Rui Xiong Works Volume
2008-2015
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Continuous Play Ground Kindergarten Design
2010 Fall Area: 6,000m2=60,000SQF Instructor: Li ZUO
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Glass House House Design
2014 Winter Area: 250m2=2500SQF Instructor: Neil Denari
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Stacked Housing Housing Design
2014 Fall Area: 20,000m2=200,000SQF Instructor: Roger Sherman
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Extension of Public Life Office Design
2013 Winter Area: 10,000m2=100,000SQF Instructor: Nerineh Mirzaeian
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Reviving to Water Urban Design
2012 Area: 830,000m2=8,300,000SQF Instructor: Jie ZHU
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Unexpected City: Citizen > Authority 2014 Union International des Architects (UIA), HYP cup
Team Members: Di CHANG, Tzu-Jung Chang
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The Death of the Architects 2015 Evolo Competition
Team Members: Rui Xiong, Xiaorui Lin, Di Chang
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Facade Design Tech-core
Team Members: Rui Xiong, KENNETH JOSEPH YOUNG, Kyra Bauman
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Continuous Play Ground Kindergarten Design
2010 Fall Area: 6,000m2=60,000SQF Instructor: Li ZUO
This Kindergarten Design is depending on the famous Reggio Emilia Theory focusing on preschool and primary education. In this kindergarten environment and architecture are conceived as an educational interlocutor, as a kind of “Third teacher�, offering opportunities and spaces that provide each child for playing, discovering, and researching.
Background & Site analysis In this design, conceiving the environment as a third teacher, as Reggio Emilia Theory cites in her theory, I want to use the whole site as a play ground. What’s more, I try to avoid it being interrupted by the architecture. However, because of the limitation of site area (a 6000m2 architecture in a 6000m2 site), and the limitation of existing trees (try to protect the trees in the site), it is not easy to fulfill this concept. I analysis the different solution below.
Having comparing the three different form typologies, the third choice can provide enough out door space while maintaining th existing trees.
Bird-view Physical model Having comparing the three different form typologies, the third choice can provide enough out door space while maintaining th existing trees. Strategy analysis
Office and service
Entrance Road
Classroom
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1.Site Information
2.Put A 6000m2 two floors building into the site
3.Create a courtyard for natural light
4. Separate the building depending on function into three different parts: Classroom, entrance, and office, and put the classroom facing the south.
5.Cut the box horizontally into two
6.Levitate the second floor, create a void space between two floors, used as a playground
7.Connect the playground on the ground and the void space by slope to avoid the interruption.
8. Explode the upper layer for getting more natural light.
Formal process
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The play ground layer
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The Third Floor Plan
The Second Floor Plan
The Second Floor Plan
1 Major Entrance 2 Quarantine room 3 Isolation room 4 Bedroom 5 Classroom 6 Corridor 7 Atrium 8 Laundry 9 Restroom 10 Dinning room
11 Kitchen 12 Music classroom 13 Amphitheater 14 Cooking 15 Library 16 Food storage 17 Reception 18 Administration 19 Meeting room 20 Playground
From top to bottom, the different walls have different functions depending on the different hight; these walls can divide the space, then define the functions; Maintain the native trees and plant some new deciduous tree in order to supply sufficient sunshine in winter and amount of shadow in summer; different materials create different space for interactions.
The First Floor Plan
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Landscape Design Strategy
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We recognize again the environment importance in the infant education and more attention is paid to the experiences of infant, not the simply�greenhouse education�. We encourage the kids to enter into the environment, experience the environment and learn in the experiences.
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Glass House House Design
2014 Winter Area: 250m2=2500SQF Instructor: Neil Denari
This project was inspired by Mies and Sanaa. The strongest concept is using a pure form while bring nature, houses, and human beings together into a higher unity. The form of the house comes from the box intersection with sphere, which create a open area on the bottom of the box using as an entrance. In order to fulfill the double curvature surface, space frame is a possible structure strategy. By supported by only four points at the corner, I intend for the house to be as light as possible on the land. At the same time, putting the columns around the house to create a large span space that can be easily occupied. The facades are in glass, in which the woods are reflected, ensuring continuity between the house and the surrounding landscape. Wanting to be a light and clean object in the beautiful nature woods, the materials color and the facade appearance play a relevant role. All the materials are coated by white to produce a clean appearance. The dots on the facade, faded away from bottom to top, used as a wrapped skin, as a continuous blurring layer, that gives different light reflection and hides the massive space frame on the bottom, while combine the foundation and glass surface together. The result is an elegant, light and white succession of surfaces without any interruption or contamination by other elements.
