Work Sample by Wendy Zhiyun Huang

PORTFOLIO WORK SAMPLE ZHIYUN WENDY HUANG 2008~2017

MS Advanced Architecture Design, Columbia University MArch, The University of Hong Kong BA(ArchStud), The University of Hong Kong Leigh & Orange Architects Ltd. Rural Urban Framework (RUF)

01 Making the organized chaos of city life inside building Re-thinking working space in NYC Studio work Supervisor: Phu Hoang 2016 Summer Collaborator: Wenmei Zhi

As there are more and more participation in the art production process, for instance in Sainsbury, art market become global, the environmental requirements are more specific according to different art pieces, they open up the storage as exhibition space, allow public to participate in the workshop, introduce students/ educational institution to the art gallery space, the hybrid function of the space is increasing in today. By question the definition of future workplace in art-related market, we start to redefine the function of art gallery space, the workplace in our design highlight the process of the production of the art instead of put more emphasis on production. In so doing, we encourage more interaction between artist and buyers/public. The future workplace is not an isolation factory to produce the art pieces, but a living exhibition cube for public to see and experience in different perspectives in art production process.

Program Analysis of Sainsbury Institution

Re-thinking the experience of art produce and exhibition space

Sectional Model of the Architecture

First Floor Plan

Second Floor Plan

Third Floor Plan

Section

showing the alternate floor space

Inventor Lab is a prototype that will be tested by accommodating the program for an environmental research facility addressing the relationship and potential overlap of land and water in Hong Kong. What are the architectural implications of this program and new tools and will a new language emerge? One of the necessary conditions for the arrangement of laboratory is to develop a strategy which reponds to the need for non prescriptive spaces that facilitate reconfiguration. The inventor lab project is intended to encourage such collaborations. It is both a general model but by way of illustration of its capacity, it is also to be a specific research facility for environmental studies, global warming and its impact especially around Hong Kong. ------ Peter de Bretteville The lab complex is located in the Shek Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; quarry site, in-between a loop of the only vehicle road, so people can access from both the upper level and bottom level. Public and visitors can access the building from the roof platform, all the public programs like presentation room and exhibition rooms are at the top. The inventors would loop down the hill, park their cars on the open space under the elevated building and entry the building from the bottom level.

Inventor Lab by the Sea Studio work Supervisor: Peter de Bretteville 2013 Fall The University of Hong Kong

Open roof for public access

Computer room

Lecture room

Open Lab space

fabr

Center rication Lab

Three different types of lab space defined by â&#x20AC;&#x153;Penetrating coresâ&#x20AC;?

supporting programs

perimeter open Lab

dynamic open Lab

Exhibition Room Data Center Upper terrace

Research room

Perimeter Open Lab

Lower terrace

center fabrication Lab

Open Lab space

Liberary

Upper terrace

Mate

Perimeter Open Lab Lower terrace

2 Upper Terrace 3

Data Center

Research room

computer room

Workshop/ Fabrication Lab

Works

5 Library

Aâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;

Discusstion room

A Material/ storage C

Upper Level

Center fabrication Lab

erial storage

Exhibition Room

Discussion room

Open roof for public access

Sectional Perspective AAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;

M 1

Data Center

Research room

shop/ Fabrication Lab

5 Library

6 Material/ storage C

8 Lower Terrace 9

Lower Level

Folding Facade Panels

03 House for All Seasons

Shijia Village Research & House Prototype Rural Urban Framework (RUF) Research Assistant (Core design team member) Year out experience: 2011.08~2012.07 Supervisor: John Lin, Crystal Kwan(Project manager) Winner, AR House Award, Architecture Review 2012 2nd Place, Project of the Year, European Union and Architecture of Israel Certificate of Excellence, Perspective Awards, Perspective Magazine

