Lei_Nie_Portfolio by Lei Nie

PORTFOLIO | 2017-2020

Lei Nie

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Moving to Chicago 4-7

Algonquin 8-19

The Nexus 20-23

Wuhan Wild Heart 24-39

BO-IN 40-49

Bangbae-Dong Redensification 88-93 Professional Projects 190-199

In Between the Lines 50-83

The Jade String 94-129

Building System Integration 84-87

Interface 130-157

Heterogeneous Bulwark 158-189

MOVING TO CHICAGO Fall 2017 GIS/Academic Project/Teamwork Collaborator: Cristian Munoz Abarca Contributions: Concept/Data Collection/GIS Analysis/ Data Visualization Course: Intro to GIS Instructor: Tony Bedogne Location: Chicago, Illinois, USA Which neighborhoods provide higher amount of green infrastructure for different incomes? When moving to a new city, we normally try to find the place that gives us the highest amount of amenities at the lowest price. Moving to Chicago analyses the amount of green infrastructure in Chicago and compares it to the population and budget constraints in order to define the best and worst neighborhoods to live with green infrastructure based on peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s budget constraint.

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Legend (unit: people) 2,880 - 5,920 5,930 - 18,200 18,300 - 25,700 25,800 - 32,600 32,700 - 39,900 40,000 - 45,400 45,500 - 64,200 64,300 - 94,400

Legend (unit: $)

1.5

18,870 - 19,220 19,230 - 26,380 26,390 - 33,150 33,160 - 37,510 37,520 - 46,460 46,470 - 55,940 55,950 - 68,310 68,320 - 91,390

6 miles

Total Population

1.5

6 miles

Legend (unit: square feet per person)

Legend (unit: $) 650 - 715 716 - 760 761 - 950 951 - 1,120 1,130 - 1,250 1,260 - 1,350 1,360 - 1,600 1,610 - 2,070

Average Household Income

24.04 - 58.30 58.31 - 103.4 103.5 - 123.7 123.8 - 239.3

1.5

239.4 - 482.6 482.7 - 713.8 713.9 - 1262 1263 - 2408

6 miles

Average Rent Price Per Bedroom Image Credit: Cristian Munoz Abarca, Lei Nie

1.5

Green Infrastructure Per Capita 6

6 miles

Selecting the Greenest Neighborhood Image Credit: Cristian Munoz Abarca, Lei Nie

The neighborhoods which are within 6 miles of the Loop in Chicago could be divided into 5 categories: high income - high rent, medium income - medium rent, low income - low rent, high income - medium rent, and medium income - low rent. Based on the analyses, different types of neighborhood recommendations are made for families with different levels of income. High income families can choose high income-high rent price neighborhoods. Medium income families can choose medium income-low rent price neighborhoods. Low income families can choose low income-low rent price neighborhoods.

Legend Neighborhood boundaries Public parks & plazas Campus Parks Program Green Roofs Boulevards Water Medium income low rent neighborhoods High income medium rent neighborhoods Low income low rent neighborhoods Medium income Medium rent neighborhoods High income High rent neighborhoods Best choice for low-income families Best choice for mediumincome families Best choice for high-income families

0.5

6 miles

ALGONQUIN Winter 2018 Urban Design/Academic Project/Teamwork Collaborators: Augusta Gudeman, Kunshi Liu, Cristian Munoz Abarca, Yifei Wu Contributions: Team Coordinator/Concept Design/ Data Collection/GIS Analysis/Data Visualization/ Diagram/Rendering/Pro Forma Competition: ULI Hines Student Competition Instructor: María Arquero de Alarcón, Larissa Larsen Location: Toronto, Canada Algonquin celebrates the country’s cultural roots and brings the people of Toronto together into a multicultural experience. In every aspect of our site, its design, financial instruments, and development approach, we have remained true to the best parts of Canadian culture and the diversity that makes Toronto great today. The site is in an area where several transportation systems meet, putting Algonquin at the center of the new development in Toronto. In naming the site Algonquin, we tap into a sense of place that is uniquely Canadian, just like its namesake. Our concept is guided by social principles of Canada’s First Nations: I. fostering good spirits by being open, welcoming and inclusive II. respect and care for the land, animals and the environment III. working together for a common cause & decision making through discussion and consensus IV. being innovative and resourceful