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This project was inspired by Mies and Sanaa. The strongest concept is using a pure form while bring nature, houses, and human beings together into a higher unity. The form of the house comes from the box intersection with sphere, which create a open area on the bottom of the box using as an entrance. The facades are in glass, in which the woods are reflected, ensuring continuity between the house and the surrounding landscape.
Wanting to be a light and clean object in the beautiful nature woods, the materials color and the facade appearance play a relevant role. All the materials are coated by white to produce a clean appearance. The dots on the facade, faded away from bottom to top, used as a wrapped skin, as a continuous blurring layer, that gives different light reflection and hides the massive space frame on the bottom, while combine the foundation and glass surface together. The result is an elegant, light and white succession of surfaces without any interruption or contamination by other elements.
The form of the house comes from the box intersection with sphere, which create a open area on the bottom of the box using as an entrance. Site Plan 14
In order to fulfill the double curvature surface, space frame is a possible structure strategy.
Formal Analysis
Structure Analysis 15
The white dots on the elevation blur the profiles of space frame structure inside of the facede, which combine the write concrete and clear class together, making the facede changing from opaque to transparency gradually. Elevation Major Plan
By supported by only four points at the corner, I intend for the house to be as light as possible on the land. At the same time, putting the columns around the house to create a large span space that can be easily occupied. Ground Plan 16
Without any columns in the occupied space, the totally flexibility space are created which can provide variation in plan same as the Farsworth House designed by Mies. 1-1 Section 17
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Upper City, Lower City Housing Design
2014 Fall Area: 20,000m2=200,000SQF Instructor: Roger Sherman
In America, the development of residential usually get rid of manufacture. The same thing happened in Los Angeles. This methodology of development tore down the existing manufacture and existing buildings which is very rarity for a city lack of history, like Los Angeles. It raises the question: how can we create a certain level of residential, while simultaneously increasing the robustness of our existing buildings and manufactures? One possibility is to use the stacked strategy that put the new buildings on the existing ones. Stacked Residential is a proposal that speculates on the possibility of such strategy. This design is a methodology of changing limited industrial block to residential. This Project try to preserves existing buildings and manufacture while providing 120 units for residential. This methodology combine the development of manufacture and residential.
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This design is a methodology of changing limited industrial block to residential. Usually this development tores down the existing building and get rid of manufacture. However this design try to preserves existing buildings and manufacture while providing 120 units for residential. This methodology combine the development of manufacture and residential. Location Plan 1/128”=1’
Location Plan 1/128”=1’
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Option 1: Tore down the existing buildings and manufacture. Then develop the residential. Option 2: New methodology of residential block development which preserves existing buildings and manufacture.
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Using the stacked strategy putting new architecture above the existing ones Site Plan
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Processing 1. Cores Strategy In order to remain the existing buildings, the cores, columns are located at the specific points -- in between spaces of existing buildings. These cores hold up the floating unit mass and at the same time it works as a infrastructure for the units
4. Ground Floor Strategies Analysis the functions of existing buildings. Replace the storage and not-using building by functions such as community center, cafe, church, gym. So that small business are able to occupy the ground level where people can easily access and use.
2. Bars Strategy In order to maximize the view of each units, crossing boards which can void impacting view of each other could be a better choice than broad-wise or warpwise.
5.Units Arrangement Strategy : Suspended units Instead of putting the units on the board linear way, this design takes some units out of there and hangs them blow the board, so that each unit can be provided enough private garden and natural sunlight path. 400 Feet Long View
550 Feet Long View
The first level blocks
430 Feet Long View
The Second level blocks
300 Feet Long View
300 Feet Long View
Depending on the concept and strategies, this project consists on 12 stacked apartment blocks, each three-stories tall and varies in length. What is interesting about the project is how these stacked volumes achieve a high density, while still maintaining the existing building and long-range views as you can see on the axon. The second challenge of the “stacked� strategy is how provide enough privacy garden for each unit.
