STORY BOOK
ARCHITECTURE IS STORYTELLING... - Anna Gidman (My first British tutor)
Yihui.Gu
Selected works
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
CATALOGUE
YIHUI.GU DOB
Physical model
13.11.1999
Nationality Contact
Groupwork
YIHUI.GU
China
Proposal
+44 07529792356 +86 15851306622 Tommy.gu2019@gmail.com
Communication
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02. ETERNITY OUT OF CHAOS
Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (RIBA 1)
09.2017-07.2019
University of Liverpool (RIBA 1)
09.2019-07.2020
03. MONASTERY LIFE PILGRIMAGE MUSEUM DESIGN BAD WALDSEE, GERMANY INDIVIDUAL STUDIO WORK
Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Bachelor Degree (RIBA 1) University of Liverpool Bachelor Degree (RIBA 1)
04. GRIDS THAT FIGHT COVID-19
SKILLS Rhino
Indesign
Writing
SketchUp
Illustrator
Speaking
Photoshop
AutoCAD
AWARDS •
XJTLU 2020 National Encouragement Scholarship (Top 0.5%)
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First Price for Architecture Filmmaking in University of Liverpool
Chinese and English
CIVIC LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE DESIGN JIANGSU, CHINA INDIVIDUAL PERSONAL WORK
(Transferred back due to Covid-19) 09.2020-07.2021
QUALIFICATIONS
LANGUAGES
OIL TREATMENT & HARBOUR UPDATING BAKU, AZERBAIJAN INDIVIDUAL PERSONAL WORK
Prioritisation
EDUCATION BACKGROUND
Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (RIBA 1)
01. RETHINKING BOOM TOWN
COLLECTIVE HOUSE DESIGN XIAMEN, CHINA INDIVIDUAL PERSONAL WORK
05. GLIMMERING LAB MUSIC LAB DESIGN BIRKENHEAD, BRITAIN INDIVIDUAL STUDIO WORK
06. INTERN & OTHER WORKS
1 Rethinking BAKU abandoned oil park Year 3 Personal work Instructor: Xinnan.Zhao Individual
“A town is saved, not more by the righteous men in it, than by the woods and swamps that surround it.” -Henry David Thoreau Azerbaijan once took off because of the oil industry, but without planning and environmental protection, the once-glorious oil production areas have become abandoned industrial areas, a serious suburban problem for the capital city of Baku The sight of the moving arms of the many oil pumps reminded me of Don Quijote’s fight against the windmills. Only, the windmills were a phantasma, the oil pumps, however, are the reason for Azerbaidjan’s wealth. Unfortunately, the landscape there is destroyed and ugly. Thus Boom Town will also leave a very evil heritage to the Azeri. The major challenge in dealing with Bibi-Heybat is finding a way to transform this highly toxic site into a place that is useful and properly remediated: a dramatic melding of local history and the natural environment that becomes an integral part of the city`s urban fabric.
Boom City Decline
Site condition
City RANK for health and sanitation
In addition to oil spills and slicks, other environmental pollution, the degradation of agricultural soils, irrational use of natural resources, and a lack of proper recycling for industrial and household wastes are sources of serious problems which have a negative impact on the public health and prosperity Azerbaijan.
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I realized that there are many pervasive sociocultural issues in the city, such as environmental problems, uneven distribution of wealth, and uncontrolled construction happening all over the city, that must be addressed for the good of the community and yet are being ignored for different reasons.
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Typological study of harbors Merits: Landscape transition Landscape division Architecture styles
Merits: Great space division Unified coastline multiplication
Demerits: Isolated with land
Merits: Strong axis Extension of land Good water-land relationship
Merits: Strong axis
Demerits: Bald coastline design
Merits: Reshape the landscape Volumns relationship
Merits:
New boom city New industry new landscape and new infrastructure...
