Yingzhi He Portfolio, Harvard GSD MAUD '23, Urban & Architecture

PORTFOLIO

YINGZHI HE Master of Architecture in Urban Design Harvard University Graduate School of Design Bachelor of Architecture Huazhong University of Science and Technology

Architecture as An Instrument Hyburban Subcentre Net-Work-Life

URBAN ISSUES

SOCIAL PROBLEMS Complementary Social Needs Connect- Work-Life

INTERACTION BETWEEN REGIONS

REGIONAL STRATEGY

Duble Sides With Hybrid Stripes

The L Shaped City

LOCAL STRATEGY

HUMAN-SCALE STRATEGY

COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT

INDIVIDUAL EXPERIENCE

Introducing Neighbor

Access to The Ground

Belonging And Growing

Selected Works 2017-2021

PROLOGUE

As a designer, I believe that architecture is a mediator that has the potential to mediate internal essence with external environmental forces through multiple scale forms.

In the past six years of architecture study, I actively explore the possible impact of architecture as a mediator on music, culture, politics, urbanism, and engaging broader interaction with society.

The fifth project in the portfolio, ‘Architecture as an instrument’ is the first chance to apply my theoretical thinking into practice, in which architecture functions as a mediator, whose form is defined by the propagation of sound. In other words, sound, the invisible subject, is presented by architecture in a more explicit way. In the fourth project I shifted my focus to the mundane yet complex city , and I believe that public buildings largely acted as mediators to convert already saturated potential energy into kinetic energy and help to evoke shared, random and unfunctional human behaviors .

01_SUBCENTER NET-WORK-LIFE A new model of lifestyle embracing social and ecological diversity

-Sep. - Nov. 2021 -Collaborator: Katrina Mall -Critic: Peter Rowe, Rahul Mehrotra, Alex Yuen -Site: Boston, US. -HARVARD GSD | Core Studio

URBAN ISSUES

Enhance the Network of Public Realm

Road- Water-Mobility System

Integrate Urban Ecosystems

Mix-use Blocks

REGIONAL STRATEGY

LOCAL STRATEGY

SOCIAL PROBLEMS

INTERACTION BETWEEN REGIONS

COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT

Low Social Resources Liquidity

Enrich Demographic Social Resources Sharing Complementary Social Needs

Job Opportunity

In the process of urbanization, Boston has formed a number of sub-centers dominated by ports, leading industries and transportation nodes. However, each sub-centre operates in isolation, lacking mutual cooperation and resource sharing. The project proposes to create sub-center circles by connecting key water, road and public space nodes, thereby enhancing mobility between sub-centers and forming a work-life destination that hosts social and resource interactions.

Our site is located between the three potential sub-center circles- Urban& Airport, Suburb& Tourist spot, and International Freitght- and is expected to become a testing ground connecting the three circulations. Three circulations crush in to our site for different purposes.In ‘Urban & Airport circulation‘, urban commuters come here for efficiency and affordable;

Renewable Factory Accessible Waterfront

HUMAN-SCALE STRATEGY

INDIVIDUAL EXPERIENCE

In ‘International Freitght Circulation’ International people come here for it’s convenice to boston’s landmark and waterfront leisure place; in ‘Suburb & Tourist spot Circulation’, surburb people come here for accessibility, work opportunity and social resources.

Along the ’Urban & Airport Circulation’, urban commuters, suburb neighbors and air travelers come here with different heights of roads. Office , cultural area and waterfront area are mixed in this block. Power plant is preserved as a community center with suffiecnt parking lots to provide. Along the ‘Suburb& Tourist spot Circulation’ suburb neighbors and urban commuters come here by different transportation.

Affordable housing and family housing mixed, with a extent green raod connect both go to the north and with a straiht park to go west to link the leisure bay.

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URBAN ISSUES A. Boston Inner Harbor

SUB-CENTRE ISOLATION

B. Dorchester Bay C. Quincy Bay D. Hingham Bay E. Broad Sound

01_Subcenters Dominated by Ports

02_Subcenters Dominated by Industry

03_Subcenters Dominated by Traffic

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Urban & Airport Circle International freitght Circle Suburb & Tourist Circle Proposing Sub-centre Circle Port Station Leading Industry

* Proposing sub-centre circulations

SUB-CENTRE CIRCLES SOCIAL PROBLEMS 5

In the process of urbanization, Boston has formed a number of sub-centers dominated by ports, leading industries and transportation nodes. However, each sub-centre operates in isolation, lacking mutual cooperation and resource sharing. The project proposes to create sub-center circles by connecting key water, road and public space nodes, thereby enhancing mobility between sub-centers and forming a work-life destination that hosts social and resource interactions. Our site is located between the three potential sub-center circles- Urban& Airport, Suburb& Tourist spot, and International Freitght- and is expected to become a testing ground connecting the three circulations.

