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Tsinghua University // B. Arch University of Michigan // M. U. D

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Jia Weng 1053 Island Dr. Ct. Ann Arbor, MI#48105 734-9454-171 jiaweng@umich.edu

Degree /2012-2013/ The University of Michigan Ann arbor, Michigan, USA -Master of Urban Design -3.8 GPA Graduate High Honors -Research assisstant: E. Jazairy -2013 Student show /2007-2012/ Tsinghua University Beijing, China - Bechalor of architecture

Professional /2013 May/ Design earth(E. Jazairy and R. Ghosn) Ann arbor, MI, US -Rio de Janeiro city vision competition Contribution: Initial design, Renderings /2013 Mar/ Morphosis, Intern New York, NY, US - FAB building of Cornell, New York Contribution: Rendering /2012 Feb. 2012 Jun./ Atelier FCZJ (Yungho-Chang), Intern -The modern art museum of Tianjin E-gu corporation, Tianjin, China Contribution: conceptional design, digital model, diagram,physical model - Tongzhou canal club, Beijing, China Contribution: detail design, physical and digital modeling, construction drawing /2011 May, 2011 Aug./ CADRI, Intern Beijing, China - Water Operation Centre in Ningxia Contribution: digital model, conceptional design, landscape design - Tianwei Weapon Headquarter Contribution: digital model, layout, Resume

Professional conceptional design - The Northern Data Centre of China Agriculture Bank Contribution: layout, digital model, construction drawing, index analysis / 2010 May, 2010 Aug./ Beijing Institute of architectural design, Intern Beijing, China - Xi’an Wanxiang community Contribution: site research, layout, modeling, index analysis

Skill Digital Modeling Rhinocero-SketchUp-Grasshopper Rendering VRay-Maxwell Digital Drawing and Cordinates AutoCAD-Photoshop-Illustrator-InDesign-Acrobat-Ms Word-Ms Excel Filming Premier Pro Making Laser cutting-Wood working-Painting (watercolor)-Line drawing Language Mandarin-English Data GIS

Publication /2013 Apr/ Student publication Campus Rio post Olympic city grounds, Editors in chief: J. Weng, C. A. Wu, J. Garrison /2013 June/ Student publication The latent urban landscape Vargens in transition, Editors in chief: J. Weng, C. A. Wu, D.Y. Liu, Y. S. Lin, S.Q. He

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Recognition /2013 Spring/ Paper presentation Offshore urbanization: Algeciras Maritime infrastructure

Table of Content 10-13

The Belts

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/2013 Winter/ “Spree” student exibit The belts

Transit as spine

/2012 Summer/ Merit scholarship /2011 Winter/ Seed Fund scholarship Mosaic Utopia /2011 Winter/ Tsinghua University Architecture department Student exibit excellent work Urban design studio /2010 Fall/ Tsinghua University Architecture department Student exibit excellent work Construction studio project The Wall

16-17 4.7: a geographic stroll around horizon

18-19 Offshore urbanization

14-15 The belly of a mountain

/2010 Fall/ Tsinghua University Architecture department Student exibit excellent work ‘Architecture department building’ design studio /2009 Fall/ Beijing Pourkor installation art exibit Misunderstanding, Misapplication

+ Reference El Hadi Jazairy Assistant Professor University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture and Planning 2000 Bonisteel Boulevard 607-262-9103 María Arquero de Alarcón Assistant Professor University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture and Planning 2000 Bonisteel Boulevard 617-821-1719

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Matrix Campus

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Projection

20 Tianjin art gallery

21 Mosaic Utopia

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Other work

un-built mountain urban void wetlands water territory Jia Weng Work Sample

CAMPUS [MATRIX] 2012 Winter Academic individual work Deodoro, Rio de Janeiro [22S86’,43W38”]

Delimitation

Rio parcels inventory

Ungrounding

Reparcelization

Section Name

Mapping Deodoro

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REPARCELLING POST-OLYMPIC CITY GROUNDS In order to reinforce the notion of “event transformation“, the method “reparcelization“1 is used to enable the ground of the campus to be public. The ground of Deodoro with its militarized memory will be covered by a new carpet. The block and the built will be reorganized by the new logic of campus. The logic is no longer determined by the built, but by the urban void, the unbuilt. In this way, the void is no longer negative, it serves as a glue, stitching together different segments in Deodoro.

