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Portfolio

Chunyang Xu

Taubman College I Master of Architecture

CHUNYANG XU (Peter)

Tele: 412-888 9482

E-mail: hhpx@umich.edu

Address: Jersey City, NJ

Education

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning

Master of Architecture (2022)

University of Pittsburgh Dietrich School of Art and Science

Bachelor of Art (2019)

Major: Architectural Design Minor: Studio Art

Professional Experience

Beijing SANY Global Science and Technology Innovation Center

• Successfully prepared and presented designs to clients and multidisciplinary consultants

• Engaged in weekly consultations with clients, LDI, landscape architect, interior architect, lighting consultant, and facade consultant, ensuring alignment with project objectives.

• Adapted and innovated design elements in compliance with local building codes through proactive collaboration with the Local Design Institute (LDI).

• Expertly utilized Revit and Excel to strategically lay out departmental placements based on functionality and floor configurations.

• Produced detailed floor plans using Revit and AutoCAD, demonstrating proficiency in spatial organization and program requirements.

• Created compelling renderings with D5 and Enscape, enhancing project presentations and contributing to company and client publicity.

• Developed VR models for client visualization, showcasing a commitment to cutting-edge technology in architectural design.

• Using Revit and AutoCAD for site planning including the design of efficient vehicle and pedestrian routes.

• Played a pivotal role in facade and canopy design, actively participating in material selection for building exteriors.

• Contributed to the creation of 1:20 and 1:50 detail drawings using AutoCAD, ensuring precision in project documentation.

• Collaborated with construction manager and local construction team for facade selection: participated in meetings to assess and choose the optimal glazing solutions, ensuring alignment with design aesthetics and project specifications.

• Pioneered the application of AI generative design (stable diffusion) for schematic urban design, enhancing the efficiency and creativity of urban planning processes.

• Designed modular facades using Grasshopper, Rhino, and AutoCAD, showcasing adaptability to diverse design challenges.

• Produced compelling diagrams regarding traffic flow and building massing concept using Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign for project presentations, ensuring clear communication of design concepts to stakeholders.

• Executed floor plans tailored to program requirements specified in contracts, showcasing meticulous attention to detail.

• Utilized Lumion and Enscape to create visually stunning renderings for effective project presentations.

• Applied Revit, AutoCAD, and Illustrator to design site plans and efficient vehicle and pedestrian routes, contributing to wellthought-out urban layouts.

• Active participant in client presentations, ensuring transparent communication and alignment of design visions.

• Conducted in-depth research on high-rise building design strategies, incorporating core, column grid, and floor plan layout considerations.

Internship

• Investigated and implemented tech-based urban design strategies, staying at the forefront of advancements in the field. July -

• Participated in the material selection process for the Bank of China office building, ensuring alignment with design objectives and functional requirements.

• Successfully updated office floor plans using AutoCAD, incorporating revisions to accommodate evolving project needs and stakeholder feedback.

• Created detailed bathroom and lobby elevations for a business center project, demonstrating precision and adherence to design specifications.

• Organized and implemented corrections to construction documents using AutoCAD, ensuring accuracy and compliance with regulatory standards.

• Updated material IDs on elevation drawings, enhancing clarity and consistency in documentation for construction purposes.

• Facilitated productive online meetings with multiple design firms, fostering collaboration and consensus on design and construction intricacies.

Taiyuan Institute of Architecture Design & Research Center

• Designed a multifunctional resting area for the Youth Games of China Sport Village, integrating amenities such as bathrooms, baggage storage, a retail shop, and a parents’ resting space.

• Utilized SketchUp and AutoCAD to conceptualize and develop the design, ensuring functionality, aesthetics, and adherence to project requirements.

• Engaged in site research to understand the architectural language and spatial organization of Qiao’s Grand Courtyard, extracting valuable insights for design inspiration and contextual relevance.

• Integrated elements of traditional Chinese architecture into contemporary designs, fostering a sense of cultural identity and heritage preservation in modern architectural projects. July - September, 2018

School Experience

High Performance Residential Building

Fall Semester, 2020

• Designed a multi-generational housing project that seamlessly blends high-performance design strategies with traditional Japanese residential building typology, promoting sustainability and cultural continuity.

• Calculated the embodied energy of the high-performance building, ensuring minimal environmental impact throughout the construction phase.

Competition

and Exhibition

Micro Home Competition

January to May, 2024

• Designed a compact, efficient micro home using Kingspan panels for superior thermal performance and modern aesthetics.Envisioned the panel detail, structure, interior furniture design and water system for the micro home

• Integrated multifunctional furniture, smart storage solutions, and sustainable water systems including rainwater harvesting and solar water heating.

Longo Competition Second Place Group Project

July to September, 2020

• Investigated the viability of an ephemeral cityscape in Ann Arbor, leveraging inflatable structures as a response to the challenges posed by Covid-19.

