BAIXIN REN Selected works | 2008-2015
Baixin Ren MOBILE: 513-602-9474 E-MAIL: baixin@design.upenn.edu ADDRESS: 3935 Pine St, Apt.3R, Philadelphia, PA, 19104 EDUCATION University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA Master of City Planning, Urban Design Concentration, School of Design GPA:3.73/4.0, Department Grant Recipient University of Cincinnati, OH Urban Planning Major, College of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning GPA: 3.85/4.0, Dean’s list Beijing University of Technology, Beijing, China Bachelor of Architecture (NAAB Accredited), School of Architecture, Planning and Design GPA:3.77 (Rank: 2/66), National Scholarship Recipient PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Gensler, Shanghai Office China Shipping Headquarter Office International Health Town Masterplan Gensler Research 2014 Summer - TOD Shanghai University of Cincinnati Community Design Center Metropolis and Mobility Research China Architecture Design & Research Group Linyi CBD Design Inner Mongolia City Comprehensive Plan TECHNICAL SKILLS 2D: AutoCad, ArcGIS, Adobe Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop 3D: Sketchup, Rhinoceros, Revit, Ecotect Rendering: V-Ray, Artlantis, Lumion Programming: Grasshopper for Rhino Others: Corel VideoStudio, MS Office HONORS Recipient, Global Scholarship, University of Cincinnati Recipient, National Merit Scholarship, Ministry of Education Awardee, Excellent Design of Parametric XWG Studio, Tsinghua University First Prize, 2010 Autodesk Architectural National Competition PUBLICATIONS Phoenixville Comprehensive Plan- Grow, Connect, Preserve Public Realm 2015 Discovering Starry Night EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES Member, Student Drawing Union Student President, College of Architecture and Planning in BJUT
2013-Present 2012 - 2013 2008 - 2013
May-Aug. 2014
Jan.-Apr. 2013 Jan.-Apr. 2011
URBAN DESIGN PROJECTS
Content
Neighborhood Integration
New Civic Place for Philadelphia
Sulpher Dell Revitalization
Selected Works
The Path - Hotel Design
GIS WORK
Good Night, That Wall
Selected Vector and Raster Practices
DRAWINGS
ARCHITECTURE PROJECTS
INTERNSHIP
Community Planning for Work-at Homes
On Site Hand Drawings
Urban Design
URBAN DESIGN PROJECT
NEIGHBORHOODS INTEGRATION
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Philadelphia ranks the 9th segregated city in the U.S. We do have historic reasons, but now it is the time to change it. The city itself is consisted of people from backgrounds, but the city is segregating them physically that makes them hardly feel like they are connected to each other. The segregation, both racially and social-economically, usually happen between neighborhoods. In some places of the city, there are even quite a lot of sharp transitions that look like an unseen wall standing between neighborhoods. Brewerytown is one of a typical place associated with segregation issue. The south neighborhood and north are of entirely dierent features due to racial and social segregation. The issue to an urban designer is, how we could empower these Philadelphia neighborhoods via public realm, how we tear down the unnatural barriers to link neighborhoods, and how we use place-making as a tool to help establish more opportunity and energy to the community.
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“The patterns of housing segregation in metropolitan Philadelphia are the legacy of discriminatory public policies and real-estate practices that played out for most of the 20th century. Though discrimination is now illegal, those patterns of segregation were so deeply entrenched that many people came to see them as ‘natural’.” Thomas J. Sugrue. Sweet Land of Liberty: The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North.
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Physically segregated city At first glance, dierent colors are separating the city into parts. Brewerytown represent many similar segregation places of the city. The south neighborhood are of high home values, low vacancy rate, clean roads and luxuriant trees, while the north neighborhood is featured with low house value, vacant and dangerous buildings and unsafe streets.
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Linear Space define neighborhoods Firstly, Girard Avenue is the final destination for people who come from two neighborhoods, since there is no reason for them to go further then. They come to the street to use public transit infrastructure and amenities. Secondly, Girard Avenue and Poplar Street are completely two diďŹ&#x20AC;erent feelings to people since one is transitoriented and commercial boulevard, while the other is quiet and residential street. These two streets are defining the space as too linear feature.
