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SI Y U L I U S ELECT ED WO RK S 2011-2019

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01 THE NEW GENERIC

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Mixed living+working tower, Miami GSD Optional Studio, May. 2019

02 INDUSTRIAL REGENERATION

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Power Plant Renovation, Shanghai CAUP Fourth Year Studio, June. 2016

03 CLIMATIC CONSTRUCT

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Fnac Retail Store, Lille ENSA-Versailles Studio, Feb. 2015

04 AN EXCAVATION OF PENN STATION

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New York, Penn Station GSD Option Studio, Dec. 2018

05 MARKET IN BETWEEN

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Dagu Road Market, Shanghai CAUP Second Year Studio, June 2013

06 TRASHSCAPE

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Boston Harbor GSD MLA Core 3, Dec. 2017

07 FOUND ACTIVATION

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Franklin Park, Boston GSD MLA Core 2, May. 2017

08 THE MALLEABLE EDGE

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Charles River Bank, Cambridge GSD MLA Core 1, Dec. 2016

09 MUSEUM IN URBAN VALLEY Folk Museum, Shanghai CAUP Third Year Studio, Nov. 2013

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THE N E W G E N E R I C

May. 2019 | Mixed living+working tower, Miami Instructor: Sharon Johnston | Individual work

This studio investigates new forms of ephemerality and adaptability in spaces for living and working through the design of a tall building in Miami, Florida. Moving beyond conventional planning scenarios of mixed use developments, the studio merges the typologies of the deep plan office building and the parking structure with scenarios of diverse working and living programs. Our research will yield a productive dialogue between the economy of the grid and the value of spatial exception in a building historically dominated by the desire to maximize floor space over the design of signature, specific space. We reject design scenarios where everything goes in favor of singular planning concepts that work for everything.

In Cedric Price’s Fun Palace, the concept of the adaptable building as a non-formalistic, abundantly porous, and non-permanent environment without the need to confirm to any set program reached a limit. Price opts for the bare minimum of an upright frame-a minimal, stackable, frame-locking unit-paired with limited components of movable screens and inflatable pod shelters. Such a building would never reach completion. Instead, it was defined by a process of endless chance and change, with inbuilt flexibility or its alternative planned obsolescence.

Today, we face pressing challenges regarding longevity in buildings. If structures rapidly face obsolescence because of their programmatic inflexibility, how can we productively design and manage space that is in constant flux? In designing for the future, what gives a long lifespan to a building where various building components become obsolete over different time frames? We question how to make an open building adaptable to different uses over time. Changing scenarios of work that emphasize innovation and collaboration have challenged the organization and space of the office plan, while the boundaries and relationships of living and working are becoming more and more porous and ephemeral.

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CORE STUDY

SHARED LIVING ROOM

CASE STUDY

Espai Verd, Spain

GROUND FLOOR PLAN

SHARED PODIUM

2

TYPICAL FLOOR PLANS

ROOM PROTOTYPE

3

SECTION

AXON Living floor

Core system

Working floor

Communal space Circulation core Patio bay

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I N D U S T R I A L R E G E N E R AT I O N

June. 2016 | Power plant conservation, Yangpu, Shanghai Instructor: Peng Zhang | Group work with Pengcheng Zeng and Pengfei Zeng

This is a project about renovating abandoned industrial buildings. Built in the early 20th century, there were many factories along Huangpu River, especially close to the estuary area where low land price and convenient location were well combined. Those factories went through a golden time when it produced half of the industrial value of Shanghai, and Shanghai accounted for half of the whole nation’s economic production. However, as pinnacles hardly last long, a rapid decline has started since 1960s.

The declination is actually the result of governmental policy. Since mid 20th century, the government decided to transform the national economic structure by shifting all the major factories from Shanghai to inland cities. Spontaneously, most of the factories along the Huangpu River were torn down and gradually replaced by mixed-use high-rises. Since our site is at the northeast bank of Huangpu River the relatively far edge of the city, some old buildings are luckily left but still in an abandoned status. The proposal is to reconstruct the whole site as a museum campus as well as a riverside park.

The buildings on site used to be a power plant and will be transformed to a group of industrial theme museums. How to balance the original structures and new functional requirements is the initial challenge. As both a museum campus and a public urban park, to achieve a consolidated connection while not losing the singularity of each building, to increase the accessibility of the riverfront to citizens while not interrupting the privacy of the museums are what we have been negotiating a lot.

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SITE BACKGROUND

200,000 $ PER MOW 100,000 $ PER MOW 50,000 $ PER MOW 25,000 $ PER MOW 10,000 $ PER MOW 5,000 $ PER MOW

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North International Settlement West International Settlement

East International Settlement

Central International Settlement

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3 Old Shanghai County

French Settlement 1919

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Industry

$:

1870 Currency

1. casting shop

1949

Shanghai Land Value, 1870

Site(Yangpu Power Station) in 1940s, on the north of Huangpu River.

2. maintenance shop

3. warehouse

4. wharf

Future site plan (proposed by Shanghai Urban Planning Department)

STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS

Casting shop

Maintenance shop

Warehouse

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GROUND FLOOR PLAN

SECOND FLOOR PLAN

A

B

C

B

C

A

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Section A-A

Section B-B

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C L I M AT I C C O N S T R U CT

Feb. 2015 | Fnac Retail Design, Lille Instructor: Philippe Rahm | Group research work, Individual design proposal

This world: a monster of energy, without beginning, without end; a firm, iron magnitude of force that does not grow bigger or smaller, that does not expend itself but only transforms itself .

--- Friedrich Nietzsch Fnac(one of the largest French retail chain selling cultural and electonic products) as part of the intellectual identity of French cities is now challenged by the popularity of online shopping. We need to reinvent a program for the cultural retail. However, what if the functional program meet its geographic breakdown requirements? This Fnac locates at the crossroad with different urban key figures in the city centre of Lille: near the Grand Place and a few blocks away from the Lille-Flandres train station, making it an emblematic place in the town centre. But now the existing building on site is fading, which sets the expectation for the incoming new building to stand for its appearance and meet the climatic demand of the region.

