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INTRODUCTION This portfolio contains architecture design works from Gejin Zhu. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute SoA Bachelor of Architecture
Columbia University GSAPP Master of Science in Advanced Architecture Design
My thirteen semesters of architecture design studies in RPI and GSAPP exploit between architecture methodology, spatial framework, and spiritual conditions, that exist between the historically and the contemporarily, the perceived environment and the imaginative space, the ideal visions and material realities. Address 411 W 35 St New York, NY, 10001 Contact gz199803@gmail.com 518-522-9743
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CONTENTS Water After Oil
The Spiral
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Albany, NY Culture Centre Fall 2019 RPI
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Informative Weave
Subterranean Distict One
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Death Valley, CA Micro City Prototye Spring 2022 GSAPP
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Albany, NY Performance Center Fall 2018 RPI
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Bronx, NY Mobility Infrastructure Fall 2021 GSAPP
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Unity Game Platform Multi-Gravity Video Game Fall 2020 RPI
Anxiety Age
Playscape on Housing
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Troy City, NY Residential Area Spring 2020 RPI
Inception Community
Weaving Bridges
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Brooklyn, NY Malia Mills Design Studio Spring 2019 RPI
809 Habitat
The Erratic
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Big City, TX Water Cycle Infrastructure Summer 2021 GSAPP
Downtown Cohoes Elder Apartment Spring 2018 RPI
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Unreal Engine Game Platform Anxious Video Game Spring 2022 GSAPP
01 The Spiral
Downtown Albany Culture Centre Posted by RPI SoA official website
Integrated Design Development Studio Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Instructor: Lonn Combs, Gaby Brainard Site: 57 State St, Albany, NY 12207 Team: Gejin Zhu, Bingyu Xia The project site is located in downtown Albany, which is surrounded by transportation hubs, business spaces, and education institutions. The mission of our project is to create a continuous navigating experience of library use. The project contains eight floors, the total floor area is 108,600 sq. ft, and the overall height is 120 ft. Major program elements include theater, cafe, studying area, lobby. The main designing concept is the continuous floors that connect the quickly updating disciplines, and provides the readers with interdisciplinary experience in this column-free space. My partner and I jointly completed this project in our fourth year during the Integrated Design Development Studio.
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THE SPIRAL / DOWNTOWN ALBANY CULTURE CENTRE
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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute SoA / Integrated Design Development
Popular Time Analysis Diagram
site
TIME FOR USING LIBRARY
Student
Business Man
Local
Tourist POPULATION
Mass Develop Diagram
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THE SPIRAL / DOWNTOWN ALBANY CULTURE CENTRE
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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute SoA / Integrated Design Development
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THE SPIRAL / DOWNTOWN ALBANY CULTURE CENTRE
Exterior Rendering
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Second Floor Plan N
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Plan Floor +1.5 Scale : 1’=1/16”
Plan Floor +2 Scale : 1’=1/16”
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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute SoA / Integrated Design Development
Interior Rendering
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Fourth Floor N Plan
Sixth Floor Plan
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Plan Floor +4 Scale : 1’=1/16”
Plan Floor +6 Scale : 1’=1/16”
Exploded Sectional Diagram
THE SPIRAL / DOWNTOWN ALBANY CULTURE CENTRE
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Circulation Diagram
THE SPIRAL / DOWNTOWN ALBANY CULTURE CENTRE
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Steel Wide Flange Beam Aluminum Plates
Steel Wide Flange Beam Aluminum Plates
Aluminum Plates
Aluminum Plates
Rensselaer Polytechnic Atrium Roof Elevation_Institute SoA / Integrated Design Development n Glaze & Aluminum Connection Atrium Roof Elevation_
Glaze & Aluminum Connection
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Atrium Roof Elevation_ Glaze & Aluminum Connection Atrium Roof Elevation_
Glaze & Aluminum Connection
Rigid Insulation
Rigid Insulation
Roof Drain Pipe Rigid Insulation
Roof Drain Pipe Rigid Insulation
Drain Pipe Laminated Glass:Roof Patterned Frit
Drain Pipe Laminated Glass:Roof Patterned Frit
Laminated Glass: Patterned Frit
