ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIONick Xiaozhou ZHOU

Void 5

Diamond 9

Visible | Invisible 15

Reflection & Refraction 21

Clayton Station Renovation Proposal 24

Applied Construction - Skysraper Design 26

Professional Projects 30

Contents

Semester 2, 2013

Project OverviewFederation Square has been using an inflatable wall for more than 5 years and the current one has almost come to the end of its life. The project is to design a new entrance that will be installed at the beginning of every winter and dismounted afterwards. The original design intension of North Atrium of Federation Square was to have an open entrance and inside would be heated or cooled by the underground “labyrinth”. However, the entrance was too wide to keep the heat during winters. Current inflatable wall did a good job for wind proofing except vandalism. Patches could be seen everywhere.

The new design aims at replacing current one and being durable enough to last for 15 years against not only wind, but also vandalism. Additionally, North Atrium has a gigantic cantilevered roof. Thus, the new design cannot reply on the roof too much in terms of load bearing. Last but not least, there is a side entrance next to the main one, accessed through the higher platform next to NGV Gallery. Therefore, it requires the new design to consider all facts mentioned before and remains attractive at the same time.

Plan & Section

Pedestrian Pattern Simulation,Processing

Semester 2, 2013

Project OverviewThe previous design is eliminated during the mid-term panel for the reason that the largeness turned the design into a landmark sculpture. For an entrance design aiming at lasting for 15 years, it was not suitable to function as what it is. At the same time, we were lucky to merge into another group and work on another design instead of handing it over to the consultant. Thus, weaving became the new theme for the second half semester.

By the time new group formed, we analysed the strength and weakness of the original design in order to evolve it. The results indicated weaving as an idea was not sufficient to be wind proof. Thus, it transformed into weaving structure with panels. Analogue team (part of the new group) had tested out a number of materials and decided to use polycarbonate for the weaving structure. Therefore, both digital and analogue teams started to optimize the structure and design new joints, moving towards the final outcome.

GeometryGeometry is well resolved by subdividing the free form. In that case, each strip component is an extrusion of a single linear curve and, thus, can be flattened in terms of fabrication. Openings provide adequate clearance for cherry picker to pass

through.

StructureThe idea of weaving is adopted as an elegant solution to replace the original design with redundant secondary elements. Regarding to materiality, polycarbonate is prone to bounce back to its initial position and, thus, is a reliable and rigid material. Also, its high tolerance of being permanently deformed is a

strong merit against vandalism.

PanelDouble-layered panels with curve profile strengthen the structure rigidity and functions as an effective solution to prevent visitors from climbing. Additionally, high transparency provides splendid visibility for users from both inside and

outside.

R=6230

R=10880

R=9420

R=23480

R=8275

1. Ground Profile Curves 2. Global Geometry Profile Curves 3. Strip Generation 4. Panel Generation

Flinders st

6 AXONOMETRIC VIEW

Semester 1, 2014

Project OverviewVictoria has been suffering from devastating bushfire during summer for a long time, especially the one in Marysville. It killed 173 people and 414 injured. Usually, the concerns about bushfire are securing house owners’ properties, firefighting techniques or post-fire relief, but separately. This project attempts to relieve this issue in an integrated manner of the mentioned measures by looking at Marysville as scenario from non-fire period, fire approaching period to post-fire community reconstruction through the exploration of portable and transformable structure.

Project ScopeTaking Marysville as the urban site, the project is to design infrastructures to facilitate fire protection during summer as well as providing amenities to the community for daily lives in the expression of eye-catching built forms.

Technical BoundariesThe design outcome is restricted to CAMPAIGN FIRE (usually lasting for 2-3 days) and BUSHFIRE ATTACK LEVEL 29 & under. In another word, it’s dealing with ember attack and radiant heat, given that people have considerable amount of time to respond to approaching fire.

Urban Scenario

INFRASTRUCTURE

ARCHITECTURELife-Support

InvisibleNetwork

ProgrammaticIndeterminacy

ArchitecturalSpecificity

VisibleNode

Public

Surface

Space

LANDSCAPE

Nodes (Resources)Optimisation

Nodes (Resources)Insertion

+

Nodes (Resources)Integration

NetworkConnection

Protection Barrier

Concept

Strategy

ConceptThe design concept is to combine the invisible infrastructure with visible architecture with help of landscape. Connection is infrastructure’s primary mode of operation and infrastructure work as network of circulation and support. Conventional engineering design of infrastructure has a linear logic and respect the principle of separation of movement and minimisation of conflicts. However, one interesting aspect of landscape is the potential of connections made not just through lines, but expansive surface condition. In details, the surface can manipulate the form of connectivity and, contrast to architecture’s vertical dimensions, the warped and folded surface could partition space. Moreover, landscape are bigger than architecture, dealing with openness instead of enclosure. Landscape cannot be programmed, but architecture can. It, thus, revokes the leverage of architecture by having potentials to specify movement and create attractions. To shift the attention to design infrastructure as architecture is therefore to look at circulation and support as network, integrate resources (nodes) into network and, eventually, form part of the network as enclosed protection barrier.

