PORTFOLIO
Xuan FENG
Selected Works 2019-2024
E-Mail: xuan929552377@163.com xuanfeng99@g.ucla.edu Telephone: 18101391903
STORY OF M
This portfolio is completing by the five stages of M's life, just as my perspective of architecture, and my perception of the world. When people are first exposed to new things, it is naturally to be attracted by fancy design with edged-technology, forgetting to explore the core of relation between human, culture and environment. As time goes by, we will realize the root of architecture is not only creating a physical shelter, but to offer a chance for people to look deep into their inner world. No matter how is it designed, the destination is to construct a better world, by create space that inspires introspection.
CONTENTS Urban Renovation of Jingdezhen Ceramics Sculpture Factory 01 RE-View CHILDHOOD 01-05 Architecture Design of Student Center of Future University 02 Dream Reality YOUTH 06-10 Urban Design of City Subsidiary-Center Bank of The Grand Canal 03 PRIME 11-14 Architecture Design of Multi-Generational Rental Apartment Multiplication 04 TWILIGHT 15-18 19-20 Installation Design of Amusement Facility Wiggly Snake 05 MEMORY 21-23 Architeccture Design of Performance Center Extra Chapter: Works in UCLA 06 AMBITION
01 RE-VIEW
CHILDHOOD
M was bron in a ceramics sculpture producing family in Jingdezhen City, China. Living in a plot with dense and small houses, without company by parents who were workers of Jingdezhen Ceramics Sculpture Fatory, M thought her life boring when she was a child, and the only thing interested her was the sound of ceramics breaking, just as the wish of breaking her ordinary life.
The Slow Glass
Slow glass is a special material from Bob shaw's science fiction: Light of Other Days. The time passing through the glass is measured in years, and what we see through the glass now is the scene of several years ago. While glass transmits light in both directions, recording what is happening now and reproducing it in the future, it increases users' sense of historical participation and emphasizes the essential concept of the design that human behavior constitutes a series of historical events.
Work, Spring 2022
Individual
01
Site History
They found a ceramics education institute to teach people from all walks of life Also, they tried to create sculpture in abstact style to attract younger consumers Jingdezhen has been famous for ceramics making for hundreds of years Most of the traditional ceramic sculptures are features from Chinese ancient folks 1956 1995 1960 2004 2005 10KM 5.5KM 11KM 6.5KM 1.2KM 4.5KM 2KM 8KM 5KM 5.5KM 4.5KM Chang River Zhushan District Leping County Fuliang County Changjiang District The ceramic sculpture factory is located in Jingdezhen city, eastsouth part of China. With a relatively small city size, people can easily travel around it in two hours by car. site tourist attraction airport & railway station ceramic art school downtown Existing Function District Analysis Site Analysis Texture & Surrounding Section of Road Main Street of Site Main Street of City 1000 1000 7000 1500 1500 1500 2000 2000 3000 3000 3000 3000 600 600 Data Rearch Site Residential Area School Factory Commerce Consturction Plot Bus Station Pass Pass Kiln Education Historical Building Store & Studio Deserted Living Now Now Workers Production Function 02
Declining statues forced workers try to make some changes
The selling, creating, and visiting behavirous happen in everywhere in the factory, but gathering, marketing, working, and educating happen in particular areas.
Human Activity Problem Terrible living condition, declining scenery, and blocked views are obstacles of future development. 2 yard Building Height 18m 12m 6m 10.5m 15m 3m <3m SWOT & Strategy Ⅰ Ⅱ Ⅲ Ⅳ Use metal balls to reflect the hidden factory More education rooms Remove the blocking buildings Curved road guiding to visit the producing process Commercial street & Market to attract visitors Whole factory turns into an entertainment center nearby Mud ponds to attract kids Coherent Attractive Spuare Follow original molds to clean up texture Strategy 1 Strategy 9 Strategy 2 Strategy 4 Strategy 5 Strategy6 Strategy8 Strategy3 S W O T 1 Stagger 4 U Shape 3 alley Type of Building Group 2 Compared 4 Square 5 string 3 Rotated 1 Slope 5 Stair Type of Space 03
N Master Plan Axis & Notes & Visitor Flow Stamping mud is also the first step of pottery making Mud pools for children to play in Material in Renovation Red Brick Grey Brick Slow Glass Metal Parget Concrete Tile Curve Tile Entertainment park for residents nearby Marketing along the road Square with Multiple Usages function 1 function 2 function 3 View of Main Street Renovation Analysis Education Center with Conspicuous Functional Partition Studio Kiln Education Exibition Historical Building Workshop Science and Technology Park Commerce Residence Green Space System Methods of Renovation Reformed newly-buildt preserved Roadside & Hill Group Center Square reflect the hidden kiln store the rejected material Gound Elevation & Reflective Balls 0.3m 0.9m 0.6m 1.2m -0.3m 3m 4.5m 1.5m 0m Note Axis Visitor Flow 04 After Renovation
Old materials from demolished building and broken potteies are displayed in concretemade buildings, while well-preserved sophisticated ceramics are exhibited in new glass-made buildings, warning people that indifference to culture is also a kind of destruction of culture.
