Architecture Portfolio 2014-2022 Qingyue Gao by Qingyue Gao

PORTFOLIO Selected Works 2014 - 2022

QINGYUE GAO Master of Architecture University of California, Berkeley

QINGYUE GAO qingyue_gao@berkeley.edu 5107354106

EDUCATION

University of California, Berkeley Master of Architecture | 2020.8 - 2023.5

Academy of Arts & Design, Tsinghua University Bachelors of Art | 2013.8 - 2017.7

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Studio Link-Arc (Shenzhen Office) Shenzhen, China | Junior Architect | 2018.5-2019.6 Projects: NSFL School, Yinhu Future School, Six Sections, Nanshan Tech Park, Chengdu Pengzhou Huarun Community Center

URBANUS (Shenzhen Office) Shenzhen, China | Summer Intern | 2020.6-2020.8 Projects: China Merchants Historical Museum, Kingway Brewery Renovation

SOFTWARE AUTOCAD RHINOCEROS, VRAY, GRASSHOPPER SKETCHUP MAYA UNREAL ENGINE ADOBE SUITE

LANGUAGES ENGLISH MANDARIN CHINESE [PROFICIENT] JAPANESE [LIMITED]

CONTENTS

01 Precedent Study - Vanna Venturi House Design Foundation (Architecture & Space) Project/ Tsnghua University 02 The Standard Set Project ARCH 200C (Representational Practice in Architectural Design)/ UCB 03 Architecture Inside Out ARCH 200A (Introduction to Architecture Studio 1)/ UCB 04 Three Story Market Structure ARCH 200B (Introduction to Architecture Studio 2)/ UCB 05 Biological Architecture - No Inside, No Outside Bachelor Degree Project/ Tsnghua University 06 Light and Casting Fundamentals of Forming (2) / Tsnghua University _

07 Cascading Courtyards Chengdu Pengzhou Huarun Community Center Studio Link-Arc (Shenzhen Office) 08 Library Interior Design Improvement Dachong School Studio Link-Arc (Shenzhen Office) 09 Yinhu Future School Studio Link-Arc (Shenzhen Office) 10 Kingway Brewery Renovation URBANUS (Shenzhen Office)

01 Design Foundation (Architecture & Space) Project 1 Precedent Study - Vanna Venturi House Group + Individual Fall 2014 / Tsinghua University Advisor: Yichen Lu/ Tiejun Liu

Vanna Venturi House is a revolutionary exploration of architecture implemented by Venturi, the design of this building illustrating the content of Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture written by Venturi, both the book and building are the symbol of Postmodern Architecture. The building's elevation reflects contradiction and consistency. The traditional pitched roof represents a household as a shelter for people, which determines the symmetric shape of this building. However, the building's details are asymmetrically unified by the building's function. The building's plan reflects the contradiction of modern life because functions are asymmetrically laid out on the two sides of this building. Vanna Venturi House brings architects a new way of design and leads the Postmodern Architecture boom.

1:50 Scale Model Group Work Teammate: Shiqi Ouyang / Jing Yu Study on Space

Exploded Isometric Drawings Individual Study on Plan and Elevation

02 ARCH 200C (Representational Practice in Architectural Design) The Standard Set Project Individual Fall 2020 / UC Berkeley Advisor: Kyle Steinfeld/ Ari Bible

Since design problems are inherently idiosyncratic, any attempt to standardize design workflows or normalize the products related to a design proposal should be met with suspicion. Still, it is possible to find relatively widespread agreement on a canon of representational and analytical drawing formats that every architect should be capable of producing. Focusing on both building proficiency in the technical canon of architectural practice, and offering students an opportunity to develop capacity for appropriate application, this project examines the notion of a “standard set” of documentation drawings related to an architectural project. What are the standard pieces that are capable of carrying any project forward, and what sort of drawings are unique to individual projects? The development of this project progresses through a number of phases that mirror the researching, development, articulation, and production of drawings related to the assigned casestudy.

