Time & Space Selected Works/ 2016 - 2019 Minhui Zhou
With a background in urban design, a curiosity to explore the world, across 5 continents and 4 oceans, from city masterpiece to nature wonders, one thing I learnt is, Architecture should be a reflection of time & space.
Minhui Zhou | Assoc. AIA | LEED Green Associate (1) 917-913-8957 | minhui.zhou@columbia.edu https://issuu.com/minhuizhou/docs/2018
Experience Jordan Parnass Digital Architecture
Brooklyn, NY
Architecture Intern •
Design Detail Drawing by AutoCAD
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Schematic Design Study by SketchUp
2018.05 - 2018.08
Kengo Kuma and Associates
Shanghai, CHN
Architecture Intern
2017.05 - 2017.08
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Design Detail Drawing by AutoCAD and Revit
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Schematic Design Proposal by massing model study
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Master Plan by AutoCAD and Photoshop
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Digital Modeling by Rhino
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Render by V-ray for Rhino, 3dsMax and Photoshop
Architects & Engineers Co., LTD. of Southeast University
Nanjing, CHN
Landscape Architecture Intern
2015.07 - 2015.10
Education Columbia University
New York, NY
Master of Architecture
2016 - 2019
Critics: Mario Gooden, Tatiana von Preussen & Catherine Pease, Caitlin Taylor, Emmett Zeifman, Benjamin Cadena, Alfred Koetter
Studio X - Saida Summer Workshop
Saida, Lebanon 2018.08
Nanjing Forestry University
Nanjing, CHN
B.Eng in Urban Planning
2011 - 2015
Construction Participated Installation, Over the Line, OMI International Arts Center, Studio Cadena, New York, 2017
Works Featured Abstract 2018, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, 2019: pp. 117, 250. The Archiologist Magazine 1, 2017: pp. 19 - 20.
Professional Skills
Language
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Rhino
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Revit
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3dsMax
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English
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SketchUp
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Grasshopper
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AutoCAD
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Mandarin
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Vray
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Adobe Creative Suite
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Microsoft Office
Flood Hacking Amphibious Community Production Mechanism GSAPP Advanced VI Studio, 2018 Spring Instructor: Caitlin G. K. Taylor Solo Project
Water used to have a very close relationship to human’s development including agriculture in history. However, with the development of technology, we’ve been moved away from water. It seems like the tendency would only be increased by the future challenge of climate change and serious sea level rise. By hacking flooding, a serious issue might be worse under the background and proposing to decode its possible future influence on agriculture as a system, my project integrating ecology, engineering and architecture tries to correspond to future climate change in a positive way and minimal interventions to turn it into people’s potential fortune while bringing people closer to each other to rebuild the community.
Study Center Plan
The study institution floats on the water so its relationship to water changes all the time. It has labs and research rooms on the 1st floor, while serves the community with a community farmers' market and center on the 2nd floor, together with a resturant, a library and a lecture room. Study Center Interior
I did case studies of various flood-resistant projects and research on the movement of rivers and hydrology and mapping and analysis of local agricultural industry prior to design. Then figured out the best mechanism should be a combination of community build, agricultural production, scientific study and engineering. For the flooding mechanism, it’s made up of four main parts that would be filled with water gradually when flood comes. They are rice paddy on the riverside, natural channel systems connecting 300 mini ponds that residents can apply for as community gardens and playgrounds might be filled with filtered water as water theme parks.
Mechanism on Rainny Days
The Spiral Art Booth Linear Experience with Light GSAPP Advanced II Studio Instructor: Tatiana von Preussen & Catherine Pease Solo Project 2018 Fall
Architectural forms start with geometries. In this exercise, I started with analyzing and learning from the classics, a series of projects done by the architect Le Corbusier from 1929 ~ 1959 in the form of spiral including Mundaneum, Villa Savoye, Musée à croissance illimitée to Museum of Western Art in Tokyo in 1959. I learned that the geometry of spiral is an continuous geometry that can grow forever without boundaries between interior and outside. In this art booth design specific to video artist, Rachel Rose, I analyzed the requirement of light on video art production and display and then distributed it along the central circulation, which is a spiral staircase, also related to Rachel's topic of unlimited space and growth.
Interior
First Floor Plan
Unfolded
Basement Plan
First Floor
Section
Basement
In - Between A City Is A House And A House Is A City GSAPP Core III Studio, 2017 Fall Instructor: Emmett Zeifman Partner: Jiachen Xu
The studio's challenge is to re-imagine housing, an ancient and new topic. The history of human settlement has been thousands of years, but in such a long time, and it's always a system of sliding bar moving between public and private. Does it exist a simple move that could bring us an appropriate balance of these two? Here is the start point of our design, and we try to achieve this through the use of the conventional architectural element -- wall. What could occupying a wall provide to us? The high efficiency combined with dynamic life of various programs? Vast open space that could bring the community together? Clear layers and system of living? Most exciting, the potential of the settlement itself as a city and at the same time, the complex like an essential house? What does the coming In-Between mean to us?
Public Share Space
Aggregation of Units
One-bedroom Interior
The studio's challenge is to re-imagine housing, an ancient yet new topic. The history of human settlement has been thousands of years, but in such a long time, and it's always a system of sliding bar moving between public and private. Does it exist a simple move could bring us an appropriate balance of these two? Through using of elements of wall, we were able to create a hierarchy of linear interior experience in contrast to a broad sharing experience in the community, which was organized as a series of courtyards similar to rooms in a house corresponding to the surrounding context. The widen of users' horizon completes the experience.
