Portfolio aven le zhou

LE ZHOU,HUST,CHINA BACHELOR OF ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO,SELECTED WORK 2009-2014

CONTENT

"Planting Houses",

Design Studio I: Methodology, 8weeks ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 01

"Over-lay(er)", Advanced Design Studio I: Inhabitations, 10weeks

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"Reticular Park— — floating in the Lujiazui CBD", CTBUH 2nd Annual Student Competition - 2012: Reimagining Tall, 2 weeks

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"Events City",

Advanced Design Studio II: Events, 10weeks ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 27

"Inbetween",

Competion:Revolution of the social housing Yaroslavl, 1week -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 35

"Public-commercialism",

Advanced Design Studio III: Urban design, 10weeks ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 38

Planting Houses

Design Studio I: Methodology, 8weeks Student: Le Zhou Supervisor: Prof. Wei Mu

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ABOVE & OPPOSITE: Eye level perspective

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Project description: Site locates in a beautiful natural scenic area which is about 80 km away from city.After several hotels and big parking lots are built,the primary natural leisure spot for citizens are replaced by a boring commercial street. The developer wants more variety of experiencing and exploring nature,and a nature- closing way for living comes first.

Phenomenology:

These lovely and vibrant life broke ground and appeared everywhere after one night’s raining, inspiring me and my design work to be friendly to environment.

Strategy:

As the mushrooms, this project is going to appear (and even be removed) with minium change to natural site.

Precast and assembling on site are promoted to construct the project.As mushroom did, single columns inserting in ground support the houses, the construction is just like planting trees --Planting Houses.

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Basic unit: Space partition: A

Morphology

Space partition:B -- No main spaces

-- 1 main spaces

Hexagon is selected as basic geometry and further research are concentrated on space partition and assembling.

Divided space cells are reassembled in groups, and several of these are selected and assembled into bigger groups used as master plan.

-- 2 main spaces

-- 3 main spaces

Selectd master plans:

Groups:

Selectd space groups:

Common area

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Common area

Elevation 1:250

Houses are pre-fabricated and assembled on site. The ground is partly and slightly flattened with masonry paving.

The planted houses can be removed environment-friendly, so do the stones.

Masonry paving

upper level projection

Ground level plan 1:500 05

Pre-fabrication system

Typical units Roof/ Precast concrete

Connector/ Steel

Beam/Wood Beam/Wood Stairs connecting to ground Facade/Wood

Inner wall/Wood

Outer wall/Glass

Inserting into ground

Connecting to other units

Collage of plan& facade 1:250

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Sights interference

Typology_Facade

Posture

Intercept Pass No limitation Common area

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Lighting& shading

Gradient

Sight direction

Northern light Southern light No limitation No windows

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Selected Facades Privacy

Bathroom Bedroom Outer wall Inner wall

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ABOVE& OPPOSITE: Aerial View As a system, group of houses can be possiblely and environment friendly planted everywhere needed.

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Over-lay(er)

Advanced Design Studio I: Inhabitations, 10weeks Student:Le Zhou Supervisor: Prof. Gangyi Tan

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Site description: Site locates in old quarter of Wuhanan, an environment full of contradiction between old and new. Traditional and historic houses are tearing down to construct modern ones.

Site is separated to two parts by historic houses in the middle.New houses with total area of 15000-20000㎥ are required to build. 100-150 units and 10%-20% commercial spaces should be included, all the other requirements can follow your survey and research.

Survey & Analasis: 1.Commerce & Population The growth of the population in the site will require more commercial area after new building being built.

Population Growth

Commercial Needs

habitancy commerence

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Future 2.Need based on age Facing the choice of whether staying in the old house or building a tall new building, the youth and elder response differently.

Young: Better view & Private

Old: Close to ground &stay together

Above: Diagrame for survey and analysis Left: Montage of roof plan on site

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Aerial View of Site

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Strategy: 1.Integrated Protection

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Old memories not only mean old houses, but also the lifestyle.Integrated protection which rebuilds on level 2 keeps neighbourhoods structure is proposed to supplant demolishing old.

2.Funcation Organazition:

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Vertical

Function is organized vertically to satisfy different needs for youth and elder.

3.Overlay: Young Old Commerce

Ground level functions as commercial space to satisfy the growing population on the site.Concept results in three main layers overlaying.

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Commerce-layer 1.Exploitetion of Preservation

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Show out

Optimization

2.Connection

The ground floor is named Commerce.

Bottom elevated broaden pedestrian’ horizons, preserving area is served as an attraction.

Walls directions are optimized for best views through programmable analog.

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Connected

Altering part of preserved house is to connect separated sites.

With inhabitancy configuration reserved, a commercial street is implanted.

ABOVE: Ground floor top view BOTTOM(left):Diagrams of commerce-layer generation BOTTOM(right):Diagram of human cluster

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3.Alteration and reservation The backside of houses is altered into commercial space while frontside and level 2 remain residential space.

Inhabitation Commerce

ABOVE: Ground floor plan BOTTOM:Section of altering part

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Old-layer The 2th floor is named Old. Layout of architecture follows urban logic.To organize architecture like a city does, architecture becomes a city.

Reforming symbol of the preserved house-roof to scuttle as a remarkable morphological detail.