Shijia Village is located in the northwestern province of Shaanxi, in a mountainous area near the city of Xian. The project examines the idea of the vernacular village house and proposes an alternative, contemporary prototype. The project promotes a more sustainable alternative with rammed earth, biogas, rainwater storage and reed bed cleansing systems. All the houses in Shija Village are originally of mud brick construction and occupy a plot of the same configuration: 10 m x 30 m. Villagers gradually renovate and build upon the courtyard typology, traditional elements fused with new brick and concrete buildings. Apart from the identically defined boundary, no two houses are alike. Each of us (ten students) took one family to carry on a interview and document their houses. Collectively compile a portrait of the modern Chinese village house: a portrait not only of building types but of a lifestyle in transition.

Shijia House Prototype next to Crop Field

Livingroom, Washing courtyard, Planting courtyard

Mud wall built of mud bricks

Back door

Well providing underground water

Mud bricks made of the mixture of mud, water & plant fibres

Firewood house storing wood for kitchen use

Wood column from the trees planted in the field

Wood beam supporting the roof

Roof tile for decorations and waterproof

Bedroom with only very few windows

Mud layer

Dining area

Wood ladder for climbing to the upper storage level

Jar for food storage

Bamboo from the big ditch between the two Mud villages wall

Stone wall for security

Shijia House Prototype

Shijia Village Site Plan

Haixiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s House

House prototype design: Study models

Courtyard Typology Study

Different architecture system

House prototype design: Tectonic study

Column Gid

The Column

Ground Paving & Column

Trombe Wall & Column

Roof & Courtyard

480.00

储藏 Storage

0.00

门廊 Entrance

厨房 Kitchen

水池 sink

案板储藏 Storage

储藏 Storage

-0.12 火炉 Stove

烟囱 Chimney

-0.24

雨水收集管道 rainwater channel 浴室 Bathroom 农用车 Cart

-0.24

厕所 Toilet 贮肥室

晾晒庭院 Drying Courtyard

抽渣管

-0.24

盥洗庭院 Washing Courtyard

耕种庭院 Planting Courtyard

0.00

-0.36 washing sink

前院 Front Courtyard

卧室 Bedroom 0.00

-0.24

0.00 客厅 Living Room

进料间

火炕 Heating bed

-0.36 drainage channel

前门 Front Door

发酵间

火炕 Heating bed

卧室 Bedroom

温室 Greenhouse

猪圈 Pig House

后门 Back Door

储藏 Storage 480.00

BACK YARD

PIG COAT

PLANTING GARDEN

LIVINGROOM

WASHING COURTYARD

BEDROOM

GREEN HOUSE

FRONT YARD

Eco-system Construction Photos

Construction of the Bio-gas tank in the backyard

Stepped Roof of the House for Rainwater Collection

Planting Courtyard

Eco-system inside House Biogas water is recycled to

Displacement tank access for checking level

BIOGAS SYSTEM

Biogas used for cooking and lighting

Slurry

Biogas pool

Dug out and used as fertilizer

Roof used to collect rain water

WATER SYSTEM

Filtered water Water storage for year round

irrigation

Grey water is cleaned by reed bed

Water tank used for washing,cooking and cleaning

Gravel and sand

Water pass through reed root

Chimney

TROMBE WALL AND PASSIVE WINTER HEATING

Summer sun is shaded by roof.

Heat radiation from trombe wall

Winter sun directly shines on greenhouse wall.

Cooking

Smoke passes underneath the bed to provide heating.

Glazing material Trombe wall heated through greenhouse glass, rammed earth construction acts as thermal mass.

04 Qianhai Time Squre Commercial Complex

Site 4 Mixed Use Shopping Park and Office Tower Professional work Supervisor: Kelvin Lee, Iris Wong 2014.08~2015.10 Leigh & Orange Architects Ltd

First stage of the project is a master planning for roof cover of a main subway vehicle depot in Shenzhen, China. The whole site consists 6 plots, including residential community both high rise and low rise with school education facilities; commercial buildings including office tower and office villas; and large scale retail space Site 4 consists of three main programs: twin office towers, service apartment and retail shopping park. The retail space is directly connected to subway station for better pedestrian access.

