P O R T F O L I O O F Z I YA N G Z E N G Master of Science, Architecture and Urban Design Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation Bachelor of Urban Planning Architecture School, South China University of Technology
PREFACE Scalable Transformation
"When several villages are united in a single complex community, large enough to be nearly or quite selfsufficient, the polis comes into existence." --Aristotle Ecological city is an organic and heterogeneous one in which urban actors reflect, shape and accelerate each other's transformation. Within the complex urbanism, Connectivity and Scale have always functioned in my urban design study. I see urban design as a tool to integrate multi-scalar urban actors and establish a connective network catalyzing the transformation of economic, social and spatial context. The process of urban evolution is revealing potential agency of change, and link them into an ecological loop. With the spatial manifestation and social intrigue, the network of economic and social actors will be trigered to transform. My year of architecture and urban design at GSAPP mainly focuses on exploring how multi-scalar urban actors network connect with spatial design and initiate a larger impact on distinct context.
DESIGN STUDIO 01
COLLECTIVE WATERSCAPES Spring 2016 | Water Urbanism, Reinterpret Mid Paraiba River
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MOVING ON Fall 2015 | Divergent Narratives, Newborn Newburgh
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WATER AS A CATALYST Summer 2015 | The 5 Bourough Studio, Resilient Design of NYCHA
URBAN RESEARCH 04
INFORMAL ALGORITHM Spring 2016 & Fall 2015 | Urban Fabric Algorithm, Study of Informality
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RECOMBINANT GUANGZHOU Spring 2016 | Urban Elements Analysis, Time-based City Fabric Study
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CORNY CONNECTIONS Fall 2015 | Regional Connection, Mapping of Economy
COMPLEMENTARY WORKS Data Visualization Parametric Analysis Video Story Telling Application Design
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COLLECTIVE WATERSCAPES Water Based Public Space Network
GSAPP Urban Design Core Studio 3 Jan 2016 - May 2016, Paraiba Valley Brazil Urban Design & Urban Planning Project Instructor: Kate Orff, Petra Kempf, Laura Kurgan, Guilherme Lassance, Geeta Mehta, Ziad Jamaleddine Team Work Team Members: Guangyue Cao, Leeyan Shun, Nishant Mehta Role in Team: Economic and Water study in Paraiba Valley, Multi Scalar Strategies and Micro-scale Design, Digital Modeling, Drawing Representation, Video Representation
About “Collective waterscapes” envisions Paraiba Valley cities as unified players for improving the water and health quality of the greater region of Mina Gerais, Sao Paulo, and Rio de Janeiro. The region currently faces two main water management issues — inhabitants’ unhealthy cyclical relationship with Paraiba Do Sul, a lifeline for the mid-Paraiba region, and an unsustainable water treatment process centralized at the Guandu Water Treatment Plant. To address these water issues, this proposal establishes a landscape framework for future waste water management by maneuvering surfaces and implementing simple place-making strategies. Our approach proposes AGEVAP, an interstate committee of the hydrographic basin of Paraiba do Sul River, to be the primary agent to direct small scale waste water treatment interventions in coordination with local governments, organizations and residents, while enforcing them through policies. By providing local actors with the tools and techniques to implement waste water treatment micro-infrastructures into the city fabric, a new urbanity of culture and living will emerge from the water systems that sustain it.
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BARRA MANSA
VOLTA REDONDA
Chemical Pollution Household Waste
Industrial Waste
Household Waste Chemical Pollution
Household Waste
10 miles Polluters
Barra do PiraĂ
Barra Mansa
Reservoir Represa do Funil
Volta Redonda
Resende
Contriburted
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Water Source to Rio de Janeiro
Avg. 68.6 Summer
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WATER CRISIS AND UNEFFICIENT WATER TREATMENT Despite the poor water quality, six million people living in the river basin, including the eight million residents of the Rio metropolitan region, depend on Paraiba do Sul for potable water.
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REPURPOSING AND DECENTRALIZING WATER TREATMENT Instead of centralizing pressure and resources on the Guandu Water Treatment Plant, what if waste water micro-infrastructure are dispersed into the urban fabric as public space.
Site with monoculture Minha Casa Minha Vida housing
SCALES OF WATER CLEANING Combing all scales of water infrastructures, this proposal is a showcase of the variety of scenarios of hybridizing water infrastructures and public spaces along a prototypical tributary. Replicating this along the Paraiba, the collective effort of cities can capture, reuse and clean water before it flows into the Paraiba do Sul, contributing to a healthier water ecology for the larger region.
