Zixuan_Zhang_Portfolio_2013-2020 by zixuanzhang1023

ZIXUAN ZHANG Portfolio

Selected Works 2019-2020

Master of Science, Architecture and Urban Design Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation Columbia University

CONTENTS WELL-HOUSE RENAISSANCE

P4-P25

TECH-ART STUDIOS

P26-P43

BLURRED BORDER

P44-P55

GREEN IT, CLEAN IT!

P56-65

BEITOU MARKET

P66-75

CAMPUS ART MUSEUM

P76-85

OTHER WORKS

P86-109

RESUME

P110-111

Jan - Apr, 2020 Spring Urban design Studio / Final Project

Jan - May, 2018 Spring Urban design Studio / Final Project

Mar - Jun, 2017 Spring Urban design Studio

Sep - Dec, 2019 Fall Urban design Studio

April - May, 2016 Spring Architecture design

Nov - Dec, 2015 Spring Architecture design

About myself

More works welcome to visit website: https://zixuanzhang.cargo.site/

WELL-HOUSE RENAISSANCE DATE INSTRUCTORS LOCATION

Jan - Apr, 2020 Spring, Urban Design Studio Kate Orff, Geeta Mehta, Lee Altman, Dilip Da Cunha, Thad Pawlowski, Julia Watson, Adriana Chavez, Fitse Gelaye Tel Aviv - Yafo, Israel Collaborated work with Danwei Pan, Kuan-I Wu, Tian Hao Welcome To Click This Project https://zixuanzhang.cargo.site/Well-House

FUTURE CLIMATIC INFRASTRUCTURE The site is located at the south part of Tel Aviv, on the west side of Ayalon River. Our project is to reimagine the historical well-house, with a water ventilation strategy to reduce the urban heat effect. Our project is combining ancient technologies with the Well-House network to create a cooling ventilation system to resolve urban heat. We see the 21st century well-house as a nesting place where both culture and social can thrive, that benefit everyone in the community. It is a period of Well-House renaissance and a period of climate resilience for the next generation.

WELL-HOUSE IN 1900s Well houses and orange orchards are symbols of Jaffaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s history. They catalyzed the agricultural production and enriched social life outside the city in the 19th ce n t u ry . Th es e we l l h o u s es became a forgotten landscapes today. We recognized Well-Houses as a unique feature in Shapira during our field visit. On the left, you can see these old traditional Wellhouses which were elements in the historic landscape of Tel Aviv where water is pumped up and irrigated the famous Jaffa orange field.

WELL-HOUSE TODAY Later the landscape became urbanized around the orchards, l aye red u p wi t h m o d e r n developments. Our project is taking the former well-house network which exists in various co n d i t i o n s to d ay, p u l l i n g i t forward as a new nodal climatic infrastructure.

SOCIAL VULNERABILITY The Shapira community is vulnerable to urban heat which exacerbates the chronic stresses of daily life, and makes commuting and outdoor activities more difficult. The neighborhood is also socially fragmented, and could benefit from additional social programs that help bring together old and new residents.

According to the Resilient research maps on the right, Shapira is one the most sensitive areas towards social vulnerability, which means not only lacking resilience towards natural based disaster, but also lacking job opportunities for the growth of Asylum seekers and migrant workers; lacking of resources and service for getting higher education. There are also elderlies and younger people that are most vulnerable towards heat. Our response to this overlay of heat and social vulnerability is a nodal system that can make social resilience possible. (Source: Center for Resilient Cities and Landscapes, 2019 Evaluation of urban heat island in Shapira)

CLIMATIC VULNERABILITY Experiencing constant urban heat and seasonal flooding, the southern neighborhoods of Tel Aviv are the most disadvantaged in the city. The 21st Century Well-House has the potential to become new climate infrastructure, helping neighborhoods confront these issues.

Shapira

Ancient Qanat

Ancient Badgir

Existing Well-House

Reinvented Wind Installation

Reinvented Micro-Qanat

Qanat System

Well House with well

New Well House with Cooling Installation

Wind Tower

Well House with pool

New Well House with Cooling staircase + Grey Water Reuse

HISTORIC TECHNOLOGY & POTENTIAL FUTURE ADAPTATION Well-houses were located on high points of topography, with wells reaching deep underground. We take advantage of the topography to incorporate other historic climatic technologies of Persian origin: Badgir (wind tower) and Qanat (underground irrigation channel) to direct water and wind.

REVITALIZE THE FORGOTTEN NETWORK These highlighted roads were once the essential routes used to export Jaffa oranges. We envision these as future green corridors, funneling sea breeze from the Mediterranean into the neighborhoods and channeling water to lower grounds to recharge the aquifer. The green corridors also provide habitat for migratory birds.

REDIRECT THE FLOW OF WIND & WATER In Shapira, secondary east-west green corridors utilize prevalent wind direction, in combination with cooling spots, to transform warmer wind into a cooling breeze that eases urban heat. Rainwater will be gathered at Well-Houses and proposed installation for cooling, irrigation, and recharging the aquifer.

A NEW NEIGHBORHOOD FABRIC Orange shows existing Well Houses while red shows the New Well Houses. In Shapira, 10 micro qanat systems will efficiently reuse greywater in the neighborhood by collecting over

2,500 gallons per household/month.

One micro qanat system will serve several neighborhood blocks. Besides, Green corridors will maximize the cooling effect of airflow. A total of 33 Well House-centric social facilities will offer a wide range of programs like job training, retail, and seasonal events.

MICRO COOLING SYSTEM A transect cut from the Red House (an existing Well House) to Shapira Cafe (community social place) demonstrates the water collection strategy and use of the micro Qanat to activate wind flow. Greywater is the constant water source for irrigation and filling the micro Qanat. Impervious surfaces are replaced with permeable materials to reduce runoff contamination increase infiltration, supporting wildlife habitat in the long term. Residential greywater will be the constant water supply for the

micro qanat, the greywater will be treated and filtered before release into the micro qanat. Also seasonal rainwater will be collected through the installations on the buildings. Once the qanat is filled up, hot air will be drawn from the surface and goes through the qanat, turning into a cooling breeze and sending it back to the surface that enables a microclimate cooling ventilation cycle.

