OTHER WORKS

from Zichao Portfolio 2016 - 2019

by ZICHAO ZHU

MEMORY COMPLECITY

05 OTHER WORKS

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

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.

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.

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. 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.

FINAL DESIGN

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. 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.