AURORA X. CHI 2018
Selected Works
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TABLE OF CONTENTS 05
CURRICULUM VITAE
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SCATTER
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DESCENDING RESIDENCE
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PARALLELS
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UMBRELLA
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PARAHOUSE
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ADDITIONAL WORKS
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AURORA CHI — PORTFOLIO — 2018
Hi, I’m Aurora!
I am a 2nd year student at the University of Waterloo School of Architecture and I am deeply passionate about sustainable design and socially responsive architecture. I hope to obtain a co-op position at an architecture firm where I can use the skills that I have developed and bring my environmentally-concious and experiencecentric ideas to the team. As well, I would like to enhance my skill set, learn constantly, and find inspiration. I strive to become an architect who can create spaces for people to live creative lives while retaining responsibility to culture and the environment.. The following is a curation of several projects that I have developed over the past year and a half. I hope you enjoy looking through!
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Aurora X. Chi EDUCATION
EXPERIENCE
Phone:
647-994-5749
Email:
auroraxchi@gmail.com
Location:
Richmond Hill, ON, CA
Sept. 2017 — present
Candidate for Bachelor of Architecture, Honours, Co-op University of Waterloo School of Architecture Cambridge, ON
Sept. 2013 — June 2017
Richmond Hill High School Richmond Hill, ON
Sept. 2018
2018 Orientation Leader • Designed posters and schedules • Led events for 5 days
March 2018 — Present
BRIDGE Member • Set up events and prepared articles
Sept. 2013 — June 2017
RHHS EcoClub President //regular member from 2013-2014 • Re-established the club and led the school to EcoSchools Gold • Developed and oversaw community eco initiatives
Feb. 2017 — May 2017
Actor in A Night of One Act Plays • Pitched scripts, blocking and moderated rehearsals with the cast • Designed sets, costumes, and posters
Dec. 2015 — present
Theatre Club Member //The Curtain Club, Richmond Hill, ON • Produced sets and props in teams
July 2015 — July 2016
TRCA Conservation Youth Corps Volunteer • Completed 80 hours of sustainability projects over two years
June 2018
Top 10 Finalist of CISC Steel Competition Obtained with the project PARALLELS with Magnus Glennie
May 2017
President’s Scholarship University of Waterloo Obtained admission average of over 90%
ACHIEVEMENTS
Digital
SKILLS
INTERESTS
AutoCAD Rhinoceros Grasshopper
SketchUp Maxwell Render V-Ray
MS Word MS Excel MS Powerpoint
Traditional
Fabrication
Languages
Hand-drafting Model-making Painting
Lasercutting 3D Printing CNC Milling
English (proficient) Mandarin (spoken)
Sketching & Painting Theatre Production Acting & Scriptwriting
Piano & Ukulele Composing Knitting & Crochet
Illustrator Photoshop InDesign
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NIGHT VIGNETTE
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SCATTER To scatter is to strew about pieces that perhaps were once a whole, or are simply whole in themselves. The word implies an offhanded freedom in the movement, and it leaves a feeling of disjointed release. In SCATTER, you may glimpse through openings to areas that are like the one you inhabit and within the building, you hold the understanding of separate spaces, but cannot delineate the boundaries. Before entering SCATTER, you can see the ambiguous boundary between the exterior and the interior, catching sight of the market stalls as you walk past. Entering, you move through layers of shattered boundaries: small bustling stalls, a courtyard that melds into the interior, and the concrete tower behind a screen of glass. Within it, you find calmness and stability, but also a view of through the tapered windows. The concrete stairs lead you upwards. You climb through the gap in the screen and the open sky greets you as a wooden stair takes you up into the pavilions above. The screen continues, but in glass, and the fleeting glimpses become the boundary between the sky and SCATTER. Finally at the far ends, the screen bursts open and disappears, and the ephemeral boundary that separates you from the sky disintegrates. In SCATTER, the “pieces� strewn about are at once suspended below, stable in the middle, and scattered above. 2A Studio | Dereck Revington | December 2018 Rhino | PS | AI | ID | Lasercutting | Handmodeling
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NORTH SECTION AT DAWN
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SOUTH SECTION AT NIGHT
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SECTIONAL PERSPECTIVE
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SECTIONAL MODEL
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FLOOR
WALL
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DESCENDING RESIDENCE This is a student housing project that explores the space between private and semi-private space. The site is on a hill, very close to trees. To the North is a quiet street and to the South is a parking lot. As one descends down into the house, the spaces become both increasing private and semi-private, with the central space opening up to become a living area and 4 bedroom pods bordering it. The bedrooms are all the same and the further in one goes, the more private they become. The wall connecting them to the central space being 3 rotatable barn-door panels, allowing communication and a sense of shared space. The bed, however, is within the closet which is the space of maximum privacy.
