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ARCHITECTURAL PORTFOLIO DENG YUTONG Master of Architecture Selected Work 2016-2022

"STORIES OF MINORIT Y"

In our lives, there are many potential and small problems around us that affect our trajectory, but for a variety of reasons we do not try to solve them. Such as followed all the way to eat on the way home of the lonely wild cats whether there is winter, such as in the busy life how long to see a dead loved ones, such as when one party in social injustice scales how hard to change, the problem is so small and will not be filed, but real existence. Now, as an architect, I hope to try to solve these problems that most people don't pay attention to through the form of architecture.

In today's industry, the function, form and other factors of architecture are greatly magnified, while the main idea of architecture itself is often weakened in the process of continuous improvement, and eventually even completely loses its own ideas. However, the construction industry itself will affect the development of nature, will be written into the history of the city, will reflect a variety of cultures, and will affect social problems.

Therefore, in the first work, I defined the audience of architectural design as animals other than human beings. Just like the original law of natural development, they should also be taken into account in urban design and architectural design as the owners of cities when they gradually occupy the world. Today, the living space of wild animals has been rapidly compressed, and they can only survive in the corners of the human world.

They will be taken into account in my work on an equal footing with human beings.

Chinese culture has preserved thousands of years of profound wisdom, but at the same time there are also a lot of misinterpreted, exaggerated, and even demonized parts of the dross. They are like a disease of the mind that affects people's lives and restricts people's thinking. Among these cultures, I have chosen the most absurd one, which is the Chinese funeral culture. In the original Chinese philosophical thoughts, such as "Confucianism" and "Taoism", death should be a kind of inheritance and a blessing for later generations, but now it is understood as a "taboo". I will satirize this phenomenon through architecture and rewrite people's understanding of death in the way I hope.

Finally, class inequality in society has always been a matter of concern, while architecture is actually a neglected and important factor affecting class contradictions.

Architecture should not only serve the middle and upper classes, but also focus on the life of the people at the bottom.

CONTENT MARE REGENERATION Urban Design of Mare

CAT WARREN

Design of Feral Cat Habitat in Hutong

DEATH ART MUSEUM

Design of City Columbarium

WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION Immersion Court

NON-HUMAN CITY Speculative Project

PLEIN AIR

Memorial Landscape

PIER ESCAPING

Renovation of Manhattan Blocks

MARE REGENERATION Urban Design of Mare Site: Mare, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Time: Spring 2020 Tutor: Wenbo Ni Team Work: Dayu Long Pre-stage Research: 60% ; Overall Planning: 40% ; Stage Strategy: 50% ; Node Deeping: 50% ; Graph Drawing: 50%

Located in the industrial North Zone, the Maré Complex is among the largest low-income settlements in Rio de Janeiro, with sixteen favela slums and a population of about 140,000.

More than 40,000 homes feature many different architectural morphologies, ranging from self-built shacks to government housing projects. The challenge raised by this contest is to design solutions focused on local residents and their connections to the city.The Avenida Brasil Expressway connects the airport on the north side to the downtown area on the south side. An important route for visitors to Rio DE Janeiro and it goes right through the site.

The Avenida Bras-il Expressway connects the airport on the north side to the downtown area on the south side. An important route for visitors to Rio DE Janeiro. It is also an important factor in mare's connection and integration with the outside world. The slum is next to the airport, which tourists pass through; The main road in the middle of the slum is cut off by a lack of connectivity; Living conditions in the slums themselves are poor.

Background Collage

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In the late 19th century, the Portuguese colonial period left behind a large amount of Brazil land owned by the manors. To this end, the farmers turned to revolt in the 1890s.

On October 5, 1897, the army finally put down the uprising.

Then about 20, 000 solders re t u r n e d t o t h e c a p i t a l, hoping to make a decent living on unpaid salaries.

I n the mid-19th centur y, about 40 percent of Rio's population was in slavery, and exiles built huts on Rio's ownerless land known as "slave runaways."

S i n c e t h e 2 0 t h c e n t u r y, Brazil witnessed a large scale population movement from rural areas to cities.

In 1937, the Brazilian Housing agency designated favelas as "aber rations in ur ban development" and deemed their existence illegal.

Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs Corresponds to The Plot Improvement Strategy

Self-Transcendence

Esteem

Safety Needs

Medical

Traffic

Traffic Food

Restaurant Water

Residential Air

Electricity

Residence

Weapon

Clinic

Low density Drug

Non-government

Sinister gang

Social security

Sports games

Grid block

PHRASE 3

Acitivity Room Entertainment

Stadium

Social needs

Campus

Industrial zone Job

Square

Community

Square garden

Pedestrian street Art

Hotel Cultural

Museum

PHRASE 2

Recognized

Church

Memorial hall

Mall Trade

Church

Memory

Office

Industrial park Dedication

Higher education

School

PHRASE 1

Psychological Needs

Phrase 1: A large number of residences are introduced in the center of the region to relieve the living pressure of slum.

Meanwhile, the grid block design can effectively reduce the occurrence of slum violence and other problems.

To meet the basic living needs of residents and improve their quality of life.

Phrase 2: Factories and public events were built to bring jobs and a se-elonging to slum dwellers Phrase 3: Large commercial buildings and office buildings were built to attract people outside the slums.To enhance the sense of honor of slum residents and eliminate the barriers between the slum and the outside world.

The main axis of the site is developed from the Avenida Brasil Expressway

The main axis develops the main road network

The main residential and commercial areas within the site.

Different colors represent subdivisions of functional buildings within each area of the site.

The main public activity area within the site

Axis of green landscape in the site.

Residence block Factory zone Office block Commercial

PHRASE1 : THE RESIDENCE ZONE The slum itself is a spontaneous independent community, which includes a variety of functional places for living.In the first stage, we tried to change the poor status quo of the slum and its unstable social factors, so we set up residential blocks and neat street block.It is an attempt to improve the living conditions of the slum and pave the way for the economic improvement of the slum by building housing.

Development Analysis

The Brazilian Avenue connects with the slums

Functional connections within residential blocks.

Residential areas are located above the lot

Residential Community Prototype

Prototype of Residence

Prototype of Office

In order to improve the quality of life in the renewal area, the main problem to be solved in the residential area is to form independent community units, each community can solve the basic needs of life. Adults need a place to work and socialize.

Children need education, care and a place to play; The elderly need quiet rest, medical care, and a place to relax. The various functions and components of the residential area are interconnected and interact with each other to increase the vitality and inclusiveness of the community.

PHRASE2 : THE FACTORY ZONE In the second phase, we attempted to introduce industrial areas to the MARE area and, after the completion of the first phase of residential construction, to provide employment opportunities and to further strengthen the sense of community among the MARE residents and to bring economic development to them.The industrial area, whose products are mainly locally suited to food processing and other industries, is an important link in the further revitalization of MARE.

Development Analysis

Factory located in the center of the residence

The two parts of the factory connected to the residence

Three entrance of the factory

Industrial Process

Future

The factory is positioned as a food processing factory, and both sides are residential areas. The output value of food production and processing industry ranks top in Brazil.Meanwhile, the food processing industry has low requirements on site and technical content, which is suitable for the employment and development of people in Mare.

The combination of factories and offices provides more space for interaction, allowing industries to integrate with each other, while working together with the residential community to become a larger community for slum dwellers to live in.

PHRASE3 : THE COMMERCE BUILDING In the third stage, we introduced functional areas of commercial streets in the MARE area. As conditions in the MARE area improved, contacts with the outside world should be actively established, the most direct of which would be commercial contacts. Visitors to the MARE area would be increased to enhance contacts with the outside world while promoting the characteristics of the MARE.

Development Analysis

Plan 1. exhibition 2. food store 3. cafeteria 6. meeting room 7. resting room 8. studio 11. souvenir shop 12. book store 13. leisure 14. WC 15. transformer room

Great mobility around the site

Circle gathers the stream of people

Create rich vertical traffic

4. office 5. reference room 9. display 10. cloth store

This plot is located in the center of the site, at the intersection of traffic, with a large number of people and vehicles. By adding commercial functions, the circular form of the building and the rich vertical transportation system, it attracts the influx of local and foreign tourists. To create economic and cultural integration for mare and the outside world.

The major concept is city regeneration through 3 phases and gradually offer a better life to the slum residents.