Laminated Glass: Patterned Frit
Aluminum Panels
Roof Gutter
Aluminum Panels
Roof Gutter Laminated Glass: Patterned Frit Laminated Glass: Patterned Frit Steel Wide Flange Beam
Roof Elevation_ Metal Roof &Roof Glaze Facade Elevation_
Steel Wide Flange Beam
Metal Roof & Glaze Facade
Roof Drain Pipe
Roof Elevation_ Aluminum &Roof Glaze Connection Elevation_ Aluminum & Glaze Connection
Roof Drain Pipe Roof Drain Pipe Roof Drain Pipe
Aluminum Plates Aluminum Plates
Rigid Insulation
Rigid Insulation
Roof Drain Pipe
Roof Drain Pipe
Aluminum Panels
Aluminum Plates
Aluminum Panels
Aluminum Plates
Rigid Insulation
Rigid Insulation Steel Wide Flange Beam Open Web Joist
Steel Wide Flange Beam Roof Gutter
Acoustic Panel
Roof Gutter
Fire-rated Gypsum Board Diagrid Node
Roof Elevation_ Aluminum Connection Roof Elevation_ Aluminum Connection
Fire-rated Gypsum Board Diagrid Node
Finish Floor Elevation
Roof Drain Pipe
Finish Floor Elevation
Roof Drain Pipe
Insulation & Fire Stop Insulation & Fire Stop
Wood Finished Floor Wood Finished Floor 6” Concrete Drainage Pipe Rigid Insulation Vapor Barrier
6” Concrete Aluminum Plates Drainage Pipe
Aluminum Plates
Rigid Insulation
Finish Floor Elevation
Vapor Barrier
Finish Floor Elevation
Footer Elevation
Continuous Steel Channel (Anchored to Steal Wide Flange Beam) Continuous Steel Channel (Anchored to Steal Wide Flange Beam)
Footer Elevation Spread Footer With Rebar
Windload and Bearing Application (Intermittent) Windload and Bearing Application (Intermittent)
Spread Footer With Rebar
Rigid Insulation Rigid Insulation
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Wall Section
Acoustic Panel Open Web Joist
02 Subterranean District One Death Valley Micro City Prototye
Advanced Design Studio Columbia University Instructor: David Benjamin Site: Zabriskie Point, Death Valley, CA Team: Gejin Zhu, Ana Hernandez Average temperatures above 125 °F like those in Death Valley seem unusual, however according to recent climate data, northern cities will soon experience similar temperatures to southern cities, and many southern cities will reach extremely hot temperatures like those in Death Valley by 2050. Additionally, recent projections from the United Nation predict that while world population will increase by 50 percent in the next 30 years, current farm yields will decrease by 50 percent due to climate change. Subterranean District One aims to transform current solar farm communities or the lack thereof, by creating a city that harmoniously merges people’s daily lives, with good jobs, energy, food and water production. The project centers around an agro-voltaic farm and a climate data center, while integrating common city program, such as apartments, restaurants, plazas, shops, and retail. As a prototype city, the Subterranean District One is not a monumental object but a project with progessive effort for a ”green revolution” in clean energy and farming practices under the environmental pressure of extreme heat.
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Persoective Rendering
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Rendering of Daily Life
USA West Side Solar & Energy Map
SUBTERRANEAN DISTRICT ONE / DEATH VALLEY MICRO CITY PROTOTYPE
4 am - residential apartment
10 am - plaza
6 am - pathway to solar farm
12 pm - facility room
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Columbia University GSAPP / Advanced Design Studio
1. Water Facility Room 2. Water Heating System Room 3. Climate Research Lab 4. Apartments 5. Individual Apartment 6.Hotel 7. Reception House 8.Visitor Center 9. Water Pool 10. Commercial Plaza 11. Agriculture Plaza 12. Mobile Retail 13. Agri-voltaic Farm
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2 pm - visitor center
6 pm - lab
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Rendering of Daily Life
12 pm - residential apartments
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System Diagram - Agri-voltaic Fram
Persoective Rendering - Solar Farm
SUBTERRANEAN DISTRICT ONE / DEATH VALLEY MICRO CITY PROTOTYPE
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Columbia University GSAPP / Advanced Design Studio
Persoective Rendering - Mobile Retail Center
System Diagram - Import and Export
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SUBTERRANEAN DISTRICT ONE / DEATH VALLEY MICRO CITY PROTOTYPE
1. Mobile Retail 2. Farm Worker x70 3. Visitor x10 4.Agrivoltaic Farm with Mirror Panel x4 5. PV Panels x 4,000 6. Big City and Solar Plants around Input Output to site Output to off-site
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Import Retail Export Solar Power Export Agriculture Production Around Solar Power Plants Subterranean District One Las Vegas
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Traditional Agriculture and Solar
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System Diagram
1 hectare of solar + 1 hectare of crop 100% solar
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100% crop
= 100% energy 100% crop
New Agrivoltaic
4 Hectare
14,000 Household
1 hectare of crop under mirror + 1 hectare of crop under pv panel
