Portfolio yuchuntsai ucberkeley by Yu-Chun Tsai

YU CHUN TSAI | PORTFOLIO

Department of Architecture, UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design

Contact: yuchun.tsai119@gmail.com (+1) 510-501-1382

RESUME Yu Chun Tsai University of California, Berkeley Master of Architecture (expecte graduation date: May 2016) National Taiwan University Bachelor of Science, Civil Engineering (2005 - 2010)

ACADEMIC AWARDS Berkeley Circus - Studio Exhibition (spring 2014) project selected by outstanding work of the year

Vertical Cities Asia- UC Berkeley internal competition (spring 2014) won and selected as UC Berkeley team for participating in VCA competition in Singapore.

Governmental Fellowship for Studying Aborad (spring 2013)

awarded by outstanding academic achievement with demonstrated ability in architectural design and planning.

WORK EXPERIENCE Architectural Intern (August 2014 - May 2015) LAVA (Laboratory for Visionary Architecture), Berlin, Germany 

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assisted projects on schematic design to construction drawings; provided design options for clients; made quick models and diagrams for general meeting; supported with team on ZJG, HIOC and Heifei competition; finalized digital model for final rendering; detail modeling diagram made for presentation reports. independently responsible for Lihuli school project in initial design process; held and prepared design meeting in the office; communicated with clients via skype and email for progress report and design changes. designed and assembled physical model for exhibition for ZJG tower as project manager.

Architectural Summer Intern (June 2014 - August 2014) ES Green design, Taipei, Taiwan 

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assisted projects on schematic design; held design meeting and workshops; realized conceptual design from sketch to digital model and drawings; made design ppt for clients meeting. held workshop for helping colleagues in software: rhino+grasshopper.

Architectural Summer Intern (June 2012 - August 2012) The Organization of Urban Re-s, Taipei, Taiwan 

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interviewed with residents in Taipei An-Kang public housing and translated the scripts into drawings. guided Dutch architectural office Heren 5 and HA(housing association) to Taipei An-Kang public housing. interior design proposals.

Site Engineer (October 2011- April 2012) BES Engineering Corporation, Taipei, Taiwan   

supervised construction site (Taipei MRT) examined construction quality prepared and submitted documents

Substitute Military Service (August 2010 - July 2011) Military Service and Disaster Prevention Department, Taipei, Taiwan   

supervised disaster condition during typhoon. held pre-military ernty introduction lecture prepared and submitted military documents

Architectural Intern (June 2009 - August 2009) Beijing Institute of Architectural Design, Beijing, China 

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assisted with autocad drawings for housing project; parking lots space arrangement design. helped making physical models design discussion

Teaching Assistant (September 2008 - January 2009) National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan  

course: Introduction to tradition Chinese Construction. prepared lecture document and ppt.

Intern Engineer (June 2007- August 2007) BES Engineering Corporation, Taipei, Taiwan   

assisted with drawing set. constrcuction site assistant. prepared daily meeting.

Vice Captain (September 2007 - August 2008) Basketball team, Department of Civil Engineering, National Taiwan Univ.   

design training recipe. held training sessions three times a week. organize contests.

Publicity Director (May 2006 - June 2007) Securities Research Society, National Taiwan Univ., Taipei, Taiwan   

made advertisement for events. held securities research study group. organized lecture seminars.

INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP 2013 Parametric drawing and diagraming workshop, California College of Art, San Francisco 2012 Parametric design workshop, Architectural Association, Shanghai 2011 Introduction to Architecture, Columbia University, New York

PROFESSIONAL SKILLS 3D - Modeling: Rhinoceros, Grasshopper, V-ray rendering, Revit, Ecotect analysis, Diva analysis, Sketch Up, Archgis, Openstudio analysis.

2D - Graphic: Auto CAD, Photoshop, Illustator, Indesign. Animation: Bongo, Aftereffect. Modeling: Laser cutting, Wood, Acrylic, Chipboard, Foamcore, Blue foam, Rockite, Language:

Plaster casting, CNC, 3d-printer. English (fluent), Mandarin Chinese(native), German(basic)

LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCE Leader and Founder (September 2008 - June 2009) Architectural Model Club, Taipei, Taiwan 

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organized weekly meetings and workshops for students not just for NTU but for other schools. I set up a project called: “We don’t have architectual school in NTU” . Design studio format. design discussion and meeting.

Student Representative (September 2007 - June 2008) National Taiwan University Congress, Taipei, Taiwan  

hightest number of voters among elected representatives proposed ”Green roof” project.

