Zeyu Yang Portfolio for UCL MArch Urban Design

PORTFOLIO OF ZEYU YANG MARCH URBAN DESIGN SELECTED WORKS 2018-2022 APPLICATION NUMBER: 22178572

ZEYU YANG Beijing，China | 7 Nov 1999 zy_yang18@yahoo.com | zy-yang18@mails.tsinghua.edu.cn +86 17611226072

EDUCATION Tsinghua University, Academy of Arts & Design Beijing, China Bachelor of Arts in Environment Design

HONORS ＆ AWARDS Sep 2018 - Jun 2022

GPA: 3.74/ 4 Relevant Coursework: Urban and Rural Planning, Architectural Design, Landscape Design, Green Space System Planning, Plant Design, Landscape Engineering, Landscape Arboriculture, Landscape Floriculture,

Tsinghua University Social Work Excellence Award (Top 10); University-level Scholarship

2018-2019

Tsinghua University Department-level Scholarship (Top 5); University-level Scholarship; Huasong Scholarship (Top 2)

2019-2020

Tsinghua University Department-level Scholarship (Top 5); Huasong Scholarship (Top 2); Technology and Innovation Merit Scholarship (Top 5）

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Institute of Environmental Design, Tsinghua University Intern

Sep 2019 - Sep 2019

Beijing Taiaode Landscape Design Co.,Ltd Intern

Aug 2019 - Sep 2021

China Space Arts Construction Exhibition Artisanal Construction Award(1st Prize), as a Team Leader of 7 Members

Sep 2020

WARMING Architectural Competition Global Winner(Prevent Award), as a Team Leader of 2 Members

Sep 2021

SKILLS

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE Spanning 20 Years: The Design of a Spiral Staircase Instructor: Limin Song

Oct 2019

A Study of Beijing Plant Communities Instructor: Ying Nie

Nov 2020

Reflections on Interior Design under the Covid-19 with an Idealized Home Space Instructor: Chaoyang Li

Apr 2020

The Gains and Losses of the Planning and Demolition of the The Lalu Qingdao Instructor: Chaoyang Li

Apr 2020

2020-2021

Mandarin (Native), English (Proficient) MS Office(proficient), PS, AI, ID, PR, Auto Cad, 3DMAX, Cinema4D, Sketch Up,Rhino, Grasshopper, Lumion, Vray, D5, KeyShot , Enscape, Octane, Corona, Unreal

HOBBIES Skiing, Chess, Football, Piano, Shooting, Painting, Calligraphy, Swimming, Travel

CONTENTS SEEDS OF LIFE 01 WHALES ‘BABY-SITTER’ Using the "whale pump" to create a protection station for whale migrations | Conceptual Architecture Topic: Focus on whales' curbing effect on global warming

02 RE-COLLECTIVE HOME Adaptive renewal of the elderly community around Tsinghua University | Urban Design Topic: Focus on the community population ageing crisis in China

03 SEEDS OF LIFE Renewal of Kunming‘s community Landscape: Underpass and Above | Landscape Architecture Topic: Focus on the crisis of shrinking species diversity

04 FARM LAND INFILTRATION Rebuild the living space of people with farmland in the urban fringe | Urban Design Topic: Focus on the crisis of urban encroachment on farmland

05 OTHER WORKS

WHALES ‘BABY-SITTER’ Future Whale Conservation and Research Station （2065-2090） In collaboration with: with sddsssHe Danni

Location: North Atlantic Ocean Size: 80×56×45m Project type: Conceptual architecture design Abstract | In 2010, scientists found a set of whale-based

Jul.2021-Sep.2021 Instructor: Changyue Liu

Award： WARMING 2021 Prevent Award

ecological regulation methods, in which the activity of whales to bring minerals to the ocean surface through vertical movement is called "whale pump", and cross ocean migration is called "whale conveyor belt". These two kinds of behaviors can indirectly help fix the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. If whale activities increase the amount of phytoplankton by 1%, hundreds of millions of tons of carbon capture will be added every year.

So I put forward "whale's" baby sitter " ----the whale conservation station design concept aiming to create a building floating on the water to find the remains of whales and track and protect them, so as to increase the number of whales faster.

The main structure of the building is made of programmable polymer, which can be programmed and deformed to a certain extent to form independent flexible blister units and link with each other. Therefore, this kind of building can realize rapid construction, effectively reduce the interference to marine organisms, help the whale population recover in an efficient and harmless way and curb global warming.

