PO-YI, LIN UVA MLA PORTFOLIO

Po-Yi, Lin selected work.

‘13 ’20 MLA, UVA pl7bs@virginia.edu

(+886) 953-680-011

application for landscape designer

FOSTERING NEW FUTURES: A RESILIENT CITY THAT IMPLEMENTS HYDROLOGICAL LANDSCAPE INFRASTRUCTURE Site Location: Foster City, San Mateo,CA Work Type: Individual Work/ Academic Date: 2020 Fall Instructor: Missy Velez/ Kathleen Adams

#landscape infrastructure #hydrological system #slr

This project is a proposal for the future of Foster City that adopts hydrological landscape infrastructure to not only deal with sea-level rise but create a resilient city that seeks to find a sustainable balance between land and water, human and non- human, culture and future technology.

Located in the south Bay area, Brewer island, Foster city, was a fertile marshland that supported oyster farming and salt industry before being filled by dredged sand.

However, in 2014, the FEMA flood hazard map made legible that Foster City was facing inundation under sea-level rise.

The plan will follow the hydrologic landscape infrastructure concept. The plan will start with zones where residents and lands are more vulnerable. The choreography of this project, mapping the interaction of human, non-human species, materials, and machines, can record the gradual change and foster a new future history of Foster City.

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Story Narrative of the Foster City:1870’s - 2020

South Bay area SLR mapping from 2020-2100

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Aquatic Territories of the Foster City

The revealed that the current measures adopted by the city restrict water in a risky and irresponsible way.Therefore, the proposed strategy is to embrace water in different city portions by using landscape infrastructure in hybrid with human constructions and landscape ecology.

Design approaches & strategies

Proposed Plan for 2050

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Hydrological Landscape Infrastructures System For 2050

This diagram shows how the water is defending, absorbing, channeling, and employed by human and non-human species in the system. And the high connectivity and circuitry between freshwater and saltwater help the system become resilient enough to cope with climate change.

Flows of Infrastructure Elements

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Choreography of The City Changing The whole city plan will follow the hydrologic landscape infrastructure concept and be inaugurated with time phases according to the vulnerability of residents and lands. Through a series of relocating, cut, and fill. The choreography of human, non-human species, materials, and machines will record and foster a new future history to the Foster City.

REAPPEARANCE:

INDUSTRIAL RELIC REGENERATION PROJECT Site Location: Hsinchu, Taiwan Work Type: Individual Work/ Academic Date: 2013 Fall Instructor: Shiangl Juan

#founding nature #constructed nature #phytoremediation #history

After the Japanese colonial period, the oil tanks had been continuously serving military purposes since the Nationalist government took over Taiwan. The citizens could neither use or interact with the space. The link between people and the site gradually faded. Unlike the Big Chimney and Zhongzhen military village, which have become local landmarks, people nowadays no longer understood the past of the site.

Referring to the government’s previous proposal of the site, I combined three functions, which are industrial area, residential area, and green space, altogether. By making use of the same materials, the new designs not only correlates its earlier usage, but also strengthens the connection between constructed nature and founding nature.

Oil Tank 2

Rainwater Collecting Dome

I-beam Rainwater Filter

Clean Water Storage Tank

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Site Materials Analysis

Scaffolding Trail

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Oil Tank 1

Canopy Walkway

The concept of this tank design is to shift I-beam’s original function of constructional support to eco resources purification.

The design of plant purification structure is to stock dirt into I-beams and then plant flora on the surface.

Oil Tank 2

The purpose of the design is to reinforce people’s sensations to the founding nature. The spiral staircase not only serves as the platform for plants to grow but also connects the two layers of the bunker.

According to the report, 3.5 meters below the surface has been polluted by the licking of oil. Thus, to solve the issue, I intend to plant Swamp Mahogany in the polluted area, which provides phytoremediation mechanism to purify fuel polluted ground.

Oil Tank 2

OCULUS:

ELEMENTS OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE Site Location: Observatory Hill, CHO,VA Work Type: Individual Work/ Academic Date: 2018 Fall Instructor: Brad Goetz

#nature #time #materials #microtopography

This project is trying to discover the light in the forest, which is not a clear trajectory that can be easily estimated, but somehow sometimes guides us to the “right” directions. By analyzing light, shadow, and light spots in each different combination of trees and human sight vision, I try to test out the orientation and other effects that lead by the diverse wood organization.