Contact: yuchun.tsai119@gmail.com (+1) 510-501-1382

Professional Experience:

Zhejiang Gate Tower/ Hangzhou / China

Heifei competition / Heifei / China

HIOC competition / Hangzhou / China

Lihuli school project / Ningbo / China

Xiamen headquarter Tower/ Xiamen / China

ROOF 屋顶 REFUGE 避难层

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Schematic design - tower AB

RESIDENTIAL 公寓

REFUGE 避难层

RESIDENTIAL 公寓

Zhejiang Gate Tower

REFUGE 避难层

RESIDENTIAL 公寓

2015 Laboratory for Visionary Architecture

TRANSFER 转换层 REFUGE 避难层

Schematic Design Design Development Construction Document

ROOF 屋顶 REFUGE 避难层

OFFICE 办公

REFUGE 避难层

OFFICE 办公

REFUGE 避难层

OFFICE 办公

TRANSFER 转换层 REFUGE 避难层

OFFICE 办公

REFUGE 避难层

OFFICE 办公

GROUND LOBBY 底层大堂

Total building area: 930,000 sqm Program: office, hotel, commercial, residential. Site: Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, china. Construction in process

Design diagrams

Landscape design modeling BIKE RAMP

LIFT, AIR INLET AND BASEMENT STAIRS UNDER HILL

CAR RAMP

COOLING TOWER PERGOLA // GREEN

GREEN HILL SEATING

STAIRS

TOWER B

BASEMENT STAIRS

BICYCLE STAIRS

TOWER A

Massing study - tower AB

Typical floor drawings - tower AB

Facade design - tower AB

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Schematic design - tower C

Typical floor drawings - tower C ARRIVAL FROM SUBWAY

INTERNAL CONNECTION

TERRACE EXTERNAL CONNECTION

RESIDENTIAL LOBBY

BIKE RAMP

Digital modeling - tower C

Facade and details design - tower C

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Tower connection design - tower AB

Tower physical modeling - tower AB

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Heifei competition 2014 Laboratory for Visionary Architecture Schematic Design Design Development Property lot size: 93,190 sqm Total building area: 55,914 sqm Green space: 40%, 37,276 sqm Commercial: 225,500 sqm Habitation: 114,800 sqm Program: office, SOHO, lifestyle, hotel, commercial, residential Site: Heifei, Anhui province, china.

Modeling, Diagrams, Drawings, Graphic

Residential Office

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Promenade

HIOC competition

Office Commercial

2014 Laboratory for Visionary Architecture Office Commercial

Schematic Design Design Development Promenade

Property lot size: 107,726 sqm Total building area: 700.219 sqm FAR: 6.50 Program: office, SOHO, hotel, shopping mall, residential Site: Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, china.

Residential

Commercial

Office Commercial

Promenade

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Office

Modeling, Diagrams, Drawings, Graphic

Commercial

Residential

Promenade

Commercial

Tower 1 Hotel

Tower 3 Hotel Tower 1 Office RETAIL Mall

Tower 2 Office

Massing study

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Lihuli school facilities 2014 Laboratory for Visionary Architecture Schematic Design Property lot size: 22,211 sqm Total building area: 14,753 -> 27,645 sqm FAR: 0.64 -> 1.25 Architectural density: 19% -> 23.2% Green space riverside: 720 sqm Green space campus: 420 sqm New roads and square: 947.2 sqm Program: classrooms, gym Site: Ningbo, Zhejiang province, china.

Modeling, Design options and Massing study NORTH

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Class Room

Reading Room

Library

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VOID

Microteaching

VOID VOID Lab Psy room

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Teachers office

Activities room

Conference room

History Display

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Xiamen headquarter Tower 2014 ES Green design Design Development Program: office, commercial Site: Xiamen, Fujian province, china. Digital model making Design discussion

Modeling buildings, landscape and details 12

Professional Experience:

Balboa park swimming pool / San Francisco / USA

Port city hostel / Oakland / USA

Salt Pond Next / Redwood city / USA

ACTIVATE - Vertical Cities Aisa / Mumbai / India

Synthetic Hyperbola Fluctuation - Oxford Shirt

Bongo Animation

Net Zero Energy Building Analysis and Strategy

Analysis on relationship between lightening and outage

Balboa park swimming pool GOAL STATEMENT: When swimmers rise above the water, they could smell the scent of the grass, and feel like immersed in hills under the blue sky. As they dive into the water, they could indulge themselves in swimming without distraction. A municipal swimming pool should be open to public. People passing by wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t overlook the active atmosphere inside the building, to which they can easily relate. While at the same time, swimmers could always feel secure, given the protective veil the facility offers.

