Shufan Zhang Portfolio

SELECTED SELECTED WORKS WORKS SHUFAN SHUFAN ZHANG ZHANG M.Arch Candidate, University of Michigan zhangsf15@gmail.com (510) 761 - 2803

SHUFAN ZHANG M.Arch Candidate University of Michigan zhangsf15@gmail.com (510)761-2803 http://cargocollective.com/shufanzhang

EDUCATION University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI Master of Architecture September 2016 – Present

UC Berkeley

Berkeley, CA Bachelor of Art in Architecture Minor in Sustainable Design August 2012 – May 2016

SKILLS MODELING

RHINOCEROS SKETCHUP MAYA

DRAFTING

AUTOCAD REVIT

GRAPHIC DESIGN

PHOTOSHOP ILLUSTRATOR INDESIGN

COMPUTATION

3D PRINTING GRASSHOPPER RHINO PYTHON PROCESSING MAX MSP

DESIGN EXPERIENCES

PUBLICATION & RECOGNITION

AECOM, Shanghai, China

Internet of Things towards Urban Sustainability

WSDIA, Brooklyn, NY

2018 University of Michigan Architecture Student Exhibition

Intern, May 2017 - August 2017 Participated in schematic design of projects including an industrial park, a 300m skyscraper, a customs building, a hotel, etc.

Produced plans, sections and diagrams.

Designed layout for bid documents and presentations.

Extern for Spring Break, Feb 2017 - March 2017 Helped design, model and render the 3D marketing materials for Nike, including the shop window and the product presentation podium. Produce multiple iterations according to the client’s requirements.

Worked on Nike New York Headquarter project. Modeled and rendered the tiled walls.

The Design Partnership, Oakland, CA

Intern, June 2015 - August 2015 Participated in several healthcare and justice projects. Work included construction documentation, detail drawing, signage plan, etc.

Edited firm brochure for print and aided in basic office tasks such as organizing material collection, updating meeting notes, etc.

Jiangxi Province Architectural Design and Research Institute, Nanchang, China

Intern, June 2014 - August 2014 Built the SketchUp model for the initial planning for a mix-use district.

Proposed facade style and cultural elements.

Rendered digital models through Lumion after getting familiar with the software for less than two days. Processed rendered images through Photoshop.

March 2017 The paper was published by Agora, the urban planning journal at Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Michigan.

Exhibition, April 2018 The Fall 2017 studio work, “THE NEST”, is selected into the 2018 Student Exhibition as one of the projects selected by faculty.

RELATED ACTIVITIES ArchDaily China

Translator, September 2016 - August 2017 Translated English articles into Chinese to publish on the ArchDaily Chinese website.

Daily Californian Berkeley, CA

Illustrator, September 2014 - May 2016 Created illustrations for opinion columns and special issues with mix-media techniques.

Innovative Design, Berkeley, CA

Designer, February 2014 - May 2014 Designed flyers and logos for on-campus organizations. Adobe Illustrator and Indesign were used.

the NEST: Sustainable Housing in Detroit

Experimental Floating Theater

Graduate Work Sept -Dec 2017 P4 - 15

Undergraduate Work April - May 2016 P42 - 47

Urban Catalyst: A Vibrant Neighborhood in Brooklyn

Good Food

Graduate Work Sept -Dec 2017 P16 - 23

Undergraduate Work April - May 2015 P48 - 51

Maker’s District: Made in Chicago

Professional Projects

Graduate Work (Entry for 2017 Hines Student Competition) Jan 2017 P24 - 27

Internship Work May - August 2017 P52 - 55

Middle School in the Age of Information Technology

Design Computation

Graduate Work Sept -Dec 2016 P28 - 35

Graduate Work Sept- Dec 2017 P56 - 61

Ford Point Neighborhood Plan: Richmond Riveter

Digital Fabrication

Undergraduate Work Sept -Dec 2015 P36 - 41

Graduate Work Jan - Apr 2017 P62 - 63

the NEST: SUSTAINABLE HOUSING IN DETROIT September - December 2017 Course: ARCH 672: Studio System Project Location: Detroit, MI Team Member: Ziyang Lin, Jugal Ahuja

