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OF SUIHAO ZHEN
BArch, School of Architecture and Urban Planning, GuangZhou University MArch, Graduate School of Architecture, South China University of Technology MSc Architecture, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, Delft University of Technology
Palimpsest of Mashhad, Iran Pencil sketch, 2020
INTRODUCTION Even though we have known architecture since we were born, it was not until I started studying it that I truly feel getting closer to it. Consequently, the experience of investigating architecture has strong impacted on the way I observe and perceive everything around me, and thus I started to explore why and how things were built. I believe the stratification exposed in this exploration is what constitute my view and value towards the architecture. Stratification reflects the cohensive process an architect uses to construct his intervetions to a city, where the narrative, the structure and the scenarios intertwine in the spatial and cultural entity of an architecture. It gains an insight into unfolding the contextual palimpsest and into translating the layers of hierarchy in the sense of individual perceiving, experiencing, and interpreting. Elaboration on the layering presents the depth of a territory where multiple values are embedded in its spatial agents, and provides various possibilities for the architectural counterparts. The intricate relationship between is therefore becoming the adhesive of these layers, requiring an architect to explore and find out the personalized position and method to synthesize the internal and external information. The notion of stratification drives the process of defining an architecture into a contradictory journey in which segregation and integrarion alternatively take over the priority, expanding the contents and capacities of architecture out of its functional solution. In this portfolio, I attempt to explore the alternative understanding of architecture and to build up my value and position towards various projects, aimed at exploring stratification in different aspects of architecture.
CONTENTS
01 | ENCOUNTERING THE VOIDNESS Time device for the complexity and contradiction within the absence of Mashhad
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02 | TRANSITIONAL ENGAGEMENT Corner House In-between City and Neighbourhood
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03 | DIVERSITY IN ORDER Architecture Faculty
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04 | BETWEEN THE HOUSES Vertical Village with Towers Inserted
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05 | IN INTERCHANGE Commercial Complex Centre
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06 | APPENDIX Summer School, Practical Projects and Others
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07 | CURRICULUM VITAE
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01 | ENCOUNTERING THE VOIDNESS Time device for the complexity and contradiction within the absence of Mashhad Type: Academic Work | Individual (grade: 9.5/10) Time: September, 2020 - July, 2021 Tutor: Marc Schoonderbeek, Gilbert Koskamp, Filip Geerts, Negar Sanaan Bensi Urban voids are the indispensable configurations within the urban environment. They should be recognized as distinct spatial entities within the cities and also in the sense of human culture, as the holder of the memory and historical layering of the life of the city. The project mainly focuses on the current urban conditions happening in Mashhad, where the old city fabric is being dramatically removed due to its low commercial land value. A void records the palimpsest of the land and manifests a contradictory entity with its simultaneously emptiness and richness. The intervention is a place - where - the vacancy of junctions paradoxically constructs the complexity and contradiction within the absence of Mashhad. It renders the complexity of voidness in the sense of phenomenally encountering the memories and scenarios, and literally processing to be a void. Intricacy of the reality transgresses the borders in these emptinesses and generates the moment for encountering on different time scales, resonating the palimpsestuous understanding of the territory.
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CONDITIONS OF THE VOID Typologies of voids in Mashhad feature themselves in the sense of time whose suspended processing transcends the notion of space.
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Development of voids started from separated ones which can be considered as its self-development, to political intervening connection, to the super voids and super buildings. This course shows the unbalanced relation between commercial engagement and the complex social and political history within such a fast transformation.
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Sunken voids
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XL A big volumn takes place the voids
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THE TRANSGRESSION AS ENCOUNTERING Addressing their autonomies and transitional situation, the interruptions transgress the boundaries in or of the void, and define alternative thickness of the borders and the conditions of the territories.
