Citrus College 2018-2019 Architectural Portfolio

PORTFOLIO

Bowen Xiong Citrus College | Architecture

BOWEN XIONG bowenxiongdavid@gmail.com +1(626)378-9003

Bowen Xiong is currently majoring in Architecture at Citrus College where he was also

the student president of American Society of Engineers and Architects (ASEA). Throughout two years of architectural study and designs, he looks forward to a B.Arch degree at a professional University.

AWARDS & HONORS 2019

Certificate of Recognition by Citrus College

2019

1st Place in ASEA Design Competition

2019

SCI-Arc Making+Meaning Certificate

2018

Citrus College Dean’s List

2016

Certificate of Recognition by City of La Habra Heights

2016

Superintendent’s Art Award

Top 100 Citrus College Student of 2018-19 academic year

Architectural design competition among four other schools

SCI-Arc Making and Meaning completion

Honor of excellent academic performance with high GPA over the year

Southern California High School Youth Arts Competition

Arcadia School District Superintendent’s Student Award

SOFTWARE SKILLS 3D Modeling

3D Rendering

Media Editor

Others

Rhino, Revit, Maya, AutoCAD, Sketch-up, Agisoft Lumion, Arnold

Photoshop, Indesign, Illustrator, Lightroom, iMovie Word, Powerpoint, Excel, Google Suit

EDUCATION 2017 - Present

Citrus College

Summer 2019

SCI-Arc

2014 - 2017

Associate of Arts Degree - Architecture Architectural Exploration Summer Program

Arcadia High School High School Diploma

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE September 2019 - Present

ASEA - Los Angeles

Emeritus Student President

Assisting and advising the current ASEA officers with ASEA activities.

June 2019 - Present

ASEA - Los Angeles

Social Media Manager

Managing all social media tools of ASEA including website, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn accounts.

February 2018 - Present

Citrus College - Glendora

Laser-Cutting Research Associate

Proficiency level of Universal Laser System for all laser-cutting projects at Citrus College Architecture.

November 2016 - Present

U.S. Arts & Design - Arcadia

Art Mentor

Instructing kids aged 3-8 with composition of line, shape, color, shadow, and perspective study.

September 2018 - August 2019

ASEA - Los Angeles

Student President Organizing all Citrus College and ASEA related works and events.

Taking responsibility of all Citrus College student members of ASEA.

REFERENCE Richard Fernandes

Email - rjf@art-arch.com

CONTENTS THE MATRIX FSX AIRPORT

Transformation From Subtraction Cube

Function is Key

XIONG’S HOUSE

Openly Designed Dream House

MATERIAL PRACTICE

Application of Building Materials

CONSTRUCTION DETAILS Material Composition and Structural Framing STRUCTURE ANALYSIS REVIT | MAYA SCI-Arc

Visualization of Structural Bonding Advanced Software Modeling

Body Form, Relief Form, Expended Form

THE MATRIX : Transformation from Subtraction Cube Fall 2018 | ARCH 201 | Architectural Design I

The concept of The Matrix originated from one of the 6x6� paper subtraction cube. The negative spaces of this cube are geometric cubic subtractions, and its complexity is the key to the design of The Matrix house.

Study of subtractions on single form creating negative spaces

From the negative space study, the cubic rigid idea becomes the main concept of the Matrix House. By stacking the wood blocks, the composition and proportion are displayed more directly.

Combining with an organic element is one of the objectives of this project. The objects such as vegetables and fruit are naturally formed organic objects. The Matrix gets an exclusive design with the decorations of spheres that are inspired by some fruits.

Concept Development

Organic Elements Composition

Elevations and Section Drawn with Markers

The Matrix demonstrates a very straight forward conceptual bond between spacial relationship and proportion.

The design merges the organic elements and cubes together to provide a unique designing style.

The Matrix Final Model

FSX AIRPORT :

Function is Key

Fall 2018 | ARCH 201 | Architectural Design I

Fernando Spring is a virtual community with a population of around 15,000.

