SEAN KUN XIAO ARCHITECTURAL PORTFOLIO
SEAN XIAO
SEAN KUN XIAO ARCHITECTURAL GRADUATE +61 0422128151 seankunxiao@gmail.com 35 Albert Road, Melbourne 3004 VIC
PROFILE I am a Master of Architecture graduate from The University of Melbourne with 2 years of professional working experience. Looking to expand my career as a registered architect/design manager, I offer various skillsets to team while I am always eager to learn and elevate my role. Architecture has always been my passion, I devote myself to be an energetic and enthusiastic all-rounder, ready to make an immediate contribution to the team.
EDUCATION • Master of Architecture - The University of Melbourne • Bachelor of Engineering Major: Urban Planning - Wuhan University of Technology (CN)
SKILLS • Revit
EXPERIENCE
• AutoCAD
• Design Cadet (Casual) - UNO Projex, Melbourne, AU
(Oct. 2023 - Jan. 2024)
• Architect Intern (Part time) - Brearley Architects & Urbanists, Melbourne, AU
(Aug. 2022 - Dec. 2022)
• Rhino (GH/Vray) • Enscape • Unreal Engine
• Architect Intern (Full time) - Wuhan Planning & Design Institute, Wuhan, China (Sep. 2018 - Feb. 2019)
• Lumion
• Architect Intern (Part time) - WHUT Design and Research Institute, Wuhan, China (Oct. 2016 - Jul. 2018)
• Adobe Suite
Architectural Portfolio
SELECTED PROJECTS
1 Community Library Scattered Puzzles ACADEMIC PROJECT 2016
2 Joinery Design
Retail Refurbishment PROFESSIONAL PROJECT 2022-2023
3 Town-Planning Documentation Individual Residential PROFESSIONAL PROJECT 2023-2024
4 Suburban Lot House Permeable Garden ACADEMIC PROJECT 2022
5 Commercial Complex Dragon Grottoes Resort PROFESSIONAL PROJECT 2022
6 High-Performance Workspace WE-CREATE ARCHITECTS ACADEMIC PROJECT 2021
7 Skyscraper in Melbourne Lyrebird Tower ACADEMIC PROJECT 2022
8 Office Interior Design Workspace Retreat PROFESSIONAL PROJECT 2022
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Community Library Scattered Puzzles
Community Library Scattered Puzzles Work Type: Individual Project Type: Education Location: Wuhan, China Time: Graduate Year 2 Tutor: Prof. Sony Tang
Description This educational project revolves around the theme of sustainability and the user experience it offers. It is meticulously crafted to optimize both structural integrity and energy efficiency. The primary objective is to ensure user comfort while minimizing energy consumption by leveraging the inherent characteristics of the building elements. Every aspect of the project is given careful consideration, encompassing both construction and installation processes. The building’s foundation relies on a lightweight steel structure, providing essential support throughout its entirety. Furthermore, the design incorporates rainwater harvesting systems and solar panels on the roof, facilitating the daily operational needs of the entire building.
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Academic Project
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Skylight
Solar Panel
Terrace Seminar Room Shading
Study Corridor
Study Corridor
Plantbox
Lounge Area
Exhibition Lounge Area
Archive
Workshop
Admin Office
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Community Library Scattered Puzzles
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Study Corridor
Drip Irrigation for Indoor Plants
Grand Atrium
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Sustainability Strategy The architectural design ensures sustainable and eco-friendly energy consumption throughout the building. Atrium skylights are strategically designed to serve daily functional purposes. The natural ventilation system intelligently regulates skylight operations based on temperature and sunlight conditions. A rainwater harvesting system supports indoor drip irrigation for plants and supplies water for toilets. Additionally, solar power installations on the roof provide alternative electricity sources. Natural Light Display Garden
Solar Panel Terminal
Meeting Room Electricity for Lights Laboratory Electricity for Laboratory Experimental Garden
Thermal Conmfort for Theatre
Workshop Electricity for Office
Exhibition
Electricity for Exhibition
Admin Office
Rain Collection Garden
Plant Drip Irrigation
Natrual Light
Natural Ventilation
Solar Panel
Power for Aircon
Rainwater Collection and Ventilation
Energy System
Power for Lighting
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JOINERY DESIGN Retail Refurbisment
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Project Type: Joinery Design, Interior Design Location: Airport West, VIC, AU Time: Aug.2022 - Oct.2023 Company: Mandi Design
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A practical interior design project where I played a pivotal role in front-end design, joinery design, and the creation of comprehensive shop drawing documentation. Contributed actively to discussions on plan layout, joinery details, overall schematic design, and the selection of materials and finishes. Engaged in the development of final detailed documentation.
