Jinping Xue's Portfolio

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JINPING XUE (Cici)

Master of Urban Design

Bachelor of Design in Architecture University of Sydney

email: cicixue0626@gmail.com Tel: +61 412392699

Selected works 2020-2023

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Emergent Urbanity

Menangle Walk

MELODY CAVE

URBAN OASIS

Diversity | Liveability | Connected

Walkability | Active | Sustainability

Monumentality | Geometry | Scale

Urban | Construction | Experience

Campus + Village | St. Marys, Australia | Team work

Town Centre | Menangle Park, Australia | Team work

Theatre | Sydney, Australia | Individual work

Pool | Pyrmont, Australia | Individual work

Urban Design

Urban Design

Architecture

Architecture

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Emergent Urbanity Diversity | Liveability | Connected Campus + Village | St. Marys, Australia | Team work Spring 2023 | Urban Design Studio Instructor: Brendan Randles Master Plan The Master Plan provides a potential urban development framework for St. Mary Town Center over different scales. It indicates whether the chosen projects are suitable for the intended location, function, taking into account the financial, social, and environmental aspects of each proposal.

As city regeneration initiatives are generally long term propositions, it is important to consider the Master Plan as a dynamic document that can be altered based on changing project conditions over time. These changes can sought to either allow for more density and height in some areas, or to restrict developments in areas subjected environmental changes.

The key elements across the board are: Street amenity, Functionality, Density, Transitional landscape, Integration, Connective Linkages and Social Cohesion. The introduction of the TOD method will create more connetion and increase the efficiency of St. Marys. More transportation choices will create a more sustainable and coherent precincts and effectively marry different destinations together.

Campus + Village The future of St. Marys will become a diverse community with the warmth tthat invite people from different background and find a position where they can feel the sense of belonging and find the opportunities to live in this vibrant city. By passing an invitation for the higher education institute like universities or TAFEs to setup their new campus in St. Marys will ultimately benefit the locals and the surrounding suburbs. It will become an opportunity to create and invent more hi-tech products and accomplish the Aerotropolish in the future.

Group Work Constraints and Opportunities

Vision Statement St. Marys is visioned to be the Future Precinct of opportunities with End-of-Trip facilities that accomplish the Aerotroplis and become one of the most significant development center in Western Sydney Region.

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1. Introduce TOD Mix-used Facilities to provide services and communal hot spots for production efficiency.

2. Reactivate the existing low performance areas by revamping the spatial configuration to Multi-functional Areas.

3. Introduce a series of Precincts and Linkages to reconnect the places and makea more coherent experience.

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1. Fragmented spatial configuration 5. Lack of shades and quality 2. The complex authority open space

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1. St. Marys Welcome 3. A commercial core 2. St. Marys Nature Classroom 4. Heart of St. Marys

3. Lack of attractions and destination 6. Flood prone and UHIE 4. No coherent network 7. Insufficient use of land

3D Master Plan

Design Principles

Habitation Utility Mutuality Accessibility Narrative

Individual Work Existing Plan

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Plan of Study Area

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Constraints

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Opportunities

1. Block the network 2. Draw customers from Queen St. 3. Lots of surface parking 4. Flooding Problem

Proposed Plan

1. Within 10 mins walking circle from train station 2. Surrounded by local parks 1 10 mins with nice views 3. St. Marys Nature Classroom

Sections

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Liveability

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Campus

Campus Hall

Office

Apartment

Retail

Student Accomodation

Library

Hi-Tech Lab

3D Building Envelop of Key Site

LEGEND Campus

Campus Hall

Hi-Tech Lab

Student Accomodation

Office

Apartment

Library

Existing Building

Retail

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Menangle Walk Walkability | Active | Sustainability Town Centre | Menangle Park, Australia | Team work Fall 2022 | Urban Design Studio Instructor: Ian Woodcock

Sydney will be a polycentric city that must be created with important public transport service centres and a large number of jobs and homes. Macarthur’s municipal administration intends to connect the city via strategic linkages. In order to promote and develop the surrounding neighbourhood, a new train station that serves as a transfer point and a new local bus route have been developed. This would assist the local economic growth through the modernisation and expansion of transportation infrastructure.

