Work Sample 2010-2012 by Wilson, Rui Qian

Work Sample / 2010-2012 Urbanism + Sustainability Wilson, Rui Qian wilson.chian11@gmail.com +1 734-355-5514 (c) Master of Urban Design Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

practices on urbanism and sustainability, along with the betterment to natrual, social, and economic environment "a great city anywhere in the world should be beautiful, culturally rich, and generally shinning with the human energy that courses very through its streets and public spaces."

Table of Contents

/ preface

Brief Study to World Cities

/ global cities

Manhattan 2111 | urban design with assumptions in 2111,new york, us Stage City, World City | shematic design to north dongba area, beijing, china

/ booming cities

Cultivating Urbanism | yihe riverfront revitalization, linyi, china Emerging Center | nan`anzui strategy and conceptual master plan, wuhan, china

/ shrinking cities

Sustainable Blox Infill | houston downtown revitalizaiton, houston, us

/ visioning Bold Vision, Small Practice | urban funiture design with featured cities Sustainability and Us | sustainable urban design workshop, beijing, china

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Preface world cities study 02

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Linyi Houston

Urbanism for an Urban Century In the coming decades, 70% world population will live in cities. As is shown, over 80% cities in the world are in the north sphere of Earth. They devided themselves in groups by various criteria. By wealth, connectivty, and development, there are global, booming and shrinking cities; and by population and density, there are different hierachies as population centers, also coordinated with the growth of cities. Thus, I would say, NOW, we are already in an urban century, and urbanism is the only way for human to face up to the challenges, and we need to search as many as paths to deliver the sustainability back to the "city" planet. 5 cities of them are selected to show different solutions to the challenges from future for sustainability, whose density shows as right diagrams.

Wuhan

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Global Cities: Faith

Global Cities

Global cities in the coming decades have to survive via collecting as much faith as possible to face up to various challenges, such as climate destabilization, economic crisis, and rocketing density, et cetera. NEW YORK CITY As recent years reported, hurricanes, and the rising sea level have become primary threats to Manhattan, New York; along with the pouring population from all over the world and the lack of alternative energy solution with increasing vehicle congestion in the city. New York as the global center indeed requires a lot in the future for people to live with disasters! People have nowhere to escape in such a dense area. All these challenges are inevitable that people have to adapt themselves to the changes; New York as just a beginning, otherwise, we have to give up the cities and civilizations. BEIJING As the center of China, the rapid growth of economics has direct impact on the capital city; and coordinated with the willing of Beijing to be a emerging global city, sprawl and growth seem always the key word of the city. No one can stop this huge tide of development, however, the path of its growth can definitely be shaped in a healthier status to avoid being like the urban sprawl in U.S. and coming across the paradox of urban environmental development as Professor Doug Kelbaugh mentioned in his book, Repairing the American Metropolis.

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manhattan | now

manhattan | future

Visioning Manhattan 2111 | Urban Design with Assumptions in 2111, New York, US STUDIO PROJECT, MUD Program, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, the University of Michigan Location: Manhattan, New York, US Date: Sep. 2011-Dec. 2011 Director: Roy Strickland Colaborator: Enying XING, Evis BUSHI, Role of Mine: Analysis, Concept, Chief Urban Design, Integrate Urbanism with Engineering and systems, Graphic Design for whole project.

on the water

Existing Evacuation Center Zone 1 - category 1 or higher storm Zone 2 - category 2 or higher storm Zone 3 - category 3 or 4 storm

City College Thurgood Marshall

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at the edge

Strategy Introduction

Brandeis HS

Hunter College

The proposed flood mitigation strategy consists of three interventions that respond to climate destabilization. John Jay College

The first strategy, water condition, implements pods, piers, and vegetation platforms as breakwater objects and ecosystem supports. The second strategy deals with the city edge as a medium connecting the city with the natural systems and a second level pedestrian system, sloped terrain, renewed from the existing elevated express way around the island, and the hard/softscape embankments provide barriers at different levels as the water level rises. This strategy revitalize the waterfront condition ecologically and socially. And as the medium, a set of sensors based on ubiquitous network technology will be installed with water gate at or near the edge system, reporting disaster info to the city administration network, and then informed all the individual devices like cell phone or Ipad, in order to make the city adapted to the disasters.

HS of Graphic Comm

Baruch College

Seward Park HS

The third strategy deals with the inner city conditions, with hierarchical green infrastructures to mitigate rain water such as green roof, and soil canal and improved existing green space, which is making streets walkable via an underground bypass tunnel. One, or a combination of these strategies could be used adjacent to the severe flood zones but it is not limited to it spatially. Due to the visual appeal the strategies can be used throughout the island.

in the city

As recent years reported, hurricanes, and the rising sea level have become primary threats to Manhattan, New York; along with the pouring population from all over the world and the lack of alternative energy solution with increasing vehicle congestion in the city. New York as the global center indeed requires a lot in the future for people to live with disasters! People have nowhere to escape in such a dense area. All these challenges are inevitable that people have to adapt themselves to the changes; New York as just a beginning, otherwise, we have to give up the cities and civilizations.

