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“House of Montage”

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KUN ZHANG, Assoc. AIA, LEED Green Associate, M.Arch 21’, University of Michigan, kunzh@umich.edu

SELECTED WORKS

ACAD.

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System Studio

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Institution Studio

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Wedding Church in Paradise

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Yanomami School in Rain Forest

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Ship Graveyard Museum on Sea Bank

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Wood Works

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[Sep.2020-Dec.2020]

Detroit, Michigan

[Sep.2019-Dec.2019]

Ann Arbor, Michigan

[Aug.2017-Sep.2017]

Negombo, Sri Lanka

[Sep.2017-Nov.2017]

Yanomami Park, Brazil

[Nov.2017-Dec.2017]

Aralsk City, Kazakhstan

[Jul.2016-Aug.2016]

Shanghai, China

Selected Cooperative Designs

[Feb.2012-May.2018]

SYSTEM STUDIO In PLACE DETROIT, MICHIGAN

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GROUP PROJECT / SEP. 2020- DEC. 2020 First brought out by Galileo four hundred years ago, systems became now a widely acc e p t e d t o o l w o r l d w i d e . S y s t e m s a r e n’ t p e rfect. They need to be upgraded accordingly.

When people seek to upgrade a site, we do not only unplug an old system and plug in a new one but, instead, take a close look at the surrounding systems of such site and try to help people get better interactions with people, culture, and local environments.

We started by reading Christopher Alexander’s A Pattern Language and using it to analyze our own living environment and found architectural cases. In Detroit around our site, we found abandoned houses whose windows were covered with plywood; in the same neighborhood, we also encountered lined-up bakery stores. A few blocks to the south, we found well-managed mid-nineteen century neighborhoods for the bourgeoisie.

“Fences versus flowers,” two strategies dealing with negative surroundings, were found around the site.

Instead of ignoring the negative sceneries around us, we decided to accept them, transform the negative power into a positive one, and express and embrace the surroundings artistically and poetically.

Encased by the translucent corrugated board, the three on-site bad conditioned houses were relocated and repurposed as the hearths of three grouped houses. More programs were added to make the adjacent park well-used. Trees on site were relocated along the loose road separating the project from the park, without setting up any fences. The sizes of massing were larger along Kercheval than Townsend, according to the road program.

We name it “Site Weaver.”

Courtesy of Yuxin Lin

Instructors: Kit McCullough, Michael Kennedy

This mixture of uses of buildings directly produces for the park a mxiture of users who enter and leave the park at different times. (p125) ...

If not downtown, it must still be where life swirls-where there is work, cultrural, residential and commercial activity-as much as possible of everything different that cities can offer. The main problem of neighborhood park planning boils down to the problem of nurturing diversified neighborhoods capable of using and supporting parks. (p131) Jacobs, Jane. “The Death and Life of Great American Cities.” Book. New York: Modern Library, 2011.

Major Site Attributes Site Park Commercial Street Residential Street

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Existing Proposal Commercial Street For Kercheval Ave.

SITE & PARK

Park

Commercial Street

Residential Street

Trees + Multi-programmed Buildings

Warm Bricks + 1920s Storefront Types

Planks (Lines)

1 Mile

Multiple Programs

Repurposed As Hearths

Soft Edge

Entrance

“Fences” vs “Flowers” Instead of ignoring the negative sceneries around us, we decided to accept them, transform the negative power into a positive one, and express and embrace the surroundings artistically and poetically.

Courtesy of Yuchun Huang

RESIDENTIAL ST.

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Stair Seating to Activities

Encased by the translucent corrugated board, the three on-site bad conditioned houses were relocated and repurposed as the hearths of three grouped houses.

More programs were added to make the adjacent park well-used.

According Heights

According Materials

Trees on site were relocated along the loose road separating the project from the park, without setting up any fences. The sizes of massing were larger along Kercheval than Townsend, according to the road program.

Courtesy of Yuxin Lin

Courtesy of Yuxin Lin

Space In Between

Tangent to Circulation

Layered Multi-function

The most interesting moment from “Saigon House” is the in-between space among those smaller houses. By this arrangement, the architect bringing in natural elements, such as light, rain, and breeze, into the dialogue. From now on, the former memories of Saigon were brought back.

The family members get eye contact and verbal and body language connections even though they were on different levels. Children’s realm was placed on the top part and was tailored to some much smaller sizes due to their body size.

The stairs were porous to let in more light and air.

Precedent Study Saigon House by A21 Studio

The web placed on top of the living room was a delicate touch. It allows some unconventional interactions between the human body and house, bringing in a much more dynamic mood into the common space.

Pitched Roof (A Symbol for Homes)

Kids’ Web

Interior Circulation

(Porous Stair)

Tangent To Circulation

Window Seat Quiet Area Above Entrance

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Plans The Common Space for Apartments was placed between two Apartment Volumes; it was tangential to the main circulation while providing interior circulation. The multiple spaces were stacked together due to their quiet requirements.

Flexible Spaces

Double Accesses To Restroom

Individual Entrances/Exits

Precedent Study

Katsura Imperial Villa, Kyoto, Japan

by Bosch Capdeferro, Girona, Spain

Door Planks for Retail Stores, China

During Ancient times, both east and west shared a similar idea about room linkage without corridors. However, the unique idea for conventional Japanese villas for nobilities is that they used sliding doors to combine spaces to accommodate different uses.

Designed by Bosch Capdeferro. Bloc 6x6 is a good example of using sliding doors to enlarge spaces. A wet area was set up in the middle, while four undefined spaces were put to both ends. The designers might get their inspiration from Katsura Villa in Kyoto.

A unique feature for conventional retailing space in south China is their complete open storefront. Wood door planks were intentionally cut into narrower pieces so that their sizes and weights are manageable for a single man when the stores opened.

Normal Layout

Event Layout

1. Start-up Area

2. Privacy Difference

3. Seperate Exits and Spaces

Twenty by forty is the right size for both small retail stores and small apartments.

800 square feet is the start-up area for both the retail units and the apartment units.

The nearer to the entrance and exit, the more public it will be when we normally conceive a space. It also works well here in an apartment.

A wet area is put in the middle to better serve four undefined spaces. The basic inspirations are from the first two precedents.

Dual-Access Restrooms

Relocated Door Planks

Temporary AirBNB Suite

4. Normal Layout However, different than Bloc 6x6, here two bathrooms serving this unit, and both of them got two entrances, one from the living area and the other is from one of the undefined spaces.