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THE COMPLEXITY OF VOIDNESS The voidness in this intervention is the contradictory entity of simultaneous emptiness and richness. It renders the complexity of voidness in the sense of phenomenally encountering the memories and scenarios, and literally processing to be a void. 06
DISCONTINUOUS COHERENCE The discontinuity defined by the complexity of volumetric fabric and interruptions provides multiple opportunities for various understandings of the space as a place for events.
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SKYLIGHT WALL Permanent Veritical void Reinforced concrete, 300mm
ENCLOSED WALL Permanent Horrizontal void Reinforced rammed earth with gabion, 450mm
PARTITION WALL Transitional Decay to be a void Rammed earth with gabion, 450mm
DETAIL OF THE CORRIDOR WALL Roof: Corten steel covering, 10% slope, 3mm Wooden substructure Bituminous waterproofing, 5mm Cement coating, 20mm Reinforced concrete beam, 250 x 150mm
Trass-lime check Reinforced rammed earth
Reinforced concrete lintel, 450 x 300mm Steel lintel Mezzanine floor: Corten steel covering, 8mm Reinforced concrete, 80mm Steel plate, 5mm Edge trimmer Angle steel, 100 x 50 x 8mm
Unequal angel steel 225 x 110mm Secondary beam: IPE 200 Primary beam: IPE 450
Unequal angel steel 159 x 90mm IPE 270 beam, tapered Reinforced concrete beam, 600 x 300mm Reinforced rammed earth wall: gradiant, 1200, 900, 600mm (Using soil, clay, sand and loan from site)
Floor: Transparent sealant Earthen floor covering, 20mm Cement screed, 80mm Reinforced concrete slab, casted, 300mm Bitumen sheeting x 2 Cement covering, 10mm
Reinforced steel concrete plinth, 1200mm
Floor: Cement covering, 10mm Bitumen sheeting x 2 Cement screed, 80mm Concrete slab, casted, 300mm Vapour barrier, 100mm Binding concrete subbase, 120mm
Reinforced steel concrete footing, 1200mm
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CORRIDOR WALL Permanent Reinforced rammed earth, gradiant (1200mm, 900mm, 600mm)
STRUCTURAL SYSTEM
MEZZANIZE Steel frame structure supports the load. The skylight wall helps to improve the stiffness.
FABRIC The permanent walls are made by reinforced rammed earth, 450mm, which are strong enought to support the floors and roof (permanent). The transitional walls are actually supported by steel structure, which will remain when the rammed earth decays. The transitional roofs are to be confirm with their materials.
CORRIDORS Reinforced rammed earth selfsupported structure, 600mm-1200mm
WATER TANK Reinforced concrete basement, 900mm
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Future of the void
Future of future of the void An open plaza on the roof is therefore created to provide alternative experiences to the urban context and city landscape. 11
ALTERNATIVE SCENARIOS
A TALK Directionality of the corridors echoes the monumentality of a religious culture of an Iranian city - Mashhad.
SKYLIGHT WALL Sunlight from the skylight wall guides the direction towards sky and the direction towards the urban grid pattern.
ACCUMULATED ELEVATION Timber columns are collected from the demolished houses and become the landspace that connects the interventional and the traditional fabric.
IF PASSES BY Background of the void in the Shrine area becomes inhabitable and inclusive.
OLIGOTICON To discover outside throught a narrow gap on the wall.
ROOF-SCAPE The pigeons will still hover above the land.
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02 | TRANSITIONAL ENGAGEMENT Corner House In-between City and Neighbourhood Type: Academic Work | Individual Time: September, 2019 - January, 2020 Tutor: Susanne Pietsch, Koen Mulder Lives in Elsene, Brussels are independent and indifferent, but facades of the buildings are still connecting. A corner house, whose programme is a short-term renting apartment, is situating in such a contradictory and ambiguous area. This corner locates at a neighbourhood between the traditional fabric and the planed urban fabric, where consistency and fragmentation co-exist. This architectural intervention aims for provide an oppotunity to translate this ongoing dilemma into a more vague situation, in which unexpected possibilities is able to be largely inspired upon different individual tenants. Challenges between the sense of intimate and collective, the ambience of neighbourhood and city, and the temperament of coherence and permeability are involved throughout the project.
