Siyu Huang architecture portfolio

DESIGN PORTFOLIO For Position in Architecture Selected Works 2012-2020

Siyu Huang Washington University M. Arch II 2020’

Contact siyu@wustl.edu +1-(314)-229-6094

Education Siyu Huang

08.2018-05.2020

Email siyu@wustl.edu

Director’s Scholarship

Tel +1-(314)-229-6094 Address 6040 Westminster Pl,

Washington University in St. Louis Master of Architecture II

09.2012-06.2017

Guangzhou University Bachelor of Architecture (5-year)

Saint Louis, MO, 63112

Reference

Practice

Sung Ho Kim

06.2019-08.2019

WRNS Studio

sungho@wustl.edu

400 Logue Housing, Mountain View, CA

Robert McCarter

South Main Mixed Use, Redwood, CA

rmccarter@wustl.edu

Intern Architect/ Detail design, Rendering, Modeling 08.2017-07.2018

Guangzhou Design Institute GDUFE in Sihui, China Resort in Da nang, Vietnam Xitian Science Park Tower in Guangzhou, China Assistant Architect/ Design development, CD

08.2016-11.2016

Huacheng Design Institute Co., Ltd Jiangsu College of Tourism Biding, China Guangzhou Panyu District Library Biding, China Intern Architect/ Diagram, Detail design

Experience 05.2020-11.2020

Intern Designer/ Axi:Ome Kleptogenic Chamber, Venice, Italy Silverlake High School. Hangzhou, China

01.2020-05.2020

Research Assistant of Prof. Sung Ho Kim

10.2019-12.2019

Exhibition: Seeing Double: Decoys and Depictions

02.2019-12.2019

Publication: 2 works in WashU GSAUD Approach 19-20

11.2017-12.2017

Investigation on Self-built Houses of Urban Village Participated in the 2017 Bi-city Biennial of Architecture

09.2014-02.2015

Publication: The Architect of South China Series Editor Assistant/ Photograph, Interview

Other Language

English (Proficient), Cantonese, Mandarin (Native)

Skills

Rhino, SketchUp, AutoCAD, Revit, Diva, VRay, Enscape, GIS, Adobe Suite, 3D printing, Laser-cutting, Physical modeling, Prototyping

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Silverlake High School

2020

_ Axi:Ome / professional work

Director Program Location Data

_ Heather Woofter, Sung Ho Kim _ Educational _ Hangzhou, China _ Under Construction

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Spatial volume massing

Lift: massing raised

Split: volume divided

Form: pull massing

Detail: raise east/ slope south facade

Connection: exterior bridges

Green space: ground level

Green space: second level

Green space: third level

Pedestrian campus connection

Vehicle circulation

Micro-climate mister locations

Site Strategy and Circulation Due to the sloping nature of the site, the building entrances are split between the lower level and first level. The large open lobby serves as a hub for people visiting from off campus. The lowest level accommodates the parking garage.

South Elevation/ Main Entrance 5

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Study Model, Top view Study Model, Bird’s eye north Study Model, Bird’s eye east

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West Entrance, Pedestrian East Entrance, Vehicle

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West Elevation

Physical model, Main enterance for pedestrain

South Elevation

Physical model, Lighting columns with mistcooling

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Short Section

Physical model, Stairs and ramps

Long Section

Physical model, Connections of two buildings

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Third Floor

Ground Floor

Incorporate Layers and Overlapping Programs The interior of the building is designed to incorporate layers, overlapping areas of program, circulation and common space providing a dimension of transparency throughout the spaces.

The connections made here are visual and spatial.

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01 Interior Rendering, Corridor

03 Interior Rendering, Gallery/ Reading Area

02 Interior Rendering, lobby

04 Interior Rendering, Lower Level Stair

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Bridge Detail Section

Window Assembly

Facade Pattern and Tile Accent

Water Diagram Section

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Vivienda en Sevilla

2019

_ Individual work

Instructor Duration Program Location

_ Prof. Sara de Giles _ 3 months _ Coworking and housing _ Casco Antiguo, Seville, Spain

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Physical Massing Model

Street facade

Party wall

Patio/ void

Urban Fabric Casco Antiguo in Sevilla is composed of large city blocks and party wall system, which led to complicated and porous city form to meet the needs of passage, lighting and ventilation.

