YEARBOOK 2018 - 2019 | XJTLU DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE
The sixth edition of the yearbook of the Department of Architecture at Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University presents student works created during the academic year 2018 - 2019. The yearbook exemplifies the new model for Chinese architectural education for which the department was commended by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA). It is also a showcase of the creative culture that has guided our students towards successful international careers as responsible and creative architectural designers. The Department of Architecture at XJTLU offers RIBA Part 1, 2 and 3.
The sixth edition of the yearbook of the Department of Architecture at Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University presents student works created during the academic year 2018 - 2019. The yearbook exemplifies the new model for Chinese architectural education for which the department was commended by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA). It is also a showcase of the creative culture that has guided our students towards successful international careers as responsible and creative architectural designers. The Department of Architecture at XJTLU offers RIBA Part 1, 2 and 3.
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建<br />
筑<br />
系<br />
西<br />
交<br />
利<br />
物<br />
浦<br />
大<br />
学<br />
<strong>2018</strong>-<strong>2019</strong><br />
<strong>YEARBOOK</strong><br />
Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University<br />
Department of Architecture
CONTENTS<br />
005 Introduction<br />
B<br />
B Eng Architecture<br />
Programme Introduction<br />
Level 00 Year 1<br />
013<br />
015<br />
ARC001<br />
ARC002<br />
Level 01 Year 2<br />
019<br />
021<br />
023<br />
025<br />
027<br />
033<br />
047<br />
059<br />
Level 02 Year 3<br />
075<br />
081<br />
083<br />
085<br />
087<br />
ARC107<br />
ARC110<br />
ARC103<br />
ARC104<br />
ARC108<br />
ARC101<br />
ARC105<br />
ARC102<br />
ARC203<br />
ARC206<br />
ARC201<br />
ARC202<br />
ARC205<br />
Introduction to Architecture and<br />
Visual Culture<br />
Architectural Representation and<br />
Communication<br />
History of Western Architecture<br />
Humanities in Architecture<br />
Introduction to Environmental<br />
Science<br />
Materials and Structure<br />
Construction and Materials<br />
Design Studio | Design Thinking and<br />
Articulation<br />
Design Studio | Small Space Design<br />
Design Studio | Small Scale<br />
Architectural Design<br />
History of Asian Architecture<br />
Urban Studies<br />
Environmental Design and<br />
Sustainability<br />
Structural Design<br />
Design Studio | Design and Building<br />
Typology<br />
099<br />
Level 03 Year 4<br />
113<br />
115<br />
117<br />
119<br />
121<br />
135<br />
ARC301<br />
ARC303<br />
ARC306<br />
ARC308<br />
ARC305<br />
ARC304<br />
BB Eng Architectural Engineering<br />
Programme Introduction<br />
191<br />
193<br />
195<br />
P<br />
ARC204<br />
ARC111<br />
ARC112<br />
ARC207<br />
Practice Year 1<br />
Design Studio | Small Urban<br />
Buildings<br />
Architectural Technology<br />
Architectural Theory<br />
Professional Practice<br />
Philosophy of Art and Aesthetics<br />
Design Studio | Small and Medium<br />
Scale Buildings<br />
Design Studio | Final Year Project<br />
Integrated Design of Small Buildings<br />
Architectural Technology and<br />
Innovation<br />
Building Typology in Integrated<br />
Architectural Design<br />
Practice Introduction<br />
Master of Architectural Design<br />
M Programme Introduction<br />
Level 04 Year 1<br />
205<br />
207<br />
209<br />
211<br />
213<br />
225<br />
237<br />
Level 04 Year 2<br />
241<br />
243<br />
245<br />
247<br />
ARC409 Architectural Design and Research<br />
Methods<br />
ARC411 Practice Based Enquiry and<br />
Architectural Representation<br />
ARC408 Thesis<br />
ARC413/ARC410 Design Studio 3+4<br />
Practice Year 2<br />
283 RIBA PART 3 MEAP Access Course<br />
OOther Activities<br />
267<br />
269<br />
271<br />
273<br />
275<br />
ARC403<br />
ARC407<br />
ARC402<br />
ARC406<br />
ARC405<br />
ARC404<br />
ALA<br />
Applied Technology in Architecture<br />
Architectural Theory and Criticism<br />
Advanced Professional Practice<br />
Topics in Architectural History:<br />
Modern Architecture as a<br />
Transnational Discourse<br />
Design Studio 1 | Fluid City<br />
Shanghai’s waterfront reloaded<br />
Design Studio 2 | Sustainable Tower<br />
Networks<br />
Additional Learning Activities<br />
Chinese Architect Seminar and Talk Series<br />
Cardboard Shelters<br />
Freestyle Bridge Design Competition<br />
IDEERS Earthquake-Safe Design Competition<br />
MArch Des Field Trip to Singapore<br />
277<br />
279<br />
281<br />
283<br />
285<br />
287<br />
289<br />
291<br />
293<br />
295<br />
297<br />
299<br />
301<br />
303<br />
R Research<br />
307<br />
327<br />
347<br />
349<br />
351<br />
364<br />
Triangulated Shell Foam Structures Based on<br />
Robotic Hot-Wire-Cutting: A Design, Geometry<br />
Rationalisation and Fabrication Workflow<br />
Exhibition: Taipei FYP<br />
Workshop: Between Architecture and<br />
Landscape<br />
Workshop: BIM<br />
Workshop: Bamboo & Rattan Material<br />
Workshop with the Taiwanese artist Cheng<br />
Tsung Feng<br />
Workshop: Digital structural design and<br />
fabrication with Karamba3D<br />
Workshop: Interdisciplinary Workshop +<br />
Exhibition - Suzhou: 1 City/ 7 Identities<br />
Workshop: Architecture Visualization<br />
Workshop with FlyingArchitecture<br />
Workshop: Zuloark Workshop. Designing with<br />
recycled materials<br />
Waxing Lyrically<br />
Climathon <strong>2018</strong><br />
Hall of Lost Steps, Juan Heredia<br />
Student Prizes<br />
Architecture Across Boundaries <strong>2019</strong>:<br />
International ConferenceBDP - Farrell Prize<br />
Research Performance for the Academic<br />
Year <strong>2018</strong>/19<br />
PhD Candidates<br />
Students<br />
Academic Staff<br />
Alumni<br />
Academic Position Statement
005<br />
INTRODUCTION<br />
006<br />
<strong>2018</strong>-<strong>2019</strong> <strong>YEARBOOK</strong> Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Department of Architecture 西 交 利 物 浦 大 学 建 筑 系<br />
This yearbook is testimony to the students and<br />
academics in the undergraduate and postgraduate<br />
courses of the Architecture department at <strong>XJTLU</strong>.<br />
The undergraduate cohort clearly demonstrates a<br />
dynamic, analytical approach to architecture with<br />
a strong sense of social and cultural sensitivity that<br />
is clearly demonstrated in the diverse modules<br />
recorded within this publication. The postgraduate<br />
cohort explored in depth design challenges and<br />
explored the architectural design opportunities these<br />
offer with an incredible rigor and clear passion to<br />
architecture.<br />
<strong>XJTLU</strong> architecture students have demonstrated<br />
a remarkable drive and dynamic analytical<br />
approach that is clearly reflected in the students’<br />
work captured in this yearbook that can only be a<br />
snapshot for the incredible work that our students<br />
and colleagues do. We decided to introduce a series<br />
of awards to reward these top achievements of our<br />
students from first year undergraduate studies up to<br />
the final year in the masters.<br />
The international Doshi workshop held by Rajeev<br />
Kathpalia in the summer <strong>2019</strong> was attended by<br />
bachelor and master students of <strong>XJTLU</strong>. Students<br />
provided dynamic and very diverse design<br />
solutions to the given design challenge of an urban<br />
intervention in Suzhou City. It is great to see the<br />
enthusiasm with which the students engaged in the<br />
vertical studio and produced remarkable proposals<br />
and a fantastic exhibition. In the following academic<br />
year, we will follow up with a workshop in India with<br />
Doshi and Rajeev in the Indian context in Hyderabad.<br />
The BEng Architecture Program is the powerhouse<br />
of our department, capturing the largest students’<br />
cohort. The work is explorative, vibrant, holistic in<br />
its approach and is a clear testimony of the modules<br />
taught and demonstrates the skills and abilities of our<br />
students obtained at the department.<br />
The architecture department at <strong>XJTLU</strong> is the only<br />
one in China that offers RIBA part 1 +2 validated<br />
degree programs. In addition, we are offering RIBA<br />
part 3 preparatory courses. We further initiated<br />
the RIBA Chapter China that will be launched this<br />
summer. This clearly outlines our commitment to<br />
practice.<br />
Once again architectural academic staff received<br />
teaching awards’, and our staff and students won<br />
diverse national and international competitions once<br />
again this year. We are very proud to have such an<br />
active architectural educational environment that<br />
enables all of this.<br />
The department has held over 15 extra curricula<br />
workshops covering arts, crafts and technology,<br />
these workshops were filled with students and staff<br />
from the department as well as from the Design<br />
cluster. Further over 15 guest lectures were hosted<br />
by the department bringing the best national and<br />
international architects and academics to the<br />
department.<br />
The departments PhD students’ cohort is growing to<br />
currently 12 students that form a nucleus of a young<br />
vibrant research community that firmly positions<br />
itself in between east and west thinking. Our staff<br />
are actively engaged in fostering this research<br />
momentum through their own work as well as<br />
through interaction through a series of workshop,<br />
symposia and through participations in forums and<br />
conferences nationally as well as internationally.<br />
We further organized an international conference<br />
with over 100 participants and guests entitled<br />
‘Across boundaries’ that brought together practice,<br />
architectural accreditation boards as well as<br />
academics, turning the architecture department into<br />
the central hub for practice and academic discussions.<br />
This all would have not been possible without the<br />
incredible drive and commitment of our staff and<br />
students and support of the architectural practice<br />
community. The department formed the department<br />
advisory board from key architectural practices to<br />
act as a sound board for the future development of<br />
the department.<br />
Our international students’ numbers are rising<br />
across the undergraduate and postgraduate cohort,<br />
testimony of the architecture departments success<br />
and growing recognition within the architecture<br />
world.<br />
I would like to thank all the colleagues and students<br />
for their support they did an incredible amount<br />
of work. The Department has received incredible<br />
support from the University as well as the larger<br />
community and we look forward to the exciting next<br />
phase were we come closer together with Industrial<br />
Design Department as the new Architecture and<br />
Design Department. We look forward to push<br />
the boundaries of International education in this<br />
East-West context as well as the possibilities and<br />
opportunities for our graduates. Enabling them to<br />
become true leaders of the next generation to face<br />
challenges and engage with the great opportunities<br />
ahead.<br />
Prof Gisela Loehlein<br />
Head of Department of Architecture
007<br />
008<br />
<strong>2018</strong>-<strong>2019</strong> <strong>YEARBOOK</strong> Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Department of Architecture 西 交 利 物 浦 大 学 建 筑 系<br />
B ENG<br />
<strong>ARCHITECTURE</strong><br />
PROGRAMME<br />
INTRODUCTION<br />
The Bachelor of Architecture at <strong>XJTLU</strong> offers a unique perspective<br />
on the challenges faced by contemporary designers operating in<br />
a fast-changing world, from a major Chinese heritage centre in<br />
the Yangtze River Delta, one of the most dynamic megalopolis in<br />
the world. Being exposed to the impetuous urbanisation and to<br />
the architectural fervour of China through the lens of a mature<br />
and rigorously structured curriculum, students learn to develop<br />
a critical approach to architecture from, and in response to,<br />
complexity and contradictions.<br />
The programme is centred on progressively articulated design<br />
studios, where students are confronted with various scales of<br />
design, from small buildings to the urban dimension, and with the<br />
issue of sustainability in all its facets and implications. These are<br />
complemented each semester by lecture-based modules ranging<br />
from theory of architecture and philosophy of arts, to materials,<br />
construction and environmental design, from urban studies to<br />
professional practice. Unlike other programmes, history of Asian<br />
and western architecture are both integrated and equally important<br />
in the curriculum.<br />
A wide variety of methodologies and modes of learning and teaching<br />
are utilised, including lectures, individual tutorials, small-group<br />
seminars, hands-on workshops and public reviews with guest critics<br />
from the professional world and from other universities. Students<br />
are encouraged to experiment and test their ideas and to develop<br />
original design concepts. All activities benefit from our purposedesigned<br />
building in which each student has their own individual<br />
working space and free access to state-of-the-art facilities for<br />
printing, model making and digital design and fabrication.<br />
Multiculturalism is one of our strengths, and other than being<br />
taught by a remarkably international team, within the four years<br />
of duration of the programme, students can decide to study abroad<br />
for one to four semesters, through an exchange scheme or by<br />
completing their education at the University of Liverpool in the UK.<br />
English language is part of the education received by the students,<br />
while the international ones are offered Chinese language training,<br />
so that both are to be able to integrate effectively in an Englishspeaking<br />
institution operating within the Chinese context, and to<br />
expand their future opportunities. At the end of the programme, all<br />
graduates, are awarded both a Chinese and a UK degree validated by<br />
the Royal Institute of British Architects. Opportunities for further<br />
studies and professional careers in China and internationally are<br />
endless.<br />
Marco Cimillo<br />
Programme Director
009<br />
010<br />
<strong>2018</strong>-<strong>2019</strong> <strong>YEARBOOK</strong> Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Department of Architecture 西 交 利 物 浦 大 学 建 筑 系<br />
Part of the <strong>2018</strong>-19 UG Graduation Show<br />
Yuzheng Yao, receives the BDP-Farrell Award and the Departmental Award for the Final Year Project
011<br />
012<br />
LEVEL 00<br />
<strong>2018</strong>-<strong>2019</strong> <strong>YEARBOOK</strong> Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Department of Architecture 西 交 利 物 浦 大 学 建 筑 系<br />
00<br />
Year 1 prepares students for the subsequent three years. Classes on<br />
English language for academic purposes are taught alongside modules<br />
on mathematics, Chinese culture and physical education. Year 1 also<br />
includes two modules that serve as an introduction to visual culture<br />
and architectural representation.<br />
● ARC001 Introduction to Architecture and Visual Culture<br />
(2.5 credits)<br />
● ARC002 Architectural Representation and Communication<br />
(5 credits)<br />
B Eng Architecture<br />
<strong>XJTLU</strong> <strong>ARCHITECTURE</strong> <strong>YEARBOOK</strong> <strong>2018</strong>-<strong>2019</strong>
013<br />
014<br />
Alvioletta Geraldine Setiadjie<br />
ARC001<br />
Introduction to Architecture and<br />
Visual Culture<br />
<strong>2018</strong>-<strong>2019</strong> <strong>YEARBOOK</strong> Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Department of Architecture 西 交 利 物 浦 大 学 建 筑 系<br />
Yongqi Zhan<br />
Jingshu Zhang<br />
Zhiqing Zeng<br />
Yansheng Li<br />
Level 0<br />
( Year 1 | Semester 1 )<br />
Module Credits<br />
2.5<br />
Module Leader<br />
Martin Fischbach<br />
Teaching Team<br />
Rafael Carbonero<br />
Kwok On Philip Fung<br />
Christian Gaenshirt<br />
Teresa Hoskyns<br />
John Latto<br />
Victor Njo<br />
Sofia Quiroga Fernandez<br />
Li-An Tsien<br />
Jing Yang<br />
Yiwen Zhang<br />
Language Tutors<br />
Chengcheng Li<br />
Xiucai Lu<br />
Lihan Huang (T.A.)<br />
Wenfeng Xu (T.A.)<br />
Simeng Zhu (T.A.)<br />
Number of Students<br />
333<br />
Introduction to Architecture and Visual Culture is a general overview of<br />
various forms of expression in art, architecture, landscape and design. It<br />
provides a visual and cultural basis for the understanding, analysis and<br />
presentation of the relationships between space, structure, form and<br />
visual composition. Focusing on graphic and spatial thinking, this module<br />
aims to awaken the creative abilities of students, develop their latent<br />
aptitudes and encourage their curiosity for architecture by focusing on<br />
three particular aspects: understanding to see, understanding to do and<br />
understanding to communicate.<br />
This module combines theory and practice. The lectures present various<br />
forms of visual media and representation related to architecture,<br />
exemplary works from artists and architects, and basic information to<br />
experiment with different media. The seminars and the coursework<br />
give the opportunity to use different techniques: freehand sketching, 3D<br />
one-point perspective, 2D drawings (plan, elevation), drawing with light<br />
and/or colour rendering, materials, photomontage, photography, digital<br />
manipulation, collage, crafting and modelling.<br />
Each task brings the student a step closer in the methods and principles<br />
(both pragmatic and poetic) to visualise the spatial experience through<br />
two- and three-dimensional representational techniques. Basic<br />
architectural concepts are used through a gradual sequence of exercises,<br />
culminating in a three-dimensional proposal. A series of graphic and<br />
plastic experiments combine to form a structural entity, and lay the basis<br />
for the understanding, analysis and representation of architecture and<br />
visual culture.<br />
The theme of an enchanted garden was chosen. The theme allows<br />
students to think of architecture as a global and utopian transformation<br />
of the environment, both natural and built. The theme of the garden<br />
also connects to architecture (as a visual culture), landscape painting<br />
and landscape photography, eastern and western and allows students to<br />
learn different modes of visual representation related to architecture<br />
such as sketches, conical perspective and isometry. Furthermore,<br />
this theme makes connections between architecture and different<br />
visual media: sculpture, land art, outdoor installations. It introduces<br />
visual communication techniques such as collage, photomontage and<br />
folding. Finally, it addresses the question of the relationship between<br />
architecture and nature, not only at the scale of a garden but also at the<br />
scale of the city landscape.<br />
Level 00 – Year 1<br />
B Eng Architecture Programme
015<br />
016<br />
ARC002<br />
Architectural Representation and<br />
Communication<br />
<strong>2018</strong>-<strong>2019</strong> <strong>YEARBOOK</strong> Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Department of Architecture 西 交 利 物 浦 大 学 建 筑 系<br />
Fanyu Gao<br />
Minjie Cai<br />
Xinying Wu<br />
Zhiqing Zeng<br />
Level 0<br />
( Year 1 | Semester 2 )<br />
Module Credits<br />
5<br />
Module Leader<br />
Martin Fischbach<br />
Teaching Team<br />
Adam Brillhart<br />
Peta Carlin<br />
Kwok On Philip Fung<br />
Christian Gaenshirt<br />
Xuemei Li<br />
Rachael Ouyang<br />
Sofía Quiroga Fernández<br />
Aleksandra Raonic<br />
Lian Tsien<br />
David Vardy<br />
Glen Wash<br />
Yiwen Zhang<br />
Language Tutor<br />
Chengcheng Li<br />
Tiantian Dong (T.A.)<br />
Lihan Huang (T.A.)<br />
Simeng Zhu (T.A.)<br />
Number of Students<br />
195<br />
Focusing on architectural representation and communication, this<br />
module aims to introduce to architectural thinking and visualisation<br />
through lecture and course-based work, including a series of activities,<br />
progressing through research, reading, observation, analysis, writing,<br />
conceptual and spatial thinking, drawing and modelling production.<br />
The module gives students the opportunity to use different techniques:<br />
freehand sketching and one-point perspective, drawing rendering with<br />
different techniques, photography, photomontage, digital manipulation<br />
and modelling. Students are trained to hone their skills through in-class<br />
and out-of-class practice by conducting group research and self-study.<br />
Basic architectural concepts are introduced through a gradual sequence<br />
of exercises.<br />
Architectural Representation and Communication aims to awaken<br />
the students’ creative abilities, develop latent aptitudes and introduce<br />
them to architectural language. By conducting research and producing<br />
analytical drawings and models about architecture, students become<br />
familiar with the basic representational language of architecture and<br />
with the basic communication skills used by architects including reading<br />
and generating orthographic projections, physical models and text-based<br />
descriptions about architecture.<br />
The themes chosen introduce fundamental aspects of architecture to<br />
the students. The first part of the module consists of thorough thematic<br />
research based on graphic and written documents of an existing building.<br />
Students are asked to observe, to describe and to analyze the existing<br />
building case study in order to learn basic notions of architecture.<br />
The second part is an introduction to architectural experience and<br />
perception simulation. The exercise allows students to create an<br />
architectural sequence, a path defined step by step. It is an opportunity<br />
to pass from topological intentions to two- and three-dimensional<br />
representations (scale 1/100). The third part of the module is an<br />
introduction to conceptual and metaphorical thinking in architecture and<br />
an exploration/experimentation with various architectural languages<br />
through orthographic drawings and models (scale 1/50). The fourth part<br />
is an introduction to tectonics in architecture and an opportunity to<br />
design and represent detailed components of a pavilion and to express<br />
the materiality of the pavilion at a larger size (scale 1/20).<br />
Level 00 – Year 1<br />
B Eng Architecture Programme
017<br />
018<br />
LEVEL 01<br />
<strong>2018</strong>-<strong>2019</strong> <strong>YEARBOOK</strong> Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Department of Architecture 西 交 利 物 浦 大 学 建 筑 系<br />
01 <strong>XJTLU</strong><br />
Year 2 provides the basis for the subsequent years of the programme.<br />
Students are introduced to the history and theory of architecture,<br />
building science, structure and construction as well as building<br />
technology, in parallel to modules on English language. Experimental<br />
studio modules introduce the presentation, modelling and design of<br />
architectural spaces and small buildings.<br />
● ARC101 Design Studio: Design Thinking and Articulation<br />
(5 credits)<br />
● ARC102 Design Studio: Small Scale Architectural Design<br />
(10 credits)<br />
● ARC103 Introduction to Environmental Science (5 credits)<br />
● ARC104 Structures and Materials (5 credits)<br />
● ARC105 Design Studio: Small Space Design (5 credits)<br />
● ARC107 History of Western Architecture (5 credits)<br />
● ARC108 Construction and Materials (2.5 credits)<br />
● ARC110 Humanities and Culture (2.5 credits)<br />
● EAP107 English Language and Study Skills III for the Built<br />
Environment (10 credits)<br />
B Eng Architecture<br />
<strong>ARCHITECTURE</strong> <strong>YEARBOOK</strong> <strong>2018</strong>-<strong>2019</strong>
019<br />
020<br />
ARC107<br />
History of Western Architecture<br />
<strong>2018</strong>-<strong>2019</strong> <strong>YEARBOOK</strong> Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Department of Architecture 西 交 利 物 浦 大 学 建 筑 系<br />
Sketches of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Oak Park<br />
House, Robie House and Kaufmann House<br />
by Feiya Suo, Yanfei Wang, Xiaofeng Zhang,<br />
Ruixian Hu and Xingqiao Wang.<br />
Level 1<br />
( Year 2 | Semester 1 )<br />
Module Credits<br />
5<br />
Module Leader<br />
Paolo Scrivano<br />
Teaching Team<br />
Paolo Scrivano<br />
Junjie Xi<br />
Andrew McIntosh (LC)<br />
Number of Students<br />
192<br />
Focusing on Western Architecture from ancient times to the 21st<br />
century, this module introduces students to the history of architecture<br />
and engages them in a critical reading of buildings and urban settings.<br />
Buildings, cityscapes, plans, and drawings are used to illustrate how<br />
architecture reflects the culture of specific geographical locations<br />
in diverse historical moments. In addition, architectural artifacts<br />
are analysed from different perspectives (social, cultural, economic,<br />
institutional, etc.) with the goal of helping students acquire skills in<br />
understanding the built environment and develop a critical attitude<br />
toward architectural projects of the past, the present and the future.<br />
The module is delivered mostly through lectures and readings but it<br />
also includes drawing and written exercises that initiate students to<br />
the analysis and interpretation of architectural exemplars. This aims<br />
to increase their familiarity with architectural history to foster future<br />
design thinking. A short research essay based on independent research<br />
is written by each student. In it each student discusses a specific building<br />
or urban setting. Some sessions are delivered by a Language Centre<br />
tutor who assists students with language and study skills. Students are<br />
also provided with online language and study skills support to help them<br />
engage with the module’s content.<br />
Level 01 – Year 2<br />
B Eng Architecture Programme
021<br />
022<br />
ARC110<br />
Humanities in Architecture<br />
<strong>2018</strong>-<strong>2019</strong> <strong>YEARBOOK</strong> Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Department of Architecture 西 交 利 物 浦 大 学 建 筑 系<br />
Sample images of the work produced by students during the module.<br />
Level 1<br />
( Year 2 | Semester 2 )<br />
Module Credits<br />
2.5<br />
Teaching Team<br />
Glen Wash Ivanovic (module leader)<br />
Jing Yang<br />
Number of Students<br />
213<br />
Humanities in Architecture introduces students to architecture and<br />
the built environment as a broadly humanistic concern, and supports<br />
their future studio work by presenting them with theories and methods<br />
on the relationship between humans and place. It aims not only to give<br />
students more analytical approaches to architecture and design, but also<br />
to emphasize to them the relationship between architecture, people, and<br />
society.<br />
Through the application of theoretical approaches and tools of spatial<br />
analysis, students engage with real sites in the city of Suzhou. Through<br />
this field work they understanding architecture, urbanism, space, and<br />
the built environment as subjects crucially connected to the humanities<br />
and social sciences, including geography, sociology, anthropology and<br />
history.<br />
In <strong>2019</strong>, students had three routes in Suzhou available for them to<br />
explore. Students had to undertake three different research projects in<br />
their selected route. In their first project, worked in groups of four to<br />
five students, later progressing to personal and individual exercises. Each<br />
project familiarises students with specific theories and methodologies<br />
that they had to apply in their chosen route. The result is the module<br />
report: a sort of log book which collects the student's work and their<br />
reflections on their Suzhou research.<br />
Level 01 – Year 2<br />
B Eng Architecture Programme
023<br />
024<br />
ARC103<br />
Introduction to Environmental<br />
Science<br />
<strong>2018</strong>-<strong>2019</strong> <strong>YEARBOOK</strong> Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Department of Architecture 西 交 利 物 浦 大 学 建 筑 系<br />
Observed global temperature change<br />
and modeled responses to stylized<br />
anthropogenic emission and forcing pathways,<br />
Image source:<br />
IPCC<br />
special report:<br />
Global Warming of 1.5 oC<br />
Level 1<br />
( Year 2 | Semester 2 )<br />
Module Credits<br />
5<br />
Module Leader<br />
Moon Keun Kim<br />
Teaching Team<br />
Thomas Wortmann<br />
Number of Students<br />
185<br />
This module introduces undergraduate students to the principles of<br />
environmental science in buildings. It focuses on the quantitative<br />
aspect of building science. In it students learn the fundamentals of<br />
thermodynamics and building physics essential to the understanding of<br />
building energy performance and urban environmental impact.<br />
Students learn about: bioclimatic design; the fundamental principles of<br />
heat transfer mechanisms; the role of construction layers in domestic<br />
walls; window lighting and thermal performance; the impact of building<br />
fabric on energy consumption; urban microclimates; fundamental<br />
passive heating and cooling systems; fundamental thermodynamics;<br />
heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC); moisture condensation;<br />
thermal comfort; the psychrometric chart; domestic water; solar<br />
principles; fundamentals in lighting (day light and artificial lighting); and<br />
fundamental architectural acoustics.<br />
On completion of this module, students are able to specify and design<br />
a building facade and carry out relevant scientific approaches with<br />
numerical calculation and computer simulation to deliver high-quality<br />
thermal building energy performance. Students also understand how to<br />
specify and design recommended indoor thermal comfort levels. This<br />
module requires students to identify using low carbon building design<br />
strategies the energy load associated with space heating, cooling and<br />
ventilation in a building and the impact of building energy consumption<br />
on climate change and global warming.<br />
Level 01 – Year 2<br />
B Eng Architecture Programme
025<br />
026<br />
ARC104<br />
Materials and Structure<br />
<strong>2018</strong>-<strong>2019</strong> <strong>YEARBOOK</strong> Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Department of Architecture 西 交 利 物 浦 大 学 建 筑 系<br />
Vew of cardboard structures exercise group final presentations<br />
Kexin Qian structural loading exercises<br />
Level 1<br />
( Year 2 | Semester 1 )<br />
Module Credits<br />
5<br />
Module Leader<br />
Richard Hay<br />
Teaching Team<br />
Christiane M. Herr<br />
Sandro Rolla<br />
Guest Critics<br />
<strong>XJTLU</strong> Staff Adam Brillhart<br />
Yi Ping Dong<br />
David Vardy<br />
Number of Students<br />
188<br />
ARC104 structures are integral to buildings. They contribute not only to<br />
functional aspects of buildings by supporting loads but also form spaces<br />
and thus help to create architectural qualities and program. This module<br />
provides students with an understanding of basic structural principles<br />
as well as basic types of structural systems and their relationships to<br />
common construction materials. The module introduces students to<br />
holistic design approaches that aim to integrate architectural intentions<br />
and structural considerations with a view to local construction contexts.<br />
This was approached primarily through case studies and applied<br />
exercises which led to defining the role and responsibility of the<br />
architect.<br />
This module introduced students to the roles of the architect and the<br />
structural engineer with a focus on key structural requirements relevant<br />
to architectural design at different stages of the process of architectural<br />
design and in the context of regional, cultural architectural typologies<br />
through case studies.<br />
Students designed and built experimental shelters to appreciate external<br />
envelopes, the relationship to structure and space within a series of<br />
guidelines, client interaction, feedback and final exhibition. The students<br />
also completed a series of analytical exercises in the examination of<br />
loadings on different architectural typologies through drawings and case<br />
studies.<br />
The module introduced and encourage inter-disciplinary learning and<br />
awareness as contemporary architectural practice involves and requires<br />
team working between architects and an understanding of engineering<br />
requirements.<br />
Level 01 – Year 2<br />
B Eng Architecture Programme
027<br />
028<br />
ARC108<br />
Construction and Materials<br />
DESIGN MODEL<br />
PROCESS SECTIONS VIEWS<br />
Wanting Shen, Yixing Xu, He Chen, Mengzhe Xue<br />
<strong>2018</strong>-<strong>2019</strong> <strong>YEARBOOK</strong> Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Department of Architecture 西 交 利 物 浦 大 学 建 筑 系<br />
Level 1<br />
( Year 2 | Semester 2 )<br />
Module Credits<br />
2.5<br />
Module Leader<br />
Richard Hay<br />
Teaching Team<br />
Li- An Tsien<br />
Xuemei Li<br />
Teaching Team<br />
Davide Lombardi (<strong>XJTLU</strong> Staff)<br />
Number of Students<br />
188<br />
The ARC 108 module aims to introduce students to the fundamental<br />
principles and elements of construction and materials, as well raising<br />
awareness of the challenges of design intention and construction the use<br />
of different materials and their characteristics.<br />
Investigating and developing an understanding of the construction<br />
process and physical challenges in the building process the resulting<br />
details and performance requirements such as movement, environmental<br />
openings, waterproofing thermal resistance and building aesthetics.<br />
Case Study lectures introduced and explained the relationship between a<br />
concept, materiality and the process of configuring an assembly to create<br />
key elements of building to make architecture; principally walls, roofs<br />
and floors with a focus on facades composed of different materials and<br />
their key details.<br />
Lectures were paced such that quick 2d and 3d hand sketch drawings and<br />
annotation of key points were carried out by students including the cross<br />
section components of a wall, roof and floor and how are they connected<br />
when generated by different conceptual requirements.<br />
Students also participated in group learning process through case study<br />
of selected architectural projects in China, to produce an analysis of the<br />
selected project to create sectional details drawings and physical models<br />
at 1:10 and 1:20 scale “by hand”, with a focus on the case studies building<br />
façade. This created a dialogue on the making of things through analysis<br />
incorporating structure, stability, material representation and aesthetic<br />
outcome from concept and theory to the completion. Students also<br />
participated and completed a parallel exercise in the introduction and<br />
use of Rhino software.<br />
Level 01 – Year 2<br />
B Eng Architecture Programme
029<br />
030<br />
THE THIRD SPACE<br />
Atelier Li Xinggang<br />
AZL ARCHITECTS<br />
CIPEA NO 4 HOUSE<br />
Wanting Shen, Yixing Xu<br />
He Chen, Mengzhe Xue<br />
<strong>2018</strong>-<strong>2019</strong> <strong>YEARBOOK</strong> Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Department of Architecture 西 交 利 物 浦 大 学 建 筑 系
031<br />
032<br />
SUITCASE HOUSE<br />
Gary Chang<br />
<strong>2018</strong>-<strong>2019</strong> <strong>YEARBOOK</strong> Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Department of Architecture 西 交 利 物 浦 大 学 建 筑 系<br />
PARTNERS SHANGHAI<br />
Thomas Heatherwick, Norman Foster<br />
NINGBO<br />
MUSEUM<br />
Wang Shu<br />
Amateur Architects Studio
033<br />
034<br />
ARC101<br />
Design Studio<br />
Design Thinking and Articulation<br />
<strong>2018</strong>-<strong>2019</strong> <strong>YEARBOOK</strong> Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Department of Architecture 西 交 利 物 浦 大 学 建 筑 系<br />
Level 1<br />
( Year 2 | Semester 1 )<br />
Module Credits<br />
5<br />
Module Leader<br />
Peta Carlin<br />
Teaching Team<br />
Peta Carlin<br />
(module & year coordinator)<br />
Adam Brillhart<br />
Jing Yang<br />
Junjie Xi<br />
Martin Fischbach<br />
Philip Fung<br />
Antonio Berton<br />
Dong Chen<br />
Jue Qiu<br />
Kevin Sun<br />
Kulthida Songkittipakdee<br />
Liang Xu<br />
Liwen Zhu<br />
Nicola Pagnano<br />
Rachael Ouyang<br />
Victor Njo<br />
Xiani Wang<br />
Yiwen Zhang<br />
Number of Students<br />
186<br />
Between Body and Building: Experiments in<br />
Architecture<br />
This first design studio in the undergraduate degree programme<br />
introduces students to fundamental relationships between body and<br />
building. Students are introduced to the richness of this analogy through a<br />
series of cumulative exercises which reveal a number of a key conceptual,<br />
theoretical and material foundations of architecture. Correlations<br />
are made between façade and mask; typology and character feature;<br />
a group of people coming together and the formation of an enclosure;<br />
and the demarcation of space and its significance in establishing a place<br />
considering a variety of situations and settings. Emphasising the researchled<br />
and human-centred nature of architectural design, concepts and<br />
representations of space are investigated through material studies. Twiceweekly<br />
studio tutorials are supported by a series of lectures and integrated<br />
workshops.<br />
At the outset, students form groups and are assigned a specific set of<br />
characters, with role-playing used to explore the relationship between<br />
individual users, as well as between designers and users. In the first<br />
exercise, students design an individual bodily adornment, followed by<br />
group-work in which an enclosure for three people is designed at 1:1 scale.<br />
This is presented at an architectural picnic staged in week two of the<br />
semester which includes a range of activities and forms of documentation.<br />
In the following two exercises, the students work individually between<br />
scales of 1:20 and 1:100, undertaking translations between models and<br />
drawings, exploring relationships between solid and void, and between<br />
activities and the spaces designed to accommodate them. The final<br />
exercise encourages the students to reinterpret the book as both an object<br />
and as a site of exhibition in itself. Carefully selecting examples of work<br />
produced during the course of the semester, including drawings, models,<br />
process-work and research, the compilation is accompanied by a brief text.<br />
The resultant design books produced by the students are conceptual and<br />
well-crafted. They present and illustrate narratives that are imaginative,<br />
analytical, and reflective in tone.<br />
Level 01 – Year 2<br />
B Eng Architecture Programme
035<br />
036<br />
CHARACTER | TYPE<br />
Ruqing LYU<br />
<strong>2018</strong>-<strong>2019</strong> <strong>YEARBOOK</strong> Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Department of Architecture 西 交 利 物 浦 大 学 建 筑 系<br />
CHARACTER | TYPE<br />
Christian LAU<br />
CHARACTER | TYPE<br />
Reynard EUGENE<br />
CHARACTER | TYPE<br />
Hongyi ZENG
037<br />
038<br />
<strong>2018</strong>-<strong>2019</strong> <strong>YEARBOOK</strong> Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Department of Architecture 西 交 利 物 浦 大 学 建 筑 系<br />
ENCLOTHE | ENCLOSE<br />
EUGENE, Reynard et al
039<br />
040<br />
SOLID | VOID<br />
Reynard EUGENE<br />
<strong>2018</strong>-<strong>2019</strong> <strong>YEARBOOK</strong> Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Department of Architecture 西 交 利 物 浦 大 学 建 筑 系<br />
SOLID | VOID<br />
Woosik JUNG<br />
SOLID | VOID<br />
Mengzhe XUE<br />
SOLID | VOID<br />
Hongyi ZEN
041<br />
042<br />
SPACE | TIME<br />
Yangxi LIU<br />
<strong>2018</strong>-<strong>2019</strong> <strong>YEARBOOK</strong> Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Department of Architecture 西 交 利 物 浦 大 学 建 筑 系<br />
SPACE | TIME<br />
Zhixuan SONG
043<br />
044<br />
SPACE | TIME<br />
Quencheng WU<br />
<strong>2018</strong>-<strong>2019</strong> <strong>YEARBOOK</strong> Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Department of Architecture 西 交 利 物 浦 大 学 建 筑 系<br />
SPACE | TIME<br />
Xinyuan YUE
045<br />
046<br />
BOOK | EXHIBITION<br />
Christian LAU<br />
<strong>2018</strong>-<strong>2019</strong> <strong>YEARBOOK</strong> Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Department of Architecture 西 交 利 物 浦 大 学 建 筑 系<br />
BOOK | EXHIBITION<br />
Ruqing LYU<br />
BOOK | EXHIBITION<br />
Yuyin XIAO<br />
BOOK | EXHIBITION<br />
Xinyuan YUE
047<br />
048<br />
ARC105<br />
Design Studio<br />
Small Space Design<br />
<strong>2018</strong>-<strong>2019</strong> <strong>YEARBOOK</strong> Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Department of Architecture 西 交 利 物 浦 大 学 建 筑 系<br />
Level 1<br />
( Year 2 | Semester 1 )<br />
Module Credits<br />
5<br />
Module Leader<br />
Adam Brillhart<br />
Teaching Team<br />
Peta Carlin (year coordinator)<br />
Jing Yang<br />
Junjie Xi<br />
Martin Fischbach<br />
Philip Fung<br />
Yiping Dong<br />
Zayad Motlib<br />
Antonio Berton<br />
Dong Chen<br />
John Latto<br />
Jue Qiu<br />
Kevin Sun<br />
Kulthida Songkittipakdee<br />
Liang Xu<br />
Liwen Zhu<br />
Nicola Pagnano<br />
Yiwen Zhang<br />
Guest Critics<br />
Ken Yeung (China Academy of Art)<br />
Number of Students<br />
192<br />
Life and Death of a Measured House<br />
ARC105 Small-Scale Space Design is the second studio module in the<br />
undergraduate programme. It is run in the second half of semester 1<br />
for seven weeks. The course introduces students to non-linear design<br />
processes and ways of approaching design, which include making,<br />
reflection, and re-making. In the “Life and Death of a Measured House”<br />
installment of the module, students actively engage in a small-scale<br />
design project which negotiates between the physical house as a family<br />
dwelling space and the metaphysical house as a catalyst of emotion.<br />
The theme of measurement is developed from the background of the<br />
eight poems of Lu Ban, and taken as a clue to explore the possibility of<br />
architecture to frame but not limit.<br />
A full-scale string survey of a room inaugurates the design process. The<br />
survey facilitates a sensibility to human-scale and analytical awareness<br />
of space including both its measurable attributes and atmosphere. By<br />
drawing and making tools to produce and present design ideas, students<br />
actively engage in experimentation with form and articulation of<br />
building structure through a variety of media. A fixed point scenographic<br />
drawing extends creative processes from a conceptual centre through<br />
interior domestic dwelling space and into a painted landscape. The<br />
selected small-scale spaces, through their particular reflexivity, reveal<br />
how buildings themselves can meaningfully become a poetic kind of<br />
measurement of their context.<br />
Level 01 – Year 2<br />
B Eng Architecture Programme
049<br />
050<br />
<strong>2018</strong>-<strong>2019</strong> <strong>YEARBOOK</strong> Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Department of Architecture 西 交 利 物 浦 大 学 建 筑 系<br />
LAKE VILLA<br />
Zeng Hongyi | 曾 弘 毅
051<br />
052<br />
<strong>2018</strong>-<strong>2019</strong> <strong>YEARBOOK</strong> Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Department of Architecture 西 交 利 物 浦 大 学 建 筑 系<br />
MULTIPLE COURTYARD SPACE<br />
FOR WORKING TOGETHER<br />
Fu Houwei | 傅 厚 苇
053<br />
054<br />
RIVERSIDE HOUSE<br />
IN ROUELLES<br />
Lyu Mengjie | 吕 孟 洁<br />
<strong>2018</strong>-<strong>2019</strong> <strong>YEARBOOK</strong> Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Department of Architecture 西 交 利 物 浦 大 学 建 筑 系
055<br />
056<br />
<strong>2018</strong>-<strong>2019</strong> <strong>YEARBOOK</strong> Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Department of Architecture 西 交 利 物 浦 大 学 建 筑 系<br />
CLIFF VILLA<br />
Cui Mingyuan | 崔 铭 苑
057<br />
058<br />
<strong>2018</strong>-<strong>2019</strong> <strong>YEARBOOK</strong> Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Department of Architecture 西 交 利 物 浦 大 学 建 筑 系<br />
TAO HUA YUAN – IDEAL STATE<br />
Lu Xingyu | 陆 星 宇
059<br />
060<br />
ARC102<br />
Design Studio<br />
Small Scale Architectural Design<br />
<strong>2018</strong>-<strong>2019</strong> <strong>YEARBOOK</strong> Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Department of Architecture 西 交 利 物 浦 大 学 建 筑 系<br />
Isometric Analysis, by student Ruqing Lyu<br />
View from northwest trail, by student Fan Gao<br />
Level 1<br />
( Year 2 | Semester 2 )<br />
Module Credits<br />
10<br />
Module Leader<br />
Jiawen Han<br />
Teaching Team<br />
Jiawen Han (module coordinator)<br />
Peta Carlin (year coordinator)<br />
Adam Brillhart<br />
Christian Gaenshirt<br />
Martin Fischbach<br />
Jing Yang<br />
David Vardy<br />
Thomas Wortman<br />
Antonio Berton<br />
Yiwen Zhang<br />
Jue Qiu<br />
Teo Nacher<br />
Dong Chen<br />
Kulthilda Songkittipakdee<br />
Nan Ye (flying tutor)<br />
Yuan Sun (flying tutor)<br />
Number of Students<br />
197<br />
Rediscovery of Learning for the Elderly<br />