Principle 1 : Survive from the atrocious living conditions.

Principle 2 : Build a better education and working system.

Principle 3 : Thrive and give back to the city.

After three phases, MARE will be an area where people can live, work and live in daily life, where modular neighborhoods preve where good residential communities provide comfort and convenience, where factory areas provide jobs and trade opportun where commercial streets along Brazil Avenue attract tourists and provide opportunities for MARE residents to showcase the and communicate. Mare is becoming more and more integrated with the outside world and is becoming more and more w communicate with and be recognized by the outside world.

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CAT WARREN Design of Feral Cat Habitat in Hutong Site: Dongcheng District, Beijing, China Time: Fall 2020 Tutor: Bo Zhang Individual Work

In the current situation of urban encroachment on natural space, the habitat of many wild animals is gradually transferred from the forest to the city, and the city has become another form of wildlife habitat. As part of the earth, cities should not only be designed for human needs, but also for the survival of wildlife.

Diagram of The Physiological Structure of Cats

6 times of human visual acuity Possess less visual cone cells than human and can only distinguish a few colors.

Bright light may cause damage to the sight.

Cats’ pupil size can vary with the light , the stronger the light , the smaller the pupil size.

3 times sensitivity of the human hearing .

45-64000Hz ( Human : 20-20000Hz ) Able to distinguish the positions of two sounding objects which are 1 meter apart from 15 to 20 meters away .

Henry’s Pocket .

Highlight high frequency sound and weaken low frequency sound .

20 times sensitivity of the human smelling .

Most sensitive to nitrogen and dislike odors with high nitrogen content .

Able to sense the temperature, can be as small as 0.2 degrees .

Measuring opening width .

The spine is soft and easy to curl and stretch .

The meat pad touches the ground , help to reducing force when it hits the ground .

The outstretched paw .

Easy to climb up but unable to move down .

Cats Behavior Analysis Diagram Cats are very sensitive to temprature and prefer warm areas with sunlight. But in the sense of danger , they will hide in the dark corner to obsserve the outside.

They are not able to capture distant objects as clearly as human, and the color they can perceive is not as rich as that of humans too. So cats tend to stay in higher, more visible locations.

Cats have a nature inclination to climb on surfaces that they can grasp. Such materials can give them a guidance.

Feral cats rarely move beyond their territory. Due to the sturctures of their claws, cats will always choose a way with landing spots.

In cold environment, cats will curl up and reduce exercise.

Cats like to rest in warm places . They will be more relaxed and comfortable in warm place and stretch their bodies.

Cat’s range of vision from different locations

The world in cat’s eyes.

The world in human’s eyes.

Materials that can be climbed/stayed on.

Cat trajectory simulation diagram Materials that cannot be climbed/stayed on.

When moving through hutongs, cats need a foothold to jump on. The activity of cats in hutong will mainly concentrate in their own territory.

Mapping and Ambient Living Conditions

Rlationships between Human and Cats

In the site of Nanluoguxiang, the human activities in the tourist area and residential area have formed a strong contrast. The tourist area takes up a large amount of space and affects the lives of residents. And the living space of ordinary residents has been severely compressed. Meanwhile, the interior is full of threats to wild cats. The relationship between human and cat can be divided into three types: complete tolerance, partial tolerance, and complete opposition. From these three relationships evolved five major spatial relationships.

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Part of the abandoned walls inside the courtyard are transformed into hollow, climbable and ornamental walls for cats to stay in, so as to realize the interaction between humans and cats on the line of sight and not disturb each other in the space.

In the narrow hutong house, a volume shared by cat and man is inserted to realize the state of sharing the interior space between cat and man. Cats can either climb and stay on the outer shelf or enter the room to interact with people.

Combined with the ancient trees in the hutong, put multi-f It can be used for people to rest and entertainment, as well A small circulating water system for cat feeding, tree irrigat collection was made using the existing underground Wells in Reflects the communication relationship between cats and h

Set up a small hiding space for the cat in the corner to realize the relationship between people and cats. Gadgets can be stacked up and scattered around the alley like clutter.

functional shelves. l as for cats to rest. tion and rainwater nside. humans in space.

