Final Portfolio_Jiaze Yu

2022 Final Portfolio

Jiaze Yu

Nowadays, more and more people nd it uncomfortable to take subway. Mainly because of the bad Riding experience with unclear instructions, and random violence in the subway.

I nd it comfortable taking subway Why do you feel uncomfortable?

Unexpected Violence Happens

Accidentally fall into the railway/Pushed into the Railway

Bad Riding Experience

Unclear Instructions

How would you grade the clarity and usefulness of subway announcements?

People are easily falling of the subway platform because there is no protection between the railway and platform. People can fall for so many reasons including their own illness or pushed by other people. Thus, We want to design something that keeps people away from the edge of the platfrom.

Gunshot

Delayed Information

How iften do you experience signi cant delays?

There is a delayed information about the subway schedule which bring inconvience and serious consequence to people who have important events.

The gunshot violence happened in 2022 multiple times and it is very hard to control. However, we can still use the our own solution to help people with keeping safe in this emergency situation.

Too many Homeless people

In the subway, there are a lot of homeless people sleeping and robbing. However, what they want the most are shelter and food. Thus, we can start an information session to help them located where the shelter and free food are so they will leave the subway.

GOAL

Enhance Interaction, Safety, E ciency When Riding with Subway

GENTRIFICATION

A process in which a poor area(as of a city)experiences an influx of middle-class or wealthy people who renovate and rebuild homes and businesses and which often results in an increase in property values and the displacement of earlier, usually poorer residents.

BACKGROUND RESEARCH

Gentrification is derived from the word "gentry," which historically referred to people of an elevated social status. In the United Kingdom, the term "landed gentry" originally described landowners who could live off of the rental income from their properties. In its current context, gentrification was first popularized by the British sociologist Ruth Glass in 1964, when she used the term to describe the influx of middle-class people into London's working-class neighborhoods, displacing the former residents of those localities.2

Numerous cities around the world experience the phenomenon of gentrification, which can have a direct impact on housing market dynamics. In most major cities, some neighborhoods that were previously less than desirable have morphed into vibrant districts with plush condominiums and offices, new coffee shops and restaurants, expensive retail storefronts, and various entertainment choices.

STEP I STEP II STEP III STEP IV STEP V

Working Class Community New Business Coming in Attracting More Middle Class People

In the Working-Class community or relatively poorer area, people establish tight connections with each other as a community. The housing rents are reasonable and afforable so people are living their good lives here.

Gentrification happens when wealthier newcomers move into working-class neighborhoods. New businesses and amenities often pop up to cater to these new residents. Potholes might get filled; a new bus line might appear.

These changes attract even more affluent people, and property values go up.Landlords raise rents to what these new arrivals can afford to pay, so the original tenants get forced out.

Forced to Move Out Unaffordable

Housing in the community is becoming more and more unaffordable for the working class people. The price is made for middle class.

Real estate speculators may pressure homeowners to sell their family homes. Some of those pushed out will move to more affordable neighborhoods, others to entirely different cities; others may become unhoused.

of households that own, rather than rent, their homes

Have low or moderate(bottom three quintiles) present home values and experienced high(top two quintles) appreciation from 2000 to present

Had low or moderate 1990 home values, high(top two quintiles) present home values, and high(top two quintiles) appreciation from 1990 to present.

Have low or moderate(bottom three quintiles) present home values in 2000, low or moderate(bottom three quintles) from 2000 to present and touch the boundary of at least one tract with high(top two quintiles) present value or high appreciation from 2000 to present

Affordable Housing Happy Life

Investment Rent rise Unaffordable Force to move out

Middle-Class Move In Renovation Community Of Middle Class Working Class Become Homeless or Have to Move

New York The U.S Berlin Germany

A neighborhood in transition, Bed Stuy has experienced several waves of gentrification in recent years, with many young, white families mixing into the historically black neighborhood.

