PORTFOLIO JUNE, 2021
BINGHUI GONG
LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE ; ART
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CONTENT
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URBAN REGENERATION PROJECT Spitalfields, London
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RURAL PLANNING PROJECT Stocksbridge, Sheffield
POSTGRADUATE WORK
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EXPERIMENTAL LANDSCAPE Pinball Square, Sheffield
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SUSTAINABLE HOUSING PROJECT Summerfield Street, Sheffield
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EXPERIMENTAL LANDSCAPE Reykjavik, Iceland
UNDERGRADUATE WORK
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URBAN RENEWAL PROJECT CIQ, Sheffield
01 POSTGRADUATE WORK
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The biggest challenge is this space is at risk of being “swallowed” by the big city. Spitalfields is slowly being affected by the busy business life, and the huge skyscrapers have begun to be built in the east. The new constructions have caused a number of local peddlers to lose their jobs and lots of Bangladeshi immigrants want to move away. Therefore, the ultimate goal of the Street Life project is saving the place from being invaded by big cities and allowing it to retain its own culture and identity.
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STRAND: PLANNING/DESIGN Spitalfields is a unique ward in London. Market life and food culture are the two major features, followed by public art. The Spitalfields market, Brick Lane are popular attractions. The nomadic garden is an impressive place which has lots of original artworks and self-planting planters, but few people came because of the lack of publicity and route guidance. This area is rich in ethnic groups, mainly Bengali immigrants, and with young population. These make this area more diverse and vibrant.
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URBAN REGENERATION PROJECT SPITALFIELD’S STREET LIFE 2025
The study area (~110 hectares) is larger than the ward boundary, followed by the roads.
- SMALL SCALE
- SLOW
The vision is based on placemaking approach, use protection, restoration and reclamation strategies to enhance Spitalfields’ identity as one of the most attractive and livable neighborhoods in London. The aim is to emphasize the identity of this site. The first identity is small scaled. There is no large-scale space for renovation in the site, so the idea is using small-scale interventions to transform the larger urban context. The second identity is diversity. This space has the ability to own biodiversity, activity diversity, workplace diversity, etc. The last identity is slow. Unlike the busy pace of the city, Spitalfields is more need to maintain a slow life. Not only for sustainable development, but also to restore the relationship between the urban environment and the individual.
- DIVERSITY
AIMS:
Emphasize the IDENTITY of this area
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SITE FEATURES
MOVEMENT ANALYSIS
FUTURE AREA IDENTITY
LAND USE ANALYSIS
FUTURE MOVEMENT
STRATEGIC PLAN
GREEN LOOP
OPEN SPACES
Graffiti Wall
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Public Open Spaces Neighborhood Open Spaces Brown Fields City Farm
Bus Route
COMMERCIAL
Art
Food Grow + Play Area
1 Health Garden
4 Art Corner
Health
Food Produce & Sell + Market
2 Allen Farmland
5 TB’s Yard
3 Art Park
6 Brick Lane Square
Cycling Route
Spitalfields
Site
Stay Places Main Thresholds Connection
(Long Table Eating Area)
Extreme Sports Area
Long Table Eating Area
Outdoor Cinema
Dangerous for cycling
Long Table Eating Area Parking
Shaded Outdoor Market
Outdoor Cafe Area
Retail & Restaurant Office Hotel Gallery Street Market
Residential Green Area
Music & Bar Front Yard
EDUCATION & HEALTH
Narrow pedestrian space
THE BRICK LANE
More space for human activities
Safe cycling space
HANBURY STREET
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Sign to next attraction
More spaces for perdestrian
University Campus Sports The Royal London Hospital
Lacking of close connection between attractions leads to few visitors going further. Parking lots almost occupy a third of neighborhood open space. Many streets and public open spaces are lacking of functionality and aesthetics. The project divided Spitalfields into 5 identity areas according to the land use and the future development.
