Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture
• Bachelor of Architecture (Concentration: Urban Design) 15'
[WORK EXPERIENCE]
SmithGroup (Ann Arbor Office) Extern
• City of Sandusky South Side Neiborhood Plan
Participate in modeling of the current site;
AECOM (Beijing Office), Assistant Urban Designer
• Conceptual Planning and Urban Design for Shijiazhuang International Trade City
Participate in case study, preliminary planning, modeling, land-use analysis and diagrams;
• The Oceanic Panorama: Penglai National Cultural Coastline
Participate in preparation of solicitation documents, case study, schemetic deisgn, preliminary planning, modeling, diagrams and second on-site reporting;
• Urban Renaissance of Micro Public Space in Beijing
Participate in case study of urban farm, schemetic deisgn, pmodeling, diagrams, rendering and perspective drawing;
Beijing Institute of Architectural Design Assistant Architect
• Beihai Museum and Archival Library Design Project
Participate in interior deisgn and construction drawings;
• Beihai Gymnasium Project
Participate in signage system design;
• Department of Natural Resources Laboratory Building Design Project
Design of sustainable and livable residential building
Equitable "First Floor"
Design of creative and shared office space
Sustainable Design Topics [Re]living the City
Water, Heritage, and Arcadia
[ A New Vision Based on the Sultans Trail ]
Selected Student Work of 2022 Fall Semester
UD732 Design Studio
Design: Teamwork with Quan Li, Wenyuan Zhang
Location: Arnavutköy, Istanbul
Instructor: El Hadi Jaizary
Residents of Istanbul are facing a massive intervention triggered by a mega-infrastructure. Despite strong opposition from residents, the opposition, and experts in different fields, this project is steadily moving forward with a strong push from the current Turkish government. However, some opponents of the project, including the mayor of Istanbul, who is in power as an opposition party, still try to be vocal on the subject. Among these opponents, in addition to the villagers who will lose their land, another group is notable for advocating environmentalism through walking and trying to save the city's last natural green spaces from radical development, with the Sultans Trail (Sultanlar Yolu) and the Between Two Seas and Hiking Istanbul 's trail being the best known. The Sultans Trail follows Suleiman the Magnificent between the two sieges of Vienna, starting at the Schloss Neugebäude in Vienna and ending in front of the Cankurtaran Mah in Istanbul. Using the Sultans Trail as the research context, this study enables the users along the trail to experience Istanbul's urban transformation in an unmediated way of this journey through the Sazlidere basin.
Black Sea
The mapping shows that 44% of agricultural land, 11% of freshwater resource, and 7% of forest in Istanbul are facing threats because of the construction of the Istanbul Canal. Four of the eight major freshwater lakes are located on the European side, the Istanbul Canal is planned to cross Lake Sazlidere to connect the Black Sea to the Marmara Sea. As a result, Sazlidere lake will be destroyed, resulting in the loss of nearly 1/5 of Istanbul's freshwater resources, the salinization of the land, and the reduction of arable lands.
The Sultan Trail is one of the most prominent cultural paths in the world, connecting Istanbul and Vienna. Throughout the hike, there are natural parks and protected areas in different countries, making it an enriching experience. Currently, the part in Sazlidere basin is the last day of the Sultan trail before entering the urban area of Istanbul. The villages along the trail have various fascinating natural scenery, forgotten heritage, and desirable lifestyles.
Accommodation
[ Day 1 18:00PM ] [Day 2 10:00AM]
After walking through the forest on the first day, the travelers arrived at the first stop on the basin route in the evening. In accordance with their plan, they will spend one night here. On the south side of the village square, portable accommodations are set up in the green space. The units consist of 12-foot diameter cylinder structures that can accommodate one or two individuals. It is designed from a prototype of a common local water construction material.
On the second day, travelers wilI cross south on Q-7 in the early morning hours. The current crossing provides people with the option of going the long way around, taking a culvert, or taking a driveway. In light of this, we propose the use of a modern drainage system with a light structure to fill the cut hill. This strategy is similar to that of picking up the pieces of a beloved object and carefully repairing them. It is not just an overpass, but a memorial to ecological destruction.
Ottoman
[ Day 2 14:00PM ]
On the southwest side of Dursunköy , there is an Ottoman Bridge. Despite its Roman origins, the bridge is now merely a ruin. A new circuWlar pedestrian bridge was designed here to continue to provide traffic during the rainy season, thus allowing visitors in both directions to pay homage to this relic simultaneously.
[Day 2 18:00PM]
Bird Hide is a set of rectangular boxes 9 feet high, 7 feet wide, and 30 feet long. The pattern of the perforated panels on the sides resembles the shadows of the trees, allowing the whole structure to be well hidden in the waterfront plants. Storks thrive on the water plants, insects, and fish surrounding Sazlidere lake, which provides a suitable natural habitat for them.