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The Well House system works with existing facilities and businesses to form a local social-ecological network, making the cooling environment more accessible to users. We learned from COLU during our visit, a platform of local currency in TelAviv. The wellhouse system we implement is tight with an incentivizing system for social credit, that can empower the local business and strengthen the community based on our wellhouse node system. For example, business owners can get tax and COLU incentives if they give private spaces for doing community orchards, or holding events. Residents can get COLU by volunteering, and then shop in local retails, or attend other programs. We also provide jobs for asylum seekers and migrant workers.

Training Center + Rertail

ACTIVATED SOCIAL SPACES The network of existing and new Well Houses is programmed based on local neighborhood needs, to provide recreational activities and opportunities for social interaction for different resident groups. Community users can earn their COLU credits by checking in at multiple Well-House nodes, and earn extra credits from volunteering and maintaining orchards. People can also scan COLU QR code with their phone at our WellHouse nodes to receive groceries and services to fulfill their daily needs.

Red House

People can redeem their colu credits online by Colu App. Then they can get free tickets for Red House art exhibitions which are constantly updated by different artists. 22

Orchard Classroom

By visiting the orchard classroom, attending related eco- educational classes, also doing the orchard voluntary works, people can get equivalent colu currency.

Green Roof Neighborhood Street

People can also shop at seasonal markets that hold along the activited neighborhood street. They can get discount by using the colu credits.

The owners who are willing to attend in cooling intervention and contribute their rooftop to be truned into green roofs will get incentives like tax discount. Also, the green roof will be helpful to cool down the air inside the buildings. 23

Urban Oasis

Activated Street Life

TECH-ART STUDIOS DATE INSTRUCTORS LOCATION AWARD

Jan - May, 2018 Spring, Urban Design Studio, Final Project Xiaochun Yang, Fang Chen, Zhihang Luo Shenzhen Bay Port, Nanshan District, Shenzhen Guangdong, China Excellent Final Project (1st/8) Collaborated work with Huaxu Chen, Jiaqing Chen, Ruxiu Lin, Zhao Liao* Welcome To Click This Project https://zixuanzhang.cargo.site/Tech-Art-Studio

Shenzhen Bay port, a significant nodal located on the border connecting both Hong Kong and Shenzhen, has a great number of visitors passing by everyday and an excellen environment with beautiful costal view. However, there has been plenty of underutlized parking space left due to the deviation estimated initially. With the urbanization process, the land becomes more and more precious while what surprises us is, there is almost 70% of the land left idle here, which brings opportunities to do something meaningful. Facing such an opportunity and challenge, what we aim to do is to bridge SZ and HK functionally, extending people activities from city to the coast. Bringing together places to live and work with high-tech incubators, art galleries, cafes and restaurants.Â

*All graphics contained in this project are solely done by myself, unless otherwise credited.

THE NEXT GLOBAL BAY The global bay areas, such as New York Bay, San Francisco Bay and Tokyo Bay, are playing an important role in economic development. The collected data is showing in comparison with these three bays, the bay area of Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau has enough foundation and potential to develop into a world-class bay, no matter in terms of population, area or economy.

New York Bay 33,383 23.40 1.83 11.3 75.0

San Francisco Bay 17,955 7.65 0.76 5.0 99.0

Tokyo Bay 13,400 36.00 1.57 32.0 44.0

Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao Bay 56,000 66.72

Area (kmÂ˛) Population (million) Economic Aggregate (trillion) Domestic GDP proportion (%) Per Capita GDP (thousand)

1.24 12.0 20.0

CULTURAL INDUSTRIES LAG BEHIND Comparing with the existing cultural development of the other three great bays, the bay area of Guangdong, Hong Kong, and Macau is lagging. It is quite different from the comparison of economic, in cultural industries, there is a shortage of cultural facilities.

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Third industry Proportion Cultural Facilitie Service Population

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Museum Gallery Theatre 82.76%

Museum Gallery Theatre 82.27%

Museum Gallery Theatre 55.60%

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LOW UTILIZATION Along the border, there are six existing ports and one under construction connecting Shenzhen and Hong Kong. Comparing with the other five, Shenzhen Bay Port has the largest area, but the number of people it serves does not rank in the first place.

SHA TOU JIAO PORT

Cross-border Coaches

WEN JIN DU PORT

LUO HU PORT

FU TIAN PORT

Cross-border Vans

LIAN TANG PORT

Cross-border Commuters

HUANG GANG PORT

Cross-border Students

SHEN ZHEN BAY PORT

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SITE SURROUNDINGS Qianhai Service RED ECO TECH CUL INTER

Houhai Business Centre RED ECO TECH CUL INTER

Shenzhen Bay Headquarters RED ECO TECH CUL INTER

Shenzhen Bay Port RED ECO TECH CUL INTER

Shekou Development Area RED ECO TECH CUL INTER

Hong Shuiqiao Development Area

SZ HK

RED ECO TECH CUL INTER

- Resident - Economic - Technology - Culture - International Intercourse

Map Distribution Commercial & Business Communal Facility OfďŹ ce Area

Residential Area Industrial Area

HK Functional Structure Continuity

Making up for the lack of cultural functions in SZ and satisfying the needs of Hong Shuiqiao in HK.

HK The Line Of Life

Make the coastline function diverse. Guide city life to the coastline.

HK One Hour Living Circle

Traffic integration and diversification. Establish ferry system, suspension rail, highway on the sea.

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Streamlined chaos and only one exit.

Existing

The length in north to south is up to 2000m without no way to pass through.

Land Idle

Wrong calculation of freight volume causes a lot of land to be idle.

Break The Block

Introducing two east-west branches into the site.

A huge Impassable Block

The site is surrounded by city main roads and expressways.

Stretch to the Coast

After forming a network inside the site, branches continue extending to the coast.

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A MERGING PORT S h e n z h e n Bay Po rt a l ways l o o ks o ut of p l a ce i n i t s neighborhood. Due to its single function and oversized scale, people have no reason to stay here. Whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s more, it blocks people from getting close to the waterfront. Therefore, our big idea is to create a merging port on the border, bridging the city to the coast unconsciously. We propose walkability in blocks to make a more friendly

STEP1 CONSOLIDATING Due to miscalculations of future freight demand, a large amount of land left idle here. According to the existing data, we recalculated the demand for freight in the next decade. The result is, 70% of the land is available to be released. Thus, we compress and reorganize the traffic lines and functions on the site to meet the basic traffic requirements in the future.

