Edinburgh MLA Landscape Architecture Portfolio_Chang Chi-Ching

//Education

FU-JEN University Bachelor of Landscape Architecture /2015.09 - 2019.06/

//Personality

dedicate, creative, enthusiastic, responsibility, persistent, considerate

Birth : 1997.02.28

Nation : Taiwan (R.O.C.)

SKILLS

//Landscape professional landscape planning, landscape design, landscape competition purposal, detail design drawing, 3D modeling, randering photo, team work, Communication and coordination, time control

AWARDS & CERTIFICATE

* 5th TILA New Star Exihibition Competition of the final project, --- 2019

'Regeneration Shuei-Nan-Dong - a home of performance art'

/National first place Award/

* 13th TILA Student Competition 'listen to the landscape' project, --- 2018

'Hear Shuei-Nan-Dong'

/National 2nd Award/

//Other design professional graphic design, logo design, product design

* FU-JEN Department Design award of first, second and third grade --- 2016 - 2019

* Certificate of Sustainable Development Carbon Management Manager, Analist and Planner --- 2022

* Certificate of Technician for Gardening Construction Level B --- 2018

//Languague skills

Taiwanese Mandarin - Proficient English - fluceny ( IELTS overall score 7: L 7.5 R 6.5 W 6.5 S 6.5 )

//Software skills

SPECIAL EXPERIENCE

* 30 square meters youth residence interior design competition --- 2017

* Activities Director of the 27th Graduate Exhibition of Landscape Architecture --- 2018 - 2019

* Visual Design of Songyun Chinese Traditional Music Orchestra concert --- 2019

* Overseas Cultural Exchange and Study Tours with Japan Shiga University --- 2017.07

* Visual Merchandising of a coffe brand and a cleaning company --- 2017 - 2022

WORKING EXPERIENCE

sproposals for competitions planning and basic design detailed design construction drawings

// Progressive Environmental INC.

landscape designer --- /full time 2022.05 - /

_Projects :

* Citizen Square of the Taipei City Government Planning and Design Project

* Shimen Arch Surroundings Landscape Planning and Design Project

* East Rift Valley Natioinal Scenic Area Entire Tourism Development Program Project

* Hualien Historical Japanese-style dormitories Restoration and Landscape Design Project

// CCJen architects and associates

landscape designer ---/part time 2022.02 - 2022.04/

_ Projects :

* Ever Glory Construction Ever Glory villa, Residental, Linkou

* Ever Glory Construction Residential Case of Land No.1031, Linkou

// dA VISION design

landscape designer --- /full time 2020.02 - 2021.09/

_ Projects :

* Transformation Design of MRT Beitou Park

* National Human Rights Museum Landscape and Environmental Integration Project

* Landscape design of Taiwan Railway Taoyuan South Underground construction Section Project

* Landscape design of Taiwan Railway Chiayi Elevated Railway Project

* The art promotion corridor and ground landscape design of National Theater & National Concert Hall

MOTIVATION STATEMENT

I’m eager to further my education in a field that I’m enthusiastic about. I want to gain more in-depth knowledge and improve my skills with the sole intent of addressing contemporary design issues.

During the process of academic courses and working, I enjoy immersing myself in creating connections with people and land, as well as design thinking, strategy formulation, and then finally practicing imagination through detailed design. I hope to become a professional designer who can keep up with current trends and connect with the world through the courses offered by the University of Edinburgh.

participate phases

The University of Edinburgh provides abundant stimulation and has put lots of attention on the courses which are extremely professional and practical. Thus, I will have a more accurate and sharp vision of detail design, engineering and material. Of all the professional courses, the course relative to groundworks issues interested me the most, including expiring innovative techniques, developing mature construction design and learning engineering approaches to improve the level of design.

In the hypothetical thesis project, there are some possible topics I prefer. First of all, exploring the relationship between abandoned industrial, unwanted spaces and cities, searching for new ways to transform these undesirable facilities or waste into positive alternatives and connect them with people's life again, meanwhile, developing new cycles and possibilities. Furthermore, many cities nowadays are facing extreme drought or heavy rain, including Taiwan, resulting in unstable food supply and shortage of domestic water. I’d like to inquire into the feasibility of sustainable development of water, ecology and society in extreme climates, with methods such as constructing and remodeling water systems, implementing water recycling, applying green carbon and blue carbon resources and putting net zero carbon emissions into practice.

After graduation, I especially hope to participate in the landscape planning and design of public spaces, hoping to improve people's living standards. My short-term goal after graduation is to contribute my professional vision and skills learned at school in the U.K. My long-term goal for me is to do my best to become a person who has international influence in the landscape architecture industry, helping human beings face global landscape issues with all my heart.

