Portfolio Ziyu Wei 2018-2019
WORK COLLECTIONS IN RISD 2018.10-2019.12
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03. REQUIEM
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04. MICRO ALGAE FARM
01. STONEHENGE
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The Round City of Baghdad
The first nucleus of the city of Baghdad was the “Round City” (Madinat al-Salam) founded by the Abbasid caliph al- Mansurin 762 AD and completed in 766 AD on the west bank of the Tigris in a strategic location in the middle of Mesopotamia. The original plan, of almost 1km in diameter, followed a defensive scheme with four axial gates while the caliph’s domed residence and a congregational mosque were located at the centre together with two other administrative buildings, the “police” and the commander of the guards.
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The Round Path of Sun
Many hypotheses have been formulated to explain the choice of the circle as the geometrical form of the city, most of them relate the urban scheme with symbolical levels connected to the Islamic culture.
Sun The site is located in Kensington Garden,London. By adding a temporary pavilion, my design aims to promote the social activites and public engagements for the local people. After analyzed the nature sun light condition, I desicde to use light in warming up relations with people. Reactors
Effects
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The Round Typology of Plan
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The first interactive effect happens in morning. The morning room owns a shading on the roof which allows sunlight illuminate the space in different length and strength.
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A direct sun light will split the noon room into two equal shadows in the middle room. The linear gap on the roof is the only passive solar threshold.
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A moon shape light through the patio will gradually change into red at twilight in the last
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The Round Shadows of Time The Morning Room
Nature light
Artificial light
The Noon Room
Nature light
Artificial light
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The Twilight Room
Nature light
Artificial light
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02. ROUNDABOUT
An interior landscape for connection and observation in Cranston Armory
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“Architecture can no longer afford to structure itself as an instrument that either reaffirms or resists a single, static idea of culture. Instruments (codes, symbols, languages, etc.) simply repeat without variation. As function rather than an instrument of contemporary culture, architectural forms need to vary in order to address its plurality
Farshid Moussavi “THE FUNCTION OF FORM”
The Cranston Street Armory is an historic building in the Broadway–Armory Historic District of Providence, Rhode Island. It was built in 1907 at a cost of $650,000.00. The building was occupied by the Rhode Island National Guard from its opening until 1996. Since then, parts of the building have been used as film studios, and some of its offices occupied by the Rhode Island State Fire Marshal. The National Trust for Historic Preservation listed the Armory as one of “America’s 11 Most Endangered Historic Places” in its annual list for 1997.[1] Its distinctive yellow bricks, crenellated turrets, and decorative stonework mark it as a historically significant building and neighborhood icon.
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Mapping I wanted to transport in the Armory the charms of the exterior nature and in the exterior the magnificence of the Armory.
Social
Recreation Center
Reconciling Demands
Pos estibusam, volum velicto ritatur simusdae si niae aut ium isit, tem voloreh enihic tent qui sim latquis quatibu scilit ut am, consedit rest quos sitasitamus eiciliquas et eosam qui dellabore eatur, et quas diciis anderfernat fuga. Nam
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Arts & Culture
The discovery of the blood circulation. W. Harvey, Guilielmi Harveii Opera Omnia [1628], 1766
Rebuilding Connections I want to set up dual connections that both connect Amory to the local community, Amory and it’s interior volume. In along time, Amory relied on its historical value and functions to hold the connection with local society. Now we need to rearrange the function and finding a new identity for Armory. In my design thinking, space consists of different densities of movements and the connections of the pedestrian. People’s behavior shapes the geometry, peoples connections alter the solid forms.
Transverse roads, drives, rides and walks. Thirteenth Annual Report of the Commissioners of the Central Park
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Biosimulation Spatial components
Populate starts/ends
Generating flow
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Humans and slime molds alike choose according to relative values, rather than trying to calculate absolute ones.
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Using a biosimulation method according to the slime molds structures, thousand paths are built in iterations. This wayfinding system construct a nest system to link every component.
10 iterations
100 iterations
600 iterations
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Two balconies are significant platforms in drill hall, and they lead the eye into the central space which shows as a hemisphere volume.
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Several points are used to simulate the viewers spots and their destinations. Shaping the possible connections could also shape the form of space.
Cloud of connections Multiple interactions via mass network A cloud connected all the viewer points and entrance and potential stream lines.
