Portfolio

PORTFOLIO

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA, PHILADELPHIA

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS URBANA-CHAMPAIGN, CHAMPAIGN MAJOR IN ARCHITECTURE xiangl2@upenn.edu

GEOMETRIC_RISE

Scandinavian Cultural Center at Chicago

Academic Design - Individual work

& AMPERSAND

Bathhouse

Academic Design - Group work

MIX CHAMBER

Artifacts Sculpture

Academic Design - Group work

DISTORT CORRIDOR

Public Transportation Infrastructure

Academic Design - Individual work

THE VOCAL MARKET

Farmers Market

Academic Design - Individual work

HYBRID LAND

“Living & Working” Community Square at New York

Academic Design - Individual work

THE SUBLIME

Standardized Piece, Concert Space - Group work

OTHER WORKS (INTERNSHIP)

Commercial Design - Group work

GEOMETRIC RISE

Scandinavian Cultural Center at Chicago

Instructor: Claire Gaspin

VISITORS FLOW LAND STATUS

SITE

The center will provide promotion of public relations, assistance to local foreign citizens, and widespread dissemination of this culture in Chicago. The centre will provide a restaurant serving Nordic cuisine. Designers will allocate space for the restaurant, and the cultural center will provide administrative offices, a library and several meeting rooms. These rooms need to be flexible to fit a variety of uses. Venue space has been requested to provide extra space for meetings.

EDUCATION FACILITIES PEDESTRIAN CIRCULATION

FRIST SECOND THIRD FOURTH FIFTH

SCENARY PLATFORM

MULTIFUNCTIONAL OFFICE

MAIN LIBRARY

& AMPERSAND

Bathhouse

Instructor: Daniel Markiewicz

SITE

For our project, we started with some researches on bath house and form. As seeing here, we have studies bath house in different region, with different function, different atmosphere, as well as the variety of programs and activities. During this process, we find our interests that lead us to develop our concept and form. The Ampersand specifically focused the relationship of inside and outside and the interaction with the surrounding environment.

DIAGRAM

We try to create an experience that the inside and outside is blurred, and also bring the project into harmony with the surrounding context that provide people different experience as their position change.

PLAZA

COLD BATH

THE EXPERIENCE

To achieve interaction surrounding the environmental concept. We explore the relationship between mass and plate by creating a framing moment to emphasize the picturesque idea. The continuity ribbons from the architecture scale to the furniture scale blur the ground and the building. Change the color opacity in a different zone on the ground to continue to speak our design language.

For the material for the ampersand, we use different types of stone, natural stone and artificial stone in different moments. These contrasts are reflected in the interior with rough natural stone to bring the power of nature inside. For the exterior façade, we choose granite wall, marble ribbon, and field stone ground that is clearly artificial to emphasis the mark of humans and thus create harmony between humans and nature, as well as to better exhibit our architecture language and make the form clear.

MIX CHAMBER

Artifacts Sculpture

Instructor: Maya Alam

Our goal is to create a controlled environment that guide people to experience the geometry logic of our artifact and thus create a feeling of absence. And by doing this, the meaning of mixing chamber is also expressed. We firstly created a chamber that allow people to enter, and there are other chambers that overlap with the main one to create openings that allow people to see and experience the space. Instead of create a large space inside, we decided to create a tight space that fit the scale of the human so that people’s movement inside is more controlled. At the same time, we also carefully designed the size and the height of the opening so that it fits the height of people’s eye and allow people to have different experience. And we also tried to bring light to the space to create light and shadow to enhance people’s understanding of the geometry logic. Moreover, we also carefully designed the material. The material was generated from the physical model we’ve made in order to emphasis the connection between the physical and digital world, and we also took a step further to create a transparent material using the same pattern. We carefully considered the density of the pattern so that it appears like a solid object from distance, but allows people to see through when getting closer.

SPLIT UP THE VOLUME REFORMING CONCEPT

STUDY MODEL

Public Transportation Infrastructure

Instructor: Brian De Luna

The symbolic memory of the city is diversified. They each have their characteristics and own cultural symbols. Still, they all leave a deep mark in our minds, including urban historical evolution, urban construction achievements, urban natural landscapes, urban economic development, and residents’ lives. It has both natural and humanistic features. It has both physical and spiritual existence, which condenses human activities and will.

It is a challenge to save, record and compress these memories through the lens and release them through architecture. Elements such as buildings, roads, and green spaces together make up the city. In the book “Learning from Las Vegas”, Venturi first proposed the importance of these sign systems to the urban landscape. He said: “Markers can dominate space, but architecture is not enough because markers can form spatial relationships more than architectural forms. In this landscape, architecture becomes a symbol in space rather than a form in space. The ideology of the building becomes very small,’ markers should be big, and buildings should be small.

