CONTENTSNTS individual design
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XUEYAN SABRINA LI PORTFOLIO for 2016 Summer internship
Professional works
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Theoretical STUDIO WORKS
Xueyan Sabrina Li Tel 917-634-0779 Add 2930 Chestnut st, Apt 3108 , Philladelphia , Pa xueyali@design.upenn.edu
Education Sep.2014 - Current
University of Pennsylvania, school of design M.arch 1 Candidate, 2017 Certificate of Emerging design and research
Sep.2010 - 2014
Tongji University, Shanghai, China Bachelor of Science in Historic Architecture Preservation
Jan.2013 - Jun.2013
University of HongKong, China Exchange Program in Architecture Design
Professional Experience July.2015 - Aug.2015
deep architects. - Beijing, China -Schematic Design -working on 3D stage, rendering
June.2015- Jul.2015
SAKO ARCHITECTS. - Beijing, China -Project: AD clothes shop in Spain -Interior furniture design, modeling, rendering
Jun.2013- Aug.2013
Naturalbuildç›´é€ . - Shanghai, China -Schematic Design, 3d modeling, rendering, presentation
Mar.2014- May.2014
Ama Architects - Shanghai, China -Schematic Design, 3d modeling, rendering, presentation
Publication 2014 Fall 2015 Spring
Studio Work Published on School Year book [Pressing Matters] 4 Studio Work Published on School Year Book|Pressing Matters| 4
Skill Modeling
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Graphic | Fabrication | Language |
Rhino, Maya, Revit, Sketchup, Grasshopper Adobe Creative Suite, Autocad, Maxwell, V-ray Meshmixer, Makerbot desktop ,Cnc-Milling Mandarin(native), English
Honor Jan.2016 Jan.2016 May.2014
Dales portfolio competition 2nd Place Studio Work Represented on Degree Accredition Eve Studio Work displayed on the School Year End Show
A Selveged pattern An aquatic arts center along Delaware river
LEARNING FROM FABRIC TECHNIQUE : TRANSGRESSION BETWEEN ARCHITECTURE AND FASHION DESIGN
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01. TECHNIQUE STUDY From the precedents of sewing patterns, the technique study focused on developing a new paradigm of stitching, seaming and layering method in a digital way. The study started with a iteration of a same initial unit. Following a part-to-whole relashionship rule, the overall form managed to achieve a unity with various deformation.The seam between each unit behaviored differently in terms of building apentures, public program and entrances.
00. INSPIRATION The specification and crafts of sewing technique trigered my exploration in its formal logic. The crucial idea of the tailoring skill is that a peticular patching or stitching is made for a specific location and reason. The sophistication of the elegant form is the result of a series of logics lying behind in terms of the function of the seams. This idea could also be applied to the architecture discourse. Reference: Daniel Widrig _ Iris van Herpen _ Escapism Couture
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02. STUDY OF CURVATURE BEHAVIOR The 3d print model is made to understand how the pleating of curvature could mould exterior space and interior space. Through a series of study on the homogeneous components, the relation between each unit need to be clarified physically.
03. FROM PART TO WHOLE After refining the unit, the next step of design is to aggregate the units as each single program to clarify the circulation both for interior programs and exterior spaces.
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EXTERIOR RENDERING: RELATION WITH CITY AND RIVER The exterior look of the project contains three layer of applying the “seaming� techniques. The first layer is determined by the relationship between programs, which is how the inward or outward pleats has been defined. The second layer of seaming lies in the details of aperture and openings of the facade. The last layer is the threshold between the facade and the inner envelope inside the architecture.
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GROUND FLOOR PLAN
This drawing depicts the two main entrances of the architecture and the association with the exterior programs such as public swimming pool and waterparks.
LONGITUDINAL SECTION
ROOF LEVEL 150’
FORTH LEVEL 120’
SECOND LEVEL 40’
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ENTRANCE OF THE BUILDING
AUDITORIUM IN THE OLYMPIC-SIZE POOL
INWARD SPACE INBETWEEN DIFFERENT PROGRAMS
APERTURE OF THE ENVELOPE RESPOND TO THE PUBLIC PROGRAM SUCH AS CAFE AREA
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EXTERIOR SPACE
THE LACE-LIKE FACADE ASSOCIATED WITH THE APERTURES AND STRUCTURE
SITE STUDY: RELATION BETWEEN RIVER GROUND AND ARCHITECTURE
ENTRANCE FOR PARKING
EXTIRIOR PUBLIC SWIMMING POOL
ENTRANCE OF BUILDING
PUBLIC POND
ENTRANCE OF PUBLIC PROGRAM EXTIRIOR PUBLIC SWIMMING POOL
The ground condition is determined by both the public programs and the form of architecture. The concept of the site design relates to the grid of the adjacent neighborhood and also creating a courtyard of water park. The entrances of the building includes two different routes: the one lead visitors go into the architecture and the one guides people to the wet land. The driple-look pond is either a public swimming pool or a water pond as landscape.The public swimming pool can be seen as a reflection of the seaming techniques of the facade.
