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1 Learning City Urban Design Poughkeepsie, New York
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2 32°F Armature Water Urbanism Kolkata, India
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3 Salt Lake City + Provo Research Salt Lake City, Utah
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4 Other Works Landscape/ Design/ Photography Harbin, China Changhua, Taiwan Alaska, United States
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In the city, there are different kinds of people with diverse abilities, advantages who play their roles to keep a city running. However, because of history and geography, the rich against the poor, as well as majority and minority or the local and the outsider. To ensure the first right to survive, the invisible hands of the government redistribute the social resources and balance the advantages and disadvantages. It is the strong helping the weak, which could be accepted morally. But still, the city is declining with ruined main street and increasing homeless. For now, this invisible hand does its best. Of course, from what we have learned, we should not ask any real return when we were helping others. But this kind of one-sided relationship will quickly turn
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into giving and taking with only one side is offering. Is it fair? Not to mention some people make poverty and weakness as original sins. The conflict will not be solved if we still use this invisible hand. If possible that, we could give these new definitions, including giving and tak ing, helping and being helped and who is strong or weak.
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1 Learning City _a new twist on town versus gown
2016 Fall Poughkeepsie, NY Instructor_ Le e A l t m a n , D av i d S m i l e y, M i c h a e l M u r p hy, Christopher Kroner, Justin Moore Team Members_ Jiahong Lu, Yang Liao, Zhengyin Lyu Exhibition_ Justice in Place: Design for Equity & Regional Currents, Poughkeepsie, New York, 2017 Poughkeepsie suffers from a long tradition of town versus gown. The city and town are home to four institutions of higher learning which serve a wide range of students but the residents of the city have neither the skills nor the opportunities to access good jobs. The “Learning City� program brings these two communities together, and benefit both. 7
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Downtown
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Media Tech
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Migrant Billboard Restaurant
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Culinary Shed
Share Space
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N System Network Along Main Street
Trash into Art
anchor facility proposed facility existing facility anchor facility
Mill Street Loft
program Bike Lane
art and product design
exhibition of new restaurant proposal
recycling
Fall Kill Creek
Dormitory
culinary exchange
temparory restaurant
Underwear Factory
Migrant Billboard Resturant
Culinary Shed
Trolley Barn Laundromat
Ebenezer Baptist Church Family Partnership Center
Art Centro
Mansion Square Park
expansion of existing restaurant start new restaurant together
Data Visualization park
Grocery
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Restaurant Migrant Billboard Resturant
share knowledge
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Scenic Hudson Inc
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Grand Hotel Nubian Directions Bardavon Theater Mid-Hudson Civic Center
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Poughkeepsie Library
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college students
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bad access to information with small mobile phone ownership
linguistic barrier in live or work
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The “Learning City” program brings these two communities together, and benefit both. Inspired by existing programs of low-income residents, NPO and colleges, “Learning city ” will provide 4 new programs in two different directions: “Culinary Skill Exchange” and “Start New Restaurant!” in culinary direction, “Food Film ” and ”Main Street as classroom” in media direction, creating learning and job opportunities for low-income residents and students under professional guide.
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college students lack of management practice
management experience/ space for practical training
professional culinary skill/ diverse food concentration limited customer base/ limited flavor
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local restaurant owner
high percent of culinary job but with low salary
_education lack of professional assistance
_culture food cultural difference
| owner of Mexican Taco Store in Poughkeepsie
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Migrant Billboard Restaurant
Types of Assembling
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Billboard Migrant Restaurant, Main Street
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Poughkeepsie suffers from a long tradition of town versus gown. The city and town are home to four institutions of higher learning which serve a wide range of students but the residents of the city have neither the skills nor the opportunities to access good jobs. The “Learning City� program brings these two communities together, and benefit both.
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Improve my restaurant
Culinary Shed
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Cooperation
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New Flavor!
Better place for students
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2 32°F Armature _alt-state of water, catalyst for alt-state of economy
2017 Spring Kolkata, India Instructor_ Kate Orff, Geeta Mehta, Dilip Dacunha, Julia Watson Team Members_ Paul Xiaopu Wang, Chu Li 32ÂşF Armature reshapes current floriculture and pisciculture practices in Kolkata by literally changing t h e s t a t e o f w a t e r. I t i s a s u s t a i n a b l e h y d r o morphology design project that counters the pressure of urbanization on rural Kolkata and accommodates the growth of grassroots industries benefitting the underprivileged.
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New York always lead the process of urbanization around the world, after experiencing the explosion of population, suburbanization, centralization, decentralization, and regionalization. Still, New York needs to prepare for the future
9 million residents by 2040There are ideas from these large companies, including extending the existing railway system, building multi-function transportation junction, and regenerating the brown field.
