Yang Zhang Portfolio 2021 by Yang Zhang

YANG ZHANG PORTFOLIO 2021

As an architect, Yang has a strong interest in the transformation brought by changes. Along the process of design, she is always eager to engage innovative applications in the design and working process. Meanwhile, she also has a strong intuition of beauty andwouldalwaystrytondabalancebetweenthe both. Yang works as an architect project leader in KAAN Architecten. She has been working on different types and scales of projects across the world. Meanwhile, she is also actively involved in the complex background the architectures growing from. She has work experience including project management, project leader, business development and public relationships.

Yang Zhang Nationality: Email: Tel: Address:

Chinese clytzte.y@gmail.com +31(0)616599154 Schepenstraat 110A 3039NP Rotterdam the Netherlands

Since 2017, she has been teaching in Complex Projects, Architecture Department of TU Delft, leading research and design studios and lectures in other universities. She co-curated <Non-super Dutch> edition in WA magazine, and lead the research and exhibition of <IN City: Shanghai>. Since 2020, she co-founded the Spring Onion Atelier, to explore the knowledge and method towards a more sustainable future.

EDUCATION 2013 - 2015 Berlage Post-Master in Architecture and Urban design, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands 2008 - 2013 Bachelor of Architecture College of Architecture, Huaqiao University, China

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 2020 - present 2017 - present 2016 - 2017 2016 - present 2015 - 2016 2013 2013

Co-founder, Spring Onion Atelier Teacher, TU Delft, NL Partner, Just Open Architecture, NL Project Leader, KAAN Architecten, NL Architect, Kaan Architecten, NL Intern, Meta-Project, Beijing, CN Intern, Crystal Architecture Design, Beijing,CN

SELECTED PROJECTS 2020 2019 2018 2017 2017 2016 2015 2012

New Nilson Nelson Arena, Brazilia, BR Camel HQ, Guangzhou, CN Schiphol Terminal Terminal and Enabling, Schiphol, NL iCampus, Munich, GE Private Housing, Rotterdam, NL Tilburg University Education Center, Tilburg, NL New Urban CBD Masterplan Design in São Bernardo doCampo, BR Alibaba Logistic Building Facade Design, CN

EXHIBITION 2019 - 2020 2019 2017 2015 2013

Installation “FLOWCITY” participate 2019 Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture Shenzhen, CN “In City-Shanghai” exhibition, TU Delft, Delft, NL Project “A Good Prison” participated the exhibition “Human Nature and Society”, Himalayas Museum, Shanghai, CN “Idol Tower” participated UABB Shenzhen, CN SCAPE Installation, Beijing, CN

PUBLICATION 2018

Non-Super Dutch, World Architecture Magazine

PROFESSIONAL 1. Tilburg University Education Center, Tilburg, NL 2. Schiphol Terminal, Schiphol, NL 3. iCampus, Munich, GE 4. De Vrijdag Woonkamer, Groningen, NL 5. Camel HQ, Guangzhou, CN 6. New Nilson Nelson Arena, Brazilia, BR 7. New Urban CBD Masterplan Design in São Bernardo doCampo, BR

PASSIONATE 1. Crossing the Farm, NL 2. Test Site Lujiazui, CN 3. Following the Smell, NL

EXHIBITION 1. Layers of Dreams, Wuhan, CN 2. FLOWCITY, Shenzhen Biennale, CN 3. A Good Prison, Himalayas Museum, Shanghai, CN 4. In City-Shanghai, TU Delft, Delft, NL

ACADEMIC 1. Included Exclusion -Temporary Citizen In Argo_culture 2. Switching Zone -Local Flourishing Within National Infrastructure 3. In City-Shanghai 4. Non-Super Dutch

PROFESSIONAL PRACTICES

CUBE EDUCATION AND SELF STUDY CENTER location: Tilburg, Netherlands Client: Tilburg University Program: study square, auditorium, lecture rooms, tutorial rooms, meeting rooms, cafeteria, exam rooms, lounge area, virtual reality laboratory Year: 2016 – 2018 area: 11.000 sqm Lead Architect and Copyright: KAAN Architecten Project Phase: CO/VO/DO/TO Project Role: Architect and Interior Architect

