Zichao Portfolio 2016 - 2019

ZICHAO ZHU PORTFOLIO 2013 - 2019

Ames, ISU, Exchange Program

New York, Cooper Union, AA visiting School

Tianjin University Bachelor Degree

Rome, Sapienza University, Urban Planning Workshop

Guizhou Louna Bamboo Construction Competiton

Tokyo, Japan Women University Residential Design Workshop

Nanjing, AZL Architects Internship

The University of Melbourne Master of Architecture

School of Architecture, The University of Melbourne/Tianjin University Tel +61 - 0410757183/+86-15822386320 E-mail: zhuzc0205@gmail.com/1284632894@qq.com

ZHU ZICHAO EDUCATION

SKILLS

+61-410757183 Email: zhuzc0205@gmail.com

Unit 312/25 Edinburgh Ave Canberra City, ACT, 2601

BACHELOR OF ARCHITECTURE TIANJIN UNIVERSITY, TIANJIN, NANKAI 2013 - 2018 88/100 Overall Grades-3.7/4 GPA, Class Monitor in Experimental Class BACHELOR OF ARCHITECTURE 2017.01 - 2017.05

IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY, AMES, IA, USA Non Degreee Exchange Program, College of Design

MASTER OF ARCHITECTURE 2018.07 - 2020.07

UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE, VIC, AUSTRALIA 81/100 Overall Grades, 1st-Class Honours

GRAPHIC

Adobe Suite, Microsoft Office, Vray, Enscape, Autocad, Keyshot

DIGITAL MODELING

Rhino & Grasshopper, Sketchup, Revit, Maya

CONTENT 01 IDENTITY COURT

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2050 Courthouse Design For Human & Cyborg Studio E 07/2019-10/2019, 12 Weeks Instructor: Ariani Anwar Individiual Work/Academic Instructor Email: dewi.anwar@unimelb.edu.au Site: Legal Precinct, Melbourne,Victoria

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High Density Residential Design AVALIABILITY INTERNSHIP

MARCH, 2021

WORKING VISA 485, 2020.12 - 2022.12

SEARCH - STUDIO MELBOURNE 2020.08-2020.11 Assisted registered architect to accomplish drawing package of SD, DD, CD design process.

Interior joinery documentation, the lighting RCP plans and other relative drawings.

Produced FF&E/Window/Door schedules.

Modelled Revit families and be proficient at furniture/window/door etc. family modelling.

Took charge of producing a town planning drawing package.

TJU RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTURE DESIGN TIANJIN 2018.02-2018.05 ChangShan Geological Museum interior design and rendering production.

XingTai Citizen Culture Center sketch design and documentation.

AZL ARCHITECTS NANJING 2017.07-2017.09 Proposed architectural concepts and landscape designing ideas.

Individual design develop drawings' moderation.

Assist registered architect to produce plan construction drawings.

EXPERIENCE

JAPAN WOMEN UNIVERSITY DESIGN WORKSHOP SEP. 2016 TOKYO, JAPAN A community-reform design of a social housing project, Toyama Complex, Responsible for diagram and plan and perspective drawings. etc.

ROME SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY DESIGN WORKSHOP OCT. 2016 ROME, ITALY Urban design project in San Lorenzo, Italy, where includes Termini Train Station and Ancient City Wall Preservation Zone. Work with students from Rome.

AA VISITING SCHOOL, COOPER UNION

AWARD

JUL, 2019

Studio C 07/2018-10/2018, 12 Weeks Instructor: Laura Matires Individiual Work/Academic Instructor Email: laura@martiresdoyle.com Site: Northmelbourne, Melbourne,Victoria

03 MEMORY COMPLECITY

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A Network To Retell The Past Communal Spirit Undergraduated Thesis 03/2018-06/2018, 12 Weeks Instructor: YH Kong/XN Zhang/SC Xin Group Work/Academic Instructor Email: arch_zhangxinnan@tju.edu.cn Site: Huangjueping, Chongqing, China

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A Sharehosue Design For 15 Minimalist Friends 3rd Grade Studio 02/2016-04/2016, 8Weeks Instructor: Xinnan Zhang Individual work/Academic Instructor Email: arch_zhangxinnan@tju.edu.cn Site: Tianjincho, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan

