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
Education Background
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 Madison, WI
• Bachelor of Science in Interior Architecture (CIDA Accredited) Sep 2018 -Dec 2022
• Overall GPA: 3.7/4.0 (Honor: Dean’s List for 5 semesters)
Design & Work Experience
IA Interior Architects Chicago, IL
Interior Design Intern Jun 2023 – Sep 2024
• Modeled custom decorative components in Revit, generating preliminary renderings with Enscape by testing and applying materials and fabrics for workplace design projects
• Revised and refined floor plans, elevations, and signage/tagging plans in Revit based on client feedback and sketches, and collaborating with the graphic design team to deliver comprehensive solutionAssisted in generating comprehensive floor plans in AutoCAD and corresponding diagrams with color labels and circulation and transportation in Photoshop
• Maintained material libraries, communicated with reps and vendors, procured material samples, and crafted detailed material palettes for BDO, BMO, FINRA, etc, while actively participating in industry events and lunch-and-learns to stay informed on emerging trends
• Performing assistive design works, including attending group meetings, researching about precedents, and managing clients’ meeting records
• Assisted with a sustainable report for United Airlines in Chicago by calculating embodied carbon reductions through reused partitions and furniture and integrating data into highlighted floor plans
Beijing Institute of Architectural Design
Beiing, China
Interior Design Intern Jun 2023 – Jul 2023
• Conducted preliminary site, building, and culture analysis for large civic projects, such as convention centers, science forums, and libraries, and created attractive story-telling presentations
• Produced precise floor plans in AutoCAD and vibrant, detail-oriented diagrams in Photoshop, integrating labeled circulation and transportation routes to enhance project functionality• 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
• Created intricate, culturally inspired carpet designs with organic patterns and textures for a convention center, and collaborated with manufacturers to deliver high-quality samples
Center for Design and Material Culture Madison, WI
Gallery Assistant Sep 2019 - Nov 2019 & Sep 2021- May 2022
• Efficiently organized visitor records and promptly responded to emails and phone inquiries, ensuring seamless operations and maintaining a professional and welcoming environment
• Proactively guided visitors through exhibitions, facilitated communication with curators, while handson assisting with gallery installations, preparing and documenting school events through photography
o1 The NEXT Cosmetics
Modern Office Design · Manhattan, NY
Undergraduate | Fall 2021 | UW-Madison
o2 The Moon House
Student Wellness Center · Madison, WI
Undergraduate | Spring 2022 | UW-Madison
o3 The Split House
Affordable Housing · Los Angeles, CA
Graduate | Spring 2024 | UCLA AUD
o4
o5 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
o6 LA River Reservoir
Infrastructure & Landscape · Los Angeles, CA
Graduate | Fall 2024 | UCLA AUD
o7 Other works
Drawing, Digital Modeling & Image Making
Graduate | 2023 - 2024 | UCLA AUD
The Next Cosmetics
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.
Student Wellness Center
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.
Light Feature
1" x 1" WOOD STRIP SPACED 7"
INCREASING 4" IN LENGTH
Therapy Customized wall
Course: Tech Core Studio | UCLA AUD
Type: Individual Work
Instructor: Max Kuo
Software: Rhino, Enscape, PS
Time: Spring 2024
This studio explores innovative housing solutions in Los Angeles, by examining the balance between private and public space to create affordable, community-focused designs that enhance social interaction and economic feasibility.
The design idea is to create a “split” effect, while the top level is extremely geometric, the bottom level is more organic. The sectional facade is cohesive from the outside, while the inside is porous and permeable.
Axomometrics Section South Elevation
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, 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.
Re-composition Process
Exquisite Corpse Drawing
Continuely, Part B further develops 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.
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.
Memorial Museum
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.
Main Exhibition - Art work
• 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: Building Design with Landscape | UCLA AUD
Type: Individual Work
Instructor: Jason Payne
Software: Rhino, Enscape, PS, AI
Time: Fall 2024
This studio explores the intersection of architecture, landscape, and urbanism through a two-part process: first, by generating ordering systems from satellite imagery to create new spatial relationships, and second, by integrating these abstractions with site-specific and programmatic considerations in Los Angeles.
With the concept of water shortage, the architecture and plantation is arranged based on the landscape, indicating the water level change during the change of seasons.
Drawing, Digital - Modeling, Image - Making
Architectural Mediation | UCLA AUD | 2023 - 2024
