Portfolio SIYAO ZHENG Selected Works from 2012 to 2019
Design Studios 2019. Playful Objects
SCI-Arc Graduate Thesis + Gehry Prize
2018. Introverted vs. Extroverted
SCI-Arc 2GBX Design Studio: Man Made Nature
2016. Photosynthesis
Tongji University Vertical Studio: Thermodynamic Prototype
2017. Yin and Yang
Tongji University Bachelor Thesis
2014. City Projection
Tongji University Computational Design Studio
Applied Studies 2018. Design Development SCI-Arc 3GAX Applied Studies
2019. Glass Mass
SCI-Arc 3GBX Applied Studies
2017. Envelope Transformation SCI-Arc 2GAX Applied Studies
2016. Enframed Nature
LOUNA International University Construction Design Competition
Professional Works 2019. The Sunset Theater
8844-30 Sunset Boulevard Billboard Competition
2018. Karma Kandara Phase VI Karma Developments
2018. The White Album
An Art Performance Space for Lars Jan
Other Works 2015. Swarm Fabrication
"Digital Factory" Shanghai Summer Workshop
2013. Paper Dome
Tongji International Construction Competition
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Portfolio SIYAO ZHENG Selected Works from 2012 to 2019
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Content
Design Studios Graduate Thesis
Developing bold and innovative design approaches with a fearless attitude to explore the limits of architecture.
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Establishing proficient skills in modeling, rendering, and graphic design to fulfill creative architectural solutions.
Applied Studies
Showcasing good knowledge of materials, building details, design development, and real fabrication.
Professional Works
Experiencing teamwork with architecture practice as a young designer, a hard-working person, and a faster learner.
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Graduate Thesis
Playful Objects 2019 SCI-Arc Graduate Thesis SCI-Arc Gehry Prize Advisor: Hernan Diaz Alonso Individual Work This thesis explores what architecture and playfulness can do together. People tend to like things that allow them to play with and arouse their playful memories. Artists imbue playful culture, color, and personality into installations that change the way we experience the space and its context. By transforming familiar playful ready-mades into something imprecise and formless, and recomposing them in a very precise way, we can create architecture with new aesthetics, having people to perceive it and want to behave playfully around it spontaneously. In architecture, there has been a long discussion about manipulating familiar objects and defamiliarizing them at the same time to go from the literal to the abstract. However, when it comes to the composition, especially between different objects, it is not easy to escape from collaging. Getting inspirations from playful objects like toys or cartoon figures, this thesis will take a step further to focus on the transitions. The strategies of transitions include: fusing and smoothing the intersection and sharp edges; permeating the patterns from one object to another and from two-dimensional figures to three-dimensional shapes; constructing simple, round-shape, toy-like joint connections. In this thesis, a formal tool-kit will be built up through manipulating online 3d print toys, taking out parts that have the quality of the original but no longer recognizable. Then, to examine and develop the methodology, these abstract playful shapes will be used to remake canonical architecture projects within the same dimension and location, considering adding bold colors, plastic materiality, the possibility to be interactive, and most importantly, the precise transitions. Lastly, by adding up more and more things and locating in a conventional site, the project will go extreme to the next level. The project is designed to be enjoyable, to reshape the context and to let people find their own way to play with it.
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Playful Objects | Deformed Playful Ready-Made
Playful Objects | Abstract Compositions
To begin with, a series of online 3d print toys were collected and manipulated. The deformed playful shapes build up a formal tool kit. The first test is using these deformed objects to make abstract compositions.
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Playful Objects | Three Method of Transitions
Playful Objects | Remake of Canonical Architecture
To escape from the collage a bit and take a step further to focus on the transitions between objects, three methods of transitions were developed. To examine the methodology, they are used to remake canonical architecture within the same dimension and location.
