Portfolio 2017

ZHENG ZHANG ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO 2010 - 2016

University of Pennsylvania PennDesign Master of Architecture II e: judyzhzheng@gmail.com t: 215-490-7010

GROWING HYBRIDS

New Typology of Skyscrapher for Hotel and Residence Academic/ Design Studio/ School of Design UPENN

01 PENNDESIGN Design Studio ARCH 703 2015/ Critic: Ali Rahim, Ferda Kolatan, Nathan Hume, Robert Beelitz Classification: Academic / Group work Collaborated with 2 members Duration: Fall 2015

Location: 432 Park Ave, NYC Area: 76,500 sqm Type: Hotel, Residence Floor: 80F, B4F

In times of immense growth in capital due to economies in the world there is more capital than ever in the world today. While monetary capital has always played a significant role in determining the built environment recent shifts in the character of global finance have resulted in a new relationship between investment practices and buildings. In this era, the growth of capital leads to affects in architecture and urbanism.

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New York City for example has 12 percent of its housing market vacant and that is a large number. Mega buildings are newly constructed as capital market logic. Buildings are getting denser and expanded, but are getting empty. That is, they can be called Zombies city. How can architecture take on this issue and be more in alignment of or critique architecture formed global capital markets?

The project is about hybirding hotel and residence program which located on Park Ave in Manhattan. The design aims to explore the relationship both hotel program and residence program between privacy and public space needs.

Softwares: Rhinoceros, Maxwell, Keyshot Draft: Rhinoceros, Autocad, Illustrator, Photoshop

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Project Description A 80-storey tower's design starts from the pattern which helps to provide a prototype of housing or hotel units and also provide a base for the envelope, then the envelope itself grows and then becomes both the facade and structure of the tower which truly challenge the generic typology of the residential tower.

The facade also supposes to provide great views and solutions for apertures by using the way of deepen the surface.

Ground level spreads out, opens up and connects to the public open plaza.

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New Prototype of Complex for Urban Business Hotel Academic/ Design Studio/ BJUT CAUP

02 Location: Beijing, China Area: 46,545 sqm Type: Hotel, Business center, Commercial Floor: 11F, B3F

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Softwares: Rhinoceros, SketchUP, V-ray Draft: Rhinoceros, Autocad, Illustrator, Photoshop

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Generation Progress With urban ideas based on researchs, we mainly focused on the architectural scale of the hotel. We tried to figure out how the relationship between the hotel and the street with a plaza can have different sorts of progress. Basically, the conference hall and atrium space figure are formed

inside, we left a public space for crowds on street and the stairs are easy to recognize as an entrance to come to our atrium on the second floor.

We designed some small volume spaces on the west side to attract more visitors from the church’s plaza.

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Site Plan Various entrance to access the hotel, the main entrance is located at the north of the hotel and the services entrance is located at the south. Also people can access to the lobby from the south plaza through the retail shop.

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3rd Basement Plan — Parking

3rd Floor Plan — Leisure

4th Floor Plan — Executive Louge

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Longitudinal Section Urban Asix from west to east into hotel The atrium acting a connection with Courtyard on the 2nd floor, the Lobby and Conference

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Transverse Section Various Levels to experience the Courtyard: In the hotel room, on the leisure level, in the heart of the courtyard, in the lobby

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Modeling The making of building model is an important part in architectural design, and physical model can express more information than computer model. Physical model can help architects to explain the relationship between their design ideas and the outcomes more clearly.

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TREATREE

A Mobile Isolation, Diagnosis & Treatment Unit For Use in EBOLA Academic/ Design Studio/ BJUT CAUP

03 Location: Freetown, Sierra Leone, West Aferica Area: 9,545 sqm Type: Isolation, Diagnosis, Treatment Floor: 1F

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Softwares: Rhinoceros, SketchUP, V-ray Draft: Rhinoceros, Autocad, Illustrator, Photoshop

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Sierra Leoneis a country in West Africa. It is bordered by Guinea on the north, Liberia in the south-east, and the Atlantic Ocean in the south-west. Sierra Leone has a tropical climate, with a diverse environment ranging from savannah to rainforests.

