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ARCHITECTURE

PORTFOLIO

JASMINE ZHANG

SELECTED WORKS 2022-2025

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STUDENT HOUSING

Project positioning The ecology cycle

INDEX

The green wall

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SOCIAL CONDENSER

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RESCALING THE SCHOOL

Concept The suburban Streetscape Weaving the past, present, and the community

A Montessori School School hall Classroom cluster

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STUDENT HOUSING // COUNTRY OF WATER

A Reconceptualisation of student housing, community and rituals within domesticity in the inner-city suburb of Pyrmont Bay, Sydney.

ECOSYSTEM WHEEL

The Ecosystem Wheel: As the architecture itself becomes a device for cleansing water, reconnecting the cycle of cleansing of the land through natural resources, through which, rebuilding the connection between its residents, the land and its ecosystems.

The ecosystem wheel becomes the basis of our project as the water filtration system is built through the process through pine barks, soil filtration, aquaponic ponds, and finally the central mussel pond.

GROUND FLOOR PLAN

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STUDENT HOUSING // COUNTRY OF WATER

Concept: Incorporating our personal history Taking inspiration from the rituals and as immigrants and our experiences to customs of the Gadigal People, this project displacement and connection to the land, incorporates the ‘cycle of care’ as its rituals people and culture, this project aims to guide residents to care for the land, givign explore the act of ‘reconnecting’ the people back and cleansing the water through natural to the land’s history, memories and rituals processes and materials. through the Body of Water.

We explore how the Body of Water can becomes a medium for connection within the domestic sphere.

MODEL INTERPRETATION

WEST ELEVATION

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STUDENT HOUSING // COUNTRY OF WATER

The Domestic: Water is the core of daily domestic activities such as laundy, cooking, washing and dining, and thus those spaces becomes shared community and public spaces for units to opened to, and residents to interact.

1ST FLOOR PLAN

UNIT PLAN 2

UNIT PLAN 1

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STUDENT HOUSING // COUNTRY OF WATER The Natural Purification Process: This process starts at the water collection tank on the rooftop for stormwater and greywater, flowing through the vertical green terrace, and lastly to the central mussel pond.

Hydroponic Ponds were implemented as an extension of this purification system, encouraging residents to take care and harvest the vegetations as a comunity, thus becoming an active agent in this purification cycle.

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STUDENT HOUSING // COUNTRY OF WATER The Green Wall: The detailing of the vertical garden terrace as the start of the filtration process.

A Step-by-Step Process: Moss and The last stage is the mussel colony which water plants are planted in steel vertical is the heart of this process, where any plates. As the water run down the garden leftover bacteria and contaminants left and the plants, it goes through three in the water are removed before going stages of filtration. The first is through the back to the building, completing the water water plants and roots, flowing into the recycling and purification process. pine bark catchment below the vertical gardens, filtering through any large particles, soap, lint. The water then flows through fine sand before the water flows into the hydroponics ponds or the mussel pond and into the underground water storage, completing the process.

Through this student housing, this project hopes to design with sustainability and awareness where the students become both an active and passive participant in that cycle of care, and giving back to the land.

GREEN WALL SECTION DETAIL

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SOCIAL CONDENSER // THE WEAVER

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The Weaver: The Weaver aims to re-vitalise the current dormant residential streetscape of Waterloo, Sydney, into a place of making, exchanging and shared experience for its local residents and visitors.

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The Site: Positioned in the centre of several large commercial centres, we aim to draw and redirect that pre-existing pedestrian flow back into the suburban neighbourhood, thus reconnecting and interweaving the disconnected residentital microcommunities separated within the residential apartment complexes. project statement this architectural project aims to reimagine the term "social condenser " at the kennards storage facility in waterloo by pulling in different community hubs around the area. the project idea came from two main reasons as to why this is a problem that we need to tackle. one, from our site analysis we found that most apartments are built with c o m m e rc i a l /ret a i l s p a c e o n t h e g ro u n d  o o r. t h e s e a p a r t m e n t st r u c t u re s l a rg e l y c o n t r i b u te to t h e " e p i d e m i c of loneliness" that willimott had outlined in the 'perestroika of life'. two, we rec alled ver y few pedestrians around the site

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The element of rest, exchange, and participatio becomes the core value of this project, to re-activate and foster a new community within the streetscape.

