Portfolio - Zi Zhuo

ZI ZHUO

Portfolio

Selected Works 2013-2020

M.Arch, University of Virginia, 2020 B.Arch, Chongqing University, 2018

Zi (Stephen) Zhuo

LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCE

264 Colonnade Dr, Apartment 16, Charlottesville, Virginia zz5vk@virginia.edu | 1-571-421-6528 issuu.com/zizhuo1994

Campus Broadcast of Chongqing University Program Leader, News Program Group Broadcasted and edited manuscripts. Supervised the participation and work of other group members. Also organized group performances for the festival.

2013-2014

Art Group of Architecture and Urban Planning School Member, Vocal Department Participated in various of college performances. Christmas Party, New Year party, etc

2013-2016

Student Association of Hongshen School Secratary, Literature and Art Department Wrote schemes and helped organize the performance of New Year Party.

2012-2013

EDUCATION Architecture School at University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia Master of Architecture, Path 2

09/2018-05/2020

Department of Architecture and Urban Planning at Chongqing University, Chongqing Bachelor of Architectural Studies General GPA: 3.65/4

09/2013-06/2018

Advanced Class of Civil Engineering, Hongshen at Chongqing University, Chongqing One year of Structural Studies

09/2012-06/2013

ARCHITECTURE RELATED EXPERIENCE RMJM (Robert Matthew Johnson Marshall), Shanghai Architecture Intern International Competition for Design of Xiangjiang’s Gate, Hengyang, Hunan: Responsible for culture research, preliminary proposal, plan design, facade design, 3D visualizing

06/2019-08/2019

Design and Design Technical Service for the New Campus of + the Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, Zhejiang: Responsible for diagram drawing, plan design, physical model making, presentation Utile, Boston Architecture Extern Mainly involved in a comprehensive commercial residential project in Boston, responsible for digital modeling, floor plan drawing, diagram drawing, 3d visualizing.

Chongqing Architectural Design Institute, Chongqing Architecture Intern The main design institute in Chongqing. Played an active role in the site analysis, preliminary proposal and definitive design. Responsible for 3d visualizing, graphic design, and plan layout.

01/2020

09/2017-11/2017

Future Architecture Associates of Chongqing University Member, Survey Research Group of East Gate Space A student association for elites’ communication. Made improvements to the upgrading plan of East Gate space of Campus B. Also edited articles in WeChat Official Accounts.

2015-2016

Student Associates of Graduate Architecture at University of Virginia Represent of Path 2 Chinese Students A student association for elites’ communication. Made improvements to the upgrading plan of East Gate space of Campus B. Also edited articles in WeChat Official Accounts.

2018-2019

HONOURS & AWARDS Rank Top 10% in Faculty Been Given a Postgraduate Recommendation from Chongqing University.

2013-2017

National First Prize National Competition of Teaching Plans and Achievements of Architectural Design in Colleges

2017

National Second Prize National Green Buildings Design Competition, Lime Group

2015

University Scholarship Chongqing University Excellent Student Second Class Scholarship

2016

University Scholarship University of Virginia Entrance Scholarship

2018

EXTRA CURRICULARS Second Prize The Singing Competition of Architecture and Urban Planning School at Chongqing University

2016

Organiser Graduation Music Festivel of Architecture and Urban Planning School at Chongqing Universuty

2018

Lead Singer Student Band “Cold Cat”

2015-2018

SKILLS Modeling/Technical Drawing: Revit, Rhino, Grasshhoper, Google Sketchup, AutoCad, Maya, ArchiCad, ArcGIS Rendering: Vary for Sketchup and Rhino, Lumion Visualization: Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign, Lightroom

CONTENTS

TOWARDS THE CHELSEA

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SCHOOL AND RESIDENTIAL COMPLEX DESIGN

PRISM

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HIGH-RISE COMMERCIAL COMPLEX DESIGN

BILLBOARD

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CATASTROPHE CENTER DESIGN

REAR WINDOW For me, being an architect is actually providing a format for socail life.

“Architecture is made into a vehicle for observation and reflection.

Overloaded with meaning and symbolism, its direct intervention in human affairs is spuriously reduced to a question of practicality.”

