Dixin Bao Portfolio

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The Intersection of Architecture, Culture & Public Realm a new headquarters for the Municipal Arts Society of New York

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Bogota's Los Cerros Orientales constructing a sustainable relationship between city & nature

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High Density Urban Order redefining typology of urban high-rise towers

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Nanofab & Atomic-Level Design nano fabrication & material science facility on Cornell's campus

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from LOSTHOUSE to Director's Penthouse La MaMa director's penthouse

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Ithaca Assemblage city within building: the women's community center

VISUALS 01

Expanding Mat-Organization urban fabric & asian megalopolis

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Draw free-hand drawing & geometric projection

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TIME FRAMES exposure in visual thinking

PROFESSIONAL 2015

United Architects & Engineers Co., Ltd.

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AntiStatics Architecture Co., Ltd.

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Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates (KPF)

ACADEMIC 01

The Intersection of Architecture, Culture & Public Realm a new headquarters for the Municipal Arts Society of New York

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Bogota's Los Cerros Orientales constructing a sustainable relationship between nature & city

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High Density Urban Order redefining typology of urban high-rise towers

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Nanofab & Atomic-Level Design nano fabrication & material science facility on Cornell's campus

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La MaMa Director's Penthouse from LOSTHOUSE device to director's penthouse

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Ithaca Assemblage city within building: the women's community center

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The Intersection of Architecture, Culture & Public Realm location: Cornell NYC Studio, New York Cornell AAP / Core Design Studio IV / Spring 2016/ Critics: Susan Rodriguez & Amy Maresko A new headquarters for the MAS (Municipal Arts Society) of New York in the West Village

about MAS Founded in 1893, the Municipal Art Society (MAS) has helped create a more livable city by advocating for the quality of the built environment through excellence in urban planning, design, preservation and placemaking through the arts. From saving the Grand Central Terminal and the lights of Times Square to establishing groudbreaking land-use laws that have become national models, MAS is at the forefront of New York's most important campains to promote city's economic vitality, cutural vibrancy, environmental sustainability and social diversity.

SITE The site, the result of a shift in the street grid, forms a distinctly triangular plot of land just west of 8th Avenue bounded to the south by Gansevoort Street and to the north by West 13th Street.

A large public recreation area/park is located immediately to the south allowing for unobstructed southern exposure. The influx of cultural tourism to the area due to the relocation of the Whitney Museum, the High Line and the development of the Meatpacking district has made this site a vital gateway to the far West Village.

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site geometry & grid shift

Existing Condistions & Site Analysis

site geometry & grid shift

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site interaction on an intimate scale the playground & the neighborhood

geometry re-orientation threshold of grid shift

cuts necessarily being made based on existing site condition

cuts creating particular moments that bridge the inside and the outside

forum takes the shared space bridging the two shifted volumes

private circulation corresponding to the shift and stitching the two volumes

public access excavating the volume and meandering the space

ceramic rod double skin curtain wall adopted as thermal passive strategy

study model development

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-1 level - utiltiy & mechanical spaces

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1st level - urban center & cafe

2nd level - gallery & exhibition

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3rd level - forum & classroom

4th level - education

5th level - flexible working space

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south elevation

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east elevation

north elevation

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5th level: flexible working space

southern facade section 14

final model - southern envelope

Environmental Analysis & Passive Strategy

May 24 2016 14:00 daylight illuminance

From the site environmental analysis, a relatively high dry builb temperature would normally happen at noon from mid May to the end of August. Also humidity is relatively lower at noon than at other times.

As the southern wind is the predominant wind direction during the year, adopting natural ventilation on southern envelope seems necessary as a passive strategy. Ceramic rod double skin curtain wall is used at more private and thermal sensitive areas, providing necessary privacy and preventing high thermal absorbtion inside the space but meanwhile allowing adequate visual continuity between the outside and the inside.

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3rd floor: forum & lecture terracing stairs provide ample seating for the audience, acting as a comfortable social space for various activities and encounters. People on the seating level would not only be able to participate in the forum or lecture, but also have a visual interaction with the enducation space above.

ground floor: urban center & cafe serving as a main public gathering space, the gorund level connects itself with the street via the extension of the street into the building as a public seating platform. The grand stair at the center not only poses an welcome gesture to the visitors, but also acts as seating for different activities.

