Portfolio of Weikun Xu This portfolio shows part of my design achievements during my study in university. Thanks for your reading and thanks for all the people who helped me. 2014 - 2018 Selected Works
Student Number : 19113348
01 History As Culmination White Tower Memorial Hall Memorial Hall Design | Beijing Independent Study | Individual Work
02 Revolving Wood Tea House Wood Construction Design & Construction | Tsingtao Studio Project | Team Leader
03 Infinite Curvature Foam Amusement Park Foam Construction Design & Construction | Tsingtao Studio Project | Team Leader
04 Read The Temperature Primary School Library Prefabricated Library Design | Zhangbei, China Team Work | Team Leader
05 Mathematical Nature Metal Attachment Metal Construction Design & Construction | Shanghai Studio Work | Team Leader
06 Other Works Other things I have done CTBUH 2017 Students Competition | Semifinal Award The 7th IDEA-KING Int`l Competition | Silver Award Zhu Yantang Cafe (2015 - 2017) | Store Manager
01 History As Culmination White Tower Memorial Hall
Type:Individual Project Time:Summer 2018 The project rebuilt the image of the White Tower in people's eyes through a series of scenes and interference in the visual. The sequence of scenes, materials, and structures have all been carefully considered. The Siheyuan complex around Baita Temple is a strong evidence of historical existence, and the Baita that accompanied Beijing for hundreds of years is still quietly telling the past. The huge ring became the base for propping up the white tower, and the rectangular mass memorial hall became the basis for people to appreciate the white tower. The platform lifts the white tower, turning the building into a framing tool.The white tower has never been more eyecatching than now. I let the white tower come to the front from the side of people, narrowing the distance between people and history. The ring is a new white apparatus inserted as a cutting from human view point. It connects living and memorial through cutting.
SITE BACKGROUND main room main yard
west room ear room Imperial temples
Guang Ji Tample
Qiong Hua Island
Mountain Jing east room reception room
One yard house
White Tower Tample1
Li Wang House
Yard
main room
Tuan Cheng
Baita Temple is located in Xicheng District of Beijing, with a history of 700 years. It is adjacent to Fu Chengmen Street in the south. From the Yuan Dynasty, Fu Chengmen Street is an important road from the west of Beijing to the gate. It is connected to the east from Baita Temple. Many Beijing monuments, with a history of 700 years
Moving Line
west room
main yard ear room front yard
Forbidden City east room ear room
reception room
Double yard house
Moving Line
Yard
back room main room
back yard
west room
main yard front yard ear room east room
Map of Beijing in the Yuan Dynasty
Map of Beijing in the Ming Dynasty
ear room
reception room
Triple yard house
Map of Beijing in the Qing Dynasty
Moving Line
Yard
back room
Map of Beijing (Modern)
Baita Temple existed more than 740 years ago when it was built in Beijing, and it is located in a very important position in the old city of Beijing. The distance from the Forbidden City is less than 3 kilometers. The Baita Temple was used only for the royal rituals when it was first built. Later, after several dynasties, the dynasty gradually became a place for the market to hold temple fairs and fairs. With the establishment of the People’s Republic of China in 1949, the Baita Temple has been twisted and twisted in people. The daily life has become more and more marginalized, and the courtyard buildings near Baita Temple seem to have become the last link of the White Tower in the city.
main room west room
back yard
main yard
living room west room
middle yard front yard east room ear room
reception room
east room Qurdruple yard house
Moving Line
Yard
FORM STRATEGY
White Tower Sight Relationship
Si He Yuan(Courtyard House)
Hutong (Narrow Street)
Plan of Hutong
View Line of White Tower
Rotate
Plan of Site
Trim solid
Set the Middle Circle
Plan of Concept
Above The Ring
Toward the Tower
The huge ring runs along the circular spiral staircase and blooms under the white tower.
Above the steps, measure the sacred with the footsteps, feel the glory from history.
Along the Ring
Into Sunken Courtyard
The white tower is isolated from the city, the courtyard is the background, and the thoughts are seven hundred years.
I will never know what is behind the wall, just like I used to know that it is by my side.
Bearing wall system Viewing platform
Primary and secondary beam system Spiral staircase
Secondary beam system
Load Bearing Wall Ring beam
Supported by invisible shearing wall hidden inside the building, the ring looks flying above the ground. The stairs travel in an elegant posture, descending, shuttle, and even traversing the roof.