Global Cities manhattan 2111 new york 08

Habitable piers with ecological structures

Edge condition of Manhattan and the occupied space coordinated with the flood mitigating infrastructure

Soil Canal + Eco-Blocks with a system of storm water management

The edge of Manhattan has not been emphasized for a long time, especially the connection to nature. The proposal makes the edge of the city habitablethrough partially covering the waterfront boulevard with a hollow green slope. This responds to the climatedestabilization as a flood barrier while leaving room for various activities below and above.

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Schematic Design for Dongba North Area | Global City Experimental Dist., Beijing, China INTERNSHIP, AECOM DESIGN+PLANNING, BEIJING, NO.1 IN COMPETITION Location: Beijing, China Date: May. 2010-Jul. 2010 Director: Anderson HSIEH , Hugo ERRAZURIZ, Jonathan TSO Colaborator: YANG Ying(PM) , LI Hong, Jungku KANG, LIU Zhan, Mike ZHANG, ZHANG Wen Role of Mine: Analysis, Digrams,CAD Base, Working Models, Physycal Model, SU Models, Case Study, Final Report, Collage

Pioneering the World City Endeavor Marching Towards International Trade Hub City Status, The Development of Dongba Brings About Great Opportunities of Materializing Beijingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Grand Ambitions. Dropping the Land-Leasing Model of Revenue Generation.Resorting to Industries for Sustained Wealth Creation.Dongba Stands A Good Chance in Exploring New Land Development Models Project Thinking Chinaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s role in the global trading system has become increasingly crucial. Beijing, however, remains relatively weak in its trade & services sector. A World City entails new industry integrating trade, services, culture, and new living spaces, which offers to nurture a more diversified economy. This report commences with an overview of the current world trade system, drawing inspirations for the development of a World City Experimental District in Dongba and more over for the construction of a vibrant Stage City.

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FULLY INTEGRATED PROGRAMMING COMMERCIAL+RETAIL

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FULLY INTEGRATED PROGRAMMING GLOBAL HOTELS AND FACILITIES

FULLY INTEGRATED PROGRAMMING STAGE CITY+WORLD CITY

PHAESE-1 TO COORDINATE WITH THE TRANSIT STATION(TOD) AND THE HEART HOTEL.

PHASE-2 TO DEVELOP THE CENTRAL SERVICE CORE WITH A CONVINIENT PUBLIC ACCESSIBILITY

PHASE-3 TO CULTIVATE SOME HIGH-END FACILITIES AND TO CREATE THE QUALIFIED WATERFRONT AREA SO AS TO RAISE THE CORE VALUE AND ACTIVITY OF THE STAGE CITY AS WORLD CITY EXPERIMENTAL AREA

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Booming Cities: Change

Booming Cities

Given that china has been evolving itself such an important role on the stage of world economy, 2 of selected Booming cities both locates in China, yet not the hottest cities. Secondary cities in China are suffering from problems from urbanization, the dualistic social contradiction, confusion and aggression of growth, and statistic urbanization, and so on. Thus, booming cities need a change for them to accomplish the process of urbanization: the change of attitude towards environment and growth, the change of understanding to the social justice, the change of economic distribution, and even the change of lifestyle. WUHAN As the oldest industrial and transportation center of China since Qing Dynasty, Wuhan need a change of the dependence on industries as the root of the city, also need a correct attitude toward the industrial legacy, natural resources legacy, further in the recently released national plan, Wuhan has become an emerging national center of China, thus Wuhan has to change more than mentioned to adapt itself matching with this re-positioning, education, residential, technologies, strategies, transit, network, all of this potential great city. LINYI Linyi is a typical urbanizing city in China, of which the process of urbanization could provide with a valuable case on dealing with the dualistic social contradiction, and the way of avoid statistical urbanization, rightly due to the huge amount of rural and suburbia population. For this kind of city, the promotion and new construction of infrastructures is the prerequisite of urbanization, and then the change of lifestyle are the essence, green infrastructure integrated with productive landscaping process, municipal infrastructure coordinated with city`s legacy and citizens` willingness to change, and the social infrastructure framework based on the larger scale`s existing situation and integrated with the city`s master plan both for the short term and long term, especially the population trends.