Introduction Bedford-StuyvesantAMERICA EUROPE

From 2012 to 2017 alone, the city grew by 243,500 people – 81% of which were foreigners. As a result, the previously peripheral and impoverished neighbourhood of Kreuzberg has, for some years, been undergoing an extreme process of hyper-gentrification. This has meant that long-term but less affluent residents have been priced out by skyrocketing demand for property, fuelled by global investors and wealthier locals. All too often, it’s a process that occurs along lines of class, race and ethnicity

ASIA AFRICAN OCEANIA

It’s a man-made earthquake.As a process of social and spatial change, gentrification results from class upgrading and transformation. New-build gentrification, characterized by demolition and subsequent residential development involving direct or indirect residential displacement and landscape change, has become the main type of gentrification in contemporary urban China.

BEIJING CHINA MAPUTO MOZAMBIQUE

Urban transformation becomes a concern when it leads to the displacement of low-income citizens and tears apart the community’s social fabric. Several studies have suggested that involuntary displacement is the negative impact of gentrification in such urban areas. The gentrification and involuntary displacement in Maputo touches on a broader issue of land ownership and the bundle of legal rights of real estate.

SYDNEY AUSTRALIA

Largely, gentrification is the changing character of a neighbourhood through the influx of wealthier residents and businesses into once lower-income areas. It is one of the significant changes to occur in Australian cities—and across the world— where property values are pushed up in inner and middle-ring suburbs. Mainly happening in surburbs.

It’s a man-made earthquake.As a process of social and spatial change, gentrification results from class upgrading and transformation. New-build gentrification, characterized by demolition and subsequent residential development involving direct or indirect residential displacement and landscape change, has become the main type of gentrification in contemporary urban China.

SOCIAL ENVIRONMNENTAL

It’s a man-made earthquake.As a process of social and spatial change, gentrification results from class upgrading and transformation. New-build gentrification, characterized by demolition and subsequent residential development involving direct or indirect residential displacement and landscape change, has become the main type of gentrification in contemporary urban China.

POLITICAL CULTURAL

It’s a man-made earthquake.As a process of social and spatial change, gentrification results from class upgrading and transformation. New-build gentrification, characterized by demolition and subsequent residential development involving direct or indirect residential displacement and landscape change, has become the main type of gentrification in contemporary urban China.

It’s a man-made earthquake.As a process of social and spatial change, gentrification results from class upgrading and transformation. New-build gentrification, characterized by demolition and subsequent residential development involving direct or indirect residential displacement and landscape change, has become the main type of gentrification in contemporary urban China.

ECONOMICIAL

It’s a man-made earthquake.As a process of social and spatial change, gentrification results from class upgrading and transformation. New-build gentrification, characterized by demolition and subsequent residential development involving direct or indirect residential displacement and landscape change, has become the main type of gentrification in contemporary urban China.

Introduction Bedford-Stuyvesant-

Bedford-Stuyvesant gets its name from the merging of two villages: Bedford and Stuyvesant Heights. In the 1800s, Weeksville (formerly a section of Bed-Stuy that still borders the neighborhood) was one of the first free black communities in the US, before its sale to the Village of Brooklyn.

Just before the 1900s, Bed-Stuy became a commuter town, home to the working and middle classes who worked in Downtown Brooklyn and Manhattan. Around the Great Depression, immigrants hailing from South America and the Caribbean settled in Bed-Stuy, making it the second largest black community in New York. Soon after, the A train was built, connecting Bed-Stuy to Harlem, quickly making the Brooklyn neighborhood an offshoot of Manhattan’s prominent black community. This earned Bed-Stuy the name ‘Little Harlem’.

The redlining means racial discrimination of any kind in housing, but it comes from government maps that outlined areas where Black residents lived and were therefore deemed risky investments.

Current Situation of Bedford-Stuyvesant

of Bedford-Stuyvsant

Where are people who were moving out because of gentrification？

Bedford-Stuyvesant gets its name from the merging of two villages: Bedford and Stuyvesant Heights. In the 1800s, Weeksville (formerly a section of Bed-Stuy that still borders the neighborhood) was one of the first free black communities in the US, before its sale to the Village of Brooklyn.