The Third level blocks
Ground Plan
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This three stories tall block is inspired by Unité d’Habitation designed by Le Cobusier. The middle floor of the block is used as a corridor which can provide the common space for residents to interaction, communication and encounter. Block Axon
Depending on the concept and strategies, this project consists on 12 stacked apartment blocks, each three-stories tall and varies in length. What is interesting about the project is how these stacked volumes achieve a high density, while still maintaining the existing building and long-range views as you can see on the axon. The second challenge of the “stacked” strategy is how provide enough privacy garden for each unit.
Axon Sections
“Block” Plan
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Structure Design
This project has a “double-stacked” corridor (a single hallway with units on either side), I designed the units to span from each side of the building, as well as having a double height living space reducing the number of required corridors to one every three floors. By narrowing the units and allowing for a double height space, I am capable of efficiently placing more units in the building and creating an interlocking system of residential volumes. What’s more, unlike the Unite designed by Le Corbuiser, this project also provide a private for each unit. Circulation Analysis
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Extension of Public Life Office Design
2013 Winter Area: 10,000m2=100,000SQF Instructor: Nerineh Mirzaeian
My approach to the project was very much rooted in studying the characteristics of the urban condition around our site. In my analysis, I found that there were many ad hoc or leftover open spaces dotting the area and I became curious about leveraging this condition so I decided to subvert the building as a carefully escaped surface that deliberately interfaces with existing streets and adjacent parking lots. By folding the surface, put the building underground, and then put the activities above the surface. This surface, also the roof of building is the venue for urban life. I choose the concrete to fulfill this thinking, like something grows from the ground. Without any barrier around the site, all people can get into this site. This roof (surface) becomes a signal of this area to attract the people in this community, even the whole city, for the ability of catching the attention of people in railway. The light in night make this signal stronger. What’s more, put the program underground separate the public and private, people can get into this site while keeping the private space of office. The holes in roof, not only provide the signal to city, but also provide enough light into building interior in day. The grids of Waffle slab, which the major construction I use in this project, not only determine the holes, but also determine the grid of whole site. That’s means that the structure system not only control the building, but also control the whole site, the landscape.
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Our site would become a combination of office and public activities, used as not only the office at day, but a residential park at night. Concept
My approach to the project was very much rooted in studying the characteristics of the urban condition around our site. In my analysis, I found that there were many ad hoc or leftover open spaces dotting the area and I became curious about leveraging this condition so I decided to subvert the building as a carefully escaped surface that deliberately interfaces with existing streets and adjacent parking lots.
In order to imputing the public activities, I re-arrange the functions in our office from public to privacy.
Site Analysis
Activities Analysis
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I category the public space into three types, first, the street, second, the plaza, third, the park. And then create five different options of each in the site plan depending on the inner logic of the site, such as the potential major entrance, the pedestrians, and the environment around it. Typology Analysis
I did a research on all of the 15 types, and found out the advantage and disadvantage of each. Here I choose four of them to do a deeper explanation. 1, from the park type, it is not public enough. 2, also from the park type, it is hard to separate the public and private space, 3, from the plaza type, it doesn’t have enough space for public activities. 4, seems to be a better solution. Site Analysis
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Putting the program underground separate the public and private, people can get into this site while keeping the private space of office. The holes in roof, not only provide the signal to city, but also provide enough light into building interior in day. The grids of Waffle slab, which the major construction I use in this project, not only determine the holes, but also determine the grid of whole site. Structure Design
A-A Section
B-B Section
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The slope in this project can be used as a public street. Section
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Reviving Water Urban Design
2012 Area: 830,000m2=8,300,000SQF Instructor: Jie ZHU
The people of Chongqing have great time before. The land along the Yangtze river bears witness to previous eras of boom and bust, overabundance and exhaustion, speculation and bankruptcy, mad exuberance and ruin. The story on the Central Riverfront has been told -- the spectacular falls, Native residential and the other habitation, the rise and fall of steel factory. But the future of the area upstream, above the falls of Chongqing Special Steel Plant, remains to be determined. There are official visions, but also wavering, low rumblings of discontent on all sides: industry versus parks, jobs versus nature, current use versus “best use�, and economic realities versus ecological realities. Is it a vibrant, green future or merely a mirage? My design approach is the Reviving River; we believe in the power of nature to heal, and the relevance of the River in the life of the people of Chongqing. We take the long view, and see that changes in industry along the banks have happened before, driven by the market but also by the guiding hand of public policy and the aspirations of the River’s citizens. My purpose then is to aid in healing the riverfront as a place of critical ecological importance, as well as a place for working, living, and encountering. I desire a place where people can come together. The using of this old style place revive the culture of water, which deeply planted in the people of Chongqing.
