XIANGRU XU_Selected Work_2018

05.2018

PORTFOLIO Selected Work // 2016-2018

UCLA MARCH I // XIANGRU XU

CATALOGUE Selected Work // 2016-2018

CONTACT xiangru.xu10@gmail.com +1 213-716-0950

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1// Satellite Campus

Reserch + Coworking Office

2// Karma Aqua

Resort Design on Mykonos Island

3// Above the Volcano

Mexican Museum Extension

4// Fibonacci Steel House

Housing Project - Film Producer

5// Alter-Ego 6.

Fire Station Project

6// Other Work

Work Sample at RTKL

UCLA MARCH I // XIANGRU XU

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// SATELLITE CAMPUS Lomita City, Greater LA, US INSTRUCTOR Hitoshi Abe DATE Sep 2017 - June 2018 CONTRITBUTIONS Group Reseach with Tianyu Kan Individual Design FUTURE LIVING PROJECT, powered by xLAB

COURSE DESCRIPTION

Historically, workspace and domestic space occurred within the same site until advancements in labor separated the two. Eventually, the domestic realm was liberated as workspace moved way. A key concept of modernization is the separation of these two typologies as a main motivation of modern architecture + urban design. Currently, there is a drastic paradigm shift underway that merges these two typologies together again. This phenomena will trigger a large shift in the design of built environment.

This WORKHOUSE research studio was led by the Future Living Project (FLP) that is initiated by Hitoshi Abe and his UCLA A.UD research team.

The WORKHOUSE Research Studio consists of phases: 1. Business Plan & Programming During phase 1, students will look beyond the physical design of the office, to create a programmatic narrative that addresses both advancements in information technologies and developments in co-working environments. Students will propose a business program, an accompanying value system, and a management strategy for sustaining this created value.

2. Design of Co-working Space During Phase 2, studentg will implement a design strategy based on the business plans and programming proposals, culminating in a final building design.

BUSSINESS PLAN Executive Summary This bussiness plan is based on a mapping study of coworking offices, corporate headquarters and public library in Greater LA. Co-working space as a new type of workplace has been a prevailing topic recent year. The distribution of existing co-working workplaces is mostly centralized in the city center and their roles are absent in suburban areas. Los Angeles is one of the metropolitans that accommodates all kinds of co-working workplaces. Due to LA’s specific urban fabric, overgeneralization of resources has led to severe urban problems, including transportation, education, and others. Seeking decentralization is a direct way to relieve the pain. As the potential market of co-working space is still growing, here we see a market gap of co-working workplace industry in Los Angeles.

This business plan proposes a suburban-based co-working space in Los Angeles called Satellite Campus to address gaps in this market.

Satellite Campus’ mission is to mitigate the unbalanced resource allocation, especially working space and job opportunities resource that is over centralized into certain areas such as Downtown Los Angeles due to the stagnant and ossified 20-century urban planning model.

On the other hand, Satellite Campus looks forward to transforming the community library through a public-private relationship. By collaborating with community libraries, Satellite campus supposes to bring some culturally marginalized public facilities back into the center of the sense of a community as library improvement and expansion could be facilitated through sponsorship of corporate firms who cooperated with Satellite Campus, as well as revenue generated through co-working space.

MAPPING STUDY Coworking Office Corporate Headquarter Public Library

West Hollywood

West Side

DTLA

As we study the existing corporate headquarter as well co-working space, we see them centralized around urban cores. They are notably West Side, Downtown Los Angeles and Hollywood.

The contrast between concentrated office space and sprawling suburban neighborhoods and their oftern under-utilized community libraries is astonishing.

*The final business plan includes Executive Summary, Bussiness Description, Industry Background, Environment, Competitor Analysis, Market Analysis, Services / Programming, Operations Plan, Financial Plan and Appendix. *A video presentation is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gOuV_i8kJI&feature=youtu.be

Public Library + Coworking Space

= SATELLITE CAMPUS NETWORK SATELLITE will grow and connect greater Los Angeles, and become a constructive complement to the current regional fabric. Nine suburban community libraries lots are carefully selected as potential coopertative partners with Satellite Campus. Lomita library is the site location of final design.

