CONTENTS URBAN HEALTH CATALYST Urban Framework & Architectural Design in Health Desitrict | Miami | 2021 Fall
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URBAN PROJECTOR Urban & Landscape Design of Yuyuan Plaza | Shanghai | 2021 Spring
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URBAN IRRIGATION Architectural Design of Water Tower in Tangshan | Hebei | 2021 Spring
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YESTERDAY ONCE MORE Architectural Design of Cooling Tower in Tangshan | Hebei | 2021 Spring
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WEAVING STREET Urban and Landscape Design of Public Space | Haikou | 2021 Spring
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PERMEATION Architectural Renewal of West Sichuan Linpan buildings | Sichuan | 2020 Fall
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IN & OUT Architectural Renewal of West Sichuan Linpan buildings | Sichuan | 2020 Fall
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THE CHOICE OF A PAPAYA TREE Architectural Design in Gangtou Village, Huadong Town | Guangzhou | 2020 Fall
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FIRDUSI CROSSING Urban Renewal and Historical Revitalization | Armenia | 2020 Spring
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CAMPUS Urban Design of Rocket Center in Alabama | Huntsville | 2020 Spring
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WYNWOOD LANDING Urban Design of TOD Community | Miami | 2020 Spring
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HIGH-TECH WING Urban Design of Suburban Context in Westwood | Boston | 2019 Fall
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ABOVE THE STATION & BELOW THE TRACK Architectural Design of Urban Abandoned Space | Shanghai | 2019 Fall
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DYNAMIC THRESHOLD Urban Design of The Massport Site in South Boston | Boston | 2019 Fall
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BEIJING DANWEI COMPOUND 2.0 Urban Research & Design Test of Banwei Compound | Beijing | 2018 Fall
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FLEXIBLE LANDSCAPE Architectural Design of The Urban Installation | Shanghai | 2015 Fall
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ACQUIRE & DESIGN & DELIEVER Digital Design of Parametric Ruled Surface Components | Shangahi | 2019 Fall
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SHENZHEN URBAN CAMPUS Urban Research & Design Test along The Secondary Borderline | Shenzhen | 2016 Spring
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Selected Works from 2015 to 2021
The Health District, an emerging neighborhood in Miami, has the country’s largest concentration of medical and research facilities after Houston. The neighborhood constitutes ten hospitals & research institutes, five municipal department buildings, three universities & colleges, and is the center of Miami’s growing biotechnology
URBAN HEALTH CATALYST Urban Framework & Architectural Design in Health District | Miami | 2021 Fall Project: Harvard GSD Optional Studio | STU 1308_Miami Remix Instructor: Elizabeth Whittaker, Corey Zehngebot | Harvard GSD Individual Work High Pass in GSD Optional Studio | 01. 2022
and medical research industry. This proposal, Urban Health Catalyst wants to further stack lessons learned from the pandemic of social, environmental, and economic health into the space by developing a mixed-use project at the lot level and at the building level to maximize entropy & vibrancy. Through bringing diverse programs to the current single-use district, Urban Health Catalyst is driven to meet market needs to provide a quality healthy environment for locals and future tenants and guide them towards a well-being future with its innovative healththemed development model.
ISSUE 01 | LONG COMMUTE TIME
Metro Green Line | From Palmetto to Dadaland South
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39,684 EMPLOYEES 3 UNIVERSITIES & COLLEGES
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5 MUNICIPAL DEPARTMENT BUILDINGS 10 HOSPITALS AND RESEARCH INSTITUES 2 MILLION SQUARE FEET LABORATORIES & RESERACH FACILITIES 01 HEALTHCARE EMPLOYEES HOSPITAL & RESEARCH INSTITUES
02 JUDICIAL SYSTEM EMPLOYEES MUNICIPAL DEPARTMENT OFFICE
03 EDUCATION SYSTEM EMPLOYEES UNIVERSITIES & COLLEGES
04 THE OTHER EMPLOYEES SOCIAL SERVICES IN THE DISTRICT
05 SURROUNDING EMPLOYEES SURROUNDING INDUSTRIAL AREA
06 STUDENTS & GRADUATES UNIVERSITIES & COLLEGES
07 INTERNS HOSPITAL & RESEARCH INSTITUES
08 PATIENTS HOSPITAL & RESEARCH INSTITUES
09 PATIENTS’ RELATIVES HOSPITAL & RESEARCH INSTITUES
10 SURROUNDING RESIDENTS SURROUNDING NEIGHBORHOODS
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OPPORTUNITY 03 | DENSE TRANSIT NETWORK Policy 16.b.9 – Encourage the development of mass transit systems for urban centers, including multimodal transportation feeder systems, as a priority of local, metropolitan, regional, and state transportation planning.