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Ancient time, before 1891
Opening the Treaty Port in Chongqing, 1891-1935
Development of Industry, 1935-1980
Decadency of Waterway, 1980- present
Born From Water
Living With Water
Prosperity By Water
Leaving Away Water
Chongqing was born from water. Chongqing is a city depends on her advantage in waterway transport in West China. The pier here is the most important thing in Chongqing city's development. The earliest city was appearing around the pier. If there is no water or rivers, there would be no Chongqing city. River is the mother of Chongqing.
The residents in Chongqing, are always living with water. Their lives is in the water. They drink the water in river, cleaned their clothes in river, move on water by boats. In breaking during the work, they seat near the water and play with their friends. Only has the water did this city have a vitality. In this period, life was in the water, vitality was from the water. People love the water, city love the river.
By the developing of commerce, Chongqing's prosperity depend on his convenience waterway. This waterway also lead the Chongqing become a the most successful industry city in west China. This industry bring the prosperity to city, but also bring the pollution to water.
In present, cars is a more convenience transport than boats . Modern people abandon the water, the river. What's more, the riverside highways separate the city and rivers. There is no chance for residents to play with water. This is the period of water abandoning.
The History Of Water Culture in Chonqing 1. Highway seperate the water and city. Waterfront is hard to access.
2. The waterfront is occupied by private space and buildings, it is hard to used by public.
3. The pollution of industry and the destory of ECO cooridor.
4. The abandon of traditional using of waterfront, the loss of the water culture.
4 Problems of Recent Chongqing Waterfront
Location Analysis
The History Of Water Culture in Chonqing
Site Analysis
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No Access to water
Increase the accessibility
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Reviving water culture
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My Design Culture Centre
Master Plan
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Analysis the existing buildings by their built time, quality and difficulty to reuse. And give 4 different resolutions to these buildings, 1, touring down the existing buildings and reuse their material; 2, maintaining some structures as monuments or sculpture; 3, keeping some structures as a later buildings structure frame; 4, reusing the whole buildings, and replace the functions.
Site Analysis
Existing Building Analysis
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In order to increase the vitality of the waterfront and re-orientate the daily life to water, mixed using of waterfront is very necessary. Not only putting the different activities into the waterfront, but considering the different time of using create a 24h, 7days in week, dynamic waterfront. Strategy 2: Mixed Using Less choices to river
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Creating 100m and 150m blocks instead of 300m which usually used in China increases the different optional ways to access the waterfront. Strategy 1: Increasing Accessibility
Our site is in between the Mountain and Yangtze River. It is very significant to create some ecological corridors. By analysis the site and the ecological sensibility, I decide to create two ecological corridors along the tributaries on the two sides of the site. Strategy 3: Ecological Corridors
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Glassland Walking
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Sightseeing
The first strategy, increasing the accessibility of the waterfront, has two major measures, creating a strait and unhindered access from the public transportation station to water front (upper), and creating a small scale blocks (blow).
