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WHAT IS A SYSTEM?
FROM COLLECTIVE FORM TO URBAN TECTONIC
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THE FLOATING MOON SUSTAINABLE TSUNAMI-RESISTANT LANDSCAPE
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THE CORRIDOR OF FREEDOM A LIVE-WORK DISTRICT FOR INDUSTRY 5.0
HOW TO INTERPRET MEMORY?
A MISUNDERSTOOD ICON
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THE OPERATION ON SHAPES
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REASSEMBLING PRUITT - IGOE
SELF-RENEWAL RONOVATIONFOR HUTONGS IN BEIJING
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THE WANDER OF LIGHT
HOUSE DESIGN FOR AN ASTROLOGER
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SUSTAIN THE URBAN CONPLEXITY OF CENTER SHANGHAI
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Urbanism, Resilient, Renewal MUD 713 Studio, Spring, 2015, Instructor: Susannah Drake Washington University in St. Louis
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his project focuses on the redevelopment of JMZ Metro Line in New York. The infrastructure is serving as important transportation spine since its construction on 1900s', which connected the Brooklyn with the Manhattan Island. However, the city needs the infrastructure to be more involved in the future development when higher density is inevitable while more sustainable and livable space is also required in the city. Acknowledging that the metro line will direct the decentralization of Manhattan in the next 50 years, the project proposed a systematic but gradually-implemented strategy based on the infrastructure renovation and building evolution. The design process of the project developed with the growth of scale. First, a Pop-up project as temporary street art installation was designed as a mini-experiment for the concept. Second, the Pilot design focused on the block-scaled urban renewal. Finally, the strategies and lessons from the first two phases were refined and extended to the entire urbanization of the JMZ corridor.
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POP UP - STREET PAVILION These small scale intervention intends to activate the space around the structure of the elevated bridges. The flexibility of the scaffold system enables the combination of different functions which fit for the complex urban context while still maintain the similar structure and form language of the existing infrastructure.
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PHASE-2 PILOT PROJECT The pilot project tests the concept of scaffolding on the block scale. Interventions are acting as buffer and activator between buildings and infrastructure, enhancing the walkability and green space in the concrete forest.
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PHASE-3 PERMENANT PROJECT The concept and strategies from the first two phases are implemented into the whole corridor of the JMZ Line. The renovation of the infrastructure will be the first step to redefine its function to the city followed by the evolution of buildings and public space to rearrange the space vertically and deal with sea level rise and natural disasters.
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WATER COLLECTION STRATEGY The basement of the new buildings will work as the water collecting tanks in dry seasons. Storm water from roof gardens and streets will be conveyed through pipes into the basement before pouring into the combined sewage system. SCENARIO-1: WATER RECYCLING
FLOOD-RESISTANT STRATEGY When facing big flood or sea level rise, the basement will be evacuated and contribute to the floating of the movable layers constructed by scaffolds.
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THE FLOATING MOON SUSTAINABLE TSUNAMI-RESISTANT LANDSCAPE Land 601 Studio, Fall, 2016, Location: Auki, Solomon Islands Instructor: Jacqueline Margetts Washington University in St. Louis
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his project is an investigation of new prototypes of disaster-resistant landscape in Solomon Islands, which is under the risk of tsunami and sea level rise. This project proposes a floating intervention to mitigate the tsunami waves while provides self-sufficient agriculture land and mangrove habitat. The design’s form derives from the acoustic wedges, which can significantly absorb the sound waves because of their shapes. By calculating the ability to resist shock waves among different methods of connection, the moon shape was chosen with additional contribution to fishing, farming, disaster protection and ecology.
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MOMENTUM OFFSET The mutual movement of the wedges will be offset because of the irregular placement of wedges which will vibrate in different directions when hit by waves.
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The existing mangrove habitat near the shore will be reserved. The new structure connects the shore habitat to the main island and expand it into the deep-water area because of the floating structure and artificial shore habitats..
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Bin Yan / WUSTL / Fall 2016/THE FLOATING MOON
TSUNAMI IMITATION
WEDGE PROTECTION
When there are no barriers or protections on the surface, the amplitude of waves tends to be higher by natural forces such as earthquake waves and hurricanes
Because of the damping effects by the wedge structures floating on the surface and the elastic connections, the amplitude is suppressed and chaotic thus less subversive.
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THE CORRIDOR OF FREEDOM A LIVE-WORK DISTRICT FOR INDUSTRY 5.0
Communication, Efficiency, Humanity Urban Design Degree Project, Summer, 2015, Instructor: John Hoal Washington University in St. Louis
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ast spatial planning practices have left Johannesburg with sprawling low-density areas of settlement, lacking viable public transport systems. The majority of working class and poor citizens are still living on the fringes of the city, commuting daily, often at considerable cost, long distances to access work and economic opportunities. The Louis Botha Avenue, however, is proposed to bring a new prototype of urbanism because of its connection of highly developed city center and informal settlements that happen outside city. The sustainability of the area, or even the city, lies in their mutual cooperation instead of segregation from each other. Thus, the Corridor of Freedom goes far beyond a BRT line to a developing spine of the city. Urban Design is always a systematic practice. This project is a integration between the Top-Down urban planning strategy as the TOD development through the entire corridor and a Bottom-Up strategy of the evolution of the building prototypes caused by a more open, healthy and competitive lifestyle-a live-work combined, small studio based urban phenomenon, and this project proposed a new way of urbanism based on this phenomenon and thus a new urban space pattern which fits for it.
