AA Diploma/Part2 Architecture Portfolio-Jiaqi Sun

P O R T F O L I O

Working Experience

01 Hotel Design 02 A Future Store Made by Coffee Capsules

Academic Works

03 Culinary Space as a Transition 04 Market as a ever-changing performance?

05 New City Farm in Anthropocene 06 Artists in residence

JIAQI SUN

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Tel: +44(0)7922957302 E-mail: sunjq719@163.com/Jiaqi.Sun@aaschool.ac.uk

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Rhinoceros Vray for Rhino Autodesk Revit Adobe Photoshop Autodesk CAD Adobe InDesign Adobe Illustrator Adobe premier Sketch Up Microsoft Suites

Lumion Blender After Effects Grasshopper Inscape

Mandarin (mother tongue) English (IELTS 8.0)

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Education 2022.6

Working Experience Architectural Association School of Architecture(AA) RIBA Part2 Master of Architecture/ AA Diploma (commendation)

2018-Present London, UK

2018.7-2018.9

Including site analysis, designing, model making (physical&digital), rendering, powerpoint making and technical details

Nominated for the award of the AA Diploma with Honours 2021-22 Project “Market as an ever-changing performance”, tutored by David Kohn&Bushra Mohand

RIBA stage 0-4 2019.2-2019.4

Project “Culinary space as a Transition” tutored by Selva Gurdogan& Gregers Thomsen

2020.7

Architecture internship in SODA ARCHITECTS

Architecture internship in Approach Studio Including designing, digital model making, booklet layouting, assisting with client/competition presentations in PowerPoint

Architectural Association School of Architecture(AA) RIBA Part1

RIBA stage 0-3

Nominated for Henry Florence studentship (AA prize) Project “City farm in Anthropocene”, tutored by Silvana Taher

2018.1-2018.12

Other Experience

Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London (UAL)/ BA(Hons) Architecture/ Full-time year 2

2016.5

Project “artists in residence”, tutored by Daniel Mamort

Teamwork: build an accessorial building with cardboard in 3 days.

Project “sex zone”, tutored by Orsalia Dimitriou

2015.9-2017.12

Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture (BUCEA) Bachelor of Landscape Architecture Year 1-2 & 1st term of year 3

The first session of Beijing construction festival(competition) Award: The third prize & Most innovative design

2015-2017 Beijing, China

2017.9

Volunteered in the Earthern Architecture Beijing-Hongkong Bi-City exhibition and International Modern Earthern Architecture Symposium Held by Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development and Wuzhiqiao Charitable Fund

Projects includes villa, studios, teahouse, kindergarten and garden 2018.02.052018.02.10

Design Team Member & Construction Labour / Undergraduate Degree Show Exhibition / Stage 2 Making Week in Spatial Practice, Central Saint Martins, UAL Timber Structure Pavilion / London, United Kingdom

01 Hotel Design Nanjing, China Architectural Practice in SODA Architects, Beijing, China The hotel is proposed in suburb area of Nanjing, aiming to create a multi-functional place for mainly old and middle-aged people. The functions include bedroom, swimming pool, SPA, dining room, media room and gym.

Surrounded by existing forest, the project tried to make an image of arcadia. The created ups and downs on land offer an entry from underground to an open space in the middle. The sharp and high roof acts as a landmark thing facing the city.

Lower level

ground floor

first floor

02 A Future Store Made by Coffee Capsules Shanghai, China Architectural Practice in SODA Architects, Beijing, China The project is Nescafe Dolce Gusto‘s first concept store in the world in Shanghai, which is an avant-garde practice. Facing Huaihai Road, it is composed by 3000 capsules, which changes with time and theme. We placed a programmable LED light in about 1000 white capsules to make each of them like a single pixel. Every 15 capsules are packed in a transparent box. All the boxes together create a 3 meter by a 3-meter multimedia screen, presenting a low-resolution but dynamic image.

