Sean Xie Portfolio

JIAN XIE | PORTFOLIO Selected Works 2008 - 2019

Master of Architecture - M.Arch.I UCLA Architecture and Urban Design Email: xiejian@g.ucla.edu

PROJECTS

RECENT WORKS 01 DTLA LIBRARY

05 SKYSCRAPER THEATER

02 ELEVATION AND SECTION

06 LE CITE VINEYARD

Digital Exhibition In Rare Book Library

Chateau, Winery, Hotel

03 FLOATING CUBES

07 MOD POD

2028 Los Angeles Olympic Athelete Community

Headquarter For Autonomous Vehicles

A Canopy For Los Angeles Readers

A Fire Station For Skyscraper Disaster Prevention Training

04 STEEL SHELTER Renovation Of A Local Pizza Shop

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China Academy of Art

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Univerist

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UNDERGRADUATE WORKS

PRACTICE PROJECTS

08 SHANSHUI FOLK LANES

11 PUJIANG INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL CENTER

09 ART CUBE

12 BOSTON SCIENTIFIC OFFICE

Folk Culture Bed & Breakfast

Artists Valley

10 FOLDING PARK A Park That Records History

13 PUDONG ZHANGJIANG CENTRAL OFFICE

14 FOLK CULTURE OF DAK TOWN

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DTLA LIBRARY A CANOPY FOR LOS ANGELES READERS

PROJECT TYPE: MUNICIPAL STUDIO: 412 BUILDING DESIGN STUDIO DATE: WINTER 2016 ADVISOR: STEVEN CHRISTENSEN LOCATION: DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES

The project try to create a open space for people who work and live in downtown Los Angeles. Comparing with traditional library, this library compress the reading and collective area in first and third floor where the space are iclosed space, and leave the middle floor as a open space for the public. The steel structure support the canopy upper floor and can create a cooler and more pleasant micro-climate than its surrounding area.

Physical Model

DESIGN CONCEPT The idea of this project is came from the study of OMA Seattle Public Library and France Montauban Media Library. Both of them are using stacking and shifting strategy to arrange and accumulate the programs. The volumns of those two libraries became variety in each elevations with the overlaping of programs.

Moreover, by using of shifting and stacking strategy, the abudant interior spaces Seattle Public Library has be created. In order to accomplish the shifting and stacking strategy the cantilevers were designed in the structure.

PRECENDET STUDY

OMA Seattle Publec Library using shifting strategy

Montauban Media Library using rotating strategy

PROGRAM CONCEPT

PERSPECTIVE SECTION

GROUP ROOM COLLECTION neighbor

CHILDREN COLLECTION

COLLECTION READING AREA

social network

communication

recreation POPULAR MATERIAL

family activities

TECHNOLOGY

COMMUNITY

AUDITORIUM

COPY SERVICES

PUBLIC AREA

KIDS AREA & INTERNET AREA

LANDSCAPE TEXTURE Office Building Retail Space Resturant Theater Civic Metro Entrance Residential Area Market Parking Construction Los Angeles Public Library

Physical Model Elevation

Second Level

Third Level

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Sightseeing Terrace Open Platform Group Meeting Room Library Stair Library Elevator Open Space Prefabric Steel Structure

Second Level Plan

Book Collective Area Self Study Area Restroom Balcony Slope Reading Stair

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Main Structure Explosion

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7 Roof Part Aluminium Roof Board Waterproof Membrane Noncomposite Floor Deck 21’ Open Web Joists 21*12’ Wide Flange Beam 18*21’ Steel Tube

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Main Structure Model Third Floor Part 21*12’ Wide Flange Beam Aluminium Window Frame Double Layer Glass Poriferous Aluminium Panel

Second Floor Part 18*21’ Steel Tube

First Level Part Concrete Slab Poriferous Aluminium Panel

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Third Level Plan

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Main Structure Model

Physical Model Top View

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ELEVATION TO SECTION DIGITAL EXHIBITION IN RARE BOOK LIBRARY

PROJECT TYPE: PUBLIC STUDIO: AUD 401 ADVANCE TOPIC STUDIO DATE: SPRING 2017 ADVISOR: NARINEH MIRZAEIAN GROUP MEMBER: LIYAO CHEN, ZHIWEN QIU LOCATION: NEW HAVEN

BEINECKE RARE BOOKS & MANUSCRIPT LIBRARY In studying the Beinecke Rare Books Library, our group initially drawn to the feat of its seamless building envelope, and the glowing effect it produces inside, while keeping light from reaching and damaging the collection of the rare books housed beyond. However, what enables the strategic layering of the boxed library is in large part the mechanical system and boook storage mechanisms hidden underground.

