SELECTED WORK SAMPLE BAICEN ZHOU The University of Sheffield 2012 - 2018
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11 03 - Privacy Hotel Brussels 05 - The Beauty of Silence 07 - Down to the Sky 08 - The Secret Garden 09 - Parts in Whole 10 - The Pavillion
SELECTED PROFESSIONAL WORK
11 - MoYuan Art Center 13 - No.1 Ningbo Road 14 - LN Museum Shop 15 - Vanke Sales Office 16 - The Cat House 17 - The Reception 18 - GLP I-Park Office
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Privacy Hotel Brussels 2017-2018 Y6 _ SSOA
The Privacy Hotel intends to create an alternative model providing different level of privacy and therapeutic functions for the purpose of helping mental well-being. The project seeking to create a hybrid architecture adapting the accessibility and inclusion of a hotel model into private and calming atmosphere to balance the negative results of intensified urban living environment on people’s mental health.
7 cameras found not registered have the chance to look into apartments and shops
quite neiborhood safty measures used such as fences,cameras,signs,blenders and ect.
locked bike cabin
3 cameras found not registered 2 signages saying surveillance camera in operation
ground floor apartment can be seen through the window. window seals are being used for owners collec
2 cameras found not registered 4 signages saying surveillance camera in operation
tion display
peek into the center
6 camera free zones have been found
had a conversation with a staff working for CLTB.
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abandoned furnitures on the street
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The Beauty of Silence 2016-2017 Y5 _SSOA
The project is located in Princes Dock Marina in Hull city center, intents to provide people with hearing loss spaces for consultation, treatment, training, equal socializing opportunity and people living in urban environment a moment of inner peace. All the spaces are carefully designed to activate user’s senses, bring calmness, heal the stress from busy city life.
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Down to the Sky 2014 Y2 Spring _ USYD Baicen Zhou + Jiahui Li
Down to the sky is a children pavilion scheme located in the quietest part of Victoria Park, downtown of Sydney. Sky is the farthest thing from us but it is also the most inspirational and the most desirable thing from our childhood. The design captures multiple elements from the sky and get the sky down to the ground through innovative material using. With children’s imagination, unique fantasy can be created having fun through spatial experience.
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The Secret Garden 2013 Y2 Autumn _ UNNC
The Secret Garden is a mixed-use urban block in Hangzhou old town, designed specifically for a group of artists to live, work and earn their life. Believing in art inspiration can only be generated naturally through relaxing life and cultural integration, this project intents to provide a range of public functional spaces such as bike renting, tea house, sculpture garden, art studio to generate the oppotunity to absorb local scent from nearby community through daily communication.
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Parts in Whole 2014 Y2 Spring _ USYD Baicen Zhou + Jiahui Li
This sculpture piece started from the basic element - a fold back clip, which simplified into 2D cardboard pieces with the outline and 3 typical intersections. Dramatic light and shadow effect can be created not only in the negative space the sculpture formed, but also on it’s reflective structure surface.
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The Pavillion 2014 Y2 Summer _ UNNC UNNC Architecture Department
The pavilion is built for the 2014 Graduate Summer Exhibition consists of 3019 piece non-hierarchical surface structure that extends in three parts through the atrium of the Science and Engineering Building at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China. As a spatial design element of the exhibition, the structure bends through the space, enclosing and framing the work of the students. As the exhibition covers students’ work from four academic years, the pavilion meanders and grows in complexity through the space, metaphorically following the development of us in our studies as we advance in educational career. The structure is developed as a reciprocal from and adapted to the requirements of the space.
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MoYuan Art Center 2017 Summer _ Isozaki Hu Qian + Kailun Sun + Baicen Zhou
MoYuan Art Center is a renovation project transforming under used housing building into an art gallery dedicated to Chinese artist Zhang Jianjun’s work. Each exhibition space is designed for one art piece specifically. His working concept is called Chinese ink art which is more than Chinese ink painting. It extends into three-dimensional spaces and coordinate with multiple senses. Following Zhang’s artwork ethos, the concept of the architecture is trying to create a dialogue between tradition and modern spatially. The experience walking through is formed a “societal landscape” by the richness of layers, purity of geometry and carefully composed material.