REGENERATION OF SHUEINANDONG

A home for performing arts

2019 TILA 5th New Star Exihibition / National 1st Award

2018 TILA 13th Taiwan National Student Competition / National 2nd Award

Site: Shueinandong, New Taipei City, Taiwan

Type: academic/ group work/ final project

Role: designer/ Partner: Chuan Chen

Contribution: analysis, concept, masterplan, rendering

Date: 2018.06 - 2019.06

Supervisor: Yu-Feng Wang(yufeng@post.harvard.edu)

AN OPPORTUNITY TO IMPROVE PERFORMANCE ARTS INDUETRY AND A DECLINE PLACE

The issues of performance art industry in Taiwan

A large number of music festivals and various performing arts activities are gathered in Taipei and brought the energy of local incomes, tourisum and culture to the peak; however, after the exhibition, the energy also disappeared. Meanwhile, the lack of performance practice space and work area has become a tough challenge for some large performance groups such us Cloud Gate, which is the most famous dance group in Taiwan.

WE NEVER HAVE A HOME.

---- YE, WEN-WEN/ CEO of CLOUD GATE. Create a base for performance arts industry

A home for the performing arts industry can not only gives artists better place to create but also transform the local industry and bring commercial opportunities apart from tourism.

I am enthusiastic about music and performing arts and have participated in several music groups since I was little. After having those experiences of joining the performance arts industry in Taiean, my partner and I found that transient performance activities and transient consumption behaviors can only bring temporary energy of culture to the land. Moreover, Taiwan’s performmce arts industry has been facing problems such as insufficient practice space, so we hope to create a performing arts base, integrate the needs of the performing arts industry from creative practice to performance, and create a home for performnce arts workers to achieve their dreams. Furthermore, "Nature is the source of the dance" -Isadora Duncan. Nature is a vital element not only for artists but also for every people in Taiwan, which triggers us to consider the possibility of co-existence between performnce arts base and natural enviroment.

An opportunity of regeneration

ShueiNanDong used to be the largest gold-copper smelter in East Asia. After the gold mining industry shut up in 1987, the surrounding villages gradually declined and ageing with high vacant rate(39.05%). However, ShueiNanDong might be suitable for a performance art base, since it has lots of redundant space and buildings and convenient traffic location, which is an opportunity for regeneration. Introducing a new industry will not only promote the development of surrounding villages but also prevent them from over-relying on the recreation industry and achieve a win-win situation by providing housing and living facilities.

REUSE AND CONSERVATION

Remaining buildings of Shueinandong

The ruins and remaining buildings (16 remaining buildings with varied sizes and forms) has sat in Shueinandong for more than 30 years without any reuse strategies, they are possibilities for different reuse or conservation.

DEVELOPMENT EVALUATION - minimal and gentle design methods

STRATEGY

Introduce performance art industry

Reuse and intergrate the large industrial remains and the beside outdoor space for a sound, complete and flexible performance arts base.

Enhence northeast recreation system Respect the third landscape

Shueinandong own it status as the transportaion hub of northeast recreation system. Improve service facilities and upgrate the traffic situation.

The vertical zoning - seperate different users in site

Retain the original characteristics of the base, development should be considerably minimized and limited. Arouse the awarness of protecting and appreciating the third landscape.

Embodiment of the third landscape

"The third landscape" is conducted by French botanist Gilles Clement which means nature taking over the abandoned land, repairing industrial relics, and showing natural vitality.

Shueinandong is famous for its spectacular landscape and ruins, which countless Miscanthus will cover most of the land and industrial remains and turn the site snowy-white in autum. Those pioneer plants formed a stable and rich ecosystem, and naturally repaired a large amount of historical wounds as time goes by. Shueinandong has become the most authentic embodiment of the third landscape in Taiwan.

Facing the brownfield with stable natural ecology and surrounding villages, a minimal and gentle design is adopted while evaluating the degree of the disturbance on the site.

Take advantages of current retaining walls and the large elevation range (120m in total), creating a base without interference of other users. The recreation service uses the cableway system for vertical connection. The facilities for community are placed on the same elevation to become resident-friendly. The remain area maintains unchange to conserve the natural ecology and the feature of The third landscape.

The third landscape buffer zone - retain the original landscape of Shueinandong

Considering the size and structural damage level of the industrial remains, as well as the accessibility.

the conservation area plays as a buffer zone between users, which separates the use of sightseeing and performance art.

PERFORMANCE ARTS BASE

Complete a sound base by providing practice and performance area for artists through remodling the remain buildings and verticle connections.

coppersmelter 1 transforms into Main Building provide:

2410M2 workspace for more than 150 artists

1. zoning by function

coppersmelter 2 transforms into Performance Hall provide:

600 seats Huge Auditorium

300 seats Small Auditorium arround 2724 M2 community space

2. stagger and create voids

3. create communication and connection between different groups

4. import air and sunlight through different materials

Transform the interior space into a working space suitable for differents performing arts group, including drama, dance and music. Place in a semi-outdoor space(the light box)to import Yin-yang Sea scenery, ecology and sunlight by tearing down a part of original wall.

