PORTFOLIO SELECTED WORKS FROM 2013 TO 2017
XINYU ZHANG
M.ARCH OF UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL OF DESIGN
CONTENTS
REWEDDENTIAL TOWER Skyscraper Design
MALLTOPIA BURBOPOLIS A Combined Utopia Self-cycle
QUARDANGLE 3.0 Multiple House Design
REAL FICTION Egyptian Architectural Pavilion at the 2016 Venice Biennial
BAOTOU HOSPITAL New Tertiary General Hospital
THE GRAND THEATER DESIGN Professional Projects
PHOTOGRAPHY
REWEDDENTIAL TOWER Skyscraper Design for New York 432 Park Avenue Director: Ali Rahim Group Work Time: 2015.9
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
432 Park Avenue is a super expensive luxuary apartment which located in central Manhattan. But in the future, this building will become a so-called 'Zombie Tower' because it is a kind of asset building for rich people means there is few resident live in these apartment for most of the year. In our project, we redefine the asset for this tower to shift the asset definition in the city and use a crazy non-linear shape to explore the new possibility of new urbanism.
7 DESIGN TECHNIQUES
BASIC PROTOTYPE
COMBINATION
Design techniques are crucial for the success of the proposals, as they bring together innovation. 7 design techniques will be developed to formulate the proposal. These 7 techniques include: "Seaming", "Pinching", "Texturing", "Patterning", "Accumulating", "Bridging" and "Nesting". These design techniques will be explored along with the relation of innocations to produce formal, structural and material innovations in an urban scale, yielding a maximal form of urbanism. The explorations of Maximalism seek to push beyond the austerities of digital technique and reductionism, encouraging concern for refinement and precision to unleash intelligence pertinent for urban and architecture form.
REWEDDENTIAL=RESIDENTIAL+WEDDING
CHURCH
SAKS FIFTH AVE
RESTAURANT BRIDAL BOUTIQUE
WEDDING LIBRARY
BRIDAL BOUTIQUE
CHURCH CHURCH
A C C U M U L A T I N G
RESTAURANT
The basic idea for this project is to build a mega upper level network container for the thousands of millionaires from all around the world. Extra atrium for social ceremony as wedding is brought into this project, besides designing the residential skyscraper just luxurious, trying to be the peak of the Manhattan skyline, which would be risky for investment because technique is always ready to build taller and more expensive skyscraper leaving the existing ones soon losing its value. Millionaires choose Manhattan not just because it is the largest capital market in the world. The other reason is for the upper level social capital, defined as the networks of relationships among upper level people, enlarge their financial or political influence around the world. This project will not only give them the experience of high level residential units but a chance to build their network in the 1% really rich levels, which would be more appealing for investors as the extra values that other properties will never have.
A C C U M U L A T I N G
N
FINAL PROTOTYPE
A C C U M U L A T I N G
A C C U M U L A T I N G
WEDDING SYSTEM
AT RR CA HN I S TF E CO R TM UA R A TI LO N
AT RR CA HN I S TF EO CR TM UA RT AI LO N
RESIDENTIAL SYSTEM
INNER CORE SYSTEM
TOP-DETAIL
MIDDLE-DETAIL
BOTTOM-DETAIL
FUNCTION INTRIDUCTION
SKY TEMPLE Pure 5 stories high wedding space without apartments, dozens of windows creating the most romantic and luxury wedding space for the newly-wed couple.
BUD HALL Concentric space with a well-hole on the top of the stage. Has a views of 360 degree of NYC.
STANDARD FLOOR2 (auxiliary function of wedding Hotel)
TOP-DETAIL STANDARD FLOOR1 (auxiliary function of wedding) restaurant ; equipment rooms; storeroom;auxiliary function of the wedding,
PETAL HALL 15 petal-like platforms provides the privacy for the VIP guests. Also the background of the stage is south NY which has the views of Empire State Building and the new World Trade Centre.
COMMON WEDDING HALL The pointed arch creating the sense of church, it also divide the space into 2 parts —— wedding ceremony space and watching space. Apartments on two sides are also the private box of the ceremony space. The residences can directly watch the wedding in their apartments. But due to the pointed arch, the audience on the wedding floor and the couples would not see the apartments when they face to the stage.
