2018_UPenn Application

YUHAO ZHANG This portfolio contains selected works 2013-2017 Applying for March Option1 Program at University of Pennsylvania

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CONTENT selected works 2013-2017

o1 COMMERCE MOUNATAIN Proposal of A Business Mixed Building

o2 ART FACTORY Design of Studio and Exhibition Art Center

o3 MOBILE CITY Exploration of A High Technology Park

o4 LINE LANE LAND Renovation of Old Residential Community

o5 OTHER WORKS Fine Arts

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COMMERCE MOUNATAIN Proposal of A Business Mixed Building

Graduation Year Individual Work Instructor. Prof. Li Hui 2017. 9

We used to enjoy the traditional Chinese gardens in Suzhou, such as Zhuo Zheng garden via two dimension plan. However, the designer of Zhuo Zheng Garden, Wen Zhenming (Song dynasty) relied on axonometric drawings to image future programs in this garden, such as the "Thirty-one scene of Zhuo Zheng Garden".

There is an interesting phenomenon in China that the repetitive banal super business center have now taken control all over our daily life, especially in China. City should acts like people. Shanghai was a 20 year vigorous girl vs Shuzhou as a old charming lady once upon a time. However, we can no longer distinguish them. Both of the ladies are now dressed with a terrible uniform call consuming flamboyant a fake promising modern life.

Thirty-one sences of Zhuo Zhenyuan Wen Zhenming(Song)

These projects criticized space of current business-mixed centers and reconsider one new unique possibility that fits Suzhou's local culture. Different types of mountains in Chinese landscape painting and artificial garden are the major observed object. The art connection between painting and architecture design is revived.

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MASSING STUDY FROM CONVENTIONAL PAINTING

Excerpt of Flourishing Gusu Painting. Xu Yang

Section of mountains and buildings in this painting.

Plan view of different types of mountains in this painting.

Site Plan

COMMERCIAL TYPE STUDY

cinema

Mountain and site

Combine mountains and building

Separate and withdraw layers

Main Structure of this project

Simplify mountains

lounge lounge washrooms

5F

Shanghai

4F Beijing Suzhou

3F

stores Garden

lounge washrooms

Mountain

equipment Cities

Atrium

Hangzhou

Programs 1F

Typical

2F

stores washrooms stores equipment stores lounge entrance security

Atrium

Site: Suzhou

Apply mountain types

Proposal

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CIRCULATION & STRUCTURE STUDY

The ancient Chinese painting book "Lin Quan Gao Zhi" mentions that there are three circumstances of mountain , "Far of the mountain", "Height of the mountain" and "Deep of the mountain", which represents the process of enjoying mountains in one painting from low altitude to high altitude.

FACADE STUDY

There are 5 unique characters of artificial stone in traditional gardens. I notice that there is a relationship between stone’s characteristics and building’s facade.

Beside, various types of mountains form mountain groups, including big mountain, small mountain, far mountain and closed mountain. Floors change into different inclined slopes. Different angled slopes symbolize different sizes of mountains.

Wrinkle

Avoid noise

All of these mentioned above are so called "Art of Mountain and Stone".

Leak

Thorough

Restain original temperament

Change character with silks

Floor Plan of commerce mountain and hotel

Structure of commerce mountain View from outside

View from inside

Level's change of privacy

Transportation of commerce mountain 05/06

DETAILED PROGRAMS

1. Office 2. Facility 3. Stores 4. Library 5. Coffee 6. Washroom 7. Cafeteria 8. Kitchen 9. Lounge 10. Swimming pool

11. Gym 12. Small cinema 13. Massage room 14. Viewing platform 15. Landscape 16. Hotel 17. Lobby 18. Karaoke 19. Bar

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Far of the Mounatin View from viewing platform of commerce mountain, to forane mountains, creating a feeling of flatness.

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Height of the Mountain

View from entrance hall of commerce mountain to the high location, creating a feeling of towering.

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Deep of the Mountain View from front of this building, the building turns into a filter in between, creating deepness of space.

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ART FACTORY Design of Studio and Exhibition Art Center

Sophomore Design Studio Individual Work Instructor. Prof. Zhang Yi 2015. 4

This site once was a aircraft production factory. It turned into the Shanghai West Bund Art Center in 1990s. This project aims to create another possibility of the site. An art container that can congregate all art, design and fashion festival.

This factory impress me with its super structures. An enormous volume created by the sequential steel structure, which is a symbol during the industrial period. The project aims to reconstruct the volume through a second layer of steel to accommodate both the new function and the old symbol.

