EXPAND EXPLODE EVOLVE Selected work of Fei Hu from 2016-2020
B. Arch, Syracuse University fhu100@syr.edu +86 13802237830
Personal Statement
My passion for pursuing graduate education at Princeton University was originated by my uncle’s experience at Princeton University. He graduated from Princeton University with a master degree in Mathematics. Since then, Princeton University has been a mysterious but sublime existence in my mind. Later on, I started to learn more about Princeton University, especially during my professional study at Syracuse University. In my second year of study, I had the chance to carefully study the work and ideas from Stan Allen in my Architecture theory class and was fully engaged with his ideas about “working in the field.” Which was extremely influential to my attitude toward the professional practice and design methodology. Although Stan Allen is no longer a faculty member in Princeton University, I still believe in what he has contributed to the school, as a reason why I hope to attend Princeton University for graduate education.
Education
Honor & Awards
Syracuse University School of Architecture 2016-2021 Bachelor of Architecture Graduation 2021 May
Dean’List Spring 2020
Syracuse University Visiting Critic Studio Spring 2019 Three Gorges design studio with James Leng
2020 ASCA Steel Design Competition First Award
Syracuse University London Study Aboard Program Fall 2019 Programs focused on brutalism Trips to Le Corbusier projects in France, Swiss, and Denmark
2020 King+King Prize Honorable Mention Award
Working Experience
Exhibitions & Publication
Internship at P.T Design Shenzhen, China | Summer 2018
Exhibition in Shenzhen Economic Reformation 40th Anniversary Exhibition Summer 2020
Besides, the department of Architecture in Princeton University offers a wide range of courses which I found extremely engaged with. For instance, the emphasis of architect’s wider responsibilities to society, culture and the environment in all the design studios, the unique design studio analyzing the world in the postmodern age, and the studio relating with Renaissance in modern days. The role for architects in future days is complicated. I believe that architects are the builders of culture, inserters of humanities into still life building, the group of individuals who combine science and arts together for the ultimate improvement and evolution in our society, which match with many of the education ideas at Princeton University. My dream as an architect is to convert the public’s attitude and perspective toward those old, dilapidated built environments like aged residential communities or urban villages. I believe that demolition and violent reconstruction based on gentrification should never be the sole future for them. Compared to blindness construction for more megastructures as physical landmarks in the present day city, what urgently needed in the cities are cultural landmarks. They do not need to be seen from space, not need to be spacious enough from the whole mega corporation, but to truly represent the past heritage in the city with the present-day population, and as a bridge connecting past, present day, and future. I believe Princeton University is the best platform that will support me to realize my dream. Once I depart from such a high platform, I would be able to break my limits and give the public more than urbane building designs, but precious Architectures with contribution to the evolution of the field.
Internship at Vanke Real Estate Shenzhen, China | Summer 2018 Internship at URBANUS Design Shenzhen, China | Summer 2020
Xiong’An 1.4 | Summer 2020
Project Name
Shenzhen, China
Three Groges, China
London, UK
Syracuse, U.S
Xiong’An, China
Ideology Architecture Design
“W” FOR WILL
Physical Modeling
Redefine of waste to energy power plant
Politics NANTOU MODEL
Culture
A different path for urban villages
Urbanism Design
Society THOUSAND DEGREES OF POET A retreat from modern day
Tectonics Urban Research
Urbanism Research FROM PEOPLE, TO PEOPLE A rebirth of local community
Interview
Materailality
Anthropology Study
GREAT GREY BELT
Structure
A study to London Green Belt
History
“W” FOR WILL Spring 2020 Waste to Energy Plant Design Instructor: Fei Wang Parnter: Rui Li Role in the team: Resrach, design, represetation Xiong’An, China 2020 ACSA Steel Design Competition First Prize winning project 2020 King+King Design Competition Honorable Mention Prize winning project
This project evaluates the waste to energy industry by inserting a new program to enhance and respond to the industrial process. With a media centre of collective layers of comprehensive propaganda space we are able to convert the industrial power into spiritual power inspired by the traditional waste to energy process. Which means, to provide the artists and designers with ultimate working experience and nearly infinite power to break the limit of their imagination and achieve their goals. To accomplish the goal, a successive circulative space was designed to mediate the industrial process from more hazardous to experimental. The stacking form has taken the advantage of gravity and horizontal stretch to greatly reduce the by-products generated by the burning process, and turning the building into layers of different industrial happenings. The middle part houses a large experiencing tunnel to collect the waste heat and steam water, as it also benefits to remove the chimney which was traditionally considered to press the incineration substance. The industrial waste (noise, heat, etc.) is utilized for artistic effect and interior conditioning, etc.
