PORTFOLIO ARCHITECTURE
DESIGN
YILAN ZHAO B.ENVS.UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE
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EDUCATION 2016 - 2018 UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE BACHELOR OF ENVIRONMENT MAJOR IN ARCHITECTURE 2015 - 2016 UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES FOUNDATION IN DESIGN STREAM 2012 - 2015 SHIJIAZHUANG NO.1 HIGH SCHOOL
WORK 2017 DECEMBER - JANUARY HEBEI ARCHITECTURE DESIGN INSTITUTE, SHIJIAZHUANG, HEBEI, CHINA FULL-TIME INTERNSHIP
YILAN ZHAO E: yilanzhao12@gmail.com P: +61 452183737
COMPETITIONS 2018 Shelter International Architectural Design Competition for Student, ' HOME FOR ALL ', Shelter, Japan
Ins: yilanzhao12 FB: Yilan Zhao Yilan Zhao was born in 1996. With the background study of science in high school, in China. She decided to start her overseas study in University of New South Wales. 1 year of Design Foundation study in UNSW introduced her a world created by geometries and colors. Later, 3 years of study in the bachelor of environment, major in architecture, at the University of Melbourne, has contributed to her passion for architecture. Through the bachelor study, she found that architecture is a complex of art and science, nature and humanity, rationality and sensibility. These characters attract her to keep exploring architecture in the future. She believes that the way we build is a reflection of the way we live. She interests in how people living in our society and how architecture influences on it. She supposes her future lies in community architecture which emphasizes the involvement of local people in the social and physical development of the environment in which they live. She is hoping to improve herself in the next level of study and to be ready for the new challenges in the future career.
SKILL Rhino / AutoCAD
Advanced
Indesign / Photoshop
Advanced
Vray / Illustrator
Intermediate
Grasshopper
Intermediate
Model Making
Advanced
LANGUAGE MANDARIN (native language) ENGLISH GERMAN
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Going to Heaven! Emily Dickinson I don’t know when Pray do not ask me how! Indeed I’m too astonished To think of answering you! Going to Heaven! How dim it sounds! And yet it will be done As sure as ocks go home at night Unto the Shepherd’s arm! Perhaps you’re going too! Who knows? If you should get there rst Save just a little space for me Close to the two I lost The smallest “Robe” will t me And just a bit of “Crown” For you know we do not mind our dress When we are going home I’m glad I don’t believe it For it would stop my breath And I’d like to look a little more At such a curious Earth! I’m glad they did believe it Whom I have never found Since the mighty Autumn afternoon I left them in the ground.
Function: memorial
T h e a r c h i t e c t u re p r o v i d e s u n ce r t a i n a n d confused feeling, in order to create an atmosphere between reality and fantasy as the feeling mentioned in the poem. This space closes the distance between you and the one you missing. The concrete massings identify the spaces, moreover, they represent the solemn and seriousness. The grid frame represents the breaker as the reality. The cooperation between massing and frame leads visitors to travel between reality and fantasy.
SITE ANALYSIS
CONCEPT
the SPECIFIC SITE The site I chose is located on the south corner of Herring Island, facing to the Alexandra Ave, main Yarra, and the Punt Dock. It has a quieter acoustics condition with less city noise and beautiful birds sound. The plants as natural s he l te r p ro vid e t h e se n se of ambiguous between architecture and site.
KEEPING SECRETE
ABOVE
BETWEEN
BELOW
CONCEPTUAL PLAN
CONCEPTUAL SKETCH
-STUDIO EARTH2017 / Semester 1/ Individual project
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This is a project for proposing relationships between the ground surface, below ground, and above ground. The site for this project is Herring Island, in Yarra River, South Yarra. As the very first design studio in the Bachelor degree, this project requires to make a composition using the research results from the three 2-week exercises and engage with architectural issues: in this case, those of secrete.
MASS
VOLUMES
FRAME
COMBINED
MOVEMENT
EX PER I EN CE
SITE PLAN
DETAIL: ENTRANCE
DETAIL: ROOF
ROOF PLAN
DETAIL: ELEVATION
MODEL MAKING
FLOOR PLAN
DETAIL INTERACTION
EAST ELEVATION
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STUDLEY PARK BOATHOUSE
-STUDIO WATER2017 / Semester 2/Individual project
Studying from Portugal architect Alvaro Siza's design philosophy. The project requires to design a boathouse and to replace the existing one nearby Yarra River in the Studley Park. It utilized and exploded Siza’s schemes of conceptual balance, ow, units to the whole, frame view and the experience ow.