Platform
Celebrating Area Narrow Sidewalk
Cycling unfriendly
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Site
Multi Use Flexible
Farming Courtyard
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Infant School Primary School Middle School
Tower Hamlets, London
Green Parking Corridor
Art Gallery Front Yard
BEFORE
City Center
Secret Forest
Residential Green Area
Children Play Lawn
Green Extension Area
Trunk Road Primary Road Secondary Road Minor Road Local Road
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Train Track
SITE CHALLENGES
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(Long Table Eating Area)
Farmland
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Multifunctional Lawn
Route from Spitalfield’s Art Corner to TB’s Yard
VALLANCE ROAD
VALLANCE ROAD
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AFTER
Bike unfriendly
Simple sidewalk
Single lane car access
Sign to next attraction
The design stage focus on these four smallscaled open spaces. Meanwhile, the street is functioned as a link and extension. Although these four places have different functions and features, each place has at least one long table. Different from the small dining table in the restaurant, the designer of the project hoped that Spitalfields is a place where people can get together: eat, play...
Route from TB’s Yard to Brick Lane Square
Betula utilis jacquemontii Multi Stem Tree
Sorbus aucuparia
Red rubber on concrete ground
Since the lacking of green here, planting trees to divide the functional space is one of the most important design strategies. Sorbus and Betula are the main choice of tree selection, Sorbus are cute and the red fruits are lovely, Birch are bright and children like to peel off their white skin. The project hopes the whole community will be gradually improved with slow growth of these trees.
Naomi - Assistant Fashion Designer
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Now I live in the art corner, where the buildings used to be abandoned works. After a year of restoration and renovation, the dark pink one on the left has become a street art gallery for artists who have not yet become famous. The apricot building I live in is now a very nice apartment building and I rented a private planter in the back yard. When I get home after work, I always see this group of teenagers playing skateboarding and rock climbing here, they seem to be children who live nearby. Although I dare not play these extreme sports, I will often participate in the exhibition next door. Sometimes the gallery co-hosts fashion exhibitions with students from the surrounding costume colleges, and sometimes it brings in works by famous street artists. I often think, living here is awesome!
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Rosie - Graduate Landscape Designer
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Truman Brewery Ely’s Yard was a parking space mainly for the officers, but after the project intervention, this space became a nice eating and relaxing yard. Every time I walk by here, I usually go to the TB’s Yard to check if there are any good movies on that night. My friends like coming here to watch outdoor movies very much. Oh, I almost forgot to mention that there will be a very famous French jazz band playing at the music bar here in July, but the tickets have already been sold out. But this year’s music festival will be held in the yard for three days. Don’t miss it!
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Hassan Arif - Restaurant waiter
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Next to TB’s Yard the Brick Lane square, which was an abandoned parking lot. Now it is being reused to an outdoor market space.
If I want to eat brunch after my morning exercise in Allen Farmland, I will go to the nearest Brick Lane square to buy some fresh hot food. I heard that this year there will be a Spitalfields’ Christmas market, held in here, which makes me really excited.
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Ting Fung - University Student
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The furthest is Allen Farmland, it was a derelict lawn with several children’s play facilities. But now, as you can see, a large area has been converted into farmland for residents to grow food. And a new Betula forest was planted, adding a secret, enclosed space. Except on weekdays, I would run to Allen’s farmland in the morning and do yoga on the lawn. Every time I saw many neighbors working on their fields, helping each other and exchanging food, their children playing in the children’s area nearby. Before noon, many families would come for a picnic.
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Urban
Urban Farmland
Reservoir Woodland
Wooded Farmland
Riverbank Woodland
Irregular Field Patterned Farmland
Dry Stone Wall Farmland
Heather Moorland
02 POSTGRADUATE WORK RURAL PLANNING PROJECT - GROUP WORK STOCKSBRIDGE'S WIND ENERGY “This project is designed to provide practical experience of a near real, client-focused landscape planning project, very similar to what you would come across in practice. It aims to give you hands on experience of using practical tools for landscape planning that are widely used in the profession and of applying them to a very topical current issue relating to renewable energy. It also aims to reinforce what you will learn from an introductory session on working in
Stocksbridge
groups, to demonstrate the importance of this in working in practice.”