With Beijing city development, more and more high-rise buildings springing up, white pagoda seems to gradually lose it this some grand, a growing number of native and deep feelings of the white because of the policy and other reasons have been moved away from their ancestors lived, and the new residents most people who came to work in Beijing from other places, they come from different places, and their hometown is different from the culture of Beijing, this kind of emotional loss led to the ranking of the white gradually decreased, the project aims to let the body back into the white people's horizons, and to restore the ranking of Beijing traditional culture.
02 Revolving
Wood Tea House
Type:Group Work Partner:Dawei Xu, Zhuoqun Jiang Contribution:Concept, Design, Paramatric Design, Drafting, Installation Time:Spring 2016 The project is located on an open space in the garden of the campus of Qingdao Technological University. It serves as a place for teachers and students to take a daily rest. This garden plays a vital role in campus life. But the simple garden made up of stone benches and lawns is too monotonous to us. We hope to come to the garden to play while studying. There is a more interesting change and interest of space is especially important for this program. We studied the possibilities of various wood constructions and carefully studied and designed the connection methods. In the process of construction, KUKA robot are used for digital construction, so that our solutions can be implemented.
FRAME STUDY
Typology
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Third
Fourth
The tea room is a combination of 31 structural units of different shapes. Under the premise of ensuring that the space enclosed by each cell is greater than 2.1m in the vertical direction, by changing the direction of the vertical support member and the z-axis and the spacing, the continuous change of the shape of the control unit is realized. The width of the corridor, they can be paralleled by two people, However, as the space rotates, the part close to the center can only accommodate. When one person passes, People will fell the pressure of space a little. When people reach the private space in the center of the tea room, because it is completely open to the sky, people will have sense of release.
Combination
Model simulation
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Extend
Principle
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Increase
Rotate
One Piece
Mirror
Connection
One Group
MOCK UP STUDY
Original configuration
Point-point connection
In the design process of concept and form, we first determined the plane shape of the tea room, that is, the corridor surrounded by two concentric circles of different sizes. To connect private, semi-private and public spaces in a softer way, we cut the complete circle and move one of the breakpoints inwards. At the same time, we envisage the space of the corridor, which should be continuously changing in the shape of the section to meet the needs of different interaction activities. We also envisage the method of artificial fixation of nails to improve work efficiency and realize the original intention of human-machine cooperation.
Division of lines
Formation of the whole
Model simulation
Step 1 Generating Curve
Step 2 Add Control Point
Step 3 Control point segmentation surface
In the process of cooperating with the KUKA robot, we used a variety of positioning methods and tools to complete all the connection and construction work. Step 4 Subdivision Surface
Step 5 Spatial Morphogenesis
Step 6 Add Material
C ON STR U C TIO N P R O C ES S Modeling
Curvature Analysis
Surface A
Surface B
After determining the overall space strategy, we have scrutinized the overall orientation and curvature of the structure, and further split the surface according to the wood components, in order to achieve the spatial variation law we originally hoped to achieve. After determining the overall trend, we further subdivide and simplify the wood structure by means of digital modeling, and finally reach the state that can be constructed to ensure the smooth construction of the latter.
Surface C
Surface D
Space
2D - A
2D - B
2D - C
2D - D
3D - A
3D - B
3D - C
3D - D
After careful positioning and installation of the 31 structural units, we successfully installed and connected all the components. Each group of structural units rotates at a certain angle and is grouped and contracted, close to the center, and joined together through the bottom plate to form a whole. The wood material of the tea room blends well with the surrounding environment and eventually becomes part of the garden.
03 Infinite Curvature Foam Amusement Park
Type:Group Work Partner:Zhuoqun Jiang, Dawei Xu Contribution:Concept, Design, Paramatric Design, Drafting, Installation Time:Spring 2016 The project was born out of our strong interest in foam-like man-made materials. When we make a simple building block model, a heated wire can cut the foam block in our hands into any interesting shape. So when we tried to make a structural monomer that could be repeated indefinitely but could simultaneously form multiple spaces, we chose foam as a very operability material. Through the study of the minimal surface and the shape of the shaped space, we have designed a system that can be assembled in various forms. Finally, the monomer is further divided to adapt to the cutting path of the KUKA robot hot wire. We use the computer to simulate the machining process, avoiding the robot's self-collision and the inability to process the robot's own movement ability. Finally, we can get the structural monomer that can be mass-produced by robot hot-wire cutting, and complete the last installation.
