Jieya Portfolio

PORTFOLIO

LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE 2023

JIEYA YU

JIEYA YU

jy6tp@virginia.edu

434-466-1049

Fresh Meadow, NY

Research INDEPENDENT STUDY, UVA

With Elizabeth K. Meyer; Allison James, Fellow in the Center for Cultural Landscapes 2020.09-2022.12 Charlottesville, VA

Education

UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA

Master of Landscape Architecture with Merit Scholarship

2020.09-2022.12 Charlottesville, VA

BEIJING FORESTRY UNIVERSITY

Bachelor of Landscape Architecture

2015.09-2019.06 BeiJing, China

Professional Experience

GGN

Spring Intern

2023.01-2023.05 Seattle, WA

- Helped with Bell Street concept design with research, concept,design study, diagram, section, model, rendering and community engament meetings

- Conducted scale comparison and grading study for UW Library predesign

- Partcipated in the model update of Miramar hotel schematic design

- Drew digital renderings for South Hay Market Park on ipad

DESIGN WORKSHOP

Summer Intern

2022.06-2022.08 Aspen, CO

- Set up the detailed design files to prepare for the transit from SD to DD

- Drew stone wall detail of the entrance sign for Bear Art Ranch Planning

- Generated pavement pattern alternatives for Residential Construction Design

SASAKI ASSOCIATES

Longterm Intern

2019.06-2020.06 Shanghai,China

- Participated in Pingshan Riverfront Landscape Competition from culture and ecology research, narrative, to color code, concept diagram, model, report

- Helped with detailed design of landscape wall responding to different building units for Chongli Winter Olympic Service Center Landscape Design

- Produced community life perspectives of two primary nodes of the Nanchang Xianghu Area Streetscape Design

- Collected historical maps across the Black Atlantic between Monrovia, Liberia, and Petersburg, Virginia

- Participated the five days field visit in DC and a research workshop from the Library of Congress with the student from University of Liberia

STUDENT RESEARCH ASSISTANT, UVA

For LAR7110 Theorizing Landscape Arch With Elizabeth K. Meyer 2022.09-2022.12 Charlottesville, VA

- Compiled the overall class bibliography with 100 readings with Zotero

- Conducted case studies of European Parks

TEAM LEADER, THE CULTURAL LANDSCAPE FUNDATION

With Margaret Plumb, Director of DW Legacy Design®; Charles A. Birnbaum, TCLF CEO 2020.06-2022.09 Aspen, CO

- Conducted research of 20 cultural landscape sites in Denver to improve the WHERE TO GO database of the TCLF website

- Self-organized field visit and reported research results to Design Workshop and TCLF

Activity STUDENT ASSOCIATION OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN

- Organized faculty, alumni portfolio review for 50 students

- Hosted a local firm visit and took a conversation with Wolf Josey

- Held the Lunar New Year Event with 150 students particpated

PLANNING COMMITEE OF 2022 HOWLAND LECTURE: PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE

- Help host lecture with 200 audiences with posters and website

- Collaborated on the lecture theme, topic, guests, and lecture form

COMMUNITY SERVICE VOLUNTEER OF MADISON HOUSE

- Helped the office operate director with website making through Squarespace

Skill PROFICIENT AutoCAD / Adobe Creative Suite / Rhino / ArcGIS Pro

MORDERATE Lumion / SketchUp / Civil 3D / Recap / Grasshopper

MODEL&MEDIA CNC / Laser cut / 3D printing / Cargo / Squarespace / Zotero / Storymap

LANGUAGE English(fluent) / Madarin(native)

01 IN THE CRACK

Cultural Landscape and Plaza

Charlottesville, VA

02 URBAN CAMPUS

Urban Open Space

Beijing, China

03 A TALE OF TWO ISLAND

Eco-cultural Trail

St Helena Island, SC

Planting and Garden

Shenandoah,VA

CONTENT

05 PROFESSIONAL WORK & OTHER WORK

04 BIG MEADOW INTERPRET

01 IN THE CRACK

LAR6020 Foundation Studio

Instructor: Elizabeth K. Meyer

2021.01-2021.05

As Leonard Cohen said, “There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in”. This project finds the opportunities in the cracks and creates a new form and experience of beauty in the campus to encourage the intermingling of different communities, and let in the light of equality and conviviality to these landscapes.

