Application for UCL Bartlett MArch Cinematic and Videogame Architecture

LI ZHENG

Gender: Female

Date of Birth: 23/04/2000

CONTACT

Tel.: (+86) 13205045556

Email: zl_application@163.com City: Nanping, Fujian, China

LANGAUGE

Mandarin, English

PROFICIENCY

Professional Softwares AutoCAD|Rhinocero| Sketchup| Grasshopper| Microsoft

EDUCATION

Major: Bachelor of Engineering (Architecture) Education: Xi'an Jiaotong Liverpool University Degreed: Upper Second Class

Jun. 2020 - Aug. 2020

Work as a intern architecture assistant to assist design a project and organize information

Suzhou Design Week

Arranging and participating the exhibition with the Gusu District joint-studio

Jun. 2021

Shuangta Exhibition

Arranging and participating the exhibition with Final Work of Year3

Jan. 2022 - Feb. 2022 Sep. 2022 - Dec. 2022

Jun. 2022 - Jul. 2022

HONORS & AWARDS

Oct. 2020 Dec. 2020

Drawing two groups of illustrations for two tweets and a animated video from its media accounts As an intern of WKU Design Lab to design and draw

Jun. 2020

WORKING EXPERIENCE EXTRACURRICULAR

July. 2022

Oct. 2018 — Apr. 2019

Apr. 2019 - Apr. 2020 Apr. 2019

Apr. 2019 Sep. 2019 Jul. 2019

Oct. 2020

as a intern architecture assistant to assist drawing and design

Successful Participant in Innovation Group

Executive President of Xi'an Jiaotong Liverpool University

Fujian TV of Fujian Media Group Best Creative Award Work Published on the Official Website

Excellent Leader

Student Club Support Center of Xi'an Jiaotong Liverpool University

Suzhou Design Week

Wenzhou-Kean University Design Lab The Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition Vorlunteer for teaching in Bali

Institute of Architecture Design and Research Co,.Ltd One of Leaders of Club Program Organiztaaion Member of Club Program Organization and A-Design Volunteer for Opening Ceremony and Register Volunteer for Register

Design Competition LAGI 2022

Grapes in Moutains

Winery|Spello Individual Work| 2022

Snake Yard

Cultural Center| Zhanghu Individual Work| 2021

Flexible Grid

Conmmunity| Suzhou Individual Work| 2021

Sensory Palette School| Suzhou Individual Work| 2022

Other Work

Group Work & Individual Work 2018-2022

Grapes in Moutains the Winery to Provide Food tour

· Site: Spello ,Perugia, Umbria, Italy ·Academic ·Individual Work ·Supervisor: Shuyu Zhang

The site is located on a plain surrounded by moutains, and in suburbs far from the capital of Perugia. There is only one old two-story house on the site. And it surrounded by arable land and wasteland.

the distance to the natureal feature, capital and closest town distance to the farthest and closest winery

to the wine tasting in the clients want to experience

enter pavilions and tasting grapes directly when picking raw material

Section a-b-c

except the route from production line, an isolated route connect them

tasting the bouquet at different stage of the aging

specific tasting space arranged upon some production space according to some product in process

Map

of Eating

tasting and commercial area factory and visiting route administrative office

factory route and administration area are underground, and the tasting area is arrange upon the specific process

bring people a good view when facing the vineyard and moutain

the wine in storage needs to be sheltered from light

fermentation space requirelarge opening to for ventilation

the streamlined windows, following the shell, widen or narrow depending on each functional area

aerial walkway

sunken gardern, bring nature to every floor

greenery separate the vineyard from the road

access route for employees and trucks

circulation for specific tasting area

create a hillside by covering green space

greenery allow architecture to blend into the natural environment but also acts as a boundary

verticle circulation

circulation for manufactoriqa of winery

provide

main entrance

different circulations for different groups of people

For developing the center city, the village flooded by a reservoir and forces to move. The loss of young people who move to city for work and the chaotic reconstruction left the villagers without their original cultural space. The snake yard, located near the lake and also scattered the village,bring activity space for the remained elderly, provide space for the traditional snake Festival to attract tourists to experience, and also increase employment opportunities for the young to reduce the loss of talent.

The procession started from the Temple of the Serpent through the streets and brings blessings to every family. Reaction facilities in the alley became the perfect spectator area.

