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ZHEHUI CHANG|WORKING SAMPLE ARCHITECUTRE AS AN INSTRUMENT OF CULTURE SELECTED WORK 2010-2016

Zhehui Chang | Resume

Email: zhehui.chang@columbia.edu Phone: +1 917-691-8272 Address: 160 Claremont Ave, Apt 1H, New York, NY 10027

EDUCATION 05.2015- 05.2016 New York, U.S.

Columbia University, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation(GSAPP) 1-year Master of Science of Advanced Architecture

08.2010-05.2015 Nanjing, China

School of Architecture, Southeast University(SEU) Bachelor of Architecture Program

WORK EXPERIENCE PROFESSIONAL

06.2016 -08.2016 New York, U.S.

Teaching Assistant at Advanced Design Studio in GSAPP, Columbia University Project: Beaches of New York Instructor: Andrés Jaque

09.2015 -05.2016 New York, U.S.

Visual Resource Collection at GSAPP, Columbia University

10.2014 -12.2014 Nanjing, China

Teaching Assistant at 3rd year studio in School of Architecture, Southeast University Project: Theatre Design Instructor: Peng Tang

07.2014- 09.2014 Beijing, China

Standard Architecture Architecture Intern: Schematic Design, Diagram and Drawing Projects: Library and Cafe Design in Chaer Hutong for Beijing International Design Week; Furniture Design for Camerich Instructor: Ke Zhang

08.2013-11.2013 Nanjing, China

TP Design Studio Projects: Tourist Service Center for Mount Wuyi; Lanting Scenic Spot Planning Schematic Design, Diagram and Drawing

10.2011 Osaka, Japan

Asian Contest of the Rookies’ Award for Architectural Students Volunteer Leader, in Charge of Rebroadcasting the Contest with Online Media to China

VOLUNTEER 06.2012-09.2012 Nanjing, China

China Contest of the Rookies’ Award for Architectural Students Volunteer Leader, in Charge of Reception, Site Layout and Hosting Final Defense

09.2011 Nanjing, China

SEU-ETH Academic Exchange Conference Volunteer Leader, in Charge of Reception, Site Layout Volunteer, in Charge of Conference Hall Arrangement

AWARDS & HONOURS 05.2016 New York, U.S.

Commencement Award: William Ware Prize for Excellence in Design GSAPP, Columbia University

08.2013 Nanjing, China

Top 10 (Second Ground: Plant Exhibition Center for Children) China Contest of the Rookies’ Award for Architectural Students

09.2012 Nanjing, China

Award for Architectural Design Curriculum School of Architecture, Southeast University

09.2011 Nanjing, China

Award for Visual Design Curriculum School of Architecture, Southeast University

WORKSHOPS 09.2013-11.2013 Tokyo, Japan & Nanjing, China

Southeast University- Japan Tokyu Design Joint Workshop Maqun Transportation Complex Design Project name: Sequence Shots

08.2012 Nanjing, China

Southeast University- Delft University of Technology Joint Workshop Material Study – 1m2 Space Design Project name: Material Sensuality

PUBLICATIONS 05.2016

Selected into Abstract 2016 GSAPP Columbia Publication NYSNYD Circus Instructor: Mario Gooden, Carson Smuts

12.2015

Selected into Abstract 2016 GSAPP Columbia Publication Human Grazing Accelerators with Revolting Pipes Instructor: Andres Jaque, Patrick Crane

08.2015

Selected into Abstract 2016 GSAPP Columbia Publication China Walls: Typological Correction of Hybrid Residential Community Instructor: Juan Herreros, Ignacio Gonzalez

01.2015-05.2015

Graphic Designer, Editor of Collection of Chinese Contest of the Rookies’ Award for Architectural Students 2014 (Published by Southeast University, in May, 2015)

01.2015-05.2015

Graphic Designer of Magazine Frontiers of Architectural Research (Published by Southeast University Monthly)

OTHER SKILLS Softwares: Languages:

Auto CAD, Archi CAD, Rhinoceros, Grasshopper, Sketch up; Adobe Series (Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign, After Effects) Mandarin (Native Speaker), English (Fluent)

Architecture as an Instrument of Culture As architects we are responsible not only for the construction of new architectures, but also for the management of the built environment at large.

