PORTFOLIO OF DIAN YU M.S. Architecture and Urban Design Columbia University Selected Works 2013-2019
DIAN YU
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EDUCATION Columbia University 05. 2018 - 05. 2019 | New York, USA Master of Science in Architecture and Urban Design South China University of Technology 09. 2013 - 06. 2018 | Guangzhou, P.R. China Bachelor of Engineering in Urban and Rural Planning (With 3 Years of Arhitecture Study)
WORK
EXPERIENCE
Maya Lin Studio Freelance Designer | New York, 40h/week, 09. 2019 - Present Researching, mapping and graphic designing in the public educational project “What is Missing?”. CAD documentation for technical drawings and modeling for architecture projects. Renderings post-processing and diagrams drawing. English-Mandarin translation and editing for description of programs in China.
Hebei Institute of Architectural Design & Research Co.,Ltd Architectural Intern | Shijiazhuang, 24h/week, 08. 2017 - 11. 2017 Site visits, field survey and CAD documentation for a village renovation program. Research and make powerpoints for presentations of site information with revealed issues and general proposal. Assist in the design of two residential quarters. Organize and archive documentations.
ACTIVITY SCUT Art Exhibition 2016 Leader Designer | Cube4 | 11. 2016 3rd Prize Propose the concept of nested cubes representing social barriers in consider of theme WALL. Create the first sketch and develop the design. Collaborate with teammates for the model. Write the concept and description for the competition.
International Design Competition BAITASI 2016 - Reinventing the Beijing Courtyards Designer | Keep the Bird-Thinking about Hutong Culture & Residential Renovation | 06. 2016 - 08. 2016 Propose the concept of reserving of bird culture. Collaborate with teammates for SketchUp model, diagrams, renderings and layout.
Young Bird Plan (Public Cultural Architecture Design Competition) Designer | In-Between | 08. 2015 - 09. 2015 Design the interior of the gallery and salon. Collaborate with teammates for SketchUp model, CAD documentation, diagrams drawing and layout.
Other Activities Voluntary Teaching In Rural Areas Planner / Executant / Recorder | 08. 2016 Echo Graduation Ceremony Leader Organizer / Executant | 06. 2015 Build the Dream Welcome Party Organizer / Executant | 10. 2015 Tracing the Light New Year’s Ceremony Organizer / Planner / Executant | 12. 2015 Student Union of School of Architecture Minister of Entertainment Department | 03. 2015 - 03. 2016 Voluntary Teaching in Guangzhou Library Planner / Executant | 11. 2014
SKILL Software: SketchUp, AutoCAD, Rhinoceros, ArcGIS, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Premiere, After Effects, V-ray, Lumion, Microsoft Office, Laser Cutting, 3D Printing, Architectural Photography Language: English, Mandarin
Contents
Urban Design 01
Appletopia Revitalizing the Apple Industry in Hudson Valley
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Grids on Bulk Renovation Project for Sugar Refinery in Guangzhou, China
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Life Aquatic Conserving Water Culture of Can Tho City
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Spiraling Roots Fabrics and Typologies of La Plata City, Argentina
Architecture 05
Tri-Angle Iron Museum Design in Anshan, China
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Geometry Agglomeration Village Kindergarten Design in Guangzhou, China
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Half of BIRD (Beloved Inactive Residential District) Elderly Community Center Design of Beijing Hutong Reventing
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Cube4 - Art Exhibition "Wall"
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Mortised Society - Urban Seminar "Out of Date"
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Diapason - Exhibition "Never Built Paris"
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To-Life-Journey - Art Exhibition"Once in Lifetime"
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+ 01 Appletopia Revitalizing the Apple Industry in Hudson Valley Urban Design Studio II, Fall 2018 Instructor: Lee Altman, Wendy Adringa, Jerome Haferd, Justin Moore, Michael Murphy, Christopher Kroner, David Smiley Collaborator: Shuyuan Li, Peiqing Wang, Yinzhe Zhang
Apples form one of the most iconic industries of the Hudson Valley. However, apple orchards have experienced a drastic decrease of 26% in the past 20 years due to increasingly unaffordable operating costs, labor shortage, a lack of facilities, waste disposal, etc. For the remaining orchards in the valley, two existing models promise economic sustainability: “pickyour-own” farms and hard cider tours. Based on these trends, we propose to build upon the apple industry’s more public aspects, taking advantage of existing infrastructures. Our proposal consists of (a) A series of multi-functional “hubs”, constructing for making apple
processing and adding value products and providing professional training; (b) Expanded hard cider companies cooperating with apple cultivation and engaging the public into cider making process; (c) A trail system tying together these two components plus apple follies celebrating the apple culture. By adapting to contemporary models that combine agricultural production with experiential participation and recreation, apple industry in Hudson Valley can reinvent itself as an economically viable, environmentally sustainable, and socially engaging, while remaining an integral part of the valley’s identity.
Apple Orchard
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Dairy Farm
Apple Pie
Apple Cider 182 Gal
Organic Compost 331 Lbs
Apple Flour 100 Lbs
Apple 1 Ton
Cow Fodder
Pick Your Own
LARGE FARM
91% Farms in NYS are small farms
The average acre of farms in H. V. is 1/8 of the USA
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Apple, the Root of Every Pillar Industry Hudson Valley has abundant formats, among which dairy, tourism and beverage are the most significant industries. Apple industry generates great profit and meanwhile benefit other pillar industries. However, with the poorly normalized process, small orchards are struggling and disappearing.
County Boundary Urban Area Apple Orchard Pick Your Own Farmer Market Hard Cidery
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Processor Scenic Spot Railway Highway Road Landform Protected Open Space “Apple Region”
Apple Region Map
“Apple Cloud”
Decreasing Small Farms
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Missed Opportunities With NY
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Network The 4 essential elements - Apple farm, hub, hard cidery and trail connecting them together, play an important role in this mechanism. Commercial production, recreation, education, apple culture are all involved in the system. Other industries will also be benefited.
Storage Packing Apple Orchard
Local Brand
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Growth Advice Damaged
High-Quality Labor
(Distribute) Cider
Training Center
Lab
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Hub Process Hub is a shared facility. Farmers could use infrastructure to make apple products and sell them to cidery and retails. Cideries could purchase local apple juice at a lower price.
Worker Tourist
Education Center
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Show Room
Lounge Waste Disposal By-product Processing Office
Cider Processing
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Storage
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Hub The hub is multi-functional. It also has an education center to address labor shortage issue. Education center provides professional training for labors. Some of them will work at farms, others may work at cideries or just in the hub.
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Prospect Hill Orchard
Core Trail The hub is the starting point, along the trail, there are two big farms, one cidery, and we also designed functional follies to make the trail attractive and engaging. For example, people could explore different varieties of apples in different folly.
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The apple trail is knowledged with apple varieties, history of NYC apple cultivation, hard cider processing. The trail also serves as a timeline. Tourists w activities such as apple blossom, pick your own apple and skating, skiing in different seasons. The trail has the richness in both time and space dimen
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Phase 2 Expand hub system to Columbia County. Connect apple trail to further trails.
