Janet Yichen Dong_Architecture Portfolio by janet.dong

JANET YICHEN DONG YALE SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE MARCH I SELECTED WORKS| 2016-2020

CONTENTS

ADAPTIVE INFRASTRUCTURE

The New York City Center For Material Exchange

THE DENSIFICATION OF WEST BRONX

THE CHICAGO WAVE

04 05

Public-private Development

Chicago Mile-high Tower

CONTESTED PLAZA

Connecticut Center for Immigrant Services

LIFE, AFTER LIFE

A New York City Retreat for Immigrants

HOUSE ON PLYMOUTH

AGRI-CULTURE: LIVE IN THE FIELD

Yale Building Project

Urbanization Complex Planning

ENGAGE

Interactive Textile Installation

ADAPTIVE INFRASTRUCTURE

THE NEW YORK CITY CENTER FOR MATERIAL EXCHANGE | BROOKLYN, NY Yale School Of Architecture | Fall 2020 | 12 Weeks Instructor: Marc Marc Tsurumaki, LTL Architects Individual Work

The fundamental paradox of uncertainty for a discipline based on projection, of impermanence for a practice predicated on permanence, will define the studio. This brief asks how the material conditions of architecture might engage with the increasing volatility that characterizes our collective relationship to emergent environmental, climatological, biological, political and social conditions. Extending beyond the immediate crises, we seek to interrogate architectureâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s intersection with notions of adaptability, transformation, resiliency and productive indeterminacy. This project focuses on the circular economy of building materials. The New York city center for material exchange intends to create a new urban infrastructural typology, a place for second hand material storage and processing, to reconsider the potential of material circular economy. The design also reactivates the Brooklyn water front by maximizing public inhabitations. Eventually, this project creates a new way to look into new york city water edge that is adaptable for the future.

Uncertainty Spectrum

TRADITIONAL MATERIAL SYSTEM New York City: A Waste Generator

Mapping of NYC GOD Permit Data

New Buildings vs. Demolished Buildings

MATERIAL CIRCULAR ECONOMY

New York City: A material Productional System

Calculation of NYC Construction Waste

Reusable Material in Total Solid Waste of NYC

Our site is in New York City, a hub for mostly all industries, is always considered as the largest consumer of different resources and material and generates huge amount of waste everyday. In this project, instead of looking at the city as a construction waste generator, this project regards the city as a productional system, a generator of materials. There is a huge amount of demolition and construction activities going on in NYC everyday. As a starting point, the project raises question what if the building industry no longer follow the traditional material demolition system and take advantage of the materials that are already exist in the buildings?

MAJOR BUILDING TYPE

CITYWIDE BUILDING AREA

AVAILABLE MATERIALS

MAJOR BUILDING MATERIALS

EMBODIED ENERGY

Embodied Energy Analysis

Study on the Amount of Energy Embodied in NYC Buildings

The early tudy shows the break down into buildings types and specific materials that are available in NYC from the demolition of buildings and the potentials if we reuse the material for a second life and how much energy we can save. Instead of transporting the construction waste to the outskirt of NYC, as per its current policy. This project intends to start a testing ground for this new urban typology, provide space and agency for a material reuse system in the city and explore the full potential of material circular economy, and in this case, the construction and demolition waste can be reduced and instead to be stored and used for upcoming construction.

AN INDUSTRIAL SITE

Greenpoint Community, Brooklyn NY

Mapping of Site Industrial and Communal Services The site established itself as a manufacturing district and housed a lot of water dependent industries along the water. This site has the potential to transform to a new center of the city due to its unique location to both land and water. Looking at the current condition, the project will re-activate and restore this waterfront area, redefining its identity without loosing its connection to its history. In fact, this is a first testing ground for this urban transformation. Thus, the design also intends to bring in inspiring vision to the community and maximize public inhabitation of the space as an effort to raise more awareness of the current situation. therefore, the other half of the program composition is the communal element that could publicize the building so it strengthens the interrelation in our shared living environment. Scale of Operation Diagram

First Level Floor Plan

OCCUPIABLE WALL SYSTEM

Stacked System with Storage and Shading Functions

REST PLATFORM

shading device

removable shelvings

MATERIAL STORAGE UNIT (25’ wide* 25’ tall)

revolve display

MATERIAL STORAGE UNIT (30’ wide * 20 tall)

devolve display

OCCUPIABLE ROOF SYSTEM Cable System with Roof Track

ROOF VOLUME

CABLE CRANE

CABLE ROOM

MOBILE ROOF cable system

STRUCTURE

AN OPTIMIZED FLEXIBLE GROUND This design forces on the negotiation among different scales of occupancies, the materials, OCCUPIABLE WALL SYSTEM

the people. It is a medium between circulation of building material and people and s facility for both industrial and educational events. The floor plan on the first level is a large open space along with the spaces for material gather, process, and storage. the open floor plan is high versatile to adapt different materials, and potential of future reconfiguration if there is a change of demand in the area. The second level contains the circulation path for workers and visitors as well as spaces for public activities. In order to optimize the flexibility of the building, especially the ground floor, the design

PLINTH

adapts two major systems, the occupiable wall system and roof system. The roof system consists of a cable network with mobile rooms and material cranes throughout the building. It is suspended from the thickened roof system that serves both as shading device and structural supports. The elevators are also embedded in the reinforced core for visitors. The wall system is also thickened to be occupiable. It is mainly designed for material storage and display to free up the floor planes.

