Selected Works 2013-2021 Zheng Zhou (Elliot)

PORTFOLIO SELECTED WORKS 2013-2021 Zheng Zhou (Elliot)

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CONTENTS

Academic Works 1/ Biennale in Action

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2/ Returning to the Future of Manufacturing

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3/ Prefabrica[T]ed Individuality

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4/ Interplay of Voids

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5/ Undulating Promenade

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6/ Shophouse Duality

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Professional Works 7/ Shenzhen Qianhai MCC Technology Tower

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8/ Hangzhou Pingjiang Times Development

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1/ BIENNALE IN ACTION

“Biennale in Action” speculates an alternative model of Shenzhen & Hong Kong Bi-city Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture (UABB), which will use the biennale-making as a vehicle to instigate incremental and multi-scalar urban regeneration while empowering the local communities. The thesis explores how exhibition-making could 1/ materialize social critiques into tangible forms of urban installations; 2/ offer a participatory platform for the regeneration of existing structure for long-term community use after the exhibition period. The project takes the past biennale venue of Kwun Tong, Hong Kong, as a site to adapt a disused vehicle pier into the main venue for this short-term exhibition. In the meantime, a series of nomadic pavilions are devised and placed across the area as sub-venues for the public to participate. After the biennale, this project further redevelops the pier into a long-term community laboratory with the materials recycled from the dismantled exhibits. It will function as a node of cultural production, engagement and reception to support the local craftsmen, grassroots cultural groups and other social enterprises around the neighborhoods. Through this process, the thesis serves as a critique on the display of spectacles and the gentrification agenda observed in the global phenomenon of “biennalization”.

Cambridge Design Research Studio 2019-2021 Design Thesis Advisors: Ingrid Schroder, Julika Gittner, Conrad Koslowsky Site: Kwun Tong, Hong Kong S.A.R Program: Exhibition and Mix-used -3-

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City, Open Door City of Expiration and Regeneration City Mobilization Architecture creates cities; Cities create Architecture Urban Border Re-living the City Cities, Grow in Difference Urban Interactions

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Refabricating City City Mobilization: Bring Your Own Biennale Tri-Ciprocal Cities: the Theme, the Place, the People Beyond the Urban Edge: the Ideal City?

Visions 2050: Lifestyle and the City City Smarts: Density 2.0 2x2: Imagine to Innovate

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TIMELINE: SPATIAL PRODUCTION OF UABB

Biennale Urbanism The thesis research looks into the long-term spatial production of this particular biennale complex in Shenzhen and Hong Kong.

With the notion of “curating the city”, the UABB has generated different modes of urban regeneration through biennale-making. The biennale has become either a starting fuel for the upcoming large-scale urban renewal or a glamorous showcase of the recent megadevelopments in the two cities. From the retrospective mapping of the changes over time on those biennale venues, it is found that they more or less become instruments for gentrification in the disguise of urban regeneration.

The design thesis explores if we could harness the city-making potential of this biennale complex to instigate a more socially and environmentally sustainable way of urban regeneration. Through converting the biennale-making exercise into an iterative designand-build process, this thesis also criticizes the display of spectacles in the current biennales and further question how an architecture and urbanism biennale should reposition itself within its own discipline and practice.

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Cave Wood Workshop

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Lester Lee, Leung Ha

1/1 Leather Workshop

Image-play Creative Life Studio

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KTFC Food Market

MAPPING: ART ECOLOGY AND COMMUNTIES OF KWUN TONG

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“Biennale in Action” proposes a multi-scalar urban regeneration scheme through a speculative biennale event in Kwun Tong, Hong Kong. The Biennale consists of two parts: I. Main Venue (A) The disused Kwun Tong Vehicle Pier will be adapted as the main exhibition venue for the commissioned exhibits and major public programs.

PROPOSED BIENNALE GUIDE MAP

II. Urban Exhibition (B/C/D) Pavilions and exhibitions of different scales will be implemented around the site as temporary response to the current condition of the site and its communities.

They become either spatial critiques of the contested urban issues or alternatives to envision the future of this neighborhood.

