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 enrichyour career as even though the people working here might have been lucky, but are undeniablyoutstanding. 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之一，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，他们脑子里天马星空的想法是什么样的?

Name: Bosen Li
Educational Institution: Harbin Institute of Technology
Year: 2008-2012
Nationality: China
Email: libosen1989@126.com

Who is your favourite architect? Why?
Coop Himmelblau can be seen as the first architect of my enlightenment. Their passionate project really impressed me when I began to design. I like their viewpoint which jump out the limitation of the architectural production and bring the spirit of buildings to others.

What is the major characteristic of your current school’s education?
Harbin Institute of Technology is getting better and better. There is a good atmosphere among all students, which give us a lot of opportunity to receive and acquaint more new stuff. People in different grades and major like to communicate with each others which helps us emerge more new ideas. And now, there are a lot of talented and hardworking students.

What have you gained during the MAD internship?
Working in MAD is intense and fulfilling. I exactly received many help and inspiration in my internship when I cooperated with others. There are so many people with interesting thinkings and some fortuitous things happened everyday , which always make my working hours colorful and exciting.

What are your thoughts and feelings upon Chinese Architecture and the environment?
Any suggestion?
I think Chinese economic and political status make here be a unique market. Everyone seems to have lots of opportunities, but everyone is limited in a rule. Although we are very good at analyzing others’ program, we should pay more attention on reviewing what we did before and what we got in our culture and civilization, which means that Chinese architects should disseminate their works combining our traditional viewpoint with modern method –Of course, it is not only about the architecture, but also about social development. Following the development of society, architecture will be more advanced as well.

What is your dream?
TO know every aspect of our world as much as possible, and always insist of my individual viewpoint and convey it to the masses. On the other hand, like most people, I look forward to live a place which is designed by myself in the future.

What would you do if you were not an architect?
Engage in film production or other related occupations.

What is your dream project?
My dream project is to cause the topic even though it has finished several years, and also cannot be defined as a specific project.

What is your favourite project in your portfolio? Why?
I think the most interesting project may be the first one. It produce more interesting result to put the old settings and the new forms together. But I cannot say it ‘favorite’,because actually, I have so many limitations and confusions when I focus on my portfolio, and I hope to solve them in my future study.

姓名：李博森
学校：哈尔滨工业大学
年级： 2008-2012
国籍：中国
电邮： libosen1989@126.com
最喜欢的建筑师是谁？为什么？
蓝天组是最早启蒙我的建筑师。从刚刚接触设计的时候就被他们富有激情的项目打动了。我喜欢他们那些尝试跳脱出建筑生产过程中的种种局限的想法，把建筑的精神力量带给别人。

你所在学校的教育特点？
哈尔滨工业大学正在变的越来越好。在这里同学们之间形成了很好的氛围，开始关注和接受更多的东西。不同年级和不同专业的人都能很好的交流，带来了一些新的想法。而且现在学校里有很多很有天赋也很用功的人。

在MAD实习最大的收获是什么？
在MAD的工作是紧张而充实的。在实习的过程中收到了很多的帮助和启发。公司中有很多思维活跃也很有趣的人，每天都会发生一些很偶然的事情，这些加在一起使每天的生活都很充实。

你对中国建筑的感触是什么？建议是什么？
我觉得中国的经济和政治现状使得这里是一个独特市场。每个人看似有很多机会却又被限制在一个规则里。我觉得我们看别人的方案已经很多了，我们应该再多看看自己的方案。把那些中国内涵的东西带到作品中来并传递出去。——当然我觉得这也不是建筑一个领域的事；社会进步了建筑也会进步。

你的梦想是什么？
尽可能多的了解这个世界的个各方面，始终坚持并深化自己的思维模式并把它们传递给更多的人。当然也和大多数人一样，希望未来能住在自己设计的房子里面。

你如果不当建筑师会选择什么职业？
从事与电影制作相关的职业。

你梦想中的项目是什么样的？
我梦想中的项目是经过很长时间之后仍能够引起话题的东西，并且也不是一个能被定义成具体是什么的项目。

在自己的作品集中，你最喜欢的作品是什么？为什么？
我觉得最有意思的可能是第一个项目，把老的东西和新的东西拼合到一起会产生更多有意思的效果。但是谈不上喜欢，在做作品集的过程当中我有很多看困惑和局限的地方，我希望未来的学习中能够解决他们。