Final Stage Drawings Using different techniques, this section describes the application of tone, color, shade & shadow, texture, entourage, and similar embellishments. To this end, a set of different scale drawings are preparing for an end-of-semester exhibition. In this sort of drawings, I focus on representing the material and texture of Sky Courts. Combined with the design concept of the building and the geographical environment, the whole drawing is based on the colors and elements of traditional paintings, showing the unique sense of form and cultural atmosphere of the building.

a) Building Site Plan Interior Perspective b) Circulation Diagram c) Long Direction Section d) Short Direction Section e) Site Elevation Oblique

03 In & Out ARCH 200A (Introduction to Architecture Studio 1) Individual Fall 2020 / UC Berkeley Advisor: Rudabeh Pakravan

The studio began by revisiting a common architectural exercise: the relationship of the part to the whole. Is architecture an aggregation of related elements or a whole that is nearly divided? How are divisions, aggregations, and separations determined and how to they contribute to the legibility of architectural form in context? How does formal logic relate to scale, program, and site? This exercise began with a case study of architectural precedents that puts emphasis on learning how architects approach design by studying their work. In Project 2, I was asked to design an inhabitation that fulfills the basic essentials, which includes living, working, sleeping and dining including food preparation area, as well as basic personal hygiene. From precedent studies, to analytical diagrams, to operational logics, solid/ void compositions, part to whole relationships, to the spatial possibilities of structure, color and movement resulting in rigorous formal/ spatial objects and interiors. The Project 3 moves form the interior to the exterior and from intensive to extensive speculations.

Precedent Research: Concept Development My semester-long project begins by researching the Sky Courts designed by Howeler Yoon. The concepts I got from this precedent building was doing a subtraction within a mass and organizing a solid void relationship by creating apertures. These concepts throughout the whole semester.

Apertures

In: An Architecture for One Dweller In project 2, my individual dweller was someone who never able to throw away any memorabilia, big or small. A serious of storage spaces generated by doing subtraction within the building’s thickened edges. The intersecting apertures created openness.

Out: An Architecture for The Site

Retaining Parts From Project 2 Dwellings At the beginning of project 3, the mass was reduced by removing and shrink. Through shrink, the height of the original building was reduced, which allowed the building to closer to the ground. A 180-degrees rotation allowed the main façade of my building facing to the south.

Constructed New Site The new site designed for project 3 continued a serious study on apertures, subtraction, and solid void relationship.

Continuous Apertures The planar geometry of the original building was the jumping point of the new site. The geometries were exploded and reorganized on the site.

Site and Dwelling with Caretaker and Pools Program The solid parts generated upward. Pathways, courtyards and pool created by doing subtraction within the ground. A garden was placed on the original ground.

Partial Model at the Main Entrance of Site

The new site continues the formal logic developed from Project 1 and Project 2 vertically. This kind of form brings changes into both the site and functional rooms.

Walking Through Solid and Void An roof structure is punctuated with apertures at site's top, creating a distinct solid and void relationship.

Walking Through Light and Shadow The multiple apertures bring natural light deep into the interior of the site.

Ground Floor Plan All of the additional programs were placed on the first floor. Two changing rooms were placed along the entrance of the site. Sauna/ steam and plunge were placed around the pool.

Sectional Model

Site Section All of the dwellings are arranged on the other side of the site. The garden and landscape connected the whole site.

04 Three Story Market Structure ARCH 200B (Introduction to Architecture Studio 2) Individual Spring 2021 / UC Berkeley Advisor: Andrew Atwood

This project is the design of a three-story semi-outdoor market structure in San Francisco, CA. The project was divided into four parts: 1. Research, 2. Transform, 3. Fit, 4. Design. For the first part I worked in a group of 4 students. We analyzed a list of things that respond to the four provocations of the semester: Program/ Problem, Site/ Context, Structure/ Organization, as will as an additional theme, Circulation/ Movement. For the second part I worked individually to transform my analysis from Part 1 by combining my research from Structure/ Organization and Circulation/ Movement into a three-story tall structure that fit "full bleed" inside a temporary bounding box that loosely corresponds to the site. For the third part, the results from Part 1 and Part 2 were further transformed into the real site by fitting in and fitting out my previous transformations with the Site/ Context and Program/ Problem. For the final part, the results from Part 1-3 were used to define the final form of the market structure on a site in the Dogpatch Neighborhood in San Francisco, CA.