The Revitalization of Yihe Riverfront Belt, Linyi, Shan Dong, China UNDERGRAD THESIS STUDIO / IFLA STUDENT COMTETION, BUCEA, Honor Award, 4th/358 Entries Location: Linyi, Shandong Prov. China Date:Jan. 2010-May. 2010 Director: Qi DING Colaborator: Wei KOU, Gengchen TIAN, Hongtao XIE Role of Mine: Team Leader, and Chief Design

BEIJING

Linyi

SHANDONG

SHANGHAI

In the era abounding with the aggressive urbanization and globalizations, the way we human responding to the nature has been enjoying increasing controversies with a confirmed necessity and significance, especially in China. China is now in the stage of the reconstruction ofthe urban and rural form, consequently with the challenges rooted in rapid urbanizations. 1) Useless Infrastructures 2)Aggression of Expansion 3)None Recognition

-1989

-2009

-2020

Booming Cities cultivating urbanism yihe river, linyi 18

LOCKING TARGET

AFTER

BEFORE

STRATEGY FRAMEWORK

According to the master plan, the site are supposed to be green space, open space, which brings citizens leisure activities, so what kind of park do we need? Should this kind of cultivating field be swept away and do really the farmers have to be driven away? What will the farmers do as soon as they leave this place? Or should they stay?

Inheritance: Rivers and field cultivating have been serving as the hub from us human to the nature for thousands of years. Yet in the tide of pan-urbanization, to inherit the original landforms and activities enjoys much of meaningful importance, which can always remind us never losing ourselves in the huge tide via rebuilding up the eco urban environment through the inheritance of the cultivating context.

Inheritance of the site fabric & the Baseline Restoration

Integration: With the relocation of the site, urban functions have to be plugged in and integrated with the original context on the site to form a new compound status of the landscaping process, stimulating the local economic ways, and re-identifying the site with a strong common sense of local cultures. Thus, it seems not to be impossible, integrating the agricultural landscaping process into the urban context to sustain the riverfront spatial identities and its context.

Integration with the urban functions and the cultivating context

Transformation: The socio-role of the original residents will transform from farmers to the staff and they will sustain the traditional cultivating activities on, to earn their living by the new socio-status. with the renewal and plugged urban functions, as well as the newly agricultural landscaping processes. Further, the cultivating urbanism will be achieved. Baseline Restoration

Farming Restoration

Lifestyle Transformation

Transformation from field to park in Cultivating Urbanism Cultivating Urbanism

Baseline Situation

Overlapped Layer

Farmland Layer

Forestland Layer

PHASE 0 Existing Situation

With terrific cultivating fabric as landscaping resource, yet with low quality. And all the process es here is or will be ruined by the urbanization.

Partially disordered fabric, with relitively single planted crops on the site.

Fruit-bear woods and productive forest are the major part on the site, with few of landscaping process and effects.

PHASE 1 Baseline Restoration

In this phase, the baseline will be restored along with the formal fabric on the site .And the embankment will be transformed to Ecoriverfront.

The fabric will be itegrated into a relatively regular form, following with the ar tificial processing restoration to drive the landscape back to a natural style .

To sustain and ally to its original fabric,with some renewal on the types of crops.

Gradually the process will turn into the self-organized one,with the improved circulation system and thevisual corridor system.

To strengthen the site context further, adding some landscaping effective corps.

To transplant the mature trees, coordinated with the former fabric, and build up the future nursery for landscaping trees

PHASE 2 Traditional Farming Behavior Restoration

In phase 2, after the restoration, cultivating activities will be in a better condition, and the water system will be coming up with a initial status; further the circulation system is improved.

To set the circulation system through the woods, and strengthen the visual corridor by removing negative trees.

PHASE 3 The Transformation of Local Economy

In this phase, some urban functions will be plugged into the cultivating context, that is to say, the site is transforming from the single used field into the mix used urban green belt. Also some facilities will beachieved in phase3.

Coming up with the accomplished landscaping process. And all the plants will grow as it goes,with a changing view of the hight, volume, and colors,and of the waters.

Some urban functions will be plugged in the site, coordinate with achieving the fabric form

To enhance the accessibility of the site, vertical to the embankment, and add up with some open space along the major pedestrian routes.

To improve the urban plug-ins, with more stay-free space ,and balance the species of corps.

During the period of growth, to select the most suitable plants and form the matrix to sustain the context .

PHASE 4 Realization of Urban Productive Landscape

Both of circulation-open space system,environmental baseline,and the cultivatingcontext will be a chained system. And the cultivating urbanism will be realized on this site, to provide a new riverfront spatial mode.

Landcape in the context of cultivating urbanism will be no longer in a certain status, which will changing with the season, the waters, both the residents and citizens a part of the landscaping processas well.

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Circulation & Activity Layer

In the site, there exist merely one pedestrian route by the river; and with poor qualified open space.

Infrastructure Layer

The infrastructure on the site shows such a low quality and quantity status.

To set the major entrance, then strengthen the accessibility; and expanse some open space along the river and the field.

