PORTFOLIO ARCHITECTURE 2018 Ziyao Zhang
ĺź ç´ŤĺłŁ Syracuse, New York zzhan27@syr.edu +1.315.420.8765
EDUCATION 2011.09
Dulwich College International High School Program Suzhou
2014.03
DCHS Competitive Debate, Outstanding Award
2014.06
Graduation
2014.09
Syracuse University School of Architecture
2016.02
Syracuse Architecture, William J. Slivers Competition 2016 Sol Lewitt Award Spacial Concept First Place
2014.09-2017.12
Dean’s List 2014 Fall, 2015 Spring, 2015 Fall, 2016 Spring, 2016 Fall, 2017 Spring, 2017 Fall
2019.05
Expected Graduation
EXPERIENCE 2016.05-2016.07
Design Through a Tourist’s Eye
Syracuse University Abroad Travel Course, Japan 2017.01-2017.05
Housing and Artefact
Syracuse University Study Abroad Program, London 2017.08-2017.11
ArchDaily China Internship
SKILLS
Graphic Design
3D Modeling Parametric Design
LANGUAGES STATEMENT
Chinese English
Office Software Adobe Photoshop Adobe Illustrator Adobe InDesign Rhinoceros Autodesk Revit Grasshopper for Rhino Galapagos Evolutionary Solver
Microsoft Office Word PowerPoint Excel
Native Proficiency Professional Proficiency
I believe architecture is a methodology to show both tangible and intangible beauty. Great architecture is part of a city’s soul. An architect is thus someone who understand the city, its culture, and brings art to life that will be identified with it. Becoming an architect is the dream I chase.
Project # 1.
We Work-Co Live
2.
Fairground on Live
3.
Object in the Field
4.
in Between
5.
Infopolis
Housing
Library
Urban structure
Drawings + Models
Commercial
Library
We Work-Co Live Housing Fall 2016 The project trys to house both living and working programs in downtown Syracuse. Every housing unit has TWO DOORS: one provides access to lower living level and another open to upper working level. In plan, the organizing structure is inspired by the Burolandshaft Office Landscape. In section, every household sits like small pavilion which has direct access to 2 levels. The project is a layered cake of private living community and public wework program. On living level housing units are mixed and grouped with equal access to amenities and storage shelf for shared belongings. On working level public wework space are floating between tenants’ personal workspaces.
BUROLANDSHAFT DIAGRAM
CALLING MOM
NG MING
BIKING SHOWERING
YOGA
RESEARCHING READING
SKETCHING BRAINSTORMING
NG WORKING OUT PING PONG DOOR BIKING SHOWERING
PRESENTING MEETING
SUNBATHING CHATTING
SUNBATHING CHATTING YOGA
DOING LAUNDRY
CALLING MOM MAKE-UPS CUP NOODLES SEX CLEANING BATHING CALLING MOM SEX TV SHOWS GAMING SLEEPING SHOWERING SLEEPING HAVING A MEAL SHOWERING DAYDREAMING ONLINE SHOPPING DAYDREAMING FEEDING ONESELF
CALLING MOM CUP NOODLES SEX CALLING MOM GAMING SLEEPING SHOWERING SLEEPING SHOWERING DAYDREAMING DAYDREAMING FEEDING ONESELF
GATHERING
RESEARCHING READING
DOING LAUNDRY
DANCING
LOUD MUSIC WEED
SHOWERING SLEEPING CLEANING MAKE-UPS TV SHOWS FEEDING ONESELF CALLING MOM
SEX CALLING MOM SHOWERING SLEEPING DAYDREAMING FEEDING ONESELF
CODING
BUILDING
MAKE-UPS CLEANING BATHING SEX TV SHOWS HAVING A MEAL ONLINE SHOPPING
DRINKING LOUD MUSIC WEED DANCING
ORDERING PIZZA
DOING LAUNDRY
DISCUSSING PROPOSING
JOGGING
PLANKING
MAKE-UPS CLEANING BATHING SHOWERING SEX TV SHOWS SLEEPING CLEANING HAVING A MEAL MAKE-UPS TV SHOWS ONLINE SHOPPING FEEDING ONESELF CALLING MOM
YOGA
LOUD MUSIC DANCING WEED DRINKING
CHATTING BOARD GAME GATHERING ORDERING PIZZA
RESEARCHING READING
SKETCHING BRAINSTORMING
SUNBATHING CHATTING YOGA
DOING LAUNDRY
MAKE-UPS CLEANING BATHING SEX TV SHOWS HAVING A MEAL ONLINE SHOPPING
SKETCHING BRAINSTORMING
PRINTING
