XU ZIXUAN UC Berkeley selected works
徐 子璇 M. Arch
2017-2021
ZIXUAN SEQUINE XU
Address: 2020 Kittredge St, Berkeley, CA 94704 Tel: 001-341-333-9097; 086-17888830604 Email: sequine_xu@berkeley.edu; sequinexu@gmail.com
Education University of California, Berkeley, U.S | College of Environmental Design Master of Architecture – GPA: 3.70/4 Tsinghua University, Beijing, China | Department of Civil Engineering Bachelor of Civil Engineering – GPA: 3.68/4 Peking University, Beijing, China | National School of Development Bachelor of Economics – GPA: 3.49/4 – Dual Degree
Internship
2018/08-2022/05
2014/08-2018/07
2015/09-2018/07
Exchange The University of Hong Kong, HK | Department of Civil Engineering Spring Semester Exchange University of Twente, Netherlands | “Curious U” Summer School Smart Cities: Lectures on Smart Government, Citizens, Energy and Mobility Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan | Course-oriented Program Courses: Environment & Energy, Engineering Design, Modern Japanese Architecture etc.
2017/01-2017/05
AIESEC “Dare to Dream” Summer English Camp | Organizer & Volunteer
Atelier Deshaus |Internship Projects: Wuyi Road Complex, Shenzhen Museum of Mangroves, 20th Anniversary Book Responsibility: Rendering, Structure Drawings Check, Modeling, Making Illustrational Drawings Penda China | Internship Projects: Guanyinge Town Farm, Xuexia Village Museum Responsibility: Rendering, Masterplan Design, Building Design, Making Illustrational Drawings
2016/08/15-22
Skill 2016/07/04-29
Activity AIA Hong Kong 20th Anniversary-Symposium on Architectural Education & Practice | Volunteer
DnA_Design and Architecture | Internship Projects: Ziyang Culture Center, Huangu Tea Museum, Lancaowan Wine Factory Responsibility: Structure Drawings Check, Building Design, Landscape Design, Modeling, Rendering, Making Architectural Drawings, Media Communications
2D: AutoCAD, InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, Lightroom 3D: Rhino, Revit, SketchUp Render: Lumion, Enscape Other: SAP 2000
Self-Assessment 2017/06
2015/07
· Good Adaptability to Environment · Love to Learn New Knowledge and Technologies · Team Player · Self-disciplined
2021/03-2021/05
2020/09-2021/02
2020/06-2021/07
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Chocolate X Housing
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Mumbai Residence
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Pedestrian Bridge
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Structure Lecture
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Swimming Pool
Tent X Stage Competition Entry
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Amusement Skyscraper
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Design Workshop
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Environment Lecture
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Playful School Architecture Studio
Development & Design Studio
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39-40
Architecture Studio
Integrated Studio
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Oakland Labyrinth
Figurative Force
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Design Workshop
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Internship & Other Works Project experience, Other Courseworks & Skills
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CHOCOLATE X HOUSING
August - December, 2021 Academic Project, Integrated Studio, CED UC Berkeley Supervisor: Simon Schleicher Type: Group Work
An old parking garage in the middle of city center, is to be given a new life. Although the building from the 1920s has aged gracefully and is a real gem with ornately decorated facade, it has long since lost its usefulness. This studio calls for a design that transforms the existing three floors of the garage to be a bright and airy chocolate factory for a small-batch bean-to-bar craft chocolate maker, with the ability to offer factory tours and special dinning experience. In addition to the use of chocolate factory, the new building will be expanded on the floors above with a cost-effective addtion of prefabricated wood elements to create much-needed housing units.