27 FAMILIES
// 15L of rainwater collected per day
1 TREE + 100m
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UNCOMPACTED SOIL
// permeable paving infiltration rate 70-80%
CATCHMENT SURFACE 2
// 220L per 1m per day
PHYTOREMED
// maximum ph
Hybrid public amenities
maximum phyto STREET LIGHTING Greywater re-use
15m 3 biodigester
Soil water storage rate : 0.5inches/hr
// 3,600L of household sewage per day CITY POWER GRID
reduce runoff pollution
groundwater recharge
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75m biodigester
Site with a lot of vacant land, an existing natural forest and a public school and water treatment facility
Site along the tributary which has an existing water treatment plant surrounded by vacant land
146,000L/s
WATER CASCADES // 5.5 acre cleans 230,000L water/day
DIATION POND
hytoremediation rate reached
AERATION TANK Aeration Tank
ANAEROBIC TANK Anaerobic Tank
EICHHORNIA CRASSIPES DUCKWEED REED CAT’S TAIL AEROBIC FLOW Aerobic Flow
oremediation rate reached at 60 days of culture PLANT BED/PONDS Plant bed/Ponds
WATER CleanCLEAN Water
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Gather + Meet
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fold and pitch roof to direct rain water
Wooden louvers for better ventilation
Low wall to preserve privacy
HOUSING CLUSTER
Pitched roofs becomes covered walkways to connect residential
Community biodigesters merge into the stepped ground
Publc Space Scoop + Fill Scoop + Fill Publc Space Publc Space Scoop + Fill Publc Space
Scoop + Fill
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A scaled-up biodigester as new neighborhood topography and processing community sewage
Waste water from 5 neighborhoods will directly chanelize to the scale up biodigestor for water cleaning process
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Remediate + Meet Remediate + Meet Remediate + Meet Gather + Play Remediate + Meet
Foot bridges stitch back the two neighborhoods
NEIGHBORHOOD PLAZA
Sunken rain water catchment plaza as outdoor seating area with ample shading Local businesses with outdoor seating to activate the street intersection
Bike path weaves through the neighborhood node
Educational & Recreational Park
L : RIVER EDGE PARK
Educational & Recreational Park
Educational & Recreational Park
Stitch + Pool
STITCH + POOL
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Educational & Recreational Park
FLOOD MITIGATION & EROSION CONTROL
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Natural forest adjacent to the site is protected
Bioswales pods along the boardwalk are floodable to serve as flood control green infrastructure
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Fish pond with clean water cultivates water wildlife and biodiversity
CITY PARK
Flowforms increase surface area for aeration processes and are visually intriguing people
Local schools embed educational programs that help monitor water quality
Resende
Volta Redonda
TO SAO PAULO
Funil Reservoir
REGIONAL DISPERSED WATER TREATMENT AND COLLECTIVE WATERSCAPES AGEVAP is envisioned to spearhead these scales of water cleaning interventions, not only to achieve national health goals, but to also re-imagine the region as a series of united cities that clean the river to attract new industries and economies. Embedded within a restored ecology this proposal generates a healthy relationship between the cities and the river. To implement this vision this project focused their design on the creation of new urban centralities through the synergies between water infrastructure and socioeconomic spaces. Driven by the design principle of manipulating surfaces and landform to make the processes of water more visceral and visible, a series of spatial typologies are grafted onto water infrastructures to create social and recreational spaces. Most importantly, these considerations will become "locally rooted" through decision making and participation at the community and municipal scale, allowing residents to foster a healthy relationship with the river.
Barra Mansa
Lajes Reservoir
Barra do Piraí
TRIBUTORY
ETA Guandu PARAIBA DO SUL
RIO DE JANEIRO METROPOLITAN AREA
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MOVING ON
Divergent Narratives, Newborn Newburgh
GSAPP Urban Design Core Studio 2 Sep 2015 - Dec 2015, Newburgh, NY Urban Design & Urban Planning Project Instructor: Lee Altman, Justin G. Moore, Pippa Brashear, David Smiley, Christopher Kroner, Liz McEnaney, Sandro Marpillero, Nans Voron Team Work Team Members: Yi-Yen Wang, Adrinee Bodakian, Karan Daisaria Role in Team: Economic, Social and Spatial research in Newburgh, Macro-scale Planning and Micro-scale Design, Digital Modeling, Drawing Representation, Video Representation
About Newburgh is a city in distress but it need not stay that way. Newburgh’s social problems begin with poverty, and include crime, unemployment, poor transportation and underserved youth. In short, the people of Newburgh lack social mobility. In particular, the street infrastructure is in a dire state, lighting is poor, streets frontages are in disrepair and open, building stock is deteriorated, and crime is common. Exacerbating this conditions, public transportation is inefficient, infrequent and disconnected. Finally, the city has insufficient educational programs for youth and insufficient employment opportunities for adults. The design approaches Newburgh’s social and physical immobility via 4 scalable strategies, Infrastructure, Programming, Transport and Employment. Each of these strategies complements the others, forming a new constellation of intervention in Newburgh and also the Hudson Valley. The design idea is associated with a divergent urban story telling.
