Landscape Portfolio XIN YANG MLA of TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY 503 Southwest Parkway, Apt. 802, College Station, TX, Phone: 979-739-9518 E-Mail: aliceyang1234@gmail.com
Xin Yang
503 Southwest Parkway, Apt. 802, College Station, TX, Phone: 979-739-9518 E-Mail: aliceyang1234@gmail.com
Core Competencies • Areas of expertise include: Site Design, Community Planning, Tourism Planning, Planting Design, Perspective Drawing, Cross Section Drawing, Construction Detail, Site Analysis. • Well-refined computer skill on MAC and PC platform: AutoCAD, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, SketchUp, GIS and MS office. • Strong visual communication skill in both digital and hand drawing. • Able to read, write, listen, and speak fluently in three languages: English, Mandarin, and Cantonese. • Creative, responsibility, flexibility, adaptability, self-motivated, ability to work under pressure.
Work Experiences • 2011 Summer, Interned in HHL,Shenzhen, China. Under Changshan Huang’s direction, involved in the following projects: Master Plan for Jingmao Shijia Resort, Lijiang, Yunnan, China ( collaborated with the Denver office of Design Workshop) Master Plan for Furong Paradise, Xinxing Town, Chengdu, Sichuan, China Master Plan for Model Retirement Community, Beijing, China Master Plan for the South Lake Land Development, Wuhu, Anhui, China. • 2011 Spring, Student worker for Dr. Bruce Devorak with his green roof research. • 2008 Summer, Interned in Siyuan Evaluation Company, collected and analysed land use data in Doumen District, Zhuhai city, China.
Education • Master in Landscape Architecture, May 2012 Department of Landscape Architecture & Urban Planning Texas A & M University
• Bachelor of Science in Urban Planning & Management, June 2008 Real Estate College Beijing Normal University
Activities & Honour • April 2012, Elizabeth and Edmund Rodiek MLA Endowed Scholarship • April 2011, Honourable mention for the Graduate Division-Analysis and Planning category of the Texas ASLA Student Design Competition. (Team Work) • August 2011~ May 2012, Vice President of Promotion of International Student Association in TAMU. • January 2012, ULI Hines Student Urban Design Competition. • December 2009, participated competition of interior design for Langford Room A300.
Table of Content
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“The Link” Social Oriented Mixed-Use Development @ Downtown Houston Competition Project/ Team Work
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Lijiang Resort Preliminary Master Plan for Lijiang Jinmaoshijia Resort Project @ Lijiang,China Internship Project/Team Work
05-08
Cotton Rose Paradise Master Plan for Cotton Rose Paradise @ Chengdu, China Studio Project/Team Work & Individual Site Design
09-12
Active Ageing Hongming Retirement Community Master Plan @ Hainan, China Final Study Project/ Teamwork
13-18
Green Roof Design 19-22 Stormwater Management with Green Roof Technique@Texas A&M University Studio Project/ Individual Design
Artwork & Others Construction Drawing, Sketches, Marker Drawings
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PROJECT 01 Urban Revitalization Mixed-Use Downtown Houston Transit Knot Connection
THE LINK
Social Oriented Mixed-Use Development @ Downtown Houston
Location: Downtown Houston, Texas, USA Date: 01/17/2012~01/31/2012 Project Type: ULI Hines Competition Project/ Team Work Responsibility: Team Leader, Site Analysis, Conceptual Diagram, Project Development and Execution, Collaboration of Team, Poster Layout and so on. Summary: This is a multidiscipline teamwork project for the 2012 ULI Hines Student Urban Design competition, that have collaborated with two landscape architecture students two architecture students and one land development student. The project site is located at the edge of downtown Houston. There are two major highways passing by the site, Buffalo Bayou Park is located at the south side within walking distance. The Purpose of the project is to shape a new downtown district to serve as a key to connect buffalo bayou, Theatre District and Historic District of downtown Houston. Our Proposal is to create a micro-downtown district that integrates the existing public transportation with walkable street, bike lanes and future commuter rail system to provide diverse transit option. Meanwhile the project also create a place to provide diverse living, working, and entertaining options for people who visit, live, work, and play there. Most importantly, the compact development with diverse programs encourages the social interaction between the future residents, visitors, and workers.
