Sijia Pei
Portfolio
SIJIA PEI Interior Designer 415 964 6895 scarlett920915@gmail.com
Table of Contents
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Hospitality Design / Art Museum Hotel
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Retail Design / Decathlon Store
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Residential Design / 3b2b apartment
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Commercial Design / Olive City Shopping Mall
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Landscape / Plant Travel
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Landscape / Resilience Coastal Area
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Art Work / Interior Sketch
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Art Work / Landscape Sketch
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ART MUSEUM HOTEL MFA Interior and Architetcure Design
Project type: Location:
Hospitality design 1540 Broadway st.
The Art Museum Hotel is a boutique hotel designed to deliver a unique travel experience. The property is located at 1540 Broadway, in the center of downtown Oakland, California. The old two-story retail structure was demolished and developed for a new downtown boutique hotel. It has eight stories, plus a rooftop sky bar. In addition, the building has two basement level for parking. The hotel’s public space and back-of-house will be primarily located on the first and second floors. The project is strongly influenced and inspired by Oakland’s creative culture. Art is a part of Oakland’s soul. Immigrants and artists are constantly leading the way of innovation and creativity. From industrial arts to world-class museums, there’s a lot of creative expression here. My goal is to design a hotel which itself will interact with tourists, and a place that welcomes tourist to interact with each other.
The project reconciles multiple contrasts between the old and the new, and the elegant and the informal. Neutral colors are the keynote of this hotel, emphasizing the artworks exhibited there. The main material is wood, which contrasts with metal and marble. The project meets the sustainability, both through architectural elements and selection of materials. Most common areas of the hotel are located on the ground floor. These are divided into four spaces: an exhibition area, a lobby, a bar, and the restaurant. They flow into each other, creating a visual experience of alternation.
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NEIGHBORHOOD The property is located in the downtown Oakland Historic District. City Hall and its plaza and a series of early 20th century skyscrapers are nearby along Broadway. The Oakland Historic District is the main financial district in Oakland. Also, it is the art and entertainment center of Oakland. The target clients are businessmen, artists, designers, and curators.
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AMBIENT CONDITIONS
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Greenery is planted in front of the hotel and along the sidewalks of the street.
Broadway is bordered by sidewalks on both sides, which provide pedestrian access to the building.
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The property is located next to the Coworking Space and The Academy of Chinese Culture & Health Sciences. The main entrance is on the Broadway. The sidewalk lined with plantings is about 11 feet in front of the property. Visitors can park next to the hotel or at Latham Square Garage, or at two-hour parking metered along the street.
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HISTORY & CULTURE OF OAKLAND Originally inhabited by the Costanoan Indians, the area was later settled by the Spanish people as the first white men in the area. In 1848, the gold rush transformed the Oakland area, causing more people to come to the area, which facilitated the area in becoming a city in 1854 Today, Oakland prospers in shipping due to its proximity to San Francisco and to take advantage of the ports. Art is a part of Oakland’s soul. Immigrants and artists are constantly leading the way of innovation and creativity. From industrial arts to world-class museums, there’s a lot of creative expression here. Downtown Oakland is a destination for food, shopping, arts and culture, and entertainment. It has the highest concentration of art galleries, and bestreviewed restaurants in Oakland. Every month, art galleries and art festivals draw a vibrant crowd of art enthusiasts and professionals alike.
TARGET CLIENTS Median Age: 36 High School Graduate or Higher: 80.4% Businessmen Artists, designers, curators
CONCEPT Hotel + Art Museum Full of life, passionate, creative Embrace creative neighborhood Innovative lifestyle (to propel creative lives)
CONCEPT STATEMENT The project is highly influenced and inspired from Oakland’s art culture. Art is a part of Oakland’s soul. For years, Oakland’s art culture has drawn a vibrant crowd of visitors. This rapid increase in tourism potential pointed to a need for a unique boutique accommodation for both business man and foreign tourists.
Arts & Residence (to create cultural connections between guests and the local community) Guests can identify guests themselves with the urban context of the hotel
The goal is to design a hotel which itself will interact with tourists, and a place welcomes tourist to interact with each other.
