portifilio_Yaxin Wang_selected 2016-2021 by Yaxin Wang

SELECTED WORKS FROM 2016-2021

portfolio by

WANG YAXIN

CONTENT CONTENT #Urban

#Architecture

FOODSCAPE

RUINS

(UN)RAVEL

(COMMUNE)ITY

FIFTH NATURE

PLUG IN

FOOD AND POWER

(SUB)MERGE

EXQUISITE

COURT YARD

STEP UP, FALL IN LOVE

Food-lead urban revitalization spring, 2021

Historical block renewal summer, 2017

Church ruins to music spaces spring, 2021

Architectural department hall fall, 2016

#Other Works

Feral nature save the earth fall, 2020

Rental house in financial crisis fall, 2019

Commercial complex summer, 2018

Breaking campus' fences fall, 2018

Research paper fall, 2020

Construction set-up summer, 2017

Academic design summer, 2016

FOODSCAPE

The food urbanism revitalization for Taipei, the consumer city SPRING，2021 INSTRUCTOR : Morten Kjer Jeppesen INDIVIDUAL WORK Urban deisgn + Architectural design

In early human civilisation, cities were built around arable lands and rivers because Food was the fundamental request for the early settlement. Modern agribusiness isn't just about producing Food, it is about maximising the profit to be made from it. And the longdistance global food system today is market-oriented. Food became one of the tools to control people. Earl Butz, the U.S Secretary of Agriculture, once said that "Food is a weapon. It is now one of the principal tools in our negotiating kit". "Food Urbanism positions food as a primary transforming force capable of organizing the city and enhancing the urban experience"(Darrell Bruce).

FOOD FOOD

Industrial Civilization

Agricultural Civilization

Carbon emissions from long-term transportation process

Lack of effectively supervise the production and distribution of food

In early human civilisation, cities were built around arable lands and rivers because Food was the fundamental factor in urban development. Food surplus appeared for the continuous improvement of productivity, and the first hierarchical system of human society also emerged at this moment.

1. LANDGRAB CAUSING VIOLENT EXPULSION

2. DEFORESTATION

INTO

3.AGGRAVATED FOOD CRISIS

FARMLAND

4.MONOPOLY EVOLVES INTO FOOD WAR

Today, the global food governance and long-distance food supply chain seems to be the best way to break the survival constraints. And the global food system became the essential basis of the constructions and expansion of the cities.

Ignorance of the vaules of loacl food system

The global long-distance food supply system has two characteristics: 1. The urban food supply chain is very concentrated, which made monopoly easier 2. Production and consumption became two completely separated parts because of the urban expansion process By thinking through the lens of the food system, i found that shrinking the food supply chain can allow people to establish a stronger connection with the food system. And building alternative food networks is an approach to optimize the existing structures. After embedding alternative food networks in the existing food system, the food-related spaces on the street are what I called foodscape.

Modern agribusiness isn't just about producing Food, it is about maximising the profit to be made from it. And the global food system today is market-oriented. Food became one of the tools to control people.

"Control oil and you control nations; control food and you control the people." Henry Kissinger

U.S. Secretary of State,

Separated Producers

Centralized Industrial Food Processing

1. Uganda Violent land grabs. A community member who was beaten and hacked with a panga during the eviction. Credit: community member archives 2.Cleared forests in Preah Vihear Province, in northern Cambodia near the border with Loas. The South East Asian country has one of the fastest rates of deforestation in the world; it's estimated that only 3 percent of primary forest remains. Credit: Sean Gallagher 3. The data evidence to are we reducing hunger in the world. Credit: World Health Organization 4 A reduction in the weed growth caused by Seed Terminator Credit: Josh Lade ABOVE:Harvested with a Seed Terminator BELOW:Harvested without Seed Terminator

Separated Consumers

24h

台北捷運 Metro Taipei

Taipei City_today

CO2

-CO2

Reduce carbon emissions

Strict community supervision

Super fresh food

Food Urbanism positions food as a primary transforming force capable of organizing the city and enhancing the urban experience. Darrell Bruce

Food Urbanist

Alternative Food Network

Because Food shaped the early human civilisation, the initial relationship between people and Food is inclusive and inseparable. The principal of urban development since industrialisation has become transportationoriented. And the agricultural mechanisation resulted in food commoditisation, and cities quickly replaced villages, became dominant. People and Food became two parallel lines. Hunger was the only food-related problems in the early Agricultural Civilisation. however, there are more and more worldwide problems czaused by today's food system. My project tried to investigate how a scaled-down alternative food network can address a solution to the long-distance and safety problems and enable a responsive, sustainably, and close-to-food urban community, especially for Taipei's unique context.