In the alley, a three-dimensional activity space is inserted between humans and cats to provide a public space for people to communicate and stay. Meanwhile, a climbing frame is inserted to realize the relationship between humans and cats in the outdoor shared space.

DEATH ART MUSEUM Design of City Columbarium Site: Chaoyang District, Beijing, China Time: Summer 2019 Tutor: Yuanyuan Li Individual Work

In Chinese funeral culture, death is a taboo word. When someone dies, after a tedious and meaningless funeral ceremony, the deceased is buried far away from the city and rarely mentioned. The memorial and emotional care of funerals and cemeteries themselves have been completely neglected. The design is aimed to break the custom before the traditional culture and treat death as an ordinary life stage, and encourage people to stop confronting it with avoidance.

Collage of Traditional Chinese Funeral Customs

China has a very complex funeral culture. The funeral custom can last for seven days or even three months. But after elaborate burials, the dead are buried far from the city's outskirts. Gradually, visitors become less and less. China's cemeteries generally exist in the form of blind imitation, but the lack of emotional care to a large extent. At the same time, most of them are too far away , inconvenient for transportation and lack of management. A variety of cultural and practical factors have caused the cemetery, death and other words to become reluctant to be mentioned in people's minds.

Mapping for Site and Cemetories in Beijing

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The cemeteries around Beijing are mainly located in the northwest and southwest of the city. Most of the cemeteries are located in mountainous areas, which accords with feng shui in Chinese culture. However, such sites are generally poorly accessible and can only be reached by car. Most of them are two to three hours' drive from the city ,making it difficult to carry out memorial activities on a daily basis.

Diagram of the Relationship between Cemetery and City

Position

Public Space

Available space

Cemeteries were considered "unlucky" and placed far away from the city.

The city is crowded inside and lacks open public space, while large areas of open space surround the cemetery.

There is little reusable space in the city, and the area around the cemeter y is largely undeveloped.

Diagram of Functional Relationship

The main functions are divided into the living area and the dead area. The living area mainly provides gathering, activities, visits and other Spaces for the public, while the dead area mainly provides memorial, columbarium and other functions.

Ground Floor Plan

Life and death are connected in two closed loops, and the relationship between them is exactly the relationship between life and death in Chinese culture. The end point of life is the starting point of death, and the end point of death is the starting point of life.

Effect Drawing and Spatial Analysis

Age：0-12 Reception The reception area of art museum abstractly sitimulates the spatial experience of early childhood.

Age：12-25 Resting & Waiting

Age：26-45 Stairs

Age：46-60 Exhibition

The rhythm of the middle age is tense,and it is in the rising period of life.

Late middle age gradually stabilizes, but there is still a slow rise.

Age：61-80 Slope

Death Columbarium

Human aging tends to be rapid, so the descent into old age is steep. People will mimic the rapid aging process in their lives.

The cremains passages in the columbarium as a whole decline slowly.

Adolescences is a time of different paths and choices.

WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION Immersion Court Time: Fall 2018 Tutor: Wenbo Ni Individual Work

The witness of prosecution is a tale of reversal. In the movie, the story behind the case is revealed layer by layer. At each level of revelation, it becomes a temporary truth. The scheme follows the perspective of each of the characters in the film, creating a different path. Each line represents the "truth" they are in, and the path they take toward the truth in their hearts. A lot of times people believe what they want to believe, not what they really believe. Every coin has two sides. Most people just want to choose one side.

Script

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Witness for the Prosecution "Reverse"

"Reveal"

"Escape"

"Execute"

"What you see is only what you what

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. But the truth is not the truth, and each person ve. The lawyer initially blindly believed his own oner's lies. This gave him a biased view of all the witness in the case, used the lawyer's mind. When ge of his curiosity about the truth. And with the hostile heart, gradually achieve their goals. In the unwilling to be accepted.

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LAWYER

Famous Defense lawyer in London, just received cardiopathy treatment.His assistant lawyer brought him a murder case, hoping that he will defend Mr.Vole.

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Th e s u s p e c t i s a j o b accidentally gets acquain let him rega

The finale The case Indoor garden

Intersection

Intersection

As he came to know the case, he thought the prisoner had been wronged. But the attitude of the prisoner's wife, the key witness, left him wondering. In the thick fog of the case, the lawyer always thinks he sees the truth of the matter, but what he defends is always what he thinks is true.

