ZHOU CUI
2017 Portfolio
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01. Museum and Pier in the Island of Torcello, Italy
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Spring 2016, academic work
02. “Kichitecture� in the Massif of Garraf, Spain
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Fall 2015, academic work
03. Ceramic Workshop in Ahmedabad, India
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Spring 2016, competition
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ZHOU CUI Direction Birthday Nationality E-mail Tel.
C/ Alejandro Rodriguez, 25, 3A 28039, Madrid, Spain 08/09/1991 Chinese zhou.cui@me.com +34 684 067 283
E D U C AT I O N 2007 - 2010
Chongqing Nankai Secondary School // Chongqing, China
2010 - 2011
Universitat Politècnica de València // Valencia, Spain Language School, Spanish
2011 - Now
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid // Madrid, Spain Architecture
H O NO R S AND AWAR DS 2012 2013 2013 2014 2015 2015 2016 2016 2017 2017
Outstanding, Architectural Design 2 // ETSAM With Honors, Structures 1 // ETSAM With Honors, Building Physics // ETSAM Outstanding, Structures 2 // ETSAM Outstanding, Architectural Design 5 // ETSAM Outstanding, Construction and Building Technology 3 // ETSAM With Honors, Structures 3 // ETSAM With Honors, Electric, Lighting and Media Technologies // ETSAM With Honors, Technical Equipment Design // ETSAM With Honors, Soil Mechanics // ETSAM
L A N G UAG E S Chinese // Native English // Professional Proficiency (TOEIC B2) Spanish // Full Professional Proficiency 04
Curriculum Vitae
P R O F E S S I O NAL E X P E R I E NCE July 2013
Practice // Chongqing, China I joined the Wemart Company for a month to learn and explore how the architecture design and commerce could be done online, which might be a new trend in chinese market.
January 2016
Competition // Madrid, Spain With two other partners, I participated in the competition held by the “Aula Cerámica” and finished it in one month.
July 2016
Competition // Cuzco, Peru With three other partners, I participated in the competition of a new culture center held by the Cuzco Government of Peru.
December 2016
Team Work // Madrid, Spain With four other partners, I participated in the design of an exhibition area for the tradicional chinese mountain temple, which is planned to be exhibited in Reina Sofía Museum of Madrid.
T ECH NI CAL S K I LLS ArchiCAD // Advanced Revit // Advanced AutoCAD // Advanced Rhinoceros 2D and 3D // Advanced V-ray // Basic Photoshop // Advanced Illustrator // Advanced InDesign // Advanced Microsoft Office // Advanced macOS // Advanced Windows // Advanced 05
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MUSEUM AND PIER IN THE ISLAND OF TORCELLO
Design VII - Spring 2016 12 weeks Professor: José Ignacio Linazasoro
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V e n e t i a n
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General The island of Torcello is the first human settlement in this area. It’s the place where the inhabitants of the terraferma fled from the barbarian invasions at the beginning of the Middle Ages. Later the urban core was built, formed by a Byzantine Cathedral
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(Santa Maria Dell Annunziata) and a basilica (Santa Fosca) which are still survive. Nevertheless, as the settlements in the remaining islands were consolidated, giving origin to the Medieval and Baroque Venice, Torcello was depopulated and today it is a practically uninhabited island but of great charm that has received many visitors in recent times.
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From Venice
Concept Torcello is surranded by other islands such as Burano, and Mazzorbetto. There are regular passenger boats between these islands and Venice. The old pier is located in the southwest of the island of Torcello. It’s a normal pier and far away from the urban core. I started the project from the landscape point of view, trying to improve the experience of approaching the island. At this moment, there is a constant view of the island when people are arriving, and it’s such a pity that they cann’t enjoy a sequence of magnific and changable views during the journey. Therefore, I located the new pier in the northeast of the island, which is very near to the urban core, too.
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Old and Constant Views
New and Variable Views
Lagoon View One of the magnificent view in the lagoon, in which we can enjoy the tall tower and the ancient cathedral with the beautiful background of the snowy mountain.
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Site Both the new pier and the museum are located in the urban center, next to the cathedral, the basilica and the current historic museum. The edge of this area is now untidy, occupied by deteriorated houses and garden without maintenance. The proposal tries to put in value the center of the island through the reordering of the public space and remodeling of the former museum.
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Urban Core A beautiful perspective of the urban core of the island, in which we can see the cathedral, the basilica, the tower and the three buildings of the current museum.
Main Square This is a photo taken in the main square of the island, where you can see some pieces of stone lying on the ground. Some of them with historical values will be exhibited in the new museum.
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Building A
Building B
Building C
Current Torcello Museum
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Building A
Building B
Building C
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Current Buildings
New Constructions
Generation This is a remodeling and enlargement project of the current museum. First of all, it is created a central body composed of three pieces. The two sides are aligned and related to the both existing pavilions. The highest central volume, with the roman domus form (a compluvium up on the ceiling), serves as a bond and glue the two sides.
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Lapidarium It’s an essential historic element, which I maintained in the project. It used to be the wall of the Palazzo of 15th century, and now an outdoor exhibition wall of the current museum. In my project, I took advantage of its linearity and directionality, transforming it into an entrance-gallery, which intensifies the meaning of the wall.
