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RUI SONG
University of Michigan 2015-2017 M.Arch songrui@umich.edu
RUI SONG
songrui@umich.edu
University of Michigan
2015-2017
Taubman Collage of Architecture and Urban Planning Master of Architecture (2-year)
Education
Tongji University
Bachelor of Engineering in Landscape Architecture • Interdisciplinary program with a mixture of architecture, urban planning& landscape design studios
Tokyo Institute of Technology
2011-2015
2014
Architecture Summer School Shin-ichi Okuyama Studio
Skills
Professional •2D Graphic: Autocad, Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign •3D Modeling: Rhino, Revit, Sketchup, Maya •Rendering: Vray (for Rhino/Sketchup), Lumion •Others: Grasshopper, 3D Printing, Adobe Premiere, Sketch, Invision.
Language • English (proficient)
Honors& Awards
• Chinese Mandarin (native)
University of Michigan • Architecture Student Show
Tongji University
Publication
03/2017
• Academic Scholarship of College of Architecture and Urban Planning, 1st prize
09/2014
• Light Installation Competition for the Chinese Antarctic Research Center
04/2014
• Home Above Market 2, 2013 Fall Projects of 2011 CAUP Special Program, Tongji University Project selected
02/2016
Associate, Booth Hansen Architects
08/2017- Present
• Project 1: Palm Springs Residence, Palm Springs, CA. Schematic Design & Design Development: Revit model & drawings, enlarged detaill drawings, schematic design submittal, client meetings,3d printing
Experience
Architectural Extern, Beyer Blinder Belle Architects& Planners
03/2017-03/2017
Architectural Intern, Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects
05/2016-08/2016
• Project 1: 120 Broadway Historical Renovation, New York City. Elevation drawing of the Interior& exterior storefront, site survey& presentation.
• Project 1: Guangzhou South Sea Cultural Center, Guangzhou, China (competition). Conceptual Design, landscape design, 3D&physical modeling, rendering, diagrams& documentation • Project 2: Caohejing Office Renovation (competition). Plan and section drawings, diagrams& rendering
Architectural Intern, Naturalbuild
07/2013-01/2014
• Project 1: Luxiangyuan Historical Urban Renovation, Shanghai, China. Site research& documentation, plan& section drawings, diagrams, physical model& 3d modeling • Project 2: Laterite Museum, Jiangxi Province, China. 3D modeling,render of interior& detailed physical model (1:50)
Research Assistant, Tongji University
09/2013-12/2013
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Selected Work 2011-2018
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[ACADEMIC] 01 Dequindre Town
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[Residential]
02 Opaque Privacy
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[Comunity Library]
03 Home Above Market
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[Residential and Mixed-use]
04 JFK Presidential Library
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05 [Thesis] Martian Embassy in Barcelona
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[Civil and Institutional]
Cultural Center for the Extraterrestrial [Civil and Institutional]
[PROFESSIONAL] 06 Palm Springs Residence
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07 Nanhai Cultural Center
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08 Vanke Office Renovation
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[Single-Family House]
[Professional Competiton]
[Professional Competiton]
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DEQUINDRE TOWN [Residential]
Academic, Group Work Collaborators: Yibo Jiao, Yusi Zha Location: Detroit, USA 12/2016, University of Michigan Critic: Craig Borum& Claudia Wigger The project contains eight residential towers located in between Dequindre cut and Division street, two blocks away from the Eastern market in downtown Detroit. It is part of the larger urban renewal project. The design is based on the study of the historical urban fabric of the site and the surrouding area and creates a field condition of figure-and-figure, figureand-ground relationship. The eight residential towers are envisioned as self-sufficient objects within close proximity to the landform. Through maximizing the value of the vacant landscape and alienating the residential towers, the design challenges the conventional housing typology by interrupting the connection between different households and invokes multiple public events on the landform. Each tower is a vertical stack-up of one unit per floor with a dynamic view of surrounding landscape.
