Cherylene Shangpliang

Cherylene M. Shangpliang is an Architectural Designer currently working at Zaha Hadid Architects in London. She holds a Master of Architecture degree from the Architectural Association Design Research Lab (AADRL) in London under Patrik Schumacher’s research agenda “Agent Based Parametric Semiology” and a Bachelor of Architecture degree from BMS College of Engineering, Bangalore, India. Prior to joining Zaha Hadid Architects, she gained professional working experience at the international office MAD Architects in Beijing, China.

Since her time at ZHA, Cherylene has worked on various international competition projects developing high-end designs for building typologies, interiors, and landscape design. She has previously taught workshops utilizing Autodesk Maya as an architectural modeling tool at the Computational Design: NEXT 3.0 online conference and the Metaplay online workshops in collaboration with DEZACT London. She is passionate about communicating complex concepts in architectural design with Autodesk Maya being her primary tool for 3d modeling. Her areas of interest lie in parametric modeling, computational design, and generative design methodologies.