The new Fnac is composed of four correlated layers. First is the light layer. Ground, roof and facade together consist a lighting protective screen, assigning proper Lux to different functional programs. The second layer is thermal insulation made by cotton fabrics, covering the place where people stay for a relatively longer time, like books area, children products, salon and restaurant. Areas like electronic zone are less insulated since people are likely to move around, talk to a technical assistant and discuss with friends, thus produce more heat by themselves. The third is sound layer, which insures the reading people a quiet space and talking people a free environment. The fourth is humidity layer, helping balance Lille’s dry climatic by technically using rainwater. As a thermodynamic driven project, the design process started with maximumly using natural light, which is the key and assigned topic to the specific site of Lille. Together with other factors like temperature, ventilation, humidity and sound, the climatic dimensions of an indoor space are largely increased. These subtle differences further divide a general space to multiples, which properly meet the various environmental requirement of Fnac’s wide range of products.

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clIMAtIc eleMentS

reGIon-lIlle

PROGRAM PROJECTION

electric light

400

FIELD THERMODYNAMIC

topography sand and clay white chalk chalk marl clay and limestone Limestone

radiation

Geological

color

coal 300

evaporation

N

Mineral

350

light

temperature

150h

20 km/h

100h

10 km/h Prevailing winds direction 5 km/h

150h0h 100h Jan Feb. Mars April May June July August Sept. Oct. Nov. Dec.

ensoleilment

20 km/h 0 km/h 10 km/h 5 km/h

250

50h

Agriculture

Prevailing winds direction

200h

200h 50h

conduction Incoming solar shortwave radiation

reverberation

High clouds Incoming solar shortwave radiation

Outgoing longwave radiation

brick

Outgoing longwave radiation

Earth surface

200

Digestion

convection

Humidity

living vernacular architecture

Absorption

Industry

150

pressure

wavelength

potato root chicory root chicory

100

potato production in in France potato production potato production inFrance France potato production in France

root chicory root chicory

chicory

root chicory root chicory

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rootroot chicory chicory

reinventing a program for a cultural retail for France crisis of business and intellectual model

112 :: 2 -3 semaines 25° 25° 1 Garde Garde -3 Soutirage (33CL,75CL) entre 22 et 9semaines degrees entre 2 et:12 degrees Fermentation Soutirage (33CL,75CL) 110 Garde -3 entre 2229 et degrees entre et degrees Fermentation 110 Garde : 299semaines -3 semaines 12 Soutirage (33CL,75CL) 2 et 9 degrees 12 Soutirage (33CL,75CL) 1entre Garde : 2 -3 semaines 2 et: 92 degrees 1entre Garde -3 semaines Soutirage (33CL,75CL) beer entre1012 Fermentation 2 10 et degrees Garde : 2 -3 semaines Fermentation entre 291 et 9 degrees entre 2 et 9 112 Garde : 2 degrees -3 semaines Soutirage (33CL,75CL) entre 2 et 9 degrees 12 Soutirage (33CL,75CL) 1 Garde : 2 -3 semaines 1 Garde : 2 -3 semaines 12 Soutirage (33CL,75CL)

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Food/products

Melatonin

1st layer Lux

THE SITE

.com

Area need

2nd layer thermal

3rd layer humid

4th layer sound

LUX DRAFT

.com

Situated in the city center.com of .com

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Lille, the site is very close to Lille’s only train station and How to build a new shelter for Fnac which is falling down due to the on line shopping? densely surrounded by historic buildings. Although the height of these of buildings limited, Fnac was first found in 1954 in paris, and gradually became the intellectual identity Frenchare cities, also has stores in many europe countries. the narrow streets and the However, taking cultural and electronic as their main products, Fnac is more and more challenged by on line shopping. high latitude of Lille still cause the universal lack of sunlight, which is the least tolerable CLImATIC ConSTRUCT 01 thing for French people.

30 25 20 15 10

Height (m)

Lille is in the most northeast part of France and always meets more than half overcast days during a year. After analyzing the daylight factor from Ecotect, we can get a series of average Lux value on an overcast day. It is not hard to tell that the Lux is largely influenced by the shape and height of surrounding buildings, then how to combine the natural light and retail programs to a maximum extent remains challenging.

1000 800 600 400 200

Lux on an overcast day

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GROUND FLOOR PLAN

DEVELOPING PROCESS

GROUND FLOOR PAVING

6

6

1

Lux simulation from Ecotect

Area with effective daily light

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7 15

8

20 19

16 12

13 9

2

Effective daily light distribution

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Sun angle at Summer Solstice

10

3 4

14

5

11

Sun angle at Winter Solstice

Wall partition 6

Glass partition

1. Region beer

5. Phone/ Pod

9. Video game

13. Cuisine

17. Reading space

2. TV

6. Entrance

10. Printer

14. Salon

18. Children area

3. Stereo

7. Laptop

11. Reception

15. Lab

19. Books

4. Camera

8. DVD

12. Earphone

16. Restaurant

20. E-books

Local brick

5%

30%

50%

70% Relative reflection rate

Structure

CLIMATIC PLAN & SECTION

Lux

28 26 150

100

200

200

300

400 50

20

Relative humidity(%)

40 60

20

Temperature section

Light repartition section Temperature layer

Temperature (c ˚ )

low

Air pressure (hPa)

high

Humidity section

Air ventilation section

Humidity plan

Air ventilation plan

Sound layer

100lux 50lux 150lux

300lux

400lux 50lux

200lux 200lux 100lux 250lux 300lux 150lux 300lux 200lux 250lux400lux

22 C︎º

26 C︎º

28 C︎º

26 C︎º

150lux

300lux

Translucent floor

Translucent concrete roof

Light repartition plan

20 C︎º

24 C︎º

300lux

Temperature plan

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04 | A N

E XCAVAT I O N O F P E N N S TAT I O N

Dec. 2018 | New York, Penn Station Instructor: Gary Hilderbrand | Individual work

Memories are not localizable but fragments as individual mental images, where a past sleeps. It ties us to that place… It’s personal, not interesting to anyone else, but after all that’s what gives a neighborhood its character.

