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YUAN LIN
Urban Design Selected Work yuanlin.ud@gmail.com (+46)0738466126
CV Urban Designer
Yuan Lin 28/06/1994 yuanlin.ud@gmail.com (+46) 0738466126
Hi, my name is Yuan Lin, an urban designer currently living in Stockholm. I am a newly graduate of the Sustainable Urban Planning and Design program from KTH (Royal Institute of Technology). My thesis topic was the impact of the existing urban built environment on the mental health of young residents. I am passionate about solving sustainable and social challenges we are facing through urban design processing considering various stakeholders. My interests are sustainability, social integration, social community, and public space forming. I have experience in a range of projects from living community design, renewal plan of factories, village planning, master planning of a megacity, regional planning, public architecture, landscape architecture, and even industrial planning through studies as well as work. I'm interested to learn and explore more sustainable methods and social strategy through future work experience.
Education Kth Royal Institute of Technology School of Architecture and the Built Environment Master of Science with a major in Architecture: Sustainable Urban Planning and Design Jun. 2018 - Jun. 2020
Main Courses R&D Studio: Design Urban Environments
Delft University of Technology Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment Exchange: Urbanism Sep. 2019 - Jan. 2020
Sustainable Urban Engineering of Territory Landscape Architecture Design Urban Geography SUPD Studio: Situation/ Texture
Beijing Forestry University School of Landscape Architecture Bachelor of Engineering: Urban Planning and Design Sep. 2012 - Jul. 2017
Sustainable Planning and Design Urban Economics Urban Transport Planning and City Road Design
Work Experience
Awards & Scholarships
MIX Architecture Nanjing China Architect & Urban Designer Participated in two main projects: * Renovation Design of the Old Town and City Wall of Cicheng, Guangdong Province, China * Jiangshan Fishing Village Renewal Design, Nanjing, China Feb. 2018 - Aug. 2018
Excellent Design Award Oct. 2016 National Institute of Urban Planning Coursework Selection *Community-building Design of Beijing Xianyukou Hutong Driven by Traditional Courtyard Renewal Top 16 Teams Dec. 2015 ‘Internet+ Beautiful Village’ *Henggang Cloud Core
China Eco-city Academy Beijing China Urban Design Intern Paticipated Project: Villages Renovation Planning of Dingnan County, Jiangxi Province, China Feb. 2017 - Jun. 2017
Third Prize Oct. 2015 National Institute of Urban Planning Coursework Selection *Goodbye, Old Bus Era?! - Research on Beijing Bus Intelligent System Transformation
China Academy Of Urban Planning & Design Beijing Urban Design Intern Paticipated Project: City Version 2030 of Nanchang, Capital city of Jiangxi Province, China Agu. 2016 - Dec. 2016
S k i l l s
Rhinoceros 3D Autodesk AutoCAD Adobe Photoshop Adobe Illustrator Adobe InDesign SketchUp
Excellent Student Scholarship & Academic Excellence Scholarship Beijing Forestry University 2015 & 2016
h o b b i e s
Painting
Photography
Badminton
Cooking/Eating
DISCO
ArGis Enscape Physical Models Hand Sketching Planting
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Heal Together
Youth Mental Caring Design of Nine Elms
Master's Thesis Project KTH
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We-connection
Bezuidenhout Community Renewal Design
Urban Environment Studio TUD 56-61
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Pingjiang 2025
Masterplanning & Design of Pingjiang County (2015-2025)
Urban Planning Studio BJFU
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Sharing the Inbetween
SUPD Situation Studio KTH
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Future Ready
Towards a More Resilient Södertälje
SUPD Texture Studio KTH
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28-47
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Look! Water!
Waterside Park Design in Hangzhou
Landscape Workshop BJFU
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From Lost to Found Comunity- Led Regeneration Design of Xianyukou Hutong
Urban Renewal Project BJFU
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Towards a Metabolic Bortyrka
SUPD Studio KTH
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48-55
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Cultural Darning
Artchitecture Design Of Tiecheng Museum & Qi'ao Cultural Center in Zhongshan
Work Participation Project
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London / UK
Master's Thesis project
01/02/2020-28/05/2020
Heal Together Youth Mental Caring Design of Nine Elms
Individual project
“You are more likely to commit suicide than be killed in conflict”. Yuval Noah Harari describes the future in his book Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow.
their pain and get empathy in the city. They are facing a serious mental health crisis, a 'Silent Disaster'.
However, suicide is not a future disaster only appearing in science f iction. Globally more f requently suicide ph en om en on sh ows a warning of today’s mental health problems, especially for younger generations. Suicide has been the f irst cause of death for young people aged 15-34 in London. A more concerning number is 93% of young people say that they are living under great pressure in London and they even spend more than 6 hours of their time a day stressed out. Most of them are living in London to pursue a ‘perfect life’. However, the highest rent in the world cost 60% of their salaries, which means that they have to reduce social activities and eat microwave food to save money. Most young people said that instead of trying different jobs that they are interested in, they are more willing to stay in less satisfactory jobs with a stable income to ensure that they can pay for themselves. Even though, they still live in a big fear that they will be 'priced out' in the future. The huge economic anxiety put them under tremendous pressure both physically and mentally. Climate anxiety is also troubling the young generation. They worry about whether they have a promised future. This makes them dissatisfied with their current jobs and feels that they are doing "meaningless work.” T h e y a re b e i n g t r a p p e d by t h e f i n a n c i a l anxieties, being abandoned by London's social life. Even more, they doubt the meaning of their life. 32% of the young generation has suicidal thoughts and feelings. Even with such a psychological burden, the stigmatization of mental health problem still makes them choose to be silent. There is no way for them to express
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If the city we designed has put that much pressure on the young generation, how can we redesign the city to care about young people and their mental health? How can the city heal the young generation? My aim for this thesis is to challenge the existing norms and the def inition of “ perfect” and “success” that makes young people stressed out, create the possibility of new stressless lifestyle in a financial and cultural sense. More importantly, the thesis aims to save the mental health problem suffered by the young generation out of the bad reputation, let the young people get comfort from their city life. The aim has been to explore a community, situated in Nine Elms in London, UK, a 'ghost town' where various empty luxury buildings are located. The proposal is aimed to balance the contradiction between the gradual compression of living space for young people in London and the vacant luxury houses occupying a lot of land. Based on my research question, I thus propose to change this empty neighborhood into a lively community where young people can get the affordable houses to relieve their f inancial anxieties, try different possibilities to f ind the value of themselves, and express their multiemotion without fear of judgment. It helps them to be more comfortable with themselves and accept who they are, rather than conform to the existing norms. Transform the "silent disaster" experienced by young people, and the “ghost town” of Nine Elms, into a shared, vibrant, open and diverse center in London. A place for healing together.
