Work Samples
Lanchun Zeng 2019 Spring lanchun.zeng@yahoo.com
Lanchun Zeng 1994/02/17 (617)-955-0551 lanchun.zeng@yahoo.com
Education 2018Boston,USA
Master of Architecture in Urban Design Harvard Graduate School of Design
2013-2018 Nanjing, China
Bachelor of Architecture School of Architecture, Southeast University
2017 Vienna, Austria
Exchange Student Department of Architecture, Vienna University of Technology
2012-2013
Major in Computer Science and Engineering
Work & Experience 2018 Chengdu, China
CSWADI Architecture Intern
2017 Shanghai, China
Atelier Deshaus Architecture Intern
2016
PSA ( Power Station of Art)
Publications & Honors 2016
Reginal Difference in Technology of Environmental Management in Chinese Hoffman Kiln/ Urbanism and Architecture, 2016 (34)
2017
Second Place | Tongji Construction Competition | Tongji University
2016
Cheng Taining Scholarship (3% of studio work | Southeast University
2016 2014
Second Place | ‘Structure Art' Student Summer Seminar, Tokyo | Architectural Institute of Japan Merit Student of the Year (0.5% of a year) | Southeast University Outstanding Volunteer | Nanjing Youth Olympic Committee
Softwares & Languages AutoCAD, Sketchup, Rhino, Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign, Premiere, Visual C++, Grasshopper, ArcGis, Vray Mandarin (Native), English (Fluent, TOEFL:107, GRE:322)
Contents
Academic Work Architecture 01
Arrival Hub
02
Intimate Mega
03
Recategotize Skyscraper
04
30’-1’ Dome
05
Connected Archipelago
06
Kinectic/Active at Suffolk Downs
07
Linkage City
08
Wuhan Long Museum
09
Golden Ridge Upper-Cloister
Vienna, Austria
Nanjing, China
Wuhan, China
Tokyo, Japan
Urban Design MA, USA
MA, USA
MA, USA
Professional Work Wuhan, China
Beijing, China
Academic Work-Architecture
01
Arrival Hub Instructor: Johannes Pointlu Nina Kolowratnik Collaborator: Ziliang Yu 4th Year Studio, TU-Vienna Spring 2017
This studio deals with the design of a building typology that enables autonomous forms “arriving” and “living”. It begins with the reading of Jacques Derrida’s work on the concept asylum and hospitality and then followed by a field research in Haus Favorita (a refugee asylum in Vienna).
Academic Work-Architecture
After analyzing refugees’ daily activities, we redefined the design of domestic spaces such as kitchen, study, and living room, and developed a new form of accommodation system combined with micro-economy spaces that are connected to the public spaces of the community, through an open public walkway. From the urban and infrastructural scale of the city to the domestic scale of their individual living spaces, this project is at the same time a careful division and linkage between public and private programs.
Academic Work-Architecture
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Intimate Mega Instructor: Zhun Zhang, Yimin Guo Individual Work 3rd Year Studio, Southeast University Spring 2016
Long-span architecture are often stereotyped as huge monofunctional space covered by ordered thick structural components. The mega untouchable structure is detached from our body and senses. Structures with a strong sense of order define hierarchy of space. The thick structural floor in section often becomes a no-go area set aside. This project intends to create a non-directional free space with high density in respond to the diversity and flexibility of students’ activities in a site with strict height control. These seemingly scattered curve walls in each floor connected in section and thus form a mega space truss to cover the pool below. A new intimate relationship between space and structure, structure and people’s behaviour is established.
Academic Work-Architecture
These triangle-wall components are connected with each other in section to form a space truss, which is of enough height to meet the requirement of long-span below while provides non-directional flowing space for various free activities.
Academic Work-Architecture
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Recategotize Skyscraper Instructor: Yimin Guo Collaborator: Wang Xi 5th Year Studio, Southeast University/co-research with ECADI Spring 2018
This project focused on the study of skyscrapers over 300meters worldwide. Skyscrapers are often categorized merely according to their structure typos. For designers, structure though important, should also be considered with the layout of plan and section. After researching on cases both structurally and spatially, we recategorized the skyscrapers spatially according to plan typo. and section typo. with consideration in structure.