As we further investigate the performative qualities of Beinecke, the organization of the building into four eco-systems internally, emerges to be a critical component of our reading of the project. We define ecosystem in the Beinecke as a series of performative, interconnected systems that enable a particular architectural experience.

Outdoor Ventilation

Stack Tower Inner Wall

Stack Tower Ceiling

Tower Glass Facade

Library Ceiling

Granite Truss Facade

Plaza Floor

Sunken Plaza Facade

Archive Ceiling

Granite Truss Facade

Archive Glass Wall

Sunken Plaza Ceiling

Physical Sectional Model

Starting with the hidden portions of the project, the first eco-system is the Mechanical Zone. The second eco-system is the Research and Education Areas that house multiple classrooms, reading rooms and offices. The third eco-system is the Book Collection itself, including the glass stack twoer. The fourth eco-system is the Exhibition Hall where a limited number of the precious collection items, Such as the Gutenberg Bible are displayed in boxed vitrines.

Eco-system & HVAC system explosion Return Air Supply Air

Rare book collective Zone

Glass Stack Tower At the Glass Stacks Tower (GST) the clean agent system is halon based. The halon is stored in individual tanks located on each level within the central utility core.

Mezzanine Level All Exhibition Space return air flows through slots in the bronze Mezzanine Level spandrel of the GST.

Ground Level Outdoor Ventilation The Exhibition Space supply air comes from a network of branch ducts that terminate at continuous linear distribution plenums at the base of the glass curtain wall

Exhibition Zone

Reseatch and education Zone

Mechanical Zone

From interior elevation to section , the verendel truss geometry is extrapolated into a three-dimensional space frame that extends to meet the grid of steel structure at the book stacks, This structural scaffold, the platforms and assess stairs it supports aim to connect the two interior elevations defining a new sectional space between, one where an immersive digital exhibition can take place.

Physical Model Rendering

Design Proposal Each marble panel serves as a pixel, activated independently or as a group to display a range of content planned for by the digital exhibitions department. The proposal, presents the library with a new, expanded occupiable zone, where people can interface directly with the digital collection as they move up and down throughout the space.

Physical Model Rendering

Axonmetric Explosion

Transitional Stairs

Vierendeel Granite Truss Marble Facade Steel Frame Inner Granite Truss

Steel Scaffolding Connector Original Stairs

I-Beams Glass Facade Transitional Stairs

Physical Model Detail

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FLOATING CUBES 2028 LOS ANGELES OLYMPICS ATHELETE COMMUNITY

PROJECT TYPE: RESIDENTIAL STUDIO: AUD 413 BUILDING DESIGN STUDIO DATE: FALL 2017 ADVISOR: MOHAMED SHARIF LOCATION: LOS ANGELES This proposal maintains the existing light industrial building fabric on the east end of the site as bookends against which to nest a new elevated, terraced mat building with multiple open air, atria that relate the sky to the ground. These atria give both measure and scale to the open space between the existing buildings in a manner that relates to the existing neighborhood morphology and help to break down the stepped, cellular mass of the new building above into distinguishable 'neighborhood' zones.

DESIGN CONCEPT The continuum and cooperation between an elevated mat building above a public space and existing fabrics that define the edges of a district echoes a similar strategy to that of Koolhaas/OMA's Timmerhuis project in Rotterdam, but further intensifies the liveliness of the public space, and breaks down the horizontal circulation network above by using multiple vertical circulation cores. Acting as a meta-armature for ground articulation, movement and primary structural elements these atrial cores operate at many levels to establish a variety of scales of association: from lobbies in a shaded public landscape of squares at ground level to shared light-wells overlooked

GROUND FLOOR PLAN

EVOLUTION STEPS TIMMERHUIS STEP 1

STEP2

STEP3

STEP4

The existing building surround the new building. The existing building is one kind of boundary to define the new space.

The industral buildings surround the new building. The encloseure of industral buildings is one kind of boundary to define the new design space.

The industral buildings surround and under the new building. The support of industral buildings is one kind of boundary to define the new design space.

The industral buildings surround and interact with the new building.

The interaction of industral buildings and the boundary of the site define the new design space.