Just before the 1900s, Bed-Stuy became a commuter town, home to the working and middle classes who worked in Downtown Brooklyn and Manhattan. Around the Great Depression, immigrants hailing from South America and the Caribbean settled in Bed-Stuy, making it the second largest black community in New York. Soon after, the A train was built, connecting Bed-Stuy to Harlem, quickly making the Brooklyn neighborhood an offshoot of Manhattan’s prominent black community. This earned Bed-Stuy the name ‘Little Harlem’.

Homeless Becoming Strangers Theaters were destroyed

IDEATION

Design Thought

A lot of new, fancy buildings started to sprout up, and majorities of people think it’s a good thing. Since the city is becoming better and better. More and more middle-class people started to move into the neighthood because the good neighborhood but cheap price. However, people see the neighborhood becoming better but forget about people who were force to move out and became homeless.Thus, I’m trying to find a way to show people the real situation and start action.

GOOD DEVELOPMENT? BAD EFFECTS?

FINAL CONCEPT

A lot of people only see the development of the city, but ignored the bad side of it. The culture of the area is fading. The traditional brown-stone building is fading and trasit into modern high-rise building which is more profitable to developers.

PROPOSAL

When you are intreseted in a graffti in brooklyn stuyvesant area, you could take out your phone and scan it to get more information about how the street look like before.This will give you a sense of how the area has developed and what development has it went through in these years.

There is a clear contrast between the middle age people who just moved into brooklyn bedford-stuyvesant area and people who just forced to move out of their home in bedford-stuyvesant area. They put up tents under the bridge.

There are fixed AR devices on the streets, you could connect your phone with the device and start your advanture exploring this area. You could adjust the time yourself to get a different views of the same street. Every site you have been will be count as one star and you can use the star to access to the final site.

In the final site, you can unlock new AR using the stars you have collected. You can see a contrast in this AR view. Instead of seeing the development of the city, you will see more behind this development- The people who become homeless after the gentrification.

1.Slave Theater

2.Tomspkin Street

+!,-'!-J(!J?(-.+!,-%'()#%#%(.-,%#+-!"#$%#0

What we wear eveyday can best present the part of you. People choose to buy clothes that show their personal styles. We are trying to find the outfits that are more close to the real “me”. Some people also choose to redesign their own outfit by buying the most basic clothes and paint, print what they like on the most basic version. What you create can always represent you the best, because it shows inner part of you. Also, people are happy to purchase clothes that are sold by their loved drama or book.

HARRY POTTER

$;29-R8G6->@637-H;67;2-(A;G6;2:'8G;:2 /898G;:2-678-R@G;3-.6O48 ,8@C;2:-678-<544836;52G

People spend time to go to store or go online to find clothes that fit them well. People are trying to find out the ones that they like in thousands of clothes.

A lot of people choose to spend time on creating their own clothes. Add on new paintings or cut off part of the cloth to make it into a new style.

Buying the clothes that are relate to the popular drama or book is also a way of people indentify themselves and try to find people who also have the same intresets.

I interviewed people of different age and professions about their attitude towards outfit. Here is the Conclusion:

Quantity of Clothes

Outfit relating to State of Mind

Judge People Based on Outfits

“I do care about fashion trend and will buy more cloth when trends change. My outfit won’t affect my mood a lot, but I think it affects how see other people,including personality, attitude, etc. hopr the future fashion could be more environmentally-friendly especially in terms of material

Beijing New York

Quantity of Clothes

Outfit relating to State of Mind

Judge People Based on Outfits

“I buy new clothes if there is special event choose my outfit of a day based on what I’m going to do. Also think outfit can represent not only personality but also one’s learning ablity in fashion field. hope the future fashion could be more sustainable

Quantity of Clothes

Outfit relating to State of Mind

Judge People Based on Outfits

<52I82;826 You don’t have to make any adjustments to the clothes.

"2;QF828GG This design of yours will be unique and shows who you are to other people.

