Portfolio of Chenyu Zhang_Issuu by Chenyu Zhang

PORTFOLIO OF CHENYU ZHANG SELECTED WORKS 2016-2020

"Design always starts with innovative and careful site reading, along with the subtle translation. Emphasizing the balance between humanity and environment, aesthetic and function, the result is the exceptional architecture that resonates within its place." Notebook | Site Reading

CONTENT Selected Works 2016-2020

Design for Diplomacy

2016 L

U.S. Embassy in Stockholm

The Void

2017 XL

The Manhattan Innovation Incubator

Nationalgalerie20

2017 M

Re-narrating Berlin’s Kulturforum

The Cloud

2018 S

UVA School of Architecture Extension

Contemplation Pavilion

2019 S

In Memory of the Innocent Victims of War in Africa

Urban Archipelago

2018 XXL

Urban Transformation in Mumbai, India

Other Works Professional Works, Exhibition, Sketch, Photography

FOR 01 DESIGN DIPLOMACY U.S. Embassy in Stockholm Collaborate with the U.S. State Department Studio Project Chosen for Publication Graduate Project， Fall 2016 Research Studio Building Area: 17000 ㎡ Location: Stockholm, Sweden Instructor: Phoebe Crisman Team: Chenyu Zhang, Yi Yang Role in Team: Preliminary Research, Diagrams, Conceptual Design, Digital Model, Master Plan, Part of the Renderings Software:Sketch Up, V-Ray, Lumion, Auto CAD, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign

Complying with the natural landscape is our prior design strategy in this project. Because of the particular functions and programming for designing an embassy, it should be both defensive (security use) and transparent. Our strategy is to let the natural landscape — small hills around the site — govern the embassy defensive gesture, and to utilize the original terrain dominate the defensive stance. The hills, which locate along the direction of the main road, could provide the natural defense for our embassy in Stockholm, at the same time to make buildings more discreet and humble, thus the defensive posture is no longer directly coming out. On this site, buildings do follow the nature. The large parking lot, whose roof is served as the continuity to the landscape, is put underground and combines the natural environment with its defensive requirement. By also responding to the design guidelines — to embody architecture design which will represent the U.S to the world as a welcoming and open society while also maintaining appropriate security provisions requirements, we architects are trying to convey to the local community with a sense of openness and liberation and a new image of the embassy architecture.

U.S. & Sweden Relations: Time Line - Key Diplomatic Issues

Analysis on the U.S. Embassies Transmutation of the U.S Embassies

Regional Overview

Site I

Site II

Site III

Site IV

Site I

Site II

Site III

Site IV(Chosen Site)

According to the guideline from the U.S. State Department, there are four potential sites. We need to compare these sites, and chose the best site to do embassy design. Here are some reasons why we chose site IV for our design: 1. The chosen site is near the original U.S. embassy; 2. The site is in the embassy district, which means it has a closer relation concerning the diplomatic issues; 3. Appropriate distance from the city center, traffic is relatively easier and more convenient to deal with the local government affairs; 4. Near a film institute campus, functionality and human scale, it is more appropriate of the embassy building; 5. Located in high-income areas, fast commercial development, and it is very convenient for the embassy staff; 6. larger venues (27518 ㎡ ), architectural designs for a larger operating space. 7. The site is located at the end of one of the city major axis, lacks the connection to the urban fabric and natural environment; 8. The site itself is located near the large public green space that could provide the new embassy with a good natural scene; 9. Enough space for the future expansion.

Urban Scale Analysis

Terminal of City Main Axis & Accessibility

Hospitable Relations

Insertion of City Fabric

Public Green Parks

The site is closely connected to the city, basically it has three major characteristics: the insertion of texture in the city fabric; the accessibility; the hospitable relations to the adjacent buildings. The surrounding context of this site is quite complex, since the adjacent buildings are drama school, local government office, residential district, TV company and an embassy district, also, the site is located at the east end of the city's main axis. So how to deal with the complex context is one of the prior issues of this design. The site is located in an urban area and nature area, so how to deal with this realation is another issue of this design.

