ZICHENG (ROY) ZHANG
zzhan203@syr.edu | https://issuu.com/zichengzhang | 1 of 3
1-5 COOP | Thematic Collage, Vray Render, Illustrator plan drawing | Aug-Dec 2020 Driven by Senator Elizabeth Warren’s Affordable Housing Plan, this project investigates the role of architecture in relation to property ownership, aiming to create an affordable housing co-op that blurs the boundaries between public and private space. Each household designs their own home according to the architectural system. The housing units aggregate volume instead of occupying square footage on the ground plane through a composition of slender components- “slivers”. Each sliver is designed around an activity of domestic life, sleeping, eating, cooking, studying, etc, and when aggregated together create complex spaces.
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6-10 Undulation | Vray Render, Metashape Pointcloud, Photoshop Collage | Sept-Nov 2021 To create an interwoven garden composition, the operations of contouring and intersecting were used to merge and defamiliarize two randomly scanned grounds. The proposed mineral garden is a field of undulating blocks, consisting of interwoven strips of soft-scape (such as grass and sand) and hard-scape (concrete, terrazzo, and metal platforms). A series of gardens and terraces oscillate in elevation across the quarry site like a wave, separated by three thresholds.
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