Facade Render New York City new Riveredge

North-South Longitudinal Section Transformability of the Space is Based on the Amount of Material Flow in the Building

BUILDING PERFORMANCE AND PROCESS Required Machinary for Material Reuse Storage

Sorting / Cataloging

Cutting

Cleaning

Engineering

Proposal on the Ecological Process of Second-Life Materials

Existing Building

On Site Deconstruction

Transportation

Material Sorting

BRICK Brick walls are hard to taken down as a whole, it is usually formed in piles and then organized to pallets. It doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t need heavy post-engineering before its second-life.

5 GLASS Glass can be fully disassembled on site, yet later needs heavy material fabrication to meet the second-use insulation standard.

Analysis Material Traits

UNROLLED SECTION ON MATERIAL FLOW BRICK PROCESS

SPATIAL EXPERIENCES

GLASS PROCESS

TECNICAL DETAIL Architectural Tools to Guide the Process

Extra Storage Room

Material Display

Material Stock Amount

Exhibition Space

Public Gather Room

Material Stock Amount

Open Gound Space Transformability Diagram Second-life material stock flectuates on a daily basis, by functionalizing the roof and wall system, the usage of the ground level becomes really flexible.

PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT: THE PILE PARK The Integration of Public Recreation, Education, and Participation. A method to bring the social and cultural framework into the project and provides a new urban infrastructure model that creates opportunities for people and the community as well.

THE DENSIFICATION OF WEST BRONX PUBLIC-PRIVATE DEVELOPMENT | BRONX, NY

Yale School Of Architecture | Spring 2020 | 12 Weeks Instructor: Anthony Acciavatti In Collaboration With Ian Gu, Justin Kong

Today, the approximately 125,000 cars that pass through the Bronx New York each day creates an enormous amount of pollution damaging the quality of life for the residents. And the public housing authorities of New York are already struggling to hold on, as NYCHA estimates, it requires over 32 billion dollars over the next five years to just upkeep the current stock of housing. Congested with traffic, these large infrastructural thoroughfares are major sound and noise polluters of the Bronx, especially in this case the Major Deegan. Consequently, the dominating presence of the Major Deegan has forced the West Bronx to take on the scale of a car - driven community. However, the West Bronx has one of the lowest percentages of car ownership in all of the five boroughs rivaling downtown Manhattan. With the intention to increase housing affordability and access to much needed social amenities and infrastructures in the Bronx community, we are proposing a new mixed-use urban model that combines the innovations made in Sao Pauloâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s SESCs complexes with much needed housing across the underdeveloped sites. By decommissioning the Major Deegan Expressway, which currently separates the West Bronx from the Harlem River, we can acquire the publicly owned FAR to incentivize new public-private development projects inland. As a result, we can offer a new purely public waterfront twice the size of Central Park, whilst bolstering existing infrastructural hubs in the Bronx.

FAR Diagram

NEW YORK CITY HYDROLOGY AND LAND COVER GIS Mapping at 1:40,000

Light Box in collaboration with the Studio

MASS TRANSIT

GIS Mapping on New York City Hydrology and Mass Transit at Different Scales 1:4,000

1:40,000

Pilot Project Site Amenities Map

1:80,000

DECOMMISSION THE MAJOR DEEGAN Supporting Reason Diagram

Allievate Sound and Air Pollution

Allievate Traffic Congestion

A Pedestrian Friendly Neighborhood

Opportunity to Propose New Forms of Transportation

Extra FAR

Creation of New Community Amenities

Provide New Green Space for Bronx

Densification of the Current Underdeveloped Neighborhood

The existing stock of underdeveloped â&#x20AC;&#x153;softâ&#x20AC;? sites in the Bronx can easily accommodate the 8 million square feet of the Deegan at a scale that is better suited for the Bronx community.Locating the Major Deegan in the Bronx, we look at a particular stretch of the Deegan ranging from the Cross Bronx Expressway to past Fordham landing. Through decommissioning the Deegan, we can not only easily remedy this issue, but gain access to an almost 8 million square feet of government owned FAR.

