ZHUOLAN ZHANG INTERIOR DESIGN PORTFOLIO
Interior spaces are not only a shelter of comfort, but also a catalyst that shapes people’s behaviors and activities. - Zhuolan Zhang
ZHUOLAN ZHANG EDUCATION
WORKING EXPERIENCE
2015.05 - 2019. 05
California College of the Arts | Interior Design | BFA
2018. 05 - 2018.12
HONORS / AWARDS
Modern kitchen and cabinet design company
IIDA Student Campus Representative Sozo Studio | Intern | Excellent Employee School Project | Jury Prize Nominated | Studio 2_ Visible School Project | Jury Prize Nominated | Design Media Cal Academy | Night Life Exhibition | Mood Booth
Technical Skills
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Vray Render Adobe Illustrator Adobe Photoshop Adobe Premiere Adobe After Effect Make 123D Office Suite Rhinoceros 3D Sketch-up Revit
- Grasshopper
Tools
Others
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Laser cut CNC 3D Printing Wood Shop Making
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Meeting with clients Providing design drawings, CAD drawing Finalizing hardware schedules Specifying construction details Sourcing materials to present furniture, fabrics,and for project presentations. Organizing & maintaining sample library Updating spreadsheets and schedules Assisting on site measurements Creating and maintaining project Binders Contacting vendors and subs for pricing & lead times Three finished products, and participated in designing kitchen for multi- family
2018. 01- 2018.12
School
Design Skills Interior Design (multiple types) Material & Furniture Specification Space Planning Hardware Specification Photo-real Rendering Furnishing Cabinet& Kitchen Design Lighting Design Human Flow & Interaction
SOZO STUDIO | Designer
California College of the Arts | Material Monitor
Skills Leo Zhuolan Zhang is interested in the intersection of human behaviors and interior design. He pursues to design spaces for the future of social interaction. Interior spaces are not only a shelter of comfort, but also a catalyst that shapes people’s behaviors and activities. During his education in California College of the Arts as an Interior Designer, Leo was immersed in an open and collaborative environment where established his interest in the future of living and interactions. He also took up courses from Interaction Design such as Creative Founder (entrepreneurship learning) and Design Strategy to understand the importance of creating human connections and effective and reasonable decision making. His dialectic way of thinking helps him think comprehensively for spaces, human interactions, and experiences.
Email: Zhuolan@cca.edu Contact: 415-535-9921 Linkedin.com/in/zhuolan-zhang-ba9756161 https://www.zhuolan.design/ https://issuu.com/zhuolan/
Leadership Creative Problem Solving Lean Start-up User Research Presentation English Chinese
- Arranging materials - Helping students, mangers for their projects - Tracking & sourcing materials
2017. 05 - 2017. 08
Rocky Design | Design Assistant Commercial and residential interior design company - Learning professional CAD drawings - Designing Graphic layout for client presentation - Logo design, table design, etc.
2016. 04 - 2016. 09
Painting & Calligraphy Academy | Teaching Assistant Art training school
- Organizing events - Assisting students for their art piece - Graphic design for events
Contents
Interior Designs
Professional Works
Interaction Designs
SPA CHAMELEON
FlOATING CLOSET
HATCH
VISIBLE SCHOOL HOLOGRAM ATLAS HOTEL
Others
SPA CHAMELEON transformable spa experience - 2018 Spring Advanced Studio - Spa & Resort Design - Instructor: Katherine Lambert
CENTER POOL
I believe a good interior design always associates with experience design. For this project, I position myself as a customer and truly consider all the design elements. The Spa is located in one of the youngest cities in the world, with only 30 years of history. The spa constantly changes throughout the day, targeting young people who always seek for a unique experience. I challenge myself to combine exciting and calm spa experience in one space. As the name suggests, Spa Chameleon has two conditions, hiding or contrasting the surrounding nature, for both Introverted and extroverted users. During the day, natural light that comes from nature into the interior space is the dominated lighting source. It creates a beautiful shadow and color. At night, changing artificial light attracts people to important spaces.
Vandome Forest
Guestroom Entrance
Hot Spring Infinite Pool
Dance Studio Dining
Locker/Sauna
Parking Lot
Shenzhen, a hot and humid place, is one of the youngest cities in the world where it only has about 30 years. My customers are mostly young people and always seek for unique and changeable experience for leisure time. Spa Chameleon is situated in an isolated island near the coastline. The only way to access the spa is to row a small boat near the harbor.
