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YUANMING MA Columbia GSAPP M.S.AAD 2021

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SHAPE EVADING SHAPES_RAPIDLY DEPLOYABLE EPIDEMIOLOGY CLINIC FOR COVID-19 TESTING Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation Fall 2020 Advanced Studio | Critic: Michael Bell Individual Work

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INFRASTREET_STREETSCAPE OF WASTE RECYCLING SYSTEM Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation Spring 2021 Advanced Studio | Critic: Jing Liu Team: Tianyuan Deng, Chengliang Li, Yuanming Ma, Jihae Park

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COMMUNAL RESONANCE_CIVIC-SACRED COEXISTENCE AS DESIGN ACTIVISM Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation Summer 2021 Advanced Studio | Critic: Karla Rothstein Team: Jindian Fu, Yuanming Ma, Tian Yao

TABLE OF CONTENTS

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SHAPE EVADING SHAPES Rapidly Deployable Epidemiology Clinic for COVID-19 Testing_ Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation Fall 2020 | Advanced Studio | Critic: Michael Bell

This studio builds on a series of studios that project an architecture of the near future where long-standing building types that have historically been a backbone of social order and economy are forced to address consolidation of new pressures. Of manufacturing, of computation, of data consolidation – of markets newly made not by elective choice but by wholesale change in how markets are operated and what they will tolerate. In this realm “everything must scale” (to use the ubiquitous Silicon Valley term “scale”) or become quasi obsolete. Is this is a new realm of design when one thinks of architecture?

This studio is part of a series of studios that have been based in this realm. They have focused on buildings that have fused architecture and program – they are architecture + economy + social order writ large over entire territories – fueling stations, schools and in this studio small scale clinics. They show up as historical denominators in large numbers, replicated across the landscape. In a novelist way they subvert time – you see them everywhere the same; therefore, have you gone anywhere? They also capture a sense of what we as a population experience – we see ourselves and no-one, all of us, in these buildings as social instruments.

The clinic is a specific program with exacting needs; one of those needs is to both address the COVID-19 virus; another is to remain safe and resist becoming a transmitter of the virus. It must embrace the ill and defend against its own user - its own subject. It must also host several subjects; clinical actors / front line workers trained in medicine and patients and the general public if need be for broad testing.

These are degrees of epidemiological need; degrees of expertise and observance vs. a person in need. Age ranges will matter as well as various forms of privacy and human rights.

TRANSCRIBING AS DESIGN

WOOD JOINT STUDY

TOLEDO MUSEUM OF ART GLASS PAVILION by SANAA transcribing + transforming

ADD-ON structure aimed to provide quick COVID-19 testing for massive people & easy circulation at the same time assuring normal medical services

To think of clinic as the social infrastructure of a city, it is crucial to consider it a medical space for COVID testing.

But simultaneously, on the psychological side, how are we architects provide testers, patients, and medical staffs who work for long hours the best experience during the pandemic?

Empathy and Competence of Architecture tell the story.

If we think of competence as the professionalism of all PPE, social distance, and disinfection, empathy in this realm is articulated through the wood material, the warmth brought through its natural and organic qualities.

Medical space should not be designed only through cold concrete and gypsum board.

Yet, empathy is achieved at best when we are in this pandemic.

Integration of Wood & Metal Technique for stronger structure, but deployability & sustainability at the same time

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INFRA STREET Streetscape of Waste Recycling System_ Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation Spring 2021 | Advanced Studio | Critic: Jing Liu Team: Tianyuan Deng, Chengliang Li, Yuanming Ma, Jihae Park

Our project takes on this enormous and fundamental question of “what do we do with our trash?” and attempts to imagine a more locally and regionally based infrastructure that is socially caring, environmentally responsible, and economically nutrition to our communities, our cities, and our plant.

At the global scale, we try to eliminate the waste transported away to be disposed as landfills in poor countries. This means more recycling regionally through the recycling industry. Different types of trash can be bought from local communities and turned into new resources in these facilities.

This requires trash separation at the local level. Current common single stream recycling requires extensive labor at the separation facilities which makes them cost prohibitive to be recycled. In countries like Japan and Taiwan, where separation are done at the local level, the recycling rate of plastic and glass are proven to be much higher.

We propose a social space between the street and the sidewalk that makes collecting and separating trash more effective and incorporating it into everyday life’s routine.

Through the design, we hope to influence people’s behavior positively and heighten our awareness of trash’s impact on the larger social and environmental systems.

