practice team, took part in related exhibitions in Beijing Design Week (Independently completed exhibition posters design, documentary filming and dubbing). “Logo Design Competition of National Forest Germplasm Resource Bank”
1rd Class
Academic Scholarship of Beijing Forestry University 2018
Excellence Award
Beijing Public Space Urban Design Competition 2018
Best Academic Award
“Discover Xueyuan Road” - 2018 Xueyuan Road Urban Design Festival
2rd Class
Academic Scholarship of Beijing Forestry University 2019
2rd Prize
Excellence Award
The 2nd "Tianhua Cup" National Undergraduate Architectural Design Competition
Best Design Award
Protection and Upgrading Design of Key Sections of Nanluoguxiang Historic District Participate in the exhibition of "2020 Beijing Corridor" in Beijing Design Week (Independently complete exhibition hall design, the choice of construction materials, etc). Team research project on the climate adaptability of traditional dwellings in Zhejiang
BFU Outstanding Research
SKILLS Modeling Rhino AutoCAD Sketck Up Grasshopper
Graphic/Productivity MS Office Adobe Suite
Rendering V-ray Lumion Enscape Octane&Redshift
Animation/VFX Blender Cinema4D Fusion360 TouchDesigner
Data Analysis ArcGIS Grasshopper
Portfolio: https://issuu.com/olivertengxue/docs/portfolio_of_teng_xue_e7ac8eaa8e4e72 Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/tengxue
Coding Unity (C#) Processing (Java) ArduinoIDE (Java) P5.JS (JavaScript)
Others Ableton Live Videography Video Editing AV Equipments