THE LINK Social Oriented Mixed-UseDevelopment @ Downtown Houston The model was created and rendered by two architecture team members
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Hotel Hospitality Service Parking garage Roof Garden above
Retail- Office Office Space with Convenient Food Location. Parking garage
ISO Hourse Affordable Living Retail Underneath Parking garage
Iconic Hotel Up-Scale Hospitality Service Shopping/Food Parking garage
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Retail-Residential Parking garage Shopping & food Live/Work Units Roof Garden above
Commercial Street Shopping Bar/Cafe Indoor/Outdoor Restaurant
Plaza Water Feature Gathering Place Shade Sitting Area
LOFT Parking garage Shopping & food Live/Work Units Roof Garden above
Parking
Site Plan was rendered by Teammate Xuemei Luo
Downtown Connection
Live and Work Affordable living Accessible work Hospitality Convenient services 0 carbon footprint Compact development.
Targeted Group
Existing Figure Ground
Buffalo Bayou boating Performance art Nightlife/bar street Public space Connective jogging trail and bike path Programming/events Compact neighbourhood
Social Interaction Employment opportunities Social network Sense of community Diverse options of activities
Proposed Circulation
THE LINK
Existing Figure-Ground
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Proposed Figure-Ground
Concept Diagram
Sustainable Transit Retail
Accessible/Diverse transit Walkable/Bikable streets Transportation efficient Car pool Reduce vehicular trips
4.4% 3.7% 4.3%
SRO Housing Market Rate For-Sale Housing Market Rate Rental Housing
13.7%
Hospitality
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Market Rate Retail Affordable Retail
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Parking
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Office
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Mixed-Use Office/Retail
SRO Housing
Parking Garage Loft with Retail Iconic Hotel Residential/ Retail
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Retail 68,53 7.6% Residential 274,61 30.5% Office 252,19 28.0% Parking 305,70 33.9% Retail Residential Office
Green Roof
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Retail Office Hotel Parking
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PHASE THREE 4.2% 31.7% 16.7% 47.4%
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Retail Affordable Retail SRO Housing Hotel Parking
13,52 26,39 150,51 160,40 302,45
2.1% 4.0% 23.0% 24.6% 46.30%
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Retail Affordable Retail
Hotel
SRO House
Retail
Parking
Hotel Parking
Section (West-East)
Circulation
Parking
Vehicle Access Bike Trails
Bus Route& Stops
Open Space
Parking Structure Surface/On Street Parking
Pedestrian Access Future Light rail & Stops
Parking Garage
Retail
Bayou & Highway Green Belt Green Buffer Green Roof Public Open Space Green Corridor
Office
Mixed-Use Building Model was created by architecture teammate Yan lu
Housing/Office
Perspective of the Street in the Community Created by architecture teammate Yan lu
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PROJECT 02 Up-Scale Resort Lijiang China Tourist Destination Traditional Culture Local Characteristic
Lijiang Resort Preminary Master Plan for Lijiang Resort Project @ Lijiang,China
Location: Lijiang, Yunnan Province, China Date: 05/06/2011~08/03/2011 Project Type: Internship Project/ Team Work Responsibility: On-Site Design Charrette, Plan Development, Case Studies, Graphic Preparation, Meeting with Client, Design Documentation, Analysis Maps, Translation Work and so on. Summary: This is an up-scale resort project with integration of characteristic of local culture. The project is located at Lijiang, Yunnan, China. The old town of Lijiang was listed in the world cultural heritage register for its beautiful architectural style and characteristics. The purpose of the project is to develop a luxury resort with a five-stars hotel, commercial street, and high-end residential by integrating the local traditional village and urban settlement pattern ( water, mountain, street, courtyard), as well as maximizing the view toward Sacred mountain: Jade Dragon Snow Mountain. Our approach is to create a village with a relaxed atmosphere, set up a appropriate scale of the building to fit human dimension; modify the street pattern and residential cluster to be organic and changing with short distance, derive the historic essence of local building with more modern retail interpretation.
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Sales Center
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Wellness Center
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Artisan Village
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Model Units/ Corps Villa
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Luxury Retail
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Food and Beverage
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Club House
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Central Lake
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Hyatt Hotel
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Hotel Villa
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Retail
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Pocket Park
Illustrative Master Plan Responsibilty: engaing in planning, CAD drawing, color rendering, and editing master plan according to changes.
