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INTRODUCTION My name is We nj i e Zhe ng , 2 3 ye ars ol d, arch ite c ture stude nt , fo c us on de si g n and urb an pl anni ng . I don’t c onsi de r my s el f as a prol i f i c p e rs on, but I do consi de r my s el f as a hardwork i ng p e rs on. I am ve r y e xcite d ab out de s i g n , t hroug hout my ye ars at Iowa St ate I have c are f u l ly de s i g ne d work t hat fol l ows t he l ang u age of t he sur roundi ng , but has a Subl e t, sur pr isi ng i ndiv i du a l it y. The i de a of c re at i ng b ette r l iv i ng condit i ons for s o ci e t y has s e r ve d as a maj or i nspi rat i on and go a l for e ve r y proj e c t I worke d on du r i ng my e duc at i on. T he fol l ow i ng is my p e rs ona l p or t fol i o t hat g ive s a cl e ar i l lust r at i on of my work and comp e te nce, i nte re sts and e nt hus i as m on t he v ar i ous s c a l e l e vels and domai ns of t he archite c tu re, and ar t. Th is p or t fol i o i nclude s my s el e c t i ng work f rom 2 0 1 4 -2 0 1 8 dur i ng my b achel or studi e s at Iowa T he u n ive rsit y i n t h is p or t fol i o is cho s e n by a v ar i e t y of s c a l e s , di f fe re nt compl e x it y, and di f fe re nt way of de si g n me t ho dol o g y w hat Im t h i n k i ng ab out. A l l t he proj e c ts are st ar t w it h site ana ly sis, and t he n arch ite c ture re s e arch And de s i g n . T hos e proj e c ts have t a ke n pl ace i n di f fe re nt sp at i a l c onte x t s . As of to d ay, I e ncounte r my s el f i n Europ e g ai ni ng out s i de p e rsp e c t ive and e x p e r i e nce to help fe e d my de si re as an archite c ture stude nt. Th roug h f ive ye ars of study i ng archite c tu re I b el i e ve arch ite c ture is ab out happi ne ss.
Wenjie Zheng Zurich, 15 of July 2018
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WENJIE
RESUME
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Address: 4233 Greenleaf CT APT 304 Park City, IL, 60085 Phone: +1-224-616-8240 E-mail: Archwenjie@Gmail.com
E D U C AT I O N
Iowa State University Bachelor of Architecture
Aug, 2013 - Feb, 2018
Ames, Iowa
Through 5 years of studio, I finish 15 projects. From only 1000sf2 housing project to complex urban plan. Through 3 years studies of technology course, I gain knowledge about material, structure, construction, and sustainability. ETH Zürich Visiting Student Zürich, Swizerland
Feb, 2018 - Present
With a strong learning purpose. I choose the studio with prof. Adam Caruso with topic Idea City. Also taking Independent research with Prof. Milica Topalovic with topic of Projects on Territory.
EXPERIENCE
Office-Folio - Intern Architect Seoul, Korea
Summer 2017
Involved in whole design phase of a bridge project in Seoul, Korea. Responsibilities includes conceptual design, 3D modeling, graphical presentation. 2017 Fashion Show Director Iowa State University Apparel, Events Hospitality Management | Ames, IA
Aug, 2016 - May, 2017
Involved in runway design, site research, time management, expense calculation, material assembly, and transportation. Teaching Assistant Iowa State University college of design | Ames, IA
Aug, 2016 - May, 2017
Teaching Assistant in first-year design studios. Worked alongside professor with 30 students per semester, participated in a seminar about design teaching. Woodshop Supervisor Iowa State University College of Design | Ames, IA
Aug, 2016 - Dec, 2017
Responsibilities is extended but not limited to orientation of tool use, help solve any technical issue, and make sure people’s safety. Have great knowledge with machine, and hand tools.