---Michel de Certeau Believing in that, this third generation of Penn station is pledged for being legible and calls for interpretation on memories. The design initiates with a system of objects created via four steps: reveal the current spatial order from an internal perspective, superimpose the past and present footprints which generate forms, notate on a site gird that merged from three periods of Penn station, and relocate the forms with the notation. Beyond this linear process, each step is also independent and contributes to the whole manipulation to different extents. As solo speakers and coordinating companions, the objects are formal as well as functional. As another imposed system, bands of trees are inserted into the system of objects, follow a singular orientation and varies the atmospheres. Ultimately, the site becomes a canvas of events, where the memorable traces of Penn station are woven, but unnecessary for nostalgia or sympathy. It ceaselessly projects images to individuals mind, and the subtle differentiations of each projection together portray Penn station.

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SITE

FIELD CONDITION STUDY

12th Ave

Reveal the current spatial order from an internal perspective.

11th Ave

I

Upper Concourse

Lower Concourse

10th Ave

9th Ave

Superimpose the past and present footprints which generate a set of forms.

II Relocate the forms/objects with notation.

8th Ave

PENN

PENN

STATION

STATION

IV

OBJECTS AND PROGRAM

7th Ave entrance

slide down

café

planting screen

stage restaurant

Site Grid_1900

2018

yoga room

exhibition

cut out bus drop off

shelter

water feature

kiosk

amphitheater

bus pick up

cut out

Site Grid_1910

1911

The original Penn station, erected in 1910, was the architects’ highest salute to travelers, however got demolished in the 1960s. With all its volume compressed to the underground, the current Penn station poorly functions and leaves us a depressing space. As invisible identities, the history of it has been concealed from even a heavy daily flow of 650,000 people. Moreover, it is the accumulation of the each passenger’s perception that constitutes the current image of Penn station, however negative.

café

Site Grid_1963

water feature

cut out

cut out

booth

booth

bench

ticketing

entrance

café

Notate on a site gird that merged from three periods of Penn station.

III water feature waiting room information

tea room

shop

playshelter

pavilion

glass room

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AXONOMETRIC_AFTER

AXONOMETRIC_BEFORE

Street Level

Street Level

Upper Concourse

Upper Concourse

Lower Concourse

Lower Concourse

Train Platform

Train Platform

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17

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05 | MARKET IN BETWEEN June 2013 | Dagu Road Farmer market, Shanghai Instructor: Yuhui Zhu | Individual work

The site locates between a high-rise neighborhood and a group of old three-story houses in center Shanghai. As a common case in China and many other developing countries, the newly built tall apartments are only affordable for middle class and above. And the old lower blocks, lacking maintenance, are eager to be torn down. Voracious landlords of these old houses always rent one unit to several fringe families, and usually a whole family have to cramp into a single room.

Along with the rapid construction tide, there has been an enlarging communication barrier between wealthy people and the poor. This issue becomes more acute when the two groups live close, or in other word, when the poor can closely observe the life of the rich. What is worse is that the universal social value is skewing to flatter the rich and people are getting crazy about pecuniary affairs. Therefore it is not surprising to see the owners of the old houses offer to demolish their properties in order to get compensated with new apartments, probably in a substitutive high-rise building close to the same place. People are getting away from our legendary culture and tradition, and if there is no awareness of introspection, the downfall of the nation is not far. In such a context, for this project, the market is where the two groups meet, and it is not only an interest but an obligation to create a place that can balance their contradictions to a relative harmony. There may never be an ideal state, but we should never stop pursuing a bridge that helps to get closer.

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GROUND FLOOR PLAN

SITE BACKGROUND

3

4 Traditional market, Excerpt from Along the river during Ching Ming Festival, by artist Zeduan Zhang, circa 1100s, Bianliang, capital of China at that time.

5

Dagu Road

2

Modern market, Chongwenmen Market, 1950s, Beijing, China Old

Current

The disappearing traditional markets and increasing modern markets in Shanghai, 2015

Size

Market has changed quite much. From the traditional outdoor markets to the indoor ones, not only the size is blowing up, but the latter is gradually substituting the former ones. At the same time, both are strongly hit by supermarkets.

Convenient

1

The major modern markets is getting more and more influential, however, the larger they are, the longer the distance they can serve, which makes it less convenient and plain comparing to the lively small size traditional markets, which flexibly locate inside neighborhoods.

Major markets

CURRENT MARKET ON SITE

Interior

Entrance

South neighborhood

North neighborhood

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SECOND AND THIRD FLOOR PLAN SECOND AND THIRD FLOOR PLAN

XSIZE YSIZE XSIZE YSIZE

7

XSIZE YSIZE XSIZE YSIZE

7

10

Meat area

Vegetable area

Sunken square

Sunken square

6

1 9

8

1. Vegetable

4. Fruit

7. Nut

9. Café bar

2. Office

5. Sunken square

8. Grocery

10. Meat

3. Restroom

6. Main entrance

DA GU ROAD MARKET 10 21

North facade

South facade

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06 | T R A S H S CA P E Dec. 2017 | The Adaptive City, South Boston Instructor: Rosalea Monacella | Cohesive teamwork with Mark Heller and Sherly Zhang

This studio aims to conceptualize and articulate the adaptive city, the city in a state of flux as it responds to changing environmental, programmatic, market, and sociocultural conditions. The studio places emphasis on the contingent, the provisional, and the conditional, and asks students to amplify productive instabilities while inventing new types of urban and landscape form.