Freetown is the capital and largest city of Sierra Leone. It is a major port city on the Atlantic Ocean and is located in the Western Area of the country.

Freetown is Sierra Leone's major urban, economic, financial, cultural, educational and political centre. Freetown has a tropical climate with a rainy season from May through to October; the balance of the year represents the dry season.

Erect Process Due to the lack of quality healthcare resource, a flexible, effective and affordable measure is needed to provide swift response to communicable disease epidemics. Also concerning of the rainforest climate in freetown, I designed a kind of construction which material is light weight, waterproof, stainless and easy to assemble.

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WALL RELICS

Ming Dynasty Relics Museum in Beijing Academic/ Design Studio/ BJUT CAUP

04 BJUT Design Studio 3-2 2013 Critic: Xiaomeng Wang Classification: Academic / Individual work Duration: Spring 2013

Location: Beijing, China Area: 6,054 sqm Type: Exhibition, Preservation Floor: 2F, B1F

Located in the eastern urban area in Peking, Ming Dynasty Walls Relics is one of the only existing three relics of ancient Peking Wall. It is of great historical and cultural values. It was initiated in Yuan Dynasty, built in Ming Dynasty and used from Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China. It has a history of seven centuries. Now, the ancient wall is no where to be seen. Occupying only a small part, it has been replaced by Second Ring Road. Moreover, the construction of the Wall Relic Park has provided a good place of surrounding residents and tourists to relax and entertain themselves.

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Here, the Ming Wall Relic Museum is designed to provide people with an opportunity to know the evolution of Peking and see a series of ups and downs of the ancient wall from construction, renovation to dismantling directly and clearly. Meanwhile, it demonstrates the culture and history of the thousand-year-long ancient wall.

Today, we need a relics museum which can evoke the memories of those old creations. So in the design, I extract the wall and broken it along the direction of the historical wall to accord with the fragments of the Wall.

The initial intention of the design is to exert strong visual shocks and spatial feelings on visitors through the extreme manifestations of the museum wall so as to arouse people’s concerns on protecting the historic site.

Softwares: SketchUP, V-ray Draft: Autocad, Illustrator, Photoshop

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The Broken Walls What the inexpediency of the planning has brought is the debris of the ancient Peking Wall. The initial intention of the design is to exert strong visual shocks and spatial feelings on visitors through the extreme manifestations of the museum wall so as to arouse people’s concerns on protecting the historic site.

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1. Main Entrance 2. Hall 3. Reception 4. Lpunge 5. Souvenir 6. 1st Exhibition 7. Multi-Function Exhibition 8. 2nd PanoramaA Exhibition 9. Cafe 10. Staff & Cargo Entrance 11. Plaza 12. 3rd Exhibition 13. 4th Exhibition 14. Parking Lot

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Circulation Showrooms

Circulation Showroom 1 to 2

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Circulation Showroom1 to Auditoria

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Wall Interior Wall Detail

1. Perforated Panel 2. Main-Keel 3. Sub-Keel 4. Cavity 5. Leveling 6. Block Wall

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7. Glass Wool Decoration Plate 8. Gypsum Board Ceiling 9. Ceiling Lamp 10. Undercoat Carpet 11. Plywood 12. Stage Lamp

Multi-Function Room Acoustic Design The stage uses the electroacoustic system. The scale and shape of the hall is unrestricted. The design focuses on controlling the time of reverberation within a certain range. About languages Multi-functional hall compatible to music We hope to control the time of reverberation in the full frequency range within about 1s. The design applies different sound absorption materials to control the time of reverberation in the higher and middle frequency range. Through the Eyring reverberation time calculation formula, we can get the following result.