Located in the north-west corner of the campus, which is characterized by an orthogonal plan, the 11.000 square-meter building serves all faculties and it is in constant use by some 2.200 students and lecturers that cross its spaces every day. CUBE is anchored to the landscape by paved pathways that guide users to its entrances on the south-side corners. It is a secluded space for study that feels like an opening in the woods. More than any other building in the campus, the new Education and Self Study Center is a building for students: open and spacious, elegant and robust. Inordertosecureafree-owing,openbuildingandto avoid any sense of crowding, the heart of CUBE is a spaciousindoorstudyplazaankedbyatranspare auditorium and two patios. On all sides, the building features a homogenous layout that leaves no closed-off facades, but exudes complete equality on all sides. The transition from façade to green enclosure is practically seamless.

AMSTERDAM AIRPORT SCHIPHOL TERMINAL location: Schiphol, the Netherlands year: 2017 area: 100.000 m2 client: SNBV (Schiphol Nederland B.V.) copy right: KL AIR Role in project: enabling architect coordinator

KAAN Architecten in collaboration with Estudio Lamela, ABT and Ineco, with the support of Arnout Meijer Studio, DGMR and Planeground, will design the new terminal at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol. The spatial organization of the new 100,500 m2 terminal, its design and the treatment of its façades, are based on the ability to link up with Schiphol Plaza, the train station and potential future expansions. This is achieved through architectural clarity, spatial openness, and details such as overhangs and black eaves. At the heart of the building, a raised Plateau creates a higher ceiling for the baggage hall and gives the checkin and security control area more privacy. Here passengers have a sweeping view over an entrance hall that is superbly crowned by a latticework of light, allowing travellers to take in the big Dutch sky. MaterialssuchaswoodooringonthePlateauand lush greenery in the large light wells above the security control area communicate elements of sustainability inherent in the design.

I-CAMPUS FACADE location: Munich, Germany year: 2017 area: 13.900 sqm (Alpha), 12.018 sqm (Beta), 13.542 sqm (Gamma) + 20,769 sqm (garage) client: R&S Realty II copy right: KAAN Architecten project phase: CO/VO/DO Project Role: project lead (CO/VO)

Located in the former industrial and commercial Werksviertel district of Munich, the façades of the three iCampus buildings establish the introduction of new programmatic elements dedicated to the creative industry. A deep frame of load-bearing concrete elements communicates the internal dynamics of the ofceoutwardsandallowstheworkspacestobe organizedbeyondGermanofcedesignconventions The entrances and stairways are wrapped together with the technical spaces in a black metallic cladding which forms utilitarian elements that integrate the roof with the rest of the façade. The atrium, as a binding element between the different oors,featuresagriddedglassroofformedasakin lanternabovethetopoor,preventingheataccu tion and bringing in abundant daylight.

DE VRIJDAG WOONKAMER location: Groningen, Netherlands Client: Gemeente Groningen and Vrijdag Groningen Program: amateur art centre Year: 2021 area: 6.800 sqm Lead Architect and Copyright: KAAN Architecten Project Phase: CO Project Role: Project leader

Located in the city centre of Groningen, the project aims to offer an urban living room for the residents, designed as a place for creativity that is accessible, cosy and full of entertainment. De Vrijdag Woonkamer (Dutch for ‘the living room’) replaces a large part of a 16th-century urban block, situated between historically signicantmonumentsandtheGroningenForum,the new urban landmark. It blends in with the environment but creates a ‘twist’ in the traditional brick architecture: through the large openings in the facade, the city can look at all creative activities inside. Behind the modest and rational facade, the project shows a cheerful heart.Theentiregroundooropensupandprovide clear route to the Forum. At the same time, it creates a more intimate atmosphere that embraces the inner garden and the historical monuments. This inner patio connectstotheVrijdagofces,whilethegardena the monumental facade also form a memorable and relaxing backdrop for the Living Room. From the ground oor,onecanmovearoundtheentirebuildingviaa series of open staircases close to the patio while also havingaclearviewofeachoor’sactivities.Dueto irregular shape of the patio, the otherwise monotonous corridorsontheoorsaredividedintoseveral ‘squares’, creating space for encounters and creativity.

