Landscape and Architecture Design

Portfolio 2015-2020

Landscape and Architecture Chloe Chen

THE TRANSIT SPINE / ACADEMIC PROJECT

“ New arterial ways may be made---not the unsightly and obstructive gashes feared by some--but rather elongated parks bringing to the inner city a welcome addition of beauty, grace, and green open space.�

Wilbur H. Simonson

Research - based project Study partner: Ningning University of Toronto

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The Transit Spine

Site: Interstate Highway 95, Hollywood, Florida, U.S. Vision: Flux Zone, Highly Connected Transit Corridor Academic Project

Facing with the risk of sea level rise and saltwater intrusion, the most importantly, finding a way to integrate the sea level rise projections into future urban planning. According to a series of modeling, it identifies the north-south topographic ridge area along with the Interstate highway 95 will be a relevant safe area in Hollywood. More importantly, the traffic complexity makes Interstate highway 95 a big conjunction with local street, highway, canals and railway.

The similar situation is along with Interstate highway 95 from Florida to Maine.

It is very interesting to rethink the character of transit system, make isolated transit system to be a part of urban fabric.

The aim of the proposal is to activate the existing negative site to a positive space by rethinking and improving the transit system. In order to make the transit spine more accessible and transit-orient, new water loop is channelized by linking existing canals together. And new green corridor was created along water body as a resilient space of flooding. Further more, we create an elevated pedestrian system connecting all the building land marks together, because of official future planing which highway 95 is proposed to be a commercial corridor. The pedestrian system not only offers functions and links all the transit system with building together, but also adopting flooding projection in future. On the pedestrian system, multi-traffic hub, shopping malls, museums, evacuation shelters and community center are connected for residents’ daily life; the elevated pedestrian and green resilient corridor also adapt situation of king tide, future sea level rising and 100 year storm.

The selected site is along the interstate highway 95, Â where is north to the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood international airport, south connecting with Miami. Further more, highly connected transportation is the most significant characteristic in the site, as it is a big traffic junction of highway, local street, railway and canal system. Because of these high value of the site, there will be various commercial activities instead of industrial buildings in future development.

The aim of the proposal is to transform the existing negative site into a positive space by rethinking and improving the infrastructure system. To be more specific, within our site along with the interstate highway 95, integrating infrastructure, topography, and sea level rise projections into future commercial corridor. The proposal highlights to improve infrastructure system including: green corridor, future waterfront, pedestrian system, commercial and activity center, and other new programs, building types and land use are reorganized to adapt the future direction of transit-oriented development.

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Context Analysis The Future Vision of I-95 Along with I-95, there are warehouses, service stores and light industrial area. However, according to mulnicipal’s future plan, here should be a commercial corridor for next decade. Highly conncted transit hub would be the trigger to generate a space connecting with mixed use and residential together.

Transit in Context Highly Connected Transit Corridor

Green Axis & Blue Axis

Transit Corridor

Located in Flux Zone

The site becomes complex and unique, when the infrastructure system, water system, green corridors and commercial corridor come together.

We are planning to design the interface of all the separate system and connect them together.

Proposed System Highly Connected Systems

Elevated Pedestrian

Proposed Water System

Proposed Land Use

Water system - is considered as very important way to access site. New water channels are created for a new water loop with several water taxi stations which makes water route links with Port Everglades and Estuary.

Elevated Pedestrian system - The pedestrian system is lifted base on the serious seasonal flooding situation. And for daily use, the pedestrian system connect all the buildings and significant nodes together, such as light train station, also pass through the highway.

Higher Value Networks based on Systems

Culture Route

Evacuation Network

Context Analysis Tap to Watch Animation

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Commercial Corridor

The networks connect significant buildings, light train station and high way. In term of “ zoning connection”, networks connects commercial corridor, residential area, civic area and public realm. Further more, elevated pedestrian system links with safe nodes to create a evacuation network for site as well.

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Urban Code Analysis: The diagrams show the relationship between highway and different land use. As the highest value land, how can all the land types maximize their function, and put together as a integrated, a continuous corridor not only for driver but also for residents and future development.