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Bogota's Los Cerros Orientales location: Las Delicias, Bogota, Colombia Cornell AAP / Core Design Studio V / Fall 201 6/ Critics: Jeremy Foster & Julian Palacio Although the decades long drug-related civil war has now ended, Bogota now has some of the largest numbers of inhabitants living in informal conditions in the world. This is placing enormous pressure on its surrounding hinterlands, natural environments that are globally unique and vital to Bogota’s resilience and livability. One of the most threatened of these are the mountains east of the city, the Cerros Orientales, which have provided an imposing backdrop to Bogota’s development. The mountains’ steep, variegated landscape helps moderating Bogota’s microclimate and presents as a critical ecosystem in the region.

The site, Las Delicias Del Carmen situating between the urban area and the Cerros, is one of the earliest informal settlements in Bogota and has experienced tremendous enhancement in its infrastructure as well as building maintenance. Improved roads conditions, restoration of informal settlements and new residential developments started emerging in the region in the last decade.

However, an apparent economic stratification exists in this region as one goes deeper into the neighborhood, a lack of maintenance as well as a disconnection from the lower area can be seen, resulting in a segregation between the city and the nature and a disconnection among groups of various social classes. Hence, via implementing playscape on Celle 127c, the main road leading to the neighborhood and the Cerros, and a public landmark at the intersection of the Celle 127c, and the future proposed ecological path, a potential bridging between the Bogota City and the Cerros and previously segregated areas in the regions would be established.

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Bogota, Colombia

Las Delicias Del Carmen playscape

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trampoline barrio roads municipal boundary stream

research center playscape ecological path

developed neighborhood renovated neighborhood less-developed neighborhood

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By integrating play, education and research into the proposed intervention, the research hub would fulfil its performance as a regional forestry center, serve as vertical playground for the public and act as a gateway to the Cerros. Implementing outside playground via continuing the streetscape into the building, the building becomes a public/private catalyst being able to be occupied by the general public 24/7. A gradual acquaintance of the program inside would then be perceived by the local residents; a comprehensive education of the Cerros becomes highly accessible to the public; a landmark appealing more interaction in the deeper region would be established.

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ceramic panels

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3rd level - open research & greenhouse

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4th level - office & research center

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2nd level - education & auditorium

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5th level - research labs & offices

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ground level - exhibition & event space 1. Administration & Management: 300 m2 2. Conference Room: 80m2 (3) 3. Ecology Laboratory: 40 m2 (10) 4. Ecology Research Center: 600 m2 5. Ecology Education Center: 400 m2 6. Engineering and Scientist Collaborating Area 7. Exhibition Area: 400 m2 8. Kitchen/Pantry Area: 10m2 per floor 9. Lobby: 500m2 10. Multi-Purpose Auditorium: 1000 m2 11. Mechanical Room: 150 m2 12. Offices: 25m2 (20) 13. Open Working Space: 300 m2

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north elevation

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Demographic & Environemtal Analysis

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October 23, 2016 15:00 daylight illuminance

imperceptible glare (27% DGP)

radiance rendering

radiation falsecolor

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5th level: research labs & offices terracing stairs provide ample seating for the audience, acting as a comfortable social space for various activities and encounters.

People on the seating level would not only be able to participate in the forum or lecture, but also have a visual interaction with the enducation space above.

Ground level: exhibition & auditorium serving as a main public gathering space, the gorund level connects itself with the street via the extension of the street into the building as a public seating platform. The grand stair at the center not only poses an welcome gesture to the visitors, but also acts as seating for different activities.

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High Density Urban Order location: New York City, NY Cornell AAP / Core Design Studio VI / Spring 2017/ Critics: Timur Dogan & Vanessa Carlow

INTRODUCTION Population growth, urbanization and related space constraints require new construction and densification of urban centers around the world. Until 2050, the UN forecasts a construction demand that is equivalent to 750 times the size of a city like Rome. With roughly 40% of our energy use and greenhouse gas emissions coming from buildings, this is a worrisome development. On the flipside, the construction and renewal of urban centers is a unique opportunity to mitigate climate change through intelligent design solutions, energy efficiency improvements and an increased use of renewable energy and other local recourses such as rainwater. Apart from being resource efficient, next-generation urban habitats need to provide indoor and outdoor comfort conditions including access to daylight, high-quality public spaces and streetscapes as well as innovative transportation concepts.

