Wanqi Gao 2021Portfolio Apply for Landscape Architecture MLA Program, The University of Edinburgh
01 Rebuilding 'Vein' / 02 Reimagine Tradition / 03 Vanishes in a Flash
01: Rebuilding 'Vein'
Type: Landscape design Instructor: Lingyan Kong Location: Shenzhen, China Date: May, 2020 Individual work
Wool-thread model based urban river front renovation
Shenzhen Development Timeline
1840 Shenzhen was just a small fishing village without any urban construction.
1900 Most aborigines in Shenzhen live on fishing and live in poverty.
1979 Shenzhen became the first group of Special Economic Zone.
2000 The Shenzhen government has formulated many policies to attract young people.
2020 Shenzhen has become one of the most famous international metropolises in China.
Site Type Recognition
Radar Analysis Diagram Site is located in the most popular tourist area in Shenzhen. Through the analysis of the radar chart, it is found that the natural ecological type of land is in a state of neglect and waste.
Site Space Situation
Type 1: Nature/Ecology
Type 2: Community/Residence
Type 3: Shopping/Entertainment
Type 4: Tourism/Leisure
River and Urban's Relationship
1.Lack of spatial experience
4.lowering of river water level Ecological destruction
2.Urban roads occupy river space
6.Residential areas occupy river space
3.River water pollution
5.Viaduct divides river space
P2
Tourist Season Event Lava Map
Residents: Commuting Traffic
Residents: Daily Diet Visitors: Tourism Residents: Work Residents: Entertainment Residents: Leisure & Exercise
Site Issue
Site Livelihood
Ecological Cycle System / Design Strategy
1.Conflict And Pressure
Residents Student Office worker Villa residents Tourist Precipitation Temperature
Population Change Tourist season Population 305,000
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Tourists
2.Waste And Deterioration The river in the site is left unused and wasted. Blindly hardening of the revetment leads to the deterioration of river ecology and the reduction of use value, which gradually forms a vicious circle.
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The standard construction of urbanization makes the site landscape experience and lifestyle singular, and the site lacks cultural characteristics and spatial identity.
Use
Eco Plaza
Cultural Diversity
Original Path
Buffer/Shunt
Attractions
Landscape View
Special Events
Space Experience
Social Gathering
Elevation Change
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Community Culture
Urban Vein Ecological Corridor
Corridor Bridge
3.Invasion And Segmentation The river is covered and cut by multiple urban roads and viaducts, making the river landscape space experience a fracture, damaging the site function, and dividing the site space.
Residents
Community
Urban River
Fruit Picking
Algae
Community Activity
Plankton
School
Urban agriculture
Outdoor Classroom
Life Diversity
Shopping
Fish
Bird Watching
4.Monotony And Absence
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Site is overcrowded in the peak season, but in the off-season the space is wasted and the utilization rate is low. Site has conflicts and pressures between low and peak seasons.
Daily Social Community Activities Festival Celebrations
Plant Scenery Multi-level Revetment Communication Space
Landscape Diversity
Community Activity
Artificial wetland
Mall
Natural Science
Various Space Options
Ecological Diversity
1.Off-Season Gathering Point
5.Comprehensive Site Main Nodes Due to rapid urbanization, There is a lack of connection between different parts of the site. It is in a state of division in space, and a state of division in culture. I hope to build a lifestyle based on river ecology and organically combine different parts of the site.
2.Peak Season Gathering Point
3.Main Traffic Node
6.Wool-Thread Model+Site Path Planning Connection + Interaction The Wool-Thread Model is used to integrate and connect the site, find the shortest connection between each node. And through path planning to increase the overall relationship within the site.
4.Rainwater Runoff Point
Based on the path planning, the landscape ecological transformation and functional enhancement of the site river were carried out, hoping to build a community ecosystem based on the river and landscape corridors.
P3
Master Plan
Bridge Flow Line
Bridge Generatrix Bridge Visual Line Bridge Main Entrance Spiral Stairs
First Floor Flow Line Riverside Walk Slow Pass Line Fast Pass Line Main Entrance
Functional Partition Design
Ecological Green Space Town Square Under Bridge Ecological Green Space Bridge space Eco Campus Urban Green Corridor
Site Type Section
Site Activity Planning Jan. Feb. Mar. Apr. May. Jun. Jul. Aug. Sept. Oct. Nov. Dec.
