ZHU QI selected works 2018-2021 bachelor of arts in architecture
Portfolio
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An Incubator:
A Building:
A Craft:
Future Artifact
Introverted Street
Keel Ca
Liverpool, 2020 Individual Work
Liverpool, 2019 Individual Work
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A Neighborhood:
A Narrative:
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Infatable Skin
Hidden In The Flow
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Shanghai, 2019 Cooperation Work
Cumbria, 2019 Individual Work
01 Future Artifact
Adaptive Reuse Community Center
Individual work Project Time: June,2020 (Year3, Semester2) Project Site: Toxteth, Liverpool, UK (300sqm in area) Instructor: Michael Southern Toxteth is a decaying city suffering financial crises, racial conflicts, population shrinking It is losing its social cohesion and neighborhood sense of community. The old reservoir is an artifact from the past, a gloomy box. This project transforms it into a new community center. The box is carved and refilled. A new changeable curtain system is settled for changeable function requirements. Its heavy exterior wall is a defense from brutal urban context, while inside, hanging curtains cast soft light old steel columns standing up from ground, the interweave of new and old stimulates the vitality of reservoir. The new Toxteth reservoir not only preserves its original historic value but also functions as a future artifact, embracing various community activities, telling a narrative poem about new and old, temporary and eternity.
June,2020 (year3, semester2)
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1. context research 2. concept collage: the old and new narrative
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1. reservoir existing plan 2. proposed plan1: exhibition & gallery 3. proposed plan2: conference hall 4. proposed section1: exhibition & gallery 5. proposed section2: conference hall 6. street elevation
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7 1. old staircase to roof level 2.1-3 exhibitionreservoir frasturcture 3. cafe 4. office 5. new staircase to roof level 6. toilets 7. storage room 8. reception 9. small performacen area 10. pavilion1 11. preparation room 12. large performance area 13. seating1 14. seating2 15. medium performance area 16. pavilion2 17. preparation room
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June,2020 (year3, semester2)
adaptive reuse community center
June,2020 (year3, semester2)
1. interior view: conference hall 2. interior view: gallery 3. interior view: performing art theater
adaptive reuse community center
02 Introverted Street
Stafford Beer Collection
Individual work Project Time: June,2019 (Year2, Semester2) Project Site: Liverpool, UK (510sqm in area) Instructor: Andrew Crompton In urban context, this new archive can be considered as a brand new facade of this block, a cut corner, and an attachment to the existing univeristy library. All these context-related perspectives help in defining this building, embodied in the form of stair gap. The stair gap cut through a massing box, introducing the street into archive as well as connecting back to the library. The stair gap performs a congregated role: providing light, giving a hint to pronmenade the building, connecting the servant and service space. Therefore, the interior space is activated, the knowledge flows freely.
gap in the middle-brutal entrance, isolated from urban path
June,2019 (year2, semester2)
gap at the corner1-inactive hidden geometry
gap at the corner2-watsed end space
oblique line cut through the volume, introducing the street and leading to the library, dividing the volume into two parts.
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interior view: reception, locker room
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interior view: reading area, light gap
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1. -metal roof finish 50mm - water barrier40mm - mineral wool insulation 150mm - concrete 120mm - corrugated sheet 75mm - metal beam 200mm - hanging celing panels 2. -metal structure 20mm frosted fluted glass
3. -precast concrete slab 160mm -steel structure 160mm -air cavity 400mm -mineral wool insulation 150mm -air cavity 50mm -steel structure 160mm -precast concrete slab 50mm
-insulation 100mm -outdoor false ceiling in plaster 5. -carpet flooring 30mm -sand/cement screed 120mm -floor heating pipes -insulation 50mm -concrete 300mm 6. -pebble stoen -urban drainage system
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4. -carpet flooring 30mm -sand/cement screed 120mm -floor heating pipes -insulation 50mm -concrete 120mm -corrugated sheet 75mm -metal beam 150mm -hanging celing panels
June,2019 (year2, semester2)
stafford beer collection
03 Keel Cabin
Small Size Pavillion Structure Design
Cooperation Work Contribution: Design, Model Collaborator: Chen Yujian Time: June, 2018 (Year1, Se Site: N/A (50 sqm in area) Instructor: Adam Brillhart
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This project starts from a case study about Viking Longship. Viking longship is a traditional timber ship built from the keel up, and then stems, finally strakes and planks. It used a series of traditional crafts for its tenon joints. In this case, this project also develops from a curved timber keel, which grows from the main column to girder, and then the other posts functions as the hull of a ship. The etfe membrane celebrates the structure and creates a light, translucent space.
