PORTFOLIO Muyao Zhang
CONTENT
01. A Revolution of Alone-Together Time: Dec. 2019 | Thesis Project
02. Architve Toronto
Time: May. 2018 | Group Work Members: Muyao Zhang, Timothy Cheng
03. Rebirth Project of Baitasi--Conflicts between Tradition & Modernization Time: Mar. 10. 2016 | Competition | Group Work Members: Muyao Zhang, Li Foyuan
04. Dongjingyu Bookstore--Investigation of Spatial Sequence Time: Oct. 2017 | Personal Work
05. Post-war Syrian Housing--Exploration of a New Residential Mode Time: May. 2017 | Competition | Personal Work
06. Other Work 07. Projects Participated in during Work
01. A Revolution of Alone-Together
A Brief History of Site
The thesis imagines three environments and their architectures in 2050: a congested city where adults have immigrated to work and live, a rural city where the elderly and the young have been left behind, and a bridge over a river that separates both.
Phase 1_ Land and river formed. No human traces were found.
Phase 2_ Human traces appeared along the river, with formation of a creek. Fields and villages started to appear.
Phase 3_ An island formed along with river erosion. Villages of the south land evolved into city of higher density, while the northern part stay as villages.
Phase 4_ Young people flooded into southern part for jobs in city, leaving their children and old families in villages in northern part.
Depleted Resources
Flooding Rain
Changing Water Levels
Chemical Pollution
Climate Change
By 2050, people are faced with stopping or reversing the damages that rapid population growth has inflicted on the world, including depleted natural resources, causing climate change, and chemical pollution.
A Revolution of Alone-Together — loosely based on facts — speculates about how new collective forms of living can combat loneliness and alleviate environmental pressure on the planet.
Rural Site
River Site
Urban Site
For Urban Site
1_ It starts from a typical mini-room layout.
3_Single Suite A Communication Level: intentional parties Living Period: more than 5 years Crowds: floating singles
3_Single Suite B Communication Level: frequently meet neighbors Living Period: 3 - 5 years Crowds: floating singles
3_Double Suite A Communication Level: intentional parties Living Period: more than 5 years Crowds: floating couples
3_Double Suite B Communication Level: frequently meet neighbors Living Period: 3 - 5 years Crowds: floating couples
2_ Livingrooms should be liberated for more communication.
3_Single Room C Communication Level: Love to make friends Living Period: Temporary Crowds: floating singles
3_Double Room C Communication Level: Love to make friends Living Period: Temporary Crowds: floating couples
Meeting Booth
56 Residents
Cafe
50 Residents 55 Residents
Lecture Meeting Space
Gallery Reading Public Dining Reading
4_ Three communities of around 50 residents each on site, according to degree of intimacy.
5_ Common space play as connections between groups in communities.
Collective Lounge Pool & Lounge Collective Lounge
6_ Central courtyards play as common lounges and lobbies.
7_ The communities are elevated above ground to prevent flood caused by climate change.
Translucent Aluminum panels as Roofs
Screen of Moss as Floor
8_ The building acts as a filter for pollution.
9_ The building offers aerial package delivery & pick-up stations.
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Typical Plan | Urban Site
For Rural Site
1_ It starts from a typical mini-room layout.
2_ Livingrooms should be liberated for more communication.
3_Single / Double Suite A Communication Level: love to meet with children in dinning place or kitchen Crowds: old people who live alone or with spouse
3_Four-Student Suite Communication Level: love to make friends & study together Crowds: teenagers (age 7-18) whose parents are absent for jobs
3_Double Suite A Communication Level: love to meet with children in dinning place or kitchen Crowds: old people who live with spouse or friends
3_Kindergarten Children Dormitory Crowds: young children (age 3-6) whose parents are absent for jobs
5 Group, 25-50 Old People
3 Groups, 54 Children 5 Groups, 40 Teenagers
5_ Children love to move in circles in buildings.
6_ Livingrooms are hallways and noise barriers for young and old.
7_ The building is elevated above ground to prevent flood caused by climate change.
8_ Access to river, fields, land is all provided.
9_ The building acts as a grey water filter.
Typical Plan | Rural Site
For River Site
1_ It starts from a typical mini-room layout.
2_ The private suite is surrounded by a work studio of art.
3_ Should the public and visitors isolate from each other? What would be the best way for them to meet each other?
4_ The art work should be both connection and seperation between public and artists.
5_ Views of the river for the private part of the artist suites.
6_ Walls are set as division for artist suites as well as art exhibitions.
Waterpower--Flooding Season
7_ The building is elevated above river for transportation on water and prevetion of flood.
8_ The columns are part of power generator for the building. The water and wind power are turned into electricity.
Windpower--Dry Season
9_ The columns are part of power generator for the building. The water and wind power are turned into electricity.
