Portfolio Cui Chang
Zaha Hadid Architects University of Nottingham BSc Architecture, Part1 Tel: +44(0)7435903195 Email: cuichangbob@gmail.com
CV - Personal Information Name: Cui Chang Date of Birth: 28.12.1990 Gender: Male Address: 301, Liberty House, Sebastian Street, London, EC1V 0HF Mobile: +44(0)743590315 Email: cuichangbob@gmail.com Language: Chinese, English
- Important Project & Work Experience 2013.9 - 2014.7 Full time internship in Zaha Hadid Architect, London 2013.11 -2014.1 International competition: Central Bank of Libya Role in team: Maya modelling, Rhino modelling, Diagram drawing, Plan drawing, Section drawing 2013.9 - 2013.11 International competition: Qingdao Cultural Centre. Role in team: Conceptual drawing, Diagram drawing, Illustration, photoshop, rhino modelling
- Academic Experience
2013.2 - 2013.6 The Kitchen Sink Theatre (B+)
2013-2014: Full time internship(Paid), Zaha Hadid Architects, London, UK 2010 - 2013: BArch, University of Nottingham, 2:1 degree, Honours, ARB RIBA part 1 2009- 2010 : English foundation for University of Nottingham 2006 - 2009: The High School Affiliated to Renmin University of China
2012.10 - 2013.1 Structure of Intimacy (Got A) 2012.1- 2012.6 The Hepworth Workshop (Got A) 2012.3 - 2013.4 Participated Nottingham university eco-build competition and won prize 2011 Participated the exhibition of architectural installations 'Tokyo Gallery' held in Beijing 798 museum. 2011.1 - 2011.6 Under the Tree's Shadow (Got A)
- Skills Maya,Rhino, Grasshopper, Sketch up, 3D Max, CAD, Photoshop, Indesign, Illustrator, Hand drawing, Model Making.
Content The Kitchen Sink Theatre
Solo
Structure of Intimacy
Solo
The Hepworth Workshop
Solo
Cocoon Pavilion
Solo
Under the Tree Shadow
Solo
Qingdao Cultural Centre
Group
Central Bank of Libya
Group
The Kitchen Sink Theatre
"The city, however, does not tell its past, but contains it like the lines of the hand, written in the corners of the streets, the gratings of windows, the banisters of the steps...." Invisible city
- SITE EXPERIENCE SECTION Urban fragments | Spatial collage | Memory | Threshold | Moments Initially explored spatial organizational system consisted of architectural fragments spread in the city, forming the conditions for this alternative way of engaging to the veiled urban moments.
The Kitchen Sink Theatre
1. This project is intended to raise the underachieving consciousness in everyday life. The consciousness of a person to their surroundings heightens dramatically when there is the existence of an audience. Through experiencing a place just as the performer, the audience discovers details of this place that were not revealed before; even if he/she is passing by every day. Performers’ stories are not so far away from our own stories and emotions, and are not so far away from our own experiences. Set in old town in Morecambe, the study envisages boundaries between life and performance that perform multiple functions. 2. The Kitchen Sink theatre inhabits a series of shops include laundry, hair salon, pub, kitchen, and script writer's dvomain and a main theatre with rehearsal space and exterior stage set. The transformation begins as shops undergo the shift in function; The theatre unfolds itself into the landscape and expands its boundaries from hidden places to the streets. Performances question the ideas of what and where is the stage. The experience starts from concealing and its opposite and all the in-betweens. 3. The open access penetrating the theatre also serves as a circuit in a city with a strong acoustic experience of leaving the outside world behind and entering a building. The involvement pushes the act of observation and questioning. The tunnel of peep is layered with dense overlapping. Flexibility in structure allows spaces to flow into and out of each other. The inside and outside are directly spoken to...
- SPECULATIVE DRAWING Streetscape | Setting the scene| Visual trace | Dynamic | Audience & performers The key ideas of the project are developed through drawing study of surrounding streetscape, and the visualized threshold which the body is in a state of dynamic interaction with the surrounding. The language of threshold is further strengthened by the notion of glimpse, acting as the generator for the potential of human action.
