Portfolio of Mengying Ouyang

MENGYING OUYANG Master of Architecture in Urban Design Harvard University Graduate School of Design 2020 Candidate

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Re-habitation, an Alternative to Rapid Privatization Post-Industry, Post-Socialist Community Harvard GSD Option Studio High Pass

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Suffolk Downs * The Urban In-Between in Transition Nominated Platform 12

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Mumbai Koliwada Informal Settlement Redevelopment with Sanitation Infrastructure

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The Grids * The Urban Periphery in Flux Harvard GSD Urban Design Core Studio

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Murazzi, Regeneration under the City Wall Museum for Local and Tourists in Turin

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Swirling the Edge * Meditation Club above Food Market in Causeway Bay

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Sunslice Brooklyn Row House for Artists

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Agricultural Campus Reweaving Interface Between Rural and Nature in the Former Industrial Land

* Collaborative Works

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01 Re-habitation, an Alternative to Rapid Privatization

Harvard GSD 2019 Fall Option Studio-The Agency of the Urban Ensemble: Community, Action, City Instructor: Alex Wall Site: Novi sad, Serbia Area: 45 ha High Pass in Studio, Individual Work In the former Soviet empire, the collapse of Communism created an opportunity for the victims of one failed utopian ideology to find another. The evaporating Soviet system left an ideological vacuum to be refilled.

Situated in the most depressing industrialized area, the project argues for the benefits of incremental privatization. The general public would be convinced that private entities can perform many of the services that have for a long time been provided by monopoly government entities.

How can a defunct area activate as a Mid-scale mediator, by proposing a model based on housing and social enterprises? The project further discovers the spatial uniqueness of the industry and seeks to involve the inhabitants in the development of their district through new housing. Thereby to create a new community belonging where the collaborative civic place and individual living space can be reorganized, transforming their view of the city.

Housing types in transect Physical Limit- Highway

Three periods constitute the urbanization of the city of Novi Sad. The city never finds its perfect housing model and every period leaves its mistake to the next period. In 1945, the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugosptinlavia was proclaimed and the city built its infrastructure as priority. From 1975, large unregulated open space cause security issue and form the collective ideology. Third, Free market period from 1990, the employment rate increase because of the growth of the economic activities.

Physical Limit- Labor force

Physical Limit- Hill

A//1945-1975

B//1945-1975

C//1975-1990

D//1975-1990

E//1990-

F//1990-

G//1990-

Period 1: The great develoopment

Period 1: The great develoopment

Period 2: Social housing

Period 2: Social housing

Period 3: The Free market

Period 3: The Free market

Period 3: The Free market

The periphery become new

Grids in Duality

Form the collective ideology

Large unregulated open space cause security

Large amount of Single family house,

Real state dominant type- the

Large amount of Single family house

issue

southwest area

European block

next to the industrial factory

monofunctional urban core

Socialism period Liman city area, Block III Social housing

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Capitalism period Bulevar Europe, market-rate apartment

Design Concept: A Model Embedded with Socio-economic Value A(Market rate multi-family housing) B(Affordable housing) 1600 m2 +2000 m2 +1600 m2

Middle class family Low income workers Middle class family

-Market rate multi-family housing FAR1.5 Height=12m(F4) -Affordable housing OSR 55% Height=26m(F1+F7)

Affordable housing: -Minimum Semi-public open space:55% -Ground floor for Shared facilities -400 m2 shared space(semiprivate) Market rate multi-family housing: -Back yard. (private use) 23m2 back yard/family

FAR=2.2

FAR=3

FAR=4.3

Open Space as anchor

Pavilions as anchor

Retail store as anchor

Exdotopic#1

Exdotopic#2

Endotopic

Type 1 Basic type, testing flexibility of the FAR of the affordable housing

Type 2 #Setback Providing amenities on the perimeter to serve the surrounding Single-family house

Type 3 #Periphery -The revertible construction method for cultural events places.

-Development reserved land

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Scale#1: Phasing Strategy How to transform a defunct former industrial area? The proposed urban design phasing strategy consists of three phases. In the first phase prototyped solutions will serve as an attraction to the area. In the second phase, I adapt the existing areas through new buildings and functions. In the last phase the area will serve as a large-scale test for a modern settlement.

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Duplex unites for multi family housing,

Ground floor

The dwelling units for the residential tower

120 square meter per unit.

