SIJIE DAI 2009-2016
ACADEMIC WORK SAM HOUSTON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY
INSTITUTION & CRITICAL REGIONALISM
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FIRST BU BRIDGE 01
HEALTHY OCCUPATION
HOUSING & AGGREGATION FLEXIBLE LIVING
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HOUSING IN BERLIN 07 PUBLIC REALM & USER-OPERATION
REDEVELOP ASSEMBLY SQUARE
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RUGGED CORRIDOR RIVER
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A STEP INTO MIDTOWN ATLANTA
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HUMAN MOBILITY PATTERN
LANDSCAPE AS INFRASTRUCTURE
WELLNESS DISTRICT
SAM HOUSTON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY INSTITUTION & CRITICAL REGIONALISM Arch 562: Institutions, Fall 2015 Site Location: Sam Houston National Forest Studio Instructor: Mick Kennedy The four books of Sam Houston reflects his understanding of craftsmanship as well as his naturalism thinking of life and land. Despite looking at Houston from documents and archives, the project intends to depict this legendary figure by engaging institution programs with hands-on practice of agriculture, livestock, and aquaculture. Located in the floody pine woods of Sam Houston National Forest, the linear building acts as a boundary between wet and dry, intertwining in it activities relates to the adjacent context. The design aims to critically inheritage the form and construction of Texas frontier buildings and Houston’s historical homes: the entry threshold drives from the traditional dogtrot house; developed from log construction, a wall system provides space for storage and circulation; refering to the local barn building, the contious roof shelters the activities from local weather; the landscape also reflects the historical process of claming the land ad water for production.
RELATIONSHIP TO GROUND
WALL SYSTEM
ENTRY THRESHOLD
ROOF FORM & SPACE UNDERNEATH
POLLUTION SOURCE
BLOCK THE POLLUTION
PROTECTED GREEN SPACE
EXTEND PUBLIC REALM
FIRST BU BRIDGE HEALTHY OCCUPATION
ARCH5120_Comprehensive Design Studio & ARCH 5220_Integrated Building System, Spring 2014 Site Location: Boston Bridge, Boston, MA Studio Instructor: Michael Leblanc Teamed with: Sara Jane Briggs The triangular site is calling for a strategic development in Boston Universities’ Master plan. Its central location and convenient public transportation gives it potential of being the gateway of BU campus. However, as it is surrounded by busy roads, railway and highways, the site now is an unaccessible, isolated, waste island full of toxic chemicals due to the consistent heavy traffic. Focusing on the materials and making of architecture, the design aims to seek for a solution of construction, building performance and public accessibility.
PRETREAT AIR
BOSTON ANNUAL TEMPERATURE
The design uses buildings to block the noise and pollution from I-90 and Storrow Drive, leaving a central public green space with air cleaning vegetations. The green space is not only a gathering space of the campus, but also a source of cleaner air intake for ventilation. Double facades are located at the road-facing side of the building, helping the natural ventilation in mid season and reflect noise from the traffic. The building uses hydrothermal for heating and cooling, and natural ventilation in mid-season. In mid-season, vents are open in double facade, using buoyancy effect to help cross ventilation; In winter, vents are closed in double facade, creates an extra layer of insulation; In summer, the space is cooled down by hydro cooling and ventilation air is taken through mechanical system.
Pollution Side
Better Air Quallity
MID-SEASON_NATURE VENTILATION THROUGH OPEN PROGRAM
Pollution Side
Better Air Quallity
WINTER_HEATING MODE
Pollution Side
Better Air Quallity
MID-SEASON_NATURE VENTILATION THROUGH CLOSE PROGRAM
Pollution Side
Better Air Quallity
SUMMER_COOLING MODE
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Instructor: Michael Leblanc Group Member: Sara Briggs, Sijie Dai
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PREFAB STRUCTURE Topping 60’ x 8’ Precast Double Tee Slab Dowel Pin Bearing Pad 8” x 2’ x 12’ Precast Concrete Column
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ENCLOSURE Double Plane Glaze Insulation Operable Shading Track Operable Shading
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INTERIOR PARTITION & MEP Aquistic Panel, Allowing Cross Ventilation Air Duct Light Gauge Steel Interior Partition Frame Gypsum Board Finish Drop Ceiling Wiring Outlet
As the site is located at the intercestion of several types of infrastructure, it is very hard to load building material into it while not disturbing the traffic. The building is developed based on large span prefab doubletee structure and using prefab modules that can be shiped to site by rail and assembled in a short amount of time.
