li gubai portforlio 2013 2014

Li Gubai 李顾柏Birth: 1988-08-10 City: ChangZhou, China

Email: [email protected] Phone: +31 6 1504 2521

Education:2013.9 - 2017.7 MASTER DEGREE (processing): Fontys Hogeschool voor de Kunsten in Tilburg. (Netherlands) _ ARCHITECTURE

2011.9 - 2013.7 MASTER DEGREE: Avans st.joost academy in Breda. (Netherlands) _ INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE

2007.10 - 2011.7 BACHELOR DEGREE: University of science and techology of Suzhou. ( China) _ INTERIOR DESIGN

Working experience:

2013. 4 - 2014.7 Now UARCHITECTS in Eindhoven ( intern)2011. 10 - 2012.4 Boonstra - van Kruysbergen architecten, in Eindhoven, the Netherlands (intern)2010. 6 - 2010.10 Beijing Yuanzhou interior design company (intern)2009. 7 - 2010.1 Beijing Kuoda interior design company (intern)

Workshops:2014.1 “Gebiedsontwikkeling onder nieuwe condities” in Maastricht.2012.1 “Spaces of trust” – Masterclass on “safe space concept” for NAC Football stadium in Breda, The Netherlands.

Theoretical Research:

2012.11 - 2013. 7 “Beijing quadrangle house and the connection with contemporary Chinese apartment blocks living condition.”

Competitions:

2013.7 Member of competition New Brede school in Uithuizen (second price)2013.4 Member of competition Lindenau port (second price)

Skills:

2D: AI, ID, PS, CAD. 3D: 3DMAX, SKETCHUP, RHINO, GRASSHOPPER, V-ray render plugin.

My name is Li Gubai come from China. I am a interior architect, graduated in a master degree from AKV

St.Joost academy in Breda. I am now studying in the FHK, MA+U fontys academy in Tilburg, Architecture, I successfully finished the first year.

During my studies in The Netherlands, I worked as an interne in two offices, where I gained a lot of skills and experiences. Now I am looking for a new starting point, therefor I am looking for a new enviroment and new challenges. It is for this reason I am interested to find a position/ internship position in your office.

I have strong traditional Chinese background and very fascinated by Eastern Asian traditional architecture and mentality. My graduation research was about Chinese contemporary living conditions. In my future professional position, I would like to build up the bridge between Western European and Eastern Asian, more specific, the Chinese market and architecture.

I graduated as a Master and a bachelor from Art and Design schools, so I am interested in and experienced research, designing, competitions. I also would like to learn more about building practice, construction and technics. It will take another 3 years before I graduate from FHK MA+U academy, I would be very pleased to learn and experience more about Dutch architecture in your office. (and also connect with my country)

Li Gubai 李顾柏

BREDE SCHOOL IN UITHUIZEN:Practice competition in Uarchitects architecture office

GRADUATION RESEARCH:Beijing quadrangle house characteristics research and the connection with contemporary chinese living condition.

"URBAN SLAM ":Huai de yuan apartment reconstruction ------ exprimental project of Beijing quadrangle researchNew Chinese living condition suppose

3D MAZE:Utrecht canal Hotel design

SHADOW CREATER --- Pinecone:Ecological design: Pinecone windows filter

PARAMETRIC ONION:Gas station design in Tilburg ------ Parametric design

MOON LIGHT STATION:Gas station extra function design in highway A58,Liesbos

ZAASTAD SPORTS CENTER:interior color proposal & furniture proposal

Practice project in Uarchitects

2.5 DIMENSION KUNSTHAL MUSEUM:Different architectual angles explaination of the Kunsthal museum, Rotterdam

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No.2 Candy room

No.5 Fridge dold drink area

No.1 Storage room

No.3Casher

No.4Snack, drinks....

No.7Somking area

No.6Cofe room

No.8toliet

sky glasses

changable construction size depends on function.

Different desity structure compose different level of privacy.

Tliburg Gas stationONION 2.0

Graduation research :Beijing quadrangle house characteristics research

and the connection with contemporary chinese living condition.

2013. 7_Avans St.Joost academy in Breda

Nowadays, China is developing incredibly to become one of the biggest countries in the world. The Issues like "Huge population", "One child policy", "Aged society". "Unbalanced income" have been concered as very important topics in contemporary Chinese society.

