Overseas NO.132: Ziying Huang

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。
第一百三十二期为您介绍的是毕业于北京林业大学， 宾夕法尼亚大学、现工作于 Surfacedesign, Inc 的黄子盈

A bosom friend afar brings distant land near. The Oversea album shares the lives of Chinese living abroad with all.
The No.132 episode features Ziying Huang who graduated from Beijing Forestry University, University of Pennsylvania and is now working for Surfacedesign, Inc

为什么出国？
Why going abroad?

当时单纯地想去更远的地方看看。

It was simply out of the urge to see what was out there.

 

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?

在加州要到自然里去是很容易的事，这两年我才意识到我有多需要从自然里汲取能量。

Nature is so accessible here in California, the past two years have made me realize how much I get recharged from nature.

 

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

家常菜，桂花香气，夏天晚上在湖边散步。

Home cooking, the air filled with Osmanthus fragrance, a long walk along the West Lake on a summer night.

 

你会回国吗？为什么？
Will you come back? Why?

目前没有这样的打算。或许多年以后回头看这个答案会觉得自己鲁莽天真吧。但只知道现在加州的山海仍旧能够滋养我，只知道现在对他乡和我乡仍旧有着边界不清的概念。

I don’t have plans to move back for now. Maybe looking back years later I’d find myself reckless and naïve. But at the moment I just know that I’m still nurtured by the Californian coast, and I don’t see myself as ‘L’Étranger’.

 

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?

可以说拥有了很多不同的视角吧，清晰倒未必。

I guess it just has allowed me to look at it in different perspectives, not necessarily clearer.

 

你的学校有哪些教育特点？
What are the educational characteristics of your school?

让我印象最深刻的是在宾大教授和学生之间的关系，我很感激他们总是真心实意地对待我们和我们的作品。

The most memorable part is the connection between the professors and the students, I’m grateful for them always being present, devoted, and truly caring about us and our work.

 

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?

Surfacedesign是一个30人左右的小公司，这是一个很紧密的集体，这个集体里大家鲜明的个性都得以保留下来，但同时又很有协作精神。

The scale (30 people) makes it a close-knit community, where we work closely with each other while our distinct personalities are maintained.

 

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?

有些不能说非常直接地影响到我做设计，但是能够让我保持想要做设计的热情，以一种很模糊和难以名状的方式灌溉我灵感。我很喜欢看一些布景很有意思的电影，比如Stanley Kubrick的2001太空漫游，它让我感觉到空间的那么多种可能性。然后我个人对于颜色还挺痴迷的，所以有时候看看一些画也挺好的，比如Richard Mayhew的风景画。如果真要说和景观设计很有关系的，我最近很喜欢luciano giubbilei。

There are things that don’t directly impact my design work but keep me passionate about it in a vague and indescribable way. I really enjoy watching movies with interesting set designs, such as Stanley Kubrick’s “2001: A Space Odyssey,” which opens so many possibilities for space in a captivating way. I like playing with colors, so I also enjoy looking at paintings sometimes, like Richard Mayhew’s landscapes paintings.  If we’re talking about something closely related to landscape design, I’ve recently found myself inspired by Luciano Giubbilei’s design a lot.

 

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?

我觉得迷人是件很难也很私人的东西哈哈。不过我自己喜欢我自己的作品总是关注到具体的人会如何感受到我做的空间。即使是在宾大的项目始于超大尺度的系统性框架，我最终也会尝试落回到能被人们感受到的空间上去，虽然有时因为时间的限制并不能如意，但试了总比没有好嘛。还有就是我不太喜欢在设计里“说废话”，但大家都知道这有多难，我仍旧在学习中。

Haha, I think to be charmed is quite elusive and personal. However, I personally enjoy focusing on how specific individuals will experience the spaces I create. Even though projects at Penn often began with large-scale systematic frameworks, I always tried to return to spaces that people can truly feel. I couldn’t always achieve what I wanted due to time constraints, but it’s better than not trying at all. Another thing is that I’m constantly looking for simplicity in my works, but obviously still learning.

 

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?

