Portfolio of Yiqi Song 2021

P O RTF OLIO OF YIQI SONG M as t er in A rc hi t ec t ure I I H a r v a r d Univ ers i t y G raduat e S c hool of D es ign

yiqisong@gsd.harvard.edu | 518/258.3607

PR O L O G UE

Architecture is a transformation art embedded in the spatial and environmental context. With the mastery of architectural space, materiality, and construction, authentic architectural designers turn ordinary elements into miracles with their professional skills. In this process, the architecture becomes an archive with the souls of the elements, the intelligence of human beings, and the cultural memory.

My fourteen semesters of architecture and relevant design study at Harvard Graduate School of Design and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute School of Architecture mainly focus on developing architecture functions as both spatial and environmental frameworks in a bigger vision.

In this portfolio, I would like to give a critical view of architectural development through my six academic projects and one practical project, exploring new strategical interventions of architectural forms by imposing new meaning on existing contexts.

C O NTE NTS 01

Fo r m a s K n o wl edge SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE AND CITY | FALL 2020

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The B r i c k B o x MULTICULTURAL CE NTER OF RICE UNIVERSITY | SPRING 2021

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We s t Chel s ea C ultural Center COMPREHENSIVE BUILDING DESIGN | FALL 2017

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P o s t - S haker ART COLONY AT HISTORIC SHAKER VILLAGE | FALL 2019

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Th e "X " URBAN ART PERFORMING CENTER | SPRING 2017

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Th e P i x el Ci t y TACTICS OF RESILIENCE FOR INDUSTRY CITY | SPRING 2018

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B ot t l e of Tr a n s itional Shelter DESIGN AND BUILD | SPRING 2018

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18 I ndi a S t r eet Project INTERNSHIP | SUMMER 2017

01 Form as Knowledge

S C H OOL OF ARCHITECTURE AND CITY Op ti o n Stu d i o , Fa l l 2 0 2 0 Harvard University Graduate School of Design Instructor: Éric Lapierre Site: Central Square, Cambridge, MA Individual Work Distinction in GSD Option Studio 2020 Fall How to design a city-oriented school of architecture?

How to infiltrate the “city” into each part of the building?

Or is the building the “city” itself?

“City as proof of the past.” The project is located in Central Square, Cambridge, MA, adjacent to several historic districts, and surrounded by a diverse crowd. The rich geographical environments and changing social settings will become the background of students’ daily life. Perched on an existing parking garage, the new construction a s a p i e c e o f “ p a l i m p s e s t ” w h i c h w i l l “ r e w r i t e ” h i s t o r y.

The lower part of the building uses the existing ramps as circulation, while the upper part is composed of stairs for viewing the city and bridges across the green space. Thus, the city and natural view will along the way for students to move around.

Regarding the arrangement of diversified programs, there is a public café for both citizens and students at the top of the building, bringing a real urban atmosphere to building inside. At the same time, the supreme location of the café also symbolizes the importance of the city to the pedagogy of architecture.

Cambridge City Hall 1889

Clifton Merriman Post Office 1933

Central Station 1912

First Baptist Church 1881 Site (Existing Parking Garage)

Central Square Historic District

Site Analysis 01

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Existing parking garage 03

Creating a “stair ” form to share natural light with the neighbor

Opening a central garden to bring natural light into the building 04

Generating a street-like upper circulation system

Massing Generation

Southeastern Elevation

Northeastern Elevation

After the analysis of the Bauhaus building, I got two inspirations.

First, Bauhaus's architecture department was placed at the center of the building's top floor, which is consistent with Bauhaus's pedagogy that only the senior students can take architecture courses. So this design approach highlights the importance of the architecture department in the Bauhaus teaching system.

Café

Studio

Fabrication Lab

Exhibition Hall

Precedent Study

Classroom

Administration

Showroom

Program Distribution

Ground Floor Plan

Second Floor Plan

Third Floor Plan

Fourth Floor Plan

Fifth Floor Plan

Secondly, when people enter the Bauhaus building, they can see a vast glass corner on their right-hand side. Through the glass curtain wall, people can see the students' works in the exhibition room. Thus, at this moment, the materials, structure, and program are integrated harmoniously and unified in this corner, serving the same design intention. Therefore, I placed a public café at the top of the school of architecture. This move brings excellent lighting and views to the café and introduces the real urban atmosphere into the building. When students study or work in the studio and then look up to the top, they can enjoy the vivid view of urban life and the blue sky in the background.

