CONTENTS

A FLOATING PLATFORM Cliff Edge Community Centre, Weihai

THE RECOVERY OF A FALLEN HORIZON Artists In Residence and Research Facility, Lightning Ridge

COLORFUL LIVING ABOVE THE SURFACEMixed-use apartment in North Bondi, Sydney

A SILENT ARCADE Civic Library In Matraville, Sydney

BAKERY IN WOOLLOOMOOLOO Woolloomooloo Bakery, Sydney

RESUME

SELECTED CREATIVE WORKS

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MAX HU PORTFOLIO

Application to Master of Architecture, M.Arch 1, Fall 2013 Yale School of Architecture Yale University

E: Salvatoreh@live.comT: 001186 13691207300 (PRC)A: 408/18 Village Dr. Breakfast Point, NSW, 2137, Australia W: issuu.com/mhuarchitecture

Professional Practice | 2012

UNSW Graduation Studio | 2012

UNSW Studio ARCH1301 | 2011

UNSW Studio ARCH1202 | 2010

UNSW Studio ARCH1102 | 2009

CLIFF EDGE COMMUNITY CENTRE

Location: WeiHai, ShanDong, PRC. Client: WeiHai Landscape Department. Floor Area: 2100 sqmArchitect: Trace Architecture Office (TAO)Design Phase: Feb. 2012 - Sep. 2012Project Director: Hua LiProject Team: Max Hu, Joanna Gomes, Meng NanRole: Project designer

A FLOATING PLATFORM Cliff Edge Community Centre, Weihai

The site is an extraordinary landscape, facing east towards the in-finite horizon and sea. A natural cliff situated on the plateau acts as a backdrop to the landscape. The Cliff Edge Community Centre project seeks to create a poetic architectural gesture in a significant location within the city of Weihai, the hillcrest plateau in Tashan Park.

A FLOATING PLATFORM

This light structure is held up by a grid of white concrete columns, touching lightly over the landscape. A layer of water gently covers the building’s verandah over the horizontal platform. From within the interior, the water surface stretches out and connects visually with the Bo-hai Sea. Above the platform, five concrete floating boxes with individual balcony provide privacy and a panoramic view towards Weihai City and the harbor.

VIEW OF COMMUNITY CENTRE FROM DISTANCE

Ground Floor

First Floor

Site Plan

East Section

South Section

DISAPPEARING INTO NATURE

To establish a relationship with the proposed sports field and the viewing platform on the Northern part of the site. We intended to to establish a community centre consisting of various gyms, cafes and restaurants. The challenge was to avoid a massed volume and shielding the grand scenery, thus we aimed to create a free, transparent horizontal space that is limited with low stone walls on which the volume settles and evanesce with the earth.

The ground level was primarily established to form a threshold for public space, which faces the ocean. restaurants were com-pressed into clusters of boxes which float above the main platform. The cliff in the background is visible through the gaps be-tween each individual block.

WORKING MODELSPhysical Models 1:200Cardboard

THINKING PROCESS

Models are an efficient tool for three-dimensional understanding of our design schemes. During our design phase, we built a series of working models to study the interaction of volumes, spatial atmo-sphere and to explore different schemes.

These working models helped us to recognize and develop our main archi-tectural ideas from concept to detail, also helped us to examine and inter-pret materiality and lighting conditions.

LOUNGE INTERIOR AND VIEW TO THE CITY AND SEA

VIEW OF COMMUNITY CENTRE FROM THE SOUTHERN ENTRANCE

VIEW OF COMMUNITY CENTRE FROM THE NORTHERN ENTRANCE

THE RECOVERY OF A FALLEN HORIZON

Key Words: Regional, Cultural, ResidentialLocation: Lightning Ridge, AustraliaDesign Phase: Aug. 2011 - Nov. 2011Project Director: Professor Glenn MurcuttProject Tutor: Wendy Lewin

Artists In Residence and Research Facility, Lightning Ridge

National Accreditation | Sydney 2012

Lightning Ridge is a still active opal mine located in outback NSW on the world’s richest deposit of black opal. In the hot dusty landscape the physical conditions are severe and unfamiliar and temperatures are extreme.The landscape is powerful, both in its capacity to evokean emotional response as well as in its relationship to the economic and social structure of the mining town. The place is full of stories andthe ground layered with traces of its rich history, extraodinary physciallyand for its cultural associations. Constraints such as very limited rainfalland almost unbearable summer heat making the place even more extr-aodinary.

