Portfolio2020 by Danni Jin

SELECTED WORKS 2015-2020 DANNI JIN University of Virginia, School of Architecture Master of Landscape Architecture | 2020 dj5za@virginia.edu

CONTENT

STUDIO PROJECT 01

Isatkoak Loop

The Sixth Order

Patioscape

Leifeng Memorial Park

Courtyard of IT School

Sensory Corner COURSE WORK

Pollinator Garden

Theory Study Of Superkilen

Dancing In The Sky

Pocket Maze

Illusion Conservatory

Drawings INTERNSHIP WORK

Critical Places + Alpa Nawre Design

Arbolope Studio

July Cooperative Company

Nodding bladder-campion

Tundra lab in school, from late August to

o September

ISATKOAK LOOP Arctic Landscape / Permafrost With annual 38 inches of snowfall and dry air humidity, Utqiagvik is a desert of snow the most time of the year. Summer is short, and melted snow, ice, rainfall... come together in early June, quickly run to the lagoon, and some will accumulate in the depression of the ground. Extreme climate conditions lead the ground sensitivity with unique geological layers, including the active layer and permafrost. Those layers are talking about new memories, movements, materials…plant roots, footprints, machine tracks, those Imprints leave on the ground, and co-inhabit in this frozen ground. Isatkoak Lagoon is a central figure of the watershed that collects water from the ground, stitches the critical facilities around the lagoon edge, connects old and new cities, and links the ground with the ocean and tundra. How to build year by year is critical in the lagoon’s edge conditions, which can organize culturally, socially, economically, ecologically as a central area in the town. This project calls out a new design strategy in the arctic under the idea of minimizing the ground disturbance and protecting permafrost while trying to use and modify local materials to keep a low cost for further construction and maintenance. Strategies include filling the lagoon edge as mounds or berms with local materials, redirecting water from high land to lagoon for reducing waterlogging, inviting machines and citizens as part of the design strategies to construct and maintain the project, and finally adding new cultural and social values of indigenous traditional knowledge into the site. After the general planning of the whole lagoon, we focused on the elementary school area. The mounds and berms here work as tundra lab, snow lab, and outdoor arts ground. Those new activities are part of design strategies to protect the ground and invite public participation, expand the traditional cultural event calendar, and tell a new story of the ground. 2020 SPRING Research studio II : The GROUND Location: Utqiagvik, Alaska Teammates : Jingwei Jiang, Qiuheng Xu Instructor : Leena Cho, Matthew Jull

Ground is...

home habitat an identity a membrane

imprinted manipulated shared

freezing thawing supporting transforming being read tracing

POSITION 01 : Ground is imprinted.

removable unstable heterogeneous objective dynamic fragmented assembled

From machines, human and nonhuman, the overlayed traces compress the surface layer of ground or present the extraction process of metal, oil, and gas from the invisible underground. The ground is experiencing freezing and thawing in various scenarios. This imprinting of the ground transfers the energy. It influences the surroundings’ thermal and moisture conditions, generating a unique microclimate with force from the ground and underground agencies. The hue ranges from cold to warm, represents the thermal situations, and the contour reveals the continuous flow of energy.

avg 10.35”

Ice Cellar The traces surrounded a typical ice cellar are dominated by Human footprints.

Foundations The heat from the house melted snow, water spread out or leaked into the ground, transferring energy to the surrounding and underground.

Ice Drilling A method to gain climate history information stored in permafrost. They can extract an ice core from depth more than 1200 ft, and the heat and moisture can be dramatically changed during this process.

Den A nest for polar bear for the winter hibernation. Because of the insulating qualities of snow, the chamber can raise the den’s air temperature to as high as 40 F.

Traditional ecological knowledge(TEK) Inuipiat are tracing the route of reindeer and marking the trail by inukshuk.

Tracks Tractors, snowmobiles, buses, and cars... Those transportation tools are compressing the ground and leaving tracks, deep and shallow. Human footprints intensively surrounded the tracks are the results for daily activities, resource extraction, and researches.

Ground is...

a medium histories memories an offering resources

accumulating recording thickening growing leaking reacting

revealed overlayed probed

layered settled rich subjective artificial tolerant

POSITION 02 : Ground is layered. This drawing is exploring the ground on a geological scale. The ground is thickened and layered under this condition. What matters more is how impacts go from the surface to a more profound level. Underground takes up more proportion and is artistically visible and responsive to movements of time and history. From this drawing, we can imagine an underground world we may live in and encourage people to rethink what is “ground” in the current scenario.

Coal Beds Interpreting geological logs by sonic waves on both side of the column. Coal Zones Every wave Near prudhoe crest reprebay, showing sented the the upper coal coal beds. zone and the lower coal zone, ranging from west kuparuk state to kadler state. Ice Drilling Thermalmachanical drillers extracted ice core. Ice Cellar The indigenous stored their whale meat and other traditional foods in permafrost.

North Red Dog Slope Mine Geology A zinc and Generalized stratigraphic lead mine column for in northern Alaska. The the npra depth of the north of the brooks ores is about range show- 120 m to ing tectonos-240m at the tratigraphic Mississippian sequence unsequence subdivisions. derground. Oil Wells A typical oil well squeezed into the ground with an additional artificial force change the underground. Animal Shelters Marmot burrows to create their shelter Alaska marmots burrow into permafrost soil which containing tundra vegetation.