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This piece of overlapped place should be seen as leveraging point to activate these three places. Considering a sharing and connecting place is important, it is important to take advantage this opportunity to revitalize the neighborhoods along corridors starting from this point.The two pieces of available land would be the key to the project.
The second strategy is to check what kind of program could make this place successful according to the demographic feature. There are still some common grounds of the two neighborhoods. They all have a high ratio of married people with kids and a diversity of ages. Their commute time is diďŹ&#x20AC;erent but both groups are largely using public transit. So we establish a series programs that maximum the chance that both groups could mix and communicate.
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An eďŹ&#x192;cient way of intervention and design is to use this crucial point to leverage the project. The site also has an old abandoned brewery factory, which provide a potential use for program. To begin with, we unify the two blocks. The alley in between is canceled since it is narrow and few people are using it. After integration, the square is symmetrically facing to the two neighborhoods and showing an embracing gesture. People from two neighborhoods would come and mix here, together with people who and come back from work to go to the market for shopping and then go home. Therefore the place is providing a public space for them to meet, talk and make stories. All the analysis leads directly to the idea of design. The red arrow shows the main trend of how people flow come to this square, and yellow and green are each a link to the north and south neighborhoods. The red arrow becomes farmers market and places where people could eat and seat, which is shows in the colorful area here. Grass slope, and hard cover playground.
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Future Development FUTURE DEVELOPMENT The future of Brewerytown will be a mixed, energetic, and diverse place. Through the implementation of new development and infrastructure, we believe that this will become a new neighborhood of equity. We wish this place would be a new brewery factory that produce optimism and harmony for the neighborhood.
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Renovated Brewery Factory
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Urban Design
URBAN DESIGN PROJECT
NEW CIVIC PLACE FOR PHILADELPHIA
Without great public places, there would be no great cities Great public places contribute to community health – whe socially, economically, culturally or environmentally. They c be anchors for downtowns and communities, acting as foc points for definition and foundations for healthy growth. Project for Public Spaces
LOCATION Philadelphia, PA DATE 2014 Fall INSTRUCTOR Evan Rose SCALE 12.7 Acre GROUP MEMBER Anna Ishii, Jiannan JIang
Philadelphia has many great parks and public spaces, some setting for neighborhoods, while others setting the tone for the city as a whole. Originally, Penn’s plan for the city was organized around four squares and the axial intersection of Market and Broad Streets as the civic anchor. However, with the city developing, this birthplace of democracy does not have a true civic space for either great celebration or for protest as destinations. In urban design, where it should be, how big it is, and how to make it fit into the structure of the city and what would make it the civic heart of the city is the key thing we should think. In this work, we selected two places as different homes for civic activities and events— Reading Terminal as a local and daily function, described as “public kitchen”, while 30th Station as city-wide scale and in special occasions, like the city’s “formal living room”. They located on Market Street, which is the historic and physical axis, as key anchors to enrich the vein of the city.
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LOCATION FOR CIVIC SPACES The main structure when William Penn planned the city was, two rivers on east and west side, a center square as City Hall, and four squares in each of the quadrants. The plan supposed to let the city develop from the very center and spread out to east and west along market street to the rivers. Indeed, the city was growing not as he supposed, but in the form of an amazing sequence that, the growing foot print itself is like a timeline of the city. From east to west, is also from old to new. Along this corridor, there are five main anchors on this timeline-- Penn’s Landing, Independence Hall, City Hall, Reading Terminal and 30th Station.
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After understand the structure of the city, we again overlay the events layer to the city structure. Market street is not only a city corridor, but also a corridor of people’s diverse life activities. From the important street, we identify two major anchors from the five, Reading terminal and 30th Station. They two represent the historic transportation hub, and current transportation hub. They worked as places for people to depart and arrive. In the future, we locate 30th station as city-wide scale place, to hold special occasions such as July 4th National day. Reading Terminal is more of a local scale, as a daily use for residents, which works as a public kitchen or family room of the city.