Xiong’An City is one of the most remarkable sites in the presnt day China. It would be certain that Xiong’An would not only become the political center, but also clutural center with most advaced thoughts in the country. Thus, we want to discover the spiritual value of the waste to energy power plant, as a response to such a unique site.
To reflect the waste-to-will-power philosophy into real life, many interior programs such as the performance studios are connected to the great walkable rooftop looking at the scenic sector of the city. Using the grand staking forms, the rooftop is crafted into a continuation of the scenic promenade, and also the stage platform emitting the power of talented wills.
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PUBLIC/PRIVATE BUFFERING
Performance
DESIGN & EXPLORATION OF A WTE PLANT IN XIONG’AN CHINA
Redefine of Waste to Energy
SCENIC VISTA/ CIRCULATIVE TUNNEL
Exhibition
Co-Working
URBAN PLATFORM STAGE SCENIC CONTINUATION
PRIVATE OFFICE RENTAL OFFICE
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DIGITAL ARCHIVE LIBRARY
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AUDITORIUM THEATER
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Performance Studio Central Slope PERFORMANCE STUDIO MEDIA-TECH CENTRE
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The layering of different process, times tense of the waste converting to different types of energy.
HAZARDOUS MACHINERY EXPERIENCE EXHIBITION
Architecture Occupancy
Hazardous Machinery
Private Activity
Hazardous Machinery HAZARDOUS MACHINERY EXPERIENCE EXHIBITION
Public Activity
History/ Process/ Past Tense Prst Tense
Dust Collection & Management
Product/ Future
Exhibition & Souvenir Store PUBLIC EXHIBITION WELCOMING CENTRE
SCENIC AXIES
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Urban Grid Analysis 3
Research
The continuation of the scenic walk, built his time underground and industrial.
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Massing Analysis
URBAN SECTOR MAIN ENTRANCE
Circulation & Program Diagram Fei Hu
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DESIGN & EXPLORATION OF A WTE PLANT IN XIONG’AN CHINA
Incinerration Process
Open Burning
Economic Income From Recycling
Investmens to Education
Investment Expansion in Equipments
Methodology
Waste to Energy Methodology
Product
Pricing/Marketing
Waste
Compost Recycle Circle
Synthesis
Incinerate
Pre-Medium
Waste to Energy
Incineration
Natural Damage
Consequence
Recovery
Reduce Reuse
Incinerration Purposal
Waste Hierarchy
Recycle E-Recover
WTE Typology
Upcycle Disposal
Gasification
Recycle Methodlogy
Sanitary Landfill
“Only within the moment of time represented by the present century has one species -- man -acquired significant power to alter the nature of the world. ” Alternative Solutions
Bioreactor Landfill
Evolution Procedures
Reactions
― Rachel Carson, Silent Spring
Waste to Energy Research Diagram
Urban Strategy Diagram 5
Strategy
Incineration Procedure Diagram
New Ideas, Old Sites Different languages of industrial process and architectural expression are stacked in grammatical tenses, echoing the history and attitude towards the Waste-to-Energy industry.
Horizontal Design Diagram
City Sector Entrance Render
In additon to the history of the baiyangdian region, this region also carries a splendid culture which flourished billions of population in the region. Thus, to combine the upcycle wish from the indutrial type and the legacies of local region, a physical to spiritual cycle was design.
