[Urban Organ] Portfolio_Yuxuan Wang by Yuxuan Wang

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SELECTED WORKS 2019-2024 YUXUAN WANG M.S.Architecture and Urban Design Columbia University GSAPP

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YUXUAN WANG PORTFOLIO

My projects are substantially inspired by large-scale metabolism, which regards cities as organisms and proposes miscellaneous mechanisms for urban operation, expansion, and development in nature. The concept of metabolism, or "shinchintaisha" in Japanese, meaning "New-Old-Replace-Wither," was first developed in this discourse by a group of Japanese architects, including Kenzo Tange and Kisho Kurokawa. It indicates a continuous renewal and organic development method for cities addressing urban and social issues. Compared to landscape urbanism analyzing a city as an interconnected field system, I prefer to investigate metabolism regarding an entire city directly as an organism. In this case, the people, resources, and vitality are the interchanging energies of the urban operation. For the external urban environment, nature is not the opposite of a city but is supposed to consist of it. These internal and external interchanging energies facilitate the city to develop and expand organically and continuously. Once the powers stopped exchanging, the city would stop operating and start to be dysfunctional, fading and withering like a life. To be more specific regarding the city as a life, the dynamic people would be oxygen; the resources would be water and nutrition; the transportation infrastructures would be vessels; the buildings and urban designs with various functions would be the different organs; the building materials would be the cells. Just like how the oxygen enters into each organ and triggers appropriate chemical reactions, the city would operate and develop while the people experiences and uses the building appropriately with the exchanging resources. Rather than an animal, a city would be more like a static plant. I strongly agree with Charles Landry's idea that culture is the DNA of a city: the DNA would not be easily changed but would be able to reproduce and spread to other places like the plant's seeds. Like seedlings sprouting, cherry blossoms blooming, and maple leaves withering, the process of urban operation is not only about emotionless functions and mechanisms. It is subtle, beautiful, and touching. The more nutritious, rational, and healthy the functioning of plants, the more vigorous and beautiful they would be; the more gorgeous and fragrant the blooming flowers, the more chances they would attract bees and butterflies to pollinate and reproduce, spreading their DNA. This is also true for a city. With a larger population, more buildings creating harmonious relations with humans and nature, and healthier life patterns, the city could live longer and more beautifully. Also, it could have more potential to preserve and spread its splendid culture. Therefore, I explore the cities as plants' lives with the above assumptions about nature, city, and culture in my portfolio, designing their internal mechanisms as "urban organs" to achieve prosperity, functionality, and health through architecture and urban design.

#1_Creating Value out of Waste_Debris Upcycling Industry at the Harlem River

#2_Symbiosis_Root

An Long Term Ecological Research Center for Humans and Animals

#3_Brooklyn Terminal Market_Stem

A Historical Underutilized Market to A Community Center in NYC

#4_Grow Local, Support Local_Leaves

Gardening The Hawaiian Islands to Self Sufficiency

#5_Panorama of Beijing_Flowers

Representation of Beijing & "Neighbor Hood Garden"

#6_Ecological Coup d'Etat_Rhizomes

After Ecology Takes over the Henry County Industrial Area

#7_Other Works_Seeds Selected Past Works

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Creating Value out of Waste | Debris Upcycling Industry at the Harlem River

Studio Project_ARCHA6849 Professor: Nans Voron, Sagi Golan, Sean Gallagher, Liz Camuti, Daphne Lundi, Austin Sakong, Grant McCracken, Candelaria Mas Pohmajevic Collaborators: Jessy Rojas, Jiaye Li, Sahana Kumar Summer 2023 The project aims to return the industrial identity to the Harlem River waterfront to reinforce its historical functionality and fulfill the NYC waste management needs with the upcycling industry. The existing watercourse, freight rail, highway, and truck routes are ideal for the Harlem River to become an upcycling center, and the new industry could help to address the issues of pollution, poverty, unemployment, underutilized lands, and inaccessibility in the community. The waste is transported to the Harlem River from elsewhere in NYC and processed into upcycled products following a series of linear functions. Organ: Debris Process: Humification Mechanism: Return urban waste to nature and utilize it, not only referring to recycling and upcycling in the physical sense but also a necessary part of the entire urban operation as a plant's debris returns to the soil with humification.