ProportionProportion of farmersof renting farmers land renting land

Distribution Distribution of Taiwan'sofinnovative Taiwan's innovative agriculturalagricultural industries industries

Propoetion of farmers renting land

Innovative agricultural industries

18 Domestic

Domestic

Taiwan, 2018 rate of Food Self-Sufficiency

34.6% Taiwan, 2020 import rate of Animal food

95% 0.04 - 0.08

0.04 - 0.08

0.08 - 0.12

0.12 - 0.17

0.17 - 0.24

0.24 - 0.30

Farmland

Rural tourist areaRural tourist area Creative leisure farm Creative leisure farm

Farmland

fig.16 Credit: Author fig.16Data Credit: source: Author Taiwan Data council source: of Taiwan agriculture, councilexecutive of agriculture, yuan executive yuan

Population density map

57.0-264.8

fig.17 Credit: Author fig.17Data Credit: source: Author Taiwan Data council source: of Taiwan agriculture, councilexecutive of agriculture, yuan executive yuan

Food warehouses distribution

0 - 4.6

264.8 - 417.8

4.6 - 13.8

417.8 - 900.8

13.8 - 27

900.8 - 1938.6

27 - 46

1938.6 - 9770.0

46 - 142

MARKET SHARE OF REGISTERED GRAIN MERCHANTS IN TAIPEI

Data source: Directorate-General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics, Executive Yuan, R. O. C. (Taiwan)

Taiwan has limited local farmlands. Agriculture industry is mainly combined with tourism. In 2018, the food self-sufficiency rate in Taiwan, calculated by calories, was 34.6%. The high dependence on the global food system makes Taiwan's food supply system more vulnerable. Taiwan used to be selfsufficient in rice. Since joining WTO in 2001, the volume of rice imports had a dramatic increase due to the bilateral trade agreements. The production and value of its local rice has declined. Due to the complete isolation between the consumer side and the production side, lots of food safety issues appeared. Among the major food safety incidents in Taiwan, the cases happened in Taipei City accounted for a high proportion. With the highest population density, the distribution rate of food warehouses is very low. The city is fed by the long-distance food supply. 2019, only about 10 per cent of Taipei's food industry structure is related to food's primary processing. It is not hard to see that Taipei's urban planning was intended to build a pure consumer city.

Data source: Directorate-General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics, Executive Yuan, R. O. C. (Taiwan)

Food spaces in Taipei

D. District Birdview

Site photos

Tranditional Market fig.5 Mengxia District Credit: Youtube user Edit: Author

Restaurant and Shops fig.6 Lungshan Temple Credit: Travel Taipei Edit: Author

C. Lungshan Temple

Night Market

B. Mengxia night market

Tranditional Market

Night Market

Metro Line

Site

Food Granary

Site-Mengxia Neighborhood N

0.25

fig.7 Guangzhou street(Day&Night) Credit: Google map user Edit: Author

A. Mengxia Park

0.5km

Mongxia district is located in the oldest city area of Taipei. There are seven commercial streets (both above and below ground), and the Lungshan Temple is the geographical core.

The project site contains four overground night market streets and one underground commercial street.

Green area School

Temple

Commerical

Administration

Residential

Hospital

fig.8 Mengxia park(Day&Night) Credit: Zhong Hongliang& You Zonghua Edit: Author

fig.1 Taipei food market Credit: Chinanews.com Edit: Author fig.2 Mengxia photo Credit: Chenhuan Edit: Author fig.3 Wutong street Credit: Wenzai Edit: Author fig.4 No.1 food theater Credit: No.1 food theater Edit: Author

Strategic urban map

There are 6 wholesale markets in Taipei, as the food distribution centres, are strictly divided into 3 categories according to the type of food: vegetables& fruits， seafood and meat. The wholesale market is the starting point for every food related activities happening in this city. They are for retailers who order in large quantities only. Then they are transported by retailers from all over the city to specific locations and finally arrives at the people's table. According to the Taipei Metro construction plan, in 2035, we will strive to have at least one metro station within 1km of the wholesale market. Some areas even contain 3 subway stations. Depending on the existing urban public transportation facilities, the metro system provides a more environmental friendly infrastructure for food logistics and provides more flexible options for alternative urban networks. Thus formed the food-oriented taipei city strategy map in 2035. Starting from the wholesale market, I added one more layer to the existing food system. embedding alternative food networks could also be new approaches to the urban renovations.

