Jingjing Ji Portfolio by Jingjing Ji

Jingjing Ji

I can feel the bond between us and the built environment grow stronger as I continue my study. I begin to think about the entanglements between the social relationship and the material space, and more importantly, by paying more attention to the material world and the ecological environment, and it constantly reflects on the relationship between man and the environment. I used to question about what landscape can do,because many times in initial design research, I would come to the dilemma that in the end it is a social or cultural issue that landscape can help little with. However,last two years have helped me realize the fact that instead of being presented in the background, designs we conduct nowadays is not only an “objective” material, but also an “environment” artificially endowed with cultural significance. Landscape designs we do is about signaling out a belief for a better future. I hope this belief can be enhanced deeper and further as I continue my design career.

VA ASLA Student Merit Award for Planning and Analysis Category(2020)

Shifting centers, multiple narratives

- From singular conceived space to heterogeneous lived space

LAR 7010 Foundation Studio Instructor: Elizabeth Meyer Time frame: Urban framework- 4 week, Site design- 4 week

The site currently known as Market Street Park which is about 1 acre with grove of canopy trees surrounding an equestrian statute of General Robert E. Lee. Elevated a few feet above the side walk. It was intended as a commemorative space and an everyday place, a pleasant oasis in the downtown, but with its 26 feet high stature located at the park’s highest point, its history of events associated with white supremacy (from KKK rallies to the 2017 Unite the Right Rally) and its suppression of black history, this park cannot be the type of a public space where many can gather, interact and linger. In its current state, it can only be a public space in Don Mitchell’s terms, a place of appropriation, contestation, and conflict. The figure of General Robert Edward Lee has been at the heart of the storm of Charlottesville for a long time. This design assumes the Lee statue has to remain, but seeks to subvert it. The design proposes to redesign Market Street park as a public space with multiple centers and varied memories, and to shift the center of attention away from its domineering statue that symbolizes white supremacy and alienates so many residents of Charlottesville. The new centers shift attention toward redesigned adjacent city streets and away from the center of the park. In this project, I am seeking to resurface the entangled history of Charlottesville, of Market Street Park, creating a series of sites, and the people associated with them are performing their own plays in different ways of thinking, different languages, and different ways.

[Porosity Diagram]

[History Memory&Water Memory Interwoven]

The experience of water in the urban environment and the nature of memory itself are both partial, thus, memory and water along our transect thus ebb and flow, appear and disappear over time.

[Urban Framework Plan]

Conceptual Sections Market Street Park

Tactically, we deploy water as edge, as space maker, and as conveyor of memory along the transect. At the street scale, a series of hip hopping bosque unify the site as a line that is discontinuous and partial, suggestive of our readings of memory and water itself. Each site defines sediment differently according to the particular site’s histories, and seeks to recollect memories of the concealed, of the otherwise insignificant. Team : Jingjing Ji, Xinyu Tu, Jiajing Lyu, Leah Kahler, Binyu Yang

Market Street Park [Singular Narrative]

[Multiple Narratives] Nearby institutions

Reserved site memories

[Shifting Centers - Subvert its current center]

Depress the statue into the ground - start from year 2020

Bury the statue with construction waste - start from year 2021

Revitalize the park edge along with the streets

[Shifting Centers - Current condition VS Proposal]

Proposal

Facing High Street, by pushing the edge in and merging seats into the edge, people who have some interests in church events or people who wait for friends and family after church events would have place to sit and talk.

Facing First Street, the edge is pushed in and the steps is going up in to create a street theatre for people to enjoy live shows. During days without performance events, it is also a entrance to the park.

Facing Second Street, with people always smoke at the stoop in front of the library and several at Market Street park , the intention here is to bring them together, by smoking cigarettes. It is an in-between space, above side walk but below the park. Facing Market Street, two allies of trees facing the witness tree are planted. It is encouraging people to witness history and new-growth at the same time. Also, with multiple office buildings around, people who work around does not have decent public space to sit down and eat their lunch. By sculpting the sidewalk ground, seats felt grow directly out from it.

[Shifting Centers - New public life flourishing]

Leaving most of the park the same—a grove of large canopy trees that now tower above the statue creating shade but creating a new center for gathering between the walled statue and the corner of Second Street and Market Street. This space of gathering has many benches that create a series of sitting niches and nooks for encountering others, where you can sit quietly, listen to the bell tolls from surrounding churches, talking to newly met friends and witnessing the new growth and new life happening while dominant historical narratives fade away in memory, overtaken by new memories and meanings.