CURRENT CONDITION | DIVERSE COMMUNITY WITH FOOD VENDORS AND SANITATION CONDITION UNPLEASANT

So long as we are human, we eat, we consume, we metabolize, and we produce trash. Trash, one may say, is one material that binds us together in our human experience across our cultural and social differences. Currently, the average amount of trash produced by an American person is 5.91 tons and only 25% of that is recycled. The rest, are part of an extremely environmentally tasking global waste infrastructure that results in most of them ending up as landfills in poor countries. Ill-managed and ever-growing, they create toxic fumes and pollute the local waterways, thus creating acute public health issues in these communities.

Jackson Heights, the most diverse neighborhood on the planet, is also where immigrants from many of these communities come to call home. During the Covid-19 pandemic, we have observed them becoming the most affected population in the city.

The over-flowing trash on the streets due to the inadequate service from the sanitary department, and the increased informal street vending activities, reminds us of the challenges and inequity these people face both at home and in their new home.

TRASH INFRASTRUCTURE at local scale

TRASH INFRASTRUCTURE | DISPOSAL PROCESS IN REGIONAL SCALE

RESEARCH PROPOSAL | TRASH RECYCLING PROGRAM BENEFICIAL FOR THE COMMUNITY

DESIGN PROPOSAL| MODULAR SYSTEM COMBINED FOR THE STREET

MASTER PLAN

MODULE TOP VIEW

STREETSCAPE PLAN

MODULE INNER DRAWER SYSTEM

UNROLLED ELEVATION

GLASS WASTE

SECTION | CAN AND PLASTIC WASTE

COMPOST WASTE

CARDBOARD RECYCLING

COMPOST REUSED

GLASS BOTTLE RECYCLING

CANS AND PLASTIC RECYCLING

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COMMUNAL RESONANCE Civic-Sacred Coexistence as Design Activism_ Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation Summer 2021 | Advanced Studio | Critic: Karla Rothstein Team: Jindian Fu, Yuanming Ma, Tian Yao

Death can be highlighted and redefined. Human composting commemorates death by transform human back to ecological cycle, where the death of a person is the continuity of another form of life. The soil produced through recomposing is also transmissible by distributing it to the island to lift up the sea bed level in adapt of sea level change.

Recognizing the transmissible and adhesive attributes of Covid-19, the significance of decomposing dead individual, and the relative involving ecosystem of burial site inform new urban spatial tactics. New memorial spaces address the scale of loss from the pandemic; column lead people to experience and think, resonating a communal empathy. A fluid elevated footpath connects waterfront memorials and cemeteries, where the overall network engages the dynamics of the water and the rise of sea level.

Commemorative columns, floating marsh and new forms of cemeteries recognize the transmissible and adhesive attributes of Covid-19, the significance of individual deaths, and the ecosystem of burial processes. A fluid elevated footpath connects waterfront memorials and cemetery structures, where the built network and ecological sanctuary engage the dynamics of the water and wildlife. It also resonates with the last journey of the dead individual and the renewal of natural habitats. In this case, visitors are not only spectators of this global pandemic but can see through to the shared essence of human mortality.

COVID-19 ATTRIBUTES: transmissivity

COVID-19 ATTRIBUTES: transmissivity & adhesion. individual & community.

COVID-19 ATTRIBUTES: adhesion

COVID-19 ATTRIBUTES: architectural exploration

HART ISLAND ECOSYSTEM: massing strategy

HART ISLAND ECOSYSTEM: flood & sea level change

HART ISLAND ECOSYSTEM: plantation & existing burial site

HART ISLAND ECOSYSTEM: floating marsh system

HART ISLAND ECOSYSTEM: memorial column & habitat

DEATH AND HUMAN RECOMPOSE: shared essence of human mortality

Total number of vessels: 345 Capacity of human composting: 2,070 people per year Amount of soil produced: 2,070 cubic yard (55,890 cubic feet) Current marsh area can raise 1 feet in one year with soil produced (current marsh area 56,803 square feet)

DEATH AND HUMAN RECOMPOSE: shared essence of human mortality

DEATH AND HUMAN RECOMPOSE: public ground adaptive to flood

DEATH AND HUMAN RECOMPOSE: commemorative soil box as thermal wall

DEATH AND HUMAN RECOMPOSE: shared essence of human mortality

YUANMING MA ym2805@columbia.edu 929.453.9839