Architecture Portfolio (M.Arch) by Tianyu Yang

Architectural Design & Research

CLIMATE BYPASS

A CLIMATE EVOLUTION, P24

03 WEAVE SPACE

DRIFT! A LIBRARY,

PROFESSIONAL WORK

P64, SUMMER INTERNSHIP

GREENPOINT THEATER

TECH STUDIO

PROFESSIONAL

KINGSTON -FRINGE

P40, AGRICULTURE RESEQUENCING

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STREETS MULTIPLIED

COMMUNITY IN MY LIVING ROOM, P16

NET-WORKED TERRITORIES

P4, POLITICAL SPACE MAKING FOR THE WORKERS

POLITICAL SPACEMAKING FOR WORKERS

2021 Spring GSAPP|Anna Puigjaner Studio In Collaboration with Luis Miguel Pizano

Today, the recently arrived immigrant workers of Sunset Park face oppressive factors at both the global and local scales, including 1) food insecurity, 2) mobility restrictions, 3) the absence of civic space and services, 4) institutional criminalization and 5) the lack of opportunities for economic empowerment. However, despite such overwhelming challenges, they have been

able to carve out spaces for cooperative resistance in their neighborhood and beyond. Through our research, we studied how workers and the community fight back through informal social channels and adaptive street tactics, in order to design a series of accessory spaces (“NODES”), rooted in the neighborhood, to further strengthen the existing labor networks.

NET-WORKED TERRITORIES: MAPPING WORKERS’ LABOR RESISTANCE TACTICS (CONT.)

NET-WORKED TERRITORIES: MAPPING WORKERS’ LABOR RESISTANCE TACTICS

DINNING AREA

BIKE & CART STORAGE

VENDORPREPARATIONKITCHEN

SHOWERS

BIKE RACKS

QUICK FOOD BAR CANEXCHANGECENTER

Nodes are residual lots with a single parcel ownership, which are left semi-abandoned. As the footprints of these spaces are too small for big commercial use, they are ideal for community-led acquisition.

BATHROOM

We began to select ideal sites for our primary nodes — specifically ones that could allow a cross-block circulation to take place. In these nodes, workers would have spaces to eat, rest, clean, and store personal items.

The fast circulation and local clusters formed by multiple nodes in close proximity to each other would make the space more efficient. A neighbor hood network is thus formed, where we can activate the entire block and beyond.

can come from all ages, heights, skin colors and backgrounds. Though one thing they have in common is their mobile vehicles. For the average canner who works 5-6 hours from midnight to early morning or from the early morning to noon, covering a 5-to-15-mile on foot, the most important tool is the shopping cart. These carts are often fully filled beyond their capacity — bags full of cans and bottles would be hung all over the hand bars and sides, making them two three times larger than a regular shopping cart. With the cart’s bulky size, the canner has no choice but to keep going until he/she reaches the final redemption center. The time to stop for coffee, hot water, snack, or bathroom break is reduced to minimum.

CANNERS

For the between the personal items he would leave behind in the e-bike garage and the various expensive gear he carries with him, such as the $5,000 e-bike, $500 battery pack, and the $50 delivery bag, he has to keep an eye out while being out on the job, especially during the late night hours. There is no secure way for him to take breaks. Unsurprisingly, media coverage on the subject is heavily biased, portraying the delivery workers as an unwanted public nuisance.

DELIVERY WORKERS

STREET VENDORS

Small like the churro lady often uses a nimble grocery rolling cart to display her products — small snacks, fruits, drinks and so on. Some would also use it for cutting mango slices and mixing small summer drinks. Most small food vendors however, would have to prepare their products at home — at times starting at 4 am. It puts a lot of pressure on the female vendor, who is often also a mother and a wife. Like the canners, as long as they are out on the streets, it is incredibly difficult for them to attend to personal needs with their bulky carts always by her side.

The Net-Worked Territory NODES are designed to address the daily problems street workers (canners, delivery workers and street vendors) face — such as the lack of hot water, warm food, bathrooms and showers, parking and storage. By addressing these basic needs, the NODES effectively become a space of gathering, where information could be shared, meetings and events could be held.