This project transforms a one acre sloping parking lot that supports a Saturday morning farmer’s market into a terraced food distribution hub with interconnected inside-outside spaces. The west end of the site contains two buildings, the Blue Ridge food bank’s offices and a wholesale food distribution center run by the local Food Hub that connects local farms to local restaurants and institutions such as schools.

Also, the project adopts microtopography to emphasize the phenomenon that performance in different time phases and seasons in the forest. Indeed, this project is seeking a cooperating opportunity with time, landform, humans, and plants to create different scenarios and paths to the wood.

The remaining terraces accommodate the encounters of everyday life through the design of stairs, public tables and benches, stoops and ramps. The proposed design strategy transforms the barrier through the act of bridging. Through new sources of food and supplies for people in different need, this place provides human and non-human species with sustenance and nourishment.

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The light and shadow analytic diagram (left) visualize the volume and area of the light and shadow. The unit diagram of the right side showcases an individual's condition of orientation, pace speed, and direction in different combinations of trees.

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Top: A conceptual plan shows paths constructed by human vision, light spots, and vegetation openness.

Left: Conceptual sections show light conditions change through time and topo changes.

Right: Human visible range and areas where light can penetrate.

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Topology Prototypes & Scenario Three kinds of micro-landform prototypes showcase different functions. Prototype 1 is a strip shape landform that can be ditch or hump. Prototype 2& 3 are ponds shape landform, which helps to collect water, leaves, and reflecting light. Seasonal changes and different conditions of trees will provide diverse scenarios within the forest.

ditch

mingle

hump

raining

after raining

night time

autumn morning

after raining

autumn

after raining

WEAK METROPOLIS:

THE PRACTICE OF ECOLOGICAL URBANISM IN WUNZIN REDEVELOPMENT ZONE Site Location: New Taipei City, Taiwan Work Type: Team Work/ Academic Date: 2014 Summer- 2015 Summer Instructor: Yu Feng Wang

#adapt #sustainable #resilience #productive

The Weak metropolis is not the metropolis of the future, but the metropolis of the present. Since cities keep changing, it needs an uninterrupted and temporary balance. The model of Weak metropolis consists in the cohabitation of half-agricultural and half-urban territories, which equips productive and inclusiveness.

On the other hand, WunZih area in Xinzhuang District can transform itself into a city equips a sustainable urban system. A city can tackle changes from its urban context to inner system, and maintain Xinzhuang in a well sustainable condition. We are seeking an avenue which can make Weak metropolis into practice.

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#food equality #social justice #racial topography

Water St E

South St E

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Blue Ridge Food Bank’s Offices

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Wholesale Food Distribution Center

Water St Parking Garage

Site Location: Charlottesville, Virginia Work Type: Individual Work/ Academic Date: 2019 Fall Instructor: Beth Meyer

The remaining terraces accommodate the encounters of everyday life through the design of stairs, public tables and benches, stoops and ramps. The proposed design strategy transforms the barrier through the act of bridging. Through new sources of food and supplies for people in different need, this place provides human and non-human species with sustenance and nourishment.

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THE NEW TABLE FOR PUBLIC IN CHARLOTTESVILLE

This project transforms a one acre sloping parking lot that supports a Saturday morning farmer’s market into a terraced food distribution hub with interconnected inside-outside spaces. The west end of the site contains two buildings, the Blue Ridge food bank’s offices and a wholesale food distribution center run by the local Food Hub that connects local farms to local restaurants and institutions such as schools.

1st St S

BRIDGING THE GAP:

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Site Narrative & Design Concept

The perception of the market as a place of privilege reinforces railroad right of way role as a spatial and topographic barrier between downtown and Friendship Court.

This landscape barrier, this racialized topography gradually generates the uneven resource distribution, and the right to reach affordable foods.

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Human Food Distribution Flow

From the diagram over here, they are 1: wholesale market held on week days. 2: food sharing system held by Blue Ridge food bank office 3: Saturday farmer’ s market and the 4: lingering and eating space for everyone.

NonHuman Food Distribution Flow

The planting form strategy compensates for human and non-humans’ needs of vegetation. Through fruit trees, pollinator groundcovers, and vines to provides a welcoming habitat to urban wildlife and insects.

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Secret Pocket Space

This section calls out the small secrete pocket for people who visit the Blue Ridge food bank. This is the space I want to emphasize social justice. An area that shows dignity for people who need help from food sharing.

