Xin Fu Selected Projects 2011-2014
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Contents Selected Projects 2011-2014
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The New Bauakademie Architectural Academy in Berlin, Germany
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Island Sounds Jazz and Pop Music School in Venice, Italy
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New Urban Village Contemporary Chinese City, a Diverse Cityscape
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Bond[ing] Anchoring the Urban Corridor
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Reclaiming People’s Way Development Strategy for Delhi, India
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HiveMind Urban Village Concerns
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Archive
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The New Bauakademie Architectural Academy in Berlin, Germany Spring 2011 Virginia Tech Berlin Studio Collaboration with Robert Calvey
“To an architect, a school of architecture would be the most honored commission� Louis Kahn
A year long research laboratory with one semester abroad in Berlin. The undergraduate studio at Virginia Tech promotes a collaborative design process which incorporates multiple points of view from a variety of academic discourses. This studio project aimed at exploring the past, present and potential future of the architectural education by developing the program and tectonic structure for a new Architectural Academy on the site of the former Bauakademie designed by Karl Friedrich Schinkel in Berlin, which was widely considered to be the first modern architecture school in Europe. The design started with the development and transformation of a contentensemble program, while maintaining the architectural educational program from Schinkel’s original Bauakademie design. The site and its new tectonic structure are developed in context while considering the historic evolution, urban location and associated social, political, economic and architectural tendencies.
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massing studies
Following the original courtyard massing design of Schinkel’s Bauakademie, the new academy seeks to directly connect the school and students with the design community of Berlin, achieved by extending the already existing Art & Book markets onto the plaza and underneath the academy while increasing workshop space to encourage creativity and professionalism.
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library
All programs are moved off ground level, allowing public into the large central courtyard. The ground floor lobby can be opened on all sides and is filled with a large staircase that serves as a focal point for the courtyard and directs visitors up to the public first floor which consists of a cafeteria and gallery. The school is on the upper four floors with double height studios in the middle and supporting programs on each side, providing a constant visual connection between the student projects and the classes, workshops and faculty offices. Arches are used to create different spatial rhythms throughout the building while still unifying the
building. On the ground floor, a dense arcade serves as space for market stalls and student installations, while on upper floors the arches are used to create spatial differentiation, defining program and circulation with one, two, and three span spaces. Facade glass panels are placed at varying depths within the outer wall to create different shadows across the face of the building and create diverse building reflections.
site plan site section
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Island Sounds
Jazz and Pop Music School in Venice, Italy Fall 2012 Accademia di Architettura_Atelier Burkhalter and Sumi Independent Work
This project involves the creation of a new island or a floating construction in the Venice Lagoon, a new sound laboratory and music school for Jazz and Pop. The project has two folds. One is the contrast between small, introverted individual rehearsal rooms and big, open public performance spaces. The other is the study of the structural, emotional, spatial and functional relations between music and architecture while connecting the floating island to the bigger Venice city construct.
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WORKSHOP
DEPOSIT
DEPOSIT
ADMINISTRATION
COMPUTER ROOM
CLASSROOMS LIBRARY
RECORDING STUDIO
BATH.
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GROUP REHERSAL ROOM INDIVIDUAL REHERSAL ROOM
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MULINO STUCCHI
La Giudecca
site plan An educational and performance facility, the jazz and pop music school aims at creating a convenient learning environment for its students and a new performing art venue for the general public of Venice.
process sketches
Situated on water and facing the new public park of Giudecca, the building creates a new stage on the horizon. This maintains a visual connection with the rest of the city while keeping its isolating position as an island itself.
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The performance venue becomes the focal point of the building with all programs oriented around it and servicing the performance. It also creates a central exterior amphitheater facing the rest of the city. Access points to the island are limited to the opposing side facing the lagoon, therefore offering a trajectory upon entering the building towards the performance space. All educational programs such as offices and rehearsal rooms are placed facing the side of the lagoon as well, since these programs often require quiet and concentrated atmosphere. As a result, the openness of the lagoon becomes the backdrop for a dedicated music school learning experience, yet the central performing venues establish connections with land further away.
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front-rehersal rooms back-educational programs
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Xin Fu studio burkhalter sumi - autumn 2011 I Prof. Marianne Burkhalter - Gaetano Ceschia - Silvio Ammann UniversitĂ della Svizzera Italiana I Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio
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New Urban Village
Contemporary Chinese City, a Diverse Cityscape
2012-2013 Virginia Tech_Undergraduate Thesis Independent Work
Opposing the homogeneous residential high-rise development in contemporary Chinese cities, this thesis is a celebration towards architectural diversity. Aiming at revitalizing the urban center, bring commerce activities and residents communications back into the living community, the new urban village offers an alternative for contemporary Chinese urbanism. It is a search for beauty and meaning in the commonplace.
