Portfolio of ZHOU Yifan Selected Works 2012-2016 B.ARCH, ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY, CHINA
Curriculum Vitae | Zhou Yifan Personal Details Date of Birth: Address: Email: Tel:
March 22, 1994 Room 409, Yueya Building, Zijingang campus of Zhejiang University, Xihu District, Hangzhou,Zhejiang, 310058, People’s Republic of China zhouyifan_zju@foxmail.com hellozhouyifan@gmail.com +8618868100881
Education Background 2012.09-Current
Undergraduate Student (expected) (Ranked Number 1 in 82 students enrolled in 2012 till now) College of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Zhejiang University Major: Architecture Design - Bachelor of Architecture(Expected) GPA: 4.34 / 5.00
2014.09-2014.12
Exchange Student Singapore University of Technology and Design Received Credits in Studio, Introduction to Computation Design and BIM Completed iProject with honor
Honors 2012-2016 2015 2015 2014 2014 2013 2013 2012
Ranked Number 1st in 82 students enrolled in 2012 Second-Class Academic Scholarship in Zhejiang University Second-Class Outstanding Merits Scholarship of Zhejiang University First-Class Academic Scholarship of Zhejiang University First-Class Outstanding Merits Scholarship of Zhejiang University First-Class Academic Scholarship of Zhejiang University First-Class Outstanding Merits Scholarship of Zhejiang University Second-Class Scholarship of CASC
Research and Activities 2015.07-2015.08
Visiting Fellow(Student) Singapore University of Technology and Design (Only student elected from 45 exchange students that visit SUTD in 2014 )
2015.09-2015.11
Teaching material compilation from GDL to grasshopper Digital Design Studio in Zhejiang University
2016.02 (seven days)
Visiting Student Chinese University of Hong Kong
2015.09-2016.06
Teaching Assistant Chinese Academy of Art (Parametric design teaching assistant in graduation design studio)
2016.05(3 days)
Participation in the workshop about Gated VS. Open Joined Workshop by Bauhaus and ZJU
Exhibition 2016.05
CloudScape, Chinese Academy of Art Graduation Exhibition Ceremony Pavilion Chinese Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China
2016.01-03
Umbrella Reinvention, Pavilion Design Trans-Design, Exhibited in West Bund Art Center, Shanghai, China
2015.11
Architecture Photography Exhibition Yueya Building, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
Internship 2015.01-2015.03
Studio Qi Worked as architect assistant intern Provided group team with parametric support. Involved in a design competition for a Chicago Kiosk, building facade design and a urban plan proposal, as well as doing several rendering, diagrams and physical models.
2015.07-2015.08
Architecture Design & Research Institute of Zhejiang University Worked as architect assistant intern Involved in facade design for a hotel in Anji, Hangzhou. Developed grasshopper tools for the team.
Software Modeling
Rhinoceros, Revit, SketchUp, AutoCAD
2DGraphics
Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign
Rendering
Vray for 3ds Max, Rhino, SketchUp & Lumion
Parametric
Grasshopper, Dynamo, C# coding
Other
3D Scan, 3D Print, Hand Drawing, Physical Model
Language English
Fluent
Chinese
Native
Association 2012
Member, Student Union of College of Civil Engineering and Architecture
2013-2015
Member, Architecture Association of Zhejiang University
2016
Member, Wuzhiqiao Association of Zhejiang University
Struggle in Renovation
Umbrella reinvention installation exhibited in Shanghai & Hangzhou
Throughout the history of human kind, the frontiers always try their every effort to explore the boundaries of possibilities, which is the main reason, I think, that people’s life become better and better. As an architect, I believe in the possibilities of renovations in all fields of architecture. No matter a change in form, or a tiny alter in program redevelopment, or an innovation that made to architecture become eco-friendly, renovations are the forces that drive us forward in human history. But also, the change and the innovation should be deeply concerned with the existing situations, including context, environment, customs, current building techniques, etc. Any innovations that overlook the existing background might be a disaster. This portfolio records my efforts to make a change in architecture design. And I wish that through my efforts to make renovations, I could make a change, for a better place.
