PORTFOLIO selected works of Xiaotong Jiang since 2017
LIVING ABOVE Fall 2018 | PennDesign Residential Project, Critic: Kutan Ayata
URBAN WILDNESS Spring 2019 | PennDesign Algae Farm & Bath, Critic: Nate Hume
FIELD OF UNCERTAINTY Spring 2020 | PennDesign La Brea Tar Pits Redesign, Critic: Marion Weiss
DISCOVER ISLAND Fall 2019 | PennDesign Immersive Theatre, Critic: Wolf D. Prix
FILLING IN THE GAP Spring 2018 | PennDesign Design/Build Workshop, Critic: Edwardo Rega
SPIRALING UP Fall 2012, Revised in 2016 | University of Nottingham Residential Project, Critic: Ehab Kamel
ENTANGLEMENT Fall 2017 | PennDesign Physical Pavallion, Critic: Ben Krone
NEW WAVE Summer 2019 | Hughes Umbanhowar Architects Intern Project with John Umbanhowar
OTHER WORKS
LIVING ABOVE MEGA-BLOCK REDUX Individual Work 601 Design Studio, Fall 2018, PennDesign Instructor: Kutan Ayata Stuyvesant Town, Manhattan, New York
In this studio, the whole studio works together to transform the entire site of Stuyvesant Town which is a modularly designed community from 1947. The whole community is a composition of “cross” designed modular resulted into 18 blocks and 33 buildings. Each student was designated with a courtyard consists of three buildings. Each student worked with the existing structures with different strategies on them. We also have to design this new structure with specific characters that is fictionized by each one of us and these characters will be our guidance of the space and program depending on his/her story. As this project is expected to be build in the year of 2050, I was considering it as a project that builds on top of existing structures as a strategy of battling land shortness in New York, especially in Manhattan. By considering the view of the central oval green-
ery as a grand view to the new structure, I designed it as a three floor adds up to the old buildings and it span across three building and face the center oval as a statement design. I also designed this to accommodate the character feature of enjoying the heights, as the main structure would be “floating” in the air. In order to expand this feature into the living experience, the structure is punctured with apertures that not only introduced the height into the space but also protects the intimacy of living compare to flat glazing. Also, these cave outs extend to the original structure as well the connect the new and the old with harmony. The interlock-designed units allow each apartment can have the view to the oval. The bottom façade is designed with reflective material to create a more friendly experience for walking above it as it creates more depth.
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- SITE ENGAGEMENT My court yard is located on the north side of the central oval greenary garden. The design of the project is to grow on top of the original three buildings which creates a triangle shape. This threefloor add-up is connecting one of the cross shape section of each of the three buildings The idea of putting it this way is to allow views to the center garden could be seen by every units but in the same time to not affect circulation on the ground as well the playground.
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- CHUNK AXON I The design is an extra three-floor building placed on top of the original building that connects the three buildings in this cortyard. In order to protect privacy since people are walking beneath, openings of the project are carved in to the floor and creates slits on the facade of the building. These opening features also continue to carve the original buildings as well to create visual connections and the feeling of pressing down to it.
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- UNIT PLANS The units in this building is designed to be interlocked with each other in order to share the same view to the central greenary of the community. All the units are entered from the same level of the building with another floor going up or down seperately. Also, the public spaces like gym room and communal space are on that level as well. - 11 -
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URBAN WILDNESS ALGAE FARM & BATH
In Collaboration with Yi Wei 602 Design Studio, Spring 2019, PennDesign Instructor: Nate Hume Sunset Park, Brooklyn, New York
This studio studied the program of greenhouse and urban eatery to use architecture as linkage to present the “eaters” the process from the “raw” to the “cooked”. Urban Wildness contains not only the growing and processing procedure of the Algae industry but also gives the eaters with its growing environment – the Ocean. Urban Wildness tries to bring the ocean from shore to inland with its texture and color patterns. In terms
of program, the building combines public bath with the algae growing tanks hanging overhead to give people an illusion of bathing deep under the ocean. By limiting openings of the building to merely only over the algae tank, the lights come in through algae tanks to emphasize the ocean environment feeling. The dining area is right next to the algae drying area so that the visitors have direct visual of the production of the algae.
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- MATERIAL STUDY At the beginning of this project, we started off with designing objects that contain no flat faces or no apparently positions to be placed. Then, experimenting colors and textures with these objects with different materials to cast. With these experiments, we decided to use a color texture that reminds us of the ocean to fit our eatery of Algae. Also, the unexpected texture on the cast that was causing by 3D prints giving us the idea of using striped rock veneer as our faรงade material.
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- FORM/FUNCTION The design of the building is a composition of our chosen object in different angles. By booleaning or cutting, we connected the space of each object together and the trusses added as a structure of supporting system as well as circulation and the farming system. The site then is redesigned to fit our rocky-looking bottom to create outdoor bathing and plaza.