[ Day 3 11:00AM ] [Day 3 18:00AM]
The prayer room is found at the waterfront, adjacent to the Filiboz Quarry, with an attractive view of the huge rocks of the quarry and the changing water level of the lake. Located on top of an ancient water faci lity, the prayer room is connected to the shore by a stone path. A bird's nest built for storks is located at the top of the prayer room. In the room, the scene depicts a place where people of different fa iths can meditate and enjoy the natural surroundings.
Ottaman dam is the last stop on this journey, where lightweight perforated panel structures are used to build waterside stands where local folk musicians perform traditional Turkish music in small boats in the center of the lake for the audience. The bazaar on the dam provides space for local farmers and vendors to trade and sell their local produce to tourists along the Sultans Trail.
[ Infrastructure driven housing and neighborhood development for new Americans in the city of Inkster ]
2022 Winter Semester
Arch562 + UD722 Proposition Design Studio
Design: Teamwork with Jacob White
Location: Inkster, Michigan
Instructor: Sharon Haar
Working with Wayne County Economic Development (WCED), Samaritas, Wayne Metro, and the City of Inkster, we are focusing on building affordable housing options and infrastructure for newly arriving refugees, a population expected to grow beginning in the fall and over the next few years. Inkster, MI, the halfway point between Ann Arbor and Detroit, is the location of our proposition for new American affordable housing for Afghani refugees currently arriving in South East Michigan. Based on the predictable increase in demand, we propose to integrate the existing facilities of the various public sectors in the city, the community businesses, and the planned renewal of facilities and present them as a whole. We named this new landmark "The Stitch" to help reconnect the two neighborhoods north and south divided by Michigan Avenue and showcase the city's vibrant and investable new image to passing traffic and population.
Inkster is a city in Wayne County, Michigan, United States. It is a Metro Detroit suburb whose population is majority African American. The Michigan Avenue and the railroad to Chicago divide Inkster down the middle. Through mapping, a series of facility renewal opportunities from south to north point to a more integrated and holistic program.
Based on the integration of multiple projects above, this scheme aims to provide walkable connections between the divided north and south neighborhoods and provide additional employment and public services to vulnerable communities. The above program is supported by a portion of the $350 million Infrastructure Reconciliation Act funding for the resettlement of Afghan refugees.
Inkster
The proposal "Stitch" includes two main ideas: one is neighborhood-level development centered on the provision of key resources and infrastructure, and the other is the idea of using adjacencies and landscapes to promote community and regional investment. The analysis of potential infrastructure additions or renovations provides an opportunity, one that combines public transit stops, sidewalks, sky bridges, parks, commercial interfaces and the R&B Hall of Fame.
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The Rouge River Advisory Council currently has a list of retrofits to reduce the ecological impact of hard infrastructure, of which the Inkster Wetlands & Fish Habitat Structures is still planned for a projected investment of $949,000. Combining topography and resilient areas, parts of the golf course will need to be converted to landscaping and ecological access.
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Toward the center of the path sits a large open amphitheater area for the hall of fame to hold performances and for the public to use for sitting and relaxing. Farther on is a possible connection to the Amtrak rail system which would allow for greater accessibility for immigrants to jobs and communities outside of Inkster.
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[2]
The urban "stitch" starts connecting to the other side of Michigan avenue, opening up to the wider rouge river area and parkway. New walking and biking paths are proposed to replace current golfing greens. This opens up the community to a wider access of recreation infrastructure as well as making it easy to traverse to the north side of town.
The pathway ends at the future home of the R&B hall of fame currently proposed by outside developers. The site will act as a great start for the overall system as well all being a new center for tourism in the area, hopefully helping change much of the current outside perception of the area.
[3]
Situated at the intersection of Michigan Ave, and Middlebelt road, this new transportation nexus will connect resident both east-west and north-south to a number of nearby communities. This will provide a greater accessibility for residents to jobs in other cities and with larger entities like the airport due south.
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Based on the investment in infrastructure, a community park that had been abandoned for many years is able to be added to and revived again, including the following facilities:
- Terraced Earth Seating
- Community Center Spaces
- Sacred Prayer Space
- Swale Fed Retention Pond
- Revitalized Baseball Diamond
- Picnic Areas
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Housing & Program Dispersal:
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Situated in the shade of the future billboard and connection, this area will host a series of smaller commercial units for rising local shop and immigrant run business. The units are small enough to allow for a variety of uses and create a great jumping off point for new business owners.
- Mix of single and multifamily housing spread across two major foci of living.
