YUE XI
Architectural & Interior Design Portfolio
Skills
Rhino
Revit
Auto CAD
Sketchup
Enscape
V-Ray
Illustrator
Photopshop
InDesign
Microsoft Suite
Hand Drafting
Model Making
Laser Cutting
3D Printing
CNC Machine
Midjourney
Blender
Unreal Engine
Premiere Pro
Electives
Color Theory
Textile Specifications
Digital Fabrication
Calculus I - III
Involvement
IIDA NEOCONSIN
Volunteer Fall 2022
IIDA Bag Bash Volunteer Spring 2022
Language English Chinese (Native)
Architectural & Interior Designer
yxi124@g.ucla.edu
608-960-1679
www.linkedin.com/in/yue-xi-ivy
University of California - Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA
• Master of Architecture (NAAB Accredited) Expected Graduation: Jun 2026
• Overall GPA: 3.7/4.0
University of Wisconsin - Madison (CIDA Accredited) Madison, WI
• Bachelor of Science in Interior Architecture Sep 2018 -Dec 2022
• Overall GPA: 3.7/4.0 (Honor: Dean’s List for 5 semesters)
Beijing Institute of Architectural Design
Beiing, China
Interior Design Intern Jun 2023 – Jul 2023
• Produced preliminary site, building, and culture analysis for large civic projects, such as convention centers, science forums, and libraries, and created attractive story-telling presentations
• Assisted in generating comprehensive floor plans in AutoCAD and corresponding diagrams with color labels and circulation and transportation in Photoshop
• Designed carpets for a convention center project using organic patterns and textures in relating culture themes, and collaborated with the manufacturer to produce sample carpets
• Performing assistive design works, including attending group meetings, researching about precedents, and managing clients’ meeting records
Center for Design and Material Culture
Madison, WI
Gallery Assistant Sep 2019 - Nov 2019 & Sep 2021- May 2022
• Organized visitor records, kept track of security and cameras, and replied to emails and phone calls professionally and quickly
• Kindly guided the visitors, helped them to contact with the curator, and introduced the exhibition contents so they have a considerate experience
• Actively assisted with gallery installation, including storing fabrics, painting walls and cleaning, as well as participating in school events such as the Day of the Dead at the school of Human Ecology and student exhibition reception as host and photographer
W&T design studio
Nanjing, China
Interior Design Intern Jun 2021 – Jul 2021
• Made construction drawings and generated floor plans in AutoCAD from sitevisiting photos for residential and small commercial projects
• Brainstormed space design ideas, and generated sets of furniture selections and plans in AutoCAD
• Produced preliminary sketches and renderings in Sketchup and Enscape
• Attended clients’ meetings and office visits, and maintained a professional studio environment
The NEXT Cosmetics
Modern Office Design · Manhattan, NY
Undergraduate | Fall 2021 | UW-Madison
The Moon House
Student Wellness Center · Madison, WI
Undergraduate | Spring 2022 | UW-Madison
The Malaya Lolas Museum
Memoiral Museum · Kuala Lumpur
Undergraduate | Fall 2022 | UW-Madison
The Zen | Proto-Architecture
Childcare & Spiritual Center · Los Angeles, CA
Graduate | Fall 2023 | UCLA AUD
Architectural Mediations
Drawing, Digital Modeling & Image Making
Graduate | Fall 2023 | UCLA AUD
Course: Interior design studio III | UW-Madison
Type: Individual Work
Instructor: Jennifer Meyers & Brooke Godfrey
Software: Revit, Enscape, PS, AI
Time: Fall 2021
The NEXT project is a office space design for a start-up clean beauty company that is based in Manhattan, New York. Flexibility, inclusitivity, sustainability, and privacy are achieved through a calming color palette, biophillic design, and dynamic circulation with in the workspace. The design of the space will create an unique identity rooted in Korean culture featuring a beauty spa and a meditation yoga studio.
To create a fully immersive and inspiring environment, multiple senses like olfactory, tactile, and visual stimulations are spread through the space. Considering the post-pandemic influences, personal spaces, community spaces, and vitural working spaces are carefully arranged with the aid of technology.
Course: Interior Design Studio IV | UW-Madison
Type: Individual Work
Instructor: Lesley Sager
Software: Revit, Enscape, PS, AI
Time: Spring 2022
The Moon House is a unique and inclusive student wellness center located on the University of Wisconsin - Madison. It is a renovation project using the old Horse Barn located in the west lake district on campus. The Moon House will be a place of rejuvenation where students can enrich their connections to themselves, their surrounding environment and community, as well as feel a sense of place & belonging.
The Moon House boosts a wellness cafe, evening bar, and a special performance area for student activities such as music and comedy. The pet therapy rooms, the wellness cafe, stduent work retail space, and the historical gallery are located on the first two floors, create a intimate, calming and healing atmosphere. As students move up to the third floor, the space becomes more dynamic, engaging, and mysterious. The Moon House bar and the Moon House show encourage students to develop creativity, socialization and contribution to a larger community.
