architecture portfolio (selected works 2014-2020) | Freddie Zhang

[ LIMINALITY ] Portfolio of Zhang fengji

Selected work 2014-2019 The Chinese University of Hong Kong, School of architecture , March 2018-2020 ,Zhang fengji , Freddie Tel:92301939 Email:1155117042@link.cuhk.edu.hk

EDUCATION Chinese university of HongKong (2018-2020) master of Architecture Taiwan National Quemoy university (2012-2017) Tamkang university (exchange program 20142016) bachelor of Architecture

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Kinmen local firm 09-12/2016 Design assistant

Freddie Zhang fengji email: 1155117042@link.cuhk.edu.hk tel: 92301939

Shanghai interiror design 08-10/2017 Design assistant HongKong Victoria sculpture firm 11-12/2017 Design assistant

ACADEMIC HONORES & COMPETITIONS CUHK HORNOR REVIEW 2018 third prize TEAMZERO AWARDS 2020 Second prize CUHK BEST THESIS 2020 Best project in M2

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CONTENTS

[ 01 Village Regeneration ]

--- PHASE1: The poetics of home,a research of Hakka culture and daily life --- PHASE2: Wall to wall,a blueprint of He Xin Wu village in GuangZhou, China

[ 02 Bending-active Structure ]

--- Bamboo pavillion: city hall in Hsinchu, Taiwan

[ 03 Border as Urbanism ]

--- Over the line : Kinmen-Xiamen Cross-sea bridge

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[ 04 Soical housing ] a project (P) is relevant to a manifesto (M), which should be proved or disproved by a hypothesis (H) inculding a set of provisional supposition.

--- The times of co-liivng : social housing for undegraduates

[ 05 Other works ]

--- Camera center : ambiguous space and wall architecture --- Towards Death: architecture and montage --- The reborn of publicman in shanghai --- Volcanic Aurora: a project for ice island guest house competition

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01 Village Regeneration PHASE1: The poetics of home,a research of Hakka culture and daily life

Methodology, Materiality 2019.08-2019.09 Location:He Xin Wu, Guangzhou, China Group work with BerylWong Role in team: conceptual design(85%), technical drawings(55%) won Second Prize at the TEAMZERO AWARD 2019

He Xin Wu is a kind of Wei Long Wu in HuiZhou-which is one of typical chinese settlement for Hakka people who live in GuangDong or FuJian. He Xin Wu used to consist of nine wei longs(liner living block) and defensive wall connected by several towers. This village is abandoned and collapsWed because of low maintenance and population migration. Now, government and villagers started to repair it with concrete and fake brick texture. In this situation, we choose an empty place near the boundary wall and purpose a new design scheme for renovation. After a contextual investigation, we find a series of spatial elements as prototype- skywalk (defence system), rammed earth living unit, the linearly curvy public realm and sectional relations among different buildings.

Since it is a hollow village with lots of left-behind children and old people, we maximize public space in our home as a social infrastructure upgrading villagers’ life quality. Our strategy separates the whole building into two parts – upper level as living space and lower part for the public, which response to previous prototype. Mud is the beginning of our design. Beryl’s father is a sculptor who is also a master of soil. The mud studio/ school provides a workplace to him where he can teach local children art or technique.

We also embed a library for grandparent are both retired teachers who donated to education for long time. The library also can allow villagers to have a reading space for their leisure time. Beryl’s mother is a housewife loving planting and take care of little brother.

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SITE ANALYSIS | a research of hakka culture and village context

SPATIAL STRATEGY P R I VAT E "HOME-WORKSHOP" new prototype

spatial sequence echo with the ground level

BEDROOMS LIVING ROOM

DINNING ROOM

HOME

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"a place in which one's domestic affections are centered."