-Robin Evans

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CULTURAL MUSEUM DESIGN

SCI-FI GALLERY NEWYORK

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URBAN GALLERY DESIGN

GREEN CANYON

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RESIDENTIAL AREA PLANNING AND DESIGN

BRIDGING LAGOON FUTURE

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VERNACULAR LANDSCAPE AND URBAN DESIGN

OTHER WORKS Selected Work from 2013-2020

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01 [TOWARDS THE CHELSEA] School and Residential Complex Design | Teamwork | Fall 2018 | New York, US Instructor: Kyriaki Kasabalis, Felipe Correa Collaborator: Xinghan Chen For approximately ten years now, the city of New York has been discussing a series of Public-Private Partnerships (PPP) to sell public land occupied with schools, libraries and hospitals to private developers. The developers are required to replace the existing public program with new, modern facilities, while receiving new rights. It should be a winwin strategy for both government and developers. However, these projects done by developers lack programmatic synergies, new forms of urbanity, and contributions to the neighborhood in the form of new green and public spaces or social infrastructures that would counterbalance the increased density. We are going to radically rethink the current PPP in favor of a more diverse and dynamic public environment.

The project aims to connect nearby blocks and Chelsea Park, by designing a media to have conversations not only between our project and park, but also create connections between Chelsea park and other nearby blocks to benefit surrounding residents.

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281 9th Ave, New York, NY 10001

C_ PUBLIC SCHOOL 33

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MORNING SIDE HEIGHTS

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SOHO

Through the analysis of the day and night population flow in Manhattan, we selected six schools with distinctive population flow characteristics to conduct further research on them, and finally selected the passive Site C, which lacks population flow, as the final location for follow-up research and design.

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Toward this goal, we start the semester by analyzing all of the public schools in Manhattan in order to generate an inventory of the schools themselves, their typologies and characteristics, and surrounding urban contexts. Each team is asked to sign up as an analytical lens that will investigate the locations of Manhattan’s public schools in relationship to a specific layer.

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In the fictional feasibility study we will develop in this studio, the city of New York would like to explore the range of possible outcomes that can be developed for new public schools in the city through the PPP initiative.

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We took pictures of façades of two straight streets surrounding our site. There are different styles of buildings and different functions. Far away from the rivers are commercial and residential buildings where atmosphere is quite good full of crowds, and as it is closer to the river, housing becomes more predominant. However, it is not so crowded as streets don’t provide high-quality space for citizens. When it is closer to the river, manufacturing function becomes the leading function. After those investigations, we think it important to have a consecutive façade of streets to attract more people and activate nearby regions.

Our site is next to the highline park, and is full of art galleries nearby. However, the school in our site doesn’t get too much in the aspect of art, so we try to assimilate art into our designing.

History of Chelsea Community

Site Anaysis - The Continuity of Streets

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Site Plan

Typology Study

Fall2018 ARCH 7010 Typology Study Review

City of the Captive Globe - Rem Koolhaas, Madelon Vriesendorp (1972)

From the 12 options we have produced, we are asked to choose 4 that we think are most promising and make physical models of the scheme by 3D printing or blue foam. Complementing these models, we also developed a series of scale drawings in plan and section that analyze these schemes and test scale, density, program organization, circulation, public-ness, site context, and open space. Also required are one axonometric drawing per scheme that explains the scheme within the urban context, as well as one perspectival image from the view of a person that best represents a key spatial aspect of each proposal.

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CONTEXT

School Intensity Flow

Design Strategy

School

Nearby Masses

Nearby Park

Site Border

Commerce

Art Gallery

Summary Drawing

Street Continuity

Public Space

Terrace View

Block Connection

School Distribution

Circulation Courtyard

Gymnasium

Residence

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Sectional Axon

Horizontally, three school parts including schools and gymnasium are surrounded by housing. Vertically, on the first and second floor, commerce and art galleries are distributed to make it more convenient for people to be really engaged in art and buy things.

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As for schools, the surrounded yards are so great so they can have a direct view towards the park and good for school kids. In the passageway, the sinking plaza is for commerce and two sideways can make people pass and see the art exhibitions.

It will be a huge challenge to meet the requirements of the number of classrooms and the area of p ​​ ublic event venues while ensuring that the classrooms are lighted and integrated with residential, commercial, and outdoor spaces. In response to the strategy of directing outsiders from the ground through the slope to the urban balcony space, the roof of the school section has also adopted a slope roof. While dividing the teacher space according to the column network, a courtyard was hollowed out in the middle to provide student activities inside the school, while ensuring its safety and privacy.