Site 4 Shopping Park Bird View

Official Tower

Flag store

Food &beverage

Official Tower

Site 4 Cross section

Site 4 Layout Plan

Programs layout

Flag store Retail Corner Shop Restaurant Service/equipment Lift lobby Loading area

Fitness

Retail

Flag store

Restaurant

Service/ equipment Carpark

Tower lobby

Open plazas in shopping park

1, Terraced retail space on the tower podium 2, Flag store and sunken plaza 3

3, Pool and shopping park plaza

Shop front and decoration of shopping park

Flag store in shopping park

Twin office towers in shopping park

Office towers facade design Frame of Facade Fins

Facade Fins Setting out

Plan Configuration

Curtain Wall Facade Design

Sky Garden Space

Every three floors share one sky garden and one atrium space

05 Works in Rural Urban Framework Angdong Town Charitable Hospital Professional work Supervisor: John Lin, Joshua Bolchover 2011 Aug~2013 July Rural Urban Framework 2016 Shortlisted, RIBA International Prize

The project addresses the design and management of hospitals in a rural context. Working closely with the charity and government, the program of a hospital is re-configured. The design begins with a simple strategy to provide a continuous ramp access to all floors. This also creates a large central courtyard space for public use. The materials are recycled bricks and custom-designed concrete screen blocks.

The old hospital building had no lift. Patients had to be carried up the stairs on their relativesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;back.

The new hospital was built around the old building. The old building continued to function during construction.

The old building was demolished and replaced by a public courtyard and ramp, allowing patients on wheelchairs to access the upper floors.

1. Concrete modula facade facing courtyard 2. Facade shadow effect in corridor space 3. Exterior brick facade 4. Interior view of wards

2 1 3 4

Lingzidi Village Bridge Professional work Supervisor: John Lin, Joshua Bolchover 2011 Aug~2013 July Rural Urban Framework

Ling Zi Di Village Bridge, Shangzhou, Henan

storage

up entrance

down

down up

Jintai Village Post Earthquake Re-construction

toilet

pig-cote

living room

bedroom up

Professional work Supervisor: John Lin, Joshua Bolchover 2011 Aug~2013 July Rural Urban Framework

bedroom

kitchen

storage

outdoor dining space/garden

bedroom

down

GF Plan

Type A1

Type B1

1F Plan

Type A2

Type B2

Stepped roof merged with the mountainous landscape

06 Tower Shell Game: Undulating Performances

Re-thinking 1970s Hong Kong high-rise facade system Studio work Supervisor: Jason Carlow 2012 Fall The University of Hong Kong

People live in high density cities can always develop wisdom of making fully use of the space. The increasing of the population, development of real estate market result in the rapid number growth of high rise towers in 1970s and 80s. The high cost of land push the fully using of interior space, even façade was being programmed. By analysis the residential and commercial high rises built in 1970s Sheung Wan, I generate some performative sections that human activities can be engaged in, so a façade zone with programs is created. Façade elements that pushed out can be used as balconies, bay windows, pulled in can act as furniture, dropped ceilings ect.. Different from the highly standardized 1970s façade elements, I am trying to develop an undulating performative façade system which creates smooth connections between dierent performative sections. Not alike many newly built curtain wall high rises that façades are push forward to separated from the inner program space, the architecture intervention allows dierect human activities happened continuously along the undulating façade elements.