Co-working space

contain three types. on average each unit has 40 square meter living area.

Scale#2: A Community with Kindergarten A block is selected from the first phase, design it as a paradigm, to experiment with the capability of the infill typology to react to the existing factory. The factories in divided into two-part, the kindergarten and the grocery store.

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Phase 1#Demolish

Phase 1#Renovation

Large plot bought out first and the speculation of smaller parcels

Adapt the existing defunct factories through new plug-ins and functions

Phase 2# Infill typology

Phase 2# New public realm(Gound floor plan)

Infill housing by anchoring it to the existing primary road and calibrate in relate to

The retrofited factories together with the new infilled Housing becomes a frameworks for a new urban living, creating mixing social activities

Phase 3# Densification

2030

The first and the second phase set a paradigm and adjacent defunct area along

In the final phase the area will serve as large-scale indensified and densified urban

the canal can be developed, to reinforce the sustainable trinity, the mobility, the housing and the working

Framework

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Intimacy Capitalized on the existing defunct structure and create a new living spatial quality

Social Mixing The factory is design as kindergaten, to promote social mixing

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Ground Floor Plan A block is selected from the first phase, design it as a paradigm, to experiment with the capability of the infill typology to react to the existing factory. The factories in divided into two-part, the kindergarten and the grocery store.

Neighboor: single-family house

Recreation

Recreation

Loft

Co-working

Affordable housing

Multi-family housing

Defunct Factory

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The goal of the project is to develop a neighborhood where contemporary workplaces and avant-garde CLT housing projects come together as a sustainable alternative to privatization and suburban development. The final layout advocates for mixing social activities with production and living. It presents an overall concept for how the site can be connected to the city and infrastructure, strategies for programming and landscape features. The transformation process is based on a flexible and adaptable scheme that is open for a long-term development that can go in many different directions.

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02 Suffolk Downs

Harvard GSD 2018 Fall Urban Design Core Studio -The Urban In-Between in Transition Instructor: Rahul Mehrotra, Stephen Gray, Dennis Pieprz, Linda Pollak, Fu Yun, Michael Manfredi Cooperation with Yamei Chen/ Role in the team: design strategy, modeling, presentations and drawings Site: Boston Area: 97 ha Nominated Platform 12 East Boston's population is ethnically diverse, reflecting the immigrants from around the world who moved there. Since the early 1900s, immigrants have been a part of the East Boston community. Suffolk Downs, an underutilized horse racing facility closed in 2018, it has been separated from the community for decades and plans include reconnecting it to the adjacent neighborhoods.

The design thesis is defined as Can an industrial land transform into productive land that can provide educational opportunity for immigrants and promote aggregation of adjacent communities?

This project introduces two spines of public space and a continuous topography that connects not only the adjacent communities but also existing ecological nature system on the site, in order to create a new urban emergence for the ethnically diverse area of Suffolk Down.

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In order to create a new urban emergence for the ethnically diverse area of Suffolk Down.This project introduces two spines of public space and a continuous topography. The horizontal spine allocates in the middle of the site to provide equal opportunities for the communities. The vertical spine allows social aggregation and served as a surrealist racial collection of urban diversity that in fact reflects the true nature of the local neighborhood.

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Primary Public Ground The powerful new hub will include hotels, street-front retail, and restaurants, generating new jobs, local tax revenues and will create a destination that is significant for the futures of both East Boston and Revere

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Social Mixing The intersecting spines become generators of the programming, to create space for gathering and cultural events and provide nature experience with multiple theme parks.

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Surrealist Racial Collection The post-industrial land in East Boston is proposed as a giant exhibition of urban best practice-a sort of collection of global found objects that come from different home countries of the people inhabiting the adjacent area.

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Ground Floor Plan The higher ambition of this project is to create a new lifestyle of working, living and studying with nature for the immigrant family. To set a standard that can be an inspiration for other cities and neighborhoods.

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03 Mumbai Koliwada

Harvard GSD 2018 Spring Option Studio-Extreme Urbanism Informal Settlement Redevelopment with Sanitation Infrastructure Instructor: Rahul Mehrotra Site: Mumbai, India Area: 3ha Aga Kham Program for Islamic Architecture In the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR), indigenous settlements such as koliwadas are at a risk of losing their cultural identity and space in the city. The aspiration of the koli community to upgrade their settlements has reached an impasse, as the result of a lack of formal documentation which can establish land rights.

