GSAPP_Three Cities

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Pey Lung

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Three Cities

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This is a book documenting the ideas I develped in GSAPP; A collection of invention and investigation into the urbanism; Represented by studio projects, photography, visual studies and seminar works.

Mainly structured around the “Three Cities�, New York, Neijiang, and Barcelona, which are three studio projects developed in the three semesters, along with other projects interfere within the same discussion.

Three Cities representing three totally different kind of urbanism; New York is now the metropolis of the world, Neijiang is a booming city in China and Barcelona is a city that abundant by cultural and history richness of Europe.

In this three projects, is mainly about establishing a new relation between architecture and urban and also rethinking the original urbanism of the city.

This book as a device using "Three Cities" representing as the whole world which could also trigger discussion sabout having a global vision in the architectural field, which is essential in this media and information age.

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Neijiang

New York

Barcelona

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Three Cities 5

The Detached City

Digital Craft_p150

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Photography_p36

Siza's Colour_p159

TREE FACTORY BCN p101

The Museum Without Collection p45 Ultrareal_p88

Dictionary Of Received Ideas_p96

Rethinking BIM_p154

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The Detached City Skyscraper in Central Park, New York City *Rethinking the typology of the skyscraper

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Reconsidering the meaning of building a skyscraper.

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Central Park is a saved land in New York; its unique texture differentiated from the concrete jungle; it is the true void in the overcrowded city; Creates an atmosphere that let you suddenly felt time freeze and one self disasscociate withe the reality.

You are in the center of the city but also are detached from the city.

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Creating a skyscraper as a city in a city obseving the city in the city.

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Juxtaposition; residential,temple and historical site in Maccau

Gap spaces in the city

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temple

historical site

residential

Using urban gap spaces creating spacial elements ,making skyscrapers not only functional as a city but have the same spacial richness you can encounter in urban life.

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"Central Park is a synthetic Arcadian Carpet." _Rem Koolhass, Delirious New York

Only in the synthetic nature carpet you sense your in the city.

"The Detached City",the size of an New York's block, is placed at the center of the resovoir, the center of the carpet. It is composed by a catalogue of spacial elements which is taken from the urban context. This "machine of observation" creates a new experience and relation

between the city and the carpet.

Sometimes one can not see it because your in it.

A highly developed city, full of amazement, just like New York, should lead architects to have a new way reflecting the city.

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typical skyscraper

propose skyscraper

south elevation 23

plan at 215m

plan at 130m

plan at 115m

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CIRCULATION

PROGRAM

roof top office

residential

theatre

commercial

dwelling

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The skyscraper becomes the cluster of different spacial typology developed from the city . View changes not only because the chang of altitude but the different in-between spaces you see through.

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Photography

"Coney Island is a fetal Manhattan." _Rem Koolhass, Delirious New York

Serenity in the Urban Field 2010

Coney Island

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nce a thriving neighborhood in Brooklyn O and descibed as "The technology of Fantastic" in Delirious New York. Coney Island has suffered economic decline followingWorld War II and become a forgotten city.

Serenity in the Urban Field

Coney Island

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Serenity in the Urban Field

Coney Island

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The Museum Without Collection Chang Da-Chien Art Museum in Neijiang

*Rethinking the typology of the museum

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Neijiang is a small city in Sichuan ,China.

Proposing a museum that dissolves into the city.

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Chang Da-Chien Originally known as a guohua painter, by the 1960s he was also renowned as a modern impressionist and expressionist painter. Chang is regarded as one of the most gifted master forgers of the twentieth century.

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THREE INTERPRETATIONS OF CHINESE PAINTING 1

multi perspective point

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void versus solid

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multi-layered

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Transforming the two main elements, the strokes and the splashes into tectonic elements.

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collage of lifetime

TRAVELOUGE Using the artist's travel experience as a metaphor for the museum's program; collage as a tool representing the memory and experience of the artist.

collage of lifetime landscape experience

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WHAT IS IN NEIJIANG?

The only connection of the city and the artist,Chang Da Chien, is that he was born there.

Green belt connection along the river.

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Neijiang City

A typical generic city in China with a high density of population.

Tao river runnung through the heart of the city but the river is disconnected and unreachble for the people because of the different altitude of the river bank and the city.

think all cities will eventually become generic, just like "I the airport. Spectacular cities will turn into functional

systems. New York and Paris will no longer be special, the taste of McDonald’s is the same worldwide, coco-cola is seen everywhere written in different languages, you can see Chinese performing Tai-chi in the local park of Los-Angeles people all over the world are wearing the same brand of clothes. Most IBM employees are in India servicing customers from the U.S. and the world elsewhere. Even the spectacles in these cities; the Eiffel tower, The Empire State Building, The Tower of London all have a souvenir shop at the exit.The world has become flat and the city has become generic.

Actually many cities that have just popped up in China actually are generic. For instance, Shenzhen a city on the seaside of China, after it became a special economic district has in just twenty years grown from a fisherman village to a metropolitan city. In this period of time the population grew from six thousand to twelve million. Money, resources and population have poured in at such a pace that they don’t have time to consider what is suitable for the city. Economic growth is the only ambition in mind. The image they want are all from developed cities in the western world. The city became modern indeed but was fully detached from it’s original context and culture."

*quote from "Arguing The Genric City " Metropolis essay

"Using the artist, Chang Da-Chien, to brand the Whole City" becomes the ultimate goal.

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CREATING ANEW MUSEUM TYPOLOGY

Proposing a museum as an urban scale which exhibit the city itself.

Museum as a tool adapting both the city and the nature, merging the city and the existing nature.

relation of the museum and the city

relation of the museum and nature 61

CREATING ANEW MUSEUM TYPOLOGY

A museum which dissolves into the landscape and the city.