To renew the existing facilities on the base of low quality

To strengthen the built circulation system; besides expanding, add some open space through the trees.

Enlarge the former ones and improve its efficiency .

Embankment Layer

Hydro-Fluctuation Belt & Artificial Water

Along the river, there is all hard and vertical embankment.

The hydrofluction belt is used for cultivating land, and the waters near the embankment enjoy much of contaminated problems.

To break through a point, forming a mudflat, beneficial to duck raising.

Restore the vegetation species on the belt. And re-clear the water, coordinated with bio-methods, artificial planting.

Seated newly built facilities To enlarge the area of mudflat , improving the eco-effect and coming up with a new wetland landscaping process.

Enlarge the newly built administrative facilities. To make more accesses and connect all the open space via the circulation system.

Transform from infrastructures to the administrative facilities.

To set some marina and waterborne plat form then connect them, to improve the spatial quality and the efficiency of circulation system

Improve the efficiency and the diversity of these facilities. Continue the transformation, and adding up with retails, etc.

the diversity of the species on the belt, will be better, in a new phase of self-organized growth. And make some new pools at the confluence point of the flows.

Duck rising is gradually giving way to the Wetland Bird Watching, thus improving the animal species diversity. And connect the pools, water system. Gradually forming a set of mudflat system

With coming of more and more citizens, the embankment need a diversity of ECO-forms, mudflat, or rock type.

Form a steady eco-system, with the building up of the embankment-river-hydrofluction belt landscape system.

Perspective of Local Residents

Perspective of City People

Existing Baseline | As a riverfront area, the site indeed lacks so many urban functions to stimulate this area as the identity of the river, and the city, compared to its landscape resource.

Phase 1 | There would be a large scaled baseline restoration, majorly to restore the eco-system of the riverfront, via re-sculpturing the form of the field area and the structure of vegetation.

Phase 2 | The citizens will witness the coming back of traditional cultivating activities that can attract eyes and ears back to this area.

Phase 3 | Unavoidable as is the urbanization, urban functions will be overlapped with the cultivating base context softly, with a better accessibility and an outgoing character for the city.

Phase 4 | Citizens will have opportunities to experience a new riverfront landscaping process, with the cultivating context as the baseline and various water front activities as a hub to the future urban form, Cultivating Urbanism.

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Visions

Existing Baseline | There are still large-area cultivating field, yet with the emigration of the most residents here. Those who stayed is also about to be swiped away by the tide of urbanization, a no man`s riverfront left to them.

Phase 1 | Here comes with the baseline restoration to improve the cultivating field and some necessary infrastructures, and sanitation facilities.

Phase 2 | Those residents donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to move away, they can keep their own way of living in a better condition and they are encouraged to regain the traditional cultivating methods.

Phase 3 | Aggressive and rude as it possible to be, urbanization is unavoidable. Par t of the local residents will transform their job from cultivating to feed on to the stuff of the new cultivating park.

Phase 4 | Most of the rest residents will transform their job as well. And all of them will undertake the job of managing this area and cultivating on, with their continuous love to the home land.

Strategic and Conceptual Master Plan of Nan`Anzui Area, Wuhan, China INTERNSHIP, AECOM DESIGN+PLANNING, BEIJING, NO.1 IN COMPETITION Location: Wuhan, Hubei Prov. China Date:Jan. 2010-Apr. 2010 Director: Anderson HSIEH , LI Fengyu, Jonathan TSO Colaborator: WANG Xiaochuan(PD), YANG Ying(PM) , LI Hong, Mike ZHAN, ZHANG Wen Role of Mine: Option Design, Analysis, Digrams,CAD Base, Working Models, SU Models, Case Study

Every city has an active heart to direct the city transformation. Nan`anzui area enjoy much of the heart of Wuhan, which demonstrated the direction and statue of Wuhan, as the central city of China. The essence of this project is to discuss with future and reloacte Wuhan in the coming decades in the heart regionally and nationally via the relocation to Nan `anzui as the initial impulse to stimulate the grand transformation.

SCALE COMPARISON

Hongkong

Pittsburg

Chicago

RE-DEFINITION TO THE SKYLINE OF WUHAN

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ILLUSTRATIVE MASTER PLAN

Shrinking Cities: Transformation HOUSTON is the only city in US without Zoning Houston is the fourth-largest city in the United States of America, and the largest city in the state of Texas. According to the 2010 U.S. Census, the city had a population of 2.1 million people within an area of 656.3 square miles (1,700 km2). Houston is the seat of Harris County and the economic center of Houstonâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;Sugar Landâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;Baytown, the fifth-largest metropolitan area in the U.S. with over 6 million people. And at a region scale, HOUSTON enjoys much importance as the key city in TEXAS TRIANGLE, whcih will connected with each other by high speed rail. And besides, SUN CORRIDOR and NORTH EAST also will be the first mega-regions employing AMTRAK High Speed upgrade.