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Playful Objects | Remake of Ronchamp Chapel
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Playful Objects | Remake of Ronchamp Chapel Overview with Site
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Playful Objects | Ronchamp Chapel Interior
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Playful Objects | Remake of Disney Concert Hall
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Playful Objects | Playful Objects Accumulation
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Playful Objects | Handpainted Physical Model
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Playful Objects | Graduate Thesis Exhibition
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Design Studios
Introverted vs. Extroverted 2018 SCI-Arc 2GBX Design Studio: Man Made Nature Location: Los Angeles, CA, USA Instructor: Kristy Balliet Team: Siyao Zheng, Gun Srisawat Downtown LA is an area where events and activities happen just inside the building and veiled from the city. Therefore in this project, we create moments of punctuation to expose the vibrancy of the interiors to the city and break down the entire space into many different spaces so that people can get many parts of the building at one time and experience the building as a series of stories. In general, for the market area, we maintain the existing flower market as a plinth and we insert new market pavilions with spherical volumes into the plinth, breaking down the perimeter walls, creating a sequence of experiences for people inside the building, and a series of deep views for people walking by on the outside. For the residential tower, we wrapped different volumes into one integral mass, creating introverted event space for the residential. At some moments, the elevated event spaces are open to create views connecting to the adjacent city. Each exposed volume contains a different artificial texture with the undefinable edge, which represents the real quality of nature, such as decay, over-growth, and abundance of texture.
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Introverted vs. Extroverted | Rooftop Level Plan
Introverted vs. Extroverted | Typical Floor Plan
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Inside Volume Overview
Inside Volume
Outside Volume Overview
Outside Volume
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Introverted vs. Extroverted | Section AA
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Introverted vs. Extroverted | Elevation Rendering
Introverted vs. Extroverted | Elevation Oblique
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Introverted vs. Extroverted | Elevation
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Introverted vs. Extroverted | Physical Model
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Introverted vs. Extroverted | Rendering and Model Closeup
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Photosynthesis 2016 Tongji University Vertical Studio: Thermodynamic Prototype Shanghai Pudong Library Competition, 2nd Place Location: Shanghai, China Instructors: Linxue Li, Jianjia Zhou Team: Siyao Zheng, Xin Zheng, Xinxin Lyu Plants capture and deliver energy in a highly efficient way because of their intellectual structural and mechanical systems. Current environmental buildings, however, mostly depend on machines instead of the form itself to save energy. In this project, we are looking for the possibility of architecture to operate a similar system and principles of capturing and recycling the energy as plants. In comparison, we find that the processes of energy recycling in the current architecture are inadequate or partly missing. Solar panels and HVAC equipment is not the best way to capture and transfer energy. Therefore, by studying the inner mechanism of vegetation, this project intends to create a logical architectural form. The proposed geometry is a combination of porosities, layers, and channels. This calibrated composition will be able to keep the energy flowing and cycling from inside of the building to the outside urban environment autonomously, making architecture itself become a “Thermodynamic Machine�.
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Photosynthesis | Energy Input/Transfer/Output Principles in Plants
Photosynthesis | Analogy of Plant and Architecture
Designing architectural prototypes based on studying the plant's formal components and mechanical systems.
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Photosynthesis | Energy Input/Transfer/Output Principles in Architecture
Photosynthesis | Sunlight Laboratory Simulation and Urban Wind Flow Simulation
Optimizing the massing through sunlight and wind simulations to prototype combinations and variations.
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Photosynthesis | Physical Model Elevation
Photosynthesis | Longitudinal Section
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Pudong Branch of SMPSU Prevailing Wind comes from southeast in most seasons. Northwest Wind comes in winter.
Shanghai Pudong Government
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Science and Technology Museum
Shanghai Century Park As in a new developing area, the site is surrounded by large-scale buildings and ecological virescence.
Photosynthesis | An “Thermodynamic Machine� in Urban Environment.
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Photosynthesis | Urban Park Level Rendering
Sunlight comes from South and Southeast.
