ARCHITECTURE
PORTFOLIO
2009-2014
ZHU KUNYU
APPLYING FOR MASTER OF ARCHITECTURE | POST-PROFESSIONAL IN UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA B.ARCH OF BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
ONLY as high as I reach
can I grow, only as far as I seek can I go, only as deep as I look can I see, only as much as I dream can I be.�
CONTENTS
-Karen Ravn
ZHU KUNYU Date of Birth: July 9th, 1991 E-mail: zhukunyu01@126.com Telephone: (86)-15652355967
01 Urban Vitality
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Wangfujing Hotel Design
02 Revolution
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03 Life In Spiral
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04 Introspect. Linger. Trace
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05 Convey The Way
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06 Supplement Work
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07 Fine Art & Photography Gallery
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Bicycle Shed Design
Zipcode: 100193 Current Address: 12-2-902 East Area,Baiwang Jiayuan, Haidian District,Beijing, P.R.China
Small House Design
Relics Museum Design
Professional Internship Project Commercial Complex Design
Handmade models Academic Projects Professional Internship Project Ancient Architecture Measurement
Selected drawings and photos
URBAN VITALITY 01 HOTEL DESIGN OF WANGFUJING
4th year academic project Individual work Tutor: Chen Zhe Fu Yuefeng Time: 2012.9 1
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DESIGN INSTRUCTIONS The project is locate in the north of Wangfujing Street, Beijing City,P.R.China. Located
near the very central of the old city. Wangfujing has been a popular place among tourist from all over the world. The streets and buildings originated in Yuan Dynasty, which has a history of hundreds of years. This program aims at building a commercial hotel for travellers and visitors. Besides, I take the city, the people, the location and the development of street into consideration in order to make an appropriate building for this area.
LOCATION With
the reputation of ‘king street’, Beijing wangfujing street is a commercial street with a long history,which is also a tourist center and commercial center of Beijing city. Wangfujing plays an important role of city life. Under the background of rapid change, Wangfujing street from a traditional shopping street developed into a city central business district with variety of function.
Dongcheng District
Pedestrian Volume less
Wangfujing Street
URBAN VITALITY
plaza area site
commercial area hotel residencial area site
GOOGLE MAP IN TEN YEARS--2003-2012 According to the investigation of Google maps, we find that more and more commercial building and space are being built in ten years.
The public space of the commercial pedestrian
street is the stagnation point in the process of people marching forward. People can rest there and have conversations and entertainment.
less commercial
For linear space of the commercial pedestrian street, reasonable layout and changeful node space can make the whole of the pedestrian space more rhythm, make the space more interesting and colorful. The square before the Catholic church, is the most brilliant node space of the whole wangfujing commercial pedestrian street. The western classical style of the Catholic church and the surrounding building have vast differences in the architectural style, which become the most important part to attract people. The site, as the end of the space, appears too dull and monotonous resulting of the stream of people gathered in front of the Catholic church, and almost terminated there. There are few continue to flow northward. So we decide to design a plaza to attract people moving forward as well as a public space in the whole street.
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INVESTIGATION OF PEOPLE IN WANGFUJIN STREET
SIGHT ANALYSIS OF PLAZA FORM
The cylinder in the west side
of the street represents the stream of people walking to north, The cylinder in the east of the cylinder shows the stream of people walking to south. 9:00-12:00
12:00-15:00
15:00-18:00
18:00-21:00
x 10 x 50 x 100 rest and eat area shopping center
The chart shows people distribution and volume between 9:00 and 21:00 in Wangfujing street. We can conclude by the statistics that: 1. The amount of people that walking to the north did not continued when they reached the site . 2. There are lots of people gathered in the rest area or plaza 3. We can see from the chart that people volume are far more less in the north than south.
Form 1:
The line of Sight is being blocked by the vertical square
Problem to SOLVE:
1. Provide a plaza which will attract people to flow northward along the street when they reach the site. 2. Disperse people density in the south.
PANORAMA OF WANGFUJING STREET shopping and walking
Form 2:
The ground square can not lead people to flow.
The picture below is the panorama of Wangfujin street from north to south, which shows the height of buildings along the street.
eating and resting rest,eat area and plaza shopping center
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Form 3:
Sunken plaza can lead people to flow and also do not block the line of sight.
The ellipse show the ratio of people shopping and resting, eating in the commercial street.
