J ADEN XIANG SELECTED WORKS 2013 - 2018
Columbia University / Studio Model
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aden Xiang is an architecture designer and photographer trained at the School of Architecture, Harbin Institute of Technology, where he obtained his Bachelor Degree of Architecture. Later, he received his Master Degree from GSAPP, Columbia University in the City of New York, with Lucille Smyser Lowenfish Memorial Prizes for distinguished graduate students. He has been working in architecure firms in Taipei, Beijing, Los Angeles, and Hong Kong, participating in a wide range of projects, from interior renovation project to mesuem design. He has been responsible for facade design of the Hailar Museum of Natural History in Hulun Buir, China; the cableway station design for Yimeng Mountain in Shandong, China; construction for the 3D Culinary and Head Space project in Los Angeles, and so on. In his career in Hong Kong based Design firm PH Alpha Design limited, he has helped the team won a serious of bidding projects, including a Chongqing Mixed-use project for Hong Kong Land, a High-end Shopping Mall for SCPG, ect.
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CONTENTS ACADEMIC WORKS 1. China Town Art Center / Line and Volume 2015
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2. Architecture School / School as Stadium 2014
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3. Commercial and Residential Complex / Rain. Forest 2013 4. Other selected works 2012-2015
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PRACTICE WORKS 1. Botanic Paradise 2017
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2. The Fifth Facade 2017
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3. Eye of Spring 2016
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4. 3D Culinary / Sugar Lab, Los Angeles 2015
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5. Glendora House, Los Angeles 2015
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6. Hailar Museum of Natural History, Hulun Buir 2013
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7. Other selected works 2016-2018
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ACADEMIC WORKS SELECTED WORKS 2013 - 2015
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LINE AND VOLUME ART CENTER / LINE AND VOLUME IN ARCHITECTURE Professor: Dwayne Oyler, Jenny Wu / Collaborator: Joshua Ehrlich Location: Los Angeles
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Architecture design studios often have the typical telltale signs of a so-called “urban� project. The walls are plastered with giant maps of the city, students have spent the first few weeks fighting over how to complete some overly ambitious site model, and there are drawings littered with massive arrows of imperceptible connections between urban destinations. While these approaches certainly have their place, we find that some of the more interesting investigations into the urban problem operate on multiple scales simultaneously, and in many cases, they begin by looking at the city from the inside out. Dwayne and Jenny
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LINE AND VOLUME READING OF CITY THROUGH LINES
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ines exist in nearly every form in the city. From the linear entanglement of the freeway systems, to the flows of infrastructure between sites, to the structural systems of individual buildings, there is an inescapable linearity to the urban environment. These lines, more often than not, are about connection and extension; continuity is essential to the way they operate. At the same time, much of our programmatic needs result in the seemingly contradictorily form of volumes. Unlike the line based systems, these volumes are typically about enclosure, separation, and containment. 10
Our reading of the city is that, besides those linear
elements and volumetric elements, there are void spaces in between, which are easily be neglected but actually are integral parts of the city. These in-between spaces are not existing there statically but actually are morphed by the counter force between the rigidity of volumetric elements and the fluidity of linear elements. As is shown in the drawing above, these in-between spaces have been imposed a sense of movement and start to change themselves.
SITE PLAN Cities are typically massive entities driven by various forces. And while a great number of these forces allow for the influence of the architect, that influence is often offset, diluted, and manipulated into a more palatable version of itself before becoming realized. We are interested in the development of urban strategies that recognize an architect’s strengths. 11
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CHUNK MODEL STUDIES
The moment where linearity encounter volumetric enclosure
is a defining moment in the formation of an urban strategy. So, before we dig deeper into the adjustment of the urban scale strategy, we test our ideas quite tectonically in the first place. 13
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FINAL SCHEME BIRDEYE PERSPECTIVE
INTERIOR PERSPECTIVES
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T he design and arrangement of these inner
volumes are the first step of our design. In other words, just like we apply an inside-out strategy in urban scale design, we also use the same strategy on architectural scale. Each of these inner volumes serves as different purposes, and are connected by bridges. When merely look at these inner volumes and circulation systems, you might think them as a group of buildings , because they have both “ indoor” and “outdoor” spaces. But all of these are actually covered by another layer of skin. This multi-layer spatial character creates a rich spatial experience. When walking in the building, you are constantly shifting among interior, semi-interior, exterior, and semi- exterior spaces.
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n our design, complexity is not created by complexity itself, it’s created by the composition of simple elements. Under a design logic like this , the interior layout is rather simple. We don’ t have to manually divide and design every space, instead, what we are doing is just making use of every spatial type itself. Basically, those more regular, geometric inner volumes are served for more functional purposes, like auditoriums and offices; those in-between spaces are used for more flexible purposes, like cafe, exhibition halls, ect.
