SAI HU
ART&ARCHITECTURE Selected Works 2014 - 2019
Sant Cugat del VallĂŠs, Barcelona, 35mm, 2016
Curriculum Vitae Education
Education 2018-2020 Washington University in St. Louis Master of Architecture Candidate Master of Construction Management Candidate 2016-2017 Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura del Vallés Bachelor of Science in Architectural Studies 2013-2017 University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign Bachelor of Science in Architectural Studies
Recognition
Recognition 2016 International Design Competition “Cannabis Bank” by beebreeders.com Honorable Mention 2014 Edward C. Earl Prize Sophomore Spring Studio Nominee 2013 Edward C. Earl Prize Sophomore Fall Studio Third Place
Experience
Experience 2019 Alberti Program Teaching Volunteer - 4th Graders 2016-2017 Loci Architecture PC Architectural Intern 2015-2016 Funk Agricultural, Consumer, and Environmental Sciences Library (Funk ACES) Student Assistant 2015-2016 ArchChina Co-founder and secretary 2014-2015 Global Architecture Brigades UIUC Chapter Volunteer and active member 2013 EF English First Education, Shanghai Teaching Assistant
Software
Software Rhinoceros | Revit | SketchUp | AutoCAD | Grasshopper Adobe Photoshop | Illustrator | InDesign | Premiere Thea Render | 3dsMax
Language
Language Fluent in English | Native Speaker in Chinese | Beginner in Spanish
Travel Sketches Seville, Andalusia(Left), Piazza del Popolo, Rome(Right)
Table of Content
Creators Factory Barcelona
1000 Feet Under Underwater
Theatre Putxet Barcelona
Trans-migrant Tokyo
Metamorphosis Champaign
Models 2018
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Creators Factory Mixed Use | Gracia, Barcelona, Spain | Spring 2017 | Individual Project
The building is a sculpture whose sculptor is the urban spaces around it.
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When the entire neighborhood hang the sign of “We want green space� from their balconies, the best solution really is not to build a building. Taking on this challenge, I took a humble approach. The building should make a way for the existing urban spaces. I let the urban space etch into the proposed site, and an organic form is sculpted.
It is a mixed use building for a small publishing company and a start-up offices rental space. The publishing company specializes in high-quality books dedicated to the visual and performing arts. Locating in Gracia, Barcelona, a young and vibrant district, this building’s potential users are people who has interests in art.
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Tourist Attractions Railways Ground Traffic Proposed Site
Crosswalks Traffic Flow Pedestrian Flow
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Proposed site boundary and existing urban spaces
Use existing urban spaces to shape the building footprint
Extract longitudinal walls from the resulted form
Fit all mechanical and service functions into thickened longitudinal walls to free up floor plans
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Vertical Circulation Restrooms Return Air Supply Air Water Bookstore, Gallery, Coffee Shop Publishing Headquarter Start-up Offices Structural Elements
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N-S Section Perspective
East Elevation
South Elevation
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Parapet [900mm]
Tilt Turn Window Double Pane Glass [10mm thickness]
Stainless Steel Mullion Concrete One-way Ribbed Slab [300mm thickness]
Water Sprinkler System Return Air Duct Supply Air Duct
Floor Air Vent Dropped Ceiling
Wooden Raised Floor Steel Raised Floor Support
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<Publishing Headquarter office space> The industrial style interior is divided by rotating doors that can line up as partition walls and open up for circulation. Wire grid partitions are also used for transparency and as pin-up walls.
1000 F e e t U n d e r Saturation Diving System | Underwater | Fall 2018 | Individual Project
Reimagining an underwater habitat.
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Saturation diving has been a diving method widely used for underwater jobs. Many on-site jobs require workers to perform over an extensive period of time. Before the introduction of Saturation Diving, workers were required to dive in and return to the surface everyday, which increases their chance of getting decompression sickness. Saturation diving habitat is a great system to protect workers safety, and provide them a temporary home while under water.
This prototype questions how the current saturation diving system can be altered to increase the comfort level of these workers, by reorganizing the system from an architectural standpoint. Strictly following the principle of water pressure variation, I presented a potential alteration that integrate more liveliness into workers saturation diving lifestyle, as well as increasing efficiency in dealing with decompression.
Overall Axonometric View
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Floating Dock Plan
Typical Habitat Plan
Moon Pool Section
Hinged Airtight Door
Dining & Lounge Section Perspective
Cable Anchor
Vertical Conveyance Section Perspective (Left) Sleeping Pod Section Perspective (Right)
Sleeping Pod Floor Layout (Left) Vertical Conveyance Floor Layout (Center)
Wet Bell / Moon Pool Floor Layout (Right)
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Steel I-beam Door Connected to Circulation Tube
Breathing Gas Storage Sub - Floor Structure
Breathing Gas Storage Sub - Floor Structure
Theatre Putxet Small Scale | Gracia, Barcelona, Spain | Fall 2016 | Collaboration with Dave Sheridan, Miguel. A. Arias Role: Concept Development, Design Development, Digital Model Making, Rendering
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Small is beautiful, a study of economics as if people mattered.â&#x20AC;? -Ernst F. Schumacher
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One of the key premises for a sustainable environment is â&#x20AC;&#x153;to build as little as neededâ&#x20AC;?, taking advantage of existing conditions, as accurately as possible; in other words, this is the antithesis of large urban developments and undertakings. To build accurately implies. Throughout the design process, the understanding and consideration of how the different spaces of the project will be occupied and used by the buildingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s users.
Thus, we took the advantage of a compact organization of spaces as our design principle. Centering the black box theater as our core space, we designed all secondary programs within the perimeter of the black box. Each function is closely related to one other, pushing all circulation outward between the black box and the building envelope. We believe this is the most efficient way to work with a small scale architecture.