Alleviate Traffic Air Pollution

Avoid a Traditional Waterfront Development

MAJOR DEEGAN EXPRESS WAY 8 million sqft of government owned FAR

Transferring Far to Inland Soft Sites

WATER FRONT + MAJOR DEEGAN

AREA REDISTRIBUTION ACROSS THE INLAND BRONX

AS-OF-RIGHT DEVELOPMENT

Area Re-Distribution on Bronx Soft Sites

2.3 MIL SQ. FT.

5.2 MIL SQ. FT.

CENTRAL PARK

NEW WATERFRONT PARK

NEW WATERFRONT PARK DECOMISSION MAJOR DEEGAN

Area Diagram on Proposed Alternative Park

UPZONING

DENSIFY A PIAZZA

INFILL

AS-OF-RIGHT DEVELOPMENT

CARVE IN

NYCHA HOUSING

BRIDGE OVER

WITHIN ONE BLOCK

ACROSS ROADS

Soft Site Typology Studies

DENSIFIED SOFT SITES EXISTING SOFT SITES

A 21ST CENTURY TYPE OF SOCIAL INFRASTRUCTURE By Decommissioning the Major Deegan Expressway, which currently seperates the West Bronx from the Harlem River, we can acquire the publicly owned FAR to incentivize new public-private development projects inland. As a result, we can offer a new purely public waterfront twice the size of Central Park, whilst bolstering existing infrastructural hubs in the Bronx. This allows a cash strapped government to have agency in negotiating with developers in terms of incentivizing favorable developments that benefits the community. Thus, this project proposes to transfer this FAR inland, bolstering existing infrastructure and densifying West Bronx. This project incorporates the SESC typology, a non profit hub designed to provide members of any commerce association with wellness, recreational and cultural facilities. These functions are easily accessible by the public while some are reserved for members of the commerce association. This project ties together the dynamic nature of the Sao Paulo SESC with much needed housing infrastructure for the Bronx.

Typology of a Sau Paulo SESC

A Proposed Typology for the Bronx New York

PUBLIC SPATIALITY: A NEW PUBLIC GROUND This project proposes a new mixed-use urban model that combines the innovations made in Sao Pauloâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s SESC complexes with much needed housing across the underdeveloped sites in Bronx. As a first pilot proj-

ect, the site is situated beside the Fordham subway station, a current vacant parking lot. While the current neighborhood is already relatively dense, the public amenities are scattered and underdeveloped, namely a lack of daycare, access to fresh food and recreation, as well as a lack of affordable social housing. Spanning the length of the whole block, we focused on creating a mid block connection on the ground floor to denote the public ground and create access to a local food hall and supermarket space below ground. Two residential components are created allowing a mix of affordable and market rate housing. These hug the recreational space in the center.

Ground Plan

Gym and Study Room plan

Central Atrium

West Bronx

A New Model of Provisional Housing and Recreational Center The Bronx is ripe for new nodes to be developed through additional public amenities and housing developments. With each development an organic part to whole relationship is created where all of the Bronx is bolstered.

INTERWOVEN PROGRAMS :A NEW RECREATION TYPOLOGY Through lifting the ground plane we negotiate the level difference of the site while opening up the food hall and market space in the sunken plaza. This also allows for the mid block connection. The use of heavy trusses allows the center recreation spaces to hang and feel light and expansive, while transferring it to a heavier facade expression which relates more closely to the context of the neighborhood character. The public ground plane is defined by the base of the atrium space, serving as a new spatial condition nested away in the middle of the block. The recreational space functions as a lifted mass in the center of our building where a large atrium and skylights illuminate the space. The changing shape of the atrium allows for the accommodation of a variety of programs creating a visual connection while maintaining a physical separation allowing for the coexisting of active programs and more static ones in one space.

Residential Floor Plan

Recreational Space

MIXED UNIT TYPES The residential component is mixed with not only traditional affordable and market rate housing, but also a potential for a new Single Residency Occupancy typology. The traditional two-bedroom and one-bedroom units provides family living for general family uses. The SRO unit is consists of two floors in the complex with communal staicases that allow for shared living space in the lower floor. The close proximity to Fordham University creates an unique possibility to have dorm style units that can easily function as suites as well. shared living space

single occupancy bedrooms

double floors

SRO Unit

one bedroom unit two bedroom unit

Mixed Income Housing Unit

SRO Unit Co-Living Space

A NEW LIVING TYPOLOGY Zooming back out to our testing ground in Bronx and the plethora of potential soft sites, the site is ripe for new nodes to be developed through additional public amenities and housing developments. With each development, an organic part to whole relationship is created where all of the Bronx benefits. In conclusion, this project intends to move away from a traditional deterministic grand strategy for urban development. As such, we hope to rethink the urban development mechanism through the opportunity inherent in the decommissioning of the Major Deegan.

Core Exploded Axon

THE CHICAGO WAVE

CHICAGO MILE-HIGH TOWER | CHICAGO, IL Yale School Of Architecture | Fall 2020 | 10 Weeks Instructor: Kyoung Sun Moon In Collaboration With Jiachen Deng

The mile-high tower at Chicago waterfront investigates the dynamic interrelationship between technology and architecture through tall building design. Among the various technologies involved, emphasis is placed on structural and facade systems, recognizing the significance of these systems, the separation of which in terms of their function led to modern architecture, and allowed the emergence of tall buildings. This seminar reviews contemporary design practice of tall buildings through a series of lectures and case study analyses. While most representative technologies for tall buildings are studied, particular emphasis is placed on more recent trends such as diagrid structures and double-skin facades. Further, this seminar investigates emerging technologies for tall buildings and explores their architectural potentials. A mile-high tower is a micro-city. With an interest in vertical urban development, the Chicago Wave envisions the mile-high tower as a series of neighborhood connected by a vertical green belt. Each neighborhood has a unique character, oering a set of public and private services enriched by gardens of various scales. While it is important to soar up into the sky, we believe that it is equally meaningful to retain a healthy contact with the land and soil. The various gardens at each neighborhood allow users of the architecture to maintain our intrinsic bond with the sky and the land simultaneously.