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1. Existing condition

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Roof Membrane and Finishing Rigid Insulation Structural Sheathing CLT Floor Panels

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Architectural Intervention The project reactivates the disused vehicle pier through introducing a lightweight steel truss structure hovering above the existing concrete deck. CLT panels are used as floor elements to provide extra structural diaphragm to stabilize the whole system. The combination of the old and new structure offers both outdoor and semi-outdoor covered spaces for various exhibition programs and large-scale installations. The additional volume above offers a fully conditioned indoor space for conventional exhibits. The open structural frame could adapt easily to different programmatic needs not only during the exhibition period but also after the biennale ends.

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GBA-UABB Hong Kong Chapter HKIA Biennale Foundation

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Phase I - Biennale Period Pavilion B201- VideoMart Pavilion B201 Documentation

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Small-scale pavilions and installations become a temporary response to the immediate needs of the local communities. By combing the exhibition display with the everyday life practice, the urban exhibition also converts itself into a participatory platform for the public to use and co-create an urban alternative.

After the biennale ends, the materials dismantled from the exhibits will be sampled and recycled into a series of sliding screens. They will be further re-assembled as functional modulars inserted back into the main exhibition venue for the use of the local communities in the long-term. This circular process of the exhibition materials also serves as a critique on the unsustainable way of exhibition-making in the global trend of biennalization.

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Post-biennale: Community Laboratory With the recycled panel systems, different functional modulars are assembled into the sliding system attached to the main structural frame. The main exhibition venue is further adapted into a community laboratory in response to the spatial needs of the local communities on site. Particularly, arts and fabrication studios are provided for the grassroots cultural groups to use in a co-op residency project. The space underneath the existing concrete deck will be converted into a street market to support the local small business, which also further blurs the boundary of this structure and stitches it back to the surrounding context.

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2/ RETURNING TO THE FUTURE OF MANUFACTURING

The urban villages in Shenzhen have witnessed the growth of this city through industrial manufacturing at the start of 1990s. In parallel to the recent economic shifts from labor-intense industries to creative cultural industries, the villages today are also going through an active redevelopment process to embrace the emerging cultural economy in China. From 2017 UABB(Shenzhen) Cities, Grow in Difference to MVRDV’s If-Factory in Nantou Village, the urban villages are now confronted with another change towards the future of creative class.

The speculative project envisions an incremental regeneration scheme to introduce R&D activites into the existing fabric of urban villages to advance the local manufacturing and crafting skills with the creative and technological industries. The project renders a future of the urban village where all groups become the creative class, where the city is growing truly in difference.

Cambridge Design Research Studio 2019-2020 Michaelmas Term Advisors: Ingrid Schroder, Conrad Koslowsky, James Pockson Site: Shenzhen, China Program: Creative Cultural Industries - 23 -

EVOLUTION OF BUILDING TYPOLOGIES IN THE URBAN

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Archetype : Urban Village Over the years, the urban villages have developed into a mix of different building typologies, which implies various groups and classes, divergent mechanism of spatial production and potential conflicts among different development agenda. This calls for an incremental way of regeneration to mediate the space and interests behind.

1. To identify the non-residential footprint to work on: existing wholesale market and industrial buildings.

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2. To stack relocating housing vertically above the markets and industrial buildings for people living around.

3. To implement the mat-building scheme aggregating existing buildings while providing production space.

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Mat-building Strategy The project introduces an incremental regeneration strategy for Xiasha Village in Shenzhen. The existing village houses are partially demolished and partially aggregated to provide a work-living complex mat. Additional collective housing is provided vertically for the current residents in the village. The material-based manufacturing background and existing creative industries park are bridged through a sensitive mat-building strategy. The interlocking courtyards provide large manufacturing space for furniture and product design, medium working space and small studio/residential space bringing working class and creative class together. To allow for more natural ventilation, the ground floor is released for open courtyards and covered veranda space to stimulate different community events on the ground.

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NEW URBAN VILLAGE - PUBLIC COURTYARD

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NEW URBAN VILLAGE - MANUFACTURING HALL

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3/ PREFABRICA[T]ED INDIVIDUALITY

With the massive urbanization taking place in China, prefabrication has been advocated by the government for years. It has been seen as a promising technological leap-forward to tackle various construction issues. However, prefabricated modular system in China has been criticized for its lack of adaptability to different conditions through time.

This project sets out to discuss how exploration of prefabricated structure system with adaptive infill system could cater for the individual needs for today’s young university students in China. T-wall modular system has served as a driving force for both spatial planning and facade articulation.

