Working Sample_Zihao Jin by Zihao Jin

P O R T F OL L II O O

Application for MSD-Advanced Architecture Design

Zihao Zihao Jin Jin archzihaoking@gmail.com zihaojin@upenn.edu +1 267 300 6499

C O N T E N T S

Timber Funnel

Dragon-Boat Street Market

Growing Spiral

F-1 UPS Hub

Immersive Garden

innative mid-rise timber : timber tectonics & spatial force flow

organic revitalization of urban villages

nuclear radiation cleaning skyscraper

innovation design for future delivery industry

3D printed clay wall system

Otherworks 06

Mathematic Surface | Parametric Design | Design Study

Surfing | Digital Fabrication

Post Office We Wanna Know | Built Pop-up Store

Zero Commute | Urban Data Research based on GIS

01 Timber Funnel Innovation Timber Mid-rise Tech Hub

2nd AAD Studio 2021 Group Member Wen Tian Instructor Masoud Akbarzadeh Email masouda@design.upenn.edu Site: Philadelphia United State Role Proposal; Python & Grasshopper Coding for structure; Wood tectonic study; Interior Design; Rendering

Design Description: In this project, the main intend is to investigate the potential of using timber construction of midrise build- ings through developing novel funnel structure and ar- chitectural concepts. Based on further developments of funnel structure by analyzing force diagram and related forms, various modules with different diagrams are generated to create an open space for a tech center. In material studies, we compared different timber products and related tectonic to choose one proper material for the design, especially the structure part. There are two products we most focused on LVL and CLT. About tectonic, the design tried to minimize the structure making it light. Because Polyframe geometry has strong structural levels similar to common structure system. By computation way (grasshopper & python), the design divided structure system into several parts, including floor system, conferring system, secondary structure to support the coffering and then the primary structure.

Polyframe Topological Exploration: Form & Force Diagram

Funnerl Module Exploration & Aggregation

Funnel Structure Forming

Funnel Aggregation

Materialization: Timber Structure Computation & Simulation Structure Generation

Plans: Stepping Platform for different programs

Materializa

1. Outside Garden 2. Open Office 3. Meeting Room 4. Lecture Space

5th Floor

3 4

1. Outside Garden 2. Open Office 3. Meeting Room 4. Gym 5. Library

2th Floor

Ground Floor

ation: Timber Tectonic in different scales

02 Cultural Street Market Organic Renovation of Urban Village

Academic Design 2017 Independent Work Instructor Xiang Chen Email 1979@zju.edu.cn Site: Yile New Village, Xihu Distinct, Hangzhou

Design Description: Under the background of G20, Urban Villages in Hangzhou were rectified , resulting in the original characteristics of villages in the city being erased, and original everyday life was weakened. The features of the area are painted by a unified facade. In addition, the users of the villages in the city gradually shifted from the aborigines to the low-income foreign workers. The differences in social identity between the two sides have caused the vitality of villages to be grouped and inward. This is unfavorable for the development of publicity in the city. In order to find Yile Xincun’s own regional cultural memory and to combine needs from different groups, this design hopes to borrow the cultural symbol of “Dragon Boat” and combine the everyday needs of “diet” to meet the needs of different groups. Regarding this as a breakthrough, the design establishs connection between villages and cities by interface transition.

Interface Transition building connection between villages and cities

Narrative Section

Activites Under the Roof

21m Viewing Tower

100 people Theme Theatre

Dragon Boat Gallery

25 Shops for Food Hawkers

40 Dragon Boats Display Rack

Dragon Boat Experience Workshop

100 Cars Underground Parking

300 people Community Cafeteria

Program

Connection Between The Village And The City

Section Perspective

West Elevation

Construction Details

1 5

2 3

1 2 3 4

2 31

#1 Dormer Window 1/ 2/ 3/ 4/ 5/

12 Double-layered Glass Fender 50x200 Metal Frame Log Ridge Sealing Material

View of Sunken Sqaure

#2 Gutter 1/ 2/ 3/ 4/

Metal Gutter Metal Nail 20x20 Roof Batten 0.8 Ferrous Tile 40x40 Counter Batten 50 Insulating Layer 20 Waterproofing Membrane 5/ Metal Electrode 6/ Bolt