"Lonely","Lacking of time to spend with family", "High living and economic pressure" are very offen to discrible different age classes and society levels especially in the low income society group.

Living condition is one of the most important element concerns within common people's life. It represents the Chinese current life quality especially under Chinas huge and dense population.

An aged society (elderly generation), High living pressure (middle generation, young worker), Lack of communication (all generations) these 3 aspects are my research topics of Chinese current living conditions, inspired by Chinese traditional living conditions in Quadrangle houses.

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Beijing Hutong distribution

Forbideen city

Tian An Men

E a s t e r n q u d r a n g l e house ditrict

We s t e r n q u d r a n g l e house ditrict

ChangAn Street

The Quadrangle house is one of the traditional living units in China. It is very representative to the Chinese traditional way of living (and its history). Quadrangle living unit is composed by four houses, orientated to the North, South, East and West. There is a big open yard in the center of the whole building complex. It is the ‘communication’ place where all generations of the family meet, the center where house-keeping activities take place. It is both a relatively private space within the residential area and a public space within the house.

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Hutongs are narrow streets connecting to each quadrangle house and in the same time Hutongs connect whole Beijing city.

Hutong in an architecture language is very difficult to define, it can be " a shopping mall", "a laundry", " a toilet", "a bathroom", "a teahouse", "a storage", " kids playground", "the Hair dresser's" ........

Hutong as a social playground offers different people spending time together. It is a society " Living room" as we say nowadays - " Semi - public space".

Quadranglehouse

HuTong

living room and bedroom

Function space (kitchen, toilet)

Public zone

Living zone

Public zone

Family public zoon

Family public zoon

Family public zoon

Family public zoon

Family public zoon

Family public zoon

Family public zoon

Family public zoon

Traditional quadrangles and Hutong New situation: Hutong combine with quadrangles

Traditional quadrangle house and Hutong in the old Beijing city present a private space and a public space. It is a very traditional way of living in terms of social life, family life and so on.

Traditional quadrangle house and Hutong in the old Beijing city presented aprivate space and a public space. It is a very traditional way of living in all aspects.Based on my research on the society issues such as the aged city, high pressure life, one child policy and all kinds of reasons together - my conclusion is Chinese contemporary way of living has lack of social interactions and communication. By combining the “Hutong” (public social life) with the traditional “Quadrangle house” (individual life) together is possible to improve the current Chinese living condition. This new approach can reduce loneliness of eldery people as well as share young families financial pressure.

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HuTong

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Graduation Project :"URBAN SLAM ":

Huai de yuan apartment reconstruction New Chinese living condition suppose


This is my Master graduation studio project based on my graduation research. Project is about an interior reconstruction of a common apartement building located in Chang Zhou, Eastern China. This building originally built in 1998 - a very iconic block of flats from time before opening of Chinese apartment building. Each floor has 5.5 meters height (80 meters in total) which is very important characteristics of this building. The idea of this project is to change this iconic apartment into a low income housing apartment facing the Chinese current society problems based on my graduation research. Project is combining traditional ways of living with new society condition.

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1. Traditional Hutong and quadrangles

3. Rise private space (bed-room) to the second layer.

4. Horizontal + Verutical Hutong connect whole building

2. Family communication space + Public commnication space

functional space

Hutong (public space)

private com-munication space

functional space

Move Hutongcombine with private communica-tion space

public commu-nication space

functional space, half public & private space

functional space, half public & private space

Hutong con-nect through whole build-ing.

Horizontal Hutong connect through whole floor.

private dwell-ing

Verticial Hutong

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Breakfast, Toilet14 +10 people will go outside for work or study.

Lunch TimeAround 35 people spend their day within the building.

Tea timeTea,coffee time.People, especially Elderly people and children under 4 years old in the Hutong.

Dinner TimeAlmost all residents will be home. Family dinner in Hutong

Evening, shower timeSmall group of people will gather in the Hutong.

Night TimePublic toilets still in used.

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Breakfast, Toilet14 +10 people will go outside for work or study.

Lunch TimeAround 35 people spend their day within the building.

Tea timeTea,coffee time.People, especially Elderly people and children under 4 years old in the Hutong.