Site-experiencing representation 3rd street

2nd street

4th street

Port of Oakland

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Looking above - merge Railroad / 1st street

Looking around

SHOP ART ENTERTAINMENT PARKING GARAGE PARKING LOTS SERVICES FOOD OLD FACTORY

Around the site, the environment consists of different materials, such as bricks, metal, and concrete. They show up by different aspects with multiple layers and deepness. Bricks can be found on walls both facing streets and alleys, or on the ground. Metals are used for hanging equipment as evidences of Port, and usages for walls as well. Concrete appears as recent development, like parking garages. They all pop up at every corners when experiencing.

Although this is a mixed neighborhood of commercial, industrial, retails, restaurants, bars, and hostels – part old, part new, with both small and large scale insertions, there is seldom, or no, permanent residential units around. Everything here is for temporary use.

4th street

3rd street

2nd street

Port of Oakland

While look into the site, different scales of programs connected together to stitch site contexts. Different openings, or just a brick wall, give a new scene happening on façade of Oakland edges. Besides, these stitches come from everywhere and are filtered by wire-grate-fence (surrounding for under-construction site)

Railroad / 1st street

Looking above - seperate

Looking in

Based on traffic flows on site, street blocks are separated in terms of pedestrian experience on the corners. For example, on the intersection of Clay and 3rd St., shown as light dot, the feeling of old factories are obvious by setting back shown as occupying whole block. However, parking lots across Clay St. give strong sense of spreading out, being part of the street, but serving for commercial areas beside. Then, services across 3rd St offer more feeling of flat façade, such uniform production process.

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Public / Circulation space

Plans

Program - Openspace- drawing relational diagrams

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o hostel programsite to hostel program Transformation:

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The characteristic of hostel project is highly similar to this site. They are both temporary. Cars come here for short-term stay. Hostelers always travel around. Everyone regards here as functional place. So, the similarity can be implied for strategy. Below is the list about program-implication between two cases. Urban grids by Oakland ports

The characteristic of hostel The characteristic of hostel project is highly similar to this project is highly similar to this site. They are both temporary. site. They are both temporary. Cars come here for short-term Cars This diagram shows how come each here for short-term program shaped by different stay. Hostelers always travel stay. Hostelers always travel forces. Beginning with site-experiaround. Everyone regards encing, here as Everyone regards here as programs around. arranged as mixed-use when walking on the place. So, the similarity functional place. So, the similarity functional streets. Separating them for public can be implied for strategy. Below can be implied for strategy. Below space, such for circulation. Shifting them for creating new about program-implicais the list about program-implicais more the list programs happing in-between. tion between two cases. Then, rotation as thetion between two cases. response of urban grids. Finally, merge program to be a complete reason“Looking-above” Starting from able space for construction.

Starting from exercise, this project takes urban grid, which is influenced by Oakland port functions, in to consideration. There are two ports providing different directions of grid spreading out. Before using these two shaping forces, each implied programs are extruded by the spatial percentage within hostel. Then, rotating them by different levels of relevance to urban grids is about program arrangement.

Starting from “Looking-above” exercise, this project takes urban grid, which is influenced by Oakland port functions, in to consideration. There are two ports providing different directions of grid spreading out. Before using these two shaping forces, each implied programs are extruded by the spatial percentage within Extrude by space needs hostel. Then, rotating them by different levels of relevance to urban grids is about program arrangement.

This diagram shows how each program shaped by different forces. Beginning with site-experiencing, programs arranged as mixed-use when walking on the streets. Separating them for public space, such for circulation. Shifting them for creating more new programs happing in-between. Then, rotation as the response of urban grids. Finally, merge program to be a complete reasonable space for construction.

“Looking-above” exercise, this project takes urban grid, which is influenced by Oakland port functions, in to consideration. There are Light two ports & Transparency – the goal of this building outlook is trying to achieve light-strucand transparency, compared to the heavy materials around. Pedestrian from outside can easily see providing different ture directions of atmosphere about sharing in this hostel. through and shared the communal grid spreading out. Before using these two shaping forces, each implied programs are extruded by the spatial percentage within hostel. Then, rotating them by different levels of relevance to urban grids is about program arrangement.

