PORTFOLIO OF DANIEL ZHANG-BAGANZ
CONTENTS
01 TESSELATION STRUCTURES 2020 - Model design looking at complex tesselations
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02 ORGANIC STRUCTURES 2020 - Model design looking at lightweight tectonic design
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03 SELF SIMILAR STRUCTURES 2020 - Model design experimenting with various materials
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04 THE REBIRTH OF COURTYARD HOUSING 2020 - Suburbia development design balancing order and disorder
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05 RIBA NORTH: A CASTLE THROUGH TIME 2019 - Museum project focusing on the cultural history in Liverpool
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06 THE MONSTER’S DUNGEON 2018 - Memorial dedicated to the Mathematician John H. Conway
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OTHER WORKS 3D modelling and drawing outside of studies
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Te s s e l a t i o n S t r u c t u r e s Post Study exploration An exploration inspired by the complex tesselations of M.C. Escher to see how a cylindrical surface can be divided completely into recurring shapes leaving no waste. The focus for this was producing a pattern that contain elements that could both create a structural frame and an infill part in order to create a covered wall yet still have depth and layers. The pieces aimed for also have an organic quality to them showing that biomimetic shapes resembling scales and branches can be formed from simple processes.
CONCEPT
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Creation of the pieces from a recycled cardboard postal roll at 0.8 m where they were cut and unrolled afterwards. The roll allowed production of 7 frame pieces, 8 small infill shells and 8 large infill shells. These pieces use up the entire roll maximizing material economy. An analysis on arrangement of pieces, overlaying elements and using friction to keep the shells within the branches.
Organic Structures Post Study exploration A develpment where the frame element use is expanded upon to demonstrate how one simple piece can create complex varied tectonic structures. The focus here was by using the minimal amount of connections needed to form a closed shape how many different variations of opeings can be created to see the potential in combining differnt windows together. The multi-laterial direction of the connections also allow for a lightweight frame that is relatively strong in tension and compression while still flexible to be shaped into various ways.
CONCEPT
Creation of the canopy structure by joining frame elements into triangles and connecting the ends together, this way a large area is covered with relatively few pieces. The ends were overlaid that allow for a stronger connection.
Self-Similar Structures Post Study exploration A continuation where all three components including the structure, infill and support were created based on the same principles of the branch design to show how variety and coherence can occur in a design. The focus here was to use a variety of materials to see how the same element is influenced by the material properties. The structure was made using galvanised steel band, the infills are from cardboard and the support are curved poplar wooden slats. The use of dry construction was employed allowing parts to be held in place with friction and to allow assembly and disassembly to be simple while making sure the structure ssturdy enough to stand.
CONCEPT
With each material the branch element was adapted to match the material properties, the steel allowed the branch further flexibility and strength, the cardboard’s thickness allowed pieces to slot together and the wood provided extra support.
The steel band was cut into strips and down the middle on either ends, as each end meets another they have the potential to be welded together. The slats can be tied into this frame and the proportions allow the supports to be doubled for extra support. Also to avoid excessive adhesives in the cardboard cladding, each infill was designed with arms that can wrap around the frame holding them in place.
The Rebirth of Courtyard Housing Year 3: Final Project Programme: New Suburbia This project is a co-operative housing scheme comprising 6 great housing courtyards each made up of 8 flexible courtyard L-shape housing blocks each split into 3 units constructed in the residential suburb of New Barnet. The aim was to create a low density car-free vision of suburbia that opens to the surrounding area and environment bringing elements like the local forest and lake into suburbia within the larger courtyards softening the rigid grid of the housing proposal. Housing consists of a lightweight modular design that can be customised and expanded upon within each owners ground floor garden. Starting out with an annex that can have recrerational or commercial use, expansions can be made allowing to create shops or buisnesses and after they can be taken down again as the life of inhabitants change.