REGINAL STRETAGY SUBCENTRE CIRCULATION NETWORK OF PUBLIC REALM ENRICH DEMOGRAPHIC

UPGRADE TRAFFIC NODE INTEGRATE ECOSYSTEMS

SOCIAL RESOURCES SHARING

SUB-CENTRE NETWORK

* International Freitght Circulation

* Suburb& Tourist spot Circulation

COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT

* Urban& Airport Circulation

Three circulations crush in to our site for different purposes.

In ‘Urban & Airport circulation‘, urban commuters come here for efficiency and affordable; In ‘International Freitght Circulation’ International people come here for it’s convenice to boston’s landmark and waterfront leisure place; in ‘Suburb & Tourist spot Circulation’, surburb people come here for accessibility, work opportunity and social resources.

COMPLEMENTARY SOCIAL NEEDS

* Three circulations interwaving in the site

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SUBCENTER NET-WORK-LIFE

MIXED SECTORS

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02_Parking and Community Center

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LOCAL STRETAGY RENOVATION OF INDUSTRIAL HERITAGE

MOBILITY SYSTEM

OPEN AND CONTINUITY PUBLIC SPACE

JOB OPPORTUNITY MIX-USE BLOCKS

EFFICENCY AND CONVENIENCE

AFFORDABLE

COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT

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THE JUNCTION OF ‘URBAN& AIRPORT ‘ AND ‘SUBURB& TOURIST SPOT ‘ CIRCULATIO

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HUMAN-SCALE STRETAGY RENEWABLE FACTORY ACCESSIBLE WATERFRONT PUBLIC TRAFFIC AND WALK DAY AND NIGHT PLACE OCCUPATION VERSATILE PUBLIC ACTIVITIES

Along the ‘Suburb& Tourist spot Circulation’ suburb neighbors and urban commuters come here by different transportation. Affordable housing and family housing mixed, with a extent green raod connect both go to the north and with a straiht park to go west to link the leisure bay.

INDIVIDUAL EXPERIENCE

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Along the ’Urban & Airport Circulation’, urban commuters, suburb neighbors and air travelers come here with different heights of roads. Office , cultural area and waterfront area are mixed in this block. Power plant is preserved as a community center with suffiecnt parking lots to provide.

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02_HYBURBAN A new model of lifestyle embracing social and ecological diversity -Nov.- Dec. 2021 -Collaborator: Esther Xie, Qingyu Cai -Critic: Peter Rowe, Rahul Mehrotra, Alex Yuen -Site: Boston -HARVARD GSD | Core Studio Arrange Openspace with Staking Cluster Development Stage

Staking Programs

Binary Between Urban and Suburban URBAN ISSUES

REGIONAL STRATEGY

LOCAL STRATEGY

SOCIAL PROBLEMS

INTERACTION BETWEEN REGIONS

COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT

Binary Between Social Diversity and Bio-diversity

Connect Work Life

Convert Non-place to Place Involve Suburbia, Urbanite and Travler

INDIVIDUAL EXPERIENCE

People from each stacking collaborate

HUMAN-SCALE STRATEGY

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In America, many face the choice to live in the city or in the suburb. People must give up one between the social life in the city and proximity to nature in the suburb. Hyburban is manifesto against such binary.

In typical suburban development, everything is spread out and disconnected. There is no interaction between programs and no habitat connection. We propose stacking as the approach to hybridity. By stacking programs, we create interaction between different programs and leave more room for ecological habitat.

By decreasing building footprint, we connect the sur-

rounding landscape elements.

By stacking open space, diverse programs, and connection, we create three types of hyburban blocks that maximize interaction between different activities and users. We add programs onto three main preserved programs so that social activities can occur.

Thereby, the non-places transform to organisms of live, work and connect.

HYBURBAN

Hyburban is a new model of lifestyle that embraces social and ecological diversity.

