JUN XI PENG PORTFOLIO 2019

JUNXI PENG Architecture Portfolio

2015-2018

Selected Works

SCI_Arc

JUNXI PENG

TABLE OF CONTENT

ACHITECTURE DEISGNER/ ARTIST

E: SPURRDJOE@GMAIL.com LANGUAGE

Mandarin | English

SOFTWARE

Rhino | Revit | CAD | Cinema 4D V-Ray | Enscape | Redshift | Adobe Suite

3GA

Instructor: Eric Owen Moss

Design Studio

THE MERCHANT OF VENICE

2GB

Instructor: Peter Trummer

Design Studio

BIG DUMB BUILDING

THESIS

Instructor: Macelo Spina

Design Studio

MEGA MASS

2GA

Instructor: Kristy Balliet

Design Studio

EXCEPTIONAL VOLUMES

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Grasshopper | Processing WORK

DESIGNER

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FSY Architects, Los Angeles, CA, US INTERN

01/19-09/19

P-A-T-T-E-R-N-S, Los Angeles, CA, US CASA Del Sol , AIA LA NEXT AWARD 2019

INTERN

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08/17-09/17

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CCDI-Jing Studio, Shenzhen, China INTERN Shenzhen Zhu dao Architectural Design Co, Ltd. Shenzhen, China EDUCATION

Master`s Degree in Architecture( M.Arch 1)

07/13-08/13

26 - 27

2015-2018

Southern California Institute of Architecture(SCI-Arc), Los Angeles, CA

Bachelor`s Degree of Arts, Public Art

2010-2014

China Academy of Art, China AWARD & EXHIBITION

WORK SAMPLE CASA DEL SOL

AIA LA NEXT AWARD, CASA DEL SOL. Exhibition | Sci-Arc Spring Show, Academic Project Exhibited.

Publication | SciArc On Ramp, Academic Project Selected.

Excellent Graduation Thesis, China Academy of Art

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2019 16/17/18 17/18 2015

Certificate of Outstanding Graduates, China Academy of Art Lin Fengmian Scholarship, Bronze Price, China Academy of Art

2014

Individual Scholarship, China Academy of Art Exhibition | 2014 New Art Festival- Crossover & Integration, Shanghai, China Exhibition | Elite Graduation Project Exhibition, - Musashino University(Japan) and China Academy of Art, Shanghai, China. Installation” Bragging”.

Academic Scholarship, China Academy of Art

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Omnipresent American affluence obscures a number of substantial social pathologies.

Walk the streets of Los Angeles from the beaches to Boyle Heights, and a primary example is readily apparent: housing for the homeless/affordable housing/social housing is a problem ignored for decades.

The city of Los Angeles has now proposed to address this problem by providing funding, and distributing new affordable housing projects to all 15 of the city’s council districts.

The studio project site is in Venice, the largest unbuilt site in that Westside venue, and will occasion both substantial public support, and substantial public opposition.The property is bounded by Pacific Avenue on the west; North Venice Boulevard on the north; South Venice Boulevard on the south; and Dell Avenue on the east.

The project must perform an essential social service, and it must represent to the local community the capacity of its design to transcend the long held conventional perception that, in this typological context, social service is prioritized over design content. As a harbinger of a new commitment to solving the affordable housing problem in Los Angeles, it’s essential this project delivers both the highest design and social content to Venice and to the City of Los Angeles.

For the program to advance successfully, the project must make good on both obligations.

3GA VERTICAL STUDIO FALL 2017 Instructor: Eric Owen Moss Team: Junxi Peng/Erica Li

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The project is a social housing project located in Venice, Los Angeles. The project requires 140 units, an art center, a commercial area and 400 parking spots. As the site is located in residential area of Venice and it’s a social housing project. The relationship between the public and private is vital in this project. In this case, our idea were "wall" and "peel".

The site is a 700ft long, 100ft wide rectangular shape geometry with residential housing on each of the long side with the Venice canal crossing through from north to south. The current condition of the site is used as an open public parking. This means that the usage for the site is currently for public. To remain this characteristic, we took the outline of the houses on the street and then "loft" to create a basic massing. Then we manipulated the massing based on the position of surrounding houses to allows people from the street to circulate again. The next step is to create a void inside the mass by peeling off the middle part of the mass off the ground, then flip and bend it up to the sky. The remain space becomes a plaza for the public.

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Site Massing Transformation Diagram

Loft

Intersect

Extract

Flip

Peel

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The multiple entrances on the ground level enhance the circulation between the Venice avenue and the plaza.