CONCEPT
18 M22 18M GRID GRIDSIZE SIZEFROM FORMTHE THE STREET STREET
CO-OPERATIVE GROUPS OF 8 WITH SMALL CO-OPERATIVE GROUPS OF 8 WITH PUBLIC COURTYARDS IN CENTRE & LARGE SMALL PUBLIC COURTYARDS IN CENTRE PUBLIC COURTYARDS & LARGE PUBLIC COURTYARDS IN BETWEEN
IN BETWEEN
MULTI MULTISTOREY STOREY PERMANENT LIGHT PERMANENT LIGHTFRAME FRAMESTRUCTURE STRUCTURE L SHAPE HOUSING BLOCK 3 UNITS L SHAPE GROUP OF OF 3 UNITS
STAGE11 STAGE L SHAPES ARE ROTATED L SHAPES ARE ROTATA TEDTO TO ADD INDIVIDUALITYAND ANDVARY VARY VIEWS ADD INDIVIDUALITY VIEWS-RESIDENTS CANMAKE MAKEEXPANSIONS EXPANSIONS RESIDENTS CAN 18M2 2 PLOT PLOT ININ18M
STAGE 22 STAGE EXPANSIONS CAN EXPANSIONS CANBE BEMADE MADE ON FOUNDATION ONDE-MOUNTABLE MOUNTABLE FOUNDATION WITHSAME SAME LIGHT WITH LIGHTWEIGHT FRAME STRUCTURE STRUCTURE
STAGE33 STAGE WHEN EXPANSIONSBECOME BECOMEREDUNDANT REDUNDANT WHEN EXPANSIONS AS SEASON LIFESTYLE CHANGES AS SEASON OROR LIFFFESTYLE CHANGES THEY CAN TAKENBACK BACKDOWN DOWN& & STORED STORED IN THEY CAN BYBE TAKEN IN COMMUNALANNEXES ANNEXES COMMUNAL
SOCIAL CONNECTION
NATURAL CONNECTION
AT PRESENT GOING FROM THE CITY CENTRE TO THE
CREATING A WALKWAY TO PEDESTRANISE THE ROUTE
AT PRESENT MOVING FROM WEST TO EAST BARNET
CREATING A SECOND BRIDGE CONNECTING
LOCAL NATURE RESERVE IS INCONVENIENT AS THERE
FROM THE CITY CENTRE TO THE LOCAL NATURE
IS ONLY POSSIBLE THROUGH A SINGLE BRIDGE
DIRECTLY TO THE FOOTGOLF FIELD IN THE NEW
IS NO DIRECT ROUTE SO LESS PEOPLE ARE WILLING
RESERVE IN THE NEW HOUSING MASTERPLAN WILL
PASSING THROUGH THE RAILWAY SO THERE ARE LESS
HOUSING MASTERPLAN WILL ENCOURAGE MORE
TO TRAVEL
ALLOW MORE PEOPLE TO CONNECT WITH NATURE
INTERACTIONS BETWEEN BOTH SIDES
INTERACTIONS BETWEEN BOTH SIDES LEADING TO A MORE LIVELY SPACE
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BEFORE EXPANSIONS
AFTER EXPANSIONS
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MASSING DEVELOPMENT
ANALYSIS OF EXISTING NEW BARNET TYPOLOGY
OPEN UP COURTYARD TO THE OPEN UP TO THE STREET FORCOURTYARD NATURAL VENTILATION & INCREASE SOCIAL INTERACTION
GARDENS EXSTING: GARDENS ON GROUND FLOOR ONLY ON GROUND FLOOR EXSTING: LACK OF COMMUNAL SPACES RAISE UP GARDENS TO ALLOW FOR VISUAL CONNECTION BUT MAINTAIN PRIVACY
AND ROOF USED FOR STORAGE
REDUCE COMMUINITY CONNECTIONS
STREET FOR NATURAL VENTILATION & INCREASE SOCIAL INTERACTION
ACK OF COMMUNAL SPACES REDUCE COMMUINITY FEEL MARGINS IN BUILDING ON GROUND AND FIRST FLOORTO ENCOURAGE INTERACTIONS
NEW: ROOF GARDENS TO ALLOW FOR GREEN
NEW: SHARED SPACES IN BUILDING
SPACE FOR PEOPLE ON DIFFERENT LEVELS
ON GROUND AND FIRST FLOOR TO ENCOURAGE INTERACTIONS
KEY QUALITIES OF PROPOSED HOUSING
SHARED COMMUNAL TERRACES
MULTI ASPECT
CUSTOMIZABLE DESIGN VARIETY OF STANDARDISED PANELS OFFER:
GARDENS ON GROUND OR ROOF GARDEN
COLOURED ACRYLIC FINISH PANELS
1:200 BUILDING AXO
TRANSPARENT GLASS
TRANSLUCENT YELLOW TINT GLASS
1:100 BUILDING AXO
1:100 AXON PLANS
1:50 MODEL
STRUCTURAL QUALITIES IN UNITS 01 ROOF: ALUMNIUM ROOF COVERING & FLASHING BREATHABLE MEMBRANE RIGID INSULATION FOAM VAPOUR PERMEABLE WATER PROOF MEMBRANE DRY LINE TIMBER INTERNAL STUD WALL ACRYLIC EMULSION PAINT FINISH
01 ROOF
02 WALL: ACRYLIC RENDER FINISH SINGLE LAYER LAMINATED WOOD SIPS PANEL BREATHABLE MEMBRANE STRUCTURAL TIMBER FRAME GLASS WOOL INSULATION DRY LINE TIMBER INTERNAL STUD WALL ACRYLIC EMULSION PAINT FINISH
03 FLOOR: OAK FLOORING WAX FINISH BREATHABLE MEMBRANE STRUCTURAL TIMBER FRAME RIGID INSULATION FOAM VAPOUR PERMEABLE WATER PROOF MEMBRANE DRY LINE TIMBER EXTERNAL STUD WALL STEEL TRUSS - STEEL BRACKET CONNECT FROM TRUSS TO NEIGHBOURING WINDOW & WALL 04 ROOF GARDEN: ALUMINIUM GUARD RAIL ALUMINIUM FLASHING SOIL FILTER FLEECE MOISTURE RETENTION RIGID INSULATION FOAM