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RESPIRATORY OBJECT

A New Design for the Battery-Tunnel Entrance Academic/ Design Studio/ School of Design UPENN

05 Location: Battery-Tunnel Entrance, Manhattan, NYC Type: Tunnel Entrance, Ventilation, Exhibition,

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Softwares: Maya, Rhino, Keyshot, Zbrush, Resinprinting Draft: Rhino, Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign

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Strange Objects Study The project starts with studying of strange objects, we first take some daily things we use everyday to study how to hybrid base on their form, to merge them face by face, edge by edge to create a new object which you can not tell it is a strange new object at first glance, because everything form the new object is the thing you familiar with.

Therefore, we use the same typology to study the site, as we come to terms with a world much stranger than we previously thought, our approach to architecture in the context of large cities is in desperate need of reexamination through new modes of thinking and design.

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Project Description The site is locate on entrance zone into the Battery Tunnel on the Manhattan side of New York City. The project will be comprised of a ventilation tower, an office building, and the tunnel entrance itself. In accordance to the conceptual framework, we will treat these elements not within individual categories but rather as vital components of a single hybrid object. A number of strange categorical blends will be examined and then used to formulate the new proposals.

For instance, the infrastructure for the tunnel ventilation serves as a large machinic respiratory system for the tunnel while also mimicking, materially and tectonically, the building context around it.

Elements on Site From left to right, 1. Watermains, 2. Spessartine garnet, 3. Tunnel interior

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Steam, Vegetation, and Mechanical Systems What pedestrians experience, however, is a totally different affair. They walk across the street to the new site which was previously a forgotten and heavily polluted area, in terms of both air quality as well as noise from the exposed tunnel entrance, which was cordoned off by the pre-existing ventilation tower. Instead what they experience is a pristine crystalline lake. As they walk over this surface, a strange and beautiful display of light and shadow perform beneath their feet obscured by the filigree of the crystalline texture.

Equality Elements Our project wholly attempts to redefine the notion of the park in New York City. The first thing we do is to take the ventilation tower and integrate it into the parking garage.

This accomplishes three things: firstly, we conveniently open up the view from Battery Park to the One World Trade Center. Secondly, we open up the airspace in our site which subconsciously communicates that our site is the not only a newly accessible area but also an immediate extension of Battery Park itself. Thirdly, we use the form of the parking garage to filter in fresh air into the mechanical systems that exist underground in our project.

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Ventilation System In The Parking Garage The first thing we do is to take the ventilation tower and integrate it into the parking garage. The mechanical systems draw water from the surrounding watermains as well as fresh air from the parking and mix the two together in large heated chambers to create humid air with which we then pump into the car tunnels themselves. So we are using this humid air to “scrub� the air in the car tunnels.

Venting Tubes Instead of doing one ventilation tower on top of the tunnel entrance, we move it back to he parking garage, use the form of the parking ramps, so now there are two venting systems in the parking garage. Each of them has intaken pipes and exhausted pipes.

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MULTI-MODE

Renovation of Old Residence Academic/ Design Studio/ BJUT CAUP

06 Location: Beijing, China Area: 2,487 sqm Type: Exhibition, Preservation Floor: 2F, B1F

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Softwares: SketchUP, V-ray Draft: Autocad, Illustrator, Photoshop

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Living Condition Existing buildings have been built for a long time with relatively bad living conditions, which challenges the reformation design of living. Considering the existing community structure relation and different community needs, reformation design focuses on solving following problems: landscape and environment, interior house plan, and barrier-free facilities.

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Landscape Extend the horizontal green yard into vertical building.

Plan Diversify the house plan to satisfy different residents’ requirement.

Facilities Consider service facilities for the elderly, add elevator.

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Ground Floor Plan The ground floor as public space can provide various convenient facilities for residents like convenience store, activity room and others.

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Transverse Section Diversity in vertical: Section of the different type of unit united by the vertical public space where people are gathering and talking.

