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PORTFOLIO ILl XIANGYU
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PORTFOLIO ILl XIANGYU
I think of architecture as a result of its own logic, the logic
that generates a certain phenomenological experience.

I am fascinated in the architectual phenomenen in the Lived

World, the world of the natural standpoint.
Content

1 ORIGIN of Theater 01
The student activity center in TJP University

2 PATIERN of Market 17
Flea market in an urban village

3 MUTATION of Library 31
The public library in Terazijska Terasa

4 REVIVAL of Facade 39
Office tower and commercial complex

5 Other Works 55
City research and construcion works
ORIGIN ofTheater

Name of project: The student activity centre

Location : Tianjin, China
Individual Academic Work
8th semeste r, March, 2012
Supervisor: Dr. Sheng Qiang
shengqiang1234@hotma il.com
 Theater Feeling

The origin of theatre is the feeling that gathers

people, and concentrating their attentions to a
central area,which is the beginning of a stage.
The feeling is related to some geometric feature,
such as. the centrality in plan and steps in section.
 Waterfront

It is human nature to step down from stairs to get close to the

water. As all the shores of the lake are abrupt straight banks, the
stratage of the north shore is to create public steps towards the
water and sunshine, a place where the students can really enjoy
the lake view.
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Auditorium

The basic geometric feature that defines a theater

is the centralized steps. The semi-eclosed place
gives a sence of actor and audience characters,
and stimulates gatherings and shows.

Public Space

The grand escalier before an auditotium has long

been a place of social life. It is a common ground
which eliminates the characters of actor and audi-
ence, generating an atmosphere of openness. Opera Garnier, Paris

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Public Gallery

The gallery under the slope provides a flat and open space, an exten-
sion ofthe public realm.

The prototype of the gallery is a historical reference of the plaza be-

fore a Greek amphitheatre, allowing spontaneous social life and club
activities on campus.

Amphitheatre

The steps of waterfront forms a grandstand towards the lake, a natu-

ral expression of publicity.

The curves of the steps generates a gathering and focusing ten dance
of audience.

Professional Theatre

The broad grandstand gives a theatre feeling, defining a territory of

performance of all kinds.

The inserted boxes set several sections on the wide steps, defining
the professional theatres in the boxes and the informal theatres be-
tween the boxes.

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Programs

Gallery Rehearsa l Stud io Theater Office & Service

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Geometry

Manipulation of primary geometry based on theater typology.

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Inside the Box
F onnal theatres

Auditorium

Section B-B

Office & Interview

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 A Rehearsal Studio

Outside the Box

Informal theatres

Rehearsal Studio

Section A-A

Lobby & Cafe

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Section C-C
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 Details

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Wing of Theatre

Skylight in Lobby

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 PATTERN of Market

Name of project: Flea market in an urban village

Location: Tianjin, China
Individual academic work
8th semester, May, 2012
Supervisor: Dr. Sheng Qiang
shengqiang1234@hotmail.com

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 Bottom-up

The flea market is an excellent example of self-organization

study, where vendor stalls and customers follow simple
disciplines, and forms a spontaneous pattern.

A flea market is always the matter that keeps an undevel-

oped area alive.

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 Context and Inhabitants

The different residential building types form a hybrid urban

fabric, and the flea market phenomenon takes place in the
intersection of the clusters. The newly developed point block
have a huge setback from the road, leaving an undefined
ground, which is now occupied as the flea market.

Flea market and Waste Industry

The market is deeply rooted in the context, and a serious of

joints can be found in the network of fluid space that supports
the flea market. A major rubbish dump in the area is at the
back of the market, interconnected with the stalls and a higher
waste network.

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Urban village Slab block Point block

1930- 1980- 2000-

Recycler Street stalls Flea market

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Collective Behaviors

Continuous Shooting

3 Cameras were set in the towers and the low rise build-
ing beside the site, to get a whole view of the site and
surroundings. The shutter was pressed every 3 seconds,
recording the position of the people in the market.

