This portfolio contains the design work of Zhaoyu Zhu
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.” ACADEMIC
INVESTMENTS MAP | Credit to Ran Gu
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TIMELINE OF INVISIBLE POWER | Credit to Ran Gu
SITE MAP | Credit to Ran Gu, Zhaoyu Zhu High Income Zone
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Start-up Firms
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It can be said of the city of San Francisco that the desire for wealth was the foundation on which it was built. The potential for riches led its population of 1,000 in January 1848 to increase to 25,000 in December of the following year. With a ACADEMIC
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. The Goldenness
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SYSTEM DIAGRAM
PROGRAM DIAGRAM | Credit to Ran Gu
GAMBLING
START-UP
Gamblers
Idea
Partership
Currency
Currency
Group Angle Investment
Seed Stage Charity
Venture Capital
Products Start-up Stage
Gambling Games
Crowd Funding
Reward Based
Stake
Products
Stake
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
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could fulfill your dream by starting a 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.
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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CONCEPT IMPLEMENT DIAGRAM | Credit to Ran Gu
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ISOMETRIC DRAWING | Credit to Ran Gu, Tianhui Hou, Zhaoyu Zhu
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MODEL PHOTOS | Credit to Ran Gu, Tianhui Hou, Zhaoyu Zhu
SECTION MODEL
Study Models
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 | Credit to Ran Gu
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PROGRAMS COMPARISION
Security Company Office
Slot Machine Area
Trading Floor
Table Game Area
Security Company Exhange Hall
Keno Game
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 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.
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Credit to Ran Gu, Tianhui Hou, Zhaoyu Zhu
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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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“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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EXISTING INDUSTRIAL CORRIDOR ANALYSIS
Railway Zone
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Indusrial Zone
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
Infrastructual 920.6 ACRES
Vacant 206.1 ACRES
Open Area 114.5 ACRES
Highway Zone
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GREENING STRATEGIES DIAGRAM | Credit to Donnie Hull, Zhaoyu Zhu
Railway Zone
Industrial Zone
industrial buildings
elevated tracks
industrial river shore
elevated tracks with station
industrial loading docks Highway Zone
ground level tracks
elevated highway
elevated highway(bridge)
ground level tracks with station flat with draining system
sink into ground junction
with bridge crossed
subway
Tunnel
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MASTER PLAN
PROPOSED HIGH-SPEED RALIWAY STATION MASTER PLAN | Credit to Ran Gu
Roads
Railways
Water Existing Green Space
Proposed Wetland
Proposed Grassland
Proposed Forest
Proposed High-speed Railway Station
Existing Industrial Corridor
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SITE IMPLEMENTATION DIAGRAM | Credit to Donnie Hull
Initial Site Condition
PROGRAMING DIAGRAM | Credit to Donnie Hull
ISOMETRIC DRAWING | Credit to Ran Gu
Museum
Parking Remove Buildings
Transportation Connections
Remove Excess Tracks Lobby
Add High-speed Rail Lines
Circulation Corridor
MODULE STRATEGIES | Credit to Shaohua Dong WETLAND swamp shallow water
WATER sea shore shallow water deep water river
FOREST forest open forest forest edge
GRASSLAND open grassland grassland with trees
HUMAN-MADE cliff infrastructure buildings
Local Train Connections
Reestablish Original River Path
High-Speed Tain Waiting Lounges
Habitat Gradation & Human Circulation Platform
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taproot trees prairie grasses deep water
heart root trees submergents floating leaved shallow water
spread root trees herbaceous emergents shrubs
sedums grasses gravel sand
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SECTION DRAWINGS | Credit to Donnie Hull
SECTION PERSPECTIVE | Credit to Shaohua Dong
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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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MODEL DETAILS
SECTION MODEL
NORTH ELEVATION STUDY MODEL DIAGRAM PROFESSIONAL
THEATRE DISASSEMBLE DIAGRAM Coca Expansion
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Panorama from Kant Island
Panorama from the Korolevskaya Gora
North Perspective 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. PROFESSIONAL
Panorama from the Korolevskaya Gora
Panorama over the upper city
South-East Perspective
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Top view of Model
Perspective view of model, looking west PROFESSIONAL
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
Top view of model, showing courtyard
North Perspective PROFESSIONAL
Exploded Axonometric Drawing
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North Elevation
South Elevation
Section AA
Section BB
01 Tower & Facade Design Study Model
Tower & Facade Design Study Model
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Tower Design Process 2
Landscape Study Model
Courtyard Designs
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West Elevation
West Elevation
East Elevation
East Elevation
Aerial View PROFESSIONAL
Perspective view looking south
Perspective looking west Crystal Armature
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