2014 - 2016
Harvard University MAUD’ 16 (Master of Architecture in Urban Design), Cambridge, USA
DESIGN PORTFOLIO Man Su
mansu.gsd@gmail.com 857.472.3560 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mansuharvard
I 01: Project “Twisted U” - Domesticity "Twisted U"- Domesticity and Urban life andUrban Urban Life - Manhattan, NY Deisign Studio, New york, US Elements of Urban design, - December 2014 Urban Design Core Studio, FallSeptember 2014 Instructor: Felipe correa, Anita Berrizbeitia Collaborator: Teng Xing
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This project will focus on rethinking the role of housing, traditional New york block and city context and their potential to inspire innovative domestic life in the New york city along East River. Starting with typological analysis of the tower with plinth, we try to establish two different types of public space, which are on horizantal and vertical dimension respectively. Through re-organizing the relationship between public, private and mass private space in this project, we re-open the edge along East River and provide it to the public. To achieve the goal mentioned above, we try to maximize public space by rethinking the role of urban block as an integration of landscape,
infrastructure and domestic, thus to reconcile the relationship between public life and private development as well as market rate housing and affordable housing, and finally redefine the edge of Manhattan.
02: Craft, Politics, and the Production of Housing in Oaxaca, Mexico Urban Design Optional Studio, Spring 2015 Instructor: Diane Davie, Jose Castillo Team: Teng Xing, Yuxiang Luo
This project is divided into two parts, which are site research and the subsequent design proposal, respectively. In the first stage, it is important to combine the present situation of Oaxaca with a deeper understanding of its political background especially those related to INFONAVIT. The second stage will be moving forward to start designning strategies and projects. The project seeks to question and innovate the business model of Mexico’s national program for housing production and the socio-spatial character of historic urban centers. Specifically, by bringing the employer back into INFONAVIT’s housing equation, this project re-thinks about the relationship between craft business and housing provision. The institutional involvement of employers also activates the architectural experimentation in the city, where the firm’s existing urban courtyard buildings can be redesigned for domestic, industrial, urban, and communal uses. The resultant typology is a mixture of old and new, public and private, as well as local life and tourism. This hybrid spatial prototype can multiply throughout the city by partnering with other qualified firms in Oaxaca.
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The commercial courtyard, looking at the worker’s house.
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The housing structures are built upon the original building with a system of “plugs” that consists of physical structural frames, circulation systems, building infrastructures, and various smallscale public/private spaces.
DENSIFICATION OF HISTORIC CENTER IN URBAN OAXACA The commercial courtyard, looking at the boutique rental.
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想要在老城区内大兴土木建住宅、增加FAR是不 太现实的，因为历史保护区对楼房的高度是有限 制的。因此，本项目选择对几个特殊地块进行有 针对性的改造，试图巧妙地将居民生活引入到如 今高度商业化的历史文化街区。
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Urban Network Re-Tweaked: each building block will provide about 10 Housing Stock Provision housing units; together the city will be able to enhance the local residential presence.
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Urban Facade | Reinterpreted Heritage Preservation It is not feasible to drastically increase the physical FAR in Oaxaca’s historic center, due to the preservation of historical buildings and their facade. However, acupuncture of housing addition can strategically infuse residential life into the city, preserving the life ambiance.
城市系统的细密调控: Urban Network Re-Tweaked: 中庭体验 Courtyard Experiences the city has numerous idiosyncratic
Oaxaca中符合条件的公司都可以通过本项目提 出的方式进行改造，因此，住宅项目可以这样一 步一步地“回”到老城区中来。当住宅元素重新 来到现在已非常商业化的历史街区中来以后，城 市中会形成一套新的空间、社会、经济系统。这 个新的系统将覆盖在老城之上，给城市的生活提 供源源不断的动力和发展的潜力。
The institutional involvement of employers also activates the architectural experimentation in the city, where the firm’s existing urban courtyard buildings can be redesigned for domestic, industrial, urban, and communal uses. The resultant typology is a mixture of old and new, public and private, as well as local life and tourism. This hybrid spatial prototype can multiply throughout the city by partnering with other qualified firms in Oaxaca, as well as other possible sites throughout Mexico. Therefore, by bringing the residential life back into the tourist-dominant cityscape, the project produces new spatial experiences as well as socioeconomic dynamics, which constitute a system of new urban geographies above the existing city of Oaxaca and the larger areas of Mexico.
