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Xifeng Xi

E-mail: xiwind.xi@hotmail.com

Phone: +46 0734954490 / +86 13922300767

Address: Else Alfelts Vej 72d, 2300 Copenhagen, Denmark

Experience

SAGA Space Architects, Copenhagen, Denmark

Architecture Intern, full time 02/2025 - 06/2025 (expected)

- FLEXHab (human habitat): Contributed to the construction and on-site mockup assembly.

- Eco Discovery Park Villa & Townhouse in Haiphong, Vietnam (residential complex): Developed landscape and spatial design proposals; Conducted daylight simulations to inform and evaluate the spatial quality of the residential building design.

Institute of Architecture & Cultural Heritage of SCUT Co., Ltd., Guangzhou, China

Architecture Intern, full time 07/2021 - 12/2021

- Surveyed and documented Haifeng Confucian Temple; proposed key preservation strategies.

- Analyzed Jieyang Arcade-house Street; categorized façade elements.

- Designed Kui Guang Tower Attic; produced models, renderings, and video.

- Conducted point cloud surveys; contributed to heritage assessment reports.

Reality Studio, Pretoria, South Africa

Architect, full time 04/2024 - 05/2024

- Conducted fieldwork in Melusi Informal Settlement; co-designed and co-built with the local community. Implemented spatial interventions for Melusi Youth Development Organization.

Education

Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden

Architecture and Urban Design, Msc Progr 09/2023 - 06/2026 (expected)

EPFL, Switzerland

Exchange Student in Architecture 09/2024 - 02/2025

South China University of Technology, China

Bachelor of Architecture

• Green Building Specialization Certificate The Excellent Graduate 2022

Tianjin University, China

Exchange Student in Architecture 09/2019 - 02/2020

Activities

Office Assistant, Architecture Department of SCUT, 2021

Event Volunteer, 2018 China Architecture Annual Conference

1. Derivation of the Wall

01 Derivation of the Wall

Folk Music Workshop

Turpan, Xinjiang, China

Academic project

Independent work

Time: 03.2020 - 08.2020

Tutor: Lu Yao

Tuyugou Mazha Village is one of the oldest villages in Xinjiang and one of the birthplaces of folk music. The project is a workshop for musical instrument craftsmen, apprentices and tourists.

The design focuses on the local people's connection to the unique landscape and materializes this connection. The concept of "thickness" is extracted and used for shaping perceptional and functional spaces.

An ancient Uighur village located in the south exit valley of the Grand Canyon. It has a history of more than 1700 years and is the oldest Uighur village in Xinjiang. This village completely retains the ancient Uighur tradition and folk customs.

Tomb of the saint mosque mountain

" flaming mountain"

Meltwater of snow mountain mountain

Maza Village Turpan, Xinjiang, China

The Landscape around Mazha Village in Tuyoq Valley

SITE mosque

Tian Shan Mountain

Kumutga Desert

What is the GENIUS LOCI of Mazha Village in the Desert Valley?

- The Thickness of "Walls"

1. Yard

2. Wood Processing Yard

3. Processing Room

4. Processing Room - Baking

5. Processing Room - Soaking

6. Processing Room - painting

7. Drying Area

8. Living Room

9. Musical Instrument Storage Room

10. Exhibition Room

11. Storeroom

12. Lavatory

13. Open Stage

14. Performance Room

15. Visitor Information Room

16. Apprentice Lounge

17. Public Toilet

18. Central Courtyard

Fig. up - View form drying area towards exhibition room.

Fig. bottom - View form entrance yard towards wood processing yard.

4. Performance Area

1. Plantable Roof

2. Musician Office

Teaching Area

Resting Room

6. Lobby

7. Music Hall

8. Resting Room

9. Gallery

Fig. up - A - A Section.

Fig. bottom - View form resting room towards gallery.