After he known that he would rece killed her and denied the crime, begg him. Because his life was full of one b comeuppanc

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b l e s s v a g a b o n d, w h o nted with the victim, who ain his hope.

The heroine is a bar actress rescued from wartime Germany by her husband.

Indoor garden Scenario Indoor garden

Intersection

eive the Mrs. French's inheritance, he ged his wife to cover up the truth for betrayal after another, he ot his own ce in the end.

She was a witness for the defence, but appeared as a witness for the prosecution. Throughout the case, she has been the silently manipulator behind it. But at the same time, she is also a puppet manipulated by others. She saw the truth of others, but not herself.

Second Floor Plan

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1 Auxiliary space 2 Trial 3 Entrance of the suspect 4 Witness Entrance 5 Witness Channel 6 Intersection Space 7 Transition space 8 Entrance to the Lawyer 9 Indoor Garden 10 Indoor Garden 11 Intersection space 12 Witness Observation room 13 Witness Channel 14 Office Space

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The center of the space where it rendezvous represents the contradictory center of the character relationship: The prisoner and the witness meet, from then on the two people's destiny direction changes secretly. The encounter between the prisoner and the witness succeeded in making the lawyer comfortable with the truth he had created. The lawyer meets the witness and chooses to believe the truth from his subconscious point of view. In a variety of true and false conversion, some people always walk in the truth but create the illusion of others. Some people walk under false pretenses thinking they see the truth.

NON-HUMAN CITY Speculative Design Site: Xicheng District, Beijing, China Time: Summer 2021 Tutor: Yussef Olaniyi Individual Work

Humans are taking over the world and changing it into a place that only suitable for themsleves. Cities are built over homes of wild animals. Even though some people are trying to make some difference about the living condition of wild animals and other species, and trying to slow down the damage of human activities to the climate and environment, the result is still minimal facing the severe pollution and extinction of species. Therefore, to call on equality from other species perspective, I am creating this fictional city to for people to feel what animals may be feeling.

Background Collage

Silence, <v.> Humans are silencing other species and therefore cause the decay of other species’ power.

Art Work by Babara Daniels

Artist Babara uses an exaggerated form of artistic expression to reflect the extreme relationship between humans and animals by imagining a reversal of the relationship between them. After the roles are reversed, all actions, both good and bad, no longer make sense.

Speculative Experiment What would the world be like without people? During COVID -19, humans first began a massive quarantine on a worldwide scale, which provides evidence for this hypothesis. In just a few months after people disappeared, the earth's ecology is recovering dramatically.

Air Pollution

Ocean

City

Philosophy Theory Schrodinger : Life feeds on NEGATIVE ENTROPY. Dissipative System is the only way to prevent the Entropy Death.

According to the laws of physics, at the top of an increase in entropy is an entropy dead state. In entropy death, all living activity ceases. In the human world, there is a complete set of dissipation system to prevent the entropy death state of the human world. However, an increase in entropy is inevitable, so a decrease in the entropy of the human world may be causing an increase in the entropy of the whole world.

Midterm Collage

The world is dying because of pollutions, human have no choice but to quarantine themselves, this time not to save human from virus, but to save nature from human.

Site Plan

Typology

The Beijing Zoo was selected as the experimental site.

Divide the site in to small units that are easy to manage.

Replan the water area along the original river conditions and modules.

Cut of across will be

ff a part of the green space s the river as a park, which e used for communication.

CENTRAL TOWER The central tower is located in the very center of the site and monitors the diversity of species and pollution throughout the city. Through comprehensive analysis of various kinds of data, it provides hints of basic environmental conditions for humans and animals and plants in the site.An alarm will be issued when the lighthouse determines the level of pollution in the environment is no longer suitable for life.

Structural Analysis Diagram

Pollution Level

Mild pollution: Most species can still live normal and healthy lives.

Moderate pollution: Slightly affecting living conditions.

Heavy pollution: almost impossible to survive.The alarm goes off.

Extreme pollution: Nothing can survive.

Within cities, there are walls that capture information from the wind. These walls take animal cells, hair, plant seeds, leaves and other elements from the air stream, analyze them and transmit the data to the central tower.