Massing Diagram Fei Hu
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4 Industrial Collides w/ Public Domain
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Exhibition and Forms of Industrial Function
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City Sector
DESIGN & EXPLORATION OF A WTE PLANT IN XIONG’AN CHINA
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Scenic/Landscape Collides w/ the City. Landfill Ridge
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Waste Turns into Energy, and Generates Idea
Experience, The Process of W generation
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Axonometric Drawing
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Wall Section Illustration
1 50/50mm glav. welded steel SHS satety balustrad 13 5mm glav. sheet-steel parapet covering with wire mesh filling 14 Stainless-steel edge covering 2 steps for sitting 2x18 mm pre-cast concrete; supporting structure; 70mm sound insulation I beam 240mm deep; 2x12.5 mm gypsum plaster board 3 50/149 alum. post-and-rail facade with triple glazing 4 glav. coating alum. louver 5 1200 mm-height steel trussed beam; 200/420/50 mm RHS upper chord; 200mm diagonal I-beam, 400/400/50 SHS lower chord 6 facade bracing member; steel I-column 200 mm deep with fire-retardant paint coat 7 Fixed facade member, 50/50 mm powder-coated steel SHS with alum. mesh filling 8 60 mm concrete slabs 500/500 on raising pieces 2-layer bituminous seal. 30-150 mm EPS insulation to falls; 140 mm PIR thermal insulation 450 mm reinf 9 Polyethylene curtain 10 Fixed glazing: double glazing in aluminum on 50/50 mm powdered coated steel frame 11 Sliding element; expanded aluminum on 50/50 mm powdered coated steel frame 12 2x 18 mm birch plywood painted on wood and steel; 130 mm precast concrete element 80 mm XPS thermal insulation; bituminous layer; 200 mm reinf. conc. slab 100 mm fire resisting insulation 20/50 mm suspended corrugated-metal
Methodology
Renders 9
Illustrations
The idea was to incorporate the industrial process to form articulation is to utilize the waste heat to control the interior conditioning, as well as to slow down the condensing process. On contrary to the traditional design, as the steam and ash travels through the experience tunnel in the middle of the building to maximize its travel distance inside the building.
Wall Detail Illustration
This will benefit us by removing the chimney from our design, also benefiting the environment. By completing this process, the value of the waste was recognized and evaluated into a higher form. Based on this idea, we decide to power the whole building up with the electricity generated from the incineration to both ensure the enough amount of power inside the building and also reduce the need of electricity in city. Fei Hu
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DESIGN & EXPLORATION OF A WTE PLANT IN XIONG’AN CHINA
15 Ventilation element; air emissive duct unit 16 Steel I-column 450 mm deep with fireretarding paint coat 17 2x6 mm and 2x5 mm lam, safety glass with16mm cavity in alum. post-and-rail construction 18 Ground floor construction: 100 mm polished concrete polythene impact-sound insulation 80 mm PUR thermal insulation 200 mm reinforced concrete floor 19 Fixed glazing; double glazing in aluminium frame 20 LED lighting strip 21 Heal exchange trench
DESIGN & EXPLORATION OF A WTE PLANT IN XIONG’AN CHINA Cross Section
Underground Floor Plan 11 Illustrations
Ground Floor Plan
1st Floor Plan
2nd Floor Plan Fei Hu
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DESIGN & EXPLORATION OF A WTE PLANT IN XIONG’AN CHINA Longitude Section
Longitude Section 13 Illustrations
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NANTOU MODEL SUMMER 2020 City Renovation & Exhibition URBANUS Design Instrctor: Yan Meng, Xiaodu Liu Role in the team: Researcher, Designer Shenzhen, China Project for Shenzhen Economic Reformation 40th Anniversary Exhibition
It is for sure that the existence of urban villages has been hated by a great number of people including governors and mayors in China, evening including some of the residents themselves. However, its existence is still formidable and hard to be removed in current days. In contrast, just like every other existing object and matter in the world, their existence is supported by principles and rules in the world, wild, chaotic, but beautiful. Thus, a violent demolition and reconsturction should never be the solution for such a site. We believed that both the religious statue in the box, or the flyings on the wall with different languages, show a sense of wildness and a direct design intention. However, it would be a regret to see all those matters disappear in the great neutralization reaction of city renovation by developers and governments. Especially in a city like Shenzhen which is still young and vigorous. Hence, I believe that suahc a place has the potential to become a cultural landmark in the city to create a linkage to the past and future.
and the northern street in the traditional county town’s “Cross Roads” pattern lost its vitality ever since. Zhongshan Park to the north of the Old Town was the earliest public park in Shenzhen. It was built during the Republican era of China and features old, towering trees that attract many visitors.