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FLOOR PLAN_LEVEL 1 NTS
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FIRST FLOOR FURNITURE & MATERIAL
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Sofa
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Dining Chair
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6 Kipu ottomans
3 Slope Leather Stools
4 Uptown Round Dining Table
A Engineered Hardwood Flooring
B Hickory Flooring -
C 2� Mosaic Ceramic
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8 Nicholas Marble
D Mirage Rug
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F Wool Rug - Golden
Model
Coffee Table
Forest Berrie
Wool Rug - Platinum
Floor Tile
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FIRST FLOOR REFLECTED CEILING PLAN AND LIGHT FIXTURE
Legend
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Light
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Rhonan Grande Pendant
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Crossroads Linear Suspension Pendant
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LED White Cylinder Track Head
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Mobile Chandelier Grand
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GALLERY RENDERING AND ELEVATION
Glass Panel C u r t a i n Wa l l
Bookshelf
M a r b l e Ti l e P a n e l Wo o d Wr a p Marble Reception Desk
Tr a c k L i g h t i n g Bronze
Artwork
Elevator
Charcoal Gray Fabric Ottoman
The design of the exhibition corridor is simple but powerful in its forward movement.
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Glass Panel C u r t a i n Wa l l
RECEPTION RENDERING AND ELEVATION
Bookshelf
The lobby is designed as a lounge and reading area. There are some shelves behind the reception. M a r b l e Ti l e P a n e l Wo o d Wr a p Marble Reception Desk
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Waiting Area
WAITING AREA RENDERING AND ELEVATION
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The spaces are separated by using shelves which are made of wood and brass, creating different space scenes in large open plan space.
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The lounge area makes good use of mixed seating.
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Bookshelf Elevator
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FLOOR PLAN_LEVEL 2 NTS
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SECOND FLOOR FINISH PLAN AND REFLECTED CEILING PLAN
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B Assiniboine Maple
C 2” Mosaic Ceramic
D Aria Blue Carpet
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F 4’ x 6’ Premium
1 Uptown Round
2 Mid-Century Dining
3 Acoustic Wall
4 Matel Screen
5 Hex Side Table –
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Hardwood Flooring
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Floor Tile
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BANQUET ROOM RENDERING AND ELEVATION
BAR RENDERING AND ELEVATION
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Bookshelf Elevator
Charcoal Gray Fabric Ottoman
Glass Panel C u r t a i n Wa l l
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A c o u s t i c Wa l l P a n e l Metal Screen layer
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marble countertop ADA counter
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The blue patterned carpet is in contrast with wooden door and brass panel. The ceiling chandeliers in the form of wave over the air are just like the flow of thought .
A small bar that faces Broadway is open to the public.
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SUSTAINABILITY CONCEPT & APPLICATION The project meets the sustainability goals, both through architectural elements and selection of materials. Materials and coatings with low VOC emissions were used to improve indoor air quality. The atrium and a patio on the seond floor provides the building with natural light. Wood flooring provides a surface that is is firm and stable for accessibility purposes. White oak has a relatively fast growth rate and is adaptable for a variety of uses. Nylon fibers are readily available, strong, and hold dyes well. Nylon is also very resilient and has a high abrasion resistance. In addition, it has low levels of flammability and helps create safe, healthy indoor environments. Marble is
strong and luxurious, and it is an environmentally friendly material.
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Wood Flooring
1 Slab Round Outdoor Dining Table
2 Soleil Metal Bistro Chair
The atrium spans on all levels and provides the building with natural light. A patio on the second floor, which provides natural light to the ballroom, serves as a lounge terrace with outdoor sofas.
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DECATHLON STORE MFA Interior and Architetcure Design
Project type: Location:
Commercial design 735 Market St.
The property is located at Market Street, near the downtown Financial District. Market Street is a major thoroughfare in San Francisco. The target customers are local people and tourists who love sports. The project is highly influenced and inspired from the geographical landscape of San Francisco. The hills of San Francisco contribute to the City’s fame and character. The distinctive hills has feeling of change and movement The goal is to design Decathlon’s first store in the USA which represents Decathlon’s technical products at fair prices, and a place welcomes users and customers to experience the deep histories and designs of the brand.
BUBBLE DIAGRAM
Different display structure adds to the store’s flexibility. The racks are able to be winched up to the ceiling to allow for a completely open plan below. The steel structure is painted white to highlight products. The scaffold installation provides rails for clothes, and supporting for shelves. The scaffolding is a temporary structure there are no elements fixed to the walls. The flexible layout can be transformed into many different purpose.
