ISU&UCB's Selection Work(2020-2022)

PORTFOLIO ZiXiong Lin

Selection From 2020-2023

Address: 1607 Dwight Way, Berkeley, CA

Mobile: 5157086880 | Email Address:zlin2022@berkeley.edu

EDUCATION

University of California, Berkeley, College of Environmental Design

Master of Advanced Architectural Design

Iowa State University, College of Design, Ames

Bachelor of Architecture, GPA 3.52/4.0

WORK EXPERIENCE

Intership | HongYu KeChuang Engineering Design co., LTD | Sichuan, China

Designed JinSe XiangJun Level 20-24 Residential

Drew the floor plans, sections and diagrams.

Assist for the restrooms design.

Used rhino and grasshopper to develop the digital models, and rendered for level 21.

The First Experimental Middle School Extension

Create the site context model, and site plans.

Fixed the original buildings plans and sections.

Draft renderings and diagrams for design development.

Intership | Onland Studio, Shanghai

Design partial of the architectures.

Drew the diagrams, and site plans.

Made digital models and renderings.

HONORS & AWARDS

Honored CMU Competition | Hosted by Masonry Institute of Iowa State University

Dean’s List | Highest 2% Student in Design Department, Iowa State University

Workshop

I-Arch online rhino parametric modeling learning, and Revit Learning

“De-Paving” Workshop by the Common Studio, Iowa State University

Beijing Offline Rhinoceros Parametric Modeling Learning

Elementary Economy Classes studing at Southwestern University of Finance and Economics

Computer Skills

2D Drawings: Autocad, Adobe Suites

3D Modeling: Rhino, Revit, 3ds Max, Maya, Sketch Up

Renderings: Vray, Lumion, Enscape

Parametrics: Kuka Robot Arms, ABB Robot Arms, Grasshopper

Language

Chinese (Local), English (Profecient), German (A2)

(Expected)

Architectural Design Project

Residential and Workshop for Artists

Dia:Beacon, NY

2020 Spring, Iowa State University

ANALOGY

Conceptual Project

Architectural Learning Center

Los Angeles, CA

2021 Spring, Iowa State University

REDIFINE THE MECHINAZATION CITY

Conceptual Project

Factory to Use Mental Stimulation to Create Survivance

Los Angeles, CA

2021 Fall, Iowa State University

THE COMMUNITY OF FLOATING PAVILIONS

Uban Design Project

Pavilions for Different Functions Served the Community

Hangzhou, China

2021 Fall, Onland Studio

BREATH

Architectural Design

Voga Restort on an ancient terraced valley farm

Vale de Moses, Portugal

2022 Spring, Iowa State University

UN/RE - Make Wood Reserch Project

Reuse The Waste Productions from Wood Factories

Oroville, CA

2022 Fall, UC Berkeley

01 I ARTISTS’ LIGHTHOUSE

RESIDENTIAL AND WORKSHOP FOR ARTISTS

LOCATION: Dia:Beacon. Beacon, New York

Work Typle: Individual

Studio: Arch 302, Iowa State University, 2020 Spring

Instructor: Peter P. Goché

In the project, I deeply researched the biological and cultural integrated design practice in housing production in the Hudson River context as a supplement to Time: Lighthouse Museum. The users of these spaces will be sculpture and installation artists, and these spaces help these artists work here. These relationships form the basis of comprehensive architectural research. At the same time, these spaces are also made up of material spaces that are relatively important to actors and can be inferred to create different work and sexual conditions.

I. ARTIST’S LIFE FLOW

The artists’ home is aimed to create a space for both sculpture and installation artists working and living. In this art gaterhing space, the art atmosphere could be created easily. Thus, the teaching proposal could be work at this location. And after the studying area been created. This gallery could brasing lots of youngers who envolved with art. They could went to the large cities like Boston and New York to eplore and learn more art. Also those art universities in this area will help them to improve their skills. After this experience, they could turn back to Dia:Beacon to braise the next generation of artists. And this loop will affact this area deeply later.

II. LUMINANCE REQUIREMENT

There are many different characteristics of light, one of which is the brightness of light, which is usually represented by LUX. In a building system, areas with different functions usually require different lighting requirements, such as studios or private bedrooms. These will lead to the relationship between window opening methods and daylighting.

III. OPENING VS. PRIVACY

Due to the different needs of light intensity, we will have different windowing strategies for different programs, which will produce different degrees of privacy. Therefore, combining the privacy and lighting requirements of different programs, the windowing logic I need is produced.