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First Floor, Division Street Level
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reference 1: woodward grid
mediate topography toward dequindre cut
landform pattern A along x axis
overlap with historical trace 1+2, longitudinal
landform topography 1
reference 2: historical residential
mediate topography toward diviison cut
landform pattern B along y axis
overlap with historical trace 1+2, transverse
landform topography 2
30'x30' orthogonal
generate lines and dots (150'x150' grid, 30' dia dots)
overlap with historic trace 2+3, transverse
affected landform patches
generate landscape imposed by historical trace
Historical Trace& Generative Diagram
Dequindre Town
Marina City
Robinhood Gardens
Research on Housing Typology
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Plan Voisin
Ground Floor, Dequindre Cut Level
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Exterior rendering- Sculputure, Geometry, Transparency
a courtyard
a restaurant
a seating area
a laundry room
a seating area
a parking lot
vignettes of different programs
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a lobby
a family lounge
Residential entrance detail
Lobby section
Courtyard under the landscape
Units detail
Site section
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Lobby Scene from the Dequindre Cut Entrance
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a musian's studio
Tower A
a family's Christmas decor
a family's interior garden
a family's kitchen
Tower B
Tower C
Tower D
Unit Plans with Refelctiv
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a personal gym
a couple's pets
a kid's play room
an artist's studio
Tower E
Tower F
Tower G
Tower H
ve Celling Plans
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Unit Interior Scene
Unrolled Facade Geometry
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Facade details
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OPAQUE PRIVACY [Community Library]
Academic, Individual Work Location: Shanghai, China 12/2013, Tongji University Critic: Yichun Liu, Aterlier Deshaus
The process of reading can be a means of meditation, a connection of the reader to the spiritual world in the book. The design starts by posing the question of how to guarantee the privacy of reading within a large crowd of people. In response, the design proposes Opaque Privacy: to separate large reading space into small units to give privacy to each person, yet allowing communications if necessary. The library builds upon a wooden column grid with a large structural grid (6m x 6m) for public reading space on the ground floor and a denser column grid(3m x 3m) for semiprivate reading rooms on the third floor and archive space on the second floor. Curtains are used as a soft partition that blocks visual connection but allows physical access, while creating a poetic atmosphere.
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Structure: Large structure grid (6mx 6m) and denser column grid(3mx 3m) .
Main reading ocupies a half of the footprint of ground floor creating urban platform
Concept Strategy
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Semi-private reading space on the 3rd floor: layout of furniture to form circulation
Curtain as a soft partition of semi-private reading space
main reading space volume
lift the main space onto an urban platform
light acess and courtyard
Main Entrace open to the public 24/7
Circulation
Volume Orientation
Longitudinal Section
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Second Floor
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Interior Collage
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Ground Floor
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First Floor
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Facade
Rooftop
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Courtyard
[Continuity to the street], Public hiearchy decreases gradually from the street level to each household
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HOME ABOVE MARKET [Mixed-use Residential]
Academic, Individual Work Location: Shanghai, China 12/2013, Tongji University Critic: Fangji Wang The project aims to merge the two existing markets and build a new community with a market of larger-scale at the corner of Anshan Rd. and Fushun Rd. in Yangpu District. 70% of the former residents are expected to come back afterwards.
Considering that the commonly accepted closed state of the Chinese communities is actually a special case from the global aspect, I want to make an attempt to improve the present living conditions by breaking both the horizontal and vertical boundaries and eliminating the enclosure and the confinements between up and down. Four clusters including various functions are implanted at the main entrances of the community between the ground level and the residential platform to introduce the public life to the community. Located above the ground floor, the shops that serve both the neighborhood and the community are of an intermediate state between publicity and privacy. In an attempt to introduce public life into the private residential area, the design challenges the traditional ethic of self-enclosed living pattern in China. The concept lies in creating an atmosphere of publicity and continuity with the public street system to activate the community.