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Shared Balcony in a Co-living Residence
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Current Young People's Mental Health Crisis
Top Reasons of Young People's Stress In London
Financial / Economic Problems As one of the most expensive cities in the world, young Londoners are "trapped" with high housing prices. London rents are 50% higher than Stockholm's. Young people spend around 60% of their monthly expenses on rent. Therefore, they have to reduce their social activities, there is no chance to fully participate in London life.
Climate Change Awareness Climate anxiety is very common among young people, who are willing to take responsibility for climate change through learning environmental governance knowledge and practice environmental protection actions.
Rent hit young people the hardest in London.
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Appearance/ Weight Paying attention to their appearance and weight also puts pressure on young people. While browsing the 'perfect body' on Instagram, they feeling disappointed for their bodies and appearances.
Current Young People's Mental Health Crisis
Health Food Reliance on microwave food and fast food has left young people worried about their health.
Social Pressure from Social Media The pressure from social media also makes young people more vulnerable. "Response in time" makes over half of the young people feel overwhelmed. Comparing their lives on social media makes them feel “inadequate”.
Heavy Workload
Getting a Satisfactory Job
High cost of living and concentration of "higher-skilled work" creates a culture of longer hours.Rapidly updated technology also makes them worry that they will be abandoned by technology.
Two-thirds of people expressed dissatisfaction with the current job, and it is difficult to get self-satisfaction from work. The expensive life in London forced them to insist on their current job, and the young people in this city had no chance to "try" other possibilities.
How you satisfied with you job?
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'Price Boundary' In Nine Elms
The site is located on the south bank of the River Thames - Nine Elms community. It is the most youngest location in London. It was mostly used for industry and housed a lot of tanneries and waterworks etc. The legendary landmark of London, The Battersea Power Station is located here. It's also the home of London’s largest vegetable and fruit market, Covent Market. Because of the large number of factories here, the surrounding neighbourhood are “cheap" residence for workers. They said “There was a respectable working class area and always had a market”. Even though after lots of factories shut down, the neighbourhood is still an affordable place for young people. As the U.S. embassy moved in, the upgrade of this place also began. Lots of new homes have been planned here. But they are not for living in. Those new homes are all “luxury houses”, 80% of them have been bought by foreign investors. It has become the "summer houses" of the rich in the Middle East, which make them uninhabited for most of the time. Nine Elms became a "ghost town”. People said it is the wrong properties in London. Most of the luxury buildings are planned on the north side of Nine Elms. The train line in the middle, like a boundary, divide Nine Elms into two. The north side is an “empty luxury" where young people cannot afford to live in, and the south side is a “cheap" working-class neighbourhood. The train line is the “Price Boundary” that young people cannot afford to cross.
Built Project (60% vacancy rate) Pending Project
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Empty Nine Elms
River Thames
1. Battersea Power Station (Retired) 2. Covent Fruit Market 3. U.S. Embassy
Inside the community, there is a social gap between the world-class wealthy and the poor, who both live in the same area without the feeling of belonging to the community.
The railway in the middle of the place become a physical barrier for the people who live in both sides of it. They have independent lives without interaction with each other.
T h e p l a n n e d p u b l i c g re e n space became a closed luxury private garden, which makes the luxury community a 'isolated island' in city.
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The Nine Elms are divided into two, the north side is a “empty luxur y" that young people cannot afford to live in, and the south side is a “cheap" working-class neighbourhood.
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Master Plan of Nine Elms
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Three Phases of the Design Strategy
Proposals for Nine Elms is carried out in three phases. Firstly, based on the empty homes, we introduce a youth shared housing system. The luxury private gardens will be connected together and become a youth platform carrying different activities.
Secondly, a Youth Art Station transformed by Battersea Power Station, a "Food Project” community farm and canteen based on the Covent Market, and a Youth Newtechnology Hub nearby the US embassy. These three locations are well connected by colourful walk paths in the area and along the River Thames.
Last, since the heavy industries moved out, we can reduce the number of railways going through the area and lift the railway to make the ground floor a walkable space. Along the lifted railway and other vacant space, we introduce a “youth jungle” to break the physical boundary of the railway.
A-A Section View
Before
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Possibility of Shared Space in Youth Affordable Community Homes
Co-work space
Aromatheraphy Garden
Collective Roof Garden
Meditation Room
Collective Library
Collective Balcony
Collective Cinema
Collective Kitchen
Rehearsal Room
Sky Bridge Yoga Studio
Dance Studio
Collective Balcony
Courtyard 14
Entrance
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Climbing Wall
Transfer Strategy of Vacant Houses
Vacant Houses
Composary Subscription
Add-on Subscription
Rent/ Buy by the Municipality Redesign to 60% Private Space / 40% Shared Space
Shared kitchen Fitness Farm Co-working Event space Studio Workshop Living room Rehearsal room Yoga +
Converting vacant houses in Nine Elms into affordable houses for young people is the first step of the proposal. The current vacant houses in Nine Elms are mostly luxury residences. The average rental price of a one-bedroom apartment is 2060 Euros per month, which is equivalent to 86% of the average salary of young people in London (affordable housing should be 30% of the average salary). The proposal includes first purchasing or renting vacant houses by the municipality, and then renovation the existing vacant houses into 60% private space and 40% shared space. 60% of the private space will be rented to young people through a compulsory based subscription. Young people can also choose to add on more subscriptions of sharing spaces based on their personal needs and their f inancial situations. At the same time, they have the opportunity to earn bonuses through certain community work to pay their rent. This proposal not only solves how to refill these ‘empty luxury homes’ with ‘affordable lively spaces’ but also focuses on creating a flexible payment method for young people to solve their financial anxiety.
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Youth Affordable Community Homes
Through the shared housing system, public spaces are redef ined. The shared spaces on different floors are different according to various needs of the young people, and they also connect to each other to form a more diverse shared space in one building. Then, the shared spaces between buildings are also connected through a path on the ground floor or a lifted bridge. This shared space system runs through the whole community. The “luxury private gardens� will be connected together and become a youth platform.
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Current Collective Space
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Proposed Shared Space
Shared Space Transformation Concept
Collective Shared Space Cross Stories
Collective Shared Space In One Building
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Collective Shared Space Cross Buildings
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Stress-Free Community Culture
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Battersea Art Power Station Battersea Art Power Station, which is transformed f rom the retired Battersea power station to a cultural centre for youth. The transforming involves both outdoor space and indoor space. Through this art station, the community sends a message to young residents that they have their own way of “perfect�. This is also a place that encourages young people to express their emotions through painting, acting, writing and sculpturing.