“NODE A: BUSY WORKDAY AFTERNOON” ANIMATION STILL I — WORKING DAYS

6TH AVENUE

Park

MTA Train Route

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Cluster II

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Van Route

Van Pickup

Learning from our immigrant workers’ creative use of umbrellas and carts on wheels, our NODES provide a similar spatial combination: a semi-enclosed territory, protected by several fire-resistant polycarbonate canopies that hold plant matter, collect rainwater and capture solar energy — depending on people’s need. Near the ground, mobile architecture-furniture are loosely arranged around the semipermanent “rooms,” such as the kitchen in the front, storage booths for bikes and carts in the two residential building naves, and the bathrooms and showers built with rammed earth.

Route

MASTER PLAN

The masterplan shows where the additional NODES will be placed in direct relationship to main traffic routes and key existing spac es of workers’ activism.

“NODE A: BUSY WORKDAY AFTERNOON” ANIMATION STILL II — COMMUNITY DAYS

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STREETS MULTIPLIED

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The Housing Complex consists of a majority of duplex apartments . Typically, the upper level of each unit contains 1-2 bed rooms. The lower levels, where the living room is, open directly into the “ inner streets .”

BRONX DOCUMENTARY CENTER

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MAPPING STREET LIFE IN THE BRONX (DETAIL)

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In Melrose, South Bronx, the streets are full of life — locals found creative ways to inhabit the storefronts, sidewalks, and scaffoldings, occasionally, they would bring household furniture out with them.

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STREETS MULTIPLIED: COMMUNITY IN MY LIVING ROOM

2019 Fall GSAPP|Gabriela Etchegaray Studio

A typical residential building has shops on the ground, isolated from the apartments upstairs.

On a typical residential block in the South Bronx lies a diverse neighborhood where the core of social life takes place on the street. Small local businesses like the barber shops and delis are where casual conversations and social interactions occur.

Locals who often had to live in crammed, tiny apartments upstairs — as a result of Bronx’s long urban disenfranchisement, would find refuge outside, forming an active community and a unique neighborhood identity of the streets.

This housing project takes inspiration from the vibrant street life already existing on site, and creates a vertical living experience that allows for the street life to take place and thrive in the architectural interior.

DELI TAX NAILS BARBER LIQUOR LAUNDRY

In the “Streets-Multiplied” Housing Project, shops and community spaces are integrated into the interior.

EARLY CONCEPT DIAGRAM

MELROSE AVE.

COURTLANDTAVE.

PUBLIC HOUSINGSENIOR CENTERBRONX

DOCUMENTARY CENTER 395 E 151ST ST

MELROSEAVE.

View of the single-loaded interior street — near the main entrance.

LIVINGSPACEARRANGEMENT

PORCHSPACECONCEPT

Phase 1: Connecting the three pre-ex isting buildings.

CONCEPT ROOMTYPOLOGIES

Phase 2: Exploring different methods of cross-block social/spatial connections.

UNIT CONCEPT LIVING ROOM TYPOLOGIES

PORCH SPACE

Phase 3: Introducing single units into the primary massings.

Phase 4: Building walkways to bridge the building clusters.

EARLY MASSING STUDIES

UNROLL

BALCONYCONCEPT

SPECIALUNITS

LIVINGSPACEARRANGEMENT

On our block, three buildings stand as the living testimony of the community’s long struggle against the systematic discrimination and disenfranchisement. The Bronx Documentary Center is part of strong Bronx tradition of community-led activism, providing support for the local youth through creative means. The NYCHA Housing, though not without issues, does provide an affordable units for impoverished seniors. As for the 395 E151ST St — one of the most vibrant

spots on the block, thanks to a conveniently located deli, doubling as a local hangout.

Rather than erasing the existing fabric of the block, “Streets-Multiplied” project takes into consideration of the social environment surrounding these three buildings, designing to connect, enhance and expand their social ecology by introducing an efficient, flexible “unit-streetcluster-building-block” co-living system.

BALCONY

SPECIAL

UNROLLELEVATION

Type 1: Small Business Unit

ELEVATION

Type 2: Community Unit

Type 3: Private Unit

ON THE INNER “STREET”

VIEW OF THE INNER STREET ON THE UPPER LEVEL

The inner streets are protected by small clusters of units, making them a visible, safe space for children of the neighborhood to play.

Small family-owned shops, an assortment of community rooms, and semi-public living rooms form an “INNER STREET SYSTEM,” which is plugged into the housing complex on every other level. The bedrooms are placed on the upper level, remaining completely private.

At each “street” level — including the ground floor, social activities and everyday essentials could be satisfied within the block.

The triangular, transitional spaces that glue together different unit clusters become the public squares — the most vibrant form of street life takes place here.