Suzhou's population has been rapidly ageing. The spaces and architecture<br />
that cater to the elderly should give them more self-confidence, social<br />
connections, and vitality. Such designs have been extremely inadequate in<br />
China. Learning plays an important role in active ageing; lifelong learning<br />
enables elderly people to maintain the quality of their lives by enhancing<br />
their self and bettering their physical health and social relationships.<br />
This design studio is primarily concerned with the ageing population, who<br />
prefer to spend most of their time in their own neighbourhoods. At the<br />
same time, students also reflect on how to improve engagement by the<br />
elderly with other age groups, especially with children. In other words,<br />
the studio creates, through learning, more social and generational links<br />
between people who would not otherwise connect with each other.<br />
Learning is a core feature of active ageing. Yet for the elderly living in<br />
in Suzhou and in China, participation in and engagement with learning<br />
activities is difficult. The studio design project aims to reflect and create<br />
optimal conditions for learning activities with small scale spaces that<br />
address the primary concerns of the elderly and also invite users of all<br />
ages to learn, exercise, play, and meditate.<br />
Level 01 – Year 2<br />
B Eng Architecture Programme
061<br />
062<br />
<strong>2018</strong>-<strong>2019</strong> <strong>YEARBOOK</strong> Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Department of Architecture 西 交 利 物 浦 大 学 建 筑 系<br />
DUSHU LAKE COMMUNITY CENTER<br />
Gao Fan | 高 梵
063<br />
064<br />
<strong>2018</strong>-<strong>2019</strong> <strong>YEARBOOK</strong> Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Department of Architecture 西 交 利 物 浦 大 学 建 筑 系<br />
SHIERFANG<br />
Lyu Mengjie | 吕 孟 洁
065<br />
066<br />
<strong>2018</strong>-<strong>2019</strong> <strong>YEARBOOK</strong> Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Department of Architecture 西 交 利 物 浦 大 学 建 筑 系<br />
LINEAR GATHERING<br />
Lyu Ruqing | 吕 如 清
067<br />
068<br />
<strong>2018</strong>-<strong>2019</strong> <strong>YEARBOOK</strong> Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Department of Architecture 西 交 利 物 浦 大 学 建 筑 系<br />
ZIGZAG FLOWER HOUSE<br />
Zhang Wenyi | 张 文 易<br />
Yao Yiming | 姚 艺 铭
069<br />
070<br />
OLD STREET MEETS WITH NEW AGE<br />
Liu Xinyi | 刘 心 颐<br />
<strong>2018</strong>-<strong>2019</strong> <strong>YEARBOOK</strong> Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Department of Architecture 西 交 利 物 浦 大 学 建 筑 系
071<br />
072<br />
<strong>2018</strong>-<strong>2019</strong> <strong>YEARBOOK</strong> Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Department of Architecture 西 交 利 物 浦 大 学 建 筑 系<br />
MUSIC FLOWS HOUSE<br />
Li Yujia | 李 雨 佳
073<br />
074<br />
LEVEL 02<br />
<strong>2018</strong>-<strong>2019</strong> <strong>YEARBOOK</strong> Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Department of Architecture 西 交 利 物 浦 大 学 建 筑 系<br />
02 <strong>XJTLU</strong><br />
In Year 3 students pursue design projects in studio modules that require<br />
the integration of a more complex range of contextual parameters on<br />
the basis of a coherent design process. Students continue to learn about<br />
building technology and the history and theory of architecture and<br />
urban developments.<br />
● ARC201 Environmental Design and Sustainability (5 credits)<br />
● ARC202 Structural Design (5 credits)<br />
● ARC203 History of Asian Architecture (5 credits)<br />
● ARC204 Design Studio: Small Urban Buildings (10 credits)<br />
● ARC205 Design Studio: Design and Building Typology (10 credits)<br />
● ARC206 Urban Studies (5 credits)<br />
B Eng Architecture<br />
<strong>ARCHITECTURE</strong> <strong>YEARBOOK</strong> <strong>2018</strong>-<strong>2019</strong>
075<br />
076<br />
ARC203<br />
History of Asian Architecture<br />
DAY 1 - CAI'S FAMILY<br />
DAY 1 - CAI'S FAMILY<br />
<strong>2018</strong>-<strong>2019</strong> <strong>YEARBOOK</strong> Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Department of Architecture 西 交 利 物 浦 大 学 建 筑 系<br />
DAY 2 - Quanzhou Kaiyuan Monastry<br />
DAY 3 - Bridge School<br />
DAY 4 - Peitian Village<br />
DAY 2 - Quanzhou West Street<br />
DAY 3 - Bridge School<br />
DAY 5 - Anzhen Castle<br />
Field Trip Fujian <strong>2018</strong> Oct. 27th ~ Nov.1st<br />
Level 2<br />
( Year 3 | Semester 1 )<br />
Module Credits<br />
5<br />
Module Leader<br />
Yiping Dong<br />
Teaching Team<br />
Adam Brillhart<br />
Yaqin Zuo (TA)<br />
Study Trip Tutors<br />
Yiping Dong<br />
Adam Brillhart<br />
Zayad Motlib<br />
David Vardy<br />
Jing Yang<br />
Jose Angel Hidalgo Arellano<br />
Number of Students<br />
79<br />
Architecture history is usually taught inside a lecture hall using<br />
general images and drawings of classical buildings, such that the<br />
actual size and relationship to surroundings of ancient structures can<br />
not be experienced. The ARC203 study trip offers students a unique<br />
opportunity to observe traditional buildings with their own eyes and to<br />
be immersed in the otherwise omitted details unique to distinct cultural<br />
perspectives of architecture.<br />
The main themes introduced in the course, including ancient urban<br />
planning, vernacular architecture, heritage conservation, and religious<br />
architecture were explored in various regions in Fujian, China during<br />
the study trip. Through lectures, observation, investigation, and on site<br />
tutorials, students gained a deeper understanding of the structure and<br />
materials used in construction and the historical background of ancient<br />
architecture.<br />
The two historic cities visited in the region, Quanzhou and Fuzhou,<br />
feature rich urban planning and timber structure heritage from the<br />
Tang, Ming and Qing Dynasties. Various religious buildings in different<br />
dynasties demonstrate the Western cultural influence which set Chinese<br />
Architecture History in a broader Asian context. During the study trip,<br />
students also visited various historical villages in Fujian, which include<br />
the famous Fujian Tulou and other castles. The sketches and notes made<br />
on site by the students are the main content of this coursework poster<br />
exhibition.<br />
It is our hope that this teaching method will encourage students to think<br />
about relationships between Modern and Tradition in both the Chinese<br />
urban and rural context.<br />
Level 02 – Year 3<br />
B Eng Architecture Programme
077<br />
078<br />
<strong>2018</strong>-<strong>2019</strong> <strong>YEARBOOK</strong> Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Department of Architecture 西 交 利 物 浦 大 学 建 筑 系
079<br />
080<br />
<strong>2018</strong>-<strong>2019</strong> <strong>YEARBOOK</strong> Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Department of Architecture 西 交 利 物 浦 大 学 建 筑 系
081<br />
082<br />
ARC206<br />
Urban Studies<br />
<strong>2018</strong>-<strong>2019</strong> <strong>YEARBOOK</strong> Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Department of Architecture 西 交 利 物 浦 大 学 建 筑 系<br />
Notes<br />
by Ni Shuyu<br />
Level 2<br />
( Year 3 | Semester 2 )<br />
Module Credits<br />
5<br />
Module Leader<br />
Juan Carlos Dall’ Asta<br />
Teaching Team<br />
Jose Angel Hidalgo Arellano<br />
Guest lectures<br />
Christian Ganshirt<br />
Sandro Rolla<br />
Glen Wash<br />
Number of Students<br />
77<br />
Layered City: Toward a Sustainable City<br />
The module provides students a basic understanding of Urban Design<br />
including some of the key debates, terms, writings, ideas and spatial and<br />
social qualities about urban formation. We address some theories and<br />
practical examples of city development - including global case studies -<br />
to indicate how urban planning and architectural decisions can be better<br />
informed. The module should help students understand the city as a<br />
dynamic, social system.<br />
It is a module that intends to stimulate students' creative engagement<br />
with their surroundings as well their ability to assess, appraise and<br />
critique various urban and cultural phenomena. Students will be<br />
encouraged to read a variety of journals, books and academic papers.<br />
They must be ready to think, formulate their opinions, and argue for<br />
their ideas.<br />
Level 02 – Year 3<br />
B Eng Architecture Programme
083<br />
084<br />
Chenjia Ren,<br />
Study on residential typologies.<br />
ARC201<br />
Environmental Design and<br />
Sustainability<br />
<strong>2018</strong>-<strong>2019</strong> <strong>YEARBOOK</strong> Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Department of Architecture 西 交 利 物 浦 大 学 建 筑 系<br />
Benjamin Jenness,<br />
Daylight Design.<br />
Level 2<br />
( Year 3 | Semester 1 )<br />
Module Credits<br />
5<br />
Module Leader<br />
Marco Cimillo<br />
Teaching Assistant<br />
Xi Chen<br />
Number of Students<br />
71<br />
We spend up to 90% of our time indoors and as a consequence our<br />
comfort, health, productivity and well-being are heavily affected<br />
by the environmental conditions inside buildings. At the same time,<br />
buildings are major consumers of energy and natural resources and<br />
are responsible for greenhouse gases emissions. The way buildings<br />
are designed and built is therefore key to sustainable development,<br />
especially in a fast urbanising country like contemporary China.<br />
Since two thirds of the final energy performance of a building depends<br />
on basic architectural decisions, such as building form, orientation and<br />
percentage of glass, awareness and competence in these issues is an<br />
essential part of the skill set of a contemporary designer.<br />
ARC201 addresses environmental quality, energy efficiency and<br />
sustainability in architecture. In addition to human comfort and energy<br />
efficiency in buildings, the topics cover in ARC201 are a general<br />
introduction to environmental and climatic issues and how they affect<br />
and are affected by the built environment.<br />
Students learn theories and methods to understand, design and assess<br />
daylighting, natural ventilation, passive heating and cooling, as well as to<br />
develop strategies for building services and integrated renewable energy<br />
production. Sustainability is also studied from a wider perspective,<br />
considering the entire life cycle of buildings and international methods<br />
of assessment.<br />
Level 02 – Year 3<br />
B Eng Architecture Programme
085<br />
086<br />
ARC202<br />
Structural Design<br />
<strong>2018</strong>-<strong>2019</strong> <strong>YEARBOOK</strong> Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Department of Architecture 西 交 利 物 浦 大 学 建 筑 系<br />
Design review with David Sommer at schlaich bergermann partner Shanghai. Photograph by Christiane M. Herr.<br />
Structural Layout for a high rise building in Shanghai. Drawing by Renjia Chen.<br />
Level 2<br />
( Year 3 | Semester 2 )<br />
Module Credits<br />
5<br />
Module Leader<br />
Christiane M. Herr<br />
Teaching Team<br />
Davide Lombardi<br />
Number of Students<br />
72<br />
In the context of architectural designing, structural design describes<br />
the conception and articulation of building structures that integrate<br />
architectural qualities with structural requirements. This module<br />
provides students with an understanding of different types of<br />
structural systems and their potential to support and enhance given<br />
architectural intentions, considering engineering values of efficiency<br />
and utility alongside architectural values concerning human experience<br />
and spatial quality. In this module, structural design is approached<br />
primarily through intuitive visual as well as digital means, focusing<br />
on the integration of structural and programmatic patterns, scales and<br />
proportions in structural layouts. Lectures are accompanied by applied<br />
structural design exercises and advanced digital design tutorials. In the<br />
first half of the module, students work in teams to produce structural<br />
design proposals for pedestrian bridges, which integrate architectural<br />
with structural design concerns. In the second half, students develop<br />
structural concepts for high rise buildings as well as high rise façade<br />
sections. As part of this module, students participate in a bridge design<br />
competition that requires students to design, build and test bridge models<br />
for their structural performance. The module also includes field trips,<br />
construction site visits and guest lectures / reviews by internal and<br />
external engineers and architects. This year the module was taught in<br />
collaboration with sbp (schlaich bergermann partner) Shanghai, with<br />
Associate Director David Sommer contributing lectures as well as<br />
detailed design reviews in the sbp Shanghai office.<br />
Level 02 – Year 3<br />
B Eng Architecture Programme
087<br />
088<br />
ARC205<br />
Design Studio<br />
Design and Building Typology<br />
<strong>2018</strong>-<strong>2019</strong> <strong>YEARBOOK</strong> Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Department of Architecture 西 交 利 物 浦 大 学 建 筑 系<br />
Conceptual drawing,<br />
by REN Chenjia,<br />
Dec <strong>2018</strong>.<br />
Ecological Manifesto<br />
by Yan Chut Hang Bryan Jonatan Fong Choy,<br />
Dec <strong>2018</strong>.<br />
Level 2<br />
( Year 3 | Semester 1 )<br />
Module Credits<br />
10<br />
Module Leader<br />
Aleksandra Raonic<br />
Teaching Team<br />
Jiawen Han<br />
Teresa Hoskyns<br />
Sandro Rolla<br />
Li-An Tsien<br />
Igea Troiani<br />
Teo Hidalgo Nacher<br />
Rafael Carbonero<br />
Sustainable Design Support<br />
Marco Cimillo<br />
Thomas Wortmann<br />
Number of Students<br />
77<br />
Re-thinking Harmonious Living<br />
In no other cultural tradition has a concept of Harmony in Nature played<br />
a more important role than in that of China.<br />
Since ancient times real and imagined creatures of the sea and the earth<br />
– pixiu dragons, serpents, chimeras - were given special attributes and<br />
were portrayed on ritual objects and in art.<br />
The mountains, as depicted in the Chinese traditional landscape<br />
paintings were envisioned with sacred power as manifestations of<br />
nature’s vital energy – qi ( 气 ). They not only attracted the rain clouds<br />
that watered the farmer’s crops, they also concealed medicinal herbs,<br />
magical fruits, and alchemical minerals that held the promise of<br />
longevity.<br />
Mountains pierced by caves and grottoes were seen as gateways to other<br />
realms - Cave heavens (dongtian) leading to Daoist paradises where aging<br />
stops and inhabitants live in an eternal Harmony with Nature.<br />
Grounded on China’s captivating cultural traditions and legacies that<br />
have for centuries brought forward green values, this briefs invites<br />
students to take their own stance towards the burning environmental<br />
issues and to envision New Models for Harmonious Living for a future<br />
greener China.<br />
Following typological explorations for ecological living, the task is to<br />
design a housing project with 50 apartments for a site in Suzhou.<br />
Level 02 – Year 3<br />
B Eng Architecture Programme
089<br />
090<br />
LIFE TIDE<br />
Ren Chenjia | 任 晨 嘉<br />
<strong>2018</strong>-<strong>2019</strong> <strong>YEARBOOK</strong> Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Department of Architecture 西 交 利 物 浦 大 学 建 筑 系
091<br />
092<br />
DEMATERIALIZING BOARDERS -<br />
A DIALOGUE BETWEEN MONKS & SUZHOUNESE<br />
Yan Chut Hang Bryan Jonatan Fong Choy<br />
<strong>2018</strong>-<strong>2019</strong> <strong>YEARBOOK</strong> Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Department of Architecture 西 交 利 物 浦 大 学 建 筑 系
093<br />
094<br />
MUTUALISM<br />
Liu Ziyu | 刘 梓 钰<br />
<strong>2018</strong>-<strong>2019</strong> <strong>YEARBOOK</strong> Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Department of Architecture 西 交 利 物 浦 大 学 建 筑 系
095<br />
096<br />
<strong>2018</strong>-<strong>2019</strong> <strong>YEARBOOK</strong> Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Department of Architecture 西 交 利 物 浦 大 学 建 筑 系<br />
BRACING FREEDOM, HEALING OURSELVES<br />
-- Framing new green perception in the modern society<br />
自 愈 , 自 由 , 自 在<br />
PRISON APARTMENT<br />
Song Lu | 宋 鹿
097<br />
098<br />
THE GARDEN <strong>OF</strong><br />
FORKING PATHS<br />
Xue Qi | 薛 骐<br />
<strong>2018</strong>-<strong>2019</strong> <strong>YEARBOOK</strong> Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Department of Architecture 西 交 利 物 浦 大 学 建 筑 系
099<br />
100<br />
ARC204<br />
Design Studio<br />
Small Urban Buildings<br />
<strong>2018</strong>-<strong>2019</strong> <strong>YEARBOOK</strong> Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Department of Architecture 西 交 利 物 浦 大 学 建 筑 系<br />
Final Review, Student Chenjia Ren, May 23, <strong>2019</strong>. Photograph by Yuan Sun<br />
Level 2<br />
( Year 3 | Semester 2 )<br />
Module Credits<br />
10<br />
Module Leader<br />
Zayad Motlib<br />
Teaching Team<br />
Gisela Loehlein<br />
Sandro Rolla<br />
Marco Cimillo<br />
Kihong Ku<br />
Guest Critics<br />
Jessica Ellen<br />
Nicola Pagnano<br />
JC<br />
Number of Students<br />
81<br />
Suzhou Museum of Science and Technology<br />
Over recent years, museums of all kinds have faced complex challenges<br />
as they adapt to evolving technological and cultural transformations<br />
of the twenty first century. With exhibitions becoming more socially<br />
engaging, the boundaries between museums and the real world are<br />
gradually blurring. The recent explosion of technological innovations<br />
has further expanded the way ideas and information are generated,<br />
exchanged, and accessed. This change has initiated a paradigm shift<br />
in the way we think about museums and their role in modern society.<br />
Museums today are becoming more versatile as they respond to the<br />
diverse interests of the public.<br />
Suzhou's Museum of Science of Technology will be uniquely positioned<br />
to celebrate the new cultural and technological transformation. It will be<br />
a place where people go to experience wonder, surprise, technological<br />
engagement, and the joy of discovery. The museum departs from<br />
the traditional notion of a museum as a mere a sequence of empty<br />
spaces, and instead develops into a social hub that fosters education,<br />
technological awareness, and future innovations. In this museum, people<br />
can meet like-minded people, hold debates, organize public lectures and<br />
social events on a regular basis. Positioned between Tiger Hill and the<br />
ancient city of Suzhou, it aspires to become an emblem of technology<br />
and innovation; a beating heart of a living culture, easily accessible to<br />
all people and of true value to society as it bridges the city past with its<br />
future.<br />
Level 02 – Year 3<br />
B Eng Architecture Programme
101<br />
102<br />
NEVERLAND MUSEUM<br />
Chenjia Ren | 任 晨 嘉<br />
<strong>2018</strong>-<strong>2019</strong> <strong>YEARBOOK</strong> Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Department of Architecture 西 交 利 物 浦 大 学 建 筑 系
103<br />
104<br />
WEAVING MUSEUM<br />
Lin Yuanyuan | 林 园 园<br />
<strong>2018</strong>-<strong>2019</strong> <strong>YEARBOOK</strong> Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Department of Architecture 西 交 利 物 浦 大 学 建 筑 系
105<br />
106<br />
SUZHOUMUSEUM <strong>OF</strong>SCIENCEANDTECHNOLOGY<br />
ShaoZiyi | 邵 紫 怡<br />
<strong>2018</strong>-<strong>2019</strong> <strong>YEARBOOK</strong> Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Department of Architecture 西 交 利 物 浦 大 学 建 筑 系
107<br />
108<br />
<strong>2018</strong>-<strong>2019</strong> <strong>YEARBOOK</strong> Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Department of Architecture 西 交 利 物 浦 大 学 建 筑 系<br />
MUSEUM <strong>OF</strong> BOATS<br />
Cheng Runhao | 程 润 昊
109<br />
110<br />
MUSEUM <strong>OF</strong> SCIENCE AND MATERIALS FOR<br />
URBAN REGENERATION (SPRING WALTZ)<br />
Zhang Haoning | 张 昊 宁<br />
<strong>2018</strong>-<strong>2019</strong> <strong>YEARBOOK</strong> Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Department of Architecture 西 交 利 物 浦 大 学 建 筑 系
111<br />
112<br />
LEVEL 03<br />
<strong>2018</strong>-<strong>2019</strong> <strong>YEARBOOK</strong> Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Department of Architecture 西 交 利 物 浦 大 学 建 筑 系<br />
03 <strong>XJTLU</strong><br />
In their final year, students demonstrate an understanding of the<br />
complexity of architectural design processes from initial concepts to<br />
the design of buildings, taking into account human needs and desires<br />
as well as structural, material and environmental considerations.<br />
Modules on digital design and building technology, theory, aesthetics,<br />
and professional practice are designed to support the studio tasks. In<br />
Year 4 students have the opportunity to select their studio projects<br />
from a series of parallel briefs.<br />
● ARC301 Architectural Technology (5 credits)<br />
● ARC303 Architectural Theory (5 credits)<br />
● ARC304 Design Studio: Final Year Project (10 credits)<br />
● ARC305 Design Studio: Small and Medium Scale Buildings<br />
(10 credits)<br />
● ARC306 Professional Practice (5 credits)<br />
● ARC308 Philosophy of Art and Aesthetics (5 credits)<br />
B Eng Architecture<br />
<strong>ARCHITECTURE</strong> <strong>YEARBOOK</strong> <strong>2018</strong>-<strong>2019</strong>
113<br />
114<br />
ARC301<br />
Architectural Technology<br />
<strong>2018</strong>-<strong>2019</strong> <strong>YEARBOOK</strong> Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Department of Architecture 西 交 利 物 浦 大 学 建 筑 系<br />
Data-driven shape exploration<br />
Yang Di, Wenya Xue, Xiaoyang Zhou, Huang Yu, Zixuan Zhang<br />
Structural exploded axonometric<br />
Hongmeng Wang<br />
Level 3<br />
( Year 4 | Semester 1 )<br />
Module Credits<br />
5<br />
Module Leader<br />
Davide Lombardi<br />
Teaching Team<br />
David Vardy<br />
Zayad Motlib<br />
Number of Students<br />
75<br />
History demonstrates that every advance in architectural design is<br />
strictly related to advances in the field of technology. From Egyptian<br />
to contemporary architecture the main goal has always been the one<br />
of increasing the building’ performance, be it an aesthetic, energetic or<br />
structural one, through the combination of new materials and shapes,<br />
which consequently push the boundaries of Architecture.<br />
Performance has been determined and evaluated during the last<br />
centuries using analogue models to simulate forms as well as physical<br />
behaviours, and through drawings, to prefigure the outcome of the whole<br />
building, and likewise the small parts of it.<br />
Since digital tools have been introduced to the discipline of Architecture,<br />
the focus has progressively shifted from manual or digital drawing to<br />
digital simulation. New theoretical approaches have established a logic<br />
and have been introduced in the design stage changing the classical<br />
design paradigm, based on the addition of elements, in favour of a new<br />
strategy premised upon the inter-articulation of different components.<br />
This workflow, called computational design, enables designers to<br />
increase the level of complexity of their research implementing the<br />
idea of technological performance and retrieving new data to improve<br />
their proposals. Within this frame, architectural technology and<br />
computational design are joined to explore new solutions and processes<br />
through a holistic approach. The aim of the module is to provide an<br />
overview of the potential of technology and computational strategies as<br />
means to transform dreams in consistent proposals.<br />
Level 03 – Year 4<br />
B Eng Architecture Programme
115<br />
116<br />
ARC303<br />
Architectural Theory<br />
<strong>2018</strong>-<strong>2019</strong> <strong>YEARBOOK</strong> Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Department of Architecture 西 交 利 物 浦 大 学 建 筑 系<br />
Presentation of the Yingzao Fashi at the Venice Biennale<br />
photo Christian Gänshirt 2014<br />
Level 3<br />
( Year 4 | Semester 1 )<br />
Module Credits<br />
5<br />
Module Leader<br />
Christian Gänshirt<br />
Jiawen Han<br />
Teaching Team<br />
Igea Troiani<br />
José Ángel Hidago Arellano<br />
Patrick Hubbuck (Language Center)<br />
Number of Students<br />
76<br />
Architectural Theory is a module that critically reflects on written<br />
discourses in and about architecture. Some even consider it<br />
the discipline that constitutes architecture, claiming "there is no<br />
architecture without theory" (Patrick Schumacher). A series of lectures,<br />
accompanied by weekly readings, and alternating between Chinese and<br />
European points of view, introduce the students to the main concepts<br />
of architectural theory. Their aim is to provide the students with a<br />
framework for the understanding of on-going discourses in the field. The<br />
lectures address historical debates, such as the role and development of<br />
theory in architecture since Vitruvius, Li Jie, and Alberti; the question<br />
of style, the historical foundations of modernity, and then move on to<br />
areas like criticism of high modernism, the rise of postmodern and poststructural<br />
theory, critical regionalism and architectural criticism, as well<br />
as to contemporary discourses, and the mutual influence of Asian and<br />
Western concepts of architecture.<br />
Further areas of dialogue and debate respond to interest articulated by<br />
students and/or faculty members. Four different research seminars<br />
accompanied the lectures, of which each student chose one:<br />
1. What is Modern Space in Suzhou? (Jiawen Han)<br />
2. Architectural Labour and Urban development in a Neoliberal Age (Igea<br />
Troiani)<br />
3. Deepening the Concept of Atmosphere (José Ángel Hidago Arellano)<br />
4. Three Design Attitudes: Social, Parametric, Research-based (Christian<br />
Gänshirt)<br />
In those seminars, the main task for the students was to conduct<br />
their own research within the given thematic framework, present<br />
and discuss their individual research in one of the seminar sessions,<br />
and eventually write and submit an essay on their chosen topic. To<br />
enhance their research and academic writing skills, the students get<br />
in-class instructions, individual tutorials, as well as lectures, tutorials<br />
and continuous support from the language center. A final written exam<br />
stimulates the students to rethink what they have learned throughout the<br />
course.<br />
Level 03 – Year 4<br />
B Eng Architecture Programme
117<br />
118<br />
ARC306<br />
Professional Practice<br />
<strong>2018</strong>-<strong>2019</strong> <strong>YEARBOOK</strong> Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Department of Architecture 西 交 利 物 浦 大 学 建 筑 系<br />
Construction site at <strong>XJTLU</strong> campus, <strong>2019</strong>.<br />
Photograph by Sofia Quiroga.<br />
Student’s presentation slides.<br />
Level 3<br />
( Year 4 | Semester 2 )<br />
Module Credits<br />
5<br />
Module Leader<br />
Sofia Quiroga<br />
Teaching Team<br />
Sandro Rolla<br />
Guest Critics<br />
Jiawen Han<br />
Kulthida Songkittpakdee<br />
Tao Wang<br />
Theo Hidalgo Nacher<br />
Darcy Chang<br />
Eva Garcia Pascual<br />
Liang Xu<br />
Jialy Hu<br />
Sihuan Jin<br />
Number of Students<br />
74<br />
ARC306 Professional Practice module takes place in the second semester<br />
of the final year of the BEng in Architecture at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool<br />
University (<strong>XJTLU</strong>). Following <strong>XJTLU</strong> and the RIBA regulations,<br />
Professional Practice makes links with architectural practices, design<br />
institutes and industry as a way of engaging students with 'real-world'<br />
perspectives and practice opportunities in the field of architecture. The<br />
course will provide background knowledge of diverse forms of practice<br />
for students getting ready for internships and placements during the<br />
vacation period and in their practical training 'year out'. The course<br />
consist of lectures, seminars and guest speaker events from Chinese<br />
and Western practicing architects and specialist consultants from the<br />
construction field in China.<br />
Students will develop their work by participating in seminars and<br />
present their work for public discussion in seminars and reviews.<br />
A site visit to a construction site offered an additional opportunity for<br />
reflection particularly on health and safety issues.<br />
Level 03 – Year 4<br />
B Eng Architecture Programme
119<br />
120<br />
ARC308<br />
Philosophy of Art and Aesthetics<br />
<strong>2018</strong>-<strong>2019</strong> <strong>YEARBOOK</strong> Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Department of Architecture 西 交 利 物 浦 大 学 建 筑 系<br />
Stills from the ARC308 ‘essay film’ entitled ‘I like Red’ by Yang Di,<br />
Mingxun Ma, Danyang Wu.<br />
Stills from the ARC308 ‘essay film’ entitled ‘Rethinking<br />
Village: From Aesthetics to Philosophy’ by Fanyun Chen, Dan<br />
Xinrui, Natasha Christy.<br />
Level 3<br />
( Year 4 | Semester 2 )<br />
Module Credits<br />
5<br />
Module Leader<br />
Igea Troiani<br />
Teaching Team<br />
Igea Troiani<br />
Tordis Berstrand<br />
Adam Brillhart<br />
Jiawen Han<br />
Patrick Hubbuck (EAP)<br />
Guest Workshop<br />
Jade He<br />
Number of Students<br />
74<br />
This architectural theory module acquaints students with key aesthetic<br />
concepts in art and design practice from different periods up to the<br />
present. Through an ambitious series of lectures, it introduces students<br />
to diverse discourses on aesthetics from thinkers and practitioners from<br />
the East and the West that has influenced and that continue to influence<br />
fine arts and architecture to develop their aesthetic judgement. Students<br />
study how philosophy, art and architecture mutually influence each<br />
other and demonstrate their understanding of various aesthetic concepts<br />
in the making of a group ‘essay film’ and an individually written essay.<br />
The ‘essay film’ coursework made in this module, and tied to the Final<br />
Year Project studio work, is new and builds upon the module leader’s<br />
research. The ‘essay film’ considers film to be a form of theoretical<br />
architectural writing that incorporates audio, visual, spatial and<br />
corporeal experience. It allows an open cultural exchange that can blend<br />
and include many different voices and races to decolonize the formerly<br />
Western tradition of essay writing.<br />
Many student groups incorporated video footage from the field trip<br />
into their ‘essay film’. The field trip took ARC308 students and staff to<br />
Shanghai to visit Yayoi Kusama’s exhibition at the Fosun Foundation;<br />
‘Proregress’ – the 12th Shanghai Biennale at the Power Station of Art;<br />
Filipe Pantone’s ‘Distance, Vitesse, Temps, Formule’ at the Magda Danyzs<br />
Gallery; and the 1933 Shanghai Slaughterhouse.<br />
Students are supported in ARC308 by seminar discussions and<br />
workshops that enhance their independent library research skills, note<br />
taking, filmmaking (scripting and editing) practice, essay writing and<br />
graphic design communication. As a consequence, students produced an<br />
impressively high quality of work in this module in <strong>2019</strong> that showed<br />
their critical engagement with the philosophies of art and aesthetics.<br />
Level 03 – Year 4<br />
B Eng Architecture Programme
121<br />
122<br />
ARC305<br />
Design Studio<br />
Small and Medium Scale Buildings<br />
<strong>2018</strong>-<strong>2019</strong> <strong>YEARBOOK</strong> Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Department of Architecture 西 交 利 物 浦 大 学 建 筑 系<br />
Level 3<br />
( Year 4 | Semester 1 )<br />
Module Credits<br />
10<br />
Module Leader<br />
Glen Wash Ivanovic<br />
Teaching Team<br />
Glen Wash Ivanovic<br />
Sofía Quiroga<br />
Tordis Berstrand<br />
José Á. Hidalgo<br />
Richard Hay<br />
Paco Mejias Villatoro<br />
Technology Tutors<br />
Zayad Motlib<br />
Moon Kim<br />
Number of Students<br />
74<br />
Mending the Block:<br />
Exploring New Units for Shanghai<br />
Blocks are one of the most essential elements of any built environment.<br />
Surrounded by streets, their morphology, sizes and characteristics play<br />
a fundamental role in defining the relationship between ratios of inside<br />
and outside, open and closed space, public and private, new and old, close<br />
and far.<br />
In China, however, blocks seem to be subordinated to a more unique and<br />
somehow rigorous form of urban organization: the gated communities.<br />
Initially understood and planned as the communist urban equivalent<br />
of the Chinese traditional courtyard house, gated communities are<br />
groups of blocks designed and implemented in order to create a sense<br />
of larger, neighborhood community with their own yards, security and<br />
sharing spaces. Yet, their scale, layout and top-down implementation<br />
seems to have created the opposite, and their sense of neighborhood and<br />
community are far lower than those found in more traditional Chinese<br />
ways of planning like the ones seen in Beijing's Hutong or Suzhou’s old<br />
town.<br />
In Shanghai, we see large portions of city blocks being demolished and<br />
replace by new gated communities. Can we find a different way in which<br />
to think some of Shanghai’s blocks? Can we propose buildings that, in<br />
their inner logic and interaction with buildings around them generate<br />
new alternatives for urban interlacing? Through six different briefs, this<br />
studio explores new possible dynamics between the block and buildings<br />
in Shanghai’s Jing'an District.<br />
Level 03 – Year 4<br />
B Eng Architecture Programme
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124<br />
<strong>2018</strong>-<strong>2019</strong> <strong>YEARBOOK</strong> Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Department of Architecture 西 交 利 物 浦 大 学 建 筑 系<br />
COMMUNICATIVE CITY<br />
- URBAN LIVING SPACE<br />
Wang Hongmeng | 王 鸿 蒙
125<br />
126<br />
<strong>2018</strong>-<strong>2019</strong> <strong>YEARBOOK</strong> Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Department of Architecture 西 交 利 物 浦 大 学 建 筑 系<br />
HIGH WALS AND FLOATING BOXES<br />
Yao Yuzheng | 姚 羽 筝
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128<br />
<strong>2018</strong>-<strong>2019</strong> <strong>YEARBOOK</strong> Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Department of Architecture 西 交 利 物 浦 大 学 建 筑 系<br />
CITY CHIMNEY<br />
Cui Qichen | 崔 琦 琛
129<br />
130<br />
TRANSLUCENT<br />
HOUSE<br />
Ma Mingxun | 马 铭 勋<br />
<strong>2018</strong>-<strong>2019</strong> <strong>YEARBOOK</strong> Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Department of Architecture 西 交 利 物 浦 大 学 建 筑 系
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132<br />
LAYERING THE BLOCK<br />
Zhou Yili | 周 依 黎<br />
<strong>2018</strong>-<strong>2019</strong> <strong>YEARBOOK</strong> Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Department of Architecture 西 交 利 物 浦 大 学 建 筑 系
133<br />
134<br />
<strong>2018</strong>-<strong>2019</strong> <strong>YEARBOOK</strong> Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Department of Architecture 西 交 利 物 浦 大 学 建 筑 系<br />
CITY WANDERER<br />
Chen Menghan | 陈 梦 晗
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136<br />
Degree show opening,<br />
July <strong>2019</strong>, Department of Architecture, <strong>XJTLU</strong>.<br />
Photograph by José Ángel Hidalgo.<br />
ARC304<br />
Design Studio<br />
Final Year Project<br />
<strong>2018</strong>-<strong>2019</strong> <strong>YEARBOOK</strong> Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Department of Architecture 西 交 利 物 浦 大 学 建 筑 系<br />
Level 3<br />
( Year 4 | Semester 1 and 2 )<br />
Module Credits<br />
10<br />
Module Leader<br />
José Ángel Hidalgo Arellano<br />
Teaching Team<br />
Tordis Berstrand<br />
Juan Carlos Dall’Asta<br />
Yiping Dong<br />
Philip Fung<br />
Richard Hay<br />
Teresa Hoskyns<br />
Paco Mejías<br />
Aleksandra Raonic<br />
Li-An Tsien<br />
Claudia Westermann<br />
Marco Cimillo<br />
Zayad Motlib<br />
Thomas Wortmann<br />
Guest Critics<br />
Feng Ding<br />
(Shanghai Ruan Yisan Heritage<br />
Funding)<br />
Eva García Pascual<br />
(Aura Shanghai)<br />
Plácido González<br />
(Tongji University, Shanghai)<br />
Kenan Liu<br />
(Atelier XUK, Shanghai)<br />
Number of Students<br />
75<br />
The Final Year Project Studio is the last studio module in the course<br />
of the BEng in Architecture at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University<br />
(<strong>XJTLU</strong>).<br />
The framework of the FYP Studio module is set to ensure a diversity<br />
of approaches to Architectural Design, allowing for parallel briefs, and<br />
briefs defined to a greater extent by the students themselves.<br />
In year <strong>2018</strong>-<strong>2019</strong>, the academic staff of the Department of Architecture<br />
offer seven briefs that are to be read as initiations, guiding students to<br />
discover questions on the edge of current discourse in Architectural<br />
Design, and to develop contextually responsive architectural<br />
propositions that integrate social, cultural, technical, and environmental<br />
knowledge at an advanced level in their resolution.<br />
The seven briefs written for this year’s final year studio respond in<br />
various ways to the challenges that Architecture is confronted with<br />
in China and beyond. They open a conversation on Architecture that<br />
is to be reframed and redefined by the students in the course of their<br />
research and design process. They require students to design buildings<br />
that respond to specific urban and socio-cultural conditions. They<br />
require students to pay focused attention to social values and the<br />
centricity of human needs and desires.<br />
On the basis of their proposal and in connection to a coherent<br />
design process, students need to demonstrate their understanding<br />
of architecture as informed by inter-dependent cultural, historical,<br />
technological and contextual issues. This studio module actively<br />
encourages students to embrace a culture of risk and experimentation,<br />
and at the same time requires them to fully resolve their projects in<br />
response to human, technical and environmental needs.<br />
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B Eng Architecture Programme
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BRIEF A<br />
Marketplace in Taipei<br />
<strong>2018</strong>-<strong>2019</strong> <strong>YEARBOOK</strong> Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Department of Architecture 西 交 利 物 浦 大 学 建 筑 系<br />
‘As an architect, you design for the present, with an awareness of the<br />
past, for a future which is essentially unknown.’<br />
Norman Foster<br />
‘Architecture has its own realm. It has a special physical relationship<br />
with life. I do not think of it primarily as either a message or symbol,<br />
but as an envelope and background for life which goes on in and around<br />
it, a sensitive container for the rhythm of footsteps on the floor, for the<br />
concentration of work, for the silence of sleep.’<br />
Peter Zumthor<br />
Architecture is shaped by patterns of DAILY LIFE. If we wish to<br />
understand the city, one place we may visit is the MARKET. It is a hybrid<br />
mixture of CULTURE AND PEOPLE of the city.<br />
Before the shopping mall or the supermarket were invented, the<br />
Market serves not only as a place for the exchange of goods, but also as<br />
a communal space for people. Internet enabled modes of consumption<br />
and mega air-conditioned malls do not replace the market; not only their<br />
affordable price of goods, but also the variety of choice available and life<br />
knowledge exchange.<br />
Taipei is famous for its night market and street life. It is a walkable<br />
city because the topography of Taipei is in generally flat and the city<br />
is organised in multiple centres. The Market plays an important role<br />
activating the street life of Taipei.<br />
The site for the project is an existing historical building surrounded<br />
by local markets. Students have redesigned the building as a NEW<br />
MARKETPLACE with the addition of a new COMMUNITY CENTER<br />
above it.<br />
TEACHING TEAM<br />
Philip Fung<br />
INTERACTIVE MARKET IN TAIPEI<br />
Zhao Zihao | 赵 子 豪
139<br />
140<br />
<strong>2018</strong>-<strong>2019</strong> <strong>YEARBOOK</strong> Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Department of Architecture 西 交 利 物 浦 大 学 建 筑 系<br />
INTERACTIVE MARKET IN TAIPEI<br />
Zhao Zihao | 赵 子 豪
141<br />
142<br />
URBAN RO<strong>OF</strong>SCAPE<br />
Mu Congyu | 穆 聪 雨<br />
<strong>2018</strong>-<strong>2019</strong> <strong>YEARBOOK</strong> Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Department of Architecture 西 交 利 物 浦 大 学 建 筑 系
143<br />
144<br />
BRIEF B<br />
Open Architecture<br />
<strong>2018</strong>-<strong>2019</strong> <strong>YEARBOOK</strong> Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Department of Architecture 西 交 利 物 浦 大 学 建 筑 系<br />
Architecture cannot be, nowadays, considered without understanding the<br />
intricate relationship between local context and global development. Global<br />
civilisation and local culture are now inextricably linked in sometimes symbiotic,<br />
sometimes diverging ways. They could be surmised as two, dynamically linked,<br />
permanently emerging and intertwined, faces of our discipline - Architecture.<br />
In this context we wish to interrogate the meaning of openness in architecture:<br />
What does Open Architecture look like in the ambit of a multi-cultural<br />
international China?<br />
How does a multi-millenary culture cope with the need to co-exist with and<br />
advertise to, and perhaps even, ingratiate itself with other cultures?<br />
What is the link between public space and civil society in an evolving China?<br />
Can China in its current embodiment successfully provide both the stability and<br />
the cultural openness it requires to effectively interact with foreign countries in a<br />
spirit of mutual respect?<br />
What bold vision can we propose for the future of China?<br />
Through rapid changes brought to the field in both scale, speed, and efficiency<br />
of development, Architecture has evolved into a multi-faceted discipline: one<br />
tackling an increasing number of specialties and collaborations, and involved<br />
in more and more complex endeavours... while taking the current state of the<br />
field into consideration, Students are asked to design a building that is also an<br />
architectural testimony to artistic, cultural, environmental, or socio-cultural<br />
values, relevant to the Brief’s above questions.<br />
Reflecting on the challenges brought by China’s rise on the global stage<br />
may allow architecture students to re-think the transformative potential of<br />
architecture and to clarify the evolving relationship between local culture<br />
and the global society, through designing a socio-cultural space, or a mix of<br />
commercial and residential spaces, dealing with the concept of openness or<br />
confinement. The terms Openness and Confinement can be interpreted in any<br />
sense deemed interesting by the student participating in this FYP brief, while<br />
chosen and developed in close coordination with their tutor, provided that they<br />
can convincingly argue that their approach is meaningful and justified.<br />
Open Architecture can therefore refer to either spatial, historical, technological,<br />
cultural, or physical openness or confinement, in any relevant manner, but in<br />
any case it requires to refer to the relationship between China and the Globalised<br />
world.<br />
TEACHING TEAM<br />
Li-An Tsien<br />
CO-CONSTRUCTED ART CITY<br />
Xinning Yu | 郁 歆 宁
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146<br />
COMMUNICATIVE CITY<br />
- URBAN LIVING SPACE<br />
Wang Hongmeng | 王 鸿 蒙<br />
<strong>2018</strong>-<strong>2019</strong> <strong>YEARBOOK</strong> Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Department of Architecture 西 交 利 物 浦 大 学 建 筑 系
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148<br />
BRIEF C<br />
Re-conceptualising Ritual Space in Southern<br />
Sichuan: Strategies for Eco-Tourism<br />
<strong>2018</strong>-<strong>2019</strong> <strong>YEARBOOK</strong> Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Department of Architecture 西 交 利 物 浦 大 学 建 筑 系<br />
Southern Sichuan is a bio-diverse, rural area with pockets of<br />
development, looking to develop its tourist industry whilst preserving<br />
its heritage. The area has a culture of ritual characterised by riverside<br />
teahouses which exist alongside traces of ancient Buddhist tradition.<br />
Sichuan is the acknowledged heartland of Buddhist stone carving<br />
tradition during the mid-late Tang dynasty. There are many Buddhist<br />
temples and relics, however much of the relics are in relatively poor<br />
condition and the heritage is in danger of being lost or hidden behind<br />
city development. Sichuan also has a strong industrial heritage being an<br />
exporter of clay, iron ore, tea, salt, liquor and sugar on a large scale since<br />
the Han Dynasty.<br />
We will study the town of Rongxian in the Zigong district of Sichuan<br />
which has abundant tourism resources that could be employed to give a<br />
strong momentum of economic development for the tourism industry.<br />
The tourist industry is relatively underdeveloped in comparison to the<br />
Buddhist heritage sites of Leshan and Dazu which exist to the east and<br />
west. Could the area be developed without destroying its inherent local<br />
characteristics, ecology and heritage value?<br />
