Lighting Portfolio 2022 version 2

PORTFOLIO

Light and Architecture

record the study journey 2019-2020

XIA YANGAN

RESUME

夏杨安

EDUCATION PROFILE

西交利物浦大学 建筑学本科 2017- 2019

BEng Architecture XI’AN JIAOTONG Liverpool University, 利物浦大学 建筑学学士 二等一学位 2019.8- 2021.8

CONTENT

A lighting lover during architectural study and always attract by gorgeous lighting effect.

Architecture BA (Hos) University of Liverpool, United Kingdom

Master of light and lighting, University College London 2021.9 - 2022.9

CONTACT

yangan.xia20@gmail.com

+86 15528550695

设计经历

LANGUAGE

English (IELTs band 7)

Mandarin (native)

Japanese (N1 level)

SOFTWARE

Photoshop Office

Dialux(basic)

Revit

Rhino

grasshopper

AutoCAD

Sketchup

Lumion

Illustrator

Project

2020 - 2021 Fashion stage and light, Temporary design in St luke’s bombed out church

四年级学校设计作业项目

时装秀短期舞台与灯光，圣. 卢克教堂, 灯光概念与效果

Art Hubs at St luke's, permanent design

利物浦教堂艺术工坊，永久建筑,自然光勾勒拱形屋顶,重建被炸毁屋顶。

2019 - 2020 Organ Factory in Everton 三年级学校设计作业项目

利物浦，伊文顿镇的手风琴工厂，sunlight tunnel 屋顶导入自然光。

奖项与其他

Additional experience

2020. 7 DESIGN THE CRAFT OF VALUE, ASIAN DESIGN AWARD: daylight and night light in a patient room, Award of Excellence

亚洲设计学年奖：光与空间，小组参赛，病房里的“光谎言”，优秀奖, 光装 置设计，借用景观设计中biophilic design的概念，投射自然光影（植物）

2020. 8-9 Undergraduate Research Scheme, Research: city nightscape and light pollution

利物浦大学 “本科生研究计划”，项目实习生 课题 “城市夜景与光污染的分析”，

photoshop 按光污染程度 分类调整夜景光源数量与亮度

Arch light testing process

Heritage Related Design Studio

Art Hub at St Luke’s

Our client, the Bombed Out Church Garden Bar, have secured an extended lease for the site including permission for a permanent intervention in principle. In line with the requirements of our client, the Art Hub will have a focus on community engagement and learning via access to a multifunctional hall, workshop and café, as well as keeping the grounds open to the public. Studios will provide a space for local creatives to develop their ideas in the rich context of St Luke’s as a heritage asset and memorial. The project also includes a multifunctional hall serving the community by staging events such as talks, exhibitions, as well as wedding and other activities including yoga. Public and community access is further encouraged via a café and shop. The aspiration was for a high quality contemporary and contextual, low maintenance, low carbon, low energy building.

The church was bombed in 1941, suffer the loss of its historic roof.

But Now it could be... Rhino, grasshopper Lumion photoshop

Many Livepudilians ‘s experienced a variety of personal events in the church, including baptisms marriages and funerals. It also hosted several celebrations, such as a musical festival in 1830.

Design inspiration: weather-proofing Courtyard space and daylight-lit multiple functional hall

To develop the scheme with enough choice, a series of massing study is carried on. The scheme with courtyard space was chosed. Courtyard space with colonade to guide audience could bring views changes as audience moving arround the courdyard. From visual relation between old and new, the new courtyard space could enhance the value of existing church and connect old and new space together. Therefore, the red grid related to the dimension of church is extended to the site planThis grid could work as basis to develop design further. Courtyard is consider to be covered to protect façade, in order to provide a cosy public space for weather-proofing .

The curved shape of gothic window remind people of the historic arched roof which has been bombed out during World war II. A curved multiple functional hall in transparent roof finishes could be memorial to the loss of bombed out roof. The courtyard has covered with glazing roof to serve as cosy public space such as café and shop.This open public space also has included a colonnade and staircase inside to guide the visitors walk around the exterior of church and appreciate the beauty of the church, which is memorial and response to the historic context of church. The art hubs and workshop are surrounding to the open courtyard as private working space,including art hubs and workshop

The church wwas in a ruined stated since it was hit by a bomb in 1941.