Phase 1 Pilot trails based on pilot hubs in Ulster County.
Phase 3 Build trail system in Hudson Valley.
Hub Trail
Phasing Of Apple Trail
The trail incorporates and connects at least one hub, several apple farms, hard cideries and gradually to other existing tourism assets.
Apple Orchard Mimic nature
Crop Field Play with topography
Lawn Celebrate open space
Forest Reflect natural view
Typology Of Follies On The Trail Diverse follies are designed based on the topography. Embracing the nature, follies can encourage the public to play outdoor. During the process, people can also be educated of apple related knowledge with fun.
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will become apple experts as exploring the trail. It is as well arranged with seasonality analysis. Visitors can see various views and take part in varioius nsion.
Ulster Trail In the future, more hubs will be installed in Hudson Valley region. Based on the criteria, 1000 acres need one hub, so there will be a new hub in Hudson City, which will form a hub network with current hubs. We also propose new trails based on the principle that each trail incorporates and connects one hub, farms, hard cideries and local tourism assets. Therefore, the new trail system will not only benefit Ulster county and Columbia county, but the whole Hudson Valley could celebrate apple culture. Currently, institutions of the region are providing training programs for new farmers. A growing trend exists among young people to be farmers. On the other hand, most of the current farmer owners’ descendants are not willing to take this job after the elderly retire, which making them quite worried. We see the opportunity to communicate the human resources. Well-trained young people could bring new thoughts and lively operating modes, with more sensitivity to changes of markets and trends.
Hard Cidery Orchard Pick Your Own Farm Land
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Hub Folly Trail Service Area
The Original Cidery
Functional Grid
Seasonal Glass Shed
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Cider Tour
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Tap Room
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Renovation For Hard Cidery Hard cideries will be renovated aiming for the expansion of recreational function in terms of both space and time. By intersecting functional grids and a movable sloping roof shed, Bad Seed, the second largest hard cider company in HV will become a pub where the public can be educated, have fun and engage the “apple to cider� industry.
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Bar
View Tower
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Tap Room Bar
Flavor Shelf
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Tourist Entrance
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Build folly system to connect initially the apple industry then to other local assets, so that tourism
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02 Grids on Bulk Renovation Project for Sugar Refinery SCUT Urban Design Studio, Spring 2017 Instructor: Miaoxi Zhao(SCUT) Collaborator: Haoting Pang
Due to the complicated history, Chinese industrial experienced a bumpy development course. The industrial buildings' styles under such circumstance is various as well.Starting from Chinese Westernize Movement, a lot of factories introduced western-style buildings while introducing their advanced technology, most of which is classical and complex at that time, including this project, Huaqiao Sugar Refinery (HSR) in Guangzhou, China.
Buildings in HSR includes traditional Chinese style soviet style and so on. The project studys HSR's history and finally experimentally endows the old, disordered and different-styles buildings in the site with a unified, systematic form of grids in contrast, reorganizing the site as well as upgrading the functions.The combination modes between the “girds” and the “bulk” is actually a reflection of the old and the new, the complex and the pure.
Huaqiao Sugar Refinery Experienced Vicissitudes Huaqiao Sugar Refinery (hereinafter referred to as "HSR") is located beside a river bank in Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province,witnessing historical changes of Chinese industry. HSR was the product of Westernization Movement in China,and reached its pinnacle in the late 1970s. After the Reform and Opening Up, the rapid development of new industries made Chinese sugar mines lose their advantages of labor force and
cropland, gone declined one after another,including HSR. HSR finally moved out and changed its operation mode.Although reconstructed as Tangren Cultural Wharf in recent years,the site is surrounded by people with low education level, this area are lack of development conditions to serve as a cultural place.The cultural wharf shut down in only 2 years.
1. The Westernization Movement in China promotes a series of industries' establishment. 2. HSR gradually began to refine raw sugar and handle export trade.
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TImeline of the HSR's Development The Refinery have experienced rise and fall in 20 century, peaking at 1970s and waning at 1990s.Its vicissitudes were closely related with Chinese great historic changes.
During the process of learning from the West, HSR borrowed a lot of western-style buildings.The building are messy and complex with both industrial style and Soviet style coexisting.,casually scattering in the site. of labor force and cropland, gone declined one after another,including HSR.HSR finally moved out and changed its
operation mode.Although reconstructed as Tangren Cultural Wharf in recent years,the site is surrounded by people with low education level, this area are lack of development conditions to serve as a cultural place.The cultural wharf shut down in only 2 years.
Mapping in Grid Imagine the buildings and structures are overlaped by a grid which gives the site organization and structure. The original structures can fit in the simple grid despite their complex appearances,with which the new artificial girds added will bring a style collision.
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Recreation Center
Pressing Factory
Extracting Factory
Pressing Factory
Canteen
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Exporting Storage
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Power Visit Refine
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Buildings In Grid Put buildings diverse on scales and styles into the spatial grid,with each unit cube 6*6*6 meters.According to various purposes and users' identities,different streamlines exist among buidings,which can be organized by grid as well.
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Bureaux Stadium Amusement
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Playground
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New Functions & Rearranged Streamlines Add new functions to the buildings and structures,the streamlines are rearranged therewith. Mix up new streamlines and the original ones,a holistic network appears.Establish the final complete grid basing on this.
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Press & Refine Press Gathering
Wharf
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Dorms Catering
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Product Storage
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Overall Grid Distribution In Site Corrisponding the Streamlines Tracing back each of function and streamline to the locations of relavent buildings in site, a fuction &flow mapping is eventually obtained. The grid distribution is exactly corrisponding to the functions & flows, reorganizing the site, despite the buildings' distribution. Therefore some buildings will be bridged, pentrated, or completely enclosed by the grid,creating various experience spaces therefrom.
Ground Floor Plan
The follow four scenarios are typical ones that can well illustrate grid forms in the project, relationship with the buildings and experience spaces produced therefrom.
Scenery In this semi-open converted factory, space is divided into 5 stripes and 2 floors with cubes randomly scattered on it.
Scenery This is an openspace theme playground at the power supporting area where exists lawn and several chemneys.
Activity There exists both ground and sky, strip and block spaces for people to stay and walk through.
Activity People can rest and enjoy the river-view on the playground. The chimneys also serves as a landscape sketch which can go inside.
Lights Lights are provided by lamps on both wings of factory.
Lights Lights are provided by lamps on top of chimneys and windows of the adjacent factory.
Grid The grid includes corridors and "grid cloud".
Grid The grid includes corridors/clouds wraping the chimenys to connect each planes.
Form Few grids touch the ground,and most grids are in the air.
Form Grids are like cloud clusters and channels in the air. Few grids touch the ground.
Location The case buiding is located at the north end of site.
Location The case is the outdoor space located at the center of the site.
Scenery A gallery to restore the scene of sugar refining.People can visit it by walking on the air corridor.
