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Xiangyu Wang 2013-2016 Illinois Institute of Technology
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HYBRID HIGH-RISE
CHICAGO ARCHITECTURE CENTER
Location: Chicago, IL
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A seam joins two things together and forms a connection. Without the seam, the connection would not exist. Our building is full of moments similar to a seam. The program (Third Place and Main Functions) come together and overlap to form connections. Although a seam may be a small gesture, it has a large impact on the space. The people circulating throughout the space represent the thread that holds the ‘fabric’ together. The dark spaces in the below diagram represent the interactions caused by the seams.
Seam
Program Volume
Third Place
Tansform and Setback
Expansion
Green Space
Engage The Existing Building
Wall Section
THIRD PLACE Third place is a leveler, by nature, an inclusive place that tends to expand possibilities and permits the individual to know others in a different and fuller aspect than is possible in other places. Third places counter the tendency to be restrictive in the enjoyment of others by being open to all and by laying emphasis on qualities not confined to status distinctions current in the society. - Ray Oldenburg
RIVER RESIDENTIAL TOWER
Location: Chicago, IL
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Project is located in the west loop in between of Chicago River, West Adams, South Canal and West Monroe Street. The residential tower is wrapping around the exsiting office building and avoid of blocking the view. The tower includes 280 units from which 270 are located in the tower and 10 are represented as the townhouses around the office building. This chain of townhouses create special living condition in the heart of the metropolis.
Better Than
SUBRBIA
The typical American suburban living dominates the entire market in the last century and represents a dream life style of a country. The River Residential Tower transform suburban living into the heart of the metropolis like no one had before. It showcases a new type of integrated urban development embraces the complexit y of transportation, living, retail, museum and recreation.
Existing buildings
Massing
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Structure
RIVER MUSEUM
The Sky Garden featured vertical landscape and gardens. Each tenant family in the building is assigned to an area. The bridge structure provides the access to the garden from both side of the building. The Sky Garden transforms a t ypical episode of American suburb living into the urban in a unique way.
SKY GARDEN
HYBRID LIVING
COMMUNITY MARKET PLACE
Location: Miller Beach, IN
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The Miller Beach Community Market Place features permenant stores and movable pop-up vendors which could easliy adjust to fit in different activities. Unlike the conventional market, it creates a civil space for the community and creatively combines the daily life routine with and become a dynamic events generator for the neighborhood.
In traditional market hall, it works like a huge box laying on the ground with vendors inside
Site
In our proposal, we lift the market hall and bring in a new relationship between building and ground
Vehicle and Pedestrain
There is a clear boundary between inside vendors and outside vendors
In this way we gain more space for residents and pedestrains and also for the vendors
There is a clear boundary between Huge massing blocks the inside space and outside space
The space underneath would also Lifting up the be a civic space with a perfect shelter
view and exchange
EXISTINGS
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massingEXISTING CIRCULATION Open space underneath reinforces the interaction
LIFT
Concentional market hall works like a huge box laying on the ground with vendors inside
ICLE AND PEDESTRAIN
There is a clear boundary between inside vendors and outside vendors
In our proposal, we lift the market hall and bring in a new relationship between building and ground MASSING
In this way we gain more s p a c e f o r re s i d e n t s a n d pedestrains and also for the vendors
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Force Flow Force Flow
XIAPU URBAN COMPLEX
Location: Xiapu, Fujian, China Partner: Lin Chen
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Xiapu Urban Complex represents one of the most typical commercial development typology in China. Large square in front of the building draw the high volume of passngers from the rail station across the street. Cuved ramps thread a needle inside the building organizing the program and circulation. Office and hotel sits on the south and north end of the site, generating a graviation through the commercial spaces.
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#CROWNtoday an instagram photograph project 99 moments of historical Crown Hall
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Sendai Media Center Structure Model (Exhibited at IIT Open House)
Digital Fabrication Works