5. Event Layout When events or festivals come, sliding doors can be dismantled and relocated against one wall, just as convenient as the Chinese door planks for retail stores.

6. Renting Layout Two separate entrances/exists allowed the owner to run a small part of his/ her apartment as a continuous base for AirBNB; it will help those targeted young families get more revenue.

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Young Families are the target customer groups we are supposed to accommodate for this project.

Instead of only giving them diverse unit areas, we offer them diverse types of living. Traditional family houses, Live/work houses, Flexible apartments.

We’ve put four undefined spaces in an 800 sqft unit plan for apartments, and all of them could be combined and separated when needed. Two individual access also offered future possibilities for rent-out spaces.

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The 20x40 plan derives from the retail plan beneath the apartment units, which is the right size for a small retail store to startup.

Common spaces were found missing in conventional American suburb communities. They were added

back in the in-between space to help residents form more solid emotional connections while solving actual living difficulties for young families, such as kid’s daycare pods, working/studying pods, and communal dining needs.

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INSTITUTION STUDIO THEATER EX MACHINA ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN

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INDIVIDUAL PROJECT / SEP. 2019- DEC. 2019 The studio works from the premise that buildings and institutions come into existence as parallel developments, and, if one is to redefine(build anew)an institution, one must first study and understand that institution’s existence within the context of containment(i.e., the buildings that house them). To this end, the studio employs a three-fold research-based approach to the study and design of the institutional building. The first phase focuses on the gathering, filtration, and synthesis of programmatic and conceptual data. The second phase works to marshal the forces (logistical and cultural) of the institution’s operation into productive design criteria. The final phase identifies potentials within the institutional lineage for new and surprising (i.e., liberating) configurations in relation to its typological history. The results of the studio are emphatically buildings, described both geometrically(drawings, models) and logically (diagrams, narratives).

“Theater ex Machina: Building Organization Performance” will draw from the legacy of early Greek theater design (in its coordination of orientation, format, and mechanics)to propose contemporary theaters that position a mediated relationship between audience and performer in the form of frame tectonics and overt sceno graphics (expressed as simple machines). Studio readings include sections from The History of the Greek and Roman Theater

by Margarete Bieber, The Birth of Tragedy by Friedrich Nietzsche, and The Frogs by Aristophanes.

The design task was to replace the Power Center for Performing Arts, which was designed by Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo and Associate in 1967 and was finished in 1971. The shop component was added in 1981.

All Representation documents were illustrated on 11” x 11” or 24” x 24” sheets in the manner of black and white style, which helped us focus on the design itself.

Instructor: John McMorrough

PHASE 1 BUILDING (In-Formation)

ANCIENT MACHINE

CONTEMPORARY MACHINE

Skene (SKAY-nay, Greek: Tent), The building behind the orchestra in a Greek theatre, Probably originated from a dressing/storage hut or booth in the sacred grove outside the orchestra. After the first skenotheke or hall was built on a breccia foundation, to the north of the old temple and to the south of the orchestra, a decorated movable wood porch was added to its north facade. Finally, the Skene was built by stone and located on the second floor on top of paraskenia(side buildings of the skene).

Opera box, or box, loge, is a small, separated area serving a limited number of people for private seating during the opera show, immediately to the front, side and above of the stage. Although it may be seemed fancy and luxury, the view of some boxes is terrible because they may have blind areas due to their side position. The price for a box in broadway theaters is lower than the ordinary seats.

ANCIENT THEATER

CONTEMPORARY THEATER

Roman theater of Orange ca. early 1st century | Orange, Vaucluse, France

Nieuwe Luxor Theater | Bolles + Wilson Completed 2000 | Rotterdam, Netherlands

As a vessel for spreading Roman culture and a deviation for the citizens’ attention on politics, people spent most of their spare time at this theater. Closed in 391AD by Christianity and pillaged in 412AD, it was used as a defensive post in the Middle Ages and then became a refuge in the 16th century. The reconstruction begun in 1825, it is now still a theater in use. Cavea width: 103.63m, Orchestra width 29.9m; Capacity: 7,300;

Seats 1,500 spectators, this theater was by the southern foot of the Erasmus bridge. This Torque (the Red Chinese Dragon), was surrounded by two waterfronts, a driveway, and re-used warehouses, it’s a joint of two districts.

Another name is the Blob, since its lacking corners. The internalization of delivery generated the form. The ramp is the protagonist, on top of which vast framed sceneries were displayed in two foyers facing two waterfronts. The movement of loading trucks inside this ramp reinforced the moving motion of the form. Every detail was taken care of, Texture, Texts, bars, Chairs, etc.

PHASE 2 ORGANIZATION (De-Formation) COLLAGE / SITTING / SECTION / PLAN

“In Formation,” focuses on the gathering, filtration, and synthesis of programmaticand typologicaldata. “Skene”, “Box”, “Roman Theater of Orange”, “Nieuwe Luxor Theater” were my four items to study.

“De Formation,” the second phase works to marshal the forces (logistical and cultural) of the institution’s operation into productive design criteria.

MASSING STUDY

GROUP STUDY (Individual Share) SITE HISTORY

Private Cemetery, Isometric View, 1880

Private Cemetery, S. Pettibone Map, 1869

Felch Park + Houses, Sanborn Map, 1931

Washtenaw Ave.

POWER CENTER of Performing Arts

Johnson Johnson & Roy INC, Central Campus Plan, 1963

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FOH, BOH, and Site were the group work tasks. The right page showed my work on the site study.The whole site was a Jewish cemetery since the 1860s. The front part changed to Felch Park in 1894, while the back part became a residential area during the 1930s.

In 1963, the planning scheme assigned the back part to be offices and classrooms. Finally, a performing art center was designed and erected. Among the many problems, the most important one is the canopy blocking problem.

FELCH PARK

Fletcher St.

Besides history study, site survey, I also used much time drawing the site plan. After trying to acquire master plans from the AEC department of UMICH, I decided to get the lidar data in ArcGIS from Clark Library and finally built the Rhino model of the site.

Site Photo During 1971-1981

SITE PROBLEMS FLY TOWER FLY TOWER LOADING DOCK POWER CENTER

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FELCH PARK

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SCENE SHOP

Canopy Blocking+ No Gathering Places (West)

Loading Dock Shortage (Back of House, East)

Canopy Blocking + No Billboard Wall (North)

PHASE 3 PERFORMANCE (Re-Formation)

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Surrounded by main bus routes, state roads, as well as main pedestrian roads, the proposed theater should be easy to see from all directions. The fly tower was made 150 feet high to fight the canopies. A billboard wall for posters was added to the north side, facing the main bus routes coming to the central campus. The “Greek Proskenion” element was added to the three facades to form a “lantern” during nights. Circulation in this “lantern” enhanced the pre-show experience before you entering the theater.

