Rui Wang_ Work Sample by Rui Wang

ARCHITECTURE + Rui Wang MSAAD, GSAPP B.Arch, Tongji University

E-mail: rw2787@columbia.edu Tel: (1)9174431589 Address: 225 W, 109th Street, Apt31

CHILDCARE +

-A proposal for Green New Deal based on CLT

THERMODYNAMIC FOREST

-Jinan Natural Museum Design & Study of Forest System

THE TRAMPOLINE CAVE

FACTORY HABITAT

-Design of the Trampoline Club in the mountain of Zhejiang Province

-A Silk Factory Habitat as the New Pier Typology on Bush Terminal

INFRASTRUCTURE+ 05

REDEFINITION OF 'TOWER IN THE PARK'

-A plug-in system as infrastructure in NYCHA public housing

WATERFRONT URBAN COMPLEX

-Exploration of layered public sharing space in high density urban comercial areas

WALL SCHOOL -Rethinking culture infrastructure and urban boundary surface in LA

URBAN RENEWAL+ 08

MARKET LIFE ALONG HONGKOU HARBOR

-Waterfront Design of Hongkou Harbor & Study of Typical Waterfront Space in Chinese Paintings

RAILWAY DEMOLITION

-Redesign of City Boundary by Inserting Public Sports Space and Infrasturctures

ARCHEOLOGICAL CITY

-Renovation Design in Lilong of Shanghai & Study of Vertical Growth of Dwelling Patterns

EVERYDAY PLACE+ 11

COLLAGE LIFE-- Balcony as the Stage & Structure

THE HOME OF ALUMNI

PROFESSIONAL WORKS Rebirth of Tongfuli (INTERN) OTHERS

55 Baolong Commercial Street (INTERN)

CONTENTS

ECOLOGICAL ENVELOPE+

01 CHILDCARE+ -A proposal for Green New Deal based on CLT Fall Studio in GSAPP Instructor: Bryony Roberts Individual Work 2019.9-12 --'The studio addresses the social justice dimensions of the Green New Deal proposal, focusing on the connection between social and environmental sustainability. The framework for the studio is the 'ethic of care,' a position cultivated by social justice activists and ecofeminists to promote methods of sustaining complex human and ecological systems. Developing situated, relational and systemic approaches to design, the studio explores how the ethics of care can inspire alternative socail, spatial and environmental futures.

Jackson Heights & CLT Heavily influenced by Garden City Movement, Jackson heights is now a highly-hybrid community area with 'restricted residential communities', which in the form of co-ops and own resources that the public have little access into, such as the green space and public facilities.

Cemetery

1917 -Opening of elevated train line -Co-ops Introduced -Single and duplex houses built

Central Courtyard

Private Courtyard

Isolated Courtyard

What would the post new garden city would be in Jackson Heights? As the commercial corridor being relaced by super mall, what would the conventional retails evolve? What would the new ethic of Care would be here in Jackson Heights? The project is based on Community Land Trust(CLT) to explore how the Childcare Center could be the potential to respond to such social conditions in Jackson Heights. Credit to Nika Tepper

'GREEN VOLUME' The project starts from the sunlight study , and then focuses on the component of 'green value' functioning both as the basic plugin cultivation module and the semioutdoor playground in the crowded urban situations.It also works as the intermediate to integrate resourses of the urban environment, like the heart of the childcare center.

'GREEN HUB' The first floor plan shows the intentions of generating the public Food Incubator combined with retail markets and public space both for the city and the community. Could this be a kind of new paradigm for the infrastucture of the education institutions+ other commercial and ecological agents?

Green Module as the Greenhouse & Playground

Different plants and vegetables are cultivated on three surfaces according to their different exposure to the sunlight, providing the semioutdoor playgrounds for the toddlers with a wild but protected playgrounds with controlled climate.

Edible school initiative

The green volume also generates new potentials such as edible school. By incorporating plantings, cooking, recognizing plants as well as bringing kids exposed to clmiate issues related, nature and ecominds are introduced to kids at very early age even in urban areas where access to nature is limited.