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Stress-Free Community Culture
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Youth New-tech Hub Youth New-tech Hub is a space for young people to learn, create, try out and get inspiration. The modular building allows young people to build various types of spaces as needed based on a fixed landscape structure, which are the pedestrian paths and try-out squares. It’s a space that always updates. The community use this place to give more possibility to young people’s life.
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Battersea Art Power Station
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Battersea Art Power Station
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Food Project
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Food Project "Food Project" , a local health food centre based on the Covent Market. The greenhouse and the community kitchen on the roof provides young people with work opportunities to get credits for their rent. The market becomes a shared local food center where young people gather, work, cook and eat. This Food Project save young people from the fast food with local health food.
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Pedestrian Path in Food Project
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Youth Jungle Along the Lifted Railway
Pedestrian bridge
Plant Museum
Sports Field
Wetland
Orchard
Gathering Place
“Youth Jungle", the last step of the proposal, which is an urban forest along the lifted railway and surrounding areas, connect the site with the river bank. It will be created by young people themselves.
Learning Experience
Mushroom Experiment
Fruit Picking
It’s a solution for young people to cope with their eco-anxiety. It’s a 'ecological classroom' for them to learn about nature and tr y their own way of climate protection, like a mushroom planting experiment. They can pick up fruits and seeds, have a conversation with other species, or compost their organic waste for their own jungle. It’s a diverse place, not only for the plants, but also for diverse people, activities and their emotions. When they feel stressed they can come here, climb a tree, or have a forest jog. Plant Museum
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‘Wetland’
Orchard
Ecological Classroom
Quiet Forest
Sports Field
Dense Forest
Food Project
Wildlife Habitat
Wildlife Habitat
Tree Planting
Gathering Space
Composting
Lifted Railway
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Tree Plantation
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Diverse Activities in Youth Jungle
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Diverse Personalities in Youth Jungle
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Oxelösund / Sweden
SUPD Studio 1.2 / Situation
22/01/2019-31/05/2019
Sharing the In-between
Group Work
What impact can the industrial-technological revolution have on a city?
and even nonhumans - animals and plants. This transitional area provides a shared social place for different stakeholders. Reusing the old products and production equipment of the factory, these "recycled" materials with memories will be designed with new functions to carry the connection between the future and the past.
Partner: Mahla Ebrahimpour
The SSAB steel factory in Oxelösund, where the entire vertical production base is located - f rom raw material handling to rolling plates, is undergoing an important technological revolution. In the near future, the old blast furnace and coking plant will be replaced by a cleaner electric arc furnace because of its negative impact on the environment. They also changed the raw materials to recycled steel as a solution to reduce carbon dioxide emissions and dismantling of non-renewable fossil energy. With technological innovation, the establishment of new hydrogen plants, the dismantling of old blast furnaces, and coking plants, what will the entire plant look like? What kind of relationship does it have with the city? At the same time, because steel plants are responsible for almost 50% of the entire city’s employment, technological innovation has brought layoffs. How will the city create new opportunities for the unemployed? Based on the research on the current situation of the steel factory, this design will focus on two issues. The first is to re-establish the relationship between the steel factory and the city, solve the problem of the geographical isolation between them, and integrate this steel factory, which carries most of the history of Oxelösund, into a part of urban life. The second is to re-establish the relationship between history and the future. At the moment when the steel factory is facing technological evolution, try to link its past story with future-oriented reforms through the design. The proposal is located at the 'buffer zone' between the factory and the city and aims to redef ine the current isolation relationship between them. Create a more open area from the perspective of different stakeholders, including workers, aborigines, new immigrants,
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Through the detailed design of three different situations, we explored how to integrate the relationship between the city and the steel factory. The first situation was selected in the southern par t of the steel plant , between the new hydrogen plant and the old historical port. Faced with the safety protection requirements of the new hydrogen plant and the cultural display requirements of the old port, a historical ‘archive’ with a variety of different forms, vertical growth or flat extension was designed. The second situation is located in the north of the steel plant, between a large storage area and a high-density forest. The design will solve the original opposite relationship between nature and industry. With a constantly growing and merging, the 'fuzzy boundary’ will connect animals and plants with human beings and their activities. The third situation was located in the main production area of the current steel factory. The design will use some retired production equipment f rom the technological innovation to redef ine the relationship between urban activities and factory production. Through three detailed designs, a futureoriented, more integrated relationship between industry, city, and nature is presented. Share the in-between.
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Design Concept Of Share the In-between Space Around SSAB
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Design Strategy Analysis of the Three Sititations
Three Situations Location
Existing Materials
The three selected different in-between spaces around SSAB: situation #1 - the space between the new hydrogen station, which requires high security, and Gamla Oxelรถsund that carries the memory of the city; situation #2 - the space between nature and heavy industrial manufacturing; situation #3 - the space between the old blast furnace that will be demolished and the entrance to the factory from the city.
Two Direction Design Strategy
In these three situations, they have their own different "materials" that can be used in the design processing. All these materials represent the characteristics of these three situations and are used in the design to help complete the material circulation in the whole factory.
Actor's Movement
According to the requirements of three different situations, the in-between spaces will be design into two directions - vertical design direction represents the security requirements from the factory, which used to be shaped like a fence or a wall; and horizontal design direction represents accessibility demand. In those two direction, the factory can have a flexible but reliable border.
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And we also consider the actor's movement as an important element to impact the shape of the design proposal. The industry processing shaped the factory's border in a sharp way, but the actor's movement in the new design will give the factory a softer and infectious border.
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Design Concept Sketch of the Three Situations
Situation 1 Security Wall And Landscape Architrcture As History Archive
Situation 2 Interactive Space For Human And Non-human
Situation 3 New Local Production Platform Above The Steel Factory
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Situation 1
The security wall of the hydrogen plant is designed as a gabion wall that accumulates the memories of Oxelรถsund. It provides the Gamla Oxelรถsund with the opportunity to pile up its stories when time passes and grow while meeting the security demands from the factory.
The landscape stretches itself to the island that had been the first harbor area of Oxelรถsund, which expands the border of the factory in a soft way, encourage more activities to happen across the border. Now it depicts the sensation of history.
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The In-between Space as a Historical Archive
The border between the factory and the historic harbor is designed as a continuous landscape art structure, connecting the different historical buildings in a series of outdoor exhibitions. More accessible boundaries let people step into those buidlings and hear the stories about the city.
