Xingying Chen_Selected Works 2016-2024

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| Xingying Chen

selected works from 2016 to 2024 | Harvard GSD MAUD 24', Hunan University BArch 21'

CONTENT

Academic Work

Architecture or the City

Professional Work

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Adaptive Reuse of Vacant Buildings into Housing Design in Downtown Sao Paulo

Public Topping

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17

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University Stadium Design

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Liberal College Residential Study & Planning Vision

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Binjiang New Town C9 Block High-rise Building

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High-rise and Sustainable Building Design

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Shanghai Animation Film Studio Office Interior Design

Iceland Greenhouse Restaurant Competition

Boundary "Line"

Downtown Waterville Vision Plan

Campus Planning and Building Design

South Boston Urban Design - Urban Cores in Transition

Iceland Greenhouse Restaurant

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Community Revitalization Urban Design

Westwood Urban Redevelopment - Urban Periphery in Flux

In & Out Urban Thresholds

Diagon Bathhouse Lake Sabago Bathhouse Concept Design

New York Affordable Housing (NYCHA) Densification Development

Blue-green Sprawl

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Fishing Center Design & Bamboo Design and Construction

Post-naval Base Urban Redevelopment & Housing Design

"Public" Housing

Yu House(built)

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Academic Work

Architecture or the City Post-naval Base Urban Redevelopment & Housing Design Alameda Point, CA, USA Instructor: Preston Scott Cohen Harvard Graduate School of Design | SPRING 2024

In the heart of Alameda Point, a post-navy site under ongoing environmental cleanup, lies an opportunity to transform an underserved community into a vibrant urban sanctuary. This project envisions a seamless integration of landscape and architecture, leveraging the site’s unique proximity to the waterfront to create a continuum that enhances community interaction and enriches residents’ lives.

The core of this design is the concept of landscape-driven morphology. The middle of the site, currently under environmental rehabilitation, becomes a non-orthogonal expanse of green stripes featuring parks, plazas, and sports courts that extend from the existing neighborhood to the waterfront. This approach not only preserves the orthogonal grid but also integrates ongoing developments with the site, fostering a harmonious urban landscape.

Urban Scheme - Landscape-driven Morphology

Large Landscape & Small Cortyard Strategically placed large footprints and long bar buildings along the periphery of the central landscape maximize the advantages of the waterfront and green spaces. Within this framework, inner courtyards for each block provide residents with a sense of living in the landscape, ensuring every building has a view and easy access to open spaces.

The design juxtaposes large open spaces with intimate courtyards, and street wall buildings with small footprint townhouses, creating a dynamic urban morphology. Unique architectural forms emerge from non-orthogonal moves, with corner buildings featuring distinctive angles that interact with the central landscape, creating focal points at crossroads. By lowering building corners and lifting the central ground, the architecture becomes an extension of the landscape, while the landscape integrates with the buildings.

Bicycle Route

Large Landscape

Small Cortyard

Large Landscape & Bar Buildings

Driveway

Small Cortyard & Townhouses

Walkway

Proposed Urban Scheme

Zoom-in Axon

Block-scale Operation - Crossing as Activity Center Each corner building, with its untypical roof and form, transforms into small pavilions or terraced urban landscapes, creating special moments throughout the site. The central lifted ground serves as a gathering space, hosting events on weekends and functioning as a circulatory and recreational space during the day.

Corner Building-transforming into small pavilions

Massing Process

Corner Building Typology

Central Lifted Ground-corner buildings meet the ground

Corner Buildings Bird’s Eye View

Building-scale Housing Design - Unit as Urban Continuity The detailed design of the buildings, inspired by the skip-stop interlock units, ensures views of both the central landscape and inner courtyards. This holistic approach not only provides visual contrast but also offers residents a peaceful and enriching urban experience, redefining Alameda Point as a true urban oasis.