Students need to organize and communicate to each other so that they operate together as a community/town with the same theme. Students in this studio class are required to choose a non-residential building in the real community, complete a case study and research of the building, then design their own. All the buildings have to be different from each other. For example, airport, hospital, city hall, post office, etc.. Will eventually be displayed together as a whole community.

The design of FSX is started from the circumstances of a local community airport, combining the elements of nets and waves. The airport focuses on the functionality of the circulation of population.

Travelers who come to the airport will be lead on the designated route to complete the entire process before departure; which includes the use of check-in counters, security, resting areas, restrooms, restaurants, and even coffee shops. It also has the fully functional routine for the departing travelers.

Second Floor-plan

First Floor-plan

Technical drawings present the space, area, and dimensions and the relationship between each room and its usage in one architecture. They directly represent the design and thought process about function, layout, and the walking paths.

South Elevation

East Elevation

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Detail Section Diagram

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FSX Airport’s design intention was to serve a 15000 population town in the most efficient flow. The steel construction must also support the structure of the whole building. The structural material is adopted with both steel studs and concrete panels. The wide flange beam provides enough support for the main structure and allow heavy weights such as second floor and solar panel roof sit on them. The composite beam system with pre-manufacture concrete panel gives a solid feeling for walking. On the top of the building, HSS beams with different width hold up the solar panel which also gives space on the roof for AC and heaters.

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XIONG’S HOUSE :

Openly designed dream house

Spring 2018 | ARCH 110 | Intro to Design Fundamentals and Communication

Designing a dream house is the final project for the first semester in Citrus Architecture. Students are challenged to brainstorm for anything they would like to put in their house. Xiong’s House was a particular one that sits on a little sloping site, and has an extraordinary view from the backyard. It is a two story luxury house with 4 bedrooms and 4 and half bathrooms. Wide areas in the house give residents a comfortable feeling.

Section Cut Diagram

Second Floor-plan First Floor-plan

MATERIAL PRACTICE :

Application of Building Materials

Spring 2019 | ARCH 111 | Foundation Design

Cardboard is one of the most common materials for architectural students.

This cardboard chair challenges students on all aspects of stability, comfort, and aesthetics at the same time. This particular 4 foot long, 3 foot wide, and 3 foot tall cardboard chair use layered cardboard as trusses to ensure the strongest structure, and the advantage of laser cutting also makes it much cleaner and more beautiful.

Concrete is one of the most important construction materials for every architecture. In this project, students identify different types of concrete, mix the concrete, and complete the whole process of making a simple 6x6� subtractive model with it.

CONSTRUCTION DETAILS :

Material Composition and Structural Framing

Fall 2019 | ARCH 242 | Building Construction

Construction Document is a necessary process which all the architects will be facing eventually. No matter how good the design is, the construction detail will always be there to make it stand up. In fact, it is also a part of the design element where the architect can use multiple materials to create composition to achieve the greatest weight load. In the United States, the most common structure materials are wood, steel, and concrete masonry units. The composition of the two are commonly seen in both residential and commercial building.

Wood Stud Floor Section

Composite Beam System

Masonry Column

Roof Slope-Composition

W Column Steel Foundation

CMU Parapet

Pier and Beam Foundation

Hollow Metal-Head

Plaster Base Detail

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Braced Frame

“V� Braced Frame

Moment Frame

Shear Wall

Unbraced without Diaphragm

Unbraced with Diaphragm

Structural framing is one of the most important elements of an architectural design. It is what holds the building together by distributing the loading force to every stud and column equally. In the class Building Construction, students need to complete a three story house framing model with required criteria such as recess back locally, interior court yard/atrium, local story set back, cantilever, and bridge etc..