CROPS PRODUCTION
ENERGY PRODUCTION
1000 People/Year
80%solar 80%solar + 80%crop 80%crop
160% energy 160% crop
10% Used by Subterranean District One 90% Export to surrounding solar plants
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Subterranean District One with Existing Solar Plants
New Micro Agrivoltaic Cities Appear in Other Regions Along With Big Cities
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Subterranean District One Applications 2100 Forecast
Columbia University GSAPP / Advanced Design Studio
1/16 Physical Model
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03 The Erratic
Downtown Albany Performance Center Published by RPI SoA’s official website and RPI official Instagram account Integrated Design Schematic Studio Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Instructor: Hseng Tai Lintner Site: 2 Columbia St, Albany, NY, 12207 The art performing center is not only considered as a stage for performers but also an art piece that shows cultural identity of the city, thus the center can be argued as a “business card“. Located in the downtown Albany, this site is surrounded by transportational hubs, green areas, and urban business spaces, thus my designing concept is not only fulfilling the functionality of an art performing center but also making the building as a piece of artwork. This project contains three floors, and the major program elements include theater, gallery, stores, art studio, cafe, and utility spaces. With the erratic volume and extensive decorative metal application, this performance center is designed to assembly the citizens and encourage human participation in various activities.
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Exterior Rendering - Main Entrance
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THE ERRATIC / DOWNTOWN PERFORMING CENTER
Urban Transportation Map
From Urban Path to On-Site Path
Urban Activity Analysis Diagram
Program Diagram
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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute SoA / Integrated Design Schematic Studio
First Floor Plan Sectional Diagram
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THE ERRATIC / DOWNTOWN PERFORMING CENTER
Interior Rendering - Multimedia Hall
Second Floor Plan
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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute SoA / Integrated Design Schematic Studio
Interior Rendering - Main Opera
Third Floor Plan
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02 Weaving Bridges
Cross Bronx Expressway Mobility Infrastructure Advanced Design Studio Columbia University Instructor: Michael Bell Site: Cross Bronx Expressway, NY The Weaving Bridges is designed as a light-conscious construction of future mobility above cross bronx expressway, with a syntax of cable-stayed bridge systems. The main design purpose of this project is to intervene in the expressway to prevent pollution and provide transportation and potential educational benefits for those communities around who cannot afford a vehicle for transportation but suffer from the noise and air pollution. The main program elements include educational events, study area, and gallery. For raising health awareness and prevent emission from cross bronx expressway, a series of light-weight PVC-PES filter devices are embedded in-between the cable stayed framework. In this collaborative studio course, I work with the students from Mailman School of Public Health in Columbia University, imaging a new way of collaborating and expanding what we see as the intermarriage of social policy and design intended to re-envision infrastructure that has harmed the well-being of those who are of color or socio-economically disadvantaged.
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Sectional Diagram of Prototye
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WEAVING BRIDGES / CROSS BRONX EXPRESSWAY MOBILITY INFRASTRUCTURE
Prototype Diagram_ Three Rrepresentative Ways of Bridging
Expressway Site Analysis Map_ Zero Vehicle Households Distribution
Prototype Strategy These weaving bridges are repetitive and can be classified by three types which are designed with “woolly urban paths” to minimize the detour of passengers. The first one is diagonally connecting the ends of two pathways. The second is vertically parallel to a pair of pathways from north to south. And the third is connecting the opposite ends of two pathways that are parallel and would never join together. Therefore, these three types of bridges can be applied and arrayed along the expressway in repetitions.
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Columbia University GSAPP / Advanced Design Studio
Mobility Strategy The electron wireless electric vehicle charging rail functions through a system of copper coils embedded in the decking. The energy from these coils are transferred wirelessly to the vehicle batteries through magnetic induction as the vehicle travels along the pathways. This very idea of wireless charging has be applied in Scotland, Sweden and Italy.
