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nguyen xuan man MArch Architecture Design - The Bartlett, UCL, UK BArch Architecture, Newcastle University, UK

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Moonbay Pearls

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扎哈 哈迪德建筑师事务所

Zaha Hadid Architects

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the parks tower

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the breeze

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the digital garden

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the alps residents

post-work habitation

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the sand castle

vertical communism

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the green ridges

inspiration hotel

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the diagonal green 2

practice

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assemble assembler

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game , robot & algorithms

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tropicality

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detroit station of the art

personal

concrete ideagora

academic

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Moonbay Pearls

Culture Centre, Wuhan, China

Zaha Hadid Architect, Commission.

GFA: 180000m².

The design of this case is based on the inseparable symbiotic relationship between water and the concept of pearl shell, which inspires design from both form and concept.

Formally extracting the natural, round, and flowing form of pearls and shells in this case, using shells as the field (landscape platform), pearls as objects (buildings in each group), and forming a harmony with the waterfront of the Changjiang River, a harmonious relationship.

The work flow include the a integrated transition between Maya - Rhino - Revit. I was took part bot in design of the phase I , managing the BIM model, and rationalized the design into constructable drawing. Scripting was heavily implemented to optimized the process of design development.

5.2 | 人行天桥 FOOT BRIDGE

扎哈 哈迪德建筑师事务所

Zaha Hadid Architects

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The Parks Tower

view from the sea to the park tower góc nhìn từ biển - bình minh

Hotel Tower, QuyNhon,Vietnam

Group8asia, Competition 2016, First Prize.

GFA: 180000m².

Inspired by venecular Champa Duo Towers, The Parks tower is contextual and composed of three main ingredients that are distinct and in harmony; densification with nature, local heritage and cohesive community.

Start with the research about culture and nature of the site, develop the concept and typical block plan of the tower, and end up making a 3d animation movie, this project have given’t me a diversity of experiences in an creative design process. The inhouse movies making process work more than just a representation tool, but also help to refine the concepts and designs.

champa dual towers

lingam & yoni

“The union of lingam and yoni represents the "indivisible two-in-oneness, the passive space and active the union of lingam and yoni represents the indivisible time from which all life originates”.

Linga & Yoni

two-in-oneness, the passive space and active time from which all life originates flats

hotel

lobby

sky bar

cafe

champa culture influence

lấy cảm hứng từ sky văn forest hóa chăm pa restaurant

business center

pool

flats

spa

hanging forest

fitness

view from the sea to the park tower góc nhìn từ biển - bình minh champa dual towers

lingam & yoni

“The union of lingam and yoni represents the "indivisible two-in-oneness, the passive space and active the union of lingam and yoni represents the indivisible time from which all life originates”.

hotel

two-in-oneness, the passive space and active time from which all life originates

shopping

Smart Comunity

GREEN PRESERVATION

Click to play animation champa culture influence

lấy cảm hứng từ văn hóa chăm pa

green preservation

smart community

bảo tồn các khu vực xanh

champa dual towers

Một cộng đồng thông minh

lingam & yoni

“The union of lingam and yoni represents the "indivisible two-in-oneness, the passive space and active the union of lingam and yoni represents the indivisible time from which all life originates”. two-in-oneness, the passive space and active time from which all life originates

a strategic position to highlight

một vị trí chiến lược để làm điểm nhấn

Green Ratio GREEN PRESERVATION

champa culture influence

lấy cảm hứng từ văn hóa chăm pa

green preservation

bảo tồn các khu vực xanh

City & Nature

connected with city and nature kết nối giữa đô thị và thiên nhiên

I’M HERE

a strategic position to highlight

một vị trí chiến lược để làm điểm nhấn

I’M HERE

a strategic position to highlight

một vị trí chiến lược để làm điểm nhấn

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Plaza View - Revit - 3DS Max - Photoshop

Sky Pool View - Revit - 3DS Max - Photoshop

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The Breeze House, Hanoi, VN

Group8asia, Dirrect Commision, 2016 GFA: 550m², Facade Design The project was a luxury house in Hanoi, which I envoled in the Facade Design of the projects.

