PROFESSIONAL WORKS
1.Liberty Plaza W hotel in Santa Fe, Mexico
2.Essar Visitor Center Cultural exhibition gallery, India
3.Behind the Wall Residential, Suzhou, China
4.Hybrid Office "Ordos 20+10" office building, Ordos, China
5.Rural House Sustainable rural house after earthquake, Sichuan, China
LIBERTY PLAZA PROFESSIONAL Office: Richard Meier & Partners, LLP Type: Office building and hotel Location: Santa Fe, Mexico Time: 2011.7-2011.9 Scale: Building Area: 63,012 m2 Site Area: 15753.08 m2 Phase: 50%DD Team: Dukho Yeon, Gillermo Murcia, Marianna Mello, Seojoo Lee, Joe Desense, Nate Substanely, Ruet Pison, Zheng Huang Role: 50% model, 100% diagram
DESIGN PROCESS
1.Simple massing on site
2.Twist according to site condition
3.Split into 3 different buildings and allow view to see through.
4.Subtract with several boxes to create entrance and terrace.
4.Add several boxes to create balconies, VIP rooms and cores.
4.Add louvers on south side to prevent direct sunlight.
ESSAR VISITOR CENTER Professional Office: Richard Meier & Partners, LLP Type: Institution Location: Hazira, India Time: 2011.7-2011.9 Scale: Building Area: 3900 m2 Site Area: 7400m2 Phase: 100%SD Team: Mahasti Fakourbayat, Parsa Khalili, Nate Substanely, Zheng Huang, Reut Pison Role: 50% Model making, 100% diagram
PLAN Loading/ Garbage
Gallery Storage /Workshops
Mechanical
Rotating gallery
Permanent Gallery Upper Level Reflecting Pool
Administration Hazira Gallery
Auditorium
Essar Group Gallery Green Room Reception
Pantry
Shop Cafe
Lower Level Reflecting Pool
DIAGRAM
Floor Plan
Geometry
Figure ground
Struture
Water
Circulation
In-between Space
BEHIND THE WALL PROFESSIONAL Office: standardarchitecture Type: Residential townhouse_Professional Location: Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, China Time: 2008.4-2008.10 Scale: Building area35150.17m2 Site area:33932m2 Phase: 100%SD, 75%DD Design team: Ke Zhang, Zhenhua Hou, Cheng Zhang, Di Huang, Zheng Huang,Yuanling Zhang Role: Concept develop(80%), Model making(100%), Drawings( 30%)
CONCEPT
TYPOLOGY Indicator of privacy condition and openess condition. Plan typology Ratio of courtyard area and floor area Abstract of courtyard house plan with wall and solid/ void relationship
4.2m Taichi, with yin and yang surrounded in a circle, illustrating the interconnected and dynamic relation of seemingly opposite polars.
Traditional Suzhou house has 2 symbolic elements: wall and courtyard, all of which establish the inner public and outside privacy relationship.The theme of 'courtyard houses' wants to explore the potential of an introverted, private and free lifestyle, which exists not only indoors, but also over the courtyard, of how to make residents feel more comfortable and free in a limited site through fine arrangements of space distribution and relationship.
Chinese character yuan (garden) with the same logic of wall enclosure system.
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Master of the Nets Garden 9m
TRANSFORMATION
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1.traditonal courtyard house do not need the sideroom
2.replace the side house with front house.
3.cutting and folding.
4.add one floor to increase the Floor Area Ratio (F.A.R.)
5.expand the width of side house to accomodate mutiple use.
6.cutting out balcony to increase public from privacy.
7.add sidewall to protect privacy.
8.leave enough outdoor space of courtyard activity.
