Zhou 2023

EDUCATION

Oct,2022-Jun,2023

Oct,2020-Sep,2022

Oct,2019-Sep,2020

ANGEWANDTE KUNST WIEN,STUDIO LYNN,AUSTRIA

Architecture

KARLSRUHE INSTITUT FÜR TECHNOLOGIE,KIT,GERMANY Architecture

UNIVERSITÄT KASSEL,GERMANY

Architecture

Oct,2014-Sep,2015 Exchange Programm, Design and Architecture

Sep,2013-Juli,2016

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

Oct,2021-Feb,2022

STUTTGART ACADEMY OF ART AND DESIGN,ABK,GERMANY

CHINA ACADEMY OF ART,CAA,CHINA

Industrial Design

TEACHING ASSISTANT,KIT,GERMANY

In course Digital Design III of DDF I work as tutor, participating in the formulation of course syllabus,collecting reference,providing design advice for studennts.

April,2016

Jun,2014

TEACHING ASSISTANT,CAA,CHINA

Coordinator and translator for Design Workshop of Anna Gili

TEACHING ASSISTANT,CAA,CHINA

Design Thinking Workshop between China academy of art and The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

EXPERIENCE

Oct,2019-Sep,2020

CHENMIN OFFICE,CHINA

My job included:Furniture Design,Exhibition Design,Spatial Design,Material and Handcraft research.

Office Exhibition Design in “Modern Chinese Style“on Maison Shanghai 2016

Office Exhibition Design in “CREATION OF CREATORS“on Maison Shanghai 2018

SKILLS

Adobe (PS+AI+ID+PR)

AutoCAD,ArchiCAD, Blender

Rhino+Vray+Grasshopper+Kangaroo,Keyshot CNC Milling

LANGUAGE

Germany(C1), English(IELTS 7.0), Chinese(native), Japanese(beginner)

CITROEN MUSEUM

KERFBENDING

RESOURCE BERLIN

MICRO LIVING

CITROEN MUSEUM

Based on the case study of Sydney Opera, the citroen museum focus on the layering and inbetween space to give diverse observation opportunity and wandering experience.

Surface Language and tectonic play heavy role to shape the space and experience for visitors.

Weichen Zhou Prof. Greg Lynn IOA, SS 2023

Case Study Model Sydney Opera SS2023

Location: Generic

The sketch shows the onion structure of the museum. A glossy cocoon shape exhibiting hall place on the plinth with three floor, each floor gives visitor different experience to encounter the cocoon and the exhibiting citroen car. A flying canopy covers the cocoon, through reflection and transluscent materiality offers very rich passing experience.

Concept Sketch

Structure of Exhibiting Hall

Structure of Canopy

LANDESARCHIV

Here is a new building for the State Archive of Baden-Württemberg in Karlsruhe. I have to focus on its ambivalent character: on the one hand,Archive is a hermetically sealed storage space. On the other hand, it is important for Archive serves as a public infrastructure.

Weichen Zhou Prof. Marc Frohn KIT, SS 2022

Location: Karlsruhe,Germany

The history of society is as heavy as treasure in a palace. And personal histories are as easy as flowers in a garden. That‘s why I save the two types of memories separately, in different typologies. Official documents are kept in the “Memory Palace“ and personal data in the “Memory Garden“.

AI ART

Memory Garden

Memory Garden and Memory Palace

Archive space and public bubble

Foam model

Freehand Area

Multimedia

Library

Exhibition

Mediahof

Auditorium

Section through mediahof

Section through library

KERFBENDING

Kerfbending is a way through cut out the material of the wood to make the wood pieces to bend much more easily. To achieve bending the wood muss have to sacrifice certain strength.

My goal is to realize the bending but still make the pieces even possible to be load bearing. The pillar structure I have invented can stretch in one direction and also possible to hold certain amont of load that commen kerfbending pieces could not hold.

Mould for stretching

RESOURCE BERLIN

The site of the Karstadt department store in the Neukölln district of Berlin is currently being converted and further developed in a holistic urban mining concept. The building materials and elements to be dismantled are digitally recorded, evaluated for reuse and further use and documented in digital material passports.

Weichen Zhou (mit Muen Zhang) Prof. ETH. Dirk Hebel KIT, WS 2021/22

Location: Neukölln, Berlin, Germany

The design uses a satellite shape as a city building strategy, namely a line connects to four cell buildings. The colonnade on the ground floor allows for a continuous walking experience. The free space on the ground floor around the colonnade, the semi-open roof garden on the first floor and also with the roof garden form a vertical triple landscape scenario.

Public space concept

Section on public space and arcade

Basic living unit consists of a total of living room and kitchen, a toilet, and two bedrooms.

Sun protection system consists of folding panel. The materials for folding discs could very easily be modularly prepared according to the wishes of the user.