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30TH STATION STRATEGY The most concern for 30th Street Station is the organization of circulation. Market Street is connecting east and west Philadelphia, working as an important transportation corridor. In order to build a new civic space, firstly we need to reorganize and unify the scattered pieces— porch, pedestrian road and street. Based on the prerequisite of ensuring same traffic volume, the best solution, via multiple plans comparison, is a triangle-shape plaza that divert two traffic flows on each side. Multiple Scheme Comparison
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Sequence is an important factor that we concerned in this design. Since the site locates at one of the axis of the city, sequence should be reinforced and carry on the historic vein from old city, center city to this gateway.
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A vertical element seated at the end of the plaza reinforce the identification of the place. This new vertical sculpture will be the new gateway of West Philadelphia. Normal days, people who take trips can wait, eat and meet friends. In city-wide festivals like National Day, the new civic space will serve as an important destination for thousands of people to get together, or a starting point of a parade.
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Urban Design
URBAN DESIGN PROJECT
SULPHER DELL REVITALIZATION LOCATION Nashville, TN DATE 2014 Spring COMPETITION ULI Hines Competition SCALE 115.7 Acre GROUP MEMBER Ludivine Otoole, Yifan Wang, Yidi Xu
Sulphur Dell, one of a piece of large underused area in downtown Nahville, has been envisioned to become a mixed-use area including residential, office, and commercial uses chiefly in mid-rise buildings. Our design aspires to create a vibrant identity for Sulphur Dell and to embody sustainability and health living. Since the neighborhood is at the heart of the City and since Nashville is the capitale of country music, the neighborhood seeks to provide what all cities and towns that are centers of creativity and art need, that is it provides home, work, and entertainment spaces in proximity and that are accessible to pedestrians. Our development will offer a great riverfront park and a nice enlarged bikeway. At the strategic crossroads between the bikeway, the riverfront, and Jackson St, the centerpiece of the the Market place is a distinctive “balloon” sculpture. The “balloon” will provide reflections of the neighborhood’s center of activities to attract residents and tourists alike, which will make the place a great destination in the neighborhood.
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Sulphur Dell has no vitality. The neighborhood is mainly consisted by empty surface parking lots and abandoned industrial warehouses. Streets are automobile-oriented, and lacking of green spaces. This deteriorating place obviously need revitalization to galvanize its development.
In the proposal, connectivity would be strengthened between waterfront and diagonal bike trail. After two phases redevelopment, various healthy urban life will be brought back to the neighborhood. Music venues for artists, food market for local farmers, offices for new employers, various types of housing for residents, ample fancy hotels and preserved historical buildings for tourists.
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Transecting The square, where the “Beat” bulb located is the intersection of three main road on site. This spot will be the most popular spot in the whole area. The bikeway will be enlarged to welcome pedestrians and bicyclists and connect our neighborhood via the bike path in the park along the river to the City Center and the Music City bikeway. To prevent flooding, a rain garden system will be installed along the bikeway and the riverpark to absorb excess rainwater as well as provide water to the native plants and flowers.
Resonating Different frequency of “beats” comes together along the music corridor. They will add with each other and form a huge resonance.
Poping up The “Beat” is the image of the huge resonance. The bulb will provide reflections of the neighborhood’s center of activities to attract residents and tourists. It will also display digital advertising for our local businesses and events’ announcements ($1m estimated yearly revenue).
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FLOOD PLAIN TO RAIN GARDEN The City’s plan aims at transforming Nashville’s waterfront to “offer a better quality of life” that would “retain and attract citizens and capital”. Our riverfront park will emphasize the great iron factory work by transforming it into a long vertical garden (most of the roof wll be removed) that provides two-level pathways, stages feature a rotation of local artists’ sculptures and small stages for events/shows. The upper pathway will also provide a pedestrian pathway when the ground level is flooded.
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The “BEAT” bulb is meant to highlight civic activities in the newly developed area. • The surface material is made of aluminum, reflecting things all over the place from multiple views. • The high-rise installation itself is a landmark that attracts varies urban and healthy activities. • For commercial purpose, various advertisements can be placed to achieve high profit. • It help to create the vitality of the place, as well as a unique and strong identification in Nashville.
