How to do the collection of architectural design works? 10+Zhang AA, Xie Fei double records, all the rules of clearance of famous architectural schools! Landscape, architecture and space, the architectural space system dominated by these three key words, seems to be a different kind of art study abroad. Many students' impression of this major department is that it is difficult to spread creativity; It is difficult to cross disciplines; It is difficult to make "unrealistic" assumptions; Emphasize the high degree of logic and rational thinking of the creator
All these impressions make the specialty of architectural space become a legend—— "Among art design majors, only Xueba can choose" When some students are wondering whether they are suitable for learning architectural space, at the same time, every year we will encounter another student group - there are always students who have determined that they want to become designers of the architectural space department:
How to do the collection of architectural design works?
AA and Xie Fei, how to choose?
Who is more suitable for application?
What can I do to win the offer of these two universities at the same time?
And, more importantly
And the student union faces——
"If I can't make a good choice, I have to go to AA/Xie Fei"
Such a question
Today, take the students who have received offers from both AA and Xie Fei schools for natural light as an example. Let's take a look at the commonalities and characteristics of these students who have received offers from multiple schools and even multiple countries at the same time, so that they can win multiple offers at one time. On the way of school selection, they can only face "If it is not a good choice, I may have to go to AA/Xie Fei" The dilemma of:
Social topics with cultural characteristics
First, break a concern of the students "The major of architectural space is very suitable for you who are sensitive and delicate" . As people have higher and higher requirements for landscape design of living environment, Human emotional factors It is the most important point that designers should not ignore. For an excellent design work, it not only needs to reflect our excellent professional level, but also needs to reflect our unique perspective of observation and thinking through historical and humanistic knowledge.
Social cultural topics and unique personal style creation, It has always been the most valued by foreign art schools, which has always been Natural light art study abroad One of the key points constantly emphasized in the teaching process. How to find social topics?
Bi, who has received many offers from AA, Edinburgh, Sheffield and other students, is almost inspired to solve the ultimate problem of "people-oriented" space specialty through his own design, starting from the most concerned humanistic topics around him.
This project is called "Another home", It is mainly aimed at the global problem of "population aging". In the early stage, I analyzed and investigated the global population change trend, the proportion of the elderly and the growth trend of the world population. On the premise of full understanding, Created a nursing home system model that has no geographical restrictions and can be widely used in chain.
This model can adapt to any city in the world. Finally, I choose Beijing 798. In this old industrial style area, there are cultural and crowd needs that can be met for live operation, showing that this model can be implemented.
Research pictures of "Another home" nursing home project
Also concerned about the problem of population residence Liao Xuexue The theme of his project is a series of transformation of local slums when he went to Africa to teach as a volunteer. In order to help local residents, Liao not only transformed their living space, but also considered how to improve their lives from the perspective of humanistic care.
His design revolves around a series of discussions on social problems, including how to provide them with some employment opportunities and medical services through social assistance, hoping to fundamentally solve the survival problems of residents.
The two cases of students Bi and Liao both selected the problems concerned by the society and the public, but they solved the problems from their own personal experience and understanding of the residents, and explored the value of architectural design to the society through their own design.
Appreciation of Architectural Works
Interdisciplinary experimental projects
We constantly emphasize "Interdisciplinary" It is the trend of the development of all art majors and the teaching focus of overseas art colleges. Of course, "architectural landscape" is no exception. Students should also jump out of the category of "architecture" when choosing portfolio projects and try to combine multiple materials and disciplines.
Interdisciplinary is also an exclusive highlight of our natural light students. Different from the traditional art education or architectural design majors, we will encourage students of architecture majors to consciously integrate the knowledge of different disciplines to complete a more comprehensive and unique work to reflect their comprehensive ability.
Cases of Architectural Design Works Collection
Xu, who won the AA and Xie Fei's offer, is a discipline graduate of the National People's Congress of China and has a solid professional learning foundation. Her inspiration for creative works is not only daily observation, but also reading. She believes that knowledge reserves are the basis of all artistic creation.