“Heavy industry really isn’t job-supplying. If you put a lot of oil tanks there, it uses a lot of land and doesn’t provide many jobs. So use that land for starting up businesses.” -Robert Goodwin, design director at Perkins+Will's New York office “A lot of major infrastructure projects create divisions and boundaries. This can help stitch neighborhoods together.” —Matthew Melody, Curtis + Ginsberg senior associate
“I don’t think anyone thinks private automobiles will dominate the public realm in the next 100 years. There’s an emphasis on quality of life in the public realm, and the goal is to repurpose the transit system.” —Jonathan Cohn,
“…Its architecture promotes a state of congestion on all possible levels, and exploits this congestion to inspire and support particular forms of social intercourse that together form a unique culture of congestion." —Rem Koolhaas
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“The tech is at a point where it becomes realistic to consider it. The time to start discussing it is now.” —Daniel Heuberger, Dattner principal
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principal at Perkins Eastman
“People gathered in concentrations of city size and density can be considered a positive good, in the faith that they are desirable because they are the source of immense vitality, and because they do represent, in a small geographic compass, a great and exuberant
richness of differences and possibilities, many of these differences unique and unpredictable—and all the more valuable because they are.”
b For him, the central problem was that cities lacked essential elements like space, air, light, and silence. Looking at the congestion and overcrowding of New York City, he lamented,
"The whole city is in agony."
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In Hong 200 thou are livin
“...(Hong Kong) there are only skyscrapers, blocking each other's daylight. Each city should realize the capacity of the land, to reserve enough public space and to keep people comfortable." —Lee Kuan Yew the first prime minister of Singapore
Hong Kong,
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a small island with just land area of Beijing, while 6.9% of it stuffs with seven million citizens. Though the limitation of the topography, Hong Kong developed as a port between China and the world, the creative city of Asia, thanks to its highdensity urban form. Every part is supporting this tensed machine running, including most convenient public transportation system, small land development method, even the speed of escalators, or the tea restaurant filled with the secret cipher. All of these, building up Hong Kong nowadays. However, no one is perfect, not to mention a giant city. To improve the living condition is the most priority issue of the government, but the cost of land reclamation is high, the opinion towards the utility of the nature park is different, to develop the rural field where with traditional land policy is hard.
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To break the ice, Hong Kong connects cities in Pearl Delta, including Shenzhen, Guangzhou, forming a creative city agglomeration, to disperse the population. On the other hand, people are worried about the losing of creative people and traditional culture.
我提出這一點，並非要把香港「貶低」，而只是希望能客觀 陳述出實際情況。反之，正如我在論壇上所說，在香港如 高密度的情況而仍然能維持極高效率的交通運輸配套和便 的生活環境，我們實在應該引以為傲，並感謝過往為建 香港而付出的一代又一代香港人。" ______ 陳茂波 香港發展局局長 Hong Kong Secretary for Development
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There was a time in metro line one; people crowded together, so I have moved nearly one meter away without using my own feet. I am 76 kg. —Chen Zhe A Beijing Resident
also mentally lacking space and freedom. " "To construct and manage well the capital is essential for building administration system of the whole country. " —President Xi
—Lee Simon A Hong Kong Resident
"My three-yearold daughter, want to go out and stay close to nature every day. However, I do not have that kind of courage when there always heavy polluted air outside. " —Xiao Hong Zhong A Beijing Resident
Beijing, the capital of China, is defined as a political center, a science center, a cultural center and history center, which follows the same responsibilities. To support these titles works well, tons of resources are concentrated here. As a result of which, millions of talented people and rural workers come to Beijing for better opportunities. There is a shortage of housing. Since this quick population explosion with the urban planning lag behind, many
"sleep towns"
appear around Beijing. The residents from "sleep towns," they go into the city for working and other daily entertainments every day and go back to sleep only. This kind of pendulum routine collapsing with the centrifugal road system results in the most severe congestion problem in China. At the same time,
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"The crowing in Hong Kong, not only talking about the small physical space but
commuters are in a dilemma for the insufficient public transport network. In 2017, the government bring the XiongAn new town, a new smart city, into the table, sharing some duties of Beijing, hoping to reduce the population pressure. Of course, the government in China could build a super high-tech smart city in a very short year, but the fanaticism of people may not vanish easily. Maybe it is time to decentralize the resource in Beijing, which already exceeded the limitation of this soil. If this land could not fit that much people, we could just do the opposite.
