PORTFOLIO FROM JINGBO ZHANG

INTRODUCTION

Huadong [East China] is one of the most important economic regions along the coast of China, with abundant natural resources, comfortable climate, and dense population.

In the past 20 years, the entire Yangtze River Delta region has formed an unprecedented urbanization development process by taking advantage of the economic dividends radiated by Shanghai. To this day, East China, as one of the most important urban settlements in China, is still seeking new development opportunities.

In the current development of urbanization, East China has differentiated different urban functions based on different geographical conditions and resource allocation. The differentiation within the region gradually becomes significant. At the same time, the neglect of green environment caused by only focusing on indicators in the process of urbanization will restrict future urban development. At the same time, due to the influx of migrant workers from other provinces, reasonable living space has also become an urgent demand.

PORTFOLIO

insolation green field city functions

MAIN PURPOSE

The purpose of the project is to embed and use the building to restore the green in the process of urbanization, so that the green plants can really play a role in forming the self-circulation of the urban environment As the cornerstone of the green expansion, improve the ecological appearance and environmental system of the city. In the current process of urban expansion, it is part of the secondary urban center to share the pressure of the core urban area. When the future urban expansion tends to be saturated, as a peripheral urban agglomeration, it surrounds the core urban area to improve the environmental problems caused by urbanization and industrialization.

OASIS is a community model that will grow by itself, providing super city residents with a collective housing method.It provides residents with ample space for activities and is accompanied by greenery to better feel the nature. It provides different residential modules for families with different numbers of members, meeting the demands of families from single to three generations living in one house.The agricultural land around the building can guarantee self-sufficiency. With the increase of residents, the oasis can also continue to rise. When the urbanization process progresses to the area where the OASIS is located, it is also the time for the oasis to expand outward and transform the land and environment.

The structure of the OASIS is composed of units, and the living space in the units comes from simple modluar elements.Modules can make the building more efficient to be built, and leave a high possibility for expansion in the future.This is the embodiment of the OASIS itself can grow and adapt.

Today’s super cities in the Yangtze River Delta are expanding rapidly. But how to maintain the sustainable development of a city under limited land resources after 20-30 years is the question that OASIS tries to answer.

This plan is not limited to Eastern China, but can also provide ideas for all future cities that fall into development constraints

Jingbo Zhang

The University of Liverpool

Design Phase

Choice of location location analysis:

- topography

- vegetation distribution

- insolation

- green field

- city idenity and function

- local population

Relationship with the existing city center

- serve as a secondary city center

- the cornerstone of green expansion

Close cooperation with the community and people

Community attributes are a very important part, as many residents as possible participate in the design of functions

Material language and selection

Under the premise of a friendly environment, try to find and use local materials to avoid homogeneity

UNITS STRUCTURE

Using The the is efficiency

On-site Use complete conducive Flower of Although skipped, will

Population Resdential

Bachelor of art in Architecture

Land Usage Environment

Urbanization Industrialization

CONTENTS

01 02 03 04 05

Location： Hyuton

Individual work

Date: 02/2022-06/2022

Instructor: Sandy Britton

Mayfair Community City Digital Management Hub-based on Evolutionary Algorithm

Location： Liverpool

Group work: Individual work

Date: 10/2022-12/2022

Instructor: Meizi Li

Las Vegas Affordable Housing Design

Location： Las Vegas

Individual work

Date: 12/2022-03/2023

Instructor： Aronld Yu

Moodrfields Gallery

Location： Liverpool

Individual work

Date: 10/2022-12/2023

Instructor：Michael Baldwin

OASIS

Location: Yangtze River Delta region

Group work: Team of Three

Date: 02/2021-05/2021

01-06

07-12

13-19

20-26

27-29

Mayfair Community

Location： Hyuton

Individual work

Date: 02/2022-06/2022

Instructor: Sandy Britton

The project was to renovate MAYFAIR CINEMA on HIGH STREET, building on the original structure and designing it as a multifunctional building consisting of a theatre, cinema, restaurant, meeting rooms and library. As it is located right in the heart of the High Street, close to the main street, it will attract visitors to the area and make use of it, not only to bring more economic benefits to the area, but also to provide jobs for people who lost their jobs under the covide-19, to improve the well-being of the population and to maintain social security. It would also provide a comfortable resting area for visitors to the area and a relaxing meeting place for local residents.

Massing Generation

Axonometric Drawing

Construction Detail

City Digital Management Hub-based on Evolutionary Algorithm

Location： Liverpool

Individual work

Date: 10/2022-12/2022

Instructor: Meizi Li

Under the influence of mass production and globalization in the last century, modern cities have gradually expanded in size and scale. In some specific cases, it is necessary to carry out allround communication and management of the urban population. The project collects urban environmental and social factors as the constraints of spatial organization to explore and generate a unique spatial architecture (genetic algorithm model) for the selected site as a spatial place for centralized communication, management and operation. This project uses this algorithm to study several influencing factors, and selects three venues with the most balanced values to build installation art.