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BACKGROUND

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Diagram of chlorophyll concentration on the ocean surface

Global carbon emissions in recent years

Cetacean migration diagram

The intensifying global warming has posed such challenges to our planet as sea level rising and frequent extreme weather, consequenntly animals lose their homes.

However, scientists have found a way of regulating the ecosystem, that is, "whale pump", a process of bringing minerals vertically from deep waters to sea surface by whales.

The faeces released on sea surface by whales are rich in iron and nitrogen, which are good nutrients for phyto-plankton.

The increase in the amount of phytoplankton, as a result of whale pump, leads to carbon dioxide fixation, which helps to slow down the pace of global warming.

According to statistics, billions of extra carbon dioxide are captured annually in this way, equivalent to that obtained by 200 million trees.

Starting Point: Gulf of Maine

Carbon Capture

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Track & Protect Routes: North Atlantic Ocean

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Whale Habitats

Breeding Areas

Migration Routes

Direction of Assistance

Whale sightings Points

However, the whales are facing unprecedented challenges. It's quite common for whales to starve as a result of food shortage caused by sea pollution. Human activities over the sea also pose threats to their life.

Therefore, we analyzed the migration route of the North Atlantic blue whale and planned to design a conservation station that could accompany and support its population movement.

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1. Phytoplankton and seaweeds absorbing nutrients from whales' faeces, capturing carbon dioxide and releasing oxygen.

2.Faeces of whales 3. Therapy robots circling around the whales for treatment.

4. Food and nutrients processed from the station 5. Nutrients in deep waters 6. "Whale pump" 7. Zooplankton & Fish 8. Biological pump: Nutrients slowly sink from the surface into the deep sea 9. Whales preying in deep waters

We have conceived a structure which may help whales grow better so as to provide more nutrients for phytoplankton, promoting their growth and reproduction and therefore the delivery of oxygen. Meanwhile, in order to avoid eutrophication, We will collect superfluous phytoplankton for systematic processing, creating some valuable products and preventing from secondary pollution and waste.

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The main entrance is located on the server floor of the seaweed cabin and is connected to the core public area by a long

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1. Crew cabin 2. Core hub cabin 3. Public area 4. Crew cabin 5. Power cabin 6. Observation cabin 7. Monitoring cabin 8. Medical resource cabin

The main cabin in the middle is responsible for food and drug delivery and scientific research

In order for effective monitoring and protection of whales, the building is composed of different functional modules with similar scales. It mainly includes four aspects: life, research, delivery and monitoring, each of which is subdivided into a variety of functions.

The main function of the bottom chamber is to monitor the movement of whales, detect the location of whales, and interact with whales Entrance corridor + server cabin

Crew cabin

Storage cabin

Public area

Medical resource cabin

The prototype is taken from blisters, in order to reduce the interference to marine organisms, help the whale population recover in an efficient and harmless way.

1. Floating state diagram 1

2.Unit structure: outer skin, structural pipe network, inner skin, internal facilities

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The main structure of the building is made of programmable polymer, which can be programmed and deformed to a ceWrtain extent to form independent flexible blister units and link with each other.

Therefore, this kind of building can realize rapid construction,

3. Construction process 4. Floating state diagram 5. Using sonar to monitor whale activity

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Outer skin It's made of programmable organic material that can change the transparency of parts or the whole

Medicine refill port Replenishing medicines for therapy robots

Medical resource cabin Equipped with disease analysis equipment and whale therapy drugs

Whale They are often injured or ill during long-distance migration, which seriously threatens the growth of the population size

Monitoring cabin The staff can use sonar system equipped in the cabin to detect the area in all directions

Observation cabin Featuring fully transparent walls and an indoor pool that allows unhindered interaction with the whales

Therapy robot Equipped with therapeutic medicines and special healing equipment

RE-COLLECTIVE HOME Adaptive renewal of the elderly community around Tsinghua University in Haidian In collaboration Individual Work with: sddsss

Sep.2021-Dec.2021 Instructor: Wen Liang

Location: Haidian, Beijing, China Size: 40000 Square metres Project type: Reconstruction of old community Abstract | This is an old building reconstruction project aiming to improve the living condition of Chinese elderly peolple. By the end of 2021, the

elderly population aged over 60 in China accounted for more than 18 percent of the total population and more than 110 million of them chose to live in ordinary communities. Most of these old people have unique collective living habits formed in their youth. As elderly people grow older, old apartment buildings can hardly cope with their new problems such as memory decline, mobility inconvenience, loneliness, etc. As the pandemic has led to more closed spatial boundaries, these contradictions have become more prominent， which makes carrying out adaptive improvements to the homes of such people becomes more and more necessary.