Activity Workers on the ground refining while tourists in the air visting.
Scenery The waterfront zone where are plenty of industrial structures with a storage and a commercial comlex in it.
Activity Shopping,visiting the storage and leisure activities in the waterfronts.Tourists can interact with the industrial structures.
Lights Lights are provided by spoylights on the ceiling.
Lights Lights are provided by street lamps and spotlights on buidings.
Grid The grid serves as an independent exhibition hall.
Grid The grid is a complex whole attached to the main building.
Form All grids are in the air.
Form Grids gather like a cloud cluster with a corridor extending outside.
Location The case buiding is located at the center of the site.
Location The case buiding is located at the south end of site.
Corridor: Serving as a passage connecting two ends of the factory.
Ancillary Structure: A "grid cloud" gazebo which has planes in different height.
Frame Room: Creating gray space for people to stay or walk through.
Playground: Kids can shuttle and climb up and down in such a box.
Corridors in the air: Continuos Conneting two defferent buildings in a plane.
Veins: Conneting planes of different heights.
Gallery: People walk on which to visit the exhibition of the old sugar-refining process.
Decorative Frame: Creating gray space for people to walk below.
Room&Collums: A semi-enclosed space adjacent to the original building for people to stay.
Connector: A semi-open complex connecting two buildings.
Shell: Wraping the original structure abd offer a new streamline surrounding it.
Gangway: Long terrace outextending above river bank.
Spatial Framework Deconstruction Re-constructing Social Networks A traditional industrial built form is critically conserved by maintaining the outlook yet deconstructing the function. Deconstruction itself can be formalized in a spatial framework, which in turn imply and construct a form. Form, in this deconstructed way, is misled with the flow-made function. Form/function, Historic/Contextalist, once-workflow/new-tourflow, and Solid/void are mutually mixed in a way that neither is compromised or completely. I want to call it Deconstructed Conservation.
03 Life Aquatic Conserving Water Culture of Can Tho City GSAPP Urban Design Studio III, Spring 2019 Instructor: Kate Orff, Dilip da Cunha, Geeta Mehta, Thaddeus Pawlowski, Julia Watson, Linh K. Pham Collaborator: Junyu Cao, Zeyi Jiang, Ashley Louie
What if landscape and cultural conservation could be a driver for adapting water-based livelihoods into resilient growth? The oldest urban area in Can Tho, Binh Thuy is the home to historic temples and heritage sites that exist alongside traditional stilt houses adjacent to the water. As the city rapidly urbanizes, canals become roads, embankments displace stilt houses, and impermeable surfaces replace green space. Can Tho is at risk of losing its water identity and is more vulnerable to land subsidence and flooding.
The project aims to seek an alternative future of Can Tho City. Landscape and cultural conservation can be a driver for adapting water-based livelihoods into resilient growth. Conservation goes beyond preserving historic landmarks; it identifies vernacular patterns—wetlands, canals, dikes, docks, floating structures, and stilt houses—as cultural assets that protect the water-retaining landscape, promote biodiverse habitats, foster productive aquaculture, extend productive green spaces, diversify jobs, and prioritize locally-harvested food, while achieving new urban development and growth.
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Elements To Be Conservated Generations of Vietnamese people have thrived through a symbiotic relationship between their aquaculture / agriculture livelihoods and the productive landscape in the Mekong Delta. Vernacular built elements enrich this relationship of living with water.
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Connecting the city center and historical core, various activities happen on / along Binh Thuy River. However, the mode of urbanization here is mainly much neglected here. The cultural heritage is blocked by the embankment, the only crossing bridge has an only 1-meter-width sidewalk.
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Compared with the other one, Hau River is much more activated. Aquaculture and agro-tourism has been booming. There is a highly efficient fish farm The river also load a large amount of commuters and tourists. All of these activities are opportunities.
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Existing Waterfront Condition By researching and analyzing the existing waterfront typologies of Can Tho City, a reflection of the relationship between the people and water arises. Which ones are negative, and which ones are celebrating the nature? This leads to the revaluation of local elements, and inspires us to think about conservation as growth.
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The renovated adaption with vernacular techniques will be applied to the site according to various conditions. For the westside, the neglected canals will be reintroduced, while new canal being created, forming a complete network; high ground develpment will be contructed next to them as a strategy for urban agriculture growth.
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s economic growth in island. On Binh Thuy, the existing green space is made use of for introducing a canal system and developing new water-based ced on the island for the multi-functional program for tourists. Tourist can have local experience about agriculture, fishing as well as productive forest.
Elevated Half-stilt House
Canal Through Urban Village
Productive Terrace
Urban Forest Along Canals
Urban Aquaculture Neighborhood
Agro-Tourism
Sectional Adaptive Design
Adaptive design is applied to different site conditions. For where the world bank wall has been half built, we install terrace and outreach platforms to p water still needs to be kept out, we build at least one more story, and when the flood comes, the wall of house becomes the wall of water. But more im during the wet season, it serves as a water retention park. Existing half stilt houses will be gradually renovated to full stilt houses, and aquaculture farm ment model that can grow along the riverfront. As for reintroducing canals, there will also be high ground construction along some canals taking adva
High-ground Development
Floating Bnb
purify water passing through and celebrate the waterfront view. For the area built out by stilt houses with even much more houses behind, meaning mportantly, for stilt houses with green space behind, we build this gradient edge. During the dry season, it’s public space with playful topography; m will be developed here using the stilts, connected by multilayer platforms and co-operated by neighborhoods. We see this becoming a new developantage of cut and fill. Where we will build productive urban forest and multilayer new housing typology.
Experimental Site
This site is located in an abandoned land adjacent to an existing old urban village area. Site specific strategies based on the adaptive techniques ar
re applied to seek its opportunity on both conservation and development.
Groyne
A sequence of groynes will be built to both capture the sediment and change the water flow to let the water in.
Reintroduced / New Canal
Create a new canal to connect the existing o make use of its ecological function. Palm Leaf
Bamboo
Concrete
Living
Vender
Hammock
Coffee
Chatting
Mangrove in Phasing
Water-based House Technique
Sow mangrove seeds on the groynes. As time goes by, mangroves will gradually build up an ecological embankment. The artificial groyne will be removed then.
Use vernacular materials. Hire the skilled lo potential total resident population to solve e
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Productive Landscape
Utilizing the canals as an irrigation system, arrange multi-level productive landscape along the canal, these would be an mixture of palm tree, fruit trees and rice paddy.
Activated Attraction + Community
Conserve the church in site by renovation a public space system of this community.
one into our big system to protect but also
High Ground Construction
Use the cut and fill strategy to build the high ground area to set the foundation for new housing development and water retention area.
Floating Guesthouse-L
Floating Guesthouse-M
Stilt House
Renovated House
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Gradient Typologies
ocal residents as the first 15% of the employment and resettlement problem.
Develop a gradient housing typology, which has their different relationship with water based on their characteristics, giving resident and visitors various experience.