Site Analysis

Building Functions

Building Functions

commercial buildings, educational buildings, residential buildings, industrial buildings, other functional buildings

commercial buildings, educational buildings, residential buildings, industrial buildings, other functional buildings

Location Generation Logic

Land Availaible For Construction

Land Availaible For Construction

unbuilt land plots can be used in constructing for street performance

unbuilt land plots can be used in constructing for street performance

Objective Space

Greenland green belts, gardens, parks

Greenland green belts, gardens, parks

Example Solution

Transportation

major roads, minor roads, highways, bus stops, subway stations

major roads, minor roads, highways, bus stops, subway stations

Liverpool City

Liverpool City

building functions, transportation, land available for construction

building functions, transportation, land available for construction

Parallel Coordinate Plot

A total of 50 generations with 50 solutions of site selection and building volume in each generation. The 2500 solutions are randomly divided into 4 groups, choosing the best solution in each group which is biased toward one objective or average as a whole, listing on the next page. Results are filtrated by the value of the fitness objectives. A smaller value indicates a closer approach to ideal solution. Gen. 49 Indv. 23

FO1: maximum building(people) density

Fitness Value: 21.661378

Fitness Rank: 382/2499

FO2: maximum distance to major road

Fitness Value: 189.911285

Fitness Rank: 1842/2499

FO3: minimum distance to metro

Fitness Value: 123.547762

Fitness Rank: 1972/2499

Fitness Objective 1

Fitness Objective 2 Fitness Objective 3 Average

Large Scale Street Performance Pavillion, Detail

Medium Scale Street Performance Pavillion

Las Vegas

Affordable Housing Design

Location： Las Vegas

Individual work

Date: 12/2022-03/2023

Instructor： Aronld Yu

The project site is located at 2380 Marion Dr in the Sunrise Manor area in the northeast of Las Vegas. Income, crime rates, and living standards are at the end of each block. Therefore, this project chooses to design community-based affordable housing in this area to provide shelter for residents living here and improve their living conditions. This project introduces the concept of modular buildings, which are combined in different arrangements to form different building groups and create more spaces in the community. While connecting with the surrounding environment of the site, it also provides sufficient internal space. Privacy space, providing residents with more comfortable living conditions. At the same time, a variety of room types are provided inside the building to better serve the needs of different people. Service spaces such as store lounges are also designed inside, which can not only enrich residents' lives, but also create some employment opportunities, stabilize and promote local economic development.

Wall Section

Elevation

Living Room

Bedroom

Axonometric Drawing

Moodrfields Gallery

Location： Liverpool

Individual work

Date: 10/2022-12/2023

Instructor：Michael Baldwin

As an architectural typology, art galleries can take many forms. One universal constant, however, is the prevalence of the concept of travel. The gallery is one of the few buildings that allows the public to roam freely at any speed and in any direction. An art gallery can be described as a series of experiences through a continuum of various spaces; a place where you can experience a range of emotions and possibly learn something along the way. The project aims to design a dedicated peripheral, controversial and new art pioneer gallery for Liverpool, providing them with spaces for small and large art. Compared with Liverpool's style of small galleries, this project is larger in scale, and while placing more artworks, it can also provide visitors with a more interesting and rich viewing experience.

Axonometric Drawing

Sectional Perspective

Cafe Corridor

Exhibition Hall

OASIS Location: Yangtze River Delta region

Group work: Team of Three

Date: 02/2021-05/2021

As an architectural typology, art galleries can take many forms. One universal constant, however, is the prevalence of the concept of travel. The gallery is one of the few buildings that allows the public to roam freely at any speed and in any direction. An art gallery can be described as a series of experiences through a continuum of various spaces; a place where you can experience a range of emotions and possibly learn something along the way. The project aims to design a dedicated peripheral, controversial and new art pioneer gallery for Liverpool, providing them with spaces for small and large art. Compared with Liverpool's style of small galleries, this project is larger in scale, and while placing more artworks, it can also provide visitors with a more interesting and rich viewing experience.

INTRODUCTION

Huadong [East China] is one of the most important economic regions along the coast of China, with abundant natural resources, comfortable climate, and dense population.

In the past 20 years, the entire Yangtze River Delta region has formed an unprecedented urbanization development process by taking advantage of the economic dividends radiated by Shanghai. To this day, East China, as one of the most important urban settlements in China, is still seeking new development opportunities.

In the current development of urbanization, East China has differentiated different urban functions based on different geographical conditions and resource allocation. The differentiation within the region gradually becomes significant. At the same time, the neglect of green environment caused by only focusing on indicators in the process of urbanization will restrict future urban development. At the same time, due to the influx of migrant workers from other provinces, reasonable living space has also become an urgent demand.