Party wall system

Maximizing regular space

Optimizing boundaries

Stacking and linking

Site Strategy and Scheme Generation My strategy is to use two totally different elements to coordinate with the site.

The regular volumn meets the need of regular space for coworking and housing.

The organic volumn is for dealing with ragged boundaries.

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4th floor 1 2 3 4 5

_ Tarrace _ Skybar _ Mechanical _ Single room _ Family room

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2nd floor 1 2 3 4 5 6

_ Coworking space _ Exhibition _ Teahouse _ Lecture hall _ Shared meeting rm. _ Shared reading rm.

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Residents’ terrace Space of relation Elevated street Coworker and resident

Perforated metal Glazing system

Coworking space Single rooms Single rooms

Family housing

Skybar/ club Roof deck Coworking space

Mechanical Coworking space

Public terrace Resident terrace

Outside lounge

Lecture hall Coworking space Exhibition space

Coworking space

Coworking and Public Space The workspace is connected by public space. Shared meeting rooms and exhibtion area is arranged around the patoio where coworkers can meet their future partners and to present their projects to the public.

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4th Floor

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A2

B1

B2

C1

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A2-B1-B2-C1

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3th Floor

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_ Corridor _ Kitchen for four _ Living rm. for four _ Study rm. for two _ Bedroom

Interior elevation/ Section/ Exterior facade

Small-sized Collective Housing The two-story units are designed to give different rooms different levels of privacy. Residents need to share living room and kitchen with other residents, which enhances communication and interaction.

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Wall Section Physical model, Long section Physical model, Roof landscape

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Faux Terrain above City

2018

_ Individual work

Instructor Duration Program Location

_ Prof. Sung Ho Kim _ 3 months _ Autodesk buildspace _ Boylston St, Boston, MA, US

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Boston, like most American cities, inevitably became a city with cars as the main means of transportation when it urbanized. In the site, the PEDESTRIAN GROUND was replaced by the intersecting three-dimensional traffic system. Narrow and winding street are not only unfit for human walking but also cause safety hazards because of the crowds from the metro station and bus stops nearby. Â This project is based on the in-depth studying of the horizontal flow of street level and developing architectural intervention to optimize operations. A light architecture was proposed to create link between pedestrian grounds and expanse urban open space. The mechanized and automated Autodesk's build space is inserted with flexible arrangement of equipment. It not only saves city space, but also play a display role for the company as well as the city. The building itself is like a FAUX TERRAIN above street, which re-establish new order and restore control of the city to pedestrians.

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Physical model with complete topography

P2

Physical model with underground movement

P3 P4

Physical model, The Movement around the Site Physical model, The Movement under the Ground

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Physical model “The Art of War�

Physical model, Reorganizing movement and generating form

01 Analyzing

02 Articulating

Movement, arrival pattern and dense regions

Directions and density of movement

03 Reorganizating

04 Generating

Reorganized movement and bridge floor

Floors and structure above the bridge

P1 P2 P3

Physical model, Bird’s eye Physical model, Perspective Physical model, Bird’s eye 37

P1 P2 P3

Structure of brideges Geometry generation Upainted site model

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Physical model, Looking down from office building

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Second Floor

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Street Level

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100ft 25m

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College of Music Viewing Platform

Physical model, Looking to the Convention Center

Section C-C

Bus Stop

Stage

Bleacher

Public Terrace Parking Lot

Workshop

Dog Park

Bridge

Bi-level Bar

Physical model, View from Boylston St.

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Section A-A

Section B-B

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The Nature of Space

2019

_ Individual work

Instructor Duration Program Location

_ Prof. Robert McCarter _ 3 months _ Archive for Ancient Books _ Old City, Jerusalem, Israel

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[Dialog of making between the light and heavy elements] Kahn proposes that one should begin with an idea about space, as a place of experience, and that this spatial conception then gives direction and meaning to the development of program—the poetics of action, and construction—the poetics of construction. “You plan a library as though no library had ever existed”. This project started from a CUBE.

CUBE: Rooms (exploded)/ Threshold/ Meeting room for two people

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“The room is the beginning of architecture.”