We believe that people should have the rights to choose their lifestyles without giving up what they need. By hybridizing, we create new options and provide more freedom for people to live their life as they wish.

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BINARY IN THE URBAN AND SUBURBAN URBAN ISSUES BINARY BETWEEN URBAN AND SUBURBAN

In America, many face the choice to live in the city or in the suburb. People must give up one between the social life in the city and proximity to nature in the suburb. Hyburban- a new model of lifestyle that embraces social and ecological diversity- is manifesto against such binary. We believe that people should have the rights to choose their lifestyles without giving up what they need. By hybridizing, we create new options and provide more freedom for people to live their life as they wish. * Collage is second creation on ‘Rem Koolhaas, Madelon Vriesendorp Welfare Palace Hotel Project, Roosevelt Island’ STAKING TOOLBOX Nature 100% Construction 0% Nature 80% Construction 20% Nature 60% Construction 40% Nature 40% Construction 60%

Stormwater treating

Aquafarming

Farming

Hiking

Forest experiencing

Congregating

Single-family living

Child-caring

Spectating

Grocery shopping

Shopping

Shopping

Exhibition-viewing

Co-living

Affordable living

Senior-living

Researching

Learning

Distributing

Exhibition-viewing

Producing

Transporting

Office-working

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Nature 10% Construction 90%

BINARY BETWEEN SOCIAL DIVERSITY AND BIO-DIVERSITY

SOCIAL PROBLEMS 13

Stormwater treating

STACKING AS THE HYBRIDITY STRATEGY In typical suburban development, everything is spread out and disconnected. There is no interaction between programs and no habitat connection. We propose stacking as the approach to hybridity. By stacking programs, we create interaction between different programs and leave more room for ecological habitat. By decreasing building footprint, we connect the surrounding landscape elements. By stacking open space, diverse programs, and connection, we create three types of hyburban blocks that maximize interaction between different activities and users.

URBAN ELEMENT Staking Socially

ECOLOGICAL REMEDIATION

Existing Program

REGINAL STRETAGY

BINARY IN THE URBAN AND SUBURB

ARRANGE OPENSPCAE WITH STACKING DEVELOPMENT STAGE

Mobility - Transportaion

NATURE ELEMENT CONNECT

Ecological Remediation

WORK LIFE

COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT 14

BIOSWHALE

* Landscape designs mediate between the dense blocks and mitigate stormwater runoff issues.

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LIVING STACKING

FARMING

LOCAL STRETAGY RENOVATION OF BIG-BOX

STAKING PROGRAM

LOOP CIRCULATION

CONVERT NON-PLACE TO PLACE

INVOLVE SUBURBIA, URBANITE AND TRAVLER

WETLAND

WORK STACKING

PURIFY PARK

COMMINITY PARK

COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT

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CONNECT STAKING The connect block serves as the gateway hub for all, containing programs of vertical parking lots, hotels, apartments, restaurants, and cafes. The place will become a mixed-use complex for the whole Westwood area, a stop-by spot for regional travelers, and the public realm for local community.

Co-Living

Co-Work

Exhibition

Paking & Wetland

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HUMAN-SCALE STRETAGY VERSATILE ACTIVITIES IN EACH STACKING

In the work block, office, education, exhibition, and shopping activities are stacked onto the warehouses of manufacture. The campus life provides various working spaces connected by different courtyards, enabling temporary events.

Rooftop Green

Office

Factory

INDIVIDUAL EXPERIENCE

Commercial

PEOPLE FROM EACH STACKING COLLABORATE

WORK STACKING

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LIVE STACKING In the live block, housing, farming, recreation activities and market are stacked onto the big-box shopping malls. The all-age living community includes senior housing and houses for families, where farming and market are social interaction places.

Wetland

Farm Housing

Outdoor Market

Shopping Mall

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THE SEQUENCE OF SCENES HUMAN-SCALE STRETAGY

THE SEQUENCE OF VERTICAL SCENES

The experience of social diversity and bio-diversity is accompanied as one crosses the site horizontally and vertically, in the process, density, activities, and landscape vary constently.

