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MARCH ARCHITECTURE ARB/RIBA PART 2 sHUCHENG zHANG (oLIVER)

APPLICATION NUMBER: 23156981

SELECTED DESIGN WORKS

2018-2022

School of Urban Design, Wuhan University.

Major: Architecture.

GPA: 3.82/4.0

Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, University of Dundee.

Major: BA Architecture Studies.

Proficiency

Rhino Sketchup Auto Cad Photoshop Indesign Illustrator

Working Experience

Position: Intern

Works: Plan / elevation drawing, Site investigation.

Henan Architecture Design Institue

Position: Intern Works: Site plan design, Project initial design, Digital modeling, Report document making.

Central - South Architecture Design Institue

Position: Intern Works: Concept design, Interior design, Digital modeling, Rendering, Site investigation, Report document making.

Honor

SEP.2019 - SEP.2020

The Second Prize Scholarship in the acadamic year of 2019-2020. The Zhangren Huang Scholarship of WHU.

Outstanding Student Cadre in the acadamic year of 2019-2020.

SEP.2020 - SEP.2021

Outstanding Individual in summer social practice in 2021.

SEP.2021 - SEP.2022

The Second Prize Scholarship in the acadamic year of 2021-2022.

Awards

DEC.2019

The Second Prize of the National Architecure and envieonment design students art competition in China.

SEP.2021

The Third Prize of WHU Students Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition.

AUG.2022

The Second Prize of 2022 NCDA Awards, National art & Design teacher teaching innovation contest.

Leadership

SEP.2018 - NOW

SEP.2018 - JUN.2022

SEP.2019 - JUL.2020

Monitor of WHU-UOD Architecture Cooperation Class.

President of Grade Student Union in School of Urban Design.

Leader of a Group in the Media Operation Dpartment of Student Innovation Practice Center in WHU.

Extracurricular Activities

JUN.2021 - FEB.2022

Joined a design team in WHU taking charge of the renovation design works of two villages in Enshi, Hubei Province as a part the Rural Revitalization Strategy in China.

OCT.2021 - DEC.2021

About Me

Assisted the professor in dormitory interior thermal environment experiment as an assistant.

My interest in architecture initially comes from my love of making models of buildings, robots or vehicles by various materials. I enjoy a lot turning the ideas in my head into 3D objects, so I chose architecture major.

I was not the smartest student, but I was always one of the most hardworking and optimistic one. My strong sense of responsibility enables me to play an important role in group cooperation.

In the future, I will keep move forward, just like my favorite Chinese adage : Feet on the ground, walk steadily and go far, and then be promising.

Make Architecture Like A Toy

Wuhan Toys Museum Design

Individual Work Site: Wuhan, China Time: Feb 2021

We are all familiar with toys, which bring happiness to people in all ages. What happens if we apply the texture, details and design skills to architecture? The answer is they make the architecture like 'a big toy'. Now, a museum of toys is planed to be built in Wuhan to enriching people's entertainment options in the age of the internet. Come to this museum, they can play with toys in 'a big toy'.

Existing Museums in Wuhan

Human & Toys & Architecture

The idea of toys come from both reality and imagination. There are various toys which bring joy to people in all ages because they bring what people loved and dreamed to somthing they can really touch and collect. Toys come from life and beyond that. This new museum is not only a traditional exhibition space, but a toys world. From the function aspect, people can find where toys come from, how toys are designed and produced or even make and their own toys with the help of the staff. From the Form and space aspect, I hope to take some elements from the toy design and apply them to the architecture. What's interesting is that the details on the toys are transformed from real things or imagination, and when I extract and enlarge these elements and applied them to the architectural design, it made the whole building look like a big toy.

TYPOLOGY STUDY OF TOY'S ELEMENTS

Scribing

Sculpture

Decals

Warning

People usually use several methods to make toys more realsitic, for example, simplify and exaggerate elements like seams and rivets when bring something from reality to toys or add more details and decals when bring somthing from imagination to toys. Scribing, structure details, sculpture and decal are four typical elements used in toys design.

The Mixture of Toy's Elements

All the ideas took from toys are combined together creating space, structure and facade. Those elements of toys are originally intended to make toys closer to the real things. However, when they are reorganized in an architecture, they make it like a huge toy.

Virtual World

This is the first part on the visit route. Peole will come in to the world of imagination with big screens and projections surrounding them. This is where the idea of toys come from.

Leisure Part

This part includes the main entrance of visitors where they can go down to the virtual world, atrim and toys theme leisure space like shops and cafe.

Experience Center

This is the space where people can make thier own toys like gundam, lego or 3D printing things. The double height atrim can be used as a lecture hall for experience sharing.

