Meng Wang University of Texas at Austin| School of Architecture Master of Landscape Architecture | AP Candidate 2017 2009-2017
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EDUCATION
AWARDS
University of Texas at Austin Master of Landscape Architecture Nanjing Forestry University (NFU.), Nanjing, China
May 2017 June 2013
Bachelor of Agriculture Major in Landscape Architecture Rank: 2/27 Students Leader
ULI Competition: First Place among UT Submissions Honorable Mention in the national round Design Excellence Nominee
May. 2016
The Best Execution Design Award of Yuan Ye Award
Sep. 2013
Graduate with Hornor of Nanjing Forestry University
Jun. 2013
Qianjing Landscape Scholarships(First Prize)
Dec. 2012
Outstanding League Cadres
Mar. 2012
Growing Together UTSOA
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
International Landscape Architecture Graduate Student Design/Thesis Competion(top 3 in design performing)
TBG Partners (Austin, TX)
NFU. (30% of graduates being awarded)
Summer Intern May.2016-Aug.2016 • Hand-sketching conceptual plans/sections and produced design development drawings in AutoCAD. • Modeling(Rhino/Sketchup) and creating perspective renderings and illustrative plans. • Diagraming for site relationships and case studying.
China Shanghai Architectural Design & Research Institute(CSCEC) Landscape Intern • Produced design development drawings in AutoCAD. • created perspective renderings and illustrative plans(Lumion).
Feb.2015-May.2015
Suzhou Industrial Park Design & Research Institute Co.,Ltd.(SIPDRI) (Suzhou, China)
Landscape Architect Jun.2013-Oct.2014 • Hand-sketch conceptual plans/sections and produced design development drawings in AutoCAD. •Created perspective renderings and illustrative plans and performing background analysis diagrams and maps. • Drew construction details in AutoCAD, modeling complex exteriors and logo designs in Sketchup/Rhino. • Editing firm annual publication.
SKILLS Visualization: Handrawings, Sketchup, Rhino, 3Ds Max, AutoCAD Adobe Suite: Photoshop, Indesign, Illustrator, Premiere, AfterEffects Rendering:Lumion, Vary, Grasshopper Geological Information Analysis: ArcGIS
NFU. (awarded to Top 3% students in L.A. Department) NFU.(awarded to 3% students leaders in L.A. Department)
Excellent Members of Design Star Club
L.A. Department (awarded to 10% members)
Model Student of Academic Records
NFU.(awarded to 10% students in undergraduate program)
Feb. 2016
2011 2011
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE Review Jury
2016-2017
ISSUE* Publication(UT Austin, TX)
Off the Trail Design Competition Summer 2016 ULI Design Competition Jan 2016 Jiangsu Pavilion Design Competition of the 8th of China Flower EXPO(Changzhou, China) 2012 Airport Highway Transformation in Ningbo 2012
PUBLICATION ISSUE 13
Mar. 2017
CONTENTS
01.
Growing Together Dallas Elementary School playground Landscape Architecture Core Studio
02.
Pilgrimage: Mt. Everest Advanced Studio: Landscape architecture& Architecture joint studio
03.
ULI Competition: 24h Tech Town Midtown Atlanta Revolution Urban Design
04.
Ranges of Experience UT Campus Landscape Design Landscape Architecture Core studio
05.
Landfill Revival Landscape Architecture Design /Urban Design
06.
Ningbo Airport Highway Transformation
07.
Cultiviting Roots Santa Elena Agriculture Development
Urban Design/ Landscape Design/Urban Planning
Mexico Landscape Studio
01. GROWING TOGETHER Comprehensive Landscape Studio School Playground Instructor: Jason Sowell Team work with Jason Melling Spring. 2016
This design sought to answer the question: “How can we redefine the relationship between learn and play by designing a playground of elementary school?� We are inspired by the fact that the school is an urban plot located within a larger natural contaxt-close to trinity river and forest. Therefore, we decided to use natural rolling landforms as a respond to the environment. Kids are usually separated into different grades in school. We want to break this age barrier and let them play together, grow together. The idea behind it is a new exploration of Montessori education philosophy: allow kids to learn from other older or younder kids through playing.
Design Matrix
Natural Context
10mins drive relationships
SITE
Design Matrix: Revealing the site; Amplifying the phonmenon; Reffrence the place
Lager landscape background
Site Plan
Outdoor chamber
Stonewall Classroom
Growing together aims to show the combination between play and learning. The differentiation of the size and form of each area allows different age group kids(K1-K3, G1-G6) play together, communicate together, grow together.