AXO
Chameleon Cell Conceptual Model
Concept Development & Research I Started from investigating pod, cell, and signal which is invoking the specificities of a constantly evolving eco-cultural-material system. Falling in love with Chameleon cell, I developed a transformable pod that imitates how it functions.
Chameleons can quickly change their appearance in response to temperature, environment, and mood. Scientists recently identified a key factor in their ability to do this: The lizards can “tune� the distances between nanoscale crystals in their skin that reflect light, creating a spectrum of colors.
Vandome
Inside
VANDOME Pavilion Design
Vandome emits colorful light to attract people to enter. The layers of Double-dome structure enables rotation. When the door isn’t matched, the colors will change from colorful light to ambient light. The column in the middle acts as a seating area for people to keep cool in the summer and warm in the winter. This is done through the thermal pipes underneath the surface of the columns
Outside
Guestroom Vandome
Hot Spring
Outdoor Dining No matter where you are, you can always notice the center infinite pools, a place for people to gather and socialize. Hot springs located in the forest allow people to have an intimate and biophilic experience.
Infinite Pool
Dance Studio
Dining
Bar
LIVING ROOM
HOT SPRING
GUESTROOM
LOCKER ROOM BATHROOM
INFINITE POOL
VANDOME
SHOWER BED
SAUNA
BAR
FITTING ROOM LAUNDRY
RECEPTION
EVELATOR
STEAM ROOM
TREATMENT DINING
DINING
KITCHEN
OFFICE MADITATION ROOM
Bring forward the concept of chameleon to an architecture. This is the final floor plan for Spa Chameleon. I located the Vandome, my pavilion design in the forest aside the main building.
DANCE STUDIO
DINING SPACE
Inspiration: Bone Structure
Section
Dining space is inspired by the form of a bone structure. In this space, customers can see the infinity pool at the center. they also can buy food and drink before and after enjoying the spa.
LOCKER & SOUNA
In the locker room, customer changes the clothes on one side, and they will see a linear narrow pathway that arouses their curiosity. Something is happening on the other side, but they can only see a bit. With curiously, they walk into the narrow pathway and find out a small sauna and steam room that hidden behind the wall.
GUESTROOM
Conceptual Image
Section
Floor Plan Twisted interior walls in-between guestrooms contribute to the unique experience as well. It maximizes and differentiates the use of the spaces. Living room, bedroom, and bathroom live in between the twisted wall. The geometry eliminates the edges in order to improve comfort level.
DANCE STUDIO
When the sun vanishes at the horizontal line. Chameleon is waking up. The mood changes. Colorful lighting is taking over the ambient light, it leads people to special spaces.
VISIBLE Rambling in the forest - 2017 Summer Studio 2 - Residential Design - Instructor: Amy Campos
KITCHEN
I believe a future of residential design will bring colors, textures, and ingredients from nature into people living space. VISIBLE maximizes openings to allow surrounding beauty into spaces. This render is showing the kitchen and stairs design in VISIBLE. I used what I learned from my Intern in a modern kitchen design studio to develop the glass cabinet and the island.
INSPIRATION
OFFICE
KITCHEN LIBRARY
LIVING ROOM
BATHROOM BATHROOM
Imagine, a person rambles through the forest, with the light filtering through the trees. Visible was inspired by the dawn in forests. To mimic this harmonious effect, I developed an architectural form to create a different light effect. Visible is a residential project that is designed for a married elderly couple in their 60’s with a two-yearold grandchild. For this audience, the number of open space is maximized, which ensures constant visual contact.
BEDROOM
SPACIAL RELATIONSHIP
LIGHTING RELATIONSHIP
I use one type of wood for the wall and the flooring. This design will create a continuous and immersive architectural form.
OFFICE
When you enter your home at night, turn on a light. The whole house will be illuminated and the effect resembles sunlight dappling through the tree.
LIBRARY
OFFICE
BATHROOM
TEAROOM
Section
CUSTOM FURNITURE
LIVING ROOM　
The nature-printed fabric, and warmth of red brings in nature’s colors and materials into the residence.
A custom designed furniture piece that includes multiple orange segments that can slide into the main structural element. Each segment has magnets on the edges that allow assembly of a variety of tables.