M I N I M A L SU R FAC E R ES EAR C H Surface Typology
The purpose of this hot-wire cutting is to construct a structure of continuous striated surface [PERIODIC SURFACE], to create a complex, blurred, and growable space for people to enter and meditate and relax. After the camp, the multi-program design, comparison and discussion,we finally clarified a set of construction plans. The structure is constructed on the basis of human scales to create a core area for staying. The boundary between the inner and outer spaces is blurred by a continuous curved surface around the core area, and the experience is extended infinitely by the natural growth of the continuous curved surface.
SU R FA C E U NIT GENER ATIO N
CON ST R U CT I ON
Shape Generation
Assembly Strategy
anchor point element 3
element 2 anchor point joint
2.Slide the edges
1.Align edges of the components
3.Fix position
anchor point element 4
4.Rotate 120째 on XY plan
5.Repeat step 1 2 3
anchor point element 6 anchor point element 5
6.Rotate 120째 on XY plan
7.Repeat step 1 2 3
8.Rotate 120째 on XY plan
9.Repeat 1 2 3
10.Rotate 120째 on XY plan
Combination Strategy
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04 Read The Temperature Primary School Library Type:Group Work Partner:Dawei Xu, Zhuoqun Jiang Contribution:Concept ,Design, Construction Design, Drafting Time:Summer 2017 The project is located in Er Tai town primary school, Zhangbei county, northwest China's Hebei province. The aim is to design an assembly-style library within the cost range of 1 million RMB.The project is planned to take one month to build, and the required components of the construction shall be processed in the factory and transported to the site for construction in advance. In the design process, we fully considered the special climatic conditions and geographical factors of the Bashang grassland in the northwest of Hebei province, and made an environmental analysis of the site and the building using computer software, and positively responded to the climate and other site factors.After that, we repeatedly deliberated and studied the construction process and building components, used parametric technology to design components, and optimized them to ensure that the factory could make the production and construction of components as convenient and fast as possible.
SI TE B A C K GR O U N D 0KM
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1st e2 Jun 5:06 e ris Sun 40KM
June 2 1st Sunset 19:48
E March 21st Sunrise 6:23
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W 1st March 2 8:33 Sunset 1 80KM
Summer 12:00 AZ:68.55°
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Jan Su uar y nri se 21st 7:4 1
Winter 12:00 AZ:28.48° S
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Located in the northwestern part of Hebei Province, Zhangbei is located on the grassland of the Bashang and has a unique geographical environment. The distance from Zhang Jiakou City to Zhangbei County is only 40 kilometers, and the altitude rises by 400 meters. This has long been a very different climate on both sides.
180KM
ASL:500m
ASL:800m
ASL:800m
160KM
ASL:1100m
ASL:1400m
ASL:1300m
ASL:1300m
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We can use the computer to get the wind direction and sunshine duration of Zhangbei throughout the year. In these analyses, we found that the dominant wind direction of Zhangbei in the northwest is northwest. In order to reduce the heat loss in winter, we will reduce the window opening on the north side as much as possible, and lift the north side part when designing the platform to resist the cold wind from the north in winter. In contrast, because there are few strong winds on the south side of the winter and it is easier to receive sunlight, we set up a large window when designing the south side facade, which will make the room warm and bright.
P R OGR A M S TU DY
E CON OM I C A N D T E CH N I CA L N OR M S Gross loor Area : 1000 m2 Area of Structure : 289 m2 Total Construction Cost : 976,000 RMB Structural System : RBC Structure
STEEL H-BEAM ALC PANEL SQUARE STEEL COLUMN FIBER GLASS WOOL GYPSUM BOARD
ASPHALT SHINGLES SBS WATERPROOFING MEMBRANE playground playground 300 ㎡ main road
service space
reading space
OSB BOARD
FIBER GLASS WOOL second road
STEEL FRAME
Our site is located in the southwest corner of the school, the main road passes through the site, and the school plans to build a new school building in the southwest corner in the next few years, so we chose to build our south side of the square opposite the teaching building. library. The main entrance of the library is located on the west side, facing the main road of the school. The platform is lifted eastward from the entrance and gradually becomes a huge step from the ramp to the east. This ground-high platform not only resists the cold winds from the north in the winter, but also provides a fun entertainment venue for the children, and can even become a playground-oriented stand when holding some activities.