The Nantou Old Town is located to the north of Shennan Avenue and south of Zhongshan Park. Built along a gentle slope, the Old Town used to be guarded by four gates in four directions. The northern gate was abandoned in Qing Dynasty.
Zhongshan Park Entrance
Zhongshan Park Entrance
Zhongshan Park Entrance Actual Walking Distance: 492m Walking Time: 15min
REDESIGNS AND ILLUSTRATIONS OF NANTOU VILLAGE
History of Nantou
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Transportation Research Diagram
LockSmith Grocery Store
Restaurant Furniture Shop
Clothes Vender Breakfast Vendor
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Wine Store Food Store
The village is located in Nanshan District, the district which holds mega corporations like Recent or Huawei. On the contrary, just like other urban villages in the city, it gradually became a forsaken corner in the city with no future or formal development. In terms for the residents, most residents are not from our regions in China.
Image Collage of Nantou
With such a radical change of demographic groups, the formation of s stable community impossible. In a word, people live here to escape from here, not move on a life here. Thus, designs intend to discover the beauty of urban village, to preserve the cultural buauty in the town, and to construct a brighter path for the community.
Restaurant Restaurant Restaurant
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Gallery
Restaurant
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Building Facade Research Diagram
Development of Nantou Village Fei Hu
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REDESIGNS AND ILLUSTRATIONS OF NANTOU VILLAGE
Baode Square (2017 During UABB)
Hybird Building Axon (Project built in 2020)
The design intension of the Hybird Building is to both preserve the existing beauty of wildness in urban village as a respect to the local tradition and culture while architectuerally solve the problems in the building by creating more usable space inside. Baode Square (2020 Imaginative) 19 Illustrations
Hybird Building Model Images Fei Hu
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Before the 2017 Shenzhen Hongkong Biennale, Nantou old Town went through a blooming development age with massive constructions. Without interference from the outside society, the old town went through anage of wild growth with numerous self-construction, massive population inflows, and commercial development.
Central market in the village
A2 Factory, still functioning in 1997
Everybody Happy Stage, 2015 before Demolition
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The 2017 UABB directly influenced the path of development in Nantou Old Town. With the inflow of profesional architects alongwith their design projects, this place was then regarded as more than a simple urban village in the city, but a potential site for the “cultural construction” project released by Shenzhen city government. Since then, Nantou began to be connected to the world. South Gate, redesigned for UABB
A4 Factory with the first milktea shop in the town (now closed)
A2 Factory, redesigned for 2017 UABB
2017
Nantou Village Scroll 21 Nantou Street Scroll
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REDESIGNS AND ILLUSTRATIONS OF NANTOU VILLAGE
“Nantou Model”
Main street shops after renovation
Main street shops after renovation
Bookstores, office building, and studios after renovation
Present
Main street shops in ideal model
Thus, we wished to create and illustrate a different path and future for Nantou old Town which allows the existence and development of all cultural and commercial typologies. In this created ideal model, no principles or guidence would be present to be followed. Instead, all commercial and business actvities were allowed, in addition with the celebrtaion to the true beauty of wildnedd Nantou. As a Nantou model to be referenced in future.
Public Plaze on mainstreet in ideal model
A4 Factory building with the milktea shop and hostel
Ideal
Nantou Village Scroll 23 Nantou Street Scroll
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REDESIGNS AND ILLUSTRATIONS OF NANTOU VILLAGE
Although the Biennale had opened a gate for the development of Nantou village, the old town still fall into the trap of genetrifaction done by both governments and real estate developers. In 2020, after the first phase of renovation, all the facades and building types on the mainstreet was unified, in additon with designed business and commercial types for both political missions and commercial profits.