PROJECT LOCATION

FIGURE GROUND

GREENWAY PLAN

This is a residential project located at the intersection of E Jefferson Ave and Jos Campau in the City of Detroit. Based on the greenway plan proposed by the City of Detroit, Joseph Campau is one of the greenways with enhanced pedestrian and community oriented designs. And the future for East Jefferson Avenue seems very bright as the city plans to trim down the vehicular traffic heavy street to a pedestrian friendly avenue with controlled car lanes and generous public and pedestrian lanes. Our site sits on the prime intersection of such environments and could function as an 4

Urban Node for the neighbourhood. We would like to take advantage of the urban placement of our site and promote a highly sustainable project which would not only act as a destination for future investments, but also be the pilot project for a sustainable approach towards construction as well as living conditions.

MY WORK: SITE PLAN GROUND FLOOR PLAN ELEVATIONS PERSPECTIVES

SITE PLAN

Taking forward the influences of this intersection, our project draws site lines and angles from their specific identities. Block A gets its form from being parallel and perpendicular to E Jefferson Ave and similarly, Block B and C, from Jos Campau. Additionally, the historically important Albert Kahn building has heavy influences on each of the blocks. While Block A attempts at formulating a visual and physical dialogue with the building, Block B takes up a more horizontal arrangement with a low height in reverence to the building as well as accentuate a pedestrian friendly environment. The tilt taken by Block B facilitates a clear vision of the Kahn building from E Jefferson.

Block C draws lines from the building and angles from Jos Campau.

Our project taps into the natural terrain on site and attempts to optimize the condition to provide an interactive podium condition with similar sloping grades at the opposite corners, converging to the middle. This condition helps having a double level level parking in one quarter of the site with natural ventilation as well as promotes zoning of podium spaces based on the different public, semi private and private programs. The podium is raised in such a way that while there is a physical division between the street and itself, there are at the same time, ample possibilities for visual interaction. Another driving factor for the heights of the buildings is their sustainable outlook with sunlight angles of incidence, energy and water harvestment in mind as well as optimize the viewing angles towards the river and rest of the city.

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The sustainable aspect of the project is divided into three zones: energy harvesting, water harvesting, construction technique. Block A taps into systems related to solar radiation, with solar panels on the roof as well as algae panels on the west and south faces of the facade to harvest maximum incident sun radiation. The energy output from these systems would be utilized by the building for subsidizing their personal energy demands.

Block B explores the water harvesting module with aspects such as permeable surfaces, stormwater harvesting systems as well as urban farming beds on the terrace. The ponds on the podium act as collection nodes for the harvested water and excess runoff gets drained into the 6

stormwater drainage tanks.

The construction system utilized in the project is Cross Laminated timber, a material that has a renewable source and at the same time, its carbon footprint is way lesser as compared to other construction materials such as concrete and steel. Additionally, the construction process gets easier and quicker with prefabricated CLT panels transported to site to get assembled together.

With recent advances in CLT construction techniques, panels with 7 layers of timber sheets provide sufficient strength as well as fire rating for the height of building we are proposing.

The sustainable aspect of the project relates to its sense of community harvesting as well. The podium is designed and programmed in a way that it enhances community activities and interactions. With programs such as Gymnasium, Mediatheque, Rent out office spaces, kindergarten, Senior center, semi public and private gardens, the podium activates a gradation of community oriented activities ranging from semi public to private zones.

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VIEW FROM JOS CAMPAU

VIEW FROM COURTYARD

GROUND FLOOR PLAN 8

We have worked on the zoning of the podium based on the gradation of programs from public to semi-public to semi-private. The public interface consists of retail space and cafeterias along Jos Campau and Gymnasium and Restaurant along E Jefferson Avenue. The semi public activities such as rent-out office space, senior centre and kindergarten are next in line with direct access from E Jefferson Avenue. There are two entrances along Jos Campau, one for the residents and the semi-public users and the third entrance placed at the southeast corner is only for the residents. The semi-private activities, placed in the southernmost part of the podium are only for the residents. These activities range from flat clay surfaces for sports activities, seating spaces at regular intervals, hydroponics laboratory for enclosed cultivation and private gardens.