1 5 6

View of Community Caferia

#3 Cornice 1/ 2/ 3/ 4/

0.8 Ferrous Metal Tile Weatherboard 100x100 Purlin 200x200 Wooden Roof Truss View of Food Shops

6 5 34 2 1

#4 Outer Corridor 1/ 2/ 3/ 4/ 5/ 6/ 7/ 8/

200x350 Wooden Beam C20 Reinforced Concrete 60x60 Wooden Keel 17 Wooden Floor C20 Reinforced Concrete 12 Glass Stainless Steel Rail Frame Stainless Steel Handrail

View from the Community

03 Growing Spiral

Nuclear Radition Soil Cleaning Skyscraper

Competition Studio in CTU, 2018 Group Member Ye Zhou, Zichao Ye Instructor Lukas Kurilla, Milos Florian Email: kurilluk@fa.cvut.cz florian@fa.cvut.cz Site: Fukushima, Japan Role Group Leader Proposal/ Concept Architecture Design 80% Drawings

Design Description: In 2011, an earthquake caused an explosion in the first nuclear power plant in Fukushima. Caused by Radioactive Materials, residents within 20km were evacuated, and some areas are still difficult for residents to return. The clean-up work and soil collection took a full six years to complete. However, the plant enrichment method is the most available enrichment technology. Thus, the project designs a cleaning workflow to utilize dynamic growing skyscrapers to achieve soil cleaning with no human. Besides, the original units consisted of purified soil will be used to construct new monumental towers for people's future life.

Scene#2 Ceremony For Clean-up When cleaning process finished, the cleaning skyscraper returns to original status,and recycled soil is fabricated as a new monumental tower for original resident to pry and gather

Scene#1 Soil Cleaning

Cleaning Skyscraper Workflow Diagram The cleaning skyscraper workflow is designed to reuse the soil continuously. The collecting robots will collect polluted soil and transfer them into the cleaning units. With the cleaning units inserted, the cleaning skyscraper will grow. At the top of the skyscraper, robotic arms will collect plants and reuse the cleaned units to build new towers.

scene #2 recycling soil

section transmission tube part #3 growing circle

part #4 collecting foundation

main body of skyscraper

temperature water illumination fertilizer

scene #1 collecting soil

planting fiber unit (with seeds) soil transfer

collecting bottle

collecting robot

unit asemble

RECYCLE

part #1 recycling circle part #2 spiral track

Soil As Maim Nuclear Radioactive Material

Generate Cleaning Points by Vornoi Method The cells are generated by vornoi method with cities' locations. This process is to find the points amoung the cities which get the shortest way to cities.

soil on city roads &roofs 9%

Planned Evacuation Zone

Evacuation Order Zone

3km

20km

30km

forest leaves 33%

Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant

farmland soil 58%

36/m

2/m

towers

voronoi curves

Official Degree of Pullution Mapping

Polluted Materials Disturbution

14/m2

3/m2

city locations cleaning area

Prototyping - Fibonacci Sequences Prototyping - Fibonacci Sequences As the continuous change of parameter t and analysis, we chose t=0.720 spiral that is relatively reasonable in structure and morphology.

Hanging Platform

Cleaning Tower

Chapel

Section

Scene#3 Chapel

The new monumental tower provides a chapel space for residents who return their homelands to gather and pray for future life.

Scene#4 Pilgrimage

Winding corridor provides a space for residents and visitors to walk and touch each cleaned soil unit.And they can enjoy a great view of revitalized cities.

04 F-1 UPS Hub

Innovation Design for Future Delivery Industry

1st AAD Studio 2020 Group Member Linxuan Xie Instructor Mo Zheng, Ali Rahim Email alir@design.upenn.edu Site: New York City, United State Role proposal; form design; 100% drawings

Design Description: This design speculates that a new typology can help sustain New York City’s financial global leadership in the world. New York cannot solely rely on import and export economies with the uncertainty of political pressures that affect the prices of goods and services. New York and other cities need to re-invent existing networks to be able to compete with trade barriers that are cumbersome and willfully destroying the growth of the economy.