Triangular prototypes

The triangular geometry provides new types of space for infants, generally quiet and small space with indirect sunlight and access to indoor playgrounds. Locating on third floor, the infants rooms are relatively isolated from the noise environment and maximize the use of space.

Community gardens & markets

The first floor is more public, closely connected to the urban environment and community gardens. With the food incubator, it functions both as the institution for the city and community.

SUNLIGHT STUDY

Facade detailing

The facade of the green volumn integrates the operable windows and doors, planting modules, trampolines, shading and drainage systems, working as an infrastructural device.

THERMODYNAMIC FOREST -Jinan Natural Museum Design & Study of Forest System Tongji Optional Studio (17- Week Group Work) Contribution: Concept & Strategy / Research / Museum Design / Simulation & Modeling Instructor: Li Linxue Collaborator: Yang Yanrong / Liu Xutian Spring 2018

Responsive Design

In summer, the arrangements increases the wind velocity on air passage and provides comfortable wind courtyards and shading in pulbic space. In winter, the volumes block wind, gather solar energy and restore heat in underground space.

Form manipulation & Simulation After finding the 'benard cell' as the prototype, following the key words of 'Aggregation', 'Hierarchy' & 'Adaptation', we tried different possibilities of massing to learn the benefits of aggregation at diiferent levels and built the library of the forms and their corresponding performance in order to understand and generate forms according to the site conditions.

Study of 'LAW', 'FORMS' & 'PERFORMANCE' From the specific possibilities of form manipulation and simulation, we try to understand what could be the most significant changes that could influence energy distribution and in the end learn the general principles to deal with specific weather conditions.

Summer

SUMMER-- PASSIVE VENTILATION CHANELS In summer, the prototype can generate wind spontaneously and the overall plan management also intensifies the wind from surrounding areas, thus improving ventilation to relieve the extreme heat and high humidity. The ventilation rate can be controlled by devices which block the wind or increase the wind velocity. The exhibition mode of the museum is designed flexibly conrresponding to the environmental strategy. In summer, the visiting route is combined with the consecutive shading areas provided by the inclined walls of the prototype buildings. As a result, the exhibition space permeates into and mixes with the outside environment and visitors can experience with stable and comfortable exhibition space.

Winter

WINTER-- HEAT GATHERING STOVE In winter, the single prototype works to gather and deliver heat economically and the large basement underground space works as the heat storage and the main exhibition space. The overall arangements succeed in blocking bitterly cold wind from North-east to provide visitors with stable windless outdoor space. The exhibition space mainly concentrates in underground space and thesingle prototype building is designed for theme exhibition. Every single prototype is like the stove which collects radiation and sunlight to support the indoor activities.

Form of the single device The devices on the surface of central air passage are designed to introduce and control air flow into the indoor space with various functions inside, maximizing the benefits of the prototype.

Simulation of the air flow

We select certain sequences, sizes and directions of the devices for simulation and find that in order to efficiently introduce wind from the central air passage, the opening needs to point inward at the bottom and outward at the top. Devices of different sizes are applied to different locations according to certain functions inside the museum, forming the typical surface of the central wind passage.

Detailed modell The direction, size and arrangement of every single vent is influenced by both the simulation and the function inside.

The arrangement pattern of devices

The diamond-shaped ribbon serves as the structure to support the floors and the devices are assembled as the subdivision of the structure.

In summer, the design aims at cooling the environment down. The prototype building form has an effect of shading and can generate wind spontaneously. The overall arrangement is also optimized to intensify the velocity of the wind coming from vicinity. In winter, the design mainly focuses on reducing the wind velocity as well as gathering and delivering heat economically. The prototype form enables the building to efficiently collect solar radiation from the sun and the underground space plays the role in storing and transferring the heat to every corner of the building. The devices on the surface of central air passage are designed to introduce and control air flow into the indoor space with various functions inside, maximizing the benefits of the prototype.

