QI SHAN Work Sample : Compact selection of Architecture Columbia University University of Colorado Denver Central Academy of Fine Arts
M.S. Advanced Architectural Design Master of Architecture Bachelor of Architecture
Space Toy, 2013
“If need be, we can imagine that poets do on occasion dwell poetically. But how “man” is-- and this means every man and all the time-- supposed to dwell poetically?” by Martin Heidegger
An Idea of Art and Architecture in Contemporary Context The thinking that the complexity should be generated from structure and program ignores the aspect of “decoration” in formal vocabularies. In order to achieve the authenticity aspect of artistic and architectural thinking it is important to questioning the signification symbols which controlled by the traditional aesthetics—a way of formal representation of an object. For example, a discussion of Duchamp’s anti-aesthetic is about a question of original physical representation. At this point of view, any works should return to the original physical presence in order to receive metaphysical meaning. Different than exclusive idea which focused on the relationship between life and art, and inclusive though such as Joseph Beuys extend this issue to social sculpture, which is the potential of works transform to social, cultural and political context. Not only questioning the internal of an object, but also emphasizing the representation of external as a way to contesting political dimension. The rhetorical thinking of architectural sign “decoration” could achieve certain coexistence of rational thinking and sensibility, which made the read of an object becomes ambiguous and enriched. The contradiction between functional and visual envelop as a way to communicate with different contexts could also make the art and architecture shapes social meanings. Qi Shan 2014 in New York
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COMPETITION FOR WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION’S NEW BUILDING IN GENEVA
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OFFICE BUILDING Teammate: Pablo Castro, Samuel Zumsteg, Catherine, Lee OBRA Architects, 2014 Geneva, Switzerland
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We feel that, to respect the existing WHO building, the new intervention should not mimic its architectural approach, but complement it. The new office building, mostly a long and low bar suspended above the land over small structures containing meeting functions, possesses the appearance and relationship to the site of the existing building, while at the same time it articulates and organizes the project’s landscape component which is at the moment vague and undefined. Its two long facades are in effect two vierendeel beams that allow its bridgelike structural behavior.
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The new building connects to the existing one in four points, on the East end of it at level +0m so the new Restaurant and Reception Hall can easily be accessed from the original building, also on the East side at level +3m so the existing offices can connect to the new offices and at level +26.6m to allow easy access from the Director’s Office to the SHOC suite. Besides a parking connection, one last link on the West side of the site connects the existing building to the new Modular Conference Room, located in our proposal underground near the existing Assembly Hall to preserve the gravitational arrangement of the original functional scheme. The other two suites of Meeting Rooms proposed in the program are distributed along the office bar, supporting it and separating it from the landscape that runs under the new building without interruption. The Meeting Room suites, largely glazed to bring in the atmosphere of the surrounding nature, are one surrounded by park and one surrounded by water. A large reflecting pool is introduced following on the intentions of the original design, and also to provide a large horizontal mirror that can bring the sky into the rooms of the building while preserving the emptiness of the space around them. The new underground parking is located below the reflecting pool. The more public spaces of the proposal are located on a low-lying two-story building to the east of the site. It can be entered near the existing main entry under a steel tower supporting the suite of SHOC spaces up in the air near the seventh floor of the existing building to give the director easy access to it. Designed this way the SHOC functions not only as a Health Emergency Management Center but also as a canopy and billboard.
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SITE PLAN MAIN BUILDING MAIN ENTRANCE R A M P T O N E W B U I LD I N G E N T R A N C E TO N E W B U I LD I N G SHOC ROOM OFFICE R E S T A U R A NT & R E C E P TI ON TERRACE M E E T I N G R OOM M O D U L A R ME E TI N G R OOM OUTDOOR PARKING
Both the new Restaurant and the Reception Hall are doublelevel spaces that, entered from the second floor, are accessed through a choice of stairs, elevators, or ramps, means that can, when desired, potentially dramatize an entry for the sake of protocol and pomp. Both spaces are located at the level of the reflecting pond seven meters below entry level; this dramatizes the views from these spaces (of nature, the existing building and the sky). The Reception Hall is equipped with a platform that extends onto the water and the Restaurant, a roofed terrace for dining al fresco. Abundant natural light is emitted into the building by a long ETFE skylight that extends through its entire length. A running track surrounding the skylight contributes to the fitness and health of the employees of the WHO, while historically relating the building to the work of other Swiss architects of note.
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Our proposal for the new building of the World Health Organization contemplates a building as a body, one made of well-designed organs with clear and distinct individual roles that are organically related to each other, to the existing building, and to the site. These organs are deliberately disposed on the landscape to embody precise ways of occupying the land and also to give it a form that is recognizable.