Double-height 1b unit

Double-height 2b unit

Skip-stop 2b unit

Studio unit

View of Entrance

"Public" Housing Adaptive Reuse of Vacant Buildings into Housing Design in Downtown Sao Paulo Sao Paulo, Brazil Instructor: Cristian Muniz, Fernando Viegas Harvard Graduate School of Design | FALL 2023

The project aimed at revitalizing Sao Paulo’s urban core by repurposing vacant buildings into vibrant residential communities. Faced with the twin challenges of housing affordability and underutilization of public spaces, the design seeks to address these issues head-on.

A pilot project, centered around a former hotel and cinema complex, serves as a tangible example of this approach. By preserving the building’s architectural heritage while integrating contemporary amenities, the project demonstrates the transformative power of housing in catalyzing urban renewal.

Through strategic interventions such as ground-floor activations and rooftop gardens, a downtown is envisioned that not only provides housing but also fosters a sense of belonging and community engagement.

Vacant Buildings Reoccupation The proposed strategy for reoccupying vacant buildings in downtown Sao Paulo revolves around maximizing space utilization and community integration.

By repurposing existing structures, particularly on the ground floor, and infilling them with housing units, the plan aims to breathe new life into neglected areas.

Additionally, creating public programs on upper levels fosters connectivity with the surrounding community, transforming the city into a vibrant hub. This approach not only optimizes urban space but also addresses housing shortages, potentially accommodating 1959 units.

Furthermore, leveraging vacant plots for new construction could further expand housing availability, revitalizing downtown Sao Paulo while enhancing its accessibility and functionality for residents.

Reoccupation in Urban Scale - showing vacant lands and buildings in downtown Sao Paulo

Urban Section (before & after reoccupation) - adding more housing units and making public ground more permeable

Public Ground The ground level is basically using the original cinema space as a way to create larger flexible gathering space for residents and the public, totally open the ground floor entrance, remove the part of the cinema rooftop to create a garden in the building. And the rooftop of the cinema will also serve as an outdoor collective space for the public. People can take the elevator to access it.

Semi-outdoor Garden

Community Theater & Semi-outdoor Garden

Semi-outdoor Garden

Community Theater

Rooftop Garden

Community Meeting Space

Community Exhibition Space

Main Entrance & Underground Exhibition Space

Adaptable Plans

Shared Atrium

In selecting a vacant building, formerly a hotel featuring a cinema

To optimize the utilization of the original atriums, the design elimi-

on the ground floor, as the pilot project for testing adaptive reuse

nates select units on every third floor on either the north or south

strategies, the primary objective is to preserve the existing structural

sides, thereby establishing a centralized shared space flooded with

integrity while reimagining the interior layout into versatile, adapt-

natural sunlight. These atriums serve not only as communal areas

able units.

for residents but also foster a coworking lifestyle.

Double-height Unit

Communal Kitchen

New Facade & Communal Life To enhance the facade, the original rhythm is reconfigured to imbue it with greater transparency and a lighter aesthetic. A new shading system is introduced to improve ventilation and provide necessary shading where required. For the collective spaces at mid-level and rooftop, frosted glass is utilized to strike a delicate balance between privacy and transparency, enhancing the ambiance of these communal areas.

Shrinked Floor Plate

Rooftop Swimming Pool

Water Recreational Skygarden

Added Balcony & Shared Space

Community Theater

Community Meeting Space

Underground Exhibition Space

New Facade

Entrance

Public Topping New York Affordable Housing (NYCHA) Densification Development Baruch Houses, Mahattan, NY, USA Instructor: Dirk van Gameren Harvard Graduate School of Design | SPRING 2023 Team Member: Yuno Cho, Andrew Lee, Tracy Miao

This project re-imagines the current urban renewal framework of the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) development through a reclamation of usable open space to preserve the essence of the “NYCHA Towers-in-the-Park” model.

This usable space reclamation takes on two interlinked trajectories: 1) define the proposed densification and extension in direct relation with the existing NYCHA land building coverage ratio, 2) to posit the “defensible plinth” as an act of liberation for NYCHA residents – the program ushering in a movement of social empowerment, the architectural expression standing as a resistance to the discriminatory policies which kept well-considered design exclusive to the wealthy, and the physical structure a defense against the rising sea levels.