MASTERPLAN TYPOLOGIES The programs are organized based on the types and flow of waste while considering public space, circulation, and community engagement. The waste is transported with trucks, barges, and freight rails. The circulation of workers and residents is also designed to move along or across the industrial area so that the riverfront industrial area could increase accessibility and connection among communities. Connected by a public educational corridor, various typologies of spaces could accommodate different scenarios of overlapping programs and circulation to transport, sort, process, and redistribute the waste when welcoming the community residents to engage with markets and education activities.

DISTRIBUTION CENTER & MARKET

ORGANIC PROCESSING CENTER

INORGANIC PROCESSING CENTER

SORTING CENTER

PARKING AND COLLECTING CENTER

EDUCATIONAL GALLERY

RESILIENCE AND SUSTAINABILITY

Symbiosis | Root

An Long Term Ecological Research Center for Humans and Animals Studio Project_ARC 409 Professor: Joon Ma Collaborator: Qingyang Fan Spring 2022 Gold Award of “Ecological, Healthy, and Sustainable” Category in The 20th Asian Design Award Due to the impact of climate change, we are seeing systematic homelessness of animals, plants, and humans. Fortunately, people have noticed this problem in some fields. The media advocate for more attention that human beings should pay to reduce carbon emissions; scientists have also started investigations to plant more trees on the earth. However, architectural practices have remained the same when the course of human, plant, and animal livelihood are significantly altered under climate change. We hope to solve this dilemma and allow architecture to participate in the ecological system. We organize the spaces for the public, researchers, and animals and allow them to move freely and comfortably. This does not mean they will be completely separated. Rather, it allows them to integrate and benefit reciprocally without disturbing each other: the public could closely contact nature; the visitors could learn from the scientific investigations; the researchers could get direct first-hand animal information; the birds could have an alternative stopover in their journey of migration or daily routine. Organ: Root Process: Respiration Mechanism: Attract people and animals, assist the city in absorbing the resources and vitality it needs, and support nature to be stabilized and repaired, where people and animals, the city, and nature come into contact and depend on each other. It is similar to how a plant's root reacts with the soil and air during respiration.

With the accelerated urbanization in recent centuries, the expansion of buildings and cities has become unstoppable, and numerous man-made objects have been dividing the ecological habitats for animals. Facing these crucial challenges, some scholars suggest eradicating the cities, but we are trying to come up with a more feasible and sustainable solution, which is to reimagine a new type of architecture to balance, reconcile, and integrate human expansion and animal needs. This will be not only a field station for humans but also a transit point for animals, especially birds. This concept could potentially be further applied to every new building, which could facilitate the cities to become another kind of forest.

It includes three main components: a bird shelter, labs with controlled temperatures, and public circulation with passive heating in winter. The bird shelter is almost set seamlessly with the labs so that the researchers can easily and directly get first-hand data and records of the birds, and the birds could get appropriate care with the researchers’ consistent monitoring. The volume of public visiting space is connected to the bird shelter by the mezzanine floors of the labs so that the visitors can experience the scientific study process without disturbing the researchers. The volume of labs is elevated from the ground to preserve the natural landscape and habitats; multiple types of research areas are organized in it according to different conditions of thermal, sunlight, circulation, and spatial distribution.

Brooklyn Terminal Market | Stem

A Historical Underutilized Market to A Community Center in NYC Studio Project_ARC 408 Professors: David Vega-Barachowitz, Crystal Eksi, Robert Daurio Collaborators: Qingyang Fan, Yukun Zhuang Fall 2021 Bronze Award of “Urban Complex and City” Category in The 20th Asian Design Award The Brooklyn Terminal Market is located on the southwest side of East Flatbush in adjacency to Canarsie. It provides the New York metropolitan area’s businesses with wholesale goods and Brooklyn residents with cheap and quality fresh products. However, despite such a connection-driven program of the Brooklyn Terminal Market, it is not only a barrier to traffic but also separates the adjacent communities; the issues are due to the impractical M1 zone with a railway track. On the other hand, Brooklyn Terminal Market is a market for food exchanges. And historically, this terminal market is about severing the surrounding farmland. The amount of agriculture industry exchanges have continued to thrive today in another way. Without local cultivation and manufacture, the Brooklyn Terminal Market has transformed from a site promoting local agriculture businesses to a regional distribution center of the food. Brooklyn Terminal Market, a location that holds historical and current-day importance in food exchanges in New York City, is more than reasonable to build upon this vision. Our project will aim to address the issues of food security, food access, and food sovereignty. Organ: Stem Process: Transpiration Mechanism: Transport resources and supplies to other places in the city and contribute to nature as a plant's stem conveys water and nutrients during transpiration.