As the fourth largest city in US, yet Houston cannot escape from the fate of shrinking, given to the challenge from the life style transformation with environment change. With the future, especially in this kind of shrinking cities, we human cannot avoid facing up to the problems from food supply, post oil condition, water issues, and suburbanization. This project would like to answer these 4 troubles via 2 sites in Houston. Post-oil

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Post-oil age has already been influencing us, at any level and any field. Houston as the largest oil city will be pushed as far as possible to be the pioneer to cope with the necessary transformations with the projection of population migration to the cities.

Coming with challenge of the post-oil age, there might be a big trouble not only for Houston, and for every city in North America, that without oil how could we circulate the food far from other region even countries?

After the Crisis, Houston was downsizing the existing offices in downtown a re a . Th e C l a s s A s e c to r largely accounted for the quar terly space loss by recording 928,539 s q u a r e fe e t o f n e g a t i v e absorption, mark ing the fifth consecutive quarter to witness negative growth; with a lot more vacant parking lot.

Since the climate of Houston is very humid and rainy and there is no way for Houston to develop underground structure to mitigate the flood, and the buffalo bayou is k ind of abandoned in the section of downtown where there is no necessary flood mitigation strategies, thus, almost all the huge storm will bring flood in downtown area.

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Shrinking Cities

Shrinking cities are very common in United States, especially like Detroit, Houston, and Cleveland that the concept of smart shrinking has emerged in recent 5 years. Yet whether shrinkage is the solution to these cities is still with uncertainty. Therefore, the transformation of existing infrastructures and vacancies might be a tender way to tie these shrinking cities over the hard time, and to some extent, which is a more sustainable way for the city to regenerate itself rather than shrinking via deconstruction or anti-shrinkage via sprawl. HOUSTON Houston as the major oil city in Texas, enjoy really as much wealth as the States in early years; however recent decades, since Rachel Carson` s Silent Spring, people are coming to know the vitality of Environment and Energy., therfore during this period of transformation, before alternative energy found, cities like houston had better follow the tide of urbanism trends, no more exceeding dependency on oil, but a sustainable urban life style, and the limit to sprawl.

Central Green Space

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Waste Recycle

Energy Center(Digest)

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Houston Regeneration | Downtown Infill with Sustainable Blocks, Houston, TX, US ULI HINES UD COMPETITION | FINAL STUDIO PROJECT, MUD Program, the University of Michigan Location: Houston Downtown Area, Houston, TX, US Date: Jan. 2012-Apr. 2012 Director: Douglas Kelbaugh, Lars Lerup(visiting prof.) Colaborator: Enying XING, Evis BUSHI (for Gerald Hines Competition) | Kelly Role of Mine: HINES-Analysis, Concept, Chief Urban Designer, Graphic; STUDIO-Analysis, Concept, Chief Urban Designer, Landscape,

site 1, houston GREGG (for final studio)

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Existing Baseline of Downtown

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community green space

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lightrail

municipal infrastructure framework social infrastructure framework

Infrastructure System

Houston Regeneration | SITE 1 | Allen`s Crossing ULI HINES UD COMPETITION, MUD Program, the University of Michigan Location: Houston Downtown Area, Houston, TX, US Date: Feb. 2012 Director: Douglas Kelbaugh Colaborator: Enying XING, Evis BUSHI Role of Mine: HINES-Analysis, Concept, Chief Urban Designer, Graphic

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Allen`s Crossing, north boundary of Houston Downtown, locates right next to the initial area of the city, Allen`s Landing. As it is undeveloped and as border space is thought to afford the connection from downtown to the suburban Houston, the site enjoys so much importance rather than a post office of status quo. Further, according to the high speed rail plan, Allen`s crossing can be a good place of high speed rail station, connecting with other cities in the Texas Triangle, as a mega regional anchor. Besides the general challenges mentioned in early part, the problem as it shows in the picture, because of the relative low level, and the absence of management to Buffalo Bayou, Allen`s Crossing as well as the landing point undertake risks of flood.

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Houston Regeneration | SITE 2 | Downtown Infill with Sustainable Blocks, Houston, US FINAL STUDIO PROJECT, MUD Program, the University of Michigan Location: Houston Downtown Area, Houston, TX, US Date: Jan. 2012-Apr. 2012 Director: Douglas Kelbaugh, Lars Lerup(visiting prof.) Colaborator: Kelly GREGG Role of Mine: STUDIO-Analysis, Concept, Chief Urban Designer, Landscape, Architecture, Program, Graphic, Report layout

Scenario 1 : active - Post-OIL Transect

Scenario 2 : half touch - Compromising Transect

Scenario 3 : zero touch - Auto-dependence Transect

This scenario request an active touch to the problem of vacancies led by post oil asge, trough plug a full transect in to the site. In this case, multiple functions are applied to the area: offices and major retails are kept along the Main Street, stretching out with a slice of residential and mixed-use transect.