STEP2 DENSITY AGGREGATING The released land will be given new functions according to the needs of the city and will be open to the public. Increasing the density of the buildings and utilizing efficiency can alleviate the pressure of surrounding land use, and also bring economic benefits to the government.

STEP3 REFORMATING The existing port official building has a new structure that it is not necessary to be rebuilt with extra cost. Thus, we adopt a strategy of retention mainly focused on solving the issues of its diverse flows organization. We advocate a three-dimensional intermodal hub with multiple layers. It achieves to save land as well as improve the efficiency of customs clearance, and reduce the congestion caused by the interweaving of flows.

STEP4 THICKEN THE GROUND Although the land released has embraced the city, due to the reserved part of the port land, it still spatially blocks people from accessing the coast for its large scale. Therefore, our thickened ground allows people's activities to be conducted in the air and extended to the coastline. The space available for people to walk is continuous from the city to the water.

interface facing the city. Pink axes are going to become the main vibrant street going through the entire site and closely integrated with the neighborhood. The inserted hightech cultural facilities adopt a curve form different from the traditional rectangular building, making it a new landmark of the port.

Transportation Hub

City Commercial Plaza

Municipal Parl/ North District Campus Cooperation Area Creative Cooperatives

Multifunctional Rehearsal Room Tech-Art Design College Exhibition Room Multimedia Library High Tech Art Studios Multidimensional experience theater High Tech Art Exhibition Center Outdoor 3D Holographic Projection Park Digital museum 3D Holographic Projection Film Base 3D Holographic Projection Concert Hall

Municipal Parl/ South District Transportation Hub Branch Artist Apartment

Commerce Education Transportation Port

SZ jurisdiction

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HK jurisdiction

Culture

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Conceptual Structure

Ownership

Residential

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Air Rail

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Bicycle

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Bus/existing

Sightseeing Bus

Branch Rd

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External Public Transportation

Internal Public Transportation

Periphery

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Site Ordinary

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Building Height Controlling

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INTERMODAL HUB In order to relief the pressure on traffic surrounding, multi-layered traffic lines are used instead of the original single-layer one. Additionally, this design provided independent parking lots for city buses, taxis and tourist buses in order to improve the traffic congest

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Tech-Art Exhibition and Market

3D Holographic Projection Music Festival

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3D Holographic Projection Concert (Global synchronization)

Technical Art Performance - Dancing with Light

BLURRED BORDER DATE INSTRUCTOR LOCATION

Mar - Jun, 2017 Spring Zhihang Luo Luofang Village, Luohu District, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China Collabrated work with Shiwei Peng Welcome To Click This Project https://zixuanzhang.cargo.site/Blurred-Border

NEW DEFINITION OF BORDER This project tries to clarify these question: When one country two systems principle ends, how will Hong Kong and Shenzhen cooperate after 2048? How will residents from both sides meet and coexist? What will the physical boundary of Shenzhen and Hong Kong be in the future?

URBANIZATION & BORDER During the urbanization, Shenzhen and Hong Kong have adopted different development attitudes towards the border. Hong Kong implements an ecologically-oriented strategy of less development for frontier areas, retaining natural geography as much as possible. However, the Shenzhen side uses the border as the starting point for urban development, then gradually expands to the north. Thus, the high density of buildings near the border in Shenzhen is quite different from Hong Kong. SHENZHEN &HONG KONG URBANIZATION PROCESS

FRONTIER CLOSED AREA

SHENZHEN BORDER

PREVIOUS FCA BOUNDARY

The Hong Kong Frontier Closed Area, established by the Hong Kong

Government in 1951, was designed to provide a buffer zone in order to reduce the frequency of the Shenzhen-Hong Kong border activities.

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FCA RELEASE PROCESS

Mai Po to Lok Ma Chau Control Point Section

Sandy Ridge Cemetery

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Fish ponds

Site of Speciﬁc Scientiﬁc Interest (Stream)

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Site of Speciﬁc Scientiﬁc Interest (Marshes)

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CONTRADICTIONS & COOPERATION Throughout history, the relationship between Shenzhen and Hong Kong has advanced in contradiction. Among them, the phenomenon gradually formed: the cooperation between the governments of the two places is getting closer and closer, but the conflict between the residents of the two places is intensifying.

MAJOR HISTORICAL EVENTS BETWEEN SHEN ZHEN AND HONG KONG GDP /Ten thousand yuan

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Central Park

Shawan River

Hong Lake

LUO HU CBD

Wutong Mountain

Donghu Park

Shenzhen River Mipo Wetland

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Yanhan Mountain Hua Man-made Lake

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Bijia Mountain

Wutong River

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Lianhua Mountain

Futian River

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Dasha River

Dasha Wetland

Yinhu Mountain

Tanglang Mountain

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CROSS-BORDER FLOW (2017 data)

BORDER GEOGRAPHICAL FEATURES

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are in the mainland, accounting for 54.1% and 43.5%

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between the two places are close.

making it more crowded and intensifying social conflicts.

A XANADU HIDDEN IN CITY Luofang Village is our site located ion the border of Shenzhen and Hong Kong. It is a paradise hidden in the city, surrounded by Luofang mountain and Shenzhen river. The existing Luofang Village is an urban village with outdated facilities. Many of the families living there have family members in Hong Kong. They stow away to Hong Kong before the border was closed.

Building Distribution

Public Green Area

Traffic Distribution

BORDER

Functional Area Around The Site

Lian Tang Port Lou Fang Mountain Residential Area Luo Fang Village (Site) Residential Area Sewage Treatment Plant Luofang Aquatic Products Market

Auautomobile Industry Production And Services

WIDEN THE BORDER With the trend of close cooperation between the two places, we predict that the future border will be more than just a physical boundary, not just a line, a wall. In the future, the border will be gradually given functions to meet the various needs of residents in both places. In this way, residents of the two places can not only have communication here but also relieve each other's pressure.