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I started the house by defining its programme, a community kitchen is allocated on the first two floor (GF, 1F), whilst two short-term renting apartments are on the upper floors (2F, 3F) with a sharing hidden garden. The transition from public to private are translated into the spatial openness and its sense of collectivity. A hidden and semi-private garden, the only natural element within the urban context, is on the second floor shared by the tenants.
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Form is considered as the most essential aspect to engage in this urban and neighbourhood environment. Projection of the light and shadow emphasizes the volumn and demonstrates the layers within the scale of time. Elegance of the facade allows the form to stand out at the corner. Its louvres create an interface that connects the interior and exterior space and thus strengthen relation between this house and the urban environment, defining the building as a whole. The rigid modular system applied on the facade not only aims for simplifying the irregular form but also reflecting the entity of division in the classical proportion. 15
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Hidden garden on the second floor This semi-private garden is shared with tenants and easily accessed for them. It provides a place to take a breath in natural element from the urban context.
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Eye height view from Avenure de la Couronne
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Street view from the east Visual continuity and spatial connections emerge through the liftedup space and the glass facade on the ground floor, . 19
TIMBER CONSTRUCTION Timber frame construction is considered as the essential structure in this project. Cross laminated timber is used in its load-bearing columns and walls, while glued laminated timber is chosen for the beams. In terms of the floor, hollow box slab is anchored in the wooden beam with steel angle bracket and thus transfer the loads from floors to the supporting columns/walls. Usage of timber benifits capability of prefabrication and transportation in the city.
1. Waterproof covering, 20 mm 2. Sealing, bitumen, two layers 4. Gradient Cement or anhydride screed, 90 mm 5. Thermal insulation PIR, 30 mm 6. Vapour barrier/airtight layer 7. Thermal insulation between ribs, mineral wool, 110 mm 8. Cross laminated timber, 100 mm 9. Plasterboard, 20 mm
Beam, Glued laminated timber, 200/250 mm
Ribbed slab, Glued laminated timber, 210 mm
1. Cladding, pinewood, 20 mm 2. Facade membrane, polyester fleece 3. Thermal insulation, mineral wool, 160 mm 4. Airtight layer 5. Cavity, 90 mm 6. Gypsum fibreboard,18 mm
1. Cladding, pinewood, 20 mm 2. Facade membrane, polyester fleece 3. Thermal insulation, 60 mm 4. Airtight layer 5. Cavity, 90 mm 6. Gypsum fibreboard,18 mm
Ribbed slab, Glued laminated timber with thermal insulation, 210 mm
1. Cladding, pinewood, 20 mm 2. Cavity, 160 mm 3. Facade membrane, polyester fleece 4. Thermal insulation, 160 mm 5. Glued laminated timber, 200/250 mm 6. Thermal insulation, 40 mm 7. Airtight layer 8.Gypsum fibreboard,18 mm
1. Prefabricated parquet, 15 mm 2. Heat chamber, standing timber, 100mm 3. Separation layer, PE foil 4. Foundation slab, reinforced concrete, 200 mm 5. Moisture sealing, 5 mm 6. Thermal insulation XPS, 80 mm
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03 | DIVERSITY IN ORDER Architecture Faculty Type: Academic Work | Individual Time: April - May, 2017 Tutor: Xiwen Yang, Li Li The rapid urban development has been losing poetic scenarios in the city, where people wander under the mottled shadow enjoying the intimate enviroment around them. This project is a building for architecture faculty in a new campus in Beijing. Its planning's funtional division dramatically changes the scale and distance of a space, where closeness and intimacy are substituted by grandness and praticality. Thus, relation between these urban conflicts defines the intricate intention of being a complex of pyramic and maze in this building as the prototype. A pure form from outside establishes connections with the urban scale as an object, whilst the interior space shares a labyrinthine view where poetic diversities embeded in its vacuum.