Site Plan Strategy - re-imagining “Towers in the Park” Extensions have been added to the existing Baruch House, however, these additions address primarily the missing social programs, rather than the ongoing housing crisis of the NYCHA development, programs including offices, multi-purpose space, and small daycare center.

This project re-imagines the plinth as an object that resembles NYCHA parks in “Towers in the Park”, a plinth that acts as an housing amenities and local retails extension serving the Baruch House residents.

1. Preserving Baruch House’s “Towers in the Park”

2. Defensible Plinth and Accessible Bridge

3. Social Programs & Housing Extension Baruch House (Proposed) Area: 27.64 Acres Density: 8980 Building Coverage: 19.5% FAR: 5.5 Units: 3996 1 Bedroom: 1968 2 Bedroom: 1506 3 Bedroom: 522 # of Buildings: 17 Max. Building Height: 17

4. Sea Level Rise Incremental Adaptation Plan

Baruch House Extension - Plinth

Open Space Strategy - retrofitting the large-scale site and historical buildings

In response to the concern of vertical extensions impacting the public realm daylight, horizontal extensions (left) are proposed where affordable one and two bedroom units are provided. The second level of the Baruch House programmatically connects the plinth by “opening up” and introducing multi-purpose space where community events can occur.

Activated Stormwater Collection Park This project revitalize and activates existing underneath Williamsburg bridge flyover, one that is primarily used for parallel parking. Surveying the topographic condition, the lowest section of the open space will be converted into stormwater collection system.

Ground Level (+0mm)

Accessible Public Recreation Center Plinth Courtyard

Plinth Interior

Existing Baruch Bathhouse, that was abandoned since 1959, is proposed to be retrofitted for publicly accessible swimming pool, and community center, in response to the surrounding privately-operated recreational programs.

Baruch House Extension - Mass Timber Addition & Relocated Mechanical Roof The hurricane Sandy had damaged on all Baruch House utility ground floors which had caused eletrical supply outtage for the residents for few months. In response, this project proposes relocation of the utilities to mechanical roof (level 15, in between the old and new), where it serves as an accessible skygarden for the Baruch House residents.

Mass Timber Addition

Relocated Mechanical Roof (Skygarden)

Add-on Balcony as In-between Space

Extension Level 15 (+45000mm) Communal Lounge

Plinth

Extension Fragment - showing main housing extension strategies

Mass Timber Addition Exterior

Relocated Mechanical Roof (Skygarden)

Baruch House Extension - Communal Lounge

Baruch House Extension - Balcony as In-between Space

Brick weathering occures near window opening and building parapet, this project proposes “In between Space” which serves two purpose: 1) to propose balcony as an extension of living room for two to three bedroom units with large families, 2) to act as a secondary thermal protection on Baruch House building facade facing South.

Brick weathering occures near window opening and building parapet, this project proposes “In between Space” which serves two purpose: 1) to propose balcony as an extension of living room for two to three bedroom units with large families, 2) to act as a secondary thermal protection on Baruch House building facade facing South.

Typical Level B (Level 3-14)

Demolition Plan

Communal Lounge (Student Lounge)

Add-on Balcony

Blue-green Sprawl Westwood Urban Redevelopment Urban Periphery in Flux Westwood, MA, USA Instructor: Alex Yuen Harvard Graduate School of Design | FALL 2022 Team Member: Donguk Lee, Leo Li

American Suburbia is primarily criticized for its reliance on automobile travel, resulting in traffic congestion, environmental degradation, and social isolation. The absence of walkable and mixed-use spaces diminishes community interaction and exacerbates urban sprawl. This design paradigm increases infrastructure costs and reduces the efficiency of public services. The prevailing suburban design in the US, characterized by extensive cul-de-sacs and dense vegetation strips along the periphery to prevent trespassing, confines suburban life radius to the boundaries of individual properties.

By blue-green sprawling, as a solution, we could interconnect segregated areas which may have different land use and have an opportunity to achieve ecological richness by linking patched wildlife and mankind habitats.

Suburban Failure - exploring hard and soft boundaries

Hard

Like many suburbs in the United States, we found the same miserable scene from Westwood. Proximity does not mean pedestrian accessibility. The absence of walkable and mixed-use spaces diminishes community interaction and exacerbates urban sprawl. This design paradigm increases infrastructure costs and reduces the efficiency of public services.