Although its important to get to know objects themselves, it’s more important to focus on the way they relate to others.

In this respect, I try to do architecture that works more as an medium through which people could express themselves, than as a container. This way of designing has very little to do with sustainability, but a lot with political ecology.

1 HUMAN GRAZING ACCELERATORS WITH REVOLTING PIPES Living Archive of New York Nightclub Preservation

2 CHINA WALLS

Hybrid Residential Infrastructures

3 NYSNYD CIRCUS Spectacular Juxtaposition of Homeless People and Urban Environment

4 UNFLATTENED STREETS Growing Modular Community

5 SECOND GROUND Plant Exhibition for Teenagers

6 SEQUENCE SHOTS

Urban Design: Transportation Complex

7 PARALLEL ROOMS

Non-functional Space Design

8 CAFE IN MICRO-YUAN’ER

Dazayuan Renovation: 9m2 Cafe for Beijing International Design Week

9 NEW WORK SPACE OF ZAO

New Office of Standard Architecture

10 OTHER WORKS

1.Human Grazing Accelerator with Revolting Pipes _Living Archive of Nightclub Preservation

01:36 AM Dopamine 4.5 μmol/L Roof, got a great view of Manhattan Endorphins drove to start another, more private topic

Yellow light on the roof Create romantic atmosphere

Super bright light at background DJ Twinkle with beats Transmitter of energy Strengthen beats DJ’s consideration: 1. Frequency 2. Melody

09.2015-12.2015, GSAPP Instructor: Andres Jaque, Patrick Crane

Air conditioner Keep room tempeture 4 oC Keep beer fresh

Sound system Prefer bass frequencies with long waves Carry bigger amount of energy (6 times bigger than normal)

Resonance is also echoed between bodies

Air conditioner Keep room tempeture 20~22 oC Keep skin cool

NE/NA released from central nervous system caused more dopamine to release Willing to talk to strangers 12:25 PM Dopamine 3.9 μmol/L Resonance happened between music and movements

Bartender

Restroom 320 people per hour Average waiting time: 4 min

Bouncer Check ID Let 21 people in per minute

3.5 min/cup of cocktail 18 people/hour

10:4 Tick

102 people/night

1 beer Barrel = 5376 oz = 478 glasses 1.4 Barrel this bar counter per night

24 Hour Water heater system For restaurant and residences

9:00 PM Dopamine 3.5 μmol/L Shopping around (Dopamine released)

Staff Distribute tissue to 180 people per hour

7:03 PM, Bedford Avenue Station(L) 84 People got out of station in 2 minutes 23 People got into station in 2 minutes

7:09 PM Search for restaurant 7:03 PM, Bedford Avenue Station(L)

Got off subway Got 5 “Like”s; 2 comments “hook up a handsome guy!!’’ “wooooooow enjoy!”

10:20 PM Dopamine 3.7 μmol/L Line up Average waiting time 24min Facebook time Reply comment “I’ve seen some cute guys!”

45 PM Dopamine 3.0 μmol/L ket $30

Food Truck Ice cream $5/ chocolate scoop 3 min/ people to line up

Taxi Line up outside Output from 1:30 15 min/taxi to get a passenger 37 min/ passenger to get a taxi

Light

Music

Temp

Scent

Alcohol

Crowd

Sex

Food

Chocolate help release PEA

The truth is, nightclubs works as human grazing accelerators.

People are more easy to hook up, make friends and build further relationship in nightclubs. All the techniques used by nightclubs cooperate together to make things happen.

They are organized, forming a sequence that resonates with the music we have been listening to all night long.

Show

To revive the nightlife in New York, we rebuild the lost nightclubs in its original site, nightclubs will become a distributed collection of infrastructures, overlapped to the architecture of office buildings, the collective spaces of residential buildings, transportation infrastructures.

The city environment becomes its container.

That’s the beauty of club- it’s flexibility.

Whatever influence is brought about becomes part of that organism.

Mudd Club

Studio 54

Love Parade

MUDD CLUB 77 White Street Acting as a casual fashion show club, new Mudd circles around apartments outside the window in a linear form.

It’s transparent façade enable visitors to show themselves.

In the daytime, the “cat walk” works as balconys with grass and flowers.

