GSAPP PORTFOLIO

ARCHIT E C TUREPORTFOLIO GSAPP ZHONGQI FU M.S.AAD 2018---- 2019

INDEX

“FUZZY SYMMETRY” ---- TRANSLATIONAL NODES

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A FLOATING DESALINATION FACILITY

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“ADAPTIVE DONUTS” IN THE FUTURE

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“EMPTY SPAIN” ---- NOMADICITY

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X INFORMATION ---- “C” CUBE

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NEVER BUILT PARIS ---- VILLES-TOURS

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“FUZZY SYMMETRY” ---- TRANSLATIONAL NODES Site Location: Roosevelt Island, New York, NY Completion Time: 08/02/2018 Summer Semester Teammate: Xiaoxuan Su Critic: Daisy Ames

MANY LOW INCOME FAMILIES ARE CONFRONTED WITH A DILEMMA: HOW TO PROVIDE THEIR CHILDREN WITH A SAFE AND HEALTHY ENVIRONMENT? AN AFFORDABLE MODEL OF LIVING IS NEEDED TO PROVIDE SHARED SPACE WHICH IN TURN, ALLOWS ANOTHER FAMILY-FRIENDLY AMENITY.

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Rooftop Vegetable Farm for Serving Local Residents

Market for Selling Vegetables from the Farm

Corridors for Connecting Different Units and Creating Multi-layered Open Space

WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM

We lift the living units of this zone and the ground-floor space of this zone is left for small-scale markets, public classrooms and other public spaces for the residents. Those markets are connected to the farms on the roof by several elevators exclusive for vegetables. The devices of water management system are underground within the basement. All the waste water and storm water will go through several steps, then the purified water will be sent back to each unit for toilet water and washing water. About our living units, the most important part is the share space, which is connected to a double-height balcony. The enclosure of the double-height space can be adjust according to residents needs. By rotate or remove the components, this space can be more open or more close.

A FLOATING DESALINATION FACILITY Site Location: Long Beach, Los Angeles, CA Completion Time: 12/08/2018 Fall Semester Teammate: Nanxi Su, Sophia Xie Critic: Laurie Hawkinson

COULD A DESALINATION FACILITY HOST AN AUDIENCE OF 12,000 AT THE LONG BEACH OLYMPIC VENUE IN 2028?

DROUGHT IN CALIFORNIA

NARRATIVES

The most interesting project of our design is the possibilities of separating the three barges with different themes serving different areas during the Olympic sailing competitions while recombining together for new functions for afterlives when the Olympics ends. Since the sailing event of the Olympics is classified into different times and sailing areas, we consider the multifunctional uses of our project and figured out the proper ways of combining industrial systems , public serving facilities and recreational activities. Each barge has it’s identical themes: one is for agriculture, one is for bottled water production and one is for seafood production. Once the sailing competition begins, the three barges would be driven to different racing areas.

SITE PLAN LONG BEACH 2028

CIRCULATION OF DESALINATION FACILITY

SITE PLAN LONG BEACH 2028

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FISH FARM BARGE

Fish Farm

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COMBINATION OF THREE BARGES

AFTERLIFE OF 2028 OLYMPICS

COMBINATION OF THREE BARGES

COMBINATION OF THREE BARGES

ADAPTIVE DONUTS IN THE FUTURE Site Location: City of Venice, Italy Completion Time: 12/10/2018 Fall Semester City Form Assignment Teammate: Mengxuan Liu, Huiru Yang, Yichen Ouyang, Bohan Lin, Dingpiao Tang, Yichun Qiu, Yixiong Liu Critic: Vishaan Chakrabarti

WHERE DO PEOPLE LIVE WHEN THE RISING SEA LEVEL FLOODS THE WHOLE CITY OF VENICE?

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CLIMATE CHANGE + SEA LEVEL RISE The city of Venice in Italy, one of UNESCO’s most famous World Heritage Sites, is subsiding. Built in the 5th century AD, this water city has been continuously invaded by the floods and rising sea level. In Venice, the highest water level in history was 6 feet (1.83 meters), and the closest to us at the end of 2009 also reached 1.43 meters. “Everything is in danger of disappearing.

This is not only an alarmist.” Some experts predict that if not rescued, Venice may be completely submerged by the sea in 2050.

Because of the flooding, the population of Venice is decreasing, and there are only less than 60,000 residents. As tourists are rushing in, smart real estate merchants continue to buy old houses and raise prices. The real Venetian can only move out. The resilient ring city is designed to save residents living in the old city

SHAPE + FUNCTION

Ring The reasons for designing a ring-shaped island: The ring-shape has a high level of wind resistance; Compared to the linear city, the ring-shaped form is more efficient in terms of commuting and cargo transportation.

Fringe The mechanism of sponge city in the fringe of the Donut will be used to tackle the surface water flooding. The basic elements include permeable ground surface, rainwater recycling, spongy wetland and bioretention facilities.

Height The height of the Dounts varies in the different sections. In the neighborhood sections, the zenith is under 1000 meters; for the regional center sections, the height range is 1500-2000 meters.

Anchors Each building on the Dounts has an underwater anchor. These could be used to resist waves and storms.

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ZONING

Design Concept: Adaptive Resilient City Our main design concept is to develop a self-adaptive resilient city. Urban resilience is the capacity of individuals, communities, institutions, businesses, and systems within a city to survive, adapt, and grow no matter what kinds of chronic stresses and acute shocks they experience. By adopting the following design principles into planning, construction, and governance, the resilient city could be achieved gradually.

Design Principles 1. Develop a resilient city by creating a sponge city mechanism; 2. Prioritize land use efficiency in the development through compact, efficient, mixed-use and functionally balanced urban design; 3. View municipal waste as a resource by improving waste recycling and implementing waste minimization mechanisms.