Heritage at Risk List with gate and garder following in 1975 emergency repair work was completed between 2015

Ground floor

multiple functional hall

Art hubs

ETFE cushions/ cliamping strip

seal structure between cushion and church rain water downpipes

subdivide wooden structure

curved wooden beams

1. ETFE inflated cushion

2. aluminium cliamping strip

3. sheet-metal gutter

4. 100/ 150mm laminated softwood double column with larch foot

5. 300/ 150mm laminated softwood double column with larch foot

6. slotted sheet-steel members with dowels

7. 50/300/100 mm laminated timtvvber edge beam

FIRST FLOOR CEILING PLAN

二层天花布置图

SCALE 1:50

COURTYARD lIGHTING ARRAGEMENT

The courtyard outside the nave have a generous space for visitors to sit down and appearciate the historic structure. The controllable downlight system installed at first level in a grid of steel beams provide the functional light for the courtyard. The lighting system could be dimmable to provide soft modelling light in warm yellow color, whereas IThe Orange_Blue contrast is here when The LED spotlight at bar could turned into blue lights. And soft white sphere light with plants are decorative to the whole lighting environment.

Art hubs

When came in the building from reception, the first functional space come into your eyes are art hubs, a three floor brick construction and arranged in linear. In ground and first floor, the main material for interior are wooden finishes with acoustic insulation. The top floor is a open green roof, which both enhance the sustainable welfare and provide a brid view toward city centre for relaxing.

Studio

1. Interior clay 10mm/ Reinforced concrete 180mm / Concrete Foam Insulation 80mm/ exterior concrete slab/ sandstone finishes

2. Brick 215mm/125mm/85mm with 10mm bed, yellow

3. Glazing 25mm

4. 40mm foam acoustics insulation panel

5. concrete slab

250mm

6. protected course

7. thermal insulation

8. waterproofing membrane

9. root barrier

10. drain layer

Foundation

1. Crushed aggregates

2. Breathable geotextile or hessian separation layer laid on levelled and compacted ground

3. 10mm waterproof membrane

4. Reinforced Concrete slab

5. 90mm foam insulation

6. Permeable floor finish

7. 200mm STRUCTURAL STEEL COLMN/ mat foundation footing

8. 150mm rock wool insulation

Glazing

9. triple glazing 25mm

10. adjustable sunshade strips

11. ventilation tube

12. steel bracket supported window

frame/150mm rock wool insulation/aluminon boarding 25mm

Roof

13. structure steel beam insulation surrounded

14. rock wool insulation 125mm/ drain tube

15. hanger fan/ exits for extracted air

16. solar panel supported weather-proof channel

rail between PV modules

Architectural moment courtyard and workshop

Final render: workshop/ ariel view

EVERTON ORGAN WORK NEW ORGAN FACTORY FOR HENRY WILLIS AND SONS ORGAN BUILDERS

The Henry Willis and Sons Organ builder in Everton is one of most famous companys producing some best pipes organs in the world. However, the old working environment for those creative craftman in present factory are not so satisfying. The main workshop is a box enclosed by heavy brick walls while multiple stages of making different parts are in the same room, which might be not corresponding to creative works here.

A More Transparent Form of Organ Factory

When beginning with a cluster of pipes, it had trys to cut pipes in different angles and directions the volume. And finally cutting by site boundary was taken to give a uniform appearance similar to arrangement of pipe organ. It is a simple cut in vertical and horizonital direction but give the building a strong edge in visual experience both from outside and inside, which is also corresponding to the surrounding environment.

Fill the workshop with light

In previous assemble workshop with limited area of window, there are more potential needs to have access to daylight in John Henry Builder. The assemble area in organ factory is the space need large amount of sunlight to satisfy the visual needs during making organs pipes. The long and thin organ pipes with reflective mental surface reminded me of sunnel tunnel. inspired by form of organ pipes, daylight can be introduced into interior through roof light and large transparent light tunnel and reflect the light down to workshop. According to the light forms of pipes, the roof will mainly composed by ETFE cushion. With 85% G value and can tranmit most of daylight, it is suitable to bring more sunlight into the space.