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OPPORTUNITY 02 | ECOLOGICAL RESILIENCE
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Boston MGH Area | Means of Transportation to Work
ISSUE 04 | LACK OF HOUSING
SURROUNDING CONTEXT
GOVERNMENT CENTER
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ISSUE 03 | SINGLE PRIMARY USE
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OPPORTUNITY 01 | ENCOURAGE DIVERSITY
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Health District Average One-way Commute
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ALLAPATTAH METRORAIL
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Miami Metro. Average One-way Commute
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ALLAPATTAH NEIGHBORHOOD
Miami Health District | Means of Transportation to Work
U.S. Average One-way Commute
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ISSUE 02 | HIGH CARBON FOOTPRINT
MIAMI 21 ZONING & VACANCY CI-HD | Health District (Miami) Government Owned Vacancy Private Vacancy | Residential
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GFA: 1,311,874 fts FAR: 10.7 BCR: 71.4% FUT Open Space: 62.4% URE Dwellings/Acre: 198 Units/Acre DEV Site Acreage: 2.8 Acres ELO PM Site Information: Government-Vacant Land ENT Zoning Information: CI-HD
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SHARED KITCHEN 449 ft2
LAUNDRY ROOM 167 ft2
SHARED BALCONY 681 ft2
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Dormitory 18F-23F Students & Graduates + Intern + Patientss’ Relative
Mix Unit Housing 17F-34F Healthcare / Judical System / Education System / The Other / Surrounding Employees
a-Studio b-2b1b Dormitory c-2b2b Dormitoy d-3b1b Dormitory e-3b2b Dormitory f-Shared Space
A-Work & Live B-1b1b | 3Types C-2b1b | 2Types D-2b2b | 2Types E-3b2b | 2 Types F-Shared Space
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Mix Unit Housing | Shared Space South | Face to Courtyard
411 fts/u 583 / 641 / 658 fts/u 711 / 854 fts/u 660 / 889 fts/u 908 / 1134 fts/u 6487 fts/floor Dormitory | Chimney Effect North Facade | Face to Courtyard
Mix Unit Housing | Solar Panel Facade South Facade | Face to Courtyard
ASSISTED LIVING | RENTAL Total Area
74,190 ft2 Cost
$325 per ft2 Rent
~ $2700 per unit Assisted Units Gained and Lost, Miami-Dade County, 2004-2021
Dormitory Type 1 Studio | 309 ft2 Rent | $556 Montly
Dormitory Type 2 2b1b | 399 ft2 Rent | $718 Montly
Dormitory Type 3 2b2b | 504 ft2 Rent | $907 Montly
Dormitory Type 4 3b1b | 755 ft2 Rent | $1359 Montly
Dormitory Type 5 3b2b |644 ft2 Rent | $1159 Montly
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Discharged patients need more assited living units to have professional care.
DORMITORY | RENTAL Total Area
123,395 ft2 Cost
$275 per ft2 Rent
$1.8 per ft2 Miami Existing Housing Supply/ Demand Analysis ( Surplus/Gap within Affordable Price Range)
11,481
Low Income Renters (51-80% AMI)
590
Moderate Income Renters (81-100% AMI)
Assited Living Type 1 1b1b | 569 ft2 Rent | $2600 Montly
Assisted Living Type 2 1b1b | 694 ft2 Rent | $2800 Montly
Mix Unit Type 1 Work & Live | 411 ft2 Sale | $184,950
Mix Unit Type 2 1b1b | 583 ft2 Sale | $262,350
Mix Unit Type 5 1b1b | 641 ft2 Sale | $288,450
Low & Moderate Income Renters need more affordable rental dormitory.