The afternoon activities began at new cultural activity centers on the riverbank. Perform and parade were held.

NATURE VIEW SHOWED!

The culture about snake is the connection between the old town and the new. Residents restarted the annual snake festival. A snake lantern made by all families travel this village every snake festival.

People enjoyed beautiful fireworks in various areas of the cultural center.

camphor tree banyan tree metasequoia tree

sandy clay loam /0-15cm (fragmentary, loose, with a large number of roots)

yellowing clay loam with lumpy structure /1570cm (compact, with obvious film, moist, multi-root system) weathered sandstone /70-100cm

Basic Information

Different Height

Add Function Traffic

In the old town, trees and water provide many chance for communication. So the site is located in the forest near water to bring some familiar enviroment. It gather villagers and provide some public entertainment and social area.

The activity center is also a museum. Materials and contruction methods in the past and in recent period are showed. Visitor also enjoy the relationship between architecture and nature.

Activity Comparison

families lived together, rest in the central courtyard.

neighbors actived under big camphor trees.

Communicate Open Active Regulated Close Isolated rooms, which connected by vertical stairs, are not allow people communicate.

people active in their own small yard behind houses.

activities happened on streets outdoor people's home.

In the old town, everyone has a lot of opportunities to communicate. many areas support public activities.

In Old Town

there is car road between two rows of houses devided two pedestrains.

"Courtyard" Facilities

Facilities in alleys where limit the traffic to add different conditions for communicate. It transfer alley to a new courtyard.

In the present town, boundaries between areas, especially every private area, are stronger, people lose area for social activitie.

In Present Town

Neighborhood Facilities between the alley as Villagers's New Courtyard

0m 1m 5m 10m 0m 1m 5m 10m 0m 1m 5m 10m

Tourists' footprint is increased into the town. Economic development was promoted. It's where residents have daily activities

A. In the Forest near Water

I don't have energy to work.

A2. In the Forest near Water

Migration

We cannot have public activity together.

A1. In the Forest near Water B. Facilities In the Alley

The park where the parade and tourists have rest.

B. In the Alley

Now, we have lots of area for communication between neighbour.

The activity center provide a sub-stage for the Snake Festival.

Before the side line for tourism created, tourists only pass through this main street with shops.

The beginning of the Snake Festival, The Snake Temple

Facilities provide residents auditoriums and provide multiple route for tourists.

Moutain and park where residents and tourists can enjoy.

I'm not familiar with local culture.

A1_Cultural Center

-rebuild the place villagers rest near lake

·A2_Village Museum

A2_Village Museum

-near the road, convenience to arrive and visit -in the small hillside near lake with nice view

-the museum about village and the snake culture is in the parade route of Snake Festival. It bring visitor knowledge about the snake and culture life in this village. Meanwhile it is also a observation deck of snake light performence.

Exhibition and Viewing（A2）, 300 ㎡

lake hill road lawn

①Meeting Room, 20 ㎡

nature element inserted nature element inserted

②Function Room, 30 ㎡

changeable privacy

increase interaction between clients

③ Work-out Room, 60 ㎡

increase interaction between clients

viewfinder

nature element inserted

follow the terrain

viewfinder follow the terrain

increase interaction between clients traditional type

increase interaction between clients

traditional type nature element inserted

The young who just graduated has development plans because of the changes of The Times. More of them choose to start their own businesses or change their jobs several times to find their dreams. This apartment that compress private space and enrich public space becomes interchange stations for young people's life journey. Providing more living space on a limited land area reduces the pressure on young people to rent. The flexible space can be suitable for various groups of people with different hobbies and habits.

Property review the information of identity and entrepreneurial submited from the young who want to move in, including their age, income, and business type. Then the young get own account in specific application.

They choose house type in mobile application under limitations made through reviewed information before. They can consider the number of members, habbits and preferred leisure activities when choosing.

After choosing house type and submiting their demands, property distribute certain house for the young. The young sign a contract with property before checking in and moving in to their house.

The Process of the Young Use the Project

The teenager who just graduated and are applying for a job.

Young Couple Young Shopkeeper Startup Team

The young couple who have no ability to buy their own house, but are preparing for that.

The young people who want to try to have their own stores.

