Portfolio - Peizhou Yue

Location: San Francisco

Fall 2017, studio project, CSI + BUSSARD competition

Iowa State University

Instructor: Mitchell Squire

Team: Peizhou Yue, Peiyao Liu

Contributions: idea, diagrams, axon drawing, conceptual drawings, renders, physical models

The Project anticipates a time when technology becomes responsible for building anew the land, culture, peoples, and social contracts erased by its aggressive advances. At the heart of this work is a call to care enough for the institutions, environment, and cultural forms that have provided us identity, to preserve them amid technological advancements. The focus of our project is on the double-edged technology boom of the past few decades in the Bay Area, and its fallout on the culture, the environment, social and political life, and the physical construct of the city of San Francisco. In 2150, a city-like platform levitates from the earth at a height approximately 783 meters above sea level. It hovers over the land consumed by the same technology that keeps it floating. It is a drone. Its purpose is to sustain a critical conversation with the technology that sustains it. The design attempts to imagine the unknown. Through experiments acting on an aerial photograph of the city with drastically different materials, creating a visual and mental connection to it from a position above. We converse with its organization, its various cultural districts, its infrastructure, and its topographical features. Pulling out of the fabric of the city the key cultural institutions and monuments that give it identity, and constructing various formal compositions out of those typologies. The design abstracts these compositions digitally until we arrive at a sufficiently different and complex arrangement.

View in Food Market

View in Sports Stadium

View in Library

Detail model of Drone City

Model detail of Sports Stadium

Physical model of Drone City and SF City

Location: Bio-Medical Precinct, Adelaide, SA, AU

Fall 2022, studio project

University of Adelaide

Instructor: Michael Hegarty

Individual project

I.A.E is a mix-use development under the background of post pandemic era, to rethinks the relationship with building, city and high-density life style. In order to reflect the design philosophy of nature city, resilient city and walkable city on the public realm, a vitalized linkage will be established in the existed Bio-medical precinct. The project makes the visions of creating an Inno-campus, Acti-campus and Eco-campus. It will be positioned as the urban lobby for inheriting history and memory, the integration of nature city and building group, the industrial highland where is gathering development momentum.

Water Street - Vibrant Pedestrain Street

Community Center - Water Show

Rooftop Farming

Innovation Plaza - Water Collector

Entrance from North Terrace

Technical Drawings - Section Drawing

TOWARDS AN INTERGENERATIONAL WILLIAMSBURG

Location: Williamsburg, Brooklyn

Spring 2019, studio project

Washington University in St. Louis

Instructor: Petra Kempf, Viren Brahmbhatt

Individual project

What if Williamsburg transitions towards a neighborhood that embraces intergenerational living to give different generations a platform to work and live together? Taking the shutdown of the L train as a trigger, this project re-appropriates the anticipated vacancies caused by the shutdown as an entry point to re-think the current zoning regulations for the waterfront in this neighborhood.

Within this context, we believe diverse job and housing opportunities in the area for different types of residents could stabilize the current development trend in Williamsburg. To test this scenario, we imagine the L train will shut down, which will trigger an increase in vacancies along the waterfront in Williamsburg. As these luxury apartments will lose their values, we begin our intervention by re-appropriating the vacant apartments or floors through the introduction of a more diverse set of uses and services to attract multiple generations to the community.

As an entry point, we begin our operation with three different typologies: a large block-size luxury apartment building located on 325 Kent Avenue; a skyscraper, located on 22 North 6th Street and an old factory, located on 79 North 11th Street. Through a careful process of placing and combining different uses, such as co-working scenarios next to a kindergarten, a gym and a senior living facility, we slowly transform the core of Williamsburg from a bedroom community into a self-sustaining neighborhood.

IMPLEMENT METHODOLOGY

Various functions are inserted in vacant units on different floors to provide housing, job and recreation options for multi-generation people.

Robert Shelton is a worker who has worked in Domino for 20 years. During his time at the sugar factory, he bought his first car, bought his own house and paid for the tuition for univeristy for his sonr. However, after the Domino closed, his friends lost their jobs and became alcoholics because their wives left them and their children had to drop out of school.