The new construction extends the concrete structure of the existing parking garage. Regarding building material, I use cheap and environmentally friendly plywood to fill the interior walls and use red paint to emphasize the city streetlike circulation system. All aspects of the design reflect the influence of the city on architecture. The students who study and live in this school of architecture will "absorb" t h e c i t y a n d " r e w r i t e " t h e h i s t o r y, j u s t l i k e t h i s b u i l d i n g .

Interior Rendering

Wall Section

Perspective Section

02 The Brick Box

MU LTICULTURAL CENTER OF RICE UNIVERSITY Op ti o n Stu d i o , Sp r i n g 2 0 2 1 Harvard University Graduate School of Design Instructor: Mark Lee & Hanif Kara Site: Rice University, Houston, TX Individual Work "Even a brick wants to be something." – Louis Kahn "The studio will investigate typological variations of the campus building type that utilizes the brick as its primary tectonic and material expression through the design of a new Multicultural Center on the Rice University campus in Houston.

Brick has been the building block for the construction of the American campus and a symbol of its tradition and permanence since the University of Virginia. Rather than perpetuating the use of the brick simply as a unifying stylistic armature for a campus’ identity, the studio will study and investigate the role that brick plays as a contemporary building material. Research will aim to reconsider archetypal brick detailing techniques and relations between forms and taxonomies, techniques and construction, and structural opportunities: serving as resources for the brick as both a tectonic and cladding material for the design of Multicultural Center.

The 100,000 sq. ft. Multicultural Center will serve as a c e n t e r f o r D i v e r s i t y, E q u i t y a n d I n c l u s i o n f o r h i g h level strategic leadership around diversity initiatives and will host multiple diversity offices across the campus."*

*Course Description

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Performance

Activity Three Boxes

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Office

Back of House

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Activity Box

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Skylights

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Office Box

Performance Box

McNair Hall Baker Hall

Symmetrical Quad

Starting from the analysis of the program outline, I classify all the uses into four categories: performance, activity, office, and back of house. Then, I put the performance, activity, and office into three boxes, place them side by side, and use a bar of backof-house to connect them. In order to bring in more natural light, I create two atriums for the activity box and the office box.

Each box has its own separate Foyer and Core to welcome and circulate people.

To g e t h e r w i t h t h e a d j a c e n t B a k e r H a l l , the Multicultural Center forms a mirror image of the McNair Hall, which respects the centerline of the symmetrical quad.

Traditional Architecture in Rice University

Utilitarian Architecture in Rice University

Plattenbau - Large Panel System Building

Prefabricated Brick Panel Facade Inspired by the “Plattenbau” which is the large panel building in east Germany, and the prefabricated brickworks. I am interested in the prefabrication brick facade.

Meanwhile, the campus of Rice University not only has traditional architecture with a rich appearance, but also has a large number of utilitarian buildings which are made of prefabricated panels with poor appearance. So the idea is using prefabricated

method in a new way to make the Multicultural Center look like a “warehouse”, but has more layers on it. Starting from three sizes of prefabricated brick modules, I create three panels in the same size but with slightly different window heights. And the construction details also contribute to the extremely flat exterior which makes the building seem like it has no design desire from its outside.

Wall Section & Prefabricated Brick Panels

Long-Distance Southern Facade

Middle-Distance Southern Facade

Short-Distance Southern Facade

When people look at the facade from a distance, they can hardly feel any layers of it. But as people walk toward the building, they will notice that the facade is made of prefabricated brick panels and cast-brick frames, and also the windows on each floor are slightly different in heights. As people get closer, they will see the size of the tiles near the openings and the cast-brick frames are larger. So, the idea is to encourage people to take a step further, so as to reap the surprise of discovering something is hidden. Similar to Agnes Martin’s painting, I was fascinated by the effect that people will find more nuances when they get closer.

