PORTFOLIO by Amor_zhou

Zihan Zhou

Zihan Zhou

Master of Interior Design

Spatial Practitioner & Illustrator

Narrator & Film making

01_Amnesia Museum

Speculative Project & Architecture Interior

Fiction & writing & Research

London

02_In-vitro Lab

Speculative Project & Factory Interior

Narrative Space & Research

Sheung Shui, Hong Kong

03_The Gleaner

Installation & Tramsformable space

Smorgasburg, Brooklyn New York

Zihan Zhou

amor000518@gmail.com

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https://www.amorspatail.com/

A versatile and highly motivated spatial practitioner with strong proficiency in creativity, visualization, and storytelling. Five years of interior design learning experience. I crafts spatial narratives by designing hypothetical worlds to create nostalgia for a future about to happen. My practices infuse the elements of contemporary culture, technologies and nature, and utilize film and illustration as main mediums. Open to new styles, techniques, and ways of working. Originally from China, fluent in writing and speaking English.

EDUCATION BACKGROUND

Master of Interior Design | Royal College of Art | London

Superfuture platform

Sep.2023 - Jul.2024

Research-led design investigating the ecological, political, and social forces shaping the discipline of design&architecture today and in the future.

Narrative-based design in mixed-media digital artistry and visualization: films, illustration (sketchy and diffusion generated), 3D modelling etc.

Delivered animation:

https://www.amorspatail.com/contact

Bachelor of Spatial Design | Monash University | Melbourne

Speculative narrative-based design won the prize of best in the studio

AWARD & HIGHLIGHTS

GOTYAs - Australia Design Graduates of the Year Awards Prize 2023

Mar.2019 - Jun.2022

‘Wave Woods’team-developed mycelium furniture in‘Phenomenal Fungi’Awarded one of finalists of the Victoria Premier Design Award and the longlist in Dezeen Award 2023

Short film‘A World of Memory and Amnesias Echoes’Selected to be shown at the Waterkant Futures Festival 2024 and Dreamy place film festival

WORK EXPERIENCE/EMPLOYMENT

Prototype Designer | K5 Furniture | Melbourne, Australia

Program ‘Metanoia+’ – Mycelium-based Acoustic Furniture

Led design team in concept development, visualization, and weekly presentations.

Created visual presentation files and prototypes using digital/physical media, including computer modeling, sketches, and 3D prints models.

3D Modelling & Rendering Design Concepts; Curated a furniture showroom.

Design Assistant in MT Interior Studio | Guiyang, China

Analyzed client needs to define project goals and design solutions.

Assisted with FF&E, spatial planning, and site visits with senior group.

Created mood boards, photorealistic visuals, and 3d modelling.

Participated in client design meetings to discuss concepts.

Supported administrative tasks and contributed to blogs and social media.

OTHER EXPERIENCE

Curation volunteer in Melbourne Design week

OTHER EXPERIENCE

Personality Profile:

Studio Skills:

Technical Skills: Languages:

Quick learner, hard-working, pay attention to detail

Fluent in written and spoken English & Mandarin

Filmmaking, 3d modelling, Rendering, Animation

Adobe Suite: Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign, Premiere proRhino, V-ray, 3ds MaxGrasshopper, Unreal Engine, Cinema4DWord, PowerPoint ExcelDiffusion - MidJourney, Runway AutoCADAdvanced Advanced Advanced Primary Intermediate

01 Amnesia Museum

Location London, United Kingdom

Feburary-Present 2024

Fiction & writing & Research

‘City of Amnesia’ speculates on a future where monuments are demolished/reassembled to redefine their significance. By exploring monuments’ qualities absent from nowadays, it proposes to re-built London based on individuals’ history rather than collective’s; memory rather than truth. The Amnesia Museum features seasonal showrooms that recount the personal histories of inhabitants through the narratives of two fictional characters, Giovanni Rossi and Jane Miller. The design unlocks their memories by incorporating a serise of ‘vernacular’ and ‘personal’ spatial artefacts, As the narrative delves deeper into their memories, the artifacts will exhibit varying degrees of ‘Capriccio’.

This Project showcases a multi-media exploration in text, film, computer drawing, animation, creating an imaginary alternate London for the 21st Century. The project’s fims and writings are as much imaginative constructions veering between real and imagined, speculation and fact.

1. Age of digitalization

2. Tourism varnish & Demolished

3. Copy, upload, reassembly

4. City of Amnesia

https://vimeo.com/988179285

Amnesia Museum

Individual Showroom

Each and every one of us has our own particular version of the city, a selection of relevant moments, an aggregate of specific buildings, street corners, someone has his own conception of a city and in the process of attempting to capture he in fact invents a new town entirely, a delimited and defined version. ‘Amnesia Museum’ form in such way its immense bulk slowly accumulated with its endless rooms called ‘Individual Showroom’

Over time, cities raise buildings that encapsulate the very essence of the town—the priorities of its citizens and the tastes of its residents. Similarly, we gather objects that either mark significant moments in our lives, embody cherished memories, or represent qualities we value and aspire to.