G R A N D PA R E N T S MUD-BRICK MAKER

wide staircases provide areas for planting crops, which can be fertilised using leftover slurry

PUBLIC

indirectly watching at the son via different levels

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MOM

LIBRARY absorbing knowledge with friends

KITCHEN GARDEN

SON

8-years-old

craftwork with earth expanded from brickmaking to sculpturecreation

NEIGHBOURS

STUDIO

LIBRARY

HOUSEWIFE

"the creation of value" "spread knowledge" "share experience"

influenced by the old generation, learning life experience via observation

planting help increasing their dependency on outside goods and services

SCULPTOR

WORKSHOP

BEDROOM

# D A I LY L I F E

attracting youngers to come back to villages by teaching them modern skills of making brick

YOUNG PEOPLE

connecting the community with shared experience

rebuild family structure

KIDS

PROPOSAL | new moudle of construction as start point of regeneration

Defense system

Prototype

Public space

Topography

Physical model Testing

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4. putting connceting sticks

2. first layer of earth

5. reinforcement alternatives

3. second layer of earth

6. installing beam truss

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1. studio 2. outside workplace 3. gallery 4. mud storage 5. workplace 6. kiosks 7.courtyard 8. main entrance 9. terraced fields 10. parking

11. gateway 12. mixing chamber 13. library 14. bathroom 15. master bedroom 16. guest bedroom 17. living room 18. dinner room 19. kitchen 20. stair well

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VIEW FROM INSDIDE AND OUTSIDE| new wall and ruins

DETAILS | rammed earth wall and timber structure

- STANGDING SEAM MEATAL ROOF - WOOD SLAT ASSEMBLY - 50MM*20MM JOIST - 10MM INSULATION - 50MM*100MM BEAM

- 30MM FLOOR - 20MM*50MM JOIST - 50MM*100MM TIMBER BEAM - 50MM*160MM DOUBLE TIMBER COLUMN WITH 50MM*50MM TIMBER BLOCK - 50MM*100MM TIMBER STICK

- RAMMED EARTH BLCOK 500MM*1000MM - 20MM PUDDLED EARTH - 100MM PCLYSOCYANURATE INSU-

AXONOMETRICAL VIEW

LATION

woodern roof

- CONCERETE SLAB ON GRADE - VAPCUR BARRIER - 50 MM INSULATION - GRAVEL BASE / NATIVE SOIL

timber structrue - SLOPING CONTINUOUS WATER TROUGH

defensive wall (ruined)

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entrance

Rammed earth wall is most common structural elements in Hakka culture, and it is also easily eroded by rain and make space darker. From the demand of space and low quantity of labour, we figure out a new method for earth construction to help villagers repair the village. We change the rammed earth wall form bearing all to shearing wall to stabilize the timer frame system. At first, we design a special mould combined with two ladders which allow one people to ram earth. Two sticks in the bottom side fixing the wooden-frame on the rammed earth wall will be leave from construction and connect with timer structure. We use the small gap between wall and column as wooden shelf and enlarge the skylight to have more daylight time. Structure as space and furniture. This space become a new prototype for HAKKA local people in future.

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SECTION | the poetics of daily life

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1. workplace 2. bathroom 3. library 4. mixing chamber

5.bedroom for son 6.master bedroom 7. living room 8. kitchen

The intention of design focus on enlarge the detail of everyday life and overlap them. The laddering space make people can have private space and at same time they can notice other users’ activities. The combination of structure and furniture create relative free plan which enhance the changeability and flexibility of space in order to magnify the minutia of everyday life. The lower level of home become open space to public.

01 Village Regeneration PHASE2: Wall to wall, a blueprint for renovating He Xin Wu village in Guangzhou, China

Methodology, Materiality 2018.09-2019.01 Location:He Xin Wu, Guangzhou, China Group work with Jacky, Gillian Role in team: conceptual design(85%), technical drawings(85%) instructor: Ferretto Peter selected for honor review He Xin Wu unique characteristic is strongly articulated by the material it used to build the Wei Long Wu - MUD. Without these Wei Long Wu, The Village He Xin Wu will never exist.

