Architecture Portfolio 2016 Xiang Yu

XIANG YU ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSSETTS AMHERST

2016

XIANG YU yuxsean@gmail.com

EDUCATION University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA — Master of Architecture, 09/2013-05/2016 Chongqing University, Chongqing, China — Bachelor of Construction Management, 09/2009-06/2013 EXPERIENCE Architecture/Technical Designer, Auerbach Pollock Friedlander, San Francisco, CA — 11/2016-Present Working on theatrical systems design and documentation including seating and room configuration, concept space adjacency, 3D modeling and building massing plans, space programming, technical detail drawings, coordination and collaboration with architects and engineers on different projects Architectural Illustrator, Embrace Design Group, Warwick, NY — 08/2016 - 10/2016 Create and illustrate imagery for educational, municipal, commercial, residential, parks and recreation projects and graphic design works Scene Shop Teaching Assistant, Theater Department, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA — 08/2015-06/2016 Design, create, and craft sets and props to be used on each of the Department’s productions and events; Assist the faculty and staff in teaching, demonstrating, and exploring custom fabrication techniques in all different materials Architectural Intern, Timothy Murphy Architects, Holyoke, MA — 07/2015-09/2015 Build Revit model from plans and prepare construction drawing of bidding documents for Springfield Senior Center, Springfield, MA Architectural Intern, Beijing WorleyParsons Engineering & Technology Co., Ltd. Beijing, China — 07/2012-08/2012 Prepare AutoCAD drawing of base plans, details and other construction documentation for Yangzi Petrochemical factory building. Research and review specifications for the project documents SKILLS IN SOFTWARE Revit, AutoCAD, Rhinoceros, Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign, Ecotect, eQuest, Microsoft Office

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CONTENTS

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MARITIME THEATER CENTER South Boston Waterfront, Massachusetts

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NET ZERO PORTLAND Portland, Oregon

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WALTHAM CENTER FOR URBAN SUSTAINABILITY Waltham, Massachusetts

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STAIRCASE DESIGN

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MODELS & OTHER WORKS

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BAR INTERIOR DESIGN AND LIGHTING DESIGN

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INTERIOR DESIGN

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LAMP DESIGN SERIES

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MASTER THESIS

MARITIME THEATER CENTER

BOSTON

South Boston Waterfront, Massachusetts

The Maritime Theater Center is a contemporary performing arts center for the city of Boston. It has both indoor and outdoor theater spaces for performances happening on the site. After a research on the current theater situation in Boston, I found out the fact that Boston has a large number of the topnotch theaters while most of them are from the early 1900s.

The site is an abandoned dry dock, located on the waterfront of South Boston.

Right next to the dry dock is the Blue Hills Bank Pavilion, a venue that most used during the summer for outdoor concerts.

The Harbor Walk connects the waterfronts of both Downtown Boston and South Boston together.

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Terrace Park Plan

The design approaches for this project has been taken in a wide range of experiments. I have always been fascinated by the idea how one space can be occupied by so many layers of stories within a single timeline.

Once a word has been spoken, sound spreads out. The energy of spoken words received by people and get absorbed the surroundings.

From the law of conservation of energy we know that energy can neither be created nor destroyed; rather, it transforms from one form to another. Ongoing spoken words kept becoming one more history layer of the space itself as the time goes by. I took this idea further into the design development phase.

Exploration of Ideas

The Voids

The Blocks

Overlaid Space and Time

Platform Park

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Lower Level Floor Plan

Flexible Theater Stage Types Flexible Theater is not a space that “one for all,� but the space allows different stage forms can be achieved in one place, providing more potential for various types of performances.

Proscenium

Thrust

Freeform

Arena

Traverse

Bipolar

Dance Studio

Main Stage

Main Lobby

Flexible Theater

Aisles

Terrace Park

Amphitheater

Visitor Center

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Ground Floor Plan

Main Stage Section

The program includes a Main Stage theater with 1,200 seating capacity, one Flexible Theater and a Dance Studio sitting on the end of the dry dock. The design has the spatial quality in the way that tends to bring out the potentials and metaphor of site and recall the hidden memories of the foregoing stories. Functional spaces and mechanical systems for scenery, lighting and sound as well as modular seating are provided to allow certain type of the stage order happens smoothly in this space. Circulations have separated or overlaid for different flows. On the exterior, the architecture celebrates the memory of the Age of Discovery.

Flexible Theater Section

Amphitheater Section

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Second Floor Plan

Spaces such as rehearsal rooms, production offices as well as shops, workshops, storage rooms, loading area and other functional spaces for the theater offer the working area for productions. The Visitor Center will provide the public approaches to the center together with arrival area, main lobby, ticket box, coatroom, restrooms, gallery, stores, restaurants, bars etc.

