Zoe Chen Portfolio 2024

ZOE ZHUOYUN CHEN Selected Works 2020-2023

T: +1 3143195467 E: zyunchen026@gmail.com

Pratt Institute, New York City, NY, U.S. Interior Design, 2016-2020 Washington University in St. Louis, MO, U.S Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts Master of Architecture, Aug. 2021- May 2024

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Multiple Housing, Canada (2022)

An International Center for Literature,Italy(2023)

GROWTH Earthen Tribe, Ghana(2023)

RESIDENCE PUBLIC An Urban Fire Station, the U.S. (2022)

FAREWELL and REBIRTH Funeral Parlor, Grobal (2021)

WORK PROJECT 2023

OTHER WORKS 2020 - 2023

LIVING in MULTIPLE HOUSING Dartmouth,Canada(2022) Washington University in St. Louis, Stidio 419, Fall 2022, Critic: Donald Koster Rhino+Enscape+Vray+PS+ Adobe Illustrator

Project locates in the former Dartmouth Marine Slipway or “Dart Slip,” a historic shipyard and marine railway in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. With the redevelopment of the site by the entire studio group, this Multifamily Waterfront Housing project provides resident services and to activate the street and surrounding public spaces based on the study of the internal domestic space, the thresholds between the domestic realm , the communal spaces, and the aggregation of units. Commercial, retail, or business uses integrated into the project design will be additional to the residential area listed above. The design of public space is of critical importance to the fabric of the city. The design of non-dwelling, communal, shared, and public space will be valued equally with the unit development.

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Flexible Housing for multi-family

Open 360 view to resience

Double entrance for wind & temperature protection ; More lighting to the space

Open ground level to connect surrounding, Guide the circulation to beach

Public space set from ground to roof

Green roof ,Green Wall ,Skylight and chimney effect

From Interior to the Exterior The design logic of the project extends from the interior to the exterior, shaping it into a 15-story building formed by the overlapping of two types of aggregated layouts Ambiguous Threshold is the core concept of the whole project. It connects the communal space and shared space inside the unit, bridges the external corridors and units, and transitions the space from the neighborhood to the multiple housing. These blurred thresholds are reflected in the movable walls inside the living and dining space, the striped partition in units / the apartment corridor, and the striped partition in the lobby/translucent facade of the building.

Developed Landscape Park Surrounding Building Railway Public program

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UNIT A (2 Bedroom+2Bathroom)

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This projecct features a sustainable design that incorporates the chimney effect for natural ventilation, enhancing energy efficiency and reducing the need for mechanical systems.

Additionally, its green roof and green wall systems offer

rainwater retention, improve insulation, and contribute to a

healthier urban environment by lowering heat island effects and promoting biodiversity.

FACADE Section B-B’

SOUTH ELEVATION

RESIDENCE PUBLIC ENCLAVE AN INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR LITERATURE Rome, Italy(2023) Washington University in St. Louis, Stidio 500/600, Spring 2023, Critic: Robert McCarter, Ruth and Norman Moore Professor of Architecture Rhino+Enscape+Adobe Illustrator +PS +Modeling

An International Center for Literature, is a monastic enclave providing for both long-term study by resident scholars and short-term symposia, serving as a new international cultural center where people come to study the manner in which human history and thought are embedded in works of literature, as exemplified by The Divine Comedy of Dante. The program includes seminar rooms, auditorium, residences for fellows, dining hall, and, at its center, the rare literature library and associated reading room, as well as the monastic courtyard.

This new International Center for Literature is to be made as an “ Extension” to Giuseppe Terragni’s Danteum, designed in 1938 and—for purposes of this project—presumed to have been built by 1942 on its proposed site at the northern edge of the ancient Roman Forum, between the Colosseum and the Capitoline Hill, and on the Esquiline Hill adjacent to the Domus Aurea.

Short Section A 1/64”=1’-0”

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Aerial view

GIUSEPPE TERRAGNI’S (UNBUILT) DANTEUM

INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR LITERATURE

Inferno

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Plaza Foro Traiano (112 AD)

Residential Area

Basilica di Massenzio (Basilica of Maxentius) (312 AD)

Purgatorio

Tempio di Antonino e Faustina (141 d.C.)