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MOOD BOARD
SPACE PLAN
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STOREFRONT RENDERING AND ELEVATION
CAFE RENDERING AND ELEVATION
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RENDERING AND ELEVATION
Hanging racks in raised position
Hanging racks in lowered position
LHL Wood Looks Laminate
Grey Porcelain Tile
Grey Porcelain Tile
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SCAFFOLD INSTALLATION RENDERING AND ELEVATION
LHL Wood Looks Laminate
Grey Porcelain Tile
Grey Porcelain Tile
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COMMUNICATE AREA RENDERING AND ELEVATION
Top View
Elevation
LHL Wood Looks Laminate
Grey Porcelain Tile
SW Pantone 3 4 285C - Paint
Kipu Ottomans
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INFORMAL LIVING ROOM RENDERING
RESIDENTIAL DESIGN Professional Experience
Project type: Location:
Residential design Zhengzhou, China
Mr. and Mrs. Zhao bought a 3b2b apartment. It is total 120 square meters. Since their parents moved to live with them, they need two bedrooms and a guest room. They want their home have a reading area, so I divided living room into two space by a book shelve. The informal living room at the left of entrance can also be used as a reading area. The house has a balcony and good view. The large window permits light to enter the room. Different materials go well along with each other. While the black and white walls and the leather sofa give the room a touch of luxury, the wooden flooring creates a more easy-going atmosphere. The custom wall make whole space appears soft and refined.
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FLOOR PLAN
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Balcony Wood Floor
Cobblestones
Tile 600 x 200
Bedroom Wood Floor Informal Living Room Wood Floor
Bedroom Wood Floor
Living Room Wood Floor
Marble Threshold Grey Marble tile Marble Threshold Bedroom Wood Floor
Kitchen 300 x 600 tile
Dining Room Wood Floor
Bathroom Grey Marble Tile 600 x 600
White Marble
Marble Threshold
Marble Threshold
Grey Marble Tile
White Marble
Grey Marble Tile Grey Marble Tile 80 x 50
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Olive City Shopping Mall Professional Experience
Project type: Client: Location: Construction start date:
Commercial design Zhonglianchuang Real Estate Zhengzhou, China April 2014
Olive City is a shopping mall integrating recreation, shopping, entertainment and cuisine. The design is inspired by the Rubik’s Cube: the primary colors, the playfulness, the sense of complexity underlying something seemingly basic and easy to understand. The organization of Rubik’s Cube. The ultimate goal of Olive City is to promote an enjoyable, hassle-free shopping experience for the consumer.
This is my one of my commercial interior design project during the time as a design assistant for Lishi Design company. I am responsible to assist in the creation of preliminary plans and design concepts as well as analyzing design objectives following clients’ needs. I also assist interior designers with sample selections, hand sketches, drawings, schedules, and boards.
We design the common areas inviting and multifunctional, the infrastructure supportive of fastchanging technologies, and retail tenants more appealing to aspirational shoppers. We aim to use design to engrain the “wow!” and give consumers a reason to get out to the mall, instead of shopping online
This project let me realize that many components such as regulation get, practicality and beauty need to weave together to create a successful design.
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A neutral is the dominant color for the interior. White marble is tactile and strong, imbued with both emotion and cultural relevance, which are used to elevate the feeling of luxury. We use irregular geometric grid, rectangular as the design element. The organization of material and color show the concept of Rubik’s Cube.
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Roof top has a wide range of potential uses for residents to sunbath, plant flowers and play tennis.
Shamen Village
PLANT TRAVAL BFA Environmental Art Design
Project type: Purpose:
Landscape Green system and lifestyle
With the development of urbanization, the world faces many environmental problems coming together with it. As urban areas continue to grow, there are fewer and fewer plants. People live in urban area are lack of intimate connection that they once had to the land and plants that they depend on. This project aims to raise awareness of this forgotten piece of Zhengzhou and to contribute to the longerterm social and economic improvement of the area. My design not only adds urban green space to the landscape, but also actively encourage people to join into the process of forming a harmonious community integrated ecological, cultural, and humanities. The planting box encourages consumers to “co-produce” their own solutions to design problems. The common roof garden has a wide range of potential uses for residents to sunbath, plant flowers and play tennis. People share information and knowledge through media. Therefore, consumers have a direct link to their daily life and desires. The project provides a new solution of social problem to emphasize the relationship between human and the nature.