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INFILL 83.3%
FLEXIBLE BUILDING LENGTH
FLEXIBLE BUILDING SHAPE
GATHERING SPACE
EXTREME CONDITION BASED ON FIRECODE
HOUSING &AGGREGATION FLEXIBLE LIVING ARC 5110_Housing & Aggregation, Spring 2013 Site Location: Dudley Square, Boston, MA Studio Instructor: Chris Genter
Housing & Aggregation studio design practicable housing prototype by considering the size, layout, and amenities of the individual units as well as the overall logic of their aggregation. This apartment prototype is inspired from making a paper chain, best used for perimeter building defining street wall and block corners. By repeating the modules and keeping the rhythm of connection point on the folding edge, it creates an aggregation that is adaptable to the site environment, length, and shape, also allows flexible unit division during the design process and gives a unit potential to grow or shrink based on need.
When placing the prototype into to an urban contest in Dudly Square, the building folds between existing buildings and defines the corner of the block. By folding and carving into the FREE STANDING INFILL building, it creates an urban plaza in the front and extends the street 83.3% life to the inner block space. Surrounded by live-work units, the inner block is notheLENGTH back of a building but a new FLEXIBLElonger BUILDING front of it at a human friendly scale that encourage the interaction within the community.
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TYPICAL FLOOR LAYOUT
The street facing facade uses a module system that follows the dimension of the bays, providing at least one window for each room. The folding facade provides balcony or extra indoor space to the units, as well as shading it self. By doing so, it generates more interaction between building, user and street, creating a more active urban street wall.
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HOUSING IN BERLIN PUBLIC REALM & USER-OPERATION Studio Abroad, Spring 2012 Site Location: Potsdamer StraĂ&#x;e, Berlin, Germany Studio Instructor: Ivan Rupnik Design Approach: various unit type, open space, interactive PV facade
Berlin is a city of profound contemporary design opportunities. The city has witnessed more dislocation than any other European city of the modern era. The Berlin Design Studio focus on architecture and urbanism as a speculative response to the formal, cultural, and economic realities of the city. The design evolves from the traditional Berlin Miteskesanere style, rotated and tilted up the building to create public and private zone and connects the courtyard green space to urban street-scape. A variety of unit types, ranging from studio to pantehouse, are created to accommodate diverse group of people and construct a sense of community.
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The folded building is 14 meters deep, allows nature ventilation wich locals appreciates. even the building is long, it still follows the local point load system with load barring walls at each end, thus provides sense of privacy and fire protection.
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ENERGY CAPTURE
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efficient energy capture
PV panels are widely used in Germany building practice. More and more people are considering to harvest the green energy. The south and west facade of the building is designed to hold a lightweight rain screen with embeded solar panels. The panels will be rotated in response to the solar angle for best performance. Panels in front of housing windows that might interrupt user's views can be adjustable in zones based on preference.
REDEVELOP ASSEMBLY SQUARE HUMAN MOBILITY PATTERN
ARCH 3170_1960 Urbanism Design Studio, Fall 2012 Site Location: Assembly Square, Somerville, Studio Instructor: Anthony Piermarini
The Assembly Square district of Somerville is located spatially and perceptually within a host of past, present, and projected future systems and site influences. This studio studies how these influences have become tangible on the structure of the landscape, and conversely how the investigation of site details can reveal forgotten legacies, invisible forces, and local perceptions which structure the site. The design focuses on how to adapt and integrate buildings and urban landscapes at a human scale to meet contemporary urban needs. Pedestrian oriented mix-use development is the direction that leads the design and eventually will help tie the site to regional commercial network of Boston Metropolitan Area.
