PORTFOLIO Xinying HUANG
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PROFESSIONAL Novartis Tea House Kengo Kuma and associates, 2011 winter
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Huawei Research and Development Campous Kengo Kuma and associates, 2011 fall
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ROODS 21 Tezuka Architects, 2012 spring
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Huishan North Bund Project Office Building 8 Frank Repas Architecture, 2013
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Hotel Study Frank Repas Architecture, 2013
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ACADMIC A GARDEN OF FORKING PATHS Thesis project, juncture between infinite and finite
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DOUBLE Museum of Train
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MEMORIAL OF PEACE to commemorate past in a natural route
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MEASUREMENT Staircase, Ring and Tiber River flood in Rome
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GRAVITY Form, Space, Architecture
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DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION BRICK Pancho Villa Community Center WOOD Elmwood Community Garden
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01 PROFESSIONAL WORK 窶年ovartis Tea House Kengo Kuma and Associates, Beijing Office Team: Hirokatsu Asano, Shengzhe Chen, Yihang Zhang, Huishan He, Jingwen Li, Adelene Koh Contribute: Design Development Drawing, Design Development Document Making One of the projects that I participate in during the internship in Kengo Kuma and Associates is the Novartis Cafeteria. I learnt how to make 60%DD drawing and design development documents. Those drawings include plans, sections and some material and structure details. Also, I learnt how to work with other departments, such as structure consultant, light consultant, and kitchen consultant, during the design developments part. Besides this project, I also did some concept design and schematic design of other projects during my internship. I used 3D digital model as one way to explore the space organization of projects such as Huahui Research and Development Campous, Jiulongtan Hotel, Beijing Warehouse and so on.
GROUND FLOOR PLAN
SECTION
View from the opposite side of th
02 PROFESSIONAL WORK —Huawei Research and Development Campous Kengo Kuma and Associates, Beijing Office Team: Hirokatsu Asano, Yihang Zhang, Shengzhe Chen, Huishan He, Jingwen Li Contribute: Concept Design, 3D Model Making& Rendering, Presentation Document Making One of the projects that I participate in during the internship in Kengo Kuma and Associates is Huawei Research and Development Campous. This is a cooperation project with another international office. We mainly use 3D digital modeling as a way to explore the shape and space organization of the campous and single buildings. From this project I not only learnt how to develop concept in schematic design, but also learnt how to negociate and work together with another team. The site is located in the city of Suzhou which has rich water net system. The concept of this project is using Mountain and Rock as the image to correspond to the water net. The organization of the campous is according to the system of Mountain, Rock and Water. For the single building itself, green roof and balcony is the scheme to keep the idea of nature.
Entrance of the Campous
he river
03 PROFESSIONAL WORK--Roods 21, Gent City Center, Belgium TEZUKA ARCHITECTS, Tokyo Team: Takaharu Tezuka, Yumi Saito, Mike Wysochanski, Sean Lacy Contribute: Concept design, model making, presentation document making
Roof Surface Studies
Curve toward river 5.75; 5.75; 5.75
5.75; 4.5; 5.75 A10: 98.6% 5.75; 0; 5.75 B10: 98.3% B9: 100% B8: 82.5%
C10: 66.1% C9: 67.8% C8: 45.6% C7: 45.6%
C6: 67.6%
One of the projects that I participate in during the internship in TEZUKA ARCHITECTS is ROODS 21 in Gent, Belgium. The location of the site is centered between two equally massive industrial buildings along the riverfront. The primary western views available to pedestrians upon the roof are the Gent city center, the bridge, and boat port. Amongst the Gent skyline, Saint Jacobskerk and Saint Bavo Cathedral appear in the distance. To the east, dense and eclectic residential blocks fill the view. The roof surface is meant to create a public experience for viewing and appreciating its surrounding heritage. This includes the riverside to the west and eclectic residential collage to the east. Subtle and strong slopes will encourage circulation and more playful movement about the surface. The shared experience can promote a more social and at times romantic atmosphere. We did a lot of studies of how different curved surface influence different view and human activities. Besides this project, I also did some private houses design during the intern because a big parts of the projects in TEZUKA ARCHITECTS are residentials. During the intern, I learnt how architecture influences the users daily life and even create some new life style for them. And I also learnt how dimension of the walls, roof heights, stairs and etc. work with the scale of human body.
