We work for MAD: intern collection 30

MAD no doubt is one of the most recognized architectural practices in China and worldwide. Every year,
MAD receives countless job and internship applications. To be able to work at MAD will definitely enrich
your career as even though the people working here might have been lucky, but are undeniably
outstanding. What could possibly be on the minds of the MAD interns?

MAD无疑是中国最受瞩目的建筑师事务所，同时在世界范围内也受到极高的关注。
MAD每年都收到来自全世界不计其数的工作申请和实习申请。
能够进入MAD学习和工作一段时间，职业生涯无疑会变得精彩丰富，
在这里的人们，也许是幸运的，但肯定是优秀的。
在MAD工作的实习生们，他们脑子里天马行空的想法是什么样的?

Name:  Ma Ning
Educational Institution:  Chang An University
Year:  Graduated July 2011
Nationality:  China
Email: fantasy0113@gmail.com

Who is your favourite architect? Why?
It’s hard to say, depends on different periods. Also I’ve been inspired by different architects, whose own days, backgrounds, theories, styles, and priorities varies greatly. All those are initiating my thinking and focus on, or even beyond, architecture.  I like the Zaha Hadid early projects.

What is the major characteristic of your current school’s education?
Actually it has no characteristics. But that doesn’t really matter. Yet there is one thing I’m pretty convinced about is that it needs change. And as for me, personal experience and thinking could bring more knowledge and inspiration than education itself in there.

What have you gained during the MAD internship?
It has broadened my horizon in architecture. Now I had close friends here. I appreciate its architectural outlook, and pretty much enjoy the work environment of MAD. They’ve got fantastic design teams composed of professional members. Working in MAD is diverting and exciting.

What are your thoughts and feelings upon Chinese Architecture and the environment? Any suggestion?
This is a broad issue. A simple topic might lead to endless discussion and criticism. For example, we usually wander off in the hutongs nearby. In sharp contrast with those skyscrapers not far away, the hutongs are far more attractive to me. There is a lack of public space in this city, a city consumed by the mania of ever-increasing FAR and density. We don’t even have a sports field or bicycle parking lots.

What is your dream?
They change with time. I would rather say that I wish to go to many places.

What would you do if you were not an architect?
They change with time. I would rather say that I wish to go to many places.

What is your dream project?
This question reminds me of the movie Transformer 3. You know what was its most fabulous part for me? Not the eye-catching action scenes, but the moment when Milwaukee Art Museum designed by Calatrava appeared, which was completely integrated into the movie, indicating its architectural influence in spite of greatness. For a while I was even distracted by the architecture while ignoring the acting.

Perhaps it is what exactly I’ve been pursuing for: a building, coming out of my mind, has a certain “influence”. This influence does not mean that something has to be changed, or that it only happens in architectural field. To me, whether people like it holds the key.

What is your favourite project in your portfolio? Why?
None. Each time looking back I would find something not so good as it is right now. And that is also the charm of design: endless possibility and inexhaustible source of inspiration. All you have to do is to make it better.

姓名：马宁
学校：长安大学
年级：2011年7月毕业
国籍：中国
电子邮箱： fantasy0113@gmail.com

最喜欢的建筑师是谁？为什么？
很难讲谁是我最喜欢的建筑师。不同的阶段，不同的建筑师都对我有不同影响，他们其中，年代、背景、理论、风格以及重心差别很大，但这能让我对建筑甚至建筑之外有不同层面的思考和关注。相比较的话，我喜欢zaha早期的作品。

你所在学校的教育特点？
其实是没有特点的。但我觉得有没特点并不重要，但有一点我很确认，他需要改变。我想，在那里，个人经历和思考比教育体制下带给你的知识和启发更重要。

你在MAD实习最大的收获是什么？
在建筑上有了更广的认识，结实了很好的朋友。我喜欢MAD的公司文化和环境，这里有出色的团队，他们非常的专业。MAD非常有趣和令人兴奋

你对中国建筑以及环境有怎样的感触？建议是什么？
这个个问题很大，可能随便从建筑理论内外上的一点点开始，都将是一个无止尽的讨论和批判。讲一点，我们经常中午休息的时候习惯去附近的胡同里走走，这里比起不远处的鳞次栉比的高楼完全是另一番情景。但是更容易让人动容。

