Sheng-Wei Shih Master Science of Architecture and Urban Design (2009)
Sheng-Wei Shih 1981 | Born in Taipei, Taiwan 1999 | Department of Architecture, Tamkang University 2004 | Bachlor of Architecture 2006 | Military Service 2007 | H.J.T.W Nieh Nieh & Partners Architects Planners
Contact Info 414 West 121 Street, Apt. 5, New York, NY 10027 | 646-784-3872 | ss3500@columbia.edu
2008 | GSAPP, Columbia University 2009 | Master of Science in Architecture & Urban Design
Each epoch not only dreams the next, but also, in dreaming, strives toward the moment of waking. - Walter Benjamin
CONTENTS Urban Design Projects
Tangram: Suburban Housings The Reversal: Healing Mithi River
Comparative Analyses
Learning from Green Heart? Reevaluate Green Wash Issues Two Urban Paradigm: Vienna and Mumbai
Professional Experiences
Undergrad Works
Songshan High School Competition
Hidden Order in Chaos
Undergra Works
Hidden Order in Chaos: Renovating Electronic Market Site: KunHwa Market, Taipei Time: 2004 Spring Advisor: Wen-Chieh Chiu
KuanHwa Electronic Market
Site Location
Kuan Hwa Electronic Market, a place famous for selling various types of componenets of personal computer, is full of freshing exploration and choas. Everyone can get a personal computer with a lower price in the market since this is a place where the major source of computer were gathered around Taiwan. However, its notorious disorganized layout and the crowded space also makes consumers feel impatient and lost. Because the horrible environment made them determine what to buy hastily without careful consideration, many people had an unhappy experience of being deceived by sellers. This project is not only to study the unique business pattern in Kuan Hwa Market and the "life circle" of personal computers, but also to find out the reason why the spatial atmosphere is so unfriendly. By doing so, I tried to find a way that both consumers and sellers can benefit from it.
Urban Design Intervention
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Computer Stores + Ads + Vendors + Stocks + Wagons
Change and Expansion
The first group coming to KunaHwa Market sold secondhand books or antiques. Since the lower price and divergent types of books, students came here to find textbooks or novels. And otehr people came to look for special antiques. However, with the changing commercial pattern in 1990, many electronic goods shipped to the market, and made the market become the center of electronic products and computers in Taiwan.
KunHwa Bridge
Undergra Works
Hidden Order in Chaos: Renovating Electronic Market
Range of KunHwa Market
1972 - 1988 Founded the market under bridge
Urban Design Intervention
Secondhand Books Antiques Foods Electronics
KuanHwa Bridge
Bade
d
Roa
1988 - 1997 Expanded to Bade Road
KuanHwa Bridge
Bade
1997 - 1999 Computer Stores
d
Roa
KuanHwa Bridge
Bade
d
Roa
1999 - 2006 Expanded to alleys
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Computers
Undergra Works
Hidden Order in Chaos: Renovating Electronic Market
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Urban Design Intervention
Labyrinthian Exploration
Undergra Works
Hidden Order in Chaos: Renovating Electronic Market Five Layers
Computer Logistic Foods P
Delivery Signboard
Site Model
Computer Stores
Logistic + Foods
Signboard + Delivery
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Urban Design Intervention
Undergra Works
Hidden Order in Chaos: Renovating Electronic Market
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Urban Design Intervention
Undergra Works
Hidden Order in Chaos: Renovating Electronic Market
Horizontal Fascias Vertical Fascias Partime Workers Send Flysheets
Signboards
On the Corner
On the Building
Urban Design Intervention
TOO MUCH INFORMATION
PUZZLED ABOUT
DECODED BY
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TOO COMPLICATED
Undergra Works
Hidden Order in Chaos: Renovating Electronic Market
Delivery & Foods
DELIVERY
= MOVING
FOOD
= MOVING
SERVICE
= MOVING? SERVICE
MOVABLE SERVICE
+ =
MOBILITY
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Urban Design Intervention
Undergra Works
Hidden Order in Chaos: Renovating Electronic Market New Layout
STEP1PENETRATION
STEP2INTEGRATION