MIX UNIT HOUSING | FOR SALE Total Area
308,427 ft2 Cost
$325 per ft2 Sale Price
$450 per ft2 Miami-Dade County’s housing market and the overall economy have been in a recovery mode since 2011. Health Care & Social Assistance (NAICS 62) Employment in Miami: Emplyment Increase
2018 Y
Mix Unit Type 3 2b1b | 711 ft2 Sale | $319,950
Mix Unit Type 4 2b2b | 660 ft2 Sale | $297,000
Mix Unit Type 7 2b2b | 889 ft2 Sale | $400,050
Mix Unit Type 8 3b2b | 908 ft2 Sale | $408,600
Mix Unit Type 6 3b2b | 1134 ft2 Sale | $510,300
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Ascendant Employment positions need more and different types of housing.
The future Yuyuan Plaza is not only a place for public activities, but also a place for dialogue between modernity and history. It can not only reflect the Shanghai accent, but also organize traffic flow rationally, and realize the sharing of people and vehicles, and all-time sharing. Our design proposes a micro-renewal strategy based on
URBAN PROJECTOR Urban & Landscape Design of Yuyuan Plaza | Shanghai | 2021 Spring Project: International Design Competition for Yuyuan Plaza in Shanghai Personal Responsibility: Project Leader & Chief Designer | OnLand Studio Design Team: Xudong Zhu, Hua Zheng, Lianliu Guo, Yujin Cao | Collabrated with ICON for Renderings The Third Prize, Shanghai Yuyuan Plaza Design Competition | 08.2021
a solid historical background and site research, and implements acupuncture treatment in four parts: three sections and one node. Inspired by Paramount, we hope that this place is a metropolis's shadow force field, a space that condenses time and light and shadow, open and inclusive, and a place where trends are fresh. The regional design strategy is mainly to integrate and reveal. Connecting the east and the west, integrating the urban commercial atmosphere and the exquisite Shanghai emphasis; connecting the past and the present, showing the cultural and historical heritage and modern life style.
While traditionally, the term “Irrigation” is the artificial process of applying controlled amounts of water to land to assist in production of crops, in this proposal, “Irrigation” assists in production of activities and human, plant, water lives in an urban context. Located at a street corner on Yuhua West Road, the water tower has been a symbolic legacy of Tangshan's modern industrial period. In the past, it used to serve as a water resource infrastructure for the surrounding residents.
URBAN IRRIGATION Architectural Design of Water Tower in Tangshan | Hebei | 2021 Spring Project: Q-City International Young Designer Competition Personal Responsibility: Project Leader & Chief Designer Design Team: Xudong Zhu, Jinlai Song (Intern) | Collabrated with SHINE for Renderings
With the increasingly improved urban water supply system, the water tower, initially convenient and significant for life and cultivation, has been abandoned by the city today. Its current condition is causing multiple concerns: the run-down image slacks the street aesthetic, the structural instability brings safety hazards to nearby residents, and the area inactivity forms a 30 square meters vacant corner space due to lack of planning and management, making the street corner incongruent with Tangshan's high-density urban context. As a Tangshan's urban development epitome, the water tower holds the generation's memory of growth and transformation. Therefore, its renewal and renovation maintain a spirit that respects the history of the modern industrial period and imagines a future that integrates innovation with nostalgia. The proposal visions a future sustainable urban public spcae that facilitates a contemporary life based on the preservation of industrial relics.
