Fall 2022 M.Arch Application Portfolio

PORTFOLIO

Ruiqi Bao Architecture B.Art. 2018-2021 Miami University

CONTENTS

01 Clifton Library

01-06

Functional Building Design Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.

- Mies van de Rohe

02 Surrealist Community

07-13

Conceptual Community Design

All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space.

-PHILIP JOHNSON, speech, 1975

03 Leisure Harbor

14-19

Landmark Architecture Design

04 Other Works Studio & Intern works from 2018-2021

20-22

01 Clifton Library Functional Building Design Architecture Indivisual Work May, 2020

Clifton is a city located to the north of Cincinnati, Ohio. A large number of residents live here. The purpose of the design is to make people's lives easier. This is a multifunctional library where people can not only read, read, learn, but also do business, catering, and organize events. As the average age of the city is relatively low, the library is designed mainly for young and middle-aged people.

01

BACKGROUND

SITE ANALYSIS

Theater

Shops

Market Clifton Library 1880-1890 Clifton community Residential and Shops Parking Hospital

1870 University of Cincinnati Public Research University

1911 Burnet Woods Park Fountain Green space breathes the city

Public Building Analysis Green Space

University

1880-1890 Clifton,Cincinnati Wide residential area

1878 Cincinnati Music Hall National Historic Landmark

Public Space Analysis 2003 Great American Ball Park opens

1866 John A. Roebling Suspension Bridge built Located at the junction of Ohio River between Ohio and Kentucky

Residential Area

Residential Area

1788 Cincinnati city built Economic and Cultural Center the largest metropolitan area in Ohio Cincinnati Demographics-2021

16k

Cincinnati Over 25 Education Less Than 9th Grade

14k

3%

12k 10k 8k

MALE

Associates Degree

6k

9th to 12th Grade

2k POPULATION

0 0 2k 4k

FEMALE

6k 8k 10k 12k 14k 16k

8%

Cincinnati Average Age

4k

0

25

50

100

AGE

ALL

32.2

MALE

31.2

9%

High School Graduate

Traffic and Sun Analysis

24%

Graduate Degree

16% FEMALE 33.2

Bachelors Degree

21% Some College

19%

02

BIRD VIEW MODEL

DESIGN GENERATION Main Area

Connecting Parking to Building

Staircases & Parking

More Functional Space

Height difference solves high space

360° City View

SECTION 1-1

87ft Cafe & Restaurant

Cafe & Restaurant

72ft cafe

Study Rooms

57ft Study Area

Reading Area

Study Area

42ft Class Room

Meeting Room

27ft Audience

12ft

Lobby

9 ft 0 ft

10 ft 0 ft

30 ft 20 ft

50 ft 40 ft

03

FLOOR PLAN

FUNCTION ANALYSIS

N

1 1st Floor Entrance and Exit

Restaurant

Function Rooms 1

Basement Entrance and Exit

Open Staircase

Storage

Study Space

Reading Area Class Room

10ft 0ft

20ft

30ft

50ft 40ft

Conference Room

Study Space Function Rooms

TRAFFIC CIRCULATION

Audience Parking Area

Indoor and outdoor motor vehicle flow lines

Indoor and outdoor pedestrian circulation

04

PLANS

INDOOR RENDERINGS

1

2nd Level Floor

3rd Level Floor

2

10ft 0ft

20ft

30ft

50ft 40ft

5th Level Floor

05

DETAIL DRAWING

OUTDOOR RENDERINGS

Waterproof layer Parapet cover Glass drop pendant Insulation

Reinforced Concrete Insulation

Transparent glass

Metal plate

Floor finish

Insulation Galvanized angle steel Glass drop pendant

Glass drop pendant

Tempered glass

Glass card slot

Glass card slot

Detail Dawing Place

06

02 Surrealist community Conceptual Community Design Architecture Indivisual Work November, 2020

Surrealism is one of the most influential art movements of the 20th century. Its influence in literature and visual arts is still everywhere today. In this project, I used surrealism as an inspiration, starting from the original fragmented information with the predecessor of surrealism, combined with various problems in society as a reflection, to reorganize and develop a surrealist community. It is a perfect community of conceptual abstraction that can accept and tolerate all kinds of marginal figures in society. The community contains five buildings, which represent people's pursuit of housing, food, art, entertainment, and memorial.

07

DADA POETRY

POETRY EXPRESSION

Surrealism originated from the careful thinking of Dadaism. Dadaism mainly opposes inherent rules. Artists will break the inherent habits and rules and use different methods to create new art. I used Dada poetry to cut the words I saw in the newspaper into pieces and put them together to form my poem. Then use the meaning of poetry as I understand to create a drawing.

