WANG XIAO PORTFOLIO
MASTER, THE UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE APPLY FOR ARCHITECT E-mail: wang1203060219@gmail.com
WANG XIAO
wang1203060219@gmail.com
I am a young architect with passion and faith. I have two years work experience and relatively rich experience to design villa, apartment and especially deluxe hotel. I am interested in designing different kinds of buildings and exploring different possibilities of architecture. And I am a Master of the University of Melbourne. I look forward an opportunity to engaging in architecture practice.
Basic Information:
Projects in company:
Name: Sex: Age: Nationality:
Wang Xiao Male 28 China
Academic Background:
2014-2015 Master of Architecture, the University of Melbourne Dean’s Honours Awards (ranked in top 3%) 2006-2011 Bachelor of Architecture, Central South University
(2 YEARS) Work Experience:
01. 2012-01.2014 Assistant Architect in WHI International, Shanghai 11. 2010-01. 2011 Internship in Way Design, Beijing
Software:
Rhinoceros Revit Architecture Auto CAD Sketchup Grasshopper Python Photoshop Indesign Illustrator After Effects Acrobat V-ray Keyshot Maxwell Artlantis Mental Ray Ecotect
01. 2012-01. 2014
WHI International, in Shanghai
Main Project Dayi S-62-S-70 Villa design (designed by Mario Botta) drawings drawn, in Guangdong, China. Concept design of Ledong Seven Star Hotel Planning and Architectural Design, in Hainan, China. Concept design of Hanzhong Five Star Hotel Planning and Architectural Design, in Shanxi, China. Concept design of Meri Snow Mountain Boutique Hotel Architectural Design, in Yunnan, China. Concept design of Haitang Bay Five Star Hotel Planning and Architectural Design, in Hainan, China. Concept design of Fenghuang Five Star Hotel Planning and Architectural Design, in Hunan, China. Lingshui Villa Design, in Hainan, China. Concept design of Dali Marriott Five Star Hotel Planning and Architectural Design, in Yunnan, China. Yihe Villa Design, in Guangdong, China. Concept design of Qingdao Haier Road Fortune Center Skyscraper for office and hotel Planning and Architectural Design, in Shandong, China. Concept design and construction drawing design of Dayi S-15 and S-57 , in Guangdong, China. Shui Yun Ju Hotel design and construction drawing, in Hainan, China. (Builted) 11. 2010-01. 2011
Way Design, in Beijing
Main Project Concept design of residential design of Shunyi new town block 20 ,in Beijing. Concept design of Wangjing Science Park Innovation Base Planning and Architectural Design, in Beijing. Concept design of Zhenzhou High-Tech Park Hotel Architectural Design, in Henan.
PROJECT IN THE UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE 1
FEDERATION SQUARE EAST I INTERFACE CONTRIBUTION: SOLO WORK PROGRAM: PUBLIC SQUARE AND OPERA HOUSE YEAR: 2015.09-2015.11 LOCATION: MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA
The Mist It happens in some specific time. It is a ceremony. It is a ritual. It implants an idea in people’s head. The mist metaphors the future, the big M and the city map metaphor this city. When people feel lost in the mist, the light of the big M make people believe this city will guide you to find a way out. The two ends of the big M are two entrances to the public swimming pool and the lobby of opera house. In addition, the mist represent a subversive ideology. It reverses the relationship between matter and form, from “matter before form” to “matter after form”. It represents the infinite future. The Public swimming pool People can enjoy the beautiful city view in this swimming pool. When there is mist, it is like swimming above the cloud. The folded wall Because of the changeable weather and many strange buildings, my personal impression about Melbourne is she is a sensitive, emotional lady of whimsy. These folds represent her emotions and her inspirations in her head. The blue light represents the sea, the most original memory of Melbourne.
Color window The golden yellow represent the prosperity of Melbourne originate from gold. The black part represent the city. I hope people worship this city, I hope people believe this city can make their life better. In this building I hope people take this city as their faith. And I design a high lobby space to salute to the St Paul’s Cathedral. When people look up to see the color shadow of color glasses, I hope people feel the heaven is here.
AN INTERFACE SQUARE A interface square next to the Yarra River.
A KNOT OF THE CBD GRIDS The CBD grids end in my site. I hope people from girds get together in the interface square.
A DEEP SPACE I hope my building it is not just a building hiding behind Federation Square. It is like a ladder, represent the development and progress of Melbourne. And these two buildings form a space with foreground and background.
INCLINDED LOBBY SPACE Slightly rotate the lobby space. So the square can receive more light.
