JUNE WEN ZHU
Tugendhat Hinged Space: Super Decorated Mies Landscape
(June) Wen Zhu
wenzhu@upenn.edu 612-412-0808
Education University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA Master of Architecture, PennDesign - Certificate in Real Estate Design and Development, the Wharton School
Expected May 2018 GPA 3.9 Expected May 2018
University of Minnesota, Twin-Cities Bachelor of Science in Architecture, summa cum laude, with distinction
May 2015
Relevant Experiences New York, Summer 2017 Design Intern, Eisenman Architects Payne Whitney Gymnasium Rennovation and Addition, Yale University - Initiated and developed one of the two schemes for feasibility studies xxxx xxx - Managed master 3D Rhino model of one scheme and modeled entry sequence - Coordinated 6 interns in drawing and physical model productions - Produced exploded axon series to communicate circulation for different users - Examined code compliance for displaced program and updated 3D model accordingly Construction Development Intern, Tongjian-Baibuting Union Real Estate Development, Co., Ltd. WE Residences Phase IV, 129,100sf Wuhan, China, Summer 2016 - Examined and documented construction finishes onsite; initiated discussion between architects and xxxconstruction manager - Documented change orders and conducted follow up inspections Contract Work, Cheng Residence, 3,290sf Ezhou, China, Summer 2016 - Designed and produced schematic drawings and renderings for reconstruction on existing foundation xxxx xxxconforming to required budget and program - Negotiated and collaborated with general contractor regarding design changes Project Design Development Intern, Baibuting Co., Ltd. Wuhan, China, Summer 2015 Xiandaicheng Residences Phase II,161,450sf - Inspected schematic proposal and instructed program revision to HMD Architects - Analyzed code nuances and negotiated design changes with zoning division Design Intern, CITIC Architectural Design and Research, Co,.Ltd. Wuhan, China, Summer 2013 Optics Valley Technology Incubator Project, 7,427,000sf - Contributed to facade pattern options through material research, 3d modeling and producing renderings - Performed lighting and energy analysis of building envelope
Honors and Awards Pressing Matter, Upcoming volume 7 & 8, PennDesign Representative Studio Work Publication Dales Travelling Fellowship, Philadelphia, PA, Schenck-Henry Gillette Woodman Scholarship, Philadelphia, PA Undergraduate Travel Scholarship, Metropolitan Design Center, Minneapolis, MN Global Excellence Scholarship, Twin-Cities, MN
2017 2017 2016 2014 2011-2015
Skills Rhino, Revit, Maya, Auto CAD, Grasshopper, GH Python, Vray, SketchUp Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Sketching, Model Making, Excel, PowerPoint Chinese, English, Beginner level German
References Peter Eisenman, Professional Supervisor, Eisenman Architects, p.eisenman@eisenmanarchitects.com Jonathan Scelsa, Studio Critic, PennDesign, jonathan.scelsa@gmail.com
SELECTED DESIGN WORKS 2015-2018
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URBAN BOND
Urban Carnival Center in Philadelphia 02
SUPER DECORATED
Paint on Mies+ Knoll Headquarter Design 03
HYPER POD
Low Income Transitory Housing in Redhook 04
EVOLVING EDGES
Barcelona Superblock Urban Typology Research
Blimp shot view showing Delaware Expressway and the waterfront.
Groud level perspective: theaters are elevated to maximize outdoor spaces and visual connectivities on ground level.
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URBAN BOND
Urban Carnival Center in Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania ARCH 502 Studio Crit: Andrew Saunders The carnival views the city as a cultural artifact that invites the spontaneous and ephemeral spirits of carnival to contaminate fixed architecture consequences. Urban Bond extracts the wrapping tactic from the King Tut mask in Ancient Egyptian culture, and proposes one continuous wrapped object as response to a massive urban project. The wrapped object is elevated from the site to maximize outdoor spaces. In the building scale, wrapping creates the architectural effects of ambiguity and continuity from the exterior. In the interior, the wrapping tactic is transposed in the theater program. Theatres with the most tightly wrapped spaces are honored at the end of circulation. The circulation logic mimics the ongoing process of wrapping and creates layers of interstitial spaces between the core program and the building envelope. Details of interstitial spaces have varied degrees and directions of exposure. In the city scale, the project recalls the pinwheel circulation of the four public squares in Philadelphia. These historical references from the 1683 Penn’s plan for Philadelphia were the first outdoor spaces open to public gathering, which roots the project in the context of Philadelphia.
MASKED OBJECT
Mask Model: Extract wrapping technique from King Tut's mask reasearch Maksked Object: Sized theater volume wrapped with script to achieve figural effect Metamorphosis: From maksed figure to the acknowledgement of urban edges Early Models studying wrapping effects: physcial wrapping and 3d prints.