MIDDLE-DETAIL
STANDARD FLOOR 3 (auxiliary function of residence) bars, restaurant; chamber,recreation funtions
SEPERATE HALL Provide two separate space in the wedding hall. Very suitable for the Islam culture that needs to separate the male and female guest into different space.
PODIUM shopping mall of wedding: enterainment;wedding consult; decoration; catering; wedding basics. etc
BOTTOM-DETAIL
WEDDING HALL INTERIOR
PLAN
Many people consider wedding as the most important thing in their life. A Wedding is one of the most expensive events in people's lives and has a tremendous social and financial value. In order to have their dream wedding, they will spend a lot of money on it. Among all the different aspects of a wedding, the wedding venue is the most important one. According to research, New York City is the most expensive wedding place, it takes 30,000 dollars on average to rent a wedding place in NYC. Despite potentially high revenues, there is - due to high maintainance cost and long idles times - no specific wedding venue in the world as of now. Most of the weddings are held in a church or some public spaces. But the location of the wedding ceremony ia always different from the place that people choose for their dinner, and it is very inconvenient for the guests. Meanwhile, newlyweds should also arrange the accommodations for their guest. For those reasons, we decided to design a wedding tower at 432 park avenue Manhattan. Specifically designed spaces will meet the romantic needs of different type of wedding and the combination of different events in one sequenced and orchestrated series of spaces will make the wedding more convenient efficient. Meanwhile, getting married in this iconic landmark will draw the attention of the whole city! In this tower, we creatively combine residence and wedding spaces with some special interlinked audience spaces that are designed to smoothly accommodate a day full of exclusive wedding events. It means the the residents can witness the wedding from their windows or balconies of their apartments or some specific places in the tower. We hope this can provide a special experience for the residents and bring the blessing to the newlyweds. Because large concentric space are needed as wedding and event spaces, we place 4 small cores in the 4 corners of the tower instead of one large core. There are 5 main programs in the tower: wedding spaces, a hotel, a wedding industry mall, apartments, and auxiliary functions. The wedding mall is located at the bottom of the building. We hope that this new kind of asset architecture can provide a new possibility and a new model of investment for the high-rise today.
3D PRINTING The futuristic design is finalized by the construction of a massive 3D printed model. By utilizing this modern technology, the non-linear design style could be maximized in a way that fully express these designed details and giving an impact from this volume. The physic model is over 2-meters tall and consists of more than 20 parts. It was made by white plastic filament and printed by 3D printer day and night for over one month.
CHUNK MODEL
MALLTOPIA BURBOPOLIS A Combined Utopia Self-cycle Director: Dan Wood Individual Work Time: 2016.12
On a mall area in Pheonix, we will be locating 20,000 new Phoenicians looking for a new way of living–more urban, more green, more radica .That will be a high density self-cycle area consist of living unit, one ecological infrastructure and a major element of mixed-use program.
SELECTED PROGRAMS
LIVING
MUSEUM
LIVESTOCK
MALL
•Live-Work: Famrmer •Lofts: Artist work in Museum / the Young who like to live here •Micro-Units: Workers working nearby (Museum/Mall)
•Art
•Cattle •Horse •Chicken(feeding at hign level spaces , part of living spaces)
•Supermarket •Entertainment Space(GYM etc.) •Catering Area
INSPIRATION
Earth (Biosphere 1)
Biosphere 2 is a re-creation of the natural climates, life cycles, and ecosystems of the Planet Earth (Biosphere 1).
THINKING of LEGO 20 ft ╳ 20 ft 10 ft
One-Floor Height
40 ft ╳ 20 ft
10 ft
800 ft2
One-Floor Height
40 ft ╳ 20 ft
30 ft
400 ft2
800 ft2
Three-Foors Height
How to make a mixe-use (living, museum, livestock,mall) area self-cycled?