PATHWAT ALONG LOOP CIRCULATION

The Top Level

OVERLAP GREEN WITH EACH FLOOR

The Mid level

VARIOUS VIEWS AT DIFFERENT FLOORS

The Ground Level

VARIOUS VIEWS ALONG THE LOOP CIRCULATION

The work Stacking

The Living Staking

Wetland

INDIVIDUAL EXPERIENCE

The Connect Stacking

THE SEQUENCE OF HORIZONTAL SCENES

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THE L SHAPED CITY

03_THE L SHAPED CITY A city growing with grounds

-International competition, UIA2020, The Third Price -Jan. - April. 2020 -Collaborator: Zulin Zhuang -Jury: Wolf D. Prix, CUI Kai -Site: TianJing, China -Individual Contribution: Concepet 100%, All Drawing in this portfolio

Increasing Density and Decreasing Openspace Urban Sprawl URBAN ISSUES

The Structure of L City (Street, Square, Community, Tower) REGIONAL STRATEGY

Evolve from Grid to Three- demension Community, Squre, Street, Monolith

Three-demensional Space Achitecture Mix Land

LOCAL STRATEGY

HUMAN-SCALE STRATEGY

SOCIAL PROBLEMS

INTERACTION BETWEEN REGIONS

COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT

INDIVIDUAL EXPERIENCE

Homogeneous and Exclusive Urban Life

Memories are preserved as the city grows

Living in The Same Hierachy But with More diverse space

Easily Accesse to Ground Level

Increasing Urban Depression Decreasing Urban Diversity

Urban expansion is reflected in two ways - tiled sprawl into the wilderness and vertical rise of tall buildings.

However, Grid as a means of city organization is a simplification of the complexity of cities. In our constant pursuit of high density, urban public space has gradually become homogeneous and exclusive.A living city does not arise additively, but rather, complexly. This means that we have to forget about the nineteenth century’s additive ways of seeing and thinking and additive planning methods and instead, introduce new methods of seeing and thinking and planning: methods are better suited than the additive ones to reflect the city’s complex processes.

Different from the grid, we envision a new way of organizing the merging of cities,and to face squarely at urban density, but simultaneously, as a corrective, to re-gain public space. With vertical and horizontal dimensions, “L” has the adaptability of single deformation.

“L” will be used as the prototype for deformation and combination to reshape three-dimensional urban space, so as to organize urban residents’ activities in an orderly manner and trigger the possibility of urban residents’ interaction with nature and surrounding anytime and anywhere.

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THE INCRESAING DENSITY VS DECREASING OPENSPACE URBAN ISSUES THE INCRESAING DENSITY VS DECREASING OPENSPACE

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Tianjin In1970s Tianjin In1990s Tianjin In2010s Tianjin In2020s nature area main highway

City spraw in Tianjin from 1970-2020

INCREASING URBAN DEPRESSION DECREASING URBAN DIVERSITY

SOCIAL PROBLEMS 23

Ecological park

Ali logistics

Tianjin station

city center

URBAN DEVELOPEMENT IN THREE DEMENSION

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HUMAN-SCALE STRATEGY

BASIC UNIT L--ARCHITECTURE MIX LAND

ACHITECTURE MIX LAND

L is a basic urban unit that combines architecture and ground. The horizontal and vertical planes of L jointly define a three-dimensional urban public space.

The two long sides of L are internal traffic and communicate with other L units at the same time.The angle of L, the intersection of horizontal and vertical, is shared public space. The surface of L reserves space for two L's interpenetration.

EASILY ACCESSE TO GROUND LEVEL VERSATILE PUBLIC ACTIVITIES ALONG THE FACADE

INDIVIDUAL EXPERIENCE

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Facade public space

Air traffic

Landscape

Nature

Farmland

Recreation

Public service

Square

Market

Retail

Residential

Rural-style house

Apartment

Streetside house

Office/Commerce

Workshop

Enterprise

Interspace

CATALOGUE OF L UNIT L Unit can be divided into four categories, the commerce, residential, public space and landscape. Each subdivided according to different lifestyle.

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LOCAL STRATEGY

EVOLVE FROM GRID TO THREE-DEMENSION

LIVING IN THE SMAE HIERACHY WITH MORE PUBLIC SPACE

COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT

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THE STRUCTURE OF L CITY REGIONAL STRATEGY THE PHASE AND STRUCTURE OF L CITY

The L Shaped City grow up in four pases with the main streets and square spirals up. The main streets connected with living and working communities lap up and extend for four direction to joint with other blocks. Open square spirals upward and is the main urban public space. The tall buildings radially connect the square. The void square is treated as an urban park, a green zone shared by high floors. The solid squares can be used as large public buildings, such as museums, concert halls and so on. The nodes among tower, street, squre and community would be the most active space for residents from different class.