Urban strategies

Farm

Rural

Animal-based Warehouse

Seafood Warehouse

Planting-based Warehouse Government + Private

Import

Sea

Private

Online Order

Wholesale market

Urban Private

(Government)

Private

Foodhub By seeing through the food system, urban planning today was divided into 3 scales： rural scales ，urban scale and home. After the food enters the city from the southern villages and ports, it will linearly pass through three urban facilities: wholesale markets firstly next retails, and finally reach individual’s dining table. With the expansion of Taipei metro system, embed the foodhub next to the metro stations within 1km of the wholesale market as the first step of the distribution centre. This can significantly reduce c emissions from logistics. Then, the second step of food transportation can get rid of trucks. Just on foot or bicycle are enough. This is decentralized urban planning and promotes the formation of community scaled food-related spaces. This newly added layer should be governmentled implementations. This is in line with the government's development policy and the best guarantee for food safety. To reintroduce Food to the people live in the city

(Government) Private

Metro

Retail 1

Retail 2

Retail 3

(Government)

Private

Community Warehouse& Pick-up points

Fresh food markets& Farmer Markets

Night Market Food Streets

(Private) Supermarket Convenience stores Restruant

Food vendors

Individual

Table (Individual)

Community

Individual

+ Private

Individual

Retail 4

Food vendors

Home

Recycle Room (Government) + Private

Ideal transportation strategies

Neigborhood strategies

AVERAGE DAILY LOADING VOLUME

Binjiang wholesale market

2,300,000kg

The new metro system made my plan possible—the strategic deployment of community-scale food networks and a shorter food supply chain. I took the binjiang wholesale market as an example to do a rough calculation. Utilise the empty train compartments during non-peak hours could completely handle the food transportation needs here, which is faster and more sustainable than truck transportation.

My site is located in the old city of Taipei, always on the Taipei's urban renewal plans. This is the typical building typology in old city area. And the street view and there is also a old temple. In the night, the night markets come out. There are three food wholesale centres on the south of my site. There is a metro station and about 1km away from no.1 meat wholesale market. Based on my strategy, in 2035, this neighbourhood will become a node to kick the alternative network off.

Food flow on the street 6

by metro by trunk by bike on foot

Before:Functions

Before:Bike & truck lanes

Before:Night market street

1 3 Before:Food-related spaces

After:Bicycle transporation & Vending spots

After:Pedestrian & Fresh food markets

There are four different transportation layers:trunk, metro, bike and on feet. in the early morning, Food will be transported from the wholesale market to foodhub to start everything. Together, they formed the urban foodscapes. After:Green coverage

After:Night Market streets classification

After:Phased construction

24/7 Foodscapes 1

Food Hub 00:00-24:00

Fresh Food Market 07:00-20:00

Package pick-up pionts

Weekendly farmer market

Retailer logistics center

Organic fresh food only

Temporary warehouse

Traceable food supply

Food will be sorting, categorizing and distributing at foodhub. Residents and vendors could pick them up during the day. either by bike or by walking

Fresh food markets are able to be transported by people cause its only 1 street away from the food hub. Since the food origins are traceable, people could get a better understanding on the local food.

Stall Parking 04:00-22:00

Night Market 22:00-04:00

Street vending system Social spaces

Then, the Food goes to the organic food vending spots by bike.

Street food stall parking

Outdoor dining facilities

Bike parking

Gathering spaces

Food events place

Vending Spot 07:00-24:00

Pocket Park

00:00-24:00

Food trees Urban farm Benches

Indoor benches The stall parking place is a parking lot and a place for vendors to meet each other and exchange information.

The symmetrical arrangement of the stall parking is to form a new dining space when the night market comes out at night.

The food pocket parks increased the urban green coverage Activating the backstreet space and expand the foodscape.

Daytime And The streetscape I created. This is a street with heavy traffic during the day. And the foodscapes we could see in this view are a restaurant, a fresh food market and a food pocket park. I hope to make minimum changes to the buildings to make them more coherent with the existing context.

Nighttime During the night, The night market vendors take over the entire space and transform the whole streetscape into a compete foodscape. This is the meat street. Its still going to be crowded but lively.

Foodhub

Food flow on foodhub staff entrance

+0.000m

Mengxia Park

food delivery stop

Underground Restaurants

pick-up entrance

fresh food vendors

loading zone

Lungshan Temple Underground Street is located underground in Mengxia Park as one of the seven major commercial streets around Longshan Temple. Originally it was planned to relocate the street food vendors in nearby night markets and closed due to low operation. Being abandoned for several years, here become a habitat for homeless people and even form a darkcorner for avoiding public order. The original underground space consists of three parts: underground commercial street, parking lot and metro station

pick-up points

pick-up entrance

metro station

parking lots

check point

bike parking

-5.400m

car parking lots metro station restaurants

parking lots

fresh food vendors

metro station

food loading zone

metro

pick-up points temp-warehouse parking lots

restaurants

parking lots

underground food tunnel

metro station

bike+walk pick-up point

bike parking check point -9.600m

car parking lots

daytime pick-up by walk metro entrance lifter 3:30-6:00 a.m. food truck lane 3:30-6:00 a.m. food truck parking

daytime pick-up by bike

daytime pick-up by walk

temporary warehouse

The transformation starts from food hub based on the Longshan temple metro station. Food delivered from the wholesale market is unloaded and redistributed here. It is also responsible for receiving food from other markets through metro. The changes above the ground is more about reorganising the functional spaces and provide more convenient entrances for this hybrid food-related hub.