This scheme is providing the possibility to reproduce collective life modes of mutual assistance through the deconstruction of the spatial boundary to alleviate the inconvenience and realize the spiritual comfort of the elderly. The images depict a three-scale renovation plan that refactors the backyard, the anti-theft window wall, and the public corridor in the old apartment in the community landscape, building facade, and indoor public area respectively. Structural modules (9 in total) for collective use are prefabricated and assembled into new gathering places, transforming boundary space into a collective home for the elderly.

Ageing trends in the communities around Tsinghua University

Site and Resident Analysis

Issues and Strategies

Mapping

The Life Type

The Negative Factors

By the end of 2021, the elderly population aged over 60 in China accounted for more than 18 percent of the total population and more than 110 million of them chose to live in ordinary communities. Most of these old people have unique collective living habits formed in their youth. As elderly people grow older, old apartment buildings can hardly cope with their new problems such as memory decline, mobility inconvenience, loneliness, etc.

The community project is proposed to reproduce collective life mode of mutual assistance through the reorganization and deconstruction of the spatial boundary so as to alleviate the inconvenience and realize the spiritual comfort of the elderly.

Strategies

Systems and Structures

Modules The community scale module focuses on the memory decline of the elderly and the prototype is taken from the backyard. The spatial attributes are vegetable garden, garden and shade respectively implanting new gathering places and reorganizing the memory fragments of the elderly's spatial attributes.

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Plaza

Kitchen

Vegetable Garden

Market

Water room

Woods

Clinic

Chess room

The building scale module focuses on the mobility inconvenience of the elderly. The prototype is taken from the anti-theft windows widely used by the original community residents. The spatial attributes correspond to the square, medical point and market respectively - to put the fragmentation of community services into the building facade and eliminate the service barrier.

The indoor scale module focuses on the loneliness of the elderly. The prototype is taken from the public long corridor in the old residential building. The spatial attributes correspond to the kitchen, bathroom and chess and card room respectively, so as to increase the opportunities for the elderly to look each other, communicate and cooperate with others in order to eliminate the loneliness under the condition of independent life.

Axonometric drawings and Plans Between Buildings

Plans Facades

General layout plan

The boundaries of the reinforced concrete building are broken by lightweight additions, creating new Spaces for people to move around

Interior

The original landscape is replaced by fragmented modules, which dissolves the original community boundary and accelerates the formation of new elderly collectives.

Architectural plan

The different rooms are connected by communal living modules along the corridor, providing residents with the possibility to experience collective living

SEEDS OF LIFE Renewal of Kunming Underpass Tube (8 * 8 * 300 )

Individual Work

Location: Guandu,Kunming, Yunnan, China Size: 19000 Square metres Project type: Underpass renewal Abstract | Yunnan's unique geographical conditions have

Mar.2021-Jun.2021 Instructor: Changyue Liu

established its position as a treasure house of biodiversity in the world, and the resources of rare species account for 67.5% of the country.

Therefore, I set the design concept of "seed of life", hoping to create a special plant museum in the city: combining the double space above and below the ground, returning the ground to nature (all kinds of plants including flowers, trees, mosses, fungi, endangered species, etc), and human beings walk humbly below nature. Through the way of lowering buildings and lifting plants, this case makes nature the protagonist of the site, which is used to show the particularity of endangered plants, reflect the conflict between biodiversity and cities, and arouse people's thinking.

Forest Degradation and Native Plant Analysis Preliminary Study Preliminary Study

Forest degraded areas

Plants Sample Analysis

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Forests

Yunnan's unique geographical conditions have established its position as a treasure house of biodiversity in the world, and the resources of rare species account for 67.5% of the country. Due to the development and utilization of forest resources in this area in recent years, the local biodiversity is facing the crisis of shrinking. A mount of precious species are going extinct.