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PLAN PRODUCING DIAGRAM Various spatial and architectural aspects define a specific order for this project, and they are integrated into the ground floor plan. These considerations aim for inspiring the students to involve their life experiences into study.
SPATIAL STRUCTURE Reciprocal relations between plan and section has built up the basic spatial structure of this building, where the typological spatial quality generates at the same time.
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PLANS DRAWING The cubes are all connected with bridges, corridors and vertical transportations, and therefore, all the platforms are accessible for the students in the building. Programmes of the building are allocated based on a practical principle that studios and offices are on the south while mediarooms and exhibition are on the north.
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CATETORY Experiment on the method to trim the cubes is categorized in the diagram according to the location and times of cutting. Changes of quantity and orientation of these cubes enclose various borders on the ground floor, generating multiple in-between spaces to condition the programmes.
The cluster of cubes contains a complex and polyvalent interior space. These spaces are potentially constructed and reconstructed by students and teachers with particular intentions, and this provides opportunities for them to engage in this building. 27
CUBE SECTIONS The project is constituted by 12 approximate cubes. Nine of them are presented below. These cubes are trimmed in different ways, and their spaces inside are organized according to specific events and functional requirements. The entity of diversity continues in these sections where the poetry of spaces present.
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Integrity yet filled of changes. This principle builds up a prototype as the entity of being a complex of pyramic and maze. Exploring as a journey is the only method to experience the space.
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04 | BETWEEN THE HOUSES Vertical Village with Towers Inserted Type: Academic Work | Group Work (With Zhe Zhang) Role: Team Leader Contribution: Concept Design, Diagram, CGI Time: June - July, 2016 A housing project concerns about the spatial quality, living habits, social interaction, and etc., which enlarge the housing as a sociocultural issue rather than merely architectural item. The project locates in Jiangmen, Guangdong, the hometown of many early generation oversea Chinese. This public house explores the possibility of creating a contemporary sense of community by initiating the spatial quality from the traditional villages in Jiangmen. Its combination of single houses and multiple floor houses defines a prototype for the public housing, while its public spaces within the particular "comb" pattern contain various geo-cultural organizations and socio-cultural activities. This public housing attempts to define the space between each individual units as the social relation reactor in the context of Jiangmen villages.
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REINTERPRET MARSEILLE UNITED HABITATION In 1952, Le Corbusier manifested that house is a machine for living via the Marseille United Habitation. He integrated public services and apartments together in order to condense a community into this social housing. In fact, the public area splited living area and few interactions were actually existed. Therefore, instead of the horizontal area, public spaces will be allocated in the penetrating vertical towers in the project. 33
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With towers going through all the floors from the ground to the roof, these vertical public spaces interweave with the living areas and their irregular forms allow each house presents its own characteristic. The collective memory in terms of its spatial representation is no longer a unified form for all residents in this building.
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PUBLIC SYSTEM Area for public lives reaches 40% within the habitable territory, and its formation creates different types of spaces for socializing. Since these places for meeting are insufficient in present housing projects, it is valuable to recapture the spatial conditions of social lives in the traditional villages.
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FORM GENERATION 1. MODULE Extract modular structure from the pattern. 2. VARIATION Adapt the actual need to the basic structure and form varied types.
3. CORE A lane helps to distance the row of houses, and provides accesibility for the vertical transportations.
4. TOWER Towers are placed as the public elements to engage in the apartments and to define alternative in-between spaces.
