ARCHITECTURE P O R T F O L I O Zheng Wu
ZHENG WU + 6 1 - 0 4 5 7 6 9 8 0 0 0 wuzheng.tjc@gmail.com
The Hague Rotterdam
Stuttgart
Nanchang
Shanghai
Singapore
Melbourne
PLACE OF RESIDENCE
LANGUAGE SKILLS
PERSONAL INFO Location Australia Statement Zheng Wu is a postgraduate designer and dreamer. He always follows the human heart in the process of design. He critically reflects and debates on emergent issues, and progressively refines spatial experiments, curates human experience, and eventuates what the site wants to be. He aspires to become a registered architect in Australia.
Mandarin
English
German
Dutch
EDUCATION 2019 - 2021 2016 - 2019
The University of Melbourne | Australia Master of Architecture Bachelor of Architecture
Feb - July 2020
Technische Universiteit Delft | Netherlands
Jan - Feb 2019
The University of Stuttgart | Germany
2013 - 2015 2011 - 2012
Temasek Junior College | Singapore Temasek Academy | Singapore
Spring Semester Exchange Program
Winter University Exchange Program
out of ten
EXPERIENCE
Rhinoceros
9/10
Feb - Mar 2023
AutoCAD
8/10
ArchiCAD
4/10
Revit
6/10
Graduate of Architecture at Coy Yiontis Architects | Melbourne Design Development, Construction Documentation, Town Planning, Digital modelling in Rhino and Revit, handcraft model-making, V-ray rendering, interiors joinery in CAD, V-ray template, CAD template
Vray
9/10
Enscape
8/10
Jan 2022 Jan - Mar 2021
Venice Studio with Lütjens Padmanabhan Architekten | Switzerland Internship at AIM Architecture | Shanghai Modelmaking, CAD documentation, 15th Anniversary Exhibition, Retail design, Rhino modeling, Siheyuan Heritage House Rennovation Endangered Species Exhibition at the Lyon Housemuseum | Melbourne Exhibited works at the Melbourne School of Design Exhibition | Melbourne The Future Park Design Ideas Competition | Melbourne Architecture Association Visiting School - Marking the City Chengdu | China Architecture Association Visiting School - The New Paper| Melbourne Land Art Generator Competition LAGI 2018 | Melbourne Internship at the IX Architects |Singapore SketchUp modeling, client meeting, librarian, material archive
SOFTWARE SKILLS
Grasshopper
7/10
Illustrator
9/10
Photoshop
9/10
InDesign
9/10
MS Office
9/10
3D Printing
9/10
Modelmaking
9/10
2019 2016 - 2019 2019 2018 2018 2018 2015
REFERENCES George Yiontis Director Coy Yiontis Architects Geo@coyyiontis.com.au Ihr. Sien van Dam Chair of Public Building Faculty of Architecture, TU Delft A.M.F.vandam@tudelft.nl Ariani Anwar Associate, John Wardle Architects Studio Leader, University of Melbourne Ariani.Anwar@johnwardlearchitects.com
ACHIEVEMENTS 2019 2018 2011 - 2013
Melbourne Global Scholars Awards (Master Program) Melbourne Global Scholars Awards (Bachelor Program) Singapore School-Based SM1 Scholarship
HOBBIES
Running
Cycling
Kayaking
Photography
Cooking
Gardening
CONTE NT S
01
Performance Depot
3
a creative engine for city
02
Law Gallery House
8
Melbourne legal precinct 2050
03
The Public Enfilade
10
for a new state identity
04
House of Loss
13
for people who dance with fire
05
Skyedge Tower
15
a one-stop mixed-use supertall
06
Professional Work
17
@ Coy Yiontis Architects
07
AIM Exhibition
19
hand-crafted models
08
The Rotunda
20
BOZAR a silent giant
09
3D Printing
21
various physical models
10
The Gyroid-Fort
22
a home for echidnas
11
Breathing Silver the second skin
23
ST RE ET G RIN SP
BOURKE STREET
01
CONCEPT | 3
PERFORMANCE DEPOT
A-CREATIVE-ENGINE-FOR-CITY Individual work Studio E, 2021 Tutor:
Peter Stasios
Software: Rhino, V Ray, Illustrator, Photoshop DESIGN BRIEF Nowadays, performing arts has been evolving and diversified to meet a changing generation of audiences, the city craves a revolutionary upgrade of performance industries. Therefore, Performance Depot is a warehouse with rehearsal, production spaces for practitioners, and an immersive theatre that forges closer connections between performers and audience by immersing them in hyper-realistic stage-sets as if they are living and exploring in fiction.