Dinner TimeAlmost all residents will be home. Family dinner in Hutong

Evening, shower timeSmall group of people will gather in the Hutong.

Night TimePublic toilets still in used.

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fire escape & elevator

Vertical connction Vertical Hutong

Hutong

Back street

Narrow Hutong

existing ground floor plan existing first floor plan New Ground floor plan New First floor plan

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+5.000Ground layerPublic communication space"Hutong "

+10.500Second layerPrivate small studio flat"Quadrangle house"

Principle floor section

Entire block routine

Main Entrance

5. Vertical Hutong/ Physical connection

4. Vertical visual connection

Second layer/ Served/ Private layer

First layer/ Servant/ Public layer

3. Private dwelling orientated vertical, touching two floors (Hutong)

2. Fire excape

1. Elevator

Air conditon PipelineWater PipelineCookerhood Pipeline & Toilet ,Bathroom exhaust pipe

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1617Kitchen: About every 4 dwellings share one kitchen (>5m2)

Toilet: 4 public toliet seats used by people in Hutong and 4 dwell-ing do not have private toilet. (38 people day time stay in the building)

*<Standard for design of public toilet in city>《城市卫生设计标准》

CJJ 14-2005 3.2.7

Shower room: 3 shower room for 30 people do not have individual shower room.

*<Code for design of residential building> 《老年公寓住宅设计标准》GB/T 50340 - 2003

Second layer / Private space

First layer / Public space(Hutong) / Servant

Elevator , Fire escape

Glass windows (5 Meters height)

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Principle floor diagram

"URBAN SLAM" block of flats

This diagram shows whole apartment block after renovation: all floors are connected by vertical and horizontal “HuTongs” - which means the public "living rooms" are offering people social interarctions in shared spaces.

There is a wide range of daily outdoor activities brought together into the new “HuTongs” such as tea houses, restaurants, chess corneres and others.

There are not only "low income" social housing apartments, but also street commercial and cultural facilities joining together in the building to change apartment's isolated life into an urban scale, creating so called “Urban slum”.

2 people*3=6 For each floor

6 people*14=84 Total building







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62 people in each floor

868 people in whole building

Per capita living space: 5-12 m2

Actual situation with the apartment block



Per capita living space: 32.3 m2

* <The research on Habitation for the low – income people in China cities – A case study on policy, urban planning & Architecture modes of low – rented housing in Chongqing Metropolitan> 龙颖 ISBN 978 -7 -112 – 12314 -8

* China National Bureau of Statistics 2009: Chinese Per capita living space is 30 m2 (average)

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8 Middle generations4 Young generations4 Elderly generations


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Numbers according to the proposed plan

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Per capita living space: 5-12 m2

Actual situation with the apartment block



Per capita living space: 32.3 m2

* <The research on Habitation for the low – income people in China cities – A case study on policy, urban planning & Architecture modes of low – rented housing in Chongqing Metropolitan> 龙颖 ISBN 978 -7 -112 – 12314 -8

* China National Bureau of Statistics 2009: Chinese Per capita living space is 30 m2 (average)

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6 Middle generations


Numbers according to the proposed plan

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This building originally has 8 groups of users on each floor. According to this project there will be 17 groups for each floor in the future.Based on higher density of people, sharing the cost for public space facilities including water, electricity, internet and aircon supplies can reduce the financial pressure. As Chinese policy: having flats less than 12 m2 per person will have finnancial support from government. All these are actually going to be much cheaper than getting a mortgage for buying a regular apartement in the city.

population density

social density

spatial phenomenon

closes gaps in isolated Chinese living conditions

This project is not the only answer for the current Chinese living situation. But it could be one of the possibilities to possitively seeking for the solution of all these actual society problems.

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Studio Project :"The Maze hotel ":

Utrecht canal Hotel design

2014. 3_Fontys Hogeschool voor de Kunsten in Tilburg

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Target building

This is my studio project of a design for a hotel with a skybridge over a canal located in Utrecht.The building consist from two objects connected through bridge and the change of the facades was not allowed due to the city's policy.

Except a temporary stay, hotel is a space intensively dealing with public and private interactions.The see and to be seen in hotel as a game between private and public spaces turned to be an important issue in this project.

"Everybody is interested in the others private life, but meanwhile affraid of losing their own secrets and privacy."