WORKSHOPS
Joint Research, Design Build & Urban Design Project, Lima Peru Iowa State University (USA) + Intuy Lab (PERU)
Jan, 2017-May, 2017
During this workshop, I went to Chorrillos, Lima, Peru and collaborate with local architect to improve informal settlement live condition. We design and construct some infrastructure to their community. Including, light system, “tire” stair, water pumping system for the garden, shading canopy, and planning.
AWA R D
The Kennard Bussard Award | Winner
Dec 2017
Dencity 2017 Competition | Spcial Mention
June 2017
S O F T WA R E
Autodesk (AutoCAD, Revit) | Adobe Design Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign, After Effects) | SketchUp | Rhinoceros3D | Maxwell Render | Vray Render
L A N G UAG E S
English
Chinese(Mandarin)
Contents The Continuous Exposition Graduation project Advisor. Michell Squire
Olympic Odyssey
Evolo Skyscraper Competition Advisor. Bo-Suk Hur
Mont-IT Center IT office design Advisor. Bo-Suk Hur
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Dencity 2017 competition Advisor. Clare Cardinal
We Stick Together Memorial Design Advisor. Bo-Suk Hur
The Practical Center Visiting Center Advisor. Jungwoo Ji
GroĂ&#x;stadt Arbon Urban plan Advisor. Adam Caruso
The Fashion Shown 2017 Runway Design and build
Embrace 7675x Drawing Advisor. Peter Goche
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Site: San Francisco Hunter’s Point
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This site is toxic
Instructor: Mitchell Squire
The H. Kennard Bussard Award_Winner 1
The Continuous Exposition Resting in the periphery of San Francisco’s consciousness, Hunter’s Point carries a life-time of subjugation. Despite its historic position as the industrial backbone of the city, the site has consistently served as a locus for experiments in desire. Initially family owned farmland, Hunter’s Point `has been home to a number of industrial programs, including: agriculture, meat production, shipbuilding and shipping docks, naval base, radiological testing facilities and power plants. Private corporation Lennar Inc. is currently building new homes on Hunter’s Point as part of a $2 billion redevelopment plan (hoping to reach their 2020 completion date), despite it’s status as a EPA Superfund site, which requires federal oversight for the removal of hazardous waste. Regardless of the use of space, each subsequent and future development can be seen as a manifestation of desire resulting in the creation of transient spaces and massive quantities of waste. As the power relations of territory and space manifest in the perpetual re/development of Hunter’s Point, it becomes evident that contradiction is implicit to spaces constructed by desire. The desire to build, to own, to profit off of a designated space - in this case, Hunter’s Point - is consequently met with the desires of those who are exploited for their labor, their homes, or their lives. We must face the exploitation and the class relations through which it functions: development is only a negative thing for those who are being taken advantage of. The exploitation of the land continually benefits the same people; the elite are always in control. It appears that the desire to create, to build, to manipulate space for profit has at the same time caused massive detriment to the environment and dismantled preexisting built communities. In the discussion of territoriality and development, we begin to question the agency of the architect. By looking at Hunter’s Point as a moment through which social and cultural inequalities have manifest in this hulking mass of waste, we bring forth a discussion in which architects too often fail to take part.
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The swells of San Francisco are alive through the stench of piss, marijuana in the air, the artisan food shops. The array of social problems in San Francisco is overwhelming as the ever-increasing tech population lives with relative apathy to the bottom of society, immigrants from central America, kids with EBT cards and the home.
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Running out of undeveloped spaces, the Potrero Hill and Hunter’s point shipyards pose vacant and historically right sites in which to further investigate and propose (large?) Scale interventions. There is a visible gradient of development from the North, where Mission Bay has been cleaned up and gentrified (right South of AT&T Park), all the way south to Hunter’s Point, where speculative housing cannot be completed until the Navy fully rids the former shipyard of all hazardous waste.