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Special Analysis of site
parking
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Staff entrance
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plaza entrance
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Parking exit
hotel entrance Parking entrance
Plaza entrance
plaza entrance
1. Heat treatment room 2. Cool room 3. High voltage transform room 4. Low voltage transform room 5. Pump room
The path of tourist and visitors who come from subway and bus station. The line width represents the flow of people. 7
Green arrows infers the path of people who drive cars have to follow. Due to the investigation, we set the entrance of the building.
Having investigate the residence nearby, we know that they enjoy the square in front of the church so much. So we need to combine the two squares and take the church into consideration.
6. Computer room 7. Telephone room 8. Air conditioning room 9. Store room
plaza entrance
10. Laundry room 11. Decorate room 12. Engineering room 13. Mail room
14. Restaurant 15. Kitchen 16. Reception rooms 17. Lobby lounge
18. Reception 19. Chinese restaurant room 20. Water platform 21. Staff rooms
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PLAZA FORMATION
plan | level 02
The plaza can lead the crowd of Wangfujing street influx to the hotel and increase the guest volume. The sunken plaza consists restaurant, rest area, and store, which will attract people to flow flexibility in the site. There are several water platform to connect the podium of hotel and sunken plaza. It can break the boundaries of internal and external of the hotel and improve the permeability.
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plan | level 03
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waterfront restaurant 37
Store Recreation square Generating Plaza 5
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Shape Formation
22. Meeting room 23. Lecture hall 24. Cafe 25. Bar 26. Multifunction hall partly ampliďŹ ed
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27. Staff kitchen 28. Staff room 29. Western restaurant 30. Outdoor platform
31. KTV 32. Chess room 33. Billiard parlor 34. GYM
35. Natatorium 36. Shower 37. SPA 38. Administrative office
complex
plan | level B2
plan | level B1
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PODIUM CONFIGURATION Horizontal Circulation
Garage Equipment Traffic core Logistics Administration Catering Lobby Conference Receation Room&suites
Logistical staff Administrative staff Guest
Vertical Circulation Elevator Escalator & Stairs
TOWER FORMATION THE tower consists of standard rooms, suites, public rooms and communication balcony. The combination of the rooms make a little change according to the shape of tower and the function requirements.
Lecture Hall
Store
Platform
Natatorium
Restaurant
SPA
SECTION A-A
standard plan | level
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standard plan | level
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The Balance of openness and privacy
The public rooms are changeable, it could be use for eating, drinking, chatting or resting. Guests can not only enjoy the recreation in the podium part, but also can enjoy the service in the tower. Also, the communication balcony space can promote the communication between guests as well as provide a place for guest to watch the view of Beijing city.
standard room
Although the hotel aims at stimulating the urban vitality and driving the development of the Wang-
A Section line
fujing street, hotel also needs to maintain the privacy of the guest. In order balance the contradiction, the openness of hotel decrease from 1st floor to the top. On the contrary, the privacy increase.
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balcony
privacy plaza function 11
open recreation area
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STANDARD ROOM AND SUITES Natatorium
The hotel rooms consist of standard rooms and suites. Some of them have communication balcony, where people could chat with each other or simply watch the view of city.
Lecture Hall
Waterfront Restaurant Natatorium
Waterfront Restaurant
Waterfront Restaurant
ACOUSTIC DESIGN
wool surface seats
lecture hall
10mm thick wool carpet
VIP waiting room
Because the lecture hall use electroacoustic system, it is relatively freedom for acoustical environment design. The interior decoration materials of lecture hall are mostly using sound- absorbing material, the reverberation time calculation results comply with the design requirments. Side walls use the MLS diffuser, undulate. It could active indoor space form as well as even the indoor sound. The back wall uses wood sound absorbing structure which have good sound absorption property. The suspended ceiling uses cascade arrangement which will reflect the sound from stage to the back of the hall.
