Xindi Lyu Portfolio 2021 by Xindi Lyu

XINDI LYU Carnegie Mellon University School of Architecture PORTFOLIO 2017-2020

XINDI LYU Education

+01-4127261328 Email: xindil@andrew.cmu.edu

Bachlor of Architecture

Room 409/4716 Ellsworth Ave Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 15213

Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh PA

GPA 3.5/4.0

01 A Home Is Not A House

Carnegie Mellon F20 ASOS [Propinquity] A Home Is Not A House Instructor: Gerard Damiani

Expected graducation date: June 2022

High School Degree

CONTENT

Highschool Affiliated to Renmin University of China, Beijing, CHN

Graduated July 2017

Skills

Graphic

Adobe Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, Premeir Pro, Indesign), Microsoft Office, Vray, Enscape,

Physical Analog

Internship

Rhino & Grasshopper, Sketchup, Revit Hand Drawing, Model Making, Laser Cutting, 3-D Printing

Origin-Architect

Beijing, China

Responsible for physical model making, researching, digital model making and etc, worked on multiple project teams.

Architectural Design & Research instituete of Tsinghua University

Beijing, China

Did the architecture Rendering and postproduction for the "Housing Industrialization" project. Designed the presentation template for the "Housing Industrialization" project.

NAAB Exhibition

Pittsburgh, Pensylvania

May 2018 Works Exhibited

China Thinks Big Competition May 2018

03 Weather Museum of Six Mile Island

Carnegie Mellon S18 Core Studio Sacco Lake Bath Instructor: Jeremy Ficca

05 B-Rise Pittsburgh, Pensylvania

Carnegie Mellon S19 Core Studio Ecology, Form and Feedback Instructor: Dana Cupkova

04 Sacco Lake Bath House

June 2017 to August 2017

Carnegie Mellon S18 Core Studio Urban Hostel Instructor: Jeremy Ficca

English & Mandarin

May 2018 to July 2018

Honors

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Digital Modeling

Language

02 Urban Hostel

Carnegie Mellon S20 Epic Metals Competition

Carnegie Mellon F20 ASOS [Propinquity] A Home Is Not A House Instructor: Gerard Damiani 4

01 A Home Is Not A House The Inter-connected Neighborhood

Reimagining Architecture as a Mechanical Interface Following Reynner Banham’s critique on contemporary architectural construction, the primary concern is its multiple limitations preventing further integration of any additional features except for maintaining the very minimal to meet with the most basic requirements for human comfort. They are static, unattached to the urban context, and hardly can they be responsive to needs of their inhabitants. This rigid and cumbersome configuration has put exceptional constraints on the livelihood of the elder population. Without the same level of physical wellness as the younger people to get around the stiff and unfriendly urban landscape, many elderlies are isolated from the public by the static architectural confinements. The number of Americans age 65 and older will more than double within the next 40 years, reaching 80 million in 2040. In the following decades, as the urban population continues to densify, and as cases of senior isolation rise and gradually elicit social awareness, neighborhoods needs to be completely reconfigured In order to fully readapt to the condensed urban landscape and restore the elder generation’s public engagement. The selected site, New York city, provides an ideal environment for me to carry out this concept for a re-configurated neighborhood, for its condensed population and overused urban landscape urges the integration of a new form of collective dwelling.

In order to create an alternative construct for a self-sufficient dwelling system, I decide to reconfigure the architecture composition by adapting to the formal and organizational logic of electric circuits. The traditionally segregated interior and public spaces are integrate as the traditionally concealed mechanical system becomes the structure, circulation, and control network of the architecture, in which case the traditional constructional elements are reduced to the very minimum, architecture meets the end of its existence, and reincarnates in the form of a machine. The new composition of the architectural system is constructed based on the console logic, living units and public spaces are introduced as components, placed and programmed according to the system hierarchy.

STRUCTURE

TRANSPORTATION Structural Connection

Elevator Platform

Maintennence

Services

Commute

The central supporting structure extends through the vertical axis of the neighborhood

On the outside, the relatively condensed residential environment is surrounded by volumes of public programs loosely defined by semi transparent membranes that are attached to the system. The facade of skyscrapers has ceased to be what Banham sees it as being a screen with hardly any functional purposes, and becomes a habitable element, wrapping around the core living area.