QUIET BLOCK SQUARE

SEMI-QUIET BLOCK BRONX DOCUMENTARY CENTER

TYPICAL FLOOR PLAN: A GRADIENT OF PUBLICNESS

Market

Communal Dining

LONG SECTION THROUGH THE SOUTH BUILDING CLUSTERS

VIEW OF THE INNER STREETS

1 Small Business

Each building cluster

CORRIDOR

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CLIMATE BYPASS

CLIMATE BYPASS:

STREETS FOR CLIMATE EVOLUTION

2020 Fall GSAPP|Bernard Tschumi Studio In Collaboration with Jun Ito and Chia Jung Wen

Based on the nature of the building clusters, the inner streets enjoy different degrees of publicness, which corresponds to layout of the unit types. The climate emergencies that occurred in NYC in the past few years have effectively proven that the original city-block model can no longer meet the climate challenges.

The new model — “Climate BYPASS,” is thus conceived, taking inspiration from the surgical bypass procedure. It acts as a growing structure that provides substitute/additional space above the streets for the city. “BYPASS” is composed of 3 phases. Each phase is designed to address

a particular task specific to its projected climate condition.

Step by step, “BYPASS” witnesses a future where mankind evolves and adapts to the almost irreversible climate change through collectively building the new urban-nature way-of-life.

PHASE 1 - CONSTRUCTION BYPASS

SECTION — THREE KEY PROGRAMS

During the first phase (2019-2030), Local Law 97 mandates that 75% of the buildings in NYC will need to be upgraded by 2030, as an effort to reduce carbon emission.

“Phase I Construction BYPASS” redesigns the spatial relationship between housing, construction, and small businesses. It proposes that the adjacent buildings are allowed to occupy the space above the streets for temporal renovation use. Bridges connecting the existing building with the “Bypass” will be built to facilitate construction and temporary circulation needs for the residents.

VIEW FROM THE BYPASS— FACADE RENOVATION

“Construction BYPASS” allows space for renovation to take place while at the same time, leaving enough room for the impacted residents to continue their daily life.

PHASE 2 - CRISIS BYPASS

Between 2030 and 2050, it is projected that NYC will be hit by 60 miles per hour hurricanes frequently.

“Phase II Crisis BYPASS” mitigates the risk of the worsening climate crisis by elevating most functions of the city, such as housing, rescue dock, electricity, clean water and food storage, into the bypass structure.

At this stage, all the buildings would have a built-in lobby, connecting straight into the Bypass structure,which serves as the main entrance.

MODE I: SUNNY DAY

VIEW FROM THE PERMANENT “LOBBY”

MODE II: CLIMATE CRISIS PREPAREDNESS

“Crisis BYPASS ‘’ has two operative modes. On a normal day, the Bypass remains largely open. Since the main lobby of the building has been moved to the upper levels, the ground level can be used as the extension of the street. During a weather emergency, the Bypass would be completely enclosed on the upper levels, which are used as shelter, distribution center. The lower level is used for rescues.

THREE CLIMATE-CONTROLLED ZONES “City BYPASS” designates three climate-controlled zones, which range from the open air space, that fluctuates with the exterior weather, comfortable indoor space, that is completely independent from the exterior air.

BYPASS AND THE CITY (DETAIL)

weather, the warm indoor space, that is moderately controlled, to the

In the future city, as the rest of the residential buildings decay and surrender to the hot, arid wilder ness, Bypass would become the climate-controlled oasis where humans and non-humans co-exist.

After the year 2100, some projected that the Global temperature would have risen 9 degree celsius. At this stage, the existing buildings within an NYC block would likely be semiabandoned.

“Phase III City BYPASS” imagines a new city when the temperature increase completely alters our wayof-life. The streets will be covered entirely to hold all city functions, such as living, working, agricultural production and leisure activities, under the controlled air.

VIEW FROM OUTSIDE OF THE CITY BYPASS

VIEW FROM THE RENOVATED POST WAR APARTMENT

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WEAVE SPACE

WEAVE SPACE: DANCE, READ, DRIFT! A LIBRARY

2019 Spring GSAPP|José Aragüez Studio

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VIEW FROM THE FIRSYTH STREET

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The “Weave Space” is a performance art library, located at the Sarah D. Roosevelt Park, Lower East Side, New York. The library is designed for the culturally diverse communities, particularly, for the public school students in the neighborhood.

This project uses three sets of continuous folds, connected via two monumental, suspended staircases to create a variety of in-between moments. A series of unconventional performative reading rooms are formed around them.

