Design portfolio 2014

Z H O U H A O Z H O U

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DESIGN PORTFOLIO NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY 2014

ZHOU HAOZHOU

Z H O U H A O Z H O U DESIGN PORTFOLIO︱NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY︱ 2014

DESIGN PORTFOLIO SELECTED WORKS + RESUME

Newcastle University︱ School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape

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2014

ZHOU HAOZHOU

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To Whom It May Concern, RE: Designer employment opportunity After working as an Architectural Assistant for 4 years in China, I decided to look for a new challenge by taking a Master's degree in Architecture, Planning and Landscape in Newcastle University (UK). My design approach is both holistic and methodical from conceptual design to construction drawing. I want to continue my passion ‒ the curiosity and experimentation of academic research and creative practice in a range of fields. I am an excellent communicator with clients and my colleagues from various backgrounds. I especially enjoy teamwork, fitting myself into the studio's culture and working collaboratively across multiple disciplines.

With experience of architecture, planning and landscape, I embrace design projects in diverse disciplines. Every one of my projects is a research and development journey. When I start a project, the outcome is often unknown which is the most exciting aspect of the process for me. I am not interested in having a style per se. My passion is to invent solutions that are appropriate for the particular place and I always make the most of the possibilities a project can offer. I focus not only on building design itself, but also on how to create a better environment for people to be in and more interesting functional spaces.

"So it is regrettable that numerous are excursionists visiting places which are near and easily accessible, but few are travelers who come to places far and dangerous, which, nevertheless, command the most sublime, grotesque and unique views, scarcely enjoyed by ordinary folks. One can never read such places unless one has a strong will-power," — Wang Anshi (1021-1086) 2

I recently graduated from my Master's Degree with a DISTINCTION for my thesis project and I am currently seeking to further develop my practical experience.

Please feel free to contact me if you have any enquires. Thank you for your time and consideration.

Yours sincerely, Zhou Haozhou

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SELECTED WORK(D)S ACADEMIC / RESEARCH STUDIOS: 2014︱Design Thesis︱URBAN ACU-PUNCTURE

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2014︱Architectural Design Studio 2︱URBAN INCUBATOR

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2013︱Architectural Design Studio 1︱CHINESE CULTURAL CENTRE

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MISCELLANEOUS: 2013︱ Parametric Design︱daylighting optimisation

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2013︱Internatioanl Velux Competition︱Bloom lighting

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2013︱Freehand Drawing︱notan

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PROFESSIONAL WORK:

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2012︱Project Manager︱Lixin Lake Ecological Strategy

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2011︱Project Manager︱Sheraton hotel landscape design

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Resume

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ACADEMIC / RESEARCH STUDIOS:

urban agri-puncture Design Thesis

urban Incubator

Architectural Design Studio 2

chinese cultural centre

Location: West-End Newcastle, UK

Location: Grassmarket Edinburgh, UK

Location: China Town Newcastle, UK

Tutors: Edward Wainwright Astrid Lund Nathaniel Coleman

Tutors: Nathaniel Coleman Edward Wainwright Astrid Lund

Tutors: Nathaniel Coleman Andrew Ballantyne Edward Wainwright

Semester 3 2014

Semester 2 2014

Semester 1 2013

Architectural Design Studio 1

Urban Agri-puncture

Design Thesis

The whole story of urban regeneration in Newcastle is not so straightforward. In many cases,

original communities have become much worse off, where they have to face with demolition or are forced to move elsewhere. This thesis, Urban Agri-puncture, proposes productive landscape for vacant lands and minimum architectural intervention providing necessary infrastructure.

It is a new vision for the region, inspiring inhabitants to re-think their environment as not just neighbourhoods in decline but those with potential to transform lives. A new dialogue between man and food aims to be created.

Let’s get our hands dirty.