sound control room dressing room projection room stage
wooden sound wood sound abproof door sobing structure
hidden lamp chamfer
wooden kicking
dressing room
electric room
control room
horizontal and diagonal movement up and downwards
steel hanger wooden grid
ceiling lamp vent
glass viewport
3mm thick alumium ceiling
plan| lecture hall hidden lamp chamfer
wood decorative
Perforated wood alumium ceiling decorative
Guest circulation
Perforated alumium ceiling
MLS special sound ceiling lamp diffusion wall
hidden lamp chamfer
box boom wooden sound stage spotlight proof door
Stairs
diagonal movement up and downwards
Suite view
Elevator
vertical movement up and downwards skeleton
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MLS special sound diffusion walls
wall
Suite view
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CONSTRUCTION
CORE
SHADE
Balcony
COURTYARD is the one of the most common forms of residential in ancient China. Courtyard is usually surrounded by high walls in order to secure people. Also, the whole family can rest, chat, or drink tea here. what's the most, this kind of architectural form provides a appropriate way for people to communicate. I put this concept into the project and make a revise to make the communication three-dimensional. Guests Pass by Square
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BICYCLE SHED DESIGN 01 Tsinghua University Parametric design workshop Won First prize in David Gerber’s Advanced Design Class Individual Work Tutor: David Gerber Time: 2013.07
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DESIGN INSTRUCTION
SPECIAL ANALYSIS According to the bicycle distribution,volume of pedestrian and cars, I figure out the influx
Design logic Processing test
Rhino Test
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Influx point
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WUDAOKOU SUBWAY STATION
CHENFU ROAD
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Bicycle distribution
WUDAOKOU TRAIN STATION
CHENGFU ROAD
[ Parking route ]
WUDAOKOU TRAIN STATION
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Bicycle chaos
Storage Area A
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[ Entrance ]
CHENFU ROAD
Storage Area B
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the Wudaokou subway station. The traffic situation is chaotic, people, bicycle and cars influx in here and bicycles are parking disorderly. The project aims at designing a bicycle shed here to solve this problem.
CHENFU ROAD
Bicycle Storage
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The project is locate in the crossing of Heqing Road and Chengfu Road ,Beijing. It nears
WUDAOKOU TRAIN STATION
Location
WUDAOKOU TRAIN STATION
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G ROA D
Grasshopper simulation
HEQIN
Prototype
HEQIN
Maya ncloth
WUDAOKOU TRAIN STATION
SUBWAY LINE13
Function requirments
point of the site and decide the bicycle storage place. Then I cover the site with a rectangle and change the shape in order to fit the site.
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Site analysis
PROTOTYPE
Storage Area A
[ Cover the site ]
[ Function partition ]
Shelter over storage area
Pedestrian volume Vehicle volume
Lift for entrance
WUDAOKOU TRAIN STATION
WUDAOKOU TRAIN STATION
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Storage Area B
2 Chengfu road view
[ Pucker the shelter ]
Fixing Point
[ Twist and Lift ] 20
PROCESSING SIMULATION [ SWARM INTELLIGENCE ]
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Using processing to simulate the pattern of birds nesting on the shed and find out a most appropriate shape . Then I test the very processing data in grasshopper to generate bicycle shed.
GRASSHOPPER TEST
SITE PLAN
I put the processing data file into grasshopper to test repeatedly and choose the one I like the most.
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View point
View point
Sunlight penetration from the apertures will create unique light and shadow effect. Cutting plane line
INTERIOR VIEW
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INTERIOR VIEW
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HEQING ROAD ELEVATION
CHENGFU ROAD ELEVATION
A-A SECTION
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MULTIPLE SCALE I expect that this form could be use in urban scale, for example theatre, or museum.
LIFE IN SPIRAL 02 SMALL HOUSE DESIGN
2nd Year academic project Individual work Tutor: Zhao Zhifeng Time: 2011.3 25
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DESIGN INSTRUCTION
SHAPE FORMATION
THE HOUSE locates in Nan luogu Alley, Beijing, P.R.China. This area are mixed commercial area with Hutong residence basically. People live here are limited in low house which the sunlight is very poor and short of green space. In order to solve problems, I design the small house with relatively big window allowing direct sunlight. On the 3rd floor, there is a roof garden where family could contact nature, enjoy sunlight and street view.
Because the site is limit and small, I decide to break the limit of level restriction in order to make space lively. There are two variable functional terrace between 1st and 3rd floor. Without the clear boundary line that delimits partition is lain between, the house make life more earnest.
Common vertical circulation
Common horizontal circulation
Spiral circulation break level limit
status quo
Fit in site
Subdivide function
Twist and cut
street view 4
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commercial
residencial
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1. Main entrance 2. Dining kitchen 3. Living room
4. Terrace 5. Bedroom 6. Guest room
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plan | level 02
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7. Study 8. Garden
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CIRCULATION + STRUCTURE
SECTION + ELEVATION
Study
Shade Structure
West Elevation
2*8 lacing wires embedded parts
Terrace
embedded splint
Core Terrace
East Elevation
Bedroom
Stair structure Stairs Bedroom
Base 2*8 lacing wires embedded parts 2mm plastic flooring
Terrace
Section | A-A
North Elevation
4mm pattern-steel plate Sunlight
anti-slip strip for stairs
Living room
Kitchen
2*8 lacing wires embedded parts 10mm bottom cover powder coated steel plate 29
Front View
Back View
Back View 30
SITE INTRODUCTION Location JIANGUOMEN STREET
The site is located in the west corner of Ming Dynasty Wall Relics Park, which is in the centre of Beijing.