Landscape offers a distinct starting point for the project of city making. On the one hand, landscape has the ability to address and integrate the multiple environmental, infrastructural, social, and scalar challenges at play in urban design. Furthermore, it can also uniquely absorb and hybridize these multiple functions and initiatives in ways that architecture or planning alone cannot. On the other hand, landscape offers operational frameworks and modes of working that emphasize dynamics, change, improvisation, and adaptation— mechanisms that are as much in play in ecosystems as they are in cities. Consequently, we explored using landscape both as medium and as mechanism for testing ideas about the design of the city. It will emphasize connections and hybridizations of urban systems and environmental. And it will utilize working methodologies that privilege experimentation and iterative modeling—playful and critical prototyping—that could suggest pathways toward new landscape-based approaches to urban form.

The intention of our group is to propose a prototype for potential sea level rise and frequently happening storm surge problems for urban edges like South Boston harbor through combining ocean pollution issues. Garbage collected from the ocean to our site will be sorted, cleaned, compressed and molded to psychical cubes which are used as the modular land build materials, forming a trashscape that performs and evolves with time dealing with ecological crisis but also as an on-going construction campus, providing educational programs and civic space for the surrounding neighborhood.

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INPUTS INPUTS

OCEAN SITE RESEARCH GARBAGE

SITE

Oil Sulfates Organic Chemicals Heavy Metals Oil Waste Solvents Sulfates Paints and Dyes Organic Chemicals Detergents Heavy Metals Plastic Waste PaperSolvents Paints and Dyes Detergents INDUSTRIAL WASTEWATER Plastic Oil Paper Sulfates Organic Chemicals INDUSTRIAL WASTEWATER Heavy Metals Waste Solvents Paints and Dyes Detergents Plastic Paper Oil Sulfates INDUSTRIAL WASTEWATER Organic Chemicals Photodegradation Heavy Metals Waste Solvents Paints and Dyes Detergents Photodegradation Plastic

GENEALOGICAL TREE GENEALOGICAL TREE INPUTS

INPUTS

NATURAL PROCESS + COLLECTION NATURAL PROCESS + COLLECTION

Pathogens Phosphorous Bacteria Parasites Pathogens Worms Phosphorous Molds Bacteria Micropollutants Parasites Ammonium Nitrate Worms Molds Micropollutants DOMESTIC SEWAGE Ammonium Nitrate Pathogens Phosphorous Bacteria DOMESTIC SEWAGE Parasites Worms Molds Micropollutants Ammonium Nitrate

Bacteria Parasites Worms Molds Bacteria Livestock Waste Parasites Eroded Topsoil Worms Micropollutants Molds Plant Nutrient Runoff Livestock Waste Eroded Topsoil Micropollutants AGRICULTURAL WASTEWATER Plant Nutrient Runoff Bacteria Parasites Worms AGRICULTURAL WASTEWATER Molds Livestock Waste Eroded Topsoil Micropollutants Plant Nutrient Runoff

Pathogens

Bacteria Parasites AGRICULTURAL Worms Erosion Molds Livestock Waste Eroded Topsoil Micropollutants Erosion Plant Nutrient Runoff

Phosphorous SEWAGE DOMESTIC

Paper

INDUSTRIAL WASTEWATER

Bacteria Movement Parasites

Force

Worms Molds Micropollutants Movement Ammonium Nitrate

Force

DOMESTIC SEWAGE

Photodegradation

Movement

Tin Paper Plastic Food Products Tin Cotton Fiber Paper Wool Fiber Plastic Oil and Grease Food Products Aluminum Cotton Fiber Wool Fiber Oil and Grease RESIDENTIAL RUBBISH Aluminum Tin Paper Plastic RESIDENTIAL RUBBISH Food Products Cotton Fiber Wool Fiber Oil and Grease Aluminum

Sediment Eroded Topsoil Heavy Metals SURFACE Pesticides Detergents Microplastics Oil and Grease

Tin

WASTEWATER

Oil Sewage Bacteria Biosites Oil Parasites Sewage Nitrogen Bacteria Phosphorous Biosites Plastics Parasites Rubbish Ash Nitrogen Phosphorous WATER COMMERCE POLLUTION Plastics Oil Rubbish Ash Sewage Bacteria WATER COMMERCE POLLUTION Biosites Parasites Nitrogen Phosphorous Plastics Rubbish Ash Oil Sewage COMMERCE POLLUTION WATER Bacteria Biosites Parasites Nitrogen Phosphorous Plastics Rubbish Ash

RUNOFF

Sediment

Paper RESIDENTIAL RUBBISH

Eroded TopsoilRUNOFF SURFACE

Plastic Food Products Cotton Fiber Wool Fiber Oil and Grease Aluminum

AGRICULTURAL WASTEWATER Force

Sediment Eroded Topsoil Heavy Metals Pesticides Sediment Detergents Eroded Topsoil Microplastics Heavy Metals Oil and Grease Pesticides Detergents Microplastics Oil and Grease RUNOFF SURFACE

Heavy Metals Pesticides Detergents Microplastics Oil and Grease

RESIDENTIAL RUBBISH

SURFACE RUNOFF

Oil and Grease Fuel particulate Antifreeze Metals Oil and Grease Nitrogen Fuel particulate Phosphorous Antifreeze Metals Nitrogen Phosphorous

Sediment Eroded Topsoil Heavy Metals Fertilizers Sediment Decrease water Eroded vapor Topsoil Heavy Metalsof water Disruption Fertilizers cycle Decrease water vapor Disruption of water DEFORESTATION + cycle Sediment URBANIZATION Eroded Topsoil Heavy Metals DEFORESTATION + Fertilizers DecreaseURBANIZATION water vapor Disruption of water cycle