Starting from the regional design, we first solve the problem of space fragmentation around the site. Both the factory and railways are inherently closed, but when their functions have been gradually replaced, the debris space caused by this closure needs to be integrated. The factory, the platform, the cooling tower, the embankment and the surrounding landscape are arranged as an ensemble, which is the precondition for the cooling tower to serve the society better. For the
YESTERDAY ONCE MORE Architectural Design of Cooling Tower in Tangshan | Hebei | 2021 Spring Project: Q-City International Young Designer Competition Personal Responsibility: Team Member | OnLand Studio Design Team: Bochao Sun (Project Leader & Chief Designer), Xudong Zhu, Yiying Tang & Xiangli Liu & Xuan Wu (Interns)
renovation of the cooling tower, we want to maximize the visual experience of the industrial building while addressing the issues of access and spatial diversity. As a result, the towering tube cluster which is similar to the original building form is raised from the inside and cut along the spiral line, which not only enriches the spatial diversity, but also continues the visual shock given by the original cement tube. We chose transparent concrete as the material, which is similar to the original material and reflects the characteristics of the current era. Through the rich double-height space, the curved floor system makes people feel the shaking power of the space in industrial buildings from top to bottom all the time. Interspersed between the tube cluster and floor slabs also creates a series of semienclosed spaces. In the renovation of the facade, we retained most of the original architectural language, but also inserted new facade materials partially.
The design is based on "open innovation & ecological development" as the general outline. It aims to create a user-friendly, diverse and shared street experience and a vibrant, fashionable, smooth, and smart street style through the overall street landscape design. Inspired by the intention of LIJIN, which is the traditional textile culture in Hainan, four significant types of streets - commuting,
WEAVING STREET Urban and Landscape Design of Public Space | Haikou | 2021 Spring Personal Responsibility: Project Leader & Chief Designer | OnLand Studio Design Team: Xudong Zhu, Lianliu Guo, Hua Zheng, Yujin Cao, Jinlai Song (Intern) The Second Prize, Haikou Jiangdong New Area road landscape and street furniture competition | 01. 2021 6 Shortlisted Designers among 122 international teams, including L&A Design, ANDREA GROTAROLLI, ONE Urbanism, etc.
leisure, cultural, and commercial streets - criss-cross in Jiangdong New District. They are woven into the vision of a happy life led by the four themes - smart, ecological, inclusive, and immersive street - resembling colorful latitude and longitude lines of traditional LIJIN. The beautiful scene of harmonious three thousand years ago coexistence between man and nature traverses ancient and modern times, slowly unfolding in the current three-dimensional street space. The design digs deep into the functional positioning of seven areas, establishes the districts' unique landscape styles and the theme colors that conform to their images, and then develops detailed design guidelines and element list from paving design, plant configuration, and urban furniture design.
The Site located on the point B, where was embraced by nature. However, the oringinal house is enclosed to its courtyard due to its original fuction, private villa. Along with the function change, it's a perfect timing to make it rebirth and try to let it become outgoing. Therefore, we insert two new
PERMEATION Architectural Renewal of West Sichuan Linpan buildings | Sichuan | 2020 Fall Personal Responsibility: Team Member | OnLand Studio Design Team: Bochao Sun (Project Leader & Chief Designer), Xudong Zhu The First Prize, West Sichuan Linpan Architecture Renewal Design Competition | 12. 2020 Silver Award, Exhibition of Architectural Design in Developing Countries 2020 | 04. 2021
volume beside the existing block, one is designing in L-Shape to embrace the suroundings, and the other is tatally open to the nature, with only covers make by I-Mesh. The material I-Mesh is a kind of semi-transparency interface. It could be used as permeable partitions, curchions, tapestries, ceilings, etc. And we very like one of its attributes, which is permeable. Permeation, we would like to use it as the title of this project. Not only between space and space, but also between history and present, buildings and the nature.
