Wanting Dong MLA Candidate 2017
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Wanting Dong
01 Graduate school Urban system: Weaving Energy Constructed ground: Fluid Waterfront Park Design principles: Sand Dune Classroom
02 Supplement Work Research: Future of Dam Research & Representation: The Lightning Field Installation: Light Maze Design Journal: City Walk
03 Undergraduate school Water management: The Grove Architecture: Yanyu Pavilion Construction document: Streetscape design
04 Interdisciplinary Work Installation: lonelytogether(.net) Scientific Illustration: Immunity Educational game: Rhythm and Reason: The Poetry of Whale Science
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Urban System, Brighton, Massachusetts Individual work, Feb.2016-May.2016 Background This studio is based on the understanding of city and river as a dynamic system. The urban design of the selected site is required to give innovative, practical and systematic solutions to re-establish the missing connections. Concept Human, flows of water, waste, energy, communications, transportations and consumptions are mediating forces at the river edge for the emerging changes of Brighton in the metropolitan Boston.
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Traffic Energy (negative) The noise and vibration from the cars passing Turnpike are negative energies that impact people living near by. A transformation hub is designed to collect the vibration from traffic to generate clean energies for the site.
Human Energy (positive & emerging) People come and leave, they bring things here and take away some with them. A series of programs and spatial designs intend to encourage the exchange of materials and information, which brings emerging energies to the site.
Water Energy (positive & negative) Run-off as well as debris and contaminants flow to the site then eventually go to the Charles River. These water are collected, purified and transformed to other forms of energy when flowing through the site.
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Fluid Waterfront Park Constructed Ground, Providence, Rhode Island Individual work, Jan.2016-Feb.2016 Background The studio starts with the experiment, fluidity study and translation of landform fluidity. Topography, hydrology and circulation are corresponding in the physics and aesthetics of landform. Concept Located along Providence River - a tidal river, this project incorporates the design of grading to create a dynamic place that explains the fluidity of water, landform, people and view.
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Sand Dune Classroom Design Principles, Barrington, Rhode Island Individual work, Sep.2015-Dec.2015 Background This studio is based on the understanding of coastal geological conditions, the observation of site natural phenomena, the exploration of materials and techniques, and the logical concept development. The design of classroom is required to help people have a better understanding of the natural processes in the site. Concept The design of class room in the dynamic natural environment is highly adaptive to the tidal change, growth and succession of beach/salt marsh vegetation.
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The modular structures are flexible in their combination and configuration.
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Each module is designed in an appropriate porosity to help stableize the dune, create new micro habitats for beach animals, become entertainment and educational places for people.
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02 Supplement Work 1. Research: Future of Dam 2. Research & Representation: The Lightning Field 3. Installation: Light Maze 4. Design Journal: City Walk
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Future of Dam
Research Project, Pawcatuck River, Rhode Island | Connecticut Team work, Sept.2016-Dec.2016 Background Currently in the United States there are over 100,000 dams and in New England the number exceeds 14,000. Many of these are over a century old, less than 10’ high and no longer are used for their original purpose, and need to be repaired or removed in the coming decades. Each dam has its own unique trade-offs and a diverse group of stakeholders that will need to be engaged in the decision about the future of dam. This research project uses Potter Hill Dam as a geographical frame to investigate questions of the design, management, visualization, public engagement and decision-making.
Photo credits: Patric Beals
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sediment loss DO NOTHING TO THE DAM MODIFY THE DAM
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Connectivity Connectivity is an important factor to indicate the health of a river system. It includes the connectivity with fluxes of energy, matter and organism.
Fragmentation Watershed fragmentation describes the damed river system that disconnects the fluxes of energy, matter and organism.
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B Connectivity along the river, which will affect fish migrating and genetic Free-flowing rivers provide connected biodiversity inland species habitats to migratory fish of and enhance erosion genetic biodiversity of B inland specices.
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Sedimentsediment loss Dams removal may result in sediments being transported to the downstream. And these sediments participate in building up the shoreline at beachfront environment.
Sediment Dams inhibit the transport of sediments that are required to prevent coastal erosion in the downstream, which causes definite problems for beachfront environment and properties.
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Flow Regime Flow regime describes the temporal discharge pattern of high and low flows of a river. Free-flowing river has adaptive discharge through the course of a year.