Concept: F1 Track forming the Logistic System

Lab & Office

Storage Space

Loading Space

Chunk Axo

Section: Flowing Flor Form Continuous Spaces in differen scales

05 Immersive Garden

3d Printed Clay Wall System

Academic Work AAD Studio, 2022 Group Member Han Zhang Instructor Nate Hume, Matthew White (TA) Email: Site: Philadelphia, PA Role Geometry Study, 3D Print Test, Robotic Arms Operation Facade Design, 100% Drawing

Design Description:

Combined with new fabrication technology - Clay 3D printing with robotica arms, we tried to design a immersive garden with a specific high technology algircultual wall system for algricultural center in Philadelphia. The design printed organic picese clay container for planting. The clay material can be recycled and glazed with different colors. The design tried different glazef way to maxmize the quality of the specal gemotry of planters. By special H-shape combination way, it created a wall system presenting diverse plants and matching to different facade materials.

Scene#1 Soil Cleaning

Clay Material Study & 3D Printing Test

Print Texture Test

Facde Material Casting

Clay Prepration

3D Printing Operation

Galze Test

Planting Test

Glaze

Klins to Fire

Planting Wall System Detail Design

Printed on the model for pieces applied on the curve surface

Section

Wall System Model

Wuhan Longfor Tianjie TOD Commercial Complex Intern Project at CRTKL

July, 2020 Intern Project Site Wuhan,China Team Member Howard, David, Joanna, Zihao Jin Responsibility Design Massing; Plan Programming; Design Description: The Project locates in Wuhan China along the famous river, Yangtze River. The whole design tries to create a continuous facada along the urban side and a high line system connected to the riverside. The facade design intends to divide the whole mall into 2 parts including the curtain wall as a showcase for people walking along the street and the upper layering parts related to different programs of the mall including resturants, cinema and some public space.

Prototype#1

Prototype#2

Mathematical Surfaces Parametric Design

Frequency A=0.76

Frequency A=1.5

Curve Interference Frequency A=0 N=3

Fourier Transform

Course Project | Intro to Parametric Design May, 2019 Team Work Site Zhejiang University Instructor Weishun Xu Team Member Zihao Jin, Xiaoyi Wang, Liang Su Responsibility Group Leader Coding & Design Model Design & Making Design Description: Based on some research on minimal surfaces, we found that the surface could be defined and controlled by mathematics. Inspired by the essay "Shin & I" George Legendre, the design intended to explore a method about applying parametric design. Without any particular design construct, the design tried to use python in grasshopper to codify mathematics surfaces from some prototypes. Based on trigonometric functions, we create some variables to control the mathematic surfaces. After abundant iterations, we found a potential surface. Thus, we try to utilize the main UV curves of the surface to reconstruct the mathematic surface to be a bridge.

Fourier Transform Curve Interference Frequency A=1 N=20

Fourier Transform A=2

Prototype#3

Prototype#4

Prototype#5

Torsion A=2

Frequency a,b,c,d=&0,100,90,60

Frequency A=0.3

Torsion A=3

Fourier Transform A=2

Domain Definition

Curve Interference Fourier Transform A=2

Frequency a,b,c,d=60,80,100,80

Frequency A=0.3 Domain Definition

Model of Selected Surface

Design

Formation/ Spiral Curve

“Surfing” PETG 3D-Printing Wall

Digital Fabric - Wall Created by Trigonometric Function

Pattern/ Dynamic Surfing

Work for Shanghai Urban Space Art Season 2019 May 2019 Team Work Site Zhejiang University Instructor Hao Meng, Zhe Liang, Zixun Huang(Assistant Teacher)

Texture Evenly Distributed

Material Force Analysis

Material Utilization

Form Optimization

Material Force Analysis

Material Utilization

Company Roboticplus.AI Team Member Zihao Jin, Ni Ye, Yunpeng Wu, Zhiyuan Xu Responsibility Foam Mould Design Material Testing Joint Design Robotic Arms Operation

Design Description: The feeling that people are in the water flow driven by the air – or what can be called "surfing" is reflected in our design. In order to generate the undulating surface in the concept, we use the method of lofting out the spatial curve controlled by the trigonometric function to generate the surface. Such a surface, while expressing the concept, also breaks through the design object of "wall" from a two-dimensional Experience the transformation into a three-dimensional experience. The pattern of the wall is inspired by surfing, which is demonstrated by the method of weaving. The core is that a line forms a pattern through the entire surface, which is also in line with the logic of 3d printing.

