PORTFOLIO | 2017-2020 Qianyao Zhao
Contents
01 Gentle Pace of Living - Urban Design A slow life and leisure time
02 More Than A Theatre - Architecture Design More communication
03 Mussel Kitchen - Architecture Design Regenerative Living, Recreation Center
04 Waste Works for People - Architecture Design Energy renewable building
01 Gentle Pace of Living A slow life and leisure time Type: Urban Design - XL Date: Mar 2017 - Jun 2017 Tutor: Jiansong Lun Partner: Jiefang Tan Role: Investigation(Part), Concept Design(part), Design Development(Part), Presentation(Part)
CREATION PROCESS
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1 Keep the historical building.
2 Basing on survey , add programming
3 Add commerical pedestrian
4 Release element to capture daylight
5 Create public space
Walking ramps connect building with main street, add a playground on the roof
6 The bridge is in contact with the historical building
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High - rise building facade design
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MASTER PLAN
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Jixiang Alley
Vehicle Entrance
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Huangxing Rd
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Chunfeng Street Xiangqingli Alle y
1. Roof playgroud 2. Gymnasium 3. Apartment 4. Serpentine corridor 5. Museum 6. Shops 7. Startup Office 8. Sunken Garden 9. Flea market 10. Square 11. Old buildings (be remoulded) 12. Old buildings (not be remoulded)
MAIN VIEW
Elongate the walking road
BRIDGE VIEW Elongate staying time
ANALYSIS Traffic Analysis
Main Road Secondary Road Branch Road Footpath
Landscape Condition
Historical Building Hackerspace Gymnasium Settlement Business Zone
Building Height
Building Footprint 11F 2F
Function Analysis
Main Landscape Secondary Landscape Roof Landscape Landscape Along Street
SCENE INTENTION In original site, the space surrounded by trees provide people to gather. We added new structures to attract more people, accumulating popularity. The first floor is openness, with shops and plazas. Exhibition
Dance
Campfire
Film
Flea Market
Barter
Vegeable Stall
AXON
Concert
Market
AERIAL VIEW—— Leisure Space
Sunken Plaza Creating a garden at the end of the road. When people arrive here, a charismatic and magical garden fill the sight up. The garden is surrounded by three sides, and one side is open to road. There is flower pool, wooden floor, glass box. The glass box is equivalent to greenhouse which can grow agricultural products and flowers.
Landscape Belt
We are trying to protect the heritage building here, and build the co new and old, not to disturb original building’s light. We extend out th overhead landscape corridor, forming sight contact and traffic spa
Overhead stadium By creating an outdoor activity site on the roof, the whole community can have a panoramic view. It can not only save a valuable layer space, but also provide people fresh air. It can give residents more chances to developa better living habits. This perfect place has a ring runway, basketball court, single parallel bars, springjumping bed, skateboarding and so on.
onnection between he shape �S� to set an ace between them.
Flowing Water The large roof of the museum is setting up with water and flagstone which is beneficial for insulation. The different shape of flagstone is inspired by Mondrian, and the flagstone can change water flowing.
02 More Than A Theatre More communication Type: Architectural Design - L Date: Sep 2016 - Jan 2017 Tutor: Erxi Liu Partner: Lingkang Lv, Yang Zhang Role: Investigation(Part), Concept Design(part), Design Development(Part), Presentation(All)
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Site
Changsha
CONCEPT Way to Appreciate Opera In Changsha
Contemporary Need More Communication
Ancient
Contemporary
Advantage
Encourage to communicate
Disadvantage
Advantage
Fine acoustic
Poor sound effect
INVESTIGATION : FORM
Surface of Lake
Straight Line
Extract Curves
Disadvantage
Prohibit to talk
In order to get relationship with lake's texture, get the polyline ourtline, divide the shape by lake direction. the building 's roof according to texture segmentation. Put the roof up and down to imitate YueLu mountain. Cutting Apart
Smoothen
Seperate Surface
Curved Surface
Up and Down
DESIGN PROCESS
Link curves, generate arch surface
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Separate into several surface
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Put the surface up and down
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Form facade
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Place a grid structure roof above the bleachers
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Move a piece of roofs, put a bleachers
MASTER PLAN
PHYSICAL MODEL
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12M
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FUNCTION & CIRCULATION
Staff Circulation Visitor Circulation
Roof
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Auditorium
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PLANS
1. Makeup Room 2. Dressing Room 3. Atrium 4. Tea Bar 5. Souvenir Shop 6. Exhibition 7. Wicket 8. Hall 9. VIP Room 10. Office 11. Props Room 12. Bar 13. Rest Room 14. Control Room 15. Stage 16. Side Stage 17. Store Room 18. Infirmary 19. Auditorium 20. Optical-Controlled Room 21. Sound-Controlled Room 22. Projection Room 23. Orchestra Pit 24. Outside Stage
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PESPECTIVE VIEW
Ourdoor Stage The performance is open to the city as well as the nature. Visitors enable to communicate with each other as much as possible.