Ground Floor Plan

Looking back to the theme, I think the building should be not only a space to contain multi-culture, but also a process that pushes people to perceive the multiculture. So, as people move up, they can see more and more scenes from the other two boxes, through the cores that gradually become more visible from bottom to top. When people enter the activity box, the perpendicular axis they feel outside suddenly rotates by 45 degrees. The giant columns, the skylight, and the interior space together create a ritual atmosphere.

Second Floor Plan As the site plan shows, the three main entrances are located on the south side of the building. In addition, an existing path between the Baker Hall and the Multicultural Center will serve the loading. Moreover, the landscape design similar to James Turrell Art Installation is used as a base to raise the building by 5 feet to avoid flooding. On the ground floor, the building provides large exhibition areas, a cafe with outdoor seats, open study areas, co-working spaces, and the auditorium. On the second floor, there are more open study areas and coworking spaces. The black box theater and the meeting hall are on the third floor, and all the servant spaces are assigned to the cores or the back-of-house. As the long section shows, the two permeable cores are situated between the three boxes, and served as a series of showrooms. The skylights cross the roof then brighten the interior, and the residual space of the roof will leave for the mechanical equipment.

Third Floor Plan

Cross Section

Long Section

Exterior Perspective

Site Plan

Activity Box

Office

e Box

Performance Box

03 West Chelsea Cultural Center C OM P R E HENSIVE BUIL DING DESIGN I nt egr at ed De si g n D e ve l p m e n t Stu d i o , Fa l l 2 0 1 7 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Instructor: Lonn Combs, Gaby Brainard Site: 511 W 21st Street, New York, NY Team: Yiqi Song, Mengzhe Zhang Diagrams, renderings and study models by Yiqi Song.

1/4" = 1'-0" Model and technical drawings by the team.

The project site is located in the West Chelsea area of Manhattan, New York City. The main program of the project is surrounded by transportation hubs, urban green spaces and famous landmarks, and adjacent to the natural oxygen bar “High Line Park”. The mission of our project is to create a “hot spot” which could gather people from the surrounding area.

This cultural center can not only provide a series of artists performing and exhibition spaces but also can be regarded as an extension of "The High Line Park". The project contains nine floors, the total floor area is 160,380 sq. ft, and the overall height is 165 ft. Major program elements include Theater, Gallery, Black Box, Food Court, Urban Lobby, Café, and Utility Spaces.

My partner and I jointly completed this project in our fourth year during Integrated Design Development Studio. I mainly worked in the team as leading design, 3D modeling, rendering, producing diagrams and drawings, making models, etc.

The project was highly rated in the final review and posted

by RPI SoA's official website and several architectural public accounts. The project was selected in the yearbook of RPI SoA, which will be released in February 2019.

Center of West Chelsea Parks

Center of West Chelsea Piers

Site Transportation Greens Landmark

Site Analysis

The site is surrounded by transportation hubs, urban green spaces and famous landmarks, adjacent to the natural oxygen bar “The High Line Park”. We intend to shape the project into a new “hot spot” in the populous West Chelsea region.

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20:00

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Exhibition Food Education Leisure Performance Entertainment Service

Popular Times

Programs

Two Systems

The massing of the project was developed from the site "zoning box". We divided the cuboid into two parts, the upper part (low urban activity) was d e p l o y e d t h e e n c l o s e d p r o g r a m s l i k e t h e a t e r, auditorium, and the lower part (high urban activity) as the indoor extension of The High Line Park which could provide the local people and tourists more opportunities for communication and gathering.

Urban Buffer Zone

The southeast corner of the massing is opened, creating a 100-ft high atrium space, which is both u s i n g a s t h e m a i n e n t r a n c e a n d a n u r b a n b u ff e r zone for material exchange between the city and the building to create a sort of new urban fabric here.

Extension of Highline Park

There are two sets of circulation systems inside the building, one is the vertical system that leads people directly to the theater floor, and the other is the internal street system formed by continuous folding floor slabs.

The slabs can be used not only as a pass but also as space for people to enjoy the view and hold events.

