Shangyou Jiang_Portfolio

ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO

EMAIL:sj797@cornell.edu

SHANGYOU JIANG

Masster of Architecture · Cornell MArch Program 2018-2025

PROLOGUE

As an incubator for everyday life scenes, architecture carries something beyond its physical structure as a “shelter”— something spiritual. Going through some experiences, I aware that architecture is a kind of symbol given by people that gave birth to the scene of life. People live in buildings, and buildings also exert a subtle influence on people's spiritual world.

I am deeply passionate about design and eager to explore architecture across various scales and types. My focus lies in discovering diverse design approaches and underlying logic, while appreciating the inherent joy of the creative process. I believe that each architectural project presents unique challenges that lead to new ways of thinking, ultimately enriching and refining my design philosophy.

01 Incubator+ Creating Microcosm as the core of wellness ecosystem

02 Weaving... Celebrating everyday life

03 Unfinished Urbanism: Civic Gaming Fairground A Possibility to Treat the Scar of the City 04 The Garden of Metabolism Giving Life to Historical Building

05 Other Works

Incubator +

Creating Microcosm as the core of wellness ecosystem

Instructor: Dana Getman (Principle of SHoP Architects) and Steven Garcia (Associate Principle of SHoP Architects)

Site: Brooklyn, NY, United States

Team: Shangyou Jiang Collaborate with Shijia Jin(Without Leader)

My Role: Primary Concept, Strategy Design, Physical Pillar and Mental Pillar, Greenery and Landscape, All the Renderings, Diagram Drawing, Main Modeling, Section Drawings

Date: Dec.2024

INCUBATOR+ is a dynamic innovation campus designed to support individuals, startups, and institutions dedicated to advancing public wellness. It is organized around five pillars addressing distinct dimensions of wellness, creating a novel spatial system that mediates private and communal realms to cultivate vitality and collaboration. The ground level is fully accessible to the public, brimming with business and community-oriented activities. Above this, the datucm level is an intermediate zone that invites public participation in the transformative processes of wellness innovation. The upper levels are reserved for more focused and dedicated work, advancing ideas that shape a healthier future.

Ultimately, INCUBATOR+ is a manifestation of wellness as both its driving principle and ultimate outcome, fostering a thriving ecosystem that extends its benefits far beyond its boundaries.

Longitudinal Section

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Weaving...

Celebrating everyday life

Instructor: Anna Dietzsch, Scott Ruff

Site: Buffalo, NY, United States

Team: Shangyou Jiang Collaborate with Shijia Jin(Without Leader)

My Role: Concept Design, All the Rendering, Diagram Drawing, Main Modeling Typology Drawing Date: Dec.2023

By approaching architecture as malleable receptacle of everyday life, this project is conceived of as a vital community intervention that celebrate the daily community life. The architectural strategy of developing flexible public space with the notion of "weaving" indicates its potential to be applied to different scales. Therefore, the architecture is expanding to its surrounding, injecting vitality to the districts.

Textile Pattern & Spatial Layout

As both daily necessity and cultural heritage, textiles with the origin from Africa is common to see in African Americans. The weaving patterns of the textile featuring "off-beat" implies dynamic layout that can be translated to architecural plans.

Perspective Section

Unfinished Urbanism: Civic Gaming Fairground

A Possibility to Treat the Scar of the City

Instructor: Kefei Yan

Site: Tripolil Lebanon

Individual work

Date: Sept.2022

The urban design scheme is located in Tripoli, Lebanon, a city with a long history but plagued by religious conflicts, refugee problems and the gap between rich and poor. The site has been abandoned as an island of history due to previous civil war, politics and other reasons.

I hope to reactivate the site, explore a urban model of inspirations, games and serendipities, to solve the complex conflicts around and the existing problems in the city,.

By studying Steffen P. Walz's game theory, I divided people's game behaviors in cities into six types and designed special space forms for them. I also research the daily life of the surrounding people to plan the most suitable road network and functional zoning, and finally reassemble the original broken urban space and re-establish the connection between people.

Country Profile of Lebanon

Lebanon

， a country with a long history， was colonized by many powerful countries in history, so different religious cultures were introduced into Lebanon. Since entering the modern society, with its geographical advantages, port resources and beautiful natural environment, the transportation industry, finance and tourism have developed rapidly. The good times are not long. In recent years, the country has been troubled by civil war, economic crisis, foreign forces and refugee flows. The contradiction between rich and poor, religious hostility, refugee problem have become important factors restricting national development.

Tripoli's History and Urban Problems

The Phoenicians founded Tripoli. It originally comprised three neighbourhoods situated in the current location of Al Mina. It was the centre of a Phoenician confederation with Sidon and Tyre and Arados Island. Christianity prevailed due to the Roman Empire.

The Fatimid Caliph Al-Muiz conquered the city. It became an independent province encompassing Lattakia (Syria), experiencing a commercial and cultural boom that rendered it a significant centre of Shiia. Islam was popular in Tripoli. Tripoli was successively occupied by Franks, Mameluks and Ottomans. As a result, religious culture and architectural style become complex and diversifieFarming culture also made different groups form in the city. On November 22, 1943, Lebanon formally declared its independence from the French mandate and established the Lebanese Republic. In December 1946, all British and French troops withdrew from Lebanon.

Because of the contradiction between religious forces and the inducement of external forces, a comprehensive civil war broke out in Lebanon, which lasted for more than ten years, causing more than 100,000 deaths and hundreds of thousands of injuries.

Rich and poor distribution

Site Analysis & Strategy

estrangement.

Since the outbreak of the Syrian crisis in 2011, a large number of Syrian refugees have poured into Lebanon, most of whom live in refugee camps. At present, about 150 refugees are stranded in Lebanon. Refugees vie with citizens for jobs. Many large cities in Lebanon held demonstrations, accusing the privatization of public space and calling for the return of urban space that should belong to citizens not just for the rich.