As metioned before, the inital idea is aimed to maximize the daylight to satisfy the visual comfort. However, rectangular array in skylight could lead overexposure of direct sunlight and adversely harms the staff health due to the disppointing glare. Therefore, the original layout of roof light need the adjustment, including the changes in the dimension and layout of skylight. During processing of test, the daylight factor is recorded to assess the results. Compared to Figure 1, Figure 4 in the corner has avoided large area of plan exposed in extreme values of daylight, thus reduce the possible direct sunlight to the workshop

Fill the workshop with light

With openable ETFE cushion as roof, lightweight sunlight tunnel introduce daylight into the interior space below. If you look through translucent tunnel into the workshop below, you can apprecite how those creative hand-making process is carrying on. The curved curtain wall are in polycarbonate panel for visual experience as well, which is visually connected with outside community.

And there are more consideration for ventilation. The upper cushion in the roof are designed movable which make it possible to turn sunlight tunnel easily into chinemy for natural ventilation by utilizing slope of floor and stack effect. There are also undergroud ventilation design are involved to let natural air flow enter the space. So the whole factory is not a enclosed glass box.

TEMPORARY DESIGN IN ST LUKE’S BOMED OUT CHURCH

Recap: St Luke’s story

The church originally acted as a place of worship, but also formed an architectural landmark at the top of Bold Street. It was targeted during Second World War bombing in 1941 and partially destroyed. The original elevations all remain intact, however, the original interior has largely disappeared.

During the time when it was a church, it played a vital role in its community. Not only because it was a significant architectural building in the city, including the first ever metal bell frame in the world which is still in situ, but also as it included commemorations for many people from its community, including dedicated windows and furniture. Many Liverpudlians’ experienced a variety of personal events in the church, including baptisms, marriages and funerals. It also hosted several celebrations, such as a musical festival in 1830.

After it’s partial destruction, the surviving structure continues to play a role in its community. Annual events including Remembrance Sunday and the Chinese New Year are held within the church vicinity, in addition to being a unique venue for weekend markets and other community based activities. As a memorial landmark and a significant node, St Luke’s church faces many challenges to remain sustainable, for example by actively participating in the everyday life of its community and engaging with other key buildings and areas in Liverpool, particularly the World Heritage Site.

The Runway: Public amenity or Fashion’s Night

In order to memorize the bombed out church in World War II, the Runway is also an important part of temporary design inside church. It consists of colorful glazing facade, lightng system for catwalk and wooden chair. In the daytime, it’s a public open space for local residents outside the studios and showing room.

During the fashion show, the colorful facade of church and elegent models show their beauty under the light at the same time. It bring vitailty for church in some point.

Sketches

Remaining facade of St luke's church

Abstract

During coronavirus pandemic outbreak, interior design in patient room has already benefited from recent advances in sustainable technology. However, psychological needs of patients have not received enough attention in medical space. As impact of lighting on mental health has enormous potential, it is vital to pay more consideration on humanistic lighting in hospital. This project will firstly start from case study in patient views to analyse possible problems in a cased medical space. Then from psychological needs to improve the interior design with natural and electric lighting, which is aimed to improve visual comfort and mental experience in patient space.

Introduction

During coronavirus pandemic outbreak, interior design in patient room has already benefited from recent advances in sustainable technology. For instance, the innovation in ventilation technology has ensured the clean air ventilation in less risk of virus transmission and keep the hygiene of inwards. Such kind of negative pressure technology has been widely applied in temporary patient room during coronavirus outbreak in China. However, besides using emerging technology to improve the design of patient room, what other issues should we focus on and emphasize in our design? To answer this question, we started from conflict between doctor and patient to research the clue.

The diagrams come from 2019 Year report the behind facts of 295 injured events related to doctor-patient disagreements during last decade in China. The diagrams in the left show the number of injured event and

As the shadow of plant is most noticeable in sunny sky, we collected sample pictures under sunny sky to helps us to find the desirable shadowy effect in patient room . As mentioned before, the shadow of ‘natural lie’ is to let patient feel the natural environment in the indoor space while do not know that there is no real natural vegetation outside. In the following images, figure I and III show a clear outline of the plant raises the patient's suspicion - is there really such a plant outside the window? Shadow in clear shape of plant might not the best choice to achieve the effect of light and shadow design. What the project needs is the plant shadow that is not easily recognizable but inadvertently surrounded by nature. Figure II is closest to the real light and shadow that patients can be perceived from the window. Its light and shadow effect provide several hints about how to imitate natural shadow from plants. :

1. Fuzziness. The edges of shadow are blurred and seems to look like the cluster of leaves.

2. Randomness. As the leaves are grow naturally along the branch, the arrangement of artificial pattern needs to avoid rigid rhythm of layout and composition.

