JOEY XU University of California, Berkeley B.A. Architecture Portfolio
Joey Xu
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DESIGN EXPERIENCE William Hezmalhalch Architects Inc. May 2018 - Aug 2018
San Francisco Bay Area, CA www.whainc.com
Architectural Intern
• Collaborated with principals to develop residential projects under clients’ specifications • Analyzed city codes with planners and researched design possibilities • Assisted color studio with project material and color selections to produce exterior renderings • Organized and printed presentation booklets for internal/client/city review • Produced construction drawings, electrical plans and red-line revisions • Coordinated with partner firms in order to submit final document sets
BIAD-John Martin Architectural Design Co. Ltd. May 2017 - Aug 2017
Beijing, China www.biad-jm.com
Architectural Intern
• Produced final construction drawings for internal review • Prepared and modified architectural drawings, elevations and sections • Cooperated with structural and electrical engineering departments to resolve technical issues • Developed solutions to design problems following established standards • Reviewed and corrected design shortcomings with architecture designers
CUSTOMER SERVICE UC Berkeley Controller’s Office Apr 2018 - Current
Berkeley, CA controller.berkeley.edu
Target Inc. Sept 2014 - Jan 2017 San Ramon, CA corporate.target.com
Administrative Assistant
• Reviewed incoming tax documents with payroll analysts and performed required system revisions/updates • Handled confidential mail and email and redirected to appropriate departments • Performed administrative tasks such as filing, scanning and inputting information into database
Sales Floor Team Member
• Accessed guests’ needs and recommended correct products, accessories and services • Assisted guests by finding locations for their desired merchandise • Maintained signs and labels to communicate accurate prices to guests
EDUCATION Columbia University in the City of New York Sept 2019 - May 2021 New York, NY
Master of Architecture
University of California: Berkeley Jun 2015 - May 2019 Berkeley, CA
Bachelor of Arts in Architecture (GPA 3.6)
Conservation Resource Study Minor
PROFICIENCY Windows Mac OS AutoCAD Revit Rhinoceros Sketchup
LANGUAGES Word Excel Powerpoint Photoshop Illustrator InDesign Lightroom
ENGLISH
CHINESE
SPANISH
TABLE OF CONTENTS
(IN) EFFICIENCY Fall 2018
ARCH 100C
ART MUSEUM + STORAGE FACILITY Fall 2018
ARCH 100C
BUBBLE TERMINAL Spring 2019
ARCH 100D
URBAN SPECTACLE Spring 2018
ARCH 100B
POTERO HILL LIBRARY Fall 2017
ARCH 100A
PRECEDENT STUDY Spring 2018
ARCH 100B
CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS Spring 2019
ARCH 160
Instructor: Neyran Turan University of California, Berkeley Instructor: Neyran Turan University of California, Berkeley Instructor: Eleanor Pries University of California, Berkeley Instructor: Manuel Diaz University of California, Berkeley Instructor: Maria Paz Gutierrez University of California, Berkeley Instructor: Manuel Diaz University of California, Berkeley Instructor: Dana Buntrock University of California, Berkeley
(IN)EFFICIENCY EMERYVILLE HOUSING PROJECT UC Berkeley | ARCH100C | Fall 2018 | Instructor: Neyran Turan Collaboration with Leah Lock
This housing project examines efficiency and inefficiency – not as goals of the building to achieve, but rather to propose an alternative understanding of the term “inefficiency” within the context of housing. The project begins with the relationship between the bar forms [CONTAINER] and the four interior types of living [STUFF]. Efficiency is explored within the limits of space and purpose, where livability is attained even within small, well-utilized spaces. Every object, floor, and space has a purpose. Each of the unit types resembles a similar sense of this efficiency but vary in configuration for different sizes of households. Individually, each unit is efficient. However, the primary agitator is the rotation and intersection of these bars, each of which contain a single type of unit. At points of intersection, spaces, livability, and habitability are squeeze between walls, furniture, floors – a junction where life occurs among walls, instead of between. Voids structured on a grid puncture the mass, creating further disruptions that resolve into courtyard, sunken garden, or lightwell conditions. The accumulation of efficiencies creates inefficiency. The tensions between the finite container with infinitely accumulating interior stuff is the moment inefficiencies occur. The properties of objects (such as a toilet) shift – suddenly apt in one scenario and artifactual in another. These inefficiencies are illustrated when the extreme lack of space forces elements such as stairs, furniture, or walls into non-useful and conventionally problematic configurations. Stairs jut halfway out of buildings, shower fixtures become public displays, and circulations exists between a maze of walls. Even though such elements become “inconvenient”, socially odd, and normally “inefficient”, they are still usable. The elements that define livability remain, but are repurposed, redistributed, or reordered. So why do we strive for “efficiency” so much when we build housing? This project is not to champion one method over another, but rather to examine this desire we see as a trend in modern day housing. The perceived benefits of a waste not, want not system are clear in terms of cost, material use, or clarity. But gained from these errors are chance encounters between residents, variation in life, and curiosity.