Morphogenesis

1.Property line control: 100 ft setback. Utilize the setback awrea combined with the topography as the defensive strategy of this design. 2. Define three distinct entrances:MCAC: facing the main road. CCAC: consular entrance approach the neaRby bus station. SCAC: service spot retreats to the secondary road and is put under the topography. 3. Defining the maximum manipulatable area inside the embassy compound. 4. Create the maximum volume of the New Office Building; Consider the height of surrounding buildings; The transverse edge of the NOB is facing towards the west in order to limited the sunshine duration and to conform to the vernacular architecture orientation. 5. Dividing the NOB into two parts, the consular building is served as the terminal of the consular entry sequence. The office building is behind the MCAC and connected by the NOB entrance plaza. 6. The creation of landscape: Cutting an "L" shape seam to enlighten the underground MSGR housing; The landscape garden facing the public park towards the east direction makes the embassy compound more accessible to the public.

Program Distribution

Section

View From East Public Park

NOB Plaza

Stereet View From South-Walkpath / Anti-Ram / Anti-Climb / Landscape

02 THE VOID

The Hudson Yards Architecture Complex

Graduate Project，Spring 2017 Foundation Studio Building Area: 100000 ㎡ Location: New York City, The USA Instructor: Mona EI Khafif Neil Thelen Group work(Collaborate with Hao Zhang) in Preliminary Research, Individual Work in Design Software:Sketch Up, Revit, Auto CAD, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign

This project is an architecture complex at Hudson Yard, New York City, it investigates on creating a new high-rise building typology by redefining the relationship between shared space and private space in contemporary architecture. The concept start with a question: Can we stack multiple community scale public space in one building, and organize different programs based on these different public layers? the project attempts to stay away from the vertical stacking condition in a typical tower typology and develop a new organizational system, which emphasizes horizontally and creating horizontal public space within building. By completely changing the typical organization of the high-rise building typology, the project aims to offer a new relationship between users and building and produce unexpected moments and new spatial conditions: the horizontally stacked public and private space. In result, the project challenges modern technology to make it possible while promote a new cultural development where the project is situated.

Urban Industry Analysis

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Sharing Space Analysis Shared Space Analysis

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Site Plan

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Morphogenesis

Exploded Axon

1. Site

15-25F Residential Area Community Park Community Library Community Gym Hign End Restaurant

2. Maximizing building volume

3. Responding to adjacent buildings at three different heights

7-14F Office Commercial Area Commercial Plaza

4. Creating the first public open space from street to Hudson River, as well as connecting the buiding with the Hign Line.

Hot Desk Innovation Hub Light Manufacturing Restaurant

4-6F

5. Creating the second public open space from building to adjacent block, as well as keeping the great view from city to Hudson River.

6. Creating the third public open space from building to adjacent skyscrapers, as well as keeping the great view from city to Hudson River.

Cultural Area Theater Hotel Retail Industry Cafe / Restaurant

Section A-A

25m

Program Diagram

Type D 75 ㎡

25m

Type A 90 ㎡

RESTAURANT

10m

144 ㎡

Type B 110 ㎡

Residential Area Typical Plan

Type C 144 ㎡

Type B 110 ㎡

Type C 144 ㎡

Type A 90 ㎡

Residential Area Typical Plan

PUBLIC SPACE

Residential Area Typical Plan

Type C

PUBLIC SPACE

Type D 75 ㎡

10m

Section B-B

Detail Section A

15-25F Residential Area Community Park Community Library Community Gym Hign End Restaurant

7-14F Office Commercial Area Commercial Plaza Hot Desk Innovation Hub Light Manufacturing Restaurant

4-6F Cultural Area Theater Hotel Retail Industry Cafe / Restaurant

Detail Se

ection B

Detail Section C

Residential Area

Commercial Area

Cultural Area

25m

15-25F Residential Area Community Park Community Library Community Gym Hign End Restaurant

Residential Area

7-14F Office Commercial Area Commercial Plaza Hot Desk Innovation Hub Light Manufacturing Restaurant

