Zhixiao Yu_Portfolio_2021

ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO

Jeeshau Yu | zyu129@syr.edu 250 W 50th St, New York Master of Architecture

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Pin-Storm Game Field

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Shanghai Archipelago

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Future Home

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Teleporting City

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Under the Skin

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Other Work

2019 - Community Center

2019 - Sponge City Design

2020 - Home Competition

2018 - A Scifi-City with teleportation and hovering buildings.

2017 - Flee Market and Theater

Education Syracuse University •

Syracuse, NY｜Dec 2020

Master of Architecture

University of British Columbia •

Zhixiao (Jeeshau)

Yu

Contact 250 W 50th St, NY

Vancouver, BC, Canada｜May 2018

Bachelor of Environmental Design

Experience Bryony Roberts Studio

Intern Architect NYC, United States｜June 2020 – Present

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Support the research and graphic producing stages of the Care for Hudson Square Competition (NYC) collaboration with WIP. The project later won the first prize and plan on construction in 2021.

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Assist the design and research stages of the High Museum of art Interactive Piazza Installation.

Helped generate a creative layout of seating options and a shade study depending on different material selection.

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Assist the design and research stages of the “Challenge” in Frame Magazine. Conduct research on resources for children in the COVID period by reviving the liveable street.

Majora Carter Group Consulting

Design Intern in Real Estate NYC, United States｜June – July 2020

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Produced a real estate model with Rhino (3D) and Excel (data) to show options for a future corner building layout in Bronx, NY. The approach considered both the local neighbourhood constitute and economic situation.

zyu129@syr.edu

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Designed a vertical infill applied to existing attached single-family houses in the Bronx to provide more economical options for families.

Skills

Architekten von Gerkan, Marg, und Partner (gmp)

(315)706-1522

Language Mandarin English

Modeling

Rhinoceros SketchUp AutoCAD Hand Drafting Revit Grasshopper V-Ray

Intern Architect Shanghai, China｜June – August 2018

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Created pre-design/marketing research and presentations to clients by analyzing contexts and case studies. Developed creative concept and proposal for residential/retail/hotel projects.

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Helped design and graphically present the landscape of a business park project, including a Spongecity water system concept.

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Drafted interior material collection renders in V-Ray and Photoshop for skyscraper project and an urban design competition.

Tongji Architectural Design (Group) Co., Ltd.

Intern Landscape Designer Shanghai, China｜June – August 2016

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Illustrator Photoshop Lightroom

Created pre-design/marketing research and presentations to clients by analyzing contexts and case studies.

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Drafted massing model documents in AutoCAD and Sketch-up and made renders in Photoshop.

Vedio Editing

Awards and Recoginition

Image Editing

Premiere Pro After Effect

Layout+Presentation

The Village of Global Warming Exhibition •

InDesign PowerPoint

Fabrication

The Bench Competition 2017 (Honorable Mention) •

Pop up urban bench design for Winnipeg, Canada

Independent Photography •

Winnipeg, Canada｜August 2017

Stockholm, Sweden｜July 2017 Two photos copyright taken for Stockholm University during school summer abroad trip were purchased by university website for promotional use.

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CNC 3d printing Laser cutting

Rotterdam, Netherland｜ Summer 2019 NYC, NY｜ Two-month research studio with ZUS office [Zones Urbaines Sensibles] and Independent School for the City. Exhibition at in Hot Air Gallery.

PIN-STORM Game Field

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A Storm Water Interactive Community Center

Program: Location: Period: Partner:

Community Center Boston, MA December, 2019 Sravya Sirigiri

This project envisions an alternative solution of the rising sea level with 2 celsus degree increse at East Boston waterfront. It plays with the pinball game table and provides an amusing interactive space to protect citizens from the enhancive storms as well as let them enjoy the storm water management process.

Only time will tell what impact interventions such as these have on public perception of floods and sea level rise. It is our sincere hope that building landscapes that celebrate our interaction with water will continually remind us of our ability to work with and adapt to nature.”

Living with water: Embracing Cultural Adaptions to Floods

by Mary Anne Ocampo and Tao Zhang, ASLA, PLA, LEED AP

By 2030, sunny day flooding which mainly happens during high tide events, could occur up to 15 times per year and by 2050, that number might jump to 25 to 75 times annually.

The project focuses on the smaller time scale: breaking down the scenario into one big flood. It organizes the way which let water flow into the site; try to capture the water and slow down their leaving process; thelimited the path and direction how water leave the site; it filters part of the water stored and save for future use.