Content
01 Umbrella Reinvention Pavilion Design 02 City Vortex Urban Culture Complex 03 Knowledge Space Design Digital Design Studio 04 FieldLogue Interactive Installation 05 Structure the Space Tensegrity Structure Exploration 06 In-Between Young Bird Plan Competition 2015 07 Cloudscape CAA Graduation Pavilion 08 Other Works & Photography
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Umbrella Reinvention Pavilion Design
Exhibited in West Bund Art Center, Shanghai, China Property: Group Project led by Prof. Huang Mingjian Contribution: Parametric Solution, Structure Analysis, Diagram,Video Location: Hangzhou & Shanghai Date: 2015.09-2015.11 Instructor: Huang Mingjian
Traditional hand-make umbrella has its unique history value and folk wisdom. And I am especially amazed by the dynamic spacial transition when you open the umbrella. In this design, through digital tools, we want to realize that kind of feeling of transition into our design. We first focused on the module, and then we develop this module into a dynamic system, which provide people with a dynamic poetic space.
Umbrella Reinvention Project Architect: Huang Mingjian Type: Installation / Teamwork Role: Digital Solution Provider (Structual Analysis & C# Scripting in Grasshopper) Location: Design Library, Hangzhou Project Duration: 2015.10-2015.11
Inspirations
《货郎图》 明代
《地官图》 北宋
《回鹘王子供养像》 金代
《出行图》 汉代
Umbrella has been a long time used as a space for covering in Chinese history. We can find a lot of scenes in painting that record the way people relax under the umbrella. Umbrella played a very big role in people's life. While in nowadays, we still see some fantastic umbrella design, but somehow, these design loses its traditional identity or being too sticky to the tradition form, which leading to boring repetition. In this project, we want to add something interesting into traditional umbrella design. And we found that the spatial transition when you open the umbrella is a really dynamic and fluid feeling, which we wish we could add into our new design.
Exhibited in Shanghai West Bund Art Center, during Jan 2016 to March 2016
Exhibited in Chinese Folk Museum in Hangzhou
02
City Vortex
Urban Culture Complex
Property: Group Academic Work Role: Team Leader Contribution: Concept 60%, Model 75%, Rendering 80%, Diagram 20% Collaborator: QI Yue, SU Siwei Location: Hangzhou Date: 2015.06-2015.07 Instructor: Prof. WANG Lei
This is a design which we especially focus on the relationship between city and architecture. This is a urban culture complex, which we wish it could simulate a city vortex that could involve more people with cultural related activities. As for the design generation, we adopt digital tools to simulate the city field, after which we apply it to the architecture design as well.
Shading Eleme
Flow without Obstruct
Building Boundary
City Field
Mullion and G
Blocked by Block
Building Volume
Field to Facade Third Floor
Second Floor
Interfered by City Texture
Landscape
Field to Block
Ground Floor
Building Generation
Overlay
Concept & Generation Process In this design, we try to utilize the existing urban context to drive the design. We figure out a generation process which we called city field. We ran the simulation of city with many conditions, with building blocks, landscape, and so on. Then, in terms of building formation, we want to represent the idea onto our design, and at the same time, we manually introduce a pass way through which pedestrian could get a short cut to our building. The third column of diagrams shows how the building is generated and evolve.
Field to Architecture
Shading
Shading Element
Horizontal Shading Ground Texture
Roof Glass Curtain Wall
Mullion and Glass
Third Floor
Sky Sidewalk
Office
Coffee Exhibition Workshop
Second Floor
Auction Hall Hall
Ground Floor Office Workshop Entrance to Underground
Exploded Diagram This diagram shows how the building program is integrated into the form.
Plan
Rendering
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Knowledge Space Design Digital Design Studio
Property: Individual Academic Work Location: Hangzhou Date: 2016.05-2016.06 Instructor: Prof. CHEN Lin
Nowadays, things have changed. Knowledge space no longer stands for library, but also space for various types of media. By emphasizing the movement and fluidity inside the building, I wish I could make abundant activities possible in this building, yielding jollification to surrounding area.
