Personal Statement

個(gè)人陳述

Please mind me starting with a sentence which left me a deep impression. “You need to give creative people ample space and at the same time put them on a long lead. Managing creativity implies a willingness to bend the rules, make mistakes, accept unfinished ideas and to live with ambiguity and chaos.” This paragraph was said by Manfred Kets de Vries from the website of TU Delft, which wake my almost sleeping heart to pursue the career of architecture.

定義了創(chuàng)造力是什么。管理創(chuàng)造力意味著愿意改變規(guī)則、犯錯(cuò)、接受不完善的想法, 并接受模糊和混亂。引用了名人Manfred Kets de Vries的名言。

For me, Architecture not only refers to a kind of simple design, but also trying to develop creative and innovative building projects which regard design as a method to deal with technical, social and spatial challenges which we encountered in our life. Just like my final graduation project which can show my strong ability, it discovers and reforms a specific architecture form—Life architectural complex in Shahu Cultural centre in Wuhan. This kind of residential building is the main type of dwelling in modern Wuhan, and it is also called Nongtang in Shanghai, which can be regarded as the most symbolic culture to represent the history and culture of a city. However, with the tendency of economic and political globalization, increasingly more and more old architecture was replaced by residence community or high building. There is no denying that it would result in damaging traditional culture and traditional lifestyle. Therefore, my graduation project has realistic meaning for the protection and renovation of modern historic areas and the development of modern residence design with local characters of Wuhan.

提及了我的畢業(yè)設(shè)計(jì)?！八l(fā)現(xiàn)并改造了武漢沙湖文化中心“里分”建筑群的一種特定建筑形式。這種居住建筑是近代武漢的主要居住類型, 在上海又被稱為弄堂, 可以說是代表一個(gè)城市歷史文化中最具象征意義的文化。然而, 隨著經(jīng)濟(jì)和政治全球化的趨勢, 越來越多的舊建筑被住宅社區(qū)或高層建筑所取代。不可否認(rèn), 它會破壞傳統(tǒng)文化和傳統(tǒng)生活方式。因此, 我的畢業(yè)設(shè)計(jì)對于現(xiàn)代歷史街區(qū)的保護(hù)與改造, 以及武漢特色現(xiàn)代住宅設(shè)計(jì)的發(fā)展具有現(xiàn)實(shí)意義?！?/p>

Based on the investigation and discovering of Lifen, my concept of design is to creatively combine the traditional architectural style with modern limited space, at the same time, to maintain the advantages of its character. Therefore we should make sure it have access to inner, while half open to outside, and also involves more people to take active part in it, what’s more important, it cannot be disturbed by surrounding environments, like square, road. By deeply discovering some architectural features of layout, construction, decoration, design, dwelling form, interns of architectural forms and material of this old architecture, we adopt the beam, pitched roof tile, and neat work into our reconstruction, which not only inherit the traditional character of old architecture, but also fuse surrounded environment, providing a more diversity insight. Namely, through designing periscope, external and internal can well be connected with each other. This design is more likely to the way of ancient Chinese garden choosing scenery, which can raise the interest of people.

進(jìn)一步闡釋了畢業(yè)設(shè)計(jì)的理念, 強(qiáng)調(diào)了我的設(shè)計(jì)思考?！拔业脑O(shè)計(jì)理念是將傳統(tǒng)建筑風(fēng)格與現(xiàn)代有限的空間創(chuàng)造性地結(jié)合起來, 同時(shí)保持其個(gè)性的優(yōu)勢?！?/p>

If I have to explain why I choose Netherlands, especially TU Delft to continue my Architecture career, I would say there are mainly three reasons. First reason is that Netherlands is where my dream starts from. The first impression of Architecture on me was the amazing work from artist Piet Cornelies Mondrian, who is a famous neoplasticism artist in Netherlands. When I was still a freshman, my tutor assigned me a project that to convert the square graph from 2D to 3D, which can be the really interesting but tough for me. However, by doing that I found how wonderful and fantasy the architecture world is, and achieved outstanding design which originated from square graph. From that time onward, my great interest is guided by architecture, and I enjoyed too much in the designing process of architecture.