View of facade

Finally, I got the highest grade and evaluation in this design studio and obtained the first scholarship and merit student during that year.

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SITE

STRUCTURE STUDY

Original sequential structure

Triangle element

There are twenty two supporting frames in this factory.

And the major component of this structure is triangle.

As we all know that, triangle is the most stable form in architecture design.Therefore, this project aims to extract geometrical pattern from old construction and base on this pattern to create a newsupporting system.

Duplicate triangular column network

Pull up and strengthen interval column groups

Huangpu River Site

Combine unstable structure with floors and girders

Art Museums Commerce Distance

Final frame of columns and floors

Network This site locates at the northwest part of Shanghai, which is far away from major urban area.

Shanghai Power Station of Art Museum and Shanghai China Art Museum is nearby, which create an art atmosphere in this district. Artists and designers from various fields are major users.

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USER MANUAL

Artists Studio Plan

Storage Plan

Exhibtion Plan

Office Plan

Storage Plan

Exhibtion Plan

Drawing Plan

Gym Plan

Lecture Hall Plan

Users

Designers

Leisure time

Life

Work time

Artists and designers have different requirements of space. Artists need independent and closed space for creation of works. Designers need spacious platform and open space for communication. Different sizes of triangles fit various requirements.

Art studio unit

Exhibition

United office

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View from exhibition halll

View from exhibition hall

When they are tutoring, People can see the birth of an art work from transparent triangular unit, which is another kind of art work. The closed gallery and opened exhibition all can enrich the experience of tutoring.

View from united office plantform

View from entrance halll 17/18

STRUCTURE DIALOGUE

There is a one meter wide corridor between old structure and new steel structure. When people walk through this passage way, they can feel the conversation and power between different structure from various periods.

Joint detail

The new steel structure consists of two strip of steel beams. The interspace of this material creates a feeling of dexterous, which contradicts to the cumbersome feeling of original material.

1-1 Section

2-2 Section

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FLOOR PLAN

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Third floor plan

1. Entrance hall 2. Reception 3. Gallery 4. Art exhibition hall 5. Toilets 6. Staircase 7. Resting lounge

8. Equipment Room 9. Art studio 10. Washroom 11. Storage room 12. Meeting room 13. Pantry room

14. Lecture hall 15. Dressing room 16. Office unit 17. Office hall 18. Corridor 19. Landscape

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MOBILE CITY Exploration of A High Technology Park

Graduation Project Teamwork Work Instructor. Prof. Li Hui & Xu Yuelan Team Member: Zhang Yuhao, Wu Tingjun, Liu Lingfeng Award: Silver Award of Graduation Project & Creative Award of Ling Fengmian My capacity of this project involves project proposition, handicraft model, survey, information collection, rendering.

2017. 6

Cities also die sometime. The growth of a city is similar as the growth of the leaves' vein. Vein consists of cells and cells transport nutrients. City would get "sick" when the veins are clog. This projects aim to explore the growth cycle of a city, the renewal of a city and the boundary of a city.

A new type of detachable and mobile construction that represents cells. These construct not only transport people's daily life, space and time, but also, they rekindle wasted areas, replenish infrastructure and redefine boundary of this site.

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SITE ANALYSIS

SITE PLAN

Unplaned areas Landscape

Central parks High residential buildings Proposed gardens Proposed stores

Office area Residential area

High technology parks

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Area

Unplaned landscape

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Usage rate

Residential area Stores

Metro station and commercial plaza

Area Number

Parking system

Trail system Number Flows

Number&Flows

Site plan Stall system

PROTOTYPE STUDY

Variation of this mobile unit's facades has a crucial impact on the steel structure.The final pattern can connect around circumstance.

The sequential units besiege a tree atrium.

A Cycling system

Cycling system connects Metro station and wasted landscape.

People can exercise in this system.

B Multifunctional area

The roof of equipment room is changed into small basketball court and public washrooms.

C Gallery/Exhibition hall

Exhibition hall is open to public, people can enjoy art works or listen lecture here.

D Public plaza

Change enclosed landscape as plaza, which increase people and business vigor.