Living Units
We designed multiple unit types for different groups, inside the units we tried achieve efficiency by using the least space to most of the functions
Business Suite: this unit is suitable for businessmen work in cities. It maximizes the office spaces in order to accommodate their work at home nature. The spiral stair connects the bedroom and bathroom on the top level.
Family Suite: this unit is designed for families, up to four members. Each level has its own activity. The stair not only serves as circulation between stories, but can also used to storage.
Private Suite: convenient for people who would like their own private entry. Creates minimum interactions among residents to enable increased privacy
Dorm: for individuals who favors collective living. Bathroom, showers, and kitchens are shared in the hallway, giving residents the most opportunity to interact with each other.
Courtyard Condition
The courtyard are created by subtracting cubic volumes from the massing. It creates diverse spatial typologies and enhances the organization of the form. It allows for better lighting condition, promotes social interaction, and creates unique spaces.
Section Axons
This set of three drawings looks at three particular locations in our building, exploring the spatial qualities inside the building envelope. We tried to show the awkward spaces created by intersection of multiple programs, which is the residual of efficiency. The gain of this experiment was the richness of volume created by the operations; the limit of efficiency is reached and eventually created inefficiency.
Plans This floors.
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unique spatial quality in plan. The intersections of different unit types creates odd spaces in each floor, which exposes the limit of efficiency
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Exterior View
West Elevation
ART MUSEUM + STORAGE FACILITY UC Berkeley | ARCH100C | Fall 2018 | Instructor: Neyran Turan Collaboration with Leah Lock This project studies the stuff art museums contain inside their building envelope, and then provide our own analysis and suggestions. The importance of museum can be traced to seventeenth century that amassed huge collections of art for society’s benefit. We first started to analyze the collections of multiple museums and found out that only five percent of the artworks are actually open for public to view and enjoy, due to the limitation of display spaces. The rest ninety-five percent of the collections are kept in climate controlled and heavily protected storage facilities. For art museums, they are more likely to display master pieces to attract more public attention, so one of the consequences is that the public will never have the opportunity to see the entire collection. Our analysis challenges the current conventions of mass storage of art collections and also proposes a warehouse-museum facility that combines display and storage together. It also calls for major art museums to exchange, store, and display their collections in this building. Our research is divided into five stages: First stage is to study the location of the storage and display spaces in multiple museums to find out the convention of art storage. Second stage explores the mechanical equipment needed to maintain such storage facility. Learning how shelfs, artworks, and duct works are placed in a typical storage room. Thirds stage is an analytical drawing showing what is beyond the wall of display areas. These area includes mechanical works and storage spaces. Fourth stage proposes new system of transporting art works from museum to museum via central storage facilities, exchanging art collections to allow wider range collections to be displayed in public. Fifth stage is a proposed building, this facility encourages major art museums to store their collections there in order to facilitate the exchange of collections to the public and also provide public the opportunity to view the desired collection.
Stage 1
THE BROAD
TOMIHIRO ART MUSEUM
B A M P FA
DILLER, SCOFIDIO + RENFRO
A AT + M A K O T O Y O K O M I Z O
DILLER, SCOFIDIO + RENFRO
N AT I O N A L A R T M U S E U M OF CHINA DAI NIANCI
GALLERY OF DENVER ART MUSEUM DANIEL LIBESKIND
NEW CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM
ANHUI ART MUSEUM
DE YOUNG MUSEUM
VOLUMEONE
HERZOG & DE MEURON
O M U R A + A O YA M A
KIMBELL ART MUSEUM
ZHEJIANG ART MUSEUM
LO U I S K A H N , R E N ZO P I A N O
CCTN DESIGN
MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY A R T, S H A N G H A I
TA M PA M U S E U M O F A R T S TA N L E Y S A I T O W I T Z
AT E L I E R L I U Y U YA N G A R C H I T E C T S
Stage 2
Stage 3
Stage 4
Stage 5
BUBBLE TERMINAL Napa Pipe Intervention UC Berkeley | ARCH100D | Spring 2019 | Instructor: Eleanor Pries
Napa pipe site is located in the Napa County, Northern California. The site was previously an industrial park and was famous for its steel production. Sheet metal, steel pipe and trans-bay tubes were made in here shortly after the post war economic boom. Today, this site is vacant and waiting to be redeveloped. My proposal is to design a hovercraft terminal that connects to the regional highspeed train system. The goal for this terminal is to combat the rising sea-level. According to current research, the sea level is likely to rise 30feet in the next 100 years. Therefore creating a resilient building is necessary. The three main airport in the San Francisco bay area will be completely under water, and needs to be relocated elsewhere. During this transitional period, people might need to use hovercraft as means of travel, bringing them to destinations around the west coast. The project started with a study of material and form. I discovered the flexibility of steel wires, and insulative quality of bubbles. Therefore, the two focus of this project are structure and inflatable materials. I used hollow section steel for its main structure and inflatable material for its facade. There are three phases of program development, as the sea level rises, hovercraft departure level need to move to the upper floors. The extra floors, while not in use during certain times, can be recreational spaces. As time passes, the building will have less and less programs until eventually submerged by water.