Commercial Area

03 NATIONALGALERIE20 Re-narrating Berlin’s Kulturforum

Graduate Project， Fall 2017 Research Studio Building Area: 15000 ㎡ Location: Berlin, Germany Instructor: Jeremy Foster Group work (Collaborate with Xuetong Liu, Landscape Architecture Student) in Preliminary Research, Individual Work in Design Software:Rhino(Grasshopper), V-Ray, Auto CAD, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign This project is the extension of New National Gallery in Berlin, it involved a new exhibition, as well as an significant public space located at a famous culture area, The Kulturforum, which between complicated urban and nature contexts. The concept of the design aimed to design a Museum as a spatial installationw that mediates between the landscape as civic surface, and the building as object. The new museum acted as a link, creating a dialogue between existing landscape, and connecting them to form a coherent public space for multiple activity events. The orientation and circulation systems of the design inform a strong connection among the context buildings (Potestant Church, New National Gallery, Berlin Philharmonie, and other surrounding libraries and museums) and landscape (Tiergarten and Landwehr Canel). The building frames views toward the New National Gallery, creating a visual link between the two. The interior spaces of the Museum’s main exhibition area (underground) are organized to surround a three-floor high atrium. The development of the atrium aims to create effects in both organizational and experiential ways. The courtyard, around which circulation and exhibition space are combined, acts as the heart of the building and creates internal views. While the atrium is located inside the museum, it is designed as a part of the public space, so that one can easily go to ground floor and see what happened at underground exhibition space.

Masterplan

5 10

25m

Urban Context

Program Distribution

Public Deck (Groundfloor Plus) The orientation and circulation systems of the design inform a strong connection among the context buildings (Potestant Church, New National Gallery, Berlin Philharmonie, and other surrounding libraries and museums) and landscape (Tiergarten and Landwehr Canel). The building frames views toward the New National Gallery, creating a visual link between the two.

Morphogenesis

1. Leaving Open Space for Existing Museum

2. Continuing the Green Axis

-1F

3. Response to Philharmonie

4. Response to City Axis

-2F 1. Administration 2. Ticket & Garderobe 3. Lobby 4. Cafe & Shop 5. Exhibition Space 6. Theater 7. Restroom 8. Art Storage 9. Work Shop 10. Atrium 11. Mechanical

5. Cooperating with Adjacent Landscape

6. Optimizing Building form

Public Space Exhibition Space Support Function

Exploded Axon

Exploded Axon of Floating Box

Floating Box Education Space Media Exhibition Space Public Stair

Roof

Facade 1

Public Deck Outdoor Cafe Outdoor Exhibition Space Landscape

Structure

Facade

Facade 2

Function

Gallary+ Public Stair

Groundfloor Administration Ticket & Garderobe Lobby Cafe & Shop Landscape

Structure 5

4F 5

Function Public Deck (Groundfloor Plus)

-1F Administration Main Exhibition Space Theater Art Storage Work Shop

1 1

1 2

Ground floor

The concept of the design aimed to design a Museum as a spatial installationw that mediates between the landscape as civic surface, and the building as object. The new museum acted as a link, creating a dialogue between existing landscape, and connecting them to form a coherent public space for multiple activity events. 4

8 8

1 1

-2F

The interior spaces of the Museum’s main exhibition area -1F 5 (underground) are organized to surround a three-floor high atrium. The development of the atrium aims to create effects in both organizational and experiential ways. The courtyard, around which circulation and exhibition space are combined, acts as the heart of 5 the building and creates internal views. While the atrium is located inside the museum, it is designed -2Fas a part of the public space, so that one can easily go to ground floor and see what happened at underground exhibition space.

Administration Main Exhibition Space Art Storage Work Shop Mechanical

8 9

Public Space Exhibition Space Service Fuction

Public Deck (Groundfloor Plus)

1 1 7

1 1

1 2

1. Administration 2. Ticket & Garderobe 3. Lobby 4. Cafe & Shop 5. Exhibition Space 6. Theater 7. Restroom 8. Art Storage 9. Work Shop 10. Atrium 11. Mechanical

3F-4F

Groundfloor

-1F

-2F

1. Administration 2. Ticket & Garderobe 3. Lobby 4. Cafe & Shop 5. Exhibition Space 6. Theater 7. Public Deck

Section B-B

8. Public Stair 9. Restroom 10. Art Storage 11 Work Shop 12. Atrium 13. Mechanical 0

10m

Atrium

View From NEUE NATIONALGALERIE

Sectio

Public Stair / Media Exhibition Space

5 8

on A-A

1. Administration 2. Ticket & Garderobe 3. Lobby

8. Public Stair 9. Restroom 10. Art Storage

4. Cafe & Shop 5. Exhibition Space 6. Theater

11 Work Shop 12. Atrium 13. Mechanical

7. Public Deck

BERLINER PHILHARMONIE

25m

04 THE CLOUD

UVA School of Architecture Addition

Graduate Project Spring 2018 Design Development Studio Building Area: 1000 ㎡ Location: Charlottesville, VA Instructor: Luis Pancorbo Individual Work Software:Rhino, V-Ray, Grasshopper, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign

