YIN WEIRAN | PORTFOLIO FOR THE MLA PROGRAM APPLICATION, HAVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF DESIGN
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Timeframe：2016-2022
Timeframe：2016-2020 YIN WEIRAN | PORTFOLIO
TEL: +1 857.856.0250 Timeframe: 2016-2024
LOCATION: Long Island, New York
TYPE: Hospitality, Corporate and Commercial
PHASE: Design Development
RESPONSIBILITY: 3D Modeling, Renderings, Feature De-
sign, Diagrams, DD Technical Drawings
NY Sands is an ambitious 90-acre casino project located in Long Island, transformed from the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum and surrounding areas. The project encompasses the design of several key areas to create a luxurious and engaging experience for visitors. The East Plaza will serve as a vibrant space for social gatherings and outdoor events, while the West Plaza will feature lush landscaping and convenient drop-off areas. Additionally, MSP is designing a rooftop spa, sunken smoking terraces, and the building entrances. Our aim is to set a luxurious tone for the entire casino experience with stunning landscape elements and a seamless flow throughout the site.
SOFTSCAPE PLAN
FIELDS OF THE FUTURE
LOCATION: Cardiff, California
TYPE: Parks and Civic Spaces
PHASE: Schematic Design
RESPONSIBILITY: Site Planning, Feature Design, Physical Models, 3D Modeling, Renderings, Diagrams, SD Technical Drawings
San Elijo Lagoon is one of San Diego’s largest wetlands, encompassing a 979-acre reserve primarily consisting of a shallow-water estuary where the Escondido and La Orilla Creeks meet the Pacific Ocean.
Fields of the Future is a 6.5-acre visitor services park dedicated to the San Elijo Lagoon conservation. We envision it as an agricultural-centered park and learning space. Our goal is to create areas that encourage gathering, wandering off-trail, quiet contemplation, and fun, rather than strictly maintaining a natural landscape.
One of our key features is experiential learning “rooms” focused on the role of plants and trees in carbon sequestration and their impact on climate patterns. Additionally, we plan to allow visitors to explore the dry creek areas, providing educational opportunities along the creek bed and planting riparian vegetation to enhance the environ-
ment.
TROJENA - BOW
LOCATION: Tabuk Province, Saudi Arabia
TYPE: Hospitality, Corporate and Commercial PHASE: Concept Design
RESPONSIBILITY: 3D Modeling, Renderings,
The Bow Hotel is a part of the Trojena resort within Sau di Arabia’s NEOM project. The primary goal of this space’s design is to create a landscape that functions not only as a world-class hotel and conference center but also seamless ly integrates architecture, engineering, and the surrounding canyon landscape. The proposed concepts achieve these goals through design elements such as dense vegetation, intriguing topography, amenity programming, falling water, gentle mists, rock formations, and semi-translucent glass. These materials create a space with depth of vision, layered programming, and a philosophical approach to landscapes confined to interior spaces.
Hidden Valley Render Plan
Hidden Valley Perspective - Day
Hidden Valley Perspective - Night
Design Constraints -
1755 JFK CAUSEWAY
LOCATION: Miami, Florida
TYPE: MIxed Use and Residential
PHASE: Schematic Design
RESPONSIBILITY: 3D Modeling, Renderings
1755 JFK Causeway is a prominent 30-story mixed-use building located in Miami. MSP is responsible for designing the ground floor, the sixth floor, and the mezzanine amenities.
The sixth floor features an extensive landscaped deck with three pools, BBQ areas, a fire pit, a kids’ splash pad, a party lounge, a residential lounge, a game area, a sky lobby, and a fitness center, providing a comprehensive range of recreational and social spaces for residents.
Martha Schwartz Partners
OTHER PROFESSIONAL PROJECTS
The project created a gathering space for La Pampilla, a traditional Chilean festival. It introduced endemic plants and crops based on the depth of the fill soil, activating the relationship between the communities and the site throughout the year.
Between September 18th and 20th, thousands of families come to La Pampilla, on the shores of Coquimbo, Chile, to celebrate the festival of the same name. During the celebration, fonda and ramada are set up with traditional Chilean foods and drinks, several traditional games are held, and all kinds of products are sold, while massive performances are held on a monumental stage. These traditional activities are as deeply rooted in the local cultural soil as plants. The project uses construction debris and mine tailings soil to shape the festival venues. Introduced native plant species maintain species diversity and provide economic and educational value to the community.
“WHAT
IS DEEPLY ROOTED”
THE FESTIVE SPACE THRIVING WITH PLANTS
LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE OPTION STUDIO, HGSD
INSTRUCTOR: DANILO MARTICH
LOCATION: COQUIMBO, CHILE 2022.12
JEAN PETITPAS
"Another Fire" 2020
From the May Fourth Movement in 1919 to the eve of the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, the Chinese people experienced arduous revolutions and struggles. People built monuments to commemorate the martyrs and their spirits. These structures scattered in nature are often presented in concrete forms.
In the past century, in the face of ever-expanding cities and material consumption, the concept of "dematerialization" has emerged in architecture. The German Pavilion in Barcelona by Mies van der Rohe is a masterpiece of the concept of dematerialization. He uses concise techniques and pure materials to demonstrate deterritorailization and spatio-temporal multiplicities. In addition, dematerialization also has an interpretation of sustainability. The designers advocate reducing the quantity of material resources used to meet society’s needs. In conclusion, Dematerialization in architecture represents a fundamental change from an ethos of “more is more” to one of “less is more.” In this project, tried to use dematerialization to solve the problems and contradictions in the revolutionary memorial landscape.
“Dematerialization” of revolutionay monument
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“Dematerialization” of revolutionary monument
“Dematerialization” of revolutionay monument
“Dematerialization” of revolutionay monument
“TO HIDE” Put monumentality in an ecological installation to Eliminate purely monumental entities Use natural materials.
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Blur the boundary between installations and nature. TO BE SUSTAINABLE
Take on the function of improving ecological problems Flexibility.
Step 1
Evaluate the soil erosion in the study area.
Step 2
Mesh the site based on the evaluation results. Determine which type of strategy to adopt.
Step 3
Implement cave-like site preparation.
Step 4
Arrange devices around the pit.
1. When the precipitation intensity is small and the duration is short, the pit will not overflow. Therefore, the device plays the role of cutting off and blocking runoff.
2. When the precipitation intensity is high and lasts long time, the pit overflows. However, due to the obstructive effect of the device, the runoff will not be concentrated. The erosion effect on the slope is alleviated.
"Fluorescence reaction of minerals"
After a certain substance is irradiated by excitation light which can be ultraviolet or X-ray, it produces an energy transition and enters the excited state, thereby producing a light (usually visible light) with a longer wavelength than the irradiated light (usually invisible light) This phenomenon is called fluorescence reaction.Part of the ore has a fluorescent reaction. Manganese calcite emits red fluorescence. Xonotlite will emit pink fluorescence. This design uses the luminous characteristics of these minerals to emphasize important historical places.
ACADEMIC PROJECT 3
Planting grass ditch and water feature collect rainwater from the road and store it in the storage tank underneath. The collected rainwater can be used for irrigation or centralized drainage.
Planting grass ditch and water feature collect rainwater from the road and store it in the storage tank underneath. The collected rainwater can be used for irrigation or centralized drainage.