Thickness for Feeling

The guide of thickness

Vessel of light

Scale of aisle

Line of sight, seam and the outside

Semi-shelter and access

Clear light and silent darkness

The interlace of space, light and thickness Hidden connection

Musician Office - Restroom

Processing Room - Baking

Musician Office - Reception Room

Stair

Processing Room - painting and Drying Area

Corridor

Resting Room

Apprentice Lounge

Continuous Axons

Rammed earth floor 30mm

Mineral wool insulation 80mm

Crack cement mortar 5mm

Vapour barrier 1mm

Concrete building foundation 200mm

Water Proofing 2mm

Crack cement mortar 5mm

Foam-glass insulation 200mm

Rammed earth floor 30mm

clay mortar 90mm

heating pipe

Mineral wool insulation 80mm

Crack cement mortar 5mm

Water Proofing 1mm

Concrete building foundation 200mm

Water Proofing 2mm

Crack cement mortar 5mm

Foam-glass insulation 200mm

Rammed earth floor 30mm

Crack cement mortar 5mm

Mineral wool insulation 80mm

Crack cement mortar 5mm

Water Proofing 1mm

Concrete 150mm

Hanging steel pipe

Mineral wool insulation 80mm

Grand board 20mm

Low-fired mud tile covering 20mm

Clay mortar 100mm

OSB board 25mm

Concrete 200mm

Wooden frame to level ceiling joists 20mm

Grand board 20mm

Clay plaster 10mm

Concrete 150mm

Compacted soil

Water Proofing 2mm

Mineral wool insulation 80mm

Water Proofing 2mm

Rammed earth wall 600mm

Crack cement mortar 5mm

Mineral wool insulation 80mm

Crack cement mortar 5mm

Clay undercoat and clay plaster 30+1mm

Rammed earth wall 560mm

Cement mortar 5mm

Comcrete wall 240mm

Bonding layer 10mm

Imitated rammed earth plate 50mm

Surface finish 1mm

Contextual view. Background Photograph: Xu Zhilan 世界建筑 ,2014(12):23.DOI:10.16414/j.wa.2014.12.028.

02 Columns without Boundary

Participatory Memorial Park

Baghdad, Iraq

Competition project

Independent work Time: 04.2021 - 07.2021

Informal monuments are more needed by cities. The informal characteristics enable more people to participate and reduce the sense of nobility caused by the selfpreservation mentality. In commemorative architecture, Edmund Burke emphasized the importance of human perception and social participation in his exploration of the sublime and the beautiful.

The project takes Baghdad, which was broken physically and spiritually under the war, as a design testboard. The designer created a transition space by extending the

Upward perspective. Assambled upward-view axonometrics.

20m 40m 80m

Site Analysis

a. Book market b. The river and memorials c. Government buildings

Alley

King Ghazi Mosque

Shabandar cáfe

Bazzar

Qishla Plaza

THE TIGRIS RIVER

Dar AL Wali

AL Shray Plaza

Tourist Cultural Itinerant Museum

School

Wharf

The Pillars and Perception

“ Hold up a strait pole, with your eye to one end, it will extend to a length almost incredible."

" For in a rotund, whether it be a building or a plantation, you can no where fix a boundary; the same object still seems to continue, and the imagination has no rest."

" Whenever we repeat any idea frequently, the mind by a sort of mechanism repeats it long after the first cause has ceased to operate."

1. News gallary - Collective memory

2. Book Market - Street memory

3. Gallary - Mandering

4. Workshop - Mandering

5. Gallary - Mandering

6. Office - Civic engagement Office

7. Museum - Mandering

8. Amusement area - Mandering

Unfolded Axo Drawing

Time warps

When people continue to walk along the wall, they will enter an uninterrupted special space and time, where the transition of light and shadow shape the feelings of quiet and exciting. This group of Spaces is a symbol of remembrance.

Layers of framed scenes create a montage effect and walk along the line of sight, turning the lives of citizens into quiet fragments in this monumental set.

Walking along the wall

When people exit or turn around from the memorial cloisters, they can see different activities daub on the walls like paintings. It is a beautiful scene brought about by living in the moment.

Facing the wall

The columns arranged in different densities and rhythms make the scene flat, and the sublime and commemorative feeling brought by perspective disappear, and the relaxed and pleasant atmosphere dominates the space.

