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2008-2015 B.Arch. IIT M.s. AAD. Columbia
Roosevelt Island Campus 1,350,000 Sqft University-in-the-Middle
Rethink Lincoln Center
Re-think Lincoln Center 710028 Sqft Urban Inclination
Roosevelt Island Campus
NYC Chinatown Urbanism
Historic Core of Chiantown 5,670,956 Sqft Interior Alley
University in the Middle Graduating sutdents seek for jobs, licenses, starting an office or earlier sense of profession.
This campus
project is trying to be the one in the middle of their academic life and professional life. The new university space will provide them early experience to encounter or communicate with their professional lives.
Inside the academic container, the space will be isolated to make sure the students stay in pure academic/educational atmosphere when they are taking classes or self-studying.Each classroom or study room will be placed in multi-sized boxes, the boxes attaching on the structures along both sides, leave the center axis as the main path for pedestrain.
Lounge/Study Room Box
Classroom Box
student pedestrain The campus contains two different parts of architecture, The academic container, which
literally looks like
a shipping container; and the generic buildings, which provide the professional space of the university, inculding office rooms, apartments or otehr commercial programs.
When the academic containers punching into/through the generic
office
buildings in an urban size, it creates some unique urban fabrics along the Roosevelt island.the edge of the comlex is ambiguisly defining while clear porosity is creating. It exrpesses some straight through visiblities and exterior spaces for people inside the campus.
To reinforce the connection, the spatial quality should be open ,dynamic and somehow School Boxes into the Office
shows a good ruin and unstable atmosphere.People's activities then starts to be linked. Students and professional people from different backgrounds
Deconstruct the Boxes
are involved into each others' lives, instead of being isolated and . Thus the space start to encourage
Punching through the floors
Circulating the Spaces
The Flowing Chamber will be continus and really starts to be 'flowing' in the system.it creates enough opportunity for people to meet, talk, encounter and finally get explode and turn out to be an assembly gathering in the 'punch moment' of each buildings.
A Natural Field Youth Camp ARCH 420 Project, Spring 2013 An advanced building project that designed based on a natural experiencial opuscule. Which is aiming to merge the natural language and logic together with the architectural languages.
Ground level - Natural Experience
Upper level - Office/Classroom
Lower level - Main Youth Activity
Urban Inclination While city is growing more vertically, people's walking territory is getting controlled by elevators or escalators, which transfer people as shortcuts. people lost their oppurtunity to experience their walking tours. For the cultural elements in Lincoln Center, it is specifically important for people to slow down and walking while passing through the cultural impact.which merges their daily life then started to merge with the cultural impact. The parameter I'm trying to use here, for providing people multiple cultural experience, is the block size of New York City
NYC Block Size
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Raise by certain angle
Create Space
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Inclined Circulation adjcent to Auditorium
Interior Alley From the historical center on Bayard and Mott to its extended reach as far as Delancey and Lafayette, Chinatown inhabits fifty something city blocks with a diverse demographic, commerce and building types. We have likened the sites of interventions to the layered section of an onion, expanding from the innermost dense and impermeable core to the outer layers with increasing adaptability.
Focusing on the relationship between retail, commerce and residential uses, a radical renovation of the first two floors of an entire tenement block restores the originally vibrant social and economic life amongst them, while promoting higher brand visibility for the existing cuisine establishments.
The design starts with removing the unecessary staircases and other outof-date facilities in the old Chinatown building to save more space for publicnese and retail. The project is trying to break through the partition walls and connect the second levels of the entire block for a larger space, while maintain the privacy among the residential parts. Basiclly creating an interior alley
The cuisine boxes,Which adjecency to the interior alleys on both levels, which is the most important programatic units of the
Maintained Stairs
project, will serve the ground level interior alley,the street side and the second level interior alley all at the same time with its
1st Level Alley
different surfaces.
2nd Level Alley
As a result, the scale and mode of operation of each intervention is specific both architecturally and Second floor Public Space
programmatically.They investigateitssite's deep urban structure to formal language to superfluous decorations, and carry new uses as conduit of new value
Unified Facade
cuisine establishments
Material Strategy
Circulation
Information Board
Secondary StoreFront
Second floor Public space
Second Level Plan
Ground Level Plan
Second Level Plan