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FRANKLIN AND MARSHALL COLLEGE * THE MARCHUTZ SCHOOL OF FINE ARTS * HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF DESIGN

CONTENTS HISTORICAL RESEARCH AND STUDY RENOVATION OF SHANGHAI SHIKUMEN LANCASTER, PA; SHANGHAI FALL 2019

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NATURE AND DESIGN THICK AND THIN/INTRUCE OR EMBRACE

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LANDSCAPE

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A DORM ON CAMPUS

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BOSTON, MA SUMMER 2019

LANCASTER, PA; AIX-EN-PROVENCE, FRANCE FALL 2017-FALL 2019 LANCASTER, PA FALL 2019

COLOR AND DESIGN FLEETING LIGHT AND BOUNCING RHYTHMS LANCASTER, PA; BOSTON, MA; AIX-EN-PROVENCE, FRANCE SUMMER 2018-SUMMER 2019

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MATHEMATICS AND DESIGN LOOK THROUGH AN ARTIST’S EYE LANCASTER, PA; AIX-EN-PROVENCE, FRANCE SPRING 2018-SUMMER 2018

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SENIOR HOUSINGRENOVATION OF CITÉ BOURGOGNE (SHANGHAI, CHINA)

Cité Bourgogne (Photography)

ART AND ART HISTORY 390 INDEPENDENT STUDY Critics: Carol Hickey, Kostis Kourelis, Xueqiang Ma

Cité Bourgogne, built in 1930, is a past French property which locates at Huangpu District in Shanghai. The floor space is 74701.54 square feet and area of structure is 108381.8 square feet. It is a rare well-conserved and old-fashioned “lilong” (Stone Alleyway Housing) in Shanghai. Currently the majority who live in there are seniors. The renovation of this housing does not merely aims to resolve current issues inside of the neighborhood but also to reinforce the communication between this “isolated island” and the whole circumambient community.

Time Line

History Background

Field Trip

Sketches

Neighborhood Plan

House Plan

Model

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Survey In Cité Bourgogne, there are 79 house numbers and 392 households, which means several households live under the same house number on average, there are about 5 households assigned to each house number.The registered population (by the government) is 959.

Family Survey of Seniors in Cité Bourgogne

Age Distribution of Seniors in Cité Bourgogne

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Traditional Hong (Pen on paper) There are some obvious revisions in Xintiandi - All systems for water and electricities go underground - The pesdestrians get repaved with bricks.

-The interior of all Hongs get completely refurbished by concrete.

-More humanized facilities/furnitures presented. (glass fences, umbrellas, benches etc.)

Field Trip Sketches From CitĂŠ Bourgogne and Xintiandi (A Shikumen renovated for commercial purpose. )

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Three main problems in the neighborhood waiting to be resolved: -Limited parking spaces; all vehicles are clustering in alleyways.

-Wires are in the alleyway.

-Bad sanitization; there are trenches on two sides of the alley for sewage.

-The pedestrian is lumpy and narrow.

Analysis of Status Quo in CitĂŠ Bourgogne (Pen on paper)

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Renovated Activity Center.

Underground Parking: 60 seats for cars and 1800 square feet for bikes and motors.

Tree and green wall: camphor tree is suitable for the humid weather in Shanghai.

Pebbles paving on pedestrian- seniors could walk on it as message.

Renovation Plan for the Neighborhood |YINING CHEN |7

Renovated Floor Plan

Original Floor Plan (Pencil on Tracing)

SECTION A-A

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THREE MAIN Problems: staricases are hard to climb up; there is no bathroom on the first floor; lack of privacy in bedroom.

New Floor Plan (Pencil on Tracing)

Renovation of a Double Hong (Foam Core Model)

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Model (Second Floor) Model (First Floor)

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Model (Third Floor) Living space of the community per capita is around 7 square meters (75.3 square feet). Buildings, with narrow stairs, are old and inaccessible for seniors. Only 2 families have independent kitchens, most families use communal kitchens. Sanitary issues are alerting in the neighborhood- the

government invested in a toilet project during the Shanghai World Expo whereas there is still a lack of space for bathrooms inside of each Hong (a unit of one house). Thus the renovation focuses on the revision of staircases, increasing accessible space per capita and adding a bathroom on each floor. |YINING CHEN |11

Model (Interior Design with outer wall patterns)

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THICK AND THIN, INTRUCE OR EMBRACE

HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF DESIGN SUMMER 2019 A space usually functions holistically, whereas it could be dismantled and rearranged. The object of this project is to convert an evoke image into several spatial frames. These frames array and give clues to the ultimate design of three dimensional space. Slicing up the space gives a completely different insight- an ordinal squence aligns. Two dimensional sectional frames represent distinct languages of space form.

These two-dimensional pieces get elegantly and rhythemically extended to a 3D space. In terms of the engaged shape and materials, a question is proposed: what is the relationship between human and nature? This question creates the idea of a botanical garden where modern man-made wood timbers piece through organic and natrual cave.