Talik A layer or body of unfrozen ground occurring in permafrost regions.

Ice Wedge A decrease in temperature during the winter leads to ice wedge cracks in the ground around ice wedges; during the summer, these cracks accumulate melt-water and sediment, forming pseudomorphs.

SITE CONTEXT Utqiagvik(or Barrow) is one of the north-most cities in Alaska and arctic ground. Currently, the watershed of the lower lagoon includes part of the old city and part of the new city. With the prevailing NE wind direction and complicated ground setting, snow accumulation is uneven on the ground, leading to uneven thermal distribution: Blowing snow, rainfall, melting snow, melting ice, etc. Barrow is a collection of various water statuses; the transition between water, ice, snow is happening every minute. Watershed transition

19 Complex water status Blowing Snow from the vicinity

Wooden plank structure 4 m H’ × 3200m L’

Rainfall

Snow Melting

The annual rainfall of barrow is 4.5 inches.

Barrow averages 38 inches of snow per year.

Ice Melting

From Jun to early September is the melting season.

Dynamic hydrological transformation

Summer

Winter

PATH ALONG LAGOON The lagoon is the most critical area, not only water central figure but also works as the central figure of Utqiagvik in urban settings in 3 different scales. The lagoon links essential cultural and social facilities. The lagoon connects the old city and the new city. The ocean-urban-tundra spatial sequence is eye-catching. While there is no pedestrian-driven walkway system in the current Utqiagvik, and water-logging along the edge of the lagoon accelerated the thawing of permafrost...With the discussion in the comprehensive plan, a path along the lagoon can create a safe walking landscape that protects permafrost.

A path system can increase pedestrian’s safety. Absence of intentional pedestrian walkway

“...It’s dangerous. I remember one of our folks was killed on the road last winter.” — Lars Nelson, TRIBN

A path system can protect sensitive ground. Existing water issues

A path system is promising and feasible. Current discussion of path system

“The proximity of the City of Barrow facilities and Barrow High School provide an opportunity for a warm walkway connection.” — p202, Barrow Comprehensive Plan 2015

CONCEPT 1. Link critical facilities Commercial facilities

Cultural center & library

Water flow Links BUICE

Watershed Targeted area

Elementary school

Cemetery High school

Path

Recreation center

Key facilities Wind speed 0.0 - 3.0 m/s

2. Connect old and new cities

3.0 - 6.0 m/s 6.0 - 9.0 m/s 9.0 - 12.0 m/s

Browerville

12.0 - 38.3 m/s

snow accumulation N

Utqiagvik 0

250 500

1000 ft

3. Regenerate ocean-city-tundra sequence

Ocean

City

Tundra

The barrow ground is a consist of both imprints and layers. Imprints include surfaces material, human footprints, nonhuman traces, machine tracks, they co-inhabit in this arctic ground. Layers are talking about new memories, movements, materials, water, snow…how to build year by year is the key in the edge conditions around the lagoon, which can organize culturally, socially, economically, ecologically as a central area in the town.

OVERALL DESIGN PLAN Primary strategy: landform

Planning process

Filled area

Machine construction path

New watershed

Machine maintain path

Summer path

Winter path

Proposed Lagoon Loop Plan This path uses landscape forms to remediate WATER, HUMAN, and MACHINE relationships by redistributing the imprints on the ground.

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250

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1000 ft

DESIGN PRINCIPLES Looking at the ground thermal regime, under the idea of minimizing the ground disturbance and protecting permafrost, at the same time trying to use and modify local material to keep a low cost for further construction and maintenance.

Existing Issues - water

1.snow accumulation for a long time

Snow is a complicated thermal regulator. It can work as insulation from the beginning of the snow season, when the accumulation depth is over around 6 inches, the snow starts to warm the ground, the permafrost is thawing.

Proposed Strategies

Maintain snow to certain DEPTH regularly

Increase PERMEABILITY of surface soil

Encourage EARLY MELTING

+Gravel +Wood chips +Tire chips +Vegetation ...

2.Waterlogging and poor soil condition

Waterlogging on the depression is the results of poor drainage soil. Water high heat capacity delivers the heat to deeper ground, and finally warms the active layer and the permafrost thawing.

Existing Issues -Imprints

3.repeated compaction by human and machines Repeatedly walking will make the ground sensitive.

sunlight

4.Bare Ground without material cover Solar radiation will heat the surface and deliver the heat to the deeper ground.

GRADING as mounds/berms to prevent waterlogging

Mounds/berms to redirect water

Proposed Strategies

Reduce COMPACTION by applying thick ground material

-Plastic panels -Driftwood -Tire chips -Tire -Corrugated metal -Tundra mat ...

sunlight

Increase INSULATION of ground layer

-Gravel -Styrofoam -Driftwood -Tire chips -Tundra mat -Peat moss ...