01 LACK OF STREET SAFETY 16 per 1000 Newburgh residents have been victims annually in the city. 3 in every 4 crime offenders are in the age of 15 to 20.
2ND
highest violent crime rate in New York State
02 HIGH UNEMPLOYMENT "We need more jobs nearby or easy transport to jobs that are away." - Abraham, 37, Newburgh Resident
7.8%
Working population unemployed
03 HIGH YOUTH DENSITY
Undergraduate
Grade 5-8
High concentration of youth population located in the neighbourhoods within high street violence area.
Grade 9-12
65%
Children dropping off school To Albany
To Poughkeepsie
To Beacon M-N St and Poug hkeepsieation
Mid-Valley Mall
04 LOW EFFICIENT TRANSPORTATION
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NEWBURGH BUS TERMINAL
To Stewart
45
Int'l Airport
6th
Worst transportation system in NYS
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BROADWAY&LIBERTY BUS TRANSFER Lake St. Housing Project
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To Woodbury Common& NYC
To West Point and Highland Falls
Only 8 % of the total jobs are accessible by public transport. Only have single bus line with one-hour frequency in Newburgh.
LOST STREET IN NEWBURGH With Low street safety, poor streetscape and the broken publc facilities. Newburgh remains under the pressure of crime and some factors that co relate with the existing crime and safety situation are - unemployment , lack of transportation and high density of kids lacking of after school program. The lack of accessibility to public facilities through transportation and the existing unefficient single loop system further strengthens the need of a new and improved transport system.
HIGHEST CONCENTRATION OF ISSUES Corridor Next to School
Corridor Patches
Cross Street Patches
Large Patches
Street Nodes
TRIBUTARY
PROGRAMTIC INTERVENTION
Sports
CONTRIBUTOR INDIRECT ASSOCIATED
Judo Workout Boxing
AFTER SCHOOL ACTIVITIES
Technology Graphic Design Homework Help Sofeware
EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES
STREET SAFETY
Recreation Seating Comunicating
Gymnasium Judo Workout Boxing
Education Computer Sports Safety
MULTI FUNCTION LIGHTING
TRANSPORTATION FACILITIES
JOB ACCESSIBILITY Matainance
Transportation
Way finding Demand Transportation
Manufacturing
Light Poles Street Furnitures
Light Poles Sites’ Assets
MUTUAL COMPLIMENTING FRAMEWORK Strategies are to create a viable means of literal and social mobility. The limitations of employment, public transportation and afterschool programs will be helped by a well connected systems embedded within and around the city fabric .
TYPOLOGY OF INFRASTRUCTURE Poles along the street with the functions of lighting, gymnasium, seat, water fountain, way finding system and etc..
HYBIRDIZED LIGHTING AS SOCIAL INFRASTRUCTURE Multi-functional lightings perform a strong gesture and offer energetic activities for citizens. Standing on a paved pedestrian path, the lighting break the deadly street ambience.
MASTER PLAN Certain corridors were most used by children will be targeted for an array of improvements, from lighting and street furniture to school and recreational activities. Street facing vacant properties will be programmed for educational and job training spaces for underserved school-aged youth.
City network
Newburgh Free Academy
BISHOP DUN SCHOOL
CHAMBERS ST.
Targeted empty land
FULLERTON ST.
Existing anchors
Bishop Dun School
SPORTS HUB
Boys & Girls Club
SPORTS HUB Brian’s Sports Shop Computer Graphics Oasis Sports Bar
TECH HUB
BROADWA
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LIBERTY ST.
Wellness Gym
Armory ARMORY
RENWICK ST.
JUDO HUB
South Middle School
SPORT HUB, CHAMBER STREET The sports hubs include sports safety education, spirit education and vocational programs.
