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I like stories, those which tell how people meet each other and form their relationships, and I believe that the physical environment plays the essential role as the stage for those romantic plots. Coincidence or preordination is driven by the interconnection of several daily routines, and the points of those intersections are urban public spaces which accommodates people’s everyday life.

Designing space is designing people’s lives. I have always been thinking that designers are acting like entrepreneurs, trying to find the balance of interests from different groups and seek an optimal solution: we organize urban space, provide possibilities for people to build connections with other objects, and the process of design resembles a social practice, which puts every aspect of the society into consideration.

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URBAN DESIGN SEEDING THE MACHAMBA DISPERSING WELLNESS WASTE FRONT ENCOUNTER MARKET ARCHITECTURE AFLOAT SANCTUARY SHELLS ON THE SHORE TRICK OF SIGHT LINE UPHILL EXPLORATION SHANGHAI PINAN COMMERCIAL OFFICE COMPLEX SILK ROAD INTERNATIONAL INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY PORT RESEARCH INFLUENZA ACTIVITIES AND NEIGHBORHOOD CHARACTERISTICS STARBUCKS EFFECT BIKE CAMPAIGN IN NYC EXTRACTIVE URBANISM

S E E D IN G THE MACHAM BA STUDIO: Urban Design III, Columbia GSAPP LOCATION: Beira, Mozambique INSTRUCTOR: Kate Orff, Geeta Mehta, Thaddeus Pawlowski, Lee Altman, Dilip Da Cunha, Julia Watson, Adriana Chavez TEAM: Ashwin Nambiar, Joy You-Chiao Wu, Jaime Palacios Anaya, Xinyue Liu

The city of Beira has an extensive and integrated system of traditional agriculture that is under threat. Our project conceives of this system as more than just agriculture - it is a productive and preventative flood infrastructure. We envision that this agricultural system could coordinate communities, organize the city, and be the key to recovery and ongoing resilience.

The goals of this project are followed: Consolidating and organizing cooperatives at a city scale; Protecting social and ecological capital; Empowering women in agriculture; Diversifying income and create job opportunities; Integrating adaptive, nature-based infrastructure.

Storymap: https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/f27ab8fa6c294c9ebb67e261d191f5b7

feminine noun [Mozambique]

Agricultural garden, where produce is cultivated by a family mainly for self-consumption.

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Beira 1990s

LACK OF ELEVATIONAL PROGRAMMING

Beira 2020

MACHAMBA AS A WATER-HOLDING SYSTEM

Machamba CO-OPS Elevational Strategies

• High grounds are equipped with public programs and accommodating more people.

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agriculture and preventative water retention lands.

People in low grounds retreat to safe zones in the nearby highlands.

These strategies can only be implemented if they are community driven. Co-op could be the trigger point of the process.

Based on this water-holding system we propose three community based organizing frameworks to facilitate urban transformation according to different social contexts. The overall objective is to strategically retreat to safer zones combined with community empowerment and economic development.

• High Ground Coop - Provide welfare facilities / densify housing

• Low Ground Coop - Increase agricultural production and manage water holding systems.

• Mid Ground Coop - Boost economy by scaling agriculture / aquaculture production.

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Machambas working as productive agriculture and providing food to local people

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Machambas working as water retention for the city of Beira, and the mounds forming a network for protecting people and their assets

Community Interaction in Hudson & Prattsville, NY

Healthcare industry accounts for 10% of the total greenhouse gases in the US. In the Hudson Valley, geography drives people’s STUDIO: Urban Design II, Columbia GSAPP health seeking behavior, residents travel up to 1.5 hours for their basic health needs. At the same time, many hospitals have 50% Hudson Valley, New York LOCATION: vacant bed space, that can be repurposed. The project challenges INSTRUCTOR: Kaja Kßhl, Anna Dietzsch, the perspective of the current healthcare system from being a Jerome Haferd, Liz McEnaney, measure of cure to an extension of health and wellbeing of the Justin Moore, Shachi Pandey, community. We reimagine dispersion of wellness through an Raafi Rivero, David Smiley, additive typology that empowers the role of social infrastructure Dragana Zoric to spread a wellness network in rural areas that substantially TEAM: Mansoo Han, Niharika Shekhawat, lower the environmental impacts, and create an equitable and Shailee Shah sustainable model. Project Video: https://vimeo.com/380161906