In the first situation, the proposal aims to meet the security requirements from the factory and create a show-up opportunity for Gamla Oxelรถsund. Reshape the border as a historical archive in two directions, the gabion wall as a memory collection container to encourage the residents to participate in the city's identity recreation. They can throw their own memories in the gabion wall. And the landscape art is designed in the horizontal direction as a connection path to provide accessibility to Gamla Oxelรถsund, give more opportunities for people to learn about their city. The border is always growing with the increase of the memories it collected and the people's movement.
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The Security Wall of The Hydrogen Plant as a Memory Collection Container
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Residents Participate In the Rebuilding of the City's Identity
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Circulation Between the Steel Factory and Nature
STEEL INDUSTRY *MTB (Painting Terminal)
*Ă…lĂśdeponi (Deposition Area)
*Main Steel Processing
*Storage Area
Containers Slage Na/Cl
Steel Structure
Containers
Salt Mining
Desalination
Molybdenum
Cauliflower Mg/K Nickel
Mushroom Heat Pollen
Oyster Heat
Bee
Flower
Others Hydrocarbon Food Organic Fertilizer
Red Deer
Moose
Wild Boar
Duck And Geese
NATURE In the second situation, the proposal aims to redefine the relationship between nature and the heavy steel industry by designing an interactive space for humans and non-humans. The proposal re-uses the abandoned steel slags and a large number of containers from the factory to create a space to carry the multi-level interaction between the factory and the wild nature. The emissions produced by the factory are transported through pipelines to the roof plantation to degrade pollutants through the vegetables and plants. The surplus heat from the factory can also be used to cultivate the oysters and the botanical garden. The plantation provides food for animals in nature, and animal manure provides organic fertilizers for the plantations. As a result, the proposal will create a space where human beings interact with wild nature and redefine the relationship in a friendly way. The model in this situation shows the whole idea of the circulation between steel factory and nature that the new space carried.
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Tree
The In-between Space as a Cross-species Interactive Place
NATURE
STEEL INDUSTRY
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Model for Situation 2
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The In-between Space as a Cross-species Interactive Place
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SItuation 3
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Current Abondened Situation
New Function Loading
The Charm of New Functions
Entrance Stratification
New Network
Growing With Nature
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Local Producation Platform Above the Steel Factory Processing
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In the third situation, the proposal aims to rearrange the space between the abandoned buildings and remaining buildings. Redesign the abandoned buildings as local production spaces. The selected industry including jewelry, food, salt, and furniture, which can deal with the products from the oyster bridge and the plantation in situation 2. It can also provide heat and other products for other situations. The added lifted platform as new access to the local production provides new functions to the abandoned buildings and also lots of work and education opportunities to the unemployed workers. The platform creates two separate production floors - the ground floor is used as steel production and the lifted layer is used as the local production lab from educating research spaces, storage spaces to showrooms. The platform also changes the relationship of the city and the steel factory.
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Local Production Lab on the New Platform
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Product Circulation Created by the New Platform
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Access to the Local Showroom From Platform
The Abondended Blast Furnaces
Access To The Redesigned Showroom From The Platform
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Impact of the Three Situation's Proposals
Flow Inside the New System
Impact of the Output/ Input Flow for Steel Industry
Impact for the Local Production
Impact for the Export Production
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Section View of the Lifted Platform
Oxelรถsund City
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Main Entrance
Innovation Center Food Showroom
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Light Access
Furniture Lab
Production Activities on Two Different Floors
Steel Production
Cargo Tram
CO2
Access To Ground Floor
Methanol Plant
H2
Electrolyse Plant Methanol
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Salt
Salt Purification Industry
Access To Waterfront
Main Harbour
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Beijing / China
Urban Renewal Design Studio
01/03/2016-01/06/2016
From Lost to Found Community- Led Regeneration Design of Xianyukou Hutong
Design Partner:
Hutong culture as a representation of historical Beijing culture, represents a very advanced sharing system f rom today’s perspective. It displays the possibility of a city's inclusiveness to let various people with different backgrounds living together, sharing each other's lives and experiences. The sharing facilities like the kitchen, the courtyard, and the street in Hutong are all the important social places for the residents, where people meet and start a conversation with (means have you eaten) ?
the elder people.
Due to years of irregular dem olition an d illegally add-built, the original Hutong's build structure (many shared courtyards connected by the shared streets) was destroyed. What is even more regrettable is that because of the chronic disrepair of the infrastructures and the deterioration of the community environment, residents have gradually abandoned Hutong and moved to modern housing complexes. The once-prosperous Hutong culture is on the verge of disappearing now. It is lost. How the lost Hutong saves itself in rapid urban development? How the old community reshows its culture charm? How to save the real Hutong shared living culture? The design site is the Xianyukou Hutong, located in Beijing's old city zone. Xianyukou was famous as a mixed living community for its vibrant commercial vibe and diverse society. West Damochang Street in the north of the community is the most important commercial street in history, while many historical public places inside the community served as an inner traditional canteen, cultural center, or post off ice. Similar to the experience of other hutong communities, Xianyukou has become a lost community after years of disrepair and abandoned, the only thing you can still find in it is the messy demolition vacancies, the empty commercial streets, and few cultural inheritor -
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Yitong Zheng
The renewal design for Xianyukou aims to rebuild the typical Hutong body while generate the Hutong culture's spirit. The restoration of the architectural structure of the Hutong community will be carried in three directions. Firstly, renaissance the historical spaces like West Damochang Commercial Pedestrian Street and the Sanli River that once flowed through the community with some new social foundation. Secondly, restore the original Xianyukou 's structure of shared courtyard connected by streets, add new social spaces through remove illegal structures. Finally, the living facilities and environment are upgraded to make the community environment suitable for the modern living and social needs of people of all ages. The spirit of the community, which is, the diversity of residents and the close neighbor relationship, will be fulf illed by formulating a new economic, cultural, and the community par ticipate mechanisms that suitable for different age groups to attract more people to live here and participate in the reconstruction of the community. The redesigned commercial street will become a showroom of the traditional Hutong culture, while the eight remodeled courtyards in the community will become a cultural education space, as well as a new community center, providing people with opportunities to re-establish bonds. The important point of this design is to guide the current residents and potential residents to participate in the regeneration of the community through a temperate guiding design. Besides this design proposal, the processing of the regeneration driven by the community and the residents will build a new bond between them, and increase the participants the feeling of belonging, which is what we called the really Hutong culture. Save a diamond f rom losing value, you just need to let the people see the shining reflection light of it.