A MOONSCAPE ON EARTH

The manifestation underpinning this project is to explore the relationship between the sky, earth and horizon. Lightning Ridge Artist In Residence is an architectural horizon which lies between the earth and heaven. The dynamic undulations and the irregular patterns of the landscape re-quires a unique horizontality to define the datum line.

Castle Mountain Prize in the Bachelor of Architectural Studies | Sydney 2011

A MOONSCAPE ON EARTH

OVERALL CONTEXTPhysical Model 1:200Balsa wood + Boxboard

Threshold - The architecture invites the vistors to take on a lyrical journey in search of a ruminative serenity.

Pathway - An architectural complex that meanders along the contours, dialoguing with the landscape and surroundings.

Unearth - The architecture perceived as protrusions of earth itself. The horizontality as well as the juxta-position of weight and lightness, opacity and transparency.

A DIALOGUE BETWEEN THE LANDSCAPEAND ARCHITECTURE

Spatial quality - The architecture explores ancient gather-ing forms, creating a juxtaposition between the enclosure and horizontal plateau.

The Artists In Residence Facility features a small gallery and opal research centre. Due to the harsh environment in Lightning Ridge, the facil-ity was required to generate and store its own power and water as well as manage waste on site. Technology and its capacity to inform both an architectural conception together with mate-rial details was also an essential consideration.

TOWARD A REGIONAL ARCHITECTURE

West Elevation

North Elevation

South Section East Section

East Section

Climatic responsive technology plays an essential role in this design. Most of the habitable spaces are underground, creating thermal com-fort and shading. The windcatcher (Malqaf a traditional Persian ven-tilation device) is utilized in combination with courtyards. This helps to capture the prevailing wind and to cool down the interior spaces.

NATURAL ENERGY

EXTERIOR VIEW OF THE MALQAF VIEW OF THE ARTIST STUDIO INTERIOR

VIEW INTO THE COURTYARD

VIEW OF THE ARTIST STUDIO INTERIORVIEW INTO THE COURTYARD

COLORFUL LIVING ABOVE THE SURFACE

Key Words: Residential, Commerical, RetailLocation: North Bondi, SydneyDesign Phase: Aug. 2010 - Nov. 2010Project Director: Professor Harry MargalitProject Tutor: Suzannah Potts

Mixed-use apartment in North Bondi, Sydney

The site is located in North Bondi - a quintessential coastal suburb of Sydney, where life is laid-back and easygoing. As the city moves towards an urban vision that en-courages higher densities and diverse street life through mixing commercial and residential func-tions. We aimed to incised a mixed use apartment into the Bondi city fabric: one that accommodates a range of functions, in this case commercial premises including a restaurant, with a number of apart-ments above.

VIEW OF THE ARTIST STUDIO INTERIOR

The coastal climate offers comfort-able cool breeze and sunlight. The Bondi Apartment aimed to create a building of architectural distinc-tion, which rendered the idea of the operable façade to mediate between the requirement for pri-vacy and the relationship between interior of the apartment and exte-rior environment.

Car Park Plan Ground Floor First Floor Second Floor

There is a generous communal outdoor space throughout the building, reflecting the concept of an outdoor living style. The sculptural courtyard allows for the habitants to come together and to diversify through their gatherings.

GARDENThe proposed design seeks to capitalise on the expo-sure of the corner site, by providing a welcoming entry. An entry which also acts as a communal courtyard where residents can gather, rest and meet on a daily basis.The design indicated a transformation from the public realm through the contemplative rooms to the outdoor garden, this embeds the concept of layering. The building takes the form of the Bondi cliff, which touches the earth firmly. The community is built upon the metaphorical land-scape and transforms from the ground to the roof creating an interlocking physical form

AN URBAN OPEN SPACE

Site Plan

There are also private courtyards avail-able, this was derived from the concept - the Hortus Conclusus. This concept re-flects a contemplative room, a garden with-in a garden by seeking to provide a small “secret” place for residents to find solitude and serenity.

Detail Elevtion

West Elevation

West Section

East Elevation

North Section North Elevtion

Detail Section Section Model Physical Model 1:20Cardboard & Boxboard

To reinforce the idea of living above, the base level is introverted and enclosed. The apartment units on top of the base level are open and expansive, in contrast to the con-tained base below. The apartment spaces facing north/westerly direction are almost without definition, they are conceived as a fluid horizontal landscape. Each apartment offers stunning views into the distance and connects visually to the landscaped areas below and above the site.

