Portfolio of ming xu

Ming Xu Portfolio Address 20 River Court,Apt 3209, Jersey City, NJ, 07310 Telephone +1 6467090400 Email Address mx2155@columbia.edu

Huazhong University of Science and Technology Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University China Railway Siyuan Survey and Design Group CO., LTD Yuan Peihuan Architecture

Ming Xu Portfolio CONTENTS 01 TRANSPORTATION CENTER Advanced Architectural Design Studio Fall.2014 Critic: Karla Rothestein 02 HOTEL College work Spring 2010 03 BUS STATION College work Summer.2008 04 RESIDENTIAL COMPLEX College work Fall 2009 05 PUBLIC SPACE College work Winter2010 06 TYPOLOGY CORRECTION Advanced Architectural Design Studio Spring.2015 Critic: Juan Herreros 07 SUPERPOWERING URBAN ENACTMENTS Advanced Architectural Design Studio Summer.20014 Critic: Andres Jaque 08 PARAMETRIC TOOLS 09 PRATICAL PROJJECTS

01 TRANSPORTATION CENTER Advanced Architectural Design Studio Fall.2014 Critic: Karla Rothestein Death is the topic in this project, with more than 100 people die in New York everyday, we need to find a treatment for theit demand of energy and earth.

Meanwhile, how we treat boday and how we deal with the relationship between dead and alive and be reflectedinour daily life. This in terms influence our building, or our way of life.

Therefore, in this project, we not only explore the new way to treat dead, but also bring this change into architecture.

Reaseach in Memory Meomory is constructed. We transfer information such as sound, image or flavor into physical substance and store them in or brain. These substance could be called back in response to some cue. And thus how we remember. However, those substence we stored might fade, influenced or even untraceable due to the lost of cue.

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Research in Site Lots of historical buildings are located around Greenwood Cemetery, such as Army Terminal, Brooklyn Industry City and Sunset Park. In late 19th century, these sites were connected by South Brooklyn Railway, which operated as public transportation facility in south brooklyn. Since it was wasted in 1950s, only some part of it was used as subway rails and station.

In 2007, NYCEDC began to invested in brooklyn industry district. Sunset Park Vision Plan, which aims to renovate South Booklyn Industiral District, is one part in NYCEDC’s plan.

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We beilieve more infrastruction will be need in this area as Sunset Park Vision Plan would bing more job opportunities. In response to this, we propose to reconstruct South Brooklyn Railway, not only to fulfill the need of transportation, but also as response to historical memory lies in this area.

Meanwhile, this project could connect Greenwood Cemetery with other parts of New York, in this sense, it not only recalls urban history but also works as a response to personal memory.

In additional, we need to deal with increasing land use and energy consuming of deceased. Therefore, we chose to treat corpses as raw material for bio methanogenesis. With methanogenesis, we can provide illmination or even energy in further use. In this project, we planned to set methanogenesis illuminating installations in Greenwood, where is no light in the evening, in order to offer residents a public space.

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Methanogenesis Lights as privae memorial

Deceased is collected in Funeral/Processing part through ferry. Within 30 days, it can be transform into bio methanogenesis. In our design, this project is a long term plan. At first, we can only offer light in our train station, but as time goes by, we can spread these light with gas pipes, along rails.In future, these light would be introduced into Greenwood, change it into a public space for public events and memorial.

Besides, these light can also be inserted in blocks around Greenwood, to offer public facilities and personal memorial.

Methanogenesis Lights as Playing Facility

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Biogas Illumination Installation Section

Biogas Illumination Installation Detail 1. Biogas light 2. 50mm dia polythene biogas tube 3. Gas outlet 4. Biogas container holder 5. Riveted joint 6. 200/300mm steel RHS 7. 100 mm dia polythene biogas tube 8. ETFE biogas balloon container

These gas is conducted into Greenwood or other public space such as children playground or community park, where it can offer illumination with our installation.

In these installations, bio methanogenesis is kept in ETFE balloon, which contains a biogas batter light.

Illumination in Greenwood Cemetery

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1 Panorama of East Lake shore view of guest room should be taken into consideration East Lake

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Besides natural view ,fish sale and restaurant are also very attractive here.

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East Lake

High density of buildings along the main road

High density of buildings and chaotic additioinal building on the top

Shops & restaurants beside lanes

Axonometric drawing of current situation of site

02 HOTEL College work Spring 2010 East Lake attracts millions people in Wuhan, and a hotel sites right beside this natural scene should just like this natural scene, free to access, open to every one, should return the public space to every visitor but the guests only. That is why in this project I merely lift guestrooms to form an enclosed part and leave other associate rooms in site.