FAR Diagram

CHICAGO RIVERFRONT SITE STUDIES The Chicago Wave starts with the interest in studying the green spaces along the Chicago waterfront. The project intends to bring this waterfront green space vertical up and create a vertical micro-city with the supplementary public amenities. We recognize that the green spaces and gardens create a green belt for public activities along the sea shore. Within each zone, the program is consists of both living and work elements and has a sky lounge component to connect these two programs together and bring in public activities and hosting recreational events. Each neighborhood has a unique character, offering sets of public and private services enriched by gardens of various scales. The vertical gardens at each neighborhood allow users of the architecture to maintain the connection with the sky and the land simultaneously.

A NEW CHICAGO WATER EDGE major highway green space public open space site

SITE

Organizational Logic on a Spectrum of Scales

Form Concept

Residential Lobby Plan

Office Residential

Residential Typical Plan

Hotel Recreational & Lobby Service

5280’

4500’

3600’

2700’

1800’

900’

MEGA FRAME & CROSS BRACING 0’ BASIC LOGIC

STEP 1

STEP 2

STEP 3

ASSEMBLY

TRUSS

CORE

INNER COLUMN

Structure Analysis

FACADE EVOLUTION

Exterior Concept

SECTIONAL PROGRAM DIAGRAM

REGIONAL Office Residential Hotel Recreational Sky Lounge School

PUBLIC CORE

OFFICE CORE

RESIDENTIAL CORE

RISER DIAGRAM

MEP & Refuge

RESIDENTIAL

Tropical Garden

Sky Lounge

RECREATIONAL

Sky Lounge Cafe

OFFICE

office

NEIGHBORHOOD

Front Render

CONTESTED PLAZA

CONNECTICUT CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT SERVICES| STAMFORD, CT Yale School Of Architecture | Fall 2019 | 12 Weeks Instructor: Annie Barrett Individual Work

America is a nation of immigrants. According to the American Immigration Council, Connecticut has a sizable immigrant community, composing approximately fourteen percent of the stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s population. This design is intended both as an introduction into the design of civic spaces as well as a larger look into who forms our local communities, and how architects may work to serve their neighbors. The brief, Centers for Immigrant Services, supports various community needs, these purpose-built, multipurpose buildings will be designed to support immigrants with an array of resources, including legal clinics, one-on-one legal counseling, ESL classes, literacy classes, computer classes, citizenship classes, job placement assistance, survivor services, and economic advising. Special services may include resettlement and sanctuary advising. In addition, these buildings will serve a community of volunteers and service providers, as a place to conduct trainings, network, and conduct workshops or host events on an ad-hoc basis. Outreach to the larger public will take place through film screenings and exhibits in the centerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s public gallery space. Under the tensions within the debate of immigration, immigrants should be provided with opportunities to resistance and self-expression. This community center intends to provide a platform for protests and rally events for immigrants and strengthen the current protest platforms and other gathering events. The design also proposes a connection to the general public, through connecting the main street of Stamford.

Early Section Sketch

SITE CONTEXT & AGENCY COMPOSITION

PROTEST PRECEDENTS & SITE RELATIONS

PROGRAM AGGREGATION & EARLY FORM STUDIES Composition

Stage Vertical Movements

Stage Configurations

Stage Meets Program

Under the recent tensions within the debate on immigration in the United States, immigrants have experienced different degrees of injustice. This Center for Immigrant Services intends to provide immigrants with opportunities to resistance and self-expression. At our site Stamford, the current protest events happen mostly along the main street Washington Avenue, with several architectural agencies involved. Therefore, this community center intends to provide a platform for freedom of speech and an accessible public stage in the neighborhood. Additionally, as America is considered as â&#x20AC;&#x153;a nation of immigrantsâ&#x20AC;?, the design also proposes a connection to everyone in the city, through a linear connection to Washington Avenue, the main street for spreading voices and other political activities in Stamford.

First Floor Plan

GREEN BUILDING ANALYSIS

ROOF SUN RADIATION MAP The study of the building heat loss during each season

Green Space

Winter KWhm-2 9.6 8.64 7.68 6.72 5.76 4.8 3.84 2.88 1.92 0.96 0

Wind Flow

Summer

Radiation Chart of Stamford

Beaufort Scale 1 2 3 4 5

Summer

Sun Path

Winter

Wind Rose of Stamford

GREEN ROOF STRATEGY

The addition of green roof to reduce heating and cooling loads

Intensive Green Roof

Concrete Finish Roof

Extensive Green Roof

Flora And Fauna Design Strategy: A mixture of native trees, shrubs, and florwers for Coastal Connecticut Summer

Winter

Deciduous Native Trees and Flowers

Evergreen Native Trees and Shrubs

Better Landscape Performance

Elevation

Avg. Temperature

The roof is visually and physically connected to below. On either end, the roof is inclined to provide relatively more intimate gathering spaces, to be used for small concert and lecture events. As shown in the section, the inclination of the roof not only connects interior and exterior activities but also introduces visual interactions with multiple floor levels. The chamber for public debates becomes an agency to connect three levels and invite people from the community to participate and communicate with immigrants.