Commercial Indusrial Activity Centers Low Residential Commercial Recreation

USACE= Army Corps of Engineers PUD=Planned Units Development FDEP=Florida Development of Environment Protection FDT=Florida Development of Transportation BCLUP=Broward County Land Use Plan ICM=Integrated Corridor Management

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Commercial Indusrial Activity Centers Low Residential Commercial Recreation

Low Residential Commercial Recreation

USACE= Army Corps of Engineers PUD=Planned Units Development FDEP=Florida Development of Environment Protection FDT=Florida Development of Transportation BCLUP=Broward County Land Use Plan ICM=Integrated Corridor Management

LOW RESIDENTIAL & COMMERCIAL RECREATION The comparison between low-residential area and recreational green space shows the different rules in different side of highway. As the low-residential area is a closure community surrounded by canals, and it is according to the Southwest Florida Water Management which could adapt 100 year flooding situation. On the other side, Sunset Source: #BrowardNext, http://www.broward.org/browardnext/Pages/default.aspx,golf course is set for recreation space with less sewage system underground.

Source: #BrowardNext, http://www.broward.org/browardnext/Pages/default.aspx,

USACE= Army Corps of Engineers PUD=Planned Units Development FDEP=Florida Development of Environment Protection FDT=Florida Development of Transportation BCLUP=Broward County Land Use Plan ICM=Integrated Corridor Management

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Commercial Indusrial Activity Centers Low Residential Commercial Recreation

USACE= Army Corps of Engineers PUD=Planned Units Development FDEP=Florida Development of Environment Protection FDT=Florida Development of Transportation BCLUP=Broward County Land Use Plan ICM=Integrated Corridor Management

TRANSIT CORRIDOR DEVELOPMENT

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Source: #BrowardNext, http://www.broward.org/browardnext/Pages/default.aspx,

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For the first site, it is near the airport hub, the west part of the corridor is for industrial use and the east part is for commercial use. In the future comprehensive plan the industrial use will transform to commercial use. The industrial area and commercial area along the corridor have a equal setback. The commercial area needs fence and tree barrier to minimize the influence.

Source: #BrowardNext, http://www.broward.org/browardnext/Pages/default.aspx,

Existing Urban Code: As we can see, from these urban coding, all the lands along with highway and highway itself are rejected with each other, meanwhile, there is a twoside green buffer along with the I-95 highway, where as a boundary separates urban fabric. All kinds of land use, typically, green space, residential area with channel barrier, low-rise commercial corridor and mid-rise mixuse buildings. The existing situation is how fractured urban fabric dealing with flooding situation in Florida? Is there a chance to create resilient landscape for seasonal flooding?

Proposed Urban Code: Linear zoning would be ideal way to divide site into commercial corridor along the I-95 highway, and mix-use behind it; residential zone could be near the water system which offers residents a private space. and public realm is increasing because of lifted pedestrian system, which means the vertical space is utilized. For landscape, green corridor is not only along with water system, but also is the major element on the pedestrian walkways and street.

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Everyday Experience Elevated Pedestrian Corridor

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Networks

Highlighted Network Links Urban Fractures Together Typological diagrams show the connection between two sides separated by highway, water system and light train station. These typical types could be applied for all the similar situation along I-95 which passing through the whole site. The elevated pedestrian system generates a multi-accessible and more convenient walkways not only for daily life but also for emergency experience, like 100-years storm.

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Resilient Landscape in Different Phase

Along with the flooding situation becomes worse over years, pedestrian will be elevated, build form would change, while vegetated urban wetland will be expanded to increase the capacity of water storage in Flux Zone.

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REVERSE POST-APOCALYPTIC LANDSCAPE

“ In Fukushima, a land where few return.

The evacuation orders for most of the area have been lifted. But where are the people?”

Japan Times

Research-based Project Individual Project University of Toronto

POST-APOCALYPTIC INHABITATION A Long-term Strategy of Decontamination and Remediation for Post-nuclear Site Project Description: On March 11, 2011, a notorious accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan forced the evacuation of 343,000 of residents. On April 1st, 2017, the Japanese government announced that certain areas of the exclusion zones were reopened, allowing people to return to their homes. However, there is still mild contamination in water and ground, severely challenging the safe return to a previous way of life.