Historical Background CHONGWENMEN AVENUE
BEIJING RAILWAY STATION
INTROSPECT. LINGER. TRACE
Ming Dynasty wall was built in AD 1419, 24km long. It has a history of more than 580 years. Ming Dynasty wall was gradually removed since 1950 because of some historical reasons. For a long time, the Ming city wall ruins have been occupied by units and residents. According to field investigation, some of the city wall bricks were demolished, some of the rammed earth were removed. The residents caused great damage to the original walls. As a result of the existence of a large number of units, residents and markets, the site environment was extremely bad. In 2001, the government started to vacate the units and residents to repair the Ming Dynasty wall. The renovation project of the city wall based on the principle of protecting the historical style and features of the relics wall. The relics wall was restored to its former appearance in 2003.
03 RELICS MUSEUM DESIGN
Status Quo CHONGWENMEN STREET
The existing wall is the original part of the inner city of Beijing, which is 1.5 km. Its symbols the old Beijing city.
BEIHUASHI AVENUE
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3rd Year academic project Individual work Tutor: Zhao Zhifeng Time: 2011.3
Ming Dynasty
1950
Now
Now
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LOCATION ANALYSIS
Old and new buildings comparison Around the site, there is a clear comparison of new and old buildings. In the picture above, green blocks represent old buildings, cyan blocks represent new buildings.
Traffic situation The traffic situation is complicate, above the site is the Beijing railway station. Also, there are subway line and highway around the site.
Traffic impact on site
Block analysis
According to the traffic situation, it can figure out how people and cars reach the site, thus I can decide the entrance of the museum.
There are 7 blocks around the site.
MODELING VOLUME The site is located in a area that HISTORY matters. So I decide to display the history and development of the site. [ PAST ] gallery aims at showing Ming Dynasty Wall history, [ NOW ] gallery represents the development of the site until now. The two part connect with a hall.
[ Now Gallery ]
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Stuff Entrance
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Main Entrance
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Main Entrance
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1. Raise up the building
2. Cut the massing
3. Separate massing
4. Model massing
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plan | level 01 5. Connect two massing
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6. Adjust the position to fit the site
7. Subdivide massing
8. Done !
01 Temporary storage 02 Storage 03 Repair factory 04 Reference room 05 Identification room
plan | level 02 06 Work room 07 Photographic studio 08 Lecture hall 09 [Now] Gallery 10 [Past ] Gallery
11 Entrance 12 Hall 13 Display storeroom 14 Finance office 15 Museum curator
plan | level 03 16 Temporary Gallery 17 Administrative warehouse 18 Antechamber 19 Business office 20 General office 34
TIME CIRCULATION
SECTION ANALYSIS
Visitors’ circulation use time as reference, they enter [past]gallery first, and [now] gallery next.
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Linger in the hall Recall the history
Platform
Section line
[Now] gallery Introspect present
A-A SECTION
Hall
Facade analysis 1 Picture 1 is the brick of the Ming Dynasty wall. I imitate the form of bricks and designed the facade of the museum in order to strengthen the contact with Ming Dynasty wall. Picture 2 is part of museum facade.
[ Now ]
Walk in the [Past] gallery Trace the history
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[ Past ] Section line
Entrance view Lecture hall
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CONVEY THE WAY 05 COMMERCIAL COMPLEX DESIGN OF TONGZHOU CANAL Professional project in Chinese Architecture Design&Research Group Supervisor: Jing Quan Role: Participating the project as an assistant, Analysis site, Drawing diagrams, Build analysis models Time: 2013.9
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PLAN GENERATION
According to our experience, people have a good sense of direction and easy to find the destination in single circulation.
MULTIPLE “FIRST” PLANS
In order to attract people, we design multiple first plans to maximise the value of first floor.
Create multiple first plans
China
1. Guide people with escalator and cross-floor escalator The Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal
THE BEIJING-HANGZHOU GRAND CANAL flows through Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei, Shandong, Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces. Contact the five drainage---Haihe river, the Yellow River, Huai river, the Yangtze river and the Qiantang river. The total length of 1794 km.
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XINHUA STREET used to be the busiest street in history. Now Xinhua street starts from North Canal contacting with Tonghu highway, links with Jingtong expressway in the west, directs to Tian’anmen Square and become the best opportunity for the rapid development of Tongzhou Disctrict.
