Xizhe Ju Portfolio - MUDD UNSW

X I Z HE J U

URBAN DESIGN PORT F OL IO 2 0 1 5 - 2016

Master of Urban Development and Design, University of New South Wales, Australia

Education:

Xizhe Ju (Oliver)

Nanjing 21st Century Bilingual School From 1997 to 2003

Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

Nanjing Foreign Language School From 2003 to 2009 Member: Communist Youth League

Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

University of New South Wales From 2010 to 2014 Undergraduate Bachelor of Landscape Architecture Member: Chinese Student Association Band

Sydney, NSW, Australia

University of New South Wales From 2015 to 2016 Postgraduate Master of Urban Development and Design

Sydney, NSW, Australia

Experience:

Sept. - Oct. 2005 News Agency job at Xinjiekou, Nanjing Nov. 2007 Farming experience for 15 days in Jiangpu, Nanjing

B. Land.Arch.

M. Urban Development and Design +61 412 830 476 oliver8244@gmail.com http://muddunsw.info/portfolios/z3312624/

Summer 2008 Nanjing Library – City library of Nanjing -Regular volunteer for guiding and shelving books Oct. - Dec. 2009 1912 block – An entertainment center with pubs and restaurants - Drummer Nov. - Jan. 2012/13 China State Construction Engineering Corporation 2nd Engineering Bureau Ltd. - Construction Manager Assistant April 2013 Member of Community Design Team of Online MMO Game - Warframe Nov. - Feb. 2013/15 China IPPR International Engineering Corporation, Beijing - Landscape Architect May. - Oct. Outlier Design Studio, Sydney - Landscape Architect Nov 2015 Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, Chicago - Joint Studio & Intership

SELECTED WORKS [01]

Educational Medical District

[02] Intertwine -Wynyard Axis [03] Obama Presidential Center

Educational Medical District Studies in Urban Form

Location

Rashid Hospital Site, Dubai

University Group Project, Semester 1 Rashid Hospital is a 454-bed general medical/surgical hospital located at a key location in Dubai. It is adjacent to Dubai Creek and the creek park, and is the second oldest hospital in Dubai. The Rashid Hospital consists of the hospital area and the vacant land to the south. It is a complicated urban environment which is surrounded by political departments, media centre, recreation area, schools, churches, park, metro, residential buildings, empty land, medical schools and the social clubs of different nationals.

Based on research, there is huge potential to bring back a traditional Dubai form to the site. The inward design, mass form and adaptation to environment of traditional architecture and urban form generate great opportunities for medical treatment as well as patient recovery and sustainable living. The site is also adjacent to the proposed healthcare free economic zone - Healthcare City, which aims to provide, promote and facilitate academic healthcare, education, research and community service of the highest quality to the world.

SELECTED WORKS [01]

Educational Medical District

[02] Intertwine -Wynyard Axis [03] Obama Presidential Center

Vision:

The design of the Rashid Hospital Site aims to bring a WORLD CLASS EDUCATIONAL MEDICAL DISTRICT as the key motivation for the site’s development. Through a timeframe, this medical complex will become second to none, not only at health care hub, but also a general specialist medical treatment in the world.

MUDD21

Objectives:

2015 - 2016

d Hospital Site

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Park/Reserve

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Rural Area

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Proposed City Metro

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• Apply the Neo-Traditional Dubai form into the design • Introduce a World Class medical district with general treatment, specialist treatment, health care, recovery, family hotel, medical conference, medical education, commercial links, cultural gallery, residential complex and serviced apartments.

• A corridor will be designed to connect the medical core, cultural commercial core and the educational core • Establish both dependent and joint programs for medical districts and nearby communities • Preserve the diversity of community • Public and private green spaces are designed in an organised system for better walkability, community engagement and as a response to the adjacent park • Establish zoning for active recreation and passive healing landscape

MUDD21 2015 - 2016

d Hospital Site

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ban Form

Water

ark/Reserve

Airport

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Existing City Metro

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2 KM

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Urban District Existing land use

Existing node

Existing transport

Existing green space

Proposed land use

Proposed node

Proposed transport

Proposed green space

MUDD21 2015 - 2016

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uilding

Road

ar Park

Green Space

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50

100

200 M

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Urban Block

Mix Use Commercial Administration Staff Centre

Parking

Hotel & Medical Conference

Existing Hospital

Green Space

Parking

Trama Center

Children Hospital

Special Hospital

Emergency

Research Recovery

Inpatient Senior Apartment

Staff Villa

Hospital Structure

Cool Sea Wind Barjeel

View to the Creek

Courtyard

ium

Pod

Parking

Retail

Retail + Parking

Neo-Traditional Courtyard Approach

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25 50

100

200m

Strategies: • Put development into a time frame and connect to Dubai 2020 Master Plan and Dubai 2020 Expo • Combine traditional urban forms with modern urban design disciplines • Three nodes: Medical core to the north; education core to the south with cultural commercial core in-between • Introduce a hierarchy of medical treatment and recovery through the site • Make proposed medical district become one of the major destinations in Dubai’s urban district • Involve commercial activities like shopping centre and retails for staff, patients, students and local community, at the same time supply job opportunities for students and local communities • Involve various types of residential to meet different needs and demands for different community groups • Ensure the proposed transportation system and linkage to the public transport system grid will generate better connections for vehicle, pedestrians and non-motorised vehicles.