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Post St Loading Zone
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residential lobby 3'-8"
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espresso bar
Main Production Area (Roasting)
Main Production Area (Melanging)
C Main Production Area (Cracking)
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the front door on Talor St, welcoming visitors to come in. A glass production area, through which customers can see production drink. Corridor has a meandering shape with more faces exposed to stop for a whille obsering production process of chocolate in the bay
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Espresso bar is located next to tition seperates the bar and cess of chocolate while having a tors all made of glass. Visitors can
B Main Production Area (Blocking)
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locker room
break room
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salon
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kitchen dishwashing room
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public roof garden
Varying heights among three salon plates indicates different production steps of chocolate below, at the same time increases szpatial diversity. On the highest plate, there is an access to an outdoor landscaped patio, where customers can have a drink behind the old facade. Double high partialliy exists in all three salon plates, through which customers can directly look down to the production area below,
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Shifted Balcony is typicalled above two old facades seperately by Taylor and Post St, where every other floor has a balcony in the same location to keep privacy. The balconys therefore also contribute to the shifted pattern of new facade. Corner Window without mullion brings better outside views for residents. A customized piece of furniture placed in the corner provides a space for leisure. 07
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Taylor St Facade’s shift pattern is formed by the white panel on the left-right-left-right from the top down. Post St Facade’s shift pattern is formed by the white panel on the right-left-right-left from the top down. Facade Components are aluminum panels covered with metal mesh on the outside and wood slides for shading. On the balcony is frameless glass railing for unobstructed views. 08
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Heating & Cooling System Diagram Radiant Floor
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Air Supply Shaft
Air Exhaust Shaft
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Plumbing System Diagram Chocolate Factory Restroom
Residential Restroom
Circulation Diagram Residential Elevator
Factory Elevator
Service Spave
Egress
Transfer Floor consisting of steel trusses is in between the chocolate factory and housing because of their different layouts of column grid. Meanwhile, the space between truss members allows MEP ductwork passing through. Shafts next to the circulation cores are seperately for air sucking in and blowing out, while bathroom shafts are both also for water plumbing. Circulation Cores in yellow are one for chocolate factory customers and another one for production area. 10
Lightwell & Linear Window is adopted in the massing as the strategy of lighting as well as natural ventilation, which benefits the salon and residential units surrounding the lightwell. 11
Site model sitting within the surrounding contexts gives an overview of three terraced gardens that the middle garden facing south is the lowest and the neighboring two are higher. Detail model shows the Taylor St Facade and the section cutting through the lightwell at the same time. 12
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MUMBAI RESIDENCE
January - May, 2020 Academic Project, Development & Design Studio, CED UC Berkeley Supervisor: Mark Anderson, Harsh Jain, Eric Harrison Type: Group Work
This is a real project (phase ii) sponsored by the Godrej firm, one of India’s largest and experienced development companies. A well-integrated proposal coordinating three essential componets is to be produced—an overall urban masterplan design for a new extension of a recently built neighborhood; a specificc individual building design for a mixed-used housing structure within the masterplan; and detailed financial studies and development proposal documents realistically projecting the project costs and investment potentials. Architecture students and Real Estate Development Students are grouped to work out a design solution that can be measured and presented of its practicality for construction and positive investment profitability.
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Five-phase Strategy annunal result shows that there is much glare during noon in June and July. Fur ther, it is indicated in the point-in-time result that the glare sources are the south facade and roof while still imperceptible. 18
Vertical Green Flow in iconic residence is shaped by rotating two-floorplate group with even numbers around point A and those with odd numbers around point B. It functions as outdoor gardens on every two floors with entertainment facility equipped. 19
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Green Spine from outside is extended into the interior and ends in the center on the ground floor. The indoor plaza is both shared by residents and visitors. 21
Shared Open Space exists in many forms inside the iconic residence, for instance, the seating area on every floor, the bridge and the central lightwell. 22
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PEDESTRIAN BRIDGE
January - May, 2020 Academic Project, Structure Lecture, CED UC Berkeley Supervisor: R. Gary Black Type: Group Work
Opposite the west end of Bancroft Way lies an old footbridge above the highway. A new pedestrain bridge is proposed to not only occupy the same place as the old one, but also stretch across the water and lands at the end of Bancroft Way. Architecture wise, the new bridge should allow for multiple modes of sefl-propelled transpor tation such as bicycles, wheelchairs etc. Structure wise, a total load (including dead and live load) of 100PSF is given to be applied onto the bridge for structural analysis and optimisation. L-Shape is taken as the design language, where the deck and tower shape consist of two “L”s. For deck, L’s two arms connect different points on both banks.