Landscape and pavement Water-land relationship
Demerit: Chaotic urban context
Merits: Strong grid and axis Mutiple architecture types
Merits: Multiple unified units Grid and axis
Design strategies
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Desalination System
Sewage Treatment System
Local landscape
Cafe and Library-Temporary
Windmill
Scaffolding
Old windmill
Pre-Fabricated case
New living unit Pipes to clean up
Local grating
Local roof
Lab-Permanent
Abandoned rig
New wind power generator
Cultivation
Recycling tube
Multifunctional hall in BAKU style Reaction tank
Fish feeding limbs Tidal power generator
Local building type
A complete system to biodegrade petroleum : Microbial cultivation - Reaction - Recycle - Fishing
1. Wind power generating set
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The wind power generator recycles abandoned oil installations on the site. Functionally, the generators provide electricity for the new boom town, which take advantage of the wind power on site. They could shape new skyline and landscape, also realise Carbon-0 self supply.
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The complex consist of 2 types of buildings: Permanent and temperory. The permanent ones work as labs and educational space for further development. The temperory ones focus on fast installation, which could response quickly according to demand
3. Windmill living units In order to get people here, living space was provided for settlers, which appliy local windmills. Units are supported by primary pipes, which can Use physical methods to remove oil from the sea
4. Oil treatment reaction section
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The section consists 3 parts: 1. microbial cultivation. 2. Reaction tank. 3. Recycling tube. The working flow also follows the system to tackle with the oil in the sea in a biological way.
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5. Fundamental pipe structure The whole project revolves around the water treatment plant. It offers clean water by desalination . Meanwhile, the pipe system follows the grid and support the complex above.
6. Tidal stream generators
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These generators are the metaphors for the invisible god under the sea, which provide energy for the reaction process. Also, they remind people to respect the nature.
2 ETERNITY OUT OF CHAOS Civic landscape architecture design Year 3 Personal work Instructor: Xinnan.Zhao Individual
View from the Square to the mountain and sea From the point of view, lifted structure will offer visitors unobstrcuted perspective.
‘Our times are establishing their own style every day. Unfortunately, our eyes don’t recognize it yet‘ - Le corbusier
Because of 30 years of high speed development, China's temporary cities usually suffer from similar destroy. Designers want citizens to stay at some specific position, so that they can be part of the enormous scenery. Inconsequently, these expensive squares and buildings are not frequently used during a year. Such fact makes them seem more like temporary structures than memorial buildings. This program tries to put forward a reasonable solution to solve above problems, based on a typical small city, and showcase the real achievement that China got from the quick development in the recent 30 years but won't destroy the continous and unique local culture. The new structure stands between the civic center and civic square just like Chinese traditional veranda, offering a new medium scale for citizens to make them feel free.
View from the Square to the Garden Thin roof means finer structure column, which also means less elements to block our views.
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Reshape the Local
What I see - The problems of China urban context.
The current civic center is called "sea wave“ by citizens, the form of its roof is a simple imitation of waves.
Oversize scale, flat fringe and no closure, which totally differs from the European situation. Citizens don't feel private and intimate but restless. The Suzhou Park Veranda plays the role of modifying the bad situation by lifting and twisting the ground of square, making activities happens again.
1. Local people had created the form whose roof has close relation with dunes rather than sea waves. 2. The local traditional cultural activies are hold between the dunes. 3. The curved roofs weaken the intensity of winds.
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“The Sea Wave”: Culture Center in Lianyungang Huge Volume and symbolic figure are two typical charactors of culture buildings in most of Chinese cities.
Local Festival
Vernacular Dwelling on site
People still choose originla landscape for activities to celebrate local traditional festivals.
The roofs are shaped as a perticular curved planar because of the rain, and sea wind.
Lift and keep down the
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Roof as a prototype
What I propose - Linking the City
As the representative of the local residences language, the roof becomes the research object of typology. All the prototypes are based on the double pitch roof constituted by two paraboloids. The forms of roofs origins from local rainy weather, strong sea winds and even the living habit of hanging clothes on the roofs.
The new structure would offer more point of sights.
More understandings, tolerance and imagination.
The new structure would reveal the city elements blocked.
Traditional residences, temples and fishing ground.
Real Estate 2008-Now
Height
Typical Vernacular Room The curved roof of local vernacular building could be recongnized in height, curvature and width. A transformation could be applied on it.