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Travelling DJs

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Garage or parking lot retrofit

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Road or railway retrofit

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Station or bus stop retrofit

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Sewage treatment plant retrofit

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MUDD CLUB 77 White Street The Loft

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Mudd Club is an architecture taking the strategy of narrowness to create wall of people, making parties into fashion shows.

An expanded catwalk is now growing on the buildings of its original site, making the fashion shows visible to offices and apartments.

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Movable toilets provide club goers great convience.

These toilets collect and purify urine and vomit at night, and water the flowers in the day time.

Plant Club

Plant Bar 217 E 3rd St The trash chutes in the daytime are used as sliders at night.

When “party mode� is turned on in the basement, the washing machines will produce foams. When party mode is turned off, water would flush away the foams and clean the floor, the boiler would provide hot water for bath after parties.

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Area Club

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Studio 54

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Plant Bar 217Plr E 3rd Rr St

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Love Parade

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Sewage treatment plant retrofit

The original site works as a residential basement with washing machines, boiler, and trash chute.

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Plant Club

AREA 157 Hudson Street Combined with compacted housing, Area Club works as public living room in the daytime. Residents play cards, talk, eat together here.

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AREA 157 Hudson Street

The club famous for compeletely changing its decoration is now a residential building To revive the lost club, compact residence part is sepetated from the club by closet.

Residence can walk through the closet to join the parties. In the daytime, the club works as a public living room.

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billboard telphers Billboards on the top of buildings can move along the track to take people to clubs. Moving advertisements attract more club goers.

Sounddomes are attached to play music for passengers!

Subway Station at Bedford Avenue

Musicians in subway station with bright background lighting would attract more passengers

2.CHINA WALLS _Hybrid Residential Infrastructures 06.2015-08.2015, GSAPP Instructor: Juan Herreros, Ignacio Gonzalez Immigrant residential community in Chinatown express themselves by occupying facades with diverse elements, which show and meet their needs at the same time, but also requires negotiation.

Facades, as containers where people’s activities happen, are far less than what people need. As an identity of Chinatown, the crowded elements on the façade should be reorganized with new order, but not be removed.

Façade is an arena of neighborhood with negotiation and collective wills.

Therefore, a system of negotiation between individuals is created as a second facade. Collective and individual activities and expressions can be brought together, over time, to form a diverse whole through the introduction of this infrastructure that brings in education, employment and public space.

3.NYSNYD CIRCUS

_Now You See Now You Don’t _SPECTACLE JUXTAPOSITION OF HOMELESS PEOPLE AND URBAN ENVIRONMENT 01.2016-05.2016 Instructor: Mario Gooden, Carson Smuts

Moving Vehicles of NYSNYD Circus According to the “Street People Research 2014/15”, there are 7383 homeless people in Cape Town in 2015, and 63% of these street people live on open streets. Furthermore, Cape Town city bowl, where most tourist stay, is also an area in which lives 27% of the homeless.

NYSNYD means “now you see now you don’t”. It provides the homeless what they want, and one the other hand, it does not interrupt other people’s life.

Homeless needs bath, clothes, food, education during the day, and beds, warmth at night.

The Grand Parade would be the home base of the mobile circus. In the daytime, small gadgets- inflatable public bathroom, free clothes store, mobile library, soup kitchen-are deployed to go into the shadow of the city along the daytime route, provide them safe places for various activities. On the Grand Parade, the empty “crane towers” work as a sight-seeing tower for tourist people, to enjoy the view of Cape Town city bowl.

At night, the small gadgets come back to the Grand Parade, and mobile cellular hotels come out to pick up homeless people.

The NYSNYD Circus works as the door between the two worlds, through which we can donate food and clothes to who have needs, and homeless people could enter our world with clean clothes and healthy body. It’s the medium with which we could get in touch with each other in a gentle way. The two worlds could overlap, and finally merge into one.

The unique character of Cape Town extreme happiness with spectacular scenery- could give another the circus another meaning. While it’s a moving service space, it could also be a space providing entertainment and pleasure.

Overlapped function with the existing urban environment could serve more people.

The circus could be run by homeless people. In this way, it not only creates more job opportunities, but also shows us how thehomeless could change the city.

