Bowen Zhou Design

I craft spatial systems to
Reconstruct Frameworks.

Yale M.Arch I

Resume

Architecture Portfolio PDF

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.

Yale Design Build

Adaptive Penumatic System
Growing Living Spaces

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

Kia Motors Self-directed Internship

Adaptive Penumatic System
Urban Service Hubs

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

Commissioned Design Research for Hyundai

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

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.

Architecture Interior and Extrior Design for Internship

I craft spatial systems to
Reconstruct Frameworks.

Yale M.Arch I

Resume

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.

Yale Design Build

Adaptive Penumatic System
Growing Living Spaces

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

Kia Motors Self-directed Internship

Adaptive Penumatic System
Urban Service Hubs

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

Commissioned Design Research for Hyundai

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

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.

Architecture Interior and Extrior Design for Internship

Speculative Urban Model
Decentralized Service City

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

Commisioned Speculative Scenario Planning for Hyundai

I craft spatial systems to Reconstruct Frameworks.

Yale M.Arch I

Resume

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.

Yale Design Build

Adaptive Penumatic System Growing Living Spaces

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

Kia Motors Self-directed Internship

Adaptive Penumatic System Urban Service Hubs

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

Commissioned Design Research for Hyundai

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

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.

Architecture Interior and Extrior Design for Internship

Speculative Urban Model Decentralized Service City

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

Commisioned Speculative Scenario Planning for Hyundai

I craft spatial systems to
Reconstruct Frameworks.

Adaptive Penumatic System
Growing Living Spaces

Adaptive Penumatic System
Urban Service Hubs

Flex-use Facility House
A Home is a Neighborhood

Akihisa Hirata Internship
Yamagata Music Hall

Speculative Urban Model
Decentralized Service City