Architectural Portfolio 2015-2020

ARCHITECTURAL PORTFOLIO 2015-2020 WORK SELECTION - ACADEMIC - PRACTICAL Shiqi Deng

EDUC ATION 2011-2015

2015-2016

2017-2019

SHIQI DENG A dreamer of space.

Xi'an-Jiaotong Liverpool University BEng Architecture (RIBA part 1) Soochow, China The University of Liverpool BA Architecture (RIBA part 1) Liverpool, UK Architectural Association School of Architecture Msc Landscape Urbanism London, UK Royal College of Art MA Architecture (RIBA part2) London, UK

EXPERIENCE

A spatial designer who wants to explore.

09.2011-09.2013

An explorer of architecture in relation to beauty and truth.

Xi’an Jiaotong Liverpool University Student Union / Graphic designer

06.2013-08.2013

Guangzhou Frontop Digital Technology Co., Ltd., China / Graphic designer

An architect on his way.

07.2014-09.2014

China Water Resources Pearl River Planning Surveying & Designing Co., Ltd. Intern Architect

09.2014-06.2015

Chinese Society in the University of Liverpool Graphic designer

11.2015-09.2016

“Young Bird Plan” Communication station in AA school / Project manager

10.2016-02.2017

Relational Urbanism Ltd. ,London / Architectural Assitant

04.2017-09.2017

Kengo Kuma and Associate LtD., Shanghai Internship

07.2019

AA School - Chengdu Visiting School, Chengdu / Design Tutor

10.2019-

PLAND Design Studio, Shanghai / Project Manager

PERSONAL Nationality: Chinese Location: Shanghai , China Date of birth: 15th April 1993 Language: English / Chinese

CON TACT UK: +44 (0) 7414004786 China:+86 18586904630 Shiqi.deng11@gmail.com www.facebook.com/shiqi.deng Wechat / QQ : 280040288

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PROFESSIONAL SKILLS Graphic design: Photoshop / Illustrator / Indesign Architectural Skills: AutoCAD / Rhino / Grasshopper / GIS / V-ray / Model making / Hand drawing

www.shiqidengdesign.com

CONTENTS AC ADEMIC WORK

From 5000 Brick To 5000 Things Royal College of Art 2018-2019

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Inhabitable Wetland Royal College of Art 2017-2018

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Dredging Artifice Architectural Association 2015-2016 Thermal Spa in Wirral Park University of Liverpool 2014-2015 Seacomby Ferry Terminal University of Liverpool 2014-2015

PRACTIC AL WORK

The Mirage AA Visiting School 2019 Thousand Islands Lake Resort Kengo Kuma And Associates 2017 2022 Hangzhou Asian Game Tech Village PLAND 2019 Jiaxing South Lake Tiandi PLAND 2019 Le Faun Skate Park Relational Urbanism 2016

OTHER WORK

Graphic / Cookery / Products

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FROM 5000 BRICKS TO 5000 THINGS 2018-2019 Royal College of Art ADS 9 Studio Design Location : Contemporary Chinese city Size: 25m *25m and 60m tall tower Type: Residential+Working

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If we have so many objects in our life, can we imagine an architecture constructed purely through objects? The Project is a tower of objects for single occupants with multiple professions – the “slash youth”. Domestic facilities are condensed into minimal overlapping frames, the architecture enables residents to accumulate their daily objects to build up privacy, relationships with neighbours, and construct their lifestyles.

ABSTRACT The proposal is a 20 storeys tower for 200 slash youths to live and work. Conventional wall, ceilings were replaced by the metal frame structure which allow residents to fill up their room with their own objects and hardware that cannot be replaced by the objects has been condensed in the space between the frame segments. There is no solid space type in the building, but only different proportions of space. Space for one, for two, and for many. And the use of space will be defined by the objects of the residents, which offering alternative ways of living and working, choosing to be alone – in their room, or being together – in the collective space. Choosing what they will have, and they will do, and to achieve a lifestyle that the type of space is not given but defined by the residents themselves. Thus, buildings have been converted to the accumulation place of the objects that people can inhabit in, and the spatial quality would be constructed by different organizations of the objects.

