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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Mixed-use Residential

Graduate Architect

Beijin

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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.

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Beijin

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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