Plants Community Analysis

SITE ANALYSIS Mapping

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Green Area

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Site

Guandu District of Kunming, where the site is located, was one of the famous "eight scenic spots" in the Ming Dynasty. It has natural landscapes such as forests and wetlands, and various plants have formed a rich ecosystem.

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In an underground commercial centre in Kunming, China, there is an underground evacuation passage with a width of 8 meters, a height of 8 meters and a cumulative length of about 300 meters, connecting several sunken squares.

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In view of the "passage" with the huge volume of space occupying the central position, We hop that a special plant museum will be built in the site to show the particularity of endangered plants, reflect the conflict between biodiversity and cities, and respond to the crisis of local biodiversity reduction.

Type1: Root

Type2: Stem

Type3: Foliage

Using concentric circles as the main formal language, extracted from the growth and expansion of roots

The main form language is zigzag, extracted from the posture of the branches

Type4：Flower

Overlapping arcs are extracted from the natural state of the leaves as the main form

Using the four-leaf clover shape which extracted from flower features as the main form

Type5：Moss

Type6：Seeds

Type7：Fungi

Using the four-pointed star of a single moss unit as the main formal language resulted in a unique arch structure

The main form is composed of circular and square nesting, which is derived from the inner and outer wrapping structure of seeds

The main form is the aggregation of multiple ellipses taken from the organization pattern of fungi

PROTOTYPES We summarized and studied the structural characteristics and formal language of plant roots, stems, foliages, flowers, mosses, seeds and fungi. Based on these results, the designer established the model of space prototype and planned to apply it to the transformation of channel space, setting the channel as seven theme spaces.

Strategies：Combining the double space above and below the ground, returning the ground to nature ( flowers, trees, mosses, fungi, endangered species, etc), and human beings walk humbly below nature. Through the way of lowering buildings and lifting plants, this case makes nature the protagonist of the site,

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Viewing platform ＆ Café

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Viewing corridor ＆ Underground Park

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Floral room ＆ Underground oxygen bar

FOLIAGE

Office block ＆ Reading corner

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Moss culture tanks ＆ Resting space

Fungus culture chambers ＆ Nature Lab

SEEDS Seeds core tube ＆ Exhibition space

The seed area in the center of the passage is the core part of the whole venue, which is composed of peripheral exhibition area, leisure area and core tube. The wall of the core tube is composed of a large number of storage boxes. Each box contains the seeds of rare local plants and fungi. It is not only a window to publicize environmental protection to citizens, but also a storage space to prevent species extinction.

艺术化表达，氛围感，p 加渲 细化模型，视角后退，调视角，表达人 和他的互动关系

AXONOMETRIC DRAWING

MOSS ＆ FUNGUS As low-lying moss and fungus are often not valued in natural environments, this section of the passage is specially equipped with culture tanks and large culture chambers to allow people to intuitively interact with mosses and funguses.

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The theme of this part of passage is foliage and flower. Not only has the exhibition space, but also implants the corresponding theme of the office and reading space.

Multiple staircases allow visitors to reach the ground in time to interact with real flowers and foliages

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ROOT ＆ STEM

1. Broad-leave tree with plate roots 2. Viewing platform ＆ Café 3. Viewing corridor 4. Seeds core tube 5. Exhibition space 6. Moss culture tanks 7. Fungus culture chambers 8. Office block ＆ Reading area 9. Aerial walkway 10. Science Expo Space 11. Floral aeroponic room

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FARM LAND INFILTRATION Landscape renovation along the Northern Canal

Individual Work

Location: Tongzhou, Beijing, China Size: 1.2 Square kilometres Project type: Urban landscape renovation Abstract | The rapid urbanization and large-scale civil

May.2021-Aug.2021 Instructor: Yichen Lu

construction in Tongzhou area of Beijing have swallowed up traditional farmland and villages, and people's relevant memories are disappearing. As the civic and cultural centre of Tongzhou, the public space along the Northern Canal needs to be rebuilt to create a sense of belonging.

Therefore I proposed a landscape enhancement plan of 'farmland infiltration', hoping to implant farmland as a landscape element into the urban fringe to counteract the rapidly expanding steel jungle. Using traditional Chinese Xuan paper as a material, I made topographical prints on a model of the city to study the severity of urbanisation in the area. Then I extractded the irregular blank shapes presented on the paper (representing the gaps in the city) as the original form of the farmland landscape and give them corresponding functions according to different regions, integrate and sort them into the site.