NEW YORK, USA

SHORTLIST OF YTAA ASIAN EDITION SEP 2020 Project Memory Complecity was nominated in the shortlist of the Young Talented Architect Award 2020: https://www.world-architects.com/en/wanlin-zheng-xunfeng-liu-zichao-zhu-ytaa2020-asia-shortlist-tianjin/project/memory-complecity 1ST PRIZE OF TJU UNDERGRADUATED THESIS AWARD JUL 2018 3RD PRIZE OF TIAN HUA UNDERGRADUATED THESIS AWARD JUN 2018 INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGE STUDENT SCHOLARSHIP JAN 2017 Sponsored by Chinese Scholarship Council of Ministry of Education to study aboard.

NATIONAL UNIVERSITY STUDENT INNOVATION PROJECT MAY 2015 Won the National Scholarship for 10,000 yuan.

FULI ESTATE OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION SCHOLARSHIP DEC 2016 3RD PRIZE OF LOUNA BAMBOO CONSTRUCTION COMPETITION AUG 2016 This was an international construction competition which attended by 22 universities.

We won the third prize and I attended the construction part in this project.

05 OTHER WORKS Revit modeling & Rendering Town Planning/Applied Architectural Technology/Grasshopper & Handcraft Measurement & Documentation/Internship Works/Hand-Drawing Guizhou Louna Bamboo Construction Competition/Model Making

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01 IDENTITY COURT 2050 COURTHOUSE DESIGN FOR HUMAN & CYBORG Studio E 07/2019-10/2019, 12 Weeks Instructor: Ariani Anwar Individiual Work/Academic Instructor Email: dewi.anwar@unimelb.edu.au Site: Legal Precinct, Melbourne,Victoria

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MELBOURNE LEGAL PRECINCT Supreme Court

Cooper Justice Center

Magistrates’ Court

Commonwealth Law Courts

Queen Victoria Market

Flagstaff Station Flagstaff Garden

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Courthouses are always a reflection of people’s thought about LAW. During the ancient Greece period, the democracy policy made the courthouse a public space that everyone could hear the debate; while the monarchy in the Middle Ages made the Basilica Church become Courthouse; 18th century, Old Bailey as the most famous courthouse, reflected the sublime of law; Mies’ courthouse in the USA used its flat space to show the equality of law in modern value. What about in the future?

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CONCEPT & LAYOUT Y

Fuzzy Zone Crime Subject

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Y

Crime Object

What if the boundary between human and robots is becoming more and more ambiguous and how should courthouse help us to understand our self-identity?

Human

Spirit/ Memory

Body

Machine

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Science

How Human Knew Ourselves

Philosophy Religion

Public Gallery

X axis is formed by human-machine, standing for the subject of crime, body-spirit defines Y axis, referring to the object of crime. XY define four kinds of crimes. A large court located at the central point to judge those cases that in the fuzzy zone. Z shows the development of our knowledge of human identity as a public gallery.

Machine Spirit

Human Spirit

Machine Body

Human Body

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CIRCULATION SYSTEM

ATRIUM GALLERY DESIGN

PUBLIC

JUDGES & JURY

CUSTODY

The public can use the elevators and staircases in the atrium to get to each courtroom.

They can use the vertical traffic system on both sides to get to their offices and the lifts outside the courtrooms to get in there.

They can use four elevators to get into each kind of courtroom, those lifts can all come to the identity courtroom at the top.

A rotating system that control the meatal black box.

SCIENCE - NEURONS Science told us our spirit is just a network of neurons, there is no so-called "Ghost" in our shell.

SELF - CONSCIOUSNESS Scientists used mirror to test if a creature has self-consciousness or not. Find yourself in these mirrors.

PHILOSOPHY - DUALITY Descartes divided human into two parts Body and Spirit. But as we discovered that it is impossible to separate them. So what about the fuzzy zone between them?

RELIGION - DICTATORSHIP In the past, religion told us we were defined by god. This cross structure shows the dictatorship of that period.