DESIGN STRATEGIES Depth

Early melting -Encourage walking and drive

Remove snow by machine

Shovel snow by people

Curate people’s movement

Curate machine’s movement

+ Gravel + tire chips

+ Gravel + driftwood

+ Gravel + metal mesh

Permeability

+ Gravel Regrading

The width of the bucket (2’-6’)= minimum size of the landform module The width of the machine(3’-6’) = the minimum width of the path system The turning radius(8’-17’) = path’s shape and width

BACKHOE

Turning radio = 17’

EXCAVATOR

Turning radio = 8’

Insulation

Gravel

Tundra mat

Styrofoam

Peat

Driftwood Early melting -Change the albedo of the materials

Colored painting

Tire chips

LOOP INSTALLATION AND MAINTENANCE Summer

Events

Winter

INSTALLATION + YEAR 1 - Every month to 6 inches REMOVE SNOW TO LAGOON

SITE PREPARATION - Prepare materials - Decide machine paths by different materials - Decide operating time by weather

OPERATING

ASSESS TO PUB

- Set stakes to mark contours and areas to be filled - Follow machine paths to regrade grounds

- Water - Vegeta - Adjustm ing/driv

MACHINE CONSTRUCTION

ASSESSMENT AND MAINTENANCE

1st year early winter

every year from Nov. - May.

Trucks, backhoes, excavators... Machines as a critical design strategy, to grade the ground as mounds or berms with local materials, such as tire chips, driftwood, vegetation...Grading can prevent the sensitive ground from waterlogging and compaction issues and simultaneously curate water and human movement.

Snow season starts in September and will continue until May next year. Snow accumulates month by month, and once it collects over 6 inches, the snow will work as an insulation layer to warm the ground. Remove snow every month to 6 inches is an essential part of maintenance.

SPOT WEATHER

YEAR 2

- Add materials to sensitive area

YEAR 3 FINAL MATERIAL ADJUSTING

ADJUSTMENT (CLOSE FOR MAINTENANCE)

SMENT (OPEN BLIC)

REMOVE SNOW TO LAGOON (OPEN AGAIN)

flow and water logging ation growth condition ment of materials by site walkving reality

- Every month to 6 inches - By small snow machines

LOOP IN WINTER

LOOP IN SUMMER

Generally Sep. - May.

Generally Jun. - Aug.

Explore the path in winter with walking, skiing, snowmobiling... Snow covers those mounds and creates a continuous snowscape with an average height of fewer than 2 feet for safety consideration of attack of wild animals. People and machine imprints encourage the early melting of snow, giving more time for vegetation growth, and the active layer thickens and further protects the permafrost.

R CHANGES

ASSESSMENT

When snow turns into water and finally enters the lagoon, this is a perfect season for plants to grow. Seed from last years’ seed lab turns into plants and invites residents to reconnect with indigenous plants and culture again.

DETAIL DESIGN PLAN

Tire Tire chips Tundra mat Gravel 2. Grading ground with selected materials

1.deciding where to fill

Metal mesh Plastic Driftwood

3. Generating potential path network

4. Extending lagoon path network into school

5. Grading, filling, then generating paths and programs

6. Machine back on site to maintain in the next year winter

School Plan This phasing diagram shows how we are going to build the walkable system from scratch. The first step is welcoming machines to curate the ground (doing infill operations on site), and at the same time importing new ground materials. After that, we will grade the ground with the selected material, and you can see the forms of hills and traces of machines (backhoes, excavators). The machines’ traces will generate a potential path network. And our job after that is to extend the lagoon path network to secondary trails in connection with elementary school. At this time, we welcome people on site to experience the spatial and material quality of the site. At the last step, we welcome machines back on-site to maintain the pathways.

Ipa

alook Elementary School

100

200 ft

EXPANDED YEARLY CALENDAR Traditional events

Maintenance events June

July

Expanded events in school

August

September

October

November

Assessment

Remove snow

Nalukataq / the spring whaling festival

Whale hunting

Snow festival Tundra lab

Seed lab Dry Tundra

Narrow-leaved saussurea

Removal of snow

Moist tundra

Nodding bladder-campion Paintbrush

Puffball

Summer

Winter SEED AND TUNDRA LAB

SNOW PLAYGROUND

Jun. - Aug. every year

Sep. - May. every year

Invite students and parents to collect seed from tundra and plant into the mounds last year, and learn tundra plants from dry tundra to moist tundra this year, and seed it again to guarantee the growth of plants. It is a great chance to reconnect people with the ground.

The ground is frozen again at this tim time goes, snow accumulation warm ground. Open the ground for the pu hold different snow events. Those im from both residents and machines w ate the melting of snow.

Community P

After the general planning of the whole lagoon, we focused on the elementary school. The moun ties are part of design strategies to protect the ground and invite public participation and expand

December

January

February

March

April

May

w to lagoon

Snow workshop

Kivgiq / The Messenger Feast every two or three years

Piuraagiaqta /the Spring Festival Whale hunting

Snow workshop

Arts ground

Snow lab Imprints

me. As ms the ublics to mprints will acceler-

Snow layer section

Outdoor art grounds

1 day

Old snow - 30 days

180 days

New Snow-1 days

30 days

Indoor painting workshop

Compression

Qitik / the Christmas Iñupiat games

Névé - 180 days

Winter SNOW LAB Jan. - Apr. every year Snow is a critical symbol in Inuit culture. Before winter break, the school will set transparent glass at the edge of the snow dunes to collect snow. When the new semester comes, students have to change to learn the snow section with different snow types.

Participation

nds and berms here serve as tundra lab, snow lab, and outdoor arts ground. Those new activid the traditional cultural event calendar.

Winter ARTS GROUND Apr. - May. every year Add color to white color will increase the albedo, which will speed up snow melting.