MEMORIES ARE PRESERVED AS THE CITY GROWS

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Node 1 tower & mainstreet

Node 2 tower & community

Node 3 square & mainstreet

Compact Type

Efficient Type

Compound Type

Mixed Type

Balance

Coordinate

Open Leisure

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DEVELOP IN STRIPS ALONG THE EXISTING CITY L shape city, as a high-density urban block, develops in strips, allowing for controllable environment with contemporary individualism and organic growth.

This communication together with city-blocks foum a framework on which city can continue to grow horizontally (west-east).This is to assure optimal sunlight conditions of all districts destined for habitants.

Presented scheme for the city starts with one vertical district with approximately 20 thousand people and has ability to expand horizontally by adding districts.

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HUMAN-SCALE STRETAGY THREE-DEMENSIONAL PUBLIC SPACE

* Residents of high-rise buildings enjoy the sunshine in the 'void' square

EASILY ACCESSE TO GROUND LEVEL

L's lap creates various public Spaces for the city, and residents of different heights can easily reach the nearest urban ground. Even if it is a densely populated city, it can provide enough space for people to live.

VERSATILE PUBLIC ACTIVITIES ALONG THE FACADE

* The 'solid' squares are used for large events

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04_ANTI-CENTRALITY VITALITY DIFFUSER A playground integrated with landscape

The traditional playground is purposefully divided into two parts, the track and the central court for certain activities- track and field meet, and football match. But the areas that are not deliberately designed also contain a lot of possible reactions, carrying people’s more self-entered behavior.

-Jun. - Sep. 2019 --Collaborator: Jiajun Li, Yueju Song, Siqi Li -Site: Wuhan, China

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Extend to landscape Extend to Public Building Extend to Community Extend to Campus

ANTI-CENTRALITY VITALITY DIFFUSER

Extend to Urban Context

Water Stand

Blur Space Boundary LOCAL STRATEGY

COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT

HUMAN-SCALE ISSUES

INDIVIDUAL EXPERIENCE The Use of Large-scale Public Buildings in Dayily Life

Random Behaviors Mobile

Vitality Target

Chaos Transient

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THE DISTRIBUTION OF PLAYGROUND CLUSTER IN WUHAN

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PLAYGROUND AS PUBLIC BULDING

PLAYGROUND IN COMMUNITY

PLAYGROUND IN CAMPUS

PLAYGROUND IN LANDSCAPE

As a kind of public building , playground is often located in the downtown sports block with a group of other sports setting. A flock of people get charged and discharged at a moment in time, before and after a game.

playground in community is the main kind of public space for the residents nearby , who usually choose to have a walk during their leisure time, and playing football game or other excerices would be the most attractive activities for children.

The playground in campus carries the daily sports functions such as running, football and having classes.

Meanwhile, club activities, New Year's Party, reading corner, music festival and other non-sports activities occupy the playground frequently in different time.

The playground in landscape is becoming the increaing popular issue on park. It is mainly used in areas along the water or parks, and is also a great selling point for tourism. Now governmet in China invest a lot for park runningway.

Playground as public bulding Annual contest Public gatherings

playground in community Take a walk take a party

playground in campus The flag-raising ceremony radio gymnastics

playground in landscape Running in the morning have a trip

RE-DISTRIBUTION OF ACTIVITIES IN PLAYGROUD

non-sports and sports activities occupy the playground frequently in different time periods.

Concentration of activities

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VITALITY DIFFUSER THEORY

GROUND FLOOR PLAN

Vitality attracts circle

STEP1 VITALITY ATTRACTS CIRCLE (radius )D = S(the estimated area of the function) / D (the distance from the center of the circle to the center of the playground) * the attraction coefficient A

1. entrance 2. air runningway 3. soft runningway 4. waterside square 5. lobby 6. square dance place 7. wc 8. organization 9. rehearsal room 10. waterside stage 11. sliding place 12. football feild 13. The dragon boat wharf

On the basis of the attracting circle, the attracting vitality is further diffused by the spreading circle with the common center.

Vitality diffusion circle

STEP2 VITALITY DIFFUSION CIRCLE Diffusion radius D1, D2 = draw circle radius * public coefficient a + dynamic coefficient (b) publicity coefficient a Vitality factor B

The vitality attraction circle is a variation of the boundary of the oval playground.