Inspired by the reed in the wind as a strong surrouding environment, and to emphasized the domesticity of the project, as system of curtain like - GFRC pannels was introduced, combined with customized metal fins to created a soft and dynamic look for the structure.

This is also the first project that I work in a Co-Leader role, when I learned to communicated and collaborate with clients and consultants.

Lake View - Revit - 3DS Max - Photoshop

Entrance View - Revit - 3DS Max - Photoshop

Entrance View - Revit - 3DS Max - Photoshop

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The Digital Garden

Office, Hanoi, VN

Group8asia, Direct Commision 2017 GFA: 4500m² , Contruction Drawing Phase.

The Digital Green is an small IT office building located at the Hightech-Park, Hanoi. The design aim to provide a green flexible workspace but represent the spirit of the Digital Age. Embracing the traditional village work place with a green courtyard and intergrated sky garderns, the simple and efficent structure with no interior collums made the project very flexible.

This is the first project I was assigned as the Architect Leader roll, and BIM Manager at the same time. I was further improve my skill in not only design but also management and collaboration.

External View - Revit - Cloud Rendering - Photoshop

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Corridor View - Revit - Cloud Rendering - Photoshop

Office Interior - Revit - Cloud Rendering

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The Alps Residents

Condominium Housing, Singapore

Group8asia, Competition 2015, Completion 2021 GFA: 43850m² , Contract Drawing Phase.

“The alps residences” will be one of the most iconic precincts of Tampines area in Singapore, to be developed. Inspired by the traditional European “courtyard block”, it will reflect the design excellence, complying with all requirements, and being part of the further development of the area.

As a BIM Manager, I was further improve my skill in modeling and managing Architectural models from Concept Design, through all the Summision to the current Contract Drawings phase. In additional, I learned about seting up the Revit Server, scripting with Dynamo for practical use in the project, improve clash check process with Solibri, and corabolate effectively with other consulants through A360. system. I also optimize the Cloud rendering function with the trendy Virtual Reality images, which improving dramaticaly client interaction with the project.

Drop-off Perpestive

Landscape Deck Perpestive

Perspective Section - Revit - Cloud Rendering

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Intercontinetal Hotel Phu Quoc, Vietnam

Group8asia, Dirrect Commision, 2014 GFA: 35640m², Facade Design Involving in the facade design process of a 5 star hotel at Phu Quoc, the most beautiful island of Vietnam, I have experience and explore how the luxuryness could come from the distincitve design rather than expensive materials. Inspired by the sand and the water of Phu Quoc, the project is a narative from the typical mangrove forest of the Mekong Delta to the traditional village of Phu Quoc, and end up with a breath-taking story of the ocean.

Entrance - Conference Area

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Courtyard Hotel

Sea Facade

Construction Progress - 10/2017

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The Green Ridges

GREEN FACADE MINERAL FACADE

Condominium Housing, SG

Group8asia, Competition 2013, Completion 2019 GFA: 220000m², Construction Phase The design concept for this 2’000 units public housing development was inspired by the Asia stone forest, giving the project a unique identity for a new urban developments at the northeast area of Singapore.

My role as a BIM Coordinator is modeling and managing all architectural models from Concept Design, through all the Summision until the end of Tender Documents. This process not only helped me understand the power of BIM on managing large-scale project with constant development and revision, but also teach me to manage the team to work in a colaborative manner to meet strict deadlines.