The traditional architecture of Linpan in Western Sichuan is characterized by bamboo, farmland, water, and courtyards. This proposal hopes to stimulate people's perception of the above conventional culture by using new materials and the redefinition of courtyard space. The design is named "IN & OUT." On the one hand, at
IN & OUT Architectural Renewal of West Sichuan Linpan buildings | Sichuan | 2020 Fall Project: West Sichuan Linpan Architecture Renewal Design Competition Individual Work | OnLand Studio Excellence Award, Exhibition of Architectural Design in Developing Countries 2020 | 04. 2021
the five nodes of the building, people can see different scenery outside: bamboo, farmland, water, courtyard, and architecture. New material is used as paving, suspended ceiling, and veneer, making a strong relationship between the old and the new, stimulating the viewer's visual experience. On the other hand, five courtyards have organized the relationship between the public and the private in the circulation, connecting the public space, communal space, and 36 guest rooms. The five courtyards have different restriction methods and open attributes from outside to inside, providing local residents and tourists with various atmospheres.
The site is located in Lot 10, Gangtou Village, Huadu District. It was originally the house land of two households. The whole is trapezoid and there is a tall papaya tree in the base yard. The site is close to the east entrance of the Gangtou Village and has a pond in front of it, with convenient transportation and wonderful views over the landscape.However, traditional masonry methods make the interior of the buildings poorly lit, and
THE CHOICE OF A PAPAYA TREE Architectural Design in Gangtou Village, Huadong Town | Guangzhou | 2020 Fall Project: Gangtou Village Architecture Renewal Design Competition Personal Responsibility: Team Member | OnLand Studio Design Team: Bochao Sun (Project Leader & Chief Designer), Xudong Zhu Excellence Award, Exhibition of Architectural Design in Developing Countries 2020 | 04. 2021
two small courtyards are divided by walls, making the available space fragmented; Besides, the two houses used different masonry materialsyellow mud bricks and clay red bricks. Considering what mentioned above, how to rationally integrate the base space, therefore, become the core issue of this renovation design. Since the Furu building on the north of the site has been donated to a school as a teaching building and there is a deep cultural tradition in Gangtou village, we hope to transform this site into a cultural center in which publications of Gangtou Village, reading and exhibitions are integrated together. We wish to regenerate the original site through moderate design methods, and make it become one of the important cultural spot of Gangtou Village through reasonable spatial layout and functional planning.
"Firdusi", as the last surviving historic district, is an essential part of the southward extension of Yerevan's central axis. Our proposal, Fridusi Crossing, aims to revitalize this area based on the rethinking of historical, current, and future lives. Moreover, it is also hoped to have a positive impact on the large-scale context.Tigran Mets Ave, which leads to the Public Square, becomes the start point of our design. We propose to preserve the historic buildings on the west side of the site adjacent to Tigran Mets Ave, and then establish
FIRDUSI CROSSING Urban Renewal and Historical Revitalization | Armenia | 2020 Spring Project: 2020 Idea Competition for the Urban Revitalization of the Deistrict 33 (Firdusi) Personal Responsibility: Project Leader & Chief Designer | OnLand Studio Design Team: Xudong Zhu, Jinlai Song (Intern) http://alt33.info/id_79161245/
a new high-end retail commercial module, which will be expanded into a vital development space and visual corridor that can connect the Public Square and continue the city's central axis. Firdusi streets, as the continuation of the local context, will be kept maximally. Following its original boundaries, the street space will be transformed into a new linear park, which can not only provide space for marketing activities but also connect the two sides of the site and becomes the most critical open public realm. Retail and service facilities are arranged along with this space.The north-south road in the site will be opened to connect Hanrapetutyan St and Khanjyan St, and then becomes an office corridor, which can enhance the land value and provide possibilities for the diversity of space use.Though these four threads - commercial + history, public realm, shared multigeneration community, and office corridor – our proposal strategically activate the site and create connections for city history and gear to the future.
One of the biggest challenges the US Space and Rocket Center faces is isolation. Despite being in close proximity to the surrounding neighborhoods, the Botanical Gardens, the University of Alabama Huntsville, world-renown Research Parks and the immense Redstone Arsenal, these amenities are detached from one another; circulation is compromised. The CampUS Master Plan creates a new Focus Area directly off the interstate that brings together a mix of uses in much closer proximity.