Campus regulation matrix

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PROJECTION 2012 Winter Academic group work Deodoro, Rio de Janeiro [22S86’,43W38�]

LANDSCAPE Through geographic, ecological, and infrastructural system the landscape plays a formative role in the development of the site. This organization generates enclaves with various programs which are connected by the ground, linking the site together.

REPARCELIZATION The surface of the site is marked by ungrounding the site,. It suggests a transformation of the first fifteen centimeters of the ground. Through reparcelization it allows for a new meaning and understanding the site and its uses.

MAT The mat proposes its distinct identity through loose scaffolding based on an organizational system superimposed upon existing conditions with an interplay of movement, waiting, repetition and variation through built form. This strategy generates a hard edge while also allowing the city to flow through the network of various program

projection

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COLLECTIVE URBAN DESIGN TOOLKIT FOR CITY GROUNDS The project “urban design toolkit“ serves as projections for those similar issues in global cities. Formally, the projects are divided into six tools, they are our patent works towards post mega-event city grounds. The tools are landscape, reparcelization, mat, axis, mediation and mega-structure. The six tools provide different attitude to the ground (keep original, reorganize..)

AXIAL Axial development generates a distinct linear form of centrality which equally qualifies built and unbuilt spaces with activities and uses. This type of organization solidifies a sense of flow, direction, and orientation that magnifies existing and proposed conditions.

MEDIATION This strategy attempts to blur the boundaries between distinct hard edges which resulted in disconnected enclaves generated from infrastructural lines. Through expanding and dissolving built and unbuilt programs the approach begins to mediate movement and development joining the separated grounds.

MEGA-STRUCTURE This approach uses a singular structural framework that allows multiple and distinct programs to coincide while mitigating the conflict between infrastructural intersections through sectional separation. Through architectonic means and a hybrid of programs, the strategy generates imageabliity and an urban destination

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Long section cut along the BRT lines Residential

Public

Retail

Infrastructure

Industrial

Protected open space Recreational space

Undeveloped open space

Water

Alvorada

Via Parque

Lourenco Jorge

Polo Cine e Video

11.87

Estacao Cidade Universityl

Estacao

Estacao International Airport 38.04

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35.64

Estacao Avenida Brasil

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33.01

31.38

Highway I BR 101

Caja Terminal Penha

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Estacao Olaria

Guapore

Railway I Estacao Olaria

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29.52

27.29 27.82

Pedro Taques 26.39

25.51

Vicente de Carvalho Aquidauana Lafaiete

Otavoano Vila Queiroz Vaz Lobo Marambaia Metro I Line 2

22.73 23.48 23.96 24.51

20.73 21.31 21.80

Mercadao

Madureira

Campinoho

Menezes Pinto Teles

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19.94

Albano Praca Seca

Pc. Araci Cabral Tanque

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19.14

18.16

17.42

17.00

16.26

Arroio Pavuna Schering Gusmao Lobo Merck Andre Rocha Taquara Mal. Bevilaqua

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15.70

14.02

13.52

12.44 12.87

Praca do Bandolim

Pedro Correia Rio II

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11.21

10.34

9.31

8.91

8.11

7.26

6.68

Autodromo

Commercial

Hospital Sarah

BRT Stations

5.72

Railway Railway

Avenue I Americas central

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4.85

3.72

km

Infrastructure intersection

2.22

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TRANSIT AS SPINE

2012 Fall Academic group work Vargens, Rio de Janeiro [22S98’,43W46”]

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Unfolded program disgram

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Rio de Janeiro BRT lines

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MAPPING RIO DE JANEIRO BRT The system, which is already running in barra da Tijuca, is slated to be fully operational in time for the city’s hosting of the 2016 Olympic Games. composed of three intersecting routes - Transcarioca, TransOeste and TransOlimpica- the completed network will stretch 120 kilometers and feature 133 stations and be integrated to the region’s bus, rail and metro systems. Much of the system’s alignment is strategically located to promote Transit Oriented development along designated future growth areas, ushering in a new era of mobility in the rapidly growing metropolis.

