Design Portfolio_2014 - 2015_Mingchuan Yang

DESIGN PORTFOLIO MINGCHUAN YANG

ymccmy@umich.edu

"If you have total freedom, then you are in trouble.

It's much better when you have some obligation, some discipline, some rules. When you have no rules, then you start to build your own rules."

- Renzo Piano

"The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity."

- Lewis Mum ford

I'm seeking rules in urban design, architecture, and landscape architecture to help achieve the chief function of the city.

Enclave of Inclusion M.U.D. Studio IV I Design Research Building Types and Urban Elements

Nested Enclaves M.U .D. Studio IV I Design Proposal Mexico City International Airport Redevelopment Master Plan

Hybrid Land as Design Framework M .U.D. Studio Ill I Design Research & Framework Settlement and Space & Xochimilco Master Plan

The "Cultural Ecology" Corridor M.U.D. Studio Ill I Design Proposal New Community between the Heritage Area and Uban Area

Public Market as Urban Infrastructure M .U.D. Studio II I Design Research Public Market and Its Neighborhood Adjacencies along La Vigo Spine

The Culture Connector M.U.D. Studio II I Design Proposal Public Market Redevelopment and Community Regeneration

Neck of the Moon Jacques Rougerie Competition I First Prize Space Infrastructure Vision Design

Apart, We Are Together Dry Futures Competition I Honorable Mention California Cityscape Reimagination

Claiborne Garden ULI Hines Competition I Entry Claiborne Community Master Plan

Enclave of Inclusion M.U.D. Studio IV I Design Research Location: Mexico City, Mexico Instructor: Mclain Clutter Time: Spring, 2015 Following Hernan Cortes's 1521 conquest of Tenochtitlan, the expedition produced a map of the city that bears striking similarities to Thomas More's Utopia. Drafted in 1524, the drawing depicted Tenochtitlan as an enchanted urban island, surrounded by lakes. Today Mexico City is an urbanism of enclaves. From colonias constructed by individual developers in the 19th century, to contemporary gated communities, the city is a patchwork of discrete formal organizations indexing social and economic exclusion. And yet, within the enclave we might recognize a fleeting glimpse of Mexico City's history of utopic projection.

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The Enclave Located by the Side of the Arterial The proposal embeds complementary programs and urban elements in this enclave to improve its social resilience and avoid cultural similarity.

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The Enclave Located by the Side of the Ecological Park The proposal embeds complementary programs and urban elements in this enclave to reduce its social exclusion, enhance economic vibrancy and reclaim community identity.

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Nested Enclaves M.U .D. Studio IV

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Location: International Airport, Mexico City, Mexico Instructor: Mclain Clutter Time: Spring, 2015 The main idea of the project is to create nested spaces through combination of types from different constituencies in Mexico city that bear a strong historic, cultural, social and economic character. It undoes the enclave logic through its amplification. The analysis of different sites in terms of its program and special configuration helps to create new hybrid which has a vivid similarity to the city but with new function embedded in it. Contested spaces get revealed when this kind of negotiation and association between different programs takes place in the nested enclave.

New thresholds along with predefined, in-between spaces create a network within these enclaves to blur transition and develop an atmosphere of confusion . This irregular spatial flow acts like a tool to take control of the subjective and objective violence, which is created by the unequal distribution of capital flow in the city. This heterogeneous network derives multiple function from adjoining types which are grouped into enclave based on its direct or indirect relationship to the surrounding elements of the project unit. Each of these nested enclaves represents a different peripheral world and a world within itself, which bears a heterogeneous amalgamation of social, cultural and historical elements.

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Identify of Nested Enclaves and the Fluid Spa c e Eventually, all programs become mixed within each enlave with its primary identity. A new brilliant inhabitation is promoted.

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Threshold between the Enclave and the Neighbors

Threshold between the Enlcave and the Fluid Space

Threshold between the Enclave and the Eco-park

Threshold between the Runway and the Enlcave

Hybrid Land as Design Framework M.U.D. Studio Ill I Design Research and Framework Location: Xochimilco, Mexico City Instructor: El Hadi Jazairy Time: Winter, 2015 This project addresses the issues of urbanization and conservation land in the buffer zone of southern Mexico City. "Hybrid land" is the outcome of friction between urbanization and conservation. The amalgamation of archeology, ecology and urbanization creates a base to re-define the hybrid land in Xochimilco as a "cultural ecology" corridor that would act as a transition space between the diversities inherent in the city.

The strategy focusses on creating an equilibrium between ecology and economy, while retaining its cultural essence. Hence, the proposal revolves around three ideas of intervention: 1. Redefinition of the edge/buffer 2. Creation of a transition nexus 3. Synthesis of ecology and economy The framework involves overlaying 4 corridors: ecological corridor, tourist corridor, knowledge corridor and settlements. Overlapping the four creates opportunities for socio-cultural transitions. Eventually, to realize the hybrid land as a cultural ecology land, the project also defines the new settlements' typology and landscape infrastructure, forming relations between all corridors, while also making space for industries, art and culture as well as education.

