PORTFOLIO Academic Works Selection
Minghuan Xie
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Minghuan Xie Architectural Designer
I am a gaduate student in Syracuse University with M.Arch degree and will graduate in 2020. I believe a good design can not only provide a comfortable space for people, but also bring values to the society and influence our world. I am eager to put all my passions to become a qualified and creative architect and contribute to the built environment.
EDUCATION Syracuse, NY 2017/8 - 2020/7
Syracuse University Master of Architecture
NAAB program, STEM program with 3-year OPT. Suzhou, Jiangsu Province 2012/8 - 2016/7
Xi’an Jiaotong - Liverpool University Bachelor of Engineering in Architecture Certification: RIBA part 1
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE Syracuse, NY 2018/9 - 2019/3
Design Teaching Assistant
School of Architecture, Syracuse University
• Organizing class materials for professors. • Reviewing students' work •Holding architectural software tutorials • Assisting professor with desk critic. Syracuse, NY 2017/9 - 2017/12
Research Assistant
School of Architecture, Syracuse University
• Participating the research "critical memory and the architecture of loss" held by Linda Zhang • Ceramic casting and the 3D scanning.
WORKING EXPERIENCE New York, NY 2019/6 - 2019/8
Terreform ONE
Part-time Internship
• Participated in the model making of "monarch sanctuary" project • Research about sustainable facade. Shanghai, China 2018/6 - 2018/8
AECOM
Architectural Internship(SD, CD), Shanghai Office
• Participated in the Competition of Hangzhou Qiantang Complex Design. • Participated in the Construction Documentation Process. Shanghai, China 2016/7 - 2017/4
CDI Architecture Corporation
Architectural Designer(SD, DD), Architecture Dept
• Participated in the design of the new Anta headquarter. • Participated in the project of Zhengzhou Er'qi Square renovation. Beijing, China 2015/7 - 2015/9
Tsinghua Design Institute
Architectural Internship(SD, CD), 6th Dept
• Participated in the competition of Eco-school in Yunnan, generated the concepts and produce diagrams.
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mxie09@syr.edu +1 (315) 416 8158 111 Lafayette Rd, Syracuse,NY
ACTIVITIES&AWARDS Cape Town, South Africa 2015/12 - 2015/12
Participatory Design Workshop Participant, ASF-UK
• Researching on the grntrification of local area • Coordinating with various participants including architects and university professors. • Investigating the methodology of participatory design Taipei, Taiwan 2015/7 - 2015/8
IDEERS Seismic Construction Competition
Participant in XJTLU team, High Efficiency Structure Award
• The goal of competition is constructing scaled skyscraper model with timber sticks to resist the seismic vibration. • Our team was rewarded with "High efficiency structure" award. Suzhou, Jiangsu 2013/10 - 2013/11
University Exhibition Hall Design Competition Participant, 1st Prize
• The competition aimed to design the interior space of Xi'an-Jiaotong University's exhibition hall
SKILLS&CERTIFICATION MODELLING SKILL
REPRESENTATION SKILL
CERTIFICATION
Rhino
V-ray
LEED AP BD+C
Grasshopper
Photoshop
LANGUAGE
AutoCAD
Illustrator
Revit
InDesign
English: Proficienct Chinese: Native
PERSONALITY I am a self-motivated and solution-oriented person. Outside the profession, I like participating in the group activities, sharing opinions with others and learning different cultures.
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CONTENT
02 Collaging Genoa
01 Anbiguous Boundary 6-19
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03 Silo Terminal 32-41
04 Behind The Wall
05 Parking Garden 52-59
08 Urban Atlas
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06 Climate Utopia
07 Working Samples 71-77
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The project site is located in downtown Syracuse, NY, which is occupied by Syracuse Technology garden. Thus, this project aims to replace this co-working space with more advanced makerspace where people can show their creativity. Considering the surrounding context, this site can play a crucial role in Syracuse economy. We expect the contexts such as the highest building in Syracuse, hotel, stadium, and convention center can mingle with this site, which potentially draws people to this area as well as downtown Syracuse.