ALC PANEL
PREFABRICATED STAIRS
ALC PANEL CUSHION
STEEL H-BEAM
INDOOR FLOOR
FIBER GLASS WOOL
FIBER GLASS WOOL
PREFABRICATED STEEL WINDOW SCREW PILE
SQUARE STEEL COLUMN
M O C K U P STU DY
The roof truss system consists of 52 different sets of coldformed trusses, and all trusses are digitally machined in the order of numbers.
Roof structure layer by the 412 width of 600mm OSB board staggered stitching combination, of which 200 standard parts of the length of 2400mm, the rest of the non-standard parts are used in CNC production technology factory completed.
The foundation of the building will be constructed using a strip foundation combined with a spiral pile, and the hollow part will be filled with an ALC plate.
05 Mathematical Nature Metal Attachment
Type:Group Work Partner: Yihan Wan, Jier Zhou, Zhe Zhong, Ziqi Li, Xinyu Lv Contribution:Concept, Design, Paramatric Design, Drafting, Installation Time:Autumn 2018 Since the industrial revolution, from crystal palace in Paxton to the national library of Paris in La Bruster,metallic materials have emerged in a large area in the building industry and become a crucial element in creating atmosphere. At the same time, compression, tension, bending, drilling, polishing, riveting, welding, bolting and other processing and connection technology have greatly expanded the possibility of metal materials in design. The project aims to visually correct the skew error during concrete pouring while providing the concrete with a new facade. In the design and research process, we analyze and screened a large number of materials, and carry out a lot of thinking and practice on the connection method of metal components and concrete.
EX I STI N G M ATER IAL C O N DITIO N
CON CE P T GE N E R AT I ON
The project is based on an earlier project that built two concrete sculpture. Several parts of these sculptures can be spliced together to explore the plasticity of 3D concrete, the relationship between body scale and furniture, the way in which molds are made, and the techniques used to treat concrete. On this basis, our project will offset the visual deviation caused by the concrete pouring error by adding metal components behind the existing concrete volume, and continue to explore the characteristics of the metal material and the docking of the parameterization algorithm and the actual construction. Concrete
Cement
Essence: Composite Main Material: Common cement, sand, stone Density: 2.36--2.42g/cm3
Essence: inorganic cementing material Main Material: Cement Shape: Powder Density:3.15g/cm3
Concrete has the characteristics of abundant raw materials, low price and simple p r o d u c t i o n t e c h n o l o g y. A t the same time, concrete also has the characteristics of high compressive strength, good durability and wide range of strength grade.
Aggregate Essence: Stone Main Material: Gravel, Density: 2.50--2.70g/cm3
Aluminium
Pase at STP Solid Melting Point 933.47 K (660.32 째C, 1220.58 째F) Boiling Point 2743 K (2470 째C, 4478 째F) Density (near r.L) 2.70 g/cm3 When Liquid (at m.p.) 2.376 g/cm3 Aluminium metal, when in quantity, is very shiny and resembles silver because it preferentially absorbs far ultraviolet radiation while reflecting all visible light so it does not impart any color to reflected light, unlike the reflectance spectra of copper and gold. Another important characteristic of aluminium is its low density, 2.70g/cm3. Aluminium is a relatively soft, durable, lightweight, ductile, and malleable with appearance ranging from silvery to dull gray, depending on the surface roughness.
PATTE R N STU DY
Since we want to make our results ultimately not visually in conflict with concrete materials, we finally choose brushed aluminum plate which reflects a color very similar to the original concrete. In the process of texture design, we analyze and study the natural texture of various materials, as well as the natural crack of the concrete and the volcanic rock in the site. The holes in the tiles have inspired us, while the density and arrangement of the holes are inspired by the rusting texture of the metal surface. The width of concrete cracks is similar, and the general direction of each crack is similar to that of shape and lightning. There will be no circular cracks in the wood, and there will be no small cracks caused by dry cracking of the soil (thin ends are thicker and the middle part is thicker). In the case of holes, the use of holes that combine the rusting of the metal surface and the natural hole shape of the rock surface (also similar to the shape of the concrete coarse aggregate) are used. We abstract and extract the results of erosion caused by several natural states, and finally use parametric design software (including grasshopper and python) to imitate their generation logic. Then we combine all of this factors to create our own natural cracks and holes.