StrategyMarysville takes the advantages by having rich tourist resources, including weekend market, campsites and also beautiful landscape. Through adaption of those resources (nodes) and overlay new network to existing one, part of the resultant network will be formed as the enclosed protection barrier.

1 : 25 000

1 km

Domestic Shield

Controlled Burning

Tree Removal

ModulatedMarket

Fire Screen System

Strategic Plan

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Power

Water Water Pump

Site Excavation

Steel Framework

Lug & Universal Joint (w/ cover)

Lug Joint

Hinge JointAluminium Tube

Protective PrimerIntumescent Basecoat

Decorative Top Seal

Floor PanelDefines stall boundary

Openable PanelAccess to winch

Printed Thin Film Solar Cells

PTFE MembraneRetractable

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Sh

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Fire

Scr

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Sys

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Sunday Market

Fire Scenario

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Sh

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Fire

Scr

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Plate NutPrefixed to ground

Universal Joint

Ball & Socket Joint

Silicon CoverProtection for & against roof tiles

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Semester 1, 2013

Project OverviewMachine aesthetics, as the theme of this design studio, suggests machine-made objects being loyal and honest to the machine production process. As proposed for Craft Victoria, the idea of machine aesthetics lays in a field of exploring the capabilities of machines and, thus, mastering them for the purpose of serving our design process. As the idea of vacuum forming carried out at the beginning of this semester, we made our own vacuum forming equipment, including a vacuum bed, a heating box, a radiant heater and a vacuum cleaner. With forms generated by Grasshopper, we started to test various settings and materials on the CNC machine so as to serve our up-coming touch stone, cultural model and final projects.

Reflection&

Refraction

RUSSELL STFLINDERS ST

Public access

Semi-public access (Craft Victoria members)

Private access (Craft Victoria staff)

STORAGE

ENTRY

SHOP

GALLERY

GALLERY

WORKSHOP&LIBRARY

OFFICE &KITCHEN&MEETING ROOM

CAFEGALLERY

GALLERY

RUSSELL ST

Public space

Semi-public space

Private space

FLINDER STRUSSELL ST

SHOP

GALLERY 2

RUSS

LE S

T

FLINDERS ST

GALLERY

STAIRS (LED DISPLAY)

SHOP

Haughton Road Carinish Road

Clay

ton

Road

1 : 5 000

100 m

ClaytonStation

12AM 6AM 12PM 6PM 12AM

GROUPS INDIVIDUALS COMMUTERS INFREQUENT TRAVELLERS

IAR 4118 _Interior Archi Studio Austin Chen

Program(s) Composition @ 1:1000

PHASE 3

conceptual diagrams

IAR 4118 _Interior Archi Studio Austin Chen

Program(s) Composition @ 1:1000

PHASE 3

conceptual diagrams

IAR 4118 _Interior Archi Studio Austin Chen

Program(s) Composition @ 1:1000

PHASE 3

conceptual diagrams

Site Context

MEDIA BOOTH

South Elevation Section AA

User Analysis Circulation Optimisation

CLAYTON STATION

RENOVATION

PROPOSAL

INTERACTIVE FLOOR

ENTRANCE GATE

ENTRANCE GATE

GALLERY / ARCADE

MEDIA BOOTH

1

North Elevation BB

Site Plan

B

A

1

A

BPERFORMANCE STAGE

ENTRANCE GATE

TICKET OFFICE

TICKET OFFICE

ENTRANCE GATE

GAMES ARCADE

GAMES ARCADE

OUTDOOR GALLERY

1

112

OUTDOOR GALLERY

STAGE SEATING PERFORMANCE STAGE CORNER SEATING

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3 4 5

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Applied Construction - Skyscraper Design

Semester 1, 2013

Design Development Proposal with Key Envelope Details for a Free-Standing Tall Office Building Located in a Hypothetical Sitein Melbourne CBD

The design idea involves a slightly tilted axis in combination with a circular façade with strong geometric accents. The staggering concept was the rise from a square floor plate and evolving into sharp geometric shape with curves. This idea was further refined by splitting the building into three equally tall rises; each approximately a third of the maximum 180m height limit. The first rise would be a square that would lose some edges gradually until the second rise where it would become a curved formwith sharp angles to the sides. Where finally the very top rise would split this form in half, overall, creating a gradually tapering effect as the building staggered on each rise.

GEOMETRY DEVELOPMENT + STACKING STRATEGY

THE BUILDING IS DIVIDED INTO TWO HALVES AND AN ARC CONNECTS FROM QUARTER THE DEPTH OF THE FLOORPLATE ON EITHER SIDE.

12M LEASING DEPTH FROM THE CORE IS ACHIEVED BY PULLING THE EAST AND WEST EDGES INWARD AND OFFSETTING 12M FROM THE CURVE.