TOYS FACTORY PART 1

This large space on the top include a toy production line. tourists are allowed to visit this factory through the upper corridors. where they can find how toys are brought to the reality.

CORE

After people visit the factory, they will come in to the top of the core and visit several exhibition hall which are connected by a rotary ramp. A big stage is located at the bottom.

TOYS FACTORY PART 2

This part is used for sorting and packaging the product come from part 1. Several workshops are also included for handmade toys making.

Design Studio

This part include several studios and chatting space for toys designer. Three tubular corridors connect it with two factory parts and the leisure part.

Exhibition Hall

The exhibition hall located at the north is used for large-scale temporary exhibitions. There are three floors inside and a corridor around it.

8 parts are organized together according to the shape of site and the relationship between different fucntion areas, which creates a world of toys. Not only can people enjoy the production and exhibition of toys, also they can meet people with same hobby, learn the idea of toys design and make their own toys.

Perspective View From the Gym

This image took from the existing gym on the west. It shows clearly about how I give the museum the texture of toys. In this rendering you can find a walking path in the centre which can let people go through different parts of the building. When you go through you can find the exhibition hall and the main stage on your left and the toys experience center and shops on your right.

Perspective View From the Main Entrance

This image took from the other side of the street. It shows clearly about how the elements tooked from toys are used in architecture deisgn to create form and spaces. In this rendering you can find the main entrance which marked by a big decal on the top, shops on the right side of it shading by the cantilever of the toys factory. On the top there is the gate for flying toy planes.

Flooded Wuhan

The change & continuation of life in Wuhan after the city was flooded

Individual Work Site: Wuhan, China Time: March 2022

Wuhan, a city along the Yangtze River, has been harassed by floods for thousands of years. In the future, with global climate change, this city is likely to experience more severe flooding. This project provide a possible solution to live with flooding with the help of accomdation towers, dams, mechines and floating farms. Most of the existing elements in the city will be preserved while organized with a new logic. People can still recognize they living in Wuhan although the life trajectory has changed.

Direct economic loss of flood and waterlogging disasters in China in recent 30 years.

In recent 30 years, with the rapid growth of China's GDP and the increase of global extreme climate, the economic losses caused by each flood disaster are increasing continually. Although the Chinese government is accelerating the construction of water conservancy facailities and disaster relief teams, the old drainge system in Wuhan is insufficient to withstand extreme rainfall.

Wuhan is located at the confluence of two rivers and has heavy rainfall each year. So it's been suffered from flood since ancient times. Floods in 1931 killed thousands of people and displaced 400,000 residents in Wuhan. During the past 20 years Wuhan has expanded rapidly, but the quality of its drainage system cannot meet the flood control needs when heavy rains come. The Wuhan government has been working to renovate the city's drainage system for several years, but with limited success.

Naturehistorymodern

Wuhan has plenty of historical heritages in both Chinese and western style due to it's complex historical position.

Nowadays, Wuhan is one of the economic center in central China, which is a high density city with skyscrapers and various modern facilities.

Process Of Transformation

Wuhan is a city that full of complexity, These drawings are going to show the typology study and how different types of buildings can be preserved in the new system.

Step 0: City before the flood

Wuhan is a complex city with long history, where the historic building in eastern and western style stay together with plenty of skscrapers. Viaducts and rail transit run through the mian roads.

Step 1: Tower & dam construction, building transfer

In order to defend the increasingly severe flooding, the city is going to be reorganized. The construction of towers that can accommodate the existing small or medium-size buildings will be started, as well as the dam that surround the large area needed to be protect. Giant modular mechines will help during the process.

After the accommodation tower is built, more existing building can be placed on it with the help of mechine. More modular living and public space will be placed inside the dams and on the towers to make each of them a integrated community. Existing high-rise buildings will be protected by small modular levees.

After the construction of each part, finally a new rail transit system will be planned to connect each part of the city from the sky, which will work together with boats and mechines to take charge of the personnel and cargo transport. Floating argricultural module will be organized to serve the citizens.

Conponents Of Accommodation Tower

The building accommodation tower combined by several parts: living circles and platforms, vertical transport system for buildings, viertical circulation system for residents, modular built public spaces, folding canopy and water treatment system, which make sure the tower can meet the need of daily life.

Component Of Dam Area

Crane the track around the dam that helping build and maintain modules in different functions.

Modular built spaces include

Lift module

Circulation module

Structure frame

Functional module

Aquqculture module

These floating modules will provide foods for the city after conventional farmland has been flooded.

Outside commercial spaces and public spaces regenerated from the existing viaducts.