$;29;2:-$C;829G: While you are wearing cloth of your favorite drama or book, people who also love this will be attracted by you immediately, and in this way you can make friends with people who have the common intresets.

+@C9-65-L;29: You need to spend a lot of time on choosing the right one because there are so many different styles and you don’t really know which one is the best until you try it on and there are a lot of limitations too.

)52P/83O34@K48 Most of the clothes are non recyclable. We are damaging our environment when you dispose your clothes.

#;D8-352GFD;2:: It is extremely time comsuming for us to create our own shirt. There are a lot of peparations need to be done and a lot of processes to go through before making a successful shirt.

$;A89-.6O48G:Normally the merchants only sell this kind of clothes with fixed styles and sizes. It is hard for you to find the designs you truely like.

New York

$%)'%)E.

“I buy new clothes when there is sale or season change. I choose my daily outfit based on who I’m going to meet and where am going Outfit in my mind can represent one’s personality and social status. I hope the future fashion could be more sustainable and reduce the uneccessary waste

Quantity of Clothes

Outfit relating to State of Mind

Judge People Based on Outfits

“I buy new cloth while shopping, mostly random I choose my outfit based on what I’m going to do. Also, think the outfit can reflect one’s personality. I hope fashion in the future to be more minimalist and can have dynamic logos.

Chicago Los Angeles

Quantity of Clothes

Outfit relating to State of Mind

Judge People Based on Outfits

“I buy new cloth based on the new fasion trends choose my outfit based on what I’m going to do and who I’m going to meet. I think the outfit can relfect everything about a person. hope fashion in the future to be more creative and dynamic.

Quantity of Clothes

Outfit relating to State of Mind

Judge People Based on Outfits

“I buy new cloth based on the basic needs choose my outfit based on what I’m going to do today. think the outfit can relfect one’s personality as well as one’s attitude towards people they are meeting today. I hope fashion in the future to be more sustainable and can be reuse in some ways.

New York

Based on the Findings, the design should:

Yes

No

1. Give people G84L-D56;I@6;52M.84L-%9826;L;3@6;52

2. Give people a chance to-D@N;2:-3522836;52G-H;675678CG

3. Achieve /83O34;2:M/8FG8@K48-E5@4

RESEARCH BACKGROUND

The mental health of the astronauts is very important. While they are facing the hard tasks, they have to deal with endless of loneness and depression traveling in space. Scientist now are trying to find a way to help with the mental health of the astronauts,

How do astronauts feel in space?

Anxiety

Five Senses

People easily feel depressed and anxious in the space. Therefore, we need to utilize our 5 senses to help with reducing the anxiety level and enhance the mental health.

Earth-like Environment

The more closer the environment in space is, the more comfortable

80 75 70 65

Psychologist Candice Alfano, director of the University of Houston's Sleep and Anxiety Center, developed the Mental Health Checklist (MHCL), a self-reporting diagnostic for analyzing changes in mental health changes in people subjected to isolated, confined and extreme environments.

In this study, it shows that as the mission day increase, people are

‘Music

Music can affect our emtions. Music helps keep your cardiovascular system in tune. Listening or performing music can have an affect on your heartbeat, either speeding it up if there’s a higher bpm on the track, or slowing it down when you hear more relaxing beats.

Although the more dramatic results among German listeners suggest some cultural influence in how we “feel” music, the results show that at least some portion of music appreciation may be universal. It appears that, even if one cannot completely understand or appreciate a certain culture’s music, very few people would mistake fast, rhythmic music as “sad”, or lullabies as dance music. This has been further supported by other experiments that depict how the brain reacts when listening to different types of music. So even though the Mafa tribe in Africa had never listened to western music, they can, like most people, differentiate between the different emotions expressed.

