XIANG YU ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSSETTS AMHERST
2016
XIANG YU yuxsean@gmail.com
EDUCATION University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA — Master of Architecture, 09/2013-05/2016 Chongqing University, Chongqing, China — Bachelor of Construction Management, 09/2009-06/2013 EXPERIENCE Architecture/Technical Designer, Auerbach Pollock Friedlander, San Francisco, CA — 11/2016-Present Working on theatrical systems design and documentation including seating and room configuration, concept space adjacency, 3D modeling and building massing plans, space programming, technical detail drawings, coordination and collaboration with architects and engineers on different projects Architectural Illustrator, Embrace Design Group, Warwick, NY — 08/2016 - 10/2016 Create and illustrate imagery for educational, municipal, commercial, residential, parks and recreation projects and graphic design works Scene Shop Teaching Assistant, Theater Department, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA — 08/2015-06/2016 Design, create, and craft sets and props to be used on each of the Department’s productions and events; Assist the faculty and staff in teaching, demonstrating, and exploring custom fabrication techniques in all different materials Architectural Intern, Timothy Murphy Architects, Holyoke, MA — 07/2015-09/2015 Build Revit model from plans and prepare construction drawing of bidding documents for Springfield Senior Center, Springfield, MA Architectural Intern, Beijing WorleyParsons Engineering & Technology Co., Ltd. Beijing, China — 07/2012-08/2012 Prepare AutoCAD drawing of base plans, details and other construction documentation for Yangzi Petrochemical factory building. Research and review specifications for the project documents SKILLS IN SOFTWARE Revit, AutoCAD, Rhinoceros, Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign, Ecotect, eQuest, Microsoft Office
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CONTENTS
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MARITIME THEATER CENTER South Boston Waterfront, Massachusetts
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NET ZERO PORTLAND Portland, Oregon
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WALTHAM CENTER FOR URBAN SUSTAINABILITY Waltham, Massachusetts
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STAIRCASE DESIGN
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MODELS & OTHER WORKS
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BAR INTERIOR DESIGN AND LIGHTING DESIGN
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INTERIOR DESIGN
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LAMP DESIGN SERIES
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MASTER THESIS
MARITIME THEATER CENTER
BOSTON
South Boston Waterfront, Massachusetts
The Maritime Theater Center is a contemporary performing arts center for the city of Boston. It has both indoor and outdoor theater spaces for performances happening on the site. After a research on the current theater situation in Boston, I found out the fact that Boston has a large number of the topnotch theaters while most of them are from the early 1900s. The site is an abandoned dry dock, located on the waterfront of South Boston. Right next to the dry dock is the Blue Hills Bank Pavilion, a venue that most used during the summer for outdoor concerts. The Harbor Walk connects the waterfronts of both Downtown Boston and South Boston together.
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Terrace Park Plan
The design approaches for this project has been taken in a wide range of experiments. I have always been fascinated by the idea how one space can be occupied by so many layers of stories within a single timeline.
Once a word has been spoken, sound spreads out. The energy of spoken words received by people and get absorbed the surroundings. From the law of conservation of energy we know that energy can neither be created nor destroyed; rather, it transforms from one form to another. Ongoing spoken words kept becoming one more history layer of the space itself as the time goes by. I took this idea further into the design development phase.
Exploration of Ideas
The Voids
The Blocks
Overlaid Space and Time
Platform Park
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Lower Level Floor Plan
Flexible Theater Stage Types Flexible Theater is not a space that “one for all,� but the space allows different stage forms can be achieved in one place, providing more potential for various types of performances.
Proscenium
Thrust
Freeform
Arena
Traverse
Bipolar
Dance Studio
Main Stage
Main Lobby
Flexible Theater
Aisles
Terrace Park
Amphitheater
Visitor Center
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Ground Floor Plan
Main Stage Section
The program includes a Main Stage theater with 1,200 seating capacity, one Flexible Theater and a Dance Studio sitting on the end of the dry dock. The design has the spatial quality in the way that tends to bring out the potentials and metaphor of site and recall the hidden memories of the foregoing stories. Functional spaces and mechanical systems for scenery, lighting and sound as well as modular seating are provided to allow certain type of the stage order happens smoothly in this space. Circulations have separated or overlaid for different flows. On the exterior, the architecture celebrates the memory of the Age of Discovery.