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CURRENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM

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Legend

Site

Road

Subway line

Site

Parcel

Water

Highway

Green space

Road

Parcel

Rail line

Bike lane Railway station

Water

500m walking radius

Subway station

Cab stand

Streetcar & bus stop

STORMWATER MANAGEMENT Legend Site

Surface runoff

Building

Underground runoff

Bioretention pond

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LANDSCAPE TYPE Legend Site

The river walk

Building

In between section

Ecological habitat

Urban plaza

Green roof

LANDSCAPE STRATEGY

Wet Side

Level 4

Dry Side

Level 3

Level 2

Level 1 12% Slope

5% Slope

Level 4

Level 3

Level 2

Level 1

Transit Hub

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SECTION A-A

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BRINGING TORONTO TOGETHER LESLIEVILLE DIVERSITY

GREEKTOWN COMMUNITY

INNOVATION CENTER

LAKE ONTARIO NATURE

DOWNTOWN CULTURE

BUILDING PROGRAMMING

Legend Residence + Hotel Retail + Commercial + Office Arts + Entertainment + Recreation Parking

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PHASE 1

PHASE 2

PHASE 3

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AERIAL VIEW

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SITE PLAN

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Residential Building + Parking

Residential Building + Retail

Residential Building

Innovation Center

Commercial + Office + Retail

Hotel + Parking

East Harbour Transit Hub

PLAZA IN FRONT OF THE TRANSIT HUB

Image Credit: Kunshi Liu

THE NEXUS Winter 2018 Urban Design/Academic Project/Individual Work Course: Exercising Urban Sustainability Instructor: MarĂa Arquero de AlarcĂłn Location: Tetuan, Madrid, Spain The site is located inside high-density neighborhoods in Tetuan, Madrid. It will become the activity and green core of this region in the future. A commercial + culture complex and a large-scale green space is in the center of the site, which will attract people and activate this area. Several social housings are located around this core and can accommodate different kinds of families, such as nuclear family, extended family, etc.

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Site Plan Social housing with Retails (8F) A

Existing Housing (5F)

Social housing with Retails (5F)

Social housing with Retails (3F)

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Social Housing (7F)

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Commercial

Axonometric

A-A Section

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WUHAN WILD HEART Summer 2018 Urban Design/Academic Project/Teamwork Collaborators: Ruoshui Liu, Yiru Liu, Liangjuan Xia, Xiaodi Xu Contributions: Concept Design/Data Collection/ GIS Analysis/Data Visualization/Diagram/ Modeling/Rendering Competition: UN-Habitat 2018 International Urban Design Student Competition Award: One of the Three Laureate Teams Location: Wuhan, Hubei, China With the passage of time and the rapid development of society, the land function has undergone tremendous changes in the last 80 years. On the one hand, we need to pay attention to changes in land function and population, and add new functions in our site to meet the needs of different groups of people. On the other hand, we need to inherit the history and characteristics of our site. Let culture become the most unique feature of this site, making the land recognizable in Wuhan. We propose the concept of CCD, which defines our site as Central Cultural District in Wuhan.

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SITE BACKGROUND

Image Credit: Xiaodi Xu

AHP & GIS ANALYSIS

Image Credit: Ruoshui Liu, Lei Nie, Xiaodi Xu

AHP & GIS ANALYSIS

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DESIGN STRATEGIES

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PLANNING ANALYSIS

Traffic Structure

District Structure

Green Structure

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FREEHAND SKETCH

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SITE PLAN

Hanjiang River

Hannan Rd

5 1 2

Zhiyin Blvd

P 17 16

19 20

Guishan North Rd

Guishan South Rd

Historical Culture Research Center (11F)

Yangtze River Culture Dock

Ancient Qinchuange Pavilion (2F)

Art Culture Research Center (11F)

Yangtze River Culture Research Center (20F)

Creative Culture SOHO (10F)

Creative Culture SOHO (18F)

Creative Culture SOHO (15 F)

