YijunZhou_ Design Portfolio

YIJUN ZHOU INTERIOR DESIGN

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HUGGING

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IMMERSION LOUNGE

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GOOGLE, THE PREVADING SURVEILLANCE

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HER

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LIGHT OF LOUVER

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HOUSE OF TRANSFORMATION

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the PARALLELING

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LIGHT OF INTRIGUING

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SEE THROUGH

Restroom Design AutoCAD Drawing of Construction Detail Critial Project Developed via Virtual Reality Hostel Design (Group Project) Reading Chair Design Charrette Dwelling Design

Collage of Pratt Studio

Arduino Aided Lighting Design Office Design

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CHILD RESTROOM UNIT

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HUGGING PARENT-CHILD RESTROOM DESIGN The language of parenthood inspires the desig for a parent-child restroom within a family restuarant. Through hugging, the love and care from parents are naturally expressed. The body gesture of using arms to embace the baby in the center implies an idea of protecting, caring and love. Taking such an idea, I developed the project aiming to evoke a comfortable and loveful experience.

Restroom Unit for Parents or Sharing

Suspended Light Fixture

Restroom Unit for Child

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Individual concealable restroom unit provides a more secured view control function; Sculptured in the form of egg to create a playful experience; Sculptured in the form of cloud, the lighting fixture are designed to create a dreamy effect for a playful experience;

One continuous sink for men’s and women’s restrooms. Different height are designed to cooperate with children’s and adults’ uses. The void created by offsetting the mirror serves as a holder for hand dryer, hand towel dispenser, and hand soap dispenser.

LADY’S RESTROOM

CONTINUOUS SINK FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN

Drop Ceiling

Restroom Units for Children

Restroom Units for Parents and Sharing

Architectural Structure

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IMMERSION LOUNGE LOUNGE DESIGN AND DOCUMENTATION DRAWING The immersion lounge creates an immersive experience through the lighting and furnishes.

Jellyfish tank is placed at the entry of the lounge, adding a dream-like blue tone to the entire space.

Stairs are made of metal plates, bend metal stringer carries the load to the floor and also create a smooth and elegant curve line corresponding to the cylinder tank in the center. The furnishes of the stairs are white paint, which provides desired reflecting effects for the coved LED strip lights hidden in the handrail.

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GOOGLE’S EVERYWHERE SURVEILLANCE

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GOOGLE, THE PERVADING SURVEILLANCE VIRTUAL REALITY INTERIOR EXPERIENCES CRITICIZING GOOGLE SUITS Google renders its exterior branding image as an innocent, harmless and philanthropic institution out of a necessity to frame and hide its interiority. The interior is created by Google’s surveillance and exploitation of users’ personal information. Experimental projects supported by Google Arts & Culture have elegant and minimalist webpages, which dedicated to building an appealing and naive appearance of GCI. But surveillance and privacy hazard still reveal themselves via the dialogue box on Google’s webpage, which Google is asking for permission to access the PC’s camera system and personal database. Once acceptance is confirmed, the dialogue box dissolves into a supervising aperture meanwhile sucking in personal information to fill up their database and build up their corporal data center in Nevada. To protest against Google’s branding, a 3D environment is created to illustrate the interiority of Google Arts & Culture by the lens of interior design.

Recorded VR experience can be found at: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SIpooHQ9umKu_O9pz3Nzz116oiE7LDAh view?usp=sharing

Scene 1: Art Palette

Scene 2: Art Selfie

Scene 3: Google Chrome

Scene 4: Google Data Center

Its web interface plays the role of the exterior image of Google. Accepting google’s privacy terms transforms the webpage’s interface into a Threshold, which bridges the personal computer with Google’s data center.

Historical artworks become a gimmick to attract the public’s attention. What behind each historical artwork is a chain of google users’ selfies that are been collected and used to training google’s AI technique.

Searching on Chrome anytime and anywhere, Google records the search activities anytime and anywhere.

Searching activity is exploited in various ways by Google.

Google’s data center search and vacuum every single bit of information on the user’s computer and send it back to construct its information empire. Countless arrays of data units sit one above another.

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The logo design is inspired by the idea of the harmonious union of the two religions in Kathmandu – Hinduism and Buddhism. The goodness in Kathmandu, Kumari, is the living beliefs that worshiped by both religions. The

ATRIUM | RECEPTION

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Hostel Design (Group Project).

The project explores sustainable design in the field of hospitality. The site locates in Kathmandu, Nepal, a two-story historical preserved temple.

Developing around Kantamandu’s live goddess Kumari, the project focus on the spiritual expression to emphasize the conflicts between human rights and religious beliefs.

a circular icon, which aims an idea of unification. Room me letters use recycled paper ually reuses. In addition, water ade from recycled glasses.

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Women’s

Men’s

Restaurant

Kitchen

Women’s

Room for 6

Room for 4

Room for 6

Garden Room for 2 with Private Bath

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Pantry

Garden

Library

Exhibition

Reception

Outdoor Dinning

UP Room for 2 with Private Bath

Lounge Garden

Meeting Room

Garden

Office

Women’s

Room for 6

Room for 6

Room for 4

Lundary

Entry

Ground Floor

Section A

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Luggage

Second Floor

Section B

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Room for 6

DN Lounge

Lounge

Room for 4

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Room for 6

LOUNGE

GARDEN

GUEST ROOM

Sustainbility: Local materials and local architectural language inspired furniture designs, which are widely used throughout the hostel, including floor lamps, nightstands, lounge chairs, restaurant seatings. Local fabrics are also used at cushion, pillows, curtains to create a cohesive design furnishes.