Through this exploration, it seeks to justify the role of structure not merely as the supporting element but more critically as the space generator in the discussion of today’s architectural design.

The University of Hong Kong 2016-2017 Spring Semester Advisor: Dr. Jia Beisi Site: Hangzhou, China Program: Student Housing - 31 -

RENDERING VIEW 1 - TERRACE

SITUATE Classic planning theory in China has long been overwhelmed by orientation restricted by solar test. This leads to numerous towns with single direction parallel buildings and outdoor space. Such phenomenon has also been observed inside the site in Hangzhou, China.

The massing strategy tries to challenge this notion. A north-south direction of front-yard outdoor space is articulated perpendicular to the parallel streets between existing building, acting as a finale to the homogeneous public space. This front-yard is defined by the horizontality of the north-south building mass. Another east-west wing tries to ground the existing playground from the vast plot.

The proposed urban body tries to re-establish the hierarchy of outdoor space defined by the solid. The two building volumes semienclose the private courtyard facing the river. A clear distinction of form and proportion of outdoor public space is drawn based on spatial hierarchy.

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FROM STRUCTURE TO SPACE This project explores the possibility of prefabricated T-wall modular system where the wall acts as a deep girder to transfer the load distributed from slab. Each modular is of 5m long and 2.5m deep for functional and construction consideration. This neutral dimension and proportion makes it possible for them to be assembled in different order to meet various functional requirement.

The semi-enclosed corner space formed by walls in two direction simultaneously activates and defines the spatial possibility inside as well as between different modular.

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LAYER “The reality of deep space is constantly opposed to the inference of shallow space; and by means of the resultant tension, reading after reading is enforced.”

-- Colin Rowe, Robert Slutzky Transparency: Literal and Phenomenal The shifting arrangement of structural modular results in an array of rooms in different depth on different directions. Along the north-south direction, the central corridor space connecting the rooms on two sides is constantly being revealed and concealed. On the transversal direction, multiple planes of louvre shading, glazing, wall panel and rooms address the phenomenal transparency from outside in .

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LAYER 1 - FUNCTIONAL MEDIATOR “TRANSPARENCY” The building shell is seen as a functional mediator between the interior and exterior.

Internal spatial structure logic is projected to the facade rhythm.

The solid cladding corresponds to the internal structural wall where bathrooms are arranged between these two element.

The articulation of timber louvre, stone cladding and recessed glazing is well balanced to ensure the compositional rhythm relating to the interior. This shared balcony becomes an extension of the internal living space to the exterior. With the foldable sliding louvre panels, the shading condition of the balcony space can be controlled by the residents inside as per need from morning to evening. This also constitutes part of the multiple-layers shell projecting from inside to the outside.

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LAYER 2 - MAIN LIVING ZONE : “TRANSFORM” As Bernard Tschumi argued, “It is through space that we are capable of addressing time. But time also exists to activate our spaces, occasionally transforming them by challenging perceptions of their boundaries”. A critical focus of the unit design is to fulfil different functional needs in the framework of time. The prefabricated furniture modular is devised to house the necessary living utilities while also acting as a room divider to transform the unit layout inside. The idea of furniture as wall makes it possible for the unit to transform in need of different scenarios.

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LAYER 3 - SHARED COMMON ZONE : “TRANSFORM” Horizontally the common zone is constantly divided, extended, merged and separated from the rooms on two sides to form different scales of room for different activities. The corridor is not merely a circulation path but a shared living room of commoning.

This strategy will encourage the resident to join different gathering happening along the shared zone. Rather than designing a fixed distribution of different rooms, an open system of transformable commoning is given to the residents so that they can adapt the space specifically to their needs.

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B. Construction of Wall Panels: 1. Assemble panels on ground; 2. Place the T mould on the slab corresponding to specific location; 3. Connect to steel connection plate; 4. Pour-in concrete on site.

COMPOSITE CONSTRUCTION Fabrication, transportation and on-site assembly are also main concerns to inform the development of T-wall modular system.

Timber-concrete composite construction is envisioned to be used for its versatile strength in both tension and compression. In-situ concrete will be cast on site into the structural laminated timber form-work which will permanently serve both as structural and finishing element. This is expected to reduce the time of construction stage while incorporate the infill system into the prefabricated elements.