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Using one newly accessible town, Tomioka, as a test site, this projects serves as a guide to show how people could return back to their hometown and have an active role in making it safe, by enacting a long-term process of simultaneous rebuilding and remediation. Various phased strategies help people to transform the “death scape” into a viable place to live and work, for current residents and future generations, instead of the alternative of being abandoned, like other post-disaster sites such as Chernobyl.

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NUCLEAR ACCIDENT AND EXCLUSION ZONE DISTRIBUTION

1986, Chernobyl, Ukrian, Level 7 accident,

Widespread health and environmental effects. External release of a significant fraction of reactor core inventory.

1979, Three Mile Island, U.S., Level 5 accident.

A hidden indicator light led to an operator manually overriding the automatic emergency cooling system of the reactor.

1952, Chalk River, Canada, Level 5 accident

A reactor shut-off rod failure, combined with several oper ator errors, led to a major power excursion of more than double the reactor's rated output at AECL's NRX reactor.

1957, Kyshtym, Russia, Level 5 accident,

Significant release of radioactive material to the environment from explosion of a high activity waste tank.

2011, Fukushima, Japan, Level 5 accident,

Reactor shut-down after the 2011 Sendai earthquake and Tsunami; failure of emergency cooling caused an explosion.

Distribution of Nuclear Detonation Serious (5-7 Levels) Nuclear Detonation Events Nuclear Detonation Events Exclusion Zone Major Current Flow

The Exclusion zone set by the Japanese government occupying 10,895 square kilometre around the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. According to the wind direction and ocean current, the Exclusion zone was settled unevenly,at least 20 kilometre for the South part, however, at the Northwestern part of the exclusion zone is over 80 kilometers .

For the first 10 years, the lighter contamination will be diluted and diffused into air. But 83 KG nuclide would left which is the radioactive isotopes with relevant longer half-life (20years - 600 years): Caesium 137, Caesium 134, Iodine 90, Strontium 90. Phytoremediation has great potential for cleaning up radioactive isotopes by planting specific species.

The major component of land use (except Forest) in Exclusion zone are agricultural land ( 230 hectare) and paddy field (199 hectare).

The subjective land to do radioactivity decontamination and remediation would be focusing on paddy field and agricultural land.

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EXCLUSION ZONE ANALYSIS EXCLUSION ZONE

Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant ( Accident Spot)

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Contamination Map

The Order of Zones On April 1st, 2017, the Japanese government declared certain areas of the exclusion zone habitable and allowed people to return to their homes.

Most of the evacuation orders issued to the evacuation-designated zones (excluding the restricted area) have been lifted.

The restricted area have been recognized around the accident plant as a special zone for later reconstruction and revitalization. Accoringly, the measurements of physical and chemical decontamination and Phytoremediation will apply in reopened area.

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4 Prefectures were reopened on April 1st, 2017 Area: 485,217.7 ha

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A collaborating community is generated

Eco-system recovers, including human habitat.

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Remained radioactivity effects ecosystem generically, including wildlifes, plant communities and human.

Basing on the half-life of radioactive isotopes, land can not be allow to use for hundreds years.

One of the most horrible nuclear accidents — Chernobyl nuclear accident happened in 1986, Ukraine. Chernobyl is still inhabitable in the urban context.

If no effort is made to improve the situation of Chernobyl exclusion zones, we can expect 300-600 years before decontamination happens naturally. This is dependent on the major contaminants’ half-life; For example, Caesium 137 (half-live: 30.17 years) would have to decay 10-20 times (300-600 years) before its radiation drops to a relatively safe level. I devised a short-term strategy for living and working in the contaminated areas in order to allow for an expedited return to agricultural prosperity.

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CURRENT CONDITION Because the nuclear accident was a result of a magnitude 9 earthquake, which caused huge ground movement and tsunami. The new characteristic of geography: cracks and earth division, were generated. The strategies of decontamination and remediation vary basing on the new geography characteristic and existing land use. The land use is separated in different categories, and each one has its own strategy in different phases. All strategies are coordinated to work together in order to rebuild and decontaminate Tomioka. 5 cm topsoil would be removed for all the green area, and hard-paved area would be washed chemically by government in Tomioka, except the forest which is untouchable place for temporary waste-store.

