Xiaoxi Jiao
BEIJING
There are four places in the globe where I have lived and studied architecture. They have different importance to me, influence on my cognition about architecture.
TOULOUSE CHICAGO SEATTLE
Beijing, as a city that is developing in a high speed, is being occupied by more and more highrises which resulted in less and less room for nature. Toulouse, as a historical french city, its scale is all about humans. Chicago, the metropolis rebuilt from fire accident, is telling a story of real America. Seattle, the fastest growing city in the United State, poses a question what does living mean.
UW, Seattle, 2015 Master of Architecture Program
Toulouse, France 2011-2012 Exchange Student Program
IIT, Chicago, 2013-2014 Master of Architecture Program
UW, Seattle, 2015 Master of Architecture Program
UW, Seattle, 2016 Master of Architecture Program
Professional Work
Ceballos Twin Tower
“Tree� House
Hidden Destination: Miller Station
KUA Campus Center
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CEBALLOS TWIN TOWER: MIXED-US UW Studio Work (Individual)
01/2015-03/2015
Location: Mexico City, Mexico
Teather: Robert Hutchison, Cory Mattheis
E RESIDENCE MEXICO STUDIO Responding to typologies found in Colonia Tacubaya, this studio seeks to promote a healthy, pedestrian-scale street environment in the district, with the intent to amend that which has been disrupted by the automobile. Further objectives are to examine ways to breakdown the border conditions created by the large avenidas, and re-prioritizing the structuring of the city based upon the movement and interaction of people, rather than by the expediencies of the automobile. This model is intended as a framework that, although specific to this neighborhood, may be applied to other districts in the city.
INTRODUCTION I can never forget the moment when I stand on the roof terrace of Luis Barragán’s house in Mexico. That wall-formed space for me represents eternity, where people only feel the sky, the sun above and ignore its surroundings. In Mexico, wall perhaps is the most important building element. It defines edge, forms space, also provides privacy. The “tower”, as the chimney of Barragán’s house, gives the sense of stability and monumentality. Then the two factors, the wall and tower form the building on site.
FIGURE GROUND
ENTRY
GROUND FLOOR PLAN
STAIRS & BRIDGES
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3RD FLOOR PLAN
YOGA ROOM & GYM
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8TH FLOOR PLAN
SECTION PERSPECTIVE
PERSPECTIVE FROM SOUTH
RECORDING THE CITY (MEXICO DF) GALLERY EXHIBITION
BLURRED CITY It is daily habit that people want to see the city as clearly as possible. But at the same time, people also fall in love with the abstracted fantasy of the Kaleidoscope. This series of drawings intends to narrow people's view of the city, reducing the detail down to color blocks and compositions that turns what we see everyday into something poetic ... the Blurred City
“TREE” HOUSE: COOPERATIVE H ENSA Studio Work
09/2011-12/2011
Location: Toulouse, France
Teacher: Marcato Bruno, Stéphane Gruet, Gonçalves Leslie
HOUSING
STUDY IN FRANCE The experience as an exchange student in France is an eye opener. It has greatly broadened my perspective of human-centered concepts. During that period of study architecture in France, I traveled across the Europe to have a look at masterpiece of architecture which is a preciouse experience for me.
INTRODUCTION
For most Toulouse citizens from the down town area consider the site of this project a bit dodgy due to the concentration of Arabians. The challenge was to reconstruct a sense of civic coexistence and social membership with the spaces. Cooperative housing is a new mode of dwellings. The architect recorded all the various requirements of residents and made all their reqirements be accomplished in this project. I was touched when standing on St Mark's Square for the first time. The Clock Tower, as the center of the square, is surrounded by lower buildings, and the in-between exterior space is pleasant for people to stay and enjoy, which inspires me when I was doing the dwelling project in Toulouse.
SITE ANALYSIS
GENERAL PLANNING
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East of the site, a green corridor stretches from the north, which is integrated into the site and tightly banded with buildings in making a better combination of the site and the planning of the whole region.
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“Green� is definitely the theme in this area, especially north of the site. However, greens become less and less to the south gradually. Therefore, the site carrys a duty to connect vegetation throughout this area.
Rise the ground floor to give more spaces for plants
Semi Collective Housings: Duplex, Less Density, Privacy, Flexible Space, Shared Space
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Panels on facade
Wood panels Mullion Colors extruded and abstracted from autumn trees in the site are applied to the facade elements.