本科的时候！当时我就很喜欢看在海外这个专栏，当时觉得看着大家的故事受到了很多鼓舞。

When I was in college.  I read about Overseas a lot and was inspired by the stories all the time.

 

 

W O R K
01.
为了未来的纪念-布鲁克林气候迁徙
A Memorial for The Future – Climate Migration in Brooklyn
Upenn Studio 701
Instructor: Matthijs Bouw
Collaborator: Elisabeth Machielse

不同的社区不公平地受到受气候风险的影响，并且总是作为分离的个体来面对这些风险。在布鲁克林，沿海社区是首批面临海平面上升的社区，有时需要采取撤退策略。撤退社区的人们面临着被剥夺家园和自我认同的失落感。另一方面，接收社区也面临诸如住房和能源短缺等资源短缺的挑战。

Communities are being affected by climate risks unequally, and they always confront these risks as separate entities. In Brooklyn, communities along the coastline are the first to face sea level rise, sometimes requiring a retreat strategy. The retreating communities often experience a sense of loss – the loss of homes, the loss of identities. On the other hand, the receiving communities also face challenges such as housing and energy shortages, among other resource shortages.

这个项目探索了一种让来自不同社区的人们作为一个整体来面对气候风险的策略。在Gerritsen Beach，设计分为三个阶段：提供住所和恢复资源，转型为教育公园，发展新的生态系统栖息地。该设计将撤退社区面临的情感和物质上的损失纳入考量，同时准备该地区成为一个新的栖息地，也保护内陆地区免受洪水侵袭。在King’s Highway，设计侧重于筹款、开发住房和建设一个团结的社区来支持新居民。

This project has explored an approach that allows people from different communities to confront climate risks as a cohesive whole. At Gerritsen Beach, the design focuses on three phases: providing shelter and recovery resources, transitioning to an educational park, and developing new habitats for the changing ecosystem. This approach acknowledges the emotional and physical losses faced by the retreating community while preparing the area to become a habitat that also protects inland areas from flooding. At King’s Highway, the design focuses on fundraising, developing housing, and building a cohesive community to support incoming residents.

在两人小组中，我专注于撤退社区的设计。对我而言，这个项目的特别之处在于，与其他探索加高加固住房使居民能够留下的项目不同，它让我接受了设计师有时并不能真正保护人们免受气候风险的影响，而是让他们去看，去了解，去记得。

Within the team of two, my role was to focus on the retreating community design. What’s special about this project to me is that, unlike other projects exploring ways to elevate or protect the neighborhood, it has allowed me to accept the fact that sometimes the role of designers is not to protect people directly from climate risks, but to enable them to see it, learn about it, and remember it.

通过重新塑造地形和将现有房屋适应性地转变为公共教育空间，其中包括一个交互式浮动结构，设计将一些难以察觉的东西转变为可见和可触摸的空间。最终，它设想Gerritsen Beach转变为一个新生态系统的栖息地，从而增强布鲁克林内陆地区抵御洪水的能力。

Through reshaping the landform and adaptively transforming existing homes into public educational spaces, including an interactive floating structure, the design turns something imperceptible into spaces that are visible and tangible. It envisions Gerritsen Beach transitioning into a habitat for a new ecosystem, thereby contributing to resilience against flooding in Brooklyn’s inland areas.

02.
天津蓝色通道 – 重新激活工业社区
Blue Corridor as Industrial Community Armature
Upenn Studio 601
Instructor: Muhan Cui, Nicola Saladino, Chen Chen, Ellen Neises
Collaborator: Youzi Xu

天津作为一个拥有海岸贸易和工业遗产的港口城市，现在正面临严重的水文问题：水资源稀缺、上游污染加剧以及高地下水盐度。在这样的背景下，再加上其独特的工业遗产受到了自上而下的土地利用和搬迁政策威胁，葛沽镇以其最大制造商荣成钢铁厂呼吁建立一个具有弹性的框架，既能尊重其作为工业强国的文化身份，又能恢复人与水之间健康的联系。

Tianjin, as the port city with an ongoing legacy of coastal trades and industries, is now facing severe hydrological problems: scarcity, accelerating upstream pollution, and high groundwater salinity. Situated in such context, compounded by its unique industrial heritage now threatened by the top-down land-use & relocation policy, the town of Gegu with Rockcheck Steel Plant as its biggest manufacturer urges a resilient framework to both honor its cultural identity as an industrial powerhouse and restore a healthy link between the people and water.