35km
—— Wind Energy Project Aim
The study area has a large urban area and is mainly occupied by
The Peak District
12km
Manchester
Sheffield
farmlands. There are 3 large reservoirs within the site which all bounded by mixed woodlands. The river which called Little Don, ran through the valley. The stocksbridge was famous for the steel
Wind power has already been largely explored for Sheffield, especially for the more windy
industry. The valley was almost entirely occupied by steel works
areas on the fringe of the Peak District National Park, however, there is considerable contro-
and The Fox Factory that was founded by Samuel Fox was the
versy that could arise from proposals in this area. With this in mind we have developed a de-
most well-known steel factory. Furthermore, Stocksbridge has a big
cision tool that will help Sheffield City Council review ideas of developing its own land as well
commercial area beside the Fox Factory that give people living sur-
as potential proposals from wind power companies. We have produced:
round a nice place for shopping.
a) A Landscape Character Assessment for the area in question to provide a foundation for considering proposals for wind energy development
Over the last 2 decades climate change has been increasingly rec-
b) A strategy for wind power development in the area based on the LCA which includes ad-
ognised as one of the most crucial issues for humankind. Serious
vice on the current balance of public attitude and advice on the location and design of a pre-
implications include, but are not limited to, rising temperatures and
ferred wind power development site which can provide 10MW.
sea levels plus increases in extreme weather occurrences such as floods and droughts
Full Supporting Report: https://issuu.com/binghuigong/docs/lsc5020_report Other Group Members: Alana, Qile, Yiran
DEVELOPMENT LOCATION
LANDSCAPE CAPACITY
LANDSCAPE CHARACTER MAP
SENSITIVITY CRITERION
APPROACH
VIEWPOINT 1 - 500M
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LANDSCAPE CHARACTER SENSITIVITY
Green Moor
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Landscape Capacity
Summary:
VALUE
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Green Moor
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Stone Moor
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Sunny Bank
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River Don
VISUAL SENSITIVITY 2
Midhope Reservoir
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LANDSCAPE CAPACITY
Underbank Reservoir
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VISUALS
Wooded Farmland 2
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Common Moor
VIEWPOINT 5 - 2000M BEFORE
VIEWPOINT 6 - 5000M BEFORE
Heather Moorland 1
See The Turbines
Radio
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Woodland Reservoir
Little Don
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Number of Residential Properties that Would Be Able
Riverbank Woodland
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VIEWPOINT 4 - 1000M
wind farm. 2
Langsett Reservoir
DESIGN 2
the best choice for the
Fullshaw
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ZTV OF AREAS WOULD BE AFFECTED
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and also bring the road and the village a aesthetic appeal. BEFORE
Dry Stone Wall Farmland
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This new landscape will not only block some view to the wind turbines
The Midhope area is 2
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Fullshaw
Urban Farmland 1
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Dry Stone Wall Farmland Location could be considered
Midhope Irregular Field Patterned Farmland
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MITIGATION EXPLORATION
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We get this map based on the desk studies and site visit. The boundary of each area was defined by field pattern and transportation routes. The detailed description of each type and area has been included in the report P.6 - p.24.
For the full detailed imformation about the Landscape Capacity section, please find in the report p.33 - p.62.
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Main Road Footpaths in Peak District Viewpoints Wind Turbines Sight line (how many turbines would be seen
Meanwhile，we recommend painting the colour of bottom of the wind For the further imformation about the Development Design section,
turbines by following the mountain line on the back. This design will re-
please find in the report p.67 - p.78.
duce the contrast between the huge hub and the background.
03 POSTGRADUATE WORK EXPERIMENTAL LANDSCAPE MELANCHOLY APARTMENT “ The aim of the project is to investigate and to develop experimental ways of approaching landscape architecture as an art form: one closely related to other art forms yet also uniquely concerning public(s) space and nature.” —— Design and Art Practice Project Aim This is not a “classic” landscape design project, but an experimental Landscape practice in collaboration with the Sheffield Site Gallery. My design philosophy is to evoke memories of buildings that have been demolished in recent years due to rapid commercial development. Material Selection: I restored the furniture inside the building with marble, a cold and tactile material. The “walls” of all the “rooms” were made of birches with white trunks. The collision of these 2 materials allows people to get more tactile experience. The design that these furniture do not humanize can let a person feel unhappy, even let a person’s sense of well-being reduce. I hope people do not just indulge in advanced technology, but often look back on the past memories, learn to cherish.