Dinning Counter

A dining counter under three rolls of common persimmon trees serving the public and become the public place where people can interact or be alone. Moreover, two different high of counter surfaces affords adult and children can share the space at the same time.

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PHANTOM LANDSCAPE:

CONNECTING THE HAUNTING AND HAUNTED AGENTS OF CENTRAL VALLEY Site Location: Central Valley, CA Work Type: Team Work/ Academic Date: 2020 Spring Instructor: Brad Cantrell

#sensoring #digital landscape #phytoremediation

This design, which analyzes the behavior, form, and agency of phantoms in California’s Central Valley landscape, imagines the role of metaphor in landscape analysis and planning. This territorial design addresses the haunting phantoms of the valley. The phantoms, contaminants resulting from the two main industries of the Valley -agriculture and oil- form a network of invisible risk, lurking below and above ground.

The designed interventions act as mediums between the visible and invisible, communicating the movement of toxic waste that knows no boundaries, flows across land uses in forms like chemical plumes, disappears and cycles back to haunt the valley. Through multiple innovative, continuous monitor systems, the invisible toxicities are elucidated and revealed.

Future Vision of Central Valley

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Proposed View of Design

Interventions adjacent to human inhabitation take on a more human scale so that the mediums heighten the tangibility of these salty phantoms even more, allowing physical touch and direct communication with the medium, and sometimes phantoms, themselves.

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The purification of saline water from agricultural activities is purified through different methods, which create places where people are welcomed to visit and learn. The wetland remediate the water through phytoremediation, people can participate in the construction, planting and harvest to help the remediation.

Moist Catch Dome

Visualized Data through AR Devices

Bird Habitat

Signage

Solar Panel

60-mil HDPE Liner

Heater 8

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Nitrate

Monitoring

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Replace plants

Phytoextraction

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Salinity Level Over Time

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Replanting

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The Glass Dome work as a new evaporation pond to accelerate the process, seperate and reveal the toxicity. And the site will be under monitor, the data will be transformed into augmented reality to educate the public the knowledge of pollution.

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Phasing Diagram of Phytoremediation By using pole and berm planting methodologies to deal with ground salinity, fast-growing halophytes and high biomass producing plants gradually occupy more of this landscape as the ponds are regraded, such that the scar of the pond is left, but is living a new story of increasing cycles and resilience with lower concentrations of contaminants.

Disposal

MODELS:

The goal for this project is to combine both computation mythologies and aesthetic ways of design to define the discipline of landscape.

Our installation reinterprets how industries correspond to the natural environment and topography. Moreover, it allows audiences to interact and re-examine the process of creating industrial disposal.

FROM DIGITAL TO TYPICAL LANDSCAPE MODELING Site Location: Turkey // Virginia // China Work Type: Team Work/ Academic Date: 2019 Fall // 2018 Fall // 2018 Spring //2013 Spring Instructor: Matthew Seibert // Brad Cantrell // JiaXin, Liu

# digital visualization # datum aesthetic # simulation # spatial quality

--- Disposal --A

--- Cappadocia 2050 --The project is simulating an overdevelopment tourism landscape, Cappadocia, in 2050. We set up a sandstorm scene in the ecotone of the urban and wild environment in Cappadocia. We intended to explore the relationship between multispecies and how they perceive the landscape differently.

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A) Wolf // B) Viper // C) Scorpion Sight Simulations

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Freeze and Thaw

This project tries to unpack the relationship between ground materials and the speed of snowmelt through modules in different shapes. In addition to observing the real situations on the site, A Grasshopper plugin (Ladybug) is also adopted to simulate and analyze the amount of sunlight and radiation received by various micro-topography.

--- Freeze and thaw ---

Chinese Garden-Canglang Pavilion

We discover the design philosophy and beauty of Chinese classical gardens through surveying, and hand model making. We pay attention to the observation of design details and reference many photos and documents to reappearance the traditional Chinese garden's spatial quality.

--- Canglang Pavilion ---

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Health Imapct Assessment Project

RESEARCHES:

In summer 2020, I participated in Prof. Schaeffer Somers’s Health Impact Assessment project as a research assistant. My task was to majorly interpret and visualize results from environmental psychology research into spatial diagrams. The two projects I selected are (top) “What Makes Landscape Contemplative” by Agnieszka Olszewska and Paulo Marques and (down) “Forest Design for Mental Health Promotion” leading by Ulrika Stigsdotter.

