XUAN ZHANG
+1(607)-923-0313 zhang.6588@osu.edu Nationality: Chinese DB:January 14 1997 https://zhang6588.wixsite.com/linlindada
CURRICULUM VITAE
CONTENTS
02
Co-Working Office Tower
10
Energy Advancement & Innovation Center
16
La Brea Tar Pit Museum & Hancock Park
28
38
Live-Work Studio for Miniature Maker
Double-Dome Brick Pavilion
48
50
62
Other Projects
Graphic Designs
Hobbies
Co-working Office Tower Office buildings encode cultures of work in their built forms and interior environments. From the nineteenth century clerical office of “Bartleby the Scrivener” to the contemporary open plan of “The Office,” offices are inseparable from economic systems they reflect and in turn support. The past decade has seen the rapid rise of coworking spaces such as WeWork to serve the growing number of freelance workers. Today, unlike the neutrality of a typical office plan, coworking offices are spatially and programmatically diverse. Their success rests on freelancers’ desires for community. Coworking buildings blur the once‐clear distinction between work and life through a flexible attitude toward productivity that includes leisure and lifestyle maintenance. This is a senior year studio project to design an urban working space in downtown Columbus in Ohio state in United States in a group of two people. It addresses several studio themes in the following ways: first one is about the constructed form, which means tall office buildings are inseparable from structural and material innovation. The modular regularity of the structural grid is essential to the neutrality of the typical office. The compact configuration of the building’s core is its structural and organizational nucleus. The second one is that the project site is on Broad Street, in downtown Columbus’s Discovery District. While the Discovery District is known for its cultural and educational institutions, Broad Street is lined by many of the city’s important office buildings. The site dimension is approximately 120’ along East Broad and 200’ along Grant Street. In our project, we utilized steel+glass boxy shell with a dynamic organic spiral object as inner program “container”. We distinguish programs into two categories: office and other entertainment programs, such as market, daycare, gym, restaurant, and roof-garden. Organic inner object is for main entertainment programs, and the spaces outside organic object is mainly for office. The tower has 23 stories, the higher, the more private spaces are.
OFFICE 02
R E C R E A T I O N
03
HQ
ffice
at O Priv
k wor
Co-
Credit to: Autumn Harvey (Drawings)
07
Energy Advancement & Innovation Center The word laboratory conjures images of rarified spaces occupied by experts engaged in the pursuit of scientific truth. Yet the depth and complexity of contemporary challenges, such as energy and climate change, are transforming laboratories into dynamic spaces for transdisciplinary engagement and broader public visibility. Such spaces nurture innovation and support engagement. Architectural modernism embraced its monolithic potential to simultaneously create structure, enclosure and finish. Yet it also has limited flexibility, poor acoustic and thermal performance. How can a such a robust material be used intelligently for an iconic campus building? The EAIC will be a symbolic statement of the university’s approach to energy research and serve as a venue for public engagement. Touching multiple campus districts and visible from both outside and inside the campus, how will you use architecture to craft an institutional and urban identity for the new center? The Energy Research Laboratory requires a range of indoor climates, from dedicated laboratory spaces that are mechanically isolated from the rest of the building to unstructured social spaces, which can have direct relationship with the outdoors and other spaces. How can you nest and intersect the different building uses and their associated climates to develop spatial strategies for your building? How can these affect your building’s energy use? With the questions above in mind, these are some of my design ideas: This is a project to design a new Energy Research Laboratory for OSU’s Main Campus, where has a lake surrounding. In this project, the constructed form is a multi-story cast-in-place concrete structure. I took the idea of mobility of the concrete mock-up studies, and designed the massing of building into the combination of concrete and glass with highlighted movement and interactions between two materials. Also, the geometry is derived from the surrounding lake shape, which creating more interactions with site. On the first level, a super dynamic and organic concrete sculptor inserted into central space as both border of Interactive Display Space and supporting structure of ramp leading to upper level Dedicated lab space, which is also corresponding to the idea of mobility.
RESEARCH LAB 10
Plans
7. 3. 12.
12. 6. 12.
8.
1.
12. 2.
4. 11.
10.
9.
14. 1. 4.
5.
4.
5. 4.
13.