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Piers for Fishing Industry 1910-Nowadays single roof
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double roof type D
double roof type E
quadra roof type A
quadra roof type B
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Variation of roof Diverse forms can produce various combination to satisfy multiple space demandings. They differs from scale, ability of light gain, draft capacity and etc. There is a great potential under the traditional residences.
Temple for the Dragon King ?-1800
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Recalling Back the Memory of Original Landscape 1. The base used to be a natural mudbank. After artificial constrcution, it turned into a flat zone with stone covered. 2. The new structure offered by the program recall back the original section of ground, which is ups and down the coastline. 3. At the same time, advantages such like weakened sea winds,open view and approriate field for plants return.
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Program Aggregation A continous and changing roof plays the role of roof in the below space and ground in the upper spae simultaneously. The height change can adapt into diverse functions, or mixture, or generate new posibilities.
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Timeless Brevity
Rendering of overview
Activities are changable and short-exsited, but this volatile situation creates permanency One space used to be basketball course can be ballroom. Chaos may be the origin of eternity.
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5.bookstore 6.laundry space 7.exhibiton space 8.small shops
9.meeting room 10.table tennis space 11.badminton space 12.dancing space
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13.movie room 14.basketball court 15.garden
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3 MONASTERY LIFE Pilgrim museum design Year 3 Studio work Instructor: Li-an.Tsien Individual
“Breaking - starting over and starting over - staying on the road” We are in southern Germany, in a village of 2400 inhabitants called Reute Bad Waldsee. in 1950, the Convent became home to about 1800 nuns and today covers an area of almost 70,000 sqm, making it the largest structured complex in the city. In the last 70 years, however, something radically changes, the growing and unceasing secularization reverse the trend and the monastery is predited to house only 23 nuns in following years... Convent is located in a strategic area for the whole of Christianity, between the two most famous pilgrimage routes of Europe, the Via Francigena and the Via Romea used by Christians since the Middle Ages to reach Rome and join the Crusades that left for Jerusalem to free the Holy Land. I proposed to create a complex of production system and pilgrimage museum, which could attract people here and reknow the monastery life. Finally realise the revival of the convent. 12
Agriculture background
Norway
VIA ROMEA GERMANICA
Sweden
12.9 % of the EU (NO.1)
UK 47.42% For export Poland German
Barley & hops in world (No.3) France
Munich
Bad waldsee
GERMAN AGRICULTURE/ STATUS
VIA FRANCIGENA
GERMAN GEOGRAPHY
SITE
History of pilgrimage roads
High mechanization, high quality and high yield are the characters of German agriculture, influencing the alcohol industry.
Social background The proportion of diiferent religions
Lack of religious education
The focus were also shifted from religious miracles to admiring the relics and art of the classical age.
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Convent is untrustworthy
Emphasis on personalization
Christians
EVANGELISATION OF ENGLAND
1300AD AMNESTY
The prosperity of urbanisation
REFORMATION
ROME EMPIRE
Unaffiliated
NOWADAYS 1625AD
In the Middle Ages, Via Francigena was the major pilgrimage route to Rome from the north. 2010
The convent continues to decline
2020
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Religion is not necessary in life
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Active in religion.
26%
Many other leisure activities
RELIGIOUS
ARTS AND ATTRACTIONS
TRAVEL
PILGRIMAGE ROAD HISTORY
32%
Not religious at all
Not religious at all
2004
WHAT I SEE - LOSE UNDERSTANDING OF CONVENT
TRANSPORT AND TRADE
Pilgrimage roads 38%
Pilgramage road act as a choice for people to travel and escape from busy life.
2050
Poorly understood
Functions are diminishing
RENAISSANCE
2014
WHAT I SEE- LACKING OF BELIEF
A recent survey in Germany shows that faith is disappearing faster and faster, and that it is an irreversible situation.
The Roads were designated as a pilgrimage in the middle ages, It is declared that anyone who went to Rome through this route would be cleared of his SINS. After REVOLUTION, People shifted attention from religious miracles to the appreciation of the relics and arts of the classical era. And humanistic education became increasingly popular.
What I see? (The problems).
1. People are suffering from urban life pressure. 2. People are losing understanding of convent and religious life.
Nowadays, people choose these pilgrimage roads as a excuse for escaping from busy life and find a healing and opportunity to re-examine themselves.