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Second Floor

Ground Floor

Third Floor

Fourth Floor

PIN-STORM 7

Supporting Columns

Retaining Walls

Concrete Twist Floor

Steel Bracing Frame

Steel Tube Frame

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Steel Tube Frame

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SHANGHAI Archipelago

A Research Study on Future Shanghai Water Management “Village of Global Warming” exhibition with ZUS office

Program: Location: Period: Partner:

Urban Planning Shanghai, China July, 2019 Danielle Valle-Steele

Although Shanghai literally means “above oceans“, the metropolis will have to give up urban territory and hand it back to the delta. The main rivers and their mud planes divide the city into multiple islands. Some will be safe polders (low lands surrounded by berms), others will be left open for the water, so urban agriculture can take place. A re-appropriated system of bunkers, dikes and bridges connect the parts and create a true delta cites.

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“Adaptive countermeasures in response to sea-level rise can be divided into three types: retreat, adaptation, or prevention. It appears impossible for Shanghai, a municipality with a dense population, highly developed industry and agriculture to be evacuated inland. So more attention needs to be paid to planning appropriate protection countermeasures and steps to tackle the adverse impacts of sea-level rise,” Wang, B., S. Chen, K. Zhang, and J. Shen. “Potential Impacts of Sea-Level Rise on the Shanghai Area.”

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“If we think about water as an asset, rather than a threat, we can design cities to plan ahead and leverage storm and flood water, rather than resist it.”

Rives Taylor and Kristen Ritchie, Gensler

Shanghai Archipelogo Physical Model

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“Village of Global Warming” exhibition

FUTURE HOME Future Home 11

HOME Competition 2020

Program: Period: Partner:

Apartment Building July, 2020 Brittany Leung, Sravya Sirigiri

A home for the future where life is remote. Our design responds to an idea of home that is adaptable and resilient to remote life, offering facilities like coworking and shared living spaces. This home is an apartment unit consisting of nine vertical neighborhoods. A playful and flexible housing typology offers different combinations of apartment layouts on a spectrum of privacy/ collectiveness.

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Pocket spaces in between levels are used for urban, shared space that hold a sense of connection and belonging though residents are isolated. Residents have access to their own unit through private circulation in each vertical stack, as well as through common circulation to access the shared area. The use of different circulation paths for different individuals allows for connection through isolation.

Teleporting City A Scifi-City with teleportation and hovering buildings.

Location: Syracuse, NY December, 2068 Partner: Sinho Kang Jamley Ramos

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In the last fifty years, Syracuse, New York, revolves around the communal experience, the efficiency of teleportation and has resulted in what could be the most innovating way of navigation, based directly on destination, not in distance or time. These changes result in the prioritization of public spaces, transitional spaces and pedestrian walkways. In 2068, hovering buildings were an innovative way of perceiving space through magnetic fields, points or even cores. Throughout the last 10 years, hovering technologies have come to Syracuse’s Investigative and Creative Sector, resulting in multiple iterations in different shapes and sizes.

We introduce our self-supported magnetic hovering building, our SpaceCorp Headquarters, which showcases the newest innovative technologies. Experiencing its spatial qualities seem gravity-defying, and hosting the main TelePortal of Syracuse city is a great privilege to allow our community and visitors be a part of what the future of Syracuse is becoming.

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Life and Theatre

Program: Period: Partner: Location:

Flee Market and Theatre May, 2017 Chris Son Vancouver, Canada

The Life & Theatre Building is an intersection between the urban and suburban; sercing residents, once workers, commuters, and artisans.The project aims to facilitate a “sidewalk ballet.” By connecting and exposing various programs, users will staged themselves simultaneously spectating and performing.

“Saturday is Flea Market Day, Holiest of days.”

Kate Illison (The Butturfly Clues) “Theatres are curious places, maginians trick-boxes where the golden memories of dramatic triumphs linger like nostalgic ghosts, and where the unexplainable, the fantastic, the fantastic, the tragic, the comic and the absurd are routine occurrences on and off the stage. Murders, mayhem, political intrigue, lucrative business, secret assignations, and of course, dinner.”

A restricted palette of skins is used throughout, tying the building together, yet reconguring to the juxtaposing context and programming.

E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Dadfly

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“... an intricate ballet in which the individual dancers and ensembles all have distinctive parts which miraculously reinforce each other and compose an orderly whole.”

Jane Jacobs We kept exploring the connection point between theatre and market, and attempted to find a way for the audiences to interact and communicate. We finally decided to open up the functional room and rehearsal room to the public, especially for those interested in street performance and folk art. We believe that, as the functional room and rehearsal room become the shared public space between the theatre and market, it will bring larger potential for citizens to interact, through engaging the citizens with the backstage production process of folk artworks and cultural costumes. There will also be opportunities for artists to rent the space as their studio or display spaces, the identity boundary between the performer and the spectator will be continuously broken down and remerged.

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These are the photos taken in the summer of 2017 during my trip in Stockholm: Stockholm University and Ostermalm’s Temporary Market Hall. Two photos copyright taken for Stockholm University during school summer abroad trip were purchased by university website for promotional use.

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Camera: Canon EOS 50D Lens: EF 17-40mm f/4L USM

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