DRAWINGS
Roof plan
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Wall detail section
Wall detail section
HYBRID OFFICE PROFESSIONAL Type: Office building_Professional Type: Office building_Professional Location: Ordos, China Time: 2010.1-2010.6 Scale: 0.63 ha (site) 16026 (building area) Design team: Yue Zhang, Zheng Huang, Shimeng Hao, Yujing Wang Role: Concept develop(70%), 3d modelling(50%), Drawings(30%)
CONCEPT
PROGRAM DIAGRAM
WORK
RELAX To make office building more natural and recreational, several agricultural program were designed within the nature boxes.
office hybrid space
recreation landscape
Conventionally, office buildings have high efficiency on program layout, which always result in separation between working and entertaining space, clear layering and vertical connection, etc. However, will this “high� programming efficiency lead to high working efficiency? This project aimed to balance the need of work and relax, by mixing programmatic cluster into fragmented, hybrid space and merging natural elements into different floors, which provide an interweaving amalgam for employers.
SKIN STUDY TRANSFORMATION
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Divide Divide the recreational box into several.
Reorganize Reorginze the volume height based on specific diagrams.
Displace Distribute the boxes on different levels to maxmize the utilize.
Trim Slightly trim off some of the edges to have dramatic interior perspectives
Connect A continus corridor connect all the natural boxes from bottom to top which allow public access.
Assume the conventional office building has two boxes, recreational box and office box.
Isolate Isolate the office box
Subtract Using displaced recreational box to subtract the office box.
Open Open the trimmed faces to surrounding environment.
Pierce Several vertical volume pierce the inside to create vertical atrium, allow natual light from skies.
Enclose A second skin enclose the building to make outer look clean.
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Abstraction of Mongolian are used as second facade skin pattern to reclaim the nostagia regionalism.
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The project was a pro-bono project under Holcim Foundation after the disastrous earthquake in China, 2008. The site is located in a remote village near Shifang City in Sichuan Province, which has low level of economy and industry, thus the objective of this project is to design and construct a sustainable, stable and affordable rural house, which will be a sample for local residents. The design of the house took ecology into the most significant consideration, from orientation to detailed design, trying to integrate local climate and make better performances. In order to conserve energy, reused material and recycled way of living was designed and developed on site. As for anti-seismic, the house used steel as its main structural material, which had high performance of anti-seismic, and was the first one being used in houses around that area. The final costs were only $13680, which was similar to the local house cost.
RURAL HOUSE PRACTICE Type: Volunteer Work of Sustainable & Affordable Rural House _ Collaborative Location: Shifang, Sichuan Province, China Time: 2009.3-2009.11 Scale: 130M2(Building area) 2500M2(Site area) Design team: Huang Zheng, Zhang Yue, Ni Feng, Hao Shimeng Role: Concept develop(50%), 3d modeling (100%) drawings (80%) construction management (100%) Publication: Architectural Journal(2010-9) ISSN:0529-1399
ACADEMIC WORKS 1.Unboxed Whitney museum design, NYC.
2.Sin City Crime research and urban Design, Philadelphia
3.Superimposition Highline extension design, NYC.
4.Dragonfly Wing 306 Hospital Ward Building design, Beijing.
5.Light Sculptrue Office building design, Ordos,China
UNBOXED ACADEMIC Type: Whitney Museum design _ Collaborative Location: Highline, New York City Instructor: Lise Anne Couture, Dana Cupcova Time: 2011.3-2011.5 Scale: 7000 M2 Exhibition: Cornell John Hartell Gallery Student Work Exhibition
SURFACE VARIATION Topologically the surface acts as a spatial knot of circulation that negotiates the public and private programs vertically. There are several parameters controlling the surface variation, among which X,Y,Z dimension and angle of hyperbolic surface are most common ones.Manipulations of field condition include mirror, displace, scale and porosity, which have different potential of spatial quality.
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SECTIONAL UNIT The design investigates abstract tectonic systems and evaluation of their performative and organizational potential for an evolved museum typology, starting from component prototype to field condition. This component is a polysurface comprised with hyperbolic parabolic, by simple organization such as array and mirror, it can create a field condition of non-oriental continuous “klein bottle� effect which blur the interior-exterior boundary.
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spatial quality
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SKIN STRATEGY The skin of museum is parametrically defined by 3 parameters: open area, twist angle and lifting height, all of which are part of an environmentally and programmatically responsive system, which developed dynamically in Grasshopper to simulate different situations, such as roof skylight, gallery walls.
