My UCL Portfolio

WANG YONGCHUN

2019-2023

CONTENTS

01 Surface Sunlight

Public building design

Time: 20-21 Academic Year ( my senior year) Duration: 2 months

02 Sliding Marketplace

Urban design

03 Floating Apartment

Large scale and Supertall building design

Time: 20-21 Academic Year ( my senior year) Duration: 2 months

Time: 2022 Duration: 2 months

04 Black Oasis

Public building cluster design

05 Other works

Interior design works; Individual hand-painted works;Creative Design Works.

Time: 2023 Duration: 3.5 months

Time: 2019-2023

01 Surface sunlight

A Jour�ey to Awaken the Beginning | Summer 2020 ——Ping�an Ocean Museum

Time：2020.04-06 Type: Public Building Narrative architecture Academic Project (in CUMT) Instructor: Ding chang Site: Fujian, China

BRIEF

Pingtan City, located in Fujian Province, is renowned for the blue sand eruption, a unique phenomenon that occurs annually from April to August. This breathtaking sight covers the coast with a blue starry river. However, it‘s important to recognise the deeper meaning behind this beauty. The ”blue sand” is actually a self-defence mechanism triggered by external factors such as water disturbance and changes in light.

The purpose of the museum in Pingtan is to inspire awe for nature. The exhibition areas aim to immerse visitors in a storytelling environment through a narrative progression. The exhibitions depict the marine environment, initially beautiful but later polluted, evoking emotional fluctuations and resonating with the audience. Ultimately, the museum aims to guide people towards better treatment of the ocean through appeals and warnings. Visiting this museum allows people to appreciate Pingtan's unique “blue sand” and gain a deeper understanding of the challenges facing the ocean. It is hoped that this experience will inspire people to pay more attention to ocean conservation and actively engage in protecting it.

SUMMARY Let us work together to cherish our marine resources and preserve the beauty of the blue sand starry river for future generations.

This project was my first project at this studio during my junior year.

It was also the first and most comprehensive project I completed independently.

With the guidance of my teacher, I applied the knowledge I had acquired in the previous two years to the design and learned how to think comprehensively about the issues between the building and the environment, as well as the relationship between the building and the internal environment. This experience was a turning point in my understanding of architecture.

02 LOHAS Marketplace Fa i r a n d t h e a t �e | S p r i n g 2 0 2 1

Time：2021.03-05 Type: Urban Design Academic Project (in CUMT) Instructor: Feng lei, Ding chang Site: Qingdao, China

BRIEF An exhibition near my residence in 2023 piqued my interest. It was a distinctive showcase of bazaar culture held in the Hingshan Road marketplace. The uncommon venue and subject matter drew in locals and outsiders alike. The marketplace is a bustling location, harmoniously combining a vast array of fruits and vegetables with particular vernacular, attracting huge crowds and revenue simultaneously.

Nevertheless, I noticed ample room for improvement within the market. The behavior of the crowd around the market venues caught my attention. At around 8:00 or 9:00 p.m., people gathered to watch the theatre while chatting and laughing. It made me wonder if we could create a venue that combines a marketplace and a theatre.

SUMMARY This project was based on my feelings about the chosen site, and was a further attempt to mark my deeper understanding of urban design.

The site was needed by local residents for their activities, and I also wanted the site to provide an environment for visitors to have a cultural experience of the site. The concept of slides that I have implanted is a clever way to form a slide-like traffic of places, some of which lead to indoor and some to outdoor, and some of the buildings are "suspended" and some are placed underground, which is very recognisable and enriches the life of the place for both residents and visitors.

SITE ANALYSIS

CROWD ANALYSIS

THE PLAN OF THE UNDERGROUND FAIR

GENERAL PLAN

FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS

AERIAL VIEW

SECTION ANALYSIS

SITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS

RENDERING

03 Floating Apartment Suatainable apar��ent | Spring 2022

Time：2022.01-03 Type: Large-scale and supertall buildings Individual Academic Project Site: Shenzhen, China

BRIEF With global warming and the continuous reduction of natural resources, countries around the world have begun to focus on environmental protection and energy conservation, the building as the main living and working place of human beings, but also the main target object to protect the environment and energy consumption, the arrival of green eco-building is to solve this pressing problem.

With this in mind, the design focuses on the dormitory, trying to reduce the use of air conditioning in Shenzhen through clever use of ventilation and lighting, and increasing the amount of green space, while compensating for the lack of communication between students returning to their dormitories in China, and increasing the amount of space for exchange.

