University of Pennsylvania - Architecture - Stuart Weitzman School of Design
EDUCATION
University of Pennsylvania (UPenn)
Master of Architecture (Expected Graduation Date: 05.2025)
Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (XJTLU)
Bachelor in Urban Planning and Design
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
X3 Studio Inc | Walnut, California
Architectural Intern
1. Participated in design coordination meetings and assisted with marketing tasks.
2. Built 3D models in Rhino based on designers' hand sketches.
3. Generated technical drawings in CAD and Revit.
MAD Architects | Beijing, China
Architectural Intern | Anji Culture and Art Center (CA Phase)
1. Participated in the material selection process. Assisted designers in coordinating with contractor and confirmed the materials consistence with initial design idea.
2. Used Rhino to design and build interior space concepts. Used Enscape to produce 3D renderings, providing multiple design options for partner review.
3. Coordinated with consultants and designers in design refine, modeling, and set production, based on partners' feedback, ensuring alignment with initial proposal.
08.2022-Present
09.2018-07.2022
10.2024-12.2024
05.2024-08.2024
4. Reviewed submissions from consultants and shop drawings to check the consistence. Used InDesign to organize construction-related documents such as construction drawings, renderings, material sample drawings, and MEP locations. Discussed with supervisors and coordinated with consultants about discrepancies.
1. Core team member: coordinated with teammates about new schemes, optimized and improved design solutions, and put together the final proposal.
2. Used Rhino to design and build several 3D schemes about the offices' renovation for two different clients.
3. Coordinated with clients and updated design schemes based on clients' comments.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
3D modeling: Revit, AutoCAD, Rhino, Sketch Up 3D Rendering: Enscape, Twinmotion, V-Ray
Graphic design: Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop
LANGUAGE
English, Chinese
REFERENCE
Scott Erdy Studio Professor Erdy McHenry Architecture, FAIA, Principal serdy@em-arc.com
Daniel Garcia Studio Professor Drawings.Studio, Principal dgarc@design.upenn.edu
Annette Fierro Studio Professor UPenn Associate Professor of Architecture fierroal@design.upenn.edu
06.2023-08.2023
CONTENTS
01. CYLINCUBOID | An LGBTQ Museum - Exploring Ambiguity in Geometric Forms
02 PURE BOX | An Office Building
03. PORCHSCAPES | Maximum functionality and space utilisation with minimum resources
04. ARTISTIC COMPLEX | Conceptual design of an intensive functional space in the context of Chongqing Fine Arts Park
05. FUTURE SEA POND | The future base pond system
CYLINCUBOID
An LGBTQ Museum Exploring Ambiguity in Geometric Forms
Spring 2024 Individual Work
This project challenges the boundaries between form and space, reinforcing the design’s core through the use of materials and offering a new perspective on exploring identity, expression, and boundaries, provoking deep reflection on the diversity of the community.
This project employs the interplay between cylindrical and rectilinear forms to challenge and redefine the conventional boundaries between form and space, thus creating a design that provokes ambiguity through material choices and facade cladding strategies, obscures geometric distinctions and supports a dynamic interaction between forms. Ultimately, this approach reflects the project's core ethos of exploring ambiguity.
SITE ANALYSIS
PRECEDENTS
Inspired by precedents
Drawing inspiration from Steven Holl’s ICA and Erwin Henrich’s works, we employed a formal and compositional stacking technique by subdividing a rectangular volume into smaller primitive masses and packing them into a triangular site. Each distinct mass was then subtly reoriented to respond to the unique characteristics of the site and the surrounding city grid. This method of working from the parts to the whole introduces formal ambiguity, resulting in diverse interpretations of the project from different viewpoints. This deconstructive and reconstructive approach maintains vestiges of the original geometry while presenting an indefinable new form to the observer. During reassembly, rectangular and cylindrical shapes are integrated into the existing volumes, exploring the ambiguous interfaces and overlaps that arise. This exploration accentuates the ambiguity inherent between the forms.
Steven Holl's Institute for Contemporary Art
Erwin Heerich, Untitled, 1977
The project is located at 115 7th Avenue South in Manhattan's Greenwich Village
Approximate Triangle Shape
FORM STUDY
The basic triangular shape represents the original geometry of the site
A deconstructive process introducing new axes and letting geometries facing different directions
A cylindrical volume was integrated starting to form new combinations
Altering the height of each geometry to create stacking composition
A final composition that makes the originally defined shape become ambiguous and undefinable. This deconstructive and reconstructive approach maintains vestiges of the original geometry while presenting an indefinable new form.
TYPICAL ROOF ASSEMBLY
- PVC SEALANT
- CEMENT BONDED PARTICLE BOARD
- CEMENT SCREED
- IMPACT SOUND INSULATION
- 5-PLY CLT BOARD
- SPRING HANGER SUSPENSION SYSTEM
- INSULATION
- GYPSUM PLASTERBOARD
- MINERAL WOOL INSULATION
- EXTERIOR WALL, 3-PLY CLT BOARD
- INSULATION/SLUD WALL
- GYPSUM PLASTERBOARD
TYPICAL FLOOR ASSEMBLY
- CONCRETE TOPPING SLAB
- CEMENT SCREED
- IMPACT SOUND INSULATION
- FLOOR PANEL, 5-PLY CLT BOARD - SPRING HANGER SUSPENSION SYSTEM
- INSULATION
- GYPSUM PLASTERBOARD
Material Selection and Application
In terms of material selection and application, facade cladding techniques are employed to further obscure the geometric boundaries of the structure. Materials vary from bottom to top, delineating three zones: the ground level uses metal perforated curtains for privacy and a unique visual effect. The perforations allow for subtle light filtration, casting intricate shadows that change throughout the day and thereby animate the facade. This dynamic interplay of light and shadow adds a layer of complexity to the building's appearance and engages passersby with a continuously evolving visual experience. The middle section of the facade features angled individual metal plates. This design choice strategically enhances privacy while allowing natural light to penetrate the interior spaces. The inclination of these metal plates plays a dual role: it obstructs direct visual access, thus enhancing privacy, and it facilitates a controlled expression of light transmission. This ensures that while the interior benefits from natural light, it maintains a disconnect from direct public view. The upper zone of the building introduces natural light through glass curtain walls, reflecting transparency and openness. The primary exterior material is anodized aluminum panels, with the internal structure comprising sustainable cross-laminated timber and glued laminated timber beams, and the cylinder is clad in concrete panels.
