Zhang Xiaoyu Portfolio by Xiaoyu Zhang

P O R T F O L I O XIAOYU ZHANG [2013-2017]

SELECTED WORKS

XIAOYU ZHANG xzhan158@hawk.iit.edu zhangxiaoyu47@gmail.com +1 (312)478-4311

EDUCATION ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY Bachelor of Architecture - Professional Degree 08/2013 - 12/2017

SKILLS SketchUp Rhinoceros 5.0 Adobe Illustrator Adobe PhotoShop Adobe InDesign Adobe Premiere Pro AutoCAD iMovie Microsoft Office Freehand Drawing Photography Creative Writing Basic Crafting Tools PC&Mac

PROFILE

EXPERIENCE

Received Bachelor’s Degree in Architecture in December 2017. Love to challenge myself to think about people’s spacial experience in the process of design. Have strong interests in visual merchandizing, installation and display, adaptive reuse architecture and design, design of micro residential space, stage design and more.

LOCATION - Shanghai, China - Chicago, IL, USA

- ARCHITECTURAL INTERNSHIP Responsible for 3D Modeling using SketchUp @Tongji Architectural Design (Group) Co., Ltd. 07/2014 - 08/2014

- LAYOUT EDITOR

LANGUAGES Chinese English

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Responsible for TechNews Layout Edit using InDesign

Native Speaker Fluent talk+write

@Illinois Institute of Technology 09/2014 - 05/2016

- STAGE DESIGNER AND CHIEF CARPENTER Designing sets for <Rhinoceros in Love> with Windmill Drama @University of Chicago 08/2017 - 11/2017

VOLUNTEERS:

- REGISTRATION FOR OPEN HOUSE CHICAGO Welcoming and guiding tourists @Spertus Institute for Jewish Learning and Leadership @Chicago Symphony Center 10/2014 - TOUR FOR CHICAGO ARCHITECTURE BIENNIAL Showing the tourists the use of a installation @Chicago Culture Center 09/2015 - INSTALLATION FOR CHICAGO ARCHITECTURE BIENNIAL Working on Productora's model fabrication @Chicago Culture Center 08/2017 - 11/2017 - INSTALLATION FOR GALLERY GUICHARD Installing fences for The Great Migration Garden Fence designed by Student Jiaming Sun, Graduate Student in Landscape and Architecture

@Gallery Guichard 08/2017 - 09/2017

SIMPLY MIES

05 CONTENTS

OTHER PROJECTS

TURN CENTER

01 MONTESSORI SCHOOL

04 INNOVATION HUB

MONTESSORI SCHOOL

Spring 2016, 3rd Year Studio Site: W Randolph St, Fulton Market, Chicago, IL Instructor: Martin Klaeschen Individual Work

A very special school project came to me in the third year of studying architecture. What is a Montesorri School? What does it mean and why it’s different from the normal schools? It is confusing to me, and it’s hard to see the answers to the questions through the whole time. Is it more about giving the kids more freedom during school time? Is it about sharing space? Or after all is it really so special that parents would like to send their kids to a Montesorri School? I can’t say I already have all the answers, but it was a very interesting project to think about.

SITE ANALYSIS

MONTESORRI ANALYSIS

Skylight (3rd, 4th fl)

Elevator Fire Stairs

Stairs

* Close-Up Classrooms Plan, Two Classroom Sharing Kitchen in Between

Union Park The Choice inside of given site

CTA Train (Elevated Platform)

West Randolph Street

As one of the newest commercial activated main streets in the area of Fulton Market, it gives many options and opportunities to the site.

* Process of Building Up

* View to an individual classroom for giving different classes, Protential of combine two for study time

Forth Floor Third Floor Second Floor Ground Floor

Main Vertical Circulation

Elevator + Fire Safe Staircases

Glass Roof + Solar Panels Below Ground

The angled glass roof is two directional, not only to prevent direct light goes right into the space of library below it, but also provide an oppotunity to install solar panels on several spot to gain some natural energy. Two-Level Glass Facade

Library (Private to School)

Skylight

Classrooms, Kitchen+Restroom

Kitchen and Cafe

The library contains different levels of seating area, with free access to thousands of books, kids can read as much as they want in any position.