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Meeting Room 办公室 8.000 6.400
Office 办公室
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Office 办公室
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Basement Interlayer 1:200 地下室夹层 1:200
Meeting Room 办公室
Section A-A 1:200 A-A剖面 1:200
Storage 储藏
ME 设备
Temporory Storage 临时储藏
Underground Yard 下沉花园 -5.000
Storage 储藏
Office 办公室 -5.000
Staff lounge 员工休息 -5.000
Storage 储藏
Toilet 厕所
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Coffee & Beverage Shop 饮料店
Basement 1:200 地下室 1:200
Exterior View
Shop Storage 商店存储
Interior View
Physical Model
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FieldLogue
Interactive Installation
Property: Group Work Role: Team Leader Contribution: Concept 60%, Model 25%, Rendering 80%, Diagram 80% Collaborator: GAN Keyu, SHENG Xichen, ZHANG Fan Location: Hangzhou Date: 2015.08-2015.12 Instructor: Prof. WANG Hui
This is a design which we especially focus on the relationship between people and installation. By placing the interactive installation balloon on the path of Yueya building, we could offer a different experience when people walk through it. Also, the form of the installation is defined by the people's movement, which means it is a piece of art work that accomplished with audience.
AXONOMETRIC VIEW
This Project is located in the passage way of Yueya Building. BasicalAs can be seen from the a ly,it is about some moving balloons which have some interactive movement create a feel of a single with the passers-by. about the future possibil
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axonometric view and section view,the ball falls when a person goes by. With one passer-by, it can e wave. If there are more people, things will get more interesting and complex. And we also discuss lities of this design.
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MOVEMENT
INFRARED SENSOR
ARDUINO
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DRIVER BOARD
3.7V Battery MOTOR
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Arduino Nano
Driver Board VCC
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Control Console
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Structure the Space
Tensegrity Structure Exploration
Property: Group Work Role: Team Leader Contribution: Concept 100%, Digital Model 100%, Physical Model 25%, Diagram 100% Collaborator: CHEN Qi, QI Yue, LONG Minzi, ZHAO Yinyu Location: Hangzhou Date: 2015.08-2015.12 Instructor: Prof. QI Shanshan
Fascinated by tensegrity structure, I started exploration of tensegrity structure in this structure design course. Thanks to the structure feature of tensegrity structure, I could run the particle-spring c# code in grasshopper. By simulating, we finally reach the final design.
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In-Between
Young Bird Plan Competition 2015
Property: Group Work Role: Team Leader Contribution: Concept 50%, Digital Model 60%, Diagram 80%, Rendering 100% Collaborator: HU Mengying Location: Shekou, Shenzhen Date: 2015.08 Instructor: Prof. CHEN Fan
This is a design that concentrates on the spacial relationship between space and space. The idea first come from the fishing boat metaphor. Then through architectural methods, we finally reached our final design. Through this proposal, we wish people can feel that kind of in-between feeling in our design.
场地之间 | Site In-Between
时光之间 | History In-Between
形体之间 | Form In-Between
结构之间 | Structure In-Between
Concept & Generation Process We tried to seek some clue from history in this design. If we date back the history, Shenzhen used to be a village where people feed on fishing. In contrast, Shenzhen is a international city now. Under this circumstance, we expected a public building that could bring up the old memory of the fishing age. We took the fishing boats which usually could be seen before 1976 as a spacial prototype for research. After that, we made a translation into modern architecture. The boat becomes architecture. Sea turns into the walls and the columns. Corridors take the role of the We took fishing boats which usually We tried to seek some clueconnects from history in We hoped to achieve a spacial quality that could remind board which the boats. could be seen before 1976 as a spacial this design. If wepeople date back the history, of where we came from by using contemporary architecture method. prototype for research. After that, we made a Shenzhen used to beThe a village where people building to design is near the bay. So the strategy we adopted is to keep the sea translation into modern architecture. The could be seen from far away, feed on fishing. In contrast, Shenzhen is a thus making our design something between the sites. boat becomes architecure. Sea turns the ByUnder using a form of 1/2 loop plus 1/2 loop, the building itself together with into the platform international city now. this circumwalls and columns. Corridors take the role on first level provides cyclical spacial feeling. So the people in this site are alwaysof in bestance, we expected a public buildingathat the board which connects the boats. We tween something. could bring up the old memory of the fishing to achieve spacial qualityon that Having guaranteed the structure hoped feasibility, we had a some openings thecould structure age. remind This people came by a feelwalls, which lead to a blurry spacial definition. kindofofwhere blurry we effect alsofrom creates using contemporary architecture method. ing of in- between something.