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Original Forest

Original Riparian

Original Community

Original Plants

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Major volume of radioactivity remains in Forest

Earth Division and Cracks Created

Operation of Nuclear Power Stopped

Builidng and Facilities Were Ruined

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Regulated by Government as a preserved area

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5 cm Topsoil Removal for Vegetated Area

5 cm Topsoil Removal for Vegetated Area

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PHASE 1 10-20 YEARS (Implement by landowner, Government supports financially)

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PHASE 2 30-40 YEARS (Implement by landowner, Government supports financially)

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Phytoremediation

Phytoremediation

PHASE 3 50-60YEARS (Implement by landowner, Government supports financially)

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LEGEND Cs 134 Contamination Area

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Agricultural Land

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THE CORRIDOR - TORONTO HUMBER BAY PARK

“These objects went [beyond objects seen in space and gestured to big space].”

Peter Walker

Studio Project University of Toronto Study Partner: Siqilyu

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The Corridor Site: Humber Bay Park, Toronto, ON

Vision: Co-exist corridor integrating human activities and animal movements Academic Project

Wildlife corridors are green spaces that allow wildlife to travel from one area to another. These corridors must be preserved because they are essential for the survival of wildlife populations as they provide direct habitat and genetic exchange.

The existing ecological habitats within and around the site are fragmented. The site is at the intersection of different habitat connections, which makes it a significant area to explore. We aim to make a continuous ecology system by connecting the site’s habitats with its Eco-context. This will oder wildlife in corridors for their seasonal movement and allow them to move freely at a larger scale. It will also increase the chance for human and animal to interact with each other simultaneously. Analysis of wildlife distribution, active time periods and potential movement according to our proposal was done at the territory scale. Then it becomes more specific when we zoom in to the site itself.

The concept we’re proposing is to make each type of the habitats (coastal, riparian, pollinator meadow, woodland, wetland and open aquatic) a continuous corridor to introduce new species from the whole territory to our site, to preserve the existing species on site and to allow people to get more involved in a natural environment of richer ecological value within an urbanized area as well. We mapped out the most dense areas of those significant animals at the places where their two or three main habitats meet, and where the corresponding habitat’s area is the largest. The animal interaction, observation and conservation areas are then analyzed. The areas of people’s comfortable walking distance are based on the surrounding station and residential spots. The overlapped areas would be the significant locations for potential animal-related programs (observation&interaction), or locations to preserve certain animals.

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Taxonomy of Wild Life Wild life is separated into three different catagories: interaction species, which may interact wiht human, and human activity may not interrupt their habitat; Observation species, people can observe them from distance; and preseverd species, which need isolated space for living.

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MAIN ROAD SECONDERY ROAD

PEDESTRIAN STAY SPOTS VEHICULAR WAY PARKING LOTS

INTERACTION ROUTE INTERACTION SPOT OBSERVATION ROUTE OBSERVATION SPOT

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CO-EXIST LAKESHORE - JINGYANG LAKE EXTENSION

“The resolution of the incredible photographs and drawings allows you to study the details. Every firm should have this book. It’s a model for how to record your work for posterity.”

Douglas Reed & Gary Hilderbrand

Professional Project Aecom,China Working Partner: Mneghuan He, Ying Zhang

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Cherry Blossom Boardwalk Art Promenade

CO-EXIST LAKE SHORE LOCATION: JING YANG, TAIYUAN, CHINA VISION: WATER EXPERIENCE, VARIOUS LAKE SHORE DESIGN PROJECT DESCRIPTION: Taiyuan, where is the capital of Shanxi, locates at north of Middle Jin basin. Taiyuan lies along Mountain Erlong which is separated by Fen River from north to south. It is a ancient city originated as far as four thousands seven hundred years ago. Our site is located at east of Loss Plateau, north of Taiyuan Basin and surrounded by mountains at north, west and east area. There is a Fen River Valley Plain in the south part. There is a hierarchy from north to south as from higher to lower in site.

In order to increase persevered area for wildlife, and create a optimized water purification system, the lake could be expanded to south part. And the various lake-shores provide all kind of water experience in different seasons. Cooperating with different programs around Jing Yang lake, it is determined to divided into four zones, programmatic zone in northeast close to CBD; dynamic zone in southeast near Fen river where changed seasonally; Eco zone is in southwest adhering with historic building district; And memorial zone is in northwest backing to ancient mountains.