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Urban Design
URBAN DESIGN PROJECT
COMMUNITY PLANNING FOR TELECOMMUTERS LOCATION Beijing, China DATE 2011 Fall INSTRUCTOR Gang Liu SCALE 28.9 Acre
The site locates at Changping County of Beijing Metropolitan. Though the area seats in a rural county, recent years, with public transportation network expanding, the county is seeing an opportunity to grow rapidly. Beijing government also consider this area as a new technology center, to relieve the burden of the downtown. The given site is zoned as a residential use. The key issues to site are, whom the best fit group are for this remote place, what their daily activities are, and what types of housing they need. Via research, the answer is, the site will attract telecommuters and employers who work in the high tech district as major client. Developers require a huge volume of housing and a high density of units. Residential regulations also recommend a minimum sunlight time to each unit. The design well solved these problems through building models and simulations. Not only density requirements are met, but also a public open space is secured to ensure peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s life quality.
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Route for drive: Due to expressway exit and oneway streets, the arrows show the only way to drive.
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Site choose telecommuters: Located at Zhuxin Village, center of Changping County, employees work at hightech center will need homes there.
Telecommuters choose Site: The key feature working at home makes them major clients in this remote area. Also, it is a more popular and environmental friendly way of life. Design principles: For both groups, they will be able to enjoy the high quality of life living closer to nature, and also, will be provided all essential amenities and facilities in this condensed community.
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MODELING [Material] Perspex, Timber, Card paper, Sporge, Color paper [Time] 5 Days [Method] Handwork, LaserCut
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Internships
ARCHITECTURE PROJECT
CHINA SHIPPING HEADQUARTER OFFICE LOCATION Shanghai, China DATE 2014 Summer STUDIO Gensler Lifestyle Studio SCALE 430,550 sqft
China Shipping Headquarter is designed as a 1,000 ft tall oďŹ&#x192;ce building. About 35% of the site was occupied by a
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historic dry dock, which is the most challenging yet intriguing part of the design. I participated in all phases of this competition, including drawing initial site analysis diagrams, developing design ideas, building working models, designing dock bridge and dock square, and drawing floor plans and sections. The following drawings were developed independently as part of the project for team.
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INTERNATIONAL HEALTH TOWN MASTERPLAN LOCATION Huzhou, China DATE 2014 Summer STUDIO Gensler Lifestyle Studio SCALE 523 acre
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International Health Centre
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Maternity and Infant Health Institute
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Jingqiu Plaza
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Rehabilitation Centre
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Community Mixed-use
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Experts Village
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Utilities
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Entrance Park
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International Medical School
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Football Court
14 Business Hotel
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Internships
RESEARCH PROJECT
TRANSIT-ORIENTED DEVELOPMENT SHANGHAI LOCATION Shanghai, China DATE 2014 Summer STUDIO Gensler Lifestyle Studio GROUP MEMBER Shiqi Huang, Lily, Alex Wu, Duyi
In summer, an Intern Research project in the Gensler Shanghai oďŹ&#x192;ce examined many aspects of transit-oriented development, with a particular emphasis on Asian cities and the many ways transportation has influenced development in those cities. Then the research applied some of the findings to a neighborhood in Shanghai that will certainly see change in the future due to the impact of transit. The future Line 13 will include the Nature Museum Station at the site of an outdoor sculpture park, a new museum, and Jing An Tower. This research proposes a connection between traditional knowledge of TOD guidelines and key implementation strategies. The research also serves as a template for guiding other neighborhood developments throughout China. In this project, I was leading the team by creating research guidelines and approaches, analyzed best practice model and set up implementation methods.
Density centered around transit
Mixed use
Residential building variety
EďŹ&#x192;cient connections
Smaller blocks and roads
Typical development approach
Pedestrian comfort
A typical cluster of higher density, more permeable urban pattern is recommended around transit stations
Bus
Car Metro
A comparison of road surface required to move 50,000 people in one hour.
Distribution
With urban development pressure, more people live in less space. By comparing how some typical transportation mode are used in urban life, a conclusion could be drawn that, a proper transit network and a healthy development are important as planning strategies for cities.