Perspective Render_Charging Rail Charging Rail Analysis Diagram
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WEAVING BRIDGES / CROSS BRONX EXPRESSWAY MOBILITY INFRASTRUCTURE
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Sectional Diagram
Perspective Rendering_ Inside Cross Bronx Expressway
First Floor Plan
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Columbia University GSAPP / Advanced Design Studio
Floor Plan
Third Floor Plan
Interior Rendering_Gallery Interior Rendering_Study Room
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05 Playscape on Housing Downtown Cohoes Apartment Selected as honor project Published by RPI SoA’s official website Architecture Design Studio 4 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Instructor: Edwin Liu Site: 4 Bridge Ave, Cohoes, NY, 12047 Team: Gejin Zhu, Bingyu Xia This residential project centers on exploring the relationship between the plans of rooms, enveloping facade, and urban society. In order to exercise the tensions inherent to the engagement between these three constituent elements, this project was designed with an intensive organization of private space as well as public space. The mission of this project is to support the elders who lived in the city of Cohoes. Thus we enforce to integrate playgrounds with residential apartments together, and give the elders a possibility of economical income for taking care of children. My partner and I jointly completed this project in our second year. The project was highly rated in the final review.
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Exterior Rendering - Main Entrance
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PLAYSCAPE ON HOUSING / DOWNTOWN COHOES APARTMENT
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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute SoA / Architecture Design Studio IV
Society Interaction Analysis Diagram Site Plan
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Third Floor Plan
Fourth Floor Plan
PLAYSCAPE ON HOUSING / DOWNTOWN COHOES APARTMENT
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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute SoA / Architecture Design Studio IV
In the recent, many parents have too much pressure to have time of taking care of children. Thus the parents can pay for the elder residents to take care of their children, who live in this residential area.
In the public-used space, this project is designed with playgrounds and studyrooms for children between 4-16 years old. The kids can use the study room and playgrounds after school, leaded by the elders
The elder residents use the payments from those parents to pay the apartment rents. In this case, the residents not only can save money for renting, but also have more opportunities to be accompanied.
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PLAYSCAPE ON HOUSING / DOWNTOWN COHOES APARTMENT
A: Material Assembly Demo B: Public Use Space C: Private Use Residential Space D: Overall Material Arrangement E: Pathing and Paving on Site
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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute SoA / Architecture Design Studio IV
Physical Sectional Model - 1/16” - 1’0”
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07 Water After Oil
Water Cycle Infrastructure
Posted by GSAPP official website Advanced Architecture Design Studio Columbia University Instructor: Jorge Ambrosi, Gabriela Etchegaray Site: Big City, TX Team: Gejin Zhu, Risa Mimura The purpose of this research is to explore the intricate water cycle behind the crude oil extraction taskscape, one of the most dominating extraction industries in the world. Before oil extraction, a process called hydraulic fracturing that requires enormous amount of water to extend the lifespan and flow rate of oil wells takes place for each well. After the process, the majority of fracking water remains underground and becomes an invisible contamination source that infiltrates the ecosystem and our daily life. By analyzing existing data and focusing on the water cycle impacts caused by the hydraulic fracturing process at multiple scales, our approach generates an inflatable device that intervenes this issue in a subtle way that will be embedded in the existing taskscape and evoke awareness of this water crisis. The fields of floating balloon devices transform this invisible relationship of water after oil into visible forms by flipping the underground taskscape to above-ground. The device interacts with different states of water cycle and becomes an active agent that performs and operates in relation to water. The main concept of this project is to convert the water crisis into an opportunity of architectural performance design that transcends the terrestrial limitations.