To revitalise He Xin Wu and make it a better place, our team believed that it should not be simply creating a new building and then the revitalisation is done, we belived that something sustainable is needed to support the revitalisation of the village in the future years as we do not know what the village needs in the future. As a result, the whole plan of revitalisation is divided into three steps. First steps, we believed that to memorise He Xin Wu and make it a village that will imprint deeply to visitors’ memories, the best way is to let visitors to feel the Wei Long Wu’s atmosphere activly, through MUD BRICK making, even giving them an oppotunity to rebuild the damaged houses by using the MUD BRICK produced. Through the process of MUD BRICK making, the visitors will know more about how the village is being constructed in the old days, what is so significant with the semi-circular shape, the construction process of the village etc.Second steps and third steps the MUD BRICK produced from the workshop can be also used to rebuild some damaged houses and transform them into LIBRARY for children to go, provide them with chances to pursue knowledge but not just play all day long. Adjacent to the historical defence wall of the village, our scheme is to develop a MUD Workshop Area where locals teach visitors traditional techniques and vistors help fixing the damaged village. This project is conceived as a Mud Ecosystem, a new form of regeneration, perservation and healing.

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SITE | hollow village in China, Guangzhou,Heyuan,HeXinWu 112.E + BEIJING

PROTOYPE | three interventions in village

+ Heyuan

+ HeXinWu

22.6N + Guangzhou 2km

raised tunnel ruins area defensive wall

typology of Hakka housing He Xin Wu is a prefect combination of defensive system and communal homes, enclosed by four colossal mud ramparts and severals turrets.

STRATEGY | three steps

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preservation

residential space( phase 1 )

STEP 1 | mud workshop

①→④ recycling mud

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1. mud studio/ workplace 2. mud exhibiton zones 3. mud brick storage tower

⑤→⑨ producing mud brick

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We believed that to memorise He Xin Wu and make it a village that will imprint deeply to visitors’ memories, the best way is to let visitors to feel the Wei Long Wu’s atmosphere activly, through MUD BRICK making, even giving them an oppotunity to rebuild the damaged houses by using the MUD BRICK produced. Through the process of MUD BRICK making, the visitors will know more about the village in the old days. Internally towards villagers, the MUD BRICK produced from the workshop can be also used to rebuild some damaged houses and transform them into new facilities or infrastructures in village.

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STEP 2 | accomdation (2 years later)

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1. hostel for backpackers 2.resturant 3.courtyard

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Wei Long Wu is always conceived as a formation of several curved linear form but it actually function in a different way. In the past, different facilities are located both inside and outside of the Wei Longs.

These spaces together create a NETWORK of connection that shed light on villagers’ daily living routine. The design of accommodation attempt to sustain this relationship by creating communal spaces and hostels that are interconnected. More importantly, the profit made by hostels will be donated to the plan of renovation. Wellpaid craftman rebulid the house by using mud bricks from worshop.

STEP 3 | community center ( 5 years later )

â‘Ť giving back to community

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1 The site analysis has shown that there is a lack of covered communal space in He Xin Wu. He Xin Wu is planned with an alternation of Wei Long Wu and linear open space, when rain comes, people got nowhere to go but hide at home. My concept is to flip the plan of He Xin Wu into a section - putting the open space on top of seperated programme with a roof added to create a covered communal space, integrating with the wall to keep its linear quality.

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02 Bending-active Structure Bamboo pavillion: city hall in Hsinchu, Taiwan

Computitional design 2019.02-2019.05 Location: Hsinchu, Taiwan Individual work Instructor: Crolla Kristof

The Hall is a project to demonstrate the application of unconventional grid (rehotomic grid) on bending-active structure. Essentially, this project differs from employing typical gird-base typology. Instead it focuses on introducing the non-directional grid to the bending-active shell structure and the architectural qualities the grid offers.

The introduction of the concept of mathematical rehotomic surface dramatically changes how layout the programmes are organized. And the aim of the project is to demonstrate the versatility and flexibility of the grid system. What’s more, the bamboo consumption of rehotomic grid is less than that of conventional grid, which can save 10%.