01 Market Type Research

02 Program/ Problem Research

03 Fit Inside Bounding Box

04 Fit Total Building SF

The Galerie, Palais Royale, Paris

Total Building SF: 30000 SF (10000SF*3)

200'W * 100'D * 45'H Box

50% Outdoor, 50% Indoor

05 Fit Site

06 Circulation Strategy

07 Outdoor Movement

08 Material Strategy

Opened to the Corner of Tennessee St and 22nd St

Basic Type: Sloping Floors - Two-Way Circulation

Move Throuout the Building

Apertures

Grid System

Sloping Floors - Two-Way Circulation

General Organization For the general organization, the volume was rotated based on a grid layout. This grid was developed from the initial program defined by step 2 and 3 in the process diagram. This grid also was applied to the plans of each floor.

Program For the program, it was resolved at the level of Market Spaces, Other Spaces with a ratio of 1:1 by arranging Market spaces in the middle and Other spaces were placed beside it. This kind of organization was developed depending on the research of the Galerie.

Circulation For the circulation, in order to activate the building and allow people to move throughout the building conveniently, I chose sloping floors as the basic circulation type connecting each floor from the middle. This led me to rotate the volume to fit the sloping floors. My circulation strategy helped me define the final form of the building.

Other Spaces + Market Spaces + Other Spaces

Ground Floor Plan The program organization of the market informs the bar-shaped volume on the outside: the garden is located in the center, sandwiched by main large spaces such as gallery and supermarket.

The program organization also creates different kinds of interior and exterior facades of the market structure. Exterior reveals the simple apertures open at the ending of the bar-shaped volumes. Interior reveals the shops, restaurants, offices, library, and rooms in the market hall.

Longitudinal Sections of Stairs and Garden

The rotation also as a way to activate the outdoor spaces. Additionally, this could bring light into the building. The rooftop public spaces are accessible via the intersecting main stairs as well. With open public spaces, the new market structure will capture stunning views of the city

The sloping floor creating constinuously cascading shopping environments that will connect people across mutiple floors. Sloping Floors bring a variety of spaces into the building, which leads to the construction of internal and external spaces to form a strong contrast. By opening up the ground floor spaces and activating the centural public space, the different scale light and airy spaces are enclosing the graden and sandwiched between market halls.

05 Biological Architecture - No Inside, No Outside Bachelor Degree Project Individual Spring 2017 / Tsinghua University Advisor: Yichen Lu

In my later study, I learned the method of parametric design, which was used in my graduation design project. By doing research in the form of biology, I created a new exhibition space, showing a streamline and continuity. Breaking the limits of the conventional system of walls and floors, I see the possibility to design more complex space and create innovative architecture with new technology. In addition, in the later stage of this project, my tutor suggested me back to the hand-made model, which helped me present my design in a direct way. By making physical models, I felt that traditional craftworks had their specialty in impressing people, even though they lacked the computer software’s ability to design complex space.

01 Site Storefront for Art and Architecture

No Inside, No Outside

Storefront on Kenmare Street [New York, New York, U.S.A 1992-93]

The Storefront For Art And Architecture is a gallery whose aging facade be renovated by the collaborative team of Steven Holl and artist Vito Acconci in 1992. The gallery itself is a limited, narrow wadge with a triangulated exhibition interior, so the building's long facade is the most dominant structure for it. Acconci and Holl attempted to puncture the facade to create something new. This new facade redefines the function of a facade that a facade shouldn't be created as a division separating the inside from the outside. and in the words of director Kyong Park, is "No wall, No Barrier, No Inside, No Outside, No Space, No Building, No Place, No Institution, No Art, No Architecture, No Acconci, No Holl, No Storefront."