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Urban Design Intervention
Undergra Works
Hidden Order in Chaos: Renovating Electronic Market Second Floor 11:00 - 21:00
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Urban Design Intervention
Ground Floor 21:00 - 11:00
Undergra Works
Hidden Order in Chaos: Renovating Electronic Market Second Floor Plan
11:00 - 21:00
Second Floor 11:00 - 21:00
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2
2
1
5
4
5
11 : 30 - 13 : 00
6
13 : 00 - 15 : 30
2
2
4
15 : 30 - 16 : 30
2
3
16 : 30 - 21 : 00
1
Cafe'
4
Classroom
Walkway
2
Maintenance
5
Store
Service Core
3
Bookstore
6
Office
Storage System
Urban Design Intervention Third Floor Plan
11:00 - 21:00
Third Floor 21:00 - 11:00
5
2
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2
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3
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4
2
4
1
Store
4
Family Unit
Canopy
2
Office
5
Roof
Service Core
3
Storeroom
Storage System
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3
Undergra Works
Hidden Order in Chaos: Renovating Electronic Market Track System
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Urban Design Intervention
Undergra Works
Hidden Order in Chaos: Renovating Electronic Market Movable Service
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Urban Design Intervention
Comparative Analysis
Two Urban Paradigm: Urban Sprwal Study Site: Aspern, Vienna Dharavi, Mumbai Time: 2009 Spring Advisor: Richard Plunz
Vienna
Mumbai
Density Experiment Area: 2.4 km2 Population: 20,000
Area: 2.2 km2
Dharavi, Mumbai
Population: 700,000
Density: 8,333/km2
Density: 318,000/km2
Donau River
Mithi River Loss of Creek
Aspern 1500 Donau
Dharavi
2008 Donau
Original Islands Landfill Area
Vienna
Density: 4,011/km2
0
5
10km
0
3
6mi
Mumbai
Density: 0 21,780/km2 0
5
10km
3
6mi
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Aspern, Vienna
Comparative Analysis
Two Urban Paradigm: Urban Sprwal Study
Medieval Vienna
Flooding Control
Water Reshape + Growth
Post-Industrial Sprawl
16th Century: LIVING IN NATURE
19th Century: SHAPING NATURE
20th Century: DESTROYING NATURE
21th Century: DEATH OF NATURE?
Seven Islands
Land Reclamation
Industrialization
Uncontrolled Growth & Pollution
Density Experiment
Vienna Sprwal - Radius Expansion
Mumbai Sprwal - Linear Extension
10,000 dwellings
10,000 dwellings
Bandra Kurla
Vashi
Dharavi
20,000 dwellings
Navi Mumbai
4,000 dwellings
JN Port
Vienna
Density: 4,011/km2
0
5
10km
0
3
6mi
Mumbai
Density: 0 21,780/km2 0
5
10km
3
6mi
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Thane
Comparative Analysis
Two Urban Paradigm: Urban Sprwal Study
Increasing Population in 2030: 300,000
e radial expa nsio ing th llow n o F
: 20,000 (8,333/km2)
=
VIENNA
x 15
BRATISLAVA
Aspern Density
NATIONALPARK DONAU-AUEN
15 Aspern needed
2030 Experiment 1 - Aspern Density
=
: 20,000 (318,000/km2) x 0.428
VIENNA
BRATISLAVA
Dharavi Density NATIONALPARK DONAU-AUEN
2030 Experiment 2 - Dharavi Density
0.43 Aspern needed
VIENNA
BRATISLAVA
NATIONALPARK DONAU-AUEN
: 20,000 (25,000/km2) x 5
Manhattan Density
5 Aspern needed
= =
2030 Experiment 3 - Manhattan Density
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Green Corr
rridor
Irrigation System
Green Co
idor
Density Experiment
Urban Design Projects
The Reversal: Healing Mithi River Site: Mumbai, India Vasai Creek
Time: 2009 Spring Instructor: Richard Plunz Greater Mumbai
Mumbai Halts 2 days
$ 690 Million Loss
Over 600 Dead
16,300 Carcasses
Severe flooding and water pollution are the most serious problems for Mumbai, particularly for Dharavi, which is built on low-lying marshlands. Mithi River has lost 54% of its original flow due to human encroachments, such as slum areas, construction of the International Airport and Bandra Kurla Complex. We propose to heal the river by reversing this offensive encroachment into a green encroachment based on water elevations. This will be executed at two scales. One at a regional scale that addresses program and land-use that imagines Mithi River as nalla of Mumbai, the second at the neighborhood scale where the green infrastructure infiltrates Dharavi through the existing nalla right-of-way.