A Home is Not A House -Reyner Banham “When your house contains such a complex of piping, flues, ducts, wires, lights, inlets, outlets, ovens, sinks, refuse disposers, hi-fi reverberators, antennae, conduits, freezers, heaters – when it contains so many services that the hardware could stand up by itself without any assistance from the house, why have a house to hold it up?”

CAN ARCHITECTURE CONSTRUCTED PURELY THROUGH OBJECTS?

"waste not" exhibiton, Song Dong, London, 2012 5

L I V I N G / W O R K I N G / E AT I N G S PA C E COLLAPSE INTO ONE - WITH THE DISTRIBUTION OF DIFFERENT OBJECTS

The collapse of the space type is happening rapidly among an emerging group of people in China -- the slash youth.

Slash youth is a lifestyle which they are not satisfied with having only one job but prefer to have more diverse jobs and identities. They are single occupants live in rent apartments.

When they move into a new place, they gradually fill it up

with their own objects. With massive quantity and the diverse objects such as instruments, photo studio lights etc. Their rooms become more than a space to sleep, but also a living, working, dining space. So, what really defines the future space typology is not the conventional architectural elements.

But the "objects" appearing in the space.

Construct lifestyle through organizing the object in a room size space

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Using parametric tool to identify the architectural form through different organization of objects.

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Typical Floor Plan_ Type 1_ Empty 8

Facility

Pipe work

Circulation

Double Layer Frame

Domestic facilities are condensed into minimal overlapping frames, the architecture enables residents to accumulate their daily objects to build up privacy, relationships with neighbours, and construct their lifestyles.

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Typical Floor Plan_ Type 2_ Accumulating 10

And in the tower, there are three planar arrangements provide different proportion of space without solid type. And planner organization was composed simply by rooms, no such space as corridors , essentially is an entirely floor of rooms after rooms that can inhabit . So in that sense that the tower has become as a place for the accumulation of objects to happen and to redefine the use of space and lifestyle, but from the slash youths themselves.

In the Type 1 which has the least density of the frame organization, 1.

Share toilet and kitchen 2.

Less enclosure in the subdivision of the space brings more opportunities for communal, which also provides the common area with double / triple height space in every 3 floors mixed with other two types.

And the second type: 1.

Each room has individual toilets, 2.

And as you can see, every 3-4 four rooms shares a space in between, and there is no doors to separate the room, but the room was divided by overlapping the wall which brings a fluid boundary in this building, a less determined boundary between rooms, and a less determined boundary between interior and exterior.

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And when the slash youth moves in, they start to fill the space with objects, and the privacy and opening of their space depends how they distribute their objects on these walls

And the third type has largest portion of the room for slash youth to build up their individual, private space.

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Which has the highest density of the frames with ensuite facility 2.

And this plan demonstrates the daily life of slash youth based on different way of organizing their objects. In the room of a youtuber, the mixed category of objects shows the space was used as one without clear boundaries, as you can see the cameras, diningwares. And this room shows a life where the bed becomes a center of a filed of distributing his objects, and his daily activities.

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And with different ways of organizing the objects in the room, the connection between each room and the lifestyle of the residents was constructed.

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Typical Floor Plan_ Type 3_ Full 12

The boundary in this proposal is not as defined boundary, is much freer boundary, that suggests the architecture is not architecture base on walls. With the blurrier fuzzier edge, boundaries between rooms are less determined, the boundary between interior and exterior, and the boundary between building and context and less determined.

Eventually the building has become an accumulation place of the objects that people can inhabit in, offer alternative ways of living and working, Choosing what they will have, and they will do, and to achieve a lifestyle that the type of space is not given, the privacy is not given, but defined by the residents themselves, through the way they organize the objects.

And my projects as architecture, provides only different proportion of space which allow these possibilities to happen.

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There are 4 scenarios of lifestyle living in here In the muk bang / officer’s room, the notion of kitchen and office diffused with the distribution of dining object and stationery. and openness were decided by placing the other domestic objects, in this case he enjoys the opening towards the sunlight most.

And the privacy was also built up by the way they place their objects. In the cook’s room, his objects were fully occupied the wall while in the musician’s room the wall is half populated which brings more opportunities for communication and visual connection to his neighbor Also the spatial quality can be developed from the objects, in the room a babysitter who put the stuffed toys all around the space creates a warm and soft atmosphere.