THOUSAND DEGREES OF POET Spring 2019 Architectural&Landscape Design Visiting Critic Studio Instrctor: James Leng Three Gorges Region, China
The three gorges area, as one of the most famous geological areas in China, had always been famous among every individual in China since the 7th century. In the Tang Dynasty, great poets visited this region and left countless literature treasures depicting the natural beauty of three gorges. The complement to the three gorges had never ceased to reach an end. With the belief that this Chinese shanshui painting formed by the rigorous flowing Yangtze river and the knife-sharp mountains would be permanent in the region, in addition to the ancient cities and villages carrying the long history and legacies. However, the construction of the Three Gorges dam has completely reshaped the geological conditions in the region. Many historical buildings and villages were submerged under water and to be forgotten in the wave of industrialization and modernization with shaped mountains and water. Thus, this project tends to create a retreat for the modern day people away from cities, from dust and noise, and the shining reflections from glass facade. With a retrospective glance to the past of this region with poetic thoughts and attitudes and the living style of ancestors in the region, It is hoped that the loss of civilization can be found again, creating a linkage from the present day to the past.
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Zen Meditation
By Shore
The fitst settlememt in the region was founded from 80 BC when people from middle China migrated here and built the first kingdom. “Yun Meng” Lake (Dried)
Three gorges
State Captial
Sichuan Basin
Star Glazing
1. Inner Palace 2. Outer Palace 3. Ritual Temple 4. Agricultural Temple 5. Imperial Storage 6. Horse stock 7. Bureau 8. Market 9. Officer’s Place 10. Civilian’s Residential
Imperial Captial
Town / Settlements
A typical village house in the early settlements with grass roof and wooden structures.
Drawing Spirit
Around 7th century, been governed by TangDynasty, three level system was formed in three gorges area
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Layout of ancient city in three gorges area, design and built after the captial city Chang’an of Tang Dynasty
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River Flow Influenced by the Economic Reformation in 1979, the three gorges area also entered a whole new era since its development was radical and blooming becuase of the transportation on Yangze River.
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Wuhan Chongqing Major hydro-electricity power stations on Yangze River
Three gorges area
Total Submerge area: Agricultural area: Immgrations: Submerged town: Submerged village:
79000 square kilometer 19400 acers 1.17 million 129 985
The construction of the three gorges dam was completed in 2009. Water capcity is 22.1 billion cubic meters while the annual electricity generation is over 100 billion Walts. Thus becomes the largest Hhydro-electricity power station in the world.
A typical building in Yichang county, submerged by water after construction of the dam
Decision and advice of the construction of Three Gorges Dam
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The approval of these documents finally marks the constrcution of the three gorges dam. After this moment, the fate of three gorges region would be completely changed.