We placed the stadium space and the auditorium in this courtyard in the middle of the building, in order to better serve the school classroom space on both sides from the streamline. Teachers and students can reach this large activity space through the underground flow line or the second-level flow line without intersecting with other external flow lines. At the same time, in order to ensure the indoor height, this large space is slightly sunken, and it can perfectly connect with the park grounds. Visitors in the park can view indoor games through the external curtain wall even if they do not enter the room.

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Our basic approach is to create different public spaces including passing and school by dividing our site. Also, the solid massing should enclose the public space without breaking the continuity of facade.This hybrid form, or we can say architectural form will be what we think about, responding to the future urban complex of the Manhattan.

Top Plexi Model of Project at 1:500, Project Birdview 1

Bottom Plexi Model of Project at 1:500, Project Birdview 2

Opposite Page Plexi Model of Project at 1:500, Project Birdview 3

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02 [PRISM] High-rise Commercial Complex Design | Teamwork | Winter 2015 | Chongqing, China Instructor: Zhen Yang Collaborator: Kun Sun Hongyadong, located in Yuzhong district of Chongqing, is one of the largest tourist attractions in the city. But as the city developing, the high building density and disordered commercial of the area has become a huge problem.

We tried to build a high-rise complex beside the river like a prism, which could reflect the key words of Chongqing life around here as much as possible, and then bring order to them like chromatic dispersion. In addition, automatically, the shining prism will become an integrated landscape of this area as we expected.

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Site Map

Building Generation A.Qiansimen Bridge

B.Cathay Art Center C.Hongyadong The site located in north of Yuzhong peninsula. How to build good relationship with other landmarks surrounding in every aspects was an important question for the whole design.

Design Considerations Issue of Density

1.Connection

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5.Integration

2.Prototype

4.Skyline

6.Facade

Site Plan

High building density and disordered commercial did quite negative effects to the block. The quality of space was getting lower and lower.

Issue of Access

Because of the huge height difference between north and south of the site, we were considering to find a way to improve the accessibility to the building.

Continuity of Skyline

As a landscape of the whole city, the continuity of Yuzhong peninsula’s skyline should be kept well. The height of the new building ought to be limited.

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A Fitness Trails

B Underground Atrium

Ground Floor Plan

C Amphitheater 1.Restaurant 2.Exibition Room 3.Boutique Catering 4.Dessert Room 5.Tea Room 6.View Hall 7.Control Room

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D Exterior Terraces

E River View Hall

Connecting Floor Plan

F Museum of City History 1.Entry Plaza 2.Store 3.Office 4.Boutique 5.SOHO’s Lobby 6.Museum’s Lobby 7.Office Building’s Lobby 8.Lobby Bar 9.Fire Control Room 10.Exibition Room 11.Store Room 12.Equipment Room 13.View Terrace 14.Amphitheater

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Sectional Perspective 1

Sectional Perspective 2

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Typical Floors Plan | Roof Floors Plan -32-

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External Glass

Aluminum Frame

Steel Frame

Steel Connection

Connection Truss

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Curtain Wall

Blind Internal Glass

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Top Wood Model of Project at 1:200, Tower Detail

Bottom Wood Model of Project at 1:200, Transition Floor Detail

Opposite Page Wood Model of Project at 1:200, Project Birdview

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03 [BILLBOARD] Catastrophe Center Design | Individual Work | Spring 2019 | Los Angeles, US Instructor: Katie Stranix The smog problem once plagued the city of Los Angeles for 50 years. Although the blue sky and white clouds have returned to this western region after the government’s policy adjustments, the history ruled by the smog can be described as the heart of the local people.

The theme of this design is the Catastrophe Center, located near the beach of Santa monica, where NO.10 Highway meets. Since car exhaust is the chief culprit in the year that caused smog, it makes sense to choose smog as the main element of the disaster center in such a car-intensive location. So, how should we use the means of architectural design to make this theme well presented?

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Site Location

Space Strategy Study Model

SANTA MONICA PIER

This model explores how to use basic space techniques to clean up smog. Multiple horizontally stacked, rotatable porous walls can purify the air passing through it and bring different experiences to those who are inside.