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Perspective Rendering - Instrumental Device
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WATER AFTER OIL / WATER CYCLE INFRASTRUCTURE
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Nueces River
shallow aquifer
Condensation
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Drinking Water Use
Precipitation
Potential Groundwater Contamination Areas
Fracking Liquid Production Use oil reservoir
Infiltration
confining layer
90% Fracking Liquid Stay in Ground
Flowb ack Liq uid Co lle
Fracking Well
Fracking Zone
Flow bac kL iqu id Re -in jec tio
Penetration
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gas reservoir
Evaporation
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Water Cycle Sectional Diagram
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Flowback Fracking Liquid Evaporation Pool
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Drilling Well
Big Wells City, Texas Estimated Population, 712
50’
confining layer
-15,000
coal
saline water
-30,000
Potential Underground Contamination Map
Dilley, Frio County, Texas Population: 3,894 Indoor Water Usage: 389,400 gallons
Big Wells City, Texas Population: 712 Indoor Water Usage: 71,200 gallons
Nueces River
Cotulla, La Salle County, Texas Population: 4,136 Indoor Water Usage: 413,600 gallons
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Columbia University GSAPP / Advanced Design Studio
Fracking Use VS Water Use Map
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WATER AFTER OIL / WATER CYCLE INFRASTRUCTURE
Water After Oil Hydraulic Fracturing In Oil Extraction Oil and Natrual Gas Industry in US Income Distribution
Crude Oil Extraction General Process
Positions
Sub-sector Description
Labor Income / $ millions
320,100
Support Activities for oil and gas oprations
28,506
80,400
Drilling oil and gas wells
8,458
30% of Global Oil production
70% of Global Oil production
50% Surface Water
Offshore Oil Platform
Onshore Oil Well
49,300
Pipeline Transportation
Magnetometer
Exploitation Above Ground Infrastructure Seismic Survey
Gravimeters
Drilling
107,353 4-6 Weeks
Oil and gas extraction
13,364
carry out mineral from subsurface
832,300
Oil and gas pipeline and related structures construction
A Few Weeks
Site Preparation 142,900
Fresh Water Supplie
50% Ground Water
OR Vertical Well
Horizontal Well
33,520
Drilling Bit ~8 1/2” diameter
Well Completion Cementing Hydraulic Fracturing
Petroleum Refineries
21,860
80,100
Fuel dealers
4,985
Petroleum and petroleum products merchant wholesalers
9,485
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1-3 Months
71,200
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Aerial photograph of hydrualic fracturing well sites Near Williston, North Dakata Photo by J Henry Fair / Flights provided by LightHawk
Oil Extracting
953,100
Gasoline Stations
Expansion of Associated Petroleum Gas at the top of reservoir
80%
Expansion of Associated Gas initially dissolved in the crude oil Gravity Drainage resulting from the movement of oil within the reservoir from the upper to the lower parts where the wells are located
35,591
11,600
Petroleum lubricating oil and grease manufracturing
2,490
14,400
Asphalt paving mixture and block manufracturing
2,966
20-40 Years
102,900
Weatherford Surface Pumping Unit
47,955 Gallons Fracking Liquid Remain in Ground
Tot
5-1,500 BLPD* * barrel of liquid per day
Flowba
Oil Refining Seperation Conversion Finishing Support
The Anacortes Marathon Oil refinery with Mt. Baker in the background Photo by Walter Siegmund, CC BY 2.5/contributed photo
Terminal Storage
WasteWater Used in Urban Fabric
Transportation Energy Sources
3,500 terminals in the world
40 milles for large truck 10,800
Asphalt shingle and coating materials manufracturing
2,268
Bahamas Hub, Freeport, Grand Bahamas Island Capacity: 26.2 million barrels | Number of Tanks: 80 Photo Reference: Buckeye Global Marine Terminals
Gas Station
12 Home-use Gas Cylinder Energy
Hydraulic Fracturing Water Process Crude Oil Processing
Nearly 70 Kilowatt-hours of electricity generated at a power plant as fuel
Hydraulic Fracturing Hazardous Process
Contamination caused by water usage
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Columbia University GSAPP / Advanced Design Studio
Extractive Taskscapes
Risa + Gloria Instructor: Jorge Ambrosi + Gabriela Etchegaray
Hydraulic Fracturing General Process for ONE Well
Produced Water Issue Loop
data refer to Barnett Shale, Texas
Ecological Impacts to Aquatic Resources
52,000 Gallons of Water 90%
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AIR
Localized Air Quality caused by transportation
Transpottation
Stepan Dow Flotek Parchem Chemical Supplier
BASF Solvay
289 Gallons of Chemical Elements 0.5%
Water Consumption Air Emissions Precipitation
Potential Health Problems related to crystalline silica proppant : Acid:
Sand[Sintered bauxite, zirconium oxide, ceramic beads]
Hydrochloric acid (HCl, 3% to 28%) or muriatic acid
Breaker:
Peroxydisulfates
Bactericide / Biocide:
Gluteraldehyde; 2-Bromo-2-nitro-1,2-propanediol
Buffer / pH Adjusting Agent: acid
Clay Stabilizer / Control:
Chemical Mixing 57,777 Gallons
[Potassium chloride]
Corrosion Inhibitor: Scavengers
GROUND WATER
5,488 Gallons of Frac Sand 9.5%
Sodium or potassium carbonate; acetic
Salts (e.g., tetramethyl ammonium chloride)
Methanol; ammonium bisulfate for Oxygen
Radioactive Material
Crosslinker:
Potassium hydroxide; borate salts
Drinking water well Lakes, Streams
Gelling Agent: Iron Control:
Various aromatic hydrocarbons
Surfactant:
Methanol; isopropanol; ethoxylated alcohol
acking Liquid Injection 7,777 + 2,167 Gallons
Evaporation Pool
Sewer
WasteWater Treatment Facilities
Short Term Threat to Drink Water Sources
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tal Liquids in Well 59,944 Gallons
90% Produced Water Remain in the Ground Underground Sources of Drinking Water Contamination
Waste Disposals 9,822 Gallons
20%
ack Liquids Collection 11,989 Gallons
Radioactive Material
Discharge During Treatment Stored in Tanks
AGRICULTURE
Solvent:
UNDERGROUND WATER
Reinjection 2,167 Gallons
Guar gum; petroleum distillate
Ammonium chloride; ethylene glycol; polyacrylate
Clean Water Used in Urban Fabric
Stored in Pits
Air Emissions
Relative Production From ONE Barrel of Oil
PROS VS CONS Use
Fracking can provide easy access to fossil resources Additional fossil fuel deposits
Transportation
Eating
280 miles for a medium size car
Economy Jet Fuel 24%
Barrel of Oil
Gasoline 56%
Chewing Gum
= 42 Gallon
$71 per barrel
Drink Water
Diesel 9%
Strengthen the economy of some countries Fraking help countries to become more independent Rather cheap process to exploit fossil fuel deposits Lower prices for gas and oil Energy production companies can profit as well Increasing tax revenue for local municipalities Numerous jobs depend on the fracking industry
Breathe Air
Others: Noise Pollution
Industrial Use
Paraffine Cosmetics
Earthquakes become more likely due to fracking
Candle
Technology 65 Toothbrush Polyurethane
Polyethylene Pellets
Melt and Mould
Fracking gives us more time to transit to renewable energies Fracking provide easy way to fossil resources Fracking technology can be optimized even further
Destruction of habitats Endangement of Species Ecological Imbalance Fraking is not sustainable in the long run Methane Emissions
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Plastic Bag
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Crude Oil Extraction Process Diagram
Friction Reducer: Sodium acrylate-acrylamide copolymer;polyacrylamide (PAM); petroleum distillates
Slab Gate Valve for Fracking Production Company: TVC pressure: 10,000psi--20,000psi
WATER AFTER OIL / WATER CYCLE INFRASTRUCTURE
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+6,600’ Stratocumulus Cloud
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+6,500’ 4
Average Depth of Oil Well in Dimmit County
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Wind Turbine
A Lighting Fixture indicate water quality
Technical Analysis Diagram
+4,200’
Suspension Wire
Waterfowl
Suspension Column
A. Lighting Fixture Under Ballon
B. Two Sided Water Tank
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+2,722’ Burj Khalifa
+2,500’
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Suspension Wire
Confining Layer
Water Tank Supportor
Shallow Aquifer
Songbird
+1,250’ Empire State
Suspension Wire post restraint plate Elastic Water Pipe transport purified water to underground
+0’ Side Elevation 1. Inflatable Ballon 2. Wind Turbine 3. Informative Sensor 4. Water Tank 5. Suspended Cable 6. Oil Well
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C. Wire Winder System
Confining Layer
D. Underground Aquifer Access
Aquifer 6
Water After Oil
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Condition Analysis Diagram
Moist + Wind Condition = Quick Air Condensed Water
Weather Condition Analysis Diagram
Moist Condition = Air Condensed Water
Extractive Taskscapes
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Rain Condition = RainWater Collection
Instructor:
Rain + Wind Condition = Qui
Columbia University GSAPP / Advanced Design Studio
Elastic Water Pipe transport rainwater from ballon Suspension Wire
Water Tank collect purified water
Elastic Water Pipe transport rainwater to ground
Water Pipe
Oil Well
Water Cycle Intervention Process Diagram
Risa + Gloria Jorge Ambrosi + Gabriela Etchegaray
ick RainWater Collection
Ground injection
Filtering
Penetration
Precipitation
Condensation
Evaporation
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Rain Water Collection
04 Informative Weave
Malia Mills Fashion Design Studio Published by RPI SoA’s official website Design Studio in CASE Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Instructor: Daniel Rosenberg Site: Industry City, Brooklyn, NY 11232 Team: Gejin Zhu, Anthony Ferraiolo According to recent studies regarding current working spaces, with the emergence of digital work tools, current working spaces have isolated workers from each other and from understanding their own role. This project is intended to provide an architectural system of physical and tangible organization that informs users of their relation to the overall system within a particular fashion design studio environment. We created a fabric informative system that weaves individuals together, which also connects and informs users of their and other’s state of progress on a task. The working flow in this studio is very tight and intense. Thus our main design concept to manage the interior space in Malia Mills is to connect and inform the workers of their and other’s state of progress on a task. With an informative fabric screen, businesses are moving beyond rigid assembly lines toward the idea of organic teams that partner humans with advanced AI systems.