Red brick frameworks face toward kilns and workshops, providing visitors a stage to watch the pottery making progress as well as offering workers a relaxing place.
Visitors can easily notice the conspicuous red bricks frameworks from the main street, which lead them come to the Ruins Exhibition Hall, kiln and workshops.
The Ruins Exhibition Hall
05 Perspective View
YOUTH
When it came to moment M chose university, She decided to get out of her hometown without any hesitation.
In university, the Student Center was the place she loved most, since it was more like a Library and Exhibition Center of Dreams. With everyone displaying their dreams and visiting or revising others' dreams, people could easily communicate with a more diverse group, which was called DREAM REALITY.
Since it was the first time that M got rid of traditional aesthetic, she was shocked and then fell in love with it craziliy.
Individual Work, Spring 2020
06
02 DREAM REALITY
Located near the center square of the university, visitors of the site would be in great diversity.
Communication
Dormitory Dining Hall Library Café Open Space Class Room Shop Gym Medium of Information Physical Object: Knotes Hard Vector: Fresco & Inscription Soft Surface: Paper Internet Based: Screen Concept Process Opportunities Campus Life Medium Change MORE chances to get DEEPER connection with LESS social pressure Problems Impacts of TECHONOLOGY MORE chanels for communication HIGHER frequency of cultural exchange MORE opportunities to get educated Information FRAGMENTATION LESS independent thinking LESS intereaction in real world Common ground New way & New chacharacteristics of communication Combine Combine Avoid Avoid
at Campus
Site analysis
Activities Effect Factors 07 Traveling Sporting Relaxing Playing Passing Academic Building Kinfolk Apartment Physical Requirement Metal Requirement Visual Requirement Road & Path Activity Crowed Spot Project Site Dormitory Service Facility Green Space
User Group District Analysis
Geometry Process Space Process Anastole Lift Up Subduction Jut Out Visiting Flow Viewing Platform Elevator Sleeping Capsule 1st Floor 2nd Floor 3rd Floor 4th Floor Dream Reality 01 RECORDING & DISPLAYING 02 WATCHING & RECOMPOSING 03 CONSTRUCTING & INTEREACTING 04 DREAMING & PRINTING 08
Design Process
Section Perspective
Interior Space 09
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Group Work, Spring 2021 PRIME
Contribute to CBD Plot Design, Computational & Physical Modeling, Perspective & Analysis Drawings
After graduated, M worked at the Subsidiary-Centre of Beijing City, where modern buildings were tearing the sky. Walking along with The BeijingHangzhou Grand Canal, M started to feel something changed...
03 BANK OF THE GRAND CANAL
11
Grand Canal flows by the site.
District Analysis River System Site History The
Beijing-Hangzhou
Located at the crossing spot of five rivers, the site has a strong emotional attachment to water Site Problems Skyscrapers Blocking the View No Options for Traveling Passionless Openspace Lack of Walking Space Deserted Riverwalk Traveling Unfriendly Beijing City Tongzhou District Site Beijing City Tongzhou District Site Site Analysis Human Activities Road Section The Elderly Walking Speed Reference Case Active Notes Axis & Cycle Dense Road Network Network Deducing Accessibility Family The Young Children Planning Methods Planning Principle Shinjuku, Tokyo 250-350m 5min Shorter Walking Distance From A to B More convenient Public Transportations Lujiazui, Shanghai Manhattan, New York 50m X 100m 100m X 150m 80m X 150m 450 450 130 1080 500 580 660 400 120 260 Open Space Cycle Green Axis New Road Intrinsical Road Preserved Road of ancient Tongzhou Town Ancient Cultural Center Modern Cultural Center Convention and Exhibition Center 12
Buddha Pagoda is the center of ancient town of Tongzhou, and also a spiritual sustenance of citizens.