PROGRAM DIAGRAM

Living and Farming

Walking and Family Activities

Outdoor Activities

Food and Cafe Bar Community Gym

Swimming Pool

Sports Court

Running Track Community Library and Internet Zone

Parking Area

CLUSTER PLAN

UNITE TYPES

7.2 m

2 Bed 1 Bath

7.2 m

6.5 m

1 Bed 1 Bath

7.2 m

River Side View Rendering

PHYSICAL MODEL

Athletes’ Apartments Shearing Terrace Viewing Balcony

Second Level Public Platform

Stairway

Ground Floor Public Outdoor Sports Area

Ground Floor Sport Area Rendering

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STEEL SHELTER RENOVATION OF A LOCAL PIZZA SHOP

PROJECT TYPE: COMMERCIAL STUDIO: 415 COMPREHENSIVE DEISGN STUDIO DATE: WINTER 2018 ADVISOR: WONNE ICKX LOCATION: CULVER CITY LOS ANGELES

STRUCTURAL NARRATIVE

PROGRAMS PATTERM

Tsurrounding properties patterm

The studio realizes an architectural design through the logic of steel construction as manifested through spatial typologies.

With a programmatic focus on a small, urban mixed-use development, occupancies and overlapping uses are organized around a public space. The pizzeria provides an organizational anchoring point.

site patterm

First Level Plan 0 Main Entrance 1 Pizzeria Music Bar 2 Private Room 3 Equipment Room 4 Public Parking 5 Customer Parking 6 Out-door Dinning Area 7 Pizzeria Kitchen 8 Original Pizzeria 9 Stairs to Second Platform 10 Office and Archive 11 Restroom 12 Back Entrance

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Pizzeria Roof Deck Bar Second Floor Stair Musicians Shearing Balcony Musician Apartment

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Roof Plan

This project is about two kinds of morphlogy interact on the site, one is urban community patterm and the other is the site patterm. How to mix these two power on the way of grid and shap is one of the challenge. Moreover, the limited budget is the other restriction for designer to decide.

Southern Elevation

Eastern Elevation

Main Structure Explosion

Wall Explosion MAIN ROOF STRUCTURE Corregated Plastic Panel 4*8 Metal Joists 12*12 Widge Flange Beam Widge Flange Column

Apartment Stair Exsisting Concrete Building Second Floor Stair

Physical Model

Physical Model Detail

Sectional Detail Double Layer Window Window Frame Exterior Siding 12*12 Widge Flange Beam Treated Furring Exterior Sheathing Water Barrer Thermal Insulation Interior Sheathing Interior Sheating 3*6 Steel Joists Interior Finish Exterior Sheathing Wood Flooring Exterior Siding Two Layers 3/4� Plywood Skylight Window Vapor Retarder Window Frame Rubber Vented Base Concrete Floor Intermediate Deck 12*12 Widge Flange Beam

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SKYSCRAPER THEATER A FIRESTATION FOR SKYSCRAPER DISASTER PREVENTION TRAINING

PROJECT TYPE: MUNICIPAL

STUDIO:

414 Fire Station Independent Design DATE: SPRING 2018 ADVISOR: ANDREW KOVACS LOCATION: LOS ANGELES

HOUSING 50%

50%

ADMINISTRATION TRAINING PROGRAMS

Fire station is one type of public constructions which is less achieved in its theory and problematic. Their common orgnazation is only to satisfy its necessary function. In this project, the main program of fire station is devided into 2 parts, which can be read as one 50% and another 50%. The first 50% is APPARATUS BAY. The rest 50% part is firefighters daily programs like living, administration, training facilities and so on.

PROGRAM ARRENGEMENT The first 50% of that approach is the apparatus bay which is a square volume on the west of the site. It contains the required functions of a fire station.

The other 50% is housing, Administration and training programs. These programs are arranged into a linear slab building which is placed on the northern side of the site.

The firefighters training open space is surrounded by the apparatus bay and the slab complex on the east-south side. The circulation elements are detached from the slab building. The center cores, stairs, and poles which are normally hidden inside a building become elements that are expressed as part of the architecture further amplifying the figural nature of the slab. As such, the elevation of the new fire station can be seen as a number of dematerializations - from the solidity of the architecture of the fire station to the much more porous and exposed components of the fire fighter training facility.