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Figure Ground Analysis of Traditional Lijiang Commerical and Residential Area
Hierarchy of Social Space in a Typical Neighborhood of Lijiang
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District
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Lijiang Architectural Spatial Relaionship Analysis House
Street
Mixed-Use Building First two floors are retail, Resturant, Bar, the third to fourth floors are residential units or bed & breakfast
Courtyrard Green Space
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House
Open Space
Drinking Street
House
Stone Crossing Public Square
Street
Road
House Clean Food Wash Cloth
House
Public Square
House
城 Town
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街道
院
Street Courtyard
Wood Crossing
Lijiang Typical Street Layout
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Lijiang Typical Square Layout
Traditional Neighborhood is organized around Three pit well and small public square
Courtyard
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土地利用规划图 Land Use Analysis Diagram R1
一类居住用地 Residential (Low Density)
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水面 Water
C21 商业用地 C25 旅馆业用地
Commercial
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Hotel
Property Line
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Green Open Space
公共绿地
功能分区图 Functional District Diagram
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分期规划图 Phases Plan 一期
Phase I (2012-2013)
二期
Phase II (2013-2015)
三期
Phase II (2015-2017)
Responsibilty: Involved with discission of creating and conducting a set of analysis maps. Took charge of cooperating and editing all the analysis maps to make them into a uniform format. The base map CAD file was created by me and one of my colleague. 01: Labelled both in Chinese and English, Colour editing. 02: Labelled both in Chinese and English, Colour editing. 03: Labelled both in Chinese and English, Colour editing. 04: Labelled both in Chinese and English, 05: Whole sheet was created by myself. 06: Whole sheet was created by myself. 07: Involved part of drawing, labelled both in Chinese and English, Colour editing. 08: Involved part of drawing, labelled both in Chinese and English, Colour editing.
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PROJECT 03 Tourism Planning Mixed-Use Chengdu China Botanical Garden Eco-Agriculture
Cotton Rose Paradise Master Plan for Cotton Rose Paradise @ Chengdu, China
Location: Chengdu, Sichuang Province, P. R. China Date: 01/17/2011~05/10/2011 Project Type: Studio Project/ Team Work/ Individual Work Responsibility: Case Study, Programming, Site Analysis, Collaboration of the master plan CAD, part of Master Plan CAD and Colour Rendering, individual site Design Summary: This is a studio project with teamwork; the master plan to the left is the effort of all the studio students. Then, each individual student was assigned to develop a site design for a target area of our selection. My individual selection is a residential community with the main theme of Cotton Rose. This project created a residential community of Cotton Rose. Located in the greater context of a master Plan for the three square kilometres town of Xinxing, this newly realized village was transformed into a place that has attracted many new residents, tourists, artists, and business people while improving the lives of the existing populace. This example community shows the town to be a seat of beauty that both cultivate and celebrate the Cotton Rose. It is designed to be a place to live, work and learn, while at the same time it serves as a destination for visitors by attracting them with opportunities to relax, places to play, chances to shop and venues in which to gather.
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Water Cascade
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Visiting Center
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Little Asian Garden
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Town House
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Cotton Rose Mount
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Gazebo
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Children Playground
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Trellis
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Cotton Rose Plaza
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Lake View Wood Deck
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Sunset Lake
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PROJECT 04 Evidence Base Design Ageing Process Retirement Community Hainan China Sustainability
Location: Sanmenpo Town, Hainan, China Date: 04/12/2011~04/12/2012 Project Type: Final Study Project/ Team Work Responsibility: Case studies, site inventory, Programming, Master Plan, sections, Project Documentation, Master Plan Analysis, Individual Site Design and so on. Summary: This is a teamwork project with one of my classmate Xuemei Luo. We worked corroboratively from the research phase to master plan analysis, and work independently to produce a individual site design focusing on smaller areas within the master plan. The project is located at Sanmenpo town, Haikou city, Hainan province, China. Hainan province is famous for tourism with tropical monsoonal climate. The purpose of this project is to apply active ageing and evidence-based health care design principles to plan and design an active retirement community, where seniors can pursue independent living, and fulfil their health, recreational, social, and emotional need.