2005 Mumbai Flooding Flooding Area Exsting Mangrove Loss of Creek
Arabian Sea
Mahim Bay
Mumbai City
Mithi River Dharavi
Thane Creek
Urban Planning Policies
Vasai Creek
Sanjay Gandhi National Park
Land Reclamation
Shrinking Mangrove
Water Pollution
Choking Nalla
54% Loss of Mithi River’s original flow
Decreasing Mangrove Habitats from 235 sq km in 1925 to 160 sq km in 1994 Built-up 12%
Mangrove 28%
Forest/Agriculture 60% 1925
Built-up 24%
Mangrove 22%
Dharavi
Forest/Agriculture 54% 1967
Built-up 52%
Mangrove 18%
Forest/Agriculture 30% 1994
Shrinking Mangrove & Watershed Original Island
Existing Mangrove
Landfilled Area
Removed Mangrove
Loss of Creek
Protected Jungle
Mumbai City
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Human Encroachment + Pollution
Urban Design Projects
The Reversal: Healing Mithi River
International Airport
International Airport
Bandra Kurla
Dharavi
Bandra Kurla
Bandra Kurla
Dharavi
Dharavi 0
Human Encroachment
Cumulative Pollution
1
4 km
Remaining Purifiers
Industrial Area
Chemical & Oils
Mangrove
Protected Jungle
Slum Area
Sewage & Light Industrial
Parks
Shallow Water
Major Construction
Runoff Sewage
Green Areas
River Vegetation
Urban Planning Policies 1979 MITHI RIVER WATERSHED
Mithi River: Nalla of Mumbai
WATER LANDFILLED BY RESIDENTIAL AREA
MANGROVE REPLACED BY SLUM AREA
BANDRA KURLA COMPLEX
WATER LANFILLED BY RESIDENTIAL AREA SHRINKING WATERSHED SHRINKING MANGROVE
Nallas of Dharavi Polluted water drainage network
WATER LANDFILLED BY INDUSTRY AREA
PROTECTED PARK THREATEND BY SLUM EXPANSION
To heal Mithi river and Dharavi, our proposal is executed at two scales. One at a regional scale that addresses land-use that imagines Mithi River as nalla of Mumbai, the second at the neigh borhood scale where the green infrastructure infiltrates Dharavi through the existing nalla right-of-way.
MANGROVE REPLACED BY SLUM AREA
DHARAVI MANGROVE REPLACED BY SLUM AREA
54% Loss of its Original Flow 1979 Mitihi River Low Water Nalla Network
Mangrove Park Slum Area
SLUM AREA
FRAGMENTED NALLA NETWORK
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68% of the sewage of Mumbai
INTERTIDAL AREA
25 YEAR FLOODPLAIN +4.75m
+7.25m
100 YEAR FLOODPLAIN +10.00m
WATER LEVEL +10.25
The Reversal: Healing Mithi River
NEW WATERCOURSE
0
+0.40
Water Level
Ecological Habitats
Land Use
New Water Course
Open Land
Restricted Building Area
100 Year Flood Plain
Forest
Agriculture+Recreation
25 Year Flood Plain
Fresh Water Wetland
Natural Vegetation
Intertidal Area
Sea Water Mangrove
Natural Park
Land Use Restricted Building Area
25 Year Flood Level
Forest
+10.00m
Open Land
Dharavi Average Ground Level
WATER LEVEL
+10.25m
100 YEAR FLOODPLAIN
2005 Mumbai Floods
Ecological Habitats
Urban Planning Policies
Social Housings
Permeable Surface
Bike Streets
Agriculture
Natural Vegetation
Sports/Social Facilities
New Nalla Network
Public Open Land