FORM DEVELOPMENT

Step 1: Using 50%-50% stragegy devided the two major parts

Step 3: Adding vertical circulation to connect every parts

Step 2: Separating and refining fire-fighters training and living programs

Step 4: Perfecting the training facilities on the east part

SECOND LEVEL PLAN

Administration Meeting Education & Exhibition

Recreation Space Apparatus Storage

Earth Quake Training Tower Skyscrape Fire Training Tower Parking Garage Training Tower Traditional Training Tower

SKYSCRAPER TRAINING SCHEME The training component of the scheme is focused on skyscraper firefighting and disaster rescue. The training tower is designed to imitate the real dimension of a skyscraper. In the design of this training tower, traditional programs of a skyscraper such as elevator, center core, office room, helicopter landing area are extracted and rearranged into one slab training tower. The interior space is exposed by an erosive elevation such that the training of firefighters can be viewed by bystanders, amplifying the performance aspect of training.

The elevation becomes the background and backdrop during firefighter training exercises. The project tries to repropose the efficiency and modernity of the fire station and make the efficiency elements a part of modernity.

Oblique Cluster

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LE CITE VINEYARD CHATEAU, WINERY, HOTEL

PROJECT TYPE: COMMERCIAL STUDIO: 401 ADVANCED TOPIC STUDIO DATE: SPRING 2018 ADVISOR: GEORGINA HULJICH LOCATION: CARCASSONNE FRANCE The studio questions how to create a proto urban condition on the picturesque French contryside and produce a new sense of hierarchy at the site.

Le Cite is located on the east side of Carcassonne, it was a military fortress on the Middle Ages to defence the accack from southern conturies. Le Cite is consisted by hundreds of individual brick towers. Under siege from the city wall and towers, Le Cite look like a integral whole.

DESIGN STEATEGY

Site Oblique

The strategies to reinterpret these conditions: carving the building in relation to each other, sculpting or accumulating the ground betweeen building, subdividing the landscape in relation to the masses to create building territories., and filling those territories with vineyards to further emphasize the ground and building intermixing, which blurs the territorial edges.

Elevation of Le Cite

The Skyline of Le Cite

SECOND LEVEL PLAN

LE CITE ELEMENTS EXTRACTION

Le Cite Gate

Le Cite Double Wall

Le Cite Wall Elements

Le Cite Wall Connection

Le Cite Wall Roof Elements

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MOD POD HEADQUARTER FOR AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES

PROJECT TYPE: COMMERCIAL STUDIO: 403 RESEARCH STUDIO DATE: SPRING 2019 ADVISOR: HITOSHI ABE LOCATION: LOS ANGELES

MOD POD

Autonomous vehicles will have a major impact on parking facility designs in the future. It would also change the way of our daily transportation. Under this background MODPOD would change the way of co-working and transportaion. MODPOD is a mobile framework of flexible space that can be deployed according to changing urban contexts, utlizing micro-vacancies, to support a “diffuse lifestyle.� Distributed to hotspots, or dispersed to requested locations by a fleet of chargers. Modpods designed to accommodate a target audience seeking a micro lease of 30 minutes to 6-24 hours.

Presented as a new model work, commerce, public sociability. Modpod cultivate as new clientele seeking on demand and on the go services.

MODPOD headquarter is designed to display and popularize the autonomous vehicles. The headquarter shows how autonomous pod moving, operation, aggregation, and assembling.When moving in autonomous vehicles, people will free their hands from driver role and can focus on their own work and enjoy their life. Compared to regular car-parks that have only two rows of vehicles in each island, future car-parks (for autonomous vehicles) can have multiple rows of vehicles stacked behind each other.

AUTONOMOUS

COMPANY STRUCTURE Modpod is a mobile framework of flexible space that can be deployed according to changing urban contexts, utilizing micro vacancies, to support a “diffuse lifestyle.”

Vehicle Types

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BUSINESS SCOPE Modpod creates shearing communities between three major customer groups:

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INDIVIDUAL Low Income families Office Staffs Students Teaching Staffs se &u Farmers ng g oki ulin bo d Craftsmen e h c s Freelancers Artists

MOD POD

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Communal Services Educational Institutions op Medical Institutions era ting &r Retail Business sch unn ed ulin ing g Art Institutions Entertainment Companies

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data shearing

Individual Clients, Business Clients, Governmental Orgnaizations.

Technology

Transpotation Habit

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Design and Engineering Marketing and Services Fabrication and Delivery

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Modpod company consist by three major department:

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MAIN MARKETING SERVICES

Party & Event Space Recreation Space Class Rooms Conference Rooms Auditorium

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Data Collection Governments Scientific Organizations Non-Profit Organizations

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Mobile Shop Mobile Restaurant Display

Affordable Units ......