Light & Transparency – the goal of this building outlook is trying to achieve light-struc-

Semi-

ture and transparency, compared to the heavy materials around. Pedestrian from outside can easily see through and shared the communal atmosphere about sharing in this hostel.

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Semi-Public – Inside the building, public space is provide as sense similar to community. People

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can have space for chatting in most open atmosphere in front of elevator entry and beside circulation route. They can also lie down on the top-roof ramp area, just like sitting on grasslands beside streets.

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Seperate & Re-arrange Commercial

Light & Transparency – the goal of this building outlook is trying to achieve light-struc-

Semi-Public – Inside the building, public space is provide as sense similar to community. People

ture and transparency, compared to the heavy materials around. Pedestrian from outside can easily see through and shared the communal atmosphere about sharing in this hostel.

Merge & Classify

Experience

COMMUNAL ROOMS

PARKING LOTS

GUEST ROOMS

PARKING GARAGE

STORAGE

OLD FACTORY

DINNING / KITCHEN / LOUNGE

FOOD

NMENT COMMERCIAL OFFICE

Seperate

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Spatial Stitching – Ramp stitches space together. When people walking along the ramp. They Commercial

have not only the scenario (spatial script) on each floor-level, but all space, including every floors, every levels of ramp, and pedestrians on streets, are included into the chances to experience the whole site.

Commercial

Merge

SHOP ART ENTERTAINMENT SERVICES

Experience

Seperate

Shift

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Merge Seperate

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Merge

Open-up floor - Refer to floor-plans, each floor has own main serving for communal space. On 1st floor, commercial and reception space are provided as gathering people together. If entering from 3rd

street, there are options for public open space, semi-public space in coffee shop, semi-private space on the ramp to their rooms, and elevator back directly to rooms. Besides, some hostelers likes to travel by bike, they can enter from Clay St. into passage between hostel and old factory beside. There provides bicycle parking space. On second floor, there serves communal kitchen and dining space. There are three way to go up-stair, elevator, stairway, and ramp in the middle of hostel. As shown in previous circulation diagram, ramps stitch hostelerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s experience by all programs in building together.

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Most of the rooms are on 3rd r. There are also some public space here. Small bar is on the north corner. Computer and sofa space are on the east-side. On 4th r, public space can be extend to the roof of the building, shown on section drawing on next page and both rendering image.

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Open for all space - Ramp is also shown on the top of roof area as public space for hostelers

Design for all neighborhood - This section shows how center ramp circulating within

in the building. They can totally experience this hostel without any difficulties by ramp from ground floor to top roof. Besides, first floor facing Clay St. is totally open for people not just gathering inside but also outside between street and building.

building, and how it stitches space by linear way. Each platform of the end of ramp (turning point) offers different kinds of conversation with pedestrians on street levels. This project, in concept, is design for all people, not just hostelers but people around neighborhood, including disabled people.

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Salt Pond Next

Starting from critics of existing condition and site experience, both from field-trip and GIS data, to get familiar with south bay area. From site-experience exercises, “Connection” become the big idea when project’s developing. Salt ponds are man-made for industrial by a natural method: Evaporation. Its function is to make people lives connected by salt. However, salt pond itself create boundaries in landscape. These site-experience drawings show intentions how this site should be connected with whole urban context. By extending, layering, offsetting, bridging, and scaling, each operation provides several possibilities for developing projects. Not only site SITE conditions provided by EXPERIENCE What’’s next ffor the Salt Flats? neighborhood, of AAnalysis, l i CCase SStudies &but Designprocess Ideas salt production is the concern Regional / Local Analysis how to keep salt as benefit both for residents and natural in different aspect, such as agricultural, industrial, educational, commercial, and historical.

— William Cronon, “The Trouble with Wilderness,” 1996.3

What’’s next for the Salt Flats?

BBuiltiltt EEnvironment i Surrounding Conditions Within the area of Redwood City, most people living here are single and temporary Vacant-housing rates renters, especially for young singles. They are young and, mostly their incomes are under average lines. These people lives in congregate housings, which only take small part of all living units. Since rentals here are expensive, they are living in difficult situation. Affordable housings are needed. And the recommended family size is double in short-term goal. For their jobs opportunities and social resources, the location of salt flat, which is right in the center of city, is the best place to build affordable housings for them.

Publicity and Community Involvement

RedwoodCityresidentsopposeaplantobuildamassivedevel opment on a stretchof salt ponds beside the San Francisco Bay by a 2-1 ratio.

