Architectural Portfolio Yuan Chen
CONTENT
Academic Works 01
Threshold
02
Underground Tension
03
Land of Idyllic Beauty
04
Artificial Nature
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Anti High-Rise Hotel
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False Truth
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Other works
01 Threshold Urban Bridge Design
Instructor:Wenjia Zhang Academic:2019 Location:Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China Individual work
With the polarization of urban wealth and the development of urban enclosure of rural areas, more and more urban villages have emerged in cities, and class faults have emerged between urban and urban villages. The design goal is to create an spatial justice. The village in the city has both material and cultural heritage and rural life style. In the high-rise buildings, people hope to return to the most simple life; the city has a wealth of public space and cultural awareness, which is the cultural resources that can be shared by the villagers in the city. But such culture and desire are cut apart between buildings.
After a day off, people are coming home from work .
COUNTRY SIDE Mom, I bought the dishes back.
Peole who living in the countryside live in a backward enviroment.They desire to have the opportunities to learn some advance knowledge and make some friends in the cities.
CITY Peole who living in the cities live in a advanced enviroment.They bear the tremedous pressure all the day.They often recall the life in the countryside.
I'm glad to see you on the banquet.
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I hope I can have more opportunities to play with children in the city.
Although living in a big city, it feels empty and lonely.I miss living in the country.
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News There was a big news:A new brige was constructed in the crossroad. The bridge is situated between the countryside and the city.In addition to walking functions,the brige also has many different facilities that people can use it.
Merchant type
city 48%,other shops
Life Cycle Architecture 52%,catering and supermaket
Age distribution Young
Adult
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Plant
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City Village Exhibition
From the types of shops, people's activities, people's age distribution, rural memory and thirst for life, the function of the building can be concluded.
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Traffic
Conversation
Exhibtion Offer for catering Offer for sale
Viewing
Film projection
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Catering
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Plant
This building is a growing building, through a number of activities to participate in the experience of people from all walks of life, to achieve equal communication, while growing with the building. First of all, cultivation and cultivation, part of the grain planted can be suspended on the pole weathered into another form of food, and suspended grain has become the decoration of the building. Other cultivated grains can be sold directly or made into fresh juice. People can participate in the whole process of plant growth to production and marketing. When people are more involved in architecture, the meaning of this building will enter people's minds.
Spatial prototype
Pavilion
180*180*2400mm
Shops
180*180*1160mm
Axonometric Plan
Strange stairs
Planting room
60*180*2400mm
60*180*3000mm
Under tree space
480*180*1160mm
After constructed Since the bridge was built, people of two different classes on both sides of the road have been more involved in the same device: people living in cities have found more innocence and retrieved more memories of the past; people living in villages in cities can experience more fairness and happiness enjoyed with city people, and new ones. Technical equipment, etc.
Look, there's a new bridge. Let's go and see what's interesting.
Did you buy any food taday?
In that building, I thought of my childhood in the countryside.
02 Underground Tension Metro Station Design
Instructors : James Craig & Matt Ozga-Lawn Academic:2020 Location:Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China Individual work
This project is about everyday life. Since the outbreak, people's lives around the world have been dramatically affected. I came back to Guangzhou, China in November and lived a different life during the epidemic. For China, although the epidemic is not as serious as it was at the beginning of the outbreak, the aftereffects of the epidemic are still affecting people. You can still see people's vigilance and fear from people's eyes. I try to start from the body experience to find the tension and blank hidden behind my daily life. I try to find out what is really changed by people's activities during the epidemic from the things that people are used to in their daily life. These trivial points can just reflect the great changes of things.
The site is located in Tonghe subway station, Baiyun District, Guangzhou, China. It is located in the suburb. The subway station is next to an urban road. It is almost surrounded by the village in the city, a product of the rapid development of Chinese cities. The identity of the surrounding personnel is complex, the management is chaotic, the population is large, and the whole subway station is in a chaotic state.