VEHICULAR POLLUTANTS

Oil and Grease Fuel particulate Antifreeze VEHICULAR Metals Nitrogen Phosphorous

POLLUTANTS

Oil and Grease

Sediment

Fuel particulate POLLUTANTS VEHICULAR

Eroded Topsoil DEFORESTATION + Heavy Metals URBANIZATION Fertilizers

Antifreeze Metals Nitrogen Phosphorous

WATER COMMERCE POLLUTION

Decrease water vapor Disruption of water cycle

VEHICULAR POLLUTANTS

DEFORESTATION + URBANIZATION

Erosion

NATURAL PROCESS + COLLECTION Photodegradation

10% 886

1,062m3 886

PLASTIC PACKAGING

0.01M 50

2,359cm3

100,000cm3

PLASTIC 2,444m3 PACKAGING 2,039

1.3M

50 OTHER LARGE 100,000cm3 FLOATABLES

OTHER LARGE FLOATABLES

10%

23%

400

750cm3

GLASS 765m3 BEVERAGE BOTTLES 638

0.01M 1,062m3 50 886 100,000cm3 0.01M

10%

400 PLASTIC 2,359cm3 PACKAGING

2,444m3 2,039 1.0M

1.1M

10%

23%

1,000,000 GLASS BEVERAGE 750cm3 BOTTLES

638

1.3M

GLASS BEVERAGE BOTTLES 1,000,000

920cm3

1,062m3

2,039 1.0M 2,444m3 400 2,039 2,359cm3 1.0M

765m3

PLASTIC GROCERY BAGS 20

PLASTIC GROCERY 1,987m3 BAGS 1.657

4.2M

23%

590cm3

PLASTIC BEVERAGE 2,465m3 BOTTLES 2,056

1.7M

23%

1.1M 7.2%

1.9M

1,987m3920cm3 1.657

2,444m3

638

20 PLASTIC GROCERY BAGS

590cm3 2,465m3 2,056 4.2M

PLASTIC BEVERAGE BOTTLES 450

36.9cm3

STRAWS + 63.8m3 STIRRERS 53.2

7.2%

1.7M

450 PLASTIC BEVERAGE BOTTLES

36.9cm3 63.8m3 53.2

STRAWS + 1.7M STIRRERS 50

765m3

1.3M 765m3 1,000,000 638 750cm3 1.3M

OTHER 1,062m3 LARGE FLOATABLES 886

1.0M

0.01M

20

50

200

200

50

450

20

1,000,000

400

50

8.5cm3

12.7cm3

12.2cm3

295cm3

36.9cm3

590cm3

920cm3

750cm3

2,359cm3

100,000cm3

FOOD WRAPPERS

HARBOR TUGBOAT LOW DENSITY FLOATABLES

PLASTIC BOTTLE CAPS

METAL BOTTLE CAPS

OCEAN BARGE HIGH DENSITY FLOATABLES

HARBOR TUGBOAT LOW DENSITY FLOATABLES

BEVERAGE CONTAINERS

STRAWS + STIRRERS

CONVEYOR BELT ON-SITE TRANSPORT

OCEAN BARGE HIGH DENSITY FLOATABLES

HARBOR TUGBOAT LOW DENSITY FLOATABLES

EQUIPMENT

OCEAN BARGE HIGH DENSITY FLOATABLES

CONVEYOR BELT ON-SITE TRANSPORT

OCEAN BARGE HIGH DENSITY FLOATABLES

COLLECTION VIA HARBOR

WASH + DRY

COLLECTION VIA LAND

GLASS BEVERAGE BOTTLES

SORT + DENSIFY

BULLDOZER MOUNDING

COMMODIFY

COMPRESS DUMP TRUCK ON-SITE TRANSPORT

COMMODIFY LONG ARM EXCAVATOR EARTH REMOVAL + TRANSPORT

BULLDOZER MOUNDING

COMMODIFY

GRIND, PELLITIZE, MOLD WASH + DRY

BULLDOZER MOUNDING BULLDOZER MOUNDING

LONG ARM EXCAVATOR EARTH REMOVAL + TRANSPORT

COMPRESS

LANDFORM

SCULPT

COMPRESS

SORT + DENSIFY

OTHER LARGE FLOATABLES

LONG ARM EXCAVATOR EARTH REMOVAL + TRANSPORT

DUMP TRUCK ON-SITE TRANSPORT

CONVEYOR BELT ON-SITE TRANSPORT

PLASTIC PACKAGING

LONG ARM EXCAVATOR EARTH REMOVAL + TRANSPORT

COMPRESS

WASH + DRY

COLLECTION VIA COLLECTION VIAHARBOR LAND

PLASTIC GROCERY BAGS

DUMP TRUCK ON-SITE TRANSPORT

WASH + DRY

HARBORCOLLECTION TUGBOAT VIA HARBOR LOW DENSITY FLOATABLES

PLASTIC BEVERAGE BOTTLES

DUMP TRUCK ON-SITE TRANSPORT

CONVEYOR BELT ON-SITE TRANSPORT

COLLECTION VIA HARBOR

INDUSTRIAL PROCESS

295cm3

BEVERAGE 1,625m3 CONTAINERS 1,356

7.2%

3.4M

7.2%

12.2cm3

METAL 21.3m3 BOTTLE CAPS 17.7

50 STRAWS + STIRRERS

1.657 1.1M 1,987m3 20 1.657 920cm3 1.1M

5

EQUIPMENT

INDUSTRIAL PROCESS INDUSTRIAL PROCESS

1,356

1,987m3

2,056 4.2M 2,465m3 450 2,056 590cm3 4.2M

9.4cm3

CIGARETTE BUTTS

EQUIPMENT

200 BEVERAGE 295cm3 1,625m3 CONTAINERS