It faces the center of the playground circle and opens the activities to the inside of the playground.

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STEP3 VITALITY TARGET CIRCLE Target radius D3=S(target area)/d(distance from the center of the circle to the center of the playground)* bearing capacity coefficient D

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The target circle is the reason why we attract and diffuse energy: it attracts energy through functions and diffuses energy into the target circle through the reverse center track.

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The football stand and the waterfront stand are two intersecting arcs, which check and balance each other in structure.

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The 'Anti-centrality vitality diffuser' are more transient, chaos and mobile, which help to evoke shared, random and unfunctional human behaviors. it creates and divides the rigid functional layout in the general architectural space, and replaces it with dynamic perception stimulated and continuously "derived" by various public activities, and further extends the urban context and thus blurs the boundary of the place.

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ARCHITECTURE AS AN INSTRUMENT

05_ARCHITECTURE AS AN INSTRUMENT Music mediator

-Jun. - Sep. 2020 -Collaborator: Jiajun Li -Site: Beijing, China -Competition Work

Electronic Music: Staircase Folk Music: Corridor Rock&Rool: Balcony

Transform Public Space into Music Stage

Architecture Serves as A Music Instrument HUMAN-SCALE ISSUES

INDIVIDUAL EXPERIENCE

Electronic Music: Interchageable Player Folk Music: Background Music Rock&Rool: Converge Power

In Beijing, the cultural center of China, floading musicians are chasing their music dreams. However, the new comers are facing huge pressure -- high housing rent, no space to practice, no audiences and no stage for show. All these obstacles are eroding their identity as musicians.

This apartment helps those floading musicians to re-obtain a sense of belonging, satisfying their living demands, and serving as a musical instrument. Rather than provide extra space for collective music activities, the public space of the original apartment is used as music performance. In those performance space,

architecture is as a mediator, whose form is defined by the transmit of sound.

At the same time, the involvement of architecture is not merely reflected in the transmission of sound, but in the transmission of the state of musical events. Traditionally, musical performance is a purposeful activity that needs to be organized and planned specifically.

By integrating musical performances into residential buildings, the daily routine of architecture helps transform the purposeful activity of listening to concerts into the background music that integrates people’s life.

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THE EVOLVE OF 3 MAIN MUSIC GENRES

1940-1992| ROCK&ROOL The origins of rock music can be traced back to the late 1940s, After China's reform and opening up in 1978, headed by cui jian Chinese rock music is home to Beijing is developing rapidly.

1992-2009| FOLK MUSIC In 1992 the south after the conversation, folk music of colleges and universities in Beijing, tsinghua university campus folk fire all over the country.

2009-2020| ELECTRONIC MUSIC In the process during globalization, along with the electronic music pop music penetration in the whole world, electronic music in the rapid popular Beijing as a starting point. electronic music has left all sorts of distinctive traces.

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* The decreasing musical identity among Beijing musicians

In Beijing, the cultural center of China, floading musicians are chasing their music dreams.

H o w e v e r, t h e n e w c o m e r s are facing huge pressure -high housing rent, no space to practice, no audiences and no stage for show. All these obstacles are eroding their identity as musicians.

Bars and musical instrument shops Chichahai Subway Main road Project Site

CONVERSION FROM ROW HOUSE Rather than provide extra space for collective music activities, the public space of the original apartment is used as music performance.

The prototype of the house is a row house located in a hutong, an early form of private housing in China. I modified the original room, which was connected by a single corridor and a staircase at the end, into be connected by a circular corridor.

Step1: Line corridor The public space of the prototype forms a T-shaped staircase and corridor.

Step2: Ring corridor The corridor is arranged in a circular pattern with front and rear stairs.

Step3: Semi-private lounge Multiple private bedrooms share a common living room to form a suite.

Step4: Semi-public becony A shared balcony is inserted between the suites.

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ROW HOUSE IN HUTONG The building is located in a hutong, with the short side remaining the same size, and the long side being merged by two hutongs, with a public staircase between them. There was a street between two row houses, the house on this side of the street has a strong public character.

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3F Semi- private louge The living room on the third floor is surrounded by musicians' single rooms, through which one can descend to the public balcony on the second floor.

2F Ring corridor The corridor space on the second floor is connected to the public living room and balcony on the third floor by an internal staircase.

2F Semi-public-balcony & recording room The upper and lower living rooms share a public balcony and recording studio, which is the venue for rock and roll performances and opens directly to the street.