6 2 , 8 3 overwhelmed facility In the suburb of Kolkata, a huge landfill stretch almost one mile. The whole area is under the bad smell during the monsoon season. Every day, hundreds of truck come carrying the rubbish from the city, but without sorting or other processes.
water pollution A big deal of population rush into Kolkata, the old public facility can not stand any longer. The sewage exceeds the treatment capacity, as a result of which, the Hooghly River is polluted as well as canals inside the city. When this polluted water flows into wetland outside the city, ponds are shallower with too much mud, and the fish decreased.
slum living condition Previously, people came inside of Kolk ata, built massive slums along the Hooghly River. Nowadays, this kind of slums occurs at the suburb. Workers from other places occupy the land, hoping to find better working opportunity using the advantage of location, even though there is no facility or sanitation. 30
² 3 1 / m i In Kolkata, the flower market is famous among the east, which is the distribution center of east Bangel and also the flower trade hub connecting Southeast Asia. With the explosion of population and the development of business, the flower market can not catch up the numbers of merchants and cars, with slums already surrounded. Therefore, farmers gain less and less, and the industry works inefficiently.
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The floriculture industry, on the other hand, which supplies Kolkata with up to 1,500 tons of fresh-cut flowers comes from areas that are 12 travel-hours away. By the time they reach Malik Ghat Market from where they are distributed to retailers and temples, a large portion of flowers are withered and thus wasted.
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Pisciculture and floriculture play a vital role in Kolkata. The former fulfills the average resident’s need for food; the latter supplies flowers for social and religious practices. Currently, the wetlands east of Kolkata supply 13,000 tons of fish to the city annually while treating 60% of its sewage water. Yet pisciculture is losing people to other industries as fishermen struggle to make a profit as a result of the shallowing up of ponds caused by city pollution.
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We develop three interventions at critical points in this unique hydrological system for further elaboration. Each is designed to function all year round yet thrives in a particular time of the year as a result of sitespecific conditions.
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Site 1 is emphasized in the period from February to May when the temperature rises to its highest point of the year and ice is majorly used for environmental cooling.
Site 2 centers around the interval between June and Oc tober, during the monsoon season when fish production reaches its annual peak.
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Site 3 is focused on the time between November to January when Kolkata enjoys the strongest solar radiation and which is also the season with the highest flower production.
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As this ice does not require direc t contac t with humans, it can be made with untreated sewage water. Currently there are two parallel sewage channels with underutilized space in between them. By altering the micro topography and designing a trench to connect the parallel channels, a ‘delta’ area is created in between. This space is then used to form a “blackwater ice co-operative” with ice workshops interlacing with air-conditioned social spaces and rooftops equipped with solar panels or designed as elevated recreation parks.
This intervention is located in the middle of newly constructed wetlands. As solar energy is inaccessible at this time of the year, the power supply comes from methane generated from fish waste. Ice factories hence sit adjacent to fish ponds and anaerobic ponds, with the former providing ‘grey water’ for ice and the latter offering biogas as power supply. This “grey water ice” allows fresh fish to be transported longer distances, to last longer at market sales. It promises to trigger the development of the frozen fish industry.
Site 3 The continuous solar energy supply for ice making can be combined with the flower byproduct industry. At this site, the ice workshops are strategically located at low points along excavated water ditches in a gravityfed system that allows water to be further purified and frozen for human consumption. The “edible ice cooperative” projects an economic boom from iced beverages, scented water, tie-dye crafts, fish oil medication and other industries. 46
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This project is trying to decentralize the human activity by adopting those particular characters of the rural area. And the ice making as the trigger defining a new way to treat sewage and to build the new town.
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2016 Fall_ Instructor_ Lee Altman, David Smiley, Michael Murphy,Justin Moore, Christopher Kroner, Team Members_ Paul Xiaopu Wang, Yiran Hu, Marwah Garib Exhibition_ Close Reading. Formal Analysis in Atchitecture, Galleria Tupenmanie, Milan, 2017 52
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三山國王廟
賜福宮 1-1
集樂軒曲舘
中天宮
慶安宮
城隍廟
同善堂祠
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Religious Temple
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Changhua Alley Investigate _posibilities of historial alleies
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2015 Spring Chuanghua, Taiwan Instructor_ Dalih Wang, Wei Dong
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Majia River Eco-Park Design _relationshpip between water and people
Human Activity Area Interaction Area Natural Bank Human Activity Area Hibernation Zone Hibernation Zone
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F-Open Squares for collective activities
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H-Paths leaving natural space
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4-3 Urban Design of the Edge _urban and rural 2014 Spring Harbin, China Instructor_ Ming Lu
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4-4 Night Market Renewal _neighbourhood design x public participation
2015 Winter Harbin, China Instructor_ Fei Lyu Team Member_ Shiqi Hu
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Survey taken Residents Art Students
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4-5 HEYr _appitecture
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4-6 Texture _water/air/soil 2016 Autumn Denali, Alaska
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