Site of this project is located right beside East Lake-the most famous natural view of Wuhan-and Luojia Hill. This special location makes me cautious, as you have to take the environment into consideration and make sure the new hotel would make positive response to existing environment

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I . Lobby 2. Guest Room Entrance 3. Restaurant 4. Kitchen 5. Parking 6. Cafe

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Guest rooms are set vertical to the line combining the site and landscapes around it.

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Nanwang Hill Besides natural views arroud site, there are also some other landscapes, such as Mo Hill and Nanwang Hill.

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Reforming the guest rooms

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Site departed into three levels in height.

Park is set half underground

Associate rooms supporting guest rooms.

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Plan of Level 0.000m 2M6M Restaurant and banquet hall

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Circulation for park and restaurant

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7. Meeting Room 8. Auditorium 9. Guest Room Entrance 10.Terrace 11.Gym 12.Office 13.Salon

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Wuhan Concession District

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Russian Concession

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For some travelers, bus station gives them the first impression of a city.

Therefore, it woeks as the entrance of a city. How to introduce Wuhan in this architecture becomes the key sense in this design. For me, a slice of city, an indoor street is what I try to represent.

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College work Summer.2008

Arising out of the conglomeration of three cities, Wuchang, Hankou and Hanyang, Wuhan is known as “The nine provinces’ leading throughfare“; it is a major transportation hub, with dozens of railways, roads and expressways passing through the city. With such advanced transportation system, Wuhan has several long distance bus station. An in this new one, we need to present his city to numerous tourists.

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In this project, we change waiting room in bus station into an indoor street, where various activities could be taken place. Other service space, such as office, tickets and lookers are set along this “street“.

Meanwhile, since natral light is an important part in outdoor street, a gradually changing pattern is added to the shelter of whole architecture.

This shelter panels turn smaller above our “inner street”, the gaps between panels gets wider, to introduce more light inside building.

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1 Information 2 Ticket Hall 3 Ticket Office 4 Counting Room 5 Market 6 Store & Snack 7 Restaurant 8 Baggage Deposit 9 Waiting Room 10 WC 11 Baggage Receive 12 Police 13 Nursery

14 Medical Care 15 Hotel Register 16 Check 16 Meeting Room 17 Office 18 Changing Room 19 Hotel Service 20 Guest Room 21 Shift Manager 22 Driver Office

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Parking Lots Perspective

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Xinghuatian DIstrict This site - Xinghuatian District locates in the place where the old Wuchang city once was.

04 RESIDENTIAL COMPLEX College work Fall 2009 This site – Xinghuatian district was formed in 1850s and existing building was built in 1930s. Despite the fact that most of the buildings are old and occupied for different purposes, I still found it is of essence to protect such a timed façade. Besides, the lifestyle shared by the residences living here is also a piece of intangible history of this city.

Current facade of site

Baba lane in 1904

Baba lane in 1883

Existing buildings in 1904

Existing buildings in 1883

Existing buildings in 1904

Xinghuatia lane in 1904

Junior Tao's lane in 1904

Existing buildings in 1883

Xinghuatian lane in 1883

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Supporting spacial trusses Original facade built in 1930s is kept and occupied as skin for new shops

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In a traditional community, every house is connected directly to the street, which is the place we spend time within.

However, in a morden apartment, the elecator and stairs keep us apart from the street and make us prefer staying in houses.

To keep this charming street form and meet the need of room for more people, a simple way is to lay one traditional "community" upon another.

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House for one single 48m2

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Different 2-3 floors suitrooms are designed.

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House for family 72m2

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Frame working as ground, offering open place for everyone.Supports are set to hold the floor to form different layers.

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Residential Unit According to the survey result, more attention is paid to the relatively small room, ranging from 48m2 to 88m2 for different house owners.

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Built in 1957, Wuhan Yangzi River Bridge not only works as a transportation path but also attracts a lot of citizens. They spend their leisure time here.

Due to its vicinity to the bank of river, activities varies here, including swimming, performing and watching opera, fishing or simply lying

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However, as lack of sufficient protection, many swimmers drowned here.

How to balance the need of getting touch with water and protecting them becomes the main point of this design

PUBLIC SPACE College work Winter 2010 In Wuhan, people enjoy water while it is hot outside. In this site, citizens swim, fish here. However, steps into water could not offer enough protection.

Built in 1957, Wuhan Yangzi River Bridge not only works as a transportation path but also attracts a lot of citizens. They spend their leisure time here. Due to its vicinity to the bank of river, activities varies here, including swimming, performing and watching opera, fishing or simply lying However, as lack of sufficient protection, many swimmers drowned here.

How to balance the need of getting touch with water and protecting them becomes the main point of this design

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A few steps into the water.

