Adam Xiaotian He - S19 Architecture Portfolio

Architecture Portfolio

Adam Xiaotian He | B. Arch 22’ Carnegie Mellon University

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TABLE OF CONTENT 4 - Schenley Wedding Pavilion 12 - Saco Lake Bath House 24 - Urban Agricultural Center 34 - Procedural Logic 38 - Data Visualization 40 - Grow Atlas Harvest 42 - Railway Tracks 46 - Personal Selected Works

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GEOMETRY

LIGHTWELL

CIRCULATION

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ARCHITECTURE STUDIO FOUNDATION II Park in Pavilion Spring 2018

SCHENLEY WEDDING PAVILION In the mid 20th century, a number of urban park projects have begun in the United States. One of such is Central Park in NYC, for instance.

Pittsburgh also has metropolitan parks that act as “refuges“ from the busy urban context. This project takes place in Schenley Park located in Oakland, Pittsburgh.

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Schenley Wedding Pavilion

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Schenley Wedding Pavilion

EXPLODED AXONOMETRIC DRAWING

DESIGN APPROACH Analyzing the topographical complexity of the site, I began to design spaces that reect the existing hierchies in the nature caused by the topography.

Manipulating spatial orders, I located the sanctuary wedding chapel, the waiting room, and the rooftop space in a hierarchical order which allows the visitors to naturally understand which space is more important.

The lightwell emphasized that even more by directing the natural sunlight into the wedding chapel.

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Schenley Wedding Pavilion

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Schenley Wedding Pavilion

SCHENLEY PARK Schenley Park is located near the Carnegir Mellon University campus in Oakland, Pittsburgh. The site of this pavilion is at the side of Panther Hollow Lake in the natural valley of the park. It has a number of trails popular for bikers and runners.

SITE PLAN SCHENLEY PARK, PITTSBURGH, PA

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Schenley Wedding Pavilion

RENDER | WEDDING CHAPEL

RENDER | WAITING ROOM

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Schenley Wedding Pavilion

SECOND FLOOR PLAN

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ARCHITECTURE STUDIO ELABORATION II Bath House Spring 2019

SACO LAKE BATH HOUSE Saco Lake is a famous hiking spot in New Hampshire. The project considers the natural conditions of the site, such as the forest, and the hills, to create an experiential bath house for hikers and travelers by manipulating the natural light.

The design challenges the boundaries between nature and architecture. The focus is on how the architecture can act as the continuation and extension of the site itself.

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Saco Lake Bath House

Ambiguity in the Boundary Conditions The plan relief model explores not only how the architecture can be a continuation of the landscape, but also how the edges of the architecture can be blurred to create an ambiguous boundary condition between the nature and the man-made.

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Saco Lake Bath House

Hybrid Relief Plan The plan relief also illustrates the circulation, with a clear distinction between the places with clothes and the places without clothes. The separation of two zones are achieved through the manipulation of the heights of the ground in accordance to the actual topography.

Hybrid Relief Section The hybrid relief sections shows the siting of the architecture in the topography. Furthermore, they experiment how the openings on the roofs can be casted or blocked sectionally to affect the lighting condition of the entire architecture.

Site Model The project is sited on a reletively steeper hill on the east side to maximize the experience of “blending into the nature.“

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Saco Lake Bath House

Push and Pull of the Terrain Continuing on previous interations about lighting conditions and topographical interactions, this model creates a clear hierarchy that moves the visitors through the space in a certain manner using height differences and lighting qualities. The hot bath is semi-exposed with a rather direct light, where the warm pool has more ambient light from the thin slit arounf the cylindrical structure. Two separated roofs also signify the distinct zones.

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Saco Lake Bath House

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Saco Lake Bath House

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PROGRAMS A - MUDROOM & CLOSET B - MEN’S CHANGING ROOM & SHOWER ROOM C - WOMEN’S CHANGING ROOM & SHOWER ROOM D - MECHANICAL ROOM E - DRY SAUNA F -STEAM ROOM G - RELAXATION ROOM H - PUBLIC OVERLOOK

POOLS 1 - COLD POOL 2 - WARM POOL 3 - HOT POOL

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Saco Lake Bath House

1892 ft.