Hanyang Culture Convention and Exh

Creative Culture SOHO (18F)

Nan’anzui Park

The Museum of Hanyang Iron Works

Creative Culture SOHO (15F)

Nan’anzui Dock

The Museum of Intangible Cultural H

Creative Culture SOHO (18F)

Qingchuan Holiday Hotel (22F)

Industry Technology Exhibition Hall (2

100

200

400m

Qingchuan St

9 7 11

14 12 15

13 24

Yangtze River 19

Hanyang Cultural Creativity Workshop (2F)

Cultural Theme Food Street (2-3F)

East Yuehu Lake

s (5F)

Martyrs Cemetery of Jingyu Xiang

Heritage (5F)

Guishan Mountain

Guishan Television Tower

hibition Center (10F)

2F)

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SITE AXONOMETRIC

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DETAIL DESIGN

Image Credit: Yiru Liu, Liangjuan Xia

BO-IN FALL 2018 Urban Design/Academic Project/Teamwork Collaborators: Gwen Gell, Jacob Hite, Nadia Karizat, Xiaodi Xu Contributions: Team Coordinator/Concept Design/Diagram/ Modeling/Rendering Course: Spatial Thinking and Environmental Systems Instructor: Larissa Larsen Location: Ann Arbor, MI, USA Our development project’s name, Bo-In, embodies the combination of two main concepts guiding the design and implementation: Botanical & Industrial. From 1916 to 1962, the University of Michigan Matthaei Botanical Gardens was located near the site on Iroquois Street. In the following years, our site has become Ann Arbor’s “primary office, research, and light industrial corridor.” Paying tribute to the history of gardens and respecting the industrial quality that’s taken over our site, we hope to establish a cohesive ‘botanical industrial’ identity within the development.

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Bo-In Site

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Michigan Stadium Bo-In Site

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Rosewood St Section

S Industry Hwy Section Image Credit: Gwen Gell, Jacob Hite, Nadia Karizat

South Street Facade

West Street Facade

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Green Network

Connectivity

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Neighborhood Hub

Site Plan

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Commercial Center

Mixed-Income Housing

Activity Center

Townhouses

Parking Structure 3F

Art Workshop

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Freehand Sketch

Aerial View

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IN BETWEEN THE LINES Fall 2018 Urban Design/Academic Project/Teamwork Collaborators: Gwen Gell, Sang Wang Contributions: Concept Design/Data Collection/ GIS Analysis/Data Visualization/Diagram/ Modeling/Rendering/VR Course: UD Studio I Topic: Community Revitalization Instructor: McLain Clutter Location: Detroit, MI, USA We start our journey on the Northern Blvd in Queens, New York. Through our spatial analysis, we found that Northern Boulevard contains a physical manifestation of the collision between logics: the automotive/pedestrian, the urban/ suburban, and the formal/informal. Our thesis is that the conflict of these principles represents and supports the heterogeneity and diversity of the constituencies and activities adjacent to the blvd. Then we turned our efforts to Detroit to the Campau/Banglatown neighborhood. Through our streetlife observations in Queens, we created a lens through which to cultivate the seed of our design in Banglatown. Banglatown showed evidence of the same conflicts of formal/informal, urban/suburban, and automobile/pedestrian. We took these cues as an opportunity to manifest a design existing already in spirit.

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LEARNING FROM QUEENS

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LEARNING FROM QUEENS

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LEARNING FROM QUEENS

STREET FURNITURE - bike rack

INFORMAL USED ITEMS - newspaper box

STREET FURNITURE - street sitting furniture

INFORMAL USED ITEMS - bike share

INFORMAL USED ITEMS - protection pole

INFORMAL USED ITEMS - tree fence

BOULEVARD - boulevard under the track.

