Fangzhou Zhao portfolio 2023

Fangzhou Zhao

Address:2 College Street,Providence, RI

TEL:+1 4018659652

E-mail: fangzhou-zhao@outlook.com

Education Rhode Island School of Design | Rhode island, United states | Sep 2021 to Present (Date of graduation:July 2024)

Master of Landscape Architecture

East China University of Science and Technology | Shanghai, China| Sep 2017 to July 2021

Bachelor of Engineering, Department of Landscape architecture, College of Art Design and Media

Working Experience Shanghai Xian Dai Architectural Design(Group) CO., Ltd. | Shanghai, China | March 2021 to April 2021

Interior Design Department Intern. Assisted designers with architectural interior construction drawings; extended and modeled from the designers’ concept; prepared buildings details and report comparing pre-construction and postconstruction status; draw plans and models from site photographs and original drawings.

Rhode Island School of Design | Rhode island, United states | 2022-2023 Recruitment and Outreach Representatives

Participating in recruiting events duringthe fall and especially the spring admissions season, meeting with prospective students when they visit campus or organizing groups of students for information sessions.

Professional Experience

Architecture Summer Camp | Fujian, China | July to August 2019

3rd prize. Top 25% of all the 82 groups of students all around China.

Program:Bamboo slips of all scenery around

Participated as leader of the team. Designed a structure in a developing village to introduce their culture and specialty to tourists in the future; came up with the main idea; selected the materials and connecting methods; supervised the workers to build the structure.

Shanghai Urban Design Challenge | Shanghai, China | September 2019

Program:Rekindling the street

Participated as core designer of the team. Explored a solution to reactivate xilingjiazhai road , an old road in Shanghai lived many aged people; interviewed the residences; advised to introduce the youngs to activate the street.

Undergraduate Innovation And Entrepreneurship Training Program |

Shanghai, China | Feb 2019 to October 2020

Municipal Excellent Project

Program:Pet spaces in modern cities

Participated as core designer of team. Analyzed existent problems of pet spaces in modern cities; created a new mode of city public utilities which takes pet dog also as citizens and could be promoted different kind and scale of city common spaces; wrote a paper and published.

Honors and awards Skills

AutoCAD, SketchUp, Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign, Arcgis, Lumion, Rhino, Vray, PowerPoint, Excel 3rd scholarship of ECUST | 2017&2018&2019

Fellowship Awards of RISD

Published paper: Research on contemporary urban pet activity space( DOI:10.19875/j.cnki. jzywh.2021.04.054)

Language

English (Fluent)

Mandarin (Native)

Fangzhou Zhao, fangzhou-zhao@outlook.com

During my study in landscape architecture, I often imagined a time when urbanization has covered almost half of China, how much the designed space can play under the established framework and people’s thoughts. I found that in addition to creating a beautiful environment, urban design can affect people and society on a more complex level, so I want to learn how to develop different interventions in public space, to redefine proximity to space in the cities for everyone , thus create environmental equality.

Community Design Spring 2019

Huangpu River Waterfront, Urban Green Space design Summer 2020

East Providence, Wasteland Design Spring 2022

West providence, Urban planning&design Fall 2022

01 Recreational Earthwork

Type: Wasteland design

Date: Spring 2022

Location: East Providence,Rhode Island

Teamwork with Yimeng An

Project Narrative:

I saw a monument in the grounds, and I began to guess why it was there. I thought it might be the workers who had dedicated their lives here, and this is where they lived and worked, and under the workers, they were living individuals, and I wanted to create a happy outdoor place for the workers in this abandoned land. Encouraging the surrounding factory workers and communities to participate in this urban edge space where adults find their childhood memories, the joy to play in the nature. Thick folds made up the hills, between the space you may run, climb, or lie down. By revitalizing the site, reintegrating the site's topography, stormwater management, ecosystem, pedestrian system and activity space, to create a new ecological and social node for the landscape system along the Seekonk river and reconnect the green corridor. It will enable people to escape from the busy work life for a while, and to relax in the green space during their leisure time.

Cabinet of Curiosity Site anlysis

“Nonsite” is a concept may be useful to characterize the simulacrum of documentary evidence—samples, maps, photos, etc.—present in the studio at the moment of conceptualization of the project. The items collected through fieldwork were quite random, but as I explored the connections behind these items, the story emerged.