Estacao Avenda Brasil figure ground streets

unbuilt area

32.1%

48.2%

19.8%

Terminal Jardim Oceânico aerial photo

Madureira figure ground streets

23.2%

33.2%

unbuilt area

aerial photo

Captitao Menezes unbuilt area

39.9%

48.4%

aerial photo

17.9%

49.3%

32.8%

aerial photo

Estação Santa Cruz figure ground streets

unbuilt area

23.5%

60.6%

aerial photo

15.9%

Estação Novo Leblon figure ground streets

unbuilt area

29.1%

55.9%

15.0%

aerial photo

Estação Gestao Rangel

Term. Alvoroda figure ground streets

unbuilt area

25.2%

66.1%

17.2%

unbuilt area

43.6%

figure ground streets

11.7%

figure ground streets

aerial photo

figure ground streets

unbuilt area

30.5%

59.5%

10.0%

aerial photo

THE BELTS 2012 Fall Academic group work Vargens, Rio de Janeiro [22S98’,43W46”]

Sports

Bio-Tech

IT

Energy

Campus

Long section cut along the BRT lines

Tranportation

Long section cut along the BRT lines

water system and urban service

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6 4

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Section Name

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T H E L AT E N T U R B A N L A N D S C A P E Vargens is the next developing centre of Rio, the geographic condition (the beach and the mountain) remind the residents of downtown, plus with the coming 2016 Olympic games, Vargens is now under spot light. The PEU development regulation encourages the whole vargens area to be developed. However the fragile land in Vargens need to be preserved. In order to resolve the conflict, the multi-layer belts is proposed.

By define a border1 that separates the builtfrom the un-built, the Belts is providing a buffer zone of urbanization between the two. Rather than limit the urban growth by proposing a property line or simply a wall, the Belts is proposing series of space that contain different percentages of program, different zone codes to enable urban activities.

70m 25m

80m 35m

main loop

north-south transit green+river corridor

Regulation along transit line 10%

100%

15%

23%

38% 46%

100%

15%

23%

46%

38%

100%

7% Recreational 10% Retail

15% Green 15% Cmmersial 18% Industrial

35% Residential

35%

15%

15% 52%

50%

15%

23%

55%

25%

15%

15%

Residential belt Buildable area:35% Green:55% Infrastructure:10%

Institutional belt Buildable area:70% Green:20% Infrastructure:10%

20%

5%

15%

15% 35%

48%

20%

32%

60%

Canal Buildable area:35% Green:50% Infrastructure:15%

Mixed-use belt Buildable area:40% Green:50% Infrastructure:10%

55%

95%

65%

Green heart Green:90% Infrastructure:10%

Recreational belt Buildable area:35% Green:50% Infrastructure:15%

15%

20% 50%

Canal Buildable area:35% Green:50% Infrastructure:15%

Loop Buildable area:60% Green:30% Infrastructure:10%

Regulation along green corridor 100%

20%

10%

70%

Canal Buildable area:35% Green:50% Infrastructure:15%

10%

10% 35% 55%

Mixed-use belt Buildable area:52% Green:23% Infrastructure:15%

15%

38%

23%

20% 10%

70%

Institutional belt Buildable area:60% Green:25% Infrastructure:15%

10%

100%

46%

23%

15%

5%

20% 10%

10%

40% 70%

95%

Green heart Green:90% Infrastructure:10%

50%

Office belt Buildable area:55% Green:20% Infrastructure:15%

46%

100%

10% 25%

30%

40% 50%

Residential Buildable area:60% Green:25% Infrastructure:15%

38%

60%

10%

65%

Loop Buildable area:55% Green:20% Infrastructure:15%

Canal Buildable area:35% Green:50% Infrastructure:15%

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green heart

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institutional belt

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creational belt

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loop

3

green corridor

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mix-used belt

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residential belt

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FOCUS AREA 2012 Fall Academic group work Vargens, Rio de Janeiro [22S98’,43W46�]

Plant species Residential- Balcony 1-3m Linear window

Parking space Each block need to have one parking structure with a parking ratio of 67%

Ground floor retail Green structure

Ground floor retail are encouraged to setback 1.5-3m on main street

Green corridor Loop Institutional belt

Wooden deck

Water connection

Transportation Loop Secondary street Inner circulation Walkway Path Bike path Bus stop p

Parking structure location

Vision Live/work life style Water retain Accessibility Walkability Open space utilization Carbon reduction Ecological preservation Social integration

Section Name

Sidewalk, 3-5m Ecological wet land

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T H E

G R E E N

C O R R I D O R

The proposal addresses the need to reserve space for the existing streams to perform a regulatory function in the storm water management strategy as a central element in the prevention of flooding. While responding to the pressures of growth and additional housing units, this area offers lower densities than surrounding districts.

As a counterpoint, the proposal introduces a multi-scalar system of storm water management techniques from the scale of the whole corridor to the one of the block.