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Three boxes be placed in the space and viewed from the facade colored.

Plan

Both the texture and color contrast of the bristles of broom and concrete wall evoke the discussion of relationship between human and nature.

Orthogonal drawing 1 from box 1.78’*1.78’*1.78’ 14| YINING CHEN|

Orthogonal drawing 2 from box 5’*5’*5’.

Orthogonal drawing 2 from box 10’*10’*10’.

The confliction between nature and human from the picture rouses an ideal botanical garden, a space where the two encounters.

Test Model without wooden frames, the space is vertically splited into half.

FRAME 1

FRAME 2

FRAME 3

Narrative: The language gets increasingly organic and natural as ascending and increasingly geometric and artificial as descending.

FRAME 4

FRAME 5

Floor plan with directions of the circulation.

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LANDSCAPE -DRAWING IN MULTIPLE MEDIAS GENERAL COLLECTION OF WORK

Critics: Magnolia Laurie, John Gasparach, Alan Roberts, O’Neill Cushman, Pauline Betrancourt, Juncheng Liu

Hindenburg Zeppelin Disaster (Charcoal on paper )

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Jardin d’olive (Oil on canvas)

Study 2 (Ink on paper)

The process of painting in both eastern and western manner is a peripateticism of “growing nature”, not only on canvas but also on mind. During the process of painitng, there exists a mental significance of meditation which correlates to artist’s definition of “the world” and “the self ”. The landscape painting, in a great deal, reflects a physical and mental journey of an artist.

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FREE MARK MAKING

Act without acting Work without working Taste without tasting Great or small many or few Repay each Wong with virtue Plan for hard while it’s easy Work on the great while it’s small The hardest task in the world begins easy The greatest goal in the world begins small Therefore the sage never acts great He thus achieved great things Who quickly agrees is seldom trusted Who makes it all easy finds it all hard Therefore the sage makes everything hard He thus finds nothing hard

-Chapter 63, Taoism

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FUTURE DORM/OFFICE ON CAMPUS ART 218, FRANKLIN AND MARSHALL COLLEGE FALL 2019

Critics:Carol Hickey

Mike Wetzel

Franklin and Marshall College is currently seeking for donners for a future dorm building in the north-west of New College House on Harrisburg Avenue, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Each room is in the shape of hexagon, derived from a natural bee hive. The design attempts to utilize language of space to enhance the living quality of students on campus and ameliorate their stress from school life. The design also establishes a niche within limited space, and promote comity of the student body. the space has huge potention to be renovated into a workspace for faculties in the future.

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Floor plan of a suite, 1’-0’’=1/4” Quick sketch on the photo from field trip Section A-A

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3D Printed Models

A suite gradually aggregates into a dorm. Each floor includes six suites and the second floor has a passage which leads to the green roof of the conference room. |YINING CHEN |21

FLEETING LIGHT AND BOUNCING RHYTHMS GENERAL COLLECTION OF WORK

Critics: John Gasparach, Alan Roberts, O’Neill Cushman, Pauline Betrancourt, Kevin Brady

Rhythms (paper collage) Thick and thin bars are aligned up into a row, mimicing the rods of music notes. The application of rhythm exist in both 2D and 3D world.

Object: In divergent hue, chroma and satuaration, colors are cut, teared and cropped into different shapes. Various patterns demonstrate different color layouts. The pieces are adjusted in proportions, stratified into layers, and scattered for balance or just simply be pixilated into abstract mosaics.

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Four (Paper collage)

Grape Yard (Paper collage)

St.Victoire (Acrylic on paper)

Study 1 (Oil on canvas)

Study 2 (Oil on canvas)

Study 3 (Oil on canvas)

The two mosaics were inspired by the study of color pallete in Paul Cezanne’s pieces on Mount Saint Victoire, AixProvence. This is a process of converting realism into abstratism. |YINING CHEN |23

LOOK THROUGH AN ARTIST’S EYE MAT 245, FRANKLIN AND MARSHALL COLLEGE SPRING 2017 Critics:Annalisa Crannell, Magnolia Laurie

How could Mathematics connected to art? It turns out that using problems from perspective art to motivate geometric concepts could build bridge between the two distinctive disciplines. Solutions to these problems will include both mathematical drawings and also rigorous mathematical proofs. Mathematical topics include projective maps from three-space to the plane, Desargues’ theorem, and the Fundamental Theorems of Projective Geometry.

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Design my own house, perspective drawing with two vanishing points (Pencil on paper)

PROJECT: AN ARTIST OBSERVES FROM ONE-POINT PERSPECTIVE

Leon Battista Alberti’s construction of the viewing distance for the image of a square is innovative. Alberti claims that the distance |EF| from F to E on the edge of the canvas is the viewing distance, which is |EF | = |VW |. This theory is tested and verified on a drawing of one-point perspective.

Isometric drawing shows the relative postion of the artist and the square.

Mathematical drawing in Geogebra verifies the theory of Alberti’s.

Journey (Charcoal on paper) |YINING CHEN |25