Physical model
Plan
Elevation Building Section
FUTURE SEA LEVEL INUNDATION ANALYSIS
IMPACT OF SEA LEVEL RISE ON KITANG
The planting area is dominated by crops such as citrus, mulberry and sugar cane, which are an integral part of the basin ecosystem.
THE WISDOM OF THE FARMERS THE WISDOM OF THE FARMERS
FUTURE SEA LEVEL INUNDATION ANALYSIS
The ki ponds are part of the vernacular landscape and have a high degree of geographical adaptation. Through historical geography and gis spatial analysis, the historical evolution of the base ponds based on environmental adaptation is sorted out.
EVOLUTION OF THE KITANG SYSTEM
The basal pond model of agriculture has been highly valued by the local people since ancient times as it is highly suited to the watery and floodprone nature of the Pearl River Delta.
The Pearl River Delta gradually became an important economic development area and a large number of people moved to the area. Ponds had to be filled in to create land due to the difficulty of meeting the demand for land.
A large number of ponds have been designed as factory and residential sites to enhance productivity.
The Pearl River Delta as a whole is facing serious problems of environmental degradation and massive soil erosion, which is accelerating the reduction in the area of the ponds.
According to literature calculations, the sea level will rese in the next 10 years to inundate most of the Pearl River Delta in China. The delta's basepond agricultural system will disappear.
Paddy Fields
Paddy Fields Vegetable garden Mulberry orchards
Mulberry orchards
Sugar cane forests
Densities
18th century
20th century
Riverbanks
KITANG'S DEVELOPMENT AND URBANIZATION
With the uncontrolled expansion of land for construction and the rapid deterioration of the water enironment, the structure and function of the base ponds have become dysfunctional and the size of the settlements has expanded uncontrollably, and the ecological function of the base ponds has now been greatly reduced.
ANALYSIS OF FUTURE INUNDATION IN JIANGMEN
The spatial extent of the inundated city was extracted in the context of global climate change, i.e. under a sea level rise and storm surge scenario, based on sea level rese and storm surge elevations in the region in 2030 and 2050 obtained from climate change simulations, using GIS spatial analysis as technical support.
REFERENCE EXPERIMENT
Tongue and groove construction is a special flexible strurctural body that goes beyond a row frame, and can withstand more load forces. therefore Ibelieve that learning mortise and tenon construction is the step towards the realization of threedimensional space.
REALIZATION OF COMPONENTS
By drawing the most basic structural parts on the computer and then using the computer to calculate different combinations of parts, the basic structure of the space is calculated using a large number of parts.
Combination of two parts
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by means of parameters.
The base-pond agricultural system is condensed into a single building unit and the complete ecological chain of the base-pond is realised in a three-dimensional space.
The future rise in sea level has inundated most of the coastal areas of Jiangmen city, seriously affecting the local agricultural ecoloqy. In order to mitigate the effects of rising sea levels and storm surges, and to perpetuate the agricultural landscape of the base ponds, an attempt can be made to create a three-dimensional base pond along the coastal shore.
According to computer calculations, this is the most scientific form of combination
PORCHSCAPES
Maximum functionality and space utilisation with minimum resources
Fall 2023
Individual Work
Drawing inspiration from the rich cultural fabric of West Philadelphia, my project pays homage to the unique ‘porch fest’ tradition. The area is characterized by rows of townhouses with inviting porches – an architectural feature that has inadvertently become the epicenter of local celebrations, fostering camaraderie and a love for music. Observing this vibrant porch culture, I envisioned a structure that extends this concept vertically.
Enter the 13-story academic housing – a modern reinterpretation of the townhouse and porch dynamic. Grounded in the essence of community and belonging, each floor represents a specific college dormitory. While each floor develops a distinct culture and personality that characterizes that college, it is essential to note that this design doesn’t foster isolation. On the contrary, an open-air staircase spiraling the building serves as a unique conduit, weaving together these diverse floors and their inhabitants.
Apart from the central elevator, this staircase acts as a bridge, fostering interactions and exchanges among students of varying academic disciplines. This design also erases boundaries between the private and public realms. The public can ascend, witnessing academic discourse, camaraderie, and perhaps even impromptu performances. The journey culminates at the rooftop garden, offering panoramic views of Philadelphia, stitching the urban landscape with the building.
In essence, the design mirrors the townhouses and their porches but elevates the concept – quite literally. Each floor, while being a microcosm of a specific college, is part of a larger cohesive community, celebrating academia and life in the West Philadelphia.
CONCEPTUAL DIAGRAMS
PROGRAM DIAGRAMS
Resident tutor Apartments Faculty Office
Tutoring rooms
Unit
Typical Floor Plan
EGREES (STAIR 1)
OPEN EGREES (STAIR 2) Student Units
ARTISTIC COMPLEX
Conceptual design of an intensive functional space in the context of Chongqing Fine Arts Park
Spring 2021 Individual Work
Huangjueping, the cultural and creative industry cluster of Chongqing. Huangjueping is well known to the art world at home and abroad for the Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts.
