Xiao Qin Teh | Portfolio

Teh Xiao Qin

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Master of Architecture II | Fulbright Scholar - High Distinction Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, The University of Michigan

Bachelor of Arts (Architectural Studies) - First Class Honours Department of Architecture, Faculty of Architecture, The University of Hong Kong

Exchange programme | School of Architecture, Princeton University

Graduate Student Instructor (Teaching Assistant) - ARC589 Site Planning M. Arch. program, University of Michigan

The Oval Partnership Ltd, Hong Kong | Architectural Assistant Projects | Daci Mixed-use Development, Chengdu, China - Retail and commercial shopfront - Metro station lobby and public square - Heritage buildings adaptive-reuse - Shopping mall interior design

| Integer INN Eco Hotel, Kunming, China (Panel & presentation submission) - 2012 WAN Awards - Hotel of the Year Award Winner - 2012 RIBA Awards - RIBA International Awards Winner

dotA Hong Kong Competitions | New Taipei City Museum of Art Competition 2011 | Helsinki Central Library Open International Architectural Competition 2012

Education Sept 2012 May 2014

Sept 2008 Jun 2011

Sept 2010 Jan 2011

Professional Work Sept Dec 2013

Aug 2011 Jul 2012

Jul Aug 2011

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2013 Fulbright Enrichment Seminar | St. Louis, Missouri Contemporary St. Louis: Evolution and Development since the 19th Century

Possible Mediums Conference Knowlton School of Architecture, Ohio State University

Chairman | Architectural Students Association The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Fulbright Scholar | Fulbright Graduate Study and Research Program Master of Architecture - High Distinction

Merit Scholarship Award 2013-2014

Master of Architecture Incoming Merit-Based Scholarships

First Class Honours Deans Honours Fosroc Prize C.V. Starr Scholarship Fund for Worldwide Student Exchange HKU Foundation Scholarship for Outstanding International Students

Deans Honours Hong Kong University Alumni Prize HKU Foundation Scholarship for Outstanding International Students

Deans Honours HKU Foundation Scholarship for Outstanding International Students

Spoken | English Mandarin Cantonese Malay Written | English Chinese Malay

Adobe | Illustrator Photoshop InDesign Autodesk | AutoCAD Rhinoceros 3ds Max Revit Graphisoft | ArchiCAD Artlantis Google | SketchUp

Extra-Curricular Involvement Mar 7 10, 2013

Feb 7 10, 2013

2009 2010

Awards & Honours 2012 2014

2013 2014

2012 2013

2010 2011

2009 2010

2008 2009

Languages & Dialects

Technical Skills

Selected Works2008 | 2014

Chengdu, ChinaChengdu Daci Mixed-use Development

Object Analysis | Cube Design

Hong KongHouse Analysis | House Design

Hong KongMuseum of Food & Food Culture

Taipei, TaiwanNew Taipei City Museum of Art

Chicago, ILChicago River | ThinkBridge

Bueno AiresCiudad de Aire | Residential Housing

Chicago, ILProducing Grounds | Masters Thesis

Fall 2012 Rania Ghosn | The University of Michigan

Spring 2013 Julia McMorrough + Heidi Bebee | The University of Michigan

Spring 2014 Rania Ghosn | The University of Michigan

Spring 2011 Yan Gao | The University of Hong Kong

Fall/ Spring 2011 The Oval Partnership | Hong Kong

Summer 2011 dotA | Hong Kong

Spring 2010 Guy Nordenson | Princeton University

Spring 2009Peter Hasdell | The University of Hong Kong

Fall 2008John C. H. Lin | The University of Hong Kong

Manhattan, NYHudson River Bike & Footbridge

Producing Grounds: A Manual for Land-Grant Institutions Masters ThesisWinter 2013 Rania Ghosn | The University of Michigan

The thesis asks the question of how architecture operates actively not only on the surface of the land but expands three-dimensionally underneath and above the surface, and explores the relationship between the built spaces within the manipulated ground with the university as the protagonist. The project proposes a system where the ground and architecture transform each other actively, where architecture seeks opportunity to mold the land, and not just conforming to it. The built spaces are manipulated to house programs dedicated to the universitys concerns, but also aims to perform as spaces that engage the user with the environment.