- Units are grouped into smaller clusters of two or three units to produce adjacency and foster network building.
- Space is left between to promote future housing development and unit expansion by owners. Providing a catalyst and giving room to grow.
the "Stitch"
03 Restructuring Land Logics
[ Neighborhood-involved consultation platform that precedes design ]
2021 Fall Semester
UD712 Proposition Design Studio
Design: Teamwork with Devendra Dugad
Location: Detroit, Michigan
Instructor: McLain Clutter, Gina Reichert
As the term "Gentrification" has become more and more popular, the meaning it represents has become increasingly symbolic. While designers often paint a rosy picture of Gentrification at the outset of a design, displacement of the surrounding neighborhoods occurs automatically when the project is completed. It has been proven countless times that top-down decision-making and design are hardly immune to structural racial discrimination and Gentrification. When the traditional design toolkit fails, how do we as designers respond to public concerns about social issues? This project looks to develop a mechanism of land ownership as an instrument to prevent or delay negative aspects of gentrification by using the model of community land trusts where the community benefits from the investment and infrastructure coming with it while give time to the community to strengthen itself. The Uniroyal site acts as a prototype to test this mechanism.
New Tenants
In Phase 1, the focus of the developer is on developing commercial properties whereas the focus of the CLT is on developing mainly townhouses with shared open spaces and public amenities.
In Phase 2, the developers introduce some high-end residential component along the riverfront which reduces it FAR compared to if the whole development would have been near the Jefferson Street.
As CLT and developers invest more in the area, public services continue to improve so that the interests of tenants and local resident groups are maximized - and they enjoy the dividends of urban development.
In Phase 3, looking to the beltline, we are developing a mechanism which will help remove the land parcels from the speculative market without leaving out on the benefits and investment that comes with the process of gentrification.
[ Design for the right to reside in the city ]
Honorable Mention, WUPENICITY 2020 International Competition
2020 First Semester
BUCEA graduation studio
Design: Teamwork with Jingrui Zhang, Xuanyu Zhu
Location: Chaoyang District, Beijing
Instructor: Wen Ouyang, Wilson Rui Qian
It is generally believed that excessive population growth and excessive population density have led to urban diseases such as congestion and pollution. Therefore, in accordance with Beijing City Master Plan 2004-2020, Beijing municipal government has been implementing a large-scale evacuation policy since 2004. In this plan, Beijing had planned to evacuate the low-income population in the old city to the periphery of the city by 2020, and strove to control the urban population of Beijing to 18 million by 2020. However, it seems that the number of urban residents with household registration in Beijing has exceeded 18 million, and some scholars believe that the actual population of Beijing has reached 30 million based on communication signals,which witnessed the failure of Master Plan. In this project, we hope to express our doubts about the mechanical implementation of this discriminatory system. 04 Beijing is no longer the "Forbidden" City
The “unified embassies” was designed and built in a unified manner for Asian, African and Latin American countries in the Second Foreign Embassy District in China. Currently, as the embassy facilities become increasingly unfit for the future use of diplomatic corps, together with land resource in the downtown area of Beijing Chaoyang District, embassies in such area have been relieved to the planned Fourth Foreign Embassy District in Dongba, Chaoyang District.
To utilize the value of the land and reduce the underlying inconvenience of relocating embassies, preservation of a part of function of embassies with higher density is proposed, and the value of the rest land is supposed to promote the urban regeneration.
1937.12—2020.04
Any live cell with two or three live neighbours survives. Conway's Game of Life
John Horton Conway
"Unified Embassy"
program & ecological benefit
reason for mixed-development
In 2015, Central Urban Work Conference issued the concept of “smart growth” and “compact city”, redefining the boundary of urban area and conversing expansion of urban area to the promotion of urban quality, where vertical development or mixed-development is the necessary strategy. In this new development, vertical strategies like roof garden, vertical greening and integrated fitness center are aimed to bring convenience and habitability to the aggressively-developed urban area.
Subway station square
Mixed-used
Community square
OFFICE
Corridor system
Communal garden
The
A community square where full of life atmosphere can become a social space for new residents of the the city.
A community center for all residents welcomes every city user with an open attitude.
Shared affordable housing provides young people who are new to Beijing a foothold with a high life quality.
The corridor system efficiently connects the subway station, the vertical embassy and its supporting apartments.