FCA was set by HK government.

The first connection was established.

Excessive amount of tourists aggravated HK's Burden

Creating diverse nodals along the Border serving twins cities.

Diversifying the nodal functions.

Forming a service system.

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Aim Of Design To provide a platform for integration Complementary between SZ and HK to achieve â&#x20AC;&#x153;1+1>2â&#x20AC;? Design Concept Sharing: Share the market, technology, talent, space, culture and so on Suturing: Closer relationship, Resolve the gap Site Position Education base,faced to the society, with creative industry function

Liantang Port

Sewage Treatment Plant

West side function reserved East side will open to the society Educational park with educational value

Introduce more business activities New cultural business circle

Wetland Park

Important ecological landscape public participation

Luofang Village Community Center Communicating platform for SZ & HK

Resident Factory Office Commerce Education

Status Quo

Road Design

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Commerce

Park Space

Business office

Square Space

Administration

Protective Green Space

Cultural Facilities

Residential Area

Research And Education

Loft Area (Reconstruction)

Religion

Recreational Facilities

Function Zone

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C-17 G3

Luofang Mountain

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A-06 R2

Wetland Park

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A-05 R2

C-07 B2

C-18 A33

C-14 G1

C-05 B2

C-06 B2

C-11 A9

C-12 G1

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C-10 G3 B-08 A2

B-11 G1

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B-03 R3

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Research Base and University (HK)

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B-05 R3

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8017.88 4335.51 2414.67 18663.87 11023.49 8899.91 13858.8 1341.28 1340.59 2937.37 2506.52 7605.4 2417.99 949.65 4062.43 2708.73 1885.64 4539.37 4019.03 3665.71 4251.38 7281.93 3284.23 3106.21 4814.92 3136.61 7227.19 4679.25 900.37

4.00 3.50 3.50 0.00 2.50 2.50 2.50 6.00 6.00 1.51 1.51 1.38 0.00 2.52 3.10 3.40 3.40 0.50 0.20 3.20 3.20 7.00 3.40 3.80 3.20 4.20 5.80 4.70 0.00

Block Number

Land Code

A-01 A-02 A-03 A-04 A-05 A-06 A-07 B-01 B-02 B-03 B-04 B-05 B-06 B-07 B-08 B-09 B-10 B-11 B-12 C-01 C-02 C-03 C-04 C-05 C-06 C-07 C-08 C-09 C-10 C-11 C-12 C-13 C-14 C-15 C-16 C-17 C-18

R2 R2 R2 G2 R2 R2 R2 R3 R3 R3 R3 R3 G3 A1 A2 B3 B3 G1 G1 B1 B1 B2 B2 B2 B2 B2 B2 A35 G3 A9 G1 G1 G1 G1 G3 G3 A33

Land Area(㎡)

FAR

4.00 3.50 3.50 0.00 2.50 2.50 2.50 6.00 6.00 1.51 1.51 1.38 0.00 2.52 3.10 3.40 3.40 0.50 0.20 3.20 3.20 7.00 3.40 3.80 3.20 4.20 5.80 4.70 0.00 1.50 0.50 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 1.00

Block courtyard River Land line 1st setback 2nd setback Suggested tower location Stick to 1st setback Existing ancient tree Suggested ground pedestrian Suggested air pedestrian Suggested underground pedestrian Planning range

No.

Main

类别代号 Mediu Small

m R1 R11 R12

1 R2

R21 R22 B B1 B11 B13

B2 B22 B29 B3 A A1 A2 A21 A22

3 A3

A33 A35 A9

Land name 居住用地 First class residential land Residential land Facility land Second class residential land Residential land Facility land Commercial service land Commercial facility land Retail commercial land Catering land Business facility land Art media land Other commercial facilities Recreation and wellness land Public administration and public service land Administrative office land Cultural facility land Book exhibition facility land Cultural activity facility land Education and research land Primary and secondary school land Scientific research land Religious land

Land area（㎡）

Proportion（%）

64281.42

29.01%

41362.55

18.67%

19422.99

8.76%

51176.97

23.10%

G G1 G2 G3

S S1

Park land Protective land Square land Road and transportation facilities City road land Planned total land area

45321.96

20.46%

221565.89

100.00%

Luofang Village Community Center

Central Green Corridor 52

Existing Condition

Plug in Public Functions

Ecological Playground

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The port

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BLOCK GUIDELINES 14 m

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Max HT: 30m

Setback: 5m

Renovation Block

Max BLDG HT: 30m Max BASE HT: 30m

BLDG Setback: 5m BASE Setback: 5m

New Block

CLEAN IT, GREEN IT! DATE INSTRUCTORS LOCATION

Sep - Nov, 2019 Fall Kaja KĂźhl (Coordinator), Anna Dietzsch, Jerome Haferd, Liz McEnaney, Justin Moore, Shachi Pandey, Raafi Rivero, David Smiley, Dragana Zoric Hudson Valley, NY, USA Collaborated work with Anai Perez, Danwei Pan, Pratibha Singh Welcome To Click This Project https://zixuanzhang.cargo.site/Clean-It-Green-It

Around 130,000 acres of land in the Hudson Valley have been contaminated by the direct and indirect influence of industries. Our project proposes to transform these wastelands into community assets that can tackle contamination, while improving soil health, sequestering carbon and restoring the productivity of the land.

The programs generate a wide range of jobs in research and manufacturing sectors, as well as low skilled maintenance jobs, supporting the low income and deindustrialized communities and strengthening the local economy. These sites become places for continued research and education about nature as an enabling infrastructure.

This process enables us to open up the site to the people and develop further relationships with the surroundings, providing recreational and economic benefits for the community.

Existing IBM, photo taken on site, 10/03/2019 56

CONTAMINATION IN HUDSON VALLEY

Sources: US Environmental Protection Agency Biofuels Atlas 57

OPPORTUNITIES OF IBM We analyzed the IBM site in a city town scale to identify the problems related to rates of unemployment in the towns that are located nearby. Our project addresses this problem as an opportunity to reduce these rates by creating different types of jobs for the community with different levels of skills such as experts with a high level of education and also maintenance and manufacturing jobs. We identify the education and cultural infrastructures that is located in a range of 3.5 to 1 mile distance from our site which will be the programs that we proposed in our project development. In addition we are going to maintain and reinforce some of the existing buildings on the site that is the case of the food processing center located next to the railroad in the east side.

