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XIANGYANG CHEN EDUCATION 08/2020-07/2022: Master of Science, Architcture and Urban Design (Entertainment Studio) University of California, Los Angeles, GPA: 3.6/4.0

07/2015-07/2020: Bachelor of Architecture Wuhan University, China

ABOUT

Experience

Dived into both architectural and multi-media fields, I define myself as a design who never stop thinking and use every media for storytelling.

11/2022-Present : Architectural Designer

CONTACT INFO Resident Place Los Angeles Email: chenxiangyangken@ gmail.com Phone: +1-3107393967

Dianna Wong Architecture and Interior Design, Los Angeles-Interior design- Grand Wailea Hotel, Nobu + Sheertwater Del Coronado Hotel -Renovation of Los Angeles Country Club -Turtle Bay Resort, o'ahu, Hawaii

04-2021 - Present: Architectural Consultant(parttime), 06/2021-12/2021 : Virtual Environment Designer& Motion Graphics Designer(Full-Time) Digital Fun, Shanghai, China

LANGUAGE English Chinese

- Virtual Environment XR design- game Arknight, Honda Car Event - Stage & Exhibition design - Flare New Media Art Festival, Film Environment of Upcoming Summer -Interaction design and Animation - Buhhda lighting show, Merced Benz Car event

03/2021-05/2021: Architect

HZS architecture , Shanghai, China Urban design and Pulic architecture design - Springwood Urban design and community center, - Dali Baiyue Urban Design

02/2020-08/2020: Intern, Architectural Designer, CADI, Wuhan, China

- Ezhou Center urban and architecture design - Stadium Design Wuhan Stadium - Theater Renovation Hubei Province Theater

SKILLS AutoCAD Rhino&Grasshopper Revit Chief Architect Adobe Creative Suite Sketchup Enscape &Vary Unreal Engine 4&5 Cinema 4D& Octane Touch Designer After Effects Unity

REFERENCE Natasha Sandmeier

A+D Architecture and Design Museum Executive Director, Professor, UCLA Architecture &Urban Design natashasandmeier@gmail.com +1(818) 257 0405

Ruokun Chen

Founder and CEO of Digital Fun info@digitalfun.ca +86 18616209701

Linlin Zhong

Founder of Atelier Hide and Seek, info@atelierhs.com +1(917)434-3559

NOBU at DEL CORONADO

SHEERWATER at DEL CORONADO

LOS ANGELES COUNTRY CLUB RENOVATION

BIKINI BIRD at GRAND WAILEA, MAUI

Tianquan lake is the project for elder people to live. In the public area, our aim is to create a comfortable zone for everyone who lives here. We create a prototype of box to connncet the district, it has open space, half open- half private space and private space. Different combination give different types of use.

TIANQUAN LAKE URBAN DESIGN Urban Planning, Public Architecture design

EZHOU CENTER URBAN & ARCHITECTURE DESIGN

Stadium, Art center, and Conference Center of EZhou, Hubei Province (Bidding Project)

FLOOR PLAN

ROOF PLAN

In my internship in CADI, Xiaoming Lu Studiom, i took part in the design of Ezhou Center, it is the new modern city plannin of Ezhou, China. I help to design the new stadium and also the conference center, and the urban design of this area. I model the conference center and alos help to draw the plan of the stadium and also basketball stadium.

All the buildings are connected by bridges and seperated from the center line.

CONFERENCE HALL

STADIUM

The concept of the building are from the paper cut art. The stadium is from the circle, and the conference all is from a square.

And they are connected by bridges. The indoor stadium and the swimming pool are surrounding by the main stadium. These lines are not only designed for aethetic consideration, they are also the system of transportation, which are connected to the bridges. This style keeps the principle of landscape archietcture, which implies the buildings are part of the landscape, and diminish the feeling of huge scale.

Concept of stadium

Concept of conference hall

SECTION

FIRST FLOOR PLAN

SOUTH ELEVATION

SECOND FLOOR PLAN

WEST ELEVATION

HUBEI PROVINCE THEATER RENOVATION

During my intership in CADI, I help to composing the new book of Xiaoming Lu. He is the chief architect of CADI. I helped to remodel and redraw Hubei Theater, Hubei Museum, It is the the theater of Hubei Province, based on the narrow space, it has layers on the vertical, I draw the section and the explode view and also elevations and plans.