Church
Supermarket Stewardship + Fitness Center New Housing Development
munity Corridor
Local market Bioswale
Entry Plaza
fish trap
Rain Garden
Fishing Pond
Pier
and programming, as the entrance of the
Water-based Economic Growth
During the dry season, this could be a productive area for rice paddies; during the monsoon season, it is deeper as a river to support water-based transportation.
Dry Season During the dry season, this forms a productive landscape area for rice paddies. The most important connection is community corridor, these elevated wood decks can function both as gathering space but also rainwater collecting point, which could embrace the existing urban pattern into the new resilient livelihood.
Wet Season During the wet season, the canal could be deeper as a river to support water-based transportation. People could choose their familiar or interested living pattern but also could be protected from flooding in the future. Life Aquatic could be an alternative way to develop the site, as well as the Can Tho City.
04 Spiraling Roots Fabrics and Typologies of La Plata City Urban Seminar III, Fall 2018 Instructor: Richard Plunz Collaborator: Yinzhe Zhang
La Plata is a new city founded in 1882, following a combination of traditional and progress interpretation Spanish American colonial law, which provides it an orderly, neat urban fabric. However, zooming into block scale, the layout of the buildings under the existing skeleton lines is found to be unreasonable for residents, with low quality of ventilation and lighting, inconvenient circulation, lack of accessibility of green space, and low living density. The seminar is to select a 800*800 Sq.ft "window" in a certain city, and dig the problems in the existing typical urban
fabric of it, then propose an alternative form of fabric, considering the potential of the city density growth. Based on the analysis, we try our best to maintain the traditional scale and skeleton lines of the city, meanwhile propose a new block form, with 15-feet wide individual modules of commercial use along the streets, and high-rise residential buildings rotated according to the light in the center of the block. With the proposal, there will be a better living experience, better connectivity, better landscape and public space, and a higher density of the block.
A New City With Ancient Roots La Plata was founded in 1882, following a combination of traditional and progressive interpretation Spanish colonial planning law. The traditional mechanism provides an orderly, neat urban fabric. A progressive overlay provides central parks at the intersection of diagonal geometry for the purpose of a “green and healthy” city.
1509 San Juan Puerto Rico
1515 Havana, Cuba
1541 Santiago, Chile
1553 Bogota, Colombia
1519 Veracruz, Mexico 1776 Nueva Guatemala de la Asuncion
Once Columbus set sail around 1500s, Queen Isabella’s instructions on plans of new territory began to unfold, which culminated in the “Ordinances Concerning Discoveries, Settlements and Pacification of the Indies” in 1573, i. e. the Spanish colonial planning law. The strategy of layout is to find a healthy location, a space for social activities, a defined urban fabric. Churches and municipal administrations should be on the axis, and the city should be able to expand. The law has influenced many South American cities. Village of Ensenada La Plata Harbour
Central Main Square Parish Church Stately Public Buildings Secondary Squares Palisade / Town Wall Limit of the “Ejido”
Theoretical Model According to the Royal Ordinances (1573)
Central Main Square Parish Church Stately Public Buildings Urban Blocks “Quintas” “Chacras”
Classical Model As Applied in Argentina
Central Main Square Secondary Squares Urban Blocks “Quintas” “Chacras” Limit of the “Ejido”
Brickyards
Argentine Republican Model As Established in 1826
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Central Main Square Parish Church Stately Public Buildings Secondary Squares “Quintas”
Central Main Square Parish Church Stately Public Buildings Secondary Squares “Quintas”
Layout of Santos Lugares de Rosas (1837)
Layout of San Vicente (1854) in Buenos Aires Province
Deduction of the Spanish American Model
Central Main Square Parish Church Stately Public Buildings Secondary Squares “Quintas”
Layout of Chivilcoy (1868) in Buenos Aires Province
“Quintas” (Small Farms) “Chacras” (Large Farms)
Ejido of La Plata
Limit of the “Ejido” Comprising a Total Area of 6 Square “Leguas”
La Plata was arranged as a perfect square of one “legua”, an old Spanish unit, according to the tradition pattern the classic model.
La Plata’s Rejected Alternative Layouts The plan is extremely symmetrical with diagonal structure lines.
The plan starts from the center where the first stone was set.
Aerial View of La Plata The diamond shape is the symbol of the logia light and thruth and symbol of the vescia piscis.
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The urban fabric is divided every 6 blocks by a central park.
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Selected Cluster
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The Spanish American Model could easily be applied to the demands of regularization air, light and green. The final layout is built superimposing a grid of orthogonal streets and a system of diagonal streets and avenues.
400 Ft
400 Ft
Inconvenient Circulation - Within the Block.
Selected Window Central Park
Inconvenient Circulation - “Blocked Block”.
The property lines of each block are neat and symmetrical.
No Public Space In the Block.
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Poor Lighting and Stiff Orientation.
Obvious problems in the existing layout of the blocks can be found through the aerial view.
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Section
Typical Residential Building “Casa Chorizo”
The house consists on an elongated plan, 1 typically 15 meters wide by 50 meters long. They usually have a courtyard on the side.
Existing Block Condition
Property Lines
Reorganizing
Rotating
Overlaying
Sunshine
Reconnecting
Block Structure Evolution Instead of wiping out the original fabric, some buildings are extracted to open up the block. The buildings are reorganized in a more orderly way as the base, forming several entrances and promoting the accessibility to the park. Four residential buildings are added on the base, which are rotated to the north for better lighting. Two sets of structure lines are applied and overlayed.
Residential High-Rise 10 Ft 13 Ft 16.5 Ft
Story Height Distribution
Mixed Use Base
Spiraling
Rising
Volume Generation The two sets of structure lines are linked by spiraling, with an elevator as the core. Each building includes a mixed use base, which has larger height, and a 15-story residential tower.
Existing Site Plan
Existing Site Axonometric
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Proposed Site Plan
Proposed Site Axonometric
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25 Ft 30 Ft
25 Ft
39 Ft
25 Ft
25 Ft
49 Ft
59 Ft 25 Ft
30 Ft
Mixed-Use Unit
Mixed-Use Base Cluster On the Corner
Mixed-Use Base Cluster Along the Street
Unit Renovation of Mixed-Use Base In order to keep the sense of scale along the street, the frontage width of the buildings are not changed on the first two floors. Instead, the units of the base are uniformed in 25 x 50 feet, and piled up differently on different spots.
Core Elevator
4 Households
3 Households + Terrace
3 Households
Unit Renovation of High-Rise Residential Tower Most floors have 4 households, while the top 5 floors diminished in consideration of balance of form. The top floor is cut down to 3 households. The transition area in the middle serves as terraces.
15 th Floor Plan
Indoor - Axon
Outdoor - Axon
Terrace
3rd Floor Plan
Indoor - Section
Household Plan
Public Space
The grey part is the elevator core. Spiraling, 4 households gradually become 3 households.