Tectonic
Precedent
Description
Since Napa pipe was a steel site, keeping the history of its industrial background is important. Hollow section steel is used for its structure due to its flexibility in nature. I studied Toyo Ito’s Sendai Mediatheque to create the most efficient main structure.
Using a light, transparent, inflatable facade will benefit the building. Inflatable facade has great insulation value, lightness in structure, allows light to pass through, and easy to replace. I used National Space Centre in Leicester, UK as my case study to develop my building enclosure.
Minimize concrete usage by creating efficient floor structure. It not only will increase the span of the floor slab but also lower the carbon footprint. I studied Philippe Block’s concrete work as my precedent.
Inflatable chair, train, and boat are incorporated into the design. Inflatable gives users a friendly feeling, and it is an advantageous material for the future. I read the inflatable books to gain ideas of the to design the corresponding equipment.
Stages of Programs
Stages
Since the sea level rising every year due to human development and industrialization, the building will eventually be underwater. When time passes the building will have less and less programs. The extra spaces in the building can initially be recreational purposes, and then renovate to departure levels.
Stage/Floor
Ground
1st Level
2nd Level
3rd Level
100 Yrs
Play station/ Recreation
Hovercraft Terminal
Bumper Car/ Ice rink
Train Station Ticketing
Hovercraft Terminal
Train station
200 Yrs
300 Yrs
Train Station& Terminal
Current
2100
2200
2300
Gound Level Plan
Second Level Plan
Third Level Plan
Fourth Level Plan
Departure Level Render
Train Station Level Render
URBAN SPECTACLE Good Food Center UC Berkeley | ARCH100B | Spring 2018 | Instructor: Manuel Diaz
Project Good Food is a hypothetical building located in the Hayes Valley neighborhood of San Francisco. Since urban farming becomes popular in the past decade to provide city households fresh vegetables, this building not only brings knowledge to the local community but also researches modern farming techniques. The building is a conjunction of multiple programs that aims to increase food awareness, challenge mass food production, advocating food research and promote urban farming. The interaction between food related program such as public market, kitchen, library, lab, and vertical farm create interesting yet challenging relationships and spatial typologies. In addition to all the programs, strategies about shading, lighting, ventilation and building performances are considered as well. This project intended to create an urban spectacle, in contrast to the surrounding urban fabric. The spectacle is this building inside the urban typology; the spectacle is the urban farm inside this building. Techniques such as optimizing viewing angles and hide and review are used to create controlled view, thus enhancing the relationship between the spectacle and the spectator.
The massing divides the building into two parts. One part is public space consist of kitchen, library, and community rooms. The other part is research space which include the lab and farm. The view of the farm is strategically adjusted to best fit the viewing angles of the public space.
Cores are incorporated in this building to enhance the efficiency of circulation and function. Placing cores in the middle of floor plates hides the functional part of the building, therefore allows the opportunity to expose interior activities to the outside.
Fins are integrated into this building in order to shade south and west directional lights, as are not generally preferred. The fins in this building are also structural, providing support of the building around the perimeter.
Stack ventilation is considered in the design. The buoyancy of air allows hot air go up and cold air go down. The cold air entered from the ground floor gets warmed up by upper level activities and eventually exit the building through the roof top windows.
Hide and Reveal: Controlled View
Controlling what people can see is crucial to create spectacles. Simply exposing everything makes the building ordinary, but instead hiding and revealing certain part really attracts people’s attention. The general public who visit the north side of the building will see part of the vertical farm as the interior spectacle. The outside community view the building as a eye catching spectacle in the urban fabric.
Before: farming module
After: farming module
Ground Level Plan
Second Level Plan
Third Level Plan
Fourth Level Plan
Transversal Section 1-1
Transversal Section 2-2
Longitudinal Section Perspective 1-1
Conceptual Cut explores the relationship between the facade and internal program. This building uses concrete structure that provides better insulation and efficient structural support. Internal ventation through windows are considered in the design through stack effect.