There are deep similarities between libraries and co-working, libraries might be associated with the outmoded product of paper books, but they also provide consolidated information access such as internet, reference materials and professional guidance, and contemporary workplace provides a more normadic way of space using, just like library always do. These similarities between library and co-working space provides an opportunity to build a collaborative environment based on the prominent relationship between the public character of a library and the private character of co-working space.

PROGRAM

TYPICAL COMMUNITY LIBRARY

PROGRAM CONSOLIDATION

CATEGORIZING

TYPICAL COWORKING SPACE

CONSOLIDATING The time-sharing based information common between library space and co-working space provides flexibility and expandability in anticipation between library and coworking usage.

The design of Satellite Campus enhanced the collaborative relationship through consolidating amenities into the common area.

INFLUENCE ECOLOGY During SATELLITE’s operation, it recieves tax breaks and faviorable lease terms from local government and offers an angumented community hub for library vistors, freelancers, small bussinesses, and corporate branches. Ultimately, SATELLITE enhances the value and significance of a community library, and makes Los Angeles a more livable place by mitigating unequal resource allocation and traffic congestion.

Tax Breakers Favorable Lease Government Funding Bussiness Revenue

Tax Lease Activate Suburban Communities

LOCAL GOVERNMENT LIBRARY

Optional Workplace Collabration Knowledge Lifestyle

SATELLITE CAMPUS USERGROUP

Mitigating Unbalanced Resources Allocation and Traffic Congestion

COWORKING OFFICE

GREATER LA AREA

LOMITA CITY CENTER Satellite Lomita is one of the branches located in Lomita City. It sits on a compact site with plentiful buildings around it. The specificity of this site resides in the fact that it is the center of Lomita city. The City hall and DPW are next to the original library. With Lomita Public Library, they three dominate the city center, where local residents visit the most often. To keep the public image of orginal Lomita Library becomes the goal of this design.eve the

CITY HALL SATELLITE CAMPUS

Department of Water and Power

By applying cross-type form to the building, the two distinctive program, library and co-working spaces are nested together. It ensures the active interface between these two programs, where unpredicted interaction will happen. People can not only get easy access to their shared program but also have the chance to meet others unintentionally all the time in the building.

Coworking Office

Public Library

Information Common 1 Entrance Lobby 2 Information Commons 3 Administration Office

Coworking Office 4 Meeting Room 5 Training Room 6 Auditorium

7 Lounge 8 Cafeteria 9 Storage

Public Library 10 Library 11 Children’s Library 12 Mechanical

GROUND FLOOR PLAN 1/32”=1’-0”

A/ ENTRY LOBBY

B/ TRAINING ROOM

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B Expect for rebuilding the library and operating a co-working workplace, Satellite Lomita also plays an important role to activate the community. As it establishes a public-private-partnership with Lomita Government, Satellite Lomita devotes to taking more public responsibility. For instance, there are extra training rooms performed as a space for free public lecture or course. It provides an opportunity for citizens to learn novelty during their spare time.

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EXPLODED AXON

C/ ADMINISTRATION OFFICE

D/ CHILDREN’S LIBRARY

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E/ CAFE

OPEN HOUR Library: Monday - Sunday, 9 am - 5 pm Office: Monday - Sunday, 24 Hrs This image indicates a time difference between library part and office part in SATELLITE. Public library is only open during daytime while private offices are are available 24hrs.

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// Karma Aqua Mykonos Island, Greek INSTRUCTOR Georgina Huljich with John Spence DATE Jan 2018 - Mar 2018 CONTRITBUTIONS Teamwork with Tianyu Kan

COURSE DESCRIPTION

Using abstract and de-familiarizing techniques to instigate infractions on, and misappropriations of the real, the studio will aim to propose a new architectural paradigm for the rural outskirts: one that is comfortably at odds with its context and ‘whitewashed’ vernacular references as a foundation for its originality. Rather than falling into known functional paradigms of repetition and standardization, the studio will attempt to inventively combine advanced approaches to form, Le Corbusier visiting the Acropolis, Athens, 1920s Island of Mykonos, Greece plasticity and materiality with notions of local traditions and use of available craftsmanship in a creative way.

