Eco-Mechanism, Prefabrication City Garden Urban renewal, component reconfiguration, energy self-sufficiency, social care
MODULAR SYMPHONY
Modular Housing Renewal Plan In The Post-Epidemic Era Modularization, Assembly, Old building renovation, Column grid, Plan design
Ⅲ LINE BIO-WORLD
Nature, Rewilding, Water Pool
Ecology invade into the space. Space between the wall. Label liberation
THE SYMBIOSIS
Green "Facade" In Super City With Magicak Technology "Fish vegetable symbiosis" technology. Society symbiosis. Free facade
CONTACT
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Address: 1501, Vue32, 3201 Race Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104
ICA-EXTENTION
ECO-MECHANISM, PREFABRICATION , CITY GARDEN
Urban renewal, component reconfiguration, energy self-sufficiency, social care
Location: Philadelphia Pennsylvania Student as year5
Instructor: Eduardo Rega Individual Work
Urban renewal is often unavoidable. The project is located in UPenn University City. 80 years ago, this was a neighborhood with rich vegetation and vitality. It was requisitioned by the university. Almost all the original buildings were demolished and residents were relocated. During this period, people were displaced, and many conflicts broke out, which worsened the relationship between different groups. The renovation site this time is the Museum of Contemporary Art. The meaning of contemporary is to be based on the present but look to the future. In the map, this museum is located at the junction of the indigenous community and the university community. The project attempts to use it as a demonstration to show the possibility of resolving contradictions in urban renewal and reactivating exchanges between the two communities. The project explores the boundaries of the exhibition hall, breaks away from the traditional pure white box space, and gives it natural ecology to activate its social attributes. Let the communication between people happen more effectively.
Green resources in Philadelphia are very scarce. Especially in the university town area, urban renewal has turned the original green park into a teaching building. According to data, New York invests $931 per square meter in urban green environment, while Philadelphia invests only $87. New York is almost ten times that of Philadelphia. Based on this project, prefabricated components are used to reduce costs. The independence of the components allows them to be recycled after the building ends its life cycle. This construction idea can be traced back to the prefabricated wooden cabins in Philadelphia in the 19th century. The materials can be reassembled elsewhere. The materials come from nature and return to nature. The interface of the structure directly becomes the interior decoration. Therefore, this building is considered a natural spirit. It reduces the budget and provides new ideas for future urban renewal.
In summary, this project attempts to give the building three characteristics.
1. COMPONENT REORGANIZATION
2. ENERGY SELF-SUFFICIENCY
3. STRUCTURE IS FORM
These characteristics are summarized as a new architectural theory ECOLOGICAL MECHANISTICISM.
Subdivide the building structure and explore various combinations
The project is based on a grid system, and attempts to match the combination of functions and components by controlling angles and proportions. The basic construction units include CLT wood frames, reflective aluminum as facades, multifunctional warehouses, and standardized floor slabs. An attempt is made to explore a new architectural aesthetic and construction logic. The connection nodes of different materials are clarified, and their structures are directly used as the form of indoor and outdoor facades.
ECOLOGICAL SURVIVAL MACHINE
Renewable mechanical architecture in the context of urban renewal
The building is composed of the same building units spliced together to form functional blocks of different functional sizes. This allows for rapid construction, component reorganization, and adaptive recycling. The building itself is mapped as an architectural form language in the interior space to create a diverse exhibition space with changes without the need for additional design. At the same time, the planting and water recycling systems are integrated into the interior to achieve energy self-sufficiency and enable the building to interact with users. As an urban garden, it stimulates community vitality.
MODULAR SYMPHONY
MODULAR HOUSING RENEWAL PLAN IN THE POST-EPIDEMIC ERA
Modularization, Assembly, Old building renovation, Column grid, Plan design
Location: 185 Hudson St, Jersey City
Student as year6
Instructor: Richard Garber
Individual Work
The project site is located in a commercial building in Jersey City, New York. The building was built in 2012. The overall structure consists of a 30-foot-long core tube that accommodates six elevators and a column grid frame with a spacing of 15 feet. Compared with the relatively short construction period of the building, the project's occupancy rate is only 25% due to the impact of the epidemic.
In this case, the project hopes to retain the structure of the original building while trying to transform the function of the original building into a residential building. The prefabricated unit module is used to maximize the original intention and efficiency of the building renovation. Based on the size restrictions of standard American transport trucks, the size of the modular unit is limited to 16 feet. Therefore, the design reorganizes the functions in the house to produce standard components such as living room, bedroom, kitchen, and bathroom. Different combinations are used to match different apartment requirements.
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5.Hallway
RECONSTRUCTION INTEGRATION
Rethink of residential space, combine column grid
The starting point of the project is to rethink the residential space, using functional area plans that better match the furniture scale and living experience as modular units. Different apartment types can be created by combining them in different ways.
One of the difficulties of the project is that commercial buildings have different spatial layouts from residential buildings, including deeper rooms and higher floors. Therefore, starting from the plane design, the project tries a variety of construction and arrangement methods that adapt to the column grid structure to ensure that both the bedroom and the living room can get natural light while maintaining a high level of space utilization efficiency.