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Material Steel Truss Structure Type Main Deck Secondary Deck
Cable-Stayed Bridge Beam-Bridge
Restriant Type Deck In The Middle Deck At Two Ends Tower
Pin Spring (10000Kip/ft) Pin
Load Assignment: DL+LL=100PSF Section1 Section2 Section3
110m 24 Nodes 170m 36 Nodes (90+55)m 32 Nodes
45 kip/node 34.5 kip/node 34.5 kip/node
Section Properties Section1 Section2 Section3-A Section3-B Tower Cable
Hollow Circular Pipe Hollow Circular Pipe Solid Circular Pipe Solid Circular Pipe Hollow Circular Pipe Solid Circular Pipe
CIR1.5-2 CIR1.5-2 CIS1.5 CIS1 CIR1.5-2 CIS0.5
Displacement Check: max=span/180 Section1 Section2 Section3-A Section3-B 25
max=2ft max=3.1ft max=1.64ft max=1.00ft
model=0.64ft model=1.15ft model=1.19ft model=0.33ft
1.5ft 1.5ft 1.5ft 1ft 1.5ft 0.5ft
Axial Stress Check: ASD=30ksi Section1 Section2 Section3-A Section3-B Tower1 Tower2
Sectional Sectional Sectional Sectional Sectional Sectional
Area=100.53in2 Area=100.53in2 Area=254.47in2 Area=113.10in2 Area=100.53in2 Area=100.53in2
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-16.33ksi -16.37ksi -9.77ksi -18.17ksi 6.79ksi 12.17ksi
Buckling Check: Pcr>Axial Force Section1 Section2 Section3-A Section3-B Tower1 Tower2
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L=436.22in L=393.31in L=393.70in L=393.70in L=612.60in L=616.54in
r=5.7in r=5.7in r=4.5in r=3.0in r=5.7in r=5.7in
KL/r=77 KL/r=69 KL/r=87 KL/r=131 KL/r=107 KL/r=108
Fcr=19.4ksi Fcr=21.1ksi Fcr=17.2ksi Fcr=8.76ksi Fcr=13ksi Fcr=12.8ksi
Pcr=1950.30kip Pcr=2121.20kip Pcr=4376.87kip Pcr=990.73kip Pcr=1306.90kip Pcr=1286.80kip
Bending Stress Check: ASD=30ksi Section1 Section2 Section3-B Tower1 Tower2
Section Modulus=363.03in4 Section Modulus=363.03in4 Section Modulus=572.56in4 Section Modulus=363.03in4 Section Modulus=363.03in4
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SWIMMING POOL
January - May, 2019 Academic Project, Environment Lecture, CED UC Berkeley Supervisor: Luisa Caldas Type: Group Work
Built on a series of environmental simulation and analysis—climate and site, daylighting, thermal and whole building energy, a swimming pool with satisfying indoor environmental quality is to be designed. The site is located at 728 20th Street in the Dogpatch neighborhood of San Francisco. It is required that the swimming pool has a footprint of 25x40m, while the height of the building is variable. The focus of this project is the roof deisgn and shading methods of four sides. As real projects take strategies of natural ventilation and daylighting seriously, the final design proposal has undergone several iterations based on the results of Diva and RhinoCFD.
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South Facade Window to Wall Ratio Operable Window/Glazing Ratio
64.8% 20.3%
North Facade Window to Wall Ratio Operable Window/Glazing Ratio
55.9% 37.1%
West Facade Window to Wall Ratio Operable Window/Glazing Ratio
91.7% 33.7%
East Facade Window to Wall Ratio Operable Window/Glazing Ratio
75.4% 16.8%
Glazing Quality: All Facade Electrochromic glazing (Visible Transmittance 0.495, SHGC 0.258, U-value 1.69 W/m2.k) 31
1. Wooden Louvres/Fins 2. Operable Window 3. Concrete Roof
Side lighting is acquired by glazing used on four facades, while top Lighting strategy is the thickened roof with directionally punched holes.
Wind wheel shows that northwest wind is the most frequent in the whole year and wind with highest speed comes from the same direction. Sections Show that air exhausts from the side openings or roof openings. 32
Daylight Factor: Inside/Outisde=5% Mean Datlight Factor Area Betwen 1~9% Area > 6% Area < 4%
4.09% 98.6% 1.4% 4%
Daylight Autonomy: 300lux Mean Daylight Autonomy=87.75% of time occupied
Useful Daylight Illuminance: 100~2000lux Mean Useful Daylight Illuminance=89.74% of time occupied
sDA & ASE (Annual Sunlight Exposure) 78.7% space has sDA 300lux value > 50% hours 30.7% space has ASE 1000lux value >250 hours This space qualifies for 0 LEED points
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Daylight Glare Probability annunal result shows that there is much glare during noon in June and July. Further, it is indicated in the point-in-time result that the glare sources are the south facade and roof while still imperceptible.