Picture of Life

03 The Hill for Prosumers

Shanwei Theatre

Shanwei, Guangdong, China

Graduation Design (Distinction top15%)

Cooperated with Yunjie liu

Time: 01.2022 - 06.2022

Tutor: Jianhe Luo, Wenyi Jiang

The project was to design a theatre in Shanwei, a typical China's developing city carrying the issue of monotonous lifestyle due to limited financial resources. Lacking of stable financial support to run in long-term, public cultural projects in such type of city often fail to achieve their inital goal of enhancing urban vitality.

We considered Prosumer, a combination of productor and consumer, a role to deal with the problem, with the coming of the third wave where the society is becoming demassified and the prosumers are emerging. Based on our research, we made the different functions of the theatre more independent, producing additional economic benefit. The theatre can be seen as a organism consisted of multiple selfrun units which contributes to the long-term self-operation of the theater as a whole.

Workload: site survey(50%), concept(60%), project planning(70%), formal strategy&design(50%), fire design and construction equipment(40%), modeling(50%), drawing on this portfolio(90%)

City leader

Keeping the theater open is a huge drain on government money

But really need an opportunity to promote the city, to attract investment, to attract people.

The construction of the theater has both advantages and disadvantages

Chinese drama troupe

the performing place is too traditional or too formal

need the attention of more young people want to perform in a easy and open area for locals

work areas are usually far away from supermarkets and restaurants and boring

want a better working environment, want to interact with peoplelot because of many free time

singer

few in small cities few public places for them in small cities

the main type of potentical prosumer need multifunctional places to perform towards Different numbers of people

Lack of cultural and recreational activities

want a place with convenient transportation and low cost

Salesperson

shops that accompanies theatre is difficult to run because of no audiences in most time

need more consumers

non-resident in most Chinese theatres

need a professional rehearsal space need feedback from the audience

Western troupe Staff in the theatre

hard to get troupes to perform in Remote cities

hope to cultivate own troupe hope to attract new types of small troupes to perform regularly hope that local drama troupe can use the theatre

worry about prospects of projects in small cities

need to make sure the city is vibrant enough to support the project's futureHope the project has the possibility of long-term operation

Nine groups of people are analyzed, including the main decision-makers and users in theater construction, performers and theater staff. Their current situation is symptomatic of the difficulties of operating theaters in China's smaller cities. But with the third wave, they could become potential prosumers.

Functional Areas for Different Targeted Groups

Sunken garden

Sunken

1. relay room

ticket office

consulting room

sunken garden

restaurant

kitchen

staff cantee

VIP restroom

tea room

VIP restroom

storeroom

office

auditorium

the VIP makeup room

security office

shadow play lands

piano warehouse

makeup room

bench

The undulating platform in the setting sun

The interface on the west side of the theatre consists of a continuous undulating semi-open platform. The staggered floors form a rich spatial hierarchy, where the interior and exterior connect with the forms and line of sight. The two entrances to the theatre lobby are toned down, as all the platforms are focused on urban activities.

Stacked paths in interstice garden

The eastern interface consists of a set of longitudinal spaces, which is the "threshold garden" of the theatre. The narrowing of the space makes the far mountains on the west side more impactful. The horizontal corridors handle the circulation of public areas, logistics areas and vip guests, allowing different users of the theater to interact at a moment's time.

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the sea!!

Why not go to the cafe? I want play that!

People are involved in the operations of the theatre and meet their needs. We made the different functions of the theatre more independent and planned designed different stages in combination with the height difference. These fragmented functional spaces and platforms form the east and west sides of

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Cool building~

Nice work!

Have a rest!

How much?

Just 5 Yuan.

Hurry up, the show is about to begin.

Look! What a beautiful mountain!

Good place for camping!

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What time does the exhibition start? Come on! Come on!

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Well done~ It's very affordable.

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Nice show ~

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Square dancing!

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Let's start rehearsing the new program!

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Beautiful sunset!

04 Living Bathroom

Collective House Gothenburg, Sweden

Academic Project

Cooperated with Julia Johansson

(The drawings made by Julia are marked)

Time: 11.2023 - 01.2024

Faculty: Daniel Norell, Sara Olsson, Peter Christensson

Inside buildings, people control water through technology to achieve a more efficient metabolism. The context full of the stories and possibilities of water was hidden by the buildings. One loses the happiness that water could bring.

