ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO
Xiaolei Wang Texas A&M University
CONTENTS PROJECT 1
TIME INTERWOVEN
Cultural Exhibition Design
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PROJECT 2
FUTURE LIBRARY
Local Library Design
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PROJECT 3
GATHERING VILLAGE Artists' Center Design
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PROJECT 4
RECIPROCAL FABRICATION
TSINGHUA Summer School Robot Arms Studio
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PROJECT 5
ART 1984
Mix Used Building Design
OTHER WORKS
Architecture is the bridge between worlds.
RESUME
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PLAN
PROJECT 1
STREAMLINE ANALYSIS
We focus on creating a quiet space with light up and down in order to guide people to follow the streamline, walking and staying in the exhibition hall in or to rethink themselves and experience the meaning of life.
TIME INTERWOVEN
Cultural Exhibition Design PROJECT PERIOD LOCATION TEAM WORK COLLABORATORS
Exhibition Hall 04/2016---05/2016 Brahmaputra, Xizang Zheng Lu Yu Chen
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LIGHT SHAFT ANALYSIS
Design Abstract Basic function of architecture satisfies people's daily requirements, however architecture can also stimulate people to communicate with themselves in order to rethink their own lives. We design the space interwoven of light and shadow to encourage people to introspect themselves,where people can feel the progress of human life from childhood - middle - old age and finally they step into the courtyard to enjoy the reborn. The vertical light shaft guides people to walk or stop in the exhibition and to look back their own lives.
Step1 :Block RENDER
Step2 :Tiwst
COURTYARD VIEW
Step3 :Scale
Step4 :Punch
Step5 :Echo
Step6 :Repeat
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Outer ring road 3th floor plan 2ndfloor plan Ground floor plan Traffic core
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CONCEPT
SILHOUETTE of LIFE & SELF-COMMUNION
expect
Architecture translate
theme space
Start
Concept
Drawing
Born
emotion reason story
Abostract
Space prototype
change
Space
Architecture
Youth expect rethink
Concept
time
memory memory
theme
time YOUTH
Middle Age
reborn
memory
theme
Senectitude
TRANSLATE
HELIX 1
ANI SPACE
HELIX 2
rethink retrospect
memory
time
MIDDLE AGE SENECTITUDE
memory time
Architecture
peaceful slience self-contradictory hopeful confused firm
movement movement stay stay stay movement
SECTION
Death rethink
time
expect
Reborn
End time
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In order to create the space of time and life, we focus on the shadow and the light. With the change of the light, bright and clean to serious and strong to weak and faint, people can experience the whole life and introspect. We also use various windows to create the light space. In addition, we handle some details, such as the sizes of steps and the heights between floors, in order to hint people to experience the space.
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SKETCH
PROJECT 2
FUTURE LIBRARY
Local Library Design PROJECT PERIOD LOCATION INDIVIDUAL WORK
Library Design 05/2015---07/2015 Hefei, Anhui
Design Abstract Architecture usually own some characteristic, such as lively, solemn or quiet. I image a library from future which can re-interpret the serious atmosphere of libraries and provide people with the platform of interaction. In the future, paper books might be replaced by e-books, and thus the space used for storing books will be released. I want to reinterpret libraries in the furture, in which limitations would not exist. People can acquire informations for electronic books in interactive and active space. Those spaces which was used for storage in the past can be reconstructed to some plantforms where people could communicate and discuss with each others, instead of reading books silently and alone.
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OBLIQUE ANALYSIS
SITE
AnHui
CHINA
SECTION
University of Science and Technology of China
USTC is a one of the most renowned universities in China and it owns the biggest library in AnHui. I choose its orignal place,becasue I think that as a big library of USTC it will suffer the biggest change in the furture, due to the development of time. In addition, USTC has rigous academic atmosphere ,so the old library seems to be over serious. So I want to design a furture library in this site to satisify the meet of time and provide students of USTC a better space.