10_ The building also bridges two sides of the river, providing accesses for the public.
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Typical Plan | River Site
02. Archive Toronto
Concept
Site
Context Tower Extrusions
Context Cultural Building
Context Desirable Park
Site Condition Sunlight
Massings Slope
Lanterns Selective Lighting
Forest of Light Park + Precedent Reference
Canopy Light Capture + Weather Protection
Canopy Void
Canopy Sunlight Study
Nature Bluring Boundaries
Vantablack VBx2 View Frames + Spatial Perception
Nature Roof Garden
Section A-A 1
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green roof with substrate filter fabric drainage layer protection mat 750 mm concrete bubble deck slab with 1:20 slope towards drainage Ă˜ 1000 mm reinforced hollow concrete column Ă˜ 150 mm drainage pipe
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aluminum grille drainage system
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50 mm polished concrete screed with 1:20 slope towards drainage 150 mm crushed stone protection mat waterproof membrane 70 mm xps insulation 400 mm concrete slab
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drainage plane 70 mm xps insulation vapor barrier 400 mm concrete wall z purlins 12 mm gypsum board 12 mm gypsum board 150 mm steel studs 12 mm gypsum board
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12 mm gypsum board z purlins 300 mm concrete wall z purlins 12 mm gypsum board 130 mm concrete screed geothermal floor heating 300 mm concrete slab
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filter fabric stone pad perforated drain pipe
10 130 mm concrete screed geothermal floor heating 300 mm concrete slab 100 mm gravel
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Section B-B
03. Rebirth Project of Baitasi
Life in Beijing is now faced with a crossroad of tradition and modernism. There have been new policies for preservation as well as renovation of Beijing Hutong area. Baitasi, an ancient Hutong area full of traditional Beijing business, is now under spot light. However, the great charm of traditional business is fading away along with the flood of floating population, modern business and tall apartments. The contradiction between the old and the new is becoming serious gradually.
Baitasi Hutong Area Fabric
Transportation Bus Station
Culture
LuXun Museum
Hutong 1
Transportation
Business
Fusuijing Plaza
Hutong 2 Business
Religion Baitasi
Under the roof
Traditional lifestyle of Beijing stands as a cultural identity. However, it somehow locks people in narrow walkways between houses and limits people's activity.
Above the roof
Modern lifestyle, floating in the sky, grows from the former urban fabric a nd p rovi d es peopl e with more possibilities of business, entertainment and culture.
Roofs of Beijing Hutong
La Ville Radieuse by Le Corbusier
X Living Spaces = MACHINE
“ It represented an utopian dream to REUNITE man within a wellordered environment. The design maintained the idea of highrise housing blocks, free circulation and abundant green spaces proposed in his earlier work. The blocks of housing were laid out in long lines stepping in and out. Like the Swiss Pavilion they were glazed on their south side and were raised up on pilotis. They had
ROOF TERRACES and RUNNING TRACKS on their roofs.”
√ Living Spaces = HUMAN + CULTURE
Layers of Tracks
Sizes
6m: Sightseeing Train
12m: Both-side Street
8m: One-side Street
4m: Store Transportation
4m: Walkway
2m: Baggage Transportation
Pop-up Retail The boxes of different use and their running track take advantage of the concept of pop-up stores, which offers different periods of time for business companies to rent at the best sale season as well as location. (Pop-up retail, also known as pop-up store or flash retailing, is a trend of opening short-term sales spaces. --WIKIPEDIA)
Restaurant
Tea House
Opera Stage
Coffee Bar
Library
Stores
The Visitors' Map
MORNING
Morning Boxes
NOON
Spring Festival Boxes
DUSK
Dusk Boxes
NIGHT
Evening Boxes
Reconstruction of Fusuijing Building Fusuijing Building was built in 1958 and it was designed to offer living places, dining halls as well as elevators to people who were of high rank. However, it is abandoned today because the features it used to boast are now common in an apartment. The reconstruction is to change most of the function and to insert tracks and business shops in the building.
Pop-up Stores Sightseeing Train Transportation Track Train Track
Walkway
Spring Festival
Old Fusuijing Plaza 6-8F
Christmas Day Rebuilt Fusuijing Plaza 4-5F Store Frames Store Lift
Old Fusuijing Plaza 1-3F
Bus Station Design Fuchengmen bus station is a station of large transportation of people. A newly designed station is built above the ground to replace the old small station.