Anbiguous Boundary Location: Syracuse, NY 2018/9 - 2018/11 Team:Minghuan Xie Jiyoon Bae, Zhehui Sun 7
The concept starts from the drop of the ink, when ink is spreading in the water, it will creates shapes with various qualities, also the blending of ink and water makes me thinking about blending of different people and different activities in architecture. So the goal of this design is to create a mixed space that has the quality to connect different activities and people, also can blur the boundaries of surrounding space. This project starts with experimental exercise that explores the two-different materiality, ink, and water. We convert certain moments of this physical figure into digital 3D figures. Later on, two-dimensional figures are created from this digital model, which are used as our architectural language.
There are basic shapes traced by the 2D ink images, by abstract those images, the figures of the ink are created. Then using those figures to create new patterns for the design.
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The projection of the figures can transfer 2D patterns to 3D volumes.
Maker space, office space, and public space is 3 basic types of program in this design. The massing strategy is making this blurred space into a huge volume and hollow out this ink-space from the volume.
Office Circulation Public Maker Space
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Master Plan
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Building Entrances
Main People flow
Surrounding Volumes
Public Plaza
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Section b-b'
The interior facade can be used in different ways, including table shape openings, book shelf, and openings for vegetations
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Plans
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1st Floor Ground Floor Plan Scale 1/8” = 1’
2nd Floor 1st Floor Plan Scale 1/8” = 1’
3rd Floor
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2nd Floor Plan Scale 1/8” = 1’
South elevation
West elevation
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HVAC System Heating Unit
Indoor Garden Passive Cooling Hit Pump
Heating Unit Cooling Unit
Thermal Storage Tank
Egress System
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Details
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Collaging Genoa Team: Matthew Celmer, Minghuan Xie Location: Genoa, Italy Student housing Genoa Competition 2019/2 - 2019/4
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Genoa is a city of fragments, disparate elements creating a complex urban mixture. From the old historic center to the sea and port we see Genoa as an urban collage and assemblage. This Design takes inspiration from this heterogenous character to propose a contextual and contemporary architecture. The housing design is composed of a series of contextual architectural forms from the city of Genoa.
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DESIGN BACKGROUND The Collage Genoa proposal for the Genoa University Housing will reactive the historic Piazza Sarzano while preserving views and access to the Church of San Salvatore. The student housing is elevated above the piazza creating an open ground oor and a new public green roof open to all occupants of Genoa. The elevated
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student housing will have sweeping views of the city to the north and the port to south. The housings form and architectural language resonates with the complexity of Genoa as a city. The arcade, piazza, sea, port, mountains, bell towers, cloister & fort walls are all contextual references and components of the architectural collage. This suggests the idea of housing as an architecture of fragments, an architecture of the city.
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DESIGN PROCESS
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OVERALL DESIGN
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VIEWING ANALYSIS
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INTERIOR DESIGN
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Shanghai City's development has caused many abandoned factories. In architectual aspect, many of those buildings are nonhuman scale and inacessible. The design tries to rethink of those buildings and find a new way to make the abandoned factories contribute to the urban environment.
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Silo Terminal Terminal Design Location:Shanghai Pudong area 2015/12 - 2016/5
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Site Analysis
FACTORY AREA
The abandoned grain elevator in Shanghai and it's fast developing surrounding environment.
The terminal references the silo structure with an interest in how people used to occupy and move around this now abandoned piece of historical heritage. Although the silo building has been left behind by progress, it hovers above Huangpu River with its monumental and non-human scale. The contrast between people in movement and the inaccessible building is the departure point for my terminal design. The terminal will express an incomplete, fragmented architecture as a reference to the old industrial past which is forever gone. Its structure will be contemporary and steel-frame to symbolize a new post- industrial China. (New industry is always changing by people’s needs with human scale rather than simply country willing control). Therefore no more heavy, inaccessible, anti-human monumentality, but a light, transparent, accessible environment in a human scale.