Colosseum (72 AD)

Paradiso

Chiesa di San Sebastiano ai Palatino (church) 17th century

Park Surrounding Building Railway Main Road

Entrance

2023 Rome Map

ECHO TO DANTEUM HALL (UNBUILT)

Giuseppe Terragni’s (unbuilt) Danteum Plan (1930)& 2023 Rome Map

Site

Entrance (Main+Side)+Program

Opening + Respect to the Danteum

Lighting+Ventilation + Eco-friendly

Circulation

With Danteum Hall (unbuilt) and residential area around Northeast corner

Following site conditions and referencing the Danteum’s spiral radial layout, the entrance and program is precisely organized to align with the spatial hierarchy and flow.

Excavate a common open area at the entrance to connect with the neighborhood. Lift the residential program and recess the front section for broader views, preserving the Danteum’s sightline to the Colosseum.

Pierce the roof for skylights and embed three central gardens to enhance ecofriendliness, while shielding the reading area from direct light.

A progressive, immersive, and inspiring monastic journey of writing, reading, and learning.

Resident scholars Visting scholars Public program

Private program with Public event

Private program

Located in a historically significant area of Rome, this project serves as an extension of Giuseppe Terragni’s unbuilt “Danteum.” The design references the original plan’s proportions, echoes its spatial sequence and atmosphere, and aims to provide users with a progressive, immersive, and inspiring spatial experience.

The Danteum is designed to align with the Basilica of Maxentius and mirrors the structure of Dante’s

Divine Comedy with its 100 cantos (33 x 3 + 1). The building features three progressively taller spaces, each representing one of the Divine Comedy’s books: Inferno, a dark, enclosed room with a descending spiral floor; Purgatorio, with an open ceiling and rising terraces; and Paradiso, an open space where glass beams link the sky above to the darkness below, supported by transparent glass columns.

Residential Area Lobby

Reception

Gound Level Floor Plan 3/128”=1’-0”

Residential Area

Auditorium

Main Entrance

Side Entrance

Second Floor Plan 3/128”=1’-0”

Residential Units Library

Public program Private program with Public event Private program Following the site conditions and referencing the Danteum’s spiral radial layout, the entrance and program are organized to align with the spatial hierarchy and flow. The main road runs west to east along the southwest end, creating a two-story height difference at the southwest corner. Residential neighborhoods surround the northeast side of the project.

This positions the main entrance and exit at the southwest slope, with a side entrance at the northeast. Public spaces such as auditoriums are located near the southwest, while quieter, more private programs are placed inward, enhancing the secluded residential atmosphere

Dinning + Meeting

Third Floor 3/128”=1’-0”

Side Entrance

Main Entrance

West Elevation - Main Entrance

Fouth Floor Plan 3/64”=1’-0”

Side Entrance

Office

Lounge

Residence

Library Main Entrance

The bookshelf surrounds the user, creating a monastic-like environment where scholars live surrounded by books, immersing themselves in study and reflection. This provides a quiet and enlightening experience. The space is enhanced by three clusters of skylights above, allowing indirect natural light to gently fill the room.

Fouth Floor Plan 3/32”=1’-0”

Public program Private program with Public event Private program

To ensure clarity in understanding the spatial relationships between buildings while respecting the Danteum, the design guarantees that the sightline from the Danteum to the Colosseum remains unobstructed. This careful consideration allows for visual continuity between these iconic structures, maintaining their historical and architectural significance.

Long Section B 1/64”=1’-0”

South Elevation

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1 5mm Aluminum frame 2 Foam Insulation 3 Fix Skylights Window Glass 4 1.5’ I Beam

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Interior View

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5 Kolumba Brick 6 Foam Insulation 7 Acoustic Panels Insulation 8 Gypsum Board

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9 Concrete Slab 10 4mm Aluminum Deck 11 Wood Decroation 12 Concrete Footing

Northeastern View - Side Entrance

GROWTH in EARTHEN TRIBE Ghana,West Africa(2023) Competition Project, Group Rhino+Vray+PS+ Adobe Illustrator Zoe(Zhuoyun) Chen,Mark Ma, Junting Ying Collaborated closely with the entire team, contributing to the design concept, digital modeling, rendering

The Earthen Tribe, is an Educational Center locate on the beach, designs to draw inspiration from traditional African communities, creating educational spaces within nature using earth, wood, and vegetation. This concept filters out artificial elements, fostering a natural and sheltered learning environment.

