Bowen Zhou Design

Hi, I'm Bowen.
I craft spatial systems that
Assemble Frameworks.

Designed for:

Resume

Architectural Design Portfolio

Design Built School Collab

Design

Construction

Forest House for a Single Parent Caregiver

A design–build project with the Friends Center for Children: a rent-free forest dwelling, lifted into the canopy above a sunken community space used for workshops and village gatherings.

Penumatic Robotics
Growing Living Spaces

Redefined Kia's future mobility with adaptive green spaces, creating a network of mobile pocket parks.

Internship: Self-directed

Design Engineering

Contract

Design

Engineering

Penumatic Robotics

Urban Service Hubs

Bio-inspired pneumatic robotics drawing from caterpillar locomotion. Mobile living hubs that deploy rapidly and reconfigure across shifting landscapes.

Kia

Flex-use Facility House
A Home is a Neighborhood

Investigation of what home means for Children who studied abroad, lived in others’ homes, and moved between them.

School Work

Design

Akihisa Hirata Internship
Yamagata Music Hall

Located at Yamagata’s Festival Street intersection, the music hall draws from the region’s cave formations. Interconnected, cavernous rooms form a cultural node that anchors community life.

Internship

Interior Design

System Logic

Hi, I'm Bowen.
I craft spatial systems that
Assemble Frameworks.

Designed for:

Resume

Design Built School Collab

Design

Construction

Forest House for a Single Parent Caregiver

A design–build project with the Friends Center for Children: a rent-free forest dwelling, lifted into the canopy above a sunken community space used for workshops and village gatherings.

Penumatic Robotics
Growing Living Spaces

Redefined Kia's future mobility with adaptive green spaces, creating a network of mobile pocket parks.

Internship: Self-directed

Design Engineering

Contract

Design

Engineering

Penumatic Robotics

Urban Service Hubs

Bio-inspired pneumatic robotics drawing from caterpillar locomotion. Mobile living hubs that deploy rapidly and reconfigure across shifting landscapes.

Flex-use Facility House
A Home is a Neighborhood

Investigation of what home means for Children who studied abroad, lived in others’ homes, and moved between them.

School Work

Design

Akihisa Hirata Internship
Yamagata Music Hall

Located at Yamagata’s Festival Street intersection, the music hall draws from the region’s cave formations. Interconnected, cavernous rooms form a cultural node that anchors community life.

Internship

Interior Design

System Logic

Future Mobility
Decentralized Service City

Bio-inspired urban planning and strategy where services are mobile and resources are decentralized.

Design Client

Urban Scenario Planning

Hi, I'm Bowen. I craft spatial systems that Assemble Frameworks.

Designed for:

Resume

Design Built School Collab

Design

Construction

Forest House for a Single Parent Caregiver

A design–build project with the Friends Center for Children: a rent-free forest dwelling, lifted into the canopy above a sunken community space used for workshops and village gatherings.

Penumatic Robotics Growing Living Spaces

Redefined Kia's future mobility with adaptive green spaces, creating a network of mobile pocket parks.

Internship: Self-directed

Design Engineering

Contract

Design

Engineering

Penumatic Robotics

Urban Service Hubs

Bio-inspired pneumatic robotics drawing from caterpillar locomotion. Mobile living hubs that deploy rapidly and reconfigure across shifting landscapes.

Flex-use Facility House A Home is a Neighborhood

Investigation of what home means for Children who studied abroad, lived in others’ homes, and moved between them.

School Work

Design

Akihisa Hirata Internship Yamagata Music Hall

Located at Yamagata’s Festival Street intersection, the music hall draws from the region’s cave formations. Interconnected, cavernous rooms form a cultural node that anchors community life.

Internship

Interior Design

System Logic

Future Mobility Decentralized Service City

Bio-inspired urban planning and strategy where services are mobile and resources are decentralized.

Design Client

Urban Scenario Planning

Hi, I'm Bowen.
I craft spatial systems that
Assemble Frameworks.

Penumatic Robotics
Growing Living Spaces

Flex-use Facility House
A Home is a Neighborhood

Akihisa Hirata Internship
Yamagata Music Hall

Future Mobility
Decentralized Service City