2014 West-end Newcastle Design Thesis

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URBAN AGRI-PUNCTURE

Concept Diagram 9

Research Diagram Food Mile UK HOLLAND Avocado Mexico 5,500 miles

USA

Rocket Italy 890 miles

SPAIN

KOREA

MEXICO

Asparagus Peru 6,300 miles

Apples USA 3,700 miles

Red Wine Australia 9,000 miles

Mushrooms Holland 220 miles

Chocolate Dumplings Korea Ghana 3,170 miles 5,500 miles

ITALY

Lamb Mangetout New Zealand Guatemala 11,700 miles 5,450 miles

INDIA GUATEMALA

Brocolli Bananas Spain India 780 miles 5,100 miles

GHANA

Tomato Italy 890 miles

PERU

Spinach Spain 780 miles

Food Consumption of Two Households in One Week Data comes from the exhibition "London Yields: Urban Agriculture"

AUSTRALIA

NEW ZEALAND

Occupied Land Vacant Land

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Urban Fabric Westend Newcastle 11

Utopia = “Good Place“ or “No Place“ From Greek: Eu(Good) + Topos(Place)

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Vision

Productive landscape applied to vacant lands

SITOPIA = FOOD PLACE From Greek: Sitos(Food) + Topos(Place)

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SITOPIA = FOOD PLACE From Greek: Sitos(Food) + Topos(Place)

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Utopia = “Good Place“ or “No Place“ From Greek: Eu(Good) + Topos(Place)

Vision

Productive landscape applied to vacant lands

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Urban Context Model

Master Plan Sketch

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SITE

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1:1,000

City Centre

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Master Plan Model 1:1,000

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Sketch

Landscape Detail 1:20

Master Plan Development

Tall Tree

Medium Tree

Shrubs

Windbreak Detail Crops Stack Stone Impounded Soil Natural Soil Selected Words: Topography, Climate, Connection, Permeation, Minimum Intervention, Crop Rotation, Sow & Harvest

Crushed Rock Compacted Base Drainage Terrace Planting Detail

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Agriculture Infography

Cucumber Pumpkin Tomato Strawberry Apple

Crop Rotation

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Potato Broccoli Broad Bean Carrot Cabbage Lettuce Sow Harvest

Harvest Calendar

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Master Plan 1:1,000

Water Runoff

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Landscape Illustration

Winter

Summer

Landscape Character in Four Seasons

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Spring

Autumn

Landscape Character in Four Seasons

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Physical Model 1:500

Showing the relationship between the productive landscape and architectural intervention

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Site Section 1:200

Wind

Wind

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Architectural Intervention

Transportation Route

Productive Landscape

Pedestrian

Windbreak Planting

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Diagram

Allotment Garden

Architectural Intervention

Aquaculture

Nutrient Water

Rainwater Runoff Grey Water

Delivery System Water Supply Tool Shed Overhead Rail

Ecology System Recover Wetland

Water System Waste Treatment

Student Kitchen Classroom Cafe Lecture Agriculture Exhibit Research Lab Seed Bank

Agriculture Production Integration System

Farmer Market Waste

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Energy System Compost Gas

Transportation System Gas Trolley

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Architectural Intervention

Architectural Intervention

Water System

Delivery System

Wind Mill

Herbivorous Fish Species: Primarily Catfish & Tilapia as Food Source & Waste Generator

Socialising

Tool

Nutrient Water

Recover Wetland

Re-used Shopping Trolley Lock Mechanism

Entrance

Water Runoff

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Pump

Clean Water

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Architectural Intervention

Architectural Intervention Energy System

Transportation System

Inflating Gas Balloons

Gas Refuel Waste

Anerobic Digestion

Farmer Market Collecting Biological Gas

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Concept Model 1:200

Adaptive Reuse: Transforming an abandoned water pumping station into a complex for developing urban agriculture.

Programs: Student Kitchen Classroom Cafe Lecture Agriculture Exhibit Research Lab Seed Bank

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Building Plan

Section Model 1:100

Ground Floor 1:100

1st Floor 1:100

Model Perspectives

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Architectural Section 1:100

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Section Model 1:100

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Detail Model

Detail Section

1:20

1:20

Wodden Roof Cover PVC Sheet Perfrisa Semi-smooth Panel

Steel Framework Structure Wooden Sheathing

Water Proofing

Window Profile

Wooden Ceiling Cover

Glass

Pavement Drainage Cement Screed

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Urban Incubator

Architectural Design Studio 2

Aims to speculate upon the relationship between the space of art and the form of everyday

Iteration Diagram

life in today's urban public realm, the same project is re-proposed by way of three separate schemes for the same site. A key focus of each of the three iterations is to consider the role that public space and buildings can play in articulating notions of identity, community and culture. The first iteration is a small-scale urban intervention linking internal and external spaces; the second iteration is a medium-scale re-inhabitation of an existing building; the third iteration consists of a large-scale project developing upon the first two iterations, proposing a new building addition to an existing building.

