Z.Dong's Portfolio (2024)

PORTFOLIO

2017 - 2024

Ziyang Dong

Harvard GSD M.Arch

Central Saint Martins(CSM), BA(Hons)

Process of Production, Distillery Spirit, 2022

From System to Form

Distillery Spirit, 2022

Layering the System:

Structure, Functions, Circulations

Distillery Spirit, 2022

I am a talented designer on, I trained with a

craftsmanship

through making', and architectural skills modeling, drawings Endeavoring to make

Distillery Spirit

Hybridization 1.0 and 2.0 (AI-assisted)

In-Between Living and Working

Nozzle Dance (Grasshopper)

Celebrating Film

Riverside Commercials

Celebrating Fashion

Off-Grid Neighbourhood (Sustainale Adaptive Reuse)

designer gifted in sketching. Later craftsmanship spirit, 'thinking and developed impressive skills in writing, rendering, drawings and even coding. make the world a better place! Ziyang

GSD Core III

Computation

GSD Core IV

Computation

GSD Core II (Covid-19)

Tutored by Eric Howeler

Designed by Ziyang Dong

Distillery Spirit

a bourbon distillery in Boston

The distillery spirit project is a bou「bon distille「y located in southern Boston, MA. Besides a production space, it is a civic domain providing museum-like experience about distille「y process.Sur「ounded by 「esidential neighborhoods, the buidling is 「ecognizable by its roof apertu「e for alcohol distill and useful for its multi-functions.

Inside the distille「y, the p「ocedure is a「「 anged f「om g「ound floo「 to top floo「s, along the way where visito「s have a ascending expe「ience about process and finally, they will ente「 into a bar to have drinks.The jou「ney is tested with physical models with various mate「ials, explo『ing the public and private, factory space and exhibition space.

March 2023

Course: VIS Digital Media - Neural Bodies

Instructed by Andrew Witt and George Guida

Team Partner: Yu Qin, MAUD'23

Hybridization 1.0: Furni-Farm

2D and 3D AI-assisted design & workflow

We use AI workflows, like text-to-image and image-to-point clouds, to embed mushroom features into furniture designs. The results undergo treatment with rendering and modeling software. Despite operating in a 'black box,' precise and detailed prompts are crucial for desired outcomes.

1 2 3

Clean

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point clouds Basic Mushroom Growth Different Tests of Furniture + Farm Mushrooms Hybridizations Wood

May 2023

Course: VIS Digital Media - Neural Bodies

Instructed by Andrew Witt and George Guida

Team Partners: Yu Qin, MAUD'23; Kai Zhang, MDes Medium'24 3D

Hybridization 2.0: Selected "Child"

AI-assited and Pixel-based 3D Form Design

What happens when two objects mix? We employ an architectural method called sectioning to dissect the objects into series of slices (A series and B series). Using Python, we interpolate between these series, akin to frames in films, capturing sectional features. Determining the similarity between A and B, we selectively use sections to reassemble, creating a 3D hybrid offspring—something entirely new, yet reminiscent of its parentage, like father, like son.

Choose Similarity from 0.0 to 1.0, Re-assemble Selected Sections to 3D Hybrids Rhinoceros Grasshopper Python + Colab + TensorFlow Grasshopper + Houdini

The above is a gallery of generated forms in various scale, small in shoes, middle in chair, and large in rock house. Yu and I developed python coding, while the new team member Kai created Grasshopper components for slicing, choosing and reassembling. I also helped with most of the rendering, 3D print and form choices.

Jan -ApriU023

Core IV Srudio, Relate (Academic Project)

Harvard GSD, MArch I

Tutored by」enny trench

Designed by Ziyang Dong

ln-benveen Li寸ng and Working

an extraordinary courtyard typology

The p「oj ect seeks to integrate knowledge s pace within a collec tive living and working comp lex. I t con tai ns the p「 ocess of knowledge generating, sha「ing, p e「ce iving and a「 chiving. The bounda ry bet ween life and work is defi ned b y the cor「i do 「i n-bet ween, y e t blurred b y t he p artiti on' t「 ans p arency and finally d issolved by the sha「ed cour tya「 ds pace. The 「efo「e, the「 e is a discomfort coming f rom the positions of「esiden tial and office areas, and the p ossi bility of ex posure t o p rivacy. On the o ther hand, there are comfo rt and convenience coming f「 om connec tions be t ween them, and the ambiguity and p ossi bility of p「ovoki ng knowledge share