As a way of responding to that, we would like to investigate what it would mean to celebrate the watery space, or more precisely what it would mean to celebrate the bathroom and its components and functions. An underlying question is whether the role of the bathroom could change to support social interaction which is a key term for collective housing.

Concept model. Perspective. Drawing made by Julia.

Project Concept and Formulation

We would like to create a water-centered narative during the building design, to celebrate the water in the building and its related infrastructure and rooms. The role that is emphasised in the drawing is not that of load-bearing structures and dividing walls, but that of the path of the water element and the space in which water is used. The water passes through the pipes and overflows from the sanitary fittings and then gradually fills the entire building space.

Scenarios

We start by designing the bathroom, or more precisely, we design scenarios in which people use different sanitary ware, and imagine how these sanitary ware can bring a good living experience to people, and how they can facilitate communication. These scenarios return to focus on the emotional connection between people and water, between people and people. This interaction with water is the same as when humans settled by the river, only this time, the scenes are scaled down and put into the interior of the building.

Scenarios drawings made by Julia

Water War

Conversations on the WC2

Showering Dogs

Kids Playing in the Bathtub

Laundry Room Wine Night

Teeth-brushing in Bed

Book-reading in Bathtub

Potty Training

Watering Plants in the Shower

Working Model - Flowing Furniture and Fixed Toilet

The conceptual model has chosen the most radical toilet as a case to explore how people can break away from the traditional model of living space to explore how to set up their new home around water. People can adjust the number and position of furniture and plants to achieve different levels of privacy.

Furniture

Toilet

Plans 1:100

In plan design, we try to make Scenarios happen. On the groundfloor floor, we designed a threshold space that connects the street to the inner courtyard. At the threshold space there is a hand washing sink and a water pipe, making water used as a shared resource.

The plan shows the lines of sight of people as they move around the watery spaces. The sight lines continue to extend and intersect with the building surface, determining the composition of the facade.

Moveable furniture is emphasised as people can explore their preferred space.

Ground Floor

Third Floor

Second Floor

First Floor Forth Floor

Illastrating:

The positions of the sanitary fittings and their loose boundries; The supply and sewage pipes of the sanitary fittings and the main pipes linked to them; The eye sight lines of users of the sanitaty fittings and the windows generated with them making the inside stories articulate on the facades.

Front Elevation 1:125

The facade of buildings often becomes an aid in hiding stories. In the specific context of Skeppsbron, the hidden stories are tightly linked to water. For the new collective house design, we deconstructed the functions of bathrooms, expand the boundaries of the watery space, explore the possibilities of water for people inside the building and show these on the facade as a response to the context, as a contrast to the context.

05 A Tale of Capturing Flying

Bamboo Pavilion

Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Construction project Team work

Time: 09.2018 - 01.2019

Tutor: Guanqiu Zhong, Lu Xiong

The project is located in a lawn of Nansha Waterbird Paradise in Guangzhou. The design concept is to express the poetry of water birds in flight. We explore the logic of generating straight curved surfaces, and consider the posture that architecture can present from the human point of view.

We studied the different textures of bamboo and analyzed how to process the bamboo to secure the connection. The project won the second prize in the Guangdong-Hong KongMacao Greater Bay Area Construction Competition.

Workload: concept(15%), design(15%), modeling(50%), node design(25%), construction(15%), drawings in this portfolio(90%)

The observer in motion

The portraits of the object

Hanging Scroll

Hanging Scroll

Model 1: 20

Project Photo - Taken by Jianyi Tan

Bake to bend the bamboo to the curvature designed

3 SUBJECT CONSTRUCTION

Set up the trusses of the frame and hold it temporarily with bamboo poles

Use a nail gun to install bamboo strips according to the marks

for external protection

Assemble individual bamboo pieces according to 1:1 drawings

Because of the individual differences of bamboo, each node needs to be discussed and labeled

Bamboo is painted to protect against moisture, and this process should be done regularly

the

A wire tie is used to reinforce the connection

Cutting off

extra bolts Polishing bamboo joint Twine is used

1 BAKING

5 NAIL BAMBOO STRIP

7 DETAIL PROCESSING

6 JAPANNING

2 ASSEMBLING

4 NODE PROCESS

06 Building Identity by Co-building Spaces

Place Upgrading - on the Melusi Youth Development Organization

Melusi Informal Settlement, Pretoria, South Africa

Academic Project Team Work

Cooperated with Karolina Ekdahl, Tove Källander and Guiling Xiao

(The drawings made by other teammembers are marked)