New buildings integrate seamlessly with existing classrooms, emphasizing material use, construction, and cultural identity. Sustainable materials like concrete rammed earth, wood, and thatch roofs are used for easy construction.

The design promotes penetration and filtration, enhancing spatial openness and ventilation. The exterior spaces include gathering areas, green yards, and orchards for both kids and adults to enjoy a simple and relaxed atmosphere while connecting with nature and loved ones.

VIEW A : Yard

VIEW B : Hub

VIEW C : Living Tower

VIEW D : Kitchen

RESIDENCE PUBLIC AN URBAN FIRE STATION St. Louis, U.S.(2022) Washington University in St. Louis, Stidio 318, Spring 2022, Critic: Kelly Murphy Rhino+Adobe Illustrator +Modeling

Fire stations hold a complex arrangement of individual and collective programs with programmatic constraints but the opportunity for formal variety. This project investigates the coordinated sequence of activities throughout the fire station to understand the spatial relationships from the interior environment to the broader urban context. The space will be grappled with organizational strategies for storage, equipment maintenance, adjacencies, and collective living spaces – explored in both plan and section. As evident in the title, The Residence Public, the designer will be as a choreographer, emphasizing issues of space and form tailored to both individual and collective activity.

2224 S 7th St, St. Louis, MO 63104

Based on a conceptual framework consisted by three basic geometrical forms, a spatial model that is designed to establish a set of relationships and/or formal strategies. Throughout the model that will extend to an exploration of part-towhole relationships at the scale of the detail, the building, and the city.

3F Plan

2F Plan

The spatial relationship developed around the keyword OVERLAP, in tend to gain a higher-efficiency spacial relationship between public and private spaces. The huge inclined space communicates the atrium, the plaza and the training space for firefighters.

South Elevation

Ground Plan

FAREWELL and REBIRTH in the NEST Funeral Parlor, Grobal (2021) Rhino+Vray+PS+ Adobe Illustrator

This project attempts to design future funeral homes, starting from the point of death, envisioning the social contradictions and ethical problems that humans will encounter in the future due to technological development, and trying to find a suitable solution. The funeral home will try to find a balance between individual, collective (society), and future technology.

While using the latest technology, design a venue that still retains the sense of ritual of death to appease relatives and friends and inspire visitors; in addition, a certain plan is also designed to restrain the use of new technology to avoid social ethical problems.

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Mortality Rate per 1000 Persons Age 0-60 in Metropolis (2015-2019) 30-40

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Mortality Rate Hierarchy per 1000 Persons Aged 0-60 in Metropolis (2015-2019)

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Mortality Rate per 1000 Persons Age 0-60 (2015-2019)

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Global Metro Monitor Map(Brookings) Global Financial Centres Index (Z/Yen) Global City Competitiveness Index(The Economist) Global Cities Index (A.T.Kearney) City Prosperity Index (United Nations)

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RISING MORTALITY WITHIN EXPANSION OF METROPOLIS

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FUTURE FUNERAL’S ISSUE IN URBAN CITY

SOLUTION : FORM and LAYOUT

SOLUTION : NEST Method to Memerize : Brianwave music

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Urban City Human

Lose method to mermerize death Negative emotion to face death SOLUTION

Denser Population

Less Land Resources

Rising Mortality

Unaffordable Payment INSERT Module into site

Abandon Abandon Funeral

In the future, the development of technology will allow people to look at death from life in a longer-term perspective. In the future, death means rebirth.

Layout of Funeral Parlors in District scale (Manhhaten,NY, the U.S.)

Crowded and Small Burial Space

FOLLOW the form of site and PINCH the module Small Scale Funeral Denser Parlor Layout per Parlor insert in blocks 1 parlor/ 5000 small corner of city familes(or 500 sq mile )

Layout of Funeral Parlors in District scale (Huangpu District scale, Shanghai, CN.) 7 DAYS Experience Mourners (M) & Tourists (T)

Life

ENTRANCE and EXIT

Death Ancient Greek Curiousity to death

“No one knows whether death may not be the greatest good that can happen to man .” --Plato

Middle Ages Appetency to death “ ‘How are the dead raised up? And with what body do they come?“ Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, unless it die..” -- First Epistle to the Corinthians 15:35-36

range: walking 10 mins

Age of Present Enlightenment 21 century (17th-18th century) Neglect to death Dare of facing death “A free man thinks of nothing less than of death; and his wisdom is a mediatation not on death but on life.”