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屋顶
ROOF

这个设计来源于对于如何对待既有建筑。大胆想象城市的发展潜力，那些有价值的古建筑将会以什么形态在新城市中存在呢？这里我给出一个新的角度。在这个方案中，一个非线性的新建筑去咬合既有的传统古典建筑。这个咬合方式来自一个关于口香糖拉伸生形结果的试验。在这个试验中，随着既有建筑的固定形态及拉伸力量的不同，口香糖形成了很有意思的结构。并且这个结构由于口香糖本身的特质而处于一个整体受力的状态，保证了非线性建筑的稳定性。最后，一些功能性的改装被添加到这个结构中。

这种上下咬合的方式营造了一种全新的平面感受。新建筑的一层平面被设定在老建筑的屋顶上。——这样人们对于传统建筑的使用方式变成了新建筑的地下空间。新建筑由于丰富的地下空间而变得更加多元化。哲学意义上，旧建筑的生长态势被新的体系急剧压缩最后迸发出全新的结果。旧建筑以十分强烈的牺牲感出现在新城市中。

Project ROOF derives from our attitudes towards available buildings. In what form will those valuable historic buildings survive in modern cities? In Project ROOF, I provide a new perspective that these ancient buildings can be matched with modern non-linear buildings. I get this idea from a shape formation test about the stretching of chewing gem. In the test, due to different structures of available buildings it matches to and different stretching power it receives, the chewing gem forms many interesting shapes. Furthermore, the distinct nature of chewing gem makes the whole structure an intact load-carrying body and guarantees the stability of the non-linear building. At last some functional changes will be added to this structure.

This tally mode, in which the new building is constructed on the roof of the old one, presents us with fresh feelings. By so doing, people might use the old building as an underground space of the new one. Philosophically speaking, the growing trend of old architecture is greatly oppressed by new building systems which, finally, burst into a brand new style. In modern cities, a strong self-satisfying sense of the old architecture can be clearly felt.

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烟雾
SMOG

SMOG这个项目来自于一次极其偶然的观察。当看到抽烟的人们从嘴里吐出烟雾，我想为什么建筑不能像烟雾一样灵活并具有冲击力呢？在综合设计鼓励我们自由创造的课题下，我尝试了使用这种逐渐变化的不稳定性来还原一个高层建筑的使用功能。正如烟雾从嘴里吐出来时的变化这样，这个高层建筑必然存在一种不稳定的生长性，从何带来了空间的过度与多样性。不稳定的背后存在一种精神层面的寄托性，因为这个巨大的体量不同于我们已有的冰冷的城市，因此令这个夸张的自由感成为一种新的城市标致。

The project of SMOG is come from a very accidental observation. When I saw smokers exhaling smoke, I thought why the building can’t be flexible and impact like smoke? In the topic of the integrated design encourages us to do free creation, I tried to use the instability of this kind of gradient change to restore functions of use of a high-rise building. Just like the change of smoke exhaled from mouth, this high-rise building must exist a kind of unstable growth so that the transition and diversity of space were brought. There is a kind of bailment in the spiritual level behind instability, because the huge volume is different from our existing cold cities,so that this exaggerated sense of freedom became peugeot of new cities.

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巢
NEST

人们通常通过特别的造型来实现某种特别的精神。在很长的一段时间里，我们习惯于并擅长于将作品越来越具有集中性。或许现在，我们可以尝试一下扭转思路，解体我们习以为常的元素。

在这个公共艺术雕塑中，分解了我们习以为常的构成方式。更重要的，这里最主要的构成是光。通过疝气灯来发射直向的光束，用穿插的光束来塑造一个交织的形态。然而，只有光是不够的。

钛金属这个巢的另一个核心元素。一方面，在外部起到结构作用；另一方面，穿梭的光束与钛的反射效果相互作用，形成更复杂的光层次。

地段特点来说，博物馆中心转盘地段交通先现状十分复杂。行人经常穿行这个交通核心区域。因此，我认为在这一中心实现使用功能的最好方法，就是把人流集合起来。因此，这个巢的下半部分是半封闭小广场。由于巢形态的自然构成，这个广场被巢元素填满，形成博物馆前的一个新休闲建筑小品。

People usually use special shape to realize a particular spirit. For a long time, we are accustomed to and good at making the works have more concentricity. Perhaps now, we can try to turn around the ideas to break up habitual elements.

This public art sculpture breaks up our habitual constitution mode. Most importantly, light is the main constitution. Shooting straight beam by xenon lamp, shape interlaced form by interspersed light beam. However, only the light is not enough.