Flow Regime Flow regime describes the temporal discharge pattern of high and low flows of a river. Damed river loses its adaptive discharge and often has reduced base flow and extreme peak flow.
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Scenario #2:Denil New Fish Denil Fish Ladder Scenario 2 New Ladder Impacts
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- Over-topping water flow - Over 100 years old concrete dam body
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- Sediment and contaminants are accumulated behind the dam - Impoundment has differnet environment and species compared to the downstream condition
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- Sediment and Contaminant are released - Water level drops which would influence the species living in the impoundment condition
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- The potential of dam breach caused by long-time erosion or extreme weather would cause the damage of the dam body
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- Release sediment may block the channel downstream - Release contaminant downstream which would poison the fish and other living creatures there
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- Add a ramp for passing people -Replace the old fish passage with a new designed fish denil
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- Clean the rocks at the denil entrance
- Add a weir to the dam body which would solve part of the over topping water flow problem
Scenario #4: Nature-Like Fish Ladder Scenario 4 Natural-like Fish Ladder LOW
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- Part of the Existing Existing Existing Grade - On-site Upland road construction and species are preOf River Bank Mill served mill plant will be re-
- Plant native wetland species along the river bank - Construct a new 8’ wide riverside path.
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- Maples and riverside native species create a scenic experience for the bike riders and pedestrians
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- Native plant spe- Native species like cies grow back in the oak and white pine rocky channel forms a typical upland - Healthy food web forest landscape and bypass ecosystem would be established by the inhabitating flora, bird and fish species
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- Lowland river bank plants - Native plants - Flooded land - Diverse habitat - River Access
Boulder Zone - Keep grade in Remove place and allow Mill grade to get higher - Create riffles to attract migratory fish - Provide refuge and hiding places
Fish Resting Pool - Provide migratory fish with pools to rest, feed, or hide in - Promote growth of other species that promote water quality - Potential swimming
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- Shadbush and riparian grass species: River Birch, Dogwood, Bluestem, Switchgrass
- Pickerelweed, Arrow arum, Echinacea, Cardinal flower - Egrets and other water birds catch fish here
Fish Resting Pool - Golden rod, Arrow arum, Bluegrass - Migrating fish species pass the fish ladder, like Alewife, American Eel
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Cross Sections Drawing credits: Future of Dam research team Before Removal
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- Oaks and White Pines grow back to the site
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- Slower water flow speed and Existing Grade Existing 10 feet deep water lavel Of River -over Bank Mill Emergent and Submerged
- Limited space of river edge planted zone - Few public access to the water from the river
plant species - impoundment fish species, like bass and trout
Model: Patric Beals, Wanting Dong Photo credits: Patric Beals
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The Lightning Field Topics in Representation
Individual work, Sept.2015-Dec.2015 The Lightning Field(1977) is a land art work in the remote desert of New Mexico by artist Walter De Maria. It consists of 400 stainless steel poles with solid, pointed tips, arranged in a rectangular 1 mile Ă— 1 kilometer grid array.
Concept Representing Lightning Field focuses on 3D and 4D techniques for representing time basing on the research and analysis, and to travel in time into the future and demonstrate how an intervening or disruptive force fundamentally alters the land art. Traveling into the future, the energy contained in lightning can be great sources: to generate hydrogen from water, to harvest energy from rapid heating water due to lightning, or to use the matrix of metal poles to harvest strikes either directly or by converting it to heat or mechanical energy.
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Light Maze
Responsive Structure for the Coastal Edge Team work, Oct.2015 Background The goal of this workshop is to develop an modular adaptive structural system which will engage the ground, site, and human body. It is also a process to test and learn about the properties of metal as a structural, spatial and experiential medium. Concept The modules of curved sheet metal connected in the shape of arch is proved to be the strongest structure through small scale experiments, weight-load calculation and prototyping. Light Maze takes advantage of the curved reflective surfaces and filtered lights in the woods to create amazing and dreamlike light environment. And the module itself also acts as resting places under the arch.
02 Supplement Oct 29, 2015 @ RISD Farm
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City Walk
84 days’ city observation - selected work Feb.2016 - May.2016 Background Walking/seeing is a good way to understand urban places by looking in new ways and to make critical observations of occupation pattern and the cultural, environmental and political systems at work in city we live in.