RECREATIONAL HUB, CHAMBER STREET The existing building is retrofitted with recreational programs coupled with exterior space.
TECH & JUDO HUB, REDWICK STREET The building is retrofitted into a technology center with day care career consultation and computer classes.
SPORTS CENTER, SPRING DAY Public Plaza & Mind Training Center
JUDO CENTER, WINTER DAY Public Plaza & Judo Training Center
CITY WITH FLEXIBILITY Different age groups can share the sites in different time per day. Cooperating with different kinds of programs, each hub will be used in varied ways per time table.
SPORTS PLAZA, SUMMER NIGHT Night Seminars & Gathering Space
TECHNOLOGY HUB, FALL NIGHT Night Training Center & Recreational Hub
Scene 1 | Montage | Backdrop Gradual Focus
Desaturation 0:01 Footage & Voice over
Footage
Montage
Montage
Montage Transactional : Zooming Out Window
Scene 2 | Dynamic Mappings | Aiming
Scene 3 | Montage | Transition
Animated overlaping
Montage Quick Montage
Scene 4 | Animation | Typologizing Soundtrack Transition Animation
Colors of Objects
Performance of objects Components
Lighting
Scene 5 | Animation | Transforming
Footages & Animation
Brightness of Scenes
Installation
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Impact
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Particle Animation
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Color Coding the Story
Framing colors
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CONTEXTUAL AND REGIONAL CONNECTION The “Light Ups” will be manufactured within Newburgh. The production system is divided into 5 elements – location analysis, materials, transport facility, funding and execution. We identified various stakeholders in the city for each of these elements. The city’s planning department, along with other agencies such as the Police, shall identify the locations for intervention. The city of shall designate two publiclyowned warehouses for redevelopment as manufacturing facilities. Materials partners are local companies such as Hudson Valley Lighting, Newburgh Metal Fabricator and Heights Lumber Center.
STREET ACTIVATION
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WATER AS A CATALYST The 5 Borough Studio
GSAPP Urban Design Core Studio 1 Jun 2015 - Aug 2015, Lower East Side, New York Urban Design Project Instructor: Kaja K端hl, Thaddeus Pawlowski, Tricia Martin, Brian Baldor, Ben Abelman Team Work Team Members: Fei Xiong, Nishant Mehta Role in Team: Flood issue research along New York City coastline, Repurpose Open Space in NYCHA, Landscape Design, Digital Modeling, Drawing Representation
About The lower east side, by virtue of its low-lying location, suffered massive destruction caused by Hurricane Sandy. This warranted the construction of a protective berm to keep the storm surge from inundating the area. However, no attention was paid to flooding during an inland rain event which causes water logging and ponding in this region. Thus, in addition to what is being planned for the lower east side, we have the opportunity to plan for a rain event and subsequently to re-plan the NYCHA campus. The NYCHA campuses in this region are underserved and are isolated from the surrounding neighborhood. The campus along with the FDR Drive is a visual and physical barrier to the denizens of the neighborhood from accessing the East River Park. Thus building off the East Coast Resiliency Project, we propose to extend the berm over the FDR Drive, and integrate it into the NYCHA campus. The integration of the under-used green space in the NYCHA campus to a larger green belt provides an opportunity to activate the campus landscape. A channel holding filtered rainwater cuts through the campus, integrated along which is a public spine that ascends to the berm. The channel combines the flows of pedestrian and water circulation thus creating a band of public activity which slowly melts off into the campus enclosing activated private spaces between the buildings.
FLOODING ISSUE IN LOWER EAST SIDE
100-year
112 days
Inundation
of Rainfall
Data from Kings Point NY, NOAA
Ground Floor of NYCHA
Ground Floor of NYCHA Foot Splash Allowance = 9 ft FEMA 2050 100-Year Floodplan = 8
Sandy = 7.5 ft
FEMA 2050 50-Year Floodplan = 2 Bulkhead= 0
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EAST RIVER PARK
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HIGHLY RISKY FLOODING OF EAST RIVER EDGE The lower east side, by virtue of its low-lying location, suffered massive destruction caused by Hurricane Sandy. Due to the high water level next, lower east side is easily exposed to flooding risk.
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EAST RIVER PARK ACCESSIBLE RADIUS WITHIN 10 MINUTES
With no impedements
FDR cutting riverside connection
NYCHA as superblock blocking pedestrain circulation
LACKING OF ENTRANCE TO EAST RIVER PARK The campus along with the FDR Drive is a visual and physical barrier to the denizens of the neighborhood from accessing the East River Park.