There are var ious angles of unexpected situations meeting your eyeview in this hotel. The user experience is full of surprise.As an experimental project a sort of 3d maze was created to reach these unexpected situations. The entire hotel is then composed from a "never ending passage" and rooms of various shapes.

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location, siteplan

structural diagram aerial picture

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entrance

entrance

exit

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The whole hotel is composed from rooms of various spacial qualities. The arrangment of rooms are not following any regular routine. From the interior and the exterior, people will have different experience by meeting unexpected views and situations.

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PlanPrinciple sky bridge

interior plaster finishing 8mm

multiplex timber panels, 18mm

timber beam, 67 x 114mm, insulation - mineral

wool, 90 mm thick

timber planks 27 x 45, air gap


polyester finishing 4mm

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timber floor 22mm

timber beams 71x171mm

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Studio Project :SHADOW CREATER --- Pinecone:

Ecological design: Pinecone windows filter


This is an ecology design studio project inspired by a natural sources from Dutch nation forest park.

Pinecone is natural object with interesting feature of shrinking and expanding itself due to a moisture increase in its environment.

This project is very directly using this natural characteristic of pinecone applied onto a window filter or facade to achieve various light qualities in the building interior.

This window filter is powered only by the moisture sensitivness in the air in a very environmentally-friendly way without any chemistry elements.

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1. Temperature do not effect on Pinecon's expansion or shrivel.2. Pinecon's expansion or shrivel is controllable by portion drying or humidification.

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60 min50 min42 min35 min

Section of pinecone from horizontal and vertical.

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Sunny, dry, summer Cloudy, wet, winterIn the dry condition In the moisty condition

Wet pincone surface Dry out pincone surface

Pinecone composed into one surface and have dynamic changes by moisture difference.

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Pinecone filter applied on the outside window

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Pinecone filter applied on the outside window

Pinecone filter applied on the inside window

Studio Project :Stand up --- Body notation mapping

ONION --- Parametric designGas station design in Tilburg --- Parametric design


The main aim of this project was to capture a space defined by a movement of a human body.This project was divided into 3 steps. First step was worked in groups to map and create a notation of a human body movement.

My team choose the movement of sitting to standing. Mapping the motion first with a series of picture, which were afterwards developed into the 2d notation, which was carried on to recreate into a 3d maquette.

Movement map

PHASE 1: Mapping the movement

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Following the step 1, the second step was to rethink the whole notation and translate it to a pavilion based on the rules of parametric design.

The project was finally a sitting pavilion for people to take a rest after work. Each piece of the construction is one of the notation moment and futher more, to use this pavilion you actually need to move yourself in a same way notated in the first step - from "sitting to standing up". This model was developed in the grasshopper software for rhino.

PHASE 2: Parametric model making

structural diagrammaquette, step 2

pavilion located in the Chinese building site

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BP Gas stationKempenbaan 1

Shell Gas station

The third stage of this project was to create a gas station located in Tilburg south. The idea was still based on the concept of the pavilion.

The concept of this gas station was to break the traditional eyeview of people's experience about highways. This was achieved by using various distance and position between the car driving in the highway and the people resting in the gas station. This project was also applied the pamatric design by Rhino and Grasshopper 3d program.

PHASE 3: Parametric design- Gas station in Tilburg

functional diagram

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conceptual section

step 2 step 3

No.2 Candy room


No.1 Storage room

No.3Casher


No.7Somking area

No.6Cofe room

No.8toliet

sky glasses




No.2 Candy room


No.1 Storage room

No.3Casher


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No.6Cofe room

No.8toliet

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No.2 Candy room


No.1 Storage room

No.3Casher


No.7Somking area

No.6Cofe room

No.8toliet

sky glasses




Gas station, night view

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Studio Project :"MOON LIGHT STATION"

Gas station extra function design in highway A58,Liesbos


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LIESBOS GAS STATION

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This is a desing project situated in the Liesbos station near Breda alongside the A58 highway. In the new liesbos gas station, the purpose is to look for extra functions more than the original gas station.

By hearing many legends, Liesbos forrest is full of homosexual colour. Some people treat the forrest as the best cover for their secret activities during the night. Light is one of the most important elements for people when finding the right "destinations".By monitoring these forrest light conditions, it is possible to modify people' s ways through the place. This means that various light condition provides different activities within the gas station design.