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Axonometric 16

Physical Model

Physical Model 17

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INHABITABLE WETLAND 2017-2018 Royal College of Art ADS 3 Studio Design Location : Corte Madera, SF Bay Area Concept : A co-habitation for both human and non-human

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'Inhabitable wetland' is a landscape urbanism project to restore and rearrange the wetland as a habitation both for human and nonhuman, to offset the impacts of historical reclamation and increasing sea level. By imitating the water pattern, a series of islands was reclaimed on the exisitng wetland to absorb the tidal energy. And the semi-floating residential houses bring the oppotunity for people to live with the increasing sea level.

Land Use Mapping _ Corte Madera Estuary

Residential - open space - commercial

Connection to main transportation

Wetland - Green space

Existing bike trail and pedestrain

Human -

Nonhuman

Walking Distance 19

Subdivide Existing wetland into series of islands. To maximize the capacity of wetland in order to abosrb the increasing tidal energy. Also provides various land condtion for human and nonhuman to live in.

Imitating Natural Pattern By Using Grasshopper 20

Circulation & Subdivision

Building & Boardwalk

Column Structure

Vegetation & Animals

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Island Plan _ High Tide & Flooding Events

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AXONOMETRIC

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Island Plan _ Low Tide

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Housing Type _1

Housing Type _2

Housing Type _3

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DREDGING ARTIFICE IN ESTUARINE TERRITORY 2015-2016 Architectural Association Landscape Urbanism Cooperate with : Menglei Zhong; Kai Fan To see the full project please visit ISSUU_AALU

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‘Dredging Artifice’ looks at ways in which dredged sand and its relocation along the estuarine territory can be repurposed to accommodate and design the relocation of port activities in line with existing wet and marsh lands. Through the manipulation of tidal energy, a geomorphological re-arrangement of dredged material produces a designed archipelago.

ABSTRACT Global Shipping traffic has increased steadily in the last decades causing great transformations in coastal areas. Among the most affected are estuarine territories such as the Ems river estuary in the Wadden Sea. Here, maintenance work of shipping canal needs constant dredging of sand to keep navigation channels unobstructed. These dredging works cause sideeffects such as the increase of tidal range and frequent flooding’s in local coastal cities while the relocation of existing ports and specialised global trade produced shrinkage of nearby cities.

Our project ‘Dredging Artifice’ looks at ways in which dredged sand and its relocation along the estuarine territory can be repurposed to accommodate and design the relocation of port activities in line with existing wet and marsh lands. Through the manipulation of tidal energy, a geomorphological re-arrangement of dredged material produces a designed archipelago, on an existing intertidal zone, which over time can produced a territory that can benefit from its exposure to tidal ranges and the constant dynamism, physical and social of Estuarine Landscapes brought by global trade and side effects.

Dredging Volume in Ems River

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Industrial Products and transportation routes map 28

Geomorphology Condition _ Sediment dynamic map 29

Inter tidal area in EMS esutary 30

DESIGN STRATEGY

Papenburg

We inspired by the ports planning in Rotterdam, Bilbao, and London. They shift the larger ports from the upstream to the estuaries in order to reduce the dredging work. So in our territorry, we evaluated the development of these shipyards and want to gradually shift the developing part to the estuaries to avoid more dredging work happening in the future, and use the dredged sediment to generate a group of islands at the intertidal area. By doing so, we can make use of this land to boom the city and reduce the tidal energy.

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SIMULATION AN INTERVENTION For the small scale construction, we are going to build the hard structure in the intertidal area in the estuary by take advantages of tidal current and sediment circulation. To understand he sediment catching process of those hard structure, we did a series of simulation to test how the different length, angle, and arrangement can influence the deposition and erosion in estuarine territory.

Structure angle: 90° Structure length: 600m Tidal range: 4m-6m Creek distance: 400m

Structure angle: 90° Structure length: 600m Tidal range: 2m-4m hard sediment edge

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Structure angle: 90° Structure length: 600m Tidal range: 4m-6m Creek distance: 200m

Structure angle: 90° Structure length: 600m Tidal range: 2m-4m Soft sediment edge

Structure angle: 90° Structure length: 1200m Tidal range: 4m-6m Creek distance: 400m

Structure angle: 90° Structure length: 600m Tidal range: 2m-4m hard sediment edge

Structure angle: 90° Structure length: 600m Tidal range: 4m-6m Creek distance: 400m