Even though there is a nearby shopping center, there is no connection. Residents in Westwood drove their cars rather than allow to have pedestrian access which may occur trespassing issues. In addition, there is no pedestrian access to amazing natural resources nearby - Blue Hill Reservation and Neponset River.

Topography

Vertical Barrier

Road(Highway)

Rail Road

Building

Property Line

I DO NOT WANT TO DRIVE A CAR FOR GROCERIES. WHY MY TOWN IS NOT WALKABLE !

IT IS SOOOOO UNCONNECTED FROM NEARBY AMENITIES AND NATURAL RESOURCES.

Single-use Zoning

Flooding Risk

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DISCONNECTION DERIVES FROM VARIOUS BOUNDARIES AROUND US.

HARD VS. SOFT

Topography Single-use Zoning

Flooding Risk

Surface Water

Thick Vegetation

Road(Highway)

SITE

A new model of bridging isolated suburban towns to expand their residents’ life radius to explore the wider world around them and find a way to live together with neighbors and wildlife even.

Soft

“Proximity does not mean accessibility.”

Re-imagining the Disconnected Site - Suburban Eco-tourism The shrinking suburban area will be transformed into an attractive getaway spot for potential tourists living in the City of Boston by incorporating various recreational facilities, providing meaningful educational programs, and preparing eco-friendly accommodations.This initiative presents a significant opportunity for the Westwood community to enhance their living welfare by promoting walkable neighborhoods and linking to accessible nature. To encourage longer stays beyond one-night, different themed villages will offer diverse lodging facilities: About-the-Eco; In-the-Eco; and By-the-Eco.

Low-rise Apartments Mixed-use Complex

Observation Tower By-the-Eco Village

In-the-Eco Village

Existing Westwood Neighborhood

Boardwalk Water Recreation Center

About-the-Eco Village

Retention Pond

Low-rise Apartments Shopping Mall Route128/University Park Station

Rolling Hills

New Suburban Neighborhood

Recreational Lake

White Cedar Swamp

Constructed Wetland

Rivergrass Field

Amtrak Rail

Freshwater Marsh

Neponset River Bird Watching Tower

Restaurant and Cafe Boardwalk Viewing Deck Interstate 95

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Recreation Lake

Elevated Road

Pedestrian Boardwalk

Constructed Wetland

Blue-green Connector - Hydrological Sequence & Eco-diversity

Elevated Railroad

Freshwater Marsh

Suburban Eco-tourism Senario - southern by-the-eco & central eco-lodge park

Suburban Eco-tourism Senario - northern in-the-eco & about-the-eco

By-the-Eco

In-the-Eco

The lodges here are made of natural materials which are not heterogeneous surrounding nature. As a village settled in the adjacent area to Neponset wetland: ‘White Cedar Swamp’ and ‘Freshwater Marsh’, it provides wildlife observation and photography programs.

In-the-Eco refers to a village enclosed by vegetated hills and recreational lake to delude visitors into believing that they are in the middle of nature. Additionally, it is a good place for a family outing by providing a variety of outdoor activities, such as fishing and kayaking.

Eco-lodge Park

About-the-Eco

In the middle of the blue-green connector, the eco-lodge park shall function as a central hub and a iconic destination. The park will be the sustainable engine to launch ecotourism which benefits the ecosystem in the Neponset River watershed by conserving natural resources, which promotes economical profit by attracting potential tourists from the City of Boston.

About-the-Eco refers to a village placed with the Neponset River research center. The lodge provides various educational programs co-working with the research center to learn more about our nature. It also uses as an academic residence for researchers who work for the Research Center.

In & Out Urban Thresholds South Boston Urban Design Urban Cores in Transition South Boston, MA, USA Instructor: Alex Yuen Harvard Graduate School of Design | FALL 2022 Team Member: Donguk Lee

The project tries to redefine the urban-nature relationship using climate adaptation strategies. Given the inevitability of climate change trend nowadays, the project proposes a strategy for adaption instead of one that focuses on resistance. We try to make people not be afraid of the natural climate change but try to bring nature into the community.

