Yuejiao Wang
urbanism + planning + design
Portfolio selected works 2011-2014
Work Experience 2013.10 – 2014.01 Assistant Urban Designer URBED Ltd. Manchester, UK
Referees
2013.12 – 2014.01 Logo Designer (Paid Job) Portland Works LS Ltd Sheffield, UK 2011.05 – 2011.07 Assistant Urban Planner Sichuan Institute of Urban Planning and Design Chengdu, CN
John Sampson Urban Designer, Director URBED (Urbanism, Environment and Design) Ltd. john@urbed.coop Dr Florian Kossak Director PGT Masters Programmes School of Architecture, The University of Sheffield f.kossak@sheffield.ac.uk
Languages skills
Education & Qualifications 2012.09 – 2013.09 MA in Urban Design School of Architecture, University of Sheffield with Distinction
CV
Mandarin (native speaker) English (IELTS 6.5) (L:7.0 R:7.5 W:6.0 S:6.0)
Y U E J I A O W A NG
2007.09 – 2012.06 BA in Urban Planning Southwest University of Science and Technology Overall Average: 85
DOB: 02/Aug./1988 Email: mini_rice@126.com Mobile: +86 18628116632 Address: No.404 Jinyan Road Chengdu, Sichuan
An active and engaged Spatial Agent with a passion for Urban Design, Urbanism, Planning and Architecture. A creative and enthusiastic individual, with a keen sense of responsibility and a great teamwork spirit.
IT Skills Adobe Creative Suite (proficient) (Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign) AutoCAD (proficient) SketchUp (proficient) Adobe Acrobat (proficient) Microsoft Office (proficient) Corel Video Studio (proficient) Adobe Audition (moderate)
Other Relevant skills Physical Model Making (proficient) (experience in making cardboard, form and plasticine study model) 2D&3D Free-hand Drawing (proficient) Digital Graphics Tablet (moderate) Stop-motion Video Making (moderate) Micro-film Making (basic) Photography (proficient)
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Regulatory Planning District Planning
Urban Design
trent basin
A new Sustainable Neighhourhood in Nottingham URBED 2013
Linked and accessible / Catching a ferry to Lady Bay / Publicly accessible, not a public amenity / Welcoming / A place to stroll through / To walk along the river / To soak up tranquillity / Intimate / Public spaces, small but intense, not large and barren / Sustainable Living / Enjoying nature / Caring for the planet / Contemporary architecture / Understatedly cool / Organic / Biophillic / Natural / local materials meet progressive design style / Kitchen gardens and roof terraces / Pots and plants / Catalytic / Adaptable / Minis and hatchbacks / Bikes and canoes / Trainers and boots / Healthy / Happy. ↑ Vision Trent Basin lies within 2 miles of Nottingham City centre and 1.5 miles south east of Nottingham Train Station. The site sits within an established industrial estate which started to develop along the north banks of the River Trent in the early 21st Century. The site lies around a water inlet, which was built as a ‘Docks and Inland Waterways Depot’ and appears on historic maps between the 1930s and 1950s. The basin would have been used to store and transfer goods between the surrounding industrial estates and onto boats, which would transport goods along the river. The site has seen a decline in industry over the last few years, with warehouses becoming redundant and operation of the Basin ceasing in recent years. ← The Masterplan The site today covers 3.53 ha (3.98 ha including the Basin) and most of it consists of a crushed stone surface following demolition and remediation. The triangle of space at the northern end of the site linking through to Daleside Road has also been left. The only other buildings that remain on the site are a pair of semi-detached villas on Trent Lane. These were originally built to serve the sewage pumping station and they stand next to a electricity sub station that will also need to be retained. The main access to the site is from the bottom of Trent Lane. The main vehicle access to the port was taken from this point. There are a second pair of gates to the north of this next to the Villas that was a further access point. ↓ Plan of the site as existing / Access
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Urban Design
trent basin
A new Sustainable Neighhourhood in Nottingham
↑ Age and Life Expectancy
↑ Average Property Prices
↑ Education Results
↑ Occupations
↑ Unemployment
↑ Mental Wellbeing
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Urban Design
trent basin
A new Sustainable Neighhourhood in Nottingham
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Urban Design
trent basin
A new Sustainable Neighhourhood in Nottingham
Trent Basin aims to create a new type of neighbourhood that is neither entirely urban nor entirely suburban. The location is close to the city but, is not in the heart of the urban area and also has very good links to the green space of Colwick Country Park. The idea is therefore to create a housing scheme that allows the countryside to sprawl into the city rather than the city to sprawl into the countryside. This follows through into the idea of plenty of greenery, gardens and roof terraces, food growing and trees, both in the completed scheme and as meanwhile uses as the scheme is being developed.