With the intention of forstering growth in children's mental, social, and physical development, the outdoor programmed space overlap in function while aesthetically blurring the edges between them.
Programs
Site Analysis
Movement Study obstacle
obstacle
speed up
high speed slow down
obstacle
high speed slow down
Site Model
G1-G6 Classroom (2nd flloor)
K1-K3 classroom (1st floor)
Education Green Roof Cantilever Reading
Library street
logs&balance
P.E. Classroom Stonewall Classrooms
bl ea
ch
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open field
Dinning
street
main entrance
Administration
Cutting through the landform
Model Scale 1:40 Chambers
Study Models
Site Sections
Perspectives
Chamber
Open Field
Space Transition
From Blue path to Chamber
From Wooden deck to Open Field
Cutting through the terrain
From Balancing zone to Outdoor Lab
Outdoor Lab
From Outdoor Reading to Outdoor Classroom
02. PILGRIMAGE: MT. EVEREST Joint Studio with Architecture Instructor: Hope Hasbrouck, David Heymann Team work Fall 2016
Since its first recorded summit in 1953, the pilgrimage to Mt Everest has consistently outgrown its means of supporting both the sheer number of those seeking the mountain, as well as the diversity of desired experiences within that growing population. Nested within this empirical problem lies the need to protect what it means to reach the summit of Everest, all the while serving the experiential, emotional, and spiritual needs of the burgeoning number of Everest pilgrims. With this responsibility, architectural and landscape architectural outcomes must respond to the constant tension between the towering glory of the world’s highest mountain, the everpresent specter of loss, and the shared reverence that binds them together.
Nepal Glacial Melt Flow
Five Day Trek to Everest in Sagarmatha National Park Region
Trek to Base Camp and Sum
Regional Scale
Mapping
Base Camp
Base Camp
The traditional pilgrimage route to Mt. Everest usually took more than 5 days. It is such a long and hard trip that reminds us of promoting the living conditiong of the Nepal Glacial Melt Flow final destination.
Everest Peak
MT. EVEREST, NEPAL
Five Day Trek to Everest in Sagarmatha National Park Region
But the exisitng base camp is already depleted and hardly can afford more amounts of tourists or climbers. So the purpose of this mapping process is to find a satifactory location to divert flow of people that will head towards Base Camp. We are trying to propose a new pilgrim to deal with the rising amount of people and their eagerness to see Mt. Everest.
Trek to Base Camp and Summit Route
Base Camp
Everest Summit Base Camp
19.8 Miles 5 Days 30,000 + Visitors / year
Everest Peak
MT. EVEREST, NEPAL
Namche
Namche 3mi
7.1 Miles 40 days 800 attempts / year
19.8 Miles 5 Days 30,000 + Visitors / year
6mi
Legend natural <all other values>
type water riverbank park forest EV-Waterway
18,000 ft
29,000 ft
11,000 ft
3mi
6mi
Climb to Ever Legend
Trek to Base Camp natural
<all other values>
type water riverbank park forest EV-Waterway
18,000 ft
Climb to Everest Summit 11,000 ft
Trek to Base Camp Tengboche
Namiche
Existing Pilgrimage Route Section Day 1
Tengboche
Namiche
Day 1
Day Day 22
Territory Scale
Territory Terrain
View of Water EverestBasins Summit Blocked Khumbu Glacier, Glacial Moraine, and
Existing Area of Memorials to Climbers
2mi
Current Landscape
33,000ft
1mi
Territory Analysis
Kamas
Site Discovery
Khumbu Glacier, Glacial Moraine, and Water Basins
Existing Area of Memorials to Climbers
2mi 1mi
Points of Interest Territory Terrain
Slope Analysis
2mi 1mi
View of Everest Summit Blocked
Territory Analysis
2mi
22,000ft
1mi
Memorial Base Camp Site Discovery Khumbu Glacier, Glacial Moraine, and Water Basins
Points of Interest
2mi 1mi
Slope Analysis
Existing Area of Memorials to Climbers
2mi 1mi
Territory Analysis
1mi
2mi
21,600ft
Site Scale
Gorak Shep Base Camp
Slope Analysis
2mi 1mi
Territory Analysis
1mi
18,000ft
Points of Interest
2mi
Existing Pilgrimage Route 2mi BLACK ROCK
EVEREST SUMMIT
GORAK SHEP
BASE CAMP
500ft
1mi
1000ft
Arrival at Site
Gorack Shep Dingboche
2mi
500ft
1000ft
Arrival at Site
Gorack Shep
Day 3 - 4
Day 3 - 4
Day 5
Day 5
Central Axis Section
View Analysis
Site Plan
Program
Spatial Diagram (transformation)
Architecture
Platform
Lake
Lake
Burn
Platform
ite Plan
Perspectiv
Program
Spatial Diagram (transformation)
Architecture
Platform
Lake
Compress-Release
Compress-Release
Compress-Release-Compress-Release
Compress-Release- Release-Release -Compress-Release Diverse experience
Spatial Diagram (transformation)
Program
Lake
Detail Plan
Perspective Burning
Platform