Zoning The transit-oriented development zoning mode in our prototype has four basic elements. They are high-density, mixed-used land, pedestrian friendly environment, and convenient public transit service. The land use efficiency will be increased by high density. A certain degree of residence and employment density can provide the necessary passenger flow for public transportation. It is also the consumer market base needed to support retail, commercial and other activities in the region.

Spreading out, mixed-use based commercial areas will surround those stations, and then residential areas locating on the periphery across the entire area. We also designed two types of land mixed-use mode for two different levels. The area of the TOD block is mainly determined by the walking distance. In our case, we use a walking distance of 400m or 5-10 minutes. By this pattern, residents in the proposed area will have equal and accessible dwelling spaces, as well as can easily travel through different communities.

Capacity The capacity of the donuts city depends on the the degree of sea level rise’s severity and market demand. The population of Venice is currently 260,000 residents. With the rising of sea level, residents from other areas will also set up a home on the donuts.

“EMPTY SPAIN” ---- NOMADICITY Site Location: Madrid, Spain Completion Time: 05/01/2019 Spring Semester Teammate: Mengxi Liang, Xia Wang Critic: Juan Herreroes

REBUILDING NARRATIVES BETWEEN URBAN AND RURAL TERRITORY

BACKGROUND

In the last twenty years the population of Spainish cities has grown and suburbanized intensively. Simultaneously, the Spaish highway system has been extended greatly. There are two main types of highways, autopistas and autovias. Most autopistas are toll roads. On the other hand, autovias are usually upgrades from older roads, and always untolled.

The Spanish highway system has become the biggest in Europe and the third in the world, only after the USA and China. It’s apparent to see its significance to Spain, but how it actually influence the population distribution and urban pattern?

We found some data analysis towards the relationship between the distance to highway ramp or CBD and the population growth Obviously, it foster significantly suburban population growth compared to CBD. However, it actually increases population in villages near the highway,which means abundant small ones dispersed in the agricultural field are left behind. Villagers have to wait for specific cars coming to their villages to provide them with daily necessities.

The only way to get acess to various kinds of entertainment is to go to larger cities through highways. Consequently, there is no wonder that these villages are losing population a lot.

Similar to the analogue city proposed by Aldo Rossi, which defines itself as a montage of memories and negation of scales, our proposal conceives itself as a composition of different generic elements with abnormal scales. in other words, this project makes an analogy of the city scale to express different mobilities fully.

Because of such centrality, we want to roughly know how large the “new city” can serve. We take two different transportation tools-car and bicycle to measure the regular distance they can reach in a certain period of time. In the future, small villages included in the range won’t bother to spend hours on the highways to get necessities from large cities. They can get stuff from the new infrustructure, which can also be replicated as a prototype anywhere along the highway.

The layout of our project is a mixture of linear-shaped buildings with bicycle routes and cars lanes connected to the highway, interlacing with each other.

The free shapes leave many open spaces in between, blurring the boundary between interior and exterior. The huge linear massing coordinates itself with the surrounding fabric, building up the connection across the highway.

Analogous to a city, different programs exist simultaneously, permeating into each other. Road networks passing by, performing as the basic spine of the city. The abstract form of the building expresses evocatively about the highway, different speeds of mobility interlaced in a city.

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The typical plan above the highway shows the linearity of both the indoor space and outdoor paths, the configuration of the structures and how it spreads across the agricultural field.

The shape of buildings interlaces with each other in order to create a multilayered fun place that suits different uses. Commuters can drive their car directly into the building, park their car on the first floor, and then go directly into their offices. The travellers and those temporary workers could find their places for sleep on the third floor while going downstairs to do some leisure activities.

The efficiency of transportation and the large long space have the potential to contain a mixture of programs.

Since all the buildings here are temporary, we considered the structure of buildings to be lighweight and removable. Therefore, we figured out the truss system that goes along the spines of the building. The weight of the whole building is supported by huge columns every 60 meters under the truss systems to create a huge open interior space without columns.

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“C” CUBE ---- CONTROLLING CYCLING COMFORT Site Location: Brooklyn, New York, NY Completion Time: 12/10/2018 Fall Semester X Information Teammate: Yutong Li, Srujana Bhoopanam Critic: Luc Wilson, Jason Danforth

BROOKLYN HAS LESS POSSIBILITIES FOR PUBLIC TRANSIT AS COMPARED TO MANHATTAN. IT LACKS LAST MILE CONNECTIVITY AT MANY LOCATIONS. WHAT IF WE GENERATE BIKE ROUTES THAT SERVE AS LAST MILE SERVICE?

COMFORT FOR SUMMER

SELECTED ROUTES

COMFORT FOR WINTER

SELECTED ROUTES

NEVER BUILT PARIS ---- VILLES-TOURS Poject Location: Paris, France 1922 by August Perret Completion Time: 4/28/2019 Spring Semester Teammate: Hyunggyu Choi Critic: Sam Lubell, Greg Goldin

Villes-Tours was an ambitious citywide master plan proposed by Auguste Perret that could have transformed the makeup of Paris as we know it. Perret spearheaded the use of reinforced concrete to build on a vast, super-tall scale. His work would have a profound impact on Le Corbusier, who soon would make his own bold proposal to rethink Paris. Perret’s plan included a series of towering apartments along the outer boulevards, forming a kind of rampant around the city. The towers were approximately 200 to 300 meters in height, and were connected via suspended bridges. The plan maximized green space by pushing major thoroughfares underground while minimizing above.

This speculative proposal helped shift the thinking of planners and citizens alike toward a mass-produced, mega-scaled urbanism, which in fact did occur, particularly along the edges of the city.

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