Before Epidemic
Site
After epidemic Before Epidemic
Stream of people - Before Epidemic & During Epidemic
This map records people's walking routes and the number of people walking in the same period of time. The picture on the left is recorded inside the subway station, while the two pictures on the right are the crowds surrounding the subway station. The data were obtained from interviews around the venue and online news records. The number of people passing through in the same period of time during the epidemic is less than that before the outbreak, and people's walking route during the epidemic is more regular than that during the outbreak.
After epidemic
Study of the Infrared Thermometer 1 This is a study that reflects the problems - "People's sense of touch is deprived, and communication between people depends more on vision" People stand in the dark space and look out through a long cube. Then focus the image through a square vision. There are some silicone bubbles over there,and there will be a pressure sensor underneath, and there will has ink. When people step on it, the ink will come out and print on the translucent material.
Study of the Infrared Thermometer 2 Through the disassembly of the temperature detector in the previous figure, the analysis of the figure of people's walking route and the number of people walking in the same period of time when the epidemic did not occur and during the time when the epidemic occurred is related, so as to draw this figure. The body temperature detector and subway station are regarded as objects with similar influence, and the function of human flow is equivalent to battery, which is the power of the whole mechanism.
A Story during Epidemic ...
Construction
4. Forth Step. Shaping memorial space.
3. Third Step.Building floors, steps and ramps. Place different functional rooms and traffic routes in the scaffold space
2. Second Step. Erecting scaffolding. Re- intergrate the new spatial form.
1. First Step: Remove the original structure, including the grounds and some of the column.
I try to describe a story that people around the site’s metro station come to the station one day, everything set as usual. But when it look closer, he amazingly finds that a module hospital set in metro station. In some way, i try to merge these drawing together. Aim to achieve a monumental space , and reflecting the tension...Connect the whole site with the tension behind it.
This drawing shows the different part and sequence of how the project built. It can demonstrate the construction of each part clearly.
Part of Structure
Section Elevator
Nearby high-rise residential area
Medical isolation space, close to the metro station Urban Road
Working Space
PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT VERSION
PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT VERSION
Entrance
Working Space
The main memorial space is also the waiting space
PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT VERSION
Metro Tunnel Track
A relatively closed isolation space for people suspected of fever,wrapped by steel structure
There are many assembly forms of scaffold. Cuplock system is a scaffold form suitable for largescale loading, unloading and load-bearing, which is suitable for this project.
Ground Pile
PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT VERSION
OPTION 2 Add filler, similar to foam plastics and so on. But the problem is inconvenient maintenance.
PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT VERSION
Original Structure
MATERIAL OPTION 1 OPTION 3 Increase the quantity of steel used.
The skeleton inside the large sculpture refers to the skeleton form of the aircraft wing. In order to consider the stability of the structure, there are many choices at the same time, but each has its own advantages and disadvantages.
The use of structure: a critique of the waste of government resources.
Concrete - In addition to some floors added later,The original structure also mostly composed of concrete
PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT VERSION
Steel - Scaffolding ¢48mm×3.5mm
Metal Plate - Sculpture Materail 35mm
Isometric Drawing
Wind (Thermal) - Micro Climate The new project form - digging the ground - constitutes a new environment, thus forming a micro climate.The natural wind on the ground and the wind in the two underground tunnels produce different pressures, resulting in the changes of air heat and air flow velocity. These photos are my attempt to recreate the process with a simple manual model.
Platform Area
Metro station (without ground floor)
Metro station (with ground floor) - from other view
Metro station (with ground floor)
03 Land of Idyllic Beauty Reconstruction of Fishing Village
Instructor:Wenjia Zhang Xiaojing Chen Academic:2019 Location:Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China Team work
This is the last fishing village in Guangzhou. It is declining and disappearing. Vitality of villages will be revitalized by means of transformation space and industrial transformation.
The site is located in New Village of Fishermen in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China. The village is on the Pearl River. Most of the villagers are fishermen, depending on fishing and farming for a living, mainly fishing. The weather in Lingnan is hot and humid, and the fishermen's life here is closely related to the climate and the tide of the Pearl River.