PROGRAMS’ LUMINANCE VS. PRIVACY

Different projects have different lighting needs. Among these projects, the program 1.2.3.4 requires strong light program 5.6.7.8 requires medium light program 9 requires low light

Different projects have different lighting needs. Among these projects, the program 1.2.3.4 are Public program 5.6.7.8 are semi-Public program 9 is privacy

RISE SUBSTRACT DETACH PUSH EXTEND

Site 250’ × 50‘ RISE UP to get the volume

LAYOUT MASSING

First Floor

Second Floor

Third & Fourth Floor

Fifth Floor

SUBSTRACT to open the garden DETACH to open the garden PUSH to form the shading EXTEND to create the balcony

OPEINING

First Floor

Second Floor

Third & Fourth Floor

Third & Fourth Floor

Bricks Steel Concrete Plaster Wood

THERE ARE TWO DIFFERENT TYPES OF RESIDENCES IN THE ARTIST’S HOME PROJECT. UNIT A ADOPTS THE FORM OF LOFT TO FURTHER SEPARATE THE ARTIST’S WORK AND RESTING PLACE. CREATE A MORE PRIVATE SPACE. AND IN ORDER TO MEET MORE NEEDS, UNIT A APPEARS IN THE PROJECT IN THE SAME FORM AND DIFFERENT SIZES. THE PURPOSE IS TO CREATE THREE SPATIAL SCALES OF LARGE, MEDIUM, AND SMALL FOR DIFFERENT SCULPTURE ARTISTS TO CHOOSE FROM. UNIT B CREATES A MORE CONCISE AND CLEAR SPACE FOR ACCESSIBLE ARTISTS TO USE THE SPACE MORE SMOOTHLY.

IX. AXONMETRICS

DETAILED AXONMETRIC DRAWINGS EXPOSED AXONMETRIC DRAWINGS

Unit A - Area: 670 ft² (with Blcony, Living Room, Workshop, Kitchen, Bedroom, Restroom, Clothest)

Unit B (ADA) - Area: 612 ft² ( with Balcony, Living Room, Workshop, Kitchen, Bedroom, Restroom.)

Robot Lab - Area: 1901 ft²

Classroom - Area: 985 ft²

Gallery - Area: 3531 ft²

Workshop - Area: 2459 ft²

02 I ANALOGY

AN ARCHITECURAL LEARNING CENTER USING ANALOGY TO EDUCATE

LOCATION: Los Angeles, Caniforlia

Teamates: Cuiling Chen, Zixiong Lin

Studio: Arch 401, Iowa State University, 2020 Fall

Instructor: Mikeshe Muecke

In this project, I used an analogy to introduce architecture to all groups of people. I analyze the city as different groups of people, the buildings as individuals, and the facades as faces. People could know the relationship between humans, society, and architecture via these analogies. And this is how the architectural learning center should be used for.

RESEARCH II. ARCHITECTURE SCALE ANALOGY

When humans have begun to design cities or buildings before, they will build by learning certain forms or data abstracting the human body. The urban texture and collaterals will echo the human meridian. Many building proportions are also obtained by referring to the human body. Therefore, the building and the human body have symbolic meaning to each other.

Urban

When focusing on the building itself, this analogy becomes more. The building itself can be regarded as the body itself. The circulation in the building is equivalent to the blood circulation system inside the human body. The structure in the building is the bones of the human body. The facade is the face.

Circulatory System - Circulation

The programs are the organs. The windows are the eyes. Therefore, the project aims to show the beauty of architecture to the audience by setting up model, photo exhibitions, and high-tech VR-AR systems using an analogy method. So that all audiences can understand and recognize architecture through human beings.

Circulations

Take off / Landing Lane

LAX airport has 4 parallel runways in east-west directions

Taxing Lane

LAX airport has an extremely complex taxiway linking the nine terminals and hundreds of aircraft stops.

Primary lanes

Due to the large population of the residents outside the airport, the primary and secondary road system are very complicated.

High-way

Due to the busy pssanger capacity of the airport, the airport also has a complicated highway system to connect with the city. z

Green Spaces

Green Space in Aiport

Human Body - Building

Due to the construction needs of the airport, there is a lot of grassland inside the airport.

Proportion

Columns

Face - Facade

Westchester Park

The only green space resource owned by the residential area near the airport.