-12.800m

car parking lots food tunnel to metro park recycle stations

slope

Daytime

Early morning

Nighttime

Daytime

Aiming to solve the food waste problems, the food that is too good to go will be gathered for sales. So during the day There will be people moving food around under the pavilion. The other side are some food planting beds. At night it will become A long table banquet inspired by a Chinese visual cultural heritage. Also served as a supplemental facility for the night market street.

At 4-6 am in the early morning, and the street is empty, this area is a truck parking zone. only food is being transported. Unloading the food from the wholesale market During the day, the trucks no longer show up, and there will be people relaxing and gathering in the parking spaces. This place is still served as a car-free public park.

(UN)RAVEL

The thickness and width of the wall SUMMER，2017 INSTRUCTOR : Ruiqi Shang INDIVIDUAL WORK Urban deisgn + Architectural design

Unlike normal large-scale planning and renovation, my plan started with a three-meters-high wall on the ground floor and a framework of four scales (S, M, L, XL), intersected externally or internally into the original surrounding architecture. Results showed that my attempt to combine this new architectural form with the old activity form succeeded in creating a private and enriched architectural space, suitable for Chinese cross-talk, playing chess, walking birds, flying a kite and enjoying a night market, etc. The framework of the four scales was adopted as a strategy to resolve site problems and to achieve better guidance, privacy, internal space richness and generation of individual architectures.

RESIDENTS' LIFE TRACK BREAKFAST 7:00 A.M.

Entrance 8 9

WALK THE BIRDS 8:30 A.M.

PLAY CHESS 15:00 P.M.

Entrance

CHINESE CROSS-TALK 20:00 P.M. 4 Entrance

1 2 3

Entrance

The backside of the block The renewal of the historical heritage protection area is an important research topic of Tianjin, and the fifth avenue is the core tourist attraction of Tianjin.However, the existing problems left over from history still need to be solved. The project is committed to improving the backside space of the block and enriching the street levels of the block.

0 5

1 Outdoor stage 2 Assistant Stage 3 Teahouse 4 Gallery & Residence 5 Library

6 Cafe 7 Lighthouse 8 Office 9 Retail & Hotel 10 Small Park

PROTOTYPE The design of the wall solves four problems in the site by a sery of L-shaped frames' combinations at four scales: S,M,L,XL By providing a series of L shape constructions, there are more public openings. And the public spaces become more attractive.

S-GUIDANCE

Guiding people in the site. Due to the disorder of the site, the directional objects are necessary.

M-NEW WALL

Forming fuzzy boundaries of the historical buildings, for visiting and protectiveness.

L-ACTIVITY SPACE

Enriching the public space by a sery of different scales,which from table,chair to market space.

XL-MAIN BUILDING

Transforming into new buildings. The site has two dynamic points: the open theatre and the viewing tower. Prototype grows into architectural space from both vertical and horizontal directions.

CAFE

LIBRARY

EXHIBITION

Transforming the original windows and connecting the original indoor with the outdoor space.

Defining the boundary of the space, which generates the speech space and to connect with the street.

As an outdoor cafe bar, this space is for dining and marketing.

RETAIL

The retail area focuses on the display space. The middle of the L-shaped frame combination is the main display position of the card, and the two sides are the display plateforms of different heights.

1 Outdoor stage 2 Prop room 3 Dressing room 4 Toilet 5 Teahouse&Retail 6 Gallery

-0.300 0.300 -0.300

-0.450 UP

5 5 5 5

5 5

-0.450

Entrance

Entrance UP

7 3

Resident Entrance Resident Entrance

Entrance

-0.450 UP

Entrance -0.450

0.600 1 ±0.000 3

3 ±0.000

Staff Entrance

-0.450

Staff Entrance

XL - OPEN THEATER The open-air theater is an attempt of XL type frame on the horizontal ground. Part of the wall of the old building is retained and thickened on the periphery of the theater, forming a flowing slow walking path space to connect the three independent old buildings.The new volume extends to the two entrances of the site, connecting the two streets with people and introducing them into the site

1 Cafes 2 VIP Chess room 3 Outdoor Cafes 4 Outdoor Chess room 5 Restaurant 6 Dessert Bar

7 Retail Store 8 Kingergarden 9 Teachers' Office 10 Viewing Platform 11 Air Corridor

8 Resident Entrance

Entrance -0.750

-0.750 Entrance

Entrance

±0.000

-0.750 Entrance ±0.000

±0.000 -0.750 Entrance

DOWN

1.200 3

-0.450

8.400

3.200 6.400 UP

3.200 10 11

8.400 Entrance 6.400 11

Third Floor Plan

Entrance

First Floor Plan 24.400 18.400 16.400 14.400 12.400 10.400 8.400

6.400 3.200 ±0.000

Section A-A

XL - LIGHT HOUSE Viewing platform is an attempt of XL frame in vertical space, growing up from the original wall of the old building to form the commanding point leading the whole site.In addition, the observation deck is the intersection of two air pedestrian trails, connecting the other two main entrances of the site, from 2F and 3F respectively of the observation deck to other areas of the site.The frame is bent into floor slab and wall in the vertical space, forming a staggered public space with more visual communication.