“The room should inspire its use without being named.”

“The space induces the project. If you have a space, something happens, the program then starts.

It does not start before you make the space.”

-- Louis I Kahn

Physical model, Dark corridor to the chapel/ View from bench in chapel

Physical model, Chapel for one people 51

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Level 1

Level 2

Section 1-1

Section 2-2

[Space Within - Scared Light for All Religions] Prayers need natural light in the morning, afternoon and at noon. It is important to bring sacred light in to the CUBE when carving the space and chosing appropriate structural materials. In this CUBE, light is an important controlling factor. I create enclosed spaces mainly by thick concrete walls to create a place for the individual, “a zone for oneself within society�.

Wood is used to build objects that people will touch and to filter light carefully.

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[Embossings of the Sky / Etchings in the Earth]

“To find a crease, to cut and reshape the land, like an etching. Architecture is connected to the earth, and the land is as important as the building. The surface of the earth is the canvas of the architect.�

--Tod Williams and Billie Tsien

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Tectonics/Jerusalem Jerusalem Stone Tectonics/ StoneFaรงade Faรงade

Tectonics/Archive Archive for Tectonics/ forAcient Acientbooks books 57

Chamber Music Hall 2019

_ Group Work

Instructor Duration Location

_ Edward Ford _ 3 Months _ St. Louis, MO, USA

Comcept Sketch/ Rendering

Wall Section

Building Systems/ Sections

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Precast Concrete Study 2020

_ Group Work

Instructor Duration Location

_ Pablo Moyano _ 3 Months _ St. Louis, MO, USA

Interior/ Exterior/ Plan/ Section/ Forming Process

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Logue Avenue Apartment 2019

_ Intern Practical Work

Firm Phase Location

_ WRNS Studio _ SD+DD _ Mountain View, CA, USA

Rendering/ Master Plan/ Apartment plan

South Main Mixed Use 2019

_ Intern Practical Work

Firm Phase Location

_ WRNS Studio _ DD _ Redwood, CA, USA

Renderings/ Facade Study 63

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Oasis in Block

2016

_ Individual work

Instructor Duration Program Location

_ Prof. Xue Li _ 3 months _ Community library _ Nanting village, HEMC, Guangzhou, China

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It is the community library opening to all residents instead of a book room that isolates from its sunroundings. The focus of this project is to combine the spatial experience and site-specific BEHAVIORS. Therefore, the proposal of the building introduces occupying behavior on the site - the behavior of locals who keep occupying outside the edge of the building until they reach the agreed boundary.

The four bent load-bearing walls underlying the building are recessed inwards and provides the residents with the possibility of a variety of activities, such as taking advantage of the shadow, setting up stalls or playing chess. Contrary to the ground floor, the reading space on the top supported by the load-bearing walls.

And the reading space as function is repose and safe. It is closed around by bookshelves but open to the center. The building itself is like a OASIS in block, with quiet and safe reading space on the top and under-shadowed ground floor space for residents from surrounding.

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Step 1 Transformation into business

Step 2 Blind occupation of the street

Step 3 Establishment of the red line

Bench Induvidual Steps

Presentation

Group Activities

Discussion

Lecture

Marketing Small business Exhibition

Occupation Behavior Study The occupation behavior of the site would grow rudely at first and would form and follow specific rules in the end. The purpose of occupation will also affect the way of occupation.

Typical plan

Inward boundary

Full occupation

7:30 AM Reading newspaper in the morning

11:00 AM Resting in the shadow after buying food

5:00 PM Communicating after work and after school

9:00 PM Selling small goods and snacks at night

Daily Routine and Scheme Generation One aim of the design is to provide shadow for surrounding residents and to be occupied by small shops and other activities at night, which is common in the rensidents’ daily life.

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Shading and Bookshelf

Floor Plate

Structure and Terrace

Breathing space

Plaza

View from square

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2nd floor 1 2

_ Book shelf _ Reading area

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1st floor 1 2

_ Public area _ Community lecture

Centripetal vs. Centrifuge A centrifugal plan on the ground floor attracts surrounding residents, and the reading area on the top is centripetal which give reader a sense of tranquil and stable. And they can aware of each other by void in the middle.