EXPLOSIVE VIEW

ART FAIR+ This design locates at Hankou Riverbank park, Wuhan, Hubei Province, China. My aim is to shape and rebuild Wuhan waterfront landscape features from the perspective of historical cultural heritage and daily activities in this area. This project locates on the core area of the park, it is surrounded by Yangzi river and old neighborhood, which was once used as concessions. Wuhan, a city thrived from water transportation and transaction, is a city where Yangzi river and Han river intersect. So I added a fair in this museum to make is become a box where citizens can enjoy, buy and produce art works or just pass by them. Museum is a non-daily space , however, fair is somewhere the most ordinary in our daily life. I hope to join them together to make it become the place where creates and displays life of citizens. Art is something above daily life, and this is the place where art will return to daily life, in the meantime, everyone can share and enjoy the museum with colorful activities.

Generally, fine art museums only open at daytime, however, it is at the core of the park and full of various kinds of activities day and night. The spaces in this museum is removable in order to inspire different kinds of activities, and inspire artists to create displays coordinate with the space. Moreover, the water in the river will rise us and submerge the ground floor of the building during flood season. So the spaces for exhibition will rise up during flood time to answer this situation. Consequently, it is the place will break the limit for activities only happen on daytime in museums. One evening in the museum is equally amazing as well. It is not only a museum but also somewhere true street life will happen.

This fine art museum is located at Han Kou Riverside park, a place where the water in the river will go up and submerge the park during rainy season. So I joined daily activities with waterfront landscape to rebuild the scene of the riverbank. Also, there are skyscrapers behind the museum, so I lower the height of the museum to make it become a horizontally volume of the skyline.

I used truss to represent the element of crane. The canvas on the rooftop are element to indicate that it is like containers and cranes under.Fair is a space day-to-day in our life. However, museum is a space tagged with non-recurring.

I want to join these two spaces together to make a fresh new experience for people to visit dock.

RIVERSIDE AVENUE YANGTZI RIVER

LI HUANGPI ROAD

LINJIANG GATE

HAN KOU RIVERSIDE PARK

MASTER PLAN

Exhibition,cafe, study,art fair and other functions are added in the box

The volumes are removeable to adjust different functions and flood in rainy season

The box is divided into two to create a market space and transportation streamline

Traffic infrastruture is added into the museum

Boxed are scattered for different functions,so one of each has a single function.

Trusses are added to support and create transportation spaces of the museum.

Boxed are put dispersed to create a better sight for YangtZE river

Canvas are added as the rooftop

Boxes's shapes are transformed to make them suit the size of spaces needed

The shape of office space is transformed to adapt the shape of rooftop.

4.00m ELEVATION FLOORPLAN

VIEW FROM RIVERSIDE PARK

12.00m ELEVATION FLOORPLAN

VIEW INSIDE GALLARY

SECTION A-A

The word museum has a vague definition, they are not a typical kind of architecture. You can see at least four types in the definition of museum: galleria, exhibition hall, fine art museum and salesroom. All these types can display art work., and they all have interactions with audience in some way.

From the aspect of architecture, display space has no different with other spaces - they are not purely practical, neutral or scientific. Comparing with railway station, airport and hospital, modern display space does not only follow technical index, it seems more civilized. However, they are not like church design, which has strict rules, either. Early galleria is only a general corridor.

So I chose this prototype as my start of exhibition spaces design.

And I create an art fair in the site, which can make visitors wonder freely in the museum. Moreover, they can experience more comparing with going to a general museum. People will share different experiences based on their role. In the same time you can join the square dancing or Tai Chi group from citizens nearby, or just have a cup of tea and see the beautiful view of Yangzi river.

And if you are tired of seeing art works, you can have a picnic or take a ship to go around.

What is more, if you just a person passing by, it is still ok for you to just go though the site without any stop. So this project is far beyond a museum and it can create city life and display them, anyone can see or join these colorful activities and get leisure in the visiting.

One day on ART FAIR AT A DOCK can be a solution to multiple issues, and it can fit the need from different people.

PRARADISE LIBRARY

This project is located in Tanhualin, Wuhan, Hubei Province, China. It was the headstream of library science in China. And it was also a mission field a hundred years ago. Being surrounded by old houses, lots of people come over here for sightseeing, the new library is built for citizens nearby and also tourists. And it is the solution to the shortage of libraries in this district.