ENTRANCE PLAZA
CONNECTION TO THE BERM
CENTRAL RECREATION PLAZA
SUNKEN RECREATION PLAZA
WATER STORAGE DURING RAIN EVENT
OUTDOOR CAFE
PATH ALONG WATER
PERMANENT WATER LEVEL
COMMUNITY KITCHEN
PUBLIC PLAZA DURING NON RAINY SEASON
RAIN WATER STORAGE DURING RAINY SEASON
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INFORMALITY ALGORITHM
Informality Behaviors Computation
Urban Research & Processing Computation GSAPP Fall 2015 Urban Seminar: Fabric and Typology GSAPP Spring 2016 Architecture Course: Advanced Algorithm Instructor: Prof. Richard Plunz, Prof. Toru Hasegawa, Prof. Mark Collins Solo Work About What if a city fabric can integrate bottom-up construction with top-down spatial planning? How will they transform? The project aims at visualizing the process of how informal settlements are being constructed against existing programmatic settlements. By using Processing, the existing figure ground and program images are translated to pixels with different hierarchy of grey for analysis. The new sites are assigned a behavior that they will pick the best spot which is empty and next to programs for occupation. The animation of the occupation shows the time-based process of informal housing generation against existing fabric, which is representing the bottom up construction above planned city fabric.
Roman Grid
Deformed Grid
New Combination
INFORMALITY BEHAVIORS
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RECOMBINANT GUANGZHOU
Armature, Enclave and Heterotopia in Guangzhou
Urban Research GSAPP Spring 2016 Urban Seminar: Recombinant Urbanism Instructor: David G. Shane Team Work Team Member: Chenxing Li, Guangyue Cao, Zhou Wu Role in Team: Concept Development, Time-based Transformation Study, Public Space Element Study About The project employs a theory of urban actors for the analysis of Guangzhou city and its design ecologies. Through the time-based maps, actors for transformations are identified at various scales over time in a specific locations. A model is used to link to the larger forces shaping a city network, including its representative public spaces and urban fabrics, Archi Citta, Cine Citta, and Tele Citta. A major focus is on the relations between the public space in different growth patterns in Guangzhou and the shifting/changing relations between these growth centers, demonstrating the impacts of these changes have on specified areas of the city, their life and its built form, public space or fabric.
imperial axis
foreign port zone
200B.C. - 600 | ARCHI CITTA - RIVER-DRIVEN ERA
600 - 1950 | CINE CITTA - PORT-DRIVEN ERA Airport BD
railway system
CBD
Pearl River CBD
processing & exporting
shipping system
1950 - 2000 | CINE CITTA - INDUSTRY-DRIVEN ERA
subway system
2000 - | TELE CITTA - MARKET-DRIVEN ERA
Processing BD
2000 MARKET DRIVEN ERA TELE CITTA, MAGA CITY -Multi centers came out and formed a connective system by subway -City expanded in a rapid way and became mega city
1980 - 2000 INDUSTRY DRIVEN ERA CINE CITTA -City’s center was formed on the top of new transportation system -Reformation and open-up brought economy boom
1950 - 1980 INDUSTRY DRIVEN ERA CINE CITTA -Industrialization brought city railway and factories -The combination of Danwei and factory extended city’s fabric
600 - 1950 PORT DRIVEN ERA CINE CITTA -Port set up outside the walled city -City expand towards the port -River was used for martime shipping
200 B.C - 600 RIVER DRIVEN ERA ARCHI CITTA -City started between mountain and river -Traditional Chinese walled city
TIME-BASED COLLAGING CITY
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CORNY CONNECTIONS
Minneapolis Twin City Urban System Analysis
GSAPP Urban Design Core Studio 2 Instructor: Lee Altman, Justin G. Moore, Pippa Brashear, David Smiley, Christopher Kroner, Liz McEnaney, Sandro Marpillero, Nans Voron Team Work Team Member: Xinye Li, Ashwini Karanth, Surbhi Kamboj Role in Team: Mapping, Economy Research, Data Analysis
About Minneapolis and St. Paul is a metropolitan area divided by the magnanimous Mississippi River, while Minnesota and St. Croix River surround the twin cities. The state of Minnesota has a diverse economy. The economy of Minnesota had a gross domestic product of $262 billion in 2008. This project is to use mapping to visualize how the economy in the twin cites are driven by technology, agriculture and energy.