NORTH ELEVATION
EAST ELEVATION
FRONT BIRD VIEW
FINAL MODEL OF BUILDING AND SITE SCALE: 1/32” =1’
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FRONT PERSPECTIVE
INTERIOR RENDERING OF OLYMPIC-SIZE NATATORIUM
INTERIOR RENDERING OF OLYMPIC-SIZE NATATORIUM
ENVELOPE AND FACADE SYSTEM The ground condition is determined by both the public programs and the form of architecture. The concept of the site design relates to the grid of the adjacent neighborhood and also creating a courtyard of water park. The entrances of the building includes two different routes: the one lead visitors go into the architecture and the one guides people to the wet land.
WEST ELEVATION
NORTH ELEVATION
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shifting hybrid: THE inhabitable facade A mix-used residential hotel in Tribeca, NYC
AN ADVANCED TRANSFORMATION FROM ARCHITECTURE-TECTONICS TO CRAFTSMANSHIP IN DIGITAL ERA
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STUDIO METHODOLOGY: using formal logic of part-to-whole relationship to solve architectural problem
01.FUNGUS AS INSPIRATION FOR TECHNIQUE STUDY
03.INTER-RELATION DIAGRAM EXPLAINING HOW THE PARTS EFFECT THE OTHER ONE IN A CLUSTER OF FUNGUS
02.ABSTRACTION OF THE CURVATURE ON THE SURFACE OF FUNGUS
04.FORMATION DIAGRAM
A CATALOG OF RESIDENTIAL UNIT STUDY: THE SYSTEM OF LIVING The living system probe the following aspects of human dwelling: interior,exterior illuminating condition, the hard and soft surfaces of furnishing, and the structural element.
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The main agenda of the Elegant studio is the persue of a “tightly controlled, precise refinement in technique”. The use of relational equations and scripting mediated by digital technique allow a “pushing forward of the discourse of contemporary architecture by accepting that complex architectural compositions require an accompanying visual aesthetic as sophisticated as the current techniques used to generate form.”
RESONANCE OF NOSTALGIC ART DECO The soho area has abundance of rich details of historic building, one of which fascinates me most is the life safety staircase hanging on the facade. Not only it provide an exit as its original function, but also it enrich the depth of the art deco facade. Even though the escape would never be designed due to its limits, I want to convert this inhabitable space into a new way of experiencing a building envelope. Since the concept of the whole building is to elevate horizontal layout retail store on the vestry street, the walkable facade could be employed as an exterior circulation of the retail store. It enables a new level of interaction between the city and the building. People walking on the pedestrian would feel free to climb up the retail shops and people inside the hotels never need to commute to anywhere for shopping.
HOTEL UNIT APARTMENT UNIT STUDIO
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CATALOG OF PLAN STUDY The catalog of plan evolved from the interelation diagram study. The relationship between each unit is defined by the adjacency of plumbing system or the condition of natural illumination.
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ONE BED/ONE LIVING
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TWO BEDS/ONE LIVING
OVERLOOK OF THE INHABITABLE FACADE: RETAIL STORE ALONG GREENWICH ST
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PERSPECTIVE VIEW
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PERSPECTIVE VIEW
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PROGRAM DEMONSTRATION
PROGRAM DIAGRAM
VIEW FROM RETAIL STORES TO THE ATRIUM
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The retail shops are located from 2nd floor to fifth floor on Vestry Str. At the same time, the space above the commercial space is for the hotel users.Thus the visitor of the hotel will have an access to experience the shops as a recreation program.
INTERIOR LOOK INTO THE RELATION BETWEEN RETAIL STORE AND RESIDENTIAL AREA
3D PROGRAM DIAGRAM To solve the problem of inserting retail program into the project, the logic of the formation is adapted here to resolve the programatic difference between the public program and the private program. The main portion of the retail store exists in the short side of the building to leave space for the private programs. The retail store is brought up from the pedestrian into the building itself.