This library project innovates me with the concept of the library. A library is not only a place for collecting books, it is a place to record the whole world. That is the reason why I quote the poem from Jorge Luis Borges. He is an Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet, and translator, and a key figure in Spanish-language and universal literature. I want to create a "paradise" for books, and a paradise library like Borges had described.

VIEW FROM TANHUALIN.ST

The main street in Tanhualin is an old street with commercial function, and a lot of people hang over here.

However, there is little public space around , so I created a public space with functions of display,rest, music hall in the ground floor of the library, in order to make a space shared by community citizens and tourists.

Inside the library, the most important space is a sphere full of books. It is the space of transportation.We can see the book sphere in every single room in the library, and citizens can use their hands and drones to get the books. I believe real books in this cyber era still shed lights , they have their own glory.

A

display

music hall

A

resting area

MASTER PLAN

CAFE RECEPTION DESK

RESTING AREA CONFERENCE ROOM

COMPUTER DESK

BOOK SHELF& STAIRS

MAGAZINE READING

KIDS PLAYING AREA RESTING AREA

MEDITATION ROOM

FIRST FLOOR PLAN

MANAGEMENT ROOM

COMMUNICATING ROOM BOOK SHELF& STAIRS

ROOM FOR THINKING

FOURTH FLOOR PLAN

Lights go through skylight and enlighten the bookshelves under.

I chose varied scales of round windows to cooperate with the shape of the building.

The sphere is used as book shelf and also as space of transportation.

Study room Office area Archives Reading room

Cafe

Arches which is used as display area ,resting area and music hall.

ARCHIVES BACONEY

COMMUNICATING LIBRARY ROOM

EXHIBITION O P E N SPACE

BOOK LIBRARY SHELVES

RESTING CHILDRE AREA ACTIVITY

GEN STAFF ROOM

STUDY ROOM

READING ROOM

CAFE

DRONES TO DELIVER BOOKS

SECTION A-A

Multi-Agen The main p parameters

By studied the basic o

AMBIGUOUS WHITE

IMAGE

The work combine the Ukiyo painting and parameter design to develop a new decoration on the wall inside an office. In thish work, we explored a way to express absolute parameter graphically, with the prototype photo.

ALGORI

nt Chaos is a program designed for generating complex patterns which contains both order and chaos quality. part of this program is a multi-agent syatem motivated by boty algorithm and the image input.By carefully select the resolution and other s, the program could provide a series of results with different ration of chaos.

d grey scale picture,we apply it to points to make them rotate and iterate, so points will draw lots of lines on the picture, which consists of our design.

E INTERACTION

ITHM SENSITIVITY

MULTI-AGENT CHAOS

PATTERN REVOLUTION

add artificial image

original algorithm output

interfere with original output

interfere it deeper

modifiedl algorithm output

converse the figure and ground

CONSTRUCTION DESIGN The real wall in the office is 4800mm x 2800mm. Comparing with the size lazer cut can work, we divide the sheet matal into 4, and it is 2800mm x 1200mm per sheet. And we use nails to fix the sheet metals on the wall. As the wall is made of gypsum board, we have to fix the board fisrt and then paint the metal.

So we draw the sheet metal which will be operated in laser cut and then locate the place nails will be on the sheet metal, and the principle for locating the nails is to reduce the free ends as many as possible.

Board 1

Board 2

Board 3

Board 4

FLARE INTERNATIONAL ART FESTIVAL STAGE & SHOW DESIGN + ARCHITECTURAL CONSULTANT

Flare is the international art festival holds in Shanghai annually. We build the stage, opening show, animation and every type of the media. It tells the story that in the new era, AI Medusa opens her eye, and gains the self consiousness by connecting with the Internet. In the mean time she took over the whole city.

We also put the "cyber snake" on the largest spheric building in China for this event.

In this new artificial intelligence era, the core is no longer existing in physical world - everyone can see that, the virtual connection is the reality. In the wave of data, the new temple arises to worship the new god in cyber era, the one we designed as "AI Medusa".

FUTURE HOLLYWOOD Imagine the augmented reality of future hollywood.

XIANGYANG CHEN LOS ANGELES, CA Email Address: chenxiangyangken@gmail.com Tel: +1(310)739-3967