This scenario compromises between active scenario and zero-touch one, for the uncertainty of the city. Whether post-oil really challenges the future, it still depends. Hopefully, there will be some alternative energy standing out of those experiments as early as possible. While opportunistic is not a good choice for a city.

The last one is still testing the vision for office expansion with some highend housing with the CBD like urban core. According to the projection of population and the market, still not clear for the future.

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-energy feedback sytem windpower on the roof and slar panel on facade can feedback more to the smart grid of the city

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-energy plus system -water collecting system in highrise building the flusing system cost too much; with all the solar panels and solar water heating system, itcan afford to all the public use of energy while theis system and compensate to the toilet

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-water collecting system mid-rise, will collect as much as greywater for the irrigation of the roof garden and collecting pool

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-energy self compensation system in the area of townhomes, energy system serves as compensation parts to the building

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-water collecting system in this case, all the gry water will be drainaged to the courtyard farm and green space

Visions for Future: Hope

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It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hopeâ&#x20AC;Ś As mentioned In the coming decades, 70% world population will live in cities, NOW, we are already in an urban century, and urbanism is the only way for human to face up to the challenges, and we need to search as many as paths to deliver the sustainability back to the "city" planet. From global cities to shrinking cities, as long as we human choose to live on this planet for another millennium, we still need to hope everything that we will surely find a balance fit to sustain ourselves. URBAN FURNITURE However big the hope or the dream can be illustrated, the start must be small and solid. Urban Furniture is the best way to reshape the urban life, by providing much easier accessibilities to facilities, giving more space to the pedestrian, and making cities safer, et cetera. Small practice v.s. Bold Vision is the beginning to realize the vision! WORKSHOP Education is always about the future, so is for the design field. More and more workshops and seminars are needed to provide more opportunities that let more students and young professionals recognize themselves, via the process understanding their responsibilities and missions for the whole life time.

Urban Furniture Design and Prgramming, all the selected cities EXTRA-CURRICULAR, BUCEA and TCAUP, the University of Michigan Location: Manhattan, Wuhan, Linyi, Houston, Beijing Date: Jan. 2012 Colaborator: Ye ZOU

BOLD VISION | SMALL PRACTICE : Urban Furniture As mentioned in the preface, 70% world population will live in cities, with a bold vision for an urban future. Yet, how will this large population adapt themselves to this challenging world of time calls for a small practice as a starting point to realize the bold vision, that, urbanism + sustainability, urbanism is the only hope we human face up to the challenges from future, and sustainability is the only way to implement it. For future urban life, we human have nowhere to escape from the transformations of transportation, residential/settlement form, street life, and education, etc. Thus, no matter in global cities, booming cities, or shrinking cities, we need better equipped urban furniture as a start to respond to these changes. Further, in the new background of the re-definition to aesthetics, some luxury and useless urban facilities are fading away, what a city need is something can really better the built and natural environment, then cultivating a healthy social environment, that can symbolize the attitude of cities towards the city planet.

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BOLD VISION SMALL PRACTICE WITH FEATURED CITIES Battery Park City | NEW YORK, US

Beijing Finacial Street | BEIJING, CHINA

Metro Transit Center | DETROIT, US

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Solar Panel System will provide with sufficient and necessary energy to the lighting system and add to info-borad system; and the different of angles of slope can afford to collecting rain water to the land-cover system.

Optinal to the whole sytem. and Info-board system, as part of terminals of the ubiquitous network of a city, and this is a LED screnn system connecting with a computer and sensor, which can provide weaher, transit , and map services to the users. Info-board system also could be mono funtional VI system, delivering commercials or transits info to the city.

Structure system enjoys much of sustainability in material, light steel fromwork can easily support any load in extrem weather. And it is very cheap. Also, the electrical system and rainwater collecting pipes will be installed in the structure.

funiture layer provides with enough space for people siiting on and even lay on it, with for safe and comfortable space for people, and in the system there will be installed the emergency tool box, as one of teh social infrasturctures to keep the city safe .

Land-cover sytem includes cover plant layer, street trees, bio-swale, and waterscape layers. This layer will provide the whole system a flexible and water sensitive baseline, coordinating with the municipal infrastructure system, working well with urban landscaping process.