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Reading area Community lecture

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Structure The building structure is made up of eight columns connected to the shear wall at the bottom, which make it possible to create a large void in the middle of the building and provide open and quiet environmentin the reading area. Meanwhile the corner of the building can provide shadow to residents outside the building after remove corner columns.

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Roof EL +9.650

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Thrid floor EL +6.350

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Second floor EL +3.050

Entrance EL ±0.000

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Joint of bookshelf and facade

Bookshelf structure Shading board

Books

Bookshelf

Metal panel Glazing system

Facade unit

Facade and Bookshelf The bookshelf and facade of the building are integrated. The aim is to allow readers to use soft external light to pre-read books, and find a comfortable posture close to the surroundings.

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The Night Life The building at night will illuminate the surrounding environment like a lantern. At the same time through window in the ground floor residents sitting here can feel a sense of peace with soft light from the building.

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Rhythm of Street

2015

_ Individual work

Instructor Duration Program Location

_ Prof. Yang Zhao _ 3 months _ Craftsmen studio _ Lizhiwan, Liwan district, Guangzhou, China

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As the industrialization has hit modern craftsmen, craftsmen are forced to move from traditional neighborhoods to suburbs. Accompanied by the disappearance of the sound of knocking copper in the neighborhood, and this skill gradually faded from the eyes of the local people.

In the traditional streets, there is an ambigious space between the houses and the street, the each residence presents its own scenes to other people. The street is like a DNA, made up of genes, and finally shows the unique personality as a whole. This is the neighborhood relationship and street atmosphere that belongs to the locals. Since then, I created a new bearing structure after I rethought the thick wall between traditional ‘bamboo houses’ and put the scene of Craftsmen back into the void between the structures. In this project, residents could interact with craftsmen just like they chatted with neighbors.

The priority in this project was to make residents and tourists feel the RHYTHM of the street and to make architecture become a part of their LIFE rooted in their memory.

P1 P2

Physical Model, Small public alley with traditional ‘Bamboo Houses’ Master Layout Plan

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1860s Urban construction

1920s Capital growth

1990s Tourism development

History There are two different kinds of buildings in the site, ‘bamboo houses’ and west-style buildings. The starting point of the scheme is to connect the two and integrate into the local context.

Bamboo Houses

Light wells

Semi-pravite space

Semi-public space

Building volume

Private gardens

Artisans’ workrooms

Exhibition and resting area

Bamboo House Study and Scheme Generation Neatly arranged bamboo houses constitute local street’s special atmosphere. In the purpose the scenes of the processes of making copperwares are inserted into the street as a whole.

Axonometric

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2nd floor 1 2 3 4

_ Storeroom _ Private study _ Living room _ Restroom

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Square

Street

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1st floor 1 2 3 4

_ Pre-processing _ Hot-working _ Cold-working _ Post-processing

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Looking to the end of the street

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Bamboo house

Mansion house

Western-style building

Layer 3 Household chores

Layer 2 Rest and refresh

Layer 1 Communication

Layers of Street The artisan studio is conceived by studying the layers receding from the street, to form workrooms with different level of intimacy, and to form a close connection with the local residents.

1 _Pre-processing Designing

2 _Hot-wokring

Cutting

Softening

3 _Cold-working Hammering

Creating texture

Production Process of Copperware The production of copperwares is made up of four processes. In the design they face the streets as their respective scenes and become part of the collective memory of the community.

4 _Post-processing Coloring

Varnishing

01 Pre-processing

02 Hot-working

The uplifting tarrace for quietly thinking

The sinking tarrace for roasting and knocking

03 Cold-working

04 Post-processing

The tarrace facing both streets and garden

The L-shaped tarrace for modulation the pigment

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Structure/ Solid

The Solid

Workroom/ Void

The Void

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Roof membrane

Roof joist Wood panel facade

Glazing system

Concrete structure

01 02 03 04

_ Pre-processing _ Hot-working _ Cold-working _ Post-processing

Solid vs. Void The solid and the void spaces are arranged one by one, the void space is open to the street as workrooms, and the solid space becomes the private space for craftsmen to meditate and refresh.

Workrooms

Corridors

Gardens

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SIYU HUANG siyu@wustl.edu (314)-229-6094