Continuous Internal Street

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Third Floor Plan (Main Entrance)

Exterior Rendering (Main Entrance)

Fifth Floor Plan (Theater Lobby)

Sixth Floor Plan (Theater & Black Box)

Section Drawing

THEATER PARK

Two Main Programs

Two Structural Systems

Two Main Materials

Two Circulation Systems

OPAQUE CLEAR

According to the roles of the extension of The High Line Park and art performing center, the building is designed into two systems - lower urban lobbies and upper theaters. For the top theaters, we created a vertical circulation system to satisfy this highintended program. And for the lower urban lobbies, we developed a series of "activity ramps" to not only provide the promenade experience but motivate public events. At the same time, the use of largearea glass curtain walls leaves no difference in the visual experience between indoors and outdoors.

"Cloud" and "Rain"

About the design of the enclosures, we apply the fritted glass with different transmittance to the two systems. The upper part uses a fritted glass with a low transmittance, like a "cloud" floating above the West Chelsea, and the lower part uses a fritted glass with a high transmittance to eliminate the boundary between the interior and the exterior. Meanwhile, the little star-shaped ceramic dots gradually disappeared down like the raindrops falling from the clouds above.

Exterior Rendering

Interior Rendering

Exterior Rendering (From the Opposite Building)

6th - Theater, Black Box

5th - Theater Lobby, Viewing Deck

4th - Lounge, Movie

3rd - Lobby, Indoor Garden

Steel Cable

2nd - Events

1st - Art Gallery, Events

Cellar 1st - Outdoor Garden Restaurant

Cellar 2nd - Parking

Circulation Diagram

Structural Axonometric Diagram

Steel Mullion For Fritted Glass Steel Beam (A.E.S.S.) WxH = 1.73'x2.6' 1.5" 70% Fritted Glass

Detail 4

Detail 3

1.5" Steel Deck Metal Grid for Alum Panel 8" Steel Stud Wall 6" Cable for Structure

Detail 2

Detail 1

Install to Adjacent Building's Shear Wall

The building structure also is divided into two parts: the upper trusses system and the lower cable system.

The upper trusses system is supported by two cores and hangs the lower floor slabs by using multiple 6" steel cables. This structural system creates a series of columnfree spatial experience which could improve the sense of continuous indoor park .

Wall Section

04 Post-Shaker ART COL ONY

AT H I S TORIC SHAKER VIL L AGE Op ti o n Stu d i o , Fa l l 2 0 1 9 Harvard University Graduate School of Design Instructor: Preston Scott Cohen Site: Shaker Village, New Lebanon, NY Individual Work "Historic preservation breaks down into two categories. The first are projects that involve complete reconstruction and restoration with the goal to simulate the original historical structure. The second type applies to projects of adaptive reuse or repurposing for which preservation guidelines require a clear distinction to be made between the new and the original so as not to disturb or alter the identity of the original. For the second, subtle alterations or updates are regarded to contaminate the authenticity of the original.

Both types of preservation freeze the past rather than p e r m i t i t t o c o n t i n u e a s a l i v i n g t r a d i t i o n . To t h e e x t e n t that it converts architecture into unchanging artifacts, preservation turns buildings into works of art, stored in cities and landscapes as if they are in museums.

Our hypothesis will be that the Mount Lebanon Shaker Village in New York is to be converted into an art colony that reawakens the historic site as a living tradition in the present but one that extends and transforms many of the cultural and artistic practices of the Shakers. Already, a diverse group of contemporary artists have begun working and exhibiting there."*

*Course Description

The Shakers believed in and practiced pacifism, gender and racial equality, and celibacy. Their belief in separation from the world created a distinctive culture related to utopianism. The biggest characteristic of Shaker architecture is formal duality. People can clearly see a strong sense of symmetry from both the exterior and the interior of the Shaker buildings. So I started with the study of spatial duality and created a series of new symmetrical system.The transformation of traditional Shaker language and logic can be regarded as a more meaningful historical inheritance.

Physical Model (Workshop)

First Floor (Workshop)

Mezzanine (Workshop)

Second Floor (Workshop)

Interior Continuous Moldings (Workshop)

The design of workshop fully embodies the two architectural languages of "local symmetry" and "diagonal symmetry", which both evolved from the traditional Shaker space, but never appeared in the existing Shaker buildings. The private programs of the workshop are distributed into four staggered volumes which are connected by two intersecting corridors.

From the moment of entering the building, no matter where people go, the space they see is symmetrical.