05 WINDOWS: MODULAR TIMBER FRAME WINDOW FIT TO STRUCTURAL TIMBER FRAME DOUBLE GLAZING 06 CUSTOM INTERIOR WALL: ALUMINIUM WALL BRACKET TO TIMBER FRAME DRY LINE TIMBER INTERNAL STUD WALL ACRYLIC EMULSION PAINT FINISH 07 FOUNDATION REINFORCED CONCRETE SLAB DAMP PROOF COURSE HARDCORE
02 WALL
04 ROOF GARDEN 03 FLOOR
05 CUSTOM INTERIOR WALL
06 WINDOWS
STREET SIDE
07 FOUNDATION
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RIBA North: A Castle Through Time Year 2: Final Project Programme: RIBA North This project is a Museum to promote the RIBA institution providing a space to appreciate but also to rethink architecture. It could be even seen as a kind of laboratory for the testing of new ideas, which can be extended to the whole of the urban space. Located behind the three Graces at Merseyside Harbour. Like a Russian doll, the building captures the different histories of Liverpool as one moves through it, starting with the castle of Liverpool and becoming more modern with the projects displayed inside. The large glazed centre can be viewed from the outside where passers can view new futuristic developemts and exhibitions surrounded by the context of the stark castle like exterior expressing the history unique to Liverpool. This suggests to viewers to remember the past before thinking of the future to maintain the identity of Liverpool to avoid loss of World Heritage Status and the culture of the city.
CALE 1:10 000
CONCEPT
WINTER SOLSTICE SUN PATH
SCALE 1:4000
SITE ANALYSIS TRAFFIC & WIND
SCALE 1:500
SUMMER SOLSTICE SUN PATH
SCALE 1:4000
Comparison of past to present showing the relationship to site and former location of Liverpool castle with potential to make referential link in design
GRADE LISTED BUILDINGS
SCALE: 1:5000
STREETS & GARDENS
SCALE: 1:5000
TRAFFIC & WIND
MASSING CONCEPT SCALE 1:500
WINTER SOLSTICE SUN PATH
SCALE 1:4000
SUMMER SOLSTICE SUN PATH
SCALE 1:4000
Developing form that would align with modern and historic context while maximise annual sunlight on the site WORLD HERIT. SITE SITE GRADE I LISTED GRADE II* LISTED GRADE II LISTED
KEY: STRATEGIC STREETS KEY
MERSEYTRAM (TRAM)
SITE
(BUS ONLY)
BOUNDARY OF MEDIEVAL CITY
RETAIL STREETS
PRINCIPAL MEDIEVAL STREETS
CITY STREETS
PRINCIPAL MEDIEVAL BUILDINGS LINE OF CIVIL WAR DEFENSE
PEDESTRIAN LANES
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SQUARES & SPACES GARDENS
APPROX. SHORELINE: MEDIEVAL
SITE
MEDIEVAL CONTEXT
MEDIEVAL CONTEXT
1:10 000
SCALE 1:10 000
GRADE LISTED BUILDINGS
GRADE LISTED BUILDINGS
1:5000
SCALE: 1:5000
STREETS & GARDENS
STREETS & GARDENS
1:5000
SCALE: 1:5000
FRONT RENDER 1:200
FRONT ELEVATION 1:100
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VL
Bubble Diagram Key: R - Reception & Entrance
1 - Bike storage
HK - Housekeeping office
2 - Reception office
S - Cleaner’s Store
3 - Gallery 1
S- BO - Back office
4 - Plant room
S- BS - Gallery Back storage VLB - Vehicle Loading Bay
N SITE MAP GF PLAN 1:200
ROOF PLAN 1:200
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6F 1:200
2F 1:100
14
4F-5F 1:200
1F 1:100 Key:
3F 1:200
S - CR - Conference room
5 - Gallery Main Storage
11 - Office space
S- BS - Gallery Back storage
6 - Creative Lab/ Workshop
12 - Meeting room 1
1 - Bike storage
7 - Shop & Cafe
13 - Meeting room 2
2 - Reception office
8 - Gallery 2
14 - Staff Kitchen
3 - Gallery 1
9 - Creative Lab
4 - Plant room
10 - Roof Garden
SIDE RENDER 1:200
SIDE ELEVATION 1:100
SECTION A A : 1:100
MASSING MODELS Testing out options for cylindrical centre element varying volume and height
DEVELOPMENT MODELS Show massing of front half of building stay low to ground and window less giving an heavy stereotomic appearance evoking a castle
INTERIOR MODELS Experiment with free standing non load bearing curved walls and pillar distribution to see effect on gallery spaces created