The essential part of the project is the strategies illustrate how to diversify the design of lake-shore, how to increase public space and intimate space between aquatic life and human activities.

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URBAN RUNOFF: LOW-IMPACT DEVELOPMENT

The term low impact development (LID) refers to systems and practices that use or mimic natural processes that result in the infiltration, evapotranspiration ed aquatic habitat. All the rainwater would be collected and infiltrated through bioswale and rain garden on street landscape and naturalized lake-shore. Th green environment and maintain low frequently. Increasing green space also provide a co-exist area not only for human activities but also for animal migrati

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or use of storm water in order to protect water quality and associathe materials would be Eco-friendly ones which would cooperate with ion and stay seasonally.

Naturalized Lake-shore: Different types of lakeshore design show how integrate urbanized area with naturalized lakeshore. Many inventions along with lake-shore store sands and expending vegetation convey.

Urbanized Lake-shore: Human activity as the major program in Jingyang Lake. Combing with water transportation, integrated circulation makes site more accessible and highly connected.

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Isolation Zone: The conservation zone could be totally isolated from human activities, such as Eco-islands and Conservative wetlands.

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Observation Boardwalk:

Interaction Deck:

Naturalized lake-shore that offers a conservation zone for wildlife, is the determinate key of sustainable development of environment. On the other hand, boardwalk along with bird migration route, people can observe birds and amphibian.

Wood deck and soft paved landscape create a interface between animals and human beings.

Intimate space is created where people can feed gooses, and walk dog along water.

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Lake-shore Study: Considering typography of the site, where elevation is higher, would be hard paved by concrete or stones. The edge of the lake-shore is created by stones, stone cracks provide an Eco-habitat for fish and aquatic vegetation growing.

Interaction decks along with lake-shore boardwalk offer potential opportunities to observe and interact with wildlife.

Further more, extended deck is a great spot for outlook the site.

Multi-water experience in different elevation enrich the program near waterfront.

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Multi-used Space along Lake-shore Tide in Jingyang lake changes seasonally. According to the normal water-level and tiding water-level, the multi-used plaza offers people different water experience. When tide comes, people can enjoy water in the enclosure zone where collecting water.

In the inner zone, as well as multiused area, is mildly sunken where children and adults can play with water. On the other hand, when water retreats, some stairs appearance, people can have other programs there with lower water-level.

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Long Section As I mentioned before, how vegetated space works with hard-paved space, like road, plaza and small pathways, and low impact development as the principle, bioswale and less than 8% ramp can increase storage of water and decrease the rate of running off.

The sunken area in the middle as a multiused area for human activities. Water can be collected in the sunken area without interrupting human activities.

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Wetland System Wetland system is a determined role in the site. As the Jingyang Lake used to be a light-industry area, where fabric factories and food production was occupied. Now municipal decided to change it into a total green and Eco-friendly space for both human activity and wildlife conservation.

The remediation process of light industry will take a long time. Utilizing hierarchy to create a wetland system, and wetland system creates a water purification system, chemical contamination settled down, and have been filtered by plants, such as willow, polar and aspen trees. In addition, aquatic plants can take up heavy metal into their root system, stalk and leaves through phytoremediation with lower maintenance.

Naturalized paving material would be very important in conservation area. In order to create a co-exist area for human beings and animals, floating wood deck is an optimized option. As there is a tide seasonally, floating deck can float all the time no matter water-levels change or not.

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THE INTERFACE OF GREEN AXIS AND BLUE AXIS

“ The Boston Park System, in which an urban infrastructure of roads, public transportation, and drainage were designed to reclaim the Muddy River watershed.”