Groups of people who are trying to start their own businesses.

protected history area protected natural area culture area commercial area office area matric line developing line

High-techindustrial

The site is on the canal around the old town. There are lots of green areas on the loop and also some historic areas nearby. And the site is in a park between the housing area and business area.

- porous taihu stone in Suzhou with variable and airy spaces

BLOCK

the block for people from the same group

facade with higher privacy

lower closed upper open

opening roof opening roof with colsed rooms

close to one side open to one side opening roof closed roof combination of small and large cells canopy roof

TUNNEL

allow a circulation passing underneath BRIDGE cross on the gap formed by the two plots

arrangement of small units neatly arrangement of small units

stepped shape public area in two sides closed units

square shape square shape narrow bridge

neatly arrangement of small units closed units

opening bridege

FLAT flat block on the ground floor with entrance

stepped shape multiple hollow space

regular rectangular shape

moving back playground

basic element used for generation—l imit each unit accommodates 1-3 people with 50square meter

- Large holes are identified according to the river and road of the site - plate-column structure generate flexible porous Spaces - elements generated in other different sites to accommodate the surrounding

On the roof space randomly generated by the floor slab, the specific element structure with local culture of site is randomly arranged. The initial site is in Suzhou, so specific garden spaces with Suzhou gardens are created and arranged.

Winding Promenade

Pavilion Moon Gate

Minser House Raw of Pillar Reflection Bridge

Rockery Design

Housing

Housing

About 5 or 4 housing combine 1 big unit with the area of 9 sqaure units at 450 sqaure meter. Houses are connected by platform and clustered around a privacy gardern for residents in this big unit. The platform and the area between each big units are opening and public area for different activities, like gym, cafe, reading or other else. The housing just keep some area for basic privacy activities, and more various public area are created between privacy units. Therefore, residents can rent at a lower rent and have more activities.

HOUSING WITH WORKSHOP

The workshop area is more flexible than housing area, because entrepreneurs working together need more communication. Therefore, in addition to bedroom and toilet that extremely private functional areas are kept closed, other space are on the state of flecible and selective openness. The private density can be adjusted through movable walls by the number of people working together and the activities of the people.

Movable Wall System

Except the work area can be adjusted through combining units and moving walls according to how many people work together, the movable wall system can also creat various area for working activities or public activities with different privacy. For example, when people need to research individually, the wall can divide unit from other units When people need to discuss or have leisure activity, the wall can be removed.

Types of Units

Workshop 1 25 ㎡ _3 people living

bedroom

bedroom

Workshop 2 25 ㎡ _2 people living

Public Area 25 ㎡

Roof Garden

G Floor Commercial Park Housing With Workshop

Sensory Palette

the School about Art of Cloth For Disable Teenagers

· Site: Baibu Street, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China

·Academic

·Individual Work

·Supervisor: Gu Zheng

The blind and the deaf both lose one sense and lose the "color" of the world. In dailly life, Deaf people focus their attention on the visual world and most blind people can feel faint light, and touch is a sense that they can feel and emphasize. So colorful light and rich touch are the way they perceive the world together, and also play a leading role in this project. The project is like a sensory palette, with various senses to bring the disabled a colorful or pleasant world. The client experience and work with the architecture, as if the silk thread are embroidered on cloth, colors are painted on paper.

2.2%

Difficult

the deaf

lack of hearing narrows the focus to the range of view

the blind

they exoplore the world with other sense instead of sight

Basic Strategy

Number of the disabled 6.21% 10% 15%

85.020 million 8.617 million 2006 2022

Other sence become more sensitive when people lost one. The sence of touch, smell is what both of them can use to experience the world.

The proportion of the disabled in the world and in China is large and growing. But only a small proportion of them are well employed.

annular communication space

adequate light condition 1000 million in the world in China employed in China

translucent and mirror walls provide multiple perspectives

nature offers a multisensory experience

Idea

_the Line always direct people

concept

Silk —— Corridor

·Linear circulation space limit people's movement and direct them to move, and the touch feeling help them recognize different route.