Historical Context 1850

1876

Wallabout Market Brooklyn

Bay Ridge Branch

Wall about market established

M1 Zoning

Transportation

Community

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1942

Zoning

1876

1918

1924

1940

1942

The Bay Ridge Branch opened

The Bay Ridge Branch connected to city

The Bay Ridge Branch passenger service stoped

Wall about market closed

Terminal Market in Brooklyn opened

Existing Condition

Unbalanced Public Facilities

Spatial Disjunction

Non-Attraction from M1 Zoning

Community

Transportation

Zoning

Opportunities

Multi-Dimensional Connection

Attraction for People

Community

Transportation

Zoning

Third Ave Bay Ridge Vanderveer Park

Community

Third Ave Demanded Program Network

New Lots Rd Bushwick Ave

Transportation

Myrtle

Zoning

BKTM

Bay Ridge

Vanderveer Park

New Lots Rd

Bushwick Ave

Myrtle

STEP 1

STEP 2

STEP 3

STEP 4

Many sellers own multiple warehouses on the lot, but all are scattered at the existing site. Thus the resulting issue of moving goods in different locations under traffic conditions is significant. While creating more potential and opportunities for the site with other public programs, it would allow more spaces for green space, public activity, and academic research to push the transportation-related programs together to the middle of the site and to leave designated driveways for cars and trucks.

Transportation Hub

Pivot of Actors' Circluation

Community Access

Market District

Programs

Site Plan

Pivot

After the redistribution of the existing programs and the additional transportation pivots, elevated parks, vertical farming, and food science research facilities, Brooklyn Terminal Market could have much more efficient, productive and comfortable functions. Not only reconnecting the surrounding communities from the original obstacle and barrier, but the new renovation also promotes further benefits to Brooklyn and New York City in terms of transportation, economics, employment, entertainment, public services, and sustainability.

Grow Local, Support Local | Leaves

Gardening The Hawaiian Islands to Self Sufficiency Studio Project_ARC 307 Professor: Abingo Wu Collaborators: Ellie Derwenskus, Yi Zhang Fall 2020

The project aims to solve the issue of food security in Oahu, Hawaii, which is the result of the fact that agricultural industries and areas in Oahu have been gradually decreasing. Meanwhile, most agricultural products (such as fruits) are exported, and most daily food sources are imported (grains and vegetables). This phenomenon indicates that Oahu's demand for food is extremely dependent on imports. However, during the pandemic period, shipments are largely affected, and food security faces significant risks. Furthermore, the farmers' and the sellers' incomes are also threatened in the pandemic, especially when the number of tourists decreases and even disappears. These complicated situations indicate that Oahu has to refine its own local agricultural industries to be more resilient in terms of food security and related workers' subsistence. To address the issue comprehensively, we introduce two directions of solution. Besides the basic hygiene needs in the pandemic, the horizontal farming facilities provide a more specialized, technical, and playful environment for the agriculture industry. In contrast, vertical farming housing offers a substantial, sustainable, and efficient solution to the local community. Organ: Leaves Process: Photosynthesis Mechanism: Generate resources by the energy from nature, accommodate people, assist the city to self-sufficiency, and make benefits back to nature as a plant's leaves absorb carbon dioxide, produce nutrition, and emit oxygen during photosynthesis.

OAHU TOURISM AND COVID19

MILILANI FARMER’S MARKET

“They

have marks on the floor [at Mililani] that are six feet apart. So I think, you know, they might have to do that at KCC, which would mean, they would have to probably take out some vendors.” “I feel like I'm spending a lot more time chasing ingredients.”

“As far as community goes, we did. Some market kids, right? That got jipped because they graduated. And so we did like, we did a surprise graduation for them. And it was, it was really cute. We had their mothers hide their cap and gown and kind of bring it out, you know, at the designated time. And then we had them walk and we played compensate circumstance and everybody gave them lei and cards and we had cupcakes.”

“There's a difference between farmers market and open markets and other a lot of the other markets, the ones who are run by Hawai’i Farm Bureau, everything has to be grown locally. Whereas People’s Open Market, Swap Meet whatever, and other farmers markets, maybe, they're not constrained by that. So they can bring in products from the mainland or wherever.”