Frederick Law Olmsted

Professional Project Aecom China Working Partner: Mengyuan He, Peng Ding,

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THE INTERFACE OF GREEN AXIS AND BLUE AXIS CULTURE, CARE, CENTER

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LOCATION: TOUTUN RIVER, XINJIANG, CHINA Project Description:

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Toutun River is the key water transportation in Chang Ji City, XinJiang Province. Toutun river shore used to be surrounded by industrial areas which will be removed for future green space. The design concept of Toutun river shore is creating a connecting water body which would offer surrounding a multi-experience and program, including naturalized and urbanized area, such as restored wetland, wildlif- observation area, theater and industrial park. These programs are influenced by existing condition and local culture. The main design strategy is using existing local plant species to recover and remediate toutun river. Biomass would be the primer thing to concern in the site. Water collection, green space restoration and animal protection can be the significant component in the project. The section axon shows about how the native plants and invasive plants work together to increase green space and cooperating with human activities.

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Hierarchy Analysis

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In the site, the hierarchy is 180 m from higher to lower from north to south. The huge elevation difference shows the direction of water flow directly, which would effects the design strategy of water collection as well.

These two sections show the relationship with water and proposed deck or lookout. The point is how to use the different of water-level to create a human-scaled space in a 100 kilometer’s site.

Slope Analysis In order to think how human activities can engage with natural area, topography is a dominated factor to see how dealing with steep area or sunken area. As we can see the site is relevantly flat , which will have more opportunities for design.

Combing with ecological protection, the first section indicates that some elevated board way could be isolated from main road, the vegetated area could be in the middle.

The second section visualizes a scenario of water plaza. People can experience shallow water in the sunken area. There would be a very interesting concept to create a enclosure water pool for human activities.

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Typology Study Small type study shows the detail design of soft-space and hard space. What kind of the programs and activities can happen in the site. For example the pond that can used as an skating rank in winter and a swimming pool in summer.

For green space, what to be concerned is not only human activities, but also how the site can become a Eco-friendly space both for human and animals. So the buried boundary between soft paved and hard paved space has lots of opportunity to make it interesting. Such as green stairs to solve the hierarchy problems. And hard-paved space would be more flexible, which means all the landscape furniture can be movable to create more programmatic space for different events happened in the site.

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Water Plaza The design concept of water wave plaza is base on the shape of waves, and using the pattern and texture of paving to create a wave visualization. In the middle of the plaza, there are some water features instead of a whole hard-paved plaza. Elevated stairs that maintain the shape of water wave, provide a better view to overlook the site.

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ARCHITECT MASTER GIO PONTTI MEMORIAL EXHIBITION

“ Amate L’architettura, L’architettura è un cristallo” [Love architecture, Architecture is a diamond] Gio Ponti

Design Competition University of Milano Tech, Milan, Italy Study partner: Shuang Zheng

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LOCATION: UNIVERISTY OF MILANO TECH, MILAN, ITALY

Partner: Deng Shuang

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Role: Concetual Desgin, Research and analysis, Modeling

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Indoor lantern would be a environmental facility potentially to spread concepts from Gio Ponti. The Indoor lantern could be distributed at some key points in Milan city, such as central station of Milan.

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INDOOR LANTERN The Indoor lantern is component by the projector, flexible PVC surface and support-structure. When the light turns to be dark, people would be attracted by the illuminated Indoor Lantern in exhibition hall which offers viewer a private space in public area.

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Indoor lantern would be a environmental facility potentially to spread concepts from Gio Ponti. The Indoor lantern could be distributed at some key points in Milan city, such as central station of Milan.

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Connected with Greater Toronto Area through the TTC subway extension, existing and future regional transportation network, such as VIVA BRT and potential LRT along Jane Street.

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OVERALL REGIONAL CONTEXT

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CA • The site sits near the north end and headwaters of the Black Creek subwatershed, a tributary of the The subject site is legally described as Part of Lot 5, Concession 5, Humber River.

• To the northwest and northeast lie larger proCity of Vaughan, Regional Municipality of York. It is located on the tected areas - the Greenbelt and the Oak Ridges Moraine. south side of Highway 7 between the intersections of Commerce Street and Intechange Way. The proposed development is composed of a mixed use residential commercial development, comprising of four condominium apartment buildings atop podiums with retail space, townhouses and shared amenity uses. A total of 1,800 residential units and 6,909m2 of commercial space is proposed.

Vehicular access to the subject site will be facilitated through four ingress/egress points. Two right-in, right-out accesses will be provided along the eastern and western edges of the subject site providing limited access from Interchange Way and Commerce Street, with two full move accesses being provided along the southern Resource: Greenbelt Plan 2017: border of the site from the proposed 22.0m new local street. http://www.mah.gov.on.ca/AssetFactory.aspx?did=17122 The total gross floor area (GFA) of the proposal is 135,967m2 with a Floor Space Index (FSI) of 5.90.