Improvements Use as many as possible of the original things of the houses during the transformation process. Reuse them to take the best advantage of them.

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Use waste hand-washing sink as flowerpot on the roof where residents can enjoy their own garden.

Solar collectors provide hot water for residents.

1 Timber floor 15mm 2 Bearing plate 12mm 3 Aluminum-plastic Composite Pipe ÎŚ16mm 4 Heat Pipe 0.4mm 5 Insulation Layer 33mm 6 Medium-density Fibreboard 25mm 7 Bearing Plate 20mm 8 Supporting Pillar 45mm 9 Cement Mortar 20mm 10 Reinforced Concrete Slab 120mm 11 Plastering Mortar 20mm

Bathtub took from old houses can be used as rainwater collection system. The collected water can be used to watering the grassland.

Flowerpot on the balcony can satisfy residents’ needs of planting. Filtrated water can be recycled and reused.

TRISCAPE

Baitasi 2016 Reinventing the Beijing Courtyards Competition

07 Location: Beijing, China Area: 86 sqm Type: Exbihition, Studio Floor: 2F

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The Site, located on the east side straight from Baitasi, posesses an unique and very recognizable perimeter. In our plan of rennovation, we designed three scenes as [Pay a Visit], [Take a Look] & [Think for a Second] to activate the interaction between the exhibior and the visitors. The alternation between open courtyard and enclosed exhibition space is brought together by a coninuous circulation route that also includes a path to the viewing rooftop.

Softwares: Rhinoceros, Maxwell Draft: Rhinoceros, Autocad, Illustrator, Photoshop

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ACADEMIC COURSE WORK

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Academic Course: Baroque Paramter Software: Rhino, Grasshopper

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BAROQUE PARAMETERS Study of SS. MARTINA E LUCA

In 1577 the Accademia di San Luca, the academy of painters, sculptors and architects in Rome, was founded and in 1588 it was given the church which was rededicated as S. Luca in S. Martina.The academy undertook minor refurbishments of the church and also there were projects for a new church prepared in drawings attributed to Ottaviano Mascherino (1536–1606). Gradually the academy began to acquire properties adjacent to the church.

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Geometry Study

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The interior is white stucco; a surprising design decision for a church dedicated to the patron saint of painting (St. Luke), built for the painting academy in Rome and by a painter who had decorated some of the most opulent church vaults in Rome such as Santa Maria in Vallicella. The

interior dome decoration has been attributed to Cortona's pupil and collaborator, Ciro Ferri, ribs and coffering are combined as they are at Santa Maria della Pace but here the forms of the coffering are far more fluid and almost shimmer with movement.

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Academic Course: Daylighting Shading Design Software: Weathertool, Diva for Rhino, Grasshopper

Current Status Analysis

Point-in-Time Illuminance, Sep 21

Sep 21, 12am

Sep 21, 1pm

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Sep 21, 3pm

Sep 21, 4pm

Sep 21, 5pm

Shading Optimization We use the exterior view image to be the pattern of the shading and study the radius of the pattern.

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Optimization West Window, Before & After

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Optimization Fisheye Simulation, Before & After

Shading Optimization Basically, the shading design purpose is to use the view of the exterior landscape to generate the shading facade, in this way we can avoid the direct sunlight, and in the meantime, the shading panel does not block the views and the venting.

After the shading design, we can see from the annual glare chart, the intolerable glare and distrubing glare have a big drop.

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Black White Film Photography shoot by Nikon FM

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LCC (Liaison City Consulting, LLC) Time: Aug, 2014 - Nov, 2014 Architecture Internship. Complex Project Produced site analysis, circulation studies and massing proposal.

Assisted 3D modeling.

Prepared presentations and package for planning submission.

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META - PROJECT Time: Jan, 2013 - Feb, 2013 Architecture Internship.

Vanke New-Youth Assisted facade design, 3D modeling and physical modeling.

Prepared presentations.