Collective Housings: High Density, Public, More Greenery
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The questionaire above shows some of the requirements about the 54 families in Cite Blanche who are about to move in the community. In response to the specific requirements, any single family is allowed to have the rooms uniquely designed and different from that of the other families, such as the expected room size, the location of rooms, the type of kitchen (open or enclosed), the type of balcony (loggia or terrace), the number of bedrooms and even the ideal kind of neighbors.
HIDDEN DESTINATION: MILLER TRAIN IIT Studio Work (Master Plan-4 People Group
Architectural Design-2 People Group
08/2013-12/2013
Location: Miller, Indiana, USA
Teather: Catherine Wetzel
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STUDY AT IIT, CHICAGO Chicago is an encyclopaedia which converged everything. I learnt from the city and both the history theory and studio courses gave me more comprehension about problems as well as corresponding solutions in a region’s development. INTRODUCTION Miller is a neighborhood hidden away in Gary, Indiana. It is a welcoming community with a beautiful lakefront area a mile north from downtown. Miller is 30 miles from Chicago becoming a prime destination for Chicagoans; however it is just the lake they are coming to. Through out history Miller Beach has had different development plans for their downtown area always falling short of completion. Currently with the budding artist community, Miller is taking charge and empowering their residents to redevelop their neighborhood. Part 1
Urban Design
Part 2
Architectural Design
Part 3
Neighborhood Element
The Miller Station project mainly focuses on two topics. Firstly, how to bring visitors from the horizontal orientation (the South Shore Line) to the vertical orientation (the pedestrain board walk which connects to the Miller downtown). Secondly, how to make the Miller Station natrually grow up from its site and become part of its surrounding.
PART 1: URBAN DESIGN - MILLER, INDIANA
BANDING ACROSS MILLER
Lakefront
Residential Zone
Forest
Art District(downtown)
Prairie & Farm land
TRANSPORTATION RE-UNION Pedestrain Path
Railroad Tracks
Trolley Loop
The proposal connects existing conditions to strengthen Lake Street through ecnomic and community growth. The concepts looks like the lines, bands and loops going throughout Miller. It accentuate the experience of Miller that is already present and empower the existing conditions that makes Miller an unique and exciting one.
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PLAN THE “SPINE” A “SPINE” streching out from the train station directy connects toward Michigan Lake, just as the stick does in Dango. It strengthens the sequence of experience of all kinds of activities, helping the city to re-establish its central area.
STREET SECTION
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PART 2: ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN --- MILLER STATION
The Miller Station proposal is aiming to become a “hidden destination”. A Train station is typically occupied by individuals up to 15 minutes at most, making it a passageway and a constant reminder of time: Are we late? When is the next train coming?
Community Center Hotel
The Hidden Destination becomes not only a train station, but is landscaped, part of the site, welcoming home to locals and new visitors to Miller Beach and becomes a place more than reminder of our busy lives.
Art Center Town Center
Artists Live & Work
Green Zone Landscape Integration Train Station
Site Description
Site
Integration of circulation
Referential grid
Steps & Ramps
Shaped by grid of town
Roof detail
GROUND PLAN
SOUTH ELEVATION
STRUCTURE & BUILDING ELEMENTS Decking
Joists
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Pipe columns
Ramp
Stairs
Waiting room
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SHADOW RANGE
The roof in the east mainly provides shading for passengers, especially when the sun is extremely shining in the summer. The indoor waiting room is under that roof. The lighting condition of the space cannot completely satisfied the demand. In order to improve the lighting condition, the sky light on roof top is applied.
SHADOW SIMULATION 02/28 10:30am
Sky light
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MATERIAL & CONSTRUCTION The construction of the sky light is not only helpful for the lighting condition of the waiting room but also contributes to the ventilation rate when the warm weather comes. In winter, the air in the indoor waiting room will be heated through the floor heating system. After the application of green roof, the total heat loss can be reduced by 1,249.072 BTU/HR.
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PART 3: NEIGHBORHOOD ELEMENT - THE BALL
The neighborhood identity element embodies the new symbol of “community “ within the physical neighborhood of Miller. The ball, we bring it from Miller beach to downtown. It can be placed into plazza, parks or any other open spaces. People need to do coorperation when they intend to play with the ball. In this process, the ball will bring more vigor to Miller.