Photosynthesis | Wind Corridor Rendering
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Photosynthesis | Computational Simulations to Facade Components Step1. Fill
Step2. Dry
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Photosynthesis | Real Production and Laboratory Examinations to Facade Components
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Photosynthesis | Facade Detail Model
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Photosynthesis | Pudong Library Overview Rendering
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Yin and Yang 2017 Tongji University Bachelor Thesis Exchange Program in TUM, Germany Location: Stuttgart, Germany Instructors: Jianlong Zhang Individual Work In two weeks, the studio visited eighteen Confucius Institutes around Germany. Based on a large amount of research, we found two major drawbacks in those conventional cultural communication institutes: the teaching space is monotonous, and the institution itself is introverted to the context. They are usually lacking public space and are difficult to be seen from outside. This project intends to design a new typology of cultural communication and consider it as an agent to reactivate the site, a historic block in Stuttgart. By slightly shifting the existing urban grid and creating stepping open space above the ground, the new culture center improves the visual and spatial connection between the site and its context. Getting inspiration from the traditional Chinese philosophy of Yin and Yang, the new Sino-German Culture Center has two major layers intertwining with each other. The under layer serves as many small teaching units with monolithic concrete structure, providing interior alleys for citizens and functional space for faculties. The upper layer is a larger open space to the public, with a visually floating round-shape wood structure. The stepping open area is the public event generator, providing space for activities such as lectures, exhibitions, and flea markets. There is a Yin Yang relationship between public and private, between wood and stone, between western culture and eastern spirits.
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Yin and Yang | Urban Grid and Iconic Cultural Buildings in Center of Stuttgart
Design and Information Patent Center Style: Neo-Baroque Program: Exhibition & Office 1889-1896 State commercial museum and patent center 1952 Baden-Wuerttemberg regional trade building 1986-1990 Renovated and rebuilt
Hospitalhof Style: Modern + Neo-Baroque Program: Office & Education 1938 Destroyed in war 1952 Erected in the old site 1960 Reconstructed
Economy and Trade Building Style: Modern Program: Office
Stuttgart Trade Union Style: Neo-Baroque Program: Office
Yin and Yang | Historical Urban Fabric and Facade Collage
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Filling refill the massing to maintain the urban context and create an integral volume
Shifting shift the urban grid to create a visual connection to the distant historic church
Slicing slice the massing with the old urban grid to create openings for pedestrian
Rising rise the volume up and down to create two layers of space
Modulus project the modulus of surrounding buildings to the side to divide the volume
Unit break the massing down into smaller functional units and stepping space
Spirit erect a series of round-shape wood columns to bring in eastern spirit to the public space
Context wrap a transparent shell to create iconic appearance and reflect the surrounding historic elements
Yin and Yang | Reactivating the Urban Grid and Slicing the Massing
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Yin and Yang | Ground Floor Plan
Yin and Yang | Sectional Perspective AA
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Yin and Yang | Second Floor Plan
Yin and Yang | Sectional Perspective BB
Transparent Envelope the curtain wall is divided by modulus of surrounding historic building Wood Structure two-directional crossing wood structures work together to support the main open space
Upper Layer the undulating open area serves as exhibition, lecture, and special events
Under Layer concrete structure and Brick walls form the underlayer space which serves as offices, meeting rooms, and classrooms
Public Circulation the massing is split by the historic urban grid to create connections to the pedestrian area
Yin and Yang | Exploded Isometric
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Yin and Yang | Interior Open Space Rendering
Yin and Yang | Interior Atrium Rendering
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Yin and Yang | Interior Open Space Rendering
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City Projection 2014 Tongji University Computational Design Studio Tongji University Academy Award for Best Studio Project Location: Shanghai, China Instructors: Philip F. Yuan, Lyla Wu Individual Work In many films and cartoons, future human beings were assumed to live underground where the sky can never be seen due to the overgrowth of the city and technology. Ironically, people are facing the same problem nowadays with the process of urbanization. Overcrowded urban density and the excess amount of high-rises destruct the historic skyline matured over time. In the coming future, people might have to strive for their rights to see the sky. Located in an old but prosperous Xujiahui District in shanghai, the site is surrounded by buildings with various histories and styles. When seen from different viewpoints, these buildings show different facades to the community, composing an interesting skyline system of the district. This project intends to draw people’s attention to urbanization and their changing living surroundings, by creating a museum, an iconic form, in the community. By projecting the moments of the existing skyline to the massing, a series of geometries is generated. While walking around the stony massing, people could see the different moments of current skylines and surrounding neighborhoods through different viewpoints. The iconic form thus memorizes the current moment of urban appearance and calls attention to people’s right to sharing the sky-scape.