Compress-Release- Release-Release -Compress-Release - SemiRelease-Release Diverse experience
Prayin
Celestial Viewing
Architecture
Platform
Lake
Compress-Release
Compress-Release
Compress-Release-Compress-Release
Pilgramage Route Section
Platform
Detail Plan
Compress-Release
Compress-Release
Compress-Release-Compress-Release
Burning
Ascending March
Peak View(Interior)
Compress-Release- Release-Release -Compress-Release Diverse experience
Base cammp
Lake
A
a
Compress-Release- Release-Release -Compress-Release - SemiRelease-Release Diverse experience
Praying Memorial
Celestial Viewing
Back Tunnel Compress Channel
Section A-a
Compress-Release- Release-Release -Compress-Release
a
Compress-Release- Release-Release -Compress-Release - SemiRelease-Release Diverse experience
Diverse experience
Praying Memorial
Base cammp
Compress Channel
A
Detail Plan
Section A-a
Axis to the bu
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Gorak Shep (16942feet)
Base cammp
A Section A-a
Gorak Shep (16942feet)
1st night: Peak Hotel
2nd day: Circled Walk
2nd day: Crossroad
2nd day: Ascending March
2nd night:Burning& Celestial Platform
3rd day:Back Channel
People(tourists or climber) arrived at the first night and spend the rest of the day here, where you can see Mt. Everest directly.
It is a long upward walk. It offers people opportunity to explore the large landscape after staying one night at hotel.
It is the location where you are facing a choice: either go to the burning platform or go to the celestial view platform
It is a stone pier connecting the two platforms. The material and linear direction suggests 'every step counts'.
It is the place that you can burn belongings from your love or watch the sky during night.
It is a narrowed channel going down, where you can see the footprint wall as witness of your pilgrimage.
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Site Plan
Design Component Layer
Lying down limestone Celestial platform
Peak Hotel
Burning Cave
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5
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1 Peak Hotel 2 Ascending March 3 Burning Platform 4 Celestial Platform 5 Footprint Wall 6 Back Channel
Stone pier connection two platforms Topography: the two laeks are surround by mountains, like a valley
Models
Burning Platform
Cross Sections
Celestial View
03. TECH TOWN ATLANTA ULI Competition Team work Jan. 2016 The site is located at Midtown Atlanta, Geogia. It is a transition zone between northern art&industrial district and southern medical district. The concentration of young professional nearby and Geogia Tech implies its high potential of transforming into a high-tech district. Therefore, we developed three nucleus to develop this district into a high-tech district. The hub, the gatway, the edge. We believe this combination of mixed use high-rises and information hub will activate the district and formed a new urban typology.
Strategy
Urban Context
THE GATEWAY
HOTEL
GAL
S APARTMENT
BBY
HOTEL LO
TS APARTMEN
RETAIL
STATIO
OFFICE
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RETAIL IL RETA
G PARKIN
RA
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K BI
BOA PLAZA
S BU
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Overcup Oak Quercus lyrata
Eastern Redbud Cercis canadensis
Greenroof Profile
LLERY
Rooftop Planting
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Wild Chrives
Orange Stonecrop
October Daphne
ON
Street Section
CHURCH SQUARE
OPEN TERRACE
BIKE LANE Shumard Oak Shumard Willow Oak
PED EST RAI N Scarlet Oak Quercus coccinea
Lacebark Elm Quercus coccinea
Quercus phellos
MATRA RAIL WAY
GU
IDE
Quercus shumardii
Tastless Stonecrop
Prairie Fameflower
HIGHWAY JOINT
Stonecrop
The edge view location
The edge view location
04. RANGES OF EXPERIENCE Landscape Studio Instructor: Allan Shearer Team work Fall 2015
The CHOPP(chanllenge & Opportunities) of our design is Lines and Characters. Waller creek forms a major line from north to south through the center of the campus, and san jacinto street forms a second line running nearly parallel to the creek on the east side. As you move along these lines, you experience a series of changes in the creek and street: steep stone walls, restaurants and bars, thick canopy and rocky creek bed. These varying conditions led us to the other main focus of our design, character. This structure of crossing lines defines a series of ranges, and these ranges can express the interaction of the characters of the lines. Therefore, our vision for the waller creek corridor is â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ranges of Expressionsâ&#x20AC;?