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Rice University | HOUSTON, US

Kick-off Workshop + Design Bootcamp | SUSTAINABILITY with us, Beijing, China WORKSHOP, All majors collaborated, Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Location: Beijing, China Date: Dec. 04-05, 2010 Colaborator: Qi DING, Prof. Fengyu LI, Managing Director of AECOMSustainability Center Role of Mine: Originator, Lecturer, and Advisor of Workshop and Design Bootcamp, Teaching Assistant

COMPEXITY|

PREFACE|

Social Equity

Healthy ecosystems and environments provide vital goods and services to humans and other organisms. There are two major ways of reducing negative human impact and enhancing ecosystem services. The first is environmental management; . The second approach is management of human consumption of resources, which is based largely on information gained from economics.

SUSTAINABILITY

Sustainability interfaces with economics through the social and ecological consequences of economic activity. Sustainability economics involves ecological economics where social, cultural, health-related and monetary/ financial aspects are integrated.

Economic Development

energy efficiency/ saving resources

enrironmental justice/ resoure stewardship

3-Do we have to move to other plannet, for the reason of incresing population? -1/2more than half of the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s population is now urban 4-Climate change has been serving as the most serious problem that humanface with. -2F, average increase in global temperature over the past century.

DEC

LECTURE 4 case study a shortcut to the sustainable urban design -Qian Rui(candidate)

LECTURE 3 sustainable landscape planning at Turenscape -Wang Sisi Phd.

this workshop is to work with the real problems in the process of development and to share the experiences on sustainable urban design/transportation/ and landscape

LECTURE 2 sustainable development a "lie" in daily life -Ding Qi Prof.

KICK-OFF WORKSHOP | SUSTAINABILITY WITH US

NOV-25-2010

LECTURE 1 prologue -Zhang Zhongguo Prof., vice dean

business ethics fair trade

LECTURE 4 my sustainable design practice -Shi Xinchen(senior)

LECTURE 3 sustainability with us -Qian Rui(candidate)

LECTURE 2 sustainability in the campus of BUCEA -Li Chunqing Phd.

LECTURE 1 landscape and sustainble design -Ding Qi Prof.

1-Fossil Energy has already been the bottom at its storarge -40, the number of years that the current oil supply can support the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;senergy needs. 2-Facing with aging infrastructures, to remove or to regenerate is a question. -$1,600,000,000,000, estimated cost to fix aging infrastructure in the US

PRE-WORKSHOP ON SUSTAINABLE DESIGN pre-workshop is to address with the call from both built,social and natural environment for the sustainability

Envrionmental Balance Fit

DISCUSSION case study on Hafencity, Hamburg, German

Urban design also may serve as the potential choice that can lead us human to the future such in an urban century. A group of statistics from UNEP revealed that in the future years, over 80% population will pour into city where they will settle to live on. If the 20th century can be described as a scientific and progressive century, now, 21st century must be pronounced as an urban century. In such a period,we human have been coming to realize the aftermaths due to the development itself are growing with the challenges of the continuity of our own---people has never been stopping thinking over the future of human, from our ancestors to the offspring, however, never in such a hurry and immediately as the moment we are at. As a potential urban designer, honorable and lucky enough for me, I do have opportunities working with designers engineers or people from different concentrations for the future, although urban sometimes may be read as the termination of future rather than the key; designing with future is my answer at least. Rightly because of the sense of history and responsibility, this workshop can be on the table, and as one of the originator for the workshop, I do not think it will work now, yet I do hope it can provide the members with an opportunity to discover a truth, that sustainability is not so far from us: designing with future will lead us to a sustainable future, with less slogan more visions to views.

SUSTAINABLE URBAN MANAGEMENT

Sustainability is the capacity to endure. In ecology, the word describes how biological systems remain diverse and productive over time For humans, sustainability is the potential for long-term maintenance of well being, which has environmental, economic, and social dimensions, 3 spheres of sustainability.

LECTURE 5 passive house in north China -Zou Yue Prof.

As the progression and enhancement for human utilizing technology, we will head forward in a sharper pace; and on the way forward, what we are facing with refers neither the Nazism in WWII, nor the conflicts of ideology in the period of cold war any longer, yet the way how we continue ourselves. Thus, sustainability are broadly accepted and accredited. However, in China, a giant themed on rapid growth, sustainability is often misread in a political context in the term of slogans.Such a word can be found in almost every single report of government, and no exceptions; meanwhile, nearly all the media are likely to emphasize this phrase also in a slogan way, most people are joking on this old newly coming concept, while designers and engineers are searching for it.

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OPPORTUNITY|

URGENCY| 1

Chang He River is a silent stream in downtown Beijing, flooding from Yuquan Hill to the city canal. Yet because of the zoo and some urban sectors like exihibition hall, this river is isolated to the city and the people, which provide us with a potential opportunity to revitalize the lost waterfront area, to discover a solution to sustain the linear area, culturally, socially,and environmentally, giving it back to citizens to be an active public realm. Also, the opportunity is for the site itself to be a human and open urban place again.