PHASE 1
The scheme should also exploit its waterside location and the fresh air and view over the Trent. The aim is to create a layout where as many houses as possible have a views of the water and where the sense of the river and basin are drawn into the heart of the site. There is also a part of the scheme that is a reinvention of the suburb rather than a lively urban scheme. The idea is that the neighbourhood feels calm and relaxed. It should be quiet, and not feel dominated by cars. Rather than a mixed use urban scheme, or a family oriented suburban scheme, the aim is to create a neighbourhood that is based around cycling, dog walking, jogging, fi shing, boating, reading, chatting, living, resting, exercising and working.
↓ View from Waterfront properties back over towards Phase 1 and the floating gardens
↓ Elevation A-A
↓ Elevation C-C
↓ View from Boardwalk looking towards Waterfront Terraces ↓ Elevation F-F
↓ Elevation G-G
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Urban Design
trent basin
A new Sustainable Neighhourhood in Nottingham
In terms of the community the idea is that just because this is a estate of new housing doesn’t mean that the households will be families with young children. We feel that the nature of the waterfront (3m freeboard and deep water) and the lack of local schools means that this is unlikely to be an attractive location for young children. Experience of Green Street suggests that there are many other types of household who will potentially be interested in the scheme; couples downsizing from larger properties when their children leave home, young adults cohabiting and parents living with grown-up offspring. These groups don’t normally buy new-build housing and they have different aspirations, wanting somewhere with identity rather than a cloned estate, valuing sustainability and the strength of a community with shared values despite different life stages. This has implications for the public realm suggesting informal, intimate gathering points and places to stroll rather than play grounds and public squares.
↑ View down main street ← The concept of Custom Build ↓ Framework Plan 001: Phasing and Typology
↓ Framework Plan 002: Access and Parking
↓ Framework Plan 003: Siting and Heights
↓ Framework Plan 004: Open Space and Play
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Urban Planning
UXCESTER
Garden City - Competition Entry for Wolfson Economic Prize 2014 URBED 2014
↑ Uxcester Constraints We describe in this essay a plan to create a garden city of almost 400,000 people by doubling the size of an existing city. This is based on a real city, if not one that we identify. We have called it Uxcester and created it from an amalgam of at least six other cities, all places with populations nearing 200,000, with long histories, established institutions and settled communities. ↑ Uxcester today
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Urban Planning
UXCESTER
Garden City - Competition Entry for Wolfson Economic Prize 2014
Vision: We illustrate how the city of Uxcester
could double its size by adding three substantial urban extensions each housing around 50,000 people. These lie within a zone 10km from the city centre and are configured as triangles with only the point touching the edge of the settlement. The farmland around the city is currently not accessible to the public and of little ecological value. The concept is that for every hectare of development another will be given back to the city as accessible public space, forests, lakes country parks etc‌ Each of these satellite extensions would be served by a tram or Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) running from the existing mainline station on disused lines and then switching to on-street running to loop through the new neighbourhoods. The housing would be developed incrementally to create space for small developers and self-builders alongside the volume housebuilders in a process that recreates the way that the great estates were built in London.
Uxcester's Urban Structure: Like most towns, Uxcester does not really correspond to the neat diagrams of urban theorists. It grew initially within the confines of its walls before developing suburbs to the south and west and over the river to the east. It grew along the main roads leading into the town which developed and some of the surrounding villages were engulfed by the expanding city. However the idealised diagram overlaid on the plan, inspired by Ebenezer Howard, makes the point that like all towns and cities it consists of an urban centre containing higher order functions and urban housing while being surrounded by neighbourhoods that replicate a similar form on a smaller scale.
↑ The Snowflake Plan
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Urban Planning
UXCESTER
Garden City - Competition Entry for Wolfson Economic Prize 2014
↑ The Diagram Applied:
↑ The Land Deal
↑ Land Use Budget
This drawing shows how the Snowflake plan might be applied to a real situation. Using the composite of real places that we have used to construct the fictional Uxcester we have make assumptions about areas of protected landscape, flood plains and other constrained areas. It will never be possible to avoid all potential problems. However the settlements shown in the diagram covers 3,000 hectares and what is striking is the way that it does not smother the existing city and retains large areas of green space.