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PLANS
PERSPECTIVES
cafe
book store
gallery
special gallery learning center
administration
11m Level Plan
gallery
riverside park
highline
lobby
art storage
Highline Level Plan (8m)
cafe
parking
auditorium
loading dock giftshop restaurant
Ground Floor Plan
HYPOTHESIS
spacial/statistical research TRUE
EXPERIMENT
objective/subjective engagement
set up strategy
NORMATIVE THEORY
DESIGN PRACTICE FALSE
FALSE
DEVELOPMENT TRUE
Philadelphia has the 2nd highest crime rate among the 10 most populous U.S. cities. Since crime has long been neglected into urban design due to the hegemony of the visual avatar, the objective of this project is to find the correlation between crime and functional, spacial arrangement, and how to reduce it by urban design. Our site is located in the most serious triangle neighborhood. The methodology is to first raise several hypothesis which are all indirectly/directly ralated to empirical knowledge about crime problem, if the hypothesis is proved to be true by research and experiments, then we can establish a design strategy according to that and begin to design. Therefore, we established 5 different hypothesis, each one with specific concern about the functional/spacial character of the area with the crime number. After testifying, we use our established design strategy for further development in specific site.
SIN CITY ACADEMIC Type: Urban design&research _ Collaborative Location: Philadelphia, PA Instructor: Val Warke Claudia Francesco Time: 2010.9-2010.12 Scale: Site Area: 130ha Team&Role: Zheng Huang (model making, drawing, rendering) Wu Ti'an (drawing)
EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS HYPOTHESIS 1: FUNCTION DIVERSITY n i=1
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HYPOTHESIS 3: PHYSICAL CONNECTIVITY(PC)
di= average area of each part of function along the street Si= area of certain part of function n= total number of function hi= intensity of each part of function fi = frequency of usage qi= activity weight
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HYPOTHESIS 2: VISUAL CONNECTIVITY (VC)
HYPOTHESIS 4-6: VACANCY EROSION DENSITY
900.00% 800.00% 700.00% 600.00% Visual Connectivity Rate
500.00% 400.00%
Crime Density of the Street Street
300.00% 200.00% 100.00% 0.00% 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
Crime and VC corelation
Crime and vacancy corelation
Crime and erosion corelation
DESIGN PROCESS
PERSPECTIVES
1.Physical Connectivity
2.Visual Connectivity
Take the contextual structure as the main direction of promenade system.
Take the visual connection lines as tectonic structure where the facade becomes transparent.
3.Vacant Land Reconnect the existing vacant land and turn it into artificial landscape.
5.Erosion The new promenade system would connect all the fragmented buildings within the site.
4.Vacant Building Reuse the ex i s t i ng vacant building and turn it into structure of promenade system as well as vertical circulation system
6.Functional Diversity Setting the mixed-use function along the pathway to increase functional diversity.
The objective of this project is to use infrastructure in service of itself as a means to produce a moment of urban intensity. The site is located directly adjacent to the High Line at 23rd street in New York's West Chelsea Arts district, where the zoning code strictly limited the density within 75ft. Partially inspired by the elevated tracks that make up the High Line superstructure, the project utilized parallel pathways to create public space both exterior and interior, including skate ramps, museums and park extensions,etc, which superimposed the infrastructure on site. The location and direction of turning points were determined by the urban fabric.
SUPERIMPOSITION ACADEMIC Type: Infrastructure design _ Personal Location: Highline, New York City Instructor: Neil Denari Time: 2010.5-2010.6 Scale: 4000 M2 Publication: Changing Lanes,Cornell AAP Summer Studio book 2010
Lounge
Bar
Observation
Lounge
Lounge
Cafe
Office
Lounge
Cafe
PRIMARY NETWORK Main functional program were distributed along primary tubes, including art galleries, shops, cafĂŠ, skate rinks and open air theatres.