Billborad Analysis - Size, Amount and Influence

Detail Study Model Walls

Digital Billboards

Posters

Digital Posters

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Site Analysis

This model tries to figure out the construction details used to clean up smog. I combine the vertical transportation body with a smog core that can transport smog from the top to the ground, so that visitors can observe the flow of smog

Pier View

Smog Density Model

No.10 Highway

Train Station I did some research about the smog situation near the site and the billboard culture in Los Angeles. Santa Monica’s law prohibits local billboards, but what about a giant building billboard? I think it will be an interesting concept to realize the visualization of smog in the form of architectural billboards and to warn people.

This model attempts to explore the relationship between smog height and density in a certain area around the site.

After sorting out the relevant data, I used physical model to visualize the smog density.

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Functional Room Section

Smog Core Section

Exhibition Ramp Section

Floor Plan Collection

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The building will be designed as an extremely simple plate-like mass, like a huge filter and barrier, between the east side and the west side. On the one hand, the east side of the building always carries the responsibility of absorbing haze and visualizing it. As time goes by, more and more smog particles will accumulate on the faรงade, and its horrible appearance will alert the drivers passing by on the highway, just like a huge educational billboard. On the other hand, this simple building mass will be divided into two extreme opposite parts: the side of the billboard will be very dark and horrible, while the opposite side of the facade will be extremely clean.

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Exhibition Lobby

Corridor

Iam. safety glass sunscreen lourve: 12 mm lowiron safety glass + screen- printed interlayer + 12 mm low-iron safety glass

Smog Core

prefilter screen

fixed glazing: 2 x 8 mm toughened glass fixed to 40/40 mm SHSs; cavity; 2 x 80 mm rigidfoam slabs; 10 mm sheet steel; 360 mm void; 10 mm sheet steel bent to shape

aluminium sunshading lourves, motor-operated

fgreening: 500 mm substrate layer; drainage 3mm PET foil; bitumious sealing layer; reinforced concrete

Animal Dander 30 micrometers

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Dust | Pollen 20 mirometers

Dust Mite - 10 mirometers

Bacteria - 3 mirometers

Smoke - 1 Fine Particles mirometer 0.3 mirometer

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04 [REAR WINDOW] Cultural Museum Design | Individual Work | Fall 2015 | Chongqing, China Instructor: Yang Meng “When you are watching the item, you and the item are also watched by others.”

For a quite long time, Chongqing Eling No2 printing factory had acted an important role in the city’s development, but as the time went by, the factory became dilapidated and finally abandoned.

The goal of the design was to reconstruct the old factory to a new museum of printing history.

With some old machines kept, I was trying to combine the present and the past together to create a brand new experience for visitors. To truly recall people’s memory of the site, I extracted the element “window” from old factory. The ”watching” and “being watched” exhibit the whole printing life of the factory.

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Principle of “Watching”

Principle of “Being Watched”

Extraction of Window Elements

Type A: Small and Medium Scale

The varieties of window in old factory were in quite a great number, and three basic types that had been most common in the old factory were chosen. Regardless of different materials they were made of, forms they have should be concentrated most. Since the forms determined the views people see from windows.

To deal with the small and medium scale printing machines, I simply chose to distribute the items evenly on the floor. Visitors passing by could easily see them or use them.

Rectanguler Window

Vertical Window

The Scale of Item

The Way of Displaying

Horizontal Window

Type B: Large Scale (High) To put the items with great height in the exhibition, I had designed a double-height space to hold them. Visitors could have a better look at it from different layers.

From turning three window types into three abstract words respectively, we could have better analysis of them.

Transfer of Window Concept For turning these abstract words into specific parts of the new building again, the watching feelings of different forms of windows should be studied thoroughly.

Type C: Large Scale (Wide) Some wide machines could only be set in a long space. I chose to combine them with stairs to make the room more interesting and fluent.

Centralized

Fragmentized

Choice of Depth

Forms By having made simple work models of three basic window forms, we could clearly learn the different visual effects the different types had. The rectangular one made the scene quite concentrated and static, and the other two displayed two sorts of fluidity.

The parts of human body are seen varied according to different people’s postures, body sizes and so forth. The combination of these elements had showed great fun.

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When the scene was normally watched by us, it was dynamic. But if we watch the scene through the window, it became static like a picture and could be recorded. To truly build the relationship between people and items, and to let the history penetrating, we need to turn a “item” to a “moment”.