The foyer was treated as a buffer connecting all functions, Auditorium, Stage, Actors’ wing, and Shops’ wing.

Base site model(Group Work)

Contribution to Base Site Model(Digital Parts)

Parcel model(Individual Work)

PHASE 4 DOCUMENTATION

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Basement Plan

Ground Floor Plan

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Multiple entrances were set up in every direction and several levels to absorb people from outside. Vertical circulation was emphasized for a better pre-show experience. It also counterbalanced the negative view when leaves are fallen during winter seasons; the orange light “lantern” will warm up the city when snows are fallen before, during, and after winter shows.

Stage left, and Stage right was separated by essential functions, such design can release the backstage pressure for conjunction problems between actors and shops.

The Plinth between the building and the Felch Park provides an extra space for pre-event gathering during warm seasons.

Balcony Floor Plan

Roof Plan

On the ground floor of the FOH, event spaces, offices were placed on the south side while the cafe and Restrooms were located on the opposite side. The box office and coat rooms were in the middle.

On the main level of the FOH, an ADA ramp was set up on the audience left, which can also be linked to the orchestra pit through the corridor. It can also be used as an extra entry for the actors to the stage.

On the stage level of BOH, there was a green room of the actors’ wing and a large scene storage place. The actors’ wing has two levels of changing spaces and two levels of rehearsal spaces separated by the green room level, while the shops’ wing has one level of scene shop, one level of the costume shop, which was below the level of scenic storage space.

WEDDING CHURCH IN PARADISE NEGOMBO, SRI LANKA

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INDIVIDUAL PROJECT / AUG. 2017- SEP. 2017 RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION CAN NEVER HAPPEN IN A BUDDHISM COUNTRY. Buddhists give us a peaceful image normally, however, there are also extreme Buddhists turned their religion into violence. Churches and houses were destroyed due to such persecution. It’s hard to believe all above happened in such a beautiful paradise like Sri Lanka.

Some evangelists there were threatened and even killed, houses were burned down. No actions were made by the government due to the majorities of the Buddhists. Silence spread throughout the country.

To help those minorities in Sri Lanka, a wedding church was designed. The project aims to offer them a formal and decent location to return to the public.

A site in the lagoon is chosen in Negombo, since the city is more international and has numerous Catholic churches, and the people there are milder than other regions.

I hope this wedding church can also be an open volume for any religious minorities in Sri Lanka to present themselves to the public, crossing river.

PERSECUTION

IN PARADISE

Sri Lanka, a beautiful island country, got some of the best beaches in the world and it’s a tourist destination, a lot of Buddhist holy sites, lots of tourism. It is very surprised for most of us to know that there is a lot of persecution in Sri Lanka. We used to think that most Buddhists are peace-loving people.

What’s driving Buddhists become so violent? When people start to leave one religion, the primary religion of a country you know that usually happens, and it becomes especially Evangelical Christians which are often seen as American or Western. They thought American or Western cultures wreck, Sri Lanka, apart. They said, “this is a Buddhist country we don’t want this foreign religion in there.” As a result of that, the perse cutions happened.

Pastor AK had just planted his church in a rural area around Columbo, and he was assaulted by a group of monks and mobs when he was doing a Sunday service with 30 believers in his church. At first, the sound equipment, items of furniture were all destroyed by the mobs. And in that night, the mobs burned his church to the ground.

As a minority group, Christians, especially evangelisms are very hard to survive in Sri Lanka. So I want to design a wedding church for them at Negombo, which is a beautiful coastal city and is less hostile to Christians since there are a lot of Christian churches in that city. I hope this wedding church can introduce Christianity to the people in Sri Lanka, and make it a peaceful wedding place for all people in Sri Lanka.

" WHEN THE BUDDHIST MONKS IN THE MOB

CAME INSIDE THE CHURCH THEY STARTED USING BAD LANGUAGE AND SAID THIS IS A BUDDHIST COUNTRY AND WE CAN'T LET YOU HAVE A CHURCH INSIDE A BUDDHIST VILLAGE AND YOU HAVE TO

LEAVE. "

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Negombo is a major city in Sri Lanka, situated on the west coast and at the mouth of the Negombo Lagoon, in Western Province. Negombo is the fourth largest city in Sri Lanka and it is also the administrative capital center of Negombo Division. Negombo is one of the major commercial hubs in Sri Lanka and it is a very important economic center in the country with about 144,551 inhabitants within city limits.

It is approximately 35 km (22 mi) north of Colombo.

Negombo is known for its centuries-old fishing industry, with busy fish markets and long, sandy beaches. Negombo is a westernized, vibrant city and it is one of the major tourist destinations in the country.

The main international airport (Bandaranayake International Airport)of Sri Lanka is in Negombo Metropolis.

Negombo is a multi-religious city. Since the beginning of European colonization, the township of Negombo has had a majority of Roman Catholics along with Buddhists, Hindus, and Muslims.

Roman Catholic 62.2% Islam 13.9% Buddhist 12.4% Hindu 8.3% Other Christian denomi 3.2% Others 0.07% Average High Temperat 30 0C Average Low Temperature 24 0C Average Precipitation2,345mm

Negombo Lagoon is large semi-enclosed coastal water body with plenty of natural resources.

The lagoon is fed by a number of small rivers and the Dutch canal.

It is linked to the Indian Ocean by a narrow channel to the north, near Negombo city.

Negombo Lagoon has extensive mangrove swamps and attracts a wide variety of water birds. The lagoon supports so many distinct

species of flora, fauna and as well as another species of birds and variety of animals. Negombo Lagoon is a major local and tourist attraction primarily for sightseeing and boating tours.

The site has been chosen for that channel linking Negombo Lagoon to the Indian Ocean, having the Prince Island Hotel to its north and a small mangrove island to its northeast side.

PROTOTYPE Mangrove trees have unusual roots which are specially adapted to soft, waterlogged soil. Namely, aerial roots(coastal zone), prop roots(middle zone) and kneed roots(inland zone).

Prop roots have the most attractive looking, so it is chosen for further study and as a prototype for the columns of the wedding church.

