XUEER MA PORTFOLIO

Xueer Ma

Architectual Portfolio Selected Work 2016-2022

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01 NOT JUST A GREENHOUSE Communinty Center Design 2021.9 - 2021.12 Collaboration with Yanyan Zhang Instructor：Dan Spiegel Location：San Francisco

The project is located in a community with a long history of farming. The main concept of this project is to utilize the existing topography of the site to to create a community center that people can enter without feeling it. And through the reinvestigation of the green house typology, to continue the history of the community as well as allow it to act in a new way to provide a suitable space not only for the plants but also for the people ,to create a gathering space both for the community and the public

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Electric Transformer

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Area = 470 sf Occupants = 470/300 = 2

Area = 480 sf Occupants = 480/300 = 2

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1. Mechanical 2. Restroom 3. Electric Transformer 4. Heat Pump 5. Air Handler 6. Multipurpose 7. Cafe 8. Outdoor Performance 9. Outdoor Market 10. Outdoor Exhibit 11.Parking Lot 12. Community Garden 0

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The first floor is the entrance for the public. which is a large open space with recreation / art and commercial programs that attract people to go along the gentle slope and gradually enter into the building..

EAST ELEVATION

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Greenhouse Area = 1280sf Occupants = 1280/300 = 4

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1. Education 2. Greenhouse 3. Youth Center 4. Air Handler 5. Restroom 6. Office 7. Storage 8. Art Space 9. Dinning Space 10. Kitchen 11.Culinary Traning

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the second floor is the entrance for the community. People enter from the highest point on the north and go directly into the interior space at the second floor, where the greenhouses, education, training and youth center locate.

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INVERTED SEAM ANODIZED ALUMINUM ROOFING PANEL DISPLACEMENT VENTILATION AIR RETURN DUCT WATER PROOF MEMBRANE 4’’ RIGID INSULATION

GUTTER SYSTEM WITH GRILLE TRANSPARENT DOUBLE GLAZING 5-PLY CLT PANEL 4’’ RIGID INSULATION 3/4’’ PLYWOOD

3/4’’ PLYWOOD 24 x 4’’ LVL RAFTER 5/8’’ GYMPSUM BOARD LEVEL 5 SPRINKLER WATER PIPE SPRINKLER SYSTEM, EVERY 15’ - 0’’ OPERABLE THERMAL MASS WINDOW FOR NATURAL VENTILATION

3/4’’ LARGE FORMAT ENGINEERED WOOD FLOORING RADIANT FLOOR 4’’ RIGID INSULATION 3/4’’ PLYWOOD ELECTRICITY CONDUIT 18’’ BATT INSULATION 3/2’’ PLYWOOD

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INTEGRAL COLOR DRYVIT STUCCO

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DOUBLE LAYER GLAZING WITH VENTILATION CAVITY RECESSED SECURITY LIGHT FIXTURE, EVERY 6 ~ 10’ 4 x 12’’ GLULAM BEAM WITH STEEL BOTTOM GLULAM STAIRS WITH MORTISE AND TENON JOINT CONNECTION

9 ~ 12’’ GRAVEL 24’’ CONCRETE FOUNDATION 6’’ RIGID FOUNDATION

DETAIL WALL SECTION

The double layered roof provides ample space for mechanical system, giving the building a concise exterior and interior effect. The south-facing cavity of the roof creates a thermal mass, using the air pressure difference to drive the passive ventilation of the interior space.

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2’’ TRIPLE-LAYER TRANSPARENT POLYCARBONATE HOLLOW CELLULAR SLABS

3/4’’ LARGE FORMAT ENGINEERED WOOD FLOORING

RADIANT FLOOR

TRANSPARENT PERSPEC SHEET, BENT TO SHAPE AND ADHESIVE FIXED

4’’ RIGID INSULATION

3/4’’ PLYWOOD

18’’ BATT INSULATION

3/2’’ PLYWOOD

NTEGRAL COLOR DRYVIT STUCCO

1/4’’ ALUMINUM BENT PLATE

4 x 12’’ GLULAM COLUMN

4’’ ALUMINUM HSS POST 3’’ ALUMINUM HSS POST 2’’ ALUMINUM HSS POST

4 x 24’’ GLULAM BEAM

VENTILATION CAVITY

4’’ ALUMINUM HSS POST

DOUBLE GLAZING

2’’ TRIPLELAYER POLYCARBONATE

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3/4’’ LARGE FORMAT ENGINEERED WOOD FLOORING RADIANT FLOOR

4’’ RIGID INSULATION 3/4’’ PLYWOOD DISPLACEMENT VENTILATION AIR SUPPLY DUCT 24’’ CONCRETE FOUNDATION 5-PLY CLT 4’’ RIGID INSULATION VAPOR BARRIER 3/4’’ PLYWOOD 4’’ ALUMINUM HSS POST 2’’ TRIPLELAYER POLYCARBONATE

