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Master of Architecture
University of California, Berkeley Architecture Design
Berkeley, United States
Bachelor of Art
Central Academy of Fine Arts Interior Design
2021-2024
Concentration: Building Renovation, interior architecture.
Beijing, China
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2016 - 2021
Full-time Design Intern / Part-time Design Intern
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Design Excellence Award (Fall 2022) ARCH 201 Architecture & Urbanism Studio
Comprehensive Scholarship (2016 & 2017 & 2019 & 2020) for outstanding academic achievement;
School’s Outstanding Works Award (2020) for exemplary design creativity and academic competency;
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International Colleges and Universities Construction Competition, 3rd Prize (2018).
Rhinoceros
SketchUp
Photoshop Illustrator InDesign
V-Ray Enscape
AutoCAD
Revit
Other: Grasshopper, Karamba, Bluebeam
OTHER SKILLS:
Strong hands-on skills, Problem-solving abilities, Collaboration talent, Time management.
Berkeley, US
Jun 2023 - May 2024
Project: Monterey Housing Project and Small Infrastructure Project
• Successfully completed the SD process for the Monterey Housing and Small Infrastructure projects, including formal studies, physical model making, plan drawings, and renderings utilizing V-Ray.
Part-time Intern Involvement:
• • Visual Design Studies with Rhino and Enscape; Redlining: Played a pivotal role in redlining processes, ensuring precision and accuracy in project documentation.
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AutoCAD for Permit Drawing Sets: Expertly prepared permit drawing sets using AutoCAD, showcasing proficiency in drafting and adherence to regulatory requirements.
Detailed Drawing and Documentation.
Full-time Design Intern
Project: Basin Studios - Toronto Port Lands
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Los Angeles, US Jun 2022 - Aug 2022
Conducted design analyses for a historical building, taking into account both the original structure and proposed modifications; Finalized and evaluated the current floor plan; Employed Enscape to generate visual interpretations; Established accurate foundational drawings in Revit, including door schedules, RCP, and bathroom floor plans; Collaborated with team members to assemble the permit file for construction coordination.
Full-time Design Intern
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Beijing, China
Oct 2019 - Dec 2019
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Managed the model making process with the project manager to ensure the result delivered the intended quality; Completed the existing floor plan; Set up precise base drawings in AutoCAD for the project; Coordinated with team members to breakdown site research; Managed the group’s budget and negotiated with merchants and lowered 25% of the total budget.
Full-time Design Intern
Project: Tao Xi Chuang Cultural and Creative Park
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Beijing, China Jun 2019 - Sept 2019
Conducted site analysis of existing site; compiled surveys of different spatial organizations and façade studies for departmental studies; Contributed to the renovation design process, designed initial design of public library and multiple villa residences in Rhinoceros; Assisted with the interim report writing and the final report package proposal, which won the bidding (1 out of 5) for the studio.
Other Projects:
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Facilitated the interior design of an art training organization: modeling and rendering by using Rhinoceros and Enscape; Assisted the renovation of an artist studio: measurement and modeling.
CONTENTS
PROFESSIONAL WORKS
SOM, Summer 2022
Sidell Pakravan Architects, Summer 2023 - Spring 2024
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“OUTSIDE-IN” | Residential Housing Design
University of California, Berkeley, Fall 2022
02 “WANDERING IN THE PLOTS” | Theatre Design
Central Academey of Fine Arts, Spring 2020
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“POOL HOUSE” | Single Family Housing Design
University of California, Berkeley, Fall 2021
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“FLOW - GLOW” | Community Facility Design
University of California, Berkeley, Fall 2023
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"FROM FRAME TO BODY" | Conceptual Design
Central Academey of Fine Arts, Fall 2019
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“POST-95S ‘NOMADISM’ DWELLING” | Sharing Apartment Design
Central Academey of Fine Arts, Fall 2020
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OTHER WORKS
Time: Summer 2022, Los Angeles
Project: Basin Media* - Toronto, Canada
Time: Fall 2023 - Present, Berkeley
Project: Monterey Housing
Schematic Design
Time: Summer 2023
Group Work: Xiaodi Chang, Grant Fisher
Project: Small Infrustracture
Schematic Design
Time: Summer 2023
Group Work: Xiaodi Chang, Grant Fisher
A residential design focusing on the relationship between facade and urban scenario.