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City Projection | Site Study and Skyline Projection
City Projection | Visual Connection with Residential Towers
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City Projection | Cutting Massing by Different Skyline Projection
City Projection | Visual Connection with Landmarks
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Rebuild the shell
Before Analysis - 1
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Project main structural barrels
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Structure Analysis and Secondary Projection To increase structural stability, the structural performance of the selected massing shell is analyzed in Grasshopper Millipede. By projecting the structural lines in unstable areas of the shell, several canted structural walls are created. Three main structural cores serve as vertical transportation and divide the space.
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1. Main Entrance 2. Secondary Entrance 3. Loading Entrance 4. Lobby 5. Atrium 6. Museum Store 7. Cafe 8. Bathroom 9. Storage 10. Office
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City Projection | Ground Floor Plan
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Louvers the horizontal patterns are the projection of surrounding urban patterns.
Glass Panels increase the transparancy of the iconic massing
Main Canted Walls served as structure and vertical trasportation cores Temporary Exhibition Media Room
Permanent Exhibition Public Area
Lecture Hall
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Subsidiary Walls divide the indoor and outdoor area
Lobby Coffee House
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The Musuem It has 4000 square meters area with 4 floors, covers an area of 1600 square meters.
Secondary Entrance
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City Projection | Exploded Axonometric
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City Projection | Physical Model
City Projection | Longitudinal Section
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Applied Studies
Design Development 2018 SCI-Arc 3GAX Applied Studies Location: Los Angeles, CA, USA Instructors: Herwig Baumgartner, Brian Zamora Team: Siyao Zheng, Weitse Yuan, Chengxi Hou, Liang Yu, Xiaogang Shen
This course investigates issues related to the implementation of design: technology, the use of materials, systems integration, and the archetypal analytical strategies of force, order, and character. The course includes a review of basic and advanced construction methods, analysis of building codes, the design of structural and mechanical systems, Environmental systems, Buildings service systems, the development of building materials and the integration of building components and systems. This course intends to develop a cohesive understanding of how architects communicate complex building systems for the built environment and to demonstrate the ability to document a comprehensive architectural project and Stewardship of the Environment.
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Insulated Aluminum Closure Panel at Corner Aluminum Mullion at edge Aluminum Mullion Colored Glass Panels with Metal Mesh
2 foot Round Pipe : Primary Structure 10 inch Square Pipe : Secondary Structure Colored Glass Panel 2 foot Round Pipe : Primary Structure
Floor Finish Insulation and Waterproof
Aluminum Mullion at edge
Metal Deck Slab Steel I Beam Drop Ceiling
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Aluminum Mullion Colored Glass Panels with metal mesh Insulated Aluminum Panel Suspension for Metal Bars
Bar Truss Structure Framing Drop Ceiling
Colored Glass Panel Metal Bars for Glass Panels Connection for Glass Panel and Metal Bar
Connection for Glass Panel and Metal Bar Metal Bars for Glass Panels Colored Glass Panel
Gypsum Board Suspension for Metal Bars
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Insulated Aluminum Panel at corner
Colored Glass Panel FRP with Marble Texture Aluminum Mullion Edge Beam
Steel Pane
Framing Insulation 2 foot Round Pipe : Primary Structure 10 inch Square Pipe : Secondary Structure
Colored Glass Panel FRP with Marble Texture
Aluminum Mullion
Steel Panel
Ground Concrete Slab Slope and Waterproof
Design Development | 3D Wall Section Chunk
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Glass Mass 2019 SCI-Arc 3GBX Applied Studies Instructor: Marcelo Spina Team: Siyao Zheng, Mahyar Naghshvar The dichotomy between Transparency and Opacity has long haunted architectural history and theory. Mies Van der Rohe photomontages for Berlin’s Friedrichstrasse Skyscraper depict precisely the ambivalence of the architect towards these seemingly oppositional notions of describing mass. When surfaces are opaque, mass is readable but relations between interior and exterior are very much discontinuous. On the contrary, transparency implies the partial erasure of mass, in pursuit of clarity of vision as well as views. This dichotomy is still very much present nowadays. In this course, we design a new semi-transparent glass envelope as a small prototype, taking visual ambivalence (transparency, translucency, and opacity) as the basis for their formal, material and constructive investigations. As our concept, we overlay the image of the Doric column and Mies Van der Rohe’s skyscraper drawing and project them onto three layers of glasses. The new frit patterns enhance the vertical lines while the mullions are delicately hidden in the darker area. When walking around the envelope, the perspective of the image will keep changing and people will feel the depth of the space in-between layers of glass panels.