Retain the wall structure, and restore the pitched steal roof structure for emphasizing histoical memory. The space is comfort and bright by introducing a double porch to the original entrance to withstand strong northeast monsoon and utilizing glass materials. At night, it will have spectaculer appearances due to the indoor lights, which looks like several light boxes embaded in the building.

Out door performance area used to be the old sedimentation tank, which was backfilled with concrete and sealed after it stopped working. Audience can now feel the past spatial perception through miscanthus 2~3 meters height growing surrounding the sedimention structure and paths transforming from previous sedimentation tank.

tank transforms into Concert Terrace provide: arround 5550 M2 performance area for about 3000~4500 audients for about 40~50 tents in

sedimentation

bizaar

1 remain and repair the walls and roofs

1.original form of sedimentation tank

2.current situation with concrete backfill

3.use miscanthus to create past spatial perception

RECREATION SYSTEM

Tourism service facilities

Shueinandong is the endpoint of the Northeast Recreation System (Shueinandong Jinguashi and Jiufen). Improve the current condition and service facilities by supplementing the accomadation demand and upgrating the traffic situation.

At the same time, reuse Layer 15-17 of smelter remains which have complete interior space and perfect window’s views into Yin-yang Sea are suitable to be turned into a hotel. It can not only supplement turists requirement toward accomadation but also provide job opportunities and financial sources for local residents.

Ecological Parking Lots

Fragment the original large and mixed use concrete parking lot and turns it into rainwater garden parking lot. It absorbed a large amount of surface runoff from the Shueinandong mountains, repaired the landscape that damaged by artificial concrete before.

Shueinandong has the function of the transportation transfer station, including private cars, motorcycles, tour buses, light rail, and cableway systems. In response to the great difference of parking demand during the peak and off-peak seasons in the recreation area, planning flexible expansion parking spaces.

Desire to retain and cherish the original characteristic of site. Reuse remains and the land in a careful and gentle way. Meanwile, create spaces to experience and appriciate the third landscape in Shueinandong.

The 30-meter on the east side of an old 60-meter-diameter reservoir has been fully taken over to become a wetland rich in ecology, which is the most favorable evidence for the third landscape.

The sound of wetland animals and plants is transmitted to ear through 20 cm of light water. Human activities do not interfere the ecology, but can hear the nature. The ruin storage the sound of the third landscape and has become a landscape phonograph of shueinandong.

SOUNDSCAPE OF SHUEINANDONG

Hear the third landscape of Shueinandong

13th Nationl student Design competition (during the final project) theme: listen to landscape date: 2019/11/9 ranking: the second place partner: Chuan Chen

The third landscape refers to all the land abandoned or neglected by human beings. Nature has untouchable power and strong autonomy. Therefore, it can be regarded as the genetic base of the earth, regulating the future of the creature and changing the definition of the land. After the exit of the gold mining industry in Shueinandong, miscanthus and pioneer plants deducted a stable and rich ecosystem, which naturally reinterpreted the appearance of the land of Shueinandong and also became the most authentic embodiment of the third landscape in Taiwan.

The dance of wind and the third landscape creates a unique soundscape of the shueinandong. Using nature, terrain and existing ruins structures, listen to nature's autonomy with the minimum design method, plan the greatest path to hear the sound, and design the space for hearing the soundscape of the shueinandong.

The third landscape becomes the source of natural sound . Through water, human activities do not interfere the ecology, but can hear the nature. The sound is transmitted through light water, and the water surface is near by ears. People can both hear and see the sound texture. The raised and circular concrete wall reflects sound waves and storage the sound of nature.

Soundscape structure design - hear the shueinandong

Soundscape structure design - WIND & wetland

CENTENARY BEITOU'S MEMORY

Experiencing historical continuity of Beitou's time

Site: Beitou, New Taipei City, Taiwan

Type: academic/ individual work/ 3rd grade

Date: 2018.01/ remake 2022.11

Supervisor: Chung-Heng Hsieh (Wn1172@hotmail.com)

As a Taiwanese, I'm deeply attracted by Beitou's prosperous development in history and profound cultural heritage. From railways historical buildings, Japanese culture, hot spring industry to modern ecological green building practices, Beitou Park has become the core of Beitou's memory for more than a century. I focusd on exploring the possibility of practicing and visualise historical continuity in park, trying to uncover the current impression of Beitou, which is full of hot spring business, and reconnect Beitou park with people's life from the perspective of retrospecting , experiencing and appreciating history. Beitou is in rich of different culture, race and historical architectures over a century. The innitial and the most critical driving force was the development of Beitou train system

ISSUE - Obstacle

The complex landform, large altitude difference and extremely dense trees result in big visual obstacle of historical architectures and reduce the accessibility.