1. Entry 2. Interactive Display Space 3.Amphitheater 4. Dedicated Lab 1 5. Office 6. Kitchen 7. Dining Terrace 8. Cafe 9. Fire Staircase 10. Balcony 11. Tea Room 12. Research Lab 13. Green House / Roof Garden 14. Seating Area
Concrete Element breaking through Resin
d ck R a m Car
d
R a ck arm
Kenny Rd
Resin
Concrete Movement
Lake Geometry
C
12
Green House
Lobby
La Brea Tar Pit Museum & Hancock Park The Fall 2019 Gui Studio project invites students to reconsider the design of the existing La Brea Tar Pits Museum and its adjacent landscape. Los Angeles is home to the largest working oil field in the United States, and the history of local oil exploitation is linked to this cultural landscape. It has become commonplace to see oil pumps within residential neighborhoods and architectural follies to mask oil infrastructure, while the La Brea exploration field, research laboratory, and working museum result from the same ecology. The La Brea Tar Pit Museum faces 15mile long Wilshire Boulevard, one of Los Angeles’ major thoroughfares, known as Miracle Mile. This project is to re-design Lar Tar Pit Museum and its surrounding landscape Hancock Park in group of two. My partner and I both started with the idea of occupying basically the whole site along longitudinal side. We defined this is the site of division, recognition, and reconciliation under the framework of the Anthropocene: 1) The division equates the histories of boring into the earth for nonrenewable energy, a wound in the ground. 2) The recognition is an acknowledgement of the past’s magnitude and its service to future narratives of understanding. 3) The reconciliation is the halting of the market-driven, the humancentric action of extraction. These thematic elements are made present within the project, delving into the idea of both manifesting division through a path, and reconciling it through stitching. The Division refers to the axis of Division, shown as gridded structure, visually separates the program and gesture of the project. This division drives vertical circulation, allowing visitors to dig underground. This division results in a bipartite organization of Hancock Park. Also, this division separates the ecological conditions of Los Angeles, the artifice and the natural. The stitching, meanwhile, is presented through the dynamic jogging of the structure, allowing for recognition and reconciliation. It allows for visitors to intimately recognize all the unique features of the site itself, longitudinally traveling throughout the site Also, the stitching acts a way to reconcile the division of Hancock Park, unifying the distinct ecological conditions of the invasive artifice (green) and Los Angeles’ natural climatic conditions (desert).
MUSEUM 16
23
24
Credit to: Andrew King (model maker)
Live -Work Studio for Miniature maker In this project, I aimed to explore a series of opposite conditions—live/work, public/private, inside/outside—through the design of a live/work building. In the project, choosing to highlight differences between these conditions, or blurring distinctions between them is the main idea to accomplish goals. The building is to be 4,500 SF and to contain two living units, a shared work space and a garden. This project is on an infill site in a mixed‐use neighborhood. The project site is on a single block in the East Franklinton neighborhood of Columbus , Ohio in United States. The block is bounded by Sullivant Avenue to the south, West Rich Street to the north, South Gift street to the east and South Skidmore Street to the west. This block is directly north of the Dodge Park and Recreational Center. How do interior and exterior spaces relate? (Living and working spaces do not need to be only indoors.) How does building bridge the neighborhood’s residential and commercial uses? How can the approach help to anticipate what this neighborhood will become? 3. Environmental Entanglement—The environmental focus of this project will be natural lighting. What kind and how much light we need in the different kinds of spaces? How do the openings (windows, doors, skylights) we use to light the interior relate to views, heat, sound, privacy? How is this reflected in room layout and roof shape? With these questions in mind, here are some ideas about my design: this is a Live-Work building for a miniature artist with her partner sharing Living unit and co-working in miniature design studio and gallery spaces. The massing design is in a telescoping form which is emphasizing the scale idea in miniature works. Living and Working units are connected by an outdoor platform on the second floor of main gallery space. This is a semi-outdoor co-working space opened to visitors to take lessons and do some miniature making mock-ups with backyard garden view. As for garden, it is an open space with grass and plants for people from neighborhood hanging out and for some miniature exhibition events held by the miniature artists.
