Chendou Zhu
Tel: +86 15058853749 (CN), +1 (267) 455-3019 (US) | Email: zddkoi0417@outlook.com
2019 - Jun.2023
Undergraduate: University of Nottingham, Ningbo, China
BEng(Hons) Architecture
2021-22 Average Mark: 71/100 (Rank First in Architecture Major)
Best Overall Performance in Part ONE of the 2021-22 Academic Year
2023-
Graduate: University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, US
Master of Architecture
2021 - Sept.2021
Jan. 2021 - Mar.2021
Jul. 2020 - Aug.2020 Oct. 2020 - Jun.2020 May. 2020 Apr. 2020
Tongji University Architectural Design and Research Institute (Group) Co., Shanghai, China
Ningbo Zhongding Architectural Design Co., Ningbo, China
Ningbo Haishu Moshe Urban Architecture Design Co., Ningbo, China
Science and Engineering Students' Association (SESA) UNNC, Ningbo, China
Graduation Season Commemorative Events UNNC, Ningbo, China
Graduation Souvenir Design Competition UNNC, Ningbo, China
(Native), English (IELTS:
Instructor: Alexander Zipprich Jun Lu
Jing Xie
Site: Ningbo, China
Individual Work Redeveloped in 2022
CELLS
NFT-like Units for the metaverse era
Vertical Design Studio
2021.10-2021.12
Instructor: Alexander Zipprich
Jun Lu
Jing Xie
Individual Work Redeveloped in 2022
The project tries to design new types of units for the metaverse era. Following the idea of NFT is used. The units became a permanent owned spaces by owners and allows them to customize and simulate in other locations of the planet with metaverse technologies.
In the metaverse era, people may tend to have a preference of virtual space or the real one, this will undoubtly influence the spaces everyone requires inside the units. the modular units put this aspect in to consideration and figures out a evolved variation of housing needs in the metaverse era.
The basic units were designed in the scale of fufiling one man's needs. It allows owners to dealt with the population changes in an easier way by simply adding these small modules to their house, every one in the family are now allowed to have a space domained by their own preferences. It also trys to solve the problem while population chages in the family, the units could be simply separated and be reorganized quickly.
SOUL IN THE WOODS
Graveyard for Families
2022.11-2022.12
Instructor: -
Site: California, United States
Individual Work
This project is a design of a different type of graveyard. The design replaced the normal way of one man one grave with a large installation in the woods.
Instead of reprensenting one person, the new structure will represent a more abstract figure - as an aggregation of the souls of the dead. It now represents all those who passed away in the family and creates a space that their kins could mourn under the shealter of them.
Unlike normal graves, the installation creates a place large enough for more activities to happen while people come to visit. They could spent their day camping in the woods, chating while kids playing together. It creates the feeling that they are also spending these happy moments with those who already passed away. Mourning no longer will be filled with sadness, but a sense of reunion.
The form is parametric with the input requiring only the location of trees. This ensures every family will have their own and unique graveyard.
THE "WELLS" & WATER PERCOLATION
Reprogramming of the Ziyang Residential District
- Reactivation of Pocket Spaces
Vertical Design Studio 2022.10-2022.12
Instructor: Andrea Palmioli Eugenio Mangi Shiyun Qian
Site: Hangzhou, China Group Work
Other Group Members: Jingkun Cao, Bibi Hosanee Tian Chen, Jia Tang
This project is a group work of renovation & reprogramming of the Ziyang residential district in Hangzhou, China.
After site visit, the team find out a unique existance of wells on site which have been there for decades. The wells used to and still serves as an tiny space where people in the community gathered and conduct their daily activities.
However, the district is now quite old with facilities that doesn't serve well. Can we reactivate the lanes and pocket spaces between the buildings and make the neighborhood alive again? The team tried to achieve the goal by not only reprogram the buildings in two main areas but also create new well-like nodes between the buildings. These new mini programs will again bring energy to the lanes and percolate into the whole community.
Personal Contribution: Study of wells on site
Raise the concept
Digital Modeling
Master Plan/ Ground floor plan
Axnometric drawing
Urban section