4 | ENTRANCE
THE OBSOLETE THEATRE The site used to be the Palace Theatre, a traditional theatre as evident in its facade. Such identity is edified to represent the obsolete theatre, which is now converted into an urban plaza. The public stairs can be used as a stage for street artists and public gatherings.
the former facade
ENTRANCE | 4
THE ‘CURTAINED’ PUBLIC FOYER In light of recalling the former theatrical identity, the new immersive theatre should challenge the obsolete theatre at the right angle, with a rotunda public foyer as a connecting node. The main entrance is covered by operable curtain-like aluminum claddings, used to make any industrial shed. The curtain-like concrete walls frame the entrance as a portal into a theatrical reality.
the former foyer
5 | ENTRANCE ROTUNDA
THE OPERABLE FACADE
THE ROTUNDA The interwoven floor tiles guide you towards the reception and two folded stairs, from which you have an all-round view of the art-deco, nostalgic grandeur. Following the stairs to the first floor is a public lounge. Walking straight through the rotunda is the reception and public lobby. Here audience can grab their costumes and change at the back.
DETAIL SECTION
DETAIL | 5
6 | IMMERSIVE THEATRE
FACADE | 6
THE IMMERSIVE THEATRE Three cubes of immersive theatre whose configuration can be rearranged for specific stage sets as required. The steel structure is designed to work with scaffoldings for installations. During the day, the building appears as an industrial warehouse to be unveiled.
7 | EPHEMERAL FACADE
THE EPHEMERAL FACADE
At night, the proceeding immersive show would constantly cast vibrant lighting on the ephemeral skin, being enlivened as a fluid story maker, as an attractive, resilient creative engine for the city.
INTERIOR RENDER | 7
THE IMMERSIVE BAR
THE IMMERSIVE SHOW ‘FAUST’
FOOD COURT COURTROOMS & OFFICE
COOKING CLASS
VENDING VIRTUAL LIBRARY GALLERY
MARKET & BROADCAST STUDIOS
INTRO | 8
02
LAW GALLERY HOUSE MELBOURNE-LEGAL-PRECINCT-2050 Individual work Master year 1 Studio C, 2019 Tutor: Collaboration:
Ariani Anwar John Wardle Architects
Software: Rhino, Illustrator, Photoshop DESIGN BRIEF The project critiques established conventions of the court typology and introduces new and innovative programs into the building and surrounding urban realm, in order to allow the court to act as a contemporary community gathering place. The Law Gallery House is a second-life home to ex-criminals, and a gallery where the legal trials and the accused, the general public life, and ex-criminals’ new life become curated objects juxtaposed to each other, promoting better connections and deeper interpretations of each other.
9 | DETAIL SECTION
DURING A MARKET MARDI GRAS
MODEL | 9
The law gallery house is a second-life home for excriminals to reintroduce them into our community by offering necessary skills and employment. Various activities of the three groups require courtrooms, broadcast studios for teleconferencing, education, entertainment and exhibition spaces, market lanes, cooking classes, and a food court. As historical laneways have been diminishing since 1895, the future twonscaping will restore the unique Melbourne laneway culture. The final arrangement features highly mixed and active ground floor laneways. In the law gallery house, ex-criminals after going through cooking classes and art workshop can become chefs and artists to regain public support, and ex-hackers can become IT technicians, to construct the virtual court. Law Gallery House will help our society to reconfigure a harmonious and active community.
03
THE PUBLIC ENFILADE F O R - A - N E W - S T A T E - I D E N T I T Y Groupmates: Chiara Tobia, Konstantina Schonia TU Delft Msc2 Public Building Studio (Studio D), 2020 Tutor:
Ir. Sien van Dam
Professor: Ir. Nathalie de Vries (MVRDV) Software: Revit, Rhino, Enscape, Illustrator, Photoshop DESIGN BRIEF The project aims to revitalise urban vacancies in state buildings via architectural intervention, and therefore re-establish a future-proof identity for state buildings in The Hague, Netherlands. The key words are resilience and diversity: to be future-proof, the space should provide flexible solutions, able to host multiple functions. In other words, it provides a set of spaces diverse enough to invite multiple programs, ultimately promoting exchange and resilience itself.