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The transportation road on the site
The planned factory on the site
Translate the linear ferry experience to the multi-choice experience
Activity Analysis
Massing Study
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Circulation MONUMENTALITY The new silo structures cover with steel and glass extend the monumentality of the original buildings. However, the materials show the transparency and lightness for people's immersion in the building.
TRANSPORTATION The Terminal contains different transportations including Metro station, Bus stop and Ferry. Those transportations create an effiecient circulation that connect different part of this area. When people are attracted to this area, the old factory will be reactive.
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Elevations
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Sectional Perspective
Viewing Unit There are viewing unit for people having a nice view to the river and the new factory.
Programs Not only as a Terminal, the building also functions as an urban complex. When people pass this place, they could use different functions for their convenience.
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Cafe and Waiting Room
Souvenir Shop
Exhibition Room
Platform on 2nd Floor
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Structure
Steel truesses
Steel frames
The viewing house is hanging on the steel frame
Glass and concrete panels on the silo truesses
Concrete columns
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The new silos and the old silos comes together to show a feeling of contrast. The movement and still, the transparent and solid. By showing this feeling, the site would be more humanscaled.
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This design is aimed to awake people's memory on urban tradition by using the concept of "wall". By follow the historical context of Shanghai, the red mansonry wall is used as the main structure of the architecture, which is standing for the traditional "Shikumen" housing character.
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Behind the Wall Youth hostel design Location:Shanghai old town 2015/9 - 2015/12
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Site Analysis
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The site is at the north of the old Shanghai city, where the old and the new combined. The aim of this youth hostel is not only providing some space for young people to live in, but also bring more energy to this area, letting people could have more activities, and experiencing a different life style rather than simple modern concrete box. contour drawing means to draw by instinct rather than look at the object. The walking experience of old Shanghai city could be explict by using the method of contour drawing. The experience is different from the real building because activities and people movement have expand the public volume.
TRADITIONAL CHINESE HOUSE 1860
EARLY SHIKUMEN HOUSE 1890
The Traditional house was with a courtyard in the center and people share the rooms in three sides.
Shikumen building hold the character of traditional Chinese house and western townhouse.
LATE SHIKUMEN HOUSE 1930 After the population increasing, the Shikumen houses became the rental houses for citizens.
MODERN BOX HOUSE? NOW? Shikumen houses becomes the history and many of them were replaced by concrete boxs.
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From Public to Private
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Ground Floor Plan
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The youth hostel consists of the basic cells, and few cells make up a block. In one block, there are public spaces, the open platforms, the public services. 4 blocks and 1 public commercial block consists of the whole building complex.
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1 Commercial Block 2 Public activity room 3 Cafe and restaurant 4 hostel 5 Subway entrance
Axonometric Detail 2mm plaster 2mm vapor barrier 100mm insulation 2mm vapor barrier 2mm air gap 200mm concrete
70mm facing brick 2mm air gap 2mm vapor barrier 100mm insulation 2mm vapor barrier 240mm brick wall
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Elevation North
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Bird-eye view
PLAZA The polygonal buildings creates different shapes of plaza that people could have their activities on it.
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PUBLIC PLATFORM The public platform can make people intereact with others easier. Also other people on the road could see the activity on the platform through the wall.
COMMERICAL CENTER The commercial center provides the complex a place to shop and comsume. People who live in this youth hostel could have a more convenient life.
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The red brick wall is one of the characters of traditional Shagnhai residential buildings. This projrct tries to use this character to recreate the lively living community in this area.
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Parking Garden Parking Complex Location:Suzhou City 2014/7 - 2014/9
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The cities in China are fond of construction great and attractive shopping malls, public buildings and city landmarks. However, they usually pay most on “Project” itself and sometimes ignore the surrounding infrastructure, such as the parking experience. As an example, the famous landmark Humble Administrator Garden in Suzhou is a “star “that government pay a lot to make it better. But the only parking place around this area is in a bad condition.
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Site Analysis
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The site is an empty area only with mess shrub weeds, which located in the Suzhou old city. It was be surrounded by a represented scenery, the highdensity residential dwellings, expect that it is also on the entering road nearby the main road. So there will be lots of people here, and most of them will be with their vehicles. It could be easily to seen that this mess square is becoming much worse.