02 Inspiration Parametric Design Creats Biological Architecture

Architecture Can Be Created As An Organic Life Creature Nowadays, parametric design as a new way of design has been widely applying to architecture. Parametric design based on a computer's mathematical analysis, which makes the form of architecture can be entirely different from traditional architecture, leading to a boom of parametric design. Thanks to the parametric technology, it has been easier for us to construct space showing streamline and continuity, which redefines the functions of floor slabs and elevation. Architecture can be created as an organic life creature, that there is no divide among all parts of the building, floor slabs and elevation of a building can be created as a unity.

Marine Organism

Ceramic Sculptures / Eva Hild

SOHO

Little Italy

The Storefront for Art and Architecture is situated on the corner of a block that neighbors Little Italy and SOHO

03 Concept Diagram Creat Consistent Elevation and Space Some enclosed spaces and open spaces formed after the plates are joined together, which seems like some bubbles crested between the plates. These bubbles can be built as a room, a door, a window or something so on. 1.Plate

2.Divide

Horizontal Movements (Section A-A')

3.Remove

The Transformation of Inner & Outer Surface (Section B-B')

4.Merge

Cut to Creat Elevation & Space

5.Smooth A' B'

A B

04 Concept Image Biological Architecture

Original Floorslabs

Redefine 34

New Elevation & Space

Window Wall

Mobile Exhibition Space

Enclosed Space

Entrance Original Stairs

Vertical Transpertation

05 Design Process Biological Architecture

The form of this building's elevation and space is defined by how to cut "bubbles". Mobile exhibition space is determined by the building's outside border, and enclosed space is determined by the building's inside the border.

New Stairs

Concept Diagram

1:100 Scale Model

06 Floor Plans

1 2 3

1st Floor

A 5

Entrance

2nd Floor

07 Model 1:100 Scale Mo Paint On Wood A

7 10 9

1 2 3 4 5

3rd Floor

Roof Plan

Entrance Lobby Cafe Art Store Gallery 1 Gallery 2

6 7 8 9

E F G

Exit

H C

odel And Polyfoam

Showroom 1 Mini Showroom Gallery 3 Gallery 4 0 Media Art Hall

Although the building's space is very limited, the two sides of this building have quite different features. When people enter this building, they will pass through a relatively long and narrow space, then they seem to like to enter a room because space becomes wider and wider. The new stairs as a transition area between two sides of this building, which divides two kinds of space. One side is defined as the gallery and another side is defined as the showroom.

06 LIGHT AND CASTING Individual Spring 2014 Fundamentals of Forming (2) / Tsnghua University Instructor: Professor Yichen Lu

We always design from a perspective of what we can see, and we make decisions depend on our eyes. So, design sometimes can be limited by the view of our eyes. However, casting is a method that makes we can design what we cannot see, this method brings me a new perspective of design. Casting means what we created will be removed in the end, but the empty parts will be created as an object. As a result, the outcoming of casting always cannot be predicted, which is fascinating for me. Considering a series of analysis of the relationship between light and space, I use a logical method to discover the possibility of the parts which we cannot see. Positive and negative shape provide me a springboard, which stimulates my inspiration.

Merge

Scale

Divide

Connect

Unify

Inspiration 1 Positive and Negative Space The casting mold is a cube whose every edge is 10cm long. I divide every face of this cube into 9 equal parts to control the surface pattern and inside space of this cube. After casting, all of the negative parts will be removed from this cube, which creates a unique casting outcome.