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HUMAN - SPIRIT COURT

ROBOT - BODY COURT

Human as the subject of a crime, still need a physical custody space to hold the prisoner. As the whole process of the crime would happen on the internet, the restoration of the criminal process requires a certain technical means to project it in the space.

The custody space of this courtroom is a pipe-like space and is more suitable for the robots prisoner.

The central mechanical element is to show the evidence and process of a crime. The debating will be held digitally.

Jury area

Custidy Space

Witness Area

Dock

Dock

Public Entrance

Custody Space

Witness Area Digital Debating Area Judge Area

Judge Area

Jury Area Public Space

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ROBOT - SPIRIT COURT

VITRUAL IDENTITY COURT

The concept of this courtroom is to create a system to convert each person's spirit into digital data and merge them together to hold a virtual - reality trial, the process of the trial will be projected on the outside of the wall for the public to view.

This virtual identity courtroom will be the largest and the most important courtroom in this courthouse.

Everyone engaged in the trial will be converted into digital data, and every single detail will be recorded in those metal data processor. The AI robot will calculate those data and help to find a solution for future trials. The process of this court's trial will be projected to the city.

Data Transmission Pipe

Spirit Converter Screen Data Transmission Pipe

Processor Level #1

Data Processor Panel Processor Level #2 Custody Space (Rotating Capsule Space )

Project to The Air

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SITE PLAN

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+23.000M 4F PLAN

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+27.000M 5F PLAN

If technology will develop to a certain level, the spirit would be saved as data, and the trial will be held virtually. A system for this kind of courtroom will come up: transmission pipe, data converter, information projector and even spaces just for robots, not for humans.

The advanced technology will find an answer to the identity/definition for both the audience and the relevant person of the trial.

Although human will probably get confused about our self-identity as our meaning of being a human seems to be deconstructed by the internet and AI, we still need to embrace the future, as Donna Haraway said, “I would rather be a cyborg than a goddess.”

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SECTION A - A

DETAIL SECTION 0m

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2m Parapet Flashing Panel 50mm Bondek Water Proof 150 Concrete Slab Insulation Panel Metal Cladding HVAC Pipe Vent Grille Double Glazing Ceiling

Mullion

Perforated Metal

Floor Panels Floor Support Floor HVAC Track Mechanism

Robot Holding Structure

HandRail Outdoor Paving

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02 LET THE PLAYING OUT HIGH DENSITY RESIDENTIAL DESIGN Studio C 07/2018-10/2018, 12 Weeks Instructor: Laura Matires Individiual Work/Academic Instructor Email: laura@martiresdoyle.com Site: Northmelbourne, Melbourne,Victoria

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SITE LOCATION

"PLAY" AS THE CONCEPT Plato once declared that "life must come as a game." Also Kant drew an analogy between the “free art” and play, claiming that it is to experience the life of their own fun. Play has a profound influence on rebuilding the public space of cities. Over 700 playgrounds’ experiment by Aldo van Eyck illustrates the essence of the metamorphosis of what may be called urban “space” into urban “place”.

SITE 0.5km 1km 2km

Existing Structure grid

Remove Part of Existing

Extract the Envelope

Create Entrance

Volume with Atrium

Re-Wrap

Cut by Sun & Wind

Connect

Divide By Existing Grid Insert the Playing Spaces Generate the Living Groups Get the Volume for Dwellings

CONCEPT DEVELOPMENT The development of residential building design is mainly reflected in aesthetics change and building height increase, while the functional program is still similar.

This design is trying to reveal a new residential possibility in the modern city, which has a close integration of public & private space. The folding operation of volume creates a new chance for the space to meet each other and the huge atrium also create more communication possibilities for residents.

As playing becomes part of our surrounding environment, the joyful potential will be discovered under our routined lives.

