Work Sample_Zezhong Yu

ZEZHONG YU Architecture Work Sample zyu26@wustl.edu 314.541.6569

ZEZHONG YU Address: 6188 McPherson Ave, Apt 505, St. Louis, MO, 63112 Cell: +1.314.541.6569 Email: zyu26@wustl.edu

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EDUCATION 08/2014 - Present

Sam Fox School, Washington University in St.Louis, U.S.A Master of Architecture | Architecture

09/2009 - 07/2014

School of Architecture, Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT), China Bachelor of Engineering | Urban Planning

SKILLS Software

Language

Adobe Creative Suite | Microsoft Office | Auto CAD | Autodesk Flow Design | Climate Consultant | ArchGis | Rhino | Google SketchUp | Grasshopper | Revit | Maxwell | Vary | Keyshot | Podium | Lumion | Laser cutting | CNC English, Mandarin Chinese [native]

WORK EXPERIENCE 08/2015 - Present

Lasercut Lab Monitor Sam Fox School, Washington University in St.Louis

01/2016 - 05/2016

CNC Lab Monitor Sam Fox School, Washington University in St.Louis

HONORS & AWARDS 2012

Third Prize of Social Comprehensive Practice and Research Program of National College

Natatorium of Olympic Sports City in Diecai District in Guilin, Guangxi, China

02 TALL BUILDINGS WITH GARDENS D3 Housing Tomorrow Competition

03 SHAREABLE NEIGHBOURS

Dwelling in San Juan, Puerto Rico

04 AGGREGATED INVASION Digital Fabrication in Saint Louis, United States

05 CONFLICT AND DEBRIS

Atmospheric Carbon Museum in Copenhagen, Denmark

06 SYMBIONTS OF CITY AND VILLAGE

Songpu District Urban Design in Harbin, Heilongjiang, China

Students Majored in Urban Planning 2012

Qualification of Publishing Work in D3 Housing Tomorrow Competition

2011

2011 Honorable Mention of UA Creative Award & International Concept Design Competition (Title of Work: Activation of Negative Space in UA City)

07 OTHER WORK

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Plan

Natatorium of Olympic Sports City in Diecai District in Guilin, Guangxi, China Tutor: Ligang Shi | Date: 2013 | Group work Rhino Sketchup AutoCAD Vray

The Guilin's character is formed by the fortitude of mountains and softness of water. The site locates on the banks of Lijiang River in Diecai District. It's close to the mountain and river. So it is an important issue to combine the architecture and nature. We do full consideration from appearance and structure.

At first, we use the curves and straight lines.

They symbolize the softness of water and fortitude of mountains. Secondly, we consider the structure for the form. We choose the cable arch bracing system and double layer membrane. Double layer membrane structure shows the soft of water as well. We do this choice of technology in terms of the local climate. These practices make the architecture and nature have a closer relation.

Elevation

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MOUNTAIN AND WATER

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Design process

Master plan

Unit plan

Cluster plan

Courtyard

Transportation

Wind wheel

Structure

Public garden

Cell

Private garden

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High-rise housing

Regular form

Combination

TALL BUILDINGS WITH GARDENS D3 Housing Tomorrow Competition Tutor: Xiaopeng Bai | Date: 2012 Group work | Sketchup AutoCAD Podium

Before the tall building appeared, people had lived a happy and free life with their own garden that gives an access to getting closed to the nature and neighbours. The development of city contributes to the increasing population, air pollution and the greenhouse gas. Tall buildings' appearance promotes the utilization of the valuable land and raises the people's density but makes people feel crowed and unfree. The concept of the project is to combine these two contradictory elements, tall buildings and gardens, to create a future life style.

The gardens in this building connect together to form a net to help cleaning the air. Moreover, the wind wheel together with the public gardens does a better job in cleaning the air as air filter for the sustainable life.

