XINDI LYU Carnegie Mellon SoA | 2017-2018 Selected Works
Resume / CV
Contact
Address
Education
SMC 1798 5000 Forbes Ave, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA Or Building 15, Room 606, Huaqingjiayuan, Wudaokou, Haidian District, Beijing, CHN
Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA Bachelor of Architecture - Expected Graduation May 2022 The High School Affiliated to Renmin University of China Beijing, CHN Highschool Degree - Graduated Jul 2017
Phone +1 4127261328 E-Mail xindil@andrew.cmu.edu
Honors
Out Standing Holistic Performance Award Shanghai, CHN 2015 China Thinks Big Competition, semi final Shangahi, China Runner-Up Beijing, CHN 2016 Space Settlement Design Competition Beijing, China Works Exhibited at NAAB Exhibition Pittsburgh, PA 2018 For Course 48-126Drawing II
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Experience
Volunteering Yunnan, CHN The conservation and regeneration of historic village settlement in Mapingguan town, Yunnan, China 2014 - 2016 DId the survey of local cultural traditions, customs and settlement patterns. Was responsible for doing the residential building sketches. Participated in the design of the new village center. Internship Beijing, CHN Architectural Design & Research instituete of Tsinghua University, Beijing, China 2017 Did the architecture Rendering and postproduction for the "Housing Industrialization" project. Designed the presentation template for the "Housing Industrialization" project.
Activities
Skills
Poster Design For Hbitiat For Humanity, fund raising for Texas Hurrican Harvey
Digital AutoCAD, Rhinoceros 3D, VRay for Rhino, Grasshopper for Rhino, Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, Revi, SketchUp Analog & Fabrication Sketching, Perspective Drawing, Drafting, Laser Cutting, Woodshop, Model Making, CNC Milling Languages English, Mandarin
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Works
Carnegie Mellon SoA | 2016 - 2018
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The Frick Park Pavilion PG 6 - 17
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Magnolia PG 18 - 27
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Folded Garden
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Urban Agriculture Center PG 32 - 41
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Art Pavilion PG 42 - 47
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The Frick Park Pavilion
Carnegie Mellon SoA | Spring 2018 | Instructor: Kai Gutschow In this project we are we are required to design a small piece of architecture in a natural setting, which would be one of the three existing parks in Pittsburgh. The goal is to create a wood pavillion to perform certain functions and generate certain effects appropriate for the site. This pavillion creates a space for the teenagers in summer camp to get engaged with the natural enviroment in Frick park, contiaining two decksattached to the hill side and the Fern Hollow Creek, and two disscussion & educational places under the sheltered space, one concentrate'd on studying and observing the trees in Frick park, the other o n e c o n c e n t r a t e d o n s t u d y i n g t h e s t r e a m o f w a t e r.
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Site Location Frick Park is the largest municipal park in Pitssburgh, covering an area of 644 acres, it is also one of the four historic large parks in Pttsburgh. In a city that Frick helped to industrialize, it is one of the few areas of steep ravines and mature woods that remain relatively undisturbed, forming a nature reserve of native plants and abundant wildlife. Owls, amphibians, wild turkey, fox, and many mammal species are found in the park.. .
This is the mental map of Frick Park. The white line represents the silhouette of the park, which is practically a natural undomesticated area within the urban context. The Yellow lines are bus routes and major trafic routes around the area, showing the relationship between the urban area and the park by indicating the way people can approach one from the other. 8
This is the collage of the surroundings near the selected slope for the site of the pavilion
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First Floor Plan The first floor connects to a deck on which people have direct access to the creek
The natural landscape of Frick Park Second Floor Plan The second floor connects directly to the slope, making it possible for people to get close interactions with the trees. 10
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The Concept Diagram, showing how the for of the design is inspired from the surrounding enviroments
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Magnolia
Carnegie Mellon SoA | Fall 2018 | Instructor: Jonathan Kline Team members: Olivia Werner, Xindi Lyu, Fanjie(Mike) Jin, Yichen(Andrew) Xu, Zeyin(Steven) Fei In the span of five weeks, I wored in a team of five from the start to the finish of creating this hoop house: Magnolia. We designed and constructed this hoop house with EMT tubing for the frame and plastic water proofing for the membrane in order to provide protection for a plant bed within Phipps Conservertory.
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The Site plantbed is located in the eadible garden of the Phipps Consercertory. The hand drawn diagrams and the shadow diagrams are used to understand the condition of the site and how it interact with the suroundings and the way it is affected by the general flow of wind, rain and shadow.
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Design Processs Our concept is focused on creating a “Plant Community“, which is to generate a shelter that incorporates the plants’ biological draining system in order to guide rain and snow off the structure in preventing any possible damages the plastic membrane. With sketches and study models I experimented several compositions of mimicing leaf shapes and structures during the designe process. The general focus is to think about where the “veins“ would be on the shelter..
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Our finaldesign has four leaf pedals with different sizes and increasing tillt angles on each side on the long elevations, one side is oriented the opposite form the other. The two larges petals on each side funtion as “doors“, granting the access for the gardener “Mike“ to take care of the plants inside. Between two sides are major and secondary cross bracings for stablizaing the wole structure, as well creating the centural vein structure on the design. The genral form also incorporated the gothic aesthetic of Phipps Conservertory.