GENERATION ANALYSIS
MALL
MALL
ORIGINAL MALL
LIVESTOCK
MUSEUM
MUSEUM
SITE PLAN
SECT
TION
LIVING
LIVING
MALL
MUSEUM LIVESTOCK
RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN EACH PROGRAM
MUSEUM and LIVESTOCK
LIVESTOCK and MALL
MUSEUM and RESIDENCE
MUSEUM and RESIDENCE
LIVESTOCK and RESIDENCE
RESIDENCE and MALL
1. DRIPPING EAVE INTEGRATED IN FACADE PANEL 2. THIN-FILM SILICON SOLAR CELLS INTEGRATED IN SEALING LAYER ADHESIVE FIXED 75MM THERMAL INSULATION LIQUID MEMBRANE 200MM REINFORCED-CONCRETE HOLLOW-CORE SLAB 160MM PERMEABLE THERMAL INSULATION LIQUID MEMBRANE 3. 20-75MM LOCAL STONE SHEET 20MM VENTILATED CAVITY 175MM WATER-REPELLENT THERMAL INSULATION 4. 15MM PLASTER 200MM REINFORCED-CONCRETE 5. 30MM VEGETATION 25MM DRAINAGE MAT SOIL DRAINAGE BOARD WITH BOTH DIRECTION 2% GRADIENT GROUT CEMENT BOARD LIQUID MEMBRANE 160MM PERMEABLE THERMAL INSULATION LIQUID MEMBRANE 200MM REINFORCED-CONCRETE HOLLOW-CORE SLAB WITH STEEL I-BEAM 6. RAILING: 60/15MM STEEL RHS POST SILVER-GREY STOVE-ENAMEL FINISH 60/10MM STEEL RHS HANDRAIL 16MM STEEL CHS 7. 150/450 STEEL-PROFILE SUPPORTING STRUCTURE 2*12.5MM PLASTERBOARD 8. 2*12.5MM PLASTERBOARD 1OOMM REINFORCED-CONCRETE 9. 15MM PLASTER LIQUID MEMBRANE ADHESIVE FIXED 75MM THERMAL INSULATION 200MM REINFORCED-CONCRETE HOLLOW-CORE SLAB WITH STEEL I-BEAM 10. 11MM LAMINATED SAFETY GLASS DOUBLE GLAZING IN PLASTIC FRAME 11. DRAINAGE GAP WITH GRAVEL HYDROCONE TYPE WATER DRAIN
CONSTRUCTION DETAIL
PHYSICAL MODEL
SECTION
THE TERRACE OF RESIDENTIAL
THE ROOF OF RESIDENTIAL AND MUSEUM
THE ROOF AND MUSEUM
WHAT HAPPEND ?
QUADRANGLE 3.0 Multiple House Design in Hutong Individual Work Time: 2013
JU'ER hutong is located in the northwest of Beijing Dongcheng district, east bounded by Jiaodaokou north street, west by Nanluoguxiang. "Hutongs" are a type of narrow streets or alleys, commonly associated with northern Chinese cities, most prominently Beijing. Throughout Chinese history, the quadrangle composition was the basic pattern used for residences, palaces, temples, monasteries, family businesses and government offices. The traditional quadrangles are usually occupied by a single, usually large and extended family, signifying wealth and prosperity. Along with the development of Beijing, the population composition also changed from old natives to mega-families and now most quadrangle are occupied by foreigners and rich people.
QUADRANGLE 1.0 1700s QING DYNASTY
1965 MAO ERA
Traditional single family quadrangle.
Private ownership of land is abolished. Original family forced to leave. Quadrangle is subdivided into housing for at least 8 families. Population Composition: Mega-families Low income workers Old natives of Beijing
Population Composition: Old natives of Beijing
QUADRANGLE 2.0 1977 POST-MAO ERA
2010
Building restrictions relaxed in the aftermath of the 6 households sell to government. Tangshan earthquake. Each family builds illegal 2 households remain and correlsting illegal additions and additions. subdivisions are moved. Population Composition: Foreigners+Rich people Low income workers Old natives of Beijing
QUADRANGLE 3.0
? STRATEGY Based on traditional spatial form, use new concept and material to improve current habitat environment. "BASE YARDs" consisted by well equipped living units are the essential elements of Quadragnle 3.0.