BEVERAGE 1.9M CONTAINERS 200

18.7%

EQUIPMENT

12.7cm3

PLASTIC BOTTLE 42.5m3 CAPS 35.45

2,465m3

53.2 1.7M 63.8m3 50 53.2 36.9cm3 1.7M

18.7%

26.6 3.4M

METAL BOTTLE 1.7M CAPS 200

18.7%

97.5 12.4M

17.7

PLASTIC BOTTLE 3.4M CAPS 50

63.8m3

1,356

23.2%

FOOD 32m3 WRAPPERS

1,625m3

1.9M 1,625m3 200 1,356 295cm3 1.9M

200 METAL BOTTLE 12.2cm3 21.3m3 CAPS

35.45

0.6%

15.3%

20

8.5cm3

CIGARETTE BUTTS 117m3

18.7%

26.6

FOOD WRAPPERS 3.4M

0.2% 0.4% 0.3%

1.1% 5

50 PLASTIC BOTTLE 12.7cm3 42.5m3 CAPS

8.5cm3 32m3

97.5

21.3m3 17.7 1.7M 21.3m3 200 17.7 12.2cm3 1.7M 23.2%

20 FOOD WRAPPERS

9.4cm3 117m3

23.2%

5 CIGARETTE BUTTS

0.6%

15.3%

0.2% 0.4% 0.3%

35.45 3.4M 42.5m3 50 35.45 12.7cm3 3.4M

1.1%

26.6 3.4M 32m3 20 26.6 8.5cm3 3.4M

9.4cm3

RUBBISH MAKEUP

42.5m3

97.5 12.4M 117m3 5 97.5 9.4cm3 12.4M

CIGARETTE BUTTS 12.4M

Erosion

23.2%

32m3

0.6%

15.3%

0.2% 0.4% 0.3%

1.1%

117m3

Force

0.6%

15.3%

0.2% 0.4% 0.3%

RUBBISH MAKEUP

1.1%

NATURAL PROCESS + COLLECTION

RUBBISH MAKEUP RUBBISH MAKEUP

Movement

COMMODIFY

GRIND, PELLITIZE, MOLD

LANDFORM

SCULPT

COLLECTION VIA LAND

SORT + DENSIFY

GRIND, PELLITIZE, MOLD

LANDFORM

SCULPT

COLLECTION VIA LAND

SORT + DENSIFY

GRIND, PELLITIZE, MOLD

LANDFORM

SCULPT

INDUSTRIAL PROCESS

PROJECT GENEALOGY PROJECT GENEALOGY PROJECT GENEALOGY SEATING SEATING

Global flows and regional connection

SEATING

Site sections

BOSTON NEIGHBORHOODS DENSITY STUIDES

S

SM

INDUSTRIAL WATERFRONTS

ML

S

L S

single

2m*1m 4m*1m

single linear

SEATING

2m*1m

6m*2m 4m*1m 6m*2m 2m*1m 6m*2m

LANDFORM TAXONOMY LANDFORM TAXONOMY LANDFORM TAXONOMY

East Boston COV: 20.0%

Dorchester COV: 18.5%

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute Falmouth, MA COV: 10.7%

South Boston Waterfront COV: 21.3%

Downtown COV: 33.3%

Charlestown COV: 27.4%

West End COV: 21.6%

Virginia Institute of Marine Science Gloucester Point, VA COV: 8.1%

Scripps Institution of Oceanography La Jolla, CA COV: 12.1%

Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute Fort Pierce, FL COV: 3.4%

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute Quissett Campus Falmouth, MA COV: 4.4%

Brooklyn Navy Yard New York, NY COV: 15.6%

Univ. of Rhode Island School of Oceanography Narragansett, RI COV: 6.0%

Univ. of Alaska Fairbanks Institute of Marine Science Fairbanks, AK COV: 8.2%

Inner Harbor Baltimore, MD COV: 13.8%

UMass Dartmouth School for Marine Science & Technology New Bedford, MA COV: 7.4%

Univ. of Miami Rosentiel School of Marine and Atm. Sci. Miami, FL COV: 9.3%

Northwest Industrial Portland, OR COV: 17.2%

Strip District Pittsburgh, PA COV: 37.3%

TREE PIT

2m*1m

4m*1m M

L

TREE PIT TREE PIT

TREE PIT

single

linear allee linear allee single allee

M 4m*1m

linear

OPEN FIELD

MEADOW

OPEN FIELD

MEADOW

OPEN FIELD

MEADOW

2m*3-6m

OPEN FIELD

2m*3-6m 2-4m*6-8m 2m*3-6m

4-6m*8-15m 2-4m*6-8m

L

HEDGE/BERM

TERRACE

1m*3m

3m*6-10m 2m*4-6m

3m*6-10m

4m*10-15m 2m*4-6m 4m*10-15m

allee

1m*2m

TERRACE 2m*4-6m 1m*2m

1m*6-10m 2m*10-15m 1m*6-10m 2m*10-15m 1m*3m

2m*4-6m

MOUNTAIN

ISLAND

EXCAVATED EXCAVATED EXCAVATED

2m*4-6m

2m*3m

4-6m*6-8m

3m*4m

3m*4m

4-6m*6-10m

3m*4m

4-6m*6-10m

4-6m*6-10m

4-6m*6-10m 4-6m*6-8m

Basketball15m*28m Tennis court 18*36m Equipments 4-6m*8-12m Basketball15m*28m Tennis court 18*36m

