WANPENG ZU
CONTENTS
GRADUATE URBAN DESIGN STUDIO
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Revitalizing the Dead Sea
· Jordan Valley: Eco-Agriculture· Jordan Valley-Humanity
· Poughkeepseed-Modular Bioremediation
· Up-Poughkeepsie
· Clinton Water Front Park
· Infrastructure and Energy
· Helcome-Hell's Kitchen · Recognizing Two Montgomeries · EVOLO-A “Non-Existent” Tower · Fabrics and Typologies: Paris · Public Space/ Recombinant Urbanism
· Kent Avenue
· Poughkeepsie Possibilties Interaction · Poughkeepsie-Site Research
PROFESSIONAL WORK
· Sun Terrace· Urban Treehouse-165 Charles St. in NYC
· Chelsea Market in NYC
· Sun Island
· Genghis Khan Town Master Planning
TECHNOLOGY
· Encoded Matter· Integrated Parametric Delivery
· Xinformodeling
· Urbanisms & Algorithms
· Post Office_Communication
· MAP-Arcgis
UNDERGRADUATE PROJECT
· The New Central Axis of Canton· Regeneration for Canton Center Axis
· Wuri Renovation · Renovation of Industrial Park · Regenerate Majia River Harbor Area · Reframing Dong Qing Family DIstrict
OTHER WORK
· Other Work-Models· Drawings&Photography
· Films&Animations
PHOTOGRAPHY
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China· America
· Europe
· Africa
· Asia
DONES
WANPENG ZU
Graduate Student at Columbia University in the City of New York
Project Designer at TLS Landscape Architecture in San Francisco Bay Area
What I learn and obtain in Architure and urban design is showing me our responsibility to take humanism, environment and economy for granted. It is the surroundings that show us the inviting world so that I barely hope to use my design to find what I can share with the endangered earth, probably architecture, environment, activity, space, emotions or even some actions to feel the future.
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CONTACT
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EVOLO-Skyscrapper
Competition
Name: A "Non-Existent" Tower
Team: Wanpeng Zu, Zichang Yan, Yuting Pan, Mengke Wu
“It does not do to dwell on dreams, and forget to live.”
Skyscrapers, as an architectural typology in response to the upsurge density in urban spaces, has been developed to challenge the possibilities of vertical living, on the aspect of not only heights, but also spatial and performance possibilities. It is also considered to be a symbolic icon for the prosperity of city. Manhattan is always the best representative of this.
Manhattan is not only an island occupied with skyscrapers, but also an island full of dreams and desires with invisible success and failure; laugh and cry. It is typical in such a big metropolitan, people’s desire is expanding and people’s satisfaction is decreasing, with overarching ambitions.
Meanwhile, the growth of digital technology offers tremendous convenience for people. Moreover, a virtual world allows people to escape from the reality, people could easily meet their physiological needs, remain safe, get love, earn esteem, and obtain self-actualization without pressure and laborious work.
Plenty of people are so addicted to it, deeply involving themselves in the virtual dreams which are not easy to fulfill in real life.
What if almost all the demands could be met through technology?
What if people’s life totally resides in the technological world?
The project is conceived based on a radical vision of conceptualize skyscraper as a Neverland on Manhattan.
The skyscraper is a symbol of people’s desire. The skyscraper envisioned by us extrudes right in the middle of Manhattan, with mirror panels on the exterior. The reflection of the mirror makes the tower almost “invisible” with escaping from surroundings.
In assistance with technology, the physical space that each person actually live in the tower will be minimized into a 3 feet by 10 feet space. People are totally separated from each other in the space, tied to a system to maintain their living and a visual reality system could involve people in living in another New York City. Through visual reality technology to be correlated with people’s innumerable desires including pride, covetousness, lust, anger, gluttony, envy, and sloth.
What if the reality is not so important anymore?
What is the future of the people?
When dream replaces reality.
When virtual world substitute for real life.
The entire project provides satire possibilities for the future world of Manhattan and human beings’ life through contrasting the imaginary world with real world to show the outcome of people of living in virtual world.