Yangyi Li Portfolio 2023

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YANGYI LI Work Sample 2019-2022 Master of Landscape Architecture Candidate, 2023 University of Pennsylvania Email: liyangyi@upenn.edu Phone no.: (+1) 267-918-1673

EXPERIENCE

SWA Group Sausalito, Sausalito, California, CA

Summer Internship

Teaching Assistant, University of Pennsylvania

TA of Core Design Studio III

Research Assistant, Beijing Forestry University

The Evolution Mechanism and Heritage Value of Beijing Ring Railway Region Research

EDUCATION

University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

Master of Landscape Architecture

Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, China

Bachelor of Engineering, Landscape Architecture

HORORS + AWARDS

School-level Second-scholarship for Academic Performance

Beijing Forestry University

2nd price in 10th Idea-king Landscape Planning and Design Competition

Beijing Forestry University

Design Works Exhibited in Beijing Design Week 2019

Beijing Forestry University

SKILLS

2D Visualization Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Adobe AfterEffects, AutoCAD, ArcGIS Pro, Microsoft Office

3D Visualization Rhino, SketchUp, Grasshopper, VRay, Lumion

Technical Hand Drawing, 3D model making, Laser Cutting, CNC milling

May 2022-Jul. 2022

Sept. 2022-Dec.2022

May 2018-Sept. 2019

ACADEMIC WORKS

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Hidden Stories of Coatesville

Mid-Scale, Memorial Landscape Design, Studio 601 Revitalizing Through Telling Forgotten Stories

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Raising Grounds

Large-scale, Urban Design, Studio 602

Reimagining Southwest Philadelphia in Adaptive Way

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Expected May 2023

Sept. 2017-July 2021

Reminiscing About a Disappearing Forest

Small Scale, Forest Garden Design, Studio 701 Closer forest experience through a slowly disappearing forest

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Co-exist with Water

Large-scale, Urban Design, Undergraduate Work How Industrial Island Response to Sea Level Rise

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Sept. 2017-Sept. 2018

Sept. 2016-Sept. 2017

Sept. 2019-Dec 2019

Sep. 2019-Oct. 2019

Thinking Back to Nature

Large-scale, Agricultural Landscape, Undergraduate Work Biyunfeng Village Productive Landscape Design

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Sunken Oasis

Small-scale, Landscape Design, Undergraduate Work Design of a Sunken Plaza in Beijing Forestry University

PROFESSIONAL WORKS

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Professional Works

Renderings and Pavement Design, Summer Internship, SWA Group Sausalito

OTHER WORKS

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Other Works

Contents

The Hidden Stories of Coatesville

Revitalizing Through Telling Forgotten Stories

Location: Coatesville, PA, U.S.

Individual Work

Fall 2021, Penn Studio 601

Instructor: Todd Montgomery, Ellen Neises

Coatesville, an old town known for its previous steel production, is now facing a downturn in the city's economic and population in city center. My design area is about 18 ha(45 arce), proposing Coatesville as the starting point of a series of renovation projects in post-industrial cities throughout central Pennsylvania. By telling stories and materials that have been present in the old industrial city Coatesville as a way of continuing the unique memory, and also introducing new types of industries at lower rents, to stimulate Coatesville’s manufacturing glory.

1784

1990-2021

The town struggled with economic decline, none of the old factories remained. Leaving the area with high unemployement rate. Landfill corperations filled quarries and abandoned.

1970-1990

1980

"I don't have the money," said Kalb, who put in 28 years with Alan Wood, remained unemployed during the two years.

After the World War II, industrial plants relocated. Textile plants moved south, steel companies lost advantages competing with international cooperations.

1950-1970

Alan Wood Steel Company use 4 old quarries as landfills for solid waste and construction debris in the manufacturing process.

1980

Gerald Walker, 56, who lost his larynx to cancer after retiring at Alan Wood, cannot get either disability insurance or another job.

1980

"Where am I going to go," asks William Pagano, 23. "What am I supposed to do. Where else can I get a job that pays as well. I have no schooling."

1920-1950

Prosperity of the town and its industries, textile, quarry and steel industries. With the establishment of railroad, factories enable to ship their products to other part of the county.

1900-1912

Schuylkill Navigation Company construct canals and ports, with stagecoaches system, the town begin to prosperous in industry and retail.

1978

"You feel so helpless," worried Don Grosso, a 38-year-old purification engineer. "Go somewhere else. You know what that means? My father is 73. My mother is 68. All my friends are here. It's not easy to find somewhere else."

1970-1977

Struggle and failed to make balance, laying off young and old employees, eventually bankrupt

1835-1880

Towns in the region starts to grow giving large quantities of construction waste. Rolling mills, flavor mills and textile plants are proposed in the late 1800s in Norristown and quarry begin to reaching its peak.

1968

Employed 35,000 people, over half of Plymouth township's workforce.

1820-1835

Steady growth in industries. Different types of industries grow and verify: Iron, steel, metal fabricating, stone, clay, plastic, rubber. Preliminary Retail and Industries in textile industry as well as steel, stone and metal fabricating, multiple industries blooming.

1800-1820

Located on limestone belt, limestone quarry harvest grey marble for building constructions. Oldest industry of producing limestone ussing kilns to burn lime started in the 1700s, abandoned kilns can be seen alongside the roads.

Founded in Montgomery County with only 20 houses.

1950

Expand rapidly and as the economic mainstay of the area, recruit many local people

1826

First established in Conshohocken area

Landscape Palimpsests: Historic Story Layers and People Once Existed

As Coatesville expands through industrial development, these past layers are closely linked with the stories of generations of workers and local residence. It’s worth to commemorate the actions of these people in shaping the area and lands, showing how they brought the region to its former glory, producing steel for the construction of Pennsylvania and shaping and marking the land with their actions.

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1950-1980 Story of Alan Wood Steel Company and its workers

Regional Background: Industries in Piedmont Region occur due to topography, transportation and river. The revitalization of Coatesville can be a trigger of several renovation projects and have the potential of eventually reshaping the whole area.

Industrial coal/mineral mining

Abandoned landfill sites

Steel heritage loop tour

Industrial parcels

Rural Land(Natural/Agricultural)

Green spaces

Active railroads

Pottsgrove Manor Valley Forge National Historical Park Warwick County Park & Iron Tour Hopewell Furnace National Historic Site Joanna Furnace Hibernia County Park Dowlin Forge National Iron & Steel Heritage Museum
Coatesville Downingtown 40 MILES Norristown Phoenixville Pottstown Conshohoken Philadelphia
Workers Housing Workers Housing Lukens Workers Dwelling Development Lukens Steel Plate and Rolling Mills Old Mill Bridge Tannery Gas Hold Paper Mill Old Island Lukens Steel Industry and Masions Lukens Industry Plate Mill Retail Coatesville Section: Showing its rich topography and the impact of industry on the land. Large industrial plants are constructed near the river where areas are smooth, filled the land and expanded up to both sides.