The class will produce images that will aim to engage with the “real”, questioning what it really means in this particular context and exploiting its fictional possibilities for defamiliarization and estrangement. In contrast with the all too often commonplace understanding of photorealistic images in architecture, the studio will look at the problem of realism in our disciplinary field.

Problems of rendering; photography and physical modeling will be looked upon not only as technical means, but also as conceptual devices that can alter the understanding and perception of architectural objects. In fact, the studio will aim to situate and contextualize objects in ways that are slightly unfamiliar and perhaps even strange.

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RENDERING

As a vital and indispensable element of space, water fulfills aesthetic and therapeutic values, while it can be experienced in a whole variety of ways, it often ensures similarity rather than daring to mark any distinctive experience. After repetitive duplication and plagiarism, water in architecture becomes same and placeless.

Designing a resort inevitably with water, it interests us to focus on empowering the movement of water through innovative ways. As the home to inexhaustible energy resources including sun and wind, disguised windmills and solar-penalized building envelope are utilized and deployed to generate the energy needed for electrical appliance, water pumping/ recycling, and everything else. Energy surplus are exported and imported within this disconnected island following the pattern of human activities throughout different times, decentralizing obsolete and colossal energy production infrastructure into architectural tectonic, and forging a new experience with natural elements.

Mapping Mykonos’ Pool

Town Center Residential/Commercial

General Residential

Residential with Inactive Farmland

Farmland

Natural

Urban / Rural Transect Diagram

Cluster B Unit, 55 sqm

Cluster A Unit, 53 sqm

Cluster A Unit, 49 sqm

Cluster B Unit, 47 sqm

Cluster B Unit, 36 sqm

Cluster D Unit, 34 sqm

Cluster C Unit, 37 sqm

Cluster A Unit, 32 sqm

Cluster C Unit, 59 sqm

Unit Floor Plan At the scale of the entire site, the gradient between the four clusters’ different figure ground relationship, responded to the different vignettes as one move from the old town center to the less populated rural and natural side of the island.

To take advantage of the unobstructed sunshine and consistent and constant northern wind, we envisioned a decentralized system of disguised technology such as minimal windmills and pixelated solar panels.

Ground Floor Plan

GROUND FL

LOOR PLAN

Gradient Transition of Orgnizational Grid

As home to inexhaustible energy resources including wind and sunshine, Mykonos island and Greece in large have been making little progress in sustainable energy.

While the subsea interconnection to mainland would provide a quick fix for the island, the power is dependent on a higher level (64%) of expensive imported fossil fuels. The dependence on the most damaging energy sources for the environment could be calling for an alternative.

Units

Solar Panel

Windmill

Tech Diagram

UNFOLDED

D SECTION

To take advantage of the unobstructed sunshine and consistent and constant northern wind, we envisioned a decentralized system of disguised technology such as minimal windmills and pixelated solar panels.

Solar Panel

The scattered windmills below the ground and disguised solar panels on the building envelope signifies the decentralization of energy generation, while four clusters of aggregations reunited them as a connected ecological system, sharing energy surplus, based on the pattern of human activity at different times.

Building Mass

Building Foundation with wind tunnel and infrastructure core

Exploded Axon - Units

WEST CORNER

While the contemporary technology makes it easy to disguise and hide all the gadgets or surface conditions, some quasi- solar panel patterns are selectively revealed to suggest the character of the building, and at the same time creating stepped surfaces for overflowing water to circulate between different levels.