Castle

Site

Grassmarket

Iteration 1, Informal Performance Stage

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Castle

Site

Grassmarket

Iteration 2, Community Art Centre

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Iteration 3, Art Festival Centre

Grassmarket

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Physical Model

Iteration 1: Public Performance Stage

1:200

Lift The Building

Frame

Push The Frame

Circulation

Add Structure

Add Skin

Ground Floor Plan

First Floor Plan

Roof Plan

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Iteration 2

Conceptual Sketch

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Physical Model 1:200

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Section Model

Iteration 3

1:200

Plan 1:200

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Typical Section 1:200

Physical Model 1:200

Conceptual Sketch

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Chinese Cultural Centre

Chinese Cultural Centre

China Town, Newcastle 2013

Conceptual Collage

Architectural Design 1

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Newcastle City Centre

Cutting in Section

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Sectional Topography

s a result of urban regeneration, Newcastle city centre has been separated into various function zones, such as shopping area, resident area, Chinese restaurant area and so on. The Chinese cultural centre project aims to stitch the urban fabric by a new master plan, combining the new building with the surrounding context and the neighbourhood.

In addition, the project hopes to present the local communities not just the Chinese food, but also the daily life of Chinese people in terms of a chinese Cultural centre.

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Site Analysis

Master Plan 1:1000

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Site Town Wall

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City Gate

China Town

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Perspectives & Site Section

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A-A Section 1:200 63

Physical Model

Exploded Diagram

1:200

Viewing Tower Roof Garden Activity Room

Cladding System

Plaza & Cafe Sunken Garden Exhibition

Organic LightEmitting Diode

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Structure Glass Curtain Wall

Proposed Pattern for LED System

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MISCELLANEOUS:

Daylighting optimisation

bloom lighting

notan

Parametric Design

International Velux Competition

Freehand Drawing

Location: Robinson Library, Newcastle, UK

Location: Loess Plateau, Shanxi, China

Location: Grainger Market, Newcastle, UK

Tutors: Carlos Calderon

Tutors: Paul Milner

Tutors: Paul Milner

Semester 1 2013

Semester 2 2014

Semester 1 2013

Daylighting Optimisation Footbridge, Newcastle University, UK 2014

Parametric Design

DAYLIGHTING OPTIMISATION Parametric Design

Site

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Programs: Rhino Grasshopper Diva Galapagos

The reflection of sufficient sunlight to offset electrical lighting is one of the central objects for sustainable

design and utilising a light shelf is a common strategy to maximise daylight. This project speculates about a method of parametric design to simulate and optimise daylighting performance by light shelves and utilising Grasshopper and relative plugins. The issue is related to the practical concerns of students in Newcastle University and is located at the footpath bridge near the Robinson library. The study concludes with the optimum solution of light shelves achieving the maximum level of daylighting in the context.

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Grasshopper Definition

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Simulation ‒ Sun Path and Light Shelves 70

Daylight Performance Simulation ‒ DIVA 71

Yaodong is one of the few

remaining traditional cave typologies in China, predominantly found in Loess Plateau, Northern Shanxi Province. This environmentally friendly dwelling typology is well adapted to the local climate and terrain. The caves are recognised as a unique and irreplaceable characteristic of the region.

However, with the thriving economy and lure of rapidly developing urban areas, Loess Plateau faces an exodus of settlers-unless certain measures are implemented to sustain its population. Particular concerns surround the poor lighting conditions within the subterranean dwellings which currently limit social activities from occurring within the caves. Therefore, the core idea of the proposal aims to transmit external daylight into underground spaces thus improving the living, learning and working conditions, opening up new opportunities for community to develop and sustain its population.