COLORFUL LIVING ABOVE THE SURFACE

A sense of enrichment is created due to the inte-gration of the natural and manmade materials. This creates a sense of celebration of the memories provoked by the landscape and culture of Bondi. The overall form is seemingly as though differ-ent spaces and volumes sit and interlock with the stone base. The choice of natural stone which cradles onto the base, was selected to wrap itself around the entire level. This extends itself to the first and second floor forming a balustrade. The interlocking form indicates that there is an ex-change, a give and take, between the architecture and its surroundings.

A SILENT ARCADE

Key Words: Cultural, CivicLocation: Matravile, SydneyDesign Phase: Aug. 2010 - Nov. 2010Project Director: Dr. Dijana AlicProject Tutor: John Gamble

Civic Library In Matraville, Sydney

Matravile library features an ‘arcade-style’ like passageway – featuring a main circulation acts as the focal point. This is highlighted by the use of all other spaces arranged to revolve around the ‘arcade’ in order to achieve a unique spatial rela-tionship of visual connection and complexity. This correlates with the idea of a bonding community via the focal point, as the site is at the intersection of Bunnerong Road and Daunt Av-enue. The location situated at the corner, is viewed as two ad-jacent streets are assembled to emphasize the building as an attractive site and an active meeting ground for the community.

VIEW OF LIBRARY FROM THE STREET

THE SPATIAL HIERARCHY

All three levels are dedicated to their own particular purpose and func-tion. Through the interweaved notions of public to private, the ground floor forms as a public space – as a place to gather and relax. Facilities includ-ed on the bottom floor include a central courtyard, children’s library and café are some of the main elements to this dynamic atmosphere. The first floor is seen as more of a collective study area with the main library act-ing as its core, offering study lounges and private reading rooms. While the second floor consists of administration rooms and private studies, these include the directors room, a private staff lounge and archive room.

Mapping - Connection between public & private

Mapping - Intersection and interaction at the corner of two streets

LOCATION

Capitalise on the exposure of the corner site to passerby by providing a numberof access points and, in particular, apathway allowing the site to be used as a shortcut

LEVEL CHANGE

To create a more aesthetically pleasing space,provide at least modest and observable changesin ground level.

CIRCULATION

The open space should accommodate themovement of people entering into the buildingsor spaces around it.

The open space should accommodate poeplepassing through using the open space as ashortcut or a pleasant, walking-through space.

Where pedestrians are to be guided in a certain direction ensure that this massage is clearly conveyed in physical form.

ENTRNCE

Provide a small entrance area where passerby can stop and rest for a while, watching the passing street activity, without actually entering the main body of thesite.

Provide passersby who wish to rest with a number ofpossible orientations.

The design should alert people to the location of the library, whether approaching on foot or by car.

Site Plan

LOCATION

Capitalise on the exposure of the corner site to passerby by providing a numberof access points and, in particular, apathway allowing the site to be used as a shortcut

Ground Floor First Floor Second Floor

West Elevation

North Elevation

LIBRARY INTERIOR WITH OPERABLE LOUVRES LIGHT FROM THE LIGHT CANNON ILLUMINATES THE HALLWAYS

BAKERY IN WOOLLOOMOOLOO

Key Words: Cultural, CivicLocation: Woolloomooloo, SydneyDesign Phase: Aug. 2009 - Nov. 2009Project Director: Professor Peter MurrayProject Tutor: Bruce Hanlee

Woolloomooloo Bakery, Sydney

WoodHead Prize in Architectural Communication | Sydney 2010

The history of baking is associated with civilization and it’s settlement. There are unique qualities that are associated with these attributes such as mechanical advancements, oven technology, use of a mixture of ingredients and the development of society. My design aims to create an ar-chitecture that highlights and abridges the history of baking from it’s past with the present.

Floor Plan

Site Plan

Conventional bakery portraits an enclosed shell, the lighting and working con-ditions are inadequate. I challenged this notion by opening up the bakery to the surroundings, light and fresh air. Conceived to replicate a pavilion, the bakery is configured as a horizontal space where the open central courtyard defines the threshold to the building. The spatial concept proposes a visiting experi-ence alternating between the interior of the bakery and the landscape outside, highlighting the inseparable relationship between baking and environment.