This concept is not only aiming for providing homosexual space but is also an experimental project tring to satisfy all kinds of people's needs within one space.

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During the day time, many people enjoy the nature in the forest.

Moon l ight create different l ight condition in the forest.

People choose different light condition by themself.

Different car and people use different light condition.

During the nightl there are also people come to meet people by special reason.

People during the night finding the right light condtion to fits for their needs.

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GLASS COLUMN

Moon light (Artificial light) gothrough glass column createthe forest light shodow inspacial way.

MOON LIGHT MAP

people choose right lightcondition for their own action.

Interior light condition modeling

GLASS COLUMN

Moon light (Artificial light) gothrough glass column createthe forest light shodow inspacial way.

MOON LIGHT MAP

people choose right lightcondition for their own action.

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Practice workBREDE SCHOOL IN UITHUIZEN

Close competition

2013.7_Internship Uarchitects architecture office

This is an architecture internship project of a Brede school in Uithuizen. It is a building for three schools and municipality office.

Project is situated in a green area next to the outdoor sport centre, at the edge of a town, on a plot with a view into the fields. The main idea of the concept is that each school has its own wing of the building designed in different way due to its own requirements.

Partially two storeys are connected together to create a social interaction space for all schools.

During this competition we were concerned about how these three completely different schools gather together, in terms of various ages or religion childs and so on. Finally, we used a 3D plan to explain our idea of differences and similarities for each school.

We won this project as the first price in the competition.

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Ground floor First floor

Front facade

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Section

De Regenboog is the most traditional school and also with a very strong religion color. Windows arrangement was decided to make very regular and simple. Middle part of the school is a small religion square for students to get together for various events.

Brunwerd is the most colorful school in the project. All the furniture and floor were chosen in colorful material in order to emphasize the c h a r a c t e r i s t i c o f t h i s school.

D e s c h e l p i s t h e m o s t f l e x i b l e s c h o o l w i h t i n this project. Most of the classrooms are connected with each other by a huge sliding doors.Students in this school are willing to connect with each other more freely depends on flexible spacial quality.

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Interior social heart

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Zaanstad_NL

Sports center interior color proposal & furniture proposal

Practice work :ZAASTAD SPORTS CENTER:

interior color proposal & furniture proposal

2013.12_Internship Uarchitects architecture office

This is a office internship project of a furniture proposal for a project of a sporthall in a construction phase held by the office.Project is situated in the city of Zaanstad. This sporthall is going to be used by both, society and also by pupils of the nearby ADHD (kids losing concentration) school.

The task was to create a furniture arrangement for the first floor including the bar area and a meeting space to satisfy both groups of users.

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Phase 1

This phase was about testing various colours and typologies of furniture to devide interior functions. By using different height of sitting position, there were created various views of the users experiencing more active atmosphere of the space.

CAFE area BAR area Waiting area Lunch area

Interior color proposal and function arrangement

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Phase 2

This phase was about a research on actual pieces of furniture through v a r i o u s c o m p a n i e s w e b s i t e s and catalogues.It included also a meeting and negotiating with company advisors.

Final furniture proposal

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Phase 3

This phase is about creating the final arrangement according to the budget.

Final furniture proposal

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圖Communication studio2.5 Dimension Kunsthal

Different architectual angles explaination of the Kunsthal museum, Rotterdam


This is a school project aiming to analyse the Kunsthal museum, Rotterdam, in different aspects such as layering, mind map, numbers, history and so on.

There were various tools used in the research about this museum. In this task, the museum itself is analised without simply repeating but putting visitor's own experience understanding and representation instead.

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This is the mind map of the Kunsthal museum.

The idea of this project was to respresent my own story: Using a small paper maquette with sketches to describe the kunsthal museum. Through combining 3D and 2D explanations the project is expressing the personal spacial impressions of visitors own experience.

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This maquette consist of the Kunsthal museum facades and section technical drawings. These are represented by various colours and thicknesses and shapes of paper, to use a unique way of translation of 2D drawings into maquette to capture of visitor's visual experience.

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Thank you!

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Editors: Li Gubai Eva Horakova Pieter van Kruysbergen

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