Mangrove Trees

Roots Upside Columns

Dwelling Columns

Force Analysis

WEDDING SPACE X 6

MULTIPLE OPEN SPACES FOR WEDDING CEREMONIES

Unlike any traditional churches which only can provide one indoor space for young couples to hold their wedding ceremony. This new design provides them with 5 extra wedding spaces, with totally 6 ceremony spaces. 4 on the first floor, 2 upstairs.

What makes this design more interesting is the 4 wedding spaces on the first floor, they can provide the relatives some spaces for them to stay on their boats meanwhile participating the ceremonies.

This new way can never be found in any traditional churches, and it’s especially fit with the local water culture.

SITE PLAN SCALE 1:400

DOOR rotae to open

LADDER easy to move

SECTION A-A SPECIAL ENTRANCE special method to get into hotel rooms

DETAILS

YANOMAMI SCHOOL IN RAIN FOREST YANOMAMI PARK, BRAZIL

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INDIVISUAL PROJECT / SEP. 2017- NOV. 2017 DO YOU BELIEVE THERE ARE STILL SOME UNCONTACT ABORIGINALS AROUND THE WORLD WHO ARE SUSCEPTIBLE TO EVEN SOME COMMON DISEASE FROM THE WORLD OUTSIDE? YANOMAMI HAVE NUMEROUS TRIBES SUFFERED FROM SUCH COMMON COMMUNICABLE DISEASE, FACING THE DANGER OF EXTINCTION. Living in the Amazon tropical rain forest, the Yanomami first officially got contacted with outside in the 1960s, when Brazilian government built their roads and bridges across their territory. After the 1970s, their lives started to be disturbed by floods of private gold miners. They not only sucked the gold into the Yanomami territory but also destroyed their health by pouring tons of mercury into the water (recent report noted that the heavy metal level is above the acceptable standard). Furthermore, the uncontact Yanomami suffer even worse. They died in large numbers after the invasion of gold miners. Some extreme gold miners even massacre the whole villages.

However, the Brazilian government wanted to legitimize the gold mining industry in Yanomami territory.

The project aims to offer an alternative way to protect the living dignity of these minorities. The Yanomami NGO Hutukar and a Brazilian NGO - CCPY(Comissão Pró Yanomami), propose to design schools for the aboriginals as a part of their educational project. The project will be a decent location for them to get in touch with the outside world and to get to know their legal right under the Brazilian Constitution to better protect their homeland. Moreover, they can also learn how to write down their own languages with Latin characters and some basic mathematics skills.

Therefore, I plotted the building into the village of Davi Kopenawa’s, who is a community leader, a shaman, and the spokesman for “Yanomami and Indian movement”. They have an airstrip and it is the best place for Yanomami people to get in touch with the outsiders like volunteers, anthropologists, scientists, and celebrities.

GOLD RUSH & GENOCIDE During the 1980s, the Yanomami suffered immensely when up to 40,000 Brazilian gold-miners invaded their land. The miners shot them, destroyed many villages, and exposed them to diseases to which they had no immunity. Twenty percent of the Yanomami died in just seven years.

After a long international campaign led by Davi Kopenawa Yanomami, Survival and the CCPY (Pro Yanomami Commission), Yanomami land in Brazil was finally demarcated as the ‘Yanomami Park’ in 1992 and the miners expelled.

HISTORY

15K YEARS AGO 1940 A.D.

MERCURY CONTEMINATION GENERCIDE MALARIA

PROBLEMS SOCIAL

ROAD & INVATION In the early 1970s, the military government decided to build a road through the Amazon along the northern frontier.

With no prior warning, bulldozers drove through the community of Opiktheri. Two villages were wiped out by diseases to which they had no immunity Yanomami continue to suffer from the devastating and lasting impacts of the road which brought in colonists, diseases, and alcohol. Today cattle ranchers and colonists use the road as an access point to invade and deforest the Yanomami area.

1970 A.D.

CONTACT & EPIDEMIC The Yanomami first came into sustained contact with outsiders in the 1940s when the Brazilian government sent teams to delimit the frontier with Venezuela. Soon the government’s Indian Protection Service and religious missionary groups established themselves there. This influx of people led to the first epidemics of measles and flu in which many Yanomami died.

1980 A.D.

MIGRATION The Yanomami are an indigenous group who live in the northern Amazon rainforest on the border of Brazil and Venezuela. There are approximately 350 villages of 5 different subdivisions spread out in the area. The geography consists of dense tropical forests mixed with savannas at the higher elevations. The topography ranges from flat to gently rolling hills and elevations of 250 to 1200 meters.Like most tribes on the continent, they probably migrated across the Bering Straits between Asia and America some 15,000 years ago, making their way slowly down to South America. Today their total population stands at around 35,000.

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SOLUTION

In 2004, Yanomami from 11 regions in Brazil met to form their own organization, Hutukara (meaning ‘the part of the sky from which the earth was born’), to defend their rights and run their own projects.

As a result of their increasing contact with outsiders, the Yanomami and CCPY, a Brazilian NGO, set up a Yanomami education project. One of its main aims is to raise awareness amongst the Yanomami of their rights.

Yanomami teachers are being trained to teach reading, writing, and maths in their communities. Other Yanomami has been trained as health agents by Urihi, a healthcare NGO.

THE MONUMENT OF THE OLD DIGGER Boa Vista, capital of the Roraima state, close to the Yanomami Territory. The city was built by Gold diggers - the "Garimpeiros".

The monument of the "Old Gold Digger" is the main attraction in Center of the city, The Idol of the city is the worst enemy of the Indians.

SHABONOS / YANOS The shabonos (or yanos) are the traditional communal dwellings of the Yanomami tribes of Southern Venezuela and northern Brazil.

They are circular buildings with an open-air central area in the middle. The dwellings are reconstructed every few years in order to adapt their size to the growth of the community. They usually have a general diameter of around 80m with the roofed area of approximately 10 m, but very different sizes have been recorded.

Located in the middle of the jungle, the shabonos are wooden structures built using several species of plants and trunks and with thatched palms and different types of roots forming the roof. Each family in the community is housed in a sector of the circular structure sleeping in hammocks and cooking around its own hearth and storing food and a few belongings on racks and shelves. The internal half of the roofed area is used as a common corridor shared among the families. The central space is used for common activities such as rituals, ceremonies and feasts. Usually, a community of around 70 people is housed in a shabono.

Thatched Roof

Wood Purlins

The structures are extremely simple, but include several details which make them extremely functional; for example, the roof is made up of two parts, an outer one which covers the living area and which slopes outwards, and an inner one which slopes inwards, overlapped to prevent the rain of entering the interior. The floor of the roofed area is made of beaten earth, raised slightly above the level of the central communal area.