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URBAN PROPOSAL

The programs of the museum are distributed to the city which refers to the travelouge of the painter You reveal the city and the painter at the same time.

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MAPPINGTHE FLOWOF THE CITY

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INTERVENTION IN THE CITY

in-between spaces

existing building

tradition market

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LANDSCAPE ELEMENTS

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THE PATH Creating a path from the city to the islands and then to the river, transforming from rigid solid pavement to organic form then to a ferry Walking along from the city to a raft, the inverted mountain serve as a transition space.

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section

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09:00

11:00

13:00

15:00

17:00

The sunlight create different spacial atmophere during different time of the day which results countinuos change of events in the space.

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The sunlight create different spacial atmophere during different time of the day which results countinuos change of events in the space.

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The exhibition place which is shaped like an inverted-mountain; the stair-liked heirachy slope creates a forum like an amphi theater both in interior and exterior.

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Interactions created between people via the path and people in the theatre.

Neither people in the theatre nor people walking by arethe main charachter of the theme.

They both are.

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BOTANICAL GARDEN

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Tide changes throughout different seasons; water rise in summer, and you can see the river bank in winter the river is inevitable for daily life of the people which also becomes an exhibiting element in the museum.

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Memory Ultrareal courtyard in your mind

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umthor uses his own experience and pictures creating a poetic atmosphere letting readers fall in to their own memories of architectural spaces and details of textures, smell, sound…..etc, which makes readers start thinking things in a more emotional way. The photo is not like a picture designed by photographers or architect to present the perfect image of the kitchen space, it’s a kitchen which you can sense the connection to people, you can see used glasses, a bowl with a stir stick in it, a napkin roll, coffee machine which is filled with coffee beans and a mop on the counter. These picture all have the same kind of theme, capturing the everyday life of people which Zumthor think that architecture is nothing without the linkage of life, the very detail of the experience he describe of his childhood and the pictures of everyday life creates a atmosphere for readers to start thinking architecture in his way.

*quote from Analysis of “A Way of looking at Things” essay from History of Theory

Atmsophere

*image from RCR Architects, Ker tsi-jay and Michael Kenna 91

I n next section “Completed landscapes”, he stated his building is pursuing the feeling of “There are certain building has something secret about it. They seem simply to be there.” Building is the object that makes the landscape to be completed.

This sentence is also a statement of his feeling , which makes images flow in reader’s mind just like Zumthor was describing his childhood in his aunt’s kitchen.

This create a dialogue discussing that architecture and its urban or landscape context is not just only about analogy, fabric, transportation…..etc. There is also a deeper relation between buildings and landscapes, they give the feeling of their surroundings and seem to be saying “I am as you see me and I belong here.” After zooming in the most detail of the building the joints of all part then he zoomed out started to talk about the relation between the building and the context of both surroundings and historically. “Every new work of architecture intervenes in a specific historical situation.” The relation is not just what we think it’s a harmonious relation that a building has to have ability to appeal to people’s emotions and minds in a various way. After all a building has a relation to people both in a physical and emotional way. Since people’s feeling is created by the experience of the past, the sensuous connections with a building must respect the process of remembering. This section describe Zumthor’s argument in architecture of the relation between the original existing and the new layer of object, still.

In a very poetic and emotional way, his images and texts combine and create a atmosphere letting readers to feel about the beautiful emotional relation in the real world.

*quote from Analysis of “A Way of looking at Things” essay from History of Theory

Materiality

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Houses in houses; Layers in layers; Courtyard in courtyards; Memories in memories.

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Dictionary Of Received Ideas Randomness in Structure project with Leonid Slominisky Roula Solomoun

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Dictionary Of Received Ideas NEW ON OLD project with Leonid Slominisky Roula Solomoun

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TREE FACTORY BCN Renovation of Bon Pastor

*Rethinking the typology of the urban block

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on Pastor is at the crossing of main highways and roads, but the purely B industrial program and the original factories typology create a wall between the site and the surrounding context. It is connected but also isolated at the same time.

The project proposes new typological interventions as a trigger to question the traditional urban system and create a neighborhood of multi-functional programs.

The Tree Factory plays an important role as an interface weaving the old factory typology and the new interventions, creating a new dialogue between habitats and workers. An artificial landscape, the Tree Factory is a new kind of urban open space in which the production of trees establishes a new relation between Barcelona and Bon Pastor.

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NEW BLOCK TYPOLOGY

block blocked

intervention

green as sponge

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AERIAL VIEW

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TYPOLOGY TRANSFORMATION

existing factories

plan

section

UP

SIDE

CUT

BACK PACK

SHIFT

OPEN

VOID

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tree farm/pedestrian

working

tree farm/lot

community

residential

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"A new kind of urbanism created by using Trees as artificial production on artificial landscape."

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TREE ASFILTER

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TREE ASFACADE

summer

winter

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"Radical Art never creates anything entirely new: it simply shift the emphisis." _Michael Craig-Martin, The Art of Context

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MUTUALISM

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public space

weekend tree market

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FIELD OF HOLES

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TRANSPLANTING

*grid, quincunx, clearing, filling, based on study by Nicola Eiffler, Vogt Landscape Zurich

*central park has 24,000 trees 131

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green house

office/studio/exhibition

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view in tree farm

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new interactions in the street

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view of inner plaza

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Bon Pastor Barcelona

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40 years later

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Digital Craft Structural Analysis Tri Arco Enric Miralles

"1992 Architecture Built. "

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"2011 Architecture Ruin. "

Olympia Park, Barcelona

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Rethinking BIM pavillion

project by Pey Lung Leonid slomnisky Andrea Dart

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Rethinking BIM pavillion

project by Pey Lung Leonid slomnisky Andrea Dart

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Siza's Colour

Siza's swimming pool, Porto

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