Architecture Works 2011-2016

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ZHAOYU ZHU

WORK SAMPLE SELECTED WORKS 2011-2016



ACADEMIC The Goldenness Fall 2015 | San Francisco, CA Mirage Spring 2015 | Ames, IA Chicago Green Corridor Fall 2014 | Chicago, IL

PROFESSIONAL COCA Expansion Summer 2015 | St. Louis, MO Crystal Armature Summer 2015 | Kaliningrad


Goldenness: Marked by peace, prosperity, and often creativeness

EMPIRE The Dragonhead Being charged of racketeering ranging from gun trafficking to murder, Raymond “Shrimp Boy” Chow’s ongoing saga is nearing its end

Gold Rush,1848 WHAT HAS CHANGED. WHAT HASN’T.

01 | The Goldenness

Iowa State University College of design, Fall 2015 Professor: Mitchell Squire Team with: Sultan Alsamhan, Ran Gu, Tianhui Hou Project Statement: Considering the spatial impact of free-­market capitalism and its reverberations on the built environment, this project questions the possibility of architecture as a medium to challenge the ever-­constricting power relationship between people and money.Therefore we are speculating about a world where wealth is depoliticized as the agency for only a few, or at least decentralized to a point where it can spread to many. At the risk of seeming naïve, our question nonetheless is this: is there a neutral space, a social, political, and economic space, within which all people can have access to the same financial instruments that have led to wealth for a few. Our project seeks to orchestrate a varied complex on a single site in the heart of the city. The desire is to compose a program that combines the shared cultural histories (both high and low) with the most recent trends in economic empowerment in and around the “City by the Bay.” 1

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INVESTMENTS MAP

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TIMELINE OF INVISIBLE POWER 1849 1850

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year. With a population surge built atop dreams of financial wealth, the California Gold Rush of 1848 led to a host of speculations including investment in stocks, property, or other ventures in the hope of gain but with the risk of loss.


SITE MAP High Income Zone Start-up Firms

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SYSTEM DIAGRAM

GAMBLING

START-UP

Gamblers

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Partership

Currency

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Group Angle Investment

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Seed Stage Charity

Venture Capital

Products

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Start-up Stage Gambling Games

Crowd Funding

Reward Based

Products

Venture Capital

Expansion Stage

Stake

Professional Investors

Mezzainine Capital

Private Equity

Products Bebts Based

Mature Stage

Stake

IPO STOCK MARKET As mining camps sprang up so did the gambling houses that surrounded them. No sooner than your prospective wealth emerged from the mines, there were instruments in place to entice you with ideas of what to do with it: you could gamble it of course, or you could “invest” in another person’s venture. And if you were proactive you could fulfill your dream by starting a

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business of your own. That love of risk and adventure is still evident in San Francisco— albeit in a variety of forms—and one could view gambling culture not only as a part of the foundation upon which the city was initially built but also how it is sustained today.


PROGRAM DIAGRAM

The building will consist of three primary features: a casino, a stock market, and a startup hub, all for co-­working entrepreneurs, activists, creatives, and ambitious professionals taking action to drive positive social, economic and environmental change. We see a parallel that already exists between these three

key forms, not only in matters of risk but also in the physical manifestations of the spaces which house their activities. Thus a dialog will be opened between them, at the meantime, information will be exchanged, flow of currency will be simulated, and existing order will be challenged.

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CONCEPTUAL SLOT MACHINE

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CONCEPT IMPLEMENT DIAGRAM

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FINAL MODEL

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ISOMETRIC DRAWING

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STUDY MODELS

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Model of Existing Parking Grage

Study Model of Deisgn Concept

FINAL MODEL

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FINAL MODEL

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MOMENTS OF EXPERIENCE

Moments will be created in this building. Several public platforms will be placed on a main circulation through out the three diferent main program. On these platforms, people will expeirence visual connection of pairs of activities and spces, and find the interesting

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and inspring similarity between them. For example, security company office vs. slot machine area, trading floor vs. table game area, security company exchange hall vs. keno game.