In the mezzanine, in order to achieve the concept of local symmetry, a set of stairs had to be added, so in response to that, one side of the building had to be widened by 4ft to accommodate this set of stairs.

The change of internal space has prompted the natural change of architectural form. Another feature of Shaker architecture is the continuous moldings.I connected the door frames, handrails and so on with the moldings to strengthen the continuity of the space.

Physical Model (Workshop)

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First Floor (Dormitory)

Second Floor (Dormitory)

D i ff e r e n t f r o m t h e w o r k s h o p , t h e d e s i g n o f dormitory started from the concept of "elevation symmetry". In order to achieve the symmetry in eight directions, the internal space had to accommodate an extra thickness of the extensions from the external walls. So I added a shifted wall in the middle of the building to connect two walls which are seperated due to the equal width of the external walls. Then I added a door on the shifted wall to allow people to use the building in different ways.

Physical Model (Dormitory)

Interior Shifted Wall (Dormitory)

Section Model of Dual Functional Chimney (Museum)

First Floor (Museum)

Second Floor (Museum)

Third Floor (Museum)

Fourth Floor (Museum)

The photo above shows a chimney in an existing Shaker building.The chimney not only acts as a ventilator but also as a roof structure. This functional duality interests me.So I enlarged this "dual functional chimney" and used it as the starting point of the museum design. Unlike the traditional Shaker chimney, the scale of the converted chimney is very large. A spiral staircase is twined around a slanted column on one side of the chimney, and a series of Shaker exclusive drawers is also twined around a slanted column on the other side of the chimney for display purposes.

As the two slanted columns of the chimney come closer, the areas of the galleries between the columns shrink gradually. At the same time, fenestration corresponds to the slanted columns, so the openings on the facade can indicate the development of the internal space.

05 The "X" U R B A N ART PERFORMING CENTER I nt egr at ed D esi g n Sch e m a ti c Stu d i o , Sp r i n g 2 0 1 7 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Instructor: Ted Ngai Site: Bushwick Inlet Park, Brooklyn, NY Individual Work This art performing center project is located in the Bushwick Inlet Park area of Brooklyn, New York. According to the field analysis, I found that there is a significant flow of people around the site. Within 30 minutes walk from the site, people can reach the main living areas such as Williamsburg and Greenpoint.

Therefore, my idea is not only fulfilling the functionality of an art performing center but also making the building available to the surrounding residents for daily using. The project contains 3 floors, and major program elements include: Theater, Gallery, Black Box, Restaurant, Bookstore, Café and Utility Spaces.

This art performing center is not only a container of art but also a "business card" that shows the cultural life of Brooklyn residents.

The great ecological environment makes the surrounding area attract a large number of tourists and sports enthusiasts every day. These people are also regarded as meaningful users of the site. Therefore, I hope that people can naturally integrate into the site, pay attention to the public art activities taking place inside or outside the building during sports or sightseeing.

The main idea is closing the "urban activity loop" on the site, so I connected the riverside trail on the west side of the site with the eastern city street, making the building participate in the urban circulation. At the same time, two-thirds of the building was placed underground to form a semi-open "sink plaza". The overground part of the building is relatively low, which makes the building and the riverside parks, stadiums, and other public facilities visually harmonious, while not obscuring the view of the rear housings.

Boating

Sports

Ferry

Food/Drink

Bushwick Inlet Park Residential Area

Biking

Lounging

Playground

Williamsburg Residential Area

Urban Circulation

Connecting the city roads on both sides of the site to form a new "urban activity loop"

Pedestrian Detection 6am-9am | 6pm-9pm

On-Site Streets

Using "wooly urban paths" to minimize the detour of passengers

The optimized on-site streets consist of two intersecting main roads of "X" shape. The large indoor programs are arranged along the sides of the main road "X", such as theater, black box, recital hall, etc. The enclosed outdoor space is used as the public events and art exhibition space. The entire "sink plaza" is bicycle friendly, and the circulation of pedestrians and bicycles are designed separately inside the main road "X" so that the bikers can r i d e t o a n y s p a c e w i t h o u t a ff e c t i n g p e d e s t r i a n s .

"Hi! Let's go to that sink plaza!"

Bicycle Friendly

Public Events

Art Space

The two triangular squares in the center of the site are equipped with open-air public stands, which can also be used for pedestrians to rest and communicate.