Front

Back

Casting Model 01 Gypsum 10 × 10 × 10cm 42

Right

Inspiration 2 Cast Light of Painting From the original inspiration, I got a method of using a pattern to control casting, so I attempt to extend the application of this method. In this part I choose some paintings as the prototype of casting, the outcome can be more complex and more interesting. Prototype 01 - Recomposition

Composition C (No.III) with Red, Yellow and Blue Piet Cornelies Mondrian 1935

First, I choose Mondrian's painting as the prototype of the design. This painting is divided into 8 equal parts versus 5 surfaces of the casting mold. After casting, all of the white parts will be removed, in the end, the black parts are created as some walls of a building. Prototype 02 - Rotation Composition A Piet Cornelies Mondrian 1920

Second, I choose a relatively complex painting of Mondrian as the prototype of the design. This painting is rotated 45 degrees and then be di vided. After casting, all of the colored parts will be removed, in the end, I create a lot of spaces that embed each other. Casting Outcome 02 Gypsum and Polyfoam Mold 12 × 12 × 12cm

Casting Outcome 01 Gypsum and Ployfoam Mold 12 × 12 × 12cm

04 Exploded Isometric Drawings Study on the Connection Between Painting and Space

05 Facades Casting Outcome 01

Casting Outcome 02 Left

Left

Right

Top

Bottom

07 Cascading Courtyards Chengdu Pengzhou Huarun Community Center Chengdu, China, 2019 Full Time at Studio Link-Arc (Shenzhen Office) Status: Concept Design Partner: Qinwen Cai, Shiqi Li, Simeng Qin

Chengdu Pengzhou Huarun Community Center is the first mixed-use architecture project that I have been accessed. The site of this project located in Chengdu, Sichuan, where the climate and environment are comfortable. This idea is created by me in the initial stage of this project. This idea is inspired by WOHA's Kampung Admiralty which also is a mixed-use architecture for the community. The abundant vegetation and public place are the points that are the most fascinating point for me in WOHA's project, so Kampung Admiralty looks like a big forest. Inspired by this, I began to focus on studying the public place in the design of the Pengzhou Community Center. According to the requirement of the client, our team found the site's situation is very limited to our design during the design process, because there are 6 different function areas we need to combine. Under this condition, I attempted to overlap different function area to not only meets the basic needs of different functions but also create some public places for the neighboring community and different functional areas. In this idea, the building split the site into two different plazas and each functional area has its public balcony, which is convenient for the client to manage this building. After communicated with the client, they chose this idea as the basis of further design.

Conceptual Model The vertical superimposed functional system forms the public space serving for different functional areas and stimulates the internal vitality of the complex. 49

Exterior Perspective Creating vertical greenscape by overlapping volumes.

Sectional Axon Rich outdoor activity space activates the complex and the whole site.

08 CRLand NSFL School Library Interior Design Improvement Shenzhen, China, 2018 Full Time at Studio Link-Arc (Shenzhen Office) Status: Completed Design Partner: Yichen Lu

CRLand NSFL is a 54,000 m² elementary and middle school campus, comprising regular and specialized classrooms, library, gymnasium, indoor swimming pool, auditorium, dormitory, along with dining halls, and dedicated playgrounds. Located in Shenzhen’s DaChong neighborhood, the NSFL elementary and middle school campus represents the last piece of a decade-long development, which saw the area change from a compact industrial outskirt into a vertical city. The first project I participated in when I work in Link-Acr was the improvement of the interior design of the NSFL School's library, which was required by the teachers of the NSFL School. Considering the original implementation just meets the basic needs of a school's library, teachers hoped we can enrich the original design to make this library more comfortable to children and teachers of NSFL School before this project finally completed. Some teachers suggested that they want to add a coffee bar in this library so that they can relax in this area. After I received the teacher's suggestions, form the architecture's perspective, I combined the new idea with the original design. Considering this coffee bar is located in a library, I designed a coffee bar that embeds into the original bookshelf.

Teacher's Rest Area Axon Diagram

The library's third floor is the teachers' reading area. This coffee bar is serving as a rest area for teachers. With the combination of bar and bookshelves, this area is integrated into the library environment.

Centural Public Area and Main Entrance of the Library

The central public area is serving as a changing station give access to multiple floors and different areas.