5 Classical orders around t

the proposed site

THE SIXTH ORDER Political landscape/ Social equity

Monies, technologies, animals, microbes, and natural resources can all come to function as quasi-objects. These quasi-objects all connect with human practices in various ways and constantly configure and reconfigure human relations amongst one another. This installation takes mugs as the agent to explore and challenge the relationship between human and things. This studio starts from the installation, extracted the design thinking of things, and looked at the site, Washington D.C., to find similar things as mugs, modify them, and challenge people’s commonsense. The axis of power, the forceful human perspective views, and the perception of human invincibility...Those unique planning elements are powerfully present in D.C.’s urban fabric. The site is in the tidal basin, right on the axis of the white house-Jefferson memorial, face the open basin, and surrounded by the powerful human agency in the back. This project aims to challenge the five classical orders, which are densely dotted in D.C., to create a new order, the sixth order, and then challenge people’s perspective and attitude of the Column. The sixth order gradually transformed their appearance and functions from the urban side to the tidal basin, from the social side to the nature side. The roles of columns change from supporting to seating, skylight, monitor, and finally equally provide shade and protection for all publics, which serves as a metaphor for protecting human and nonhuman equity rights. Individual Work 2019 FALL Research Studio I : The Parliament of things Location: Washington DC Instructor : Shiqiao Li

INSTALLATION Where are the mugs? QUASI-OBJECTS are between and below the the QUASI-OBJECTS are ininbetween and below

QUASI-OBJECTS in between and two poles (…) [and]are are much more social, much belowmore the two poles (…)collective [and]than arethemuch fabricated, much more more much more collective thanmuch the morefabricated, social, much more fabricated, ‘hard’ parts of nature (…), [yet] they are much moremore collective than the ‘hard’ parts of real, and objective thanare those ‘hard’ parts of nonhuman nature (…), [yet] they much nature (…), screens [yet] on they much more shapeless whichare society (…) needed more real, nonhuman and objective than those be ‘projected’. and objective than those real, to nonhuman shapeless screens on which society (…) needed shapeless screens ——Bruno Latour, “Weon havewhich never beensociety modern” , (…) to be ‘projected’. needed to be ‘projected’. 1991.55 two poles (…) [and] are much more social, much

——Bruno Latour, “We have never been modern” , ——Bruno Latour, “We have never been mod1991.55 ern” , 1991.55 Nature

Nature Nature

Quasi-object

Society

Quasi-object Quasi-Objects

Base 01

Society Society

Base 02

PLAY RULES

1. Whiter is more nature, nonsense; Blacker is more social, practical. 3. define the location of those mugs with your own opinion on the board. 2.Board decide01 which base you want Board to play. 02 Base 01 Base 02 chessboard base or gradient base(flip the board!) can both be joyful.

PLAY RULES

there is no right or wrong in this game.

PLAY RULES

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From Installation to Real Site The axis of power, the forceful human perspective views, and the perception of human invincibility is powerfully present in DC’s urban fabric. The site is in the tidal basin, right on the axis of the white house-Jefferson memorial, face the open basin, and surrounded by the powerful human agency in the back.

White house

Lincoln Memorial

Washington Monument

US Capitol

Lincoln Park

Site

Thomas Jefferson Memorial

Columns Around the Site Washington D.C. is a city full of columns, and those columns embed in many critical facilities, such as the white house, us capitol, supreme court, auditorium, and galleries, etc. Human society and culture immerse in columns.

CONCEPT

Capital

Shaft

Base Roman Composite Column: 10:1

Corinthian Column: 9.5 :1

Ionic Column: 9 :1

Doric Column: 7.5-8 :1

Tuscan Column: 7 :1

Classical Five Architectural Orders

Column of things

Society

Nature

The Sixth Order The form of the capital is the most distinguishing characteristic of a particular order. Here, the concept is trying to use the same design thinking as the installation, modify the capital part, challenge people’s attitude to columns: the orders are gradually replaced their function of human culture with nonhuman agents. DESIGN PROCESS Society: Buildings with classical orders

Nature: Tidal basin

1. From society to nature

To White House

5m * 5m Grid

To Jefferson Memorial

2. New sequence of power axis

3. Potential columns layout

Exist trees

Proposed trees

The sixth orders General assembly

Assembly of human

Assembly of facts

0 25 50

100

200 ft

The new order follows the society-to-nature sequence and dotted in the site, to shape and build both indoor assembly space and outdoor public space.

General Human Facts

4. Space layout

5. Assemblies shaped by new order

6. Potential Circulation

General assembly

The parliame

New orders scatter all over the site, from the interface of the cit ally transferred as seating, planting beds, skylight, and shelter, things. Keep the existing trees as representatives of things and

Assembly of facts

Assembly of human

ent of things

ty to the tidal basin, and its original support function is graduand finally establish a new relationship between human and plant new trees to emphasize the nonhuman setting.