The brief is to develop a tourist centre based around the ancient<br />
stone carvings and the tea drinking culture and Buddhist rituals.<br />
Students understood and researched forms of slow or eco-tourism and<br />
demonstrated how these can be implemented whilst preserving the<br />
heritage, ecology and culture of an area. Students created a strategy<br />
for eco-tourism that includes physical spaces and proposed activities.<br />
The strategy will encourage people to visit the area and bring economic<br />
benefits to local people whilst preserving ancient monuments and<br />
protecting the heritage and bio-diversity.<br />
TEACHING TEAM<br />
Teresa Hoskyns<br />
CLIFF TEMPLE STAY:<br />
RITUALISTIC SPACE IN BETWEEN<br />
DIVINITY AND SECULARITY<br />
Dai Yiqing | 戴 怡 青
149<br />
150<br />
CLIFF TEMPLE STAY:<br />
RITUALISTIC SPACE IN BETWEEN<br />
DIVINITY AND SECULARITY<br />
Dai Yiqing | 戴 怡 青<br />
<strong>2018</strong>-<strong>2019</strong> <strong>YEARBOOK</strong> Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Department of Architecture 西 交 利 物 浦 大 学 建 筑 系
151<br />
152<br />
BRIEF D<br />
A House for Madam X<br />
<strong>2018</strong>-<strong>2019</strong> <strong>YEARBOOK</strong> Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Department of Architecture 西 交 利 物 浦 大 学 建 筑 系<br />
Suggesting that there are contemporary and experimental writing<br />
practices in China that we could learn from, and that could potentially<br />
be translated into new methodologies for the design of architecture,<br />
the brief sets the novel “Five Spice Street” by Can Xue as a point of<br />
departure. Considered as one of “the most experimental writers in the<br />
world,” (MIT, n.d.) Can Xue’s work has set pathways for both reflecting<br />
on and writing about Chinese society, and for critiquing, through her way<br />
of writing, dominant forms of representation.<br />
The novel revolves around its main character Madam X, or rather, it<br />
revolves around the incapacity to define who or what Madam X is.<br />
There are many stories about Madam X. Most likely she is a person, but<br />
maybe she is not. She is the site of endless suspicion, but also of love<br />
and admiration. She is reported to be the weirdest person on the street,<br />
accused of what no one dares to speak about, and betrayed until she is<br />
honoured as a visionary who "represents a society of the future," and<br />
she is elected representative of the street. Shortly after this, her house<br />
collapses, and whether or not it is symbolic of the collapse of the society<br />
and the times that created the story of Madam X, it is an opportunity<br />
for a new house - one that houses the "society of the future.” This is the<br />
rebirth of the future.<br />
“A House for Madam X” sets the task for an architectural project that<br />
will shelter the life of a community. For a site in Shanghai on the banks<br />
of Suzhou River, students will develop new methodologies to explore the<br />
possibilities of architecture as a stage from which social communication<br />
can emerge in its most poetic forms.<br />
TEACHING TEAM<br />
Tordis Berstrand<br />
Aleksandra Raonic<br />
Claudia Westermann<br />
WUNDERKAMMER<br />
Cui Qichen | 崔 琦 琛
153<br />
154<br />
WUNDERKAMMER<br />
Cui Qichen | 崔 琦 琛<br />
<strong>2018</strong>-<strong>2019</strong> <strong>YEARBOOK</strong> Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Department of Architecture 西 交 利 物 浦 大 学 建 筑 系
155<br />
156<br />
<strong>2018</strong>-<strong>2019</strong> <strong>YEARBOOK</strong> Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Department of Architecture 西 交 利 物 浦 大 学 建 筑 系<br />
H198<br />
He Yuxin | 何 昱 欣
157<br />
158<br />
<strong>2018</strong>-<strong>2019</strong> <strong>YEARBOOK</strong> Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Department of Architecture 西 交 利 物 浦 大 学 建 筑 系<br />
RHAPSODY <strong>OF</strong> GLITCHES<br />
Li Qianru | 李 倩 茹
159<br />
160<br />
FRAMING THE ABSURDITY<br />
Zhou Yili | 周 依 黎<br />
<strong>2018</strong>-<strong>2019</strong> <strong>YEARBOOK</strong> Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Department of Architecture 西 交 利 物 浦 大 学 建 筑 系
161<br />
162<br />
A DREAM <strong>OF</strong> THE SUZHOU RIVER<br />
Ye Chenwei | 叶 宸 维<br />
<strong>2018</strong>-<strong>2019</strong> <strong>YEARBOOK</strong> Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Department of Architecture 西 交 利 物 浦 大 学 建 筑 系
163<br />
164<br />
BRIEF E<br />
Re-thinking life-work environments.<br />
A home-work pocket neighbourhood in<br />
Shantang District, Suzhou<br />
<strong>2018</strong>-<strong>2019</strong> <strong>YEARBOOK</strong> Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Department of Architecture 西 交 利 物 浦 大 学 建 筑 系<br />
In this FYP module, students will design a pocket neighbourhood for<br />
a home-work community in Shantang district. Through this topic it<br />
is proposed that students will have a simultaneous attention to social<br />
necessities, urban context, and building typologies, undertaking the<br />
challenge of placing contemporary architecture within a traditional<br />
context.<br />
The idea of a quality work environment is related to the beginning of<br />
mass industrialisation in the early Twentieth Century. Firstly related to<br />
an employees protection from any risks inherent in a job, the concept<br />
evolved through the 1970s to include emotional values and human needs<br />
and aspirations, and is nowadays progressing still under the umbrella<br />
term Quality of Work Life (QWL). This increasing interest is not only<br />
due to the societies demands for higher standards of living conditions—<br />
in a wider understanding of life that includes home and work—but<br />
also the fact that companies recognise the benefits of a more flexible<br />
way of working that results in better workers performance and higher<br />
productivity.<br />
The Future of Work Institute reports that some traditional ways of<br />
working are no longer valid, as the landscape of work has been redefined<br />
by, mainly, four factors: advanced technologies, new societal values,<br />
changing demographics, and rapid globalisation. New technologies<br />
make today easier than ever to collaborate across distance with ever<br />
more common multidisciplinary approaches, diluting the traditional<br />
hierarchies in a frequently net-based work process.<br />
The reformulation of the urban context must be accompanied by a<br />
reconfiguration of the home and workspace as a compound. The home<br />
space has been affected by a deep transformation in family models that<br />
have been incompletely assumed through a consequential transformation<br />
of the domestic space. Single-parent families, multi-generational homes,<br />
multi-family people, and co-owned or co-rented homes, are only some<br />
examples of the way in which the contemporary world has changed<br />
and the necessity of accomplishing this transformation through new<br />
architectural typologies. The workspace has also been subject to major<br />
change—from new working tools to new working processes and ways to<br />
be display—and it is urgently suggesting a reconsideration of the working<br />
typology. The situation becomes highly interesting if we think about how<br />
these two transformations could come together through the invention of<br />
this home-work typology for the Twenty-first Century.<br />
Last, but not least important, working in China we must be at alltimes<br />
conscious of the dilemma between old and new that is affecting<br />
architectural thinking and practice. The intensity of Chinese history<br />
and tradition has been reflected in the high character of China’s historic<br />
architecture, without a clear statement about how contemporary<br />
architecture has to deal with it. Historic replicas and simulacra are<br />
common in contemporary Chinese architecture as a clear sign of the<br />
lack of this statement. Commercially very efficient, this illegitimate<br />
and disrespectful response to tradition must be culturally beaten<br />
reinforcing the discussion about how to confront tradition in Schools<br />
of Architecture. Literate architects with a clear understanding of<br />
the necessity of offering a contemporary and deferential response to<br />
tradition are the way to educate society. We must be equally proud of our<br />
historic tradition and our contemporary condition.<br />
TEACHING TEAM<br />
Paco Mejías Villatoro
165<br />
166<br />
URBAN NERVOUS SYSTEM<br />
VER.SHANTANG<br />
城 市 神 经 系 统 - 山 塘 版 本<br />
Di Yang | 狄 扬<br />
<strong>2018</strong>-<strong>2019</strong> <strong>YEARBOOK</strong> Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Department of Architecture 西 交 利 物 浦 大 学 建 筑 系
167<br />
168<br />
MOVABLE ECOLOGICAL<br />
NEIGHBORHOOD<br />
Ma Mingxun | 马 铭 勋<br />
<strong>2018</strong>-<strong>2019</strong> <strong>YEARBOOK</strong> Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Department of Architecture 西 交 利 物 浦 大 学 建 筑 系
169<br />
170<br />
MAGIC INTERFACE<br />
Ze Mingxu | 则 铭 暄<br />
<strong>2018</strong>-<strong>2019</strong> <strong>YEARBOOK</strong> Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Department of Architecture 西 交 利 物 浦 大 学 建 筑 系
171<br />
172<br />
STEPPING FROM THE WATER<br />
Zhang Zixuan | 张 子 璇<br />
<strong>2018</strong>-<strong>2019</strong> <strong>YEARBOOK</strong> Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Department of Architecture 西 交 利 物 浦 大 学 建 筑 系
173<br />
174<br />
BRIEF F<br />
Resilience in the Countryside /<br />
Critical Regeneration of the Old to Create<br />
the New<br />
<strong>2018</strong>-<strong>2019</strong> <strong>YEARBOOK</strong> Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Department of Architecture 西 交 利 物 浦 大 学 建 筑 系<br />
Since ancient times, the terms “urban” and “rural” have constituted both<br />
opposite and complementary categories. This kind of phenomenon is a<br />
global one, affecting different countries and regions around the world.<br />
The tide of urbanisation has impacted the basic foundation of traditional<br />
culture, typical rural settlements and their cultural landscapes: it has<br />
caused the historical and geographic characteristics of those landscapes<br />
to rapidly degenerate or even disappear. Those countries and regions<br />
have to provide specific responses to address the various challenges;<br />
in the case of China, it takes the form of a national strategy for rural<br />
vitalisation.<br />
In the last several decades, China has experienced a massive shift from<br />
the rural and village to the urban. But what of the future? It’s the time to<br />
explore the countryside and rethink about the built environment in rural<br />
context. The rural landscape in China is being reimagined as a place of<br />
leisure and of historical and cultural truth and at the same time it is also<br />
a place of poverty and exploitation. Villages in China today constitute a<br />
dynamic and evolving field, involving multiple stakeholders and from<br />
many disciplines. Approaches mostly stem from the “rural revitalization<br />
strategy,” proposed in the 19th CPC National Congress and included in<br />
the revised version of the constitution of the CPC as one of the critical<br />
measurements that can improve the economic development of China. As<br />
a result, intensive attention and policies have been introduced into some<br />
pilot villages.<br />
The brief invites students to engage in the challenges of the built<br />
environment in such a rural context. This studio focuses on Resilience<br />
in the Countryside / Critical Regenerating the Old to Create the New<br />
in Jukou County in Fujian Province. It is an opportunity to establish a<br />
methodology from a “Revitalization” point of view of an existing rural<br />
village community and the studio invites students to explore, imagine<br />
and create new uses of buildings through research workshops and<br />
analysis. Students have collaborated to analyse existing rural villages<br />
through engagement with the village community and in Jukou County<br />
in Fujian Province which is a National ecological county. The site(s) are<br />
diversified and offer a rich cultural heritage and built environment.<br />
At the same time the students have built an understanding of the<br />
constraints and challenges surrounding the question of “Regenerating<br />
the Old to Create the New” through the envisioning of programmatic<br />
intervention, fabric and spatial organisation criticality, and with a view<br />
to a new usage and identification of end users, linked to the land and<br />
hence also the population.<br />
TEACHING TEAM<br />
Yiping Dong<br />
Richard Hay
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RESILIENCE IN JIULONG VILLAGE<br />
Chen Fanyun | 陈 凡 云
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JOURNEY IN STREAM<br />
Natasha Christy
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BRIEF G<br />
Fashion Hub:<br />
Regenerating Yangpu’s Waterfront<br />
DIVING INTO NATURE<br />
Yao Yuzheng | 姚 羽 筝<br />
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An increasing awareness of heritage (particularly architectural heritage),<br />
an open debate about production and creativity, and a necessary vital<br />
urban regeneration are three of the most important and recurrent topics<br />
that frame current architectural and urban reflection in China.<br />
The incredible development of urban settlements has often produced<br />
a shapeless continuous stain that has destroyed amazing architectural<br />
pieces and natural rural landscapes that had been created by a centuriesold<br />
anthropization. We also find an alarming lack of a cultural nucleus.<br />
This situation can be also extended to industrial heritage and urban<br />
landscapes.<br />
On the other hand, China is currently developing an ambitious plan<br />
regarding creative initiatives. Being aware of its enormous potential as a<br />
producer country, the Chinese government wants to promote activities<br />
related to creativity and take them to their highest level. In this context,<br />
this brief considers that the culture of fashion offers an interesting<br />
field of exploration. Shanghai is in the process of becoming a fashion<br />
reference centre. New brands are appearing and a renewed interest<br />
arises to recuperate the Chinese tradition and update it, creating new<br />
trends.<br />
The present brief wants to link all the previous questions, reflecting<br />
about urban regeneration, working in an interesting industrial settlement<br />
in Shanghai and proposing a programme related to fashion creation and<br />
production. Yangpu’s Waterfront offers a great location to reflect about<br />
urban regeneration as this area is currently being developed as a new<br />
trendy part of Shanghai.<br />
The present brief proposes the design of a Fashion Hub consisting<br />
of a School of Fashion, a Museum of Chinese Fashion and Couture<br />
and a Residence and Hostel for students, academics and visitors.<br />
By undertaking this, students will tackle three key priorities in<br />
Contemporary China: regeneration of urban areas, transformation of<br />
waterfronts, and development of creative activities.<br />
TEACHING TEAM<br />
Juan Carlos Dall’Asta<br />
José Ángel Hidalgo Arellano
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FOREVER INSTANT<br />
Shang Yixiu | 尚 奕 秀
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MOVABLE FASHION HUB<br />
Shui Shumin | 水 淑 敏
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Li Linmei | 李 林 镁<br />
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B ENG<br />
ARCHITECTURAL<br />
ENGINEERING<br />
PROGRAMME<br />
INTRODUCTION<br />
The Bachelor of Architectural Engineering is a programme run by<br />
the Department of Civil Engineering at <strong>XJTLU</strong>. It provides students<br />
opportunities to specialise in aspects of engineering centred on<br />
buildings and is professionally accredited by the JBM (Joint Board<br />
of Moderators), a UK based civil engineering accreditation body.<br />
The Department of Architecture contributes four modules to the<br />
Architectural Engineering programme, of which one is shared<br />
with Architecture (ARC110), and three are designed and offered<br />
exclusively for the programme: ARC112 Architectural Technology<br />
and Innovation, ARC111 Integrated Design of Small Buildings, and<br />
ARC207 Building Technology in Integrated Architectural Design.<br />
The modules are designed to introduce students of civil engineering<br />
to cross-disciplinary skills of teamworking, conceptual design<br />
thinking, cross-disciplinary collaborative exchange and innovating,<br />
and a broad skillset ranging from using various types of drawing<br />
to visualise and discuss ideas to historical background knowledge<br />
about the history of engineering and architecture. Two of the<br />
modules are studio modules, where students learn in applied ways,<br />
often collaborating with architecture students to design buildings.<br />
Jian Li Hao<br />
Programme Director (Civil Engieenering)<br />
Christiane M. Herr<br />
Programme Coordinator (Architecture)<br />
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ARC 111 Integrated Design of Small Buildings (5 credits)<br />
ARC 112 Architectural Technology and Innovation (5 credits)<br />
ARC 207 Building Typology in Integrated Architectural Design (5<br />
credits)
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Integrated Design of<br />
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Structural Design Cross-Disciplinary Studio Project - Final Review.<br />
Photograph by Christiane M. Herr.<br />
Level 1<br />
( Year 2 | Semester 1 )<br />
Module Credits<br />
5<br />
Module Leader<br />
Iasef Rian<br />
Number of Students<br />
25<br />
The module is provided for the BEng Architectural Engineering<br />
Programme (offered by the Department of Civil Engineering).<br />
It is a technically-oriented studio module, geared to students from<br />
an engineering background, that invites students to develop high<br />
quality buildings through carefully integrating a variety of factors,<br />
including aesthetic and technical aspects. A high level of integration of<br />
architectural and engineering concerns from the very beginning of the<br />
design process is essential in this context. The studio module addresses<br />
collaboration between architects and engineers already early on in the<br />
design process, to establish a holistic and cross-disciplinary perspective<br />
on architecture and engineering. Principles and practice of design are<br />
integrated with principles and practice of technology and construction,<br />
with particular attention given to the unifying overall framework of an<br />
architectural design concept. Students are offered a first opportunity<br />
for conceptual design thinking and cross-disciplinary collaboration<br />
to establish core competencies for bridging the fields of architecture<br />
and engineering. The module provides a series of theoretical lectures<br />
on techniques of conceptual structural design as well as on typical<br />
materials employed in architectural structures, including concrete,<br />
steel, masonry, timber and glass. As main task in the module, students<br />
develop a technically focused design proposal for a given brief and<br />
a given architectural design concept, in informal cross-disciplinary<br />
collaboration with volunteering architecture students of the same year.<br />
Guest reviewers are drawn from both the Department of Architecture<br />
as well as the Department of Civil Engineering.<br />
B Eng Architectural Engineering Programme
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Architectural Technology and<br />
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Measuring the Central Pavilion of the Suzhou Museum. Photograph by Christiane M. Herr.<br />
Field trip to the Suzhou Museum.<br />
Level 1<br />
( Year 2 | Semester 1 )<br />
Module Credits<br />
5<br />
Module Leader<br />
Xuemei Li<br />
Teaching Team<br />
Christiane M. Herr<br />
Number of Students<br />
25<br />
The module is provided for the BEng Architectural Engineering<br />
Programme (offered by the Department of Civil Engineering) and<br />
provides students with a broad understanding of architectural design,<br />
its history and theory. The module further prepares students for<br />
the following studio modules, also provided by the Department of<br />
Architecture. The design and construction of high quality buildings<br />
involves a holistic and cross-disciplinary perspective on architecture<br />
and engineering. This module provides students with a broad background<br />
of the history and theory of technology as drivers of innovative<br />
design in architecture and civil engineering, with a particular focus on<br />
intersections between the two fields. Students are introduced to the<br />
principles and practice of building design technology and construction<br />
procedures within the overall framework of an architectural design<br />
concept. Moreover, students are offered an overview of modes of<br />
collaboration and innovation between the fields of architecture and<br />
engineering. The module employs both theoretical lectures and applied<br />
modes of learning to prepare students for subsequent technically<br />
oriented architectural design projects. To this end, a series of short<br />
exercises integrating architectural and engineering components<br />
are conducted. Students develop the ability to analyse, understand<br />
and creatively employ skills of research, problem solving and<br />
communication, with a particular focus on using drawing as a catalyst<br />
of interdisciplinary exchanges. Students are introduced to a variety of<br />
buildings at different scales, which students research thoroughly in the<br />
form of detailed case studies. A variety of guest lectures and field trips is<br />
offered to engage students in learning.<br />
B Eng Architectural Engineering Programme
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Building Typology in Integrated<br />
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Constructional exploration<br />
of Façade detail<br />
Level 2<br />
( Year 3 | Semester 1 )<br />
Module Credits<br />
5<br />
Module Leader<br />
Gisela Loehlein<br />
Number of Students<br />
2<br />
Students are introduced to architectural designing through a typological<br />
approach, in which building types are researched, analyzed in detail<br />
and further varied and developed. The module starts from a typological<br />
exploration, considering at first conceptual, programmatic as well<br />
as spatial aspects of architecture. Typological exploration is further<br />
extended to analysis and exploration of construction types. As the<br />
module progresses, students are gradually introduced to consideration of<br />
a broader set of architectural and engineering requirements.<br />
The module emphasizes the close integration of a variety of structural<br />
and construction aspects through an overarching architectural design<br />
idea and aims to enable students to develop and maintain architectural<br />
qualities in the creative resolution of challenges and constraints. To<br />
this end, a significant part of the module consists of cross-disciplinary<br />
collaboration between students of Architectural Engineering and<br />
students of Architecture.<br />
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01 <strong>XJTLU</strong><br />
After completing their BEng studies, our graduates now are qualified<br />
to work as RIBA part 1 Architectural Assistants, usually earning<br />
reasonable salaries. We recommend that students complete one year in<br />
practice before starting a Master’s degree. This year is not a gap year,<br />
as it counts towards the two years of practice experience required to<br />
become a fully qualified architect in the UK. For many students the<br />
first year in practice is a transformative experience, the first step into<br />
doing real architecture.<br />
We recommend our graduate students to work in a renowned, small<br />
or medium sized architectural practice (which are usually much more<br />
educative than the larger firms). Students who complete a practice<br />
year are well prepared to profit more from their studies when they<br />
join our Master’s programme the following year. For many Master’s<br />
programmes overseas one year of practice is a mandatory entry<br />
requirement.<br />
You may choose to work for longer than one year to save money or to<br />
gain additional experience. Other options include taking time out to<br />
work in the wider construction industry, work overseas, volunteer or<br />
travel.<br />
Practice<br />
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MASTER <strong>OF</strong><br />
ARCHITECTURAL<br />
DESIGN<br />
PROGRAMME<br />
INTRODUCTION<br />
The Master of Architectural Design (MArchDes) is a 2-year, full<br />
time, professional postgraduate programme, delivering the learning<br />
outcomes as defined by the General Criteria and the Graduate<br />
Attributes to qualify for RIBA Part 2. It prepares students for two<br />
main purposes: to work as fully qualified professional architects;<br />
and as independent researchers, enabling them to undertake<br />
further post-graduate studies. Upon successful completion, an<br />
international Master of Architectural Design degree is awarded<br />
from the University of Liverpool, United Kingdom.<br />
The programme was awarded unconditional RIBA Part 2 validation<br />
and to date remains the only RIBA validated Masters programme<br />
at a mainland Chinese university. The programme is also registered<br />
with and recognised by the Chinese Ministry of Education<br />
(MoE). With its third cohort graduating in <strong>2019</strong>, the programme is<br />
steadily growing in numbers and gaining recognition both locally<br />
and internationally. A one-semester student exchange with the<br />
University of Liverpool was established starting from <strong>2018</strong>.<br />
The programme provides a rich alternative to post-graduate<br />
provision in architecture within China, building both on its<br />
international academic staff and extensive facilities. The Design<br />
Building at <strong>XJTLU</strong> offers various workshop facilities and a rich<br />
variety of digital equipment, featuring in particular a large number<br />
of 3D printers. All students are provided with computers and<br />
individual studio workspaces.<br />
A wide selection of workshops and events are available for MArch<br />
Des students, including dedicated field trips and events, such as<br />
a field trip to Singapore focusing on sustainable construction<br />
technology and international workshops organised in collaboration<br />
with the architectural design studio of Doshi, Pritzker Prize winner<br />
in <strong>2018</strong>.<br />
The Masters programme reflects the unique geographical situation<br />
of our university, which is located in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province,<br />
China. Being part of the metropolitan area of the Yangtze River<br />
delta, we continue to search for innovative ways of balancing<br />
the conditions of a globalised economy against the constraints of<br />
individual, local, and regional realities. The Department’s special<br />
location stimulates students, as well as faculty members, to critically<br />
review the ideas and habits, values and ideologies that shape our<br />
professional identities. Embracing diversity as a key value, and<br />
developing a dynamic and supportive studio culture is crucial for<br />
us. The education we offer has three main concerns: state-of-theart<br />
technical skills and knowledge; ample design practice; and a<br />
humanities-based education that assists students in navigating<br />
between eastern and western cultures in the development of their<br />
creative and critical thinking skills.<br />
Classes are delivered by predominantly international educators<br />
and are conducted exclusively in English. The design studio is<br />
central to the Department’s teaching practices, and encourages
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critical enquiry in the form of analysis, reflection and speculation.<br />
Learning-by-doing and learning-by-thinking lie at the core of the<br />
curriculum with 50% of the teaching and learning time devoted<br />
to architectural design studios. As students advance through their<br />
studies, the increase in complexity of tasks is accompanied by<br />
greater choice in studio briefs. In the Final Thesis Project of Year<br />
2, students develop individual studio briefs, aligned with their<br />
research interests.<br />
The programme offers a progression pathway for architecture<br />
graduates from the Department’s BEngArch programme, within<br />
the same educational framework, and a closely-related approach to<br />
pedagogy, which consolidates and builds upon previous learning.<br />
It also attracts graduates from other architecture schools in China,<br />
and from overseas. From a more global perspective, the programme<br />
offers graduate students from the United Kingdom, as well as other<br />
English-speaking countries with similar architectural qualification<br />
systems, a unique opportunity to learn about contemporary China<br />
with language and cultural barriers largely mitigated.<br />
Christiane M. Herr<br />
Programme Director <strong>2018</strong>-<strong>2019</strong>
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The first year of the Master's programme focuses on design and<br />
practice, with the second on design and research. A special feature of<br />
our programme is a strong stream of modules in the humanities, with<br />
an emphasis on theory, history, and research. This continues the basic<br />
structure of our undergraduate programme, which is crucial in fostering<br />
cross-cultural awareness and understanding. Over the five years of<br />
architectural education, students assume increasing levels of individual<br />
choice and responsibility, culminating in the last year of the Master's<br />
programme. Here they choose their individual design studio tutors and<br />
together with them develop their own research and project briefs.<br />
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Year 1 (Semester 1)<br />
ARC403 Applied Technology in Architecture (5 credits)<br />
ARC405 Design Studio I (10 credits)<br />
ARC407 Architectural Theory and Criticism (5 credits)<br />
Additional Learning Activities<br />
Year 1 (Semester 2)<br />
ARC402 Advanced Professional Practice (5 credits)<br />
ARC404 Design Studio II (10 credits)<br />
ARC406 Topics in Architectural History (5 credits)<br />
Additional Learning Activities<br />
M Arch Des<br />
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Wind flow analysis of a geometric variation of the Philips Pavilion by Menghan Lu.<br />
Level 4<br />
( Year 1 | Semester 1 )<br />
Module Credits<br />
5<br />
Module Leader<br />
Thomas Fischer<br />
Teaching Team<br />
Thomas Wortman<br />
Number of Students<br />
12<br />
Applied Technology in Architecture introduces students to the mutuallychallenging<br />
relationship between architecture and applied technology,<br />
which has characterised architecture and construction throughout<br />
history. The module examines and explores case studies of architectural<br />
impetus on technological innovation, as well as case studies of advanced<br />
technology applications in the design, representation, evaluation, project<br />
management, construction and operation of architectural projects. The<br />
module is taught in a variety of teaching modes, including lectures,<br />
seminars, workshops and group tutorials. In this academic year, the<br />
theme of Applied Technology in Architecture focused on the Philips<br />
Pavilion designed by Le Corbusier and Iannis Xenakis for the Philips<br />
Company at the 1958 Brussels World’s Fair. The module investigated<br />
the integration of architectural and technological concerns in the<br />
schematic design of contemporary variations of the Philips Pavilion,<br />
and considered issues including digital representation, 3D modelling,<br />
geometric rationalisation, materials, material costing, construction,<br />
rapid prototyping, environmental simulation (occupant comfort with<br />
regards to wind flow and daylighting), as well as Python scripting. The<br />
module developed students’ technical skills in particular with regards to<br />
Rhino3D, Grasshopper and the building physics simulation tools DIVA<br />
and Autodesk Flow.<br />
Level 04 – Year 1<br />
M Arch Des Programme
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ARC407<br />
Architectural Theory and Criticism<br />
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Suzhou Picturesque, 2017.<br />
Photographed by Tordis Berstrand.<br />
Level 4<br />
( Year 1 | Semester 1 )<br />
Module Credits<br />
5<br />
Module Leader<br />
Tordis Berstrand<br />
Contributors<br />
Yiping Dong<br />
Teresa Hoskyns<br />
Yaqin Zuo<br />
Stewart Nield (LC)<br />
Number of Students<br />
23<br />
(12 ARC students,<br />
2 UoL exchange students,<br />
9 UPD students)<br />
The module introduces students to central themes in architectural<br />
theory and criticism informed by current debates within and beyond<br />
the discipline. Framed as challenges confronting contemporary society<br />
on a global scale, these are issues that call upon architects to respond<br />
and act. This is not simply an appeal to build and make, but rather<br />
an invitation to think, again, about the critical potential of built and<br />
imagined environments.<br />
With an eye to the global context of <strong>XJTLU</strong>, the module pursues the<br />
intersection of architectural thinking and practice as a space where<br />
new ideas can be critically examined and discussed. Students read<br />
key texts and practice theory through in-class exercises, weekly<br />
coursework submissions, and a final essay. The ability to articulate<br />
an informed theoretical argument and stand up for one’s position is<br />
rehearsed and practised as an integral part of the architect’s task.<br />
This year, the module focused on the notion of place – a term at the<br />
heart of architectural debates in our time. What is a place? How to<br />
design places? Have we lost our sense of place? In response to such<br />
questions, students reflected on the local Suzhou garden as a particular<br />
kind of place – gradually re-imagined, re-written, re-placed – a source<br />
of continued thinking on conditions for living in the city and beyond.<br />
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Level 4<br />
( Year 1 | Semester 2 )<br />
Module Credits<br />
5<br />
Module Leader<br />
Teresa Hoskyns<br />
Guest Visitors and Speakers<br />
Ben Derbyshire (RIBA President)<br />
Paco Mejias<br />
Florence Vannoorbeeck<br />
Xu Liang (CONCOM Studio)<br />
Yunpeng Liu (CMO <strong>XJTLU</strong>)<br />
Nan Ye (<strong>XJTLU</strong>)<br />
Number of Students<br />
11<br />
This year Advanced Professional Practice continued to use research<br />
led teaching methods to investigate the meanings of the professional<br />
architect in China and throughout the world. The students focused on<br />
individual research projects to explore how aspects of the curriculum<br />
can be applied to international firms, private firms or Local Design<br />
Institutes. We worked particularly closely with Peter Marshall, Director<br />
of BDP Shanghai who participated in lectures and seminars and who<br />
give students a real life example of the challenges and opportunities<br />
practitioners face in contemporary China. We also visited the BDP office<br />
where students made interviews to explore their individual research<br />
projects.<br />
Students made a construction site visit where they had the chance to<br />
visit the building site of the new School of Film and Television Arts<br />
(S<strong>OF</strong>TA) under construction on the south campus.<br />
As well as practice visits the course was taught through a combination<br />
of weekly lectures, visiting lectures, and seminars. For the seminars<br />
students were required to do weekly readings on the different aspects<br />
of professional practice in China and actively engage in seminar<br />
discussions to develop a critical approach to their coursework. Students<br />
examined the diverse roles of the architectural professional for example,<br />
the social, public, and ethical responsibilities of the architect and how<br />
these may change in different countries. The course introduced students<br />
to a framework of moral codes, good practice, building practices,<br />
construction management, contracts, costing and procurement models.<br />
For the coursework students were required to undertake detailed<br />
research into an architectural offices practicing in an international<br />
context to examine the responsibilities and challenges the architectural<br />
professional faces. The research led teaching techniques involved<br />
students visiting architectural offices and sites to do original research,<br />
including interviewing architects to develop case studies on diverse<br />
forms of practice. We have a Teaching Development Fund from the<br />
University that supported the extra activities of the module.<br />
Special Thanks to<br />
Peter Marshall (BDP Shanghai)<br />
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ARC406<br />
Topics in Architectural History:<br />
Modern Architecture as a<br />
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Gregotti Associati International,<br />
Central Square of the “Italian Town” for 100,000 Inhabitants,<br />
Pujiang 2001<br />
[photo Paolo Scrivano]<br />
Level 4<br />
( Year 1 | Semester 2 )<br />
Module Credits<br />
5<br />
Module Leader<br />
Paolo Scrivano<br />
Teaching Team<br />
Paolo Scrivano<br />
Yiping Dong<br />
Patrick Hubbuck (LC)<br />
Number of Students<br />
16<br />
In recent times, the field of history has been characterized by the growth<br />
of studies adopting a “transnational” perspective, a phenomenon that<br />
has touched on disciplines as diverse as the history of international<br />
relations, the history of social policies, cultural history, migration history,<br />
and intellectual history. This increasing interest reflects the mounting<br />
consideration of a variety of phenomena that are often referred to as<br />
globalization, a term that seems to have gained currency not only at<br />
academic level but also in popular discourses.<br />
The module aimed to start a discussion on the transnational character<br />
of modern architecture and to verify to what extent the paradigm of<br />
transnational history can be applied to modern architecture as a historical<br />
subject. In doing so, this seminar considered a narrative covering the 20th<br />
century but that, at times, included events that took place during the 18th<br />
and 19th centuries. The module also addressed theoretical questions that<br />
are relevant within the discourse of contemporary architecture, such as<br />
the effective impact of transnational mobility on professions and building<br />
practices and the actual applicability and sustainability of global notions<br />
of design. A particular focus was placed on the relation between Western<br />
and Asian architecture.<br />
Students were asked to read and respond to the referenced literature in<br />
order to contribute to the discussions in class. They were also encouraged<br />
to actively seek out and engage with historical evidence beyond the<br />
brief’s bibliography, and to reflect on their own developing research<br />
methodologies.<br />
Level 04 – Year 1<br />
M Arch Des Programme
213<br />
214<br />
Future Scenario- the void,<br />
by James Reason<br />
ARC405<br />
Design Studio 1<br />
Fluid City<br />
Shanghai’s waterfront reloaded<br />
<strong>2018</strong>-<strong>2019</strong> <strong>YEARBOOK</strong> Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Department of Architecture 西 交 利 物 浦 大 学 建 筑 系<br />
Level 4<br />
( Year 1 | Semester 1 )<br />
Module Credits<br />
10<br />
Module Leader<br />
Juan Carlos Dall’Asta<br />
Teaching Team<br />
David Vardy<br />
Thomas Wortmann<br />
TA Xiaohan Chen<br />
Guest Critics<br />
Wang Fang<br />
Ying Hu<br />
Weng Xueyan<br />
Number of Students<br />
14<br />
In this studio, students were asked to develop design proposals based in<br />
the transformation-regeneration of a dismissed industrial site located in<br />
Yangpu waterfront’s area, to pursue the re-activation.<br />
Waterfront renovation design strategies require deeper research<br />
and understanding that has to mitigate urban development with<br />
environmental requirements. Water into the urban context encourages<br />
innovation that led to improve and produce more creative management<br />
of water-related resources, water-resilient architectural design<br />
strategies and techniques, and the development of a proactive vision of<br />
urban landscape transformed and enhanced by water.<br />
The objective was, through the design proposal, to define strategies,<br />
scenarios, and tactics for the development of innovative incubators.<br />
Sustainable urban development practices allow through “urban<br />
creativity” the creation of innovative experimental clusters for the<br />
enhancement of the existing historical contexts.<br />
Students took into consideration the presence and value of the Industrial<br />
Architectural heritage in the site, as an opportunity of placemaking and<br />
qualitative transformation. A dialogue between memory (industrial<br />
heritage) and innovation (new spaces for makers) represented an<br />
exciting challenge for the successful re-activation of the waterfront.<br />
Level 04 – Year 1<br />
M Arch Des Programme
215<br />
216<br />
YANGSHUPU’S<br />
POWER PLANT DESIGN<br />
James Reason<br />
<strong>2018</strong>-<strong>2019</strong> <strong>YEARBOOK</strong> Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Department of Architecture 西 交 利 物 浦 大 学 建 筑 系
217<br />
218<br />
<strong>2018</strong>-<strong>2019</strong> <strong>YEARBOOK</strong> Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Department of Architecture 西 交 利 物 浦 大 学 建 筑 系<br />
YANGSHUPU’S<br />
POWER PLANT DESIGN<br />
Huang Lihan | 黄 丽 涵
219<br />
220<br />
<strong>2018</strong>-<strong>2019</strong> <strong>YEARBOOK</strong> Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Department of Architecture 西 交 利 物 浦 大 学 建 筑 系<br />
YANGSHUPU’S<br />
POWER PLANT DESIGN<br />
Xu Wenfeng | 徐 文 丰
221<br />
222<br />
YANGSHUPU’S<br />
POWER PLANT DESIGN<br />
Dong Tiantian | 董 恬 恬<br />
<strong>2018</strong>-<strong>2019</strong> <strong>YEARBOOK</strong> Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Department of Architecture 西 交 利 物 浦 大 学 建 筑 系
223<br />
224<br />
<strong>2018</strong>-<strong>2019</strong> <strong>YEARBOOK</strong> Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Department of Architecture 西 交 利 物 浦 大 学 建 筑 系<br />
YANGSHUPU’S<br />
POWER PLANT DESIGN<br />
Rachel Glover
225<br />
226<br />
ARC404<br />
Design Studio 2<br />
Sustainable Tower Networks<br />
<strong>2018</strong>-<strong>2019</strong> <strong>YEARBOOK</strong> Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Department of Architecture 西 交 利 物 浦 大 学 建 筑 系<br />
Design Review at Master’s studio. Photograph by Christiane M. Herr.<br />
Studio Group Discussion About Masterplan Layout. Photograph by Iasef Md Rian<br />
Level 4<br />
( Year 1 | Semester 2 )<br />
Module Credits<br />
10<br />
Module Leader<br />
Iasef Md Rian<br />
Teaching Team<br />
Zayad Motlib<br />
Kihong Ku<br />
Franzen Colin (Atkins)<br />
Number of Students<br />
11<br />
The second studio module in the M.Arch. Design program focuses on<br />
establishing and developing mutually inspiring relationships between<br />
technical and environmental requirements and design ideas taking the<br />
urban context into a consideration. The studio addresses increasing<br />
systemic interdependencies of human habitation, built form, technology,<br />
society, natural and urban environments in contexts of high population<br />
density, as they are typically found in the fast-expanding cities of<br />
Asia. Design proposals must be based on a strong research background,<br />
which is intended to lead to a diversity of individually defined and wellargued<br />
architectural design approaches. Project work is developed in<br />
a studio setting supported by lectures, group and individual tutorials.<br />
Reviews of students include departmental staff, visiting experts from<br />
other schools as well as practicing architects. The brief invites students<br />
to develop experimental future-oriented mixed-use towers on a site<br />
in Shanghai. Students are asked to develop contextually responsive<br />
architectural design proposals that integrate social, cultural, technical,<br />
and environmental knowledge at an advanced level. All projects are<br />
required to develop tower proposals that create a sense of connectivity<br />
and networking, from tower to tower, ground to vertical, past to future,<br />
and individual to social. Working individually, but with a strong focus<br />
on a highly integrated overall masterplan, students developed their<br />
proposals informed by daylight and wind analyses and a strong focus on<br />
sustainable construction. This year, the studio was taught in collaboration<br />
with AECOM Shanghai, who shared a project site and provided critical<br />
feedback at several stages of the project. Second interim design reviews<br />
was reviewed by AECOM.<br />
Level 04 – Year 1<br />
M Arch Des Programme
227<br />
228<br />
<strong>2018</strong>-<strong>2019</strong> <strong>YEARBOOK</strong> Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Department of Architecture 西 交 利 物 浦 大 学 建 筑 系<br />
MIRAGE<br />
Dong Tiantian | 董 恬 恬
229<br />
230<br />
WATER CYCLE TOWER<br />
水 循 环 大 厦<br />
Xu Wenfeng<br />