Natural Park
FreshWater Wetland
Forest Forest
Bird Nesting
Fishing
Mangrove Nursery
Public Open Space
No Construction
Bike Streets
Bike Streets
Natural Vegetation
Lowest Tide Water Level
Seawater Wetland Mangroves
INTERTIDAL AREA
+4.75m
Open Land
Highest Tide Water Level
25 YEAR FLOODPLAIN
+7.25m
+0.40m +0.00m
Ecotourism
Bird Nesting
Public Awareness
Fauna Sanctuary
Ecological Habitats
WATER LEVEL
The Reversal: Healing Mithi River 2005 Mumbai Floods
+10.25m
INTERTIDAL AREA: WETLAND MANGROVE
+10.00m
100 YEARS FLOOD PLAIN OPEN LAND HIGH RISK OF FLOODING ZONE
Lowest Tide Water Level
+0.40m +0.00m
DHARAVI
Forest
25 YEARS FLOOD PLAIN WETLAND MANGROVE
1979
BANDRA KURLA
INTERTIDAL AREA FOREST NEW WATER COURSE
DHARAVI EXISTING NALLA NETWORK
Forest
FreshWater Wetland Seawater Wetland Mangroves
INTERTIDAL AREA
+4.75m
Open Land
+7.25m
Highest Tide Water Level
1600
BANDRA KURLA COMPLEX
25 YEARS FLOOD PLAIN OPEN LAND
Forest
25 Year Flood Level
25 YEAR FLOODPLAIN
HIGH RISK OF FLOODING ZONE
HIGH RISK OF FLOOD ZONE
Open Land
100 YEAR FLOODPLAIN
NEW WATER COURSE Dharavi Average Ground Level
DHARAVI HIGH RISK OF FLOODING ZONE
2005
NEW NALLA CONNECTION
EXISTING OPEN SPACES
Water Level Analysis
2030 Proposed
INTERTIDAL AREA: MANGROVE NURSERY
New Land Use
WATER LEVEL +10.25
Urban Planning Policies
Existing Nalla & Toiltes
INTERTIDAL AREA: AGRICULTURE
Public Open Land
RESIDENTIAL AREA RELOCATED DASHED
POLLUTING INDUSTRIES REMOVED DASHED
INTERTIDAL AREA: FISHING
NEW WATER COURSE
New Nalla & Toiltes
DHARAVI SLUM AREA RELOCATED DASHED EXISTING OPEN SPACES CONNECTED TO NEW NALLAS
NEW NALLAS AND SOCIAL PUBLIC SPACES
SITE INTERVENTION
0
+0.40
Natural Vegetation
INTERTIDAL AREA
SLUM AREA REMOVED DASHED
New Plan for Dharavi
Connecting Open Spaces
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+10.00
Restricted Building Area
BANDRA KURLA COMPLEX
INTERTIDAL AREA: ECO-TOURISM BIRD NESTING
NEW NETWORK OF BIKE STREETS
Natural Park
25 YEAR FLOODPLAIN
+4.75
RESIDENTIAL AREA RELOCATED DASHED
SLUM AREA RELOCATED DASHED
+7.25
100 YEAR FLOODPLAIN
NEW WATER COURSE
+10.00
100 YEAR FLOODPLAIN
WATER LEVEL +10.25
The Reversal: Healing Mithi River 2005 Mumbai Floods
+10.25m
NEW WATER TREATMENT PLANT
Dharavi Average Ground Level
+10.00m
NEW COMMUNITY
+7.25m
TOILETS
SOCIAL PUBLIC SPACES +4.75
25 YEAR FLOODPLAIN
+7.25
NEW BIKE STREET 25 Year Flood Level
UPGRADED NALLA
Highest Tide Water Level
+4.75m
INTERTIDAL AREA
NEW SOCIAL HOUSINGS
+0.40
Lowest Tide Water Level
0
NEW NALLA NETWORKS
+0.00m
+0.40m
Integrated Social Network of Nalla
Urban Planning Policies
NEW SOCIAL HOUSINGS
LOCAL RETAIL
NEW BIKE STREET
UPGRADED NALLA
New Nalla of Dharavi Using existing infrastructrure as right of way new social network of bike streets, commercial activities and will prompoted for the well-being of its inhabitants. This new public space will also be a device to mitigate the flooding in the area.
