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Yubo Qiao
Simplicity and high quality are two most significant design factors of my design philosophy. I view architecture as a narrator, who whispers within a solitude voice to build up the frame of the story.
Yubo Qiao I wish my architecture perform the role of narrators who represent history, culture, and function with an engaging voice that could translate in space and time.
2200 Fuller Ct, Apt 408 Ann Arbor, MI, USA +1-734-834-9598 yuboqiao@umich.edu
Resume EDUCATION
University of Michigan, Taubman College, Ann Arbor, MI Master of Architecture Central South University, Changsha, China Bachelor of Architecture
EXPERIENCE
University of Michigan, Taubman College, Ann Arbor, MI Research Assistant: ∙ Work with Professor Craig Borum. ∙ Concept design of Kensington Metropark office building. ∙ Prepare client presentation document. ∙ Establish design parameters based on client requirements. Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP, Chicago, IL Architectural Externship: ∙ Worked with project architect to finish three architecture renderings for client presentation. ∙ Participated in internal presentation and staff training. StudioTEKA Design LLC, New York City, NY Architectural Internship: ∙ Define program requirements and establish design parameters based on client requirements. ∙ Support the design of overall architectural design concepts and schematic design. ∙ Understand how to create and maintain a project schedule. ∙ Creative voice in development of architectural design and model created for a specific project. ∙ Act as an integral junior architect in the firm’s project. ∙ Assisted design principal in project presentation. HLW International LLP, New York City, NY Architectural Externship: ∙ Participated in Google New York Office Design, finished ceiling design of a corridor and presented to project leader. ∙ Participated in internal design meeting and staff training. Research Center for Historical and Cultural Cities Tsinghua Urban Planning and Design Institute, Beijing, China Architectural Internship: ∙ Participated in City Planning and Design for the Historical and Cultural City of Jingdezhen ∙ Participated in the city research, preliminary data collection and data sorting ∙ Responsible for the preliminary design of the hotel project and presented to client ∙ Assisted in the organization of the conference of Chinese Society of Cultural Relics
SCHOLARSHIPS & AWARDS
∙ 2015 University of Michigan Taubman College Studio Works Exhibition, Final List ∙ Tertiary Scholarship of Central South University ∙ Secondary Scholarship of Central South University
SKILLS
∙ Design: AutoCAD, Revit, Rhino 3D, SketchUp ∙ Graphics: Adobe Creative Suite, Vray ∙ Model Crafting: 3D Printing, Laser Cutting, CNC Mill, Kuka Prc ∙ Language: English & Mandarin
Expected: May 2016 June 2014
Jan. 18, 2016 - Now
Feb. 29 - March 4, 2015
July 1 - Aug. 28, 2015
March 2 - 6, 2015
June - Aug. 2013
2015 2010, 2011, 2013 2012
As the most remote and desolate place in the United States, Nevada has one of the largest sources of gold in the world. At the very beginning of the state’s history, gold mining helped to put Nevada on the map. Gambling, nuclear weapon test and Area 51 make Nevada a place of lust, secret, rumor, danger and adventure. But what if we build a homeland on the desolate land of Nevada?
Homeland of Mine Mining activity has a great influence on the history, culture, environment and economy of Nevada. The remains of mining activities can become good sites for a speculation of homeland making. I proposed that mining remains and mining site can be developed as people’s homeland.
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Instructor: Dawn Gilpin Site: Betty, Nevada 2015 September 12 - December 23
A mining engineer, Philip Deidesheimer designed a system named “Square set timbering”, using heavy timber “cubes” as supports for underground mining tunnels and shafts, that enabled skilled miners to open three-dimensional cavities of any size. In large openings, the cubes could be filled with waste rock, creating a solid pillar of wood and rock from floor to roof. In my point of view, this system can be seen as an example of “design through making” process. “Square set timbering” allows miners to follow the gold vein and explore the underground resources, this modular system trigered a complex and diverse world.
Square set timbering
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My site is Sterling Mine next to Beatty, Nevada, a gold mine located near Beatty, Nevada, 115 miles northwest of Las Vegas. It is one of the major. In this project, I speculate a fictional narrative that a group of unknown population will populate the site. The unknown population are a new type of refugee created by human’s plunder of nature. The growth of population, global oil crisis, trading monopolies as well as rapid deterioration of urban environment forcing them to bear the pain of losing their homelands. For them, living in dessert of Nevada become feasible. As unknown population, I prefer to identify them as a group of people with a wide variety of backgrounds -- race, education, religion, etc. They will bring a profound impact on the site. To protect themselves and set up new homelands, they will use local mineral resources (gold), accessible geothermal and solar energy to establish a new society. Architecture has to meet the various needs of mankind in order to define a homeland on this desolate land.