I t ake the t「ad itional courtya「 dl iving me thod as a s t udy obj ec t, and then ex p e 「imen t by mul tipl ying t he ci「 cu la tive pa thways t o c「 eatea double donut sha pe, as showned in plans of p rot otyp es 1~3. Ve rti cally, the p athways have va「ia tions i n locations and dis tance, se p e「 ating office and live s pace in diff e「en t manne「 s. Afterwa「 ds, these p「o to types a代「eadyfo「in tervention.

Harvard GSD, 2023 Fall

Instructor: Prof. Jose Luis Garcia del Castillo Lopez

Teaching Fellow: Katarina Richter-Lunn

Group: Emily Ruizhe Yuan, Xinyi Chen, Ziyang Dong

“The Nozzle Dance”

Sculpting 3D- Prints with G-code

The experimentation with G-code begins with the aim of replicating the radiant gradient reminiscent of emitted light shades. This is achieved by incorporating input variables like layer thickness and the frequency of rotations.

Through the manipulation of the base curves using axial movements and rotations, we successfully generated a gradient effect that becomes apparent along the Z-axis. In our continued exploration of G-code’s potential, we conducted tests involving two different feed rates in incremental steps, experimented with rotating basic curves around various center points, and explored the use of diverse basic curve shapes.

Regular transformation

Failures

G-code for 3d print path, generated by GH

(We figured out the Grasshopper framework togetehr after consulting Katarina; I explored the Sin shape, regular and gradient transformation by adapting C# codes in components, with failures tested, analysed and corrected with help from Xinyi and Emily.)

Texture created by different feed rate

Same feed rate F800, varied rotation angle

Varied feed rate F4/800

Varied feed rate F4/800

C# for generating G-code

C# components that generate G-code for print path

(I photographed all the

3D-printed products with versatile applications across various scales, ranging from lampshade to small pavilions.

outcomes while Emily helped with lighting and backgrounds).

Section 1-1

Jan - May, 2021

Core II Studio, Situate (Academic Project) Harvard GSD

Instructor: Tomas dePaor

Critic: Tom Emerson

Designer: Ziyang Dong

Celebrating Film

A film shed and a cinema

Our studio, themed around "film," envisions a cinema along the Boston Harbor shore. Adapting to the Covid-19 context, we began with a window survey in our residential space, capturing its features and viewing activities in red drawings(as suggested by Tomas). Later on, we shifted to cinema design. In today's context, while advanced media and the Internet extend movie-watching beyond the dark and enclosed cinemas, the cinema space remains as a social device integrated into the city's public life. My proposal emphasizes the audience's ritualistic experience while accommodating their desire to see and be seen in public places with private connections. Balancing privacy within publicity, the seating arrangement allows viewers to control their exposure by manipulating viewing angles.

The Inside to Outside

The Outside to Inside View Angles Change with Varied Positions

Section 2-2

Exterior View

Entrance Hall: Waiting Area

Cinema Sitting Area (Semi-public)

Dark Steel

Red Wood

Terrazzo

Light Wood

Red Granite

Granite Lillat

Grey Wood Veneer

Patterned Fabric

Red Paint

Golf Center

Villas

Agricultural Fields

Do Fu's Thached Cottage

High-rise Residences

5-star Hotel

The Xiang River

The model of site's surroundings was provided by clients. The project's buildings were initially decided by Sada and Ming about volume, plan, yards and styles. Buildings 1~3 (Numbers are on right side of the page)were developed and modelled by Wang Shuang, Building 5 and the pavilion were developed with Wang Zixuan.

Jan-Aug, 2019

The Oval Partnership, Beijing Office (Practice Work) Directed by Deng Ming and Sada Lam

Project design was collaborated with Oval's Emplyees, including Wang Shuang, Bi Xiaoxi and Wang Zixuan

Under supervision of Deng Ming, I assisted with development of building facade(5~9) and designed building(10~13), by means of design discussions, technical drawings, digital modelling.

