Stella(Yuxiao) Zhang

• Prepare schematics, renderings, and design drawings, develop design drawings to guide the construction and installation processes. • Assist in creating proposals, color palettes, and design finishes • Collaborate with clients to understand their preferences and requirements for custom carpet designs. Create unique and visually appealing carpet patterns that align with the overall design concept • Site visits, measurements, and inspection • Provide scope of work with material and construction cost • Create furniture binders showcasing various designs. Update furniture catalogues with new designs. • Organize and maintain showroom library for visually appealing display. Maintain material inventory for easy reference. Update library with new materials. • Coordinate with suppliers and fabricators for sourcing materials. Establish relationships with new suppliers, fabricators, and installers. • Collaborate with suppliers for material samples. • Research reliable and cost-effective sources for materials.

• Collaborated with the Principal designer on both commercial and residential projects, including programming, concept design, schematic design, design development and construction documents. • Researched and selected finishes, fixtures and equipment. Coordinated and communicated with clients directly, vendors, contractors and manufacturers. • Created specifications, finished plan, material selections required for construction, designing vanity, cabinet and other millworks. • Selecting lighting, furniture, hardware, etc. • Created staging process for commercial uses. • Worked in a fast-paced teamwork environment.

• Draft permit architectural drawing sets (site plans, site statistics, parking plan, floor plan layout, roof plan,) for several mix-use condo designs. • Edited application books for competition submissions. • Analyze and organize all site information to ensure compliance with zoning by law. • Working with the designer to produce the massing model in SketchUp. • Developed master plans in AutoCAD, 3D model (site model, topography) in SketchUp and Rhino for resort design.

• Reviewed design drawings to ensure that each plan is compliant with the Building Code and various accessibility guidelines • Prepared graphic diagrams such as stacking diagrams/blocking diagrams for presentation for clients and city officers. • Involved in KAIYANG Office Building design group and set-up the scheme and concept drawing. • Visited site to complete survey drawing

• Measured site and transfer it to base AutoCAD drawing for senior designer • Drew floorplans and room layouts in accordance with project estimates and relevant regulations; provided elevations and sections drawing to the project designer • Worked on four major residential renovation projects (condo rooms)

The research explores the imminent nature of the Anthropocene through the lens of ubiquity in the production of data, raw material, logistical processes and their impacts on contemporary scenes. It focuses on the context of the Arctic, where global warming has caused permafrost thaw, effectively disrupting and displacing existing modes of life through what has come to be known as 'cli-migration'. Understanding that such changes pose threats while simultaneously affording new opportunities, projects speculate on imminent realities and respond by proposing methods for radical preservation through adaptation. Research is conducted through a process of 'decoding' and 'recoding'. a multi-directional workflow that combines research, machine learning, procedural and algorithmic processes that are tested between interactive world-building and narratives in the form of short films.

• Specialized in Interior Design • Award Winner 2020 • CIDA accredited (May 2020)