Typical Floor Plan
Aggregation Model
The units are combined from modular blocks of rooms so there could be multiple types of dwellings based on the users' needs and itself can grow as a system when the user's family grows. And we designed a sharing space between one and one's neighbour so there could be multiple aggregation options than just stacking. The aggregation would be like an interlocking burr puzzle.
Units & Facade Strategy
Unit Plans
Aggregation of Units
the Art Tower of Babel A Parable under Global Climate Change GSAPP Advanced V Studio, 2018 Fall Instructor: Tatiana von Preussen & Catherine Pease Solo Project
The project started from the discussion of “gentrification”, which can be seen as a cliché these days. One thing to be sure is that the inner logic of how capital works never really changed no matter how technology develops. Different from a normal project that ends up with architects trying to solve a problem, through a game indicating the social structure in the project, the Art Tower of Babel, as an interactive narrative, encourages people to take part in the development of this project and shows diverse possibilities of the tower based on different groups although the chance of ending with these possibilities might not be the same based on the social structure. Thus, the Art Tower of Babel is not just a building, but also as a project keeps growing, an interactive novel, a game, a parable, an installation and a display of a series of possibilities. It is a project born out of a specific site yet being site-less, the story began with the specific context yet becomes a global parable of gentrification as it is a common problem worldwide.
Section of All Layers - Fictional Time Lens
Stage 1
Stage 2
Stage 3
Ending 1 - Fragrance of Bill
Ending 2 - People's Victory
Ending 3 - Art of the Ruin
The entire project is narrativized by the founder of this community, a local graffiti artist, get developed and unfolded gradually syncing with the process and depending on endings the winner achieved of a card-board game coming along reflecting the inner social structure and logic of this project. Different people from various class (players of the game) are forced to make decisions under all aspects of pressure not limited from economic and social state but also affected by climate change in the game, which will decide how the story goes and reflected by the inner space of this project. Thus, everyone’s decision matters and influenced not only how this project develops but also our character’s personal fate. The media recored the story kept changing from physical diaries to digital backups, social media posts, virtual experience data log and back to physical diaries, also reflected the time change.
Ending 3 - Art of the Ruin
Portmix Shanghai Landscape experience change with season Professional Work Kengo Kuma & Associates Schematic Landscape, Interior DD Drawing Set, Facade Study 2017 Summer
I participated in different phases of a project in professional work during internership including design detail drawings and Interior facade design proposal by CAD, signage design of the project, conceptual design proposal by massing model, digital modeling by Rhino, masterplan by AutoCAD and Photoshop, rendering by VrayforRhino and Photoshop. The biggest challenge we have in the schematic landscape design of this project is the possible dramatic shrinkage of the site area to its original 1/3. Places that arrows pointed at are where would be framed as the first view when the staff enter/leave the office area. Our solution is to use two loops as the circulation system to divide the area. More construction and activities would be placed within the inner loop with design focus on the pointed location. There would be less construction between two lines to save on budget but same with the inside loop, the experience would still be rich with abundant choices on plants that change with season.
Concept of Archipelago with Views Change in Seasons
spring
summer
autumn
winter
Design Constraints/ Start Points
The main challenge is the possible dramatic shrinkage of the site area to its original 1/3 (the original site boundary represented by the black line pushed to the red line). Places that arrows pointed at are where would be framed as the first view when the staff enter/leave the office area. The circulation system is designed as two loops to divide the area. More construction and activities would be placed within the inner loop with design focus on the pointed location. The rich spatial experience is achieved by diverse plants change appearance in seasons in different areas.
Site A - Master Plan
Spring Island View
View to Ce
Central Lake
Autumn Pavilion View
Spring Cherry Tree
Summer Poppy Sea
Autumn Maple Tree
Autumn Riverside View
Design Development Drawings - Elevator Lobby Interior
Design Development Drawings - Elevator Lobby Interior
Saida’s Seafront Disconnected to Integrated Gsapp Studio X, summer workshop 2018 Instructor: Ziad Jamaleddine Team Work | Urban Team members Gwendolyn Stegall, Caitlin Sills, Minhui Zhou
Throughout its history, the historic district of Saida’s identity, economy, and socio-cultural character have always been influenced by its relationship to the sea. Since the Israeli bombardment of the city and the development of the coastal highway, the historic district has lost its direct connection to the connection to the seafront. Here we suggested some urban interventions and strategies to connect the sea, the ports and corniche to the old city, old city, park and school to reorganize the scattered city pieces into an organic urban network, and reactivate the street and corniche to bring vivid social life social life and culture back to the city.
Cafe Canopy - Summer
Cafe Canopy Proposal
Throughout its history, the historic district of Saida’s identity, economy, and socio-cultural character have always been influenced by its relationship to the sea. Since the Israeli bombardment of the city and the development of the coastal highway, the historic district has lost its direct connection to the connection to the seafront. Here we suggested some urban interventions and strategies to connect the sea, the ports and corniche to the old city, old city, park and school to reorganize the scattered city pieces bombardment of the city a into an organic urban network, and reactivate the street and corniche to bring vivid social life social life and culture back to the city.
town of Saida
town of Saida before intervetion
after intervetion
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Other Skills
Rendering: Rhino + Blender + Vray + Photoshop
Photography, New York
Photography, Chicago
Model