Time: Fall 2022
Site: The Broadway, Oakland, CA
Tutor: Rudabeh Pakravan
Individual Work
The inception of the project traces back to a site visit in Oakland, where a captivating element caught my eye—the reflective quality of a window. This reflection played a pivotal role in challenging the conventional boundary between inside and outside, creating a nuanced perception of space. The window’s reflection blurred the distinction, offering a unique perspective that transcended the facade’s surface.
Traditionally, a façade acts as a delineation between internal and external spaces. However, in this undertaking, I aimed to defy this conventional boundary while preserving a sense of security for the residents. Despite the repetitive and rigid exterior elevation, strategic utilization of this form imbued a welcoming quality. By peering through the gaps and observing balconies
and triangular gardens, individuals gained glimpses into the interior, fostering connections between residents and the city. The design sought to transform the façade from a mere divider into a conduit for interaction, inviting residents to engage with their surroundings while maintaining a feeling of safety.
Haussmann Building
Georges-Eugene Haussmann, Paris, Frence 1853-1870
Similor Housing Nomos Architects,Carougr, CH 2013
The Hausman building exemplifies how a single, streamlined facade with identical openings results in unpredictable domestic spaces. In contrast, Similor Housing suggests a continuous facade oriented towards a courtyard.
In future design, transitioning from “reflection” to “projection” becomes a key spatial shift, signifying an intentional move towards actively projecting new dimensions within the architectural framework.
The inner side façade is distinguished from the exterior, which is not on a same plane, but consists of plenty of patios, gardens, entrances, different scales of windows to form a intimated society, and aim to bring people together.
Broadway
Brook St.
Each unit is generated by a skylight. units, and they also share a small garden.
Typical Unit A
Typical Unit B
And because of projecting, the domestic spaces are un-unified and have different depth which can fit in various functions. There is a niche for every two garden. And each shared entrence is connected by the courtyard.
Reflections blur the inside-outside boundary, creating a singular layer that delicately balances the interplay of space. The thickness of this solitary veil weaves harmony, bridging realms through its ethereal reflective essence.
A reflective window sparked a design journey, where boundaries between inside and outside dissolved. The façade, once a stoic divider, now whispers stories of balconies and gardens, weaving connections between residents and the city’s soul.
A theatre design that focused on the ways to appreciate plays.
Time: Spring 2020
Site: Newark, New Jersey, United State
Tutor: Prof. Yufang Zhou, Lecturer Yanchen Liu
Individual Work
This project started from a play called <Same time, next year>, which contained six scenes across over twenty-five years, reflecting society's changes in the United States.
With the inspiration of this plot, I brought out multiple questions: How to define interior and exterior spaces in the theatre? Is the interior space autonomy? How does the interior space shape people's experience and affect the relationships between audiences and actors?
Suppose I add a surface between the audience and the actor; for actors, the space beyond the stage can be defined as "exterior,"
therefore, the building's exterior "no longer" exists. And can the space that audiences occupied be an extension of the stage?
The theater is divided into six viewing areas corresponding to six plot scenes. The audience enters the six viewing points layer by layer through different transition areas around the circular stage in the center. Through various spatial forms and viewing modes, the audience is gradually introduced into the plot and close the relationship between the audience and the actors.
The Proctor’s Theatre located in Newark, United State, nears by an old street which riches cultural atmosphere. Around the site, there are many temples and churches, on the north-west of the site there is a community college as well.
The Proctor’s Theatre, which opened on November 25, 1915, was one of the rare “double-decker” theatres. The roof spaces were commonly used as an additional place for leisuring served for patrons, especially for males. It was closed in 1968.
Through a gentle ramp, the audience enter the first space which is tall and narrow, separated from the stage by a thick wall, to create a sense of isolation.
The thickened wall creates a heaviness atmosphere. Through the gallery, audiance can peek into the stage. Seats are far away from the stage, and the performers.
The space enclosed by a curved wall. The audience can enjoy the performance while walking on the ramp to experience the ups and downs of the plot.
The spiral staircase leads up to the observation deck at the top, where the entire stage is viewed from top to bottom.
The audience can see the main stage and the secondary stage through two windows which serve the plot. The distance between the audience and the characters is gradually closed.
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The space is very open, the audience can enter the performance area for watching without any physical block or height difference between the actors and the audience.
The inner space is centered on the circular stage, riphery is public space, opening to the community. exhibition hall and public bookstore
Walking down the staircase from the secondary entrance, tors dressing room, which
stage, surrounded by six spaces. The first floor's pecommunity. Restaurant, multifunctional hall, temporary bookstore form an independent traffic flow.
entrance, it will lead people to the office and acwhich forming a staff passage.