3 x 3’’ GLULAM POST DOWEL

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INVERTED SEAM ANODIZED ALUMINUM ROOFING PANEL WATER PROOF 4’’ RIGID INSULATION 3/4’’ PLYWOOD 24 x 4’’ LVL RAFTER 6 x 6’’ GUTTER SYSTEM 4 x 24’’ GLULAM BEAM DISPLACEMENT VENTILATION AIR RETURN DUCT

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INVERTED SEAM ANODIZED ALUMINUM ROOFING PANEL WATER PROOF MEMBRANE 4’’ RIGID INSULATION 3/4’’ PLYWOOD 24 x 4’’ LVL RAFTER 5/8’’ GYMPSUM BOARD LEVEL 5 TRANSPARENT DOUBLE GLAZING

1/4’’ ALUMINUM BENT PLATE

4’’ ALUMINUM HSS POST 3’’ ALUMINUM HSS POST 2’’ ALUMINUM HSS POST 2’’ TRIPLELAYER POLYCARBONATE VENTILATION CAVITY

3/4’’ LARGE FORMAT ENGINEERED WOOD FLOORING RADIANT FLOOR 4’’ RIGID INSULATION 3/4’’ PLYWOOD 18’’ BATT INSULATION 3/2’’ PLYWOOD INTEGRAL COLOR DRYVIT STUCCO

3/4’’ LARGE FORMAT ENGINEERED WOOD FLOORING RADIANT FLOOR

4’’ RIGID INSULATION 3/4’’ PLYWOOD DISPLACEMENT VENTILATION AIR SUPPLY DUCT 24’’ CONCRETE FOUNDATION 5-PLY CLT 4’’ RIGID INSULATION VAPOR BARRIER 3/4’’ PLYWOOD 4’’ ALUMINUM HSS POST 2’’ TRIPLELAYER POLYCARBONATE

4 x 24’’ GLULAM BEAM 2 x 9 x 18’’ STEEL PLATE 24’’ CONCRETE FOUNDATION 6’’ RIGID INSULATION WATER PROOF MEMBRANE GRAVEL

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DETAIL SECTION

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02 THICKNESS AND THINNESS Museum Design

2018.9 - 2018.10 Individual Work Instructor：Wanli Mo Location：Guangzhou, China

This museum is designed to exhibit James Turrell's works, who transforms light into art by manipulating the viewer's experience of it. The museum serializes his twelve works, forming a continuous sequence of exhibitions, presenting a collage of fragmented perspectives, in which, as the observers move, the next space can never be anticipated.

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James Turrell's work is an experience, as opposed to an object， which means one room can only exhibit one single artwork. In order to reach a better exhibition effect, every exhibition hall needs to be independent.

By rotating the rooms at a certain angle and connecting them through narrow doorways, these rooms would not be influenced by the adjacent rooms. Further, the angle between two adjacent rooms creates an invisible edge of the doorway, which is James Turrell's common practice to make space immaterial.

The thick wall enwraps these rooms and conceals the internal spatial changes.

It can be regarded as the negative shape of the exhibition halls, making the internal space unpredictable.

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PHYSICAL MODEL：Space and Entity

Orthogonal Grid

Exhibition Sequence

Exhibition Halls

Different Shape of Exhibition Halls

Twist

Exhibition Halls

Lobby

External Contour

Overlay

The Thick Wall

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PERSPECTIVE SECTION 1.

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Souvenir shop/Cafe Exhibition Hall Office Seminar Room Lobby Workshop

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Spaces on the two sides of the thick wall presents different characteristics. The rough concrete surface of the lobby contrast to the light-filled exhibition hall.

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EXHIBITION SEQUENCE

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The twelve exhibition halls are endowed with various spatial characteristics according to the exhibition contents. As observers move, the artificial light gradually expands, from a small painting on the wall to a light-filled space.

1. Roof Construction 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5

Roof finishing Heat Insulation Waterproof Membrane Lean Concrete Ceiling, Drywall Panel

2. Exterior wall 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5

Precast Concrete Plank Cavity Heat Insulation Lean Concrete Plastering

3. Floor Construction 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5

Plastering Heat Insulation Lean Concrete Heat Insulation Plastering

DETAIL

The facade of the museum is decorated with concave vertical elements. The depth of the cave varies according to the thickness of the wall it covers, indicating the internal spatial variation.

These elements enclose the entire building, reducing the museum’s sheer size and integrating it into the environment.

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SOUTH ELEVATION

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03 A RAMP School Design

2020.3 - 2020.5 Individual Work Instructor：Andrew Atwood Location：San Francisco

As the second core graduate architectural design studio at Berkeley’s CED, this studio is aimed to explore the relationship between Structure, Form, Program, Site and Circulation.

