Henry Zhang Architecture Works 2024

HENGZHE ZHANG

ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO

CONTENTS

Common Palace: Urban Forest

Community Center

2023 Spring

SAN JUAN COLLECTIVE RESIDENTIAL

Collective Apartment

2022 Fall

ALIVE MUSEUM

Regional Culture Museum&Workshop

2021 Fall

TRIANGLE FIRE STATION

Community Fire Station

2022 Spring

TEA HOUSE-CLIFF

Cultural Tea House

2021 Spring

HEART OF GEJIA VILLAGE

Group Installation Practice 2023

COLLECTIVE INCREMENTAL HOUSING

Informal Dwelling

2022 Fall

INTERNSHIP

David Chipperfield Architects 2023

ARCHITECTURE PHOTOGRAPHY

Architectural Photography Internship

2022-2023

Reflecting Absence

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Common Palace: Urban Forest

Mixed Uses ,Community Center, Barcelona

The purpose of this project is to create a multifunctional public space within a traditional residential area in Barcelona. The space provides an auditorium, classroom, office, and cafe for people to use. This public space inherits the urban planning principles of Barcelona’s metabolism. The fully green roof provides a new ecological environment for the city, and the semi-underground rammed earth construction takes into consideration the hot climate of the local summers. The management of water resources within the community also reflects a commitment to resource reuse.

The distinctive feature of this project is the construction method on site. The project aims to maximize the potential of raw earth, and therefore, a combination of materials such as granite, travertine, straw, and raw earth is used in the material selection. Additionally, by utilizing concrete pillars drilled into the ground, over time, the root system of the roof will gradually occupy the underground space, ultimately allowing the entire building to blend back into nature.

Professor: Ramon Bosch

Washington University in St. Louis Spring 2023 Arch 511

Fig. 2: Section Model

Fig. 1: Construction Process on Site

Fig. 3: Underground Plan (Zoom in)

Fig. 4: Underground Plan (Full)

Fig. 7: Rooftop Plan

Fig. 8: Rooftop Natural Environment

Fig. 9: Section from High Point to Low Point

Fig. 10: Model to Show Height Difference

Fig. 11: Root Analysis overtime

Fig. 12: Lifestyles Based on the Season

Fig. 13: Section Details

Fig. 14: Axono View of One Dome

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SAN JUAN COLLECTIVE RESIDENTIAL

Mixed Use, Multi-Family Housing, San Juan

The purpose of this project is to design an apartment that caters to the lifestyles of both local people and modern individuals. The project site is located in San Juan, and the first consideration in the design process was to meet the local climate conditions. This design utilizes passive strategies as the main design guideline, with no glass to provide maximum ventilation and shading. The whole project began with the study of Threshold, which is shown in the picture on the left. Through the study of thresholds, ways were identified to address the climate conditions. By utilizing the Venturi effect and wind-catching walls, maximum comfort can be achieved. Based on this, the design focuses on a multi-family lifestyle. Three different house types are proposed, with each layout balancing privacy and openness. The entire building is connected and confirmed by a central circulation system. This layout also considers the goal of minimizing costs while maximizing the living experience. Overall, the design demonstrates a harmonious combination of residents and nature.

Professor: Monica Rivera

Washington University in St. Louis Fall 2022 Arch 419

Fig. 1: Threshold Physical Model

Fig. 2: Rendering View from the Street.

Fig. 3: Site Plan

Fig. 4: Rendering from Courtyard View

Fig. 5: Higher Level Unit Plan1&2

Fig. 7: Higher Level Unit Plan3

Fig. 6: Lower Level Unit Plan

Fig. 8: Typical Lower Level Plan

Fig. 10: Massing Model Documents

Fig. 9: Section

Fig. 11: Typical Higher Level Plan

Fig. 13: Facade Inside

Fig. 12: Facade Outside

Fig. 14: Ground Floor Plan

Fig. 15: Roof Plan

ALIVE MUSEUM

Regional Art Museum&Workshop, Xi’an, China

This design aims to create a museum for a civilization with similar cultural foundations. In addition to reflecting the cultural characteristics in the spatial form of the museum, the design also aims to combine commercial development with local life to resist the threats brought by commercialization. The space of this design can meet the needs of local and commercial at the same time. For example, local residents can use the tools in the building for daily production, and tourists can watch this scenery. An appropriate distance is maintained between the space for tourists and the space for local residents. Thus, life becomes one big stage. Architecture and the need for daily life meet right here.

Instructor: Bingyu Guo

LAC

Fall 2021

Fig. 1: Circular Theater

Fig. 2&3&4: Traditonal Residentials from China, Central Asia and Japan.

Fig. 5: Deconstruction of Traditonal Residentials.

Fig. 6: Figure Ground Diagram and Ground Floor Plan Developed from Extracted Lines

Fig. 8: Section from Northwest to Southeast.

Fig. 10: Interior Rendering

Fig. 11: Facade System

Fig. 9: Rendering of Outside Corner.

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TRIANGLE FIRE STATION

Community Fire Station, St. Louis

The design call was for a fire station located in a nearby community of St. Louis, near the Mississippi River. The design aimed to test our understanding of spatial volumes and our ability to design based on sections. The entire project originated from a 10x10x10 frame, with students required to start from the framework, gradually generate blocks, and identify possible spatial relationships within them. The design needed to meet the functions of parking, rest, exercise, catering, and service. The resulting fire station is not only a facility for quick police dispatch but also a comfortable living area for firefighters. The design incorporates the understanding of circulation, combining the firefighters’ training circulation and normal circulation. The building facade was created with grasshopper software, and the inspiration for the fireproof facade came from dragon scales. The overall design aims to create a community guardian.