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Residential Housing
People rushed out to everywhere after all kinds of cars were packed...
Humble Adminstrator Graden
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GROUND FLOOR
SECOND FLOOR
THIRD FLOOR
The left entrance
The entrance is facing the main street, it's livly and many people walking on this street. The parking garden provides an alternative, convenient and intersting way to go to other places.
The south entrance I believe it is more than building a “Parking garage”, but put the human behavior and the urban context together to create a new “parking complex”. Compared with former parking area, it will not be an appending staff for a building. And this project is a new style parking garden, which will be an individual architecture, and based on this building, there will be more relative service. It is so much potential possibilities for the future development. And in addition, the users will not only be the tourists, the local residents, the neighbor will be shared in the leisure garden.
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This entrance leads the visitors to another famous garden, Shizi garden. Meanwhile the landscape near this entrance imply visitors the garden is not far away.
Humble Administrator garden Zhuozheng garden is one of the most famous place people want to go in this area. So the parking garden is aimed to provide a better service to those travellers.
The main entrance
This entrance is close to the entrace of the zhuozheng garden. People who drive car to this place can easily go to the destination.
Surrounding residence
There are many traditional residence in this area, those people could also go to this 'parking garden' for their daily life, because the building also provides retails and caterings.
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Axonometric Drawing
Restaurant
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TRANSPORTATION Exhibition CORE
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The ‘Climate Utopia’ would promote the method of research-by-design, it will starts with the research of impact of climate change to Chongqing city and then based on the clamate characters to provide an architectural concept to response to the climate change.
CLIMATE UTOPIA
Sustainable Design Location: Chongqing, China 2019/6 - 2019/8
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Chongqing city is based on Yang’ze River and Jialin river, and mountains surrounded. Even thought there are a lot of water, the city faces the huge problem of high temprature in summer because of the basin landform. In recent years, climate change has influenced the Chongqing city, drought happens with a higher frequency. Therefore, figuring out a solution to reduce the climate change influence becomes significant for Chongqing. By invloving the concept of "wind tower" to local architecture, the new form that can decrease the temprature is generated. This process will start with the analysis of the climate and specifjic topography in Chnogqing city.
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Tunnels
River bank
Light rail
Rooftop plaza
Ropeway
Viaduct
Spiral road
Building bridge
City bridge
Chongqing city has a unique topography with its infrastructure. Buildings are also one part of infrastructure. Those diagrams show how natrual topography interact with buildings and infrastructure.
WATER CIRCULATION Water is travelled from ocean to city and evaporate to air as a circulation.
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Working Samples Pingjiang Complex Competition Location: Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province AECOM Participated in concept design, diagram making and modeling.
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The most intriguing part of this competition is the consideration of sewage plant on the site. How to deal with the abandoned sewage plant and bring certain value to the site becomes the most significant task for us. The solution we proposed is keeping the main structures of sewage plant and adaptively reusing it as a component of the whole picture. The roof of this plant is designed as a landscape to connect the interior mall and surrounding infrastructure such as the tunnel roof and water-front park.
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Wuxiang South Plaza Location: Nanning, Guangxi Province AECOM Participated in Construction Documentation process, mainly focus on the plan drawings and the underground ramp detail drawings.
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The design is to shape the site fit the surrounding context, inviting people walking into this complex, and creating different levels of platforms.
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Anta New Headquaters Location: Quanzhou, Fujian Province CDI Architecture Corporation Participated in the concept design and modeling
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This project is a office building with glass facade. The building envelop consists dynamic vertical louvers not only for the sun shading but also for creating specific patterns.
High density Dwelling: Zhongliang Residents Location: Chengdu, Sichuan Province CDI Architecture Corporation Participated in the diagram making and producing plan and section.
Interior: Haining Shopping mall Location:Haining, Zhejiang province
In this project, I took charge of the furniture design, floor pavement design and the ceiling design. All those different parts should follow the same concept of the shopping mall: the wave of ocean.
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Urban Atlas Mapping Paris Representational excierse ArchGIS
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