COMMERCIAL - multiple retailer

THE INTERSECTION

COMMERCIAL - commercial & residential overlap

THE PEDESTRIAN TREE ISLAND

FORESTED BOULEVARD

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LEARNING FROM QUEENS

TEMPORARY CONSTRUCTION - road block

BILLBOARD - individual billboard

TEMPORARY CONSTRUCTION - scaffolding

BILLBOARD - billboard on building facade

TEMPORARY CONSTRUCTION - fence wall

TEMPORARY CONSTRUCTION - kiosk

COMMERCIAL - big box

COMMERCIAL - gas station

COMMERCIAL - small restaurant

PARKING - roadside parking

COMMERCIAL - drive-thru ATM

PARKING - large parking structure

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SITE

Banglatown/ Campau - Detroit

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HIGHLIGHTS IN BANGLATOWN

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STREET & ALLEY SYSTEM

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APPLIED TYPOLOGIES

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STREET & ALLEY AXONOMETRIC

Pedestrian Street

Automobile Alley

Multi-mode Street

Automobile Alley

Pedestrian Street

Automobile Alley

Multi-mode Street

Multi-m

mode Alley

Automobile Street

Multi-mode Street

Pedestrian Alley

Multi-mode Street

Multi-mode Alley

Pedestrian Alley

Automobile Street

Pedestrian Alley

Multi-mode Street

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PHASE 0

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PHASE 1

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PHASE 2

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PHASE 3

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Pedestrian Street & Automobile Street Intersection

Image Credit: Sang Wang

Pedestrian Street & Pedestrian Street Intersection

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Automobile Street & Automobile Street Intersection

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BUILDING SYSTEM INTEGRATION Winter 2019 Sustainable Design/Academic Project/Individual Work Course: Advanced Building Technology Instructor: Jong-Jin Kim Location: Seattle, Washington, USA This project aims to explore the potential of building technologies. Different systems, such as sustainable system, HVAC system, passive system, etc, are incorporated in a 30-storey office building located in Seattle, WA.

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THERMAL ZONING PLAN

BANGBAE-DONG REDENSIFICATION Winter 2019 Architectural Design/Academic Project/Individual Work Course: High Density Instructor: Claudia Wigger Location: Bangbae-Dong, Seoul, South Korea The 20m*8m site is located in Bangbae-Dong, Seoul, Republic of Korea. The existing architecture on the site is called the White House designed by the Designband YOAP Architects. The FAR of the existing White House is 2.0. I suppose that the site is a vacant one and design an experimental architecture pushing the FAR to 6.9, and the green ratio will be 0.9. The main goal of this project is to explore the FAR limit and the redensification rules of Bangbae-Dong. The new architecture would be a mixed one including different types of programs, such as single family living unit, nuclear family living unit, extended family living unit, coffee shop, library, semi public park, private green space, kindergarten, etc. The redensification rules that I developed for Bangbae-Dong are as follows: The basic FAR is 2.0. You can get FAR bonus if you carefully apply the following rules to your architectures: A. You can push your FAR to 5.0 if you: 1. retrofit the sidewalks nearby; 2. design open space for the public; 3. buy other areasâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; air rights. B. You can further push your FAR to 6.5-7.0 if you: 1. design amenities to the public; 2. provide parking areas for the public; 3. provide institutional spaces for the public; 4. buy other areasâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; air rights. These redensification rules will be generalized in Bangbae-Dong.

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20m

SITE PLAN

33m2

30m2

55m2

Single Family Living Unit

Coffee Shop

Private Green Space

55m2

33m2 Single Family Living Unit

Library

Private Green Space

55m2

132.8m2

Nuclear Family Living Unit

Kindergarten

63m2 Semi Public Park

Legend Residential 132.8m2

Coffee Shop Library

Extended Family Living Unit

Kindergarten Green Space Circulation Parking

UNIT PLAN

10m

A-A SECTION

10m

Private Green Space

Kindergarten Extended-Family Living Unit

Semi-Public Park

Single-Family Living Unit

Nuclear-Family Living Unit

Library Coffee Shop

AXONOMETRIC

THE JADE STRING Winter 2019 Urban Design/Academic Project/Individual Work Course: UD Studio II Topic: High Density Instructor: Claudia Wigger Location: Shanghai, China This is a project based on learning from Hong Kong, China and applying what have been learnt to the site located in Shanghai, China. The site is not only located near the Shanghai Railway Station, more importantly, a light-rail station is located right in the site and the subway line 4 and 8 go through the site. There is really a good opportunity for the site to take advantage of these transportation infrastructures. There are two very important lessons that I learned from the precedent city, Hong Kong: 1. It is Never Far from Nature: Juxtaposition of concentrated districts of towers and its landscapes of biodiversity. 2. It has many Connection and Movement in Space: Having established new grounds, new modes of movement are needed to access these different grounds. Based on the researches, my concept of the whole project is creating high-quality density which can balance the urban figure and ground via redefining different types of greenery and circulation.