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TIME-LAPSE -CONSTRUCT - FIT OUT - RESIDE

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4/ INTERPLAY OF VOIDS

The ever-changing social context also brings up new challenge for built environment in European cities. Zurich is one of them confronting the need to expand and densify urban body in preparation for the future.

This process of evolution calls for urban-architecture design to consider the building inside urban structure.

This project tries to discuss how the extension of existing urban mass could benefit both the exterior “place” and interior “room”. The discussion approaches the context as a system of solid-void/ figure-ground structure to generate the urban strategy for extension. The conceptual operation of “shifting” on urban level defines balanced outdoor space while informs the composition of void in building structure to articulate the atrium space in shifting manner. This exploration provides an alternative of approaching the regeneration of urban structure while respecting the spirit of the place.

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH, Zürich) 2016-2017 Fall Semester Advisor: Prof. Dietmar Eberle Site: Zürich, Switzerland Program: Education - 45 -

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COMPOSITING THE VOIDS As the main feature space in the building, void of atrium becomes the core concept driving the articulation of the internal space.

Additional atrium is arranged at the centre of add-on building volume at lower levels. From 2F upwards, the old and new atrium grow and extend from two sides towards each other and are eventually merged together at 5/F. The interaction of atrium voids renders the tension, continuation and merging of the old and new building volumes. The light well connected to the atrium provides atmospheric natural light inside the building during daytime.

From inside out, one can read the composition of void from building structure to the urban structure as a manifestation of solid and void relationship.

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STRUCTURING THE ORDER The existing building shows the typical arrangement of an atrium surrounded by a series of rooms of different functions. The spatial order of this typology is continued and further developed in the additional part.

The typology is referenced in the additional building volume. The existing column grid is maintained with new space articulated at the corner opposite to existing double height space. A denser column-beam system is employed to achieve the load transfer from other levels to double height room. The structural elements for these two rooms also form part of the facade facing the street which creates a vivid atmosphere inside the room.

The proportion of rooms arranged on the periphery of the building is carefully balanced so that it can fulfill the needs for different activities. This idea of function-neutral space ensures the durability of building structure in the frame of time and change.

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PROJECTING TO THE SHELL As a critical system mediating the interior and exterior, the facade here is seen as a projection of internal spatial and structural logic as well as response to external urban structure. The order of internal structural grid is manifested through the formal emphasis on vertical fins on the facade. The depth of the vertical fins casts strong shadow inside to create the atmosphere of interior space.

In the meanwhile, the scale and height of different rooms inside are projected on the articulation of the facade through the contrast between solid and void planes. One can read and predict the space behind the shell from outside, where the facade becomes a hint of the very nature of this building to the external world.

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5/ UNDULATING PROMENADE

Occupy Central in Hong Kong has witnessed the spatial transformation of road as infrastructure to protesters’ camp site. This phenomenon has called our attention to revisit the urban infrastructure in the complex social and topographical context of Hong Kong. Urban infrastructure today should not exclusively be an engineering exercise but rather an in-between mediator between the needs for efficient mechanism of modern cities and interest of the general public.

This project tries to re-envision the role of infrastructure to the urban structure through the exploration of structural prototype. By re-examining the spatial potential of hexagonal structural frame and folded plate, the project intends to redefine the idea of car park in relation to Sheung Wan waterfront. The structural prototype becomes an alternative to confront the issue of accessibility and public space while sustaining the infrastructural need. The process of generating space through structural experiment further argues for the position of structure in today’s architectural discourse.

The University of Hong Kong 2015-2016 Spring Semester Advisor: Ulrich Kirchhoff Site: Hong Kong S.A.R Program: Infrastructure - 53 -

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Hong Kong is a city without ground...Perception of distance and time is distorted through compact networks of pedestrian infrastructure, public transport and natural topography in the urban landscape.

--Cities Without Ground The site of Sheung Wan is observed and dissected through a single cut section over the complex intervening system of massive transportation. The drawing is used as an analytical tool to reveal the inter-connection of tram, MTR, bus, taxi and ferry. However, the large patch of pedestrian space is obviously ignored where walking accessibility are heavily deprived of. In view of this extreme condition, the urban strategy tries to relink the deserted pedestrian space back to the well-connected transportation system. The linear parking space in the meanwhile offers multiple new planes of “ground” for the general public.