SCULPT - Reconnect the cultural axis

Beitou park and station inherit a large amount of Beitou’s history and culture, while railway establishment played an crucial role in improving the development of Beitou. Thus, reconnect and refresh the broken cultural axis of Beitou by the medium of railway memory.

1. Magnify the rail system and connect the imagery to landscape

2. Enlarge the details of train track and cultivate immersive space

3. Experience the history and culture

/train track/

H section steel path and linear structures

rail sleeper gravel weeds

activity zone

connection of action zones

plant area

ISSUE - Disconnection

Unproper and complicated paths distrup the connection of Beitou resident living area, hot spring commercial activities and Beitou park.

STRATEGY - Sculpt & Open

Two main strategies are used to refurbish the no featured and orderless situation of Beitou Park. Reconnect the cultural meaning the of Beitou by sculpting the landform and traceback the lifestyle by openning the lowland of Beitou Hot Spring Museum.

OPEN - Traceback the living axis

Beitou Station Section

Multiple Activities

old station track plaza

Temporary Water Play Area

slight suken plaza

Screening Area display the history of Beitou

H-shape Rest Corridor relex and collect thoughts

Types of activity zone

Landscaped lawn terraces wrap around the building and clever changes in level provide a variety of multi-use spaces, including an amphitheatre, for entertainment or function purposes.

Entrence Waterscape

Crossing Pavement

Track Plaza

Track Mirror Pool

Slight Suken Plaza

Screening of Time

Main Square

Outdoor Theater

Historical Fountain Plaza

Lawn Terraces

Festival Platform

Foot Bath Platform

Riverside Stage

Museum Lawn

Open-air Stage

Forest Path

Corner Square

The thought-provoking form endeavours to keep the historical train track from being forgotten, meanwhile provids flexible and various activities to flourish.

Old Beitou Station Plaza

Linear structures and activity zone

Rather than introducing drastic change, try the utmost not to interfere with the values of the sites. The riverside stage strikes a new balance between the historical meaning, human activites and the natural environment of Beitou River.

Additions of platforms and lawn terraces were kept as subtle as possible to eliminate the large altitude differences and show the visitors that this is a site for appreiciating historical buildings, immersing in memory and experiencing Beitou's lifestyle, such as art or music fesitival, open-air show and hot spring foot bath happen

Riverside stage and Museum Platforms and paths to Museum

connection between library and museum

BEITOU RESORT IN DEPOT

Beitou resort has been blocked out and hard to be found due to the disadvantage of the terrain and unfriendly path. Grass slopes and artificial pool connect the landscape and the interface of the building lobby and change the state of mood.

REBIRTH OF BEITOU DEPOT

Green the Gray Area in City

Site: Beitou, Taipei City, Taiwan

Type: professional/ group work/ public construction project

Role: designer/ Partner: 4 colleagues

Contribution:

//competition stage:

//basic design stage:

analysis, concept and masterplan graphic drawing, 3D modeling(Rhino), section review, rendering

masterplanCAD, concept and masterplan graphic drawing, 3D modeling(Rhino), section review, rendering

*redraw except the renderings

Date: 2020.12 - 2021.06/ redraw 2022.10

Supervisor: Chung-Hsun Wu(da.vision@msa.hinet.net)

The MRT system and its affiliated factory area occupy an important proportion of the urban landscape in a city. This project publicizes the private and discarded area of MRT company, opens up the gray space and transforms it into a park intertwined with green and blue. In addition to the connection of water, recreation and urban bicycle system, it also proposes new imaginations for the interface between architecture and landscape. The water circulation system is established through ingenious topography, and the boundary between urban and natural landscapes is stitched up in a resilient and sustainable way.

platform

Lower the attitude of the original concrete platform by grass slope and three layers of plant area.

A ramp path and terracing pool guide visitors to the resort lobby and remain the clean lawn for diverse use.

Turn the roof into a landscape restaurant and add new balconies for fabulous.

original terrain design terrain

The site is rich in field views, and connect the mountain and riverside ecosystem.

The public bicycle system is disrupted at the site and needs to be reconnected to the riverside route.

The site locates in the important status of north taipei river system.

The site is in the middle of north Taipei recreation system and could be the important via point.

ELEVATION STRATEGY

The park is rich in landscape changes after land grading. The excavation from the front of Beitou Resort and ecological detention pond is used to create small hills and provide a breathtaking view of Guandu Plain.

WATER REUSE CYCLE

The ecological detention pond and the rain garden along the border of park receive rainwater and surface runoff, helping the urban resilience park achieves the climatization under extreme climate and heavy rain. The water reuse cycle not only provides an ecological habitat for animals and plants, but also for irrigation and human use.

Elevation Plan and Balanced Earthwork

Drainage System and water circulation