POTERO HILL LIBRARY UC Berkeley | ARCH100A | Fall 2017 | Instructor: Maria Paz Gutierrez
The objective of this project is to design a contemporary library on the existing site of the Potrero Hill in San Francisco. It celebrates the formation of spaces through subtractive processes: design the form as a solid massing and carving spaces out as void to suit programs. It questions the conventional design of libraries and introduces a new concept of space formation.
TWIST-ing one half of the massing creates diverse spacial qualities inside the libraryv
STACK-ing books on top of each other is the initial inspiration of the library’s massing
PULL-ing to form a gap in the middle to divides programs for different purposes
F4 Kids’ Zone
F3 Reading
Stacks
F2 Lobby
Stacks
Reading
Entry
F1 Multipurpose
Reading
Office
Bath
Storage
Exibition
Most of the functional spaces are assigned to the on the bottom floors, as they are small and discontinuous. Big reading and studying spaces are assigned to upper floors with large and continuous spaces.
Programatic vignette explores spatial diversity in section and guide the volumetric design of spaces
The space volume diagram shows the relation between programs and their square footage. There are more functional spaces in the bottom floors and more reading and shelf spaces on the top floors.
One of the main strategy is to design circulation is to combine bookshelf and reading spaces with stairs to maximize spacial efficiency and create spatial transition from lower to upper levels
4th Floor Plan
3rd Floor Plan
1st Floor Plan
Longitudinal Sectional Perspective
Transversal Sectional Perspective
Third Floor Interior Render
Second Floor Interior Render
Physical Model Northview
Physical Model Southview
PRECEDENT ANALYSIS LEUTSCHENBACH SCHOOL CASE STUDY UC Berkeley | ARCH100B | Spring 2018 | Instructor: Manuel Diaz Precedent study analyzes the building structure, envelope, spatial organization and performances, learning how architect activate and actualize set of interests. I found that the structure of this building particularly interesting and wanted to further investigate how structure affects circulation and spatial organization. In this case, architect Christian Kerez uses structure to define spaces and programs. Location and square footage of programs are limited by the structure components inside the building. In many places, structure becomes walls that divides programs. The circulation is also determined by its internal structure that there is a stair in the center and another exterior egress.
Structure
Circulation
Program
Classrooms Library Multipurpose Room Offices Gymasium Cafeteria Leutschenbach School, Zurich, Switzerland
SPIRAL TOWER UC Berkeley | ARCH160 | Spring 2019 | Instructor: Dana Buntrock Collaboration with Chloe Zhang, Rose Wang, and Yohana Ansari-Thomas
The objective of this construction project is to build a 12 feet wood tower that touches the ceiling of Wurster Hall Lobby. The tower is created is created by four 3-feet tall modules. We believe that material efficiency can be achieved through simple yet durable structure. Eliminating excessive members and joints can avoid structural failures. Since the tower only has to support its own weight plus a textbook, we chose 1”x2” dimensioned lumber. Triangles are used as the most stable shape and also helps to create an twisting effect. The afterlife of individual modules is considered as well. We will modify these modules to small coffee tables.
Instead of using vertical columns, angled columns creates an swirling effect
12’-0”
Small triangle is added in the middle to reinforce the structure
3’-0”
3’-0”
3’-0” 3’-0”
12’-0”
12’-0”12’-0”
Use triangle as the primary shape due to its rigid structure
Joint Details
Miter joint and lap joint are used in the construction because of their simplicity and efficiency. Screws and nails are used along with wood glue to reinforce the structure.
CAT-ILEVER STAIR UC Berkeley | ARCH160 | Spring 2019 | Instructor: Dana Buntrock Collaboration with Chloe Zhang, Rose Wang, and Yohana Ansari-Thomas
This is a half scale stair to explore the construction of steel. Stair for cats comes from the scale that is suitable for cats to play. The design pursues a conutious pattern of structures, creating a simple yet complax flow of geometry. Although this is a half scale stair, it still has to be code compliant. Riser height, tread depth and width, hand rail height, and maximum openings are considered in the design. Wood treads are used in this project to explore metal to wood connections as well as to save material cost.
Tension
Continuous Line Compression
Process of Assembly
Joint Details Explained
Weld stringers and screw wood treads to stablize form
Miter Joint of 1”x0.125” Flat Bar
Add structural handrail and supports using angle bar
Miter Joint of 1”x1” Angle Bar
Add ballustrades using 0.125” square bar
3-Way-Joint of Angle and Flat Bar
JOEY XU | ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO | UC BERKELEY | 2017-2018