This has restricted them from upgrading their settlements, and led to a deterioration of the physical, social and cultural fabrics of the koliwadas.

As a consequence, the settlements have become encumbered with congested living conditions, and are in dire need of essential sanitation infrastructure, which could become an enabler for a transformative process in bringing about dignity and improved health in the community.

The project speculates about a hybrid form of the new Koliwada settlement combined with productive landscape and infrastructure in a shifting and dynamic context. Work on two parallel time frames, which based on the assumption that eventually the mangrove will grow on the coastal line and the Koliwada integrates new settlement along the road so that everyone is comfortably accommodated.

Dry Season:

Monsoon Season:

Dry Season:

Monsoon Season:

Waterfront Open Space

Interior Open Space

Interior Open Space

Waterfront Open Space

Seasonality and Edges This site contains a historic Portuguese fort which is currently occupied by informal settlements and the Kolis- a fishing community that has a long lineage and are among the original settlers of the islands of Bombay. The site has a clear and an organized community group that would serve as the constituency group for the studio. It is bound on the western and northern edges by water, as well as a major city thoroughfare on the eastern edge.

G+1 structure

G+2 structure

Public building

Open space

Waste water drain

Informal water supply

Site survey Information provided by UDRI

Sanitation and Equity The project starts with an ongoing research project mapping the sanitation and living condition in the site and beyond. It explores social, technical, and cultural challenges surrounding sanitation infrastructure and suggests potential design and planning solutions.

Septic tanks

Elevation Drawings by: Charity Cheung

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Without water supply

With waste water pits

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Edge1- Productive Landscape

Edge2-New Development

Improve the open space along the water edge, let public

There is a piece of land next to the road, develop it for

come in. Anchor two facilities, market and community

facilities, it will be developed as transit camps. Then,

center. There will be some small restaurants and places

eedeveloping sector by sector into proper house and better

for boat storage so that Kolis can work better and more

sanitation become possible

Sanitation Infrastructure

The toilet is design regarded as multifunctional places for gathering where people can sit and rest to archive sustainability and reinforce fishing identity

efficiently

The area that fishing related activities enlarged and Kolis will

The edge of existing retail along the road was seen as

Organizing the community around the cluster-shared toilet, 6

have stronger connection with reliable resource

mediator shift and act as new edge between new building

types of toilet are proposed as multifunctional intervention

and Koliwada

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Sanitation as a Socially and culturally Appropriate Solution Type 1- Periphery, located on the periphery of the settlement, divided women and men toilet is needed as well as more toilet seats and higher privacy level.

Type 2- Corridor, direct access to the main public ground, semi-outdoor space functions as a gesture to buffer from public to private Type3- Sea terrace, located close to the sea and upper floor terrace provide places for rest with panorama view.

Type4- Existing stair, inserting cluster-shared toilet become possible in the interstitial space by taking advantage of existing stair.

Type5-Plaza, located on the access to the sea, an active public ground is created in front of the toilet. Urban furniture is provided on the plaza.

The toilet is design regarded as multifunctional places for gathering where people can sit and rest to archive sustainability and reinforce fishing identity. In the second phase, organizing the community around the cluster-shared toilet, 6 types of toilet are proposed as multifunctional intervention. Access to potable water and waste disposal systems is necessary for the health of our cities and their inhabitants, and architecture as a practice can reach far beyond individual buildings to more systemic thinking about infrastructure and civic policy. The challenge is to find socially and culturally appropriate solutions that can be intelligently integrated into everyday lives, especially in vulnerable communities.

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Set-up

Set-up: Program and circulation

Edge2-New D

For the first ten years, it works as a conservation project. No demolish anything, only the impro There is a piece of empty land along the road, new housing is proposed to increase the livability. In the first five years, it will

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Calibration: Historical interface

Calibration: Interior edge

Development

ovement of open space and small intervention. Also to build community centers. act as a transit camp and accommodate people in change. The apartment will eventually be sold on the market

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Fishing farm

Pier

Program

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Public walkway

Koliwada

New development

City

The city of Mumbai is origin from seven islands, where Koliwada were settled by the water so that they can have a reliable resource to relay on. However, because of land reclamation, some koliwada lose their water resources. The Railway is the main mobility mode for citizens to travel but it provides fast transit in a north-south direction. The fishing village by the sea lost the convenience and advantage of public transportation compared to the inland residents.