Floor Plan
DINING
BEDROOM
SCHOOL HOLOGRAM Bridge Students Though Holographic Teaching & Learning Experience - 2018 Summer Studio 4 - School Design - Instructor: Doris Anna Guerrero
STUDIO
School HOLOGRAM is Futuristic school designed for students who study icebergs. it projects Holographic images, courses, lectures, and creatures on the air to help students and guests study the ecosystem in glacier. Holographic images can be seen from multiple different spaces in order to encourage sharing of the information and participating in the event.
I fall in love with the richness of reflection and refraction in the ice. So I mimic the shapes, colors, and textures into my interior design.
This is an inspirational image for architectural form. The triangular shapes become the main design elements for my interiors.
Integrate the future projection technique Hologram into the design to reimagine the future of the school.
ATRIUM
TOOL CENTER
STUDIO MUTI FUNTION SPACE HOLOGRAM RAPID PROTOTYPING
TINKER SPACE
LOBBY
RESTROOM
LOUNGE
This is a render showing how the hologram is projected in space. In this atrium, the surrounded room can interact with the hologram images, The hologram can be designed and utilized based on needs. The outsider can also see the hologram projection far from the school. Attracting people attention, this technique will become a catalyst that shapes people’s behaviors and activities.
ICE CAFE
RESTROOM
MUTI FUNCTION SPACE
COMPUTER LAB
RAPID PROTOTYPING
LOUNGE
HOLOGRAM ATRIUM
OUTDOOR LOUNGE
HOLOGRAM ATRIUM
TINKER SPACE
KITCHEN
STUDIO
HOLOGRAM ATRIUM
LIBRARY
OUTDOOR LOUNGE
STDUIO
HOLOGRAM ATRIUM
HOLOGRAM ATRIUM
COMPUTER LAB
RESTROOM
TINKER SPACE
MEETING SPACE HOLOGRAM ATRIUM
LOBBY
RESTROOM
ELEVATOR
ENTRANCE
LOBBY
ELEVATOR
STDUIO
LOUNGE
ICE CAFE
LOUNGE
HOLOGRAM ATRIUM
EVENT SPACE
COMPUTER LAB
IDF
TRASH ROOM
TOOL CENTER
CONTROL ROOM
RAPID PROTOTYPING
MEETING ROOM
STUDIO
OFFICE
STUDIO
HOLOGRAM ATRIUM
DOWNLIGHT
LINEAR PENDANT
WALL WASH
DIFFUSED LED LIGHT PANEL
SURFACE MOUNT LINEAR LED
HOLOGRAM PROJECTOR ADJUSTABLE DOWNLIGHT
DIFFUSED LED LIGHT PANEL
DIFFUSED LED LIGHT PANEL
RCP Level 4
WALL WASH
DOWNLIGHT & CUSTOM CEILING PANEL
SURFACE MOUNT LINEAR LED
RCP Level 2
DIFFUSED LED LIGHT PANEL
WALL WASH
SURFACE MOUNT LINEAR LED
SURFACE MOUNT LINEAR LED
SURFACE MOUNT LINEAR LED
RCP Level 1
RCP Level 3
CORE
Designed by Zhuolan
Creatures show their beauty through gorgeous patterns on their body such as the scale of fish body and peacock feathers, which contain attractive colors. My pattern was inspired by those beauty of the light and color. In my pattern, the light where coming through the hole of my pattern takes place of the attractive colors that appears on the creatures, to make it more controllable and varying.
Decorated by my designed ceiling panel, the lobby gives people a colorful first impression, which similar to the refraction of the light in the ice. Two colors stand out: Blue and orange. This designed ceiling panel is inspired by the combination of peacock feather and fish scale.
LOBBY
ICE CAFE
Dessert served in the CafĂŠ
Material Palettel
Inspired by icebergs in the South Pole, ICE Cafe brings awareness of the environmental issues of the melting glaciers. Having the furniture such as ceiling, chairs, and light fixtures metaphor the shape of icebergs, people can experience being surrounded by glacier. ICE Cafe serves beverages with a transparent melting sculpture made by ice.
ATLAS HOTEL A dramatic change of space configuration. - 2018 Spring Studio 3 - Hospitality Design - Instructor: Yoko Ishihara
STUDIO
Located in San Francisco, Fort Mason Pier 9, ATLAS Hotel varies spatially in size, height, and color to create a unique experience of entertainment. The hotel hosts a new type of art-centric lifestyle to attract tourists as a major destination for travelers. As people walk through the building, they experience a vast transition from a tiny narrow saturated pathway to big open monochromatic spaces.