<strong>2018</strong>-<strong>2019</strong> <strong>YEARBOOK</strong> Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Department of Architecture 西 交 利 物 浦 大 学 建 筑 系
231<br />
232<br />
<strong>2018</strong>-<strong>2019</strong> <strong>YEARBOOK</strong> Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Department of Architecture 西 交 利 物 浦 大 学 建 筑 系<br />
CANYON TOWER<br />
Chang Xiying | 常 晰 颖
233<br />
234<br />
A COMMUNITY<br />
社 区 之 塔<br />
Zhang Zhao<br />
<strong>2018</strong>-<strong>2019</strong> <strong>YEARBOOK</strong> Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Department of Architecture 西 交 利 物 浦 大 学 建 筑 系
235<br />
236<br />
<strong>2018</strong>-<strong>2019</strong> <strong>YEARBOOK</strong> Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Department of Architecture 西 交 利 物 浦 大 学 建 筑 系<br />
AGRISCAPE<br />
Jamie Sleep
237<br />
238<br />
ALA<br />
Additional Learning Activities<br />
<strong>2018</strong>-<strong>2019</strong> <strong>YEARBOOK</strong> Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Department of Architecture 西 交 利 物 浦 大 学 建 筑 系<br />
ALA report on exhibition on Kengo Kuma, by Ni Han<br />
ALA report on the Duo Building Singapore, by Zhaorui Liu<br />
Level 4<br />
( Year 1+2 )<br />
Module Credits<br />
0<br />
Hours<br />
200 / Semester<br />
Coordinator<br />
Christian Gänshirt (sem. 1)<br />
Davide Lombardi (sem. 2)<br />
All Master programmes in our university require 200 hours of<br />
Additional Learning Activities (ALAs) to be undertaken each semester,<br />
the majority of which are chosen by the students. These allow our<br />
students to address their individual learning needs whilst contributing<br />
to the community beyond the confines of the university. Some of these<br />
activities must be undertaken during teaching periods, while others<br />
can be pursued over the winter and summer breaks. At the beginning<br />
of their studies, students with their individual Academic Advisors plan<br />
their ALAs for the whole two years of the programme; this plan is then<br />
updated at the beginning of each semester.<br />
ALAs do not contribute to the marks of the students, but are assessed<br />
on a pass/fail basis and are therefore non-credit bearing. The learning<br />
activities students may choose include English, Spanish and Chinese<br />
language and culture modules, personal and career development courses,<br />
independent studies with a tutor, teaching and research assistantships,<br />
select Level 3 and 4 modules, internships with architecture firms, study<br />
trips, as well as a series of ALAs which accompany and support the<br />
design studio modules.<br />
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Postgraduate English (mandatory, if required by the programme director)<br />
Postgraduate Spanish<br />
Chinese language (mandatory for international students)<br />
Chinese culture (mandatory for international students)<br />
Graduate teaching assistantship<br />
Graduate research assistantship<br />
Graduate practice placement/internship<br />
Participation in Level 3 or 4 lecture based modules in the built<br />
environment cluster<br />
Participation in Level 3 or 4 modules from other <strong>XJTLU</strong> departments<br />
or the Language Centre<br />
Selected topics in design tools and methods<br />
Selected topics in advanced digital design<br />
Selected topics in architectural research methods<br />
Selected topics in architectural representation<br />
Independent studies with an architecture tutor<br />
Scholarly presentation of a research paper<br />
Publication of a paper in a peer-reviewed architecture-related journal<br />
Personal and employability skills<br />
Level 04 – Year 1+2<br />
M Arch Des Programme
239<br />
240<br />
LEVEL 04<br />
<strong>2018</strong>-<strong>2019</strong> <strong>YEARBOOK</strong> Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Department of Architecture 西 交 利 物 浦 大 学 建 筑 系<br />
04<br />
In the fifth and final year of architecture studies at <strong>XJTLU</strong>, the focus is<br />
on strengthening the abilities of the students to develop their individual<br />
approach to architectural research and design, and communicate research<br />
outcomes and architectural proposals based on critical engagement with<br />
a given framework. Through a coherent design and research process, the<br />
work produced is informed by the evaluation of theoretical concepts,<br />
the consideration of context, regulations and user requirements, as well<br />
as the integration of technical knowledge. The design studio aims at the<br />
development of design tools and strategies that will be investigated and<br />
developed further in the subsequent thesis project and thesis dissertation<br />
to be produced in the concluding Design Studio 4.<br />
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Year 2 (Semester 1)<br />
ARC409 Architectural Design and Research Methods (5 credits)<br />
ARC411 Practice-Based Enquiry and Architectural Representation<br />
(5 credits)<br />
ARC413 Design Studio III (10credits)<br />
Year 2 (Semester 2)<br />
ARC408 Written Thesis (5 credits)<br />
ARC410 Design Studio. IV / Thesis Project (15 credits)<br />
M Arch Des<br />
<strong>XJTLU</strong> <strong>ARCHITECTURE</strong> <strong>YEARBOOK</strong> <strong>2018</strong>-<strong>2019</strong>
241<br />
242<br />
ARC409<br />
Architectural Design and Research<br />
Methods<br />
<strong>2018</strong>-<strong>2019</strong> <strong>YEARBOOK</strong> Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Department of Architecture 西 交 利 物 浦 大 学 建 筑 系<br />
Level 4<br />
( Year 2 | Semester 1 )<br />
Module Credits<br />
5<br />
Module Leader<br />
Paolo Scrivano<br />
Teaching Team<br />
Paolo Scrivano<br />
Thomas Fischer<br />
Number of Students<br />
14<br />
This module aimed to familiarise students with research strategies<br />
related to the design work they concurrently undertook in ARC413<br />
Design Studio 3. In the first instance, students addressed theoretical<br />
questions concerning design and research in the architectural field<br />
through literature and specific case studies; then, under the supervision<br />
of the teaching team, they developed their own research strategies and<br />
put them in practice in their studio work.<br />
The first part of the module had a seminar format and was organized<br />
through in-class discussions and reading of assigned texts, with lectures<br />
providing context for debate. This part considered general areas of<br />
research, touching on relevant questions related to design through the<br />
lenses of history and theory, science, technology, social sciences, etc.<br />
The second part of the module was structured as a laboratory for the<br />
preparation of the Thesis Prospectus, under the supervision of the<br />
teaching team.<br />
Each student produced a thesis prospectus, engaging questions in the<br />
practice and theory of architecture. In the prospectus, students proposed<br />
a thesis question, demonstrated their command of architectural<br />
research, and identified and developed a specific set of theories and<br />
methods appropriate to their research work.<br />
Special sessions were organized in coordination with the Module<br />
ARC413 to foster discussion between students and thesis supervisors on<br />
the chosen research themes.<br />
Level 04 – Year 2<br />
M Arch Des Programme
243<br />
244<br />
ARC411<br />
Practice Based Enquiry and<br />
Architectural Representation<br />
<strong>2018</strong>-<strong>2019</strong> <strong>YEARBOOK</strong> Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Department of Architecture 西 交 利 物 浦 大 学 建 筑 系<br />
Daniela Pico, Time travellers - Layered times, <strong>2018</strong>.<br />
Photograph by Daniela Pico.<br />
Level 4<br />
( Year 2 | Semester 1 )<br />
Module Credits<br />
5<br />
Module Leader<br />
Claudia Westermann<br />
Teaching Team<br />
Aleksandra Raonic<br />
Guest Reviewers<br />
Juan Carlos Dall’Asta<br />
Tordis Berstrand<br />
Number of Students<br />
12<br />
The module introduces advanced practice-based methodologies in<br />
critical creative problem solving and communication. Students are<br />
encouraged to explore a range of different art practices. Through<br />
representation of architectural projects and through shifting between<br />
different media – such as drawings, models, video, sculpture, interactive<br />
digital media, installation art – the students learn new ways to identify<br />
questions, to address them, and to communicate to audiences that have<br />
differing understandings of what architecture is or could be. The course<br />
also aims at initiating reflections on the differences and commonalities<br />
between Chinese/Asian and Western aesthetic positions, so as to<br />
facilitate a better understanding of a cultural context’s influence on<br />
positions and expressions in architecture and its relation to questions of<br />
representation.<br />
In this year’s course, texts reflecting thoughts on practice-based<br />
knowledge, on art, design and architecture were read and discussed in<br />
weekly seminars in relation to works of architecture and design, films,<br />
examples of creative writing, and artworks - such as paintings, sculpture,<br />
installations, and performance works, to initiate a critical engagement<br />
with ways of knowing through practice. Through a series of exercises<br />
in the remaking and translation of Architecture, students engaged with<br />
questions of experience, and of documentation and presentation of<br />
spatial principles, as well as with the practices and theories of practice<br />
that are discussed in the weekly seminars. They learnt to understand<br />
this engagement as a form of critical enquiry into architectural practices<br />
of presentation and representation.<br />
Level 04 – Year 2<br />
M Arch Des Programme
245<br />
246<br />
ARC408<br />
Thesis<br />
<strong>2018</strong>-<strong>2019</strong> <strong>YEARBOOK</strong> Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Department of Architecture 西 交 利 物 浦 大 学 建 筑 系<br />
Imperial Brick Museum, Sample pages Suzhou, from by architect the theses Liu of Jiakun students<br />
Camilo Eduardo Espitia Garcia, Daniela Marilú Pico Pérez and Yitong Wang.<br />
Level 4<br />
( Year 2 | Semester 2 )<br />
Module Credits<br />
5<br />
Module Leader<br />
Thomas Fischer<br />
Teaching Team<br />
Paolo Scrivano<br />
Number of Students<br />
12<br />
In this module, students carry out the writing component of their<br />
Master’s thesis. Based on work previously produced in the module<br />
ARC409 Architectural Design and Research Methods, students<br />
individually produce a written document that provides the background,<br />
gives theoretical support, presents a critical argument, lays out the<br />
development processes and presents the findings of their ARC410 Design<br />
Studio 4 projects, or of closely related enquiries. Subject matter and<br />
substance addressed in the Thesis document originate in Design Studio<br />
4 under the supervision of studio tutors. In turn, methods, techniques<br />
and tools introduced in this module are also expected to inform and to<br />
enhance students’ design research development in Design Studio 4.<br />
This architectural thesis document is a substantial piece of academic<br />
writing. This module supports students in this writing endeavour<br />
aiming at a range or learning outcomes, including the abilities to define<br />
a research focus and to develop a critical argument, to identify and<br />
discuss literature relevant to that argument, the quality, structure, logic<br />
and comprehensibility of language and visual presentation, the capacity<br />
to respond to feedback, adherence to academic standards and writing<br />
conventions, as well as originality of contribution to knowledge. The<br />
learning and teaching methods of this module include lectures, group<br />
seminars and discussions, reading and writing assignments as well as<br />
individual tutorials.<br />
Level 04 – Year 2<br />
M Arch Des Programme
247<br />
248<br />
MATERIALISING MEMORY<br />
Camilo Espitia .G<br />
ARC413/ARC410<br />
Design Studio 3+4<br />
<strong>2018</strong>-<strong>2019</strong> <strong>YEARBOOK</strong> Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Department of Architecture 西 交 利 物 浦 大 学 建 筑 系<br />
Level 4<br />
( Year 2 | Semester 1+2 )<br />
Module Credits<br />
10+15<br />
Module Leader<br />
Davide Lombardi<br />
Teaching Team<br />
Davide Lombardi<br />
Juan Carlos Dall'Asta<br />
Christiane Herr<br />
Glen Wash<br />
Yiping Dong<br />
Francisco Jose Mejias Villatoro<br />
(primary tutors)<br />
Marco Cimillo<br />
José Á. Hidalgo<br />
Li-An Tsien<br />
Zayad Motlib<br />
(secondary tutors)<br />
Teaching Team<br />
Gisela Loehlein<br />
Baoshan Han<br />
Wenbing Fan<br />
Darcy Chang<br />
James Lew<br />
Vincent Buhagiar<br />
Number of Students<br />
12<br />
In the final year of the Master’s programme students develop their<br />
own design briefs and choose their individual tutors. The module<br />
ARC413 Design Studio 3 framework consequently ensures a diversity of<br />
approaches allowing students greater freedom in defining their methods<br />
of learning and their approaches to architectural design.<br />
Over the summer break, students defined the scope and topic of their<br />
projects in close cooperation with their tutors. The project is then<br />
developed in the usual studio setting supported by in-class presentations,<br />
group and individual tutorials, as well as lectures and seminar<br />
discussions. Students are guided to develop design tools and processes<br />
that allow them to explore their topics critically and in-depth, informing<br />
their design project, and initiating the thesis process that continues<br />
during the final semester of the Master’s programme.<br />
Close connections with the other two modules in the semester support<br />
and inform the student’s enquiries: ARC411 Practice Based Enquiry<br />
and Architectural Representation supports the artistic side of the<br />
students’ design work, and ARC409 Architectural Design and Research<br />
Methods informs the theoretical and research aspects of the work.<br />
Students regularly present their work for discussion in reviews to all<br />
tutors involved in teaching this studio, to other faculty members, invited<br />
reviewers from other schools, as well as practicing architects in order to<br />
gain valuable feedback.<br />
In the final semester of the Master’s programme students are required<br />
to demonstrate self-reliance in the framing of architectural problems<br />
and in the research produced to resolve these problems. Building on<br />
the design and research outcomes achieved in the previous semester, in<br />
ARC413 Design Studio 4 students address an individually chosen design<br />
thesis project, resolving design and research challenges identified in<br />
the thesis prospectus written at the end of the previous semester.<br />
The outcome is a self-contained thesis design project supported by a<br />
dissertation written in the parallel module ARC408 Thesis. Effectively,<br />
the work produced at this very special moment of life has two objectives:<br />
it concludes and summarises the years of studies, and, for the first time,<br />
clearly addresses the wider professional public.<br />
Level 04 – Year 2<br />
M Arch Des Programme
249<br />
250<br />
MATERIALISING MEMORY<br />
STRATEGIES FOR REMEMBRANCE<br />
Questioning the process in which collective memory is embedded in a material entity, the research contributes in strategies for memorialisation.<br />
Making use of several architectural and artistic case studies, the paper discusses the forces that influence, cause or produce memory, particularly<br />
in cases of violent pasts. Utilising Halbwachs conception of collective memory, the study produces a wide arrange of theoretical discussions<br />
debating structures of memory and the politicisation of memory. With a typological arrange of case studies that approach the materialisation of<br />
memory with diverse strategies, the design exercise will be framed. The thesis outlines the projectual process in which the Colombian collective is<br />
memorialised through commemorative spaces that use matter, light and performance as elements that recall memory.<br />
STUDENT<br />
Camilo Espitia .G<br />
Juan Carlos Dall’Asta<br />
TUTORS<br />
Jose Angel Hidalgo<br />
<strong>2018</strong>-<strong>2019</strong> <strong>YEARBOOK</strong> Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Department of Architecture 西 交 利 物 浦 大 学 建 筑 系
251<br />
A NEW SOUK TO STIMULATE SOCIAL RECONSTRUCTION IN ALEPPO<br />
252<br />
This thesis presents a research-for-design study conducted to inform the design of a new Souk market in Aleppo, Syria. The Souk design aims to<br />
stimulate the social reconstruction of the city after the Syrian Civil War. In support of that effort, the work presented here focuses on the thermal<br />
comfort offered in the public circulation spaces of the Souk in terms of shading intensity, in response to the hot and arid climate in the city of<br />
Aleppo. Five design scenarios with different shading intensity are simulated using the Ladybug plug-in for Grasshopper with Rhinoceros 3D. The<br />
outcomes of these analyses are evaluated and compared with one another in terms of thermal user stress, with reference to the Universal Thermal<br />
Climate Index.<br />
STUDENT<br />
Cindy LAI TONG<br />
Glen WASH<br />
TUTORS<br />
Zayad MOTLIB<br />
<strong>2018</strong>-<strong>2019</strong> <strong>YEARBOOK</strong> Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Department of Architecture 西 交 利 物 浦 大 学 建 筑 系
253<br />
254<br />
INTERSTITIAL LANDSCAPES<br />
A DESIGN STRATEGY FOR INDUSTRIAL HERITAGE TRANSFORMATION<br />
Altering of urban landscapes bear witness to worldwide de-industrialisation processes. Industrial areas continue to relocate of from city centres to<br />
new peripheries, creating industrial heritage spaces that operate in the in-between of the existing and the new and, in this thesis, are referred to<br />
as ‘residuals and ‘interstitial landscapes’. Transformations of these spaces offer opportunities for the creation of quality urban places. The Shanghai<br />
urban centre is no exception. This thesis presents a research-through-design enquiry conducted in parallel to the studio design of a proposal for<br />
the former Shanghai's Shipyard, aiming to develop an alternative sustainable future for interstitial spaces left by the industrial era. Considering<br />
residuals as ‘placemaking media’, and addressing architectural, landscape and urban planning aspects as elements of the same system. The project<br />
explores a sustainable articulation of residual industrial infrastructure and proposes a new approacho development in an urban centre.<br />
The territory of architecture should concern itself with the whole of the built environment, heightened disciplinary distinctions between<br />
architecture, art, ecology, landscape, architecture, engineering and urban planning marginalize the status of the architectural project, precluding<br />
new paradigms for contemporary settings.<br />
<strong>2018</strong>-<strong>2019</strong> <strong>YEARBOOK</strong> Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Department of Architecture 西 交 利 物 浦 大 学 建 筑 系<br />
I want to question such limited view and instead, search for opportunities for larger territorial expressions physically and disciplinary. I am reading<br />
the existing architectural site as already rich and full of possibilities, superimposing new programs to bring to focus the unseen by creating<br />
opportunities for transformation and use.<br />
STUDENT<br />
Daniela Marilú Pico Pérez<br />
Juan Carlos Dall'Asta<br />
TUTORS<br />
José Ángel Hidalgo
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SUSTAINABLE TOURISM DEVELOPMENT IN MAURITIUS<br />
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Islands destinations are usually portrayed as remote locations, of small size and limited population, resources. It is the unique cultural features,<br />
ecosystem and a pristine environment that typically differentiate islands from other types of tourist destinations. The direct and indirect benefits<br />
that tourism involve is the potential to make positive contribution to social and cultural developments. However, tourism, coupled with worldwide<br />
processes of urbanisation and globalisation has often led to cultural and social erosion, jeopardising cultural identity of a country or specific area.<br />
This phenomenon, which has been observed in many countries, is gaining global attention due to its increasing frequency and the erosion or loss of<br />
many cultures.<br />
Mauritius, a small island in the Indian ocean was not spared by these processes. The tourism industry started in the 1950s when there was a need<br />
for economic diversification and the creation of employment. The island was known as having the potential attractive ‘3S’ (sun, sea and sand),<br />
which was considered as an important factor for attracting tourist at that time. Consequently, the island has witnessed a rapid growth of tourism<br />
development expanding all over the coast of the island, where in the past few decades, Mauritius experienced a flourishing tourism industry.<br />
However, these developments have not always brought positive impacts and the country faces several challenges affecting the social, economic<br />
and environmental stability.<br />
As a consequence, this research design proposal, encompassing both the studio and thesis writing, consists of exploring and providing a new model<br />
of sustainable tourism development for Mauritius. The project will consist of finding a suitable approach to providing opportunities for the local<br />
population’s access to their natural heritage by respecting their local culture.<br />
STUDENT<br />
Purmah Ghashil Singh<br />
Paco Mejias Villatoro<br />
TUTORS<br />
Christiane Margerita Herr
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EXPERIENCE IN THE REGIONAL TERMINAL<br />
258<br />
This thesis presents a research-for-design investigation into types of, and structural systems for, airport terminal buildings, with particular<br />
attention to air traffic development in China. In the course of its ongoing development, China is developing numerous regional and international<br />
airports, while upgrading and expanding a number of small and medium-sized airports. The design of passenger terminal buildings is of key<br />
importance in these initiatives, not only in facilitating the processing of passengers and luggage but also in determining user experience, conveying<br />
important first impressions and representing local contexts. The structural system chosen is an essential factor affecting the design of the terminal<br />
building and will directly determine much of its final shape. Nonetheless, systematic overviews of terminal building types and suitable structural<br />
systems are still lacking. To address this need, this thesis presents a typology analysis of terminal building types, with an emphasis on the size and<br />
configuration of airports and the design of terminal roof systems, and on applicable choices of large-span roof structures.<br />
STUDENT<br />
Yan Limei | 严 丽 玫<br />
Davide Lombard (primary tutor)<br />
TUTORS<br />
Christiane M. Herr(secondary tutor)<br />
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260<br />
<strong>ARCHITECTURE</strong> <strong>OF</strong> THE URBAN IN-BETWEEN:<br />
CONNECTING BUILDINGS WITH THE CITY<br />
Critically re-imagining the conventional Chinese urban block (Xiao Qu), this project aims to develop a new type of urban landscape to integrate<br />
horizontal and vertical dimensions of the Chinese city. Based on the research and masterplan design proposal of the previous design studio (ARC410),<br />
this project proposes different kinds of connective urban tissue linking isolated buildings with surrounding urban blocks. Engaging with the social<br />
and economic dynamics of fast-developing contemporary Chinese megacities, the project proposes new types of spaces hosted in a deep surface<br />
that allows urban life to colonise both the horizontal and vertical dimensions. This deep surface encompasses both natural and artificial, large and<br />
small, public and private and offers a fertile ground for increasingly networked urban lives and ecologies.<br />
STUDENT<br />
Duan Yawen | 段 雅 文<br />
TUTORS<br />
Christiane Margerita Herr<br />
<strong>2018</strong>-<strong>2019</strong> <strong>YEARBOOK</strong> Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Department of Architecture 西 交 利 物 浦 大 学 建 筑 系
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02 <strong>XJTLU</strong><br />
The practice year 2 is generally made after the completion of the<br />
Master’s degree. RIBA part 2, graduates now are qualified to work as<br />
RIBA part 2 Architectural Assistants.<br />
To sit the part 3 examination, graduates are required to undertake a<br />
total of 24 months of experience under the direct supervision of an<br />
architect. For students intending to take the UK part 3 examination, 12<br />
months minimum should be undertaken in the EEA, Channel Islands<br />
or the Isle of Man.<br />
At stage 2 practical experience graduates will be given more<br />
responsibility on projects. At this time graduates should begin studying<br />
a part 3 course which covers aspects of practice, management and law.<br />
During this time graduates can also become a RIBA Associate Member,<br />
which provides a range of services and benefits appropriate to their<br />
needs at this stage of their career.<br />
Practice<br />
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MEAP Access Course<br />
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Co-Working Space SOHO Fuxing Lu, Shanghai.<br />
Photographed by Sun Fengzhu.<br />
Co-Working Space SOHO Fuxing Lu, Shanghai.<br />
Photographed by Sun Fengzhu.<br />
After completing practice year 2, graduates now are qualified to sit the<br />
RIBA part 3 examination.<br />
Due to <strong>XJTLU</strong>'s status as the largest joint-venture University in China<br />
with a strong connection, through Liverpool University to the RIBA, we<br />
have been selected to become the first institution in mainland China<br />
to host the International Part 3/MEAP access course, as presently<br />
running in Hong Kong, Singapore and the Gulf. In October 2017, Alison<br />
Mackinder from RIBA North visited the University to propose and<br />
discuss the conditions of the course.<br />
The Membership Eligibility Assessment Panel (MEAP) is a panel<br />
of prominent academics and practitioners who meet twice a year to<br />
assess the applications of international architects and academics,<br />
working outside the UK and do not necessarily hold RIBA-recognised<br />
qualifications, but want to become international RIBA Chartered<br />
Members.<br />
Successful completion of the RIBA Part 3/MEAP course enables<br />
architects and non-UK graduates with 5 years architectural education<br />
(with or without RIBA validation) and two years’ experience in practice<br />
to apply for RIBA Chartered Membership.<br />
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ACTIVITIES
The lecture series is in partnership<br />
with RIBA<br />
The lecture series is in partnership<br />
with RIBA<br />
The lecture series is in partnership<br />
with RIBA<br />
The lecture series is in partnership<br />
with RIBA<br />
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CAST 01<br />
Chinese Architect Seminar and Talk Series <strong>2018</strong>/19<br />
Coup de grace / YU TING<br />
Yu Ting<br />
Architect, Gourmet, Columnist<br />
Bachelor of Architecture in Tsinghua University Department of Architecture;<br />
Architectural Design and Theory Ph.D. of Tongji University; professor level<br />
senior engineer; visiting Professor of Architecture in Southeast University<br />
School; founder of Let’s Talk, urban micro-space revival plan and Wutopia<br />
Lab.<br />
CAST 02<br />
Chinese Architect Seminar and Talk Series <strong>2018</strong>/19<br />
Typological Rural / ZHANG LEI<br />
Zhang Lei<br />
Graduated from Southeast University in Nanjing & Finished his post-<br />
CAST 03<br />
Chinese Architect Seminar and Talk Series <strong>2018</strong>/19<br />
Learning from Hong Kong:<br />
In Search of a New Urban Dynamics<br />
GARY CHANG<br />
Gary Chang<br />
Founder & Managing Director<br />
EDGE Design Institute Ltd.<br />
CHINESE ARCHITECT<br />
SEMINAR AND TALK SERIES<br />
( CAST )<br />
Design Philosophy<br />
graduate study in ETH-Zurich, Zhang Lei found his architecture of-<br />
Yu Ting thinks all the hard training, thinking and design process should be<br />
fice AZL architects 2001 in Nanjing.<br />
Gary Chang has become one of the foremost creative forces within the archi-<br />
presented with a relaxed gesture at the end.<br />
In May 2009 Zhang Lei was named by Icon Magazine as one of 20<br />
tectural, interior and product design industry, by challenging traditional bound-<br />
Wutopia Lab is an Architecture lab based on a new paradigm of complex systems,<br />
which regards Shanghai’s culture and life style as the starting point,<br />
using architecture as the tool to promote sociological progress within building<br />
practice.<br />
Wutopia Lab focuses on human and is dedicated to link different aspects of<br />
urban life: traditional, daily and cultural to interpret Urbanian’s lifestyle, and to<br />
develop an aesthetic style of China based on Shanghai.<br />
Wutopia Lab creates miracles in the day-to-day. We use the strategy of the<br />
duality, design from local material and local conditions in an arbitrary and ever-changing<br />
way.<br />
If the world is not good enough, let us create a better one.<br />
architects who are transforming the future and changing the way<br />
we work. AZL was selected into one of the ten architecture offices<br />
as Design Vanguard 2008 by Architectural Record. In fall of 2012,<br />
Zhang Lei was named as candidates for 4th Swiss Architectural<br />
Awards. AZL’s “Slit House” was entered as honorable mention project<br />
by ar+d world emerging architecture awards 2008 by Architectural<br />
Review.<br />
While winning the Architecture awards like “WA Chinese Architecture<br />
Awards” (2002,2006,2008) & “Chinese Architecture & Art Awards”<br />
(2004), He is involved in major international exhibitions on contemporary<br />
Chinese Architecture in Netherlands, France, Germany, Italy<br />
& American. His works are published quite intensively in interna-<br />
aries and rethinking the possibilities with and dynamism of spatial flexibility. He<br />
has built a reputation for his multi-disciplinary designs that combine modernism<br />
with tradition, innovation with familiarity, urbanity with nature, and art with<br />
practicality.<br />
Born in Hong Kong, Gary did not view the 32 m2 apartment in which he lived<br />
with his parents and three sisters as a constraint. Instead, the small space<br />
sparked a lasting curiosity in redefining the potential of compact spaces. Gary<br />
graduated from The University of Hong Kong in 1987 and founded his company<br />
EDGE in 1994. Since then, Gary has demonstrated his keen artistic visions<br />
through his numerous award-winning designs, keynote lectures and literary<br />
works. These include such notable works as the Suitcase House in Beijing, his<br />
<strong>2018</strong>/19<br />
tional magazines like GA documents, Domus, Lotus, Architectur-<br />
Kung-fu tea-set for ALESSI, his book “Hotel as Home”, and of course, the lat-<br />
al Record, Architectural Design, Architectural Review, Mark, Icon,<br />
est transformation of his 32 m2 apartment. A YouTube video of the latter was a<br />
Wallpaper etc.<br />
sensation and an inspiration to millions globally.<br />
Zhang Lei is now teaching as professor in School of Architecture &<br />
City Planning & head of Sustainable Rural Architecture Research<br />
With a fervent passion for offering transformational designs that exemplify ulti-<br />
Center in Nanjing University. He has been invited as guest profes-<br />
mate adaptability, choice and sensibility, Gary Chang is undoubtedly one of the<br />
Co-ordinator: Philip Fung philip.fung@xjtlu.edu.cn<br />
sor & critic in Hong Kong University, Chinese University of Hong<br />
Kong, Chiba Institute of Technology in Tokyo & GSD-Harvard.<br />
most symbolic and influential figures in the design world today.<br />
Co-ordinator: Philip Fung philip.fung@xjtlu.edu.cn<br />
Co-ordinator: Philip Fung<br />
philip.fung@xjtlu.edu.cn<br />
Date 25th Sept <strong>2018</strong><br />
Date 18th Oct <strong>2018</strong><br />
Date 29th Nov <strong>2018</strong><br />
Time<br />
6:00pm-7:30pm<br />
Time<br />
6:00pm-7:30pm<br />
Time<br />
6:00pm-7:30pm<br />
<strong>2018</strong>-<strong>2019</strong> <strong>YEARBOOK</strong> Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Department of Architecture 西 交 利 物 浦 大 学 建 筑 系<br />
Venue<br />
DBG19 <strong>XJTLU</strong> South Campus<br />
Suzhou China<br />
<strong>XJTLU</strong> Department of Architecture<br />
LECTURE SERIES <strong>2018</strong> - <strong>2019</strong><br />
CAST 04<br />
Date 5th Dec <strong>2018</strong><br />
Time 6:00pm-7:30pm<br />
Venue DB455 <strong>XJTLU</strong> South Campus<br />
Suzhou China<br />
<strong>XJTLU</strong> Department of Architecture<br />
LECTURE SERIES <strong>2018</strong> - <strong>2019</strong><br />
CAST 06<br />
Date 21st March <strong>2019</strong><br />
Time 6:00pm-8:00pm<br />
Venue DBG19, <strong>XJTLU</strong> South Campus, Suzhou China<br />
<strong>XJTLU</strong> Department of Architecture<br />
LECTURE SERIES <strong>2018</strong> - <strong>2019</strong><br />
Chinese Architect Seminar and Talk Series <strong>2018</strong>/19<br />
COSMOS: Spinney (Mixed Forests)<br />
/ Universe<br />
LIAO WEILI<br />
Introduction<br />
Through a rigorous observation and reflection to the geography, history,<br />
culture and society of Taiwan, I have become deeply aware of a mixed and<br />
diverse energy that is embodied within my mind and body. This embodiment<br />
forms the ‘Spinney (Mixed forests)’ concept as the aesthetic diversity,<br />
a working process which leads a continuous thread into my practice, reflection<br />
and thinking.<br />
Within the process of architecture creation, I experience and observe the<br />
operating rules of the natural universe, then realize the mystery of ‘existence’<br />
and ‘variety’ of everything on earth. Always aware of life’s chorus and<br />
the aura revealed by our universe that naturally combine with the environment<br />
and construct a micro ‘architecture universe’ through the process of<br />
creative thinking.<br />
Liao Weili<br />
Born in Town Tung-Hsiao, Taiwan. He graduated form SCI-Arc in 1999, taught<br />
by Coy Howard, Eric Owen Moss; and established AMBi Studio in Taichung,<br />
2001. Through trying to apply landscape and humanism in the middle west<br />
of Taiwan for site plus background, he practices, thinks and self-examines<br />
architecture for this island, which owned a changing politic, culture and history,<br />
as well as the various ecology, landscape, and heterogeneous citizen<br />
power with observation and challenge. His project presented a fierce energy<br />
of multi-diversity in Taiwanese architecture and the integration between<br />
environment and people.<br />
Co-ordinator: Philip Fung philip.fung@xjtlu.edu.cn<br />
Chinese Architect Seminar and Talk Series <strong>2018</strong>/19<br />
Interactive with Nature Through Architecture<br />
LI XINGGANG<br />
Introduction<br />
Architecture that interacts with the nature, essentially through architecture as an intermediary / Media, to achieve<br />
the situation that makes people interact with the “nature”, in order to face the grim and diverse reality of the contemporary,<br />
to create the ideal living space of mankind.<br />
Li Xinggang<br />
Li Xinggang is currently Chief Architect of China Architecture Design & Research Group , the director of Atelier Li Xinggang,<br />
visiting professor of Tianjin University and the Southeast University, the design tutor in School of Architecture in Tsinghua<br />
University, member of UIA Sports and Leisure Group and the Master of Engineering Survey and Design in China. He has<br />
won various honors and awards of architecture such as: China Youth Science and Technology Awards; Gold/Silver Prize of<br />
China National Outstanding Architecture Awards. He was also invited to hold a mini-exhibition about his works, the “Geometry<br />
and Sheng Jing”, and to take part in some exhibitions concerning architecture and art, such as 11th Venice Biennale of<br />
Architecture, “Illusion into Reality: Chinese Gardens for Living”, Dresden; “From Beijing to London: 16 Contemporary Chinese<br />
Architects”, London.<br />
Co-ordinator: Philip Fung philip.fung@xjtlu.edu.cn<br />
Venue<br />
DBG19 <strong>XJTLU</strong> South Campus<br />
Suzhou China<br />
<strong>XJTLU</strong> Department of Architecture<br />
LECTURE SERIES <strong>2018</strong> - <strong>2019</strong><br />
CAST 07<br />
Date 11th April <strong>2019</strong><br />
Time 6:00pm-8:00pm<br />
Venue DBG19, <strong>XJTLU</strong> South Campus, Suzhou China<br />
<strong>XJTLU</strong> Department of Architecture<br />
LECTURE SERIES <strong>2018</strong> - <strong>2019</strong><br />
Chinese Architect Seminar and Talk Series <strong>2018</strong>/19<br />
Invisible Architecture:<br />
Learning from 7-Eleven &<br />
Illegal Architecture<br />
ROAN CHING YUEH<br />
Introduction<br />
For over hundred years of modern architecture development,<br />
it is totally affected by political and capital power.<br />
The relationship between architecture and people<br />
is weaken and disconnected. Re-thinking architecture<br />
from local context and integrating local wisdom / technology,<br />
it may be an escape from power control, and<br />
great opportunity to re-consider the meaning of architecture<br />
to people?<br />
Roan Ching-yueh<br />
Author, architect and curator<br />
Formerly a professional architect (licensed in Taiwan<br />
and in the United States), he is now a professor at the<br />
Department of Art and Design at Yuan Ze University.<br />
A prolific author and curator, Roan Ching-yueh is<br />
the recipient of numerous literary prizes, as well as<br />
architecture awards including the Architectural Critic<br />
Award from the Third Annual China Architectural Media<br />
Awards in 2012, and the Outstanding Architect of<br />
the Year award 2015 in Taiwan. His novel Victory Song<br />
won the 2004 Taipei Literary Award, and Lin Xiuzi was<br />
long-listed for the 2009 Man Asia Literary prize.<br />
Co-ordinator: Philip Fung<br />
philip.fung@xjtlu.edu.cn<br />
Venue<br />
DBG19 <strong>XJTLU</strong> South Campus<br />
Suzhou China<br />
<strong>XJTLU</strong> Department of Architecture<br />
LECTURE SERIES <strong>2018</strong> - <strong>2019</strong><br />
CAST 05<br />
Chinese Architect Seminar and Talk Series <strong>2018</strong>/19<br />
Of Land and People: A Decade in China<br />
LIU YUYANG<br />
Introduction<br />
Through observation, research, and design projects by Liu Yuyang, a Shanghai-based architect and co-author with Rem Koolhaas<br />
of the Great Leap Forward - the first research on contemporary Chinese urbanism in Pearl River Delta, the lecture will be<br />
a personal account of how Chinese urbanism and architecture have evolved in the last decade as three distinct and sometime<br />
concurrent thematic phases: new town development, urban regeneration and countryside construction. The lecture will end with<br />
Mr. Liu’s latest work on urban waterfront redevelopment in Shanghai Minsheng Wharf in Pudong as an uniquely Chinese ambition<br />
of design and politics.<br />
Liu Yuyang<br />
Founder and Principal of Atelier Liu Yuyang Architects<br />
Member of the Shanghai Architectural Society Academic Committee<br />
Visiting Professor of the Innovation Experimental Program, Tongji University College of Architecture and Urban Planning<br />
Born in Taiwan and educated in the United States, Mr. Liu Yuyang received his Master in Architecture from GSD, Harvard University<br />
in 1997 and his B.A. in Urban Studies and Planning from University of California, San Diego in 1992. While at Harvard, Mr.<br />
Liu researched with Rem Koolhaas and co-authored Great Leap Forward in 2001, a seminal work on the urbanization of China’s<br />
Pearl River Delta, the content of which exhibited at the Documenta X in Kassel, Germany.<br />
Having held a number of professional and academic positions in U.S and Hong Kong, Mr. Liu established the Shanghai-based<br />
Atelier Liu Yuyang Architects in 2007. Mr. Liu leads the Atelier Liu Yuyang Architects in its full design and management responsibilities,<br />
and serves as a member of the Shanghai Architectural Society Academic Committee, an advisory architect for the Shanghai<br />
Qingpu District Land and Planning Bureau, a honorary associate professor at faculty of architecture of HKU Shanghai Study<br />
Centre, a guest professor at CAUP of Tongji University.<br />
Mr. Liu’s notable research-based projects with public interest and forward thinking include Shanghai Contemporary Museum of<br />
Art(MoCA), Qingpu Environmental Monitoring Station and Riverfront Aite Park in Shanghai, Cidi Memo iTown in Beijing, Yunlu<br />
Resort and Yoga Pavilion with Pool in Guangxi, China Fortune Wisdom Mark Phase I&III, Tongji University Affiliated Experimental<br />
Primary School, Vanke Experimental Kindergarten, Minsheng Wharf Riverfront Open Space Renovation and Yangjing Harbor<br />
Huihong Bridge in Shanghai.<br />
Co-ordinator: Philip Fung philip.fung@xjtlu.edu.cn<br />
Date 25th Feb <strong>2019</strong><br />
Time 6:00pm-8:00pm<br />
Venue DBG19, <strong>XJTLU</strong> South Campus, Suzhou China<br />
<strong>XJTLU</strong> Department of Architecture<br />
LECTURE SERIES <strong>2018</strong> - <strong>2019</strong><br />
CAST 08<br />
Date 2nd May <strong>2019</strong><br />
Time 6:00pm-8:00pm<br />
Venue DB455, <strong>XJTLU</strong> South Campus, Suzhou China<br />
<strong>XJTLU</strong> Department of Architecture<br />
LECTURE SERIES <strong>2018</strong> - <strong>2019</strong><br />
Chinese Architect Seminar and Talk Series <strong>2018</strong>/19<br />
The Garden of Forking Paths<br />
DOREEN HENG LIU<br />
Intrdouction<br />
“With the uncertain moment, i understand the world in a abstract way.”<br />
This is an extract from the famous short story of Jorge Luis Borges. It is<br />
a story about time and people. “ Time is a net of hybrid systems, which<br />
overlay, intersect or never interact, it includes all possibilities. Time is not<br />
united and absolute, it is always diverting to infinite futures.”<br />
Time is space, architecture is story of space and people, it is space of infinite<br />
experiences. Our architecture is to design these ‘impossible’ infinite<br />
experiences, it is space, but also time.<br />
Between the world and people, is the experience and understanding of<br />
infinite possibilities.<br />
Doreen Heng Liu<br />
Born in Guangzhou, China. She received Bachelor of Architecture in<br />
Central China University of Science and Technology (now the Huazhong<br />
University of Science and Technology). In the same year, she was admitted<br />
by Tongji University without sitting the entrance examination. In<br />
1994, she received M.Arch from University of California, Berkeley. She<br />
won the best design prize of the academic year and the travel scholarship<br />
of I.M.Pei. From 1995 to 2007, she worked as consultant architect<br />
in Fok Foundation of Hong Kong and design director of Nansha New<br />
City project. In 1999, she completed her first project ‘Nansha Science<br />
Museum’ after graduation. In 2004, she returned to the U.S. to study at<br />
Harvard Graduate School of Design, where she studied under Professor<br />
Margaret Crawford and Professor Zhang Yonghe, and received a Doctor<br />
of Design in 2008. She established her practice [NODE] (Nansha Original<br />
Design) in Hong Kong in 2004, and opened the branch in Shenzhen<br />
in 2009. Since September 2008, she has been teaching at the School of<br />
Architecture, Chinese University of Hong Kong as adjunct associate professor.<br />
From 2015 to 2016, she was invited as a visiting professor at the<br />
Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich, Switzerland. She is the<br />
first Chinese professor at the ETH School of Architecture.<br />
Co-ordinator: Philip Fung philip.fung@xjtlu.edu.cn<br />
Co-ordinator<br />
Philip Fung<br />
Partnership<br />
Royal Institute of British Architects<br />
( RIBA )<br />
5 Sept <strong>2018</strong><br />
18 Oct <strong>2018</strong><br />
29 Nov <strong>2018</strong><br />
5 Dec <strong>2018</strong><br />
25 Feb <strong>2019</strong><br />
21 March <strong>2019</strong><br />
11 April <strong>2019</strong><br />
2 May <strong>2019</strong><br />
Other Activities<br />
Coup De Grace<br />
Yu Ting<br />
Typological Rural<br />
Zhang Lei<br />
Learning from Hong Kong:<br />
In Search of a New Urban Dynamics<br />
Gary Chang<br />
COSMOS: Spinney (Mixed Forests) / Universe<br />
Liao Weili<br />
Of Land and People: A Decade in China<br />
Liu Yuyang<br />
Interactive with Nature Through Architecture<br />
Li Xinggang<br />
Invisible Architecture:<br />
Learning from 7-Eleven and Illegal Architecture<br />
Roan Ching Yueh<br />
The Garden of Forking Paths<br />
Doreen Liu<br />
The lecture series is intended to let students understand the practice<br />
of contemporary Chinese architects. We invited architects from China,<br />
Hong Kong or Taiwan and they are all emerging architects with excellent<br />
practice and design theory. The lecture is not only sharing their design<br />
works but also the methodology behind: how architect responses to the<br />
context? what challenges and limitations for practicing architecture in<br />
China? Through the lectures, students shall have better understanding<br />
on how they plan their careers in the future.
