Design & Photography Portfolio 2016

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Yonglin Xian

冼咏琳 Guangzhou 1

Sheffield Landscape Learner

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swingxian@gmail.com

+447746287106 instagram interest

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Fashion, Art & Design, Photography, Travel

2010-2014

BA Urban Planning, South China Agricultural University (SCAU)

2014-2016

MA Landscape Architecture, University of Sheffield

Award Swing, Swang, Swung Spendid Design of "Garden as Art" Deparment of Landscape

Love Me Tender 3rd Prize Wild Captured Photography Competition University of Sheffield

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Photoshop / / / / InDesign / / / / /

Illustrator / / Lightroom / /

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Mandarin

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Microsoft Office / / / / / English / / /

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Swing Swang Swung

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" wing" is a journey that people always know how it starts and how it ends. It goes up and down and finally stops at where it begins. Every single move of the swing has a slight influence on personal emotions, which can be sensed rather than described in words. This project aims to create a garden with moment reflections in the glade of the woodlands by means of hanging swings and coloured semi translucent fabrics. The context of "moment" is various depending on people's behaviour and psychological changes. The movements among swing, people and coloured fabrics form an invisible interactive conncetion to each other making the "moment" become personal and shared at the same time, which completes the garden in the end.

Aerial Elevation @ 1:125

T he simple design language of the garden—a single 48-metre-long steel structure in white, 26 swings and linear trees on both sides—creates a strong visual impression of the space as well as an interesting mind stage for people. In this project, swing is a passage for people to form the intangible "insider garden" which varies by the context in people's thoughts. The colourful fabrics and the curving swing moves flow in the air becoming a visible and touchable "outsider garden". There are two types of swing in the garden—single and in groups. The fabric strips hang between swings, which creates an indistinct relationship between persons and persons—here and far away, with and without.

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A @ 1:125

B @ 1:125

"U" shape white steel ceiling structure 3.8 x 48 x 0.3 x 0.03 m (height x length x widness x thickness)

Steel rod

for hanging fabrics & strips 47.4 x 0.06m (length x thickness) seam

Hook attachment

hooked from the steel ceiling structure and support the swing

Swing ropes

6m x 36mm (length x thickness)

Coloured & semi translucent fabric strips 3.5 x 0.03m (height x widness)

Coloured & semi translucent fabric 4.8 x 0.4m (height x widness)

Wood swing seat

0.5 x 0.3 x 0.02m (length x widness x thickness)

The wood seat is wrapped by the longer fabric and becomes less visible in distance which transforms the fabric into a whole swing in optical illusion. When people swings, the fabric swings as well. People sit, stand or touch the fabric. In return, the fabric pats on people's back. All the interactions, the colours, the curving lines creates a dramatically poetic moment in the garden.

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一德路

Yi De Road, The Mar ket Str eet Par k 一德立而百善从 Everything Is In Order If A Good Plan Is Made

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T he project locates in Yuexiu District of Guangzhou city, Southern China, which is based on

the famous "Wholesale Market Street"——Yide Road, which aims to create an attractive and welcoming urban realm in the busy market world and help the community to regain a piece of serene. It is to address creatively about the relationship among space, architecture, landscape as well as users exprience. The new pocket street park will replace the intense warehouses in the south, connecting to the existing pocket squares and restoring a strong heritage link from the Sacred Heart Stone Cathedral to Da San Yuan Restaurant.

North to South Elevation

Yide Road was very famous for the wholesale market

trade——dried seafood, sweet and snacks—— but I hardly described it as a "great" place. I asked myself, why I don't think it is great? Why I try not to be there? Surprisingly, the pictures in my head were all related to the crowds, porters, trolleys and traffics, but nothing was really about the food or the happy faces. At that moment, I realised that all those years I was blinded by the urban flaws, and I never tried to discover or remember its essential meanings. Then, an idea of this photography collection emerged.

Before being a "landscape architect", I preferred to become an "observer" to memorise those modest and everyday scenes of Yide Road through my lens.

The market life was recorded in a documentary way, especially the food, the colour, the architecture and the people, which I believed were the essence, the routine and the commonness that composed the narrative of Yide Road.

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