08/2018-09/2019 Washington University in St.Louis, USA
Master of Urban Design (Full Scholarship)
08/2013-05/2018 Iowa State University, USA
Bachelor of Architecture (Dean’s List)
05/2017-07/2017 Beuth University of Applied Sciences Berlin, Germany Summer Academy Berlin program
PRACTICAL EXPERIENCES-
11/2022- 02/2023 dwp architect - Design With People, Adelaide Studio
Working as Architectural Assistant
Participated in Payneham Pool project
Produced 3D model, Rendering, made the walk-through video, documentation for tendering
Designed exhibition board with Adobe Suite
02/2020- 06/2022 China CBS - China Institution of Building Standard Design & Research, Beijing
Working as Junior Architect
Participated in the Gibraltar Victoria Stadium project. RIBA
Participated in editing Commercial Design Guideline for Shoukai real estate
Participated in the Educational innovation center project for Beijing Normal University.
Participated in the Huizhou red educational school project.
Produced 3D model, technical drawings and conference documents from conceptual design to technical design stage.
In charge of coordinating in the international projects.
10/2019-12/2019 Intern, China Architecture Design & Research Group, Beijing
Worked as Intern Architect
Followed the instruction of national master Cui Kai & Chai Peigen
Produced the physical model “Eye of the city” for 2019 Twin City Biennial Exhibition
Participated in the public transport hub project for Universal Studio Beijing
Produced 3D model and diagrams with Rhinoceros and SketchUp.
Produced Documents for conference using InDesign.
06/2018-08/2018 Intern, Woods Bagot Architecture. Beijing Studio
Worked as Intern Architect
Participated in the office park project for Jingdong (The top 2 electronic business company)
Produced 3D model and diagrams with Rhinoceros and SketchUp.
Produced Documents for conference using InDesign.
Negotiate with the developer and the Department of planning of Beijing.
AWARDS
Graduate School of Architecture, Director’s scholarship
Graduate School of Architecture, Asian scholarship College of Design, Dean’s list 2017-2018 (Iowa State University)
SKILLS
Digital Skills: Adobe creative suite (AI, PS, ID, Pr), Revit, Rhinoceros 3D, Auto CAD, Google SketchUp, Digitial rendering tools (Enscape, Twinmotions, D5)
Physical Fabrication: 3D print, Laser cutting machine, woodshop equipment.
Professional hand drawing skills.
PRACTICAL PROJECTS
01. GEMDALE MALL
Location: Suzhou China
2018, Schematic Design, Developed Design
Woods Bagot, Beijing Studio
Position: Intern Architect
Gemdale Mall, as Suzhou’s first double-ground-floor commercial project and part of the city’s TOD development, represents a new attempt by Gemdale Commercial and Woods Bagot to enhance urban living. The architectural form is based on the ancient Suzhou gardens, incorporating traditional elements such as rustic corridors, flowing water systems, and Kunqu opera stages. Through the design of layered terraces and rooftop gardens, the building is seamlessly integrated into the Suzhou landscape, creating a landmark that resonates with the city’s rich historical and cultural heritage. During the schematic design phase of this project, I worked as an intern architect and explored various detailed proposals using Rhino and other modeling softwares. My tasks included designing multiple options for the façade, modeling different choices for the courtyard shopfront, designing the courtyard curtain wall, and selecting skylight designs.
Courtyard
Courtyard Shopfront Typologies
Facade Pattern Studies
Skylight Design
Facade Curtain Wall Design
Courtyard Curtain Wall Design
02. PAYNEHAM POOL
Location: Payneham, Adelaide, SA, AU Summer 2022, Tendering
dwp Architect, Adelaide Studio
Position: Architectural Assistant
The Peyneham Pool Renovation Project aims to comprehensively enhance the quality and functionality of the pool and its facilities, providing the community with a modern, comfortable, and safe swimming and leisure venue. During my working at dwp architect, I joined the tendering team as an architectural assistant. My responsibilities included using Revit software to assist architects in improving technical drawings and organizing documentation. I also created project renderings and walkthrough videos for tendering by using Enscape software and communicated with the client to select building materials.