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Source: sfpublicpress.org The poll found 57 percent of voters in the city were against ArizonadeveloperDMBAssociates’proposaltobuildamini-cityby Findings partially paving over 1,436 acres of low-lying salt ponds on the The critique of the 50/50 plan was an initial investigation to see what other designers, planners, eastern edge of Redwood City. Only 28 percent of those polled politics,etc.hadplannedforthesiteasasourcetolookatwhatworkedandwhatdidn’tworkforthe supported the plan, while 15 percent were neutral. 16,000acresite.Inouropiniontheplancreatesjustanothertypicalsuburbanenclosedenvironment somethingthatcanbefoundanywhereinAmerican.Itcutsofcirculationbyreducingthescaleofthe roads to 2 lanes as in typical suburbia. “What the resultsshowis that the Redwood City voters havealready decided they don’t want the project,” said David Lewis, directoroftheenvironmentalgroupthatcommissionedthepoll, Non-Sustainable Aspects Save the Bay. “The more they learn about it, the less they like it,”he said. Lewis said that after hearing a short list of concerns of50%ofthelanduseandthebuildings/housingtooccupytherest.Moreoverthisplanhasnolong abouttheproject,oppositionroseto64percentwhilesupportfor the project remained stagnant at 28 percent. in depth, and strives to look at ways in which all of these conditions can co-exist.

Most people, whose incomes are Population composition (incomes< 30k/year) under 30K a year,r are single. These people might be young ones which Single male Single Female Marrried couple Marrried couple w/o children w/ children just working in few years or just poor.r Since the percentage of single male is higher than single female, the cause might be related to sex ratio within high-tech working environment.

Source: sfpublicpress.org

fwe divide the total incomes of family with its size, we can find out that double size families are richest for each one. The bigger size the poorer.r

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Morphosis Giant Corporate Campus TheGiantCampusprojectisacompactvillagethataccommo-

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Considered both with marriage and fertility rates, the building types might change with time. Since different living types introduced its battery for Smart Grid storage – a sodium halide battery re uire different GE kindsTransportation and sizes of space, the living types should also flexible and adaptable by residential needs. The dubbed Durathon, which boasts a cycle life of up to 20 years. They currently have a manlocations of housing are crucial,plant too. Their be choose based on e ualNY, socialalong resources, as retails, ufacturing for sites the should battery in Schenectady, withsuch a $150 million investment in of the battery. commercial, andadvanced working places.development So, these programs should be correspondingly built by se uential phasing. esides, due to the diversityOurof communities, each unitto should be formed by resident desires. y their choices of space, proposal looks expand their research/manufacturing to the Bay their Area. To help not only a more energy source but an stimulate an economic growth as well. might transform generate during all phasing, and sustainable fulfill living re uirements.

We began to look at this project as a source of inspiration for itsphysicalconnectionqualities.Thestrongformallanguage lends to an integrated approach of Architecture, Urban Planning, and Landscape Architecture.The construction process alsoconstructedallpartssimultaneouslyratherthanstarting withlargeurbaninfrastructureandmovingtowardsarchitecture.The variety of crossprogramming also was an interest as we began to think about phasing for our project

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Natural Environment What’s next for the Salt Flats?

Main Lab / Salt Canals Sodium Lab

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The San Francisco Bay, which includes more than 1,000 miles of shoreline, is vulnerable to a range of natural hazards, including storms, extreme high tides, and rising sea levels resulting from global climate change.

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Salty Sidewalks – are paths along the top (roof like surface) of the retail spaces and in some cases contain retail space. The paths move through the public space salt landscape On1970the of2030the2040site, the Marsh Road exit is extended along the edge of the site which which contains benches, chairs, pavilions, viewing platforms, bird feeders, educational salt 1960 1980 East 1990 2000side 2010 2020 has 2 local road exits to give a cross through transportation route which can users to the ponds, etc. all relating to salt and an educational landscape to enforce some history of the Small family(3) Mid-family(4) Biever g-famichanging ly(5) salt battery facilities and/or any of the other local roads implemented. site as it once was covered with salt ponds.

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Urban Agriculture

Direct local road connections are made through the extensions of Douglas Ave. (west), mult 2nd Ave. (central), and 16th Ave. (east). AllSingle the localDouble roads willSmall passfamily(3) underneathMid-family(4) the lifted up buildings all of these double roads maintain sidewalks for pedestrian use. For housing the local sleeping 70 passing110through a parking 165 level for the210resroads are extending through each one of them idents.