Academic Work-Architecture Just like Koolhass writes, as the representative of Congestion Culture, the interior and exterior of skyscrapers are separated, floors are vertically juxtaposed without connections. Based on our recategorization, we try to break the conventionally symmetric layout in plan and create sectional connections among floors through the rotate of Eccentric plan.
Academic Work-Architecture
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30’-1’ Dome Instructor: Yimin Guo Team: Ziliang Yu, Xi Wang, Mengran Zhu 2rd Place-Structure Art Student Summer Seminar / Architectural Institure of Japan 2016 Summer
How to build a dome in one hour with limited money while all components have to be made at homeland and carried to Tokyo within our free-checked baggage allowance in economy class? By developing a component which could be fold into a “brick” and streched as a “container”, a paper dome was created. It could be set up within 30min, tore down and recycled in 1 min.
Constructing dome usually means needing different sizes of components since the load each part borne is different according to its position. However, the tranformable 'X' component is able to automatically adjust its angle to adapt its pressure.
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Academic Work-Urban Design
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Kinectic/Active at Suffolk Downs Instructor: Linda Pollak Collaborator: Shovan Shah GSD Urban Design Core Studio-EX3 Fall 2018
Event Based Code
Our design proposal for the Suffolk Downs site is to create an infrastructural framework for temporal events. The proposal inserts recreational, cultural and commercial programs onto the existing conditions of the site. The racetrack itself is maintained in its outline and gets transformed into a park which will be used for various activities.
Academic Work-Urban Design
The design creates an apparatus mobilizing the different influence of fluxes on the site. The flux of the water system, including the sea-level rise, the flux of people generated through year-round events and the pedestrian movement across the site in relation to the train stations, the mall and the surrounding neighborhoods. The design is implemented through additions of temporary structures required for the year-round events. This temporary framework is an outline or a trace for the events which become a guide line for the future long-term development of commercial and residential spaces.
Academic Work-Urban Design
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Connected Archipelago Instructor: Linda Pollak Collaborator: Sarah Fayad, Hanning Tsai GSD Urban Design Core Studio-EX2 Fall 2018
Located at the intersection of highway I-128 and 1-93, Woburn is a very well-connected transit hub with rail and shuttle to airport and rail station. However, zooming into its adjacency, blocked by warehouses, parking lots etc., it is indeed disconnected. Our proposal is to reconnect the site to surrounding landscape and community, Also, to rethink the current car-oriented suburan living style and create new urban form for better walkability.
Academic Work-Urban Design We trace the historic river and reintroduce the water system, which is now distincted due to a heavy pollution 30 years ago. Open spaces are also reconnected, creating archipelagos though landscape. A grid which is about half of the size of normal block is made. Each block is mono-functional which maintains the suburbian feature but since the blocks are numerous enough, they form multi-funtional clusters.
Academic Work-Urban Design
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Linkage City Instructor: Linda Pollak Individual Work GSD Urban Design Core Studio-EX0 Fall 2018
By analyzing three cases, this project intends to propose a new prototype of urban blocks. Based on Group Form theory, Hillside Terrance is appreciated by its fluid outdoor and in-between space. Every space is specifically well-designed but costs 30 years to complete. Using typology as an efficient design tool, Siza successfully created massive Malagueila within 20 years. Urban design, today with a larger scale and more factors involved, becomes almost impossible for designers to control
every corner of a project as Maki did. We need to set a common framework as Siza did, but is there any method to avoid repetitive urban streets and regain qualified space like Maki’s work? By abstracting four key building elements from Hillside Terrance, this proposal develops a toolkit for creating forming fluid in-between space in urban context.
Professional Work
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Wuhan Long Museum Atlier Deshaus, 2017 Team: Yichun Liu, Chenchen Hu, Hao Cheng Contribution: Interiol Design, Construction Design, Rendering, Drawings, Modelling
Professional Work
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Golden Ridge Upper-Cloister Atlier Deshaus, 2017 Team: Yichun Liu, Wen Shen Contribution: Interiol Design, Rendering
Other Works
InterEcho
-Manifesto for AI Age
Installation & Film Making 2016 Collaboration: Chenxian Wu, Liang Lu http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMTY3NTI5NzIxMg==.html?spm=a2h0k.11417342.soresults.dtitle
Twin House 2nd Year Studio 2014 Collaboration: Kan Di
Makers Center 2nd Year Studio 2014 Collaboration: Kan Di
Lanchun Zeng 2019 Spring lanchun.zeng@yahoo.com