The result is an arable landscape community that permeates the city, responding to and dissolving the conflict between the people and the city by returning the city to farming.

Preliminary Study

To some extent, the history of urbanization is a history of occupation. The form of settlement always encroaches on the land and always expels those who once lived and worked on the land in a very violent way. We can see that these huge box buildings are spreading here, and the city is like filling a grid and expanding rapidly. However, at the same time, as the first environment with memory created by mankind, farmland is swallowed up by the planned grids. Therefore, in the design, we hope to reflect on the activity of Urbanization from the perspective of farmland and recreate the farmland system that can bring memory in the dense grid and permeate the city.

Density of arable land

Rural population as ％ of total population

Evolution of villages and the canal

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Changes of agriculture populationdistribution in Tongzhou District

Yuan Dynastic Ming Dynastic Liao Dynastic Sui Dynastic Site Scope

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An important waterway linking the imperial city with the canal during the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties

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Due to the development of rail and road traffic, shipping in the area eventually ceased

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Water transport was briefly restored after the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949

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In May 1964, the North Canal finally stopped shipping because of the lack of water in the north Canal

Began to implement large-scale reclamation of arable land, the scale of village population gradually reached the peak

The existing villages Villages that has disapeared

Beijing officially decided to make Tongzhou a "sub-center of the city," starting a massive infrastructure project in tongzhou district that also led to mass demolition

Tongzhou District urban core business district has been basically completed.

Migrants poured into the countryside, but the number of people working in agriculture continued to decline

Mapping

Urbanization impact intensity

Site Status

Flooding analysis

Safe state

Once-in-a-decade flooding

Once-in-fifty-year flooding

Once-in-a-century flooding

Generation logic

In order to determine where farmland is necessary to infiltrate the city，I made topographical prints on a model of the city to study the severity of urbanisation in the area. Then I extractded the irregular blank shapes presented on the paper (representing the gaps in the city) as the original form of the farmland landscape.

Main area and Analysis

GREEN PATCHES

STREETS

PARKINGS

FUNCTIONS

Strategies

The project attempts to realize the benign reverse osmosis of farmland to urban space in many ways.

1. Architecture: for tall office buildings, it is planned to adopt the mechanism of vertical garden and drilling system + roof orchard. For the commercial building area on the ground floor, indoor farming is used for air purification, and vertical plant is used for fruit picking. Aeroponic can save 90% of the area and improve the planting efficiency compared with geoponic. For educational buildings, the combination of testing plot and roof top farming is used to build wheat field lecture hall. For community buildings, the community garden and rain garden is used to customise production to bring food closer to the kitchen.

2. Roads: use the combination of crumby files and fragmented files to replace some existing afforestation vegetation and create the organic landscape.

3. Ports: in the water area, the combination of floating farming and waterfront garden is used to shorten the transportation distance of crops, and hydrophilic crops are used to purify the water.

General Layout

COMMUNITY GARDEN

FLOATING FARMING

WATERFRONT GARDEN

ROOF TOP FARMING

OTHER WORKS

BAMBOO PAVILION 300×300×300CM

BREATHING 150×150×250CM

WOODEN INSTALLATION 250×500×250CM

2020 BFU International Garden-making Festival Collaborative Work

2020 Fall Digital Design Construction Course Collaborative Work

2019 Beijing Design Week Collaborative Work

The path surrounded by the bamboo structures is composed of two concentric circles，in the center of which there is an open garden

Anemone plug-in of Grasshopper was used for iterative modeling and then entity building

The installation is located at the plaza in Beijing CBD for viewing and rest.

It is made up of 55 wooden squares lapped together

SURGING 400×400×400CM

FUN ZONE 700 ㎡

DIFFUSE Printed postcard 150×100×MM

2020 China Spatial Art and Construction Exhibition Instructor: Mr. Shan Tu Collaborative work

2020 Professional Design Studio Ⅱ Instructor:Mr. Jian Song Wang Individual work

Tsinghua University Epidemic Theme Exhibition Individual work

Square boards are used to insert each other to form a self-stabilizing structure

Use film's non-realistic narrative to design interior spaces

Aiming to pay attention to the deficiencies exposed in design under the epidemic situation from graphic perspective