2016 University of Melbourne.
Architectural Portfolio.
selective work samples for position of Internship.
Felix Yanjie Zhan
YAN JIE ZHAN (FELIX) b. passport. email. mobile. web.
1993 P.R.C China felix.zhan@yahoo.com +61 406579597 cargocollective.com/felixzhan
Education 2016-Present. Melbourne, VIC
2012-2015. Perth, WA
University of Melbourne. Master of Architecture
University of Western Australia.
Bachelor of Design in Architecture & Integrated Design
Experience 2016.11-2017.2
student architect at LLDS/Power to Make.
2015.10-2016.1
intern architect at LYCS architecture.
Melbourne, VIC
Hangzhou, China
responsible for joinery package, 1:1 prototype and machine fabrication.
responsible for schematic design, interior design and construction documentation.
Software & Skills Rhinoceros 3D. (3 years)
Autodesk.
Adobe Suit.
Language.
grasshopper.
with plug-ins such as Ladybug, Honeybee and Karamba etc. (1 year)
revit.
(2 years)
photoshop. (4 years)
english.
mandarin.
3ds Max.
Vray, Corona (2.5 years)
illustrator. (4 years)
autoCAD. (3 years)
inDesign. (4 years)
“Find optimism in the inevitable� - Rem Koolhaas
1. T h e D a tu m. f u t u re o f working, fa b rica tion, da ta advice&crit: Paul Loh and David Leggett
software: rhino, adobe suit, grasshopper, auto CAD
2. Archi ve for F ilmic Folds. f i l m , a rc hite cture, eve nt, move me nt advice&crit: Ben Waters
software: rhino, corona render, adobe suit.
3. Per forma tive Can opy. d i g i t a l d e s ign, fa b rica tion, op timiza tion advice&crit: Dominic Holzer and Darcy Zelenko
software: rhino, adobe suit, grasshopper, corona render
4. Tower at 292 E x h ib ition S tre e t. s k ys c ra p e r, a p p lie d construction, de ta ils advice&crit: Giorgio Marfella and Mark Lam software: Revit, autoCAD, adobe suit
Business Model.
The Datum.
“Technology is the answer ... but what was the question?” -Cedric Price
How
Social Behaviour.
Social Media & Architectural Space Analogue.
can
architecture
facilitate
the
future of making, working and living? This project focuses on the evolution of working environment in respond to physical and emerging virtual world and also the data storage space in the future. In this project, we explore the form and logic to generate our design proposal. The aesthetic form is the ‘Wire language’ where the system starts from one original points and form the aesthetics with its expansion. Also, the wire has its function as structural system and façade system. The logic is the abstract machine that is observed from network behavior. The logic forms the space volume and circulation for the office space, also the massing and ground strategies.
Abstract Machine.
Stairs.
Ramps.
Floor Composition. Wire Fragments.
Typical Floor.
Typical Floor.
Future Agenda.
In the large scale, with the emerging big data era, the virtual world is expanding dramatically influencing the way people work, play and live. Nowadays, social network is big part of virtual world where people shares their data and information for free. However, data privatization and data economy will emerge when people realize that their data and information is valuable. Thus, it will start to question: where can we store our data and information under security? Moreover, apart from personal information, when the company or research center needs to share and exchange their data with other companies, how can the data be transferred in a secure platform?
Scenarios.
Ground Strategy.
The Datum, means the origin point or a piece of information, is the solution we are looking for to address the new big data urban system. Our scope of this project is that The Datum is the origin point of the information and also it is the central point of the data. With the digital infrastructure that The Datum provides, the virtual and physical world will transit seamlessly.
The building massing integrates the wire language and organization logic that were developed at early stages. The wire language has been utilized in the strucutural and facade systems while the organization logic determine the floor programme distributions patterns. The whole building aims to be a datum of information and electricity for urbadn context. Open for light and views
dense for shading
Tower Massing Proposal.
Wire Structural Proposal.
Transmitter Coil
Power Source
Facade System: Electric Wire Induction.
Typical Office Floor Section.
Typical Floor.
wire pattern aesthetics
Facade Wire
Supercharge Floor
Supercharge Floor.
Interior Wire System
The Supercharge floor is designed for group activities. The space encourages people to walk, move to create a dynamic office space. Also, it helps more on the generation of electricity. The Supercharge floor has its own structural layout underneath the finishing floor. As we explored as fragments, the wires expand from the core and penetrate the floor to form space system. Also, the stair fragment is integrated in the design.
Supercharge Floor.
Facade Details.
While most of Le Corbusier's private project of this period employ the notion of the "architectural promenade" and subsequently been discribed in
terms of "views and movement in sequence." While breathless this first form of new wave French film, similarly relates to this jump with snapshots framed intent and a series of directed shots designed to build this view.