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Hudson, Columbia County, NY

PROGRAM TRANSITION

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MAIN HOSPITAL 6F 58.4% VACANCY 134,500 SQFT COMMUNITY PAVILLION TRAINING, PUBLIC KITCHEN, TELEHEALTH OFFICE 18,500 SQFT

ORIGINAL PROGRAM

CARE CENTER DAY CARE & FAMILY CARE 17,200 SQFT

PROPOSED PROGRAM

COMMUNITY PAVILION TELEHEALTH CENTER COMMUNITY GYM TRAINING CENTER PUBLIC KITCHEN

Open Sports Fields

Community Pavilion

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Storefront Healthcare

Prattsville, Greene County, NY

Shed As Living Room

Sunset Park’s Waterfront is an Industrial area which has multiple underutilized NYC properties with a great connectivity, and it currently hosts SIMS, the facility which receives and sorts 100% NYC’s STUDIO: Urban Design I, Columbia GSAPP residential recyclable waste. But residential waste only represents LOCATION: Sunset Park, New York City 25% of NYC’s Waste Stream. The remaining 75% is Commercial Waste of which only 22% gets recycled. And this recycling scattered INSTRUCTOR: Tricia Martin, Nans Voron, all over the city, costing a lot of money and polluting due to its Hayley Eber, Sagi Golan, distribution. This project proposes a Green Waste System that can Quilian Riano, Austin Sakong, manage and recycle NYC waste, by locating a series of processes in one specific area, therefore reducing transportation, money and Shin-pei Tsay time invested in recycling, creating an asset at Sunset Park that will TEAM: Claudia Kleffmann, give back to the community by providing jobs, education, public spaces and energy. Project Video: https://vimeo.com/354209483 Vasanth Mayilvahanan

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Urban Design, HNU Changsha, Hunan, China Min Jiang Ting Zhang, Sijia Peng

Markets are vibrant urban spaces where people meet and get involved with each other. They are original functional places in cities and provide a basic reason for people’s encounter - commodities exchange. Changsha is a city in a rapid growth of urbanization, a lot of development happens in the old city center. Therefore, the organic texture and the memory precipitated by time are quickly replaced with neat modern square boxes. This project is about how to gather people’s experience in the original site where there is a large market and apply those experience to a new functional urban place under the requirement of the government for economic needs. The attitude for urban renovation here is to preserve the experience of the past and translate that into the concept of the new space.

The shops in the original southern block were preserved, and an overhead building was placed in the upper part of the block as a traffic space connecting the commercial street air corridor and high-rise buildings. In the building, you can walk above the old block to enjoy the old look of the block. This space also provides a venue for the flea market and the exhibition.

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(office building 10-14F) provides office rental for regular businesses including art education and market management etc.

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Local food, Boutique Restaurant (1-3F, Commercial Street); Greenhouse Organic Food Restaurant (Office Building 5-7F, 11-12F) including dining area and food processing display area

Creative space (office 2-6F) provides office space for small startups; Office (office building) provides office rental for regular businesses

Small Crafts Gallery (Business Street 1-3F) provides space for cultural products and designer products; Mobile Booth (Commercial Street Air Corridor)

Library (B1) provides resources for nearby community citizens and primary school students; Gym (Office Building 13-14F); Parking (B1)

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Lv’an, Anhui, China Xin Wang, Ziyuan Zhu

A buoyant foundation is used to resist the influence of flooding. Micro adaption is invented to the wall in the yard of traditional Anhui house, which is originally used for separating the families of outspring. Here we would like to bring the big family together when facing the disaster and providing great public space for normal use when there is no flood. This is also a general design for many houses in the Anhui Province where the villagers often build their house as Thriple yard. So that people can preserve their life right in the place they live instead of moving outside the town which is far away when the water level rises.

SHELLS ON THE SHORE

Community Stadium with Large-span Structure Design STUDIO: LOCATION: INSTRUCTOR: TEAM:

Architecture VI, HNU Changsha, Hunan, China Zhaohui Yuan, Guang Deng Sijia Peng, Zongyue Zhang

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Architecture IV, HNU Liberec, Czech Republic Suqi Jiang, Hui Chen Ting Zhang, Sijia Peng

This is a project of the extension of The North Bohemia Museum in Liberec. The design is driven from the relationship of watching and being watched, which is a basic behavior happened in museums. Here the concept to extend this relationship to the new and old museum and to create an interface for the conversation between the two. The old museum is the exhibit of the new museum, and the new museum is the stage for the observer of the old museum. To make a continuous experience for the visitors in the museum, a narrative plot is written to connect the spaces to induce people’s participation.