CAMPUS Urban Design of Rocket Center in Alabama | Huntsville | 2020 Spring Project: Harvard GSD MAUD Optional | STU 1507_Rocket City Instructor: David Gamble | Harvard GSD Individual Work
The amplified adjacencies form a vibrant new hub of activity. A new Cultural Center, Museum, Camp habitat, Hotel, Multi-use Building, High-tech School and Residential project transform a rocket camp into a rocket community, attracting visitors, knowledge workers, students, researchers and to citizens from Huntsville into the camp and museum complex. Different groups share the site, creating US in the Camp Sphere. A new center is created by a megastructure that combines lower level uses with a landscaped roof. The green roof is part building and part landscape. It forms a liner park that extends in all directions from the center of the master plan. One axis links the university and research area to the north with the Botanical Gardens and sports complex to the south. An east west green belt links an Education Center to the west with new community housing on the east. The confluence of the two belts converge at the center which forms a common ground.
Wynwood Landing will establish a new civic node and precedent for Miami’s transit-oriented future. The proposal better connects the socioeconomically divided neighborhoods of Edgewater, Overtown, and Wynwood Norte across the tracks. A neighborhood center in the form of a generous public space, Manatee Place, extends above the tracks, establishing the rail station as an attractor and destination rather than a divider. Manatee Place reaches out with four linear extensions, supporting
WYNWOOD LANDING Urban Design of TOD Community | Miami | 2020 Spring Project: 2020 ULI Hines Student Competition Instructor: Alex Krieger, Stephen Gray | Harvard GSD Personal Responsibility: Team Leader Design Team: Xudong Zhu, Hua Zheng, Yujing Cao, Weiyi Cao & Patrik Braga (Finance Part)
neighborhood accessibility and social interaction. Development at this new commuter rail and local activity node will promote equitable development by reserving 30% of housing units as affordable. We will include community organizations to meet housing needs of veterans, seniors, LGBT seniors, homeless youth, and others who have been unfairly denied housing. To avoid artist displacement, existing businesses and studios will be considered from the start, with new studio and live-work spaces reserved for them.Although the site faces minimal stormwater and sea level rise risk, the adjacent lots face a tenuous future. We therefore propose an open space network of several resilient, sponge-like parks which absorb rainwater during storms but otherwise act as unstructured playspaces. Brownfield parcels north of NE 29th St will be part of the network. These crucial landscape features extend the surrounding neighborhoods and thereby offer surrounding residents equitable access to Manatee Place.
Suburban area used to have a challenge that is lacking connections within surrounding neighborhoods. Focused on the Westwood area, we found three main spots closes to our site, route 128 train station, the center of Westwood where there is the only stop for MBTA Bus transportation, and Norfolk County at southeast side of which is close to our site. As a part of the Amtrak train network, our site is isolated to surroundings. The
HIGH-TECH WING Urban Design of Suburban Context in Westwood | Boston | 2019 Fall Project: Harvard GSD MAUD Core Studio | STU 1221_Elements of Urban Design Instructor: Stephen Gray, Rahul Mehrotra, Peter Rowe, Michael Manfredi, Yun Fu | Harvard GSD Personal Responsibility: Design (60%) & Graphic (90%) & Model (30%) | Collaborated with Harry Zheng High Pass in GSD MAUD Core Studio | 12.2019
only relationship among them is University Avenue, which plays a critic role in delivering the connection with each other while some industry and commercial developments are happening along the road. Based on this situation and analysis above, we find there is a new potential and possibility that our site could be a start point to become a sustainable high-tech corridor in a suburban environment. We name it High-tech Wing, which could form a secure spine connection with the center of Westwood and the Norfolk County. The University Avenue, as a leading infrastructure, provides an opportunity to create a public corridor. Most of the new and high dense developments would happen mainly along this street. Besides that, a proposed cultural corridor could connect with Norfolk county and form a complete suburban design, finally become a High -tech wing.