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LN Museum Shop 2016 _ MDO Justin Bridgeland + Jaycee Chui + Baicen Zhou + JC Que + Leo Li
The Shop is located in the entrance hall of LN History Museum, Guangzhou. The Pearl River plays an key role within city’s history. The concept of the shop design is generated from spatial experiences from the river walk. Our design team worked through spatial design, interior design and furniture design. It is now under construction and will be open to public with the museum by October 2018. 20
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Vanke Sales Office 2015-2016 _ MDO Justin Bridgeland + Jaycee Chui + Jan Zhao + Baicen Zhou + JC Que + Leo Li
The Vanke Sales House is a renovation of an existing building left in a park unused in Hangzhou. The focus of the interior plan was a long bar with gently curves responding to the park, this element works as a focus and a spatial device, encourage visitors to enter and explore the showroom. A vertical timber screen to the rear of the bar creates a further layer allowing visitors a suggestion of what lies beyond, but does not reveal the view of the park until they reach further into the space.
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ZW VIP Suite 2015-2016 _ MDO Justin Bridgeland + Jaycee Chui + Baicen Zhou + JC Que + Leo Li This project is a VIP suite for ZW Beijing Office which include series of relaxation functional spaces. Following the fluid open plan, all the spaces are arranged into a circular shape with fully open view towards the facade. Aiming to achieve luxury spatial experience, we carefully tested the material composition and detail solution.
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The Zen Cat House 2016 _ MDO Jaycee Chui + Baicen Zhou
The cat house is part of a luxury apartment renovation project. While most of the cat houses is standard and looks temporary, I took this opportunity to seek for a solution which make the cat house as part of the apartment, which can state that the cat is a real member of the family not as owner’s belonging. During the site survey stage, I have spent some time observing the cat’s behavior and habit. I concluded the characteristic of the cat as “ZEN” and this becomes the concept of the design. Following the minimalism style of the apartment, the cat house design intent to achieve a elegant while playful layout.
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The Reception 2015 MDO Jaycee Chui + Justin Bridgland + Jiahui Li + Baicen Zhou
This reception is part of the office design for a high-tech aluminum producer. As the first impression of anyone walking into the office, the reception space needs to communicate the company’s features inclusively. Since aluminum rolling sheet is one of the main product of the company, it has been chosen as the material of the desk and by controlling the shape of each sheet and the difference between all the layers, an organic, fluid aluminum volume can be created and fit it’s function properly. The design has been carefully and repeatedly tested through 3D modeling and physical model making.
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GLP I-Park Office 2015-2016 MDO Justin Bridgland + Jaycee Chui + JC Que + Leo Li + + Baicen Zhou This project is two office towers in Xi’an’s Hi-Tech Industrial Park. At the centre of the new design is a landscaped park which acts as a green community focus. The facades is a skin which could be enriched through careful composition, proportion, and detail.It is vertically organized into bands, which giving the towers a greater vertical emphasis. At night we imagined the towers to create an abstract play of light. Aluminum panels were folded outwards to create light slots which can be seen only from certain angles. This means as you walk past, the towers subtly change in appearance.
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GLP I-Park Office Interior 2015-2016 MDO Justin Bridgland + Jaycee Chui + JC Que + Leo Li + + Baicen Zhou At the base of the towers the faรงade is lifted up to create double-height entrance lobbies, connecting the towers directly to the landscape. The module of the curtain wall increased so there are less visual obstructions to the view of the park. The lobbies are treated as flexible spaces where people can work, meet and relax on specially designed furniture. To contrast against the metallic exterior, the interior spaces are lined at lower level with slatted bamboo walls, whilst above gentle folds of aluminum turn into the faรงade.
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