The terrace is a culmination of these programs with activities such as running track, urban farming beds, green space as well as leisure pods.

The typical floor layout is designed in such a manner that there would be a varied arrangement of housing units on every level. The bigger units such as the 2-bed and 3-bed are arranged along the facades with better and higher rate of incident sunlight as these units have deeper spaces. The smaller units such as the 1-bed and studio apartments are placed along the courtyard facades as they could be the cheaper apartments with no deep space as well as affordable for the young population moving into the city with recent urban bloom. We’re proposing a total of 331 + 76 housing units across both sites.

GROUND FLOOR PLAN 9

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VIEW FROM BLOCK C TOWARDS BLOCK A & B

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WEST ELEVATION 12

EAST ELEVATION 13

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URBAN CATALYST: BUILD A VIBRANT NEIGHBORHOOD IN BROOKLYN January - April 2017 Course: ARCH 562: BQE City - New York Urban Design Studio Project Location: New York, NY

INDUSTRY HUB

This is a urban design studio regarding the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway (BQE) in New York City. As a major connector between New York City and its surrounding region, BQE has a rich and diverse context among the neighborhoods along it, which provides an interesting opportunity for urban design.

The project explores the potential to create a new urbanism along BQE in three different scopes: • Overall Concept: A schematic approach throughout the entire Brooklyn part of BQE • Focus Area Design: More detaled design of a portion of BQE in terms of spatial character and urban form • Representative Block: A few set of blocks selected fromt he focus area, with more details regarding architectural elements and street form PROJECT GOALS: • Creating a high-density, mixed-used neighborhood that promotes healthy living and walkability.

• Turning the BQE into an effective and vibrant urban space by proposing incubator programs beneath and along the expressway.

• Connecting the BQE to the neighboring area through spatial and programmatic links radiated from the BQE.

ACTIVITY HUB

ACTIVITY POINTS FROM BQE PUBLIC SPACE IMPACTS

EDUCATION HUB

EDUCATION-ORIENTED ACTIONS RESIDENTIAL-ORIENTED ACTIONS

INDUSTRIAL-ORIENTED ACTIONS

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PROJECT FEATURES: • Utilizing the existing spatial features of BQE to create new outdoor spaces featured for cycling, social gathering and community engagement programs.

• Providing housing and working opportunities for workers’ from the Navy Yard through the diverse types of housing and the vendor spaces underneath BQE. • Adding various types of public spaces with different public/privacy hierarchies.

• Advocating the idea of walkability by proposing “living alleys” that create shared and pedestrian-friendly circulational pathways through the neighborhood.

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FOCUS AREA

NAVY YARD

FIGURE GROUND: EXISTING

FIGURE GROUND: REDESIGNED FARRAGUT HOUSES

FOCUS AREA SITE PLAN

LAND USE

CIRCULATION 18

The focus area design seeks to create a vibrant neighborhood through high density, mixed use development and public programs. There is a existing social housing program to the west of the area, suggesting the feasibility of high density living in this neighborhood with expectation to have a higher-quality living place. The Navy Yard industrial site in the north implies existence of working forces around the area. Based on such context, the redesign follows the existing block dimensions to create a series of housing blocks with public programs and retail spaces on the podium level. A plaza is set at the center of the site, creating a public gathering space for residents and working people. The blocks are based on the existing stree grid, while there are two secondary axes orienting towards the plaza. This adds visual connection through the entire site, and at the same time generates opportunities for small green spaces along the street. Underneath the BQE are a strip of container stores financed as incubator programs to provide more employment opportunities as well as to activate the street space.

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PHASE 2:

- Establish the high density identity of the neighborhood through high-rise residential projects.

- Use the revenue gained from the high-rise residential projects to build the plaza and the community center as a major landmark to attract people living nearby and working in the incubator spaces.

- Build mixed-use blocks with a variety of programs such as neighborhood retail and services to ensure livability and walkability.

- Keep the existing church and school and build a library across from the expressway.