A new typological high-density, high-quality neighborhood design strategy will be developed.

BACKGROUND Urbanization causes significant housing demand in cities.

In New York City, the shortage of affordable housing has reached a crisis point. The mismatch between demand for, and the supply of, housing stems, in part, from the increasing desirability of calling New York home. For the first time in decades, more people are moving to or staying in the City than leaving. The City must continue to retain and attract residents in order to prosper. The private marketplace, however, has not produced enough housing for existing residents, let alone enough to accommodate the growth that the City has experienced. And, despite considerable public investment to stimulate the production of housing that is affordable to lowand moderate-income New Yorkers, the supply of publicly subsidized housing meets the needs of only a fraction of the people in those income groups. The continued mismatch between the demand for affordable housing and its supply also exacerbates the rising income inequality that threatens the City’s progress.

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shadow analysis (equinox day)

outdoor hot spots

outdoor radiation

household size & unit type allocation

New York City households are diverse. One third are singles and 27 percent are families with children. As there is substantial mismatch between the units available and household size in the existing market, deficiency of studio and 1-bedroom units to house smaller households becomes an obvious housing problem. A more market-corresponded unit type allocation would be an imperative part of the design process.

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SITE The site for this project is in East Village lower Manhattan, framed by the Williamsburg Bridge/Delancey St, East Broadway and Essex St..

Via taking New York City as a experiment incubator, new concepts and typologies for high-density, high comfort urban living could be thoroughly tested architectually and environmentally.

FAR: 8 Lot Area: 23512 m2 Education: 2% Retail: 8% Office: 30% Residential: 60% Studio: 10% One Bedroom: 30% Two Bedroom: 30% Three (plus) Bedroom: 30% 31

1. general massing of FAR 8

4. height variation according to the context and view optimization

2. vertical towers of equivalent FAR 8

5. accessibility generated by base terracing

3. 22.4 degree rotation for the optimization of the living input

6. general form refinement & optimization

Preserving the Manhattan Grid Optimizing the Living Input

Without sacrificing the existing Manhattan grid, a new orientation is introduced in order to optimize the living input. The buildings starts with the existing grid and gradually rotate till reaching 22.4 degree at the top, resulting in no faรงade facing solely to one direction (north/south). Therefore, none of the apartment would suffer from excessive or deficient of natural light by being exposed strictly to the southern or northern direction. As the slope connecting the footprint to the top of the structure grows from mild to steep, a natural public terracing is then created so as to allow a more dynamic interaction between the public and the building. Various types of programs such as retail, gym and restaurant are placed in the in the base levels with sports court embedding into the terracing. An elevated playground connecting five out of the nine towers alleviate the excessive traffic and noise from the street, creating a more pleasant and safer experiential quality for the residents, employees and the public.

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Building Type I Inner Courtyard 10,712,469 10,592,048 12,531,613 12,759,554 14,131,612 11,421,401 Total 72,148,697 kWh/m2 of Solar Radiant Exposure

Building Type VI Rotation & Height Variation Total 118,728,747 kWh/m2 of Solar Radiant Exposure

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Building Type II Slender Plates 12,739,745 10,701,562 12,321,833 13,265,560 11,888,565 14,205,747 Total 75,123,012 kWh/m2 of Solar Radiant Exposure

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Building Type III Rotation & Heigjt Variation 12,677,181 10,799,572 13,310,868 13,334,371 12,139,347 14,189,382 Total 76,450,721 kWh/m2 of Solar Radiant Exposure

Building Type IV Vertical Tower 14,532,214 14,047,985 15,875,834 17,587,754 18,716,322 15,786,070 Total 96,546,179 kWh/m2 of Solar Radiant Exposure

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Building Type V 45 Degree to the North 15,457,294 15,584,191 18,374,023 23,664,053 18,223,140 19,050,092 Total 110,352,793 kWh/m2 of Solar Radiant Exposure

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The outdoor radiation simulation accounts for the annual reception of sunlight radiation in New York City. The flat roof of the towers will receive the most direct light while the northern side will receive mostly ambient light. As southern side receive much more direct light than the northern side, the slope grows slower and more gradual from the southern base of the tower than that grows from the northern side, maximizing the radiation reception and embedding with the existing neighborhood.