Urban Network courtyards; Re-Tweaked: the new design operation will enhance the Courtyard Experiences connectivity between public and private life in the city.
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城市系统的细密调控： Urban Network Re-Tweaked: Street - Building Relationship 街道-建筑关系 the historical city streets are walled with
facade veneers; Urban Network Re-Tweaked: the new design recreates the residential life Street - Building Relationship of the city, connects it back to the city with second-floor terraces and courtyards.
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URBANISM
2009 - 2014
Cornell University B.Arch’ 13, Ithaca, USA Adept Architects - Guangzhou, China Kengo Kuma - Tokyo, Japan
ARCHITECTURE
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5th year thesis Instructor: Jerry Wells, Jenny Sabin
Potala Square
for Buddhism Learning
Pilgrims and tourists are the two opposite forces that constantly shape the socio-religious landscape of present day Lhasa. Although they share the same physical space, the two groups of people occupy and understand space drastically differently: pilgrims prostrate in space, whereas the others walk in space. As a response to bring together these two contradicting groups of people in the town-scape, a Buddhism mandala map is imagined on the center of Lhasa, the Potala Square. The mental mandala ďŹ eld unfolds itself physically on the landscape as one walks in it. The ďŹ eld essentially creates a space for Buddhism studies for everybody.
Typical Tibetan daily activities Traditionally, tibetans do not work. They devote their lives to increase their Karma.
Political use of the Plaza The Square is modelled on Beijing’s Tian’anmen Square, symbolizing the Party’s power here.
Site Study Lhasa, the capital of Tibet, is a city that is shaped by many contradicting factors: religious vs secular, autonomous vs Communism, holy vs commercial, and so forth. These elements exist simultaneously, but not harmoniously on this land. The challenge for this thesis is to propose an opportunity that would allow the most people to experience the true Tibet. view of the Palace from the Square
Boulevard entering ciry center
View of the Square from the Palace Tourists activities
Photo-shooting, shopping, wondering around, participate in worshipping rituals, etc.
View of commercial street in front of the Temple
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Pilgrims from outter area prostrate to Lhasa in every three steps they walk till Johkang Temple.
Tibetans who prostrate to enter Lhasa
On streets of Lhasa, pilgrims and tourists are the two biggest opposite forces that constantly negotiate on the socio-religious landscape of present day Lhasa. Although they share the same physical space, the two groups of people occupy and understand space drastically differently: pilgrims prostrate in space, whereas the others walk
Study of Prostration
Tibetans prostrate to the ground in every three steps they walk. For most pilgrims, this means the journey to Lhasa can take several months to years, if the journey consists of crossing the ridges and valleys of the Himalayan Mountains. The challenge of overcoming such tremendous physical difďŹ culties is meaningful in Tibetan Buddhism philosophy: this ritualized
a. the movement -study documenting how the head, shoulders, arms, legs, knees and feet work together to produce the movement
prostration custom is a self-denial of desire and enactments of struggle which will greatly increase their Karma towards Enlightenment, or Buddhahood, if sucessfully overcome. b. the space -the physical occupied space generated through the series moves of prostration
c. the soundscape -the space of sound and its amptitude generated through moves of prostra-
The mandala is basically a circle inscribed within a square. It is laid out by a ritual “squaring of the circle”, is centered, is square, and is strictly oriented in accordance with the directions of space.
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The lines of the mandal are lines fo Breath. The thread of attachment is the vertical axis, equivalent to the Cosmic Tree, Pillar, Ladder or Moutain. It strings the worlds together like beads upon a necklace, connecting them to each other and all to their common source. The structure of the cosmo.
