Architecture Portfolio Steven (JinXing) Xiao

Steven (JINXING) XiaoContact:Email:coco232362@hotmail.comCell Phone: 6266884081Education:Pasadena CIty College 2011-present

Skills:Rhinoceros 4.0+Adobe Photoshop Adobe Illustrator Adobe InDesignMaxwell Render 2.0+3ds Max

SKIN & BONE MINIMAL SURFACE MATERIALMETRO STATION SPATIAL SEQUENCE

SKIN & BONEArch 12B Fall 2011Instrutor Andy Ku

SKIN & BONE

Objective:Student need to develop a set of ribs from previous pro-ject Villa MN. The set of ribs should perform a transition and transformation throughout the process.

Material:Carboard, scissors, knife and glue.

Process A:First extract a set of ribs from the previous assignment Villa NM. After split the house student chosed the must interest part which is the middle of the house. For reason because of the transitiion of twisting and curving. Followed the stu-dent Followed by the transformation student used “coun-ter” to set a number of rib with equal distance amongst each other. None of the rib were similar to each. Finally Student connect the set of Rib by a same among of strings attrach to each rib.

VIlla NM SPlit View

Center Part of Villa NM which has the must twisting and curving elements. student used to create a set of ribs.

The Skin and Bone surface was created though Villa NM. There are 8 ribs and 12 strings attrached to the ribs. Each rib has a different size yet the distance amongest each other are the same. followed a set of strings were attract to the rib created a enclosure and support.

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Process B:After developed the Ribs and Strings as the support and frame. The ribs and strings can be the supportor of the building. student need to construct an enclosure for the structure. the entire structure must has minuim of 50 percent of enclosure which consider the skin, followed an entrance must be created and functional throughtout the building.

Entrance of the structure The entrance of the structure was place between rib 2 and 4 in the center of rib 3. The part of the structure has the must space for people to experence.

The skin provide alomost an complete enclosure for the structure except the end. the end of the structure has dou-ble side which allow people to experience the skin and bone part of the structure. Student also create an contoli-ver at the top of the structure which allow people to better view of the strucutre.

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Section A

Metro StationArch 10B Fall 2011Instructo C. Griffith

METRO STATION:

Objective:Student will require to acknowledge his skills to construct a building thats assigned by the professor. The structure will accommodate the steps the student present throughout the project.The goal of the project is for student to perform his creativity and also understanding the objective of the project.

Decription:Student are required to built structure which include bi-cycle station, train station, and also a shop on the given distance. Student must follow his concept and present his step reasonablely to earn marks.

Process: Student began with understand the basic elemnts of de-signening a complete structure with various spaces and circulations. The metro station is located at the pan pacific park of Los Angeles. Student start with site constraints then various among quantiative studies and began the process of designing.

Site:Pan Pacific Park, 3rd and glove Los Angeles, USA

Insurrection

Collaboration

Disseminate

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Gardener st.

Site Research

Datums Sound Circulation

Quantified

Extruded datums and data numbers

Section A: Long section

3rd Street

Site Plan

Section B: Short Section

Restroom

Restroom O�ce

storage storage

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Exit Metro Entrance

Shop

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Floor Plan

Short Section-C

MaterialArch 24 Spring 2012Instructor G. Huang

CURBURA DUBLU

Objective:Student will study materials that demonstrate the forces a tension, compression, bending, twisting, etc. Student are enourage to expolore the sensational aspect of material and use their creativities to expand the possiblility of a material construct.

Decription:Student are required to identift and catergorze materials’ embedded forces and behaviors. beside its natural forces. materiality is not merely the material make or the thnical performace, it also includes the material’s relationship to human body. sometimes the culture understandings of material constrain its uses.

Material:Duralar is a highly bendable and difficult to rip apart by hand. The material is flexible enough to twist it is breaking where is bascically leaves a crease where the compres-sion was most. the material wants to always stay dflat when in a file form, it is difficult to try to poll it up because it fights its tendency to be flat.