CAMEL HQ

location: Guangzhou, China year: 2019 area: 64,700 sqm program:ofce,commercialandheadquarters client: Guangzhou Deheng Qinxin Industrial Operation Management Co., Ltd. copy right: KAAN Architecten Project Phase: CO/VO Project Role: Project leader and project manager

Located in Guangzhou, China, Camel Headquarters complex is envisioned as the entry point to the new development area connecting the Shamian Historical Area of Guangzhou to the newly planned Baietan Central Business Area. Theprojectconsistsofthreeofcetowers, - acomme cial complex, and the landscape connecting to the river, and also houses the eponymous Camel apparel headquartersandagshipstore.Positionedatt conuencepointoftheHuaiandZhujiangrivers,th project forms an urban icon along the waterfront welcoming the public into Guangzhou’s newest urban hub. Taking the unique advantage of the site, the project aims to form a new border between the city and the landscape: the convergence of the two is especially important. The project creates an active urban ground yet it grows out from the landscape. The grid of towers is rotated in relation to the surrounding buildings, thus facing the waterfront directly. The towers are lightweight mirages above the green landscape, set apart from the hard city in the background. In this cluster, three towers make a soft composition of horizontal lines. The building is independent, crowning the edge of the waterfront but at the same time embedded into the landscape. With its natural soothing image, it invites inside the liveliness and activities from the waterfront.

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location: Brasília, Brazil year: 2021 capacity: sports capacity 8080 performance capacity 1933 program:ofce,commercialandheadquarters client: Arena BSB copy right: KAAN Architecten Project Phase: CO/VO Project Role: Project leader

How can we make the arena also a public living room in Brasilia? A place people could enjoy and encounter others? Three public balconies and one public plateau have been designed to host different program, and also becoming the public stage where different social interactions will take place.

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FERAZOPOLIS location: São Bernardo do Campo, Brazil year: 2015-2016 area: 261.600 sqm client: OAS Construtora, São Paulo copy right: KAAN Architecten Role: architect and urban designer

The study for the Ferrazópolis complex was initiated as a part of an ‘Urban Operation’ by São Bernardo do Campo city. The core of this development is located at a rather strategic point. The intersection of 7 inner-city bus lines, the inter-cities bus terminal and the terminal station of the cable car transport for Montanhão, create a multimodal node within the city, rendering it a crucial landmark for its future development. It is estimated that on an average day 60,000 visitors will pass through the terminal. A substantial partofCityHall’sadministrationofceswi relocated here, relieving not only the already over-burdened Paço Park, but also stimulating the neighbourhood’s economic activity. Alongside the terminal hub, a mall, a convention centre,ahotel,housingandofcesarealsotobe found, all organized around a public square and generating a diverse urban environment.

PASSIONATE EXPLORATION

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FOLLOW THE SMELL location: Utrecht area: -/year: 2020 client: RAUM Lead Design: spring onion atelier

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Neighbourhood Set-up

Leidsche Rijn is a neighbourhood with a romantic landscape. Walking in the area, you can capture an by a public event to introduce the proKicked-off illusion of the countryside, Though its population gram, an online campaign and survey would be grows significantly in the past years, it stillstarted maintains to collect the smell and memory from the surplus public space, which leaves some of them un-in Leidsche Rijn. The smell is coupled by household derused. The proposal takes the shape ofmemories garlic com-and stories of the community through posed of pieces, follows a curated route, moving from interviews/videos in social media. short voluntary the farmland in the west of Leidsche Rijn,The through garlicthe would start its journey, empty, from a local neighbourhood pocket gardens, to the open public greenhouse in the west, with a tent-like structure covspace, and all the way to the community centre of the membrane material. ered with RAUM. With the collection of food smell from differPassing through different neighbourhoods, following ent communities in Leidsche Rijn, this journey will of the online survey in that neighbourthe result trigger a new collective memory and identity. hood, the scents and ingredients will be gradually filled into the whole installation. Following the smell, Collect the Smell you would be provided with a playful experience of Kicked-off by a public event to introduce smelling, the pro- guessing, learning different scents from gram, an online campaign and survey would our be kitchens around the district. Gradually, the white started to collect the smell and memory from garlicthe would be covered by different colours from the household in Leidsche Rijn. As a result, a few types of cheese, nuts and fruits, ending up in an spices, herbs, food smell would be selected to representinstallation the neigh-made for the community. bourhood. The smell will be coupled by memories and stories of the community through short voluntary interviews/videos in social media. Throughout the exhibition, when the garlic pieces move to an area, following the result of the online survey in that neighbourhood, the scents and ingredients will be reproduced and attached to the garlic pieces.