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THIS SITE IS TOXIC. 1849 Following the California Gold Rush Real estate development. 1867 Shipbuilding became integral to Hunters Point The First permanent drydock on the pacific coast. 1868 “Butchers Reservation” Production facilities for tanning, fertilizer, wool and tallow.
1940 San Francisco Naval Shipyard developed. 1945 Atomic bomb “Little Boy’, sailed From Hunters Point Shipyard to kill 140,000 People in Hiroshima, Japan. 1969 Hunters Point Shipyard was occupied by the Naval Radiological Defense Laboratory. Atomic weapons testing and research on the effects of radiation on materials and living organisms / Caused widespread radiological contamination.
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1989 The base was declared a Superfund site requiring long-term clean-up of nuclear waste. 1990s Building projects to revitalize the district began. 2008 Pacific Gas and Electric Company demolished. 2012 Cleaning contractors, Tetra Tech, faked clean soil samples / radioactive soil is buried in trenches.
LENNAR Lennar Inc. proposed a $2 billion project to build 10,500 homes, commercial spaces, stadiums, shopping complex.
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This form is not from our minds, nor our desires, but has been hiding, amassing in the murky depths of the site. Grow-ing, shifting, bulging, slowly over time, the form is the accumulation of past, present, and future desires. We seek to incise into this profane array, carefully sculpting spaces and placing objects of fascination to bring the masses into direct contact with the cultural presence of this behemoth.
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The investigation/exploration has lead to innumerable discoveries about the process in which we make, our site and the role of architecture. The space that has been designed is not a solution, but a incision into understanding the magnitude of the site. It reflects on the past of site, warning of the imminent future, and acts as a buffer. Architecture is too often disguised as a solution to a problem, an intervention in a singular time or space of crisis. Hunter’s Point doesn’t need salvation. It need to be known, it needs to be seen.
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Contruction Site Animal Farm Slaughter House Farming Draydock Waste Facilities Sewage Iron Factory Storage Shipping Dock Loading Dock Nuclear Laboratory Nuclear Waste Treatment Nuclear Storage
One experiences this object as a spectator, infinitesimal in the face of such expansive space and history. Upon entering the sphere, one is engulfed by the gigantic nature of the space, which not only functions for the respective programs, but embodies the scale of desire and history of development and exploitation on Hunter’s Point.
NUCLEAR LABORATORY 1. Outer Shell Truss Structure 2. Frame 3. Inner Finish (2m Thick) 4. Security Path 5. Bio-Test Tubes 6. Main Test Tube 7. Test Equipment 8. Path To Storage 9. Fan 10. Drum Container 11. Secondary Laboratory
NUCLEAR STORAGE 1. Interior Finish 2. Contamination Pipe 3. Nuclear Waste Tank 4. Buffer Space 5. Ladder to Upper Level 6. Pipe Gear 7. Pipes 8. Hallway To The Lab (Human Access)
HARBOR / DOCK 1. Public / Upper Path 2. Contamination Pipe 3. Bar Grating Deck 4. Truss Crane 5. Crane 6. Container Ship 7. Contamination Sewage 8. Loading Dock 9. Truck Path 10. Grid Structure Frame 11. Interior Finish 12. Space Next To
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Conceptually High-rise Design
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The location of the project is on the international waters of the temperate zones. Placing the project in the temperate zone allows our tower to host both the Summer and Winter Olympics games. Placing the project in international water also eliminates the control and regulation of a particular host country, hence creating an open space which does not belong to a country and solely serves for the purpose of sports.
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The primary objective of “The Olympic Odyssey” is to defer from continuing this economically and socially destructive history and reinforce the purity of sport that the Olympic Games symbolize. With a profoundly monumental form, the Olympic Odyssey provides a collection of archetypes necessary for sports such as the stadium, track, pool, and field. To escape the political territoriality of land, we seek a paradise in the unclaimed territory of the ocean, where sport can be celebrated for its history and human diligence. The facilities will provide the necessary spatial technologies for both summer and winter Olympic sports so as provide an unified, iconic space with the flexibility necessary for future games. While access to the tower will be primarily for competitors and staff to ensure fairness without interruption, smart technology will provide the public with an autonomous form of inclusive and three-dimensional access.