Coatesville Wood Work (1891)

Abandoned

Factories

Steele Coatesville Rolling Mill (1873)

Tannery (1902)

Gas Hold & Gas Works (1891)

Brick Kiln & Limestone Quarry (1873)

Silk Mill (1902)

Historical District/Urban Development Direction

Coatesville Hospital (1928)

Woolen Mill (1886)

Coatesville Boiler Works (1891)

Lukens Rolling Mill & Plate Mill (1891)

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Historic Traces in Coatesville and the City's Development

Design Masterplan

By mapping out all the spaces that once have hidden stories, landmarks, industries and materials. I weaving them with the existing public spaces to find a way to create spatial connections. Using spatial traces of history to create systems that bring vibrance to the communities and to the city.

OldTrainStation/FutureSeptaRegionalStop
AbandonedFactoryand9/11TwinTowerBeam
OldHousesof Lukens Family Near Lukens Museum
Valley Iron Works Pudding Mill (1986)
Coatesville's expansion has huge impact to the use of land, water and the life of its residence. Mapping out where stories and materials once appeared by drawing the important elements and historical development processes that once existed in the Coatesville area.

PROCESS

Hidden Layers/Material Stories Underneath 1 Pulling out Historic Materials and Locations 2 Inspiring Commemorate Landscape-Industries 3

ROAD CURB INSTALLATION

Potential Public Spaces

Potential Areas for Development

Potential Green Spaces

Design Proposal: Three Storylines of Coatesville

-Water: Restore the old Gibbsons Run that used to go through the centre of Coatesville and Ash Park(central park) to reduce the risk of flooding of low grounds.

-Development: Coatesville's development follows Lincoln Road and with the former railroad. Propose new development through reusing old historical buildings as craft technical school to train local unemployed people for re-employment. Also using abandoned plants as industry hub to support start-up companies.

-Commemorate line: Reuse of abandoned lands that used to be steel-making, wood stacks, coal storage industries. By bring these materials back to the ground we can commemorate the workers that make the town great and prosper. These lands also serve as public spaces for community gatherings, activities.

WALL MATERIAL INSTALLATION

PROJECTIONS

Site Material Study

A study of one of the historic industry on the site, quarrying. The major production of Coatesville is Piedmont Schist, one of the stones that popular in Piedmont region and on site. By exploring traditional stone cutting technique, I produced the stones with particular textures formed when it breaks up apart.

Then thinking about how to apply the stones in different landscape elements such as wall and roadside curbs to commemorate old quarry industry. The stones are arranged differently to show the texture of the cuts, the heaviness and self-stablilty of the stones. It als remind people of the history of Coatesville.

DEVELOPMENT REGIONAL RAILWAY
WATER PUBLIC ACTIVITY COMMEMORATE

Perspective I Commemorate: Tribute to the workers who made this city great, and materials that brought the identity of this place

Perspective I : Water: Creating new waterfront and waterway to recreate Gibbsons Run, bringing new gathering recreation spaces

Water Spine Sections: Long section showing the steel commemorate line to the new riverfront Ash Park, Quarry Memory

Water Spine Sections: Using the remaining structure as performance space, Water filtration by stone blocks in shape of building footprint

Reuse of existing site materials

Betula alleghaniensis Acer rubrum Quercus velutina Steel steps engraved with worker's names Carved large stones as filtration and stone monuments Wood piles outline demolished footprint Andropogon virginiana Chrysopsis mariana Asclepias tuberosa Clethra alnifolia Viburnum trilobum Stone material wall
Acer rubrum
Remove current soil to expose quarry surface

Perspective I I: New Industry: Future industry centre hub and outside working, keeping Coatesville making new stuffs rather than frozen in time of steel-making.

Water Spine Sections:

Access to the new waterfront and outdoor plaza, Public lawn and open-air cinema

Further Phase in Coatesville Planning

Existing Plants in Operation/Further Phase in Planning

Coatesville’s New Industry and Activity Center

Design Phasing: Three phases of the design, starting from an already abandoned area, to south and west areas that have potentials of land use changes in the future due to low productivity and flooding issues Amelanchier

III

create public spaces in vacant lots redevelop the national steel museum

Aerial View: The first phase of design vision compare with the scale the existing industrial context of the town, awaiting for further change in west and south. bringing back water

propose new industries in Coatesville to incentive new working opportunities

linear commemorate spaces telling materials and industrial stories reuse of existing industrial buildings riverfront accessibility and complete greenway for biking and jogging future recreation center activate surrounding areas

Phase Phase II Phase stolonifera Pollution indication plants to show historic pollution left behind Using the soil dug out from the construction of new waterfront to form the soil slopes Touching of historic brick wall Symphoricarpos albus Central Park and Activity Corridor

Raising Grounds

Reimagining Southwest Philadelphia in Adaptive Way

Location: Philadelphia, PA, U.S.

Collaborative Work: with Isobel Morrison, Siddhi Khirad Spring 2022, Penn Studio 602

Instructor: Nicholas Pevzner, Christopher Marcinkoski

The project is about building elevated highgrounds for new districts in South Philadelphia. Through establishing urban armatures that includes educational outposts, civic buildings and public spaces, we connect community with water edge(wetlands), developing a more adaptive response to sea level rise and storm surge. This process can also trigger: providing more habitats for animals in larger context regarding to “coastal squeeze”, material reuse in demolition construction and maintenance which can bring job training programme and promote job rate in related opportunities, and also education on wetlands and ecology.

Sea Level Rise Zone

(under RCP 4.5, 10 ft sea level rise)

Tidal Wetlands

Integral Migration Sites

Atlantic Flyway Bird Migration

Future Scenario I: Sea Level Rise and Storm Surge

The project was designed in reaction to a series of compounding crisis that happened both locally in Philadelphia and nationall y in the U.S., the first one is the dramatic increase of sea level rise and storm surge. Development and urban renewal plan drained larg e part of the wetlands in southwest Philadelphia, leaving this areas with continually flooding problems. Looking into larger context, the Atlantic Flyway which is an integral stepover spot for thousands of birds each year is also affected. New habitats is needed wherever it could be found.