Wood Columns & Beams

The outer wall of the shabono is punctuated by four main doors which lead to the main trails connecting the village to the gardens, the nearby streams, and to other Yanomami settlements in the area.

Each Yanomami community is independent respect of the others and every decision is taken by common consensus inside a single community. Each family that is going to live in a particular section of the shabono is largely responsible for its construction, choosing different materials at their own wish.

Private Dwelling Unit

Public Corridor Ritual Yard

Wood Walls

LANGUAGE

GENDER ROLES

ECONOMY

MARRIAGE

The language of the Yanomami is called Yanomamo or Yanomami. It is part of the family Yanomaman (Yanoman). There are 4 subgroups of the language Yanoma, Sanuma, Ninam and Yanam. Dialects include Parima, Padamo-Orinoco, and Cobari. The language is thought to predate the Carib and Arawak language families. There is a formal dialect called Wayamo that is used by men during certain rituals.

Men hunt using the bow and arrow. They are heavily involved in food production and distribution. Clearing fields and tending the crops are large components of their responsibilities. They are responsible for cooking foods used in ritual ceremonies.Women spend their time preparing the daily meals such as manioc. They also catch crabs with their hands. Gardening is a part of their day as well.

Because the Yanomamo are a horticultural community there are frequent surpluses from their variety of crops.

These are used to trade with other villages or outside of the Yanomamo community altogether. This is important as they are a non-monetary cultural system. Trade between tribes is used not only to acquire goods but to also build alliances between the groups.

F o r t h e Ya n o m a m o , marriage is typically monogamous or polygynous.

Marriages must be between bilateral cross-cousins and are arranged. (Ironically, parallel cousins are forbidden to marry.)Marriage arrangement helps to develop ties between different villages and strengthen family ties. Females marry sometime after their first “yobomou” or menses to slightly older men.

KINSHIP

SOCIAL ORGANIZATION

POLITICAL STRUCTURE

ROLE OF VIOLENCE

The matrilineal line is not discarded upon marriage, just given less emphasis.

Society is broken down into monogamous and polygynous family groups.

The husband could be considered the authority figure within the family.There is much evidence to support the idea that the relationship between men and women is much more egalitarian than previously believed.

The Yanomamo are a fairly egalitarian society. The main component of the social structure is the kin group.

While kin is passed down the male side, that is not to say that woman is submissive to what many scholars describe as “male dominance.” There are certain tasks that men and women each perform, but the majority of the tasks are shared.

The political leader of the Yanomamo is the village “headman.” He typically comes from the largest patrilineal group.There can be multiple headmen depending on the size of the village.

Their main task is to settle disputes between members of the village. Major decisions are made collectively by the adult males.

One example of violence that the Yanomami utilize is the use of raids or revenge killings. These occur when one village attacks another for the death of a member.

This can contribute to a continuous cycle of attacking-killing-revenge-attacking. These raids are one way that a man can improve his status within the community.

Another example of violence involves domestic abuse.

RELIGION

ART

FOOD

DWELL

The Yanomami practice a form of Animism. A god called Omama put all the forests, trees, animals and people on the Earth. They believe that all living things (the plants, animals, and people) contain a spirit called xapiripe. A core tenet of their belief is that animals used to be human, but they did wrong and because of that behavior they became animals.

In the Yanomami artistic expression often coincides with spiritual practice. The two are intertwined. Visual arts include decorative baskets and weaponry such as quivers, arrows, spears, and blowguns. Yanomamo also decorates themselves.Women will use sticks to pierce multiple places on their face, while men will do the same to their ears-but to a lesser extent. Both men and women use vegetable dye to color their skin. Different colors can have specific representational meaning.

60 different crops make up about 75-80% of the society’s food source. The gathering is also a source of food for the Yanomami.

This includes nuts, shellfish, insect larvae, 15 varieties of wild honey and over 500 species of plants.Fishing is another source of food.

Hunting is a male-dominated activity and considered a prestigious skill. This accounts for 10% of the culture’s food. Animals hunted include peccary, tapir, deer, and monkey.

There are several cultural adaptations that they have made to adjust to the stresses in their environment. One of these is the limited clothing that they wear on a daily basis. This helps to keep them cool in the heat and humidity.Another adaptation they have made is sleeping in open-air dwellings in hammocks. This allows for more comfortable sleep in the warm night temperatures.

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ELEVATED CIRCULATION The elevated circulation provides the aboriginal people a more interesting loop when they are doing traditional religious ritual which used to be performed on a two-dimensional circle in the center of their shabonos (or yanos). Slides are added to offer them an easier way to go down, observation decks are used for security purpose for them to watch over their territory to prevent any unexpected intruders. Meanwhile, the deck can also be used as a place for shamans to negotiate with their gods.

Observation Decks MASS STUDY MODEL MAKING Scale: Material:

1:1000 zip-top can/cardboard/hot-melt

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STRUCTURE DETAILS The core of the whole structural system is steel structure. Such iron skeleton system provides the building with rhyme and elegant appearance besides basic structural purpose from the inside view.

Steel frameworks can be produced resembled in larger units in factory which can make short the construction time.

This way we can minimize the disturbance of construction. The walls used to separate different rooms and used

in the exhibiting halls are made of cheap OSB plates, and walls can also be prefabricated in factories. The outer parts of the lower semi-circle are concrete plates, we can exchanged some of the plates with solar panels for sustainable electricity usage, or we can use other green energy resources by using corresponding equipments. The outer parts of the higher semi-circle are steel plates and concrete plates

Concrete Plates

Concrete Stairs

Inner Part Explosion

Outer Part Explosion

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Unit Explosion (lower parts)

Concrete Plates

Concrete Plates

OSB Walls

Steel Frameworks

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Steel Plates

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INDIVISUAL PROJECT / NOV. 2017- DEC. 2017 IT IS ANOTHER SAD STORY FROM THE FORMER SOVIET UNION. FISHING CITIES AND TOWNS WERE ABANDONED WITH DRIED OUT LAKES DUE TO A QUIXOTIC PROJECT. The Aral Sea, which used to be the fourth largest lake in the world, shrank and separated into two small lakes due to such economic project in the 1960s.

Astonishingly, all experts had known the outcome clearly beforehand. However, preferred economic growth other than ecological maintenance, two great rivers were diverted to irrigate some cotton and melon fields in deserts. Thus, with no more inputting water and with an enormous amount of evaporation, the lake shank drastically. Actually, the government did have some plans for refilling the Aral Sea after making use of enough amount of water. Sadly, they gave up the plan because the huge amount of money to be inputted.