Twenty-one Inches Structual Framing Model

STRUCTURE ANALYSIS :

Visualization of Structural Bonding

Spring 2018 | ARCH 110 | Intro to Design Foundamentals and Communication

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REVIT | MAYA :

Advanced Software Modeling

Spring 2019 | DRAF 161 | Advanced Computer Aided Design Fall 2019 | DRAF 290 | Introduction to Maya Practices

Residential Architecture Revit Software Render

AutoDesk Revit is a professional BIM tool for architectural practice. Citrus college students are asked to go out the classroom to meet with local architectural firms, and get a set of architectural plans. With all the informations in the plan such as floor-plan, elevations, detail documents, students are required to learn how to read the plan first, then modeling out the whole residential building in AutoDesk Revit within eight weeks. Besides the real world communication skills practice, the objective of the class is learning the application of texture, bump mapping, lighting, camera setting, and Revit software rendering. An animation of the walk through demonstrates all.

Walk-through Animation

Exterior Revit Render

Interior Dinning Room Render

Interior Kitchen Render

South Elevation

Site Plan

Floor Plan with Furnitures

Section View with Furnitures

West Elevation

AutoDesk Maya is a fully functional 3D modeling tool. This Maya practice class at Citrus College mainly focuses on the functions that Maya can provide to the students in the modeling process. The objectives of the class are using NURB and polygons system in Maya to recreate a well-known commercial architecture with the application of textures, bump mapping, lighting, and different render engines.

Top view

Front Elevation

Left Elevation

Right Elevation

Walk-through Animation

Dark Tiles

Light Tiles

Guangzhou Opera House Maya Arnold Render

Cobble Stone

Brick Floor

SCI-Arc :

Body Form, Relief Form, Expanded Form

Summer 2019 | Making+Meaning

Making+Meaning summer program at SCI-Arc provides students a fascinating opportunity to work with truly dedicated architects and instructors around the nation.

The projects produced in the four weeks give students a remarkable sense of architectural study with space, texture, shadow, concept, etc.

Experiencing 3D scanning technology to create a mesh of the object, then 3D print to a smaller scale Body Form

The first project utilizes contemporary methods of documentation and representation to compose an architectural form. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll use video and photo-grammetry techniques to 3D scan our bodies in various postures then texture map, render, and physically model the digital scans. Our bodies will be thought of as architectural parts that aggregate spatial relationships within and around them. Along the way, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll encounter terms such as form, scale, collaboration, ground, projection, and posture.

Textures with Repeated Patterns

Applied textures with different body compositions, then rendering a series of elevations and sections to demonstrate a sense of uniformity that is still distinguishable.

Folded paper models to experience the changes of space, light, shadows, and textures.

Surface and Depth

Architecture is the masterly, correct and magnificent play of masses brought together in light.

Our eyes are made to see forms in light; light and shade reveal these forms; cubes, cones, spheres, cylinders or pyramids, great primary forms which light reveals to advantage. These images are distinct and tangible within us without ambiguity. It is for this reason that these are beautiful forms. Everybody agrees to that, the child, the savage and the metaphysician. Le Corbusier, Vers un Architecture.

This project introduces notions of volume, relief and texture as they relate to spatial relationships between objects, negative space and depth.

Direct-light

Point-light

Spot-light

Digital models on Rhino provide a more direct visualization of how direct-light, point-light, and spotlight express on the object. They including how the shadows and shades change in a very dynamic way.

The paper models display a situation where different light sources will hit on the same spot which create shadows toward different directions with different gradients. But the shadows and those gradients give out a special sense of depth to the models. Each time that light hits from a different angle, the shadows create a unique illusion on the model, with a completely new visual effect.

Expanded Form

The third project introduces students to relationships of volume, ground, gravity, interiority and color. The assignment will conclude with a discussion of the relationship of three-dimensional form, scale, texture and color. Skills will continue to work with digital modeling in Rhino, color applications in Adobe Photoshop, hand-built paper models, model photography and augmented visualization.

Transforming shadows into bit map then apply RGB channel colors in Adobe Photoshop

Merging all three layers of shadows, and colors into a single object, and creating an intersecting, overlapping, and cross hatching pattern onto the surface to the model.

Twenty-four Inch Scale Sized Paper Model

The Longest Sunset - Acrylic Southern California High School Youth Art Competition award winning project

The Last Transformer - Pencil

Architectural Sketches - Pencil

Architectural Sketches - Ink

BOWEN XIONG bowenxiongdavid@gmail.com +1(626)378-9003