ZHEJIANG MEDICINE - DAVID CHIPPERFIELD ARCHITECTS

The diagram on the left as well as the ones above illustrate my first task at the beginning of the schematic design phase for this project. I was in charge of consolidating the pharmaceutical company’s programs for both the complex and headquarters. Then I created the allocation of different programs as well as the general floor areas necessary for accomodating these programs. Finally after much research, I designed the ciruclation between different departments in terms of privacy and types of individuals such as visitors, staff, etc. This allowed proper security to be implemented at various stages of the circulation, and hid the production and transportation from public view.

After the initial programmatic consolidation and allocation, we moved on to the massing of the complex and headquarters. I was assigned to create massing and initial structural models with foam. The style used for these models were appropriated from David Chipperfield’s London office, where similar methods were used in the past to create a visually appealing model while removing the distractions of textures, materials, and colors so that the architectural design could be the main focus in the beginning.

Apart from models, programmatic studies, and circulation planning, I also worked on producing multiple renderings for presentations at client meetings. These were produced by 3D modeling in Rhinoceros, rendering in Maxwell, and post-producing in Photoshop.