Commercial

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Units Size Arrangements Trails – the trail pedestrian walkways are the closest in terms of distance to the marsh. The trails are anchored in points but floating, similar to dock and/or pier construction in this way as the marsh changes and water levels rise people can continually use them and maintain a close relationship to it.

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Living room Kitchen Dinning room garden space

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Marshland Shoreline

Marshland Ecology

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With an initial research facility for Molten Salt Battery Industry in place as well as the beginnings of the Tidal Marsh restoration, and the Adaptable Module Housing, the initial connection to Highway 101 (Bayshore Highway) consists of taking advantage of the existing Woodside Road/Seaport Blvd exit to make a direct connection to the Salt Battery Research Center. Along the extension of Seaport Blvd there are 3 smaller roads which connect users of the site to retail, commercial, residential and public spaces.

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sea water

Public Education Facility 1900

artificial landscape(platform) marsh

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Battery Storage Building 1800 1850

marsh friendly structure

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Future Estimate

Transit

Tidal marshes can be found along protected coastlines in middle and high latitudes worldwide. They are most prevalent in the United States on the eastern coast from Maine to Florida and continuing on to Louisiana and Texas along the Gulf of Mexico. Some are freshwater marshes, others are brackish (somewhat salty), and still others are saline (salty), but they are all influenced by the motion of ocean tides.

Functioning as a connector to the current Caltrain system, standard rail across a rebuilt Dumbarton Rail Bridge would serve the increasing cross-bay travel market. It will connect riders in Fremont, Newark, Union City, and other east bay cities served by BART, ACE and the Capitol Corridor, to Caltrain on the peninsula.

Tidal marshes are normally categorized into two distinct zones, the lower or intertidal marsh and the upper or high marsh. The possible type of marsh for our site will be saline tidal marsh.

Connecting with what? Connecting with Who?

Retail

flood risk: seepage

IPCC model

Housing

flood risk: breaching

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General Research Labs

While GE Transportation and FZ Sonick are the only two contenders with a sodium nickel chloride battery, NGK Insulators are experiencing much success with their sodium sulfur (NaS) battery after selling approximately $177 million of the batteries in FY 2008.

garden space

Transportation Kitchen

flood risk: overtopping

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Our site is now salt ponds. To restore the marshes,the artificial trails to restore salt water are going to be tear down and we will take several measurements to introduce sea water, and the artificial landscape and building structure will cooperate with the marshes to create livable spaces. RWC Grid Connection

Phase 2

Caltrain South Bay Crossing Commuter Rail (connection proposed to Redwood City)

Source: bayrailalliance.org

Source: transportationpolitic.org

channels location on site

sea water entry channels

In saline tidal marshes, the lower marsh is normally covered and exposed daily by the tide. It is predominantly covered by the tall form of Smooth Cordgrass . The saline marsh is covered by water only sporadically, and is characterized by Short Smooth Cordgrass, Spike Grass,and Saltmeadow Rush. Saline marshes support a highly specialized set of life adapted for saline conditions.

Bridges- the tubes and noodles that hover above the landscape are both house exterior/interior spaces and are the connection between different programmatic functions and different constructions. In addition to the platform bridges there are bridges with the residential medium rise buildings that are created through a connecting multiple housing components. These larger scale bridges provide a better view the landscape and can be used for large party events and conferences.

Channels Installation and Landscape Processes

Mature Plant Community by Zone low marsh: cordgrass mid marsh: pickleweed high marsh: saltgrass,alkali heath,gumplate upland transition: saltgrass, alkali heath, coyote bush

Cordgrass Cordgrass forms robust stands in the lowest elevations of most tidally flushed wetlands

Tidal marshes serve many important functions. They buffer stormy seas, slow shoreline erosion, and are able to absorb excess nutrients before they reach the oceans and estuaries. High concentrations of nutrients can cause oxygen levels low enough to harm wildlife. Tidal marshes also provide vital food and habitat for clams, crabs, and juvenile fish, as well as offering shelter and nesting sites for several species of migratory waterfowl.

Pickeweed

Saltgrass

Pickeweed is abundant in the lower and middle elevations of well-flushed marshes and in lagoons closed to tidal circulation.