DIFFERENT TYPE OF S
SPACES ANALYSIS PRIVATE
SEMI PRIVATE-PUBLIC
PUBLIC
OTHER ACTIVITIES
SECTION B-B
SECTION A-A
COURTYARD
PLAN LEVEL 1
PLAN LEVEL 2
REAL FICTION Selected Paticipated Parts From A Group Work Participate in the Egyptian Architectural Pavilion at the
2016 VENICE BIENNIAL Director: Ferda Kolatan Time: 2016.5
SPECULATION I
REALIST ESTATE AND CONGLOMERATE URBANISM Within the boundaries of the informal city, new and exclusive apartment buildings have begun to emerge. What was formerly known as an undesirable and dangerous residential neighborhood has reinvented itself through a focused rebranding of its existing housing stock. Acting as their own real estate developers and agents, a group of homeowners have formed a collective, and started to renovate and rebuild select buildings to demonstrate the specific architectural qualities resulting from the dynamic circumstances of informal building manufacturing. The outcome is a variety of unprecedented housing typologies with features and properties, which are both common to the neighborhood, yet strange if viewed outside their presumptive context. By highlighting these typologies through prototypes, the collective was able to slowly trigger a rise in the popularity of these buildings, even attracting outside investors and clientele who hope to partake in what many predict to be a new real estate boom in Cairo. To further these efforts, the collective created a “Realist Estate” catalog advertising their most successful models such as the The Terrace, The Lofts, The Modern Villa, and more. As a consequence of the unexpected success of the Realist Estates, larger building complexes have developed into what can only be described as the informal response to the affluent gated communities outside the inner city limits of Cairo. These complexes, also known as “Conglomerate Urbanism,” combine various individual building prototypes into often spectacular vertical environments, challenging in the process many conventional notions of urbanism, both formal and informal.
INFORMAL CITY A large part of the Egyptian population currently lives in socalled informal settlements. Having grown mostly without any regulatory measures or government control, these neighborhoods often lack the necessary infrastructure to sustain their inhabitants' basic needs for hygiene, comfort, and safety. On the flip side, informality is also an expression of proactivity in an effort to overcome enormous practical and economical obstacles. This attitude manifests itself in the energetic street-life as well as in the often ingenuous tactics of the inhabitants to improve their lives and circumstances. The cave church of the Zabbaleen and the emergent trash ecology around Mokattam hills clearly demonstrate successes of a pro-active, bottom-up, guerilla urban organization. But even the decrepit and seemingly mundane, informal apartment buildings reflect in their designs many particularities that should not be generally discarded just because of the bad shape they are in. At the very least, these buildings, and the urbanism they form, if given a closer look, unveil an unmistakable character as well as a unique aesthetic. Thus, if one examines the informal city through a lens of material realism - that is to say free of moral, economical, logistical, political, and idealist judgements - the city and its buildings potentially emerge in a new light.
THE TERRACE This luxury condominium in the heart of Manshiet Nasr offers sweeping panoramic views over Muqattam and the Citadel. Each apartment is equipped with a large outdoors terrace, which accumulate to form the elegant exterior facade of this apartment building.
Conglomerate Balcony
SPECULATION II
MASPERO TRIANGLE The Maspero triangle is located in downtown Cairo. One side of it runs along the Nile Corniche and is lined with large institutional buildings like the Broadcast & TV Building and the Foreign Ministry, as well as an upscale hotel tower. The Corniche reflects the representational (and politically controversial) face of Maspero, while its backside is populated by small-scale residential buildings in varying states of decay. These two sides stand in stark conflict with each other and prevent the much desired rejuvenation of this part of downtown. An important part of the problem is a seemingly absurd law, which prohibits the owners of decaying housing stock from restoring or even maintaining their buildings. The intention of this law is to let undesired buildings in the neighborhood “naturally” fall apart and then replace them at once rather than integrating them into a new scheme. This would also allow for an “easier” displacement strategy as owners and tenants would literally have no place left to stay. As a result, the triangle remains deeply divided and undeveloped, with its inhabitants kept hostage inside their unsafe homes unable to benefit or participate in the bustling city life surrounding the triangle.