WHOLE FORMATION
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NARRATIVE ARCHITECTURE: the agency of autonomyTHE CAPSULE OF TIME Building the ‘Tony” from movie “Shining”into an architectural pavillion
DIGITAL TECHNIQUES AS AN APPROACH TO NARRATIVE ARCHITECTURE
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SPATICAL TYPOLOGY EXTRACTED FROM THE MOVIE SCENES
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01. analysis of scenes and plots of ‘SHINING’ The story can be depicted as the Tony’s perspective: the little man lives in Danny’s stomach is actually a supernatural spirit that has the ability to transfer from children’s body in that he could transfer from time and space. So he witnessed the two literally same story happened in the Overlook Hotel, one is in the present of 1980, and the other happened in the 1920s of Grady’s Twins. The paralleled story happened in the almost same frames and developed in the same structure. And Danny would literally bring two timeline together at some specific point due to the movie narrative. The story happened simultaneously when the two family move to the Overlook Hotel to in charge of the hotel in winter. As they all walk around the beautiful lounge, Danny accidentally came across the twins while he was flinging the chart in the playroom. That’s the first moment Tony deliberately walking through the intersecting space of the two characters.
02. dECONSTRUCTING THE NARRATIVE FROM MOVIE INTO ARCHITECTURE SPACE
Then as the isolation of the both the winter and hotel grew, the fathers became depressed gradually, but they were both in a struggle so that they talked to their kids they would love them “Forever, ever, ever”. Then the second scene came, Tony saw the twins in the hallway when he was riding bicycle as usual in the lounge of the guest room. Twins talked to him to play with them. Fathers became more and more depressed that sometimes they got furious, so they abused kids as an outlet. Jack strangled Danny in the room 237 while the twins were hit for spilling the water on the floor. Finally the fathers fell into insanity that they started to chase after their family trying to kill them. The last scene happened in the hallway again, that the twins was unfortunately being killed by axes while Danny saw them lying in the blood, after which he and his mother succeed in running away eventually.
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PROCESS OF GENERATING NARRATIVE AS CIRCULATION AND SPACE SEQUENCE
CIRCULATION OF CHARACTER 1
The pavilion would be an enveloped space which is generated from the deconstruction of Fisher House. The narrative would be building up a new ambiguous relationship between the existing spaces from Kahn House and the void after the rearrangement of Kahn space. That relationship is defined by the extracted narrative from the movie of Shining: the montage technique which is constantly deployed in the film provides us with a frame of the space that two different spaces could coexist in the same volume. The intersections of the two parallel space sequence can generate rich and phenomenal moments of architecture: the level of how people could perceive the two spaces is either visible or tangible or in between. Secondly, the notion of parallel time and space from the movie would add to the new narrative with a third dimension which could be interpreted as the combination of past, present and future. The architecture on one hand should be molded by the path of time,that the existence of the space should be the reflection of the movements of the characters from the movie, not the movements itself.
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SECTION OF PALLION
CONCEPT Over all, the project can be seen as an attempt to accomplish a narrative architecture with usage of digital tools. The technique applied here is restrained to this typical concept and idea. The project attempts to challenge the autonomy of form and the contextualism of itself. By understanding the intrinsic architectural properties, spatial tactics or tropes, the architecture is able to express in the given field as well as obtaining its specifity.
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Revit Work Building complex Graduate Course | Arch 532 Construction
A BUILDING COMPLEX WITH FLEXIBLE FACADE
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Professional Work Interior modelling Jun.2015 | Sako Keiichiro Architects
LOCATION: JAPAN, ISHIKAWA PROJECT NAME: MEIBUNDO BOOK STORE INTERIOR STATUS: COMPLETED REFERENCE : SHAN SHAN LIU SHANSHAN@SAKO.CO.JP RESPONSIBILITY: BOOK SHELF MODELING
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APPENDIX: INDIVIDUAL design in penn
Architecture
Product Design
Transgression
Material Graphic Design
Arts
DESIGN AS A CONTINUOUS IDEA....
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VASE VASE PRODUCT DESIGN, 2015 SUMMER THE TRANSGRESSION OF ARCHITECTURE
INSPIRATION FROM 502 CORE STUDIO
Devotion to all fields of design is as important to me as architecture, I am consistently trying to apply architectural idea to oher fields such as product, jewelry design or graphic designs. I believe one’s concept should be a continuous flow that meanders and softly transformed into all kinds of creation. The beauty in the interpretation and transgression of design attracts me all the time and makes me believe in the idea of innovation.
JEWELRY DESIGN, 2015 WINTER
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