The play between suspension and adjacency is achieved through a calibrated process of folding, rotating, and tilting, as a part of the new spatial investigation of how continuous space could work in a public building.

WEAVE SPACE LIBRARY IN THE PARK The building is shaped by three continuous folds, creating three distinct yet connected volumes.

space and reading rooms are

events

workshops.

MATRIX OF TWO/THREE FOLDS

LONGITUDINAL SECTION SHOWING THE INTERIOR ACROSS THREE FOLDS

PERFORMANCEART

Performance Trail Open Performance Space

Children’s Performance Corner

PERFORMANTIVE READING

Theater

Pubic-Speaking Lab (explore — research - discuss - speak)

PROGRAMMING DIAGRAM - TWO TYPES OF “PERFORMATIVE SPACES”

Pedagogical Reading Room (pre-k - adulthood)

Maker’s Library (material - exhibition)

Digital Material Reading Room (watch - code - livestream)

VIEW TOWARDS THE PUBLIC SPEAKING LAB AND MAIN STAIRS

CROSS SECTION AT THE FIRST FOLD

KINGSTON -FRINGE

AGRICULTURE RESEQUENCING

2020 Spring GSAPP|Nahyun Hwang Studio In Collaboration with Helen Winter and Jiazhen Lin

Critiquing the redundancy and disconnect between three parallel infrastructures —ag ritourism, logistics, and migrant labor— of agriculture, a new experimental campus serves as an independent prototypical zone that designs for moments of inter section through overlapping layers of an ecological corridor, agriculture, housing, and infrastructure within the “rurban”

(rural +urban) context. By rethinking the relationships of human-nonhuman interaction with a new Anthropocene landscape, wilderness encounter, productivity, the true value of labor, and tourists’ spectatorship, Kingston-Fringe ultimately proposes a new way of life at the city fringes.

VIEW OF TRAFFIC INTERSECTION AGRICULTURE PRODUCTION PLANT

THE AGRI-INFRASTRUCTURE OF AN APPLE

CONCEPTUAL COLLAGE

We imagine a utopian structure that facilities both the massive scale of industrial production and a more personal, community-based relationship to the land and its wilde lives.

Tracing through three parallel infrastructures — agritourism, logistics, and migrant labor movement— of agriculture production in Hudson Valley, a disconnect between people, animals, and the land is made visible. While the legal/illegal migrant workers are the true foundation of such a laborintensive industry, their lives on the Hudson Valley farms are far from perfect. They are excluded from local communities and often crammed into dormitory-style rooms. The agriculture industry also relies heavily on cold storage and truck transportation, which is supported by an extensive highway system. This system destroys and cuts off natural animal habitats, causing tension between the wildlife and the local residents and the Catskill-bound tourists.

LAND USE - PRODUCTION & LEISURE WILDLIFE CROSSING CORRIDORS

KINGSTON-FRINGE AGRICULTURE CAMPUS CROSS SECTION (W-E)

AGRICULTURAL GREENHOUSES & LABS HOUSING - STUDENT & MIGRANT FAMILY DISTRIBUTION AND STORAGE NETWORK

KINGSTON-FRINGE

NORTH CAMPUS

VIEW FROM INSIDE THE CAMPUS DORMITORY

The North Campus serves as an education zone, where experimental farms are taken care of by students, who live in dorms and attend classes here.

ADJACENCY BETWEEN HOUSING AND LAB

The dormitory block is connected to the greenhouse and lab via a semi-open walkway.

Agriculture Labs and Greenhouses

Student Housing and Communal Spaces

The old highways would be elevated and encased, which frees the ground below and allow room to be added on top.

KINGSTON-FRINGE AGRICULTURE CAMPUS NORTH REGION CROSS SECTION (N-S)

VIEW FROM INSIDE THE TRAFFIC INTERSECTION AUDITORIUM

KINGSTON-FRINGE

MIDDLE CAMPUS

The apple orchard sits in between the Middle Campus and the South Campus, allowing easy access for workers, truckers and tourists who would visit for different purposes.

VIEW OF THE DE-PAVING RUNNING TRAIL AND WILDLIFE CROSSING

In the space below the elevated highways, the old paving is broken up to allow plants to take over. Along with a series of ponds, the new ground condition allows animals to roam on a path between the mountain and creek.