Frame by frame I point out every person in the scene and

draw a track for each of them.

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Processing of Average Speed

With a orthogonal grid in the perspectives and the plan,

the points were transferred on the plane, making it pos-
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sible to pursue higher resolution data processing, the
average speed mapping.

The speed map indicates the pedestrian volume of each

possible path, and shows the pass and stay rate, high-
lighting the active spots in the site. t=3"

Transferring Data Speed Map

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Step 1 Step 2

Primary Lines Paths and Ground cover

The site is a large, undefined plot, allowing passing
straight through the area.
The speed map shows a serious of potential straight
passing lines as the primary paths that offers shotcuts
of the roads near the site.
To define the passage-stall linear pattern, a rainbow of
groud cover lines of different materials are paved.
The new pavage will set a spontaneous process of
the gathering stalls, and integrate with the context in
terms of the structure of space.

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Step 3 Step 4

Axises and Structure Roof Pattern

The structure follows the pattern of space, and form s 4
groups of parallel axises.
A row of columns defines a stall and storage space and
one of cab les defines a passage.
The form of the roof is a result of the structure of the
space, the flea market pattern defined by the pavage
and the vertical elements.
Though a botton-up process, the roof forms a collec-
tion of parallel tents.

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Infrastructure and Program
 1 Garbage Dump
2: Parking and Stall
3, Passage
4, Hall
5, Street Shop
6, Entrance
7 Urban Village
s: Neighborhood
9, Shops

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 Objects and Behaviour

In a broad area, the behaviours of people are influenced by

many small factors. In a market, the histology is defined mainly
by ground cover, and some neutral elements.

Section B-B

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The roof follows the flow of people, defines an informal territory. On both sides of the roof,
the structure is anchored to the ground and emerge with the context.

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 MUTATION of Library

Name of project: The public library in Terazijska Terasa

Location : Belgrade, Serbia
Academic studio work
Partner: Qiao Xin
Contribution: concept, proposal, drawings, modelling
9th semester, October, 2012
Supervisor: Dr. Sheng Qiang
shengqiang1234@hotmail.com
Prof. Zhao Jianbo
zjb _3000@ 126.com

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 Library Expierence

The library is not just a store of information, but a

place that provide s intensive stimulation, and a li-
brary feeling. Atrium and wall shelves are elements
that reca ll a library feeling.

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 The border of the building follows the coherent street wall,
and parallel to the surrounding buildings.
The atrium is defined by the roads and blocks axises.

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The typical linear array pattern forms a standard, anonymous

place like a supermarket. The search of books is an indirect pro-
cess with the help of catalog cards or computers.

Searchable Space

The atrium functions as a content of different themes and cat-

egories, decorated with varied atmospheres, making the search
of books convenient and enjoyable.

Common Interests

The layered space creates a space for the people with common
interests. The gathering of people with common topic gener-
ates the potential of communication.

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shelves reacts to the events.

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Spatial Ritual

Bookshelves

The shelves contains structure, service and

staircases, and defines movement along
and across the shelves.

Reading Space

The shelves define an open structure, like

the typica l f loors defined by the slabs in
the skyscraper.

Atrium

Th e atrium dominates the ce ntra li zed

space. It is a place w here people can searc h
all categories of books. It provides a place
w ith a theatre feeling, which is the focus
of the people around .

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 Staircase and Service

The space between shelves contains intensive service

and stair cases, creating a scale transform with nar-
row and calm experience .

Meditation Place

The diffused sunshine highlights a place with spiritual-

ity, a place to meditate and communicate while read-
ing books.

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2nd Floor Plan

Section 1-1

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Section 2-2
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 REVIVAL of Facade

Name of project: Office Tower and Commercial Complex

Location: Tianjin, China
Individual academic work
7th semester, October, 2012
Supervisor: Prof. Bian Hongbin
bianyr01@126.com

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 Facade is Dead

The clean and smooth surface of the contemporary

mega buildings is more of a form expression, an iconic
gesture than a surface of city life. The facade has be-
come a production of curtain wall industry, rather than
a representation of the space, program and structure
of the interior.