STEPPED CLUSTERING

While technology made it possible to hide itself as much as we want, windmills are not made totally invisible in the project. The pixelated and fragmented building corners dematerialized each unit’s stiff corner instead of indiscriminately imitating the vernacular filleting treatment of architecture on Mykonos, and corresponded to the stepped building massing, becoming part of the formal language

EASTER CORNER

Meandering boundary between water and architecture, pixelated and fragmented corners dematerialized each unit’s stiff corner instead of indiscriminately imitating the vernacular filleting treatment of architecture on Mykonos.

POOL

The intentional blurring of the pool’s edge is aimed to enhances the feelings of the expanse. By preserving the rock on the original sites, Karma Aqua demonstrates a connection with the natural while it still maintainss its role as a modern construction. The pool then becomes an important architectural moments of the resort.

MODEL PHOTO - TOP VIEW Top view shows a grid pattern mixed with pools, waterscape, roof solar panel, and unit arrangement.

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// Above the Valcano Mexico City, Mexico INSTRUCTOR Wonne Ickx DATE Sep 2017 - Dec 2017 CONTRITBUTIONS Teamwork with Tianyu Kan

COURSE DESCRIPTION

The studio will investigate the relation between architecture and topography, through the modernist development Jardines del Pedregal (Rocky Gardens) in Southern Mexico City. El Pedregal was a major real estate project (1,250 acres or 5.1 km2) undertaken by Mexican modernist architect Luis Barragán.

When it was originally developed, in the mid-1940s in the lava fields of the Pedregal de San Ángel, it was probably the biggest urban development the city had seen. The area has changed a lot since its original development but even as its modernist spirit and its original elements of ecosystem protection are gone critics have described its original development, the houses and gardens as a turning point in Mexican architecture. Some of the old modernist houses have been catalogued as part of Mexico’s national patrimony.

The Museo Diego Rivera Anahuacalli or simply Anahuacalli Museum is a museum located in Coyoacán, in the south of Mexico City, which was selected as this studio’s site.

The unique museum was conceived and created by muralist, Diego Rivera, who, motivated by his own interest in Mexican culture, collected nearly 50,000 pre-Hispanic pieces during his life, and projected a building to place and exhibit them. The Anahuacalli was completed after Rivera’s death by architects, Juan O’Gorman and Heriberto Pagelson as well as Rivera’s own daughter, Ruth Rivera in 1963 and oficially opoened in 1964.

Actually the museum is surrounded by a unorganized cluster of additional building such as tickets booths, restrooms, workshops, offices, etc. The project seeks to reorganize this auxiliary program into an straomng architectural proposal, adding an additional 2,000 square meters of exhibition space to fulfill the museums needs.

ORIGINAL ANAHUACALLI MUSEUM

// CONCEPT At the time when Anahuacalli was designed and built, Rivera built the museum with a perfectly formal and symmetrical square out of the most indigenous material on the site, black volcanic rocks, and thus unified the man-made and natural into one identity.

While in our addition project, we intend to unfold and articulate the dualities of being natural and being man-made, this is achieved by splitting the square level into two platforms, that each curates a distinctive and divergent experience.

Built at similar size of nearby houses around the square, a collection of new buildings organize each of their own respective programmatic district, allowing circulations and visual exchanges at its own specific locations and levels, and at the same time enclose the plaza. The sunken square, which was originally envisioned by Diego Rivera as a water pond, could be realized again by performing as a water pond to hold events in memory of Diego Rivera. The compressed and densified plaza leads to the upper platform that expands the view into the landscape, making it an ideal location for sightseeing and other forms of gatherings.

By doing this, we hope to bring back the dialogue between architecture and landscape, which was absent in the discussion when the museum was a result of theoretical exchange and reconciliation between architecture and visual arts.

Field

Square

Original Anahuacalli Museum

SITE PLAN

MODEL PHOTO As the lower platform blends into the landscape and invites visitors to walk on and touch the pristine landscape, and the sweeping upper platform provides a dispersing view of the panoramic landscape across a distance. They together become a mediator between the landscape and square after unfolding the dualities, forging a rich and abundant spatial experiences for visitors.