Design Analysis Parks along the Green Axis
Physical Model
Buddha Pagoda Culture Park Culture Park Science Park Exhibition Park Convention and Exhibition Center Ecology Cultivating Center Culture Park Planting Park Water Concert Halll Xihaizi Park The Grand Canal Mesuum Ecology Cultivating Center Green Space System Intrinsic Park Newly-built Park Green Axis Road System Subway Station Bus Station Arterial Road Minor Arterial Road Functional Partition Business & Commerce Cultural Architecture Recreation Education Apartment Active Notes Convention & Exhibition Center Concert Hall & Gallery Tridimensional Riverwalk Water Park Canal Museum Shopping Mall Tridimensional Riverwalk & Commerce
Tridimensional Riverwalk Culture Island Scenic Overlook Concert Hall & Gallery 1 2 3 4 5 6 13
Sight
Line from Buddha Pagoda
Open Space Green Axis & Riverwalk Parks along the Green Axis Actitive Spot 0 50 150 300 Overhead Corridor N 14
04 MULTIPLICATION
In her Sixties, M finally got tired of prosperous city and the mania of edged-technology. By contrast, she loved natural things and simple people. That's why she chose to live in a Long-Term Rrental Apartment with People In Her Age as well as The Young, to tell the story of herself.
As for M's hometown, Jingdezhen City, she was afraid her acquisitive mindset cultivated by modern society would stain the purity of the peaceful place, where became an unreachabe distance.
Contribute to Concept Design, Room Type Design, Rendering, Computational Modeling, Plan & Elevation & Sence Drawing Group Work, fall 2020 TWILIGHT 15
Exterior Scene
16
Interior Scene
Room Type Type One Type One Type One Type One For elder people liveing with partner For elder people liveing alone For young people liveing alone For young people liveing with famaily Sight Line
Plan Design First Floor Second Floor Fourth Floor Fifth Floor
Third Floor 17
Elevation Design
East Elevation
18
05 WIGGLY SNAKE
In the last days of M's life, all she could remember is a Childhood Scene. She felt shameful that she had been spent all her life to explore the value of world, but had never realized real treasure was her every ordinary moment.
Who is M? She could be any individual in the world who always be regretful after lost the things she had but ignored.
The leisure time with friends, calling from mother, the sunlight penetrating branches, wind blowing by face, all this sweet memory of M will be another one's daily routine, but maybe still being treated without a glance.
Just take a look at the sky. Maybe it would also disappear in an ordinary day.
Just think about Architecture M..
Individual Work, fall 2019
MEMORY
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Assembling Portion
Unit Functions Snooping & Going through Low-rise: Suitable for Playing
Conspicuous: Attracting & Passing
Step
Rotate Step 2: Assemble Step 3: Split
1:
Come here! Dinnertime! Take a break... Catch me if you can! Perspective
Crawling & Hiding Sliding & Climbing Human Scale Design Process Sliding!
Paths inside
20 Find me!
Openings Plan
Physical Model
06 Extra Chapter: WORKS IN UCLA
M was planning to build a futuristic performance center in Las Vegas, where people are crazy with entertainment.
She tried to providing immersive experience by keeping programs moving and recombining them into new programs. What's more, natural landscape would be emphasized in the plan, to help people refresh from the extra entertaining environment in Vegas.
Group work, 2023-2024
AMBITION 21
Site Analysis Precedent Study Structure Materials Site Walkable Distance Bus Stop AI Generation Concept THIN STRUCTURE FLOATING TRANSLUCENT TRANSPARENT REFLECTIVE LUMINOUS GLOWING MEMBRANE ARCH SHAPE ORGANIC CUBES VERTICAL SIGNAGE IN LAS VEGAS TRANSITION SPACE KEY WORDS NATURAL BUBBLES DUAL LAYERED ETFT TRANSITION SPACE SUSPANSION GEOMETRICAL DOME TRUSS STRUCTURE ORGANIC UNIT HANGING CABLE GLASS HOLLOW SOUTH SITE NORTH AI Rendering AI Drawing Plan at 80m Plan at 32m Section A-A Sky Lobby & Concert Hall Opera House 200m 80m 32m Program Analysis Circulation Analysis Physical Model A A 22 Casino in Hotel Artificial Nature in Hotel Street Section Opera House Concert Hall Education & Gallery Moving Theater Administration Potential Position Restaurant Logistics Staff & Performer Audience Performance Related Staff Only Public Access Public East Perspective 1: 250 South Perspective 1: 250 Potential Combination
AI Rendering AI Rendering 23