YX PRATT GAUD 2015-2018
Architecture Portfolio Yixin Xu (Eileen)
This design for an elementary school takes advantage of the site’s strategic location along the busiest strip of East River waterfront and its historic function of a pier to envision a project that embraces the educational opportunites of the river, expanding the boundaries of an otherwise anchored school.
01 GAUD Studio SP2016
Elementary School Design Critic: Theoharris David Site: Pier 14, NY
wooden pier base
streamlined ‘mothership’ hull
morphology diagram
1 sailing boat (montly excursions)
window ‘sails’
6 water taxis (daily transportation)
kinetic components
roof
2F
1F
plans
the water taxi holds 30 students + 2 supervisors
sections
deck activities room kitchen
the sailing ship has a maximum capacity of 120
section & elevation
in clear weather
when under precipitation
detail section
Through investigating the impacts of the forces of water and temperature fluctuations on a chunk of ice, an animated digital space of force and motion is produced, in which a simulated vectors give form to a multiplicity of surfaces. The surfaces invade an existing high-rise office building and impose porosity in social context.
02 GAUD Studio FA2015 Spatial Event Investigation Critic: Philip Parker Site: 345 Park Ave, NY
sediments water volatile equilibrium stable safe
animating
dynamics frame 91 80 frame 124 80 frame 274 80 frame 520 80 rame 609 80 frame 714 80
patching
stalactites-mite
erosions
excavating
surface quality stacking folding gaping
architecturalizations platforms enclosures ventilation passages
an event of forces
erosion, reformation & architecturalization
plans
before
sections
after
integrated plan
This urban housing project employs the ‘bed-sitting’ concept favorable to young, free spirited new arrivals of a community, of which there are many in Williamsburg. Through a morphology of folding geometry and an interplay of clusters, the possibility of mixed-use and mixed-user housing is expanded.
03 GAUD Studio FA2016 Urban Housing Design Critic: Jonas Coersmeier Site: Williamsburg, NY
one cluster
cluster analysis
cluster arrayed
bed-sitting apartments
family duplex
housing distribution based on Williamsburg demographics
site summer sunlight study
site winter sunlight study
complex analysis
bed-sitters are never segregated from duplexes due to the inherent circulaton property of the cluster
sightviewing escalator
aerial arts training
vertical courtyard height of 80’ is determined through sunlight studies ensuring that the courtyard receives full sunlight at a moment of winter solstice, and is mostly shaded mid-summer
family duplexes have direct access to courtyard
80’
section & elevations
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circulation diagram
1F unit plan (duplex)
3F unit plan (bed-sitters)
close-ups
vignettes
This concert hall design adapts itself to the traits of New Orleans’ French Quarters by studying its special climate conditions, its tradition of architectural embroideries, and the importance of voids in the event of musical gatherings. Intended to be an agglomeration of musicians with an emphasis on grand theatrical effects, the architecture disperses its volumes only to bring the music itself down as a centerpiece.
06 GAUD Studio SP2017 Concert Hall Design Critic: Kutan Ayata Site: New Orleans, LA
auditorium process
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ground plan
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1 ENTRANCE 2 FOYER 3 SHOP 4 AUDITORIUM ENTRANCE 5 EXHIBITION SPACE 6 PRACTICE ROOM FOYER 7 BREAK AREA SHOP8 PRACTICE ROOM 9 ADMINISTRATION AUDITORIUM 10 OFFICE EXHIBITION SPACE 11 MACHINE ROOM
PRACTICE ROOM BREAK AREA PRACTICE ROOM ADMINISTRATION OFFICE MACHINE ROOM
plan & elevations
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First Floor S = 1' : 16"
sections
WATER FLOW
WIND DIRECTION
WATER FLOW
environmental & mechanical systems
DUCTWORKS
AHU
VAV
ELECTRICAL SERVICE ROOM
FIRE PUMP ROOM
INCOMING WATER ROOM
INCOMING DATA ROOM
METAL PANEL
STEEL TRUSS CCONCRETE WALL
CONCRETE SLAB
STEEL REINFORCEMENT RING CONCRETE STRUCTURAL RIB
STEEL COLUMN
structural system