Urban Mining

Material Reuse

Baustoff Catalog

steel railing

perforated plate

Alu-panel

Window glass

Glas facade

trapezoidal sheet

roof sheet

Sonnschutz

Modell for facade

Basic living unit

Modular logic for folding panel

Rendering of streetside

floorplan- floor 3-5

AGGREGATION

In this design I have experimented with the frictional force of different shapes. Primitives with different shapes can be stacked into different properties. In addition, I also try to play two characters of random and control. Aggregation of basic elements is completely uncontrolled, but I also have to fill in the volume 40x30x30cm with given setting. By adding some constraints I have brought the extremely free stacking of primitives into a relatively controlled form and can also form a void in the middle.

given volume

The basic elements fill the space

Basic elements

Remove outer skin

Throw basic elements into the volume, put a balloon in the middle

Modell

Basic elements Experiment with square bars

2 pieces stacked 2 pieces stacked

9 pieces stacked 9 pieces stacked

Type B

Type A (selected)

Type D

Type C

2

12 pieces stacked

4

Experiment with round rods with elastic band Work process Work process

1.Throw basic elements into volume

1.Throw basic elements into volume 2.put in balloon

2.put in balloon

3.Model with outer foil

3.Model with outer foil

4.selfstanding Modell

4.selfstanding Modell

LANTERN MUSEUM

This is my personal design project in parallel with studium in Germany. The current version is more conceptual than other projects in this portfolio.

The idea first comes from my research on Chinese Intangible Cultural Heritage - Qinhuai Lanterns. The focus of this design is mainly on the extraction and transformation of traditional lantern handcrafts and shapes.

Weichen Zhou Personal Project Karlsruhe, 2021/22

Location: Nanjing,China

The building is located in the old city of Nanjing, close to the ancient city wall. It connects the three lantern festival venues, which can serve as a gathering and guiding function during festivals. And the image of lanterns can be retained in the museum during non-holidays, thereby strengthening the connection between Nanjing lanterns as a cultural heritage and the city and citizens

History of Lantern Festival in Nanjing

420-589 AC Southern Dynasty

Nanjing as the capital, The development of paper technology is rapid.

618-907 AC

Tang Dynasty folk artists specializing in lantern-making also appeared on the banks of the Qinhuai River in Nanjing.

1368-1644 AC

Ming Dynasty

Nanjing as the capital. During this period, the Nanjing Lantern Festival reached the peak of development.

Lantern Carnival in Nanjing

Carnival zone 01 traditional treets by the river

Carnival Zone 02 Public park with traditional buildings

Carnival zone 03 traditional buildings and street.

Form Finding Experiment

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4

6

surfaces conneting

surfaces conneting

3 surfaces conneting surfaces conneting

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surfaces conneting

Version 2

surfaces conneting 7

Version 2

surfaces conneting 8

Version 2

3D printed Model

Tape wraps around the tower

CONCRETE MODULE

seminar job is to design a concrete wall module and make a one-to-one model. Therefore, the characteristics of the cement itself and the design of the mold must be taken into account in advance when designing. In order to facilitate the cement to fully fill the inner space of the mold, I specially designed a spherical surface to facilitate the flow of liquid. The front and back of the module can also combine different patterns.

Making of wood mold

Preparation for filling

Concrete is made and filled into the mold

dismantle the Mold

The pattern formed by the two sides of the module

MICRO LIVING

The keywords of the design are two opposites： compact living and comfortable space. Poetic spaces should not be neglected. Therefore, Kazuo Shinohara’s Tanikawa House became the reference, and the digital fabrication with Robot enabled rapid construction.

Weichen Zhou Prof. ETH. Philipp Eversmann Uni Kassel, SS 2020

Location: Schneebergkreuz, Austria

This wooden hut is located on the hiking trail on the mountain in Austria. The PVT panel covers the electronic uses and the intentionally exposed structure is intended to evoke a certain nostagia emotion.

Space Type

The gabled roof has a strong presence. In type1, the windows are deliberately set for side light and bottom light, and the low space lets people feel the space only when sitting. A horizontal opening to the ground floor connects ground floor and ground floor spaces. The main room of the interior consists of a gabled roof and a branch-shaped supporting structure. It can be seen that the entire building presents an introverted state through the adjustment of the windows and the natural presence is conceptually enhanced through the appropriate isolation of the external environment.

Space type 01

Space type 03

Space type 02

Space type 04

Ground floor

First floor

https://vimeo.com/740762219

Video of Robotic Assembly

OUT OF BOX

3D Formfindung through cutting on 2D plan

The task is: from a basic cubature of 20x30x40cm, a room shell is to be conceived, built and folded. Locate and orientate the cubature. Cut openings in the base cubature, which are then folded out of the shell.

The goal is to try and get a new structure and shape by unfolding, cutting and rejoining the six sides of the square. The cracks on the skin are formed organically according to the shape instead of randomly opening like ordinary houses.

Cutting 01

Cutting 02

Cutting 03

Cutting 04

Folding 01

Folding 02

Folding 03

Folding 04