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Portfolio
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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, certificated licenses, starting an office or earlier sense of profession. But the fence between education and career is huge. 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
Lounge/Study Room Box
Classroom Box
Facade
Flowing Chamber
When the smaller scale academic units punch 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 shows a good School Boxes into the Office
ruin and unstable atmosphere. People's activities then starts to be linked.Students and professional people from different backgrounds are involved into others' lives,
Deconstruct the Boxes
instead of being isolated and unified. 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.
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.
As a result, the scale and mode of operation of each intervention is specific both architecturally and programmatically.They investigateitssite’ s deep urban structure to formal language to superfluous decorations, and
carry new uses as conduit of
new value
Urban Inclination While city is growing more vertically, people's walking
NYC Block Size
territory is getting controlled by elevators or escalators, which transfer people as shortcuts. people lost their oppurtunity to experience their walking tours.
Unfold. .
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
Raise by certain angle
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
Create Space
The Juilliard School, located in the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, New York City, is consider to be the building that contains the most relevant ideas of combining the city with cultural impact. beacause the school is absorbing people without any performing art background and trying to train them to be professional musicians, actors or singers. It's a building combine daily life of students within in a performing art atmosphere.
Angle Differeniate
Inclined Circulation adjcent to Auditorium
Focusing
on
the
relationship between retail, commerce and
Maintained Stairs
residential uses, a radical renovation of the first two floors of an entire tenement block restores the originally vibrant social and
1st Level Alley
economic life amongst them, while promoting higher brand visibility for the existing cuisine establishments. 2nd Level Alley
Second floor Public Space
Unified Facade
Entry to different amount of Publicness
cuisine establishments
Material Strategy
Circulation
Information Board
Secondary StoreFront
Second floor Public space
Ground Level Plan
Second Level Plan