Three full levels and one partial level of underground parking is VAUGHAN METROPOLITAN CENTRE proposed for the development for a total of 1,900 vehicular parking spaces, including 504 visitor and retail vehicular parking spaces and 1,396 residential parking spaces.

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The study area is well served by rapid and regional and regional transit,which is 5-10mins transit, which is 5-10mins walking distance from TTC, bus terminal and bus stops to accesses. walking distance from TTC, bus terminal • Proposed collectors and mews system are able to improve vehicular and pedestrian connecti and bus stops to accesses. ons with the surroundings. collectors and system •• Proposed The site is highly accessible by vehicle, withmews direct connecti ons to higher orders including provincial are able to improve vehicular and pedestriHighway 407, Highway 7 and regional Jane street. ng with anWhile there is a potenti connections al access connecti with the surroundings.

Highway 400 via proposed major collector - Interchange Way. • The site is highly accessible by vehicle, • A future special collector street is planned to run from the Eastnorth quadrant to the site, connectwith direct connections to higher oring with subway entrances and bus terminal. including provincial Highway •ders The second collector street - Edgeley Boulevard will connect Portage Parkway, passing through 407, Highway7 and regional Jane street. the two whole quadrants.

7 Future Rapidway stops and Jane Street Rapidway 40•While there is a potential access connectstops increase the accessibility of the site. Specifi c focus would be placed on the functi onality of the ing with Highway 400 via proposed nearby blocks. major collector-Interchange Way. • A future special collector street is planned to run from the Northeast quadrant to the site,connecting with subway entrances and bus terminal.

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•• The elevation (188.5m) is located There lowest is a steep slope at the south and western environmental park of the study area, by Highway at the storm water management pond to 407 and Highway 7.

• There is 16m elevati on diff erence between the wathe south and west of the Study area. ter management pond to the west and Highway 7.

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by Highway 407 and Highway 7. street and Highway 7 is 4.5m.

• There is 16m elevation difference be200.5m tween the water management pond to the west and Highway7.

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MASTER PLAN

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Project Name: Vaughan Metropolitan Center -Block 3 Location: Vaughan, CA Highway 7 and current commercial and employment uses. The lands north of the subject site are designated Station Precinct in the VMC SP and are within the Urban Growth Centre boundary of the VMC. A wide range of uses are permitted within this precinct, including office, retail, service commercial and public uses, hotel, college or university, residential. Mixed use development is anticipated on these lands, including a large urban park.

Zoning: Corporate Centre Zone-C9 subject to site specific exception 9(957) by Zoning By-law 1-88, and identified as a Landmark location on Schedule A2 of the Bylaw, with unlimited height permissions.

Vaughan Metropolitan Centre Secondary Plan Policy Framework • The consolidated version of the Vaughan Metropolitan Centre Secondary Plan (VMC SP, adopted 2010), partially approved by the Ontario Municipal Board in June 2017, establishes the context, planning framework and policies that guide development in the VMC. The long-term vision for the VMC is described by the following seven principles: transit-oriented, walkable, accessible, diverse, vibrant, green, and beautiful.

• The subject site is designated as Station Precinct on Schedule F – Land Use Precincts of the VMC SP. According to policy 8.2.2 of the VMC SP, a range of land uses are permitted within this designation including residential, retail and restaurant uses, as proposed. Height permissions on the subject site range from 5- to 30-storeys with an FSI range of 2.5 to 5.0 as per Schedule I – Height and Density Parameters.

Access and Transit: The subject site is located in close proximity to the intersection of two major 400-series highways (Highway 400 and Highway 407 ETR) and is well served by higher-order transit. The recently opened Vaughan Metropolitan Centre and Highway 407 stations on the TTC’s Yonge-University-Spadina Subway Line and the VIVA Orange Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) line provide rapid transit access south into the City of Toronto, as well as, east-west across the Region of York and beyond.

These major transportation corridors and transit routes enable the quick and easy movement of people, services, and goods into and out of the VMC.

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