Optimizing connections Optimizing chaotic cloud into a continued fluidity
The groud space was shaped by several ramps and forces, also lead movements into the central space. Key points optimizing from the cloud extrude a supporting system to groud as a forrest.
Poetic of walking Promenade in flowing surface The cloud system then concrete into three waving surfaces connect with each other. People could move on it uninterruptedly.
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Rediscovering Spaces Slat Dance, Oskar Schlemmer
After rebuilding the connections, the relation with the host building also changed. I would like people to explore and define new spatial experiences. In Armory, it means people’s movement gradually occupy the drill hall and get close to existing structures than before.
Vertical movements
Mutual obervations
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At the same time, the costume turns the body of the dancer into an abstract figure, capable of describing space through geometry and movement.
Ground Floor
Balcony level
Higher Floor
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Acoustic Performance The acoustic factor is another variation to shape human behavior and optimize intervention geometry. The fluidity roof reflects sounds into a random pattern without a special arrangement. So adding more correction and distribution structures could integrate the geometry and acoustic performance into cleanliness and immediacy.
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Acoustic Forrests
The green points represents the sound reflectings from hanging acoustic panel in the central volume. So the central plaza could be used for some public activite that has special acoustic requirements.
The red points shows the sound reflections from the main surface structures. The desity is diverse and like a forrest pattern, which could shapes the acoustic performance and possible activities affect by quiet and performative.
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03. REQUIEM
By these waters also the world of that time was deluged and destroyed. Peter 3:6
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Site Analysis
Cranston
Westwarwick
Warwick
Administrative boundaries
Building pattern
Transport net
Mapping
The site is the Westwarwick Waste Water Treatment Facility. Through the second half of the 20th century, awareness has increased relative to water pollution from nonpoint sources. Threats occur especially from septic systems, runoff, road salt applications, and construction/development activities. The areas immediately south and west of Providence have been the direct path for post-
World War II suburbanization. Interstate highways I-95 and I-295 traverse the watershed; and route RI-2, from the Pocasset River in Cranston through Warwick and West Warwick, has become a commercial center of development. The gains made in reducing point source pollution can be lost to nonpoint sources.
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History of Pawtuxet River Valley
The Pawtuxet River watershed, located in central-western Rhode Island, is the largest watershed in the state. In the past, industrial discharges were a major cause of water pollution; however, these sources have largely been eliminated through the decline of industry, the imposition of wastewater regulations, and connection to wastewater treatment facilities.
River and Dam
Climate challenge
The main stem of Pawtuxet River is listed as impaired by low dissolved oxygen and nutrients. In 1987, the Pawtuxet River Authority (created in part to develop opportunities on the North and South Branches and the main stem of the river) drafted a plan for “a series of river walks, canoe access sites, and significant natural areas along the Pawtuxet River.”
West Warwick Wastewater Treatment Plant during the 2010 Floods
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Design concept All centuries and peoples, then, are hidden in the earth. The Gaul liies beside the Roman, and the Roman sleeps next to the Barbarian. Abbe Cohet
La Normandie souterraine,1854
Public access to water
Water is the lifeline of human civilization. Since time immemorial, access to water has been a key defining factor in the location and prosperity of cities. Great civilizations such as the Roman Empire, Egyptian civilization, the Venetian Empire, were founded on riverbanks. After maritime navigation era, coastal areas have witnessed unprecedented international trade develop-
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ment. From a colony’s settlement to modern metropolis from, a backward fishing village to international port water and ocean promoted urbanization over centuries. However, the rising ocean levels, El Nino, and flash floods pose a serious threat to modern civilization. To some extent, water has become a critical role in modern world.
Topographical Contour (feet)
Water and Death
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Stanza 2
Stanza 3
Stanza 4
Stanza 1
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Stanza 1: Binary The transformation of the first clarifiers. From entrance pavilion to valendictory hall.
to descend
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to centralize
to disorient
to occupy
to crosss
to bounce
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From aquatic to land
The first stanza demonstrates two different iconic feature, a coral sculpture in the first clarifier, and a hanging square in the next. The coral shape is a metaphor of aquatic life history, that human or life has evolved from the ocean or water. Coral is also the victim of global warming and sea level rise, some of the corals are at the edge of extinction. The first iconic structure, a giant white fossil, reminds us of the urgency of sea level rise. Coral Pavilion
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Section Perspective
Plan and Flow
Entrance, Pavilion, Valedictory Hall
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Stanza 2: The Space of Death The transformation of the second clarifiers. Cremation and condolence.
to descent
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to separate
to condole
to empty
to separate
to fire
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From Valedictory to Cremation
After building the underground connection between two clarifiers, a loop movement lead people to farewell live and death.