Two-Level Bookshelf

School Private Use

Basketball Field and Seatings

Office and Meeting Room

Two Level Bookshelf

Classrooms There are seven classrooms in two different sizes, the classrooms are surrounded by the bookshelves that can also be used to place decoration things, extra space in between the bookshelves and exterior facade are meant for kids to have some kind of playground in controlled environment.

Public Access

Library

Dancing Studio and Changing Room

Lobby

The ground level of the school has two space that are also for general public to use while kids are not present on site, including a kitchen/learning space, and a basketball field.

CLASSROOM 7

DANCING STUDIO KITCHEN/ LEARNING

CLASSROOM 6

CLASSROOM 5

CLASSROOM 4

CHANGING ROOM

BASKETBALL / GYM

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CAFETERIA

LOBBY CLASSROOM 1

30 ft apart columns

CLASSROOM 2

WEATHER CONTROLLED PLAYGROUND

* Ground Floor Plan

* Third Floor Plan

MEETING OFFICE

OPEN TO BELOW OPEN TO BELOW

ART DISPLAY

* Second Floor Plan

LIBRARY

* Forth Floor Plan

CLASSROOM 3

TURN CENTER Spring 2017, 4th Year Studio Site: E 47th St, Chicago, IL Client: Bright Star Church Instructor: Eva Kultermann Teammate: Juan Azuero

With a client, Pastor Harris, in this semester we worked in group of two tried to design a community center for the Bright Star Church in the area of Bronzeville, Chicago. The community center includes an assembly space for people from any religion to worship, as well as classrooms for the after school programs that the church provide, some office space for the church staff and store space for future business use.

CONFERENCE ROOM

ASSEMBLYâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S KITCHEN

SECTION B-B

BAPTISM ROOM

ASSEMBLY EXTENSION

* Model View from Northeast Corner, looking at main entrance

* Model View from East, looking at the Business Wing

* 3D View from Northeast Corner, looking at main entrance, Night

* Model View from Northwest Corner, looking at Education Wing

* 3D Interior View, inside of Education Wing, structure of truss bridge

* 3D Interior View, inside of Assembly space, structure of Glulam

SIMPLY MIES Fall 2016, 4th Year Studio Site: Normal Size Chicago Lot Instructor: Arthur Takeuchi Individual Work

The Space Problem, the project left by Mies, became one of my problem during the forth year of college. In this Project I was suppose to figure out where exactly to place anything that I was about to place inside certain grid. I chose to do 21 ft by 21 ft bay, and then I was suggested to try out the 3.5 ft grid by the professor, which made my project a bit trickier than my classmates. At the mean time, The most important part of the project was to design the display of art works, since we need to assume what does the home owner do for lviing and imaging their daily needs.

INNOVATION HUB

Spring 2016, 3rd Year Studio Site: The Gateway Area, Chicago, IL Instructor: Christopher Groesbeck Monika Thadhani Teammate: Juan Azuero, Arian Garcia

The propsed site is known as “The Gateway“, a 27 acre property that would connect the South Loop to Burnham Park and the larger regional developments at McCormick Place. The project was to test an approach of a metropolis as a network of “thresholds”, and in order to archieve that, we bravely decided to try to fill the whole site with a Mega-Structure that provides space for any innovational projects, along with it would be 12 residential tower to meet the needs of living on site.

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Site Location: Chicago, IL, U.S.A.

General Info: The City of Chicago is the third-most populous city in the United States, has over 2.7 million residents, it is also the most populous city in both the state of Illinois and the Midwestern United States. Chicago has often been called a global architecture capital and is considered one of the most important business centers in the world. Positioned along Lake Michigan, the city is an international hub for finance, commerce, industry, technology, telecommunications, and transportation; the region has the largest number of U.S. highways and railroad freight, one of the transportation hub is right by the site in the heart of the Near South Side - the Central Station Area. Interestingly it became one of the barriers on the site.

