Yeo_Design Portfolio_2021_Taubman

TABLE OF CONTENTS Wild: Manhattanism Unhinged pgs. 2 - 7

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Anatomy of an Island: Picturesque Laboratory pgs. 8 - 12

De s i g n Po r tfol i o

50 Species-Towns pgs. 13 - 16 Crazy Long: A Sticky Landscape Infrastructure pgs. 17 - 20

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WILD

Master in Landscape Architecture Design Thesis Harvard University Graduate School of Design Spring 2018 Advisors: Craig Douglas, Rosalea Monacella Thesis Coordinator: Charles Waldheim Master in Landscape Architecture Thesis Prize 2018 Featured in Platform 11: Setting the Table

WILD Manhattanism Unhinged

This investigation begins from a series of atmospheric charcoal renders produced

by Hugh Ferriss in 1929. Dubbed as the “womb” of Manhattanism, the renderings were an imagination of the impact of the 1916 Zoning Resolution, which introduced the Sky Exposure Plane and Height District to provide light and air to the streets as a public health concern in a growing metropolis. What if this moment played out differently: What if there was an alternative womb that conceived access to light as a dynamic catalyst for urban form?

Wild investigates the parameters built in the 1916 Zoning Resolution - Sky Exposure Plane in particular – and starts to unhinge them in order to propose an alternative Manhattanism that posits solar access as the primary agent in shaping the aggregate urban form.

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1916 Zoning Resolution | Sky Exposure Plane

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Testing and Unhinging the Parameters of the Sky Exposure Plane 3

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Iterative Model Study on Aggregate Urban Form | 4 Blocks 4

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Single Block Form Annual Shadow Study | Existing

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Single Block Form Annual Shadow Study | Unhinged 5

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Axonometric Rendering of Aggregate Urban Form on April 21st, 08:00 - 17:00 6

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Model Study of Aggregate Urban Form | 9 Blocks 7

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AN ATO MY O F AN ISL AN D

Landscape Architecture Design Studio Harvard University Graduate School of Design Fall 2017 Instructors: Bridget Baines, Eelco Hooftman Nominated to Feature in Platform 11: Setting the Table

A N AT O M Y O F AN ISLAND Pi c t u re s q u e L ab orator y

The Picturesque ideal dominated the field of landscape architecture in the 19th century.

Central Park in New York, designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, is one of the prime examples of this ideal.

Mount Desert Island, specificially the portion now designated as Acadia National Park, was not only the source of granite used in construction, but also the source for the scenographic experience of the new park. This island was also a frequent subject of the painters of the Hudson River School movement.

This laboratory investigates the parameters of the Picturesque, through conducting a visual anatomy of Mount Desert Island.

Mixing computational analysis and analogue experiments, the series of investigations view the beautiful and the sublime through a quantitative lens. The set of experiments proposes a method of site analysis that focuses on highlighting the relationship between color, light, hydrology, landform, and vegetation.

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Hiking Trails of Mount Desert Island, Bar Harbor, ME

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Trail A

Trail B

Trail C

Trail D

Viewshed Study in Serial Sections 9

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Cherrywood Pinhole Camera for On-site Investigation

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Aperture Variations 10

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Aperture Variation Test 11

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Proposed Picturesque Devices across the Island 12

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50 SPEC IES-TOWN S

Forthcoming Publication

by Office for Urbanization Expected Publication Date: Sep 2021 Project Team: Charles Waldheim with Office for Urbanization Charles Gaillard Mariano Gomez-Luque Mercedes Peralta Seok Min Yeo Boya Zhang Academic Research Collaborators: Preston Scott Cohen Seth Denizen Ann Forsyth Teresa Gali-Izard Ali Malkawi Holly W. Samuelson Andres Sevstuk Andrew Witt

50 Species-Towns proposes a new paradigm for agrarian new-town development in China based on the reconciliation of former oppositions: city versus country, new versus old. The project aims to support the goal of enhancing quality of life and public health for populations remaining in, or returning to, the countryside. The project imagines an alternative and better future in which rural reform and agrarian development do not come at the expense of the collective meaning and lived experience of China’s invaluable culinary traditions and their associated forms of tangible and intangible cultural heritage. It does so through the projection of emergent urban orders derived from the morphogenetic code of the very species that have embodied that heritage.

In so doing, the project aspires to inform practices of agrarian urbanization across China while contributing to the growing discourse on these topics in the design disciplines around the world.

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50 SPEC IES-TOWN S

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50 SPEC IES-TOWN S

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C R A Z Y LO N G

Bachelor of Architecture Design Thesis Syracuse University School of Architecture Spring 2015 Advisors: Julia Czerniak Benjamin Farnsworth Joseph Godlewski Dean’s Citation for Excellence in Design Thesis 2015

CRA Z Y LO NG A Sticky Landscape Infrastructure

Elon Musk’s Hyperloop proposal envisions a vacuum tube connection some 700 miles between Los Angeles and San Francisco.

While exciting in its utilitarian potential, it also proposes a linear, 700-mile-long non space as it traverses across the planes of California.

Such a proposal is not so dissimilar from California’s industrial agricultural practice and its irrigation method, which is inherently incompatible with the arid landscape and its hydrological cycles. The existing, heavily engineered hydrological infrastructure is singularly focused on delivering water required for farming, and fails to consider the landscape it passes through.

Crazy Long, through integration of an avantgarde transportation proposal with a linear, decentralized wetland scheme, proposes a hybrid of transportation and hydrological infrastructure to offer an alternative model of infrastructure that exploits productive tertiary opportunities created by its inherent scale and seriality.

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Fog Catching Mesh

Passenger Capsule Access Stairs

Hyperloop Pylon Vacuum Tube

Access Paths Hyperloop Pylon Deep Wetland 3’ - 8’

Shallow Wetland 6” - 3’

Existing Model of the Hyperloop

A Revised Model of the Hyperloop 18

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Formal Abstraction through Sections | Venus de Milo

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Iterative Study 30/128 | Various Sculptures from the Renaissance and Antiquity 19

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Axonometric Rendering of a Sticky Landscape Infrastructure 20