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
WORK EXPERIENCE OMA (Office for Metropolitan Architecture), Aug 2013 • REBUILD BY DESIGN: Hurricane Sandy Regional Planning and Design Competition Assisted in research, graphic design and carried out presentation materials. Green Architecture Research Office AAP HUST, Jun 2011 – May 2013 • Daughter village Sustainable Tourism Development, Enshi, China Assist in master planning, conceptual design and prepare construction drawings of resort hotels and visitor center. Buildings now under construction. • Resort hotel development, Yuntai Mountain Geopark, Zhengzhou, China Assist in research, conceptual design and prepare presentation documents. • Guigang people’s park in Southern mountian, Guangxi China. Assist in field research, urban design. Central-South Architectural Design Institute, Jan 2010 - May 2010 • Ruian commercial shopping mall, Zhejiang China. Digital modeling, scheme design. • Baibuting residential development, Wuhan China. Digital modeling, primary design. 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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Mills
City centre
Old Mills
Vacant land
Green space
Canal
Warehouse
Parking
Vacant land
Parking
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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
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Open loop for the city in the future
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Difference in height leads to changing of relationship
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Ashton Canal
Wetland
Water treatment
Boat racing
ECO Neighborhood
Marine life research center
Energy generation
River Irk
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PEACEFUL UNDERGROUND 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?
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.
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2000s
2020s
Horizontally grow
Vertically grow
No doubt that developing vertically is an inevitable approach to solve the problem, just as we deal with the same land shortage situation in residency and office. But is skyscraper a good solution for the dead? Do we want our ashes boxes high in the sky?
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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.
Functions
Circulation
Sunlight
Water drainage and usage
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FROM CONTexT to DETAILS —— Moutain Posthouse This project is located on a mountainous scenery area called Mount Sanqing. 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.
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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
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Stone walls providing clear guidance to lead visitors towards best view points, contrasted to the light bamboo structures and windows, all of which could be easily found near the edge of the site,. The materials could be taken up to the mountain in pieces by labor, the only method available, and assemble later.The bricks and tiles are reused in the new stop,
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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. Third Prize — Delta Cup International Solar Building Design competition, 2011 16
Solar panels
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.
Roof
South facade
Solar house
Vegetation
60M2
Ventilation core
Wind turbine
90m2
North facade
Farmland
Bottom floor
West facade
Green roof PV/wind hybird sail
PV pavilion
ECO parking Low-noise wind turbine
Green house
Eatable landscape
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In winter , the balcony outside of the living room acts as a sun space in the winter. (Much of the heat is carried into the living room through floor.)
In summer, high level vent allow hot air to escape and balcony integrated with solar panels work as selfshading.
I n w i n t e r, t h e Tr o m b e wall outside of bedroom introduces the heated air indoors through the double floors.
In summer, the wall outside of bedroom comes into thermal buffer layer making the heated air to escape.
Three generation
Happy couple
Soho
Office
Single elder
Cohousing
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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 to work with the developer 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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