PORTFOLIO / XIAO WU UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA B.S. IN ARCHITECTURE 2012
TREE-CAVE HOUSE Site: None Program: Housing Prototype Project duration: 12weeks Semester: 401 Instructor: WG Clark
1. Origin of the Armature The earliest “house� of human beings are caves and trees. The essence of earliest houses is a place providing safety and extended views. Although today we no longer faces the danger of wild animals, such desire remains deep in our unconsciousness. Phase 1. Cave Solidity for safety
Primitive houses are extensions of the ground, both literally and conceptually. Trees, rock caves, are all parts of the generous gift from mother land that fostered human survival. Such important physical and spiritual link to the ground in maintains and celebrated in the new designed armature: Concrete as from sand and gravel, and Steel as from ores deep down in the ground.
1. THE CAVE
Phase 2. Tree Elevated for safety and extended views
Phase 3. Cliff Nesting A set of elevated caves
Phase 4: Coral Emerging structure
The Concrete Armature Phase 5: Cellular Tissue A dense system of structures
The Steel Armature (By Itself ot Become Structure of Concrete Armature)
2. Origin of the Room “The Room is the Place of the Mind� --Louis Kahn Prototyping should not kill individuality. Instead, it should encourage variations and creativity for self-identification for each very unique human being. To foster individuality, the room that fits into our armature, is designed to be independent from the armature with its own characteristics and idea, in many cases contrasts the heaviness of the armature with a warm and comfortable materiality. 2. THE ROOM
Brown Mahogany - 1
Steel - 1
Plastic - 1
Plastic - 2
Plastic - 3
Interior - White
Mahogany + Glossy Glass- 1
Mahogany & Steel - 2
Mahogany - 3
Mahogany + Glossy Glass - 4
Interior - Mahogany + Steel - 2
Glossy Glass - 1
Steel - 2
MDF - 1
Concrete + Steel - 1
Interior - Steel 1
Raw Material and Pre-fabricated Parts
Steel Structure
Factory
3. Marriage of Room and Armature
3. INSERTION 4. UTILITIES
Pre-fabricated Rooms Concrete Mix
Construction and Insertion
Single Family
Public / Commercial
Community
Apartment
Mixed-use
Plan: 2nd Floor
Plan: 1st Floor
Transverse Section
Longitudinal Section
Room
4. Prototype: Single House Multi-view drawing of a single house phase of the prototype The new prototype is a combination of permanence and temporality. Permanence provided by the strong armature, and temporality provided by the rooms that can be conveniently costructed, inserted, switched around, and removed. In contrast to conventional architecture, this new prototype separates “room” from “house”, and marries it with interior and furniture.
Void Circulation and Utility
Lobby
Office
Security Posts
Cafe
Bathroom
Reception
MAINTENANCE
Auditorium
EDUCATION
Research - Into bedrock or water - Study root system, micro-organism, water stratification, soil profile Research Research - Ground level earth manipulations - High-rise structure inhabitable for plants and animals - Raise specific animals or plants - Bird-watching, weather study - Exterior and Interior Auditorium Research - Interior floor is a continuation of outside landscape - Path ways connecting different research stands - Green foor becomes open playground on the outside - Allow easier visitor access
ENVIRONMENT CONSERVATION CENTER Site: Roosevelt Island, Washington DC Program: Environmental Research and Education Institute Project duration: 8 weeks Semester: 302 Instructor: Michael Beaman
1A. Area Required by each Program Recreation
Research
Storage
RECREATION
RESEARCH
Conference Room
Group room
Library
Lobby
Office
Security Posts
Cafe
Bathroom
Reception
Auditorium
1B. Sectional Spatial Need by Program
OFFICE
MAINTENANCE
EDUCATION
1C. Minimal Formal development
1D. Variety of test farms and pods for different animals and plants BUR_006
BUR_006
BUR_007
BUR_007
1. Program - Form - Biodiversity It is a mult-use research institue combining research of bio-diversity and public education. By traslating the different spatial needs of each program, need by public education purpose, into a concise form, a vaiety of spatial conditions are generated, creating living fields and pods for different animal and plant apecies for bio-diversity research.