The design of the Hall capitalized the benefits of the irregular oculus that are created by the grids, the varying density of the grid, the fluidity, and the continuity of the curve that defince the spaces. The hall includes a grid-shell structure built with bamboo sitting on top of 12 column bases, a few of which embeds programmes such as reception, washing room and cafĂŠ kitchen. The hall houses open plan exhibit halls, seating area, cafeteria to the public of Tsin Chu city.

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SITE ANALYSIS | city divided by tracks

ITERATION | testing with different structural grids

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railway station old city gate railway old ciry resident block green area site goverment building +P parking space attraction moat\river

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conceptual diagram

THEORY | bending-active structure

HK bamboo scaffolding

bend concept

A typical grid involves only two directional members. This makes it difficult to accurately construct a complex, curved form due to deformation and shear stress. Triangulation allow it easier to construct double-curved shells and complex geometries. Inherently, the rehotomic grid also decrease the difficulty of constructing shell structure due to variation of pattern density.

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1. exhibition area A 2. cafe seating 3. exhibition area A 4. transition 5. exhibition area B 6. exit 7. exhibition area B 8. exhibition area C

9. exit to mini courtyard 10. reception 11. entry to courtyard 12. entry

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The programmes were organized accordingly to celebrate the peculiarity of the oculus, where daylight comes through, real-time curvature analysis was used to optimized the design of the shell. Vernacular membrane is combined with the bending -active structure to create a continuous space open to public.

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DETAILS | concrete bases & footing

STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS | stimulated by Karamba

MODEL PHOTO

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two piece counterflashing w growing medium filter fabric reservior layer w/ aggregate moisture retention layer aeration layer rigid board isulation drainage layer waterroof membrane concrete deck

The construction method is still rooted in the layering of the material which bamboos sticks are installed one at a time, and the joint being hand-tied onsite. The hall attempts to contribute to Hsin Chu ciy by providing a public space that ae unconventional and scenic with goal to provide an interesting public gathering experiences.

03 BORDER AS URBANSIM Over the line: Kinmen-Xiamen cross-sea bridge

Urban Design From Sep,2019 to May, 2020 Location: sea area between Xiamen(CN) and Kinmen(TW) Individual work, March thesis Instructor : Betty NG selected for best thesis in CUHK 2020

The DMZ (Demilitarized Zone between north and south Korea) demonstrates that despite the border being impenetrable, diverse types and intensity of flows, reciprocities, and processes morph the borders over time and speak directly of externalities—hence urbanism. (from AXUSTUDIO) Kinmen, a stranded island, administered by Taipei authorities now, is close to china mainland Xiamen but far away from Taiwan main island. Recently, Beijing purposed a new cross-sea bridge in Xiamen and Kinmen to unfreeze the cross-strait relation.

For this issue, I’m looking for a new typology of border - away from the solitary symbol of tyranny, and towards a model which is not only integral but also integrated with society, nature, place, civilization, which may help alter the public perception of cross-strait relation and reduce many of the negative consequences associated with border management. The architectural programs of bridge based on the idea of “border as urbansim” extend the cooperation of Xiamen and Kinmen, which provide sorts of reciprocity for all walks of life to start a dialuge about themself, ideology, culture, nation and so on. Through a series of interactions, poeple from two sides may have chance to change their stereotypes about opposite.

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CORSSING MUSEUM

12. refreshment bar

outside,reception,and entrance to the double helix ramp: approaching, peeking and diverging

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CO-OPERATION AND NEGOTIATION

TWO UNITS OF FLEA MARKET

a temporary market constitued by several floating plaforms and stilted buildings

the units provide a place where fishermen can exchange fish, a new public space

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The floating market is more like a political experiment, in which two sides conduct a series of cooperation for the mutual benefit. This process is similar with the US border volleyball game, which still is in a gray zone. Fishermen voluntarily organize the connection of temporary market by linking the floating kiosks and boat bridge. The single floating kiosk constitutes a small sales space, while two kiosks will form a complete shell space after being connected. This temporary flea market will be quickly disintegrated before the approach of Kinmen-Xiamen ferry, and tourists on the boat can see fishermen from two area build a market for short-term benefits.

