Teh Xiao Qin 郑晓沁 portfolio
Teh Xiao Qin | 郑晓沁
xiaoqin.teh@fulbrightmail.org
Education Sept 2012 – May 2014
Master of Architecture II | Fulbright Scholar - High Distinction Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, The University of Michigan
Sept 2008 – Jun 2011
Bachelor of Arts (Architectural Studies) - First Class Honours Department of Architecture, Faculty of Architecture, The University of Hong Kong
Sept 2010 – Jan 2011
Exchange programme | School of Architecture, Princeton University
Professional Work Sept – Dec 2013 Aug 2011 – Jul 2012
Graduate Student Instructor (Teaching Assistant) - ARC589 Site Planning M. Arch. program, University of Michigan The Oval Partnership Ltd, Hong Kong | Architectural Assistant Projects | Daci Mixed-use Development, Chengdu, China - Retail and commercial shopfront - Metro station lobby and public square - Heritage buildings adaptive-reuse - Shopping mall interior design | Integer ‘INN’ Eco Hotel, Kunming, China (Panel & presentation submission) - 2012 WAN Awards - Hotel of the Year Award Winner - 2012 RIBA Awards - RIBA International Awards Winner
Jul – Aug 2011
dotA Hong Kong Competitions | New Taipei City Museum of Art Competition 2011 | Helsinki Central Library Open International Architectural Competition 2012
Extra-Curricular Involvement Mar 7 –10, 2013 Feb 7 –10, 2013 2009 – 2010 Awards & Honours 2012 – 2014
2013 Fulbright Enrichment Seminar | St. Louis, Missouri Contemporary St. Louis: Evolution and Development since the 19th Century Possible Mediums Conference Knowlton School of Architecture, Ohio State University Chairman | Architectural Students’ Association The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Fulbright Scholar | Fulbright Graduate Study and Research Program Master of Architecture - High Distinction
2013 – 2014
Merit Scholarship Award 2013-2014
2012 – 2013
Master of Architecture Incoming Merit-Based Scholarships
2010 – 2011
First Class Honours Dean’s Honours Fosroc Prize C.V. Starr Scholarship Fund for Worldwide Student Exchange HKU Foundation Scholarship for Outstanding International Students
2009 – 2010
Dean’s Honours Hong Kong University Alumni Prize HKU Foundation Scholarship for Outstanding International Students
2008 – 2009
Dean’s Honours HKU Foundation Scholarship for Outstanding International Students
Languages & Dialects Technical Skills
Spoken | English Mandarin Cantonese Malay Written | English Chinese Malay Adobe | Illustrator Photoshop InDesign Autodesk | AutoCAD Rhinoceros 3ds Max Revit Graphisoft | ArchiCAD Artlantis Google | SketchUp
Selected Works 2008 | 2014
Chicago, IL
Producing Grounds | Master’s Thesis
Bueno Aires
Ciudad de Aire | Residential Housing
Chicago, IL
Chicago River | ThinkBridge
Hong Kong
Museum of Food & Food Culture Chengdu, China
Chengdu Daci Mixed-use Development
Taipei, Taiwan
New Taipei City Museum of Art
Manhattan, NY
Hudson River Bike & Footbridge
Hong Kong
House Analysis | House Design
Spring 2014
Rania Ghosn | The University of Michigan
Spring 2013
Julia McMorrough + Heidi Bebee | The University of Michigan
Fall 2012
Rania Ghosn | The University of Michigan
Spring 2011
Yan Gao | The University of Hong Kong
Fall/ Spring 2011
The Oval Partnership | Hong Kong
Summer 2011
dotA | Hong Kong
Spring 2010
Guy Nordenson | Princeton University
Spring 2009
Peter Hasdell | The University of Hong Kong
Fall 2008
Object Analysis | Cube Design
John C. H. Lin | The University of Hong Kong
Producing Grounds:
A Manual for Land-Grant Institutions Master’s Thesis Winter 2013 Rania Ghosn | The University of Michigan The thesis asks the question of how architecture operates actively not only on the surface of the land but expands three-dimensionally underneath and above the surface, and explores the relationship between the built spaces within the manipulated ground with the university as the protagonist. The project proposes a system where the ground and architecture transform each other actively, where architecture seeks opportunity to mold the land, and not just conforming to it. The built spaces are manipulated to house programs dedicated to the university’s concerns, but also aims to perform as spaces that engage the user with the environment.