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Organization Observing the site plan, you can see that there are two squares generated by the own arrangement of the the museum and the pier. The one between them, more geometric, links the two buildings and suggests that the visitors leave the pier and continue their visit to the museum. The lapidarium, which serves as the boundary of first the square, maintains its sculptures in the original place and generates an attractive route. The other square has more organic character. It hasn’t been touched almost anything except that a stone path is created which helps connect the exit of the museum with the existing main road. It is a minimal operation and the intention is to keep the situation as it is right now, since it is a place that has been generated over a long time and has a special value and beauty as a square before the cathdral and the basilica.
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Material - Function The ground of the central body is grass, and it feels as if the organic square penetrated the museum. In contrast to the adjacent bodies, which have more closed spaces, either by glass, or by brick wall, the central one is more open. The sculptures of the lapidarium are placed in their original place. The most important pieces will be placed in the four niches while the others will be put in the exihibition areas in the interior of the pavilions.
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8. Exhibition Area 9. Storage 10. Lift 11. Store 12. Administration 13. Toilet 14. Exit
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“Roman Domus� A big compluvium in the ceiling of the central body, remaing us of the tradicional Roman house.
Exhibition Area A rehabilitated space of double height, bathed in the rhythmic light filtered by the facade.
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The New Museum Three bodies of different times perfectly united, dialoguing with each other, form the new museum of the island of Torcello.
Entrance-Gallery The long and rhythmic entrance-gallery leads the visitors to the inner space of the museum, enjoying the sculptures hung on the lapidarium.
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The New Pier The project of the pier has the idea of generating a filter between the two limits which are the land and the water. In order to achieve this, four walls are constructed that separate five situations and people will feel a soft and continuous change during the process of approaching the island. The ceiling has also been conceived and designed as a replica of the museum entrance gallery ceiling, generating a more unitary experience.
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“KICHITECTURE” IN THE MASSIF OF GARRAFA
Design VI - Fall 2015 10 weeks Professor: Blanca Lleó
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Forest Hunting Area Other Chasms Highway Related to the project Project Site Project’s Hunting Area Existing Hiking Trail 37
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Karst Topography Karst topography is a landscape formed from the dissolution of soluble rocks such as limestone, dolomite, and gypsum. It is characterized by underground drainage systems with sinkholes and caves. The Garraf Massif happens to have this kind of fantastic topography system. The picture below shows the interior world of the cave Emili SabatĂŠ, one of the magnificent work by the nature, which will intervene in the project.
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The Mountain Products There are many gastronomic programs celebrated by the local government, taking advantage of the great variety of products of the mountain. The Park in the Table is one of the program that proposes to enjoy the nature of the park through delicious food and local wine. The associated restaurants offer dishes made with natural products. Mushrooms, snails, partridges or wild boar are some examples of the basis of the menus.
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Concept Located in the Garraf Natural Park, the first thing that I have found is the fantastic karstic system there, thanks to which produces numerous caves. And at the same time, the modern people’s unhealthy way of living motivates me to propose a place in nature, in which they can experience the most primitive life that our ancestors of ​​ the Paleolithic age have, who are capable of hunting, fighting against animals with a very strong body. The project provides such an integrated experience in the Garraf Massif. The people who are living there have to learn how to hunt, how to clean hunted animals, and how to cook with fires and grill. In a similar way to our ancestors, there will also be meetings and rituals held in the sunken terrain designed in the project. The buried rooms with a skylight on the ceiling, also somehow remind us of the life of prehistoric times.
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Way to the hunting zone
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Weapon storage pavilion
Cleaning area
Entrance to the cave
Firewood storage
Toilet cave
Outdoor cooking
Dressing cave
Shared bath pool
Pavilion for physical exercise and improve the ability to hunt
Meeting area
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Bathing Area
Meeting Area
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Weapon Storage Pavilion
Cleaning Area
Eating Area
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Detail of a bedroom
Arrival area
Bedroom
Meeting zone
Ephemeral plat
Cave-refrig
Cave plan
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Weapons storage pavilion
Cleaning area for hunted animals
Outdoor grill
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Cave exploration
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CERAMIC WORKSHOP IN AHMEDABAD
Competition - Spring 2016 4 weeks Authors: Zhou Cui / Ruiqi Feng / Jinhang Li
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Industrial Zone
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Shopping Zone
Historic Area
Residential Area
03 Ceramic Workshop in Ahmedabad
Site This intervention is at the urban expansion boundary of the Ahmedabad city, which is famous because of the sarkhej roza, unique example of the early Islamic architecture of the region. Our work area is next to the monuments of this architecture, which are situated in the east and northeast.
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Urban Border
Filter
Concept After a previous analysis of the site, we first obtain that the urban border is not defined. And secondly that there is no park found in this community. GSEducationalVersion
New Urban Park
With this project, we want to provide a green public space in the urban edge, fulfilling at the same time the role of filter between the monuments and the community.
Vehicle and Pedestrian
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In order that the project does not go out of dimensions with respect to its surroundings, we decided to bury most of the constructions, leaving some cylindrical bodies that exceed the ground, which serve both as entrance to the building, and as patios of lights.
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Steel Cable Wood
Crystal
Wood
Brick
Goods Receipt
0 Projection Room
Exhibition of 25 Works
Exhibition with Panels Locker Room
Admin. Rest Zone
Assembly Hall
Patio of Lights
Toilet
Shopping Area
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Work Zone
Dryer Warehouse
Toilet
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Locker Room
Program This building consists of a large work area for potters, two exhibition areas devoted to traditional products and techniques, and a small shop for tourists who visite this place or the historic monuments.
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