Living Unit / Housing Co-Housing / High-Rise

+ 5.700M PLAN 1:500

1. Living Room 2. Toilet 3. Bedroom 4. Climbing Space 5. Lounge 6. Verticle Circulation 7. Public Relaxing Space 8. Swimming Pool 9. Performance Area 10. Audience Stairs 11. Hiding & Catching

+1.200M PLAN

+9.000M PLAN

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10m

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10m

Exposed

Slightly Blocked

Framed

Slightly Exposed

Hidden

Ahead

Horizontal Turn Slightly

Horizontal Turn Sharp

Vertical Turn Slightly

Vertical Turn Sharp

Lying on

Facing

Visual Connection

Crawling

Glancing

Lying on

Stair

Stair & Platform

Climbing

Skate Board

The different prototypes show how the form is generated according to the PLAY concept. Based on the different kinds of spaces, there would be different movements, like the various angles of walkways, the different types of windows and transparency, the multiple kinds of platforms and stairs, and so on.

The general relationship between the living system and the public PLAYing space show in the section A-A.

Detail Section

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DETAIL SECTION 1:50

60 Living Units

Defined Playing Spaces

Undefined Public Spaces & Circulation System

Structure System

Swimming Pool

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03 MEMORY COMPLECITY A NETWORK TO RETELL THE PAST COMMUNAL SPIRIT. Undergraduated Thesis 03/2018-06/2018, 12 Weeks Instructor: YuHang Kong/Xinnan Zhang/Shanchao Xin Group Work/Academic Instructor Email: arch_zhangxinnan@tju.edu.cn Site: Huangjueping, Chongqing, China

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ELEMENTS EXTRACTING AND RECONSTRUCTION

Huangjueping was a typical Chinese community in history. This place suffered from fierce history and what left today are the ruins of that period’s military factories and dormitories. While after the establishment of the People’s Republic of China, the whole shore area along the Yangtze River was changed to Jiulong electrical power plant and a ferry pier and the east part was dominated by a rail system, which all ended their lives in the 21st century. The special aesthetic of these abandoned military and industrial buildings became the inspiration of artists after Sichuan Fine Arts Institute moved to this place.

As the Jiulong electrical power plant is about to be deconstructed, Huangjueping starts to losing its symbol and spirit.

Started from Wresearch, we decided to choose the history timeline as our entry point, try to reconstruct the communal spirit of this area to activate the whole site.

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ELEMENTS EXTRACTING AND RECONSTRUCTION

Combining the negative space on the site and extracting the existing historical elements, the memory reconstruction of ten ( red ) points is carried out, and there are ten newly defined places, which provides new energy for the nearby neighbours, give them a chance to experience new activities with the old memory. I tried to reconstruct the link between modern daily life and passed local history.

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MEMORY AND DAILY LIFE Design of The Bathhouse and Market

Histor y comes and goes, events, memories, rituals and myths have been continuing to go through the life towards the future. Numerous such pauses and continuations constitute a living moment.

The market and the bath, two places where activities closely connected with daily life, provide a stage for real life and future expectations.

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04 SAY "HELLO" THROUGH THE GAP A SHARE-HOUSE DESIGN FOR 15 MINIMALIST FRIENDS 3rd Grade Studio 02/2016-04/2016, 8Weeks Instructor: Xinnan Zhang Individual work/Academic Email: arch_zhangxinnan@tju.edu.cn Site: Tianjincho, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan

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SHAREHOUSE AS AN EMERGING TYPOLOGY

OPERATION I defined the scale of the volume as 2.5m\ 3.5m\ 4.5m(which standard for the private space, semi-private space and sharing space).

The structure of Japanese households is changing. The typical family number is decreasing. While single households are increasing. The later is made of the young generation and keep increasing.

They could not afford the high price of settlement, so sharehouse as a new living style is becoming more and more popular.

2.5 M 3.5 M 4.5 M

The GAPs are created by twisting and rotating the volumes with different angles, the negative space between these volumes become the void, the communal space and the window to the sky. A final result comes from several tests.

MEET REQUIREMENTS OF MODERN LIFE PROGRAM AND LAYOUT The high-density land use in modern societies makes the traditional residential layout no longer suitable for a vertical sharehouse.

Adjustments need to be made such as change the linear apartment space to suit the new lifestyle of single people in the modern city, not only for the plan but for the section as well.

SHARE

PRIVATE

Sharehouse as an exploration of a new lifestyle in the metropolis, it provides an opportunity for the minimalists' life choice. There should be a new space for them to live in, as single lives need a chance to participate in public events, they would sacrifice personal space but earn more space with each other.