1884 ft.

LEVEL 2

LEVEL 1

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Saco Lake Bath House

1882 ft.

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1870 ft.

1862 ft

LONG SECTION

SCALE: 1/4” = 1’- 0”

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Saco Lake Bath House

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Saco Lake Bath House

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ARCHITECTURE STUDIO ELABORATION I

EAST LIBERTY URBAN AGRICULTURAL CENTER

Urban Agricultural Center

Located in Garland Parklet in East Liberty, Pittsburgh, the urban agricultural center serves as a multipurpose community center including a green house, an educational space, as well as a farmer’s market. The project emphasizes the integration and interaction between the programs, which led to the repetition of the trapezoidal tunnel running across the site, connecting the private educational space and the public market space, pedestrians and farmers, as well as man and nature.

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Urban Agricultural Center

Rain Water Collection

Sunlight Harvesting

Heat Transfer

Garland Parklet

East Liberty, Pittsburgh

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Urban Agricultural Center

Site and Material The site is on the boarder between the residential district in the northwest and the commercial district in the southeast. Having Euclid Avenue as the main access way to the site, the market space in the north side of the site is left open to welcome more peedstrians to walk in. The building is rotated in accordance to the northsouth axis to enable a maximum sunlight for the green house at the southern tip of the building. The building is mainly constructed with concrete and glass to “engage“ with the sunlight. Having various skylights in the enclosed spaces surrounded by concrete, the building enables the occupants to naturally sense the integration between themselves and the nature.

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Urban Agricultural Center

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Urban Agricultural Center

Geometry

Divide

Rotate

Repeat

Connect

Extend

Circulate

Access

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Urban Agricultural Center

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Urban Agricultural Center

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Urban Agricultural Center

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Urban Agricultural Center

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FUNDAMENTALS OF COMPUTATIONAL DESIGN Procedural Logic Spring 2019 collaboration with Juhi Dhanesha

GORGE[OUS] By creating a system of a limited variety of movement (primarily translating), we were able to play with the form in terms of its regularity and its randomness and how that system can grow in unexpectedly complex ways.

The concept of this system began by imagining what would happen if the solid was cut into many pieces as a f irst step. This would limit the cyclical nature of the Newburg Grammar and modify it to only be applied on the translation steps.

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Procedural Logic

Rule 1- Splitting Solid is sliced vertically by 8 and with two parallel diagonals Rule 2- Translating Alternative slices are translated out in the y direction by less than or equal to 60% of the total solid’s vertical length Rule 3- Translating The translated slices of zones A and B are again translated in the z direction f rom highest to lowest f rom 1 to 4. Mirror onto zones C and D Rule 4- Translating Make sure that the un-translated pieces of the system for zones A and B remain aligned as well as zones C and D. Shift zones A and C up together in the z direction.

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Procedural Logic

Procedural Logic and Spatial Manipulation Translations only occur on alternative pieces to maintain the implication/ ghost of the initial block in the middle. It allows for the form to seem like an outgrowth inspired by the shape of the solid.

This exercise also explored how a design process could use a computational method to organize spaces. In this process, we found spaces within, under, and on the multi-level surface of the object that could be imagined as an abstraction of a potential architectural space. The name of the project reflected the natural ribboning that seemed to form in the f inal object, like those in gorges.

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100 YEARS OF THE MOVEMENT OF THE BAUHAUS DATA VISUALIZATION

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Carly Sacco, Adam He Fundamentals of Computational Design, Spring 2019 | MP3

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Red lines are where the Bauhaus faculties fled to when the school closed down The dashed lines show the expansions of its influences through the students The blue lines show the projects other than where the artists and architects lived

Proportion of the countries where the professors and the faculties emigrated to after the bauhaus closed down HUNGARY POLAND CZECH

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Bauhaus had 37 professors, lecturers, and freelance workshop masters that all had to find new paths after the close of the Bauhaus in 1933.

