Zhenchao Zhang Master in Architecture Email: zzhang32@ncsu.edu http://issuu.com/zhenchaozhang/docs/portfolio
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morrisville,NC
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raleigh,NC
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RDU Future Airport City
In an Information Explosion Age, globalization brings people much more closer than before. Airport is the first blank for people to experience the cultural influences and the high technologies facing to the future. Meanwhile, airport is also the generator to offer job opportunities, promote high efficiency transportation systems and encourage more durable large scale structures. Our future airport project is a next fifty years planning which is focused on the current RDU International Airport in Triangle,North Carolina, the United State. Airport City concept is to make the airport as the core of aerotropolis. City within the airport can provide a potential to make this space serve for both passengers and local citizens. It is not only a place for people to transfer from one airport to another, more importantly, it is the place for people to stay and experience the efficiency of airport city which could provide. The concept is inspired by the beautiful nature in North Carolina, meandering and splendid mountains, trees, and fresh air blowing from ocean waves. That is what bring us here. It is about the past and future. It is about the beauty of nature and human feelings. RDU Internitional Airport is the gate of Triangle area: 7 miles to Research Triangle Park and less than 20 miles to Duke University, UNC Chapel Hill and North Carolina State University. Those famous universities and RTP are keep attracting talents coming into this area both domestically and internitionally. In the next fifty years, the population of triangle area will be 3.8 times as it is now. There is a forseeable requirement for an bigger internitional airport to serve those continual increasing talents in this area.
Phase 1
Phase 2
-A new rental center
-New Concourse 3
Phase 3
Phase 4
-Extand runways
-New parking area
-Rebuild old parking
-Rebuild Terminal 1
-New General Aviation
-New driveway system
-New Concourse 4
-Bridges connect
-Adding taxiway
-Light Rail Station
Develop rental center
Terminal 2 to new lobby
-Apron construction
connect to rental center
to transportation center
-PRT System to connect
Main Lobby and Concourses are connected by a commercial bridge which offer more opportunities for people shopping while on their way to the gates. Cars can drive through under the bridge while on one side the aircrafts can do it as well. On the other side of drive road it is the city plaza, which can serve all citizens. Main Lobby and Concourses are connected by a commercial bridge which offer more opportunities for people shopping while on their way to the gates. Cars can drive through under the bridge while on one side the aircrafts can do it as well. On the other side of drive road it is the city plaza, which can serve all citizens.Main Lobby and Concourses are connected by a commercial bridge which offer more opportunities for people shopping while on their way to the gates. Cars can drive through under the bridge while on one side the aircrafts can do it as well. On the other side of drive road it is the city plaza, which can serve all citizens. One of our proposals is to provide people various experience. The tree structure in concourse is different from the one in terminal. The bottom part of concourse tree structure is straight steel tree trunk while the top part consists of several “branches�. All small branches are lined to support the beams hided in the roof. To provide passengers as many activity opportunities as we can, retails and sitting areas on the mezzanine are designed between gates level and roof level. With the setting of double-load gates, passengers on the mezzanine level could capture the views from both side through the big glazings.
RALEIGH ART CRAFT MUSEUM Typology: ARC500 Professional Arc Studio Location:
Raleigh downtown, NC
Date:
Spring 2015
Professor: Jason Hart The architectural design of Raleigh Art & Craft Museum has two goals to be achieved: 1) be a place to open to the community around offering art and craft education and 2) a place to exhibit works from the community around and
The streams of people are from different directions
inspire innovation and promote collaboration among all citizens. Located in downtown Raleigh arounded by city market, Moore Square Park, Moore Square Museum Magnet Middle School and Residential Areas, The site called for an architecture that being friendly to community, engaging the public, offering gather space for both public and people working or learning in the museum. The design of Raleigh
A Muiti-function wall to organize space and circulation
Art Craft Museum also focus on how to take the most advantage of natural system like daylighting and how to blend the new structure into the exsiting buildings around.
one gather space for private and another for public
courtyard surrounded by gallery and classrooms
The heavy board-formed concrete wall is the first thing jumping into visitors’ eyes no matter which directions they are from. It divides the whole space into two parts which are still connected by view and small openings. The bard-formed concrete wall is also leading the circulation both in plan and seciotion. The outside courtyard and inside gallery still feel like an united space by visually connected with the help of the concrete wall.
A SUNNY PLACE IN FOGGY CITY Typology:
ARC 503 Professional Arc Studio
Location:
San Francisco, CA
Date:
Fall 2015
Professor: Wayne Place Partner:
Mokuan Lin
This project is about a new tall building located on 1500 Mission St, San Francisco, Which is a key intersection of Mission an Van Ness(US101). The site is near the “tech hub” of downtown San Francisco and the city wants to expand housing and density here in the future. When we talk about a new design for Metropolis, we consider about how to make it efficient,energy saving and a gorgeous shape to contribute to the skyline. It’s easy for us to forget that skyscrapers can make a different to the culture of the city as well as the skyline. We try to take advantage of this mix-used skyscraper design to change the way people thinking and living with a list of design goals: Make the building bicycle friendly and encouraged; Have a public space for citizen; For the office, nice view and energy efficiency is crutial;For residential part, we are trying to make it with natural cross ventilation, good neighborhood communication and unit open space. Design with all those goals in mind, a courtyard with enough sunshine plays a crutial role in this project. It offer a big open space with comfortable environment for people to gather and enjoy. For
Le Corbusier’s own vision of skyscrapers surrounded by grassy spaces seems
the residential part, an L shape residential building with a 40 feet
utterly ignorant of the streetlife that powers urban interactions. Cities are complicated
span is designed to offer natural ventilation for the residential units.
organisms that thrive when they are messy and filled with mixed uses; the jumble
For the office building, we focus on how to reduce the proportion of
enables people to experience the changing mix of urban marvels.
circulation core area to have more space for office use.
