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WHUT B.Arch 2020' Columbia GSAPP expected 08, 2021

YUEXI XU Email: yx2667@columbia.edu| Tel: +86 15104688557

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND Wuhan University of Technology, China Bachelor of Architecture, conferred in June 2020| GPA: 3.8/4.0 Shibaura Institute of Technology, Japan Major: Architecture Columbia University,US M.S. Advanced Architectural Design

09/2015-06/2020 09/2018-07/2019 09/2020-now

AWARDS Third-class Scholarship Excellent Student Cadre Scholarship for Exchange Student, SIT

09/2017-09/2018 09/2017-09/2018 09/2018-07/2019

RESEARCH EXPERIENCES A Study on the Spatial Development Model of Villages based on Big Data Thinking -- A Case Study of Jianghan Plain and Eastern Hubei 11/2017-04/2019 Thoughts and Discussions on University Building Space 05/2017-07/2017

COMPETITION PROJECTS Design Proposal for Public Space in Shibuya, Japan A Public Drama Stage at Nan’an Zui in Wuhan --2018 “Tianzuo” Cup

10/2018-11/2018 05/2018-07/2018

EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES Vice Head, Reporter Department of Press Association, Student Union Journalist, Magazine Team of Token, WHUT Volunteer, School of Architecture and Construction, WHUT

09/2015-06/2017 03/2017-06/2017 09/2016-06/2018

OTHER INFORMATION Computer Skills: Sketch Up, Rhino, Grasshopper, InDesign, Auto CAD, Photoshop, Illustrator, Vary for Sketch up, Lumion,Revit Languages: Native in Chinese, Proficient in English

CONTENTS 01 COUP'D SOCIAL -Urban Renewal in Manhattan Street-

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02 GUNS AND BUTTER CATERING COMPANY -Schulze Baking Company Renovation in Chicago-

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03 UNSETTLED LANDSCAPE -provide a place of love and care for death people -

TO BEGIN WITH: The Chinese word " 人 " means people in English. The pattern of people's distribution is uneven even when architecture is not forming. That's partly because obviously as an individual, people think and behave differently. However, the pattern of people's behavior on a macro level is going to control or influence architecture in a specific place. When the buildings are constructed, they will guide or will respond to people's behavior.

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01 2020 ADVANCED STUDIO V in Columbia - Coup'd SocialInstructor: Bernard Tschumi Site: Manhattan, NY Architecture Design Group work

The street is already equal, everyone has access to the same things. We designed an intervention that worked in reverse to provide equity, a space for women, the non-whites, the disabled the marginalized. And together with the tension between them they provide an ecosystem for justice. Equity is achieved through the reversal of social hierarchies in the form of a “Coup d’Social” in an urban safe space to provoke a paradigm shift that aims to push the limiting beliefs of the socially discriminated groups towards a more empowering belief system.

Attracted by nature on hexahedron，people starts their journey from 9 Aveune & 45 St.

There are some mirror sculptures in Behavior System，people can see their faces and others at the same time.

PLAN in every day use

Lecture area Performance area Community theater

Spaces for creative activities (e.g., drawing, painting, etc.)

Lecture area Performance area Community theater

Art space to display artwork

Reading cafe

The mirror sculpture permits people to see a composite of themselves and someone else.

Reading and lecture area Balconies for working or reading

The projectors on these walls ordinarily show nature images and videos.

The reference room and small discussing room are in the centre of two Support modules.

Going up from slope or stairs, they are on their way to small discussing room in Support System.

PLAN in protesting time

Balconies for breaks & gathering Lecture area to bring large group together and rally them for protest

Gathering area for protest strategies

Social spaces for people to exchange ideas

Gathering space to discuss protest logistics

The projectors on these walls show videos relevant to the protest that is being planned.

In the middle of Support System, she notices there is a spiral slopes and elevators can be opened done to floor, but a worker tells me they are only opened to public during protest time.

Hexahedron-shaped conference room in Support System is using now, they are discussing about stuffs during protesting.

During everyday use, people's journey of the building starts with Realization System, which is the beginning of our sequence, refresh people from the unequal world. Then it’s Education System, with brunches and chairs.

During protesting time, in Behavior System and Support System , when spaces becomes larger and larger, they see more and people gathering together, actively preparing for the protest.

Every day use & protesting time use

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In a word, the coup d’social that is our building uproots divisive social hierarchies and sows equal and equitable ones in their place, which cultivates the landscape for justice to blossom.

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2021 ADVANCED STUDIO VI in Columbia -Guns and Butter Catering CompanyInstructor: Amanda Williams & Ife Salema Vanable Site: Original Schulze Baking Company, IL Architecture Design Group work

The site, schulze baking company is located in a heavily black area of Chicago.