Input
Output
Process
Aluminium Material
Natrual Geometry
Material Study
Overall Geometery
Texture
Parametric Design
Processing and Joints
Testing
Lighting
Construction
Aluminium Sheets Size: 2.5m*1.25m Yield Retio: 80 - 100MPa Density: 2.7g/cm^3 Light Weight and Easy to Bend Can be Laser Cut
Refercing the Form of Original Concrete Scuipture
Refercing Natural Elements
Simulate the Texture from a Cast Concrete Surface
KT Board Overall Geometery
Based on Holes
Typology Linear,Curvy Artifical, Nature
Typology Timber, Stone, Rock, Concrete
Grasshopper Python
Laser Cutting Bending Punching
Using Concrete Surface to Create Diffuse Light
Positiong Drill Install Wiring
Concrete Surface
Editng Python Script
Ceacks (Nature)
Original Curve
Find a Random Point
New Vector
Rotate a Random Angle
Cracks
Holes (Nature)
Original Points
Creat Circles with Random Radius
Find Random Points
Creat Polygons
Holes
Rivets, Nails, Assembly Unit
Card Board Testure and Joints
Subdivision
Digrams of Pattern
In pervious version, we used Voronoi diagram to simulate the texture from a cast concrete surface, but the effect was too regular and artificial.
On that account, we optimized the pattern through editing a Python script in Rhino, in order to make it look more nature.
Two layers of aluminum sheets are overlapping, visually creates depth and complexity.
led
Glass Glue
Hammer
Needle-nose Pliers
Wire Cutter
Vise
Stainless Steel Screw
Screwdriver
Terminal Clamp
Rivet Gun
Hand Drill
C ON STR U C TO N DETAILS We have adopted a double-layer metal plate design, which not only ensures the richness of the texture, but also hides the internal light source and some connecting members for construction. In the process of designing the holes, we have adjusted the inner opening and the outer layer to be smaller, which allows the light to pass over the inner aluminum plate more and more from the well-designed holes on the outer aluminum plate. It’s `revealed that this makes our plan look very good at night. In the connection method, we have chosen to fold the metal or fold the metal multiple times, which not only ensures that the metal plate does not produce bridge deformation, but also ensures that the occlusion of the inner structure maintains the overall aesthetics. .
06 Other works
Other thing I have done
CTBUH 2017 Students Competition | Semifina Award The 7th IDEA-KING Int`l Competition | Silver Award Zhu Yantang Cafe (2015 - 2017) | Group Leader In the end, I will present two competition works and an extracurricular entrepreneurship practice project. The skyscraper competition shows my concern about the future development of architecture and my thinking on how to combine new technologies with new buildings. Participating in the interdisciplinary competition enables me to learn a lot of knowledge in other aspects, and running a coffee shop is a kind of cultivation of my comprehensive ability. These jobs are only part of my extracurricular work. I have also run digital processing LABS and participated in commercial construction projects. I actively experience different things to develop my ability to see things from different perspectives, and it turns out that these activities have greatly inspired and played a positive role in my study of architecture and my daily life.
CTBUH 2017 Students Competition | Semifinal Award
The 7th IDEA-KING Int`l Competition | Silver Award
As a gateway to a new era, this super-tall building combines multiple formats and provides vertical greening and parks for the city. It is a new generation of supercity complex that links the world`s cities and promotes Synchronous development of supporting facilities in the surrounding areas.
We hope that establish a stable C circulation system to solve the problem of wetland degradation. Turn the siltation into an economic industry and establish a complete management system. The development of the reed industry will enable wetlands to generate ecological benefits while relieving the shortage of energy problems in the world and better serve the society.
Zhu Yantang Cafe (2015 - 2017) | Store Manager As a meeting room of the school of architecture and a place for teachers and students to relax and exchange academic issues in their spare time, Zhu Yantang Cafe plays a very important role in the school of architecture. As the store manager, I have been responsible for managing and operating Zhu Yantang coffee for two years, and the systematic management has been of great help to my design study.