5. YANGCHENG - GATHERING These gathering spaces are flexibly enclosed by different interfaces of apartments.
6. EXTENSION Extending the balconies and corridors enriches spatial constellations and layers on the elevation.
7. FLOW Ensure the accessibility of all the room as well as views towards the external urban and natural landscape. 36
The prototype is capable of embracing the village landscape and agricultural activities into the contemporary urban scenarios, where human cultures are processing through the connections between the ihabitants. 37
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Hostel - Tower 6
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Transportation and Core - Tower 5
Light and Wind Well - Tower 3
Transportation and Core - Tower 1 Community Centre - Tower 4
EXPLODED TOWERS DIAGRAM Each floor is spatially connected with these six vertical towers whose programmes are potential to situate the whole building as a micro-community. The towers' geometrical form aims for featuring and stimulating the events with particular spatial enviroment and thus maintains unique memories. This diagram explodes the interior of towers to show the diversity and flexibility of them. 40
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05 | IN INTERCHANGE Commercial Complex Centre Type: Graduation Project | Group Work (With Zhijian Yao, Yu Guan, Zhongyuan Jiang) Role: Team Leader Contribution: Concept Design, Diagram, CGI, Model Making, Technical Drawing Time: March - May, 2015 Tutor: Yi Deng Space in current complex projects in China is rather fixed and lack of vitality, especially the podiums whose spatial quality is not benefitial for the requirement of experience. The typical typology that shops are allocated on different floors and are centralized around an atrium has became a restricted paradigm to extend the process of experiencing into a complex project. This project is manifesting a prototype for a complex project. A continuing semi-public path is integrated and interweaved with the functional spaces instead of centralizing around an atrium, and the varied joints on this path are flexibly enough to fit any events and requirements. The richness of exploration is articulated by the possiblities of different commercial activities on this path and turns shopping from a action of purchasing to a action of experiencing.
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SITE LOCATION The project site locates in Qixing District, Guilin, Guangxi, where is planned to construct into a national high-tech industrial development zone. It is in the south-east to the Central Square and close to the Li River.
GUILIN NORTH STATION LI RIVER
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INVESTIGATION RESIDENTIAL AVERAGE PRICE / SQM 10,000 9,000 9,000 8,000 8,000 7,000
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Comparation of costs for apartments shows the potential high-end development within 1km, and businessman will be the main customers in this project. The train schedule shows increasing accessibility from other cities and thus facility for tourists should also be considered.
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Offices near the site are mainly for sythetic or administrative usage. Requirement for larger office area is increasing at this moment.
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Since the notion of exploration is becoming more and more important in the definition of commercial acticities. What kind of space is beneficial to embrace multiple forms of those experiences in addition to purchasing goods?
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NARRATIVE Commercial value of a complex project is largely defined by its spatial entity which is responsible for motivating and conditioning the potential commercial activities. With the huge impact of online-shopping, requirements for experiencing have gradually changed the operating model of a complex project, as well as a shopping area in the podium. Therefore, a prototype that goes beyond the stacking of centralized plans is proposed in this project, aiming to diversify the typologies of complex project and meet the changing requirements of commercial tactics. Instead of excluding a corridor for transpotation, this continuing path is actively shaped and defines the left-over spaces for the other programmes. Being spatially integrated into the whole builidng, it plays a significant role in linking all particular venues. Therefore, many of the spaces on the path feature themselves in the sense of temporality, transition, and vagueness, switching from one event to another, from indoor to outdoor. That is what we call 'INTERCHANGE'.
STAGE ONE Link all the venues/joints to create the continuity for exploration.
STAGE TWO Define individual characteristics for and collective relations between these venues according to events and tactics.
STAGE THREE Mutual relations embody in their spatial entity which generates the quality of space.
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STAGE FOUR Events happening in particular venues would alter its temporal territories and also the other people's rountines.
STAGE FIVE These places become specific joints on the path and develop some branches.
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" I don't think it belongs to the physical layer on the surface of the distance, I even think that with more than a distance in space dislocation or present levels has come into being a kind of experience, it has relativity. I think the so-called building, the root is traced in creating all kinds of distance." - Sou Fujimoto, Primitive Future, 2014
STRATEGIC ELABORATION The interchangeable space embraces many types of spaces and their relations, such as: multi-leveled spaces, altering indoor and outdoor, rhythmical orders, and etc. This prototype defines a path as the key element of a complex project, whose dimension shapes not only itself but also the spaces around and whose relation is involved in the possible tactics and events .