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Rentable Area: Floor to floor height is no less than 3.25m Upper Floor Lower Floor
Curve toward village
1.25; 10.37(3/4); 1.25 1.25; 10.37(1/2); 1.25 1.25; 5.75(3/4); 1.25 1.25; 5.75(1/2); 1.25 1.25; 10.37(3/4); 5.75 1.25; 10.37(1/2); 5.75 A9: 100%
1.25; 5.75(3/4); 5.75 A8: 91.1%
1.25; 5.75(1/2); 5.75 A7: 92.0%
5.75; 10.37(1/2); 5.75 A5: 100%
B7: 82.5%
5.75; 5.75; 5.75 A4: 91.6%
B6: 98.3%
A3: 96.1%
B5: 100%
A2: 100%
B4: 85.1%
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5.75; 10.37(3/4); 5.75 A6: 98.6%
A1: 100%
B3: 91.3%
C5: 71.8%
A0: 100%
B2: 100%
C4: 47.3%
B1: 100%
C3: 51.5%
B0: 100%
C2: 75.8% C1: 75.7% C0: 57.6%
Different curved surfaces allow different view and circulation paths. They also influence the height below the roof surface and define the usable area in the lower floor
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04 PROFESSIONAL WORK--Huishan North Bund Project Office Building 8, Shanghai Frank Repas Architecture, New York Team: Frank Repas, Jamie Park, Tsachrelia Eirini Contribute: Design Development Drawing, Design Development Document Making
05 PROFESSIONAL WORK--Hotel Studies Mobius Hotel Frank Repas Architecture, New York Team: Frank Repas Contribute: Concept Design, 3D Modeling, Rendering, 2D Drawing
Display Hotel Frank Repas Architecture, New York Team: Frank Repas, Jamie Park, Tsachrelia Eirini Contribute: Concept Design, 2D Drawing
Folding Hotel Frank Repas Architecture, New York Team: Frank Repas Contribute: Concept Design, 3D Modeling, Rendering, 2D Drawing
14 floor
typical floor
37 floor
Hotel Room Interior Rendering
06 A GARDEN OF FORKING PATHS —thesis project, juncture between infinite and finite Jan.2013-May.2013 Instructor: Kyna Leski “This web if time-- the strands of which approach one another, bifurcate, intersect or ignore each other through the centuries-- embrace every possibility.” 1 --A Garden of Forking Paths, Jorge Luis Borges
What would happen if you put a chameleon in a mirrored room?
JUNCTURE BETWEEN INFINITE AND FINITE The story A Garden of Forking Paths, Jorge Luis Borges, is literarily using a garden with infinite forking paths as a structure to describe time. How does one make architecture analogously? How does one build analpgously to the writing of the novel? I am going to build A Garden of Forking Paths. It is a garden of infinite paths and experience. Every time people enter the garden, the experience of the space will be different. It is also a book of infinite ways of reading. Every time the page of the book is opened, the reading experience will be different. And the number of those possibilities is infinite. The garden can be rooms with doors. The swinging of the doors is like the opening of the pages of a book. “You are the corner of the room”, Poetic Space. The space is in my mind, and the infinity is the reflection from my mind. It is like a room with mirrors in each side, and the process of reflecting back and forth makes this one room become infinite. Where is the juncture of those paths? It is the juncture between infinite and finite.
WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF YOU PUT A CHAMELEON IN A MIRRORED ROOM When a chamelon stand in front a mirror, It may ask itself “ Is the one in front of me a friend or a enemy?” And it will change the color according to its judgement of the other. When it found that the other change the color exact the same as itself. Would it realize that the other is actually the reflection of itself? Or maybe there is anther world behind the mirror. What would happen if the chameleon is in a mirrord room where it will see numberless same chameleons? Everything is the projection of yourself, and the space is yourself. ROOMS AND DOORS A grid of rooms have same sizes and shapes when they are closed. Once the doors are opened, and you meander through the rooms, doors swinging aroung you, the garden start to bifurcate. When the door is swinging aroung the hinge, how much space it will occupy? And what kind of solid space it would occupy? Do you feel that the rooms are shaking? HALF REFLECTIVE GLASS AND DOUBLE LAYERS WALL When the edge of the room is disppeared, (half reflective glass provides both reflection and the real object behing the glass) every part of the rooms is the juncture between infinite and finite. When meandering through thouse glass rooms, you will always meet the juncture between infinite and finite.