Pei Architects

Pei Architects

Changsha Sany Science City

Changsha SANY Science City

Architects

Using Grasshopper to generate massing, floor plates, facade, and area calculation during schematic design

Area Calculation + Floor Plates

Partial Massing Generation

Partial Facade Generation Floor Plates

Massing

Outcome

Massing > Grasshopper > Final Outcome

Grasshopper Facade Generation Final Building

Facade Clading

Opt 1 Rendering

Opt 3 Rendering

Opt 2 Rendering

Opt 4 Rendering

Opt 1 Vip Vehicle Circulation Axo Diagram (no platform)

1 Employee Vehicle Circulation Axo Diagram (no platform)

Circulation

Diagram (with platform)

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Pei Architects

Main Tower Rendering

Main Tower Lobby Rendering

DD Set Drawing List

Third Floor Plan

Chairman House Rendering

Chairman House Lobby

Chairman House Running Track + Gym

Chairman House Courtyard

Section Canopy 1:50 Drawing

Office Building West Facade

Urbanity Reimagined

Affordable Housing in Milwaukee Junction, Detroit

System Studio/Fall 2021

Instructor: Lars Grabner, Christina Hansen

In Collaboration With Yunyang Li and Chen Huang

The revitalization of Detroit is going at a steady yet forwarding pace. This allows Detroit to become the testing ground for new and emerging urban conditions that revisualize the city into a more sustainable and vigorous living environment

The Milwaukee Junction located in upper Detroit is surrounded by busy districts and large institutions such as Wayne State University, Tech Town, and New Center. The Fisher Body Plant #21 (FBP) is a 6 story, 3.7 million sq feet, abandoned factory located on the left corner of the site. The empty lofts and the FBP together make up a prime 10 acres of land ready for development. The project seeks to create a healthy, engaging, and self-productive neighborhood that employs FBP as an anchoring point to activate the community by providing galleries, markets, shops, and offices for the residents and potential visitors from the surrounding area. The design combines façade system with a close fabricated landscape to create a diverse and enjoyable neighborhood for both the residents and the potential visitors.

The site is surrounded by two busy highway systems which generate sound pollution that interferes with everyday neighborhood activities. The winter gardens form a sound barrier between the highway and the neighborhood. A pedestrian-oriented circulation combined with abundant vehicle accessibility will then be implemented to the site. The single and double-loaded housing system delineates different sceneries consisting of courtyards filled with different activities and walkable streetscapes . Vertical greenhouses are attached to the circulation system and rooftops to create a healthy and self-sustaining neighborhood.

Form Generation Diagram

Isometric Drawings

Our team proposed to activate the empty lot in front of the Fisher Body Plant through a walkable park, a plaza with fountain and sitting area, an extensive lawn and small farming plots. Different activities such as playground, outdoor sport facilities, skatepark, farm plots etc. are shared and distributed among different courtyards inside the neighborhood. Site Ground Floor Plan

Site Ground Floor Plan + Isometric Drawings

To create a more engaging and livelier neighborhood, out team place different programs on the ground floor which include gym, daycare center, library, coffee shop and workshops. We are not only trying to fulfill the everyday need for the residents but also to create a neighborhood based on learning and self-production

Site Axon

Single-Load Floor Plan

The single loaded buildings will serve primarily for long-term tenants such as single or muti-families The majority of the units will be 2B2B and 3B2B.

-6B6B -4060SF

-1B1B -900SF

-6B6B -4060SF -2B2B -1100SF -1B1B -835SF

Double-Load Floor Plan

The double-loaded residentials will primarily consist of co-living units to increase the neighborhood density as well as provide affordable units for the potential residents from surrounding areas. The double loads will also include work-live space which will provide valuable spaces for local artists and craftsmen to produce and showcase their works.

Double-Load Floor Plans + Axonometric Drawing

A combination of CLT, red brick and concrete generates a warm yet urban interior scenery

Each unit has an exterior balcony that allows residents to enjoy greenery and partcipate in a community lifestyle.

Single-Load Interior

Double-Load Coliving Unit

Double-Load Façade Construction Detail

Single-Load Explosion Diagram

The single-load residential buildings use a three-layer sandwich approach as structural design. The greenhouse and corridors are concrete structures supported by “wallums” and slabs. They act as shelving system which holds the CLT slabs in between. This structural system allows us to have an open floor plan and thus gives the residents the ability to alter their unit layout according to personal needs.

Double-Load Façade

Through shifting each floor, we are able to provide an exterior balcony for each unit . These balconies are shaded with white movable perforated metal panels. We use brick to clad the building façade to protect the CLT structure, to save the cost and to generate a more familiar look to the surrounding neighborhood.