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1. Theater 2. Lobby 3. Cafe
4. Gift Shop 5. Back-of-House 6. Black Box 7. Visual Arts Gallery 8. Concert Hall
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9. Conventional Center 10. Administrative Office 11. Outdoor Flexible Space 12. Reclaimed Wetland
Wrapping as decoration : interior rendering, wrapping effects are transposed into the interior to form circulation stairs, seat balconies, and ceiling decorations.
Wrapping as texture : Finer strips with various density and directionality act like visual
screens, which selectively protects, catalysts, and displays carnival activities according to the program. At night the project glows to form a waterfront monument in the city.
Balcony Back of House
Theater Reception
Fly Tower
Ticketing
Inbetween Wraps : section perspective showing continious wrap from theater circulation to exterior skin. Interstitial spaces are programmed as lobby, gift shop, restaurant and exhibition.
Exploaded axon showing three open office cores supported by servant spaces and bridged by gallery spaces. The building skin is a double layer graphical diagram providing openings to see through the anamorphic galleries.
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SUPER DECORATED
Paint on Mies+ Knoll Headquarter Design University of Pennsylvania Arch 602, Studio Crit: Johnathan Scelsa Collaboration with Yangchao Ni
SuperDecorated investigates the Mies quote “architecture is a language�, particularly the
communicative agency of the building envelope between interior figuration and exterior urban landscape. The program is headquarters for Knoll, a product design company based in New York City. The site is Pier 75. Starting with parallel analyses of the Tugendhat House and Supergraphics, SuperDecorated extracts the Miesian cruciform column detail as a major graphic element, and recreated the Mies language of the decorated, structural, and figural through three different types of projection: Parallel projection of the graphics creates decorated open office, parallel extrusion hosts duckerated service program, and anamorphic projection houses figurative gallery and museum. Masses are curved out to create thorough view corridors linking the figurative anamorphosis and specific views on the site. The double layer elevation system exposes such view corridors through double openings while muting spatial differences to the interior geometry via a unifying metal mesh rain screen. Aside from its outward projecting signographic patterns, the building envelope selectively transmits information about the most figurative public program in the interior.
Building parts: anamorphic corridors growing out of the structural honeycomb; double envelope with inner ceramic tile and outer rainscreen.
A. OPEN SPACE DEFINED BY DECORATIVE FURNITURE
B. CELLULAR STRUCTURE
C. FIGURATIVE CIRCULAR ELEMENT
A. SUPERGRAPHIC THE DECORATIVE
B. PARALLEL EXTRUSION THE DUCKERATED
C. ANAMORPHIC PROJECTION THE FIGURATIVE
Collaged moments from Mies Precedent Tugendhat, transposing Miesian language to three types of projection methods.
Early Studies using anamorphicand parallel projection to deconstruct Tugendhat hinged spaces.
A THE DECORATIVE
B. THE DUCKERATED
C. THE FIGURATIVE
Open Office
Servant Program Conference Rm Call Rm Restroom etc.
Showroom Museum Gallery
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General program narrative synthesizing spatial organization of three space types. Specific massing moves determined by program needs and view corridors.
Third level plan with three decorated offices surrounded by duckerated service spaces, and bridged by anamorphic view corridors.
Public program is revealed to the outer urban world through view corridors cutting through pre-esta Perspective vignettes show decorative open office, duckerated conference room, figu
ablished private spaces. Anamorphic projection points to selected urban landmarks. urative gallery, and office carved out by anamorphic view corridors.
Double envelope system: outer metal rainscreen with inner ceramic tile supported by diagrids. Anamorphic gallery provide view corridors to see through the building.
THE FIGURATIVE Gallery
THE DUCKERATED Conference Rm
THE DECORATIVE Open Office
Detail section perspective showing structural systems of the decorated, duckerated, and figurative spaces.
Exterior street view from southwest.
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HYPER POD
Community Center for Emerging Artists in Redhook Brooklyn University of Pennsylvania ARCH 601 Studio Crit: Ben Krone Hyper Pod is a community center which fosters emerging artists and mingles them with wellestablished families in Redhook, Brooklyn. Young artists in the neighborhood struggle to rent studio space and living space, while the well-established families are looking for communal spaces from a landscape of detached houses. This proposal provides community gym, pool, restaurant, and meeting spaces for the neighborhood, hotel rooms for purveyors/ visiting artists, and flexible spaces for art making and installations. Artist spaces are free of charge with the support of community amenities. Artist spaces provide a fun space for the general public to engage and play with. As expressed in the analog model, the flexible system inhabits, parasitizes, and finally cracks open the rigid system. The imagery with the two systems supporting and altering each other represent a growing and mingling culture for artists in Redhook.