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Final review of cardboard shelter structures for kindergarten age children. Photographs by Milan Ognjanovic.<br />
Level 1<br />
( Year 2 | Semester 1 )<br />
Event Organiser<br />
Christiane M. Herr<br />
Teaching Team<br />
Richard Hay<br />
Sandro Rolla<br />
Number of Students<br />
195<br />
The Cardboard Structures event is an annual event conducted as part<br />
of the module ARC104 (Structures and Materials). It is the culmination<br />
of students’ first attempt at building a life-size structure made<br />
primarily from cardboard, without the use of glue and relying purely<br />
on mechanical connections. This year, the task was to build shelters<br />
for kindergarten age children of about 5-6 years old. Besides additional<br />
connection materials such as metal screws, cable binders and string, the<br />
bridge structure must be made entirely of cardboard. Students work in<br />
teams of five to seven, and collaborate on all stages of the design. The<br />
project was run in cooperation with Newton International Kindergarten,<br />
with their K2 level students performing both as ‘clients’, giving students<br />
initial creative inspiration, and eager test subjects once structures are<br />
completed. The shelter design proceeds through a series of interim<br />
models, including a review of half scale prototypes at the collaborating<br />
kindergarten. The final review takes place at <strong>XJTLU</strong> and consists of a<br />
playful load testing and client assessment by the school children. During<br />
the event, the children also vote for the “Best Cardboard Shelter <strong>2018</strong><br />
Award” by attaching stickers to their favourite shelter designs. In this<br />
process, architecture students learn essential skills such as design work<br />
in teams, planning and managing the execution of work, assembly of<br />
1:1 scale models as well as matching their design ideas with functional<br />
requirements as well as the preferences of the users of their structures.<br />
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FREESTYLE BRIDGE<br />
DESIGN COMPETITION<br />
<strong>2018</strong>-<strong>2019</strong> <strong>YEARBOOK</strong> Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Department of Architecture 西 交 利 物 浦 大 学 建 筑 系<br />
Bridge design review with guest reviewers from the Departments of Civil Engineering and Architecture. Photographs by Christiane M. Herr.<br />
Level 2<br />
( Year 3 | Semester 2 )<br />
Event Organiser<br />
Christiane M. Herr<br />
Guest Reviewers<br />
Theofanis Krevaikas<br />
(Department of Civil Engineering)<br />
Isaac Galobardes<br />
(Department of Civil Engineering)<br />
Iasef Rian<br />
(Department of Architecture)<br />
Davide Lombardi<br />
(Department of Architecture)<br />
Number of Students<br />
72<br />
The Freestyle Bridge Design Competition is an annual event conducted<br />
as part of the module ARC202 (Structural Design). The competition<br />
gives students an opportunity to experiment with complex structural<br />
systems and a variety of self-chosen materials in the realisation of<br />
architecturally driven design ideas. The competition task this year was<br />
to build a functional model of a bridge connecting the <strong>XJTLU</strong> North and<br />
South campuses, with a span of 27m and supported only at the ends.<br />
Bridges should be as lightweight as possible while supporting a weight<br />
of 6kg distributed across the bridge. As in a real-life competition for<br />
bridges, models should not only perform well in terms of load-bearing<br />
capacity, but also demonstrate innovative ideas, usability, concern for<br />
the pedestrian experience while crossing the bridge and quality of<br />
details and general craftsmanship. To determine the winning team,<br />
the competition integrates numerical performance evaluation with a<br />
general qualitative assessment by guest reviewers from the Departments<br />
of Architecture and Civil Engineering. Winning bridge models must<br />
demonstrate good structural performance as well as good integration of<br />
architectural ideas and structure. The competition has been conducted<br />
for several years and is often described as a key learning experience by<br />
participating students.<br />
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IDEERS<br />
EARTHQUAKE-SAFE<br />
DESIGN COMPETITION<br />
<strong>2018</strong>-<strong>2019</strong> <strong>YEARBOOK</strong> Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Department of Architecture 西 交 利 物 浦 大 学 建 筑 系<br />
Final review of cardboard shelter designs by primary school children. Photographs by Christiane M. Herr.<br />
Level 1<br />
( Year 2 | Semester 2 )<br />
Teaching Team<br />
Christiane M. Herr<br />
Thomas Fischer<br />
Number of Students<br />
4<br />
Continuing Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University’s (<strong>XJTLU</strong>) success<br />
during the previous years' events, a team of four 3rd-year students from<br />
<strong>XJTLU</strong>’s Department of Architecture participated in the International<br />
Annual Earthquake Safety Design Competition IDEERS <strong>2018</strong> in<br />
Taipei, Taiwan. The four students (Qixuan Hu, Shuyu Ni, Lu Song and<br />
Haoning Zhang) spent two months during the summer continuously<br />
improving the earthquake resistance of their structures as well as their<br />
craftsmanship. The contributions of <strong>XJTLU</strong> were awarded with the Best<br />
Structure Design Prize and the Best Architecture Design Prize amongst<br />
49 international teams competing in the undergraduate category, and<br />
an Earthquake Safety Certificate. The <strong>XJTLU</strong> students’ success was a<br />
particularly impressive achievement as they were among only very<br />
few architecture students competing among a majority of engineering<br />
students in the undergraduate category.<br />
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MARCH DES FIELD TRIP<br />
TO SINGAPORE<br />
<strong>2018</strong>-<strong>2019</strong> <strong>YEARBOOK</strong> Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Department of Architecture 西 交 利 物 浦 大 学 建 筑 系<br />
Visit to the Urban Planning Model of Singapore. Photograph by Christiane M. Herr.<br />
Visit to the Oasia Downtown Hotel by WOHA. Photograph by Christiane M. Herr.<br />
Level 4/5<br />
( Year 1/2 | Semester 2 )<br />
Event Organisers<br />
Christiane M. Herr<br />
Thomas Wortmann<br />
Number of Students<br />
18<br />
In January <strong>2019</strong>, a group of 18 students across the two cohorts of the<br />
MArch Des programme participated in a field trip to Singapore. The<br />
field trip provided students in the MArch Des programme with an<br />
opportunity to learn from built architecture in a key area of their study.<br />
The visit focused on sustainable technology as it impacts advanced<br />
contemporary high-rise construction. In preparation of the field trip,<br />
students researched specific buildings and acted as guides during the<br />
trip. Through the field trip, students were exposed to a more advanced<br />
level of sustainable construction technology, informing students across<br />
both cohorts in preparation of their more technically oriented second<br />
semester design studio projects. In addition, students were introduced<br />
to urban planning strategies forming the background to well-integrated<br />
high density urban development. The field trip offered a unique learning<br />
experience for both local and international students, with visits to NUS<br />
and SUTD complementing learning about applied design with increased<br />
awareness of architectural design approaches cultivated at leading<br />
universities in Asia.<br />
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TRIANGULATED SHELL FOAM<br />
STRUCTURES BASED ON<br />
ROBOTIC HOT-WIRE-CUTTING:<br />
A DESIGN, GEOMETRY<br />
RATIONALISATION AND<br />
FABRICATION WORKFLOW<br />
<strong>2018</strong>-<strong>2019</strong> <strong>YEARBOOK</strong> Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Department of Architecture 西 交 利 物 浦 大 学 建 筑 系<br />
Hot wire cutting robot setup and operation. Photograph by Thomas Fischer.<br />
Triangulated expanded polystyrene foam (XPF) shell assemblies. Photographs by Thomas Fischer.<br />
Level 2<br />
( Year 3 )<br />
Students<br />
Shubo Wei<br />
Mingxuan Ze<br />
Xinning Yu<br />
Supervisor Team<br />
Thomas Fischer (PI)<br />
Christiane M. Herr<br />
Michael Grau (RFR Shanghai)<br />
This SURF project is a preliminary investigation into a digital design<br />
and production workflow to generate, rationalise and fabricate<br />
triangulated extruded shell foam structures. The project involved the<br />
development of a speculative form finding and geometry generation<br />
process, a rationalisation approach, and a new type of hot wire cutting<br />
robot. Research findings resulting from the project relate to technical<br />
and design strategies, geometric and fabrication constraints, as well<br />
as an outline of related future work. Fabricating a test sculpture we<br />
identified several challenges relating to raw material preparation,<br />
cutting precision control, the execution of joint connections and to the<br />
processing of geometric exceptions in the tongue-and-groove joints near<br />
tile vertices. The tools and processes developed in this project promise<br />
further possibilities and applications, for example in the production of<br />
lost formwork and of strong and lightweight sandwich structures. The<br />
SURF project resulted in a research paper presented at the international<br />
conference CAADRIA<strong>2019</strong>.<br />
Summer Undergraduate Research Fund (SURF)<br />
SURF-<strong>2018</strong>-02<br />
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EXHIBITION TAIPEI FYP<br />
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舊 市 新 場<br />
OLD MARKET NEW PLACE<br />
西 交 利 物 浦 大 學 建 築 系 18/19 本 科 畢 業 班 台 北 組 學 生 作 品 展 覽<br />
展 覽 地 點 : 新 富 町 文 化 市 場 ( 臺 北 市 萬 華 區 三 水 街 70 號 )<br />
展 覽 時 間 : <strong>2019</strong>.7.24 - 8.4<br />
策 展 人 : 馮 國 安<br />
參 展 學 生 : 鄒 偉 / 李 睿 / 王 知 涵 / 塗 凱 茜 / 張 怡 凝 / 趙 子 豪 / 方 天 圓 / 穆 聰 雨 / 孫 煒 程<br />
協 辦 單 位 : 忠 泰 建 築 文 化 藝 術 基 金 會<br />
<strong>XJTLU</strong> Architecture Final Year Project 18/19 Taipei Group Exhibition<br />
Venue: U-mkt, No.70, Sanshui St., Wanhua Dist., Taipei City 108<br />
Exhibition date: 24th July - 4th August <strong>2019</strong><br />
Curator: Philip Fung<br />
Participants: Zou Wei / Li Rui / Wang Zhihan / Tu Kaixin / Zhang Yining /<br />
Zhao Zhihao / Fang Tianyuan / Mu Congyu / Sun Weicheng<br />
Co-organizer: JUT Foundation for Arts & Architecture<br />
Level 1<br />
( Year 2 | Semester 2 )<br />
Teaching Team<br />
Christiane M. Herr<br />
Thomas Fischer<br />
Number of Students<br />
4<br />
FYP exhibition in Taipei<br />
Introduction<br />
Architecture is inspired by daily life patterns. If we wish to understand<br />
a city, one of best way is to visit the local market: it is a mixed hybrid<br />
cultural place. Before shopping mall or supermarket invented, market<br />
not only provides daily goods exchange, but also the venue for people’s<br />
interactions, and sense of belonging.<br />
The exhibited project theme of FYP Taipei Group, is to think how to<br />
reuse the 1935 Taipei Xin Fu Market and reconsider new programs<br />
to activate the community. Students have to integrate the old market<br />
building and new architecture as one unity.<br />
In the exhibition, people may see different innovative proposals<br />
including vertical school, craftsman community, aquarium or coworking<br />
spaces. Through the exhibition, it may give some inspirations to<br />
the future redevelopment of Taipei city and also how architecture may<br />
have longer life span.<br />
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BETWEEN <strong>ARCHITECTURE</strong><br />
AND LANDSCAPE<br />
ENVIRONMENTAL AND SUSTAINABLE DESIGN FOR FUTURE<br />
CITIES<br />
International workshop with Balkrishna V. Doshi (<strong>2018</strong><br />
Pritzker Prize Laureate)<br />
<strong>XJTLU</strong> – VSF (Vastu Shilpa Foundation for Studies and<br />
Research in Environmental Design, Ahmedabad, India)<br />
<strong>2018</strong>-<strong>2019</strong> <strong>YEARBOOK</strong> Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Department of Architecture 西 交 利 物 浦 大 学 建 筑 系<br />
Workshop poster by Sandro Rolla, <strong>2019</strong>/06/10,<br />
Painting by Balkrishna V. Doshi, Vidhydhar Nagar, Jaipur<br />
BY Chenjia Ren, Yixin Xiao, AQUATIC CITY, <strong>2019</strong>/06/18<br />
by Xiying Chang, Yi Jiang, Lingke Zhang, Jiaye Yang, Dexin<br />
Li, ARTIFICIAL LANDSCAPE, <strong>2019</strong>/06/18<br />
by Ni Shuyu, Li Shuqi, Zhang Zhao, Magsarjav Telmuun,<br />
ECOLOGICAL REGENERATION, <strong>2019</strong>/06/18<br />
by Ran Zhang, Tiantian Dong, Menghan Chen, Yue Shi,<br />
Qixuan Hu, Lingyu Wang, NEXUS, <strong>2019</strong>/06/18<br />
Intermediate critic, <strong>2019</strong>/06/14 Final critic, <strong>2019</strong>/06/18<br />
Final exhibition, <strong>2019</strong>/06/18, Photographed by Sandro<br />
Rolla<br />
by Haoning Zhang, Lihan Huang, Simeng Zhu, Tshering<br />
Yangzom, Xinping Jiang, Xiaoxuan Zhang, Yichang Liu, THE<br />
GATEWAY, <strong>2019</strong>/06/18<br />
by Menghan Lu, Qianru Li, Kefei Qiao, Dongjie Ma, Jiazheng<br />
Liu, URBAN CONNECTOR, <strong>2019</strong>/06/18<br />
Final exhibition, <strong>2019</strong>/06/18<br />
Creators and Organizers<br />
Sandro Rolla<br />
Juan Carlos Dall’Asta<br />
Davide Lombardi<br />
Teaching Team<br />
Rajeev Kathpalia<br />
Sandro Rolla<br />
Juan Carlos Dall’Asta<br />
Teaching Assistant<br />
Camilo Espitia<br />
Cindy Lai<br />
Daniela Pico<br />
Students<br />
Group 1:<br />
Chenjia Ren, Yixin Xiao<br />
Group 2:<br />
Menghan Lu, Qianru Li, Kefei Qiao,<br />
Dongjie Ma, Jiazheng Liu<br />
Group 3:<br />
Ran Zhang, Tiantian Dong, Menghan<br />
Chen, Yue Shi, Qixuan Hu, Lingyu Wang<br />
Group 4:<br />
Xiying Chang, Yi Jiang, Lingke Zhang,<br />
Jiaye Yang, Dexin Li<br />
Group 5:<br />
Ni Shuyu, Li Shuqi, Zhang Zhao,<br />
Magsarjav Telmuun<br />
Group 6:<br />
Haoning Zhang, Lihan Huang, Simeng<br />
Zhu, Tshering Yangzom, Xinping Jiang,<br />
Xiaoxuan Zhang, Yichang Liu<br />
Lectures<br />
Rajeev Kathpalia<br />
(In search of the Elusive Water of<br />
India, June 10 th )<br />
Yuwen Wang<br />
(Water heritage of Suzhou, June 11 th )<br />
Balkrishna V. Doshi<br />
(Public conversation, online from<br />
Ahmedabad (India), June 11 th )<br />
Final Critic Guests<br />
Gisela Loehlein (ARC-<strong>XJTLU</strong>)<br />
Marco Cimillo (ARC-<strong>XJTLU</strong>)<br />
Yiwen Wang (UPD-<strong>XJTLU</strong>)<br />
Placido Gonzalez Martinez<br />
(Tongji University, Shanghai)<br />
Per Erik Bjornsen (Architect, Shanghai)<br />
Filippo Calcerano (ITABC – National<br />
Research Council of Italy)<br />
Contemporary cities are complex stratifications in which humans try<br />
to balance their life in between traditional heritage and future ways of<br />
living. It is not possible to think about sustainable growth without a correct<br />
equilibrium between the built space and its environment.<br />
As the world progressively becomes more urban our relationship to<br />
natural environment, circadian rhythms and especially to our inner self is<br />
radically affected.<br />
As cities grow and adapt to larger populations often the pragmatic<br />
functionality to achieve an efficiency of speed dominates at the cost<br />
of slower, opportunistic, chance based reflective modes of doing and<br />
thinking in their planning and design. Convenience is at the cusp between<br />
remaining alert, alive and humanly fallible versus machine like precision<br />
and efficiency and often the loss of humane qualities.<br />
The workshop sets out to explore this condition through a real project<br />
based on the city of Suzhou. Instead of defining a program or a problem<br />
to be solved looks at a situation in the city as an opportunity to draw out<br />
possibilities for humane which would benefit residents of the area of<br />
intervention, citizens, visitors, tourists and others.<br />
In this effort, connections to natural systems, landscape elements<br />
connecting people to their deeply wired responses of their past as well<br />
as contemporary infrastructure and current challenges of living in fast<br />
paced, convenient environments are to be balanced.<br />
Six groups of students from the UG program year 3 and 4 as well as from<br />
year 1 and 2 of the Master program have volunteered to participate in this<br />
workshop.<br />
The culmination of the workshop was a beautiful exhibition with video<br />
presentations, models, drawings and 6 posters summarizing the projects.<br />
Balkrishna V. Doshi is a Fellow of RIBA<br />
as well as IIA.<br />
He worked with Le Corbusier as Senior<br />
Designer (1951-54) in Paris and supervised<br />
his projects in Ahmedabad for four<br />
more years. His office Vastu-Shilpa was<br />
established in 1955.<br />
Dr. Doshi has been a jury member of several<br />
international and national competitions and<br />
awards. He has been visiting U.S.A. and<br />
Europe since 1958 and has held important<br />
chairs in several universities. Dr. Doshi is<br />
equally known as educator and institution<br />
builder and is a recipient of Pritzker Prize and<br />
several other awards, honors and honorary<br />
Doctorates.<br />
Other Activities<br />
Rajeev Kathpalia is involved with<br />
Architecture, Urban Design and Planning<br />
projects throughout India for 30 years as a<br />
partner at Vastu Shilpa Consultants.<br />
This critically acclaimed practice is the<br />
recipient of several international and national<br />
awards and honors and its work has been<br />
published and exhibited extensively.<br />
Besides running an acknowledged practice<br />
Rajeev has been teaching for the past 25<br />
years.<br />
He is also a Trustee of the Vastu Shilpa<br />
Foundation a not for profit research<br />
organization in environmental and Habitat<br />
Design.
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BIM WORKSHOP<br />
<strong>2018</strong>-<strong>2019</strong> <strong>YEARBOOK</strong> Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Department of Architecture 西 交 利 物 浦 大 学 建 筑 系<br />
Dates<br />
27 th – 31 st . August <strong>2018</strong><br />
Curator<br />
Dr. Davide Lombardi<br />
Tutor<br />
Giancarlo Di Marco<br />
(CENTRO University, Mexico City)<br />
Assistant<br />
Daniela Pico Perez<br />
The five-day workshop on Autodesk Revit was the first of the workshop<br />
series run by the department of Architecture in the academic year<br />
<strong>2018</strong>/<strong>2019</strong>. The workshop on Building Information Modelling software<br />
Autodesk Revit, was led by Giancarlo Di Marco, professor of digital<br />
design and fabrication at the University Centro de Diseño, Cine y<br />
Televisión, Mexico City. He is professor of parametric design and digital<br />
fabrication in undergraduate and postgraduate courses. Specialist in 3D<br />
Modelling, Digital Design and Digital Fabrication he has worked with<br />
several companies as process and product innovation specialist together<br />
with Confindustria (General Confederation of Italian Industry). In<br />
Mexico he founded Studio Giancarlo Di Marco, consulting, training and<br />
design services for Architecture, Engineering and Industrial/Product<br />
Design. He is an Autodesk and McNeel certified trainer, author of the<br />
book Simplified Complexity –Method for advanced NURBS modelling<br />
with Rhinoceros.<br />
The workshop introduced the students to Revit Architecture interface<br />
with focus on an optimized workflow in the process of design and<br />
the generation of views, floor plans, elevations, sections and sheets.<br />
Autodesk Revit Architecture is the perfect solution for BIM design and<br />
full control over the entire construction process. The Architect can take<br />
advantage of this potential to create and control every aspect of complex<br />
projects.<br />
Furthermore, a two-days advanced course on energy analysis with<br />
Revit Architecture took place in parallel to the international conference<br />
Architecture Across Boundaries. The workshop focused on creating the<br />
energy model, a complex set of geometric, physical and spatial properties<br />
that make building efficiency evaluation possible. The workshop<br />
provided a solid understanding and knowledge of energy analysis with<br />
Revit Architecture.<br />
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BAMBOO & RATTAN<br />
MATERIAL WORKSHOP<br />
WITH THE TAIWANESE<br />
ARTIST CHENG TSUNG FENG<br />
<strong>2018</strong>-<strong>2019</strong> <strong>YEARBOOK</strong> Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Department of Architecture 西 交 利 物 浦 大 学 建 筑 系<br />
Photographs by<br />
Wei Chun Lin and Sofia Quiroga<br />
( Year 2-4 | Semester 1 )<br />
Coordination<br />
Sofia Quiroga + Barbara Wong<br />
Teaching Team<br />
Cheng Tsung Feng<br />
Sofia Quiroga<br />
Teaching Assistants<br />
Wei Chun Lin<br />
Guillermo Sanchez Sotés<br />
Special Support<br />
Jian Chen<br />
Hailin Zhao<br />
Liqiong Chen<br />
Students<br />
Lin LI<br />
Jinjin SONG<br />
Qichen CUI Mengjie LYU<br />
Siyi XIA Yili ZHOU<br />
Yuhui CAO Ziting XIONG<br />
Binao GUO Qianru LI<br />
Jing Wen HU Ruilin XIE<br />
Shengyao LYU Shangtong HUAG<br />
Zixuan ZHANG Yuzi CHEN<br />
Rui ZHANG Xiaoxuan ZHANG<br />
Yu LIU Yufei ZHAN<br />
Hao JING Feiya SUO<br />
Shiran LUO Siyan LIU<br />
Zhaoyun XING Cai XIAO<br />
Angel Orozco Garcia<br />
For five days, we went through a complete process of creating and<br />
producing structures to reactivate ceilings in the Design Building at<br />
<strong>XJTLU</strong>. The main aim of the workshop was to focus on design from<br />
specific materials and creating through a hands-on process. The students<br />
were encouraged to experiment with the materials manipulating them<br />
with their hands to learn about their distinctive properties. They<br />
developed the concept design researching the properties of rattan and<br />
bamboo.<br />
We invited the artist Feng to lead the workshop to create an opportunity<br />
for students to interact with those in other departments and to practice<br />
teamwork and collaboration. The architecture and industrial design<br />
students worked together, complementing each other’s skill sets.<br />
We organised a temporary exhibition on the Design Building first<br />
floor with the outcomes together with the prototypes made during the<br />
research of the materials.<br />
The final exhibition is located in the Design Building Workshop area<br />
interacting with the light and the surrounding spaces, creating an<br />
atmosphere that invites creativity.<br />
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DIGITAL STRUCTURAL<br />
DESIGN AND FABRICATION<br />
WITH KARAMBA3D<br />
<strong>2018</strong>-<strong>2019</strong> <strong>YEARBOOK</strong> Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Department of Architecture 西 交 利 物 浦 大 学 建 筑 系<br />
Physical model of the designed structure, photo by: Davide Lombardi<br />
Digital Structural Analysis, photo by: Davide Lombardi<br />
Dates<br />
10 th – 14 th June <strong>2019</strong><br />
Curator<br />
Dr. Davide Lombardi<br />
Tutors<br />
CllemensPreisinger<br />
Matthew Tam (Karamba3D)<br />
Assistant<br />
Daniela Pico Perez<br />
The five-day workshop was part of a series of hands-on workshops run<br />
by the Department to give students practical experience with industry<br />
professionals.<br />
The workshop on algorithm-aided design was led by Clemens Preisinger,<br />
developer of the parametric structural engineering tool Karamba3D, and<br />
Matthew Tam, Preisinger’s colleague at European structural engineering<br />
consultancy firm Bollinger + Grohmann. The workshop introduced<br />
students to Karamba3D use in the design phase of a project.<br />
Karamba3D is a parametric, interactive Finite Element program being<br />
developed in cooperation with Bollinger + Grohmann Engineers in<br />
Vienna. Its dissemination is an effort of an interdisciplinary team of<br />
architects, structural engineers, researchers and programmers.<br />
Karamba3D allows architects and engineers to test a wide range of<br />
possibilities in an early design phase, avoiding time-consuming and<br />
manual process. With the support of the software students were able<br />
to easily calculate the behaviour of a building and the reaction of the<br />
structure to different elements. Moreover, students were able to show<br />
how the digital model can be transformed into something physical by<br />
building a physical model of the structure designed with Karamba3D at<br />
the end of the workshop.<br />
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EXHIBITION<br />
INTERDISCIPLINARY<br />
WORKSHOP + EXHIBITION<br />
— SUZHOU: 1 CITY/ 7<br />
IDENTITIES<br />
1<br />
2<br />
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3<br />
1 Projection Mapping, Digital<br />
Scroll, Xiyang Jing<br />
Photographer - ARC/ UPD<br />
Date - June 18, <strong>2019</strong><br />
2 Xiyang Jing<br />
Photographer - ARC/ UPD<br />
Date - June 18, <strong>2019</strong><br />
3 Workshop Participants<br />
Photographer - ARC/ UPD<br />
Date - June 18, <strong>2019</strong><br />
5<br />
4<br />
5<br />
6<br />
School Visit<br />
Photographer - John Latto<br />
Date - June 18, <strong>2019</strong><br />
Exhibition at Night<br />
Photographer - ARC<br />
Date - June 18, <strong>2019</strong><br />
Projection Mapping<br />
Photographer - ARC<br />
Date - June 18, <strong>2019</strong><br />
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6<br />
Dates<br />
June 18, <strong>2019</strong><br />
Organizers<br />
David Vardy<br />
Christian Nolf<br />
Flo Vannoorbeeck<br />
Teaching Team<br />
David Vardy<br />
Philip Fung<br />
Richard Hay<br />
Kihong Ku<br />
Students<br />
Shi Luhang<br />
Haitian Xie<br />
Mingkun Li<br />
Yuyin Xiao<br />
Kexin Qian<br />
Ming Chen<br />
Zhaoyun Xing<br />
Yingfei Zhuo<br />
Yurui Li<br />
Qi Zhu<br />
Lu Song<br />
Dengyu Zou<br />
Yingzhuo Wang<br />
Feiya Suo<br />
Zaozao Wang<br />
Guest Lectures<br />
Igea Troiani<br />
Qian Lin<br />
Yaqin Zuo<br />
Christian Nolf<br />
Flo Vannoorbeeck<br />
Shaun Ansari<br />
Yiwen Wang<br />
Rui Yan<br />
Xuan Zhou<br />
Yuqian Jiang<br />
Beige Ouyang<br />
Fangming Li<br />
Yuanfang Shang<br />
Fei Zheng<br />
Lan Qin<br />
Bao Kun Wei<br />
Yurou Li<br />
Pengyang Luo<br />
Mark Kats<br />
Yuan Xu<br />
Naomi Riteco<br />
Guest Reviewers<br />
Igea Trioani Arturo Smith<br />
Tordis Berstrand Thomas Wortmann<br />
Adam Brillhart Peta Carlin<br />
Yiping Dong Wenbo Qiu<br />
Vincent Peu Duvallon<br />
Suzhou, 2500 years old; multifaceted; under threat; how can its historic<br />
centre become (again) a vibrant, creative and livable city in the 21st<br />
century? Crossing fields of Urban Design, Architecture, and Film,<br />
this interdisciplinary workshop and resultant exhibition explored 7<br />
interwoven identities of the city: Suzhou Water/ Suzhou Gardens/<br />
Suzhou Wisdom/ Suzhou Streets/ Suzhou Creates/ Suzhou Scroll/<br />
Suzhou Dwelling. By reframing, reinterpreting, and reviving these<br />
identities; through observation, imagination, intervention, and design;<br />
students realised an alternative approach to top-down master planning<br />
and restrictive conservation practice.<br />
The initiative was a collaboration between the Department of<br />
Architecture’s Design Research Centre, the Department of Urban<br />
Planning and Design, and the School of Film and Television Arts. The<br />
exhibition had three elements; a ‘Digital Scroll’ showing 7 films of<br />
Suzhou simultaneously; a gigantic ‘Projection Mapped’ relief model<br />
of Suzhou telling the story of the 7 Identities and the sites we worked<br />
with; and 7 hidden/revealed ‘Suzhou-Scope’ models inspired by the<br />
Chinese tradition of XiYang Jing. All the work was created during an<br />
intensive five day period involving lectures, field-work, design charrette,<br />
filmmaking, and model-making.<br />
We hope our work contributes to the conversation around urban<br />
conservation and regeneration in China. We wished to dynamically<br />
balance livability, heritage conservation, tourism, and economic<br />
development; and through a synthesis of film, modelling, and projectionmapping,<br />
we created a series of interconnected propositional visions —<br />
The 7 Identities of Suzhou.<br />
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WORKSHOP<br />
<strong>ARCHITECTURE</strong> VISUALI-<br />
ZATION WORKSHOP WITH<br />
FLYING<strong>ARCHITECTURE</strong><br />
<strong>2018</strong>-<strong>2019</strong> <strong>YEARBOOK</strong> Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Department of Architecture 西 交 利 物 浦 大 学 建 筑 系<br />
Xinning Yu, Final Render<br />
Tiantian Ge, Final Render<br />
Dates<br />
29 th October – 02 nd November <strong>2018</strong><br />
Curator<br />
Dr. Davide Lombardi<br />
Tutors<br />
Matus Nedecky<br />
Lukas Filip (FlyingArchutecture)<br />
Assistant<br />
Daniela Pico Perez<br />
Following up with the workshop series, Architecture students<br />
of the Department of Architecture at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool<br />
University, enhanced their visualization skills with a Digital<br />
representation workshop. Based in Brno, Czech Republic,<br />
FlyingArchitecture’s work is focused on high-end photorealistic imagery,<br />
and they have produced architecture visualisations for renowned studios<br />
including Zaha Hadid Architects and UNstudio.<br />
For five days, founder of FlyingArchitecture Matus Nedecky and Senior<br />
Artist Lukas Filip guided the students through the workflow for creating<br />
high-end computer-generated architecture visuals. Undergraduate<br />
and master students were trained in the use of software applications<br />
Rhinoceros, V-Ray, and Photoshop. The trainers also introduced the<br />
students to plugin RhinoGrow for rendering grass and plants, and 3D<br />
material authoring tool Substance Designer.<br />
Flying architecture provided to the students a detailed set of digital<br />
resources and lectures about the principles of ArchViz including the<br />
software workflow a, as composition, camera setup, and perspective<br />
criteria. During the workshop the students reconstructed a scene guided<br />
by the lectures. The tutors followed up with the students throughout the<br />
week, focusing on their individual needs and interests, and encouraging<br />
them to explore and experiment with their visualisations. The results of<br />
their work were projected on the ground floor of the Design Building.<br />
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WORKSHOP<br />
ZULOARK WORKSHOP<br />
DESIGNING WITH<br />
RECYCLED MATERIALS<br />
WORKSHOP STATEMENT: Awareness. Noun [ U ] uk<br />
/əˈweə.nəs/ - us /əˈwer.nəs/<br />
“Knowledge that something exists, or<br />
understanding of a situation or subject at the<br />
present time based on information or experience”<br />
<strong>2018</strong>-<strong>2019</strong> <strong>YEARBOOK</strong> Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Department of Architecture 西 交 利 物 浦 大 学 建 筑 系<br />
Photographs by Sofia Quiroga<br />
BEng Architecture<br />
( Year 2-4) (Semester 2)<br />
BEng Industrial Design<br />
(Year 1-4)<br />
Coordination<br />
Sofia Quiroga<br />
Teaching Team<br />
Zuloark office<br />
Juan Chacon<br />
Manuel Dominguez<br />
Sofia Quiroga<br />
Teaching Assistant<br />
Guillermo Sanchez Sotés<br />
Special Support<br />
Hailin Zhao<br />
Yunpeng Liu<br />
CMO working team<br />
Ma Mingxun<br />
Students<br />
Kai Wu<br />
Zitong Chen<br />
Tian Luo<br />
Lu Song<br />
Linmei Li<br />
Xinning Yu<br />
Ying Chen<br />
Runhao Cheng<br />
Mengting Liu<br />
Yu Gu<br />
Shubo Wei<br />
Xinyuan Yue<br />
Mengjie Lyu<br />
Yuqian Gao<br />
Yuanyuan Xu<br />
Jialin Li<br />
Tian Xinyi<br />
Henny Chenjaya<br />
Yuxia Ren<br />
Xiaopei Lu<br />
Yiting Ma<br />
Zhixin Tang<br />
Zhaohua Chen<br />
Binao Guo<br />
Yufei Zhan<br />
Zeyu Jiao<br />
Zhen Wu<br />
Xiangyuan Kong<br />
Ziqing Xu<br />
Zhen Wu<br />
Xueli Guan<br />
Bryan yan chut hang<br />
This workshop is not about what is good or bad; it’s about the freedom<br />
to choose that knowledge provides. When we have information, and we<br />
know “the facts” about architecture, construction and what it takes to<br />
produce them, we are freer to decide depending on our commitments<br />
with our profession and what we want to leave as “our work legacy” on<br />
the planet. Our aim is that what we learn in these days will be exportable<br />
not only to our future as architecture professionals but to our daily lives.<br />
Using discarded, old stocked, and non-used elements, we built a common<br />
resting area at the university terrace. All these materials were extracted,<br />
manufactured or produced using energy, and therefore, they have their<br />
carbon footprint, and this will have to be taken into account.<br />
We worked hand to hand in collaborative processes, using and reusing<br />
university’s materials and equipment. In teams of 3 or 4 students, we<br />
were delivering from 8 team prototypes that be deployed on the terrace<br />
and work as a whole. Every team was free to design their prototype;<br />
however, they had to respect given maximum measures and occupation<br />
and them mandatory had to think how to link their prototype with<br />
the rest to find out a global solution to the whole terrace area. Every<br />
prototype should have a base or counterweight, a bearing structure that<br />
will support a canopy and finally the possibility to hold plants on them.<br />
This is just a building awareness workshop, we will not save the earth,<br />
but hopefully, we achieved both the academic and conscious mission. We<br />
will have more wisdom about the crucial fact that Global Warming is for<br />
our future decisions as architects and citizens.<br />
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WAXING LYRICALLY<br />
<strong>2018</strong>-<strong>2019</strong> <strong>YEARBOOK</strong> Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Department of Architecture 西 交 利 物 浦 大 学 建 筑 系<br />
Curator<br />
Peta Carlin<br />
Assistant<br />
Dengyu Zou<br />
Students<br />
Christian Lau Kuen Wing<br />
Fangqing Lin<br />
Jiaming Chang<br />
Kexin Qian<br />
Lanxin He<br />
Mengzhe Xue<br />
Puyuan Sun<br />
Reynard Eugene<br />
Ruqing Lyu<br />
Wanting Shen<br />
Woosik Jung<br />
Xinyuan Yue<br />
Yangxi Liu<br />
Yitian Tan<br />
Yuhui Cao<br />
Yuyin Xiao<br />
Zhixuan Song<br />
Ziting Xiong<br />
Emerging from a cast of characters and their costuming, to their<br />
gathering into groups in order to form an enclosure, a series of drawings<br />
were born through various experiments and transformations, these<br />
then taking shape in the form of a model. Immersed in wax and recast,<br />
relationships between solid and void were consequently exposed, the<br />
potential to shape and inhabit space further tested through movement,<br />
occupation and changes in scale.<br />
Part of the first-year design studio module, ARC101: Design Thinking<br />
and Articulation, which explores relationships between body and<br />
building, Waxing Lyrically presents a selection of models produced by<br />
our students.<br />
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CLIMATHON <strong>2018</strong><br />
<strong>2018</strong>-<strong>2019</strong> <strong>YEARBOOK</strong> Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Department of Architecture 西 交 利 物 浦 大 学 建 筑 系<br />
Students conceptualise their project proposal<br />
Group photo of the participants to Decathlon <strong>2018</strong><br />
Jury members listening to the presentation of the Human Behavious theme<br />
The winning team of Decthlon <strong>2018</strong> with recycled bags produced by the Department of Architecture:<br />
Eva Carocci (BEng Industrial Design), Adit Rastogi (BA Marketing), Xiaoyang Zhou (BEng Architecture) and Wenqing Gao (BSc Financial Mathematics).<br />
Dates<br />
26 th – 27 th October <strong>2018</strong><br />
Organisers<br />
Dr Barbara Wong (IND)<br />
Dr. Marco Cimillo (ARC)<br />
Dr Zheng Feei Ma (HES)<br />
Dr Paola Pellegrin (UPD)<br />
Dr Ellen Touchstone (IBSS)<br />
Supporting Student Associations<br />
<strong>XJTLU</strong> Design Association<br />
<strong>XJTLU</strong> Oikos Suzhou<br />
Coaches<br />
Dr. Barbara Wong<br />
Dr. Marco Cimillo<br />
Dr Christiane Herr<br />
Dr. Zheng Feei Ma<br />
Dr. Paola Pellegrini<br />
Dr. Ellen Touchstone<br />
Dr. Florence Vannoorbeeck<br />
Dr. Yuxi Zhao<br />
Jury members Human Behaviour<br />
Prof. Giselle Loehlein (ARC)<br />
Prof. Joon Sik Kim (UPD)<br />
Dr. Chiachi Chang (IBSS)<br />
Dr. Zheng Feei Ma (HES)<br />
Ms Bao Xia (SIP CSR Alliance)<br />
Jury members Circular Economy<br />
Prof. Ewout van der Schaft (IND)<br />
Prof. Hossam Ismail (IBSS)<br />
Dr. Marco Cimillo (ARC)<br />
Dr. Paola Pellegrini (UPD)<br />
Dr. Ellen Touchstone (IBSS)<br />
Dr Huan Ni (Greenlightyear NGO)<br />
<strong>XJTLU</strong> hosted for the second time “Climathon Suzhou”, joining a worldwide<br />
movement with participants from 113 cities in 67 countries.<br />
The event encourages ordinary citizens to contribute to sustainable<br />
development in their own cities.<br />
At our university, students and academics joined forces to participate<br />
in the 24-hour hackathon with the aim of finding new ways to tackle<br />
environmental challenges in Suzhou.<br />
Approximately 50 students were divided into 12 groups, each tasked<br />
with finding the solution to a specific question related to either Human<br />
Behaviour or Circular Economy, within a 24-hour time period.<br />
The workshop was supported by five departments and two student<br />
associations at <strong>XJTLU</strong>, and saw also the participation of students from<br />
other local universities and of external experts from Suzhou and<br />
Shanghai.<br />
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HALL <strong>OF</strong> LOST STEPS<br />
JUAN HEREDIA<br />
<strong>2018</strong>-<strong>2019</strong> <strong>YEARBOOK</strong> Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Department of Architecture 西 交 利 物 浦 大 学 建 筑 系<br />
Grill to the Salle des Pas Perdus designed by Louis Salzmann in 1939,<br />
at the United Nations Palais des Nations, Geneva.<br />
Photograph by Mourad Ben Abdallah.<br />
Organiser<br />
Peta Carlin<br />
A ‘Hall of Lost Steps’ (Salle des pas perdus) is a large vestibule, lobby, or<br />
corridor, capable of containing a large number of people and distributing<br />
them to other parts of a building. Departing from André Breton’s<br />
collection of essays, The Lost Steps (Les Pas perdus) in which he narrates<br />
his transition from Dadaism to Surrealism, Juan Heredia traces the<br />
Hall’s significance in architectural culture from the writings of Eugène-<br />
Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc to the work of Le Corbusier, Carlo Scarpa,<br />
Marco Frascari and Peter Eisenman.<br />
About the Speaker<br />
Juan Heredia is currently Associate Professor at Portland State University. He<br />
studied and practiced architecture in Mexico, moving to the United States in 1999<br />
to pursue graduate studies. His research focuses on architectural theory and<br />
history, especially that of the 20th century with an emphasis on Latin American<br />
architecture. Forthcoming publications include: The Routledge Handbook for the<br />
Reception of the Classical Tradition in Architecture (London: Routledge) edited with<br />
Nicholas Temple and Andrzej Piotrowski; The First Modern Building in Mexico –<br />
El primer edificio moderno de México (Mexico: Arquine); Essays on Openness and<br />
Orientation in Architecture / Ensayos sobre aperturay orientación en arquitectura<br />
(Mexico: Arquine); and, the edited edition, Joseph Rykwert: Collected Essays<br />
(London: Routledge).I<br />
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STUDENT PRIZES<br />
<strong>2018</strong>-<strong>2019</strong> <strong>YEARBOOK</strong> Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Department of Architecture 西 交 利 物 浦 大 学 建 筑 系<br />
Best Social Engagement<br />
Yurui Li<br />
Best Vision<br />
Camilo Espitia<br />
Best Design Process and<br />
Narrative<br />
Yifu Gong<br />
Best Environmental Strategy<br />
Chenjia Ren<br />
Best Technical Development<br />
Houwei Fu<br />
Jiaming Chang<br />
Xingyu Lu<br />
Zidong Fan<br />
Best Visualization<br />
Chenwei Ye<br />
Best Sketches<br />
Fanyu Gao<br />
Ziyu Liu<br />
Best Model<br />
Xingyu Lu<br />
Best Essay<br />
Shangtong Huang<br />
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BDP - Farrell Prize<br />
1st Prize<br />
Yuzheng Yao<br />
2nd Prize<br />
Mingxun Ma<br />
Best Overall Academic<br />
Performance<br />
Yang Di<br />
Best performance<br />
in Final Year Project<br />
Yang Di<br />
Best performance<br />
in Final Year Project<br />
Yuzheng Yao
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Organising Committee<br />
Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University:<br />
● Dr Marco Cimillo<br />
● Dr Adam Brillhart<br />
● Dr Teresa Hoskyns<br />
● Phillip Fung<br />
● Prof. Gisela Loehlein<br />
● Dr Davide Lombardi<br />
● Dr Jing Yang<br />
Royal Institute of British Architects:<br />
● Alison Mackinder<br />
CONFERENCE<br />
<strong>ARCHITECTURE</strong> ACROSS<br />
BOUNDARIES <strong>2019</strong>:<br />
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE<br />
Dr Teresa Hoskyns, Conference Chair<br />
Dr Marco Cimillo, Organisational Chair<br />
19-21 JUNE <strong>2019</strong><br />
<strong>2018</strong>-<strong>2019</strong> <strong>YEARBOOK</strong> Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Department of Architecture 西 交 利 物 浦 大 学 建 筑 系<br />
Keynote Speech by Binke Lenhardt<br />
Architecture across Boundaries Booklet<br />
A thematic paper presentation session<br />
Conference social Dinner hosted by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA)<br />
International Scientific Committee<br />
Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University:<br />
● Prof. Gisela Loehlein<br />
● Dr Tordis Berstrand<br />
● Dr Adam Brillhart<br />
● Dr Bing Chen<br />
● Dr Marco Cimillo<br />
● Dr Juan Carlos Dall’Asta<br />
● Dr Yiping Dong<br />
● Dr Jiawen Han<br />
● Dr Christiane Herr<br />
● Dr Teresa Hoskyns<br />
● Dr Sofía Quiroga Fernández<br />
● Dr Christian Gaenshirt<br />
● Dr Davide Lombardi<br />
● Dr Kihong Ku<br />
● Dr Paolo Scrivano<br />
● Prof Igea Troiani<br />
● Li-An Tsien<br />
● Dr Claudia Westermann<br />
● Dr Jing Yang<br />
University of Liverpool:<br />
● Prof. Soumyen Bandyopadhyay,<br />
● Dr David Chow<br />
Italian National Council of Architects /<br />
University of Pescara "G. d'Annunzio", Italy:<br />
● Prof. Livio Sacchi<br />
Sapienza University of Rome:<br />
● Dr Alessandra Battisti<br />
● Dr Fabrizio Tucci<br />
Italian National Research Council, Rome:<br />
● Dr Filippo Calcerano<br />
● Elena Gigliarelli<br />
Arkitektskolen Aarhus, Denmark:<br />
● Dr Sofie Pelsmakers<br />
Oxford Brookes University:<br />
● Dr Esra Kurul<br />
● Dr Maurizio Sibilla<br />
Saint Martins University of Arts London:<br />
● Nancy Diniz<br />
China Academy of Art, Hangzhou:<br />
● Dr Kenkit Yeung<br />
In June <strong>2019</strong> the Department of Architecture had the pleasure to host<br />
the international conference Architecture across Boundaries. The<br />
conference had ninety three Chinese and International registered guests,<br />
from academia, practice and from professional bodies. The guests came<br />
from eighteen different nations and from forty five institutions. The<br />
conference focused on international practice discussing the challenges/<br />
opportunities architects face when practicing in the internationally and<br />
showcased innovative and best practice. Boundaries in architecture<br />
become increasingly apparent when working in an global context<br />
and can be physical territories but also can refer to social, cultural,<br />
interdisciplinary and professional difference. Boundaries were discussed<br />
through four themes: Trans-national Architecture: Global Practice in the<br />
Local Context; Architecture across Cultures: Making, Representation<br />
and Material; Education and Professional Practice across Borders; Future<br />
Cities, Sustainability, Workflows, BIM.<br />
We were delighted to have six prestigious keynote speakers:<br />
Rajeev Kathpalia: Vastu Shilpa Consultants, Celebrating the elusive<br />
water of India<br />
Keith Griffiths: Chairman and Global Design Principal of Aedas, City<br />
Icons<br />
Binke Lenhardt: Partner and Co-founder, Crossboundaries, China<br />
shapes you while we are trying to shape China<br />
Dr. Charlie Q. L. Xue: City University of Hong Kong, A Reflexive<br />
Modernity: Architectural Importation and Exportation of China<br />
Prof. Alan Jones, President Elect RIBA, Risks and opportunities across<br />
our profession<br />
Prof. Flora Samuel: Vice President for Research RIBA, Future Practices<br />
This conference is supported by the University of Liverpool and the<br />
Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA)<br />
Special thanks to:<br />
The Head of Department Prof Gisela Loehlein; Prof. Igea Troiani, Dr.<br />
Adam Brillhart, Dr Teresa Hoskyns and Dr Marco Cimillo for their work<br />
as track chairs; Ms Yao Cheng for the Administrative Support; the <strong>XJTLU</strong><br />
Conferences and Events Team at the Academic Services Office for the<br />
organizational support.<br />
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The research strategy of the Department of Architecture is focused on<br />
three research areas:<br />
History, Theory and Heritage<br />
History, theory and heritage are fields of expertise of increasing<br />
importance in contemporary China. In the context of profound<br />
economic and social transformation, focus on the relationship between<br />
modernisation and tradition has taken centre stage. This applies in<br />
particular to the Suzhou region, where a number of significant historical<br />
sites and artefacts are located.<br />
<strong>2018</strong>-<strong>2019</strong> <strong>YEARBOOK</strong> Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Department of Architecture 西 交 利 物 浦 大 学 建 筑 系<br />
RESEARCH<br />
Our staff possess strong and diversified backgrounds in the history<br />
and theory of architecture and building heritage, the Department of<br />
Architecture is ideally placed to engage in studies and research on these<br />
subject matters. The history, theory and heritage research area covers a<br />
variety of fields of interest, including history and theory of architecture,<br />
urban history, landscape history, building heritage, cultural and material<br />
history, and industrial heritage.<br />
Computational Design and Fabrication<br />
Digitally aided design and construction are key areas in which the<br />
Chinese building industry has potential for development and a need for<br />
innovation. These areas have only recently found significant recognition<br />
amongst Chinese universities.<br />
Strengths of the Department of Architecture’s academic staff, the recent<br />
establishment of <strong>XJTLU</strong>’s Research Institute on Industrial Design and<br />
3D Printing, and emerging relationships with related local industry offer<br />
our Department an opportunity to assume a position of leadership in<br />
this field.<br />
Urban Ecologies<br />
To address the challenges of contemporary urban environments<br />
creative solutions are needed. This applies in particular to China, where<br />
cities currently face the challenges of enormous transformations at<br />
an unprecedented pace. Within this context, urban ecologies seeks to<br />
research the changing nature of the urbanising world; to link questions<br />
of human interactions within developing cities to the political, social<br />
and cultural and environmental discourse; to explore and critique the<br />
sustainability and liveability of contemporary urbanism.<br />
Initiated by <strong>XJTLU</strong>’s Department of Architecture, the urban ecologies<br />
research platform offers a unique opportunity for inter-disciplinary<br />
and comparative approaches that consider the design and the design<br />
processes of the built environment. Urban ecologies allows for existing<br />
paradigms to be questioned, and for radically new approaches to the<br />
study of cities and their environment that take into account scientific<br />
and technological research as well as research in sociology, art, design<br />
and aesthetics.