Blocks & Facade Strategy MATERIALITY INTENT FOR FACADES FRONT FACADES SIDE FACADES

GENERAL FACAdE CONCEPT

=> GREEN => MINERAL

A1038_TAM TAMPINES N6 C1A & B WITH PARK SINGAPORE

Stone Forest - Poetic Reference

Master plan -16 blocks

Block 606C - Revit Model

Construction Progress

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Diagonal

Hanoi, Vietnam

House, Hanoi, VN

Vo Trong Nghia Architect, Private Housing . 2012 GFA: 500m2, Concept Design Phase Located in the centre of Hanoi, a crowded developing tropical city full of noise and pollution, the design is a private housing for a single family with two children. Aim to bring a green, quite environment with well consider micro-climate, the key elements of the design is a series of diagonal-vertical garden, acting as both green terrace and central courtyard at the same time. With all the activity surround this garden, this also give a centralization feeling inside the house; enhance the relationship between people living in this house.

Courtyard typology

Stepping Rice Field

Building Volume

Diagonal Green

Structure : RC Frame

Lighting

Filtered Sunlight

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Ventilation : Stack effect

Living Room Renders - Revit

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Vertical Communism Concept Sketches

A collection of sketches which explore and illustrate the blend of oriental traditions and modernisation which form a chaotic vertical development in Vietnam.

After the war, waves of new technology in the construction industry were combined with past influences to create a disjointed architectural style across Vietnam. The lack of consultancy, regulations and government restrictions have resulted in a chaotic urban aesthetic.

Hence my desire to answer questions regarding identity and national style in Vietnamese Architecture, a regional architecture in an age of globalisation. The chaos and disorder can positively be seen as an opportunity rather than a threat, like the statement from Jeremy Till:�

Mess is the law�.

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POST-WORK HABITATION Evolo Skyscraper Competition, 2018

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Detroit Station for the Arts Archmedium Competition, 2015

Shortlisted Michigan Central Station, the Depot, oce was a great monument of Detroit, the Motor City. Suffered from socio-economical degradation; this city has been desolated to be the contemporary ruins with abandon buildings. However, inthis depressed post-apocalypes situation is arising potential dream for artist. This proposal Renovation base on the character of a monumental station, combine with the re-evaluate for streets art, the arts which represent for resitance again harsh circumstances. This development will not only help to re-habilitate this station, but also creating apromising movement spread over the city

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Inspirational Hotel Open Gap Competition, 2016

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PizzaBot - Assemble/r

Bartlett MArch AD Design Thesis - Gold Prize

Click to play animation

This projects developed an approach where the building blocks and assembling robot have the same geometry. The ‘PizzaBot’ is a distributed robot that takes the shape of a simple box, made out of sheet material. Responds to the larger debated on what automation means for architecture, the projects is part of the process to rethinking a digital architecture, both in terms of design, production and economy. By building upon ideas around digital materials, modularity, discrete assembly, and by redefining the elementary parts of building blocs of architecture, the projects engaged with the fundamental aspects of architecture through its part-to-whole relations.

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Pizza box

Pizza bot

Above are a work-in-progress image: Pizzabot are emptying containers full of passive building elements. The robots can be seen climbing the structure, using it as a scaffold. The project ultimately claims that the use of relative, discrete robots is fundamental if we want to fully automate building construction.

Pizzabot proposes a relative robot that has the same geometry as the elements it assembles. A relative robot can be understood as a robot that doesn’t have a fixed working area but basically moves along with the structure that it creates.

The project started out with the incentive to make the simplest possible robot, which lead to the question: ‘can a pizza box be a robot?’ Using a simple, one-axis movement, the box-shaped robot can move and pick up a passive building element with and identical geometry.

The geometries of both the active robot and the passive building element are the same, which enables efficient communication between both. The pizzabot can use already-assembled building elements as paths to climb the structure. At the same time, one pizzabot can combine with another one into a more complex, multi-axis robot, which is capable of solving more difficult assembly problems. This diagram shows the assembly of a portal frame with two pizzabots operating in parallel.

These image below show the simple movement of the pizzabot, by itself and while carrying a passive element. The robot can be built out of simple, offthe-shelf materials. On a small scale, the prototype use a cardboard shellm whereas on a bigger scale OSB panels or aluminium shells are proposed.

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The building component was CNC from a standard OBS board, then assembled to a box which are connected by T-nut and bolts.