Opening up the homogeneous square-shaped crust, a space full of vitalities and possibilities arouse people's feelings.
When people enter this space, they will be marveled by this introverted energy. Curved walls are interweaving, growing autonomically without being controlled by the outer forms. They can be defined as inter but can also be external. There is no more boundary between "inside" and "outside." The space keeps showing its vigorous and energetic life while people wander alongside it...
Form experiment and representation
Time: Fall 2021
Tutor: Raveevarn CHOKSOMBATCHAI
Individual Work
This project is served for grandparents and the community, which combined a private dwelling and a public pool house. During this design process, my goal is to create a welcome gathering space for the users, and I also consider balancing the privacy and the accessibility between public and private spaces.
By exploring the intricacies of formal logic and programmatic function. I created spaces that are private, and also serve a community larger than those living in this residential design.
Throughout this project, I paid more attention to the balance between private and public spaces and the different living styles of various generations. According to that, I tried to use different spa-
tial experiences to distinguish these spaces by sharing the same module.
The form is generated from two operative words. One is a duo-system, the other is mirroring. The prescribed circle breaks the grid of the cube to create a contrast between straight lines and cures, and formed this module. The single module was then mirrored and translated across the vertical, horizontal.
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Programmatically, the building takes advantage of topography to separate the private space and the public space. The public could gather in the pool house underneath without interrupting each other.
Cross-Section, GIF
By merging units, it can form a solid space, which be used as the private space for grandparents.
When mirroring these shapes, it can form a volume space in between, which can generate the public space used as a pool house.
For grandparents they could directly enter their house from the north side of this building. There are no walls in the interior, but use built-in furniture to divide the space. By doing so, it can not only gain accessibility but also keep the space intact.
An integrated studio aims to workthrough a complete design process including site visit, conceptual development, structural design, material study, MEP, and environmental design, etc.
Time: Fall 2023
Site: 1798 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA
Tutor: Elizabeth Bishop
Group Work: Xiaodi Chang, Yaqin Pan
This project, as an auditorium and also served as a community gathering space, is founded on the concept of ‘in-between spaces.’ The in-between spaces as a prompt play a pivotal role in enhancing connectivity within a building or urban environment. To achieve this, the project have been introduced a range of scales for these spaces, including light wells, corridors and space between primary structure and facade system, carefully designed to ensure a seamless spatial experience.
Furthermore, the approach places a strong emphasis on the aesthetic qualities of in-between spaces. The design involved consideration of materiality not only enrich the overall experience but also contribute to the ambiance of the location.
The site is located in residential zone that the buildings height is below 60 feet, which provideds a reference for the project to control the volume.
L Shape
Corresponding to the adjacent buildings, and serveing as a driveway.
Rotation
Rotating based on programs and creating intersections for circulations.
Periphery
Periphery is rounded to blur the relationship between urban context and circulation.
Shefting structure and reinforced columns to cooperate the geometry and ensure the spactial quality.
A spatial experiment based on researching and context reading.
Time: Fall 2019
Site: Seagrame Building, New York, USA
Tutor: Prof. Tao Han, Prof. Yi Fu
Individual Work
This project discusses the various possibilities presented by the Seagram Building after the intervention of female identity.
After World War II, the United States became the number one player in the capital world, and New York turned into the economic center of the whole world. The Seagram Building was marked as an architectural template and manifesto of the American corporate model to meet social needs of efficiency and intensification in the 1950s.
The Seagram Building was regarded as representing masculinity with a rigid grid. It is a purely male rational space that achieved
a lack of variation, which is present not only in the facade but also in the plan set a strict rule about how to explore the space inside.
With the drawbacks and loopholes revealed in capitalism, people are no longer willing to become working machines. The Seagram Building became the subject of controversy. Therefore, when introducing female roles in this Patriarchal world, when feminine intervenes in the Seagram Building, what interactions would happen between these two systems, and whether or not the spatial experience would be more random?
EXTERIOR: EXTENTION INTERIOR: SUBDIVIDED
"In fact, there is no city anymore...it moves on like a forest...that's why we can no longer own the old city...it disappeared forever...the planned city, etc....we should consider the means... we must live in the jungle... maybe we can do this."
