Portfolio 2019 Architectural + Desige. ZiZhuo Wang

University of Waterloo School of Architecture 2019_001

ZiZhuo Wang

PORTFOLIO

Architecture + Design

Hi! I am Zizhuo.

I am a second year student at Univeristy of Waterloo School of Architecture. I believed passion is my best driven force for interest and career developing into architecture, meawhile architecture is peameablly aristic and technical creation that sublime the essence of both sicence and life. I am always looking for new oppourtinity to grow as a better designer, and I would love to explore the new learning potential at your firm while contributing with success.

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Distinctive Parallel

For Fun

Light Portal

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Co-Existing Space +

Durational Section Aga Khan Meusum

Tranformation Pavillion

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Oil Painting

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Curriculum vitae Educaiton 2018- Present

Univeristy of waterloo School of Architecture

Honours +Award 09. 2018- Present 12. 2018- Present 02. 2016-10. 2018 06. 2017-06. 2018 06. 2018 05. 2018

UWSA Student Association, sustainble collective Member of Bridge Design Gallery Chinese Canadian Performance Art Board as excellent volunteer Honours of Art department, excellence achievment in High shcool Honours graduate for Ontraio Secondary degree Merit scholarship in University of waterloo with entrance 85+

Skills + Software

Fabrication

Art related

Rhino Photoshop Illustrator inDesign Microsoft related

Modelling making laser Cutting 3D Priting Foam Cutting Hand Draft

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CNC Milling 3D Scanning

Oil painting Watercolor Marker Sketch Piano

z2288wan@edu.uwaterloo.ca stevenwang369@gmail.com (647)-868-5822

Experience Sep, 2018 - 2019

Sep,2019

Constitute communications between teammates through efficient diagrammatic drawing and physical modelling perceived great team consensuses throughout outstanding completion of first- and second-years projects in Waterloo School of Architecture Optimize the quality of projects with responsibility of ontime submission when undertaking pressure from multitasking and deadlines.

Sep,2018 - 2019

Coordinated architectural work flow with excellent Technical drafting and manipulation skills in dominant design process by utilizing Rhino, Photoshop, Learned V-ray, Learned-Grasshopper.

Volunteer

Sep, 2019

participated in Volunteering group in 2019 climate strike as event organizer

Sep, 2016, Oct,2017, Oct, 2019

Contributed thoughtful ideas of staging and backstage organization in three consecutive

Jan, 2018 - June 2018

Organized photography club field trip as executive in secondary school Interest

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Academic work

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Distinctive Parallel 1A Steel and Construction: CISC competation April, 2019 Supervised by: Terre Boake Collaboration: Ernest Lee

Birds are migratory avian species birds that nest in the northern hemisphere tend to migrate northward in the spring to take advantage of burgeoning insect populations, budding plants and an abundance of nesting locations as winter approaches and the availability of insects and other food drops. The birds move fly tot he south again. The fully steel built construction Distinctive Parallels initiates the awareness to envision the friendly environment to help with birds suitable migratory conditions. The building creates an open interrelated space with layers of interactive surfaces forming the two parallel spiral ramps one for attracting birds with a surface coated with vegetation while being constructed with weathered steel.

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Another for an extensive walkway made of carbon steel both are designated to walk on, however the path with vegetation is designed to enhance the condition for the bird’s migratory journeys. The structure being situated in Colombia exposed to the densest traffic of birds.

The selection of weathered steel for the nature walk and carbon steel for the bare walkway not only create a clear visual of the two unique experiences when walking on them, but they also are easier to maintain given their situation. Weathered steel requires minimal maintenance which is desired due to the growth of plants in proximity

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Acedamic Works

Distinctive Parallel

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Space + Programmatic Libray

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1B Design Studio: Co-Exist Library Space + December, 2018 Supervised by: Rick, Christie, Maya Location: West Toronto Railpath Olser, 4 ,Ontario

This Program Plus Library merges community kitchen and dedicated library kitchen into a mutual beneficial space, which effective engages community involvement with existing complex typology. The program of cubic like volume being dissects into five distinctive strips, in which each division characterized into durational atmosphere which collaborate the architectonic aspects of light, volume, program massing, views, and durational temporality. First strip given the massive exposed view sharing with Osler street, and due to its unique location nearby railroad and staggered pathways creates different visual differences as viewer walk up and down each floor.