An Inhabitable Roof

FLEXIBLE USES OF THE ROOF

Provides a Grand Platform for Freedom of Speech The design introduces an open roof plane to maximize community living and engaging in multiple scales. The roof is designed with an axial circulation with the central public plaza. On the opposite axis, the roof is inclined to provide visual hierarchy as well as to provide some intimate gathering spaces. This community platform will then accommodates protests and rally events for immigrants and to strengthen the current protest platform. During other times, the center space could be used for large gathering events, open performances, as well as cultural events. Different ways of interactions and dynamic senarios thus happen on the roof. Provocative Illustration of the Grand Ramp

Protest

ONE ROOF | SIX INTERATIONS

Different Scales of Communal Events are Supported

Lecture Talk

Performance

Sunbath

Plantation Workshop

Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Playground

Festival

In terms of the programmatic organization, this program focuses on the stage element and provides distinctive and flexible stages for different levels of interactions, such as the multipurpose room and the chamber. Other non-stage programs are organized along with the longitudinal open space on both the first and ground level for more distinct and easy navigation of entry to rooms on either side.

MODEL | 1â&#x20AC;&#x2122;0â&#x20AC;? = 16â&#x20AC;?

Aerial View from the Front

Exploded Axon

Two Circulation Paths

MODEL | 1’0” = 16”

Aerial View from the Ramp

Central Public Space

Back Courtyard

LIFE, AFTER LIFE

IMMIGRANT RETREAT | NEW YORK CITY, NY Yale School Of Architecture | Spring 2019 | 6 Weeks Instructor: Sunil Bald Individual Work

Architecture in New York City always have potentials and is usually unfamiliar to certain walks of life. This prompt identifies a current issue of dwelling and explore possible architectural outcomes integrating concepts of change, evolution and time into foundational thinking. The project clearly defines parameters that are investigated over an expanded period of time, in which both current and future circumstances must be considered. These projects are to be specific, rigorously investigated responses to contemporary issues which offerâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;through designâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;extraordinary speculations, proposals and outcomes. This studio explores the relationship between life, and after life, through the design of residential housing design. Focusing on the demographic of immigrants in the neighborhood, this project intends to offer a retreate in the city for immigant as well as s a new urban dwelling model that creates opportunities for people and the community.

Early Section Sketch

The Median site has been involved with constant changes. Historically, it used to be a regular new york city block with train passing by; now the block is split off in half to make way for other transportation means. The change in demographic is also evident in this neighborhood. It used to be an Irish and Jewish neighborhood, and now the main population is Chinese and Italian. 46 percent of the population in this neighborhood is immigrants. The diversity of demographics result in the different cultural and social influences of the neighborhood and various cultural and institutional programs around the area.

SITE EVOLUTION

Studies of change in transportational means, demographics through time

Lower Manhattan 1905 Speculative Sectional Relationship

Allen Street View of 2019

p Traportational diversityy overtime TimeLine

-100

-50

-20

-10

2019

+10

+20

+50

Year

+100

European Jewish Asian and Latin American

Germany, Ireland, Austria, and Russia

Merged Demographics

Demographic diversity overtime

SITE CONDITION

Mapping of Surrounding Program and Transportation

Program

Transportation

Mixed Use

Bike Route

Multi-storey Residential

Bus Route

1-2 storey Residential

Subway Route

Commercial

Bus Stop

Institutional Green

The site Delancey St and Allen St Median locates in downtown Manhatten, New York. It has been involved with constant changes. Historically, it used to be a regular NYC block with train passing by; now the block is split off in half to make way for other transportation means. The change in demographics is evident in this neighborhood. 46 percent of the population in this neighborhood is immigrants, such as Chinese and Italian. The diversity of

1/8” = 1’0”

institutional programs around the area.

Longitudinal Section

demographics result in the different cultural and social influences of the neighborhood and various cultural and

SITE RELATION DIAGRAM

Form Generation & Site Relations

Site Fluidity with activating streetlines

Monolithic Volume v.s. Aggregrated Volumes

FLEXIBLE MARKET SPACE

A way to generate dynamic street interactions of pedastrians

Small Groups Individual Vendors

Medium To Large Business Groups

Gathering and Collab Space

One imperative aspect of the proposal is to drive the people to the collective space and also provide a private space to dwell. Specifically, a prevailing concept of flexible market space is introduced to the design. Similar to other spaces in New York City, the ground floor design drives pedastrians to the space and foster street interactions. The use of the ground-floor flex spaces is devided into three prototypes, targeting different scales of pedastrians and groups. As such, the ground level becomes adaptable to different uses.

Second Level Retreat Unit

A Calm Retreat for Immigrants in the Hub of New York City

Second Floor Plan | Individual Retreat Units Dwelling Solidity

Third Floor Plan | Common Space Communal Transparency

Longitudinal Model View Model Scale: 1’0” = 1/4”

Sketch Studies

Form Generation and Site Relations

Exterior Street View

The Use of Translucent Materials Manifests Itself Differently at Night

Sectional Model Cut

Exploration of Spatial Conditions

The design utilizes the diversity of the city to create a sense of stillness within the realm of changes and explore the relationship between static and active. The proposal attracts the people to collective spaces and provides a private space to dwell. While the current lower Manhattan neighborhood is maintained in a linear grided system, this project develops a new axis along geographical North - South to break the current perpendicular space and promote a fluid network within.