Fruit Picking
1.Riverside Plaza
Beach Tourism 2.River Green Space
Birdwatching Natural Education
3.Wetland Floating Island
Wetland Experience Under Bridge Market 4.Eco Campus/Natural Education
Admire Flowers
5.Covered Bridge Landscape
Community Party
Site Type Axonometric Drawing
1.Riverside Plaza
2.River Green Space
3.Wetland Floating Island
4.Eco Campus
5.Covered Bridge Landscape
Delonix regia Azalea Litchi Grapefruit Mango Taxodium distichum Phragmites australis P4
City Interface River Landscape
Detailed Plan
The construction of landscape corridor bridges can provide community residents with a daily travel environment that is not disturbed by passengers. The corridor bridges connect multiple important nodes in the site to meet daily travel needs.
Urban Farm / Nature Class
Detailed Plan
The landscaped bridge near the primary school provides a safer way for students to get to school, avoiding direct access to the motorway. The open space around primary school was transformed into an urban farm and outdoor classroom.
Space Under the Bridge
Detailed Plan
Renovate the space under the bridge and use the ecological corridor to activate the space under the bridge.Letting the river become the center of community life again, and activate the vitality of the community.
Community Ecological Corridor
Detailed Plan
The ecological corridor adopts a permeable pavement, and residents can complete their daily travel needs through the corridor during the tourist season. In the off-season, the landscape bridge can be a place for community activities. P5
02: Reimagine Tradition Recommender system based future chinese medicine market design
Site Location Analysis
Type: Urban design Location: Guangzhou, China Individual work
Supervisor: Lingyan Kong Date: June, 2020
1. Low Entry Barriers
2. Poor Sanitary Conditions
3. Lack of Competition
4. Impact from New Media
The entry barriers for the traditional Chinese medicinal materials market are too low and overall supervision is lacking.
The medicinal materials processing equipment of most merchants in the market does not meet the specifications, and there are certain hidden food safety hazards.
Most merchants have a fixed source of income, sales channels are too single, and the market lacks healthy competition.
Under the impact of new business models such as Tiktok, the position of the professional Chinese medicinal materials market has been declining year by year.
Traditional Chinese Medicine Market
1.Internet Celebrities
2.Artificial Intelligence Assistance
3.Active Competition Mechanism
4.Online Consumption Process
Tiktok has produced a large number of content creators. The origin of medicinal materials can be directly connected with consumers.
Tiktok uses artificial intelligence to understand users and uses algorithms to recommend content.
Tiktok uses an active competition mechanism to promote content updates and stimulate healthy internal competition.
Logistics system + online media platform = perfect shopping process.
New Media Marketing Platform:Tiktok, etc.
P6
Operation Pattern of Traditional Chinese Medicine Market
Spatial Pattern of Qingping Market:
01 Main Entrance For Visitors
Medicinal herb grower
Courier
Shop owner
Shop worker
02 Residential Area
03 Core Stores(Zhuji Road)
04 Truck Unloading Point
05 Medicinal Materials Market
06 Arcade Commercial Street
07 Qingping Medical Building
08 Core Stores(Tiyun Road)
09 Core Area(Urban Village)
Consumer
Pharmaceutical company researchers
Operating Pattern of New Media (Tiktok / Youtube etc.)
Question 01: User clusters Tiktok's Collaborative Filtering Recommendation Mode
Tiktok uses algorithms to understand users. Users with similar preferences and characteristics will be divided into the same user cluster and receive similar content recommendations. In this way, Tiktok can produce accurate user portraits to help product marketing.
Question 02: Flow Pool Recommendation Mode
P7
New Qingping Market Model
Spatial Expression of New Qingping Market Model
P8
Generation Logic of Three Levels Top Brand Chinese Medicine Shop
Multimedia facade
+ Structural Part Connector
Group of Top Brand Chinese Medicine Shops
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Stairs
Public Platform
Top-level generation logic
Open Platform Medicinal Shops
Multimedia Core Tube
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Multimedia facade
Middle-level generation logic
Multimedia Core Tube
Medicinal Shops
Original Urban Villages
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Multimedia facade + Stairs
Structural Part
Bottom-level generation logic
P9
03: Vanishes in a Flash
Type: Spatial installation Supervisor: Yiding Yang Location: Beijing, China Date: December, 2019 Team work: Wanqi Gao(leader) / Xulong Ma /Bowei Gong
Understanding construction process through bamboo installation A
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Hand-drawn Derivation Process
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B Preliminary Measurement
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1:10 Model Derivation Rope Fixed Support Rod
Bamboo Structure
Preliminary Preparation
Connection Node
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Positioning Grid
Bottom Structure
Site Situation
Construction steps? How to locate the node? The characteristics of bamboo?
Construction Process
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Step 1: Positioning Grid
Step 1
Step 2: Bottom bamboo frame
Step 2
Step 3: Middle bamboo frame
Step 4: Bamboo frame on both sides
Step 5: Bamboo strip epidermal texture
Step 3
Step 4
Step 5
Finish
P10