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All drawings finished by Revit.
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Following this phase, the projects transitioned into the construction stage and were successfully completed, opening to the public in early 2023 in Melbourne.
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TOWN-PLANNING DOCUMENTATION Individual Residential
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TOWN-PLANNING DOCUMENTATIOON I n divid u a l Re s i d e n t i a l Project Type: Residential Location: Yarraville, VIC, AU Time: Oct. 2023- Jan. 2024 Company: UNO PROJEX
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REPLACE WINDOW WITH NEW. WINDOW TO MATCH EXISTING.
REPAINT EXISTING DOOR. REFER TO INTERIOR FINISHES FOR DETAILS
Description
REPLACE WINDOW WITH NEW. WINDOW TO MATCH EXISTING DOUBLE HUNG.
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PLANTATION SHUTTERS TO ALL BEDROOM WINDOWS
NEW WINDOWS. REFER TO ID-500 FOR DETAILS. ESD REPORT TO BE COMPILED BY BUILDER
INFILL CONCRETE TO MATCH EXISTING
DOOR SEQUENCE TO MATCH BEDROOM 1 & LAUNDRY
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I contributed to a residential refurbishment project as a design cadet for a construction company. My responsibilities included creating detailed designs and documentation for townplanning submission. I focused on producing accurate Revit drawings for different project phases, ensuring alignment with construction requirements by revising various components such as fences, canopies, windows, chimneys, etc.
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Suburban Lot House Permeable Garden
Suburban Lot House Permeable Garden Work Type: Group Work Project Type: Residential Location: Toorak, Melbourne VIC, AU Time: Graduate Year 2 Tutor: Colby Vexler
Description A housing project cares about domestication. Everything is related to objective and practical but creating a new approach to achieve domesticity meanwhile. Critical conception is the garden functioning as every possible object everywhere: a fence, a wall, a roof, a stair, a house. As a group leader in this project, personal work includes: conception provides, plan layout, 3d modelling, render, and part of drawings, etc.
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Academic Project
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Suburban Lot House Permeable Garden
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Backside Entrance Under a double-covered roof with an exposed structure marking the various openness hierarchy. Stroked edges differentiate the ambiguous relations assisted from strong accessibility into bedroom. The roughness of temporariness and informality is an alternative to spatial property division.
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The Garden Involved in Edging Curated irrigation, cultivation and incidental propagation define merely soil as an act of gardening. Fences and hedges appear to be precise legislative boundaries but the domesticated garden is adjacent to the site, staking out the perimeter proper. The garden and the neighbour’s vegetation integrate with each other to form a permeable edge that facilitates ecological incursions.
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Suburban Lot House Permeable Garden
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Linear Permeability Straightforward linear elements served firstly with their functionality as downpipes, stairs, handrails or frames simultaneously redefine the composition in every two-dimensional plane. Compiled together with no spatial volume given away to the permeability of interactions.
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1 Guest Bedroom 2 Bathroom 3 Tub 4 Central Garden 5 Backside Garden 6 Roof Rest Area 7 Entry 8 Main Bedroom 9 Bathroom 10 Atrium 11 Guest Bedroom 12 Kitchen 13 Garden Toilet
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Here the garden acts as an agent of environmental influence, curating the pattern of the room by manipulating whether the ground is exposed to external forces. The dialogue between roof and site cover both establishes and distinguishes the floor and the garden. Multiple intrusions under the cover transform ground conditions, revealing the procedural nature of domestication through a combination of zones, enclosures and openings, resulting in an ordered hierarchy.