Many of the professors had to flee Germany due to the political tensions during the period of the Nazi party at the time. Our data set was composed by following the new locations these people went to and where their work was located following their move. Some continued to be educators and had notable students that they taught who also produced Bauhaus - inspired work. Many of the artists continued to produce their artwork and the Bauhaus ideas continued to spread even after the close of the original school.

Concentrations of the influences of the Bauhaus across the United

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Detroit, MI

Chicago, IL - Illinois Institute of Technology

ASIA AUSTRIA

Stayed in Germany

Cambridge, MA - Harvard New Haven, CT - Yale New York City - MoMA Pittsburgh, PA

Ashville, NC - Black Mountain College Nashville, TN

Seatle, WA Denver, CO

Santa Fe, New Mexico A number of famous professors like Walter Gropius, Mies van de Rohe, and Johannes Itten taught mainly in the United States after 1933, which made the Bauhaus concepts and strategies so widespread in America.

The influences were centered around the New England area, Chicago, and North Carolina where they mainly taught at, and also New York City, where many exhibitions were held in.

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The Bauhaus, regardless of the school’s short history, has influenced the modern art and architecture globally for many years. A lot of influences were, however, spread through their students and scholars. How do these “second-hand” Bauhaus ideas start to

differ from the places like America where many of the ideas came directly from Dessau. Do they affect the educational pedagogy? The city planning?

FUNDAMENTALS OF COMPUTATIONAL DESIGN

IN CELEBRATION OF THE 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF BAUHAUS

Data Visualization

2019 is the 100th anniversary of one of the most influential architecture schools in the world, the Bauhaus.

Spring 2019 Collaboration with Carly Sacco

In celebration of its significance in the history of architecture, we decided to trace the dissemination of the school and visualize how people, ideas, and works have spread over the world.

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LED LIGHTS

VERTICAL FARMING

PLANTSCRAPERS

- caters to each plant’s specific need for photosynthesis - different light for different plants

Plantscrapers are the buildings that provide food for their occupants. Hydroponic farming methods are necessary in order to have the entire building functioning. Usually plantscrapers also have a rack transport system that dismiss the necessity for artificial sunlight because computer-generated transport system move the plants in and out of the sunlight automatically. Green skyscrapers have become architects’ focus in the recent years, and more technologies have been developed to create a self-sustainable architecture.

CHAMBER - chamber to inject plants’ roots with nutrients, water, and oxygen - sensors to monitor and regulate temperatures, moisture, etc.

-closed loop system*

CLOTH - filter for seeding and germination between plant and mist

MIST

- filter for seeding and germination between plant and mist

Aseroponics developed upon the concept of Hydroponics

reduce labor

5 gallons per 5000 crops

protect year-round

harvest consistently

Hydroponics Ebb and Flow System

In contemporary urban farming industry, vertical farming is the most conventional approach. In order to maximize the limited space for farming in an urban context, a vertical wall farm field saves more space than horizontal fields. With more advanced technologies, many of the vertical farming platforms have automated sun control, watering schedule, etc.

The use of aquaponics enabled the vertical farming approach in urban farming.

No soil No Natural Light Little Water Used to grow seedlings. Nutrient rich water fills the top trough just enough for the seedlings to thrive. Eater is constantly circulated for optimal growing conditions.

Vertical Irrigation System of a plantscraper using Hydroponics

Hydroponics Drip System

Aquaponics Mixture of Hydroponics and Fish Cultivation

Water Irrigation System for High Tunnels

Water Irrigation System of High Tunnels COMMUNITY FARMS

East Liberty

HARVEST HARVEST

Ellen Zhu, Adam He, Sarah Kang, Jenna Guo, Robert Rice, Kimberlyn Cho, Maya Greenholt, Steven Fei, Emma Father

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FARMERS MARKETS

AND GARDENS

The fish filter the water while their waste becomes nutrients for the plants. Microbes in the water turn the waste into nutrients.