PEDESTRIAN ORIENTED BLOCKS
have denser street pattern and program layout for public activities. Blocks are tied together by pedestrian oriented paths. Often holds housing, small retail, and in the urban context, relies on public transportation.
EXISTING REGIONAL PA AUTOMOBILE ORIENTED BLOCKS
grow on the major transportation infrastructure like highway and railway. Often hold specific large scale program like one-stop shopping, warehouse and factory, these kind of blocks has larger dimension and huge parking lots.
PEDESTRIAN ORIENTED PATHS
tie programs in smaller distance. With more free movement on it, it always act as LINK elements at human scale. The pedestrian paths include nice paved sidewalk, park and greens, green belt, etc.
AUTOMOBILE ORIENTED PATHS
link programs in large distance, but always act as DIVISION elements human scale. The automobile paths include highway, main road, railway, etc.
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When the two kinds of paths intertwine with each other, there is the place of node, where a variety of programs and movements at different scale mix together.
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ASSEMBLY SQUARE MIX-USE DEVELOPMENT
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RETAIL, URBAN LOBBY & MOBILITY PATTERN
Leisure Plaza
Business Plaza (Pedestrian Only)
The Community Center at the intersection of pe through the Community center, creates a continu
The pedestrian network is created based on the ment. Continous pavement on site guides the spaces. The massing of the building is adjuste neighborhood. Program changes from retail com higher levels.
Community Center (Node)
link to shopping district link to housing link to waterfront recreation
edestrian and vehicular axis of the site. It is an urban thrshold to the Assembly Square neighborhood. The ramp run uous route goes across the railway and connects all the indoor/outdoor recreation activities together.
e district commercial layout and urban lobbies. A variety of pavement and vegetation are created to guide the movemovement and markes the entries and thresholds, together creates a pedestrian network through different open ed to create the smooth transist between the existing development project and the low-rise houses in surrounding mmertial to offices to housing, located 3 dimensionally from main street to the waterfront, and from ground floor to
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RUGGED CORRIDOR RIVER LANDSCAPE AS INFRASTRUCTURE
ARCH 509_Liquid Planning, Fall 2015 Site Location: Doan Brook, Cleveland, OH Instructor: Mar铆a Arquero de Alarc贸n and Craig Borum Group Member: Sijie Dai, Zhuyun Wu, Xin En Theresa Chua, Shao Chen Lu The Rugged Corridor River forges a connection from the Opportunity Corridor to the Doan Brook - the former an upcoming implementation of a planned boulevard and the latter an urban stream oft running silently and hidden through the city. Through urban interventions such as infrastructural plug-ins, landscape enhancements and planning adjustments, the project navigates the several barriers that currently hamper public access from the neighborhoods to the nature area.
The urban infrastructures of the Doan Brook watershed is a highly complex landscape. The Doan Brook is composed of various types of landscapes - channels, gorges, lakes, wetlands, etc. While the existing trails and parks provide unique spatial experiences along the brook, accessibility - both visually and physically, is unevenly distributed and often limited. In this respect, the mappings presented flesh out various weaknesses and opportunities of the Doan Brook watershed. We are drawn to two sites in particular, namely the University Circle area and the gorge area.
The site is a complex convergence of intersections, almost crude ones, of railways, highways, streets, RTA stations, vacant industrial parcel and neighborhoods. It is also overlaid with multiple barriers that separate the entities physically, visually and socially. Railways and adjacent vacant plots and neighborhoods are separated by different ground heights and a complex terrain of slopes, drops and tunnels, resulting in few pleasant connections to the Doan Brook. This unique convergence of barriers, vacancy and intersections just adjacent to a natural landscape where the Doan Brook goes underground is our site for intervention. The Rugged Corridor River is a network that would weave the upcoming Opportunity Corridor, its surrounding infrastructure and project land uses to the Doan Brook.