In her spare time, she will also look at animation, and the character design and scene design can also be accumulated. Everyday, I focus on global hot events and problems, and turn my own accumulation and design into my creative inspiration.
Pictures of Xu's work collection project
Unlike most teachers in domestic colleges and universities who teach theoretical basis, professional teachers of natural light focus on helping her Change design thinking and find your own design style. Reject the model of being regular, let me constantly expand my thinking, Don't be afraid of the unrealistic. We should give full play to our innovation and propose multiple plans for research, modification and implementation. This is also very helpful for her post production works, highlighting the design innovation of her works and my personal style.
Her fourth project is an interdisciplinary project - "Four Seasons Ski Resort", which is cooperated with other professional students. The project takes into account the attention of the university in interdisciplinary projects, so even if she is not very good at collaborative creation, she has also completed this task.
Appreciation of Architectural Works
In fact, this is also an interdisciplinary project organized by Natural Light, which is located in Hebei Wanlong Ski Resort. Xu mainly Responsible for completing the landscape design of the entire ski resort, hoping to build a ski resort throughout the year, Not only skiing in winter, but also in summer can meet everyone's needs.
In the interdisciplinary project, I felt the charm of other disciplines. She was finally recognized by Dream School because of the integration of multiple disciplines and majors.
Practice from scratch
It is generally believed that one of the reasons for the difficulty of the "architectural space" professional works collection is that the project is difficult to land. First, due to the limitation of time and space, there is no way to conduct large-scale project site selection and more detailed field research. Second, the "architectural space" professional works collection projects are generally large, and there are many factors to be referred to, It is often difficult to really implement.
The students' cases have brought us solutions, Participate in competitions or practice projects There are many international competitions under each branch of the design category, and they have prepared many practical projects for students, including detailed background and project research, and even field trips;
In addition, sometimes it may not be an individual competition, and it needs to be completed together with the team. Such experience can not only improve cooperation ability, but also provide a good opportunity for interdisciplinary attempts. In addition, if you have the experience of competing and winning prizes, it can also make the school more sure of your professional ability.
Natural light has been actively providing students with competition opportunities and competition information, such as the First International Art Student Global Design Award ArtOne Awards, Natural light × One Show, Natural light tasting cup, and so on.
Details of One Show China Youth Creative Award
But there are many problems here, such as the aging and backward infrastructure, which cannot meet the basic needs of people's lives; The design of the river bank is too rigid, resulting in a clear separation between the river bank and the city; There are not enough parking spaces around, so there is not enough traffic around.
How to handle the collection of architectural design works
Xiaoxiong's design mainly focuses on green space, parking spaces, activities and other areas. He hopes to bring about the biggest changes with the smallest changes, so as to integrate the river bank and the city. He also considered the economic cost in his design. Only by transforming the green plants along the river, the landscape can bring different visual feelings with the changes of the four seasons. He also hoped that citizens can use the river bank to stimulate the vitality of the river bank.
Composition of architectural works
In addition to the works of the competition can be included in the collection, natural light also provides students with a variety of landscape practice projects. For example, four consecutive summer design and construction workshops, from the shelf 1.0, 2.0, 3.0 to "stall bar, after wave", have led students to challenge public welfare construction projects based on natural and rural contexts with the wisdom of different disciplines.
Now the achievements of the shelter 1.0 and the shelter 2.0 have become the most practical place for local herdsmen to rest. The students who participated in the project also experienced a practical process of implementing the ideal design on the drawings, and gained satisfaction and satisfaction after giving back the society with the design. And these personally experienced projects can also let the admissions officer see our unique creativity when they are put into the work collection.
Replace design renderings with research reports
The architectural space department requires students to have rigorous logic and rational thinking. In order to reflect this feature in our works, we can not only pass the complete design scheme, but also through Research. As we all know, research is of great importance in architectural space, and as a work collection project, research needs us to carry out specific questions and thinking throughout the whole process.