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SOCIAL CONDENSER // THE WEAVER Weaving the past, present, and the future: Successful characteristics from established commercial areas were taken as inspiration while preserving the core industrial heritage of Waterloo, intersecting both the modern, and the old.

INITIAL CONCEPT DIAGRAMS

System Integration: Keeping to the NCC regulations, emergency vertical egresses, routes are integrated into the site plan.

1. THE METROPOLIS

The open greenspace acts as the heart of the site for resting and gathering, spreading activity into the interior spaces of the buildings.

The brick facade and steel column grid structure are preserved, a montage to the industrial history of the site, while the modern transluscent facade wrapping the atriums allowing the central greenspaces to tbe porous to the streets, capturing pedestrian passerbys to participate and engage in its activities.

KEY Emergency fire staircase Fire escape route Ground floor fire escape Vertical Emergency escape door Regular vertical egress Elevator shafts

ANATOMOICAL AXONOMETRIC VERTICAL EGRESS

2. URBAN GALLERY

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SOCIAL CONDENSER // THE WEAVER

The Central Market: Adjacent to the grenspace, becomes a space to exchange, foster, and populate a community and the streetscape.

CENTRAL MARKET SQUARE SITE PLAN

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SOCIAL CONDENSER // THE WEAVER

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RESCALING THE SCHOOL // THE MONTESSORI TREEHOUSE

A Multi-scalar Design: An re-imagination of a Montessori Primary school across multiple scales - from small, to big in the suburbian neighbourhood of Olympic Park.

Concept: Taking inspiration from the diverse ecology colonies within Olympic Park, the Primary school is redefined as a set of treehouses within the leaves and canopies.

The Montessori Treehouse emphasises on the element of play and discovery through early learning. Through physically exploring and feeling the environment with our senses and skin does development and learning occur. This becomes the concept of this project - to integrate the environment and nature as a central organ of this school.

SITE ANALYSIS

CONCEPT DIAGRAM

SITE AXONOMETRIC DIAGRAM

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RESCALING THE SCHOOL // THE GREEN HALL

THE GREEN HALL

Extending the concept of the treehouse, the school hall merges play and community within the indoor sports court, and community within the transluscent greenhouse as the canteen and general gathering space. The sliding polycarbonate facade allows both natural sunlight and seasonal change within the space.

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RESCALING THE SCHOOL // TREEHOUSE WITHIN The outdoor learning/play area (COLA): A lightweight steel structure aloowing students to discover, interact and nurture the ecologies. The thin steel scaffold becomes supports for climbing vines and growing trees. weaving ecology into the THE CANOPIES architecture itself.

GROUND FLOOR CLASSROOM PLAN

CLASSROOM CLUSTER AVONOMETRIC 1ST FLOOR CLASSROOM PLAN

The clasrooms and the COLA are broken from traditional arrangements as they are reimagined into a playful ‘treehouse’.

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RESCALING THE SCHOOL // TREEHOUSE WITHIN THE CANOPIES

CLASSROOM CLUSTER PERSPECTIVE SECTION

03 The Site Plan: As the scale expands, the masterplan is created through the integration of the smaller structures.

The entire school ground is reimagined as a playground dividing the public and private spaces.

While the north-east side opens to the community and streetscape containing playgrounds, school hall and library, while the South of the campus is separated and divided from the street by denser ecologies and terrains to allow for quieter learning spaces.

Through play, discovery and the natural environment, this school becomes an experimentational sustainable design that allos the soil to heal from its heavy industrial history as the students plant, grow and nurture the ecologies.