The Kitchen Sink Theatre
- MADE PIECE Found object to subject | Deconstruct and reconstruct | Magnifier - Typewriter - Radio | Observe - Record - Edit - Performance
The Kitchen Sink Theatre
- SHORT SECTION Everyday performance | Streetscape | Domestic stage-set | Threshold | Penetrate | See and be seen
The Kitchen Sink Theatre
Fig .1 Compositional drawing, The study of movement in the spine of the building.
1. 600 x 300mm timber 2. Screw hole 3. 250 concrete shell 4. 150mm insulation 5. Water proof 6. 100mm timber 7. Edge insulation 8. Concrete floor slab 9. Steel reinforced concrete 10. Foundation
Fig. 2 Detail drawing 1: 10
- LONG SECTION Continuity of streetscape | Threshold | Extension of stage | Penetrate | Life & play | Rhythm | Old brick wall | Timber | Urban collage | Architecture ceases to be a backdrop for actions, becoming the action itself.... All this suggests that 'shocks' must be manufactured by architect if architecture is to communicate.' ('Spaces and Events' Tschumi )
The Kitchen Sink Theatre
- LONG SECTION Threshold | Dancing light | Glimpse | Inside & outside | Everyday performance | Cross program The cross program intend to blurred boundaries between real life & play, from right to left: pub with rehearsal, hair salon with make-up, laundry with changing room, kitchen with green room, scriptwriter's domain with theatre box...
The Kitchen Sink Theatre
- BIRD EYE PERSPECTIVEContinuity | Urban fragments | Spatial collage | Revealing | Pass through | Setting the scene | Old brick wal
Structure of Intimacy
Sectional study exploring linkage of space by flexible structure, intimate moment triggered by architectural elements. The playful structural element, and soft fabric, intend to triggers events, building becomes a spontaneous stage, the play becomes a unique mix of everyday routine and improvisation, contribute to a micro-choreography generating an event that changes from day to day.
- SPECULATIVE DRAWING Ornamented structure |Elegant | In-between | Intimacy | Fabric | Activity | Flexibility Sectional study exploring linkage of space by flexible structure, intimate moment triggered by architectural elements.
Structure of Intimacy
- SHORT SECTION Flexible structure | Adaptable | Intimacy | Stage curtain | Concealing | Rhythm
Structure of Intimacy
Prototype Model
Prototype Model
- ISOMETRIC DRAWING Dynamic | Spine | Memory | Connecting to surrounding | Continuity | Revealing
Isometric drawing
The Hepworth Workshop Year 2 Project Location: River canal,Wakefield, UK
The Hepworth Workshop
The Project is a sculpture studio, response Barbara Hepworth's sculpture and her making process, situated at a canal in Wakefield, a bridge connecting the city and river. The program is a complex of sculptors studios, gallery, meditation space, bridge, Hepworth's space, and sculpture gardens. A series speculative drawings, made pieces intend to seek the materiality, light quality, and spatial quality.
- SITE PLAN Bridge | Penetrate | Connection | Boundary
The Hepworth Workshop
- ISOMETRIC DRAWING Crossing | Threshold | Light tubes | Strings
The Hepworth Workshop
Artists working process becomes kind of 'performance', each individual studio is like a small stage.
- LONG SECTION Light tubes| String| Threshold |Passing | Audience
The Hepworth Workshop
1. Rhythm of strings: Strings response ethos of Hepworth's sculpture, also serve as structural element, separate space into multi layers, the rhythm becomes a delicate language, guide passers-by into experience of performances & exhibitions inside, river and cityscape outside. 2. Sculpting the light: The big exhibition space is relative dark, light is concentrate on displayed sculptures through light tubes, the middle sky light lighten the passage, all together create special genius loci. 3. Hollows: Hollow as Hepworth's key ethos, being reinterpret into architecture, spatial hollows, hollows in the walls, hollows in the roof lights. Through hollows people looking each other, looking the sky, looking the sculpture, looking the performance of artist.