Exploded Axonometric

Section Oblique

The spaces are reshaped and reorientated towards the angled axis. As a result, the level of privacy decreases as the level goes up, from street level to dwelling level. The stepped tectonic is developed to provoke visual hierarchy and promote internalized connectivity.

THREE VERTICAL SEQUENCES

The Floated Solid Volumes of Living

Core as Spaces of Invitation

Underground Profile of Memorization

HOUSE ON PLYMOUTH THREE-UNIT HOUSE | NEW HAVEN, CT

Yale School Of Architecture | Spring 2019 | 12 Weeks Instructor: Adam Hopfner, Joeb Moore In Collaboration with Ian Gu, Rachel Mulder, Sarah Weiss, Sean Yang

The traditional Yale Building Project is to design and build a house in collaboration with Columbus House, a New Haven based homelessness services center. Each of the three units will be a new home for a family or individual previously experiencing homelessness. Our design starts with the overlapping usage of space in oneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s life, especially homeless people, our client of this project. During the visit to Columbus House, a community houses homeless people, we were struck by how little room for error there is in the lives of their clients. This lack of laxity is balanced by the support of people around them, community members, volunteers, and peers. This design aims to strike a balance between these two characters, the garden space having qualities that lie somewhere in between them. It aims to avoid isolating its inhabitants in favor of a space that invites chance encounters and planned gatherings. The garden is a place to bump into your neighbor on the way to your door, but also one fit for sitting down and having a meal together.

Overlap Experiment

EARLY FORM MODELS

Individual Living Experiences and the Adaptive Use of Space

Triple Decker

SITE CONDITION

History of the Triple Deckers in New Haven, CT

SITE PLAN & GROUND LEVEL

Foundation Section Detail Core Elements Wet Wall Kitchen Unit Bath Room Bedroom Closet

Kitchen Unit

Living Room ORGANIZATION DIAGRAM

INTERIOR ELEVATIONS

FLOOR PLANS Revit Plan Set

Disclaimer: Design and concept draings are collaborated efforts. Revit DDâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s and CDâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s individually produced.

INTERIOR RENDER

LONGITUDINAL SECTION Shared Co-Living Courtyard

SCREEN DETAIL

Model Scale: 1’0” = 1/2”

The design inhabits the boundary between a sense of security and autonomy, cohesion and individuality, outdoor and indoor and public and private space. The garden can be seen as a gap between these pairings where all of them overlap on top of one another simultaneously. The design has three stacked units with half room and garden on the other, the whole building being unified by a wooden screen, punctured strategically to provide light air, views and privacy. Because the screen wraps around both halves, the design has a larger presence than its stacked units would have alone, giving it a larger presence on the street that is balanced with the housing surrounding it.

COURTYARD RENDER

ARGI-CULTURE: LIVE IN THE FIELD URBANIZATION OF AGRICULTURE | TIANJIN, CHINA

UIA-HYP CUP 2020 International Student Competition | Summer 2020 In Collaboration with Jiaming Gu

Since the 1970s when China started its urban-centric developments, Chinese cities have been growing at an increasingly fast speed. Globally the average population density is 25 people per km2, and the average Chinese population density is 153 people per km2 of land area, which is around 2.5 times more than the global average. Although the world population growth rate has been decreasing for decades, the rapid increase of land use on urban developments results in food deficiency and lack of quality control. The food supply in China has been heavily dependent on international food supports since its farmlands have been decreasing progressively since the expansion of the urban area. Moreover, densifications of large cities lead to unbalanced conditions between the cities and rural regions. The marginalized city boundary has been overlooked and stayed in abeyance. As an effort to overcome the current circumstance and to secure Chinaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s food production, this project redefines the urbanization of farm and agriculture and seeks unique relationships between farm field and the city. This project intends to use agriculture as a medium to connect the dwelling space and cultural space as a way to activate the city boundary and form a 21st-century city development model. With this prototype, the relationship between dwelling and food is being reconsidered. Through food production and processing at various scales, this project also speculates a new food mechanism that can be combined with urban development. As such, this design reconsiders the city lifestyle and introduces an ecological social co-living prototype.

ANTIQUE CULTURE STREET OLD COURTYARD OLD TOWN

YUANBAO ISLAND

Yangliuqing Community

Tianjin District

SITE TRANSPORTATION & BOUNDARY

Different Transportation Means In Yangliuqing

Our site Yangliuqing sits in the outskirt of Tianjin city, allowing it to form an intimate relationship to the city. With different transportation means, Yangliuqing is able to maintain its low-density developments and convenience to travel. This project utilizes this unique characteristic to densify this outskirt area without anchoring a heavy urban center. To celebrate its infamous cultural heritages, this urban complex consists of three major components: cultural center, agriculture, residential space, and a self-sustained agricultural and food processing system. All these three elements are dispersed and located sporadically throughout our site, aiming to provide a more dynamic connection and an integral experience through forming smaller assemblages of functions.Â