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The knot of individual existance corresponds to the point of intersection of the threads of the net. The symbolism is ambivalent: for those who are still attched to samsara, the knot of indicidual exiastence is a good; its untying is death. From the essential viewpoint, however, the knot is a constraint, an entanglement. To untie the knot is to be liberated, from mortal to be immortal.
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The square of the mandala is subdivided into smaller squares by a gridwork of lines, and within these squares Buddhas, Bodhisattaves and Gods are installed, arranged according to the structuring principles of a paradigmatic model that expresses the cosmic pattern of the universe in the image of a network of theophanies. This grid pattern of theophanic nodal points is rich in associations and symbolic correlations.
Similarly the net, which has a beneficent aspect when viewed as the pattern of order. It regulates the world and rules out chaos and confusion, and binds together the wolrd and the being. It is also a net of Death, a constraint and a constriction, that must be cut away if the transcendent realms of unresticted Freedom are to be attained.
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Mandala charts a journey of excursion and return, an expansion from the center to the periphery, and a contraction from the periphery to the center, an alternating centrifugal and centripetal movement relates to rythms as the exhalation and inhalation of the breadth.
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Study of Mandala As a response to bring together these two contradicting groups of people in the townscape, a Buddhism mandala map is imagined on the site. Because of the specific meanings and usage of a mandala, it would be a meaningful gesture to translate the cognitive existance into physical experience in space. Thus, the way one walks in the physical space would reinforce one’s mental tracing of a mandala; and the meditation on deities teachings would become a physically existed visual experience that could be shared with tourists and other non-Buddhists.
From cognitive to physical Mandala After a visitor passes the gate, he would enter the field and begin the of sinking down. At first, his head is still above the ground level while his body is submerged within the column field. As he moves forward, people from outside of the plaza would be able to see his head moving and eventually disappeared from the columns.
At the next stage, his entire body is below ground level. However, because of the deformation of the landscape topography, he still stands at a higher point than the people in front of him. Here, he would have a God-like perspective of viewing other people’s activities.
Continuously, he moves towards the denser area of the column forest where the columns are much wider and taller than himself. Here, he could stand in the center of the concentric moire pattern of the ground and view the scripture on columns around him. For the columns within the concentric rings all belong to one deity’s teaching. And the center he stands represents the seat for this specific deity.
Finally, he arrives at the center of the field. Here, the columns are at a more intimate scale to the visitor: they are shorter and smaller, almost at the same measurement of a human body. A visitor would feel the space above his head is suddenly opened up. He would look up into the sky and at the Potala Palace, which he is gradually approaching.
In the end, he arrives at the open section of the plaza where columns are sparsely arranged and are much shorter. This is the gathering place before one moves out of the gate and crosses street to the Potala Palace.
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ULI/Gerald D. Hines Urban Design Competition (2013) Instructor: H. Pike Oliver Pike Honorable Mention
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architecture urban planning landscape real estate
role: concept design, architecuture design, diagramatic analysis (trafďŹ c, parking, landuse, activities), site research, visualization LOOPolis is about completion, connectivity, and community. It’s about transforming an undeveloped expanse at the edge of downtown East Minneapolis into a vibrant, mixed-use neighborhood; a sea of parking lots into a model of walkability and bikeability; a region with no identity into a lively community pulsing with young families, young professionals, and still-young retirees. It’s about honoring past visions for a complete downtown, for a continuous greenway circling the city, and for new centers of opportunity for families, businesses, and college graduates, while envisioning anew and closing the loop on what downtown Minneapolis could become.
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year-round activities
streetlife
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public transit oriented street redevelopment
green roof
work/live units
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ADEPT Architects International Urban Design Competition for Shenzhen, China 23.7 square kilometers
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role: Urban Design Research Analysis Final Production
Existing Condition
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1.boundary
industry develoment
green belt and open space
Current landuse can be roughly divided into three parts: residential and sporadic commercial on the south, heavy manufacture in the middle, and automobile factories and residentail on the north.