The project is based on a modular and standardized design language, with the following five objectives:
Style Identification: Enhance the unified appearance of agricultural wholesale markets across various regions through modular facades, creating a corporate image for China’s agricultural wholesale markets. Single Building Flexibility: Achieve a high degree of uniformity in architecture, structure, and product modules through the use of basic modular units. Site Adaptability: Adjust the size of individual buildings by increasing or decreasing the number of modular units. Structural Standardization: Design basic units based on a unified modular system, fully considering the standardization of column spans and floor heights. Overall Sustainability: Utilize a steel structure system with a high degree of standardization and high component reuse rate. In this project, as a junior architect, I contributed to the concept plan, modeled using Revit, created diagrams using Adobe Suite, and rendered visualizations with Enscape.
Trading Hall Supporting Commercial Spaces
Prefabricated Units
Prefabricated modular units are composed of multiple operational modules combined. This includes loading and unloading, warehousing, display, and transportation operation modules, forming the basic usage requirements
Building modules can be composed of multiple individual prefabricated module units connected in parallel, and can be infinitely extended to both sides according to future needs
04. HUIZHOU EDUCATION SCHOOL
Location: Huizhou, China
2020, Tendering
CBS Architect, Beijing
Position: Junior Architect
The design of Huizhou Education School integrates local historical sites and Hakka cultural heritage, creating a large campus that combines education, research, and living spaces. The total construction area is 58,700 square meters and includes the main teaching building, auxiliary teaching building, lecture hall, student dormitories, cafeteria, and sports facilities. This design adopts a prefabricated building system using pre-fabricated PEC steel-concrete shear wall structures, achieving integration of the main structure, building maintenance, and electromechanical decoration. As a junior architect in the design team, my tasks include the design of the lecture hall and the main building, encompassing various technical drawings, digital modeling, and the creation of related renderings.
Dormitory
Lecture Hall
Lecture Hall: Ground Level Plan
Education Building: Ground Level Plan
Lecture Hall: 02 Level Plan
Education Building: 02 Level Plan
ACADEMIC PROJECTS
Location: San Francisco
Fall 2017, studio project, CSI + BUSSARD competition Iowa State University
The Project anticipates a time when technology becomes responsible for building anew the land, culture, peoples, and social contracts erased by its aggressive advances. At the heart of this work is a call to care enough for the institutions, environment, and cultural forms that have provided us identity, to preserve them amid technological advancements. The focus of our project is on the double-edged technology boom of the past few decades in the Bay Area, and its fallout on the culture, the environment, social and political life, and the physical construct of the city of San Francisco. In 2150, a city-like platform levitates from the earth at a height approximately 783 meters above sea level. It hovers over the land consumed by the same technology that keeps it fl oating. It is a drone. Its purpose is to sustain a critical conversation with the technology that sustains it. The design attempts to imagine the unknown. Through experiments acting on an aerial photograph of the city with drastically diff erent materials, creating a visual and mental connection to it from a position above. We converse with its organization, its various cultural districts, its infrastructure, and its topographical features. Pulling out of the fabric of the city the key cultural institutions and monuments that give it identity, and constructing various formal compositions out of those typologies. The design abstracts these compositions digitally until we arrive at a suffi ciently diff erent and complex arrangement.