Regular way

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New way

Strategy Public garden

View 1

View 3

View 2

View 5

Section

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Air filter

Site

Enclosure space

Activities

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Courtyard

Skylight

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Curtain wall

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Window

Satellite room

1 Kitchen 2 Living room 3 Bedroom 4 Bathroom 5 Balcony 6 Study room 7 Kitchen 8 Bedroom

Level 1 plan of unit

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1 Terrace 2 Corridor & Study room 3 Bedroom 4 Kitchen & Dining room 5 Living room 6 Bedroom 7 Bathroom

Level 2 plan of unit

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SHAREABLE NEIGHBOURS

Dwelling in San Juan, Puerto Rico Tutor: Monica Rivera | Date: 2015.9-2015.12 Solo work | Rhino Sketchup AutoCAD Maxwell The concept of unit is to create a "satellite room" for students in terms of a university close to the site. The function of satellite room is flexible by a door connected to living room. The satellite room has a seperate entrance and the entry space of a unit are able to gather for neighbours, houseowners and renters. The entry space has the staircase that can reach the terrace on the second floor. The porch is also created in the community to continue the idea of creating communication space before entry.

North elevation

West elevation

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B

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Level 1 plan

Level 2 plan

Level 3 plan

Section A-A

Section B-B

Plan

Module Piece

Footing pieces 6 inch

Grid piece 10.25 inch

Grid piece 10.25 inch

Bracing piece(canopy) 18 inch

Bracing piece(column) 21 inch

Joint

Module

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AGGREGATED INVASION

Digital Fabrication in Saint Louis, United States Tutor: Lavender Tessmer , Jason Foster Butz Date: 2016.2-2016.5 | Group work Rhino Grasshopper CNC

Section

Model Grid Logic

The purpose of this studio is to build the project physically.

We consider more about the actual scale, structure and convenience of assembly. The site is located in the Steinberg Hall in our school.

It's crucial to figure out how to occupy the space by the specific module and its growing logic. In the early phase, a lot of research have been done on the module form and developing logic. We study the massing by Grasshopper and manufacture the module by CNC. Several details on module piece are designed for joints connection. Then they form the hexahedron. The hexahedron becomes the module. We also design and build the bracing piece for catetilever structure stability. The invasion atmosphere is created by the project itself and its shadow.

Concept

Second floor plan

First floor plan

Third floor plan

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CONFLICT AND DEBRIS Atmospheric Carbon Museum in Copenhagen, Denmark Tutor: Lingling Li, Jing Liang | Date: 2012 Solo work | Rhino AutoCAD Vray

On the Copenhagen World Climate Conference, countries failed in reaching the agreement to solve problems about carbon emissions and greenhouse effect. One can imagine that the conflict will be sharper with the development of various countries and the ecological damage. Thus I use the image of the debris from the earth broken by the conflict and get the space by the recombination of triangle conflict debris. As a result, the tourists could feel the sense of conflict expressed by every wall. On one hand it can be the commenmoration of the conference which could have solved the problem. On the other hand it is thought-provoking so that people will no longer ignore this issue.

Concept 1

Axes

Green System

Traffic System

Water System

Concept 2

Landscape System

Residence System

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SYMBIONTS OF CITY AND VILLAGE Songpu District Urban Design in Harbin, Heilongjiang, China Tutor: Fei Lv, Jian Dai | Date: 2013 Solo work | Sketchup AutoCAD Podium

I do two surveys during the early stage in design, which conclude that the advantages of city and village lives, and that of the importance of living in people's mind. I integrate the advantages of both city and village in my design to create an public activity area that satisfies public needs in multiple aspects. The activity area centers on the water system that is brought in from outside the base. The water system serves as the axis of the area. Then large residential area lies around the activity area. The entire area thus becomes suitable for both living and tour. The plan provides people a convenient way of carrying out healthy public activities by the design of urban form.

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OTHER WORK 1. Bathroom Design Tutor: Stephen Mueller Solo work

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5. The Renewal of Jiangbei Shipyard Area Urban Design Tutor: Fei Lv, Jian Dai Group work: Xue Jiang

2. Taste Library in St.Louis

Tutor: Ersela Kripa

Solo work

3. Housing Design Tutor: Jianmei Wu Solo work 4. Landscape Design Tutor: Yifei Zhang, Yu Dong Group work: Yanyan Zhao

6. Sketch, Oil Painting and Watercolor Solo work

7. UA International Concept Design Competition Tutor: Jianmei Wu, Xiaopeng Bai Group work: Luli Wang, Qingzhi Li 8. VELUX International Competition Tutor: Xiaopeng Bai Group work: Yanyan Zhao, Chao Zhu

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