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BECAUSE the digging of the canal, Tongzhou become grain transportation port and important warehouse area. The Grand Canal not only gives Tongzhou greatly convenient on transportation, but also accumulated a rich content and very local characteristics in culture.
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Tongzhou District
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Site location and environment
Vehicle steam
Pedestrian traffic from subway and Binjiang Road 2. Guide people with sightseeing elevator
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TONGZHOU DISTRICT is in the east of the north canal and the west of the city. Tongzhou is the eastern gate in and out of the city. Historically, Tongzhou is the only way for people in and out from the North canal.
Flow density
Generate flow pattern
Generate flow whirlpools 3. Set squares in 2 or 3 floor to accumulate and disperse the flow of people
Beijing Normal Central Drama University Academy in Peking Sanlitun SOHO
Tongzhou core area
SITE
Subway Line M6
North Canal River
Form plan
Circulation
4. With the help of subway to active underground floors
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Galaxy Chaowai SOHO SOHO China Foreign Capital University Communication Affairs University of Economics and University of China Business
Final pattern
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Tonghui River
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The Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal is divided into seven segments, Tongzhou District is the starting point of the north canal. During the sui and tang dynasties, although the political center of China is still in central plain, but economic center has moved to the south. So it is necessary to transport the food, cloth and other rich resources of south to north to meet the needs of bureaucrats and army.
Tongzhou District Collaborative development area Standby development area Coastal Living area
Cultural, business and recreational area High-end residential and commercial area Exhibition service area
The site is located in the core of business and recreational area, providing favorable conditions for business development. The transportation condition of the site is very convenient that two subway lines intersect in here, where a lot of people will stay and flow through there.
Circulation
High flow node of people
Circulation 40
FOUR “FIRST” PLANS
THE HEIGHT OF WATCHING CANAL Xinhua street subway station is the intersection station of subway line M6 and S6, a large number of people will converge here and enter to the complex. So the basement has important value.
GENERATION LOGIC
BIRD’S VIEW
36m 23m 13m building line
building line
Basement Ground floor has important commercial value. It is the best floor to attract people and create business opportunities.
Architecture’s extended line
10m
Ground Floor
20m
The Business area is divided into two parts, the middle part is using as outdoor platform combined with landscape for the purpose of public activities.
30m
Podium Floor 50m
The podium roof can be used as business offices or outdoor garden of apartment dwellers.
FUNCTION DIVISION
Roof Floor
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Office Area
Loft Office Area
Hotel Area
Residential Area
Commercial Area
creative cultural Area
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HANDMADE MODELS 6.1 VILLA DESIGN
Academic Project /individual work 2009 1:30 model made with board. The villa is 230 square meters.
06 SUPPLEMENT WORK
Handmade models Academic Projects Professional Internship Project Ancient Architecture Measurement
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HEART-EAST STUDY SURVEY
Bracket Sets Between Columns
Bracket Set On Corner
6.6 Ancient Architecture Measurement Individual work 2012 HEART-EAST STUDY formerly known as Jing Qing Study, covers an area of about 8700 square meters. It is the
most ingenious house in Beihai park. Heart-East Study was general secretary in Ming dynasty. The park main building are Jing Qing Study, Qinquan Plaza, etc. The architectural form of pavilions, corridors, porch, pool, stones lying and towers in Heart-East-Study is not only magnificent but also is small and exquisite.
Side View
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Side View
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OTHER PROJECTS 6.2 Building Construction --- Joint design Academic Project /group work 2011 The construction could bear more than 250 kg weight.
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OTHER PROJECTS 6.3 Stair Structure Design Academic Project /group work 2012 Precast stair
6.4 Planning Design of Chuiyangliu Dwelling Academic Project /group work 2013 Aged people dwelling design
6.5 Changchun Planning Exhibition Hall Participate the project in China Architecture Design & research group as a intern 2013 This project is under construction.
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FINE ART GALLERY My drawings from 2009-2013
2010 Pen Sketch
2011 Gouache
2012 Watercolor
2010 Marker Pen Drawing
2009 Pencil Sketch
2013 Oil pianting
2013 Oil pianting 49
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PHOTOGRAPHY GALLERY My vision of the world, my Photography works including landscape pictures and studio portrait photos.
Hawaii
Washington DC
Studio Portrait for Ding
Self Portrait
San Marco Square Venice Manhattan New York Studio Portrait for Kang
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Manhattan New York
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ZHU KUNYU Portfolio
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