Xianming Sang

Samford University First Year Residence Hall
Perkins&Will
03-2024
The Samford University First Year Residence Hall is a prominent development, setting a new standard for student housing by creating a vibrant and inclusive community space. This project is noteworthy for its focus on enhancing the overall student experience, providing state-of-the-art facilities that promote both personal growth and academic success

Manchester Public Library
Perkins&Will
03-2023
The new Manchester Public Library represents a significant evolution in the role of public libraries. The project was designed not just as a library but as a central resilience hub for the community, intended to be a model for future community-focused buildings that prioritize environmental stewardship and social well-being.

Assembly Innovation Park
Perkins&Will
07-2022
Assembly Innovation Park (AIP) in Somerville, Massachusetts, is a premier life sciences destination, crafted to attract and support the industry's leading companies. The project is notable for its comprehensive focus on sustainability, featuring state-of-the-art facilities designed to achieve LEED Gold and WELL certification standards. The project has recently topped out and is slated to open in Q4 2024.

Exhibition Design: From Checkers To Complex Systems
Curator | Xingyang Cai
03-2021
Ferdinand de Saussure underscored a property of our linguistic systems through chess: everything pertaining to systems and rules are internal: what determines the validities of moves is not the attributes of each chess piece, but the rules that constitute the game. The exhibition design attempts to constitude its own system by using a new grid that is rotated from the museum’s orthogonal plan. Within the system, a big table, a small table, and a series of triangular modules accommodate the artworks and formulate different interactive experiences.

Parents’ House Interior
08-2020
With a very limited budget, my parents asked the house interior to be simple and effective. They would like a modern atmodphere, but also an  embed Chineseness that fits their imagination of poetic living. I began with a search for the local material and craftsmanship, only found out that in a modern globalized society, nothing is really local, and material honesty is often just an expression. Architecture has to use its own language to create a site specificity. Imported oak wood is used as the main material. Extended raillings become a continuous screen that wraps around the central stairs, anchoring the whole house. In the living room, a ring of thickened skirting intigrates the function of storages, seatings and stairs, freeing up the room for daily use.


Perkins&Will | Harvard GSD 22' | Assoc. AIA | LEED AP BD+C