SECONDARY NETWORK The secondary tubes serve as connections among primary network which could be escalators, stairs or ramps.
STRUCTURAL SUPPORT 5 concrete-made elevators were designed to be vertical circulation as well as structural support for primary network and towers.
TOWER RAMP SYSTEM The 2 observation towers give space for imminent events such as exhibition and party while at the same time overlooking highline from top down.
PLAN
Cafe Gallery
Internet bar
Restaurant Theater Aboretum
Studying lounge Library Entrance 4.5M PLAN
3M PLAN
Exit
Sighting roof
Roof garden
Sighting roof
8M PLAN- high line level
Museum Route
Sport Route
Plant experience Route
11M PLAN
Recreation Route
Observation Route
Free Access Route
The "modern" hospital in China has suffered great pain during S.A.R.S, for its automatic ventilation system served not as a cleaner, but a contaminator. Besides, the lack of "leisure space" in ward buildings as well as the deadpan uniformed facade has aggravated the psychological condition of patients, which are like wounded cut, seriously influence the recovery time. This design research project focus on the natural ventilation by studying the dragonfly wing structure and applying its unique character on the building facade system as biomimesis.
DRAGONFLY WING ACADEMIC Type: Design research_ Collaborative Location: Beijing, China. Time: 2011.2-2011.5 Scale: Building Area: 39480 M2 Site Area: 11650 M2 Collaborator:Fanbo Zeng Tutor: Christiane Sauer
CONCEPT
SECTIONAL PROPERTIES
Dragonflies possess the unique flight capabilities of hovering and flight in multiple directions. The passive bending resulting from the wing structure is the primary quality of the wing. This research project starts from studing different qualities of dragonfly wings related to their aerodynamic and light-weight structural value. According to its two main characters: wing pattern, corrugated section, we apply the principles to practical use of natural ventilation facade system to hospital design.
The curvature of section decreases from leading edge to trailing edge.
The degree of corrugation of section decreases.
Winter The uncorrugated surface serves worse ventilation than corrugated surface so that to keep the room warm. Deformation of the cell (honeycomb shape) happens in the split of vein.
The cell transform from 4 sides polygon to 6 sides hexagon or more. The size of cell decreases from leading edge to trailing edge.
Summer The corrugated surface serves better ventilation than streamlined or flat surface within 12.5 degree angle of wind.
VENTILATION TEST
SUMMER Detail section 1
WINTER Detail section 1
SUMMER Detail section 2
WINTER Detail section 2
EXTERIOR PERSPECTIVE
DETAIL
Suspending - Hanging System The double facade is supported by a steel structure system. The under part floor is hanged by strong suspending beam from the upper floor.
CFD Experiment Using CFD simulation one can tell the efficiency of ventilation condition between different location and facade sections.
LIGHT SCULPTURE Academic Type: Office building research & design _ Collaborative Location: Ordos, China Time: 2010.1-2010.6 Scale: Building Area: 11400 M2 Site Area: 0.54ha Award: Finalist of VELUX competiton 2010 Team&Role: Zheng Huang, Xiaoqing Xu,Chuan Wang, Yu Wang Instructor: Yue Zhang
CROCHETING ALGORITHMS Digital fabrication and algorithms, Feb-May 2011 Collaborator: Fanbo Zeng
OTHER WORKS WORKS FROM 2008-2011
UNITED ISLAND Washington Monument Competition, Dec 2010 Collaborator: Fanbo Zeng
HYBRID AUDITORIUM Tianjin Davos Auditorium Competition, Tianjin, Jan-March 2009 Independent work
PORTABLE TOILET Affordable&Ecological Mobile Toilet for Sichuan Post-quake Reconstruction, June-July, 2008 Internship at standardarchitecture
WELL UMBRELLA Totem design for XIII UIA World congress student competition,March-May, 2008 Independent work UIA Louise Cox Prize, Published in Architectural Journal(2008-9) ISSN:0529-139
ART WORKS OTHERS up: City sketch of florence, Italy bottom: Color paintings, Qingdao