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The "Cultural Ecology" Corridor Utopian Agricultural Community M.U .D. Studio Ill

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Location: Xochimilco, Mexico City Instructor: El Hadi Jazairy Time: Winter, 2015 Building on the initial research, the individual design proposal capitalize on novel types of ecological tourism as main economic driver for the area. The utopian agriculture community defines a new life style, which could give the informal settlements a new vision of living and working near the world heritage area. The new settlements incorporate different effecient farm technology to support themselves and supply the healthy agriculture products to urban area.

They also could use the landscape to attract tourists, researchers and artists, getting the economic benefits from them, which would encourage them to protect the environment here.

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Native Market + Retail + Housing

School + Playground + Retail +Housing

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Housing Types & Institution Types The organization of housing types and institution types is determined by their geographical environments. Diverse building types along with their specific locations create a uniqueness of a place.

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Public Market as Urban Infrastructure M .U.D . Studio II

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Location: La Vigo Spine, Mexico City, Mexico Instructor: Maria Arquero De Alarcon Time : Fall, 2014 Under the title "Trueque, Truco, Trato," the urban design studio will explore the diverse mechanisms of urban exchange sponsored by the everyday condition of the public markets in Mexico City. From the larger footprints of the contemporary food systems, through the immediacy of the public market and its neighborhood adjacencies, and the notions of the typological and the temporal, the studio will interrogate the potential of these urban infrastructures to generate new forms of urbanity.

The semester takes on current political initiatives to reformulate the role of the network of public markets in the DF, re-visiting their legacy as public infrastructure and neighborhood anchors. The design investigations consider new programmatic mixes to re-define the identity and role of the market in the communities they serve, while tackling local economies, fiows and logistics, street commerce, gentrification, public space improvement, and other social needs. The proposals will incorporate strategies to redefine the open space network,and the potentials for new residential uses in the area of study.

"In Mexico City, the public markets were created in the fifties, and followed a long cultural tradition.They became a substantial part of a national policy of endogenous development that privileged the domestic market as an engine of economic growth. This commercial network was controlled by the State and had key roles: avoid shortages of basic produce, control the price level in real terms of wages, and reduce speculation in trading."

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The Culture Connecor M.U.D. Studio II

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Individual Design Proposal

Location : El Verde Market, Coyoacan, Mexico City, Mexico Instructor: Maria Arquero De Alarcon Time: Fall, 2014 The public markets were designed to act as centers of the neighborhood, providing basic fresh produce and driving a lively cultural life. Over time, these urban facilities developed a strong network, spreading these cultural activities to the streets, the open spaces, and permeating the residential fabric around.

The design proposal in El Verde market and surrounding neighborhoods at Culhuac6n capitalizes on this legacy, builds a rich programmatic mix and transforms the nature of the open space network.

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The widened sidewalk+ pocket garden & tianguis & street performance

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Community route+ pocket plaza

Axonometric of the Proposal The proposal embeds new programs in the public marke, upgrading it to a multifunctional place and serving more people at different times. The regeneration project connects interior semi-public spaces of the public market with adjacent exterior open spaces and transforms the nature of the open space network.

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School Yard between the School and the Library Students are encouraged to do exercise and play around in the school yard. The library provides a quiet place for students and the public to read. The pocket garden on the street provides the space for people to sit, chat, eat and sell things. The tower behind the market provide a new landmark for the neighborhood.

Passage between the Public Market and the Library The market and the school are connected now by this building. The market is able to provide meals for students, and the building improves competition and diversity of the market. The public passage encourages people to communicate, creating an additional opportunity for social interaction.

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Neck of the Moon Jacques Rougerie Competition 2015

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Location : The Space; Cotopaxi, Ecuador Team Members: El Hadi Jazairy, Rania Ghosn Jia Weng, Shuya Xu, Hsin-Han Lee, Sihao Xiong Time: Fall, 2015 "Orbital debris poses a risk to continued reliable use of space-based services and operations and to the safety of persons and property in space and on Earth," observe NASA and the European Space Agency. This problem is especially significant in geostationary orbits, where satellites cluster over their primary ground targets and share with space debris the same orbital path. At that height as well, orbital debris will normally continue circling the Earth for centuries or more.

New satellites are continuing to be launched at a growth rate of over a hundred each year and most of these launches will contribute to increase the risks and detrimental effects of Earth's orbiting junkyard.