Group Meeting Room - Canopied semi-exterior space - Connecting office and conference room Conference Room - Overlooking other parts of the complex Storage - Large underground volume - Special facilities: cryogenic, etc
Cafe - Interior kitchen and some exterior dining area - Selected agricultural plants Lobby - Open and continuous to suggest publicity - Sunken to suggest oncoming privacy - Exterior space with green ground condition
Office - Raised up to become floating volumes - Raised up to preserve ground conditions - Light filtered by green roof - Air-conditioned by green wall - Healthy working envrionment
Loading Dock
Secrity Post - High-rise structure inhabitable for animal and plants - Can be research towers Library Bathroom (will be dispersed) - Easy access from both sides for employees and visitors - Light filtered by green roof - Relatively enclosed to preserve books
Research - Into bedrock or water - Study root system, micro-organism, water stratification, soil profile Research Research - Ground level earth manipulations - High-rise structure inhabitable for plants and animals - Raise specific animals or plants - Bird-watching, weather study - Exterior and Interior Auditorium Research - Interior floor is a continuation of outside landscape - Path ways connecting different research stands - Green foor becomes open playground on the outside - Allow easier visitor access
2. Occupying the Site
A: Employee Oriented
By inputing the togographical information including altitude, soil type, and distance to water into parametric analysis, we are able to find a series of points that determines the location of the building, and a series of connections between the major points.
B: Visitor Oriented
2. Distributing Program Based on the site analysis, two band-structure are laid out, one containing major program areas for employees including research lab, green house, office and cafeteria, another containning major places for visitors such as reception, auditorium, and library.
Combined
ART ATELIER Site: Old Town, Philadelphia Program: Visiting Artists’ Residence, Open Studio and Gallery Project duration: 8 weeks Semester: 301 Instructor: Jose Atienza
2nd Stre et
Elfreth’s
Alley
1. Identifying the Site - Abandoned Urban Lots
2. Reactions: Rejoining Communities
The Old City of Philadelphia is a remarkable historic district with most buildings still in the original brick and stone. However, such unique urban fabric is constantly broken with abandoned urban lots: they are either used as parking lots or not maintained at all. Such urban scars both expose huge blank walls and disconnects the space.
Elfreths alley is the oldest continuously inhabited street in the United States, a significant historical landmark of the city. However it is currently located in a very awkward and inaccessible position. The alley terminates at the east at the Delaware Expressway. On the west endwhere it connects to 2nd street, the connection is literally cut off by two empty uran lots. In order to again bring tourists and community members back and reconnect the Alley to the city, the new intervention is an open studio gallery, to become part of the big art and gallery tradition on the 2nd street. Yet it is more than a traditional gallery. It starts with the intention of restoring the urban facade, but is a space that also physically blurs the boundary of the inside and outside of the facade, therefore drawing more free flow is the visitors. It is a gallery, but replaces the austerity of traditional galleries with an public and interactive studio.
1.CONCEPT Residence
Art Studio
Landscape / Childern Playground
Art Gallery
Tourists
Local Residents
Artists
2.MASSING
3.INTERIOR
4.PLAN
5.SECTION MODEL
6.MATERIAL
CANOPY AND GROUND Site: None Program: Public Park Project duration: 2 Weeks Semester: 302 Instructor:Michael Beaman Parametric Modeling is not only a tool to create organic forms. The project utilizes the parametric relationship between two set of points to generate a space that fulfills the original concept of a canopy and a ground. Ground and canopy are no longer two elements that’s stack on to each other. The relationship between the two is most utilized to create useful spaces that contains diverse qualities. Sometimes the canopy becomes the ground that people inhabit its surface, and sometimes the ground seems to be the canopy as it’s fluid forms contrasts the specific shapes of the “real canopy”.
AFTER WORLD (Office Individual Work) Site: Post-disaster World Program: Architecture of future Project duration: 4 weeks Office: DnA_Beijing
Polluted environment
Program: Re-envisioning Architecture
Clean Air
Project Type: Fictional Location: Post Apocalyptic World
Protective Membrane
+
Clothes
+
Furniture
+
Merging/Spliting Operation
+
Space
Approximate Area Severe Climate
Sea Level Rise
Polluted Air
Sea Level Ruins
“The Bubble”
“The Spine”
Waste CO2 Heat, Nutrients, Water
O2
ON FOOD AND COOKING STAGE 1: DRAWING FOOD AND COOKING
Food of Layering and Sequence - Sushi
Food of Composition - Fried Rice
STAGE 2: DIAGRAMMING THE COOKING PROCESS AND TECHNIQUES Material as a product of a process is a result of a variety of inputs. Material as a resource for design is an carrier of memory and emotion. Cooking is a same process: to create a result of unique characteristics through the manipulation of inputs at several dimensions. How does the manipulation of ingredients affect the characteristics of a dish? How does the production process determines the memory and emotion of a material?
