Yanyu Chen’s retail-street study and Chuou Zhang’s workplace-renovation proposal show distinct student applications of research to spatial design. View evidence ↓
At the Shanghai Institute of Visual Art, I supervised undergraduate theses spanning retail environments, workplace renovation, and spatial interaction. Across architecture and product design, this teaching included more than twenty theses during 2015–2017.
Yanyu Chen’s Design and Renovation of a Lifestyle Retail Street explores the spatial organization of commercial activity. Chuou Zhang’s Interactive Renovation Design of Workplace uses post-occupancy evaluation to identify concerns about daylight, shared space, noise, and privacy. Zhang’s proposal develops movable partitions that change the relationship between circulation, conversation, and rest.
The projects shown are student work developed under my supervision.
Lifestyle retail street — Yanyu Chen
Student design by Yanyu Chen. Renderings, a sectional study, and physical models developed under thesis supervision.
Workplace renovation — Chuou Zhang
Student design by Chuou Zhang. The proposal combines workplace planning with moving partitions and an Arduino-based control study.