INNER VOLUMES WRAPPED BY OUTER SKIN
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SCHOOL AS STADIUM ARCHITECTURE SCHOOL / SCHOOL AS STADIUM Professor: Eric Bunge, Mimi Hoong / Collaborator:Xiangzhou Chang Location: New York
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SCHOOL AS STADIUM
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he world is changing so fast in the recent several decades. This is also reflected in the field of architecture. No matter how carefully a curriculum is designed, it’s always lagging behind the step of the world. Now it’s the time to rethink architecture education, reform our curriculum driven architecture schools into event driven schools. Because events are always reflecting what’s happening right now in the world.
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WEBSITE IMAGINATION OF AN EVENT DRIVING SCHOOL
Every Piece of ground could be scheduled for events from both inside and outside the school, just like how people manage a stadium. Events could bring fame and financial benefits for people who run them and knowledge for spectators who participate in them. The function of school transformed from providing curriculum to providing a place to let everything amazing happens.
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SCHOOL AS STADIUM
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tadium is a place or venue for (mostly) outdoor sports, concerts, or other events and consists of a field or stage either partly or completely surrounded by a tiered structure designed to allow spectators to stand or sit and view the event. (Wikipedia) As the site given is so narrow and triangular, there is no way construct a stadium horizontally, so we choose to construct it vertically.
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The step like space provides multiple functions for all kinds of event happening here, including gallery space, auditorium space, sports space, and so on. And at the same time, it provides a huge continuous space without any kinds of visual blocking. So , whether you are working in your studio or standing on these huge steps, you could be aware of what’s happening in the whole building all the time. That’s the spirit of a stadium.
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SCHOOL AS STADIUM INTERIOR PERSPECTIVE (FROM SPOT B)
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MULTI-FUNCTION OF THE EVENT SPACE
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SCHOOL AS STADIUM CIRCULATION AND STRUCTURE SYSTEM
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INTERIOR PERSPECTIVE (FROM SPOT A)
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RAIN . FOREST RESIDENTIAL AND COMMERCIAL COMPLEX / RAIN . FROEST Professor: Bai Xiaopeng / Collaborator:Wan Shaoran, Ding Weishuang, Yang Yuyu Location: Mogadishu, Somalia
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orest, which is created for conserving water and capturing sunlight, provides our ancestors water, food and shelters. The space enclosed by the branches gave humans a sense of safety in the early age of the history. Undergoing the war, Somalia public water transmission facilities were paralysed. We hope to provide every resident a “TREE� to make their life better.
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RAIN . FOREST
DROUGHT IN SOMALIA
SELF-SUSTAINED UNIT
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BIRDEYE VIEW
PLAN / LAYOUT CHANGE THROUGH TIME
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RAIN . FOREST PRE-FABRICATED SYSTEM
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UNIT STRUCTURE MODEL
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OTHER WORKS
CULTURAL COMPLEX Professor: Chong Bu Awards: Honorable Mention Award, Hop Cup 2012 International Student Competition Architectural Design Location: Harbin, China Year: 2012 Design Concept: Combine landscape design with Architecture and site history.
SNOW CULTURE MUSEUM Professor: Cheng Sun Year: 2013 Design Concept: Apply Parametric design flow into an experimental design task.
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TOURIST CENTER / POLLOCK’S PICTORIAL SPACE Professor: Michael Bell Location: New York Year: 2014 Design Concept: “2D” pictorial spaces could inspire architects to explore new spatial sense in architecture
Jackson Pollock’s famous painting Number 1, 1948
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OTHER WORKS
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3 DIMENSIONAL URBANISM
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PRACTICE WORKS SELECTED WORKS 2013 - 2018
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BOTANIC PARADISE BOTANIC PARADISE Design:PH Alpha Design Limited / Client: Hong Kong Land Location: ChongQing, China / Status:In Construction
Award: Asia Pacific Property Awards 2018-2019
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BOTANIC MALL
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BOTANIC PARADISE
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he project talks about flow in space, talks about rythm, talks about light and shadow, talks about the collaboration of wood and steel. We don’t want to creete a space of pure harmony, we created a space full of tension, rejuvenated the old factory building from inside out. 49
BOTANIC PARADISE
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THE FIFTH FACADE THE FIFTH FACADE Design:PH Alpha Design Limited / Client: SCPG Location: Hangzhou, China / Status: Schematic Design
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FIFTHFIFTH THE FACADE FACADE
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hile all commercial projects care about facade, seldom tried to utilize the roof. In this project, we developed the roof into a multi-functional paradise. People could bascically consider this place as a public park. Residences around can swim in the infinity pool, can run on the sky-track, can take their children to the chid’s playground, can take a walk along the winding river... after all of these, can end up with a dinner in a restaurant sharing view to the green garden.