Customized Floor Lamp: Adapting the local braiding technique to the lamp cover.

Customized Nightstand: Adapting the architectural material structural language into the lamp design.

Customized Lounge Seat: Adapting braiding language into the form of the chair, local textile is used for the cushion.

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PHYSICAL MODEL – TESTING LIGHT CONDITION

Problem to Design

Solution Concept

Louver Hat

Sun Filter Wings

Research

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LIGHT AND LOUVER

Yearly New York Direct Sun Light Diagram

Louver Reading Chair

Design Process

Geometric Trace

Organic Form

2D – 3D

Proposal When Louvers Close: Closed louver blades blocks away direct sunlight to provide a healthy and comfort reading condition.

When Louvers Open: Louver blades open, which allow air flow and reach the max amount of direct sunlight.

READING CHAIR DESIGN CHARRETTE

ht is such an influential factor ading paperback books, the ocuses on improving lighting ns. Filtering off strong direct and adding up soft reading during nighttime, the design es solar energy panel on the de, as well as the LED panel ior side. The former provides energy for the LED light. The self forms a sustainable selfency system.The adjustable cture is designed to adapt to nlight angles, as well benefit the air circulation.

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Design Inspiration Pivoting Wood Joint:

Boundary fully closed: Two seperated spaces

Section A

Boundary partially open: Two partially connected spaces

Boundary partially closed: Two mostly connected spaces

Section B

Boundary fully open: Two connected space

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HOUSE OF TRANSFORMATION MULTI-GENERATION DWELLING DESIGN The project locates at 36 Strong Place, Cobbie Hill, Brooklyn, NY – a three-story carriage house. Inspired from mending broken chair back, the language of transformable partition satisfies the family members’different needs on a long-term consideration.Two design languages are extracted from the mending process, including a spline that works as a vertical connection, as well as pivoting and sliding transformable doors. The plumbing core vertically connects the three levels. The vertical circulation emphasizes the core, and the stairs are arranged around the bathrooms’ exterior walls. Voids created as in-between spaces developed from the mending technique also inspired the primary lighting concept.

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Axonometric Diagram of Stacking Bathrooms

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DINING | SHARED BATHROOM

Ground Floor: Bathroom Boundary Fixibility:Transformable partition systems developed from mending studies function as flexible boundaries on all three levels of the house. The design aims to provide transformable boundaries to shift shared and private spaces over time as well as for different uses as the needs of the family changes.

Grandmother’s Bedroom

Grandmothe Bedroom

Living and Dining Room

Bathroom for Private Use

Bathroom to Share

Master Bedroom

Master Bathroom

Daughter’s Bedroom

DN Walk-In Closet

Second Floor

Kitchen

Weathering Door

Restroom

Grandmother’s Bedroom

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Living Room

Entry

First Floor

Storage

UP Bathroom

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Guest Room

Living and Dining Room

Recreation Room

Cellar

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THE PARALLELING VISUAL COLLAGE OF PRATT INSITITUTE Paralleling speaks for the idea of endlessness. Countless days and nights spent in the Pratt Insitute blurry the boundary of time, implying the idea of lost in the wonder world.

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The goal of the project is to encourage au The form of the fixtures aims to mimic a Ultrasonic sensors are chained with Ar codable LED strips. Neopixel LED strips a each layer of the museum board, which w

LIGHT RESPONDS TO MOTION

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Previous Study

AIDED LIGHTING FIXTURE DESIGN

udiences to interact with the artwork. a dreamy surrealism organic flows. rduino panel in the back, same as are attached at the inner edge under will respond to the detected motions.

Lighit Fixture – Acrylic and LED

Lighit Fixture – Acrylic and LED

Fabrication Process

Laser-cut Museumboards

Attaching LED Stripes

Backside – Connected Wires and Arduino Board

Scope of Coding

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AUDITORIUM

Elevation

Reception | Auditorium | Classroom | Office

9 SEE THROUGH OFFICE DESIGN FOR UNITED NATIONS DIVISION FOR INCLUSIVE SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT The project aims to create a flexible space for various user groups with different programs including office, education, and lounge. The site locates at the Pepsi-Cola Building, 500 Park Ave, New York, around 9800 sq.ft. The design strategy is inspired by the conceptual models studies of “seperate and unity” threshold conditions.

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Design Inspirations

Through testing different threshold models that contain specific design languages, the “threshold” model indicates the languages of “separate/unify “light/vision.” Diagraming and extracting ideas from the “threshold” models, separation and unifying are applied to physical space planning based o study of adjacent programs. Flexible partition systems enable changeable room sizes, which satisfies different sizes of user groups. In addition, gla wisely used within the design, because tansparency is the key element for the client’s mission, which addresses the global challenges, including t related to poverty, inequality, climate, environmental degradation, prosperity, peace, and justice.

Conceptual Study Models “Vision and Light”

Elevation

Phone Booth | Offices | Meeting Area

Conceptual Study Models – “Separate and Unify”

Conceptual Study Models – “Separate and Unify” & “Vision and Light”

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Schematic Layout

Lounge

Education

Process Models

Work

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