Public space distribution available public space unmanaged green area

Project intends to create a urban labyrinth to integrate the seperated urban spaces. Meanwhile, it provides the largest public activity area in Tripoli and connects the lives of different people.

landscape commercial area

Peripheral function distribution residential area office area slums

Infrastructure distribution

Project tries to guide convenient circulations to facilitate the life of the surrounding people, and create a scene of gathering and encoutering. In addition, the programs shall be supplemented according to the surrounding infrastructure.

The site has been abandoned since the civil war, just like a scar in the city. projetc aims to put interlaced green space and activity space in the site, bridgeing people's everyday life, breaking the urban structure blocked by layers, and reconnecting the surrounding programs, different groups and the whole city.

Typology

Design Development

Master Plan

The multi-level and diversified greening provides people with more opportunities to get close to nature. Urban farms and urban gardens provide opportunities for people to plant by hand, and enhance people's sense of participation and interaction.

The numerous activity venues and game scenes distributed in the area greatly enrich people's daily life, and also provide more opportunities for people to meet and communicate.

The diversified and multi-level urban space fully meets the physical and spiritual needs of the surrounding groups. The labyrinthine urban layout greatly improves the interest of urban space, increases the chance of "encounter", and breaks the shackles of everyday life. Scattered game scenes, numerous activity places and green spaces enrich people's spare time life. Life, work, leisure, different people meet here. Game, communication, encounter, and different stories happen here.

The Garden of Metabolism

Instructor: Philip Zhao

Site: Gai Chun Garden, Beijing, China

Individual work Date: Nov.2022

Nowadays, people's protection of historical sites is mostly concentrated in reconstruction, regenerate and preserve. However, with the development of society, people's aesthetic needs are also changing, and the current means are gradually unable to meet people's needs.

I aim to find a dynamic form of historical architecture. I hope that historical buildings can grow and have periodicity. It is able to change with people's needs and play a role in transmitting history and culture at the same time.

The number of geological layers will gradually increase with the passage of time. When we study it, we will be surprised at the thickness of time contained in it, and indulge in the stories contained in it. Instead of trying to restore the image of a historical moment, my building could dynamically record the past, present and future. It changes with time and people's needs, and has the attributes of renewability, sustainability, expression of history and inheritance of culture.

The site is located in the Gaichun Garden in the northwest of the Summer Palace in Beijing, China. Gaichun Garden was built in the reign of Qianlong. It was famous for its steep slopes, beautiful greening and jagged rocks which made it a beautiful imperial garden. In 1860, it was destroyed by the war, leaving only the ruins of dilapidated buildings, which have not been rebuilt.

The main building materials in Gaichun Garden are stone, brick and wood. At present, there are mainly some gravels, stones and broken bricks left in the site, and only one building has been well preserved.

Concept Description Material Research

time in the past or now for people to visit. However, if we interpret historical sites from the perspective of sedimentology, we will find that the protection of history is a dynamic record process rather than a static maintenance. Historical buildings may belong to a "growing" state, recording the past, present and future, It will also develop and change with the times.

Typology

Xian Zhai is a four storey, single family, axisymmetric building, which mainly provides recreational and educational functions.

Yun Zheng Shang Qian is composed of three subjects with different functions, providing different vision and sensory experience.

Zhu Yun is composed of a long building and a shorter one. The former provides a long and narrow exhibition space, while the latter provides a beautiful resting space.

Qing Ke Xuan is composed of two buildings connected by stairs, mainly for recreation and exhibition.

Zhong Ting is is an independent completely symmetrical building, with its traffic and ornamental functions.

Liu Yun Ge is composed of a tall building and a small strip one. The former provides complex functions, while the latter functions as temporary exhibition area and transportation.

The landscape corridor is in the form of an open frame, surrounded by trees, and many branches are within reach and the environment interacts well with the

The overall plane of the building is full of fluidity and interest, and the plane function here is mainly for exhibition and leisure. Different buildings are connected by corridors, forming rich interaction with the surrounding environment, reflecting the artistic conception of Chinese gardens.

Building Section 1-1

The ground floor is the historical relics reserve and activity platform, providing people with garden as roaming space and historical experience space. The second floor is mainly a wooden platform and corridor, the third floor is a wooden leisure and exhibition space, and the top floor is mainly a viewing and temporary exhibition area.

We can see buildings and vegetation interweave and interact on the hillside. The building is integrated with the environment. Like the surrounding vegetation, the buildings seem to grow from the ruins.

Buildings surround vegetation, and vegetation also surrounds buildings. People shuttle through the buildings, vegetation and relics to experience the pleasure of wandering garden and the influence of history.

Growth Process

Other Works:

Rotating Leaves

Jun.2019

Instructor: Minghui Xue

Group work(with 5 members)

My role: concept design, conceptual model, construting Second prize of 2019 Tongji International Festival

The construction materials of the project are plastic hollow plates and plastic rivets. The construction time is 2 days, and the construction is purely manual. Our scheme is to capture the beautiful scene of blades whirling and fluttering in the wind in the deep courtyard, and uses parametric technology to simulate, generating corridors and courtyard spaces. It reflects the aesthetics of the oriental garden.

Dec.2019

Instructor: Minghui Xue

Group work(with 7 menbers)

My role: concept design, conceptual model, construting First prize of 2019 International snow construction competition

The whole project is made of a piece of 3 * 3 * 2.5 cubic meters of snow, which takes two days to build. Inspired by Klein bottle, our team try to explore the relationship between internal and external space. We designed intricate passages and openings inside the snow block, combined with stairs, slide platforms and other elements to increase the interactivity and interest of the scheme.