Single-Load Façade

The double layered façade system facing the highway uses the wintergardens as a sound barrier for the living spaces as well as providing interior green space and extending the living spaces. We use red bricks to clad the interior wall behind the wintergarden to generate a warm tone and welcoming feeling.

Single-Load Façade Render

Urban Inflation

Ephemeral City During Covid In Central Campus,Ann Arbor

Longo Competition/Summer 2020

Our perception of social distancing used to be very flexible before covid-19 and was predominantly determined by our comfort zone. But after the outbreak of pandemic, the boundary becomes a mandatory and defined bubble that separates each of us.

Because of this mandatory need for social distancing, each person takes up more space than they used to. Thus, there is a deficient amount of space. During our field trip in downtown Ann Arbor, we saw commercial space expanding by occupying the street area in front of the stores. We can see a clear expansion and invasion of interior space towards its adjacent street. We believe this condition can be further amplified and applied on a city scale. We imagine a city that is able to expand and contract through different times of a week according to the flow of the crowd, in this case students and local residents. By using inflatable structures and matching with possible areas of fluctuation in downtown Ann Arbor, we are able to create ephemeral urban conditions that people can access under different circumstances.

By studying the urban landscape of Ann Arbor through a student point of view we pinpointed four different kinds of spaces. They are commercial, education, public and residential . We conclude there are two kinds of inflation, one is during weekdays and the other is during weekends We believe a weekly cycle is more coordinated with a student schedule and a city scaled inflation.

Overlapped Inflation Diagram

Based on timeline analysis and the overlap of extended areas, we generated two inflation modes, minimum and maximum . The minimum is defined as the most overlapping area, which is in urgent need of inflation due to the massive flow of people and frequency of use. On the other hand, the maximum is the sum of all expanding areas. By overlapping different areas into a single map, we can understand the expansion and contraction of each area at different times of a week.

Instructor: Sharon Haar, Glenn Wilcox, Perry Kulper In Collaboration With Yinan Fang, Yuxin Lin, Mingrui Jiang

Weekly Fluctuation Diagram

Based on timeline analysis and the overlap of extended areas, we generated two inflation modes, minimum and maximum. The minimum is defined as the most overlapping area, which is in urgent need of inflation due to the massive flow of people and frequency of use. On the other hand, the maximum is the sum of all expanding areas. By overlapping different areas into a single map, we can understand the expansion and contraction of each area at different times of a week.

Academic Building

Safe distance between students is implemented through reimagined spatial relationships and furniture design and

Museum of Art

The linear shape provides space for gallery exhibitions through a continuous and simplified circulation.

Weekday Inflation Diagram Weekend Inflation Diagram

Bubble Typology

Inflation Diagrams + Bubble Typology

School Library

A spherical extension not only brings more studying space but also matches the volumetric shape of the library.

The Diag

Implementing the pandemic protocol without interrupting the potential social interactions and circulation.

The M-Den

Attached to the school store, the volume incorporates both roof and street space to act as an expansion to the interior space.

Coffee Shop

Provides a courtyard typology that not only acts as an expansion but adds more spatial options.

The plasticity of the bubble can act as astronomer suites which allow different systems to adhere to its surfaces, such as heating, air exchange, and verticle and horizontal circulations. This means the bubble can act as a parasite and borrow the heating and cooling system from its adjacent buildings, which enables us to create giant bubbles that can cover a whole block.

We push the flexibility of the bubbles even more by imagining the bubbles can be transported from one place to another through attaching them to hot air balloons. The bubbles can be easily dropped and installed in any urban locations because of their lightweight and malleable character. The bubbles, act as temporary structures, can thus adapt to rapid urban changes and inflations in a short period amount of time without costing a large amount of energy and resources.

House I

High Performance Housing Project

High Performance/Fall 2020

Instructor: Lars Junghans Individual Project

Designed as a family unit, the project combines contemporary high-performance construction with traditional Japanese building typology via a minimalist aesthetic.

The construction materials render a sense of tranquility and relaxation through a warm tone while the enlarged engawa (Japanese hallway) allows the user to have a more intimate relationship with nature while still enjoying the comfort provided by the interior space. The courtyard typology brings transparency between interior and exterior and creates a close relationship between each resident through visual interactions. The house follows a 2:1 tatami ratio which renders a sensible and familiar scale.

The house is lifted from the ground through concrete footings and covered with a thick layer of insulation.

Section Drawing Front Elevation

The proportion paired with warm materials and Japanese minimalist design language creates a peaceful and welcoming sight.

Framing System

The house uses a traditional Japanese wood framing system to decrease the embodied energy and overall construction cost.

Floor Plan

The rooms are connected with an interior and an exterior circulation. The floor plan also follows a strict grid system that matches the proportion of a traditional Japanese house.

A courtyard typology not only enact the feeling of engawa but also brought the users closer together through visual interactions

Section Renderig

Construction/Fall 2019

Instructor: John Rule

Individual Project