“they do the whole social distancing thing, you know, they have the markers limit to how many people can be at the booth at a time, right.” “Yeah. And that and so it's more limited. The number of stalls. So if you are

MCCULLY FARMER’S MARKET

somebody who is not a regular vendor there, you just have to kind of take what you can get. So some vendors they cannot come every week. You know, the market

manager will look at who's going to be absent, what spaces are available. And then they'll put them according to that. I know exactly where I go every week”

“So I like the size [of the tent] but I think you know, the

“And even so if I'm desperate, I will go to the smaller stores and pay more and get it there. But even Times and Safeway. There was a time there when you couldn't get sugar or flour at those stores. Or they would restrict how much you could buy. Not just the big Restaurant Supply kinds of stores. Strange.”

“As prices

of ingredients went up, I tried to still keep my price down because I didn't want them to mark it up to be out of reach for the customers, you know what I mean? And, but they did keep raising the price. And as they kept raising the price, my sales went down. Right? Yeah. Yeah. And eventually they cut me.”

tents...that's that's the thing that has been bug-

ging me, finally, I've been looking for a new tent. Because on the tent, I have see the frame, the frame that I have actually is almost 15 years old. Right? I bought it at Costco a really long time ago. And then the top wore off, like in a couple of years. So we bought a new tent, you put the new tent up and been seriously. Very soon after the frame breaks, I ended up taking off the top, putting it on the old frame, and then using it and then when that starts to wear off, then I'll buy a new tent.

“ I've always had kids helped me at farmer's

“And I'm happy to have that one day a week where, you know, I can talk to friends, other vendors and customers, and I think they're happy too.“

“And you know, unless you

are able to adapt, then market. But I'm almost out you, there's a chance of kids. Not my kids personthat you will fail. You ally, right, like first it know, so it's not just was I think I had a market this particular time, manager, one of the market right? There have been managers, her daughter's and times before, but even then I had my niece. And more, so now, if you then of course they eventucan't adapt, you're going ally go to college right. to fail, because there And then I had my niece and always will be things then I had a nephew and then that come up.” I had another market manager's kid and I have a friend's kid now who helps me at KCC. ” “But official start is 8:00am to 11:00am. If you want to talk to people. It's better to come later. If you want to actually get stuff. You want to buy stuff? It's better to come earlier.”

KAKA’AKO FARMER’S MARKET

“Soil growing is one of the best things you can do for the planet...because soil when grown directly and using compost and regenerative systems we can actually mitigate climate change at the same time we are feeding our local population.” “Most successful community gardens that are successful have some sort of governing systems where they have a group of people that come together and create rules for the community garden on what's going to be grown, how's it going to be grown, whos going to be on the site, how often, if its city owned property where do the waters come from, and who pays those bills...often times they have hours open to the public.”

“The

most efficient way to grow food is in rows, it always has been and it always will be. And it's because

of how you tell things and how you move things around.”

“I think it's interesting to think about the edge between the space and the public because this is food, and people are in need of food...in brooklyn we had a fence that was up our chest, and people could climb over it if they wanted to...we never created any kind of barrier and we didn't get a lot of people who stole anything.”

“Temperatures matter. Compost heats up to 160F...at 110F any seeds are destroyed...and at

130F all diseases that we know of are burnt

basically out of existence. So with Covid I don't know the exact temperature...but somewhere in there the disease is burnt out of the compost”

You need storage for all the tools”

“Some of the things that make up a nice community

garden is an area that is about pollinators, lots of herbs and flowers...that part can

be more fluid and designed at whatever fashion you want. This is the place, way where you attract all the good beneficial insects, the birds, the bees, and the pollinators, and it's also a pretty place where kids and families can come and experience a softer side of nature instead of the physical rows of food”

“If you’re thinking of people of working on site and the ease of watering and the ease of growing, often times we see a lot of strips in a farm, the longest row that you might put together is 100ft, but most people don't go over 50ft...The beds where you grow food are anywhere between 2ft wide and 3ft wide and 50ft long”

“A community garden should have a large area that's dedicated to composting...even like 1/10 of the site..in order to generate enough soil for the site”

“If you are going to sell the food from the community garden...you definitely want a place where you can actually harvest everything, wash everything, and get everything ready to go out for sale...you might need sheds with coolers to store food that's in between being harvesting and being sold”

One structure is: the entire community garden everybody agrees that anything so there is there for the taking for anybody who is helping to grow...Other gardens that are set up like Im family joe and I get this spot right here, this part of the land, and this is mine and i grow my own food right here but i share water, and compost, and tools with the rest of the garden.” “There's something called

HugelKultur...its a way to

conserve water. In the first year when you start the garden, you bury giant logs and stumps...they bury giant stumps...and they put the soil on top, and it raises the bed a little which is easier to work on for your back, and what it does is it acts as a sponge and collects water. Lets say it were to rain one day a week, it would hold water for that whole water for a week.”

