Zihan Zhou
Zihan Zhou
Master of Interior Design
Sustainability & Future Practitioner
Narrator & Film making
Content
01_Amnesia Museum
Speculative Project & Architecture Interior
Fiction & writing & Research London
02_Sitting Room Coffee
Retail Interior Design Monash University, Melbourne
03_Wave Woods
Acoustic furniture & Commercial Mycelium Biodesign Melbourne, Collingwood Showroom
01 Amnesia Museum
Location London, United Kingdom
Feburary-Present 2024
Individual work
Supervisor: Gaetano Drago
‘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’.
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Age of digitalization 2. Tourism varnish & Demolished
Copy, upload, reassembly
4. Capriccio London
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 its contours, forms, content and substance 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. As a visitor, you start building your own lofty version of the city... Over times, every façade is an evocation of a city as it would be imagined by one period, or one institution, or one church, or one group of people, or even one person.
The endless rooms called ‘Individual Showroom’ is immense palace comprised every detail you wish to extract from his memories of those past days, along with embellishments he had added himself—refinements to shapes, a place you can wander and get inspirations.
02 Sitting Room Coffee
Location Melbourne, Australia
Feburary-Present 2021
Individual work
Supervisor: Gyungju Chyon
“Sitting Room” based on ‘Standing Room’ franchise establish a selfcontained coffee station that includes an adjacent seating /reading area. The cafe located in located in Monash University Building B Level 2 aims to provide students space for co-working, meeting or relaxing in the morning, and also recessing or socialize.
This cafe is featured with the hanging fabric system, which almost fill the entire interior space. The net and translusnet buckram fabric create a skin around timeber create a skin around timeber skeletons or hang from the ceiling.
These structures are constructed in organic forms and low saturated color tone, which gives visitors a refreshing experience. Additionally, sustainable materials are applied to most of the installtions responding to clients brief.
The design focus on hanging structure and highlights the fabric quality. The basic form is inspired by form of fungi, which harmonizes with the organic shape of fabric. Coffee bench and the sitting area as the main sections are constructed to this “mushroom” fabric structure.
The coffee bench features hanging timber coned structure which connects with a circular platform, and the whole area is covered by a translusent fabric gazebo. The circular sofa is covered entirely in stretched fabric, with fabric columns that emerge from the floors and ceilings.
Seating area
Cirular coffee workbench
Cirular coffee workbench
03 Wave Woods
Location Melbourne, Australia
March-June 2022
Group work
Supervisor: Gyungju Chyon
Wave woods is an acoustic furniture made from mycelium.The work is collaborated with KFive, a melbourne based firm. It was inspired by natural elements such as branches of corals and tree trunks. Their textures mimic waves of water and create a soft, flexible, and vibrant atmosphere. We designed three different heights of modular and one base for clients making their own sets. Wave wood can be used as acoustic furniture, space dividers, decorations, vases, etc. As an item of furniture, Wave Wood provides many potential functions to customers.
The work awarded one of finialist for Victoria Premier Design Award 2022 and longlisted in the sustainable design of Dezeen Awards 2023.
MYCELIUM & MODULAR
Wooden Stablizing Wooden Supporter
Base
ASSEMBLY
30cm 45cm 60cm
MODULAR
Inspired by natural elements, Wave Woods is modularised to combine in multiple ways to create various heights, offering opportunities for different functions in interior spaces.
Its uneven colours and patterns on the surface are natural tendencies of mycelium reminiscent of tree branches or trunks. Wave Woods are mainly made of mycelium, which can be composted.
Paper tube
Female joint
Male joint
To minimise the environmental impact, objects can be designed to return to nature, where its materials come from. Its structure is made of recycled paper tubes from the textile industry, on which mycelium grew. Wave Woods can be safely decomposed if it is discarded.
Zihan Zhou