SECTION MODEL

PROGRAMS COMPARISON Security Company Office

Slot Machine Area

Trading Floor

Table Game Area

Security Company Exhange Hall

Keno Game

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02 | Mirage: Black Contemparory

Iowa State University College of Design, Option Studio, Spring 2015 Professor: Peter Goche Project Statement:

“RR3 will re-consider the space of the family farm and the way it is farmed, expressed and understood. It is our assertion that the artist, architects and farmers can play a critical role in the production of the seen and un-seen - spaces made and re-made.�---Peter P. Goche Long times ago, human beings rely on the law of nature, but with the development of technologies, the ego of human beings are growing and the respect to nature are losing. An installation to explore natural law that hidden behind agriculture, rather than farming techniques which represents more about human activities, was proposed in the corn drying bin. To accomplish the proposal, within the space that filled with human infrastructure as far as I can see, a plain that can hide and introduce itself is built. The plain was made out of fish wire, which possess its special characteristic of transparency and reflectivity. The composition of the plain and density of fish wire are determined by on site observation and research. As a result, an amazing experience was offered to every audience. The journey starts before you walk in the space. When you stand outside and look into the bin, you will be actually looking at the installation but see nothing other than concrete and metal grid. The illusion starts to appear as you cross the threshold into the space. Every movement you make would cause things appear and disappear, glow and vanish. You are interacting with the installation during the whole journey in the bin.

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SITE ANALYSIS

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CONCEPT DIAGRAM

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INSTALLATION GRANGE DETERMINATION DIAGRAM

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TECHNICAL DRAWINGS

EFFECT VARIATION DIAGRAM

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EXPERIENCE SEQUENCE

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Only within strict limitations is freedom possible. --Igor Stravinsky

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“Being Creative is perhaps not the desire to do something, but listening to that which wants to be done, the dictation of the materials.� --Anni Albers

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“The hallucinatory effect derives from the extrodinary clarity and not from mystery or mist. Nothing is more fantastic ultimately than precision.” ——Robbe-Grillet on Kafka

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03 | Chicago Green Corridor: revive of the dormant industrial area Iowa State University College of Design, Fall 2014 Professor: Tat Bonvehi-Rosich Team with: Shaohua Dong, Ran Gu, Donnie Hull

Project Statement: The Chicago river has a history of breeding the development of the recent industries of central United States, creating one of the greatest post-industrial cities, and at the same time, taking acres of living space of animals. Leaving hundreds of concrete buildings, bridges and highways, most of these human infrastructures as waste ground, the underutilized industrial corridor is obviously both economically and environmentally mismanaged today. The proposal is for a green corridor that will offer a safe space for animals’ migrating and revive the deserted old Chicago industrial corridor. Based on different categories of infrastructure, different greening strategies will be applied in order to achieve the most proper planting density. By applying these greening strategies, those waste infrastructures could maximize their function of serving as a migrating corridor for wildlife from suburban without being entirely demolished, which also minimizes the financial costs of the project. At one end of the green corridor, a new high-speed railway station will be built for serving as a transport hub as well as a research center, playing a important role of serving both animals and human.

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DEVELOPMENT OF THE GREAT CHICAGO The modern city was incorporated in 1837 by Northern businessmen and grew rapidly from real estate speculation and the realization that it had a commanding position in the emerging inland transportation network, based on lake traffic and railroads, controlling access from the Great Lakes into the Mississippi River basin. Despite a fire in 1871 that destroyed the central business district, the city grew exponentially, becoming the nation’s rail center and the dominant Midwestern center for manufacturing, commerce, finance, higher education, religion, broadcasting, sports, jazz, and high culture. (source:wikipedia) Since 1960s, many middle and upper income Americans continued to move from the city for better housing and schools in the suburbs, taking acres of habitat of wildlife. Land-cover 1972

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The Chicago Industrial Corridor is currently mismanaged and underutilized due to the decline of traditional heavy industries, which offers a oppotunity to propose a green corridor and let wilds and people be more close.

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Manufacturing Production Warehouses packaging

Interstate Utilities

Property Open Space

Recreation Other

Industrial 1557.8 ACRES

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Infrastructual 920.6 ACRES

Vacant 206.1 ACRES

Open Area 114.5 ACRES


EXISTING INDUSTRIAL CORRIDOR ANALYSIS

Railway Zone

Indusrial Zone

Highway Zone

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GREENING STRATEGIES DIAGRAM

Railway Zone

elevated tracks

elevated tracks with station

ground level tracks

ground level tracks with station

junction

subway

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Industrial Zone

industrial buildings

industrial river shore

industrial loading docks

Highway Zone elevated highway

elevated highway(bridge)

flat with draining system

sink into ground

with bridge crossed

Tunnel

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EXISTING INDUSTRIAL CORRIDOR Roads