The Individual Showroom is an immense palace, comprised of every detail extracted from one’s memories of past days, along with embellishments and refinements they have added over time—a place where one can wander and find inspiration.

Giovanni and Jane are invited to the Amnesia Museum to visit and build their individual memory showrooms. Their story will unfold as they exhibit the moments they cherish and their connetions with the city.

Individual Showroom

What’s on

EXTEND

Giovanni was born in Rome Trastevere, and move to London and live in Kingscross London. he was an artist and immersed in classical art.

MYSTIFY CONFUSE

Giovanni’s second showroom weaves memories from cities he’s lived in—Rome, Turin, Milan, and London—blending architecture and personal experiences.

Giovanni, steeped in nostalgia, recreates scenes from his childhood summers in his grandfather’s backyard in the Roman countryside—a serene yet gently melancholic atmosphere filled with potent memories.

GIOVANNI ROSSI SHOWROOM

14 MAY-14 JULY 2051

What’s on

EXTEND MYSTIFY CONFUSE

Jane Miller was borned in Carlton in Melbourne. he was growing with mixed of western culture and aboriginal culture.

Moving to Kings Cross at 18, Jane found subtle echoes of Melbourne in London Her daily life blended with Aboriginal artifacts passed down through generations, and memories of her grandmother’s knitting often resurfaced, filling her surroundings with familiar comforts.

Jane felt a deep connection to nature, with her strongest memory tied to a road trip through the wild Northern Territory. The atmosphere—a blend of cold, bleak, and mysterious tones—left a lasting impression on her.

JAME MILLER SHOWROOM

Mystify

https://vimeo.com/988179009

Showroom

The following showrooms are curated based on their memories;

They were asked the question: ‘How do you want to be remembered?’

https://vimeo.com/988179009

Click and watch the film of Giovanni and Jane’s showrooms tour memory:

02 In-vitro Lab

Location Sheungshui, Hong Kong, China

July-October 2022

Individual work

Supervisor: Gyungju Chyon

The project speculates the impact of in-vitro meat on cows in the near future. In-vitro meat technology offers the world a different way of producing meat. What if land farmingis replaced by lab-grown meat in the future?

In-vitro Lab is an enclosed space to garantee the continued FBS (Foetal Bovine Serum) harvesting from the cows, the critical ingredient for lab-grown meat production. The indoor farm is designed to increase the reproduction rate of the cows. It also accommodates cows’ mental health using sythetic hormones. It minimises their fear and pain, thus providing the highest quality ingredients for in-vitro meat manufacture.

IN-VITRO MEAT

The excessive consumption of meat, such as cow farming poultry industry, is environmentally unsustainable and keeps the exploit on animal welare. Yet, it may be impossible to stop consuming meat as it is deeply embedded in culinary culture.

In-vitro meat offers a different way of meat consumption which aims to eliminate the conflict. However, FBS (Foetal Bovine Serum) is the escapable ingredient of in-vitro meat comsumption. It is made by extracting the blood from 3 months cow fetus

REPRODUCTION & LIVE

In-vitro Lab is an enclosed space to garantee the continued FBS (Foetal Bovine Serum) harvesting from the cows, the critical ingredient for lab-grown meat production. The indoor farm is designed to increase the reproduction rate of the cows. Under the monitor, It accommodates cows’ mental health using sythetic hormones. It minimises their fear and pain, thus providing the highest quality ingredients for in-vitro meat manufacture.

REPRODUCTION

REPRODUCTION & LIVE

CESAREAN & FETUS HARVESTING

The cesarean system is thoughtfully designed to create a comfortable space for cows during fetus harvest procedures. A synthetic dome gently releasing anesthetic fog as the cesarean begins, ensuring a calm environment. Meanwhile, a lamp emitting a soothing blue hue, utilizing the Purkinje effect, further pacifies the cows throughout the process, contributing to a tranquil and stress-free experience. The recovry capsule will be the rehabilitation centre for the post-surgery weak mother cow heal for 2 weeks.

RELEASE OVERDOSE ANESTHETIC

FETUS HARVESTING

TRANSPORT FETUS TO CHAMBER

ANAEROBIC CHAMBER

STAFF COLLECT FETUS

SEND COW TO RECOVERY CAPSULE

CLEAN THE BLOOD: RELEASE HYDROGEN PEROXIDE

CESAREAN

03 The Gleaner

Location Smorgasburg, Brooklyn New York

March-June 2021

Individual work

The old practice of gleaning means recovering food after harvesting the film “The Gleaner and I” in 2000 documented modern-day gleaners: scavenging in dumpster for food that beyond the sellby date. The project redefines the up-cyclying as the modern gleaning that waste should be carefull considered and “recycle” properly. The Gleaning is a serise of temporary structure featured bio-degradable material for celebrating the food festival, the design as an intervention reshapes the Brooklyn food system and brings it to upcyclability. The strcture is assembly using temporary supports without machinery fastern, assembling the sequences of pieces, forming modules that can be re-assembled to vary the arrangement which gives a wide volumetric configuration and form diversity for festival. The mycelium as main material reduced the environmental issue make the whole system

Table and Bench