The cellar first floor is planned for restaurants, gallery and other community convenience facilities. It can be easily accessed from many places on the site. There is a loading dock on the southeast side of the building, which leads directly to the cellar second floor of the building. The servers can ship goods to the theater and restaurants by their independent circulation.

In general, this project hopes to influence urban life through architecture, change the relationship between traditional art performing center and people, and bring people closer to art activities.

Gallery Recital Hall Black Box Public Stairs Bridge

Music Room

Public Stairs

Video Room Platform

Theater Lobby Theater

Sculpture Garden Sculpture Garden

Restaurant

Bridge

Recital Room Music Room Black Box

Gallery

Video Room Restaurant

Theater Lobby Theater

Recital Hall Entrance

Video Room Entrance

Main Entrance Loading Dock

Black Box Entrance Exit Serve Restaurant

Theater Entrance Exit

Serve Theater

Program & Circulation Diagram

Cellar Floor Plan

Ground Floor Plan

Rendering - Bridge

Rendering - Courtyard

Rendering - Main Entrance

Public Square & Theater

Bridges & Restaurant

Section Perspective Drawing

Secondary Entrance

Gallery & Black Box

06 THE PIXEL CITY

TA CTICS OF RESIL IENCE FOR INDUSTRY CITY R e se a r ch Stu d i o , Sp r i n g 2 0 1 8 C A S E / C ent er fo r Ar ch i te ctu r e Sci e n ce a n d Eco l o g y Instructor: Alexandros Tsamis, Josh Draper Site: Industry City Waterfront, Brooklyn, NY Team: Yiqi Song, Alexis Clarke Drawings, diagrams, renderings by Yiqi Song.

Data Collection is done by the team.

Carbon emissions linked to global warming are leading to sea level rising which causes the erosion of coastlines around the world. And as a result of it, the extreme weather could be even worse in 2050. Undoubtedly, if we do not change anything from now, nearly 2.4 billion people live within 100 km of the coast will have a huge survival crisis. In addition, more than 250 countries and territories which owning even 1km coastline will suffer from massive economic losses. The other crucial problem people are facing is ocean pollution. Nowadays, the United States already has lots of floating garbage islands in the ocean, ocean pollution becomes unprecedented serious.

A report from New York City’s Independent Budget Office shows the Department of Sanitation handles 12,000 tons of garbage per day, but only approximately 32.5 percent of the trash is recycled or composted. So what if New Yorkers use these waste as the landfill material to raise the shoreline height? Then the “new land” will protect people from the extreme weather and also avoid 3 million tons of unrecyclable waste ending up in the ocean each year. On the other hand, a landfill center runs approximately $500,000 to $1 million for the design engineer cost and $75,000 per acre for the construction of the landfill liner cost.

Therefore, if New Yorkers have a landfill center at Industry City, then it will bring local residents within different education levels a large amount of temporary or permanent job opportunities.

As shown in the Sankey diagrams below, at present, a large amount of garbage has caused severe pollution into the ocean, which has harmed 2.4 billion people who are living near the coastlines including New Yorkers. If we can spread the idea of transforming the waste landfill into the urban waterfront landscape, it will significantly protect human and marine life.

Problem

Solution

Topsoil Waste Brick

The issues of Industry City waterfront drive me to wonder if there is an integrated design approach that could alleviate the problem of sea level rise, waste landfill, and gentrification at the same time. It is for this reason that I researched a kind of "pixel landscape" and found that the daily disposal process of domestic waste could generate a lot of employment for local lowincome residents and also have benefits on preventing flooding.

As shown in the diagram on the left, the non-recyclable waste is sealed into a square block which is called “pixel landscape”.

The square block is surrounded by bricks, and its top is sealed by topsoil to ensure that the waste and its smell do not overflow.

This modular “pixel landscape” provides a variety of event spaces for the Industry City waterfront, such as tables and chairs for people to rest and learn, movie space, swimming pools and more. More importantly, as more and more landfills c o m e i n , t h e l a n d s c a p e w i l l g r o w y e a r b y y e a r. T h e n e w programs can be selected according to the needs of people in the future. And the programs we have right now can also be adjusted and replaced. This cyclical experimental landscape development approach helps cities develop more organically.