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Spatial Agency
act as agents
For the People, By the People Uni of Sheffield Thesis Project 2013
- Agency
- Spatial Agency
Agency as a term that has a long history in social and political theory is traditionally understood as “the ability of the individual to act independently of the constraining structures of society; structure is seen as the way that society is organized”. However, as Florian et al claimed “for the architectural and architectural research community it (agency) also involves the ability to act on behalf of others, bringing responsibility.” In a word, agency is the ability to act independently not only for self-interest but also on behalf of others, which also is the ability to change the status quo for the better.
Compared with agency, spatial agency narrows down the research filed to “the social, global, ecological and virtual networks”. In other words, spatial agency emphasizes on the social relationships between human and non-human architectural objects, which focuses on a wider area compared with architectural context, and on more specific area compared with traditional ‘agency’. Hence, the notion of spatial agency is more suitable to be applied in this project, which focuses more on spatial context rather than the economic and political context.
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Spatial Agency
act as agents
For the People, By the People
Methodology - Research Design The project is a research design which synthesizes small-scale designs with related researches. There is no clear order between them. The design supports each research; the outcomes from each research supplement the design. Meanwhile, in bigger scale, the main methodology of this project is an experimental design, which tests the concept of ‘spatial agency’ and the role of urban designers in broader social context. This methodology comes out of doing and then reflecting at the end of doing, which can be divided into 3 types, as my own understanding.
Methodology - Documentary Film The documentary film, which is used as creative media in this project to tell urban change stories, not only record the whole process of the inspiring/ motivating experiments, but also is superior in spreading ideas in public to normal graphic media. In addition, documentary film is efficient media to enhance the public engagement in research. The final product of the film is a visual story about how people influence change in the city and how urban designers can influence the process.
essential structure
inclusive structure
↑ CIQ Spatial Relationship
Methodology - Inspiring/Motivating Experiment In order to test and practice the concept as well as understand the context of the site, 3 inspiring/motivating experiments were taken place in 3 different spots in the site. In addition, the experimental design as the vital methodology of this project also acts as the proposal part of the project, as the whole process of these experiments is evidence of people’s desire of acting as agents. Meanwhile, the experimental design shows the potential possibilities that how urban designers can act as agents to empower the public to act as agents as well.
↑ The Relationship between Research and Design
Progressive structure
↑ CIQ Charater Zones and Site Boundary The Site The site of this project is located in Cultural Industries Quarter, Sheffield. "The Cultural Industries Quarter was established in the early 1990’s and has been an exemplar for many other cities. It has led the development of a significant and growing Creative and Digital sector in Sheffield employing at least 7,000 people, many in the Quarter. But it is now in need of a refresh and re-launch as many of its flagship institutions."
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Spatial Agency
act as agents
For the People, By the People
↓ Tools
↑ The Site Context ↓ Experimental Spots Analysis
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Spatial Agency
act as agents
For the People, By the People
↑ Part of the Documentary Film-stills and Story Board http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XNjAzOTA1MDcy.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqTC3Nv97y4 National Urban Design Awards 2014 – Icknield Port Loop, Birmingham: Sustainable Urban Neighbourhood
↑↓ Other Animatiaon/Flim Stills http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XNTYwNjgwOTY0.html A Story of Taku Dock's Survival
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Urban+ Architectual Design
Creative campus
Site as Resource as Generator Uni of Sheffield 2013
SITE: Oberhafen area in the south of Hafencity, Hamburg, Germany Objective: - Defining the notion of a “Creative Quarter”; - Supporting and developing existing functions/users/usages; - Facing the reqirement of spatial ratio; - Exploring and proposing new connections; - Providing a circulation infrastructure.