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Detachment of Facade

Tower
-Skin Tricks

Owing to its height and scale, the facade of high-rise

buildings is detached from the intensive programs in-
side, becoming merely a visual display of novel skins.
The manipulation of volume and facade has lost the
urbanological meaning.

Podiums
- Sign Boards

The podium as commercial space contains giant atri-

ums, creating a theme park, an isolated world of won-
ders. Thus, the facade is blind and solid, a sign board of
advertisements and stimulating icons.

Facade Space

Strip the Facade

As the scale of the high-rise buildings leads to unavoid-

able detachment of surface and solid, what if we strip
the facade and create a continuous public space on
the surface? A reversed typology is generated, making
the facade of the building a intermedia of the interior-
exterior communication.

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Tower-podium typology Reversal of atrium Facade as public space

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Pedestrian Network

The plot is on the intersection of comercial, residencial

and office buildings, and is an important joint in the
commercial and pedestrian network.

The layout of the volumes is 4 separated squares of

tower, podium, and a plaza, leaving the passages which
intergrates with the pesdestrain system.

View of the Comer

As a corner of the entire business zone, the tower steps

back from the corner, leaving a visual corridor open to
the city.

The frame consists of simple volumes shows the city

scape of the iconic towers, the image of a prosperous
business zone.

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Mass-skin Interrelation

Tense surface forms a coherent space Axises and movement of lower floors

Interrelation between mass and skin Opening gesture on the top

Volume of public space Vertical circulation

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Hy id Facade

View from city

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View from Site

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The facade of tower shows a holistic im-
age, an icon of enclosed crystal.
The podium facade provides a domestic
view, a soft surface with street furniture.

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Internal and External

Plaza
The facade opens to the plaza, forms a colonnade space with street furni-
ture, a semi-outdoor space interacts with the plaza.

Bus Station
A passage connects the bus station with the inner plaza, providing direct ac-
cess to the office tower and the commercial podium.

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In-between

The tense surface covering all 3 volumes forms a

continuous variable section space, as the facade of
the building. Unlike the atriums in the shopping mall,
the surface space is closely related to the real world,
manifesting the activities inside the building.

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 3rd Floor Plan Commercial Area 1
Plaza (exhibition, recreation) 2
Conference Area 3

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Street

Towards Street

The surfa ce stretched down works as a wing of

vertical transportation, a section of movement and
activities, a representation of the events happening
in the building.

Towards Plaza

The facade towards the inner plaza is a more

domestic expression. The panel system provides
advertisement boards, street furniture, and show-
cases that provokes active street life.

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 Plaza

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Tower Facade
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The coherent shift of slabs forms a series of terraces, visible

from each other, connecting the offices with the atrium in
the podium. The space also serves as a ventilation tunnel,
providing natural ventilation for the entire building.
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Other Works

Materialization

Construction of Club Tent

1 week, October, 2009

2nd Year Activity
Partners: Wei Ruoyu, Zhu Siqi,
Xia Ji, Qiao Xin

Tensegrity Structure Research

3 weeks, May, 2012

3rd year work with HHD Studio
Partners: Qiao Xin, Deng Jinrong
Qian Chenyuan

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City Research

Rural Housing Typology Study

8 weeks, October, 2010

3rd year joint studio with Uni-
verisity of Nebraka

Urban Morphology Analysis

2 weeks, December, 2010

3rd year coursework of
History of Modern Architecture

Collective Behavior Study

2 weeks, May, 2012

4th year studio research

Space Syntax Study

2 weeks, September, 2011

4th year course work

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Li Xiangyu
School of Architecture, Tianjin University
92, Weijin Road, Nankai District
Tianjin, China
E-mail: lixinagyutju@163.com
Tele: +8613702145831