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Site plan of Reute
VIA ROMEA GERMANICA
Design developement
-- Translate and transform pilgrimage roads
The site is between 2 routes and has this shape of link.
SITE Farm Field
There are many spectacles and famous sceneries along the routes.
Hostel
The pilgrimage journey is winding, zigzagging and risky.
Cafe
Meditation
Convent
There are many convents along the routes and also religious entanglements.
Kitchen
VIA FRANCIGENA
What I propose?
Basement 1 plan
1. Reviving the routes on this site. 2. Producing beer brewing as catalyst to advocate convent culture.
REKNOW
RECOGNISE
BEER PRODUCTION SUPPORT
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1. Reception 2. Courtyard 3. Gallery 4. Reading room 5. Beverage bar 6. Laboratory 7. Courtyard 8. Exit hall 9. Play ground 10.Exhibition hall 11. Reading salon 12. Theatre hall 13. Indoor lecture room 14 Meditation
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Monastery life Exploded programs 15
One space Interior rendering 16
LEFT TRUSS ROOF
RIGHT ROOF
20MM OUT FINISHING 40MM BATTERNS 10MM WATERPROOFING 150MM INSULATION WITH 100MM BEADERS EVERY 600MM 1000MM TRUSS STRUCTURE 10MM INDOOR FINISHING
20MM OUT FINISHING 40MM BATTERNS 10MM WATERPROOFING 150MM INSULATION WITH 100MMBEADERS EVERY 600MM 200MM CONCRETE BOARD 10MM INDOOR FINISHING
LEFT WALL
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20MM OUT FISNISHING 75MM VENTILATION CAVITY 10MM WATERPROOFING 150MM INSULATION WITH 100MM BEADERS EVERY 600MM 20MM STEEL BOARD 10MM INDOOR CEMENT FINISH
20MM OUT FISNISHING 75MM VENTILATION CAVITY 10MM WATERPROOFING 150MM INSULATION WITH 100MM BEADERS EVERY 600MM 40MM BATTENS 60MM DOUBE LAYER LAM
FOUNDATION
Two different systems Tectonic section
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4 GRIDS THAT FIGHT COVID-19 Collective dwelling design Year 2 Competition work during summer holiday Instructor: Xinnan.Zhao Individual
‘Diseases shape cities. But what if we were able to shape our cities to better fight diseases?’
In 2019, Novel Coronavirus is taking the world by storm and has had a huge impact on countless people.The purpose of this project is to remind that novel Coronavirus has affected billions of lives and that every country is involved, if not physically, then financially or spiritually. In short, people under pandemic face the real challenges of mental and physical isolation: distance, education, work and leisure. This project will act as a colletive house for the local residents and also can extent to adapt to emergency. This system that can be quickly installed and put to use ponders and sets out to address the social distance, health and safety issues of the novel Coronavirus global pandemic, while also providing a home for the period of renovation or rapid growth. 19
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Go fishing.
Eating meal.
Grocery shopping.
Chat and play card.
Outdoor film.
Tour activities.
Monthly market.
Square dance.
4:00 PM
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1980s
High density residents community
SITE
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Arcade-houses tourism
Current
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Enterprise Communities and tourism
Commuting.
Low density tourism and art district
Young entrepreneurs.
6:00 AM
Social background of the site
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Small Retail Low Income Urban Expansion
What I saw? (The problems). The charactoristic of old residential area
The challenges raised by pandemic
Bad traffic High density Old neighborhood “Villages” in cities
Quarantine
Smart community
Self-sufficient Fast installment Close community
Pandemic emergency
Residential Complex
Fishing
Different clients Different sizes Different unit types Open space Activities platform Circulation & Service Neighbourhood Interaction
Prefabricated units
Different scale units
Activitiy platform
Shared courtyard
Hierarchical circulation Emergency units Self-sufficient industry Modular unit Fast extention Prefabricated Division for “Green” and “Red” Hierachy Multi-layer ring
Function in different circles
Fast build, modula r
Retail activity
Collective units
Agricultural units G reen roof
Integrated programs of normal residential complex and pandemic emergency Now, it would seem that the dwelling has been lost to the market. While the dwellers must strive towards autonomy, it cannot become a hermetic enclave. Conceptually, different programs are individual and parallel to each other. Under the background of new attempt on living complex to tackle with COVID-19, the programs are weaved and integrated together. As a result, the outcome would be a collective living complex which could expand and works under safe criterion,
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Plan
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Isometric view series
Living units
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Community terrace
Long section
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Bird view 24
Site analysis
5 GLIMMERING LABORATORY
LIVERPOOL
Music Lab Design Year 2 Studio work Instructor: Anna.Gidman Individual
‘Music is the medicine of the mind.' - Miles Davis Birkenhead (UK) is facing a serious social issue: unemployment. Generally speaking, the society is in an unstable status provided the umployment rate is higher than 8% (10 in birkenhead). Also, there are few people in the street and the place feels dead.