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Online Platform Business Userss Individual Users

Booking & Reserving Evaluation Communication ......

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Providing Commercial Events for Community Organizations Commercial Organizations Educational Institutions

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Public Sanitation Public Rest Public Storage SE Electricity Supplement RVFood & Beverage

Advertising Generalizing ......

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Providing Services for Office Staffs Students & Teachers Individual Practitioners Public User Low-Income Families

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Human Traffic statistics Peak Period Useage situation ......

Orange: surface par Black outline: buildin White: unpaved area Green: urban public

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walk and bicycle public transpotation

walk and bicycle public transpotation

subscription transpotation

Vehicle Owners

US VEHICLE PARKING STRATEGY

g can save more than 15% of conventional parking space.

Consider the black vehicle that wants to leave the car-park but is blocked by two red vehicle ahead of it. The relocation stratege proceed as follows. First move the two red vehicles into the inter-island gap to clear space in front of the green vehicle. When cleared, the green vehicle exits the car-park using the clearance roadway.

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Los Angeles Art District Urban Context 2018

Los Angeles Art District Urban Context 2055

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8% 9% By shifting the way of parking, autonomous vehicle would reduce the parking space because of stacking parking and get more space for the public. In the diagram, it is obvious that the current public which is 2% would be increased to near 10% if the traditional parking garage were changed into free space.

MODPOD DESIG

MODPOD PROGRAM

mini ModPod

mini public toliet

mini coffee

power charge

mini storage

booth

mini gym

mini hotel

mini kraoke

meeting

nursing room

mini study room

ModPod TYPES mini spa

mini market

mini food truck

snack bar

mini gallery

pop up store

nail spa

conference

mini library

medium ModPod

pet washing

mini classroom

mini classroom

recreation space

hair salon

conference room

restaurant

rehearsal room

pop up gallery

co-working space

conference

max ModPod

party space

grocery store

Chassis Types

SHEARING SERVICES & CULTURE Distributed to hotspots, or dispersed to requested locations by a fleet of chargers. Modpods designed to accommodate a target audience seeking a micro lease of 30 minutes to 6-24 hours.

Presented as a new model work, commerce, public sociability. Modpod cultivate as new clientele seeking on demand and on the go services.

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6h

Occupancy

Infrastructure

GN SPECIFICATION ModPod Frame

MODPOD vehicle is consisted by three major parts, which are MODPOD frame, replaced panel and MODPOD chassis. They have different height and width, which make them have different diamension and cn contain different numbers of passenger.

Replaced Panel

Chassis

mini ModPod

medium ModPod

6.5 * 9.25 feet

max ModPod

max ModPod X

6.5 * 24.25 feet

6.5 * 16.75 feet

60 kWh

120 kWh

seating for 6 adults

seating for 4 adults

solar panel

medium ModPod X

Wi-Fi

Voice Controls

180 kWh

seating for 12 adults

Bluetooth

Air Conditioner

seating for 12 adults

Digital Dashboard

seating for 24 adults

Water Storage

Waste Contain

MODPOD HEADQUARTER

GROUND FLOO

The heatquarter is designed to display and marketing the autonomous sharing community. It shows how ModPod moving, operation, aggregation, and assembling. The program of the headquarter is ModPod life style display area plus ModPod assembly line, they are on the ground floor. Egnineerdepartment and marketing department are arranged on the second floor. Design department is on the third floor. The adminstrative department is on the fourth floor. The rest of the parking space can be ModPod leasing and storage. main vehicle street

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PROGRAM DIAGRAM The main vehicle circulation of ModPod Headquarter is from the back of the building, where Pod can drive through the ramp to each level, and the main enterance of perdestain is on the front of the building, where visitors can walk through and visit the heatquarter by using elevators and stairs. The assembly line is a place to display how ModPods assembled by robot arms.

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Administrative Department Human Resours Department

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The ModPod Headquarter ground floor is divided into two parts, north part is public activities area where pedestrian can

enter through the walk way corridor. All activity spaces are contained by ModPod vehicle, that activities area is ModPod display area as well. South part is a assembly line, where medium ModPod can be assembled there, and that is another part to display culture of ModPod Headquarter.