Professor: Jess Vanecek

Washington University in St. Louis Spring 2022 Arch 318

Fig. 1: Physical Model

Fig. 2&3: Deconstruction of a Cube

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Fig. 6: Rendering from the Context View

Fig. 7: Section From South to North

Fig. 8: Section from West to East

Fig. 9: Rendering from the Context View

Fig. 10: West Side Elevation Image

Fig. 11: South Side Elevation Image

TEA HOUSE-CLIFF

Cultural Tea House, Jiaxian, China

This project reflects on the sociological aspects of people’s daily lives. The design begins with the concept of Chinese tea and culminates in an ideal reflective space. It views architecture as a narrative medium through which local culture can be expressed by spaces. The design of this building is driven by two fundamental considerations. Firstly, it is intended for human use, and therefore the circulation of people within the space has been carefully taken into account. Secondly, its location on a cliff exposes it to the forces of natural erosion, which have also been considered in the design process. Drawing inspiration from these two forces, the tea room has been thoughtfully designed to deliver an authentic and immersive Chinese tea ceremony experience.

Professor: Qingsong Han

Xi’an University of Architecture and Technology Spring 2021

Fig. 1: Entry for Tea House

Fig. 2: Rendering of Terrace

Fig. 3: Rendering of Meditation Space

Fig. 4: Elevation and Site Plan

Fig. 5: Detailed Section

Heart of Gejia Village

Group Installation Practice, Gejia Village, China

The Heart of Gejia Village is a student-initiated project from Cornell University, UCL (University College London), and WashU (Washington University). We collaborate with the local tourism planning department and media to help the locals build their own installations. This project is interdisciplinary, utilizing rigorous sociological research methods and extensively interacting with the villagers. We invited the villagers to be our jury, as they are our clients. After several discussions, we decided to create an installation inspired by the local characteristic osmanthus trees and traditional Chinese painting techniques. From a design perspective, the project primarily aims to explore the environmental sensitivity of two materials at the riverbank. The cold steel and the warm bamboo create a strong contrast. In the chilly mornings of winter in Gejia, the temperature and frost formation on these materials reflect this theme. From a project planning perspective, this is an extremely practical project. We need to deal with numerous stakeholders, which helps us gain a deeper understanding of rural construction in China.

Team Work: Henry Zhang, Hancong Ding, Xindi Sun Winter 2023

Fig. 2: Collabration Working

Fig. 1: Structure Test

Fig. 3: Conceptual Drawing of A Tree

Fig. 5: Completed Work

Fig. 4: 1:50 Physical Model

Decorational Components

Bamboo Structure Frame

Steel Structure Frame

Completed Work

Fig. 6: Two Types of Components and Joint Details

Fig. 7: Steel and Bamboo System

Collective Incremental Housing

Informal Dwelling, Municipio Curridabat, Costa Rica

Barrio Nuevo is an informal settlement located in the Municipal Curridabat, within the San Jose Metropolitan Area, the capital city of Costa Rica. However, the existence of this settlement creates a dichotomy between the municipality’s opportunity to invest in improving the area. To tackle the two interrelated problems of gender and housing finance, four teams collaborated to propose a feasible building solution that requires retrofitting infrastructure to serve multiple functions, including short-term rentals for Nicaraguan immigrants. Our group designed a two-level building that incorporates a circulation system to restrict men’s access to the top floor. The first floor serves as a living space, the second floor functions as a female activity room, and the ground floor is designated for Uber cars. The open floor plan between the two volumes is designed to take advantage of the local environment and the need for community events. Furthermore, with population growth in mind, our design allows residents to add more levels to create incremental housing. The building’s systems, such as water, electricity, and wastewater, have been carefully considered as part of the area’s overall infrastructure.

Professor: Maria Beatriz Garcia-Rincon&Matthew Bernstine

Team Work: Macy Renee, Amani Shammaa, Henry Zhang

Washington University in St. Louis Fall 2022

Fig. 1: Playground Next to the Flooded River

Fig. 2: Master Plan (Team Work)

Fig. 3-6: Four Design Strategies (Last image belongs to our group)

Fig. 7-10: The Prototype of Local Housing (All belong to our group)

INTERNSHIP

Yong’an Fang

Fig. 1: Rendering Model

Fig. 2: Facade Diagram

Fig. 3-6: Option Diagrams

My Assigned Design Strategy

Fig. 7-8: Historical Images

Fig. 9: Historical Situation

Fig. 10: My Design Strategy Step 1: Recover the Roof

Fig. 11: My Design Strategy Step 2: Move the Entry

Fig. 12: Physical Model

Fig. 15-17: Renovation Diagrams

Fig. 13: Urban Plan

Nanjing Capella

Fig. 1: Rendering for Building1

Fig. 3: Historical Structure Study for Building2

Fig. 2: Axono for Building1

Fig. 4: Axono for Building2

Porsche Experience Center

Fig. 1: Masterplan

Fig. 2: Rendering Model

Fig. 3-5: Racing, Greenery and Facility Map

ARCHITECTURE PHOTOGRAPHY