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APARTMENT Apartments aim for the businessmans who work in the high-tech zone.
OFFICE Open offices (column free) are arranged in this tower and they are for big companies or headquarter offices. While some studio offices are allocated in the lower floors and the podium.
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The double-layers facade prevent the direct solar radiation and thus decrease the energy consumption of this building.
The express inn provide a different solution to meet various requirements of the business events.
INTERCHANGE This is a continuous space, starting from the plaza to roof garden, where various multileveled platforms are connected with each other to embrace the public and commercial activities.
SKY CORRIDOR The circle sky corridor becomes an iconic image of the building in Guiling.
PODIUM The continuing path provides a seemingly unlimited open space for public events, where exhibitions, lectures, flea markets are able to hold and thus stimulate citizens to engage into the commercial experiences. 47
STUDIO OFFICE CATEGORY We did several investigations of studio spaces and the chosen ones are allocated in the dot-line area below. Compared to the single floor offices, these studio have higher spaces where additional floors can be constructed when needed; some of them spatially related to the platforms where flea markets can be held.
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CONTINUEOUS SCENARIO We believe spatial perception is capable of motivating the interatcion between a place and its participants. This continuous, in-and-out, semipublic path consists of multiple spatial configurations which can condition various events meeting the market. The area is actually designed as a loop and it is unfolded in this scenario to indicate some stragetic activities which articulate the values of experiencing in the process.
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FACADE DETAIL
Frosted Single Glass
Ventilation Tube
Fireproofed Steel framing
Rigid Insulation Motorized Solar control shades
Timber Floor Lightweight Steel Deck
Dropped Ceiling Anchor
Presfabricated Steel Connection
Steel Balustrade
Low-E Double Glass
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07 | APPENDIX Reinterpretation, Hand drawing, Individual The Lancaster/Hanover Masque, Sower's house and Music house, John Hejduk
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This drawing presents a scenario interweaved with reality and illusion. It depicts the sower's tension between the meticulous work and his desire for a woman, The Cellist who is the Subject of the Music House, another character in the Lancaster/Hanover Masque.
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07 | APPENDIX Practical Work
HENGQIN INTERNATIONAL TRADING CENTRE The unique location of the site offers interesting possibilities for any development, in particular its waterfront, which provides it with uninterrupted views across to Macau. Location: Type: Site Area: Total Area: Time: Contribution: Award:
Hengqin CBD, Zhuhai, China Complex 9,680m2 94,016m2 December, 2016 - January, 2017 Research, Design, Report, Diagram First Prize
HUAFA PLAZA The concept consists of ‘scene3’ creating a 3 dimensional and 360 degree surround experience with different angles and levels from which to view the sea and the land of Macau. Location: Type: Site Area: Total Area: Time: Contribution: Award: 53
Hengqin CBD, Zhuhai, China Complex 88,719 m2 305,468 m2 June - July, 2016 Report, Diagram Second Prize
07 | APPENDIX Summer School FOCAL Type: Academic Work | Group Work (With Ric To, Milly Lam, Bifu Wen, Hongyan Zhang) Role: Team Leader Contribution: Research, Design, Model Making, Construction Time: 15th-30th, July, 2017 | Year 7 Tutor: Peter Winston Ferretto, Francesco Augelli, Ling Cai, Yi Deng The propotype is located at the riverside in Gaobu Village, Hunan, China. It aims to enhance the diverse functional usage of this area by respecting the habits of different groups of villagers. By creating several continuous floating plates, the whole forms a dynamic ring above the river, recalling the way how the villagers gather and keeping the village culture. While the prototype is composed of platforms at different heights, it is to address the daily needs and different activities of the villagers. The prototype is mainly made in timber with joining techniques and details attaching to bamboo supports in water, aiming for higher durability in water.