The design issue is defined as how can Koliwada redevelopment free the land they occupied and become a new asset to the city. And how new Koliwada settlement can be embedded with upgraded infrastructure and productive landscape.

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04 The Girds

Harvard GSD Fall 2018 Urben Design Core Studio Cooperation with Yechan Shin/ Role in the team: design strategy, modeling, presentations and drawings Instructor: Rahul MehrotrawithStephen Gray Dennis Pieprz, Linda Pollak, Yun Fu, Michael Manfredi Site: Woburn Area: 80 ha In the last 50 years, the suburbs were built with a lot of unintended consequences. Whether it's redeveloping dying malls or re-inhabiting dead big-box stores or reconstructing wetlands out of parking lots, the growing number of empty and underperforming, especially retail, sites throughout suburbia gives us actually a tremendous opportunity to transform the leastsustainable landscapes into more sustainable places.

Suburban expansion to cheap land has helped generations of families enjoy the American dream. But increasingly, the savings promised by drive those savings are wiped out when considering the transportation costs. Not only the affordability question but also public health issues and carbon footprint is one of the unintended consequences of building the suburbs.

Thesis: How to urbanize the suburbs by introducing urban grids, to create the middle landscape in between nature and urban?

Rethinking Manhattan's Grid, Sae Kim(Reference)

Bring in the Urban Elements Redefining the suburban core and creating productive landscape in former superfund site, to facilitate plurality and despecialization of program in a suburban model of development.

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Blur the Edge The intersection of new grids and the suburban context become the new public ground that allows social and cultural life thrive. A new transit-oriented suburban core, supporting parking, parkland, public amenities, and commercial developments.

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The grid envisions a system of public ground that serves to transform the contaminated diagonal road into a new d thriving system providing an active space for programming.

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district that capitalized on the existing train station. The site acts as a

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05 Murazzi, Regeneration under the City Wall Museum for Local and Tourists in Turin (Personal research and design / / Spring 2016) Site: Turin, Italy Study site: 36 ha/Project site: 1300m2 Rethinking the Interface - Inserting Layers of History The construction of the Murazzi area dates back to 1830 when construction began along Corso Cairoli and long-Po Cadorna. The area was not completed until 1973. The term Murazzi or “Muri” refers to the embankments, which is 1.2km running along the River Po. With the construction of the Murazzi, Turin became the first Italian city to embrace the French “way of life” along the river.

Up until the 1940s the embankments lining the Western bank of the river were utilized by the local fisherman as a shelter for boats, however over time the area became run down and neglected. During the seventies the Murazzi saw a second transformation into a notorious nightspot for young people until its closure in 2008, a decision made by the Turin City Council, due to the increasing level of violence in the area.

The project renovate the old city wall through activating the

internal, abandoned and arch-shaped space, the new part will bring the forgotten space into use. The new insertion

should be used not only by the local, but also for tourists. When multiple users are defined, then followed the functions: it consists three main parts, including student zone, atrium and museum.

conserve

The council began to discuss the construction of Murazzi when the construction of the Vittorio bridge had almost been completed.

The real sea wall, however, would not have to be constituted by a continuous veneer, but to present the repetition of a module constituted by a 'arch behind which opened a deep niche. And 'possible to consider that this solution was designed both to be able to reduce land fills in order to obtai a structure more resistant to ground forces. The project also envisaged the possibility to realize in some sections, in place of niches of the big rooms below the Po river course to be used as wash houses, closing the front arches and stained glass windows.

1880 wash house

(linear space)

Up until the 1940s the embankments lining the Western bank of the river were utilized by the local fisherman as a shelter for boats

1970s nightspot (dotted-like space)

(array space)

1940s fisherman shelter for boats

1830s construction Carlo Promis drafts the design of Murazzi under the "Magnification of the Capital"(1851-1852) With the enlargement of the Capital Plan, which will connect the earlier wall. The plan was so tightly integrated to the city. Ramps were also designed from the city down to the riverbank.

During the seventies the Murazzi saw a second transformation into a notorious nightspot for young people until its closure in 2008, a decision made by the Turin City Council, due to the increasing level of violence in the area.

(planar space)

closure due to violence events

The primary purpose of arched space in the wall is to save budget and to accommodate industries that closely related to the water. Right after construction, the two-story Wool and dyeing factory owned

by Mr. Joseph and Mr. Celestino Deavalle.