Some steps are pushed out to increase space

Parts of steps is pushed back and form a second platform for people staying close to water

increase the space for people to sit on. several steps are set for stay in when the water level is high.

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Outside frame

Supporting scaled surface. Its chords and members are set acording to the surface division.

Intside frame

Using rods connecting different part of frame and strengthen the whole.

Outside frame

Supporting scaled shelter. Every two members hold one part of sclaed shelter.

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06 TYPOLOGY CORRECTION Advanced Architectural Design Studio Spring 2015 Critic: Juan Herreros In 1960s, Port Authority sold part of airright above I-95 and established four residential towers. Besides these four gaint buildings seats bus terminal designed by Pier Luigi Nervi. Together, they were considered as modern sample at that ages.

However, after 50 years, these buildings are not shiny any more. What we did in this studio was bring these towers back to life, back to the cutting edge, like in the 60s.

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Disconnection Our site locates on Washington Bridge Apartments, four residential towers sit above expressway. In out analyze, it's a site of disconnection. Physically, these four buildings are disconneced from ground.

Meanwhile, this brough mainly is occupied by Dominicans, making itself a culture enclave .

Meanwhile, blocks in Manhattan are planned repeatitively. However, the life inside is quite different. Their owners tend to decorate their home with Dominican souvenir. it creates another disconnection, between exterior and interior.

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Infrastructure Loop

The infrastructural ring around Manhattan consists on a series of parks, services and transportation systems that end in Washington Heights. The trans-Manhattan expressway, when arrives to Hudson Heights translates into a piece of urban infrastructure that has lost all its potential and opportunities. Both the George Washington Bridge Bus station and the residential towers built on top of the highway are typologies that aimed to explore the potential of this infrastructural system, but that unfortunately, now remain obsolete.We propose to recover the potential of this exiting infrastructure!The scale of the existing residential towers constitutes an identity for the neighborhood. We intend to take advantage to this scale and to explore all its possibilities.

We need more density!

We need a hybrid living area!

We need to take advantage of the existing built infrastructure!

We need to explore the potentials of the intersections of metropolitan and local scales!

Our proposal transforms the existing typologies of the tower and the bus stations and aims to work on a series of decisive issues: 1. We propose to add three gigantic pure geometrical forms in between the towers to provide additional public spaces/service.

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2. The existing towers should no longer contain living areas. We transfer the living units to the south faรงade.

Pay placing all the units facing south to gain more sunlight and more accessible to the three plug-in volumes for public service.

3. We believe all kinds of transportation are important, and we emphasize exchanges between subway, bus and bikes. However, we can't deny that cars are very relevant in this particular place. We offer parking lots for both New Yorkers and nearby residents by creating a high dense vertical parking facing north.

4. We propose an entertainment complex right above the existing bus station and high dense offices together to attract more people for economical benefits.

5. Our rooftops are our new public space. With incredible views of the city this is an opportunity to gather both tourists and locals. A new central park in the air will definitely changes the center of gravity of the city.

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Typology Corrention In this design, we change four residential towers in to a huge linear residential complex.

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Residential Unit

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Lifestyle Corrention This correction is not only to the typology of architecture, but also to the residents lifestyle.

In this design, we offered a lot of parking space, for public and residents.. It enables residents drive their cars into different floors, or even enables them park them in vicinity of their home.

Meanwhile, their living units also gave them the view of Manhattan, which is quite different from those apartments in Washington Height.

It's a correction to their life typology.

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07 SUPERPOWERING URBAN ENACTMENTS Advanced Architectural Design Studio Summer.20014 Critic: Andres Jaque Abercrombie & Fitch, notable for using “brand representatives� for store customer service, enjoyes its popularity among young customers. Its strategies help it earn reputation such as cool and fashion, but they also bring questions and protest.

In this project, we took Abercrombie & Fitch as our analyze target. We found out its tactics works and why some people hate it. With architectural methods we enhanced Abercrombie & Fitch strategies, making it more effective while expanded these strategies to different people besides its original target customers.

With its flagship store on 5th Avenue , Abercrombie & Fitch created an urbanism using dreams attracting teenagers, promising to sexualize them. By doing this, Abercrombie & Fitch resocialize its customers and create controversy around world.

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STRATEGIES OF ABERCROMBIE & FITCH: Re-socialize teenagers

In school, students are proud of having a piece of Abercrombie clothes.

Boys wear Abercrombie & Fitch while doing sports.

Light is dim in its store, A&F only offer bright light on their staircase, decorate its store as highway,

By controling number of people, A&F keeps a long queue.

A&F also play the most popular music in their store to gain more attention of students.

A&F’s perfume is one of their most famous products, teenaders can easily disinguish its smell in part.

