Landscape Architecture Portfolio 2019 by Yingying Li

PORTFOLIO YINGYING

https://www.behance.net/yyli1307181e00 LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE work from 2017-2019

CONTENT LOST AND FOUND MASTER PROJECT Material, infrastructure and ecological design 4-17

PIERS ON THE LAND DESIGN RESEARCH STUDIO PROJECT (GROUP WORK) Interactive infrastructure design 18-21

STREET PARTY ACADEMIC PROJECT Resilient design, waterfront design 22-27

YARD DESIGN HAND DRAWING AND DOCUMENTATION PRACTICE 28-29

LOST AND FOUND A WASTE REVITALIZATION TOUR IN BROOKLYN MATERIAL RECOVERY PARK

DESIGN RESEARCH PROJECT Melbourne, AU

LOST AND FOUND is a new material recovery park in Brooklyn, Victoria. It includes a recycling facility, restored grassland landscape on closed landfills and spatial experience created by recycled materials. It tells the material flow story from historical and regional scales in order to find the lost value of our daily waste in response to Victoria’s current recycling crisis and Brooklyn’s ecological issues. It builds a new recycling system relying on site conditions and local industries to revitalize the material flow. According to Victoria’s new plan of circular economy, the new material flow is recycle – receiving materials in Brooklyn’s new recycling facility, remanufacture – processing materials in surrounding local industries, and reuse – applying materials into creating spatial experience in the material recovery park. Experiences in the park represent the evolutionary process of Brooklyn. This material journey could remind people of the damage that our daily consumption has caused to the land and show people how can we find the new values for waste again to protect our future life.

WHY BROOKLYN? Δ

Victoria Waste

Victorian waste management history is tied with industrial development and geological conditions. Aboriginal people dealt with their waste carefully and let them decompose naturally. They developed grazing on the volcanic plain grassland which provided rich nutrient and large spaces. After colonists settled down, they utilize the original bluestone and grazing environment to develop industries in Western Melbourne. At that time, people started to incinerate their waste, but the open dump was still common. After World War ||, lots of European immigrants came and settled in Western Melbourne which drove the industrial development in this area. The waste started to go to landfills.

Δ Most of Melbourne’s waste operations are located in the Metropolitan area. This map shows waste operations distribution and several landfills with severe issues.

Δ Brooklyn industrial precinct is marked as a key monitoring point for air pollution by EPA. Air pollution issues are severe in Brooklyn and its landfills contributed to the pollution as well. Brooklyn recycling operations receive over 10,000 tonnes of waste each year. 5

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Brooklyn Received Waste Types

Brooklyn has several landfills and recycling operations. 3 landfills have been closed and capped. Landfill of Sunshine Group will be closed in 2020. 4 recycling operations mainly receive construction waste and process materials on the site which has caused severe air pollution.

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Brooklyn On-ground Materials

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On-ground Recycling Materials Quantity Total area: 194,184m2 Total volume: 265,000 tons

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Total area: 117,517m2 Total volume: 52,000 tons

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Total area: 81,168m2

Total volume: 9500 tons

Total area: 83,174m2 Total volume: 98,000 tons

100 tons cement

100 tons rubble

100 tons limestone

100 tons aggregate

100 tons dirt

1000 tons metal

1000 tons mixed waste

Material Property Analysis

Concrete

Brick

Gravel

Glass

durability

water retention

strength

flammability

water retention

flammability

water retention

thermal conduction

strength

flammability

water retention

thermal conduction

strength

flammability

water retention

thermal conduction

strength

flammability

thermal conduction

Metal

Timber

Paper & Cardboard

Plastic

durability

strength

water retention

thermal conduction

flammability

strength

water retention

thermal conduction

flammability

strength

water retention

thermal conduction

flammability

strength

thermal conduction

BROOKLYN MATERIALS FLOW REVITALIZATION SYSTEM EXTRACT

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Brooklyn context

The material flow revitalization aims to build a new circular system of recycling based on Brooklynâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s local industrial and recycling conditions.

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REM AN UF A

Energy reco ver y

Brooklyn history

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Economic goals

Victoria recycling crisis

Based on the waste flow report, there are only a small portion of the recycling material had been recycled or remanufactured onshore in Australia. There were a lot of materials have been sent to landfills or exported to other countries.

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BROOKLYN RECYCLING FACILITY Δ

Brooklyn Material Recovery Park Relation with Material Revitalization Material use

Material recovery park

RECYCLE

Material flow revitalization

Economic goals

Landfill restoration

Ecological goals

Material experience in park

Social goals

REMANUFACTURE

REUSE

Recycling facility

Brooklyn Material Recovery Park - Recycling Facility Design

The required spaces within the recycling facility and the relationships among them will help to decide the structure of the facility. The required spaces within the new recycling facility include dropping area where communities and industries drop their recycling waste, then those materials will be sent to the sorting area in where they will be separated by different uses. Some can be sent to the workshop for making new handcrafts, or to the second-hand retail market for selling. Some will be sent to the processing area on site for processing. Some are stored for a while waiting for processing. Others that need to be manufactured will be sent to surrounding factories from the loading area.

