Yuyang Zhang Portfolio
AAP College of Architecture, Art and Planning Cornell University
Fall 2017 Second Year Studio
Table of Contents 2017-2019
Duet
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Redefining the Void
12-19
Night Corner
20-25
Dwelling
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Duet | A Music Hall Spring 2018 | Professor Katharina Kral Yuyang Zhang
Located between the Ithaca Commons and Green Street, the concert hall situates itself respectfully amongst the existing urban context of Ithaca, New York. The concert hall, named Duet, emulates the duality expressed by the down-to-earth Ithaca commons and the hierarchy produced by the commercialization along Green Street. The structure, thus, follows a natural axis established by the surrounding context to generate an adaptive form that reads with the shearing of the buildings but also firm in its dominant statement. The auditorium, enclosed within the overhang, gently soars over the parking garage, amplifying the hierarchy created in contrast with its more urbanely intimate counterpart.
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Representation of concert hall with organic materiality of wood and rockite.
Commons
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Green Street
The concert hall produces a duality that speaks to the contrast between the Commons and Green Street. | Scale: 1/64� = 1’
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Ground floor plan. | Scale: 1/32”
Second floor plan. | Scale: 1/32” = 1’
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Third floor plan. | Scale: 1/32” = 1’
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Section I | Scale: 1/16� = 1’
Perspective section demonstrating materialistic qualities of textured concrete that caters to the directionality concept of the concert hall.
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Redefining the Void | An Urban Project Fall 2018 | Professor Giorgio Martocchia Yuyang Zhang
Located immediately before the Ponte Vittorio Emmanuele II in Rome, Italy, my chosen site is irregular in its geometry, dominated by prominent road networks as well as a variation of historical architecture. The site is a placeholder to a major public transit stop, an axially dominant facade designed by Michelangelo, and many ruins that were left from the eradication of old buildings for the construction of the corso. The site is congested in terms of its circulation. Not only are the ruins present within the site undefined, the balance between vehicular and pedestrian circuation is also unclear. Thus, the intervention serves as a layering project that engages the topography, the ruins, and the circulative networks of the site, allowing for the creation of an outdoor itinerary of exhibition and city perception.
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The layering of the structure mimics the tension generated by the site conditions.
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The intervention reads with the axiality and preserves the primary perceptive axis that leads to the church facade within the void. | Scale: 1:2500
Below Ground Floor. | Scale: 1:900 14
Ground Floor. | Scale: 1:900
First Level. | Scale: 1:900 15
Second Level. | Scale: 1:900
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Night Corner | A Smithfield Market Project Fall 2019 | Professor Kevin Carmody, Andy Groarke, Rodolfo Dias Yuyang Zhang
The project takes opportunity of the “gap” located Northwest of London’s Smithfield Market as a poignant moment in the city for a route through from market to railway and new destinational building. The architectural idea acknowledges the historic rupture of the architecture in the order of Charterhouse Street that the subterranean railway causes and proposes an improbable corner bar within the middle of the streetscape inspired by Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks painting. The corner bar serves as a beacon of light that leads people through the gap , creating a magnetic force that also highlights the historic ruin of the market conctext. The project then creates a connection between an interior and London, and London to an exterior. The project is three levels formulated by the shearing of two primary volumes: one siutated on the site, the other situated on soil. Programs include bar, restaurant, office spaces, and a civic walkway.
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Farringdon Station
Charterhouse Street
Smithfield Market 21
Aerial plan of the site model with intervention (Wood) showing tension between two volumes that act as extensions of the adjacent facades.
Plan cut through rail level showing stair and arches. 22
Ground floor plan illustrating tectonic rupture through space.
Office floor plan that situates above the atrium space. 23
Section illustrating tectonic rupture through the convergence of the two volumes.
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A typical, “typsy� experience at The Eagle (Gastropub in London). Photograph of a 1:10 scale model that shows the visceral qualities of the materials and the idea of connecting an interior to London, and vice versa.
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A perspective showing the corner bar that acts as a beacon of light at night, leading people into the “gap.� Photograph of a 1:10 scale model that shows the distortion of architectural typology through stolidity and transparency.
Dwelling
Fall 2017 | Professor Ruben Alcolea Yuyang Zhang
A dwelling project is designed for a particular, innovated client in the Willard Way site neighboring Cornell University. The character should be involved in the occupations around the following: philosopher, sculptor, botanist, etc. The dwelling should accommodate his or her taste, preferences, character, stature, and/or external characters of relation. The programs of the new dwelling should include a living space, a work/studio space, and any other necessities that may emulate qualities of the chosen character. Along with the dwelling, the previous developments of the watch station and sauna could be added or adapted, formulating a unison of all the projects. For the directionality of this project, a forgerer/ restorer in the sense of painting is chosen as the character along with the concepts of view frames and fragmentation.
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Following the contours of the cliff, each pavilian sits firmly in its orientation. | Scale: 1/32�
Elevation of all pavilions looking South from opposing cliff edge | From Left to Right: Living, Sauna/Bath, Studio, Research. | Scale: 1/16”
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Living Space | Section cut facing West. | Scale: 3/64” Studio Space | Section cut facing West. | Scale: 3/64”
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Studio and Research Space | Section cut facing South. | Scale: 3/64”
Research Space | Section cut facing West. | Scale: 3/64”
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