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D ES I GN P RO CE S S
SITE ANALYSIS
FORM GENERATION
VEGETATION
PATH
INCLUSIVE / EXCLUSIVE
LIGHT CONTROL
WATER / FIELD
EXISTING CONSTRUCTION
CIRCULATION CUT & FILL EXPERIMENT
SITE CONTEXT MAP
T h e r e c o n c i li a t i o n w it h la n d s c ap e i s b a s e d o n the site choice which is flatter and vegetation su rrou nd e d. Th e de sign triesd to reduce the damage to the site on both plants and landform. The tall gum trees were regarded as the barrier to hide the architecture. Therefore, the site condition relieved the contrast between concrete mass and natural surrounding. This project attempted to integrate the existing path and context to maximize the efficiency of complex functions and to respond to the site.
VIEW FRAMING
Basing on the function, the program was designed as a transition from public to private space, and seperated into three blocks: boathouse, cafe, and restaurant. The form refered to the basic geometry to carve into the sculptural shape. The various arrangement of skin provides different experience through the journey of the building. Three blocks encircled the site to create the main gathering plaza which facing to the river. Instead of the wield bush area, the plaza provided users a more formal and isolated environment. restaurant
cafe
boathouse CIRCULATION
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Growing from the site Units to whole Flowing plan View connection Sculptural architecture
D ES I GN C ON C E PT
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MAIN ENTRANCE WEST
BOATHOUSE LEVEL 1
COURTYARD
CAFE ENTRANCE
JOURNEY OF RAMP
EX PER I EN CE
The purely white plaster facade with the temperate design of openings lets architecture be an elegant artwork hiding in the forest.
RESTAURANT
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Our - ASIS -STUDIO AIR2018 / Semester 1 /Group work project Group Members:
Yilan Zhao (concept development, digital design, visualization, fabrication) 50% Sandy Kwok (concept development, digital design, visualization, fabrication) 50%
Studio Air exploded the theoretical transition in architecture design. It supported the method of design that utilizes the parametric language to generate the options in the design process. With the topic of the Animal-Enlighten, we were required to design any kind of project basing on the animal we got. After the number of researches about the feral pig, the method to control the pest inspired us to design this moveable, exible infrastructure - Our-ASIS.
D ES I GN P HILO SO P HY
Inspiration: Flexibility of trapping feral pig
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Function: Bookcrossing
4-Element Adjustment: vectors that reform the outcoming order to communicate with site.
Architecture as Furniture: moveable infrastructure
EV O LU TIO N
SITE ANALYSIS
The site is nearby the Rashell Tr ain St ati o n. I t h a s obvi ou s distinguishm ent of land use. Nearby the river, it still keeps the natural and wild condition. The spot we chose is isolated from th e ur ban e n vi ron me n t and surrounded by bush area. And human states at the site such as cycling and reading nearby water body happen during the daytime. Therefore, we aimed to maintain the site condition without any damage to create a climate-response and humandriven project.
MACRO
AUSTRALIA
MESO
MERRI CREEK
MICRO
SITE SPOT
SITE SPOT
Morphometry refers to the quantitative analysis of form, a concept that encompasses size and shape. Morphometric analyses are commonly performed on the developmental changes in form. We aimed to inverse this analysis formula starting from the data (superimposition) to vector the formnding computation.
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DATA COMPOSITION
POINT ARTICULATION
VECTOR DISPLACEMENT
LINEAR JUXTAPOSITION
ISOSURFACING
GROWING
EXAGGERATION
OPTIMIZATION DESIGN IN MOVEMENT 1_SETTIN G
a field of growth poin ts and
oppressors from the previous analysis. 2_GROWING a rec ursive branching to morphometrically analyze the form structure. 3_ISOSURFACING the vectors are analyzed based on the distance of from an oppressor, thicke ning the growth creating pools of thickened volumes, and strings that support the large areas, resulting in intensities of smooth volumes and string geometry.
ITERATIONS SELECTION CRITERIA Linear: the mean ux of the form, is it changing naturally and smoothly? Is there reasonable circulation? Relationship: the relationship between each point is the basis of form- nding. Volume: is there any positive or negative value? What is the organization of these volumes? Is their form diverse?
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SMOOTHING
ARCHITECTURAL DRAWING
3D-PRINT PROTOTYPE
3D printing provides a high quality of physical communication. It creates nice detailing and solve the complex form in the realization.
INFLATION
PLAN 1: 100
To humanize the project, it requires to be detachable and easy-moveable. We decided to use the inflation method in order to reduce the weight, but keep the plasticity. The generous volume and low cost of ‘pneumatic living’ easily epitomized the ideal of total comfort for all. Before this, the taut skin and the ‘stickiness’ of the PVC material meant an unrelaxed form. Pneumatic comfort was an apt simulation to impose a monumental presence to the intimacy of the user or experience.