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DESIGN AND EXPLORATION OF THREE GORGES UNDER MODERNIZATION WAVES
In Forest
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“Star Glazing” Cottage Plan
“In-Forest” Cottage Plan
“By Shore” Cottage Plan
“Water Cold” Cottage Plan
“Mount-Birth” Cottage Plan
“Star Glazing” Cottage Section
“In-Forest” Cottage Section
“By Shore” Cottage Section
“Water Cold” Cottage Section
“Mount-Birth” Cottage Section Fei Hu
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DESIGN AND EXPLORATION OF THREE GORGES UNDER MODERNIZATION WAVES
Site Section
DESIGN AND EXPLORATION OF THREE GORGES UNDER MODERNIZATION WAVES
Industrialized Poems
Story Renders
Under the wave of industrialization and urbanization in modern day China, for most regions in China, things were never the way before. The desire for efficiency and proficiency has replaced the romantic and poetic imaginations from the ancient ages with massive conquest of nature. In the dust of demolition and construction, a retrospective view to ancient time is urgently needed, a respect to the poetic way of living, an open-minded attitude to present day, embracing nature with gratitude and harmony. To achieve such a goal ,those cottages and designs were designed as retreats for modern day people. By walking through the mountains with countless stairs and isolating him/herself from the crowded modern world, to remove the camouflage and the masks in the society, to truly become him/herself. I believe that being surrounded by the mountains and rivers, the most poetic inner spirit from the visitors can be discovered, as a response to the rapid industrialization and urbanization in the country. 31 Drawings
Cottage “Mount Birth” Elevation Exhibition Image
Portals Through the Haze Accelerated Modernization & the Three Gorges
Exhibition group student members: Aaron Gladstein, Fei Hu, Bohan Li, Kun Li, Shengwei Liu, Xiangtong Wu, Zhixiao Yu, Yilu Zhang, Xiaoyi Zhang, Qianyao Zhao, Ruxuan Zheng Meditation Cottage Elevation
Role in the team: Designer, model crafters Fei Hu
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DESIGN AND EXPLORATION OF THREE GORGES UNDER MODERNIZATION WAVES
This exhibition depicts the impact of the accelerated modernization on the three gorges by focuing on a 120 mile strech of the Yangtze River between the cities of Fengjie and Yichang, between which lie Qutang Gorge, Wu Gorge, and Xiling Gorge. And it proposes to do so by creating an abstract, fictional reality that is more real than would be possible to create using conventional architectural mean of represetation. It is thus an exhibition about the Three Gorges, but it is also about architecture itself. Accelerated modernization creates a chaos of all that it comes into contact with, transformating all that soild into air, all that is fixed and forzen into an unstable chrun.
This transformation is especially profound in the Three Gorges area, where the ancient mist that blur together mountain, river, village and city into one seemingly countinous landscape, blend with factory pollution and prticulate matter cresteds by the demolition of thousands of settlemtns on the Yangtze River, to form an aerated haze- an airborne filter through whicheverything that could be seen is seen. A second, semi-liquifieid haze of bricks,stones and other building matters can be found scattered on former settlements sites along and below the river, all colored and seemingly cast in the same hue and texture, a haze of matter. (Text quoted from James Leng, curator of the exhibition)
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Over the last several decades, the countryside, mountains and rivers in China have been dramatically and irrevocably shaped by an accelerated modernization that is uniquely Chinese. Among the most auspicious of many such examples is The Three Gorges Dam, built across the Yangtze River in Hubei Province, a project so massive that upon completion in 2012, it forever altered the rotation of the Earth. However profound this latter fact, it pales in comparison to the effects it had on The Three Gorges (Qutang Gorge, Wu Gorge and Xiling Gorge) and the lives of local residents. “Portals Through the Haze” depicts the impact of accelerated modernization on The Three Gorges in China.
The proliferation of built form that colonizes this extreme terrain—from factories to skyscrapers to clusters of villages—makes this geography of modernization equal parts tantalizing and traumatizing. Mountains, rivers, villages and cities blur into one seemingly continuous landscape, blending with factory pollution and particulate matter created by the demolition of thousands of settlements along the Yangtze to form an aerated haze—an airborne filter through which everything that can be seen is seen. The haze reveals and conceals; it collapses time and space; it blurs the natural and the artificial, the mountain and the village. (Text quoted from James Leng, curator of the exhibition) Fei Hu
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FROM PEOPLE, TO PEOPLE Fall 2018 City Renovation Instrctor: Lawrence Davis Syracuse, U.S
The fading of communities is inevitable, impacted by the tide of time, dusting and eroding in the river of history. Syracuse was one the transportation centers for the whole New York upstate region along with the prosperity of Erie Canal. After the abandonment of Erie Canal and the end of Cadanadian fur trading, the city has gone into a period of bottle neck. The last proposerity in the city was the salt industry and air conditioner assembly industry, after that, the city has gone into a complete decadence. In addition with the residential sectors built for the workers in the factory. Thus, the aim of this project is to bring back the vataility back into the strret block by converting certain houses into public programs. After the analysis of local conditions, it appears that loss of population, alongwith the decline of the local economy, are the main reasons for the fading of the community. In addition to the construction of the local airport which brought much noise to local residents. On the contary to its appearancec, a perfect image was discovered during the site visit to the community. Elders sitting on the front yard, old but tidy, carefully managed by them. Teengers running on the street, trying to fix the street sign, naively but carefully. In such a community, the residents still hold their respect to the legacy and heritage carried by the houses with hope for a better future life.