pinned connection for membrane 20mm in diameter
timber rafter component1 90mm
mortise and tenon joint timber rafter component2 90mm
laminated timber beam 300mm in diameter
June,2018 (year1, semester2)
laminated timber beam 200mm in diameter
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1000 timber post 90mm timber tread 1800x60x295mm
1. membrane envelope (pin joint) 2. rafetr/girder component (dadao joint with screw connection) 3. rafter/poster component (dadao joint) 4. rafter/beam component (dadao joint) 5. girder/beam component (dadao joint with screw connection)
small size pavillion structure design
2200 timber battern 12mm
Individual Work Time: August 2019 (Year2 Summer School Workshop) Site: Shanghai, China (7500sqm in the area) Instructor: Soomeen Hahm, Akshay Goyal In nowadays Shanghai, large amounts of traditional dwelling is to be demolished for being unable to catch up with the rapid development. Here arises the contradtion between the capital expansion and the genreal public. Should the public give way to the brutal development of modern society? Is there any value of the old town? What architecture can do to intervene in this dilemma? Inspired from the international situationism and soft robotics technology, a series of changeable, soft bubble-like urban furnitures are plugged into FuyouLi. This project is a resistance to the oppression of capital, a new possibility for neighborhood in the future with advanced technologies, a return and advocation to real life situations.
04 Infatable Skin
FuyouLi District Renewal
August, 2019 (summer school workshop)
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1. context collage 2. mapping 3. overflow typology research
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attached furniture
attached fixtures
expanded space
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1. concept 2. inflation process 3. masterplan
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1. kitchen 2. playground 3. courtyard 4. breakfast stall 5. chat area
FuyouLi, squeezed within skyscrapers nnd crowded tourism, is a place filled with real-life situations and stories.
August, 2019 (summer school workshop)
7.00 in the morning, Mr Wang gets up. He washes the clothes and dries them up. The soft bubbles form as a platform streching out from his window.
FuyouLi had street market in the morning. Under the soft bubble canopy, Mr Wang gets some meat or vegetation for his lunch and dinner.
Around 8:30, when Mr Wang gets back home, he can see his neighbour, a young girl who is working at the Bund Finance Center, is having her breakfast.
Many officers also choose to live in FuyouLi for location convience. The soft bubble, working as the breakfast stall, companies them to start their busy day.
After dinner, Mr Wang usually goes jogging around the Lilong. The so ft bubble interacts with him, pumping up and down.
In the afternoon, Mr Wang likes to play card with friends in the alley. No need to bring their own chair anymore, the soft bubble forms as mounted table or chair.
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FuyouLi also has a small playground. That's the happy time for children.
Mr Wang's neighbour usually comes back ;late in the evening. When the day is over, she sometimes sits on the roof. The soft bubble embraces her,observing the district, with quickly developed economy, with crowded people, with real-life situtions hidden in FuyouLi.
05 Hidden In The Flow
Public Project For Storyteller
Individual work Project Time: December,2019(Year3, Semester1) Project Site: Thirlmere, UK (2000sqm in area) Instructor: Hazel Wier In 1937, the Mardelle Green Valley was flooded to make space for the Thirlmere reservoir, a memorable motion in the coordination history between human society and nature. Storytelling is an event about sense, about what we hear, what we see, what we feel and the place we stand. In this case, place gives storytellers inspiration and encourages audiences to imagine and to react. This project is a narrative poem about the water, the sky, and human interaction. The water level changes among seasons, revealing different views of architecture from floating to standing out, while a majority of the time, it cast a reflection of a typical England cabin to tell the story of a past valley.
December,2019 (year3, semester1)
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2. fiction：communicating with the water 3. floor plan diagram
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4. roof plan diagram 5. fiction: the past valley 6. fiction: communicating with the sky
December,2019 (year3, semester1)
1. study model 2. construcvtion detail, joint
a storytelling culture center
December,2019 (year3, semester1)
a storytelling culture center
December,2019 (year3, semester1)
a storytelling culture center
December,2019 (year3, semester1)
a storytelling culture center
06 Hotel Facade Renovation
Mar-Sep, 2021 Intern
Neri&Hu Design and Research Office Contribution: Design, Detail Study, Render
Standing by sea, this project uses heavy stone façade to imitate the traditional local seawall. In contrast, the upper-level hotels are covered under light timber structures. This project is a new relic on ground, embracing the future diversity and vitality.
07 Exhibition Pavllion Neri&Hu Design and Research Office Contribution: Design, Render
This design is a journey through series of framed views, layering of bamboo and space beyond. Along with the density varying, the relationship between objects and spectator is constantly shifting. As a temporary structure, it is also detachable and scalable.
professional work
08 Vanke Guesthouse
Mar-Sep, 2021 Intern
Neri&Hu Design and Research Office Contribution: Render Presentation
This boutique hotel in Nantou old town in Shenzhen is an adaptive reuse project. Celebrating the vibrant energy and everyday objects in streets, it devises a number of ways to shift, overlap, and blur the boundaries of inside and outside, old and new.
09 Suzhou Railway Station Gusu District Bureau Open Competition Contribution: Concept, Design, Render
This station highlights daily experience for local people during their rapid transition. A swooping canopy casts space of contextual cultural atmosphere. Translucent rocks, wall and pond respond to Suzhou’s traditional icon, functioning as bicycle parking and seating space.
professional work
10 Other Work
December, 2019
Personal Drawing Practice
other work
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