Power of Power
Solar Harvesting ‘Jacket’
Diploma 3, AA School of Architecture, 2025
Scaling Up Voice
Public Activity Centre
Diploma 16, AA School of Architecture, 2024
Experimental
Soup Insitute
Published on Dezeen , School Project
Diagrid High Rise
Revit & ArchiCAD Documentation
Solar Harvesting ‘Jacket’
Space Extension
Diploma 3，AA School of Architecture, 2025
Instructor: Andrew Yau, Jonas Lundberg, Kayu Chen
AA Porjects Review 2025
https://pr2025.aaschool.ac.uk/students/kristy-zhang
Attaching a vertical solar ‘jacket’ wrapping around high-rise buildings in dense cities weaves spatial choreography—a network of vertical private and communal space—with energy-positive strategies that deliver surplus electricity and heat while rendering energy use legible to encourage responsible use and collective empowerment.
Vertical Solar Harvesting and Distributing Potential in site (Mumbai, India)
The composite layering of convex PV-glass panels, phase-change-material (PCM) cushions and concave solar reflectors, integrates energy-harvesting with light mediation. PV and PCM harvests radiation and stored heat for local redistribution to nearby blocks.
Phase-change-material enclosed in ETFE modules absorb and release solar heat as they melt and solidify. Under them, Occupants will experience transparency shifting over time, where clarity peaks as solar energy is harvested and stored, and gradually mists over as it is consumed.
Functioning as a public meter of live energy storage and use, readable at room, street, and city scales, fostering a collective experience and shared acknowledgement of energy use.
of selected reflectors redirect sunlight onto PV-PCM envelopes, enhance energy harvesting and, as the phase-change melts and refreezes, altering transparency.
Public Activity Centre
Adaptive Reuse
Diploma 16, AA School of Architecture, 2024
Instructor: Ryan Neiheiser, Bryce Suite, Xristina Argyros
AA Porjects Review 2024
https://pr2024.aaschool.ac.uk/students/kristy-zhang
PUBLIC EXPRESSION
PUBLIC SPACE
Posters and graffiti on the street can be perceived as a fragmented citywide information board. At a certain moment, walls, columns, windows in multiple different material, are flattened to one simple function: an accessible canvas for public expression and communication. Though perhaps an old-school approach in the cyber age, it remains a vitally common scene.
The project, transformed from Athen’s existing Ministry of Finance building, envisions a vibrant activity centre that integrates mechanism between public expression and physical structures, ensuring accessibility and engagement.
The project aims to reinforce the legitimacy and important value of public voice in a corporeal notion, exploring potential in architecture as a tangible apparatus to collect and share content and information among the general public.
Space Politics Strategy
Experimental 6, AA School of Architecture, 2023
Instructor: Ana Nicolaescu, Ioana Man
AA Porjects Review 2023
https://pr2023.aaschool.ac.uk/students/kristy-zhang
Proposed as a more tangible public-facing strategy, the project articulates a threshold between fiction and reality in another giant leap of mankind.
FOOT OFF MARS (FILM)
https://youtu.be/XOm7SJaiPq0?si=5juZcetbVL-w1tPb
The connection between Mars, a planet 34 million miles away, and us, the ordinary majority can be inevitably ambiguous, or critically fictional.
In the context of an upcoming new space race, the project suggests a multifaceted spirit for NASA’s journey to boost public interest: The enthusiasm for the unknown, as well as the mundanity, reality and challenges of space exploration.
RMIT University, 2020
Instructor: Tom Kovac
The future city will grow over time by accumulation, through a collect and distribute system. A frame of filtering filaments are proposed to gather existing discarded environmental waste to re-manufacture into architectural materials for distribution.
Collect and Distribute
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