The half-open door cannot be seen clearly behind it represents some things in society that cannot be on the stage, people's discrimination and unfair treatment. The small person in the middle holds the human heart in his hand, which represents people's various pressures, including mental pressure, social pressure, self-doubt, facial anxiety, and work anxiety. The tower is an expression of death, and people nowadays tend to be pessimistic about death.

08

MOOD BOARD

DESIGN CONCEPT

Humans are social creatures. People in society now generally have some psychological problems.They will also feel physically and mentally exhausted. People are under various pressures from birth, from childhood parents and family, schoolwork, work, interpersonal relationships, love, education, etc. At the same time, there are phenomena such as unfair treatment, herd mentality, moral kidnapping, privacy exposure, and death fear. Human nature and society are inseparable, and people are often forced to become what they are now because of the current society.

SITE PLAN The appearance of fractal is random and natural. If you zoom in on the fractal image, you will find many repetitive and regular patterns.

The community does not exist completely at random. In order to avoid being as rigid as the traditional Founder community, the distribution of fractal as the community will make the community naturally random and regular.

step 1

step 2

step 3

09

ART GALLERY

Civilization

Unlimited Emotion Social Connection

History

Creation

Education

Art

Culture

Expression

In a surrealist community, people no longer have social restrictions, and people's thinking will be more flexible and jumping. The entire building is enclosed in a ring, and diversified curvilinear elements are added, making the building no longer a dull box, but a flowing artwork. The works in the art exhibition area release the spiritual world of surrealist artists.

10

HOUSING

Marginalized people

Freedom

Be squeezed out

Self-affirmation

Negative

Positive

Psychological frustration

Focus

Be blamed

Self-attention

The curly shape of the building means that marginalized residents can pay more attention to and accept themselves without any restrictions. The curly shape of the housing faces the other facilities of the community, allowing them to immerse themselves in this surreal world and ignore the comments of the outside world.

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ENTERTAINMENT

Combine

Get-together

Diversification

Amusement

Cheerful

Naivety

The building can be not only solid, but also hollow and diverse.

People vent their inner emotions through various entertainment activities. This building gathers many functions that seem impossible in reality to be adjacent to each other in the same building, making the whole building a large upright amusement park.

12

MONUMENT

CAFE Relationship

Hight

Complexity

Overlook

Together

Food

Separate

Satisfy

Independence Death

Self-reliance

Reception

This community does not exclude death, but actively faces and respects it. The shape of the death memorial tower coils from the bottom, and people can also walk from the tower to the top at the same time, which means that people slowly move from the world to heaven. The height of the tower allows people to see the entire community on the tower.

Everyone is an island on the road of life.

Each coffee bean building represents an independent and relatively private space. Dining can bring happiness to people, and people can get along or be alone in the building more freely and casually.

13

03 Leisure Harbor Landmark Design Architecture Indivisual Work February, 2021

Over the centuries, many adventurous events have occurred in the harbor. The harbor has a different seaside culture from other places, and it also has the sun and sand that people love. However, they are always far away from cultural centers and are easily overlooked by people. Marina di Loano is an ancient port, but even today, just like in the past and the sailor era, the surrounding residents still need to live a prosperous life through the port. People's lives can be enriched by building landmark harbor buildings, and the city's economy can be developed through tourism.

14

FOREST

AY

LOCATION ANALYSIS

Marina di Loano is a modern tourist port located in Liguria, Italy. The Loano area is located on the coast of Riviera delle Palme, between the towns of Pietra Ligure and Borghetto Santo Spirito. Loano is made up of piers, seagulls, colorful stucco and palm trees, dotted with a vast coast, stretching for miles from Cannes to Portofino. Loano is one of the most beautiful piers in Italy. The port is not only the infrastructure for navigation, but also the soul. The climate in this area is Mediterranean.

Compared with other regions, the climate in Loano is very favorable because the region is less affected by winds in the northern quadrant.

HI

GH W

CHURCH

HARBOUR Monthly Average Sun Hours and Days Average Sun Hours (Graph for Marina Di Bibbona)

Monthly Average Temperature

TIMELINE OF HISTORY

December

October

November

0 September

80

0 July

8

Average Rainfall days

8

1970

1938

In the autumn of 1938, the retired engineer and naval engineer General Filippo Bonfiglietti presented his initial project to build a "fishing port" in Loano, and did all the necessary work to obtain the relevant permits from the local authorities.

5

160

10

August

2020

2021

240

20

May

2020

10

320

30

June

2018

2019

13

40

April

2018

13

12

10

400

February

2016

2017

16

December

2016

16

October

2014

2015

20

November

2012

2014

14

12

24 20

19

July

2010

2013

11

10

May

2012

15

23

15

June

2011

17

April

2010

19

20

March

TOWN

2009

22

January

TRAIN STATION

24

25

27

50

Sun Hours

+200mm

27

February

+400mm

Temperature (ºc)

30

September

Average Rainfall Amount (mm) (Graph for Marina Di Bibbona)

January

Average Temperature (ºc) (Graph for Marina Di Bibbona)

March

Yearly Average Rainfall Amount and Days

August

SITE

1959

The port built in the 1960s is about the same size as the largest port planned by Bonfiglietti. It was built when Loano fishing became less and less important.

