Qian got his M.Arch Degree at University of Applied Arts Vienna. In 2021, he studied at the Oslo School of Architecture under the Erasmus+ Scholarship, same year he entered the Peter Cook Oslo Office. Currently he works for Zaha Hadid Architects in London.
Communicating Vessels
The studio is the final act in the sequence Mountain, Island, Ocean and Forest. The studios have challenged the distinction between architecture and landscape architecture by exploring their shared tropes, particularly those related to geography and its translation to design. Moreover, the studio questions the need for direct experience when designing in delicate environments.
Work with:
Marius Modahl Breitenstein
The studio is the final act in the sequence Mountain, Island, Ocean and Forest. The studios have challenged the distinction between architecture and landscape architecture by exploring their shared tropes, particularly those related to geography and its translation to design. Moreover, the studio questions the need for direct experience when designing in delicate environments.
Work with:
Marius Modahl Breitenstein
09/12/2021
Haneda 21^2
Haneda 21^2 proposes a new transport typology that creates a performative system of moving people and cargo through a highly efficient network. The transport hub is in constant flux by incorporating security and passport control into the moving pods to reduce any areas of congestion. The introduction of 3 exchanges from air to sea to land transport systems means the hub operates highly efficient transfer junctions from local to global destinations. By utilising emerging technology in the form of Vertical Take off Air vehicles, Short Track air take off runways and Hyperloop the new Transport hub will create a highly efficient moving system of people and cargo. Storage towers for the cargo will relieve industrial land on the periphery of the bay, allowing for new urban development in a city projected to reach upwards of 30million inhabitants in the next 20 years.
Work with:
Joseph Cook
Alexandra Terekhova
Haneda 21^2 proposes a new transport typology that creates a performative system of moving people and cargo through a highly efficient network. The transport hub is in constant flux by incorporating security and passport control into the moving pods to reduce any areas of congestion. The introduction of 3 exchanges from air to sea to land transport systems means the hub operates highly efficient transfer junctions from local to global destinations. By utilising emerging technology in the form of Vertical Take off Air vehicles, Short Track air take off runways and Hyperloop the new Transport hub will create a highly efficient moving system of people and cargo. Storage towers for the cargo will relieve industrial land on the periphery of the bay, allowing for new urban development in a city projected to reach upwards of 30million inhabitants in the next 20 years.
Work with:
Joseph Cook
Alexandra Terekhova
18/06/2021
Culture Collider
The design is an exploration into the integration of cultural experiences in the daily routine of New York’s citizens. The scheme revolves around the harnessing of cultural data and a subsequent mass customisation of art installations. To achieve this, the technology of web-based content filtering is turned upside down, in order to continuously provide users of the complex with personalised art stimulation specifically calibrated to provocate, learn and reflect.
In the final work, this logic is implemented on the north Brooklyn Bridge landing. The complex automotive nodal point is reworked into a more functional and humane pedestrian sphere. The new programme is combined with the existing site through a process of interweaving. The outcome aims to merge its physical framework with a virtual organisation, in order to create a dynamic cultural typology, that embraces constant change and motion.
Work with:
Raffael Stegfellner
Simon Weishäupl
The design is an exploration into the integration of cultural experiences in the daily routine of New York’s citizens. The scheme revolves around the harnessing of cultural data and a subsequent mass customisation of art installations. To achieve this, the technology of web-based content filtering is turned upside down, in order to continuously provide users of the complex with personalised art stimulation specifically calibrated to provocate, learn and reflect.
In the final work, this logic is implemented on the north Brooklyn Bridge landing. The complex automotive nodal point is reworked into a more functional and humane pedestrian sphere. The new programme is combined with the existing site through a process of interweaving. The outcome aims to merge its physical framework with a virtual organisation, in order to create a dynamic cultural typology, that embraces constant change and motion.
Work with:
Raffael Stegfellner
Simon Weishäupl
25/01/2021
Makeshift Great Again
Makeshift Great Again consists of a core hospital building and an expandable makeshift hospital. The design is a fully functional outpatient hospital which is predesign to quickly expand into a larger structure to deal with a rapid growth in patients over a short period of time. The core building is a campus of medical facilities, an open and user friendly experience for patients, visitors and staff. In a pandemic situation the hospital gradually shifts into a closed system. Circulation paths of different user groups are separated to minimize the spread of disease whilst maintaining efficiency. The prefabricated makeshift parts are imagined not to be a single solution but rather a greater global collaborative system.
Work with:
Monika Kalinowska
Oskar Heslyk
Makeshift Great Again consists of a core hospital building and an expandable makeshift hospital. The design is a fully functional outpatient hospital which is predesign to quickly expand into a larger structure to deal with a rapid growth in patients over a short period of time. The core building is a campus of medical facilities, an open and user friendly experience for patients, visitors and staff. In a pandemic situation the hospital gradually shifts into a closed system. Circulation paths of different user groups are separated to minimize the spread of disease whilst maintaining efficiency. The prefabricated makeshift parts are imagined not to be a single solution but rather a greater global collaborative system.
Work with:
Monika Kalinowska
Oskar Heslyk
14/06/2020
Hyper-Active Park
What architectural methods have to be applied to encourage people to be more active?
Maybe it can be tackled by reinventing a park like scenario, by transforming it into a built public forum for celebrating sports and physical activity.
Located in former railway yard of Porta Romana the Hyper Park is proposed to become a huge playground for the citizens of Milan. It is like a fun-park where every visitor despite their age, sex and fitness level can find challenging and exciting spaces for sports. The park is a collection of misshaped static or kinetic venues connected by a multilayered path system. These elements form a complex urban heart which generates new sport-based social encounters, catalyses people to be more inventive and reactive to the architectural spaces and evetually investigate a more physically active society.
Work with:
Zhiyi Zhang
Simonas Sutkus
What architectural methods have to be applied to encourage people to be more active?
Maybe it can be tackled by reinventing a park like scenario, by transforming it into a built public forum for celebrating sports and physical activity.
Located in former railway yard of Porta Romana the Hyper Park is proposed to become a huge playground for the citizens of Milan. It is like a fun-park where every visitor despite their age, sex and fitness level can find challenging and exciting spaces for sports. The park is a collection of misshaped static or kinetic venues connected by a multilayered path system. These elements form a complex urban heart which generates new sport-based social encounters, catalyses people to be more inventive and reactive to the architectural spaces and evetually investigate a more physically active society.
Work with:
Zhiyi Zhang
Simonas Sutkus
18/01/2020