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A GLOBAL CITY IN CRISIS As one of the fastest and most prosperious city in Africa, Johannesburg is facing serious urban issues such as a growing population, low density suburbanization, informalization etc. These urban issues , on the other hand, intensify other soical problems, which are remained from its aparthed history. It is extremely ergent, for both designers and city managers, to design a involsive developing pattern for the city to mitigate social conflicts, strenghth the economy, and maintain a sustainable development for the future.
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STREET ACTIVATION By adding building front, trees and amenities, streets are activated from blocking walls to increase to walkability and to inspire activities.
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Based on the site analyses about building types on the site, different strategies are implemented onto different parcels which enable them to be activators to inspire the future cooperation between people from informal settlements and city center.
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History, Landscape, Monument creating a memorial while dealing with contamination Land 501 Studio, Fall, 2015, Instructor: Natalie Yates Washington University in St. Louis
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he project is about reassembling the elements and new interventions of Pruitt-Igoe site, creating a new memorial of the famous and meaningful collective housing project while dealing with contamination issues of the site. The site locates on the northern part of the city, with mostly residential neighborhoods nearby. Though it is only about 2 miles from the Arch and downtown area of St. Louis, it has a high percentage of vacant land. By studying the zoning and aerial map of the area, we can see that this area does not lack green space; it needs the land to be an activator or catalyst for a new image— people need inclusive public space and a new conception of Pruitt-Igoe. Pruitt-Igoe is known in its history as an affordable housing project that was to convey many modernist ideas by its designer-- Minoru Yamasaki, and it is famous for its failure because of lack of maintenance and social segregation. The image of the demolition of the high-rises is impressed by many people, and it is even seen as the symbol of the death of the Modernism, according to the famous architecture critic-- Charles Jencks. Expressing the idea of revoking and representing, I used landscape elements (such as trees, water, soil, land forms, etc.) and new social and ecological functions (public accessibility, water collection, contaminants purification, etc.) to reassemble the image of Pruitt-Igoe and to redefine the modernist conception about social and environmental role of public space in urban areas.
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From the mid-1800's the neighborhood became high-density residential for working class and lower income families of Irish, German and Italian origins.
As white immigrants moved on, the gap was filled by blacks moving north for factory jobs and those displaced by mill creek and other urban projects.
URBAN FOREST The site has not been re-imagined for development, but continues to evolve and assimilate new identities -- as it guards its old ones. It has been ignored by the nearby residents and turns into a urban forest with little maintenance.
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CONCEPT MODEL Expressing the idea of the demolished Pruitt-Igoe, the concept model simulates the process of buildings falling down, however creating a new image by the fallen pieces. The concept of reshaping and reassembling the elements on the site is kept through the whole process of my design.
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RAZING + BUILDING By 1950, population peaks. Deteriorated homes were razed for the new housing project under the USA Housing Act. The project built 33 high rises for 13,000 residents.
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CHANGING ECONOMICS + POPULATION With the loss of regional manufacturing jobs, many more affluent members of the city moved west. Cheap, available housing then drew P-I residents away. Without the income, maintenance went increasingly downhill, and residents were on the average much poorer.
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MIXED MANAGEMENT Fences are erected to keep people out. excavated fill from the convention center project is mounded at the site in 1993-95. in 2001, the city ceded the land to LCRA, which discontinued maintenance.
DEMOLITION With the vacancy rate at 70%, all the buildings are demolished from 1972 to 1976. The debris is hauled to an Illinois land fill; other infrastructure remains in place for redevelopment.
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Shape, Memory, Renewal Urban Renewal Research and Design Competition Washington University in St. Louis Baita Neighborhood, Beijing, China
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LANDSCAPE SYSTEM
FUNCTION ARRANGEMENT
CIRCULATION DIVISION
STREET COMMUNICATION
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A MEANINGFUL SHAPE The shape operation on existing two buildings is to provide consistent architecture space to the complexity of the functions embedded on the new building. Within the limited space, architect needs to arrange space for restaurant, cooking, service, landscape and living, separating public uses from private ones while maintaining a smooth circulation.