SITE ANALYSIS | 10
The Hoftoren
Coexistence
Mobility
Urban
One of the state office buildings opposite the Hague Central Station, was vacant during the COVID-19 pandemic. It was chosen to be intervened and appropriated for a future-proof identity for the city of the Hague. The city of the Hague emits a multiplicity and complexity generated by layers of elements in both vertical and horizontal directions. These layers consist of artificial structures, natural systems, and fragments of monumentality. This integration of different layers creates an ambiguous socio-bio ecosystem that determines the resilient identity of the city. This ambiguous identity, as portrayed in a hand-drawn collage, considered with brave re-imagination of the future work space and some montage drawings of multiplicity and ephemerality, provides first-hand inspiration and basis for designing strategies that aim to reuse the vacant state office buildings in the central precinct of the Hague.
Green
Densification
2020
Water
1680
1248
Topography
1250
1350
1570
1850
1930
1970
1630
1230 ca
Espansion
11 | STRATEGIES
M E M B R A N E
E N F I L A D E
DESIGN DEVELOPMENT | 11
EXPANSION ZONE
EMBEDDED VACANCY
UPPER PLAZA
PUBLIC PLINTH
GROUND FLOOR
FILTERING porosity
MULTIPLICAITON transgression & ambiguity
CAVITY, LIGHT & WATER engagement
ASSIMILATION transgression
PUBLIC ENTRANCE - porosity & diversity
ARECADES - border & filter
ARECADES - border & filter
RENDER | 12
THE POOL AND THE DOME - centrality
THE POOL AND THE DOME - centrality
PUBLIC SPACE | 13
04
HOUSE OF LOSS FOR-PEOPLE-WHO-DANCE-WITH-FIRE Individual work Thesis Studio, 2021 Tutor:
Marijke Davey
Software: Rhino, AutoCAD, V Ray, Photoshop INDEPENDENT THESIS BRIEF This thesis perceives ‘loss’ as an invitation to response, especially in the context of Beirut, Lebanon, which has accumulated various forms of loss throughout her history. Using poetry and acrylic painting as the main method of research, this thesis speculates ways to manifest loss into space, and seeks for a critical position or commentary towards the issues of loss. An emergency coordination department has been absent in the former port system. In order to ensure a safe, creative, and commemorated port, this thesis designs a House of Loss for people who dance with fire.
14 | GALLERY
CO-LIVING | 14
STRUCTURE | 15
05
SKYEDGE TOWER
ONE-STOP-MIXED-USE-SUPERTALL Groupmates: Daniel Chen, Yalin Li Applied Architectural Technology, 2021 Tutor:
Anthony Blazquez PROJECT BRIEF
Standing at a height of 229.8m , Skyedge Tower is located at the corner of Spencer and Lonsdale street on the western edge of Melbourne’s Central Business District (CBD). Adjacent to the Docklands precinct, the tower contains a mixed-used programme of retail, premium office spaces for rent, high-end luxury hotel floors, a sky lobby and a sky deck, that offer scenic city views.
Crown
Mechanic
High Rise Hotel
Sky Lobby Mechanic
Mid Rise Office
Mechanic
Low Rise Office
Mechanic
Podium
16 | PODIUM
TECHNICAL DETAIL | 16
Main Role: Podium Design and Documentation, Rendering Softwares: Rhino, AutoCAD and V Ray
17 | PROFESSIONAL WORK
06
PROFESSIONAL WORK C O Y - Y I O N T I S - A R C H I T E C T S
Handcraft Model of a commercial project, Indoor Horseriding Arena in Launcefield Scale: 1 : 250 Size: 695 x 454 x 60 mm Stage: Design Development
Architecture Graduate Melbourne, 2023
MODEL-MAKING | 17
CONSTRUCTION DOCUMENTATION | 18 Left Page: Contextual modeling and Townplanning renderings of a new house in Kew Software: Rhino, V-ray, Photoshop
Drafting AutoCAD plan according to Revit Standard B
A2.3
CL
CL
CL
CL
ROOM 8 FFL
1.860
CH
2400
A
PLANT FFL
A2.3
1.080
B - 100
- 205
- 55
- 155
PANTRY FFL
0.00
CH
2700
C
CL
A2.4
- 250
- 205
CN.01
KITCHEN FFL
0.00
CH
2350
B
CL
Level 1 Pantry 1:50
Proposed Callout Plans Sheet 01
Legend
Revision
5021 VAGABOND PROJECTS Alterations and Additions, Vagabond Ski Club, 8 Ash Drive, Hotham Heights VIC 3741
Construction Documentation of a commercial renovation project Software: AutoCAD, Bluebeam
Dwg no.