GROWTH CYCLE AXIS

Choice of location

location analysis:

- topography

- vegetation distribution

- insolation

- green field

- city idenity and function

- local population

Relationship with the existing city center

- serve as a secondary city center

topography location vegetation distribution

- the cornerstone of green expansion

Close cooperation with the community and people

Community attributes are a very important part, as many residents as possible participate in the design of functions

Material language and selection

Material

and selection

Under the premise of a friendly environment, try to find and use local materials to avoid homogeneity

Under the premise of a friendly environment, try to find and use local materials to avoid homogeneity

insolation green field city functions

MAIN PURPOSE

The purpose of the project is to embed and use the building to restore the green in the process of urbanization, so that the green plants can really play a role in forming the self-circulation of the urban environment As the cornerstone of the green expansion, improve the ecological appearance and environmental system of the city. In the current process of urban expansion, it is part of the secondary urban center to share the pressure of the core urban area. When the future urban expansion tends to be saturated, as a peripheral urban agglomeration, it surrounds the core urban area to improve the environmental problems caused by urbanization and industrialization.

OASIS is a community model that will grow by itself, providing super city residents with a collective housing method.It provides residents with ample space for activities and is accompanied by greenery to better feel the nature. It provides different residential modules for families with different numbers of members, meeting the demands of families from single to three generations living in one house.The agricultural land around the building can guarantee self-sufficiency. With the increase of residents, the oasis can also continue to rise. When the urbanization process progresses to the area where the OASIS is located, it is also the time for the oasis to expand outward and transform the land and environment.

The structure of the OASIS is composed of units, and the living space in the units comes from simple modluar elements.Modules can make the building more efficient to be built, and leave a high possibility for expansion in the future.This is the embodiment of the OASIS itself can grow and adapt.

Today’s super cities in the Yangtze River Delta are expanding rapidly. But how to maintain the sustainable development of a city under limited land resources after 20-30 years is the question that OASIS tries to answer. This plan is not limited to Eastern China, but can also provide ideas for all future cities that fall into development constraints

Population Resdential

UNITS STRUCTURE

Using modules

Using modules

The basic modules are used to deduced the unit, and the repetitive structure is used to improve the construction efficiency

The basic modules are used to deduced the unit, and the repetitive structure is used to improve the construction efficiency

On-site construction

On-site construction

Use prefabricated components to complete on-site assembly, which is conducive to mass production

Use prefabricated components to complete on-site assembly, which is conducive to mass production

Flower stand on building and sowing of seeds

Flower stand on building and sowing of seeds

Although the growth cycle cannot be skipped, the space for future plant growth will be pre-designed during construction

Although the growth cycle cannot be skipped, the space for future plant growth will be pre-designed during construction

Outward expansion centered on the building

Outward expansion centered on the building

The natural environment of the local community will develop in an efficient direction under the action of the building, which is different from the green space in the city, which only pursues technical indicators

The natural environment of the local community will develop in an efficient direction under the action of the building, which is different from the green space in the city, which only pursues technical indicators

Use agricultural land to become selfsufficient

Use agricultural land to become selfsufficient

When the land around the building takes shape, the local community has the opportunity to use the land for selfsufficiency. This is also a remedy and replacement plan after the reduction of cultivated land in the process of urbanization

When the land around the building takes shape, the local community has the opportunity to use the land for selfsufficiency. This is also a remedy and replacement plan after the reduction of cultivated land in the process of urbanization

Reconstruction of used land

Reconstruction of used land

When the city expands to the periphery, the surrounding settlements can use the green expansion to invade the used urban land and carry out transformation

A sustainable urban form

A sustainable urban form

Land Usage Environment

BASIC MOUDLE GENERATION

Urbanization Industrialization

When the city expands to the periphery, the surrounding settlements can use the green expansion to invade the used urban land and carry out transformation

Ecological space inside the building

After a period of growth, the plants planted in the building will gradually form its own ecological ring. The local community can have a vertical forest system

Ecological space inside the building

After period of growth, the plants planted in the building will gradually form its own ecological ring. The local community can have a vertical forest system

The formation of resident communities

The formation of resident communities

The combination of different family units brings community relations while also retaining personal space for people. Different types of residential units can meet the demands of various families

The combination of different family units brings community relations while also retaining personal space for people. Different types of residential units can meet the demands of various families

Each building is equivalent to a syringe, and they inject green expansion into the land outside the city. Use its own radiation effects to change the environmental problems caused by urbanization. At the same time, it solves the housing problem of overpopulation in big cities. And guide the future development of the city like a vertical direction. Brings impetus to the sustainable development of the city

Each building is equivalent to a syringe, and they inject green expansion into the land outside the city. Use its own radiation effects to change the environmental problems caused by urbanization. At the same time, it solves the housing problem of overpopulation in big cities. And guide the future development of the city like a vertical direction. Brings impetus to the sustainable development of the city

Jingbo Zhang

Bachelor of art in Architecture

The University of Liverpool