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As the magnitude of the Olympics has only expanded over time, so too has the criticality of the host city. While a significant part of its universal cultural force, the host city of this global event has become increasingly destabilized as the Games have become so overshadowed by financial burden and corruption. Many cities are left increasingly destabilized due to the massive economic costs of hosting an international event with such magnitude. We believe that the deliberation of such large quantities of money into the Olympics has diverted its purity: the authenticity of sportsmanship is transcended by a politically charged spectacle.
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Athletes Track Plan
At Home Provides people throughout the world an easier, cheaper and more assessable way of attending the Olympics.
In Transition Provides people with the option of attending multiple games at the same time. They can see the other audience in the VR system, preserving the authentic cheering crowd feeling.
Through Virtual Reality With people being in the VR environment, they can get closer to the players by choosing the field views to add another level of to the sports experience.
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Roof Plan
1. Choosing a Site
2. Creating an entrance
3. Creating levels
4. Sculpting the tower
5. Adding Virtual Reality
Choosing a site in the international waters, raising a circular tower to fit all the sports location and service spaces.
Creating a circular colosseum as an entrance to the tower also to house the athletes and provide service areas for the tower management.
Creating different levels and zones in the colosseum to divide space and house the outdoor water sports.
Placing the sports programs in the tower, while playing with its form, sculpting it to fit each program and space needed.
Adding virtual reality to the tower to provide the audience and promotion for the games. The VR surrounds the tower to provide a 360-degree virtual reality experience for the players and the audience.
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22. Colosseum / VR Projection
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24 ISU 2016 Fall Architecture - 402 Studio
Site: San Francisco, California
Instructor: Bo-Suk Hur
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Mont-IT Center IT office centers proclaim to be positions of authority and service, typically ones of public nature. But when one notices IT Office Centers full of rooms where people sit at tables with computers, papers and phones, usually as a part of a business or other organization, one realizes the lack of opportunity for change, connections, expansion, and legacy towards society. The reality of this issue tends to create a disconnection between the company, users and customers. The Mont-IT center seeks to connect the images and values of society, and the new technology of our era through the interaction of the visitors, and workers in the IT Center.
San Francisco one of the most blooming states in the United States features a great diversity of people, a rich history, and an innovative approach towards the future. The design aims to meet cultural expectations, rather than just utilitarian needs. It is based on the idea of neo-monumentality, which emanates from monumentality sharing its eternity, enigma and contribution to society. The Mont-It Center focuses on: creating spaces for a great diversity of people and the workers, allowing the public to be part of the building to learn about it and its products, and a place of interaction for the city of San Francisco.
Site Image Intersection with S Van Ness Ave /Market Street
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Conceptual Diagram The Mont-IT center challenge for the 21st century IT office becomes the search for the ideal place of communication, research and learning. In order to achieve this fantasy the whole design was analysis those elements showing above.
Two Wings Four Bridges The building features by two wings and four bridges. The longer wing on Van Ness Avenue functions as a research lab, offices, restaurant, exhibition The shorter wing next on 12th street is structured by modular frame, and run as prototype producing and testing. The two wings are interactive by four bridges. Each bridge is conceptually interlacing of paths of streets.
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The site is a triangle shape formed by Van Ness Avenue and Market Street which are the two main Streets in San Francisco downtown. Market Street has a large amount of pedestrian. Van Ness Avenue is crowded with traffic. On the west side, the quietness of 12th Street forms an unexpected contrast with main Street.
The design strategy is forms to echo these three different atmospheres. These bridges connect the 2 buildings by providing places for the workers and the visitors to work and learn about the new technology and what the company offers.
