海外存知己，天涯若比邻。
在海外专辑分享海外华人的故事。希望这份分享可以让世界更加海阔天空。
第三十期为您呈现的是毕业于哥伦比亚大学，目前在BIG纽约工作的建筑师黄中汉。

A bosom friend afar brings distant land near. The Oversea album shares the lives of Chinese living abroad with all. The No.30 episode is about Zhonghan Huang who graduated from GSAPP and now works in BIG.

为什么出国？
Why going abroad?

出国的想法从本科毕业前一年时有，原因很简单，去美国读研究生，通过学习丰富经历和知识。

This idea came along with me since my last year in undergraduate school. The reason is simple: going to United States for graduate school, enriching my life and knowledge.

在国外遇到了什么让你印象最深刻的事情？
What impressed you the most when you are abroad?

我觉得在国外学习和工作影响最深的事情是见识。从读书到在纽约工作，身边接触的人，他们在想的在做的无不潜移默化的拓宽我对事物的认识和看法、培养生活和学习的态度、以及提高专业素养等。见识的越多，会越看清自己，觉得自己的贫乏，对自己有个定位，沉淀下来做好事情。

The critical influence for studying and working abroad is widening experience. From graduate school to work, the way people think and do subtly exert a certain influence on me. It broadens my knowledge to the world, fosters a better attitude to life and study, and elevates the professional level. The more I experience, the deeper I dig into myself. Then I realize the tenuity of what I know and pinpoint myself to doing something substantial.

最想念祖国的什么？
What do you miss the most about China?

家人、朋友，和对中国未来的憧憬。

Family; friends; the vision to the China’s future.

你会回国吗？为什么？
Will you come back to China? Why?

会，但是暂时还是想留在美国，觉得自己没积累够。

I do. For now and the next years, I tend to collect experience in the United States before I’m prepared.

出国后在不同的背景下再看中国是否看得更清晰，有哪些感触？
Is it more distinct to view China in a different environment after going abroad? Any thought?

我本科毕业后在国内实践了三年多才去读研究生，对国内的环境有一个大致的了解。来到美国读研后带着一个目的性的学习心态，再看中国又有不同的感悟。相比国外成熟的建筑市场和环境，中国的环境很复杂，但是复杂也意味着机遇，多种发展可能性和潜力。

After obtaining more than three years of working experience and awareness of China’s situation, I went to graduate school with a preliminary study plan. When I look back at China, I gained different angles of view. Compared to the mature market situation in the U.S.A, China owns complexity on its own architecture market, which also means more opportunities and potentials.

你的学校有哪些教育特点？
What makes the curriculum of your school different from other architecture schools?

如果只挑一样说的话，多样性吧。无论是课程和最后的学生作业成果，都呈现百花齐放的特点。其实这个对于没想清楚自己要做什么和想清楚了要做什么的人很适合。

If we just choose one as feature, I would say – Diversification. No matter the school provided curriculums or the studios in the end, they show a great vibrant diversity that I think it’s perfect for people who has specific goals or people who don’t.

你现在工作公司的特色和有趣的地方？
What are the characteristics and interesting points of your firm?

公司(BIG)推崇的文化和工作精神。由于原因之一是公司的合伙人和员工都很年轻，对现时的文化和流行元素很敏感，在工作方式上并不拘泥于统一的标准和形式，而是鼓励创新和自由的态度。领导者们自身，带有一种先天的对工作的激情和感染力，表现在在看项目时的投入、鼓励打破常规的思考、不拖泥带水的高效、表达想法的信服力等。在平时的工作上，虽然量大、对成果要求也高，但是工作的氛围充满活力和自由的节奏。这种工作氛围并未影响工作效率，反而在愉悦的环境里，人与人的相处简单轻松、充实忙碌的日程计划进行的非常顺利。

The culture and professional sprits behind its name (BIG). One of the distinct reasons is that partners and most of staff are in young ages and hold a high sensibility to contemporary culture and popular elements. Hence, they allow the existence of unconventional thoughts and ideas. The leaders, especially Bjarke, were born with a passion to work and positive influence on people. These are concentration on reviewing projects, encouragement of unordinary thinking, straightforward efficiency, compelling presentation, etc. Even though a huge amount of work and high quality are needed, the working environment is basically full of energy and freedom, which wouldn’t impede the proceeding of job. In most of time, people are easier to get along with under pleasing circumstances, as well as schedule can move steadily and readily.