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TESTSITE LUJIAZUI location: Lujiazui Shanghai area: -/year: 2020 client: Pudoing District Government Lead Design: spring onion atelier

EXHIBITION

LAYERS OF DREAMS location: Wuhan, China Client: Meituan Homestay time: 2021 Lead Design: spring onion atelier

FLOWCITY location: Shenzhen, China Client: UABB Lead Architect and Copyright: KAAN Architecten Project Leader: Yang Zhang

The star of the story is the new Amsterdam Airport Schiphol Terminal, envisioned by KAAN Architecten in collaboration with Estudio Lamela, ABT and Ineco (abbreviated as KL AIR).The project is now undergoing its complex design process involving various stakeholders. This process is nonlinear, often iterative and asynchronous, yet follows a chronological sequence of phases through which design evolves simultaneously. Consequently, the architect has evolvedintoacoordinatorofows—nolongera builder, but a narrator.

FLOWCITY visualizes how we operate as collective space makers. The video traces the evolution of the new Terminal – from a winning competition entry through several phases of development, towards the current design decisions. The vast quantity of data, collectedoverthepastthreeyears,isquant timetoillustratetheprogressiveanduidn design.Thereectiononthequantityofstoredd includes the prediction of the movement of people within the new terminal and the constant exchange ofinformationbetweenthedifferentows:worke travellers and visitors.

GOOD PRISON Location: Arizona, USA Area: 145,411 m2 Year: 2016 Client: Combo (England) Lead architect: Yang Zhang

What is a good prison?

A good prison is narrative story about self-salvation, about the Utopian of Heterotopia. It is an autonomy leading evil to searching good. The good prison is instrument, presenting a moral puzzle in selective order. Through the ordered space, inmates themselves experience re-correction space. Each space has specicsyntax.Theprocessingofpunishmentrepresen processing of participating through the rules which aredenedbythespacereectiononre-correction scenario in four orders. In the meanwhile, observation, corporation and communication are main syntax.

“Discipline created a whole new form of individuality for bodies,whichenabledthemtoperformtheirdut Foucault

ACADEMIC

INCLUDED EXCLUSION -TEMPORARY CITIZEN IN ARGO_CULTURE Research, Criticism and Strategy | Westland, Netherlands Academic | The Berlage Tutors: Matthijs Bouw, Diederik de Koning Sep 2013- Jan 2014

1.1 LOOKING INTO WESTLAND Collective Map and Notion on Westland, NL

(1.1/1.2 are teamed working with: Carolina Bedoya, Kevin Goncalvez, Qingsong Han, Jieun Kim, Su Jin Kim, Wasun Panarut, Kento Tanabe, Mi Yao)

Westland is a region in the South of Holland famous for its hor-

creating an entrepreneurial landscape that seems to contradict

1.2 COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS AND COLLECTIVE STRUCTURE Cases Study (on Westland, Almeria, Bogota, Bordeaux, Buraydah and another Particular Location) (1.1/1.2 are teamed working with: Carolina Bedoya, Kevin Goncalvez, Qingsong Han, Jieun Kim, Su Jin Kim, Wasun Panarut, Kento Tanabe, Mi Yao)

- TOPOGRAPHY AND LANDSCAPE Public Space Water Protection Water Storage - INFRASTRUCTURE AND INDUSTRY

The research has been based on different topics that have been affected by the dynamics of this region in the Netherlands. It has been broken down into three different categories that as a whole summarizes the different elements that make Westland a unique and complex region in the Netherlands. Each chapter and sub chapter deals with very different situations such as: Living and Landscape, Environment and Economy, and Infrastructure. Each topic deals with the

Greenhouses Infrastructure Trading Systems - HOUSING AND LANDSCAPE Isolated Housing Migration and Temporary Living The Dyke Village

1.3 SEASONAL LABORS AND WESTLAND HOTEL New Settlement Pattern for Temporary Labors Story in Westland Hotel

New Westland Hotel to Convert the Living Pattern One of the root causes of imperfections of the living conditions and the simplicity of the time line in their daily life is that this temporality and seasonality is forced. The instability lies in the Polish workers’ job opportunity, which turns this “Permanent housing- temporary living” into a passive relationship.