1.Five elements

District(houses)

Path(lanes)

Node(square)

Node(stair)

Landmark(scuttle)

Landmark(tower)

ABOVE: Perspective of Old-layer BOTTOM: Diagram of layout

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Youth-layer Various units Combination example

Old-layer Five-elements: district(houses)

Altering part:

path(lane) node(stair) landmark(scuttle) node(square)

2nd level altering residential space

Bottom elevated

Connected to opposite site .(2nd level)

1st level altering residential space commerce space

Commerce-layer Optimized walls Circulation

connected to opposite site .(1st level)

Altering part: connection

Overlay(er) ABOVE:Diagram of overlay(er)

2.Morph: roof to skylight

Breaking up roof

Reforming geometry

skylight(selection)

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Based on case study -Nemausus,Jean Novel. Functional space as kitchen and bathroom are arranged around servicing pipe, but the prototype unit is divided into smaller ones for area optimizing.

Nemausus unit firstly breaks into 4,6 or12 sections and then recombines into different types.

Recombined units

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Nemausus unit

new sections 1

new sections 2

new sections 3

Youth-layer The towers are affordable housing for youth and named Youth-layer. Study focuses on optimizing residential area .Area minimization guarantees serving these low-income people with comfortable, separate and private living space in affordable rate.

New units groups examples

Various units group diversely in numerous selections.Clients can choose and design under the negotiation with each other. Holes left can work as open space and make the project more dynamic and livable.

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Reticular Park

— — floating in the Lujiazui CBD

CTBUH 2nd Annual Student Competition - 2012: Reimagining Tall, 2 weeks Group members: Le Zhou, Xuan Che

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Query &concept: Currently, more and more CBD are being constructed, and even more problems are coming along.

City structure:

Neighborhood communication:

Traditional city: horizontal

Tightly connected

Modern city: vertical

Seriously isolated

While more floorage gained and,maybe, more green space, less and less neighborhood communication left.

A three dimensional connected city are needed.Instead of building new, altering existed ones could do more help.A three dimensional circulation space system is considered to be implanted.

Strategy:

Diagram of generating

Implanting a huge system compulsively will never achieve, cause a three dimensional city in science fiction will surely not be identified by citizens A recognized plan should leave clients to choose whether, when and where to build and generate the final system progressively.

We are trying to develop a system with certain cells and generating rules to lead clients themselves to build a whole project partly and keep a balance between the demand for public space and the acceptance of the system.

Site location:Lujiazui CBD,Shanghai,China Right: Aerial rendering

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Realization: 1.System 1. Case study (Forest Park Pavlion. St Louis, Missouri. by Cecil Balmond)

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Forest Park Pavlion, model

2.Model test:

Strucural cell

Strucural group

System generating

The study of Forest Park Pavlion and model simulation provide a available solution for structure and system. Further research focus on the cells.

Above: Rendering 01

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Rendering 02

Rendering 03

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Event City

Advanced Design Studio II: Events, 10weeks Student: Le Zhou Supervisor: Prof. Mei Jiang

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ABOVE&OPPOSITE: Night view of Railway Station

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Marking and grading rules: The deconstructed space cells are graded by two standards- close or open and difficulties of arriving.

Close or open can be set 4 degrees as: A.Close B.Half-close C.Half-open D.Open Difficulty of arriving can also be set to 4 degrees based inner or outer space and upstair or ground level: a.Inner&upstair b.Outer&upstair c.Inner&ground level d.Outer&ground level.

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Inserting target events in original place

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DIAGRAM:How events-spaces-forms-fields-events circulates

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Clusters

Selected cluster I: Railway Station Form pieces& spaces

Form series I&V;Space Aa&Cc

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Form series I;Space Aa

Form series IV;Space Bc

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Selected cluster II: Entrance Point Form pieces& spaces

Form series I; Space Aa

Form series II; Space Ab

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Form series II&V; Space Ba&Db,Bd

Form series IV; Space Ad

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ABROVE: Master plan 1:1200 ABOVE & OPPOSITE: Master plan 1:2400

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Inbetween

Competion:Revolution of the social housing Yaroslavl, 1week Group member: Le Zhou, Fan Li

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window of sauna

in-between space

The double frosted glass work as envelop enclose while forming its own space between outer and inner space.

double frosted glass walls

functional box II

bedroom

functional box I anteroom

sprial stair to bedroom

plant stair to level 2

Several boxes with functional space inside spreading in enclose walls creating a both outer and inner space- â&#x20AC;&#x153;in-betweenâ&#x20AC;?

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Model view:

Rendering:

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Public-commercialism

Advanced Design Studio III: Urban design, 10weeks Student: Zhou Le Supervisor: Prof. Mei Jiang

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ABOVE & OPPOSITE: Model,aerial view

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Main diagram:

Time line:

STRATEGY

AIM

Publicness

Commercialism

Public Spaces

Commercial Spaces

First stage: Altering two places in to public squares, encouraging public activities to be held

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Commercial Activities

Public Activities

Second stage: Houses near by will be altered into commercial spaces serving the public.

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Eating at food court

Drinking ar tea house

Prowling flea market

Shopping equipment

Doing exercises

Meeting &chatting

Second hand exchange

Dancing

deriving

Third stage: More commercial space will be constructed for increasing visitors.

A prosperous commercial area are created without inserting super markets or shops but offering plentiful public space for citizens.

First stage axion view

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Second stage axion view

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Public square

Altered houses near by

Main Roads

Public space in front of commercial area

Third stage master plan

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ABOVE: Selected model view 45