Beijing Courtyard
Walkway
Station Frames Train Track
Permanent Facilities Cable Cars
Cable Car Station
Pop-up Stores
Sightseeing Train
Transportation Track
Outside Transportation Track Store Frames
Shops
04. Dongjingyu Bookstore
Dongjingyu Village, with a group of abandoned vernacular stone dwellings, is located in the Fujun Mountain, Tianjin, China. The venacular houses are interspersed among grotesque rocks, primeval trees and rare plants. Around it ,there are traditional Chinese rural communities that are losing young people who have flooded into cities for jobs, leaving children and old people behind in the mountains. On the other hand, captivating ruins have attracted numerous artists to visit and create art works. In the future, government has planned to develop the village into a life museum of exhibitions of art. According to the situation of Dongjingyu, a bookstore as well as exhibition space is designed to offer public space to local people and visitors.
Landscape Elements in Site
Stairs
Well
Tree Rock
Pond
Tree Fencing Escarpment
Water
Wall Reusing & Light Experiences To create a closer glimpse of the ancient stone wall arrangement, various spatial forms surrounding the ancient walls are developed. With these new spaces, visitors are able to watch, cross, pass or go through the walls which have never been seen from so many perspectives. In addition, the house is located in mountainous area with cliffs and slopes. As a result, the underground ancient walls and southern mountain cliffs turn the visiting circulation into a series of experiences of dark and light.
1. Ancient Well and Walls
Open Window
Stairs through
Enclosure
Form space with glass
2. Light & Shadow
reading
lobby
Door & wall
Watch
Form space with normal wall
3. Circulation
tea
exhibition cafe
4. Add Wall Experiences
5. Space & Functions
3. Views & Openings
Season Occupancy Non-tourism Season -Bookhouse -Family Meeting
Jan
Feb
Mar
Pre-tourism Season
Tourism Season
Pre-tourism Season
-Bookhouse -Children Activities
-Exhibition -Gallery -Cafe
-Bookhouse -Children Activities
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec Occupancy from High to Low
Reading Space in Different Tourist Seasons
Reading Space--Non-tourism Season
Exhibition Space--Tourism Season
Road
Ancient Houses
Site Plan Reading Space 10 m
Tea
Lounge Lecture Hall
Lecture Hall Lobby
Lobby
Exhibition
Restroom
Exhibition
Restroom Coffee Coffee
Coffee
The Second Floor Underground
The First Floor Underground
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Reading Space
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II
I
Ground Floor
Second Floor
Circulation
Roof
Scenery
Light
Reading Second Floor
First Floor Tea Lecture Reading
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Museum B1 Floor
Gallery 2
Entrance
Lecture B2 Floor Coffee
1. Reading Space Divided by a piece of glass window, the ancient well is seperated into an outdoor pool and an indoor reading space. With abundant daylight, the reading space takes advantage of the stone well enclosure for seating, providing a embracing space for public activities and a broad view of the pool.
2. Cliff Coffee Shop After a long and winding road of the underground exhibitions, the circulation along different levels of mountains leads people to the cliff. This cliff space is used as coffee shop which switches the dark into brightness, presenting a broad view of Fujun Mountain.
05. Post-war Syrian Housing
When the War is over, there will be millions of Syrian citizens coming back for homes. They have been forced to live a life with shabby refugee camps, bullets and bombs; they have experienced loss of families and alienated from social lives. In post-war cities, new neighborhoods, new housing typology, new lifestyles should be there embracing them to help them memorize their beloved ones and cure the trauma as time goes by.
Typical Rural Settlement Pattern
Typical Urban Fabric
70-100m
7mX3 20-30m
Urban Layout & Districts
Buildings
Public Spaces
Concept
1.Prefab Modules
2.Groups
3. Clusters
Prefab Modules
Housing Type Category After the war, people are eager for quick-built buildings. As a result, I come up with three prefab modules of apartment plans for singles, couples and families. They are structural concrete houses with basic living conditions which meet the desire of large amount of living places and grouping. Building these public rental housing could also assist the government to create more employment opportunities for public. In addition, the new and open districts with places of families, communication and memorials could contribute to the reunification of the whole nation.
Apartment Plans 1m
Psychological needs for Syrian People Every single residential district is composed of small neighborhoods, which strenthen the connection between people after the war. The groups of neighborhood are categorized according to family types. When singles live together with a public garden, they can built new social relationship and gain security. When families and couples live together, they can share experience of raising a child. With a small playground, they look after children of neighbors. When families with children live together, they need more privacy, so they meet each other in their own gardens. And this housing type could grow into a taller apartment due to the growth of other types of family.
Groups
Clusters
Building Group
Children's Playground
Public Garden
Grass Patch
Grey Space
Road
CAMPS & BUILDINGS
CONSTRUCTION SITE
View from the Public Garden
Section
View from the Public Space
06. Other Work
The Deck, Toronto (Wood Modeling)
Bookhouse in Mountain (Concept Model)
Brick Channel (Cement Modeling)
Random Container (Paint Capturing)
Extension of Body
Movement Layering & Tracing (Refer to Eadweard James Muybridge)