通过在提案的蓝色走廊内将无形转变为可见，将不可感知转变为可感知，为人们形成一个新的文化中心，以便创新参与各种处理过程，解决当地和区域水危机，同时吸引外部用户和投资流入该地区。钢铁制造业在这一过程中既充当强大的合作者，又作为共同受益者，采取可持续的措施对抗其自身过时的生产模式。因此，这个项目作为工业和人民在环境变化中共同进化的原型，展示了一种新的立场。

By transforming the invisible to visible, imperceptible to sensible within proposed blue corridor, a new cultural nexus is formed for people to innovatively participate in various treatment processes which address local and regional water crisis, while also attracting external flows of users and investments to the region. The steel-making industry acts both as a strong collaborator and a co-beneficiary during such process, performing a sustainable counter-act against its own outdating production modes. This project thus takes a stand as a prototype for industry and people co-evolving in lieu of changing environment.

03.
平衡行动 – 新产业扎根社区
Balancing Acts – New Industry Rooted in The Local Community
Upenn Studio 602
Instructor: Zachery Hammaker
Collaborators: Larissa Whitney, Marissa Sayers

平衡行动重新审视历史上的类型学，探索工业村在现代时代可能成为什么样子。以现有社区特色为出发点，我们的框架结合了翻新、复兴和重新开发的方式。设计着眼于在公共与私密、工作与玩乐、白天与夜晚、工业与社区之间的关系中取得平衡，让新工业的发展均衡流动中发生。

Balancing Acts reexamines the historical typology to explore what the industrial village could be in the modern era. Using the existing community character as point of departure, our framework combines elements of renovation, revitalization and new development. The relationship of public and private, work and play, day and night, industry and community, inspire a design where growth occurs in equalizing flows.

04.
西费城高中活动空间设计
West Philadelphia High School Activity Space Design

在上学的过程中我逐渐意识到人的尺度的空间设计是最让我感到兴奋的。我很感谢一些大尺度的项目培养了我系统性思考的能力， 但在宾大的最后一个学期我想选择能够深入到非常具体，实际的空间设计的项目，最好是能够有建成可能性的。

During my academic journey, I gradually realized that human-scale spatial design is what excites me the most. I am grateful for the opportunity to have been involved in large-scale projects that developed my ability to think systematically. However, in my final semester at Penn, I was looking to engage in a project that delves into very specific, practical spatial design, ideally one with a potential of being built.

这个项目探究了西费城一所高中的学生活动空间。 在多轮与学生的讨论后，最后落实到一座教学楼旁的温室设计。 由于有限的经费，该设计采用了已有温室产品的模数，在无需定制的情况下最大化空间的灵活性和趣味性。最后手工模型和1：1家具的制作过程也很让人感觉新鲜。

This project explores the student activity spaces at a high school in West Philadelphia. After multiple rounds of discussions with students, we settled on designing a greenhouse next to an existing building. Due to budget constraints, the design utilized modular greenhouse components to maximize flexibility and interest without the need for custom fabrication. The process of creating handmade models and 1:1 scale furniture was also incredibly rewarding and refreshing.

05.
地形设计
Form to Landform

宾大设计项目502，将抽象形态的塑造应用到地形设计中。图中分别为cnc模型和黏土模型。

Upenn Studio 502, the landform design was inspired by the previous abstract from studies.

在海外时间：2019 年至今
在海外地点：费城，旧金山
姓名：黄子盈
籍贯：浙江杭州
学校or工作单位：北京林业大学， 宾夕法尼亚大学
联系方式：ziying.huang11102@outlook.com

When: 2019 to present
Where: Philadelphia, San Francisco
Name: Ziying Huang
From: Hangzhou, Zhejiang
School: Beijing Forestry University, University of Pennsylvania
Office: Surfacedesign, Inc
Contact: ziying.huang11102@outlook.com