Bloom Lighting

International VELUX Competition

Current Condition Solar Collecting Installation

Helio Tube

Social Function

Sunlight Distributor

Social Function

Social 72 Function

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Notan

Freehand Drawing

Notan

Freehand Drawing Grainger Market, Newcastle, UK 2013 74

Notan is a Japanese painting concept, a two-tone interpretation of a subject to produce a value pattern

between the black and white that is compositionally balanced. Through Notan drawing, I think that the relationships of different elements in a scene can be focused by merging individual forms into shape-value mass, sacrificing detail. So my main idea is to abstract the key scenes and produce a montage drawing which combine all the features from all the scenes to show the features of the Grainger Market as a whole.

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professional work:

lixin lake ecological strategy

sheraton hotel landscape design

Project Manager

Project Manager

Location: Fuyong, Shenzhen, China

Location: Huizhou, Shenzhen, China

2012

2011

L&A Design Group

L&A Design Group

Master Plan

Aerial Perspective

Lixin Lake Ecological Landscape Planning

Project Manager

According to the

Chinese practical condition, the project speculates upon new way of developing an ecological strategy, aims to be implemented in 4 phases and reach a level of balance between local economic development and environment protection. Under the direction of a principal designer, I, as the project manager, take charge of the project in terms of supervising design progress, communicating with clients and project management.

Phase 1

Animal

Shrub

Grass

Tree

Phase 2

Phase 3

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Director: Project: Team: Task Involved:

Michael Patte Linxin Lake Ecological Landscape Planning, Guangdong, China Landscape Group, Architecture Group, Planting Group and Sustainability Group Landscape Planning Drawing and Project Management

Phase 4

Design Phases 79

Landscape Plan

Sheraton Hotel Landscape Design

Project Manager

1:200

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A-A Section 1:200

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B-B Section 1:200

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Director: Project: Team: Task Involved:

Ronald Belleza Sheraton Hotel Landscape Design, Guangdong, China Landscape Group, Planting Group Landscape Concept Drawing and Project Management

C-C Section 1:200

Under the instruction of a design director, I prepared various drawing for this project from conceptual sketch

to construction drawing, including landscape plans, sections and details. In addition, I, as the manager of this project, negotiated with clients, made formal presentations and project schedules for colleagues from different backgrounds, such as concept design group, construction group and building service design group.

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EDUCATION 2013 ‒ 2014

2004 - 2009

Newcastle University (UK)︱Master's in Architecture, Planning and Landscape Design Thesis resulting in Distinction • Design and research modules including architecture, planning, sustainability, visual communication, parametric design, economic and stakeholders participation.

• Student Orator Audition: Selected for the graduation ceremony of Newcastle University.

• Course Rep: Negotiating with school faculty about various studio issues.

SHENZHEN University (CHINA)︱BArch Architecture Design Thesis resulting in Upper Second Class (2:1) • Comprehensive modules in architecture design including hand-drawing, conceptual design, construction, building service design and so forth.

• Captain of the debate team, finished in 2nd place in the university debating competition.

WORK EXPERIENCE 2014 - Present Guest Critic, ARC8077 Architectural Design, Newcastle University.

2009 - 2013

L&A Design Group (CHINA) • Design Principal Assistant, Producing diverse drawings including master plans, perspectives, sections, details, 3D models and so forth • Project management: Successfully finishing projects worth up to 100,000 GBP and having experience of communicating with clients througn presentetions and creating project schedules and budgets.

2009 Summer 2008 Summer

WUARCH (CHINA)︱Architectural Internship TAF Architecture (CHINA)︱Architectural Internship • Preparing CAD drawings, 3D models and project booklets.

• Project research in terms of culture, history, context, precedents and so forth.

2004 ‒ 2005

Red Cross Society Branch︱Voluntary Education Adviser • Helped a 10-year-old girl from a poor family with her homework.

ADDITIONAL SKILLS Proficient in revit, Rhino, Sketchup, AutoCAD, Grasshopper (Basic), Vray Render, Adobe 82 Creative Suite, Adobe Premier, Microsoft Office. Fluent English, Cantonese and Mandarin.

"A great building must begin with the immeasurable, must go through measurable means it is being designed, and in the end must be unmeasured."

— Louis Kahn

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