THE VARIOUS SHAPES ARE EXTRUDED IN VARYING HEIGHTS TO CREATE THE GEOMETRIC, TIERED FORM.

SHARP JUNCTIONS OF THE CURVE ARE CHAMFERED TO ALLOW FOR STRUCTURAL COLUMNS AND MAINTAIN LINEAR CONTINUITY OF THE CURVED FACADE.

1 2 3 4

HIGH RISE

MEDIUM RISE

LEVELSGROSS FLOOR

AREA (m2)FLOOR TO FLOOR

HEIGHT (m)NET LETTABLE

AREA (m2)FLOOR PLATE

EFFICIENCY (%)

LOW RISE 2MECHANICAL FLOOR

MECHANICAL FLOOR

MECHANICAL FLOOR

LOW RISE 1

LOBBY

RISES

OVERALL STACK LIFT BANKS

N

14

14

6

6

40 (+4)TOTAL =

1

784

1568

1691 1426

1814

59,815 m2

1549

45,234 m2

1814 0

3.7

3.7

3.7

177.4

3.7

7.4

7.41

1

1

784

1568

1691 0

0

0

N/A

N/A

N/A

7.4

7.4

652

1304

83.2%

83.2%

84.3%

85.4%

84.0%

N/A

RISES, LIFT ARRANGEMENT& VOLUMETRIC ANALYSIS

APPLIED CONSTRUCTION ABPL90118- ASSIGNMENT 1 RESUBMISSION

12 M

12 M 12 M

12 M

12 M

12 M 12 M

12 M

12 M

12 M12 M

12 M

12 M

12 M 12 M

12 M

GEOMETRY DEVELOPMENT + STACKING STRATEGY

THE BUILDING IS DIVIDED INTO TWO HALVES AND AN ARC CONNECTS FROM QUARTER THE DEPTH OF THE FLOORPLATE ON EITHER SIDE.

12M LEASING DEPTH FROM THE CORE IS ACHIEVED BY PULLING THE EAST AND WEST EDGES INWARD AND OFFSETTING 12M FROM THE CURVE.

THE VARIOUS SHAPES ARE EXTRUDED IN VARYING HEIGHTS TO CREATE THE GEOMETRIC, TIERED FORM.

SHARP JUNCTIONS OF THE CURVE ARE CHAMFERED TO ALLOW FOR STRUCTURAL COLUMNS AND MAINTAIN LINEAR CONTINUITY OF THE CURVED FACADE.

1 2 3 4

HIGH RISE

MEDIUM RISE

LEVELSGROSS FLOOR

AREA (m2)FLOOR TO FLOOR

HEIGHT (m)NET LETTABLE

AREA (m2)FLOOR PLATE

EFFICIENCY (%)

LOW RISE 2MECHANICAL FLOOR

MECHANICAL FLOOR

MECHANICAL FLOOR

LOW RISE 1

LOBBY

RISES

OVERALL STACK LIFT BANKS

N

14

14

6

6

40 (+4)TOTAL =

1

784

1568

1691 1426

1814

59,815 m2

1549

45,234 m2

1814 0

3.7

3.7

3.7

177.4

3.7

7.4

7.41

1

1

784

1568

1691 0

0

0

N/A

N/A

N/A

7.4

7.4

652

1304

83.2%

83.2%

84.3%

85.4%

84.0%

N/A

RISES, LIFT ARRANGEMENT& VOLUMETRIC ANALYSIS

APPLIED CONSTRUCTION ABPL90118- ASSIGNMENT 1 RESUBMISSION

12 M

12 M 12 M

12 M

12 M

12 M 12 M

12 M

12 M

12 M12 M

12 M

12 M

12 M 12 M

12 M

N

LOAD PATHDIAGRAM(SIMPLIFIED)

X-RAYSTRUCTURALELEMENTS

TUBE STRUCTUREAn array of columns makes up the facade of the building, carrying the majority of the building’s load by spanning from the core. These columns flow down the face of the building, however some areas need extra support.

SPLIT STAGGERWhere the building splits in half, an additional column and transfer beams are needed to spread the load to the tube structure.

LONG SPANSIn some areas, we calculated that the beam depth necessary to span between the tube structure and the core would greatly impact the usability of the floor, thus an extra column is added to reduce the spanning distance

TRANSFER BEAMThe tube structure conflicts with the staggering areas of the building, thus large transfer beams are needed in these areas to spread the load among key columns.

LOW RISE 2STRUCTURALPERSPECTIVECLOSE UP

Professional Projects

2012 - 2015Woods Bagot

Wenling Sharaton HotelShenzhen Gongming Town Masterplan

Lab ArchitectureHuaian Bicycle Park

PLUS ArchitectureWebb Dock Automotive Terminal

Sharaton Hotel, WenlinWoods Bagot

Gongming TownMasterplan,Shenzhen

Woods Bagot

Huaian Bicycle Park,Lab Architecture

Webb Dock Automotive Terminal, PLUS Architecture