所以我觉得这个城市应该给予更多的公共空间，就我自己的需求来说，这个城市却连足球场、自行车停车地都不愿为我们留下……

最根本的还是反映出环境下的市场的盲目追求，中国处于最好的发展时代，中国也不缺少好的建筑师，但缺失的是这个环境下的应有的积极的立场和态度。

你的梦想是什么？
梦想很多，一直在变。说个相对简单点的，希望能去很多的地方走走吧。

你如果不当建筑师会选择什么职业？
小时候曾希望当个天文学家。

你梦想中的项目是什么样的？
看到这个问题我想起，今年在电影院看变形金刚3的时候，最让我兴奋的并非眼花缭乱的电脑特技场景，而是当我看到卡拉特拉瓦的密尔沃基美术馆的出现的情景。并且在我看来，它已经成为了电影中的一部分。这当然并不说明这栋建筑的伟大，但足以看出它的影响力，甚至有那么一会，我一直看着巨幕，却忘记了剧情。

这可能也许是我梦想的建筑所应有的姿态。我设计并完成，并且有一定的“影响”。这种影响并不一定是改变什么，它甚至可以是跨界的，并且，人们喜欢它。

在自己的作品集中，你最喜欢的作品是什么？为什么？
没有。每一次回头看都会觉得有些遗憾和不足，现在做会做的更好。设计的乐趣也正在此，总是有无限的可能性，灵感没有尽头，设计没有终点，你要做的只是尽量去把它变得更好。

 

1.  3 Villas by the Great Wall

These villas are designed for musicians and entertainers, located in Beijing Badaling scenic areas in the mountains. The client hopes it to provide them a place for gathering. The split-level as a design approach is used to deal with elevation difference, and to help the space maintain continuity while changing in the form. We hope to introduce the concept of  “plaza” to interior space. Then each villa could have its own identity: tranquil or vivid, private or public. At the same time, the design intends to reduce the impact which outdoor gathering place could have on nature.

这是为音乐人和演艺界人士设计的一个别墅组群，基地位于北京八达岭风景区的群山峻岭间。业主希望可以建筑尽可能的提供他们聚集的场所。别墅尽可能的使用错层来解决高差所带来的影响，并在形体上的转折来保证空间上的连续。我们希望广场的概念能引进室内，这样，别墅有了不同的属性，它有静有动，有私密也有开放，同时，也尽可能的减少室外的聚集场所的设计对自然的影响。

 

2. The Reconstruction of Xi’an Train Station

Along with the soaring economy of China, like many other developing cities, Xi’an is now faced with the challenge of urban renewal. But it appears to be more sensitive to this issue when considering it is the most important city in western China with the longest history as an ancient capital. It has the ambition to become metropolis and also the attention to the preservation of its context. But the approaches to express old and new at the same time have always failed.

Eyes on the square in front of the city’s railway station. The task is to reconstruct such a place in lack of popularity, and even on the fringe of being abandoned. The concept is to turn aboveground to underground, keep the original structure, at the same time change the function, and then stimulate vitality. Meanwhile on the ground, in front of the ancient wall, the previous messy square will also become a clean and orderly urban gathering space.

随着中国经济的腾飞，西安同许多正在发展的城市一样，面临新旧更新问题。不同是，作为中国最西部最重要的城市和最历史悠久的古都，在城市更新的问题上，它显得更加的敏感。它有变成大都市的雄心，也明白要保留城市的文脉，却始终找不到最合适的语言去表达新旧对话。

我们把目光缩小到西安火车站的站前广场上。对这样一个面临减少使用甚至有荒废可能性的场所进行改建。改造层次上，索性把地上转为地下，保留原来的结构的同时，改变功能，激发活力。而在在古老的城墙前面，在地面上，原来杂乱的广场也将变成一个干净有序的聚集城市空间。

 

3. Research on Tectonic Culture

This is a landscape sketch designed for the Faculty of Architecture. a landscape sketch. It’s a symbol, like a brand. Even without the name on it, or if one has never seen it before, it would easily relate it to architecture, reminded by the characteristics of architecture college students.

这个为建筑学院做的一个景观小品。他像一个铭牌一样，它是一个标志，看到它，即使没有看到铭牌上的字体，即使之前没有看过它，它会联想起建筑学院学生的特征，会提醒人们，这是建筑学院。

 

4. Xi’an Information Centre

The office building is located Chang’an road, the most important avenue of Xi’an. Identities of the buildings along the road are archaizing, symmetry and majesty, repelling people from a distance. As a consequence, we took a twisted form to respond to the surrounding buildings, to contrast with the symmetry.

办公楼位于西安最重要的长安路上。这条街上及周围的公共建筑最多的特点就是仿古、对称及威严。这样的形象自然拒人千里。我们以一种扭转的姿态去回应周围的建筑，扭转的形态模糊了对称的定义。

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Name:  Ma Ning
Educational Institution:  Chang An University
Year:  Graduated July 2011
Nationality:  China
Email: fantasy0113@gmail.com