The "peeled off" massing lifts up from the ground and hits the living units and creates a clear view for people to see the canal scenery on the south Venice avenue.

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BIG DUMB BUILD ING 2017 SPRING 2GB Design Studio

Instructor: Peter Trummer Teaching Assistance: Dylan

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Site Boundary

Sea terminal,OMA

Forum Museum

The methodology of the project started from the analyses of the existing building precedent such as Rolex learning center,OMA sea terminal, Tate modern museum, Venice hospital by Le Corbusier, etc. The way to start with is to extract the Boundary, massing and circulation from the building plans. The next step is started to hybrid the circulation, massing and site boundary of different building to create a "new hybrid". The "new hybrid" diagram would have the DNA of the building precedent such as the way of circulation and site boundary idea.

Unification

Exterior Massing

Wissenschaftszentrum

Venice Hospital

Unification

The aim for these hybridity is to bring the new building a new ways to circulate through the building combining with the interior space and give it a new site boundary with a clear idea.

Circulation

Rolex learning center

Venice Hospital

Unification

Interior Massing Unification Diagram

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Unification diagram

Program diagram

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MEGA MASS SUMMER 2018

Instructor: Marcelo Spina

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STATEMENT This thesis proposes a new development typology – the “mega mass—for the flash city of Shenzhen, China. The project speculates that a mega-mass, defined as a mixed-used project that is massive in scale and self-supporting, could model a new kind of urban density for the constrained site of this fastgrowing and rapidly changing urban environment.

Flash cities are characterized by innovative spatial typologies; in the 1880s, Chicago gave birth to the skyscraper, while in the 1950s, Los Angeles popularized the low-density, single-family tract home.

This thesis continues in this vein by responding to Shenzhen’s exponential economic and demographic growth since becoming a special economic zone in 1980. Now, as Shenzhen`s economy has matured and begun to shift to the tertiary sector, the city has entered a phase of economic and spatial restructuring. This has raised fresh challenges for urban growth in the context of existing spatial constraints and the desire to preserve certain traditional urban qualities. The mega chunk modulates spectacular density with massing that evokes the historic fabric it necessarily replaces.

The mega chunk as a massive in scale, self-supported, hybrid spacial quality, multiple circulation system special vessel, will maximized the resource distribution and concentrate the resource in a way which served more people in the city and thus create a better platform for living and working.

THESIS

MEGA MASS SUMMER 2018 Instructor: Marcelo Spina

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GANGXIA CITY VILLAGE

The Gangxia City village is the last city village remian in Futian district. As the city development, the futian district has now become the CBD of the city, more and more high rise towers has being built. The surrounding tower and the low rise city villa building has become a huge contrast which reflect the new and old shenzhen. The gangxia city village has being hide behind the surrounding towers so it is invisible from the street outside.

As a citizen of shenzhen, I have being passing by the street many times but never notice this "hidden" city village.

Although the city village has being the well-known problem of the city. The high compensation price for demolition and redevelopment has stopped the metabolism in this area. On the other hand, the migrant workers also need the city village for their low rent. But now it`s time to change.

Residential Tower

City Village

95m

Residential Tower Cluster Modernism residential tower has become a standrad configration for metropolis as a solution for the limited land and massive demand for living area.

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CIty village Cluster City village has a reputation for high density and poor living condition but has become the only choice for migrant workers due to the low rent.

Mega Chunk The demand for housing is increasing for big city in China like Shenzhen and the rapid growing housing price is a clear evidence. To remain a high density is not a choice but a necessity. The mega block can contain maximum housing while provide concentrate and comprehensive programs for citizens will become a new solution for urban living.

High density domestic city village cluster

Narrow street

Mirgrant worker

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Scale diagram in comparison with surrounding building and current on site building in city.

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Massing circulation diagram

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Circulation Bridge Circulation Tower

Sight Seeing Platform Restaurant

Hotel Micro Climate

Civic Center Theater Cinema Museum Hospital School Public Plaza Shopping Center Office Garden Grass Land Rest Zone Forest Park Landscape Nature

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2GA STUDIO FALL 2016 Instructor: Kristy Balliet Team: Junxi Peng/Mohammad Ahmed

EXCEPTION VOLUMES

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Original Volume Precedent-Larkin Administration Building Volume Bird`s Eye View

Transform Volume Parti Diagrams

Larkin Administration Building /Frank Lloyd Wright Buffalo, 1904 Area: 1900sqft volume: 5944 scf

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n reconsidering the contemporary mid-rise, the 2GA studio focus on the architectural issues of sequence and entry, development of spatially descriptive spaces, interlocking volumes, exploited geometry, and creation of atomosphere and effect. Additionally, we studied the innate challenges of the mid-rise, including innovative circulation, structural methods, and contemporary forms of rustication, color and material use. We embraced the low profile and exploit the interior volume as a mean to exaggerate space.