KINDERGARDEN

PUBLIC PARK

LIGHTHOUSE

CAFE

LIBRARY

OFFICE

CORRIDOR

EXHIBITION

RETAIL

STAGE

TEA HOUSE

PUBLIC PARK

FIFTH NATURE

The dynamic landscape FALL，2020 INSTRUCTOR : Morten Kjer Jeppesen IN COLLABORATION WITH Shasha Ye Urban deisgn + Landscape design

The German botanist Ingo Kowarik divided Nature into four types. As the fourth Nature, Feral Nature grows in the area destroyed by previous human activities. In the feral nature, weeds could help recover the land destroyed by human and help other species live on the ground to reach a higher level of biodiversity. So, we see the weeds as an approach to rebuild the connection between human and nature. Our subject mainly focuses on the transition between these different kinds of nature, and our scenarios are developed with the video ‘the fifth landscape’.

Copenhagen Local Map in 2050

Power of feral nature

Urbanization is a process of rebuilding nature spaces. The pursuit of immediate economic benefits and efficiency often resulted in more unsustainable cities. Most of human life are supported by Artificial areas. In the past ten years, the increase of hardscapes in Copenhagen is faster than the recovery of softscapes. However, feral nature is a spontaneous gamechanger who has the ability to reverse. Restore the polluted industrial lands and soil. With suitable interventions, Weeds, an unloved Plant species, could also have Aesthetic Values.

fiLM-the fifth nature High Biodiversity Middle Biodiversity Low Biodiversity Transition from Middle to High Human Activity Density Expansion

VIMEO https://vimeo.com/479243705

50km

BILIBILI https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1Uz4y1U79w

Credit: Shasha Ye, Yaxin Wang, Jiarong Yao, Dongping Sun Music: Hungarian Dance No. 5 (by Johannes Brahms) Few clippings: B E A U T Y - dir. Rino Stefano Tagliafierro (more info: vimeo.com/83910533)

denMark nationaL Map in 2050

fifth LandSCape in urBan area and BiodiverSity 24

Copenhagen LoCaL Map in 2050

ever-Changing fifth LandSCape in Syhaven

LiQuid LandSCape

dynaMiC Street Corner

Feral Nature are providing the city with pocket parks and natural habitats. Strong reproductive capacity and low maintenance requirements. The first choice for increasing urban green coverage. Which also meet the goal of Copenhagen municipality of becoming a green city by 2025. At the same time, people began to realize the potential of this urban nature for the recreational experience.

Copenhagen Green Strategy in 2050 We propose to combine feral nature with recreational activities to build a better green city. Our strategy has three steps. A third-party organization leads it. First, it counts and evaluates the vacant land in the town and then negotiates with the municipalities and private companies to obtain the temporary use right of this land. Then, convene ideas and financial support from the public and instructions from experts like biologists and landscape architects. Use weeds to transform this negative space. Then recreation activities like exhibition and performances are organized and published. The profit from these activities could fund the further increase of urban nature in this area. These new landscapes reacted to the local community and helped to create a new regional identity. The resulting urban green infrastructure will improve and supplement the existing top-down planned urban greening and public system in a flexible, bottom-up manner. That‘s what we called “liquid landscape.”

Site

Syhaven

We choose Syhaven to be our site were used to be a Port Industrial Zone. And now, I planned to be changing into a residential area. Then we zoom in to a mix-used potential site that is experiencing land use renewal so that there are many empty lands to be built. Our design focuses on making full use of the existing feral nature and increasing the green coverage of a site like this, which is full of hardscapes. In the end, it provides opportunities to generate spontaneous public activity spaces. We have two optional intervention methods. NO.1, provide seeds. NO.2, provide spaces. They could form different landscape patterns.

patternS of weedS forMed By different intervention MethodS

Empty lands for construction Temprary recreational green increase

PLUG IN

Rental house in financial crisis FALL，2019 INSTRUCTOR : Carlos Ramos Tenorio IN COLLABORATION WITH Shasha Ye Urban deisgn + Architectural design

“Architecture is now a tool of capital, complicit in a purpose antithetical to its social mission”. As the capital and biggest city in Denmark Copenhagen has been suffering from a severe housing crisis since affordable housing becomes scarce. At this moment, 99.8% of new building in Copenhagen were by private investors. This causes a profit-based housing market which increases the difficulty of buying a house. As a result, the poor were forced to leave the city. Which means, they killed the diversity of the city. But we don’t want them to sell their houses to speculators. As architects, can we transform these in autonomous dwellings? Can we, in that process, give the existing courtyards an increased functionality.

poSt-finanCiaL CriSiS SCenario

Mapping

“Architecture is now a tool of capital, complicit in a purpose antithetical to its social mission”.