Site:Pasadena City College Library main floor. Pasadena. CA

Connection:Creating two different kinds of module that module B is Created from two parts. The purpose of layering on top of each other is that to create a row of bone which gives some stronger structure to the whole model. The support-ing layer is Module B which holds the entire structure.

connections Module A Module B

Material Study

Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC) Shelf Liner

History

The German chemist Eugen Baumann created PVC or Polyvinyl Chloride in 1872. Eugen did not apply for a patent and it was patented when Friedrich Klatte invented a new method of the polymerization of vinyl chloride using sunlight in 1913. PVC was not used widely until Waldo Lonsbury Semon found the way of combing rubber with metal.

UsesPlumbing, lawn furniture, wallpaper, doors, wire coating, etc.

Mesh Body Sponge Study

The material has only one direction ( x axis) which gives the ability to stretch the material more by creating tension. If the force is given from the sides, the middle part of the material becomes more stretched (the units are becoming closer) and changes its quality from being transparent to opaque.

Duralar

PCC ARCH 14 MATERIAL SYSTEM MATERIAL OPTION

Study

The material is highly bendable and difficult to rip apart by hand. The material is flexible enough to twist it is breaking where is basically leaves a crease where the compression was most. The material wants to always stay flat when in a file form, it is difficult to try yo poll it up because it fights its tendency to be flat.

PCC Library

Duralar

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PCC ARCH 14 MATERIAL SYSTEM MATERIAL UNIT 2.2

Modules Scale

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PCC ARCH 14 MATERIAL SYSTEM MATERIAL UNIT 2.2

Modules Scale

5”

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PCC ARCH 14 MATERIAL SYSTEM MATERIAL UNIT 2.2

Modules Scale

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PCC ARCH 14 MATERIAL SYSTEM MATERIAL UNIT 2.2

Modules Scale

Module Scales

PCC ARCH 14 MATERIAL SYSTEM SYSTEM PROTOTYPE 4.1

PCC ARCH 14 MATERIAL SYSTEM SYSTEM PROTOTYPE 4.1

Floor Plan

Section A

PCC ARCH 14 MATERIAL SYSTEM SYSTEM PROTOTYPE 4.1

Minimal SurfaceArch 12 Fall 2011Instrutor Andy Ku

MINIMAL SURFACE

Objective:Generate a minimal surface through rhino program. First student must generate a piece of “batwing” which is a set of cruves within a cubic box.

Description:Generating a batwing through 20 steps.

Process:First studen developed the batwing followed use his crea-tivety by mirroring and rotation along the edges to create

one single minimal surface as a whole system.

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After Develop the piece of the Batwing i simply joined it together by the end of each tip. there are four pieces combined together then it was mirrored as whole.

Batwing was developed thrgouh 4 major lines

SPATIAL SEQUENCEArch 10B Fall 2011Instructor C Griffith

Spatial SequenceDescriptionTo create architcture, one must understand the concept of spatial relation and spatial organization. For this project, i have choosen a complex constructed architecural resi-dential building.

Residence in Aghia PasakeviArchitects: Architects UnfoldingLocation: Athen, Greece

SequnceTo start i have understand different types of spatial organi-zation, types of spaces, and lastly spatial relations. Each with a different purpose to study the building, once i have gather all the information, i begin to draw the possible cir-culation, interlocking spaces, and adjacent. Then i created a physical model for a better understanding of the building.

Personal Learning OutcomeThe sequence was the most important factor of this study, it represents how a person would experience the space when enter a building. and it also helped me understand how to construct my own architectural buildings in the fu-ture, utilizing the idea of sequential construction.

Adjacent Space Interlocking Space Circulation

Floor Plan

Section X-X

Section Y-Y

Red indicate CirculationLight Grey indicate space

Step 1 Before

Remove the first circulation then space followed by another circulation then space again repeatly throughout the process

Step 1 After

Step 2 Before Notice diagram (step 1 After) is the same as (step 2 Be-fore) and these steps will repeat throughout the process

Remove the 3 circulation then space followed the fouth then space

Step 2 After

Step 3 Before

Step 3 After

Step 4 Before

Step 4 After

Step 5 Before

Step 5 After

Step 6 Before

Step 6 After