SELECTED WORKS 2015-2020 DANNI JIN University of Virginia, School of Architecture Master of Landscape Architecture | 2020 dj5za@virginia.edu
ISATKOAK LOOP Arctic Landscape / Permafrost
Tire
Tire chips Tundra mat
2020 SPRING Research studio II : The GROUND Teammates : Jingwei Jiang, Qiuheng Xu Instructor : Leena Cho, Matthew Jull
Gravel Metal mesh Plastic
This project calls out a new design strategy in the arctic under the idea of minimizing the ground disturbance and protecting permafrost, at the Same time 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, inviting machines as part of the design strategies to construct and maintain the project, redirecting water from high land to lagoon for reducing water logging, and adding new cultural and social values of indigenous traditional knowledge into the site.
Driftwood
Imprints
After the general planning of the whole lagoon, we focused on the elementary school area, the mounds and berms here are designed as tundra lab, snow lab, and outdoor arts ground. Those new activities are not only as part of design strategies to protect the ground, but also invite public participation, expand the traditional cultural event calendar and tell a new story of the ground. N
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Design Process
1.Deciding machine working path
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2. Grading ground with selected materials
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
Event Calendar June
Maintenance events July
August
Expanded events in school September
October
November
Snow festivals Tundra lab
January
Removal of snow
Moist tundra
February
Snow workshop
March
April
Snow workshop
Seed lab Dry Tundra
Narrow-leaved saussurea
December
Arts ground
Snow lab Snow layer section
Imprints
May
Outdoor art grounds
Nodding bladder-campion Indoor painting workshop Paintbrush
New Snow-1 days Old snow - 30 days
Puffball
NĂŠvĂŠ - 180 days
Construction June
July
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September
Remove snow to lagoon October
November
December
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THE SIXTH ORDER Political landscape/ Social equity Individual Work 2019 FALL Research Studio I : The Parliament of things Location: Washington DC Instructor : Shiqiao Li
The axis of power, the forceful human perspective views, and the perception of human invincibility... Those unique planning elements are powerfully present in DC’s urban fabric. The site is located in the tidal basin, right on the axis of the white house-Jefferson memorial, face the open basin and surrounded by the human powerful agency in the back. This project aims to challenge the five classical orders which 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 function, as well, changes from supporting to seating, skylight, monitor, and finally equally provide shade and protection for both all publics, which serves as a metaphor of the protection of equity rights of human and nonhuman.
General assembly
Assembly of facts
The Parliament of Things
Assembly of human
Exist trees
Proposed trees
The sixth orders General assembly
Assembly of human
Assembly of Facts
Assembly of facts
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Functions of the sixth order DESIGN STRATEGY
Support
General Hall
Marker
Platform
Skylight
Monitor
Shelter
PATIOSCAPE Public Space/ City Fabric Tactile Garden
Residential Area
2018 FALL Foundation Studio III : The X Glòries Location: Barcelona,Spain Teammates : Qinmeng Yu, Xinhui Chen Instructor : Manuel Bailo
Sunken Garden
Outdoor Theater
Clinic Overview Platform
Patios are places for buildings to breathe, in the city center, we want to create a series of patios
La Farinera del Clot
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
Torre Glòries
of the city, creating Exiample blocks and patios by vegetation - inverse the experience between building patio and natural patio, which establish a connection with urban context. At the same
Water Garden
time, we use topography and vegetation as our major strategies to enhance patios in the park,
Residential Area
Museu del Disseny de Barcelona
bringing an experience of different scales of natural patios to the citizens.
Mercat dels Encants
Teatre Nacional de Catalunya
Tactile Garden
Outdoor Theater
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POLLINATOR GARDEN Native plants/ Meadow community Individual Work 2020 SPRING Field guide to designed habitats Instructor : C. Colston Burrell
With 3 feet elevation difference from north to south, the idea is to design with the landforms to both prevent walking inside and emphasize the topo change in the meanwhile. By planting native wildflower habitat, choosing wildflowers in different sizes, heights, and considering blooming colors, the site will boost healthy populations of both wild resident bees and pollinators as well. For residents, the meadow will provide a nice walking experience and landscape amenity to learn and appreciate nature for both children and parents.
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.
Maintenance Plan INSTALLATION + YEAR 1
YEAR 3
YEAR 2 SPOT WEEDING
SPOT WEEDING 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
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FINAL PLUG INFILLING
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LEIFENG MEMORIAL PARK Memorial landscape/Classical Chinese Garden Individual Work 2015 Fall Instructor : Minli Jin
The intent of the design is 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 basic 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.
Site Road River
Vehicle Pedestrian
Parks
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IT COURTYARD
Detail Design
Campus Individual Work 2015 SPRING Instructor : Minli Jin
This site aims to represent the sense of science and technology of IT college, more importantly, reuse this site as a courtyard. Abstract technological element, and encourage students to interact with this yard again.
Site Analysis
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SUPERKILEN Theory study
2019 SPRING Theories of Modern Landscape Architecture Instructor : Elizabeth K. Meyer
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 major design elements. Introducing public participation to the design process, the design team collected items that from the resident’s origin countries all over the world, from soil to neon lights, to store MEMORIES (Descombes) in the site and support various cultural identity. 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 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 critic questioned about 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 how 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
“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
PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE
2019 SUMMER Internship Critical Places + Alpa Nawre Design Raipur, India
Rural landscape / Gender Planting Plan
Punyashlok Ahilyadevi Holkar Public Space Sampling of drawings produced for client presentation and ISOLA award submission.
Environmental Benefits
Kaner Saona Gulmohar Chafa Neem Flame of the forest
Plant 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.
Male Public Space A volleyball court provides a source of active recreation.
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.
Female Public Space Seating under the shade of flowering trees with children’s play equipment provides a social space for women.
PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE Japanese Gardening
2018 SUMMER Internship July Cooperative Shanghai, China
Perspective Drawing of Xunmei Mansion I helped with digital modeling and physical modeling, drawing perspectives with pencils as well.
Model of Qingxi Garden I was the key member in physical model making about the project.