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TENT X STAGE
June - July, 2017 Competition Entry, Installation Design for Sziget Musical Festival Supervisor: Yun Lu Type: Individual Work
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Two-uses is the feature of this proposal for Sziget Musical Festival. In the daytime, the membrane installation is used as a rest area with the wavy chair, while it becomes a mini-stage with a halo light at night. 36
Peaks & valleys relatively indicate the highest and lowest point of a tent. The adjacent edge is always the “valley” to keep individuality and privacy of each tent where people can hardly bow down to get through. 37
Different activities can happen synchronously in the tents of different themes, and people can easily visit different tents by entering at the point that allows their heights or bowing down to get through. 38
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OAKLAND LABYRINTH
August - December, 2019 Academic Project, Architecture Studio, CED UC Berkeley Supervisor: Heng Liu, Eleanor Pries Type: Individual Work
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Food, Red & Living are slef-defined to be the main programs in this project. The worklss people and prostitution places which are previously outside and scatterd on the streets are now gatherd within the designed sub-community. Family living with a roof garden is above the “food” and “red” activity. 40
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PLAYFUL SCHOOL
January - May, 2019 Academic Project, Architecture Studio, CED UC Berkeley Supervisor: Rudabeh Pakravan Type: Individual Work
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AMUSEMENT SKYSCRAPER
August - September, 2017 Deisgn Workshop, Future Amusement Park Deisgn Supervisor: Finn Dong Type: Individual Work
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Roller Coaster Capsule as Transportation
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FIGURATIVE FORCE
May - June, 2017 Deisgn Workshop, Study of Making Invisible Force Figurative Supervisor: Yun Lu Type: Individual Work
Moment diagram depicts the force state of the member. The longer the hatched lines, the more moment the member is withstanding. Now think of the hacted lines existing spatially in a cubic frame with ends evenly distributed on each edge and are retractable. Once apply forces onto the edge, the unstable Lines will be shaped into a certain state to show the influence of the force. 47
array basic shape
The lines depicting force states defines a series of section shapes.
transition (T)
rotation (R)
scaling (S)
multiplication (M)
Simplify complicated section shapes to basic equilateral ones.
Simplify different sizes of sections to one size and form a space of order.
T+R
T+S
T+M
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R+M
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Extract basic triangle shape. R+S+M
T+S+M
T+R+M
T+R+S
A single line can define a profile of space section.
T+R+S+M
Section Series appears within a series of unstable lines resulting from the applied forces. The section, and then the edges of the section are considered to be able to represent various spaces with a sense of tension and compression after different manupulations.
inward wall, acute ceiling
vertical wall, flat ceiling
outward wall, acute ceiling
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INTERNSHIP & OTHER WORKS
June - July, 2020 Internship at Penda China Project: Xuexia Village Museum, Guanyinge Town Farm Work: Rendering, Masterplan Design & Building Design
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September, 2020 - February, 2021 Internship at Atelier Deshaus Project: Wuyi Road Complex, Shenzhen Museum of Mangroves, 20th Anniversary Book Work: Rendering, Illustrational Drawings
March - May, 2021 Internship at DnA_Design and Architecture Project: Huangu Tea Museum, Ziyang Culture Centerm Lancaowan Wine Factory Work: Building Design, Rendering, Landscape Design
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July - August, 2020 BIM Lecture, BIM model & Documentation of Precedent Project Supervisor: John Kershner Type: Individual Work
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August - December, 2021 Prefabrication Lecture, Semester Report of Precedent Project Supervisor: Dana Buntrock Type: Individual Work
August - December, 2019 Construction Lecture, Construciton Study of Precedent Project Supervisor: David Jaehning Type: Group Work
January - February, 2020 Design Camp, Evolo Competition Entry Supervisor: Jiaxin Wen Type: Group Work
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July - August, 2019 Drawing Camp, Sketching Learning Type: Individual Work
2018-2021 Travel Photograph Type: Individual Work
Aranya Church 55
Chicago Coastline
Forbidden City
Yingxian Wooden Pagoda 56
XU ZIXUAN sequine_xu@berkeley.edu sequinexu@gmail.com 001-341-333-9097