Considering the poor economic situation in this area, most of the residents are in a low-income situation.What makes their working environment and living conditions worse is that most of the residents are not well educated.

Considering the economic situation of the residents nearby，we want to provide a place to work and help them to earn money. At the same time, by receiving legal, intellectual or financial help, they can protect their rights in all aspects and improve their lives smoothly.

Poor

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Average Hourly Rate Salary by State

THE NORTH SIDE

THE WEST SIDE Even on Chicago’s south side, regional divisions remain sharp.

With Washington Park as the boundary, the west and east are like two worlds.

Chicago’s economic development and urban construction centered entirely on the north side of the city, but the lack of education among young black people simply did not fit in, there was no other way out, only to find a home among the gangs.

We first take a look at the Wilmington community and the black Wall Street in the greenwood, they shows that blacks can create the prosperous economy and the stable social order with their own hands , but Wilmington Race Riot 1898 and 1921 Tulsa Race Massarce, and the shot of head of the black panther party, suggest that the difficulties for the black in social development.

Even today, racial discrimination, violent struggle, and economic hardship still prevent blacks from achieving true "equality,"

THE SOUTH SIDE The Schulze Baking Company, are on the outside of the University of Chicago, and that’s where the gang wars are going on. The Schuzle Baking Company and its surrounding community are also home to lowincome people in Chicago.

Education level Crime Population Crime-prone area Chicago

Because of the conflict between blacks and whites, in 1940 Hansberry v. Lee was one of the most significant sentences in American civil rights history. The Supreme Court decided that blacks could move to South Chicago, and blacks began to move into the area, , white people began to move north in large numbers, forming the city of Chicago north-south separation situation.

At the beginning of the 21st century, the economic and social environment in the United States is also changing. With the shift of industrial chain and the popularization of artificial intelligence, in Chicago, some of the factories that provided the bulk of the jobs also eliminated a large number of workers around 2010, making it even more difficult for blacks living on the south side to find work.

Considering the economic situation of the residents nearby，we want to provide a place to work and help them to earn money. At the same time, by receiving legal, intellectual or financial help, they can protect their rights in all aspects and improve their lives smoothly. here are many fast food restaurants around the site, but they only provide take out service.We want to let people to take out foods as well as providing a sit-down experience in our restaurant.We also provide a rest place for the staff who work here to enjoy food and rest during their lunch break.

This catering company not only improve the economy and living environment of the surrounding residents，provide space for the political events, but also become a bridge between residents who need help and people who are competent or of high social status.

PLAN

Kindergarten on the second floor

Working area

In the middle of Support System, she notices there is a spiral slopes and elevators can be opened done to floor, but a worker tells me they are only opened to public during protest time.

Hexahedron-shaped conference room in Support System is using now, they are discussing about stuffs during protesting.

Inside space for political gathering

Restaurant in catering company

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The five-storey building of the original baking company was converted into working space, which is used as a working environment for the operators of the catering company, while the rest of the space is used as to provide food and places of activity for the nearby residents.

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2021 ADVANCED ARCH DESIGN STUDIO in Columbia -Unsettled LandscapesInstructor: Karla Rothstein Site: Hart Island, NY Architecture Design

There are two ways to think about the intersection between life and death.

When considering human beings as collective, life can be seen as a circle; when considering human being as individuals, life is an incomplete circle. This public place supports individual and collective life and death. The project aims to provide adequate space to gather and honor the dead while improving the island’s ecological environment by growing native plants. As additional space is needed, new structures can be added. Families and tourists can experience the site separately, with access to smaller private spaces reserved in 1-hour increments, and ample open gathering places and natural contexts in which to convene.

The location where remains are deposited may be selected by the families, and individual niches accommodate unique urns as well as some small memorial artefacts.

The intersection between life and death

1.0 Scale

-If considering human being as collective, life is Cycle Birth and Death.

-If considering human being as individuals, life is an Incomplete Circle.

Mondel study

2.0 Symbolized

- Living: transparency

- Living: transparency

- Aggregations

3.0 Aggregations and events

- Connected

- Separated

- Embody

- Partly connected

- Intersection

- Embody

Each circular truncated cone can provide 800 to 1000 niches to place remains. Initially, 12 of these structures are built along Soundview Road. The project imagines accommodating 2,000 - 5,000 of New York City's dead annually.

On the site, every circular truncated cone can provide about 800 to 1000 room to place dead bodies, now 12 of those geometries is placed along soundview road.

The place to bury bodies can be chose by the families based on their economic condition. They can bring their unique urns as well as some small stuff for memorial into the box belong to them.

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After buildings were constructed on places, the pattern people gathered and people's behavior are changed in some way. Maybe this is sort of what I guided this book with the idea that the relationship between human behavior and architecture is one influence another, another reply to the influence.

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