SOCIAL PUBLIC SPACE
Urban Design Projects
The Reversal: Healing Mithi River SANJAY GANDHI NATIONAL PARK POWAI LAKE REMOVE POLLUTING ELEMENTS RECLAIM NEW HABITATS
CHATRAPATI SHIVAJI INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT NEW WATERCOURSE
RESTORE RIVER FLOODPLAINS
NEW BANDRA KURLA ISLAND BANDRA KURLA COMPLEX
SECTION OF NEW PROPOSED NALLA
MAHIM CREEK
DHARAVI
NEW PROPOSED SOFT EDGES
UPGRADE NALLA NETWORKS
NEW WATERCOURSE
MAHIM BAY ARABIC SEA
OVERALL INTERVENTION OF MITHI RIVER
Urban Planning Policies
PHASING PHASE 01: 0-5 YEARS
REMOVAL & MITIGATION OF CURRENT POLLUTANTS INDUSTRIES & LARGE RUN-OFF AREAS
NEW NALLA NETWORK NEW DRAIN SYSTEM AGRICULTURE NEW DENSIFICATION BIKE STREETS
REMOVAL GARBAGE RECLAIMING MARSH LANDS
NEW COMMERCIAL
OPEN SPACE: PARKS
OPEN SPACE: PARKS
WATER FISH
MANGROVE MARSH LANDS LAND
PHASE 03: 10-20 YEARS ECOLOGICAL HABITATS OPEN LANDS FOREST FRESHWATER WETLANDS SEAWATER WETLANDS
FISHING ECO-TOURISM
LAND USE POLICIES FOR EXISTING URBAN FABRIC PUBLIC OPEN LAND AGRICULTURE & RECREATION NATURAL VEGETATION NATURAL PARK NEW INFRASTRUCTURES BIKE STREETS NALLAS INTERVENTIONS IN SLUMS NEW POLICIES & PUBLIC HOUSING
NEW SOCIAL NETWORK IN SOFT EDGE
NEW MANGROVES MANGROVE FARMING
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PHASE 02: 5-10 YEARS
Comparative Analysis
Learning from Green Heart? Reevaluate Green Wash Issues Site: Green Heart, the Netherland Time: 2009 Spring Advisor: Kate Orff
WHAT DOES GREEN MEAN?
HOW GREEN IS GREEN? Sheng-Wei Shih | MS.AUD | 2009 | GSAPP | Columbia University
Kinnie Traveling Prize 2009
Comparative Analysis
Learning from Green Heart? Reevaluate Green Wash Issues Motivation In our urban design studies, we have learned that the environmental issues, such as climate change, sustainable buildings, flooding scenario, have become more and more important. These subjects are all related to the notion of being green. Although green issues have constantly been addressed, a clear criterion of being green still remains unclear. Our research proposal will focus on questioning the
Amsterdam
current definition of these green issues.
How green is green? Does the balance between human settlement and nature really exist? To explore this topic, we propose to use Green Heart, a protected land in Holland, as a laboratory for our research.
Why Green Heart Green Heart, the protected land where major Dutch cities lie around this area, is a largely open and rural region. Before the Middle Age, it was mainly a marshy
Alphen aan den Rijn
area with a small, boggy river. After hundreds years of human effort on landfilll , it is characterized by its rural lifestyle and waterscape. Since 1960, the period when green issues were less frequently addressed, Holland
Woerden
restricted commercial and residential constructions in Green Heart for protecting its fragile man-made eco-system.
Hague
Utrecht
Currently, few projects close to Green Heart have been approved by the Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning
Gouda
and the Environment (VROM). Constructions on marshlands are conventionally considered a way ruining the nature, but Holland is reversing their policy from protecting nature to building “on� the nature. Why do they
Schoonhoven
change their original policy when green issues have become a current trend around the world?
Are there unexpected effects resulted from preservation policy? This research can be a case study in addressing questions related to green issues.
Rotterdam Green Heart, the Netherland Infrastructure
Village
Marshland
Study Area
Water
Kinnie Traveling Prize 2009 Issues
How to learn from Green Heart
Even though Green Heart is a prot-
Two major questions are the guidelines of our research.
Since this development of transpor tation has different effects on small
What are the main criteria for us to judge a real good green design?
taking the train and waterbus to visit different sites, we will truly experience different effects that the current manmade construction has made on nature.