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SHANGSHUI FOLK LANES FOLK CULTURE BED & BREAKFAST

PROJECT TYPE: COMMERCIAL STUDIO: B&B DESIGN COMPETITION LOCATION: HANGZHOU DATE: SPRING 2009 ADVISOR: NO ACHIEVEMENT: FIRST PRICE IN THE COMPETITION

FIRST FLOOR PLAN

SECOND FLOOR PLAN

THIRD FLOOR PLAN

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Elevator Hall Laundry Room Linen Room Twin Room Single Room Outdoor Bar Bar Counter Bar

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Outdoor Platfo Viewing Stairs

PLANNING LAYOUT

TWO TYPES OF FACADE Hollowed facade keeps out the littery surrounding of the building and serves as a kind of identity of B&B. The facade of the building in the garden is kept clean and integrated. The relatively small windows help tenants keep their privacy.

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Parking Area Visitor Entrance Restaurant Kitchen Distribution Room Central Garden Landscape Pond Tea Room Book Bar Store Room

WOODEN DOOR & WINDOWS Wood is used in doors and windows because of its traditional and comfortable features.

ROOF & GARDEN PAVAGE Under the premise of being comfortable, the traditional bricks are considered to be used in roofs and the garden.

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THE USEAGE of TAIHU STONE Taihu Stone is often used in the traditional Chinese gardens. Except the visual fucntions, they are also used as stairs, screens and traffic guide.

TRADITIONAL LIFE HABITS RENOVATION Around in the site there are dwellings built in ancient times. People live here in their daily life. They have a living habits, inlcluding strolling, chatting, sightseeing, drinking tea, playing with water, etc. They have formed a unique living pattern which is integrated with the hills and the Lake.

Part of Traditional Chinese Painting “Yongzheng Playing”.

The painting depicted a group of empresses observing the scenery.

Part of traditional Chinese painting “Visit on a Snowy Day”.

The painting depicted an emperor chatting and drinking tea with one of his reliant ministers.

Part of traditional Chinese painting “Assembly at the Orchid Pavilion”.

People in this painting are chatting with each other and playing in the water. It reflected the harmonious relationship between human and nature

Walking along the original wall, visitors will see the stilling pool, after which they would reach the garden and the teahouse.

Visitors can stop and rest in the half-closed gathering space, and the roof became the open space for meetings and gatherings. These places are ideal for the observation of Baoshu Tower.

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ART CUBE ARTISTS COMMUNITY PROJECT TYPE: RESIDENTIAL STUDIO: LANDSCAPE DESIGN STUDIO DATE: SUMMER 2008 ADVISOR: YING ZEN LOCATION: HANG ZHOU

TRAFFIC & LOCATION Downtown The West Lake

Site

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The location of the site makes it easy for people to commute between the site and downtown area of Hangzhou and China Academy of Art. It is an ideal residential site for artists.

DESIGN STRATEGY

SOCIAL RELATIONSHIP

We chose village and farmlands as designing reference, both of which are the living spaces of local residents from generation to generation. The size of residential constructions and croplands indicates the living standard of people.

Jobs Provide

Meanwhile, the existing latticed texture of farmlands would be kept, which should provide a new frame for the subsequent planning.

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Tourists

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Stimulating Consumption

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SURROUNDING BUILDINGS

Local Village Buildings

Factories and Storages

Residential Area

The Hill Temple

HYDROLOGY

Direction of Rain Flow Original Pools Gutterway

Direction of Drainage Water Logging Area Hidden Gutterway

LANDSCAPING

Original Vegetation

Farmers’ Crops

Municipal Green Belt

Local Village Texture

Local Farmland Texture

Urban Buildings

Urban Blocks

Village Buildings

Local Farmland

PLANNING LAYOUT

Keep the original village roads and cropland walk paths, broaden the key cropland walk path for the motor vehicles and add the enough parking spaces for the artists, residents and visitors.

The original village road Main road Corpland walking path

Road way Parking

Keep the original village pond and expand the pond near the site which was used as a reservoir. Using gutterways to connect adjacent ponds. These ponds and gutter ways compose an effective Stormwater Management System to help the site deal with rainwater in wet seasons.

Landscape Fishpond Landscape Reservoir

Invisible Gutterway Gutterway

LANDSCAPE OF FARMLAND Keep the original natural texture and some of the functions of the farmlands. Establish them as new landscapes of the site. With the development of community and diversity of biological environment, every farm units has different functions in the future.