Structure/ Karamba Modification

Fabric

Construction Moments Taping Basecoat/ Heat-insulated Moulding-die

Structural Glue

Mold Making

Printing Path

Printing Speed #1 15+30

Printing Speed #1 30+50

Node Print Testing #1

Node Print Testing #2 (Optimized)

Connection

Problem of Overhead Printing

Heat Insulation Pre-printed Cushion

Node Fixing Method

Material Testing/ Node Design

Part#1 Receiving a Message A/ Pre-made Q&A Card Cards represent the local culture with illustration and Q&A. Receiving it means reading the invisibe local culture.

Post Office Wanna Know Pop-up Store for Inatori Rural Festival

Workshop Product Spring, 2019 Team Work Site Izu-Inatori, Japan Client Higashiizu Chamber of Commerce Company One DesignLab Instructor Zunheng Lai, Weishun Xu Team Member Ni Ye, Qi Liu, Chuchu(illustration drawing) Responsibility Theme Proposal Graphic Design (postcards, stamps); Product Design (mailbox) Construction Operation Design Description: Post-Office Wanna Know is a pop-up store that collects, promotes and creates local stories of Izu-Inatori. We collected warm and interesting stories from local residents and made them into vividly illustrated post card. Travels are welcomed to explore local culture through these post card, and have their opportunities to create their very own post card by asking the locals a question, which will be answered and mailed back to the travelers. Travelers could also be our postwomen/ postman, delivering mails for us to locations in town which is not typically explored by visitors, and get exclusive rewards for their efforts. We creates unique experience and memories through culture interaction for travelers.

B/ A Blank Q&A Card The card plays a role as a bridge for the local and tourists to share answers from locals with tourists who has questions about anything.

Part#2 Leaving a Message

Part#3 Delivering a Message

Travellers are encouraged to leave their messages to the town about where they feel interesting, touched, happy or even unpleasant.

Travellers will be asked to work for POI to deliver a message containing a question related to exploration of the local culture.

郵便はがき

焒‫ַ ם׼‬ꌞ ➬ 㹾 POST OFFICE WANNA KNOW 不知道郵局

焒‫ַ ם׼‬ꌞ ➬ 㹾

POST OFFICE WANNA KNOW 不知道郵局

Construction Moments

Data Analysis/ Office-house OD Matrix of Regions

Zero Commute

Histogram of Communting Distance

Research about relationship between housing and job Office-house OD Matrix of Cangqian industry area

Histogram of Communting Distance

Themetic Studio | Morphology and Mobility Urban Research and Design Studio Spring & Summer, 2019 Team Work Site Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China Instructor Yue Wu, Qiuxiao Chen Weishun Xu (Assistant Teacher) Team Member Zihao Jin, Yunpeng Wu, Xingyi Li Responsibility Literature Review Big Data Analysis Investigation & Interview

Project Description: The research takes the Hangzhou West Innovation Corridor as an example to analysis key factors in the Job-housing Relationship. Accordingly, based on related data, the research intends to evaluate the Job-housing Relationship in Hangzhou West Innovation Corridor, especially about commuting. The current residential area of the Corridor has reached 3,235.39 hectares, which means that it is able to accommodate more than 1 million people. More than half of the people who work inside the Corridor live outside. This has led to a large number of commuters entering and leaving the Corridor every day. The contrast between adequate residential capacity and the dislocation of living and working reflects the current job-housing imbalance.

Office-house OD Matrix of Cloud Manufacturing Town

Data Analysis/ Job-Housing OD Matrix of the Corridor

Design Strategy/ Zero Commute

Rebuild Office & Housing

Histogram of Communting Distance

Planning Design

New Office & Housing

Office-house OD Matrix of Alibaba Design Programming Public System

Villages in Cities Renovation

Histogram of Communting Distance

Road System

Old Community Renovation

Original Plan Factory Renovation

Office-house OD Matrix of Alibaba

Design Prototyping

Design Explosion

Diagram

Through the big data crawling technology, a total of 5,268 job-housing related OD correspondences were obtained, which was shared by 12032 people. Of the 5,268 ODs, 4,847 are used by only 1 - 4 individuals, accounting for 92% of all. The considerable proportion and the limited number of people indicate that the commuting is highly distributional inside the Corridor, and it is uncommon for many people to travel from one place to another together. Among the 5268 ODs, the most frequent trips are generally short, indicating that some corporate travel is becoming a trend in local areas.