MATERIAL & ELEVATION
Steel Structure
Aluminium Plate
Dimension Stone
Glass Wall
Aluminium Plate
Aluminum Composite Panel
Aluminium Plate
Glass Wall
South Elevation
East Elevation
Antehall
Atrium
The open antechamber gives visitor a sense of relax.
The atrium enable people have more communication on the line of sight.
Glass Curtain Wall
Aluminium Plate Glass Wall
Bolt-Sphere
Aluminium Plate Aluminium Glass Plate Wall
North Elevation
Aluminium Plate
Aluminium Plate Aluminium Plate
West Elevation
Glass Wall
03 Mussel Kitchen Regenerative Living, Recreation Center | Boston, US, 2019 Type: Architectural Design - M Date: Sep 2018 - Dec 2018 Tutor: Julie May Larsen, Matthew Celmer Partner: Qingri Deng Role: Mapping, Concept Design, Design Development(Most), Cit Axon, Plans(all), Model, Digrams(Most)
EXISTING CONDITIONS High Tide
40' High Tide (2070) 21' High Tide (2050)
9' High Tide (2030)
Heavy Metal Concentrations in Boston Harbor Sediments
Zinc Concentrations 150-410 (Îźg/g)
>410 (Îźg/g)
Boston's sea levels continue to rise as a result of global warming. Over the entire twentieth century, sea levels rose about nine inches relative to land. Another eight inches of relative sea level rise may happen by 2030, almost three times faster. By 2050, Sea levels may be as much as 1.5 feet higher than they were in 2000, and by 2070, they may be as much as 3 feet higher than in 2000. This project will design the site to cope with the rising sea level trend. According to the content of heavy metals in the water quality, the water quality near the coastline is not optimistic. According to the Website Boston Harbor Habitat, the area around Boston is rich in biodiversity. Thus, the project aims to add Boston's existing biological chain into the site design, and to evolve water quality through a natural and environmentally friendly means -- farming freshwater mussels.
CONCEPT The design of constructed wetlands will provide a topographical environment suitable for living biological chain.Prototype the terrain with wavy textures to create an undulating terrain.During the ebb and flow of the tide, some of the water is stored in low-lying areas of corrugated terrain.Mussels grow in these low, high ridges.The shape of the ripple has a total of 4 center points to spread out, and they have different functions.The circle close to the urban road is less undulating, which is convenient for people to walk into the site from the city and move in the site;Middle and late stage mussels are raised in the middle corrugations.The undulating surface of the deep ground is large and is used for the initial feeding of mussels. Biology Chain
Great Blue Heron
Mummichog (Fish host)
(eat mussel)
Saltmeadow Cordgrass Ribbed Mussel are typically found in salt marshes where they form dense aggregations with the marsh cordgrass
Deep water area
SITE DESIGN
Using Grasshopper, four radiative origin points are set, and each origin is used as an undulating ripple that diffuses outward.
The undulating ripples meet together to form the shape shown in the left diagram.
Find the ridge line on the ripple terrain and divide the site area according to the ridge line.
The site is divided into three areas: architecture area, shallow water area and deep water area.
Architecture area Shallow water area
SITE PROTOTYPE
The surface shape of the mirrorreversed terrain is based on its rippled appearance.The top one can be supported by the bottom one.
To simulate the characteristics of the terrain, reversed layers are used as spatial prototypes of the building.The surfaces of these simulated terrains can be used as floor slabs.
As the sea level rises, the underlying buildings are flooded.