Buildings

Lax Airport

The second busiest Passenger airport in the United States and the fourth busiest international airport.

Skeleton - Structure

Residentials

There are also residential and commericial areas near LAX aiport. At the same time, there are airport- related buildings

Theme Building

The theme building is an iconic space age structure at the Los Angeles International Airport.

Organ - Program

IV. CIRCULATION - CIRCULATORY

There are very complicated transportation systems around Los Angeles Airport, such as sidewalks, general arterial roads, highways, etc. And it is planned to build a railway system next to the airport in 2025. The system will connect downtown Los Angeles and the airport as a dedicated line to improve travel efficiency. Therefore, the building volume of this project is selected at the junction of all transportation hubs and interacts with different transportation modes. This solution will increase the architectural learning center’s attractiveness and attract more people to visit.

VII.MASSING - BODY

Through the above circulation analysis, the project site was finally placed at the junction of the three main roads, convenient for tourists to visit the learning center. Through the outline of the theme building, the three main roads are cut into blocks. At the same time, the roof garden is made by the substracting, bridge, etc., to obtain the final volume.

V. FACADE STIMULATION - FACE

The façade design is simulated through hardness, folding materials, and light transmission experiments. Combined with other materials to simulate the physical model, finally getting the required facade form through experiment: semi-folded and semi-transparent form. Translucent form Translucent form. The rigid facade strategy can make 1. Add a suitable fit to the architectural theme. Like a human face. 2. The translucency creates a vague sense of haziness and enhancement, arousing tourists’ desire to explore. This atomosphere is very suitable for the architectural learning center. Therefore, we finally moved towards this plan and created the facade form shown on the right.

VII. FLOOR PLANS

IX. SECTION

VIII. ELEVATION

VI.

03 I THE COMMUNITY OF FLOATING PAVILIONS

FIVE “FLOATING PAVILIONS” WITH DIFFERENT FUNCTIONS FOR COMMUNITY

LOCATION: Nanjing, Jiang Su, China

Intership Project

Team Leader: Xudong Zhu

Company: OnLand Studio, Hangzhou

Camping has become a popular way of recreation for citizens in the post-epidemic era, but more uncivilized activities have also been exposed. How to find a balance between free space and public space has become the design point of "The Community of Floating Pavilions". We hope that the five "floating pavilions" of different sizes can not only provide service functions, but also jointly shape the public green space, so as to stimulate more unexpected "community life" spontaneously organized by citizens. The light-weight wooden structure and cable-membrane covering also make the "floating pavilion" a generator of vitality in a more modest way.

04 I REDEFINE THE MECHANIZATION CITY

A FACTORY TO USE METAL STIMULATION TO CREATE SURVIVANCE

LOCATION: Los Angeles

Teamates:CuiLing Chen, Stevie Flores, YanJiu Bai, ZiXiong Lin

Studio: Arch 403, Iowa State University, 2021 Fall

Instructor: Mitchell Squire

This project aims to produce bubbles through an imaginary machine assemblage, creating an imaginary space with light reflection, refraction, and interference effects. To create a faulty world that cannot exist in the real world and promote humans to escape from real life for a short time through this space and traditional entertainment projects. To stimulate their mental stimulation and accelerate their imagination. When this goal is achieved, people can escape from being in the city to survive and pursue thriving. This situation is the beginning of their pursuit of survival. And this feeling of survival is an important element of future feeling.

At face value, the term “survivance” invokes, but suggests something more than mere survival or subsistence. Deconstructed, sur-vivance divulges a bursting forth of life. Sur: above and beyond, rhyming in intent with hyper, meta, super. Vivance: the French take on the Latin root for vitality, vigor, and vivaciousness. Thus, survivance: hyper vitality, super vigor. Surviving as thriving. Thriving as surviving.

E-Flux

In the past hundred years, the scale of the city of Los Angeles has developed rapidly, which has benefited from the development of urban industrialization. But this process of industrialization makes the whole city like a machine. Human beings have to survive under this huge machine to survive, but to escape this cyclical working state. They have made many attempts. They have made many entertainment facilities, such as theaters, roller coasters, etc. These projects can make them temporarily out of reality mundane, but this is just a way to settle for the status quo. In the future, what way do we need to escape the city to not only feel survive but survive and thrive? That must be the human imagination, and imagination is the creativity of the future. Therefore, the project aims to use techniques to create an imaginary space that does not conform to reality, mentally stimulate human beings, create an image for the future, and promote humans to experience survival.