STRUCTURAL QUALITIES
DETAIL SECTION 1:50
The Monster’s Dungeon Year 1: Final Project Programme: Liverpool Lives This project is dedicated to the famous mathematician born in Liverpool called John Horton Conway celebrating his contributions to maths and physics. His greatest work include discovering a 24 dimensional spherical lattice existing in the 196,883 dimension. This structure has an awesome symmetry group called the Monster group, which is believed to be linked to string theory in physics. The proposal is located at the slope of the graveyard of the Anglican Cathedral. The aim was to give visitors a perspective into how he made this discovery starting by them stepping down into a Hypercube and continuing down to see the mysterious hyper dimensional shape. The hyper cube is in the Fourth dimension, one above our own. As you descend you go from the street travelling down higher dimensions where the surroundings become more natural as you go down to the garden. In the centre is a hyper dimensional shape that connects the natural and mathematical worlds. This shape changes over time and allows entry inside only at limited times adding to the mystery and allows the audience to wonder about its link to physical phenomena just as Conway did.
CONCEPT 3D
4D
5D
HIGHER DIMENSIONAL REPRESENTATION ANALYSIS The dual opposite of a cube is an octahedron and for the hypercube it is the 16-cell. This can be conveyed in using Petrie polygon Orthographic projection where the dual can be found within the former. In higher dimensions this dual seems to be doubled and rotated to make the whole shape suggesting a movement. Also higher dimensions make the dual more stellated.
HIGHER DIMENSIONAL SHAPE DEVELOPMENT A stelated octahedron was thus chosen to capture this making a visual distinction to the hypercube above. This shape with some faces removed allow it to bend representing movement of higher dimensions making a doorway open and close.
SITE PLAN 1:200
ROOF PLAN 1:50
ELEVATION - SHAPE CLOSED 1:50
ELEVATION - SHAPE OPEN 1:50 Rainwater
Hopper
Master & slave cylinders
Stairs: Pull out the shape as they fold out becoming usable
Exit valve for water
SECTION - SHAPE OPEN 1:50
MECHANICS FOR MOTION The expansion and contraction of the shape is powered by a hydraulic process where rainwater is harvested by a hopper on the roof and pass through to the master and slave cylinders hidden in the slope that store up water pressurizing it until sufficient. At this point the pressurized water moves into the stairs forcing them to move. As they move they pull on the shape, openning the door to enter inside. This process starts to reverse when the water pressure lowers sending water back to the cylinders where its released into the ground below. The shapeshifting is controlled by natural forces making the change more unpredictable and mysterious.
WORK EXPERIEINCE KREOD Architecture Firm Stoke College Site 3D Model
N SITE PLAN 1:2000
SITE AXO 1:1000
The aim was to recereate the traditional Grade II* listed Stoke College Mansion together with the site of Suffolk as a 3D computer model with my first attempt at such software as Rhino at the end of my first year of study. From the specifications an understanding was developed of basic geometries and meshes as well as architectural elements such as pitched roofs and curved walls. In addition, I learned to create the surrounding context including roads and rivers.
4x4 PROJECT
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4x4 PROJECT
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Bluecoats Art Gallery Project
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to the Bluecoats Art Centre
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