General Flow
Plan
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Interior Jounrney
descent stair
Garden
memorial corridor
Cremation
Multiple light conditions
Condolence rooms
Bouncing Distributing
Thresholds
Light is an important media to perturb the condolence environments. Three diffrents light conditions conhere the interior activities. Distributing lights improve brightness, thresholds concentrate emotions, bouncing light soft the shadow and dazzle.
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Stanza 3: The Hanging Garden From Babel to Inferno, the underground columbariu and hanging greenhouse.
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The Habitat of Souls and Birds
Plan
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Components
Green House
Aviary
Staircase
Workshop Lounge
Host Structure
Columbarium
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Stanza 4: Hide and Seek The labyrinth shapes the landscape. From cushion space to ecological berm.
to burry
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to feritilize
to green
The existing structure on the north side faced an enclosed wetland. The buildings separate the water and aren’t worth to be reused. So I just turn it down to build the foundation of a new green berm, which has multiple sidewalk and green ramp, gradually blur the boundary of nature and human maid.
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Green Cemetery
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Bone meal fertilizer is used to increase phosphorus in the garden. Most bone meal has a NPK of 3-15-0. Phosphorus is essential for plants in order for them to flower. Bone meal phosphorus is easy for plants to take up. Using bone meal will help your flowering plants, like roses or bulbs, grow bigger and more plentiful flowers.
Section 1
Section 2
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Green Cemetery Water channels
Multiple movements
Blur the Boundary
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Long is the summer day; Cold winter night will loom. I’d meet him in his tomb, When I have passed away. Cold winter night will loom; Long is the summer day. When I have passed away, We could dwell in the same tomb. An Elegy 夏之日 冬之夜 百岁之后 归于其居 冬之夜 夏之日 百岁之后 归于其室 国风·唐风·葛生
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Could a revolution be a dinner party?
04. MICRO ALGAE FARM
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Contemporary agriculture relies on a wide range of practices and systems associated with farm production. Transportation, fresh-keeping, sales, and marketing all lead to inevitable waste. Local farmers become less competitive when they face agricultural collectivization, while commercial profits and consumer choices aggravate their condition. So is there any possibility to integrate cultivation, processing, selling and serving in a small chain which benefits the local farmers and society?
In developing countries like China which both faced population pressure and grain shortage for a long time, agriculture also relies on global trade and imports. When people face an increasingly separating world with political confrontation, economic recession, how do they avoid widespread hunger and food crisis?
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Background
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Scientists explored an ideal solution to solve world hunger by cultivating micro-algae which just need water and light to generate nutrients through photosynthesis. It’s important to consider agricultural improvement in both global and local political contexts.
3D print food
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Local Context Four existing tunnels paralleled with site
Preferred Encourage Dorrance St Paradoxical Arcade St Private enterprise Financial Center Invisible CVS Pharmacy
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The genetic pool of four existing connections
Boundary
Character of Path
Movement
Appearance
The genetic tree of site condition
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Existing condition
hierarchical
uninterrupted
invisible
occupued
permissive
man-machine symbiosis
Gene mutation
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Design purpose
Design Approach In downtown Providence, invisible segregation brings a mass homeless and low-income gathering to Kennedy Plaza. CVS market as a tunnel has spatial advantages to encourage dialogue between the plaza and the business center. In this project, a micro-algae farm intervenes in this tunnel. A ternary form structure provides spaces for farming, selling, and consuming micro-algae products. This promotes mutual communication, both inside and outside of the structure, sustainability, and opportunity.
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Reshape Movement
Horizontal move
Descend
Ascend
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Axonometric
Construction detail
Axonometric
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Five steps constitute the complete process from cultivating to selling products.
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A truss system intervened into the site volume separately. Steel structures provide enough supporting to the surface and facilities.
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Plans & Sections
Basement Plan
Ground level
Overlook Plan
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Revolution could be a dinner party.
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