Through letting the high-density community and South Boston community be more interactive with the nature and connected to the Emerald Necklace, the project includes a circulation strategy and a boardwalk system in the waterfront, transforming the climate-based strategy into some recreational strategy.

Site Plan Strategy - Redefine Urban and Nature

Site Plan Strategy - Open Space

Definition of the relationship between urban and nature base on climate change issues.

- Not to be afraid of it but adapt to be the future environmental risks with bring nature in the neighborhood.

- Re-defining the 2030 SLR line as a new coastal line dramatically changes the texture of existing urban fabric.

According to the urban ratio determined, users who will live or visit here requires different types of open space to meet their needs. And for better connection from or to Boston downtown and South Boston area, the Emerald Necklace connector with a boardwalk has been proposed. The pedestrian-only paths shall make the neighborhood more accessible to the nature.

The project uses the SLR line as a redefinition of the urban fabric, so it comes up with 4 zones in the north-south direction.

The 1st zone sets up an 8-feet berm to resist the future sea level rise of 6.4 feet in Boston based on the 2050s’ coastal flooding

Parkland

Residential Town

Recreation Ground

Waterfront

area. The berm is not a solid concrete wall, but to provide more open space to engage with nature for residents who live here and South Boston.

In the parkland, providing a public park with a sightseeing boardwalk allow people integrate with nature closely and may observe

The 2nd zone is a non-residential area based on the 2070s’ coastal flooding area, which aims to minimize the impact of environ-

how the climate change affects our environment.

mental threats on residential buildings. The ground level is elevated to 10 feet to ensure that buildings are not submerged while

In the residential town, the open spaces shall be community-based, including sports complex and garden playground, providing

providing residents with more possibilities to engage with nature and open space.

enough spaces for residents to hang out.

The 3rd zone is created based on the setback of the 2070s’ coastal flooding area, which is designed as a buffer zone to cope

The recreation ground will function as the community spine to inhabitants and neighborhoods from South Boston bring together

with environmental changes after 2100. This area can start to include residential buildings, but the ground level of buildings still

and enjoy the moment with being nature and playing with nature.

need to be raised by 10 feet.

In waterfront zone with high percentage of commercial and institutional use, the open space will be for providing the frequent

The 4th zone is a safe zone for residential buildings, where the ground level of buildings does not need to be raised.

events and for the visitors rather than residents.

Site Plan Strategy - Circulation

Proposed Site Plan & SLR Adaptation Strategy

For better connection from or to Boston downtown and South Boston area, the Emerald Necklace connector with a boardwalk has been proposed. And the pedestrian only paths shall make the neighborhood more accessible to the nature.

The new South Boston imagination includes several sustainble strategies adapting to sea-level-rising issues, such as absorbent streets, elevated ground for new-built buildings.

Main Street

Secondary Street

Housing Strategy

New Urban and Nature Scenario

To address the real estate market’s needs, the design proposes a new housing strategy. Within the urban framework, only the housing density will be initially determined, with the main structures constructed first. Developers will then select their preferred sites and develop the chosen buildings according to their specific requirements.

Housing Development Strategy

Typology

Construction Process

From Urban to Nature The green spine starts from the original South Boston neighborhoods and goes all the way to waterfront, bringing the local inhabitants and the new residents together, which also provide a place for citizens to enjoy the moment with being nature and playing with nature.

Flexible Housing Unit Design

The Urban Setting In the safe zone for residential buildings, the ground level of buildings does not need to be raised, which also leads to the highest density of the new development.

Iceland Greenhouse Restaurant Iceland Greenhouse Restaurant Competition Iceland November-December, 2021 Team Member: Robyn Houghton, Haozhuo Wu

According to the research, 78% of Iceland’s land can’t produce food and only 1% of the land is used for agriculture. Therefore, it is of great practical significance to build a restaurant with a modern greenhouse. Covering an area of 5,000 square meters, this building not only provides a variety of fresh and healthy meals for the restaurant accommodating 100 people, but also exports food to local region to support the food production.