ARCH-NEERING
OBLIQUE
ACTIVE & BOUNDLESS SPACE Origin
Oblique
By introducing the oblique theory, this project is interested in how a body physically experiences a space and how the inclined space strengthens the interactions among people. While digging the architecture experience, this project also challenged the traditional frame structure by introducing more flexible and efficient core and slabs, thus achieving a ‘oblique’ architecture prototype.
1. The principle of the 'oblique'
2. Boundary wall turning into upward
3. Boundary wall turning into downward 'oblique
4. Wall vanishing, ramp system and complex
CORE EVOLUTION
SHARING SPACE
INTERATING SPACE
CREATING SPACE
CONCEPT In the information age, the collision of multiple knowledge has become the foundation and inspiration of innovations and creations. However, the current libraries are not qualified with places for specialists from different background to interact and cooperate. Thus, the future library will become a more activated cultural complex embedded with auditoriums, lecture rooms and cafes which can help people to gather together, thus leading to further communications and interactions. Instead of a building only storing books of one discipline on each floor, the future library will be divided into three parts including ‘sharing, interacting, creating. The lower floors serve the ambition of presentations and reporting, the middle floors carries the functions which boost chances of interactions, and the high floors are comparatively quiet and close which can help people concentrate and develop their ideas.
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1. Traditional Core
2. Core separating
3. Traditional floors
4. Floors separating
5. Floors bridging
6. Core transforming
7. Core gridding
8. Core transforming
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SIGHT INTERACTION
PLAN
RENDER 1
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1. public representation 2. working and discussing 3. reading 4. resting or talking The borderless form promotes the convergence of sight in order to stimulate more communications.
SIGHT INTERACTION
RENDER
1. Utopia core
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2. Boundless Slab
3. Constructive Bridge
4. Lify Insert
5. Transparent Facde
6. Facde Frame
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PROJECT 3
GATHERING VILLAGE Artists' Center Design PROJECT PERIOD LOCATION INDIVIDUAL WORK
Reconstruction of Pingshan 03/2014---05/2014 Nanping, Yixian
Design Abstract
SITE
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The Site
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Architecture is not merely a shelter for human beings, but also should stimulate people to interact with others, and thus will create a plantform for communication. Pingshan is a place where lots of artists live for a short period of time in order to create their art works. But in fact, they only live in hotels far from the center of the village and work in some narrow rooms. So I try to reconstruct some historic buildings and create some gathering space, in which artists could enjoy their art works and interact with local residents; on the other hand, local residents could appreciate some art works and experience modern life style.
Historic Buildings
Road Network
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0.6 km
Time Line of Evolvement
Format of Pingshan 1. Nature environment 2. Commerce 3. Local delling
Texture
4. Hotel 5. Ancestral hall
CONTEXT
Pingshan is a typical Huizhou village, which extend following the river system and local ancestral halls.The upper-left diagrams illustrate the development history of Pingshan. Local people live in a nature and pure lifestyle without the interference of modern social life. However, it still functions as a center where artists can create their art works and enjoy countryside lives.
PROBLEM
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Artists
Local residents
In this area, artists usually set their studio in the narrow hotel directly, which exerts some negative influence. Living far from the center, artists have few chances to interact and communicate with local people, not mention sharing their art works, build relationships and experience the local customs of Pingshan.
Historic buildings in Pingshan are too crowed and unordered, and alleyways are always occupied. Local residents actually have some uncomfortable space experience and few chance to get access to something new or fresh, not mention appreciating art works of those artists.
Nanping City
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PROGRESS ANALYSIS
CONCEPT
四水归堂 Gathering water is a unique architectural method in Huizhou, which is intended to use the hipped roof to stream the flow of rain into the patio and resembles the meaning of gathering the good fortune.
RENDER
Borrowing
Active
Gathering
Comforttable
Shading
Gathering
Alleys between buildings borrow gorgeous views of Pingshan. The square gathers both artists and local residents which creates a interacting space. Trees planted in alleys better the space and satisify people. I use this gathering space to encourage foreign people communicating with the local people and create a harmonic and cultural atmosphere. It is people's interaction that makes the room evolve into the space.