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1. Administration Office / 2. Small Exhibition Space / 3. Main Exhibition Space / 4. Auditorium Enclosing the plaza in a similar manner of the existing structures, the collection of buildings organized each of their own respective district, allowing passaging and views at its own specific locations and levels, while at the same time re-energized and re-vitalized the plaza altogether.

PLAN 1F Despite their similar volumes, and relationships to the landscape and the plaza, each of the buildings own slightly nuanced ways of connection forged a new Museum Anahuacalli with rich and abundant spatial experiences.

EXTERIOR VIEW A continuous sweep of parapet and a panoramic view of landscape

LONGIUDINAL PERSPECTIVE ELEVATION

EXHIBITION INTERIOR VIEW Main exhibition room with high ceiling and view towards the plaza

LONGIUDINAL PERSPECTIVE SECTION

LOWER PLAT

Stairs leading people to the lower platfo

Stepping down from the square, the lower platform becomes a starting point for tra never given much attention to, the organic outline of the lower platform, occasional next to it, blurred the boundary between landscape and architecture.

TFORM VIEW

orm and landscape from the plaza

ails into the lush landscape that has existed long before Anahuacalli was built but was openings for plants, and the platform surface that rises and falls with the topography

AUDITORIUM

Auditorium with a direct and open lo

M INTERIOR VIEW

ook towards the landscape beyond

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// Fibonacci Steel House Los Angeles, US INSTRUCTOR Julia Koener DATE Mar 2017 - Jun 2017 CONTRITBUTIONS Individual Design Work

COURSE DESCRIPTION

This course is aimed to study steel material and understand its basic characters and conctruction method by looking into different case studies.

Develop a series of diagrammatic schemes addressing the role of profile as a boundary that contains mass, program and the structural grid in plan considering organizational strategies that will begin to generate matrices and volumetric relationships in section.

Coordinate concept, structural and environmental ideas into the final design of the project; for a comprehensive understanding of the design and construction process. This set of drawing documents should be the basis for the construction of a small residence, therefore overlays and information shown should be of aggregate nature and layout and information on plans shall be laid out according to graphic and comprehensible principles.

As a housing porjectm, the potential client is a film maker. Compared to normal housing, a screen room is prerequisite accroding to his job content.

SCREEN ROOM

CLOSE

DINING/LIVING

PARKING

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LIBRARY

MODEL PHOTO - BIRD VIEW The extremely steep site provides me an opportunity to make the most use of steel structure in a housing project.

BEDROOM

Front View // Concept Model

Bird View // Concept Model

Front View // Structure Model

Bird View // Structure Model

// CASE STUDY // Element House by MOS Architecture (Group Work with Wen Wang)

The precedent for this project was Element House designed BY MOS Architecture in New Mexico. The program of this house is organized along a branching Fibonacci sequence.

The distinctive orientation and basic geometry of the Element house is derived by fibonacci sequence, it is expansive geometric system of growth, radiating and aggregating outward, one module after another. the growing sequence is following the program needed and the environmental factor.

Plan area : building volume = 1 : 23

PRECENTANALYSIS

MOS architects / Element House / NEW MEXICO / 2014

XIANGRU XU/ WEN WANG

// SITE CONDITION The site is located at Mount Washington near Glassell Park. The site consists of four parcels with a private street for access; each studio will operate on all four lots with a similar number of students working on each one. As the section of site shows, steep land poses specific problems to architecture and provides steel as a strong building material an opportunity to realize the project.

Section of Site

// CONCEPT There are different kinds of Fibonacci sequences existing. The spiral expanse as an underlying principle in the steel house project. It provides a clear linear program and at the same time is modified to respond to the extremely steep hill site.

The concept of the Fibonacci sequence combined with site condition is the form of this building. The screening room is placed in the highest point of the site and when the back door is open, it extends to the second-floor’s rooftop and creates the possibility for various social activities. Thus, large span cantilever is a result of this concept. Part of the building is then detached from the ground and this supports creating an isolated feeling between bedroom and surrounding program.