CALLING MOM MAKE-UPS CUP NOODLES SEX CLEANING BATHING CALLING MOM SEX TV SHOWS GAMING SLEEPING SHOWERING SLEEPING HAVING A MEAL SHOWERING DAYDREAMING DAYDREAMING ONLINE SHOPPING FEEDING ONESELF
CALLING MOM CUP NOODLES GAMING SLEEPING SHOWERING DAYDREAMING
SHOWERING SLEEPING CLEANING MAKE-UPS TV SHOWS FEEDING ONESELF CALLING MOM
DANCING
LOUD MUSIC
CALLING MOM MAKE-UPS CUP NOODLES MAKE-UPS CLEANING BATHING CLEANING BATHING GAMING SLEEPING SEX TV SHOWS SHOWERING SEX TV SHOWS HAVING A MEAL DAYDREAMING HAVING A MEAL ONLINE SHOPPING ONLINE SHOPPING
CHATTING ORDERING PIZZA
CHATTING ORDERING PIZZA GATHERING
CALLING MOM CUP NOODLES MAKE-UPS CLEANING BATHING GAMING SLEEPING SEX TV SHOWS SHOWERING HAVING A MEAL DAYDREAMING ONLINE SHOPPING
INDOOR BIKING YOGA
DOING LAUNDRY
PRESENTING MEETING
PRINTING
CODING
MAKE-UPS CLEANING BATHING SEX SEX TV SHOWS CALLING MOM HAVING A MEAL SHOWERING SLEEPING DAYDREAMING ONLINE SHOPPING FEEDING ONESELF
GATHERING
WORKING OUT JOGGING PING PONG SHOWERING
MAKECLEANING HAVING SE HAVING ONLINE S
SHOWERING SLEEPING CLEANING MAKE-UPS TV SHOWS FEEDING ONESELF CALLING MOM
DRINKING
CODING
PRINTING CONCEPT DIAGRAM
DISCUSSING PROPOSING
BUILDING
PLANKING
INTERVIEWING
LOUD MUSIC
PLANKING
SKETCHING BRAINSTORMING
SUNBATHING CHATTING
SKETCHING MODELING
WEED
CODING
DOING LAUNDRY
MODELING BUILDING
DRINKING
WEED
DANCING
RESEARCHING READING
CODING
MAKE-UPS CLEANING BATHING SEX SEX TV SHOWS CALLING MOM HAVING A MEAL SHOWERING SLEEPING ONLINE SHOPPING DAYDREAMING FEEDING ONESELF
PL
MAKECLEANING HAVING SE HAVING ONLINE S
SHOWERING SLEEPING CLEANING MAKE-UPS TV SHOWS FEEDING ONESELF CALLING MOM
LOUD MUSIC
CODING
SHOWERING
INTERVIEWING
GATHERING
PRINTING
PLANKING
YOGA WORKING OUT PING INDOOR BIKING
DRINKING
PRESENTING
INTERVIEWING
SHOWERING
CALLING MOM CUP NOODLES GAMING SLEEPING SHOWERING DAYDREAMING
MAKE-UPS CLEANING BATHING SEX SEX TV SHOWS CALLING MOM HAVING A MEAL SHOWERING SLEEPING DAYDREAMING ONLINE SHOPPING FEEDING ONESELF
CHATTING
WORKING OUT JOGGING PING PONG
MODELING SKETCHING
PRESENTING MEETING
PRINTING
CALLING MOM MAKE-UPS CUP NOODLES MAKE-UPS CLEANING BATHING CLEANING BATHING GAMING SLEEPING SEX TV SHOWS SHOWERING SEX TV SHOWS HAVING A MEAL DAYDREAMING HAVING A MEAL ONLINE SHOPPING ONLINE SHOPPING
INDOOR BIKING YOGA
DOING LAUNDRY
PRINTING
WEED
DANCING
SKETCHING MODELING
CALLING MOM CUP NOODLES MAKE-UPS CLEANING BATHING GAMING SLEEPING SEX TV SHOWS SHOWERING HAVING A MEAL DAYDREAMING ONLINE SHOPPING
DRINKING
DISCUSSING PROPOSING
BOARD GAME CHATTING GATHERING ORDERING PIZZA
PRESENTING MEETING
NG WORKING OUT PING PONG DOOR BIKING
MAKECLEANING HAVING SE HAVING ONLINE S
LOUD MUSIC
MODELING BUILDING
SHOWERING SLEEPING CLEANING MAKE-UPS TV SHOWS FEEDING ONESELF CALLING MOM
SUNBATHING CHATTING
SHOWERING SLEEPING CLEANING MAKE-UPS TV SHOWS FEEDING ONESELF CALLING MOM
PLANKING
SHOWERING
SHOWERING
CHATTING ORDERING PIZZA GATHERING
INTERVIEWING
MAKE-UPS CLEANING BATHING SEX SEX TV SHOWS CALLING MOM HAVING A MEAL SHOWERING SLEEPING DAYDREAMING ONLINE SHOPPING FEEDING ONESELF
SKETCHING BRAINSTORMING
CODING
MAKE-UPS CLEANING BATHING SEX TV SHOWS HAVING A MEAL ONLINE SHOPPING
SUNBATHING CHATTING YOGA
JOGGING WORKING OUT BIKING PING PONG
SUNBATHING CHATTING
DOING LAUNDRY
PRESENTING MEETING
CHATTING ORDERING PIZZA
CHATTING BOARD GAME GATHERING ORDERING PIZZA
SKETCHING BRAINSTORMING
INTERVIEWING
PRESENTING MEETING
FEEDING ONESELF
PRINTING
CALLING MOM MAKE-UPS CUP NOODLES MAKE-UPS CLEANING BATHING CLEANING BATHING GAMING SLEEPING SEX TV SHOWS SHOWERING SEX TV SHOWS HAVING A MEAL DAYDREAMING HAVING A MEAL ONLINE SHOPPING ONLINE SHOPPING
PRINTING
PRESENTING
NG WORKING OUT DOOR BIKING PING PONG
MOM S EEPING NG MING
CODING
ONLINE SHOPPING
DRINKING
SKETCHING BRAINSTORMING
SHOWERING
DAYDREAMING
PLANKING
INTERVIEWING
SUNBATHING CHATTING