INVERTED BAZAAR OF MASPERO Along the small streets of Maspero, workers have begun to install a new infrastructural system to support the derelict housing stock. While this infrastructure does not directly intervene with the existing buildings, it does provide a new lifeline for the neighborhood. A simple elevated grid system delivers water, electricity, and scaffolding to the disconnected areas of Maspero, reaching into buildings from the top without having to break through foundations or dig up roads. This “inversion” of infrastructure to building creates all sorts of unprecedented opportunities for the neighborhood. In addition, this system also doubles as a shading device, which transforms the narrow streets into bazaar-like alleyways.
The shaded alleyways and the fresh infrastructural supply have encouraged many homeowners in Maspero to open businesses on the ground floors of their buildings and attract customers from nearby business districts. While most owners operate smaller cafes and convenience stores, more unconventional endeavors can also be seen. Tapping water from the new piping system has allowed for the cultivation of small gardens on rooftops and back-alleys. In other instances miniature squares with fountains were built, finally addressing the much desired need for communal gathering space. Some neighbors have partnered up to combine the interstitial spaces between their buildings to create larger and more upscale establishments to lure in more affluent customers from other parts of downtown. The inversion of building envelope to building systems coupled with the prohibition to renovate old housing stock, has motivated some owners to expand from their property into open areas of the street itself. This unique phenomenon of “constructed voids� is a direct consequence of the constraints imposed on the building owners and has been widely celebrated as a new form of informal urban resistance.
Existing Buildings with Newly Configured Street Level
Street Level Development of Existing Building Fronts with New Street Level
Floating Infrastructure
Courtyard Garden
Ground floor Cafe
BAOTOU HOSPITAL New Tertiary General Hospital in Xin Du Shi Distric of Baotou Architecture Design Professional Projects My Work: Modeling and plan drawing of Outpatient Department, masterplan and section drawing Director: Wang Shan Time:2014
The project is about 9 kilometers from the downtown area of Baotou. The establishment of the New District Hospital will become a public service facility in the new urban area and will fully support the development of medical and health services in Baotou City. The design captures the intention of the traditional Mongolian yurts scattered on the grassland in Inner Mongolia and forms a small community space layout in the outpatient department.
SUSTAINABLE GROWTH PATTERN
DEVELOPMENT SPACE
OUTPATIENT BUILDING
OUTPATIENT BUILDING
DEVELOPMENT SPACE
DEVELOPMENT SPACE
MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY BUILDING
MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY BUILDING
DEVELOPMENT SPACE
DEVELOPMENT SPACE
INPATIENT BUILDING
INPATIENT BUILDING
DEVELOPMENT SPACE
BIRD's EYE VIEW
MAIN ENTRANCE
MASTERPLAN
THE GRAND THEATER DESIGN Grand theater building design for Mongolian Autonomous Prefecture of Bayingolin, XINJIANG Professional Project My Work: Plan, section and diagram drawing Time: 2013.9
The Concept of this project coms from the site location - an OASIS in the center of a desert. Just like a green gem laying by the bank of swan river, we expect the theater to be an imporatant element of the river landsacpe, not only enhance the river front activities, but also becomes a landmark of the whole area.
PLANS A
A GROUND FLOOR PLAN
LEVEL 2 PLAN
LEVEL 2 PLAN
LEVEL 2 PLAN
PROGRAM DIAGRAM Theater(1450 Seats) VIP Entrance
Multiple Purpose Room Commercial Service Cinema Dressing Room Rehearsal Room Service Entrance
Commercial Entrance
Theater Entrance Cinema Entrance
SECTION
A-A SECTION
PHOTOGRAPHY Selected Works from 2016 to 2018
Grand Teton National Park and Yellow Stone National Park
Grand Teton National Park / Yellow Stone National Park / Antelope Canyon
Grace Farms, SANAA, US
Izbit Khayrallah, Maspero Triangle and Slum in Egypt, Cairo
COVER PHOTOGRAPHED AT THE BARNES FOUNDATION MUSEUM (PHILADELPHIA)