The pizzabot prototype was developed in smaller scale with hobbyist’s motors and simple electrical circus.

The real scale simulation was using an industrial robotic arm mimicking the assembly sequence of the prototype robot.

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A computational process has been developed for coordinating the distributed assembly of hundreds of pizza-bots in parallel. This involves complex task-planing, recognition of the environment, avoidance of collisions and optimization of the distances travelled.

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Exterior view of the prototypical habitats envisioned with the pizzabot systems . This design demonstrated the ability of the system to achieve complex, site-specific assemblies while using a very simple building block. The prototype adapt to the terrain.

Large spans are achieved by ‘looping’ building elements, which create a stiff, double layer.

Interior view of a living room and a bedroom in a pizzabot prototype. The interior space demonstrates the level of heterogeneity in the organisation of building elements. It highlights different patterns in the organisation, from column-like elements to a staircase and more serialised wall segments.

The final 1:1 scale physical prototype, make out of passive OSB-board which CNC and assembled to building blocks connected by steel joints. The black steel joints overlap between different elements and establised a visual pattern as a resistration of the assembly process. The whole structure took roughly 20 days of manufactured , and only 3 days of assembling. The structure was disassembled quickly in just couple of hours, and be able to reconstruct anywhere

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Game, Robot & Algorithms March AD Workshop 1 & 2

The aim of the Game Workshop was to create a Construction Game using basic aggregration logic and interaction like the Jenga Game. The structure was created depend on the procedural landscape, then randomly removed. Player will have to place the tile back to the structure, and finaly activate gravity to test if the structure is stable or not.

For the Robotic Workshop, the interaction between robot and human was explore through a basic trial on machine learning idea. The main task of the robot is to assemlby the structure which mirror the structure built by human. A camera system was set up to scan the position of the tile, create a feedback loop for each action of human. At the begining, human was create a structure, and robot will mirror it on the other side of the table. On the next step, human will give the logic instruction for the robot at first, and robot will executed follow that order. And at the final stage, robot will learn from previous structure to become fully autonomous in assembly the structure.

Click to play animation

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Tropicality

AA Visiting School Research

Tropicality seeked to ‘lift the veil of innocence’ surrounding narratives of the domestic space. We was expose patterns, struggles and resistance through architectural stories about identity, place and home. Our immersion into Ho Chi Minh City’s (Saigon) multiverse of stories begun in the role of forensic investigator to set out to rouse personal stories of the home. Based on material and social observations, insights and recorded stories, we composed our own story about the connections between architecture, identity, and place. This workshop as an experiment which cultivate extraordinary architectural insights through a creative study of the tropical domestic space, honed my compositional abilities and revaluate my definitions and understandings of what Vietnamese architecture is and does.

Construction of Mental Soft Prison

Explosion of Physical Soft Prison

Click to play animation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EeF17nawis0 The Soft Prison Nhà (house, building) Tù (prison, stagnant) Lỏng (soft, fluidity, thin, loose) Hieu is 57 year olds, he’s living in a small wooden house in district 4 of Ho Chi Minh City. He was born in this house. All of his brothers went to America after the Vietnam War; at the Liberation of the country. He he stayed. He was a diplomatic driver, now he stopped driving and takes care of his house business. He compares his house to a soft prison. The house, the car, and the objects of memory, justifications and rationalisations build up act as frames; as a system of assumptions and justifications to orient for orientation of the self and to give meaning to decisions, behaviors and beliefs. The soft prison seems to be is constructed to gently obscure by an regret, internal conflict and contradictions between the will for mobility and the necessity of stability, between risk of taking in the openness of the open and the security of self-imposed enclosure.

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Concrete Ideagora BA Graduation Project

Culture Exchange Centre This project explores the description of concrete as a ‘medium’.