The grey space generated by spiraling is utilized as public terrace. Four pavilions are built on the central lawn and connected by bridges.
Outdoor - Perspective
Statistical Analysis
Existing Fabric
Proposed Fabric
Total Project Area
640,000 Sq.ft
640,000 Sq.ft
Total Building Lots
94
44
Number of Floors
1, 2, 10
1, 2, 3, 15
Total Building Footprint
69,314 Sq.ft
71,710 Sq.ft
Building Lot Coverage
37.8%
39.8%
Total Number of Dwellings
144
344
Subject Lot Area/Dwellings
1,250 Sq.ft
523 Sq.ft
Gross Floor Area
176,662 Sq.ft
322,988 Sq.ft
Heights & Setback
90 Ft / 18 Ft
144 Ft / 18 Ft
Usable Open Space
111, 566 Sq.ft
108, 180 Sq.ft
FAR
0.9
1.8
BIBLIOGRAPHY 1. https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/apr/08/la-plata-cathedral-argentina-history-cities-50-buildings 2. http://www.newgeography.com/content/003530-the-beauty-urban-planning-ground 3. https://caselaw.findlaw.com/co-supreme-court/1001447.html 4. https://whc.unesco.org/en/tentativelists/6296/ 5. http://www.fau.usp.br/iphs/abstractsAndPapersFiles/Sessions/05/FEDELE.pdf 6. http://www.lpccds.org/ 7. https://pinerivertimes.com/articles/45818 8. http://online.encodeplus.com/regs/laplata-co/export2doc.aspx?pdf=1&tocid=068 9. http://laplatalibertycoalition.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/LPC_LandUseCode_module1_112917.pdf 10. https://www.durangotelegraph.com/news/top-stories/the-lay-of-the-land/
05 Tri-Angle Iron Museum Design in Anshan, China Studio Alpha Open Project, Summer 2017 Instructor: Kun Zhang, Jianing Zhang, Xinyu Cao Individual Work
What would happen to the site after an origin of resource being exploited out? With the rapid pace of industrialization, it seems we have never think about this question. Lots of coal mines in Shanxi became shambles, the worked-out oil field in Jiangxi, China even became a wasteyard. How come old essential resources fall into useless ruins? What should happen to these origins? How deep and long should we think when we build something? Taking future's parking problem and modes of transportation into
consideration, Mantattan already begins building parking lots far away from downtown instead of on the slope. The design is a museum rethinking about mine in the long-term. It abstracted inversion of the mountain’s altitude as two reversed triangle. As time goes by, the museum will change with environment. But it is always bedded here into the mountain like a rock as a symbol of its dramatic history.
+280 To -222: The Inversion of Dagu Mountain Dagushan Pit is located in Dagu Mountain,Anshan,which is knowned as the city of iron in China.The iron ore resource was firstly discovered during the Japnese economic aggresion to the Northeast of China.They began mineral propsecting secretly from 1909,and plundered violently Chinese material resources.
In 1953,China started the Great Leap Forward Movement which is extemly radical.The whole nation is smelting steel.Dagu Mountain kept being mined and cosumed,and the elevation continued reducing.
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1906: Japan enhanced the economic aggression.
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1916: Japan begun to mine the mountain at 280 m height.
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1949: New China was founded, Anshan became the city of Iron.
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2008: The Mine went extented.
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2011: The Mine turns to a -222 m pit.
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2025: The mineral resources in the Dagushan Pit will be deplepted.
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2050: The mineral resources in the Anshan City will be deplepted.
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What should we do with the pit in the future?
Process of Inversion The Dagu Mountain never stoped its height reduction in a century. The high mountain gradually became a deep pit.
City Surrounded by Mountains The Anshan City has lots of iron ores, the yearly output of which reaches 7 millions tons per year.
Types Of Iron Ore Most common ores are magnetite.The resourses export to countries all over the world.
The steel mills had been damaged during the wars. In December 1948, the Anshan Iron and Steel Company—also known as Angang—was founded. Production in the newly repaired steel plant resumed on July 9, 1949. Anshan became a formal administrative region under the Northeastern People's Government in November, 1949.
Dagushan Pit at the Scale of Urban Territoty
What would happen after the resources are completely exhausted? And what should happen? This project attempts to and build a memorial to rethink exploitation of natural resources and recount the history of Chinese industry development.
Dagushan Pit lays among a chain of mountains in Anshan.It is near the downtown and Qianshan Mountain Scenic Zone,and has convenient public transportation.
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The historic process of Dagu Mountain can be signified as 3 stages: triangle tokening Stage High Mountain; upslope tokening Stage Radical Movement; inverted triangle tokening Stage Pit.It is a climbing and inversion procedure.
Signifying the Historical Process of Dagushan Pit Triangle can be abstracted as the protype from mountain's shapes in different historic stages.
Point
Line
Combination
Inverted
Variants of Triangle Possible expression forms of triangle are discussed above.Single or combination of triangle can create different volumes and spaces. Choose the propriate ones to compose the 3 stage.
Stage 1
Stage 2
Stage 3
Entrance of Stage 1
Stage 3-1: Sight Window
Stage 2 from Outside
Stage 3-2: Landform
Stage 3-3: Decoration
Climbing in Stage 2
Triangles In the Mountain Stage1: Towering triangle space creates an oppressing sensation. Stage2: Visitors can comprehend the history exhibition while climbing the upslope. Stage3: Inverted triangle is inserted into the mountain and splits each floors of museum,each part of which offers different scales of triangle and different scenarios.
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Office
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Washroom
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Lobby
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Exhibition Hall
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Lounge
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Grand Staircase
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Hallway
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Stage 2
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Stage 3
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Recreation Bar
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Verticle Room
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Grandstands
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Air Corridor
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Decoration
Lobby The lobby can serve as the area for performances, the public gatherings, etc. The first view of visitors after come down from the reception will be the giant, monumental triangle. Display rooms of different themes will surround the triangle.
Stage 3 - Site Window Looking out of the window, visitors will see the current look of the pit, the exterior of the mine; looking down through the transparent floor, visitors will see the sectional decoration, i.e. the interial of the mine; looking up, they will see the sky.
Section 1 in 2025 - Under Construction
Section 2 in 2050 - Gallery
Section 3 in 2080 - Mine Park
States of Museum Overtime As time goes by,the geomorphic and ecological environment condition of Dagu Mountain will change. The museum will always stand here recording all of these historic transitions, while its appearance changes therewith.
06 Geometry Agglomeration Village Kindergarten Design in Guangzhou,China SCUT Architecture Studio, Summer 2015 Instructor: Jianhua Chen Individual Work
Undoubtedly, kids see the world in a different way from adults, and they process received information more abstractly and purely. The design discusses and summarizes possible processed results of kids, then match them to various geometries with diversiform colors and shapes,and emphasizes its artistic conception by utilizing light and shadow. Their combination brings rich experience space. It is an kindergarten of their agglomeration.