TRAVELLING ARCHITECTURE Can architecture be siteless? When the garden is travelling among different sites, it is like a cameleon in a mirrored room. Different sites interact differently with the garden. Then there is another way of understanding forking paths. The more the garden will travel to, the more possibility will happen. SAND One parallel lighting simulates the sunlight. Shadow and the topography of the sand interact with the space and create new shapes. Which is real and which is the illusion?
FLOWERS The ground made of flowers are different from the clear outlines that the sand topography has. Under the different lighting conditions, the garden is like clouds that morphasize.
GRASS The edge of the inside and outside is blured and even disppeared because of different lighting. And those glass walls will become appear or disppear just like they are morphsizing. The garden will merge into the environment some time and stand out of the environment some time.
07 DOUBLE
—Museum of Train, new activities of the city in vacant shell of old building Mar. 2007-Apr.2007 Instructor: Zhang Hong Aldo Rossi: When building became vacant, its memory to the city happens.Then how about copy a new one just next to the vacant old one. While the new one is in charge of memory to the city; the vacant old one become a city space contributing to the future life of cities.
old
new
plan
section
section
Stair is the main mathod to organize the serials of the space. Four main stairs are located at the points where the scale and the characteristic of the space is changed. In other word, every stair is the transition from one kind of space to another. Thus, with the up and down experience, the visitors will come across new feeling of the space one after another.
City Corridor The vacant shell of the old building become a city corridor with only one original wall undertaking the memory. Citizens’ life are continuing and kinds of activities are happening in this vacant shell. Thus, memories of the building are mingled with citizens’ cotemporary life and future life.
The city corridor is crossed by the stairways, details of balcony, glass roof, mental pillars and the original wall. New construction
08 MEMORIAL OF PEACE --to commemorate past in a natural route Nov.2006-Dec.2006 Instructor: Ge Ming How can one commemorate the death and the past event in current place? Memorial may create a kind of phenomenon to arouse the visitor, this time in natural terrain. I would like to build a village that looks like from the past. A distance of the time occurs at the same place. Visitors are between past (other people) and now (self)—commemorating happens. The main building of this village is divided into two water yards: past and now, connected by the flowing water beneath. Also the double-layers wall represents as the filter of the light from now to the past. The sound of the water, the shadow and reflection of the light together create an atmosphere for commemorating.
Main route of sacrifice Visitors walk along the alley from the foot of the mountain, then they are near the pool in front of the main building and see the weird facade.with light shining from the small windows in the wall. They pass through a thick wall and see the front water garden; then go into the main sacrifice hall with columes around a water pool and another thick wall aside; go up the stairs and switch and sit down to see the front wall with a cross in; bishop comes out and sacrifice begin. In this poetric experience, light, water, reflection play an important role to create the atmosphere.
front water garden
water hall below the alter
section A-A
northwest elevation
outdoor sacrifice place
alter
prayer seats
water hall
water garden
view from prayer to the alter
staircase to the roof mountain behind
second floor plan
first floor plan
09 GROWING SPACE
—residential near a traditional garden Sep.2008 Instructor: CHEN Wei Partner: LIU Chenhao The site used to have a traditional garden, but half of it was destroyed and the residential next to it appears to be chaos. We decided first to reconstruct the traditional garden, rebuild the residential community next to it to continue residents’ life. Our purpose is to make people enjoy the traditional garden just next to their home as well as creating a residential that looks like a gardens. The process of constructing the residential area makes the whole area look like a growing space, and it is another idea of Garden.
first floor street-layer and public cubes
second floor street-layer and public cubes
two layers overlap
relationship between streets and cubes first floor
first floor street-layer and public cubes relationship between streets and cubes second floor
two layers overlap
Learning from the traditional garden next to the residential
Unit
Old
New
Privacy Half Privacy
After reconstructing the Chinese traditional garden next to the residential, we learnt the method how toorganize space in the traditional garden. First, more empty place is created for residents to look through more freely and enjoy the traditional garden next and the nature around. Second, those vacant places can also provide enough room for residents’ outdoor activities and neighbors’ communication. Third, the vacant places also mean small gardens to each houses growing with trees and flowers. Group of houses will have a larger one like a square. Further more, second floor provide an opportunity to view the garden from a different angle. Thus, residents not only enjoy the traditional garden next to their residential but also live in their own gardens.