04

Black Oasis G re e n t o u r | Fa l l 2 0 2 3

Time：2023.05-09 Type: Public Building Site: Inner Mongolia, China Group Work with Yanny Wang (Interaction design) Ruoqi Zhang (Landscape design) Role: Architectural design and Site planning

BRIEF While researching the Ulanjada volcanic cluster, I found that some efforts could be made to encourage tourists to travel in a low-carbon way, thereby helping to mitigate land desertification.

Based on this background, I have devised an “APBE” incentive-driven operating system -"appeal-participation-benefit-enjoyment"- for the scenic area, which operates as a closed loop. The core of this mechanism is the architecture, which includes a visitor reception service centre to introduce the project, an opportunity to participate in low-carbon development projects in the scenic area, a bazaar to redeem the benefits, and a B&B to enjoy the practical benefits. Through this closed-loop system, tourists can be more understanding of the importance of low-carbon travelling through the active hands-on participation in environmental protection programmes.

05 Other works My interest | 2017-2023

Interior Design Work - Office Remodelling Design -

Site Construction Photos

The original site is large and has a lot of room for development, and there is a clear zoning direction in the site with the aim of creating a community purpose-built consumer, with 75 per cent total commercial and 25 per cent total office.

Factory Structure

The venue was chosen in the renovation area of the fifth building, the original area occupies a total of 502.79 square metres, after the renovation of the upper and lower floors can be used in the area of 591-600 square metres, the upper and lower floors can accommodate the number of people between 50-150 people.

Section Design

Interior Design Work - - Design the home for two children -

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Master bedroom elevation

Children's room elevation

Hands-on Area - Children's Activity Corner

Persona

Design Features

Hands-on Area - Film projection room

Father: civil servant in a government department Personality: serious and demanding Mother: High school language teacher Personality: Slightly stern, old-fashioned Eldest daughter: 6 years old, 1st grade, afraid of the dark, afraid of her parents.

Youngest daughter: 4 years old, kindergarten class Personality: timid, afraid of things, recognises newborns.

• •

Sliding doors separate spaces, either to form a complete space or as two separate

The projection room is combined with a study, while a tatami mat sunbathing area is

spaces;

set up at the end of the study to enhance personal interaction. In the evenings,

The door between the living room and the kitchen cleverly separates the space,

families can stay together and watch films on the cinema screen.

leaving an opening to create a line of sight from all sides, giving the child a sense of companionship, and at the same time, facilitating interaction between parents and children at any time;

Plan and analysis

•

The door is both a divider and a link, providing a line of sight and increased care.

entrance

corner of the playground KITCHEN

Staggered high/low beds�

activity area

children room

dining area

Parent-child ZoneA ( Construction Corner - Block Area)

secondary bathroom

main Bathroom Bay window sitting room

Separate wet and dry areas

master bedroom

cinema room

study area

Projection screen

parent-children zone

Parent-child Zone B - Curved Meditation Area Parent-child Zone C - Tatami Mats

Living flow

Homecoming family activity flow

Toileting and changing

Visual communication

Furniture Design - Design of seating furniture for discussion spaces in academic buildings -

Table Chair

Multifunctional Chair

Function

Function

Structure

Structure

Chairs are interspersed with boards, and bookshelves are combined with tables and boards

The back of the chair and the seat are reversed forwards to form a table and chair combination.

Temporary storage of books, small table for writing

Can also be used as a chair or a table

Interlacing chair Function

Function

For storage of school bags and for sitting out

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Structure

Structure

The seat panels are interspersed with each other and the back cushions are interspersed with the panels.

The back of the chair's C-shaped seat panels can be swivelled and lifted to form a table-chair combination.

Architectural snapshot design works - Shenzhen Urban Village History Museum -

Site selection

8F 5F 6F Village house

3F

3F

3F

3F

40 Small park

1F 30

Proposed construction site

Ancestral hall

Main Entrance of Urban Village

Shop along the street

Mission requirement Allocated area

Functional details

Area

Requirement

Foyer Public area

Souvenir Shop

550㎡

Toilet Fixed Showroom

500㎡

Temporary Exhibition Hall

350㎡

Children's Interactive Gallery

200㎡

Cultural exchange zone

Small-scale lectures, forums, film and video screenings, etc.