Valby today is a hyper connected area with the fastest growing population in Copenhagen. As their housing prices are also growing fast, Valby is becoming a strategic area and developers could be seizing the chance to buy a whole building and rebuild the area.

Private invested construction ratio

Last Financial Crisis 22%

7% 1990

33.2%

2000

75.4% Dwelling prices

Family income 2000

2002

2004

2006

2008

2010

2012

2014

2016

99.8%

2018

Transaction volume of second-hand houses

Strategy Proposal Before: Housing price goes higer Before

Private owners sell house

Private investor buy them all

After: House price is the cost of construction

Private investor rebuild a new apartment

Government Private owners provide rent part of cheap assembled the house modules

Private onwers form new communities

Low-income ratio 0.0%-37,3% 37,3%-74,7%

High transaction volume

In 2018, Blackstone attempted to acquire three properties at Frederiksberg, buying whole buildings and

Some of the high transaction volumes buildings are also in the low-income areas.

turning them into larger apartments. This area will gradually developed into an expensive area. As a result,

Through analysis, we found that the number of dwellings with inner courtyards is large

the poor were forced to leave the city. Which means, they killed the diversity of the city.

and typical in Copenhagen. So we chose one typical building as a prototype.

As architects, can we transform these in autonomous dwellings?

Source: CEICDATA | Association of Danish Mortgage Banks and Statistics Denmark

Source: Statistics Denmark

Spare Space

renovation

The status quo of the project is very

For this reason, the project focuses on completely separating

crowded, and the original owner

the tracks of the old and new residents to ensure the privacy

accommodated the new tenant through

of their own bedrooms. By putting new functional blocks into

a simple renovation inside by changing

the inner courtyard, including the new tenant's service space

vacant rooms into new bedrooms. So

and stairs, we are making two parallel spatial tracks. And the

the distance between the tenant and

new functional modular which can simultaneously serve new

the original resident is too close, which

tenants in multiple adjacent locations.

reduced the quality of life.

More Added

Community

Plug-in

originaL StatuS

Main Entrance

4.150

Original Household Entrance Main Entrance

6.950

Tenant Bedroom

Down

Tenant Bedroom

+2.800

Down Down

Bathroom Toilet

Down

5.600

Roof Down Terrace

Kitchen

Down

-1.350

Original Household Entrance

Bicycle Parking

Retail store Tenant Entrance

Restaurant

Fitnees Room Break Room +0.000

+0.000

Original Household Entrance

Tenant Entrance

+0.000

Courtyard Up

+0.000 Up

Tenant Entrance

+0.000

Tenant Bedroom 1.350

Library

Corridor

Meeting Room

1.350

Tenant Bedroom

1.350

Tenant Bedroom

Restaurant

Original Household Entrance

-1F

prototype generation proCeSS Entrances in courtyard

Plug-in Structure

Model photos

Stairs

Shared Bathroom, Toilet and Kitchen

Connection

Common Space

Public Common Space

Square

Model photos

Courtyard The landscape design of the courtyard also divided the circulation into bicycle and pedestrian. By moving the space for parking bicycles to the basement, which was basically vacant, to provide more space for outdoor activities. Squares and green spaces are also graded at different scales to catalyze a series of common spaces for exercising, interacting, resting, celebrating and playing. So that the courtyard can develop in three dimensions.

Bike Circulation

Square

Cycle Paths

Sidewalk

Primary Roads

Pedestrian Circulation

Secondary Roads

Pedestrian Pathways

Basement

Triatery Roads

Basement

Tenants' living environment

Shared Kitchen with Good View

Air Corridor Guaranteed a reasonable distance

Main Entrance in the courtyard

Cozy Common Space Surrounded by Plants

Model photos

(SUB)MERGE

Old story never disappear THESIS DESIGN，2018 INSTRUCTOR : Li Liu, Xu Wang IN COLLABORATION WITH Xiaoyi Zhang Urban deisgn + Architectural design

Landscape architecture eliminates and conceals the building by blurring the boundary between the building and the site design. While preserving the facade appearance of the historical protection building, it can also provide more possibilities for people's activity space on the ground. The facade of the public building is dissolved by the green land gentle slope of 1:12 or 1:20, and the roof of the public building that sinks below the ground floor is a lawn for people to rest on. Citizens can go through the gentle slope from the ground floor to the roof of the new building and conduct various activities on the roof. The ramps of the new building allow the protective perimeter of the building to remain accessible and carefully observed from more angles, while creating a 'multi-storey' facade.

hiStoriCaL BuiLding Tianjin HuaXin textile mill is located in Heibei District of Tianjin is listing the industrial old plant site, the project base not only geographical condition is superior, and the prospect of substantial and reconstruction design of it not only of Tianjin cultural industry has considerable influence, will also greatly promote the development of the tourism industry.