Commercial Street
Story of the Peach Blossom Valley Site
The fishermen's new village is situated near the river, and is 600 meters away from Huangpu Gugang Commercial Street, a nearby cultural site renovation. Huangpu Gugang Commercial Street is a lively and commercial place. When visitors arrive at Gugang Commercial Street, they need to go through a long field path surrounded by banana trees and pastures to reach this fishing village, which will give people a sense of openness. This is very similar to the scenes of Peach Blossom Source in ancient Chinese poetry.
Four pictures show the life and architecture of the village. The first picture is about a bridge over the river not far from the village. The bridge is in a state of suspension and semi-abandonment. The second three or four pictures are about the rebuilding of the shield which is made up of the working conditions of the people above and various scrap steel plates. They are used to isolate four people's space.
Worship
Front square
Inheritance of civi-lization: The custom of memorial service that has been spreading for thousands of years.
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transformation
When people pass through a long and narrow space, the front square gives people a bright feeling of the eye.
Plant purification
Folklore Museum
Investigation and development found that the water quality near the shore was not good, and plant water purification.
To preserve the valuable fishery cultural relics in the village and to show them to foreign tourists at the same time.
From the map, it can be divided into Huangpu Ancient Port Commercial Street, Forest Road and Fishing Village. People pass through Huangpu Gugang Commercial Street. The fishing village can only be found by crossing a path surrounded by banana trees and fields from a hidden road that is not easy to find. After
transformation
wharf
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Back square
Round splints provide people with a place to berth ships and a place to hold banquets.
Back Plaza is quiet. It provides a place for villagers to rest and communicate ponds were set up.
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Site Division and Functional Division
From the route, it can be divided into six small perspectives, showing the appearance of Gugang Commercial Street, the forest road, the front square of fishing village, the platform of fishing village, the exhibition hall of fishing village and the back square of fishing village respectively.
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Renovation of original boats into exhibition halls
Renovation of orginal boats into hospitality shops
Wood panel roof sheating
Rafter
Wooden support
Wood panel
Exhibition space
Reception and waiting room
Footing and Column
Scene Rendering
Water Level Gauge Charts 300cm
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Water Level in Pearl River in One Year
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The outward platform is prototyped by the village's unique steel and steel trestle, forming a small pier for each family to berth their own boats. At the same time, people can go out and enjoy the scenery by the river one day through this platform.
Chaos in ship management is a major problem in this area. The extended platform gives the vessel a centralized berthing position. In terms of shape selection, circles can berth more vessels than other shapes. The large area of flat land on the big platform gave the villagers a place to gather and hold a bonfire banquet and so on.
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Living space
Living space
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Living space
Commercial space
The connecting staircase between the renovated boats and the houses on land in Linjiang is a characteristic space of the village. We have reserved this space, but we have transformed it. Before the renovation, the functions of boats and houses on land overlapped relatively. The boats undertook the functions of living and working, and the houses undertook the functions of resting and banqueting guests. After the renovation, the boats on the river were transformed into foreign-operated shops, such as the commercial functions and temporary resting functions of traditional cultural fisheries in villages, and the houses on land assumed the functions of daily life.
The water level of rivers is constantly changing. The chart shows the changes of the water level of the Pearl River in one day and one year, respectively. The annual water level of the Pearl River is the highest from May to August, with the highest fluctuation exceeding 3.4 meters (the water level of Guangzhou Port is 0 meters). Within a day, the water level also changed considerably, with fluctuations of about 2 meters. The profile shows the relationship between the platform plate and human activity and water level at different water level heights.
04 Artificial Nature Based on Danxia Landform
Instructor:Andy Zheng Yuntao Xu Academic:2019 Location:Ordos, Inner Mongolia Individual work
In the background of the later human era, based on the natural causes of Danxia landform, the known architectural forms are combined with the possible artificial natural environment in the future. As a perceptual and autonomous object, buildings not only interact with the existing society and environment, but also create their own culture and environment. Beyond the conventional thinking of architecture as a steady-state structure, architecture may also show distinct forms and functions in different time and space intervals.