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The Longer Wing With the idea of create a working space that make worker full in love and don’t want to leave. The the whole intention of interior design is conscious to redefine the word “formal office type”. This new office type is assimilate into coffee shop, restaurant, playground, garden, library, living room..etc.
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Nowadays, we like space with more opening, and more freedom. The Mont-IT center is engage this consequences with four meeter hight, and deep space.
The design has 3 faรงades, each one of them responds to its parallel street. On SS Van Ness Street, this street is characterized by having a constant linear flow of traffic, the response was to resemble the fluidity by creating a reflective and partly open faรงade.
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The Shorter Wing The shorter wing by 12th street is supported by a modular structure. This wing is in constant change because of the system that contains different robots, this robots transport containers with fabricated products to the trucks in order for them to distribute the objects, and to be able to serve the whole San Francisco.
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Site: [Iowa State University] Ames, Iowa
Building Area: At the discretion of the team
Instructor: Bo-Suk Hur
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WE STICK TOGETHER A memorial is defined as a object that is explicitly created to commemorate a person, event, or something that has become important to a social group. Monuments tend to have a large scale, some of this memorials are untouchable and uninteresting. The analysis of memorials such as the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, the Oklahoma City National Memorial, and the Steilneset Memorial to Victims of Witch Trials demonstrate the beginnings of an approach to provide community with the idea interaction, community union, and legacy. The design challenge for 21st century memorial becomes the search for architecture that could be enjoyed and at the same time serve as a way to commemorate the legacy, importance, or different event in history.
Iowa State University is characterized by being a community of diverse scholars in the state of Iowa. Iowa State’s central campus features an active atmosphere that allows society to congregate and communicate during the day, but as the night falls, central campus becomes an isolated obscure space with the lacks of spaces for and increasing population of students. The memorial proposal “We Stick Together ” seeks to defend the values of a community, by creating spaces of interaction while commemorating the legacy and the values that the Sullivan brothers have taught us. Through the use of light, the memorial aims to serve as different points of community engagement, communication and interaction in Iowa State’s Central Campus. The five Sullivan brothers of Iowa, represent the unity of a group of brothers who fought to stick together when they got enlisted to the war, they represent a group that volunteered to defend their nation with courage and commitment. The Sullivan brothers symbolize a legacy of values that are adapted differently from one person to another. The proposal consists of 5 different cubes that are placed in different locations where students spend most of their time. The 5 designs meant to represent each brother and a characteristic that they share together or they have achieved; those values are: courage, inspiration, help, unity, and reflection.
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40 ISU 2017 Spring Architecture
Site: Chorrillos, Lima, Peru
In this drawing, Look for the following: Environment Urban Density Infrastructure Street Activity Neighborhood Unfinished Construction
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Instructor: Clare Cardinal
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Alto Peru is a neighborhood located in the district of Chorrillos, 17 km away from the historical center of Lima. It is in close proximity to a more affluent oceanfront area and the juxtaposition of income levels is very visible. This neighborhood has a history of rapid informal growth and construction on steep sites and on lots that contain ruins of historic buildings. The neighborhood is an unsafe, dense environment that lacks quality community spaces. However, the neighborhood has strong social and cultural bonds. For the residents of Alto Peru, the streets are the only public spaces. The streets in this neighborhood have constant traffic, are very narrow, and are often filled with trash spread around by many roaming dogs. The lack of quality public space in Alto Peru, is the primary issue for our intervention. A particular phenomenon was identified: many of the concrete columns of the houses in Alto Peru were exposed and unfinished, waiting for future vertical expansion. This pattern creates the potential to create different action spaces on top of the neighborhood. These elevated community spaces would supplement the streets and create additional gathering spaces that are more flexible and could support a range of uses not possible or safe at ground level.