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Views Through windows, the printing machine and people using it combined into a “moment”. By putting them into a space with small depth, view turned into two-dimensional from three-dimensional and stated the whole past of the machine.

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Historical Line of “Items”

ACT1 Lead Strip(1872~1898)

Words cast(1872~1898)

Two hand-operated machines were used for producing lead strip and casting words. Lead words were essential for printing that time.

ACT2 Arranging(1882~1915) The nearly oldest printing machine was this one produced in Shanghai. By putting the cast words in order, the machine could do easy print job.

ACT3 Banknote(1887~1916) Easy banknote could be produced in China that time.

Most of money people used in Chongqing came from this sort of machine.

ACT4 Typecast(1889~1915) The words casting work could be relatively independent by using this machine, which meant workers didn’t need to produce lead first.

ACT5 Print Press(1915~1950) The upgraded printing press appeared in around 1915. The printing work became much easier without many prerequisite.

ACT6 Word Rack(1880~1952) The word rack existed for quite a long time in No2 factory’s life.

The workers usually put the words they cast well in the racks.

ACT7 Power Needle(1920~30) The power needle machine was also used for helping the printing job. Workers often used it accompanying words casting job.

ACT8 Photoset(1950~1970) Now the workers in No2 factory use the photosetting machine to arrange the words. In this way the cast words are no longer needed.

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Act 2-Cast Words Arranging and Printing

Act 3-Banknote Printing

Act 4-Typecasting

Act 5-Walking and Transition

Act 6-Printing(Modern One)

Act 7-Cast Words Displaying

Act 8-Printing Assisting

Act 1-Lead Strip Production and Words Casting

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The Entry | The Gap

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Main Exhibition Hall | Watching Hall

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Exhibition Room 2F

Main Exhibition Hall

Using the advantage of the hilly area in Chongqing, the lobby, exhibition hall and atrium were set in different heights. I tried to keep the natural landform as completed as possible. As a result, a interestingly rhythmic and constant visitor route was formed. Visitors go up and down, experiencing the unique feature of this mountainous city.

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City Balcony

Building Axon

Structure System

Display Rack The core space of the design, as the display room of printing machines and the “bewatched” box to show the past moments.

Steel Roof

Watching Hall With the city background behind the stage, Landscape and shows can be combined together.

Atrium

Steel Truss Exhibition Room 2F The room where the old printing tools are shown, and the “be-watching” box.

Exhibition Room 1F Concrete Frame

The room where the old printing tools are shown, and the “be-watching” box.

Archive The archive displays the literary information of the history. In addition, visitors can also see how others can be combined with the projection of past scenes through old windows.

Perforated Plate

Logistics

Store and Cafe

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05 [Sci-fi Gallery New York] Urban Gallery Design | Team Work | Spring 2020 | New York, US Instructor: Ferda Kolatan, Darcy Engle Collaborator: Jingyao Zhang The project aims to build a garden and gallery with a sci-fi atmosphere. It is going to be a sci-fi launcher in the entire city of Manhattan. All people who are interested in sci-fi culture can come here to experience this culture.

But how are going to build our specific space?

Then we have studied the commonality of science fictional movies and existing site, and found that surveillance cameras will become a very powerful element connecting the site and the sci-fi culture. Since it is very common in sci-fi movies and also around existing traffic roads.

So our next step is to take the form of a surveillance camera as a space prototype, and its projection principle as the basis for the specific construction of space.

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Design Concept

“Secret Base” in the sci-fi movie Men in Black 3

Aboveground: Ventilation Tower Underground: Secret Base

Hybrid of ventilation system and secret base

Night View + Day View

After a careful study of the surroundings of the site and the status of the ventilation tower as a key design point, we found a very interesting entry point: the ventilation tower was thought to exist only as a functional obscure building, but many visitors actually consider it as a tourist attraction, why would that happen? It turned out that the ventilation tower was the entrance to the secret base of the agents in the film “Men in Black” series. Therefore, we start thinking: In this case, why don’t we take advantage of the already existing impression of this site and deeply enlarge it?

The project aims to build a garden and gallery with a sci-fi atmosphere. It is going to be a sci-fi launcher in the entire city of Manhattan. All people who are interested in sci-fi culture can come here to experience this culture.

