XIAOXIAO LUO
PORTFOLIO WORKING SAMPLES 2010-2017
XIAOXIAO LUO Email: Tel:
luoxiaoxiao1992@gmail.com (+44) 07598462815
N17 9FQ Room 306E, North Lodge, Lebus St, Tottemham Hale London, UK Nationality: Current Visa:
Chinese UK T4 General
EDUCATION 2015-2017
Master of Architecture EmTech (Emergent Technologies & Design), Architectural Association School of Architecture, UK Thesis Commendation
Bachelor of Architecture Hunan University, China
2010-2015
GPA : 3.5 / 4.0
EXPERIENCE Internship WCY Regional Studio, Changsha, China
2014.09 - 2015.01
(CAD Drawing & Modeling)
Encoding Formation:D[A]L+WAX Workshop Changsha, China
2014.07 - 2014.09
(Group leading participant, designing and scripting of proposal "Encode Forest")
AWARDS 2014
UIA International Student Competion Projects of Merit
2014
Chian 9 Schools Exhibition projects of Merit
2012
National Green Buildings Design Competition Award of Excellence
SKILLS Mandarin / English
Languages: Computational Skills: Geometry Modeling:
Rhino Modeling Sketchup Modeling Autodesk CAD Drawing
Parametric Tools:
Grasshopper
Scripting:
Python
Simulation:
Structural/Environmental analysis (base on grasshopper) CFD Flow Design
Rendering:
VRay Maxwell
Others:
Adobe Suit Ms OďŹƒce Suit
REFERENCE Micheal Weinstock :
mweinstock@aaschool.ac.uk
George Jeronimidis :
g.jeronimidis@reading.ac.uk
(Director of EmTech at AA) (Director of EmTech at AA)
Evan Greenberg :
(Studio Master of EmTech at AA)
evan.greenberg@aaschool.ac.uk
Adaptive Urban Hillscapes Academic work
Team work
(AA EmTech 2017 Thesis Commendation)
Duration: Site:
06.2016 - 01.2017 Shenzhen, Chian
0. Project Introduction Considering the amount of territory that urban-sprawl has appropriated from hillside green areas, city planning comes today with the challenge of regaining supply sources and balancing the ecological eects of anthropogenic alteration of hill landscape. Based on this scenario, this project addresses the possibility of proposing an an urban system
adapting its components in a synchronic way such that human activity coexists with natural phenomena, all the while taking advantage ecological forces for new sources of supply.
1. Logic for new urban tissue drainage system generation
2. Synthesis Land use map
drainage system
precipitation
FOREST DRAINAGE
water supply
VILLAGES
RICE PADDY DRAINAGE
transportation
irrigation
food collection
FOREST
RICE PADDY NETWORK
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PADDY FIELDS
tat ion
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morphology & location
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SLOPE ANGLE & SOIL TYPES
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soil stability
Level 1, high density builidng cluster Level 2, mid density builidng cluster Level 3, low density builidng cluster prodection cluster Level 4, farming area Level 5, forest area
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3. Attempt for Synchronisation 01. Hydrological Network
4. Building Generation 01. Low density building types
Reservoirs & Wetlands
5. Fitness cretirias for building generration a. South facing ratio
b. Couryards’ SVF
c. Summer shading ratio
d. Winter exposure ratio
02. Vegetation Strategy
Vegetation type distribution
02. Mid density building types
6. Fitness cretirias for urban tissue generration
03. Farming Strategy
a. Water ow incidence on public spaces
b. 3D isovist from public spaces
c. Local street integration
d. Building porosity surrounding public spaces
Crop type distribution & Production clusters
03. High density building types
04. Network Strategy
Hierarchical transport network & Farming trails
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Forest / Main recharge sub-ecosystem Low density typology
Section 1-1
Section 2-2
Section 3-3
Rain garden / Recharge zone
Medium density typology
Water Park / Discharge zone
High density building
Wetland
Surface soil Aquifer Bedrock soil
6. Break down for cluster 1 ďŹ nal generation
Section 1-1 Harvesting Hub Medium density typology
Farmers market
Drying yards
Rice mill
Section 2-2 Park / Recharge zone Rice Paddies