Master Plan
1st floor plan
2nd floor plan
A Growing Residential Community is a like a Grwoing Garden The process of construction will give the residents interesting experience of construction and living space. First, the government invests money to build the structure of the houses. After it the residents who have enough money to build their new home will come back and add the walls to the structure. It means the construction of new houses are under a gradual process that according to house owners’ financial ability and aspiration. Thus, bared structure, under construction houses, constructed houses and the old houses are together to create a new experience of space. On one hand those vacant cubes or bared structure can be the sight structure like pergolas. On the other hand, the growing of a residential community space is like a growing garden.
10 MEASUREMENT—Staircase, Ring and Tiber River flood in Rome Jan.2011-Feb.2011 Instructer: Nick Depach Flood happened very often in the city of Rome. The water came both from the upper level of the city and Tiber river. The site is located next to the Tiber river as well as the lowest part of the city. Different years the water level may be different, revealing the archaeological water trace in the city gives people a sense of what happened before and the understanding of city ground.
Creshenci House
1870y flood level 17m
Temple of Hercules Victor Ponte Rotte sea level
Temple of Portunus
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65m above sea level
1m above sea level Porta Esquilina
Arch of Janus
Aquaducts in aquaduct park
San Giorgio in Velabro
Topography
Ancient Buildings
Stairs and Ring After analysis and survey of the site, I abstract it into different kinds of flows mixed together: contours, cars, people, as well as the really water. And these flows divide the site into several parts, which makes the site chaos. The historical monuments in the site are like stones floating separately in this mixed flows. My Idea is to make several BRIDGES to cross the flows, which also link the two different ground or two monuments. The steps of the bridges can measure the difference between the two grounds. Also the direction of the bridges can lead people’s circulation, which create a new experience of the site. And while going up and down of the bridges from one part to another, people can be more sensitive of how ground changed, or the subtle relationship between the monuments. In order to highlight the special level, I put a “RING”, a glass sky-walk on the top of these bridges, which gives a continuous experience of the same level. It’s like a abstract line crossing all the buildings. This level is 1870 flood line, because the river wall is built in almost the same height, which gives a sense to choose this level. The ring will go through the river wall and drop to touch the river, which gives an access to the river. The bridges are very directly to link different heights or different monuments. But since there are several bridges everywhere, and the scale of them is small, bridges are like hints for people to discover some relationships of the site. Representing the water, the ring merges everything together, and create an atmosphere of translucency. Walking or resting in this translucent ring gives people a new experience of the buildings and ground around them(in a new level).
Stairs
Axis
Ring
01 GRAVITY 11 GRAVITY—FORM, SPACE, ARCHITEC —form, Sep.2009-Dec.2009 space, architecture Instructer: Olga Mesa Sep.2009-Dec.2009 Instructer: Olga Mesa
Following the same principle of space structure, the module can be developed into form, space, and architecture.
Form
Space
CTURE
Architecture
Gravity—form Where does the form come from? First, a logic to connect the modules is created: the smallest circle is connected to the biggest one, the second smallest one to second biggest one, by analogy. Those modules can move and correspond to each other, which get to different kinds of form. Gravity then plays an important role to decide the result of the form. Because of Gravity, circles with different sizes fall down to the ground and make the other end separate. The separate form then decides the form of next unit connected to it. Since support has the opposite direction with gravity, and tension also has the opposite direction with gravity. The effect of them can be the same according to gravity. The structure can not stand by itself at the beginning. Thus, hang them first to ger the form. When all the modules are connected, rotate it and the structure can stand by itself on the ground.
Step 1 Hang the vertical component, gravity makes circles fall down and one push the next one which decides the vertical form.