The project seeks opportunities in the crack spaces and imagines what anti-dominating spaces in a dominant system would be: a place where those social systems start to be broken apart; where the hierarchy is challenged and inverted; where admits everyone’s value; where is not covering the unequal history; where we connect to each other.

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Black Bus Stop- A Crack Space on campus

The beauty and value of black culture was out of sight, segregated and degraded. Once black were admitted as students, they started appropriating places to gather freely. One of these places, the BBS, was like a “Black red carpet” for the performance of everyday and special Black culture: decades of gathering at the BBS on McCormick Road created a “crack” in the conceptual space of the UVA grounds. This design formalizes that crack.

< Hidden Slavery History

For 150 years, black members of the UVA community were oppressed and marginalized, for they were considered ugly and unworthy by some people (GCV) . The lives of the enslaved and free black servants whose labor built and maintained the University were hidden downhill and behind walls.

CASE STUDY - CITYGARDEN by NBW

Design Tactics: materiality and scale

Spatial diagram: defining space by wall and canopy Program diagram: form and function Context diagram: site and concept

DESIGN PROCESS - CRACK AS A METAPHOR

Recognized the history of Black as a crack in the narrative of UVA as a historycally segragated school:

•Extend the tentacle to challenge the exclusive spatial hierarchy

•Form a dissonant beauty through irregular form and material

•Empty the crack center for minority gathering and events

•Break the edge into small cracks to create interatcions between strangers

02 URBAN CAMPUS

Undergrad Studio

Instructor: Liu Cui, Zhiqiang Zeng 2018.08-2019.10

In Wudaokou, called as “ the heart of universe”, there are many university campus. A large population of students and new grad are activly living here. While most of the activities are happened within the campus of each university. And most of the time a gated, students in different school are hard to find a place to gather and stay.

This project tries to build a campus in the context of Wudaokou, and provide the people a place to gather and commemorate beyond the boundary of the campus or which age they are.

SKETCH MODEL

CASE STUDY - VALWNCIA PARK by Gustafson porter + bowman

Fabricating Imagery

A TALE OF TWO ISLANDS

ALAR8010 Research Studio

Instructor: Kate Orff, Pippa Brashear, Greta Ruedisueli, Kirk Gordon

Team: Jieya Yu, Elena Wrobel, Anna Wei

While Hilton Head Island and St. Helena Island share a common histor of plantation, their path have diverged into two very different circumstances today. Hilton Head Island is now a prominent tourist destination dominated by private resorts and high quality golf courses with little evidence remains of its once flourishing Gullah community. St. Helena, on the other hand, because of its ecological landscape, has remained mostly untouched by resort development. Gullah presence has been maintained to an extent and a local community has preserved several historic sites and continued fundamental and cultural education through the Penn Center. Therefore, our group sees an opportunity to protect and preserve Gullah culture and land through a program of co-op eco-cultural tourism, land ownership education, and preservation of the physical landscape.

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CONCEPT SECTION

TIDAL PLATFORM

TABBY TERRACE

FOODPATH DECK

04 BIG MEADOW INTERPRET

LAR7250 Plant Craft

Instructor: Chloe Hawkins 2022.09 - 2022.12

Perched on top of a mountain, big meadow is a highlight of Shenandoah National Park with its unique character in micro climate, topography, vegetations and animals species. This lush pallate has been a bank of biodiversity.

This project try to bring the inspiration I got while visiting there to the campus ground. Through several design research and test such as human scale mock up and hand drawing, I interpret the complex and huge meadow into a garden composed by two part: the pink slope and plant combo. This two contrast spatial quality marked the two thresholds of the meadow as a whole but with gradient.