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apertures along the public terracing

embedded open playground

elevated public bridging

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Typical Floor Plan upper

Floors 50 - 61 3 - 4 bedroom units

Floors 36 - 49 2 - 3 bedroom units

Floors 20 - 35 studio & 1 bedroom units

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Floors 5 - 19 studio & 1 bedroom units

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elevation west

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elevation north

Two types of faรงade system are adopted in this residential complex. One is solar panel ribbons with various widths exposed to the direct sunlight determined by radiation intensity on the building surface (the more radiation the wider the ribbon).

The other is solar windows with different opacities corresponding to the program that would be used inside the envelope. Hence, a net zero building prototype would be achieved by both design strategies and current available technology.

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As the interplay between rigidity and flexibility (zip ties, rubber bands and paper plates) and the transitional porosity created from such hierarchical force transmission being discovered from the assembly model at the beginning, the idea is thus carried on. In phase II, as an unknown “random� element being introduced to the system, the system would respond to the invader, it would protrude each of its modules’ branches to create larger porosities or contract to become a dense solid. In Phase III and IV, heat as an external constraint is brought to the more refined system. Therefore, higher temperature, the smaller the porosity, the less solar radiant would be able to get into the system and vice versa. As the essential idea brought into the Nanotechnology Building, two scales of porosity are created. At a larger scale, the existing site condition, such as site altitude, existing walking paths, and nodal intersection would determine the visual porosity developed in the intervention and the programmatic porosity based on the nature of lab usage. Additionally, need of sunlight, heat, and transparency would determine the systematic porosity at a smaller scale, such as partition and roof. The environmental system and the programmatic system together generate the porosity embedded inside the intervention.

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Nanofab & Atomic-Level Design location: Cornell Ithaca Campus, New York Cornell AAP / Core Design Studio III / Fall 201 5/ Critics: Jenny Sabin & Martin Miller "A State-of-the-art Nano Fabrication & Material Sesign facility on Cornell's campus at the intersection of architecture, masterial science, chemistry, engineering and biology"

Analogic Generative Modeling Using the prescribed palette of materials (zip-ties, rubber bands, and paper plates) to develop and build an iterative physical model with a coherent generative strategy. This should be based on iterative part-to-whole relationships, unit/component to network, feedback, structure, material constraints and relevant contextual conditions.

By experimenting and taking advantage of each prescribed material's characteristic, an interplay between rigidity (zip ties) and elasticity (paper plates) and a transitional porosity created by such hierachial force transmission (human - zipties - paper plates) have been established and reflected through the interactive model.

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skeleton

singular module

dual-module connection

cluster assembly creating porosity

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125% of each of its skeleton length 125% of its original volume 75% of min. porosity same membrane area

150% of each of its skeleton length 150% of its original volume minimum porosity same membrane area

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Abstract Modeling and Generative System - unit and network By means of scripting transactions in Grasshopper, an abstract unit-network system has been transformed digitally. Carrying rigidity-elasticity concept from assembly model, a network consisting of skeleton (rigidity) and membrane (elasticity) is established to correspond to outside factor and creating various porosities based on the influence.

Type I Module & Aggregation maximum porosity open program driven maximum sunlight demand

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Type II Module & Aggregation maximum porosity open program driven maximum sunlight demand program-driven hybrid agglomeration elevation visual porosity gradient

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Type III Module & Aggregation maximum porosity open program driven maximum sunlight demand

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Dynamic Modeling: Extracting, Abstracting and Embedding site data 25% of the maximum influence to its surrounding area by each of the public nodes

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1. smart devices and advanced components wing 2. high technology / digital fabrication zones 3. energy and environments wing 4. research center and library 5. materials characterization space (x-ray diffraction, crystal cutting and polishing electron microscopy, chemical analysis) 6. ideas labs, software center 7. materials by design for inorganic and organic systems; collaborative lab space 8. nano-biology Lab 9. restrooms and service, 4 stalls (each men/women) per lab, center, zone, wing 10. delivery and loading dock

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1. smart devices and advanced components wing 2. high technology / digital fabrication zones 3. energy and environments wing 4. research center and library 5. materials characterization space (x-ray diffraction, crystal cutting and polishing electron microscopy, chemical analysis) 6. ideas labs, software center 7. materials by design for inorganic and organic systems; collaborative lab space 8. nano-biology Lab 9. restrooms and service, 4 stalls (each men/women) per lab, center, zone, wing 10. delivery and loading dock 52