From Lost to Found
The Lost Xianyukou Hutong
Old City
Historical Heritage Buildings
Lost Hutong 'Body'
Lost Hutong 'Spirit'
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Rebuild the Hutong Typical Body
Reshape Spacial Historical and Cultural Elements
Complete the traditional urban texture Remodel pedestrian street atmosphere Invite traditional industries settled West Damochang Street Re-design a abstract river landscape in the living area
Re-introduction physical river landscape in the street park
Interactive water features
Street fountain
Ornamental water features
Rainwater collection
Sanli River Landscape
Reproduce the Traditional Hutong Building Form
Courtyard Intergrity
Reorgnize and expand the social space inside the Hutong courtyard
Remodel Attractive Hutong building environment
Improve the Living Facilities and Environment
Vehicle Road Widen the car roads
Parklot along the road Use Vacancy from demolition
Pedestrian Path
Create the atmosphere of a pedestrian street
Use the gaps between trees
Rich the deversity of longside facades Add recreational facilities
Road System
Various Green Spaces Green System
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All-genernation Facilities
From Lost to Found
Gradient Rent Business Renewal Strategy of Wes Damochang Street
Type One: For Free Operators: Type two : Low Rent Operators: Goverment
NGO
Type Three: Relative Low Rent Operators:
Business Format: Original traditional industry Business Format: Exhibition Hall
Theater
Well-known,fixed customer base business & young start-up
Responsibility: Bookstore
Traditional dining
Type Three: Relative Low Rent Operators:
Business Format: Business driven by other insudtry
Attract more People to the Street
Handicraft Culturalproducts store Responsibility:
Increase social attention, attract more investment and commercial presence
Business Format: Film production
Famous art gallery Public and show Beijing culture
Shopowners become volunteers for the Xianyukou community in volved in the operations of eight courtyard
Media company
Homestay
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Restaurant
Cafe
Hotel
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Attract more customers to the street Porvide fund for community building and operations Youth participate in community-build
Rent Price
Gradient Rent Business Strategy
According to the different locations of the shops in West Damochang Street, we set gradient rent prices and business forms for all the shops. The shops located in the deepest east part of the street will settle some f ree public spaces open to people to attract more people to walk through the whole street, increase the business possibility for all the shops. All the shops are divided into four different types of renewal strategies. The shop with the most responsibility in community building and traditional cultural publicity will share the lowest rent. At the same time, we also introduce some popular chain shop styles on the street to bring more people, and funds for the community's renewal and operations. All these shops increase the community's population's diversity (both shopowners and consumers), which is the key point of Beijing Hutong's cultural inclusivity.
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1 Cloth Brand Production Yard
2 Beijing Noodles Yard
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3 Yard of Shadow Art
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7 Paper-cutting Worshop 8 Community Cultural Exhibition Center
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Regenerate the Hutong Cultural Spirit
Co-generation Community - Led Cultural Regeneration
Custom courtyard for high income familities Youth Shopowners on the Damochang street Student participate in community activities Youth Apartment Custom Courtyard
Learn in the courtyard workshop Communicate with new residents Organize community activities
Shopowners on the Domochang street who share the lowest rent
Participate in social management and impart knowledge Coordinate with new residents Mangement courtyard and organize activities Participate in learning activities Design community activities
Claim small sapling
Learn history from community participation Learning craft production
Responds for the cultural rebuild of the traditional courtyard
The courtyard also as a co-generation comunity social place
Shopowners
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One Street and Eight Courtyards
7 Old Bejing Paper-cutting Workshop
6 Calligraphy Display Courtyard
3 Yard of Shaodow Art
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Front Sales - Back Production
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Selecting eight traditional characteristics industries as Xian Yukou community industries, support shopkeepers run a shop at Damochang West Cultural Street in a low rent price, in order to promote and display these traditional industries. The Damochang West Cultural Street is designed as a display space for these cultures, and eight courtyards are the production and education spaces. Formed a ‘Front Sales — Back Production’ business model. At the same time, these courtyards serve as the activity centers for residents of this community, providing them with basic community services so that residents can participate in the transmission and promotion of traditional culture, enhance residents' own cultural identity.
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Den Haag / The Netherland
Urban Environment Studio
11/11/2019-24/01/2020
We-connection Bezuidenhout Renewal Design
Individual design project
Immigration will continue to be a problem we will face. In the next two decades, onethird of the world’s population will complete t h e g rea t m i g r a t i o n f ro m r u r a l to u r b a n areas. This will test every city, especially for the cities that have an inability to continue to expand outward, with the question: How to continue loa d in th e m etropolis?
of the population also makes the construction of the community almost stuck in the post-war reconstruction state, with no change for almost 70 years. After all, no one has too much time to care about the development of an inn.
Densif ication is one of the solutions, which aims to rediscover the potential spaces in the developed urban space and to carry out new development of these old "potential spaces" with higher density in order to provide more space for living, working, and more diversif ied enter tainment activities. The Hague is expected to grow by 20,000 with a population of 50,000 to 80,000 (Municipality of The Hague, 2016). In order to cope with future population growth and maintain the attrac tiveness of the city to new and old residents as well as businesses, the Hague government has decided to develop three CID (Central Innovation District) in the urban area, relying on three major railway stations, focus on densif ication and urban transformation. The Bezuidenhout is located in one of these three CID development areas because of its proximity to Den Haag Centraal Station. The community is a new hybrid area mixed with commercial, off ice, education, residential, and other function buildings after the big explosion that destroyed 80% of the old buildings in WWII. Due to its proximity to The Hague Central Railway Station, the residents in the community are very dynamic and diverse. But the huge mobility
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What densification means to the Bezuidenhout? Firstly it means to reconnect the community with the city. Although Bezuidenhout is close to the Den Haag Centraal Station, the forest Haagse Bos, and the vibrant commercial area, the spatial barrier between them makes this community lacks the real connection with these potential areas. So the first problem to be solved in the design is to break the barrier around it to create possibilities for the futural connections. Secondly, it means to create more connections in the community to activate the overall vitality. Design spatial sequences between several vibrant points, to make an active network across the whole community. What drives the network really work is the people's movements. The detailed design of the new tram square reflects how we consider the flow of people as an important element. Through organizing the special sequences to design the order of the pedestrian flow, therefore to create various possibilities for the communications. Through this design for Bezuidenhout, I want to explore the premise of densification. Before the high-density independent urban jungles rise one by one, how to establish connections, and how to establish real spatial connections constituted by human activities, that seems more important?