It takes between one and two minutes to complete the transfer to other modes of transportation, such as buses and bicycles.

Active transportation is also planned for and encouraged in the built region. Macarthur would have two bicycle lanes, allowing for additional opportunities to go to other locations. Schools, commercial, retail, restaurant, office, community service, and residential buildings are intended to be within a 15-minute walking radius from the new railway station, according to the structural plan. In addition to these amenities, green public places are readily accessible on foot. This echoes the creation of a local centre that is intelligent, connected, and productive, as well as a fantastic location to live, work, play, and visit.

Group Work Constraints and Opportunities

Constraints

1. Flooding problem 2. Bushfire problem 3. Native animals 4. Exclusive private green space

Master Plan

Opportunities

1. Potential water view and water sensitive design along the river and creek 2. Rerouted bus lines and proposed cycle routes 3. Additional train station 4. Potential commercial area near the train station

Vision Statement The transforming Menangle Park will be ONE welcoming precinct, consisting of TWO town centers. Those two town centers are small but active, they are both walkable and livable. The two centers will be well-connected by different public transportations, and together create one friendly, amenity Menangle Park neighborhood.

The Objectives

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Individual Work Existing Plan

Proposed Plan

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Plan of Menangle Park

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Design Principles Active commercial centre

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LIBRARY SOCIAL COMMUNITY CENTER KINDERGARTEN

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STUDY EDUCATION COLLABORATE

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Train Station

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Menangle Walk Station (New Train Station)

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Hospital

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Primary School

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Office

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Mixed Use: Commercial + Office Mixed Use: Commercial + Residential

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Residential Apartment with Green Roof

3D Building Envelop of Key Site

View of Primary Neighbourhood Connector Menangle Walk Station

Office

Community Services

Mix Use (Commercial + Office)

School

Mix Use (Commercial + Residential)

The Public Space under the Railway

Residential Apartment with Green Roof Green Roof

View from cycle lane under railway to the New Train Station

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MELODY CAVE Monumentality | Geometry | Scale Theatre | Sydney, Australia | Individual work Fall 2020 | Graduation Thesis Project Instructor: Michael Tawa

Scale in City As the city expands in amounting speed, a lot of buildings at each time were built in Sydney. The city becomes denser and denser. On the contrary, there is a large space of vegetation in the city, which is the Royal Botanic Garden. It provides breathe for the area with high density. The scale of the city has influenced not only architecture but on humans.

Scale in architecture The scale of space provides different spatial experiences to the visitors. The building height, the width, the material used, the openings (etc.) of one building would directly influence the way visitors experience and connect to space.

The project is located in a space with a complex urban context between Macquarie Street and the Domain. It acts as a connection between the city and nature and as a transition from dense to loose. The variation in scale is striking. Thus the project mainly seeks to find the relations between each scale, the scale of the city to the site, the site to space, and the space to the human. Moving inside the building would experience the changes in scale in vertical and horizontal directions.

PRECEDENT RESEARCH

SITE ANALYSIS

Public and Private Space Diagram

Semi-Public

Arch

Hipped Roof

Martin Place

Sydney Hospital

Hyde Park Barracks

Plaza

Courtyard

Stone

The section of Bagsværd Church

Space VS. Program

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Corridor

Ceiling Height Diagram

Private

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Semi-Private

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King Street Courts

The Mint

St. James Church

Overlap two diagrams

From right to the left, the programs are the forecourt chapel, church sacristy, offices and kitchen, parish hall, and seminar workspace. From the diagram, the hall has the highest ceiling, and it is a semi-public area for the visitors. In contrast, the seminar would be a private space with a low ceiling.