IBM THEN, NOW & FUTURE The site used to be a dairy farm. IBM acquired the site in the 50s, and the local economy flourished and offered a lot of high paying jobs. However it didn't last long. After its closure, the environmental p ro b l e m s we re revea l ed . I B M l e ft significant traces of contaminants on site without taking care of it. It left potential health risk to the community and the polluted runoff will go to the nearby creek. Also, IBM left and the current owner owes a large amount in back taxes, which has put the site in debt. Environmentally, phytoremediation will clean up the contaminants embedded within the soil, but also provide clean air and sequestering carbon at the same time. The natural landscape will be the leisure areas for the local community. We envision the programs will help the economy to stay out of the red by the time when the gardens are fully in place. Different programs will constantly offer a wide range of jobs to attract people with different education backgrounds.

GREEN HOUSE

RESEARCH CENTER

As a part of the educational program, we proposed greenhouses to complement the research center and the phytoremediation part. This biodomes will provide awareness in the new techniques of farming. Once the contaminated area is clean after this process, part of this land will be repurpose for agricultural production.

Research center will be the main base for phytoremediation related reasearch. But later, when more and more people come to visit IBM site, part of research center will be opened to the public for education purpose. For example, some schools can cooperate with this center to hold workshops for primary school students or offer practice for graduates.

Biodome Concrete Shell Structure

Glass Panels Library/ Reading Room

Floor Harvest

Administration Laboratory

Vertical Vegetation

Hydroponics

Research Room

Library Herbarium

Exhibition Area Demostration Lab Classroom

Community Playground

Phytoremediation Garden 64

Research Center

Manufacturing Campus 65

BEITOU MARKET DATE INSTRUCTOR SITE AREA LOCATION

April - May, 2016 Spring Rongren Tsai 3,254 mÂ˛ Beitou District, Taipei, Taiwan Individual Work Welcome To Click This Project https://zixuanzhang.cargo.site/Arch_Beitou-Market

NOT JUST A BUILDING Market, as the place for exchanging products, labor, and information, is always used to the origin of a city. Whether in the east or west, the market is a kind of important public place carrying a diverse social life. As technology develops, people begin to build markets with a strong intention. The market is tied up in a building structure, gradually focusing on only a few specific functions. This project aims to explore more diverse possibilities in the market and provide space for various people's activities.

EXISTING BLOCK IN BEITOU The market is located in the heart of Beitou District, in Taipei, Taiwan, with access points to surrounding facilities. Besides, it has easily accessible transportation with the main road passed by and an MRT station within 400 meters. Moreover, the Beitou market is built in the same building with the Administrative Center of Beitou District and the Jifu Temple, attracting a large number of people daily. However, due to the over-closed structure, the internal environment of the market is poor, such as poor lighting and ventilation. Also from the outside, it looks like an inaccessible block. Therefore, most people prefer to stay casually in the streets outside while the interior is relatively empty.

Beitou Hot Spring Muse

Taipei City Library Beitou Branch Qihu Park

Beitou Junior High School Xiaofang Monument Beitou Primary School Chang'an Police Station

2 1

SITE Beitou District Administrative Center Beitou Jifu 3 Temple

Beitou MRT Station

Taiwan Railway Administration Staff Training Center

4 Beitou Church

100m

Dafeng Park

200m

300m

Beitou Mazu Palace Cihou Palace

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MARKET, THE ORIGIN OF CITY According to the evolution of the market, it is obvious to find that under the influence of technological development, the market is undergoing a transformation from function complex to function separation, then gradually back to function recombination and reopening.

Market is the origin of the city

8th century BC, in ancient Greece

100 AD, in ancient Rome

enough, a temporary city was formed.

The market and the square were combined. The ancient Greek city center is called "Agora"-A gathering place.

1215, in Italy

1240, Bruges' indoor market

14th century, Sukiennice Market

1822, St John's Market

1897, Budapest Central Market Hall

2014, Markthal in Rotterdam

When the scale of the market became large

A natural development was the market house. This provided a covered area for vendors on the ground floor and a guildhall, town hall, moot hall or tolsey above.

The use of new materials has revolutionized the construction of the market, and gradually developed a large-span cast iron structure.

Buildings for the market have emerged and market was moved to indoor gradually. Moreover, such a permanent architecture was also a symbol of wealth in local.

With the rise of the Art Nouveau, the highly secular market buildings quickly became the testing ground for this new style.

The peripheral functions of the market square became more and more diversified, offering various necessary public services.

More and more large-scale market buildings g ra d u a l l y a p p ea red a n d m a r ket wa s completely moved indoors.

New building constructions are creating and functions trend to be recombined.

Market

Administrative Centre Jifu Temple

THREE ELEMENTS OF CITY It is interesting to see the market exists combined with a temple and an administrative center. Compared with Agora square in ancient Greece, the origin of the market, these three appear together too, combined with each other. In comparison, it is obvious to see that one of the advantages of the Agora square is: space is more continuous and stretches out to the neighborhood closely. Compared with buildings, the sense of physical volume in Agora is more invisible, leaving open space for various human activities.

MARKETING

RELIGION

ADMINISTRATION

Market

Administrative Centre Jifu Temple

AGORA SQUARE IN ANCIENT GREECE

BEI TOU MARKET IN TAIWAN

A COMMON PLACE In the renovation of the Beitou market, this project aims to transform it into a new civic common place carrying various civic activities. In design, it emphasized spatial coherence from site to neighborhood, addressing the issues of multiple flows interference by reorganizing the existing flows and increasing accessibility variously.

GATHERING

FUNCTIONAL COMPOUND

SPATIAL COHERENCE

CURRENT: HUGE CLOSED BLOCK

BREAK THE WALL & CONNECT SPACE

IMPROVE SPATIAL AGGREGATION

CURRENT

STREAMLINE CONVERGENCE

FUNCTIONAL LAYOUT

BREAK THE BLOCK

LIGHTEN THE SPACE

Facing the surrounding closed

In order to provide better

buildings, the old closed large

natural lighting, ventilation,

box is designed to be open,

and visual and polymeric feel,

forming a relatively blurred

a large-span curved roof was

space in a city.

adopted.