Saltgrass is abundant in adjacent salt flats which are entirely cut off from tidal circulation

marshlands restoring around the channel

as more and more sea water entry the site,the marshland became fertile

2044 sea water rise above the marshland

Civic Gathering

Housing

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The living space starts from structural adaptivity. t assumes that the basic living unit is 0 x 0 x 0 as program box. The geometries around it are adaptive to itself, and keep the potentials to grow as space expands by time. Pedestrian Trails and Paths Highway and Local Roads These structural components are not only adapt in its construction type but also the general outer form as building shapes. Simply to say, this component can aggregate and create a new building types. This concept is similar to the relation between cells and human bodies. Water

38 Roof Drain + Reverse Osmosis

Water shortages in many areas of the world have increased the need for smarter and more

Marsh Phase 3

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Reverse osmosis (RO) membrane desalination has emerged as one of the leading methods 16 for water desalination due to the low cost and energy efficiency of the process. As the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir source decreases daily, the proposal strives to make this site a more sustainable environment for living, working, and leisure through making the salt landscape ponds double function as a storage container for any water accumulated. At a certain level of water gained it will be drained and go through the 5 step filtration process of RO, and can provide residents and users of the site will pure water. As this is a pilot for filtration at this scale the site will plug into the systems San Francisco Public Utilities Commission.

Core to Component Relationship Study Caltrain Standard Rail

How / Where the Technology is Being Used?

Salt Pond Ecology

Holistic Transportation Routes

To memorize the historic landscape of our site, small scale artificial salt ponds will be installed inside urban area as landscape. Some of them will locate on the platforms,where people can observe the salt pond from down below. Collaborate with the marsh, the salt ponds provide the site with various ecosystem and vivid public space.

Implementation for the Site, Area, and Region

UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering Salt Pond Storage Tank / Public Water Feature

Researchers at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science announced they have developed a new reverse osmosis (RO) membrane that promises to reduce the cost of seawater desalination and wastewater reclamation. The new membrane, developed by civil and environmental engineering assistant professor Eric Hoek and his research team, uses a uniquely cross-linked matrix of polymers and engineered nanoparticles designed to draw in water ions but repel nearly all contaminants.

Clean Faucet Water

Salt pond ecology has great relationship with salinity. For large scale salt ponds in our site previously, salinity levels vary with tidal inflow and outflow and with amount of freshwater input. Salinity levels change with distance upstream from the ocean within a river,stream,or pond where freshwater becomes increasingly more predominant. And because of seawater is denser than freshwater, it tends to sink to the bottom of the basin,creating vertical variation as well. Existing salts in our site will be transferred to the platforms by the tides that go under the platform structure and be preserved as salt stacks. We also propose constructing salt tanks at the edge of our site. These salt tanks helps to lower the salinity of the coastline and accelerates the restoration of marsh, during which the process also help with salt battery.

UCLA’s Water Technology Research Center was founded in 2005 but the University has been researching RO since the 1960’s.

“The need for a sustainable, affordable supply

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priority for our nation’s future and especially for that of California.”Housing Truss- type structure study – Eric Hoek UCLA professor

Post Carbon Filter

RO Membrane

Filtration Stages 1 -3 (pre-sediment / pre-carbon)

Species diversity now very low,but biomass is extremeHIGH ly high. Water boatmen, SALINITY brine shrimp,brine flies, and PONDS one species of worm are su140~180 ppt per-abundant

MEDIUM SALINITY PONDS 80~140 ppt BRINE >50 ppt

SALINE WATER 30~50 ppt

BRACKISH WATER 0.5~30 ppt

Urban Sectional Diagram

Invertebrates

Fish

Water Birds

No fish survive in the higher salinity ponds.

Grebes and gulls forage for brine shrimp, water boatmen, and brine flies in massive flocks.

Algae greens the water; brine shrimp, water boatmen & brine flies appear. Diversity is lower-too salty for most Bay species. Total biomass is higher, though.

Saltier conditions allow only mudsuckers and topsmelt to persist.

Fewer fish-eating ducks, Eared Grebes,and gulls feed heavily on available invertebrates.

Diversity is high, though density is low. Invertebrates include salt-tolerant insects,and many mussels, clams, and worms common in the bay.

Over 14 species of fish,including topsmelt, leopard shark, surf perch, and anchovy.

Waterfowl in abundance feed on algae, water plants, and aquatic insects. Terns and pelicans feast on fish.

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Engineer Shoreline

2032

Instead of try to block the flood by a built engineer shoreline, we propose a way to take advantage of the nature resources—marsh land will act as a soft shoreline and gradually take over our site, embracing the possible flood in future 100 years.

Phase 1

Engineer vs. Marsh Shoreline

Sea level flooding area in bay area and water flows

Over the past century, sea level has risen nearly eight inches along the California coast. Experts predicted that the sea level will rise to 0.5m in 2054,1.0m in 2083,1.4m in 2100.