Titanium in this nest is another core element. On the one hand, it plays a role of structure externally, on the other hand, the shuttling beam light interacts with the titanic reflection effect to form more complex light gradation.

For the location characteristics, the traffic situation in the rotary district of the museum center is very complex. Pedestrians usually walk through this core area of traffic. Therefore, I thought the best way to realize using functions in this center is to gather stream of people. Hence in the lower section of this nest is small semi-enclosed square. Due to the natural composition of nest form, this square is filled in by nest elements to form a new recreation architecture opuscule in the front of museum.

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乌贼
CUTTLEFISH

乌贼这个方案来自于一个纯粹理念化的构想。当我们把一个动点放到场地中，配合周边的环境不断产生着不同的形态，这样的建筑在地段中该怎样存在呢？我不想完全靠参数化的手段来完成这个项目，而是加入了主观的控制。我希望这个项目可以呈现生长的阶段变化，在不断的生形过程中产生更加复杂的结果。将一整片街区都看作是建筑来源，形成完全活动的结构结果。

The scheme of cuttlefish is come from pure idealism conception. When we place a moving point in the field, and cooperate with surrounding environment to produce different forms constantly, how such building to exist in the district? I do not want to complete this project by fully depending on the means of parameterization, but add subjective control. I hope this project can present stage changes of growth, to produce more complex results during the course of continuous growing and forming. Regard the whole block as construction sources to form the result of complete motion structure.

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阿苏卫Asuwei生活垃圾填埋场位于北京城西外昌平区。在阿苏卫服务于北京城市垃圾的几十年中，该垃圾场受制于地理因素，没有引进垃圾焚烧设施。因此，不经过焚烧就将垃圾埋入地下本身就是一个危害生态的因素。当垃圾场迁出之后，场地不可能迅速恢复一片生机。在复苏土壤活性和净化地下水资源的同时，该方案着重要展现的就是这个从无生命到有生命的生态自然选择过程。

地下的部分被开发成污染展览馆，博物馆，用来提示后人要爱护我们的星球，对于星球的危害清晰可见。

北京阿苏卫生活垃圾填埋场是目前正在积极利用的生活垃圾填埋场所。但是对比国外先进的垃圾处理手法，不能采取焚烧手段是主要的硬伤。目前网上流传一些迁出阿苏卫垃圾场的计划；通过实地考察，这个垃圾场规模化运作正常，但确实对周边生态环境产生了损坏。这次设计着眼于迁出垃圾场后的未来情况，包含一系列的策略。首先，并不会把垃圾扯这，而是通过机械手段就地焚烧提炼能源，供场地内部使用或输送给其他村落。整体场地被看作是一个机械设备。

这里也存在一个我个人对景观设计的思考。景观设计就是种树么？我更大胆的想去创造一个区域共同的心态和新的使用规则。

Municipal solid waste landfill Asuwei is located in the west outer Changping District,Beijing. In the last decades, Asuwei served the municipal refuse of Beijing, this waste landfill was at the mercy of geographical factors without introducing facilities for refuse burning. Therefore, the practice in itself of burying refuse into underground without burning is a factor of ecological hazard. Therefore, after the landfill was moved out, this field can’t quickly restore fresh and green. Revive the active soil and purify groundwater resources at the same time, this scheme focuses on showing this ecological natural process of selection from lifeless to have life.

The part of underground was developed into polluted exhibition halls and museum, which was used to remind the future generations to take care of our planet. The harm to planet is highly visible.

Beijing Asuwei municipal solid waste landfill is continued to be utilized at present. But compared foreign advanced refuse treatment methods, the mean of burning can’t be adopted is the main mechanical damage. Some plans of moving Asuwei landfill are widely circulated online at present, through filed visit, the scale operation of this refuse dump is normal, but there are some damages are truly produced to surrounding ecological environment. This design with an eye to the future situation after the refuse dump was moved out, including a series of tactics. First of all, the wastes are not allowed to dump here, but do on-site burning and refine energy by mechanical means, to provide for internal use of field or to transmit to other villages. The whole field is regarded asmechanical equipment. The spatial inspiration is come from space advocating of “Transparency”written by Colin Rowe, to realize a field between linearity and nonlinearity through the means of mechanization.

I have a thought on landscape design. Does the landscape design only mean planting a tree? I have a bolder thought of creating a field with collective mindset and new using rules.

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Name: Bosen Li 李博森
Email: libosen1989@126.com