4.UNFLATTENED STREETS _ Growing Community

02.2014-04-2014, SEU Individual work

2014-2016 31 new families 96 unit boxes in total

2016-2018 77 new families join in 299 unit boxes in total

2018-2020 99 new families join in 558 boxes in total

Nowadays, the majority of Chinese people are trapped in their houses- the inflated residential market disables us to change our houses into larger ones.

Apart from this, people are trapped in their houses because the public space in current communities is too boring to hang out.

What would the communities be if we create a new type of PUBLIC SURFACE? When family expands, the owner only have to purchase for one more living unit, and add the new living unit adjacent to or on top of their house by demand.

Spatial experience in this community is exciting and diverse.

Scene changes as you are walk through the community.

You will see different kinds of public place, meet different people, and watch different stories that taking place along circulation.

5.SECOND GROUND

_ Plant Exhibition Center for Teenagers

TOP 10

China Contest of the Rookies’ Award

for Architectural Students 09.2012- 11.2012, SEU Individual work

EXHIBITION CONTENT Root Exhibition: Roots of plants are showed in a different angle.

Aquatic plants are raised in transparent water vats, so that children could see the roots clearly.

Stem Exhibition: Stems' sections in microscope are displayed to tell children how the stems deliver moisture.

Leaf Exhibition: We have small art studios in this exhibition room which provide children with tools to make handcrafts with leaves that they collect outdoors.

Children could feel the beauty of leaves through making art works themselves.

Flower Exhibition: The aroma of sweet-scented osmanthus trees raised in the greenhouse pervades the whole exhibition room, making the room a perfect place to rest and play. Children could play and have a rest in the holes on the display panels.

Fruit Exhibition: Various fruits with various sizes are preserved in the glass tubes.

CONCEPT

The site is located in a botanical garden with various trees, taking my mind back to childhood memories of being too short to reach tree branches. Although I was eager to know the stories taking place between the branches and leaves, I could only imagine while looking up into the scattered light.

After analyzing distributions of trees, I found that most of the trees within boundary line are five to eight meters tall, which is suitable for climbing and observing. This inspired me to provide a place that would lift the children up to reach the crown.

SITE PLAN TREE HEIGHT ANALYSIS > 13m

10-13m

8-10m

5-8m

2-5m

0-2m

GENERATION OF SECOND GROUND

Most children are bored with exhibitions with only one route.

The various rooms are connected by second ground so each child can choose his or her own route. Which arouses the enthusiasm of the attendants.

6.SEQUENCE SHOTS _ Transportation Complex

Southeast Unversity's Joint Workshop with Tokyu Design (Japan) 09.2013- 11.2013, SEU Cooperator: Chenyi Cai

In winter, covered by snow, the huge roof become an amusement park.

BACKGROUND

CONCEPT

Maqun transfer station will be a NEW GATEWAY The Purple Mountain, a symbol of Nanjing, is on the northwest of Maqun Station. In order to make of Nanjing: 3 traffic lines are planed to be scenary of the Purple Mountain more intriguing to passangers, volumes are raised to leave narrow terminated at Maqun. People from other cities by space, creating intermittent view of the mountain. intercity railway will transfer to other vehicles here to get to the center of Nanjing.

City Light rail No.2 City Light rail No.7 Intercity railway

City Light rail N0.13

Road

Road

Holes for vertical circulation Short cut Transfer between lines Come by bus Come by taxi

INSIDE STATION

Different sized holes on floor slabs in transfer station, on squares and pathways serve for vertical transportation.

With trees growing through holes, and partly blocked street view, people could speculate the existence of other space at different heights.

STATION ROOFTOP

The flower field on the roof creates a gorgeous landscape for the city.When you stand in the flower field, it seems that the roof is extended to the mountain.

7.PARALLEL ROOMS _ Non-functional Sapce 09.2011, SEU

This is a project in my first year, leading us to do some funcky experiments on spacing by simple operations.

With the space designed, I tried to imagine the space as a real arhitecture artifact with people's circulations and experience in it. The interesting thing is that, tubular space demarcates people's circulations, followed by varied spatial experience along the parallel and thus differentiated circulations.