Historical Events

As the border of the second expansion of the city during the Middle Ages, Murazzi has experienced choppy historical change and finally became a unified front of the city.

The construction of the Murazzi area dates back to 1830 when construction began along Corso Cairoli and long-Po Cadorna. The area was not completed until 1973. The term Murazzi or “Muri” refers to the embankments, which is 1.2km running along the River Po. With the construction of the Murazzi, Turin became the first Italian city to embrace the French “way of life” along the river.

Up until the 1940s the embankments lining the Western bank of the river were utilized by the local fisherman as a shelter for boats, however over time the area became run down and neglected. During the seventies the Murazzi saw a second transformation into a notorious nightspot for young people until its closure in 2008, a decision made by the Turin City Council, due to the increasing level of violence in the area.

Gestalt: the Infrastructure and the City The old infrastructure Murazzi guards the city from flood and it lighted up the city with its darkness. As time goes on, the white part and dark part gradually integrate.

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2011

2012

2013

2014

2015

2016

2017

2018

Dawn Austria created a mobile wall to save the city from floods. Two components make these technology succeed, one is the foundation that constructed around the entire riverbank, another is removable slats that are fitted on the vertical pillars to complete the wall. This new technology break the interface of historical and modern. Murazzi was given the opportunity to regenerate. The dark, forgotten corners of the city, which calms dowm in the historic rivers are ready to assimilate into the modern city.

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Space

sequence

public and private

1970s

lounge

bar

clean room

toilet

dance pool public space

kitchen

lounge

administration

1960s

bar

boat storage

office

boat storage

walking

1940s

boat storage

waiting

production

production

raw material

despatch

inspection

1920s production

production

despatch production trucks

inspection

workers

1900s

storage

bath

iron storage laundry

dressing despatch reception

1880s

bathtub

stream

Murazzi Never Stop Restructuring Itself The forms and space changed follow the change of function, each construction is based on the condition left by the construction in the previous period.

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seat

seat

stage

public area

bar 1970s nightspot

storage

towpath 1960s fisherman shelter

storage

corridor

storage

1940s fisherman shelter

inpection

inpection 1920s clothing factory

standardized workplace

office

standardized workplace

1900s dyeing factory

guest reception

landry room

dry room

1880s washing factory

1880s washing factory

1900s dyeing factory

1920s clothing factory

1940s fisherman shelter

1940s fisherman shelter

1970s nightspot

Historical Interface

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Historical Exp Murazzi uses history to tell her own story, she carries

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ploded View the story of different people and the story of the city.

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city

nature

Detachment between Nature and City Murazzi is a testimony to two detachments: one is the detachment of urban density on both sides of the river, the other is the detachment of property allocation due to the immigration tendency of rich people living in the eastern mountain area.

Existing

Urban Structure primary road

education institution

tourist attraction

+bike lane + greenway + running route

+ study area + reading room + library

+ new tourist destination

Expected

Users

The city grid is planned closely related to the river: main roads are perpendicular to the river, which makes the river and embankment embrace high accessibiliy from urban jungle. When I observed the site within the city context, it is obvious that plenty of education institutions are located along the river, especially institutions for youth.

Meanwhile, it is close to the city center, commercial street "Via Roma", and some must-visit destination for tourists.

Define Users Function

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jogger

student

atrium

student zone

tourist

museum

The new insertion should be used not only by the local, but also for tourists. When multiple users are defined, then followed the functions: it consists three main parts, including student zone, atrium and museum.

Concept: Arch as Language to Express the History Through activating the internal, abandoned and arch-shaped space, the new part will bring the forgotten space into use.

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Ground Floor Plan 1: 400

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1. Atrium 2. Bookshop 3. Ticket 4. Contemporary Exhibition 5. River Po history Exhibition 6. Cafe 7. Storage 8. Study Room 9. Lecture Hall 10. Toilet 11. Reception 12. Storage Lockers 13. Group Study Room 14. Personal Study Room

Atrium Lighting

Rafter

Staircase Second Floor Panel

New Wall -perpendicular to the river New Wall -horizontal to the river

First Floor Panel

Old Wall

Old and New The reservation consists of the outer wall, two arches, and a wall enclosing the atrium. New wall system consists of two directions: perpendicular to the river and horizontal to the river. In this way, the relationship between architecture and environment is strengthened.

