This document provides information on Shuxiao Zheng's work portfolio, including several projects: 1. A psychogeography project mapping the emotional responses and cultural diversity seen from different stops on the Number 11 Bus in Birmingham. Diagrams show an attempt to map the social infrastructure of the multicultural society. 2. A small intervention project to design an urban kitchen space within a small timber structure near Birmingham central area, using food as a theme to reinforce community spirit. 3. A conceptual design project for the Free International University exploring mobility, trade, civic ownership, and the relationship between architecture, urban form, and infrastructure.

1. Work portfolio (Architecture Part 1)
by Shuxiao Zheng

2. Content
Psychogeography/mapping Project
Small Intervention- Urban Kitchen Project
Free International University project- Conceptual design
Housing Project
Project 1 -Psychogeography
This project was to explore parts of the city which has been forgotten
because of the convenience of the transportation. The term
“Psychogeography” is to use physical handcraft map to record the
emotional response in the city. Number 11 Bus goes all the way around
the inner and outer circle of the Birmingham. Therefore, all students
had to take the bus in order to see the city as a whole. For me, I am
focusing the culture diversity, and I tired to map the emotion that I saw
different races people from each stops. The diagram below also show my
attempt to draw the social infrastructure of this multicultural society.

5. D6-1 General brief for the whole year
META-THEME: Mobility
TRADE + CIVIC OWNERSHIP
An increasingly privatised domain has challenged the traditional order of permanence, legibility and power
within the cityscape. The once great municipal structures now appear as misplaced objects in a field
dominated by infrastructure and speed, and subject to global rather than local forces. Are there
‘global/local’ exceptions to this? What are the implications for architecture in terms of its urban form,
materials and relationship to space and time, and who should lead and define the new paradigm?
MOBILITY: Infrastructures
Infrastructures employ systems that enable our trade, contemporary culture and our wellbeing. These
systems can utilise advanced technological solutions but can still provide a humanistic function,
something that is desirable as well as essential to make our environments livable and dynamic.
Many of these infrastructures are about prosperity, whether it be speculative or actual, and is the thing
that binds our institutions, landmarks, cultures, and civic identity. Mobility is significantly affected by the
economy and as a result - our urban environment - but they can dry up (and even reverse) in times of
underlying economic uncertainty. Infrastructures offer an alternative or an improvement to current
conditions but often require a leap of faith as it attempts to address our built fabric on a scale that does
not come naturally to us – urbanity.
Different epochs had particular views on what infrastructures should achieve and change;
the Renaissance – a humanistic, artistic and intellectual infrastructure; the Victorian Enlightenment –
society, class, wellbeing, cultural identity; Post-war – car-topia, efficiency, and ultimate commercialisation.
Infrastructures are abundant, complex, some grand, but most are latent – hidden amongst our everyday
environment. However, there is a surge in implementing new public infrastructures that are more visible
and offer a duality of utilitarianism with civility. A fundamental question remains on how civic programmes
can be integrated with technological and monumental infrastructures.
This module will ask students to look for the consequences and opportunities that lie in our current
political and social condition, whilst maintaining a foresight into what, and how, architecture can provide a
positive impact as a response.
Individual brief
D6-1 The Urban kitchen project
This project was to design a space which can provide a cooking and dinning within a small timber structure. The aim
of the project is to use food as theme in order to reinforce the spirit of communicates around Birmingham central area.

10. Site Anaylsis
Main Conceptual ideas Conceptual mass studies