The design adequately considered kids' needs for growth. The waved belt creates elevation different and boundaries of public and private spaces, as well as hosting the series of geometry in the meantime. Plenty of interesting spaces come therewith. For instance, the kindergarten is a heavenly place for kids to climb up and down due to the slopes. The skylights provied kids abundant light. Kids can grow up healthily while playing with light and shadow.
Kids 2-4 that first know the world. Kids 4-5 having concept of threedemension.
Toys
Painting Sculpture
Kids 5-6 that are most active & naughty. Gathering
Outdoor Activity
Girls are more soft and sensitive.
Toys Animals
Nature
Kids parented by intellectual.
Kids parented by workmen. Architecture
Scenery
Science
Kids with Complex family environment.
World In Kids' Eyes Kids are pure,they see things and deal with information in their own simplified ways which varies according to their different conditions.Lots of factors will influnence the results they abstract from objects,for example,age,gender,family background,etc.
Space Grammar Combine the processed results of kids and match them to certain geometric shapes. The experiencing spaces are created as above. The spaces are basic grammar to compose the kindergarten.
Scenarios in Series An undulant axis winds around to create perimeter walls and connect the independent spaces into one system.The space it enclosed also frames a series of intimate gather/play areas.
Ground Floor Plan 1.Entrance 2.Medical Room 3.Lobby 4. Classroom 5.Grand Stair 6.Light Terrace 7.Playground 8.Activity Room
Ambient Belt Hosting Interior Space
The main part of kindergarten is the ambient belt.Lots of space prototypes are loaded on it. Kids can walk, climb the slope or stairs of the rolling ground due to varying elevation. The ceiling is rolling as well, skylight on which creating a rich play of light and shadow. The corresponding protptypes are shown on the right.
Entrance of Cl.7-9
Classrooms
Grand Stairs I
Grand Stairs II
Around Playground
Grand Stairs III
Ends of Belt
Light Terrace
Public Space
远辰 Far-E
日光鼎盛
Play of Light and Shadow Indoor
在无处落脚的人海里
Daylight abundant
Stranded in crowd
如你身载风流光影
你的停靠成为岛屿
You're wearing flow shadows
You become an island
狂热与孤寂
成为陆地
Craze and solitude/
Become a terrene
重叠回映
成为具体
Interplays
Become concreteness
Light is most essential for kids' growth, kindergarten should be light-filled. In this project, plenty of skylights are set on the ceiling influencing each other. Light shines through space and is blocked out by certain walls,creating a rich artistic conception.
Half Enclosure As Playground hosting Gathering Activities The slope,stairs and walls enclose a grey area to compose a playground, hosting kids' recreational activities.This is the centration of geometry agglometration.Activity room is embodied in the enclosure
Sections Sction the belt around the central playground. We can see the ground and ceiling rolls up and down, bringing rich changes of activity experience and light.
Light Terrace: Scenario above the ambient belt. Skylight pouring down,kids can play trumpoline here.
Scenario below the ambient belt. Kids can look up/down to each other.Less light makes it more mysteious.
Playground is the centration of geometric shapes,a place of sports.
Activity room is at the center of playground,enclosed by the belt.Kids have their enetertainment eduction here.
07 Half of House,Half of BIRD Beloved Inactive Residential District Elderly Community Center Design Under Beijing Hutong Reventing Competition of Baitasi Reventing, Summer 2016 Instructor: Jingheng Lao Collaborator: Jing Wang My Work: All pictures and thesis composing in this portfolio
The past life crowded without lights in night,even take a bath which must go two hutong outside the bathhouse, but used to live, everything is very convenient. At that time,Often hear the sound of the whistle, when the wind blows and the BaiTaSi copper bells clattered and memory in bright sunshine and green vines.Now the old neighbor moved a lot, and the house was empty. The activity in the alley has also become an endless chess room of mahjong,many familiar
activities were disapparing.Imperceptibly, a lot of gate shut". In the past can run to play in hutong, now hutong turned into a maze of walls and shops.Looking for neighborhood residents to participate in activities, stimulate the vitality of the neighborhood itself hidden, while continuing the local traditional culture, rich people's lives, our design ideas. "It is designed to serve the people who live in it" is our design concept.
Hutong, a Tragedy in the Trajectory of Socialism As the Chinese capital, Bejing develops, the demolition of historic neighborhoods and displacement of once-secure families is becoming one of the city's most controversial issues. Especially in Zhongnanhai.1 The demolition of Beijing's historical courtyard alleyways, called Hutong, has long Is a typical representative of this situation. At the height of the city's headlong rush to modernity in the 1990s, about 600 Hutong were destroyed each year, displacing an estimated 500,000 residents. Seemingly overnight, the city was transformed from a warren of Ming dynasty-era neighborhoods into an ultramodern urban sprawl, pocked with gleaming office towers and traversed by eight-lane highways.
1. Zhongnanhai, is a formerly imperial garden in Beijing, China adjacent to the Forbidden City; it serves as the central headquarters for the Central government of China.
Remaining Hutong dwellers are worried, and for good reason -- they have a lot to lose. Their courtyard houses have survived centuries of war and revolution, the strain of collective ownership, and the turbulence of early economic reform. Passed down from generation to generation, they are often last-remaining monuments to entire family lines. Patchy compensation schemes have left some displaced families insolvent. Unable to afford a new home in the old city, which is gentrifying almost as quickly as it's disappearing, they are forced to move into shoddy high-rise communities on the city's exurban outskirts. The truth is, Chinese government do have worked on Hutong preservation. A proposal called Beijing City Master Plan was propounded and negotiated seriously between the officials and Hutong preservationists, which designated a large swath of Hutong in central Beijing as a "historical and cultural protected area” .However, it didn’t do much good as viewed on Google map. As Yao Yuan2, said, "they (the officials) don't have as much space as they need for their work. So they need to keep on expanding into the Old City, constructing new office buildings. And this brings problems."
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" 拆 (chai) " , painted marks on walls which are to be dismantled in time.
2. Yao Yuan, an urban planning expert at Peking University.
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Beijing Master Plan Proposed in 2005 the Reality Through Time The Plan did not really went well. Several Hutong adjacent to Zhongnanhai were flattened right after the Plan being established in 2003.
The current situation of the Old City's people, land and housing, and the residents' living situation is relatively poor. Regarding meld of the style of the Old City with the
3. The yellow part in Master Plan is the older neiborhoods to be preserved. 4. These pictures are captured on Google Earth in 2018.1.5
development strategy of a world city as of the utmost importance in Beijing's development, the original lifestyle of Hutong dwellers has always been ignored.
Capital, Power and Space 5. Henri Lefebvre(1901 – 1991) was a French Marxist philosopher and sociologist, best known for pioneering the critique of everyday life, and introducing the concepts of the right to the city and the production of social space.