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Managed Retreat and Connections: Using managed retreat as a way to connect fragmented green spaces, expanding the existing wetlands, and create connections between habitats.It also performs as a horizontal levee for facing sea level rise and storm surge.

Anchors, Public Access and Stewards: Using the existing insititution such as schools, libraries, and recreation center as anchor points. Turning the street intersections into pedestrianized streets and extend them into the wetlands to set ecological stewardship programs.

Heavy Industry: frequently flooded industrial parcels

Heavy Industry constant industrial zone since 1954

Green spaces parks and recreation

FEMA Flood: 100 year flooding areas

Future Scenario II: Increase of Climate Refugees and Managed Retreat

Mapping of much of what was being flooded was existing zoned industry along the banks of Schuylkill, causing enormous damage. The continual introduction of water into areas of heavy industry and brownfield sites was hugely disruptive to operations of industrial facilities, also spreading heavy toxins through the groundwater, surface water and soil. This gives the best opportunity to shi ft the private industrial land into city-owned green ecosystem patches and create new spaces for climate refugees in future Philadelphia and abroad.

Armatures and Fingers: Streets become public armatures that connects upland and wetland. Southwest Philadelphia shifts from facing central city to facing wetlands and Schuylkill river. Design 4 new neighbourhoods with raised ground and connected by pedestrian spine. As fingers goes into the wetland to aviod flooding.

Southwest Philadelphia current condition SW Philadelphia in 5ft sea level rise SW Philadelphia in 10ft sea level rise SW Philadelphia in 15ft sea level rise
SchuylkillRiver DelawareRiver 7Miles
Southwest Philadelphia
Fairmount Park Cobbs Creek John Heinz National Wildlife Refuge
Philadelphia Airport
Elevated Green Spaces for Wetland Berm Elevated Green Spaces for Wetland Berm Public Green Spaces/Parks Plaza with Civil Building Public Realm: Public Plaza Public Plaza for Water Activities Commercial Streets Community Farm Temporary Commercial Space on Streets Spaces for sports/activities Basketball Fields Pedestrianized Public Spaces Middle School Pedestrianized Streets Slow Streets Paschall Playground Material Library Market Recreation Community Farm Library High School Recreation Drop-off Parking Market Trolley Lines Market Vacational School Trolley Station Wetland Institute & Outdoor Education Wetland Outreach Commercial Streets Hospital Daycare/Child Education Trolley Station N

TRAFFIC CORE: Drop-off spots and trolley stops, spaces for public transportation and school travel gathering spots.

UPLAND ANCHORS: Pedestrianized streets and slow streets as connectors to lower land development. Public schools and recreational spaces are selected to have the pedestrian "cross" that protects kids and residence.

BEFORE/PEDESTRIANIZED STREETS

AFTER/PEDESTRIANIZED STREETS

PUBLIC SPACES: Public Service buildings and public spaces including library, market, recreation, nursery, re-education, and material recycle library.

BEFORE/SLOW STREETS

AFTER/SLOW STREETS

RETREAT WETLAND: Wetland park and institutions. Retreated spaces turned into wetland as horizontal levee to reserve spaces for sea level rise. Parks and wetland institutions for education and research are established.

Street Vehicular Green Street Emergency Green Street Street Vehicular Green Street Vehicular Street Street Vehicular Street Vehicular Green
Wetland: The large boardwalk plaza, with the tank maidan in the background, as look-out spots and gathering spaces in the wetlands, design to provide access to the water and vegetations, observing birds and wetland habitants. Library and Education Center Support a number of intergral programmatic functions for the neighbourhood - specifically, language courses, community college courses, as well as provide cooling and shelter spaces in hard climate situations. Wetland: The boardwalk also supports an expansion of Philadelphia's Schuylkill river greenway bike path. Fishing piers are used constantly by fisherman and also ecological education programs, it perform as an educational outreach along with Bartrams Garden and John Heinz Wildlife Refuge in Philadelphia Outpost: Cut-aways in the boardwalk provide visual engagement with the wetland and also a small research field for the outpost researchers. The outpost is the central office for the ecological stewardship program, including activities such as monitoring water, observing wildlife, etc.

LOWLAND WETLAND: remediation and staging site established

UPLAND WETLAND: remediation and staging site continued, buyouts and land swaps begin in neighbourhoods

WETLAND SITE: remediation in process, staging site of residential neighbourhood established

UPLAND SITE: remediation and construction begins in residential neighborhood.

UPLAND SITE: existing neighbourhood facing plots are staged and constructed

UPLAND SITE: managed retreat completed

Hardscape Clean Soil

Contaminated Soil

Aggregate

Hardscape Clean Soil Contaminated Soil

Aggregate

Managed Retreat and Material Reuse

Imagine that with fossil fuel industries are slowly phasing out due to the uprising of solar energy and electricity. Previous industrial lands are turned over to municipalities for remediation, redevelopment, or reuse. This is the managed retreat acquisition strategy for parcels, which utilized three acquisition strategies: the rapid phase-out of historic fossil fuel industry, also voluntary buyouts and land swaps. This is a study of the order in which these industrial sites were purchased and rehabilitated by the government and how the construction materials on this land can be reuse into aggregate for raising the ground to protect sea level rise.

Phase 1 completed in process Phase 2 Phase 3 Phase 4 Phase 5 Phase 6

Project Vision demonstrate the potential of designing new urban spaces with existing civic infrastructures, illustrate the potential for a kind of public realm where care, community, ownership ,and education are part of the design of the space.

Futuring: In the upcoming years, the wetlands will continue to grow, moving upland into the gaps between the fingers of urban spaces as the rivers and seas moves upwards. The process of managed retreat for wetland creation repeated, making spaces for habitat while prioritizing urban communities.

Recreating a Disappearing Forest

Closer forest experience through a slowly disappearing forest

Location: Washington D.C., U.S.

Individual Work

Fall 2022, Penn Studio 701

Instructor: Karen M'Closkey

The maple-beech-birch and spruce-fir forests are slowly disappearing from North America with climate change. Their habitat has repeatedly moved northward and will slowly fade out of our site - Washington, D.C. Design intends to create a series of gardens related to climate change in the U.S. arboretum to commemorate the forests of these departing species, and to bring people closer to experience the beauty of these forests, to feel the plant changes over time in miniature.

Forested areas with deep and well drained soil that have high infiltration and low runoff rates

Forested areas with deep and well drained soil that have moderate infiltration and runoff rates

Low moisture areas and urban heat island

Forest Condition In Large Washington D.C.