Original
Erosion
Forming
Saltation
100-500μm
Suspension
20μm o or smaller
500-1000μm
Three Basic Modes of Sand Movement
The Melting of Snow and Wind ErosionFormation Reasons Based on Danxia Landform
Architectural forms with the background of the later human era link the known architectural forms with the unknown artificial natural environment that may appear in the future. As a perceptual and autonomous object, buildings not only interact with the existing society and environment, but also create their own culture and environment. Beyond the conventional thinking of architecture as a steady-state structure, architecture may also show distinct forms and functions in different time and space intervals.
Site Location The site is located in Suancigou Township, Dongsheng District, Ordos Mining Area. The site has the same natural environment as Danxia landform. Under the background of the post-human era, non-renewable energy such as coal is exhausted in Jiangbei, and coal mines and other places of origin will be abandoned and become industrial heritage. It will be necessary and interesting to build an exhibition hall on the site to display the Industrial Relics of the old times.
Wind Tower 1.Wind Tower; 2.Light cylinder; 3.Sheet Metal; 4.Water Passes; 5.Red sandstone. 6..Mechanical device;
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BDGR (Wind Tower) is a traditional passive air conditioning structure for buildings. Throughout the Middle East, from Pakistan to North Africa, this ancient building element is everywhere. In construction and design, wind towers display different geographical features, but they all perform similar functions: use the vents on the roof to lead the prevailing wind to long ducts, providing ventilation and cooling air all the way down to the room below. Wind capturing towers have been built in many parts of Iran, mainly for houses in hot and arid areas.
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Wind Tower 1.Structure; 2.Silicon oil; 3.Sheet Metal; 4.Monocrystalline; 5.Electronic Conversion;6.Electricity Wires; 7.Fan; 8.Wind Chamber; 9.Wind tubes;
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Water Collector
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Auspicious crown brocade is a variant variety of the fleshy plant "thunderlight" of Agave family. Its fleshy leaves are arranged in lotus-shaped rows and radiate in clumps. Its leaves are numerous and dense. It is convenient for mobile phones to rain, and it likes warm, humid and sunny environment. It is drought-resistant and cold-resistant.
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Water Collector 1.Processor; 2.Collapsible baffle; 3.Structure;
1.Wind Tower; 2.Water Collectorr; 3.Outlet; 4.Rainwater Intake; 5.Sheet Metal; 6.Water Passes; 7.Red Sandstone. 8.Leak;
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Erosing Section2 - Eroding 1:400
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Stone layers on the ground are constantly eroded. When the erosion goes to a certain extent, the surface is eroded and a space is created underground. In the underground space, the form of the tube becomes longer and extends different functions and spaces in different shapes of the tube. Fiber optic cables can not continue to be used because of more restrictions. Instead, they use artificial electro-optics to illuminate underground exhibits.
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First Floor Plan (Erosing)
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Diversity of pipes continues to increase, in addition to the role of ducts, even in a fixed scene in the form of exhibits. In addition to providing lighting, the optical cable concentrates in the exhibition hall to create a pleasant space. People's nature is to yearn for light, and the emergence of light with the space created by the peculiar tube will surely lead people to meditate, talk, sing and other interesting activities.
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1.Lobby; 2.Restaurant; 3.Restroom; 4.Service; 5.Storage; 6.Open Space; 7.Photograph Exhibition; 8.Sculpture Exhition; 9.Free Exhibition; 10. Tools Exhibition
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05 Anti High-rise Hotel
Hotel Design
Instructor:Wenjia Zhang Wuyun Jiang Academic:2019 Location:Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China Teamwork
This is an anti-high-rise building. With the intensification of China's modernization process, when people gather more and more in high-rise buildings, this building also gives people more ground space.
At the same time, it is also a boundary building dealing with campus space and urban space, which meets the basic functions while maintaining the circulation and openness of space.
How to Anti High-Rise
The ground is open to people, and the activities of the people around the site contribute to the function of the hotel.Some are taking pictures, some are walking, some are selling fruit at a stall, some are passing by, some are talking under trees, some are reading, some are exercising.
Scene
House Model
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Unravel
Recombination
Reorganization in the form of freedom
When people's activities are more and more carried out in high-rise buildings, a large amount of ground space will lose benefits. Dismantling and reorganizing the space allows people to return to the ground, because only an overall open space, people will have more opportunities for intimacy and communication.
