ez E M I L Y ZHENG
ARCHITECTURAL AND URBAN DESIGN PORTFOLIO SELECTED WORKS ‘15 - ’18
CONTENTS
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THE KAURI FOREST
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FREYBERG COMMUNITY
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THE FLEXIBLE LAMPSHADE
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THE ALTERNATIVE TO APARTMENT LIVING
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PROJECTION
Conceptual scheme for The Falls carpark Henderson
Masterplan of The Port Auckland
Community-led design: Defining the community through sor�ng and detailing of 254 Ponsonby Road, Auckland
Dwelling in the City: Re-Sculp�ng the line between privacy and social commons in Glen Inns, Auckland Lamp design aided by digital fabrica�on
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THE KAURI FOREST
Conceptual scheme for The Falls carpark Henderson
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YEAR SITE C O- O R D I N A T O R TUTOR
2018 Semester One 14-20 Edmonton Road, Henderson, Auckland Dr Michael Davis Megan Rule & Fabio Namiki
VISION Restoring the historical cutting industry of the Kauri Trees to perserve the life essence of Henderson. This bold forest- like architecture is a storyteller of The Falls site purchased by Nga� Whatua from Thomas Henderson who started a �mber mill in 1847 to process Kauri trees which were cut from the Henderson Valley (4-5km). The rich historic soil of The Falls Site with two Kauri trees stand to mark the sites iden�ty. The site is an opportunity to address the Kauri dieback, another layer to touch the community with a contemporary issue that is in line with the history and through the proposal of The Kauri Forest.
CANOPY FLOOR Private- residential
3 key aspects: Movement
A strong corridor from Henderson Centre into The Falls site where it would be mostly replanted to free up the movement while linking across Henderson Creek to Westwave.
Open space UNDERSTOREY FLOOR Semi public- Offices
TRUNK FLOOR
Public programs
The replan�ng opens up public open spaces. Restoring the life essence of the stream should go hand in hand with the Kauri history, it embodies strong Mana Whenua iden�ty. Therefore an expansion of the stream is proposed allowing community to have greater rela�onship to the stream.
Form
Is inspired by the Kauri tree.
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4 key aspects of the Kauri tree that inspired the form Horizontal grain of the bark (1) Ver�cality of the trees (2) Grows on top of pla�orms (3) Branches that support the canopy (4).
UNIT
Alderman Drive site (opposite) to be planted into a forest to give back to the Henderson community and to support the Twin Stream Restora�on. The loca�on and shape encourages it to be le� as greenry.
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This placing making holis�c approach to sustainability restoring the life essence of the site and with subtle landmarking quali�es. A design method beginning from the roots up will ensure a dialogue with the exis�ng landscape “The design should focus on forming a dense web of complex symbiotic relationships with all aspects of the buildings setting”. Ten Shades of Green – Peter Buchanah
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FREYBERG COMMUNITY
Masterplan of The Port Auckland
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YEAR SITE C O- O R D I N A T O R TUTOR
2017 Semester Two The Port Auckland Dr Lee Bea�e
Lauren White Kobus Mentz
The Port Auckland is proposed to accommodate a new community to support the expected popula�on growth. This project will explore the spa�al arrangement of a residen�al community at an urban scale on the Port’s, Freyberg Precinct. Auckland has a strong dis�nc�ve marine-loving culture with The Port a gateway to Auckland’s most priced natural feature- the Waitemata Harbour. This opens a valuable opportunity for this community to be enriched with marine character and ac�vi�es that link the people/community to the water. To achieve this, each Urban Design strategies, movement, land use, open spaces and building forms/heights would aim to maximise the value of water either through physically or visually (views) emphase the water. Collec�vely, they will work together to establish a robust plan for high quality built form and public realm proposed for the Freyberg residen�al community. While, tying back into the exis�ng context forming a seamless transi�on to ensure the vitality and character of Auckland.
PORT VISION A vibrant and resilient extension of Auckland City enriched with ac�vi�es that link the people and city to the water and celebrate the ci�es marine oriented culture and history. FREYBERG COMMUNITY VISION Main role of this precinct in delivering extension of Auckland City through residen�al capacity while linking people/ city to the water and maximizing marine culture.