Unit 3: Commercial / Residential

Unit 3: Residential Unit 2: Commercial Unit 1: Residential

Planter

Bay Window with Desk

AC Bay Window

Enlarged Glass Area / Advertising Area

Commercial

Residential AC holder projection window

Retail drop ceiling

drop ceiling

shop portal

pantry shelf

retail shelves desk surface

counter surface window sill

Seats and Planters

Typical plan of commercial

Enlarged areas for open spaces

Seats and Planters

Raised floor and ceilings

Residential & Club house

Raised floor and ceilings Storage shelves Raised floor and ceilings

Floor plan broken into two sides

Dinning room Balcony Dinning room Living room

Typical Floor Plan Commerial & Residential mix used floor

Facade Rearrangment

Light Shelf Desks and Cabinets

Light Shelf Desks and Cabinets Display Shelf Display window Display Shelf Display shelf Shop window

Portal (Residentail Lobby)

Final plan

Display shelf Display shelf

Display window Display shelf

Ground Floor: Retail &Podium Entrance

Portal Display shelf

Residential Wing 23F: 3 Residential Units

Residential & Club house

Commercial Wing 21F: Shared Club

Residential Wing 18F: Refuge Floor

Refuge Floor & Commercial/Office

Commercial Wing 16F: Commercial/Office

Residential Wing 5F: 3 Residential Units

Typcial Residential & Commercial/Office

Commercial Wing 4F: Commercial/Office

East Facade/ Residential Wing: with smaller window/opennings,lower floor height

North Facade

Western Facade/Commercial side: Larger Glazing, higher floor height

Balcony

table surface

shelves

I am creating a public assembly and craft arts exhibition space by the side of national assembly and IFAN museum. Through my intervention I am trying to disrupt the symble of colonial power—the circle and bring the city, the surrounding environment into my building. By creating several transparent public assembly space, I am celebrating the local villagers’ “fenc” system that in villagers’ gathering, they are all equal to express their idea to tribe chief. Also by moving through the space, occupying the space, citizens declare their power as well. This public assembly and the National Assembly can create an interesting and ambiguous dialogue.

Civil Circus

Image Cities Circus--- Urban Circus in Dakar, Senegal Studio work Supervisor: Mario Gooden 2017 Spring Individual

Rotating

Compressing

It is a public building that belongs to the citizen and the city. In my circus, instead of one single performance dominating the show, multiple attractions and surrounding environment invade in are the ways to Against the dominate power. The experience of interior and experience of city views of surrounding landmark buildings are alternate.

Deploy

Splitting

30’-0”

40’-0”

50’-0”

A’

B’

Section A-A’

Section B-B’

Experience of interior art exhition and view of national assembly are alternate

Experience of interior art exhition and view of Museum are alternate

Circulation, exhibition gallery and public assembly are merging together

08 Healing Tower

A Bio-philic Lung in downtown Hong Kong Studio work Supervisor: Steven Lau 2013 Spring The University of Hong Kong

The site is situated in an old part of Hung Hom. It is surrounded by a large numbers of funeral services such as flower and coffin shops. There is a dificiency of amenities and public services within the neighborhood and residences in the area consist mainly of low-income tenement housing. As the site atmosphere is depressed and sorrow, we are proposing a building that can “heal” people’s bad mood. I think “healing” contains two aspects: social healing & environmental healing. Adding community spaces, skygardens can achieve social healing, while smart materials that can clean polluted air, funeral dust can be a method of environmental healing. Begin with a simple rectangle form from a “spiraling garden” is caved from the volume of the rectangle creating a contious spatial sequence with a series of open terraces taht serve as skygardens. Smart material will be applied onto the inner facade of the atrium to act as a “tissue” which can clean the polluted air, generate electricity.