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Density comparisons
Tokyo 36 million 14,485/km2
Shanghai 23 million 24,221/km2
Hong Kong 7 million 6,480/km2
Singapore 5.3 million 7,315/km2
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2. LIVABLE
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Viablity is about quantity, is achieved through large scale, single-action projects and eďŹ&#x20AC;orts such as a freeway exchanges, regional shopping, high-rise zoning and jobs. Viability is constantly chanllenged as city infrastructure ages.
Livability is about quality, about weaving an urban fabric rich in resources and quality of life. Livable cities welcome places to eat and source of entertainment. Livable cities develop parks and open space.
Truly great cities are also memorable. Memorable cities impart an unforgettable experience of having been to the place. Mmemorable cities have strong, clear identities.
Existing Conditions - What are the qualities and features that best define the true nature of the neighborhood today?
• The construction of Line 13 brings to the site opportunities and challenges. • Nature Museum Station will fill the gap of nearby stations service radius. • Site within 800m radius will be the target research area.
Existing Metro Line Proposed Metro Line
1. Existing Regional Metro System
• Walking experience is one of the key elements in a TOD neighborhood. • Assessment has been made according to six criteria-- cleanness, shelter, sidewalk condition, vibrancy, safety, and facility. • Enhancement will be made to the bad and average streets in the future re-design. Cleanness
Shelter
Side Walk
Vibrancy
Safety
Facility Good Average Bad
2. Existing Street Assessment
• The ages of buildings on site are diverse. • Old buildings worth special attention. Old-good condition buildings are usually historic perservation buildings and good condition residential buildings. • Large amount of buidlings are old and shabby, which are ususally homes to low income groups.
New-Good condition Historic Church
Middle age-Good condition Middle age-Bad condition Old-Good condition
Typical housing
3. Existing Building Condition
Old-Bad condition
Existing Conditions - What are the qualities and features that best define the true nature of the neighborhood today?
• The actual 400 meters walking radius is actually not a perfect circle. • Coming out of metro station, people ususally have to walk 270450m to transfer to bus stops, which need 5-7 minutes’ walk. 120m
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Train/Light Rail Bus Stop Walking Route The smaller transfer area, the more efficient
5min Walk Area
4. Existing Transit Access
• Residential land use take up a large portion on site. • A vibrant and success TOD neighborhood ususally have more mixed land use pattern.
Residential 5%
Office & Institutes
14%
Public Amenities 10%
11%
60%
Commercial Open space
5. Existing Land Use
• There are three parks within the site, Sculpture Park, Jiuzi Park and Butterfly Bay Park, but all of them are underutilized. • Concrete wall block people’s view and reduce the possibility of interacting with water.
Node of bridge and waterfront Blocked Suzhou River
5. Existing Open Space
Implementation Strategies - Strategies for neighborhood development devised that assures the new neighborhood will be Viable, Livable and Memorable.
Viable - Pedestrian Connections
Livable - Green System
Livable - Transit Network
Livable - Proper Land Use
Culture and Creative Park Jiuzi Park Riverside Park Labour Exhibition Hall Former Home of Peng Pai Da Tian Road Cathedral
Hu Die Wan
Song Pu Historical Site
Jingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;an Tower Nature Museum
Jingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;an Sculpture Park
Da Feng Tang Historical Site
Memorable - Preserve Urban Fabric
Memorable - Develop Destinations
Architecture
ARCHITECTURE PROJECT
THE PATH - HOTEL DESIGN LOCATION Beijing, China DATE 2012 Spring INSTRUCTOR Ying Sun SCALE 430,550 sqft
Beijing is a city with long history and rich culture. However, one of the most worrying urban problems is the city is gradually missing its unique urban fabric, which are crucial to maintain its memory. Wangfujing Street, a famous and old street, is a must-go attraction for travelers and local people. With the development pressure, the human scale urban fabric has been replaced by superblocks and skyscrapers. People who used to love this street could find less and less place to stay. In the new hotel design, rebuilding a human scale place for people to stay and enjoy the semi-space between building and city is the key to the entire plan. Architecture is not only digging into itself about the interiors, but also about the concern to the relationship among people, space and the city.