INTERDISCIPLINARY LEARNING Site Location: Taiwan // Portugal // Denmark Work Type: Individual &Team Work/ Professional Date: 2013 Summer // 2020 Summer employer: Ho Yuan Studio // Prof. Schaeffer Somers

# land survey # data visualization # environmental psychology

--- What Makes Landscape Contemplative ---

--- Forest Design for Mental Health Promotion --Ho Yuan Studio of Ancient Architecture

In the summer of 2013, I chose land surveying and mapping as my internship, which can improve my sense of aesthetics to traditional Taiwanese architecture and my digital drawing abilities and work experience. In three months, l learned step by step, starting with drawing gadgets, interior walls, and then measuring plan. Meanwhile, I documented all of the drawings in Auto CAD layout format.

As an extern in Stoss, I visualized a series of activities diagrams to help the Edmonton civic government understand how many people can be accommodated in the design proposals. Based on my research on local cultures and history, I generated a paving pattern proposal for the bicycle lane and pedestrian walk. Also, I worked on the L street station project for the illustrated plan drawing.

PROFESSIONAL : STOSS LANDSCAPE URBANISM Office Location: Los Angeles, CA Work Type: Externship Date: 2020 winter

# diagram drawing # paving study # activity study # illustrated plan

--- Touch the Water Promenade Project ---

--- L Street Station Redevelopment ---

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Working three months with YIYU in Shanghai, I have contributed my efforts mainly on three projects: Nanjing Garden EXPO, Edge Garden, and Headcort Landscape Design. I enjoyed the time working with this fantastic team and the opportunities to learn professional techniques. From the Nanjing Garden EXPO project, I learned landscape lighting design and basic knowledge of SD.

PROFESSIONAL : YIYU DESIGN

Office Location: Shanghai, China Work Type: Internship Date: 2019 summer

# lighting design # rendering # construction supervising # modeling

--- Nanjing Garden EXPO ---

Buried Lights

80 % Crushed Stone + 20% Gravel

LED Lights Concrete Seat

Buried Lights

Landscape Gravel

80 % Crushed Stone + 20% Gravel

Weathering Steel

Acent Tree Lights

Lamppost

Current Vegetation

Buried Lights

Seleceted Lightings Information:

Lighting Plan : Nanjing Garden EXPO project

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Edge Garden

The project preserves the original mineral and natural condition with a refined planting and recycling material strategy to bring the island's past beauty in this unique in-between condition. My task of the project was leading a planting team with a group of people in the construction site to ensure the planting quality and aesthetics.

--- Edeg Garden ---

Huazhu Group Headcourt Landscape Design

This project is designed for a company's headquarter which include a private garden for the owner. Cooperating with the architecture firm Atelier Deshaus, we provide design proposals that include planting strategies, paving, garden and fountain, and outdoor lighting. I enjoyed the time having meetings with our customers, assistants, and partners.

--- Huazhu Group Headcourt Landscape Design ---

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One Render view : Huazhu Group Headcort Landscape Design

OTHER WORKS: INVESTIGATING FROM SITES

Site Location: Miami // New York // Houston Work Type: Individual &Team Work/ Academic Date: 2019 Fall // 2020 Fall Instructor: Andi Hansen // Beth Meyer

Project Miami

Miami, one of the most famous cities in the US, is facing a series of hurricane issues in new decay. In this assignment, I tried to adopt GIS and Grasshopper plugin Ladybug to analyze primary environmental and flooding data to understand the city’s condition.

# GIS mapping # digital humanity # outdoor furniture

--- Project Miami ---

Central Park’s Groundwork:

Geological Structure, Site Reading and Editing

This pilot project started with curiosity about the groundwork of Central Park. From the geological features of the Manhattan island to the 18th century painters’ interest of science and nature, the project is seeking to unpack the first chapter of the park: Olmsted and Vaux’s imaginations and study of the land.

--- Central Park’s Groundwork ---

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Project O: OMA student design competition for POST Houston

We hope that this practice can allow us to explore the possibility of patterns that could ultimately respond to its own site and can unify the space while respecting the XOZ atriums. In other words, Super Furniture design is not just super in terms of cool or symbolic or monumental. Super in a sense of trying to create a conversation. By manipulating the pattern, it distorts the blockiness of the context itself.

Render view : POST Houston Super Furniture pattern design (This project is cooperated with Brian Yee Liu (MArc. UH)

Po-Yi, Lin selected work.

‘13 ’20 MLA, UVA pl7bs@virginia.edu

(+886) 953-680-011

thank you.