We-connection
Different Levels Of Public Space In New Tramm Station Square
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Section View Of The Lifting Platform
Breake Barrier With Central Station
Closed Square as Barrier
Open The Closed Square
Connect Local Street with City Commercial Street
Assignment Local Street With Cultural Value
Breake Barrier With Vibrant Commercial Plots
Tarm Line As Barrier
Introduce New Tram Line Go Through
Avoid Disturbing Historical Buildings
Activate buildings Along Tram Line
Break Barrier With Haagse Bos
Buildings As Barriers
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Break the Buidlings Interface To The Nature
Green + Green: Active The Current Green Corridor
We-connection
Green + Culture: Active the Historical Area
Production Activities On The Different Floors
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The first level is mainly to connect the internal and external urban spaces of the community and to integrate the community into the surrounding urban context. The second level of connection is focused on the internal spaces of the community. through connect the business incubator with the two colleges, encourage more innovation activities that happened in this area. Connect the residential community with Green+Green corridor, residents can get more opportunity to reach the green.
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Facing the future, means re-establishing spatial relationships for Bezuidenhou to stimulate more possibilities to face more employment demands brought by more population.
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Tram Line & Alongside Space Design Strategy Based On Pedestrian Flow
Design Strategy Of Three Typologies Of Alongside Spaces
Interactive Space
Aisle Space
Aggregate Space
Increase Active Space
Increase Public Spatial Levels
Make Attractive Entrance
Design Lively Street
Create Active Surface
Clear Move/ Stay Space
Tram Line & Platform Design Strategy Based On The Pedestrain Flow
Current Pedestrian Flow
Tram Line With Minimal Interference To The Flow
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We-connection
Reduce Obstruction From The Platform
Tram Station Square Design Proposal
What can really reconnect the urban spaces? The real movement of the people between these spaces... The design of the new tram station square based on the principle that minimizes the interference of the people flows from the infrastructure added by the new tram line, at the same time, create more possibilities of the pedestrian flow by defining different characters for the three different spaces to stimulate the development of the community. With more levels of public spaces, more active building surfaces, the new square will become the new vital area in the community. The detail design focus on how to reconnect different spaces with different characters while keeping everyone's unique. From this point, the proposed plan is a particularly detailed and temperate result.
Master Plan Of The New Tram Station
We-connection
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Södertälje / Sweden
SUPD Studio 1.2 / Situation
26/11/2018-14/12/2019
Future Ready Towards A More Resilient Södertälje
Individual design project
When climate change has become a subject that we have to face, more and more cities are undergoing the test f rom extreme weather rainstorm, flood. How a city can prepare for the unprecedented weather in the coming future?
The aim of this design is to create a resilient system of the city's water storage, production procedure, the population, and also the lifestyle, not only for the future but also for today.
The site of this project is an active industrial area at the harbor of Södertalje, a municipality located in the southwest of Stockholm, major in automobile assembly and production. The obvious problem of this area is the large lands which are occupied by car storage, make it become a slightly depressed and negative area. At the same time the heavy transport facilities like railways and highways, to meet the large transportation demand, divided this area into several small isolated areas that are not connected to each other. More, the benefits from the water are also forgotten, lacking access to the waterside and bad quality public spaces at the waterside make residents hard to get a good urban experience here. What's more frustrating is due to its vast of 'hard surface' - 90% of the land is cover by an impermeable pavement, this lowland area is in a high level of risk of the future flood. As the prediction shows, this are will be the first place to be affected by the future extreme weather, the large area will be overwhelmed even disappear. To rescue the city f rom being submerged, the concept of the design is to introduce a ‘blue an d green solution’, to design an ar tif icial system that improves the water storage capacity of the whole area in a natural way. Based on the blue and green system, we a d d e d m o re va ri o u s p u b l i c s pa ce s a s colorful braches of this system to activate this depressing industrial area, at the same time, connect the inland area with the waterside.
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Therefore, the proposal started with a resilient blue system, which adopts a more tolerant and open attitude towards the future rising sea level. According to the current topography, rearrange the production space and living space to the higher terrain, leave the lowland for the rising seawater. Based on this, the point of the resilient green system is to design the lowland with various functions according to the different locations and topographies. The green system range from the wetland, entertainment island, waterside park to the sports field. However, all this green space is prepared to be overwhelmed by the rising sea level and the instant storms and reappeared when it is dry. More importantly, the design proposal also tries to find a way to change the current situation into a water resilient way in different scales, from transforming the buildings to reorganizing the topographies. Updating to a sustainable productional network is also a challenge for this harbor facing the future. Through the proposal, the automobile factory and the surrounding neighborhood will share more local energy and recycle system, also it will create a new way of productive collaboration and division through the whole harbor. With a more flexible water resilient landscape system, more open and diverse social spaces, more sustainable local energy and recycling network, more closed relationship with the production and living, we can say Södertälje is ready for its own future.
Future Ready
Flood Risks Prediction Of Södertälje Harbour & Design Concept Of Blue+Green Sulotion
Low Level Risk Area
Medium Level Risk Area
High Level Risk Area 'Blue+Green Solution'
BLUE Give Space For Water Flow
GREEN Soft Surface To Store Rainwater
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New Network Analysis
Proposal Systems
Wetland Island Resilient Park Waterside Park Inland Park Sports Feild Mountain
River Iner River Canal
Blue Structure
Green Structure
Industrial Living Public
Road Line Train/Tram Line Pedestrial Line
Mobility
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Energy System
Recycle System
Production Distribution
Colorful Active Path
Resilient Strategy
Sea Level
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Waterproof Basement
Waterproof Wall
Increase Buildings' Waterproof Capacity
Build Peripheral Protective Wall
Sea Level
Rainwater Storage Canal
Outer Green Slope Protection
Design Terrain To Control Water Flow
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Master Plan Of The Resilent SÜdertälje
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1.Research center 2.High school 3.Transformation workshop 4.Sports park 5.Community center 6.Recreation center 7.Diving platform 8.Green house 9.Climate museum 10.Trainline park 11.Car exhibition park 12.Car factory 13.Hyderpower center 14.Aquaculture center 15.Aquaculture base 16.Centralized industrial area 17.Factory recycle center 18.Waste exchange center 19.Wetland 20.Resilient park 21.Tram+Train station 22.Tram station+ community recycle center 23.Train station+ community recycle center 24.Tram station+ community recycle center
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Botkyrka / Sweden
SUPD Studio
21/09/2018-18/10/2018
Towards A Metabolic Botkyrka
Five People's Design Group
C i t i e s h ave b e e n ch a ra c te ri ze d by l i n ea r processes of production and consumption in the history of global trade that we have experienced. However, excessive energy consumption and the unfair distribution of resources and waste that we have overlooked in the globalization of transportation and production are challenging o u r s u s t a i n a b l e g o a l s . To w a r d s a m o r e sustainable future, the communities should try to become independent f rom globalized produc tion an d transpor tation prac tices. Therefore, to save the energy they must move away f ro m a l i n ea r u rba n m o d e l s , w h e re resources flow through the system without concern about their origin or waste destination.
current linear productional and consumption system will be changed to a 'closed circulation' system considering its resources and wastes.
