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HUIYA ZHONG 2020-2021 Selected hz2690@columbia.edu

GSAPP | Columbia University Master of Science Architecture and Urban Design

Design Against Heat

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Design Against Heat

Urban Design Studio I Fall 2020 Site: Harlem River, New York City Instructor: Nans Voron(coordinator), Austin Sakong, Ifeoma Ebo, Noah Chasin, Sagi Golan, Tami Banh Team: Kai Guo, Jil Shah, Scarlet Tong, Huiya Zhong

NYC sees an average of 450 hospital visits and 115 deaths relating to heat. Extreme heat is disproportionately affecting some more than others as some neighborhoods lack the cooling infrastructure and public spaces to combat heat.

Using our design catalog, we are able to propose interventions across the site at multiple scales. Including street, open spaces and the urban form. We focused on using shading, evaporative cooling and wind direction as our main design strategies that inform our approach to transform the Sherman Creek Area to become more heat resilient.

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Challenges

Socio-economic Patterns After recognizing the different socioeconomic patterns, we overlap the layers to find Inwood's eastern coastline being most vulnerable. The temperature difference is significant when the greener areas on the west are compared to the large concrete surfaces and manufacturing sites near the eastern part's mass transit lines.

Moreover, the distribution of facilities that cater to providing relief from extreme heat is asymmetrical on the site.

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Vision

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Corridors

Cooling Corridor: 9th Avenue

Cooling Corridor: 9th Avenue

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The transformation of residential streets would begin with painting pavements to a lighter shade. Then followed by the introduction of shading structures that have misting devices and added light for the night time. Policy change for existing buildings will be updating the facade through additive structures for the opportunity to have green walls, and balconies. Rain gardens and trees would run alongside shading devices and to bring more greenery for evaporative cooling and stormwater management.

Cooling Corridor: Residential Street

Cooling Corridor: Residential Street The main street allows for more space to create bioswales by reclaiming street parking. Through these designs, we envision streets to provide continuous cooling effects that encourage members of our community to occupy the streets for social interactions.

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Nodes

Dynamic Shading Devices

Celebrate Local Artists

Gathering Spaces

Playground

Art Gallery Cooling Nodes: Active Places Moving to the cooling nodes, we imagine that replacing problematic asphalt surfaces with programs that support the community, provide education and increase social connectivity while offering cooling effects will benefit the neighborhood overall.

Active spaces such as shaded gathering space, art gallery and playgrounds, and Resting spaces that are meant for relaxation and connection to nature.

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Encourage Outdoor Exercise 11

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Nodes

Casual Gathering

Connection to Nature

Residential Area

Natural Slope

Waterfront Pavilion Cooling Nodes: Resting Spaces Open spaces work together to become a network of social infrastructure starting with a community center, library, playgrounds, market space and a large waterfront park.

Outdoor gathering spaces like this playscape have integrated shading structures that also act as a playing equipment. Night time, it can also be transformed into a safe gathering space for residents for events.

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Restoring Waterfront 13

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Industrial Heritatge Habitat

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Industrial Heritage Habitat

Urban Design Studio II Spring 2021 Site: Manchester-Chateau, Pittsburgh Instructor: Kaja Kühl (Coordinator), Lee Altman, Anna Dietzsch, Shachi Pandey, Thaddeus Pawlowski Team: Yuehui Du, Kai Zhang, Huiya Zhong, Yong Zhuang

We imagine an alternative, habitable future in Chateau, an underutilized industrial neighborhood filled with warehouses and parking lots. We’re proposing to restore the urban vitality that existed before large parts of neighborhood, which were demolished for Route 65. Bringing back a humanscale street grid that supports smaller building footprints can accommodate makerspaces, local business, community culture, and green innovation programs. We also implement green infrastructures and carbon-free routes along the waterfront that connect the people from Manchester as well as the rest of Pittsburgh. We preserve and upgrade existing buildings to make this place be welcoming to a new population and long-time residents alike.

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Fabric Fragmentation

Carbon Free Route

Reserved Building Converted Building Fabric

Buildings Open Space Walkway

Environmental Condition

Bike Lane

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Current Fabric

Canopy Highway Green Corridor

Historical Fabric

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Highway

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Vision

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Fragmentation Sidewalk Upgrade New Programs

ELEVATED CORRIDOR

GREEN HOUSE EXPANDED

MULTI-USE WAREHOUSE

WALKABLE STREET

TRIMMED HIGHWAY

LOCAL RETAIL

LOCAL RETAIL

BICYCLE HEAVEN

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Inhabitation

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Optimized the facilities and environment of the waterfront space

Farmer Market is a community anchorpoint in Neighbor’s promenade

Preserve the culture of Manchester and Chateau

A rich and vibrant afterwork life happens here

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Plaquemine Lock

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Plaquemine Lock _Reconnecting the Basin between Two Levees.