As a suburban community built for the workers in the retreated factory, the community has stopped its way of development in the past decades with loss of population. Thus, studies and researches were been to discover the most important problems in the community and solutions to these problems.
REBIRTH OF A SYRACUSE COMMUNITY WITH NEW METHODOLOGY
Lost Decades
Design Methodology
One method was to discover the problems by exploring the different needs from different demographic groups. As for the intent of this design, is to create a linkage between the past and the present day, a redesign which will bring back vitality into the community, and thus create a brighter future for every residents in the community.
Comical Site Illustrations
To achieve this goal, more public spaces and programs were added into the community to satisfy the needs of local residents while creating new opportunities to the local residents. Compared to the original housing conditions, more housing options were added into the community to solve the local housing crisis, including a small hotel and dormitories created from local houses for university students.
With the space gained from the local residents, public programs were given back to the residents, to both improve their living quality in the community while creation a connection to the city. As a return for the contributions from local residents, thus, for every inches of space and houses gained from the residents, there would be always be returns to them.
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REBIRTH OF A SYRACUSE COMMUNITY WITH NEW METHODOLOGY
House Type I House Length: 158 ft Area: 6700 Sqft Function: Hotel, Fitness Center
House Type II House Length: 130 ft Area: 4500 Sqft Function: Student Housing, Study Room
House Type III House Length: 125 ft Area: 4200 Sqft Function: Commercial Space, Business Center
House Type IV House Length: 95 ft Area: 3200 Sqft Function: Day Care Center
House Type V House Length: 95 ft Area: 3200 Sqft Function: Day Care Center
Ground Level Plan
House Type VI House Length: 90 ft Area: 2800 Sqft Function: Library
House Type VII House Length: 45 ft Area: 1500 Sqft Function: Family Housing
House Type VIII House Length: 50 ft Area: 1100 Sqft Function: Young Couple Housing
39 Unit Diagram and Drawings
Typology Diagram
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REBIRTH OF A SYRACUSE COMMUNITY WITH NEW METHODOLOGY
House VII & House VIII Drawings
Rebirth from Past
Sectional Perspectives
With the fading of communities like this street block in the Rust Belt region, it would be more
Meanwhile, the pressure from surrounding communities would also worse the suitutaion.
common for those communities to face such problems. Out-dated urban plannings and social changes blocked the way of development for those communities. while increasing the pressures from surrounding city regions.
Architecture under such conversation, serves more than a space which accommodates the local residents, but a different path from them to reshape their community and also a linkage between the present day and future.
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Site Plan
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GREAT GREY BELT Fall 2019 Architectural&Urban Design Instrctor: Davide Sacconi Team member: Gaole Dai, Timothy Mulhall Role in the team: Resrach, design, represetation London, UK
The Great London Green Belt, as the most famous green belt around the world and also the origin of the afterwar green belt design system, carries the most compliments and criticism among all green belts. On contrary to its initial wishes, the development of the London green belt is not only an irony to its goal but also a long scroll in the history illustrating the history of the Greater London Area in the past 70 years. Villages and towns were settled in the middle of the forests while factories and storages were either secretly or publicly built regardless of the law and existence of the green belt. Thus, for the first part of this project, it intends to explore every corner in the London green belt area by depicting the strangest and most contradictory regions inside the greenbelt area. After the research, for the second part of the project, the goal is to construct an ideal public housing residential area in respect to the brutalism styles in this land, to solve the housing problems in London. In addition to that, this project also discusses the current conditions of some most famous brutalist architectures from the mid20th century since their living conditions had changed dramatically in the past decades. We believed that such a study to brutalism style would bring us new understandings toward present day and future city conditions.