EQUIPPED FACILITIES The collected resources are then processed and distributed to each individual living unit through the piping structure. The system is also equipped with recycling tanks to allow for secondary use and selfsufficiency

The skin of the neighborhood also functions as an infrastructural interface, where the environmentally responsive machine tectonics are attached to extract, regulates and utilizes the water and other particles from the atmosphere. The module is composed with a responsive wind funnel and a thin layer of filter, the two orientational directions of the module allows it to perform as the input and output facility, which helps leverages the balance of the regenerative cycle of the core infrastructure.

EQUIPPED FACILITIES

The public platforms of the living core extend out and carve into the façade volume, which opens up and redefines the form of this barrier and creates a more direct interaction relationship between the community and the surrounding urban context. The openings are arranged according to site orientation in relationship to the sun.

On the inside, each individual living units are formed and defined by two responsive wall panels which bears the subsystems branching out from the main pipe. The living environment in between is controlled and regulated according to the specific needs and conditions of its residents.

Carnegie Mellon S18 Core Studio Urban Hostel Instructor: Jeremy Ficca 12

02 Urban Hostel Weaving the Boundaries Between the Old and New

Reconnecting a Neighborhood to its Historical Legacy This project attempts to explore the relationship between the the past, present and future of a existing site context through the juxtaposition of the old and new. The selected site is an existing building shell located in Pittsburgh, and by extablishing a new urban hostel upon that self standing facade, we aim to revitalize the inherited historical value within the original artifact of building shell. By creating an internal courtyard between the old and the new, this urban hostel not only manages to engage with the local neighborhood, but also the the historical legacy of Pittsburgh as a whole.

3/32’‘ = 1’

1 3 2

1 6

2 1. Storage room 2. Kitchen 3. Cafe 4. Dining area 5. Meeting area 6. Bike rent/storage

1. Library 2. Gaming area

3/32’‘ = 1’

The internalized courtyard allows the guests to access and experience various key features of the hostel, such as the cafe,serving as a place where they can enjoy and experience outdoor activities. In addition, the extruded windows on the concreate wall of the court yard provides natural daylighting to each individual rooms. They also provides additional seating areas along thethreashold of the public and private, the old and the new, allowing a more intimate perspective for the residents to engage with the existing brick wall in their private hostel rooms.

Carnegie Mellon S19 Core Studio Ecology, Form and Feedback Instructor: Dana Cupkova 16

03 Weather Museum of Six Mile Island Architecture as an Ecological Intervention

Ecology, Form and Feedback

This projects closely examines architecture's integrative and regulative potential under a greater ecological context. The selected site for this experiment is the six mile island located on Allegeny River in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Through a seires of mapping studies, environmental simulations and digramatic analysis, we aim to understand how the force of the micro-climate around the island shapes and forms the site, and how that resulting from reciporocally provides environmental feedback to the ecosystem. The following mapping study is a visualization of the alignment between climate forces and the and the ecological feedbacks around the site. It maps out the flood zones, erosion patterns, vegetation coverages, rain water drainages and the general flow of the Allegheny River.

The Six Mile Island and its surrounding ecosystem has long been troubled by the continuous influx of pollutants coming from the adjacendt sewage outflows along the river. It is expected that a new climate museum as an architectural intervension, informed by the existing ecosystem of the island, will be integrated to to provide possitive environmental feedbacks to its surrounding site. This idea is carried out through analyzing the working principle and formal construct of bioswales uder three different scales within the micro, meso and macro systems of ecological landscapes.Its effective and highly variable form is further in response to the existing condition of the island, translated into habitable structures.