1A Studio | Rick Andrighetti | December 2017 Hand-Drafting | Model-Making | PS | AI
EXTERIOR
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TOP PLAN
BOTTOM PLAN
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SECTION AA
SECTION BB
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MODEL INTERIOR
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MODEL EXTERIOR
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RENDERED SECTION
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PARALLELS As part of President Donald Trump’s program to erect a 1,900 mile border wall along the United States / Mexico border, he unveiled eight 10-metre high prototypes in October 2017. PARALLELS is located directly across this proposed border wall in Friendship Park, San Diego. It is a double arch steel structure that both suspends and bears a platform on which people from both sides of the wall can meet, but not cross or touch. The platform hovers over the top of the 10-metre high wall. The cable-stayed arch is the main load-bearing structure while the diagrid arch structure lightly supports the platform and stairs from below. On the platform, there is a screen of transparent plastic rods. The screen very dense, but does not affect the transmission of sound across and at night, the structure is lit with colourful spotlights. Usually, the platform serves as a meeting ground, but during events, becomes a performance platform where artists on both sides of the oppressive border wall can perform together. PARALLELS is a structure where two worlds may meet, but never touch. In steel and light, PARALLELS hopes to forge a unity between two peoples of divided nations.
1B Building Construction | Terri Boake | April 2018 Rhino | PS | AI | ID | Maxwell with Magnus Glennie
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SITE PLAN
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PLAN
0m 1m
5m
10m
20m
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RENDERED ELEVATION
NORTH VIEW
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ARCH DETAIL
ARCH LOOP DETAIL
CLEVIS DETAIL
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STAIR DETAIL
NODE DETAIL
AXONOMETRIC
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BACK VIEW
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UMBRELLA UMBRELLA is an off-grid station designed for meterological studies in the Hubei Province. It is located in the Ma’snshan Forest Park, near Wuhan. The outpost rests on a foundation of timber friction piles, minimizing site footprint in a natural forest. UMBRELLA features passive heating and cooling in the form of a temperature-activated solar chimney orientated to consistent northeastern winds, operable windows, south window walls for daylighting combined with in-floor phase changing material, and exterior screens for heat rejection. There is also active systems such as a heat exchange device, “High-DRO” Pure Rainwater Harvesting System for Net-Zero water usage goals, and a “Water2Energy” Micro Hydro Power system which takes advantage of the local river tributary; these systems, along with a tight envelope of Structurally Insulated Panels (6.69 RSI), XPS sheets (3.52 RSI), and vapour barrier create an indoor microclimate which remains unchanged by extreme humidity and regional temperature fluctuations. The outpost features two bedrooms, bathroom, kitchenette, research and lab-work space, and ample storage enough for two researchers to live comfortably in a space that is both efficient and eco-friendly. Come rain or come shine, the UMBRELLA is open.
1B Environmental Design | Terri Boake | April 2018 Rhino | PS | AI | ID | Maxwell with Magnus Glennie
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0m 1m
GROUND FLOOR PLAN
0m 1m 5m
2ND FLOOR PLAN
HEATING DIAGRAM
5m
10m
10m
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HYDROELECTRIC DIAGRAM
NET-ZERO ENERGY DIAGRAM
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VENTILATION DIAGRAM
LIGHTING DIAGRAM
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1m
5m
WALL SECTION
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BACK VIEW
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PARAHOUSE A pressing issue in smaller communities is that many people are without places to call home. PARAHOUSE is a community housing project for two unrelated individuals, located on swamp land in downtown Galt near the school of architecture. The building is on stilts to accomodate for the soft soil and provide a shaded garden, and it is a prefab construction with its structure almost entirely made of SIP panels. With a simple, condensed plan, PARAHOUSE is a fully accessible residential building that maximizes privacy, space, daylighting, and ventilation to give those without homes a home to live in with dignity and comfort.
1B Studio | Donald McKay | March 2018 Rhino | PS | AI | ID | Maxwell with Paulina Erchova, Garrett McGill, Silja Walenius
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CROSS SECTION AA
LONGITUDINAL SECTION CC
CROSS SECTION BB
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PLAN
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STRUCTURAL SECTION
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STRUCTURAL AXONOMETRIC
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ADDITIONAL WORKS
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THANK YOU! 647-994-5749 auroraxchi@gmail.com