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La MaMa Director's Penthouse Cornell AAP / Core Design Studio I / Fall 2014 Critics: John Zissovici & Mark Morris ACT 1: MEMORY - LOST House, DEVICE House The LOST house, the most private of all houses, is the house of childhood memories. By means of deconstruct and reconstruct of image moments and insubstantial fragments in memory to reconcile and transform a private memory into a public experience. The excavator shaving the ground in the backyard remains the strongest childhood memory of the house. The device is therefore constructed to allow viewers to visually experience the excavating movement and physically trigger the movement, therefore, bridging the device with the viewer.

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ACT 2: SET DESIGN monologue "The Human Voice" T h e 1 9 9 6 m o n o l o g u e " t h e H u m a n Vo i ce" i s a monologue set in Paris, where a middle-aged woman is on a phone call with her lover of the last five years. He is to marry another woman the next day, which causes her to despair. The monologue traces the woman's mental breakdown. Three major psychological and physical status have been shown via three different modes of the stage. The stage begins with a total chaos which examplifies protagonist's initial mental break down and her despair. As her lover's call comes in, she tries to hold herself together and pretends to be indifferent, the stage then fold itself up and transform from inital chaos to skewed reality to the audience. At last, as she cannot cover herself anymore, the stage changes in accordance with her inner feeling and reach the climax of mental breakdown mode three 59

La MaMa Experimental Theater 66 E 4th St, New York, NY

ACT III: La MaMa Director's Penthouse The trustees of La MaMa Theater ETC have decided to preserve the apartment of beloved founder Ellen Stewart as part of their larger archive project. The penthouse, corresponding to her hand-on approach to directing the theater, is thus commissioned by the board.

The penthouse is a private residence with a public face. It is a place of refuge and quiet research for the director, but also a venue for weekly dinners with actors and crew as well as a venue for fundraising events. Taking the essential qualitative character from the previous study and expanding upon the themes and forms of both the LOSTHouse device and the set design, not only a change of the movement, but a change in the visual and physical experience is then adopted in the penthouse deisgn. Two major modes of living is then created: theater mode when the penthouse sliding backward with a set of seating dropping down, and catering mode when the penthouse sliding forward creating an extensive open space on the first floor and an extension of the view to the street below on the second floor.

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change of formal structure

change of spatial experience

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2. catering mode moveable space

open circulation

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street connection As the movable part of the penthouse slides forward, the first floor space is thus totally opened up with extensive space for catering and various social activities. The seating is pulled back as the ceiling and dinning table can be then moved to the staging area used to be in the theater mode. The bedroom on the second level is brought further to establish a closer visual and experiential connection with the street life below.

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hand-drafting axonmetric

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Device from Precedent Study

Rand Hall Assemblage Cornell AAP / Core Design Studio II / Spring 201 5 Critic: Lily Chi & Julian Palaccio

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As one of qualitative character derived from the precedent study, "seeing and being seen", the concept is then carried from the paper to a device installed in Rand Hall. By adopting the reflection principle of the mirror and different levels of sanding, the device, locating at the corner of two partition walls, is therefore able to connect people walking from different directions and create a situation of encouter via revealment and concealment.

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ITHACA ASSEMBLAGE city within building: alley condition One of the Ithaca's City Federation of Women's Organization (CFWO), defines its mission in providing opportunities that enrich the lives of women of all ages and their families through its diverse services.

The new CFWO building will house not only member organizations, but also an expanding network of nonprofit tenant occupants, a private library, the Ithaca Farmer's Market, a rental commercial ktchen and reception facility, and music classes for children and adults. The Women's Community Building could then be seen as a microcosm of a city for the diversity of activities and temporalities that it houses.

Via bringing back the neglected space beside the site, the alleyway, a re-recognition of forgotten space and a new way of "seeing and being seen" are established. The alley condition is then bridging different people influx points together: the northern and southern sides of the building, and second as well as the third level of the nearby parking lot.

Concealment and revealment are then expressed by different kinds of construction material based on programmatic usage of the space. Therefore, as people traverse through the building, a sense of immersing in the alley condition and revealment to various activities are delivered to the viewer.

