ZHANG Yuchuan | Work Samples Master of Architecture in Urban Design 2018 Harvard Graduate School of Design
Birth Date：1993.08.17 Birth Place：Shanghai, China Address: Apt 103, 12 Ellery Street, Cambridge, MA Zipcode: 02138 Tel: 6177174287 E-mail: yzhang4@gsd.harvard.edu
CONTEXT
DESIGN & BEYOND
CELEBRATION SPOT Redevelopment on Plaza
URBAN CORRIDORS City Update from Corridors
ANCHOR THE PORT Intervention in Waterfront
URBAN GRID Exception from Intersection
THE ZIPPER Suture zone on the Edge
Internship (competition) work in group, 2017 RHAA, two weeks Directed by— Manuela King Manuela@rhaa.com Aimee Jeska Aimee.Jeska@rhaa.com
School work in pairs, 2016 GSD, one semester Directed by— Carles Muro muro@gsd.harvard.edu Felipe Correa fcorrea@gsd.harvard.edu
School work in pairs, 2017 GSD, two weeks Directed by— Joan Busquets busquets@gsd.harvard.edu
School work in group, 2016 GSD, two weeks Directed by— Carles Muro muro@gsd.harvard.edu
Competition work in pairs, CTBUH 2017 Competition, two weeks
VIEWFINDER Activity Centre in Park
YUAN SEQUENCE
OPEN UNIT Folk Museum on Square
PENTATHLON OF THE MUSES Art Olympic Show on Website
DYNAMIC BALANCE Bicycle Sharing System in Regions
Individual Competition Work, 2014 Pusan National University, one week
School work in group, 2015 TUM, one semester Directed by— Stephen Bates s.bates@tum.de Bruno Krucker b.krucker@vbk-arch.ch
Individual School Work, 2013 Tongji University, one semester Directed by— Linlin Huang kozmicaray@163.com
School Work in Group, 2017 MIT, half semester Directed by— Linlin Huang kozmicaray@163.com
School Work in pairs, 2017 GSD, half semester Directed by— Robert Gerard Pietrusko rpietrusko@gsd.harvard.edu
Collective Living by Yuan
GROUP WOK, SF, USA
Circulation
CELEBRATION SPOT | Redevelopment on Plaza 01
Program
Lighting
PAIR WOK, NYC, USA
Organization of the Public System of the Urban Corridors
URBAN CORRIDORS | City Update from Corridors 02
Nodes and Transformation for Mixed-Use Activities
Identities of the Corridors
Community Activities
Rail Park
Community Activities
Regional Activities
Highway Plaza Sunset Park Publicity
FAR
Basic Block Typology Public Mass Private/ Private
Sectional Perspective
Rail Park
Highway Plaza
Sunset Park
PAIR WOK, NYC, USA
URBAN CORRIDORS | City Update from Corridors 03
Public Open Space Mass-private Open Space Private Open Space
Public Facility Office Light Manufactory Residence Commercial
PAIR WOK, NYC, USA
URBAN CORRIDORS | City Update from Corridors 04
PAIR WOK, SAVANNAH, USA 1 8 1 8 ’s - 1 9 5 0 ’s
Tranformation of the Port
1 9 5 0 ’s - P r e s e n t
ANCHOR THE PORT | Intervention in Waterfront 05
Bay Street Section
Present Situation by Sections
Proposed Plan Pedestrain Way in between
City to Waterfront
Front Public Transportation as a Support
Front Back
14M
42M
20M
Front Existing Condition
Retail Zoning with Mixed Use
Enhance Land Value with Private Development
Hotel Retail
Proposed Master Plan
Bay St.
Green Space
River St. Service Lane
Waterfront
Before
PAIR WOK, SAVANNAH, USA
ANCHOR THE PORT | Intervention in Waterfront 06
Before
Waterfront Parking
River St.
Service Lane
Green Space
BAY St.
After
Waterfront Parking
River St.
Service Lane
Green Space
BAY St.
After
After
Waterfront Park
River St.
Waterfront Park
River St.
Walking Path
Walking Path
Yard
Yard
Commercial and Residential
Commercial and Residential
BAY St.
BAY St.