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Physical Model
多功能展厅
Multi-function Exhibition Hall
艺术餐吧
Art Restaurant
咖啡书店
Coffee & Bookstore
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First Floor Plan
多功能展厅
Multi-function Exhibition Hall
多功能展厅
Multi-function exhibition hall
艺术餐吧
Art Restaurant
Second Floor Plan
A-A 剖面 1:200 Section A-A 1:200
Section
Detail
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CloudScape
CAA Graduation Pavilion
Property: Group Work Role: Parametric Solution Contribution: Digital Model, Structural Analysis Location: Hangzhou Date: 2016.05 Instructor: Prof. HUANG Mingjian
This project is Chinese Academic of Art graduation open ceremony pavilion. I am involved in the digital part, that is to have the correct digital model which later they could construct later. The design has several versions. Finally the client decide that the current design meet their meet. It is really a fantastic experience to see something built up during my undergraduate years. And it is more pleased to see CAA students really enjoy this pavilion.
Concept & Generation Process
On-Site Photo
Other Works | Residential Design Location: Hangzhou, China Date: Dec, 2014 Property: Individual Academic Work
Render
PLANS & ELEVATIONS&SECTIONS PLANS & ELEVATIONS&SECTIONS
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PLAN LEVEL 7 1:200PLAN LEVEL 4 1:200 PLAN LEVEL 10 1:200 2
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LEVEL FOURTEEN COMMUNAL
Roof garden for residents to have fun and communal activities.
LEVEL TEN TO THIRTEEN RESIDENTIAL&COMMUNAL
Four different types of units each floor and two shared communal space for activities.
LEVEL SEVEN TO NINE RESIDENTIAL&COMMUNAL
Four different types of units each floor and two shared communal space for activities.
LEVEL FOUR TO SIX RESIDENTIAL&COMMUNAL
Four different types of units each floor and two shared communal space for activities.
LEVEL TWO TO THREE COMMERCIAL
Around 3000 sqm for commercial use like food-court,supermarket.
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LEVEL ONE COMMUNAL
Car parks and lobby for the residents.
SECTION 2-2 1:200
SECTION 2-2 1:200 SECTION 1-1 1:200
South Elevation
SECTION 3-3 1:200
SECTION 3-3 1:200
SECTION 2-2 1:200
GENERAL INTRO
Other Works | Minimal Surface Exploration Location: Hangzhou, China Date: March, 2015 Property: Group Work | Teammate: Wang Minghao
Other Works | Courtyard Design Location: Hangzhou, China Date: Oct, 2013 Property: Individual Academic Work
Design Site is a existing factory area, which allow us to make three courtyard within the site. In my proposal, I focus on the relationship between solid and void.
Photography I have been fond of photography and hand drawing ever since I am in the elementary school. And these are some of the selected photos and hand drawing that recorded world's beauty.
Acknowledgment Deepest gratitude to Prof. Sawako Kaijima, Prof. Qi Shanshan, Prof. Huang Mingjian, and Prof. Chen Lin. You have been enlightening throughout the time and sharing your unique perspectives. And also thanks my friend and my teammates who inspire me so much. It is a really good experience to study with you all.
Email: zhouyifan_zju@foxmail.com Address: Room 409, Yueya Building, Zijingang campus of Zhejiang University, Xihu District, Hangzhou,Zhejiang, 310058, Peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Republic of China