Music with sexual imply in their store.

Light and mirror in fitting room also makes customers more sexy.

Set up perfect role-modles

A&F expand its global market by decorating its global stores in the same way to emphasize its re-socialization.

Sexualize customers’ daily life

A&F prints hot male modle on their shooping bag, implying cumstors can become sexual. Teenages keep them for daily use.

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They also take photo fot their customers with their modle, Teenagers keep these photos.

In its campus office, A&F keep strict control on their employers, making them in perfect condition..

Combining hot modle poster with their products to create perfect figure fot them.

in store employers are also in strict control.

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EXCLUSIVENESS OF ABERCROMBIE & FITCH:

RECONSTRUCTION OF ABERCROMBIE & FITCH:

However, as an controversial brand, Ambercrombie & Fitch always be criticized as “exclusive“, which is the very word they used to describe themselves.

Overseas Buyers Buyers buy cloths from US AF shops and send it to customers oversea.

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Virtual address by logistics company

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Free A&F for Homeless Customers went to the charity shop goodwills buy some shirts from Af and gave them to the homeless, against A & F’s CEO ‘s statements that AF doesn’t belong to poor people.

The EF Shop EF is a discount shop on the vertical street of the 5th Ave not far away.

They send men to advertise besides A&F’s queue, stealing customers there.

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A&F excludes fat people, as they do not sel L, XL, XXL size clothes for women.

A&F also excludes Asians as they produced t-shirts printing discrimination words

Workers for A&F are excluded as A&F lack public code of conduct or stable orders at factory to protect its workers labor right

Even some “cool kids“ are excluded, as A&F require them strictly follow its guidence.

Overseas Producer The Makalot company used to be A & F’s producer, provide high quality garments.

Now it has developed as a comp额titor of A&F

Thieves Dark environment in store offers great place for people to steal and damage clothes.

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SUPERPOWER /SEXUALIZATION: Base on the previous analyse, an improvement is proposed.

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Ambercrombie & Fitch Extension Above ground Diversity Enhancement

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In this project, different architecture have been added into this site, in order to enhance the connection of them, we design runway system as transportation, which go through different buildings, sexualize different places.

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Every pixel point can be considered as a person, his/ her sight will be obstructed by buildings. Using PVector and get() code, we can simulate every eye sight from this person/point.

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64 rays are generated by using PVector to indentify the isovist of this person/point.

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We use the same method in different points in this map and calculate the mean length of all the rays from the

Different length is interpret as different color form whit to black

In every point, we use a small coloured rectangle to represent the mean length of rays, when the rectangles congregated, it generated a gradual changing pattern.

Abstracted buildings as rectangles and change their locations, this pattern can change response to the rearrangement of rectangles.

08 PARAMETRIC TOOLS Advanced Architectural Design Studio Search: ADV Algorithmic Datamining the City Re-thinking BIM Intergrated Parametric Delivery In these courses, different parametric tools are focused in practising. With Python, we can use big data to analyze activities in city. With Processings, we can research pattern behind urban plan. With revit, we can easily transform our digital model into consturction drawings.

Comprehensive Visibility

Sight analyze program by Processings

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Pattern Diagram

Datamining The Cities - Survice Range of Urban Villiage in Shenzhen The Red Dots are people visit urban village(CaiWuWei) during lunch time(11:00am-2:00pm).The redlines are their trajectories.

Meanwhile, the blue dots and lines means the visit happened during dinner time(5:00pm-7:00pm). And the yellow ones represent the visit happen during holiday.

Caiwuwei Urban Village Atraction

Service analyze of Shenzhen Urban Village by datamining from Chinese Web, Python

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Rethinking BIM Adaptive Component

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INTEGRATED PARAMETRIC DELIVERY

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09 PRACTICAL PROJECTS Hangzhou Railway Station Market Office Yongbang Industry Garden Laifeng Educational City Practical projects from 2011 to 2013.

Hangzhou Railway Station Market Office

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Laifeng Educational City Hangzhou Railway Station Market Office

Yongbang Industry Garden

Hangzhou Railway Station Market Office

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EXTENSION OF AMBERCROMBIE & FITCH:

DIVERSITY EXTENSION:

For Students: Photography Studio

School Basketball Court Dormitory Stage

Clothes Factory

Distribution Center

For Large sized people: Rensidence Sumo Court

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Bungee jump & Swimming Pool

Dye House

Farm

Artists City

Public Bath & Nature Spa & Fountain

Baber Shop

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Outside frame

Supporting scaled surface. Its chords and members are set acording to the surface division.

Intside frame

Using rods connecting different part of frame and strengthen the whole.

Outside frame

Supporting scaled shelter. Every two members hold one part of sclaed shelter.

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