The Tom Twyker film Run Lola Run, 1996, is narratively conventional and acutely goal based, overlaying three similar events sequences in three distinct spatio-temporal strata. The fragmentation technique facilitates both an unifying and breaking of space and time that can remind us of discontinuity's
principal techniques. These ruptures, however, are secondary to the films' circular, repetitive and mutating spatio-temporal structure, a clear link to the disjunction of the programs seen in the Seattle library that is linked with a coninous path.
It layers spaces, events and movements in an increibly fluid and sophisticated filmic construction. Characters, narratives and times all merge with
one another, flow alongside each other and evolve out of each other. It is a film that perfectly reflects Deluzian notions of the foldings, the fluids and the morphing. The MAXXI museum is reflective of this in both circulation and appearance with a continuous flow evolving between the pathways and complex levels.
Contextural Mapping.
Archive for Filmic Folds.
“The concepts of film are not given in film.” -Gilles Deleuze
How can architecture and film work together
to propel us into a new understanding of how film can operate in the future?
Our building hopes to push these notions further, unpack and explore the idea of ‘the fold’ as a
new form of cinema, the fold is not accessed
through ‘a physical fold’ however it is unpacked as the building and cinematic experience morph together becoming the real of film itself while
aspects of the film are unpacked and digested architecturally with the occupant making the Cinematic Folds.
Movement.
discoveries.
Screen As Space.
Ground Open Cinema. As you enter the journey is clear, a singular path reflective of a traditional film, it then splits and folds into different experiences. In our space both the film and audience are dynamic, allowing a new experience
for the viewer through the eyes of a director. A museum of cinema, where important historical or political films can be injected as a new form of projection.
Screen As Event.
Screen As Material. First Level Cinematic Museum.
Spaces.
Moments.
Screen As Space.
Second Level Cinematic Folds. The occupants are given freedom to create their own experience, while manintainning a continuous
journey throughout the film. A folded flow, of film creates a distinct cinematic experience within. The
surrounding grid allows the panels of screens to be flipped and moved melting and disintegrating the grid into the architectural experience itself.
Screen As Event.
Screen As Material. Section, Structure. Materiality.
Events.
Moments.
Performative Canopy. set up.
min. area.
shading.
viewing.
max.view.
The main task is to design a medium scale structure that serves as sun-shade for north-west facing backyard of a 2 storey familyunit with the facade of the first floor set back by 2.5 meters in order to accommodate a terrace. The first criterion is the generation of its structural support system developed out of feedback you get from structural optimization using tools such as Karamba/Kangaroo/Miliped or others.
Sun Vectors
Finding Norm Surface
Orientating towards Sun 4
1
2 3
Orientated Panels
Base Panel
The second criterion is the design of the canopy roof (or membrane) to achieve maximum level of sun shading with minimum material usage while maintaining views out of the windows of both floors of the wall. You will find physical models and software such as Diva or Ladybug/Honeybee useful allies in testing various options of your design for their shading-performance efficiency. Also ensure that the structure obstructs movement of people under the canopy as little as possible. The shade canopy should function in a way that it provides 100% shading to the building faรงade, the terrace, and the ground up to 3m in front of the facade between 2pm-5pm during summer solstice.
Panel Integration
Visibility Rate
Environmental Analysis.
Exterior.
Visibility Rose
Shading Effeciency: 86%
Panels
Plywood 7mm Panels
Front
Diagrid Plywood 50x50xH300mm
East
West
Model Making.
Interior.
Columns
CHS 200mm Diameter
Structural Analysis.
Structural Composition.
Towe r at 292 E x h ib ition S tre e t . Located at intersection of La Trobe and Exhibition Streets in Melbourne, surrounded by medium skycrapers, the brief seeks for practical solution to accommodate the requirements from the client. The tower must provide a total office space of rent-able area between 65,000 and 80,000 square meters.The efficiency of each floor plate must be a minimum of 75%, mostly 80%-85%. The leasing depth must be typically between 10 and 12 meters. The tower is surrounded by an undercover plaza of 20 meters height with a large skylight. The design is divided into feasibility, structure, envelope, design development and details stages.
Typical Low Rise Plan.
Skyscraper Structure.
Context.
Mechanical Level.
Crown Steel Frame Plan.
Environmental Control.
Double Skin Facade + Mechanical Louvres.
Double Skin Facade.
Details locates in the double skin facade system where the spandral and curtain wall connects and the two facade units connects. Also drawings focuses on the mechanical floor details where the louvre situates as the ventilation screen for the heat.
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