March 22

June 22

September 22

Solar Analysis in order to maximize the sun exposure to the inner tissue/sky gardens

CFD Wind Pressure & Wind Speed Test

The arrangement of programs

lift core

public/vistors access Residential

commercial/office

sky gardens

Retail

Different atrium strategy and their CFD wind test

Smart Material Applied onto the Inner Tissue

Plants: Vertical green

Titanium Diaoxide: clean polluted air

Piezo-electric cells: generate electricity

CFD wind test

Solar Analysis

Triangular Panelization

Apply different material panels

Mixed-Use Program Arrangement 6F

Public access & Residential

ROOF TOP GARDEN 11F Commercial/ Office & Residential

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17F Residential

            

Public Access

Residential wing

SUNRISE GARDEN

GROUND FLOOR GARDEN

             



VIEW CORRIDOR GARDEN



Commercial wing

SUNSET GARDEN

5 Different Sky Gardens

Ground Floor Garden

Sunset Garden

Roof Top Garden

Titanium Dioxide Panel

Glazzing Panel Vertical Greenery

Piezo-electric cells

Zoom-in of the Inner Tissue

View Corridor Garden & Sunrise Garden

I am trying to criticiz the existing static and homogeneous condition of the existing hajj city and trying to develop a responsive and more diversified system.

City in Transformation

Re-build Mina Pilgrimage Tent City Studio work Supervisor: Tom Verebes 2014 Spring The University of Hong Kong

Urban Scale: Off-season time Used as green houses, the size of openning depend on the sun/weather conditions, and can chage responsively.

My design is about building a set of permanent transformable architectural system in Mina Pilgrimage “tent city” which can transform responsively to achieve multi-use for both residential and greenhouse farming. The city is over crowded in the hajj time, and totally empty in off-season time.The pilgrims used to came with their own temporary installations and doing their worship and then remove those installations at the end of Hajj season. Later on, KSA government provide tents unitively, install them before hajj season and remove them after Hajj. Recent ten years, new type of tents are invented, they have better performance in many aspects and are remaining “permanent” in Mina valley.

Urban Scale: Hajj time Used as tents for living, the canopies are opened for shading

Existing Tent Condition inside Mina Tent City

2m 2m

2m 2m 2m 4m 2m

2m 2m 2m

Individual tent, most are 64sqm, few are 48sqm or 96sqm

Success: -Easy to install and remove -Fire proof tents -Air-conditioning is provided

6 or 8 tents combine together to form a larger tent group

32 large tents group form a larger phanlax size is about 120m x120m with 3 washrooms/public water supply

Limitation: -An efficient way to hold 3million people for 5 days -Much better control compared to the autonomous condition before

-Super dense, 1.3sqm per person -All the tents keep their existing manner but completely no use in the off-season time

-With no elastic to further growth, so KSA government is building new towers -All identical, no diversity -No privacy, No public/empty

An Architecture System that Can Transform to Achieve

Type A Off-season Time: Green house

Type B Off-season Time: Green house

Type A Hajj Time: Tents for pilgrims

Type B Hajj Time: Tents for pilgrims

5 Days Tent City for Pilgrims & 355 Days Green House

My Proposal: New Transformable Tent Type A Off-seanson: green house

Glass ceiling

Air-condition Transformable canopy

Transformable planting tray

The canopy can open & close to control the insolation and temperature

Hajj time: tent

Transformable canopies are opem

Shelf for putting luggage Planting trays form as partition Certains are rolling down

Sleeping mat The roof is all covered, the planting trays are in the up right position formed partitions

Towards diversification of the te

Upon the basic two type A & B, more s

Large unit for package groups

Two types of s

Two types of small units for family

1 1

2 4500

3 9000

4 4500

9000

4500

3000

1 7794

5600

3 5600

4 5600

5 5600

B 6000

A C

5600

7794

3000

D 6000

B E

5600

7794

4500

F 3000

G D

5600

7794

6000

H 4500

5600

I 3000

J 7794

E 6000

K 3000

Outside Hajj Time: Canopy is open, used as Green House

Hajj Time: Canopy is closed, shaded Tents for living

2 5196

519

ent city: 5 different units types

sub types can be further developed

small units for family

4 5196

5 5196

Two sizes of grid dorm space

6 5196

2 5196

3 5196

5600

A 9000

5600

B B 9000

5600

9000

5196

3 5600

10 Transformable Canopy System Technology Seminar Supervisor: Matthew Davis 2016 Fall Collaborator: Michelle Lozano

Transformable structure, are generally conceived to operate at a permanent location responding to a specific time-frequency cycle. Transformable structure can be able to adapt to diverse changing conditions. It has the potential to achieve multiple-use spaces, from residential to farming. spaces that alternate between indoor and outdoor, small scale units with openings to long connect buildings. Learning from Chuck Horbmanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s transformable structure, we came up with a transformable canopy louvers system that can open and close to form shading.