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Here the garden acts as an involuntary mediator. From its conception, a garden is born from boundaries. But in this suburban lot, the garden defines them, or rather, it is itself a bounding fence, a defined area, an enclosure or even a cover. The planning of garden becomes part of the plan itself. It is given allowance and in turn it demarcates, obstructs and territorialises.
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Commercial Complex Dragon Grottoes Resort
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Commercial Complex Dragon Grottoes Resort
Company: Brearley Architects & Urbanists (MEL) Project Type: Commercial Time: Oct. 2022
Description A commercial complex with functions including commercial, museum, restaurant, hotel, banquet hall, swimming pool, etc. I led the pre-concept and graphic design of the project and independently completed the modelling and rendering of the first phase. Also collaborated with another architectural firm on program revisions.
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Hotel and Banquet Hall Sector
Commercial Complex and Museum Sector
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Commercial Complex Dragon Grottoes Resort
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The edifice comprises a monolithic roof garden that spans its entirety. The layout is compartmentalized into four distinct axes, namely: the ground floor commercial axis running along the river area, the commercial axis of the roof garden situated on the southern aspect, the landscape axis of the roof garden located on the northern aspect, and the pedestrian axis of the ground floor that runs through the central part of the building. These four axes intersect each other and traverse the roof and interior of the structure, endowing individuals with diverse experiential encounters.
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High-Performance Workspace WE-CREATE Architects
High-Performance Workspace WE-CREATE ARCHITECTS Work Type: Group Work Project Type: Interior Design Location: Mellbourne, AU Time: Graduate Year 1 Tutor: Christhina Candido
Description This project is a tailored interior design initiative for a compact architectural firm. Our focus is on creating a sophisticated, high-performance, environmentally sustainable, and energy-efficient interior. Strategic interventions address lighting, temperature, humidity, natural ventilation, and human perception. We aim to surpass industry standards, providing a harmonious and functional workspace that integrates advanced design principles and sustainable practices
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TOWN-PLANNING DOCUMENTATION Individual Residential
Active Design Principle
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Communication Hall Strategy
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For WELL V2
Universal Design Principle
Universal Design Goal
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For WELL V2
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High-Performance Workspace WE-CREATE Architects
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Ideal Workspace Type Requirements for Architects
High-Performance Design Principles
TOWN-PLANNING DOCUMENTATION Individual Residential
Satisfaction, Perceived Productivity Strategy
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Workspace Performance & Experience Strategy
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Skyscraper in Melbourne Lyrebird Tower
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Skyscraper in Melbourne Lyrebird Tower
Work Type: Group Work Project Type: Office, Hotel Location: Melbourne CBD, VIC, AU Time: Graduate Year 2 Tutor: Dr. Mark Lam
Description A skyscraper design with the functions of the office, hotel, shopping and observation platform in sky-garden. Located nearby Melbourne parliament and exhibition centre, a landmark project in a one-piece envelope and elegant crown style showing the image of the city. As a group leader in this project, I was in charge of most work. Personal work includes: plans design, structure scheme research, structure design, facade design, 3d modelling of the overall structure and facade, 3d modelling of details, most of the detailed drawings, and collaboration in renders and physical model with a group member, etc.
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Hotel Grand Level Structural Plan
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Skyscraper in Melbourne Lyrebird Tower
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Lyrebird Tower Lyrebird Tower is a unique architectural design, inspired by the magnificent Superb Lyrebird. This exquisite avian creature is renowned for its elaborate tail and courtship displays, which have been replicated in the elegant curves of the building’s facade. The main tower is enclosed by a metal façade that gracefully imitates the intricate form of the Superb Lyrebird’s tail, subtly emanating sophistication whilst symbolically emphasizing grandeur. The design is characterized by the collision of two different shapes - soft and hard - which combine to create a striking vision, giving the site a whole new impression. In essence, Lyrebird Tower is an iconic creation of architectural artistry that beautifully aligns nature and ingenuity to unveil a space both aesthetically pleasing and functional.