05 Bridging the boundaries of the public realm
[ Reform and reshape the Beijing Exhibition Hall Plaza ]
2018
BUCEA
Design:
Location: Xicheng District, Beijing
Instructor: Qian Shang, Lei Tie
In the self-autonomy process of architecture subject, traditional engineering field represented by transportation infrastructure has been gradually separated from the discourse boundary of architecture. In practice, rapid urban development oriented by transportation created many grand, not approachable, rugged traffic infrastructure. How to measure the social value of the transportation infrastructure, and converse them into popular space for the city users is what urban designers should give considerations for. With reference to the proposition of tactical urbanism, this project is to make possible intervention in the superstructure of an urban expressway and a large parking lot and finally make it to a real front plaza of a monumental building with rich functions and flexible conversion.
Honorable Mention, HKIA Cross-Strait Architectural Design Symposium and Awards
Second Semester
core studio
Teamwork with Junkai Wang, Peng Zhang
1. Aluminum walking board
pavement Electric heating network
layer
2. Drain
3. Angle steel 70-70
4. U-shaped steel
5. Neoprene cushion
6. Glass guardrail 7. Wooden handrail 8. Built-in
Section
[ Design of sustainable and livable residential building ]
2019 First Semester
BUCEA core studio
Design: Teamwork with Junkai Wang, Peng Zhang
Location: Fengtai District, Beijing
Instructor: Wen Ouyang, Wilson Qian
The vertical city has become an effective way to resolve the shortage of construction land, and meet the needs of urban development by improving urban spatial efficiency. In this design, the construction of large-scale transportation infrastructure has promoted the improvement of surrounding supporting facilities. We have put forward active countermeasures in the face of the existing land resource constraints, and tried to solve various problems with "vertical development". These include effectively grasping and controlling the magnitude of the overall growth of the city, thinking more about the above-ground and underground space to build a new type of urban space, improving the integration of the vertical development of buildings, and increasing the vertical value and public service supply within a limited but reasonable range. With emphasis on the development of environmental and ecological development, we increase the overall green quantity of the city in the vertical space, and maintain the balance between urban development and environmental demand and ecological efficiency.
06 Vertical Urban Model of IOD Living
Regional Development Positioning
Transportation infrastructure brings opportunities for area regeneration
In the overall plan of Beijing, Fengtai District will include three national passenger transportation hubs: Beijing West Railway Station, Beijing South Railway Station and Fengtai Railway Station. It is estimated that the annual passenger volume of the next three stations will exceed 200 million. In addition, Fengtai District also plans to build Beijing's only city terminal to connect the two existing aviation hubs. According to the theory of space-time compression, the surrounding area of Fengtai Station will be closely connected with various urban nodes in China.
Regional Development Model
Recognize the Key Issue of Fengtai Station
At the same time, there are the following problems in the hinterland of Fengtai Station: the retention of railway industrial relics, land intensive problems, looking control problems, and high-density housing problems.
Site Analysis
Public infrastructures & facilities & flows
Urban Design Process Diagram
[ Design of creative and shared office design ]
2019 Second Semester
BUCEA core studio
Design: Teamwork with Junkai Wang, Peng Zhang
Location: Xicheng District, Beijing
Instructor: Qian Shang, Lei Tie
According to Beijing City Master Plan 2020-2035, the Beijing Zoo Wholesale Market, once the largest clothing wholesale distribution center in the northern region of China, will become the first batch of rectification targets. In the future, Beijing hopes to build it into a financial-technology and professional service innovation demonstration zone, connecting with the Zhongguancun Science City in the north and the Financial Street in the south.Modern new company emphasizes a flatter management structure, and is dedicated to emancipating people from monotonous and repetitive tasks and engaging in mental work that requires more decision-making and innovation. In order to respond to the needs of new era development, we need a new form of office building to redesign architectural space according to a more humane and democratic hierarchy. In this design, together with other members of the team, I hope to keep pace with the advanced productivity requirements of the upper plan through a flat building space, and also take into account the office needs of traditional enterprises.
[Open Ground] L6/L7-RF
Connection / Public
[Public Space] L3/L4
Connection / Communication / Indoor / Outdoor
[Comm Space] L4
Connection / Communication / Indoor / Rest / Chat
[Comm Space] L4
Connection / Communication / Indoor / Rest / Chat
Lecture Space
Atrium Space
Open Space
Rampway
[ Sustainable Design Topics ]
2022 Winter Semester
Arch 505 High Performance Building Design
Design: Teamwork with Jiawei Ding, Kejie Wang
Location: The Beaches, Toronto
Instructor: Lars Junghans
The reduction of green-house gas emission belongs to one of the great challenges of our society and architects can contribute by designing climate responsive projects. The design brings reduction of green-house gas emission for building operation and construction, meanwhile makes the buildings affordable for people in all income levels.
Sustainble system has been applied into the entire process of design, in terms of building details, refinements were made based on the result of simulations like sum estimated initial cost, embodied energy estimation, LCA( 10-15), LCA(20-30), LCA result and life cycle cost.