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Stone Veneer Brick Tie Prefabricated Facade Panel Airspace Insulation Sheathing Drainage Mat Air/Vapour Barrier Reinforced Concrete Rebar Pannel Connector Truss Stone Veneer Prefabricated Facade Panel Brick Tie Sheathing Drainage Mat Air/Vapour Barrier Airspace Insulation “L“ Shape Panel Connector Reinforced Concrete Rebar Tripple Glazing Sillicon Spacer Panel Connector
Perforated Panel Panel Connector Reinforced Concrete Rebar Insulation Airspace Sheathing Drainage Mat Air/Vapour Barrier Pannel Connector Sillicon Spacing Prefabricated Facade Panel Brick Tie Pannel to Wall Connector Motar Stone Veneer
Flooring Spacing Stud Subfloor Joist Metal Deck “I” Beam Gypsum Board
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FIELD OF UNCERTAINTY LA BREA TAR PITS REDESIGN In Collaboration with Gorden Cheng, Xuechen Chen 704 Design Studio, Spring 2020, PennDesign Instructor: Marion Weiss Lar Brea Tar Pits, Los Angelas
Museum of the Unpredictable is located in La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles, where uncertainty lies underneath the thick tar, and such uncertainty is what makes the Tar Pit captivating. The history of the Tar Pit demonstrates how the process of excavation, discovery, and preservation play huge roles in the site. We want to focus on these three elements in our design and capture the uncertainty of the Tar Pits. Entering from Wilshire Boulevard, people will first experience the journey of being submerged underneath tar and will arrive at the gathering and exhibition space underneath page museum’s canopy. When we enter
into the building, we will see the exhibition of fossils from both storage and hallway. In the research building, each excavation site is connected with each other to create a maze-like circulation, while people see the process of excavation at the ground. In our institution building, people are able to learn from lectures, while gazing through the vast excavation sites across. The uncertainty within excavation triggers the excitement of discovery, while searching through these uncertainties, we need to read and uncover the stories behind them. So we can discover and re-tell these majestic stories in the future.
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We also rearranged the site with three sections: the new Page Museum, the new Exhibition and Ex the new Education Building. We replaced the old parking area with a new Excavation Garde We also considered the site’s feature of uncertainty and added the grid system to allow future excavation posibilities.
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These new axises and grids considered not only the circulation of the site as an Muse but also as an Park, an Landmark and most importantly as the Community space that w attracts people for different reasons and adds visit times for being not only a Museum We also remain the permanent memories of the site, ie. the tar lake, the Page Canopy and the Elephant.
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- THE EXPERIENCE These renders indicates the journey of visiting the new La Brea Tar Pits as a visitor. People will still entering from the original entrance with the expanded lake to emphasize the Tar feature. People will be guided to walk to the renovated Page Museum Canopy with a courtyard underneath and where the entrance to the museum located. When finished visiting the part underneath Page Canopy, there is a tunnel connecting to the new exhibition area with views of the massive storage space of unexhibited collections. The new exhibition building emphasizes the excavation feature of site and allows visitors having closer look at it and get more information of these ancient creatures with experts from the museum. After crossing the excavation garden, people will get to the education building where events and lectures will be provided by the museum and while enjoying thoses, people can get grand views of the excavation site.
DISCOVERY ISLAND IMMERSIVE THEATRE In Collaboration with Siyi Wang, Xinyu Wang 701 Design Studio, Fall 2019, PennDesign Instructor: Wolf D. Prix Lower Manhattan, New York
In this studio, the goal is to image future living styles. The Discovery Island tries to find where the boundary of future live performance lies. This “Island� combines immersive theatre, performance education and living together by studying both traditional and nowadays theatrical spaces, educational spaces and living spaces to evolve together in this building. In this imagined immersive theatre, the background is the everyday living people that works or lives in this building and the actors and actress could be hired or
the students and teachers from the acting school located in this building and the act of this play is the way of teaching and studying. The play is not scheduled at certain time but goes on for months through out the building where everywhere can be stage. It is like you are watching this show by experiencing it. It is like a live drama. In order to create spaces that suitable for theses kinds of play, we decided to use minimal surface as the structure and space design of this building because of its mobility and connectivity of spaces.
- MINIMAL SURFACE STUDY We studied serveral identical minimal surfaces from different points of view in order to consider the posibility to use it for our program. We basically looked them from different aspects of aethetic, space posibilities and connectivities by cuting from different levels and then to look at the section of it.
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THEATRICAL EXPERIENCE
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- FUNCTION STUDY We then studied space and experience of the program that we wanted to be involved in our project. We have not only look at this in nowadays but also in traditional ways. We then imagined these activities within the minimal surface and combined them together seamlessly.
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- STAGE I In the first stage of our project, we want to create our immersive theatre at main focus to attract people into this large complex from different directions.
- STAGE II In the second stage, the complex extends itself with branches of greeness into further communities and link with various public circulations.
- STAGE III In the third stage, the branches are structured to expand along the coast and create connectionbs with existed buildings to make larger impacts to the city.