1. Elevate the waterfront and extend the car park

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2. Connect with existing car park and elevated walkway

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4. Generate the urban strategy in three directions

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ROOFTOP TERRACE

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PARKING/ PROMENADE The undulating profile provides continuous linear space weaving up and down through parking space as well as public program. Its structural feature is manifested through exploring spatial possibility of inclined planes in various ways for both vehicles and human.

Floating above the once isolated archipelagos of bus stops and waterfront, the undulating promenade fills in the absence of pedestrian accessibility. More importantly it revitalises the waterfront transportation hub offering chance of cultural and civic exchange between local people and tourists passing by.

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6/ SHOPHOUSE DUALITY

Illegal self-construction is always observed in residual space of old towns in Asian cities. While the urban pocket space exhibits the intelligence of local residents, the autonomous intervention also offers possibility for architects to extract and deploy. Starting from this notion of learning from the informality, this project begins from collaging the autonomous construction moments in Tainan into a series of suitcase exhibition to understand the informal spatial extension.

The design exploration extracts idea from the house extension pattern found on Guohua street of Tainan, Taiwan. The project intends to manifest the concept of duality, a common theme in the discussion of community regeneration. I’m trying to approach the idea of duality from solid-void, curve-straight, organic-rigid and stereotomics-tectonics. The shophouse proposal seeks to be read as a micro-system of duality found in today’s urbanization process.

The University of Hong Kong 2014-2015 Spring Semester Advisor: Thomas Tsang Site: Tainan, Taiwan Program: Individual House - 63 -

RECONSTRUCT TENSION The initial concept is extracted from how house extension is commonly practiced in Tainan, Taiwan. To add on the existing houses, the extension part will “grow” along the roof angle to form layers of house from different generations.

This practice is explored spatially to see what it could stimulate in the space between two extension while maintaining this basic formal logic.

The extension pattern is applied both horizontally and vertically to manifest the idea of tension between generations of extension.

While the central void renders the tension between two volumes, it is the introduction of timber structure as a tectonic system that signifies the tension against stereotomic system of the two massing volumes.

SECOND GENERATION

ADDITIONAL ATTACHMENT

FIRST GENERATION

INCREMENTAL PATTERN IN TAINAN

A

A’

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1

2

4m

0

1

2

GROUND PLAN

4m

1F PLAN

0

2

4

8m

SECTION A-A’

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SPATIAL CONCEPT - INCREMENTAL PATTERN

TENSION BETWEEN SOLID - VOID

TENSION BETWEEN STEREOTOMIC AND TECTONIC

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EDITED COMPOSITIONAL DRAWING (HAND-DRAW)

SPACE OF DUALITY The idea of tension is amplified through the juxtaposition between straight boundary wall and curve partition wall, between extrusion of cylindrical shaft and polygonal bodies, between rigid courtyard and smooth internal space. In the meanwhile, the contrast between concrete as the stereotomic and timber as the tectonic tries to reinforce the duality nature of this project, a metaphor of the tension between old and new in the process of community regeneration.

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INTERIOR LIVING SPACE

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Professional Works Aedas (Hong Kong)

Team Director: Dimi Lee

Project: Shenzhen Qianhai MCC Technology Tower, China

Role: Architectural Graduate (Year-out)

Office & Retail | GFA: 48,000 m2 | 2019

STREET VIEW

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Stages: Concept Design

DESIGN EVOLUTION

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Professional Works Aedas (Hong Kong)

Team Director: Dimi Lee

Project: Hangzhou Pingjiang Times, China

Role: Architectural Graduate (Year-out)

Mixed-use | GFA: 80,705 m2

Stages: Concept Design, Schematic Design, Detail Design

BIRD-EYE VIEW

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地块次入口

地块主入口

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0

10

20

30m

MLP

索引 Legend:

酒店大堂 Hotel Lobby

酒店 Hotel

商铺 Retail

餐饮 F&B

办公 Office

办公 Office

公寓配套 SA Facilities

后备用房 BOH N

0

10

20

30m

GF PLAN

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Professional Works Aedas (Hong Kong)

Team Director: Dimi Lee

Project: Hangzhou Pingjiang Times, China

Role: Architectural Graduate (Year-out)

Mixed-use | GFA: 80,705 m2 | 2019

Stages: Concept Design, Schematic Design, Detail Design

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位置圖 Location Drawing

FACADE DESIGN

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ZHENG ZHOU (ELLIOT)

周政

zz393@cam.ac.uk 27B, Elvissa Crest, 100 Hill Road, Hong Kong

EDUCATION The University of Cambridge

October, 2019 - June, 2021

MPhil in Architecture and Urban Design (ARB/RIBA Part 2) • 72/100

The University of Hong Kong

September, 2012 - June, 2017

Bachelor of Arts in Architectural Studies • First Class Honours.