THE TRAMPOLINE CAVE

-Design of the Trampoline Club In the Mountain of Zhejiang Province Tongji Core Studio (8- Week Individual Work) Instructor: Xie Zhenyu Autumn 2016 What is boundary of nature and artificial? Outdoor and indoor? Landscape and architecture? Static and fluid? The project explores the boundaries by redefining the envelope. structure and experience of the building.

Deformation & Movement of Space It's interesting to look at the traditional chinese landscape paintings, where 2-d drawings show depths and various experience. Could such dynamic experience be translated in the static architectural language? Could the architectural forms and indoor space be the extension of the natual landscape? Could visitors still feel relaxed in such 'artificial' nature pluged in the lanscape somehow like Suzhou Garden? The natural forces and the functions can sometimes spontaneously generate space like caves and mountains and this building is to create a natural cave influenced by the sports form-- trampoline and fuse with the natural topography. Why not try to deform the building and translate it into the form that follows movements? In order to imply the sports space in the building, the prototype research according to different kinds of trampoline movements is conducted to guide the inner space design.

SECTION|Form grows into the structure

FACTORY HABITAT -A silk factory habitat as the new pier prototype on Bush Terminal Spring Studio in GSAPP Instructor: Mimi Hoang Collaborator: Qingying Wang 2020.02-05 The Factory Habitat reinvents the typology of the pier, factory and park by interweaving the production spaces of silk with the coastline habitats. The landscaped structure creates a thickened city edge that resists the degradation of the harbor, and challenges the dichotomy between nature and city, and between efficiency and natural cycles.

History of Silk Industry & Ecological Cycle Rising Current

Habitat Protection

Pier Degradation

Garment Industry

Silk Medicine Industry Industry

Beeding Waterfront Industry Production

There was a long history of silk industry in and around New York. However, because of the lack of competitive advantages in cost, the industry gradually declined, leaving lots of mulberry trees in this area. Originated from China, traditional silk industry was integrated with domestic life and the income and outcome were in an ecological cycle, which was different from the contemporary industry efficiency.

Factory As Habitat

The Site- Bush Terminal witnessed the decline of the garment industry and the warehouse piers are abandoned and degraded into the sea. Over 200 Birds spicies are witnessed here and the individual bussinesses here are hard to survive. Why not create a factory as habitat both for people, factory and animals in the context of current rising, employing mulberry trees as the buffer slope introducing ecological cycle in the production process.

Flooding zone & coastline

Zoning of production

Zoning of circulation

Zoning of habitats

PLANTING BEDS- SLOPE- PIER- LANDSCAPE

BEAM- CONVEYORS- STRUCTURE- CIRCULATION- STAIRCASE

Factory As Weaving Landscape & Circulation

The modular planting beds for mulberry trees create the new type of park, landscape and pier building typology, which is actullay a 'artificial mountain with factory inside'. It weaves the process of farming, raising worms, weaving, dyeing, making clothes with the landscape, the activites of animals and the visits of the people. The module creates continuous surface working as the circulation, the new ground level, the structural and envelope for the factory building on a pier.

SILK DOME & WORMY SURFACE (SEMI-INDOOR AND OUTDOOR SPACE)

DYEING SPACE WITH PROCESS OF BOILING- MAKING DYES- WEAVINGDYEING

LANDSCAPE- STRUCTURE- SILK DOME

4 5 6

1. Silk Wormy Dome 2. Mountain Park 3. Gallery, Museum 4. Production of Undyed clothing, dyed clothing, designed sample 5. Production of Raw silk threads, dye, herb medicine, clothes 6. Pier for cargo 7. Flooding Level (Habitat, Show + Retail Space)

THREE INSIDE ATRIUM WITH DOUBLE LAYER WORKFLOW

9 12 14

10 11

0. Silk Worm Raising Dome 1. Leaves Picking & Storage 2. Boiling 3. Reeling Silk 4. Weaving 1 (Threads) 5. Weaving 2 (Cloghing) 6. Dye Production & Herb Extraction 7. Dyeing Production 8. Water Treatment 9.Design Studios 10. Clothes Manufacture 11.Storage 12. Design/ Office 13. Leisure Area 14. Design Atrium

