AURORA X. CHI Selected Works 2019
Hi, I’m Aurora! I am an undergraduate 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-conscious and experience-centric 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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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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PROFESSIONAL WORK
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ADDITIONAL WORKS
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Aurora X. Chi EDUCATION
EXPERIENCE
Feb. 2019 – April 2019
647-994-5749
Email:
auroraxchi@gmail.com
Location:
Richmond Hill, ON, CA
Candidate for Bachelor of Architecture, Honours, Co-op University of Waterloo School of Architecture Cambridge, ON Architectural Intern at haascookzemmrich STUDIO2050 Stuttgart, Germany • Produced plans and edited presentation files for multiple projects • Led the construction of an integral large-scale model • Conducted research and aided in the design and production of two competitions using Rhino 5, AutoCAD, and Adobe Creative Suite
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
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 PARALLEL
May 2017
President’s Scholarship University of Waterloo Obtained admission average of over 90%
CURRICULUM VITAE
ACHIEVEMENTS
Sept. 2017 – Present
Phone:
Digital
SKILLS
INTERESTS
AutoCAD Rhinoceros Grasshopper Revit
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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EXPLODED AXONOMETRIC
EXPLODED CORE AXONOMETRIC 6
December 2018
2A Studio
Dereck Revington
To scatter is to strew about pieces that perhaps were once a whole, or are simply whole in themselves.
SCATTER 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 into the pavilions above. The screen continues, but in glass, and the fleeting glimpses become the boundary between sky and building. 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.
Rhino
Lasercutting
Hand-modeling
PS
AI
ID
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NIGHT VIGNETTE
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COURTYARD VIGNETTE
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NORTH SECTION AT DAWN
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SCATTER
SOUTH SECTION AT NIGHT
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SECTIONAL PERSPECTIVE
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SCATTER
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SECTIONAL MODEL
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SCATTER
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ROOM AXONOMETRIC IN DIFFERENT STATES OF PRIVACY 16
December 2017
1A Studio
Rick Andrighetti
Step down, step down, step down - you’re home.
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.
Hand-drafting
Hand-modeling
PS
AI
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TOP PLAN
BOTTOM PLAN
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SECTION AA
DESCENDING RESIDENCE
SECTION BB
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FLOOR
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WA
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DESCENDING RESIDENCE
EXTERIOR
ALL
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PLAN
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April 2018
Terri Boake
1B Building Construction
One structure; two sides - two countries; one space.
PARALLELS As part of President Trump’s program to erect a 1,900 mile 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 does not affect the transmission of sound across and at night they are lit with colourful spotlights. 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. Rhino
PS
AI
ID
In collaboration with Magnus Glennie Maxwell Render
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ARCH DETAIL
ARCH LOOP DETAIL
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CLEVIS DETAIL
STAIR DETAIL
NODE DETAIL
PARALLELS
AXONOMETRIC
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RENDERED SECTION
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PARALLELS
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BACK VIEW
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April 2018
Terri Boake
1B Building Construction
Come rain or come shine, the UMBRELLA is open.
UMBRELLA UMBRELLA is an off-grid station designed for meterological studies in the Hubei Province. Located in the Ma’snshan Forest Park, the outpost sits on a foundation of timber friction piles, to reduce the footprint in a natural forest. UMBRELLA features passive heating and cooling in the form of a solar chimney orientated to consistent northeastern winds, operable windows, south window walls for daylighting, in-floor phase changing material, and exterior screens for heat rejection. There are also active systems such as a heat exchange device, 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 SIP Panels (6.69 RSI), XPS sheets (3.52 RSI), and a 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.
Rhino
PS
AI
ID
In collaboration with Magnus Glennie
Maxwell Render
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0m 1m
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GROUND FLOOR PLAN
HYDROELECTRIC DIAGRAM
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0m 1m
5m
2ND FLOOR PLAN
5m
10m
10m
VENTILATION DIAGRAM
UMBRELLA
LIGHTING DIAGRAM
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STRUCTURAL AXONOMETRIC
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March 2018
Donald McKay
1B Studio
One house with two strangers - to live together equally with full accessibility.
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 accommodate for the soft soil and provide a shaded garden, and it is a prefab construction with its structure almost entirely made of SIP panels. The two private rooms are oriented with windows on both the North and South sides, with the rooms in themselves being identical, only reflected. This is because of the parallelogram shape of the plan and it was the ideal way to deal with the ends of the building as rooms. The middle of the building serves as the communal area with the roof and sides of the building opening up to reveal the trusses running through. 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.
Rhino
PS
AI
ID
In collaboration with Paulina Erchova, Garrett McGill, Silja Walenius
Maxwell Render
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PLAN
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ROOF PLAN
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PARAHOUSE
STRUCTURAL SECTION
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BACK VIEW
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PARAHOUSE
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February – April 2019
2nd Prize
Stuttgart, Germany
haascookzemmrich STUDIO2050 haascookzemmrich STUDIO2050 is an architectural practice founded by Martin Haas, David Cook, and Stephan Zemmrich in 2012. Working worldwide, the studio seeks to develop distinctive human-friendly and environmentally responsible solutions to both urban planning and architectural projects. As a founding member of the DGNB and other initiatives, the studio is part of an extensive network pursuing an innovative and sustainable architecture.
Rhino
Lasercutting
Hand-modeling
PS
AI
ID
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Reflection
Impressions
Apathy
The Great Wall
Additional Works
Acrylic
Watercolour
Ink
Pen
Printmaking
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ADDITIONAL WORKS
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Thank You! 647-994-5749 auroraxchi@gmail.com