The shrinkage brought a dozen of social problems to these coastal habitats. People were facing huge unemployment rates, health problems, and economical hardness. After completed the Kok-Aral Dam in 2005, the water retained annually to an optimistic future.

Things are perfect except for one thing, most of the cities do not have any public places both for tourists and local fishermen near the lake. The project aims to provide a public meeting place for them to make full use of the local tourist resources like ship graveyard, waterfront, desert, fishing boats, etc. However, the recovering water coastline calls for a movable building. Thus, the design came out.

1960

The level of the Aral Sea in the late 1950s is customarily used as the reference to see how much water has been lost.

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in the 1970s, the the Aral’s level fell at an average of 50–60 cm per year.

1987

In 1987, the continuing shrinkage split the lake into two separate bodies of water.

HISTORY The Aral Sea was once one of the four largest lakes in the world, situated between Kazakhstan in the north and Uzbekistan in the south. In the 1960’s the Soviet Tjects, and as a result by 2007 it had shrunk to 10% of its original size. Once prosperous fishing towns like Muynak were left stranded miles from the retreating waters, their boats high and dry on the salt-encrusted desert sand.

‘Aral Sea’ roughly translates as “Sea of Islands”, referring to more than 1,500 islands that once dotted its waters. It had an area of 68,000 square kilometres, now split into three much reduced lakes around the edges. The whole region is also heavily polluted, with consequent serious public health problems. The retreat of the sea has also caused local climate change, with summers becoming hotter and drier, and winters colder and longer.

There is now an ongoing effort in Kazakhstan to save and replenish the North Aral Sea. As part of this effort, a dam project was completed in 2005; in 2008, the water level in this lake had risen by 12 metres from its lowest level in 2003.

Salinity has dropped, and fish are again found in sufficient numbers for some fishing to be viable. However, the outlook for the remnants of the South Aral Sea remains bleak. It has been called “one of the planet’s worst environmental disasters”.

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The Kok-Aral Dam begins to allow waters in the North Aral Sea to rise.Salinity is rising; fisheries are shrinking.

Despite expansion of the North Aral Sea, only some eight percent of the water volume of the late 1950s remains.

PROBLEMS SOCIAL Jobs & Hire states the Aral Sea has lost about 90 percent of its original size. A large part of the Aral Sea once had a flourishing fishing trade, and now the fishing trade is all but a memory. Unemployment and economic hardship flooded in when the water dried up, and the rest of the Aral Sea region is contaminated and unhealthy for the public. The dried seabed is still heavily polluted and the strong winds carry harmful substances such as pesticides and fertilizers used for the cotton productions, that have gone into the sea and have penetrated the soils in the whole area for decades. They are already resulting in chronic and hard diseases. Cancers, respiratory disorders, birth defects and immune disorders are common. The rate of oesophageal cancer in this area is 25 times higher than the world average.

SOLUTION

The see bed and ship graveyard around Aral Sea is a good tourism resource. However, there is not a decent spot for tourist to have a rest along the beach. Take Aral city for an example, there is no tourist resting place along the 12 km distance from the city to the water front. If we can provide a building for them, the tourism may be flourishing soon. It is also a good place for the local people to tell their stories to the tourists, so it can provide jobs for the local people. And this movable building can always at the water front and never be wasted.

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Aral, also known as Aralsk or Aral’sk, (Kazakh: Арал, Aral, ‫;لارا‬ Russian: Аральск, Araljsk) Coordinates: 46°47N 61°40’E is a small city in south-western Kazakhstan, located in the oblast (region) of Kyzylorda. It serves as the administrative center of Aral District. Aral was formerly a fishing port and harbour city on the banks of the Aral Sea, and was a major supplier of fish to the neighbouring region. Population: 29,987 (2009 Census results).

Since the retreat of the Aral Sea since 1960, due to diversion of the rivers flowing into it for irrigation, mainly of cotton, during the Soviet era, Aral is now completely landlocked about 12 km from the northern remnant of the Aral Sea, though this is less than the 100 km distance observed before the completion of a dam in 2005. Aral has greatly diminished in population and socioeconomic significance, resulting in high levels of unemployment. For the last 25 years it has not been possible to see the sea from the town. There are also serious health problems for the local population caused by airborne toxic chemicals[citation needed] exposed to the wind by the retreating waters and, possibly, from chemical and biological agents unsafely stored on the island of Vozrozhdeniya.

SECTION A-A

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1 2 3 4 5

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INSIDE THE BOX On top of the movable platform, there are three main cores supporting the second and the third floors. The cores are used as lighting sources for the second floor. Meanwhile, the middle core also is used as the vertical transportation core. One of the side core is used as supplementary exhibiting space for it has many round balconies inside. All of the cores are supporting some supplementary staircases and balconies on the second floor. The second floor is the main exhibiting hall, and the third one is a cafe selling souvenirs and books, too.

SECTION B-B

SCALE 1:250

3rd FLOOR PLAN

MEZZANINE FLOOR PLAN

2nd FLOOR PLAN

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10M

THE SYSTEM The cores of the whole structural system are the three cores. The most outer facade of the second floor is decorated with rust slates.

The inner facade is covered by aluminium plates. And they are separated by a circular observational terrace. The facade of the third floor is mainly supported by iron frames and glasses, and then covered by a second layer of iron frames and then the aluminium plates.

The piers can be easily separated into several small parts to readily to be transported to the next station. The movable platform has no engines, thus it do not need any additional mechanical maintenance. When the building has to be moved, it can be dragged by common trailers.

Movable Recreational Decks

Observation Deck

Coffee and Bookstore

Observation Terrace

Movable Pie

Exhibiting Hall

Rust Plates

Lattice

Light Core Stair Core

Exhibiting Core Mezzanine Stairs

Movable Platform

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Iron Frame

Iron Frame Iron Frame

Iron Plates Iron Plates

SELECTED WOOD

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SHANGHAI, CHINA

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INDIVIDUAL WORKS / JUL. 2016- AUG. 2016 EVERY PIECE OF WOOD IS DIFFERENT IN NATURE AND SHOULD BE PROCESSED CAREFULLY IN ORDER TO GET PROPERLY USED. What is the typical image of wood crafts? Warm feelings, smooth touchings, and always have something to do with the childhood memories of ours. We’re surrounded by wood makings. Different from the Western world, which is built on stones, our Chinese civilization is founded on woods. Thousands of years have passed, some of the treating techniques are lost, however, the feelings of wood to us has never changed.