1F Ring corridor & Semi- private louge Three musicians share a single living room, which is directly connected by a corridor on the ground floor.The hallway is pushed in due to the need for sound, and the corresponding living room staircase is embedded.

* The nesting of music space and living space

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The street-facing corridor is a folk music stage.

The inner alley is the rock and

Rock&Roll stage

* An apartment for living and music playing

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The player The audience Direct sound Reflect sound

THREE STAGES OF MUSICAL PERFORMANCE IN THE EXTREME SPACE

The corridors, stairwells and balconies are also the performing stages for folk, rock and electronic music.

Passersby, attracted by the performance space with street rock music, walks into the alley, and see the performance stairwell with electronic music in the middle of the alley, then follows the corridor for a tour and back to the alley.

Folk singers perform in their own bedrooms, their voices reflected through resonant cavities in the upper and lower hallways; Individuals in the band -- vocals, guitarists, basses, keyboards -- play on different balconies, and their voices converge toward the center of the street；

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Corridor -- Folk music stage

Folk singers perform in their own bedrooms, their voices reflected resonant cavities in the upper and lower hallways;

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Balcony -- Rock and roll stage

Staircase -- Electronic music stage

Individuals in the band -- vocals, guitarists, basses -- play on different balconies, and their voices converge toward the center of the street.

the steps on the staircase are transformed into a dance floor where the audience can stop at any time to participate in electronica performances.

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A corridor that recedes under the influence of an arc wall.

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The rock & roll stage

The distribution of rock&roll stages

Individuals in the band -- vocals, guitarists, basses, keyboards -play on different balconies, and their voices converge toward the center.

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DOUBLE SIDES WITH HYBRID STRIPES

06_DOUBLE SIDES WITH HYBRID STRIPES A developing waterfront community

-Jun. - Sep. 2020 -Individual Work -Site: Novi Sad, Serbia -Competition Work

Factory & Family House Enterprise & Commerce

Double Sides Open to Novi Sad Non-canal Area

INTERACTION BETWEEN REGIONS

Purify Belt

Hybird Strips

North Island Southern Shore

Purify Industry Area

Water Ring

REGIONAL STRATEGY

LOCAL STRATEGY

COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT

INDIVIDUAL EXPERIENCE

Introducing Surrouding Neighbors

Small-scale Waterfront Enterrainment

Public Node Along the Water Ring

HUMAN-SCALE STRATEGY

Create a new community belonging

As Serbia’s second largest city, Novi Sad is a center of education and technolog with its education and tertiary industries are mainly based around the Danube river. During the development of Novisad from the Danube to the inland canal, the morphology of the city showed changes in bands at various time periods, and the residents of the city experienced social housing, the free maerket and industrial nearby housing.

The site is located next to the Tisa Canal, has been abandoned as industrial brownfield, despite enjoying efficient railway, landscape and road resources. The project is working on the waterfront district by transferring former heavy industrial brownfield into a walking-friendly mix-use zone and this would be a new gate for Novi sad. On the one hand, it will serve as a starting point for a new community, opening Novi Sad to non-canal development. At the same time, it undertakes the function of purifying industrial land and dynamically treating the boundary between industrial

land and urban land.

A water loop in the middle was designed to enhance the cohesion of both sides of the canal. At the same time, different riparian response measures, artificial and natural, were adopted on the north and south banks to better adapt to the original site and retain their characteristics. The new block will be inserted into the ring in two different sizes of strips. Large and small strips can be combined with each other to form hybrid strips. Different strips correspond to different levels of roads, greening ratios and public Spaces, which can be flexibly divided into water rings.

The water loop provides residents with the possibility of small-scale waterfront entertainment that is not disturbed by industrial transport, and the boardwalk interweaves the river with adjacent buildings, enhancing the vitality of the south bank.

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STRIP TYPES AND INTERFACE The project focuses on the urban development along the strip of Novi Sad, as well as the matching of large buildings and small private buildings within the stripe. I envise two types of strip with different functions and the interfaces of those strips are paid emphasized and carefully designed.