2 5 6

Redefination of 'Factory'

By rethinking the efficiency, the resource and the waste, the visible and invisible parts in the process of the factory industry, the project reframes the new type of 'factory' by redesigning the production process, the circulation and relationship of indoor and outdoor space, the experience of the visitors and workers, the relationship of the industry, city and coastline. The factory works as the infrastructure as habitat, park as well as the production space for garment industry, the planting space, the buffer zone for flooding and the public space for the city. By enriching the concept of 'factory', the outcome and income are redesigned in an ecological cycle which incorporates the notions above.

Factory Habitat Clock The activities of industry, animals, workers, desingers and the public are organized as the annual clock which supports the fashion show that would take place each year. Invisible processes as rising currents, fish breeding, birds immigration are the invisible benefits that the factory produces. And it also challenges the efficiency and linear relationship between the factory and the nature.

REDEFINITION OF 'TOWER IN THE PARK' -A plug-in system as infrastructure in NYCHA public housing Summer Studio in GSAPP Instructor: Nahyun Hwang & David Eugin Moon Collaborator: Xinning Hua 2019.6

NYCHA as the aging living machine

The NYCHA public housing declined because of the lack of funds, managment and maintainance. The living machines are aging in everchanging urban environment.

Re-programming

Flooding, emerging challenges & Dilemma of LA MARQUETTA

Re-defining the 'park' as the soft infrastructure

The market under the bridge- La marquetta declined because of the deterioration of the NYCHA. The flooding and the security problems make this area even more negative and isolated in the changing urban environment.

-1940

1940-1960 Before 1940:

1960-1970

1970

1940-1960:

The NYCHA public housing emerged to occupy large areas of origingal small textures, reshaping the urban grid and redefining the public space from street to 'park' under the 'tower'.

1960-1970:

1970-:

Challenges as the limited public access, monotonous living mechanism, isolated schools, underutilized green space and parking lots, unfriendly boundaries, low resiliency towards flooding and little flexibility for public events are emerging. And among them the biggest problem should be the flooding, lack of money and maitainence.

The plug-in-layered systems are desgned with different aging paces, where the activity holders on the first floor are the most flexible, and the higer the more permanent.

LAYERED SYSTEMS WITH DIFFERENT AGING PACES

Flooding & park & pop-ups

Farms & market loop

Housing & Transportation

By incorporating these systems cooperating with each other, it creates certain kind of complexity which could deal with ever-changing problems in new urban environment with flexibility. By redesigning the system which intervene with the bridge, la marquetta, the parks and the inner space in the public housing, the system works as the infrastructure to reinvigorate and redefine those deteriorate elements in a way which provides more potential for the changing urban environment. The programs include parks, water pool, farming lands, public space for trucks, vertical farms, markets, garages, bee houses, stations, provisional housing and entrance rooms for the public housing.

The plug-ins are removable and temporary, functioning as the supplemental soft infrastructure combined with farming, market and housing. By designing the programs happening at different times and in different paces, the plug-in system intervene with the existing environment in a complex and vivd way, allowing pop-ups and flexibilities. When problems like maintainance and flooding occur, the soft infrastructure provide buffer zones for living and working.

Views From the New Living Module

Urban Farming

Indoor temporary living modules dealing with unexpected disasters and necessary maintainence. It is the relatively permanant part of the system in the third layer with easy access to railway transportation and LA MARQUETTA market under bridge.

The plug-in urban farming modules are the moveable parts that both as part of the park and economic resources to help relieve the financial burden. Bee houses and other related urban farming components are attached to the big farming loop, which is anchored in the first floor and supply materials to the food incubator in LA MARQUETTA.

Views From the Old NYCHA room

Flooding resilience & Maintainence

The plug-in system provides daily events and markets to intervene with the everyday life of the original residents, including educational trucks, exercising(running & swimming), barbeque, etc. The park under the tower is redefined as the pulic infrastructure that holds new potentials.