1. planks 2.steel frame 3.oil drum and saddle 4.stringer 5.cantilever structure 6.underwater cage for fresh caught fish

The temporary flea market consists of two basic units : boat-bridge and floating kiosk. In terms of the floating kiosk, a prefabricated steel module is proposed, and this lightweight structure allows it can be tugged by fish boat. It allows flexibility in programming because it can be modified by use according to local needs, thereby ensuring its sustainability over a period of time. The boat bridge is also a made up of several planks as tread or stall for selling fish.

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FIELD OF FIHSERY

EPHEMERAL CONNCETION , MARKETS ON THE BORDERLINE

two artificial islands for the tunnel landings west of maritime boundary

floating platforms and markets dragged by fishing boats, morred boat bridges in the front of two ports, ferry is moving slowly

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Due to the ambiguity of the maritime boundary and the difficulty of establishing effective defensive facilities for intruders, fishermen can easily enter the waters of other countries. The range of Kinmen fishing includes two islands and the open sea. Sometimes fishing boats from two sides have to cross the maritime boundary to catch special fishes in typical season. Kinmen has good marine resources and less marine pollution, in which fisherman can caught fish with better quality. Xiamen can catch some rare and different fishes because they can go farther away. It has encouraged some fishermen from two sides to trade near the conceptual line and exchange fish for fish. In order to continue and ease the situation of fishermen on both sides, I used the two artificial islands of the bridge as a temporary market. Only during special time periods, the floating platforms and boat bridges on both sides temporarily will be connected with two artificial islands. For the rest of the time, fishermen stayed within their own area to guarantee the communting of the Xiamen-Kinmen ferry.

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04 Social housing the times of co-liivng : social housing for undegraduates

housing design 2016.02-2016.04 Location: Songshan district, Taipei individul work instructor: Kuang-Chein, Bee

The project is about the social housing of solving Taiwan collage students contemporary issues in SongShan ,Taipei ,Taiwan. Except for providing the basic living space ,the business model is more significant. With the limitation of the education background of house-renter, the project try to offer students more opportunities to commmunicate with diverse people to sharing experiences and extending their public lifes .

According to human scale-bsaic living space is limited to the 2.5*2.5*2.5 m cube. it is convenient to apply to different units, and some column modules are set up.These modules can be built freely with the requirements.At last ,all can be used in the structural moment of 5*5*7.5m.

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SITE ANALYSIS | undergraduates pressure and issues

The diagram illustrates that the site is between two diverse urban contexts.

A plethora of urban area problems arose following the Taiwan unequal development. People cannot get good outdoor experiences and vision in urabn. Growing the public space and mixing residential area are the design that I provide as the solution to make people have more communication and interaction.

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BUSINESS MODEL |the unit of dwelling space

FROM GENERATION

BETTER LIFE Lack Resources

mix sports

Co Living CO-HOUSING MODLE

Co Working

High Encumbrance

common daily life common study share experience

MAKE MONEY

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bathroom

kitchen

Coordination ability

Team Capability

Change the life structure

improve score SOHO teaching pupil

bedroom£¤2 people£'

Grasp future

living room£¤2 people£'

HIGH LIVING OF CO- LIVING STANDARD

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MULTIPLE HOUSING TYPE

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OTHER WORKS

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THE CAMERA CENTER 2014.02-2014.04

TOWARDS DEATH: ARCHITECTURE AND MONTAGE 2015.09-2015.12

individual work instructor: I-chien, Chen

individual work instructor: Prof Hong-cheng

OTHER WORKS THE REBORN OF PUBLICMAN 2017.09-2018.04

VOLCANIC AURORA (for ice island guest houses competition) 2019.09-2019.12

individual work instructor: Prof Lin jia-hui

group work with : Li xiang-yu

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