In the 70s, many floating piers were built, and the port can now accommodate 450 ships of different types and sizes, which was impossible 40 years ago. There are also more ships and better quality.

2011

The Marina was completed in 2011 and is now open all year round. Marina di Loano can accommodate large boats up to 65 meters long and offers many elegant facilities.

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DESIGN STRATEGY Local Seaside Activities

Architectural Strategy

Utilized of Seaside Features

Seaside Elements Wave

Sound

Wind

Fog

History

Landscape

Marine Life

Plants

Adventure

Unknown

Tourism

Shopping

Foods

Ferry

Sports

Partys

Moist

Salt

Ocean Culture

Architecture Fuction

Coastal Economic

ARCHITECTURAL INTENTION

History and Culture

Shopping and Memento

Dining and Relaxation

Sports and Entertainment

Block A

Block B

Block C

Block D

SITE PLAN N

100 ft 0 ft

300 ft 200 ft

500 ft 400 ft

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PERSPECTIVE

Block D Sports & Entertainment Centre Block C Catering Centre Spacial Corridor Block B Commercial Centre Block A Seaside History Museum

Square

SECTION

49ft 34ft

34ft

34ft

34ft

16ft

16ft

16ft

16ft 0ft

40ft 20ft

80ft 60ft

100ft

17

FUNCTION ANALYSIS & RENDERINGS

Glass roof

Exhibition

Restaurant

Restroom

2

Staircase

Block B Outdoor Rendering

Reception

Resting Place Restrooms

Staircase

1

Stores

Block A: Seaside History Museum

3

Block C: Catering Centre

Stores

对应效果图

Restrooms

Staircase Souvenir shop

1

Block A Indoor Rendering

2

Block B: Commercial Centre

3

Block C Indoor Rendering 18

BLOCK D PLAN & RENDERINGS 2

1

3

Block D: Sports & Entertainment Centre

3

1st Floor

2

4

5

4

6

Corridor: Rest & Cool off 5

2nd Floor

8

8

2

7 9

3nd Floor

1

CAFE & BAR

4

GYM

7

2

RESTROOMS

5

LOCKER ROOM

8

KTV ROOM

3

REST AREA

6

9

BILLIARD ROOM

STORAGE

TABLE TENNIS ROOM

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04 OTHER WORKS

City Skyline Building Studio work May, 2021 Indivisual work

This is a multifunctional facility that should serve diverse purposes and also act as an icon to the city’s skyline. It is to become an iconic component of the Cincinnati urbanscape.

Housing Facade Design Internship work June, 2021 Indivisual work The client is located in the suburbs of Chicago, and he hopes that the building is simple in style while saving the budget as much as possible. Mainly according to customer requirements to design and change the program.

Asian Restaurant Design Internship work July, 2021 Indivisual work

The client is located in Chicago's Chinatown, and their request is to use the lowest budget to improve the building's facade. And also designed the interior of one of the ramen shops in the building.

20

Transit Hub Shelter

Hamilton Housing

Studio work October, 2019 Indivisual work

Studio work December, 2019 Indivisual work

This is an open train station design. The design purpose is to neatly link the train station and the bus station on the basis of not destroying the terrain and the existing trees as much as possible. The shape of the site is a triangle. All requirements need to follow ADA.

Design a housing complex based on the given terrain discribution. Design ten units, incude 3 of one bedroom units, 5 of two bedrooms units, and 2 of three bedrooms units in the specified area.

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A space for Contemplation

Clifton Plaza

Studio work October, 2018 Indivisual work

Studio work May. 2019 Indivisual work Renovation design was carried out at Clifton Plaza in downtown Cincinnati, Ohio. Need to meet the needs of local people for stage performances and mobile bar in the plaza. This is an actual project, which was finally reported to the investor.

Design a device that allows people to rest in the empty grassy park of Miami University.

Gathering Place for a Crowd Artist's Apartment Studio work May, 2019 Indivisual work Designed their own studios and exhibition areas and their apartments for the two artists on a rectangular site in Downtone, Cincinnati, Ohio.

Studio work December, 2018 Indivisual work Design an outdoor site for the entertainment of school students on the green venue in Miami University, so that people can hold some outdoor activities and stage performances on it. It also includes some rest areas, dining areas, and restrooms for students.

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T h a n k Yo u

Ruiqi Bao baor@miamioh.edu