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STATEMENT
Architectural designer and Job Captain with international experience in the U.S. and Asia, specializing in BIM workflows, façade design, and construction sequencing for complex projects. Proficient in Revit, Rhino, AutoCAD, and Adobe Suite. Project experience ranges from large-scale residential, commercial, and performing arts buildings. Also engaged in interior finishes and FF&E. Experienced in all phases from Concept through SD and DD.
WORK EXPERIENCE
Job Captain | Tom Wiscombe Architecture, Los Angeles, USA
• Led Revit modeling of the building envelope. Collaborated with the team to redesign the façade post-50% SD, achieving a 5% cost reduction under a tight deadline.
• Managed weekly Revit model publishing on ACC for all consultants.
• Developed digital workflows between Rhino, Revit, AutoCAD, and Navisworks to streamline internal coordination. Enabled fast visual iterations for client presentations and improved consultant coordination.
• Produced physical mock-ups and designed interior FF&E for key FOH spaces, ensuring the feasibility of the design for clients.
• Designed and selected restroom layouts and finishes, and plumbing fixtures to meet ADA compliance and integrate with MEP systems.
• Designed and generated drawing sets for parking, basement, and all BOH spaces to achieve LEED Gold.
• Collaborated with transportation consultants to design on-site circulation, ramps, and fire access roads.
Social
Media Editor | SCI-Arc, Los Angeles, USA
• Conducted student interviews and curated, edited, and organized selected work and institutional news for publication on SCI-Arc’s official media platforms Intern Architect | Xuberance, Shanghai, China
• Contributed to large-scale architectural competitions, including sports centers, museums, and entertainment venues
• Participated in 3D-printed furniture and sculptural installations Intern Architect | Jingu Group, Changzhou, China
• Created full BIM structure and basement models for high-rise prefabricated steel residence
• Conducted Fuzor construction animation to support contractor coordination
Bluebeam, Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, After Effects
Computational
Design
Maya, ZBrush, Blender, C4D, Unreal Engine
Southern California Institute of Architecture（SCI-Arc), Los Angeles
Changzhou Institute of Technology, Changzhou Bachelor of Engineering, Major in Architecture, GPA: 4.22/5 (86/100)
LANGUAGE
Master of Architecture, With Scholarships, GPA: 3.87/4.0 Chinese (native), English
01 Qiddiya Performing Arts Centre
Tom Wiscombe Architecture
Qiddiya, Saudi 2023 - 2025
The Qiddiya Performing Arts Centre is the first flagship cultural asset of Qiddiya City in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, a city wholly dedicated to play and an epicenter of entertainment, sports, and culture. The core of the project is its two main theatre venues - the Premium Theatre and Adaptable Theatre.
The Premium Theatre is located within the glazed Lobby underneath the loft structure, provides 1,800 seats on its stalls levels and two balconies. The Adaptable Theatre , which hangs from the Loft, has seating for 414 on its stalls and gallery level. The floor is adaptable to support a wide range of seating configurations and types of performance.
Earth Protector is by nature a table with five legs. The five Blades support the perimeter of the Loft, while the Premium Theatre sits at the center as the primary support. The Premium Theatre is built of reinforced concrete as a stiff box to reduce torsion in the Loft. This box stands on the Basement which stands firmly on rock at the B2 level.
GEA: 89,301SM
Location: Qiddiya, Saudi
Project Type: Performing Arts Center Building Code: Saudi Building Code (2018)
Roles:
Designed and generated drawing sets for the Site, Basement, Parking, and all the circulations to achieve LEED Gold
Led Revit modeling of the blade envelope
Managed weekly Revit model publishing on ACC
Developed digital workflows between Rhino, Revit, AutoCAD, and Navisworks to streamline the coordination
The Qiddiya Performing Arts Centre has been located at the cliff edge of its plot, over 100M away from the corniche road. The space between will be traversed with the Shadow, which is a theoretical shadow projected from Earth Protector when it "lands" on earth.
Site Plan
The Shadow will be delineated by xeriscaping and low-water-use desert plants which will be selected to create a superbloom during certain seasons.
Traffic, Royal Overlay, Security, and District Firefighting infrastructure integration are all in progress at this time. These are crucial elements for the functioning of this asset. Our traffic plan considers separate parking and delivery ingress and egress for vehicular traffic, trucks and fire trucks/ EVAs, and Royal motorcades. It also includes a Valet pickup and return system on-plot along with 260 parking stalls on Level B1.