DESIGN STRATEGY

MARKER

SUPPORT

Basic function to guarantee the steady of buildings

Visible from the trees and mark the direction, the new order is out of architecture

Assembly of facts

PLATFORM

As planting beds and seating, The new order starts to interact with both human and things

Assembly

SKYLIGHT

Allow light to come inside, and occupies the body of the new order

of human

MONITOR

SHELTER

Visitors can see through the transparent glass from the roof, to point out the policy transparency

Not only as physical shelter to protect people from wind, sun, and rain; but as a shelter of democracy, protect things’ rights

General Assembly

100 ft

Gen

General assembly includes an exhibition area, one assemb ground, and visitors can supervise the process of policymak sentatives which on the ground and open to the air. Take a and half paved surface to further deliver merging nature an planting beds, markers, etc.

neral Hall

bly chamber for human representatives embedded into the underking through the glass window. Another chamber for things repreadvantage of the slight slant topography. The hall is half grassland nd society. Here the new orders serve as essential support, skylight,

Assem

The Assembly of facts is near the tidal basin, indicating its time, this space is a public space that welcomes all differen people with shadows and protects them from sun, rain, win and protects the publics’ rights. Here the new orders serve

mbly of Facts

function as a space to speak up for nonhuman. For the rest of the nt publics and encourages them to use it. The new order provides nd, which as a metaphor, offers the public safe and equal space as planting beds, markers, and shelters.

PATIOSCAPE Public Space/ City Fabric

Cerda’s plan made Barcelona city famous for its Exiample blocks. However, unlike Cerda’s expectation, the buildings inside the block replaced the small parks initially planned to accommodate the increasing number of people. Barcelona is such a dense city that there are limited public spaces for leisure and entertainment. The small patio enclosed by layers of buildings becomes a “public space” where most residents living in the block can rest. Patios are places for buildings to breathe. In the city center, we want to create a series of patios for the city to breathe. Located in Les Glories, this site is surrounded by blocks and four main passages crossing through. As a new city park and public space, this project aims to reveal this understanding and experience of the city, creating Exiample blocks and patios by vegetation - inverse the experience between building patio and natural patio, which establish a connection with the urban context. At the same time, we use topography and vegetation as our effective strategies to enhance patios in the park, bringing an experience of different scales of natural patios to the citizens.

2018 FALL Foundation Studio III : The X Glòries Location: Barcelona,Spain Teammates : Qinmeng Yu, Xinhui Chen Instructor : Manuel Bailo

CONCEPT

Patios in Barcelona

Patios around the site

BUILDING PATIO VS CANOPY PATIO simulate the natural patio with architectural patios Building Patio Formation

Extract Geometry

Building Geometry

Building Patio Geometry

Canopy Patio Formation

Canopy Geometry

Canopy Patio Geometry

A central park as big patio of Barcelona

Shape

Access

Small patios inside the park

Drainage

Elevation

Residential Area Sunken Garden

Clinic Overview Platform

Water Garden Residential Area

Mercat dels Encants

Teatre Nacional de Catalunya

actile Garden

Outdoor Theater

La Farinera del Clot

Torre Glòries

Museu del Disseny de Barcelona

Barcelona is a city full of patios. Surrounded by buildings and streets, natural patios with circular shape continues the patio pattern, and in the same time shaped quality environmental space for residents to explore.

Plan

MASSING DIAGRAM

create patios by trees and la pedestrians reframe the classic Eixamp

The population around the site

Define voids into patio circles

Patio distribution LANDFORM STRATEGY

Tree distribution: According to the population

Patio location

Final patio plan enhance the enclosure feeling of canopy patio

andforms above ground, underground infrastructure were revealed by planting species. Metro enters the proposed clinic, and the thin ple blocks.

25 10

100 m 50

TREE PLANTING STRATEGY

ROOT PLAN

Reveal the relations

Shallow-root trees are planted above the underground infrastructures and function as visible marks of underground conditions; deep-root threes can be planted in the vicinity to form the natural patios. TREE STUDY

EVERGREEN

DECIDUOUS

EVERGREEN

Species

Cupressus sempervirens (Mediterranean cypress)

EVERGREEN

STREET TREES

IMPORTANT NATIVE TREES

SPECIES

DECIDUOUS

Ligustrum lucidum (Glossy privet)

Sophora japonica (Pagoda tree)

Olea europaea (Olive)

Phoenix dactylifera (Date palm)

IMPORTANT NATIVE TREES Robinia pseudoacacia (Black locust)

Celtis australis (Mediterranean hackberry)

Quercus ilex (Holm Oak)

ROOT

Roots

DECIDUOUS

Celtis australis (Mediterranean hackberry)

STREET TREES

Quercus ilex (Holm Oak)

Tipuana tipu (Rosewood)

Ulmus pumila (Siberian elm)

Platanus x hispanica (London plane)

HEIGHT

10m ~ 25m

8m ~ 15m

15m ~ 20m

5m ~ 12m

20m ~ 23m

10m ~ 20m

4m ~ 8m

4m ~ 6m

6m ~ 8m

4m ~ 10m

Medium

12m ~ 25m

8m ~ 25m

WIDTH 2-4m

10-15m

8-10m

WATER Dry

12m ~ 25m

LIGHT

Medium

8m ~ 25m

Medium

10m ~ 20m

15m ~ 30m

Medium

Dry

20m ~ 40m

PROCESSING OF TREE PLANTING

4m ~ 10m

VISUAL USE color

7 8 9 10 11 12

DECIDUOUS

IMPORTANT NATIVE TREES

seudoacacia ust)

to shade

EVERGREEN

Full light

8-10m

5m ~ 15m

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

Medium

Full light to partial shade

Dry

OLFACTORY USE aroma

Full light to partial shade

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

Dry to Medium 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

15m ~ 25m Full light to shade

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

Medium

6m ~ 12m Full light to partial shade

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

Full light to partial shade

Full light

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

Full light

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

Full light to partial shade

2. Shallow-root plants planted on infrastructure

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

7 8 9 10 11 12

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

3. Deep-root plants planted away from infrastructure

Full light

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

1. Infrastructure influences vegetation planting

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

Full light to partial shade

Medium to wet

ANIMAL USE fruit Full light to partial shade

Full light to shade

4. Final vegetation planting plan

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

1 2

ship between infrastructure and roots

25 10

100 m 50

Detail plan Environmental Health Clinic Perspective Section A-A’ C The designed new environmental health clinic aims to start conversations between citizens and landscape and encourage people to think about current urban issues such as climate change, public spaces, the quality of the environment, etc. The whole clinic is embedded to the ground as part of the patios in the new landscape.