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FIRST FLOOR PLAN
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Bin Yan / WUSTL / Summer 2016/ THE OPERATION ON SHAPES
ECONOMIC INDEX
SECOND FLOOR PLAN
Foot print: Floor area: Building height: Dining area: Seats: Living area: Far: Green space: Green coverage:
91.53 m2 54.26 m2 5.2 m 31.64 m2 34 10.24 m2 0.593 9.76 m2 10.6%
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MAIN SECTION THROUGH THE ATRIUM
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Bin Yan / WUSTL / Summer 2016/ THE OPERATION ON SHAPES
VIEW OF THE DINING ROOM 41
WANDER OF THE LIGHT HOUSE DESIGN FOR AN ASTROLOGER
Light, Structure, Narrative Undergraduate Studio Work, October. 2011 Advisor: Dr. Fan Wenbing Shanghai Jiao Tong University
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he house design started from the narrative of space making, telling the story about the poem of the light which is specially designed for the owner--an astrologer. The wandering sequence of the house is enlightened by different quality of light, and on the other hand, this design investigates the possibility to integrate the structure as an indication of the narrative of space, whose systems are segregated because of the division of the public and private life of the astrologer.
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FROM LIFE TO STRUCTURE The house is ideal for a supposed astrologer, who is the chief man of an ancient tribe in the southwest of China. He has led a distinguished life where working by practicing ancient rites to show centrality and deity, and living only to find secrets of astrology. His different lifestyles have led to a distinguished structure system which is design for the possible activities in the different parts.
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Bin Yan / Architecture/ SJTU /Fall 2011/WANDER OF THE LIGHT
1-MEETING ROOM
2--LIVING ROOM
3-CENTRALIZATION
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Bin Yan / Architecture/ SJTU /Fall 2011/WANDER OF THE LIGHT
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DECONSTRUCTION FROM THE INTERIOR SUSTAIN THE URBAN CONPLEXITY OFSHANGHAI
Complexity, Hierarchy, Combination Undergraduate Studio Work, December, 2013 Advisor: Dr. Ma Wenjun Shanghai Jiao Tong University
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ccording to Maslow’s psychological theory - the "hierarchy of needs”, the desires of human can be described step by step as “physiological, safety, love, esteem and self-actualization”. However, conditions in metropolis like Shanghai might be just the opposite. People seek for silence and self-realization far more than the desire for food or property. The project corresponds inner desires with urban problems, rebuilding them by using basic elements, that is, points, lines, surfaces and units. For me the city can be not only a place for working and living, but for our metal relief and happiness.
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VIEW FROM THE STREETS
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Bin Yan /SJTU / Fall 2013/DECONSTRUCTION FROM THE INTERIOR
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TRIPLE STAGES RESHAPING THE VERTICAL COMPLEXITY
Structure, Context, Growth BArch Degree Project, Spring, 2014 Instructor: Wenbin Fan Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
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his project intends to represent the complexity of urban conditions in the suburban areas of a global metropolitan city -Shanghai. There are still pieces of historic residence neighborhoods remain with the surrounding of multi-layer dwelling houses built on the collective industrial period. Moreover, modern buildings with the symbols of high tech and commerce power start to occupy the area. The collage of these texture and their mutual influence inspires me to create a mediator which contains these complex texture, space, people and activities. The structure system is significant for the creation of different space. Three forms of structure system match correspondingly to the space and textures they create. Meanwhile, the whole structure system itself is a new and specific form generated by the growth of walls, columns and steel trusses. Thus, the vertical juxtaposition of space and structure make the building independently locate but still remain diverse relation to the fast-changing city.
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BIRD'S EYE VIEW
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1-FILLING
2-SUBSTRACTION
3-CONNECTION
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5-OVERLAPPING
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Bin Yan / SJTU /Spring 2014/TRIPLE STAGES
FOURTH FLOOR PLAN
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STRUCTURAL SYSTEM ANALYSIS The structure system is divided into three parts in corresponding with the three urban textures that layers of buildings are generated from. Sheer walls, columns, and steel truss shape specific space types and they are overlapped into a new structural system that can work together to enhance the stability of the building.
CORE TUBE STEEL TRUSS CONCRETE FRAME SHEER WALL
STRUCTURAL UNIT
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Bin Yan / SJTU /Spring 2014/TRIPLE STAGES
STEEL TRUSS SYSTEM
CONCRETE FRAME SYSTEM
SHEER WALL SYSTEM
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REBUILDING CHINESE GARDENS ART INSTALLATION DESGIN
Light, Material, Scenery Undergraduate Research Work, April. 2011 Advisor: Dr. Xuan Huang Shanghai Jiao Tong University
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Bin Yan / Art/ SJTU /Spring 2011/REBUILDING CHINESE GARDENS
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VOID AND ENTITY ART INSTALLATION DESIGN
Dualism, Material, Light Undergraduate Reaearch Work, April. 2010 Advisor: Dr. Liu Shixing Shanghai Jiao Tong University
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n Chinese culture, the whole universe was nothing but chaos before it was separated into Yin and Yang. But the two are interactive, with one including and being included by the other. The positions and functions of void and entity are disorganized and interweaved to form a space model that confused the exact position and relation of the two aspects.
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