LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO BY HOWARD ZHANG
Resume Name: Shenghao Zhang (Howard) Email: szhang110@hawk.iit.edu Cell Phone: 312-792-4504 Current Address: 3309 Michigan Ave, Apt #2 Chicago, IL 60616
Education
College of Landscape Architecture, Central South University of Forestry and Technology, China Bachelor of Engineering in Urban Planning From September 2010 to June 2015 Master of Landscape Architecture, Illinois Institute of Technology From August 2017 to December 2020
Competition Experiences
Participant, 2013 Yonghe Cup of Piliqing Landscape Planning&Design Contest From September to November 2013 Participant, 2014 Aoya Design Star Competition for Undergraduate Students From October to November 2014 Team Leader, 2014 Wenke Cup for Landscape Planning and Design Competition From September to November 2014
Work Experiences
Landscape Architecture Department of Sichuan Provincial Architectural Design and Research Institute Assistant Designer, Full-time Job From July to September 2014 and July 2015 to July 2016 Landscape Architecthre Department of Illinois Institute of Technology Teacher Assistant, Full-time Job From July to August 2018 Division 32 Landscape Studio Assistant Designer, Part-time Job From June to August 2019
Additional Information
Design Skills: AutoCAD, Rhino, Adobe Creative Suite,and Lumion Languages: Chinese (Native), English (Listening, Speaking, Reading,Writing)
CONTENT 1. MOVE LIKE SQUIRREL 2. RESIDENTIAL DESIGN 3. THE SHAPE OF WATER 4. 1000 TREE PROJECT 5. ONE TREE PROJECT 6. INTERNSHIP WORKS 7. CONTOUR WORK
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MOVE LIKE SQUIRREL Year: 2018 Location: N Monticello Ave, Albany Park, Chicago Description: Based on the organism research, squirrel moves around the site. The design concept is to let people experience the world of squirrel. Squirrel moves from ground to the tree and moves from tree to tree. The desgin is constructed by three parts. Part one is the ramp. Using the existing trees as poles to build a walkable ramp to let people move from ground up to the trees. Part two is net. Build four nets by tree poles and the ramp to let people move around trees. Part three is to change the ground below the ramp and nets into a new up and down topograohy.
Idea Sketch
Observation
Eastern Gray Squirrel
Nesting Area
Moving Area
Plan
Nor
th B
ran c
hC
hica
go
Rive
r
2
B
1
N Monticello Ave
0 8’
24’
40’
1
C
A
2
Structure Diagram
Model
Net 4
Net 3
Section
Net 1 Net 2
Ramp
Sturcture Tree
New Topography
Section 1-1
Section 2-2
Rendering
View-A
View-B
View-C
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RISIDENTIAL DESIGN Year: 2018 Location: Meixi Lake, Changsha, China Description: Tearing down the fence is the first idea of this design. Chinese residential community always build a fence to stop people who don't live in the community from accessing into the private property. Design concept is to change the private garden as a public garden by tearing down the fence and building an entry bridge as a private air garden to keep residents' belonging feeling.
Location
182m
221m 175m
Sketch
L1 Idea
L2
R1
R2
57m
189m
Plan
6F
12F 12F
6F
12F
18F 12F
12F 12F 18F
18F
18F
800m Ru
unway
0
25m
6F
6F
6F
12F
12F
12F
18F 18F 18F
12F 18F 12F 12F
50m
75m
Diagram
L: Ground Design
R: Ground Design
L: Tower Arrangemt
R: Tower Arrangemt
L: Bridge & Towers
R: Bridge & Towers
1 1 Section 1-1
Water System
Key Spot
Swimming
Badminton
Playground
Tennis Commerce
Pets
Commerce
Basketball
Soccer Playground Skateboard
Farm
Key Spot
Traffic Flow
Ground Plan
Bridge Plan
2 2 Section 2-2
Rendering View-A
View-B
View-B
View-D
View-E
View-F
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THE SHAPE OF WATER Year: 2018
Building1 +13.00
Location: Hamburg, Germany Description: The shape of water is proposed to design a project to make people, who live and work around the industrial area, get closer to Bille River. The project consists of three water slides, a sauna and a fitting room, and a swimming pond and a canoe pond. Three water slides provide three different experiences for sliding into the water. Slide one sends people straight into the water, slide two is a curve shape to throw people into the air, and slide three is a short straight one to let people fall into the water.
