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Graduation Portfolio 2021 Yi Shang M.S. in Architecture & Urban Design Columbia University, GSAPP

Studio 1: ENERGETIC NYCHA Three Bridges, New York City

After Hurricane Sandy, the vision for the future NYCHA is clear and strong: to be resilient, independent, sustainable and vibrant! The project is about revitalize NYCHA campus with energy-related interventions to deal with emergency demands. We harvest energy and make the storage through the elevated microgrid network so that the components get protected when confronting with flood.

Studio 2 : GREEN NEW NEIGHBOURHOOD Manchester, Pittsburg

Achieving net zero carbon emissions as stated in the Green New Deal will unquestionably require large scale transformations of our energy systems. We believe it should also include investments in smallscale “everyday infrastructure” that can make this energy transition visible to everyday residents in their own neighborhood by collecting and utilizing solar energy and empower them to participate in a just transition.

Studio 3 : RECONNECT BASIN BETWEEN LEVEES Plaquemine, Louisiana

Commencing at repurposing the historic Plaquemine Lock from an engineered device to an ecological one, we envision a great shift of eco-economy in the disconnected Basin between levees of the Atchafalaya River and the Mississippi River. With interventions systemically impacting on different levels, we will reconnect people and isolated water bodies.

PRINCIPLE: ELEVATE & PARALLEL

CABLE OF POWER GRID INSTALLED IN THE ELEVATED CONSTRUCTIONS

ELEVATED GRID+PATH MECHANISM

RESIDENTIAL MICROGRID LAYOUT

ROOFTOP ENERGY HARVEST

MONITOR/CONTROL CENTER /BATTERY STORAGE

TRANSFORMER IN THE GARDERN

GET LINKED WITH ENERGY REFUND

Achieving net zero carbon emissions as stated in the Green New Deal will unquestionably require large scale transformations of our energy systems. We believe it should also include investments in small-scale “everyday infrastructure” that can make this energy transition visible to everyday residents in their own neighborhood by collecting and utilizing solar energy and empower them to participate in a just transition. Our project consists of a toolkit of smart street furniture that can provide amenities in streets and neighborhood spaces, while generating electricity and jobs in manufacturing this smart street furniture. Program implementation will also include renovating streets, planting trees, and promoting local business, to create a greener and more democratic future development for Manchester Neighborhood.

Our project will combine with existing local projects, and the scenarios we design will be shown to residents as a guidebook, then deployed to various locations by people themselves.

The Civilian Climate Corps will cooperate with local training corps to recruit local people, give them on-the-job-training, and help them organize into their own worker-owned collectives. Moreover, we think in the next five years Manchester will produce 100% of its own energy and by 10 years it will have excess capacity for growing businesses and future housing. We also believe that with more trees and fewer cars, air quality will improve and respiratory disease will decline.

COMPONENTS OF STREET INTERVENTION

STREET DESIGN

STREET TO LOT

Plaquemine Lock Once Connected Two Rivers

The Basin in-between is Disconnected

by Levees of the Atchafalaya River and the Mississippi River

The Landscape in the Basin is Fragmented by the Levees

Ecological and Economic Degradation Caused by the Disconnection from the River

If No Action is Taken the Basin will be Inundated and Lost

Revival Can be Achieved through Reconnection

Series of Intervention

Reconnecting the Rivers and the Basin

Plaquemine Lock in 1940s an Engineered Navigation Device

Series of Intervention 1: Revitalize the Historical Plaquemine Lock

Repurpose Plaquemine Lock & Site

through Reopening and Starting a Dynamic Water Management

Series of Intervention 2:

Adaptive Eco-economy along Bayou Plaquemine

Seasonal Flooding & Drying Cycles for Wetland Regeneration & Crawfish Farming

Strategies for Seasonal Water Management applied in typo of sites

Vertical & Sustainable Farming Cluster of Crawfish-Crop and Resilient Facilities

Crawfish Harvest & Rice Planting in the Flood Season

Ponds Drain and Rice Harvest in the Dry Season

Typical Puncture & Adaptive Housing Proposed along the East Protection Levee

Water Management

Bayou Recreation

Adaptive Housing

Wildlife Observation

Waterway Transportation Hub

Connects Two Sides and Pulses the Freshwater into Swamps

Crawfish Market for Public As a Beginning of Atchafalaya Swamp Tour

Series of Intervention 3:

Hydrologic Restoration of the Atchafalaya Basin

Hydrologic Restoration Recovers Natural Services

Restoring & Revitalizing the Basin through a Series of Interventions in Diverse Places

Dynamic Water Management City of Plaquemine

Adaptive Farming Plaquemine Bayou

Biological Regeneration Bayou Sorrel

Hydrological Restoration Atchafalaya Basin

Coastal Recovery Terrebonne Basin