Color

Sound

The Color could represent a particular kind of emotion or feeling to most of people. Although people from different parts of the world see it differently, majority of them are the same. For example, the red represents anger. The blue represent amazement, suprise and distraction. In terms of yellow, it represents joy and serenity. Since color can stimulate different emotions, the merchants start to use color to sale products. In the study, it shows that Visual appearance of a product is more important than smell and texture. Within the visual Appearance, the color is the most important factor.

for Space” Experiment by ESA-

Music has long been known to affect people’s mood. A certain tune can lift you up or bring you to tears, make you focus, relax or even run faster. Now a study is investigating how the power of music may improve human performance in one of the most stressful and alien environments we know – space.

Music can help release a cocktail of hormones that have a positive effect on us: oxytocin, endorphin, serotonin and dopamine. Besides the pleasure we get from it, music can be used to prolong efficiency and reduce anxiety.

Ten volunteers rode on centrifuge, spun until they felt 1.5 times the weight of their bodies.Half of them listened to classical music, rest spun with no music. Music had a positive impact, participants prefer a slow pace, constant pitch music to ease through the acceleration

Entertainment Experiments

Aboard the space station, crew members have many opportunities to relax and play. Like most people who work full time, astronauts get weekends off. On any given day, can watch movies, play music, read books, play cards and talk to their families. They have an exercise bike, a treadmill and various other equipment to help keep their bodies in shape During their off time, they certainly take time out to play games and generally have a good time.

Exercise

Running Machine

INSPIRATION

The astronauts in space will need to adapt to a very challenging environment, where they’ll be isolated, face periods of heavy workloads, be away from friends and family, won’t be able to breathe fresh air or even eat fresh food. They might experience sleep problems, due to the lack of natural light, as well as anxiety problems or depression. There's more; apart from these kinds of problems, factors such as microgravity, radiation or carbon dioxide may also debilitate their neurobehavioral and performance.

“We want to keep astronauts healthy or detect that they are starting to deviate from their baseline, so we can prevent it before it really affects them or the mission itself,” says Wu, Senior Biomedical Engineer at TRISH.

Therefore, after researching about how color and sound can affect people‘s mental health, I want to design a game that can help preventing the mental problem from happening. This game can make them relax and feel calm. Also, it can make them feel home.

DESIGN CONCEPT

Starting with the idea of helping with astronaunts mental health, I decided to design a game that can help astronauts relaxing themselves and dealing with the high anxiety level in space. Therefore, I decided to incorprate sound and color that have obvious impacts on astronauts emotions.

I started with 8 different music instruments to create different sounds. Each of them have three different pitches which are low pitches, mediant and high pitches. Each of the music instruments is symbolized by different color of circle. Therefore, when you drag the circle into the screen and release it, it starts to float in the screen and bounce back when it reaches the edge of the screen.

Color

When you drag one ball to collide with another one, the colors of the two balls start to mix and show the gradient effect of the two colors. If keep dragging the ball to collide with another ball, all the colors will be seen on the merged ball and creating the gradient effect.

DESIGN ENVISION

SYSTEM I-

Game System Displayed on Screen

SYSTEM

II-

Scent System Physically Displayed Color

Scent

Sound

I imagine that the people can interact with two systems. They are not only play the game on the screen, but they can also feel it in the real world. It can provide people with a more immersive experience.

Each of the circle has its own sound and pitch. If you collide one circle with another one, the merged circle will be the sound of both of them coming together.

You could press the recording button and click on the balls that have already exist on the screen sequentially. Then hit the button pause. Then you could music that you have just composed. The sound will play sequentially and start to be a new song

KEY FEATURES

MINDMAP

Scent

The Scent System is connected to the game system. When you hit record button and chose the color balls sequentially, the scent system will remember the choices. When you hit play, it will release the scents which are given to the particular colors and mix them up. You’ll smell the scent while listening to your DIY music.

Immersive Therapy Real Life Application

Game system and scent system come together to provide immersive experiences

While playing the game, it is actually providing healing therapy to the astronauts staying in the space for a long time. Combining with the game and the scent, the whole system can help with enhacing astronauts’ working efficiency.

RESEARCH-SCENT

The strongest and most closely associated with memory and emotion among the five senses is our sense of smell.Smell is responsible for generating 75% of all daily emotions.Smell has an impact on mood, focus, memory recall, and emotion. According to research, being exposed to nice scents improves mood by 40%.