Sunken Plaza
02 QPAC Interior Design
Roles: Coordinated MEP per TWA design intent; produced SD set for restrooms; redesigned circulation and lighting based on structural/MEP constraints; developed concession millwork; Produced physical mock-ups and designed interior FF&E for key FOH spaces, ensuring the feasibility of the design for clients.
Concept
Media systems include linear LED lighting embedded into facade Chevron patterns and mass edges, video projections at Lobby, Amphitheatre, and Skygarden levels, in-grade color-changing Y-lighting in the public realm, lanterns emphasizing the uneven ground of the site, and environmental sound effects throughout. The project will "wake up", "go to sleep", switch to wireframe mode, and sometimes interact with the content inside the Theatres.
The building is ultimately conceived of as an immersive indoor/outdoor stage. Earth Protector is an open structure, filled with color and life- it is not a rarified, exclusive architectural entity. Everything happens within Earth Protector. Earth Protector is a space of freedom and play.
Type A
Type B
04 Microalage Bio-Tech Building
Partner: Arthur Modine, Zeyu Wang, Yangmin Su, Sizhe Lu, Wei Zhu, Zhao Mu, Yanchu Instructor: Zach Burns, Matthew Melnyk
El Segundo, CA 2022
For the course Design Development, We investigates issues related to the implementation of design: technology, the use of materials, systems integration, and the archetypal analytical strategies of force, order and character.The course includes a review of basic and advanced construction methods, analysis of building codes, the design of Structural and Mechanical systems, Environmental systems, Buildings service systems, the development of building materials and the integration of building components and systems.
Egress Routes
05 Invisible Chinatown
Partner: Wei Zhu
Instructor: Eric Owen Moss
Los Angeles, CA 2023
Food is a central element in shaping immigrant cultures, presenting both opportunities and challenges. Chinese food culture adapts as immigrants move, embodying the dynamic nature of contemporary culture. This thesis explores mobility as a design concept, uncovering the interplay between architectural space and cultural identity. Focusing on Chinatown, where traditional culture faces demolition, it questions whether new orders can replace old ones and explores vertical development within urban landscapes.
The project envisions a food culture complex, delving into the sensory aspects of taste, smell, appearance, and touch, reinterpreting Chinese culinary traditions within their original cultural context. It seeks to build new structures atop existing properties, investigating the untapped potential between old buildings and the open sky. This confrontation with dominant culture on the urban fringe fosters new ideas crucial for emerging cultural growth.
06 Diamond Ranch Elementary School
Concept
Our project for the new Diamond Ranch Elementary School responds to the effects of increasing aridification in California, scarcity of water, overuse of natural resources and the isolation of plants from buildings. The school is designed to promote a reflection on the relationship between people and nature. Do we need an air conditioning system? Do we need artificial light sources during the day? What role does the water cycle play in the natural environment? What is the relationship between plants and architecture? We think that architecture should create a connection rather than a separation between people and nature.
Our site and building are quietly located between the land and the mountains, and it the campus has a strong sense of sculptural qualitye. The free and organic form also shapes the changeable adaptable indoor space comprised of: walls, floors, ceilings, and flexible indoorinteriors. They These forms allow teachers and students to look at the sky and mountains at any time and they blur the boundary between architecture and nature. From a functional point of view, holes of different sizes and walls of varying shape also introduce natural light into the rooms and realize natural ventilation, which "cools down" the perennially hot building.
Partner: Wendy Chen, Hao Wang
Instructor: Marcelyn Gow GPA: 4.0/4.0, 2021
07 Accumulations
Partner: Haocun Zou Instructor: Marcelyn Gow
El Sereno, Los Angeles 2022
Food is a central element in shaping immigrant cultures, presenting both opportunities and challenges. Chinese food culture adapts as immigrants move, embodying the dynamic nature of contemporary culture. This thesis explores mobility as a design concept, uncovering the interplay between architectural space and cultural identity. Focusing on Chinatown, where traditional culture faces demolition, it questions whether new orders can replace old ones and explores vertical development within urban landscapes.
The project envisions a food culture complex, delving into the sensory aspects of taste, smell, appearance, and touch, reinterpreting Chinese culinary traditions within their original cultural context. It seeks to build new structures atop existing properties, investigating the untapped potential between old buildings and the open sky. This confrontation with dominant culture on the urban fringe fosters new ideas crucial for emerging cultural growth.