This analysis illustrates the division of the hotel's internal functions and the general appearance of the hotel after the dismantlement and reorganization.
School
Shops
City block
The site is located at Wushan Road, Tianhe District, Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province, China. Around the venue there are street shops (enlightened by street shops in free form), and at the same time, they are located in the boundary between the school and the city.
Volume Generation
Podium Plan
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8.Bar 9.Gym; 10.Beauty Parlour; 11.Dancing hall
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1.Reception; 2.Multiple-function hall; 3.Shops; 4.Outdoor Platform
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Volume Generation
Blocks twist according to the landscape changes seen in the guest room 24.000 19.200 13.200
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Elevation
These two renderings are the main entrance perspective and the colonnade perspective. Emphasis is laid on the concept of integration of free form and separation of architecture.
This rendering is the building part of the commercial part of the skirt building. Multi-platform reflects the freedom and diversity of space obtained by diversified shops. It not only does not prevent the sharing of resources between campus space and external space, but also realizes the possibility of people moving freely in multi-plane.
06 False Truth Remapping the Neo-Avant-Garde
Instructors : Nathaniel Coleman Academic: 2019 Location: Como, Italy Individual work
This project is about exploring neo-avant-garde in the real world nowadays. Through building relationship between the void behindCasa del Fascio attempting and the reality, the project attempt to reveal Fascism and its side and at the war where Mussolini died.
Preliminary - Fascism
Figure Ground Located in Como - Site Location Marked in Red Square
Impression of Fascio
Historical Map of Como
Fascism relies on ideology, tending towards utopia."George Mackeller
Fascism exists as an ideology, which operates through the specific spiritual mechanism of eliminating all opposition opinions in order to maintain its certainty and the so-called purity of mind. When doubts and objections are banished, it is a binding act - the mind is no longer complex. Slogans, symbols, aphorisms and so on fill in the gaps in order. Ideology freezes order. The fascist movement made certain changes in the psychological behavior and inner order of followers.
After experiencing the war and a series of terrible scenes of war, Terragni returned to Como and tried to realize his own design in different political backgrounds, which was opposed by many fascist authorities. Terragni advocated the protection of historical district, linking the past with the present in the design, and tried to eliminate the class embodied in the architecture.
These two rooms represent the Utopia promised by fascist earlier and the power trap hidden behind the discourse. Conclusion: Although the perception and content of the whole space are obvious, the
At the end of his life, Terragni showed his repentance for his actions in the war in his own way.
Attempting to Reveal Scar
https://necsus-ejms.org/microphysics-rationalist-utopia-ruins-town-plans-avant-garde-documentary/
Study of Glass House's Illusion and Atonement
The black-and-white image in the upper left corner was kept in Como's video gallery. The image shows that the fascists burned down the historical area which Terragni intended to protect in the late period. I transformed this behavior into images and model representations, including burning charcoal and destroying it.
Study drawing of Philip Johnson's The Glass House
“We cannot not know the history.” -- Philip Johnson Philip Johnson confessed his identity in the late stage and did everything to make up for his mistakes. In his glass house, the chimney is not only an image representation of Poland's destroyed villages, but also a representation of his own inner world - closure and repentance.
Intention in Casa del Fascio
Section of Intention Void in Casa del Fascio
Drawing of the Gap
In the reconstructed image, the reading order of the building is changed, and the utopian fantasy of the fascist regime is challenged by this behavior.
Drawing of the Gap
Intention Drawing This project is connected through two mental processes - one is the war trauma experienced, the other is the unfinished will - repentance
One - Way Street by Walter Benjamin & Intention between Casa del Fascio and Cathedral
These spaces and shapes are combined to form an intention of a bridge plan.
Project Rendering
07 Other Works In Competition and Practice
Wooden space (Competition)
City Garden (Competition)
Therapeutical Garden
2016,Guangzhou
2017,Guangzhou
2018,Guangzhou
Landscape Design
Residential Area Design During Internship
2017,Guangzhou
2019,Guangzhou
Station After Death (Competition) 2021,Guangzhou