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Site
SITE WATER HIGH-WAY CITY RINGROAD MAJOR ROAD RAIL RAIL STATION
Kunming is the capital city of Yunnan in the far southwest of China, a province the size of Iraq with 45 million inhabitants. Due to the pleasant climate, Kunming bears the nickname Spring City. In ten years time the number of inhabitants in the city proper increased from one million to roughly three million. Seven million people now live in the entire Kunming conurbation, and there is no end in sight to this turbulent growth. New skyscrapers are continually added to the skyline all over the city. During its growth spurt, Kunming demolished most of its historical construction apart from a few isolated buildings scattered around town. Wide motor ways slashed through the narrow nineteenth-century neighborhoods. The selected site, adjacent to one of the most important highways which flows through the city, also underwent such growth-demolition trend in the past 10 years, and currently is surrounded by newly developed residential high-rises with an average height of 33 stories, roughly 100 meters each.
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The site development is an argument against such homogeneity that aimed at gaining maximum real estate profit while discarding architectural design quality. By limiting the size and height of each unit, this low-rise site development offers a chance for surrounding high-rises to enjoy their scenic view while functioning as a back drop for the rest of the city, therefore achieve diverse cityscape. The master plan also aims at creating connections between existing construct and the site plots. It is viewed as a chance to revitalize the urban center by providing active ground floor commercial usages while offering shared spaces to site visitors as well as its residents.
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Majority of the building units are dedicated to individual family housing, where a retail space is created on the ground level with residential units above. The northern end co-operative units, however, is dedicated to rental purpose with shop spaces on the ground level and utility-sharing living units on the top.
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ground floor site plan site sections
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Individual Family Units
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Units dedicated to individual ownership, which are the settlement format of traditional urban villages. Retails are located on the ground floor where upper stories are dedicated to living. Units are open to either east or west side of the building, or both, depending on the architect, consequently create street access unique to each building yet equal access for each street as a whole. Street parking is available along the curbs.
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Co-Orporative Living Units
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Units dedicated to rental purpose, which offer cheap living space for city migrant workers, reflecting the function of traditional urban villages. All public programs are facing the southern side of the site while the north facing bedrooms are treated with special sound barrier and offering maximum privacy. Each unit is accessed by single loaded corridor, with access point on the east or west end of the building. Covered parking spaces are offered on the ground level along the northern facade, while additional street parking is available along the curbs.
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Bond[ing] Anchoring the Urban Corridor Fall 2013 The Regional Studio Collaboration with Faisal Almogren, Belen Ayarra, Ji Han Lew and Yue Zhao
An active, safe and adaptive urban corridor that supports daily living and promotes community interactions is healthy for the city residents. Such an urban corridor is enforced with anchoring entities that attract users while bonding with each other to reinforce connections. Working within two distinctively different cities, East Harlem and New Rochelle, the design approach aimed at defining the characteristics of each urban corridor, proposing anchoring entities that reinforce such traits, while also introducing modifications to the corridor itself to bring activities, safety and adaptabilities on the street. For East Harlem the project aims to create a safe corridor through bonding local capabilities, while the New Rochelle design focuses on introducing an intermodal transit corridor to the city through bonding its regional capabilities.
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STREET CONDITION
New Rochelle OPPORTUNITIES ISSUE by the Multi-Modal Bonding Regional Capability Transit Corridor EXISTING PROGRAM
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UTILIZING NYCHA
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ENHANCING COMMERCIAL ACTIVITIES
SUPPLEMENTING SCHOOLS/RECREATIONAL SPACES
STREET INACTIVENESS
EXISTING ACTIVITIES
OPPORTUNITIES
ISSUE DISCONNECTION
RECONSTRUCTING URBAN FABRIC REGIONAL RELATIONSHIP
ACTIVATING OPEN SPACE
RESHAPING TRANSIT MODES
INCORPORATING EXISTING ACTIVITIES
FRAGMENTATION
existing programs / activities mainly concentrated along north ave.