Agriculture: Greenhouse + Aquaculture Tank + Pivot Irrigation Farming
Public Service: Church + Community Center
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Culture: Library + Auditorium + Museum + GalleryEducation
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I believe my project can be described as a heterotopia, “Homeland of Mine” will have different spatial and social order compared with surrounding area. The form of gold vein and the spatial organization of Philip Deidesheimer’s “Square set timbering” ignited my imagination of this project. The programs and functional spaces exist in real world, but will be reorganized in a way of “design through making”. “Homeland of Mine” can be viewed as one of a numerous possibilities to build new homelands. It is a new way of urbanism and has facilities that are built and removed according to the regulatory needs of the “unknown population”. The ever-growing structure reflects the story of “design through making”. It breaths; it is demolished and rebuilt; it transforms and adapts.
Housing: Apartment + Single House
Education: Classroom + Auditorium + Library
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Portion Physical Model
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The overall movement of the project will follow the movement of the terrain, creating a form similar with the form of gold vein. The space will follow the structure of “design through making”, while as mine always presented as confined space made of single geometry (showed “Square set timbering”), I will introduce different scale of space and some other geometries like sphere and pyramid to accommodate multiple programs in real world as well as create interesting spatial moments. The ever-growing structure can create a wide variety of spatial forms. The interaction of different programs can help to build up a homeland in Nevada. Architecture can help people build up homeland in the most remote and desolate place.
Industry: Gold Mining + Geothermal Plant + Manufacturing
Laboratory
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This housing and office complex is located in Singapore, I proposed an interactive relations and encourages encounters in the public spaces that vary from commercial, residential, and educational to recreational. The entire complex is a three dimensional urban space in which buildings on the ground, under the ground and over the ground are fused together.
Housing and Office Complex The roof garden offers landscape and a number of open space for all people to enjoy. A multi-functional series of skybridges with swimming pool, fitness room, cafĂŠ, gallery and auditorium connects all the towers and the hotel tower, and offers spectacular views over the unfolding city.
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Instructor: Claudia Wigger Site: Paya Lebar, Singapore 2015 Feburary 9 - April 27
Physical Model
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The roof garden offers landscape and a number of open space for all people to enjoy. A multi-functional series of skybridges with swimming pool, fitness room, cafĂŠ, gallery and auditorium connects all the towers and the hotel tower, and offers spectacular views over the unfolding city.
Latitude Section
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Ground Floor Plan
Longtitude Section I
Longtitude Section II
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Residential Plan 0 2.5
Typical Unit Model
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Facade Section
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The site of this project is located in the north end of Woodward Avenue, near to the center of Pontiac. This proposal is a network on the site, it can accommodate multiple functional spaces. At the same time, this proposal can create a continuous urban texture to response multiple scale near the site.
Tesla Campus The Tesla campus is composed of individuals and groups, working alone or together, in different disciplines. When individuals work together they take on new characteristics and develop new needs. I think the campus can be a community in which different disciplines can develop more intimate relationships.
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Instructor: Craig Borum Site: Detroit, MI, USA 2014 September 9 - December 19
A factory can be a huge block or barrier in urban context, but I am proposing an active part in the city. This project is a network on the site, it can accomodate different functional spaces and program, meanwhile, it can also respond to the adjacent main road and surrounding communities. To make the site an active space, I developed a drive way system on the site. it creates multiple connections in the urban context. Outer space is the frame of the campus. The driveway system supporting material transportation. A skywalk system on the upper level connecting different
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functional spaces and hanging garden. The project encourage interconnection and collaboration between multiple displines. Office spaces are spreaded in the campus, surrounded by factory spaces and public spaces. This design will encourage the communication between different displines. Tesla make fantastic cars, the project can also become a great destination for the general public. The driveway system alows people drive through
the campus, through the curtain wall and translusent facade, people will know better about Tesla, this can be a great promotion of the product and the culture of Tesla.
Site
Railway
Network
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Technology Center and Museum
Terrace
Office and Hotel Complex
Office
Product Showcase
Factory
The Tesla campus is composed of individuals and groups, working alone or together, in different disciplines. When individuals work together they take on new characteristics and develop new needs. I think the campus can be a community in which different disciplines can develop more intimate relationships.