“There's

the water source, and the water distribution system.

The water source could be how much rainwater you get. You could have rainwater barrels, the same drip water irrigation system that's used that comes out of a building...that same drip irrigation can be used with rainwater harvest barrels...basically you are picking a spot to get the water barrel as high as possible on the site so there's pressure for the water to flow downward and outward to the site”

“You can also run a series of drip tubes that are two feet wide, you might need only two lines of drip tape down that line but if it's three feet wide, you might need three, but two could work.”

ARC 307

Hybrid Marketplace

Y i Z h a n g / Yu x u a n Wa n g / E l l i e D e r w e n s k u s

Agricultural Area in 1980AnalysisAnalysis Urban and Geographical Urban and Geographical of O'ahu of O‘ahu

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NOW Hypothesis & Proposal Hypothesis & Proposal

Site Proposal Site Proposal

Exports & Imports of Agricultural Products Hypothesis & Proposal

FUTURE FUTURE

GROW LOCAL. SUPPORT LOCAL.

GARDENING THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS TO SELF SUFFICIENCY

2F - PLAYGROUND COURTYARD 1/4 SCALE

GF - HIGH TUNNEL COMMUNITY GARDEN & FARMER’S MARKET 1/4 SCALE

cabbage spoon beetcabbage head

cabbagedaikon spoon

potato

(irish)

radishsoybeanbean (bush green)

START OF SEASONAL GARDENING 1/4 SCALE

END OF SEASONAL GARDENING READY FOR HARVEST 1/4 SCALE

chinese) lettucemustard

bean (bush green)

potato

(irish)

bean (bush green)beet

(irish)

lettuce

cabbagecabbage daikon head spoon

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Planting Study

Units Study

1 Living Units

20ft

1 People

Farming Units

2 3 Stories as a proposed height: 36ft

Vertical Farming Methods / Planting Typologies

8ft

16ft high unit 2 People

12ft The City of Honolulu usually has a great amount of sunlight. But intend to produce the most, the ability to adapt different seasons is important, thus, the sun angle of 46 in December should be considered.

18ft wide 15-18ft

3 People

16ft

Units Study

By studying the conventional methods of planting, we analyze how to integrate them into vertical farming with residential units. Living Units Farming Units The scales of plants and humans are not equal. Thus we try to organize the spatial relationship between them by shifting an appropriate distance for different types of 3 Stories as a proposed height: 36ft units. These spatial movements also allow the plants to get enough sunlight and create public corridors to connect the greenhouses of 16ft high unit each unit by public stairs on the facade. The circulation cores connect public corridors on each level on the other facade, differentiating public planting spaces and private residential spaces. The City of Honolulu usually has a great amount of sunlight. But intend to produce the most, the ability to adapt different seasons is important, thus, the sun angle of 46 in December should be considered.

18ft wide

16ft

18ft

As we get the height that is above the planting installations, in order to let sunlight shines the entire space and considering the sun angle, the width we determine for the unit is 18t, which is the 16ft plus 2ft of pathway.

4 People

18ft wide

smaller units for methods with lower height

5 People

Bedroom

Living/Dining

Patio

Farming

Greenhouse

Lower Floor Plan

Upper Floor Plan

Shifted

Shifted Lower Floor Plan

Shifted Upper Floor Plan

Based on the number of family members, each unit is composed of a different combination of bedrooms, dining room, kitchen, living room, farming balcony, exterior patio, and greenhouse. After assembling the units, the gaps among the units would form open spaces for public activity, especially for food exchange and farmer's markets. Along with the linear market on the ground level, the project could provide a multi-dimensional experience in terms of living, planting, exchanging, shopping, and communicating. Hence a vertical community could be formed like the horizontal ones we proposed before. These two different strategies could offer completely different experiences and integrate into an entire urban system of planting, living, purchasing, and playing.

GREEN BALCONY

NATURAL DAYLIGHT IN GREENHOUSE

Public corridors connect each unit's planting space.