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Scene of "street life": Perspective sketch from the main street
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Commercial Clusters
Public Hierarchy
Existing Condition
Residentials Fence
Market
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original blocks
open posture to the city
better lighting
push the blocks for the entrance of the clusters and more interactons within.
insert commercial clusters
volid for up-and-down communication
Volume Orientation
SW- Se
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First Floor
Second Floor
Third Floor
WE-Section
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Forth Floor
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a Roof Structure PVC waterproof roll 15mm drainage protection mat 60mm mineral wool thermal insulation vapor barrier 300mm hollow-core concrete slab b curtain rail c 30mm cement slab d window with double glazing and plastic frame
e Wall Structure bare concrete paint 100mm mineral wool thermal insulation 300mm reinforced concrete exterior wall interior silicate emulsion paint f Floor Structure 180*300mm waterproof timber floor 50*50mm wooden keel 10mm cement sand rendering 300mm reinforced concrete slab 33
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JFK PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY [Civic and Institutional]
Academic, Individual Work Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA 12/2015, University of Michigan Critic: Jonathan Rule
Curative Collaborative In our attempt to represent President John F. Kennedy's legacy, we first made a timeline of events during his presidency and mapped out the most important events throughout the time period. The first stage of design is that everyone in the studio pick one artifact from the timeline, whether it be political or personal and design a exhibition room for that specific artifact. As we had 12 person in the studio, there are 12 different show rooms related to 12 artifacts of JFK's presidency, and they are: Nuclear Ban Treaty, Cuban Missile Crisis, Civil RIghts Movement, Compaign Trail, Berlin Wall, Space Race, Religion Matters, Victura, JFK Images, Jackie Kennedy, Assasination. I designed the civil rights movement showroom. The showroom features a loop path that goes around a void center in the middle. While visitors are going along the path to see images and artifacts in the loop path, they get a constantly changing view of the center space. However, the center space can never be reached or accessed. It indicates that true civil rights haven't been fully reached thus are fully "accessible".
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12 Exhibition Rooms: Artifacts of John F. Kennedy's Presidential Legacy
Individual Design The Second stage of design is for each student to develop a concept to organize the 12 exhibition rooms into a presidential library. The way I chose to organize the room is to divide the 12 artifacts into two categories: political and personal as shown in the diagrams above. Political artifacts are also time related, and personal are non-time related.
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Organization of JFK Presidential Legacy
The two categories are incorporated into the building as "solid" and the rest of the space is "void". Visitors encounter political events first(organized according to time order) and then personal events. The aim is to represent the president not only as a political leader of the United States and the world, but also a human being.
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Volumetric Orientation: Solid V.S. Void
JFK Exhibition Room
Public Library
Archive
DIagramatic Section: Exhibition room as "solid", public library as "grey space", archive as "void"
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Ground floor plan
First floor plan
Second floor plan
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Third floor plan
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MARTIAN EMBASSY IN BARCELONA CULTURAL CENTER FOR THE EXTRATERRESTRIAL
[Thesis|Institution] Academic, Individual Work Location: Barcelona, Spain 04/2017, University of Michigan Critic: John Mcmorrough
The project begins with looking at city making through movie study of Logan’s Run about how urban typologies organization, environment and density represent the society’s culture and how city making inform the architecture where the society resides. Inspired by Logan’s Run, I developed the idea of designing a Martian Embassy as a representation of Martian Culture. In the hundred years since the first group of people landed on Mars and experimented living on the red planet, mankind has been able to construct their permanent habitat on Mars and embarked on a new civilization of extraterrestrial life as the “Martians”. A whole new nation has been established with settlers from United States, Europe, Asia and etc. In 2197, the embassy of Mars exists among major cities in the world. In the thesis, we are looking at the Mars embassy in Barcelona, city of spectacular and drama-a perfect ground of fantasy. The Mars Embassy emerges as a new type of architecture on earth that connects the nation of Mars with earth as well as promotes Martian culture by preparing and educating those who will travel to Mars among which are the future immigrants. What the embassy intends to represent is not the strange alien world of the distant planet Mars, but what we have in our human imagination of that planet and its supposed life forms. The embassy speaks directly to the fantastic dream world of imagination. In contact with “the other” projected by pure human fantasy, men are able to perceive their earthly living better. The embassy is a unique observatory for people to rise above their existence and embrace their fantasy. The Mars Embassy prepares people both physically and intellectually to go to Mars: “Physically” meaning to get people used to the environment on Mars such as reduced gravity, different daynight cycles and sun exposure. It provides training for people to obtain basic life skills for living on Mars. “Intellectually” meaning to educate people on Martian culture, the society, climate, new language, trade and diplomatic regulations and etc.