Land, Education & the Community Land-grant System for Education
Land-grant Institution for each State 1862 Morrill Act/ Education for the Public
Practical Agriculture
Act of July 2, 1862 (Morrill Act), Public Law 37-108, establishes land grant colleges
General Science
Land-Grant Insitutions
Land
Military Science
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Federal lands were granted to each state to fund the land grant university
Engineering
Food 1914 Smith-Lever Act/ Knowledge for the Community
state land-grant university
Environment
Community
Reconfiguring Ground
remediation & deposition
extraction
Beyond the Land Agricultural Land
Timber Forest
CO2 CO2
Carbon Capture & Sequestration
Coal Mines & Reserves
Extension Sites with Multiple Resources
Gas & Oil 17
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5 15
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2 8, 9
7 4
6
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5 9
B
3
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Decatur
2
4
7
4
7
19
B
14 11
6
Loudon Oil Field
3
11
19
18 17
Tanquary Field 20
B
13
8
B
Forest & woods National parks
Not prime 18%
Important 14%
water
B
unmapped area
Prime 68%
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9
16 20
Extent of Pennsylvanian System rocks Active mines Mined-out area, surface Mined-out area, both surface and underground Mined-out area, underground
Gas and oil fields Deep saline storage Decatur (Large-scale demonstration of deep saline geological storage of 1 million metric tons of CO2 over a three-year period) Loudon Oil Field (Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) field validation tests to assess potential for CO2 storage in oil in the Illinois Basin)
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handling dock coal mine Coal-fueled electric power plant Major coal-fueled industrial or institutional plant
3 Active
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2 Coal
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Tanquary Field (Coal seam injection test determine CO2 storage capacity, injection rate, and the ECBM recovery potential of Illinois Basin coal)
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Main office Branch office Regional office Research center
Agricultural Fields
Gas & Oil Extraction points
Contour
Level grounds Waste products Tailing ponds
Drill cuttings
Contour plowing
Sludge
Brine/ Produced water
Vegetation area affected is reduced to minimize impact
plow lines
Crop rotation Injection + Seal
Single cropping year 1 crop A
produced water is injected into the bore hole and sealed off
year 2
crop B
Substrate for embankment treated drill cuttings to support wetland vegetation
Double cropping year 1 crop B crop A
Phytostabilisation + microbial reclamation
year 2 crop A
phytoremediation using hyperaccumulator plants
crop B
Experimental farming on cleansed deposited land
methanogens break apart tailings molecule for faster settling of solids in tailings
CO2 CO2
Carbon Capture & Sequestration
Coal Mines & Reserves Surface extraction mountain top removal
Injection points
contour bench pit
CO2 storage tanks
monitoring wells
Spoil pile
coal beds
CO2 is injected into the bore hole and temporarily sealed off to allow for reaction
Underground extraction Injection layers
coal beds
drift mines saline aquifer
oil & gas reservoirs
Tailing ponds
miner’s elevator
shaft mines
coal elevator
salt bed
Acid Rock Drainage (ARD)
Rock shale
Revegetated slopes
Vegetation
spoil
sporting slopes spoil = overburden + waste rocks
area affected is reduced to minimize impact
Constructed wetlands for ARD (acid rock drainage)
Monitoring shelter
Dry capping of tailings on-site dry cap tailings
Land Reclamation clean spoil converted into land mass Buddleja scordioides for Lead (Pb)
Pteris vittata L. for Arsenic (As)
Melastoma malabathricum L for Aluminium (Al)
Ciudad de Aire
with Peter Halquist and Dahee Sim Winter 2013 Heidi Bebee & Julia McMorrough | The University of Michigan In this residential housing project, emphasis was placed on maximizing the openings for natural ventilation and lighting for each unit while maintaining the high-density requirement. Voids are carved out on the facade to create spaces for double height terraces, breaking the monotony of a flushed surface, giving unique character to the housing project.
Street Perspective
Revit | AutoCAD | Illustrator
Roof Plan and Site Cross Section.
Revit | AutoCAD | Photoshop | Illustrator
Double C-Ring Plan | Upper Floor Lower Floor
Detail axonometric cross section Rhino | AutoCAD | Illustrator
Joint drawing with Dahee Sim
75m2 2 bedrooms
50m2 1 bedroom
90m2 2 bedrooms
150m2 3 bedrooms
66m2 studio
Unit Configuration
130m2 2 bedrooms
Revit | AutoCAD | llustrator
Unit Plan | Upper Floor Lower Floor Unit plan drawings by Dahee Sim
Chicago River | ThinkBridge with Hannah Smith
Fall 2012 Rania Ghosn | The University of Michigan ThinkBridge deploys a satellite campus that redefines how a university interacts with the city; and proposes a hands-on mode of learning by means of the river. The project appropriates the strong linear connection of rails running through the site into a core artery between UIC main campus and the business district on the east bank of the river. A cluster of buildings radiates from the bridge and interlink with a sequence of courtyards. Buildings along the river centrally locate and enable the objectification of the bridge at the center.