2m*3m

6-10m*10-15m

6-10m*10-15m 4-6m*6-8m 6-10m*10-15m

4-6m*6-10m

Basketball15m*28m Tennis court 18*36m

4-6m*6-10m 3m*4m

3m*4m

6-10m*8-15m

6-10m*8-15m 4-6m*6-10m 6-10m*8-15m

4-6m*8-12m

LANDFORM TAXONOMY

EXCAVATED

4-6m*6-8m

Basketball15m*28m Tennis court 18*36m

4m*10-15m

ISLAND 3m*4m

Equipments 4-6m*8-12m

1m*2m

4-6m*8-12m

1m*6-10m

3m*4m

3m*4m

MOUNTAIN 2m*3m

Equipments 4-6m*8-12m

2m*4-6m 4-6m*8-12m

4-6m*8-12m

2m*10-15m

Equipments 4-6m*8-12m

RECREATION

2m*10-15m 4-6m*8-15m

ISLAND ISLAND

2m*3m 1m*3m

1m*6-10m HEDGE/BERM

6-10m*8-15m

6-10m*8-15m 4-6m*6-10m 6-10m*8-15m

6-10m*10-15m 6-10m*8-15m

6-10m*8-15m

Industrial District Seattle, WA COV: 24.8%

Canalport Chicago, IL COV: 20.3%

EMBEDDED LANDSCAPE EMBEDDED EMBEDDED LANDSCAPE LANDSCAPE

EMBEDDED LANDSCAPE

DENSITY PRECEOCEANOGRAPHIC CAMPUSES

RECREATION

MOUNTAIN MOUNTAIN

1m*2m

4m*10-15m 3m*6-10m 6m*2m

RECREATION RECREATION

2m*4-6m

MEADOW

2m*4-6m

3m*6-10m

4-6m*8-15m 2m*3-6m

TERRACE

PROJECT GENEALOGY TERRACE

1m*3m

2-4m*6-8m 2-4m*6-8m 4-6m*8-15m

HEDGE/BERM HEDGE/BERM

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500 me-

PROJECT GENEALOGY

PLAN ANDPLAN TIMELINE OVERALL

PROCESS DIAGRAM

GROWING PLAN

Industrial spine Year 0

Year 2

Industries on site start to generate “cubes” from trash collected.

Sealevel rise defense

1

“Cubes” start to be piled up along the coast, creating a new landform as well as defensing for future storms / sea level rise.

Educational Facilities 2

3

Year 4

The exhibition center also starts to be constructed, by piling up large amount of “cubes” to creat a giant, hollow mound.

As more and more trash being treated on site, Researches also starts to be carried out, looking into how to make the regeneration process more eco-friendly and productive.

Campus Infrastructure

4

Exhibition center finished and opened to the general public.

Along with the construction of the exhibition center, corresponding infrastructures are also constructed

Exhibition Center

Research Center Open to general public in year 4

6

Year 8

After enough mounds has been piled up along the coast, they start to grow into the inland, and host a better variety of programs. (i.e. commercial center, sport grounds, amphitheater, etc.)

Commercial center

8

Open to general public in year 7

Open to general public in year 5

Open to general public in year 4

Open to general public in year 8

Year 16

9

16

Until year 9, Adaquate infrastructure has been built across the site and the whole site can be opened to the general public.

As the site grows and the environment improves, some residential blocks might be develped along the edge, connected with the city fabric and also take advantage of the park environment.

View Point

Amphitheater

Open to general public in year 9

Sports Ground

Open to general public in year 7

Open to general public in year 5

Open to general public in year 4

Open to general public in year 8

Costal trees Inland trees

Sealevel rise and planting strategies

Growing layers

Inland tall grasses

GROWING PLAN

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07 | FO U N D

ACT I VAT I O N

Apr. 2017 | Franklin Park, Boston Instructor: Silvia Benedito, Jill Desimini | Individual work

F.P is open but it is a void. Olmstead gave us a playstead, golf course and zoo, but they are still underused and need to be activated. My interest is in how to regenerate the existing programs, through a new relationship with added ones, and make F.P a field for activities.

The existing programs have much potential, there can be a grid connecting them, though the connections are weak. The new programs are added catalysts to the grid, and start stimulating the park. They offer new types of engagement with F.P. For instance, the mall leads to a pond on the hill and people can see the armature echoes on the other side. The programs not only speak with each other through people’s movement and topography position, but with the neighborhood by showing a more open attitude.

The edge I have been focusing on is on the Jamaica Plain side, I have tried to extend the urban texture into the park and then let it dissolve. The edge itself is a linear plaza which from north to south merges to the wild hills, and has multiple flexibilities that blend into the community. There are several connected segments for daily use: 1. More urban, bikers can sit for a break or lunch on the way. 2. An entrance plaza welcoming people with malls, long views, kiosks. 3. Farmers markets can happen on the terraces 4. Playground for kids 5. Parents or grandparents can sit on the next segment and watch them. 6. Community gardens for the neighborhood to embrace. At the same time, those rocks are accessible with different interventions which together form another clue of adventure on the edge.

In terms of the edge for the whole park, a spatial strip connects from left to the middle, which is located in between the meandering forest and the playstead, and then points at the zoo. Besides, people can also start their journey from wildness, strolling with the topography and encountering different moments along the way.

F.P park cannot exist by itself, but needs a new level of social engagement and participation. The reactions among programs, the edges and inner space are processes of absorption and transmission, which help to prepare for the various possibilities. Thus it could be the ending but never the end of the emerald necklace.

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A TRANSFORMATION OF INVISIBLE CITIES

IMMERSED ON SITE

Found, added and merged

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URBAN EDGE

OVERALL PLAN

AFTER & BEFORE

SECTION PERSPECTIVE

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08

THE MALLEABLE EDGE

Fall. 2016 | GSD MLA Core_1 Instructor: Silvia Benedito, Danielle Choi, Gareth Doherty | Individual work

As part of the Charles River waterfront, the linear park locates in between the John W.Weeks Bridge and the Weld boathouse. However, the site is actually an inconspicuous place with rough soil, wild shrubs and grass. But still beautiful during the sunset and rise.