CONNECT TO NEIGHBORHOOD

OPEN TO PUBLIC

At first, I hoped to get through

In the next step, in order

t h e m a i n co n n ect i o n - t h e

to gather people from all

north-south connection, so that

directions, an umbrella form

people can pass the site more

was used. Such a form could

conveniently.

also provide people with a more public gray space.

REFORMATE THE PATH

BLUR THE EDGES

According to the main streamline

According to the edge benefits

of people, the main paths are

- which means that people

shaped, and the architectural

prefer to stay on the edge.

roof form is adjusted with the

More edges were made where

path hierarchy.

have avoided the main path.

1 Entrance Plaza 2 Dining Area 3 Food Street

4 Storage Room

5 Information Desk 6 Fresh Market

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4 5

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Market Office & Service Center Equipment Room Storage Room Motorcycle Parking Lot Car Parking Lot

Basement Floor 20m

6 7 8 9 10

Bookshop Cafe Community Service Center Community Classroom 1 Household Registration Office Taipei Revenue Service, Beitou Branch National Taxation Bureau of Taipei, Beitou Office

1st Floor

11 12 13 14 15

Community Classroom 2 Community Classroom 3 Administrative Office Reading Room Land Administration Station Taipei Beitou District Office Mediation Committee

2nd Floor

20m

A-A Section

B-B Section

Northeast Elevation

Southwest Elevation

CAMPUS ART MUSEUM DATE INSTRUCTOR SITE AREA LOCATION

Nov - Dec, 2015 Spring Hua Yang 8,432 m² /12,732 m² Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China Individual Work Welcome To Click This Project https://zixuanzhang.cargo.site/Arch_Museum

RETURN SPACE TO CAMPUS This site is in a place passed by professors and students every day and gradually formed a shortcut path by trampling on this empty space. Therefore, keeping and improving the original path has become the main design concept. It aims to not destroy the initial flows, making the architecture more friendly and providing more public space for the campus.

THE WINDOW OF CAMPUS The site is located in the northwest corner of the Shenzhen University campus connecting to the campus access point. Compared with other school exhibition points, this campus art museum will be more open to the public, served as a bridge between university and outside. It provides a place for art exhibitions, art creation and communications. Social organizations are able to hold events and provide citizens community services, such as workshops and voluntary works. Thus, it is a window, a bridge, a platform, that allows more communications to happen between different social groups.

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SITE

100 m

Basketball Court

Teaching Building

Swimming Pool

NAN HAI AVENUE

Lixaing Park

200 m

Structural Engineering Research Institute

300 m

Gymnasium

Science &Technology Building Ground Floor Campus Art Gallery School of Materials

Normal Education College Ground Floor

PASS AND STAY In order to keep the path on the ground, in design, the main structure is lifted up, and the ground space is returned to the campus. This grey space created provides people with a cooling space for rest and communication. Additionally, based on the original fast-speed flow, a slow roaming flow designed enables people to stay longer on site. Artistâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Lofts are shaped into a village brought the relationship between artists closer, as well as the relationship between artists and other social groups.

Step1: Analysis existing condition.

Step2: Remain the original path on the ground.

Step3: Make accessible connections to the surrounding buildings. At the same time, design barriers for noise on site.

Step4: A courtyard is designer for ventilation and lighting. Bottomscattered Lofts are in contrast to the floating box in shape.

Step1: Site status - Plan analysis.

Step2: Respect the original path, making it a fast streamline, and plug in a slow roaming streamline.

Step3: Creating a pattern of the village attracts people to roam on site as well as make people closer.

Step4: In the floating exhibition box, the functions are distributed according to the surrounding buildings. 79

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A CITY OF LAYERS DATE INSTRUCTOR LOCATION

Feb - May, 2020 Spring David Grahame Shane New Delhi, India Public Space / Recombinant Urbanism Seminar Collaborated work with Kuan-I Wu, Pratibha Singh

Delhi is the capital of India and one of the world's oldest continually inhabited settlements, tracing its origins to 3000 years back. The city has had numerous incarnations under successions by multiple rulers, each establishing their own city and culture. Since then New Delhi has grown over a history shaped by Hindu, Afghan, Turkish, Persian, Mughal and British occupation, remains of which are still visible in the built fabric and have stood the test of time to form the melting pot it is today. Delhi is a city of layers where different cultures, architecture and ways of life come together. Natural elements played a pivotal part in Indian history as it has always been a gateway city, built on the plains initially near the Yamuna River and the mountain Ridge creating a natural barrier of prevention of invasion for the earlier cities established along the Ridge. River can supply water for the settlements. The growth of population in Shahjahanabad is a good example for that. Sometimes the Ridge is also a symbol of governance power as in Imperial Delhi. Delhi was also benefited by the proximity to the Silk road that connected the middle east and Asia.

Historical Timeline In 1060 The first city was built with a fortress to declare the capital, Lal Kot. Other cities were built over time, and they were destroyed and rebuilt various times.

In 1947, independence of India and partition, Delhi became the Political center and expanded rapidly with the influx of refugees from pakistan.

In 1638, Shahjahanabad, old Delhi, was built along the river with a grand wall-red fort. During 1911-1931 British built the imperial city of new delhi.

After 1990 the growth of the megacity is attribute to satellite cities Delhiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s political and economic significance has attracted people from all over the country and the world, resulting in a truly cosmopolitan city.

Architecture and culture were brought by different cultures and rulers, and Delhi became a city of cities.

Archi-Citta

Delhi was first mentioned in the Epics, but archaeological evidence places the first city of Delhi at 1060AD. The old cities of Delhi followed the city of faith model, where usually the palace, temple or mosque and a place of learning would be at the center and the populace would reside around it, protected by a wall and military encampments. The most notable of these cities was the walled city of Shahjahanabad, built by the mughal emperor in 1638, shifting the mughal capital to Delhi. The city was centered around the red fort which had the largest mosque in the center of the city and planned with axial avenues going towards the gates that surrounded the walled city.