What can most likely affect your mood?

How does different types of Scents work?

It is generally acknowledged that a person's mood, memory, emotions, stress, sustained attention, ability to solve problems, and ability to communicate by smell without realizing it may all be affected by a single scent. Both consciously and subconsciously sensed scents have the potential to have the consequences mentioned. There is a wealth of research and discoveries to be made because every perfume can affect mood differently.

TASTE TOUCH SIGHT SOUND SMELL

The Methodology and Benefits of Scents to Mood

According to research, using fragrance can help those who are in stressful situations feel less anxious. For instance, Manne and Redd employed scent materials to ease patients' discomfort during an MRI scan while they were receiving medical care. The research at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center involved 85 individuals who were having MRI scans. Patients who were exposed to a vanilla smell were 63% less anxious overall than those who weren't. Scents have an impact on our sleep as well as reducing tension. For instance, peppermint can excite the brain and interfere with sleep. However, heliotropin, which has a vanilla-like scent, helps calm the mind and improve sleep.

Basically, scents are emotional.

Anxiety Level Reduced by 63%

Design Sketches

Rule

We have 8 different instruments of different pitches. From A-H are flute, guitar violin, trumpet, accordion, electrical piano, piano, and drum. Each of them has different colors and when they collide, they combine into one circle of both colors and sounds.

When you press the recoding button, it starts to record the sound of the ball sequentially.

When you click on pause, it records the end point of the song.

Recording Pause Play

When you hit play, it will playthe sounds of the balls sequentially from the starting point.(click on the recording) to the ending point(click on Pause)

Lavender-Relaxation

Ginger-Activation

Peppermint-Refresh

Chamomile-Calming Down

MAKING PROCESS

using System.Collections; using System.Collections.Generic; using UnityEngine;

public class YJZGameControl MonoBehaviour {

public GameObject c1; public GameObject c2; public GameObject c3; public GameObject c4; public GameObject c5; public GameObject c6; public GameObject c7; public GameObject c8;

public GameObject pos1; public GameObject pos2; public GameObject pos3; public GameObject pos4; public GameObject pos5; public GameObject pos6; public GameObject pos7; public GameObject pos8;

public int c1Type = 1; public int c2Type = 1; public int c3Type = 1; public int c4Type = 1; public int c5Type = 1; public int c6Type = 1; public int c7Type = 1; public int c8Type = 1;

public List<GameObject> npcs = new List<GameObject>();

// Start is called before the first frame update void Start() { } // Update is called once per frame void Update() {

if (Input.GetMouseButtonDown(0)) {

Ray ray = Camera.main.ScreenPointToRay(Input.mousePosition); RaycastHit hitInfo; if (Physics.Raycast(ray, out hitInfo)) {

GameObject obj = hitInfo.collider.gameObject; //Debug.Log(obj.name);

if (obj.name == "c1bar_1") {

c1Type = 1; } if (obj.name == "c1bar_2") {

c1Type = 2; } if (obj.name == "c1bar_3") {

c1Type = 3; } if (obj.name == "c2bar_1") { c2Type = 1; } if (obj.name == "c2bar_2") {

c2Type = 2; } if (obj.name == "c2bar_3") {

c2Type = 3; } if (obj.name == "c3bar_1") { c3Type = 1; } if (obj.name == "c3bar_2") {

c3Type = 2; } if (obj.name == "c3bar_3") {

c3Type = 3; } if (obj.name == "c4bar_1") { c4Type = 1; } if (obj.name == "c4bar_2") {

c4Type = 2; } if (obj.name == "c4bar_3") {

c4Type = 3; } if (obj.name == "c5bar_1") {

c5Type = 1; } if (obj.name == "c5bar_2") {

c5Type = 2; } if (obj.name == "c5bar_3") {

c5Type = 3; } if (obj.name == "c6bar_1") {

c6Type = 1; } if (obj.name == "c6bar_2") {

c6Type = 2; } if (obj.name == "c6bar_3") {

c6Type = 3; } if (obj.name == "c7bar_1") { c7Type = 1; } if (obj.name == "c7bar_2") { c7Type = 2; } if (obj.name == "c7bar_3") { c7Type = 3; } if (obj.name == "c8bar_1") { c8Type = 1; } if (obj.name == "c8bar_2") {