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Interrelated and not exclusive, these three areas of expertise cover a<br />
wide range of interests. More than rigid research groups, they support<br />
the formation of open research platforms; they link the Department of<br />
Architecture to other departments and research institutes at <strong>XJTLU</strong>, to<br />
other Chinese universities and to professional figures outside academia;<br />
and they foster international collaborations.<br />
RESEARCH PERFORMANCE<br />
FOR THE ACADEMIC YEAR<br />
<strong>2018</strong>/19<br />
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A particular concern of the Department is to explore the possibility to<br />
develop a form of research that is specific to the architectural discipline:<br />
Research by Design. This is an experimental form of applied research<br />
with other less conventional research outcomes (including prototypes,<br />
projects, buildings, components, and exhibitions). In this way, the<br />
Department differentiates itself from the research work produced in the<br />
big design institutes of the major Chinese state universities by developing<br />
an experimental design activity at a small scale, with a flexible staff<br />
structure.<br />
靈 璧 賞 石 Rock in the Form of a Fantastic Mountain. Qing dynasty (1644–1911), Kangxi period<br />
(1662–1722), China. Black Lingbi limestone; wood stand. Dimensions overall (with base): H. 18 3/8 in.<br />
(46.7 cm); W. 12 7/8 in. (32.7 cm); D. 6 5/8 in. (16.8 cm). Gift of Richard Rosenblum Family, 2009. From<br />
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.<br />
Monographs<br />
Austin Williams , New Chinese Architecture: Twenty Women Building<br />
the Future, Thames and Hudson, <strong>2019</strong>.<br />
Edited Books<br />
Fischer, Thomas and Christiane M. Herr, eds. <strong>2019</strong>. Design Cybernetics.<br />
Navigating the New. Springer, Cham ISBN-13: 978-3030185565 (published<br />
15-Jul-<strong>2019</strong>).<br />
Höltgen, Stefan, Thorsten Schöler, Johannes Maibaum and Thomas<br />
Fischer. <strong>2018</strong>. Medientechnisches Wissen Band 2: Informatik,<br />
Programmierung, Kybernetik, DeGruyter, Oldenburg ISBN-13: 978-<br />
3110496246 (published 05-Nov-<strong>2018</strong>).<br />
Contributions/Chapters in Edited Book or<br />
Conference Papers Published in Proceedings<br />
Berstrand, Tordis. <strong>2019</strong>. The possibility of teaching Chinese students<br />
of architecture to write (a house). In Teresa Hoskyns, ed., Conference<br />
proceedings, Architecture Across Boundaries, International Conference,<br />
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Fischer, Thomas, Christiane M. Herr and Michael<br />
Grau. <strong>2019</strong>. Triangulated Shell Foam Structures<br />
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Journal Article<br />
Baron, Philip and Herr, Christiane M. <strong>2019</strong>.<br />
Cybernetically informed pedagogy in two tertiary<br />
educational contexts: China and South Africa,<br />
Kybernetes 48 (4): 727-739. DOI: https://doi.<br />
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Workshop. Journal of the National Academy of Art,<br />
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Variety, and Epistemic Processes, Kybernetes, 48(4),<br />
793–804, open access, DOI: 10.1108/K-11-2017-0457<br />
(double-blind peer-reviewed, published 01-Apr-<strong>2019</strong>).<br />
Herr, Christiane M.: Curricula, Knowledge and<br />
Design in the Context of Radical Constructivist<br />
Education. Open peer commentary on the target<br />
article “Heterarchical Reflexive Conversational<br />
Teaching and Learning as a Vehicle for Ethical<br />
Engineering Curriculum Design” by Philip Baron.<br />
Constructivist Foundations, 13(3): 321–322 (non-peer<br />
reviewed, published 15-Jul-<strong>2018</strong>).<br />
Herr, Christiane M. and Fisher, Thomas, <strong>2018</strong>:<br />
Building Information Modelling Adoption in the<br />
Context of the Chinese AEC Industries: An Extended<br />
BIM Adoption Model, Journal of Computational<br />
Design and Engineering, 6(2), 173–178, DOI: 10.1016/<br />
j.jcde.<strong>2018</strong>.06.001 (double-blind peer reviewed,<br />
published 02-Apr-<strong>2019</strong>).
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Janssen, Patrick, Herr, Christiane M. and Stouffs,<br />
Rudi: Editorial: Protocols, Flows and Glitches.<br />
International Journal of Architectural Computing<br />
16(3), pp. 181–182, <strong>2018</strong> (non-peer reviewed,<br />
published 13-Sept-<strong>2018</strong>).<br />
Kim, Moon Keun, Baldini, L, Leibundgut, H.,<br />
Wurzbacher, J.A. <strong>2019</strong>. Evaluation of the humidity<br />
performance of a CO2 capture device as a novel<br />
ventilation and energy saving strategy in buildings,<br />
Applied Energy, (SCI Journal; DOI:/10.1016/<br />
j.apenergy.<strong>2019</strong>.03.074; published: 22-April-<strong>2018</strong>).<br />
Kim, Moon Keun, Choi, J.H., <strong>2019</strong>. Impact of increased<br />
outdoor CO2 concentrations on the ventilation and<br />
energy in buildings: Case study in Shanghai, China,<br />
Atmospheric Environment, 210: 220-230 (SCI(E)<br />
journal; DOI:10.1016/j.atmosenv.<strong>2019</strong>.04.015;<br />
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Kim, Moon Keun, Cha, J.H., Pham, V.H., Lee, S, Theer-<br />
Umpon, N. <strong>2019</strong>. Advanced simplified neural network<br />
model design to predict electricity consumption in a<br />
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journal: DOI:10.3390/en12071201; published: 28-<br />
Mar-<strong>2018</strong>).<br />
Li, Xuemei Li, Weiye Li, Kendra S. Smith and Albert<br />
C. Smith. <strong>2018</strong>. Hidden from the Wind and Enjoying<br />
the Water ( 藏 风 得 水 ): Fengshui and the Shaping<br />
of Dong Villages in Southwestern China. Journal of<br />
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published:19 June <strong>2018</strong>).<br />
Li Xuemei, Xiao Dawei, Kendra Smith and Albert<br />
Smith. <strong>2018</strong>. 匠 杆 , 仪 式 和 生 命 的 桥 : 侗 族 风 雨 桥 的 营 造<br />
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Rituals, and the Life Bridge: the Cultural Metaphors<br />
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Ma, W., Kim, Moon Keun, Hao, J. <strong>2019</strong>. Numerical<br />
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for an office building in the hot summer and cold<br />
winter climate: A case study at Suzhou, China,<br />
Sustainability, (SCI(E) journal: in press; accepted: 10-<br />
Jun-<strong>2019</strong>).<br />
Motlib, Zayad, The Symbiotic Towers, published in<br />
Zukunftsreport<strong>2019</strong>-Presse, GolfFuturismus, Dec-<br />
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Raonic, Aleksandra and Westermann, Claudia. <strong>2018</strong>.<br />
Framing indeterminacy: Pedagogical journey into<br />
experimental architectural thinking. Technoetic<br />
Arts: A Journal of Speculative Research, 16(2): 137-<br />
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published: December <strong>2018</strong>).<br />
Troiani, Igea and Suzanne Ewing. <strong>2019</strong>.<br />
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Architecture and Culture, 7(1): 7-12. (DOI.<br />
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Troiani, Igea and Suzanne Ewing. <strong>2019</strong>. “Tolerance<br />
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Waibel, Christoph, Thomas Wortmann, Ralph<br />
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optimization: An extensive benchmark of global<br />
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Wortmann, Thomas. <strong>2018</strong>. Genetic Evolution vs.<br />
Function Approximation: Benchmarking Algorithms<br />
for Architectural Design Optimization. Journal<br />
of Computational Design and Engineering (peer<br />
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Yang, Jing. <strong>2018</strong>. The Materiality of SANAA’s<br />
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Museum. Architectural Journal, Vol 602: 107–111<br />
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Ye, Z., Kim, Moon Keun, <strong>2018</strong>. Prediction of<br />
electricity consumption in a building based on<br />
optimized BP and LM-BP neural network: a case<br />
study at a shopping mall in China, Sustainable Cities<br />
and Society, 42, 176-183, (SCI(E) journal: DOI:<br />
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Zhang, L., Liu, J., Heidarinejad, M., Kim, Moon<br />
Keun, Srebric, J. <strong>2019</strong>. A two-dimentional<br />
numerical analysis for thermal performance of an<br />
intermittently operated radiant floor heating system<br />
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Zhu, Y., Kim, Moon Keun, Wen, H., <strong>2019</strong>. Perturbation<br />
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Conference/Symposium/Workshop<br />
Presentations<br />
Berstrand, Tordis. <strong>2019</strong>. The possibility of teaching<br />
Chinese students of architecture to write (a house).<br />
Presented at: International Conference, Architecture<br />
across Boundaries, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool<br />
University, Suzhou, China. 19-June-<strong>2019</strong> – 21-June-<br />
<strong>2019</strong> (presented on 21-June-<strong>2019</strong>).<br />
Berstrand, Tordis. <strong>2019</strong>. What is an artist’s studio<br />
if not a living room in a house? Presented at:<br />
International Conference, 21st International<br />
Congress of Aesthetics, Possible Worlds of<br />
Contemporary Aesthetics: Aesthetics Between<br />
History, Geography and Media, The University of<br />
Belgrade, Faculty of Architecture, Belgrade, Serbia.<br />
22-July-<strong>2019</strong> – 26-July-<strong>2019</strong> (presented on 26-July-<br />
<strong>2019</strong>).<br />
Bissoonauth, Chitraj, Christiane M. Herr and Thomas<br />
Fischer. <strong>2019</strong>. Sustainable Architecture for Future<br />
High-Density Cities: An Applied Design Approach.<br />
In Teresa Hoskyns, ed., Conference proceedings,<br />
Architecture Across Boundaries, International<br />
Conference, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University,<br />
Suzhou, China, 19-Jun-<strong>2019</strong> – 21-Jun-<strong>2019</strong> (peer<br />
reviewed; published August-<strong>2019</strong>).<br />
Brillhart, Adam and Igea Troiani. <strong>2019</strong>. ‘Surveying<br />
the Contextual and Projective Contingencies of<br />
Building’ Co-Chair of Roundtable Discussion at<br />
‘Architecture across Boundaries' International<br />
Conference, <strong>XJTLU</strong>, Suzhou, 21-Jun-<strong>2019</strong>.
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Carlin, Peta. <strong>2019</strong>. ‘Interweavings: Between<br />
Architecture & Textiles’. Presented at: ArcIntex<br />
International Symposium, <strong>XJTLU</strong>, Suzhou, 16-Apr-<br />
<strong>2019</strong> – 17-Apr-<strong>2019</strong>.<br />
Carlin, Peta. <strong>2019</strong>. ‘On Surface & Place’. Guest<br />
Lecture presented at Department of Architecture,<br />
Istanbul Bilgi University, 08-Apr-<strong>2019</strong>.<br />
Carlin, Peta. <strong>2019</strong>. ‘Textile Metaphors: Urban Futures<br />
& Green Culture’. Presented at: ICCC Windsor<br />
Consultations, St Georges House, Windsor, UK, 03-<br />
Apr-<strong>2019</strong> – 05-Apr-<strong>2019</strong>.<br />
Carlin, Peta. <strong>2018</strong>. ‘On Surface & Place: An<br />
Introduction’. Keynote Lecture Presented<br />
at Practical Aesthetics: Yesterday & Tomorrow,<br />
Southeast University, Nanjing & China Academy of<br />
Art, Hangzhou, 03-Dec-<strong>2018</strong> – 05-Dec-<strong>2018</strong>.<br />
Carlin, Peta. <strong>2018</strong>. ‘Art, Craft & Music: Engaging<br />
the Elderly’. Presented at: ICCC Windsor<br />
Consultations, St Georges House, Windsor, UK, 05-<br />
Nov-<strong>2018</strong> – 07-Nov-<strong>2018</strong>.<br />
Dall'Asta, Juan Carlos. <strong>2018</strong>. Interrupted Landscapes,<br />
Presented at: UTE, Universidad Tecnica Equinoccial,<br />
Quito, Ecuador, (keynote 20-Sep-<strong>2018</strong>).<br />
Dall'Asta, Juan Carlos. <strong>2018</strong>. Urbanscapes, Memorias<br />
Futuras, Team Leader at: WINAREQ <strong>2018</strong>, 0°0’0’’<br />
Making City, UTE, Universidad Tecnica Equinoccial,<br />
Quito, Ecuador. 17-Sep-<strong>2018</strong> – 21-Sep-<strong>2018</strong>.<br />
Dall'Asta, Juan Carlos. <strong>2019</strong>. Bai E Tan Ecological<br />
Park. Team Leader, at Bai E Tan Hub Complex<br />
Integrated development and planning International<br />
Workshop, Guangzhou, China, 05-Jun-<strong>2019</strong> – 07-Jun-<br />
<strong>2019</strong> (keynote: 06-Jun -<strong>2019</strong>).<br />
Dall'Asta, Juan Carlos. <strong>2019</strong>. Between Architecture<br />
and Landscape. Presented at: International<br />
Conference New Landscapes, POLIMI, Milano Italy.<br />
(invited: 04-Feb-<strong>2019</strong>)<br />
Dall'Asta, Juan Carlos. <strong>2019</strong>. Changzhou eco_<br />
cultural island. Presented at: Bai E Tan Hub Complex<br />
Integrated development and planning International<br />
Workshop and Conference, Guangzhou, China, 06-<br />
Jun-<strong>2019</strong>.<br />
Dall'Asta, Juan Carlos., Kathpalia, Rajeev., Lombardi,<br />
Davide., Rolla, Sandro. <strong>2019</strong>. Between Architecture<br />
and Landscape. Environmental and sustainable<br />
design for future cities. International Workshop at:<br />
<strong>XJTLU</strong>, Suzhou, China, 10-Jun-<strong>2019</strong> – 18-Jun-<strong>2019</strong>.<br />
Dall'Asta, Juan Carlos. <strong>2019</strong>. Stratified Landscapes<br />
-Aesthetic future. Presented at: Anagataa-<br />
Architecture Forays into the future, REVA<br />
University, Bangalore India, 30-Aug-<strong>2019</strong> – 31-Aug-<br />
<strong>2019</strong> (keynote: 31-Aug-<strong>2019</strong>).<br />
Dall'Asta, Juan Carlos., Wash, Glen. <strong>2019</strong>. Creative<br />
Emergencies_Architecture that morphs, Education,<br />
Design and Practice. Presented at: International<br />
Conference Understanding skills in a Complex World,<br />
New York / New Jersey. 17-Jun-<strong>2019</strong> – 19-Jun-<strong>2019</strong>.<br />
Dong,Yiping. <strong>2018</strong>, Resources, Power, Capitals,<br />
Gentry and Outsiders: A Critical Analysis of the<br />
Historical Village Conservation Practices of China,<br />
ACHS <strong>2018</strong> Hangzhou (Association of Critical<br />
Heritage Studies) Hangzhou, China, 01-Sep-<strong>2018</strong> –<br />
06-Oct-<strong>2018</strong>.<br />
Dong, Yiping. <strong>2018</strong>, On Industrial Heritage and<br />
Critical Heritage Studies, Invited Keynote Speech,<br />
9th Symposium of Chinese Industrial Architecture<br />
Heritage, An’shan, China, 18-Oct-<strong>2018</strong> – 20-Oct-<br />
<strong>2018</strong>.<br />
Dong, Yiping. <strong>2018</strong>, The Research on Jukou Heritage<br />
Resources, Seminar on the Origins of Yanping Art<br />
Harvest, Shanghai, China, 21-Oct-<strong>2018</strong>.<br />
Dong, Yiping. <strong>2018</strong>, Cultural Visions for Rural<br />
Villages of Jukou, <strong>XJTLU</strong> Interdisciplinary Design<br />
Workshop: Imagining the Rural Future – Adaptation<br />
of a Mountain Village for New Challenges, Jukou<br />
County, Fujian, China, 04-Nov-<strong>2018</strong>.<br />
Dong, Yiping. <strong>2018</strong>, Historical Cultural Landscape<br />
and Resources of Jukou County, Seminar on Rural<br />
Village and Art Harvest, Shanghai, China, 18-Nov-<br />
<strong>2018</strong>.<br />
Dong, Yiping. <strong>2018</strong>, Academic Moderator of Seminar:<br />
Awakening Villages with Art, Shanghai, China, 01-<br />
Dec-<strong>2018</strong>.<br />
Dong, Yiping. <strong>2018</strong>, Awakening Villages with Art-<br />
Visions of China Yanping Art Harvest, Xiamen,<br />
Fujian, China, 15-Dec-<strong>2018</strong>.<br />
Dong, Yiping. <strong>2019</strong>, Heritage Resource Survey of<br />
Jukou and Rural Revitalization, Yanping, Fujian,<br />
China, 11-Jan-<strong>2019</strong>.<br />
Dong, Yiping. <strong>2019</strong>, Academic Coordinator,<br />
WHITRAP-<strong>XJTLU</strong> Cultural Heritage Day Forum,<br />
Xi’an Jiaotong Liverpool University, Suzhou, China,<br />
08-Jun-<strong>2019</strong>.<br />
Dong, Yiping. <strong>2019</strong>, Academic Coordinator, <strong>2019</strong><br />
Advanced Course on Conservation and Restoration<br />
Techniques of Traditional Architecture for the Asia-<br />
Pacific Region – Built Heritage and Local Sustainable<br />
Development (Case Study of Tai Lake Region)<br />
Suzhou, China, 07-Jun-<strong>2019</strong> – 14-Jun-<strong>2019</strong>.<br />
Dong, Yiping. <strong>2019</strong>, Industrial Heritage Conservation<br />
and Regeneration under Mesoscale Perspective,<br />
<strong>2019</strong> Seminar on the Protection and Development of<br />
Historic Industrial Towns, Nantong, China, 14-Jun-<br />
<strong>2019</strong> – 16-Jun-<strong>2019</strong>.<br />
Dong, Yiping. <strong>2019</strong>, Urban Nostalgia and Industrial<br />
Landmark – Thoughts on the Values of Industrial<br />
Structures Shanghai Minsheng Art Museum,<br />
Shanghai, China, 23-Jun-<strong>2019</strong>.<br />
Fischer, Thomas. <strong>2019</strong>. Temporality in a Theory<br />
of (and for) Enquiry. Presentation delivered at the<br />
Annual Conference of the American Society for<br />
Cybernetics at the University of British Columbia,<br />
Vancouver (presented on 26-Jun-<strong>2019</strong>). Online<br />
recording available at: https://www.youtube.com/<br />
watch?v=Nxgawp6Ou7g<br />
Fischer, Thomas and Herr, Christiane M., <strong>2019</strong>:<br />
Design Cybernetics and CAAD Research. Aspects of<br />
our Shared Interests. In Matthias Hank Haeussler,<br />
Marc Aurel Schnabel and Tomohiro Fukuda<br />
(eds.): CAADRIA <strong>2019</strong>. Proceedings of the 24th<br />
International Conference on Computer Aided<br />
Architectural Design Research in Asia, Vol. 2,<br />
Wellington, New Zealand, pp. 541–550 (double-blind<br />
peer reviewed, presented 16-Apr-<strong>2019</strong>).
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Fischer, Thomas, Herr, Christiane M. and Grau,<br />
Michael. <strong>2019</strong>. Triangulated Shell Foam Structures<br />
Based on Robotic Hot-Wire-Cutting. A Design,<br />
Geometry Rationalisation and Fabrication Workflow.<br />
In Matthias Hank Haeussler, Marc Aurel Schnabel<br />
and Tomohiro Fukuda (eds.): CAADRIA 2109.<br />
Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on<br />
Computer Aided Architectural Design Research in<br />
Asia, Vol. 2, Wellington, New Zealand, pp. 551–560<br />
(double-blind peer reviewed, presented 16-Apr-<br />
<strong>2019</strong>).<br />
Herr, Christiane M. <strong>2018</strong>: Creativity in Crossdisciplinary<br />
Collaborations between Architects and<br />
Structural Engineers in China, Proceedings of the<br />
IASS <strong>2018</strong> Boston Symposium: Structural innovation<br />
through interdisciplinary collaboration, 16-20-Jul-<br />
<strong>2018</strong>, MIT, Boston, USA, pp. 1-8(8) (double-blind peer<br />
reviewed, published 16-Jul-<strong>2018</strong>, ISSN 2518-6582<br />
(Online)).<br />
Hidalgo Arellano, José Ángel. <strong>2019</strong>. Engawa: Space<br />
for contemplation between the sacred and the<br />
profane. Presented at: 9th Annual International<br />
Conference on Architecture. Athens, 8/11-July-<strong>2019</strong><br />
(presentation date: 8-Jul-<strong>2019</strong>).<br />
Hidalgo Arellano, José Ángel. <strong>2019</strong>. Redemption by<br />
beauty. Reflection of urban trauma in some Chinese<br />
contemporary artists. Presented at: International<br />
Conference. Narratives of Temporality: Continuities,<br />
Discontinuities, Ruptures. Cambridge, 27-July-<strong>2019</strong><br />
(presentation date: 27-July-<strong>2019</strong>).<br />
Ku, Kihong. <strong>2019</strong>. ‘Textile Material Strategies: Design<br />
Research in the Architectural Studio Curriculum’.<br />
Presented at: ArcInTex International Symposium,<br />
<strong>XJTLU</strong>, Suzhou, 16-Apr-<strong>2019</strong> – 17-Apr-<strong>2019</strong>.<br />
Loehlein, Gisela. <strong>2019</strong>. ‘Campus developments China<br />
versus Middle East, Presented at ‘Architecture<br />
Across Boundaries’ International Conference,<br />
<strong>XJTLU</strong>, Suzhou, 19-Jun-<strong>2019</strong> – 21-Jun-<strong>2019</strong>.<br />
Lombardi, Davide, Christiane M. Herr and Isaac<br />
Galobardes. <strong>2018</strong>. Parametric Design of Sculptural<br />
Fibre Reinforced Concrete Façade Components. In<br />
“Learning, prototyping and adapting” CAADRIA<br />
<strong>2018</strong> International Conference, 17-May-<strong>2018</strong> – 19-<br />
May-<strong>2018</strong>; Tsinghua University, Beijing, P.R. China<br />
(double-blind peer reviewed, published 17-May-<br />
<strong>2018</strong>).<br />
Lombardi, Davide <strong>2018</strong> “Data Driven Design”, invited<br />
keynote speaker at UDLAP – Universidad De Las<br />
Americas Puebla, Department of Architecture,<br />
Mexico (presentation date: 12-Apr-<strong>2018</strong>).<br />
Lombardi, Davide <strong>2018</strong> “Cellular Automata<br />
Densities”, presented at Yilong Futuristic City<br />
International Design Competition award ceremony<br />
(China), invited keynote speaker (presentation date:<br />
15-May-<strong>2018</strong>).<br />
Motlib, Zayad. Reparameterized Complexity<br />
01. A parametric design workshop at <strong>XJTLU</strong> –<br />
Architecture, Suzhou, 22-Dec-<strong>2018</strong> – 24-Dec-<strong>2018</strong>.<br />
Quiroga, Sofia. <strong>2019</strong>. Activating the ceiling with<br />
Cheng Tsung Feng; Bamboo and Rattan material<br />
workshop at <strong>XJTLU</strong>, Suzhou, China, 21-Jan-<strong>2019</strong> –<br />
25- Jan-<strong>2019</strong>.<br />
Quiroga, Sofia. <strong>2019</strong>. Understanding the CO2<br />
footprint, furniture design with recycled materials.<br />
Workshop at <strong>XJTLU</strong>, Suzhou, China, 10-Jun-<strong>2019</strong> –<br />
14-Jun-<strong>2019</strong>.<br />
Quiroga, Sofia. <strong>2019</strong>. The Model as an Experimental<br />
Tool: The Moholy Nagy's Lighting Devices. Presented<br />
at: International Conference The Matteria Prima of<br />
Architecture. Frascari Symposium IV. The Secret<br />
Lives of Architectural Drawings and Models: From<br />
Translating to Archiving, Collecting, and Displaying.<br />
Kingston School of Art, Department of Architecture<br />
and Landscape, London. 27-Jun-<strong>2019</strong> – 29-Jun-<strong>2019</strong><br />
(presentation date: 28-Jun-<strong>2019</strong>).<br />
Rajeev Kathpalia, Sandro Rolla, Juan Carlos Dall’Asta<br />
and Davide Lombardi. <strong>2019</strong>. International workshop,<br />
Between Architecture and Landscape. Environmental<br />
and sustainable design for future cities. Balkrishna<br />
V. Doshi. <strong>XJTLU</strong> Design Building, Suzhou, China, 10-<br />
Jun-<strong>2019</strong> – 18-Jun-<strong>2019</strong>.<br />
Raonic, Aleksandra, Raonic, Milos. <strong>2019</strong>. Central<br />
greenmarket in Negotin, RAUM. Poster presented<br />
at: Architecture across Boundaries <strong>2019</strong> Conference<br />
at <strong>XJTLU</strong> - Xi’An Jiaotong - Liverpool University,<br />
Suzhou China. 19-Jun-<strong>2019</strong> – 21-Jun-<strong>2019</strong><br />
(presentation date: 19-Jun-<strong>2019</strong>).<br />
Sroka, Jeffrey and Ku, Kihong, <strong>2019</strong>. A Geometry<br />
Exploration of Flexagons: Designing a Tetrahedron<br />
Based Responsive Daylight Control System, CAAD<br />
Futures <strong>2019</strong> Conference, KAIST, Daejon, Korea, 26-<br />
June-<strong>2019</strong> – 28-June-<strong>2019</strong> (presentation date: 26-<br />
June-<strong>2019</strong>).<br />
Troiani, Igea. <strong>2019</strong>. Filming the City: Moving Image<br />
Making and Analysis. Presented at the Suzhou: 1<br />
City/7 Identities - Interdisciplinary Workshop of<br />
Urban Regeneration, <strong>XJTLU</strong>, Suzhou. 14-06-<strong>2019</strong> -<br />
18-06-<strong>2019</strong>. (presentation date: 14-06-<strong>2019</strong>).<br />
Troiani, Igea. <strong>2019</strong>. ‘Global modernity’ in China<br />
and Franc: Flattening Regional Urban Heritage for<br />
Foreign Brandscapes. Presented at the Architecture<br />
Across Boundaries Conference, <strong>XJTLU</strong>, Suzhou 19-<br />
06-<strong>2019</strong> - 21-06.<strong>2019</strong> (presentation date: 20-06-<br />
<strong>2019</strong>).<br />
Troiani, Igea. <strong>2019</strong>. On Smearing: Making ‘Essay<br />
films’ in a Sino-British School of Architecture.<br />
Presented at: Fielding Architecture: Practices for a<br />
Decolonised Pedagogy Conference, University of<br />
Brighton, UK. 24-06-<strong>2019</strong> - 25-06-<strong>2019</strong> (presentation<br />
date: 25-06-<strong>2019</strong>).<br />
Troiani, Igea. <strong>2019</strong>. Celebrating Women’s<br />
Architectural Achievements: Balancing Gender<br />
in the Profession. Presented at: The International<br />
Women’s Day Symposium, <strong>XJTLU</strong> -School of<br />
Architecture, Suzhou. 06-03-<strong>2019</strong> (presentation<br />
date: 06-03-<strong>2019</strong>).<br />
Troiani, Igea and Brillhart, Adam. <strong>2019</strong>. ‘Surveying<br />
the Contextual and Projective Contingencies of<br />
Building’ Co-Chair of Roundtable Discussion at<br />
‘Architecture across Boundaries' International<br />
Conference, <strong>XJTLU</strong>, Suzhou, 21-Jun-<strong>2019</strong>.<br />
Wash, Glen and Juan Carlos Dall'Asta. <strong>2019</strong>. Creative<br />
Emergency: Architecture that Reacts to Calamities.<br />
Presented at: Education, Design and Practice –<br />
Understanding skills in a Complex World. Stevens<br />
Institute of Technology. New York, 17/19-June-<strong>2019</strong><br />
(presentation date: 17-June-<strong>2019</strong>).
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Wash, Glen. <strong>2019</strong>. ‘Tokyo’s Evolution to Modernity’.<br />
Guest Lecture presented at the Department of<br />
Architectural Technology, New York City College of<br />
Technology, 18-June-<strong>2019</strong>.<br />
Wash, Glen. <strong>2018</strong>. Discussant. Research Symposium<br />
Building Resilient Environments, <strong>XJTLU</strong> Department<br />
of Architecture, Suzhou, China, 19-Oct-<strong>2018</strong>.<br />
Westermann, Claudia. <strong>2018</strong>. Ecology, Cultural<br />
Perspectives in Dialogue with Science. Presented<br />
at: International Conference on Water Ecological<br />
Civilization and Green & Integrated Urban-rural<br />
Development, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University,<br />
Suzhou, China. 27-Oct-<strong>2018</strong> – 27-Oct-<strong>2018</strong><br />
(presentation date: 28-Nov-<strong>2018</strong>).<br />
Westermann, Claudia. <strong>2019</strong>. Poiesis, Ecology and<br />
Embodied Cognition. Presented at: Bio-mind and<br />
Techno-Nature, Consciousness Reframed, CITAR<br />
Research Center for Science and Technology of the<br />
Arts, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Porto, PT.<br />
06-June-<strong>2019</strong> – 08-June-<strong>2019</strong> (presentation date: 06-<br />
June-<strong>2019</strong>).<br />
Westermann, Claudia. <strong>2019</strong>. An Eco-poetic Approach<br />
to Architecture Across Boundaries. Presented at:<br />
International Conference, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool<br />
University, Suzhou, China. 19-June-<strong>2019</strong> – 21-June-<br />
<strong>2019</strong> (presentation date: 21-June-<strong>2019</strong>).<br />
Wortmann, Thomas and Radoslaw Grymin.<br />
Recalibrating Architectural Design Optimization.<br />
Workshop at: ACADIA <strong>2018</strong>: Re/calibration: on<br />
imprecision and infidelity, Universidad Nacional<br />
Autónoma de México, Mexico City, 18-Oct-<strong>2019</strong> –<br />
20-Oct-<strong>2019</strong> (invited; workshop dates: 15-Oct-<strong>2019</strong> –<br />
17-Oct-<strong>2019</strong>.<br />
Wortmann, Thomas. Beyond Genetic Algorithm.<br />
Workshop at: eCAADe <strong>2018</strong>: computing for a better<br />
tomorrow, Lodz University of Technology, Lodz, PL,<br />
19-Sep-<strong>2019</strong> – 21-Sep-<strong>2019</strong> (workshop dates: 17-Sep-<br />
<strong>2019</strong> – 18-Sep-<strong>2019</strong>).<br />
Yang, Jing. <strong>2019</strong>. A Sense of Japanese Aesthetics: the<br />
Role of Materiality in the Work of SANAA. Presented<br />
at: ‘Architecture across Boundaries’ International<br />
Conference, <strong>XJTLU</strong>, Suzhou, 19-Jun-<strong>2019</strong> – 21-Jun-<br />
<strong>2019</strong>.<br />
Ye, Nan, Jiawen Han. <strong>2019</strong>. Convergence and<br />
dissimilation: the “dialogue” of individualism and<br />
collectivism in architecture between China and<br />
Yugoslavia, 1949 – 1958. Presented at: International<br />
Conference, Distance Looks Back, Sydney, Australia.<br />
10-Jul-<strong>2019</strong> – 13-Jul-<strong>2019</strong> (presented on 12-Jun-<strong>2019</strong>).<br />
Conference/Symposium/Workshop<br />
Organization<br />
Dong, Yiping. <strong>2018</strong>, with Andrew Johnston, Session<br />
Organizer, Conceptualizing Urban/Rural Heritage<br />
Connections, <strong>2018</strong> ACHS, Zhejiang University,<br />
Hangzhou, China, 01-Sep-<strong>2018</strong> – 06-Sep-<strong>2018</strong>.<br />
Dong, Yiping. <strong>2018</strong>, Organization Board Member,<br />
The 2nd International Conference on Heritage of<br />
China, Suzhou University of Science and Technology<br />
& Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, University of<br />
Liverpool, Suzhou, China, 06-Sep-<strong>2018</strong> – 09-Sep-<br />
<strong>2018</strong>.<br />
Dong, Yiping. <strong>2018</strong>, Organizer, Seminar on the<br />
Origins of Yanping Art Harvest, Shanghai, China, 21-<br />
Oct-<strong>2018</strong>.<br />
Dong, Yiping. <strong>2018</strong>, Organizer, with Christian Nolf, Claudia Westermann,<br />
Richard Hay, <strong>2018</strong>, <strong>XJTLU</strong> Interdisciplinary Design Workshop: Imagining<br />
the Rural Future- Adaptation of a Mountain Village for New Challenges,<br />
Jukou County, Fujian, China, 01-Nov-<strong>2018</strong>.<br />
Dong, Yiping. <strong>2019</strong>, Academic Committee, 2nd International Conference<br />
on Built Heritage Studies – Built Heritage Conservation in Rural<br />
Vitalization, Tongji University, Shanghai, China, 19-Apr-<strong>2019</strong> – 21-Apr-<strong>2019</strong>.<br />
Dong, Yiping. <strong>2019</strong>, Organizer, with WHITRAP Suzhou, WHITRAP-<br />
<strong>XJTLU</strong> Cultural Heritage Day Forum, Xi’an Jiaotong Liverpool<br />
University, Suzhou, China, 08-Jun-<strong>2019</strong>.<br />
Dong, Yiping. <strong>2019</strong>, Organizer, with WHITRAP Suzhou, <strong>2019</strong> Advanced<br />
Course on Conservation and Restoration Techniques of Traditional<br />
Architecture for the Asia-Pacific Region -Built Heritage and Local<br />
Sustainable Development (Case Study of Tai Lake Region) Suzhou, China,<br />
07-17-Jun-<strong>2019</strong>.<br />
Projects/Architectural or Artistic Practice<br />
Dall’Asta, Juan Carlos., Design Consultancy: HoWhy Architecture Studio<br />
Suzhou, Architectural and Urban Design, <strong>2019</strong>–2021, New Research<br />
Centre ECO Shanghai (project 31-Jul-<strong>2019</strong>).<br />
Dall’Asta, Juan Carlos., Design Consultancy: HoWhy Architecture Studio<br />
Suzhou, Architectural and Urban Design, <strong>2019</strong>–2021, S P A C E, creative<br />
co-working, Wuxi (project 31-Aug-<strong>2019</strong>).<br />
Dong, Yiping and Francisco Jose Mejias Villatoro, <strong>XJTLU</strong> Department<br />
of Architecture Design Research Centre. <strong>2019</strong>. An Open Garden with<br />
an Open Programme, Suzhou Historical City Design Workshop, China,<br />
Competition Entry, 30-Mar-<strong>2019</strong> – 10-Apr-<strong>2019</strong>.<br />
Fung, Philip. <strong>2018</strong>. Qingli Fuxiao Hotel, Design Hotel, Beihai, China<br />
(project completion date: 1-Nov-<strong>2018</strong>).
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Hoskyns, Teresa, The Lunar Dome 1300 seat portable<br />
theatre for Apollo Moon Landings, opened in Los<br />
Angeles, USA in July <strong>2019</strong>.<br />
Lian, Aloysius, Thomas Wortmann, Kian Peen Yeo,<br />
Jonathan Ng. <strong>2018</strong>, Lalang, Interactive Installation,<br />
Singapore (competition entry; 31-Dec-<strong>2018</strong>).<br />
Loehlein, Gisela, Design Consultancy: Kloster Reute,<br />
Bad Waldsee, advising on scoping, master planning<br />
and design for the future of the convent 2017-2022.<br />
Motlib, Zayad. The Pearl. Design Research project.<br />
Developing a new typology of a mosque design at<br />
Dubai Creek harbor. Dubai, <strong>2018</strong>–<strong>2019</strong>.<br />
Rian, Iasef Md, Rian Architects & Designers. <strong>2019</strong>.<br />
‘Chapel of (Christ+Criss) Crosses’, International<br />
Open Design Competition, Rwanda Chapel,<br />
Organizer – YAC-Young Architects Competition,<br />
Competition Entry, 08-May-<strong>2019</strong>.<br />
Rian, Iasef Md, Rian Architects & Designers. <strong>2019</strong>.<br />
‘Zero to Infinity Tower’, International Open Design<br />
Competition, ASCENSION: Zagreb Observation<br />
Tower, Organizer – EX-Development, Competition<br />
Entry, 10-Apr-<strong>2019</strong>.<br />
Rian, Iasef Md, University of Sharjah. <strong>2018</strong>. Weaving<br />
the Mashrabiya Pavilion, Dubai Design Week <strong>2018</strong>,<br />
Organizer: Dubai Design District, Dubai, U.A.E., 11-<br />
Nov-<strong>2018</strong> – 16-Nov-<strong>2018</strong>.<br />
Rolla, Sandro, architectural and urban design<br />
consultancy, Gu Yun Architect, Shanghai. <strong>2019</strong>,<br />
Watering Nanxun, Residential architectural design,<br />
Nanxun, Zhejiang, China (competition entry, 15-Aug-<br />
<strong>2019</strong>).<br />
Vardy, David, Sanchez Sotes, Guillermo, Chen,<br />
Xiaohan, <strong>XJTLU</strong> Department of Architecture Design<br />
Research Centre. <strong>2018</strong>. ‘Re-Cycling’, European Velo<br />
Stops, International Open Design Competition,<br />
Europe, Competition Entry, 12-Nov-<strong>2018</strong>.<br />
Vardy, David, Sanchez Sotes, Guillermo, Chen,<br />
Xiaohan, <strong>XJTLU</strong> Department of Architecture<br />
Design Research Centre. <strong>2018</strong>. ‘Birds Nest’, Silent<br />
Meditation Forest Cabins, International Open Design<br />
Competition, Latvia, Competition Entry, 19-Nov-<br />
<strong>2018</strong>.<br />
Vardy, David, Xu, Wenfeng, Ren, Chenjia, Zhang,<br />
Ran, Zhang, Zhao, Chen, Liqiong, <strong>XJTLU</strong> Department<br />
of Architecture Design Research Centre. <strong>2019</strong>.<br />
‘The Bridge’, North Design Union Headquarters,<br />
International Open Design Competition, Tianjing,<br />
China, Competition Entry, 20-Mar-<strong>2019</strong>.<br />
Vardy, David, Dong, Chen, Ping, Yi, Li, Jiayi, <strong>XJTLU</strong><br />
Department of Architecture Design Research Centre.<br />
<strong>2019</strong>. ‘Enfilade’, Suzhou Old Town Conservation<br />
Design Output Workshop, National Open Design<br />
Competition, Suzhou, China, Competition Entry, 30-<br />
Mar-<strong>2019</strong>.<br />
Vardy, David, Luhang, Shi, Xie, Haitian, Gao,<br />
Xingxin, <strong>XJTLU</strong> Department of Architecture Design<br />
Research Centre. <strong>2019</strong>. ‘ISLAND; a Writers Retreat’,<br />
International Bamboo Construction Competition<br />
(IBCC) <strong>2019</strong>, International Open Design Competition,<br />
Beijing, Competition Entry, 15-May-<strong>2019</strong>.<br />
Vardy, David, Nolf, Christian, Vannoorbeeck,<br />
Florence, Hay, Richard, Fung, Philip, Ku, Kihong,<br />
<strong>XJTLU</strong> Department of Architecture Design Research<br />
Centre. <strong>2019</strong>. Suzhou: 1 City/ 7 Identities, <strong>XJTLU</strong><br />
Department of Urban Planning and Design, <strong>XJTLU</strong><br />
Department of Architecture Design Research Centre,<br />
Suzhou, China, Workshop, 14-Jun-<strong>2019</strong> – 18-Jun-<strong>2019</strong>.<br />
Westermann, Claudia, Raonic, Aleksandra, Dong,<br />
Yiping, Cimillo, Marco, Fung, Philip, Huang, Ni and<br />
Zhu, Haoruo <strong>2019</strong>. New Architectural Typologies for<br />
Ecological Education, concept design, Meixi Zhen,<br />
China (project proposal, submitted 15 January, <strong>2019</strong>)<br />
Wortmann, Thomas, Zhao Zhang and Henry Pantin.<br />
<strong>2019</strong>, Bending Blossom, Bamboo pavilion, Beijing<br />
(competition entry; final 15; 15-May-<strong>2019</strong>).<br />
Wortmann, Thomas, <strong>2019</strong>, Opossum 1.7, Software<br />
(released online; 28-April-<strong>2019</strong>).<br />
Exhibition<br />
Dall’Asta, Juan Carlos, Pico Perez, Daniela. <strong>2019</strong>.<br />
Fragile Landscapes of China – spatiotemporal<br />
contrast, at OCiam International Exhibition, New<br />
sharing landscapes, Piacenza Italy (invited, 26-Aug-<br />
<strong>2019</strong> – 07-Sep <strong>2019</strong>).<br />
Dong, Yiping. Cultural Heritage Resource in Jukou<br />
County, <strong>2018</strong> China Yanping Art Harvest, Fujian<br />
China, 03-Nov-<strong>2018</strong> – 03-Feb-<strong>2019</strong>.<br />
Fischbach, Martin. <strong>2019</strong>. “Newfoundland”, Online<br />
exhibition, Series of 14 mixed media paintings, 17<br />
July <strong>2019</strong>, permanent, https://martin-f-artist.wixsite.<br />
com/newfoundland<br />
Fung, Philip. <strong>2019</strong>. Zootopia, Installation at the Hong<br />
Kong Heritage Discovery Centre at 16th Venice<br />
Biennale International Architecture Exhibition Hong<br />
Kong Response Exhibition, Hong Kong, 26-April-<strong>2019</strong><br />
to 23-June-<strong>2019</strong>.<br />
Motlib, Zayad. Robotic 3d Printed Clay artifacts,<br />
exhibited at Dubai Design Week, Nov. 11-Nov-<strong>2018</strong> –<br />
16-Nov-<strong>2018</strong>, Dubai, UAE.<br />
Quiroga, Sofia. <strong>2018</strong>. Light and technified image,<br />
from Moholy-Nagy to CAVS. In Atxu Amann:<br />
Visual Display at the Spanish Pavilion at the 16th<br />
International Architecture Exhibition Venice<br />
Biennale Architettura, Venice Italy, 01-May-<strong>2018</strong> to<br />
15-Nov-<strong>2018</strong> (peer reviewed).<br />
Raonic, Aleksandra, Raonic, Milos. <strong>2019</strong>. Central<br />
greenmarket in Negotin, RAUM, PIRANESI<br />
AWARD <strong>2018</strong> / Exhibition, organizer: Piran Days of<br />
Architecture, Slovenia at the 14thBINA - Belgrade<br />
International Architecture Week, Gallery Kolektiv,<br />
Belgrade Serbia, 22-May-<strong>2019</strong> – 29-May-<strong>2019</strong> (peer<br />
reviewed).<br />
Raonic, Aleksandra, Raonic, Milos. <strong>2019</strong>. Central<br />
greenmarket in Negotin, RAUM, PIRANESI<br />
AWARD <strong>2018</strong> / Exhibition, organizer: Piran Days of<br />
Architecture, Slovenia at the ORIS – Oris House of<br />
Architecture, Zagreb Croatia, 12-Feb-<strong>2019</strong> – 28-Feb-<br />
<strong>2019</strong> (peer reviewed).<br />
Raonic, Aleksandra, Raonic, Milos. <strong>2019</strong>. Central<br />
greenmarket in Negotin, RAUM, PIRANESI AWARD<br />
<strong>2018</strong> / Exhibition, at the 36thPIDA – Piran Days<br />
of Architecture, Obalne galerije Piran/ Gallerie<br />
Costiere Pirano, Piran Slovenia, 17-Nov-<strong>2018</strong> – 13-<br />
Jan-<strong>2019</strong> (peer reviewed).