For residents living in Los Angeles, it is no easy task to escape or escape from the big machine of the city. They can only imagine more greenery in the city, less crowded or more leisure time at work. In order to

pursue these fantasies, some people hope to get mental stimulation. Therefore, hallucinogens such as drugs are widely used in LA. We want to achieve the same effect as drugs and other hallucinogens

through some methods, so we think of light. Light interference, refraction, and reflection. Create a sense of glitching in real life, via this to enhence their mental stimulation for imagination.

Oil Factories Glitching (Trasition) Results (OutPut)

Daily Life

Daily Mundane (Input)

Work Man

Transportation

Entertainment

Roller Coaster Movie Theater

Workers

Oil Wells

Oil Wells Oil Tanks

III. “MACHINE ASSEMBLAGE”

IV. BUBBLE TYPOLOGY

When there is only one bubble, it will be manufactured from the factory, deformed in the process of floating upward, and finally in a state of equilibrium.

When there are two bubbles, they will start to come together if they start to get closer.

Daily Mundane Collection Box

This box can collect Daily Mundanes scenes in daily life. After being sent to the entire mechanical system, it can produce results that break the daily mundane and daily cycle.

Imagination Collection Box

This box can be used to collect human wishes and expectations. In the model, the acrylic board can create multi-level reflection and refraction to produce an illusory effect.

Trasition Composition

The model uses a mirror, represented by acrylic plates of different colors. Different reflections, refractions, and interferences can be created through them and the shell, o create mental stimulation.

Rotate Rods to Create Bubbles

The machine will combine different kinds of daily mundane requirements and transition into the bubble by rotating and receiving different kinds of mundane daily requirements.

When more bubbles are created, they will influence each other more and form a closer relationship.

There will be three different bubble relationships in our project from this analysis. The lower layer is produced as a single bubble that is rising. In the middle layer, a small number of bubbles meet, which affect each other. On the top layer, many bubbles influence each other to form a whole floating volume.

This part is the bubble floating above the city imagined in the project. Through the dazzling colors it produces, a different space is created in the sky above the city, and combined with subsequent entertainment projects, a space where people can finally escape from reality is obtained.

This is an oil plant in the life of a physical entity, which was thrilled to form a new type of plant capable of producing huge life fuels in the project.

This part combines the real oil refinery and the imaginary roller coaster. Try to use traditional entertainment methods to escape the mechanization of the city and then attach it to the bubble to form an imaginary space plus an imaginary project to confront reality.

05 I BREATH

A YOGA RESTORT ON AN ANCIENT TERRACED VALLEY FARM

LOCATION: Vale de Moses, Portugal

Work Type: Individual Competition

The design site is located in Vale de Moses, surrounded by lush forests in central Portugal. A beautiful yoga resort on an ancient terraced valley farm. This place is uniquely located and suitable for yoga or meditation. The amazing natural environment makes people relax and fully enjoy the harmony between man and nature. Look at the green hillside and enjoy the sun shining across the face. For such a place, we put harmony between man and nature first. The most stunning view of the valley and mountains. It provides the best natural resources for your yoga practice, so you only need to show up and enjoy the healing atmosphere of this space.

Site Analysis

People living in cities may already be bored with the city's architecture (concrete boxes). Throughout history, the fundamental purpose of the house is to provide shelter for people and to create a certain distance from nature. But as this design, we hope to provide a possibility to make nature and the house no longer opposite. Nature is a house, and a house is nature. Provide a place where visitors can maximize the tranquility of nature, enjoy the most essential fun of nature, and redefine the meaning of life. Accept nature in yoga, walk into nature and relax.

Environmental Analysis

DENSE FORESTS IN CENTRAL PORTUGAL

There are many green plants in the forest, so the forest can purify the air and absorb carbon dioxide to produce oxygen.

Massing Strategy

MOUNTAIN STREAMS AND LAKES

The stream is clear and the bottom of the river can be seen directly. You can sit by the stream and listen to the sound of the stream.

MOUNTAIN RANGE

Forests have a regulating effect on climate. The dense canopy of the forest can absorb and scatter and reflect part of the solar radiation energy in summer, reducing the temperature increase of the ground.

CREATURES IN THE FOREST

The forest is alive because of the animals. It is a beautiful thing to wake up in the natural bird song.

The sensibility of space changes with the change of space, through the study of different openness. Try to explore a space that is both closed and open. With the deepening of space exploration, we seem to find the best way for people and nature to get along in the space.