- Renovate the existing storage buildings into new incubator spaces for rental. Build the second series of incubator spaces and mixed-use blocks.

- Arrange the container stores and food trucks underneath BQE to introduce more diverse commercial activities.

PHASE 3: - Introduce mid-rise residential blocks to increase the diversity of housing types in the neighborhood.

- Add two shopping centers across from the BQE to create a commercial district accompanying the plaza.

- Build the last set of incubator spaces to draw connection to the south towards the rest of Brooklyn.

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“Living alleys� inspired by Hayes Valley in San Francisco to create a secondary corridor among high density buildings and to generate opportunities for small green spaces at street corners.

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Container stores underneath BQE to activate the parking once-to-be space and to create a dynamic atmosphere among BQE. 21

PROGRAM DISTRIBUTION

BULK CONTROL

ARCHITECTURAL EXPRESSION

MATERIALS

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REPRESENTATIVE BLOCK PLAN

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MAKER’S DISTRICT: MADE IN CHICAGO January 2017 Entry for ULI Hines Student Competition (Group Project) Project Location: Chicago, IL

Chicago’s history is one of industrious innovation. The broad shoulders and hard working spirit of the city has helped define the United States and made Chicago the cultural and economic hub of the Midwest. Our proposal, the Makers District, aims to continue the tradition of invention and craftsmanship in the modern age by creating a neighborhood that integrates Chicago’s creative spirit with urban fabric. Specifically, we propose a re-zone of the site from manufacturing to mixed-use and instiution24

al to turn the existing industrial face of the site into a diverse and friendly one. The anchor point of Maker’s District is the center square which connects the educational institution and the mix-use area. Waterfront is also a crucial feature to bring leisure and vibrancy to the district. Through the variegated programs and activities, Maker’s District is designed to be a catalyst to promote innovation as well as an economic booster.

MY WORK: MASTER PLANNING SITE SECTION SITE DIAGRAMS RENDERED VIEWS

SITE PLAN

CONSERVATION AND ENVIRONMENTAL ADAPTATION The Makers District becomes a catalyst for environmental remediation. Our high-density development plan encourages visitors and residents to use non-vehicular modes of transportation, and connect to major greenways, bikeways, and public transit routes. The Makers District utilizes green infrastructure to address stormwater runoff and water quality along the Chicago River. Using adaptive infrastructure, water is collected, stored, filtered, and reintroduced into the river, while simultaneously creating open community spaces.

CENTER FOR EDUCATION AND TRAINING A re-purposed portion of the fleet management site acts as space for Chicago-based educational institutions to hold design courses and vocational programs.

Our site plan disperses student’s classroom space throughout the district, creating a campus-like feel and provides space for students to display their work for the community. Our vocational programs include electrical, plumbing, and welding courses.

Apprenticeships will gives students hands-on training paid part-time positions with the development’s maintenance staff.

PROJECT LOCATION

ECONOMIC ACCELERATOR The Makers District houses several business incubator spaces designed to act as job generators and possible places of employment for graduates of the site’s college. These spaces will be priced below market rates, allowing for young companies to focus more on their business and mission. Our accelerators aim to brand the Makers District as a hub of innovation, job creation, and economic sustainability.

We hope that the riverfront site and pedestrian bridge will spur development and environmental remediation along the river’s eastern bank.

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MIDDLE SCHOOL IN THE AGE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY September - December 2016 Course: ARCH 552: Studio Institution Project Location: Ann Arbor, MI

The project proposes a model of middle school in the age of information technology, that technology should not be an add-on but an integral part in the curricular system. The school is based on the site of Forsythe Middle School in Ann Arbor, Michigan. With the specific context of Ann Arbor and the location, the proposal is both a prototype with replicable features and a flexible model adapt to specific contexts. The proposed system seeks to combine traditional subjects as “core classes� with a new mode of project-based learning: In the core classes, student study under an individually tailored program that combines virtual education and in-person teaching from teachers on site; in Program MERGE, students get a deeper understanding of course material and enhance collaboration skills through interdisciplinary activities tutored by teachers on site. The programmatic idea is translated spatially into a cluster of large open 28

spaces as core classrooms and smaller spaces as program MERGE classrooms. Particularly, the spatial arragenemnt of the school emphasizes interactivity among different programs to create a diverse and integrative learning environment.