4 segments

6 segments

8 segments

12 segments

quadrangle

Hexagon

Octagon

dodecagon

Transform Canopy Unit & Field Pattern Study

CNC milling file for 8’ x 4’ plywood

wood ring linkage X2

Lasercut file for 32”x 18” white acrylic, 3 p

wood ring linkage X2

wheel x 8 wood track X8

wood track X8

Acrylic bracket piece x72

wood base X1

Acrylic louvers x 36

#6 washer x 72

fender was 1/8”-1” x 24

#6 -32 nut x 72

#8 -32 Lock x4

#6 -32 3/4” machine screw x 72

#8 -32 1-1/ machine sc x 12

Louvers

pieces

Ring linkage

C tracks

sher 4

k nut

Base

/4â&#x20AC;? crew

Connecting all the different layers together

Louver connection details

Connection between base & Frame

CNC milling process

Sliding track and louvers on the most open position

Different Positions

11 Interweaving Network City

Master Plan for Randalls Island NYC Studio work Supervisor: Markus Dochantschi 2016 Fall Collaborator: Wenmei Zhi

The economy of university city is closely related with the university activity and highly supported by the entire university structure, which may include university hospitals and clinics, printing houses, libraries, laboratories, business incubators, student rooms, dining halls, students' unions, student societies, and academic festivities. Our site is randollâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s island. We are proposing an intelligent town which includes the programs of university education, research, related industry and the supporting living facilities in randollâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s island. One reason is because of the shortage of the educational land in manhattan/nyc, the other thing is we want to critic the separation condition of education, research and industry/practice. As randollâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s island already has industry facilities, we think it may be a better chance to testing the coexistence between education, research and practice or factory/manufacture facilities.

Water Engaged Landscape Park

Open Plaza with Space for Cultural Program

Wet Land Park with Water Treatment and Research Testing Space

Waterfront Marina Space with Commercial and Entertainment Program

Four different types of public space interweaving with the built area

Proposed Programs and its Relationship Diagram

Combing Two Related Programs to Create Hybrid Programs

The Four Main Op

Waterfront Marina Space with Commercial and Entertainment Program

Water Engaged Landscape Park

pen Public Space

Wet Land Park with Water Treatment and Research Testing Space

Open Plaza with Space for Cultural Program

12 Building Islam

Analysis of Cordoba Cathedral-Mosque’s Evolution History & Theory Supervisor: Mohamad Ziad Jamaleddine 2016 Fall Collaborator: Zahid Nawaz Ajam

The cathedral mosque of Cordoba, built as Creswell describes, from a period of 784 AD till the 16th century is regarded as one of the “most marvelous building in the world” as a result of it expansion, political history and context. The Cordoba mosque was built by the Umayyad dynasty during a period of strife in the Islamic world when the Umayyad were exiled to Spain. Thus a new mosque was built and seen as an attempt to legitimize the Umayyad dynasty as the rightly guided caliphs. Furthermore the Umayyad attempted to strengthen their position by using the mosque as a repository of Muslim relics such as the bloodied leaves of the caliph Uthman’s mushaf as well as building it to architecturally emulate the prophet’s mosque in medina. Can the mosque be called completely Islamic? Or is it a mosque with outside influences. Or is can it be called a church with Muslim influences. Its identity, unlike most religious buildings remains muddled up within the context of its rulers as well as the conquered inhabitants of Cordoba.

5 stages evolution of Cordoba Mosque-Cathedral

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