Activity Analysis

YOGA RETREAT

Relax and enjoy in food, yoga, massage. As a nature lover, there are many comfortable places to relax or read a book.

YOGA

Yoga postures like soft gymnastics and graceful dances are a kind of mental exercise. A healthy, pure and peaceful life style coordinates the balance of body and mind from the inside out.

The various activities in the cabin are actually intertwined. Tourists come to experience this kind of life, and the service staff do their best to provide good services. Combining the two is not something else, it is nature.

Exposed Axonometric Drawing - Construction

Glass Claw

Glass Panel

Solar Photovoltaic

Wood Panel

Purline

SECTION Perspecive - Energy System

solar photovoltaic

The roof glass opening is located above the canal and is used to collect rainwater.

2F

Frame System water

water filling nozzle (2F)

Water from the roof is pumped through a hose to the second floor of the pool, and excess water continues to flow.

platform

water filling nozzle(1F)

After filling the bottom tank, the water will flow into the storage tank for future irrigation.

basics

flank

Flank

Girder

rainwater collection rainwater collection

pond

This yoga unit uses as few elements as possible in order to achieve pure and natural effects.Therefore, only the simplest materials -- glass, wood and reinforced concrete were used in the main part. However, in order to ensure the reliability and durability of the building, the wood used in the wooden structure was processed and strengthened, and appropriate metal components were used to reinforce the joints of each component.In addition to the reinforced concrete enclosure part, most of the components adopt the way of mortise and tenon joint and inlay, which is convenient in construction but it also has certain requirements on the precision of components.

The yoga space is very open, with the Oriental elements of water and wood introduced into it, and the vegetation planted in the gap of the wooden frame makes the whole space full of tranquility, which is an ideal meditation space.The interior space of the first floor is equipped with washbasin, seat for rest and corresponding sanitation space to meet daily needs, while the second floor has the function of massage and storage. Essential oil, towel and other massage supplies can be stored in cabinets based on wooden frame and ingenious design.In order to meet the needs of Thai massage, wooden floors were used on a large scale on the second floor to enhance the comfort of customers.

The precipitation from the sky passes through the vertical pipeline system and finally becomes the water for the landscape inside the building and the irrigation water for the vegetation inside and outside the building.At the same time, electricity generated by solar panels can be used to propel the pump to circulate.

size 1/80

size 1/80 ELEVATION A ELEVATION B

06 I UN/RE-MAKING WOOD

A NEW TYPE OF GRAFTING METHODS TO ACCELERATE THE SOIL BALANCE AFTER THE FOREST WILDFIRES

LOCATION: Oroville, Caniforlia

Entire Studio Based

Group Research Project: Alexander Areblo, Xiran Zhang, Shenzhou Dai, ZiXiong Lin

University of California, Berkeley

Instructor: Maria Paz Gutierrez

The lumber industry as presently constituted has a number of points in its process at which material is wasted. In the harvesting of the trees, curved timber is waste. After harvesting, the bark is removed from the tree and used for landscaping if anything. And the act of sawing lumber to create boards or other products is inherently inefficient, reducing a significant portion of wood volume to sawdust. This project interrogates each of these points in order to determine an alternate use for the waste product or an alternate process resulting in less waste, and how these redefined products/processes can be integrated into an architectural system. The system proposed is characterized by a tension-based wood membrane structure, fabricated from the strips of wood which result from planing lumber instead of sawing it (similar to veneer), a rigid skeleton made of whole curved timber, and a rigidizing and protective layer of ground bark. This system seeks to fill a role of temporary or pseudo-temporary structures, while after its life as part of a “building,” the transient membrane can be recycled to other uses such as erosion protection, wildlife habitats, or paper pulping.

II. Material Study

At this stage, we need to conduct more in-depth research and a combination of the content in Part A. How can we re-collect, process, and utilize waste from normal wood production? We took the simplest form - planning wood. This way, we could get the largest possible ultra-thin wood chips from scrap. However, this kind of wood chip does not function at first sight, is not strong enough as a structure, and cannot be stretched as a rope. But it also has advantages, such as light and flexible material. Therefore, we can get many different forms by changing the connection and arrangement of coils. The addition of crushed wood chips enhances the structure of this form. After doing a lot of material studios, we found the most suitable form for our group’s topic tension and displayed it in the form of an installation.

Contributed to Clifford Vickrey

I. Coils Study