When visitors enter the building via a path from the north, they are greeted by the fragrant aromas from the bakery and the mellow aromas of the wine cellars. Through the beautiful courtyard, visitors are placed inside the expansive greenhouse where they view the automated mechanized planting. Going to south, what jumps into visitors’ sight is the enjoyable shared kitchen, also known as teaching kitchen, where people can pick vegetables and fruits by themselves and experience the joy of cooking interactively.

Program Study

Massing Process

Agriculture Typology Study

PROGRAM

The program is divided into three blocks, which are the greenhouse, the restaurant, and the multi-functional area, with a total area of 5,000 square meters.

ADJUSTING

The three types of blocks are staggered and moved according to the red line of the site, creating a dynamic view with different heights, lengths, and widths.

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Greenhouses can be stacked on the top level of climate, which will be controlled warehouse spaces. Four types of stacks are arranged according to the height, which will guarantee each of them receive sufficient sunlight. Considering the growth habits and sizes of different vegetables, hydroponics and soil cultivation are adopted respectively.

Farm to Table Concept Greenhouses can be stacked on the top level of climate, which will be controlled warehouse spaces. Four types of stacks are arranged according to the height, which will guarantee each of them receive sufficient sunlight. Considering the growth habits and sizes of different vegetables, hydroponics and soil cultivation are adopted respectively.

1. Reception 2. Bakery 3. Baking Room 4. Wine Cellar 5. Courtyard 6. Greenhouse 7. Storeroom 8. Cold Storage 9. Kitchen 10. Shared Kitchen 11. Dining Area

1. Shelf Unit Stack 2. A-Framed Stack 3. Cold Storage 4.Kitchen 5.Courtyard 6.Reception 7.Wine Cellar

View-oriented Experience When visitors enter the building via a path from the north, they are greeted by the fragrant aromas from the bakery and the mellow aromas of the wine cellars. Through the beautiful courtyard, visitors are placed inside the expansive greenhouse where they view the automated mechanized planting. Going to south, what jumps into visitors’ sight is the enjoyable shared kitchen, also known as teaching kitchen, where people can pick vegetables and fruits by themselves and experience the joy of cooking interactively. Through the south window, they can enjoy the view of the volcano from the distance while surrounded by greenery in the planting area, and taste the delicious and fresh food.

Dining Area - seeing the view of Hverfjall

Shared Kitchen & Dining Area

1. Reception 2. Courtyard 3. Greenhouse 4. Cold Storage 5. Kitchen 6. Shared Kitchen 7. Dining Area

Boundary "Line" University Stadium Design Changsha, Hunan, China Instructor: Zhaohui Yuan Hunan University | SPRING 2020 Team Member: Yi Jiang

Located at the junction of community, campus, and business, the project is an university gymnasium not only serves for students, but also needs to consider accommodating residents who can bring vitality to the site.

In preliminary investigation, it was found that the interaction between students and residents was more about observing each other. It’s interesting that the interaction of the two types of people seemed to be absent. In order to retain this characteristic of the site, the design introduces the term “boundary”, hoping to create a series of linear spaces within the site and building space.

In addition, folded-plate structure is chosen as the main structural form of the gymnasium. It is hoped to explore multiple deformable ways of folded-plate structure to meet needs of different building functions so as to achieve the goal of transforming a single element to enrich building shape and facade.

Site Mapping

The diagram illustrates the main fuctional zones around the site. It can be seen that the main service groups of the gymnasium are local residents and university students, which is a primary inspirasion of the design.

Massing Process

01 Main pedestrian flow of site.

02 Basic relationship between main and secondary gymnasium.

03 Two main outdoor space.

04 Massing of main and secondary gymnasium.

05 Determine height of building based on fuction.

06 Reduce height of part of the building for auxiliary functions.

07 Connect two main pedestrian flows in two directions by introducing a semi-outdoor platform.

08 Cover the folded-plate roof.

1. main entry of main stadium 2. main entry of secondary stadium 3. secondary office entry 4. VIP entry 5. athlete entry 6. secondary entry of main stadium 7. main office entry 8. vehicle entry 9. ground parking 10. underground parking 11. bicycle parking 12. contact fire lane 13. outdoor playground 14. plaza

Structure Study

Three-fold folded-plate structure is chosen to meet the highest net height and longest span for main stadium.