450㎡

Lounge bar

Rest, recreation and relaxation

200㎡

Showroom

Logistics service area Outdoor, semi-out door spaces

C Swivel Chair

2 management offices, 1 changing room 1 store room, toilets Exchanges, presentations, public events

Floor height >4.5m

150㎡x1 750㎡x1

250㎡ 350㎡

Raised floors are not counted as floor area

Can be used separately and relatively independently; Chairs can also be put together to form tables and chairs for group discussions and open communication

Course

- Undergraduate course design assignments -

name

Constructive techniques - nodes and details

Assignment content

Landscape paving construction practice

Contents of drawings

General Layout

General Layout 1: 150

- Practice of barging, water-friendly steps -

60 thick 1:2 granite top layer 30 thick 1:2 cement mortar 150 thick C25 concrete 100 thick gravel bedding simple earth rammer 60

250~400mm Granular pebbles in bulk

250~400mm Granular pebbles in bulk

30

600~800mm Natural pebbles

150 thick M5 cement mortar block wall 200

surface

200

surface

200

150

underwater

100

underwater

400

400 to 600 (as needed for rock piles) Creek bank stones

A Natural Grass Barge Practices

60 thick 1:2 granite top layer

150 thick C15 concrete 100 thick gravel bedding

Scale 1:20

30 thick 1:2 cement mortar

B

simple earth rammer

Pebble beach barging practices Scale 1:20

150 thick C25 concrete 100 thick gravel bedding simple earth rammer 600

250~400mm Granular pebbles in bulk

600

600~800mm surface

-1.60

surface 150 thick brick wall with M5 cement mortar

100

M5 cement mortar masonry Hair stone block retaining wall

underwater

100 100

100 150

50

-1.45

150 150

-1.13

underground

400

500~700mm

C20 reinforced concrete 150 thick C15 concrete

Creek bank stone (C20 fine gravel concrete fixing)

100 thick gravel bedding

150 thick C15 concrete

simple earth rammer

100 thick gravel bedding simple earth rammer

C

Water-friendly step section Scale 1:20

Detail Design 1: 20

D

Planted barge practices Scale 1:20

MY STREET Cultural Development Strategies for Old Towns

- Analyse my hometown Yangliuqing Town, Tianjin -

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Rich Folklore Experience

Sparse

China

Space Design Strategy

Tianjin

My hometown

Texture

dense

Sparse

Sparse

Education

Sparse Sparse

Business Tourism

dense

dense

4*4 site

Centre High Density

High density around the perimeter

4*4 site

Building area

4*4 site

varying degrees of sparseness

Hometown of New Year Paintings

dense Housing

dense

Site status quo

From dense to sparse

Greenland area

space allocation

Chart base adjustment

Blocs

Blocs

Road Deformation

Road refinement

building area

Extraction

Integration

Deformation

Area ratio

Connection x Growth

Xiqing district

Road division

Building generation

Tianjin Yangliuqing - a famous folk culture tourism town integrating culture and leisure, folk experience, cultural creativity and leisure on

ing liuq n g n w Ya ld to o

dense

dense Sparse

A square plot of land next to a borderless natural environment

Yangliuqing town

Sparse

Generation Logic

My street

4*4 site

High density to low density

High-rise to low-rise

Area Ratio

Skyline

Road Profile

Building & Public Space Segmentation

Integration of road & building

Deformation of buildings

Architectural interspersions

Changes in urban development in recent years i. Architectural space: embedded in the pattern of public space

ii. Urban space: multiple public space models

iii. Urban space design with pedestrian system as the main focus

iv. Staggered space with layers

Wide range of cultural experiences

Media Culture + Business

Non-heritage Brand Experience Hall Simple Life Festival

Music Festivals

Biennale, Art Season

Experience Workshop Netflix Spots Holiday Bazaar Festivals and Folklore Performances

ME & MY PRACTICE After entering university, I focused on studying environment design for the built environment. Initially, I learned about the relationship between building and internal space on the interior environment scale. Through theoretical and practical training, I discovered the importance of interior spatial elements that cater to ergonomics and daily needs.

deeper into architecture and consider the environmental impact of my designs.

In my second year, I expanded my focus to design on a single-building scale, considering both the exterior and interior to create a harmonious design. This shift broadened my understanding of the built environment.

After completing my undergraduate degree, I worked as a design assistant for two years. Throughout this period, I applied the systematic perspectives gained from architectural design to both architecture and interior design. So that deciding to pursue my master’s in architectural design is not a scribbling decision, but rather it was developed by many in-person experiences and ultimately made me realise that my sincere passion lies in exploring the relationship between the built environment and the buildings from a broad perspective.

During my third year, I had the opportunity to learn from experienced architectural designers and participate in an architectural research excursion to Europe. This trip deepened my understanding of the architecture with its surroundings, particularly through the use of colonnades. This experience strengthened my resolve to delve

After come back, I applied my built environment perspectives to my design projects. The projects below all demonstrate my ability to integrate architectural knowledge into the design of spatial environments.

Temporary Display Creative Base Native Plant Festival