The entire northwest and southeast of the large Washington D.C. area is mixed forest, with a large number of white oak, red oak, hickory, maple and loblolly pine trees. A large number of oak trees and maple trees in D.C. is having diseases and not doing well due to the temperature growth and precipitation decrease. National Arboretum is a perfect place to demonstrate these types of trees changes through time due to climate change.

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National Mall National Arboretum

Spruce-Fir

Maple-Beech-Birch

Oak-Hickory

Oak-Pine

Oak-Gum-Cypress

Middle Atlantic Coastal Plain

Southeastern Plains

Piedmont

Northern Piedmont

Mississippi Alluvial Plain

South Central Plains

Arkansas Valley

Ouachita Mountains

Boston Mountains

Ecoregion Shifts and Tree Migration

In the last 30 years, with the southeast seeing drier conditions and the central U.S. getting wetter, climate and ecoregions in the U.S. are changing drastically. Ecoregions shifts have huge impacts on tree migration. Trees are moving towards more suitable living environments by avoiding hotter conditions. Trees are moving west and north, and move up the Appalachian Mountains.

Maple-Beech-Birch

Oak-Hickory Oak-Pine

Oak-Gum-Cypress

Flowering dogwood

American beech American yew Red oak Black birch White pine

Sugar Maple Fraser fir Pignut hickory

Yellow birch Balsam fir Chestnut oak

Alder-leaf virburnum Red spruce Black oak

Black cherry Yellow birch White oak

American witch-hazel Black spruce Hawthorn Mountain blueberry Mountain laurel

Wood thrush, hooded warbler, barred owl, pileated woodpecker

Great laurels

Magnolia warbler, Swainson's thrush, White-throated sparrow

Forest Type Shifts and Forest Loss

Ovenbird, wood thrush, scarlet tanager, veery and red eyed vireos

Ecoregion shifts results in the the change of forest types and forest loss. Diseases and poor growth are slowly reducing some tree species and forest types in the northern U.S. In researches conducted by USDA, the maple-beech-birch forest and sprucefir forest will gradually move further north and be replaced by oak-hickory forest which is more adaptable to southern climates.

Little Rock, Arkansas Little Rock, Arkansas Little Rock, Arkansas Washington, D.C. Washington, D.C. Washington, D.C.
Maple-Beech-Birch Spruce-Fir Oak-Hickory Washington D.C. Little Rock, Arkansas

Forests in National Arboretum

The site was once a historical piece of ancient woods before the establishment of national arboretum. The composition of this forest is the same as the forest tree species in the greater d.c area, oak and hickory. There's also conifer collection and asian collection that contains a lot of spruce and maple trees, giving a great opportunity in demostrating and designing gardens of climate change.

Design Plan

Focusing on the three functions of the future botanical garden: education and outreach, conservation, and experimentation, my design intends to bring the corresponding three programs: forest experience gardens, outdoor plant refuge and experiment field. Plant refuge as an ex-situ conservation protect trees that might not do well in the future and cultivate them to form future forest. Experiment fields will conduct plant adaptation experience and also have educative purpose for visitors to know about plant experiments

Maple 825 Beech 67 Birch 75 Oak 665 Hickory 62 Spruce 245
PLANTS MAPLE EASTERN WHITE PINE OAK-HICKORY
Fir 281
ADDED
SPRUCE-FIR
Maple collection Conifer collection Asian collection Paschall Playground

Spruce-Fir Forest Garden: Planting northern forest species that are more suitable for the environment, replacing trees in the conifer collection that might not do well due to climate change. Creating new spruce-fir forests with corresponding shrubs.

Spruce-Fir Forest Garden: This 100+ year old oak forest has problems with diseases caused by climate change. Healthy small saplings of climatesuitable oak trees are planted to complete the replacement and restoration.

Recreate

Small oak trees as refugees to plant in understory layer to have cooler microclimates. With future cultivating and planting more oak species, I hope it will replace the diseased oak trees and restore the oak forest on site.

Northern Red Oak Black Oak White Oak Southern Red Oak Chestnut Oak Post Oak Red Hickory Pignut Hickory Northern Red Oak Black Oak White Oak Himalayan Fir Sitka Spruce Noble Fir Spanish Fir Mountain Blueberry spruce-fir forest with new spruce and fir species that will accomodate to warmer climates. The small forest as a test plot to see if new spruce-fir forest can expands.

Experiment Field Using existing canopy clearing and understory clearing, to create more experiment spaces on the environmental adaptability of species. The experiment field will be exposed to more people and let people know what is happening on the ground.

Oak-Hickory Forest Garden: Adding accessible path into the 100+ years forest and activity spaces around the path. Some of the oak trees have been diseased in recent years, which gives the opportunity to select some plants from the experimental field to transplant and replace them in the future.

The plant will be transplant elsewhere if the growth is well. It also stimulate all experimental fields to have a aspect of public education, to know what's happening on the land.

Create accessible paths and small recreational spaces underneathe the canopy. Use stones, dead tree trunks and fallen tree branches to inspire activities inside the forest.

Northern Red Oak Red Hickory White Oak Shagbark Hickory Eastern White Pine Northern Red Oak Black Oak (for experiment) White Oak Shagbark Hickory Eastern White Pine Maple (for experiment) Red Hickory

Maple-Beech-Birch Forest Garden: Create a gradually disappearing maple-beech-birch forest garden inside the arboretum. Choose some more southerly species to replace original forest species, and combine with some shrubs to achieve this forest in an artificial environment.

Model Making Use cotton as untouched background trees and use pins with different color to represent different species of trees. Exploring how different kinds of clearings and geometric shapes in planting can affect walking experience and the feeling of space inside.

Select maple and birch species that are more tolerate to hot weather to create new types of maple-birch forest. Also as a test plot to see if new forest suits climate and have a better aesthetics and texture to visitors

American Beech River Birch White Oak Shagbark Hickory Japanese Maple Sycamore Maple Yellow Maple Trident Maple

C0-EXIST WITH WATER

How Industrial Island Response to Sea Level Rise

Location: Yokohama, Japan

Individual Work

Fall 2020

Climate change has brought more intense natural activities and increase human transformation activities sharply, which drives us to take urgent countermeasures and stop the malignant expansion, so how to create interesting, sustainable and resilient landscape systems to accommodate human activities become the major issue.