Δ Recycling facility space requirements

Δ Based on the material quantity analysis, the existing materials on the site require at least the size of two of the current recycling sites for the processing which equals to 275,352 m2. In addition, the sorting area is better to be located in the center of the site according to the recycling process happening in the recycling center.

aggregate processing (19) plastic processing (15) metal processing (10) paper & cardboard processing (5) glass processing (2) tyre processing (2) timber processing (1)

Δ The current recycling material processing map shows the numbers and locations of processing operations within Metropolitan Melbourne area. Paper & Cardboard, glass, tyre and timber processing operations need to be increased. Δ Brooklyn recycling facility design

BROOKLYN MATERIAL RECOVERY PARK MAP LOST AND FOUND is a new material recovery park in Brooklyn, Victoria. It includes a recycling facility, restored grassland landscape on closed landfills, and spatial experience created by recycled materials. It tells the material flow story from historical and regional scales to find the lost value of our daily waste in response to Victoria’s current recycling crisis and Brooklyn’s ecological issues.

NATURAL EXPERIENCE Î&#x201D;

Landfill Restoration Techniques

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MAN-MADE EXPERIENCE Î&#x201D;

Material Garden

The material garden in Brooklyn Material Recovery Park creates the visual and tangible experience of material properties. The inspiration came from the spontaneous growth of plants in urban hostile environment like pavement cracks. Recycled materials in Brooklyn recycling operations are used to combine with the wind, water, and light to intervene in plant growth to generate a unique landscape.

gabion block

glass swale material mounds

brick metal block

maze concrete

gravel wood chips

glass

N scale 1:1500 14

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Material intervention - Material Mounds mound radius - 5m

aggregates, masonry and soil 618000 tons per year height: 6.18m

mound height: represent the quantity of recycling materials have been sent to landfills every year

Material mounds try to show the quantity that has been dumped to landfills per year. So after test different shapes, the paraboloid still the best shape to represent landfill mound.

recycling materials

after years

original height representing frame: concrete

plastic 282000 tons per year height: 2.82m

paper and cardboard 320000 tons per year height: 3.2m

glass 56000 tons per year height: 0.56m wood/timber 197000 tons per year height: 1.97m materials will decompose based on their durability original height representing frame: concrete (based on the material property, concrete has good durability) choose human scale height so people can have a straight feeling also use cube frame to show original height and width. so people can have a comparison by time changes.

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metal 47000 tons per year height: 0.47m

rubber, tyre 4000 tons per year height: 0.04m

Light intervention - Maze

The light intervention aims to generate the full-shadow area, half-shadow area, and full-sun area to intervene in the plant growth.

plastic

Analysing the sunpath in Melbourne can help to find the sunlight directions. At Summer Solstice, the sun has the highest angle while at Winter Solstice, the sun has the lowest angle. If the light blocks can block the light at both Winter Solstice and Summer Solstice, it can generate the full-shadow areas.

cardboard

timber

metal

glass

gravel The light intervention area needs to intervene in the plant growth as well as provide interaction between materials and people as well. When people sit or in the narrow area itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s easy for them to have interaction with materials with the seat or the wall. So, the maze can be a good choice. People usually spend a long time in the maze which means people have more chances to have interaction with the walls, especially their materials. The walls materials are arranged randomly which would not provide potential hints for people finding the exit of the maze.

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Man-made Material Experience - Material Mounds

(2050 - Park opening)

Man-made Material Experience - Material Mounds

(2070)

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Man-made Material Experience - Maze Section

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PIERS ON THE LAND INTERACTIVE HEATING SEATS FOR INDICATING WIND CHANGES

DESIGN RESEARCH STUDIO PROJECT (GROUP WORK) Melbourne, AU Watch video here: https://yyli130718.wixsite.com/mysite/project-07 GROUP MEMBER: LIAN HUANG, LIN LU, SIYUAN CHEN My role: All text work. Site photos taking. Site analysis. Weather analysis. Site original 3d models building. Physical model making. Group folio layout.

Melbourne is a city with four distinct seasons. Living in a busy city like Melbourne, it’s difficult for people to slow down their feet to sense the environment around them in daily life. However, there are many great things people can sense and enjoy in the city which are normally ignored. Docklands used to be a critical trade port of Victoria. While the trade has transferred to other ports, Docklands was developed to a waterfront suburb gathered new apartments, office buildings, and commercial buildings. Grand Plaza of Docklands has a great water view and valuable open space where is great for people to have an interaction with the environment. Big wind during wintertime is an annoying but still attractive character of Docklands. “Piers on the Land” is an interaction design made by groups of seats which looked like upside-down piers as the wind indicators of Docklands and people can notice different wind level by the frequency of light blinking inside those seats. Besides, considering big wind will make people feel colder, heaters under the top of those seats will create a warmer micro-climate around them when it’s a cold windy day, to attract people to stay and enjoy the fancy water view of Docklands. 18

ABOUT DOCKLANDS Δ

Site Location Southern Cross Station

Melbourne City Yarra River

Marvel Stadium SITE (Grand Plaza) Knowledge Market

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Site Context

Commerce Mixed Residence & Commerce Public Buildings Office Buildings Residence

Daily Activities on Docklands

Families’ relaxing

Jogging

Dog walking

Strolling

Cycling

Commuting

Visiting

Docklands has a complex context. It mixes various kinds of buildings. Besides, it has beautiful water view and amazing public open spaces. Lots of people like spending their daily time here.