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- SUMMER SUN DIAGRAM We have designed our facade according to sun light intakes from different time of the year to avoid over heat, but also keeps sufficient sunlight for the greenary features.
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- WINTER SUN DIAGRAM However, in order to maximize solar heat intake in the winter, we also designed the facade of the part that is getting direct sunlight in the winter to be AI controlled panels that open like apertures in winter.
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FILLING IN THE GAP DESIGN-BUILD LIBRARY Research In Colaboration with Ellison Turpin & Megan Khunakridatikarn 502 Design Studio, Spring 2018, PennDesign Instructor: Edwardo Rega East Parkside, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
By examining existing design-build coop organizations, this projects creates a imagined organization (FIG) in order to revive the East Parkside area within the area. With considerations of reality situations, the design creates three phases of this organization in each 25 years apart. Our consideration is that in 25 years later, construction materials would be scarce due to environmental issues and communities would think ways to offset
the shortness and build with used materials form old buildings. This design would be the first phase of the three so the idea behind is to use unwanted materials form the neighborhood to build this community design-build library. It could be just elements like stairs, doors and windows or even larger parts from the old buildings , like a whole facade for example.
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We visited a non-profit design/build workshop to study how it works in term of running the shop and how it offsets the non-profit part. We also build the entire shop in Rhino to learn about spaces used in order to design our own.
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We also made these drawings to illustrate space interation with the tools needed for the workshop to get more familiar with the program of our project.
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SPIRALING UP HOUSING DESIGN Individual Work Design Studio, Fall 2013, University of Nottingham Instructor: Ehab Camel UoN, Ningbo, China
This project is a small housing project that is designed specifically to Karl Lagerfel. I have studied the his 24 hour living routine from his interviews and autobiography. From these informations, the arrangement of the spaces in this design is tailored to fit his habits and blend in simultaneously to his living at our campus as guest lecturer in imagining. The overall concept is that this building is like a second skin to himself that is completely working for him in every aspects and only
working for him. According to his living requirments, I have minimized his kitchen to a simple refrigerator and a sink since he never cooked and combined his bedroom and studio space together at the center of this building because this would be the main space for him in a day of living and he works in bed a lot as well. In order to create privacy, the bedroom/studio is located on second floor and other spaces are positioned around it and spiralling down to the ground foor.
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ENTANGLEMENT PAVILLION DESIGN In Collaboration with Chris Noh, Eliana Weiner, Siyi Wang 501 Design Studio, Fall 2017, PennDesign Instructor: Ben Krone Penn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
This project is to create a pavillion within the size of a Cairo Grid which is a five sides geormetry. Our idea is to create one continuous curve that is formed by its own forces by twisting in different angle. The main curve is positioned with white plastic tubes. The holding frame is made with copper tubes which are contrasting with the curve.
White strings are connected in between the curve and the frame. These strings are both the connection betweens forces and the indications of the tension inside to form this curve. Also, these strings transform the curve by adding surfaces illutions to it. Overall, this structure creates a pavallion with lines and surfaces made only from curves.
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Line Behavior The curve changes propertied when it contacts the boundary limit, and either continues as a straight metal line or drops down to the bottom boundary to turn into a base.
Parts to Whole The aggregation consist of components; “Surfaces” that are a collection of lines in tension, “Edges” that are curved lines drawn from patterns of our container also in tension, “Boundary Lines” that are at the edge of the boundary in metal pipes - in compression.
Continuous Curve The series of edge alternating between pex and metal is one continuous curve that is contained within the boundery of the Cairo grid.
Equilibrium and Compression The edge conditions suspended in space are connected to at least two to three surfaces that creates directional force, which then is tranfered vertically to the ground in compression force, resulting in requilibrium.
Tension to Tension The tension from the “surface” component pulls the straight pex into a curve.
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NEW WAVE CLEAR VISION MEDIA CAMPUS Internship Work Summer 2019 Hughes Umbanhowar Architects Sun Valley, Los Angelas
This is a proposal made for Sun Vally High School to build a new film campus next to current site across street. This building is not only for the students in the school already but also can perform as adult night school. The client also requires a full package of sound stage and editing suites that can be lent to professionals from time to time. The idea of the final design is to have the sound stage and the education buildign back to back together, so that students can access the sound stage easily but also
when there is professionals using it, it can be a engaged teaching lesson when agreed. Since it is in LA, the circulations of the building is put in the outter side of the building that is semi-opens to the outdoor.This circulation is covered with perforated panels that creats a wave signature to the building and it is representing the new blood being enlightment here. However the color coding for each class room that is see through from the facade panels is inspired by the TV color bars when there is no signal.
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- QUZHOU SPORT CENTER Internship project MAD, Summer 2018 Primarily working on drawings and diagrams
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- CHENGDU YIPIN RESIDENTIAL Internship project MAD, Summer 2018 Primarily working on drawings and diagrams
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