Also, the privacy of the program increases vertically along the form.

Fibonacci Diagram

Program Diagram

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1. SITE PLAN / 2. GROUND FLOOR PLAN / 3. SECOND FLOOR PLAN / 4. ROOF SPACING Steel as a building material performs extremely well in cantilever structures. It is good at tension and strong enough to span long distances. It can achieve high performance in construction with relatively smaller size and weight compared to other material.

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THIRD FLOOR PLAN As the arrangement of the program follows fibonaaci sequence, an outdoor courtyard emerges in the center which helps bring the natural world into the heart of the domestic realm.

Screen Room

LIBRARY

Closet MASTER ROOM

Fibonacci Sequence

MASS

ENVELOPE

PLAN 1F

PLAN 2F

STRUCTURE

PLAN 3F

A group of I beams with hierarchy of sizes are introduced into this building to realize the cantilever. They partly sit in the ground and then get a strong support.

SECTION A-A’

Garage

Pantry Living Screen Room

Closet

LIBRARY

MASTER ROOM

Fibonacci Sequence FIBONACCI SEQUENCE

MASSMASS

ENVELOPE ENVELOPE

STRUCTURE STRUCTURE

The spiral expanse as an underlying principle in the steel house project. It provides a clear linear program and at the same time is modified to respond to the extremely steep hill site.

SOUTH ELEVATION

SCREEN PERSPECTTIVE

N ROOM E SECTION C-C’

The house caters for both work and relaxaxtion. Featuring a screen room and designated library, the film producer will be able to work at home and social with others. When the backdoor is open, the screen room will function as a semi outdoor activity room to enjoy california’s sun.

Metal Supporting COR-TEN Steel Panel Plywood Panel Box Gutter

COR-TEN Steel Panel

Hanger

Plywood Panel Wall Insulation

Hanger Plywood Floor Panel Floor Insulation Concret Slab Corrugated Steel Decking Cantilever Beam Retaing Wall

2' Diameter PILE

24*30

WALL SECTION

METAL SURPPORTING DETAIL

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// Alter Ego Firestation Los Angeles, US INSTRUCTOR Karel Klein DATE Mar 2017 - Jun 2017 CONTRITBUTIONS Teamwork with Miaomiao Chu

COURSE DESCRIPTION

The fire station has a very defined set of constraints while having a unique mix of program. It must accommodate everything from revolving living paces to the storage and maintenance of large equipment.

It is a public building where architectural issues are both expressed and realized in a modest way. Its organization is also typically perfunctory, as befits its function.

And yet examples from Venturi and Scott Brown’s Fire Station #4 to Zaha Hadid’s Vitra Fire Station demonstrate that there are opportunities for architectural ambition given a more ambitious client and the ability of the designer to be very canny in the management of what is usually a very constrained budget.

Fireman has a heroic face and an ordinary face at the same time. Inspired by Philip Dujardin’s sureal photoshoped architecture image, this studio would begin with the two sides of building elevations to investigate the two existing programs in a firestation: residential and fire engine. The contradictions and consistency of these two programs sit in the building and becomes the theme of this studio.

MODEL PHOTO - NORTH ELEVATION The pitch roof house is lifted above the top of a ramp podium base to address firemen’s residential life which respond to our design idea. Fireman’s house is inside and above the building.

FRONT ELEVATION

BACK ELEVATION

Conceptual Collage

Design Process

Conceptual Collage

Fireman is different from ordinary people, has a two- side juxtaposition life, living like an ordinary people and working as a hero. We start from designing the elevations of the architecture to excavate the potential energy in a Fire station, and also address a fire man’s life. As can be seen from our very beginning “photoshoped” elevations, we indicated a fire station’s alter ego character on facade including the “work part” and the “domestic part”, which are independent but integrated at the same time.

Engine

DOMESTIC PART

Office

WORK PART

// CONCEPT

We found that fireman’s heroic moment is usually more respected by people, and their other daily life such as training, living, administrative parts are always neglected. Thus we want to emphasise a fire man’s domestic life in our design. We separated the two side of a fire man’s life and reveal it in our architecture form.