- CROSS SECTION Dancing light | String| Solid verse void | Threshold | Hollows | Peeping
The Hepworth Workshop
The Hepworth space
- INTERIOR VIEWS Audience | Threshold | Performance | Roof light
Interior view of main gallery space
The performance of artist
Visitor peeping the artist's working process
The Hepworth Workshop
- PLAN Entrance | Main gallery | Individual studio | Meditation space | Bridge | Hepworth space | Material storage
The Hepworth Workshop
- TOUCHSTONE MODEL Concrete materiality |Light quality | Spatiality | Solid |Void
Under The Tree Shadow Year 1 project Location: Lonely island, Nottingham campus
Under The Tree's Shadow
- SECTION & PLAN Rhythm | Natural structure | Tree | Invisible boundary | Revealing | Broad view | Expand
Under The Tree's Shadow
- EXTERIOR & INTERIOR VIEWS Rhythm | Elegant tectonic | Broad view | Natural form
Under The Tree's Shadow
Approaching the site through bridge
- MOEDL NARRATIVE Situation | Boundary | Threshold | Hide | Route
Hide in forest
Form response surrounding
Under The Tree's Shadow
Front view
- MOEDL NARRATIVE Situation | Boundary | Threshold | Hide | Route
Spiral Stair
Individual reading space
Professional Works Zaha Hadid Architects
Qingdao Culture Centre Group project Location: Qingdao, China Role in team: Conceptual drawing, Diagram drawing, Plan drawing, Rhino modelling, Section drawing The Culture Centre’s site is at an interfacing position in the centre of Qingdao Bay: Located between the Wetland Park to the West and a commercial and residential area to the North and East, it offers the opportunity to become a negotiating element between urban structures and landscape elements in the master plan. The sites southern interface gives it access to the seafront promenade, exposing it both to views from the bay and giving it an exclusive first-row-seat in Qingdao Island’s seafront skyline. Whilst the site landscape re-presents the characteristic elements of Water and Green Land, the building Envelope resembles Qingdao’s Topography: The Venues are enclosed under a composition of floating shells, resembling hills and mountains, reflected in the ponds of the landscape. This roof topography forms a mirror over the landscape topography underneath, gently lifting and lowering, forming a rhythm of arches and openings in elevation, allowing visitors to step underneath and explore the inside. Internally they create generous and dynamic spaces with an organic and natural appearance. The roof shells are designed as form active space frames, combining material efficiency, wide spans and elegant appearance. Their floating character allows the building’s envelope to naturally adapt to the sites slope and height difference, and gives the building a light and delicate appearance.
Qingdao Culture Centre
Boundary Condition Permeability
Pedestrian Circulation Visitor Access
- DIAGRAMS Boundary|Circulation|Entrance|Plaza|Public & Private|
Cutural Courtyard Retail Plaza
Connecting Canopy Main Entrance
Qingdao Culture Centre
- PLANS Dynamic|Fluid|Organic geometry|Landscape|Shell topograpy
Qingdao Culture Centre
- CONCEPTUAL DRAWING Dynamic|Fluid|Organic|Landscape
Qingdao Culture Centre
Section AA
艺术家工作室 Artist Studios