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Different scales of spaces including public space and service space are shown in the sections. The scale of arch wall varies with the degree of publicity. Two double height spaces are located: one is the lecture hall underneath two remaining arches, the other is located along the murazzi wall.

Atrium, New Part of the Waterfront System For general activity, the atrium can be used as rehearsal room by local artists or as night club by youth. For particular event, it also own the potential to become a place that undertake common activities, such as the backstage of the Turin Jazz Festival performing on the riverbank.

Day | Rehearsal

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Night | Club

Event | Turin Jazz Festival

Museum and Cafe

The cafe is open to the riverbank side with the old doors on the city wall.

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Section 1:150

-Existing Housing: Wall: Stone Slab Air Space Insulation Vertical Guide Join Block Finished Floor: Finished Floor Sreed Concrete Prepared-Concrete Waterproof Plasterboard

-Existing Road: Bedding Of Fine Cement Aggregate Base Course Drainage Layer Underdrain Subgrade

Finished

A

B

C

Air Condition (Outlet) Reinforcement

Frange Steel Plate

Stages in arch construction: A, steel frame B, reinforcing mat to limit cracks C, finished composite construction

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-Wall: Exposed Concrete +Hydrophobizing agent Finish

Wire Fabric Hanger Wire Fabric(Both Side)

-Floor: Tile Carpet 500x500 t=10 +Raised Access Floor Heat Insulation t=20 Void Slab t=300

-Ceiling: Exposed Concrete +Hydrophobizing Agent Finish

existing condition

grid

restortation and construction

open to public

government

university

ownership

student

local+tourist

users

atrium student zone

museum

function

new walls

Architectural Transition New walls are generated as a soft intervention inside the embankment, echoing the ancient city wall with a similar architectural language.

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06 Swirling the Edge

Meditation Club above Food Market in Causeway Bay Spring 2017 Study area: 30 ha, Project area: 1600m2 Cooperation with Zilu He/ Role in the team: reasoning, modeling, design and drawings Site: Causeway Bay, Hong Kong, China.

'Through the transparent walls, people slowly sink into endless meditation or gathered in a silent dialogue. Human beings are forever out of touch with the outside world. Only when the sun rises can they be excited about a while ... They are surviving humans who will witness the destruction but will not be able to accelerate or delay it.

They will eventually be alone.'

In the work of New York of Brains, Superstudio describes the process of constructing a new city after the explosion. The new city comprised of 10 million brains that slowly sink into endless meditation or gather in silent conversations where people are out of touch with the outside world. On the basis of the work of Zaha, three types of massing are proposed. the project understand an architecture that consists of diverse units of whom different identity can be read by people. Each meditation space is the unit that together forms the matrix. Prototype of meditation space is generated by controlling the X axis and Y axis.(X=radius of the control curve, Y=Number of the control curve). Through these techniques, light and space were modulated between soft and hard thresholds.

Representation of Causeway Bay

From Zaha to a New Understanding of Hong Kong The work of Peak Leisure Club by Zaha Hadid Architects is constantly sketched in the context of Hong Kong. It is a set of representation of subjective expression. With arbitrary force and accidental overlay, Zaha imposed an extremely complicated environmental order.

2.High density 1. Closeness and isolation of the space of same fuction

3. The decreasing public space

In the drawing, the energetic spatial mobility and flexibility offers tremendous potential for the unlimited urban expansion.

The project of Swirling Edge of Common Custom Space starts with the interpretation of Peak Leisure Club, aiming to understand the secular environment of the city thus construct the interface between spiritual space and secular life. The representation of Causeway Bay were drawn on the basis of Zaha's work. Warm color represents the chaotic and messy condition of the street and activities in the ground floor level of Mong Kok. Plan of fractured zoning were enlarged to express the flexible and unexpected urban expansion. The black building facade as back ground to illustrate the unstoppable growing of density.

The Peak Leisure Club by Zaha Hadid Architects, 1982

Three characteristics of Hong Kong urban environment can be read from Zaha's drawing: 1. Closeness and isolation of the space of same function 2. High density 3. The decreasing public space.

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corridor

flyover

community

office

central park

penetrated

underground pedestrian tunnel

cross corridor

mall

commercical and residential

enclosed

rooftop garden

corridor and staircase

corridor and stair

office and community

comlpex

shaded

overhead

Closeness and Isolation Messy colors in Zaha's drawing indicates that the same function distribute on different floors, as a result, the horizontal continuity was subverted and people can walk from one place to another only through elevator.