RESIDENTIAL 28
30
33
Owner’s Living Room
Open Platform Studio
36
Double-Dome Brick Pavilion This is a group project to design a study place with both private and public spaces. The basic form is the double dome. Our group finally used my very first idea Yin & Yang shape as the foundational form to create separations of privacy and public space. Yin & Yang idea was aimed to represent Private and Public, Group and Individual study method, also to set up differences between Most Illumination and Least Illumination spaces. It is also a highlight of balance of each set of opposite aspects. Utilize the intersection to separate public and private. We also control the illumination amount by controlling brick density of wall. Public area has bricks with large gaps between each two, the private areas are opposite. We changed degree of rotation of bricks to control the gaps between bricks and the wave-shape of the wall. All of the designs tested by the wooden and Bristol sample models before construction of the real-person size model in cardboard. We also used 20% other material except cardboard. Color paint is the “material� we chose. Every single wall-brick was painted in white inside. There were twelve bricks were painted in blue inside at the two entries of dome. One purpose is to mark the entries, and the other is to have little benches for individuals. We named them Easy Benches. The inside-blue bricks can be taken out from the wall and people can randomly combine bricks in their preferable ways. Three of them can support an adult weighted around 175 Ibs. Each individual brick can also be a little bench for children. These are the most flexible and movable benches of dome. We also have unmovable furniture which are still flexible and multi-functional. We named them as Composite Furniture. They are formed by bricks with blue paint outside. When they are all combined together, it looks like a big table horizontally or a standing desk vertically. When they are apart, we can have several smaller chairs with one smaller chat table as a set of furniture. Also the orientation of furniture can be rotated to realize different functions. This Composite Furniture idea was from me which is my most proud part of this project! Rotatable Laptop Table is a idea from my group member, Kailey Devereaux, she came up with the idea of the table coming out from wall. When the table is in use, it is a table, otherwise it is a part of a wall. The bricks of this rotatable table are also painted in blue inside to be highlighted.
Public Installation 38
01
Double House
02
Elementary School
03
Dance & Performance Art Center
04
05
Roof-garden in Knowlton School of Architecure
Toyshell
06
Fun House
OTHERS 48
Construction & System studies and graphic designs Applying construction and system classes knowledge on graphic designs. Practiced Grasshopper, Illustrator, Indesign and Photoshop to create architectural construction and system report about Farnsworth House in terms of re-design material and wall construction of this house in order to accomplish certain Window-to Wall Ratio (WWR) in certain climate zone. Analyzed the solar condistion of this house in certain climate zone. Furthermore, revised the ventilation system of this house according to analysis of orientation of house, wind and humidity conditions in the certain temperature zone, with drawing Relative Humidity, Scientific Humidity and temperature chart. Also, designed graphics which are showing Energy Usages and seasons’ relationship of the house located in Columbus Ohio in the United States. The further analyses are EUI and Carbon Dioxide Footprint based on footage of house and how many people were living in this house. Through these graphic designs, I understood all the knowledge in a specific and deeper way. It also helped me improve my design skills and software operation skills.
GRAPHIC 50
Parametric Transformations
Vase_Resolve Method
Mug_Loft Method
Flagon_Sweep Method
Stretch
Twist
Squeeze
Miniature Making & Chinese Traditional Jewelry Design Since I was little, I love everything that is tiny and cute. I thought it was what all little kids like since they the little ones! However, I am still interested in tiny models when I am a 5’8�-tall big girl! I started to DIY miniature which are 1:12 scale doll houses and everything inside the houses, like furniture, and articles of daily use. I even utilized my physics knowledge to connect electronic tiny wires to ensure the lights can be turned on. I sewed tiny pillows, quilt cover and etc. I discovered passions and enthusiasm in model making, especially residential architecture models, probably because of my dream of having a sweet and cool house for my family and never sharing a house with other family. Miniature house model making is the start of pursing architecture career, which is the one I am passionate with right now. I believe the interest I developed from youth would help me keep enjoying in the career of architecture! I also love Chinese history, and I love the mystery behind every single historical relic. I applied my interests on historical stuff on Chinese traditional jewelry design and making. I studied different styles and types of how ancient women dressed up in different dynasties. It was a wonderful history study process and I also improved my design and model making skills through this process.
HOBBIES 62
53
54
X U A N
Z H A N G
https://issuu.com/lindazhang10/docs/portfolio_final_2019 https://zhang6588.wixsite.com/linlindada zhang.6588@osu.edu +1(607) 923 0313