Furniture plan level 1
1 lobby
2 student work retail space
3 history gallery
4 wellness cafe
5 kitchen
6 janitor's closet
22 monumnetal staircase
23 elevator
24 egress
25 gender neutral restroom
Furniture plan level 2
7 social lounge
8 open shared office
9 presentation space
10 resource room
11 study space
12 private office
13 therapy room
14 therapy check in
22 monumnetal staircase
23 elevator
24 egress
25 gender neutral restroom
26 locker
Furniture plan level 3
15 bar storage
16 community share zone
17 flexbile event room
18 music bar
19 audience seating
20 stage
21 backstage
22 monumnetal staircase
23 elevator
24 egress
25 ADA restroom
26 locker
ROUND LIGHT STRIP
SEMI-TRANSPARENT GLASS
WHITE GYPSUM COLUMN
STEEL LOGO
SPHERICAL LIGHT SHADE
1" x 1" WOOD STRIP SPACED 7"
INCREASING 4" IN LENGTH
STEEL BOTTOM
BLACK LAMINATE FRAME
CURVE SHAPE STEEL PANEL
IVORY LAMINATE PANEL
SISAL PET SCRATCHER
GREY LAMINATE SEAT
BLACK LAMINATE PET PLAYING CABINET
original timber truss system repainted with black paint
Image Source: https://www.vqronline.org/photography/2021/12/malaya-lolas
Course: Interior Design Studio V | UW-Madison
Type: Individual Work
Instructor: Erin Hamilton
Software: Revit, Enscape, PS, AI
Time: Fall 2022
This is the final thesis design studio for undergraduate, derived from an exsiting building and re-configured the interior. The Malaya Lolas museum is a museum and memorial designed as rememberance for comfort women who suffered from forced sex slavery during the WWII. It intends to reveal the stories of comfort women, provide social supports for victims, as well as appeal to compassion from the public.
The visiting experience transits from the main exhibition presenting dark and painful history, objects and paintings, to a brighter women’s art exhibition, and finally a contemporary exhibition space. The interactive memorial wall and courtyard is located at the center, providing a space for visitors to rest and contemplate. By accomplishing the tour, the visitors experience pain, sorrow, forgiveness, reconcilation, hope, and finally being fully cured.
• A fixed path presenting historical images and stories.
• Incorporation of sound-absorptive and endurable materials.
fixed path - oppression
free-exploring - freedom
• A free exploring section with art work, sculptures, and installations.
• Specially curated with art works for comfort women.
• A narrow hallway created by the space between two curved walls.
• A change in ceiling height and materials to show a transition to the next phase.
• A women's art exhibiton specially curated with supportive female art wrok.
• A large skylight that allows light to come through.
• Mimic the shape of a folding book, inviting visitors to come closer.
• A interactive memorial wall for people to commemorate with flowers.
• Use of natural elements to create a contemplative mood.
• Customized seating and pond in the shape of a leaf.
Course: Introductory Design Studio | UCLA AUD
Type: Individual Work
Instructor: Benjamin Freyinger
Software: Rhino, V-ray, PS, AI, Midjourney
Time: Fall 2023
First studio in a core sequence within the MArch I program at UCLA. This 3-parts studio explores issues that are central to the discipline – space, form, and representation.
The final design is a proto-architecture for a childcare and spiritual center located in Los Angeles. Gaining inspiration from abstract art, the creation of proto-architectural conditions examines ways of inhabiting and experiencing space, as well as considering environmental context and rain water collection.
Part A starts with orthographic studies of the toy of choice - a lattern I choose, and then is exchanged with another student to produce a compositional exquisite corpse drawing. Then the drawing is constructed into a physical 2.5D paper relief model which translates the implied spatial and formal configurations from the drawing into 3-dimensional space. Lastly, the 2.5D model is re-interpreted in AI software - Midjourney, to explore more variations and alternative images.
Choice of Toy Orthographic Drawing Drawing From Another Student*
Re-composition Process
Exquisite Corpse Drawing
Midjourney Variations
Part B - Proto plan
Continuely, Part B starts with the analysis in Part A to further develop arrangement of figures, shapes, edges and spaces that are suggestive of relationships. Along with the analysis with O.M. Ungers’ plan typology diagrams, the artifact is redrawn as a prototypical plan, based on analysis, indicating walls, columns, poche, space and organizational logic. By recomposing and transforming the spaces, walls, thresholds, and edges to amplify the spatial and organizational qualities of historical precedents, a hybridized proto-plan is drawn.
As an extension of the plans from Part A & B, the final building is a programmatic and spatial hybrid for two different user groups - a childcare and spiritual center. The building is located at an imaginary urban site in urban Los Angleles, which is a flat ground with small hills strategically placed. The proto-building is designed within the 100ft by 100ft site boundary and 30 ft in height.
Course: Architectural Mediation I | UCLA AUD
Type: Individual Work
Instructor: Miroslava Brooks & Morgane Cop
Software: Rhino, V-ray, PS, AI
Time: Fall 2023
Architectural Mediation I includes two modules that utilize Rhino and V-ray to produce drawings and renderings. In the first module, an existing sculpture is rebuilt in Rhino with speculation of unseen details, as well as orthogonal drawings. Then, a closed-up rendering of the sculpture is made with shadows and textures implying potential possibility of architecture. In the second module, line drawings are traced from photos and images of landscape and building plans. A hybrid plan is drawn with altered scale and details, showing the interaction of plans and the large landscape.