The design inspiration C: how to achieve Fuzziness, Randomness and Dynamic

In fact of healthcare standards and reduce impact on normal functions, the main space going to be changed is the space near to the window and the ceiling.

1. Because of limited daylighting area in cased patient room, it is necessary to maximize available daylight and using overlapped laser cut glass to introduce daylight into the room.

2. To imitate the natural plants shadow, the designed patterns create vague shadow in sunlight, which consist of ramdomly arrange¬d brackets support and soft, pattern to imitate leaves.

3. In order to make the patterns less noticeable, a soft screen made by textile block patients’ view to the artificial patterns while the shadow could go through to the ground.

4. The ventilation inside passive pressure patient room is supposed to create swaying shadow. The fresh air move from corridor to patient room as the air movement from room in higher to lower air pressure. When the air arrives to separated daylighting space, the air heated by the sunlight and rise up. Meanwhile, the artificial pattern and shadow swing in the air movement to imitate the natural shadow.

5. The slope space as extension of supported bracket remain space for artificial lighting.

'A Natrual Lie' in Patient Room

Exploration in improving lighting envronment in medical space

The use of project has been premitted by another team member, orgianl design scheme in Chinese, English text writen by Yangan X.

Yangan X, Zhijian, S.

Figure 5 Shadow collections

Design visualization

The natural path of sunlight were reflected from the change of shadow and changes so as to let patients to percept the nature. The laser cut glass filter different color light during different period in the day. In the morning session, the blue light is slightly more to transmit by glass, which inhibits the brain secreting melatonin and makes the patient wake up energetically. During the following daytime ,the wards are pale pink. Pale pink atmosphere can comfort the loneliness when the patient are alone. While at the moment doctors and family members come to visit, the glass through more red light, this change in color temperature could lit interior space and vault up the atmosphere of people getting together.During the patient's rest in the evening, a moderate orange light accompanies the patient through the glass to read, creating a warm and comfortable atmosphere.

At night nature's starry effect is added as an amendment achieved using bionic lights, which use mesh structures and flutter with the wind, simulate the system of sensors to feel changes in the outside wind. The wind-sensitive resistance in the centre of the devices controls the intensity changes of OLED light points, making it achieve the effect of simulating the starry sky.

Reference list

Figure 1a. Satistics: the number of body-injured confilct between doctor and patient: Figure 1b. psychological reasons leads to confilict, Accessed online https://www.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_5368741 accessed date: 24th March

Figure 2a. cased patient room, Shanghai, photo by Zhijian Shan, June 15th 2020 Figure 2b. contrasting case, Sydney, https://www.pacolighting.com/sante/?filters=series%5B334%5D

Figure 3, LED lights, possible glare and limited access to nature, photo by Zhijian Shan, June 15th 2020

Figure 4. biophilic design , "the economics of biophilia why designing with nature in mind makes financial sense", P. 15, accessed online: https://www.terrapinbrightgreen. com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Economics-of-Biophilia_Terrapin_2015e.pdf

Figure 5 Shadow collections, plants cast shadows accessed online , https://www.pinterest.co.uk/ pin/35747390775801327/

Nowadays it is rare to see the dark sky as it used to be. Backwards the recessed darkness the outdoor lights have been undergoing rapid changes in increase of using white light sources(International Dark-Sky Association, 2010). The wide use of outdoor light sources has caused a series of environmental, healthy and mental issues, which one phenomenon behind is the light pollution in city nightscape. This research will start from collecting sample images from eight megacities around the world. And then edit and compare the images in different light pollution levels groups. Finally, in order to collect people’s views about visual comfort in nightscape, the photos were made into questionnaires were and conduct online survey to collect ideas.