I collected a lot of industrial products, and from these items I saw many unnamed workers.

Item found from site

PERSONAL ITEMS

Proof of workers' vivid lives

1. Abandoned shoe

2. Label from toys

3. Part of thermous cup

4&8. Drink bottles

5. Stove

6. Electronic component

7. Clothes

8. Bottles

Products Manufactured

Potential of making ecological corridor

The site is in a very important position on the ecological corridor of providence. And it has the potential to connect the east and west providence by greenspace.

INDUSTRIAL ITEMS

Proof of workers' hard work

9. Spring 10&12. Steel component

11. Ployform

SURROUNDING ITEMS

Witnesses of workers' lives

13. Water from Seekonk River and Omega Pond

14. Soil and moss

15. Slag

16&19. Plant 17&18. Wood stick

20. Mushroom

Fangzhou

Design principles

Framework plan

Corridor

Zone & Path

Ecological Approach

Topography Model

Site design

Master plan

Sections

Transition-Riverfront

a-a' b-b' c-c'

1. Entrance plaza

2. Forest trail

3. Resting space

4. Fisherman's pier

5. recreational lawn

6. industry buffer&lawn

7. worker mini plaza

8. hill park

10. wetland&water activities 11. sunken plaza

12.

15.

16.

17.

tree belt seats

Ecological transection

The long transect is showing the main relationship of different area and the transformation of humans activities , animal activities and height of planting. The towering trees block out most of the noise from the factory, turning the site into a place where you can forget your worries and relax thoroughly.

Whole transection

Sections Sections

Nostalgia In-between

Type: Community design

Date: Spring 2019

Location: Fengxian district, Shanghai,China Individual work

Project Narrative: Driven by urbanization, many rural people are moving to big cities to make a living, but urban spaces and urban people seem to be rejecting them by virtue of stereotypes. Therefore, I hope that by integrating different ways of interacting with natural elements in people's memories, we can help foreigners get better acquainted with the city and generate various activity spaces to increase the communication between urbanites and foreigners, thus increasing understanding.

Household Registration， Another Idendity of Chinese People

Urban rural dual structure has existed since the Song Dynasty, more than 1000 years ago. But in the past, although there were urban-rural dual structure, there was no urban-rural dual system. For example,Shandong farmers could work in the towns of Northeast China as shop assistants,businessmen, apprentices. They could also open shops, run workshops, buy houses and build houses.This continued until the early 1950s.

Since the late 1950s, due to the establishment of the planned economic system, household registration is divided into urban household registration and rural household registration. The urban-rural dual system has been formed, and the urban and rural areas have been separated. From then on, both urban and rural areas became closed units, and the flow of production factors was strictly

1934-1936

restricted. Under the dual system of urban and rural areas, the vast number of farmers are bound to the land and confined in the countryside. The rights and opportunities of urban residents and farmers are unequal. In a sense, farmers are in the position of "second-class citizens".

On the one hand, urban-rural dual system has seriously violated the freedom of migration of urban and rural residents; on the other hand, it has seriously violated the social and economic rights of farmers. The urban-rural dualism has caused serious social injustice. It can be said that its existence is one of the reasons why the human rights situation in China has not been improved for a long time.

The Types and Transformation of Household Registration

The homestead of agricultural household registration is mostly distributed by the state, and houses can be built on the homestead Agricultural household registration

Most of the houses obtained by non-agricultural household registration are bought with money, and they have no right to use collective land.

The agricultural household residence obtains less old age pension and the low insurance fund

The non-agricultural household residence obtains more old age pension and the low insurance fund

Educational resources incline to local students，while most good schools and colleges are in the cities.

The agricultural registered permanent residence can buy a house in the city, and it is protected by law, but it also must meet the corresponding conditions

Non agricultural household registration can not go to the countryside to buy a house. Even if you buy a house, it is not protected by law.

1978-2010

1949—1963

1962—1979

industry leading

After 2010

group

The country promoted the strategic integration and development of major national regions through the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Urban Agglomeration, the Yangtze River Delta, urban agglomeration, the Central Plains urban agglomeration and other urban agglomerations, which has attracted lots of people.