LIFE FORMULAS

The 325knet redefines the ground, challenging the traditional community strategy of preserving street vibrancy through the retail industry. By moving the retail industry to the top, its ground floor offers a variety of public spaces to meet the needs of all generations and provides space for intergenerational activities.

THE EDGE

A new residential skyscraper

LIFE FORMULAS

The edge prioritizes the needs of the aging generation by renovating multiple types of residential units on different floors to meet the needs of a wide range of seniors. The new residential type can meet the needs of ordinary elderly, elderly with half selfcare ability, elderly with no self-care ability and multi-generational families. By adding functional connections between floors, it tests scenarios while creating a shared space but reserve private spaces.

Type B= Elderly +Nursing + Elderly

Type A = Elderly

Type C =Elderly + ( Adult + Children)

LIFE FORMULAS

The brewery tests a combination of variety of production spaces. It creates a variety of public life by building functional links with surrounding buildings with a all kinds of production spaces.

Brooklyn Brewery

A hand-made brewery that represents Brooklyn culture

Location: San Francisco

Fall 2016, studio project

Iowa State University

Instructor: Bosuk Hur

Individual project

Influenced by the local culture and new technology fluid, the neo-monumental icon of San Francisco grows upon the most flour ish street of the city. The Nike innovation center project starts from the idea of bringing the sports culture into the architectural design. Sporting activities create a strong bond connects the building and the community also connects the two visually isolated structures at the same time. Unlike traditional office building, the office was designed to provide a close work relationship and to enhance the interaction between the Nike staff and various partners. Also, the design offers a variety of different sports spaces for working and testing new products. The mountain form public gymnasium matches harmoniously with the city’s topography. Meanwhile, climbing the mountain to access the upper-level working space is one of the most interesting features in the building design. The office design has enabled the firm to develop an impressing digital office to promote innovations in the sports industry.

Section Drawings

Physical model of Nike Office in site

View on the 4th level of Office area (Canteen & Garden)

View on the 2nd level of Office area (Testing fields)

View on the ground level (Public Gym and Parking) Exterior views of the building

05. CAMPUS RAILWAY MONUMENT

Location: Iowa State University Campus, Ames, IA

Fall 2016, studio project

Iowa State University

Instructor: Bosuk Hur

Individual project

Traveling across Ames was not always as easy as jumping on a bus. The first students of Iowa State University, commuting the few miles between the city of Ames and campus was a struggle. In 1891, the railway transport system known as Dinkey Station was constructed to connect the campus to the city. After more than 60 years of operation, the railway transport system was a major landmark in the institution. In 1907, the steam railway was replaced with an electric streetcar and the campus destination was moved further north to its present location. Therefore, the railway monument was designed in memory of the missing railway track. In the design, water as a fluid factor demonstrates the movement of the train. Students follow the water trace on the original route to the final destination, where was the terminal before. Through the feel of visual, auditory and tactile experience with water and the surrounded environment, the history on campus will be reshaped.

Campus mapping with the Monument today

Campus mapping with the Railway in 1907

Imagine the Railway Station in the destination of the Monument

Campus mapping with the Monument Plan

Monument Entrance Resting Area

Water Wall Path

Path on Great Lawn

Birdview of the I.A.E Development in Bio-Medical Precinct, Adelaide, SA

06. EDUCATION INNOVATION CENTER OF BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY

Location: Zhuhai, Guangdong, China

April 2021, Individual Project, Conceptual Design for tendering China Institute of Building Standard Design & Research

The fast-growing University-Towns are the epitome of the development of urbanization in China in recent years. They are located far away from the city centers. These isolated urban archipelagos are often over scaled, lack of humanistic concern and its related services. With this conceptual design, the proposal hopes the latest educational building in Beijing Normal University, Zhuhai Campus, to participate in the college life. Considering to convert the traditional campus to a vertical growing system, public spaces in between the educational and research units attract students and faculties to interact with each other. Interdisciplinary communication happens naturally.

Considering the hot and humid climate in Guangdong, the facade design adopts the combination of Perforated Plate, Timber shading and Light Film to improve the energy consumption performance of the building.

Open space and corridor

Skywalk and Sky Lecture Space

Lobby and Interactive Space

Watercolor Painting

Colorpencil Drawing

Creative Drawing: Crazy World

Texture Drawing: Music Never Stop