Sunset
Jialin River
Having a Dinner
Having a rest
Basking
Wedding
Kite Flying
Worship
Shoppong
Playing Card
Watching the show
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Homw Stay
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Shipping
Waterscreen Flim
Drinking Coffee
Film
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Jialin River
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Railway station Bus station
Typology: Suddenly Turning in street, Activities space divided from the street Space Features: Mainly using in pedestrian, Hindered view because the turning Activities: Retails, View point, Walking, Chatting, Playing Card, Typology: Suddenly Turning in street, Activities space together with the street Space Features: Mainly using in pedestrian, Hindered view Because the turning Activities: View point, Walking, Chatting, Typology: Slightly Turning in street, Buildings on both sides Space Features: Mainly using in pedestrian, Unhindered view, Activities: View point, Walking, Chatting, Tea House Typology: Slightly Turning in street, Buildings on one side Space Features: Mainly using in public activities, Unhindered view, Activities: View point, Walking, Chatting, Tea House, Playing Cards
5m-10m Wide street to waterfront
Imitate space of the streets in our site to reviving the old style activities of using water, re-orientating the life back to water, picking up the culture of water in this city, and re-creating the old but healthy relationship between the water and residents. Typology: Steep Slope, Large stairs, Buildings on one side, Space Features: Unhindered view Activities: View point, Walking, Chatting, Sitting, Rest, Playing Cards,
Typology: Suddenly Turning in street, Activities space divided from the street Space Features: Mainly using in pedestrian, Hindered view because the turning Activities: View point, Walking, Chatting, Typology: Suddenly Turning in street, Activities space together with the street Space Features: Mainly using in pedestrian, Hindered view Because the turning Activities: View point, Walking, Chatting,
Typology: Slow Slope, Small stairs, Buildings on both sides, Space Features: Unhindered view Activities: View point, Walking, Chatting, Sitting, Rest, Playing Cards,
Typology: Slightly Turning in street, Buildings on both sides Space Features: Mainly using in pedestrian, Unhindered view, Activities: View point, Walking, Chatting, Tea House
Typology: Steep Slope, Large Stairs, Buildings on both Sides Space Features: Unhindered view Activities: View point, Walking, Chatting, Sitting, Rest, Playing Cards,
Typology: Slightly Turning in street, Buildings on one side Space Features: Mainly using in public activities, Unhindered view, Activities: View point, Walking, Chatting, Tea House, Playing Cards
2m-5m Wide street to waterfront First of all, I use the typology to classify the different forms of old style using waterfront, and what the relationship between the different spaces and activities, by separating by the size of the street to water. While analyzing what activities can be happened in these different size of streets. Strategy 4: Reviving the old style relationship of water and residents
Larger than 10m Wide street which can be used as wharf
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Master Plan
Culture Centre
ECO Centre
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Group plan
Commercial Centre Plan
Business Centre Plan
Perspective Commerical Centre
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UNEXPECTED CITY: CITIZEN > AUTHORITY 2014 Union International des Architectes (UIA), HYP cup Team Members: Di CHANG, Tzu-Jung Chang
Begin from classifying the meaning of expected city, the characteristics of the cities in which we lived in the world vary from country to country. An expected city, we could say that it is advanced by development of technologies or speculation of the sequence of evolvement. On the other hand, the concept of unexpected city, we could say that it is a city of high-tech which can beyond our imagination or a city of over rules. Take New York City for example, a city dominated by capital operation. For cities in the Europe especially the Medieval, they usually evolved from the center of religion. Therefore, the idea of unexpected city which contain many possibilities, it is a city of exceed rules and organization. Specifically, it is a city of liberty and self-control. From citizen to authority: “Evolution by natural selection, only the fittest survive.� It is a rule of survival in natural world. However, the forming of a city is gradually congregate into dwelling, town and then country which created a society. Generally, we can consider that city forming is a controlling process of authority to citizen. A downtown and commercial of country is determined by government or property developer. As a result, the way of lifestyle for resident is mainly control by authority which they can decide the transportation, living environment, cost of housing and so forth. We could classify that the category of expected city is primarily developed from authority of government not from citizen itself. To sum up, we proposes a concept of unexpected city is control by citizen instead of authority. In this city, the designer or leader could be individual who lived in it. Consequently, the evolving of city merge with many possibilities and creativities and it cannot predictable eventually. Gradually, the rhythm of chaos becomes an unpredictable phenomenon among people in the city and it surpasses the control of the power.