GDP of Beijing and Tianjin in Pearl River Delta and Yangtze River Delta

Demolition of Shenyang

Shenyang first machine factory “156 projects”

Shenyang Transformer Factory

Passenger ships between Pinghu and Shanghai Baimanai River port area

Number of youth participated “Young people go to poor areas” Program

Relax After the founding of the people's Republic of China, due to the original industrial base and the close relationship with the Soviet Union, many heavy industry construction projects were arranged in the northeast. Northeast China once occupied 98%

No.1 Machine Tool Plant

Population of Resident population in Beijing and Tianjin in Pearl River Delta and Yangtze River Delta

Resident population in Shanghai

Permanent floating population in Shanghai

the settlement conditions of small and medium-sized cities

Unified all registration as residence

Sufferer and awakened rebel Advanced model farmers

Peasants in old China were not only threatened by natural disasters, but also by imperialist aggression and feudal land system exploitation. Before the founding of the people's Republic of China, the production of Chinese films was mainly concentrated in Shanghai. Due to the limitations of the environment, was impossible for the films to focus on the farmers. Therefore, there were few films that shaped the image of farmers

After the founding of the people's Republic of China, land reform and rural cooperative movement were launched nationwide. The film of this period gradually formed the coding style of policy and art intertextuality in the narrative mode, so the characters created by the film have the facial features: the advanced peasant model.

The image of farmers in alternating Changing and growing image of NEW FARMERS

After 1978, a new trend of thought of reform and opening up was ushered in. At the same time, the consciousness of equality between men and women also rose slowly. The creation of rural theme films has entered the golden age in the era of reform and opening up

In the 1990s, the differences between urban and rural areas restricted the development of rural films. It was not until the state promulgated policies and guidelines such as the overall planning of urban and rural areas and Rural Revitalization to improve the problems left over by history that number of new farmers' images of change and growth were displayed on the screen.

Growth rate of Rate of urbanization The first time mentioned “Spring Festival travel rush” in the title The first time mentioned “Spring Festival travel rush” in the title The first time mentioned migrant workers Permanent basic farmland Return the grain plots to forestry Peasant workers Migrant workers Civil aviation passenger volume High-speed rail Red train Green train First train First train Jinrikisha Double-decker bus Farmer struggle in rural areas Open and aboveboard rural grassroots cadres Ideal followers 2.0% 19.75% 10.64% The forerunner of farmers close to life The forerunner of farmers close to life Rural Teachers Compromise and resistance of rural women

Before 1949 1949—1978 1978—1989 After1990 60.34% 52.57% 9.77 M. 10.96 M. 13.71 M. 37.3% 22% 16.08 M. 247.7 TH. 2673.8 TH. 24.28 M. 2020 1984 1982 1978 1958 1955 1949 2020 2019 2008 1999 2008 1990 1984 1980 1952 1950 1953 1933 1B.300 M. 182600M 36.22% 0% 1.7% 1949 1954 1958 1964 1974 1984 1992 1997 2008 2014 2020 Nostalgia In-between

Immigrants and Locals: the Preception of Landscape Dilemma of the immigrants

The Circles of Migration

With the development of urbanization, the rural areas in the suburbs of Shanghai have become cities in terms of administrative attributes. However, because they are far away from the city center, in fact, they are the urban-rural fringe.

The composition of the population here is very complex. There are intellectuals left after the movement of going to the countryside in the last century, there are migrant workers from other places, and there will

also be people who are eager for rural life but cannot live without the convenience of the city in the future.

The activities they are familiar with are quite different from the space design, so the communities located in the urban-rural fringe need to meet the needs of various groups of people for activities.

Urban and Farm, the Middle Ground

The site is located in Fengxian Disctrict in Shanghai,China. Before 1986, the site was surrounded by all the countryside and fields. With the development of urbanization and the continuous expansion of urban scope, high-rise buildings began to be built around the site. However, up to now, due to its geographical location on the edge of the city and the activities of going to the countryside from the mountain, this residential area has become relatively special, with a diverse population, which completely conforms to the urban-rural fringe mentioned in the previous page.

