Ziyan Jiang_2024_Portfolio

Bachelor of Architecture, 2025

Cornell University AAP

Contact: zj49@cornell.edu

WYNWOOD FLANEUR

What does it mean to get lost in your neighborhood?

ARCH3102 | Spring 2023

Instructor:

Andrea Simitch

Situated in the residential zone in Wynwood Norte, Miami, FL, this housing project aims to construct a collective living with various happenings.

The project features a translucent housing grid interconnected by irregular meandering passageways. These passageways serve as dynamic arteries, facilitating the flow of people and activities throughout the residential complex.

The design of irregular meandering passageways echoes the spirit of the flaneur by encouraging residents to explore their surroundings and interact with one another spontaneously and organically. These passageways serve as inviting pathways for residents to meander through the complex, discover new vistas, encounter neighbors, and participate in various communal activities.

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Design scheme showing the 2 major systems: Housing (which approapriates the scale of the neighborhood) , and a "flaneur"/ meandering passageway consists of mixed use programs that challenges public and private realm, yet provides spaces for maximized accidental encounter

Conceptual collage showing the radical juxtaposition of programs:

Up: Library + Club

Down:Swimming pool + Gallery

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Diagram

Yan (Ziyan) Jiang

Instructor: Andrea Simitch

Diagram

Yan (Ziyan) Jiang

Instructor: Andrea Simitch

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Conceptual diagram showing how the site (Red) was interconnected to the meandering passage way (Orange) with a sampling of adjacent programs

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MISE EN SCENES

A House, a stair, a stage, projecting the street in while projecting out multiple performances to the public.

Video access: https://vimeo. com/799382979

ARCH2101 | Fall 2021

Instructor: Andrea Simitch

The project “Mise-en-scenes” is a house designed for two couples on Cascadelia avenue in Ithaca. NY. The concept of the scheme is a continuous stair capped by a translucent polycarbonate envelope, where the stair turns into a shelf, a seat, a kitchen counter, a bed, a bar, and a chamber room.

While the structure of the stair spirals up as a continuation of the street, a series of chamber rooms protrudes out, acting as stages that visually connect to the public space. Acting as a stage, the protruding chambers are being seen from the exterior, yet they could also act as spectator seats seeing the outside: the performance of sunrise, the dance of the falling leaves, or the ensemble of the canal...Thus the house is a performance, sometimes private, sometimes public, or a mixture in between.

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fig.1-2 concept model featuring the protruding chambers and the continuous stair. fig.3 - 4 concept sketch/model: The concept of the scheme is a continuous stair capped by an envelope, while sometimes the stairs extrude, backs off, and touches the envelope.

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fig.5 site model: cascadelia avenue with a canal running east-west direction.

SYMPHONY OF S TONE

ARCH1102 | Spring 2021

Instructor:

Sasa Zivkovic and Felix Heisel

Teaching Assitance: Oonagh Davis

Located right above the waterfall of the Nature Trail in Lansing, New York, the bus stop is a threshold of nature. Inspired by the overlying rock bed and waterfall down in the gorge, the project appears as a composition of colorful interlocking marble pieces stacked and interlaced together. The marble pieces come in four modules, where three horizontal modules form the roofs and walls, and one vertical module acts as a column that stitches the whole project together.

What does marble, or a bus stop sound?

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Elizabeth Candy Stanton

9mins walk

LAKE

CAYUGA

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Site analysis of the bus stop and its peripheral views of the gorge.

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Sound calendar diagram showing the difference in height of the gorge in section.

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Site model showing the bus route

The bottom score represents the loudness of the waterfall throughout the 12 months, starting from the silent light lines (as the water is frozen) in winter to loud, bold lines in the summer. The interpreted sound of the bus stop is the range of the dashed lines.

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Featuring the angle and trace of the tile saw, a facade system is applied to the horizontal modules, which forms a water tunnel that allows rainwater

to cascade down, creating a hidden, intangible stitch that simulates the sound of the waterfall and weaves the sound of the bus stop into the peripheral site.

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When the water flows over the marble, the stone surface is temporarily polished, where water activates the color and texture of the marble, triggering a transitory yet intimate moment that could only be seen in the rain.

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Scrap pieces produced during the production become mosaic flooring, acting as a visual cue that leads visitors to the gorge. As visitors trample on the floor, the marbles rub against each other and make a rattling sound.

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Notes on archive:

"The activity of archiving is an engagement, an interruption in a settled field, which is to enter critically into existing configurations to re-open the closed structures into which they have ossified." -- Stuart Hall, Constituting An Archive

SOFTENED WALLS

How to construct a living archive on the land that has a painful history of Gayogohó:n ’ (the Cayuga Nation) dispossession?

ARCH 2102 | Spring 2022

Instructor: Tom Carruthers

Situated in the historical district of Seneca Falls, NY, the library is a community hub that aims to construct a living archive. Achieved through bridging, the concept of the project is a series of fenestrated walls linked by transparent volumes. Thickened walls appropriate the dimension of the historical site. Moments of the program are understood to be both physical and metaphorical bridges that engage and critique the past to generate provocative spaces.

Site analysis of the town Seneca Falls showing the historical district in its relationship to the town and our site (Labeled in A zoomed out map showing the locations of our site in relation to the six sovereign

fig.4 correlating to the red lines (A) in fig.3, this concept diagram shows 2 systems in the design scheme: a series of walls and trangressing glass volumns.

fig.5 correlating to the arrowed major entry ciculation (B) in fig.3: the visual percpetion of the wall changes as one approximates the archive.

The spacing of the walls appropriates dimensions from Seneca Falls’ Main Street, and the program’s relational bridges foster blurred indoor and outdoor activities, generating a soft space within the hardened territories.

CAYUGA LAKE

SENECA CAYUGA ONODAGA ONEIDA MOHAWK

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THE CAROUSEL

A film about an office, a playground, or a never-ending machine.

Link: https://vimeo.com/799380331

ARCH 4509 | Fall 2022

Instructor: Christopher Battaglia

The Carousel is an independent film about mundane activities in an office. Like a never-ending machine, the office operates like a gigantic elevator, where a series of plates runs up and down, as all utilities are summarized in a single vertical bundle based on the stream of the movement. The project is inspired by Bernard Halfner’s Linear City, in which a network of traffic and communication infrastructure is located in a linear urban structure to maximize efficiency. In my project, the human becomes the infrastructure where one’s individuality is merged into the architectural machine. The mechanism of the office also operates with dynamic movements as of those carnival rides, through spinning, lifting, and diving, portraying the office as an amusement park, or a playground. The uncanny juxtaposition of playground and office sets the satire of production operation and human labor.

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Channel 1:

Carousel Music by Tom Meijer

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Channel 2:

Data.Matrix by Ryoji Ikeda

The film has two sound channels. The Carousel music rhymes with the carnivalesque movement of the lifting and revolving office mechanism,

romanticizing the office space into a playground. Ikeda’s electronic micro sound sampling resembles the robotic keyboard sound relating to the act of labor. The eerie juxtaposition of office and play achieves a strong, accumulation effect, connoting a sense of sullness and tediousness, a characteristic element of the modern industrial world.

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physical model for shooting

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Two major scheme of the machanism: a revolving stage and elevating plates.

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Back drop of the office, as the machine elevates between land, ocean, sky, and the outer universe. fig.8

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