Started from abstract analysis based on these five provocations, transformed into a three-story school on a site in the Dogpatch Neighborhood in San Francisco.

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SITE PLAN 0

25’

125’

The main concept of this project is about the circulation.

A spiral ramp starts from the first floor going along a circle, and displaced a little bit when it reach to the second floor.

The space around the ramp accommodates the public program of the school, and each classroom is attached to this larger circle.

The ramp is almost the only circulation space in this building. It forces students to pass by the public space and see other people’s activities before they enter the classroom. The displacement between the ramp creates some gaps between different floors which bring the vertical continuity within the public space.

The vertical connections created by the displacement encourage more interactions to happen in the public space, also allow natural light come into the building.

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ROOF LEVEL 47’-6” ROOF LEVEL 39’-2”

THIRD FLOOR

33’-6” THIRD FLOOR 26’-2”

SECOND FLOOR

21’-0” SECOND FLOOR 12’-6”

FIRST FLOOR 4’-0”

FIRST FLOOR 0’-0”

SECTION 1-1 SECTION 0

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ROOF LEVEL 46’-2” ROOF LEVEL 41’-6” THIRD FLOOR

THIRD FLOOR

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ROOF LEVEL

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On the section, all the space is arranged along the ramp, located on different levels. The vertical connections created by the displacement encourage more interactions to happen in the public space.

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DYNAMIC SPACE

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By playing with the circle and the rectangle, the building presents an interwoven shape on the elevation. The building is covered by a mesh, which allows light come in and also brings different transparency on the facade. The first plan is split into two separate part, welcoming public to walk through the atrium. The windows of the classrooms are opened towards the void space inside the building instead of toward the surroundings.

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| MODEL AND REALITY

04 A TRAJECTORY Indigenous Heritage Center Design 2021.2 - 2021.5 Team: Adam Cutts / Marilyn Reyes Instructor：Maria Paz Gutierrez / Peter Suen Location：Sacramento，California Site Proposal Concept | Design | Production |

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The site is located at the confluence of the Sacramento River and the Ametican River. The historical erosion of the River and the seasonal settlement of human beings have brought about the changing shoreline and topography. The periodic change of water level gives the site an intrinsic fluidity, which is not limited to a certain time or space. In this context, how can the building becomes a mnemonic tool to mark, recognize and understand the changes of the site over different periods of time.

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Based on the analysis of the topography, vegetation zone and contain 3 natural phenomenology: the topographic variation of water level in the seasonal wetland

d typical water level cycle, the building is located on the arched datum so as to n that would be subtly changed over a long period of time ; the annual change d; the light filtration effect that’s varying within one day.

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The project is built on the weaving 2 types of path together,corresponding to two forms of knowledge: one is a collective path where through talking or collaborating with other, we gain a shared knowledge about the indigenous culture; the other is an individual path where we use our own body to experience the natural phenomenology of the site throughout time to form a mnemonic knowledge.

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the individual space is a slow path that only use ramp as vertical circulation, whereas collective space use stairs to quikly traverl from the highland to the waterfront

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The individual space is built with rammed earth, creating a more introverted feeling, whereas the collective space is enclosed by lightweight wood slat that has more translucency to the outside.

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| MODEL AND REALITY

05 MODEL AND REALITY Urban Village Renovation 2018.8 - 2018.9 Team: Junwen Deng/ Yijia Xu/ Zhe Chen Instructor：Bo Cheng/ Xijie Ma Location：Shenzhen，China Urban Renovation Concept | Design | Production |

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In this project, we set our sights on the use of physical models in the design process. Physical models offer architects a threedimensional view to examine their design, simulating real architectural space. Using this method we renovate the main street of an Urban Village, considering it as a starting point for opening the isolated village to urban space.

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Urban Village has long been regarded as the malignant tumor of the city due to its ultra high density and low accessibility. However, it plays an important role in providing housing for low-income people as well as offering cheap life service for surrounding blocks.

As the function of the surrounding plots changes, this Village begins to open to the city. The main street — the only roadway in the village — becomes the most important interface toward the city.

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The main street accommodates almost all the puclic functions of the village, including one religious building, the "Kwun Yam Temple". However, the stores and shops along the street start to encroach the public space by building booths to enlarge their own area, which fragment the street.

We remove three booths and renovate the 1st and 2nd floor of two apartments infront of the temple into a cafe, reshaping the publicness of the street.

AXONOMETRICD DRAWING OF THE MAIN STREET

Connect the 1st and 2nd floor of the two apartments in front of the temple, renovate them into a cafe, as the most public space on the street. Here we find three kinds of spaces juxtaposed together： urban public space on the south, small village square on the east and two residential staircases inside the cafe which lead to the apartments upstairs. This phenomenon is really typical in the Urban Village due to the lack of space. We aim to emphasize this radical juxtaposition by redesign the interface and the interior space of the cafe using a physical model in scale 1:33.