What kind of role that landscape and urban design
In major cities, we will also interview with Maxwan and West 8
investigate the current ecosystem
can play in integrating the manmade ecology and
have in Green Heart. By incorporating our analytical skills develop-
of Green Heart via the perspective
construction in both regional and local scale?
cities located in the area, we will
of land, water, and infrastructure.
architect office to enhance our understanding of the projects they ed at the school, our aim is to develop a different interpretation of green issues applicable to urban design study.
In macro scale, we will analyze these layers to understand the overall planning policy of Green Heart. In micro scale, we will further study its different geographic conditions, types of landscape, and transpor tation to realize how small cities were emerged from the protected area. By doing this comparative analysis through regional and local context, we will find evidence to help us to evaluate how green Green Heart really is, and explore current planning projects, such as South Wing, to rethink where the balance between human settlement and nature exists.
Program: Ruimtelijke verbeeldingen South Wing, the Netherland, Maxwan
Housing, Infrastructure, Working & Mixed-use areas, Green open spaces, Agriculture, Water
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were built for allowing people to commute from one city to another.
We will take photograph and video recording to document the subtle change of landscape from cities to Green Heart. When taking
ected area, highways and railroads
Comparative Analysis
Learning from Green Heart? Reevaluate Green Wash Issues MACRO - Green Heart Holland, the country which 1/4 of the land is lower than sea level, has explored how to
Over the last 25 years, the number of houses in the restrictive areas has doubled, and 43%
live with nature for hundreds of years. To live in a country where most of the land was
of new houses in Holland were built in Green Heart between 1989 and 1994, against 29%
original wet meadow, Holland strives to acquire lands from wetlands or water, while at
in the existing urban concentrations and 28% in suburban locations.[1]
the same time protects its ecosystem. This geographic and historic background forms
The original spatial planning policy on Green Heart was mainly based on environmental
the Green Heart and the conurbation “the Randstad� (Rim city).
protection, but it turns out the opposite result.
The Randstad consists of the 4 largest Dutch cities (Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague , Utrecht), and the surrounding areas, while Green Heart is the area with wet meaows and marshland, which is why most of the area are used for agriculture and peat
Does the effort they made really protect their nature?
production. To protect its natural system and prevent urban sprawl, Holland had strict
Are there more possible methodologies that we can analyze Green
regulation on building houses in Green Heart since 1960.
Heart other than raising the notion of protection?
However, the more effort they make on protecting this manmade nature, the more towns and cities emerge in Green Heart.
[1] Sybrand P. Tjallingii, Ecology on the edge: Landscape and ecology between town and country
Amsterdam
Alphen aan den Rijn
Amsterdam
Woerden
The Hague
Alphen aan den Rijn
Utrecht
Woerden
Utrecht
The Hague
Gouda
Gouda
Schoonhoven
Schoonhoven
Rotterdam
Rotterdam
the Netherland, 1950
the Netherland, 2000
Werk Pro Gramma page 7, Atelier Zuidvleuge Marrt 2006
Werk Pro Gramma page 7, Atelier Zuidvleuge Marrt 2006
Kinnie Traveling Prize 2009 MICRO - 4 STUDY SITES Inside Green Heart, there are small cites and towns distributed around the area. We identify 4 sites to be studied in local scale. Each site has its unique geographic feature and different interrelationship among land, water, and infrastructure.
Alphen aan den Rijn Woerden
In addition, there are few more small towns and villages outside of these small cities. Gouda
Based on its distinct conditions of transportation and landscape, types of land use also
Schoonhoven
illustrate how we plan to study these inner cities and towns.
Woerden – The city in the middle of Green Heart
Alphen aan den Rijn – Eco park
Will more cities emerge from Green Heart if Holland keeps the same spatial planning?
If there is a growing demeand on floriculture and eco-park, should we expand the manmade landscape by taking more marshland?
Land: residential and commercial Water: canal
Land: residential and commercial
Infrastructure: railway, highway
Water: canal Infrastructure: railway, highway
Gouda – Original marshland
Schoonhoven – Hub of waterway
Is living on a lake ruining the nature or living with the
Why can waterscape only be served as recreation or transportation?
nature? What if this is the way human will have to live when most of the current land is submerged?
Should the waterfront stay protected or make it more accessible?