energy generation

water recycling grey water treatment

landfill waste treatment facility

wind energy solar energy media center cultural

housing units ornamental farm

residential

community food farm

greenhouse agriculture farmers market commercial

food process system

SYSTEM INTEGRATION

The Mechanism Behind the Establishment of Agricultural Community

Site Configuration

Circulation Paths

Solar And Wind Analysis

MASTER PLAN Public Programs

The core functionality, cultural component, intends to combine new forms of media with traditional media, by enhancing its social and cultural connections to the open green spaces, the farmland. The cultural center is located in the southern heart of the site with activated roof themes for different platforms of media performances such as personal media outreach, computer animation center, new platforms of social media, and virtual reality installations. The open roof with diverse formal themes allows content creators to be more innovative and incentive with their products. More critically, the diversity of spacial qualities provide the public with easier access to these communicational outlets and reshape their perception of the traditional cultural center and media compositions.Â

SOCIO-ECONOMIC AGRICULTURE

Render of the Farm Land In the Center of the Community Complex

dwelling units

The main component of the design, agricultural space, is in response to the current separated agricultural system in China. Since most of the crop production is heavily depended on

core

the rural villages and towns, it often requires longer transportation time and more intensive labor work by enforcing farmers to travel outside of their rural towns to the city. Therefore, our prototype design intends to bring the farm field to the city for a more connected rela-

program

tionship and integral activities relating to food. circulation

Located in the central strip, our agricultural system consists of different sources of farmlands, greenhouses, and food processing factories. Through different scales of food produc-

plinth

tion and process interventions, this design creates a more efficient food delivery system as well as a more connected relationship with consumers. As such, we bring together cultural, communal, and economical activities around food and imagine an alternative way of living. Programmatic Analysis

Commercial & Food Production

Cultural & Agricultural

Redefine the Urbanization of Agriculture The design aims to reconsider the city lifestyle and introduce an ecological social co-living prototype to the occupants. Residential & Educational

single family unit

moveable greenhouse

communal terrace

Residential Unit Cluster

Rooftop Communal Paths The dwelling units, located at the peripheral of the complex, are connected by an exterior green pathway to formulate communal living spaces and recreational spaces.

Residential Plan

DWELLING ECOSYSTEM

Render in a Residential Unit Overlooking the Movable Greenhouse

The residential design transforms the Chinese compacted apartments to a less compressed urban-dwelling complex. The setbacks on each level allow for more daylight and better ventilation. The design includes movable greenhouses for each dwelling unit to create a customizable â&#x20AC;&#x153;farm fieldâ&#x20AC;?. Those movable greenhouses can migrate to communal spaces for inter-communal exchanges. Moving to the Northern facade of the complex, our design introduces large and integrated exhibition and gallery spaces. The open floor plates allow a more flexible way to celebrate cultural heritage.

North-South Longitudinal Section

ENGAGE

INSTALLATION FOR AUTISM KIDS | ANN ARBOR, MI Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning | Fall 2018 | 14 Weeks Instructor: Sean Ahlquist Group Work | Position: Research Assistant

PHOTOGRAPH ON PROJECTION TO THE TEXTILE

2D AND 3D SENSORYPLAYSCAPE PROTOTYPE DIAGRAM The surface is CNC fabricaded from a elatic yarn and then assembled onto a steel structure for an undulated form to provide a three-dimentional experience. A visually-intensive programmed interactive system is then projected to the surface for a more dynamic and multi-sensory experience. While touching, pressing, or physically connecting to the surface, the patterns on the surface processes the degree of pressure information and respond back to the actions respectively.

Disclaimer: my role includes early concept, program graphic projection, and design and fabricate of the textile. Credit: https://www.architectmagazine.com/awards/r-d-awards/honorable-mention-social-sensory-architectures-offers-comfort-and-healing-through-design_o

MATERIALITY

STRUCTURE AND FABRIC TESTING

SPATIAL QUALITY

The projects intends to design Social Sensory Surface, a programmable textile interface for people, especially children with autism and other sensory processing disorder. This interactive surface intends to blur the line between fabric and architecture and connects two realms of expertise by emphasizing multiple sensory experiences, especially tactic, visual, and physical interactions. The project is awarded the 2018 R+D Honorable Mention.

GRAPHIC DESIGN

INDIVIDUAL WORK | INSTRUCTOR: MIKE MCGOWAN

“The University of Michigan Museum of Art seeks to transform individual and civic life by promoting the discovery, contemplation, and enjoyment of the art of our world.”

More info available at: http://umma.umich.edu/mission-and-history

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STEVEN HELLER

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n admirable graphic designer, author, journalist, design critic, and curator, Steven Heller was born in 1950 in New York City. Unexpectedly, Heller did not receive a degree from art or design before he stepped into the profession at the age of seventeen. However, he utilized his job opportunity to attend some of the art lectures in New York University, in which he learned more about design. Throughout his career, Heller has written over 170 books with various design topics and published more than 80 articles for different magazines, such as The New York Time Book Review and U&Lc Magazine, in which Heller was a senior art director for over 30 years. He was also the editor of the AlGA Journal

of Graphic Design before he won the AIGA’s lifetime achievement award in 1999, which indicates his contribution to the design profession. Heller is the co-founder and the co-chair of the MFA Designer as Author program at the School of visual Art and the co-founder of the former Design Criticism Program. He also has written a serious of books with his wife Louise Fili, who is also a graphic designer. Certainly, his experience of editing plentiful books and magazines influences and helps Steven Heller with his design passion and methodologies. Working as an editor in the 80’s, his projects are highly focused on typography and illustration. He also pays attention to the connection between the writings and the images.