Since in the Westland agriculture plays an important role, labor workers have always been an important part of the population composition. Generally, there are around 10.000 EU seasonal workers live in Westland. In different months, temporary labor requirements in the Westland. The busiest months are from Apr to Jun, the labor need drops in Jan and

The new element I brought in the Labor system is this courtyard, which I transfer from an ancient village in China. The interesting thing is the rooms which are in building’s ground

Westland Hotel, which has a long contract with a Polish labor agency, is a “permanent temporary living” place of Polish labors, and it is also a center point of one of this temporary labor systems. We can basically trace their daily living pattern through the survey of this certain hotel. Also, the cars and buses have been chosen as the element of this survey. From its way of driven, we can see where are these people from, where are they live, and the timetable of their daily life.

a public space for different groups of people. The new hotel is supposed to create job opportunity as well as a vivid living space. With this injection, the “temporality” of the foreign labors should be recreated and their lives

1: Temporary working period starts and ends with the 10 hours’ driving from Poland to the Westland. The labors’ temporality is due to the jobs’ instability. 2: Workers’ typical living pattern is: every morning get together at the agency hotel parking space at 5:30 and sent to working place by the Agency Buses. After a whole day’s work, they will be sent back and offered dinner at a certain time. 3: Some of the workers stay in the agency hotel and share room with other workers. Some stays in camping houses and spend more time on the way every day.

1.4 INCLUDED EXCLUSION Cultural Isolation in Labor Migration

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1.5 BRIDGE THE ISOLATION Preliminary Solution in the Culture Isolation

Through the pass of time, after Polish labor get more stable life materially . The gap between the Dutch people and Polish people in this area will be deeper. Actual, with more job opportunity got by the Polish in the Netherlands, the anger of the Dutch people and the gap between the two groups are growing. Following the storyboard, we can imagine how it will be in the future. jobs and some stay here permanently. But the gap between them will still exist. Their live here is all linked with their job. The political lives are taken away, they are living as the INCLUDED EXCLUSION. The projection is based on the previous estimated proposal, to discuss the possibility to offer an opportunity to bridge the isolation in such a culture gap. The linear park, as a spatial solution of this estimated situation, acrosses the actual boundary built by peed way and brings a connection of the original church, primary school, expanded agency institutional center, parking areas and public buildings (recreated in the greenhouse). In such way, I am proposing a future to bridge the isolation.

Story board: 1 The increase of unemployment rate of Poland, from 1990 to 2004 2 2002, foundation of TIDO VESTA, an agency straight from Poland to the Westland 3 2004, Poland join in the EU 4 Labor fee of people from the Netherlands and Poland 5 Unemployment rate of the Netherlands and Poland from 2004 to 2013 6 Polish labor agencies in the Netherlands 7 Estimated guess: gradual convergence of labor fee, greenhouse reduce, services jobs increase 8 Polish living islands appear in the Westland 9 Different types of linear parks to build the bridge in the agency area 10 Bridges in the Westland 11 Bring a link into surrounding areas 12 A vision in the Netherlands

SWITCHING ZONE -LOCAL FLOURISHING WITHIN NATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE Research, Strategy and Infrastructure | Ghana Academic | The Berlage Tutors: Rients Dijkstra/ Martin Sobota/ Sanne van den Feb 2014- Jun 2014

2.1 UNIVERSAL TERRITORY National Infrastructure 20 Years Plan

(1.1 is teamed working with: Qingsong Han, Dusan Tasic)

Technical Plan

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Settlement network

Ghana is under industrialization and urbanization, road network has huge potential if integrated with waterway and railway, which is analyzed and tested in the 20 years plan. Ghana’s road network is meanwhile a potential universal territory which could unite local communities to be a national network, to help local urbanization within an order, which is discussed in three visions of interventions. - UNIVERSAL TERRITORY Our group focus on the national level of road network. We anatomise Ghana’s national road network by making a 20 year national plan, and then three individual interventions are based on the common vision that road is part of national economic system. As a principle, we regard the road as both a national network with economic potential

Phase 0 Current situation Phase 1 Backbone formation Phase 2 Maximize potential From 2014 to 2034, the proposal is to construct 630km railway, 2050km trunk road 11ports as the development of key corridors. Meanwhile, 2350km of rural roads, 1900km of urban roads will be constructed as feeder road of the infrastructure network.