Functioning as the mega infrastructure, Shanghai Metro Line 3 greatly contributes to urban mobility, urban vitality, as well as the efficiency of civic operation. However, it has a negative impact on its neighborhood area, such as noise and segregation. When walking along the urban space around the Line 3, countless fragment space which has been broken by the Line 3 could be seen. As a result, users could only passively accept the impact of this kind of hetero-scale space on daily life and such non-
ABOVE THE STATION & BELOW THE TRACK Architectural Design of Urban Abandoned Space | Shanghai | 2019 Fall Project: HYP Cup 2019 International Student Competition in Architectural Design Instructor: Prof. Xiahong Hua, Prof. Shen Zhuang | Atelier Archmixing Personal Responsibility: Design (50%) & Graphic (60%) | Collaborated with Hongbo Jiang
benign interaction has been creating the marginal zone in plenty of city center area. We are sorting out the overall spatial form covered by Line 3, as well as exploring the characteristics, potentials and deficiencies of the place to explore the possibility of urban regeneration under the metro coverage, which was generally regarded as the marginal and negative space, thus creating a unique place spirit. Based on the field work, the northeast side of Baoshan Road Station was chosen as the design base for researching interaction happening between daily life of people and space to regenerate a new living space. The design is based on the concept of “under the light rail and above the station” to solve the problem, enhancing the complexity of area by various mixed functions of serving residents and commuters are concentrated in the space under the light rail coverage of the north base. On the other hand, it aims to alleviate urban problems and bring more vitality to the neighborhood "above the station".
The project derives its purpose from on site land changes and reclamation that the site underwent over the last few decades. We were interested to study the relationship of the three adjacent districts (Seaport, commercial and Industrial) on our site and what their relationship is to water. With high contamination levels on site and the duration that would take to revitalize the land + high land value of the existing site – we took a decision to shift our site’s focus to the three distinct districts. As we started designing and
DYNAMIC THRESHOLD Urban Design of The Massport Site in South Boston | Boston | 2019 Fall Project: Harvard GSD MAUD Core Studio - Elements of Urban Design Instructor: Stephen Gray, Rahul Mehrotra, Peter Rowe, Michael Manfredi, Yun Fu | Harvard GSD Personal Responsibility: Design (50%) & Graphic (90%) & Model (50%) | Collaborated with Sai Joshi High Pass in GSD MAUD Core Studio | 12.2019 & Student Winner, Architecture Masterprize | 11.2021
understanding these adjacencies, the parcel of water coinciding the three districts became our focus and driver for the design. We were interested to understand how water can be used as a dominant physical element for our design. This further led us to the question, ‘what are the repercussions of letting water as a physical element dominate our design? Hence, the project focused on studying sea level rise and flooding in our site area. This led us to a broader ecological thought that – water or the natural environment today is trying to claim back its land back from us that we reclaimed. What if we give this land back to the environment? What if we let nature take its course and start claiming its land from us? Our design evolved at the threshold of a man-made intervention and the environment’s natural course back into the land. The design aims to accommodate all the fluctuations from today to the earliest flooding threshold of 75 years when the sea level rises by 5 ft and more than 70% of our site will claimed back by water.
Danwei, the communist work-life urban unit, into today’s Chinese cities was usually an enclosed community, built by government or state-owned corporations, to provide jobs, housing and other welfare facilities to their employees. It then represented a unique vision of constructing city in China under Planned Economy. However, the physical walls of these
BEIJING DANWEI COMPOUND 2.0 Urban Research & Design Test of Banwei (Work Unit) Compound | Beijing | 2018 Fall Project: Graduation Porject of TJU & POLIMI | Individual Work Instructor: Yiru Huang, Luca Fabris The Excellent Graduation Thesis of TJU & POLIMI, Master of Architecture | 04. 2019 Student Winner, Architecture Masterprize | 11.2021
outdated superblock compound units became problematic nowadays. They caused traffic congestions, inefficient urban space utilization, and ultimately the privatization of public facilities. To solve the problem, I transformed the solemn walls in Danwei to a more nuanced boundary, so to encourage collaborations between different parties in the city. In this way, a clear boundary was created between the street level public space and the new “second level” private residential space, in order to protect the property rights, and in the meantime, maximize the denizens’ uses of public space. Therefore, a more porous interface between Danwei dwellers and the urban public replaced the existing solemn walls.