Yokohama, Japan, an industrial port which contains a series of islands known for cars manufacture, shipping, storaging and chemical production, also facing intense industrial transitions due to land losses. Lands that bound to be submerged in 2100 are facing the result of gradually retreated to post-industrial wetlands, but how to protect lands that still has manufacture or storaging requirements? How to protect lands that has economic incomes and retreat certain lands that can be submerged?

Site Location with Industrial Transition Collage and Site Information Data

Yokohama port is an essential shipping dock and manufacture areas in Tokyo Bay area. However, due to population and working age people decline, second industry are shrinking rapidly and giving space to third industry. Thus, industry retreat to wetlands are a inevitable trend.

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SITE Force to OPEN by Western Powers 1859 1930 Trading Port to INDUSTRIAL Port World War II RECOVERY Peroid Establish Coastal INDUSTRY ZONE STEEL and SHIPPING Industy Grow Second Industry DECLINE largely Industry to NATURE and TOURING 1945 1952 1980 2050 2003-2005 Tokyo Shinjuku Tokyo Business Area Tokyo Minato Tokyo Coastline Area Centre of Tokyo Bay Tokyo-Yokohama-Yokosuka-Kisarazu Area Tokyo Bay Area Tokyo-Kawasaki-Yokohama-Yokosuka-Chiba-Kisarazu 3.75 million people in 2020 3.60 million people in 2035 3.35 million people in 2050 2010-2060 Industrial Structure Foresee 64% 61% 51% 28% 12% 9% 18% 20% 10% 11% 9% 9% Tokyo Chuo Tokyo Central Area Tokyo Chiyoda Tokyo Most Prosperous Area Tokyo Port Tokyo Port Haneda Airport 21st Future Port Yokohama Port Honmoku Port Yokosuka
South
Kisarazu
Kaneda
Chiba
Tokaido
Yokohama
Keihin
Tertiary Tertiary Tertiary Primary Primary Primary Secondary Secondary Secondary
Port
Honmoku Port
Port
Fishing Port
Port
Train Main Line
Bayside Marina
Canal Line

Section

Flooded

Flooded Land Mapping

Flooded Areas mostly chemical industries, unused wastelands, shipping ports and car manufactures. To retreat the former two land use and protect the latter two from submerging is the primitive goal and design Strategy.

2nd

Section

Proofing

Section

Floodable

Raise

Section

Sediments

Mounded

Sections Alteration

Section

Using 5 representative sections in the site to illustrate land changes methods in protecting buildings and lands from submerging

Shipping Storage Car Manufacture Car Sales and Auction Chemical Industry Unused Wasteland Shipping Storage Unused Wasteland Chemical Industry Car Electric Charges Car Manufacture Car Museums Chemical Industry Car Manufacture IndustryChemical Product Industry A B C D E Storage and ShippingGreen Spaces and Wastelands Chemical Industry Climate ChangeSea Level Rise
Problems Theory Methods Main Strategies of Design Resilient Design Retreat to Post-Industry Protect Main IndustryChange of Landuse Coastal WetlandsGreen Infrastructure Dike Building ProtectionLandform Altreration Land Sediments Workable Force Aging Problem
Site
A: Before and After
B: Before and After
C: Before and After
D: Before and After
E: Before and After
Land
Ground Floor
Floor Entrance
Wall
Ground Floor
Construction

Landform Strategy

By designing 4 types of dikes--- set solid dike, no solid dike, set permeable dike, no permeable dike, and use them in different sections and different activities, we can use solid dikes o protect factories and use permeable dikes for activities and wetlands.

Site Masterplan

Referencing lands that will be submerged from previous mapping, use protection dikes or retreat to vegetations for sensitivity and resilient in design. Protect main industrial area while abandoning pollution chemical industry land that planned to be removed in 2050

No Need for Protection DikeUplifting Plaza No Additional Dike Gardening Bed Discarded Industry Material Post-industry Broadwalk Sediment Islands Broadwalk Unwalkable Sediment Islands Broadwalks in Wetland Parks For Shipping Port Bioswale Dike Uplifting Landscape Dike Uplifting Road Dike Protecting Wall Building Protectives Building Protectives with Entrance Retreat into Wetlands No Solid Dikes Set Solid Dikes No Permeable DikesSet Permeable Dikes Flood 3 Metres Height Flood 2 Metres Height Flood 1 Metres Height Permeable Dike: Set for land sedimentations and reduce impact of waves Solid Dike: Set for safe protections against water level rise

2020

No Threats of Water Flooding

Design Plan

Set Dikes to protect buildings and wood paths for sediments

Approximately 2050 Sea Level Rise 1.5 metres affecting chemical factory

Approximately 2050 Island formation due to sediments and water change simultaneously

Approximately 2100 Sea Level RIse 3 metres submerging the whole area

Approximately 2100 More land form and wetland plants begins to lush

Landform Changes in Expectancy

Comparing current situation of submersed land, design protects buildings in process and create wetlands for ecological remediation

Vegetation Design

Select three different places--- abandoned chemical oil drum, main traffic road near protected building, coastal marshes for entertaining, choose and design three types of wetland plants in the coastal areas.

Imperata cylindrical 'Rubra' Imperata cylindrical 'Rubra' Phragmites communis Panicum virgatum Scirpus validus Cortaderia selloana Typha orientalis Typha orientalis Laminaria japonica Hydrilla verticillata Pennisetum alopecuroides Imperata cylindrical 'Rubra' Phragmites communis Panicum virgatum Scirpus validus Cortaderia selloana Miscanthus sinensis Typha orientalis Laminaria japonica Hydrilla verticillata Pennisetum alopecuroides Imperata cylindrical 'Rubra' Phragmites communis Platanus orientalis Metasequoia glyptostroboides Panicum virgatum Scirpus validus Cortaderia selloana Typha orientalis Laminaria japonica Hydrilla verticillata Pennisetum alopecuroides Section A: Abandoned Oil Barrel (Drawing: Chenye Yang) Section B: Main Road and Protection Building (Drawing: Chenye Yang) Section C: Recreation Wetlands (Drawing: Chenye Yang)

Model Presentation

Using ABS engineering slab and laser cut and paste them together, showing the island's topography and post-industrial remains on the island. Also the bioswale dike and the car selling plaza that protected. By mounted lands to avoid water and excavation deeper to form docks.