UDP3 is a program rather than a project, which asks more spatial analysis and organization; at the same time, emphasized the concept of as a resource and generator in itself. This project needs both the understanding of urban context and the detailed design of spaces. Most importantly, not only use resources in the site, but make the site as resources to the whole urban context by designing different kinds of spaces with creative characteristics. ↑ Background - Connection
↓ Concept
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Urban+ Architectual Design
Creative campus
Site as Resource as Generator
↑ Traffic Analysis
↑ Function Analysis
↑ Actors and Schedules Analysis
↓ Container Units Analysis
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Urban+ Architectual Design
Creative campus
↓ Resources
Site as Resource as Generator
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Urban Design
it couldn't be more zimple! Urban Support System
↓ Factors and Actors Analysis
Uni of Sheffield 2013
↑ Background - Why Market
↑ Proposal Vision UDP2 is a remote project about urban support systems, which located in Zimapan, Mexico. Economy is the chosen support system of our group. In order to improve the economy of Zimapan, we proposed strategies on the market as an initiation of improvement of the economy. From this project, I learnt that every big development of urban needs small improvement of urban space, like markets in this project impact economy in many aspects and influent lots of actors. This project also asked us to actively engage with the site and experience the site with the challenge of long distance.
SITE: Zimapan, Mexico Objective: - Proposing a strategy of urban support systems that address identified; - Developing an understanding of interconnected, resilient, resourceful and opportunistic urbanism; - Collaborating and exchanging knowledge with Tecnologico de Monterrey, a Mexican higher education institution; - Also collaborating with studio groups.
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Urban Design
↑ Spatial Context
it couldn't be more zimple! Urban Support System
↑ Locations and Typology
↓ Proposals and Tools - Guide Book
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Urban Design
it couldn't be more zimple! Urban Support System
↑ The Tree Market (with a Food Court)
↓ The School Market (temporary market open on weekends)
← Proposals - Two New Markets for the Market Extension Needs
↓ Changes of Opening Times
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Urban Design
turn on the blind spots Common Place / Public Space Uni of Sheffield 2012
S ite : S h a l e s m o o r, Ke l h a m I s l a n d & Neepsend in the UK Objective: - Developing a local strategy for initiating, activating and sustaining public spaces; - Developing a situated response to an urban environment; - Drawing on experiences to inform design; - Discussing and responding to theories of public space and the commons; - Identifying and working with different urban actors. ↑ Location of Blind Spots
UDP1 is a project mainly focusing on public spaces in industrial urban context. In this project, the main proposal is an improvement of communicating characteristic of public spaces, which could lead a result of a more harmony community atmosphere in this area. Hence, from UDP1 I understood that recognizing the importance of public spaces is a critical part of designing cities. In addition, all the tools in UDP0 were applied successfully in this project and comprehensive understanding of urban design tools were improved after UDP1.
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Urban Design
turn on the blind spots Common Place / Public Space
↑ Proposals Montages ↓→ Delivery and Time Term
24 months is our first strategy circle. We believe a strategy should be updated as the circumstances change. A strategy should have a wide range of people and organisations signed up to it, taking responsibility for its delivery, monitoring and review.
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Regulatory Planning
connector area
Regulatory Planning for Connector Area, Gaoping District in Nanchong Sichuan Institute of Urban Planning and Design 2011
SITE: Lying close to the seat of the Gaoping District government, this planning area is bounded by the Guangyuan-Nanchong Expressway on the south. It ’s the portal leading to Gaoping District. The planning area is positioned as a multifunctional lifethemed residential area in Southeastern Nanchong. As Nanchong ’s promotional image around the southeastern access, the planning area totals 2.61 km2 of land intended for a population of 50,000.
↑ Location
↑ Structure Analysis ONE CENTER The public service center of the residential area . ONE BELT A characteristic functional belt formed along the Qingxi River . TWO AXES Two axes of public facilities in the area . FOUR COMMUNITIES Three residential communities and one ecological green-core community .
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Regulatory Planning
connector area
Regulatory Planning for Connector Area, Gaoping District in Nanchong
↑ Concept Analysis
↑ Land Planning
↑ Residential Land Planning
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Regulatory Planning
connector area
Regulatory Planning for Connector Area, Gaoping District in Nanchong
↑ Green Space System Planning
↑ Building Height Control
↑ Landscape Planning
↑ Land Development Intensity
↑ Facilities Planning
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District Planning
northern new town
District Planning for Northern New Town in Nanchong Sichuan Institute of Urban Planning and Design 2011
+ → Residential Land Planning ↓ Structure Analysis
↓ Land Planning
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District Planning
northern new town
District Planning for Northern New Town in Nanchong
→ Greenspace Planning ← Land Using Analysis
← → Landscape Planning
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Yuejiao Wang mini_rice@126.com +86 18628116632