A LINK It is a restaurant, from street view to river view.
A SHARED LOBBY A lobby space to connect all functional space.
A SALUTE Ues color window to salute to the St Paul’s Cathedral that we cherish and believe.
A MIRROR The sky is beautiful in Melbourne, it is hard to see such a blue sky in some countries, such as China. So I use metal to project this beautiful color on my building.
Parking and Ground Floor Diagram
1st Floor Diagram
2nd Floor Diagram
3rd Floor Diagram
B1 and B2 floor are car parking. There are two entrances to Flinders St and Batman Ave. The Multifunction Hall and a theatre are on the Ground Floor.
There are a outdoor theatre, a indoor theatre and a ballroom
The First Floor has the Opera House and the swimming pool.
The third floor is a restaurant.
PROJECT IN THE UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE 2
WORK HOTEL I BREAK THE WALL CONTRIBUTION: SOLO WORK PROGRAM: OFFICE AND APARTMENT YEAR: 2015.03-2015.05 LOCATION: MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA
Break the Wall What is freedom? You never escape from this earth just like you cannot escape from a prison. There will always be limitation. But why do you feel free on this earth? Because this world always make you feel curious. How can we realize freedom architecturally? We need make our space say something to people. We need to use people’s curiosity to create the space. The wall is not for stopping people, but for making them more curious. I want to say something to people by this building. Curiosity is freedom, curiosity is the drive to communicate. I will design space that make people feel curious by deconstructing walls.
TEMPTATION
REFLECTION BEAUTIFY UNFAVORABLE SURROUDING
RECESSION HINTS THE MAIN ENTRANCE INTERSECTION HINTS CROSSROAD
GUIDE OF SECONDARY ENTRANCES
1st FLOOR PLAN
2nd FLOOR PLAN
3rd FLOOR PLAN
Office Mechanical Parking
Office
Office
4th FLOOR PLAN Office
Unit 1
5th FLOOR PLAN Co-house Church
Unit 1
6th FLOOR PLAN Co-house
Unit 1
7th FLOOR PLAN Co-house
Unit 3
Unit 2
8th FLOOR PLAN Co-house
Unit 3
Unit 2
9th FLOOR PLAN Co-house
COLUMN FINISHED FLOOR LEVEL CONCRETE SLAB EDGE BEAM
BLIND PELMET
SPANDREL PANEL IGU TO MATCH VISION PANELS INSULATED SHADOW BOX
VISION GLASS LOW-E IGU DOUBLE GLAZING MULLION TRANSOM OPENABLE PANEL
63% OPEN AREA PERFORATED PALTE
BRACKET
ENTRANCE The entrance of pedestrians are close to the Smith St. It is easy for people to find the circulation core. And the mechanical garage is next to the Little Smith St. It is a lane. To avoid disturb people’s activities, I divide the two entrances.
INDEPENDENCE I design this building as a vertical community. It is a relatively independent system. People can live and work here. I try to minimize the interference from each part, and integrate them as a whole.
VERTICAL GARDEN Generate vertical garden as public space. Establish vertical connections between spaces.
SPLITTING Split the vertical garden into two parts. One is for office, and one is for residential part.
OFFSETTING The garden for residential part move towards the Victoria parade, and the garden for office move towards the sun.
GARDENS FOR VIEWS Generate accessory gardens for people to enjoy different views.
Co-housing and Co-apartment There are several families in one unit. These three families share a co-living room, a co-kitchen, a co-dining room and a big garden. I use vertical spaces instead of walls to divide different families. These spaces create more opportunities for people to communicate, and interesting space will drive people to use it. The design of private area will keep the freedom and continuity of space. The design of private area will keep the freedom and continuity of space. I believe an interesting space is helpful to establish a harmonious relationship. And I believe a creative space contribute to the new life style.
bathroom
bathroom
UNIT 1
UNIT 1
1 FLOOR
UNIT 1
2 FLOOR
3 FLOOR
bathroom
bathroom bathroom
UNIT 2
1 FLOOR
UNIT 2
2 FLOOR
UNIT 3
1 FLOOR
UNIT 3
2 FLOOR
PROJECT IN THE UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE 3
FAB LAB I MAKER
CONTRIBUTION: SOLO WORK PROGRAM: 3D PRINT LAB YEAR: 2014.09-2014.11 LOCATION: MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA
WAREHOUSE
TOWN HALL MODERN
HISTORICAL
GARDEN
OVERLYING Overlay the fragments of memory about the community by overlying representative materials of the community to make people have empathy. At the same time, show the emotion of building to people by the change of form. The fold, which seems like silk, on surface can be seen as a relaxing expression of the building.