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Sci-fi Atmosphere Sci-fi Atmosphere Sci-fi Atmosphere Anamorphosis Principle Anamorphosis Principle 1. Surveillance Prototype

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On the one hand, as for facade and exterior landscape design, we hope that the exterior skin of the building presents a weird and closed posture, so that people who are located outside or inside the building cannot accurately perceive the other side of the space. The ordinary sense of space before entering the building and the sense of losing in it after entering the building will become a strong contrast, thereby strengthening the concept. In addition, at night, the lights from the top of the building will become a beautiful landscape.

On the other hand, in the processing method of the internal space, by projecting the sci-fi scene impression map onto the spherical space as a three-dimensional object in two dimensions, we will get a brand new abstract picture between 2D and 3D. After that, We draw inspiration from these abstract figures to construct a concrete spherical space. Visitors will tour the science fictional scenes of different themes in this fantasy space and lose themselves.

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Sphere Space Collection

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Sectional Perspective 1

Sectional Perspective 2

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Interior View - Garden

Interior View - Universe & Planet

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Interior View - Cyclic & Infinite

Interior View - Ditigal & Technical

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Exterior Perspective The original ventilation system will be integrated into the building space. For the air exit system, the gap between the double skins of the building will become their perfect residence; for the air intake system, we will merge it with various building components of the internal space.

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06 [GREEN CANYON] Residential Area Planning and Design | Teamwork | Winter 2014 | Chongqing, China Instructor: Tianming Sun Collaborator: Han Yao Chongqing is a typical mountainous city. It was a big challenge in terms of how to digest the huge height difference and to deal with issues about environment and function. But the unique urbanscape of Chongqing also came from the dramatic topography.

In this design, we aimed to create a clear hierarchy of spaces from public to private using the inspiration of natural canyon. And by bringing the green atmosphere to the old and disordered living place, the new residential area could contain more levels of communication and better living quality.

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Site Map

Conceptual Analysis The site located in the west of Chongqing and on the south side of Jialing River, with around 40m huge height difference.

Chongqing University and the entrepreneur park under construction nearby would be the main source of incoming residents in the future.

Besides, how to renew the old residential area and bring a brand new life to the natives was also an urgent question for the designers.

To wholly use the advantage of height difference, and to divide the living space into different parts with different publicity, we extract concept from the natural canyon. By activating the already existing arterial road in the site, we tried to turn the old residential area to a wonderful canyon made of buildings.

Building Generation Users Analysis

The site located on a hillside near Jialing River.

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Refresh the terrain and activate the old arterial road lying in the site.

Create new pedestrian and traffic system, and two different entry plazas for users.

Set several slab-type massings on the site to mimic Change the shape of massing for better skyline natural canyon depending on pedestrian system. and better view for public.

Build air corridors between massing to create high level pedestrian system for convenience.

Combine different room types together, to create a fascinating facade for buildings.

Create enough green public space for different users on site.

Bring commercial to the bottom of massing, to make full use of the terrain.

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Building Axon

Green Terrace The view terrace on the roof serving for private living space.

Private Living The main private living space for users who expect a quiet life. Be composed of room types with different scales and prices.

Air Corridor The newly built pedestrian system to mimic canyon. Directly link to different open living spaces.

Open Living The semi-public living space for entrepreneurs’ communication.

Be composed of some open living room types.

Commerce and Plaza The main public space made of stone pavement. Directly access to different commercial spaces.

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For this reason, the ground floor of each house has been largely emptied, and the density of the units has been greatly reduced. Instead, there are more public spaces for people to walk through and conduct various activities.

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07 [BRIDGING LAGOON FUTURE] Vernacular Urban and Landscape Architecture Design | Teamwork | Fall 2019 | Winneba, Ghana Instructor: Guoping Huang, Nancy Takahashi Analysis Phase Collaborator: Xiaowei Lin, Carly Tominovich, Grant Kuczler Project Phase Collaborator: Xiaowei Lin The community of Winneba is located on the Gulf of Guinea in Ghana’s Central Region. It is the capital of the Effutu Municipal District and is approximately 35 miles west of the national capital, Accra, and 90 miles east of the city of Cape Coast. To its south lies the Gulf of Guinea, to the west is the brackish yet ecologically rich Muni Lagoon and to the east the Ayensu River. Today, Winneba is a city seeking to rebound from a certain level of economic, social and developmental stagnation. While much of its port and export/import based economy was devastated by the opening of more sophisticated deep water ports elsewhere, in recent decades tourism, education and festivals celebrating indigenous traditions have helped the community regain some of its former glory.