Park Entrance

Old buildings need to be emphasized, and the history they represent cannot be forgotten. No matter how new functions are placed, the historic preservation building should always be at the visual and sensor.

Entrance Park Entrance

Park Entrance

gallery road

waterscape

exalted roof

sunken plaza

natural science area

Park Entrance

Entrance

Site Plan museum of culture exalted roof and education sunken corrido

Site Section

cultural park

CoMMerCiaL CoMpLex We will project positioning for tourists and art creative cultural enthusiasts, is committed to create a set geographical location, exhibition, shopping, Convention, art and leisure entertainment Recration into a one of a kind of new urban space development, reform and the construction of post industrial landscape park.

Roof Ramp

The facade of the public building is dissolved by the green land gentle slope of 1:12 or 1:20.

Sunken Plaza

The roof of the public building that sinks below the ground floor is a lawn for people to rest on.

The design of the sunken plaza draws people to the enclosed but open plaza through ramps and stairs, which brings visitors to a place where they can stay for a long time and attract citizens as a public space of the city. The main entrance of the historic protection building is set at the lower city square, which enables people to enter the historic protection building imperceptibly along the streamline, making the tour line guiding and increasing the tour experience of tourists. There are large green Spaces and zigzag ramps in the lower square, which increase people's stopping time and drive the vitality of the square.

hidden BuiLding The architectural design selects a part of the site that contains the historical protection building, continues the design concept of the overlaying building of the whole green belt in the design method, returns the green space to the city through the long ramp and the human roof, disappears the building, and the historical protection workshop can be seen at all interfaces of the city. Entrance

Entrance Entrance

Ground Floor Plan

COURT YARD

The connection of the split area and terraces. FALL，2018 INSTRUCTOR : Yanxin Cai, Jinsong Shi and Zhiwen Zhang IN COLLABORATION WITH Yizhen Wang and Xianlong Deng Urban deisgn + Architectural design

China today, when looking at an photograph of any university, we can find fences being an indispensable element of school campus. With the development of the city and the construction of the new campus, the functions of the old university campus are gradually changing. Its function has become more closely related to the surrounding context. The campus urgently needs to physically connect with the surrounding area.

Surrounding Context 1 Industrial Park

2 Green Space

Rail transportation industrial park.

The original university landscape is now open to the public.

3 Teachers' Apartment

4 Residence

Rebuilded from the student dormitory. The main households are teachers of this university.

Potential Connectivity of Courtyards

Changing CaMpuS The design starts from the changes of the site. Because the function of education has been removed and the expansion of staff domitory, this site became important.

Campus Area Expanded

Being Effected by city

Campus becaomes Barrier

Dispersion and Combination

ConneCtionS

Breaking the Barrier

Connections

Courtyards play the role of connections of city and campus. Design contains 16 courtyards. Half of them together form the functional boundary of the campus, while the others become the breakthrough points of the campus. People could communicate in the courtyards since four architectures are customized to suit four different blocks.

1 6 13

60m

1 Park

2 Industrial Park

3 Community Center

4 Green Space

5 Study Center

6 Teachers' Apartment

7 Sports Center

8 Residence

9-16 Pioneer Park

Landscape Small shop Traffic corridor

Rail transportation industrial park.

Theater Outdoor theater Urban farm Gaming room Restaurant

The original university landscape is now open to the public.

Supermarket library Study room

Rebuilded from the student dormitory.

Gym Swimming pool Sauna Playground etc.

The main households are teachers of this university.

Base for industrializing the research results of Jiaotong University.

COMMUNITY CENTER Urban farm

COMMUNITY CENTER Outdoor theater

PARK

Small shops

PARK

Air corridor

RUINS

Inside out SPRING，2021 INSTRUCTOR : No IN COLLABORATION WITH Shiqi Li Architectural design

ruinS of a ChurCh in itaLy

adaptive uSage anaLySiS

Civilizations, aim at immortality, but usually end up being transient. Natural forces, flourish and conquer for ages, but appear to be mild and invisible in a short time frame. A ruin is a crystallization that delineates the dynamic tension between human ambition and natural forces over time. The traces of time were gradually imprinted on the structure and evolved a new charming state of resonance. With appreciation and reverence for the ruin, we’d like to critically interpret the dialectics of the interior and the exterior, dissolve the duality of the artificial and the natural, and reconcile the contradiction between the momentary and the everlasting. We’d like to compose a Wunderkammer of various landscapes; a series of places that superimpose diverse characters of artificial and natural spaces; a park within a church, which contains a range of permeation between exterior and interior. We’d like to conceive an incubator of everchanging sceneries; a simple but versatile framework that cultivates a collection of encounter possibilities with nature and people; a temporary and rebuildable structure that embrace and respond to the everlasting cycle of seasons and different activities.