1862 Morrill Act/Education for the Public

Land-grant System for Education Land-grant Institution for each State

Land-GrantInsitutions

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stateland-grantuniversity

Land, Education & the Community

1914 Smith-Lever Act/Knowledge for the Community

Land

Act of July 2, 1862 (Morrill Act), Public Law 37-108, establishes land grant colleges

Federal lands were granted to each state to fund the land grant university

PracticalAgriculture

GeneralScience

MilitaryScience

Engineering

Food

Environment

Community

Reconfiguring Ground

extraction

remediation& deposition

Beyond the Land

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Extent of Pennsylvanian System rocksActive minesMined-out area, surfaceMined-out area, both surface and undergroundMined-out area, underground

Coal handling dockActive coal mine Coal-fueled electric power plant Major coal-fueled industrial or institutional plant

Deep saline storage

Decatur(Large-scale demonstration of deep saline geological storage of 1 million metric tons of CO2 over a three-year period)

Loudon Oil Field(Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) field validation tests to assess potential for CO2 storage in oil in the Illinois Basin) Tanquary Field(Coal seam injection test - determine CO2 storage capacity, injection rate, and the ECBM recovery potential of Illinois Basin coal)

Gas and oil fieldsForest & woodsNational parks

Coal Mines & Reserves2CO2CO

Gas & Oil

Carbon Capture & SequestrationTimber Forest Agricultural Land

Prime68%

Important14%

Not prime18%

waterunmapped area

Extension Sites with Multiple Resources

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Loudon Oil Field

Tanquary Field

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CO Carbon Capture & Sequestration

area affectedis reduced tominimize impact

Vegetation

Buddleja scordioidesfor Lead (Pb)

Pteris vittata L.for Arsenic (As)

Melastoma malabathricum Lfor Aluminium (Al)

Monitoring shelter

Injection points

Injection layers

coal beds

monitoringwells

CO2 storage tanks

saline aquifer oil & gas reservoirs

salt bed

CO2 is injected into the bore holeand temporarilysealed off to allowfor reaction

plow lines

year 1

Single cropping

crop A

crop B

year 2

year 1Double cropping

Experimental farming oncleansed deposited land

crop B

crop A

crop A

crop B

year 2

Contour plowing

Crop rotation

Contour

Level grounds

Agricultural Fields Gas & Oil

area affectedis reduced tominimize impact

produced water is injected intothe bore holeand sealedoff

Vegetation

Injection + Seal

Substrate for embankment

Phytostabilisation + microbial reclamation

phytoremediation using hyperaccumulator plants

methanogens break apart tailings molecule for faster settling of solids in tailings

treated drill cuttings to support

wetland vegetation

Extraction points

Waste productsTailing ponds

SludgeDrill cuttings

Brine/ Produced water

Coal Mines & Reserves

Land Reclamation

clean spoil converted into land mass

sporting slopesspoil

spoil = overburden + waste rocks

Constructed wetlands for ARD (acid rock drainage)

Dry capping of tailings on-site

Revegetated slopes

Spoil pile

mountain top removal

contour bench

coal beds

drift mines

shaft mines

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Surface extraction

Underground extraction

Acid Rock Drainage (ARD)

Rock shaleTailingponds

dry cap

tailings

Ciudad de Aire with Peter Halquist and Dahee Sim

Winter 2013 Heidi Bebee & Julia McMorrough | The University of Michigan

In this residential housing project, emphasis was placed on maximizing the openings for natural ventilation and lighting for each unit while maintaining the high-density requirement. Voids are carved out on the facade to create spaces for double height terraces, breaking the monotony of a flushed surface, giving unique character to the housing project.

Street Perspective Revit | AutoCAD | IllustratorStreet PerspectiveRevit | AutoCAD | Illustrator

Roof Plan and Site Cross Section.Revit | AutoCAD | Photoshop | Illustrator

Double C-Ring Plan | Upper Floor Lower Floor

Joint drawing with Dahee SimDetail axonometric cross sectionRhino | AutoCAD | Illustrator

Unit Plan | Upper Floor Lower Floor

Unit plan drawings by Dahee Sim

Unit ConfigurationRevit | AutoCAD | llustrator

75m22 bedrooms

50m21 bedroom

150m23 bedrooms

66m2studio

130m22 bedrooms

90m22 bedrooms

Chicago River | ThinkBridge with Hannah Smith

Fall 2012 Rania Ghosn | The University of Michigan

ThinkBridge deploys a satellite campus that redefines how a university interacts with the city; and proposes a hands-on mode of learning by means of the river. The project appropriates the strong linear connection of rails running through the site into a core artery between UIC main campus and the business district on the east bank of the river. A cluster of buildings radiates from the bridge and interlink with a sequence of courtyards. Buildings along the river centrally locate and enable the objectification of the bridge at the center.