6. Halles Centrales, Paris's former wholesale produce market.
According to Henri Lefebvre5, "An existing space may outlive its original purpose and the reason which determines its forms, functions, and structures; it may thus in a sense become vacant, and susceptible of being diverted, reappropriated and put to a use quite different from its initial one." A recent and well-known case of this was the reappropriation of the Halles Centrales6, in 1969-71. For a brief period, the urban centre, designed to facilitate the distribution of food, was transformed into a gatheringplace and a scene of permanent festival -- in short, into a centre of play rather than of work -- for the youth of Paris. As Lefebvre writes in the Production of Space, “With the advent of modernity time has vanished from social space. It is recorded solely on measuring-instruments, on clocks, that are isolated and functionally specialized as this time itself. Lived time loses its form and its social interest -- with the exception, that is, of time spent working. Economic space subordinates time to itself; political space expels it as threatening and dangerous (to power). The primacy of the economic and above all of the political implies the supremacy of space over time.” The same modernization that has deprived travel of its temporal aspect has likewise deprived it of the reality of space. The requirement of capitalism that is met by urbanism in the form of a freezing of life might be described, in Hegelian terms, as an absolute predominance of "tranquil side-by-sideness" in space over "restless becoming in the progression of time."
Whose Right to the City 7. Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution, published by David Harvey in 2012-44.
Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution7 is a book that draws on the idea of Henri Lefebvre, about the need for a renewed and transformed urban life. Lefebvre dubbed this need for transformation of the urban landscape and life ‘right to the city’: a right that those producing and sustaining the city lack and must fight to claim. And Harvey’s main attempt in this book is to provide an anti-capitalist and revolutionary meaning to the ‘right to the city’; he sees the ‘right to the city’ as a collective struggle by all those that have a part in producing the city and creating the life in it, to claim the right to decide what kind of urbanism they want. Thus, the process of urbanization has become capitalistic, and a central feature for the reproduction of capitalism. In addition, capitalist urbanization has another, even darker nature according to Harvey: the urban restructuring takes place through a process of ‘displacement and dispossession’. This means usually that poorer and less powerful populations are losing their place and space in the city. The commodification of the city and the ‘urban development along class lines’ is a global phenomenon. And it is a class phenomenon where the capitalist class uses predatory practices of exploitation and dispossession
over vulnerable populations diminishing, in this way, their capacity to sustain the necessary conditions for social reproduction. In fact, the better the common qualities a social group creates, the more likely it is to be raided and appropriated by private profit-maximizing interests. So those who had created interesting and vibrant neighborhoods lose them, through the use of predatory practices, to upper class consumers and capitalists. The privatization of housing and commodification of the city (rent) which is based on the power of monopoly of private owners over assets has become the main predatory practice of capitalists against the low-income classes. For an urban revolution, to be successful in our world of neoliberal globalization, Harvey argues that there are should be a strong and vibrant support from popular forces, the concept of work should entail the labour for the production and reproduction of an increasingly urbanized daily life, and an equal status should be given to struggles of the workers against the recuperation and realization of surplus value in their living spaces.
From Beijing Gentrification to Nostalgia with Memory As says above, Beijing gradually enhances its speed as well as scale of urban renewal. Various sorts of city space has been transformed for commercial purposes,including traditional areas.The city is full of antiquity Chinese-style shops with giant English branches become ubiquitous everywhere. This kind of transformation undoubtedly has brought substantial commercial profits, but the total urban space is constant. The accomanying function removing also inevitblely undermined the normal lives of old residents in the meantime.What happens to the repalced original functions is a question worth pondering and reflecting. With Beijing's culture of bird mapped onto, one essential function is Bird Market where bird-majority pets and pot plants are sold at.
Bird Culture can be traced back to Qing Dynasty.
The culture of bird can be traced back to Qing Dynasty. According to Yanjing (Old Beijng) Miscellanea8, " 京师人多养雀，街上闲行者有臂鹰者，有笼百舌者 , 游手无 事，出入必携。 " That is, Beijing partisens like to keep birds of all sorts. The holding a birdcage, wearing a robe can be found strolling everywhere in every morning. Nowadys, Bird Culture is more related to the urbanization of Beijing and the Empty Nest Elderly Phenomenon. With younger generation all go outside of families to struggle for enteprise, the elderly are left home alone. Keeping birds provides them an approach of emotional transference and sustenance. In addition, communicating with neighbors, exercising during walking birds are also functions of Bird Culture. Under such background, bird market endures. Normally, bird markets are common and often located in relatively prosperous areas in Hutong neiborhoods. More than 1 markets exists at certain intervals. Having such popularity, bird markets are deemed as a symbol of neighborhood friendship, and an integral part of Beijing partisens life.
8. Yanjing Miscellanea, 《燕 京杂记》，a book recording notes and stories in Old Beijing.
Site Location
Traditional Market
Cultural Relics
Traffic Stations
Commercial District
Traffic Impact
Commercial Building
Direction of Renewal
Scope of Influence
Monument of Sanqing Temple
Lu Xun Musuem
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Keeping Birds As A Culture in Hutong The tradition of keeping a bird steeps a long history,and have been endowed with a new meaning under the rapid deve
Bird for BIRD (Beloved Inactive Residential District) The culture of bird is greatly shown in Chinese movie Mr. Six8. Happened in some Hutong, the male lead, Mr. Six' s rebellious son Xiaobo seldom comes home, and Mr. Six keeps a bird Little Eight instead in order to sooth his lonely heart. Holding little eight, he seizes the last string that connects him with other dwellers in Hutong.
8. Mr.Six is a 2015 Chinese crime drama film directed by Guan Hu and written by Dong Runnian.
The reason that Hutong is so substantial to the dwellers' emotion bond is that, the scale of buildings and streets in Hutong is much smaller than ordinary urban area. Thus the psychological distance among neighbors is much smaller as well. The Hutong dwellers share a large proportion of daily life with each other.
Typical Examples of Renewal VS Removing Nanluo Guxiang is the most famous renovated old space.It is traditional Beijing Hutong space at first,reconstructed to business street space.Sanlitun is a completely commercialized area. 400x400 Grid Analysis/1750
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Different Scales in Beijing Urban Area Different physical scales will undoubtedly bring different mental feelings of people.
Bird markets are often located in relatively prosperous areas in Hutong neibouhoods.
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Some bird markets open everyday, some only on the weekends. Attracting lots of visitors from all over the city, most customers are the elderly in the nearby neibourhoods.
The forms of bird markets are multiple but undisciplined. Some sellers choose to hang the birdcages on border trees, some even simply display their birdcages on the back seat of bicycle.
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Keeping birds becomes a new emotional sustenance of the elderly in the new age.
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Thinking of this kind of emotion bond, I choose a courtyard in a remewal area beside Zhongnanhai. There used to be a city-known bird market but removed due to the renewal. I want to create an elderly community center which can undertake Bird Culture. Here comes the Beloved Inactive Residential District.
BIBLIOGRAPHY 1 1. Attoh, Kafui A. "What kind of right is the right to the city?."Progress in human geography 35.5 (2011): 669-685.
2. Becker, Jasper. City of heavenly tranquility: Beijing in the history of China. Oxford University Press on Demand, 2008.