ctive ageing
Active Ageing
Hongming Retirement Community Master Plan@ Downtown Houston
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Independent Living (Sport Theme) Commercial Street
Independent Living (Art Theme)
Independent Living (Health Theme) Central Park
Changpo Reservoir Assisted Living
Therapeutic Center Outdoor Exericise Plaza Recreation Center-Classroom Recreation Center
Reservoir Linear Park
Urban Village Resort Hotel
Hot Spring Villa Mixed-age Duplex
Mixed-age Townhouse
Wetland Kingdergarten Community Center Central Green Mixed-age Garden Condominium 0
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80 m
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Land Use Plan and Statistics
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Parking Analysis
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Wind Corridors
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Open Space System
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Housing Product Distribution
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Phase Plan
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Circulation
6
Surface Type Analysis
Responsibilty: The series of master plan analysis were created by my teammate and me, the first four drawing are mostly drawn by teammate Xuemei Luo, I involved part of modification. 01: Calculation of the Index. 02: Edited the drawing and label. 03: Typical Street Section. 04: Calculation of the Index. 05: Whole sheet was created by myself. 06: Whole sheet was created by myself. 07: Whole sheet was created by myself. 08: Whole sheet was created by myself.
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Reservoir Linear Park
Wetland
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Independent Living (Art Theme)
Independent Living (Sport Theme)
Central Sports Independent Living Corridor (Sport Theme)
Commericial Street
Independent Living (Health Theme)
Independent Living (Sport Theme)
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Pedestrain Street Pedestrain Bio-swale Path Path
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Street Parking
Trellis
Pedestrain Pedestrain Bio-swale Path Path Central Sport Garden
Pavilion
Retail Pedestrain Pedestrain Retail Path Path Archade Street
Archade
PedestrainStreet Path Street Parking
Pedestrain Path
Street Parking
Green Corridor
B B'
Reservoir Linear Park
Wetland
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Rooftop Garden B'
Tropical Pavilion
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Healing Garden
Chess Plaza
Terrace Trail
Gathering Plaza
Terrace Trail Healing Garden Infinity Pool Entry Plaza Assited Living
Entry Plaza
Bio-swale
Mixed-age Townhouse
Mixed-age Duplex
Reservoir Linear Park
Wetland
C Ramp to Parking Pedestrian Garage & Path Building Entrance
Duplex Backyard
Road
Pedestrian Frontyard Path & Entrance
Townhouse Backyard
Bio-swale
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Reservoir Linear Park
Mixed-age Garden Condominium
Central Green
Mixed Ages Garden Condominium
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Terrece Plaza
Terrece Plaza
Bio-swale
Trellis
Sitting Area
Terrace Garden
Terrace Garden
Bio-swale
Green Buffer
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PROJECT 05 Low Impact Development
Green Roof Texas A&M University
Sustainable Stormwater Management
Green Roof Design
Stormwater Managment with Green Roof Technique@Texas A&M University
Location: Rooftop of Student Computer Center, TAMU, College Station, Texas Date: 2010 Summer Project Type: Studio Project/ Individual Work Responsibility: individual site Design, perspective drawing, CAD drawing, section Summary: The project is to use Low Impact Development technique for stormwater management of Texas A&M university central campus. A demonstration roof garden of Annex library will provide alternative opportunities for reference future master plan of Texas A&M University. It also imports the concept of LID technology by integrating ecology, education, entertainment and technology to create a green, sustainable and better environment for campus.
Perspective From the Corner of Sitting Area
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Green Roof Site Plan
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The Shape of Drainage Chamber
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Drainage of Green Roof Drainage Chamber Intensive Green roof Vegetation Growth Media ( 12'' Thickness ) System Filter
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Hydrotech Gardendrain GR50 2'' Height Moisture Management Fabric
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Insulation Root Barrier(Secondary Membrane) Roofing Membrane Roofing Deck Bonding Adhesive
Texas A&M University Landscape Architecture LAND 603 Summer 2010
Kisss Below Flow Flat Irrigation System
2Drainage of Green Roof
Metal Grate Above the Extensive Roof
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Aluminum grate, 150mm(W), 250mm (H) 3' Porous Paver Concrete Curb Extensive Green roof Vegetation,Sedum Growth Media ( 3'' Thickness )
Hydrotech Gardendrain GR30 1 1/4'' Height 6"
Moisture Management Fabric Insulation Root Barrier(Secondary Membrane) Roofing Membrane
Grate Settlement
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SCC Roof Garden Metal Grate and Extensive Roof
Green Roof at Parapet Metal Grate Above the Extensive Green Roof 3
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Texas A&M University Landscape Architecture LAND 603 Summer 2010
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Green Roof at Parapet
Texas A&M University Landscape Architecture LAND 603 Summer 2010
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Other Work
Date: 08/12/2009~12/12/2011 Responsibility: construction drawings, pencil sketches, markers drawing Project Type: Individual graphics work
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