RESPECT NEIGHBOUR
RAIN
SUN
DEPENDANCE
TOWN HALL
DEFUSED LIGHT SENIOR CENTER
KNOWING SPACE
KNOWING SPACE
LEARNING SPACE
LEARNING SPACE
MASTERING SPACE
MASTERING SPACE
SHARING SPACE
SHARING SPACE
LEARNING SPACE
MASTERING SPACE
SHARING SPACE
KNOWING SPACE
FOUR CONTINUOUS FUNCTIONAL SPACES People begin at the knowing space. They can get some basic information about the 3D printing technology. Then people can learn how to use 3D printer in learning space. And people can do their own research in mastering space. At last, people go down to the lawn to share their knowledge in the sharing space.
VIEWS CHANGE AS MOVING It is a traditional method of ancient Chinese to design garden. Designer guide and organise people’s sight line, when people in different location. So people will enjoy different views when they move. 3D printer is an important part of this design. When people on road, they can just see part of it, which can make people curious. As people going into the site, they will see the whole machine.
GROUND FLOOR PLAN
VIEWS CHANGE AS MOVING 2 The column can be seen as a point, and two points form a line. I use this principle to guide the sight lines of people in different locations. So people will see different views when they are moving. FIRST FLOOR PLAN
WORKSHOP (MASTERING SPACE) RELAXING
LECTURE HALL (LEARNING SPACE)
OUTDOOR FORUM (SHARING SPACE)
LIBRARY (KNOWING SPACE)
SECTION 1
OURDOOR CAFE
LIBRARY KNOWING SPACE
CAFE
HODDLE ST
SECTION 2
SOUTH FACADE
WEST FACADE
PROJECT IN THE UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE 4
THERRY COMPLEX I TRANSITION CUBE CONTRIBUTION: SOLO WORK PROGRAM: APARTMENT, OFFICE, SHOPPING MALL YEAR: 2014.03-2014.05 LOCATION: MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA
URBAN FORM We can see clearly from this aerial view of Melbourne CBD that the urban forms are completely different on the different directions of the site .
CBD HIGH-RISE
Form : tall and thin Graden : none Peopel distribution : vertical Roof : flat
UPPER PART REPRESENT MODERN
TANSITION CUBE
Form : tall and thin form coexist with short and flat form Graden : between different functional part People distribution : vertical and horizontal Roof : atypical slope
LOWER PART REPRESENT TRADITION
SUBURB LOW-RISE
Form : short and flat Graden : around buildings People distribution : horizontal Roof : slope
SMALL CITY
An architecture is a small city , and a city is an big architecture . I want my building looks like a small city to symbolize this city .
FUNCTION
The complex is multifunctional . The upper part is apartment and office , so I need to make these two parts be different . The apartment need more sunlight relatively , so I design all apartments can receive sunlight from the north . But the office face north and south both .
SUNLIGHNT
VIEW
I design a oblique plane in the green part which is an aerial garden , so these two parts can receive more sunlight . And I also design a oblique plane in the purple parts , so the space behind them can obtain more sunlight . Finally , I design a indentation above the biue part , so these parts can get more sunlight .
The end of different part face different directions . The green part face the flagstaff garden , and the purple part face the Queen Victoria Market . However the red part keep the sight line away from three builings exceeding 100m.
FLAGSTAFF GARDEN
FLAGSTAFF GARDEN
QUEEN VICTORIA MARKET
HERITAGE WALL
This picture shows the original wall . We can know the material of the wall . I need to keep this wall . How to address the relation between the new building and this wall is significant .
LIFT THE WALL
Lift the wall to the first floor . So the ground floor can be liberated for the circulation . Because the function of the complex is complicated , the people stream would be disorganised in ground floor . If the ground floor can be expressly used for circulation , the space would be more legible . The Caixa Forum designed by Herzog & De Meuron is a good example .
CONTINUATION OF THE MARKET
The Queen Victoria Market is a historical building closed to the site . There are so many people going out and coming in the QVM everyday that we can not neglect the relation between my building and the QVM . I expect to make my building become the continuation of the market for attracting people to going into my building .So the two wall generate , and at the same time the heritage wall is splited into two part .
DIVIDE PEOPLE STREAM
The people’s activity of different part is different . The pace of residences and office workers are fast and their activities concentrate on work time . However , shoppers’s pace is slow and they may appear anytime in daytime . So I divide these two kind of people into two parts to avoid the different people streams being in a mess .