LOUD MUSIC DANCING WEED DRINKING
PING PONG PLANKING
MODELING SKETCHING
WEED
DANCING
WORKING OUT
CALLING MOM GAMING DAYDREAMING TV SHOWS
COOKIES
DANCING PLANKING
CHATTING
MAKE-UPS BATHING TV SHOWS ONLINE SHOPPING CLEANING
CALLING MOM GAMING DAYDREAMING TV SHOWS
CLEANING SHOWERING SLEEPING MAKE-UPS
CHATTING
CHATTING
MAKE-UPS BATHING TV SHOWS HAVING A MEAL ONLINE SHOPPING CLEANING
BBQ ROAST
LOUD MUSIC
CHATTING
ORDERING PIZZA SLEEPING SHOWERING CLEANING MAKE-UPS FEEDING ONESELF CALLING MOM
COMMUNAL DINNER
SLEEPING SHOWERING CLEANING MAKE-UPS CALLING MOM
CHATTING
MAKE-UPS BATHING TV SHOWS ONLINE SHOPPING CLEANING
MOVIE
DRINKING
DRINKING
DRINKING
CALLING MOM GAMING DAYDREAMING TV SHOWS
CLEANING SHOWERING SLEEPING MAKE-UPS
DRINKING POPCORN
SMOKING
CHATTING
MAKE-UPS BATHING TV SHOWS HAVING A MEAL ONLINE SHOPPING CLEANING
BBQ ROAST
LOUD MUSIC
ORDERING PIZZA SLEEPING SHOWERING CLEANING MAKE-UPS FEEDING ONESELF CALLING MOM
COMMUNAL DINNER
SMOKING
MOVIE
DRINKING BAKE
MAKE-UPS BATHING TV SHOWS ONLINE SHOPPING GAMING
POPCORN
POPCORN
POPCORN GATHERING
CHATTING
COOK
CALLING MOM GAMING DAYDREAMING TV SHOWS
POPCORN
LOUD MUSIC
MAKE-UPS BATHING TV SHOWS ONLINE SHOPPING GAMING
SMOKING
SEX PET FEEDING ONESELF CUP NOODLES HAVING A MEAL
MAKE-UPS BATHING TV SHOWS ONLINE SHOPPING GAMING
SEX PET FEEDING ONESELF CUP NOODLES HAVING A MEAL
DRINKING POPCORN
BAKE
DRINKING POPCORN
ORDERING PIZZA
MOVIE
DRINKING
CALLING MOM GAMING DAYDREAMING TV SHOWS
COOKIES
DANCING PLANKING
POOL
POPCORN
POPCORN
GATHERING
CHATTING
SMOKING
MAKE-UPS BATHING TV SHOWS ONLINE SHOPPING GAMING
DRINKING
DRINKING POPCORN
LOUD MUSIC CHATTING
COOK
CALLING MOM GAMING DAYDREAMING TV SHOWS
MOVIE
DRINKING
ORDERING PIZZA MAKE-UPS BATHING TV SHOWS ONLINE SHOPPING GAMING
SEX PET FEEDING ONESELF CUP NOODLES HAVING A MEAL
CALLING MOM GAMING DAYDREAMING TV SHOWS
BEER
YOGA
INDOOR BIKING
SHOWERING SLEEPING MAKE-UPS
BEER
WEED
BOARDGAME
JOGGING
SUNBATHING SMOKING
CLEANING
POPCORN
POPCORN
LOUD MUSIC
PINGPANG
WEED
DRINKING
POOL
SEX PET FEEDING ONESELF CUP NOODLES HAVING A MEAL
WORKING OUT JUICE
CALLING MOM GAMING DAYDREAMING TV SHOWS
BEER
YOGA
INDOOR BIKING
SMOKING
SEX PET FEEDING ONESELF CUP NOODLES HAVING A MEAL
BEER
WEED
BOARDGAME
JOGGING
SUNBATHING WEED
CLEANING SHOWERING SLEEPING MAKE-UPS
LOUD MUSIC
PINGPANG
JUICE
CHATTING
SLEEPING SHOWERING CLEANING MAKE-UPS CALLING MOM
MAKE-UPS BATHING TV SHOWS ONLINE SHOPPING GAMING
SMOKING
SMOKING
CALLING MOM GAMING DAYDREAMING TV SHOWS
MAKE-UPS BATHING TV SHOWS ONLINE SHOPPING GAMING
DRINKING POPCORN
CALLING MOM GAMING DAYDREAMING TV SHOWS
CLEANING SHOWERING SLEEPING MAKE-UPS
MOVIE
ORDERING PIZZA LOUD MUSIC
WEED
SUNBATHING READING
MAKE-UPS BATHING TV SHOWS ONLINE SHOPPING GAMING
CALLING MOM GAMING DAYDREAMING TV SHOWS
MAKE-UPS BATHING TV SHOWS ONLINE SHOPPING GAMING
SLEEPING SHOWERING CLEANING MAKE-UPS CALLING MOM
CALLING MOM GAMING DAYDREAMING TV SHOWS
SEX PET FEEDING ONESELF CUP NOODLES HAVING A MEAL WEED
CLEANING SHOWERING SLEEPING MAKE-UPS
SEX PET FEEDING ONESELF CUP NOODLES HAVING A MEAL
MAKE-UPS BATHING TV SHOWS ONLINE SHOPPING GAMING
LAUNDRY LAUNDRY
ORDERING PIZZA LOUD MUSIC
YOGA PLANKING
MAKE-UPS
LAUNDRY CALLING MOM GAMING DAYDREAMING TV SHOWS
JUICE SUNBATHING
CLEANING SHOWERING SLEEPING MAKE-UPS
CHATTING CALLING MOM GAMING DAYDREAMING TV SHOWS SEX PET FEEDING ONESELF CUP NOODLES HAVING A MEAL SEX
MAKE-UPS BATHING TV SHOWS ONLINE SHOPPING GAMING
PINGPANG WORKING OUT
LAUNDRY
SLEEPING SHOWERING CLEANING MAKE-UPS CALLING MOM
LAUNDRY LAUNDRY SEX PET FEEDING ONESELF CUP NOODLES HAVING A MEAL
LAUNDRY
MAKE-UPS BATHING TV SHOWS ONLINE SHOPPING GAMING
JOGGING INDOOR BIKING YOGA PLANKING
1st FLOOR PLAN (LIVING LEVEL) / LIVING LEVEL CONCEPT DIAGRAM
LAUNDRY LAUNDRY