Migrant Worker Family Housing

Elevating the Existing Highway

VIEW OF THE FORMER TRAFFIC MEDIAN APPLE ORCHARD

ADJACENCY BETWEEN FAMILY HOUSING AND COMMUNI TY-OPERATED FARMS AND RECREATION FACILITY

The Middle Campus serves as a production and distribution zone, where farms are taken care of by the migrant farm workers, who could live in the free-standing houses on the land they work on with their families. Distribution facilities such as cold storage and highway are either put underground or elevated above ground, leaving the surface of the land open for people and animals to use.

KINGSTON-FRINGE AGRICULTURE CAMPUS MIDDLE REGION LONG SECTION (W-E)

KINGSTON-FRINGE

SOUTH CAMPUS

INNER MECHANISM OF THE VERTICAL CIRCULATION CORE AND THE SUPERSTRUCTURE

The South Campus extends into the city of Kingston. Esopus Creek also cuts through the campus here, making it the ideal location for tourists to visit and stay. The Campus thus features hotel rooms and leisure facilities, which will help generate additional revenue for the entire campus.

VIEW OF THE ESOPUS CREEK ECOLOGICAL LEISURE ZONE

VIEW OF THE BIRD MIGRATION CORRIDOR OBSERVATION SHED & ELEVATED WALKWAY

AGRI-TOURISM HOTEL AND COMMUNAL FACILITIES

KINGSTON-FRINGE AGRICULTURE CAMPUS SOUTH REGION CROSS SECTION (N-S)

GREENPOINT THEATER

TECH STUDIO PROJECT:

GREENPOINT THEATER

2019 Fall GSAPP|TECH IV

In Collaboration with David Musa, Luis Miguel Pizano & Reem Yassin

Our concept finds its foundations on the historic material and socioeconomic layers of Greenpoint, a source of once-un questioned energy production value that yet embodies phenomenal potential. We recognize the power of the existing materials in forging a new resilient, intel ligent solution for a future theater-going audience and the broader community. Multiple audiences will be served within the new structure on platform disks that vary in height, adjacency and program matic function.

Additionally, we recognize the important environmental factors and pressures of waterfront construction. In processing the heat of the water in the adjacent East River and reusing collected rainwater, we aim to design a system that responds to the needs of the theater’s users - the past, the present and the future of the industrial Brooklyn waterfront.

Existing Conditions

Radiant Heating

EARLY CONCEPT DIAGRAM

SITE CONTEXT (GREENPOINT WATERFRONT)

Ovals Extension of Disk Language

“Floating” Pool + Stage

Sourced Heat Pump

Moss + Nest Installation

The main theater, being the most signif icant space in the building, is designed to stand out. It is elevated above the ground level very obviously with large columns. Its profile protrudes from the roof of the building making it a beacon of what goes on within. The channel glass finish sparkles and shines, allow ing it to stand out in both daylight and artificial light used in the evening.

The black box and the bar stack one on top of the other both reflecting the cylindrical shape of the theater, in a slightly more understated way. The attractive view over the river toward Manhattan’s skyline is prioritized through the use of a glass facade on the east facade.

LONGITUDINAL BUILDING SECTION Cut Through Bar, Theater & Back of House

VIEW OF THE PUBLIC STAIR

VIEW OF THE ARTIST STUDIO UNDER THE OVAL THEATER

entrance to the

is a curved brick wall creating a sense of mystery around the entry point, while the rest of the front facade is more transparent glass.

RECYCLED

VIEW OF THE TRANSMITTER PARK ENTRANCE

Reinforced Steel Column

Beam-Steel Column Connection

Concrete Pile Cap with Steel Column

Steel Truss for Theater Reinforcement

BUILDING STRUCTURE AND REINFORCEMENT SYSTEMS

30” Steel-Reinforced Concrete Column

THEATER STRUCTURE AND REINFORCEMENT SYSTEMS

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professional work

PROFESSIONAL WORK: GEN ARCHITECTS

2019 Summer in Shanghai Software used: SketchUp, AutoCAD, Illustrator

1. BEISHANJIA FISHERMAN VILLAGE RESIDENTIAL PROJECT

TYPE 2 - PLANS (GROUND, SECOND FLOOR)

BEISANJIA FISHERMAN VILLAGE MASTER PLAN

VIEW OF INSIDE AND OUTSIDE OF THE HOUSES

VIEW OF YITING TING NESTED IN THE BAMBOO FOREST CROSS SECTION (THROUGH THE SITE AND THE BUILIDNG)

MASSING CONCEPT

YITING TING SITE PLAN

YITING TING LANDSCAPE, PLAN

BUILDING CROSS SECTION

VIEW OF THE COURTYARD

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