Perspective section A-A'

Carrer del Consell de Cent

Rec Comtal

Pedestrian Road Pedestrian

Lawn

Patio entrance 1

Lab

Lawn Lab

0 5

25 m

Tactile Garden Perspective C' Section B-B’ Create a series of circular platforms with different heights for all ages citizens, and take advantage of the historical creek

Perspective section C-C' revive in a new way. Trees are planted on the platforms or on the ground, to Rec Contal as a path, let old infrastructure provide people a chance to learn and touch tree leaves, barks, branches, etc.

Grass basin

Pedestrian

Road

Sand slope

Grass basin

Patio

Rec

Collage

50 m N

0 5

Rec Comtal water tank

c Comtal

Lawn

Patio entrance 2

Observatory room Renfe Rodalies

Grass basin

Patio

Path

Reception room 0

Grass basin

Lawn

50 m

25 m

Grass basin

Sand slope

Path

TACTILE GARDEN

Get closer to Nature, to feel and learn

VIEWING PLATFORM

Overlook the whole park and patios

ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH CLINIC

Access from park into the building

OUTDOOR THEATER

For concerts and outdoor lectures

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2015 FALL Instructor : Minli Jin

LEIFENG MEM

School

Site Road River

Vehicle Pedestrian

Parks

Residence

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MORIAL PARK The design intends to re-envision the space as a landscape that could be both a memorial park and an amenity. Designed to intimate Chinese classical garden and abstract its essential elements: Folding corridors, leaking windows, wall, and bamboo, which provide tourists well-organized leisure space, the curiosity to walk in and carefully look, and an atmosphere to remember.

The new water system includes a sinking bridge and crossed roads, which provides a walking system. Water flows on the wall with the introduction of Leifeng offers people a peaceful mind to think and recall.

A perspective to show the folding corridor where an evergreen tree is in the end, contrasting to the surrounding deciduous trees. This contrast will leave an impression on people passing by and attracting people to walk in.

2015 SPRING Instructor : Minli Jin DETAIL DESIGN

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OF IT SCHOOL

This site aims to represent the sense of science and technology of IT college and reuse this site as a courtyard. Abstract technological element, and encourage students to interact with this yard again.

Reading, socializing, working...A certain distance to the parking area provides students a quiet and peaceful atmosphere.

Sufficient sunshine, soft grass, enough space...This square serves as a place for individuals to relax and for social activities, such as exhibitions, picnics, and gatherings.

2016 SPRING Instructor : Minli Jin

SENSORY

SECTIONS Recreation area for children: children can enjoy the slide and swing. A grass slope can provide kids the experience of touching the grass.

Float garden provides visitors with an experience of touching, smelling, and learning about plants. The great lawn satisfies people’s daily needs. Close to the waterfall, the wooden steps serve as a place to strengthen listening.

With many different heights and shapes of the windows, this corridor can raise people’s curiosity of nature: touching the leaves and barks, carefully looking at the flowers used to be ignored, realizing the passed the time by the angle of sunlight...Seeing in a brandnew way.

Plaza can function as a place to gather and exert various activities and events.

Children can play in the water and feel the touch of it.

THE CORRIDOR

The wooden steps amplify the sound of the waterfall. People can sit here, listen to the vast sound, calm down and move on.

The corrido Chinese gar sight when

FLOATING GARDEN

This park aims to strengthen human sensory: amplifying the sound of the river, creating unique perspectives to see the surroundings, and shortening the distance between human and nature, and provides access to touch and smell at the same time.

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or imitates the classical rden: change your you are moving.

The relaxation slope is a quiet space and gives people a space to read, chat and relax.

WATER FRONT

PLAYGROUND

POLLINATOR GARDEN

The site is located in my community, and residents here are groups of graduate students and university staff families. The site is a small tilted grassland surrounded by multiple paths. Near the Laundry room, residents will pass by this site, and their eyes will stay for a while. Currently, it is ordinary and unattractive. With the repeatedly walking on the edge zone, grasses can’t grow and some soil exposed to the air. With 3 feet elevation difference from north to south, the original idea is to design with the landform to prevent walking inside and emphasize the topo change. By planting Virginia native wildflower habitat and choosing wildflowers in different sizes, heights, and blooming colors, the site will boost healthy populations of both wild bees and pollinators. The meadow will provide a pleasant walking experience for people living here and offer a chance for families to learn and appreciate. I also considered the maintenance part, from the site preparation, watering, seeding, spot weeding, mowing, and infilling... This process can last three years, and the third is a time for the mature of the meadow. That time, residents can enjoy this little garden with the blooming wildflowers, which attract bees, hummingbirds, and pollinators and create a diverse meadow community.