In addition to serving as an information center, the central tower is also a lighthouse for the entire city. Residents of the interior are constantly informed by the central tower and are informed of the next phase of the work.

THE VERTICAL FARM The central tower is located in the very center of the site and monitors the diversity of species and pollution throughout the city. Through comprehensive analysis of various kinds of data, it provides hints of basic environmental conditions for humans and animals and plants in the site.An alarm will be issued when the lighthouse determines the level of pollution in the environment is no longer suitable for life.

Planar Location

Planting sites are close to water and residential areas, making it easier to manage and access basic water.

Structural Analysis Diagram

THE RESIDENCE/ THE MUSEUM/THE ENERG

The residential area will accommodate the maximum number of people derivative shelving for wild animals to crawl around and communicate with The Energy Factory contains units that each has a complete system to gener

The Residence

The Energy Factory

The Museum

The museum will be a complete reversal of modern museums. It will be a place where animals watch people, not people watch anim creatures of different sizes can enter and stay safely.

GY FACTORY

Structural Analysis Diagram

e in the most efficient way possible, and there will be humans. rate solar and water power in to heat.

mals. It is made up of large and small pavilions so that

THE TRASH FACTORY/THE PRISON

The basic work of the waste factory is to combine the garbage collected from zoo with the garbage generated inside and reclassify it into building materi can be reused.

Structural Analysis Diagram

The Prison

m the outside of the ials and energy that

In this zoo, basic laws are followed. In prison, people would behave like animals in the Colosseum, and their punishment was to fight until they died. Meanwhile, outside the prison, a large screen will show the details of the inside, warning people while recreating the cruelty of the Colosseum's use of life as a performance.

THE SWEAGE CENTER/THE PIPE SYSTEM/THE

In modern buildings, sewage pipes are often hidden underground, in the see all the sewage that life produces moving over their heads. At the sam species that have been wiped out by human activities. The monument wi corners. On the north side is a park, which, like modern parks, is an area of in cannot move in complete safety and freedom, while animals can. There will

The Sewage Center

Sewage Center is a place which reverse the situation that animals are forced to live in an environment that surrounded with trash.

So in the sewage center, people will work in a place that is surrounded by waste water and nasty smells.

The Pipe System

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e walls. In the zoo, all the pipes are directly exposed and people can me time, the columns supporting the pipeline are also monuments to ill be carved with the names of extinct species, scattered around the nteraction between humans and wildlife. But on the contrary, humans l be a church in the park to honor the extinct species.

The Church

PLEIN AIR Memorial Landscape Site: Tanggu District, Tianjin, China Time: Autumn 2021 Tutor: Nahyun Hwang Team Work: Yefei Guo Pre-stage Research: 60% ; Overall Planning: 40% ; Stage Strategy: 50% ; Node Deeping: 50% ; Graph Drawing: 50%

The term “En Plein Air, ” often associated with 19th-century Impressionist painters, describes a mode of investigation and production that occurs in the open air. Prioritizing the exploration of in-situ realities over the examination of controlled and interiorized “still lives,” and embracing the constant changes in the environment and its inhabitants as critical subject matters, the practice at its inception, while not without its own inherent limitations, was a radical proposition that challenged the established epistemologies and accepted institutions and conventions. As Mallarmé asserted, air was the medium, and the open air was a realm of new truth.

Diagram of the Development of Chinese Industry

We mainly investigated the process of China's industrial development and learned that China's industrial development has several different phases, each phase has particular policies to guide the direction of development.

These policies selectively produce certain types of air in certain areas.

Site Mapping

On 2015, a terrific explosion occurred at a container storage station at the Port of Tianjin. which have killed more than 100 people and sent toxic fumes into the air. In addition to vast quantities of sodium cyanide and calcium carbide , paperwork was discovered showing that 800 tonnes of ammonium nitrate and 500 tonnes of potassium nitrate were at the blast site. Lax of safety procedures and oversight have been blamed for the blasts.

The blast in Tianjin follows a litany of industrial accidents that have left scores dead and raised accusations that China has traded safety for cheap and rapid economic growth.