UIC Department of
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO
Biological Sciences
COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS & SCIENCES
Urban Strategy co-drawn with Hannah Smith
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Urban Strategy
Landscape Strategy
University as Urban Catalyst | | Relationship with Environmental Agencies
Forest
Granite paving
Water pond
Planting squares
Seating
Site Network Plan
Light rail station Light rail Water taxi station Water taxi Vehicles Bike trails Pedestrians
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Student Community Center & Cafe
Museum of Food & Food Culture Spring 2011 Yan Gao | The University of Hong Kong The Museum of Food and Food Culture stands within central Hong Kong city as an moderate icon to bring food and agriculture to people’s horizon. The whole site and building together form the Urban Food Land and incorporates engaging roof gardens and planting strips in conjunction with the exhibition space and the research centre. This project hopes to evoke the caution of food and agricultural significance within central Hong Kong and to pave the pathway towards a tastier future. Surrounded by glass and steel skyscrapers not unfamiliar to Hong Kong island, the little patch of roughly 20,000 sq. m. “urban park� sits in the middle of the bustling Hong Kong city, but remains unperturbed by the traffic and noises. This created sense of serenity became one of the inspiration for the design concept: to transform the park into a site for an urban kitchen farm museum, one that let the visitors escape from the concrete jungle into a land of organic and green environment, one that invites its visitors back into the roots of nature.
building heights 10 8 6 4 2 0 -2 -4 -6
bookstore
convention hall mediatheque
cafe
entrance auditorium
museum administrative offices
museum store
restaurants research centre
looping sequence
museum store
restaurants
2011 The Oval Partnership | Hong Kong Building on an existing heritage site requires extra consideration for the conservation of local fabric but at the same time infusing contemporary vibrancy to activate the environment. The juxtaposition between the old and the new offers new interpretation into a mixeduse development that integrates familiar cultural values and new lifestyles.
Daci Mixed-use Development Chengdu, China
Work scope: Model buildig + rendering
A metro station links this hub for retail and commercial activities to the rest of the city of Chengdu. The square above the metro station is conceived as the gateway towards different surrounding major commercial districts and office towers, therefore presents a design challenge to make the square public-friendly, walkable and welcoming.
Work scope: Model building Rendering by other
Work scope: Model buildig + rendering
New Taipei City Museum of Art Summer 2011 dotA | Hong Kong The design explores how local cultural characteristics could be intergated into the design, creating a unique experience between the object as building form. With the change of scale, one’s experience with the original object changes and alters one’s perspectives as well as the spatial interaction with the subject and the built form.
Hudson River Bike & Footbridge Spring 2010 Guy Nordenson | Princeton University An architectural approach for a bridge design requires the same amount of sensitivity towards the surrounding, how the bridge will connect to the site context, who are the people who will benefit from the new link, and most imporantly, to and from where it will link. A bridge affects the entrie city because it changes the traffic and circulation for the whole area. This is why careful consideration must be made when deciding on the alignment and functions of the bridge. A well thought-out addition of a bridge will be able to change the city, to add to the city’s accessibility or to promote the city’s liveliness by increasing the pace of traffic.
floating platform with seatings
floating walkway
skatepark
cycling route jogging/ walking route
point where the descending ramp touches the water surface level and connects to the floating walkway
House Analysis | House Design Spring 2009 Peter Hasdell | The University of Hong Kong Taking Adolf Loos’ Steiner House in Vienna, an analysis is carried out to understand the key concept of the house. Representational drawings are emphasized in this exercise to explore the different expressions of a simple concept and how they transform one’s interpretation of the house.
Hand-drawn. Original on 34� x 44� paper.
Given the narrow slit of site within Central, Hong Kong, the conditions for the house design are challenging and at the same time, interesting and unique. The vibrant environment near the vicinity of the site provides an engaging atmosphere for the design process, and it is here design finds its own voice amidst the hustle and bustle of the city life.
Hand-drawn. Original on 34� x 44� paper.
Object Analysis | Cube Design Spring 2009 Peter Hasdell | The University of Hong Kong Exploration into architectural studies starts from one single object. The chosen object is analysed through careful observation with some degree of reasonable speculation to arrive at the most accurate results possible, which is then presented via architectural drawings and physical modelling.
The “cube�, while not having a fixed dimension, is required to fit into an arbituary space measuring 300 x 300 x 300mm. It manifests the concept of interlocking pieces using its inheerent materiality to design the joints, the connections, the relationship between the void and solid, and the sections show clearly how the cuts segregate the unity of spaces, creating another realm of spatial interaction.
Xiaoqin Teh 郑晓沁 portfolio 2008 | 2014