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metre sea level rise Dig lands into a port Preserved post-industrial heritage Coastal wetlands and broadwalk plazaBird-view of the site Bird-view of the south-west site showing the designed changed topography and reserved buildings
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metres sea level rise 3 metres sea level rise Perspectives : Coastal Wetlands and Post-Industiral Landscape (Drawing: Chenye Yang) Perspectives II Coastal Wetland and Entertaining Broadwalk Plaza (Drawing: Yangyi Li)

Thinking Back to Nature

Biyunfeng Village Productive Landscape Design

Location: Yiyang City, Hunan Province, China

Individual Work

Fall 2020

Prosperity of landscape architecture constitutes the adaptation to natural crisis, striving to is to pursue the concept of “the harmony between man and nature” without any restriction to the developmnt.

Biyunfeng Village is a small village located in Hunan Province, south of China and base mainly on agriculture and animal husbandry. Large abundant of water brings crayfish, a invasion species into the river system and also by-products of graiery brings water pollution. In addition, young adults seek for working opportunities in big cities leaves the village not enough labour forces. With not enough workers and increasing pollution, how to use water as a system and use natural forces instead of human labour, such as water levels and climates and temperatures to form a more profitable productive mode is a main problem.

Problem Collage

Though high industiral income has arisen in recent years, its agriculturee remains in a low level. Graziery and second Industry cause too much pollutions and crayfish incasions, with the problem of aging and loss of labour, the village is facing a turn in economic structures for survival.

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City and Residencial Popularity Fishery Agriculture Forestry Graziery 1990 1995 2000 2005 2010 2015 2018 Economic Data Water Resources or Lakes Flat Terrain and Arable Lands Natural Mountains Crayfish Invasion Paths (Ponds and River) China Ponds or Lakes Hunan Yiyang
SITE Yiyang City Cangshuipu Town Lanni Lake: Source of Species Invasion Ningxiang Country Covered Area: Size of Landforms Farmland: 15% Utilized: 25% Unutilized: 75% Graziery: 40% Forestry: 5% Fishery: 5% Agriculture: 50% Forest: 50% Mountain: 35% Water Utility Condition: Water Condition Industrial Production: Industry Income

Biyunfeng Site Ecological Pollution Situation

Village has various pollution forms due to graziery and crayfish invasion, anlysis data indicates that graziery especially raising pig causing excrements and fodder to pollute natural environments, which can be avoided and reduced on purpose.

Urbanization development

Outflow of young workers

Increase of female workers

Outflow of workable forces

Poor Production Efficiency

East is eroaded by urban sprawl

Water eutrophication

Limited Ecological Pollution

Fertilizer pollution

Livestock pollution

Crayfish biological invasion

Stimulate Low Income

Lack of main industries

Require Less human labour production type

Industrial development is uneven

Water resources underutilized

Combine Ecology Life with Production

From Artificial to Natural Resource

"SATOYAMA"

Mountain Foothill + Arable Flat Land

Inner Connections of Problems

Village is a typical Satoyama Type of arable lands underneathe the hills. It seems that the village has fallen into a bad circulation of "few people-graziery for more money-pollution-less arable lands-poverty-fewer people", which needs to break.

Problems Rice Fish PatternCrayfish EliminationEconomic Shifts

Full Use Water Resource

Reduce FodderReduce WorkforceTerrain for Impoundment

Agriculture Main IndustryRetain Graziery

Impound thic water to eliminate crayfish

Use fish excrements as fodder

Various Pollutions

Low Economics

Population Loss

Utilize water resources to reduce labour

Dependent on climate to harvest

Strategy Network

Prosper local agricultural development

Create water flowing systemRetain local residence

Economic shifts focus agricultrue for primary industry. Using abundant rainfall to create wetlands and fish ponds, Introducing fish that eat crayfish and the "Rice Fish Pattern" to nurture rice growth by using excrements of fishes and graziery. Rice Field can brings economic income and the using of natural energy and organic matters reduce labour.

Hardening Bank of Canals Animal Crayfish Invasions Pollusion of River Ponds Hardening of River Banks Garbage Pollutioned Ponds City Invasions and People Mercury 0.2 FishPigHenCattle 10 300200100 100 600400 400 700500 500 300 300 600200 100 1000 1.00.60.3 200 200100 6030 63 0.140.08 Arsenic Zinc Plumbum Cuprum Chromium Cadmium Iron Aluminium Metabolin Canal Jams and Blocks

Natural Water

Natural water is a water system formed on the mountain. It collects rainwater and dew from nature to form a natural water system, drift from high altitude to low altitude residential areas.

Landscape Water

Combine both natural water in the mountains and water from the local reservoir, transform into landscape water which provides landscape effect and also create a better living environment for the local residents.

Wetland Water

Wetland water is located between farmland and residential areas. It can improve the local microclimate and environmental quality while solving the biological invasion of animal crayfish

Farmland Water

Farmland Water is set to provide sufficient water for the farmland, at the same time, it can provide the water needed for fish farming, and it can also play a buffer role in the drought and flood period, giving enough water supplies.

Village Agricultural Timeline

Design sychronize climate, water level, crops with fish and crayfish, building a contineous and long-lasting productive timeline that can eliminate crayfish, harvest crops and having fishery at the same time. Saving fodders and reduce labour

Plants

Design Masterplan

Restore all types of water and create paddy field to develop agriculture and fishery combined mutually beneficial mode of production

FishWay

Deepwaterwetlnds Deepwaterwetlnds Pool Pool Pool Deepwaterwetlnds Shallowwetlands Shallowwetlands Rice-fishfarmland Rice-fishfarmland Rice-fishfarmland

Natural Enemies

Using the natural enemies of crayfish such as birds, frogs, fish, water snakes, etc., to reduce the invasion of crayfish.

Isolation Device

Capture Net

Silt

Side

view of the ditch Front view of the Ditch

Wetland Landform Axonometric

Natural Mountain Residential Area Filtered Trails Filtered Trails 6mm density After drainage, the sludge accumulated in the bottom of the water becomes the best fertilizer for the wetland. Deep Water Wetland Shallow Wetlands Deep Water Wetland Rice-Fish Farmland Collects natural rainwater through high mountain areas, converges into streams, and into landscape water in residential areas to improve people's living environment. The landscape water enters the wetland through the landscape footpath, which not only improves the landscape effect, but also plays filtering role. Alocasia macrorrhizaArundo donaxGratiola japonicaMiscanthus sacchariforus Nelumbo nuciferaHydrocharis dubiaLythrum salicariaTypha orientalisEichhornia crassipes

The design of the capture net makes the crayfish not escape through the net with a density of 6 mm. Easy to enter and difficult to get out. After entering the net, the mouth of the net shrinks, and it is difficult for crayfish to find the outlet again.