newLy added arChiteCturaL eLeMentS anaLySiS

(COMMUNE)ITY

Intersection of city and school of architecture SEMESTER 2，2016 INSTRUCTOR : Zinan Hu IN COLLABORATION WITH Rui Yang Architectural design

School of Architecture is a potential place full of creative students and things. But university is so isolated. Urban space utilization rate in time, the biggest conflict lies in the far distance from the business district and residential area. The urban space is measured the dynamic and gradual change of peoples’ activities, such as the divergence degrees of the traffic, the flow of people, information and energy, etc.. We want to think about the connection between university and city, especially the school of architecture.

TIANJIN, CHINA

The site is located in an university in Tianjin, China. Tianjin is a first-tier city in China - a key development target. Because of the location, which is very close to the capital, Beijing, this city plays an important role in economy.

Civil Entrance

3F 2F 2F

Civil Entrance

Campus Entrance

CITY

COLLEGE

ARCHITECTURAL DEPARTMENT HALL

The plan starts from the behavior activities of the major users: students and teachers of the school of architecture, and analyzes the connectivity between Spaces according to their most commonly used life paths. While improving the internal streamline, introduce the unknown "X factor" -- the city, open the facade of the department museum along the street side, and provide venues for citizens' leisure sports, visiting exhibitions, and the entrance of design firms.

Campus Entrance

Site Plan

CITIZENS

Fitness

Make Friends

Celebration

Civil Entrance

Administration Final Review

Photography

Conference

Exhibition

11 ±0.000

Report

Cafe

Models Making

6 -0.450

Research

8 11

Reading

-0.450

Seminar Handle Official Business

Studio Work

Campus Entrance

Civil Entrance

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7 -0.450

3 -0.450

3 7

-0.450

6 13

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6 ±0.000

STUDENT

Teaching

TEACHER Campus Entrance

Three Circulation is natural to get a " 回 " shaped space.Students, teachers and citizens three different life tracks and intersection: teachers and students' basic teaching activities to form the outer traditional teaching space;Teachers and students, as well as the activities that citizens may participate in the future, form small scale public space of outer dislocation. And large scaled joint studying and communication activities form a large scale public space in the middle. It

First Floor Plan

1 Warehouse 2 Printer 3 Future use 4 Broadcasting center 5 Lecture Hall 6 Toilet 7 Conference room

8 Computer Lab 9 Library 10 Management room 11 Modeling Making room 12 Art room 13 Gym

4.500

1 2 UP

5.500

8 UP

4.500

UP 8

2 4.500

Second Floor Plan 1 Classroom 2 Balcony 3 Multi-media Classroom 4 Photostudio 5 Office 6 Seminar 7 Exhibition 8 Cafe 9 Final Review

4.500

2 6 1 2

4 6

4.500

1 9.000

DOWN

9.000

DOWN

9.000 4

9.000

2 1 Functions

Thrid Floor Plan 1 Classroom 2 Seminar 3 Archives room 4 Reading room

Water Indoor space

9.000

Staircase Outdoor green area Walk path

FOOD AND POWER Research booklet, 2020 Individual work SEE IT HERE: https://issuu.com/yaxinwang/docs/yaxin_wang_190164_usc_10_ects_written_assignment

EXQUISITE

STEP UP, FALL IN LOVE

In collaboration with Yang Rui, Chen Qiguang, Han Taoyu, Zhao Yuanye, Jiang Fangzhou Instructor : Guo Lian, Lin Geng Construction design

In collaboration with Zhong Anjie and Zhang Xiaoyi

Second Prize,Hebei-Tianjin Architects Cup Construction Festival,2017

This design idea is inspired by traditional Chinese characteristics and abstracted into a single triangular module,which has curved surface.The principle of structural form refers to the spherical object of football, which forms a solid structural form at each node, and it is enough to support the self-weight of the structure.The fixed structure of the connection between modules adopts the method of component connection to enclose all single components in the synthesis site.

The third year studio work, 2016

Instructor : Hu Zinan Academic design As the square dance becomes popular in China today, we dig out the context background of the close relationship between the dance in 1960s and romantic love, so this building uses the juxtaposition planning of hotels and dances, adopts the space marking technique generated in dances, creates the building space with three kinds of body perceptions from vision, touch and auditory sense, so as to activate the city space and give birth to the idle city.