MASTERPLAN DRIVERS
1 Honour the water - Legible pedestrian links - Protect harbour views and vistas
2 Provide ease of mobility - Road hierarchy system - Public transportation routes
3 Provide Mix use development - Primarily residential (connected, physically or visually to the water) and retail land use
4 Celebrate the heritage and local character - Reuse of the existing crane as a way ďŹ nder - Retain the waterfront alignment
Honour the water Linking people to the water
Mix use development Land use strategy
Ease of mobility Mobility strategy
VIEWS AND BUILDING FRONTAGE
ROAD HIERARCHY
Ground level views to the water.
Extending Auckland City through maximizing residen�al capacity.
Main Primary collector that services the community and vistors to the area. While, a secondary collector runs to the penisula with the purpose of serving the residents there.
Building fron�ng to the waters edge achieving maximum value floor space for an invigorated waterfront economy.
Ferry Terminal
Distribu�on of retail close to the train sta�on and along pedestrian boulevard that link to the water.
Ferry Terminal
Ferry Terminal
Secondary road Primary collector Local road Quay street
Train/Bus Sta�on
View points
Traffic light operated intersec�on Points of high ac�vity
Train/Bus
Retail Residen�al
Building fron�ng to waters edge Traffic light operated intersec�on
Train/Bus Sta�on
Pedestrian boulevard
*All residen�al above ground level
MASTERPLAN
Celebrate the heritage and local character CRANES AND RETAIN WATERFRONT ALIGNMENT Reuse of the Port Cranes placed along the waterfront as way finders to bring people closer to the water. Maintain the original Auckland Port alignment to preserve its iden�ty.
Ferry Terminal
2 Pedestrian and cycle scenic Walk
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Links to the walk Original Port waterfront alignment Original Quay Street
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Points of access (Quay St) Traffic light operated intersec�on
50m 1:2000
Train/Bus Sta�on
Train Sta�on
Public open space
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215m
Marina
300m
To ferry
460m
OPEN SPACE STUDY
Public open space supports the marine and waterfront spine that extends to Wynyard Quarter to Judges Bay. It also acts as an anchor point and grounds the triangular geometry of the peninsula.
1 An integral open space into the urban fabric of the community, in terms of surrounding and internal movements.
2 Flexible open space to host and enable a variety of ac�vi�es.
Plan: Three dis�nc�ve areas, so� and hard surfaces that has the flexible to host varies ac�vites.
So� Surface 0
Hard Surface 46m
Boardwalk 70m
90m
Sec�on: The three spaces are defined by the change in levels with sea�ng to frame the space that acts as ac�ve surveillance for safe quality urban spaces.
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THE FLEXIBLE LAMPSHADE
Community-led design: Defining the community through sor�ng and detailing of 254 Ponsonby Road, Auckland
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YEAR
2016 Semester Two 254 Ponsonby Road, Ponsonby, Auckland
SITE C O- O R D I N A T O R TUTOR
Kathy Waghorn
Amanda Hyde de Kretser
254 Ponsonby Road is proposed to be a whole of site park. My proposi�on argues the necessity to create belonging spaces within a park. “It takes many houses to make a village” This project proposes that it is only when we can see all the community groups (University of Third Age, church groups, mother groups) that we realise we all belong to the same village. A series of gathering spaces are placed around the edge of the park as ‘lanterns’ that light up the groups, who do not have a ‘place’ to call their own. Each gathering space can be modified by its members to adjust the degree to which it shares its ac�vi�es with, and invite par�cipa�on from the wider village.
Findings from the site visit: Ponsonby had no belonging spaces outside the home. Ac�vi�es always happened hidden behind barriers which o�en resulted in a disconnect between two groups. Interes�ngly, the veranda is where you start to see the filter between the two condi�ons.
Bridge the disconnection between community and private through the use of site imagery and a collection of words from community surveys.
My proposition envisions a park as a village for groups to congregate to feel part of a wider community. The Samoan village is a great example; the families link to the village giving them a sense of belonging to a wider community. The treatment of levels and roof structure gives importance against the individual fale while the posts segregate the spaces to provide privacy.
My structure interprets the Samoan village in a contemporary way. The central sanctuary occupies the group with controllable layers upon layers that open up to include the wider community.