GE will continue using MES-DEA’s manufacturing facility in Switzerland with an annual capacity of 90 MWh. The company plans to increase this to 170 MWh in the next five years.

Manufacturing

Sea Level Rise Over Time

Water

Metals Lab

Phase 3

Dinning room

Additionally we looked at how the combinatory environmentswouldchange over a 100 year interval.

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Implementation for the Site, Area, and Region

Our site is adjacent to shoreline. Normally,the shoreline categories including 1.Engineered Flood Protection Structures 2.Engineered Shoreline Protection Structures 3.Non-Engineered Berms 4.Wetlands 5.Natural Shorelines(Non-Wetland).

GE Global laboratory research for grid energy storage

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environments.

High-dense unit

How / Where the Technology is Being Used?

Initial Formal / Programmatic Rationalizations With such a large scale site as we began to design on the site we broke the land up into smaller sectiontobegintounderstand how built environments wouldinteractwiththenat-

Mid-dense unit

Building Types

Source: Morphosis Architects

Source: dsrny.com

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Molten Salt Batteries are a class of primary cell and secondary cell high-temperature elec0 tric battery that uses molten salts as an electrolyte. In most cases the salt used is a sodium 1870 offer1880both a1890high salt and they are then often2 referred battery. They 3 to as4 a liquid 5 sodium 6 7 energy density through the proper selection of reactant pairs as well as a high power density by means of a high-conductivity molten salt electrolyte.

building interacts with an augmented ground plane, joining architecture to landscape and environment to site.

Although the project has many great spaces and combines many aspects of a city. This project served as a guideline for howArchitecture/UrbanDesigncangeneratemanyopportunitiesforSocialandEconomicgrowth.Theprojectwasheavilyinto ask political questions involving Redwood City and our site.

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move in and out of a folded landscape plane. Situated amid

Source: dsrny.com

Commercial Region Industrial Unit

There single housing units are the majority spreading all around this city. igh and mid-dense units, which means apartments, are located near the bay. Their working areas are in the east and west sides.

What’s next for the Salt Flats?

stretch of railway that include sunny, shady, wet, dry, windy, and sheltered spaces.

Before designing, previous proposal review, making reference projects, and t researches are mutli-level intervention when design process going. Bulit environment, Infrastructure, and Natural environment are the main topics focused on. Strategies and designs also come out when doing researches. Because this site is huge, two specific places are taken out for detailed design as examples for the whole context.

RESEARCH & DESIGN

Critique of the 50/50 Plan

The High Line, in collaboration with James Corner Field Operations and Piet Oudolf, is a 1.5-mile long public park builtonanabandonedelevatedrailroadstretchingfromthe MeatpackingDistricttotheHudsonRailYardsinManhattan. Ittranslatesthebiodiversitythattookrootafteritfellintoruin

…Our challenge is to stop thinking of [man and nature] according to a set of bipolar moral scales in which the human and the nonhuman, the unnatural and the natural, the fallen and the unfallen, serve as our conceptual map for understanding and valuing the world. Instead, we need to embrace the full continuum of a natural landscape that is also cultural, in which the city, the suburb, the pastoral, and the wild each has its proper place, which we permit ourselves to celebrate without needlessly denigrating the others…

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Marsh Successional Phases: 1)open water tides bringing in sediment,organisms and seeds 2)mudflat stabilizing at an equilibrium point 3)Vegetated vegetation colonizes 4)Nutrients build up 5)Species composition changes 6)A mosaic of habitat types develop time

1)reach marsh plain 5~20 yrs 2)dominate plants 10~35 yrs 3)maximum nutrient loads and full ecosystem functioning 50~100yrs

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PROJECT A This animation f or m e is t o learn how to m ake rendering and use B ongo, a rhino plug-in f or m aking animation, t o communicate with o thers in a n interactive way. B alance between main c oncern i n this p roject. In o rder t o be useful conveyable and p roductive, and f ast rendering in a short time (ex.2500 r endering images i n one day by laptop), this technic is a lso important i n this quick-change environment.

Time: 2013 summer Course: Architectural 124B Instructor: Carlos Olascoaga Site: Point Bonita

PROJECT B Similar project a s previous one, this one is about practicing in z ooming in and out b y different s cales, and w hat should be s hown based on distance. Besides, t he r elationship between object, natural environments, and climate change i s also t he main point for discussions.