Existing Condition
Context
Campus Space Charactor
Transformation Plan
Creek Hall Design
Plan Diagram Street Line
New Path
Creek Line
Dorm Boundary
Perspective
05. LANDFILL REVIVAL Landscape ecological planning studio Instructor: Rui Yang Inidividual work Fall 2012
According to a survey of 2010. 67% of cities in China are facing a severe waste problem, producing nearly 1.6 tons of waste per year. Each person annual produce 44okg waste, which keeps growing 10% per year. Only 40% of the waste will be disposed naturally. The common way to dispose waste is burning and natural degradation. But it also cause the problem of air pollution and time-consuming. In this design, waste was dealt through being buried in the existing pits and disposed by biodegradation. It will dispose estimated 0.5 tons of waste per year. The planting-covered landfill could also become public space for residence to enhance social engament.
Creek Hall Design
Design Concept
Tourist Attraction
Diverse Transportation
Public Space
Phasing
Landfill Section
06. NINGBO AIRPORT HIGHWAY TRANSFORMATION Practical Work/ Individual Synthesize Instructor: Rui Yang Inidividual work Summer 2012
The site is located on the northwest of Ningbo, China. There were a few villages before 1880s. The main life-supporting water source is the mother river - Yuyao River. Ningbo Airport Highway started to being built since 2008. It is the main connection between downtown and suburbs. The city starts to show fragmentation due to the high-speed urbanization especially fly-over system. It is no longer walkable for people like that small village. Streets are flooded during rainy seasons because of the impermeable surface. Space under highway become horriable during night. A lot of questions are spinning on poeple's heads, they are seeking for solution to live a better life to balance the developement of fly-overs. The design solution here is to think in system. Using two basic systems to solve problems: propose green infrastructure system including rain gardens, greenway and pocket parks to deal with stormwater issue; propose bicycle system to engage the fly-over.
System Analysis
System Reorganize
System Proposal
Rain Garden & Pocket Park System
Bicycle & Tourist System
Perspectives
Pocket Park: engaging the river
Rain Garden: stormwater management
Transition Zone
Resodence
Streetscape
Public Pocket
Local Walls
Spatial Collage
City Core Zone
Public Pockets
Streetscape
C-C1
Residence
Urban Forest
0m
9m
18 m
07. CULTIVATING ROOTS Landscape architecture studio Instructor: Gabriel Diaz Montemayor Group work Spring 2017
This project was formed with an interest in agriculture and food. We learned from research that SE is part of a group of mayan towns with economies based on small scale traditional agriculture. Many of the farming techniques as well as the techniques for cooking have been passed down through generations for thousands of years. Even though the mayan temples are now ruins the same traditions of growing and cooking food are a piece of history that has continued through time.
Urban Core
Design Objectives
Built upon local heritage
Encourage heritage tourism
Improve public realm
Existing Mayan Block
Milpa Sections
Site Plan A
Sitting
Fruit Trees
Connecting Path
Central Maize
Oratory B
A
Stage 2 Fruit Trees & Beans
Stage1: Maize
Street B
Education Center
Stage 4 Hardwood
Stage 3 Fruit Trees
Milpa Perspective
Milpa Perspective
Musa acuminata Banana
Citrus sinensis Orange
Carica papaya Papaya
Maize Corn
Cucurbita Squash
Herbs Beans
Detail Sections
Stone
Stone
Musa acuminata Banana Albarrada
Albarrada
Citrus sinensis Concrete Orange
Concrete
Mangifera indica Mango
Mangifera indica Mango
Stone
Albarrada
Concrete
Soil
Carica papaya Papaya
Maize Corn
Cucurbita Squash
Herbs Beans
Soil
Citrus sinensis Orange
Citrus sinensis Orange
Soil
Tabebuia Rosea Rosy Trumpet Tree
Tabebuia Rosea Rosy Trumpet Tree
Cucurbita Squash
Cucurbita Squash
Maize Corn
Maize Corn
Traditional Chinese Garden Sketch
Handrawing Sketches
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Meng Wang Master of Landscape Architecture Candidate 2017 University of Texas at Austin, School of Architecture Apt 202, 914 W 26th, Austin, TX 78705 Email:mengwang@utexas.edu Tel: 512-550-0928