FOOD AVAILABILITY

URBAN AGRICULTURE

Nutrient rich wateris dripped through the growing structure or vertical tube with capsules for the plants. Roots are exposed within the tube and mesh material absorbs the water, retaining it around the roots to keep the crop hydrated. Unconsumed water is recollected and pumped back up to the top of the system. *5 gallons supports 5000 plants per day

URBAN ROOFTOP FARMING LOCAL COMMERCIAL

GROCERY STORES

The most foundational form of urban farming is the rooftop approach. Seeking for a closer place to harvest organic crops, urban farmers began to make planter beds on the rooftops which collect a good amount of sunglight as well as rain water.

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COMMUNITY

POLICIES

EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNINTIES

Traditional Farming Human civilizations have been relying on ancient food production system and the original type of agriculture for centuries, with more and more modern technologies added on top of the traditional foundational system.

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PITTSBURGH

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT

Traditional farming has a mixed farm of livestock, fruit, and crops. Due to its usage of land, farmers that use traditional farming have been decreasing in developed countries. People have been seeking for more organic, fresher, and closer crops to stay healthier, which led to the developments of urban agriculture.

Raised planter beds are used to ensure enough root spaces for plants under the ground. By raising the beds, the soil deptch can be adjusted accordingly.

ARCHITECTURE STUDIO ELABORATION I Grow Atlas Fall 2018

HARVEST In a team of 10, we conducted a research on harvesting techniques and seasonal strategies in urban farming. Various urban farming methods such as hydroponics and aquaponics have been developed in response to the technological advancements in the past few decades. A number of architectural projects have incorporated these techniques to maximize the sustainability.

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ARCHITECTURE COMPETITION

DAWN OF THE RAILWAY TRACKS

Fairy Tales 2019

“As the aftermath of the rapid global warming in the mid to late 21st century, America started to promote a change in people’s primary transportation method.

As one of the few developed countries that still heavily relied on private cars instead of public transits, America’s greenhouse gas emission rate caused by the vehicles went up higher than ever in the mid 21st century. Perceiving this issue severe, a private railroad company has been founded, and a novel project has been taken to protect the earth, and most importantly, to protect ourselves...”

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Dawn of the Railway Tracks

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Dawn of the Railway Tracks

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PERSONAL WORKS Digital Analog Hybrid Workflow 2016 - 2018

Art has been my lifelong hobby. I enjoy experimenting with different kinds of media. I am especially fond of acrylics, oil paint, and pastels.

I am also interested in digital art and hybrid workflows that consist of both analog and digital media. My digital works usually utilize Rhino, Illustrator, Photoshop, and V-Ray for model rendering.

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ARCHITECTURE COMPETITION Ideas Forward 24 hr Summer 2018 Collaboration with Fanjie Jin

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Acrylic on canvas, 2017

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ENCROACHMENT These two artworks express the degradation of humans as a result of innovations and technologies. A series of graphics in the painting shows the outcomes of what people have done in the past decade. The “shampoo“ encroaches the man’s brain and the installation literally demonstrates the decadence of a human body.

Acrylic and clay on canvas, 2017

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Graphite, ink, charcoal on paper, 2016

Ink on paper, 2016

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Human Avarice Causing Environmental Apocalypse This series of paintings depict how people’s daily actions can negatively impact the environment. The skeleton represents one’s extreme avarice, and the surroundings demonstrate how the environment is being affected by what he has done.

The skeleton starts to understand how his actions deteriorated where he lives, and begins to live a healthier life. The plants are grown around his bones and he starts to retrieve the original human form that he once had.

Acrylic on canvas, 2017

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Adam

Xiaotian He

Carnegie Mellon University Bachelor of Architecture | 22’ xiaotiah@andrew.cmu.edu

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