REBUILD STREET
The picture below shows a typical street space for pedestrian in the QVM . When they feel tired in shopping , they can sit down to drink coffee always and everywhere . The coffee culture of Melbourne is very famous . so creating such a space for drinking coffee is necessary . I want to rebuild a aerial street between the lifted wall and the new building . I think it is a combination of original material and culture .
SMALL SCALE
The scale of the buildings across the Therry street is like the picture below showing . I use some design techniques to make the scale of retail space seem small . So the new building can have a close relationship with the original street .
COMMUNICATION OF TWO SIDE OF THE WALL
I design some big circle holes on the wall , so the space of the street in the middle and the retail space can have interaction . The picture below is the Ordos Art & City Museum of MAD Architects It shows an interesting sapce .
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BEDROOM
LIVINGROOM
BEDROOM BEDROOM BATHROOM
LIVINGROOM
BATHROOM DINNING ROOM BATHROOM
BATHROOM
BEDROOM LIVINGROOM BEDROOM
KITCHEN
ELEVATOR LOBBY
KITCHEN VENTILATION
STUDY
DINNING ROOM BEDROOM
ELEVATOR LOBBY
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TYPICAL ONE BED APARTMENT SECOND FLOOR NORTH LIGHT AND NORTH TO SOUTH VENTILATION
TYPICAL TWO BED APARTMENT SECOND FLOOR NORTH LIGHT AND NORTH TO SOUTH VENTILATION
TYPICAL TWO BED APARTMENT SECOND FLOOR
TYPICAL THREE BED APARTMENT SECOND FLOOR
NORTH LIGHT AND NORTH TO SOUTH VENTILATION
NORTH LIGHT AND NORTH TO SOUTH VENTILATION
VENTILATION
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VENTILATION VENTILATION VENTILATION BEDROOM LIVINGROOM
BEDROOM
LIVINGROOM
BEDROOM LIVINGROOM
LIVINGROOM
BATHROOM
BATHROOM DINNING ROOM BATHROOM
BATHROOM BEDROOM KITCHEN
DINNING ROOM
KITCHEN VENTILATION
KITCHEN
KITCHEN
ELEVATOR LOBBY DINNING ROOM
VENTILATION DINNING ROOM
ELEVATOR LOBBY
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TYPICAL ONE BED APARTMENT FIRST FLOOR NORTH LIGHT
TYPICAL TWO BED APARTMENT FIRST FLOOR NORTH LIGHT AND NORTH TO SOUTH VENTILATION
TYPICAL TWO BED APARTMENT FIRST FLOOR NORTH LIGHT AND NORTH TO SOUTH VENTILATION
TYPICAL THREE BED APARTMENT FIRST FLOOR NORTH LIGHT AND NORTH TO SOUTH VENTILATION
PROJECT IN WHI INTERNATIONAL 1
DALI MARRIOTT HOTEL
CONTRIBUTION: CONCEPT DESIGN AND DESIGN DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM: FIVE STAR HOTEL YEAR: 2013.06-2014.02 LOCATION: DALI, YUNNAN, CHINA
Dali is located in a traverse mountainous area, with endless hills and mountains. This becomes the initial inspirations for the concepts. We use a rise and fall form for the architectural roof to be an echo of the shape of the mountains. Zhaobi, the screen wall, is a key feature in Dali local residences. We borrow this architecture form and make abstract treatment, which brings not only local architecture features into the building, also rich feeling of modernisms. The Three Pagodas in Dali are the landmark architecture features. We hope that we can borrow some of their details to make the detail rich with Dali local characteristics. In Dali, local residences like to use green bricks to be a surrounding frame for a white wall on the gable. We extract the essence and reuse it in an exaggerated way. Make abstract treatment of the ditails of eaves as Dali local architecture , so the hotel has both the characteristics of the local building , and not copy the original form of local construction .
GROUND FLOOR PLAN
LOBBY FLOOR PLAN
PROJECT IN WHI INTERNATIONAL 2
DAYI VILLA
CONTRIBUTION: CONCEPT DESIGN, DESIGN DEVELOPMENT AND DOCUMENTATION PROGRAM: VILLA YEAR: 2012.11-2013.02 LOCATION: GUANGZHOU, GUANGDONG, CHINA
PROJECT IN WHI INTERNATIONAL 2
DAYI VILLA
DESIGNED BY MARIO BOTTA CONTRIBUTION: DESIGN DEVELOPMENT AND DOCUMENTATION PROGRAM: VILLA YEAR: 2012.11-2013.02 LOCATION: GUANGZHOU, GUANGDONG, CHINA