Context of Site: Near South Side.

General Info: The portion of the Near South Side located near Lake Shore Drive contains some of the most well-known structures in Chicago: Soldier Field, the home of the National Football League Chicago Bears; McCormick Place, Chicago's primary convention center; the Museum Campus, which contains the Field Museum, the Shedd Aquarium, and the Adler Planetarium; and Northerly Island. Our site is actually surrounded by all these features, which provides great opportunity for us to work on it, as well as the challenge of connecting all the feathers back into the site.

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36 Yr old - Median age men

36 Yr old - Median age women

13,310 men

14,030 women

15,498 people per square mile

Renters 52%

2,090,000 sq. ft. 0.075 sq. miles â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Site Area

Households 48%

The Map of Public Transportation, and Pedestrian Biking Routes

Near South Side Population

111 Towers – 1,020,000 People/sq. mile

Museum Park Tower 4 15,000 sq ft. Building Footprint – 38 floors/276 Units 2.5 People/Unit 1313 N Ritchie Ct. – 240 ft high 25 floors,+/- 8 Units-per-floor – 200 Units 2.5 People/Unit – 500 People 151 Parking Spaces

21 Gold Coast City Blocks 98,900 sq ft each

280,000 People/sq. mile

139,000 People/sq. mile

1300 N Lake Shore Dr. – 404 ft high 40 ﬂoors,+/- 6 Units-per-ﬂoor – 240 Units 2.5 People/Unit – 600 People 1100 People Total

Malls 50 - 100 sq ft./Person – 200,000 sq ft. Average Mall 2,000 People/Mall – 10.5 Malls Site

3 Flats 1,500 sq ft. Building Footprint – 3 Units 2.5 people per unit

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* Program insert into a Mega-Structure

Finding Mega Structure + Adjustments

Finding Voids - For Existing Views

Apply Structure Grid - 60’ * 60’

McCormick Grid - The Rotation

Chicago Grid The Rigid

COMMON SHARED SPACE TWO LEVELS

COMMON SHARED SPACE THREE LEVELS

COMMON SHARED SPACE TWO LEVELS – SHIFTED TO CORNER

COMMON SHARED SPACE THREE LEVELS – ELONGATED & RECEDING

COMMON SHARED SPACE THREE LEVELS – STAGGERED

COMMON SHARED SPACE THREE LEVELS – SHIFTED TO CORNER

850,000 sq. ft. Megastructure 30 ft. PER PEOPLE

* Render looking from Soldier Field

~28,300 PEOPLE

600’ BUILDING HEIGHT – 280 RESIDENTIAL UNITS x7 TOWERS – 1,960 RESIDENTIAL UNITS 300’ BULDING HEIGHT – 140 RESIDENTIAL UNITS x5 TOWERS – 700 RESIDENTIAL UNITS 2,660 RESIDENTIAL UNITS IN TOTAL x2.5 PEOPLE PER UNIT 6,650 PEOPLE RESIDENTIAL DENSITY * Render looking at Protential Interior

PHOTOGRAPHY & DRAWINGS

* Window in the Shadow, Wicker Park, Chicago, IL - Photography

* Traveling Around - Photography

* Facade Restoration Worker, Wicker Park, Chicago, IL - Photography

* Stairware Sculpture, Art Institute of Chicago - Pencil

* 10 Minutes Sketch Practice, Pritzker Pavilion - Pencil * Still Life - Pencil

* Chasing the Sunset, CTA “L“ Track Green Line, Chicago, IL - Watercolor

* Photoshop Practice for Design Communication III - Group Work

SET DESIGN

* Film Set Working in progress, SAIC film studio

FILM SET

* Solar System Finished View in the student movie <Trinity> by Yurong Yang

FILM PROP

* Props and Set Design in the movie <The Room> by Yunqing Bai

* Process and Mock-ups, photo on campus; Process of Installation. photo on site; Project designed by Jiaming Sun, Graduate Student in Landscape

INSTALLATION

* Finished View of the Fence Installation, photo on site, credit to Jiaming Sun

THANK YOU!