ZHIFEI CHEN 2015 - 2017

ZHIFEI

CHEN 2015 Fall to 2017 Spring

ZHIFEI CHEN Phone: (612)-868-4118

Email: chenx545@umn.edu

OBJECTIVE Hi this is Zhifei Chen, Currently second year graduate student in Sounthern Califonia Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc). I love challenging myself to keep try until the last hour to win challenge and I am welling to learn new techniques no matter where and when in order to improve myself.

EDUCATION

OTHER EXPERIENCES/ COMPETITION

September 2010 -May2014 Bachelor’s Degree in Design Architecture College of Design, University of Minnesota

March 2014 Art Urbain International Competition French government agency Séminaire Robert Auzelle

January 2014 - May 2014 Urban architecture research and study in Rome, Italy

January 2015 Evolo Skyscraper competition 2015, winning editor’s choice award http://www.evolo.us/architecture/diffused-boundaries-skyscraper/

September 2015 -present Master architecture in Southern California Institute of Architecture

July 2016 Rome Concrete Poetry hall architecture competition by Bee Breeders Architecture Competition

SKILLS

EXPERIENCE

June 2014 – Augest 2014 Chengdu, China China Southwest Architectural Summer internship program includes Sketchup and Rhino modeling, preparing digital drawings and making physical model.

May 2013 – June 2013 Minneapolis, USA Redesign and construct Hawthorne Community Garden Using Rhino modeling and reconstruct the physical community garden for local neighborhood use.

May 2012 - Aug 2012 China Southwest Architectural Graphic Designer Design and Research Institute

Chengdu, China

Participating commercial mall project discussion with clients and gather local information for designing a multifuctional shopping center mall. Assisted drafter to do construction drawing using Auto-CAD.

Photoshop Illustrator Indesign Sketchup Rhino Revit Grasshopper Auto-CAD Lumion Freehand Sketch Painting

LANGUAGE Fluent in English Native Mandarin

EXCEPTIONAL VOLUMES This project focusing on the architectural issues of sequence and entry, development of spatially descriptive spaces, interlocking volumes, exploited geometry, and creation of atmosphere and effect. Additionally, the project is to design a mid-rise multifunctional building, including innovative circulation, structural methods, and contemporary forms of rustication, color and material use.

Front perspective view

(left) Big section cut drawing (Bot right) Front and back elevation

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2nd Street 1. Lobby 2. Couryard 3. Egress 1 4. Egress 2 5. Freight Elevator

Plan: Ground - 1/16”

Three plans

1. Lobby 2. Couryard 3. Egress 1 4. Egress 2 5. Freight Elevator

6. Pace Gallery 7. Line Offices 8. Pace Cafe 9. Line Auditorium 10. Pace Offices

Plan: Pace - 1/16”

1. Lobby 2. Couryard 3. Egress 1 4. Egress 2 5. Freight Elevator

6. Pace Gallery 7. Line Offices 8. Pace Cafe 9. Line Auditorium 10. Pace Offices

Plan: Line - 1/16”

6. Pace Gallery 7. Line Offices 8. Pace Cafe 9. Line Auditorium 10. Pace Offices

GFRC skin Tertiary diagnal steel grid Support by mega truss Secondary Steel frameSupport by mega truss Primary mega steel truss

GFRC skin Tertiary diagnal steel grid

2’ I beam holding the floors

Raised plinth Site

(left) Koramba structure diagram (Right) Structure system rendering

Section chunk and building envolope

SUSPENDED CEILING

GFRC

WATER MEMBRANE

SECONDARY BEAM PRIMARY BEAM

METAL DECK

GFRC

CONCRETE INFILL

1/8” Gypsum

Metal deck

W24x90 I beam GLASS

Concrete

Floor

Suspended Ceilding

Insolation

Water Membrane

GFRC Pannel

CATWALK

(Left) Base structure chunk (Right) wall section chunk

DIPTYCHS/ DUPLEX HOUSE The project is to design a duplex for two families at the site of Venice beach. The design concept of this duplex is about Diptychs. In general means any abject with two flate plates attached at a hinge, and the commom characteristic among the diptychs is the relationship of left and right. However, when working through the diptych as a three-dimensional, architectural problem, I am focusing on the relationships of the placement and forms to their frames or boundaris. and also the interactive between the two houses

Isometric tone drawing

Two section cut drawing with tone

Tone Plan drawings

DIFFUSED BOUNDARIES The concept of diffusion seek to blur the rigid division between the public and private programmatic function that exists due to the existing architectural language in all three axis of urbanization through the vertical and horizontal evaporated gradient of form and functions.

(Top) Physical model front view (Bottom) Physical model back view

GATHER The new event space at Piazza Galeno in Rome is a place to gather. the once isolated site, cut off by roads from the surrounding nerighborhood is transformed into a thriving space for people to come together. People are pulled into and through the underground by appealing natural light, plant life and magnificient twisting concrete forms. The concrete desgin procides a mix of history and modernity, gathering beauty and characteristics from old and new. Two concrete elements, the shell and the arch-way, gather together in the center to create a new kind of piazza for everyone to enjoy.