+ vegetation

+clean water + natural habitat

+ better veiw

+O2

-CO2

SLOW

DETENSION

PROTECTION

FILTRATION

INFILTRATION

REMEDIATION

Vegetation Overflow grabe Soil mix Filter fabric Gravel mix Underground drain

+ vegetation

Storm water+poluution

CITY STORM

REMEDIATION

out flow

+ pollution + water + sediment

DETENSION

-CO2 +O2 + vegetation

absorbed

SLOW

- water - sediment

FILTRATION

deposition

+clean water

RIVER SEWERAGE

INFILTRATION

REDESIGNED PARTS

CISTERN + spacial experience + extensiveness

+ water path + processing time

SLOW /DETENTION Channel Bifurcations

Remediation Parcels

SOIL TEXTURE Resilient System

REMEDIATION/PROTECTION

SLOW DETENSION

REMEDIATION FILTRATION+INFILTRATION CISTERN

DENTION + INTILTRATION

FILTRATION TEXTURE

RE-CONFIGURATED SYSTEM

FILTRATION /INFILTRATION

SLOW DETENSION SLOW /FILTRATION /INFILTRATION

REMEDIATION FILTRATION+INFILTRATION CISTERN

Carnegie Mellon S18 Core Studio Sacco Lake Bath Instructor: Jeremy Ficca 21

04 Sacco Lake Bath House The Intimacy of Materiality

The bath house is situated on the steep landscape of the northern Appalachian mountains, along the northern edge of Saco Lake and locaated within hte geologically significant Crawford Notch, where is also densely vegetated through out the site. The Sacco Lake bath utilizes the given material palette, which is consisted of concrete and wood, to create an atmosphericinterior space for its visitors to experience bathing and sauna services. The bath house is placed at the edge of the lake with its basins reaching out to the water surface, this creates a seamless sense of connection between the customers and the lake itself. The plan as well as the general form of the bath house are all generated from a shape of a spiral, which allows the roof to naturally opens up two large slits of apatures, providing a cast amount of natural daylight and also frames the view of the mountainsn around the landscape.

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1”=1/8’

1"=1/4'

B-RISE

self-sustain its electricunder power. When fully transformed into the final form, the outer layer can house the major research and teachingability area.toThis area is situated a series of PV panels on operable roofs, which allows the semi-enclosed space to provide a comfortable learning environment, while having the Metal deck and panels are used extensively in this lab, for is flooring, roofing and many environmental features, including rain water gardenability to self-sustain its electric power. ing and testing. These would not be possible without the highly durable and water-resistant nature of these metal products. In addition, the light-weight structure is alsogardeneasy to assemble/disassemble, and travel to other enducational sites in Pittsburgh. Metal deck and panels are used extensively in this lab, for is flooring, roofing and many environmental features, metal including rain water ing and testing. These would not be possible without the highly durable and water-resistant nature of these metal products. In addition, the light-weight metal structure is also easy to assemble/disassemble, and travel to other enducational sites in Pittsburgh.

05 B-Rise

The lab is designed facilitate the envionmental learning which takes place at the ELC, August Wilson Park. Consisting of two layers of en-

Carnegie Mellon S20 Epic Metals Competition velopes, this lab aims to create more space out of the small volume. A track mechanism is introduced so that the inner layer can be slid out Team member: Yuxin Huang, Xindi Lyu and expand into a sheltered learning space. Embraced by an abundance of plants on the metal growing frame, this learning space thus serves as an observatory deck to survey the impact of air quality on growth.

B-RISE

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Toris EPIC Metal Floor Deck

Envista Timberlok Floor Deck

is flooring, roofing and many environmental features, including rain water gardenghly durable and water-resistant nature of these metal products. In addition, the semble, and travel to other enducational sites in Pittsburgh. Toris EPIC Metal Roof Deck

Toris EPIC Metal Roof Deck

Widedeck WPA

Glulam Ribs

Widedeck WPA

Glulam Ribs

Toris EPIC Metal Floor Deck

Envista Timberlok Floor Deck

ETAIL

TAILS Install storage volume, shelvings and water gutters accordingly.

ASSEMBLY SEQUENCE

Insert primary structures, followed by secondary beams and columns to form the outer layer of envelope.

DETAILS DETAILS DETAILS DETAILS Unfold the ramp, and operate the roof according to natural ventilation.

Unfold the ramp, and operate the roof according to natural ventilation. Install PV panels on the outer roof.

TRANSFORMATION SEQUENCE

Unfold the ramp, and operate the roof according to natural Install glass panels onto the structures of the inner layer, ventilation.

Slide out the inner envelope.

forming a semi-enclosed space. Also install the metal growing frame on the outside.

Insert structures for the inner layer of envelope. Also attach the benches in place.

Open the front door towards both the top and bottom.

TRACK DETAIL

PISTON DETAIL

ROOF DETAIL

TRACK DETAIL

Install storage volume, shelvings and water gutters accordingly.

TRACK DETAIL

DETAILS DETAILS DETAILS DETAILS

PISTON DETAIL

ROOF DETAIL

Unfold the ramp, and operate the roof according to natural ventilation.

Install PV panels on the outer roof.

TRANSFORMATION SEQUENCE

Slide out the inner envelope.

PISTON DETAIL

ROOF DETAIL

Open the front door towards both the top and bottom.

TRACK DETAIL TRACK DETAIL

PISTON DETAIL

ROOF DETAIL RAMP DETAIL

Unfold the ramp, and operate the roof according to natural ventilation.

PISTON DETAIL

ROOF DETAIL RAMP DETAIL