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1) underground sphere with cenital light; 2) open to a courtyard with a hill; and 3) island. Arranged as interconnected floors, the office bar has the plan scale of an office building and the sections the scale of a house. It is organized into 17 modules containing a mix of the proposed functions for the project allowing great flexibility of team organization. The section of the building, interconnecting floors in the manner of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Larkin Building, will propitiate teamwork and human interaction. Because of its low height, the new building would have little impact on the views from the existing structure, whose workers would be able to look past over and below it at the landscape and new reflecting pool.
The office building bar, similar to the original project, serves to articulate the site, in this case into three different areas: a large flooded triangular canal, a dining terrace for the restaurant and a rectangular planted courtyard with a small hill containing the modular meeting rooms as if the earth was pregnant or the seed of a giant tree were just about to sprout. Divided into three groups evenly localized throughout the project, the Conference Room suites are distinguished from each other by their relationship to the landscape:
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The narrow section of all parts of the building combined with sufficient operable windows will provide abundant natural light and ventilation, making it inexpensive to operate and increasing work efficiency through quality of life. The heating and cooling systems could be powered by geothermal pumps and all skylight glass could be photovoltaic fret glass to both reduce glare and heat gain by radiation and to generate electricity. Except for the exposed steel tower supporting the SHOC pavilion over the entry, the entire building will be built in exposed cast-in-place reinforced white concrete.
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P O O L L E V EL P LA N STORAGE T E C H N I C A L R OOM S T A F F A R EA TOILETS FOYER BAR FOYER KITCHEN R E C E P T I O N H A LL BAR R E S T A U R A NT TERRACE M E E T I N G R OOM M O T O R I Z E D P A R TI TI ON M O D U L A R ME E TI N G R OOM LOGGIA SERVING LOBBY C O N N E C T I O N TO P A R K I N G I N T E R P R E T A TI ON R OOM M A I N C O N T R OL R OOM O P E N T O BE LOW C O N N E C T I O N TO E X I S TI N G BUIDLING R A M P T O C ON FE R E N C E ROOM
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ARCHIPELAGO AS DEVICE CONTESTS PRIVATIZATION
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PERFORMANCE CENTER Individual Work Columbia University, 2013 Istanbul, Turkey
The contestation is about public space privatization in Istanbul and Cairo, How to use the prototype as archipelago to injecting different artifacts in both Istanbul and Cairo in order to ask the question of contestation. In Istanbul, by identifying several events took places in Bosphorous, specially focused on the field of Galata port. Because of the force of government and municipality, the field will be closed to public. By studying how ephemeral event as cruise ships off-loading in Galata port, trying to shifting the event to performance center in order to reopen the field both to residents and visitors.
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HOTEL/ SHOEMAKING WORKSHOP Individual Work Columbia University, 2013 Cairo, Egypt
In Cairo, we studied how the programs took places on street in order to control the space. Specifically focused on the Al Azhar Park, which was originally an outside place from Cairo now becomes a park which closes to public.
Al Azhar Park, Cairo
By shifting the existing program on both side of park, the Darb al-Ahmar community will have a private hotel; equally the Al Azhar Park side will have a shoe-making workshop for the residents. By exchanging the program in both sides, the park will re-open to the residents in Darb al-Ahmar community. 6
Architecture without Content return to the center of the city and investigate the potential of these enormous buildings as data center if they would be located on Roosevelt Island; formerly the outskirts of Manhattan, today the very center of New York. Roosevelt Island has a latent potential for symbolic representation, as was recently exemplified by the posthumous execution of Kahn’s Roosevelt memorial and the numerous paper projects that preceded that monument. Architecture without content reconnects to Venturi’s concept of a difficult whole. The diffcult whole is not a group form, not a mere collection of elements, but a formal strategy that seeks for a cohesive compostion of parts through inflection.
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DATA CENTER Teammate: Fernando Ceña Martínez Columbia University, 2013 New York, United States
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Started from the theory of Victor Shklovsky “Art as Device”, used paintings and video as heuristic device to discuss the movement and formation in architecture. Billboard architecture had contradiction between inside and outside, the sequences walking into the architecture become a narrative in alphabet city. A story about destination- I passed by a billboard architecture, a glow of light attracted me. It was a flea market. Walked into the market along the light, perceptive people’s different activities in each level, of course I wanted to see it clearly. PANDORA, PANDORA, PANDORA
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FLEA MARKET Individual Work Columbia University, 2013 New York, United States
I saw a symmetrical image like an immortal commemorate; saw people whispering under the shadow and light. Then I walked to an exterior, an ambiguous boundary between inside and outside. Along the staircase came to the third floor, a transmigration shaped plan, the invisible power guide me to the center of the building; through the pilothouse of cruise ship like glass I saw people’s activities was segmented by the geometry‌Last staircase was narrow, I finally came to a small market like Barkhor Street in Tibet, they were surrounded by the wall but still could see the sky. Finally arrived the destination, the last vendor was selling the forgetful perception and sensation.