but have no fixed location or home. Liverpool Music Lab is not a professional group. They simply
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There is a group of musicians who regularly meet to play music together in and around Liverpool
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Consequently, music could function as a method or media and then bring vitality to the local community while meeting customer needs. This project lays emphasis on the relationship between human and land and makes attempt to solve the local problems .
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Massing developement
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Dock Shutdown
Decline
Site boundary
Link two blocks
Volumn
Inside passageway
Cantilevered space
Courtyard
Floors and vertical movement
Green space introduced
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Changes of the Blocks in Birkenhead 19
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Blocks----activities
No activity----decline
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What I saw? (The problems) - Lossing vitality between city blocks. Design strategies
SOLAR ANALYSIS
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Introduce light well and plants to
Daily routine analysis to let different
offer relief and natural sunlight.
generations meet.
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VANISHED CLUB
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Add attraction between two areas to
Form vertical social interaction to
regain vitality and also link them.
make interesting community.
21.Small practice room 22.Recording room 23.Song writing room
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Site plan 1:300
Exterior render
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1. Cafe 2. Reception 3. Courtyard 4. Meeting room 5. Toilets 6. Shop 7. Lift 8. Big courtyard 9.Audio-video room 10. Storage and planting rooom
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6 Landscape and City Sales office design Work during Internship Director: Zhengcheng.Yu Team work 2019 Kinpan Award The Best Pre-sale Real Estate Award
SITE?
‘For I am abstracted from the world, the world from nature, nature from the way, and the way from what is beneath abstraction..' - Lao-Tzu, <Tao Te Ching> Before, sales office was treated as a scraps of the residential area, and in the end, it was mostly handed over to interns to practice. After all, who would spend too much effort for a temporary building with a national standard waterproofing level of 4? Sales offices will also be very sensible to accept the fate of all kinds of dependants: can be combined with the club, and the street shops, and even the construction team dwelling. Things changed. Today’s sales office, has not only signed a contract to sell a building in the tube, has become a truly leading industry benchmark, become a model of a better life. 28
Site condition
Classification system Point
Line
Surface
Materiality strategy Tradition
Modern
U-glass
What I see - Problems? 1. The temporary of the sales office 2. Landscape fault in the city
Design development Hollow grating
The expression of Chinese cultural elements in the modern Brick wall
Lighting strategy
1. Creating space - 2. Wandering - 3. Lighting strategy - 4. Sight and touch sense - 5. Smell sense Space scale
Natural light
Transparence
Experience
Save energy
Ventilation
Landscape
Materiality
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Non-utilitarian of the sales office 6 potentials
Community
Cafe
Library
Lecture hall
Playground
Visiting
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Vague functional definitions - Get rid of utilitarian.
In the future, the sales office may be a conceptual bookstore.
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Other works
First prize for short architecture film making in the University of Liverpool, 2020
Photograph, London, 2020
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Sunshades kinetic facade design - Groupwork at XJTLU
Model making skills
Membrane
Skelton
Frame
3m
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Tectonic model
1 Aluminium pipe: 6 mm 2 Brushless motor: 30 w 3 Light sensor 4 Crash pad: 10 mm 5 Steel frame: 10 cm 6 Secundary aluminium axis 7 Aluminium leaf 8 Aluminium louver 9 Steel gear set
10 Main gear 11 Secundary gear 12 Protection Profile
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