I was amazed by the Mortise and Tenon for a long time, and I believe most of the ancient wisdom is based on those joints. In order to take a closer look and feeling toward woods, I took the wood making course, designed and made my first bench as my final project.

Black Walnut and Beech was used at the dovetail joint to make a strong contrast. Cover plates were separated and placed at a 170-degree angle to better support hips. With the contractured plates jointing together, which were designed to form a slender feeling, there come arc-like joints. And these special joints naturally became the key feature of the bench.

Taken by Zhang Kun / Long Museum, Shanghai / 12-Aug-2016 Nikon D800 / AF-S50mm 1.8G / F10 / 1/100s / ISO100

Taken by Zhang Kun / Wood DIY School / iphone6 / 16-Aug-2016

The inclining angle on the cover plates was designed to better support hips. The interesting shapes of the dovetail tenons are the natural result when two battering plates joggled.

Cover Plate II Black Walnut

Cover Plate I Black Walnut

Name Plate Ebony

Beam Beech Side Plate II Beech

Side Plate I Beech

BOWL Material: Processing Method: Coating:

Black Walnut Turning Sanding Olive Oil x 1 Layer

SPOON Material: Processing Method: Coating:

Black Walnut Carving Sanding Olive Oil x 1 Layer

BENCH Material: Processing Method:

Joggling Method: Coating:

Black Walnut Beech Ebony Sawing Chiselling Planing Joggling Sanding Straight Tenoning Dovetail Tenoning Resin Oil x 3 Layers

Taken by Zhang Kun / 60cm3 Diffuser / 12-Aug-2016 Nikon D800 / AF-S50mm 1.8G / F10 / 1/80s / ISO100

Taken by Zhang Kun / Long Museum, Shanghai / 12-Aug-2016 Nikon D800 / AF-S50mm 1.8G / F10 / 1/100s / ISO400

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Exhibition Center of Shougang Guiyang Special Steel Co., Ltd. Round I , Guiyang Bid 1st Prize / Apr.2015-May.2015 Architecture Department I, Zhubo Design Shanghai Company

-Concept Design -Architectural Modeling Design -Site Plan Customer: Shougang Guiyang Special -Floor Plans Stell Co., Ltd. -Elevation Supervisor: Ms. Xu Beibei -Section Team Mates: Mr. Shen Junyu -Massing Study Illustration -Bid File Making Zhang Kun’s Work:

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Exhibition Center of Shougang Guiyang Special Steel Co., Ltd. Round II , Guiyang Bid 1st Prize / Aug.2015 Zhang Kun’s Work: -Major Scheme -Concept Design Customer: Shougang Guiyang Spe- -Architectural Modeling Design -Site Plan cial Stell Co., Ltd. Supervisor: Ms. Xu Beibei -Floor Plans -Elevation Team Mates: -Section Mr. Shen Junyu (Mr. Qi Ze and Mr. Huang Daxin -Massing Study Illustration -Bid File Making from Architecture Deparment II) Architecture Department I, Zhubo Design Shanghai Company

Taken by Zhang Kun / 04-Jun-2015 Nikon D800 / AF-S 14-24mm F2.8G ED / 24mm / F4.5 / 1/320s / ISO50

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Tai Lake International Health City General Hospital of Xinyuan Group Round I , Huzhou Bid 1st Prize / Apr.2015-May.2015

Tai Lake International Health City General Hospital of Xinyuan Group Round II , Huzhou Bid 1st Prize / Jun.2015-Jul.2015

Architecture Department I, Zhubo Design Shanghai Company

Architecture Department I, Zhubo Design Shanghai Company

Customer: Xinyuan Group Supervisor: Ms. Xu Beibei Team Mates: Department I (Mr. Li Wei / Mr. Shen Junyu/ Mr. Zhang Haoyu/ Mr. Li Tongtong / Ms. Xiao Ran) Department IV (Mr. Chen Hao / Ms. Sang Yiwen / Ms. Xu Jing / Ms. Wan Xuelian / Mr. Cheng Dawei)

Zhang Kun’s Work: -Design Process Illustration -Site Analysis -Medical Circulation Analysis -Facade Design -Public Space Design & Illustration -Green Science and Technology Illustration -Floor Plan Coloring -Model Photography -Bid File Making

Customer: Xinyuan Group Supervisor: Ms. Xu Beibei Team Mates: Department I (Mr. Li Wei / Mr. Shen Junyu/ Mr. Zhang Haoyu/ Mr. Li Tongtong / Ms. Xiao Ran) Department IV (Mr. Chen Hao / Ms. Sang Yiwen / Ms. Xu Jing / Ms. Wan Xuelian / Mr. Cheng Dawei)

Zhang Kun’s Work: -Concept Illustration -Design Process Illustration -Site Analysis -Medical Circulation Analysis -Facade Design -Public Space Design & Illustration -Green Science and Technology Illustration -Floor Plan Coloring -Bid File Making

SELECTED COOPERATIVE

DESIGNS SHANGHAI, CHINA

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Si Jiang Project ,Block 5363-06(10#/12#/21#), Qiangdao Enlarged Priliminary /Jan.2014-Mar.2015 Division of Scheme, Zhubo Design Shanghai Company

Zhang Kun’s Work: -Architectural Modeling Design (Larry Villa/ Town House/ Small High/ High Customer: Hisense Group Rise/ Landscape of the Site) Supervisor: Ms. Baiyan -Floor Plans (Larry Villa/ High Rise) Team Mates: -Elevation(Larry Villa/ High Rise) Mr. Qi Ze / Mr. Li Zhi / Ms. Wang -Section (Larry Villa/ High Rise) Xiaosheng / Ms. Liu Meichen

CO-DESIGN PROJECTS I AM HAPPY TO HAVE THESE FOUR YEARS OF UNUSUAL ARCHITECTURAL DESIGNING JOURNEY. Whir, whir, whir. Upon hearing the breath of my son Sober in the midnight, I stopped working for a short break. I stared blankly at my wedding photo, and started to reliving my past time: “16 years before, having an unrequited love, confessing love, being rejected, and being silent…

Several years later, in 2007, reuniting, confessing love again, being in love, getting married, and having our first boy…”

This is exactly my love story. I was that poor secret admirer but finally turned out to be an MR. Right to my wife.