Layers upwardly mirrors each other and has the ability to grow up in response to the rising sea level
BUILDING PROTOTYPE
Elongate the cross section to enlarge the net height of the unit
Standardize the shape of the section
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PRIMARY SECTION
CORNER DETAIL
Grount Radiant Pipes Concrete Slab
Detail A Holding down bolt Base Plate Bedding Space Pier Cap Foundation
Skylight Glass Window Mullion Concrete Slab Curved Steel Girder Sheathing Rigid Insulation R-Seal Stucco
Polished Floor Finish Slab Sheathing Corrugated Metal Duct 1’ Steel Beam Air Ducts
Detail A
Detail B
Batt Insulation Roof Sheathing Curved Steel Girder Air Duct
Grount Radiant Pipes Concrete Slab
Detail C
Detail A
Detail C
Holding down bolt Base Plate Bedding Space Pier Cap Foundation
Detail B
Roof Finish Metal Duct Batt Insulation Roof Sheathing Curved Steel Girder Air Duct
Detail C
04 Waste Works for People Thesis
Type: Thesis Architectural Design - M Date: Jau 2020 - May 2020 Tutor: Brian Lonsway Partner: Individual
Architecture is a comprehensive discipline. The present design of the building includes electricity, HVAC, and structures, which consume energy. Could regenerate energy also be included? As architecture students, we should pay more attention to the relation between architecture and energy, exploring the architectural way of regenerating the energy. Human use resources, consume resources, and generate waste. However, waste can also be a source of new energy. How can we combine disposal waste technology with human life in the architecture field? To do this, I have researched on urban waste treatment systems, waste treatment plants and residential prototype as cases to grasp the sense about how to generate a new energy and combine two systems together. I hope environmental awareness can instill into people's lives within this architectural design.
HISTORY CONTEXT United States EPA defined that “Municipal solid waste (MSW) (also called trash) consists of everyday items such as product packaging, yard trimmings, furniture, clothing, bottles and cans, food, newspapers, appliances, electronics and batteries; Sources of MSW include residential waste (including waste from multi-family housing) and waste from commercial and institutional locations, such as businesses, schools and hospitals. The Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) definition of MSW does not include industrial, hazardous or construction and demolition (C&D) waste.” 1 There are four usual ways to deal with MSW, recycling, composting, combustion with energy recovery and landfilling. However, many wastes are landfilled which is the loss of useful materials that could be reused, recycled or converted to energy used by people one more time. US cities had a poor urban cleaning system until the early 1800s. To be specific, lacked organized public works for street cleaning, refuse collection, water treatment, and human waste removal. Landfilled and combustion, as the easiest methods to dispose waste, are the most common choice for cities. However, historically, landfilled and combustion caused some environmental problems, ground water contamination, emissions of toxic fumes and greenhouse gases, land contamination and increases in pest and disease vector populations, such as rodents, flies and mosquitos.2 Recurrent epidemics forced people to pay attention on improving public health system and keep the environment clear which led to the construction of water treatment and sewerage works during the nineteenth century. By the time attention and effort turned to solid waste management in the 1880s. This indicator shows trends in the national generation and management of MSW, as well as trends in waste generation intensity from 1960 to 2015.
CURRENT SITUATION
The 2017 Study tells us that over a third of everything New Yorkers discards, some 34% of Aggregate Discards, consists of NYC-designated Paper and MGP recyclables. Another 34% of all discards is made of organic materials suitable for compositing and targeted by NYC’s Organics collection service. If every New Yorker recycled every bit of food scraps, yard waste and compostable paper, the combined diversion rate from Paper, Mdp and Organics recycling would be 68% which is really helpful for waste disposal problem.3
POLITICAL CONTEXT & ARCHITECTURAL IMPLICATIONS 1963 - Clean Air Act 1965 - Solid Waste Disposal Act (SWDA) 1950s ~ 1960s - United States Environmental Protection Agency 1976 - The Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) It forced the closure of open dumps nationwide, and required regional planning for MSWM. 2014- NYC Building Code 2014 2017- Zero Waste Design Guidelines
Each residential typology is described separately and assessed in terms of: —— Space required: Space efficiency is desirable to building owners, especially on floors above grade. —— Labor required: Labor in moving waste adds costs for building owners. —— Convenience to resident: Most residents want convenience. —— Cost and maintenance: Some typologies require equipment, which adds capital costs and requires additional maintenance.10 Bewteen these six building typologies, Typologies 1, 2 and 3 are not permitted by NYC Building Code, because of they don’t have a chute and chute access room for more than five stories and nine units. For a new building in NYC, the choice would be between Typologies 4, 5 and 6. Typology 4 does require well-ventilated waste rooms and staff to service the bins daily. Typology 5 and 6 can be chosen, but organics chutes are not common, specially in NYC. Because If organics come down a chute into a wheeled bin or turntable system, they have to be cleaned frequently. Because the project goal is to gather organic waste together, Typology 5 and 6 are better than 4.
WASTE PROCESSING SYSTEMS Organic Waste Treatment Work Flow
The Principle of Anaerobic Digestion
WASTE PROCESSING SYSTEMS Anaerobic Digestion Phases
1) Hydrolysis
2) Acidogenesis
3) Acetogenesis
4) Methanogenesis
RESEARCH → CONCEPT
RESIDENTIAL + WASTE DISPOSAL SYSTEM
TYPOLOGY
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