9.00
7.50
6.30
3.00
0.00
-0.50
-3.00
Proposed Plan BAY St. Commercial
Residence
Walking path Groundfloor Plan 1:750
Equipments Residence Recreational Facilities Waterfront Underground Parking
INDIVIDUAL WORK, BUSAN, KOREA
VIEW FINDER | Activity Centre in Park 07
VEGETATION ARRANGEMENT
ADJUSTMENT OF LAYOUT
Passenger Terminal
Tower
Maple
Leisure Square
Path
Restaurant ACTIVITY CENTER RELATIONSHIP WITH NATURE
RESTAURANT
LEISURE SQUARE
re t Sto epa rtm en
C B
Yeo n
2.3 M
gdo
Bri
dge
Lott eD
Gwangbokdong Fashion Street
Park Yongdusan
40.3 M
ce en
Historical Plaza
Rhodeodendron Camellia
B
Rhodeodendron Camellia
Gingko
GARDEN
Maple A
Re
sid
Gingko
Exhibition Center
A-A
ce Residen
Busan 163 M
t. gM yeon Bokb
e enc sid Re
ence Resid
Garden Activity Centre
STRATEGY TO OPEN PERSPECTIVE almost dark paths
views are blocked
continuous path with light and shadow
Continuous Path with Light and Shadow
open views
Open Views
B-B
B
Square
Height Control Traffic Circulation
Flow Directions
Arrangement of Mixed Programs
VIEW
Connections inpenetrable forest
views are blocked
Forest with Voids andvoids Circuits forest with and circuits
Open Views open views C
ACTIVITY CENTER
Entrance Hall Entrance Reception Four Tea Rooms
HISTORICAL PLAZA
A
C-C
SNACK
EXHIBITION
GROUP WORK, MUNICH, GERMANY
YUAN SEQUENCE | Collective Living by Yuan 08
A
01
5
A
10 m
YUAN
Stay
Pass
Exhibition Open Studio
Service
Public
SemiPublic
Private
INDIVIDUAL WORK, SHANGHAI, CHINA
OPEN UNIT | Folk Museum on Square 09 A
1945
1995
2015 5
steel angle
1
1 Glass and Concrete
Little Sunlight
Inner Space Extension
gutter
3 2
1 Open Square 2 Reception 3 Main Exhibition Hall 4 Office 5 Workshop
4
22 Floor of Patio
A 01
5
10 m track beam
patand
3 New and Old
1 F2
F1
B1
3
2
GROUP WORK, NYC, USA
Metro Scale 1:60,000
Morphology Study: Urban Grid | Exception from Intersection 10
Borough Scale 1:30,000
Zoom in to Exceptions of Grids
Transportation Hub
Commercial Street
Offices
Community Plaza
Residence Industry Commercial/Office Institution
Pedestrain Way 1:3,000
PAIR WORK, SAO PAULO, BRAZIL
Living
Green Space
Structure
Circulation
Mixed-Use
THE ZIPPER | Suture Zone on the Edge 11
Modular Unit Types for Flexible Combination
GROUP WORK, ONLINE, WORLD
PENTATHLON OF THE MUSES | Art Olympic Show on Website 12
Flow Chart of the Journey:
Interface-Server-Database
Node.js Server
Web Interface
Interface
Design Improvement
Web Link: http://104.197.121.200/
Challenges: 3,000+ submissions by 2,000+ artists from 50 countries; Artworks in five different art-forms and a dozen sub-categories; Seven Olympiads, spanning two world wars; For most of the submissions, images (or text) have been lost.
Aims: Data collection and cleaning; User interaction; Clear Organization of information; Functional and beautiful; Visual presentation with several texts.
JSON over HTTP
SQL Interface Olympic Database (MySQL)
PAIR WORK, PROCESSING, WORLD
Geosimulation by Processing
DYNAMIC BALANCE | Bicycle Sharing System in Regions 13
Bicycle Sharing System: Agent Model and Casual Loop (In Progress)
Class and Loop Step 1:
Cities to Study
Rent and return in the same place
Rent and return in the nearby places(within a cetain distance)
Consumer Habit Study
Rent and return in places far away from each other
Picture Source: https://bikeshare-research.org/rebalancing/
Agent Model
Step 2:
Step 3:
Distance btw Docks
+ —
Check-in Amount —
Congestion + Amount in the Parking Dock
Rent Topo
Delay
Re-balancing amount
— A cluster of docks
—
Weather —
— — Check-out Amount —
+ Operation Cost