Panorama of Beijing | Flowers

Representation of Beijing & "Neighbor Hood Garden" Studio Project_ARC 407 Professor: Li Han & Hu Yan Collaborators: Drawing Architecture Studio / Groupmate: Yi Zhang Spring 2021 Acquired by Wind H Art Center for Collection The project splits into two components: a collaborative panorama drawing created by each student studying with Drawing Architecture Studio (and the detailed list of each participant is on page 46) and a renovation of a classic architecture but specifically based on Beijing culture for each group of two. In this case, the prototype project is Robin Hood Gardens, designed by Alison and Peter Smithson and completed in 1972. Unfortunately, the narrow corridors, which were supposed to offer comfortable social interactions, only led to crimes. Thus, the aim of this project, “Neighbor Hood Garden,” is to propose a renovation and revival for the original legendary but ramshackle prototype based on the cultural context of Beijing. Besides these two components in that I participated during the studio, I also took part in the exhibition of The Complete Map of Capital Beijing in Wind H Art Center during my internship at Drawing Architecture Studio. My role consists of designing, making, and assembling over a hundred building models, refining the drawings, and supervising the installation process. Organ: Flowers Process: Pollination Mechanism: Transfer the elements between the culture and promote the reproduction, variation, and development of cities as the flowers exhibit their beauty and exchange the pollen for spreading the DNA of the plant with pollination.

Configuration

The Complete Map of Capital Beijing, 1750

Site Design

Community

盒子分类盒子分类盒子分类 Box Taxonomy 盒子分类 Box Box Taxonomy Taxonomy Box Taxonomy

盒子分类 Box Taxonomy

阳台阳台 Balcony 阳台 Balcony 阳台 Balcony Balcony

楼梯 Staircases

突出突出 Extrude 突出 Extrude 突出 Extrude Extrude

斜坡 Ramp

盒子分类行走突出行走突出 Accessible Box Taxonomy 行走突出 Accessible

交叉支撑 Frame

娱乐阳台娱乐 Entertainment Balcony 娱乐 Entertainment 娱乐 Entertainment Entertainment

斜撑 Frame

行走突出 Accessible Accessible

阳台突出阳台 Balcony 阳台 Extrude Balcony 阳台 Balcony Balcony

行走突出 Accessible

其他 others

The Complete Map of Capital Beijing Contributors: Drawing Architecture Studio: Li Han / Hu Yan / Zhang Xintong / Zhang Yuanbo / Liu Ping Syracuse Architecture Studio Team: Luo Chenhao / Huang Deqiang / Zhu Haihui / Zhong Junye / Zhuang Kaicheng / Wang Kexin / Feng Wenting / Meng Xinqi / Tang Xinyu / Feng Yiqun / Liu Yian / Wang Yuxuan / Zhang Yi / Zhang Yaqi / Yang Zhexu / Zheng Zhi The drawing illustrates an urban view of Beijing, which keeps the general city configuration (using The Complete Map of Capital Beijing in the Qing Dynasty as the reference) but replaces it with local contemporary buildings and the redesigned Western architecture projects. Different angles of orthographic projection allow the drawing to exhibit the physical buildings and people’s life patterns actively, comprehensively, and deeply. It also showcases the urban view from an experiential perspective rather than an objective recording.

Ecological Coup d'Etat | Rhizomes

After Ecology Takes over the Henry County Industrial Area Studio Project_ARCHA6820 Professor: Emanuel Admassu, Jelisa Blumberg, Nina Cooke John, A.L. Hu, Oscar OliverDidier, Christin Hu Collaborators: Fauzan Permana Noor, Tai Ning, Yuhan Xu Fall 2023 The local ecosystem in the Henry County industrial area is discontinued by the rigid boundaries between large warehouses and private cookie-cutter housing. Some significant ecological corridors and patches are categorized as private properties. Vehicles dominate the area, which is not friendly to pedestrians or ecosystems. In the world after property, ecology, usually seen as separate from urban society, becomes a dominant system over the property. The boundaries of property would be replaced by prioritizing the optimistic ecosystem. Limitations in community and mobility would dissipate following the cross-species coexistence at overlaid spatial conditions between the proposed ecosystem and existing properties. When the world of property gets into the world of after-property, Environmentalism surpasses Materialism. The separated islands are transformed into a multispecies archipelago with connectivity, vibrancy, and character. Within the three Ecological Coup d’Etat phases, the trees and fungi will expand and grow in stages over time. As a result, the canopy and organic shelters will develop, providing habitat and ecological corridors. Additionally, Mycelium, serviceberry, and sedges will continue to renew themselves, providing animals with habitat, food, and shelter. Humans can also harvest these resources for various purposes, including food, medicinal uses, handicrafts, and new biomaterials for building and new industries. Organ: Rhizomes Process: Vegetative Reproduction Mechanism: Grow the ecology over the current urban fabric and property system as vines send out new shoots on the existing structure uncertainly, uncontrollably, and autonomously.