Site analysis

Demographic structure

By analyzing and scrutinizing the spaces in the site, we can classify the spaces to large activity spaces and small planted spaces which can be used to redesign. And also we analyized the partern of landscape structure and tried to abstract the elements.

Strategy Development

The gap between cities and farms is so large that when many immgrants go to the cities, they may have some difficulties to adjust themselves to city lifes. And also being urbanized rapidly makes all the cities look similarly and lose characteristics. To stengthen the connection between rural area and urban area , deconstructs the patterns and activities related with elements in this neighbourhood, then combined them with some features in the rural areas. As a result, spaces will be rebuild as a new urban-rural form.

Typologies and Activation Strategy Development

Based on the design strategy, I transformed the new abstract elements into specific activity space according to the activity form, crowd characteristics and community space, and put them into the site. In the future, immigrants and local residents will have more communication opportunities and new forms of space experience.

Master plan

1 Basketball courts

2 Treehouse

3 Activity Space

4 Wood post

5 Shared community farm

6 Weekend market

7 Viewing platform

8 Athletic track

9 Riverside gym lane

10 Riverside sunken plaza

11 River platform

12 Fishing platform

13 Trails between trees

14 Rest space

Integrated Life: Neighbourhood of Haibingercun

Instead of just sitting in the shadow, we can have a new way to interact with a tree. In the journey of spinning upward, the connection between humans and trees will be strengthened.

The activity space on the ground floor allows me not to travel far to find a place for activities

We can not only enjoy outwards views in this platform but also enjoy ourselves in the inwards spaces.

Walking on the path is like being in the forest

The fruits and vegetables grown by myself are more delicious, and communication with people in the community has also increased.

Walking along the river, we can go fishing and do exercise.

Fangzhou Zhao, fangzhou-zhao@outlook.com

Treehouse

Viewing Platform Shared community farm Riverside platform

03 Playground for all

Type: Urban Green Space design

Date: Summer 2020

Location: Huangpu River Waterfront Pudongxin district, Shanghai,China Indivadual Work

Project Narrative:

Having children is becoming more and more expensive, so more and more people will choose to place their affection on their pets, but these special city dwellers are almost invisible in the city, so I want to express the real care for pets from the human perspective and respect the right of pet dogs to live in the city

"Invisible" City Dewller

With economic growth and an aging urban population, the pet industry has grown exponentially. The role of pets in contemporary urban life has changed, becoming people's spiritual support and life companion, playing an important role in maintaining social harmony and human happiness. However, as the pet industry becomes more mature,

Pet market is booming rapidly

The development of China's pet market has benefited from the growth of per capita GDP, the development of the central and western regions, and the expansion of living alone groups.

Pet space in the city

many problems are gradually revealed. China's urban green space construction is relatively backward in terms of awareness of pet space planning, and most public green spaces are not open to pets at present, so that a systematic pet activity space can solve some of the social problems to a certain extent.

Domestic pet activity spaces exist in the form of thematic pet parks, mostly enclosed, areas for pets to move around. Domestic pet clubs, membership systems, and larger models that integrate the pet economy have emerged. These types of activity spaces have highly targeted internal facilities, flexible and versatile internal functions, and can meet the needs of most dogs and owners in terms of freedom and safety, as well as providing a place for owners to communicate and dialogue.

Shanghai has the highest pet consumption boom in the whole of China

1. Distance and quantity

Although there are some high quality pet parks in China, their remote location and limited service radius make them unable to meet the daily needs of the public.So people will choose to go to the nearby green space to walk their dogs

2.Private car only

Since pets can't be taken on the bus, you must drive a private car to the pet park

3.Lack of pertinence

Urban residents commonly choose to walk their dogs in nearby green spaces with no professional facilities and a mix of people

Pet is discarded easily

The living environment of stray dogs is bad and no one is watching them. It is possible that the rabies virus carriers may threaten our life safety.

Physiological differences between humans and dogs

Design approach, humans and dog as equal

Pet dogs are another kind of urban residents, and from the perspective of pet owners, there is a direct demand for urban pet activity space.

From the perspective of non-pet owners, pet activities will occupy part of the limited activity space, and the joint activities of humans and pets will increase the pressure of health, but also easy to cause security fears to some people, affecting social harmony.

