PORTFOLIO 2019 - 2021 Hao Zhuang
Experience Hotel Le Récit
University of Melbourne, Australia 2019 - current Master of Architecture
Living Peace Centre OLI Architecture, Shanghai Office, China 2017 - 2018 Site Architect Cosmopolis #1.5 Exhibition Collaboration with Centre Pompidou, Chendu, China
Architectural Assistant
Gimme Sheltte
Shangyu Porcelain Culture Village, Shangyu, China Yongjia Shiweiyan Culture Center, Yongjia, China DingFeng Sauce Factory MasterPlan, Shanghai, China Taohuawu Woodblock Museum Competition, Suzhou, China
Newcastle University, UK 2014 - 2017
Stairway to Heaven
Bachelor of Architecture
School of in-between
Site Analysis
Hotel Le Récit Hotel Le Recit is a project located at 600 Collings Street in Melbourne CBD. the proposed design is a 5-star hotel with 500 keys 27 storey high building. The design brief include building design as well as hotel room interior design. The design features a unique theme which can be seen from façade, floorplan and even inside hotel room.
54% 20-29 years old
41.9% Bachelor degree or above
85.7% born oversea (24.9% China)
74.1% never married
45.2% no religion
30.8% speak Mandarin
Melbourne CBD
Shop & Attraction
Transportation
Restaurant
Hotel & Airbnb
Wind
Daylight
Population: 37,321 Median: age:26 Median weekly incomes: $434
Street View Distance
Street View Close
Main Entrance
Concierge
Floor plan & Section
Section & Axonometric
Hotel Room Interior
Living Room
Bedroom
Bathroom Corridor
Bedroom 500mm
1000mm
2000mm
Living Room
Bathroom
Living Memorial The aim of this thesis is to incorporate the healing power and regenerative capacity of nature into architecture to rebuild the humannature connection, creating a place that offers recovery from conflict, appreciation of nature and reflection of peace. This project will integrate the architectural programs with natural elements to offers a contrasting interpretation of nature compared to the Shrine landscape as the materialisation of peace, to convert the site into a living peacekeeping centre that explore the possibility of both spontaneous exploration and participation, producing a spatial-temporal experience choreographed through the landscape elements.
Design Development
Site Plan
Cafe
Amphitheatre
Greenhouse
Greenhouse
Library
Greenhouse Short Section
Greenhouse Long Section
Cafe Section
Library Section
Detail Section
Axon
Site & Brief
Gimme Shelter Gimme Shelter project requires to design a temporary canopy structure over the concrete square between the MSD building and the Union House inside the University of Melbourne campus to host a music festival. The design needs to create a covered space for performance and bar area while allowing access from various points.
Accesses
The design needs to be a attraction on its own as part of marketing strategy and will be designed and detail parametrically as an demonstration of digital fabrication. In my design solution, I will be using grasshopper and other plug-ins to generate a dome-like structure with weaved pattern.
Union Square
Movement
Design Development
NGon
Kangaroo
Ivy
OpenNest
Base mesh
Form finding + Remesh
Weave pattern + Unroll
Shop drawings
Galapagos Structure optimization
Karamba Structural analysis
Pseudocode
Grasshopper Definition
Workflow
Rendering
Outside View
Inside View
Aerial View
Side View
Construction
Initial Displacement at 1.0032 cm
Displacement Minimized to 0.2249 cm
Structural Optimisation
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Strip
Assemble
Layers
Site & Brief
Stairway to Heaven Redmond Barry Building The Redmond Barry Building is the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, located at the Elgin Street, next to MSD. This project requires to design a staircase extension on the west side of the building and enclose it. The buildings is 11 story high with 3 sets of floor height, therefore, it is a large scale structure. The staircase will be located in an alley between the Redmond Barry building and the Baldwin Spender building, the access to the pathway needed to be maintained with the proposed staircase, so the new construction will not occupy the entire alleyway.
Baldwin Spencer Building
Grasshopper Definition
Workflow
Staircase
Columns
Main Facade
Beams
Staircase
Parameters
Frameworks
Daylight Analysis
Construction Detail
Landings
Columns
Side Facade Facade
Side Wall
Rendering
Facade
Ground View
Interior View
Section
Construction Detail
Daylight Analysis & Optimisation
Daylight Analysis & Optimisation
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School of in-between School of in-between is a unique project .This project is to design a primary school located inside the UN buffer zone in Nicosia, Cyprus, which separated the Turkish and Greek side of the country since the 1974 war. This project propose a primary school inside the no-man zone offering a common space between the next generations of both people as a symbol of reconciliation and peace.
Exterior Space
Class Room
Book Tunnel
Library
South Elevation
North Elevation
Axon
Model
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