LAUNDRY
LAUNDRY
CALLING MOM GAMING DAYDREAMING TV SHOWS
MAKE-UPS BATHING TV SHOWS ONLINE SHOPPING GAMING
LAUNDRY
MAKE-UPS BATHING TV SHOWS ONLINE SHOPPING GAMING
PET
FEEDING ONESELF CUP NOODLES HAVING A MEAL
MAKE-UPS BATHING TV SHOWS ONLINE SHOPPING GAMING
POOL BEER BOARDGAME
CALLING MOM GAMING DAYDREAMING TV SHOWS
ORDERING PIZZA
SEX PET FEEDING ONESELF CUP NOODLES HAVING A MEAL
MAKE-UPS BATHING TV SHOWS ONLINE SHOPPING GAMING
MAILBOX COMMUNAL TV: PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE
MAKE-UPS BATHING TV SHOWS ONLINE SHOPPING GAMING
WEED
CLEANING SHOWERING SLEEPING MAKE-UPS
LAUNDRY
SMOKING
SLEEPING SHOWERING CLEANING MAKE-UPS CALLING MOM
SLEEPING
LAUNDRY SEX PET FEEDING ONESELF CUP NOODLES HAVING A MEAL
CALLING MOM GAMING DAYDREAMING TV SHOWS
WEED
DELIVERY FOOD ARRIVAL
POOL
READING
DANCING
CALLING MOM GAMING DAYDREAMING TV SHOWS
SUNBATHING READING READING
MAKE-UPS BATHING TV SHOWS ONLINE SHOPPING GAMING
SHOWERING
JOGGING INDOOR BIKING
WEED
SLEEPING SHOWERING CLEANING MAKE-UPS CALLING MOM
CHATTING
CLEANING
SLEEPING SHOWERING CLEANING MAKE-UPS CALLING MOM
DRINKING
CHATTING
CHATTING
LAUNDRY
LAUNDRY
JUICE
POPCORN
LAUNDRY
LAUNDRY
MAKE-UPS BATHING TV SHOWS ONLINE SHOPPING GAMING
PINGPANG WORKING OUT
MOVIE
MAKE-UPS BATHING TV SHOWS ONLINE SHOPPING GAMING
CHATTING
MAKE-UPS BATHING TV SHOWS ONLINE SHOPPING GAMING
CALLING MOM GAMING DAYDREAMING TV SHOWS
POPCORN
DRINKING
CALLING MOM GAMING DAYDREAMING TV SHOWS
CALLING MOM GAMING DAYDREAMING TV SHOWS
SLEEPING SHOWERING CLEANING MAKE-UPS CALLING MOM
CALLING MOM GAMING DAYDREAMING TV SHOWS
MAKE-UPS BATHING TV SHOWS ONLINE SHOPPING GAMING
POOL BEER BOARDGAME
SEX PET FEEDING ONESELF CUP NOODLES HAVING A MEAL
MAKE-UPS BATHING TV SHOWS ONLINE SHOPPING GAMING
POPCORN CALLING MOM GAMING DAYDREAMING TV SHOWS
CLEANING SHOWERING SLEEPING MAKE-UPS
CALLING MOM GAMING DAYDREAMING TV SHOWS
ORDERING PIZZA
DRINKING
SHOWERING SLEEPING MAKE-UPS
MAILBOX COMMUNAL TV: PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE
CHATTING
WEED
DELIVERY FOOD ARRIVAL
POOL
READING
DANCING
CALLING MOM GAMING DAYDREAMING TV SHOWS
MAKE-UPS BATHING TV SHOWS ONLINE SHOPPING GAMING
READING
SLEEPING SHOWERING CLEANING MAKE-UPS CALLING MOM
CHATTING
MAKE-UPS BATHING TV SHOWS ONLINE SHOPPING GAMING
CLEANING SHOWERING SLEEPING MAKE-UPS
SLEEPING SHOWERING CLEANING MAKE-UPS CALLING MOM
DRINKING
CHATTING
CHATTING
CLEANING SHOWERING SLEEPING MAKE-UPS
CALLING MOM GAMING DAYDREAMING TV SHOWS
JUICE
POPCORN MAKE-UPS BATHING TV SHOWS ONLINE SHOPPING GAMING
CHATTING CALLING MOM GAMING DAYDREAMING TV SHOWS
CALLING MOM GAMING DAYDREAMING TV SHOWS
POPCORN
DRINKING
CALLING MOM GAMING DAYDREAMING TV SHOWS
CALLING MOM GAMING DAYDREAMING TV SHOWS
CLEANING
CLEANING SHOWERING SLEEPING MAKE-UPS
SMOKING
JUICE SUNBATHING
SKETCHING
TYPING PROPOSING
PROPOSING
RESEARCHING
SKETCHING
RESEARCHING
DISCUSSING
TYPING
DISCUSSING BRAINSTORMING
BRAINSTORMING
CODING
CODING
SKETCHING
CODING
SKETCHING
MODELING
CODING CODING
GROUPWORKING TYPING
CODING
BRAINSTORMING
CODING
PAINTING
GROUPWORKING PAINTING
TYPING
TYPING
TYPING EMAILING BRAINSTORMING
SKETCHING PRINTING
PRINTING MODELING
TYPING INTERVIEWING
CODING
INTERVIEWING
CODING
BUILDING CODING
TYPING
BUILDING
SKETCHING
EMAILING
SKETCHING CODING
TYPING
BRAINSTORMING
PAINTING EMAILING
BRAINSTORMING
CODING
TYPING
TYPING MEETING
MEETING
PRINTING
TYPING
TYPING
TYPING
PAINTING PRINTING
SKETCHING
TYPING MODELING
TYPING
TYPING SKETCHING
TYPING
SKETCHING
TYPING
CODING
CODING TYPING
TYPING
BRAINSTORMING
TYPING
MODELING
SKETCHING
MODELING
TYPING
MODELING
TYPING
TYPING
TYPING
TYPING
BRAINSTORMING
BRAINSTORMING
EMAILING
SKETCHING CODING
MEETING PRESENTING
CODING
MEETING
PAINTING
PRESENTING