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Glass Mass | Axonometric Rendering
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Glass Mass | Axonometric Rendering
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Glass Mass | Chunk Model Closeup
Glass Mass | 1 : 2 Chunk Model
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Glass Mass | Chunk Model Closeup
Glass Mass | 1 : 2 Chunk Model
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Envelope Transformation 2017 SCI-Arc 2GAX Applied Studies Instructor: Maxi Spina Team: Siyao Zheng, Chengxi Hou, Jiekai Yi, Yue Qi The assignment of this course is to reformulate the initial tectonic conjectures to adapt to a slightly altered design scenario, constrained by assigned performance criteria. Each group is asked to transform their selected precedent by transforming the existing shading system into a new one. To improve the shading and ventilation performance of the precedent, International Baroque Museum designed by Toyo Ito, our group reorganized different orientation and curvature of pre-fabricated sandwich concrete wall panels of the south and west facades. We play with different angles of twisting, different opening directions and different sizes of apertures. Finally, we have one solution that has the best-optimized lighting effect. At the same time, we adjust the original L-shape rebar connection with the curved concrete wall panels, to follow the original structural system of the precedent.
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Double white pre-fabricated concrete wall
L-shape rebar hooks Rebar rings Vertical rebar connection
Low sloped roof comprised of waterproofing panel tapered
Sandwich wall with gray concrete in between
Pre-cast concrete panel
Pre-cast holes for connection between walls and floor panels
Slots for connection between walls and foundation
Envelope Transformation | Precedent (IBM) Envelope Overview
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2x2 Floor Finish Panels Floor Panel Mount Reinforced concrete slab
Recycled plasic balls for reducing among of concrete
Rebar for holding bubbles
Rebar cage system
Solid concrete wall for supporting other panels
Pre-cast concrete panel walls
Reinforced concrete slab with polished finish
Reinforced steel casted with concrete
Pre-cast concrete wall with holes which are used for connection between walls and floor panels
Rebar Cage for Bubbles
Recycled plasic balls for reducing among of concrete
Concrete cast in site
Drop Ceilings
Envelope Transformation | Precedent (IBM) Envelope Overview
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Low sloped roof comprised of waterproofing panel tapered
Interior Structral Concrete Wall Sanwish wall with gray concrete in between
Pre-fab Reinforcement Pre-cast concrete curving panel walls
Aluminium window frame
Double glazed window
Envelope Transformation | Transformed Envelope Overview
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Redesign option 1
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Interior lighting effect
Shadow simulation
Radiation for summer
Radiation for winter
Interior lighting effect
Shadow simulation
Radiation for summer
Radiation for winter
Interior lighting effect
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Radiation for summer
Shadow simulation
Radiation for winter
Envelope Transformation | Precedent (IBM) Envelope Transformation Optimization
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2x2 floor finish panels
Mount for floor panels
Reinforced concrete slab with polished finish
Recycled plasic balls for reducing among of concrete
Rebar cage for reinforcing connection between walls and slabs
Aluminum drop ceiling panels for holding lights
Rebars with curving reinforced steel
Double white pre-fabricated curving concrete wall