Landscape WaterVillage Intermediate Area of Wetland Deep water area of Wetland Farmland Wetland OsasisFish Ponds Shallow Water Area of Wetland
The Initial State Rice-Fish Planting Period Harvest Period
Detail Design shows how wetland's landform in the masterplan reacts to different raining water level, and each different height at the paddy field have filtration system that can be applied to fishery and continous use of water. Ditch
Agricultural
Patterns
Drainage Period Drainage Period Still Water Period Still Water Period High Water Period High Water Period Filter Screen Landscape Trail
Ditches are dug in the fields to provide a place for fish to live and controlling the amount of water they use to guide fish to gather at harvest time. Working together to catch fish and harvest rice fields.
Using plants that crayfish don't like. It can slow down the invasion speed of crayfish and also can reduce the food needed by crayfish.
Through the setting of fine filter screen, crayfish and its cubs can be prevented from passing through.
WaterDirection WaterDirection Deepwaterwetlands Deepwaterwetlands Deepwaterwetlands Deepwaterwetlands Deepwaterwetlands Deepwaterwetlands
Dredgingsiltfertilizer
Shallowwetlands WaterDirection
WaterDirections
The design of the capture net makes it easy for crayfish to enter and difficult to get out. After entering, it is difficult to find the net mouth to go out, and the crayfish is trapped in it
After the wetland is drained, the sludge is deposited, and fertilizer is provided for the whole wetland to enhance the soil fertility.
Landscape
Bridge Fish Pond Rice Fish Farmland Wetland
Village Nearby Water Wetland Water Control Farmland Sections I: Biyunfeng VIllage Continuous Productive Section Perspectives I: Biyunfeng VIllage Layout Sections II: Detain Function of Wetland Device of Crayfish Trapping Perspectives II: Wetlands and Farming Scenes

Model Presentation

Using ABS engineering slab and laser cut and paste them together, showing the island's topography the relationship between mountains, village, wetlands, paddy fields and road system. showing that the living and agriculture system adapt to different heights

Sunken Oasis

Design of a Sunken Plaza in Beijing Forestry University

Location: Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, China

Individual Work

Fall 2020

The plaza was located in Beijing Forestry University, which is also where I study right now. It's located underneath as the entrance to the ground level auditorium and teacher's working studio. I found out that most people just merely pass the site without really staying inside and trying to create a stream of walking paths and topology to contain people's leisure time activities inside and enlarge the use of the plaza, not only for an opening entrance but also for a relaxation place for people going by and wanting to stay to work or study outside and be close to nature.

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Village Underneathe the Hill Village and Wetland Connection Bird View on the wetland and Mountains Terraced Fields for Agriculture Village and Rice-Fish Agricultural Land Connection Bird View on the Biyunfeng Village Layout

Green Islands

Consist of multiple patches of green islands and divided straight roads, much too intricate!

Wandering Path

Consist of two sinuous roads for people to wandering along the strip area. A good choice!

Polyline Path

Hard to correspond with the smooth topography, walking experience is not smooth enough.Rejected!

Hand Sketches on Site Functions and Choosing Paths

One Path Only

Only set one main roads and leave large space of vegetation. However, spaces for activities shrinks. Rejected!

Masterplan

Analysis the functions and using people of each spaces in the site and, according to the analysis results, proposed 4 different kinds of path selections due to walking habits. Compare their merits and eventually select one of them.

Design create multiple landforms in order to let people have different kinds of activities and feel free lying on the grass for relaxations..

(1) (3) (4) (6) (5) (3)Student Auditorium Entrance (4)Student Auditorium
(5)Teacher's Studio (Window) (1)Sunken Playground (2) (2)Main Entrance
Level
(Underground)
to the Ground

Regular Pavings

Regular pavings can be repetitive and dull, having less active walking experience

Large Pavings

Large Pavings can enlarge space feelings which is not suitable for small paths

Mosaic Pavings

Mosaic Pavings can be too Chaotic to sight and unable to sense clearly road directions

Silence Space

Srtting small ponds of water for peacen people's heart and unplifting topology can create space for answering the phone without disturbance

Resting Space

In front of the school auditorium, it provides a space for teachers or students who attend meetings to have a space for relax during intermissions.

Diagonal Pavings

Diagonal Pavings give walking directions and alongside the road easy to pave in roadwork

Random Pavings

Random Pavings as well can be too chaotic and without certain patterns mode hard to pave

Pavings Studies

Diagonal Shadow Pavings

Pavings use tree shadow as patches, giving mosaic pattern some regularities and pave in diagonal direction alongside the road

Comparing how different paving styles affects people's mind, comes to a patterns that imitate tree shadows and correspond with the vegetations.

Activity Space

Large sunken grass hole can have people lying inside or children to play and climbing up and down. Workers can work or lying inside for relaxation and fun.

Sunshine Space

The place where having the longest time of sunshine and always bright enough for talking, lying or working on the grass. Also can enjoy the signt of water.

Model Presentation and Shadow Simulation

Using ABS Engineering Slab as environment and hand-cut PVC to show the topography of the site. Planting Trees and put it under the sunlight to inmitate and show the shaodow of the vegetation corresponding

Perspective I: Ground level entrance to the building and teacher's studio Perspective II: Standing in front of the School Auditorium with the pavement pattern.

Professional Works

SDVT 102 Shanghai Jinqiao TOD

SFOT 101 Shanghai Zhaofeng Mixuse

PDVT 101 Shanghai Jinqiao

HsinChu TOD Competition

Summer Internship

May 2022 - August 2022

SWA Group Sausalito

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SFOT101 Shanghai Zhaofeng Mixuse: Night view effect of the square in front of the commercial building. SDVT102 Shanghai Jinqiao TOD Green connector in the middle of high-rise residential buildings. Community event calendar display on elevator surface. PDVT101 Pukai Shanghai Jinqiao: Intersection with the urban interface in front of the office building, perform as a transitional green open space. PDVT101 Pukai Shanghai Jinqiao: Riverside tidal wetland with sitting platform in front of commercial building. PDVT101 Pukai Shanghai Jinqiao: Inward facing plaza space between office buildings, a combination of strip paving and subtle terrain. PDVT101 Pukai Shanghai Jinqiao: Night view of the look-out points in reflective materials. SFOT101 Shanghai Zhaofeng Mixuse: Active green space in the middle of high-rise residential buildings Hsinchu HSR Station TOD Competition: Planting studies and planting design diagram in tree layer and understory layer SFOT101 Shanghai Zhaofeng Mixuse: Circular jogging track and children's activity space behind the high-rise residential building

Sketches In Paving Studies and Organizational Strategies

During internship participated in conceptual design in Pukai Shanghai Jinqiao project, doing paving studies in Autocad and hand drawings to test out different combination of patterns and paver size. I also draw organizational sketches for discussion in programming of the site.

