Y Portfolio of Tianwei Ye
Tianwei Ye
ty287@cornell.edu 1-917-935-9005
STRENGTHS • Conceptual Design • Parametric Design • Architectural Graphic
• Digital Modeling & Rendering • Building Performance Stimulation
EDUCATION Cornell University • Master of Architecture M.Arch 2 (Post-Professional)
May 2014
Huazhong University of Science & Technology (HUST) • Master of Architecture • Bachelor of Architecture
May 2013 Jun 2011
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE OMA (Office for Metropolitan Architecture), Aug 2013 • REBUILD BY DESIGN: Hurricane Sandy Regional Planning and Design Competition Analyzed flooding risks of Manhattan, Hoboken, Philadelphia waterfronts. Assisted in setting up
Green Architecture Research Office AAP HUST, Jun 2011 – May 2013 • Daughter village Sustainable Tourism Development, Enshi, China Carried out concept design, drawings for visitor center and retails. Three trips to site including
framework and preparing presentation materials.
two direct reviews with clients and local government. Assisted in construction drawings.
• Resort hotel development, Yuntai Mountain Geopark, Zhengzhou, China
Carried out design and drawings of resort hotel of 2.7acres, worked with landscape architects, civil engineers and clients on master plan.
• Guigang people’s park in Southern mountian, Guangxi China.
Surveyed three main streets on site, two reviews with local government. Analyzed topography with GIS data.
Central-South Architectural Design Institute, Jan 2010 - May 2010 • Ruian commercial shopping mall, Zhejiang China. • Baibuting residential development, Wuhan China. ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE Cornell University Sustainable Design • Beebe Lake Redevelopment, Oct 2013. Teaching • Teaching Assistant, Representation II: Media of Representation, Cornell, Feb 2014. • Introductory of Rhino&Grasshopper, open course, HUST, May 2012. • Efficient Rendering by Vray for Sketchup, open course, HUST, Aug 2012. AWARDS
• Honorable Prize — CTBUH International student Tall Building design competition, 2012. • Third Prize — Delta Cup International Solar Building Design competition, 2011. • First Prize — Cube-architects young architect talent award, 2011 • Second Prize — China National University Student Green Building design competition, 2011. • Honorable Prize — AUTODESK Revit Cup Sustainable Building design competition, 2008 & 2010.
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manchester waterways Renaissance The Manchester waterway systems were the products of the industrial evolution in the 18th century. They served to the prosperity and the characteristic of the city. However in the 21st century, where most of the old waterways no longer serve their original purposes, it's time to reconsider their roles and relationship to the urban enviroment. By connecting the waterway system as a "LOOP", this project engages a whole new relationship of the water and the urban space. With the water elevated above the ground. Pollutions are alleviated while new possibilities and urban space are created.
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Vacant land
Parking
City centre
Old Mills
Mills
Vacant land
Green space
Canal Warehouse Parking
Water runoff from the buildings are one of the main source of pollution. What's wrong with tap water?
Climate change starts to lead to the depletion of the water
Mills and factories have been polluting water from decades.
People naturally enjoy near the water
People pollute water too
The water issues in Manchester city center is of high complexity. The water body have been polluted by industrial activities for hundreds of years and the urban environment along the waterways is left with unutilized land. What is more urgent is fewer people care about their water now. There's a strong need to reconstruct the urban environment as well as the relationship between the water and the people/
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Protective City moat for castle in the past
Open loop for the city in the future 55
Ashton Canal
Wetland
Water treatment
Boat racing
ECO Neighborhood
Marine life research center
Energy generation
River Irk
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REIMAGING TALL —— Peaceful Underground In China, people die at a rate of 8.92million/year. If each of the dead person occupies 2m2 of arable land, according to current average level, the land available for death decrease at a rate of 2883million m2/year. As the ever increasing speed of urbanism, cities continue to devour large amounts of the land of the countries. In 2050, there will be no room for the dead. Where shall I put my ash box when I died?
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In the mass development of urbanism, much of the arable land of the countryside have been devoured due to the expansion of the city. Tombs used to orientated at ideal location have now been forced to move to other places, which results in serious conflicts between the villagers and the government.
1970s
2000s
2020s
Horizontally grow
Vertically grow
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Programs
Circulation
Sunlight
Water drainage and usage
Each of the tombs uses a LED screen to show photos and words of the past people. The ring-shape memorial corridor thus become a grand exhibition of the lives of the past, reminding the livings how precious life once were.
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FROM CONTexT to DETAILS —— Moutain Posthouse One of the greatest challenge of the project was not to search for forms that keep in harmony with the surroundings (although it's an important one as many other scenery projects), but to take full advantages of the limited resources on site — exsiting buildings been taking down, views on different level, local building traditions and technics. On-site investigation and personal experinece played important roles in this project.