Individual Work 2020 SPRING Field guide to designed habitats Instructor : C. Colston Burrell

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PLANT LIST Annual wildflower will use seeding, while perennial flowers will plug into the site.

Perennial Grass/Rush/Sedge Matrix (25%) Little bluestem Schizachyrium scoparium (25%) Broomsedge Poaeceae Andropogon virginicus (25%) Fescue Poaeceae Festuca spp. (25%) Virginia Wild Rye Poaeceae Elymus virginicus *Distribute matrix species evenly throughout the entire planting area.

Wildflower Edge Patch Common Yallow Achillea borealis Ox Eye Heliopsis helianthoides Lyre-leaf Sage Salvia lyrata Wildflower Patch 1 Goldenrods Solidago spp. Wild Bergamot Monarda fistulosa Threadleaf Coresopsis Coreopsis verticillata

Wildflower Patch 2 Blazing Star Liatris pilosa New England Aster Symphyotrichum novae-angliae Hoary Mountain Mint Pycnanthemum incanum

Annual Wildeflower Mix Black-eyed Susans Rudbeckia hirta Tickseed-Sunflower Bidens aristosa

MAINTENANCE PLAN INSTALLATION + YEAR 1

YEAR 2 SPOT WEEDING

- every 4-5 weeks to 4 inches - Stop in Sep. MOW

SITE PREPARATION

SEED, PLANT, WATER

OVERSEED AGAIN

- Perennial plugs, bulbs, corms - Fine bark mulching on the bare soil between the plantings - Inter-seeding with native annual wildflowers+ grasses -Water

- Fill gaps OVERSEED AND PLANT

MOW

PLANTING PLAN

Annual Wildflower Mix

509’

Perennial Grass/ Rush/Sedge Matrix

510’

Wildflower Edge Patch Wildflower Patch 1 Wildflower Patch 2 Walls Existing contour 508’

YEAR 3

SPOT WEEDING

SPOT WEEDING ASSESS

FINAL PLUG INFILLING

MOW

The site preparation includes removing existing vegetation, reducing weed plant seeds, and creating a smooth surface. Thinking about the diversity of seed selection and the importance of grasses is critical to support the pollinators. The rendering shows the scenario in early fall, and residents enjoyed this little garden in the blooming season. Wildflowers attract bees, hummingbirds, and pollinators.

2019 SPRING Theories of Modern Landscape Architecture Instructor : Elizabeth K. Meyer

THEORY

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Superkilen is located on the outskirts of Norrebro district, one of the most ethnically diverse and socially challenged neighborhoods in Denmark. Viewed as WASTELAND(Gandy) before, the design team transformed Superkilen site into a PUBLIC SPACE (Mitchell) for various PUBLICS (Bennett and Dewey), crossing the race, religion, and culture. With such complex social diversity, the design team, BIG, Topotek 1, and Superflex, interpreted this site with its cultural THICKNESS and the relationship to the land, cultural histories, stories, uses, values, and desire (Corner), and adopted a SITE ADJUSTED strategy (Irwin). To unfold Superkilen, we refer to Lefebvre’s notion of space: PERCEIVED SPACE, CONCEIVED SPACE, and LIVED SPACE. As perceived space, the design team used changing PATTERN (M’Closkey) and symbols of residents’ origins as significant design elements. Introducing public participation to the design process, the design team collected items from the resident’s origin countries worldwide, from soil to neon lights, to store MEMORIES (Descombes) in the site and support various cultural identities. As its name “Superkilen” (“a super wedge”) suggested, the design team hopes this park can not only invite residents into the park but also connect people with the site. For conceived space, this park was divided into three areas in three colors: red square, green park, and the black market, to allow people to encounter unintentionally(Goldhagen). Interweaving with encounter and memory, event and network, experience and action, Superkilen provides individuals with SOCIO-AESTHETICS (Meyer)and alternative HEDONISM (Soper). However, some critics questioned whether the immigrants truly be heard as part of “the public” in the design process. Superkilen represents designers’ visions of diversity rather than residents’ since it’s the designers who decided to represent residents’ nationalities ( E. Stanfield and Micheline van Riemsdijk). In the case of Superkilen, to produce lived space, new social relations have to be shaped.

“...PATTERNS are introduced to create indices that guide flows, growth, and energy in overt displays so as to foster a conversation about our current understanding of landscapes in the age of ‘green’.” — M’Closkey, Karen. “Synthetic Patterns. Fabricating Landscapes in the age of ‘Green’” JOLA 8:1 (Spring 2013). 26

STUDY

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“Through inscribing a project on the MEMORY of a terrain, once gives to a site the opportunity to project into the future, to and a received place and value in the cultural imagination.” -George Descombes. “Shifting Sites: The Swiss Way” in Corner, Recovering Landscape (1999) .85

“Landscape surfaces are, of course, never as impossibly thin as the plan might suggest; landscapes have depth, accumulation, and profile...Landscapes are also culturally THICK, in terms of cultural modes of relationship to the land, cultural histories, stories, uses, values, and desire.” -James Corner. “The Thick and Thin of It” in Christophe Girot and Dora Imhof [ed], Thinking the Contemporary Landscape (2017) .119

POCKET MAZE 2018 FALL Urban materiality Instructor : Manuel Bailo

CONCEPT

Recreate the eixample park by adapting the precedent of parc de villa cecilia: Microtopography to divide space and direct the drainage. Circulation with multiple options to approach each space magnifies pocket park. Various height of hedgerows generates special walking and visual experience for residents.