SECOND FLOOR PLAN 1:1200 1. CLOAKROOM 2. EXHIBITION SPACE

THIRD FLOOR PLAN 1:1200 3. ACTIVITY SPACE 4. OFFICE

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UPHILL EXPLORATION STUDIO: Thesis Project, HNU LOCATION: Songgang, Sichuan, China INSTRUCTOR: Suqi Jiang Individual Work

Songgang is a mountainous area inhibited by Jiarong Tibetan. In order to build a deep understanding of this remote and mysterious region, an anthropological research using Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) was conducted before the design. I had many talks with those who used to reside in the village on the top of the mountain, until recently moving to the foot with standard detached housing lined up by the government.

They appreciated the promoted life but still missed their past time in the mountain. Based on their will of reconstructing their original village, I proposed to bring them uphill participating in the exhibition and offer a possibility for them to recall their past memories through a spatial strategy, with a hope that the museum can be consistency of their stories, and correspond with their new life.

S HAN G H A I PI NAN CO MME R CI AL OF F I CE COMPL EX Professional Work at JWDA, Shanghai LOCATION: INVOLVEMENT: ROLE IN TEAM:

Shanghai, China Design Development, Construction Documentation Modelling, Diagrams, Elevation

SILK ROAD INTERNATIONAL INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY PORT Professional Work at JWDA, Shanghai LOCATION: INVOLVEMENT: DURATION: TEAM: ROLE IN TEAM:

Lanzhou, China Schematic Design 2 Weeks Team of 3 with 2 Supervisors Initial Concept, Rhino Modelling, Plans, Diagrams

COVID-19 Overall Confirmed Case Rate Per 100 People By ZIP Code Till June 7th 2020

INFLUENZA ACTIVITIES & NEIGHBORHOOD CHARACTERISTICS COURSE:

Exploring Urban Data with Machine Learning, Columbia GSAPP LOCATION: New York City INSTRUCTOR: Boyeong Hong TEAM: Hanzhang Yang, Xiyu Chen

Triggered by the COVID-19 outbreak, this project uses machine learning to learn the pattern of the pandemic activities in New York City and the relationship with the neighborhood characteristics. The regression model estimated the influenza rates at the census tract level in New York City according to the various demographic data. With the clustering models, the study also identified important neighborhood characteristics related to influenza activities, which can help the health agencies and communities better prepare and mitigate the hazard brought by contagious diseases and provided a tool to facilitate neighborhood development.

Full Report: https://issuu.com/tingzg/docs/influenzafinalreport

Estimated Influenza-Like Illness (ILI) Overall Emergency Department Visit Rate Per Year Per 100 People By Census Tract

Kernel Density Plots of Standardized Features By Each Cluster

New York City Census Tract Clusters - KMeans

CLUSTERING - K-MEANS The resulting cluster group 0 (in Red) highly collocated with census tracts experiencing high Influenza activities.

The visualization shows that neighborhoods with following characteristics: high percentage of population enrolled in public health insurance, high percentage of households with children, low education level in population, low to medium household income (less than 75k) are among the most vulnerable areas of Influenza activities.

IDENTIFIED GENTRIFIED NEIGHBORHOODS AFTER STARBUCKS OPENED SITE - BROOKLYN

Starbucks Opening Date: 6/30/12 and 9/24/13

Starbucks Identified Gentrified Neighborhoods

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THE STARBUCKS EFFECT COURSE:

Geographic Information System, Columbia GSAPP LOCATION: New York City INSTRUCTOR: Leah Meisterlin, Carsten C. Rodin TEAM: Hatem Alkhathlan, Sushmita Shekar

Zillow chief executive Spencer Rascoff and chief economist Stan Humphries, write that “Starbucks fuels gentrification and so is responsible for higher housing prices”. Understanding the growth and establishment of Starbucks could be an early indicator that housing prices are about to spike or Starbucks and other cafe’s use gentrified neighborhoods for establishing new investment by increasing the prices further and causing displacement. The aim of this project is to explore the census tracts having potential Starbucks stores and determining its relation to gentrification criteria like median rent, median income, race and educational attainment. The Starbucks Effect is a new phenomenon which comments that properties in close proximity to a Starbucks actually appreciate much faster than those in less established neighborhoods.