The project proposes to clean up the orbital environment by compacting targeted space debris into a new satellite planet that orbits the Earth. Rather than displacing the debris to a lower altitude, a large tug with a robotic arm approaches and compacts large objects at high altitudes, In a continuous development from atom to nebula, the compacted mass grows organically into planet Laika, the earth's second moon. For Laika was appropriately a stray creature that orbited the earth; its cyborg namesake was similarly once propelled from the earth. They have a vital generative role in humanity's journey into the space and information age. We are Odysseus as we travel collectively from ape to human and eventually, after leaving the planet, to starman-angel.

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Space Debris Space junks will constitute a new resource for the growth of the orbital station.

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Space Elevator Transportation of goods, material and people from the center of the Earth to orbital space, generating a vertical landscape panorama.

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Elevation & Section l. Space elevator 2. Helicoidal path 3. Stations 4. Orbital gate 5. Geothermal station 6. Lava

Orbital Gate Creation of a new humanity's journey into space and information age.

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Apart, We Are Together Dry futures Competition 2015

I Honorable Mention

Location: California , United States Team Members: El Hadi Jazairy, Rania Ghosn Hsin-Han Lee, Kartiki Sharma, Sasw ati Das Time : Summer, 2015 California will not be homogeneously dry. Its main geographic challenge is economic and political.

With 21 spots on the list of 30 neighborhoods with the highest percentage of million dollar homes, the taxpayers in these zip codes will pay for desalted water, a cost nearly twice as expensive as the rate for imported water was.

They will ramp up their infrastructure to convert salty ocean water into drinking water to quench their long-term thirst. (Don't worry about the intensive energy needs of such infrastructure, oil is imported from new drillings in the Arctic).

What about the other California? The California Aqueduct and Owens Valley, the grand water infrastructure, fell silent, repurposed centuries later as national parks and monuments, memorials to the repercussions of ancient climate change. Across it scattered bones of dehydrated poor bodies. In the arid hinterland, a series of Dropping arcologies -named for those things that birds leave when they fly over- create live-in work of art water mini-worlds, even as nearby lakes drop dangerously low. They see promise in techniques to harvest water from the air, manipulate the ground, irrigate with brackish water, and inject the water of human waste back into the aquifer, once methane is extracted for fuel. They believe that if you build it, they will come.

Some stay, most leave.

And in-between? Vast areas of California's Central Valley have sunk fast with massive amounts of groundwater being pumped during the historic drought.

To stabilize the ground, a massive Green Cross forestation project extends across the state. An ancient emblem for both painful execution and salvation, the figure separates - or connects these two Califronias. It is a crossbreed, a hybrid, a pumping heart. It is a beast that retains the moisture, a sanctuary for the climate refugees. It is also the green zone, the space that allows both words to remain separate all while bound by a figure of unity.

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In this landscape we see two screens and a chair. It was the opposite of a ruin. They were the fragments of a future place.

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The desert never took water for granted.

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When, in the year 1913, in my desperate attempt to free art from the ballast of objectivity. I took refuge in the square form and exhibited a picture which consisted of nothing more than a black square on a white field. The critics and, along with them, the public sighed. Everything which we loved was lost. We are in a desert ... Before us is nothing but a black square on a white background! But the desert is filled with the spirit of non-objective feeling.

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It is our suffering that brings us together. It is not love. Love does not obey the mind, and turns to hate when forced. The bond that brothers. We are brothers in what we share. In pain, which each of us must suffer alone, in hunger, in poverty, in hope, we know our brotherhood. We know it, because we have had to learn it. We know that there is no help for us but from one another, that no hand will save us if we do not reach out our hand. And the hand that you reach out is empty, as mine is. You have nothing. You possess nothing. You own nothing. You are free . All you have is wha t you are, and what you give.

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Claiborne Garden HLI Hines Competition I Entry I Team Work Location : New Orleans, United States Team Members: Yubo Qiao, Zhencheng Chui, Shuo Gong, Mengwei Sun Time: Winter, 2015 Claiborne Garden is a representative urban development of New Orleans under the guidance of promising vision of New Orleans. Faced with the shrinking population and hurricane threatens, New Orleans needs to develop to a strategy which can function in response to dynamic change.

Claiborne Garden responds to the challenges of Claiborne neighborhood by connecting existing landmarks and neighborhoods and proposing new mixed-use buildings and landscape infrastructures with multiple functions and scales in Lafitte Green Way. Claiborne Garden includes farming garden, native market garden, reading garden, water garden, festival garden, music garden, and art exhibition garden, which aims to contribute to the drainage of flood, improve connectivity and walkability in neighborhood, enhance local economic vibrancy, and reclaim the sense of Claiborne identity.

Claiborne Garden is the mimic of challenges faced by New Orleans.

It is also a creative way to response to people's hope of New Orleans' vision. A place with extraordinary landscape, collaborative community, rich cultural heritage and viable economy force will inspire the best future of New Orleans.

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