Sonny Meng Qi Xu Email & Phone Number

Boston, Ma, Us

Greater Boston Area

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Instructor for Architecture Design Studio for Harvard Design Discovery Program

Cambridge, Ma

Landscape Core IV Studio

Cambridge, Ma

Landscape Architecture Core III

Cambridge, Ma

Teaching Assistant for Re-tooling Metropolis II: LA

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Re-tooling Metropolis: Working Landscapes, Emergent Urbanism” Option Studio with Professor Chris Reed

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Instructing the weekly Media Labs workshops for the Landscape Core IV studio coordinated by professor Pierre Belanger.

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Landscape Core IV studio

TA for Professor Chris Reed's Re-Tooling Metropolis: Houston Landscape Urbanism option studio.

Greater New York City Area

42 Trinity Place Residential Tower RFP: Executed winning proposal for tower proposal in Financial District, New York, NY [Spring 2015]NYC Residential Tower RFP: Conceptualized and executed winning proposal for 70-storey tower in the Hudson Yards, New York, NY [Summer 2014]35XV CA: Coordinated drawings with construction team, inspected and punchlisted all units in the building for occupation, New York, NY [Summer 2015] Pirallahi Island Master Plan Competition: Submitted High Technology Park RFP on an island near the Caspian Sea, Baku, Azerbaijan [Winter 2014]Twin Towers: Submitted SD package for 74-story residential and a 64-story office tower with mixed-use podium [Fall, 2014]Ames Street Residences: Designed and developed from Concept Design to DD, a 280-unit, 250-foot tower, Cambridge, MA [Spring 2014 - Summer 2014]3 Hudson Tower, Lobby Design: Executed SD plans, sections, 3D models and interior renderings for client meetings and packages, New York, NY [Fall, 2014]Seaport City Feasibility Study: Envisioned six urban design schemes based on different flood protection techniques, produced master plans, sections and perspectives, Collaborated with Arcadis, HR&A, Ocean Coastal Consultants and others to publish final public report, New York, NY [Fall, 2013]FAR/Form Master Planning Script: Wrote a parametric script in Grasshopper to generate six different master plan schemes of tower forms based on FAR calculations and financial models for the proposed site lots, which spans over twenty New York blocks, New York, NY [Fall, 2013]Software Piloting: Tested a Cornell energy performance simulation software: Sustain to optimize the energy and daylighting performance of building designs, reported the findings to the FXFOWLE teams, the clients and the Cornell Program of Computer Graphics to improve the software, New York, NY [Fall, 2013]

Ithaca, Ny

Working under the Program Director Dr. Donald P. GreenbergDeveloping and Beta testing the Cornell energy performance simulation software: Sustain, by implementing it on projects in progress from various architectural firms through new methods such as parametrically based energy analysesSummarizing the findings for two case studies with complicated geometries on campus: the Cornell Plantations Welcome Center and Gates Hall

Ithaca, Ny

Designing and prototyping the Arduino based interactive mold installation, which showcases toxic beauty systematically, for ACADIA Conference in University of Waterloo, 2013 Measured and documented the existing conditions of the Waterfall House in Manlius, NY. Produced working drawings and 3D models Worked alongside with the principals to redesign the 60’s cubist house to enhance energy performance, interior circulation and programmatic needs

Dumbo, Brooklyn

Worked closely with the partners to engineer and fabricate the doubly curved walnut wall for residential interior designExecuted the working plans, sections, wall details and renderings for the projectProduced and resubmitted the as-built drawings for the Maker Space Project at the New York Hall of Science

Rhodes Hall, Cornell University

Built 3D models with complex geometries for energy performance simulations, lighting tests and renderingCollaborated with national Autodesk offices to learn about Revit Architecture’s energy modeling engine; summarized ! ndings in academic reportsInvestigated BEM culture and usage in architectural practices (Gensler, Hornherger + Worstell and Robert Frear Architects)Compiled lecture materials for Visual Imaging in the Electronic Age, a 1000 ~ 3000 level class cross listed under 5 disciplines

Shanghai, China

Designed and executed one of the four schemes for the Nanjing Suning Headquarters Competition (short-listed)Oversaw the production of the drawings and renderings for the International Airport Competition (short-listed)Created and maintained the company's blog for the Asia division

Master Of Architecture Ii, Architecture

KPF Paul Katz Traveling Fellowship 2018

Master In Landscape Architecture I Ap With Distinction, Landscape Architecture

Peter Walker Traveling Fellowship Dean's Merit Scholarship Penny White Traveling Fund

Bachelor Of Architecture (B.Arch.), Architecture, 1St Place Thesis Prize, (Charles Goodwin Sands Silver Medal)

Edilitz Fellowship Concentrations in Visual Representation, Building Science & Technology, and Architecture Theory Cornell AAP NYC, Fall.