艺术交流及培训室 Art Exchange and Training Rooms
水彩画研究中心 Watercolour Painting Research Centre
+45.00
儿童艺术天赋发展中心 Childrens Art Centre
+45.00
+41.50
艺术家学术交流中心 Artist's Academic Exchange
+41.50
现代艺术培训基地 Modern Art Training Base
+38.00
+38.00
艺术品综合展览 Contemporay Art Collection
美术作品展厅 Fine Art Collection +31.00
+31.00
+24.00
+24.00
+17.00
+17.00
美术作品展厅 Fine Art Collection
艺术品综合展览 Contemporay Art Collection
艺术品综合展览 Contemporay Art Collection
美术作品展厅 Fine Art Collection
中央门厅 Central Lobby
装载区 Loading/Assembly Area +10.00
会议室 Meeting Area +10.00
停车场 Car Park +5.00
+5.00
停车场 Car Park +0.00
+0.00
停车场 Car Park
-7.00
-7.00
Section BB
酒店 Hotel
酒店 Hotel
酒店 Hotel
酒店 Hotel
酒店 Hotel
酒店 Hotel
酒店 Hotel
酒店 Hotel
酒店 Hotel
酒店 Hotel
酒店 Hotel
+55.00
+51.50
+48.00
+44.5.00
+41.00
+37.50
+34.00
+30.50
+27.00
+23.50 餐厅 +20.00
Restaurant
商店休息厅 Retail Lobby
商店 Retail +15.00
商店休息厅 Retail Lobby
商店 Retail +10.00
酒店门厅 Hotel Lobby
停车场
商店门厅 Retail Lobby
Car Park
+5.00
酒店门厅 Hotel Lobby
商店
商店广场
Retail
Retail Plaza
停车场 Car Park
+0.00
停车场
停车场
Car Park
Car Park
-7.00
Section CC
群众艺术馆展厅 Gallery
+34.00
群众艺术馆展厅 Gallery
群众艺术馆展厅 Gallery
群众艺术馆展厅 Gallery
群众艺术馆展厅 Gallery
+29.00
+29.00
群众艺术馆展厅储藏间 Gallery Storage
群众艺术馆展厅储藏间 Gallery Storage
灯光渡桥 LIGHTING GALLERY
+22.00
+20.00
休息厅
音乐工作室 Music Studio
Lounge
+15.00
+15.00 休息厅 Lounge
音乐工作室 Music Studio 后舞台 Rear Stage
+10.00
商店 Shop
市民艺术演出中心大厅 Performance Hall Lobby
衣帽间 Cloak Room
控制室 Control Room +6.20
主舞台 Main Stage
演出大厅 Theater Area
后台装备 Backstage Assembly
+5.00
+5.00
停车场 Car Park
+10.00
机房 Plant Room
+5.00 停车场 Car Park
+0.00
剧院装载区 Theatre Loading Zone
-7.00
Tectonic Drawing
- LONG SECTION Dynamic|Fluid|Organic geometry|Landscape|Shell topograpy
集体化妆室 Group Dressing Room
Qingdao Culture Centre
- PERSPECTIVE RENDERING Dynamic|Fluid|Organic geometry|Shell topograpy|Parametric skin
The Sanctuary Group project Location: Holland
Role in team: CAD drawing, Illustration, Rhino modelling, Rendering This design proposal combines two extreme spatial conditions - defined as ‘bunker’ and ‘pagoda’ - in a singular entity. The particular qualities of the design are therefore the extreme character and close proximity of very different spatial environments: A master suite cocoon with splendid views across vast outdoor terraces hovers over a cantilevering mezzanine, in turn animating a double height landscaped living area. The open plan interior is surrounded by introverted, solid spaces, interspersed by skylights and an intimate internal courtyard. Experienced from the outside, the building presents itself as a monolithic, introverted bastion protecting its otherwise exposed interior. Passers-by are merely presented with glimpses of roofscapes floating over the concrete base, hinting at another world behind its massive walls... a Sanctuary.
The Sanctuary
- PLAN, SECTION Floating | Bunker | Structural Thick Wall | Pagoda Roof | Terraced Basement
The Sanctuary
- MODEL Floating | Bunker | Structural Thick Wall | Pagoda Roof | Terraced Basement
The Sanctuary
- PERSPECTIVE RENDERING Floating | Bunker | Structural Thick Wall | Pagoda Roof | Terraced Basement
The Sanctuary
- FACADE RENDERING Floating | Bunker | Structural Thick Wall | Pagoda Roof | Terraced Basement
Portofolio 2010-2013 Working: chang.cui@zaha-hadid.com