- Mies van der RoheThe highly efficient spatial form has been continuously copied and developed under the background of the rapid development of the company system. People's ideology was gradually squeezed, and invisible or tangible grids dominated their behavior.
Tati criticized modern architectures were cold, rational and dull due to there similar appearance. Everyone became actor because of the extensive used of glass, which let people lose their privacy, which let people lose their privacy and freedom.
The grid extended to the exterior, the glass with its delicate mullions also ambiguous this boundary. I-beams are exposed outside and straight up to the sky, making this skyscraper looks like a colossus's skeleton standing above the city. The unbalanced scale of three elevations in the center led people to relate to the monuments of ancient Greek. People work inside it day and night to keep this giant "machine" running.
Interior floor extents to the plaza, large glass fits to the bronze frame.
I-beams expose outside the wal. Wall Joints also follow the pattern.
Elevator boxs layout symmetrically, the height of celling shows classical.
Analysis of Anish Kapoor's Works
(1) Rotate
Reflect views from different directions.
(2) Squeeze
Create wrinkles on artificial materials.
(3) Stretch
Stretch material to create interior spaces.
The Seagram Building's layout diverges from the center, layer by layer, from four elevator boxes to the glass window, and to the columns, then finally to the plaza. The floor and ceiling materials have no indoor and outdoor differences, which weakens the boundary between interior and outside. On the plaza, the frame extended to the entire site and formed the outer layer of the layout.
The individual gradually loses his identity because the frame shapes people's behavior into the same. The progressive spatial relationships are divided by highly transparent glass. Walking in the frame system, the individual gradually loses their direction, just as Tati criticized in his film "Playing Time": In this world composed of transparent and undifferentiated internal and external spaces, the differences between individuals are gradually eliminated.
Mirror, a material always related to female identities, could break this form. It can be interpreted in many different ways. Talking about the
Mirror can reflect the objects which could enhance people's self-awareness. By stretching it, the mirror images are becoming illusories, which can also mislead people.
metaphor of the image inside the mirror is as interesting as the derive of drawing that they all discussion about the truth of the reflection. The reflection in the mirror is between reality and fantasy, which could lead to people's imagination. In Chinese fairy tales, mirrors always symbolize the truth. People can use it to distinguish the monster dressed up as a human by seeing its reflection inside the mirror. In daily life, people consume the image in the mirror as themselves or even cheer themselves up in front of it, which could help them get to know their appearance and wake up their self-awareness. However, the mirror can also be deceiving. It is emblematic of narcissism, just like the magic mirror in Snow White.
Therefore, when the mirror intervenes in the Seagram Building, it will break the centralized layout, and individual characteristics can be reproduced, thus achieving a kind of entertainment, and people can interact with the space. However, when the mirror is twisted, it can also change the reflection inside it and mislead people's self-awareness. People will finally lose themselves in this new space with the continued reflection.
In this world where efficiency decides everything, human nature is locked in a standardized cubic unit, and the cube is constantly shrinking...
Matthew Barney revealed his thoughts about the contrast between traditional and modern thinking of sexuality and the differences between female and male identities in <Cremaster I-V>. He generally explores the outline of gender, body, and capacity of the human being. In addition, "Twist" is the most common and basic movement of the body. By twisting, people can form various actions, from walking to backward somersault. And it also symbolized a sense of softness, elastic and mellow, which shaped a sharp contrast between "male" features.
Since the corporate system's rise in the 1950s, urban space has been ex-
panding and deriving in a fractal state. The city was divided into blocks, and the blocks were continued divided into smaller units by streets; skyscrapers rose from the bare ground. The rooms were also divided into homogeneous square space, and grids again covered glass windows...
People's living actions are completed in these small cubes, and their behavior is controlled by these frames. The ground floor of the Seagram Building is completely clean and open to the distinct, which creates the feeling of unsafe due to its large scale, and people pass by quickly to get into work. Therefore, I twisted grids, and the homogeneous space is broken, forming more directional spaces and barriers, which provides people a sense of security and makes them willing to stay to rest.
By extruding the frame, it can form into the walls, which can block the sight and offer people a sense of safety. Twisting the walls, they will interact with others to form the path or the space.
When Hera angrily threw the cursed flute into the world, and satyr picked up the flute and played beautiful music to incur a murderous disaster, everything seemed to be under Hera's control...