Cine-Citta

In 1803, the city came under the British rule. Edwin Lutyens and Herbert baker designed the imperial city of new delhi, based on the garden city concept. The planning was characterised by wide boulevards and stately administrative buildings, fit for the colonial government and a symbol of power. After the Independence and partition of India in 1947, New Delhi became the seat of the indian government. Nearly half a million refugees poured into the city from present day pakistan, and started occupying any open areas they could find as temporary shelters. Wilderness and agricultural fields began to give way to residential colonies, commercial markets and industrial zones.

Tele-Citta

W i t h t h e c i ty ' s g row t h , N ew D e l h i keeps expanding from 1990 until now. It has expanded into a Tele Citta with multiple satellite cities around, such as Ghaziabad, Gurgaon and Noida. More and more people are moving to live in these satellite cities and even work there. In comparison to the center of the city, satellite cities have more potential space to be developed. Also, the convenient metro and highway system solve the issues of distance. The government has political incentives to encourage the development in these satellite cities. Now even there is a trend for more and more new businesses to be established in the cities around Delhi.

Megacity

N owa d ays , t h e w h o l e N ew D e l h i i s expanding into a Megacity composed of multiple dense centers, intervening suburbs, embedded green spaces, and diffuse boundaries between traditional cities and suburbs. Megacity in New Delhi will not only emphasize the size of the city, but also it will show a new and dynamic form that has the potential to integrate the new activities with historical context. Source: Diagram - "Egg analogy" of the form of the city (Vancutsem, 2011) - is from Corrado Iannucci, Urban sprawl indicators and spatial planning: the data interoperability in INSPIRE and Plan4all

SEMINAR OF SECTION- WHITNEY MUSEUM DATE INSTRUCTOR LOCATION

Feb - Apr, 2020 Spring Marc Tsurumaki Whitney Museum, New York, NY Individual work

Whitney Museum is a city friendly building and interacts with the neighborhood a lot, by the open public space on the ground, and the air decks reaching out to see the highline. Thus, this section zooms out to tell how it fits into the public circulation and urban context. It simulates the long exposure effect to represent the density of transportation and people along with the sidewalks.

VERTICAL MORALITY DATE INSTRUCTOR LOCATION

2019 Fall Vishaan Chakrabarti New York City, NY, USA Collaborated work with Luyi Huang, Lino Caceres, Xinyue Liu, Yi Zhang, Zihan Yu

City planning is over, and architecture has no real value anymore. Kevin Lynch was right in Good City Form[ Lynch, Kevin.“But Is a General Normative Theory Possible?” Ch.5 in Good City Form. MIT Press, 1990, pp.99–10 ] “If we have some ground for understanding what cities are, we have practically no rational ground for deciding what they should be, despite a flood of criticism and proposals. The dreams of utopian cities seem to come from nowhere and go nowhere”. We need to start over, but it is not a “tabula rasa” deal anymore, we come here not to colonize lands, but minds. Lets build inner city enclaves, that serve as a guide for what the pre-existing must be, let’s use all the available technology to build beacons of behavioral guidance, let’s plan ourselves into better citizens. In the current post-truth environment, there seems to be a tendency to muddy the waters in favour of camouflaging the most vile practices, relativizing every action, expanding the grey area of behavior, continuously driving our cities in the wrong direction. But there is a right and wrong, and the dyad has even been spatially represented in every culture around the globe throughout time. In Judaism, Olam Haba, or a “World to Come”, which living humans could never describe, hence it is absent from sacred scriptures. And its opposite: Gehinnom, which refers to a valley in which children were sacrificed to the god Molech. Eventually, this valley became a constantly burning land where sinners were sent. For christians, New Jerusalem, with its walls and gates, structures made of precious stones, trees, rivers, and a neverending stock of fruits. On the other end, The Book of Revelation indicates that those whose names are not found written in the Book of Life are thrown into the lake of fire.

TIME TRAVEL VOLUNTEER IN FAN PAI VILLAGE The 20 days experience of being a volunteer architect in the Fanpai village (Guizhou Province) means a lot to me. It taught me that every culture deserves to be respected, whether in design or life. I remember that when we first arrived, the villagers admired us very much because we were educated. However, during the time I spent in the village, I found that everyone could be my teacher. This small village has its language and culture which could never exist in the city. People know and trust each other, even when they meet a stranger, they will give him a gift without hesitation. Besides, what I was most surprised about were the various wooded architectures created by themselves without professional study or training.

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GIS PROJECTS Individual Works

FLOODING CALCULATION Technology: ArcGIS | ArcScene | Illustrator | Photoshop

LEARNING THE NEEDS OF NEIGHBORHOOD IN NYC Technology: ArcGIS | ArcScene | Illustrator | Photoshop

Calculation of "Vulnerability"

Vulnerability

Unemployment

Low Education

Public Transportation

Elderly (65+)

Infant (0-4)

City Grid

Income

Flooding & Green Space

Bike Campaign in NYC DATE INSTRUCTOR

2019 Fall, Urban Informatics Anthony Vanky Collaborated work with Chris Zheng, Ting Zhang

A City on (2) Wheels The City of New York in a parallel universe is starting a campaign to take all automobiles off the roads. It kicks off with bicycles taking over certain streets and avenues in Manhattan in certain time of the day, and eventually every streets in the whole city, 24/7. While most New Yorkers are embracing this more equal and healthy future, they also wonder what are the next steps to take in the coming days. To learn from the trend of bicycles, especially shared bicyclesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; growth in New York City, we will look into the data of Citi Bike, a privately owned public bicycle sharing system serving the city since 2008, and to come up with suggestive proposals for its development.

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The City of New York in a parallel universe is starting a campaign to take all automobiles off the roads. It kicks off with bicycles taking over certain streets and avenues in Manhattan at a certain time of the day, and eventually every street in the whole city, 24/7. While most New Yorkers are embracing this more equal and healthy future, they also wonder what are the next steps to take in the coming days. To learn from the trend of bicycles, especially shared bicyclesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; growth in New York City, we will look into the data of Citi Bike, a privately owned public bicycle sharing system serving the city since 2008, and to come up with suggestive proposals for its development. By analyzing Citibike data in 2018, the number for usage, station location, traveling time, etc. are visualized which contributes to forecasting where the next bicycle lane will be built in the near future. If we are going to launch a campaign which could be participated as many people as possible, what time is the perfect time?