Urban Design Studio III Summer 2021 Site: City of Plaquemine, LA Instructor: Kate Orff (coordinator), Geeta Mehta, Dilip Da Cunha, Adriana Chavez, Justine Holzman Team: Yuehui Du, Lvchen Liu, Shang Yi, Huiya Zhong

The city of Plaquemine is located at the junction of the lower Mississippi River and Atchafalaya River basin. With the historical lock, Plaquemine once served as a navigation node across the levees of two rivers. However, after the close of the lock, levees of the Atchafalaya River and the Mississippi River disconnect Plaquemine and the Basin inbetween. Furthermore, The disconnection from the river causes degradation of the Basin ecologically and economically.

Commencing at repurposing the historic Lock from an engineered device to an ecological one, we envision a significant shift of eco-economy in the disconnected Basin. With interventions systemically impacting on different levels, we will reconnect people with isolated water bodies. Connection of the rivers to the stagnant back swamps, the sediments to the eroded coast, and the water to declining Plaquemine complete each other.

Altogether, the reconnection will create the context to foster an adaptive economy and way of life that bolster our vision for a sustainable future.

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Plaquemine Lock

DISCONNECTED BASIN IN-BETWEEN The basin Plaquemine lying in is not enclosed by natural dividing range but by levees. Protected by the levees along the rivers and supported by the pipelines in the Wetland, the Basin in-between was planned to expand agricultural and petrochemical industries along the Mississippi River. As a result, the disconnected water and sediment go wrong, causing semi-permanent flooding in the upper Basin and land loss on the coast.

The runoff and atmospheric water pollution caused by agriculture and refineries along the Mississippi River cannot be filtrated naturally by the Wetland.

Fragmented Landscape in the Basin

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Plaquemine Lock

Envisioning a better ecological & economic future along bayou plaquemine Before the forest clearing and wetland destruction have been completed, We can still protect our Basin. With hydrologic restoration, biological regeneration, and ecoeconomic revitalization, we envision a future of reconnecting the rivers and the stagnant backswamps, the sediments and the eroded coast, and ultimately the water and local communities.

The interventions to achieve this vision will start at redesigning an ecological device instead of an engineered one with the same Lock in Plaquemine. Not to exploit but to restore the ecosystem of this Basin in between, we want to foster an alternative economy by reconnecting rivers, back swamps, wetlands, and people.

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BAYOU PLAQUEMINE Adaptive Eco-economy

PLAQUEMINE LOCK Dynamic Water Management

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RECREATION & RESORT

Plaquemine Lock in 1940s as a Navigation Device

DEPOTS MARKET PARK & DOCK

LOCK MUSEUM

REOPEN THE LOCK & WATER MANAGEMENT The lock will no longer function for shipments but dynamic water control, with the rotation to accommodate the volume of waterflow from the Mississippi River. We repurpose the lock constructions to be a museum to exhibit the process of hydrological engineering, to raise awareness that water is life. The broad top landscape can be served as clean energy harvest and storage, along with plants and vegetation to buffer the reopened riverside. According to the water stage and precipitation, we manage the flow from the river to the gulf, planning for a seasonal flooding and drying cycle of the Atchafalaya Basin.

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Seasonal Flooding and Drying Cycles

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Plaquemine Lock

TYPICAL PUNCTURE & ADAPTIVE HOUSING House Boat

SUSTAINABLE CRAWFISH FARMING CLUSTER Water Management

Bayou Recreation

Adaptive Housing

Wildlife Observation

Market + Dock

Create Outdoor Jobs

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Tourism Industry

Self-sufficient in Energy / Water

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Farming + Water Filter

Recreation Center Crawfish Cargo Dock

Plug-in Floating House Pathway + Utilities

Dry Season——Crawfish Market at the Beginning of Swamp Tour Flood Season——Waterway Transportation Hub

Atchafalaya Basin

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Dry Season——Ponds Drain and Rice Harvest

Bayou Plaquemine

Flood Season——Crawfish Harvest and Rice Planting

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HYDROLOGIC RESTORATION OF THE ATCHAFALAYA BASIN The dynamic water management of Plaquemine lock and adaptive economy along the Bayou Plaquemine contribute to and rely on the hydrologic restoration of the whole Atchafalaya Basin.

A planned diversion in the sinking Terrebonne Basin Delta will outlet the excessive water and sediment and restore the eroded coast. With punctures and

backfillings, the riverine water will flow into the backswamps again, bringing the oxygen and nutrients that ensure the fauna and flora thriving.

In addition, the natural services, including carbon storage, forest, fish and wildlife resources, and nutrient reduction, will contribute to socioeconomic revitalizations of the local Cajun population and culture.

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