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HALFEN T-bolts, Galvanized Steel 25mm Diameter Steel Bolt Bolting the L-Bracket Plate Of the Unitised, Curtain Wall Component Onto the Precasted Plate Fitting on Concrete Floor Slab During On Mullion HALFEN HZA DYNAGRIP Cast-in Chavnnels HZA 41/27
Metal Parapet Cap HALFEN HZA DYNAGRIP Cast-in Chavnnels HZA 41/27
Anchor Bolts Typ.M16
Version Double Glass SN 75 Clear Float Glass + WOB-14-7064 (blueish)
Opaque Glassfaced Insulated Panel
Interlocking Mullion
DensGlass® Sheathing Fiberglass Mat Gypsum Sheathing
Metal Support Rod
Parapet Membrane
Cyprock Soundcheck Plasterboard 1200*900*13MM
Flashing Lip HALFEN T-bolts, Galvanized Steel HZS 38/23 M16
Compo Base Flashing Fibre Cant Built-up Roofing
25mm Diameter Steel Bolt Bolting the L-Bracket Plate Of the Unitised Curtain Wall Component Onto the Precasted Plate Fitting on Concrete Floor Slab During On Mullion
Bradford Soundscreen Acoustic Glasswool Hot Combustible Thermal Insulation Batts
Spandrel Double Glass Panel SN 75 Clear float glass + WO-B-147066 (blueish)
60MM Thick Bradford Fire seal Curtain Wall Batts With Acoustic Insulation Performance Metal Suppor Rod Glazing Shim 1mm Operating Rod Gasket Cyprock Soundcheck Plasterboard 1200*900*13MM
Bradford Soundscreen Acoustic Glasswool Hot Combustible Thermal Insulation Batts 4mm Composite Metal Panel 1/4‘’xx1/2’’ Weep Slot @16’’
Mechanical Roof and Parapet Wall Detail Section
Version Double Glass SN 75 Clear Float Glass + WO-B-147064 (blueish)
5.5mm Carpet BP410 Interface tufted nylon carpet ember colour
‘‘PF’’ Extrusion Bedded in Sealant @ Right Side of Panel ‘‘PCT’’ Extrusion Shop Attached to Right Side ‘‘PF’’ Ext. W/#10 Fastener
Bradford Soundscreen Acoustic Glasswool Hot Combustible Thermal Insulation Batts
HALFEN T-bolts, galvanized steel HZS 38/23 M16 25mm Diameter Steel Bolt Bolting the L-Bracket Plate Of the Unitised Curtain Wall Component Onto the Precasted Plate Fitting on Concrete Floor Slab During On Mullion HALFEN HZA DYNAGRIP Cast-in Channels HZA 41/27
Office Transom and Floor Tile Detail Section
60MM Thick Bradford Fire seal Curtain Wall Batts With Acoustic Insulation Performance Spandrel Double Glass Panel SN 75 Clear float glass + WO-B-14-7066
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Office Interior Design Workspace Retreat
Office Interior Design Workspace Retreat
Company: Brearley Architects & Urbanists (MEL) Project Type: Interior Design Time: Aug. 2022
Description In the interior design research project for an office space, I was involved in various design stages, including conceptual exploration, documentations, modelling, and rendering. Furthermore, I played a critical supporting role of client liaison, and developing numerous client presentations and design reports.
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Office Interior Design Workspace Retreat
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Materials and Finishes
Plasterboard Finish
Gray Aluminium Sheet
LED Strip Light
Timber veneer on aluminium backing
LED Light Sheet
Baking Paint Wood Strip
Timber Finish
Metal Finish
Feature Carpet
Terrazzo
Light Design The interior design takes inspiration from the natural environment and utilizes the space between structural beams to create elevated lighting wells. This design approach enhances the perceived height of the space, while also providing a soft and inviting lighting atmosphere. Additionally, this design feature serves as a platform to showcase and display decorative items, contributing to the overall fashionable and sophisticated ambiance of the interior space.
Reflected Ceiling Plan and Light Analysis 0
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