Enclosed feeling from trees
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04 UNDERGRADUATE WORK SUSTAINABLE HOUSING PROJECT SUMMERFIELD WOODLAND Vision: Living on the edge of forest The vision is to create a new housing project with high quality woodland between Summerfield and Napier street, which help humanbeings discover a new home life amdist nature. Aims: 1. Protect and improve the nature environment to strengthen the green link to the surrounding nature reserves and enhance the biodiversity of the area. 2. Introduce low-raise multifamily flats and 2-storey terraced houses to the area mainly for young people and families. 3. Create more opportunities for outdoor activities to encourage people to spend more time outside. 4. Prioritize the development of cycling and walking routes within neighborhoods to encourage sustainable transportation.
05 UNDERGRAGUATE WORK EMOTIONAL LANDSCAPE THE WALK OF NATURE, THE WAY OF LIFE
‘In Esmeralda, city of water, a network of canals and a network of streets span
Some people love to collect all kinds of colors along the way, some people
and intersect each other. To go from one place to another you have always the
focus on studying the changes of shadows, and some people look at different
choice between land and boat: and since the shortest distance between two
paving floors with magnifying glasses. However, what inspires me more is the
points in Esmeralda is not a straight line but a zigzag that ramifies in tortuous
life philosophy of different landscape “reactions”.
optional routes, the ways that open to each passer by are never two, but many, and they increase further for those who alternate a stretch by boat with one on
In addition to my first feelings, I also recorded every street, every forest and
dry land.’
every meadow I walked in Reykjavik with my camera, and then scanned and —— Italo Calvino (1974) Invisible Cities, p.88
interpreted them repeatedly. Finally, I chose the six most touching landscapes, which are often ignored by people.
This module mainly encourages us to observe carefully during the field trip and to get inspiration and personal reflection from the landscape and architecture.
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06 UNDERGRAGUATE WORK
The building will be restored to a Sheffield Industry Museum.
URBAN RENEWAL PROJECT CELEBRATING SHEFFIELD'S IINDUSTRY This site is located in the Cultural Industries Quarter, Sheffield. It was once the most famous steel industry area in UK.
These bricks will be recycled
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The main aim of the design is to create a new space that could provide people
from other demolished works.
more experiences to explore and reveal the potential historical value of the CIQ place. As the plan shows, the orange part will be a comprehensive area with social activities happened and the green represents the planting area. The gravel will be recycled on site and paved on the earth.
The 410m2 area is the “mixed junction” of the two parts. For the detailed design, the small space would be redesigned to a memorial
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historical museum garden with outdoor exhibition sections, which will mainly display photos and videos about Sheffield’s Industry. The original building
The design area is around 410m2.
in the site will be deconstructed to an enclosed museum. Furthermore, the green garden area will be designed as a stark contrast to the history display
SITE FUNCTION PLAN
These irregular concrete slabs will be recycled on site.
1850S MAP - DESIGN PATTERN
area. The users of this garden should be mostly the old people shopped in the nearby Moor market and “passer-by” who go to school and work nearby. After the renewal project, people could have a way to approach the water and
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have a riverside walk above the river on the other side. The map on the left is the design language of this 410m2 area. It shows what the site looked in 1850. The reasons for choosing this pattern are that it could
The existing cement pavement will be improved.
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“disinter” the most prosperous time of Sheffield Industry and it might lead people to remember the past. Furthermore, because of the historical value of this
Mainly Hard Material
Triangular Block is used in
space, using the map of industrial era is not only expressing the respect to the
Mainly Planting
the outdoor exhibition area,
place but also avoid people ignoring it again.
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Timber for the piers and stairs will be recycled from the nearby furniture factory.
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SECTION B - B’ THE BRICK WALLS: 2.2M HIGH THE NARROWEST DISTANCE BETWEEN THE WALLS: 0.6M WIDE The narrow passage will allow only one person to pass through, this design means to encourage people’s independent thinking and reduce conversation. As a contrast, the green garden area will be raised by two steps. The garden will have not only open lawns, but also enclosed woods. Considering that the users here will be mostly older people, Two long ramps will be specially provided for wheelchair users. Photoshop + Draw on Wacom Tablet
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