Structure angle: 0° Structure length:600m Tidal range: 2m-4m

Structure angle: 90° Structure length: 600m Tidal range: 4m-6m Creek distance: 400m

Structure angle: 30° Structure length: 600m Tidal range: 2m-4m

Structure angle: 90° Structure length: 600m Tidal range: 4m-6m Creek distance: 800m

Structure angle: 105° Structure length: 600m Tidal range: 4m-6m Creek distance: 400m

Structure angle: 60° Structure length: 300m, 600m Tidal range: 2m-4m

Structure angle: 90° Structure length: 300m, 600m Tidal range: 2m-4m

Structure angle: 90° Structure length: 1200m Tidal range: 2m-4m

Structure angle: 90° Structure length: 600m Tidal range: 2m-4m

Structure angle: 60° Structure length: 600m Tidal range: 4m-6m Creek distance: 400m

LAND EVALUATION & APPILCATION

5 years

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15 years

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THERMAL SPA IN WIRRAL PARK 2014-2015 Semester 2 University of Liverpool ARCH352 Studio Design Location : Wirral Park, Liverpool Site area: 1620 sqm Concept : Picturesque Spa

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This project located in Wirral Country Park which is a nature reserve site.

And the concept is to introduce a picturesque spa in a natural environment.

The Spa was located by the cliff which provides the best view of the site.

And the Spa follows the typography, with the “branch circulation� and the green rooftop, it will hide in the site but gradually appear when people walking toward it.

SITE ANALYSIS

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DESIGN PROCESS

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MODEL & RENDERING

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STRUCTURE

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SEACOMBY FERRY TERMINAL 2014-2015 Semester 1 University of Liverpool ARCH302 Studio Design Location : Seacombe, Liverpool Site area: 1866 sqm Concept : Live with Water

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This project located in a riverside of Liverpool. Surrounded by a wide range residential area. This project was inspired by the Smithonian Court yard by Norman Foster and trying to integrate the water and people’s daily life. So the small steel grid cladded by glass were introduced in this project to create a light and transparent environment, provides a closer relationship between people's life and water.

SITE ANALYSIS

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PLAN & DESIGN PROCESS

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THE MIRAGE 2019 AAVS _ Chengdu Architectural Association Location: LuxLake, Chengdu Position: Design Tutor Design and build in 10 days

The Pavilion is a space for reflection. A field of reflective columns suggests a haven within while white fabric above provides shading for reading a book. As time passes, an enhanced experience of nature is manifested as one becomes surrounded in physical and mental reflection.

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THOUSAND ISLANDS LAKE RESORT 2017 Kengo Kuma And Associates Location: Zhejiang, China Detail Design through model making and grasshopper to test the materiality and the density of timber louver and structure

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周王城图 56

唐 - 长安

宋 - 临安

HANGZHOU ASIAN GAME TECH VILLAGE 2019 PLAND LANDSCAPE DESIGN Location: Hangzhou, China Client: CRLAND Participate in schematic design and the detail detail design.

In this project we exctract the spatial feature of the Song dynasty “街坊制”as reference to design the 2022 Asian game tech village.

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JIAXING SOUTH LAKE TIANDI 2020 PLAND LANDSCAPE DESIGN Location: Jiaxing, China Client: CRLAND Participate as project manager - coordinating with client and other professionS, preparing the presentation slides and detailing the design.

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LE FAUN SKATE PARK 2016 Relational Urbanism Ltd. Competition Design (win, Construction completed) Designed by : Enriqueta Llabres Valls & Eduardo Rico Team: Giulio Dini ; Lida Driva; Menglei Zhong ; Shiqi Deng Location: Dublin, Ireland

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OTHER WOKR

Modular Form Research Through Grasshopper & Python Sciript From Parametric Form to Physical Model

Modular Form Research Through Grasshopper & Python Script From Parametric Form to Physical Model 62

RCA-ADS9 Live Project - Glass Dining Objects The Ritual of Eating and Its Relation To Sense of Space

OTHER WORK

RCA - Architecture - From China to Chinatown - The urban impacts of spice trading - 2018 Investgating Through Food Preparation and Cooking (Distinction , Archived in RCA Library)

RCA-Architecture-ADS9 Live Project - Glass Dining Objects The Ritual of Eating and Its Relation To Sense of Space 63