Department ofBiological Sciences COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS & SCIENCES

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOISAT CHICAGO

UIC

Department ofBiological Sciences COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS & SCIENCES

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOISAT CHICAGO

UIC

Urban Strategy co-drawn with Hannah Smith

University as Urban Catalyst | | Relationship with Environmental Agencies

Urban Strategy

Programs

Landscape Strategy

Site Network Plan

Forest

Granite paving

Water pond

Planting squares

Seating

Light rail stationLight railWater taxi stationWater taxiVehiclesBike trailsPedestrians

CLASSROOMS

STORAGE

CAFE

GYM

LABORATORIES

COMMON AREAS

HOUSING

LEISURE WALK

CAFETERIAOFFICES FOR NGO + GREEN START-UPSACTIVITY SPACES

EXHIBITION SPACE

AUDITORIUMS

Student Community Center & Cafe

Museum of Food & Food Culture

Spring 2011 Yan Gao | The University of Hong Kong

The Museum of Food and Food Culture stands within central Hong Kong city as an moderate icon to bring food and agriculture to peoples horizon. The whole site and building together form the Urban Food Land and incorporates engaging roof gardens and planting strips in conjunction with the exhibition space and the research centre. This project hopes to evoke the caution of food and agricultural significance within central Hong Kong and to pave the pathway towards a tastier future.

Surrounded by glass and steel skyscrapers not unfamiliar to Hong Kong island, the little patch of roughly 20,000 sq. m. urban park sits in the middle of the bustling Hong Kong city, but remains unperturbed by the traffic and noises.

This created sense of serenity became one of the inspiration for the design concept: to transform the park into a site for an urban kitchen farm museum, one that let the visitors escape from the concrete jungle into a land of organic and green environment, one that invites its visitors back into the roots of nature.

entrance

buildingheights

museum

auditoriumconvention hall

mediatheque

restaurants

looping sequence

research centreadministrative offices museum store

bookstore cafe restaurantsmuseum store

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bookstore cafe

auditorium

museum

administrative offices museum store

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research centre

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museum

auditoriumconvention hall

mediatheque

restaurants

looping sequence

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Work scope: Model buildig + rendering

2011 The Oval Partnership | Hong Kong

Building on an existing heritage site requires extra consideration for the conservation of local fabric but at the same time infusing contemporary vibrancy to activate the environment. The juxtaposition between the old and the new offers new interpretation into a mixed-use development that integrates familiar cultural values and new lifestyles.

Daci Mixed-use DevelopmentChengdu, China

A metro station links this hub for retail and commercial activities to the rest of the city of Chengdu. The square above the metro station is conceived as the gateway towards different surrounding major commercial districts and office towers, therefore presents a design challenge to make the square public-friendly, walkable and welcoming.

Work scope: Model buildingRendering by other

Work scope: Model buildig + rendering

New Taipei City Museum of Art

Summer 2011 dotA | Hong Kong

The design explores how local cultural characteristics could be intergated into the design, creating a unique experience between the object as building form. With the change of scale, ones experience with the original object changes and alters ones perspectives as well as the spatial interaction with the subject and the built form.

Hudson River Bike & Footbridge

Spring 2010 Guy Nordenson | Princeton University

An architectural approach for a bridge design requires the same amount of sensitivity towards the surrounding, how the bridge will connect to the site context, who are the people who will benefit from the new link, and most imporantly, to and from where it will link.

A bridge affects the entrie city because it changes the traffic and circulation for the whole area. This is why careful consideration must be made when deciding on the alignment and functions of the bridge. A well thought-out addition of a bridge will be able to change the city, to add to the citys accessibility or to promote the citys liveliness by increasing the pace of traffic.

point where the descending ramp touches the water surface level and connects to the floating walkway

skatepark

floating platform with seatings

floating walkway

cycling route

jogging/ walking route

point where the descending ramp touches the water point where the descending ramp touches the water surface level and connects to the floating walkwaysurface level and connects to the floating walkway

House Analysis | House Design


Taking Adolf Loos Steiner House in Vienna, an analysis is carried out to understand the key concept of the house. Representational drawings are emphasized in this exercise to explore the different expressions of a simple concept and how they transform ones interpretation of the house.

Hand-drawn. Original on 34 x 44 paper.

Given the narrow slit of site within Central, Hong Kong, the conditions for the house design are challenging and at the same time, interesting and unique. The vibrant environment near the vicinity of the site provides an engaging atmosphere for the design process, and it is here design finds its own voice amidst the hustle and bustle of the city life.

Hand-drawn. Original on 34 x 44 paper.

Object Analysis | Cube Design


Exploration into architectural studies starts from one single object. The chosen object is analysed through careful observation with some degree of reasonable speculation to arrive at the most accurate results possible, which is then presented via architectural drawings and physical modelling.

The cube, while not having a fixed dimension, is required to fit into an arbituary space measuring 300 x 300 x 300mm. It manifests the concept of interlocking pieces using its inheerent materiality to design the joints, the connections, the relationship between the void and solid, and the sections show clearly how the cuts segregate the unity of spaces, creating another realm of spatial interaction.

Xiaoqin Teh

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Xiao Qin Teh | Portfolio