2nd FLOOR PLAN (WORKING LEVEL) / WORKING LEVEL CONCEPT DIAGRAM
SKETCHING
A-
OFFICE / WORKSHOP ONE PEOPLE SUITE
B-
ACCESS ENTRY ONE BEDREOOM SUITE
SECTION / UNIT TYPE
C-
OFFICE /
FAMIL
/ WORKSHOP
LY SUITE
D-
SMALL COMPANY OFFICE THREE PEOPLE PLAN
SECTION / UNIT TYPE
E-
ACCESS ENTRY ONE PEOPLE SUITE
STUDY MODEL
fairground on live Commercial Fall 2015 Inspired by the media saturated annual New York State Fair, the project is a redesign for the fairground’s entrance. Giant LED screens are installed as facade and advertising billboard with live broadcasting of events inside fairground. Including program of a cafe, an outdoor cinema and ticket kiosk.
chevy court
site boundary
Highway
main road
Highway
Store
40’
Cafe entrance 35’
20’
To parking lot
0’
0’
SITE PLAN / SECTION
Main Gate Billboard LED Screen: Changing Advertisements Qty: 1 24’ 6”*42’
Chevy Court LED Screen: Live broadcast Qty: 1 24’6” *42’
Times Square Tower Image board : Still images Qty: 8 7’ 7”*6’
centered void
Illusionary space
Electricity
Image saturation
Reception Projection/illusionary space
Night Movie place
Fair Entrance
15’
Pedestrian from Mainroad
CONCEPT DIAGRAM / SECTION
Screen Screen
Cafe Stair (7”) amphitheater seating
Stair (7”)
Reception seats Indoor LED Screen Cafe front Pavement Soil Movie theater seats
Section AA Cafe Entrance
Section BB Fairground Entrance
Section CC Outdoor Movie Theater
Section DD Reception D
A
B
C
B
C
D
A
PLAN / DETAILS
Gathering place: I love NY store/chevy court
Mainroad
Reception
Gathering place: information booth/fair entrance
Gathering place: outdoor amphitheater/fair entrance Ticket place Outdoor amphitheater Facade with movie projection
Gathering place: cafe/image saturated area
Projection of bulletin board Cafe entrance
Store
Projection of bulletin board Facing centro bus station
Parking lot
Gathering place: centro bus station/ bulletin board projection
ISOMETRIC DRAWING
projection screen/illusionary space projection screen/chevy court live broadcast
cafe
reception
fair entrance
projection screen/illusonary space projection screen/Giant welcoming board
PERSPECTIVES
object in the field Library Spring 2016 After a close observation of people’s behavior in a public library,the project tries to use OBJECTS in different scale to arrange space. Object provides guiding, creates sectional visual connects and functions as furniture.
STUDY MODELS / SITE MODEL
1’=1/4” DETAIL SECTIONAL MODEL
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Gathering of individuals
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CONCEPT DIAGRAM / ISOMETRIC DRAWING
East
1
1
2
2
3
3
a
b
c Young Adult & Adult Collection
d
Staff office
Administration
e
4th Floor Plan
Computer Access Area
A
Computer Access Area
A
B
B
Young Adult Collection Children Collection
3rd Floor Plan
Adult Collection
Current Periodicals
Service & Info
Young Adult Collection
Ground Floor Plan 1/8”=1’-0”
PLANS
1
2
3
4
5
100’-0”
65’-0”
45’-0”
30’-0”
15’-0”
1
2
3
4
5
68’-0” 65’-0”
45’-0”
30’-0”
15’-0”
SECTIONS
passing by 30 sec
A Glance 3 sec
Reading 30 min
Studying 2h
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Tour: 30 min
GRAPHIC NARRATIVE
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in between Library Spring 2016 Reading New York city as field of object, different object nature, materiality, sizing influence the visible and invisible boundaries around them. Programs can be categorized according to their openness or popularity, a building can be rethink as a miniature of urban conditions. Big, hard edged mass for private office and auditorium. Small “attractor� objects create gradient boundary around them. Even smaller: Non-structural columns used as space defining tool Pattern as guidance.