Challenges In the Henry County Industrial Area, the massively built cookie-cutter houses are defined by hard boundaries without public spaces and any forms of community interaction. Since residents overly rely on cars, the conflict between pedestrians, vehicles, and trucks results in traffic congestion and lack of communication. On the other hand, the vast scale of warehouses generates many impervious areas that pollute the creeks on site and threaten the local species.

Property over Ecology Fragmented property, ownership, and developers led to incompatible spaces, functions, and relationships among different actors. The creeks, tree canopies, and wetlands are essential habitats for multiple endangered species, which are currently obstructed by the impervious area brought by large warehouses. The habitats are blocked and left alone by regimes of property.

Ecology over Property With the strategy of "ecology over property", the project aims to create a comprehensive network of creeks, tree canopy, soil, habitats, migratory routes, and more. Subsequently, ecology serves as a foundational system to address the challenges associated with the community. While the issues of identical cookie-cutter houses and vast warehouse structures are addressed, the ecological coup d'etat would also lead to more vibrancy and community interaction among various actors, creating new life patterns.

ARANYA HOUSING INDORE, INDIA

FLOATING ISLANDS CHAMPU KHANGPOK, INDIA

Referencing Samples Informal public spaces bridge the independent private properties and strengthen the community links. Seemingly separate floating islands interact with each other by boat for various living and social purposes.

Dry area Mid-dry area Wet area

Phases The lifespans of various species associated with ecological strategies determine the construction process and the autonomous growth of the entire ecology-directed system.

Ecological coup d'etat would take place in three phases according to the lifespans of various species and the growth of the ecosystems. The phases consist of Revive, Break, and Reassemble. The existing structures of the cookie-cutter houses and the large warehouses would gradually decay and replaced by ecological elements such as plants, fungi, and creeks.

Wind Rose Analysis

Community Ecological Alliance

REVIVE

BRE

Design Potential

Mycelium can be cultivated using bio material made from Sedges

Revive existing in-between space(2023-2050) 58

Break existing condition

Stimulating Water System

Ecological Coup d’Etat

RE-USE CAPTURE

EAK

REASSEMBLE GUIDE

STORE+FILTER

Creek Contour line

Animating Forest

Loblolly Pine

Creek & Pond Contour line Mix Forest Exsiting grassland Corridor

with ecology(2050-2070)

Reassemble(2070- ) 59

LESS IS... Assistant to Boghosian Fellow Exhibition Professor: Leen Katrib Syracuse University Spring 2022 My role includes brainstorming the design, building prototypes and testing materials. Photos by Hector (Shengxuan) Yu 60

Other Works | Seeds Selected Past Works

1. LESS IS... 2. Still Life in the Windy City 3. Learning from Macao 4. To Hear 5. 1/4 of Chongqing Apartments 1/4 6. An E-Sports Arena Complex for Urban Renaissance in Syracuse 7. Activating Jacksonville’s Riverfront (Riverwalk Expansion Toolkit) Organ: Seeds Process: Reproduction Mechanism: Be Generated based on the existing urban and architectural projects, and can be developed as the inspiration and prototype of future cities and architecture, as how a plant's seeds are formed and germinate in reproduction.

Still Life in the Windy City Internship Collaborative Project (Drawing Architecture Studio) / Chicago Architecture Biennial / Summer 2021 / Acquired by The Art Institute of Chic 62

Learning from Macao Internship Collaborative Project (Drawing Architecture Studio) / Macao International Art Biennale / Summer 2021

cago for Collection 63

Regional Soundscape

Local Soundscape

Urban Soundscape

Urban Sound Illustration

Urban Sound Source

Urban Sound Remix

To Hear Thesis Project / Professor: Abingo Wu / Collaborator: Qingyang Fan / Spring 2023 64

Documentation Booklet

Documentation Catalog

Sound Spatialization Installation

Field Recording Sites

1/4 of Chongqing Apartments 1/4 Internship Collaborative Project Drawing Architecture Studio Summer 2021 66

An E-Sports Arena Complex for Urban Renaissance in Syracuse Studio Project_ARC 207 Professor: Sou Fang Fall 2019

Riverwalk Expansion Toolkit Internship Collaborative Project WXY architecture + urban design Fall 2021 67