LINKING BAKING TO THE ENVIRONMENT

LIGHT FROM THE LIGHT CANNON ILLUMINATES THE HALLWAYS

North Elevation

North Section

West Elevation

West Section

The bakery intends to create two opposite experiences. The first is to close off the Southern facade from the busy street activities, a heavy masonry wall defines a boundary that conveys a sense of protection. On the other side, the building is seemingly transparent, creating an open space and a view towards the park. The extended floor that is covered with a roof plane creates an outdoor patio supported by concrete columns. In close reference to the ancient palaces, whose orthogo-nal geometry share a corresponding extroverted and introverted composition.

TWO EXPERIENCES COEXIST

SOUTHERN FACADE

NORTHERN FACADE

Brick is the prominent material utilized in this project. The horizontality of the building, which is broken by the fenestration, is accentuated by the re-use of bricks salvaged from the de-molition of the buildings around the Woolloo-mooloo area.

AN AUSTERE AND SENSUAL APPERANCE

The recycled bricks form the structural walls to the architecture, while the floors and ceilings are constructed using cement blocks. Both are versatile materials and the austere appearance and behavior beneath light express a sense of timelessness.

UNSW Year 2 Design Studio, Semester 1, 2010Type: ExperimentalLocation: ExperimentalInstructors: Professor Xing Ruan, Felicity Wheeler

A STUDIO FOR THE GEOGRAPHER

UNSW Year 2 Design Studio, Semester 1, 2010Type: Gallery, Commercial Location: New Town, SydneyInstructors: Professor Xing Ruan, Felicity Wheeler

A GALLERY OF JUXTAPOSED ORDERS

Architectural Photography Final Exhibition, 2010UNSW FBE Elective, Introduction to ArchitecturalPhotography, Semester 1, 2010Instructor: Stephen Preece

ARCHITECTURAL PHOTOGRAPHY

OTHER CREATIVE WORKS

INFORMATION

Birthday 11/20/1987

Nationality Australian (Chinese)

Language Mandarin Chinese & English

Address 408/18 Village Dr. Breakfast Point NSW, 2137. Australia

Email Salvatoreh@live.com

EDUCATION

2009 - 2011 Bachelor of Architectural Studies University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

2008 - 2009 Bachelor of Interior Architecture University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

AWARDS, PRIZES, SCHOLARSHIPS

2012 Bachelor of Architectural Studies with Distinction University of New South Wales A distinction level of performance based on a weighted average mark (WAM) of at least 75% achieved in all courses completed since enrolment at UNSW which are credited to the relevant award

2011 Castle Mountain Prize in the Bachelor of Architectural Studies University of New South Wales For academic merit and excellence in development of construction technology as demonstrated in the final year architectural design studio 2011 Faculty of Built Environment Dean’s List, Semester 1 & 2 University of New South Wales Achieved a Weighted Average mark (WAM) of 80 or above in a university semester

2010 The WoodHead Prize in Architectural Communication University of New South Wales For the best performance in architectural communication as demonstrated in the design studio ARCH1101/ARCH1102

2009 Faculty of Built Environment Dean’s List, Semester 2 University of New South Wales Achieved a Weighted Average mark (WAM) of 80 or above in a university semester

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2012 Intern Architect Trace Architecture Office (TAO), Beijing, China http://www.t-a-o.cn/ Project designer Project participated Cliff Edge Community Centre, Weihai, PRC

2009-2010 Junior Assistant Tonkin Zulaikha Greer Architects, Sydney, Australia www.tzg.com.au/ Student assistant Project participated Central Coast Arts & Conference Centre, Wyong, NSW National Centre of Indigenous Excellence, Redfern, NSW Burton Street Tabernacle, Darlinghurst, NSW

EXHIBITION

2012 National Accreditation Sydney Graduation Studio Project selected for exhibition

2011 ‘Unearth // Elevate’ Graduation Exhibition Of Bachelor of Architectural Studies University of New South Wales

2011 Architectural Photography Final Exhibition University of New South Wales

2009 Year 1 Architectural Studies Final Exhibition Of Bachelor of Architectural Studies University of New South Wales

2008 Interior Architecture Grand Exhibition Of Bachelor of Interior Architecture University of New South Wales

ACTIVITIES

2009 Student Representative University of New South Wales

2005 Student Prefect Ashfield Boys High School

2005 President of Chinese Student Association Ashfield Boys High School

2003 Captain of Men’s Basketball Team Cumberland High School & Ashfield Boys High School

MAX HU