BEIJING ZOO changhe river

BEIJING ZOO 4

EXHIBITION

PRESENTATION -the top three design teams

DEC-05-2010

FINAL REVIEW -six design teams -Ding Qi Prof. -Chen Wenzhe, Phd. -Wang Sisi, Phd. -Wu Wen, Senior Urban Designer |AECOM -Qian Rui (candidate)

TEAM REVIEW -Ding Qi Prof. -Chen Wenzhe, Phd. -Wu Wen, Senior Urban Designer |AECOM -Qian Rui (candidate)

LECTURE introduction to the project -Ding Qi Prof. -Qian Rui (candidate)

SITE VISIT changhe river,Beijing -six design teams

LECTURE 7 from green building to sustainable community -Li Fengyu, managing director|AECOM China Sustainability Center

LECTURE 6 HOLCIM competition practice on sustainability -Su Yi

LECTURE 5 transportation plan in Beijng,and the scheme to it -Jiao Pengpeng, Prof.

design bootcamp as the name is to provide students with a real site to deliver their answer to the call for sustainability within one day and to form a basic proposal

SITE VISIT changhe river,Beijing -six design teams

DESIGN BOOTCAMP|SUSTAINABILITY WITH US

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LUNCH TIME

BEIJING EXHIBITION HALL

INTRO and SITE VISIT|

TEAMWORK|

PARTICIPANTS WERE DEVIDED INTO 6 GROUPS AND DID A IN-DEPTH SITE VISIT,BEFORE WHICH WE HAD A MEETING ON INTRODUCE THE BASELINE, THE EXISTING SURRONGDINGS AND THE PURPOSE OF THE PROJECT, REVITALIZATION TO THE CHANGHE RIVER BELT AREA. AFTER THE INTRODUCTION TO THE PROJECT AND THE SITE VISIT, 6 TEAMS WERE WORKING WITH ADVISORS, BUILDING UP THE INTERNAL WORKSHOP TO FIGURE OUT THE ESSENCE OF THE SITE.

AND FAR BEYOND DISCUSSION OR ARGUE, THEY HAVE TO CONSTRUCT THE FRAMEWORK AND SURPPORTING SCHEMES TO REVITALIZE THE RICERFRONT BELT AREA,AND REQUIRED, AS THE WORKSHOP AND BOOTCAMP THEMED ON SUSTAINABILITY WITH US, THE RESPONSE TO THE AREA NEED BE READ AND CLEAR IN THE STRATEGY FRAMEWORK,ALSO INTEGRATED THE CORE VALUE OF THE TEAM AS A WHOLE; NO MATTER IN WHAT WAYS THEY WOULD PROPOSE, CULTURALLY, ENVIRONMENTALLY, ECONOMICALLY-3 SPHERES TO THE SUSTAINABILITY.

|Beijing Exhibition Hall

|Beijing Zoo

|The Only Public Place

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STRATEGY FRAMEWORK + FINAL REVIEW| ALL THE PARTICIPANTS WORKED OUT MANY SOLUTIONS IN VARIED FORMS AND CONCEPTS, YET A COMMON SENSE TO THE AREA CAN BE READ IN THEIR 6 PROPOSALS|GATEWAY TO REOPEN THIS AREA TO THE CITY,|PERORM TO PROVIDE A PLACE WITH OPPORTUNITIES OF BEING ACTIVE,|A HIGH IDENTICAL PUBLIC REALM FOR USERS TO PASS AND STAY FOR REST AND RECREATION,|TO PROGESS THIS AREA FROM A BROWN URBAN BELT TO THE HUMAN PLACE TO CONTINUE THE STORY OF THE RIVER AND CITY WITH THE CERTAIN STATEGIES TO THE SPATIAL FORM AND CHARACERS OF THE LANDSCAPE OR THE URBANISM (CIRCULATION, OPEN SPACE, BUILDING REGULATORY, FUNCTIONS ETC.)|IN SUCH A CITY HUB, ONLY RECREATION AND ECO-SENSETIVITY IS NOT ENOUGH, PEOPLE STIIL NEED A PLACE TO GATHER FOR CELEBRATIONS,OR SOMETHING ELSE,|FOR THE FUTURE OF THE CITY, KIDS NEED A SAFE PLACE TO PLAY AND DISCOVER THE CHANGES OF A URBAN PROCESS WITH JOY.

TOP 3 Teams SHI Xinchen LI Yan WANG Xxuanyu WANG Jiexin ZHAO Tian ZHANG Haitian LV Xueyang WANG Tianyi WANG Zheze XU Susu ZHANG Long ZHANG Hanping LIU Xuwen WANG Xiaochen

|A High-end Community, which is one of the terminator to the area A No-man Park|

Sustainability + Urbanism Appreciations for your time and consideration