YEARBOOK 2016 - 2017 | XJTLU DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE
The fourth edition of the yearbook of the Department of Architecture at Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University presents student works created during the academic year 2016 - 2017. 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 thus also a showcase of the creative culture that has guided our students in taking first steps to successful international careers as responsible and creative architectural designers. XJTLU offers RIBA Part 1, 2 and 3.
The fourth edition of the yearbook of the Department of Architecture at Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University presents student works created during the academic year 2016 - 2017. 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 thus also a showcase of the creative culture that has guided our students in taking first steps to successful international careers as responsible and creative architectural designers. XJTLU offers RIBA Part 1, 2 and 3.
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Framing Indeterminacy<br />
Polyark 4 / Fun Palace Futures<br />
<strong>2016</strong>-<strong>2017</strong> <strong>YEARBOOK</strong> Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Department of Architecture 西 交 利 物 浦 大 学 建 筑 系<br />
In light of recent developments in China that prioritize form as<br />
image, this studio asks students to re-consider concepts of openness,<br />
participation, and performance as fundamental questions of architecture.<br />
In this context China’s rich tradition in conceiving of art as interactive<br />
is foregrounded, with the proposed outcomes ideally offering a new<br />
architecture that operates in a manner similar to a three-dimensional<br />
version of a scroll painting in which multiple vanishing points corelate<br />
and accommodate a complexity of narratives, in the making of<br />
meaningful places. Recalling that the old Chinese Masters asked that<br />
they be depicted as if alive, the studio calls into question how we might<br />
discover new options for our cities, and new possibilities for creating<br />
architecture as an interface that allows for a new form of participation -<br />
that turns spaces into places, and enables users to fully inhabit them. The<br />
students will develop architectural projects for cultural exchange that<br />
will include fixed and mobile parts. At the same time, they will engage in<br />
exchanges with students in the UK within the framework of an initiative<br />
that has been set up by RIBA and connects 30 schools of architecture<br />
worldwide.<br />
TEACHING TEAM<br />
Claudia Westermann<br />
Aleksandra Raonic<br />
SOUND LABORATORY<br />
Zhang Chenke | 张 晨 珂
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