The ultimate goal for the project is to provide the citizen and visitors a public space not only to come to see a play but also to enjoy the environment that the whole site has presents. Green spaces with views of the harbor and the city are crucial part for the landscape of the site. Outdoor performance spaces are provided and integrated with the landscape design.

View from the corridor towards the Terrace Park

Maritime Theater Hadrian’s Villa, Tivoli, Italy

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The architectural gesture of the design is a celebration of maritime adventures. When looking at the architecture together with the site, they start to become a vessel, carrying all the wonderful stories, like a dream factory sailing on the big blue ocean. In another way, the pureness, the delicacy and lightness in the architecture also push the space to break the limits for performing arts.

The Boston Maritime Theater Center is the place where the story once happened and then reappeared like we going back to the timeline to let the story happen one more time. It keeps adding layers to the spatial domain while the time keeps rolling. When the house lights go down, the stage lights go up, extracting the memories along the storyline, it’s yesterday once more.

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NET ZERO PORTLAND Portland, Oregon

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This net zero strategy design has a sustainable system which includes solar PV panels, highly insulated envelope, self-shading window and facades, solar thermal panels, natural ventilation, water conservation, heat collection and thermal mass in together to contribute to this project.

The overall idea of this space has been about how to invite people in, let them stay and let go. The central courtyard, accessible green roof and interior atrium together with community spaces such as common room and gym provide the dwellers with multiple choice for their activities. Material has been carefully selected to have the best performance for the energy saving strategy.

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View

Circulation

Solar Power

Green Space

Residential

Commercial & Community

Sunlight

Traffic 19

View from the Bar Restaurant

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Self-shading Facade System

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STORER CONSERVATION

CEDAR HILL RESERVATION

RESIDENTIAL

BENTLEY UNIVERSITY

Train to Boston

CIRCULATION

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SITE

DOWNTOWN WALTHAM

FUNCTION

PLAN

WALTHAM CENTER FOR URBAN SUSTAINABILITY Waltham, Massachusetts The 58-acre site is 10 miles from downtown Boston, filled with practical application and demonstration of cutting-edge sustainable agriculture and landscape methods, including a ‘green’ 20,000 square foot building which will act as a front door portal for “all-things sustainable.” Science-based practices will be showcased that benefit the citizenry and economic vitality of the commonwealth.

We envision the center as enzymes, by designing this urban sustainability center to connect city and catalyze new activities, interactions and opportunities for the neighborhood and Waltham city. The center will be served as a food hub by providing organic agriculture product, a connector with will integrate with local green way and sustainability incubator to educate people about sustainability, show people more potentials and

creative ideas about urban sustainability and inspire people’s thinking about urban agriculture.

This project is an outcome of teamwork. I worked with my teammate, Bin Liu, who is from the landscape architecture program. He is in charge of the landscape and I am working on the architecture. It was a great experience to learn cooperation from a project like this.

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REACTION

Substrate/enzyme complex

Substrate entering active site of enzyme

ENZYME KEY AND LOCK MODEL

ENZYME

ENZYME

ENZYME

REACTION

ENZYME

ENZYME

Substrate entering active site of enzyme

Substrate/enzyme complex

REACTION HAPPENS ENZYME

Architecture

Landscape NEW POTENTIAL AND POSSIBILITIES

Reaction happens, products leaving enzyme

Sustainability

REACTION HAPPENS Architecture

Sustainability

Learning Garden Workshop

Landscape

Volunteer Center

NEW POTENTIAL AND POSSIBILITIES

Social Space Green House

Learning Center (classrooms, library, exhibition)

Educational (Demonstration Landscape)

Retail Dinning Room

Welcoming Space Farming Field Outdoor Kitchen

Kitchen Offices for Green Groups & Business

Shelters

Functional Landscape

Outdoor Classroom Lounge

Storage

Conference Center & Auditorium

Washing

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Reaction happens, products leaving enzyme

Community Garden Parking Lot

Productive Landscape

Outdoor Cafe

Changing Room

Rain Garden

ARCHITECTURE

LANDSCAPE

Program, Concept Developmemt & Site Plan

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Green

House

100FT

Experimental Field

Berry Garden

Community Gardena Tree Square

Welcoming Space

Outdoor Kitchen

Herb Garden Children's Garden

Rose Garden

CSA Rain Garden

Wild flower Garden

Stock

Existing Pine Tree

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STORM WATER MANAGEMENT

CLEAN ENERGY

ORGANIC AGRICULTURE

Water Clean Wind Energy

MITIGATE POLLUTION

Sustainable Demonstration

Green Roof Solar Panel

Rain Garden Permeable Pavement

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Auditorium Daylight Control Strategy

Summer Noon

Winter Noon

Learning Center Shading Study

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1. CLEAR GLASS

SUMMARY

As the illuminance simulations shows on the right, it’s too bright on the window side, and it will get worse around 6 pm when the sun set. So we need to come up with some shading strategies to adjust the daylight coming into the auditorium space.