This form came from the artwork by Anish Kapoor, which was named <Marsyas>. Marsyas is a character from ancient Greek mythology. Hera was jealous of his ability to play flute since she had been told that females were profligate to play the flute. Therefore, Hera set a trap and cursed him. This story is full of comparisons between males and females, which showed the females received control under Patriarchle in the past ages and revealed stereotypes of females, such as jealousy and scheming.
In the plan of Seagram Building, the characteristic of classical stylized central symmetry is greatly embodied. The four tall marble elevator boxes divide the space into three homogeneous corri -
dors in parallel. Passing through the narrow, tall, and homogeneous traffic space will remind people of monumental buildings.
With the rise of female identity, when this seemingly disorderly element breaks into an internal space of the Seagram building, can it damage the frame that controls the area? The feminine element transforms this simple, direct, and easy-to-interpret rational space into a more secret and complex space with a potential control force to human behavior. By transforming the "vacant land" into a "greenhouse," the indoor space was originally based on technology and now presents a primitive and biological "landscape." The twisted shapes transform into paths, which manipulate people's behaviors, such as moving, stopping, bending, and crawling. Although these organic forms make the space no longer homogeneous, they subtly manipulate people's behaviors.
The congregate dwelling that suit for post-95 people.
Time: Fall 2020
Site: Fu Sui Jing Building, Beijing, China
Tutor: Prof. Yi Fu, Wenqiang Han Individual Work
Fu Sui Jing Building, established in 1958 as a model for socialist housing, embodies people's determination to conquer old age from all angles. The eight-story height building was particularly eye-catching among Hutongs at that age, thus becoming a landmark. This housing that once marked people's good yearning for socialism declined when the Great Leap Forward ended, and its layout was no longer suitable for people's lives.
The post-1995 generation is "uninhibited." Prosperous life offers them opportunities to explore new things and experience different living styles. According to the survey, post-95s' employment attitude is considerably different from post-90s and post-80s that
their job-changing frequency is much higher than others. Under this circumstance, they always "roam" in cities, finding their value. Therefore, creating a very low-rent congregate dwelling will meet this living style. Functions rather than sleeping are extracted out of rooms and removed to the public space to reintegrate young people into community life.
So what will happen when post 95s meet this legacy from the old days? This socialist building, as the hallmark of its particular age, does contain the spirit of renovation, which also matched the post1995 generation's characteristic. Nowadays, the Fu Sui Jing building has a great chance to glory again.
The eight-story height bulding was particularly eye-catching among the hutongs at that age and aside to theBuddist temple. Nowaday, the south side of the building is still retaining the original features.
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The building materials were Great Hall of the People’s surplus materials.
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Model workers and their families who devoting themselves to establishing the country consisted the original residents in this socialist building.
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The building had an equipment dinning hall to support the policy of ‘The Canteen’ (residents did production work together and eat without paying).
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Due to the fire risk, the government shut down the building and planning to renovate it. However, there were few people did not willing to move out.
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According to the servy, young people who born after 1995 are more willing to try new things. 83% of them spend time and money on their interests. This analyize shows the relationship between young people's hobbies and the functions of cities due to the time them spend of a day excludes sleep and work hours.
According to the survey, the employment outlook of the post-95s youth has undergone tremendous changes. The professional counterpart rate and employment time for the first job are far shorter than other generations. Therefore, creating more chances for residents to interact with each other and with the city will help them finding out their position in the socity.
The dewelling model content a sharing-kitchen which can served two groups of residents. Each group involves four people who share a bathroom together. On the south side of the sleeping area is the public space belongs to each group of people.
The out wall is the main structure of the building which need to protect:
Three art studios are connected by the sairs and the space can serve at least four residents to use, who can be amateur artist, photographer, or art lover. With the opened studio, it can also hold the public exhibition to attract more residents to appreciate art works.
People who are intrested in gardening gathered in this area where offers the condition and equipments to growing plants. By sharing the same interests, it will help young people to expand their social circle.
Fu Sui Jing Building will survive forever amonge and new generations towards the
amonge the city as a manifesto of both past generations the future of great possiblities...
Time: Spring 2022
Tutor: Simon Schleicher
Group Work: Tommy Lee, Youshao Wu, Yaqin Pan, Xiaodi Chang
Time: Fall 2022
Tutor: David Janing
Group Work: Youshao Wu, Yaqin Pan, Xiaodi Chang
Auditorium Design
Time: Spring 2022
Tutor: Amy Louis
Individual Work
Time: Summer 2018
Tutor: Prof. Yufang Zhou Group Work