Land: residential and commercial
Land: residential and commercial
Water: canal
Water: canal
Infrastructure: railway, highway
Infrastructure: railway, highway
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differ from one to another. We will use Schoonhoven and Gouda as examples to
Comparative Analysis
Learning from Green Heart? Reevaluate Green Wash Issues Gouda
Amsterdam
- Original Marshland
To Utrecht
Basic Info Demography (2007)
Area (2006)
Population: 71,873
Total: 18.10 km2
Density: 4,189/km2
Land: 16.92 km2
Source: CBS, Statline.
Water: 1.19 km2
Utrecht
Hague
Gouda
B
Rotterdam
A
Description Gouda is in the western Netherlands. It was originally marshland and covered with a peat forest, crossed by small creeks. By 1225, a canal was linked to the Gouwe and its estuary was transformed into a harbour.
gue To Ha
Gouda
Because of its rail and highway connections, Gouda is also famous for its one day trip. The city is also one of the transportation hubs connecting the Hague and Rotterdam to Utrecht. About 3 km northeast of Gouda, there is
am
a village named Sluipwijk surrounded by the lakes. On the north side of
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Land: residential and commercial
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tte
rd
Gouda, there is village named Molenvliet living on agriculture.
Is living on a lake ruining the nature or living with the nature? What if this is the way human will have to live when most of the current land is submergerd? We will interview with officials in Gouda to understand the role the municipality plays in cooperating agriculture with Molenvliet village, and document residential housings built on the lake to see if this is a way to ruin the nature or a potential to live with nature. A. Agriculture Marshland
B. Living on the Water
Water: canal Infrastructure: railway, highway
To
Specific Objectives
C. Living on the Water
Kinnie Traveling Prize 2009 Schoonhoven
Amsterdam
- Hub of Waterway
Basic Info Area (2006)
Population: 12,195
Total: 6.96 km2
Density:1,924/km2
Land: 6.34 km2
Source: CBS, Statline.
Water: 0.63 km2
Utrecht
Hague
Schoonhoven Rotterdam
Schoonhoven
Description Situated on the Lek River, Schoonhoven is a municipality in the province of South Holland. Its economy and cultural development strongly depends on
A
the Lek River for shipping commodity from Rotterdam to Germany. Since 1900, the banks of the Lek River have been connected by a ferry service,
Waterfront
B
To Ut
rech
t
Lek River
which allows vehicles and pedestrians going across the river. Before Industrial Revolution, Schoonhoven was the city where people made
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living from shipping, beer brewing, hemp growing, cattle breeding, fishing.
tte
Water: transportation, recreation
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for the Lek River.
Land: residential
rd
The challenge in the city is whether there is any remediation can be applied
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Infrastructure: waterway
Specific Objectives
Why can waterscape only be served as recreation or transportation? Should the waterfront stay protected or make it more accessible? We will visit Municipality of Schoonhoven to meet with officials to learn how the municipality currently regulates the river. We will also study the residential housings built along the riverbank to evaluate whether this is way to live with nature or nibble away the natural wetland.
A. Veerpont Schoonhoven, Entrance Gate of Ferry
B. Waterfront
Sheng-Wei Shih | MS.AUD | 2009 | GSAPP | Columbia University
Demography (2007)
Urban Design Projects
Tangram: Suburban Housings Site: Mill Basin, Brooklyn Time: 2008 Summer Instructor: June Williamson
Jamaica Bay
Brooklyn Marine Park
After observations of our site characteristics: suburban, car dependent, and low density city, we emphasized our interventions within the under utilized areas of parking lots around Mill Basin, located near land or water. This project concept derived from a relationship between cars, boats and housing. The module of 8’x16’ is able to establish a geometrical relationship amongst all three subjects of interest. Therefore our interventions are based on Tangram accumu lation which are modular, flexible, variable, affordable and opportunistic.