The Automatic City, San Francisco in 2150 AD
View in Food Market
View in Sports Stadium
View in Library
Detail model of Drone City
Model detail of Sports Stadium
Physical model of Drone City and SF City
06. I.A.E
02.I.A.E
Location: Bio-Medical Precinct, Adelaide, SA, AU
Fall 2022, studio project
University of Adelaide
Instructor: Michael Hegarty
Individual project
I.A.E is a mix-use development under the background of post pandemic era, to rethinks the relationship with building, city and high-density life style. In order to refl ect the design philosophy of nature city, resilient city and walkable city on the public realm, a vitalized linkage will be established in the existed Bio-medical precinct. The project makes the visions of creating an Inno-campus, Acti-campus and Eco-campus. It will be positioned as the urban lobby for inheriting history and memory, the integration of nature city and building group, the industrial highland where is gathering development momentum. Walkthrough Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSnsK9Q5nZI
Influenced by the local culture and new technology fluid, the neo-monumental icon of San Francisco grows upon the most flourish street of the city. The Nike innovation center project starts from the idea of bringing the sports culture into the architectural design. Sporting activities create a strong bond connects the building and the community also connects the two visually isolated structures at the same time. Unlike traditional office building, the office was designed to provide a close work relationship and to enhance the interaction between the Nike staff and various partners. Also, the design offers a variety of different sports spaces for working and testing new products. The mountain form public gymnasium matches harmoniously with the city’s topography. Meanwhile, climbing the mountain to access the upper-level working space is one of the most interesting features in the building design. The office design has enabled the firm to develop an impressing digital office to promote innovations in the sports industry.
Section Drawings
Physical model of Nike Office in site
View on the 4th level of Office area (Canteen & Garden)
View on the 2nd level of Office area (Testing fields)
View on the ground level (Public Gym and Parking)
Exterior views of the building
08. TOWARDS AN INTERGENERATIONAL WILLIAMSBURG
03.TOWARDS AN INTERGENERATIONAL WILLIAMSBURG
Location: Williamsburg, Brooklyn Spring 2019, studio project
Washington University in St. Louis
Instructor: Petra Kempf, Viren Brahmbhatt Individual project
What if Williamsburg transitions towards a neighborhood that embraces intergenerational living to give different generations a platform to work and live together? Taking the shutdown of the L train as a trigger, this project re-appropriates the anticipated vacancies caused by the shutdown as an entry point to re-think the current zoning regulations for the waterfront in this neighborhood.
Within this context, we believe diverse job and housing opportunities in the area for different types of residents could stabilize the current development trend in Williamsburg. To test this scenario, we imagine the L train will shut down, which will trigger an increase in vacancies along the waterfront in Williamsburg. As these luxury apartments will lose their values, we begin our intervention by re-appropriating the vacant apartments or floors through the introduction of a more diverse set of uses and services to attract multiple generations to the community.
As an entry point, we begin our operation with three different typologies: a large block-size luxury apartment building located on 325 Kent Avenue; a skyscraper, located on 22 North 6th Street and an old factory, located on 79 North 11th Street. Through a careful process of placing and combining different uses, such as co-working scenarios next to a kindergarten, a gym and a senior living facility, we slowly transform the core of Williamsburg from a bedroom community into a self-sustaining neighborhood.
Williamsburg before L-Train shutdown
Williamsburg After L-Train shutdown
Anticipated Social Structure
Various functions are inserted in vacant units on different floors to provide housing, job and recreation options for multi-generation people.
Anticipated Social Network & Space Demand
Robert Shelton is a worker who has worked in Domino for 20 years. During his time at the sugar factory, he bought his first car, bought his own house and paid for the tuition for univeristy for his sonr. However, after the Domino closed, his friends lost their jobs and became alcoholics because their wives left them and their children had to drop out of school.
FORMULAS
THE EDGE
LIFE FORMULAS
The edge prioritizes the needs of the aging generation by renovating multiple types of residential units on different floors to meet the needs of a wide range of seniors. The new residential type can meet the needs of ordinary elderly, elderly with half selfcare ability, elderly with no self-care ability and multi-generational families. By adding functional connections between floors, it tests scenarios while creating a shared space but reserve private spaces.