Lawn Area Rice Field The Orchard Rape Field Nursery Garden Lawn Area Rice Field The Orchard Rape Field Nursery Garden FARMLANDUNIT UNITDEVELOPMENT DEVELOPMENT FARMLAND

Rice RiceField Field

Open OpenLawn Lawn

Forest Forest

Rice RiceField Field

Orchard Orchardor orNursery Nursery

Bicycle BicycleMoto MotoPath Path

Pools Pools

Wetland Wetland

Picnic-space Picnic-space

Based on the natural texture of farmland, the buildings of artists will be built in a relatively small network system. This block system is a harmonious combination of buildings and croplands, which is more convenient for artists at the meantime.

ART CLUB Houses Wetland Park Buildings Visitor Center

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The building contains the landscape of farmland.

Using the natural arrangement of local residential buildings as the arrangement of new buildings

TYPES OF THE HOUSE I have tried to be systematic and modular in the designing of type of the house without ignoring the flexible relationship of the building and the open space. That is why I have chosen to modulate rooms and design several module-inhabitation-packages relating to the texture of farmland instead of designing some “standard dwellings�, whose repetition would produce an inflexible type of implementation.

They are designed based on a modular 3m grid, from which I have designed standard modules with variations for individual artists.

3.4 m 3.5 m

Bathroom + studio module ( 4 variations) (Ax).Kitchen + bedroom module (3 varia-tions) (Bx). Using different Ax+Bx combin-ations, we can produce up to 7 variations They are closely linked to the landscape and the site, in which each dwelling seems to be different.

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The unit of landscape of farmland contains the building .

Keeping the texture of natural cropland and make it become new village landscape.

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FOLDING PARK A PARK THAT RECORDS HISTORY

PROJECT TYPE: PUBLIC STUDIO: GRADUATION INDIVIDUAL DESIGN DATE: SPRING 2019 ADVISOR: HERENG WU LOCATION: HANGZHOU CHINA ACHIEVEMENT: CHINA EXCELLENT GRADUATION DESIGN

PLANING LAYOUT

The sloping roofs are ideal areas for the peoples to relax. They can BBQ with their families on the grass roofs or lean on the roofs and watch the basketball game with their friends.

The interfingered underground spaces can be used for exhibitions and galleries. Artists working in the LOFT can display their work here conveniently. At the same time, these areas also enrich the function of the park.

The viewing bridge runs through the Folding Park from the gate to the river bank. People can see the reserved old buildings, enjoy the landscape of central park and the beauty of the Canal.

The ferry boat pier is a additional access for th visitors.It enriches the transport function of the par and bring more people to the park.

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PUDONG ZHANGJIANG CENTRAL OFFICE PROJECT TYPE: OFFICE BUILDING AREA: 15000 SQM STATUS: 2016 FINISHED CLIENT: GREEN LAND LOCATION: PUDONG DISTRICT, SHANGHAI POSITION: INTERIOR DESIGNER

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Site Plan

A CONTINUTAION OF BUILDING SENSORY INSPRIATION Interior space is the continuation of the building, is a sensory experience JianZhuRen visual Angle. People come to work, go to lunch, in the area to do the rest for a while, the space is always there, a part of people activity. In a city, the environment around people, people are changing the environment, new things can become old, so the "continuity" space becomes very real.

Interior design inspiration comes from its streamline design, like the waves ripples on the core tube, layers of waves emerged

Lobby Floor Plan

Lobby Ceiling Plan

Lobby Elevation A

STAINLESS STEEL

YELLOW STONE

STAINLESS STEEL

Lobby Elevation B

STAINLESS STEEL

YELLOW STONE

EMBEDDED TELEVISION

STAINLESS STEEL

65’

LED STRIPE

YELLOW STONE

STAINLESS STEEL

GRAY STONE

STAINLESS STEEL

STAINLESS STEEL

YELLOW STONE

GRAY STONE

STAINLESS STEEL

Lobby Photo

FOLK CULTURE OF DAK TOWN

First Floor Plan

PROJECT TYPE: CLUB HOUSE AREA: 3440 SQM DATE: FINISHED 2013 CLIENT: SHANGHAI GOLD BUND GROUP LOCATION: HUANGPU DISTRICT, SHANGHAI POSITION: SENIOR INTERIOR DESIGNER

Rendering

Second Floor Plan

Tea Bricks and Pots Container

Tea Bricks and Pots Display Wall

Ancient Tea Route Display Transpotation of tea bricks created a legend route between Yunnan and Tibet. The magical territory and tea stories are reflacted on the wall.