INSPIRATION Δ

Wind Analysis

m/s

Comparison between ambient and dry bulb temperature

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Δ Wind-Rose

Wind speed and relative humidity change every time. When considering wind speed and relative humidity, the ambient temperature presents differently from dry bulb temperature.

17.00 15.30 13.60 11.90 10.20 8.50 6.80 5.10 3.40 1.70 0.00

Dry Bulb Temperature Melbourne, 2017 Ambient Temperature Melbourne, 2017

The data is based on the weather data of Melbourne, 2017. Comfortable

Melbourne_VIC_AUS 1 JAN 1:00 - 31 DEC 24:00 Hourly Data: Wind Speed (m/s) (Energyplus 2017)

Uncomfortable

Apparent Temperature Simulation in wind speed from 0m/s to 7m/s under the same dry bulb temperature Co 20

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Winds speed: 0m/s Apparent temperature:20.75˚C

Winds speed: 4m/s Apparent temperature:15.43˚C

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Co 20

Winds speed: 1m/s Apparent temperature:20.29˚C

Co 20

Wind speed: 2m/s Apparent temperature:18.85˚C

18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 <10 Wind speed: 3m/s Apparent temperature:17.12˚C

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Wind speed: 5m/s Apparent temperature:13.96˚C

Wind speed: 6m/s Apparent temperature:12.76˚C

<10 Wind speed: 7m/s Apparent temperature:11.82˚C

Project design - Seats inspiration There are many piers in the water, which is a significant feature of Docklands. The reflections of piers are also very appealing. Those piers became the inspiration of the seat design. Poetically putting piers upside down which looks like the reflections, people would feel like sitting on the water.

Feels like sitting on the water

Not stable How a pier become a seat 20

DESIGN

Seats Arrangement

Original site

Sight line analysis

Water wave

Seats arranged along wave line

Seats arranged by groups Work by Lian Huang

Plan 1:500 Work by Lin Lu

270mm

Seats Dimension & Structure

45mm

450mm

420mm Top of the seat - Ceramic

Force sensor Heater

200mm

Physical Model

LED light 180mm

300mm

132mm

285mm

Bottom of the seat - Acrylic

Work by all team members

STREET PARTY RESILIENT WATERFRONT DESIGN FOR REACTIVATING COMMUNITY

ACADEMIC WORK BRONX, NEW YORK, USA

Hurricane Sandy caused huge loss of New York City which warned people that their daily life was under a severe threat of sea-level rise. This project is located in the riverfront of South Bronx which is facing issues of sea-level rise, high crime rates, low-income, and racial problems. These issues have caused a bad reputation of South Bronx, despite itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the birthplace of hip-hop. As the most important cultural feature of South Bronx, hip-hop was born at a street party which inspired me of creating a lively waterfront neighborhood that could resist the threat of sea-level rise. The landscape of the riverfront will become a part of the streets which would protect upper-lands from rising sea levels while the diversified streets will bring more jobs and daily activities for residents.

SITE CONDITION

Δ Born of Hip-Hop 1973, Hip-Hop was born at a party at 1520 Sedgwick Avenue.

Then, Hip-Hop developed in South Bronx. So South Bronx is the birthplace of Hip-Hop and it has a huge cultural potential.

However, Bronx is not only famous for its Hip-Hop culture but also is notorious because of its high crime rates.

Δ Sections of existing waterfront

Street Crime - Higher Area

Express way

Industrial building

Public facility building

Street Crime - Lower Area

Subway

Commercial building

Mixed residential building

Sea Level Rise Floodplain

Subway stop

Residential building

Vacant building

Railway

FLOOD AND HURRICANE PREVENTION STRATEGY Δ

General Strategy Existing

Non-flood season

Flood season

Existing

Flood season

Waterfront Flood Prevention Axon

Non-flood season

2100s 2080s 2050s Now

2100s 2080s Now 2050s

2100s 2080s 2050s Now

2100s 2080s Now 2050s

2100s 2080s 2050s Now

ACCESSIBLE VIBRANT WATERFRONT DESIGN

pocket park pocket park expressway restaurant shops roof garden roof garden railway

expressway

pocket park

shops

cafe

walkway

pocket park

expressway

gym

pocket park

lawn circle walk

outdoor stage

railway

ACCESSIBLE VIBRANT WATERFRONT DESIGN

1 Landscape steps

3 Lawn

2 Skate park

4 Rain garden

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5 Urban farming

7 Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s playground

6 BBQ

8 Sandpit

YARD DESIGN DOCUMENTATION PRACTICE

HAND DRAWING & CAD DRAWING BEIJING, CHINA

Yingying Li Master of Landscape architecture RMIT University

yyli130718@gmail.com