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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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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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
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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.
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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
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XSIZE YSIZE XSIZE YSIZE
7
10
Meat area
Vegetable area
Sunken square
Sunken square
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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
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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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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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