JESSICA HELFAND

One of his amazing poster design in the UMMA collection is the cover for New York Free Press in 1968 addresses the ongoing American social problems and conflicts. The cover highlights the model holding baseball bat and wrapped in the American flag shows the confrontation to social discriminations. The text “END INEQUITABLE ORGASM” behind also is the highlight of human and civil rights, which was critical during the late 60s in the American history. This design expresses the social issues from an aesthetic perspective and raises social awareness through graphic design.

LEFT: Push Pin Graphic: A Quarter Century of Innovative Design and Illustration by Steven Heller and Seymour Chwast, 2004

RIGHT: The New York Free Press, directed by Steven Heller, 1968

orn in Philadelphia in 1960, Jessica Helfand is a well-known graphic designer, writer, educator, as well as the co-founder of the famous website Design Observer. Received both her bachelor (1982) and master degree (1989) in Graphic Design from Yale University, Helfand is currently a professor at the Yale School of Management. After several years of working as an editorial designer, Helfand are more involved with graphic design. In 1997, she started her design firm Winterhouse Studio with her partner William Drenttel (1953-2003), who was also a designer, publisher, and educator. The firm intends to provide a space for collaborative idea exchange and stimulate social impact through design. In 2003, Helfand started an online recourse website dedicated to various design topics and a critical forum for shared ideas and criticisms in the art and design profession (Design Observer), which she regards as her biggest project. Helfand is a member of the AGI (Alliance

Graphique Internationale). In 2013, she received the AIGA Medal, which is regarded as the highest merit in the design field. Helfand’s design philosophy has been influenced and inspired by her various roles in the profession, such as in academia. As a senior critic, she is devoted in the design education. Her interest has been exploring the relationship between studio education culture and humanities. She believes that the education in design studios should not merely focusing on design itself, but also interpersonal exchanges of ideas, representational ideologies, and design approaches. Besides being a college professor, Helfand is also an established designer in the realm. She regards herself also as a communicator, suggesting that design can be stressed and delivered through simple words. Therefore, her work has been deeply focused on visual and verbal narratives, attempting to provide audiences an insightful and comprehensive perspective

One of Helfand’s fascinating projects is the scrapbook she collected and designed to exhibition the history of America through the lens of individual family histories. As a graphic designer, Helfand suggests that a successful design is to create harmonious relations among text, form, color, and cultural and social viewpoints. The scrapbook showcases a harmony juxtaposition between images (photographs) and texts. Even little details in the book could be perceived from an aesthetic point of view.

A page from SCRAPBOOKS: An American History by Jessica Helfand, 2008

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EXHIBITION BROCHURE FOR UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MUSEUM OF ART The brochure introduces two exhibits of graphic designers as well as the basic information of the museum. The intent is to provide readers tangible and clear materials. The articles are based off my own research paper.

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CHERRY PIE

(United States, 2060)

In the early 21st century, Cherry Pie was a favorite and traditional treat in the American households. It is filled with tart cherries and has a sweet taste. The crust is decorated with ornate pastry patterns, which was a common preparation tradition. Due to the worldwide shortage of cherry, Cherry Pie became increasingly scarce and eventually extinct in the year 2060. This last piece of Cherry Pie is considered as one of the most valuable cultural heritage. It is properly stored in a glass box with climate and humidity control to maximize the lifetime of Cherry Pie. With certain protections, conservators indicate that the answer to the lifespan is still uncertain.

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Cherry Pie, Remember, I have tried, And each time, I dismiss from mind. CHERRY PIE

CHERRY PIE

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They wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t even notice.

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CHERRY PIE

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CHERRY PIE

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CHERRY PIE

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EDITORIAL WEBSITE AND UX DESIGN Designed an internet-based brand advertisement and promotion for a travel agency. The platform provide the audiences with an authentic and challenging adventure experience.

ARCHITECTURAL SKETCH MEDIUM: LEAD

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MICHIGAN LAW LIBRARY | LEAD DRAWINGS | 2017 LAW LIBRARY | CASE STUDY COLLISION OF THE ANCIENT AND CONTEMPORARY

The University of Michigan Law Library is a unique university element. This study elucidate the spatial relationship between the ancient Gothic style of the original library and the post-modern style of the addition. These two distinctive styles maintain a harmonious interaction and provide an special narrative \W \PM ^Q[Q\WZ[ <PM NZMMPIVL LZI_QVO[ ZMÆMK\[ \PM IZKPQ\MK\]ZM NZWU LQ‫ٺ‬MZMV\ perspectives to demonstrate the collision between two styles within one space.

PERSPECTIVE FROM THE ADDITION

PERSPECTIVE FROM THE ORIGINAL

CONVERGENCE HUB

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