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The Martia
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Logan's run: Dome city and "the Great Hall"
Martian Colonization
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Users& Body
Program& Society
Technology& Enclosure
Site& Premise
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PALM SPRINGS RESIDENCE [single-family house]
SD& DD with Booth Hansen Architects Location: Palm Springs, California 2/2018
The design of the house features a field of condition of white boxes on the site, featuring a living room, kitchen and dinning, guest bedroom, garage, master suite, casita (guest house) and a family house. The main house sits 5' above the guess living area, with each volumn connected through the central gallery of art collections- also served as main circulation space. The design is oritented to optimize the views from every cornor of the house and bring nature into living. In Palm Springs California, the essence of living centers around kitchen and dinning. The dining and kitchen box is placed in the center with a drammatic view looking at the pool and the southeast mountain views. Despite its private nature, the organization of the house is an exhinition of living in a way that a public musuem operates.
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First Floor Plan
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Exterior Views
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Kitchen/ 63
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Master 65
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Galle 67
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Site Section
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Nanhai Cultural Center [Professional Competiton] Professional work with Schimdt Hammer Lassen Architecs Location: Guangzhou, China 6/2016
The Nanhai Cultural Center sits in the heart of the south Chinese city of Foshan. Located 45km West of Guangzhou, where the city is aiming to create a combination of Library, Arts, Education and Cultural performance space in the heart of Foshan’s existing Thousand Lantern Lake Park. The project takes form in five cystal shaped marble volums that connects together to form an iconic image representing the culture value of the city. The compostion of the buildings also creates a shaded open park that hosts multiple events.
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1.divide the site into different programs set back for access
4.public market space
2.extrude programs
5.connection on the top floor
3.slice volume to create open space on ground floor
6.central corridor connectiong all the programs
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transverse section
main entrance scence
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Ground Floor Plan
Longitudin
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7th Floor PLan
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section detail
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facade detail
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Vanke Office Renovation [Professional Competiton] Professional work with Schimdt Hammer Lassen Architecs Location: Guangzhou, China 6/2016
Existing
Proposed
The renovation of the SLP building is conceived as a micro-campus: a proposal to combine the interdisciplinary focus of a university campus with the intensity and culture of a startup incubator. With its unique public places and meeting points, as well as zones for focused research and work, the campus provides an excellent model for the contemporary workplace. The new culture of work is one of collaboration, flexibility, openness, and exhibition. Work, lifestyle, and play have begun to mix together, forming the need for a workplace that can act as a meeting point and social space as well as a workspace. Our design will provide a platform in which this kind of workplace can thrive. Public spaces at different scales provide casual meeting spaces for different size groups. Retail and office spaces share the series of large public spaces, providing he mix between lifestyle, work, and social life that modern companies look for in an office space.
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The current atrium does not bring enough light for high quality office space, so an extensive intervention is neccesary to provide the neccesary light and openness
Existing Building
Expanding the atrium into a larger opening will improve lighting conditions, but without providing a clear entrance location and space divisions. Carving an atrium from the street facade will provide an exciting facade and clear main entrance
Our proposal is to use the same removed area to create a series of three smaller atriums: two that respond to the existing neighbouring buildings, and one that opens to the street
The building is divided into three clusters. These clusters can be leased as large individual units, or subdivided into smaller offices for lease
Three ‘penthouses’ are placed on top of each space cluster, providing ultra-high quality office environments that can be rented separately, or linked to offices below. Private terraces are added on the roof for the penthouse offices.
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First Floor
Fifth Floor
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100 LUX / Normal Minimun Nomination Level for Office General Space
Daylighting Analysis
Longitudinal Section
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Main Entrance Elevation
Atrium View 84
Renovation Structure Concept
Floor 3 Original Plan
Floor 3 New Plan 85
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RUI SONG
University of Michigan 2015-2017 M.Arch songrui@umich.edu