Slot for window Frame
Horizontal aluminum window frame
Rebar ring L-shape rebar
Connect rebar Vertical aluminum window frame
Bolts for connection
Curved reinforcement
Double glazed glass
Envelope Transformation | Transformed Envelope Details
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Envelope Transformation | Physical Model Closeup
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Enframed Nature 2016 LOUNA International University Construction Design Competition, 3rd Place Location: Louna Village, Guizhou, China Instructor: Linxue Li Team: Siyao Zheng, Even He, Miya He, Zhaohua Zheng, Yoki Wang, Jian Rao, Weijun Tang, Kevin Tang Individual Drawings In traditional Chinese painting, people pursue the connection between living space and the natural environment. Nature inspires people by its splendid landscape, changing weather and daylight. Compared with the urban environment, the natural elements have more powerful effects on people’s perception. This project is the construction and design competition that requires participants to design a bamboo shelter for travelers in the Louna valley in Guizhou. When considering the building that is located far from civilizations and surrounded by the smell of paddy and sound of frogs, everything seems to be so minute which raises the sense of poetic. Considering the landscape and local culture, a densely arranged bamboo frame with inner curved surfaces is proposed. The frame serves as the container of not only the beautiful view of nature but also the lights, wind, rainfall and water vapor. It is also the container of local events and a temporary shelter for hikers. The bamboo frame provides structural stability reinforced by the curved surfaces and log-cabin base with effective joints. The shape of curved surfaces is optimized by wind flow simulation so that the wind and water vapor will be unhindered when passing through.
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Roof Platform Bamboo Roof Raft 3300 x φ60 U Direction Beam 5500 x φ80 V Direction Beam 5500 x φ60
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V Direction Beam 3300 x φ80
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1 Screw Bolt and Rope Connected Surface to Beam
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Bamboo Roof Tile Wood Strips Connect the tiles together Width 40mm Top Bamboo Tiles Allow rainfall to slip away 5500 x φ80 Buttom Bamboo Tiles Cover the gap between tiles 5500 x φ80
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Enframed Nature | Fabrication Details
Foundation Steel Piles Reinforce bamboo wall piling 500mm into ground Brick Foundation Made in local clay material
Stepping Stone Bamboo Strip Width 40mm Wood Panel 450mm x 900mm Brick Foundationg 240mm x 120mm x 5mm
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Fabrication Schedule | A Brochure for Real Construction
Discussing feasibility of details with construction engineers
Selecting bamboo which has natural caliber and curvature
Cutting and marking the bamboo
Spreading bamboo in fabrication order on the ground
Grafting the bamboo to reach needed length
Transfering pre-cutting bamboo to site with local trucks
Drilling through the bamboo joints at its ends
Fixing bamboo column into the steel piles
Pushing the bamboo wall tighter by an traditional but effective
Binding curved surface into an intergral raft with hemp rope.
Fixing curved surfaces and other component
Fixing platform and adjusting the level.
Nailing bamboo chips to make stepping boards.
Sawing bamboo of curved surface with certain angle
Filing the bamboo wall and pull it straight to right position
Fixing the beams and roof with the help of scaffords
The fabrication process of bamboo camping installation last for 12 days and was completed by a group of 8 students by hands.