High Density The repeated vertical warm color squares were constantly sketched in the context of Hong Kong depicted a high-density urban living scene. Hong Kong is one of the city of highest density in the world in accord to the analysis of the block.

The Decreasing Public Space The public space is broken into fractured geometries in Zaha's drawing and they penetrate each other in the urban environment, implying human damage to the landscape. Typology of public space shows its decreasing trend.

Explosion and Negative Space In order to deconstruct the complex and superimposed urban environment in Hong Kong, daily scenes in the city were sketched. Static analogy and dynamic analogy were used to extract the feeling when flâneur walk through different places. Explosion: we draw analogy between the feeling of coming out from the subway station to the street and blowing balloons. Crowded city make flâneur hard to breath, going out of the subway station, going up by the escalator, walking to the street and finally arrived at open space, flâneur have never stopped being squeezed. Negative Space: The total mass of air in the oral cavity and the balloon remains the same, just like the positive and negative space in the space.

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going up by the escalator

crowded, deformed and twisted way out flâneur going out of the subway station open space

Static analogy

walk to the street

direction

divergent

cross

ant nest

group

vertical

circuit

analogy

soldier

leaves

figure

metro station

street

building

open space

Terrace as public space

Incresed connection

Origional relative density

In the work of New York of Brains, Superstudio describes the process of constructing a new city after explosion. The new city comprised of 10 million brains that slowly sink into endless meditation or gather in silent conversations where people are out of touch with the outside world.

On the basis of the work of Zaha, three types of massing are proposed.

Inspiration to a Matrix The stone-like massing as a prototype can be developed to built a meditation club that is isolated from the secular word.

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People can immediately reach the meditation club from the ground floor of the food market by the elevator. The platform and garden in between food market and meditation club serve as transitional space, making people change their mental state from secular to spiritual.

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Hence, each cluster of meditation room is equipped with garden and preparation space. The garden served as buffer space that makes people calm down from the secular environment.

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Politecnico di Torino 2013 Fall Design Studio Instructors: Caterina Tiazzoldi, Mario Sassone, Luca Staricco Site: Brooklyn Area: 975m2 Row House for Artists Individual work Diego Rivera describes New York in the work of Frozen Assets from three aspects, from the bottom to the top: the unshakable bank, the crops of workers in the city hall and skyscrapers. (Left)

Rivera sets an example as a community member who used his talents to tell the stories of the working class. He portrayed the working class combined with elements of the Mexico city, illustrating that society was characterized by class divisions. Class division in architecture, form follows the function, as class division can be read in the form of industrial architecture.

Brooklyn is a populous city as well as a thriving hub of postmodern art, with former industrial and rail land occupying large located area. Nowadays, some of the former industrial sites have been converted to new functions such as Austin warehouse and Domino sugar refinery.

The deisgn concept is through the operation of building block,

to break the social class and discuss whether can the interface of architecture link industrial memory and urban identity. To create new public realm in a post-industrial district through mix of uses and adjustment of aggregation.

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Roof as Interface to Express Industrial Indentity The pitched roof aims to evoke collective memory of the Brooklyn industry. It provides artists with unique living environment, at the same time taking on the role of exhibition in the gallery. Each unit is developed from 4m*9m*11m module, mixed with office at street level. The ownership of the ground floor commercial is open to the developer. The linear blocks fulfill the city facade, at the same time it encloses a semi-public green area, to work as a seed bringing green life to the neighbourhood.

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Politecnico di Torino Spring 2015 Urban Design Studio Individual work Instructors: Alessandro Fubini, Emanuela Saporito Site: Moncalieri, Italy. Area: 6 ha Henri Lefebvre describes the three stages of urban transformation as commercialization, industrialization, and urbanization. In the early time, the exchange of products prevailed between neighbors even before the appearance of currency. With the development of technology, the industrial production accumulated and superimposed on the growth of the commercial exchange.

There is a constant risk in Europe, that the former industrial plants once around or between the cities were abandoned and now present a diffused type of urbanization. In the majority situation, industrial plants were built on the periphery of the city where is not too far away from the city center to make sure the labor force can be accessible enough to run the plants.