AXON

Labyrinth

Open Space

Steps

Playground

DANCING IN THE SKY 2018 FALL Urban materiality Instructor : Manuel Bailo

The Sardana is a traditional Spanish dance in a circle with holding hands and is native to the Spanish region of Catalonia. This project aims to create a new public space for SARDANA dancing. The site is located in Avinguda Diagonal, which is overwhelmed by cars. Taking advantage of circular geometry from the dance, and we created three platforms at different heights. The stages allow people to “dance in the sky” and have a fantastic view of the Mediterranean Sea.

CONCEPT

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SECTION

2017 SUMMER Summer Design Institute Instructor : Leena Cho/ Tat Bonvehi

ILLUSION CO

DIAGRAMS

Reflection

Lightness and Darkness

Glass reflection generates illusion with wrong location and wrong numbers. Black means reality, Red is the illusion.

Water

Soil Saturation

Plant

Eyeview

Pavement

Light Volume

Layers of glass vary the volume of light

Material

Crowd Flow

Circulation

Drainage

ONSERVATORY

We designed a botanical garden located in the Lee park. Due to the glass, people will see more trees because of the reflection, making this garden a forest. Plants of submergent, floating, herbaceous, and woody, point the direction for visitors to see and learn local plants.

AXON

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2015 SPRING Classic Chinese Garden Design Instructor : Minli Jin

2013 SPRING Sketch Exercise

DRAW

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WINGS

2019 SPRING Ecotech IV Instructor : Bradley Cantrell

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Winnie Dam Road

Dam

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A case study of Winnibigoshish Dam. The dam is located in the Mississippi River Watershed for Augmenting low levels and protecting from floods. This drawing shows the construction details. A

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12.0’ Sluiceway (no longer used)

5.0’ Fish way (no longer used)

INTERNSHIP WORKS

The main project I participated in CP+AND is the Punyashlok Ahilyadevi Holkar Public Space. Started from the diagramming, we discussed a lot on how to draw diagrams and make renderings that are simple and readable for both governors and villagers. Under the gender issues in India, we proposed a public space around the hall with gender-separated. Religious usage is another critical aspect of the design process. We introduced sacred plants and adjusted the space to have enough outdoor cooking, wedding, and holding rituals. With high temperatures and strong sunshine during summer, the shading should be the priority to guarantee the quality of the space. Shaded seating areas are consist of children’s play areas and volleyball courts. Large flowering shade trees are planted in the west and southwest directions of the sites to protect from the harsh summer sun. During the internship, I was lucky to enter the budget meeting and engaged in site layout work in a village. Those experiences helped me to see the power of landscape architecture design in communities. Another internship I took is two years ago in the company named July Cooperative company. I mainly participated in is a Japanese gardening project, and I was the key member of the physical modeling and hand-drawing rendering. After graduation, I interned in Arbolope studio and help with four projects, from concept design development, precedent research to visualization work and engagement tool design.

2019 SUMMER Internship Critical Places+Alpa Newre Design, Raipur, India 2018 SUMMER Internship July Cooperative Company, Shanghai, China

2019 SUMMER Internship Raipur, India

CRITICAL + ALPA NAW

PUBLIC SPACE EXTENSION

PUBLIC SPACE CHARACTERISTICS

Building structure

Gathering space

Expanded plinch

Plinch seating area

Male/female public space

Outdoor seating area

Recreational facilities

Public space supports varied age groups

For all genders and age groups

Punyashlok Ahilyadevi Holkar Public Space

L PLACES WRE DESIGN

Sampling of drawings produced for client presentation and ISOLA award submission.

PLANTING PLAN

ENVIRONMENTAL BENEFITS

Kaner Saona Gulmohar Chafa Neem Flame of the forest

PLANTS SELECTION

Each site will be planted with low-maintenance, livestock-resistance vegetation. This vegetation will not only provide shade, but in many cases will also serve a symbolic cultural meaning.

LIFE WITH PLANTS Shade, Scent, and Symbolism

Married women wear fragrant chafa flowers.

Kaner is used as screening shrub as it is not be eaten by freely roaming livestocks in indian villages.

Ranmmed earth outdoor cooking pad for wedding is in shade of neem trees.

PERSPECTIVE RENDERINGS

The Community Hall Designed to be low-maintenance, flexible spaces that provide multi-use interior and exterior public spaces.

Public Participation Post-construction, villagers will participate in creating a community art mural and tree-planting as part of the co-construction of the public space.

Male Public Space A volleyball court provides a source of active recreation.

Female Public Space Seating under the shade of flowering trees with children’s play equipment provides a social space for women.

2020 FALL internship St. louis, Missouri

ARBOLOPE

AERIAL PERSPECTIVE RENDERING Focal Pointe Campus Project

From East to West

From West to East AERIAL PERSPECTIVE RENDERING 100 Broadway Project

E STUDIO

Spring

Wildlife value

Summer

Fall

Medicinal value

Edible value

ILLUSTRATIVE PLAN + DIAGRAMS Doorways Project

2018 SUMMER internship Shanghai, China

JULY COO

PERSPECTIVE DRAWING of Xunmei Mansion I helped with digital modeling and physical modeling, drawing perspectives with pencils as well.

OPERATIVE

MODEL of Qingxi Garden I was the key member in physical model making about the project.