Vertical Direction Existing Open Ground Lateral Direction Existing Ascending Route Verticle Direction Proposed Resting Plaza Lateral Direction New Ascending Route
Escalators
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Ground Floor Plan
Escalators
Residence and tourists coming from all three directions have to travel through long and restless paths as they ascend to the top of Putxet Park seeking for the pano view of Barcelona city, in both lateral and vertical direction. Laterally speaking, as people arrive by a series of escalator, the first thing that encouter is a strip of brick wall stands along the primeter of the park, which forces them to either take a left or right in order to continue going up. In the veritical direction, theaterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s front plaza provides travelers a free intermediate resting spot as they progressively approach to the top of the mountain. It is a needed additonal open flat ground that is integrated with a built structure. Resting, socializing, performing, and all is combined in this area.
All Programs
Theater Use
Audience Use
Service Use
Actors Use
Mechanical Use
Cellar Floor
Second Floor
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Third Floor
Fourth Floor
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The Black Box Theatre
The Outer Box
Public Use
Actors/Technician Use
Trans-Migrant Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan | Competition host by Arch Out Loud | Fall 2016 | Collaborated with Shuang Bi, Teruaki Hara, Meng Ma Role: Concept Development, Design Development, Rendering
The residents of the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s largest city have started to wake up to new neighbors. Neighbors who are silent, but whose presence is opposed by many nonetheless.
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Private developers in Tokyo have used temples as covers to build cemetery plots which they can sell for ten times the price of land without taxes. This practice results in the unwanted placement of cemeteries adjacent to homes in the already densely populated neighborhoods of Tokyo. Amplifying this issue are the ever-changing demographics of Tokyo. Recent studies show that the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s average age is rapidly increasing, with nearly twenty-five percent of the population being 65 or older and a large majority over the age of 30.
Similarly, more and more rural residents are coming into Tokyo, increasing the overall population. As the age and population increase, Tokyo is being forced to face the issue of burial space. â&#x20AC;&#x2039;In the Shinjuku district of Tokyo, arch out loud challenges designers to develop proposals for a vertical cemetery that explores the relationship between life and death within the city. The need to examine this condition affords designers the opportunity to not just efficiently respond to the issue of space but also look into the cultural identity that this solemn program can project within its environment.
Vertical Cemetery
Vertical Rotation . Time
Ferris Wheel . Samsara
The mobility of a Ferris wheel resembles the dynamiccs in the concept of reincarnation, and is an outstanding symbol of the fantasy of city life. As the demand of space for the ones who passed increases, traditional cemeteries emerge above the ground. In a juxposition, people start to be more open to talk about life and death. Eastern religions and philosophies have a generally mutual outlook of death. They understand the profound message from the universe is that the essence of everything is everchanging. Liberation is achieved through the dynamic equilibrium. We believe that a Ferris wheel-like cemetery will add a romantic touch to the heavy idea of death, in Shinjuku, Tokyo, an often fantasized place by people from all over the world.
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Underground Reflection Room
Free Rotation Cargo: Enclosed Reflection Room Capacity: 6 people
Tractor System
Side Enclosure
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Selecting Urn
Transporting Urn
Ferris Wheel urn storage cabin reflection space
Ground Level stairs leading 10 feet down from ground level to Ferris wheel entrance
Basement circular reflection space
Retrieving Urn
M e t a m o r p h o s i s [honorable mention] Champaign, Illinois, USA | Competition host by Beebreeders | Summer 2016 | Group Project with Teruaki Hara, Marija Sassine Role: Design Development, Digital Model Making, Sections and Rendering The middle way is the way .
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An architecture of and for Cannabis would seem as confounded or bemused as the position of Cannabis in contemporary culture. In much of the world, Cannabis is controversial, challenging, considered in many places taboo, yet is relevant as a concern of legality, medicine, health, ethics, and economy. Historically precedented in popular culture or as a building typology by the public house, salon, tea house, cafe, and pharmacy, a contemporary architecture of Cannabis is yet to be defined.
The political, economic, and legal consequences in society, however are manifold. Stigma results from the immature knowledge about cannabis, whether or not it is judgmental or biased. Thus, our objective is to help people mature their ideas about cannabis, by advocating the thorough knowledge of cannabis. This is our attempt to take an architectural method to be involved in a rather delicate yet provocative topic. We do not use or promote the use of legal or illegal substances.
In response to the site that quite literally divides Champaign county into the conservative crowd to its west side residential area, and a much more liberal student body from U of I to its east side, we laid out two distinct functions - Cannabis dispensery and the education center accordingly facing each side. At the south end of the site where two major roads converge into one, we adapted this form metephorically, in the hope of leading two opposite sides into find their common ground. The linear form of this design guides people to the south end, where two spaces merge, giving people the opportunity to understand the pros and cons of Cannabis, and advocate the attitude of â&#x20AC;&#x153;neither to indulge, nor to hate.â&#x20AC;?
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Models Individual Works | Fall 2018
Investigation of light and color Inspired by Luis Barragรกn House and Studio
1000 Feet Under Model
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Other Works Film & Digital Photography | Digital Illustration
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10. 2016 at Walden 7 by Ricardo Bofill Barcelona, Catalunya
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From left to right: 08. 2016 Shanghai, China 03. 2017 Barcelona, Spain
01. 2017 Rome, Italy
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sky gradience: an afternoon
sky gradience: a midnight
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Grimes
self-portrait
after final review
hot yoga
M.Arch & M.Construction Management Candidate Washington University in St. Louis saihu618@gmail.com (1)717.903.2696 6720 Clayton Ave. #2S St. Louis, MO 63139