Study Models Test

The staggered undulation wall with one layer

line spaces with different function but hard to find way

one line space around the center outdoor space

circulation is too long, not convinient

one line around two center space

shorter return route although still one intergrate line

two line around two center space but combines into one

shorter return route and can be divided into two main line

one line around two center space and combined

multiple way cause shorter return route but hard to find way

Horizontal Circulation

_recognize rooms with different function by different slope sharper ramp-different funtion monotonous and efficiency should not be the only thing in learning slower ramp-different rooms in the same funtion

Linear with ramp

Straight Random

Verticle Circulation

_experient movement_efficiency should not be the only thing in learning Traditional In the Project

Surrounding

Traditional In the Project not convinient for the disabled efficient vertical streamline

Center close to the surrounding allowing people to fully appreciate the environment

Open spaces around functional boxs and atriums allow air and sunlight to flow into the architecture. Therefore, clients can fully experience nature.

Horizontal Circulation Work in Part of the Project

The Study Area will be divided into about 3 group for different group people from long term student.The route marked by different colour & material.

Active the Alley

It continue the function of nearby area, not only link the three lands divided by river, also link two commercial street through the alley

A market there! We can also go to the alley.

·Students recognize whether they go to a different functional room or the same with slope of corridor

·Walls of corridor covered with different tactile material help student from different program find their way to teaching room

I feel the slope and know I'm going to a different functional room

the material covered in corridor lead me to classroom of my studio

·Translucent wall help light pass through it and bring color. It a become a identification for functional rooms

green area

circulation lecture room classroom green area

terrace study area circulation system

Roof View

slope with H/L=1:3 links different functional blocks, like lecture room and studio

slope with H/L=1:8 links different kind of blocks with the same functional, like studios with different capacity or program

slope with H/L=1:12 is the main circulation that linking all level from ground to roof and is arounding the architecture

individual circulation for the domitory administration circulation system studio lecture room green area administration circulation system

Circulation Rule

Entrance 9:00 am taked and enter to school with parents

Corridor System 11:00 am change rooms in the break between classes

Under Opening 4:00 pm take break with parent after school

zigzag ramps bring a gentle and smooth main circulation

entrance that connects three banks across the river

steel column with solid steel code can withstand more gravity than other column have same radius, it make the vertical system slighter

Other Work

Process From Kaleidocycle Mechanism Tries

ENERGY RESOURCE FROM NATURE

There is a long history in man’s utilization of hydraulic power, but Mannheim is not a fitting city for building major hydropower stations. Opposite to that, we propose a new way of generating electric power from water movement - triboelectric charging.

Along the aqueduct system is bundles of airtight pipes released from the sky bowl of the water tower. With the initial velocity generated by gravity, the water inside the pipes flows along the elevated aqueducts. As it flows, the friction between the water and the inner surface of the water pipes is converted into electricity.

The highest power density can be up to 8.84 μW/cm3.

The water ends up in a pond and flows back through underground pipes to storage tanks at the bottom of the tower.

collecting rainwater

controlling the amount of water in the top bowl

The water flows along downsloping pipes and rubbing against the pipes to generate electricity.

Part of the water flows down the small pipes around it to create the initial velocity.

When water is too full in the bowl, it leaks down to storage tank. When the bowl is short of water, water is pumped to the top through the pipe.

Some of the water is retained at the top of the tank and runs down the canal to creat waterscape for visitors’recreation

ECO-AQUEDUCT SECTION

Skywalk

Electrostatic The Canal

Seepage Buttress

Pressure-sensitive paving

eco-aqueduct is used not only to store waterpipe generators, but also to create a high-line water-friendly platform local residents and visitors.

A breeze of 1.6 m/s is enough to power the triboelectric nanogenerator of the design.

The nanogenerators performed best when wind speeds were between 4 and 8 meters per second, which allowed the two plastic bands to swing in sync.

FEP Film

Fixed on an steel structure that changes in shape PVDF Film

Connecting the middle support structure, or the electric energy transmission structure. Fixed Pole

Fixing one side of the membrane so that the movement of the membrane does Support and Conversion system

The backbone of wind vibration.

Accordingly, two types of small houses have been designed, a translucent 'tent' for exclusive use and a fully transparent 'tent' for public use, to meet the needs of local residents and visitors for indoor rest, recreation and social interaction. Unlike traditional Schrebergarten, electricity can be supplied for the new type of Schrebergarten of the 21st century, but only generated from renewable sources on site in order to achieve zero energy consumption for the FRINGE.

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