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Raonic, Aleksandra, Raonic, Milos. <strong>2019</strong>. Central<br />
greenmarket in Negotin, RAUM, DANS<br />
INTERNATIONAL AWARD <strong>2018</strong> / Exhibition,<br />
organizer: DaNS – Association of Novi Sad<br />
Architects,at the 21st International Salon of<br />
Architecture Novi Sad, Macut Gallery, Novi Sad<br />
Serbia, 29-Sep-<strong>2018</strong> – 06-Oct-<strong>2018</strong> (peer reviewed).<br />
Rian, Iasef Md, University of Sharjah. <strong>2018</strong>. Weaving<br />
the Mashrabiya Pavilion, Dubai Design Week <strong>2018</strong>,<br />
Organizer: Dubai Design District, Dubai, U.A.E.,<br />
11-November-<strong>2018</strong> – 16-Nov-<strong>2018</strong> (peer reviewed).<br />
Vardy, David, Xu, Wenfeng, Ren, Chenjia, Zhang, Ran,<br />
Zhang, Zhao, Chen, Liqiong. <strong>2019</strong>. North Design Union<br />
Headquarters, Public Exhibition, North Design Union<br />
in association with Young Bird Plan, <strong>2019</strong> North<br />
Design Union Headquarters Architectural Design<br />
Competition Top 30+1 Exhibition, Tianjing Cultural<br />
Center Grand Theatre, Exhibition Hall of Tianjing<br />
University School of Architecture, Exhibition Hall<br />
School of Architecture and Art and Design Hebei<br />
University of Technology, Wanxiang Mall Tianjing,<br />
ChenTang Science and Technology Business District<br />
Administrative Licensing Centre Tianjing, 11-May-<br />
<strong>2019</strong> - 05-Jun-<strong>2019</strong> (peer reviewed).<br />
Vardy, David, Dong, Chen, Ping, Yi, Li, Jiayi. <strong>2019</strong>.<br />
Suzhou Old Town Conservation Design Output<br />
Workshop, Conference Exhibition, Suzhou Municipal<br />
People’s Government in association with the<br />
Architectural Society of China, Symposium on<br />
reporting the results of the protection and design of<br />
the ancient city of Suzhou, Suzhou, China, 23-May-<br />
<strong>2019</strong> – 24-May-<strong>2019</strong> (peer reviewed).<br />
Vardy, David, Nolf, Christian, Vannoorbeeck,<br />
Florence, Hay, Richard, Fung, Philip, Ku, Kihong. <strong>2019</strong>.<br />
Suzhou: 1 City/ 7 Identities, Conference Exhibition,<br />
<strong>XJTLU</strong> Department of Urban Planning and Design,<br />
<strong>XJTLU</strong> Department of Architecture Design Research<br />
Centre, Architecture Across Boundaries <strong>2019</strong>:<br />
International Conference, Suzhou, China, 18-Jun-<br />
<strong>2019</strong> – 22-Jun-<strong>2019</strong> (non-peer reviewed).<br />
Vardy, David, Luhang, Shi, Xie, Haitian, Gao,<br />
Xingxin. <strong>2019</strong>. International Bamboo Construction<br />
Competition (IBCC) <strong>2019</strong>, Expo, International<br />
Bamboo and Rattan Organisation (INBAR),<br />
IBCC<strong>2019</strong>, International Horticultural Exposition<br />
<strong>2019</strong>, Beijing, 19-Jul-<strong>2019</strong> (peer reviewed).<br />
Exhibition Curation<br />
Dall'Asta, Juan Carlos, Kathpalia, Rajeev., Lombardi,<br />
Davide., Rolla, Sandro. <strong>2019</strong>. Between Architecture<br />
and Landscape. Environmental and sustainable<br />
design for future cities, exhibition. <strong>XJTLU</strong>, Suzhou,<br />
China, 18-Jun-<strong>2019</strong> – 31-Aug-<strong>2019</strong>.<br />
Dong, Yiping, with Ding, Feng; Luo, Yongjing, Zhang,<br />
Jiaming, Cai, Jianxin, Alain Jullien, <strong>2018</strong> China<br />
Yanping Art Harvest, Jiulong Village, Jukou County,<br />
Yanping District, Nanping City, Fujian, China, 03-<br />
Nov-<strong>2019</strong> – 03-Feb-<strong>2019</strong>.<br />
Dong, Yiping, with Kuang, Wei, Summer Diary in<br />
Jukou County-Exhibition on the Cultural Heritage<br />
Resource in Jukou County by ARC <strong>XJTLU</strong>, Urban<br />
Cross Gallery, Shanghai, China, 16-Nov-<strong>2019</strong> – 04-<br />
Dec-<strong>2019</strong>.<br />
Motlib, Zayad. Tashkeel Design Gallery. Curated<br />
“Made in Tashkeel exhibition”, 28-Jan-<strong>2018</strong>, Dubai,<br />
UAE.<br />
Quiroga, Sofia. Temporary exhibition Bamboo<br />
and Rattan material workshop with the Taiwanese<br />
artist Cheng Tsung Feng at <strong>XJTLU</strong>, 1st floor Design<br />
Building, exhibition area, Suzhou, China, 25 January<br />
<strong>2019</strong>-1 April <strong>2019</strong>, <strong>XJTLU</strong>.<br />
Quiroga, Sofia. Permanent exhibition Bamboo and<br />
Rattan material workshop with the Taiwanese artist<br />
Cheng Tsung at <strong>XJTLU</strong>, ground floor Design Building,<br />
workshop area, Suzhou, China, from 1 April <strong>2019</strong>,<br />
<strong>XJTLU</strong>.<br />
Quiroga, Sofia. Designing furniture with recycled<br />
materials. Workshop outcomes at <strong>XJTLU</strong>. Terrace 4 th<br />
floor Design Building, Suzhou, China, from 14 June<br />
<strong>2019</strong>.<br />
Sandro Rolla, Juan and Carlos Dall’Asta. Between<br />
Architecture and Landscape, <strong>XJTLU</strong> Design Building,<br />
Suzhou, China, 18-Jun-<strong>2019</strong> – 06-Sep-<strong>2019</strong>.<br />
Vardy, David, Nolf, Christian, Vannoorbeeck,<br />
Florence. Suzhou: 1 City/ 7 Identities, Architecture<br />
Across Boundaries <strong>2019</strong>: International Conference,<br />
<strong>XJTLU</strong>, Suzhou, China, 18-Jun-<strong>2019</strong> – 22-Jun-<strong>2019</strong>.<br />
Project Funds Attracted<br />
Brillhart, Adam (PI), Dong Yiping, Martijn ten<br />
Bohmer, Feng Liu Rong, Gu Shuigem. Paperless<br />
Drawing Method and Vernacular Tectonic. Xi’An<br />
Jiatong Liverpool University Key Program Special<br />
Fund. RMB 314,000 07-Jul-<strong>2019</strong> – 07-Jul-2021<br />
Cimillo, Marco (PI), Large scale rapid energy<br />
modelling of buildings. PhD scholarship, <strong>XJTLU</strong><br />
Research Development Fund. Project code: RDF-17-<br />
01-40. Awarded in <strong>2018</strong>, to be started in <strong>2019</strong>. 240.<br />
RMB420,000.<br />
Dong, Yiping (PI), RDH101<strong>2019</strong>0031, Built Heritage<br />
and Local Sustainable Development - Taihu Lake<br />
Bsin Historical Gardens and Traditional Villages<br />
Cooperation Project, RMB 298,000, 25-May-<strong>2019</strong> –<br />
20-Aug-<strong>2019</strong>.<br />
Fischer, Thomas (PI), Christiane M. Herr, Rosa<br />
Urbano and Chitraj Bissoonauth. <strong>2018</strong>: Toolmaking<br />
in Parametric Façade Design, <strong>XJTLU</strong> Research<br />
Development Fund / PhD Scholarship, project code<br />
RDF-17-02-43, RMB 366,000. 01-Sep-<strong>2018</strong> – 31-Aug-<br />
2021.<br />
Han, Jiawen (PI) and Nan Ye. Research on the<br />
Change of Chinese Architects’ Professional<br />
Consciousness and Public Awareness in the Backdrop<br />
of Globalisation and Multinational Practices,<br />
Humanities and Social Science Programme of<br />
Ministry of Education, Young Scholar programme,<br />
China, project code: 19YJCZH045, RMB 80,000, 01-<br />
Jan-<strong>2019</strong> – 31-Dec-2021.<br />
Jian Li Hao (PI), Fangyu Guo and Christiane<br />
Margerita Herr. <strong>2019</strong>: Identifying critical factors to<br />
reduce construction waste during the design stage<br />
in China. <strong>XJTLU</strong> Summer Undergraduate Research<br />
Fund, project code SURF-<strong>2019</strong>32, RMB 10,000. 01-<br />
July-<strong>2019</strong> – 31-Aug-<strong>2019</strong>.<br />
Kim, Moon (PI), collaborators: Gisela Loehlein, Bing<br />
Chen, Huiqing Wen, Changhyun Jun, Stephen Sharples,<br />
David Chow, Juan Carlos Dall'asta, ‘SIP/<strong>XJTLU</strong><br />
Research fund, 'Advanced Low Energy Technologies for<br />
Zero Emission Architecture', <strong>2019</strong>-22.
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Ku, Kihong (PI), Marco Cimillo (ARC), and Martijn<br />
ten Bӧhmer (IND): Textile-Composite Self-Shading<br />
Module: A Prototype for the Design Building Atrium<br />
Skylight , <strong>XJTLU</strong> SURF, Suzhou, project code: SURF<br />
<strong>2019</strong>36, RMB11,500. 10-June-<strong>2019</strong> – 23-Aug-<strong>2019</strong>.<br />
Lombardi, Davide (PI) “Consolidating the BIM<br />
Concept in Architecture and Civil Engineering<br />
Curriculum”, <strong>XJTLU</strong> TDF 17/18 R16-107, RMB8,000,<br />
15-Feb-<strong>2019</strong> – 15-Jun-<strong>2019</strong>.<br />
Westermann, Claudia (PI), Hai-Ning and Richard<br />
Carciofo. Strategies for integrating empirical<br />
approaches to embodied cognition into architectural<br />
design processes. RDF 18-01-35 and associated PhD<br />
scholarship PGRS 1819-1-035; 100 000 RMB and 450<br />
000 RMB. 01-Sept-<strong>2019</strong> – 31-Aug-2022.<br />
Westermann, Claudia (PI), Yiping Dong, Paolo<br />
Scrivano, and Christina Malathouni.<br />
Actualizing Chinese Conceptions of Space:<br />
Theories and Strategies for the Design of Resonant<br />
Architecture. PhD scholarship PGRS1906008,<br />
450,000 RMB. 01-Sept-<strong>2019</strong> – 31-Aug-2022.<br />
Yang, Jing (PI), Bing Chen, Adam Brillhart, Nan<br />
Yang, and Yaqin Zuo. Weak Tectonics: the Role of<br />
Materiality in the Work of Japanese Architects<br />
SANAA. Jiangsu University Natural Science<br />
Research Programme, Nanjing, project code:<br />
18KJB560018, RMB30,000, 01-Sep-<strong>2018</strong> – 31-Aug-<br />
2020.<br />
Formal/Funded Project Completed<br />
Berstrand, Tordis (PI), Yiping Dong (OI), Yaqin Zuo<br />
(OI). Suzhou Courtyard – the Void That Holds the<br />
House, <strong>XJTLU</strong> SURF, Suzhou, project code: SURF<br />
<strong>2019</strong>40, RMB9,750, 17-June-<strong>2019</strong> – 23-Aug-<strong>2019</strong>.<br />
Kurul, Esra (PI), Maurizio Sibilla, Marco Cimillo,<br />
Ying Long. Users and Distributed Renewable and<br />
Interactive Energy Systems. Oxford Brookes<br />
Global Challenges Collaborative Research Award.<br />
GBP12,319. 01-Jan-<strong>2018</strong> – 31-Aug-<strong>2019</strong>.<br />
Kung, Kihong (PI) and Marco Cimillo: Textile-<br />
Composite Self-Shading Module: A Prototype for the<br />
Design Building Atrium Skylight. Collaboration with<br />
Kihong Ku (PI), ARC, and Martijn ten Bhömer (IND)<br />
RMB11,500. 01-Jul-<strong>2019</strong> – 31-Aug-<strong>2019</strong>.<br />
Schroepfer, Thomas (PI) and Thomas Wortmann.<br />
Interactive, Multi-Objective Optimization Tools for<br />
Parametric Modelling and Environmental Simulation.<br />
SUTD-MIT International Design Centre, Singapore,<br />
project code: IDG2170010, SGD147,000, 01-Oct-2017<br />
– 28-Feb-<strong>2019</strong>.<br />
ten Bhömer, Martijn (PI), Thomas Wortmann and<br />
Eva de Laat. Exploring computational fabrication<br />
techniques for the design of high-performance wear,<br />
<strong>XJTLU</strong> SURF, Suzhou, project code: SURF <strong>2019</strong>,<br />
RMB9,500, 10-Jun-<strong>2019</strong> to 16-Aug-<strong>2019</strong>.<br />
Wash, Glen. Drawing the invisible: Understanding<br />
the occupation of public spaces in Shanghai, <strong>XJTLU</strong><br />
SURF, Suzhou, project code: SURF <strong>2019</strong>29, RMB 4311,<br />
17-June-<strong>2019</strong> – 23-Aug-<strong>2019</strong>.<br />
Wortmann, Thomas (PI). Multi-objective<br />
Optimization, Exploration, and Visualization.<br />
Spyrosoft, Wroclaw, Poland, EUR24,000,<br />
01-March-<strong>2019</strong> – 31-May-<strong>2019</strong>.<br />
External Liaisons<br />
Dall'Asta, Juan Carlos. External PhD Examination<br />
board member, Ph.D. Program in Architecture and<br />
Territory, Università degli Studi Mediterranea di<br />
Reggio Calabria, Reggio Calabria, Italy.<br />
Dall'Asta, Juan Carlos. External PhD Examination<br />
board member, Ph.D. Program in Advanced<br />
Architecture, University of Seville, Escuela Técnica<br />
Superior de Arquitectura de Sevilla and Istituto<br />
Universitario de Arquitectura y Ciencias de la<br />
Construcciòn, Sevilla, Spain.<br />
Dall'Asta, Juan Carlos. External PhD Examination<br />
board member, Ph.D. programme in Architecture<br />
and Urban Planning, UPC Univesitat Politècnica<br />
de Catalunya_BarcelonaTECH, Escuela Tecnica<br />
Superior de Arquitectura ETSAB<br />
Barcelona, Spain<br />
Dall'Asta, Juan Carlos. Scientific Committee member.<br />
The <strong>2019</strong> 5th International Conference on Advanced<br />
Materials and Construction Engineering (ICAMCE<br />
<strong>2019</strong>), Suzhou, 29-Mar-<strong>2019</strong> – 31-Mar-<strong>2019</strong>.<br />
Fischer, Thomas, Invited Panelist at the <strong>2019</strong><br />
CAADRIA Postgraduate Student Consortium in<br />
Wellington New Zealand 15-Apr-<strong>2019</strong>.<br />
Fischer, Thomas, Vice President Electronic<br />
Publishing, American Society for Cybernetics (ASC),<br />
<strong>2018</strong>–2021.<br />
Fischer, Thomas, Conference co-organiser, Acting<br />
Cybernetically, Annual Conference of the American<br />
Society for Cybernetics <strong>2019</strong>. 23-Jun-<strong>2019</strong> – 27-Jun-<br />
<strong>2019</strong>, University of British Columbia, Vancouver,<br />
Canada.<br />
Fischer, Thomas, Visiting Associate Professor at<br />
the School of Design, The Hong Kong Polytechnic<br />
University 01-Feb-<strong>2018</strong> – ongoing.<br />
Herr, Christiane M. President, Association for<br />
Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in<br />
Asia (CAADRIA), <strong>2018</strong>-2020.<br />
Herr, Christiane M. Vice President Membership,<br />
American Society for Cybernetics (ASC), <strong>2018</strong>–2021.<br />
Herr, Christiane M. Chair, CAADRIA <strong>2019</strong><br />
Postgraduate Student Consortium in Wellington New<br />
Zealand 15-Apr-<strong>2019</strong>.<br />
Hidalgo Arellano, José Ángel. External PhD<br />
Examiner, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya,<br />
Barcelona, Spain, 4-Dec-<strong>2018</strong>.<br />
Ku, Kihong, Associate Professor of Architecture,<br />
College of Architecture and the Built Environment,<br />
Jefferson (Philadelphia University + Thomas<br />
Jefferson University), Philadelphia, USA.<br />
Loehlein, Gisela, External advisor for Professor<br />
position, Newcastle University, UK, <strong>2019</strong>.<br />
Loehlein, Gisela, External reviewer for new<br />
architecture department development, Zayed<br />
University, UAE, <strong>2018</strong>/19.<br />
Loehlein, Gisela, FA <strong>2018</strong> Emerging architect award<br />
– Design is power (architects under 40 years of age),<br />
jury member, Spring <strong>2019</strong>, Shanghai.<br />
Loehlein, Gisela, International Bamboo Construction<br />
competition, 19th July <strong>2019</strong>, Beijing.<br />
Loehlein, Gisela, Tongji International Construction<br />
Festival, Juror, 7-9th June <strong>2019</strong>, Tongji University,<br />
Shanghai.<br />
Motlib, Zayad, Course convenor of CODE 3100,<br />
Digital Collaboration Studio – Biomimicry inspired
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design, CODE 2120, Building Data – Performancedriven<br />
design and Urban Data Studio –Computational<br />
Urbanism, at UNSW at UNSW, Sydney, June 01 –<br />
August 21, <strong>2019</strong>.<br />
Quiroga Sofia. Reviewer Bac, Academic peer<br />
reviewed Journal. Contemporary architecture<br />
and research magazine ISSN 0213-3474. Coruña<br />
University, La Coruña, Spain. From 2017.<br />
Rolla, Sandro, Doshi: a conversation. Talking about<br />
Architecture and Landscape, Sangath, Ahmedabad,<br />
India. 04-Oct-<strong>2018</strong> (Shooting, Aditya Seth, New<br />
Delhi. Editor, Jason Bevan. Producer/Director,<br />
Garrabost Donal Jayalakshmi).<br />
Vardy, David. External Reviewer. Wuhan University,<br />
Wuhan, China. 01-Nov-<strong>2018</strong>– 02-Nov-<strong>2018</strong>.<br />
Vardy, David. External Reviewer. Wuhan University,<br />
Wuhan, China. 04-Jan-<strong>2019</strong>.<br />
Vardy, David. External Reviewer. Wuhan University,<br />
Wuhan, China. 11-Apr-<strong>2019</strong> – 13-Apr-<strong>2019</strong>.<br />
Vardy, David. External Reviewer. Wenzhou-Kean<br />
University, Wenzhou, China. 19-Apr-<strong>2019</strong>.<br />
Vardy, David. External Reviewer. Wenzhou-Kean<br />
University, Wenzhou, China. 27-May-<strong>2019</strong>.<br />
Wortmann, Thomas. Design studio critic. Zhejiang<br />
University, Hangzhou, China, 16-Dec-<strong>2018</strong>.<br />
Wortmann, Thomas. Master thesis critic. Tongji<br />
University, Shanghai, China, 27-Mar-<strong>2019</strong>.<br />
Research or Practice Awards/Prizes<br />
Dall'Asta, Juan Carlos. <strong>2018</strong>. Urbanscapes, Memorias<br />
Futuras, Team Leader at: WINAREQ <strong>2018</strong>, 0°0’0’’<br />
Making City, UTE, Universidad Tecnica Equinoccial,<br />
Quito, Ecuador. 17-Sep-<strong>2018</strong> – 21-Sep-<strong>2018</strong>. Best<br />
project, Best presentation.<br />
Dong Yiping. Heritage-zation in contemporary<br />
conservation practice in rural villages of China –<br />
Case study in Jukou, Fujian, Best SURF Project, Xi’an<br />
Jiaotong Liverpool University, 12-Sep-<strong>2019</strong>.<br />
Fischer, Thomas. Named “Certified Talent” of the<br />
International Academy for Systems and Cybernetic<br />
Sciences (IASCYS).<br />
Fung, Philip. Excellence Prize for CG Media Office,<br />
Hong Kong Global Design Award <strong>2018</strong>, 27-April-<strong>2019</strong><br />
Fung, Philip and Lau, Edward, Excellence Prize for<br />
YEWN Jewellery Shop, Hong Kong Global Design<br />
Award <strong>2018</strong>, 27-April-<strong>2019</strong><br />
Fung, Philip. Interior Design Silver Prize, Shenzhen<br />
Global Design Award <strong>2019</strong>, 19-April-<strong>2019</strong><br />
Fung, Philip. Social Innovation and Service Design<br />
Award, <strong>2018</strong> China Design Power 100, 12- Jan-<strong>2019</strong><br />
Hu, Qixuan, Shuyu Ni, Lu Song, Haoning Zhang,<br />
Christiane M. Herr and Thomas Fischer: Best<br />
Structure Design Prize, IDEERS<strong>2018</strong>, NCREE, Taipei,<br />
Taiwan, 15-Sep-<strong>2019</strong>.<br />
Hu, Qixuan, Shuyu Ni, Lu Song, Haoning Zhang,<br />
Christiane M. Herr and Thomas Fischer: Best<br />
Architecture Design Prize, IDEERS<strong>2018</strong>, NCREE,<br />
Taipei, Taiwan, 15-Sep-<strong>2019</strong>.<br />
Hu, Qixuan, Shuyu Ni, Lu Song, Haoning Zhang,<br />
Christiane M. Herr and Thomas Fischer: Earthquake<br />
Resistance Certificate, IDEERS<strong>2018</strong>, NCREE, Taipei,<br />
Taiwan, 15-Sep-<strong>2019</strong>.<br />
Ku, Kihong, Provost Award for Applied Research,<br />
Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, USA. 02-<br />
May-<strong>2019</strong>.<br />
Raonic, Aleksandra, Raonic, Milos. <strong>2019</strong>. Central<br />
greenmarket in Negotin, RAUM, DANS<br />
INTERNATIONAL AWARD <strong>2018</strong>, the 21st<br />
International Salon of Architecture Novi Sad, Novi<br />
Sad Serbia, 29-Sep-<strong>2018</strong>.<br />
Raonic, Aleksandra, Raonic, Milos. <strong>2019</strong>. Central<br />
greenmarket in Negotin, RAUM, PIRANESI AWARD<br />
<strong>2018</strong> nomination, the 36th PIDA – Piran Days<br />
of Architecture, Piran Slovenia, 17-Nov-<strong>2018</strong>.<br />
Rian, Iasef Md, Rian Architects & Designers. <strong>2019</strong>.<br />
Winner - International Open Design Competition,<br />
ASCENSION: Zagreb Observation Tower,<br />
Title- ‘Zero to Infinity Tower’, Organizer – EX-<br />
Development (Winning Letter received on 20-May-<br />
<strong>2019</strong>).<br />
Vardy, David, Xu, Wenfeng, Ren, Chenjia, Zhang,<br />
Ran, Zhang, Zhao, Chen, Liqiong, <strong>XJTLU</strong> Department<br />
of Architecture Design Research Centre. <strong>2019</strong>.<br />
Final Shortlist, Certificate of Honor, North Design<br />
Union Headquarters International Open Design<br />
Competition, Tianjing, China, 04-Apr-<strong>2019</strong>.<br />
Vardy, David, Dong, Chen, Ping, Yi, Li, Jiayi, <strong>XJTLU</strong><br />
Department of Architecture Design Research Centre.<br />
<strong>2019</strong>. Shortlist, Suzhou Old Town Conservation<br />
Design Output Workshop National Open Design<br />
Competition, Suzhou Municipal People’s Government<br />
in association with the Architectural Society of<br />
China, Suzhou, China, 31-Mar-<strong>2019</strong>.<br />
Vardy, David, Luhang, Shi, Xie, Haitian, Gao, Xingxin,<br />
<strong>XJTLU</strong> Department of Architecture Design Research<br />
Centre. <strong>2019</strong>. Finalist, International Bamboo<br />
Construction Competition (IBCC) <strong>2019</strong> International<br />
Open Design Competition, International Bamboo and<br />
Rattan Organisation (INBAR), Beijing, China, 08-<br />
Jun-<strong>2019</strong>.<br />
Wortmann, Thomas, Roger Ko and Chu Wy Ton.<br />
Winner Black Box Optimization Competition<br />
(BBComp), expensive two-objective track, Genetic<br />
and Evolutionary Computation Conference<br />
(GECCO) <strong>2019</strong>, 14-Jul-<strong>2019</strong>.
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TOOLMAKING IN<br />
PARAMETRIC FAÇADE<br />
DESIGN<br />
<strong>2018</strong>-<strong>2019</strong> <strong>YEARBOOK</strong> Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Department of Architecture 西 交 利 物 浦 大 学 建 筑 系<br />
Chitraj Bissoonauth<br />
PhD Candidate<br />
Department of Architecture<br />
Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University<br />
With the growing importance of expressive landmark architecture<br />
and digitalisation of the design practice in fast-developing countries<br />
like China, parametric façade design often requires custom-developed<br />
digital tools and specific design workflows. Toolmaking in parametric<br />
façade design processes has only recently gained importance and despite<br />
its relevance in practice, remains mostly unexplored in academic<br />
research. The study focuses on the possibilities and limitations of<br />
generalisation of façade design strategies at different stages in the design<br />
process to determine possibilities of toolmaking for wider application<br />
areas. Findings generated from this project will be of immediate<br />
value in academic research into digital design toolmaking as well as<br />
in architectural design practice, both informing and offering insights<br />
into an emerging industrial specialism. With its focus on parametric<br />
design workflows in practice, it parallels the Chinese Government’s<br />
emphasis and encouragement of research related to digital tool use in the<br />
Architecture, Construction and Engineering (AEC) industry.<br />
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ARCHITECTURAL DEVICES<br />
AS CATALYSTS FOR URBAN<br />
TRANSFORMATION<br />
<strong>2018</strong>-<strong>2019</strong> <strong>YEARBOOK</strong> Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Department of Architecture 西 交 利 物 浦 大 学 建 筑 系<br />
Guillermo Sánchez Sotés<br />
PhD Candidate<br />
Department of Architecture<br />
Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University<br />
Chinese urban environments are experiencing significant changes due<br />
to rapid modernisation. The prevalence of top-down planning results<br />
in generic urban environments that presume generic inhabitants<br />
and remain indifferent to their inhabitants’ ways of living. On closer<br />
observation, citizens can, however, be observed to adapt these generic<br />
urban spaces, often with simple but effective means. Socio-Economic<br />
entropy is seen in Chinese urban development; for creating order,<br />
some degree of disorder is inevitable in somewhere1. One can observe<br />
a range of objects and devices on various scales – from small furniture<br />
to temporary structures – being used to transform spaces to produce<br />
markets, breakfast spaces, sites for entertainment and learning, and<br />
much more.<br />
Very often chemical and biological analogies are used for illustrating<br />
the city such as ‘catalyst or metabolism’. Growing and reproducing are<br />
attributes of the constant change of the cities, where the adaptation<br />
of public space by informal artefacts/activities can be seen as an<br />
autopoietic system where the system as a whole produces and replaces<br />
its components. This project investigates these artefacts as indicators of<br />
shortcomings in current urban planning approaches and aims to clarify<br />
the notion of autopoiesis in its various applications in (architectural)<br />
theory. The urban process and the role of temporary/mobile architecture<br />
in Suzhou Industrial Park will serve to illustrate and exemplify this<br />
discussion.<br />
1 Rudolf Clausius in 1855 defined entropy as a way of describing how the things<br />
interact by interchanging energy and resources.<br />
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INDIVIDUAL PRACTICE IN THE<br />
CONTEXT <strong>OF</strong> COLLECTIVISM<br />
— a historical review of private architectural<br />
offices in China 1949 onwards<br />
<strong>2018</strong>-<strong>2019</strong> <strong>YEARBOOK</strong> Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Department of Architecture 西 交 利 物 浦 大 学 建 筑 系<br />
Nan Ye<br />
PhD Candidate<br />
Department of Architecture<br />
Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University<br />
From its establishment to the 1950s, the People's Republic of China<br />
gradually completed a process of Socialist transformation. All private<br />
sectors were either dismissed or reformed to fit the public-owned<br />
economic system. The practice form of private architectural design<br />
offices encountered a temporary termination. It took decades for the<br />
architectural profession to reclaim the freedom of private practice, and<br />
this happened in the 1980s after the government implemented reform<br />
and opening policies. From then on, the small-scale private practice<br />
began to flourish and multiply in number.<br />
This research reviews the decline and revival of private architectural<br />
practices in the 1950s and the 1990s in China and reinterprets the role<br />
of architects in the design process in the context of collectivism. It<br />
examines, in Mao’s era when individualism was criticised, how the<br />
independence claimed by architects survive in the collective design<br />
system. Meanwhile, this research further reflects the so-called<br />
“independent practice” after the 1990s when China’s market economy<br />
brought back the freedom of private practice. Based on case studies on<br />
the architects and their built works, it explores the hidden restrictions<br />
to individual practice in an “open era”. Furthermore, the ideological<br />
contradiction between private and public, and between individualism<br />
and collectivism behind this scene is revealed.<br />
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ADVANCED DEMAND<br />
CONTROL VENTILATION<br />
SYSTEM IN <strong>OF</strong>FICE<br />
BUILDINGS ACCOMMODATING<br />
THE VARIOUS OUTDOOR AIR<br />
QUALITY.<br />
<strong>2018</strong>-<strong>2019</strong> <strong>YEARBOOK</strong> Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Department of Architecture 西 交 利 物 浦 大 学 建 筑 系<br />
Nuodi Fu<br />
PhD Candidate<br />
Department of Architecture<br />
Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University<br />
This study explores how outdoor air pollutants impact on Indoor Air<br />
Quality (IAQ) in buildings and shows strategies on how to improve IAQ<br />
using typical ventilation strategies and novel active system designs<br />
in urban areas. The most significant impact of ventilation occurs<br />
during supply outdoor air and use indoor. According to the literature<br />
and reports, observed atmospheric outdoor air pollutant levels have<br />
increased every year. China also suffers from diseases due to air<br />
pollution. This study has measured outdoor air pollutants, such as Carbon<br />
dioxide (CO2), Carbon monoxide (CO), PM2.5, and PM10, and analyzed<br />
existing air ventilation performance using the passive or active system<br />
in a building when space is exposed to severe outdoor air pollutants.<br />
As long as the atmospheric air pollution level increased, ventilation<br />
strategies have to consider to improve supplying outdoor air quality<br />
and to maintain an acceptable indoor air pollution level depending on<br />
seasonal change, building location, height, air pollutants’ type. And<br />
ventilation rates also should be considered in relation to the surrounding<br />
environment. This study presents how the outdoor air pollution level<br />
rises impacts on IAQ and building energy consumption, and how to<br />
develop novel ventilation strategies to adapt to polluted environmental<br />
condition for human health.<br />
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RESEARCH ON THE ELDERLY’S<br />
DAILY LIFE AND THEIR LIVING<br />
ENVIRONMENT: A COMPARISON<br />
<strong>OF</strong> SUZHOU OLD TOWN AND<br />
SUZHOU INDUSTRIAL PARK<br />
<strong>2018</strong>-<strong>2019</strong> <strong>YEARBOOK</strong> Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Department of Architecture 西 交 利 物 浦 大 学 建 筑 系<br />
Qian Lin<br />
PhD Candidate<br />
Department of Architecture<br />
Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University<br />
With a growing number of elderly people, ageing is becoming a crucial<br />
social issue in China. The "One Child Policy" of the 1980s limited the<br />
number of newborns and resulted in a 4-2-1 structural morphology of<br />
population. Due to the pressure of fast-paced life, the younger generation<br />
born later than the 1980s tends to live a life that is different from their<br />
predecessors. Regardless of choosing a late marriage, or establishing<br />
Dink (Double Incomes No Kids) families, the younger generation’s way<br />
of living leads to a rapid population ageing. However, the methods and<br />
the approaches for dealing with this issue are insufficient, and thus can<br />
hardly meet the demands of this group of the population.<br />
In China, “Home-based Care” is advocated by the government at the<br />
policy level. Besides, given the custom and living habits of Chinese<br />
people, many elders prefer ageing at home. As such, this research seeks<br />
to study the ageing issue by looking at the living condition of Suzhou<br />
elders who age at home, and drawing a comparison between those living<br />
in the Suzhou Old Town and Suzhou Industrial Park, thereby laying a<br />
foundation for proposing strategic and tactical measures on housing and<br />
community for the Suzhou elderly.<br />
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View From Bei Si Pagoda towards Ren Min Road, 1982, photo taken<br />
by Shizhao Liu, source: http://sz.xinhuanet.com/<br />
View From Bei Si Pagoda towards Ren Min Road, 1940, photos from<br />
Xu.(ed), Traditional Suzhou Street and Lanes,2005, Yangzhou, access<br />
by http://szjy.szlib.com/<br />
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Jie Jia Qiao, 1980s, photos from Xu.(ed), Traditional Suzhou Street and<br />
Lanes, 2005, Yangzhou, access by http://szjy.szlib.com/<br />
Yin Ma Qiao, 1950s, photos from Xu.(ed), Traditional Suzhou Street and<br />
Lanes, 2005, Yangzhou, access by http://szjy.szlib.com/<br />
Yin Ma Qiao, 1980s, photo from Xu.(ed), Traditional Suzhou Street and<br />
ANOTHER MODERNIZATION:<br />
URBAN TRANSFORMATIONS<br />
<strong>OF</strong> SUZHOU, 1949-1986<br />
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Jie Jia Qiao, 1960s, photos from Xu.(ed), Traditional Suzhou Street<br />
Lanes, 2005, Yangzhou, access by http://szjy.szlib.com/<br />
and Lanes, 2005, Yangzhou, access by http://szjy.szlib.com/<br />
<strong>2018</strong>-<strong>2019</strong> <strong>YEARBOOK</strong> Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Department of Architecture 西 交 利 物 浦 大 学 建 筑 系<br />
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Quanqing Lu<br />
PhD Candidate<br />
Department of Architecture<br />
Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University<br />
The research is aiming to understand how Suzhou's urban form was<br />
transformed during the Socialist period. It spans from the founding of the<br />
People's Republic of China in 1949 to 1986 when planning and practices<br />
of urban conservation were first initiated with the announcement of the<br />
national law for conservation, with Suzhou then identified then as one of<br />
the nation's historic and cultural cities. Current research and literature<br />
on urban form in Suzhou indicates, however, that this period has been<br />
less discussed and there is a significant lack of information on the city's<br />
urban history.<br />
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THE ENERGY RETR<strong>OF</strong>IT <strong>OF</strong><br />
THE EXISTING RESIDEN-<br />
TIAL BUILDING STOCK IN<br />
JIANGSU PROVINCE<br />
<strong>2018</strong>-<strong>2019</strong> <strong>YEARBOOK</strong> Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Department of Architecture 西 交 利 物 浦 大 学 建 筑 系<br />
Xi Chen<br />
PhD Candidate<br />
Department of Architecture<br />
Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University<br />
The operational energy use in buildings in China represents over 1/5<br />
of the total national energy consumption, from which urban residential<br />
buildings takes over 23% in building sector (space heating in north<br />
China does not included). It is predicted that the energy consumption<br />
and carbon emission for housing sector will increase sharply in the<br />
near future. As one of the biggest energy consuming country, China<br />
has committed to established policies to promote clean and renewable<br />
energy and energy efficiency buildings, to decrease carbon emission by<br />
60% to 65% by 2030.<br />
The low-energy retrofit of the existing housing stock can significantly<br />
reduce energy consumption and carbon emissions. The study focuses on<br />
the main existing residential apartment building typologies constructed<br />
between 1979 to 1999 in Jiangsu Province both at both building and the<br />
stock level. Thus, this research is expected to investigate the applicability<br />
and the potential of innovative measures, policies and approaches to<br />
low energy retrofit for the residential building stock in Jiangsu Province<br />
that fit different future social and climate context scenarios through<br />
an innovative energy model that is able to perform different analysis<br />
with particular regard to sustainability, adaptation and resilience of the<br />
housing stock retrofit.<br />
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MAPPING ARCHITECTURAL<br />
CRITICISM IN CHINA<br />
<strong>2018</strong>-<strong>2019</strong> <strong>YEARBOOK</strong> Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Department of Architecture 西 交 利 物 浦 大 学 建 筑 系<br />
Architectural criticism in the early stage of the People’s Republic of China:<br />
Based on the documents from People’s Daily and Architectural Journal in 1950s<br />
Xiaohan.Chen<br />
PhD Candidate<br />
Department of Architecture<br />
Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University<br />
At the early stage when the People’s Republic of China was found,<br />
the Chinese architecture field has reached a peak moment in<br />
which the discussion of "National style," "Socialist new style" and a<br />
radical ideological transformation happened. Besides, the subject of<br />
“Architectural criticism” is an area that has not been fully developed or<br />
given particular attention in China. For the moment, historical research<br />
on Chinese architectural criticism is still limited to some pioneering<br />
studies, and also the number of Chinese architecture scholars whose<br />
topic is relevant to Chinese architectural criticism is minimal. In this<br />
case, this research focuses on the architectural history and criticism in<br />
the first decade after the founding of new China, that aims to undertake a<br />
first step toward the construction of a historical overview of architectural<br />
criticism in the period between 1949-1966. (From the founding of new<br />
China to the beginning of the Cultural Revolution.)<br />
After a preliminary analysis of general questions about the history<br />
of architectural criticism as well as the pilot research and selection<br />
of architectural and social publications. The research was decided to<br />
conduct mainly based on the analysis of architecture debates/articles/<br />
discourses and keywords that appeared in Architectural Journal -<br />
the authority professional architectural publication in the 1950s and<br />
People’s Daily - the mainstream social media in 1950s. Through the<br />
identification of the key themes that were considered in parallel by the<br />
two publications, this resulted in outlets to construct the knowledge<br />
framework of Chinese architectural criticism in the 1950s.<br />
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PROMENADE AND YI BU YI<br />
JING: MOVEMENT, DISCOVERY<br />
AND SCENERY IN LE<br />
CORBUSIER'S VILLA AND<br />
THE TRADITIONAL CHINESE<br />
LITERATI GARDEN<br />
<strong>2018</strong>-<strong>2019</strong> <strong>YEARBOOK</strong> Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Department of Architecture 西 交 利 物 浦 大 学 建 筑 系<br />
Yaqin Zuo<br />
PhD Candidate<br />
Department of Architecture<br />
Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University<br />
The forces of rapid urbanization and globalization have made<br />
homogenous, low-cost, mass-produced housing the norm in<br />
contemporary China and beyond. Architects provide the design when<br />
commissioned and base their theories and strategies on a rational<br />
logic often alien to local traditions. As such, modern high-rise housing<br />
typologies have become the norm in Asia despite originating from<br />
elsewhere, and the dwelling experience in this part of the world has been<br />
greatly affected by the development. One protagonist of experimentation<br />
with new housing formats is Le Corbusier who advocated Functionalism<br />
in the 20th century.<br />
The aim of the research is to explore what the rational logic of modern,<br />
Western architects might have suppressed in regards to the dwelling<br />
experience associated with a given space. It is especially the possibility<br />
of aesthetic experience as part of the dwelling experience that calls for<br />
attention since particularly this aspect would appear to fall short of the<br />
scientific method underpinning Functionalism and related orientations.<br />
The yi bu yi jing in the traditional Chinese literati garden and the<br />
promenade in Le Corbusier’s villas are chosen as case studies for a<br />
parallel study of aesthetic experience as part of the dwelling experience.<br />
Questions are raised about how aesthetic experience becomes an integral<br />
part of the dwelling experience in both cases with the implications that<br />
this might have for concepts of dwelling in the Chinese and European<br />
tradition, respectively. The thesis aims to explore the possibility of a<br />
contemporary concept of dwelling in China and beyond that incorporates<br />
aesthetic experience as an integral part. It further intends to broaden<br />
the discourse on dwelling as an increasingly globalised practice and<br />
intellectual challenge.<br />
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RESEARCH ON THE<br />
TYPOLOGICAL EVOLUTION <strong>OF</strong><br />
MASS HOUSING IN SUZHOU<br />
INDUSTRIAL PARK,<br />
FROM THE 1990S<br />
<strong>2018</strong>-<strong>2019</strong> <strong>YEARBOOK</strong> Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Department of Architecture 西 交 利 物 浦 大 学 建 筑 系<br />
Yuan Sun, Estella<br />
PhD Candidate<br />
Department of Architecture<br />
Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University<br />
The Suzhou Industrial Park (SIP) is the development district constructed<br />
by China and Singapore in 1994. The town planning system and the<br />
urban model from Singapore were adapted into SIP development from<br />
the beginning. In contrast, the housing communities and housing units<br />
in SIP are highly different from the one in Singapore. The research<br />
concentrates on the house types of SIP to provide insight into housing<br />
reform. The study aims to leverage Singapore's experience and provide<br />
insights for future massive housing development in SIP. To achieve this<br />
end, the research investigates the typological evolution of mass housing<br />
in SIP from the 1990s by considering selected mass housing projects<br />
within certain periods, and study the mechanisms for defining housing<br />
types in the various social, historical and political contexts in SIP.<br />
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<strong>DEPARTMENT</strong> <strong>OF</strong> <strong>ARCHITECTURE</strong><br />
XI'AN JIAOTONG-LIVERPOOL UNIVERSITY<br />
STUDENTS<br />
<strong>2018</strong>-<strong>2019</strong> <strong>YEARBOOK</strong> Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Department of Architecture 西 交 利 物 浦 大 学 建 筑 系<br />
Deng Yusheng 邓 禹 晟 Lu Jialing 陆 家 羚 Chen Zhaoyuan 陈 昭 元 Zou Wei 邹 伟 Lyu Xiaohui 吕 晓 慧 Wu Danyang 吴 丹 阳 Sun<br />
Zhiwei 孙 志 伟 Qiao Jiatun 乔 稼 屯 Li Rui 李 睿 Xu Yile 徐 乙 乐 Zhou Yinuo 周 宜 诺 Wang Ducheng 王 渡 程 Wu Yiyang 吴 艺 扬 Xu<br />
Mingyang 徐 铭 阳 Huang Yu 黄 羽 Gong Lingfei 龚 凌 菲 Wang Hongmeng 王 鸿 蒙 Wang Zehao 王 泽 浩 Jiang Yi 蒋 翌 Qiu Mingyu<br />
仇 明 玉 Liu Jiazheng 刘 家 正 Wang Zhihan 王 知 涵 Yu Miao 禹 淼 Zhou Xiaoyang 周 笑 阳 Yu Xinning 郁 歆 宁 Chen Fanyun 陈 凡 云<br />
Di Yang 狄 扬 Lu Yizhe 陆 怡 哲 Wang Yuzhou 王 煜 洲 Ye Chenwei 叶 宸 维 Wang Yu 王 煜 Yang Ruizi 杨 蕊 滋 Zhou Yili 周 依 黎<br />
Huang Shangtong 黄 上 桐 Zhang Xiaoxuan 章 晓 萱 Zhuo Jinbing 卓 锦 冰 Wu Yan 伍 衍 Dan Xinrui 但 欣 芮 Li Dexin 李 德 馨 Li<br />
Ziyi 李 子 懿 Tong Xuan 童 轩 Zhang Weizhen 张 伟 臻 An Yicheng 安 奕 丞 Xue Wenya 薛 温 雅 Ye Wenxuan 叶 文 轩 Zhang Lingke<br />
张 零 可 Dai Yiqing 戴 怡 青 Tu Kaixi 涂 凯 茜 Jiang Ruochen 蒋 若 辰 Tong Shuoyu 佟 朔 宇 Zhang Xinyi 张 馨 艺 Chen Haokun 陈 昊<br />
坤 Yao Wenxuan 姚 文 萱 Chen Zitong 陈 梓 橦 Zhang Yining 张 怡 凝 Ha Ziyu 哈 姿 羽 Zhang Yi 张 亦 Cai Shiyu 蔡 诗 雨 Qiao Kefei<br />
乔 柯 斐 Shui Shumin 水 淑 敏 Chen Menghan 陈 梦 晗 Cui Qichen 崔 琦 琛 He Yuxin 何 昱 欣 Jia Yifei 贾 逸 飞 Xu Ziying 许 子 莹 Yao<br />
Yuzheng 姚 羽 筝 Shi Luhang 时 露 航 Zhang Zixuan 张 子 璇 Li Linmei 李 林 镁 Zhao Zihao 赵 子 豪 Zhang Yang 张 洋 Shang Yixiu<br />
尚 奕 秀 Zhang Tao 张 陶 Li Qianru 李 倩 茹 Yan Haonan 鄢 淏 南 Cheng Jingyuan 程 婧 媛 Fang Tianyuan 方 天 圆 Ze Mingxuan 则<br />
铭 暄 Jiang Kunhui 蒋 坤 辉 Qi Simiao 漆 思 淼 Wang Ruihao 王 睿 豪 Ding Yuxin 丁 宇 欣 Ma Dongjie 马 东 杰 Ma Mingxun 马 铭 勋<br />
Wang Lingyu 王 聆 雨 Li Yunyan 李 昀 燕 Liu Weikang 刘 唯 康 Lyu Yidi 吕 祎 迪 Wei Shubo 魏 书 博 Wu Yunxi 吴 韫 希 Zhang Zijing<br />
张 紫 荆 Ge Tiantian 葛 田 田 Li Keyan 李 可 言 Liang Yuhaoyuan 梁 玉 皓 元 Wang Qiaosheng 王 乔 生 Mu Congyu 穆 聪 雨 Luo Tian<br />
罗 恬 Li Peijia 李 佩 珈 Sun Weicheng 孙 炜 程 Christy Natasha Yan Chut Hang Fong Choy Bryan Jonatan Nursalim Ivan<br />
Permana Wong Derry Wibowo Zhou Yingtong 周 映 同 Xiao Yixin 肖 奕 欣 Xue Qi 薛 骐 Xue Ningzi 薛 宁 紫 Liu Zecheng 刘 则 呈<br />
Hu Wenxuan 胡 文 轩 Li Shuqi 李 书 琦 Ren Chenjia 任 晨 嘉 Shao Ziyi 邵 紫 怡 Wu Yelun 吴 冶 仑 Yang Kaiwen 杨 楷 文 Huang<br />
Wenyi 黄 文 逸 Chen Ying 陈 颖 Yang Jiaye 杨 佳 叶 Zhan Xiang 詹 翔 Lin Zhaoyuan 林 赵 圆 Qian Jieyu 钱 婕 虞 Shen Yingying 沈<br />
迎 莹 Zheng Qi 郑 琦 Ni Shuyu 倪 抒 予 Shi Xiongzhe 施 雄 哲 Liu Yichang 刘 奕 苌 Lyu Jiaheng 吕 佳 恒 Miao Yiyuan 苗 译 元 Li<br />
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李 栩 Wang Bingyao 汪 丙 尧 Lin Yuanyuan 林 园 园 Zeng Muyuan 曾 慕 远 Hu Qixuan 胡 启 铉 Mao Xuesong 毛 雪 松 Luan Chenqi<br />