Taken by Zhang Kun / 18-Oct-2014 Nikon D800 / AF-S50mm 1.8G F3.5 / 1/100s / ISO2500

Headquarter of Yong Kang Rural Cooperative Bank, Yongkang Bid 1st Prize / Sep.2014-Oct.2014 Division of Scheme, Zhubo Design Shanghai Company

Xiaosheng Zhang Kun’s Work: -Concept Design Customer: Yong Kang Rural Coopera- -Architectural Modeling Design tive Bank -Floor Plans (Higher Parts) Supervisor: Ms. Baiyan -Massing Study (Physical Model) Team Mates: -Model Photography Mr. Qi Ze / Mr. Li Zhi / Ms. Wang

The relationship between architecture and me is analogue to that in my personal life mentioned above, and once again I was that poor secret admirer. I had lost my best chance to be an architecture student due to the college entrance examination. I thought that was a forever “no” for me, but things had changed after three years after my graduation from the major of Civil Engineering. I was encouraged by my wife to chase my dream to be an architect using a shotgun approach. As a layman, I am now expecting to further pursue my architectural dream in the United States after several years of professional architectural practice (being an assistant architect for 4 years, and meanwhile being an on-the-job postgraduate architectural student for 2.5 years). To some extent, my way being an architect is full of architectural equivalent of texture, which precisely demonstrated my constant enthusiasm and potential in this realm.

Tai Lake International Health City General Hospital of Xinyuan Group Round I , Huzhou Bid 1st Prize / Apr.2015-May.2015

Tai Lake International Health City General Hospital of Xinyuan Group Round II , Huzhou Bid 1st Prize / Jun.2015-Jul.2015

Exhibition Center of Shougang Guiyang Special Steel Co., Ltd. Round II , Guiyang Bid 1st Prize / Aug.2015

Healthcare Design Brochure for Zhubo Design Apr.2018

KUN ZHANG Assoc. AIA, LEED GA EDUCATION

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6 Different Kinds of Occupations

60 Different Architectural Designing Projects

1 Persistent Pursuer for Architectural Design

2414 Bishop Apt 19, MI 48105 kunzh@umich.edu (734)-353-7145

University of Michigan

[Aug. 2018 -May. 2021]

Ann Arbor, MI

Master of Architecture 2021

Dalian University of Technology (DUT)

[Sep. 2004-Jul. 2009]

Dalian, China

Bachelor of Engineering in Civil Engineering | Dual Degree of Bachelor in English

EXPERIENCE

Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planing | Teaching Assistant Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.

• Holding an one-hour recitation session and office hour weekly, class size 19 students • Homework and lab demonstration weekly, lab grading weekly • Bridge project preparing, recording, and grading • Help Professor Peter von Bülow prepare canvas site

[Aug. 31, 2020-Apr. 30, 2021]

Part-time

University of Michigan | Community Center Assistant Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.

[Aug. 3, 2020-Apr. 30, 2021]

Part-time

Gensler | Spring Break Externship Houston, Texas, U.S.

[Mar. 2, 2020-Mar. 6, 2020]

Shadow work

• Studied IBC, went over LEED documentations for a project, Studied Revit drawing conventions • Went to three different project sites, Coca Cola exhibition hall, a mixed-use project on lower height, 2 Houston Center.

• Attended Egress tutorial, Lighting Tutorial, visiting branding team, SD team

Spector Group | Summer Internship New York City, U.S.

[May 29, 2019-Aug. 20, 2019]

Full time internship

• Did surveys for the offices in Manhattan, e.g. 437 Madison Ave., One Penn Plaza • Construction Drawings for Lighthouse Partners at 437 Madison Ave. • Testfits for several projects

Zhubo Design Group | Intermediate Architectural Designer Zhubo Design Shanghai Company

[Mar. 2018-May 2018]

Full time

• Rehired by Architecture Department I after finish preparing materials for U.S. graduate schools • Promoted as an Intermediate Architectural Designer from a Junior Architectural Designer • Practiced in 2 hospital design projects • Designed the contents and binding method for the Healthcare Design Brochure (Became sample brochure) • Designed, finding workers to construct the exhibition stand for the 19th China Hospital Construction Conference, (Hospital Build & Infrastructure China Exhibition & Congress) Assemble and Dissemble the stand • Representing Zhubo Healthcare to attend the 19th China Hospital Construction Conference • Setting up representation standard for healthcare bid brochures • Invited to give a representation lecture in Shanghai Company • As a professional architectural photographer to take photos for Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine Ruijin Hospital Suzhou Branch

Zhubo Design Group | Junior Architectural Designer Zhubo Design Shanghai Company

[Mar. 2013-Feb. 2016]

Full time

Shanghai Strategy Architecture Design Institute | Junior Architectural Designer

[Feb. 2012-Feb. 2013]

Mageba Group | Steel Structure Engineer Full time Mageba (Shanghai) Co., Ltd

[Apr. 2010-Jan. 2012]

Shanghai, China

Full time

China State Construction Engineering Co. Ltd (CSCEC) | Construction Estimator North China Branch of China Construction Third Bureau First Engineering Co. Ltd

OTHERS - social practice

[Jul. 2009-Jan. 2010]

Full time

Volunteer Serving Art Event(Certificated) | “Shanghai Project Envision 2116” Shanghai, China

[Oct. 2016-Nov. 2016]

Organized by Shanghai Himalayas Museum

Volunteer Serving Meals to the Poor | Community Kitchen Ann Arbor, MI

[Sep.11, 2018]

Organized by Food Gatherers

Volunteer Serving Breakfast to the Poor | The Breakfast Program At St. Andrew’s Ann Arbor, MI

- honors

[Sep.12, 2018, Apr.13, 2019]

Organized by Saint Andrew’s Episcoplan Church

Excellent Employee of 2014 | Annual Reward Shanghai, China

[Jan. 2015]

Zhubo Design Group

1st Prize of Capstone Project in Real Estate FIN565/MURP593 WN2019 | Group Project Univeristy of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

- extracurricular

Wood Craft Making Course (Basic & Intermediate Level) | Private Course Shanghai, China

[Jan. 2019-Apr.2019]

Teammates: Jordan Camina, Jacob Hite; Prof: Peter Allen [Jul. 2016-Aug. 2016, Jul. 2018]

WOOD DIY

- language

Mandarin

- software skill - specialty

AutoCAD Revit Rhino Sketchup 3ds Max Blender Grasshopper Vray Lumion Keyshot Photoshop InDesign Illustrator Acrobat Premier ArcGIS Pro Google Earth MS Office

English

Design Research Concept Design Schematic Design Construction Documentation Diagrams Model Making Robotics Wood Works Steel Works Plaster Works Photography Bookbinding