The site, Jing’an Temple Square is relatively 7m lower than West Nanjing Road, so the installation is understood as a set of open landscape in this site, and looks like a bonsai of the city, getting involved with a soft and light profile. Two arc-shaped ridges scattered, as if mountains in the basin, cleverly responding to the open stage and the crowded metro exit. Due to the square stone
FLEXIBLE LANDSCAPE Architectural Design of The Urban Installation | Shanghai | 2015 Fall Personal Responsibility: Chief Designer | Design (50%) & Gaphic (90%) Design Team: Yan Wang (Project Leader), Xudong Zhu, Weile Huang, Yibo Wang Archdaily: https://www.archdaily.com/775968/flexible-landscape-goa-architects | 10. 2015 Silver Award, Crossing Boundaries CIID 2015 Open Show | 10. 2015 & Student Winner, Architecture Masterprize | 11.2021
material ground does not allow any damage, the whole installation was impossible to has basis or ground fixation. And considering of the powerful typhoon damage, the designers eventually decided to adopt 50 pieces of streamline 20-meter long wooden bamboo forming a fluctuating body. In the August of Shanghai, the temperature was scorching, this “arc-mountain ” provided space for abundant public activities in the square with the two shaded space. The water mist sprays hidden in the gap of frame continuing cooled the square. Meanwhile, mist-shrouded scene enhanced the sight of the visual impression of urban landscape bonsai. Under the summer sun, and occasionally appeared a rainbow on top of the mountain, which maked people feel relaxing.
Significant debate and resource – political, economic and technological – is devoted to the twin issues of affordable and mass, high volume housing. Invariably this entails new, sprawl developments, satellite cities, large corporate stakeholders, etc. Alternatively, or complementarily,
ACQUIRE & DESIGN & DELIEVER Digital Design of Parametric Ruled Surface Components | Shangahi | 2019 Fall Workshop: 2019 DigitalFUTURES Shanghai | Tongji University Instructor: Patrik Schumacher, Shajay Bhooshan, Tommaso Casucci, Vishu Bhooshan | ZHA CODE Personal Responsibility: Team Leader | Design (50%) & Graphic (90%) Design Team: Xudong Zhu, Mark Chou, Yaobin Wang, Tongtong Ning, Kundi Shu
there is the necessary, sustainable and vibrant model of urban densification with digitally empowered, small and medium entrepreneurs –consumers, architects, developers, contractors, tradespeople, etc. This involves far greater variables and thus a tight fit for data-driven and game technologies to acquire physical and social information of sites and consumer communities, digital technologies to design for the briefs so acquired and robotic manufacturing to efficiently deliver the design solutions. The effort has to be multi-disciplinary and collaborative.
In 1997, when Hong Kong was returned to China from Britain, the government retained the first boundary between Hong Kong and mainland China, but at the same time removed the second boundary to integrate the once isolated special economic zone into the city. After the physical separation was eliminated, however, the social segregation across the
SHENZHEN URBAN CAMPUS Urban Research & Design Test along The Secondary Borderline | Shenzhen | 2016 Spring Individual Work, Excellent Graduation Design of TJU, Bachelor of Engineering in Architecture | 07. 2016 The Highest honor in CAUP, Professional Learning Award (Design Class), The 13th Academy Award of TJU | 07. 2016 Outstanding Award, TEAM20 Award for New Talent in Architecture and Urban Planning | 08. 2016 AESOP Annual Congress 2018 with the Theme of “Making Space for Hope”, Goteborg | 07. 2018
boundary did not come to rest. Therefore, this design aimed at restoring social unity in the city through architecture. I found that in Shenzhen, a melting pot of domestic migrants, education is not only advocated by the government but also valued by most immigrants climbing up the social ladder. Accordingly, I proposed an “urban campus” that ran through the entire city along the secondary physical boundary. It was an urban infrastructure that could be utilized for vocational training, general education and other leisure activities. In this way, the previous boundary for separation became the core region of the city, connecting people across the boundary through education, creating a vibrant public space.