Xiaoxiong The third project in the collection of works is a research similar to the research report. The research direction is about ethnic minorities living tribes. The whole project is a demonstration of the research method of a site.
The project site is located in the Stone City in the north of Lijiang, a primitive tribe of the Naxi nationality. The whole city is built on a very steep rock. This cultural feature and uniqueness particularly attract students majoring in landscape architecture.
During the research, Xiao Xiong also brought some questions, such as how did the ancestors here find this place and how did they settle here? Why is Stone City divided into inner city and outer city? Why is there only one exit and one entrance in the inner city?
In addition, Xiaoxiong felt that the first impression of the site was the most accurate and true, so he recorded a lot of sketches at the same time of his research, and recorded all the places of interest with sketches, which can also help people quickly understand the site.
Xiao Xiong is not an example. Liao's works also include a complete project of research. He analyzes the geographical factors behind the current situation of ethnic migration. He analyzes the reasons for its formation, as well as historical and cultural elements that affect architecture based on the complex terrain and environment in southern China.
Architectural Portfolio Template
In the cases of the above students, we summarized four commonalities in their work collections and learning process:
Social topics with cultural characteristics
Social topics highly integrated with cultural characteristics have always been the focus of art schools, not only AA, Xie Fei or UCL, but also many art schools pay attention to this type of topic all the year round.
As early as 2019, in the winter vacation project of Natural Light, Gary Li, a designer who studied in RMIT and AA and cooperated with Zaha, brought a special research topic for Natural Light students, AA and UCL - "transformation of villages in cities" with a unique entry on wiki.
Such topics with strong local culture and attributes not only have a high degree of local characteristics, but also have special research significance. For art colleges, compared with general subjects, when students pay attention to such highly cultural and social subjects and can solve problems with a high sense of social responsibility and innovation, they will be more "easy" to see the unique potential and ability of students.
Interdisciplinary experimental projects
Many students will ask me this question in the process of consultation and learning: Is it difficult for the major of architectural space department to achieve interdisciplinary? Is it difficult to combine my alley renovation project with clothing design? Or do you want to integrate my space layout into pure art?
First of all, from the cases of the above students, the major of architectural space is not interdisciplinary. Even when you are skillfully interdisciplinary, the project will be more glorious.
However, as we have always stressed, we should not force interdisciplinary for the sake of interdisciplinary. We must admit that the major of Architectural Space Department does emphasize logic and rational thinking. Compared with other forms of art design, the research conducted by the architectural space department is often highly "cyclical". A seemingly simple landscape or building sometimes has a service life of several years or even decades behind it.
Therefore, the architectural space department needs careful logic and rational thinking first, and then interdisciplinary. For example, we saw the case of Lee today. She used Folding in Beijing as the blueprint for creative creation. When we encounter such creative projects, we can properly combine other disciplines to achieve interdisciplinary, Lee has combined modeling with pure art sculpture.
Practice from scratch
The projects of the architectural space department are often "grand", so compared with other disciplines, we will encounter such a problem for a long time - it is difficult for the project to be implemented, and it is difficult to carry out the real realization.
However, this does not mean that your project can "act recklessly". In the portfolio projects of the above students, we can see "difficult projects", but each student has also used highly professional data or models for "real restoration".
Replace design renderings with research reports
For the architectural space department, there is no doubt about the importance of research. When we create disciplines that emphasize rational thinking, we need to conduct in-depth research on social issues, human relations, modern society and art history. Only works of art based on strong knowledge reserves can stand the scrutiny and test.
In addition, the research report, as a complete set of project works, is different from the research of other projects. It is not only based on the records of the cultural background, geographical conditions and other backgrounds of the project site, but also reflects the process of doing experiments with thinking questions. In the process, visual expression is also essential, The final result is a valuable human geography report.
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