Wet urbanism

- Advancing into the front lines of sea level rise

LAR 6020 Foundation Studio Instructor: Matthew Seibert Time frame: 10 weeks

It is well-known that city of Oakland is being called food desert, residence here are having difficulty of buying fresh and affordable food. And California, as we all know , produces the most food in the US, the everyday food we buy still relies heavily on imported. According to survey, about 51% of food we buy now relies on imported. It works for now. But with a future of increased droughts, higher temperatures, pesticide-resistant pests, sea level rising and urbanism. What should we do then? This project explores opportunities for us landscape architects to re-envision the food landscape when that future mentioned above is stretching out its tentacles and saying hello. How can we not only defend our rights to pursue a sufficient source of food, but also embrace the challenge and make use of it?

Phase 2: Food System Transferring

[Profile of Oakland as Food Desert]

[Profile of Oakland as Sea Level Rise]

Sealevel Rise Timeframe

cargo ship

SLR flooded area Port owned crane Private owned crane Tenant owned crane Cargo shipping route Yacht route

yacht

[Sea Cultivation Farm Module]

[Farm Module Distribution-Current]

[Chosen City Block Profile]

——About Sea Level Rise & Land Use

6 ft. SLR

5 ft. SLR

Current situation

[Farm Module Distribution-Future]

Dining place Market (under construction) Public facility Other commercial area Sailing industry Sea food restaurant Block limit shipping lane

ferry lane

[Tidal Dynamics Profile]

Fall- harvest

Spring- inseminate Summer- cultivate

Winter- rest

Phase 1: Sea Cultivating - completing at year 2025

Phase 2: Food System Transferring - completing at year 2050

Phase 3: New Urban Life Flourishing - completing at year 2100

Food Justice

- Supporting disadvantaged communities in the Central Valley

LAR 7020 Foundation Studio Instructor: Bradley Cantrell, Andrea Hansen Phillips, Michael Ezban Team: Jingjing Ji, Jingjing Lai,Yuyin Sun Time frame: 14 weeks

Central Valley has long been considered as the most agriculturally diverse state in the country. More than 230 crops are grown in the Central Valley, which makes it the glory of the agriculture industry. Since the 1850s, people from all over the world have migrated and brought agriculture diversity, food culture diversity into Central Valley, California. The historical development of the agriculture industry heavily relied on immigrant workers such as Mexican, Asian who came into America during wartime. Responding to dangerous working environment, unfit living environment, hazardous educational environment and unsustainable food system, our project is committed to improving the working environment for workers, promoting a safe educational environment, and building a stronger community all while establishing a sustainable food system. We dream about a future that farmworkers who help feed us can work and live with dignity and respect. · Improve a healthy and safe working environment for agricultural workers by building up a chemical control & monitoring system. · Establish a secured educational environment · Improve their living conditions by developing affordable housing programs · Establish a sustainable future by creating a healthy community water system · By developing disadvantages communities, build stronger communities Our team collectively created our suite of drawings and shared responsibilities for all phases of the project. My primary contribution as a team member was to develop criteria for shifting scales from territorial analysis to detailed design and human experience.

[Seeding Migration Along With Labor Migration]

[Structure Racism Behind Agriculture Glory in Central Valley]

[Pesticide Use on the Rise in California]

[San Joaquin Valley Disadvantaged Communities Development Master Vision]

[Disadvantaged Communities Redevelopment]

[Body Scale Protective Technology Toolbox]

[Ecological Remediation Toolbox]

[Community Implementation]

[Implementation Rendering]

[Current Scenario - Improve Working & Living Environment] The project is providing onsite workers with basic protection including shelter with clean drinking water, chemical cleaning booth and emergency aid where they can be shielded and relieved during pesticide application. Resistance buffer and chemical residue phytoremediation is proposed around people’s daily life routine places. A combination of purification and multi-mechanism ecological landscape opens the chapter of stronger communities and a secured educational system.

[Scenario in 20 Years - Sustainable Organic Farming] We are not only concerned about workers’ health and residents’ well being, we are also hoping for a sustainable future in which genetically modified (GM) seed, synthetic pesticides or fertilizers appear fewer and fewer. After remediating the land, organic farming is providing the alternatives - farmers use biological fertilizer inputs and management practices such as cover cropping and crop rotation to improve soil quality and build organic soil matter.

[Scenario in 50 Years - Precision Robotic Farming] The twin factors of population growth and urbanization will create serious challenges for agriculture in the upcoming decades. A 70 percent increase in global food production will be required to feed the world’s population. Precision farming and Robotic Machinery will be a possible future for higher yield and less consumption of water and land.

[The Vision]

Other Works /OBSERVATION /DOCUMENTATION /INTERPRETATION /SKETCHING /MODELING /PROGRAMMING

Life can end, events can finish, time can pass by, but as long as there is something coming out from it, as long as materials with history is still there, as long as the containers to store memory is still there, we can arouse the fresh feeling of the past. They may just be a moment, they may be flashing by, but that’s enough, landscape is not only a stable social role, but also a huge memory system. As a designer, I explore the world through multiple agencies ranging from observing, documenting and interpreting sketches, diagrams, models, animations, programs, are all helping me to remember. No matter the past or the present, they all deserve to be remembered and recorded, they are part of the reality. The process of doing so is not only restoring the scene, but also reflecting on what has happened in order to project for a better future we are all aiming at.