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Enframed Nature | Rendering of Sunny Scene
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Professional Works
The Sunset Theater 2019 Design Intern at P-A-T-T-E-R-N-S 8844-30 Sunset Boulevard Billboard Competition Client: City of West Hollywood Location: Los Angeles, CA, USA Supervisors: Marcelo Spina, Georgina Huljich Design Team: ​Adin Rimnland, Siyao Zheng, Wangyu Yang, Jinyi Jiang Role: Completed diagrams and isometric drawings; Produced an animation
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Karma Kandara Phase VI 2018 Design Intern at P-A-T-T-E-R-N-S Client: Karma Developments Location: Bali, Indonesia Supervisors: Marcelo Spina, Georgina Huljich, Daniela Atencio Design Team: ​Adin Rimnland, Adrian Wong, Siyao Zheng, Diastika Lokesworo Role: Completed the site plans
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The Mute Icon (Book) Ongoing Design Intern at P-A-T-T-E-R-N-S Office Portfolio Location: Los Angeles, CA, USA Supervisors: Marcelo Spina, Georgina Huljich Role: Completed modeling for some precedents; Remade the renderings and isometric drawings for some of the past projects
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The White Album 2018 Design Intern at P-A-T-T-E-R-N-S Client: Artist Lars Jan Location: The Pittsburgh International Festival of Firsts, The Wexner Center for the Arts, BAM’s Next Wave Festival at the Harvey Theatre, CAP UCLA Supervisors: Marcelo Spina, Georgina Huljich, Daniela Atencio Design Team: Fatma Gonca Tunc, Siyao Zheng, Yosephine Anglingdarma, Zhang Avon Role: Completed the physical model
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Other Works
Swarm Fabrication 2015 "Digital Factory" Shanghai Summer Workshop Instructors: Roland Snooks, Cameron Newnham, Hao Meng Construction Team: Yujun Mao, Bin Sheng, Jing Qian, Ye Yuan, Fan Jin, Jiazhen Chen, Zini Wang, Jinze Liu, Hao Zheng, Honghao Deng
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Paper Dome 2013 Tongji International Construction Competition, 3rd Place Instructors: Guangping Qi, Yi Dong Design Team: Siyao Zheng, Min Wang Construction Team: All Students at Architecture 4, Class of 2017
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CV
Education Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc)
Master of Architecture | Los Angeles, United States | 09/2017 - 09/2019
Tongji University
Bachelor of Architecture | Shanghai, China | 09/2012 - 07/2017
Technical University of Munich (TUM)
Exchange Program | Munich, Germany | 02/2017 - 05/2017
Software 2D Graphic:
Adobe Creative Suites, AutoCAD 3D Modeling:
Rhino, Revit, Maya, ZBrush, Cinema4D, Unity3D Rendering and Animation:
V-ray, Enscape, Maxwell, Octane, Substance Painter, Keyshot Programming:
Grasshopper, Processing
Certification LEED Green Associate Issued 11/2019
Language English Mandarin Chinese Japanese (Limited)
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Professional Experience P-A-T-T-E-R-N-S
Design Intern | Los Angeles, California | 05/2018 - 08/2018 • completed renderings and diagrams for multiple practical competitions, including Sunset Urban Theater, CEFE Chapinero, Karma Kandara Phase VI; • produced animation for Sunset Urban Theater billboard competition; • assisted with drawings for the Mute Icon portfolio; • made physical model for The White Album.
Reference: Marcelo Spina | Mspina@patterns.work
Anti-Gone, Slimetech LLC.
Designer | Los Angeles, California | 10/2019 - 11/2019
• assisted with 3d modeling and urban scene assembly for Anti-Gone, a mixed-reality performance by Theo Triantafyllidis.
NIKE + SCI-Arc Design Workshop
Student Designer | Portland, Oregon | 09/2018 - 12/2018
• due to a confidential agreement, the project cannot be shown.
“Digital Factory” Building Workshop
Student Designer | Shanghai, China | 06/2015 - 07/2015
• participated in Roland Snooks Swarm Fabrication group and assisted with robotic bending and installation construction
Archi-Union Architects
Design Intern | Shanghai, China | 12/2016 - 01/2017
• completed research and structure model for Shanghai Tian Chan Theater renovation
YeArch Atelier
Design Intern | Shanghai, China | 09/2016 - 12/2016
• completed renderings for Shanghai Feng Xian High School competition and Shanghai San Ling urban design; • produced a stop-motion animation for NextMixing Art Institute
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Siyao Zheng Master of Architecture, SCI-Arc, Los Angeles Bachelor of Architecture, Tongji University, Shanghai Website: www.siyaozheng.com Email: Siyaozheng233@gmail.com