In the first week of this project, we did a nocturnal workshop, took pictures and sought touching moments only when it was dark. People dominate the site during the day—strolling, talking, eating, or engaging in any number of other activities. When the sun sets, however, there’s a change of ownership. As night falls, the site switches users and becomes the domain of the lights of the city.

At night, the site is the only naturally dim place in the area: the street has lampposts and light from speeding cars; dorms being standing with the brightness from each window; the water happily reflects glow on the other side of the river. The site, just for being an ignored place, is dim but offers a quiet and peaceful space, especially for people tired in the cities.

But when it is the day’s turn, with all the elements exposed, the tranquility disappeared, the site goes back to the boring place as the general know. So recalling the losing quality is what has been pursued during the five weeks design. By spatially messing the existing linear order, uncertainty and subjectivity which would let people be attracted subconsciously are expected. Also by the composition of different materials, wood and rock, stones and sand, a series of sub-multiple spatial experiences are provided, therefore people come with different moods and companions can all discover a pleasurable moment.

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NOCTURNAL CYCLE I was given dark eyes by the dark night, yet I use them to search for light.

PLACE

PEOPLE

peaceful

calm

spiritual

DARK

LIGHT (dominating dark)

MATERIAL (as coverage)

relieved sentimental

leading element

—Gu Cheng, 1979

average emerge

routine

fill

ordinary

leading element

BRIGHT

In a bright room, if people are asked to walk from one side to the other, by their own will, their footprints are probably very regular. It is because we are usually mechanically trained in our education or professional field, with or without awareness, and are likely to ignore many other “unconventional” possibilities in a light environment which suggests the watch of others.

During the daytime, the sun touches every aspect of the site and brings focus to structures extruded from the ground. Conversely, nighttime shrouds these structures in darkness, pushing viewers to engage with the site horizontally rather than vertically. The dark sky encourages people to look either where light is or where light is reflected.

The continual movement of cars impresses a strip of light along the horizontal axis of the site, elongating the existing lines of the space to emphasize its linear aspects.

Around six in the morning, a soft green light appears, a bulb attached to a crew boat that glides across the water. This horizontal movement of light and people blends the two spheres of occupation on the site: at this hour, light and people are both afforded equal access. Soon after, the democracy of the moment dwindles, the sun rises, and the theatre of lights fades away until the night returns once more.

Footprint _conscious

Footprint _subconscious

AM

In a dark room, on the other hand, the projection of our walking routines are arsy-varsy.

Darkness contributes to relieve tension and recall human beings initiate nature, which is pure and free. The fact that many people prefer night walk proves the precious quality night brings to us, which is much desired in the high pace modern life. How to bring back an enclosed and quiet personal shelter on the river site would be both a challenge and target of this project.

PM

site

site

Linear Park_nocturnal workshop [collaborate with Lanie Cohen]

SITE

URBAN PLAN & SECTION Harvard University Harvard Law School

Harvard College Dormitory

SITE

Charles River

Harvard Business School

The site is the littoral edge (linear shore) of the Harvard campus at the Charles River— more precisely, on Riverbend Park up to the wrought iron fences of the Harvard Houses between the Newell Boathouse by the John F. Kennedy St. and the John W. Weeks Pedestrian Bridge, a ten-acre public space at the heart of Cambridge. A threshold between the river and the city, this site is the new center of the evolving expansion plans for the university in Allston. The river’s edge is therefore, a liminal zone between water and solid ground, “town and gown,” major roadway and public park. It is simultaneously a destination and connection, a site for vast and slow velocities, a terrace towards the new city expansion in development.

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09 | MUSEUM I N

U R B A N VA L L E Y

Nov. 2013 | Folk museum, West Nanjing Road, Shanghai Instructor: Ping Huang | Individual work

This folk museum is for memorizing Shikumen, the unique housing type of Shanghai in the last century. However, Shikumen is disappearing due to the massive urbanization process. On the site, there used to be three individual Shikumens shared a continuous facade, however, ironically, only the facade can be preserved.

The old facade/wall acts as a transitional window, through it, we see both the past and future; the new built is a narrator, holding a dialogue between the forgotten history and the modern present. Adjacent to the old wall, the new museum keeps seeking and expressing for the previous occupiers, while actively responds to the changing environment. It is not just a building but an emotional figure, not hidden but yelling, not obedient but anxious. As a folk museum, it welcomes people to go inside and see the exhibits; as an defender, it wishes to recall the common memory for each individual passing by.

Moreover, it is also a responsible spot in the city, offering amicable public space for the surrounding cramped neighborhood. Kids play there after school, families go for a stroll after dinner, visitors can enjoy sunshine sitting on the slope. It is a museum born from the past, and exists for the moment.

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SITE

VIEW STUDY Street-Museum Museum-Exhibit Walking along the street, everything seems to be normal. But when we get closer to the old wall, the renovated windows and glass sealed gates remind us an incident: a series scenes are presented, one by one, step by step, from one side of the wall to the far behind. At that moment, the street itself is a museum, and the pedestrians are its visitors. The original museum becomes an exhibit, quietly being displayed and waiting for any glance from passengers.

View from street View through holes to surrounding buildings View through holes to nearby lanes

Shikumen, Jing’an district, Shanghai

TRANSPOSITIONAL VIEWS

FACADE

0:00’’

0:07’’

0:14’’

0:21’’

0:24’’

0:27’’

0:31’’

0:35’’

0:39’’

0:46’’

0:53’’

1:00’’

Street(West) Facade

East Facade

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放映厅

OUTSIDE-INSIDE VIEW

PLAN

6 10

7

5

3 4

9

0

5

10

15m

1 8

2

11

放映厅

9. Permanent exhibition rooms 10. Gallery 11. Gallery

1. Lounge/Tickets 2. Underground square 3. Auditorium

First Floor Plan

4. Permanent exhibition rooms 5. Old facade 6. Storage

Open to below

7. Office 8. Shop

Second Floor Plan

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