XINLEI CHEN’S
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Graduate School Works
(University of Michigan)

2025 Fall
Proposition Studio: Aether Ground Canopy
Sustainable and Affordable Architecture
Adv Dig Fab
Health By Design

2025 Winter
Collective Studio: Junction TAB

2024 Fall
Institution Studio: Urban Espionage
Representation

2024 Winter
Situation Studio: Cardboard Outlook
Fabrication

2023 Fall
Form Studio
Construction

2023 Summer
Foundation Studio

Personal Design Works

2025 Summer
Yi Tower

Application Portfolio Works

2022
Farm Slow Life
Huike Super Market
Ataraxia
Elapse of Texture

Undergraduate School Works
(School of the Art Institute of Chicago)
2022 Spring
Capstone Studio: Perfume Chimney

2021 Fall
Studio 5: Greenblock Stack

2021 Spring
Studio 4: Rampant Flow

2020 Fall
Studio 3: The Little Italy Spine

2020 Spring
Studio 2
Light & Space

2019 Spring
Studio 1
Mater & Material

Personal Artworks

Watercolor Paintings


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ARCH 537 Fabrication Class Project & Assignments

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Final Project
RGB PAPER HOURGLASS


This LiO* (lighting object) design project tests students' understanding of using digital fabrication to assist physical fabrication. For the particular object I designed, I wanted to make it beyond just simple light objects and also have some actual function. To use light to serve as an hourglass effect, I use 2 CPB to communicate and synchronize with each other through blue tooth to change the brightness based on a change of time and flip of direction on synchronized.
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Assignment 2 Fabrication Practice LiO* (3D print, Rod bending, Zund Cutting)
Assignment 1 Found Object into LiO*



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