Flexible Theater Section
Amphitheater Section
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Second Floor Plan
Spaces such as rehearsal rooms, production offices as well as shops, workshops, storage rooms, loading area and other functional spaces for the theater offer the working area for productions. The Visitor Center will provide the public approaches to the center together with arrival area, main lobby, ticket box, coatroom, restrooms, gallery, stores, restaurants, bars etc. The ultimate goal for the project is to provide the citizen and visitors a public space not only to come to see a play but also to enjoy the environment that the whole site has presents. Green spaces with views of the harbor and the city are crucial part for the landscape of the site. Outdoor performance spaces are provided and integrated with the landscape design.
View from the corridor towards the Terrace Park
Maritime Theater Hadrian’s Villa, Tivoli, Italy
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The architectural gesture of the design is a celebration of maritime adventures. When looking at the architecture together with the site, they start to become a vessel, carrying all the wonderful stories, like a dream factory sailing on the big blue ocean. In another way, the pureness, the delicacy and lightness in the architecture also push the space to break the limits for performing arts. The Boston Maritime Theater Center is the place where the story once happened and then reappeared like we going back to the timeline to let the story happen one more time. It keeps adding layers to the spatial domain while the time keeps rolling. When the house lights go down, the stage lights go up, extracting the memories along the storyline, it’s yesterday once more.
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NET ZERO PORTLAND Portland, Oregon
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This net zero strategy design has a sustainable system which includes solar PV panels, highly insulated envelope, self-shading window and facades, solar thermal panels, natural ventilation, water conservation, heat collection and thermal mass in together to contribute to this project. The overall idea of this space has been about how to invite people in, let them stay and let go. The central courtyard, accessible green roof and interior atrium together with community spaces such as common room and gym provide the dwellers with multiple choice for their activities. Material has been carefully selected to have the best performance for the energy saving strategy.
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View
Circulation
Solar Power
Green Space
Residential
Commercial & Community
Sunlight
Traffic 19
View from the Bar Restaurant
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Self-shading Facade System
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STORER CONSERVATION
CEDAR HILL RESERVATION
RESIDENTIAL
BENTLEY UNIVERSITY
Train to Boston
CIRCULATION
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SITE
DOWNTOWN WALTHAM
FUNCTION
PLAN
WALTHAM CENTER FOR URBAN SUSTAINABILITY Waltham, Massachusetts The 58-acre site is 10 miles from downtown Boston, filled with practical application and demonstration of cutting-edge sustainable agriculture and landscape methods, including a ‘green’ 20,000 square foot building which will act as a front door portal for “all-things sustainable.” Science-based practices will be showcased that benefit the citizenry and economic vitality of the commonwealth.
We envision the center as enzymes, by designing this urban sustainability center to connect city and catalyze new activities, interactions and opportunities for the neighborhood and Waltham city. The center will be served as a food hub by providing organic agriculture product, a connector with will integrate with local green way and sustainability incubator to educate people about sustainability, show people more potentials and
creative ideas about urban sustainability and inspire people’s thinking about urban agriculture. This project is an outcome of teamwork. I worked with my teammate, Bin Liu, who is from the landscape architecture program. He is in charge of the landscape and I am working on the architecture. It was a great experience to learn cooperation from a project like this.
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REACTION
Substrate/enzyme complex
Substrate entering active site of enzyme
ENZYME KEY AND LOCK MODEL
ENZYME
ENZYME
ENZYME
REACTION
ENZYME
ENZYME
Substrate entering active site of enzyme
Substrate/enzyme complex
REACTION HAPPENS ENZYME
Architecture
Landscape NEW POTENTIAL AND POSSIBILITIES
Reaction happens, products leaving enzyme
Sustainability
REACTION HAPPENS Architecture
Sustainability
Learning Garden Workshop
Landscape
Volunteer Center
NEW POTENTIAL AND POSSIBILITIES
Social Space Green House
Learning Center (classrooms, library, exhibition)
Educational (Demonstration Landscape)
Retail Dinning Room
Welcoming Space Farming Field Outdoor Kitchen
Kitchen Offices for Green Groups & Business
Shelters
Functional Landscape
Outdoor Classroom Lounge
Storage
Conference Center & Auditorium
Washing
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Reaction happens, products leaving enzyme
Community Garden Parking Lot
Productive Landscape
Outdoor Cafe
Changing Room
Rain Garden
ARCHITECTURE
LANDSCAPE
Program, Concept Developmemt & Site Plan
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Green
House
100FT
Experimental Field
Berry Garden
Community Gardena Tree Square
Welcoming Space
Outdoor Kitchen
Herb Garden Children's Garden
Rose Garden
CSA Rain Garden
Wild flower Garden
Stock
Existing Pine Tree
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STORM WATER MANAGEMENT
CLEAN ENERGY
ORGANIC AGRICULTURE
Water Clean Wind Energy
MITIGATE POLLUTION
Sustainable Demonstration
Green Roof Solar Panel
Rain Garden Permeable Pavement
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Auditorium Daylight Control Strategy
Summer Noon
Winter Noon
Learning Center Shading Study
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1. CLEAR GLASS
SUMMARY
As the illuminance simulations shows on the right, it’s too bright on the window side, and it will get worse around 6 pm when the sun set. So we need to come up with some shading strategies to adjust the daylight coming into the auditorium space.