1. movable stand storage area 2. corridor 3. storage 4. office 5. meeting room 6. semi-outdoor corridor 7. referee’s lounge 8. shower

1. corridor 2. journalists’ office 3. broadcast control room 4. equipment room 5. movable stand storage area 6. audience entry 7. air conditioning machine room 8. low-voltage distribution room

Structural Element Diagram

Exploded Axon 01 Folded-plate Roof Reinforcement Strengthen stress concentration part of foldedplate roof.

02 Folded-plate Frame Structure System Prefabricated folded-plate roof and prefabricated folded-plate columns form a folded-plate rigidframe structure system.

03 Glass Curtain Wall System In order to be unified with structural form and overall building shape, a tapered glass curtain wall is set between folded-plate columns to emphasize the overall spatial order.

04 Column-beam System (1F& 2F) Column-beam system and folded-plate rigidframe structure system are connected by preembedded brackets on folded-plate columns.

05 Subflooring Panel & Partition Wall (1F&2F)

06 Column-beam System (B1) Column-beam system and folded-plate rigidframe structure system are connected by preembedded brackets on folded-plate columns.

07 Subflooring Panel & Partition Wall (B1)

08 Foundation Combining prefabricated cup-like independent foundation with cast-in-place strip foundation.

Stadium Design The choice of stadium design depends on the requirements of the net height and span based on the program. The main stadium has a long span and high net height requirement. Three-fold folded-plate frame is chosen to increase net height in the center of the stadium while strengthening structure, which can accomadate a full-size basketball court with 2,367 seats. The sencondary stadium has a shorter span and high net height requirements. Regular conical folded plate frame is chosen to have a simple and practical structure form and good indoor effect. And the court is more flexible to be changed into any programs according to different events’ need.

1. main office entry 2. secondary entry of main stadium 3. athlete entry 4. VIP entry 5. secondary office entry 6. main entry of secondary stadium 7. main entry of main stadium 8. display control room 9. lighting and sound control room 10. broadcast control room 11. scoring room 12. WC 13. physical training room 14. VIP lounge 15. storage

Ground Floor Plan

16. service room 17. VIP reception room 18. after-race control center 19. office 20. meeting room 21. command room 22. jury’s office 23. print room 24. tea room 25. fire control room 26. duty room 27. fitness room 28. equipment room 29. dressing room 30. high voltage room 31. low voltage room

Main Stadium

Secondary Stadium

Facade Design

Mechanical Space

The facade continues the structural language of folded plate frame, the choice of other materials tries to be as transparent as possible.

The stadium design incorporates extensive mechanical spaces, with most of the mechanical rooms and underground parking located beneath the secondary stadium and lobby.

1. equipment room 2. high voltage room 3. low voltage room 4. athletes' lounge 5. dressing room 6. shower 7. WC 8. storage 9. tea room 10. call room 11. clinic 12. referee's lounge 13. movable stand storage area 14. boiler room 15. air conditioning machine room 16. ventilator room 17. intelligent control room 18. smoke control and exhaust room 19. backup generator room 20. explosion vent 21. disel storage

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South-West Facade

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South-East Facade

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North-West Facade

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North-east Facade

1. UHPC concrete folded-plate roof 2. UHPC concrete folded-plate column 3. metal corrugated plate 4. perforated aluminum panel 5. glass curtain wall

22. low-voltage distribution room 23. high-voltage distribution room 24. portable water system 25. water pump room 26. fire pool 27. duty room 28. underground parking Basement Plan

Professional Work

Yu House(built) Fishing Center Design & Bamboo Design and Construction 2019 National College Bamboo Design and Construction Competition(Anji.