At the intersection of E. 105th and Quincy, the opportunity corridor, the extended green, and the RTA system meet each other. On Quincy Plaza the new RTA building will provide secured and conditioned indoor space for passengers wither waiting for buses or waiting for the train at platform below. With adjacent developments on extended green, influence from the corridor, and radiation of the city RTA transit, it calls for a active node that helps organize different means of transportation and introduce people to the neighborhood. Road, train, bus, bike and pedestrian network all intertwine at this place.
A STEP INTO MIDTOWN ATLANTA WELLNESS DISTRICT
2016 Hines Student Competition, Spring 2016 Site Location: Atlanta, GA Instructor: María Arquero de Alarcón and Craig Borum Group Member: Sijie Dai, Zhuyun Wu, Xin En Theresa Chua, Shao Chen Lu, Jianzhao Chen The Gateway development is an elevated pedestrian network that stretches from the edge of Georgia Institute of Technology, through the newly refurbished Olympic Tower Torch Park, past a dense mixed use development and toward the new North Avenue transit hub. The Gateway sits on structured parking that is laid over the site to provide for future mixed use intensive development. It leverages on the existing and future infrastructure – the North Avenue MARTA Station, the future streetcar network and existing bike paths. The Gateway at Midtown is a branching node of divergence, a point that experiences the pushing and pulling of urban forces. It takes shape using four key strategies: stretching, weaving, tying, and attracting.
The Gateway is a new platform for the exchange of ideas of healthy living and sustainability. The community resides in a liveable space of rooftop gardens and courtyards with their very own community gardens, fitness corners, performance kitchen and beautifully landscaped paths surrounded by incubator offices, a market and affordable retail.
The Gateway Development is to become a vibrant community for all generations starting with nurturing and attracting the youth and young working adults. The development consists of a kindergarten, elementary school and a high school to capitalize on the existing learning environment of the Georgia Institute of Technology that spreads toward the Tech Square near the site. For the feasibility of transforming the site into a thriving urban core binding Downtown, Midtown and Georgia Tech together depends on compatible mixed uses, flexible building typologies, and vibrant public spaces. To achieve the transformation, the Midtown South Development Partnership will development the site in joint efforts with a private equity investor.
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ESTABLISH SOCIAL WELL-BEING Internship in Overland Partners Inc., 2014 Fall Project Location: Auckland, New Zeland Role: developed the site section and sustainability strategy diagrams
The vision for the new community bringing people of all socio-economic groups together to help everyone flourish. The housing project aimed at struggling families, former prisoners, recovering addicts. A model of 75% to 25% - let 75% of the population in the deistrict help 25% of their neighboors - is invented to construct and promote a healthy social environment. More than building a shelter, the project provide them sense of welcoming and opportunity to improve their life. The development aims to create a local network of people and activities supported by the design of the buildings and exteri or spaces on site.
ACTIVE COURTYARD & STREETSCAPE
SUSTTAINABLE COMMUNITY SPACE
朝天宫
Chaotian Palace
西水关
West Lock
熙南里 Cinna Lane
东水关
夫子庙
East Lock
Confucius Temple
白鹭洲公园 Bailuzhou Park
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Gate West
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中华门
Zhonghua Gate
NANJING RIVERWALK
HISTORICAL WATERFRONT REVIVAL Internship in Overland Partners Inc., 2013 Fall Project Location: Nanjing, China Role: regional background research; studied the local traditional architecture elements and waterfront evolution; contributed in 3d modeling for waterfront buildings; developed presentation package for concept design.
Nanjing is one of the four most famous historic capital cities in China. The city is characterized by its relationship with water, landscape and historical buildings. The site is within the southern historical district of Nanjing city. It is the starting point of the old town historical experience, which is the tourist highlight of the city. The project aim to define a place on the Qinhuai River where all the cultural heritage can thrive, where both local and visitors are welcomed, where infrastructure is updated based on contemporary need, and where various public space with intimate scale is created to bring back life to the waterfront.
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SAMUEL RESIDENCE Internship in Zerolaboffice Shanghai, 2011 Fall Project Location: Malaysia Role: worked with the project manager developed the SD package and renderings.