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Yawen Jin

Yawen Jin

New York, NY, US

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Bronwnstone Brownstone was the typical residential unit for workers for decades, but now it's regarded as luxury housing for rich people in Manhatten. By combining the typology of browntone and public housing in Saint Nicholas, the new housing typology is invented. Brownstone piles up and people living in the tower also can enjoy the small garden and backyard, they can plant crops there. Urban Podium The greenhouse, library, resturant, boutique and performance stage is the interface of the...
Bronwnstone Brownstone was the typical residential unit for workers for decades, but now it's regarded as luxury housing for rich people in Manhatten. By combining the typology of browntone and public housing in Saint Nicholas, the new housing typology is invented. Brownstone piles up and people living in the tower also can enjoy the small garden and backyard, they can plant crops there. Urban Podium The greenhouse, library, resturant, boutique and performance stage is the interface of the entertainment and the city.
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Half and Half (Typology Correction)

Saint Nicholas Houses consists of thirteen, 14-story buildings with 1524 apartments. Completed September 30, 1954. Majority of properties of the public housing were in terrible condition on the verge of collapsing while some of the buildings such as the brownstones, are in excellent shape. Faced with the outrage over slum clearance and the loss of so many wonderful if substandard buildings, through typology correction, I come up with a methodical system in the urban context, which means free the isolated area in East Harlem, protect the precious brownstones typology, encourage the mixture of the uses, including bars, theaters, restuarants, incorporating and ingesting the city, even creating a city within a building.

 
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Status: School Project
Location: East Harlem
My Role: Individual work
Additional Credits: The final submission was exhibited by Estudio Herreros in Barcelona, Spain

 
The glass volume attached to the tower provides the city and the residents for collective activities. I hope Harlem area won't be isolated from the neigbourhood in this way. Open Groundfloor The groundfloor under the canopy provides the city with independent circulation system access to the urban podium as well as space for green markets, flexible exhibitions, cafeteria and restuarants.
The glass volume attached to the tower provides the city and the residents for collective activities. I hope Harlem area won't be isolated from the neigbourhood in this way. Open Groundfloor The groundfloor under the canopy provides the city with independent circulation system access to the urban podium as well as space for green markets, flexible exhibitions, cafeteria and restuarants.
The contraction of before and after
The contraction of before and after
The section describes the combination of social housing and brownstone tyology, people living inside can see half of the senery outside is sky-garden and half of the senery outside is sky.
The section describes the combination of social housing and brownstone tyology, people living inside can see half of the senery outside is sky-garden and half of the senery outside is sky.
The long perspective section
The long perspective section
The restuarants, bars, theeaters, small offices, gardends are connected to the city and housing units.
The restuarants, bars, theeaters, small offices, gardends are connected to the city and housing units.