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Hotel

Courtyard

University

Intertwine Wynyard Axis

Location

CBD, Sydney

University Group Project, Semester 2 “Intertwine” is a botanic walk that unifies disconnected green spaces in Sydney’s CBD, while also creating a new pattern of east-west pedestrian movement. Its ecological, social, and economic dimensions are woven throughout our precinct - framed by Margaret Street/Hunter Street to the north and Erskine Street/Martin Place to the south. The project targets not only the movement throughout the city but also the environmental performance and product mixes within buildings.

It complements the north-south axis transformation that will be accelerated by addition of Sydney’s Light Rail, pedestrianisation of George Street, and construction of Barangaroo on the western harbour. “Intertwine” provides activated street frontages comprehensively across the CBD. The anchors of our precinct, the Royal Botanic Garden and the eastern Sydney Harbour, symbolically state the importance of a unified ecological presence in the CBD.

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The Site

George Street light rail North-south bus spine East-West bus spine York-Clarence corridor Western CBD corridor

Existing

Blocked East-West movement

Development potential cluster

Isolated industries

Fragmented Green Star Buildings

Proposed

Suggested Linkage

Integrated East-West corridor

Activate the development potential

Harmonious industry distribution

Green Star Building Precinct

The anchors of our precinct, the Royal Botanic Garden and the eastern Sydney Harbour, symbolically state the importance of a unified ecological presence in the CBD.

Design Principles

Multi-Level

Bus

Innovative Start-ups

Light Rail

Development Potential

Train

Community Space

Ferry

Green Roof

Market

Energy Conservation

Shared Lobby

Water Collection

Event

Ecological Corridor Recycling

Podium Level

Underground

Social Strategies

Ecological Strategies

Economic Strategies

Structure Plan

Multi-level node

Proposed movement Green roof Potential development Wynyard Walk Defined precinct Potential movement

Rooftop

Multi-level Wynyard Park

Ground surface

Underground Erskine Street

Obama Presidential Center Urban Catalyst

Location

South Side, Chicago

SOM - UNSW Project Chicago, the ‘third city’ of the United States, is a city of almost 5 million people and within a metro region it has a population of about 10 million people. A complex, energetic, socially-politically challenged city, Chicago has a reputation as a gritty, hard-nosed city. Chicago has been force in architecture and urban design, driving innovation and influencing the shape of all cities around the world, through its skyscrapers and city plans. Further, the city’s cultural history has left a mark, on particularly, the western world, through its music, literature and movies.Unfortunately, the city suffers from significant social problems which tend to be concentrated on the South SIde of Chicago. Chicago is home to the current US President, Barak Obama. President Obama is nearing the end of his term in office. As such, like all US presidents since Herbert Hoover, Barack Obama through the Obama Fundationa and the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), will have a Presidential Center built in his honor. The Obama Presidential Centre, however, will differ fundamentally from the 13 existing Presidential Libraries across America, in being an urban institution rather than a suburban institution.

The focus of this study was to explore the community regeneration in the longtroubled neighbourhoods of Chicago South Side, through critical analysis of the proposed Obama Presidential Centre as a catalyst for urban change.

Through an invitation by the Global City Design Practice, Skidmore, Owings and Merrill the study developed a critique to the official sites of the OPC and chose alternative sites. Designs for each site were prepared and the regeneration and potential interventions were considered as part of the designs.

Garfield Boulevard Site Vision: The vision is to create an integrated web of buildings that define the surrounding streets and draws the landscape qualities of Washington Park into the site, in a manor of a series of flowing green courtyards.

The vision is to integrate the elevated Garfield Boulevard train station which is located on the site into the built form of the development. The building is scaled to the Edmund Burke School and the buildings located on the southern side of Garfield Boulevard that currently house an arts incubator community use.

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Garfield Boulevard

Martin Luther King Drive

51st Street Site

Vision: The vision is to create a building embedded in the landscape, honoring the spatial flow of the Olmsted Park, while also being in synergy with Provident hospital and the Walter H Dyett High School.

Sited at the North West corner of Washington Park, the Obama Presidential Centre preserves the significant arboretum facing Martin Luther King Drive and connects with 51st Street station on the Green Line.

Ellsworth Drive is redirected to cross Martin Luther King Drive and to cut through the long blocks of the neighborhood. This is a key move to regenerate the neighborhood. Thus creating a matrix of activity around the center. Pedestrian and bicycle paths within the park preserve the traditional Olmsted alignment.

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PROFESSIONAL WORKS [01]

Shan Tou University Hospital

[02] Rotana Hotel, MNF Square

Shantou University Hospital

Location Shantou, China

Office Project at CSCEC Feb. 2015

Rotana Hotel, MNF Square

Location Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Office Project at IPPR Nov. 2014 - Jan. 2015

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