Urban Public Space

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Apartments

Residential Staircases

Cafe

The existing beam-column and the staircases belonging to the old buildings needed to remain in the cafe for structural reasons, so we made them the most conspicuous elements of the interior space, implying the initial use of the space. The big windows on the facade enable the main street and the village square to see each other with the guidance of the newly added bar counter, which makes the street corner more continuous.

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The door of the residential staircase and the window of the cafe are placed together on the east elevation, which forms a collage of two different interior spaces.

The main street and the village square can see each other through the big windows.

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1. Residential Staircase 2. Terrace

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1. Residential Staircase 2. Restroom 3. Storeroom 4. Kitchen 5. Bar Counter

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The bar counter and the new staircase are located in the space between the two buildings. This two-storey space provides better illumination of the interior space as well as creates a visual focus.

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06 DRIVE THRU MARKET Food Market & Communinty Center Design 2020.9 - 2020.11 Individual Work Instructor：Mark Anderson Location：Oakland

As the Third core graduate architectural design studio at Berkeley’s CED, this studio is aimed to design for both constancy and change; to plan for indeterminacy without loss of form; To propose small, built insertions within the Elmhurst neighborhood in Oakland City, intended to spread rhizomatically to improve the city as a whole.

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CONCEPT

Car, is the most important character of the Elmhurst neighborhood. Parking lots, car wash, car reparing shops, drive thru restaurants, cars take almost all the most public space along the main street of Elmhurst. However, the open public space for people is much fewer and most of them are enclosed by fence. Most public buildings also have very opaque facade. The streets are not as welcoming to people as they are to cars.To change this situation, the car will be used as a catalyst to help bring more vitality to the international boulevard.

As the popularization of self driving cars is in a very near future, the cars will be able to drop people off in front of or even inside of the building and find parking space on its own. So buildings will work more closely with the cars. To respond to this trend, there are two main concept of the design: 1. Allow cars go inside of the building, let the building becomes the extension of the street. 2. Build visual connection between cars and people, to allow the public events held inside the building be seen by more people, encouraging more social interactions and engagement within the community.

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Most of the circulation space for cars and people are innterwined around the entral atrium, adding more visual connectivity and spatial vitality. The disalignment between different floors also allows more visual connection in the vertical direction. In the rendering above, people can see the food production process on the first floor, the eating space on the second floor, the car ramp & makers' space on the third floor and children’s play space on the forth floor.

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In responding to the surroundings, the building is trying to have more visual connection between interior and exterior. The entire building is an open structure wrapped with perforated panel, the most active space such as theater, rehearsal space and food market are placed near the main street, so that both the motion of cars and people can be seen form the street.

The electric vehicle charging stations on the roof top is also a drive in theater. People and cars can enjoy the performance together. When there is some performance or other social events are held at night, the vatality will extend form the building to the street.

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07 CHAMBER AND CHAMBER Museum Design 2017.4 - 2017.6 In Collaboration with Siyu Zhu Instructor：Yimin Zhu Location：Guangzhou, China

The square shape units are connected through corners to create crosswise circulation. The intersection of two-story arch forms threshold on the ground floor and second floor, which divides the museum into three layers: public spaces on the 1st floor, exhibition halls on the 2nd floor and office area on the 3rd floor.

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08 VIEW FINDER Construction Work 2016.11 - 2016.12 Team： Siyu Zhu, Xiaoyin Zhang, Yujian Zeng, Shaobin Deng Location：Guangzhou, China

"View Finder" is an exploration that Applies the idea of masonry to the wood structure.

Based on conjunction between modules, units are designed into the truncated pyramid shape composed of four boards that function as structure component, exhibition surface, and opening.

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UNDER CONSTRUCTION

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09 CHESS PAVILION Structure Design

2020.4 - 2020.5 Team： Adam Cutts, Chrisper Liu, Leander Bortz Instructor: Simon Schleicher Location：Tokyo, Japan

Chess Pavilion is an exploration led by parametric design, and the final result is the optimal structural solution calculated by Grasshopper and Kramba. The Pavilion is located in the Water Garden designed by Junya Ishigami. Follow the main concept of the garden, the design is trying to build a contradiction of sensuously organic and carefully curated form.

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The pavilion consists of an giant truss on the perimeter and two beam grid systems on the ceiling and floor plate. The beam grid directly recalls the checkerboard design of a chessboard, also allows us to remove parts of the floor and roof slabs without compromising the structural integrity of the pavilion, thereby allowing for the preexisting trees to grow through the structure and reducing the impact on the surrounding landscape. Therefore, the pavilion shares similar conreadiction with its site: Its plan presents as a rigid grid system juxtaposit on the site, but when you look at it from human perspective, the timber bracing can perfectly blend into the wooded landscape.

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