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Urban Planning Systems Conflict: Current VS Proposed

The purpose of this systematic study is to study the difference between the current status of the winneba urban planning system and the original urban planning scheme, that is, the difference between the target urban system and the current urban system. By superimposing the two, it is not difficult to find that the target planning scheme has a serious conflict with the lagoon ecosystem, and the urban expansion has also become chaotic due to the development of the target planning scheme in the early stage. The difference between the status quo and the target is getting bigger and bigger, and it is difficult to reconcile now.

Therefore, we can see that there are serious problems in the development path of winneba’s urban planning.

Containing key features such as the Muni Lagoon’s salt ponds, main drain, traffic light intersection, Commercial Drive, and UEW’s Central Campus, the transect we choose is located at an integral crossroads within Winneba, between its major riparian region and its dense urban development. Prior to the founding of UEW, Winneba’s economy relied heavily on its fishing and salting industries, making the Winnebarians inherently connected to their natural resources.

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However, the growth and expansion of UEWâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 3 campuses brought about an economic transition in Winneba -putting a greater emphasis on industries fueled by the University population, therefore causing residents to become increasingly disconnected with the Muni Lagoon and its features. UEW has grown alongside Commercial Drive -expanding its campuses from South to North along this active, urban spine-, and the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s economic network has followed the same growth, with businesses and residential dwellings gradually moving north and slowly detaching from the riparian landscape. The constructed natural environment -salt ponds, wetlands, lagoon- is largely disconnected from the constructed, dense urban environment, as there is little to no overlap in the pathways comparing past and present Winnebarians.

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Kwesi Acquah Yarney Intervention 3 Commercial Drive Memorial House Park + Visitor Center Urban Core Entry

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Market Adjacent to UEW Central

After investigating and analyzing the transect, we finally decided to analyze it in detail from 5 sections to thoroughly understand the characteristics of the area.

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2050 Site Plan of Productive Saltponds

Proposed Urban Design Strategy In order to mitigate this disconnect within Winnebaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s urban fabric, our team proposes a research center complex located within the boundary of Transect to assist in bridging the gap between transitioning economies. Through 4 interventions within this research complex -the main research center/laboratory, greenbelt pathways, revitalized park/visitor center, and UEW/Lagoon Committee center, Our Transect â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s proposal seeks to revive the link between landscapes.

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1 Algae Farm 2 Brine Shrimp Farm 3 Quarantine 4 Recirculating Aquaculture Systems 5 Labotory and Office 6 Nusery Pool 7 Grow-out Pool 8 Hydroponics 9 Inbucation Pool 10 Bottom Culture 11 Suspended Line Culture 12 Rack and Bag Culture 13 Suspended Nets 14 Longline Culture and Algae Farm 15 Refrigerator and Hatchery Office 16 Mangrove Restoration Field 17 Walking Trail 18 Saltpond Culture Pavillion 19 Bird Watching Tower

Welcome Center First Floor Plan

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Welcome Center Sectional Perspective

Logistic + Exhibition

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Entertainment + Activity

Restaurant + Sightseeing

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After observing that there is still a huge gap between greenbelt and the research center complex we envisioned, I offered to set up a welcome center between the two to serve as a bridge. This building will be very open and landscaped, it can be easily hidden in the environment, and it can welcome people who come to the lagoon area at first time. Specific to the concept and function of the building, there are two main core ideas: on the one hand, this building will carry a variety of public activity programs. While it connects various nodes in our urban design on the streamline, it also provide a lot of public space for local citizens and visitors; on the other hand, considering that the building itself is located at the junction of the urban drainage system and lagoon, I also hope that the building itself can become a water filter and further contribute to the improvement of the environment. It should not only just be a public space for people to use.

With the completion of this project, the various parts of the entire transect, as well as the city and lagoon, will be organically integrated.

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PHYSICAL MODEL WORKS

Raise | Gymnasium Design

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Memorize | Library Design

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PHOTOGRAPHY WORKS

Manhattan Street | Walt Disney Concert Hall

Puerto Rico Street | USS Midway Museum

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