3. BORED, NOT. "Henri Lefebvre’s The Production of Space." (1999). 4. Frantzanas, Sotirios. “The right to the city as an anti-capitalist struggle” Ephemera – Theory & Politics in Organization (2014): Volume 14(4) 1073-1079
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A Solution of Half Geometry Inspired by the special emotion fragmentation and connection, I abstract the concept " half ", and ultilize it as the technique of form transformation. Various activities happen with bird keeping. Undertaking these activies and adding more types encouraging gathering, culture displaying and communicating events. The program generation is illustrated as follows. The chosen courtyard before reconstruction consists of two flat-roofed buildings and a sandwiched stripy yard.
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Reconstruction Process Reconstruct the chosen courtyard basing on the designated functions in the project. The three parts of courtyard are cut in half respectively three times, and he " Half Solution" applys well.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY 2 6 Harvey, David. "The right to the city." The City Reader 6 (2008): 2340. 7. HE, Shen-jing, and Yu-ting LIU. "Mechanism and Consequences of China's Gentrification under Market Transition [J]." Scientia Geographica Sinica 4 (2010): 004.
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13. Meyer, Michael. The last days of old Beijing: life in the vanishing backstreets of a city transformed. Bloomsbury Publishing USA, 2010.
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Half as Fabric Opening to Community The beveled entrance presents an open gesture, welcoming the neighborhoods. The fence extracts the elements of birdcage, whose blanks can also serve as showcases.
Half as Light gone with Bird The translucent sloping roof brings a rich light and shadow to the courtyard. Vines shade in summer, and sunlight shines in winter.
08 Cube4 Art Installation on Theme ' Wall ' SCUT Art Exhibition, Fall 2016 Collaborator: Yifan Deng My work: Conceptual and Project Design, Cooperation on Models, All pictures in this portfolio
我跨越千万堵冰冷的水泥 Millions of cold cement I crossed
拨开伪装的繁丽藻饰 Disguise of garish orgaments I poked
我穿过虚拟信息世界 Virtual information world I traversed
却仍有 But still
仍有险恶人性拦我去路 Still sinister humanitied block my way
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Living in such a crowded, fast-paced world, people are increasingly inclined to only focus on themselves and arm themselves with a series of boundaries. Boundary becomes enstangement. I select 4 types of boundary, and symbolize their meanings to 4 elements. Correspongding to the exhibition theme ' Wall ' , I use transparent acrylic plate to represent walls that stop people touching the softness in heart of each other. They can not be seen, but they are always, unbreakable. Then the 4 boundaries are attached respectively on 4 layers of wall. I call it Cube4.
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而我触碰你心依然 But still I want to touch your soul
The size of the entire artwork is 850mm* 835mm* 784mm. This artwork was made in 2017.11, and was displayed in School of Architecture, SCUT for 3 months.
The four layers from outside to the inside are Cement Layer, Orgament Layer, Electric Network Layer, Word Layer. The Cement layer represents physical barriers in reality. The Orgament Layer represents hypocriy between people. The Electric Network means to point out the phonomenon that people nowadays rely much on the online world, which makes us less care for each other in real world. The Word Layer is pasted on a lot of words that dipicting sinister humanity. Such as GREED, LIES, JEALOUSY, and so on. These 4 layers have progressive relashionship in meaning.
Attaching 4 Elements on Acrylic Plate In the picture above, I am painting quick-drying cement on the plate.The process must be accomplished quickly and accurately, otherwise the cement will be stereotyped in a not aesthetics state.
I make these elements attach to the acrylic plates in a way of growing upwards like cirrus does. A heart model is painted by gouache and put in the centural box. It is like our heart are passionate at first. But the barriers are gradually wraping over our heart. In the end, we all become alone.
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Derirative By analyzing the derirative of mortise & tenon joints, it could be found that the material and application fields have fluctuated greatly. Although exoerienced a downfall due to the technology progress and the emergence of new materials, the original form of MT joints has reoccupied a high proportion. It has become an ancient terrior and cultural symbol instead of a functional product.
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Expansion of Field While architecture and furniture being the main application field of MT joints, deformations of it have emerged in endlessly, and have been applied in various fields - such as medicine, transportation, mechanical, etc.
Urban Form As MT Joints cannot support high structure, instead of vertical growth, the urbanization process will almost only laterally expand. Due to its flexibility and “detachability�, buildings can change its orientation and position to adapt to various environment and condition.
Social Economy The characteristics of highly time-consuming and labor-intense would increase the difficulty of mechanized production, which then leads to changes of the socieconomic structure. Electronic products such as mobile phones become luxury rather than necessities.
10 Diapason Rebuild Unbuilt Tête Défense Never Built Paris Exhibition, Spring 2019 Individual Work Exhibition Design, Model Making, Coorperation on Curation Since the 1930’s Paris had tried to activate La Défense, the business district on its western outskirts, where a jumble of mediocre high-rises later emerged, unrestricted in appearance or location. In 1970, I.M. Pei proposed the Diapason, or “tuning fork” at Tête Défense, the gateway to the area, aligned with the city’s historic Grand Axis. The pair of sixtystory concrete office towers were intended to dominate the surrounding chaos. Pei, attempting to preserve the vista through the Grand Axis, sketched a perfectly symmetrical megastructure knit together by a radically inverted glass arch. Killed by the oil crisis of 1973, Pei’s unique concept has deeply influenced subsequent proposals for La Défense, where the tuning fork’s site has been replaced by another carved out structure: The Grande Arche. TETE DEFENSE CNIT
PALAIS DES CONGRES L'ARC DE TRIOMPHE LE ROND POINT LA PLACE DE LA CONCORDE LE LOUVRE
To represent the project, I made the project model in modern style using grey mat board with brushed wet gesso to make the texture and acrylic sheet.
What needs to be more emphasized is the relationship between Diapason and its context - symmetry and domination. Therefore a bended perspective as the continuous view of the Grand Axis is put behind, with the surrounding high-rises that are "doinated" collaged.
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11 To Life Journey Art Installation on Theme ' Once in Lifetime ' SCUT Art Exhibition, Fall 2014 Collaborator: Huijie Lai, Huang Qiu My work: Conceptual and Project Design, Cooperation on Models, All pictures in this portfolio
The Porject Under ' THE ' Light Only when the two trains arrive at the designated spot can the light from top of trains cast the faces of the woman and the man.That is, can the two lovers 'meet' each other.
Life is made up of accidental moments. And a specific moment may change an entire life.
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IThis is an interactive artwork.Numbers pasted on the board seemed to be placed randomly, but there hides secret in the shadow.There are two tiny spotlight on the top of two trains on the circle track. Visitors can operate the trains. If two trains arrive at the designated spot, visitors will find shadows of numbers are like a man and a woman. The two lovers can only meet each other then.
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PORTFOLIO OF DIAN YU M.S. Architeture and Urban Design Columbia University Selected Works 2013-2019