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alley condition visualization

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1. applying a mass on the site

2. finding the alley condition

3. substraction

4. reorientation by anchor points

5. bridging different locations

6. inserting filtered access

7. material for revealment and concealment

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1. flexible/assembly space 2. cafe & commercial kitchen 3. non-profit retial 4. wcb offices 5. wcb meeting room 6. library & research center 7. wcb community offices 8. art gallery & exhibition 9. reception, storage, & restroom

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VISUALS 01

Expanding Mat-Organization urban fabric & Asian megalopolis

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Draw free-hand drawing & geometric projection

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TIME FRAMES exposure in visual thinking

MEGALOPOLIS RESEARCH ANALYSIS

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Geometric constructions are abstractions that, outside of geometry for the sake of itself, tend to be clothed, given the appearance of concrete objects evoking haptic experiential possibilities – such as texture, weight – but also recognizability – a “Doric column”, a generic “column”, and so forth.

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186 Bond Street, Brooklyn, NY By studying the work of two disparate artists, Bo berg and Decorcia, imagery will be created that emulates and responds to the contrasting styles of lighting and composition;. 3D interventions and people will be composited to animate the scenes. Through a series of image=making, photographic, collage and CGI, a crafted new readings of space, time, and story within NYC will be created.

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Never Yesterday: the LOST trainline Juxtaposition, double exposure and crosspollination of real and imagined sites. After identifying, researching and documenting a NYC site, in this case, the intersection of Atlantic Avenue and 4th Avenue, an image narrative will be created that displays the effect of time on the site, which reveals the history as well as an imagined future of the site within the composition.

1. history 1985: trainline still existed at Atlantic train station 2. present: the control house still exists, but the trainline gone 3. history into the present: bring back the oldfashioned trainline to the present 4. futuristic intervention: remind viewer of the historical trainline in a much more futuristic fashion 5. final future scene: adding photographed figures into the scene

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PROFESSIONAL 2015

United Architects & Engineers Co., Ltd. ZHUYEQING Tea Ltd. Headquarters

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AntiStatics Architecture Co., Ltd. 789 Village Mix-Use Project

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VANKE Co., Ltd "Cathay Manor" Luxury Residential Complex Development

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Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates (KPF) Office Lobby Renovation for Shanghai World Financial Center

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ZHUYEQING Tea Ltd. Headquarter location: E Mei Moutain, Sichuan Province United Architects & Engineers Co., Ltd. The designed building will serve as the main office building, tourist center, and production factory for Zhuyeqing Tea Ltd. Representing one of the three proposals to the client and finally became the selected one, the scheme is then been further developed and refined. The idea of bringing the tea and zen together, giving the work space a mediative atmosphere, which also corresponds to the essential tea culture of Zhuyeqing Tea, evoking a peaceful mind. The idea of having a central courtyard and dividing the space into private (working space), semi-private (walking corridor), and public (the inner scenery) will give the space a sense of order but also provide concealment and revelation based on the program usage.

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The central courtyard creates an interior sceneary which would echo and bridge the exterior and at the same time create a peaceful atmosphere inside

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789 Village Mix-Use location: Shijiazhuang, Hebei Province AntiStatics Architecture Co., Ltd. The 12,4471m2 mix-use proposal will accommodate an office tower, a hotel and lower-level commercial developments. Implementing the concept of creating an organic urban valley, a new relationship of working and living is then established, different levels of outdoor platforms enabling various activities and interactions among workers, shoppers and outdoor space. By adopting algorithm to create optimized stacks, the land could be used to the maximum efficiency while maintaining a balanced FAR. Pixelated ceramic tiles are intended to create different levels of influx of natural light and visual porosities according to the programs and intended users.

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Shanghai World Financial Center Interior Renovation location: Shanghai, China Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates (KPF) Designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox and developed by the Mori Building Company, The Shanghai World Financial Center is a supertall skyscraper located in the Pudong district of Shanghai, China. It is a mixed-use skyscraper, consisting of offices, hotels, conference rooms, observation decks, and ground-floor shopping malls. After almost 10 years of its completion, the deterioration of its lobby and common area requires an imminent renovation of its interior in order to draw new potential new tenants and uplift the existing spatial quality to a new standard. Three options were developed during the schematic design phase: emphasizing entry, spatial continuity, and flow and lobby expansion. The idea here for option two – spatial continuity is to adopt the movement of the wood louvers to direct people into different spatial threshold and at the same time echoes the spatial quality of the space.