Best Design Award — Sponsored by L W K, 2011
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The first approach was to deal with waste of the original buildings. As it may took too much labor and money to transport the bricks and stones down hill, the basement was used to store most of the construction wastes. The new stop is divided into several parts, and lays on different levels of the mountain, providing different view point for visitors. The small volumes also take full advantage of the limited available building areas while exert minimum impact on their surroundings.
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Evolutionary MATTERS —— Sight Optimization Sept. — Dec. 2011 Project Location: Enshi, Hubei Project Type: Research — Sight Optimization In resort hotel project, designers often take a arduous effort and long time determining orientations of the buildings in order to maximize the best views, while still experiencing difficulties especially in case of multiple buildings which could block each others. The evolutionary method combining modeling software Rhino and Galapagos in Grasshopper could be a useful tool in such scenarios.
Defining Fitness: F=n1×r1+ n2×r2+ ...... + nn×rn
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In this example, the best view was defined to a tall stalagnate west side of the village, as it was the famous scenery spot for visitors. the old village and the terrian were considered as baffles. In the site, eastern part of the village, several small units were to be built as receptions and villas.
As Galapagos is activated, those parameters will start to mutate within their ranges, the evolutionary component will then search for the maximum value of "Fitness"-results that are best fit for the purpose.
Original settings
Final orientations
Fitness Units
Sight lines
Rotation
Villa-blockage
Self-blockage
Scenary
FItness score
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POLICY On TECHNOLOGY —— Nanchang Youth Centre The design is developed based on solving two problems as followed: 1. City regulation and site restriction. The project is of high controversy and raised fierce discussion among citizens due to its crucial location: the eastern corner of the People’s Park of Nanchang. 2. Energy saving strategy and technology The new centre will serves as an demonstration project of green building stratagies as well as education of their next generation.
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The new Youth centre will serves as a platform for a variety of public activities, providing access to the old park, communication between its people, exhibitions and displays. The centre no longer plays as the role of the second school for the children, but becomes a new meeting room of the youth, fulfilling diverse needs of the new generation. The building brings in new blood into the decline of the old park, promoting its revival as its symbolic image in the region.
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ECO Rsidence in northern china The design is based on Hohhot climate character and local building element. The design strategies is to create comfortable environment with self-sufficiency possible in a comprehensive way and maximum utilization of renewable energy such as solar, wind, etc. Site Design: Planting the local vegetable on site, landscape with wind turbine, eco-parking, solar element. Building energy efficiency: setting the sun space and Trombe wall at the south room, PV/wind hybrid system on the roof, staircase as ventilation core that introduce humidified air indoors. Comfortable house: adopting innovative house system, housing for all to address sustainable requirement, green house at ground floor and on the roof to provide public open space in cold winter.
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Solar photovoltaic materials is a representative of new energy industry in Hohhot, with a broad future market. At present, the city's polysilicon production capacity has reached 4500 tons, with monocrystalline silicon production capacity of 1000 mw. Hohhot is also of rich wind resource, with large-scale wind power development up to 7million kilowatts, and a total wind power generation area of 1000 square kilometers.
Solar house
Three generation
Soho
Office
Single elder
Cohousing
Green roof PV/wind hybird sail
PV pavilion
Happy couple
ECO parking Low-noise wind turbine
Green house
Solar panels
Roof
South facade
Eatable landscape
Vegetation
60M2
Ventilation core
Wind turbine
90m2
North facade
Farmland
Bottom floor
West facade
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Architectural practice —— Daughter Village Tourism Development The project is located in the mountain area of Enshi, facing the great view of the canyon. One of the chanllege was to adapt the buildings to the local topography of high complexity. As most of the built area were slope, the buildings were divided into small volumes, yet connected with each other by corridors. As my first work underconstruction, I found it more chanlleging yet worthwhile to work with developers and the local construction teams.
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Courtyard
Adapt to topo
Linear Pedestrain
The layout of the local village has inspired us at the very first phase of desgin. We were able to identify three types of layout, each one has its unique characteristic. The first one featured by a series of courtyards is used as the prototype for hotel development. The second one, spread out according to the topology is used for visitor center and ancillary facilities. The third one, with buildings set aside along a street is borrowed for a commercial pedestrian street.
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The World of 1/6 I drowned myself into the 1/6 world three years ago. What impressed me first was the highly detailed and realistic of the figures, but soon I found it more fun creating my own ones. It was more of a design process to me, the setting of each figure, the painting, weathering and assembling. Desipte all the energy and money I put into them, it is quite rewarding in terms of keeping me fresh and passionate almost everyday, a truely valuable asset for designers. 24