Riverside Commercials

A Live Project in Oval Partnership with the principle of "the Yard" in China

With the development of the city in Hunan province of China, this new planned area is surrounded with a golf center, a five-star hotel, high residential towers and private houses. Aiming to engage existing users and future people with various backgrounds, this project gives a unique mix of use , including shopping, dining, drinking, entertainment, live performance, workplace and accommodation. Those experience is held in an exciting and enjoyable setting of lanes, squares, streets, alleys and courtyards. It will be an open commercial district with various users weaving their stories together.

Near the bank of River Xiang , this place contains the history and memory of the famous Chinese poet, Du Fu(Tang Dynasty). Responding to the existing historic building, Du Fu's thatched cottage in the west side, this district is rendered with a style of Chinese traditional architecture with pitched roofs. The yards, surrounded by inspiring ancient style facades, are the stages of various narrators and actors.

The plan was initially designed and drew by Wang Shuang and Bi Xiaoxi, and then evolved and redrew by me after clients' request for another alteration.

King's C1·oss

After exploring method of making a yard in Dungeness, studio 1 tested the typology in an u「ban a「ea, King's C「oss, a London transportation hub that brings various people from London,from cities of United Kingdom and from Eu「ope. What's more important, there is a school,Central Saint Martins

The site map has been based on the information colleaed by members o f Studio 1.

丿an-May, 2018

Studio 1The Yard,CSM (Academic Projea)

Tutored by Gregory Ross and Ashley Fridd

With the site study and masterplan collaborated with Studio 1 members(context information, modelling.site masterplan),the architeaural p『oposal has been designed by myself.

Celeb1·ating Fashion

a Civic Yard related to fashion

Located in the transportation hub, King's C「oss in London, the site is surrounded by mix-use buildings such as offices,「etails, and residences. Each of the uses support the others. Among them,the代is a fashion academy, Central Saint Ma「tins. Although it is occupied with sharing moments, the institution is only open fo「 people 「elated to academics or fashion industries. However, among people of London o「 non-London backg「ounds, loneliness is a key issue,as suggested by Sadiq Khan, the mayo「 of London.

To strengthen connections among diffe「ent people,my program p「ovides a yard space fo「 encountering. Due to the site's geog「aphic closeness to Central Saint Martins,an academy advanced in fashion design, my project takes fashion as the chance for people to meet,to make clothes with young fashion designe「s and to show their outcomes togethe「.Th「ough the process, stories happen, and people could gain connections to each othe「.Eventually, some of thei「 production - fashion fabrics, will be 「eco「ded on cast pieces that form part of the a「chitectu「e.

Fashion Show I on the Bridge

exhibiting in Central Saint Martins

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Oct-Dec, 2017

Spatial Practice, CSM and SPACE10, IKEA (Live Project) Tutored by Alex Warnock-Smith

Projecy collaborated with Marta Escribano, Dengheng Liu, Dominika Pilch I contributed to conceptual design, development, digital modelling, drawings and oral presentations.

Off-Grid Neighbourhood

Co-living in 2030

The Off-grid Neighborhood creates a self-sustaining co-living environment. Common spaces are created in-between existing residential buildings with 6 floors. Shared by residents, the added platforms and the vertical farm allow them to collectively manage the sustainable production and preparation of food. Also, the vertical farm localizes food and waste streams and encourages interaction throughout the process. The methods include vertical farming, reuse of energy system, lab-produced food, flexible connections among balconies of flats.

1. Create a conrridor, connecting living dwellings.

2. Add platforms between living units, strengthen vertical connections with voids.

Design development: from a bigger picture to a specific spatial typology

Concepts were generated through group discussions. Sketches by Dominika Pilch. All final drawings were colloboratively produced by me, Marta Escribano, Dengheng Liu, Dominika Pilch

3.dwellingsCo-livingwith sustainabilty.

1. Food Collecting

2. Food Preparing

3. Food Dining and Sharing

4. Food Saving

5. Food Recycling

1. Food Co-Production

2. Food Co-Consumption

3. Food Energy & Waste Circulation