PDVT101 Pukai Shanghai Jinqiao: Paving design in AutoCAD PDVT101 Pukai Shanghai Jinqiao: Paving design in AutoCAD PDVT101 Pukai Shanghai Jinqiao: Paving design in AutoCAD

Other Works

Media III: Reforestation Suitable Site Analysis in Pittsburgh,PA

Baywatch: Environmental Modeling and Simulation of Maurice River, NJ Drawings and Sketches on Gardens and Future Plants

Grasshopper Physarealm Simulation on Water Dam Village, Beijing

Individual Work: Media III, Drawings and Sketches, Grasshopper Simulations

Collaborate Work: Baywatch (with Xinyi Zhang, Shujing Yi, Shuyi Hao)

Fall 2020 - Fall 2022

Media III Instructor: Keith VanDerSys

Baywatch Instructor: Keith VanDerSys

Plant Future Instructor: Misako Murata

Elevation Reclassify:

Slope Reclassify:

Soil Shrink Swell Potential Reclassify:

Landcover for Reforestataion Reclassify:

Suitablility Analysis

The degree of suitability was obtained by reclassifying the different elements (slope: southward, SW, SE, elevation: above water, slope: less than 15-20 degrees, soil swelling: less, landcover: vacant land and man-made areas ), with the assignment of different element weights.

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Aspect Reclassify: Weight Overlay I: Aspect 15%, Elevation 5%, Slope 20%, Soil 10%, Landcover 50% Weight Overlay II: Aspect 20%, Elevation 5%, Slope 45%, Soil 10%, Landcover 20% Weight Overlay III: Aspect 30%, Elevation 10%, Slope 25%, Soil 15%, Landcover 20%

Project's Purpose

The project intends to simultaneously: (1) increase job opportunities through reforestation projects (2) use specifically designed species of trees in reforestation to clean up Pittsburgh's air pollution (3) creating wilderness in the city, using the soil conditions of the reforested area to promote natural plant growth and reduce artificial maintenance costs, increase ecological benefits. The study will analyze vacant parcels’ potentials and suitability in planting trees.

Results and Process of the Simulation

By analyzing the Pittsburgh area from a larger scale, the location of suitable sites for tree planting was gradually narrowed down to a smaller scale with a suitable vacant parcel. By using basic analysis of land geography, slope, and water catchment, the sites were selected and gradually ranked as suitable for planting, and the first sites were developed. A series of analysis results were obtained by using GIS

grasshopper battery.

and A. Weight Sum: Finding Overall Suitable Areas J. Severity of Pollution in the area K. Chosen Site: Most Polluted Buffer Box T. Parcels coloring according to the distance from Mixed Forest B. Suitable Sites & Buffer I. Slope Analysis to check the slope size of the vacant lot L. Chosen Site Zoom in & Vacant Parcels inside S. Mixed Forests in chosen buffer box C. Suitable Buffer: Greater than 2 times the average of the area H. Buffer Box contains a high number of vacant lots M. Aspect Analysis: Dark Blue: North, NW+NE: Light Blue, SW+SE: Yellow, Orange: South R. Water Flows through Vacant Parcels: parcels with rain water supply D. Vacant Parcels in the area G. Vacant Parcels with Buffer Box N. Vacant Parcels that face South, SE & SW Q. Water Flows through Buidling Block E. Mixed Forests in the area F. Vacant Parcels outside Mixed Forests O. Slope Analysis in Sub-site P. Avoid Vacant Parcels on steep slope

Bathymetry

Analysis of bathymetry and topography, finding the most scoring places of the river.

Historic Shoreline

Historic shorelines reflecting the spots of erosion and locations in need of restoration

Design Strategy

Propose interventions that can direct water flow and create sediments in specific places

Low Tide Simulation

Using SRH 2D software in simulating water speed in low tide condition.

Mid Tide Simulation

In mid tide, interventions starts slowing down speed in the turn to reduce erosion.

High Tide Simulation

During high tide, slow speed water in the bay area begin the sediment accumulation

Sand Box Experiment

Using 3D printing to put our interventions on large sand box for physical model testing

Sand Box Experiment Simulation process, the scoring of the river reduced and the river flow changed

Sand Box Experiment Simulation result, grey sediments appear as small island habitats in proposed area

Original soil with erosion control fabic on top and vegetations

Filled with new soil

Willow branches crisscross and dipping at different angle

Coir Rolls with coconut fiber parallel to the stream bank

2 inch above mean water elevation

High Tide

Mid Tide Streambed

Oak sticks 2 inch by 2 inch, 36 inch depth

Detail section of slowing down soil erosion

1951 1977 2012 1940 1961 2002 -38.15 -21.01 -9.59 1.83 13.25 -43.86 -32.44 -15.30 -3.88 7.54
Sedimentation Intervention Water Flow < 0.2 ft/s 0.2-0.7 ft/s > 0.7 ft/s < 0.2 ft/s 0.2-0.7 ft/s > 0.7 ft/s < 0.2 ft/s 0.2-0.7 ft/s > 0.7 ft/s
The amount of sediment on the box

Ripening period

Yield formation period

Vegetative period: fast growing

Hawkmoth shelter

More flowers as food

Curled leaves as living spaces

Study branches for nesting

Nest

Curled leaves as shelter

Food sources

Curled leaves as living spaces

Curled leaves as living spaces

Drawings, Traditional Pavilion Design (Left), and Plant Study (Right)

I also explored in hand drawings, especially pen drawings and sketches. During the 3rd semester at Penn, I attended a plant study and drawing class that I focused on flowering tobacco (a type of ornamental plants that used in landscape) and studied its growth habit, leaf formation, and plant structure. After carefully drawing it, I imagined the the future of this plant as it evolves with hawkmoth, one of its associated species.

Grasshopper Simulation

During Spring 2020, I leraned grasshopper and especially, Physarealm proram, which can simulate people's moving directions and the gathering of people in different spots. The program using ant colonies to represent human beings and through setting "food" which is attractions and "barriers" which is obstacles on the way to imitate people's walking and touring line.

Results of the Simulation

choose a village near a water dam and resevoir in Miyun, Beijing. Using the topology and the resevoir's reserved area as the obstacles and the working locations, farmlands, power stations, etc. as the food source. Showing the most common way of people in getting these places from the village. This can be used as a design references in planning and finding the best road system.

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