Historic Buildings
Selective Reconstruction
Square Inserting
Alleys Expansion
Courtyard Setting
CONTEXT The site was the center of Nanping in the past. After wars, ancestral halls in this site had disappeared, and thus I choose this site in order to inherit its culture and resuscitate such place. After analysising historic buildings in my site, I selective reconstruct some of them, such as Youqing Hall, a well- preserved hall, and rebuild some new with the similar form. Then according to the concept "Gathering water", I insert a public square which will be the center of this cite and where artists and local residents could interact with each others. Alleys in Pingshan are too narrow to walk and overwhlemed by lots of daily sundries. In order to better space experience, I expand the alleys, change the scales and insert green plants, which would abstract people to stay. For creating more space experience, I insert traditional courtyards not only out of the buildings but also in inner space. One big square and a series of courtyards work together to provide artists and local residents with a plantform for interaction.
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The site
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PLAN
RENDER
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1. exhibition 2. Youqing Hall 3. courtyard 4. studio 5. hotel 6. square
SECTION RENDER
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3
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Exhibition
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E-1 Section
E-2 Section
E-3 Section
H-1 Section
H-2 Section
H-3 Section
S-1 Section
S-2 Section
S-3 Section
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Hotel
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Studio
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CONCEPT
PROJECT 4
Prototype
RECIPROCAL FABRICATION
TSINGHUA Summer School Robot Arms Stu PROJECT PERIOD LOCATION TEAM WORK INSTRUCTOR COLLABORATORS
WOOD FABRICATION 07/2016---08/2016 Tsinghua, Beijng Lei Yu Yijiang Huang Zhongyuan Liu Canran Chen Yu Chen Rui Ma Yuxi Huang Tianyuan Huang Lu Zheng Bingyu Zeng Bowen Miao
Design Abstract Recently, robotic arms have attracted lots of architects, due to its precision and free degree. All you need to do is completing a fictitious model and robots will do other things for you. We want to use an architucture concept as the medium for people to interact with robots. We use the natural nest and hive as the prototype, the woods which is a kind of Chinese traditional materials as medium and robotic arms as tools to fabricate a nonlinear wooden arch bridge. It can be seen as a challenging attempt because all modules have to be cutted precisely and connected in reciprocal structure.
Nest
Mind Map
Hive
Reciprocal
Robotic Arm Work self support
uncertainty collaboration
Human
Rrobtic Arms
Reciprocal Frame Structure
precision
KUKA Rrobotic Arms
security
repeatable structure
Reciprocal Structure
cost effective
laborious and time-consuming work interactivity
Reciprocal Analysis Basic Unit
two tri RF-units
Units Collection Groups Collection
Two Types of Interaction
two tri RF-units
Units Collection Groups Collection
Physical Calication
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Stress Diagram
Expectant Model
Arch Principle
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Firstly, we made a scaling torsion by choosing rectangle as the basic module, then arched in the most perfect way, following with standardizing each wood bars. lastly, we caculated the angle between each bar by using the "Kangaroo" plugin for optimizing the structure and sloving the stablity problem.
Arch Test
Mechanical Nest 2.0 Reciprocal Frame Structure
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FABRICATION
When we get our basic ideal, we start our fabrication. Firstly, we used some small crabsticks to construct a physical model. Then we used grasshopper to design two heads for two KUKA robotic arms in order to fix the wood module to finishing the cutting. And workstudio were setted as the same as the model in Rhino, and thus we can controled and reduced the mistakes caused by some physcial elements. At the same time, we tested the cooperation between Master and Slave to make sure they can cutting and install three modules to be a unit. Due to the limitation of our site, we had to use ties to install every unit and number them, then construct all of them as the computer model by ourselves.
