Sarah Zhang Portfolio 2022-2024
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The Work Building
A building where the experience of being inside is just as significant as the connection to the outside environment Site Analysis
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The project aims to establish a work building to replace the old building in 7 Hope Street, LA. Looking at the site, I noticed that lots of the buildings in the surroundings have occupable sites. So I was interested in putting an rooftop in this design as well. I hope that the rooftop will not only be accessable to the people in the building, but to the general public as well. Therefore I created a staircase from the sidewalkleading to an rooftop space on second floor where people cans sit and enjoy the view.
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The building is inspired by the sculpture “For V.T”. I modeled the sculpture and scaled it into different size to come up with an initial form( top three pictures page 3). By observing the sculpture, I became especially interested in the way the sides of the model for an acute angle with the groubd. Therefore I demostrated this aspect of the sculpture in the revised model. I also hope that the exterior of the building is seem as a continuous peices, acting like a landscape rather than a series of distinctive shapes.
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Resilient Echos Project Partners: Clare Ai, Celine Xiong
The ruins and relics speak of stories from the past. People wander through the undulating labyrith of ruins, resonating with the past dimentions, connecting with the world of the future. Inspired by the waves of the brick walls, we have achieved a form wich acts as a modern interpretation that harmonize with the surrounding enviroments. Through a simple combination of wooden structures and cloth materials, we intend to create a collision between soft and hard surfaces. On one hand, it evokes a similar feeling to the nearby pavilions. As a semiopen “in between” space, the wooden panel walls create more intimate spaces while the cloth maintains a sense of mystery for the exploration; people can lift the fabric curtains to enter different spaces. These structures are also flexible and allowing for modifications.
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The Curve
Project Partners: Leo Sandoval Daine Huynh-Tran
This project aims to establish a recreational area to replace a parking lot. Students and the neighborhood can enjoy a spacious study space for resting, grabbing coffee, enjoying the nature, and exploring art works of students at Berkeley. We divided the oirginal rectangular space into three different parts to provide more transitional spaces. The roof of the building opens up to shed light into the open ground below, creating a more vibrant space. The roof of the second floor connects to the first floor to create a smoother transition and echos with the curves in the plan. Art related
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In my understanding, home is not only a space for self relaxation, but also a space that creates communication and interaction, and a place that connects an individual to something bigger than themselves. A
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I attempted to create a space that blurs the boundary between the inside and outsides, making the nature a part of the living. In the first floor, a shared living room and a kitchen are brightly illuminated by a large glass that wraps around the house. The third floor is left wide open, allowing residents to enjoy the nice Californian weather while working. Even in the second floor which contains private bedrooms, there are balconies that opens up to the outside. A
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Another aspect of interaction is between people. I imagine the user of this two dwellings could encounter each others often as they would share the stairs and the public areas. I wish the interactions between users are not restricted by walls, therefore a very open floor plan was created in which people are free to add furnitures or separations according to their needs.
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I imagined the horizontal and diagonal lines in Sol Lewiston painting, Wall #33, to be able to extend and create new shapes. Using such concept, I formed two overlapping shapes from the lines and later transformed them into a plan. The plan consists of many triangular spaces, which prompted my design to also adopt triangles in section. The walls are sloped to create a dynamic and continuous exterior. Which I used to wrap around the interior or the secondary organisation.
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Technical Drawings Unfolded Surface
How to capture the movement of a three dimentional object using 2D drawings? This is the topic I tried to explore in this project. All sides of the camera are seperated and unrolled, but a rotational energy brings them together into the center to the camera’s most important feature: the lens. I tried to express the movement of the parts of the camera coming together using different opacity of the solid lines, and I used architectural construction lines to express where the parts are leading to. I hope the project reads as a moment when all parts the camera moves together, like a momentww frozen in time.
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Section Perspective Drawing of My Room
By observing the scales and placement of the objects and my room and recreate them with 3D modeling, I was able to recreate a print version of my living space. This project is not only an introduction to modeling and drawing perspective, but a chance for me to reflect questions such as what defines a living space?, or what
makes a room “homely”?
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Proportional Analysis
In classical buildings, there always seem to be an interesting proportional logic to the design of the building. This project is an exploration of the porportional logic of one of the building in UC Berkeley’s Campus: Moss hall. I used different scale of circles to measure the building, and brought all measurments together to create the drawings above.
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