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07 | APPENDIX HYP CUP COMPETITION - Boundary Reconstruction Academic Work | Group Work | Aug, 2017
PUBLICATION Dissertation | Journal
Study on the Correlation between Skycourts and Perceived Density of Urban Housing in Pearl River Delta MArch thesis, SCUT, 2018
Study on the Correlation Between Skycourt and Perceived Density of U Shape Urban Housing—An Example from the Grove of Vanke in Guangzhou Journal, Chinese Landscape Architecture, Vol 35 2019-09 (285), P110
CAFE INTERIOR DESIGN Professional Work | Group Work | Nov - Dec, 2012
PHOTOGRAPHY by iPhone
TUD Library Delft | Netherland
SPACE DESIGN Academic Work | Group Work | Feb - Mar, 2016
Oslo Cathedral Oslo | Norway
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08 | CURRICULUM VITAE PERSONAL INFORMATION Suihao (Jackson) Zhen | Master of Science Delft University of Technology Tel: +31 0617964910 E-mail: zhen_sh@hotmail.com
EDUCATION EXPERIENCES 2019-2021 | Delft University of Technology Master of Science (Cum Laude) 2015-2018 | Graduate School of Architecture South China University of Techology Master of Architecture 2010-2015 | School of Architecture and Urban planning Guangzhou University Bachelor of Architecture
RELEVANT EXPERIENCES 2019.09 | Journal Thesis Chinese Architecture Landscape 2018.07 | Architect Wild Urban Architect Studio 2018.06 | Master Thesis South China University of Techology 2018.06 | Teaching Assistance Workshop of Guangzhou University 2017.12 | Teaching Assistance Workshop of South China University of Techology 2017.07 | Summer School - Traditional Village Conservation Guangzhou University Chinese University of Hong Kong Hunan University 2017.03 | Teaching Assistance Studio of Guangzhou University 2016.07 | Internship Holmes Miller (China) 2015.12 | Intership Architectural Design & Research Institute of SCUT 2014.06 | Internetional Workshop Guangzhou University - University of Auckland Joint Urban Design Studio 2014.04 | Mapping and surveying Kaiping Diaolou Jiangmen, Guangdong UAL Studio 2014.03 | Join UAL Studio Guangzhou University 2013.01 | Mapping and surveying Kaiping Dwellings Jiangmen, Guangdong 2013.06 | Lab Assistant GD Energy Efficiency and Applied Technology Key Laboratory, Guangzhou University
2016.06 | Excellence Prize 2016 Liang Sicheng Cup Competition 2013.08 | Excellence Prize 2013 Revit Cup Architecture Design Competition 2013.08 | Excellence Prize 2013 Young Bird Plan 2012.11 | First Prize Design Competition about Coffee Shop School of Architecture, Guangzhou University 2011.10 | Excellence Prize 6th Zhu Jue Cup Architecture Competition Academic Experience Scholarship: 2017 | Second Prize Academic Scholarship of SCUT 2015-2016 | Third Prize Academic Scholarship of SCUT 2011-2014 | First Prize Academic Scholarship of Guangzhou University 2011 | Third Prize Pu Bang Yuan Lin Excellence Scholarship Pubang Landscape Architecture co.,Ltd
PROFESSIONAL SKILLS Advanced | Rhino, SketchUp, AutoCAD, Model Making, Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign, Sketch Intermediate | Ecotect, Microsoft Office Suite, Vray, Lumion Basic | Grasshopper, Envi-met
LANGUAGES English | Fluent Chinese Mandarain | Native Cantonese | Native
AWARDS AND HONOUR Competition Awards: 56
Portfolio of Suihao Zhen Selected Works From 2012-2020 Tel: +31 0617964910 E-mail: zhen_sh@hotmail.com