After the illuminance simulations study, the vertical shadings are the most effective shading strategy for the auditorium space, together with reflective light shelf into the space during fall, spring and winter, except summer. It is better to have either deeper or denser vertical shadings for summer to block all the direct sunlight aroung the sun set. We also could put curtains if there is big events going on to have a better control of the interior light.

3:00 pm, Fall Equinox

6:00 pm, Fall Equinox

3:00 pm, Fall Equinox

6:00 pm, Fall Equinox

3:00 pm, Summer Solstice

6:00 pm, Summer Solstice

3:00 pm, Fall Equinox

6:00 pm, Fall Equinox

3:00 pm, Summer Solstice

6:00 pm, Summer Solstice

3:00 pm, Fall Equinox

6:00 pm, Fall Equinox

3:00 pm, Summer Solstice

6:00 pm, Summer Solstice

2. LIGHT SHELF(REFLECTIVE) With the light shelf installed, it has changed the situation slightly, letting the daylight going deeper but not blocking much light coming in as expected. And the situation even becoming worse in summer late afternoon, inviting too much light coming in. We need better shading solutions.

3. VERTICAL SHADING With one foot deep vertical shading elements alined beside the window, the situatino became significantly. Especially at 6pm during the fall, blocking all the direct sunlight coming in. But it seems the vertical shading elements need to go deeper during the summer to achieve a better performance.

4. VERTICAL SHADING + LIGHT SHELF (REFLECTIVE) With the two strategies using together, it will attain a better performance during the fall, spring and winter, letting the daylight going deeper into the auditorium, as the illuminance simulations shows. But it might not be a good idea keeping the reflective light shelf in summer.

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STAIRCASE DESIGN Inspired by Gordon Matta-Clark, suspended staircase rises from the ruins, towards the “Anarchitecture”

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Suspended Staircase, 2015 Acrylic, fishing line, marble tiles, aluminum angles, zinc rods, mixed material

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Light Box, 2014 Mixed paper, colored glass gems, pine wood

MODELS AND OTHER WORKS

Display Shelves for Roos Rohde House, 2014 Hampshire College, Amherst, Massachusetts

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A Way Station, 2013 Basswood, mixed paper, chipboard

Linking, 2013 Basswood

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Loop Construct in 12� , 2015 Pencil on watercolor paper

Beneath the Surface, 2014 Pine wood, tung oil 38

Loop Construct, 2015 Metal tubes and wires

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BAR INTERIOR DESIGN AND LIGHTING DESIGN New York, NY

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INTERIOR DESIGN AND LAMP DESIGN SERIES Anyang, Henan Provience, China

The design use recycled wood that has been saved from old houses. Ulmus columns turns into the whole length bookshelves; the door with latch grooves has been made into a reading table; after planking the jujube wood beams, you start to see the rich red core inside of the trunk, which becomes the dining table and coffee table surface; the wall over the dinning area are made from all kinds of fruit tree slices, such as apple, apricot, cherry, peach, pear, pomegranate‌ I took a plank of cypress and sanded it, with the help of clear finish, the board surface stared to show an almost silk-like color tone.

My interest in lamp making lead to create custom lamps for the interior design. Chopsticks lamp for reading room; plastic holders for the overflow in heating system become the cover of the pendant lamp in living room; leaves made out of copper sheet strips hanging above the dinning table, textured paper foyer lighting stays simple

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Pendant Lamp No. 8, 2016 Aluminium panel, plastic holders

TV Stand with Original Edge Cypress board with clear finish

Lamp No. 6, 2016

Chopsticks, copper wire, fireproof paper 43

Foyer Lighting No. 7, 2016 Textured paper, stainless steel rods

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Dining Table Lamp No. 5, 2016 Copper sheets, stainless steel rods, aluminium flat bar, copper wire

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Lamp No. 10, 2016

Floor Lamp No. 4, 2015

Wood, textured paper, bamboo

Wood, textured paper, fabrics

Lamp No. 2, 2015 Wood, copper wire, paper

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Lamp No. 3, 2015 With or without lamp shade

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Lamp No. 9, 2016 Wood, paper, bamboo

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XIANG YU yuxsean@gmail.com Master of Architecture University of Massachusetts Amherst