China) | THIRD PRIZE Anji, Zhejiang, China Project Designer | Hunan University June-December, 2019

Starting from the concept of “Yin and Yang fish” to shape the form, a posture of creeping upon the pine forest is created. The open side of the building shape corresponds to the two moving lines of the site organization. The pine trees is retained conforming to the shape according to the level of possibility of survival. By layering a height difference of 4 meters in the site, it forms-fishing platform, main entrance, resting space and secondary entrance-four space levels.

The project adopts a non-traditional construction method — bamboo weaving. It aims to use nonlinear numerical control technique to construct a curved shape with a sense of flow. At the same time, the YU House uses a fish scale-like surface to enhance its shape, enabling a more natural and softer intervention in natural environment and feeling as exposed to the nature as possible.

Concept Development - Yin Yang Any particular thing has the duality of yin and yang. The YU House locates in Longshanyuan in the form of Yin and Yang fish. It aims to not only show the chaotic state of the two intermingling fishes but also reveal that everything in the world has two sides, architectural form is no exception. On the one hand, the shaping of the YU House is a metaphor for yin-yang theory and an interpretation of fishing. On the other hand, and it is also a fit for the special environmental background of the Bamudun ancient tombs group.

01 Surroundings

02 Yin-yang

03 Yin-yang Fish

Concept Diagram

1. shoreline 2. fishing platform 3. safety net 4. stone 5. rubble retaining wall 6. strip foundation 7. pond

Ground Floor Plan

04 Form

Construction Process The construction started on June and ended on December. To better illustrate the parametric design form, the design team did a 1:1 mock-up bamboo structural component on site and made physical model to let the construction team better understand the construction layers and details.

1. pond 2. safety net 3. fishing platform 4. strip foundation 5. natural slope

Construction Layers

1. 50mm fine aggregate concrete 2. 100mm 3:7 lime soli 3. rammed earth 4. steel tube 5. groove 6. steel plate 7. embedded base

1-1 Section

Other Professional Work

Diagon Bathhouse Lake Sabago Bathhouse Concept Design Urban Design Intern | Beyer Blinder Belle Software: Rhino, Enscape, Vray, Adobe Suites New York, USA | June-August, 2023

PARKING TERRACE

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SOUTHWEST ELEVATION BATH

ADMIN/ SUPPORT

LOBBY

SOUTHWEST ELEVATION RETAIL

RESTAURANT

1/8” = 1’ - 0”

NORTHEAST ELEVATION

Rendered Facade

BEACH

16 0

Conceptual Plan

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FLOOR PLAN LAKE SEBAGO BATHHOUSE August, 2023

NORTHEAST ELEVATION

EXTERIOR ELEVATION LAKE SEBAGO BATHHOUSE August, 2023 EXTERIOR ELEVATION LAKE SEBAGO BATHHOUSE August, 2023

Roof Tectonic Study

Lobby

Main Entrance

Other Professional Work

Downtown Waterville Vision Plan

Liberal College Residential Study & Planning Vision

Community Revitalization Urban Design

Campus Planning and Building Design

Urban Design Intern | Beyer Blinder Belle Software: Revit, Rhino, Enscape, Adobe Suites Waterville, Maine, USA | June-August, 2023

Urban Design Intern | Beyer Blinder Belle Software: Revit, Rhino, Enscape, Adobe Suites ME, USA | June-August, 2023

Student Dormitory Floor Plan Test-fit

Rendered Master Plan

Street Connection Diagrams

Open Space Design & Rendering

Long Term Vision: Nash House Neighborhood Quad 8/15/23 - DRAFT

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Other Professional Work

Binjiang New Town C9 Block High-rise Building

Shanghai Animation Film Studio

High-rise and Sustainable Building Design

Office Interior Design

Architectural Intern | Guangzhou Architectural Research Institute New Technology Development Center Co., Ltd Software: Rhino, Lumion, AutoCAD, Ecotect, ANSYS Fluent Changsha, Hunan, China | June-September, 2020

Project Designer | Private Client Commissioned Work Software: Rhino, Vray, AutoCAD, Adobe Suites Shanghai, China | Feburary-June, 2019

Typical Floor Plan

Form Test - Wind Environment Simulation

Details Drawing

Facade Test - Thermal Performance

Design Process Sketch

Reception Desk