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1st level reflective ceiling plan

2nd level common area axonometric

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Autostadt Roof and ServicePavilion location: Wolfsburg, Germany Cornell AAP / Structure II / fall 201 5 Architect: Graft Gesellschaft von Architekten The Autostadt Roof and Service Pavilion structure is part of a 15,000-square-meter driving space allowing guests to try out the electronic systems of new car models. The new roof of the main gate in front of the customer center of Autostadt Wolfsburg is a double-curved surface structure that is dynamically shaped by a steel-framed brim, a cable network and a lining membrane. This roof, a membranecladded double-curved cable net, appears like a leaf that just landed on the ground. The lightweight roof which is tensioned between a cantilevering steel compression ring spans 1610m² with only 8.3 kg/m² of structural weight. For all kinds of cable nets construction, open and closed, pretensioned and non-tensioned, such structures allow the construction of extremely slender building envelopes.

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DIXIN BAO EDUCATION

HONORS

EXPERIENCE New York, NY 06-08, 2017

Beijing, CN 06-08, 2016

(607)229-3984 db748@cornell.edu 314 Cornell St. Ithaca, NY 14850

Cornell University Professional Master of Architecture Cornell Baker Program in Real Estate Minor

Ithaca, NY Dec 16th, 2017 GPA: 3.54/4.00

Hobart and William Smith Colleges Bachelor of Arts in Architectural Studies Mathematics Minor

Geneva, NY May 19th, 2013 GPA: 3.97/4.00

Graduate Teaching Assistant Cornell Architecture Director’s Award Summa Cum Laude Hobart College Dean’s List Hobart Trustee Scholarship Hobart Heritage Scholar

Spring & Fall 2017 2015, 2016, 2017 May 17th, 2013 2011, 2012, 2013 2011, 2012, 2013 2011, 2012, 2013

Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates (KPF) Intern Architect Assisted project manager with modeling, diagraming and rendering for the lobby and common area renovation of Shanghai World Financial Center, a 492-m mixed-use supertall skyscraper of 381,600 m2 of floor area. Prepared the schematic design drawing set for the interior renovation of the project. Assisted project manager in developing drawings and diagrams for the concept design of Huamu Lot 10 mixed-use project, a mixed-use complex with three office towers of total 385,137 m2 gross floor area.

VANKE Co., Ltd (Fortune Global 500) Design Management Center Assisted project manager in coordinating with different parties for Guancheng residential development project, a luxury single-family housing development of total 123,409 m2 gross floor area. Engaged in scheduling and coordination with architects and consultants for the sample unit construction of the project. Involved in adaptive reuse and developments for senior living development and conducted pro-forma analysis for various options.

Beijing, CN 07-11, 2015

Beijing, CN 05-07, 2015

Shanghai, CN 05-07, 2012

SKILLS

AntiStatics Architecture Co., Ltd. Intern Architect Engaged in concept design for the "Valley" urban development in Shijiazhuang, a mixed-use project of 124,471 m2 gross floor area with 4.63 FAR. Assisted project manager with developing plan iterations, diagramming and rendering for the project and compiled final package for the client meeting. Developed design iterations and renderings for the proposal of New National Zoo competition in Beijing.

United Architects & Engineers Co., Ltd. Intern Architect Assisted project manager with designing and developing one of the three schematic proposals for ZHU YE QING TEA headquarters in Emeishan City, Sichuan Province, an administration headquarters with 3,000 m2 office area. The scheme was selected as final design and the project is currently under construction.

Mulvanny G2 Architecture Intern Architect Led the research effort of the Xi'an mixed-use project in Xi’an, Shanxi Province. Synthesized the elements of traditional Xi'an architecture and planning into its simplest elements of architectural vocabulary, which was included in the 50% concept package for the client meeting.

Assisted project manager with compiling and editing the final package delivered to the client.

3D: Rhinoceros 3D, Grasshopper, T-Spline, REVIT, Sketchup 2D: AutoCAD, Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign, Premiere Fabrication: 3D Printing, Powder Printing, Lasercutting, CNC milling Real Estate: ARGUS, Pro-forma Analysis, Cash Flow Analysis Language: English, Mandarin Chinese

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