Space VS. Human

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The outline of ceiling

Height Variation

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The spatial experience under ceiling

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Overlap two diagrams

Width

The site is in the city block between CBD and the Domain, which is a local park. It is a mixture of old and new styles of buildings. It acts not only as a connection between modern to nature but as an archive of collective memories. The building acts like a machine of memories, where the visitors are both the performer and audience, watch and perform the collective memory of the city.

The city-scale diagram shows that the change of the city density from Sydney CBD to the Domain. Walk from CBD to the Domain, the visitors would feel from compressed to loose. In the grid diagram, the grid pattern would be used to present the relation between the city scale to human scale.

The site acts as a transition space between CBD and the Domain, the modern to nature.

The variation of the spatial experience of single arches

High-Long to Low-Long

High-Long to Low-Short

Low-Long to High-Long

Low-Long to High-Short

High-Short to High-Medium

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The Domain

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Heritage City-Scale Diagram

The grid diagram of city scale

MESSING PROCESS

PROGRAM AGGREGATION Private

Meeting Room

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Backstage

Storage

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1. SITE Bar

Café

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2. SETBACKS

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for privacy and walking paths

Bookshop

Raise up 16 meters.

Exhibition a

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Outdoor Performance

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Theatre

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4. PLAN & VAULTS

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The area and height of vaults have changed in both directions.

5. CREATES VOIDS

6. CORRIDORS

The voids are formed by parabolic arches.

They are the spaces of each program.

Two corridors are for the staff and the visitors seperately.

8. COURTYARD

9. FINAL DESIGN

The program system of the building has been organized by the level of privacy and the room sizes. The private rooms would be small compare to the public rooms. Also, the public rooms would have a higher ceiling than the private room. Therefore, the visitors would have a different experience when they move from one room to another.

SPACE EXPERIENCE OF PROGRAMS

7. SLOPED ROOF

It is inspired by the hipped roof in the heritage building surrounded. The shape is related to the vaults with variations.

Theatre + Backstage

Storage

Outdoor Performance Space

Exhibition

Bar Bookshop Café

There are 4 courtyards inside the building. The biggest one is for outdoor performace.

Entrance

Auditorium Stage Green Room

Storage + Exhibition + Entrance

In the precedent study, the programs in the Bagsværd Church were classified by privacy as well. The height of the ceiling is related to the programs’ privacy. The private space would have a low height. And the public space would have more height.

In the grid plan, the public space is close to the Domain. The inner space is for office and service rooms which are much private. The height of the ceiling would become higher from the private space to the public space.

The shape of the ceiling is the parabolic arch. Each grid space would have its arch ceiling. As similar to the enlargement of the grid in the plan, the arch is changed in two directions. Moving under the arches, the visitors would have different spatial experiences through the scale in the horizontal and vertical directions.

EXPLOSIVE DIAGRAM

THE EXHIBITION AREA

BOOKSHOP CAFE

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1. Foyer 2. Bar 3. Exhibition 4. Bookshop Café 5. Theatre 6. Stage 7. Control Room 8. Storage 9. Meeting Room 10. Offices 11. Toilets

12. Greenrooms 13. Courtyards 14. Outdoor Performance 15. Corridor for Visitors 16. Corridor inside for staff 17. Way to Macquarie St.

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The circulations have been separated for visitors and staff. There is a corridor inside for the staff at the back of the building.

Through it, they can enter into most of the service room. Moreover, there is a corridor outdoor for the visitors. Via it, they can walk to the inside and the outdoor performance area.

ELEVATION 1. Corridor For Visitors 2. Bar 3. Exhibition 4. Bookshop Cafe 5. Theatre

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SECTION A-A

The theatre is on the North of the building. The capacity is around 270 seats. The theatre has an arch-shaped ceiling. The arches have different heights. The lowest arch is the one close to the Domain. The highest is above the stage.

The entrance is on the East side of the building. To enter the building, the visitors would walk through a corridor with various arches. The arches have the same height but different widths.

Walk along the corridor from South to North, the arches would become wider and wider.