Alex, Hanna, Yunpeng, Jamie
The design aims to use an urban metabolism framework to analyze the flows of the materials and energy within Botkryka, using it as an urban ecosystem model that coexists with the natural environment and economy. These complex flows create self-regulating sustainable relationships with the biosphere, where waste can be used in the system again. This design is carried out on two different scales - the regional and the community. In the regional scale, the proposal plans to change the linear processing by creating an energy self-suff icient system with more clean energy resource facilities; introducing an internal water circulation with local waste water treatment plants and irrigation canals; adding a waste selfconsumption processing with local compost, exploiting a food self-suff icient system with regional food production distribution, regional cargo transpor tation, and also local food pa cka ge an d stora ge system. With th ose systems, the housing will be densif ied to face population growth, transportation will be strengthened, and work oppor tunities within Botkyrka will be created. Indeed, the
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Based on the regional plan, We decided to further investigate what the metabolic model means for a community. The design site is located in Fittja, northeast of Botkyrka. Fittja will act as an urban ecosystem model that coexists with the natural environment and economy. The population of this community will grow and reach 12,000 in 2050. Densif ication of already developed residential areas is necessary to preserve green and natural areas for a healthy ecosystem and to reserve space for urban food production. The living spaces for the increasing population will be powered by renewable energy sources, and they are designed as collective and flexible modular housings with recycling towers and public spaces. A new waste processing plant will turn recycled goods into a reusable raw material that will be turned into soil and compost, and the mixed waste will be incinerated to produce energy. Biological waste water treatment will be accomplished at an innovative and holistic facility that cleans the water and returns it to the local ecological systems. Food will be grown locally and distributed to homes and markets on the designed cargo bikes (excess produce will be packaged and stored in winter). An extended regional tramway and cargo tram will connect people with nature and deliver addtional food to Fittja. A pedestrian and bike corridor along an introduced water canal will be used for leisure ice skating in the winter. Lastly, connective greenways and flexible-use gathering spaces will invite community members to socialize, play and cook together, as well as share stories, knowledge, resources, and skills with one another, instilling a deep sense of belonging.
Towards A Metabolic Botkyrka
Local Production in Fittja
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Linear & Circular
The Current Linear System Analysis
Water
Engergy
Waste
People
Food
Metabolic Flow Concept
'Loop'
The 'Loop' concept aims to change the linear production and consumption system to a 'closed circle' that takes on a local scale. Compared to the linear system that imports resources and exports the waste, the 'Loop' helps to realize the self-sufficiency of this area, through design the overall industrial system of this certain area with a cycle material chain. The 'Loop' considering energy, water, food, waste, and recycle circulation of this area, points out the important elements in every category of the whole loop. Each element assumes multiple roles in different levels and types of cycles. They are always the starting point as well as the end point. Engergy Water Food Waste Recycle
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Towards A Metabolic Botkyrka
Regional Metabolic Model
WATER
ENERGY Wind turbine belt Solar panel set area Electricity gernaration& storage Geothermal conversion station
WATER
ENERGY Wind turbine belt Solar panel set area Electricity gernaration& storage Geothermal conversion station
ENERGY Wind turbine belt Solar panel set area Electricity gernaration& storage Geothermal conversion station
WATER Water treatment plant Local water recycled center Irrigation canal line Rain/snow water container
PEOPLE
WASTE Compost Local recycled center Recycled industry Waste transportation line
Residential area Work place Subway line Subway station
Towards A Metabolic Botkyrka
Water treatment plant Local water recycled center Irrigation canal line Rain/snow water container
Water treatment plan Local water recycled Irrigation canal line Rain/snow water con
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PEOPLE
Compost Local recycled center Recycled industry Waste transportation line
Residential area Work place Subway line Subway station
FOOD Centralized agriculture area Local agriculture area Ranch Food processing industrial Cargo tram line Cargo tram station
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Design Strategy & Section View
Design Strategy
Master Design Plan Of Fittja
Built Structures
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High-rise Buidlings
Mid-rise Buidlings
Low-rise Buidlings
Removed Parking Lots
Deck Over the Subway
Added Canal + Farm Plots
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Towards A Metabolic Botkyrka
Matabolic Community - Fittja
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Pingjiang / China
Urban Planning Studio
05/10/2015-20/12/2015
Pingjiang 2025 Masterplanning & Design of Pingjiang county (2015-2025)
Design Partner:
Chinese cities are undergoing amazing changes every second. With the continuous advancement of urbanization and changes in the production structure (transition f rom agriculture to service industries), more and more people have poured into cities of all sizes f rom the countryside to f ind new life opportunities. How can cities create new survival opportunities and a better living environment for the rising populations? How can cities expand in an orderly and sustainable manner, when expansion becomes a necessary condition?
three different area- update the old town as a traditional cultural gray center (the traditional building material is gray brick); active the south area as a green tourism center combined with the rich natural resources; create the north area as a red commercial and business innovation area.Replacing some abandoned lands in the old city area with new functions is the key point of this planning plan, such as transforming polluted heavy industrial relics into parks with healing functions to heal the land while improving the living environment. At the same time, the land can be reused in the future after recovery.
Yilin Yan, Jinyu Wu
The site of the planning project is Pingjiang County located in Hunan province. The current per capita GDP in Pingjiang is lower than half of the national average level. Lacking the leading industry is seen as the main reason for this county's low economic situation. However, the area has rich natural resources dense rivers and forests, and it is also a popular tourist county because of the various historical heritage. According to forecasts, in 2025, the Pingjiang's population will reach 0.3 million, twice the current population. How can the poor small county burden the double population pressure in the next ten years? The urban planning proposal aims to reorganize the chaotic urban environment of the current city. Through the orderly renewal, functional replacement, and temperate expansion of the city’s land use, the city’s existing resources can fully be used to activate the city’s future industrial potential to meet the employment demands of the growing population while establishing the new identity of the city. The concept of the planning is "tricolor city" which means three different strategies for
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The urban design proposal of the new city c o m p r e h e n s i ve c e n te r a n d c i t y to u r i s m center aims to use of the respective resources (commercial resources and natural resources) of the two regions to highlight the characteristics of the cities in each region while creating effective links between them. The design of the urban comprehensive center shows the promotion role of the clustering of high dense multiple functional buildings such as administrative, commercial, office and scientific research for the economic development of the city. With a high dense grid-shaped green park system and the dynamic skyline with the landmarks of the city as the highest building, this area is designed a charming city open space to attract popularity. The city tourism center presents an opposite, low-density design approach that shows respect to nature. The design layout is developed around the mountain. In this area, the most eye-catching thing is not the architecture but the natural environment. The two different areas are connected by the urban green corridor and the city's cruise (as two cruises terminal). The two areas facing each other across the river create a diverse urban landscape for the future population.