YANGTZE-RIVER DELTA RAILWAY SYSTEM

Changzhou

Wuxi

Suzhou

Site Shanghai Railway Station

Other Railway Station Railway Urban Area

Hangzhou

Nantong

Shanghai

East China Sea

SUBWAY SYSTEM NEAR THE SHANGHAI RAILWAY STATION AND THE SITE

Site

Shanghai Railway Station

Subway & Lightrail Station Railway Subway Commercial District

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Optimizing Road Line to shape a more appropriate urban grid

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Inconvenient Circulation

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INTERFACE Fall 2019 Urban Design/Academic Project/Individual Work Course: Emerging Urbanisms in Deindustrializing Urban Regions Instructor: MarĂa Arquero de AlarcĂłn Location: Cleveland, Ohio, USA In Cleveland, industry claimed most of the lands along the Cuyahoga River in order to take advantage of its strong traffic-carrying capacity. Meanwhile, this situation lowered the accessibility of the river. During this process, many interfaces were formed. The interfaces in between the two land uses, which are industrial and residential, got involved to shape a fair amount of the geographies of Cleveland to some degree. Indeed, the smell, dirt, and noise from the industry side have negative influences on the neighborhoods on the other side of the interfaces. However, the magnificent scenes of the Cuyahoga industry is definitely a great source to be taken advantage of at the same time. Based on the typologies of the interfaces, different interventions are proposed to make the microenvironments more human oriented and diversified. Since most of the industrial sites are still in use and contribute a lot to the local economy, it does not very wise to retrofit them directly. Instead, humble interventions to the existing interfaces help both sides get along with each other in a better way. Improvement of these microenvironment qualities makes the interfaces softer and more appropriate.

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Typologies, Sites & Implementation Mechanisms

Lake Erie

Site B 41°29’56.17” N 81°42’11.55” W

Site C 41°29’35.95” N 81°42’30.15” W

Site D 41°29’11.61” N 81°41’45.81” W

Block Group Residential Building Industry Building Dump Interface Type A: Gravel Pile Interface Type B: Rail Track Interface Type C: Viaduct Interface Type D: Alley Towpath Trail Selected Sites

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Phasing: different proposals will be implemented based on how polluted the sites are. Sites with higher level of pollution have greater priority and will be implemented firstly. INTERFACE Funding EPA

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Funding: funding can be applied from EPA in order to solve industrial pollution issues; funding can come from philanthropy to increase public environmental quality; funding can be also from local-resident donation so as to make their homeland a better one.

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The dust is blowing all the time!

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It is noisy!

There is not enough trees!

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A little bit smelly!

I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t like the wastes!

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Industry

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Aerial Image of Site D

I like the sunshine and the green!

Noisy! Noisy!

I wanna sit around the alley and enjoy!

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HETEROGENEOUS BULWARK Fall 2019 Urban Design/Academic Project/Teamwork Collaborators: Kunnong Gu, Yiyang Liu Contributions: Concept Design/Data Collection/ GIS Analysis/Data Visualization/Diagram/ Digital Model Making/Rendering/Physical Model Making Course: UD Studio III Topic: The Green New Deal Instructor: El Hadi Jazairy Location: New York City, USA Sea level rise caused by global climate change is becoming more and more serious around the world, and there is no exception in New York. In this project, we set three main design goals, protection, restoration, and resilient development. Our design aims to protect NYC and the residents from sea level rise. Our design restores through pools to control flood water. To ensure resilience, the shoreline is transformed into a landscape with the capacity to address inevitable flooding while providing a safe space for new residential development. In order to achieve our position, we incorporate several wall- and walladjacent typologies. We imagine a highly functional wall, the Heterogeneous Bulwark.

