Sky Zhang's Portfolio 2022

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SKY ZHANG M.Arch. 2023 Columbia University Graduate School Of Architecture, Planning And Preservation

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Housing: Co-Re

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community reiterated.

COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY GSAPP CORE III STUDIO FALL 2021 CRITIC: BENJAMIN CADENA COLLABORATOR(S): HALLIE CHUBA

In this multi-generational housing project, various levels of interior to exterior, public to private, large to small spaces are layered, interconnected, and paired to create a rich and inviting environment.

The commercial character of this neighborhood is deeply connected to individual business owners living in the community. To encourage and support further growth of these businesses, we opened up the ground plane of the block to shops and restaurants owned by locals. This increases the space in this bustling location that is dedicated to small, family-based commerce. Those who are either owners or employees of businesses on the ground floor are given privileged access to unit availability and selection.

By providing communal areas ranging in scale and inviting ambiguity into spaces in terms of how they are to be activated, we encourage different and individualized ways of engaging with the space and with the community. Circulation, private and shared outdoor spaces blend into one another, thus fostering camaraderie and making possible multiple scales and types of social gathering.

In working together with my partner Hallie, I contributed the following: concept development, design, formal development; 3-D modelling, rendering, and Photoshopping.

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Activation By Local Businesses

The site is surrounded by a thriving community of small, locally-owned businesses in the neighborhood. To help strengthen this characteristic even further and provide support to ensure future growth of this vibrant commercial life, we opened up the ground plane to provide space for locally-owned shops and restaurants. In addition to supporting those businesses, this move would invite foot traffic into the central courtyard, making it both an extension of the street and a place that the residents could enjoy.

Layered & Connected The variety in shape and size of the outdoor terraces as well as the semi-outdoor transition spaces promotes engagement of the spaces in flexible and myriad ways.

All of the transitional spaces are connected on each floor encourages neighborly interaction and brings in New York stoop culture from the scale of house to the scale of housing.

Communal & Flexible Creating accessible outdoor spaces for the residents is a main priority for the design, resulting in establishing a tiered outdoor space. We implemented an outer perimeter of wooden louvers, which creates a transition space between the indoor and outdoor space. They create an experience that allows residents to have a small space to have their morning coffee without being entirely exposed to the elements. The louvered shell creates an opportunity for both shade and privacy, while still allowing every apartment to have semi-outdoor spaces right outside of their units.

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The XR School

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urban farm, school, place for equality.

COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY GSAPP CORE II STUDIO SPRING 2021 CRITIC: GORDON KIPPING

The former PS.64 school building, currently standing empty in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, has historically held historical meaning to its community, yet has also been a site of contention for decades. This project aims to re-invigorate the building as a school and also as a gathering place for the community.

In the midst of the climate crisis, the design will address this emergency by incorporating various methodologies and techniques to minimize and eliminate embodied and operational carbon, and to educate the public about ways to combat climate change.

The project transforms the existing school building through a series of addtions and subtractions, reusing demolished masonry and using mass timber for new structure to minimize carbon footprint. The school doubles as a greenhouse urban farm, bringing food production and education together in an exciting intersection.

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The diagrams below present new ways to organize school spaces that foster integration and equality between social groups. These are reflected in floor plans.

Planting Systems

School As Urban Farm

Learning should be as much about taking on responsibility to the world and observing the rhythms of life as about memorizing and developing facts and skills.

At the XR School, experiences of learning is intertwined with experiences of the surrounding environment. The entire school building is transformed into an urban farm with indoor and outdoor planting, and students have the opportunity to observe, nurture, take on responsibility for, and taste the fruits of labor of these plants as part of their education.

Level Two

Level Six

The circulation is designed to take advantage of the stack effect to effectively ventilate the building in the summer. The terraced greenhouses are backed by thermal mass, which help keep the greenhouses stay above freezing point in the winter and absorb excess heat in the summer.

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Reimagining: from desk to city

Addressing Variety and Individual Need

The project began with incorporating elements that challenge the traditional functions served by furniture and rooms.

In the hotel, spaces are defined by multiple aspects of sensory experience, varying in size, openness, materiality, temperature, function and ambiance, each combination addressing a different psychological need.

Typical “activity floor” 1, includes gym, yoga room, game room and terrace.

Typical “activity floor” 2, includes library, art studio, reading room, and terrace.

Typical “repose floor” 1, indoor garden with individual counselling rooms.

Typical “repose floor” 2, indoor swimmin lagoon.

A double skin facade layer is attached onto the existing curtain wall to improve energy efficiency; the rhythm on the new mullions match that of the original.

Oasis Hotel

Environmental & Structural Systems The project incorporates a double skin facade system for temperature regulation, operabe glass walls on the terrace, and a rainwater collection and greywater collection system.

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public hotel for mental health.

COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY GSAPP CORE I STUDIO FALL 2020 CRITIC: EMMETT ZEIFMAN The Seagram building embodies the culture of regulated and standardized human labor and the environment that they are in for the purpose of capital gain. By being a publiclyfunded program to which all residents of New York City have an allocated number of stays per year, and The Oasis Hotel addresses a glaring issue in the city—the lack of public space for mental health­—and tranforms the Seagram building into a space where resources are devoted wellbeing needs on both the individual and societal level.

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Architect

Stephan Potts Stanev Potts Architects

Structural Consultant Aaron Campbell Dattner Architects

Mechanical Consultant Michael Esposito Elementa Engineering

Enclosure Consultant

Teel Riggs Facade Research Collaborative

Designers Sky Zhang Anne Freeman Younjae Choi Yerin Won Elena Yu Seung Ho Shin

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Stephan Potts Stanev Potts Architects

Structural Consultant Aaron Campbell Dattner Architects

Mechanical Consultant Michael Esposito Elementa Engineering

Architect

Stephan Potts Stanev Potts Architects

Enclosure Consultant

Teel Riggs Facade Research Collaborative

Structural Consultant Aaron Campbell Dattner Architects

Designers

Mechanical Consultant

Sky Zhang Anne Freeman Younjae Choi Yerin Won Elena Yu Seung Ho Shin

Michael Esposito Elementa Engineering

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Materials roadmap

P.S. 64

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COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY GSAPP BUILDING TECHNOLOGY: SYSTEMS INTEGRATION CRITICS: Michael Esposito Teel Riggs Stephan Potts Aason Campbell MEP Distribution Basement

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P.S. 64

WT-04 Sawtooth roof with integrated P.V.

605 East 9th Street

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Stephan Potts Stanev Potts Architects

Structural Consultant Aaron Campbell Dattner Architects

Mechanical Consultant Michael Esposito Elementa Engineering

MEP Distribution Basement Project Number Date

Enclosure Consultant

WT-01 Opaque Wall Terracotta T.C. Rainscreen overclad with double hung operable windows to match existing

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Reflected ceiling plan (RCP): basement

Sky Zhang Anne Freeman Younjae Choi Yerin Won Elena Yu Seung Ho Shin

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WT-03 Toggle glazed storefront

Existing wall with interior insulation Architect

605 East 9th Street

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Aaron Campbell Dattner Architects Air Seal

Aaron Campbell Dattner Architects

Michael Esposito Elementa Engineering

Structural Consultant

Stick-built curtain wall detail

Structural Consultant

Mechanical Consultant

Stephan Potts Stanev Potts Architects

Mechanical Consultant WT-01 Michael Esposito Elementa Engineering

Enclosure Consultant

Teel Riggs WT-02 (transparent) Facade Research Collaborative

WT-03 WT-04 Designers Sky Zhang Anne Freeman Younjae Choi Yerin Won Elena Yu Seung Ho Shin

Teel Riggs Facade Research Collaborative

Material

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GLASS TYPE I Designers Triple insulated low iron glass with high VLT (transparent) Sky Zhang Anne Low-E coating on #2Freeman surface Younjae Choi

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GLASS TYPE Triple insulated low iron glass with reflective Low-E coating on #2 surface

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WT-02 (reflective)

WT-02 Axon

Designers

Our team looked at the restoration of an abandoned school building from the perspectives of structural P.S. 64 logic, egress design, mechanical, electrical, and Facade System Diagram/Description plumbing systems, and facade systems. Select drawings shown here.

F110 Collaborators: Younjae Choi, Anne Freeman, Yerin Won, Elena Yu, Seung Ho Shin. My contributions were facade & structural design, MEP systems design & drawing, RCP’s, floorP.S. 64 design and detail. ceiling-roof 605 East 9th Street WT-02 Toggle glazed stick built curtain wall

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Teel Riggs Facade Research Collaborative

Pavers

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Yerin Won II Elena Yu Seung Ho Shin

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Roof and ceiling detail:System auditorium 1 Details and atrium

Sky Zhang Anne Freeman Younjae Choi Yerin Won Elena Yu Seung Ho Shin

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605 East 9th Street F210

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System 2 Details

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Render: kitchen

TECHNICAL & PROFESSIONAL WORK Render: powder room

Render: master bath

CHUA ARCHITECTURE PLLC PROJECT TYPE: Residential

These drawings are part of projects that renovated historic brownstones in Brooklyn. Design renders and elevation drawings are shown.

Interior elevations: bathrooms

ARCHITECT

SH02 AC

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THESE DRAWINGS AND SPECIFICATIONS ARE THE PROPERTY AND COPYRIGHT OF ARCHITECT AND SHALL NOT BE USED ON ANY OTHER WORK EXCEPT BY WRITTEN AGREEMENT WITH ARCHITECT. DO NOT SCALE BLUEPRINTS.

PROJECT NO.:

BASEMENT POWDER ROOM 003

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