The kitchen provides the community a place of gathering, eating, activating, learning, and socializing in one integral program as not only the multi-cultural kitchen dishes are able to master with vegetables from urban gardening on the roof of the building, but at the same time the built-in library gains accessibility of books, journals and magazines World-wide as for the storage of knowledge to fulfill the needs and curiosity, in which to help learner to experience with best support.

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Third Floor Plan 1:100

Acedamic Works

Co-Existing Space +

Kitchen Library model: CNC milled for base typology, with basswood strips and foam core sturcutred.

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Durational Section Aga Khan Museum

2A Design Studio: Durational Study in Aga Khan Oct, 2019 Supervised by: Derick, Christie, David Location: Aga Khan Museum

Durational Section not only conceive the absolute clarity of engineered structure, more importantly given a storytelling affect about temporal experience of interior space. The experience of study for Aga khan Museum unveils the three interconnected interior spaces that influence and juxtapose each other in the cinematic sequence as looking at the building with a view-directed sectional cut.

From ephemeral lighting through geometrically designed patterning from courtyard, to the shattered beam of light into auditorium. The light and volumetric is influencing us in physical and architectonic ways.

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Aga khan Mesueum 1:50 ZiZhuo Wang

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Acedamic Works

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Photographically oriented cinematic sequence of space Visited in Oct, 2019

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The study of material and unique characteristic of each material enlighten the rethinking for the capability of each material does. In fact, acrylic sheet with thin layer of cover can reflect and refract objects into different imagery. The challenge for modules constructed pavilion which allows people stroll around, at same time acting as book shelf becomes an apparent threshold between the Main Street in Cambridge and the Bridge gallery.

Acedamic Works

Light Portal

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The plexi glass need to be cut into 11cm by 3cm rectangular pieces for bending bases.

16’’ x 24’’ plexi glass( thin)

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wide strips after series of bending counter-hook each other reforming the prilimanary moduler structure

The half-extrusion modular structure allows for vertical developement, the strategy reflects upon the extrapulation of lights, which the ability of plexi glass to conduct and transport light.

instability of stacking restrains the movement, however the acting without adhesive supplies, the gravity allows for vertical modular transformation

tension within plasticity provides more dynamic bending modular variable

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1A Design Studio: Transformation Pavillion Sep, 2018 Supervised by: Rick, Christie, Maya This project marks the first attempt of architectural project as study mechanical tool; in this case, study the motion and movement of vise grip inspire the architectural transformations and alterations into reality pavilion, where a place to rest, climb and look out.

The study investigates through three stages: The simulation of technical drafting of tolls in orthographic views, and axonometric perspective. Then sublime the physical forms and manipulate essence of vise grip’s movement into an abstract diagram. Finally, alternate the movement and transform the motions into architectonic pavilion.

The up-down movement enhances the vertical motions of vise grip as reverse open-close motion acting at the front and end of the tool. It is easier to contemplate the tool’s motion as bio-mimicking of a bird’s flying. The beak of the vise grip moves vertically as triggers the tension of the spring at the middle to move the handle part at the same time. The motion of flapping intrigues me as the driven concept for this project.

Acedamic Works

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Abstract Diagram, line of grid indicates the physical force as vise grip viberates flapping in the water horizon 32

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Axonometric Diagram, Hand Draft

Section Diagram, Pavillion

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Basswood strips with Weld-Bond Glue onto the mill board

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“An educated person’s ideas of Art are drawn naturally from what Art has been, whereas the new work of art is beautiful by being what Art has never been… A temperament capable of receiving, through an imaginative medium, and under imaginative conditions, new and beautiful impressions, is the only temperament that can appreciate a work of art.”

Oscar Wilde

Room of Vacancy Oil on Canvas 24’ x30’

Born untimely Oil on Canvas 9

Affair Oil on Canvas 9

ZiZhuo Wang z2288wan@edu.waterloo.ca stevenwang369@gmail.com (647)-868-5822