T G separate separate
separate
Step 2 Add horizontal unit, with the support of vertical units and force of gravity, they can have the form of stairs.
separate S
S
G
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Step 3 Add side units to make the structure stronger.
Step 4 Rotate the completed handing structure and let it stand by itself on the ground.
Hanging Structure
Elevation
Plan
Elevation
Gravity--Space Using only one stripe, the spiral can turn the angle of 90 degrees. Transform it into squares and create an enclosure that is inhabitable. The main character of the this enclosure is: it is combined by two spaces with different direction. When one goes to the horizontal direction, the other one is forced to go to the vertical direction. The overlap part of these two is becoming the transit space between two spaces have different direction.
how can two volumes that angled 90 degrees connected
outside space
overlaping space
transit from one to another
The overlaping space becomes the transition from vertical space to horizontal space.
Gravity--Theater From inhabited enclosure to architecture, more things need to be considered: circulation, function, scale, light, and so on. Still following the same principle of organizing modules, a theater is designed. Different scales of the same module are fit to different behaviors. Two kinds of space, angled 90 degrees in 3 dimension, connected and create a overlap space. The overlap part becomes the inside of the architecture, stage and audience; the other parts become the outside of the architecture, city corridor and outdoor audience.
different scales of the same module
path
indoor seating
outdoor seating
stairs
three different circulations to the audience area
roof plan
plan
sections
12 DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION-- Pancho Villa Community Center in Mexico Jan.2010-Mar.2010 Instructor: Silvia Acosta Design & Construction team Work parts: design, detail drawing and model making, constructing It is a design and build studio. As a team of volunteers, we first design several proposals in fall semester. During winter semester, we bring the proposals to San Miguel, Mexico and present them in front of donor, non-profit organization, local community and government officials. After then one proposal was chosen and we start to construct on the site. But during the constructing period, design process is still going. How to use local materials and recycling materials, how to control the budget, how to modify the design according to the site condition and materials we have are all the questions we need to deal with. While making mock up models and detail drawings next to the site, we participate all the beginning stages of constructions: from site measurement, ground digging, foundation pouring, and wall making.
Finished Building
13 DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION-- RElmwood Community Garden Feb. 2010-Apr.2010 Instructor: Silvia Acosta Design & Construction team of 11 people Work parts: design, detail drawing and model making, constructing
This design for the Elmwood Community Garden is based on engagement and relationship, both garden to community and gardener to gardener. While the primary objective of a garden is to grow plants, by efficiently incorporating spaces that foster interaction, every person in the vicinity of the garden can benefit. The programmatic elements of rest space, shade, and tool storage are focused along the perimeter in a manner that considers each side’s unique relationship to the extended site. This maximizes the area of garden plots, and optimizes their accessibility while creating spacial connections that ignite social interaction. The result is a living, growing space that through economic use of material and design provides an urban community with a place to grow produce and connect with neighbors. In an effort to foster engagement on a variety of scales and provides a small amount of personal storage, each bed includes a small bench with a lid to store tools. The location of the beds align the benches, creating a small space in which neighbors can interact.
given site
typical size of lumber defines the module circulation space
program concentrated at northern edge of the site
modules restricted to 8ft
grid establishes planting beds
shift grid to create interaction space
soccer feild
handball court
running path
roof plan
pavilion detail section typ.
north-south
1”x6” Lumber
2”x4” Lumber Framing Typical 1”x3” Lumber Louvre Bench Framing
PAVILION EXPLODED AXONOMETRIC
FINISHED ASSEMBLY
Dalen Gardener 20 Year Weed Shield Fabric (Planter Lining)
1”x6” Lumber (Operable Bench) 2”x4” Lumber Framing 1”x3” Lumber 1”x6” Lumber (Bottom of Personal Storage Unit ) Concrete Masonry Unit at Foundation
PLANTER EXPLODED AXONOMETRIC
FINISHED ASSEMBLY
2”x4” Lumber
Rigid Tie Connector Bolts Concrete Masonry Unit
Masonry Nails 2”x4” Lumber Metal Brackets Screws Concrete Masonry Unit
PLANTER FOOTING
2”x4” Lumber 1”x4” Lumber 1”x2” Lumber Screw
Mail Box Metal Anchor Typ.
FENCE FOOTING
CONSTRUCTING