Affordable housing

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Block area: 12,180 sqm Buildable area: 59.2 sqm

Social housing

Coverage: 48.5% FAR: 2.8

Market rate housing

4%

1 to 19 31%

20 to 24

33%

25 to 39 40 to 59 6%

60 and upper 26%

17%

Housing units: 392.5

26%

1 bed room 2 bed room 3 bed room 57%

1 bed room 45sqm

2 bed room 65sqm

Parking ratio: 67% Parking area:3944.6

3 bed room 85sqm

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THE BELLY OF A MOUNTAIN 2013 Spring Academic group work Corcovado, Rio de Janeiro [22S95’,43W21”]

Section Name

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CITY VISION COMPETITION ENTRY FOR RIO The Belly of A Mountain proposes a vision that ties the topography of Rio and the expansions of its urban infrastructures by organizing the city around a series of excavated mountain bellies. Rather than sacrificing the mountain to urbanization or preserving nature in the city, the project considers the mountain system as a potential internal volume that can accommodate the infrastructure and civic cores of the city. The green slops make available open-air park and reboots the lungs of the city and its ecological lives.

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4.7 A GEOGRAPHIC STROLL AROUND THE HORIZON 2013 Spring Academic group work Oil Rig, Rio de Janeiro [22S95’,43W21”]

fig1. Catedral Metropolitana de Sao Sebatiao

fig4. Morro do Corcovado

fig9. Pao de Acucar

Section Name

fig2. Estadio do Maracana

fig3. Aterro do Flamengo

fig5. Aqueduto da Carioca

fig6. Favela Bairro

fig7. Sambadrome Matques do Sapucai

fig8.Praia de Copacabana

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CITY VISION COMPETITION ENTRY FOR RIO In a synecdochal strategy, ten of Rio’s most iconic sites are projected into a linear archipelago on the continuous surface of the ocean. Calculated in relation to the optics of vision, the respective distances between urban islands extend the limit of the perceivable in an unobstructed metric space. The archipelago constructs as such a new scale of inhabitation against a figured skyline.

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OFFSHORE URBANIZATION 2012 Winter Academic individual work Algeciras, Spain [22S95’,43W21”]

JUAN CARLOS I

OUTER ISLA VERDE

CAMPAMENTO

Safe water

CargoBunkering shipping Passenger

Passenger

Maritime service

CargoBunkering shipping

Safe water

Passenger

Maritime service CargoBunkering shipping

Bunkering

Cargo shipping

Passenger

Maritime service

Safe water

Bunkering

CargoPassenger shipping

Port activities

Future infrastructures

Greetings fro

Section Name

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ALGECIRAS MARITIME INFRASTRUCTURE Due to the geographic importance of the Gibraltar strait, as the choke point, it is not only the most important hub for ships and migrants, but also the only path for birds migrants. The strait is also a main habitat for whales and dolphins, they travel across the strait to breed. In the scenario the strait will be populated with floating maritime infrastructures. Those infrastructures are located in the conjunction of the way for different species and activities, such as tourists, ships, wild birds and whales. And the infrastructures are designed in a way to serve all the parties of users.

Flow and density

Refinery Barge

Flow and density

Flow and density

Storage terminal

Tanker

Cruise line

Cargo Barge

Container ship Merchant marine

Fleet operation

Merchant marine

to Malaga to Marbella

to Marbella Anchore area

Anchor prohibite area

Gibraltar strait Access

Port activity to Ceuta

Oil refinery Energy plant Stainless steel industry

to Tangier

Port maritime infrastructures

Paper mills industry

Water territory regulation

om Algeciras

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TIANJIN GALLERY 2012 Summer Professional work Tianjin, China [39N84’ 117E20’’]

Court yard

Structure

Rooms as facade

Structure

Structure

Rooms as facade

Rooms as facade Structure

Infrastructure

Section Name

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MOSAIC UTOPIA 2010 Winter Academic group work Beijing, China [39N90’ 116E40’’]

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EXHIBITION

PUBLICATION

Exhibition in Tsinghua University, Beijing Professional work with Studio LLB Contribution: Conceptual design

Studio publication for winter term Group work with C. Wu and J. Garrison Contribution: Edition, Contribution

other Work

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PROFESSIONAL WORK Professional practice in different company Contribution: Detail design, Construction drawing

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E I G H T

P R O J E C T S

four cities 545 days