The pitch roof house is lifted above the top of a ramp podium base to address firemen’s residential life which respond to our design idea. Fireman’s house is inside and above the building. The house is lifted up with 3 stories, from top to bottom has a upgrading of openness. The second floor is arranged for restaurant and day room with big openings and access to the ramp, which is a good space for BBQ, party and other outdoor activities.

The space in ramp base is evenly split into 2 parts which are four engine bays and daily operation rooms. Administrative programs are arranged in a linear way next to engine bays to achieve a highly efficient circulation, so officers and firemen are able to exchange informations, get order and carry out urgent tasks quickly.

// SERIAL SHORT SECTIONS

GYM

EQUIPPMENT CHAN

OFFICE

SECTIONAL MODEL PHOTOS

DORMITORY

The top level is independent horizontally, to achieve the highest privacy of human’s daily life.

Though the central staircase and poles, it also has tight and direct connection with offices and engine bay down stairs to ensure the speed of emerhency movement.

The bottom of the house locates as a transportation junction finished with arch structure to achieve the highest openness. Fireman’s uniform and equipment are located in this space, thus they can get changed in a quirkiest way.

DINING

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ENGINE BAY

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1st Floor

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2nd Floor

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3rd Floor 1. ENGINE BAY 2. ADMINISTRATION AREAS

3. DINING ROOM 4. DORMITORY

5. GYM 6. RECREATION ROOM

FLOOR PLAN

7. ROOF TOP

TOP - WORM EYE VEIW AXON BOTTOM - BIRD EYE VIEW AXON

1. Equipment & Pole

2. Outdoor BBQ

LONG PERSPEC

CTIVE SECTION

3. Gym

4. Training Rooms & Office

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SHORT PERSPE

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ECTIVE SECTION

In our drawings we use a style of housewife in 1950s to decorate the interior of the fire station. The decoration of that time with a more bright color and harmony tone to indicate the peaceful and happy life postwar. We also want our fire man live in a beautiful space full of the happiness of home, not only treat this architecture as a working place but more as a home.

Work hard and Live happily in this fire station.

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// Other Works

WORK EXPERIENCE (REVIT*)

One-year work experience at RTKL granted me a comprehensive understanding of real architectural practice, especilly in the field of mixed-use building type. It showed me the flow of each step in terms of architectural design and the role of each individule. It was a good chance for me to learn how to teamwork with others.

Revit is the main software I used at RTKL, as well as Rhino, Sketchup and Autocad. As the company has a high demand on BIM, it was a must for everyone to be able work on Revit.

PHOTOGRAPHY WORK

Lens is another eye for me.

This eye can see what I cannot see; this eye can preseve what I may lose; this eye can record what I may forget.

Those precious moments are frozen and in some way we own them forever.

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Night Aerial View

Chongqing Zheshang Center INSTRUCTOR Chunwei Fan

CONTRITBUTIONS I am mainly responsible for digital REVIT model and modification of plan and section.

The project is located in Chongqing, a well-known mountainous city an d also a hub of the Changjiang River. Here mountain and water are inseparable as mountains here represent an order while water conveys a certain spirit. The “new urban landscape� design of this project allows visitors to explore its interests and rich multi-level design. Shopping mall, theme stores, aerial stores, offices and other functions and services of this project are distributed in the various land parcels of this project.

Entrance View

B1 FLOOR PLAN

Entrance View

Suning Wuxi Plaza INSTRUCTOR Lei Huang

CONTRITBUTIONS I am mainly responsible for digital REVIT model and modification of plan and section.

Wuxi Suning Plaza is located in Wuxi, Jiangsu Province, China. It is a mixed-use commercial complex including office, hotel and retail. Based in Wuxi, its design concept tried to tackle Wuxi’s local culture and finially use modern design skill to achieve a functional building. The site area is 23050 m2 and general floor area is 316889 m2.

Road View

2ND FLOOR PLAN