Zhou Meng, Architecture Portfolio

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MArch Architectural Design, Full-time, 2021/22

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CONTACT

9-2-602, San Hua Tian Yun Hua Yuan Jianggan District, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China Email: 903742870@qq.com Mobile: 0086 13615816196

CO N TE NTS

Education Background

2017.09—2021.06 Wenzhou Kean University Undergraduate Specialty: Architecture Design (Will Graduate in June, 2021)

Work Experience

2019.07 - 2019.09 TOPOS DESIGN Intern  Investigated into architectural and construction sites  Built architectural models  Did some drawing work and sketched graphics  Translated some documents for architectural projects

Project Experiences

2019.06-2019.08 Carbon Natural  Assisted in micro bamboo model experiment  Lectured on 2019 Tongji Digital Future Seminar 2019.02-2019.05 Xinwu Manifesto  Investigated into Xinwu Village, designed architectures and made sketches  Published a book called Xinwu Manifesto 2018.07-2018.08 Sanyang Wetland Design  Engaged in the design projects for the wetland  Displayed on Wenzhou Cultural Expo

Skills    

Proficient in English Capable to use specialized software including Rhino, AI, PS, ID, SU, CAD, Revit and Enscape Capable to use 3D print machine and laser cutting machine Proficient in using office software including Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Pr

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Keen on sports like swimming, football and badminton Fond of reading Loving poetry

Other Information

01 Sanhe Talent Market Skyscraper A shelter for Sanhe workers

02 Imperial Street Building Renovation Redefinition of the city wall

03 Dom dzienny, Dom nocny

Abstracting books as architecturew

04 Carbon Natural

Using molecular logics as inspiration in Micro-Bamboo structure

05 Other Works


01 Sanhe Talent Market Skyscraper A shelter for Sanhe workers Personal work 丨 Summer 2020 Located in Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, China

In Longhua New District, a suburb of Shenzhen, China, there is a large employment agency "Sanhe Talent Market". The surrounding alleys are lined with dilapidated buildings, cheap Internet cafes, hotels, grocery stores and more than a hundred other shops. Many young people doze off in Internet cafes, or sleep on the streets. It is another reality that does exist in such a big city, Shenzhen. This project will explore how urbanization in the form of skyscraper confronts a group of young workers who are far from hometowm, struggling between hope and despair. It will also try to break the limitations of traditional high-rise buildings: high volume ratio, lack of greenery and public space, and low spatial richness, with each floor having the same layout.


SITE CONDITION

Urban Farbric

Village Farbric

Traffic

The question of how to give migrant workers a sense of belonging is an nagging one. I tried to find the answer from the cultural heritage of Longhua District itself. Finally, I decided to use Hakka culture as the basis for the design of the formal language of the building. Migration runs through the formation of Hakka culture, and Hakka is the only ethnic group that is not named based on a region. The migration in Hakka culture is similar to the uprootedness of young workers in Sanhe. And this similarity implies the possibility of tolerance and mutual understanding. I hope that the two can be combined. For the Sanhe workers, I invite them to learn a trade and make a living by it, instead of living a life of "work one day, relax three days".

Migration Map

Where Hakka people comes from

Where Sanhe people comes from

Source of Population in Longhua District

Per Capita Income Statistics




"Our design was only an invitation to the new lifestyle", that's what Yung Ho Chang said, and I think he's totally right. Architecture is always to start with a little grand intention, and then make it smaller and smaller. It is only after the work is done that we can think of whether people are willing to accept your design or not. Especially in the face of these social issues, architecture is not as strong as political. I remember when Kenzo Tange designed the Yoyogi Gymnasium, he wanted the building to be more approachable by considering the scale. However, I still designed a skyscraper, and I knew that it is incompatible with the Sanhe workers who were sleeping in the park, but the scale of modernity and megastructure never stopped expanding and invading in the seam between the urban and the countryside of Jingle Community. One day these workers will have to face these scepters that they need to look up to. I just hope they can step inside and find a piece of space of their own.



OUTER SPACE

INTERIOR PUBLIC SPACE

MULTIPLE HIGHT SPACE


02 Imperial Street Building Renovation Redefinition of the city wall Personal work 丨 Autumn 2020 Located in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China

Hangzhou is one of the six ancient capitals of China and the inheritor of the Southern Song Dynasty culture. The project site, Cha Yuan Qian Alley, is adjacent to the ruins of the Imperial Temple of the Southern Song Dynasty. The historical elements have had a great influence on the local architecture. The architecture of Cha Yuan Qian Alley is made up of old houses from the earliest Southern Song Dynasty to the Ming and Qing Dynasties, from Western architecture of the Republic of China to modern architecture, such scenery along the alley shows the cultural development of more than 800 years. How to objectively show this historical change through architecture is the key in my project.








03 Dom dzienny, Dom nocny Abstracting Books as Architecturew Personal work 丨 Winter 2020 Located in Poland

Olga Tokarczuk's "Dom dzienny, Dom nocny" can hardly be categorized into any one literary genre; its fragmented narrative makes the book more of an amalgam of texts, with little linearity or novel-like continuity between the stories. The only thing that makes the book whole is the author's description of the interplay between dream and reality, based on ambient and personal experience. This project will extract six individual stories from the book, and from the perspective of architectural formal language and semiotics, abstract the imagery contained in the stories into architectural spaces, focusing on creating fragmented spatial experiences and emotional atmospheres that will resonate with people.






04 Carbon Natural

Using Molecular logics as Inspiration in Micro-Bamboo Structure Professor Ralph Spencer Steenblik Team work 丨 Summer 2019 Located in Wenzhou, Zhejiang Provine, China Material Research 丨 Structural Research 丨 Solid model Building

This project involved a scientific or iterative research process, designing a proto-architectural molecularly inspired microbamboo system, followed by some case-study examples of actualized instantiations of the system at scale. Turning to one of the most effective and strongest molecular structures, carbon, as inspiration for its particularly versatile, tribrachidium nature, and utilizing micro-bamboo for its mass-produced ubiquity, it created some unexpected novel opportunities, and has a multiplicity of possibilities. In this project, I was mainly responsible for the experiments on materials and structures and the actual model construction of the protype.






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