Urban waterlogging and drainage is an important work in urban construction and development. From the similarities and differences in comparison to the drainage of the area in philly, analyzed the relationship between them, return period of flood water cohesion, and the superposition of the rain and river flood water, rain and river flood water and outer river water and ground level to determine the technical problems, such as urban planning were discussed.

As the City of Philadelphia continues to grow and develop, changes in land use coupled with changing precipitation patterns are increasing the amount of stormwater runoff during rainfall events and altering the natural hydrologic regime. Increased stormwater leads to stream channel erosion, increased levels of pollutants entering the City’s streams Stormwater also creates other challenges, including increased carbon emissions as water is pumped through sewer systems and then treated in treatment plants.

Compound Curves and material copper make unique space inside of building. The goal are design the building that not only helps the society but also the environment, that helps city to clean up the river and water resource. The project can not only help organize the station but also for other purposes such as art exhibitions and publicity activities. The watertank (multiple pitched roof) and pipe guardrail (declaration on the facade) cooling down the staion during the hout summer time, the recycal system on teh roof guide the rain water into those tanks.

THE VOCAL MARKET

Farmers Market

Instructor: David Emmons

BUILDING TYPES

The land statues clearly show the building types surrounding the market. Large demand going to make the market become an indispensable part of urban life.

FARMS NEAR BY

The most important partner for the market is farmers. In the range of 5km, there are 11 farms around the farmers market which will provide abundant and fresh supply to the city.

VIBRANT CITY CENTRAL VIBRANT MARKET

VIBRANT CONNECTING

POPULATION FLOW

Bars represent the population in the area. The diagram is increasing from the side to the center. The high density of life is the symbol of active. The farmers market going to play an important role in society.

SOUND VIBRATION

Farmers Market is one of the most crowded areas in the city. Different times of the day, the city’s traffic is totally different. The market settlement will inject new vitality into the city.

EXPLODE STRUCTURE

SITE

The main pavilion of the market have three are, one is the gathering area for people have a talk or have a rest., another one is for small stalls which are the fruit is the last one is for big stalls which can for all the big item or goods that have many categories. In this design, I was trying to make all the space have their specific function, but also not want to separate them into different parts which are a big challenge. Finally, I came off the design to make several different box rooms and use a huge glass hall to cover the whole building which looks like an individual unit. The Green Forest Market is not only a market in the local, it still can be a landmark building. The theme of this market like the name, what people get touch close to nature. The market us lots of green plants andwood materials. Give all costumer’s a filling into the forest.

HYBRID LAND

“Living & Working” Community Square at New York

Instructor: Ben Krone

SITE

The project stands at Red Hook Grain Terminal. The project sit have several issues about transportation, flood, and Covid19. Residents waste hours travel to work everyday. People are highly encouraged to work remotely and at home. Duo function workspace mainly focused on the public space. Project organized the area nicely to support people have a flexible and convenient working and living experience-individual work zone province for desiqner and painter. Public workspace & cafe will be designed for writers and people who love to engage with people while working. Staircases hook on the exterior ribbons, which break people’s comfortable atmosphere from home, provide a transition from inside to outside to inside

UNIT TYPES

Three different unit types by assign to the apartment. The first two of the units are for single people who want to live and work in the studio, and the third unit is for the large family group

The corn design of this scheme is ribbons. Circulation, solar shade, and visual connection dominate by the ribbons. Smooth transition from the plate to the wall gives people a sense of sublime. The ribbon reaches out of the facade for residents in touch with nature even the covid stops people steps to going outside. The section shows the different possibilities of space. The library, and the cafeteria are locate in the building. The ample working space for the artist to use and also guide people to the roof. The unique studio provides different activity and unit type to fulfill resident needs.

THE SUBLIME

Concert Space

Instructor: Homa Farjadi

The packaged house prefabrication strategy during wartime using standardized pieces make worker assemble instead of the construct. The repeat language in the grapevine joints which were to produce the extreme scale of the vast metal hangars he designed for the US army after the war or for the transformations that the dream of overcoming walls and floors through the design the of the universal joint that enabled endless combinations of panels and tubes might offer new versions of horizontality in the cloud formations of architecture. The module in this project is carefully designed. The size of the module is designed in relation to the material. CLT is chosen for module production based on its high strength and low self-weight. Body interaction is carefully considered so that the module is also developed to become furniture and stairs. At the same time, the void on the module is created to allow light and air to flow throughout the space.