There are regular floodings happening during summer and winter, which cut the power off since the devices are in the underground floor. As a result, elevators and other boiling machines can't work. The flooding retainers and the device rooms on the roof help reslove these challenges when these disasters happen.

WATERFRONT URBAN COMPLEX -Exploration of layered public sharing space in high density urban comercial areas Tongji Core Studio (16-Week Group Work) Contribution: Concept / Research / Detailed Design Instructor: Dai Songhua Collaborator: Zhang Yaotian Spring 2017

Business Value: Seek differentiated business value in homogenized and intensive business circle.

Public Green: At city level, the site is the green node along the river between the two parks. Highrise Circle: Under continuous intensive high-rise interface, the need for open buffer zone is urgent. From Congestion to Evacuation:

The site needs multiple access in various directions responding to the multiple complex streamlines.

Residents Activities: The site lacks public space around where residents and working people aggregate on Sichuan North Road.

Contrast to the traditional commercial complex, it firstly serves as the public living hub for residents and working people nearby, to get to the riverside and hold public events. With the first floor open to the public and second roof serve as the street where connect to the office towers, hotels and subway entrances, the complex is centered with courtyards with different themes, where people at different floor levels could share the same courtyards with the public events. The first floor is designed with urban furnitures and luxury flexible boxes with virtual fitting experience. And with easy access to the second and third floor, the commercial value on second and third floor increase, which is also different from traditional commercial mode where the first floor is occupied by luxury stores.

The three efforts to create public space are---lifting the first floor as the plazas for T-stage show, stores for experience and removable urban furnitures; ---Introducing the inner street on the second floor as the entrances for the hotels and the office towers, which conncets the main commercial roads and the subway entrance above ground. ---Enclosing different courtyards for gathering and leisure, which connect the commercial, the public, hotels and offices in the vertical dimension. The shifting space for public in different levels not only make the urban complex more accessible for the public, but also make it a public gathering space for the city, like a permeable sponge, redefining the potential of commercial malls.

What should the commercial environment be? Should it only be the large indoor shopping mall lined up with stores? Is there any possibilities to build a wandering environment for people where commercial events happen along the way? It may cast doubt on the value of lands without the most efficient layout of luxury stores, but the void space leaves potentials for invisible values and commercial events along the riverside, such as virtual fitting experience and inner street inside the building. The instinct to get close to the water, greens, sunlight and relaxing space like courtyards and streets is depressed in urban environment which is driven by economic benefits. However, could it be reveresed that when the environment is redefined in a way to increase the value of the space instead of the footprint? Could the commercial space also be attractive, spiritual and memorable?

RETHINKING COMMERCIAL MODES & PUBLIC SPACE The first floor is released as the public space for more access and complex streamlines to release the pressure of the surrounding highrise buildings. The complex is redefined as the 'city hub' where commercial activities and events transform their forms into more public ones. For example, virtual fitting rooms attached to the online warehouse are the main contents of the small boxes on the first floor. The complex provides novel experience and ideas instead of goods. Fashion shows, meetings, Christmas events and other possible semi-outdoor events could take place here, ajacent to the riverside. By attracting people to stay and live nearby, the commercial values could be redefined and increased. It's also an opportunity to reflect on the riverside and other resources in urban envrionment, where people could get comfort and console in high-density commercial and office areas, which is highly related to contemporary living style and mental appeal.

RETHINKING THE COMMERCIAL ENVIRONMENT What should the commercial environment be? Should it only be the large indoor shopping mall lined up with stores? Is there any possibilities to build a wandering environment for people where commercial events happen along the way? It may cast doubt on the value of lands without the most efficient layout of luxury stores, but the void space leaves potentials for invisible values and commercial events along the riverside, such as virtual fitting experience and inner street inside the building. The instinct to get close to the water, greens, sunlight and relaxing space like courtyards and streets is depressed in urban environment which is driven by economic benefits. However, could it be reveresed that when the environment is redefined in a way to increase the value of the space instead of the footprint? Could the commercial space also be attractive, spiritual and memorable?