The project rethinks about K-12 institutional spaces in relation to the evolving technological context by addressing a series of issues, i.e.: the disappearance of the traditional heavy-stocking library replaced by a community reading space; the open, 1-on-1 virtual education study space in place of the conventional class-based classroom; the spatial interactivity among different programs due to the specific needs of projecct-based learning, etc.

PROGRAMMATIC PREMISE CORE CLASSES GYM + FIELDS

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AUDITORIUM CAFETERIA OFFICE

PHYSICAL EDUCATION

programs in vertical space

Multimedia, interactive equipment on campus

English Reading/Writing Foreign Languages

Ball Games Exercise Health

LANGUAGE CORE

natural lab

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REDEISGN ANN ARBOR

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Visual Art Performance Art Music

ANCIENT DRAMA English

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Theater Art

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History

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LIBRARY STUDY SPACE

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Lively and comprehensive intergation of subjects

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Science

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Communication and VIRTUAL EDUCATION collaboration skills CLASSROOM as a supplement for ancient drama virtual education

Math Physical Sciences Computer

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SOCIAL CORE Math

Visual Art

Culture

History Culture Civic

ART MARKET

redesign ann arbor

Science Geography Exercise

NATURAL CLUSTERED SUBJECTS LAB

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2-DIMENSIONAL RELATIONSHIP DIAGRAM COURTYARD

3-DIMENSIONAL STUDIES

LOCKER SPACE

CLUSTERED SUBJECTS

AUDITORIUM

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ATRIUM

VIRTUAL EDUCATION CLASSROOM

SCIENCE LAB

Due to increasing E-reading devices and avaiable reading contents on electronic devices, the middle school library in the context of information age will serve as a collective study space instead of the traditional heavily stocking space. In this project the library becomes part of the atrium space, with selective books in the first floor and along the hallway above.

An alternative circulation path that goes around the programs.

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1. Atrium + Library 2. Gym 3. Cafe 4. Admin + Offices 5. Student lounges 6. Virtual Education Classroom 7. MERGE Program: REdesign Ann Arbor 8. Laboratory

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FORD POINT NEIGHBORHOOD PLAN: RICHMOND RIVETER September - December 2015 (Undergraduate work) Course: ARCH 100C: James R. Boyce Affordable Housing Competition Studio Project Location: Richmond, CA

This was an interdisceiplinary studio in which three architecture undergraduates and three city planning graduates team up to propose a scheme for an affordable housing project. The site should be located in Richmond, a mid-size city in the Bay Area with a diverse population and impressive industrial history.

The work scope for each team include site selection, master planning, schemetic design and program financing.

Our team, BOLD+D, selected a 6-acre site at the scenic Ford Point at Richmond waterfront. The Ford Point Neighborhood is a 57-acre water- front community located within the South Richmond Priority Development Area. Home to the revitalized Ford Assembly Plant and in close proximity to the Kaiser Shipyards, Ford Point harks back to the Ford assembly line era and today functions as an employment and community gathering space. THE RIVETER at Ford Point will become the first residential addition to the forthcoming high-intensity mixed-use activity center set forth in the Richmond 2030 General Plan. The Riveter will include a total of 289 market-rate and affordable apartments and for-sale condominiums.

The Ford Point Neighborhood Plan will attract pioneers looking to be a part of exciting period of Rich- mond’s growth. Ford Point offers forward-thinking renters, homeowners, and investors an opportunity to help the neighborhood reach its full potential and to have a hand in transforming the peninsula into a vi- brant and walkable mixed-use destination, which both attracts visitors from all over the region and offers all the amenities needed to support a thriving residential community.

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MY WORK: MASTER PLANNING SCHEMATIC DESIGN SITE DIAGRAMS RENDERED VIEWS FLOOR PLANS SECTION/ELEVATIONS

GOAL 1 Add to Richmond’s existing stock of high-quality, affordable housing in a site plan that compliments the scale of the 1,000 foot-long Ford Assembly Building.