KUA CAMPUS CENTER: VITALIZE TH UW Studio WORK (GROUP WITH Siyu Qu)
03/2015-06/2015
Location: Copenhagen, Denmark
Teacher: Dan Stubbergaard, Peter Cohan
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COBE/COPENHAGEN STUDIO In spring 2015, Dan Stubbergaard, founder and creative director of COBE taught a studio at UW with Peter Cohan. The brief for the studio, “The Winter City,” posited that it was possible, indeed necessary, to create vibrant public spaces for wintertime use - even in cities with northern climates, like Copenhagen or Seattle. INTRODUCTION A natural green landscape overlaps a small cluster of buildings below to form the new KUA Campus Center, which serves as a public gathering hub for the community all year round. This project is dedicated to the university as well as to the surrounding neighborhood by providing a wide range of programs for a diverse group of users. To preserve the existing pedestrain flows on the site, a “village” composed of program boxes is located along the circulation paths. By subdividing building programs into smaller units, each of them obtains a more human scale, accommodating diverse activities to discover and enjoy, and creating a rich experience as people move through the building. At a larger scale, KUA Campus Center also creates a smooth transition from the southern natural landscape to the northern urban context by the use of a lifted green roof and several constructed landscape puddles which provides spaces for different outdoor programs.
SITE ANALYSIS
Existing Circulation
Mixed-Users
RESPONSE
Built area correspond to the existing circulation on the site.
Different programmed boxes are located along circulation paths to create a village.
Hard and Soft Edges
Urban / Nature Transition
The green roof connects to the large park to the south and covers the village underneath.
Landscape elements spread out on the site and smooth the transition between natural and urban conditions.
SITE PLAN
GROUND FLOOR PLAN
2ND FLOOR PLAN
WINTER VIEW OF SOUTHWEST ENTRY
LOOKING NORTH TOWARD THE GREEN ROOF
GREENHOUSE AND COURTYARD IN WINTER
A-A SECTION
STUDY AREA
B-B SECTION
FOOD COURT
LECTURE HALL
DAY LIGHTING STUDY OF LECTURE HALL
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Studio Work
01/2016-03/2016
Location: Seattle, USA
Teacher: Kimo Griggs, Steven Withycombe, Penny Maulden
FURNITURE STUDIO Furniture Studio explores the origins, methods, results, and influence of the unique and highly successful furniture design and fabrication. It is an immersion into the role of materials, design, and making in architectural education. Students directly engage the physical properties of materials, and the knowledge gained through this engagement enriches the design and fabrication process.
INTRODUCTION Not only design and make furniture, as an architecture student, I explore, test and apply what I have learnt from architecture into furniture design. Two questions were set up before the table design process started: Why the table top is always heavy and thick? Because the thickness of the material is the depth of its structure. Why the table top is always attached on the legs? Because the legs support the table top. Is it possible that I make a table with a really thin table top floats above instead of touching the legs? Inspired by Buckminster Fuller’s tensegrity structure which is the compression in the sea of tension, and considered the nature of glass is good in taking compression while weak in taking tension, a decision was made: using a structure underneath of the glass top to allow the glass only take compression. In this way, the glass can be very thin which is only 1/4�. In terms of the choice of materials, all the compression members are made from tellurium copper. Tension wires are stainless steel wires with copper coating. Copper is a material could age and change color over time. All the wood members are made from wenge. Its beautiful directionality of grain also presents how loads are delivered.
FORCE DIAGRAM
Compression(Glass Top)
Compression(Copper Rods)
Tension(Wires)
Compression(buttress)
Tension(Wire)
MATERIAL
Glass + Wenge + Copper Glass provides transparency, lightness, and a hue of blue and green. Copper, in contrast has darker brown and red color that stands well with glass, and also very easy to machine. Wenge is a dark hardwood that has very strong grain directionality that is perfect for the base.
Prototype 1 PROTOTYPES
Three prototypes were created along the way, starting from a rough all wood Prototype 1 to study structure. Then Prototype 2 was made using aluminum to study joinery. Lastly Prototype 3 was to test final design and to refine manufacture procedure.
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PRODUCTION
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Stainless (copper coating) Copper
MEM Professional Work (Model for Robert Hutchison Architecture, Seattle Architectural Foundation Exhibition) Team: With Robert Hutchison, Scott Claassen, Kejia Zhang, Siyu Qu
11/2016-01/2016
INTRODUCTION This project incorporates a new family chapel and columbarium adjacent to an existing winery. The design addresses the dualities of lucidity and dementia.
Name: Xiaoxi Jiao Tel: 206-7246876 Email: xiaoxi@uw.edu Address: 1026 NE 65th St, Unit 208, Seattle, WA, USA