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Main Floor Plan
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INFORMATIVE WEAVE / MALIA MILLS FASHION DESIGN STUDIO
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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute SoA / CASE Design Studio
Site Map - Brooklyn Industry City
Contextual Axonometric Diagram - Brooklyn Industry City
Cross Sectional Diagram - Fitting Area
Bird View Rendering
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INFORMATIVE WEAVE / MALIA MILLS FASHION DESIGN STUDIO
Working Flow Diagram
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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute SoA / CASE Design Studio
Cross Sectional Rendering - Meeting Area
Working Flow Diagram on Plan
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INFORMATIVE WEAVE / MALIA MILLS FASHION DESIGN STUDIO
output1
input1
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The input conductive threads can detect people touch the fabric and also detect the upward movements from people
swipe up
conductive threads for heating (output) conductive threads for capacitive sensing (input) fabric with thermochromic paint input2
outpu2
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The input conductive threads can detect people touch the fabric and also detect the downward movements from people
swipe down
outpu3
input3
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The input conductive threads can detect people touch the fabric and also recognize the duration of the toruch from people
HELP
The input conductive threads can detect people touch the fabric and also recognize the number of the toruch from people
touch for 2 seconds
INPUT PANEL input4
output4
touch twice
thermochromic paint
thermochromic paint Movements to input > swipe up > swipe down > touch 2sec > touch twice
Movements to input > swipe up > swipe down > touch 2sec > touch twice
output to senders
output to senders micro controller
Person A
micro controller
output to receivers
fabric Messages from output > start > end > break > help
fabric
input
conductive thread
Person B
output to receivers
conductive thread
input
Messages from output > start > end > break > help
thermochromic paint
AI output to senders
output to receivers micro controller
Person C
micro controller
Person Oversight
output to receivers
fabric
output to receivers
conductive thread
input output
input
interation between person and fabric
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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute SoA / CASE Design Studio
Fitting Process: Get a message on fabric screen from sewers
Design Process: Put a message on fabric screen and send to sewers
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06 809 Habitat
Troy City Residential Area
Posted by RPI SoA official website Vertical Architecture Design Studio Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Instructor: Christopher Parkinson Site: 809 River St, Tory, NY, 12180 809 Habitat is a residential project which stands on the River Street in the city of Troy, New York. This project is designed with the ambitions to scale down the footprint of a detached house, providing the residents with private, luxury, and homey living experience in an economical price environment for less-used construction material. Its approximately 500 sq. ft footprint allows more opportunities in the management on site plan, and more opportunities in the plan of residents’ living experience in the future. This very tight vertical tower has three main bedrooms on the second floor, third floor, and underground floor. Each bedroom is designed with individual bathroom and reading room, which are integrated with open-space staircase.
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Perspective Circulation Diagram
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Site Plan
809 HABITAT / TROY CITY RESIDENTIAL AREA
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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute SoA / Vertical Design Studio
Programme Sectional Diagram Space Use Arrangement Diagram
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809 HABITAT / TROY CITY RESIDENTIAL AREA
19'-10 1/2"
19'-10 1/2"
19'-10 1/2"
25'-1 1/2"
19'-9 3/4"
First Floor Plan
Interior Rendering_ First Floor
Underground Floor Plan
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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute SoA / Vertical Design Studio
19'-9 3/4"
19'-10 1/2"
19'-10 1/2"
19'-9 3/4"
Second Floor Plan
Third Floor Plan
Interior Rendering_ Second Floor
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809 HABITAT / TROY CITY RESIDENTIAL AREA
Exterior Rendering_ Private Courtyard The residents would not see their neighbors in towers through windows.