Food of Time Management - Chicken
Food of Tool Variations - Noodle
STAGE 3: STUDY OF FOOD PRODUCTION PROCESS Chemical Heat Based
Dry
Conduction
Convection
Appliance Size
Temperature
Dry Roasting
5*5*3
300
Hot Salt Frying Searing
3*3*3
280
3*3*3 5*3*5
300
350
225
450
Smoking
5*3*5 5*3*5
200 100
400 250
Gridironing Grilling (Charbroiling)
4*3*2 4*3*2
350 310
400 500
Roasting (Traditional)
5*3*5 5*3*5
200 300
400 350
Baking Roasting (Modern)
Radiation
Wet
High Heat
Low Heat
Rotisserie Blanching
212
Decoction
212
Parboiling
212
Codding Creaming
212 212
Infusion Poaching
Sous-vide
Indirect heat
Steeping Stewing Bain-marie
160 3*3*3 3*3*3 3*3*3
High Heat
Low heat
Double Steaming Steaming Blackening
212 212
Browning
400
Masonry Oven/Tandoor Microwaving
Cold Based
Cold Based
Freezing
190
Apple Fields
300 250 250 240
Project duration: Ongoing Advisor: Tat Bonvehi
500
190 300 8*8*2 4*6*2
400 700
850 900
3*4*5
Pressure Cooking Pressure Frying Vaccum Flask/Haybox Cooking Refridgeation
Lab Kitchen
375
5*5*3
Braising Gridding Device-based Device-based Clay-pot Cooking Earth Oven
Site: Charlottesville Program: Apple Production / Cooking Research Center
185
400
Frying Sauteing Gentle Frying
Sweating Mixed-Medium Mixed-Medium Barbecuing
Cold Based
201 170 140 120 180 212 212
Double Boiling
Fat-based
APPLE RESEARCH CENTER (Currently In Progress)
Exhaust
212
Boiling
Simmering Slow-cooking
Exhaust
212 250 110
Classroom
250
3*4*6 3*4*6
Non-heat/cold Non-heat/cold Non-heat/cold Curing Fermentation
3*5*3
Pickling Souring Brining Ceviche Drying Marinating Salting
4*8*6
To study the science of food, we need to study the production (agriculture), and the manipulation (cooking). Therefore this apple research center combines the two, locating the research center directly in the middle of an future apple orchard.
Seasoning Sprouting Sugaring Mechanical Mechanical
Mechanical
Cutting Cutting Chopping Dicing Grating Julienning Mincing Peeling Shaving Other
Blasting Kneading Miling Blending
STAGE 4: DESIGNING OF A APPLE RESEARCH LAB 1
4
Administrative Cafeteria
Soil and Grass
2
3 5
6
Laid out in an octpus form in order to reach more adjancency to the orchard, the lab complex is a mixed use facility. It serves important educational and Old Column Position communal functions: includinf hosting lectures, cooking class, tasting events, reseaturants, apple-picking events, etc.
Lab Kitchen Auditorium
Library
Concrete
4
3 Concrete
Lab Kitchen
5
Lab Kitchen 2 6
Program area
Creating “Arms� of research bays into the orchard
Research Kitchen/Labs located on the tip of arms to embrace the orchard
Public activities located on center
Fluid Circulation/Flexible space
1
Gravel
William McDonough + Partners EU KOW
HOI HOUSE, VIETNAM
Program: House
David Jameson Architects Duration: 2 weeks
Location: Asia
Stage: Schematic
Approximate Area
KLARMAN HALL, CORNELL, NY
Program: Institutional
Koetter Kim & Associates Duration: 5 months
Location: USA
Stage: Design Development + Construction Document
Approximate Area
Copijn January 5 2011
PARK 2020, THE NETHERLANDS
Program: Commercial
William McDonough Partners Duration: 2 weeks
Location: Europe
Stage: Design Development
Approximate Area
KING ABDULLAH CITY OF ATOMIC AND RENEWABLE ENERGY, SAUDI ARABIA Koetter Kim & Associates Duration: 5 months
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Program: New City Masterplan Consulting Location: Middle East Approximate Area
AFTER WORLD, FUTURE
Program: Re-envisioning Architecture
DnA_Beijing Duration: 4 weeks
Location: Post Apocalyptic World
Fictional Project
Approximate Area