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03 Undergraduate school 1. Water management: The Grove 2. Architecture: Yanyu Pavilion 3. Construction document: Streetscape design
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The Grove
Water Management, South Mountain Village, Phoenix Individual work, Aug.2014-Dec.2014 Background Citrus has always been historically important in Arizona, and a cornerstone in its economical agricultural sector. THE GROVE redevelopment plan aims to reform and change the status quo of South Phoenix by applying the green system and greywater system based on the original canals, and bring in modern interpretations. Concept In arid area, rather than bring people water, the people will now provide water for the landscape and themselves.
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The Greywater System is based on the old San Fransisco Canals system which used to help with agriculture irrigation. This system is designed to filter out contaminates, allowing human contact and the ability to water citrus trees.
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Yanyu Pavilion
Traditional Chinese Garden Building Design, Wuhan, China Individual work, Sept.2013-Dec.2013 Background The project aims to design a traditional Chinese pavilion in a park adjacent to the Sand Lake which is he second largest lake in the city of Wuhan, and the only lake located in downtown. Traditional construction techniques are combined with spatial design for modern uses. Concept The best way to preserve history is to interpret traditions with modern language.
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Streetscape Design Construction document, Tempe, Arizona Individual work, Aug.2014-Dec.2014 Background This is a set of construction document of streetscape design in ASU campus, which includes overall site plan, demolition plan, hardscape plan, grading plan, dimension plan, site details, planting plan and details, irrigation plan and details, and lighting design and details.
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04 Interdisciplinary Work 1. Multi-media installation: lonelytogether(.net) 2. Scientific Illustration: Immunity 3. Educational game: Rhythm and Reason: The Poetry of Whale Science
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lonelytogether(.net) Interdisciplinary Study - Multimedia Installation
Wanting Dong (MLA) + Emily Pan(MFA), Sept.2016-Dec.2016 Concept LONELYTOGETHER(.NET) is a project to understand the scale and prevalence of loneliness in the RISD community. It is also a simple exposure of this school’s state of mind, which (based on the rate of responses) seems to be consistent over time. • On an individual level, participants are encouraged to share a small, intimate detail of their lives at RISD (lonely or not lonely). • Their feedback is funneled into their immediate communities, to connect individuals to their known peers. • Ultimately, the resulting data is shared with the RISD community in a high-traffic common space as well as publicly on the web. This project is installed in three parts: • First, in the elevators of each building on the RISD campus, four buttons are installed, labeled “Lonely”, “Not Lonely”, “Alone”, and “Together”. Each time a button is pressed, data is sent to be aggregated on a web server. • A small monitor then sits In the lobbies of each building on the RISD campus, showing the polled results for that particular building. • In a larger community space, the total results are projected. http://lonelytogether.net/
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In the end, regardless of the scale or form, this project is an exercise in empathy and understanding how we emotionally connect to the people we are surrounded by. Though we ask relatively little of each individual, the compounded result of the piece reveals a description of the group that would otherwise sit undiscovered. http://lonelytogether.net/
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December 6, 2016 @ RISD Museum
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Scientific Illustration Cover design for Immunity Magazine
Wanting Dong (MLA) + Sherry Zhang(PhD), Apr.2016 Background This special issue is in the immunology field of co-stimulatory and co-inhibitory receptors. It covers the basic knowledge of the receptors, and discuss their specific roles in different diseases (i.e. Tumor, autoimmunity, infection, transplant). In adaptive immune system ,However, excessive co-stimulatory signal can result in abnormal T cell activation. So co-inhibitory receptors are also required to dampen and control TCR(T cell receptor) and co-stimulatory signals. In this sense, co-stimulatory receptors and co-inhibitory receptors have opposite functions, and both of them are important, but sometimes can also have “evil� side.
Publication link http://www.cell.com/immunity/issue?pii=S1074-7613(15)X0006-9
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Rhythm & Reason: The Poetry of Whale Science Educational Game Design for New Bedford Whaling Museum Jan.2016-Feb.2016 Concept Description and technique, metaphor and accuracy, rhythm and reason, the insight into the narrations of human, and the principles of universe. This is poetry. This is also science.
Game play-testing video https://vimeo.com/208437932
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control: keyboard + cursor + voice
whale song | noise in the ocean