Where is it?

Currently, there are a total of 837 citibike stations scattering in New York City. The distribution is even basically, and they are relatively concentrated in Midtown and Downtown in Manhattan.

Vote by Feet

By analyzing the data of start stations and end stations, the frequency for every riding line happened between different stations. Then we sort them in descending order and screen the most popular paths ranked top100. Whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s more, it could overlap with existing bicycle lanes in NYC. From this, we could observe which places people currently prefer to ride, but lack related bicycle lanes. Therefore, this grabs our attention: which will be the next bike lane soon.

Welcome To Click The Following Link: http://www.columbia.edu/~tz2436/BikeCampaign.html

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Dynamic Balance We try to have a general sense of which area that riding is relatively popular by visualizing the amount of usage on each bike station. Besides, we calculate the number between the start and endpoint of every single trip, trying to prove that there is an imbalance in citibike. However, the result shows that the imbalance was not obvious.

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Year / Season By visualizing the amount of bicycle trips in a year, it is obvious that people are more likely to choose a bicycle during their trips in the warm summer, while in the winter, the number for riding is greatly reduced. Thus, bicycle travel is significantly influenced by weather factors.

Week / Weekdays & Weekends Through the visualization of data, we speculate that citibike is the main choice for some people when commuting to and from work, which is even more than people who use it for leisure and exercise. In the whole week, the means of each day that people ride citibike are changing. Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, which is in the middle of the week, consist of the peak of citibike using, while at the beginning and end of the week, bike usage declines. However, on leisure Saturdays, bicycling is also a good option for people to travel.

Daily / Morning & Noon & Evening The time-specific data contribute to understanding the regularity of people's travel every single day. We analyze the travel time of each day in a week and compare it with each other. Obviously, during the working days, the peak period of people using citibike is mostly concentrated in the morning and afternoon, which overlap with the peak periods of work commuting. However, on the weekends, the stress of work is eliminated, and people prefer to ride a bike on a relaxing afternoon.

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Photo taken in Jerusalem

ZIXUAN ZHANG

+1(917)-488-9786 zz2659@columbia.edu 415 W 118th St, New York, NY10027 https://www.linkedin.com/in/zixuan-ming-zhang-220490198/

My Website: https://zixuanzhang.cargo.site/ F - 1 VISA, 3 years OPT in STEM program

EDUCATION

EXPERIENCE

COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY | NEW YORK

Swooding Architects | Hong Kong

06/2019 - 05/2020 (EXPECTED) GSAPP | M.S.Architecture And Urban Design

CHINESE CULTURE UNIVERSITY | TAIPEI 02/2016 - 07/2016 (Exchange Program) PCCU | Architecture

SHENZHEN UNIVERSITY | GUANGDONG

09/2013 - 06/2018 SAUP | Urban Planning & Design Bachelor of Engineering GPA: 3.67/4.0 The first three years for architecture, then two years for urban planning and design. Honors & Awards - University Honor Graduate | 2018 - Student Commencement Speaker | 2018 - Outstanding Graduation Project | 2018 - University Scholarship | 2017-18 - Excellent Intern | 2017-18 - Design Scholarships (top10%) | 2013-17 yearly - Travel scholarship | 2016-17 - Excellent Student Cadre | 2014-15

SKILLS Data Analysis

ArcGis | QGis | Python

3D Modeling

Rhino | Revit | SketchUp

2D Diagraming

AutoCAD | Photoshop | Illustrator | InDesign

Film & Video

Premiere Pro | After Effects

Others

Drawing & Sketch | Microsoft Office | Laser Cutting

Language

English | Mandarin

Junior Designer | Full Time 01/2019-05/2019 Participated in: - Xin Qiao Smart City International Competition, New Industrial landuse; - Xiang Mi Park Urban design guidelines (Government Project); - Shenzhen Science & Technology Museum Design proposal. Being responsible for detailed drawings of various scales including sections of types of buildings, commercial facades and natural environment, 3D modelings, visualizing 2D graphics, participating in conceptual design and communication with government. Website: http://www.swooding.com/

China Academy of Urban Planning & Design | Shenzhen

Design Assistant | Full-Time Internship 10/2017-01/2018 Worked on four urban planning projects involving coordinating with people in various fields, creating digital masterplan; participated in the preliminary comprehensive development plan of Nanhai District including discussing city development of strategy, data analyses and visualization, preparing final slides for presentation. Website: http://www.szcaupd.com/

Security Risk Assessment Report on Shenzhen Wutongshan Mountain Greenway | Shenzhen Research Assistant; Group Leader of Student Team 09/2017-06/2018 Second Author in a Published Paper Conducted preliminary investigation. Made survey questionnaires, mass interviews, field investigation and conducted testing of the greenway. Established an evaluation system, calculated data and made drawings.

Zhuojian International Architecture Design Co., Ltd | Beijing Design Assistant | Summer Internship 06/2014-09/2014 Drawed 2D graphics and visited construction sites of hospital projects. Website: http://www.bsp-architects.cn/en/

Theoretical Model of Creative Interdisciplinarity | Shenzhen

Research Assistant 06/2018-06/2019 Read and summarized a large number of books related to economics and sociology, made notes and records, discussed with the instructor.

ACTIVITIES Member of Alumni Association of SAUP in Shenzhen University | Shenzhen 06/2018 - present Arranged the large-scale Reunion Day of SAUP on 22/09/2018.

International Workshop for the Design of Hangzhou Asian Village | Hangzhou 22/07/2017-02/08/2017 Collaborated with Ten International Universities.

Orator at Yearly Freshman Public Lectures | Shenzhen

10/2015-10/2018 Yearly shared own experience and inspired freshmen.

Volunteer Architect in Fanpai Village | Guiyang

14/08/2015-28/08/2015 Interviewed local people, measured historical buildings and held workshops for renovations ideas.

ZIXUAN ZHANG Portfolio

Selected Works 2019-2020

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