Current Site Condition Underutilized Spaces Wetlands City Fabric
Rockaway Inlet
Floyd Bennett Field
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24’-30’
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3 Cars
20’-24’
S: Runabout
House
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L: Yacht
14’-18’
1 Boating Unit
30’-45’
Urban Design Projects
Tangram: Suburban Housings Modular Strategy
16’ 16’ 16’ 24’ 24’
48’ 48’
Architecture Prototype Verticality 24’*24’
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2 FLOORS STORAGE =
50% NEW LAND
33.4% NEW LAND! 24’*24’
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Sheng-Wei Shih | MS.AUD | 2009 | GSAPP | Columbia University
24’*24’
Urban Design Projects
Tangram: Suburban Housings 4’ 4’ 4’ 4’ 4’ 4’ 4’ 4’ 4’ 4’ 4’ 4’ 4’ 4’ 4’ 4’ 4’ 32’
32’
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24’
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8’
Extend 4 feets
12’
2 Floors
Structure
Windows & Balconies
Lift up
New Usages
32’
4’ 4’ 4’ 4’ 4’ 4’ 4’
2 Housing Units
Subdivided by 4’ * 4’
Elevation A
Elevation B
Personalization
Architecture Prototype
Winter & Spring
Summer & Fall
Intervention
Sheng-Wei Shih | MS.AUD | 2009 | GSAPP | Columbia University
Vertical Storage
Urban Design Projects
Tangram: Suburban Housings Flexible Variation Adapting to leftover spaces
Housing Unit A (2 Floors)
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Housing Unit A (2 Floors)
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4 Types of Intervention A. Corner Parking Lots
C. Wetland
B. Triangular Leftover
D. Waterfront Piers
Site
Architecture Prototype Rezoning
Map
100% Parking
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Current 60% Parking + 25% Housing + 15% Public
Land
Propose
100% Parking
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Current 60% Housing + 30% Public + 10% Transportation Propose
100% Boating
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Current
Water
50% Parking + 50% Wetland Propose
40% Parking + 50% Boating + 10% Wetland
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Current 41% Parking & Boating + 14% Wetland + 45% Other Propose
Bike Stop/Newstand
New Housings
Sport Court
Urban Design Projects
Tangram: Suburban Housings
New Bus Stop
New Site Plan
New Public Space - Local Market
New Public Space - Sport Court
Sheng-Wei Shih | MS.AUD | 2009 | GSAPP | Columbia University
Architecture Prototype
Boating Lot
Parking Lot
Wetland
Extra Space
Parking Lot
Extra Space
Boating Lot
MARINE PARK GOLF COURSE Wetland
Remove 50% Remove 60%
Program Redistribution
Public Spaces
New Housings
Retail Stores
Parking Lot
New Housings
Boating Lot Bikeway
MILL BASIN Wetland
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FLATBUSH AVENUE
Site Plan
PROTECTED WETLAND
Urban Design Projects
Tangram: Suburban Housings
Current Land Usage
Activate Waterfront
Architecture Prototype
Existing Shopping Mall
New Bike Path
Existing Marina Boat Storage New Plaza Connecting to Waterfront Retail Stores New Housings
Sheng-Wei Shih | MS.AUD | 2009 | GSAPP | Columbia University
Reclaimed Wetland
Urban Design Projects
Tangram: Suburban Housings
Current Condition
First Intervention
Self-Urbanism
Sheng-Wei Shih | MS.AUD | 2009 | GSAPP | Columbia University
Architecture Prototype
Self-Urbanism
Professional Experiences
Educational Complex Building
Site: Songshan, Taipei Time: 2007 Spring Ofiice: Nieh & Partners Architects Status: 2nd Prize in Competition
Folloewd by Taipei City Hall’s planning developmentin Songshan district, lots of parking lots had become the sites for either commercial buildings or offices. Thus, there was an increasing demand for parking space in this area. Songshan Vocational High School was planning to construct a new building with admission office and sports center, and parking lots for its surrounding commuters and school. I was in charge of spatial planning for integrating the circulation of vehicles and pedestrian in this competition. Through intensive cooperation with colleagues designing landscape and unit spaces of classroom and library, our proposal won the second prize from tens of entries of this comeptition.
Architectural Design To Bus Stop Bus Stop
Front Gate
Songshin Road
Bus Stop
Site
Barrier?
Back Gate
Subway
Chungshiao East Road
Campus
To Subway
Site Condition
New Building
Sports Center
Circulation Analysis
Admission Office
Atrium Lane
Layout
Program
Parking Circulation
Pedestrian Circulation
Professional Experiences
Educational Complex Building
Site Plan
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Meeting / Lecture
basketball game / badminton game