最喜欢的艺术家（绘画音乐电影等广泛范围）是谁？给你创作带来了什么影响？
Who is your favorite artist (in wider range such as art, music, movie)? What is the influence?

没有最喜欢，目前没有痴迷于某个。我一般泛泛的看，尽量避免过于沉浸某一个,而丧失了批判性看事物的能力。海外有着中国没有的优势，能够接触到的东西很多，我会更希望让环境“影响”我。

I won’t say favorite. Normally, I choose to span as far as I can to avoid indulging in one artist. Novel things around you will enlighten you in different ways. This is what I want to keep and would like to be “changed”.

觉得自己的作品集有哪些迷人的特质？
What fascinates viewers the most in your portfolio in your opinion?

这几个作品集反应了我目前在思考建筑的形式由于建筑的功能性而起，这种功能性是一种设计的介入机会，源于外界或是自身的需要，它作用于功能，功能最后受益于由它而生的形式。因此，形式作为建筑功能性的现实还原，它传递体验、行为、想象、记忆等。例如New York Light是小尺度装置在城市背景下作为都市体验的一种媒介。Architecture As Mechanical Machine以建筑的性能作为设计过程的出发点，利用形式和机械设备的协同作用，达到对其的低依赖性。Materialized Intimacy是将虚拟的亲密程度赋予物理的形得到新的公共与私密空间的建筑类型。PPP Loop是在城市的尺度上用建筑语言整合三种基础的功能。

These projects show my recent thinking that architecture is about realizing ideal scenarios in mind. It delivers experience, behaviors, imagination, memories, etc. based on practical conditions. In the perspective of space, it emphasizes an outward sequence starting from inside. Fox example, “New York Light” is a small scale object performing as a medium for public to experience urban life. “Architecture As Mechanical Machine” considers the building performance as an active input, takes advantage of mass and machines sustainably working together to diminish dependence on mechanical system. “Materialized Intimacy” is to generate a new typology of architectural spaces by translating virtual relationships into physical behaviors, and materializing the process of building intimacy of social media. PPP Loop is to integrate three fundamental functions with an architectural language in an urban scale.

什么时候开始看谷德网的？欢迎你提出建议哦，谢谢。
When did you start to follow gooood? Any suggestions?

开始关注谷德时源于谷德以专辑的形式发布针对性的内容。到今天谷德的专辑覆盖的面已经很广了，内容也很有趣。我觉得谷德可以增加一个建筑教育类的专辑。建筑教育对于独立思考的训练和成长很重要，这个跟实践中的探索是不一样的。内容可以是国内外的建筑院校的教学差异、研究和教学特点等等。

I started to follow GOOOOD when you started to post “Oversea Albums”. Today, GOOOOD has a wide range covering a variety of interesting information. I think maybe it’s a good idea if you could add a column about architectural education. Education has a vital effect on architect’s independent thinking and development which is different from what we obtain in career life. On this topic, we can talk about discrepancy of different schools, academic philosophy and so on.

W O R K

New York Light

Organizer: Flatiron/23rd Street Partnership and Van Alen Institute
Team: Jeffrey Inaba, Darien Williams, Yoichiro Mizuno, Zhonghan Huang
August 2014-December 2014
Photographs: Zhonghan Huang, Cameron Blaylock

主办方：Flatiron/23rd Street Partnership和Van Alen Institute
项目团队：Jeffrey Inaba, Darien Williams, Yoichiro Mizuno, 黄中汉
时间：2014年8月-12月
摄影：黄中汉，Cameron Blaylock

New York Light是小尺度装置在城市背景下作为都市体验的一种媒介。场地在纽约属于一个比较特殊的位置：第五大道和23街正交的曼哈顿网格被南北向的百老汇大道斜切出一个三角形的广场，东面紧挨着基地的麦迪逊公园提供了宽广的天际线视野，位于此可以无遮挡的目睹纽约两个重要地标：熨斗大楼和帝国大厦。