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On the West of the building, there is a corridor only for the staff to use. It connected most of the service rooms together. The corridor is not dark because the sunlight would enter the building via the windows along the corridor.

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There is an outdoor performance on the South of the building. The visitors can walk through the corridor on the South or through the bar and exhibition area. It could be an outside bar area. The visitors could have a drink and watch the performance closely.

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URBAN OASIS Urban | Construction | Experience Pool | Pyrmont, Australia | Individual work Spring 2020 | Academic Studio Instructor: Miriam Green

Architecture is rarely just a building with functions. They seek to express the way how the functions are occurred by the technical dimensions of architecture ---the spatial composition, structure, or the qualities of the materials. They can also echo the architectural intention.

The site is at 14-26 Wattle Street Pyrmont. It is an inner suburb in Sydney, is characterized by large brick warehouses, terrace houses, apartments, and the Sydney fish market. Due to the increases in population and the demographic changes, Pyrmont is undergoing a considerable change. The buildings with mixed uses or new typologies are tended to be explored.

The project is a sports center of mixed uses. It consists of two parts, the inside and outside.

Inside One of the important elements in the building is the corridor. It divides most of the rooms with the swimming pool. It is inspired by the urban context of the conservation area nearby.

The structure of the building provides enough natural light to the swimming pool.

Outside Ocean pools are popular in Australia. They are surrounded by rocks and beside the ocean. In the site, the eastern edge is an exposed rockface. There is an outside pool below the rockface. It acts as an ocean pool in the city and provides a different water experience to the visitors.

SITE ANALYSIS

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The site is located at 14-26 Wattle Street, Pyrmont. The North of the site is the Wentworth station of Light Rail. The South is Fig Street, which is a tunnel towards the City. On the opposite side of Fig Street, there is a commercial building, which is a heritage warehouse. The West is Wattle Street. Beside Wattle street is a large open green space (Wentworth Park). The East is Jones Street. There are some heritage buildings on the Jones Street----Harbour Mill apartment and the residential terraces.

Ocean Pool

The land use of the surrounding

Westerly Wind

South Wind

The Sun path and wind direction

Rockface

The plan was inspired by the urban context of the conservation area. The courtyards are at the center of each street block and surrounded by terrace houses. The courtyards are transformed into a corridor. It connects each room and separates the rooms from the main pool. The outside pool was inspired by the ocean pool and surrounded by the rockface that remained in the site.

THE PATHWAY North-east Wind

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1. Foyer 2. Reception 3. Office 4. Changing Room 5. Staff Room 6. First Aid 7. Main Pool 8. Padding Pool for Kids 9. Padding Pool for Baby 10. Mechanical Room 11. Outdoor Changing Room 12. Outdoor Water Experience 13.Outdoor Sitting Area 14. Outdoor Café

1. SPA 2. Changing Room 3. GYM/ Milti-function room 4. Toilets 5. Café 6. Corridor connected two buildings 7. Storage

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ELEVATION OF NORTH-SOUTH FACING TO THE ROCKFACE

1. Timber Arch with glass over the arch 2. Steel Cross-bracing 3. Timber Truss with the depth of 3 meters 4. Concrete Slab 5. Timber Truss with the depth of 1 meter

LOAD PATH DIAGRAM Load Path Diagram of Gravity 1. The load is applied to the timber arch. The force is acted on the purlins of the arch first.

2.Then the force is to the timber trusses of both sides of the arch.

3.The force is also to the timber studs support the timber arch and timber trusses.

4.Finally, to the timber columns on both sides of the building.

Load Path Diagram of Gravity

Load Path Diagram of Wind 1.The load is applied on the short timber trusses.

2.Then the timber columns of the short timber trusses are under compression.

3.Then the force is to the cross- bracing, which can hold the truss in the horizontal direction.

4.Finally, the columns supported the timber arch.

ELEVATION OF WEST-EAST LOOKING FROM THE LANEWAY

Load Path Diagram of Wind