- Field Inventory Sketch

- Transect hydro-accessibilities Research | History sanborn map, Photograph, Rhino, Auto CAD, Adobe photoshop, Adobe illustrator Team: Jingjing Ji, Junhong Fu, Leah Kahler,Yuyin Sun

- Daqing- past, present, future Installation | Rhino, Auto CAD, Laser cut, Adobe illustrator Team: Jingjing Ji, Leah Kahler, Pinhui Wang,Yuyin Sun

- Sedimenting Future | Handmade clay model, Recap, Unity, Lumion, Adobe After effects

Team: Jingjing Ji, Xuefei Yang

Deforestation in Bombetoka Bay

Aerial view

Fresh farmland developing

Current scenario

Recreation life emerging

Failures...

Projecting future

https://youtu.be/Ek1X1xRA2U0 https://youtu.be/s8a_Z59qy-Y

- Palimpsest | Soil erosion indicator model site test, Grasshopper simulation study Team: Biyu Chen, Chaoming Li, Jingjing Ji

- Center Pivot Irrigation Particle Simulation Study | Cinema 4D, Realflow, Rhino, Adobe after effects Team: Jingjing Ji, Jingjing Lai,Yuyin Sun

https://youtu.be/E7hpqMUhaXE

- The GAZE | Responding to the surveillance state we are all at. With extreme surveillance happening nowadays, everything and everyone under surveillance is becoming more visible, while we have no idea of who is behind cameras. A dream of a transparent society, a society where everything is subjugated to visual control, has almost been realized. It is claimed that the goal is towards a safer city but spontaneous social behaviors in it – is dying and distrust, doubt and ambiguity will increasingly be the dominant feelings experienced in such space. Berlin is unique in a way it is a city which like no other represents the fragmented city, unpredictable and uncertain, replete with empty spaces charged with history and spontaneity, especially in the continuous vacuity along most of the space of the Wall. However, year after year, these spaces are being replaced simply by solid buildings. This project seeks an opportunity not only to question the normalization and control created by the surveillance system but also to address the potential on the former “No Man’s Land”. By rewilding the former death strip, a new type of space which is surveillance free and encourages spontaneity and privacy is proposed. It is a place where time once stopped but imagination continues, it is a secret place to evolve and flourish.

[The Gaze without Eyes]

[The Gaze at the Vanishing Points]

[The Gaze with Power]

[Storyboard]

It is a story about distrust, about the desire of negotiation, about fight, about a place where people can embrace the true self, without hiding, without pretending, without worrying about being judged by some invisible character behind the lens. It is about guarding the last corner of freedom, of privacy, of invisibility, of disorder in this gradually controlled and transparent society. The Wall may have fallen, but we are always walking around the edges.

[Fragmented Moments]

It is about the life flourishing in the rewilding green belt. A short film is produced to represent it: https://youtu.be/CdyM0-sJxr4

[Design-

Rewilding the former death strip]

- Web Development | HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Bootstrap framework, MapBox, Arc GIS China, china! Website:

https://april1029.github.io/7415project/

A website for introducing my hometown Longquan's unique celadon making culture, the history, the technique as well as the resource which helps shape its identity

Health Data Mining Website:

https://april1029.github.io/HealthCareDataMining/

Video: https://youtu.be/poDxGTnNzwo

Team: Jingjing Ji,Tian Wang, Xinyu Tu

This project is seeking to unpack the process of healthcare data mining. By asking the question who moved our healthcare data, who is playing at the table, what is happening right now, we are researching it both spatially and temporally, jumping from the scale from global, country, regional to human body scale.

- Wander Wonder Treasure | Inspired by experience with spider webs during site visit. What things contribute to the relationship of revealing or not is the driven source of the project. During a site visit, the spider webs seem to be bumping out from no where and I kept feeling that there are some threads over my face. I was annoyed at first but then, I started to wonder the reason why they seem to be invisible but they are actually there. This relationship of revealing or not is transferred into the design and let people explore the magic of landscape treasures. Based on localized landscape situations, by placing in the landforms, the approach people would take is affected and what they see what they experience will be totally different. As a result, whether the treasure moments are discovered or not becomes a puzzle- only we know the answer.

- Landscape Metrics + Construction Documentation | Hand Sketch, Auto CAD

- Air Quality Monitor Proof of Concept Implementation | Arduino, Sensors, C Team: Jingjing Ji, Jingjing Lai,Yuyin Sun

https://youtu.be/VnGyJVNOLKE

- Drawing Water