Tax Credit
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Government Investment
Export income
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RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ECONOMIC ACTORS
YELLOW DETECTIVE Data Visualization by Web Stack
Data Collection & Web Mapping GSAPP Fall 2015 Visual Study: Data Mining City Instructor: Prof. Danil Nagy Team Work Team Member: Zhe Fan, Daniel M Cooper, Xi Chen, Lindasy Friedman, Guangyue Cao, Cameron Cortez, Noele Anna Illien, Jiachuan Wu, Siu Tan Wong Role in Team: Concept Development, Client Front End, Html Coding About Yellow Detective is a project in development, an MVP that exploits ubiquitous if often mundane data production to reveal novel connections integral to the function of cities. Yellow Detective makes good on the promise of a clearer vision of the present and the future made possible by data. It is the health salve that clears the smoke from our detective’s office and the bionic eyepiece to let us see through walls. The project begins by asking questions about the relationship of a person to a place. By exploratory research techniques, YD creates layers of data to reveal connections, and more importantly, to generate new questions, ways of inquiring, and means of visualization.
Focusing on the latent grey industry in Dongguan, Houjie, as originPlace which is a are famous for this service is chosen, and a time limit from 9pm to 4am is set. The assumption is that people who checkin during this very late time and at this place have a large possibility that they are prostitute’s client, so the places that these clients linking to might have interesting relationship with this hotel. Houjie has a strong relationship with Hongkong, Macau and Guangzhou, there are big correlation with Shenzhen but not as much as the 3 places mentioned before, certain small cities also emerge such as Foshan, Jiangmen and Zhaoqing. On the other hand, Houjie have a really big service radius across the whole PRD region.
Houjie, Dongguan
Tsim Sha Tsui, Hongkong
City Scale
City Scale
Regional Scale
Regional Scale
Pearl River Delta Scale
Pearl River Delta Scale
MOVEMENT FROM HOUJIE OUTWARDS
REPLICABLE PROTOTYPE
X INFORMATION Design Optimization System
Parametric Analysis Tools Development GSAPP Fall 2015 Visual Study: X Information Modeling Instructor: Prof. Lucien B Wilson Team Work Team Member: Guangyue Cao, Xinyu Hu, Xi Chen Role in Team: Concept Development, Parametric Modeling, Evaluation System Design About The program engineered key relationships influencing design and development including zoning, building cost and the environment, in order to find new relationships between traditionally separate or competing objectives to visualize speculative futures of the site and reposition and reorganize those relationships through a visualized evaluation process that challenges design and development preconceptions. Through this process a new design evaluating system is created, static and animate drawing that effectively communicated the intent of parametric design systems for evaluation and critique.
Visualization of Crime Data Filtering
Data Normalization
Identifying Problematic Sites
OPTIMIZATION OF REZONING OF PARK-BASED COMMUNITY
Design Optimization of Thirty Park Place, by the Evaluation of sunlight, shading, pedestrian view and landmark view.
DESIGN OPTIMIZATION OF THIRTY PARK PLACE'S PODIUM
UNIQUE IMMUNITY COMMUNITY Moving Images Urban Storytelling
Video Story Telling GSAPP Summer 2015 Urban Seminar: Reading New York Urbanism Instructor: Prof. Phu Duong, Christopher Kroner, Michael Szivos, Liz Barry, Benjamin Martinson Team Work Team Member: Guangyue Cao, Grace Mills, Zhou Wu Role in Team: Concept Development, Footage Shooting, Modeling, Animation, Screening About In 2013, Gina Bellafante of the New York Times wrote that Brownsville has “an unusual kind of promise: it is a place so immune to gentrification that it is also immune to the negative fallout from gentrification, which means it has the capacity to serve as a template for a different model of revitalization” and that, “Brownsville has an authenticity for which there is no external market” Inspired by these sentiments, Unique Immunity Community works toward a provocation rather than a conclusion. Its purpose is to understand and explore Brownsville’s ‘immunity’ to gentrification and the ‘authenticity’ which this immunity both depends on, and in turn, reinforces.The video first contemplates how and why this immunity has occurred, and second, reveals the psychographic manifestations of this immunity: what it looks at feels like from the inside. But what does this so-called ‘immunity’ mean for the future of Brownsville’? What is this unique kind of promise that Brownsville offers?
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UI/UX Design and Application Development GSAPP Spring 2016 Architectural Course: Appitecture Instructor: Toru Hasegawa, Mark Collins Team Work Collaboration: Amanda Lee Chan
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