设计的第一步创造了一个半围合的V形结构，回应了人在场地内看两个地标的视角：对于熨斗大楼，端头围合状的“墙”模糊周遭环境、迎合人们看熨斗大楼和拍照时的视线仰角，让下部的环境成为背景；对于帝国大厦，开头两侧的遮挡强化了竖向空间的延展、形成以帝国大厦为视觉中心的框景，让两侧的环境成为背景。

数百个镜面板成一定角度悬挂于这个V形结构之上，根据观看者与装置之间距离的不同反射不同位置的城市局部，在装置内外的人能够感受到都市的瞬时生活。

在夜间，具有变化的LED灯以不同的方式点亮装置，为没有照明的广场带来一处能够驻留、拍照的城市景观。同时，它也作为表演活动的“光幕”— 开口朝向公众聚集的广场、为表演者提供了一个发光的视觉幕布，遮蔽视线高度后方的车流。

“New York Light” is a small scale object performing as a medium for public to experience urban life. The Flatiron Plaza is an exception in New York. It is a unique place to take in the beauty of the city. From the plaza one can see two of New York’s great landmarks: the Flatiron and Empire State buildings. It is a spot to experience the magnificence of the urban plan – with a straight shot view of Broadway cutting diagonally through the grid.

This art installation lights up the Flatiron Plaza and pays tribute to the special urban experience from this one-of-a-kind vantage point. Designed to echo the plaza’s namesake building, the prow of structure frames the Flatiron. At the other end, the steel tube installation opens northward on Broadway and Fifth Avenue outlining a view of the Empire State.

Hundreds of mirror¬-finished panels hang from the structure so visitors standing inside can see these views surrounded by partial reflections of the immediate neighborhood. For the city that never sleeps, animated LEDs illuminate the structure at night inviting opportunities to take photos with friends or of oneself with the plaza’s urban landscape in the background.

In addition to offering passersby with these perspectives, ‘New York Light’ serves as an illuminated backdrop for events. Performers stand at the north end while the structure provides a visual buffer to traffic along 23rd St.

left © Cameron Blaylock right © Zhonghan Huang

ARCHITECTURE AS MECHANICAL MACHINE

Studio Work at Columbia University GSAPP
Critic: Jeffrey Inaba, Benedict Clouette
Collaborator: Li Li
Time: Spring 2014
哥伦比亚大学设计课程作业
导师：Jeffrey Inaba, Benedict Clouette
合作：李理
时间：2014年春季

建筑依赖一系列技术得以维持城市的宜居性。如果没有机械设备，建筑将缺失基本的供水供能。保温、制冷、照明、防火、电梯等也不复存在。在设计和工程阶段，往往是建筑方案确立后，机械设施和架构根据已有的体量、用途和空间组织来调整。该项目以建筑的性能作为设计过程的出发点，利用形式和机械设备的协同作用，达到对其的低依赖性。

设计首先研究具有自遮阳、光漫射、空气导流、烟囱效应等热学优势的表面，然后通过规则地组合多个单一的表面形成具有多重效应和属性的体量。

Architecture relies on a range of technologies to make the structures of our cities livable. In their absence, buildings would lack basic services like water and power. There would be no heating, cooling, lighting, fire safety, and elevators. In the design and engineering process the building scheme is first established, then the mechanical infrastructure is fashioned to respond to the determined massing, uses, and organization of spaces. This project, considering the building performance as an active input, takes advantage of mass and machines sustainably working together to diminish dependence on mechanical system.

The project starts from the research on thermal benefits of surface. The curved surface possesses four fundamental thermal potentials which are self-shading, light diffusing, air conducting and chimney effect. To achieve multiplied thermal potentials and attributes, single volumes of curved surface are combined regularly to formalize a larger volume with undulate surface.

