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Partner: Theodore Dokla Regenerative Renovation: Salt City Plus, Syracuse

Perspective Rendering showing the interior view of the vertical hydroponic farm

Detailed Partial Model showing where the new vertical farming platform meets the old existing brick wall

Rethinking Preservation: LPC Headquarter in East Village

Third-year Partner: Jack Riemer

This project proposes a new headquarter for Landmark Preservation Commission (LPC) at East Village, where a church and a apartment were burned down and the only remaining part is the church’s facade.

Left: Front Elevation showing the new LPC HQ’s design referenced back to the previous apartment to church spatial connection

Right: Short Section showing new LPC HQ’s programs: exhibition, material lab, offices, library, and hearing hall, and connection with existing church facade & street

The design aims to preserve people’s previous spatial experience, celebrate unplanned yet important liminal moments, and at the same time engage the LPC with the community with full accessibility and visibility.

Perspective: Looking at the office entrance from the sunken courtyard

Perspective: Looking at the sunken public hearing hall

Animation “ Two Paths to the Hearing Hall”

Full video through QR code or link https://youtu.be/E0z7oErY83E

Third Floor Plan: the open office, material lab, exhibition space

Perspective: Looking at the office entrance through the material lab

Perspective: Looking at the office from the exhibition hall

Animation “ Two Paths to the Hearing Hall”

Full video through QR code or link https://youtu.be/E0z7oErY83E

Upper: Perspectives of streetscape view from the office side

Lower:Office side long elevation

The Hidden World of Asbestos:

Asbestos Disposal & Recycling Factory

Third-year

Located at the second largest asbestos dump site, this asbestos disposal and recycling factory turn landfill asbestos contained waste into new safe materials.

Perspective: Asbestos Recycling Factory’s raw material graining and milling chamber

Microscope Asbestos’ form study

Asbestos is one of the hazard materials that hide inside our house. Its history is full of deception and death. Drawing inspiration from the microscope scale asbestos form, this project aims to generate a radiating spatial relationship between different programs of the asbestos disposal and recycling factory to turn landfill asbestos contained waste into new safe materials. The activities mainly compose of three parts: asbestos on-site collection & storage, asbestos recycling part and a material research lab.

Ground floor plan: from excavation chamber to material processing center to thermal and acid treatment room

Perspective: Asbestos Recycling Factory’s raw material graining and milling chamber

Axon showing the overview of the two recycling factories connected across the reservoir

section showing how human circulation interact with raw asbestos material’s movement through the recycling procedure

Characterized by its invigorate small business and self-sufficient community, Highgate has a strong appeal to further support its high street and local businesses, as well as creating more communal space. Since Highgate has rich cultural value, but only have a few art facilities, we purpose the design to be art workshops for creating and selling arts, which facilitate both cultural and commercial growth of Highgate.

The design aims to generate a field of creative art activities through strips of workshops and markets, while using dynamic circulations to connects the high-street and living blocks around.

Site analysis diagrams showing the sun path, transportation, neighbor building programs

Tectonic inspiration and iteractions

Programs and forms interations

Overall site plan

Existing Abandoned Train Station

Artist Studio

Ceramic workshop section+ plan

Long section showing transition from private residential area to train station park, quite artist studios, woodshops, ceramic workshops that embedded into the slope, and artist markets facing the commercial street