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First Floor plan

Ground Floor plan

03 Culinary Space as a Transition Year 5 project at AA The project proposes a new type of resettlement space for immigrants by looking at Chinese restaurant as a mechanism of processing immigrants. Three types of spaces are picked to understand the roles and functions of the restaurant system. As an unofficial system, ownership of spaces, autonomy, connection to the society, independence and equality between groups can be seen in this unofficial system.

Every years, tens of thousands of foreign nationals arrive in UK. For asylum seeking, for protection, for food and for living. By comparing the pros and cons of the official and unofficial systems, a hybrid version of immigration centre is proposed in the project. Is there any chance to propose a new type of immigration centre by bringing in culinary space as a method of transition and integration?

The project speculates an alternative of processing immigrants by using culinary as a spacial way to rebuild the connections between groups, and helps integrate. The projects works as an economic mechanism as well as a space that provides basic needs of living and at the same time the connections and communication. It makes a passive process into a spontaneous and optimistic temporary community, and as well a response to the current hostile environment.

Case study: Chinese restaurant as a mechanism

As an important inhabitation and mechanism behind, What role does restaurant system play in the longterm integration of these immigrants?

The project is sited in an old warehouse, close to London city airport and River Thames for receiving newly arrived immigrants.

04 Market as a ever-changing performance?

If we look into the history of old billingsgate, we see that the performance of it was largely shaped by the way of fish transport.

Site Old Billingsgate fish market

Year 4 project at AA The project is inspired by case studies on two markets, Taki-Sarrafon in Bukhara and Billingsgate fish market in London. By looking at the formation and elements of two types, the project understands market as an ever-changing performance and daily ritual woven in city life. By comparing the history of old billigsgate fish market and the new billingsgate, the project proposes a new version of fish market as a new use of old billingsgate as well as a response to the historical buildings regeneration. By taking white foam box as a key element and reusable object, the project is questioning:

River Thames in 18th century

Is it possible to bring the fish things back to town in contemporary context?

Can new ways of transportation reshape the old billingsgate?

Can we make a market not just about commercial activities?

Can we make it a ritualised fish community?

Can we integrate living within foams and fish?

Can foam box become a new brick of 21st century?

Early formation on bankside

Daily ritual in city

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Given an industrial twist by architect Lord Richard Rogers, the building has undergone an amazing transformation, from the 19th century’s largest fish market to London’s premier event space.

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Old use of spaces--by section Transportations and activities in old times.

White foam as a defining experiential qualities of the market, facilitates the market in many aspects.

Life of a foam container The drawing shows the life of a white foam box, from4 am to 8:30, as a container, as a exhibiting place, as a price tag, as a balance box, as a coffee table, as a working desk, gone trash.

Market can be more than a market, not purely for commercial use. it can also be a public corridor, a city infrastructure, a plaza. An ever-changing show stage. A place to visit as well as shopping.

Second Use of Old billingsgate fish market

project film

building reused in layers

boxes recycled in steps

Formation of fish community At first foam boxes will be stacked as a warehouse

More activities begin to appear, and more interactions with fish show up. The traders will be moving their life to the foams.

Then some cooking and serving emerge and more spaces are created.

With time, more traders join along with families

People start to stay longer on the site and more uses are developed. Some more private spaces will come up.

The kitchen expands and become a restaurant to serve more need. More upstair spaces are also put in use.

People start to create their own space by breaking the constraints of the original structure.

05 New City Farm in Anthropocene Year 3 project at AA Research and observation started from surrey docks farm, which is a city farm in Canada water.

Although people are close to animals, the connection between them are mainly visual connection, the animal playground center space makes it more like a zoo. The function and spaces for human and animals are very divided.

On the site of the surrey docks farm it’s mainly for school or family trip or commercial use.

Even outside the farm, the image of surrey docks farm is also place for short visit and taking beautiful photos, which makes it, in a way, an Instagram photo factory.

For film

For full presentation

Technical Study Manure is collected down the miking space and then be divided into solid part and water part and be used for watering grass hay and used as fertilizer, the heat is collected by a big fan and exchanged to domestic space.