Symbiotic relationship between residents and plants
The concept of “you can join hands in creating a better living environment” is conveyed by the building.
Plants are transmitted between the floors by ransmission tube
Installing planting box outside the window. Climbing plants twine along wires.
Section of planting box Transforming Shamen Village into a permanent shared green space for all to enjoy.
Retail stores are located on the first floor
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HISTRORY PROCESS SUNLIGHT
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After analyzed behaviors of inhabitants and growth of plants, we realize longterm landscape facilities do not meet the transitional building groups. The modularity manner, with the part pushing the whole, can then expand green area. My goal is to increase the green coverage and recover the natural characteristics of Shamen Village. In the meanwhile, the project provides more ways for people to actively take part in the environment improvement.
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COMPARISON
Shamen Village is located in Zhengzhou City, Henan Province. The total area is 1300 sq m. Shamen Village has become the most popular habitat for migrant workers because of its cheap rental prices and complete living facilities. However, Shamen Village is a forgotten place in the urban redevelopment plan. This community is dirty, poor, and congested due to the rapid development of industry and urbanization. Buildings here are close to another, so there has no space for plants.
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5 - 7m
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GROSS AREA 51%
GREEN AREA 0.7%
ROAD AND CRACKS AREA 48.3%
People have a direct link to their daily life and desires. The design of my planting box is a new solution of social problem in new era. The design creates a framework for the community to engage with. The strategy of ‘incompleteness’ is invaluable in community engaged in this project. Cities take time to emerge and will take on their own life if the opportunity is created.
Stranagers come to the urban village
WINDOW & PLANTING BOX
transplant box trade box organic soil 2.5cm aquifer support frame
decomposition box
Seeds is in search of fertile ground on which to land.
PP transparent material
PP material weep hole
tools box plants sprout in the planting box
Household waste can be used for fertilization
transfer tube
Flowers and plants in the planting box grow up
Resident cuts the palnt in own planting box and transfers it to others
The planting box is small enough to put on the balcony. It occupies a limited area and uses the space in vertical direction sufficiently. The planting box has a decomposition box near the organic soil which can turn rubbish into fertilizer. This approach has an international relevance. The design encourages consumers to “co-produce” their own solutions to design problems. The aim
of the design is appealing people to join into the process of changing from dirty village to beautiful district. The resident cut the plant and drop it to another resident through transfer tube, so people can share their plants. In addition, there are some bottles that people can put their plants in them and bring to others as a gift. There is a common roof garden. It has a wide range of potential uses for residents to sunbath, plant flowers and play
tennis. Migrant families who live there choose the right plants on the accompanying website, and communicate experience with neighborhood. The concept of “you can join hands in creating a better living environment” is conveyed by the media. The net becomes a universal medium, the conduit for the information that flows through migrant families’ eyes and ears and into their mind.
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Planting Box
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RESILIENCE COASTAL AREA BFA Environmental Art Design
Project type: Location:
Landscape Puqian, China
Resilience Coastal Area is my undergraduate thesis project, which aims to adapt coastal cities to typhoon question. The Resilience Coastal breaks down coastal areas into four segments: beach, wetland, cargo terminal, and fisherman’s wharf. Multiple linked design is full of resilience. The Resilience Coastal goes beyond typhoon protection by integrating social and economic amenities that enhance habit, improve waterfront access, and create new recreational opportunities. Various segments become a catalog of adaptive strategies which improved connections between the waterfront and human. The main strategies are inheritance, integration and transformation. The idea for the Resilience
Coastal is to protective infrastructure that enriched, rather than deadened, the waterfront, its habitat, and its relationship to upland communities. Fishery resources constitute an important part of local economy. The infrastructure of cargo terminal has infrastructure provide convenience for fishermen. The pond was turned into wetland landscapes that manage storm water and integrate recreation, agriculture, social services, and economic opportunities.
Old Warehouse
Wetland Park
Fisherman’s Wharf
Cargo Terminal
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WETLAND PLAN
Beach Elevation
Beach 3D View
Wetland Park Elevation Cargo Terminal
Cargo Terminal
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ART WORK Project type: Material:
Interior sketch Marker and pen
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ART WORK Project type: Material:
Landscape sketch Marker and pen
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