MATERIALIZED INTIMACY

Studio Work at Columbia Univeristy GSAPP
Critic: Bernard Tschumi
Collaborator: Aminah Alkanderi
Fall 2013

哥伦比亚大学设计课程作业
导师：Bernard Tschumi
合作：Aminah Alkanderi
时间：2013年秋季

这个课程设计探讨“图示符号（Notation）与概念（Concept）”。第一部分的图示符号是对一个现有的图示符号的方法进行提取和发展自己的特有的记号方法，然后将其逐步二维化和三维化，在这个过程中总结特有的思考和表达概念的方法。我选取了战争布局图，从中总结出战争两方相互对抗与平衡的特征，发展出一套空间设计与表达的图示符号。

第二部分是概念设计，要求结合运用第一部分的成果，生成一个新的建筑类型。在这里我研究的是虚拟世界社交的亲密程度（Social Intimacy），分析了它的形成过程和其中的行为变化。然后将虚拟的亲密程度赋予物理的形得到新的公共与私密空间的建筑类型。图示符号中开阔地与隐蔽的丛林被转化为建筑中空的部分与实的部分（Poche）；地形的限制转化为空间的平面与剖面相交；垂直的电梯与斜交的楼梯代表了快速与慢速的建立亲密关系的步骤；建筑中斜切掉的部分代表了对抗中的损害。

This work explores “Notation and Concept“. The first part “Notation“ is to develop a specific mode of notation based on an existing disciplinary. The notation derives from that disciplinary will be converted into two dimensional notation and three dimensional notation step by step. I chose the battlefield map and reconfigured the two forces by building their contradicting and balancing.

The second part “Concept“ is to generate a new typology of architecture based on the outcome of “Notation”. The way I did is to generate a new typology of architectural spaces by translating virtual relationships into physical behaviors, and materializing the process of building intimacy of social media. Flatland and covert jungle are translated into open space and poche. The landscape is converted into perpendicular system where two forces as section and plan intersect each other to produce unexpected spaces. Vertical, horizontal and diagonal connections are added to respond three speeds of establishing intimacy. Intersection of contradictory interfaces results in cutaway surfaces.

PPP LOOP

Studio Work at Columbia Univeristy GSAPP
Critic: Dan Wood
Summer 2013
哥伦比亚大学设计课程作业
导师：Dan Wood
时间：2013年夏季

纽约的州长岛面临着百年内大部分土地由于气候变暖海平面上升带来的无法逆转的淹没危机。同时，生产可持续能源成为了当今建筑设计中最迫切的原则之一。为了应对未来的危机，一种新的综合性体系建立起来，它具有可持续的防御体系保护州长岛的完整性、自给自足的能源生产方式维持运作。此外，这个体系还提供了设施和住所给将来的避难者们。

这三种基础的功能：防洪、避难、能源在城市尺度上集合成为一个完整的环。所有的功能连续闭合的衔接在一起保护州长岛的历史建筑和环境；避难者有所需的住所和生活设置；屋顶设有藻场、雨水处理、太阳能发电，垂直的堤坝转化潮汐运动为电能。

Global warming keeps contributing to the rise of sea level, which incurs an irretrievable inundation of Governors Island. Meanwhile, the consciousness of sustainable energy producing for architecture which is responsible for 40% of CO2 emission becomes one of the most urgent principles for designing of future buildings. To confront these crises in the future, a new mechanism and system should be built up. It keeps the integrity of Governor Island, protects it from being flooded, and has a self-regenerated energy system coping with the shortage of energy. Besides, it provides protest stage and accommodation in emergency for refugees in New York.

Three fundamental functions, “protecting”, “producing” and “protesting”, are integrated in a scale of urban to formalize a holistic loop to achieve a sustainable strategy. All the programs are seamlessly closed and connected as a dam to prevent inundation; refugees and protestors are able to reside inside with necessary amenities and programs; the roof is equipped with algae farm, rain collectors, and solar panels. Tidal movement is converted into electricity by vertical dam.

在海外时间：2013年至今
在海外地点：纽约，美国
姓名：黄中汉
籍贯：深圳
学校和工作单位: 哥伦比亚大学建筑规划及保护研究生院/BIG设计事务所
联系方式：hzhonghan@gmail.com
个人主页：www.caigandong.com
When: Since 2013
Where: New York, United States
Who: Zhonghan Huang
From: Shenzhen, Guangdong
School or Company: Columbia University GSAPP, Bjarke Ingels Group
Contact: hzhonghan@gmail.com
Website: zhonghanhuang.com

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