Basic plan 25/26

MODULAT STUDY

9 sq.m., suitable size for human beings

Bus station

3m high, suitable size for one floor

Nails

150mm wide structure, convenient for transportation

Smoking room

Public toilet

Dining room

Meeting room (reserved)

Parking

Recreation facilities

Food stalls

Bikes parking

Children facilities

Air cushion

Metal

Deformation

Carve up

Floating on the water

Pavilion or sculpture

Wood Girder Basic network

B. Roof volleyball court 17:30

Coffee room

Mobile stores

Glass

Guide orientation

Bridge and signpost

D. Public plaza enterance 16:30

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AXONOMETRY

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04

LINE LANE LAND Renovation of Old Residential Community

Senior Design Studio Individual Work Instructor. Prof. Xu Yuelan 2016. 10

Located at Hong Kou district, Shanghai, the site was occupied by Japan during the second world war for ten years. When they were gone, they left the new urban fabric, a special lane and street system behind.

The district later developed into residential area and new problems raised. The street, lane and residential house are too crowed and narrow for dwellers to use nowadays. Different daily objects occupies the public domain like delivery lockers, bicycles, cats' houses, etc.

There is no place left for people to carry on their public activities.

The aim of this project is not only solving the problems mentioned above, but also renovating the relationship of the neighborhood.

View from road

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PATTERN STUDY

SITE

The first layer of the site is major roads, which represents large size and public area.

Roads

The secondary scale is expand streets, which represents medium size and transitional space.

Roads

Streets

Lanes

Corridors

Roads The roads' width is 8 meters.

Streets The streets' width is 4 meters.

Lanes The lanes' width is 2 meters.

Corridors The roads' width is 1 meters.

Streets

Thesmall lanes of sites are main character in this project, which represents small size and private space.

Different types of passage represent various sizes of space and the relationship from public to privacy. This project rely on atrium to connect public activities and residential area. Consequently, variation of public and privacy is defined by atrium.-

Lanes

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USER ACTIVITY

PROTOTYPE DESIGN PROCESS

Shi Ku Vault is the boundary of private and public in traditional block. The vaults are constitute with two pages of vaults. The bigger one, the entrance of the community, is three meters wide, while the smaller one is one meters wide, as the entrance of personal houses. The projects aims to project the vertical curves of the vaults, which divides the public and the private, onto the 3dimensional devices as buffer zone of the community.

Big vault

Small vault

Original column network

Combination with curve and stairs

Solid ground surface Age Young people

Concrete structural walls Activities Time period Old people

Data visualization above shows activities which happens in the community.

The chart on the right shows the demography status of the area most of them are old people.

Old people Work Sleeping Leisure time Other Number

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RENOVATION MANUAL

There are six most serious problems in this community: the delivery lockers stand on the lane, the wild cats set up their homes on the wall of lane, the Ofo bicycles are discarded at the corner of lane, no public space for old men to

play cheese, no public space for old ladies and absence of nature green gardens.These photos records the real situation of local people. The curve structural walls can create more useful space than original straight walls.

Before

Original delivery lockers

Original cats' home

Original dancing square

Original chess place

Current cats' home

Current dancing square

Current chess place

Original gardens

After

Current delivery lockers

current gardens

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FLOOR PLAN

The drawing below is divided into two parts. The first eight units are the second floors and third floors. The other is another part.Some unique space volume are retain, such as the "Ting Zijian" which used to be guest bedroom.

The content of these rooms are redefined for various and new function, such as living room, kitchen and etc.Main bedrooms occupy the original useless space of roof on the third floors.

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First part of third floor 1. Living room 2. Entrance 3. Bathroom and kitchen 4. Kitchen 5. Guest bedroom 6. Staircase 7. Main bedroom 8. Bathroom 9. Study 10. Storeroom 11. Bedroom and bathroom

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Second part of third floor

1. Living room 2. Entrance 3. Bathroom and kitchen 4. Kitchen 5. Guest bedroom 6. Staircase 7. Main bedroom 8. Bathroom 9. Study 10. Storeroom 11. Bedroom and bathroom

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SECTION

Residential programs

1-1 Section All the new additive programs are arranged on the first floor, which brings area of public activities back for local dwellers. And, it solves the problems existing on the lanes. The second and third floors retain past function.

Different types of houses fit different family's size. They represent privacy.

Public activities

Vertical transportation

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View from street 43/44

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OTHER WORKS Fine Arts

Whole University Period Individual Work 2013.7-2017.6

These selected works including different types of fine arts,including watercolor painting, charcoal painting. I prefer to observing various people from our society, different methods present behind stories. Architecture sketch is my dairy, it doesn't show the world I see, but also the emotion when I saw these construction.

Grandma Pencil sketch 10. 2014

Bunny Boy Watercolor 10. 2015

Architecture Sketch Pencil and Pen 12. 2016

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