2017 Portfolio of Meng Wang

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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

er s

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

a

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.

N

0

100ft

200ft

400ft

N

0

100ft

200ft

400ft


Site Plan

Design Component Layer

Lying down limestone Celestial platform

Peak Hotel

Burning Cave

1 3

2

4

5

6

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

T

RETAIL IL RETA

G PARKIN

RA

T

E/

K BI

BOA PLAZA

S BU

I NS

Overcup Oak Quercus lyrata

Eastern Redbud Cercis canadensis


Greenroof Profile

LLERY

Rooftop Planting

S

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 “Ranges of Expressions�


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


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