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The site is on the 17th and Blake Street, Denver. The function of the building is for residential and commercial, after studied of the existing building decided to follow the traditional buildings in this area.
Physcial Model of the Building
First, developed two masses, then avoided two courtyard in the middle of two masses, on the second floor, add balcony on the top of courtyards, make different height of each masses, thus, have three different vertical space of this building.
LODO MIXED USE BUILDING
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RESIDENTIAL BUILDING Teammate: Jonah Rogin University of Colorado Denver, 2011 Dever, United States
Conceptual Diagram of the Elementary School
This project is based on the study of traditional Chinese architecture in Jiangsu Province, used local materials such as grey brick and tile, associated with traditional Jiangsu culture. The site is in Niyuan village, Jiangsu Province of China.After studied the arrangement of local architecture in this village, environment around the site, public and private space of different courtyards; according to the local geography and architectural texture formed a grid.
NIYUAN VILLAGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SCHOOL Individual Work University of Colorado Denver, 2012 Jiangsu, China
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Sturctual Analysis of the Resort
Base on the consideration of the site, the initial idea is to create a traditional local organic architecture by minimal cost. This architecture can be part of the environment, at the same time; it can combine the local ethnologic character and contemporary technology.
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RESORT Individual Work China Central Academy of Fine Arts, 2010 Sichuan, China
The site is located in E 16th Ave & Washington St, Denver. According to the arrangement of the effect of block grid in this area, Separate this site to three parts: privacy space, open space and the semiprivacy space. The design is based on the grid analysis of site, which composed the spatial complexity inside of the shelter. 3D Analysis of Shelter
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URBAN WOMEN SHELTER HOME SHELTER Individual Work University of Colorado Denver, 2010 Dever, United States
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The site is located in the Southwest of Guatemala. The people in Chiquirines are in extreme poverty and the town is in need of revitalization. The population doubles every 5 years. It is expected to reach 10,000 people in 2020. With the population and economic growth, proposing a healthy community design and sustainable town development strategy.For the community housing design, there is a “comminidad” housing settlement pattern with close families living adjacent to each other. The house prototype will be constructed with local materials such as bamboo, compressed earth block, and stones.
Singel Building 3D Model MULTIFAMILY HOUSING
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SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY DESIGN IN CHIQUIRINES COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT Teammate: Kevin Xu University of Colorado Denver, 2012
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BALCONY LIVESTOCK
05-06YEAR COURTYARD OF CAFA REDESIGN
06-07YEAR BAR STREET DESIGNCHINESE TRADITIONAL WOOD BUILDING
05-06YEAR COURTYARD OF CAFA REDESIGN
HAND MODELS China Central Academy of Fine Arts, 2005-08
07-08 ARTS AREA 798 REPLANNING
06-07YEAR CITY VILLA IN BEIJING
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In the winter of 20112012, I worked as a volunteer in Long Way Home in Guatemala. For the better education of children in Guatemala, I helped local people to design and built one of the buildings in Maya Technique School, we used low cost material follow the earth bag structure to build architecture related with local culture. I also designed and finished a door of an existing building.
DESIGN BUILD IN GUATEMALA December 2011-January 2012, Help to design and build a security office of Maya Technique School, Design and
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That night at Shangri-La 2011, Oil on canvas, 24 x 18”
Let Me Understand this Feeling 2011, Oil on canvas, 12 x 16”
Encounter
2014, Oil on canvas, 24 x 18”
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LIST OF WORKS Competition for World Health Organization’s New Building Office, OBRA Architects, 2014 Geneva, Switzerland Archipelago as Device Contests Privatization Performance Center/ Shoe Factory, Columbia University, 2013 Istanbul, Turkey/ Cairo, Egypt Architecture Without Content Date Center, Columbia University, 2013 New York, United States Pandora, Pandora, Pandora Flea Market, Columbia University, 2013 New York, United States Lodo Mixed Use Building Residential Building, University of Colorado Denver, 2011 Denver, United States Niyuan Village Elementary School School, University of Colorado Denver, 2012 Jiangsu, China Qinglong Temple Area Plan and Design Resort, Central Academy of Fine Arts, 2010 Sichuan, China Urban Women Shelter Home Shelter Shelter, University of Colorado Denver, 2010 Denver, United States Sustainable Community Design in Chiquirines Community Plan, University of Colorado Denver, 2012 Chiquirines, Guatemala Hand Models Beijing, China Design Build in Guatemala Comalapa, Guatemala Oil Paintings
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