It is a global medium which attempts to create local identity and acts as a photographic negative to capture the traces of formwork. My ‘touch stone’ which displayed the imprint of bamboo and Newcastle’s figure ground, give two local images on two sides of this global medium. This becomes a metaphor for the project’s program of an ‘Ideagora’. A Cultural Exchange Centre at the gate of Newcastle will contribute to solve recent immigration problems, foster encounters and understanding between different ethnic groups in Newcastle. The centre, with an ‘Exchange hall’ at its heart, uses cultural elements such as language, art, dance, music and food to create a common platform which helps reduce conflict and create a more unified society.

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A place is a place in so far as it is both global and local. - Adrian Forty -

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Curriculum Vitae Nguyen Xuan Man

Education

Personal Profile

2008-2009 University of Civil Engineering, Vietnam Highest Grade in University’s Entrance Exam

MArch AD Bartlett graduate with 5 years of experience in practice. Highly motivated with comprehensive analogue and digital skills. Interested in innovative and sustainable architecture, material experiment, computational design, digital fabrication, robotic assembly, and the relation between architectural design and the inhabitants.

Experiences as Architect / BIM Manager for small to large scale projects .

Wish to further abilities and gain more experiences in all areas of practice, particularly enjoys innovative projects which utilize the advancement of digital technology.

Achievements - Gold Medal for Master Thesis project, The Bartlett, UCL, - Honourable Mention - Evolo Skyscraper Competition 2018 - Chevening Scholarship from UK Gorvement for Future Leaders, 2017 - BCA BIM Gold Award ( Project Category & BIM Manager Category), 2016 - Shortlist for Destroit Station For the Art Competition, Arch Medium, 2015 - Selection of work featured in Graduation Show, 2013 - International Undergraduate Merit Scholarship, Newcastle University, 2010 - 322 Scholarship from Vietnamese Gorvement for Highest grade in University Entrace Exam, 2008

Languages

Software Skills

Rhino Grasshopper C# & Python

2010-2013 Newcastle University, UK BA (Hons) Architectural Studies Overal grade: High 2:1 class Graduation Project: Distinction

2017-2018 The Bartlett, UCL, UK MArch Architectural Design Distinction Gold Medal

Experieces Sep 2018 - Jan 2019: Architect / BIM Designer at Zaha Hadid Architect, London, United Kingdom - Moonbay Water Front, Cultural Centre, Wuhan, China : Designer, Managing the BIM models, scripting automated task.

Sep 2013 - Sep 2017: Architect / BIM Manager at Group8asia, Hanoi, Vietnam Selected Projects including: - Digital Garden, Office Building, Hanoi, Vietnam: Architect Leader, Direct Commission - Villa Bitexco Mariot, House, Hanoi, Vietnam: Co-Leader, Facade Design, Direct Commission - Hoasen Tower, Hotel, Quynhon, Vietnam: Concept Architect / 3D Animation, Competition First Prize - The Alps Residents, Housing, Singapore: BIM Manager, from Concept Design until Final Tender - InterContinental Hotel, Hotel, PhuQuoc, Vietnam: Facade Design - Tampines Stone Forest, Housing, Singapore: BIM Coordinator, from Concept Design to Final Tender Doc Jul 2012 - Sep 2012: Architectural Intern at VoTrongNghia Architects, Hanoi, Vietnam - Dailai restaurant : Site research, model making.

- Mr Hung’s House: concept design, design development, client presentation.

References

Vietnamese (native) , English (competence)

Autocad Revit Dynamo

email: xuanman90@gmail.com tel: +84904381168 http://www.nguyenxuanman.com

Sketchup Lumion Photoshop Illustrator AfterEffect Unity

Academic: Gilles Retsin (Cluster Tutor), The Bartlett, UCL g.retsin@ucl.ac.uk Graham Farmer (Personal Tutor), Newcastle University graham.farmer@ncl.ac.uk

Practice: Lei Zheng (Lead Designer), Zaha Hadid Architects Lei.Zheng@zaha-hadid.com Manuel Der Hargopian (Partner), Group8asia manuel.derhargopian@group8asia.com

Interests 26Logo design, Photography, Guitar, Tennis, Hair Dressing...

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