From the perspective of pets, the lack of space for pet

activities reduces the amount of pet activities, which can easily cause pets to suffer from depression and other diseases, and is not conducive to the healthy growth of animals and the harmonious coexistence of humans and animals. Therefore, there is an urgent need to design scientific and systematic pet activity spaces in cities to improve the quality of life of people and pets in cities.

Master plan Sections of transition

Intensity of pet activity

Pet activity space

Physical interaction between people and pets

Intensity of humans activity

Humans activity space

Spiritual interaction between people and pets

Open lawn

Pet activity zone

Pet activity zone

Hedge pet maze

Pet Cemetery Forest

Watching Tower

From human’s perspective

Looking down from the watchtower, you can see the activities of your pet dog, and you can let the dog move freely while monitoring their behavior.

Dog Hedge Maze

From pet dog’s perspective

The design to adapt to the size of the pet allows the dog to move freely and fully in the area, and the variety of facilities can increase the fun of the activity and adapt to their nature

Activity Zone

For phsycial intercation between humans and pet dogs

Through the interlacing of human resting space and pet activity space, the common activity space of people and pets can be increased, helping people to increase their knowledge of pets and pay attention to their real needs

Pet Cemetery Forest

For mental intercation between humans and pet dogs

Plants can draw nutrients from buried pets, and as people walk through these woods, their fond memories with their pets will be evoked, and it will give everyone a chance to revisit the human-animal relationship.

04 Moving with water

Type: Urban Planning&Space design

Date: Fall 2022

Location: Parking lot&Streetside West Providence,RI,U.S.

Planning part with Tianyue Wang, Yimeng An and Junrong Wang

Design part: Indivadual Work

Project Narrative:

A highway that runs through the city divides the Providence into two pieces, and the West faces many problems as a result. We are trying to bring new life to the area by developing tourism, tapping into the original local character, combining theater, sports and Spanish culture to make the West End more accessible to more people, while boosting the economy. With this master plan, I focused on combining surface runoff and sports in the outdoor spaces.

Framework: Come to west, Enjoy your time!

Rhode Island, the Ocean State, is loved for its many beaches, for the historic city of Newport, and for the up-and-coming capital city of Providence, rich with culture and interesting dining. Visitors love the unspoiled Block Island, easily reached by ferry from the fishing village of

Site analysis

Activities themes

Point Judith. Other parts of the state are rich in history, farms, and beautiful outdoor getaways. And west providence is in a critical position that will enrich tourist's experience in providence. 1 3 1 2

Stormwater analysis

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Design principles

Creating Year-round Programs

Strengthen Connectivity and Mobility

Integrate Ornamental value into the Ecosystem

● Separating the way to use space by time.

● Adjust activity areas by different programs.

● Invite people to come to west by improving the experience of walking and biking.

● Increase public transportation modes.

● Increase semi-open space with different architectural forms

● Increase ornamental street trees and create seasonal landscapes.

Framework: Come to west, Enjoy your time!

Design strategy

In addition to the existing underutilized parking lots and open spaces, we will develop year-round activities based on the existing industries to attract a large number of visitors and make the West Side more accessible through transportation planning.

Master plan

Existing

Time-sharing streets

Potential activities in mixed use place

Model in progress

Site design: People and water move together sections

How to attract people come to west?

Fangzhou Zhao, fangzhou-zhao@outlook.com

SPORT PARK: Sunny and rainy days

Other Works- Constructed Ground

Designing process

Other Works-Installation and construction

Landscape Storage Box

Type: Bamboo Viewing Pavilion Design

Date: Summer 2019

Location: Ninety-nine Streams Field Tourism Area, Fujian,China

Team work with Xiaoting Mao, Qin Yu, Shuyin Yuan

We used bamboo and steel to make structures and use acrylic to make some slides superimposing on real space to strengthen understanding of the surrounding landscape. People can look outside from this structure informing the history and biologic characteristic of a indigenous tree standing by the pond, the history and existing scenery of a mountain in their walking journey.

Slides about the mountain all year round

Drawers with the life cycle of a tree

Slides about urbanization and nature

Soil abstraction model

Cabbage abstraction model

Soil Infiltration abstraction model

Breakwater modules plaster model

Other Works-Creative projects