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y Design Phases Phase One: Individual members of the community allow construction of a superstructure over their private roofs. These individuals will continue to control access to their private rooftops, but these rooftops will have stairs to the community level. Access to this space will be negotiated by the individual property owner and the community. Funding for the first phase of the system of intervention draws on the government’s recently increased commitment to public investment projects such as this proposal and design expertise offered through Alto Peru Surf, a local NGO. Phase Two: The community works together to define specific uses for the platforms, which will require them to build consensus and learn from each other. These action spaces can be renegotiating as the community grows and changes. Funding for the materials for this phase is the responsibility of the community, with design and construction assistance available through Alto Peru Surf. Phase Three: Future expansion and transformation of the elevated action spaces is inevitable as the neighborhood grows and individual property owners add on to their houses. If the We expect the evolution of the rooftop topography into an interlaced landscape of community spaces at various heights that range from 1 to 4 floors, with intermediate levels and access points in between. If the proposal earns support in the community, funding for this final and perpetual phase of development will be community-generated.
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46 ISU 2016 Fall Architecture - 302 Studio
Site: Farnsworth House, Illinois
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Instructor: Jungwoo Ji
The Practical Center The Practical center is a building that aims to fulfill the needs of visitors. It is a place that educates people, it is a place that has an active connection with the surrounding nature, and most importantly it is a place that respects the legacy left by one of the greatest architects. The site context was difficult, many spaces provided a lot of possibilities, but many of them lacked nature preservation. It was decided for the Practical Center to be placed where the other visitor center is located; the idea is to preserve nature, avoid flood, accelerate construction, and minimizing the budget of transportation and deforestation. The preservation of the Farnsworth House is also critical to provide more space for exhibitions, and storage.
The form of the building is based on a 5 ft long by 3 ft wide grid; the grid allows the space to be organized, such as the Farnsworth House that also uses a grid. The proportion of the building is quite similar to the one of the Farnsworth House, by decreasing the proportion of the main space of the Farnsworth House by 1% we were able to create a gallery space. The other two wings are 79% and 89% the size of the gallery space. The gallery space features a fascinating garden that elongates along with the hallway, the reason of such, was to give the visitors a sense of direction to head to the Farnsworth House. It is said that most of the time people forget words, they forget what you do for them, but they will never forget what your making them feel with the space, and that is the purpose of the gallery. As people are guided to visit the Farnsworth House, the staff will prepare itself to welcome them back. As the Visitors enter the building again, the other hallway will serve as a way to circulate people from the gallery to the public wing. The wing is composed of an open gift shop and a multipurpose room that features a switchable privacy glass that allows a private space or a public space when needed. The building provides access to the outside deck through the multipurpose room, this allows people to engage with nature more closely. The private wing is composed of a kitchen, offices, and a conference room. The space is for the workers to enjoy working and to have a pleasurable comfort.
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Site: Arbon, Swizerland
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Großstadt Arbon I think the city is humankind’s great achievement. In equal measure social and artistic, it can be experienced, at the same time as embodying powerful ideas. For almost as long as there have been cities, there has been speculation about how to make them better and more beautiful. These plans, emerging from ideologies and from their authors’ imaginations, are insulated from the compromise and accommodation that reality demands. These ideal cities, while often powerful at a conceptual and rhetoric level, inevitably lack the complexity and diversity of real cities. Not so many of these imaginary cities have been built. This project lies between the myth of ideal urban development and contemporary urban contact in Arbon Switzerland. The project is using Großstadt by Otto Wagner as prototype to reinterpret what is Ideal city in nowadays. Großstadt Arbon is really focuses on the juxtaposition between contemporary urban condition and the ideal urban plan. Thought the grid and urban fabrics, Großstadt Arbon eliminate the distracting indulgence of an urban environment. Through the Luftzentrum (city Lungs), the structure aim to deliver the postmodern life.