Full Report: https://issuu.com/tingzg/docs/starbuckseffect

CHANGE IN THE NEIGHBORHOODS - BROOKLYN The first site that we chose to examine is located in Brooklyn, which has two Starbucks stores opened in June 2012 and September 2013, located 0.43 Miles from each other, in addition to 12 other stores opened before the study period 2009-2017.

Percentage of Change In Median Rent From 2009 to 2017

This study area saw drastic increase in median rent from 2009 to 2017 by 48%, it increased from $1,135 to $2,000.

The Median income also has increased by 41%, from $65,521 to $110,191. The percentage of residents age 25 and over holding bachelorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s degrees jumped to 61.68%, and the percentage white population has increased by 9.91%, while the black population decreased by -58.53% .

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Established Starbucks in the study period. (2009-2017) Established Starbucks before/after study period.

Identified Gentrified Tracts.

Starbucks Boundary (Voronoi diagram) Identified Gentrified Tracts from 2009 to 2017 & Starbucks Locations

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Percentage of Change In Higher Education From 2009 to 2017

This map shows the top 100 Citibike routes in NYC. With the data of start stations and end stations of Citibike rides in 2018, we conducted network analysis to get the shortest bike paths of each ride to represent the most possible biking routes. Overlapping with the existing bike routes, we can see where people like to ride but lack of bike lanes.

C ITIB IKE ANALYSI S COURSE: LOCATION: INSTRUCTOR: TEAM:

Urban Informatics New York City Anthony Vanky Chris Zheng, Zixuan Zhang

The City of New York in a parallel universe is starting a campaign to take all automobiles off the roads. It kicks off with bicycles taking over certain streets and avenues in Manhattan at a certain time of the day, and eventually every street in the whole city, 24/7. While most New Yorkers are embracing this more equal and healthy future, they also wonder what are the next steps to take in the coming days. To learn from the trend of bicycles, especially shared bicyclesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; growth in New York City, we looked into the data of Citi Bike in 2018, using python and html to process and visualize, trying to forecast where the next bicycle lane will be built in the near future.

And if we are going to launch a campaign which could be participated as many people as possible, what time is the perfect time?

Original Delivable: http://www.columbia.edu/~tz2436/BikeCampaign.html

SEASONAL FREQUENCY

By visualizing the amount of bicycle trips in a year, it is obvious that people are more likely to choose a bicycle during their trips in the warm summer, while in the winter, the number for riding is greatly reduced. Thus, bicycle travel is significantly influenced by weather factors.

WEEKLY FREQUENCY Through the visualization of data, we speculate that citibike is the main choice for some people when commuting to and from work. In the whole week, the means of each day that people ride citibike are changing.

Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday consist of the peak of citibike using, while at the beginning and end of the week, bike usage declines. However, on leisure Saturdays, bicycling is also a good option for people to travel.

DAILY FREQUENCY

The time-specific data contribute to understanding the regularity of peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s travel every single day. During the working days, the peak period of people using citibike is mostly concentrated in the morning and afternoon, which overlap with the peak periods of work commuting. However, on the weekends, the stress of work is eliminated, and people prefer to ride a bike on a relaxing afternoon.

EXTRACTIVE URBANISM COURSE: LOCATION: INSTRUCTOR: TEAM:

Conflict Urbanism Mozambique Laura Kurgan Chris Zheng, Annie Wu, Zhou Wu

Mozambique’s booming extractive industries have spurred the country’s making of modernity in the post civil war era. Through the lens of urbanism - urban development, foreign investments, infrastructure construction, settlements and resettlements, etc. - this project looks at how the extractive boom is building the country’s economy while characterizing it with spatial and socio economic fragmentation across the national territory.

Original Delivable: https://centerforspatialresearch.github.io/conflict_ urbanism_sp2020/2020/04/30/Wu-Annie-Wu-Zhou-Zhang-Ting-ZhengChris.html

GAS FIELDS LICENSED TO FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENTS

RESETTLEMENT OF PEOPLE FOR GAS PLANT

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Honestly, I was once a pessimist towards the present technological society where people are drifting apart from each other. However, my encounter with architecture helps me recognize the power of space and ignites my passion to explore a better living environment and a promoted city life, which leads to my decision to further my exploration in this area, namely that provide a better setting for people to create their unique stories.