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The Death of the Architects 2015 Evolo Competition
Team Members: Xiaorui Lin, Di Chang
Inspired by this promising social de-hierarchical tendency made possible by technology, we believe the next architecture revolution will highly possible be a technology-driven and more non-hierarchical mode. Contrast to the current situation which is more client-based than user-based, the application of idea of smart phone to the conversation of architecture effectively delegate the ultimate role of architects in design process while to the other hand diversify the options for the users. In this process, architects switch their roles as an option providers and consultants whereas the users themselves become the ultimate designers. In this system, only three components are pre-designed by architects for the common use: a set of vertical transportation system, correspondingly set elevator-device and public entertaining stations. Apart from them, people are free to design their own housing units using HOLOGRAPHIC PROJECTION and HOLOLENS. They can also easily access through their own electronic terminals to assorted options on different levels of architectural components such as material, structure, form and technical supports. As they set up their final virtual design, the package including all the necessary data can be saved and sent to factories where the house being 3D printed by robot arms. The house body can be then delivered to the user’s ideal site and installed by elevator-devices with adjustable and rotatable mechanical system to maximize the flexibility of the design. This proposed system and operation mode is highly adaptable that can be adopted and applied to any site of the world. Amongst the cluster of housing groups, a bunch of scattered public entertaining stations of much more enormous volume can be served as both horizontal circulation and a center space for social aggregation. Responding to the current environment issues, the vertical cores are covered by triangulated solar panels, providing the daily use of electricity within the housing cluster or even for the whole city. On top of the public space are water purification system covered by plantation and grassland that collect waste water and rain water. Entitled as CITY OF ARCHIDEATH, The proposed construction responds architecturally to Roland Barthes’s masterpiece of the Death of The Author. Similar to Barthes’ opinion about author who is no more than a narrator and should be read separately from their work, architects’ role should also be delegated as merely consultants or options providers, making rooms for user themselves to decide, design and dwell. To conclude by citing Barthes: the birth of the “Users” must be ransomed by the death of the “Architects”.
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Facade Design Tech-core
Team Members: KENNETH JOSEPH YOUNG, Kyra Bauman
This Facade Design inspired by Elbphilharmonie by the Herzog De Meuron. “The glass facade transforms the new building into a gigantic, iridescent crystal whose textured appearance changes as the glass panels catch the reflections of the sky, water and city, causing them tc coalesce. “ In our facade, the reflection and refraction let it looks like a water skin surface. The formal deformation of the glass creates openings in the facade and generates a rich play of reflections that transform according to the location, weather and perspective. At the same time the contoured glass calls attention to the positions in which openings were situated in an otherwise water-like facade. To create a relationship between the interior and exterior, we sliced, shaped and opened the massive glass skin. The primary motivation was to provide natural ventilation. Two types of glass are using in this design, single glazing which used as exterior surface to create the water skin, and the U-Profile-Glass, used in interior surface for insulation and waterproofing.
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Resume
Rui XIONG Program: Architecture Address: 1195 McClellan Dr, Los Angeles, CA, 90049 Email: ruixiong@g.ucla.edu Phone: (310)9266194
Education
Awards:
UCLA Second Year, Master of Architecture, School of Architecture (In process) Sep 13 -- Present
2011 CHSLA undergraduate competition, the only First price 2011 Aim International competition, Nominee of the Best Exterior Space Design
Chongqing University Landscape Architecture, School of Architecture and urban planning Sep 2008 -- Jul 2013
Working Experience: 06/2011~09/2011 Work as a designer in the intern program of revive old city in Guiyang 01/2012~03/2012 Work as a designer in the intern program of Jiangbeizui Plaza 10/2014~03/2015 The only designer for UCLA East Asian Library inner design renovation concept design
2012 The fifth session of the International Academic Symposium, U+L New concept, the Third price 2014 Union International des Architectes (UIA), HYP cup 2014 international student competition in architecture design, Honorable Mentions
Publication: 06/2011 Landscape Architecture, International Standard Serial Number: ISSN 1673-1530;
Computer Proficiency
Research Experience:
Architecture: Auto CAD, Auto Revit, Autodesk Maya, Autodesk Ecotect, Rhino, Google Sketchup, Grasshopper,
2010/7 Building Construction; Goals: know the construction of building and design a constructor for a certain building; Team work; Role: the major designer of the construction.
Presentation: Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustration, Adobe Indesign, Adobe Aftereffect, Adobe Premiere,
2011/6 Form Cognition and Material Testing; Goals: test the different kinds of material of landscape, finding a new using of them; Team work; Role: the chief designer of the teat.
Rendering: Vray, Keyshot
2011/9 Classical Gardens Mapping; Goals: study the space of Chinese classical gardens, and mapping them; Team work; Role: leader 2012/6 Methods of City Social Investigation; Goals: finding lost space, the space under the bridge, to visit the people live there, giving some recommendation to government officer; Sole 2012/9 Student Research Training Program (SRTP); Goals: research the different water purification effect of the different nature plants in Chongqing, then designing a rain garden; Team work; ROLE: leader and Chief designer. 2012/9 Plant Ecology Investigation; Goals: research the habitat of broad-leaved evergreen forests in Jiyun Anticline; Sole;
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