Medium density typology
Dense vegetation
Main garden
Urban farming
Section 3-3
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MEMBRANCE + Academic work Duration: Site:
Team work 04.2016 - 05.2016 London, UK
Membrane +, developed by the Emtech Studio, explores the role of “active fabrication”, where a latex and plywood composite material system’s performance arises during the process of making. This morphogenetic act is conceived as a responsive influence between material, geometry and assembly process. In many biological systems, the deposition of material is as important as its geometric arrangement and resulting behavior. It is only the combination of materival arrangement, geometric configuration and material behavior that make it possible for nature to achieve complex forms that can adapt and respond to multiple functional and mechanical demands. In this regard, this investigation aims at leveraging new potentials for fabrication where the process of form generation is embodied in the final design outcome itself. This work also seeks to establish a reciprocal approach to design where fabrication, material arrangement and behavior are an integral part of the design process. Under this approach, material, structure and form are thought of in parallel and the resulting geometries follow the intrinsic behavioral logic of the material. Thus, the design is the result of the collusion between the creation of the designer and the self-autonomous agency of the material. This work presents some first steps in the development of a material system that combines stretchable membranes with 2D patterns on sheet materials, which when combined result in the description of complex 3-Dimensional geometries. -6-
PHYSICAL EXPERIMENTS 240mm 40mm
240mm Latex: 0.8mm
40mm
Plywood: 3mm PHYSICAL EXPERIMENTS Stretch: 300mm = 75%
400mm240mm 40mm
400mm
400mm
400mm240mm
Latex: 0.8mm Plywood: 3mm Stretch: 300mm = 75%
400mm
40mm
400mm
58mm 385mm
58mm 385mm
40mm
Plywood: 3mm Stretch: 500mm = 125%
Stretch experiment 400mm
240mm Latex: 0.8mm
400mm
Plywood: 3mm Stretch: 500mm = 175%
400mm
370mm
88mm 370mm
400mm240mm
Latex: 0.8mm Plywood: 3mm Stretch: 500mm = 125%
40mm
400mm
88mm
Latex: 0.8mm
Latex: 0.8mm Plywood: 3mm Stretch: 500mm = 175%
400mm
98mm 340mm
98mm 340mm
Structural analysis on different pattern
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TONGGUAN POTTERY MUSEUM
Academic work Duration: Site:
Individual work 03.2015 - 06.2015 Changsha, China
grass landscape
pond landscape 1
View analysis
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pond landscape 2
-1 floor Plan
0 F Plan
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SLOPING LIBRARY
Academic work Duration: Site:
Individual work 09.2013 - 11.2013 Changsha, China
Generation process
Site analysis
Pedestrian flow analysis
Terrace
void
void
Office area Stuff Entrance Lecture hall Entrance Gellary Entrance Student Entrance
Garden
Gellary
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1 F Plan
Louver opening studies
0 F Plan
-1 F Plan
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LONG-SPAN GYMNASIUM Genration process Academic work Duration: Site:
Site analysis
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Team work 05.2014 - 06.2014 Changsha, China
Construction of facade
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ENTRAN INSTALLATION Physical generation Academic work Duration: Site:
Team work 05.2014 - 06.2014 Changsha, China
Site Analysis
Mechanical propertise
Structure Node - 14 -
Size & thickness control
Thickness
Pore size
Preliminary inquiry form
Stiness Weak
Strong
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CONTAINER CITY
Academic work Duration: Site:
Master plan
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Furbiture pieces assembling
Team work 01.2014 - 03.2014 Durban, South Africa
Boxes sections
Container market explode vertical transportation for commodity vertical transportation for people
lodging activity space market market
Market assembling
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