GOAL 2 Engage in genuine placemaking while respecting and reimagining Ford Point’s industrial past and impressive achievements GOAL 3 Strengthen access to public transportation, construct carand pedestrian-friendly boulevards, and support the creation of one of the nation’s first developments oriented towards ferry transport.

GOAL 4 Maintain existing manufacturing space and plan for the expansion of light industrial business space to create technical and manufacturing employment opportunities near housing.

GOAL 5 Create bold transition zones between residential, public open space, retail, and industrial land uses to effectively support the mixed-use, high-density vision for the site per the 2030 General Plan.

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NATURAL CONTEXT

Driven to create a pleasant living place in the underutilized Ford Point neighborhood, the design of the Riveter, and the Rosie Project in particular, seeks to incorporate a network of public greenways and spaces that promote walkability and provide safety and access to the waterfront.

The site is divided into two parts: a central green space—of which three sides are surrounded by residence blocks—and a public waterfront park abutting family town housing. site. Using the streetscape as a means to access the blocks, the design incorporates methods of access which provide a balance of public and private spaces. The public spaces serve as an urban oasis for people to play, picnic, and rest. It is connected with rest of the site by green living alleys that strategically break up the building mass and promote walkability for the users. Vertically it also corresponds to the voids in the building and the roof garden at the top. Therefore, the central green space, the sidewalk

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greenery, the building voids and the roof garden together compose an integrated urban landscape system inside the larger green network of Richmond waterfront.

The volume of the building corresponds to the grand scale of the neighboring Craneway Pavilion and Ford Assembly Plant. The large U-shaped mass is broken down by three translucent circulation cores that provide communal gathering spaces and views to the network of greenscapes. On the residential floors of the Homefront and Rosie apartments, voids are introduced on different levels to create visual access to the waterfront and central plaza.

On the northern portion of the building, lightwell voids puncture the building to introduce sunlight into the building groins which are integrated with two horizontal voids that provide communal spaces for refuge and gathering.

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GROUND FLOOR PLAN 38

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EXPERIMENTAL FLOATING THEATER April - May 2016 ARCH 100D: Architectural Design VI Project Location: Berkeley, CA

This is an experimental theater that mainly anchors in the Berkeley Marina and that could be towed to various Bay ARea Cities to present diverse performances. The theater aims to nurture excellence and innovation in the performing arts through a wide array of artistic productions oriented towards new modes of performance devoted to hybridity of social and political awareness.

Theater is a incubator where creativity is generated and passed on from drama producers to the audience. Thus, although the theater is a relatively enclosed and static space, it should be of dynamic spatial qualities. With the idea of creating a vibrant and artistic-inspiring theater space, my project seeks to address the experimentality of the theater in terms of both form and function. Because the theater is a floating structure on the water, the shape corresponds to this property by having a free-flowing yet materially pure form. Functionally the theater space is capable of different configurations to bring the audience closer to the state and actors.

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GOOD FOOD April - May 2015 ARCH 100B: Fundamentals of Architectural Design Project Location: San Francisco, CA

This is an investigation on the relationship between subjectivity and objectivity of architecture.

GOOD FOOD is a conjunction of multiple programs centered around a common set of interests, including food awareness and education, challenging the norms of mass food production, advancing food research, slow food, promoting and supporting urban farming and food production, and the celebration of good, healthy, local food. The programmatic premise of the project is intentionally open-ended, and embodied the belief that urban life provided a continually shifting set of needs, and continually evolving infrastructure which support those needs.

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research institute, whose work focuses on the intersection of technology and food production.

The institute shares a teaching/research garden with another primary work group in the building, a loose coalition of local food organizations and activists that shared an involvement in ‘the good food movement’. As part of their educational mission, the coalition hosts local student field trips and other activities that require access to both the classrooms and garden. In association and connection with the groups above, a food hall is located on the ground floor that served as a multi-use apace, capable of hosting variegated events. The other form of work that took place in the building is the actual production of food. The commissary kitchens were available to rent by food-related entrepreneurs such as food start-ups and small-scale local producers.