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nother highlight of the project is the “wing� structure covering the terraces area and the atrium.Facing the city, we planted green vegetations on the structure, with a cute squirrel climbing on it, indicating the famous West Lake natural scenery. Facing inside, the louver structures cast shadow on the terraces and the atrium , bringing people the feeling of walking inside a jungle. 56
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FIFTHFIFTH THE FACADE FACADE
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EYE OF SPRING EYE OF SPRING Podium Design:PH Alpha Design Limited / Client: Junfa Real-Estate Development Group Location:Kunming, China / Status: Under construction
Award: Asia Pacific Property Awards 2016-2017 Collaborator: Office Tower Design: SOM Residential Tower Design: C.Y.Lee & Partner
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EYE OF SPRING
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he design concept of this project originates from the movement of spring breezes, which is the signature of Kunming, namely the City of Spring. The breeze is reflected in the free flowing arrangement of the plan. Layers of massing are carefully designed to be both functional and aesthetically integrated.
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EYE OF SPRING
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e strive to create a new feeling of commercial building atrium, while all other atriums look the same. The inspiration comes from the famous vase design from Alvar Aalto. Whiile standing in the middle of the atrium looking up, you might feel inside an elegant and shinny vase. 65
3DS CULINARY 3DS Culinary / Sugar Lab Company:Oylerwu Collaborative / Manager:Harrison Steinbuch Location: Los Angeles, United States / Status:Finished Construction Project Team (Design and Fabrication) Dwayne Oyler, Jenny Wu, Lung Chi Chang, Harrison Steinbuch, Hans Koesters, Yaohua Wang, Sanjay Sukie, Zack Matthews, Po Yao Shih, Tony Morey, Joshua Ehrlich, Junda Xiang, Sebastian Medina, Jacques Lesec, Albert Chavez, Kevin Murray, James Choe, Cynthia Abi-Naked, Jui Hong Weng
https://www.archdaily.com/782692/3ds-culinary-oyler-wu-collaborative
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3DS CULINARY
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jumped into the construction phase of the 3DS Culinary project in the summer of 2015. Our team was in charge of a part of the whole renovation project, which the contractor cannot construct because of its 3-dimensionality and complexity. After several months of hand work with steel and wood, the project is now coming to its end. In this period of time, my skills of grinding, cutting, sanding, finishing, and so on have been sharpened day after day. 69
3DS CULINARY T he project talks about flow
in space, talks about rythm, talks about light and shadow, talks about the collaboration of wood and steel. We don’t want to creete a space of pure harmony, we created a space full of tension, rejuvenated the old factory building from inside out.
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GLENDORA HOUSE Glendora House Company:Oylerwu Collaborative / Manager:Dwayne Oyler, Jenny Wu Location: Glendora, United States / Status: In Design
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PRELIMINARY CONSTRUCTION DRAWINGS
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GLENDORA HOUSE STUDY MODEL
As an ongoing project, Glendora House is still in its model
phase. We use physical model to help us discuss and develop the design. The model uses mixture materials of 3D print pieces and Styrene. And although the project is not about to be sent to a contractor, we have already started the study of construction details. Because we want to make sure everything we have designed in digital, could be realized eventually as close to our thoughts as possible.
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HAILAR MUSEUM HAILAR MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY Company: 5+1 Werkhart International / Manager:Xiaofeng Zhang Location: Hailar, China / Status: In Construction
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participated in this project in the context of a competition inside the company. My proposal won out of 6 proposals and got a chance to be developed further. Finally, this proposal is recognized by the Hailar Government and it is now in its construction phase. I was mainly in charge of the facade design in the whole project. 79
HAILAR MUSEUM
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T he facade inspiration comes from the natural elements: stone, wind, cloud, wood and water, echoing the theme, “nature�.
This building is located in a natural preservation zone, only prairie around. Thus, we don’t want the building massing standing high, but like everthing else in this area, stretching horizontally.
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he project continues to finish after my period of internship, By 2018, the construction phase was entering its final stage.
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Under construction, expected to be finished around 2019 83
OTHER WORKS 84
ICC CHONGQING Client: Chong Qing Jiangwan Real Estate Company Location:Chong Qing Year: 2017 Participation: 3D Modeling/Booklet
GERMAN TOWN Location:Chong Qing Year: 2017 Participation: 3D Modeling/Booklet
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CHONGQING REAL ESTATE COLLEGE LIBRARY Client: Chong Qing Real Estate College Location:Chong Qing Complete Year: 2018 Participation: Construction stage 3D modeling / Facade Improvement
Award: Asia Pacific Property Awards 2016-2017
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HEADSPACE MEDITATION SPACE Client: Headspace Inc Location: New York Year: 2014 Participation: Construction
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Email: xiangjunda@hotmail.com Tel: 852- 66411721 Address: 270-280 Queen’s Road West, Sai Ying Pun, Hong Kong Web: http://xiangjunda.wix.com/ 90 architecture