YUXUAN WANG Tel: +1 3157084139 | Email: yw4179@columbia.edu | New York City, NY

EDUCATION Columbia University in The City of New York , New York City, NY M.S. Architecture and Urban Design, GSAPP

May 2023 –present

Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY Bachelor of Architecture, School of Architecture | GPA: 3.894/4.0

Aug. 2018–May 2023

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE School of Architecture at Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY May–Jul. 2022 Teaching Assistant ▪ Led a design studio session (1.5 hours per day); represented a summer architecture program ▪ Provided guidance, advice, and critiques about architecture, design, drawing, modeling and rendering

YUXUAN WANG yw4179@columbia.edu 315.708.4139 Columbia University | GSAPP M.S.AUD | 2024

WXY Architecture + Urban Design, New York City, NY Architectural/Urban Design Intern Sep. –Nov. 2021 ▪ Project 1: Activating Jacksonville’s Riverfront, Jacksonville, Florida ‑ Visualized the sketches of conceptual designs with digital models and graphics ‑ Developed toolkits for the activation of public space, and stylized the program diagrams ▪ Project 2: Glass City Riverwalk, Toledo, Ohio ‑ Created the site plan and digital site model, focusing on buildings, landscape, topography, street furniture, etc. ‑ Collected, analyzed and visualized the local GIS data about demographics, geographies, transportation, etc. ▪ Project 3: Tucson EV Research, Tucson, Arizona ‑ Visualized the electrical vehicles (EV) code diagrams and urban elements in Tucson ‑ Presented EV utilities; made cost estimation and planning explanatory diagrams ▪ Project 4: Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center Dallas (KBHCCD) Master Plan, Dallas, Texas ‑ Created the graphic visualization of the analytical diagrams in the Master Plan report ‑ Developed and refined the digital models of the schematic designs Drawing Architecture Studio, Beijing, China Assistant Architect May–Aug. 2021 ▪ Project 1: The Complete Map of Capital Beijing, Beijing, China ‑ Made a panorama drawing of Beijing and designed a series of architectural models for 4 months ‑ The project was acquired by Wind H Art Center for collection ▪ Project 2: 1/4 of Chongqing Apartments 1/4, Chongqing, China ‑ Collaborated with member to design, model, visualize, plan, and supervise a 1/4 scale installation of a typical Chongqing apartment building exhibiting the distinctive 3D urban landscape in Chongqing ‑ The project was exhibited in Yuelai Art Museum ▪ Project 3: Learning from Macao, Macao, China ‑ Worked effectively with team to design, visualize, model, and draw a large-scale artwork of a visual fantasy about Macao’s distinctive casino culture and urban view ‑ The project was acquired by the Macao Museum of Art for a permanent collection ▪ Project 4: Still Life in the Windy City, Chicago, IL ‑ Coordinated with members to design, model, and draw a long scroll drawing of an imagined community Chicago suburb based on public spaces practice in Beijing. ‑ The project has been acquired by the Art Institute of Chicago for its collection ‑ The project was exhibited in Chicago Architecture Biennial in 2021 and at Arc en Rêve Centre d'architecture in Bordeaux, France in 2022.

ACHIEVEMENTS The 20th Asian Design Award | Team Leader | Guangdong, China Nov. 2022 ▪ Project: Symbiosis - Gold Award in the “Ecological, Healthy, and Sustainable” category ▪ Project: Brooklyn Terminal Market - Bronze Award in the “Urban Complex and City” category Integrated Design Studio Competition | Team Leader | Syracuse, NY May 2022 ▪ Project: Symbiosis - First Prize of Consultant Jury; competing against 144 participants, 22 final-list teams Syracuse University School of Architecture Dean’s List | Syracuse, NY Q-City International Student Design Competition | Team Member | Hebei, China ▪ Project: Rest [Room, Courtyard, Pavilion] - Third Prize Success Scholar Award | Syracuse, NY Invest in Success Scholarship | Syracuse, NY

Jan. 2020– May 2023 Aug. 2019 Jan. 2019 Jan. 2019 – Jan. 2023

CAPABILITY & INTEREST Software: Rhinoceros/SketchUp/Revit/ArcGIS Pro/QGIS/Python; AutoCAD/Grasshopper/V-Ray/Enscape/Lumion; Adobe Photoshop/Illustrator/InDesign/Premiere Pro/After Effects Language: English (professional working proficiency) (GRE323: V155+Q168+W3.5); Mandarin (native) Interest: Travel (visiting 20+ countries); Game Design and Programming (18 published browser game); Economics