+4.50
Swim
-3.00
Ground Plan
Sau
Ha
mm
er
Die
ch
Bille Fluss
0.00
Building1 +13.00
Building1 +13.00
una
0.00
0.00
+9.00
Building2 +16.00 +4.50
Sauna Building2 +16.00
Building2 +16.00
Canoe
Swim Canoe -3.00 Swim
Canoe -3.00
Plan 2F
Ground Plan
0
5 10
20m
333 4.5 4.5 4.5 4.5 4.5 4.5
333 4.5 4.5 4.5 4.5 4.5 4.5
Elevtion Slide 1
Slide 2
Slide 3
333 4.5 4.5 4.5 4.5 4.5 4.5
13
4.5 4.5
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1000 TREE PROJECT 3 COLORFUL ROWS Year: 2019 Location: South Works Mill, Chicago Description: Based on the existing straight
walls divide the site into three parallel parts, the 1000 trees of 5 species are placed in these three spaces according to their different s i z e s a n d s e a s o n a l c o l o r. F r o m s o u t h t o north, trees’ size changes from small to big.
The south row is constructed of easter redbuds and sargent’s cheeries placed in ways of one tree, one row, two rows, three rows, and allee. The middle second row is constructed of black gums and red oaks in ways of one tree and one row. The north row is constructed of red maples placed in one row way. Especially in the fall season, visitors will experience three-color landscapes when they amble through the site.
Plan Spring
Summer
Autumn
Winter
Section
Spring
Summer
Autumn
Winter
Eastern Redbud(Cercis canadensis)
Sargent’s Cherry(Prunus sargentii)
870 of 1000
12 of 1000
Red maple trees grow 40 to 70 feet tall with a spread of 30 to 50 feet.
The Sargent cherry grows to a height of 40– 50’ and a spread of 40–50’ at maturity.
Black Gum(Nyssa sylvatica) 84 of 1000 The mature height of the black gum can be 30 to 75 feet tall and 20 to 35 feet wide
Red Maple(Acer rubrum) 31 of 1000 Red maple trees grow 40 to 70 feet tall with a spread of 30 to 50 feet.
Red Oak(Quercus velutina) 3 of 1000 An adaptable, widely planted Oak with a rapid growth rate, Red Oak will reach a height of 60 to 70 feet and a spread of 40 to 60 feet when open-grown.
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ONE TREE PROJECT WHITE BIRCH PAVILION Year: 2019 Location: Imagine Land Description: The most outstanding personality of white birch (Betula papyrifera) is its thin white bark, which often peels in paper like layers from the trunk. The pavilion is designed as a dark box to package the white-beam likely trunk. Consider the feeling of safe and white birch’s canopy, the wall is constructed by hollow bricks rotate one by one and a sky window allows the canopy to grow and light and rain to nourish this one white birch. Inside the box, the topography is designed in a wave-like form and 0.3m high every step to increase interior space experience.
Rotate-brick Wall
Plan
18.4m
3.0m
-0.9 +0.9
+0.6
18.4m
4.0m
Elevation
-0.6 +0.3 -0.3 0.0 18.4m
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INTERNSHIP WORKS Year: 2019 Firm: Division 32 Landscape Architecture Firm Information: Aldo G Burcheri, PLA 2800 W. Chicago Avenue #3E Chicago, IL 60622 708.408.6769 aburcheri@division32landscapes.com
120 N LaSalle
1819 N Howe
2619 N Fairfield
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CONTOUR WORK Year: 2019 Discription: Step 1 - Build Model Surface Step 2 - Record Spot Elevation Step 3 - Interpolate Contours
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