competitive retail corridors near new rochelle
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LAGUARDIA AIRPORT
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LESS THAN 15 MIN LESS THAN 30 MIN
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MAINLY CONCENTRATED ALONG NORTH AVE
COMPETITIVE RETAIL CORRIDORS NEAR NEW ROCHELLE
North Avenue has been the main corridor in New Rochelle that serves as a major transit connection between the northern and southern ends of the city. However, the city’s dependency on cars, lack of walkability, fragmented downtown corridors and limited accesses to waterfront amenities diminishes the possibilities that North Avenue can offer while disjointing its northern neighborhoods from the south and waterfront. The design develops both the waterfront and downtown areas as anchoring points while reinforcing North Avenue’s connectivity. A new waterfront green corridor is introduced by
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REGIONAL CONNECTIONS AND ATTRACTIONS BEYOND NEW ROCHELLE
reconfiguring the landform as well as connecting existing public waterfront parks, while the downtown area is reconstructed through modifying multiple existing structures as well as introducing new development. The waterfront and downtown is then connected through new inter-modal transit system, while this connection is reinforced by rezoning along North Avenue between the two anchors. The systematic development of waterfront and downtown then becomes new destination to the city while reconnecting to the north.
systematic master plan with projected transportation modes conveying potential public activities
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6AM - 10PM FERRY STATION CONNECTION TO LONG ISLAND SOUND
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TECH CENTER
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DISTANCE: 0.36 MILE ELEVATION DIFFERENCE: 70 FT
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East Harlem Bonding Local Capability by the Safe Corridor
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To provide a sage and active main corridor, a retail and community oriented hybrid marketplace is introduced, aimed at developing new investment, anchoring existing programs along and around Third Avenue, offering activities while attracting
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foot traffic onto the street. These anchoring entities are bonded through recreating the street fronts by infilling NYCHA open space and occupying vacant units. The corridor is then further reinforced by series of beautification actions, aimed at providing a safe street environment, while extending its connections to the related existing contexts.
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Reclaiming People’s Way Spring 2014 The Global Studio Collaboration with Kate Samuels and Wen Wu
New Delhi was designed to be spatially, programmatically, and socially unequal. The result is a city that is visually opaque to the government functions behind its walls, and exclusionary to the extreme density around it’s periphery. The project aims to create an emblem of public space that can represent vision of this capital city and invite population from around the country. By using the existing landscape as a guiding principle, public programs can be added in a sensitive and cohesive way. The existing subway also provides a catalysis to development and density can occur organically to support the central core. Ultimately, the city can be uncovered from its restrictive colonial planning to create a vibrant nucleus for India.
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UNIVERSITY AND COLLEGES 5%
LANDSCAPE
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QUEEN’S PATH
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8 MAIN TREE TYPES
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RACE COURSE
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HIGH SECURITY PRIVATE RESIDENCE BROKEN JANPATH WITH ISOLATED PUBLIC PROGRAMS
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PRIVATE BUNGALOWS
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4 LANE TRAFFIC ONMAJOR ROUTE
ADDITIONAL SMALL TREES AS SERVICE LANE VISUAL BLOCK
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DELHI ROAD ACCIDENTS KILL HIGHEST # OF PEDESTRIANS IN INDIA
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RESULTING DENSITY AND PROGRAM DISPARITY INDUSTRY REAL ESTATE EDUCATION NW DELHI 8298 PP/KM^2
W DELHI 14000 PP/KM^2 HISTORICALLY TREE LINED STREETS
N DELHI 13019 PP/KM^2 CENTRAL DELHI 5759 PP/KM^2 GHAZIABAD E DELHI 22638 PP/KM^2
SW DELHI 4166 PP/KM^2 S DELHI 9034 PP/KM^2 NOIDA GURGAON
FARIDABAD
TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
CORPORATION
REAL ESTATE
TECHNOLOGY REAL ESTATE
INDUSTRY
RETAIL
CORPORATION
NON-HUMAN SCALE POLITICAL CORE CIVIC GOVERNMENT RESIDENTIAL
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5% BUNGALOWS ARE PRIVATELY OWNED
CONNAUGHT PLACE THE ONLY SHOPPING CENTER IN NEW DELHI
LIMIED SIDEWALK SPACE
80% LAND OWNED BY GOVT. IN ZONE D. DEVELOPMENT RESTRICTION
HIGH FENCES AS VISUAL BARRIER
44% AIR POLLUTION INCREASE SINCE LAST YEAR
POLYCENTRIC CITY CENTERS
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Phasing Development Strategies
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phase 2
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CARS
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VEGETATION
PEDESTRIANS
OPEN SPACE
PUBLIC PROGRAMS
Conceptually, this project creates a truss system of Phase 2 focuses on densifying metro nodes, which support whereas the physical development at the offers both population and program variety for the metroBIKES nodes reinforces public space densification Thus creates a balanced system of living and CARS VEGETATION PEDESTRIANS OPEN SPACE PUBLIC PROGRAMS city. NOT ACCESSABLE at Jan Path. With such dependences, residents working within New Delhi. live/ work/ play in the area while people from other parts of the city are drawn into the area. In phase 3, connections between the nodes and the path would be strengthened by adding mixed use In phase 1 the physical barriers along the street density to support both the business and civic areas. are taken down, pedestrian and bike accesses are This connection would attract both business workers increased, while the road spaces are decreased to by adding housing units and the general public drawn two car lanes. in from the metro with more commercial activities.
