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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OUTSTANDING DESIGN<br />
BRIEF AND OUTSTANDING<br />
DESIGN STUDIO<br />
COURSEWORK<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 />
Staff and students from the Department of Architecture at Xi’an Jiaotong-<br />
Liverpool University celebrated the award of a number of prizes at an<br />
architectural education competition for universities in China. Submissions<br />
from the department won the ‘Outstanding Design Brief’ and ‘Outstanding<br />
Design Studio Coursework’ at the <strong>2016</strong> National Architectural Education<br />
Annual Symposium in Hefei, China.<br />
Schools and departments of architecture around China were required to<br />
submit architectural design studio briefs and related resulting students’ work.<br />
Design studio modules form the central core of architectural degree<br />
programmes. In a design studio module, students are asked to respond<br />
creatively and responsibly to questions posed by a design brief. Students’<br />
projects are typically developed in a studio space in which they all work,<br />
and they are encouraged to discuss and think critically as a baseline for<br />
collaborative learning.<br />
A teaching team of five tutors, including Ganna Andrianova, Aleksandra<br />
Raonic, Austin Williams, Lina Stergiou and Jose Angel Hidalgo Arellano,<br />
led by module coordinator Ganna, won in the ‘Outstanding Design Brief’<br />
category for their brief ‘Creative Hub/Co-working Space in Suzhou’ in the<br />
Shantang Street area of Suzhou.<br />
Andrianova developed the brief as a continuation of efforts made by the<br />
Department of Architecture to equip students with methods and tools that<br />
would enable them to act creatively in response to the question of urban<br />
regeneration, in the local Chinese context, as well as to locations that are<br />
not familiar to them.<br />
Two individual <strong>XJTLU</strong> students’ work won prizes in the ‘Outstanding<br />
Design Studio Coursework’ category for their designs that were developed<br />
within the ARC204 design studio module.<br />
Fuwei Shao, supervised by Andrianova, won for his ‘vibrant’ joint office<br />
environment design concept that was informed by research on biological<br />
processes and the growth of plants. Shaokang Li’s winning design,<br />
supervised by Raonic, reflected on processes in the human body to<br />
create a space around which creativity flows, in a similar way to oxygen<br />
circulating around the body.<br />
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