SECTION 1: 100
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RHYTHM OF UNI HIGH
SITE ANALYSIS
-STUDIO FIRE2018 / Semester 2 / Individual project
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Studio Fire is the final year studio. The brief was to design new facilities for University High School, which is located at the edge of the CBD surrounded by the healthy center, University, and heritage residential house. 14
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RECIDENTIAL HOUSE UNIVERSITY HEALTHY CENTRE
AERIAL VIEW
SITE ANALYSIS
FOLD & COMPRESS
EXTRUSION
TRANSITION
VOID (ATRIUM)
RHYTHM SITE PLAN
SCALE 1:500
FORM GENERATION
CONCEPTUAL AGENDA This design intents to create an environment to provide energy by stimulation to the students. The school is like an organism who has its own ‘biorhythm’, which
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is the schedule (timetable) in the school. These schedules manipulate people’s daily activities. These people are like cells in the organism, the movement of them create a life for the school. And school provides ‘nutrition’ or ‘energy’ to the cells. The connection between them is the flow of the school ---- the blood vessel. B
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GROUND FLOOR PLAN SCALE 1:200
PERSPECTIVE SOUTH EAST
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1 HEART 1. MULTI-PURPOSE COMMUNITY ROOM 2. PERFORMANCE STUDIO 3. LIBRARY 4. ATRIUM 5. OUTDOOR FOCUS 6. TOLIET 7. STADIUM 8. STORAGE 9. OFFICE 10. NURSES OFFICE 11. LEARNING COMMUNITY 12. CONSULTATION ROOMS 13. CHANGING ROOM 14. GYM & AEROBICS FITNESS STUDIO 15. ROOF GARDEN 16. SENIOR COMMON ROOM 17. ATRIUM 18. FIRE STAIR 19. LIFT 20. STAFF OFFICE 21. HEADMASTER OFFICE 22. RECEPTION
t he At r iu m a t c e n t re t o c re a t e o p e n a n d e a s y communication space
2 NEIGHBOURHOOD 2 m ai n n e i g hb ou rh oo ds of education to provide exible learning style
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4 BLOCKS FIRST FLOOR PLAN
4 blocks of formal study areas on each level, providing different sizes of learning space
SCALE 1:200
5+ SCALES various scales of learning space to satisfy different need of activities for students
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SECOND FLOOR PLAN SCALE 1:200
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THIRD FLOOR PLAN
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SCALE 1:200
SENIOR COMMEN ROOM
LEVEL 2 WEST WING
LEVEL 3 CORRIDOR
CLASSROOM
DANCING ROOM
STADIUM
EXPERIENCE The architecture used timber to create a soft atmosphere. The LEVEL 1 COMMUNICATION SPACE
‘Blood-Vessel’ was twining through the building around the circulation area, which contrasted with the soft and peaceful learning spaces. The ‘Blood-Vessel’ is designed into bright color, in order to identify the owing and active spaces in the building and stimulates students to observe more energy and be vivid to the
VERTICAL CIRCULATION HORIZONTAL CIRCULATION
NORTH WEST PERSPECTIVE AT NIGHT
ATRIUM
school life.
NORTH EAST PERSPECTIVE AT NIGHT
DETAIL SECTION 1:50
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OTHER WORK
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-DESIGN ENVIRONMENT2016 / Semester 2 / Individual Work 01: nal project model making 02: model making of conceptual design practices JOURNAL LINK: https://issuu.com/home/published/t227-yilan_zhao-folio
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-DDF (digital design & fabrication)2017 / Semester 1 / 3-People Group Work (35%) 03: wearable design to de ne personal space JOURNAL LINK: https://issuu.com/home/published/module_4-yilan_zhao-798593
-CONSTRUCTION DESIGN04
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2018 / Semester 2 / Individual Work 04: isometric construction drawing and physical model making
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-STUDIO EARTH2017 / Semester 1 / Individual Work 05: model making 06: drawing of massing
2016 / Semester 2 / Individual Work 07: conceptual collage: METROPLIS
2018 / Semester 2 / 2-People Group Work (50%) 09: Parametric Design Practice Work JOURNAL LINK: https://issuu.com/home/published/zhao_yilan_798593_ naljournal_2
JOURNAL LINK: https://issuu.com/home/published/earth_book_v4
-STUDIO FIRE2018 / Semester 2 / Individual Work 08: conceptual collage: ZEAL
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