The edge of the liberal economy that once has been eroded by industrialization has no chance to escape from its fate - to be trapped in the gap between cities and turn to an Implosive Edge over time. The reasons are, on the one hand, that the demand for labor force made it hardly expand outward, on the other hand, that high land price made it hardly expand inward. Inevitably, it forms various footprints in accord with the accumulation of capital and the process of industrialization.

ISSUE: Can the interface on the border of city knits agricultural land with urban context, to explore the potential of natural resource?

Moncalieri is a town of approximately 58,000 inhabitants and about 8 kilometres directly south of downtown Toino(to whose province it belongs), in Piedmont, Italy. In addition, it lies between the railway system connecting Torino and Genova, which used to be the industrial triangle together with Milano.

The project starts with the observation of the coexisted condition of decreasing agriculture fabrics and growing urban fabrics within the city.

These two dominant types form the urbanism across the town. The site Altissmo is a former industry.

It serves as a hinge connecting urban fabrics on the north and agriculture fabrics on the south, and as a east-west connection that provides opportunity for improving east-west road.

The project seeks to capitalize on this fragile border and sees an opportunity to retool dated brownfield by designing new dynamic and flexible interface between agriculture fields and urban context. For this reason, Three types of farm strategy 1 has been proposed, expecting to emphasize natural resource so favoring socialization.

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1: Experimental field The Experimental field mainly concentrated in the campus with primary function to assist teaching and promote technology research. The massing of building consists of two category: teaching building for classes and green house for labs. Large opening Facade was chosen in order to maintain nice view to the landscape. Users are mainly students, faculties and experts.

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STEP ONE FARM ROAD To become sustainable landscape, soft mobility is emphasized by reducing the artificial pavement in the campus. Farm road cover the campus with its narrow width.

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Three farms shape the new face of the campus. In the campus, students can have intimate interact with farm and different types of courses become possible, including field class, theoretical lesson and experimental class. It is a campus where agricultural products can be grown, picked and stored temporarily before send to the laboratory.

Agricultural Pattern as Architectural Language The mixture of the three kinds of farm constitutes the base of the campus. The zoning is related to the type of farmland as well as the intention of proposal of the three kinds of farm.

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A New Learning Experience Different from the traditional campus, the agricultural campus offers new experience of learning and teaching. Functions such as lab and seminar are separated from the main building and students can having their field class and experimental class in the small building that located in the farm.

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Norman Steise

released the congestion-pricing program in DOT’s strategic plan

Leaders of the Fulton Area Business Alliance, a BID created organization, work with DOT to assuage the concern about plaza project

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DOT

Sheldon Silver

developed a plan to extend the Broadway bicycle lanes and create more public space

Opposite the congestion price proposal

Mark Gorton

announced that the interim plazas would become permanent installations funded by the city’s long-term capital budget.

Fund to launch Streetsblog

Wiley-Schwartz

Richard Bashner

Local community Board Chair, Support project

NYC DOT &BID

Design a process to select promising partners 2007

Dorothy Rabinowitz

Brooklyn Plaza

a pulitzer prize winner, Wall Street Journal editor, criticize the project not NYC.

Sunday New York Times

NYC DOT &BID

criticize Sadik-Khan

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Jan Gehl

Design and analysis

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Design and analysis

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Bruce Schaller

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rezoned 37 percent of the city and the subway was being extended to the West Side of midtown Manhattan

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c-Assessments Methodology The purpose of the project is to test an assessments methodology to propose kit fox habitats. NAD_1983_California as the projection system, weighted overlay and reclassify as a way to update attribute table by resorting SNAME, CNAME and SHAPE_NAME fields for better clarification that related to the project’s intention.[Cooperation with Wren Wang/ Role in the team: GIS, assessments caculation]

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c-Calculation Part A. For Landcover, rangeland is known as suitable habitat for Kit Fox, Urban area as the lowest suitable level for kit Fox and water has a low necessity for Kit Fox. The level was given as follows: Forest=4, Rangeland=5, Water=1, Urban=1, Wetland=2, Barren=2, Agricultural=3, Riparian=2 Part B. Even though Kit Fox prefer natural environment, there is some Kit Fox found in the urban area, so the Urban area is also taken into consideration but as a negative factor. The urban area is divided into three main categories: the residential, the commercial/mixed urban and Industrial/transportation. The last one is viewed as the most negative factor for Kit Fox. So reclassification scores were given as: residential and commercial=1, industrial=2

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