Railways

Water Existing Green Space

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MASTER PLAN Roads

Railways

Water Existing Green Space

Proposed Wetland

Proposed Grassland

Proposed Forest

Proposed High-speed Railway Station

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PROPOSED HIGH-SPEED RALIWAY STATION MASTER PLAN

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SITE IMPLEMENTATION DIAGRAM

Initial Site Condition

Remove Buildings

Remove Excess Tracks

Add High-speed Rail Lines

Reestablish Original River Path

Habitat Gradation & Human Circulation

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PROGRAMING DIAGRAM

Museum

Parking

Transportation Connections

Lobby

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Circulation Corridor

Local Train Connections

High-Speed Tain Waiting Lounges

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MODULE STRATEGIES WETLAND swamp shallow water

WATER sea shore shallow water deep water river

taproot trees prairie grasses deep water

sedums grasses gravel sand

FOREST forest open forest forest edge

GRASSLAND open grassland grassland with trees

HUMAN-MADE cliff infrastructure buildings

heart root trees submergents floating leaved shallow water

spread root trees herbaceous emergents shrubs

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ISOMETRIC DRAWING

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SECTION DRAWINGS

SECTION PERSPECTIVE

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04 | Center of Creative Art Expansion

Axi:Ome, Summer 2015 Mentor: Sung Ho Kim Team with: Tianhui Hou, Chris Liao, Catty Zhang Contribution: Physical Model Making, Image making, Design Development Project Statement: Locating at the end of one of the most commercial streets amoung United States, the COCA expansion is designed to fullfil three major demands. The first is to keep encouraging and supporting creative art in St. louis and surround areas. The second is to create more space for holding classes and activities of Washington University’s performing art program. The third is to expand the original commercial street to satisfy the growing demand due to the new built student residents. In order to accomplish the idea, a main theatre is proposed to complement with Eric Mendelsohn’s original building. Along with gallary and commercial space on the street level, COCA expansion intend to become a new land mark to appeal students, local residents and visitors.

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Coca Expansion

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CIRCULATION DIAGRAM

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PROGRAM DIAGRAM

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MODEL DETAILS

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Coca Expansion

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THEATRE DISASSEMBLE DIAGRAM

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NORTH ELEVATION STUDY MODEL DIAGRAM

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SECTION MODELS

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Site Model

05 | Kaliningrad Competition: Crystal Armature

Axi:Ome Summer 2015 Mentor: Sung Ho Kim Team with: Ran Gu, Collen Qiu, Boris Tchatalbachev, Enzo Zhang, Tianyi Zhang, Xiaoyuan Zhang Contribution: Physical Model Making, Image making, Design Development Project Statement: Kaliningrad City is emblematic of the complex histories between eastern and western Europe. A Russian exclave, the project situates between Poland and Lithuania with a Prussian history that dates back to the Northern Crusades. The city was largely reconstructed following WWII and renamed Kaliningrad, formerly known as KÜnigsberg under German rule. Our site is located in the historic core of Korolevskaya Gora, King’s Mountain, a location chosen for its proximity to two rivers and heightened ground contours giving a visual overview of surrounding territories. For this design competition, Crystal Armature pays homage to historic structures on site while reinventing their composition as an icon of memory. We embrace the idea of fluid histories that are part of a systemic order and understood in relation to generations of cultural influences shaping the spatial reading of the historic center of Kaliningrad. More specific to the proposed design, the project creates an armature derived from the original castle(s), which is then clad in clear and translucent materials of core geometries. In the architecture there is a play between solidity and lightness as components of the castle frame relationships with the House of the Soviets and the surrounding city. 73

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Panorama from Kant Island

Panorama from the Korolevskaya Gora

North Perspective

Panorama from the Korolevskaya Gora

Panorama over the upper city

South-East Perspective

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Top view of Model

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Perspective view of model, looking south


Persepctive view looking north west Crystal Armature

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Perspective view of model, showing landscape and main entrance

North Perspective

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Top view of model, showing courtyard

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Exploded Axonometric Drawing

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North Elevation

South Elevation

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Section AA

Section BB

Tower & Facade Design Study Model

Landscape Study Model

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Tower Design Process 2

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Courtyard Designs

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Courtyard Design Studies

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West Elevation

East Elevation

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West Interior

East Interior

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Aerial View

Perspective view looking south

Perspective looking west

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