1 Aluminum bracket 2 Active motor operating Illustration of the whimsical colonade mechanism for the slats 3 Steel post
Illustration of interior
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Detail of tensile roof structure
Detail of honeycomb sandwich oor system
Detail of tensile roof intersection
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5 Plywood 10mm 6 Plastic honeycomb mesh 7 M6 Bolt
Detail of louver
Community (client) feedback “Very flexible and versatile, at the moment we need a place for the older people to occupy and I can see this for all ages. Can really imagine this in Ponsonby, we need something like this.”
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THE ALTERNATIVE TO APARTMENT LIVING
Dwelling in the City: Re-Sculp�ng the line between privacy and social commons in Glen Inns, Auckland
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YEAR SITE C O- O R D I N A T O R TUTOR
2016 Semester One Dalton Street, Glen Innes Auckland
Uwe Rieger
Amanda Hyde de Kretser
The brief is to design an intensive housing project within the Tamaki redevelopment area, which re-sculpts the line between privacy and commons so that private living can take place using a smaller and lighter footprint, and spaces are created that support commoning. The site for the intensive housing project is in the heart of the Tamaki Redevelopment Company’s working zone, where a process of intensifica�on is taking place at a speed unprecedented in New Zealand.
In Glen Innes, low density suburban housing with privacy and security is achieved through physical separa�on, boundary fences and neighborhood networks. As housing become more intensive, these devices need to be reinvented. My project provides an intensive housing model for a women’s refuge, where security and privacy of par�cular importance. I have inves�gated how the devices used in lower density housing, to protect and shield residents from harm and unwanted a�en�on, can be wrapped around the residents. This wrapping occurs at 4 different levels 1. 2. 3. 4.
Physically Func�onally Socially Environmentally
Physically you can see the double skin-dwelling for ul�mate security. Func�onally the dwellings are wrapped by semi private func�ons that supports the mall such as changing rooms and staff rooms. Then overall wrapped together by the public mall. Socially the dwellings are grouped in clusters to allow woman to gather around each other for support. Environmentally the project is wrapped with group space. A courtyard to the west that is essen�ally owned by the woman and a moat that holds unwanted visitors back. Once wrapped, it is possible for the women to choose the process by which they open themselves up to re engage with the world. Like a rose we have different phases of living, some are more enclosed and some open. Like the rose, the dwellings have a sense of self-control. Each woman can close her space up around her, pulling her ‘blanket' in �ght or open her space up to share with other women, and to see out to the world as she prepares to move back into it unno�ced
Selected in�al line drawings
Final design I Three different levels of security and privacy within this intensive housing proposi�on.
“An important linkage between public and private is enacted through dwelling. The security of dwelling gives us the ability to participate within the community” Peter King (2004) p 22
Final site plan
The alterna�ve to compact apartment living
05
PROJECTION
Lamp design aided by digital fabrica�on
05 YEAR
2016 Semester One
TUTOR
Dermo� Mcmeel
As modern technology come into play we gradually move into the digital and fade away from tradi�onal hand cra�manship. Projec�on lamp series explores the advanced technology of digital fabrica�on while retaining quali�es of cra�manship. The lamps were fabricated to experiment with the quali�es of corrugated cardboard. Through muli�ple itera�ons to maximise the natural quali�es of cardboard.
“Learning embodied in craft skills which developed over many hundreds of years which is enshrined in many of the heuristics of art and design training are now in danger of being jettisoned as digital tools become the norm” (Frascari, Hale, & Starkey, 2007,p. 143).
Grasshopper script for the hexagonal pattern
Manipulation of the script to achieve dierent variations of the form
3D printed pattern
Outcome from the tests
We have now understood the poten�al quali�es and affects the corrugated cardboard can achieve. The transi�on from the 3D print onto cardboard has been successfully achieved through this lamp. Through this process it has given us two quali�es that we intend to develop further by maximizing the experience we get in a room with the lamp effects.
“We tend to view computers as rather limited in their ability to think. We may recognize some of the things they can do like calculate and sort information, but surely this is a long way from the essentially creative process of design” (Lawson, 1990.p.195). To conclusion with Lawson’s message, the use of digital technology is a great tool to compose quick itera�ons to advance the design. However, crea�ve knowledge will always be most powerful. Throughout this project we have used digital medium to forward our design but cri�cal judgment is based on physical experimenta�ons.
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