Meng Di Zhao

Architecture Portfolio

Email: Mengdi.zhao26@gmail.com

Phone: 3109909372

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CONTENT

The Rotatory Box

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The Switch

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The Climate Museum

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The Fly Ground

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The Inhabitable Column

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Kindergartern Furniture

Kindergartern Classroom

WMO Museum

Vertical Playground School

Office Tower

The Beginning

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THE ROTATORY BOX

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THE TRANSFORMATION - From Storage mode to operating mode

Operating Details

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A B

C Classroom Interior

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Interior Storage Wall

Activities outside the classroom are pushed and packed into the aisle. The interior wall works as a spatial division and furniture storage, this is to allow total freedom for creative movements inside the classroom. Although there are no physical boundaries inside the classroom, subtle changes in flooring material enables a wide combination of spatial arrangements using the rotational furnitures. This design of the walls evolved around a central sphere that mimics the movement of people in, out and around the entrance. The sphere cuts away both the interior and exterior wall forming a rotational door that controls access to the classroom or to the storage aisle.

Plan I

Plan II

The Switch Door

Exterior Wall

Section A - Aisle Scene

Section B - Classroom Scene

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Design Strategy In conventional building arrangements, mechanics are often hidden. The focus for this project is to reveal mechanical operations and design starting from it. Conceptually, space is divided into 3 interrelated sections: Mechanical space Office space Waste Waste is the museum sector in the building. The idea is to trap and display building waste as the exhibit. Using grey water and excessive heat generated from mechanical operations to produce different microclimates in individual exhibition cells. The temperature and humidity ‘exhibited’ physicalizes for visitors the relationship between what we do inside a space and what we produce.

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PLAN

MECHANICAL/SERVICE SPACE

CLIMATE SPACE

CLIMATE SPACE

the atmosphere created physicalizes for visitors the core focus of WMO. ‘Climate space’ takes on an organic boundary to mimic to unpredictable property of nature. heat generated from mechanical operations in the building to produce ‘climate’ as exhibit in individuality separated museum space. The temperature and humidity in Being the ‘climate generator’, Mechanical space wraps around exhibit ‘Climate as a secondary skin. on an organic boundary to mimic to unpredictable property of nature. the atmosphere created physicalizes for visitors the core focusthe of WMO. space’ takes Being the ‘climate generator’, Mechanical space wraps around the exhibit as a secondary skin.

FREE PLAN SPACE

MECHANICAL/SERVICE SPACE

Meteorological Organization Organization

FREE PLAN SPACE

SERVICE SPACE INTERIOR

PLAN DIAGRAM

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PLAN

GLAZED TILE

FREE PLAN SPACE MECHANICAL/SERVICE SPACE MECHANICAL/SERVICE SPACE

MECHANICAL/SERVICE SPACE CLIMATE SPACE CLIMATE SPACE

CLIMATE CLIMATESPACE SPACE

WOODEN PANEL

Materiality GLAZED TILE CONCRETE

WOODEN WOODEN PANEL PANEL CONCRETE CONCRETE

WOODEN PANEL CONCRETE CONCRETE

EXPLODED DIAGRAM

Office space

Climate space Circulation

Mechanical space Circulation

Structure

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RENDER

South Facade 23

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PLAY TIME SECTION

PLANS

Lobby . Cafeteria

Classroom . library . Nap . Kitchen

Classroom . Dance . Nap

Classroom . Sports . Auditorium

Classroom . Auditorium . Sports

Classroom . Sports . Exhibition 27

Vertical Playground Section

Horizontal Playground Section

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Exploration of modeling material I. Slime II. Air Brush III. Spectrum Dichroic Film

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VEGITATION DENSITY

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WORKING HOUR SECTION

GROUND FLOOR

Basement

2nd Floor

3rd Floor

4th Floor

5th Floor

Roof top

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The END

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