3D-PRINTING HEAD ANALYSIS
WORK PROGRESS
MODEL
Test Model and Grasshopper Analysis
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1. Conjugate 3D Printing Heads of Master 2. Air Clamp of Master 3. 3D Printed Flange of Master 4. Single 3D Printing Heads of Slave 5. Air Clamp of Slave 6. 3D Printed Flange of Slave
3D-Printing Tools and Installation
Studio Setting and Calibration
STUDIO MODEL
Robotic Arms Cooperation Test
Cutting and Fabrication
Teamwork Construction
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CONCLUSION
This project tooks us most ten days, which was really a hard work. Thanks to my instructor and my team members, we cooperated with each other and improve ourselves together. In the end, due to the limitation and physcial mistakes, we had to construct the project on ourselves. However, with the help of every member, we completed this fabrication perfectly. I acquired not only knowledge of architecture and robotization, but also made lots of friends and realized the importance of cooperation.
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Design Abstract
PROJECT 5
ART 1984
PROJECT PERIOD LOCATION INDIVIDUAL WORK
CONCEPT Residence
Mix Used Building Design 08/2017---12/2017 Toronto, Canada
The site has a lot of "dead" stores which is inanimate. But I find that there are some urban scrawls on the walls which bring the street some energy. Considering the condition of the site, I would like to build a mid-rise and mixed used artist apartment in order to rejuvenate the block.
Size
I wish this building can work as a platform where artists and local people can communicate with each other and bring the block new energy.
Skyline
Mid-rise
Graffiti Artist
Private Space Studio
Entertainment Residence
Analysis of Target Users
Analysis of the Urban
Gallery
Gallery
Function
Repast
Mixed-use Restaurant
Public Space
Local residents
PLAN
Public Entrance
Residential Entrance
Public Entrance
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EXPLOSIVE VIEW
PROGRESS ANALYSIS
EAST ELEVATION
Frame-Shear Wall Structure
Metal Sun Shield
Mobilizable Sun Shield
NORTH ELEVATION
Precasted Stone
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SOUTH ELEVATION
RENDER
SECTION
RENDER
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RESUME
OTHER WORKS
XIAOLEI WANG 302 Ball Street, TX, 77840 | 979-777-2865 | wangxiaolei0312@gmailcom
EDUCATION Growth
Hospital Design
2013
Texas A&M University | College Station, TX Master of Architecture Candidate (GPA - 3.75/ 4.0)
08/2017 - Current
Anhui Jianzhu University | Hefei, Anhui, China Bachelor of Architecture (GPA -3.2/ 4.0)
09/2012 - 06/2017
Texas A&M University | College Station, TX | Graduate Assistant Research work Creating virtual three dimensional models for design book (to be published)
01/2018 - Current
APCE Design Co, Ltd | Hefei, China | Architecture Intern Participated in the design of Residential Quarter project Designed facades for a community kindergarten Created presentation, 3D models and renderings for community kindergarten project
11/2016 - 01/2017
Anhui Wuwei Deisgn Company | Hefei, China | Architecture Intern Worked drawings and detail drawings Created final presentation for client meetings
07/2014 - 08/2014
EXPERIENCE
Sharing GYM
Local Activity Center Design
2014
EXTRACURRICULAR
Permeation Studio Scholar Studio Design
Tsinghua Parameterization Summer Training Camp | Beijing, China Programmed to manipulate the robotic arms Constructed interlocking structure of timber components by utilizing the cooperation of two KUKA robotic arms Cultivated hands-on skills through the entity construction
07/2016
2015
AWARD Recipient of Tongji Construction Scholarship | Anhui Tongji Construction Company Recipient of First-class Scholarship | Anhui Jianzhu University Recipient of Second-class Scholarship | Anhui Jianzhu University
2015 2015 & 2016 2013 & 2014
PROFICIENCY AutoCAD, Revit, SketchUp, Rhino, V-ray, Adobe Suite ( ps, ai, id), Model Fabrication, Microsoft Office, Hand Drawing
Star
Iron and Wood Fabrication
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2016
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