The riverside space is outlined by the permeable soft boundary of the urban complex. Walking experience is enhanced by introducing water, trees, sunlight and public activities. The towers are dissolved in the volumes below and the setbacks to the street relieve pressure on the busy and stressful waling streets. The same logic is applied on the inside space of the tower. By arranging the main entrance on the second floor, the first floor would be much more permeable and relaxing for the public. The terraces and public halls inside the towers also aim to creating permeable space full of sunlight and trees.

The traditional commercial space would occupy the land as much as possible. However, the project challenge this idea by claiming that the public space and environment would be the invisible and indirect investment for the commercial space. By attracting people to gather, stay and relax, the urban complex has the potential to be the everyday public environment. Especially when the Internet commercial environment is prosperous, the malls are facing more challenges than before. How the space could generate more benefits than the rentals and what the new commercial mode would be competitive should be reconsidered.

WALL FILMING SCHOOL -Rethinking culture infrastructure and urban boundary surface in LA

Graduation design (16- Week Individual Work) Instructor: Yung Ho Chang, Zheng Tan Spring 2019

A s a c i t y f u l l The "wall" culture The "wall" is o f c a r s , L A of Los Angeles used as the p o c e s s e s a is a medium to carrier of parking, large area of intervene in the transfer, school inefficient open c i t y a n d a s a institution and 城市设计——“墙”作为换乘点、车行向步行城市过渡 p a r k i n g l o t s new foundation historical interface producing urban to reshape the protection to backsides. urban pedestrian liberate the 大片低效露天停车场作为洛以洛杉矶“墙”文化作为媒介以“墙”作为停车、换乘、学 interface. ground space. 杉矶车行城市的产物，催生介入城市，作为城市新基面校机构、历史界面保护等的大量城市背面。

Phase1

弥合城市步行界面。

Phase2

载体，解放地面空间。

Phase3

The wall grows from the simple interface into solid space to generate courtyards, first ground and other public space.

The new wall is the initiative of the urban culture institutions as chain campuses and public transportation hubs.

墙从单纯界面成为生长基

以新的墙界面作为城市建筑

面，衍生庭院、架空等公共

生长基面，载入连锁式校园

空间。

功能或其他基础设施功能。

Phase4

Phase5

The large volumes along the Hollywood Avenue maily consist of filming studios, cinemas, museums and etc with easy access. The volumes get smaller perpendicular to the Hollywood Ave and the boundaries are lackes or made of solid walls or fences.

DUCK/BILLBOARD IN LA

PARKING LOTS STREET 43

WALL SCHOOL AS INTERFACE/ STAGE Contrast to the exsiting situation where architecutures are blackboxes and solid walls and derserted parking lots serve as the urban boundaries, I revert the function of 'wall' as the cultural institution itself and present itself as the showcase and stage to the city. The wall is a scaffold with minimal structures, pipes and more permanant components of the school, with public space sharing with the urban environment and allows more flexibility for further occupations and modifications to grow from the walls. The walls are the integrations of billboards, surfaces, public space, stages based on the culture institions to hold public film-related events and redefine the form of 'advertising' by making the production programs transparent as well as engaging the public to experience inside. Squares, access, corridors, doors etc are space carved in and extended in the 'wall' and generate the potentials for further development into constructions inside the site. The 'in' and 'out' are redefined by reshaping the 'boundary surface' as a solid building entity.

WALL SCHOOL AS TALENTS INCUBATOR Back to the scale of a single building, the wall school is equipped with basic fuctions as classrooms, studio, libraries, multi-function halls, offices, dormitory and production rooms. The programs are designed according to their publicity, potentials towards urban environment, needs for operating systems and their inner relationships among each other. The school's transparancy shows by its small depths, making it easy to walk thorough and exposed to enough sunlight. Althoung its footfprint is long in one direction, the volume is still not that heavy thanks to its thin depth. And the main streamlin inside for working is along the longitude direction and the streamline of the urban public goups is along the other short direction for easy access into the inner courtyard for public events. The new prototype of school institution serves as the new sign around the Hollywood Ave areas which supplements the products of filming industry and culture and makes it a urban issue.