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Case Study: Otto Wagner
Case Study: Großstadt The plan by Otto Wager contains the proposal of an urban regeneration with completely new districts, representing a natural expansion though the existing city center. This new propose is a criticism on the pretentious realization of the ‘Ringstrasse’ and also on the picturesque approach of Camillo Site. The main grid consists of the radial streets, connecting the center to the outer districts, while the ‘Zonenstrassen’ connect the districts with each other.
Unlike the previously mentioned conceptions, the ‘Grossstadt’ is based on a democratic thought. Therefore within the main grid structured is a homogeneous grid of blocks. The straight streets within one Bezirk are already implicating the imminent idea of the functionalist city and reveal a transition from historicism to modernity.
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Interpetrat New Urban Plan in Arbon
Site Information Arbon government plan that area will be a new Arbon city center in 2020. That area used to run as industry purpose till early 20th century. Recently, many of the industrial factory were turned down or renovate into commercial and housing project. I saw the potential of that site. The unique form and content of the site could be good beginning point of this urban design.
Density and Land use Calculation Case Study: Grossstadt
Sire Area 5,612,997 m2 Density (Ausnuetzungsziffer) 10612994 m2 / 5612997 m2 = 189.11% Land use (Ueberbauungsziffer) 233660 m2/ 5612997 m2= 31.7% People per hectare 100,000 to 150,000 people / 561 ha = 178 - 276 P / ha
Grossstadt Arbon
Sire Area 382,293 m2 Density (Ausnuetzungsziffer) 661449 m2 / 382293 m2 = 173.0% Land use (Ueberbauungsziffer) 112110 m2/ 382293 m2= 29.3% People per hectare 12,200 people / 38 ha = 319 P / ha
Industrail Brick Builidng
Factory next Nature
Loading Bay
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Model Photos of Luftzentrum
Luftzentrum (Urban Lung)
Living and Working
‘Luftzentrum’: instead of the green belt, a large piece of free land in the form of farm gardens, meadow and avenues was placed in the center of the district. The weekly free time has to be spent in lovingly arranged places: in farm gardens, sports facilities, outdoor theater, bathing beaches. The farm garden is created like pictures garden, and at the same time it can be a productive farm.
1. Population of 12,200 people; Size of 382,293 m2 2. Buildings of 20 meter hight. Road at least 20 meter wide; 5 storey buildings. 3. At one side of building facing to a garden, square or park, while the other three sides to a street of 23m. Office, public buildings, barracks, market and stores are integrated into the block grid. 4. The majority of city dwellers prefer to disappear in the crowd as ‘number’. Living in the city means being as free as possible from any imposed community.
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Zoom In Urban Plan
Block Type Type 1: Have possibility to choose a block hang or solid block. Type 2: One side double than type 1. Allow bigger program. Type 3: Design as Block within a Block. Arrange with specifies program.
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Section through block type one and two
Section through existing condition and new development
Section through station
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THE FASHION SHOWN 2017
ALTERED ASPECTS, the theme for The Fashion Shown 2017, stem from the idea that when we change the way we look at the world, the world, changes. We selected plastic bags as the way to interpret what’s altered aspects. Also the material itself, It’s low budget, and it is in common use. Overlap and distort the material it becomes a new screen with a variety of patterns. Blending layers with strategic lighting, the garments are first seen as abstract, conflicting shapes ideas more than objects. As the models move toward the runway, our conception of the garments started to form, hinting at the designers’ sketches that are the foundation of all apparel design. Once revealed, the design takes on more permanence, united with the sketches lingering in our mind.
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EMBRACE 7675X EMBRACE 7675x is art about embrace my entire life. The drawing produces on the both mental and physical reaction. The emphasis here involves the shift from object appearances to processes of formation, and the poetics of becoming. The sense of this drawing is to processes to find, to catch ,to redefined “moments & footage & details” of my life. First I created a series of impression drawing represent different period of my life, and then I choose written each single date of my life, from the first day _ 03/25/1995 to “nowadays” to overlay those impression as recatch those moments.
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