VILLAGE RENEWAL AND CONSERVATION
location: Qikou, Shanxi Province, China time: 2014.3 - 2014.6 type: competition team: Yitong Du tutor: Prof. Fuqiang Zuo This was a urban design competition held by National Steering Committee of Urban and Rural Planning Education in China. In 2014, the design topic provided was “ Tracing Original Memory”. In this project, we selected a traditional village - Qikou town, as our site, to rethink and discuss issues this village faces, including isolated situation, little access, poor facilities, and no direct connection to district road system. From past to now, this area was growing slowly, and located at a very low level of development compared with other area, thus leading to a large number of young and adults transfer to nearby areas with good development, in order to make more money. Leaved children and seniors were not able to create much wealth. In result, a gap between families’ relationship become deeper and deeper, further introduce more social issues, such as social inequality, social indifference, social isolation, economic sluggishness and so on. We want to create a design that connects traditional site to its surrounding areas and take advantages of all resources it has, and organizes unused and abandoned spaces in and around site to create a historic design that not only satisfy inhabitants’ daily needs, but also turn to tourism attraction for visitors.
URBAN RESEARCH AND DESIGN AROUND AREA OF EPANG PALACE location: Xianyang, Shanxi Province, China time: 2015.1 - 2015.6 type: graduation project team: Wenqing Yuan, Sijia Dong tutor: Prof. Youhai Tang This is my graduation project during undergraduate period. It’s a group project, which owned the “Outstanding Graduation Project” in 2015, held by National Steering Committee of Urban and Rural Planning Education in China. In 2014, the design topic provided was “ Tracing Original Memory”. In this project, we selected a traditional village - Qikou town, as our site, to rethink and discuss issues this village faces, including isolated situation, little access, poor facilities, and no direct connection to district road system. From past to now, this area was growing slowly, and located at a very low level of development compared with other area, thus leading to a large number of young and adults transfer to nearby areas with good development, in order to make more money. Leaved children and seniors were not able to create much wealth. In result, a gap between families’ relationship become deeper and deeper, further introduce more social issues, such as social inequality, social indifference, social isolation, economic sluggishness and so on. We want to create a design that connects traditional site to its surrounding areas and take advantages of all resources it has, and organizes unused and abandoned spaces in and around site to create a historic design that not only satisfy inhabitants’ daily needs, but also turn to tourism attraction for visitors.
STATE STREET DESIGN BASED ON DRIVER LESS location: State Street, Chicago, IL, US. time: 2019.1 - 2019.5 type: graduation project team: individual tutor: Prof. Nilay Mistry Autonomous vehicles and ubiquitous robotics are currently debated as possible additions to urban life when they are, in fact, already performing operations that serve many residents of cities across the globe. Our project seeks to maintain a priority on people in the discussion of autonomous vehicles which is a topic that can otherwise be evaluated against technological achievement. Performance of the vehicle, public space, and city should not be determined by only those initiated in technical dialogue and, instead, engage the wider audience of people impacted. In this project, here are some questions worth thinking: • How can urban public spaces be designed to serve human needs and social equity during increased growth of autonomous vehicles? • How can designers employ the latest developments in digital technology and navigation tool toward understanding and creating design interventions? • What unexpected applications of these tools can impact the experience and operations of the city?
SITE STUDY SITE ZOOM IN
STATE PKWY
E BURTON ST.
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E BANK ST.
STATE STREET
SITE SELECTION: NORTH STATE STREET PARKWAY Before designing, we were inclined to study the North State Parkway to learn about its landscape, traffic flow, vehicle speed, programs, building features, etc. The relationship between State Street and its surroundings also worthes studying in aspect of traffic flow and network connection. Besides, the area “B”, which is located at north part of State Street, starts from E Bank Street and ends at E Burton Street, was given as a specific site to begin a individual design.
TRAFFIC FLOW very busy busy normal low
MOVEMENT STUDY MOVEMENT MAPPING DIAGRAM: This movement mapping diagram shows three things.
SITE
First of all, different objects, which contains the distribution of subway stations, parking area, divvy bike stations, as well as potential pedestrian. Then, movement, which shows direction of vehicle motion, traffic flow, pedestrian flow on each street. Third, attraction places. In this mapping diagram, they are open spaces - Lincoln Park, North Avenue Beach, Oak Street Park, respectively on north of site and along lakeside. As for site “B”, it’s easy to see a lighter vehicle traffic on state street compared with other parts of the street because of more residential by both sides.