Bird View
Site panorama
Beijing
City Center: Inside 2nd Ring
BACKGROUND Located at the very center of the Beijing old city, on famous Wangfujing Street, which is a popular place among tourists from all over the world. Both the street and buildings, constructed ever since Yuan Dynasty, has beceme a reflection of the history and memories of the culture. However, a problem comes up into view that it seems that Wangfujing Street is crowded by rushed tourists every day but there is few stops for them actually. Moreover, the culture which used to be condensed here is going to fade away because of the large size buildings. This program aims at building a new commercial hotel for travelers and visitors. Considering the complexity of the old district, I use parametric method to have an analysis of site field and take the location, history, people and culture into consideration in order to make an appropriate building for this area.
LAND USE ANALYSIS The first analytic step is the feature of the site and land use around it. Wangfujing district is an area lacking of green space, stop points and leisure space. Also, large shopping malls, fashion stores and hotels start to take over the place instead of old courtyard dwellings.
Green open space
Church and hospital
Old dwelling houses
Commercial use
Cars are not allowed on the main street, so that it is the only pedestrian street at the very central of Beijing city. The site locates at the end of the pedestrian street, making it an important point for walking people.
Pedestrian only Cars allowed
SITE HISTORY Hutong, one of the traditional urban fabric of Beijing, functionally were used as connections for courtyards and streets. With development pressure increasing, it is vanishing from centuries yearsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; old street. Big blocks and skyscrapers are replacing them in recent 10 years.The city gradually lost human scale fabric and memories.
PROBLEM SOLUTION
Large Scale
Formal Space
Human Scale
Multiple shape space
HOTEL AND SURROUNDINGS
Considering the FAR and height limitation to site, the construction volume means another big block placed to site.
The solution is to break the big bar into two pieces, and push the right part backward, aiming at leaving space to church square.
The height of hotel is twice as the church. In order to relieve the tension to church, the bottom of the structure is pushed inward.
PEOPLE FLOW SIMULATION
People proportion
People density at entrances
People density at exits
Destination Density as single stop
Destination Density as multi-stop
Circulation on Street
Step 1: [Points selection] Each point represent a high density of people, some are entrances and some are exits, and some are major clusters on street.
Step 2: [Connect points] Connecting all points that representing people cluster directly. These straight lines are a possible paths network on site.
Step 3: [Result selection and development]
Via controlling multiple parameters in grasshopper, I got a optimized result from the bundling.
Then focus on the part within boundary.
Deviding the lines into three parts due to density. The part weaved at maximum density formed black area, meaning high volume of people flow. Grey means lower density, while white means least density.
Within the three parts, the plan is further developed. Black area will be used for tourists to stop or going through; the greyarea will be used for retail space; the white part is the most private area, will be guest rooms.
Initial scheme from simulation
MULTIPLE SCHEME COMPARISON
A. Designed directly from architectsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; perceptual mind. The building provide a centralized space by the enclosing boundary.
B. Modeled directly by parametric generation results, plan B is a new conception plan. However, the blocks are scattered and fragmentary.
C. Developed from Plan B. Towers are integrated to avoid chaos. Bottom floors tried to find a relationship with the site.
D. This plan has a better arrangement for tower and bottom floors. Also, various color threads mixed together, showing a gradual change in color, a complex tissue of myth and fact.
E. Further development to landscape and overall shape. The main building have a better adjustment to site. But some components still seem redundant.
F. Details are considered in this scheme, and get rid of unnecessary parts. Besides, sunshine, wind, rain, construction ability factors are considered.
SITE PLAN / GROUND FLOOR PLAN
FACADE / SECTION
SUNLIGHT AND SHADE EFFECT
MULTIFUNCTIONAL HALL ACOUSTIC DESIGN
Architecture
ARCHITECTURE PROJECT
GOOD NIGHT, THAT WALL LOCATION Beijing, China DATE 2011 Spring INSTRUCTOR Bin Hu SCALE 86,111 sqft
The site locates at Beijing old city inside 2nd ring. It seated at the end of a segment of the ancient city wall, which was built in Ming Dynasty, and the only piece of relic left in Beijing. Right now it has been preserved as a historic legacy and planned into a civic park. As the other end is the old tower gate connected with the wall, the site was vacant until the park built. The government intended to build a new museum here to restore documents and legacies to remind people history. Considering the specialty of the site location, the museum should keep a contingency, or to be an entirely new shape to refresh people is the key issue of the design. I chose to respond to history by handling building fabric, materials and shape, but also bring modern architecture style into the site. The new museum will be an appropriate transition from old times to today world.