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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute SoA / Vertical Design Studio
Wall Section Drawing
Third Floor Bedroom +26’
Third Floor Bedroom +26’
Second Floor Bedroom +15’
First Floor Livingroom +4’
First Floor Livingroom +4’
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Sectional Drawing
Second Floor Bedroom +15’
Inception Community
Multi-Gravity Video Game Design Posted by RPI SoA official website
Vertical Architecture Design Studio Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Instructor: Carla Leitao Game Platform: Unity Team: Gejin Zhu, Bingyu Xia
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Multi-Gravity Moment Diagram
Our team studied virtual architecture which is based on reality physics but contradictory to it at the same time. This project provides multi-gravity virtual space and considers the possibility that if gravity can be controlled, how will people navigate and experience. In the game, the player starts with a first person camera, and can switch to a third person isometric view. There are three ways of navigation, walking on the solid roads, skiing on the smooth surface, and riding a whale in the water. By stepping on architectural elements- pink steps, the activities of whales, tides, cats are triggered, which provides the player with a possibility of associating with the virtual space.
Gravity Transcend System Diagram
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Composited Rendering in Video Game
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Inspiration Diagram - Teleportation
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Video Game Deisgn
This project is an installment of architecture, acoustic and visual art, that conjures the bombardment of emotion, secrecy, and information. It aims at arousing public emotional resonance of negative feelings, like anxiety, fear and pressure. To illuminate human’s anxiety that arises from conflicted desires, the character is trapped in an infinite corridor with a series of scenes when being in highly approach motivated states.
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Inspiration Diagram - Teleportation Between Maze
Anxiety Age is imaged with a physical maze of corridors that fully immerse viewers. By organizing random sequences and infinite scenes, this project provide distinct experiences to individuals with broached themes of isolation, disassociation, transmission, interconnectedness, etc.
Inspiration Diagram - Random Circulation between Corridor Maze
Virtual Architecture Columbia University Instructor: Nitzan Bartov Platform: Unreal Engine Team: Gejin Zhu, Bingyu Xia, Yining Lai
Prototype Corridors of Four Scenes
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GEJIN ZHU (518) 522 9743 gz2327@columbia.edu 411 West 35 St, New York, NY 10001
Education 06/2021 - 05/2022
Columbia University, New York, NY Master of Science Advanced Architectural Design
08/2016 - 05/2021
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY Bachelor of Architecture, GPA: 3.70/4.0
01/2019 - 05/2019
Center for Architecture Science and Ecology, Brooklyn, NY Architecture Professional Program, Grade: 3.98/4.0
06/2015 - 07/2015
University of California at Berkely, Berkely, CA ATDP Summer Program - Architecture Design, Grade: A
Professional Experience 06/2019 - 08/2019
United Design Group, Shanghai, China, Intern Architect Integrade Development Design of Harbin Poly Commercial Street Project Thesis, Facade Design, Rendering (this project is being built in progress by Poly Group Corporation)
06/2018 - 08/2018
BSA WPDC International Design Center, Wuhan, China, Intern Architect Integrated Development Planning of Bidur(2017-2035), Bidur, Nepal Field Research, Thesis, Translating, Editing
Honors 05/2018
Honor Student in Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute School of Architecture Selected in Architecture Design Studio 4 Instructor: Edwin Liu
07/2015
Honor Student in ATDP Program, University of California at Berkely Selected in Architecture Program Awarded The Most Hardworking Student, Berkely, CA
Publication 12/2020
Inception Community, Video Game Design published on Unity platform Team: Gejin Zhu, Bingyu Xia Instructor: Carla Leitao
Skills & Interests 2D Graphic 3D Modeling Programming Film Editing Languages Interests
Auto-CAD, Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign, V-ray, Enscape Rhino, Grasshopper for Rhino, SketchUp, Revit, Maya, 3d Printer C, C++, Java, Python Adobe Premiere, Imovie Chinese(Native), English(Fluent) Psychology, Theology, Extra-Terrestrial
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