MARKET LIFE ALONG HONGKOU HARBOR -Waterfront Design of Hongkou Harbor & Study of Typical Waterfront Space in Chinese Paintings

Tongji Core Studio (8 - Week Group Work) Rework Individually Contribution: Concept & Detail Design of Space along the River / Team Leader / Research Instructor: Wang Yi Collaborator: Yang Yanrong / Chen Shuaijiang Autumn 2017

Catalyst 1 Bridge

Catalyst 2 Flexible Markets

Catalyst 3 Multi-functional Courtyards

Catalyst 4 Active Waterfront Interface

As the number of the rivers in Hongkou District shrinked in the last past two centuries, the geological as well as the financial environment changed largely. The Hongkou Harbor lost its original function as the Freight Channel and the river became deserted as being surrounded by factories and infrastructual buildings. It's urgent to revitalize the river space. Along the River During the Qingming Festival is a well-known long colored painted scroll by Zhang Zeduan from Song Dynasty. In order to revitalize the river space with cultrual conventions which could easily evoke an echo, several urban catalysts prototypes are extracted and translated into modern architecture languages.

Bridge The bridges are combined with different functions in different areas. In the preserved historical building area, the bridge serves as the guidance and the marketing space, bringing vitality to the courtyards away from the bank.

Flexible Market ——24H Use The elderly from surrounding lanes share the habbits to walk with the birds or bargain in the vegetable markets during the day. Thus the markets are quite free and flexible here and can change into the party space serving for the young or the office workers who would entertain at night.

Multifunctional Courtyards ——24H Use The courtyards are of diversified functions and are active during the day and the night. Large courtyards like the sunken open-air movie theater courtyard can also hold large activites like the T stage show, performances and the open-air exibitions.

Waterfront Interface

The multi-layer waterfront interface satisfies both residents' and tourists' demands without disturbing each other. The Hydrophilic platform serves for residents for daily walking, fishing and the second- layer platform provides the tourists with the panoramic viewing.

LIVING COURTYARD

WATER COURTYARD

BRIDGE MARKET

HYDROP

PHILIC PLATFORM

CINEMA PLAZA

DOUBLE-LYATER BRIDGE

BRIDGE MARKET

RAILWAY DEMOLITION -Redesign of City Boundary by Inserting Public Sports Infrasturctures Individual Work Summer 2018

ARCHEOLOGICAL CITY -Renovation Design in Lilong of Shanghai & Study of Vertical Growth of Dwelling Pattern UIA2017 Design Competition (4-Week Group Work) Contribution: Concept / Research / Detailed Design Instructor: Li Yanbo Collaborator: Zhang Yaotian / Li Haoran / Chen Feifan Summer 2017

COLLAGE LIFE-Balcony as the Stage & Structure -Competition of Busan International workshop (Residential Housing Renewal) Group work of 3 Contribution: Concept design & analysis, plan drawing, modeling Summer, 2017

REDESIGN THE COMMUNITY

With the structure of population changing, the population of students and the old are increasing and most of them live seperately, with the elderly lacking people to care. So the building is redesigned in plan to support family in different structures, include nuclear family, students and the elderly family with public community space. The balconies are extended both in living room and bedroom with different scale, extending their crowded indoor space to the semi-outdoor and encourage communication of the neighborhoods.

COMMUNITY PUBLIC FACILITIES

Elevators, sharing offices, library and parking lots are embedded in the building, with the first floor becoming more public and accessible to the roof planting gardens over the parking lots. The balcony, markets and the ground floor with facilities reshape the public frontier of the community towards the urban environment and improve the living quality at the same time.