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Structural diagrams (Design Development Course,group work with:Ivan Orquera,Jinqiu Liu, Haowen Wu, Mohammad Ahmed)

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Model Photo

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Model Photo

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CASA DEL SOL Year: 2018-2019 Status: Design Development Location: Greece Type: Private Residential Project Size: 400sqm.+ 3,600sqm. Landscape areas

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Oblique Render Site Conditions and Program: The proposal for Casa del Sol entails a large and extensive renovation of an existing pseudo-Italian villa and other ancillary spaces into a contemporary summer residence for a small family.

The project consists of a main house with a large kitchen and entertainment area, a guest house for up to three families, a Son’s quarter, a pool house and lounge, a tennis area with recreational facilities, service quarters and a large landscaped area with various pathways, terraces and outdoor lounges overlooking the water. Located right at the edge of a rocky outcrop and steps from the blue Aegean Sea, Casa del Sol [House of Sun], enjoys a unique a much sought-after condition, one of the most direct vistas towards the sunset from a private property in the entire Mykonos Island.

Filed as a renovation, the project allows only minor deviations from the existing outline of the previously built structures, both on plan and elevation. of the most direct vistas towards the sunset from a private property in the entire Mykonos Island.

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The only exception to this conservation rule is the addition of underground spaces, which are meant to be covered with landscape in their roof. This level of determinism in the new design is both imposing and liberating.

Design Intent : The project takes cues from architectural vernacular of the entire Mykonos Island, its white-washed white volumes and thick limestone bases and partition walls that make up this exotic island DNA that so fascinated and inspired Le Corbusier in his early travels. Despite the visual homogeneity that it produces in the landscape at first sight, this operating mantra of building code conceals a strong sense of architecture as not only different from but absolutely opposed to nature.

The project aims to make the large residence feel like a Greek village: a collection of odd parts, small buildings and pavilions, that never quiet cohere into one single whole. At the center of our strategy, is the need to add enough character and autonomy to each of the parts, both programmatically and problematically. At the same time, every part enjoys a relationship of figural adjacency with its neighboring one, so they can function independently and interdependently from each other. Connected either directly, through semi-covered trellises or simply contained outdoor spaces protected from the heavy wind, the meandering organization provides residents and guests with a choreographed sequence of spaces, a constant promenade

where architecture frames as much itself as it does landscape and nature.

In this unique context, wherein material decisions are restricted to variations of white color, texture and stone composition, form, shape, outline and silhouette are paramount. Consequently, the new residence is an organically loose ensemble of limpid white volumes, crystalline masses and divagating terraces.

Conceptually, the project is a ‘fuzzy aggregate’, a series of autonomous parts not quiet cohering into a whole but not entirely fragmentary either. This is not without ambiguity, since it implies a synthesis of disparate elements, sharing a degree of consistency in the combination that allows them to still be distinguished within the aggregate.

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The four Volumes from left to right is gym, bar area, massage room, storage and staff quarter. These spaces are the service facilities for the tennis court.

Instead of making a whole massing, here the strategy is to separate them into small pieces of volumes to become a kind of cluster, or village. Each space owns their autonomy while tightly connected by the circulation though them. The gym and bar area are semi open space to provide convenience for the tennis court.

The main house is a rennovation based on the exsiting building. It has the largest scale in the whole site. To reduce the scale impact it brings to the other volumes, the house is divided into three connected Volumes on the facade as the images presents.

Perimeter of the existing residence and built area

Added Areas-intervention of the residence

Final intervention of the residence- figural adjacecies

The volume from left to right is the guest house and son`s bedoom. These two volumes are physically closed to each other but separeted by a stair. Several simple cuts on the side of the volume are made to creates a better view toward the sea while walking through.

These also strengthen the relationship of the two separated volumes.

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1. View from Guest House exterior toward the sea.

2. View from Son`s house and Guest House area toward the sea.

3. Pool House Elevation. View from Tennis Court.

4. View toward Pool House, tennis court and landscape area.

5. Ground floor Plan

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JUNXI PENG Sci_Arc Graduate 2015-2018 M.Arch 1 China Academy of Art 2010-2014 Bachelor of Art Email:spurrdjoe@gmail.com

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