栾 晨 琦 Song Jiahui 宋 家 辉 Xu Xiaotong 许 晓 彤 Zhao Jinsong 赵 劲 松 Jia Haochun 贾 皓 淳 Wang Shen 王 申 Li Rongcheng 李<br />
容 丞 Wang Yixuan 汪 逸 轩 Ye Yuhan 冶 钰 涵 Li Yurui 李 禹 锐 Liu Ziyu 刘 梓 钰 Mu Hongyuan 穆 宏 源 Gong Yifu 弓 益 夫 Li Yusong<br />
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宇 Wang Yingzhuo 王 樱 焯 Xue Haotian 薛 皓 天 Zhang Hanzheng 张 涵 峥 Liu Mengting 刘 梦 婷 Gopari Ricky Nachimuthu<br />
Senthilkumar Sachin Kumar Pandowo Andrew Sadien Iohans Shekar Tjahjadi Deilsika Liu Xinyi 刘 心 颐 Zhu Xiangqi 朱 湘<br />
琪 Deng Yilin 邓 伊 琳 Sun Puyuan 孙 浦 元 Zhou Xinyi 周 心 怡 Pan Yanhao 潘 彦 昊 Zhong Yueying 钟 玥 盈 Cai Yinzhe 蔡 胤 哲<br />
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Zhang Zheng 张 正 Fan Xinyi 范 心 怡 Gao Fan 高 梵 He Lanxin 赫 兰 鑫 Hu Ruwen 胡 薷 文 Qian Jiayi 钱 嘉 祎 Chen Meiying 陈 玫<br />
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Jenness Benjamin Colin Madiarova Aimeerim Pantin Henry Fretigny Wiyani Devina Lee Jiyeon Florencia Grace Iwe<br />
Chen Xinchi 陈 欣 池 Ru Xinyue 褥 心 悦 Zeng Zhiqing 曾 芷 晴 Tan Tianjun 谭 天 俊 Hu Qianye 胡 千 烨 Lu Ruochen 卢 若 辰 Yao<br />
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景 博 Zhong Yuxuan 钟 宇 轩 Jia Bao 佳 宝 Shi Qingbo 史 晴 波 Zhang Yuxiao 张 钰 潇 Xu Qihang 徐 启 航 Huang Ruoxue 黄 若 雪<br />
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<strong>DEPARTMENT</strong> <strong>OF</strong> <strong>ARCHITECTURE</strong><br />
XI'AN JIAOTONG-LIVERPOOL UNIVERSITY<br />
ACADEMIC STAFF<br />
<strong>2018</strong>-<strong>2019</strong> <strong>YEARBOOK</strong> Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Department of Architecture 西 交 利 物 浦 大 学 建 筑 系<br />
Gisela Loehlein<br />
Head of Department<br />
Ph.D., Welsh School of Architecture,<br />
Cardiff University (UK)<br />
B.Eng. Hons. Architectural Engineering,<br />
Cardiff University (UK)<br />
Tordis Berstrand<br />
Ph.D., Architecture, University of Kent<br />
(UK)<br />
M.Sc., Architectural History, Bartlett<br />
School of Architecture, UCL (UK)<br />
M.Arch., Architecture, Royal Danish<br />
Academy of Fine Arts (DK)<br />
Licensed Architect (DK)<br />
Adam Brillhart<br />
Ph.D., China Academy of Art (CN)<br />
M.Sc., Columbia University (US)<br />
B.Arch., New Jersey Institute of<br />
Technology, Albert Dorman Honors<br />
College (US)<br />
Peta Carlin<br />
Ph.D., RMIT University (AU)<br />
M.A. (Media Arts), RMIT University (AU)<br />
B.A. (Hons) (Visual Communications),<br />
RMIT University (AU)<br />
Marco Cimilo<br />
Ph.D., Sapienza University of Rome (IT)<br />
M.Arch., Sapienza University of Rome<br />
(IT)<br />
Registered Architect (IT)<br />
Juan Carlos Dall’Asta<br />
Ph.D., Politecnico di Milano (IT)<br />
M.Arch., Politecnico di Milano (IT)<br />
B.Arch., Politecnico di Milano (IT)<br />
Registered Architect (IT)<br />
Yiping Dong<br />
Ph.D., Tongji University (CN)<br />
M.Arch., Tongji University (CN)<br />
B.Arch., Tongji University (CN)<br />
Martin Fischbach<br />
Ph.D. Fine Arts, Paris 1 P-Sorbonne<br />
University (FR)<br />
MA Fine Arts, Paris 1 P-Sorbonne<br />
University (FR)<br />
M.Arch., ENSArchitecture Paris-<br />
Belleville (FR)<br />
Registered Arch DPLG (FR)<br />
Thomas Fischer<br />
Ph.D., Royal Melbourne Institute of<br />
Technology University (AU)<br />
Ph.D., University of Kassel (DE)<br />
MEd equiv., University of Kassel (DE)<br />
Philip Fung<br />
M.Arch., Chinese University of Hong<br />
Kong (CN)<br />
BS.Sc. (Architectural Studies),<br />
Chinese University of Hong Kong (CN)<br />
RIBA<br />
Christian Gänshirt<br />
Ph.D., Brandenburg University of<br />
Technology (DE)<br />
Dipl-Ing. Arch., Universität Fridericiana<br />
zu Karlsruhe (DE)<br />
Licensed and registered Architect,<br />
Berlin Chamber of Architects (DE)<br />
Jiawen Han<br />
Ph.D., Architecture, University of New<br />
South Wales (AU)<br />
M.Arch., Dalian University of<br />
Technology (CN)<br />
Richard Hay<br />
MA, Royal College of Art (UK)<br />
BA (Hons), Kingston University<br />
London (UK)<br />
ARB RIBA<br />
Christiane M. Herr<br />
Ph.D., University of Hong Kong (HK)<br />
M.Arch., University of Hong Kong (HK)<br />
Dipl.-Ing. Arch., University of Kassel<br />
(DE)<br />
José Ángel Hidalgo Arellano<br />
Ph.D. Universidad Politécnica de<br />
Madrid (ES)<br />
M.Arch., Universitat Politécnica de<br />
Catalunya, Barcelona (ES)<br />
Registered Architect (ES)<br />
Teresa Hoskyns<br />
Ph.D., The Bartlett, University College<br />
London (UK)<br />
MA, Royal College of Art, London (UK)<br />
Moon Keun Kim<br />
Ph.D., Architecture, Swiss Federal<br />
Institute of Technology Zurich (CH)<br />
M.Sc., Architectural Engineering,<br />
Pennsylvania State University at<br />
University Park (US)<br />
M.Sc., Engineering Acoustics,<br />
Technical University of Denmark (DK)<br />
M.Sc., Architecture, Yonsei University<br />
(KR)<br />
Kihong Ku<br />
DDes, Architecture, Harvard University<br />
Graduate School of Design (US)<br />
MDesS, Architecture, Harvard<br />
University Graduate School of Design<br />
(US)<br />
M.S.Eng, Architecture, Seoul National<br />
University (KR)<br />
B.S.Eng, Architecture, Seoul National<br />
University (KR)<br />
Xuemei Li<br />
Ph.D., Sheffield University (UK)<br />
M.Eng., South China University of<br />
Technology (CN)<br />
B.Eng., south China University of<br />
Technology (CN)<br />
Davide Lombardi<br />
Ph.D., School of Advanced Studies 'G.<br />
d'Annunzio' (IT)<br />
BA and MA, Università degli Studi<br />
Gabriele d'Annunzio, Department of<br />
Architecture (IT)<br />
Registered Architect (IT)<br />
Zayad Motlib<br />
M.Arch., University of Auckland (NZ)<br />
B.Arch., University of Baghdad (IQ)<br />
RAIA, NZIA Registered Architect (AU<br />
and NZ)<br />
Sofia Qiuroga<br />
Ph.D., Polytechnic School of<br />
Architecture, ETSAM (ES)<br />
Dipl. Arch + M. Arch., Polytechnic<br />
School of Architecture, ETSAM (ES)<br />
Registered Architect COAM. (ES)<br />
Aleksandra Raonic<br />
Ph.D. Candidate, Universitat<br />
Internacional de Catalunya, Barcelona,<br />
2015 - (ES)<br />
M.Arch., Staatliche Hochschule für<br />
Bildende Künste, Frankfurt (DE)<br />
Dipl.-Ing. Arch., University of Belgrade (RS)<br />
Sandro Rolla<br />
MArch, University of Genoa (IT)<br />
BArch, University of Genoa (IT)<br />
Registered Architect (IT)<br />
Iasef Md Rian<br />
Ph.D., Architecture and Building Design,<br />
Politecnico di Torino (IT)<br />
M.Eng., Architectural Design, INHA<br />
University (KR)<br />
B.Arch., Architecture, Aligarh Muslim<br />
University (IN)<br />
Licensed Architect (IN)<br />
Paolo Scrivano<br />
Ph.D., Politecnico di Torino (IT)<br />
Dipl. Arch., Politecnico di Torino (IT)<br />
Igea Troiani<br />
Ph.D., Architecture, Queensland<br />
University of Technology (AU)<br />
B. Arch [Masters], Royal Melbourne<br />
Institute of Technology (AU)<br />
B. App. Sc. [Built Env./ Architecture],<br />
Queensland University of Technology (AU)<br />
Registered Architect (AUST)<br />
Li-An Tsien<br />
Dipl. Arch., ISACF-La Cambre (BE)<br />
Dipl. Cand. Arch., ISACF-La Cambre (BE)<br />
Licensed Architect (BE)<br />
David Vardy<br />
M.Arch., Scott Sutherland School (UK)<br />
B.Sc. (Hons) Architectural Studies,<br />
Strathclyde University (UK)<br />
Chartered Architect (UK)<br />
Paco Mejias Villatoro<br />
Ph.D., Universidad Politecnica de<br />
Madrid (ES)<br />
M.Sc., Universidad Europea de Madrid<br />
(ES)<br />
M.Arch., Universidad Politecnica de<br />
Valencia (ES)<br />
Registered Architect (ES)<br />
Glen Wash<br />
Ph.D., University of Tokyo (JP)<br />
MEng, University of Tokyo (JP)<br />
Dipl. Arch., Catholic University of<br />
Valparaiso (CL)<br />
Licensed Architect (CL)<br />
Claudia Westermann<br />
Ph.D., University of Plymouth (UK)<br />
Pgr Dipl Media Art, Karlsruhe University<br />
of Art and Design (DE)<br />
Dipl.-Ing. Arch., University of Karlsruhe,<br />
TH (DE)<br />
Chartered Architect (DE)<br />
Thomas Wortmann<br />
Ph.D., Singapore University of<br />
Technology and Design (SG)<br />
M.Sc., Design and Computation,<br />
Massachusetts Institute of Technology<br />
(US)<br />
Dipl.-Ing. Arch., University of Kassel (DE)<br />
Registered Architect (NL)<br />
Jing Yang<br />
Ph.D., University of Nottingham (UK)<br />
M.Arch., Southeast University (CN)<br />
B.Arch., Southwest Jiaotong University (CN)<br />
Part-time Tutors<br />
Antonio Berton<br />
Dong Chen<br />
John Latto<br />
Jue Qiu<br />
Kevin Sun<br />
Kulthida Songkittipakdee<br />
Liang Xu<br />
Liwen Zhu<br />
Nicola Pagnano<br />
Rachael Ouyang<br />
Rafael Cabonero<br />
Teo Hidalgo Nacher<br />
Victor Njo<br />
Xiani Wang<br />
Yiwen Zhang<br />
Teaching Assistants<br />
Nan Ye<br />
Xiaohan Chen<br />
Yaqin Zuo<br />
Lihan Huang<br />
Wenfeng Xu<br />
Simeng Zhu<br />
Tiantian Dong<br />
Lihan Huang<br />
Yuan Sun<br />
Nuodi Fu<br />
Xi Chen<br />
Guillermo Sanchez Sotes<br />
Supporting Staff<br />
Lili Chen, Departmental Secretary<br />
Wenxi Ma, Departmental Secretary<br />
Yao Chen, Intern<br />
Jian Chen, Fab Lab Manager<br />
Liqiong Chen, Lab Technician<br />
Fukang Li, Lab Technician<br />
Hailin Zhao, Lab Technician<br />
Dongyong Yu, Assistant Technician<br />
Bo Cheng, Assistant Technician
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ALUMNI<br />
<strong>XJTLU</strong> Degree<br />
BEng(Hons) Architecture, July 2016<br />
Year Out<br />
KCA, Kostas Chatzigiannis Architecture<br />
Further Studies<br />
Master of Architecture and Urban<br />
Design, Part 2 equiv., Politecnico di<br />
Milano, since 2017<br />
Chen Jiamiao | 陈 佳 苗<br />
<strong>2018</strong>-<strong>2019</strong> <strong>YEARBOOK</strong> Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Department of Architecture 西 交 利 物 浦 大 学 建 筑 系<br />
Architecture Alumni Exhibition –<br />
December 8-15, <strong>2018</strong>.<br />
Alumni exhibition oversight:<br />
Claudia Westermann<br />
Exhibition set-up:<br />
Chen Jian and assistants<br />
Special event organization:<br />
Chen Jian<br />
Photo:<br />
Claudia Westermann<br />
Since the first graduation of students from the Bachelor degree in 2014<br />
and the Master’s degree in 2017, our network of alumni continues to<br />
grow. Future graduates of <strong>XJTLU</strong>’s Department of Architecture can<br />
now look forward to joining a global network of successful alumni who<br />
are making a difference in universities, organisations and recognised<br />
award-winning architecture practices – all over the world. Many alumni<br />
have stories to tell that are extraordinary and provide evidence of their<br />
excellence.<br />
Last year, we introduced a new section to the yearbook to give our<br />
alumni space to tell their stories. This year, we continue this practice.<br />
On the following pages, you will find the stories of twelve exemplary<br />
graduates of the Bachelor degree. They give a sense of the achievement<br />
that has come to typify <strong>XJTLU</strong>’s Architecture alumni in general.<br />
In December <strong>2018</strong>, we held our first Architecture Alumni Exhibition.<br />
It was a great opportunity for us to meet with our former students, for<br />
the alumni to catch up with each other, and for the current students<br />
to see the excellence of the architecture alumni and the variety of<br />
careers they have been embarking on. Our thanks go to all the alumni<br />
who contributed works to the exhibition, and the following alumni<br />
for coordinating the event with their classmates: Huang Chien-hua –<br />
graduate of 2014, Zhu Haoruo – graduate of 2015, Dai Anni – graduate of<br />
2016, Qian Shiyu – graduate of 2017, and Huang Yifei – graduate of <strong>2018</strong>.<br />
If you are a graduate of our Architecture programmes but are not yet<br />
connected to our alumni WeChat groups, please contact the Department’s<br />
alumni coordinator Claudia Westermann at Arc.Alumni@xjtlu.edu.cn,<br />
so you can be added. Claudia will also be happy to receive updates from<br />
you. E-mail to let her know where you are and what you do. We look<br />
forward to hearing from you.<br />
The four years of studying at <strong>XJTLU</strong> are a great treasure for me. I learned to open my mind to the word<br />
‘architecture,’ how to design both realistic architecture and dream architecture. And I have missed the freedom<br />
in design, the close relationship with professors, the nice environment of <strong>XJTLU</strong> when I worked, and now<br />
studying in Milan.<br />
After graduation, I worked as an architect assistant for one year, and then went to Milan in Italy for my Master’s<br />
degree. Studies at the Politecnico are nice. I have two studios each semester. It is stressful, but you can be<br />
involved in more project types. The studios here are different from <strong>XJTLU</strong>’s. Almost everything is done in<br />
groups. It is good to work in groups, you can learn from your group members. Although there will always be<br />
disagreements between group members, eventually the group will turn the design in a good way. But I also<br />
notice the weakness. It seems, in a group, you will probably focus on the work, which you can do very well.<br />
Over time, your strengths will become stronger, but you will have only little opportunities to improve on your<br />
weaknesses. And sometimes you will miss the freedom of designing a project individually.<br />
▲ A section of the Palazzo Ducale showing the exhibition layout that<br />
my group designed in the architectural preservation studio at the<br />
Politecnico<br />
A rendering of the middle courtyard of the Palazzo Ducale showing<br />
the new circulation that my group designed in the architectural<br />
preservation studio at the Politecnico<br />
▲
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<strong>XJTLU</strong> Degree<br />
BEng(Hons) Architecture, 2016<br />
Further Studies<br />
Master of Architecture, Part 2 equiv., Delft<br />
University of Technology, since 2017<br />
Chen Yu | 陈 雨<br />
<strong>XJTLU</strong> Degree<br />
BEng(Hons) Architecture, 2014<br />
Year Out<br />
Skew Collaborative, Shanghai<br />
Current Employer<br />
Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates, London<br />
Master Degree<br />
MArch RIBA/ARB Part II (Dist), The<br />
Bartlett School of Architecture, London,<br />
2017<br />
RIBA/ARB Registration<br />
Part III Architecture, University of<br />
Westminster, <strong>2019</strong><br />
Freja Bao Lijia | 包 利 佳<br />
<strong>2018</strong>-<strong>2019</strong> <strong>YEARBOOK</strong> Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Department of Architecture 西 交 利 物 浦 大 学 建 筑 系<br />
After graduating from <strong>XJTLU</strong>, I chose to work for one year before the Master’s. The work experience of one year<br />
helped me to clarify what my weaknesses and my interests are, and assisted me to choose design studios in the<br />
Master’s study.<br />
At TU Delft, there are many design studios, each with a different focus. The first studio I chose was ‘Interiors,<br />
Buildings and Cities.’ This studio helped me to focus on the detailed design of space and pay more attention to<br />
the atmosphere of space. Then, I chose the ‘Global Housing’ studio to design housing in Africa with design scales<br />
ranging from the urban to the interior. In this studio, I experienced a totally different culture. I learnt how<br />
architectural design reflects culture, politics, economy and morphology etc. For my final year project, I chose<br />
‘Heritage Design.’ I want to learn how to do renovation design in a systematic way. Also, studying in Europe<br />
gives me the opportunity to visit many examples of excellent architecture. These experiences deepen my<br />
understanding of what good quality of space is. Studying at TU Delft broadens my horizon, and improves the way<br />
I think about design and presentation.<br />
Street view -- Expandable Dwelling in Tema,<br />
team work by Yu Chen & Yu Li.<br />
Courtyard view of low income dwelling after<br />
expansion -- Expandable Dwelling in Tema,<br />
team work by Yu Chen & Yu Li.<br />
During the three year architecture study at <strong>XJTLU</strong>, I have developed my interest in the complex cultural and<br />
social contexts that inform architectural propositions, and in the possibilities of drawing as a tool to create new<br />
relationships between space, form and function. The critical thinking environment at <strong>XJTLU</strong> has prepared me well<br />
for my further studies at the Unit 10 CJ Lim group the Bartlett School of Architecture. The academic identity and<br />
ethos that I learned from my architecture education has enabled me to delve deeper into the various practice aspects<br />
I am experiencing in my career. After two years working in London, I have been involved in a few major projects<br />
in the city of London. Meanwhile, this year I will be receiving my British Registered Architect qualification. This<br />
is only the start of my career path and looking back to 8 years ago makes me appreciate how far I have come. I am<br />
grateful for the experiences that I had at <strong>XJTLU</strong> and will continue to pursue my passion in architecture.<br />
The two drawings are from my MArch Final Year Project at the Bartlett School of Architecture. The original<br />
collection contains six drawings. The collection was inspired by a memoir called Eastern Capital: A Dream of<br />
Splendour. Written in 1147, the Eastern Capital was referring to the capital city of China during the Northern Song<br />
period. In the book, ‘A sphere of perfect job and harmony’ was unfolded by the narrator, yet the sudden decline and<br />
the end of the splendour knocked readers back to the ‘perfect’ shambles.<br />
Winter – Plum Blossom [ 冬 梅 ]<br />
This drawing captures the winter scene of the new capital city of<br />
Greater China Region. The plum blossoms form a veil and mask the<br />
service zone below; therefore, the capital always depicts a prosperous<br />
joyful image to the tourists visiting the area.<br />
Summer – Bamboo [ 夏 竹 ]<br />
This drawing depicts an early summer morning upon arrival of the<br />
capital city gate. An endless bamboo colonnade leading to the entry<br />
canopy, alongside the colonnades are the fish farms and seaweed<br />
farms.
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<strong>XJTLU</strong> Degree<br />
BEng(Hons) Architecture, 2015<br />
Further Studies<br />
Master of Architecture, Part 2 equiv., Aalto<br />
University, since 2016<br />
Gu Mengxue | 谷 梦 雪<br />
<strong>XJTLU</strong> Degree<br />
BEng(Hons) Architecture, 2016<br />
Year Out<br />
Atelier Archmixing and More Design<br />
Office<br />
Further Studies<br />
Master of Architecture, Part 2 equiv.,<br />
University of British Colombia, since 2017<br />
Jin Tian | 金 恬<br />
<strong>2018</strong>-<strong>2019</strong> <strong>YEARBOOK</strong> Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Department of Architecture 西 交 利 物 浦 大 学 建 筑 系<br />
I have enjoyed discovering the purity of the architectural spaces since I began to study for my Master’s degree at<br />
Aalto University in Finland. This purity might be evoked by the material, the light, or the activities of the users.<br />
I am especially interested in wooden constructions and the design of light, so I took several related courses,<br />
designing projects on various scales during my study period.<br />
In <strong>2018</strong>, I undertook an exchange year to AHO, The Olso School of Architecture and Design. I enrolled in the<br />
scarcity and creativity studio. We worked as a group to design a bookshop in Oslo and then constructed the<br />
building by ourselves in Louna village in China. Witnessing how the building developed, from designing it on<br />
paper to constructing it on site, was a valuable experience for me. I learned how each specific material has its<br />
construction method and understood how design details and construction processes influence each other.<br />
Louna Bookshop – interior view,<br />
SCS studio, AHO (Photo by UED)<br />
Louna Bookshop – exterior view,<br />
SCS studio, AHO (Photo by UED)<br />
After graduating from <strong>XJTLU</strong>, I practiced in the architectural industry for one year before entering my Master’s<br />
program at the University of British Columbia. The professional experience I gained from Atelier Archmixing<br />
and More Design Office convinced me that graduate studies have to be the next step, making part of the growth<br />
of an architect.<br />
Since getting enrolled in the School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (SALA) at the University of<br />
British Columbia, I have been working on several design studios dealing with First Nation issues in Canada. As<br />
a country of immigrants, the Canadian government has been working on reconciliation with the indigenous<br />
communities dealing with Indian residential schools, repatriation of indigenous artefacts from museums etc.<br />
SALA demonstrates great concern on First Nation issues and provides studio opportunities with real First<br />
Nation clients and brief scenarios.<br />
JIN Tian, University of British Columbia, Master of Architecture, Year 1 studio, Yuquot Whalers’ Shrine
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360<br />
<strong>XJTLU</strong> Degree<br />
BEng(Hons) Architecture, 2017<br />
Further Studies<br />
Master of Architecture, Part 2 equiv., Delft<br />
University of Technology, <strong>2019</strong><br />
Shao Fuwei | 邵 富 伟<br />
<strong>XJTLU</strong> Degree<br />
BEng(Hons) Architecture, 2016<br />
Year Out<br />
TEAM BLDG<br />
Further Studies<br />
Master of Architecture, Part 2 equiv.,<br />
University of Melbourne, since <strong>2018</strong><br />
Shen Yue | 沈 越<br />
<strong>2018</strong>-<strong>2019</strong> <strong>YEARBOOK</strong> Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Department of Architecture 西 交 利 物 浦 大 学 建 筑 系<br />
Being a student at <strong>XJTLU</strong>’s Department of Architecture was one of the best moments in my life. I was given<br />
the opportunity to gradually develop and find a position in relation to architecture and its indeterminacy. I am<br />
thankful for the support of my excellent mentors.<br />
Immediately after graduating from <strong>XJTLU</strong>, I began my Master of Architecture at Delft University of<br />
Technology (TUD) in 2017. From the very technical study of materials and structures, to research on contextual<br />
relationships and on how people dwell and occupy spaces in global contexts, during my Master graduation<br />
project on ‘architecture indeterminacy’ I was able to build on my educational experience at <strong>XJTLU</strong>.<br />
As I just graduated from my Master’s studies at TUD, considering all my prior experiences, I would argue for an<br />
architecture position of indeterminacy that re-questions precise meanings and limits of any precise meanings. I<br />
am open-minded and ready to accept further challenges in my career as an architect.<br />
Mapping of indeterminacy<br />
Fragmented model of Indeterminacy<br />
Recap of architecture indeterminacy<br />
My passion for architecture derives from personal concerns. It is meaningful to me that architecture can work<br />
as a medium to convey stories of context and create various possibilities for people. My studies at <strong>XJTLU</strong> have<br />
shaped my understanding of architecture and cultivated my ability to explore new fields. After graduation,<br />
I worked at an architectural design firm named TEAM BLDG and developed professional skills in schematic<br />
design as well as in practical problem-solving. During this period, I also worked on interior design projects.<br />
The work experience changed my understanding of architecture as a holistic subject and of how to coordinate<br />
projects with people in other disciplines.<br />
I am currently studying at the University of Melbourne. I have been exposed to studios ranging from landscape<br />
architecture, to student housing, to research projects rooted in the Middle East. They allowed me to form an<br />
understanding of people and their different views and cultures in a new dimension. All the experiences so far<br />
have shaped the diversity of my thinking and provided more possibilities for my future career.<br />
THE VOYEUR – A dormitory design project starting<br />
from the desire of making films, and then revealing<br />
its essence as voyeurism and finally translating this<br />
quality into spatial language.<br />
Explorations in the essence of desire, part of a<br />
larger set.
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BEng (Hons) Architecture, 2016<br />
Current Employer<br />
Foster + Partners, Beijing<br />
Sun Chenxing | 孙 晨 星<br />
<strong>XJTLU</strong> Degree<br />
BEng(Hons) Architecture, 2015<br />
Current Employer<br />
Arata Isozaki & Huqian Associates<br />
Wang Xiaoyu | 王 肖 瑜<br />
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Master Degree<br />
Master of Architecture, Part 2 equiv.,<br />
The University of Hong Kong, <strong>2019</strong><br />
Master Degree<br />
MArch, RIBA Part 2, University of<br />
Brighton, <strong>2018</strong><br />
<strong>2018</strong>-<strong>2019</strong> <strong>YEARBOOK</strong> Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Department of Architecture 西 交 利 物 浦 大 学 建 筑 系<br />
Architecture is a broad topic, and as an architecture student I appreciated that <strong>XJTLU</strong> and HKU offered me<br />
chances to explore it from various perspectives: from the modern skyscraper to vernacular architecture,<br />
from elaborated details to urban level masterplans, from the hand-crafted physical model to computer-aided<br />
parametric design.<br />
No matter where I will be in the future, <strong>XJTLU</strong> is the origin of my lifelong architectural journey. I will always<br />
remember the architecture education I had at <strong>XJTLU</strong>, which empowered me not only to develop essential skills<br />
in architectural practice, but more importantly, to embrace the mindset of a critical thinker.<br />
Thesis Project: The Symbiosis of Urban and Rural, MArch at HKU<br />
The thesis project explores the transition of the future countryside in the context of Hong Kong’s rural islands.<br />
<strong>XJTLU</strong> provides a great learning environment that always felt free and fresh to me. I was always encouraged to<br />
address the difficulties of a design task in my own unique way, and have truly appreciated the three-years of<br />
architectural studies that provided me with so much freedom and passion to follow my dreams. Without a year<br />
out in practice, I went to Brighton, UK, for my Master’s degree. The following studies in the UK provided a good<br />
but also a hard lesson. The tutors at <strong>XJTLU</strong> were always so helpful and willing to answer our questions. In the<br />
UK, I had to deal with all my doubts on my own. Nevertheless, I am more than thankful for this tough period. It<br />
assisted me in becoming a more confident architect.<br />
This year I joined Isozaki & Huqian in Shanghai. Arata Isozaki comes to our office from time to time, when he<br />
gives a lecture or visits a site in China. I have worked on several projects so far: a 5-star hotel design in Jinhua,<br />
Zhejiang; a historic building renewal in Tonglu, Zhejiang, and a design competition in Wuhan. We work long<br />
hours every day, not for economic gain, but for the advancement of culture. As one of the first graduates of<br />
the Department of Architecture, I am glad to see excellent students starting their architectural journey in this<br />
unique international environment in Suzhou. I am so proud to be an <strong>XJTLU</strong>er.<br />
Wang Xiaoyu, MArch final studio project, <strong>2018</strong>. Floodable<br />
Utopia Village. Exploring a flood resilient strategy in the<br />
flooding plain in Shermanbury, West Sussex, UK.
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364<br />
<strong>XJTLU</strong> Degree<br />
BEng(Hons) Architecture, 2015<br />
Master Degree<br />
Master of Architecture, Part 2 equiv.,<br />
Politecnico di Milano, Italy, <strong>2018</strong><br />
Occupation<br />
Architectural Assistant<br />
Current Employer<br />
anOtherArchitect (aA), Berlin, Germany<br />
Yang Tao | 杨 涛<br />
<strong>XJTLU</strong> Degree<br />
BEng(Hons) Architecture, 2016<br />
Year Out<br />
LVDU Real Estate Company, and<br />
MIXPACE<br />
Further studies<br />
Master of Architecture, Part 2 equiv.,<br />
University of Melbourne, since <strong>2018</strong><br />
Zhang Yanzhe | 张 艳 喆<br />
<strong>2018</strong>-<strong>2019</strong> <strong>YEARBOOK</strong> Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Department of Architecture 西 交 利 物 浦 大 学 建 筑 系<br />
The experience at <strong>XJTLU</strong> was the starting point of my career as an architect. I learnt the basics of architecture.<br />
I am interested in projects, which have a connection with urban and cultural aspects. During the year out, I have<br />
developed my skills and improved my understanding of the challenges that architectural practice is facing.<br />
The study life at the Politecnico di Milano focused on the reality of architectural practice, such as structures but<br />
also humanistic concerns. One of the exams consisted of designing a health post in Africa, which required me to<br />
have a deep understanding of the materials and technique used in this local area. Besides all this, observing the<br />
demands and traditions of Africa did not only provide for the inspiration of the concept for this project but also<br />
gave me some ideas for architecture in other developing countries.<br />
Social Housing in Milano. 2 nd year design studio, Master of Architecture, Politecnico di Milano.<br />
After graduation, I worked as an architectural designer for LVDU Real Estate Company for half a year. I focused<br />
on renovation projects in Shanghai. I participated in the whole design and construction process of an office<br />
building, and I was responsible for conceptual design for another eight projects during that period. Later, I<br />
worked for MIXPACE as a project manager for one year. The company renovates old buildings and transforms<br />
them into co-working spaces. Here I participated in many projects and spent most of the time on construction<br />
site. In practice, architectural design is only a very small part in the life cycle of a project. It is crucial for me to<br />
learn and understand the whole system.<br />
In the beginning of <strong>2018</strong>, I started my Master’s at the University of Melbourne. Melbourne School of Design<br />
(MSD) offers me a wide range of studios and electives. It encourages me to study from bold conceptual design,<br />
tectonics and construction to theory of contemporary architecture and parametric design thinking. Studios in<br />
MSD use more than half of a semester for self-oriented research, thus requiring an intensive learning process<br />
and high proficiency in design modelling and representation. I am currently researching on wars and crimes<br />
against culture in the Middle East, including countries of Syria, Palestine, Israel and Lebanon, etc.<br />
▲ Study of decentralized stalls in Aleppo, Syria<br />
View, plan, section and detail of Mohammad Shawash sitting<br />
outside his tablecloth shop in the devastated streets of Aleppo's old<br />
city on July 22, 2017<br />
▲
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<strong>XJTLU</strong> Degree<br />
BEng(Hons) Architecture, 2015<br />
Year Out<br />
DnA_Design and Architecture<br />
Master Degree<br />
Master of Architecture, Part 2 equiv.,<br />
University of Virginia, <strong>2018</strong><br />
Current Employer<br />
CallisonRTKL Beijing Office<br />
Zhu Haoruo | 朱 昊 若<br />
ACADEMIC POSITION<br />
STATEMENT<br />
<strong>2018</strong>-<strong>2019</strong> <strong>YEARBOOK</strong> Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Department of Architecture 西 交 利 物 浦 大 学 建 筑 系<br />
What role do we play in a design project, and what role do we play in a larger context? Are we just solving<br />
problems, or are we creating different perspectives? As architecture professionals, are we making our<br />
statements in a large but mute debate, or are we individuals obsessed in unbeknown labyrinths?<br />
All of these questions were raised and have entangled me ever since graduation from <strong>XJTLU</strong>, which may be<br />
painful from time to time but also an enjoyment. Starting from the undergraduate study in <strong>XJTLU</strong> until now,<br />
these questions have changed their form and shape many times, but always remained unsolved. Few answers<br />
appear and more questions arise, and one day a thought came to me, maybe the purpose of this profession was<br />
never to answer anything but to make questions.<br />
ZHU Haoruo(Collaborate with Fang Nan), University of Virginia, Master of Architecture, Folded Barcelona(AIA Washington Unbuilt Award <strong>2018</strong>), <strong>2018</strong><br />
Introduction<br />
Founded in 2011, the Department of Architecture at Xi’an Jiaotong-<br />
Liverpool University (<strong>XJTLU</strong>) is part of a young Sino-British university<br />
situated in Suzhou, a city which falls within the greater Shanghai area.<br />
With construction of the university’s new South Campus underway, in<br />
2016, the Department moved into its new Design Building two years,<br />
which it shares with the Department of Industrial Design, the building’s<br />
facilities of the highest international standards.<br />
Set in China, but closely connected with the University of Liverpool and<br />
the UK framework of architectural education, the Department’s aim is<br />
to offer a new global model of architectural education. The fostering<br />
of the students’ creative and critical thinking skills is an important and<br />
distinctive characteristic of its Bachelor, Master and PhD programmes.<br />
In an environment that is fast-changing, the Department seeks to<br />
educate students in order to enable them to take advantage of arising<br />
opportunities. This includes the possibility of working as a “liberal<br />
professional,” which has only recently become an option in China,<br />
and offers new ways of practicing architecture for current and future<br />
generations of architects.<br />
As a relatively new and uniquely positioned architecture school, the<br />
Department thus affirms and advances the merits of architectural<br />
education as vital to developing critical thinking skills for the longerterm<br />
future.<br />
Department Identity and Vision<br />
With a faculty that contributes experiences in practice and research<br />
in more than twenty countries, the international make-up of the<br />
Department of Architecture at <strong>XJTLU</strong> is unique in China. It brings<br />
together traditions and opportunities from the East and the West, and<br />
seeks to provide the best of both perspectives in architectural and urban<br />
design, offering new views on the local context as well as on global<br />
issues.
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As China continues to undergo processes of<br />
modernisation, the Department is particularly aware<br />
of its responsibility in educating a new generation of<br />
architects who face enormous challenges. There is an<br />
emerging interest in topics such as the environment,<br />
building tectonics, cultural heritage, and usercentred<br />
design, as well as growing recognition of the<br />
necessity to reinvest in the extant built environment<br />
through urban regeneration and the refurbishment<br />
of existing building stock.<br />
These issues and concerns are viewed by the<br />
Department as a challenge and as an opportunity, and<br />
it responds through its focus on new human-centred<br />
approaches to learning, practicing and researching<br />
architectural design, in order to nurture attitudes<br />
that will prove valuable in the future. For there is a<br />
need – not only in China – for Architects who are<br />
critical thinkers and highly qualified professionals.<br />
Both the undergraduate and the postgraduate<br />
programmes centre on applied architectural design<br />
studio modules (50%), which are supported by a<br />
balanced mix of humanities-based and technical<br />
modules (25% each).<br />
The Department’s research concentrates on three<br />
headline research areas:<br />
● History, Theory and Heritage offers<br />
connections with Suzhou and other heritage sites in<br />
China, addressing, in particular, questions pertaining<br />
to multiculturalism and trans-nationalism.<br />
● Computational Design and Fabrication<br />
develops partnerships with innovative high-tech<br />
industries in the context of China and beyond.<br />
● Urban Ecologies engages with the changing<br />
nature of global urbanisation, with a focus on<br />
radically new approaches to the study of cities and<br />
their environment that are informed by inter-and<br />
trans-disciplinary research between the humanities,<br />
science, technology and sustainability.<br />
The Department is also committed to Research by<br />
Design, an experimental form of research that is<br />
specific to the architectural discipline, with less<br />
conventional research outcomes, such as prototypes,<br />
projects, buildings, components, and exhibitions.<br />
To this end, the Design Research Centre has been<br />
established to facilitate small-scale pilot projects. It<br />
has a practice and research academics staff structure,<br />
and involves a number of permanent faculty<br />
members, along with local professional architects<br />
who will contribute their specific competences in<br />
architectural design, planning, sustainability and<br />
construction.<br />
Academic Agenda<br />
The following key points are based on staff views,<br />
student feedback, internal University reports, and<br />
external reports by examiners and professional<br />
bodies:<br />
Recent exceptional areas of activity<br />
● The following key points are based on staff views,<br />
student feedback, internal University reports, and<br />
external reports by examiners and professional<br />
bodies:<br />
● International validation of the MArchDes degree<br />
in our Architectural Deisgn programmme at Part<br />
2 level by the Royal Institute of British Architects<br />
(RIBA) in February <strong>2018</strong>, this also a first for a<br />
mainland Chinese University.<br />
● In the Summer <strong>2018</strong>, the first time in mainland<br />
China that the RIBA Part 3 MEAP course was<br />
offered by a Chinese University, 100 years ago our<br />
partnering university in Liverpool offered this<br />
course for the first time in the UK.<br />
● Excellent profile of an international faculty with<br />
experience in practice and research in more than<br />
20 countries directly supporting undergraduate and<br />
postgraduate learning.<br />
● Location of the Department in a new building,<br />
shared with the Department of Industrial Design,<br />
with a strong architectural identity, offering an ideal<br />
showcase for its staff and students in spaces with a<br />
particular character.<br />
● Initiatives such as international workshops,<br />
student competitions, and, summer research<br />
projects within the framework of <strong>XJTLU</strong>’s Summer<br />
Undergraduate Fellowships (SURF), positively<br />
impacting the programmes’ development.<br />
● Establishment of the first online architectural<br />
magazine in English in China, Masterplanning the<br />
Future (MPTF), which is student-led and has a<br />
continuously growing number of students actively<br />
participating.
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Individuality of the learning environment in the<br />
Chinese context<br />
● Positioned in Suzhou, both a heritage city (classical<br />
gardens recognised as UNESCO World Heritage<br />
Sites) and an extremely dynamic new city, now the<br />
fourth largest concentration of economic activity in<br />
China in terms of GDP.<br />
● Unique offering of undergraduate and<br />
postgraduate programmes in English in China, taught<br />
by international educators.<br />
● Excellent resources on a new campus, open to the<br />
vibrant life of one of China’s flagship development<br />
projects, the Suzhou Industrial Park (SIP), within<br />
which the University and more than 100 Fortune 500<br />
companies operate, offering a high quality of life.<br />
● Excellent building resources supporting a vibrant<br />
studio culture, with dedicated spaces for design<br />
studios, reviews, and physical modelling, as well as<br />
for a materials library.<br />
● Recruitment of students from amongst the top 5%<br />
of Chinese high school graduates, and a progressive<br />
increase of international students.<br />
Differences between Bachelor and Master<br />
degrees<br />
● BEng programme: provides a clear sequence of<br />
design studios with the gradual introduction of<br />
ideas and skills, with a focus on the attainment of<br />
personal and professional confidence in order to take<br />
advantage of practice experience.<br />
● MArchDes programme: fosters student autonomy<br />
and responsibility in pursuing individual interests<br />
in view of future professional career development<br />
opportunities, with the second year framed as a<br />
“research by design” year.<br />
● MArchDes programme: connection with <strong>XJTLU</strong>’s<br />
Master programmes in Urban Planning and Urban<br />
Design (with the Urban Planning and Design<br />
Department) in year one creates unique possibilities<br />
for interdisciplinary design research.<br />
Relevance to professional practice<br />
● Design studio themes are strongly connected with<br />
real-world problems and necessities in China and<br />
beyond; lecture courses and coursework are related<br />
to contemporary issues and current concerns.<br />
● Practicing architects in Suzhou and Shanghai<br />
contribute as part-time tutors and visiting critics,<br />
and present guest lectures, lead site visits, and offer<br />
internships for students.<br />
● The Design Research Centre which seeks to<br />
actively involve staff, students and local practicing<br />
architects in the development of pilot projects.<br />
● Establishment of the Built Environment Physics<br />
Lab, to offer cutting edge research in the realm of<br />
sustainability.<br />
● Graduates work in top architectural offices,<br />
and assist in strengthening the connections of the<br />
Department to local practice.<br />
Creative criteria delivering course content<br />
● Innovative learning environment that fosters<br />
independent, creative and responsible designers with<br />
a thoughtful, research-led and imaginative approach<br />
to place-making.<br />
● Close collaboration with the two other<br />
Departments of the Built Environment Cluster<br />
(Urban Planning & Design and Civil Engineering),<br />
as well as with the Department of Industrial<br />
Design (with shared facilities in the new Design<br />
Building), developing a culture of teamwork and a<br />
multidisciplinary approach to design.<br />
● Flexible programme design, with the active<br />
participation of a dynamic faculty, delivering<br />
responsive, changing projects that complement and<br />
extend core learning whilst still maintaining criteria<br />
fulfilling content.
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