c8Type = 2; } if (obj.name == "c8bar_3") {

c8Type = 3; }

if (obj.tag == "c1") { Instantiate(c1,pos1.transform.position,c1.transform.rotation); } if (obj.tag == "c2") {

Instantiate(c2, pos2.transform.position, c2.transform.rotation); } if (obj.tag == "c3") {

Instantiate(c3, pos3.transform.position, c3.transform.rotation); } if (obj.tag == "c4") { Instantiate(c4, pos4.transform.position, c4.transform.rotation); } if (obj.tag == "c5") { Instantiate(c5, pos5.transform.position, c5.transform.rotation); } if (obj.tag == "c6") { Instantiate(c6, pos6.transform.position, c6.transform.rotation); } if (obj.tag == "c7") {

Instantiate(c7, pos7.transform.position, c7.transform.rotation); } if (obj.tag == "c8") { Instantiate(c8, pos8.transform.position, c8.transform.rotation); } } } } }

COEXIST

An Architecture Program for Elderly People and Caretakers

DUMBO-BROOKLYN

Our site is Located in Dumbo area brooklyn. It has easy access to a lot of grocery stores and restaurant and farmacy, so elderly people don’t need to walk far away to get to all the places. In this area, we have parks as well as a lot of flea market for elderly people to enjoy leisure time. There are also office building, studios and hospital that are easily get access to.

Elderly People can also have a really nice river view on the roof top.

Before After

Children-Young

Caretaker-Middle Age

Elderly-Old

Design Operations

Making of Chinese Knot

Different Life Stages

The Chinese knot is not only tighting elderlies and caretakers together but to tight different life stages together. We have a Chapel on the second floor for elderlies who have passed away here. But people can see children playing outside and nurses doing their job as well. Their family members will get to know that the life is like the concept of Chinese know, so complex and interwining with each other, but the life is as simple as the mobius strip. What we only can do is to play a good role in our own lives.

We tight caretaker and seniors as Chinese knot. Based on this idea we developed more different forms out if the basic shapr and we are trying to putin one caretaker and connection him with different numbers of elderlies based on different levels of diabilities. We added one to one unit for elderies with serious disabilities and one to mulitiple got prople with less disabilities. We also added the L shapr to connect one to multiple people.

Basic Form- Fitting into Lotline

Add Core in the Middle

Add Small Public Programs

Divide the building into 4 Parts-Curved corner According to the site

Add Units

When planning the whole building. I divided it into four parts, the lower part was the lobby and parking lot, then floors for elderlies with serious disabilities, large public program space, and floors for elderlies with less disabilities. Add a core in the middle so it will be easily accessible to all people in the building. Added living units on the west and south sides so they can get enough sun shine. The large program space is in the middle to tight upper and lower level together, and the four floors atriums we added is to tight people every four floors in the building

Less disability Circulation More disability Circulation

Here in the circulation diagram, the red line symbolises seniors with less disabilities, and the blue line elderlies with more disabilities. People have different level of disabilities will experience the building in different ways. You can see here, mostly, elderlies with less disabilities using stairs more often after saying hi to people dancing on the awn outside, then taking the elevator, They walk down the atrium to interact with people on different floors, then go back to their own unit. However, people with a serious disability prefer to take elevators, then they probably stay within two floors since it' s harder for them to move, finally go back to their own units. When they go to the large public space, their route overlaps, so they can have interaction with each other. Also you can see in the plans that people are so interactive witt elderlies and caretakers can have aces to them while having privacy.

SHORT SECTION

LONG SECTION

TYPICAL CARETAKER PLAN

TYPICAL ELDERLY PLAN