Museum night view
SITE SURROUNDINGS
Walking paths
Driving path
Main historic building
Site relationship
Site model
DESIGN PRINCIPLES
The old city wall and gate tower was built in Ming dynasty in acient China. However, with fast pace of urban renewal and political reasons, the relics was destroyed and replaced by modern buildings and roads. The museum is to memory the history of the wall, the scar and pain of the history. Spatially, it will be a strong end responding to the gate wall at the other end.
PROCESS
Step 1: Original City Wall Pattern
Step 2: Scale and reshape the pier
Step 3: Assemble the two elements
FACADE ANALYSIS Step 1: Color ratio
The two Chinese characters, meaning convex and concave, was written by a famous Chinese artist, Guanzhong Wu. Both the meaning and form are similar to the city wall. The color ratio from the characters is applied to the architecture.
Step 2: City wall axis - The museum facade is referred to the angle of the old wall
Step 3: Add organic pattern to architecture
There are quite a lot of old trees in the park. Though most are dead, they still stand there with vigorous trunk and branch. They experienced hundres of years storm and wind, standing next to the city wall silently, like story tellers.
GROUND FLOOR PLAN
FACADE
MATERIAL ANALYSIS
Skin Material
Organic relics
Material chosen for historic continuency Ancient trees from Ming Dynasty
Old wall Environment
Gate tower from Ming Dynasty
RENDERINGS AND PLANS
First Floor Plan
Second Floor Plan
GIS Work
PLANNING TRAINING
MODELING GEOGRAPHICAL SPACE DATE 2014 Spring INSTRUCTOR Dana Tomlin
Single and Pairs
GIS knowledge is one of the essential tool for urban analysis, and has been practiced more into urban design realm. The tool is able to oďŹ&#x20AC;er us key background information in preliminary research for a project, and also
Bus routes and stops
for testifying design strategies and results. These practices are to explore the nature and use of both vector-oriented and raster-oriented geographic information systems for the analysis and synthesis of spatial patterns and processes. They are studying discrete objects in
Neighborhoods bus stops
geographical space, including buildings, water bodies, land parcels; and the qualities of geographical space, including proximity, density, or interspersion than discrete objects. This is done by decomposing data, data-processing capabilities, and data processing control techniques into elemental components that can then be recomposed, and
Bus stop service radius
combined into a complex system of simulations. We are able to figure out like measuring distances or travel times, characterizing geographic shapes, computing topographic slopes and aspects, determining visibility, or simulation flow patterns. Most popular stops
Overall assessment
BEST TRANSIT AREA IN CINCINNATI To better assess Greater Cincinnati â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;s public transportation service, a variety of criteria are applied including demographic feature, stops on and oďŹ&#x20AC;, serving radius, transit routes analysis. The research aims at helping public-transit dependent people find a best zone to live in.
LOCATION SELECT FOR WAL-MART IN PALMAR, COSTA RICA
1. Hydrology - Get rid of rivers, streams, and wetlands that are unsuitable for Wal-mart site.
2. Development - Select undeveloped lands, and exclude roads, existing buildings.
3. Vegetation - Choose only open land and abandoned plantation for environmental sustainability.
By multiple times reclassify and calculation directly from single layers, data are recomposed and turned into usable information. The final map is the product of Restriction map* Advantage map. In the final map, the higher score the land is, the more suitable for the site.
4. Road Accessibility - Wal-mart prefer places closer to roads for convenient transit.
5. Buildings - More buildings means more clients and opportunities for Walmart.
6. Elevation - For transportation and construction consideration, flat sites are better choices
* A. Restriction Map - In order to exclude all restricted lands for construction, multiply calculation is generated as ReclHydro*ReclDev*ReclVeg.
Map A * Map B= Final Map
B. Advantage Map - Based on a series of map that a Wal-mart would prefer, advantage map gave each pixel a score by accumulation.