Double glazingwall

Window frame Concrete facade panel Insulation Concrete structure Waterproof foil

sealed metal hoop

Sealant seal

Surface plaster Insulation layer The structure layer The inner layer plaster

Asphalt oil hemp

section

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sealed metal hoop Surface plaster Waterproof Insulation layer The structure layer The inner layer plaster

Double glazing wall Double glazing wall

pulp

sealed metal hoop

Window frame Window frame Concrete facade panel Concrete facade panel Insulation Insulation

Surface plaster Insulation layer The structure layer The inner layer plaster

Sealant seal

Concrete structure Concrete structure Waterproof foil Waterproof foil

Surface plaster Insulation layer The structure layer The inner layer plaster

Asphalt oil hemp

section A

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section B

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section C

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From cow’s perpective & From human’s perspective

The section shows the journey from left to right along the corridor, people will experience cheese making workshop to see production related to diary cows, exhibition area of cows archives calf pen, restaurants and cow body burning area, which is the end of both the journey and cows life. Up there are rooms for people to live with cows.

In the exhibition area of cow archive, people see cows skeleton and photos highlighting the moments of human and cows.

In the restaurant, people can see the slaughter house, up there is a calf space. People can see these baby cows before they’re killed and they can visit those or select which they want to have for meal. The holes let lights come in and there can be some visual connection between up and down.

06 Artists in residence Year 2 project at CSM Co-living project, offering place for local artists to live and work together.

Artists get income through exhibiting works and local residence get a chance to learn about both artworks and artists’ life.

1 exhibition area 2 co-working area 3 single studios in differrent sizes 4 courtyard for artists living here 5 lift for the disabled visitors 6 ticket office 7 toilets

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ground floor plan

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07 Art Project--sex church

08 Artworks

Year 2 project at CSM

a Growth

b Body memory

The project imagines a new type of prostitution to unstigmatise sex-workers and also challenges social norms. Sex trade is treated as a ‘special business’. Compared to food, clothes, housing, sex-releated things are still seen as a different commodity though it’s basic human needs as well.

In traditional prostitutions, the whole thing is dominated by clients and pimps, who are usually males.

The images below are trying to show a new relatioship between different genders. With the promotion of their social status, females are breaking the old rules and creating a new thing. Penis and virgina here are symbols of two genders.

A removed tooth decay.

As a removed part of body, from inside body to outside body.

Body is the most precoius gift created by nature, no matter the fresh or the destroyed.

c Self-portraits

3AM

Adam was browsing around on the road, suddenly he saw a big concrete box with a small door. What’s that?

He entered and felt light in the middle, he instinctly head up to feel closer to the light....‘gush...what’s there on the ceiling? dick.. lips and..boobs’...He said surprisingly and made his body into a worshiping gesture

Adam took-off all his clothes while gazing at the girl, who was bathing, through the curtain. ‘ I might have seen her boobs just now downstairs....she has so beautiful body.’

Adam felt hard to hold himslf.

Adam stepped up along the light...‘What’s the sound?

Anyone’s having sex?’ Then he entered the porn watching zone.

He raised his head to fighure out what’s in the light... beautiful boobs and legs.. sometimes there and sometimes disappear......‘body in books, body in films and body in reality’ he smiled, ‘Such a dream’like moment’.

Adam washed himslf carefully and enjoyfully to feel his body and enjoy others’ body peacefully and equally under the light in the middle.

Adam went into the film site, where people here shoot film. Adam can still see the bra and underwears...and condom left on the messy bed....‘Everything is just so...real.’ Adam was totally immersed in the pinky atmosphere.

With a freshed-up body, Adam continued his steping up. Light came out through the archs with figures of moving people. Adam was absorbed in the sweet and moist and sexy air.

While walking up, Adam felt a bit warm water and shampoo in the air. He can even see vague moving bodies through curtains. ‘Changing for what? Bathing? He wondered.

People gathered around for the celebration of sex. Under the sacred light in the middle, they stood, meditate and smile, to feel everything inside and around their bodies.

‘Come! Join us!’ Eva looked back and waved at Adam.

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