<Brasilia is a warning to urban dreamers>
Charleston City Museum This project is my first studio as an architecture student and also my first design class in the US. It the start of the journey.This project is a concept city museum in Charleston. The intention of this studio is to learn how to design with a respect to surroundings and to improve various skills to show your ideas. Before the beginning of design, we do a bunch of study on Charleston: the location, the history, the transportation and the development. With the knowledge about this city we did a city map and a city concept model to show the understanding of Charleston. The next step is a visiting to Charleston to have a deeper understanding of the texture and atmosphere of this city. The final project of this studio is to choose a site yourself and design a concept city museum to respond to the whole city after finishing a zoom-in district model.
Ravine House Case Study This modern guest house and reflecting pool is located on the grounds of a private residence abutting Toronto and is conceived of as an open pavilion sitting in a lush verdant landscape. To have a better understanding of this project, we built a 1/4”=1’ model to learn the relationship between indoor and outdoor as well as a full scale detail model about the C channel glass to learn the specialized structure system. For the 1/4” scale model, we build it in a more landscape style to get a more realistic relationship between the building and the landscape environment. For the full scale detail model, we built the C channel connection details by photos and our own understanding of a good tectonic and craft.
BIM Fundamentals Seminar Typology: ARC590 Revit Seminar Date:
Spring 2016
Professor: Michael Weiser This course is intended to introduce and explore the application of Revit, a BIM integrated software, both as a product and a process. The class introduced essential software concepts and hands-on operationswith Revit Architecture. Those are some process productions about an office building.
NCMA Pavilion Design BuilD Typology:
ARC503 Professional Arc Studio (Design Build)
Location:
NCMA,Raleigh, NC
Date:
Summer 2016(ongoing)
Professor: Randall Lanou, Ellen Cassilly, Erik Mehlman, Scott Metheny
This design-build project is about a garden tool storage and a small outdoor classroom in the Discovery Garden at NCMA. In addition to creating a space for gathering and storage, the pavillion encourages visitors to discover their surroundings. The expressive wing-shape roof leads rain water to the central channel, where all rain water leading into the adjacent rain garden that feeds the food forest beyond. The food forest, rain garden and pavillion serve as the patronâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s gateway to the Discovery Garden from the ampitheater entrance. One the backside of the pavillion, a short board-formed concrete wall serve as an emphasis of the boundry for the pass behind. It also offers a sitting space for both the people under the pavillion and the visitors on the back side. The garden tool storage is sitting between those two short walls to provide a space for volunteers working for NCMA to storage their tools and bags.
Design & site PreParation
BoarD-formeD ConCrete walls
struCture
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At the very beginning of the design process, the whole class visited the site together and talked about the project and the special site environment. After the site visit, the students individually participated in an intense modeling design charette.The parti that the client settled on was a wall along the path that led to the shed and a canopy overhead to tied the project together. Another two weeks was spent to decide all design details, materials and prepare the site after the parti was decided.
The construction of concrete walls is the most frustrated part and also the most interesting part. we begin the process with measure and culculation to decide the location and depth for footings. The 2 x 6 board framings were mading in shop while another team was working on site to figure out the rebar. The pump trunk rental also went a long way helping easily empty the two concrete trucks into the walls with plenty of time left over to vibrate the concrete wall and create a smooth finish on the top of the walls.
All steel members are fabricated in the College of Design's Materials Lab and assembled on site.
The walls were traditionally framed with 2x6 stud framing and sheathed with plywood.Once the walls were correctly positioned, the base plates were drilled through the concrete and anchored. The team made the decision to use charred wood due to its UV, rot, bug, and weather resistant properties and its 80 year lifespan. The charred siding was installed as a weather barrier onto furring strips. The corner condition was resolved using a custom detail with steel angles. The door frame and door were also fabricated using the same steel language as the corners of the siding.
ROOF
I appreciate your taking the time to review my work samples.
Each of the 2x10 joists was roughly cut to a unique length to create the butterfly roof and then carefully clamped and bolted to the glulam.After the blocking and gutter were installed, the fascia angles were lifted onto the edge of the roof. Installing the corrugated roofing is the final step.
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Zhenchao Zhang Master in Architecture Bachelor in Civil Engineering E-mail: zzhang32@ncsu.edu Phone: 919-592-6738
LANDSCAPE The landscape design and implementation was a collaboration between the students and NCMA. A group worked closely with the Museum to select plants for the rain garden and to design drainage for the project that aligned with the planned drainage for the Discovery Garden.
COMPLETION