Co-work & Co-living

Far: 1.05

OSR: 48%

sharing street

Height: 60m (F20)

sharing square

Affordable house

Far: 2.8

OSR: 70%

Height: 36m (F12)

Enterprise

Far: 2.4

OSR: 25%

Height: 24m (F6)

sharing main street

sharing square

Commerce

Far: 2.8

OSR: 50%

Factory

Far:0.75

OSR: 25%

sharing main street

Single family house

Far: 1.1

sharing street

Height: 52m (F23）

Height: 12m (F3)

sharing square

OSR: 55%

sharing doublesquare

Height: 8m (F2)

sharing street

THE NODE OF STRIPS AND THE INTRODUCED CANAL

The secondary channel provides residents with the possibility of small-scale waterfront entertainment that is not disturbed by industrial transport, and the boardwalk interweaves the river with adjacent buildings, enhancing the vitality of the south bank.

A water loop in the middle was designed to enhance the cohesion of both sides of the canal. At the same time, different rivel bank response measures, artificial and natural, were adopted on the north and south banks to better adapt to the original site and retain their characteristics.

The new block will be inserted into the ring in two different sizes of strips. Large and small strips can be combined with each other to form hybrid strips. Different strips correspond to different levels of roads, greening ratios and public Spaces, which can be flexibly divided into water rings.Different bands further divide the rings so that each ring has a unique experience.

* Ground Floor Plan of the south coast

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In response to the natural bays on the north bank that enhance the cohesion of the two banks, artificial banks on the south bank introduce water to form a triangular island and a secondary channel.The secondary channel provides residents with the possibility of small-scale waterfront entertainment that is not disturbed by industrial transport, and the boardwalk interweaves the river with adjacent buildings, enhancing the vitality of the south bank.

The treatment of the northern bank is mainly to maintain the original natural boundary of the canal, with water landscape as the main feature, and buildings and roads back, and preseve the original bend as a natural port of call.

07_Thirdspace for No Nation A horizontal skyscraper between the two countries’ borders URBAN ISSUES

-Oct. - Dec. 2018 -Collaborators: Zhicheng Gong, Tianrong WU, Yong Chen, Congying He -Site: Syria -Honorable Mention, International Competition, eVolo 2019

SOCIAL PROBLEMS

COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT

The world is witnessing the highest level of displacement on record. According to UNHCR, by the end of 2016, 65.5 million individuals were forcibly displaced worldwide as a result of persecution, conflict, violence, and human rights violation.

We propose to build a skyscraper along the border between two countries which provides shelter with security and development opportunities for refugees.

A Horizontal Skyscraper along The Border LOCAL STRATEGY

Horizontal Growing Buildings

HUMAN-SCALE STRATEGY

INDIVIDUAL EXPERIENCE Get shelter with security

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We envision that some people will choose to return to their homeland, and they will be able to use the relevant skills learned during homes.Moreover, where will this skyscraper go after the war? Because of its normal development during the war, it may become a new

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g this period to rebuild their w and complete society.

HORIZONTAL GROWING BUILDINGS A normal city sonsists of buildings, greenings, roads and pumps. We propose representing it to a faced, so that we can get a city in a different direction — a horizontal city.

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a horizontal city

TRAFFIC NET In urban scale skyscrapers, traditional elevators can not meet the needs. Here we prpose a new elevator with a cylinder shell and a square cabin. With this structure, it can move any direction and keeps inner cabin horizontal.Rails are set sccording to needs. Rails and these new elevators form a more free and efficient traffic network together.

The first-level traffic net breaks the restriction of vertical traffic by rail elevators, a c h i e v i n g e ff i c i e n t traffic.

The second-level traffic net forms a high-coverage transportation net in blocks elevators .

EQUIPED FACILITIES This skyscraper is equiped with fcacilities to make it function well.

PIPELINE SYSTEM: Pipelines are embedded in building structure, transporting resources and waste in liquid and gaseous form and providing people with

EQUIPED FACILITIES

clean water.

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YINGZHI HE E-mail: yingzhi_he@gsd.harvard.edu Phone: +1 8579997060

Architecture as An Instrument Hyburban Subcentre Net-Work-Life

URBAN ISSUES

SOCIAL PROBLEMS Complementary Social Needs Connect- Work-Life

INTERACTION BETWEEN REGIONS

REGIONAL STRATEGY

Duble Sides With Hybrid Stripes

The L Shaped City

LOCAL STRATEGY

HUMAN-SCALE STRATEGY

COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT

INDIVIDUAL EXPERIENCE

Introducing Neighbor

Access to The Ground

Belonging And Growing

Selected Works 2017-2021