SITE DIAGRM
BEHAVIOURS
SPACE
in Between
in Between
Urban context is full of objects. People’s behaviours are influenced by objects. Sometimes repelled, sometimes attracted. Which shown by a compressed or released tracking.
Urban network is growing in between the building objects. Space are defined by both visible and invisible boundaries set up by objects.
Void
Attracting
People interaction around objects. Objects become the attractor.
Temporary construction void.
Speed
Siphoning
People’s tracking differ from how close they are to the architecture.
Siphoning space formed by scaffold columns
Repelling
Zoning
Repelling object creates intangible voids
Activity zones formed by curb without physical boundries.
URBAN INVESTIGATION
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CONCEPTUAL PROGRAM DIAGRAM
MASSING DIAGRAM / CONCEPT DIAGRAM
1
2 11’
3 30’
4 30’
5 30’
6 30’
166’
Object Void
Open WeWork
146’
Private WeWork
Sleeping Room
122’
Library
98’
Object Void
74’ WeWork Open Office Conference
58’ Library Food Service
42’
Lobby
20’ Private WeWork Cafe/Welcome Library
0’
SECTIONAL PERSPECTIVE
7 30’
8 11’
PLANS
1
2 11’
3 30’
4
5
30’
6
30’
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Construction Sign: temporary boundary Fast Object in between curbs Food booth: Attracting object forms gradient doundary Scafolding: Siphoning moment between diffferent boundaries
4 pm: Reading Space Shh....Away from the center of gradient
2 am: The Object Void Nice Lobby for relaxing 6 pm: Activities Around the Giant Object A fun space for Children
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GRAPHIC NARRATIVE
MODEL / STUDY MODELS
infopolis Urban Structure Fall 2017 Team work with Ran He & Nuofan Xu
A vertical urbanism influenced by twisted political narrative.
Prologue Infopolis is more than a dystopia. It is a bleak prospect on society, a cynical dream of our modern urban ambitions, and a twisted political narrative exerted on top of an existing chaotic normality. Beneath the surface of the absurdity and conflict, Infopolis represents a conglomeration of political and social injustices- poised to assault under the innocent guise of urban reconstruction. Extreme government censorship gives way for corporations to take advantage of lower-income residents; who are being socially and physically segregated from their wealthier counterpart. Society, instead of crumbling apart, is held together by a myriad of urban infrastructures designed uniquely for Infopolis – gigantic signal jamming towers broadcasting high frequency radio waves block all transmission of information within their radius, security checkpoints filters out the undesirables from the city population, and colossal vertical transportation stations carrying city residents to another street level. The creation of Infopolis, as fictional as the city may be, is based on real-world social misfunctions around us. In Beijing, new directives on media self-censorship are being distributed every day. Each day words are being replaced and re-interpreted to justify the government’s agenda. Citywide cleanup operations deface the storefronts and claims themselves to be purifiers of the city. At Times Square, the cityscape is defined by the commercial value provided through the visual interface on buildings. Architecture, in a way of speaking, becomes a superficial agent of advertisement. In Hong Kong, city with one of the highest land prices, vertical development becomes an urban trend. Massive residential towers house thousands of identical spaces that families reside in. Sunlight and air became a rare commodity for those live near the ground level. These urban issues, however, are not isolated or unique for each city. Infopolis thus became a reasonable and rational extrapolation of a foreseeable urban phenomenon. To say this, we must first acknowledge that our goal in creating the city is not to “solve” the now much more complicated urban fabric. Instead we become speculators of the lifestyle presented by a new and more challenging environment. Simply put, Infopolis is more of an urban ambition than it is a problem-solving case study. With hardships comes struggle; citizens resort to various means of comfort. Some are merely silent observers; some are standing up to resist and change. Others adapt to the current status quo and become a fine piece of clockwork in the giant bureaucratic machine. In ACT II we start to focus on crucial areas that defines the city, from the most iconic radio-silence zone to a drivethrough restaurant buried deep inside the vertical station. Each scene starts from an abstract concept, and they evolve as the city develops. Futuristic gadgets shape and define the very space we live in; and revolutionize our way of life. Yet the city radiates tension, as it was built on the very idea of economic efficiency, discrimination and social inequality, all of which, at human scale, become deafening screams for freedom and justice.
Real world Issues A conversion about urban Censorhship This year around June in Beijing, a campaign to bring buildings in the city up to code was launched citywide. The primary concern of the city was shop owners randomly building their walls and windows that were not code compliant. Although the intention was beyond reproach for safety reasons, the execution was carried out brutally with most of the storefront of shops and bars destroyed; and what was left of the building was filled with a lifeless impenetrable brick wall. This issue brings out the long controversial topic about censorship. Increasingly, buildings in China have to abide not only safety codes but also comply with the government’s ruling aesthetic valuesmainstream and harmonic. Beijing only reflect a small portion of government censo ship because most of the censor is done before the conception of the building.
A struggle Between Classes One major inspiration to the creation of Infopolis is the historic Kowloon Walled City. An extremely densely populated settlement in Hong Kong. Buildings are highly vertically expressed while residents occupy very little space within each apartment. We take great interest in not only the social inequality among the city, but more importantly the urban issues that arrive within this set of spacial boundaries. As Hong Kong continues to grow as a city with one of the most expensive land prices, new colossal residential towers are continually being constructed with little concern for the living condition inside. More and more buildings become dilapidated and unhygienic slums. And the situation is still worsening.