闡述了我為什么要在代爾夫特理工大學(xué)繼續(xù)攻讀建筑學(xué)的原因。首先, 提到了藝術(shù)家皮特·科內(nèi)利斯·蒙德里安（Piet Cornelies Mondrian）的驚人作品，他是荷蘭著名的新塑主義藝術(shù)家。并提及了自己大一時(shí)做過的一個(gè)將正方形圖形從2D轉(zhuǎn)換為3D的項(xiàng)目。

Secondly, for me, expanding my knowledge and skills cannot be the only reason for making an application for Master degree, I still want to specialize further in a particular area of the discipline. I know TU Delft has a very good reputation all over the world, it is said that TU Delft’s Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment holds a leading position in its field. At the same time, Delft pays a lot of attentions to the logicality and integrality of person’s profile. This is what I am trying to improve, because in my last work, I tend to convey the spirit and connotation of architecture to the public by focusing on some important details, sometime it makes me forget to take the elements of integrality and integration into account. Thus I need to make up the deficiency to improve my comprehensive ability. Ps: I know the major architectural in Delft is not called Architectural Faculty, It has a very interesting name which called BK City.

第二個(gè)原因是“我知道代爾夫特大學(xué)在世界各地都有很好的聲譽(yù)，據(jù)說代爾夫特的建筑和建筑環(huán)境學(xué)院在該領(lǐng)域處于領(lǐng)先地位。同時(shí)，代爾夫特也非常注重人物形象的邏輯性和完整性。這就是我試圖改進(jìn)的地方，因?yàn)樵谖业纳弦徊孔髌分?，我傾向于通過關(guān)注一些重要的細(xì)節(jié)向公眾傳達(dá)建筑的精神和內(nèi)涵，有時(shí)這會讓我忘記考慮完整性和整合的元素。因此，我需要彌補(bǔ)不足，以提高我的綜合能力?！北径瓮怀隽藢W(xué)校的優(yōu)勢，以及學(xué)校的教育如何能彌補(bǔ)自己的不足。

Thirdly, figuring out the practical problems is also another reason for me to choose TU Delft. In the process of architectural design, the architectural forms and architectural styles of Netherlands have a huge influence on me, offering me a lot of valuable inspiration. Nowadays, among all the work by the talented artists and architect, which inspired me most is the architecture office like OMA, MVRDV. I found a very funny situation that there are many architectures can creatively use design methods to solve social and living environment. It reminds me of some difficult questions which have existed in China for a long time, such as China traditional garden, which is urgently needed to be protected by public. However this kind of situation was still not solved. As a result, as an architect in China, only to rich my architectural theories and understand the comprehensive design system is not enough, I think we have responsibilities to skillfully utilize some advanced design methods to solve existed problems, and can be technically trained by professionals who can develop and implement metropolitan solutions.

第三，解決實(shí)際問題也是我選擇代爾夫特的另一個(gè)原因。荷蘭的建筑形式和建筑風(fēng)格對我產(chǎn)生了巨大的影響，給了我很多寶貴的靈感，譬如OMA、MVRDV等建筑辦公室。另外，中國長期以來建筑業(yè)存在的一些難題，比如中國傳統(tǒng)園林，它迫切需要得到公眾的保護(hù)。因此， 我希望學(xué)成以后在這個(gè)方面做出貢獻(xiàn)。

Last but not least, as a talented student of architecture, with consistently study in Fine Arts University, I always try to push myself to be better and better in the field of architecture, which makes me closer to my goal and dream. And also in the profile of your website, it says the mission of your faculty is to educate students to become excellent architectural engineers: from building technologists and urbanists to architects, landscape architects, real estate experts and geodata specialists, working at both national and international levels. This is also my dream to possess knowledge of the latest developments in the field of architecture and the built environment which holds a strong promise for future.

最后, 再次陳述了自己的優(yōu)勢, 提到了學(xué)校的使命如何與自己的目標(biāo)相契合。比如你們學(xué)院的使命是教育學(xué)生成為優(yōu)秀的建筑工程師：從建筑技術(shù)專家和城市規(guī)劃專家到建筑師、景觀設(shè)計(jì)師、房地產(chǎn)專家和地理數(shù)據(jù)專家等等。而這也是我的夢想。

點(diǎn)評:

總之，這是一篇非常不錯(cuò)的PS。不僅闡述了自己對建筑的認(rèn)識，而且介紹了自己的畢業(yè)設(shè)計(jì)，突出了自己的能力。本篇PS尤其值得稱道的是其why school部分，從多個(gè)方面解釋了自己為什么想去目標(biāo)學(xué)校。主要是四個(gè)方面：1. 對荷蘭的向往和熟悉；2. 代爾夫特大學(xué)良好的聲譽(yù)以及先進(jìn)的設(shè)計(jì)理念；3. 代爾夫特能幫助自己解決實(shí)際問題；4. 代爾夫特的使命與自己的一致。why school這個(gè)部分的寫作方法非常值得我們借鑒。