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2025 CBD
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Main Road Secondary Road
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Internal Transportation
Green System
Industrial Distribution
Logistics and Warehousing
Primary Education Service
Secondary Education Service
Pingjiang 2025
Landuse Planning of Pingjiang 2025
Landuse Planning
Residential Land
Industry Land
Public Management and Service Facilities Land
Logistics & Warehousing Land
Business Land
Green Space
Transportation Land Infrasctructure Land
Landuse Planning Strategy
Old City Centralized industrial zone
Industry Sports
Industry Park
Riverfront Park
Urban Green Network
City Cultural Center
High Education Culture Bade
Residential Area
City Tourism Center
Green Corridor
City Comprehensive Center
South Zone
Central Park
Siqian Industrial Area
Industry
Park
Green Corrigor
Travel Service Center
North Zone Historical Inheritance Park
CBD
New-tech Industrial Area
Logistics Base
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Spatial Structure
Active Social Space
Road System Category
Green System
Recreation Area Cultural Exhinition Area
Business Office Area Commercial Area Residential Area
Exhibition Hall Cultural Park
Tourism Service Business
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Landscape View
T h e s i te o f u r b a n d e s i g n i s t w o different functional centers located on both sides of the river, according to the urban plan. The city tourism service center relies on the site of the Pingjiang uprising, t h e m a r t y r ' s c e m e t e r y, a n d t h e typical natural landscape recourseďźŒis designed as a cultural area combine cultural and tourism functions. At the same time, the design proposal takes the integration of new urban functions area and old residents' area into consideration. The urban comprehensive center is the future heart of the city, where the important administrative, business, and cultural space of the city all located in this area. The proposal combines the high-density CBD area with a green corridor. The various green corridor also connect different urban functional areas with each other.
CBD & Tourism Center Design Proposal
Two areas across the river
Existing parks and historical heritage as a catalyst point
Identify two function centers
Design waterside and park environment
Pingjiang 2025
Design landscape corridor
Cultural land combined with business
Redine the ribbon
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Hangzhou / China
Landscape Workshop
06/04/2015-12/04/2015
Look! Water! Waterside Park Design in Hangzhou
Individual Project
Urban constructions are always based on contradictions, new and old, fast and slow, while green spaces are always inbetween the contradictions as a transitional space.
area to connect different urban spaces?
The site is a street-side green land located in Hangzhou, and it's also a small par t of the entire urban green system. The site is a long, narrow waterf ront public green space with a pedestrian path. Therefore, the two m o st im por ta nt f un c tions of th e si te are transportation and afforestation. At the same time, the site is also a transitional area between two different urban scales - the historical small scale area on the west side and the highdensity modern development area on the east side. However, under the shade of trees, the waterside has become an area invisible and inaccessible to people. How do we make the hidden river visible and become a social place for the citizens? How can we use the green
The design aim to transfer the narrow green space into a waterside park with three different height levels to solve the 4 meter height diff rence on the west and east side. Through the gradually lowered platforms, the sidewalk is connected with the waterside to make the waterside accessible and visible for the people passing by, make them approach and feel the waterside step by step in the gradually descending terrain. At the same time, the narrow sidewalks are widened to provide people with the possibility to stop. The redesigned waterside space is divided into dynamic and quiet spaces that provide different activities. Now, the waterside is open to city life. Next time when people walk by, they will be surprised by finding there is water behind the forest. They will yell: "Look! Water!".
Height Difference
Narrow Pedestrian Path
The narrow pedestrian path makes it hard to stay for people.
The 4m height difference between the road and the waterside. Invisible
Inaccessible
Inaccessible for people to reach the waterside.
Plants prevent pedestrians from seeing the waterside.
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Look! Water!
Design Concept
The Design Concept For the Height Difference
Extend the pedestrian path
Push the height difference to the edge
Add Stairs to the first height level
Set the second height level down
Set the thrid height level along waterside
Use the height difference to form a building
Add stairs to the second level
Add stairs to the third level
Three Levels to Waterside
The widened pedestrian path that allows people to rest and feel the river. The buildings under the sidewalks provide services to people.
The second height level platform creates a more quiet space for the public
A waterside linear path.
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Various Spaces in Waterside Park
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Three Levels Waterside Park
Master Plan
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Zhongshan / China
Work project
10/07/2018-01/08/2018
Cultural Darning Artchitecture Design Of Tiecheng Museum & Qi'ao Cultural Center in Zhongshan
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Urban organic renewal design refers to a temperate urban design that follows th e organic growth context of the city f rom the historical perspective, emphasizing the organic connection between the new and the old.
through modern architectural techniques, a unique space for courtyard exhibition halls is formed, which conforms to the texture of the city and can also bring diverse exhibition spaces. The building materials of the museum are similar to the typical old buildings so that the museum is integrated into the architectural atmosphere of the old city in terms of scale and texture.
The Tiecheng Museum and Qi'ao Cultural Center design project are key cultural projects in the urban renewal of Zhongshan's old city area. The new museum and cultural center will take responsibility to shape the uniqueness of Zhongshan's cultural identity while giving more various opportunities for residents to participate in the city's cultural life. The design proposal focuses on reflecting the development of architectural culture through displaying new Zhongshan-style buildings while echoing and continuing the urban space and historical context. Therefore, the design of these two cultural buildings should take urban texture darning as the main concept, aiming to continue and improve the traditional texture of the city, and to integrate the new buildings into the old city organically. The museum is located on the east side of the square, in front of the Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall, and faces the street on both sides. Therefore, the building is designed with a scale modulus that f its the city's traditional proportions. And
The design of the cultural center bases on continuing the scale of the urban slope roof of the old city area. At the same time, the design of architectural circulation continues the street structure of the old city, integrating the new center into the surrounding architectural environment, make it a ‘cultural entrance’ to the old city. The cultural center formed the common outdoor spaces such as verandas, arcades, and terraces in the Lingnan area through the dislocation and stacking of the first and second floors. The new museum and cultural center will become a place for the formation of urban belonging and historical education for the next generation.
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Museum Design Generation
Explore the Site
Volume Filling
Decomposition
Remove Excess Volume
Wall Material Replacement
Courtyard Formation
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Tiecheng Cultural Musuem
Cultural Darning
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Cultural Center
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Thank you! Yuan Lin Selected Work from 2015-2020 Kth Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) Delft University of Technology(TUD) Beijing Forestry University(BJFU)