Green Belt illustration: Industrialized Green Belt
Incident, Hoddessdon SCALE 1:1000
Green Belt illustration: Green as Camouflage Incident, Epping SCALE 1:1000
The general public creates an outcry if any attempt is made to invade this green belt and that is something we want to get into planning – the creation of public interest. We want to get them to know something of our work and support us in our activities。
(Abercrombie, 1948, 13)
Cities & Settlements
Cities & Settlements
Green Cover (Fields and Forest)
Green Belt illustration: Militarized Green
Incident, Wndover SCALE 1:1000
Cities & Settlements
Green Cover (Fields and Forest)
Cities & Settlements
Green BeltGreen Image Collage Cover (Fields and Forest)
Settlements & Natural Combination
Major Transportation Knots
Green Cover (Fields and Forest)
Green Belt illustration: “Green” Village
Settlements & Natural Combination
Major Transportation Knots Incident, Farnham Common SCALE 1:1000
It is clear to see that the greenbelt region is not success-
As the first and largest greenbelt all over the world,
ful in preventing the development of residential areas and
although its existence did not achieve its original goal, its
to confine the spread of industry around London. In real-
legacy still continues on as a greenish circle around the
ity, this region is full of faked green areas like agricultural
metropolitain, representing the dreams and goals from a
fields, sports fields like golf courses and soccer fields,
generation of architects in the industrialization period.
and industrial plants and storages covered by trees . Settlements & Natural Combination Major Transportation Knots
Industrial Settlements
Commercial Settlements
Industrial Settlements
Agricultural Settlements
Commercial Settlements
Settlement Typology Combination
Research Diagrams 45 Research
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STUDY AND ANALYSIS OF THE GREAT LONDON GREEN BELT
Green Belt with Dust
STUDY AND ANALYSIS OF THE GREAT LONDON GREEN BELT
The London Plan policy 7.16: “The strongest protection should be given to London’s Green Belt, in accordance with national guidance. Inappropriate development should be refused, except in very special circumstances.”
Amoeba Map 47 ‘‘Green Belt’’ Map
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STUDY AND ANALYSIS OF THE GREAT LONDON GREEN BELT
Social Condenser
In the second phase of this project, the project intends to design a residential area in a selected area inside the green belt region. The chosen site for this project is SouthEnd, which is one of the most famous coastline towns in the greenbelt region with heavy industry and a public housing issues. Such a contridication between city fabrication and its enviroments created a chasm in urban appearances. In order to solve that problem from a brutalism apporach, we choseAlexsander Road Real Estate as a referernce in addition with the form of pyramid. We aimed to represent such a community as an outpost in the city sector.
SCALE BAR 1:2000 0
50m
100m
200m
City Noli Map
A - Residen�al
B - Communal
C - Public
Imaginative Collages
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Sectional Axonometric Drawing
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STUDY AND ANALYSIS OF THE GREAT LONDON GREEN BELT
Ground Plan
Site Section
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Cottage Studies
ARC 182: Representation II - Kerner
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Imaginative Illustration
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Gentrification
Economic Inversion
MegaCoproration
Humanism
SocialEquality
Population Aging
Global Citizen
Culture
Divergent Culture
Social Media Influence
Cultural Revolution
Economical Globalization
SuperCycle Society
InterContimental Authority
Ideal Republic
Andriod Human
Minority vs. Majority
Deep Space Exploration
Future Soiety
Future
Technology
Advance in Physics
Escape from the Earth
Future Social Class
Star Settlement
Cyberpunk Society
Extraterrestrial Architecture
Enviroment
Global Warming
Alternative Enviroment
AIIntelligence
Reshape the Earth
Climate Control
Multi-Degree Dimensions
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Culture Evolution Social Transitions
Globalization
Color Revolution
SpaceTechnology
Collectiveism
Enviromental Changes Technology Breakthrough
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EXPAND EXPLODE EVOLVE Fei Hu
selected work 2016-2020
B. Arch, Syracuse University fhu100@syr.edu