Green space of the site only accounts for 1.7 percent of total land area. The current urban ecology is fragile because most city parks or plazas are separated by buildings and roads. The green accessibility is poor.
The concept “Green Rivers City” attempts to link the district’s unique characteristics, the nature, leisure, industrial and culture by creating important connected public spaces for a new linear city. The Green Rivers City allows visitors to tour the special places in the various neighborhoods while creating a more diverse city for locals to live.
2. cross-river connection
Chicago model 3. distinct urban fabrics in each neighborhood
Hong Kong model
water system
existing road hierarchy
Existing rivers, ponds and lakes posess the possibility to form an urban water network. We sort to strengthen this natural attributes and allow residents to enjoy water activities conveniently.
Because of the poor transportation system, the north-south direction traffic constantly jams. It is caused by insufficient street branches from within urban fabrics to the external highways.
4. green axis connectivity Singapore model
Urban Design for Historic-Tourist Island
The Historic-tourist Island locates on the northern end of the River. It is currently occupied by various factories from automobile industry. In the center, surrounded by many warehouses, a historic old town is wellpreserved. The design scheme calls for re-position of the area: from industrial and urban village residential, to a leisure island with educational and touristic facilities. Trees and river branches circumscribe the site to create tis island position, and sift through the site along major paths to bring in green connectivity, linking both sides of the River. While maximally preserving the old town texture, new programs such as ofďŹ ces and watch towers, are incorporated within the old buildings to explore new uses. 1. urban grid
2. open space
3. paths sub divide urban grid
4. building outlines conform to paths
green axis sifting across historic-tourist island and across the river
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ADEPT Architects One Center One Garden competition for Guangzhou central axis
Connected Courtyard
Gardens within a Garden
role: Courtyard garden design Cultural research Renderings Sections
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Existing Condition
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3. landuse 1. base grid
The city of Guangzhou with both a fast urbanization and a rich cultural heritage faces a dilemma in choosing how to develop rapidly while maintaining it’s culture. In a few years, the planned Southern Green Central Axis will transform the nearby underdeveloped areas into a new city with skyscrapers and big commercial development. This project is an attempt to imbue the future city with culture by placing the project in the Haizhu Lake facing the future Green Central Axis.
2. fit the program
3. avoid straight axis to enhence connectivity
B. apply on site
4. open space
5. green land
6. nearby cultural resources
1. adapt to topography
2. main connections
3. connected courts that form gardens
4. fill to activate
In an effort to allow the city and nature to merge into each other, this scheme uses a new organic grid that can better connect with the surrounding city fabric. It also allows residents and visitors for more easy access. A new organic city is thus created.
C. 6 principles
Southern Chinese Garden Unlike Northern Chinese royal gardens, Southern Gardens are small private gardens constructed usually in different times and in isolated plots. Thus, a cluster of eight gardens is proposed.
Northern Garden
Southern Garden
1. sustainable transportation
Wetland overlooking Haizhu Lake
2. various programs
3. various landscapes
4. various paths
5. above-ground connection
6. under-ground connection
Performance Plaza
one garden
east section
For the eight gardens, it is necessary to use an inherent principle to organize the gardens as one entity, and at the same time, to keep the feeling of eight unique solitudes for its cultural inheritability. activities within one garden
sub-divided activities and gardens
west section
Calligraphy Garden
Quyi Garden
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3rd year Instructor: Jim Williamson
Dharshan Manhattan
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1st year Instructor: Vince Mulcahy Alex Mergold
Framing Hammonsport The Rock Museum is a frame for the landscape of Hammondsport. Postion and angles of two paths correspond with the mountain edges in the back ground. There are three components: a metal frame structure, two circulation paths, and an exhibition space wrapped with black marble that is only reective in the interior.
8. Wide Arm Chair
Creative Works
A Blind Kitchen Maid’s Table
Foldable Umbrella Stand
(Seipp Memorial Prize Competition- Honorable Mention)
Roman Holiday Scene #1
Roman Holiday Scene #2
Untitled Rome 2012 Spring