A1.4 Rev. B
Scale:
1:50 @A3
Drawn: TW
Date:
23.03.2023
Phase: CD
8 Hillingdon Place Prahran Victoria 3181 T 03 9510 5700 www.coyyiontis.com.au
HANDCRAFT | 19
07
AIM EXHIBITION HAND-CRAFTED-MODELS Internship at AIM Architecture Shanghai, 2021 Directors: Vincent de Graaf, Wendy Saunders Software: Rhino, AutoCAD, Illustrator
Photo Credit: Runzi Zhu
Harmay Chengdu Flagship - Shelf Stairs
Courtyard House Renovation - Interior Studies
20 | SPATIAL ANALYSIS
Layering Towards A Monumental Illusion I Rotunda Study We chose to study the Rotunda of the first / second floors of the Bozar, Brussels by Victor Horta. Importantly, as elsewhere in the Bozar, it must allow people to navigate between four different levels. The Bozar itself is not a huge room, but the feeling of arrival is amplified and exaggerated by the use of layering. This layering creates a sense of journey as you approach the rotunda, through the various smaller antecedent spaces, and allows for incidental views through and between them. The layering is also seen in the building elements used to make the rotunda. Whether they be columns or ceiling, surfaces and objects are broken down and peeled away to create a multiplicity of surface that belies the modest scale and materiality of the rotunda, thus creating an illusion of grandeur that makes this a monumental space.
EXHIBITION ARTEFACT | 20
08
THE ROTUNDA BOZAR-A-SILENT-GIANT
Groupmates: Vladislav Trofimov, Joe Moran TU Delft Elective, Urban Architecture, 2020 Tutors:
Elsbeth Ronner, Aurĕlie Hachez
Software: Rhino, V Ray, Illustrator, Photoshop
Layering Towards A Monumental Illusion II Exhibition Artefact Our artefact is a representation of our interpretation
of
Horta’s
approach
to monumentality as witnessed in the rotunda of the Bozar. It aims to combine the ideas of journey, arrival, views through and between, and the layering of surfaces. The elements themselves are made from layered white painted 20mm MDF except for the base / stair which will be made of layered ply. Each piece is separated by shadow gaps. The sub-structure would be an aluminium frame. From the outside the artefact reads as one, a white cuboid. Within, it reveals itself to be a multilayered and complex collection of space and view which reflects the nature of the Bozar itself, the silent giant.
THE ARTEFACT
RHINO + GRASSHOPPER + 3D PRINTING + LASER CUTTING + CNC | 21
09
3D PRINTING VARIOUS-PHYSICAL-MODELS LEFT: VALLEY ACACIA Air-BnB Short-stay Estate Individual Work Studio Earth, 2018 Tutor:
Mitchell Rqnsome
Software: Rhino, Illustrator, Photoshop, Makerbot
F4 OFFICE
F3 RESTAURANT
F2 CAFE AND GF BOAT STORAGE
ABOVE: VOYAGE AT STUDLEY PARK Community Boathouse Individual Work Studio Water, 2017 Tutor: Han Li Software: Rhino, Grasshopper, Cura
RHINO + GRASSHOPPER + 3D PRINT + CASTING | 22
10
THE GYROID-FORT A - H O M E - F O R - E C H I D N A S Individual Work Studio Air, 2018 Tutor:
Isabelle Jooste
Software: Rhino, Grasshopper, V Ray, Photoshop, Makerbot, Cura
Rooftop Entrances of the Gyroid Fort
Section Model of the Gyroid Fort
46 |
RHINO + GRASSHOPPER + LASER CUTTING | 23
11
BREATHING SILVER THE-SECOND-SKIN Groupmates: Jenny Wu, Karina Lai Digital Design and Fabrication Studio, June 2017 Tutor: Siavash Malek Software: Rhino, Grasshopper
Model Courtesy: Jenny Wu
Varying Transparency and Porosity of the Second Skin
The Lost Silos - Loss of Context
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