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PORTFOLIO Xu Zizhi Phone: +1 (575) 288-0532 E-Mail: 2797675255@qq.com

In my opinion, architecture is the foundation of human society and a concrete manifestation of human civilization. With the continuous development and progress of human civilization, human needs for architecture are more than just shelter. Architecture is no longer just a house. bridge. It is a complex that meets all people's daily needs. They are independent and integrated. They become a system, and this system will even extend to the entire city. In the future, how can buildings be more convenient and efficient to meet the needs of the public, how to use technology to make buildings environmentally friendly and energy-saving to connect people and nature, or to form an ecological system on their own, and how to make buildings carry the past and the present, and be forward-looking and revolutionary. It can become special, landmark, have cultural meaning, this is a question I will think about.

Cubism Space 3D composition 2020 winter Individual work

No Effects of Gravity Space Design 2021 autumn Individual work

Dumped Civilization Installation 2021 autumn Individual work

Eyes

Creative Artworks 2021 autumn Individual work

Observational Artworks

Cubism Space 3D composition I am very interested in cubist painting. Cubist painting is a geometric abstraction of an object in real life, and a painting method that simultaneously expresses the front and side of the object. In Cubist paintings, we will find a lot of overlapping phenomena.

When an object is behind or on the side of another object, we can still see it in the painting. Breaking from the perspective of traditional concepts—I think this is a characteristic of this cubist painting.

Cubism Masterpiece references Image of Still Life Photoshop

Sketch 200*200mm pen

Sketch 400*400mm pen&watercolor

I hope to express this characteristic in a spatial way, so that different elements before and after. In the same dimension, depth, level, and performance at the same time. Then I tried to turn a flat cubist painting into a model.

Sketch 200*200mm pen

Design Process 500*400*300mm clipboard

Final Model 500*400*300mm clipboard

No Effects of Gravity Space Design

research on Impossible spaces

Maurits Cornelis Escher exploits the errors of human vision and allows his work to play in three dimensions. A number of self-tangling circles, a never-ending flight of stairs or two scenes seen from two different perspectives ...... Half a century ago, Escher created "an impossible world" that is still unique today.

Inspired by his paintings, I have attempted to transform two-dimensional paintings into threedimensional space, creating a world without the concept of top and bottom and free from the effects of gravity.

Maurits Cornelis Escher's drawing references

Sketch 400*400mm pen

The forms I have created can be reproduced indefinitely.

Horizontal surfaces in different directions intersect with each other and a staircase acts as a transducer between the different dimensions.

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Step 2

Step 3

Scetch 400*400mm pen

Final Model 400*400*400mm foam

Final Model 400*400*400mm foam

Routes Analysis

Final Model 400*400*400mm foam

Dumped Civilization Installation This installation reflects my reflection on life. If human civilization develops wantonly extravagance and wastefulness without reflection, the earth will dump human beings like human beings dump garbage.

Many meaningful and valuable things in our lives are easily discarded.

In fact, many things cannot be simply and rudely defined as rubbish, they have the possibility and value of being discovered again The behavior of human beings will also determine the behavior of a larger law, that is, the destiny of human beings is in their own hands.

Scetch 200*200mm pen

Final Model 400*400*400mm Plastic wire mesh/Museum Board/ Corrugated Paper/Plastic/Cotton Thread/Foam Polystyrene/Air Dough/Reinforcing Steel Wire Mesh

Final Model 400*400*400mm Plastic wire mesh/Museum Board/ Corrugated Paper/Plastic/Cotton Thread/Foam Polystyrene/Air Dough/Reinforcing Steel Wire Mesh

Final Model 400*400*400mm Plastic wire mesh/Museum Board/ Corrugated Paper/Plastic/Cotton Thread/Foam Polystyrene/Air Dough/Reinforcing Steel Wire Mesh

Eyes The eye, as a visual organ, looks at all kinds of things and people in the world every day, and for a city, a monument is like the eye of the city, standing aside and quietly watching history change. My hometown, Wuhan,My hometown Wuhan was the starting point for the overthrow of China's feudal dynasty, and with the outbreak of the covid pandemic in 2019, countless stories, wonderful and tragic, have been told here, and the Yellow Crane Tower is like the eyes of an old man facing the torrent of history rolling away from him.

Eyes No.1 300*400mm Pencil&iPad

The eyes serve as the channel through which we see the world and the standard by which we view it. Our attitude to the world, our evaluation of others and our demands on ourselves are all perceived or communicated through our eyes. Nowadays, many people are anxious. We know less and less about our bodies, our looks, our faces, and we use the eyes of others to try to understand ourselves, thus putting more and more chains on ourselves. I have often heard that people often have several selves, the one they think they are, the one they really are, the one they want to be, the one they show to others and the one they see to others. Which one is you? And are we lost in these roles?

Eyes No.2 300*400mm Pencil&Ipad

The eyes, as the organ we control, are our best source of information. What we see will often determine what we think.

And when we see a certain thing and think a certain way, our vision tends to be limited. You see what you want to see, and your vision determines your thoughts and attitudes. But if one day your eyes are no longer under your control, it is bigger and more unknown than what you have thought. It is beyond your perception, and when you are confronted with it, will you be afraid.

Eyes No.3 300*400mm charcoal pencil

Observational Artworks

Passageway 300*400mm watercolor

sketch 300*400mm Pencil

sketch 300*400mm Pencil

sketch 300*400mm Pencil

sketch 300*400mm Watercolor