INSPIRATION
The concept of my hotel starts with a question: How to impress cutomers when they move in and out of spaces? I began to think about my personal impressive memory. Interestingly, they have similar attributes: red, repetitive, and unique.
SKETCHES OF LAYOUT
Those are the sketches of different possibilities of spatial layout. For my final layout, there are two entrances. You can either enter through an art gallery where close to the street or in the middle where the reception is located to check in. Since the site is located at the pier, I situated the restaurant and bar close to the water side, so customers can have an open and peaceful view during dining.
PATI - DIAGRAMS
Pati- diagrams show the process of thinking the spatial relationship in three dimensions. It helps me visualize connections and designs architectural forms.
Pier 9 - an existing warehouse building located along the San Francisco Bay at Fort Mason. The site is part of a larger network of historic military piers, buildings, warehouses and transportation networks that make up an evolving campus for arts and culture. it operated by the non-profit organization Fort Mason Center for Arts and Culture
USER PROFILE
Affluent people who seek for high-level service
People who like arts and who want to purchase an art work
Business group that organizes important meetings
SPA
OUTDOOR ROOF TOP BAR
BUILD-IN SEATING
RESTAURANT
CONFERENCE ROOM
GALLERY
LOCKER ROOM
PRE-FUNCTION
MAIN ENTRANCE
OFFICE
GALLERY
MUSIC ROOM
LOBBY
EVENT SPACE
The edge of the rooms illuminates in order to create a floating or celestial effect. These LEDs creates a high contrast between the location with LEDs and those without.
PENDANT
PENDANT
WALL WASH
CLOVE LIGHT
DOWN LIGHT
LINEAR PENDANT
DOWN LIGHT
PENDANT
DIFFUSED LED LIGHT PANEL
PENDANT
CLOVE LIGHT
Inspiration Material Palette
STAIRS
Selected Furnitures
This render shows people moving in the small, narrow, and saturated pathway. The red glass reflects surrounded environment creating an illusory experience. This architectural form is also applied to other connections between two major spaces, providing a contrast from small to large, saturated to monochromatic.
RESTURANT
Floor Plan
Section
FLOATING CLOSET A modern minimal closet - 2018 Summer Intern - Closet design - Sozo Studio
FLOATING CLOSET
FLOATING CLOSET is a walk-in closet using wall-hang rod to maximize the use of the space. It hides delicate clothing such as dresses, socks, hats, and exhibits frequently used items such as purses, nickles, and jackets. its minimal feature allows clothes and accessories to shine
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ALBORETO
6 2
AGENCEMENT L 2
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3
5 Material Specifaction
1. Richelieu Shelf Support Item No. 1621712G 2. HAFELE Laundry Hampers Item No. 540.02.112 3. SALICE: Runner For pull out shelves, push 65579, 500-600mm 4. Material ALBORETO(CLF -27LR) 5.Drawer System: Oriongray Legra Box 6 Agencement L 2 7. Straight Bar 25 cm L 2 8. Material Storm
CLOVE LIGHT
ORIONGRAY LEGRA BOX SALICE: PUSH TO OPEN
HAFELE LAUNDRY HAMPER
ELEVATION A
ELEVATION B
SAMPLE SHOP DRAWINGS
ELEVATION C
HATCH a peer-to-peer skills-exchange platform - 2019 Spring - Interaction Design - Entrepreneurship Learning - Instructor:Kate Rutter
Hatch is a peer-to-peer skills-exchange platform designed to create a more collaborative and conducive learning environment for students by encouraging them to help one another. It is a platform and encourages openness and collaboration in learning, so everyone can learn, grow and share with one another.
TEAM
OVERVIEW
Leo Zhuolan Zhang - CFO Nathalia Kasman - CEO Anchi Hsin - CTO Claire Xi Zhou - CMO
A 14-weeks entrepreneurial class created to help budding designers bridge their design skills with businesses. In this class, We spent the first part of the class trying to ; going back to the drawing board of ideas if the problem isn’t validated.
METHODOLOGY -
Steve Blank’s Customer Development process Lean Start-up Quantitative research Prototyping Usability testing
PROBLEM Students are constantly learning new things and often encounter hiccups in the process. They try to figure it out on their own but to no avail because Asking someone who has learned it before for help is faster and sometimes, more effective.
Our vision is to create a platform and encourages openness and collaboration in learning, so everyone can learn, grow and share with one another.