After the illuminance simulations study, the vertical shadings are the most effective shading strategy for the auditorium space, together with reflective light shelf into the space during fall, spring and winter, except summer. It is better to have either deeper or denser vertical shadings for summer to block all the direct sunlight aroung the sun set. We also could put curtains if there is big events going on to have a better control of the interior light. 3:00 pm, Fall Equinox
6:00 pm, Fall Equinox
3:00 pm, Fall Equinox
6:00 pm, Fall Equinox
3:00 pm, Summer Solstice
6:00 pm, Summer Solstice
3:00 pm, Fall Equinox
6:00 pm, Fall Equinox
3:00 pm, Summer Solstice
6:00 pm, Summer Solstice
3:00 pm, Fall Equinox
6:00 pm, Fall Equinox
3:00 pm, Summer Solstice
6:00 pm, Summer Solstice
2. LIGHT SHELF(REFLECTIVE) With the light shelf installed, it has changed the situation slightly, letting the daylight going deeper but not blocking much light coming in as expected. And the situation even becoming worse in summer late afternoon, inviting too much light coming in. We need better shading solutions.
3. VERTICAL SHADING With one foot deep vertical shading elements alined beside the window, the situatino became significantly. Especially at 6pm during the fall, blocking all the direct sunlight coming in. But it seems the vertical shading elements need to go deeper during the summer to achieve a better performance.
4. VERTICAL SHADING + LIGHT SHELF (REFLECTIVE) With the two strategies using together, it will attain a better performance during the fall, spring and winter, letting the daylight going deeper into the auditorium, as the illuminance simulations shows. But it might not be a good idea keeping the reflective light shelf in summer.
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STAIRCASE DESIGN Inspired by Gordon Matta-Clark, suspended staircase rises from the ruins, towards the “Anarchitecture”
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Suspended Staircase, 2015 Acrylic, fishing line, marble tiles, aluminum angles, zinc rods, mixed material
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Light Box, 2014 Mixed paper, colored glass gems, pine wood
MODELS AND OTHER WORKS
Display Shelves for Roos Rohde House, 2014 Hampshire College, Amherst, Massachusetts
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A Way Station, 2013 Basswood, mixed paper, chipboard
Linking, 2013 Basswood
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Loop Construct in 12� , 2015 Pencil on watercolor paper
Beneath the Surface, 2014 Pine wood, tung oil 38
Loop Construct, 2015 Metal tubes and wires
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BAR INTERIOR DESIGN AND LIGHTING DESIGN New York, NY
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INTERIOR DESIGN AND LAMP DESIGN SERIES Anyang, Henan Provience, China
The design use recycled wood that has been saved from old houses. Ulmus columns turns into the whole length bookshelves; the door with latch grooves has been made into a reading table; after planking the jujube wood beams, you start to see the rich red core inside of the trunk, which becomes the dining table and coffee table surface; the wall over the dinning area are made from all kinds of fruit tree slices, such as apple, apricot, cherry, peach, pear, pomegranate‌ I took a plank of cypress and sanded it, with the help of clear finish, the board surface stared to show an almost silk-like color tone. My interest in lamp making lead to create custom lamps for the interior design. Chopsticks lamp for reading room; plastic holders for the overflow in heating system become the cover of the pendant lamp in living room; leaves made out of copper sheet strips hanging above the dinning table, textured paper foyer lighting stays simple
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Pendant Lamp No. 8, 2016 Aluminium panel, plastic holders
TV Stand with Original Edge Cypress board with clear finish
Lamp No. 6, 2016
Chopsticks, copper wire, fireproof paper 43
Foyer Lighting No. 7, 2016 Textured paper, stainless steel rods
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Dining Table Lamp No. 5, 2016 Copper sheets, stainless steel rods, aluminium flat bar, copper wire
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Lamp No. 10, 2016
Floor Lamp No. 4, 2015
Wood, textured paper, bamboo
Wood, textured paper, fabrics
Lamp No. 2, 2015 Wood, copper wire, paper
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Lamp No. 3, 2015 With or without lamp shade
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Lamp No. 9, 2016 Wood, paper, bamboo
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XIANG YU yuxsean@gmail.com Master of Architecture University of Massachusetts Amherst