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In the process of industrialization and technological development of the world, air is used as a medium of violence in major accidents. Cities and economies have grown rapidly under such violent political goals and sacrifices.

We will introduce a pollution purification system that can be observed in real time in this covered accident site, and build a series of pedestrian promenades above it. Visually show the truth that is revealed as pollution is purified.

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Phase 2: With the progress of remediation, the pollutants in the unpurified part of the soil will be gradually discharged, so the thickness of the interior of the soil will decrease, and this part of the soil will gradually sink.

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Phasing Collage

Phase 1: We regularly implant air sparding equipment in the venue.They are mainly in the form of pipes that go deep into the ground, so in order to insert them into the site, it may be necessary to remove some of the existing paving and green space in the park.

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cording to the accident scene and the data obtained from the vestigation, we have analyzed that the most polluted areas are mainly ncentrated around the huge crater produced by the explosion center.

age 3: When the soil is fully remediated and no longer subsides. e made the entire purification system and the landscape created a emorial place. There are a total of 116 pipes in the venue, which is e same as the number of deaths in the accident. Each pipe will be graved with the name of a deceased as a tribute.

Perspective View

Phase Diagram

Biosphere Remediation System

Air Sparging System

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Air sparging is done by injecting large volumes of pressurized air into contaminated soil, removing toxic by tuning them in to vapor. And then the system will expel the air from the ground and send them to the biofiltration system to further purify the air.

It’s most commonly used for removing hydrocarbon contaminants.

We will apply this to the whole park and we will put it every 10 meters depending on its’ capacity we believe that the soil in the area with lots of pollutants will sink after purification, and eventually form a new landscape It is not only the park that has been dissolved, but we also want to dissolve the right or the power to cover the information and to reveal the violence that remains in the air but we are not able to see.

We use air to remediate the violent incidents that used air as a medium in the first place.

Pier Escaping Renovation of Manhattan Blocks Site: Manhattan, NY, US Time: Spring 2022 Tutor: Anna Puigjaner Team Work: Meichen Wan Pre-stage Research: 40% ; Overall Planning: 60% ; Stage Strategy: 50% ; Node Deeping: 50% ; Graph Drawing: 50%

The conflictive and outdated distinction between productive and reproductive labor, its spaces and the bodies that carry them out, have perpetuated social asymmetries based on gender, class, race, age, and body conformity. Space -and by extension architecture and the city- are not neutral and have been extensively used to empower gender binaries and heteropatriarchal behaviors, neglecting wider realities. In a moment of systemic change, this studio will analyze how society defines and regulates bodies through the built environment.

Architecture has played a big role within heteropatriarchal societies, in establishing social norms and behaviors, and defining, under the umbrella of an alleged “normality”, a disciplinary system deeply biased and unequal.

Timeline of Chelsea Pier Development

The pier was the initial engine of New York's development, and the maritime trade brought the city's initial prosperity. However, grid of the riverfront has long been excluded from the urban fabric of Manhattan.

Similarly, after the transfer of pier functions from Manhattan to New Jersey, queer groups occupied the abandoned site in the 1970s. These excluded people and sites from Manhattan actually contributed significantly to cultural and social development and economic prosperity and should be part of the Manhattan grid order. Past fifty years have witnessed huge changes taken place in chelsea. Its gentrification expelled the dynamic indigenous population and turned it into an upscale residential area with a very high rate of vacancy.

Third Floor Plan

Unit Plan-Esthetics

Unit Plan-Sauna

Ground Floor Plan

Heights Diagram

Function Diagram

this design extend the pier grid to chelsea neighborhood and thus create a ground floor tunnel through existing building, exposing a space like a stage of daily body performance, allowing us to revisit the boundaries and transformation of public and private. This pattern will gradually radiate to other neighborhoods.

Through historical combing, attention to the naked body performance of queers in the 1970s and interviews with the Lgbt center, St. Vincent Hospital is not just for AIDS cure any more. we hope to implant health infrastructure in this neighborhood and make it a mobile community with integrated borders. Accordingly, we defined health as a kind of bodycare, hoping to integrate the existing sports facilities with the desired addition of medical care. In the sections cut by the pier grid, we set up different levels of screening, so that the partially exposed care becomes a body performance again, leading us to think about the physical discipline of the act of care.

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