Plan(type1):
Opening
Elevator Hall
Balcony
space
Considering that the floor height of the original building is about 15 feet, and the maximum transportation limit of the truck is 12 feet. Therefore, the unit height is set at 10 feet, and the staircase is used to build a multi-story apartment. The three-story residential unit is placed in the two-story use space of the original building to maximize the height difference. Finally, the space loss factor is controlled at a level of about 15%, and the expansion of 324 residential units is realized.
Apartment Type:
(Three)
The facade system breaks the original column grid structure to create a new residential complex.
Balcony
LINE BIO-WORLD
NATURE, REWILDING, WATER POOL
Ecology invade into the space. Space between the wall. Label liberation
Location: Philadelphia, USA Student as year5
Instructor: Ryan Palider Individual Work
From the ancient Roman baths to the city baths on the east side of Philadelphia, the water space has been endowed with rich social significance, and the baths have become a place spirit that transcends class and relationships. The naked and primitive experience breaks the shackles of society and reconstructs the cultural spirit.
The core of this project is the city baths. The project is located on an abandoned railway line in the north of Chinatown in Philadelphia. In the past 40 years, this section of the railway track has connected the food supply between the suburbs of Philadelphia and the city center, but now it has been abandoned for a long time. The site is overgrown with weeds, and the huge stones that originally served as the foundation are mottled and covered with moss. In order to preserve the cultural symbols and memories of the place, the project hopes to start from the perspective of urban rewilding, maintain the exclusive position of ecology here, and try to invade the ecology into the space to create a kind of "uncomfortable space" to strengthen people's perception of nature. As a bathing place, the place itself has the nature of release, which matches the characteristics of dancing with water.
The design starts from the original urban layout of the site. By analyzing the scale of the densely populated blocks in Philadelphia, the traditional houses here are divided into many narrow rectangular sites with a width of about 15-20 feet, and the spaces between the same walls are often given different spatial characteristics. Therefore, the project retains this linear spatial language and achieves spatial intersection, fusion, and perspective by controlling the intervals between different walls. Ecological components and planting silos are placed inside the space in a variety of ways, and their scope will eventually occupy and reshape the space as time goes by.
Space between the wall---Diverse space tour experience
Various types of wall scales divide the bathing space into different privacy and sizes, and public spaces including gardens, exhibitions, and restaurants are scattered among them. Decentralization strips away the independence of space and leaves room for interaction between nature and people. Rich streamlines allow people in different spaces to meet in different ways - facing each other, interlacing, and parallel. The design hopes to strengthen the social attributes of the bathing place and break the original identity labels of people in society. It can be experienced in a more equal attitude.
Ecological Intrusion into the Built Environment
Half building and half plant--equality and openness
The ground floor of the building is made of giant stones left over from the original site construction, which have a rough texture of mottled undulations. The upper space is made of cast concrete to create a contrast between the material and the old and the new. The upper roof is made of metal aluminum plates to represent the finished industrial products. At the same time, the vegetation system will gradually spread to the surface of the building over time, invading the indoor environment, and eventually forming a balance, representing the symbiosis of ecology and people.
TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION
Details And Application Of Fish Vegetable Symbiosis Technology
Taking mulberry fish pond in China as an example, the traditional artificial ecosystem makes use of the natural survival relationship and material cycle, while the fish vegetable symbiosis system relies on modern hydroponic cultivation technology, gets rid of the dependence of plants on land, and integrates hydroponic cultivation system and aquaculture system. The ecological environment with water as the main body in the system includes the organic ecological balance relationship established by fish, plants and microorganisms in water. In the process of fish feeding, the nutrients in fish excreta and feed residues will produce ammonia and nitrite under the action of bacteria, causing fish poisoning and death. By establishing an artificial nitrification environment combined with plant planting, the fish vegetable symbiosis system converts fish excreta and feed residues into nitrite and ammonia outside the aquatic feeding environment, and then further generates nitrate under the action of bacteria, which then becomes nutrients for plant roots to absorb, so as to purify the water quality of fish ponds. Compared with the traditional artificial ecosystem, the cycle path of fish vegetable symbiosis system is short and direct, which is conducive to high efficiency and intensification.
A Green Complex Integrating Planting, Socializing, Exhibition, Learning And Healing
China has been a large agricultural country since ancient times. In that times, both royal officials and ordinary residents carried out agricultural production in their own yards. Nowadays, with the change of social pattern, agricultural production is constantly separated from cities. This phenomenon leads to the waste of energy in the process of grain production and transportation and the sense of distance of urban residents from agriculture. In order to reduce carbon emissions and shorten the distance between people and nature, the inefficient buildings in the city are transformed into three-dimensional planting parks in Shanghai, integrating the benefits of ecology, production and life, and creating an urban oasis with positive effects.
URBAN OASIS
INTEGRATED SOCIETY
Shared Community Of Students, The Elderly And Children
The social significance of the project cannot be underestimated.
(1) The establishment of urban farms will provide a large number of planting posts for the surrounding elderly, awaken the elderly's cordiality towards agriculture, enable them to give full play to their spare efforts and gain from their work, improve the social status of the elderly and alleviate the pressure of social pension;
(2)The opportunity of contact and interaction with nature can relieve anxiety, relax spirit, and play a healthy and positive role in the physiology and psychology of rehabilitated patients;
(3)Make urban teenagers contact with nature, understand new agricultural technology, and provide them with a place for educational practice;
(4)Through the opportunity of Pro nature and green planting, different people have a place to relax. This measure will further promote social harmony and enhance residents' sense of social identity.