AUDITORIUM

VIEW TERRACE LOBBY

VIEW EXHIBITION

MUSIC VIEW DRINK LOBBY

AUDITORIUM

ENTERTAINMENT

QUIET VIEW

LIBRARY NAPPING GALLERY CAFE CAFE CAFE CAFE VIEW STUDY VIEW LIBRARY READING GALLERY FREE FREE QUIET LIVELY LIVELY QUIET LOBBY LIBRARY CANTEENGALLERY LOBBY

ROUTE

ENTRY

QUIET BOOK INFORMATION

ENTRY

ROOF TERRACE

SUNSHINE VIEW MUSIC TOY NAPPING PLAY AREA

QUIET PRIVATE

BEDROOM BAR VIEW RELAX BEDROOM FRIENDS BED QUIET LIVING ROOM KITCHEN COOK

TV

GUESTS

ENTRY

8. CAFE IN MICRO-YUAN'ER (CONSTRUCTED) Professional Work at Standard Architecture, Beijing, China Exhibited in Beijing International Design Week, 2014; Exhibited in ZAO exhibition at Zumtobel Lichtforum, Austria, 2015; Exhibited in New York - Beijing - New York, Chinese Cntemporary Architecture Exhibition, New York, 2015 Project Location: Dashila, Beijing, China Instructor: Ke Zhang, Mingming Zhang, Shujun Fang My Role: Proposal, Design; Model Making; Construction Process

Cha’erHutong is a quiet hutong among the busy Dashilar in city center of Beijing.

Cha’erHutong#8 is a typical “Da-Za-Yuan”(big-messy-courtyard)once was occupied by over a dozen families. Over the past five decades, the families each built an added-on small kitchen in the courtyard.

In this project, instead of wiping the small added-on structures out, we tried to renovate them, redesign them and re-use them. In doing so, we intend to recognize the addedon structuresas an important historical layer and as an critical embodiments of Beijing’s contemporary civilianlifein hutongthat is so often been overlooked.

9.NEW WORK SPACE OF ZAO (CONSTRUCTED) Professional Work at ZAO\Standard Architecture Project Location: Beijing, China Instructor: Ke Zhang, Yang Zhao Collaborator: Mingming Zhang, Haifei Dai, Feng Wang, Ao Ikegami My Role: Design, Drawing

The new office is located in on a quiet street in Beijing, sharing a courtyard with Ke Zhang's (founder of ZAO\Standardarchitecture) friend.

Complex structure (steel column on the side by the street, cast-in-place concrete on the side by courtyard, prefabricated composite laminated wooden beams supporting the roof) are mixed and intgrated in a simple, continuous grey space.

SYMBIOTIC RENEWAL OF BAICAIYUAN

ACADEMIC WORK 11.2013-01.2014

Time built 1910s

Baicaiyuan is important in our bicycle channel system in that it is the joint point between the circular lane and the linear lane.

Therefore, we chose Baicaiyuan for further design.

We are surprised to find out that although abandoned, almost all the historic buildings are in good situation.

Most of the old buildings are planned to take the same jobs according to history. Some of them are planned to serve for the new bicycle lane.

1950s

Bicycle lane

1970s

Current functions

Blind alleys

New functions

New alleys

Abandoned house Shops Hotel

Bicycle hotel Exhibition

Brocade shops bicycle rental

TABLE-X: DIGITAL FABRICATION

COMMUNITY LIBRARY ACADEMIC WORK 09.2011

ACADEMIC WORK 05.2014

LEMON HUT: MATERIAL SENSUALITY ACADEMIC WORK 08.2011

LIGHTENED RAIN: VELUX COMPETITION ACADEMIC WORK 04.2014

HUGGY SOFA (PUT INTO MASS PRODUCTION IN 2014) PROFESSIONAL WORK 08.2014

MICRO-YUAN'ER

PROFESSIONAL WORK 07.2014-08.2014

ELDERLY HOUSING IN NANJING PROFESSIONAL WORK 08.2014-10.2014

LANTING BOTANIC LANDSCAPE DESIGN PROFESSIONAL WORK 11.2014-02.2015

RENAVATION PLAN OF SUI TANG GRAND CANAL PROFESSIONAL WORK 01.2014-05.2015

Zhehui Chang

Email: zhehui.chang@columbia.edu Phone: +1 917-691-8272 Address: 160 Claremont Ave, Apt 1H, New York, NY 10027