UPENN FOOD TRUCKS ON SNOW DAY By given the assumption that people at Penn generally walk at a speed of 5 feet per second on Hard Surface conditions but only half as fast over Green Space and 1/10 as fast when walking in the Street, while Buildings and Water are impassible. Because of a recent snowstorm, all speeds were changed to 13 1/3 feet per second. Given the 3 lunch trucks and 40 typical customers, we will determine how this new condition will aďŹ&#x20AC;ect trucks, customers, and landscape in between them. Q1: How many customers will be gained or lost in a snowstorm for each truck.
Before
After
1. Create two friction grids for the campus condition of before after snow. Reclassify the original layer, set the categories as seconds per foot taken to the food truck.
2. Use focal statistics (maximum) to enlarge the pixels which represent the customers and food trucks. Then region group the food truck only layer.
3. Apply cost allocation for both layers of before and after snow to see which customers are in each of the truck's zone.
4. Use zonal statistics (sum) to count the customers in each zone.Generate how many customers each truck gain or lost due to the snow.
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5. Results: The southwest truck gained two customers. The north truck gained one customers. The southeast truck lost three customers.
Q2: How much travel time will be saved or lost due to the snow. Before
After
1. Began with the before and after snow layer, perform cost distance to the truck only layer as the source data, and the friction layer as input cost data. Then generate how long time customers will cost in both before and after snow maps. 2. The length of time that customers saved or lost will be calculated by substract the before snow layer from the after snow layer. Negative values means times saved, and vice versa.
Q3: How many more or less customers will be traversing on the pixel on their way to lunch. Before
After
1. Started with the time cost layer, generated two before and after snow layers via flow direction.
2. Then apply flow accumulation to visualize the customer paths to the food trucks. Finally, substract the before-paths from after-paths by raster calculator. Negative values means less customers will choose the paths, and vice versa.
IDENTIFICATION OF â&#x20AC;&#x153;THE THIRD ROUGHESTâ&#x20AC;? PROVINCE IN AFGHANISTAN The process of identify "the third roughest" province in Afghanistan is based on its topology. ArcGIS plays the role to help analyze how terrain can influence the defence in modern war. In terms of criteria, elevation, aspect, and slope are three major factors that determine if the topology is rough or not. Step 1: Elevation
2. After 4 times applying focal statistics, elevatioin 4 is calculated.
1. Original Elevation
3. Absolute difference of elevation value
4. Zonal statistics and reclassify is applied
Elevation Defference Map
Step 2: Aspects
2. After 4 times applying focal statistics, Aspect 4 is calculated.
1. Original Aspects
3. Absolute difference value of aspects
4. Determine the aspect range as rough level in horizonal dimension.
Aspect Defference Map
Step 2: Slope
2. After 4 times applying focal statistics, slope 4 is calculated.
1. Original Slope
3. Absolute difference of slope value
Elevation Defference Map
4. Calculate the steepness of the 12 provinces, to see the rough level in vertical dimension.
Aspect Defference Map
The third roughest province After the three criteria is applied, add all of the scores up, to see which region is the third highest score on site. Higher scores means rougher sites, and vice versa
Slope Defference Map
Slope Defference Map
Drawings PEN DRAWINGS
1900 ChianMen Street, Oct. 2012
1930 ChianMen Street, Oct. 2012
1950 ChianMen Street, Oct. 2012
These series of Chianmen Street represent the evolution of this hundreds years old historic street.
PEN DRAWINGS
Hongjiang Ancient Village, Hunan Province, China. July 2009
Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, China. July 2011
Drawing Studio. March 2011
Xitang Ancient Village, Zhejiang Province, China. July 2011
Hunan Province, China. March 2011
WATER COLOR
Studio. Sep. 2010
Studio. Nov. 2009
GAUCHE
Lishui Ancient Village, Zhejiang Province, China. July 2009
Studio. April 2010
Ancient Village, Zhejiang Province, China. July 2009
Studio. May 2010
Zhongshan Park, Beijing, China. May 2011
OIL PAINTING
Studio. April, 2011
Studio. May, 2011