A s s h o w n i n t h e s y s t e m d i a g r a m b e l o w, t h e I n d u s t r y C i t y waterfront will “absorb” a certain amount of the daily waste f r o m N e w Yo r k C i t y, a n d u s i n g t h e l o c a l w a s t e d i s p o s a l center to sort out non-recyclable waste and ship it to the waterfront for landfill. Landfills provide a large number of employment opportunities for local workers. At the same time, the urban green space formed after landfill will attract more tourists and business opportunities for the Industry City.

2018 Now

2028 Phase1

2038 Phase2

2048 Phase3

2058 Phase4

2068 Phase5

Waste Landfill

Urban Landscape

Flood Protection

07 B oTS BO T T L E T R AN S ITI ON A L S H E LTE R Des ign & B u ild , S p r in g 2018 CASE / Ce n te r fo r Ar c h it ec t ur e S c i enc e and E c ol ogy Instructor: Alexandros Tsamis, Josh Draper Site: Industry City Waterfront, Brooklyn, NY Team: Yiqi Song, Alexis Clarke, Duo Zhang, Val Kwart Solar simulations and drawing by Yiqi Song.

Study models by the team.

BoTS is built by the team.

BoTS (Bottle Transitional Shelter) is an architectural testbed examining the environmental performance of a novel, modular building system for disaster relief. Constructed from Friendship bottles, a patented, interlocking PET bottle, the experimental goals of BoTS include: data acquisition on parameters of its environmental performance; the evaluation of renewable power for environmental sensing, lighting and small appliances (such as phones) in a disaster context; the long term performance of Friendship bottles outdoors in the New York City climate.

To acquire environmental data, a multi-sensor module was designed and fabricated. Sensors include temperature, humidity, CO2, light, motion and total VOCs. Controlled by a n A r d u i n o m i c r o c o n t r o l l e r, t h e m u l t i - s e n s o r m o d u l e r u n s on a battery that is powered by a 100W solar panel on the roof of BoTS. In a nutshell, this is “clean energy in, data out”. The battery also powers lights and USB ports.

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Jun 22 1pm-2pm

Jun 22 4pm-5pm

Jun 22 10am-11am

Jun 22 1pm-2pm

Jun 22 4pm-5pm

Jun 22 10am-11am

Jun 22 1pm-2pm

Jun 22 4pm-5pm

Photo by Duo Zhang

Photo by Yiqi Song

08 1 8 Ind i a Stre e t P r oj e c t L UX URY APA RT M EN T I nterns hi p , S u mme r 2 0 1 7 S OM / Skid mo r e , Owin g s & M er r i l l LLP ( N ew Yor k ) Supervisor: Saul Hayutin Site: 18 India Street, Brooklyn, NY Team: Jarrad Morgan, Xiaohan Wen, Yiqi Song Evaluation chart and diagrams by Yiqi Song.

Rendering by SOM. The 18 India Street project is a luxury apartment in Brooklyn.

When I first entered the team, we just encountered a challenge.

According to a revised policy in New York City, all the newlybuilt luxury apartments must have at least 20% units are designed as affordable housings. However, affordable housings were not considered in the previous design. Therefore, how to divide the massing that has been confirmed by the client into a seemingly unified appearance, but with two disparate building systems have become a significant test for our team. The team came up with three possible options, and my job is to select the optimal solution by comparing each factor that might affect the final choice and graphically clarify the reasons in the meeting.

I created the chart on this page for comparing options. The impact scores of Baseline, 2A, 2B and 2C helped us to better understand the advantages and disadvantages of each option i n a q u a n t i t a t i v e w a y, a n d t h e o p t i o n w i t h l o w e s t o v e r a l l rating would be selected. This method was widely acclaimed by the team members at the conference, and finally the 2C option was selected according to the chart. Meanwhile, I also drew a series of axonometric analysis diagrams to make people visulize how the changed schemes have impact on the building facade, circulation, structure, and fire protection.

Baseline

Comparison of Massing Division

Comparison of Circulation

Comparison of Structure

Option 2A

Option 2B

Option 2C

Covers: "Sprawl", Digital Drawing, Spring 2016 Processing (Programming Language) Instructor: Fleet Hower, Individual Work