Elevation A

Elevation B

Rendering

JIANGSU XIANGSHUI CULTURE CENTER PROJECT TYPE: PUBLIC AREA: 24000 SQM STATUS: COMPETITION CLIENT: XIANGSHUI PLANNING BUREAU LOCATION: XIANGSHUI, JIANGSU POSITION: ARCHITECTURE DESIGNER

PUJIANG INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL CENTER PROJECT TYPE: RETAIL CENTER AREA: 13000 SQM STATUS: 2012 FINISHED CLIENT: SHANGHAI HONGTAI REAL ESTATE LOCATION: HONGKOU DISTRICT, SHANGHAI POSITION: INTERIOR DESIGNER

BOSTON SCIENTIFIC OFFICE

PROJECT TYPE: SHOW OFFICE AREA: 7200 SQM DATE: COMPETITION 2012 CLIENT: BOSTON SCIENTIFIC LOCATION: XUHUI DISTRICT, SHANGHAI POSITION: INTERIOR DESIGNER

Resume

EDUCATION BACKGROUND University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) • Major: Architectural and Building Sciences/Technology • Degree: Master of Architecture(Accredited byNAAB) • Department of Architecture and Urban Design(AUD)

September 2016 - June 2019

China Academy of Art (CAA) • Major: Landscape Architecture • Degree: Bachelor of Art • School of Architecture (SOA)

September 2005 - June 2009

WORK EXPERIENCE IBI Group Architecture, Shanghai September 2011 - June 2016 Senior Interior Designer, from 2015 to June 2016 • Directed Jiangsu Culture Center project, develop design plan and details. Responsible for projects presentation and communication with local government • Involved in Jiangsu Community Center project concept design • Took charge of DAKETANG Teahouse Exhibition Hall renovation and interior design Interior Designer, from 2012 to 2014 • The senior designer of Greenland Baoshan Shanghai Gate Show flat, mainly responsible for interior construction and contact with material suppliers • Took part in Pujiang International Plaza project. Took charge of digital model making, building program arrangement, and rendering Entry-Level Interior Designer, from 2011 to 2012 • Involved in Asobio retail clothing stores interior design and building elevation redesign • Took part in NARUKO makeup retail store, concept design • Involved in Chendu Club House building concept design and signage system design Shanghai Film Art Academy July 2009 - June 2011 College Instructor • Taught in Digital Environmental Design Department. Responsible for teaching design software including AutoCAD, SketchUp and interior design courses including Office Space, Retail Space, and Restaurant Fleming Landscape Planning Co., LTD June 2010 - August 2010 Project Designer • Assisted Chair Designer in city planning projects. Involved in Wetland Park project in Nanjing and wetland park in Chongming Dongtan Nature Reserve of Shanghai. Primarily responsible for wetland park planning, production of analysis diagrams and presentation

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MAIN PARTICIPATED PROJECTS Architectural Design • Jiangsu Xiangshui Culture Center • Jiangsu Xiangshui Community Center • Chendu Club House Sales Office,Sichuan

2016 2016 2012

Interior Design • Shanghai Jiangnan Shipyard Office renewal • DAKETANG Teahouse Exhibition Hall ,Shanghai • Greenland Zhangjiang, Shanghai Office Lobby • Bank of Communications Office, Shanghai • Greenland Anting ,Shanghai Show flat • Greenland Baoshan Shanghai Gate Show flat • Pujiang International Plaza Shanghai • Asobio retail clothing stores • NARUKO makeup retail store, Shanghai and Beijing

2015 2015 2014 2014 2012 2012 2011 2011 2011

Landscape Design • Wetland Park in Chongming Dongtan Nature Reserve of Shanghai

2010

HONORS AND AWARDS First Prize of The B&B (Bed & Breakfast) Design China in Zhejiang Province Excellence of the 5th Chinese Landscape Architecture Graduate Works Excellent Teacher in Shanghai Film Art Academy Supported by the Excellent Young Teachers Program of Shanghai (EYTP) SKILLS Design Software • Autodesk CAD, Revit, Maya, Recap • Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, Indesign, Premiere, After Effect • Rhinoceros, V-Ray, SketchUP, ZBrush, KeyShot, SynthEyes Microsoft Office Suites • Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Powerpoint, Microsoft Word Proficient with architecture model-making, Laser Cut Machine, CNC Machine Proficient with freehand drawing, sketching, water color painting

2008 2009 2011 2012