Phase 3 Central manufacture Phase 4 More cooperations Phase 5 Inland manufacture

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2.2 FROM STOPPING TO LOCAL FLOURISHING Notion on Local Production Chain National Efficiency

Local Flourishing

In the Ghana highway plan, building a backbone from north to south is a crucial improvement to the inequality development in Ghana. However, the road which is planned following the national agenda. Bottleneck lies in the northern area is that the people there couldn’t get appropriate income. For example, the last few kilometers of transport cost led to a huge problem. In the national road. So the situation becomes: no reliable, proper feeder road and trunk road with low utilization rate. Hence, people just follow this trunk road, move to the southern Ghana. In this extent, the

In the southern area, it is actually the chaos and the stopping brought by the congestion makes the infrastructure an universal territory. The people pass by and the people inhabiting on the road formed an infrastructual community, achieving the social interaction and the economical function at the same time.

Look into the food industry system in Ghana. Most of their manufactures are born from small and informal, always near the logistic space. Also, mostly, occur in the southern area, where there are people gathering together. In this extent, the national I use the shape of circles to project several interventions when the road system hit the logistic space. By using circle as a symbolic form, I try to mark the territory and address the public attention to the local production chain. Provide a better accessibility, Enhance

In the Northern Area The food production chain is simple. Most of the activities are happening at the beginning of the production chain: from producer to manufacture, which are in the southern Ghana or abroad. The road situation here is either not accessible or only have the logistic function.

In the Southern Area In some cases, domestic or foreign investment start the process of formal industry. Meanwhile, most manufacture is born from small and informal. Starts from the moment people gather together and the form of retailing is vendor. The road here combine the function of logistic and market. The chaos street helps to achieve the local economic and social agenda.

From top to down: 1. Food production starting point 2. Collection point 3. Field storage 4. Village storage 5. Local factory 6. Industrial areas 7. National wholesale market

2.3 GHANA SWITCH In particular, I designed the circle on village storage. I built a ring road with the radius of 10m, width of 3 meters direct crossing the national backbone and pass through the periphery of a food collection point of a rural village. By putting essential - infra structure, streetlights and market platform inside it, this ring road creates a zone to attract people. By rearrange the function of this ring road and giving incentives inside this zone, it will become a place gathering people, and stimulate the local food industry. It

In the future, people living in this village may not need to go to Kumasi to sell a bit food and live on the street. They can work near their home in the daytime, dancing in the collection square in the night time. 0

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IN CITY SHANGHAI Research and exhbition project location: BK City, TU Delft year: 2019 studio lead and exhibition curation: Yang Zhang

Complex Projects MSc 2 IN Cites studio has been working on the city of Shanghai for two semesters (2018 fall - 2019 spring) with two groups of students, and the support from CAUP, Shanghai. This exhibition is to give a general impression of the work done by students, as well to express the attention drawn by the studio. IN Cities: Shanghai started with a broad research of the context: on history, urban infrastructure & water system, economy & policy, culture & demography, and architecture identity. Afterwards, it has focused on the use of public space and its relationship with commercial activities. Taking the knowledge and understanding gained in the research, students posed questions and tried to tackle them by research/design projects. The studios have brought up reading on the fragmented nature of Shanghai urban tissue, established a dialogue on the different under-

standing of public space in the urban environment and raises the notion on particular topics: Community in Urban Development; Use of Space in Public Infrastructure; New Urban Centre; and Hypothesis in Megacity. This exhibition consists of two parts: collective research (wall) and individual/ group projects (glass boxes). Within the research, we are showing: a TIMELINE formulating the general context we have been looking into; a SERIES OF MAPS showing the reinterpretation of selected area; GROUP RESEARCH MATERIAL from 6 groups as evidence of the narratives to be established. Meanwhile, we are showing selected material from students’ projects. The purpose is not to cover everything students have worked on, but to stimulate the connection between different projects, to reinforce the notion risen collectively and post questions to the audiences.

Yang Zhang email: clytze.y@gmail.com tel: 0616599154 address: Schepenstraat 110A 3039NP, Rotterdam, The Netherlands