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READING VISUALIZATION

Book: New York 2140; Author: Kim S. Robinson

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READING VISUALIZATION

Book: Landscape as Infrastructure; Author: Pierre Belanger

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SEA LEVEL RISE AND OTHER FEATURES OF NYC

When we overlap all of the above elements, we found that the west shoreline of Brooklyn and the shoreline of Lower Manhattan are the most fragile areas in New York City influenced by sea level rise. Most of the population lives in these areas and most of the important institutions and public facilities are in these areas. Since New York City government has already proposed several interventions for Lower Manhattan, but has yet to provide proposals for West Brooklyn, we chose the shoreline

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CURRENT WASTE DISTRIBUTION OF NYC

of West Brooklyn as our site to protect the most fragile and important part of the city from flooding. Our research of the waste management system in NYC showed the land prices near different types of waste management facilities was significantly lower than other similar areas without waste management facilities since the noise, dirt, and smell that these facilities produce have negative influences on their surroundings.

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CURRENT INITIAL WASTE PROCESSING OF NYC

Through the research of different types of initial collection and end processing, we found that about 21% of the waste are sent back to the city to be recycled after treating, about 40% of the waste are sent to other states and even other countries, and the rest of the waste are sent to incinerators or

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CURRENT END WASTE PROCESSING OF NYC

gas recoveries to generate energy or sent to composite and landfills. Moreover, we found these solid waste facilities are old and need repairs, as most of them were built from 1940s to 1960s.

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NEW WASTE MANAGEMENT IMAGINATION

The current condition of waste processing facilities provides a chance for us to make a change: instead of repairing them, we propose new facilities in new locations which have less influence on their surroundings. Also, as the new processing facilities are built, the waste will become the

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NEW WASTE MANAGEMENT IMAGINATION

resources to help build more reclaimed lands to fulfill our proposal. This result will benefit the public as they get cleaner living environment and will be protected from sea level rise. Output of waste management facilities have diversified uses, such as bulwark construction, energy production, etc.

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WALL- AND WALL-ADJACENT TYPOLOGIES

We set three main design goals, protection, restoration, and resilient development. Our design aims to protect the city and the residents from sea level rise. Our design restore through pools to control flood water. To ensure resilience, the shoreline is transformed into a landscape with the capacity to

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WALL- AND WALL-ADJACENT TYPOLOGIES

address inevitable flooding while providing a safe space for new residential development. In order to achieve our position, we incorporate several wall- and wall-adjacent typologies. We imagine a highly functional wall, the Heterogeneous Bulwark.

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CONCEPT DEVELOPMENT

The Recreational Open Dock serves as a civic center of the whole proposal. The dock terraces are the Bulwark steps backwards in order to contain different programs on different levels, such as the pier and the theater. The Cross Internal Waterfront, which is the restoration spot of the whole proposal, has four different functions on each corner, amusement parks, offices, hotels, and landscape. The purpose of the cross is to make use of the inner canal, make it not only being the

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PHASING

resilient water area to restore the sea water, but also being the area where the citizens could get better accessibility to water, which makes it an enjoyable and popular playground for the whole city. The South Waste Management and Research Peninsula serves as the waste management, energy generation, as well as global climate change research center of the whole proposal. Different types of waste management facilities as the Bulwark powerfully and functionally protects this area.

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SITE PLAN & APPLIED TYPOLOGIES

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SITE AXONOMETRIC

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PROFESSIONAL PROJECTS

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Sharswood-Blumberg Choice Neighborhoods Transformation Plan

Time: 07/2020 Employer: WRT Project Manager: Stacey Blankin Task Type: Modeling & Rendering Collaborator: William Wellington Contributions: Model Making via Rhino/Rendering via Lumion & Photoshop

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Huntsville Housing Authority Developer RFQ Pennrose Time: 08/2020 Employer: WRT Project Manager: Woo Kim Task Type: GIS Analysis/Diagram

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West Scranton Neighborhood Revitalization Plan

Time: 08/2020 Employer: WRT Project Manager: Nancy O'Neill Task Type: Rendering

Lei Nie leinlei@umich.edu +1 (734) 276-9368 www.linkedin.com/in/leinlei/