Connecting site with context

opaque wall vs. skin

glazing vs. skin

floor slabs

circulation

public vs. private

double-height spaces

Generating linear voids

Dividing building with voids

Producing volumes

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WANGJIADUN FINANCIAL DISTRICT (Project during internship at AECOM Shanghai in Summer 2017) Project Type: Office Project Location: Wuhan, China Gross Floor Area: 958000 sqft My Work: Digital modeling , perspective rendering, site plan, sectional diagram

NIGHT RENDERING

SECTIONAL DIAGRAM

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SITE PLAN

mid zone

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JIANGSU INTERNATIONAL WATERWAY DISTRIBUTION CENTER (Project during internship at AECOM Shanghai in Summer 2017) Project Type: Governmental, Logistics Project Location: Suzhou, China Gross Floor Area: 1,652,000 sqft My Work: Digital modeling, programmatic diagram

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LINGANG INDUSTRIAL PARK

(Project during internship at AECOM Shanghai in Summer 2017) Project Type: Industrial Park planning and facade design Project Location: Shanghai, China Site Area: 2,140,812 sqft My Work: Diagrams, Facade design, Presentation layout design

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WENJIN HOTEL

(Project during internship at AECOM Shanghai in Summer 2017) Project Type: Hospitality Project Location: Wuhan, China My Work: Diagrams, digital modelling, facade design

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COMPUTATION: PATTERN ARCH 591: Generative Design Computing (Fall 2017) Rhino Python and Grasshopper

TEXT MATRIX - GRID

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TEXT MATRIX - GRADIENT

TEXT MATRIX - RANDOMIZATION

COMPUTATION: SURFACE MATRIX ARCH 591: Generative Design Computing (Fall 2017) Rhino Python and Grasshopper

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COMPUTATION: MATRIX

ARCH 591: Generative Design Computing (Fall 2017) Rhino Python and Grasshopper

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COMPUTATION: GROWTH ARCH 591: Generative Design Computing (Fall 2017) Rhino Python and Grasshopper

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ARCH 591: Generative Design Computing (Fall 2017) Rhino Python and Grasshopper

Make a digital model of the room, paying particular attention to the positions and proportions of different objects.

Use the “Box Mapping” in Grasshopper to map a texture image onto the objects. Adjust the scales of each object groups in the Box Mapping method by scaling the box that the mapping is based on.

Define a “movement” function in Grasshopper python component that controls the movement and rotation of the camera. Variables are: X-axis, Z-axis, position, room objects, Camera rotation factor, camera distance factor.

Inspired by Esther Stocker’s spatial reconstruction with geometries and David Hockney’s technique of recomposing images in a shaky way, we aim to explore the relationship between 3-dimensional space and 2-dimensional pattern. We modify the iconic scene from 2001: A Space Odyssey to study the outcome of destabilizing and recomposing an image of such a space when a textural mapping is added to the surface. How will the action of adding a texture mapping alter the characteristics of a space?

How does the transition between the 2D and 3D take place?

Produce a series of snapshots from different camera angles determined by the previous step.

Use the photomerge function in Photoshop to compose the images automatically.

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FABRICATION - CONTINUOUS VOIDS March 2017 Material: Foam, concrete

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This fabrication project asks us to make a wall tile module that can be patternized and repeated on the wall. The product is a module that can be rotated and repeated in random ways, while the void space among the neighboring tiles can always form interesting patterns. The formwork is fabricted through the CNC mahine, and then the tile is casted with concrete from the formwork.

FABRICATION - STEEL HELIX April 2017 Material: Steel sheet

This project aims to bring the 2D into the 3D through a series of strategic folds and cuts. A spiral pleat is made by dividing a strip of steel into equal linear sections, and each section is folded along a diagonal axis to generate a waving effect. The steel sheet is cut through the waterjet machine and be folded into several helixes.

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SHUFAN ZHANG M.Arch Candidate, University of Michigan B.A. Arch, Univerity of California, Berkeley zhangsf15@gmail.com (510) 761 - 2803