Type B= Elderly +Nursing + Elderly
Type A = Elderly
Type C =Elderly + ( Adult + Children)
The brewery tests a combination of variety of production spaces. It creates a variety of public life by building functional links with surrounding buildings with a all kinds of production spaces.
Brooklyn Brewery
A hand-made brewery that represents Brooklyn culture
LIFE FORMULAS
06.EDUCATION INNOVATION CENTER OF BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY
09. INNOVATION CENTER OF BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY
Location: Zhuhai, Guangdong, China
April 2021, Individual Project, Conceptual Design for tendering China Institute of Building Standard Design & Research
The fast-growing University-Towns are the epitome of the development of urbanization in China in recent years. They are located far away from the city centers. These isolated urban archipelagos are often over scaled, lack of humanistic concern and its related services. With this conceptual design, the proposal hopes the latest educational building in Beijing Normal University, Zhuhai Campus, to participate in the college life. Considering to convert the traditional campus to a vertical growing system, public spaces in between the educational and research units attract students and faculties to interact with each other. Interdisciplinary communication happens naturally.
Open space and corridor
Skywalk and Sky Lecture Space
Lobby and Interactive Space
10. CAMPUS RAILWAY MONUMENT
05.CAMPUS RAILWAY MONUMENT
Location: Iowa State University Campus, Ames, IA
Fall 2016, studio project
Iowa State University
Instructor: Bosuk Hur
Individual project
Traveling across Ames was not always as easy as jumping on a bus. The first students of Iowa State University, commuting the few miles between the city of Ames and campus was a struggle. In 1891, the railway transport system known as Dinkey Station was constructed to connect the campus to the city. After more than 60 years of operation, the railway transport system was a major landmark in the institution. In 1907, the steam railway was replaced with an electric streetcar and the campus destination was moved further north to its present location. Therefore, the railway monument was designed in memory of the missing railway track. In the design, water as a fluid factor demonstrates the movement of the train. Students follow the water trace on the original route to the final destination, where was the terminal before. Through the feel of visual, auditory and tactile experience with water and the surrounded environment, the history on campus will be reshaped.
Campus mapping with the Monument today
Campus mapping with the Railway in 1907
Imagine the Railway Station in the destination of the Monument
Campus mapping with the Monument Plan
Monument Entrance Resting Area
Water Wall Path
Path on Great Lawn
Birdview of the I.A.E Development in Bio-Medical Precinct, Adelaide, SA
11. GATEWAY TO INFINITY
Location: Arnhem, NT, AU
Fall 2023, Degree project
University of Adelaide
Instructor: Amit Srivastava
Individual Project
This project aims to explore the relationship between the organization of circulation systems and architectural space through an experiment of building an Interstellar Transit Hub in Australian space launch facility. The design is an ambitious undertaking, addressing a range of design challenges and approaches, including efficient circulation in transit design, cultural challenges of being on aboriginal land, and sustainable development using natural materials. The project not only aims to set standards for a new emerging architectural typology of Space Ports, but also rethink our approach to Transit Oriented Design on Earth.
To infinity and beyond!
View in Waiting Lounge
View in Exchanging Hall
12. SHELTER
Location: Port Adelaide, SA, AU Spring 2023, studio project
University of Adelaide
Instructor: Athanasios Lazarou
Individual Project
The project envisions a future where the residents of Port Adelaide face the threat of floods 100 years from now. The newly established MH Building takes on the responsibility of constructing a shelter to accommodate the refugees and provide them with essential living elements. Central to this endeavor is the utilization of vacant architecture to address climate change and the urgent need to protect our environment and cultural heritage, which shapes our identity. The primary focus of this project is to anticipate and confront the forthcoming catalyst that will bring about significant changes in our era, while also addressing its impact on social life. In the year 2100, a floating platform resembling a cargo ship emerges as a solution to combat the impending floods. This shelter is secured to the ground using four steel cables and serves as a temporary residence, offering provisions such as food, power, and basic living necessities.