THE SUBLIME

The Sublime is inspired by Wachsmann’s packaged house, “The Abstract Sublime” by Robert Rosenblum, and our experience in Yosemite. Packaged house is a wartime proposal for prefabrication developed by Konrad Wachsmann. Interlocked hinge is used to combine standardized units. Wachsmann’s idea is to turn construction into assembly. We carefully studied the concept and construction logic of the system and applied the principle to our own work to develop our own module that eventually become the media to achieve the sublime.

The Project has long been discussed in relation to the artistic experience of works of art in landscape painting, referring to conditions of nature, evoking terror, astonishment, admiration, wonder, an evocation of infinity, overriding limits, boundaries, including aspects of nature which instill awe and wonder; as in mountains, avalanches, waterfalls, stormy seas, weather even, to articulate moments of mute encounter with all that exceeds our comprehension.

The design text we invite to the research process is the work of Konrad Wachsmann. Wachsmann considered himself an Anti- architect. He considered architecture ‘weighing people down with inherited frozen forms, rather than engaging them with new fluid networks of energy and information. In his mind solid immobile buildings needed to give way to something as delicate, mobile, and ephemeral as the smoke’. In Television he saw the promise of the post-architectural future, tangible clouds of interactive television signals would take architecture and unleash a new kind of society.

WACHSMANN INTERLOCKED HINGE

INTERLOCK HINGE DEVELOPMENT

STANDARDIZED PIECE DEVELOPMENT

STANDARDIZED PIECE DEVELOPMENT

WACHSMANN STANDARDIZED PIECE

WATERPROOFING

Use the standardized piece to connect with the glass mullion to achieve The waterproofing strategy. The glass boxs be assigned in different zones based on the program.

CLT is chosen for module production based on its high strength and low self-weight. The module is 3.5 inches thick, 3 feet in height, and 3 feet in width. This allows us to follow the dimension requirement of CLT while maintaining an aesthetic of lightness.

FURNITURE

There are many possibilities for our interlock systems. One of them is to become a furniture scale to interact with the human body.

STAIR

Another possibility is to become a stair strategy that people not only occupy from the stair. It also becomes part of our space. It could become a sitting around in a performance space and the rest area outside.

Different space qualities are created for outside and inside the system. This is inspired by our experience in Yosemite. When visiting Yosemite, it is impressive to feel the difference between outside and inside the forest. When we are outside, we are shocked by the huge mountain and its boundlessness.

SITE

The project is located in Philadelphia and next to the Schuylkill River. The site use to be the baseball fields on the hill surrounded by lots of trees. We achieve the sublime in multiple ways, the concept of our project is wholly about the eroded limit. this top view for the site shows how our project blurred into the landscape. Eroded boundary and figuration idea that intensity changed of the space throughout our plan.

DIAGRAM

This diagram shows the blurriness of the threshold, which is a design strategy for blurry walls, floors, and ceilings. All these strategies are achieved by our repeat modules. Completes occupiable depth through it stacking

X I A N G L I

OTHER WORKS (INTERNSHIP)

Commercial Design - Group work

Gansu Provincial Museum

Internship Project China Shanghai Architectural Design & Research Institute Co. Ltd 2019

The Project is designed for museum expansion. The Gansu Provincial Museum is in the shape of a mountain, with five floors in the middle and three floors in the two wings, followed by an exhibition hall and a circular lecture hall at the end. The exhibition hall has a 4-meter wide corridor on both sides, which is connected to the two wings. The building was designed by Soviet experts in a unique style. The provincial museum has a history hall, revolutionary cultural relics hall, nature hall, socialist construction exhibition hall, equipped with cultural relics storage room, Hanjian room, cultural relics laboratory reproduction room and relocation of the restored Wei-Jin tomb paintings in Jiayuguan.

Hohhot Culture Citizen Center

Internship Project China Shanghai Architectural Design & Research Institute Co. Ltd 2019

Hohhot Cultural citizen center is a collection of library, archives, folk culture exhibition hall, Fangzhi Museum, national youth palace, performing arts center, public exhibition gallery, related supporting services and parking garage, etc. The whole building forms a complete circular volume, showing Inner Mongolia’s history, culture and humanities technology in an all-round way in front of the public, forming an extremely bright visual focus on the map, and after completion will become super-large tourism and cultural complex in Hohhot, providing a good open cultural place for local residents and ideal hardware conditions for the construction of spiritual civilization.