Bachelor of Engineering • Transferred to BA(Architectural Studies) in 2013.

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH, Zurich)

September, 2016 - December, 2016

Bachelor of Science in Architecture - Exchange Program

HONOURS AND AWARDS “Coexist: Rethinking Zoos” Finalist Entry • Top 50 of hundreds of entries from more than 40 countries; • Collaboration with Peng Huiting.

Lee Shau Kee Scholarship for Student Enrichment •

University-level scholarship for oversea exchange program participants.

Dean’s Honours List Nominations • •

Awarded to top 10% of the class for each academic year; Consecutive nominations of Dean’s Honours List for academic year 2014-2015, 2015-2016 and 2016-2017.

Leigh & Orange Design Prize •

Awarded to only one undergraduate student following the second year BA(AS) curriculum in the Department of Architecture and is awarded on the basis of academic performance in design.

China Soong Ching Ling Foundation Zhiyuan Scholarship • •

Merit-base half-tuition scholarship awarded to top 50 mainland China students pursuing bachelor degree in Hong Kong through competitive selection; One of the three recipients from Hubei Province in 2012.

May, 2018

November, 2016

2014 - 2017

August, 2016

October, 2012

RESEARCH AND TEACHING Then and Now: Collecting Art and Exhibiting Cultures in Asia Conference, Lingnan University in Hong Kong

May, 2021

Panel Speaker, ‘City-making through exhibition-making: A retrospective study of the multifaceted-role of UABB in Shenzhen and Hong Kong’ .

ARCH2061- Architectural History and Theory 4: the City Department of Architecture, The University of Hong Kong Teaching Assistant to Mr. Koon Wee

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September, 2020 - December, 2020

WORKING EXPERIENCE Uselessness as Usage - Operation Delta #4: Architects in Action at Guangdong Times Museum

June, 2020 - August, 2021

Associate Curator

Guangzhou, China | 17 July - 29 August 2021 • Collaboration with Chief Curator Hou Hanru and Associate Curator Liang Jianhua in research, design, curation and publication for the exhibition.

Aedas (Hong Kong)

Architectural Graduate (Year-out)

August, 2018 - July, 2019

Qianhai MCC Technology Building | Shenzhen, China | Mixed-use • Taking part in the competition team during bidding stage producing design options and assisting further design development; • Further developing the design scheme to coordinate with on-going design changes from the client and local government; • Producing 3D models for rendering and presentation booklets for various meetings with clients and local government.

Pingjiang Times Development | Hangzhou, China | Mixed-use • Participating at concept design and schematic design stages with focus on MLP planning and facade design; • Reviewing and coordinating facade construction drawing package produced by Hangzhou LDI; • Preparing concept design and schematic design presentation booklets.

PDP London Architects (Hong Kong Studio)

August, 2017 - July, 2018

Architectural Assistant (Year-out)

La Vita | Nanjing, China | Mixed-use • Participating at detail design stage with focus on facade design and coordinating with the client, LDI and curtain-wall consultant; • Taking full charge of communication with the client and consultants as well as assisting directors in bilingual presentation and contract negotiation with clients.

Jardines Lookout Single House | Hong Kong | Residential • Participating in architectural interior design at construction stage; • Drafting, updating and managing the construction drawings as per coordination with client, contractor, consultants and suppliers; • Conducting weekly site inspection to coordinate with contractors.

Wang Weijen Architecture

June, 2016 - August, 2016

Summer Internship

Valley Retreat | Jiyuan, China | Hospitality • Participating in design development at concept stage; • Producing physical models and drawings to show design intention.

SKILLS Language : Chinese (Native), English (Proficient) Software : Rhinoceros, Vray, Grasshopper, SketchUp, AutoCAD, Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Microsoft Office

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ZHENG ZHOU (ELLIOT)

周政

zz393@cam.ac.uk 27B, Elvissa Crest, 100 Hill Road, Hong Kong