An endless sea of junky information Times Square is a major commercial intersection. The commercials and billboards date back to 1940s. Architecture around times square become incredibly functionalistic- that is to provide commercial coverage and, in turn, economic gain. Buildings become nothing more than canvases for corporations to reap profits yet pedestrians all seem to enjoy the over-influx of information and commercialism. We take Times Square as a sample for our commercial spaces to experiment on media-defined facades and architecture. From there, the unavoidable conflicts between an almost chaotic space of advertisements and the dead silent world of government information are slowing going to unfold‌
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City Plan The Master plan is a collage of different urban textures worldwide. It is arranged in a reasonable way so that the island proves that this urban phenomenon can actually happen in anywhere around the world. The vertical city is a phoenomenon that violently built upon the existing under the political and commercial forces.
Service Station Upper District Structure Jamming Tower Zone
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The second layer of the city is determined by the location of the vertical transportation stations. The vertical stations bring up the construction of inter-station routes. After that, the second layer of the city was developped simultaneously based on the location of the stations. The jamming tower are thus placed to fight against the commercial power.
Service Station Upper District Structure Jamming Tower Zone
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Upper District Typology I
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Public Space Upper District vs. Lower District
Station Vertical Massive Transportation Stations (VMTS) are the backbone of the city infrastructure. A multitude of skyscraping vertical columns support the dozens of new street levels above ground (high-lines), but they also provide convenient and direct access up and down the city. Within them are both pedestrian and vehicular access, which are strictly monitored and restricted to citizens with the corresponding access level.
Lower District Public Space
Lower District Info Density
Uncontrolled Info Density Upper District vs. Lower District
Jamming Tower Jamming towers are devices deployed by the central city government as a mean to control and censor media. Within its signal radius, all information is blocked. We are particularly interest in it urban and architectural significance. As residents take on different attitude towards space that is void of media and information. The city skyline reflects the irreversible effect these towers cast on a dystopian urban configuration.
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Surveillance Vans, are mobile censorship stations that survey the city and censor anything that is not up to the books. They combined with Jamming Towers effectively controls the media in most of the city.
Upper District apartments are generally well-lit, spaceous condominiums. Built on the existing city, upper district buildings have direct entrance to the roadworks and facilities of the “better half of the city”.
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Stations are exclusive transportation interchanges between the upper and lower levels in Infopolis. These provide passage to both vehicles and pedestrians with the right clearance level. Security checkpoints are set up to regulate these vertical movements.
There is no specific boundary between “Upper” and “Lower” districts. The city is a multi-layered conglomerate separated by wealth, dominated by big companies and finally taken advantage of by the government. Rather, upper and lower became synonyms for order and chaos. One could live on the top deck in the Peddlers’ District and still be called a “lower-scum”; while those on Palace Ave, though the geological lowest point in the city, are the ones who control Infopolis.
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Upper District apartments are generally well-lit, spaceous condominiums. Built on the existing city, upper district buildings have direct entrance to the roadworks and facilities of the “better half of the city”.
Commercial signs are a common sight of the Lower District, given “Uppers” can directly see them while walking on the sidewalks. Since advertisements are highly censored/taxed in Upper, most commercials appear down here.
Upper District houses roughly 1/5 of the entire population of Infopolis; and they consist the top 20% of the economic pyramid. Housing is based on merit and in Infopolis, that means taxes and donations.
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Surveillance Vans, are mobile censorship stations that survey the city and censor anything that is not up to the books.
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Strict checkpoints are set up in both entrances to the Upper District as well as key public spaces. Lower District I.Ds are detained and deported back after. Cars are stopped at secondary entrances and pedestrians in separate check-
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Entrances to the Park is strictly restricted for the Upper residents. ID checks imposed by the government claims to prevent lower-rights group terrorist attacks and information criminal breaches.
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Although cars have largely been automated from the year of 2050, vehicles in the Upper District still requires manual manuever due to the high-frequency signal jamming.
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Inside the Jamming Zone, the building facade is mostly controlled by govermental slogans. In here, information is strictly censored and controlled by political force.
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In the lower district, the building facade is occupied by individual-driven commercial forces. Many of them are quickly abondoned and thus created a information junkyard on the building facades.
Around the jamming zone is, building facade is largely controlled by large commercial forces.
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New editors become agents that destroy information instead of creating new information.
Vertical stations run through the city and makes up the largest transportation system. Radiating from them are highlines that run across different st. levels.
Atop the city are “meditation spaces� that are void of any information. The government impleted the zone for censorships but the city turned it into a unique space.
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The lower city is in a dilapidated state- lack of government control. Selfconstructed stuctures run uncontrolled and residents live in a minimal living environment.
Lower district architecture is granted with a high level of freedom: self-built structures, drive-through restaurants that is built inside a vertical station...
Security checkpoints are placed through the entire city- for security reasons. They safeguard the benefits of the upper class.
Play Structure Analysis Scene F: Meditation Temple
Meditation temples are spaces created on the verge of the radio-broadcasting jamming signal. These are the unique creations of Infopolis. Instead of avoiding the jamming signal, these building embrace them as the ultimate space for spiritial clarity. They would oftentimes be attached to an existing structure such as residential tower as a gateway of cleansing. When the government abolished all religions and “gods� in 2035, these buildings were not demolished- instead they were converted to represent new social ideals.