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phase 4
redeveloping public access to existing buildings
reconfiguring existing public landscape
extending public access while reconfiguring private bungalows
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Existing Public Access Redevelopment
The design focuses on adding street front mass to the existing buildings in order to make them more accessible and use the tree canopy to bring people to landscaped areas that are currently private. The new street configuration will increase the footfall and public programs can act as a draw. circulation
REPURPOSED INSTITUTION REPURPOSED INSTITUTION
program
GALLERIES/ CAFES
INFORMAL SHOPS
FUTURE MIXED USE RESIDENCIAL
SMALL SCALE BUSINESSES
CITY SCALE CIRCULATION
LARGE SCALE BUSINESSES
NEIGHBORHOOD CIRCULATION
REPURPOSED INSTITUTION REPURPOSED INSTITUTION
neighborhood city scale re-purposed institution large scale business galleries/cafes small scale business
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GALLERIES/ CAFES
INFORMAL SHOPS
FUTURE MIXED USE RESID
SMALL SCALE BUSINESSES
CITY SCALE CIRCULATION
LARGE SCALE BUSINESSES
NEIGHBORHOOD CIRCULA
Reconfiguring Landscape
The new design of this main crossing looks to create a political gathering space while also creating areas that relate to more to the human scale. By using landscape techniques to frame the space, it is possible to create a “center� for the political core. circulation
Repurposed Institution Repurposed Institution Informal Shops
program
Repurposed Institution Repurposed Institution Informal Shops
neighborhood city scale re-purposed institution re-purposed square public gardens re-purposed street
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Extending Public Access While Reconfiguring Private Bungalows
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The bungalow-oriented space is designed to direct the user to the focal point of the bungalow and to provide transparency of uses within the block. Along the tree dense lines, access is provided and creates an intimate scale as the mass reacts directly to the trees by creating pushed and pulled volumes.
phase 1
circulation
phase 2
phase 3
program
city scale neighborhood re-purposed institution large scale business galleries/cafes informal shops small scale business
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HiveMind Urban Village Concerns Fall 2013 Datamining the City Instructor Danil Nagy Collaboration with Jean Qin Gu and Fan Guo
A little over three decades ago, Shenzhen existed only as a conglomeration of villages. The city has since become one of the largest and fastest-growing cities in China, and its incredible growth is in large part due to a population of lowwage workers who predominantly reside in these original villages. What happens within these microcosms? Can we understand the specific villages by looking at what they are talking about? Using social media, we seek to tap into the village-dwellers’ Hiveminds to ultimately understand their relationship to the dynamics of the city.
*Project was included in 2013 Hong Kong Biennale, UABB (Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism /Architecture) Installation 65
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AA Shanghai Visiting School 2012 Architectural Association School of Architecture 20-28 July 2012 Hosted at Shanghai Study Centre The University of Hong Kong
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Archive 2009-2014 Selected Architecture / Industrial Design / Urban Design Work GSAPP MSAUD Virginia Tech AA Shanghai Visiting School Independent Work Unless Otherwise Noticed
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Fire, Incident or Accident (group) UD Seminar, Spring, 2014
Manhattan Workshop UN Studio UD Studio, summer, 2013
Cellular Automata Evolutionary Branching summer, 2012
Mute Attempt UD Studio, fall, 2013
Renovation of the Sultan Hassan Mosque in Cairo, Egypt (group) summer, 2010
Street Installation (group) UD Studio, fall, 2013
Yale Haiti Music Recording Studio spring, 2010
Exhibition Space fall, 2009
Tight Wire Walking Facility spring, 2010
Pin-hole Camera (ID) summer, 2010
Wooden Lamp (ID) summer, 2010
Wooden Toy (ID) spring, 2009
Fire Block Spot
Central Control Point
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Unit 3: The Evolution of Shanghai’s Inner Urban Density Team Members: Ba Ruofan/Fu Xin/He Yimu/Wang Haochen/Yao Yi/Zhou Yi Tutor: Mohammad Ghamlouch
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Selected Projects 2011-2014 Xin Fu 164 Henry Street, Apt. 4C New York, NY 10002 xf2130@columbia.edu (917)912-9046 June 2014