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BRIAN BRITTONArchitecture Portfolio
XI’ANRibbon TowerCompetition: Landmark Tower
XIAN: RIBBON TOWERGraduate Architect
Street View - From NW Hotel Garden + Reception
Aerial ViewGround Floor Plan
As China’s capital for thirteen different dynasties, Xi’an, the city of peace, hosted a com-petition for a landmark sky-scraper to celebrate its unique identity, and to mark its influential position in a new era of Chinese history.
Taking cues from Xi’an’s history and geography, the notions of strength, fluidity, and grace became our guid-ing principles of design. Manifest in form, our idea of ribbon strands, undulating in the wind, strong but flexible, the wind, strong but flexible, delicate but composed, and graceful but dignified, was born.
Office
Retail
Hotel Garden + Reception
East Elevation North Elevation South Elevation
Section + Plans
Aerial View
Vertical Circulation
Hotel
Apartments
XIAN: RIBBON TOWERGraduate Architect
Programmatically, The Ribbon Tower is composed of four elements: retail, office, luxury apartments, and a 7-star hotel. Driven by program requirement of 220,000m2 and a limited footprint of 25 percent to footprint of 25 percent to site, the tower grew towards the sky.
Responding to it’s frenetic environment of busy streets and highways, the tower was designed with a landscaped curtain. Intended to shield its residents from both noise and visual pollution, the curtain additionally adds curtain additionally adds sustainable features to the complex. Operable, the curtain’s bubble includes a greenhouse which responds to changing seasons, utiliz-ing temperature differences to naturally regulate other-wise costly energy expendi-tures.
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Proposed
Proposed
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Mixed-use Residential
Graduate Architect
Beijin
g T3 A
partments
Beijing T3 Apartments
Process Diagrams
Site Plan
Aerial ViewEast ElevationStreet View
Located in close proximity to Beijing’s interna-tional airport, this mixed-use residential develop-ment encompasses 70,000m2 of apartments atop a bustling commercial center.
Graduate Architect
Beijin
g T3 A
partments
Section, View of Interior Park
Curtain Wall 3D Detail
Ground Floor Plan Typical Plan Floors 4-8
Typical Plan Floors 9-12 Street View - From SE
Apartment View - Looking SE
Site Plan
West Elevation
Conceived of as three integrated parts, the building is at once, solid and permeable. Designed as a static defense from external noise pollution, the complex offers its residents a home within its arms. Embracing a long longi-tudinal park just to its south, the tudinal park just to its south, the project interlaces landscape into its build form.
Intended as a layering of sustain-able elements, the building’s facade includes passive systems to help regulate and dissipate heat, while offering its residents operable elements, to facilitate optimal ventilation.
CAMMERAYApartments24 Luxury Units
CAMMERAY: ApartmentsGraduate Architect
View from NWPenthouse Plans
Ground Floor Plan
Located near Willoughby Bay, in Sydney’s northern shore suburb, Cammeray, this luxury development nestles itself between cliffside and water-front. With views of the bay to its north, each of the development’s 24 luxury apartdevelopment’s 24 luxury apart-ments are oriented to take advantage of Sydney’s northern solar exposure.
Coordinating with the prinical architect of the firm, my role was to produce and develop typical unit layouts, and furnish iterative presentation drawings for clients on a timely basis. Attended and contributed within client presentations, within client presentations, produced 3D models, modified redlines, developed catalogue of materials.
HEX O ISLAND CITY2 Floating Urbanism
Aerial View - Permeable City
Typical Waterfront
Datum Waterfront
Hexagon Typology
RadialWaterfront
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Floating Island - Masterplan
3D Cell Module
Modular Structure
Orthogonal Structure
This proposal is for a ecologically closed loop, floating utopia of the 21st century. This “urban oasis” will be floating in tropical ocean waters and will pro-vide all the necessary elements to sustain modern life. The project will take cues from our physical sciences (biology, chemistry, and physics) to reenact processes of the natural world to harness the generative and restorative energies of the world’s oceans.
Floors +
Interior - Surface Promenade
Elevated Interior Garden + Waterfall
After discovering several organic growth patterns found in nature, one form seemed optimized for a continuous, yet pourous structure to create the framework for a floating city. The optimized form is known as a “Bitruncated Cubic Honeycomb” and is infinitely connectable in all dimensions using just one repeatable module. Furthermore, it is just one repeatable module. Furthermore, it is also the natural form found in soap bubbles; perfect for the structure of a floating city.
Section - City Program
Variation within Single Module
Exterior Rooftop Garden
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Covered Walkway + Terrace
Public Space Potential
Boat Entrance + CirculationFractal Divisions - 2 & 8 Story Modules
2 Story Module Divisions
8 Story Module Divisions