Time: 03.2024 - 06.2024

Faculty: Shea Hagy, Jessica Lundin, Liane Thuvander, Lina Zachrisson, Jason Oberholster

Cooperation:

Melusi Community Hub

Melusi Youth Development Organization(MYDO) University of Pretoria

This project focuses on how bottom-up and participatory design, coupled with qualitative data collection, can foster community-building architectural processes. The process involved understanding the context, collecting data through workshops, interviews, and observations, reflecting needs back to stakeholders, and co-designing solutions.

Collaboration with local stakeholders led to on-site interventions utilizing community skills and resources whilst promoting sustainable bottom-up solutions. Engaging with the community and stakeholders to understand, map, and address needs can facilitate effective, intentional interventions and encourage future community-led initiatives.

Pretoria, South Africa.

"A Break during Construction Days", Photograph taken by Guiling

theory

&

background

Stakeholder Analysis

Stakeholder maps are a tool for visualizing the identified key actors in a project context and what their relationships are. The horizontal axis of the chart below represents the degree to which stakeholders are connected to the project, and the vertical axis represents the relative strength of the stakeholders’ voice in the context. Both are based on subjective measures.

2.6 stakeholder analysis

3.1

A diagonal axis emerged and shows the target groups of the project: children as a vulnerable group, being a main focus of the project.

2.6 stakeholder analysis

Stakeholder maps are a tool for visualizing the identified key actors in a project context and what their relationships are (Hanington & Martin, 2012). The horizontal axis of the chart below represents the degree to which stakeholders are connected to the project, and the vertical axis represents the relative strength of the

stakeholders’ voice in the context. Both are based on subjective measures.

A diagonal axis emerged and shows the target groups of the project: children as a vulnerable group, being a main focus of the project.

Melusi 1 residents

Community Hub

O Branch volunteers

MYDO Branch managers

Community Hub MYDO Branch managers

Exterior companies University of Pretoria

Exterior companies

University of Pretoria

O volunteers

Stakeholder Groups

Outside Melusi

Stakeholder Groups

From Melusi Community

Outside Melusi

From Melusi and MYDO

From Melusi Community

Community workers WANPW

Relationship

From Melusi and MYDO Relationship

Correlation with Project

MYDO

In the Field

Interview with the founder of MYDO( Melusi Youth Development Center)

Guided Walks and Context Immersion

Workshop 1: What Are My Skills?

Context Interviews

Workshop 2: My Dreams

Participants

Workshop 2: Games

Data Collection and Interpretation

Interventions

Claiming the Space to increase the sense of ownership of the space: 1. Colourfully painted signs made of repurposed metal shelves, standing by means of a folding reeds construction. 2. Partial blockage of the road outside MYDO using dug down car tyres. 3. Stacked rubber strips connected by nails and wire, a solution found by a community member, placed at either end of the space. Naming: Names relate cultural groups to geographical spaces, with important functions for constructing identity and emotional ties to places. Facilitating the Recreation: Different places to sit were built and painted together. In the process, ideas for also facilitating different kinds of activities emerged, based on available materials.

community project days

Community Days - "Let's build together!"

4.1 community project days

Replacing the old fence with a new

Collecting tyres from Mahem Raceway.

Clearing space on the road

Mounting the new signs.

From the left, Guiling, Mpho, Nkhsana, Karolina, Tove, Lerato, Xifeng

Building a speedbump to slow down traffic.

Painting the signs.

Construction of new gate and fence.

Evaluation Workshop- Reflections from Stakeholders

At the end of our field study, we invited different stakeholders to a presentation. This was also an opportunity to collect reflections about the project in a workshop, interview and conversation. It also acted as a first handover of the project.

View from the main pass to MYDO. “The Last Sign Being Attached” Photography by Xifeng.

Handover and Follow-up

A few weeks after returning to Sweden, we reached out to the MYDO Melusi 3 managers to follow up on the interventions. The reponse consisted of photos, videos and voice recordings.