SHARE

SEMI-PUBLIC

PRIVATE

The GAP is the space between outside and inside, public and private, real-life and imagination, it introduces the city view into residential building, brings public activities into personal lives, and takes the reality away but creates a utopian for people living here. The bottom two floors are commercial space for the public, while the upper levels belong to the 15 friends, they share every functions and circulation system in this building, like a big family, rather than 15 different apartments.

SITE ANALYSIS

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MORPHOLOGY

HIGHT DIFFERENCE

SUN TRACK

CITY GAP

COMMERCIAL

GAP

CIRCULATION

LIVING UNITS

WINDOW

BALCONY

RESPOND TO THE SITE

ENTRANCE

SUN&WIND

SHARING

CITY VIEW 20

LANDAURY

PLANS

Ground Floor

1st Floor

2nd Floor

3rd Floor

4th Floor

5th Floor

6th Floor

7th Floor

8th Floor

9th Floor 21

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TOWN PLANNING DRAWINGS

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OTHER WORKS

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APPLIED ARCHITECTURAL TECHNOLOGY Designed and illustrated a 300m+ height skycraper, including plans, sections, facade design, crown details and diagrams.

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The tower comprises of 55 floors, 50 rentable floors, 4 mechanical floors and 1 sky deck on the roof top and BMU on top of the core. The 46 rentable floors are broken by a mechanical floor after every 10-12 office floors. The tower core occupies 23 active lifts with 6 lifts per bank servicing the low rise, mid rise, high rise and sky rise floors. There are also 2 service lifts and 2 escape staircases which goes all the way to the top of the last floor. The total efficiency is achieved at 79% with the sky rise floors at 88% and the total height of the building including the crown is 298m.

In this proposal, commitment to relativity of scale, alignment of facades, building setbacks and critical relationships, maintenance of views and vistas, optimal wind passage have informed the location of both the tower and the podium creating a unique approach to the site and enhancing the wider Mlebourne CBD.

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INTERNSHIP WORKS

INTERNSHIP WORKS - INTERIOR DESIGN

I participated in some design projects when I was working for AZL architects. I involved in almost every stages in the rural planning project, from the site visiting, designing, diagram drawing, modeling, and the final rendering.

Designed and developed Interior spaces of each gallery, including floor texture, wall ornament and texture, exhibition furniture, and display layout. Rendered 8 of all galleries by V-ray.

This is a competition design of Shanghai Opera Art Center Of Performance and Training. The concept is to translate the gradient changing color of the sleeve of the traditional Yue Opera costumes into facade design. The color also relates to the different openness of programs.

The structure system gives the opportunity for the facade to be free and transparent, the form of the truss system also reflects the building outline.

Besides got involved in the design phases, I did most of the diagram drawings and the layout of the final presentation file.

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GRASSHOPPER & HANDCRAFT

MEASUREMENT & DOCUMENTATION Tianjin University organised us to measure the tomb of HUANG TAIJI (an emperor of Qing dynasty), I measured the two columns door, which stands for the border of Yin and Yang.

TWO COLUMNS DOOR

FINAL DESIGN

ROOF BOTTOM VIEW

SECTIONS

HAND-DRAWING

GRAINGER MUSEUM FEDERATION HANDBELLS | DESIGN PROPOSAL

This is the design during my studio D, which was focused on the parametric design method and constructing skills. The first half of this semester we designed and build an exhibition in Granger Museum for the bells they intend to display, for doing this, we used 3D printing technology and learned how to develop the properties of materials.

In the second half of semester we started to use our parametric skills to design a bench for MSDX and built it by our own hands.

We developed some exciting skills like Fologram as AR thecnic, and we leanred how to welded metal rods, bent timber tiles, and used drills and bolts to connect them.

That was a really tiring period of time, but we really enjoyed it as well.

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GUIZHOU LOUNA BAMBOO CONSTRUCTION COMPETITION

MODEL MAKING

CONNECTIONS BETWEEN FOUNDATION & BAMBOO

CONNECTIONS BETWEEN BAMBOOS

CONNECTIONS BETWEEN FABRIC & BAMBOO

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