OUR DESIGN SOLUTION
MINIMAL VIABLE DESIGN FEATURES https://www.zhuolan.design/hatch
Learning & Sharing Goals
Chat
Suggested Peers
During sign-up, students will be prompted to put their learning and sharing goals.
After students have connected with one another, they can converse with their learning peers and get to know one another.
Hatch suggests peers to students by aligning their learning goals and interests. Students are able to connect with this pre-selected group of people after.
PROCESS Post huge posters that allowed students to write their responses around campus to gather feedback.
Brainstorm some possible business opportunities and interests during the class for our direction.
Discuss our persona, module, and product features. Design our minimal viable product to test our assumptions.
Debrief interviews, organize feedbacks and responses from students.
Design sheets, boxes, posters for marketing. Acquire potential users in a cost-effective way.
Launch our minimal viable product and acquire potential user.
Build connections between people who have an align learning and sharing interests.
Here is the data we collect from people who signed up for our project.
Create our business model canvas, clarify our target users.
Debrief feedbacks from the user, pivot our idea, and list new hypothesis to test out.
Find out our company value. Start to plan a schedule for our final pitch.
Mapping the Learning Journey, and design presentation for our pitch.
Design revenue model and calculate cost structure.
Based on our interview result, we created our own marketing funnel.
We had an ask of $520,000 to kickstart our product and achieve our next milestones and pitched this to a group of 11 investors where 9/11 of them invested, totalling the investment to $1,681,500.
... OTHER WORKS Other creations during education - 4 years in college - Different kinds - Creations
AFTERGLOW
STURCTURE DESIGN
HAND DRAWING
Paper model
Sketch model produced in rhino, testing how to produce complex curves from rhino to reality.
Some diagrams that illustrate design aggregation and application to the wall
Z H U OA L N Z H A N G Materiality and Space 3 \ Interior Design / Fall 2017 \ Instructors Alda Çapi, Margo Majewska Z H U OA L N Z H A N G Materiality and Space 3 \ Interior Design / Fall 2017 \ Instructors Alda Çapi, Margo Majewska
Z H U OA L N Z H A N G Materiality and Space 3 \ Interior Design / Fall 2017 \ Instructors Alda Çapi, Margo Majewska
Z H U OA L N Z H A N G Materiality and Space 3 \ Interior Design / Fall 2017 \ Instructors Alda Çapi, Margo Majewska
An example of how to imitate 3D illusion in 2D form
Paper model
Z eo F elt
Acoustic Panel
CSI : DI V I SI O N
09 F I N I SH ES
09 5 1 13 A coustical P anel Ceiling s
Zeoquisite
SPECIFICATIONS: T h e pr oduct is a 100% w ool f elt acoustic panel. T h e f or m of th e desig n is ab le to str etch and pull w h ich allow s m ultiple config ur ations and applications such as appling to w aving ceiling or a r ounded w all. T h e unit of th e panel h as tw o loops w h ich allow th e lig h t to pass th r oug h . T h e N R C value is 0. 9 4 , th e sound w ill b e ab sor b ed and elim inated b y th e m ater ial and th e sh ape. T h e b enefit of th e pr oduct is th at it r educes sound w aves. T h e color under neath is availab le. it w ill add liveness to th e space. Each unit can b e easily r eplaced if any of th em ar e dam ag ed.
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Z H U OA L N Z H A N G Materiality and Space 3 \ Interior Design / Fall 2017 \ Instructors Alda Çapi, Margo Majewska
Sustainability: DESCRIPTION:
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DESCRIPTION:
100% natural felt acoustic panel that can be applied to varied different types of surfaces and application. (Hanging, installation, light fixture, etc.) It has many different forms and colors and also very environmentally friendly. Custom size PRODUCT SIZE: Natural wool felt, natural dye FINISH: Acoustic panel and decorative ceiling or wall panel APPLICATIONS:
Elevation and Section Close up Detail Scale: 1”=3’-0” Z H U OA L N Z H A N G Materiality and Space 3 \ Interior Design / Fall 2017 \ Instructors Alda Çapi, Margo Majewska
O ver all Elevation & Section Scale: 1”=8 ’-0”
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Z H U OA L Materiality and Space 3 \ Interior Design / Fall 2017 \ Instructors Alda Çapi, Margo Z H U OA L N Z H A N G Materiality and Space 3 \ Interior Design / Fall 2017 \ Instructors Alda Çapi, Margo Majewska
BY ZHUOLAN ZHANG https://www.zhuolan.design/