--Baruch Spinoza

D7 New Hope (T) D6 Relax (M,T)

D5 Comfort (M)

D4 Be Cured (M)

D3 Acceptance (M) D2 Calm (M,T)

STRUCTURE

E.g. site: 115 NingHai ERd, Huangpu District Shanghai, China, 200086

D1 Grief (M,T)

EXPERIENCE OF SPACE

MAP OF SPACES’ FORM

Form: inspired from BRIANWAVE Awake/Alert/Focus

Relaxed/Calm

Extreme Relaxed

Concentrating / Solving / Memorying frequent echo

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Public Entry

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Waiting Hall

Atrium + Ceremony Room

In circle : Private Listening Area + Atrium

EXPERIENCE :

Circulation of Mourner (D1-D7)

IN PRIVATE LISTENING SPACES

Circulation of Tourist (D1-D7)

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Concept illustration of PRIVATE SPACE : Ecological space

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7DAYS

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Overlook Atrium from Private Room

CONCEPTUAL CIRCULATION IN GENERLIZED PRIVATE SPACES

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D1-7 Atrium + Ceremony Room

D1-2 D3-5

Look up from Ceremony Room D6-7

Elevator

REAL SPACE FORM

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Waiting Hall + Ceremony Room

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1. Public Entry 2. Waiting Hall 3. Reception 4. Control Room 5. Private Listening Room for Relates 6. Garage 7. Atrium + Ceremony Room 8. Staff room 9. Elevator 10.Brain Wave Processing System 11. Echo Corridor 12.Restroom 13.Roof

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WORK PROJECT

XIAN ZHONGDA HOSPITAL XiAn,China(2023) PERKINS EASTMAN, Shanghai Office, China

WORK PROJECT

QINHAN INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL and ELDERLY CARE CENTER XiAn,China(2023) 400,000sqft Competition Project Design PERKINS EASTMAN, Shanghai Office, China Expert Apartment 12000 sqm

SNF 18000 sqm

Tier III Rehab Hospital 64960 sqm

R&D Center 5100 sqm

Clubhouse +Commercial 8000 sqm (B1)

Hotel 10000 sqm

Condo 80000 sqm

Design by PE Health Team

Day Care + Facilities 2071 sqm

OTHER WORK

OFFICE AND THEATER Robin Leach Ln. Las Vegas, NV, U.S.(2023) Washington University in St. Louis, Environment System, Spring 2023, Critic: Dennis McGrath, Wyly Brown Revit+Rhino+ Grasshopper+Enscape+PS Group, Zoe(Zhuoyun) Chen, Emily Yin, Sijia Liu

South Elevation

Plan 1F

Plan 2F-5F (Office Space)

West Elevation

Acoustic Study (Office Space)

Acoustic Study (Theater Space)

Coordinated team efforts on drawing sets (Plan/RCP/Electricity/Safety, etc.), facade shading analysis with Grasshopper, and acoustic analysis (part) .

Structure System Axonometric 3/64”=1’-0”

Site Plan

OTHER WORK FILM SCHOOL

Los Angeles,U.S.(2023) Washington University in St. Louis, Advanced Building System, Fall 2023, Critic: Chandler Ahrens Revit+Rhino+Enscape+PS Group, Zoe(Zhuoyun) Chen, Mark Ma, Sharon Wu, Haochen Su, Ziyi Zhang Collaborated closely with the entire team, contributing to the design concept, digital modeling, rendering, and the preparation of drawing sets(RCP, Axon) and construction detail drawings

RCP 2F

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Building Wall Section 2/3”=1’-0” / 1/2”=1’-0”

RCP 3F

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Rotating Corten Steel Brise Soleil Double Glass Window Acoustic Drop Ceiling Bi-Fold Doors Deep Foundation Polished Concrete Floor Metal Sill

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Concrete Slab Metal Deck Aluminum Angle Steel Frame Insulation Aluminum Clad Panels Acoustic Panels

Concrete Slab Wide Flange Beam Pile Foundation Horizontal Truss Concrete Slab CLT Beam CLT Load Bearing Wall

OTHER WORK CONTAINER

Rhino + Grasshopper + 3D PRINT (2020)

The container designed for Research on Variables of Void Shapes.