Architecture Portfolio by Yijiang Jacob Xu

I run. I cook. I design. Yijiang Xu Work Samples from 2014-2017

Contents 1. Dance Studio. 2. Infrastrcture Spectacle. 3. Straw Bale House Case Study. 4. Plaza of Autonomous Vision. 5. Miscellaneous Work. 6. House from Memory.

Dance Studio at Ragdale Foundation Located at lake forest, in the north of city of Chicago, Ragdale foundation provides selected artists with a retreat for around two weeks. Far away from the urban life and close to acres of trees and praires, the campus is a serene shelter for creative minds. &XUUHQWO\ WKHUH DUH Ă&#x20AC;YH OLYH ZRUN VWXGLRV IRU ZULWHUV visual artists, musicians and other types of creational professionals. A 2000 square feet dance studio is expected to be added to the campus.

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Lake Forest, Chicago

Prairie and Campus

Ragdale Foundation

Ground Floor

Second Floor

Facing Campus

North

Facing Prairie

South

Dance Stuio

Although the dance studio is mainly used by the dancer only, Ragdale Foundation has always been active in involving the larger neighborhood community and other collaborators in events hosted on the campus. On the event day, not only the studio itself, but also the adjacent space will all be activated. The second floor balcony enables the audience to view the solo performance in the studio, the ball dance in the garden, and the folk dance in the priarie.

INFRASTRUCTURE SPECTACLE: Bring Back the Old Time Fun and Pride of Chicago River

A 10,000 sq. ft shipyard The field house (shipyard) provides non-motorized boating and motorized boat launching services. Visitors and local residents are encouraged to enjoy the Chicago river on their self-made canoes, rented paddling boats, or private cruisers. Hosting hybridized business innovation, the field houses will serve as a recreational center which includes food truck rallies, community product stores, canoe-making shops, and temporary theaters.

Water Taxi

Divvy Bike

Pedestrian

Automobile

Train Tracks Park

Factory Studio

Boat Racks

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SITE PLAN

By exhaustively studying boat types, boat transport, and the process of boat launching, the overall strategy of the building could be conceived. The steel frame structure with a bay size of 25 feet, acting as the â&#x20AC;&#x153;big shoulderâ&#x20AC;?, contrasts with the light metal frame of the plug-in modular storage units for small boats (paddling boats, rowing boats, canoes). These rentable recreational boats are withdrawn and deposited by the overhead crane. Yachts are transported to the site by trucks, lifted by the overhead crane, and lowered to the water. Three slipways are provided for self launching at the same time. During winters, in order to facilitate indoor activities, the storage units are transformed into retail booths and the boats become restaurant booths. The stepped form of the storage units are used as the audience seating for movie screening and exhibitions.

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SECTION A

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9/10 Stock Orchard Street (Straw Bale House) Architects: Jeremy Till, Sarah Wigglesworth

Case Study

Perfect Space

Virginal Fantasy Pathological Hatred of Reality

Living Experience

A Stage for Action and Events A Living Organism

I would make it a little bit smaller.

Traces Echo Events

Would you do something differently, if you do it again?

Plaza of Autonomous Vision

Overtourism is a contemporary phenomenon concerned by many European ci es, especially Barcelona, where the conﬂict between residents and tourists has escalated over the years. This project aims to challenge the idea of viewing as merely receiving informa on and propose a visual machine that facilitates purposeful observa on and individual agency in produc on of views. As one of the few open spaces in the city, Plaza de Catalunya oﬀers a 360 degree view, but the view ac vi es are rather unconscious.

A visual ring augmen ng and innova ng social reality

The plaza is conceived as a visual machine consis ng of a field of occupiable cones that each equally frames a por on of the city fabric. When looking through the field, the direc onality of cones simulates the human visual field, while the par al view of the city is in the central vision and mul ple mirror reflec ons of the environment are in the peripheral vision. With strategic altera on (dimensional changes of certain cones), the machine can be adapted to different modes, which results in the mass-produced similar yet varied spaces in the cones. The different spa al quali es and reflec ve quali es are thus selected by users to sa sfy various ac vi es. Therefore, the view of the city is no longer a homogenous panorama, but a public resource, a con nuous progress that involves par cipa on, nego a on, and collabora on.

Partnered with Bingyu He Professor: Lluis Ortega

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Trimming the Tips of Pyramids at the Converging Point

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3 Points

Parc Güell

70 m

13 m

Parc Güell

26 m Stre et

Mountain

Street

34 m

Universitat de Barcelona

25m

27m

Plaza

24m 17m

Parc Güell

13m Stre et

1856 m

Casa Milà

19 m

Stre

Casa Batlló 9m

Casa Milà

51 m

Sea Plaz a

Plaza

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17 m

za Pla

Sagrada Familia

22 m

Sagrada Família

18 m

Casa Batlló

Street

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