Students' Reading Area

The second floor is the main reading area for students.

Process Photographs of the Project

We also pay great attention to the recording of the construction process of the project.

09 Yinhu Future School Physical Model Photography Shenzhen, China, 2018 Full Time at Studio Link-Arc (Shenzhen Office) Status: Concept Design Partner: Yichen Lu

The Shenzhen Yinhu Future School is located in Sanjiu District, Yinhu Lake, in the Luohu district of Shenzhen, with a total land area of 14,000 square meters. On the east side of the site lies the completed residential district of Silver Lake Lanshan by China Resources, while the southwest side is used by the armed police. The east and north sides are enclosed by natural mountains. A planned road will pass through the site leading to the Sanjiu Garden development. The site thus both shares a natural environment with backing hills and opens to the surrounding urban fabric. The shape of the elegant ring-shaped teaching building is inspired by the traditional tulou building, which encloses, centers and warms. A total of four 200-meter-long running tracks are set at the top of the building, and a shading system is provided above the tracks to provide cover for the stadium. The center of the school building is an open green space; it is also a shade- and breeze-filled courtyard shared by teachers and students. On one side of this yard is an auditorium that protrudes from the ground: aesthetically essential to the space, this object gives it definition. In this project, I mainly responsible for tracking the model making process and taking photographs. I learned a lot about model making skills and how to use photograph to represent.

The Bird-view from the top and surroundings in the physical model

Looking towards the building from mountains and running tracks in the physical model

10 Kingway Brewery Renovation Foam Installation Improvement Shenzhen, China, 2021 Internship Program at URBANUS (Shenzhen Office) Status: Under Construction Design Partner: Ting Wen, Haijun Zhang

Kingway brewery is located in Luohu District, one of the city centers in Shenzhen. With Shenzhen’s industrial upgrade and development from “manufacturing city” to “intelligent city”, the 11,600 m2 industrial heritage of Kingway brewery has become an important witness to the city’s production and development. Kingway beer is the common memory of Shenzhen people and the brewery is the place that once shined with pioneering entrepreneurship. After drastic urban regeneration, Shenzhen’s former struggles and glories have been condensed in this small industrial site in Luohu District. Urbanus proposes “making on-site”, thinking that “industrial heritage should not only be a mass consumer product in the post-industrial age. The preservation and renovation of it could rebuild a place and a spirit. Its condensed city memory should be explored, highlighted and amplified, and gain a new life in the future with constant new ideas and infinite new possibilities.” In this project, I mainly participated in the design improvement for Foam Installation which will be a new roof above the original sewage treatment building in Kingway brewery. During the design process, I responsible for rhino model adjustment according to cost and manufacture, rendering, the communication with constructor, construction drawings adjustment. Throughout the project, I knew a lot aboout the manufacturing process of cast aluminum and how the manufacturing method affect the cost.

Long Direction Section

1 : 1 Scale Partial Model 67

Each main module will be divided into two sheet-like members and fixed by screws after being inserted together.

1 Main Moduels (500*500*500cm) Total Amount: 2406 (2406 Screws Included) Weight: 7.2kg per Main Moduel

Each Internal Node also will be divided into two sheet-like members and fixed by one screw after being inserted together. 4 Internal Nodes Total Amount: 1160 (1160 Screws Included) Weight: 7.2kg per Node

2 Orthogonal Rods on Inner and Outer Surfaces Total Amount: 5256 Weight: 0.52kg per Main Moduel

Each Inner and Outer Skin Node will be divided into three parts and fixed by one screw after being assembled together. 5 Inner and Outer Skin Nodes Total Amount: 2392 (2392 Screws Included) Weight: 1.39kg per Node 68

3 Connecting Pin Total Amount: 10512 (42048 Screws Included) Weight: 0.09kg per Pin

Each Foundation Node will be divided into two parts and fixed by one screw after being assembled together.

6 Foundation Nodes Total Amount: 232 (232 Screws Included) Weight: 1.39kg per Node