This project is the extension of Campbell Hall (School of Architecture, UVA) in Charlottesville, VA. It involves a new exhibition space, a new studio space, as well as a series of lecture rooms for Campbell hall. Conceptually, the project intends to invent a “cloud” feeling the lightness that captures the uniqueness of the new addition in both abstract and sensitive senses. It is also designed to create a unique semi-outdoor space to introduce the flexibility to campus public life. The site (the west side of Campbell hall specifically) is located on an iconic axis of the campus, which is between complicated elevation and landscape changes contexts. Architecturally, the new addition uses simple massing moves and structure itself to define space and to approach lightness, openness, and transparency. The consisting truss structure makes the main programs floating above the site, thus, creating a column-free flexible space for different types of events. The studio space, lecture rooms, and exhibition space are also defined by structure system and distribute vertically, which match the initially Campbell hall’s vertically program distribution. The façade system aims to let north and top natural light into the building, as well as control the west and south light as much as possible.

View from US29 (The Most Important Road Across Charlottesville)

Urban Scale Analysis This project is the extension of Campbell Hall (School of Architecture, UVA) in Charlottesville, VA. It involves a new exhibition space, a new studio space, as well as a series of lecture rooms for Campbell hall. This diagram describes the relationships among Campbell hall(School of Architecture), some iconic buildings(e.g.: Lambeth Field) as well as US 29(the main road across Charlottesville, VA) on an urban scale. As we can see in this diagram, the site (the west side of Campbell hall specifically) is located on an iconic axis of the campus, which is between complicated elevation and landscape changes contexts(sport field, little hill, grove, heavy brick context buildings). All these elements work together to create your first impression of the School of Architecture. In my point of view, the project should have lightness, openness, and transparency, as the contrast with the heavy brick "Charlottesville standard style buildings." Thus, conceptually, the project intends to invent a "cloud" feeling the lightness that captures the uniqueness of the new addition in both abstract and sensitive senses.

Site Scale Analysis

1 The Existing Campbell Hall (School of Architecture)

2 Lambeth Field and Campbell Hall define an Important Sight Axis

3 Main Roads around Campbell Hall

4 The Relationship between Campbell Hall and US29 ( The Most Important Road in Charlottesville)

2 Maximal Height of New Addition (Based on Height Control)

3 Expanding Massing in Three Directions to Match the Program Area Requirement

4 Cutting the Massing to let Natural Light into Public Deck Area

Morphogenesis

1 Site for New Addition

View from Campbell Hall (The Relationship Among Existing Building, New Addition and Main Entrance Space)

Public Space Analysis

Section A-A

25m

Section B-B

The consisting truss structure makes the main programs floating above the site, create the continuous public space & views on both two directions, makes the new addition as a central point of future campus public life, a column-free flexible space for different types of events.

Section A-A

16 4 3

A 1. Review Room / Class Room 2. Main Public Space 3. Studio Space 4. Studio Public Space A

5. High Exhibition Space 6. Conference Room 7. Corridor 8. Office

9. Public Deck 10. Exhibition Space 11. Fab Lab 12. Storage

13. A+A Shop 14. Wood Shop 15. Backyard 16. 3-D Printer Station

Review Room

Studio Space

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9000

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7200

18000

3200

1500

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2 Review Room Class Room N

3 Existing Building

5th Floor Plan

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13.95

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1500

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3 1 Public Hub 2 Studio Space N

4th Floor Plan

3 Existing Building 4 Pubic Space

05 CONTEMPLATION PAVILION Peace Pavilion In Memory of the Innocent Victims of War in Africa

Post-graduation Project 2019 Kaira Looro Architecture Competition Finalist Building Area: 300 ㎡ Location: Sedhiou, Senegal, Africa Group Work: Chenyu Zhang, Jingyuan Luo Role in Team: Conceptual Design, Diagrams, Digital Model, Master Plan, Plan, Section, Renderings Software:Rhino, V-Ray, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign

Water and river, in many cultures, represent time files or even time itself. In this project, the building area is super tiny, while luckily, the site is on the riverside, so conceptually the building is designed as a view frame to capture the tranquility from the river. This project is a central place for people to gather and spread awareness of the war. By approaching the pavilion from a framed pathway into an expansive space of renewal, the past, present, and future meet as art and prayer remind survivors of lost tales. Besides, the pavilion uses vernacular materials, has natural ventilation, and rainwater collecting systems. The eastside of exhibition space is softly blocking the view by the louver screen, and the supporting west sidewall is where the contemplative artwork hangs. The vertical open space between supporting wall and roof creates a perfect circulation system also brings in light into the interior space. The rainwater channel resists on the top of the soil slope, which is parallel to the roof's edge, sending rainwater into the water tank. This system makes the building zero energy cost and environmentally friendly.