THE HOME OF ALUMNI -Tongji Core Studio (16 weeks) Individual work Instructor: Li Yanbo Spring, 2016

Rebirth of Tongfuli -Cuture complex combined with Shanghai alley -Intern Project Contribution: Concept brainstorming, researching, modeling Autumn, 2018 The project locates in the center of Shanghai where Shanghai alley is going to be demolished to fit higher FAR buildings. With large population living and working nearby, the site faces complex circulation and program needs. The project basically starts from vertical integration of the circulation and programs, renovation of alley and insertion of high rise building in the CBD area. Then we conduct skyline and view research of the highrises in Shanghai and analyze how the building would influence on the site, on other highrises and the urban environment. The proposal is to form the big loop where views could geet through and make the site a cultural square with historical Shanghai alleys and provide easy access in the high-dense area. And it also reprograms the culture functions inside and around the site and connect the film-related industry to attract experimental firms to locate in. What would be the cultural industry park like in Shanghai's CBD? It may be one proposal.

BAOLONG COMMERCIAL STREET -Commercial street design -Intern Project Contribution: modeling revision, detail drawings, plan , section & facade revision & coordination Autumn, 2018

Cardboard Construction 2014, Summer; Group Work Tasks: Design/Construct/Team leader Award: Second Price

The small cardboard construction could hold all of our 12 members with generous space. The idea is from the component of window which could be operated to open and close in gradient, responding to the environment to control the sunlight, humidity and ventilation. The component is then growing into the structure of the construction where the joints become the ribs which get thick when it gets closer to the bottom. Besides the concept design, the most difficult part is the construction design, the operable window components and the detailed joints design, where we did tons of models in different scales from 1:40 to 1:1 and test its elligibility. And the final window could change its shape and openness by pulling the string. The final outcome is surprisingly a big success and we get the second price in the end. Things we didn't expect before are the beautifal shadow it cast inside the 'ball', the ribs functioning as the shelves and the window functioning as the doors, making the shelter a place attractive for children to play hide-and-seek in and out.

Sound Visualization 2018, Summer; 4-person Group Work Tasks: Design in the 'Season Rhapsody' Chapter Spring Software: Processing, Javascript

The sound visualization project is a one-week workshop and part of the 'Digital Workshop in Shanghai' in 2018. It's an interactive device that could respond to the sound environment and generate its patterns and space by analyzing the amplitude, frequency, wavelength properties of the sound. Thus making the sound the interactive space element. The motions of visitors are captured through sensors and datas are collected timely to the programme. Before that we learnt knowledges of sound properties and Fourier transform, to make a small exercise to realize the sound visualization and we basically use processing to realize this. It's not the first trial to employ sound visualization to interact with the built architctural space, devices or constructions. And space is being redefined in nowadays society with more immersive and virtual experience. We work in group of four to creat a 'Seasonal Rhapsody' where emotion could be sensed by the interaction with the sounds and our idea is to visualize the vitality of lifes, trees, sun, wind in the Chapter of Spring.

RESEARCH: 432 PARK AVE 2019, Summer; Group Work GSAAP, ARGUMENT

'MY STREET' 2019, Fall; Group Work GSAAP, DATAMINING THE CITY

1.Survey of Lilong in Shanghai 2014, Spring, 4-person group work

2~4. Mapping of traditional Heart Clock Tower in Zhejiang 2017, Summer Collatorator: Zhang Yaotian

1. The typical chaotic shared accomodation conditions inside Lilong, Shanghai. The Lilong is a popular residential type of building in last century built for the middle-class and upper-class. But now it is the home for the low income group and the elderly. Its poor condition for living and good location in the city center lead to demolition and gentrification in most part of Shanghai and few of them are protected because of the historical values. 2-4. The traditional historical wooden structure temples built in Ming and Qing dynasty. Most of them are in poor conditions and eroded by the nature forces as well as the pests without maintainence. The technique is especially valuable and meaningful for Chinese traditional buildings. So we conduct the measurement and research on these temples to record and learn from the techniques, which could also be helpful to document these when the disaster detroy them in the future.

Rui Wang E-mail: rw2787@columbia.edu Tel: (1)9174431589 Address: 225 W, 109th Street, Apt 31