ANALOG Continous folded system parasitizes rigid frame. Two systems of different form, material and aggregation method
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Artist Studios PRIVATE BEDS
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PRIVATE PRIVATE BEDS BEDS
Community Amenities
SHARED
Engagement+ Gallery
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PRIVATE BEDS
PRIVATE BEDS
SHARED
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SHARED
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MODEL STUDIES OF TWO SYSTEMS Physical model details representing artist pods as prefabricated panel systems with joint frames. The assembly has the flexibility to grow as the artist community expand.
RENDERING STUDIES OF TWO SYSTEMS Louvre panels and glass panels provide excellent views to the pier while shade interior pods. The hints of activities at night celebrate the community activities as well as art making.
Theater
Hotel Hotel Lobby
Pool Fitnese Gardening
Rigid System
Public Engagement
Views Light
Art Studio
Artist Groups
Art Studio Art Studio
Street Parasitize
Circulation
Structure
SECTION & PLAN Rigid volumes stack vertically to provide structural support of flexible artist spaces. Both systems have the potential to grow as density increases and more structural support is demanded. The flexible system always grows horizontally along the rigid system before craking it open. Artist spaces can be accessed from each floor. Circulation within the artist spaces happen along the edges. Artists can choose to work close to or away from public amenities for public engagement or private creation.
MODEL COLLAGE Flexible pods for art making, engagement and play.
Site context showing a 5000 residents Superblock. The red represents existing structures while the grey represents new additions.
Superblock emphasizes walkability and liberates street for activities. Brick buildings represent existing structures.
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EVOLVING EDGES
Barcelona Superblock Urban Typology Research University of Pennsylvania Arch 701, Studio Crit: Anna Pla Catala Collaboration with Yiwei Gao Grasshopper, GH Python, Ladybug, Space Syntax
The project thesis is to create a superblock prototype that directly emphasizes
walkability and liberates ground level open spaces for civic activities. The Superblock prototype, which unites nine blocks as one, instantly challenges the uniform conditions of urban edges in Barcelona. Some edges become interior and some remain exterior. These differentiations of interior versus exterior edges become our point of interest.
How would urban edges distinguish and transform themselves as Superblocks take the place of existing blocks? Our answer is to permeate and soften interior edges and preserve and harden exterior edges. Soft edges are for pedestrian movements only: they have non-orthogonal boundaries, link to outdoor pocket spaces, and have rotated buildings anchoring along the boundaries. Hard edges have automobile lanes and bus lanes. They remain orthogonal, have constant infill and celebrate mega-structure anchors. Our Superblock leads pedestrians to navigate a walk-able prototype by differentiating hard versus soft edges. The studio process is to identify and input automation parameters and evaluate the generative with premises such as lighting, sound, architectural characters, etc. The evaluation outcomes then alter the automation inputs.
Existing figure ground
Proposed figure ground with existing collaged
Key effect of Superblock is the transformation and distinction from hard edges (car access) to soft edges (pedestrian only).
Barcelona Historic Fabric and Axis
FAR
Grid Rotation and Subdivision
Site Fabric and Axis
Site Grid Subdivision
Gridded Cities Street Width and Transit Means
00. RESEARCH
Site Activity Map: Work Inside & Live Outside New
Intermediate
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Balconies
Rooftops
Site Program Map
New activie buildings
Old inactivie buildings
Site buildings evaluation based on physical attributes and activity intensities. Red represents remaining buildings and blue represents removed buildings.
Preserve certain buildings as hard edge constraints
01. SITE EVALUATION
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TOOL 1
3D Cellular Automata iterates each cell based on 27 neighboring existences from previous generation. 3D Cellular Automata mimic the urban self-renewal process and produce different patterns.
TOOL 2
Shortest path connecting existing bus/ bike stops and respecting remaining edge conditions.
1. 3 cell sizes from 3 generations
2. Cell deletion and subdivision
TOOL 1 + TOOL 2
3. Cell rotation
Inputs: cell sizes, porosity, density, growth boundary, and rotation.
02. GENERATION
Well connected & safe paths Dead ends & unsafe paths
View points Visible/safe areas
Superblock street connection, safety and view evaluation with Space Syntax and Ladybug.
Building massing explorations & average sunlight hours evaluation with Ladybug
03. EVALUATION
Units rotated to provide youth rental addition to existing senior luxury living. Vertical rotation create passive ventilation shafts shown in section.
04. BUILDING MOMENTS
Schematic elevation collaged with existing buildings, showing unit size variation and rotation. Movable louvre panels respond to the Barcelona local material palette and climate conditions
04. BUILDING MOMENTS
Superblock, block and building scale model Series: 3d prints, acrylic represents proposed mas
ssing, mdf represents remaining massing, and museum board represents ground work.