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1. EMBED ALL GROUND ANCHORS
2. PLACING ASSEMBLED STRUCTURE IN THE SITE
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These construction drawings are created to aid for us to better understand the design as well as aiding us during the construction process. These drawings are are oriented in strict order to help us keep track of the contruction.
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03 Folded Garden
Carnegie Mellon SoA | Fall 2018 | Instructor: Jonathan Kline We are required to create a planter specifically for our assigned plant in this two week long project. We were required to work with plastic and wires and based on the nature of these materias and the unique charactueristics of our assigned plant. I was assigned the curry plant which is a meditaranian plant that favors large amount of sumlight and dry soil. Therefore I designed the planter in its current form to provide the most appropriate yet artistic solution for the furrther display of the plant.The curry plant I have is originated from Meditaranian region where it favors sunlight, rocky landscape and sand.
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The general shape of this design is insipred by the form and the nature of my curry plant. THe plant itselt was naturally and beautifully curved generally in thes same direction. Also the plant itself favors dry soil and a good amount of sunlight for its grow enviroment, for which I integrated the curve idea for the design with and created a small canopy on top and a draining system at the bottom.
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The right side of the planter is designed to cooperated with the for and growth off the plant and the canopy at the left in the image above is generally for blocking some of the rainwater for mainting a relatively dry growing enviroment for the plant.
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04 Urban Agriculture Center Carnegie Mellon SoA | Fall 2018 | Instructor: Jonathan Kline
This urban agriculture center is consisting of three programs which includes the office building, the farmers’ market and the grow area. The three conditioned areas are arrayed on the site with the office building at northside in avoiding the noises and the greenhouse promised with consistent sun light at the south side, and the market are in the middle of the site, granting access for people anywhere on the site. The three buildings are each independent to each other yet are rotated in their placements, forming two plazas facing to both of the directions that comes in vast amount of customers. The connected roof top of the agriculture center is inspired by the typical rain roofs, after transformation with its more dynamic form now it creates a unique aesthetic for the park.
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2018 FALL Steve Wang Amanda Cheng XindiLyu Sam Losi Tai Manheim Juhi Dhanesha Lukas Hermann Elijah King Veronica Hernandez Vivian Teng
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4,687 / 32,696 of Pittsburgh’s Units Are in East Liberty
“Yes, East Liberty has changed a lot. My grandparents hung out here when they were dating. It seems to have economically gone full circle, but I don’t think it’s becasue anyone is taking over. I don’t think anyone’s taking our territory.” - Zach Restelli, Project Manager + Developer at Regent Penn and Resident of East Liberty
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Overtime, the reputation of the neighborhood declined, causing property values to drop and crime to increase. It became viewed as a place to avoid. In an effort to revitalize the neighborhood, the East Liberty Development Inc. released their plans for the neighborhood in 1999 that advocated for the implementation of large corporate retail. It created huge controversy and there was an uproar amongst the locals of East Liberty. In particular, many African Americans in the neighborhood were affected because they had to worry about being displaced or priced out of their homes. Tensions rose as East Liberty’s only high rise buildings were systematically brought to the ground to make room for upscale housing. As planned, the retail stores went up and had now ex-resident pushback every step of the way.
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Home to Pittsburgh’s high end retail stores, East Liberty of the early 1900s was a thriving “second downtown.” But when a plan for a large scale shopping mall began to take effect, high tax rates and low customer influx in the 1960’s caused much of the local business in East Liberty to either close shop or relocate. Around the same time, an event dubbed as the “White Flight” was occuring. As caucasians moved out, East Liberty’s black population slowly became the majority in the neighborhood.
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As opposed to racial demographics, the gender demographics of East Libertyhave generally stayed constant over the past 30 years.
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The diagrams show the comparison between Walnut Street in Shadyside and the Penn intersection near Target in East Liberty. The segment of East Liberty shown is fairly representative of the rest of the area. One can see how car centric East Liberty is, with stop lights on nearly every block. Comparatively, Walnut Street is much more walkable, with a focus on crosswalks and pedestrian accessibility.
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Before the East Liberty Development Inc. (ELDI) plan was implemented in 1999, many small market locations populated East Liberty, totalling somewhere in between 20,000 and 40,000 square feet. Their food was supplied by local farms just miles outside of the city. However, after the ELDI plan was put into effect, many major corporations moved into East Liberty, starting with The Home Depot and including Giant Eagle, Whole Foods, Target, ALDI’s, and Trader Joe’s. These corporations get their food from all over the country and their construction displaced many local residences. The introduction of these massive corporations fueled the transition of the district from residential to commercial.
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05 Art Pavilion
Carnegie Mellon SoA | Fall 2017 | Instructor: Gerard Damiani In this project we are required to design a pavilion for the displayment of a painting along with the garden in which the pavilion is located. The project is devided into two phases, in the first phase of the project we are randomly assigned a painting from the middle ages that shows perspective and spatial experience to analyze and study. In the second phase we are to design a pavilion and the garden for the "owner" of the painting for her to contenplate and display the painting. The task is to create a spatial approach to the painting that is in coherence to the spatial characteristic, proportion and atmosphere of the painting.
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In this assignment analytical drawings and a model were created according to an assigned painting. In this page are the selected drawings and picture of the perspective model of my assigned painting Card Players in a Sunlit Room by Pieter de Hooch.
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