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Hotel
Office
Design & Techno Cafeteria & Skydeck
Hotel
Office
Museum
Service Center
Cafeteria
Showcase
Stamp
Train Sta Loading
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ology Center
Terrace
Skywalk
Terrace
Welding
Assembly
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ation & g Area
Painting
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I believe the responsibility of architecture is to improve human relationship. A coach station, where the large amount of human flow happens, is a classical field of presenting fast pace and high dynamic human communication of contemporary society. In order to enhance its positive characters. The simple but dynamic form of my design work is acting as a stage to better perform and reinterpret this modern social feature.
College Theater The two original deserted arsenals are located in the campus of a college. My proposal of the reconstruction project is to create a modern and comfortable library which can respond to modern academic life. I found the two arsenals sharing same material and construction method. The similarity created an intrinsical relationship between the buildings, while the variety of section is the core of my design.
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Instructor: Yu Wang Site: Changsha, China 2013 March 11 - May 23
Chinese traditional theater inspired me,this kind of theater can be interpreted as a open stage with a big roof. In this case,the theater can facing the external space directly ,all audiences can sit or stand around the stage,the relationship between audiences and performers is very close. I want to integrate the grand theater with the multifunctional theater,the two theaters can share the supporting area,this method can make the hall very effective.
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Entrance & Lobby
Multifunctional Theater
Exhibition
Backstage
Grand Theater
Atrium
Conference Center
Enclosure
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The entire floor of multifunctional theater is divided into two meters wide stripes, parallel to the rows of seats that can be lowered or lifted depending on the event. A system to elevate the stripes is composed of stainless steel columns that rotate using electric motor.
Movie Theater Up to 498 seats.
In traditional theater, the form of space is monotonous so the relationship between actors and audiences is rigid. Chinese opera and fashion show need a good interact between audiences and performers, we need a space that can provide different types of stage.
Chinese Opera Up to 384 seats.
Fashion Show Up to 386 seats.
Arena Up to 360 seats.
Double-Facing Stage Up to 500 seats.
Symphonic Orchestra Up to 510 seats.
Ordinary Theater Flat Floor Up to 630 m2.
Multifunctional Theater
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Ground Floor Plan
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I believe the responsibility of architecture is to improve human relationship. A coach station, where the large amount of human flow happens, is a classical field of presenting fast pace and high dynamic human communication of contemporary society. In order to enhance its positive characters. The simple but dynamic form of my design work is acting as a stage to better perform and reinterpret this modern social feature.
College Library The two original deserted arsenals are located in the campus of a college. My proposal of the reconstruction project is to create a modern and comfortable library which can respond to modern academic life. I found the two arsenals sharing same material and construction method. The similarity created an intrinsical relationship between the buildings, while the variety of section is the core of my design.
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Instructor: Mingjing Xie Site: Chongqing, China 2013 March 11 - May 23
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I like Chinese traditional furniture very much, they can provide me inspiration. I drew on traditional Chinese curio cabinet, a cabinet constructed for the display of curios.
different collection perfectly. Taking such cabinet as a prototype, I studied the section of architecture and established a correlation between the library section and the cabinet
There are many different sizes of lattice in it, that means this kind of cabinet can contain
form, allocating spaces of different size and shape to different functional requirement.
Original Buildings
Kept Structure
Ceiling System
Circulation Core
Functional Space
Enclosing
The original facade of factory program is not appropriate in a modern library. In this case, I decided to remove the original facade but keep the structure. New ceiling system and
Using new transport core to link different floors of the new architecture. The north part of the building is designed as computer labs while the east part mainly composed by
circulation system can create a new order of space and provide comfortable environment.
reading rooms.
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Closed
Open
Entrance
Balcony & Platform
Loby & Communal Space
Computer Lab & Reading Room
Atrium
Communal Space & Reading Room
Thinking with section is a practical and critical means to explore connection between interior and exterior spaces. Varied forms of outdoor spaces are all developed from basic forms. Every single addition of simple spatial forms means adding a potential relation.
Every single addition of simple spatial forms means adding a potential relation between inner and exterior places at the same time. While settled in exact indoor activities,place creates much more options for people who will join it, and may even provide a unique
way of enjoy place on special days. For architects,it is a great honor that users of designed places create usages beyond the designer’s imagination.
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2200 Fuller Ct, Apt 408 Ann Arbor, MI, USA +1-734-834-9598 yuboqiao@umich.edu