RESULT: It’s clear that there are many open spaces along lakeside and northside. These high-quality spaces are attractive and accessible for citizens. As for site, the purpose of design is to strengthen relationship with these urban open spaces and provide more opportunities to access into them, thus improving people living condition.
PUBLIC TRANSP./ SUBWAY STATION AUTOMOBILE MOVEMENT(HIGH/ LOW/ PARKING AREA) DIVVY BIKE SHARE STATION
PEDESTRIAN DISTRIBUTION
STREET STUDY:
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VIEW 3
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EXISTING STREET
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MORNING
EVENING
BASIC
FESTIVAL
STREET PROPOSAL:
Three Aspects:
SUMMER
Day And Night : through observing activities on street of day and night to study family daily activities. Scenes Of Life: through a quick-imagination for life scenes to define the shape of street in normal days and festival days.
WINTER
Weather Changing: weather will influence peoples’ activities, winter will less attract people active outside compared with summer.
CONCEPT STREET SHAPE & DEVELOPMENT
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TURNING RADIUS:
TURNING RADIUS:
TURNING RADIUS:
POSSIBLE PEDESTRIAN
MATCHING
ADDING
Radius: 35 ft.
Radius: 60 / 120 ft.
Radius: 35 / 55 ft.
Characters: any directions
Characters: some directions
Characters: hybrid use
Evaluation: slow speed, bad driving experience.
Evaluation: quick speed, comfortable driving experience.
Evaluation: middle speed, comfortable driving experience.
Evaluation: without order.
Evaluation: have main walking order, middle vehicle speed, comfortable driving experience.
Evaluation: have main walking and cycling order, middle vehicle speed, comfortable driving experience.
PROPOSAL
PLAN & PERSPECTIVE
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STREET ISLANDS: Along the street, there are three different islands. Each of them focus on each type of movement organization, including vehicle, pedestrian, bike. • •
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The first one is a case that explores a possibility for outdoor space with relatively quite environment. Broader green buffer layout following curve shape of vehicle lane creates more spaces for layout of leisure space especially for senior and kids. In result, a relatively half-public space is generated, and focuses on encouraging inhabitants’ communication by outdoor activities. The second case is based on traffic efficiency and safety for all objects, including vehicle, bike and pedestrian. Intersection no longer needs quick pass, it could be a multi-use place. Bus stop, Uber station, street furnitures, as well as street sculptures could be new elements to bring more services so that more people’s activities would happen here, thus giving a huge of sample quantity back to vehicle and make their detection and decide easily. The third one provide a loop space for people communicate outside. This loop shape connects entries of different buildings together. Benches, tables, enlightening sculptures and art installations would stimulate production of great ideas and work efficiency. Last but not lest, the function of central part is an alternative part. In day time, it is an event space, which is not allowed to be parking lots inside but it could be in evening. So, In daytime, people can walk from sidewalk space through central event space to multi-use intersection, then leave here to lakeside through E Schiller Street by bike or foot. Through this way, the connection of site with network, as well as accessibility have been enhanced.
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PROPOSAL PROPOSAL
EXISTING
SECTION:
DRIVERLESS-ARCHITECTURE CONCEPT COLLAGE
CONCEPT DIAGRAM
SUSTAINABLE THINKING The site surrounded by high-density buildings and one cultural building is facing issues of lacking enough leisure spaces, good pedestrian, as well as of noisy street caused by consistent cars’ motion. Indeed, the purpose of this design is to explore and redefine “Sustainability” in multiple aspects from the physical, social and economic views so as to realize a real high performance of a building.
HIGH-PERFORMANCE BUILDING 1. PHYSICAL FORM
SEMI-UNDERGROUND
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METRO STATION 4
1.2 EASILY ACCESS
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HIGH-PERFORMANCE BUILDING 2.ECONOMICAL • MIXED-USE PROGRAMS
• FLEXIABLE DIVISION
HIGH-PERFORMANCE BUILDING
HIGH-PERFORMANCE BUILDING 3.SOCIAL-TRAFFIC TRANSFER
BUS STOP
SHARING BIKE STOP
TO METRO STATION
• OUTDOOR SPACE
BUS STOP
HIGH-PERFORMANCE BUILDING
• MASTER PLAN
• COURTYARD DETAILS
REVIT WORKS SECTION DETAILS
FLOOR PLAN
REVIT VISUALIZATION