Project Background

The area in question was scarred by the Casamance conflicts which, despite having ended approximately a decade ago, left an indelible stain on the community’s memory. Villages were burned to the ground and many families were forced to flee to other countries or cities in search of safety. As in the case of the aforementioned conflict, many are the humanitarian disasters that, due to cultural or religious differences or in an effort to grab Africa’s resources, have caused millions of deaths and created innumerable refugees. Many of these conflicts, despite their devastation, are ignored by the international community and occasionally, due to the lack of communication on the African continent, remain unknown even among African communities themselves. Past events, albeit tragic, must inspire us to build a world based on peace, equality, and solidarity. Commemorating the victims of African wars through the value of peace is a fundamental step in building an inclusive and cohesive society, so that such events may never be repeated in the future. The focus of this competition is to create a pavilion for the promotion of universal peace which inspires contemplation, reflection, and prayer for those who unjustly lost their lives. The pavilion will be open to the public and accessible to everyone. It will respect all cultures, genders, and religions.

Morphogenesis 1 The Site and property line

2 The appropriate building base proportion with maximal area

3 Maximal massing ( according to height control)

4 Creating the sloping roof (for view and rainwater collection)

5 Creating the sloping landscape

N 0

Wetland

Riverside

Village

50m

Mainroad

Entrance

Semi Outdoor Space(Exhibition Space)

Exploded Axon

Overall Axon

Roof Panels Material: Timber

Structure Frame 2 Material: Timber

Structure Frame Material: Timber 2

Ground Floor 1. Exhibition Space 2. Contemplation Space 3. Storage

Material: Concrete Timber Clay

Exhibition Space

Contemplation Space

1. Exhibition Space 2. Contemplation Space 3. Storage

06 URBAN ARCHIPELAGO Primary School Design

Graduate Project Fall 2018 Research Studio Area: 12000 ㎡ Location: Mumbai, India Instructor: Robin Dripps Group Work (Collaborate with Lu Yu, Landscape Architecture Student) Software:Rhino, V-Ray, Auto CAD, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign We choose three critical sites to explain how the system works. Each of these four sites has various building prototypes, response to different context, but combine with each other to shape an upgraded social life with resources/energy collection, redistribution system on a larger scale.

Site Axon

Masterplan

Urban Analysis

Exploded Axon

OTHER WORKS | Exhibition

"Cities and Rivers" Selected Works of Aldayjover arquitectura y Paisaje, VA University of Virginia, Charlottesville 03/2018

Role In Team: Layout Organization, Panels Making and Installation, Physical Model Making, Photography Skills: Wood Shop, Laser Cut, CNC, Photography, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Indesign

OTHER WORKS | Web Design

"New York Hydrology" Web Design and Scripting, Andrea Hansen Phillips, VA University of Virginia, Charlottesville 12/2018

Role In Team: Independent Work Skills: Scripting: Java, Html, Css, GeoJSON

OTHER WORKS | Drawings

Market St x Bush St, San Francisco, CA Cityscape Sketch Series, 11/2019

Hudson River, NY Spoondrift Study, Traditional Chinese Painting Study, 12/2020

OTHER WORKS | Photography

Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, CA Cityscape Photography, 08/2018

Tunnel View, Yosemite National Park, CA Landscape Photography, 08/2018

OTHER WORKS | Photography

Post St, San Francisco, CA Cityscape Photography, 10/2019

National Cemetery, San Francisco, CA Cityscape Photography, 11/2019

OTHER WORKS | Photography

Ocean Beach, San Francisco, CA Landscape Photography, 12/2020

Twin Peaks, San Francisco, CA Cityscape Photography, 11/2020

OTHER WORKS | Photography

San Jose, CA Landscape Photography, 09/2020

OTHER WORKS | Photography

Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, CA Cityscape Photography, 11/2020

Bay Bridge, San Francisco, CA Cityscape Photography, 12/2020