Artificial mock Japanese temple structure as the Meditation Tower.
Play Structure Analysis Scene G: Sandwich House For those who are rich enough, this is one of the best living apartment in this city with limited space. Aboundant sunlight and vertical garden at ground floor makes this place one of the most expensive apartemnts in this city.
For those who tries to smuggle to upper district, the thickness of structure in sandwich house is their temporal living space. They have to wait for government to confirm their death and claim a new identiy in the upper area.
Play Structure Analysis Scene P: Meditation Temple
New editors’ office become industrial-like spaces that dedicate the editors to a new function- censoring and destroying all offensive material. The state-controlled facility now effectively and efficiently collect, inspect, and destroy books and publications all within one building. Each day trucks of books are transported in and incinerated. To many of the editors, their jobs have become an ironic occupation- instead of creating new information, they erase existing knowledge into oblivion. One of the main protagonists, Pip Lao, is one among these new disenfranchised occupation.
Play Structure Analysis Scene C: Vertical Garden
Vertical garden are a new urban mutation of the wide-spread phenomenon of “green architecture� in the 20s. Due to the tall elevation, vegetation requires a huge amount of energy and water to survive. Therefore these parks only occur in luxury condominiums for the upper part of the body. Nevertheless, these parks created a new type of public space. The upper citizens also use these spaces to speculate on the interesting lifes of lower citizens.
Play Structure Analysis Typical Upper Apartment
In the upper part of the city, new apartment buildings are constantly erected on top of the existing structures. Driven by commercial needs these are only afforded by the wealthy part of the population. Ranging from normal residential apartment towerers to highly luxurious condominiums, the upper was the city normality several decades ago. People enjoy normal living conditions, sunlight, air and public amenities. Their privacy is protected by dozens of security checkpoints that only allow residents with the proper ID to pass through, thus excluding all lower residents from the streets or parks. Although most of these spaces are affected by the jamming signals, more and more developers have chosen to avoid the jamming zone to create even more spaces for the rich.
Play Structure Analysis Typical Lower Appartment
The unique structure of the city causes the financially depraved residents to live in a high density and chaotic neighborhood called the lowers. Here residents often adapt and create temporary structures to accomodate for their needs. Shared spaces are very restricted and little to none public space is present in these parts of the city. Self-built structures subdiving already tiny rooms are constructed to accomodate even more financially challenged people in the lower apartments. Spacially the rooms have a smaller ceiling height; light and air are almost non-existent especially closer to the ground. Many commute to the Upper to make a living through the vertical towers. Some of these commuters would illegally “immigrate� to the Upper District.
Play Structure Analysis Scene: E Restaurant
Inspired by the typical restaurant style in country side of America, R’s restaurant provide a similar experience based on vertical transportaion methoud which prevails in this city. The restaurant is one of the ad-hoc spaces cleverly thought of by an upper businessman- Seb. This almost resembles to a drive-through structure in the early 20s. Residents pass through the cashier in the vertical transportation trains and take their food from the serving station further up.
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This scene is a re-imagination of traditional utilitarian spaces against the verticality of the city. This unique structure is only a corner of the mutations this city has to offer.
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Play Structure Analysis Scene L : Library
The forbidden book library is probably one of the most illegal place in the city. Locating in the middle part of the city, the library camflouges as a restaurant. Only those who knows the true identity of this place can get access to those forbidden books in this information-limited city.
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All the forbidden books are stored in gap between the false ceiling and the concrete slab. People have to be very careful when they get access to it. Reading is only allowed in the second floor. Because of the actual program of this place, it has been destroied countless times in different locations in the city. However, someone could always find a way to reopen in another place. No one knows who’s behind this mysterious place.
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Play Structure Analysis Scene A: Lower Commercial
The lower commercial zone was once the old commercial street in the old city. Now it has transformed to one of the few public spaces for the lower residents to congregate. Peddlers, drug dealers and prostitutes infest the market at night - and the bottom of Infopolis is always at night. Artificial lighting illuminates the streets 24/7. The government exert and has not attempted to any power- simply because it takes too much maintanence and manpower. Yet this urban phenomenon is not exlusive. In our cities we often forget about the security sunlight and artificial lights provide. The dystopian environment in Infopolis is a fitting extrapolation of how verticality in cities would affect the ground level. And it is a prediction of urban problems our major cities would soon face.
drawings + models A collection of drawings and physical model samples from 2014 till now.
SPRING 2018 FACADE RENOVATION PROJECT
SPRING 2018 FACADE RENOVATION PROJECT
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SPRING 2017 A HOUSE FOR 10
SPRING 2017 SENATE HOUSE REDESIGN
SPRING 2016 MODEL FOR STRUCTURE CLASS
Apple Drops from the tree.
Electrodes hit each other due to apple’s weight. Circuit is closed.
Juice, starch and suger are mixed. The mixture is sent to next operation.
Gravity close the circuit and lead the swith to be hitten. Timing starts.
Gravity close the circuit. Mixture are heated and sent to next step after certain time.
Skittles are shaped and colored. Fan slowly cool down the candy.
Turning Fan allows the condensed mixture be poured exactly into each mold.
Skittles are sent to the candy can for storage.
Using a quarter to switch the handle, then you get your skittles.
SPRING 2015 A RUBEGOLDBERG MACHINE / PUZZLE MODEL
2014 - 2015 MODEL SAMPLE
FALL 2016 AVATAR
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