HUI YUAN Portfolio
HUI YUAN
EDUCATION Harvard University , Graduate School of Design 2016 - 2018
Cambridge, MA
Master of Landscape Architecture II, Candidate for 2018
Ohio State University 2012 - 2016
Columbus, OH
Bachelor of Science in Landscape Architecture Cum Laude, GPA 3.655 Awards: Austin E. Knowlton School of Architecture Student Archive Studio Awards Dean’s list
WORK EXPERIENCE Reference
Daniel Vasini Creative Director/ Liaison, West 8 333 Hudson Street, Suite 905 New York, NY 10013 d.vasini@west8.com Sarah Cowles Associate Professor of Practice University of Southern California 964 Montecito Drive Los Angeles CA 90031 ruderalacademy@gmail.com Gareth Doherty Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture and Senior Research Associate, Harvard University Room503, 48 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA 02138 gdoherty@gsd.harvard.edu
W Architecture May 2017 - present
Brooklyn, NY
Intern Landscape Architect in charge of the rendering, modeling, construction documentation, pubic furniture design. Designing public plaza, waterfront park.
AECOM
jun 2014 - aug 2014
Chongqing, China
Intern Landscape Architect in charge of the concept development, perspective rendering, and drawing construction documents. Designing waterfront park, railway station plaza, shopping mall plaza.
Yalan Landscape Design Studio may 2013 - jul 2013
Tianjin, China
Intern Landscape Designer in charge of sketches, hand drawing, analysis diagram development, and drawing construction documents. Designing sports park, university campus.
EXHIBITION Exhibit The Elusina Lazenby Experimental Forest mar 2016 - apr 2016
Columbus, OH
Gallery space for the 100th anniversary of The Ohio State University’s landscape program. Designing memorial forest diorama individually and assisting with gallery space build.
AWARDS HONORS Dec 2015
Austin E. Knowlton School of Architecture Student Archive
Floating Loop Dec 2014
Austin E. Knowlton School of Architecture Student Archive
Brooklyn Navy Yard Industry Park Apr 2014
Studio Awards, Ohio State University, Columbus
Re-Tooling Metropolis: LA!
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South Boston Waterfront Community
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Innovative City
SKILLS Software Hand Machine
BNY Industrial Park
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Floating Loop Scioto River Sports Park
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Solar Terrace Community
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Hand Drawing/ Physical Modeling
Wexner Center Plaza
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Laser Cutter [VLS, X660] CNC [3-AXIS] 3D Printer [MakerBot, Stratasys FDM, Z corp]
Other Works
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GIS/ AutoCAD/ Adobe Photoshop/ Adobe Illustrator/ Adobe InDesign/ Adobe AfterEffect/REVIT/ Rhino (Grasshopper)/ Unity/Sketchup
Re-Tooling Metropolis II:
LA!
GSD 17Fall Site: Los Angelos Port, LA Group Work, team: Jianing Tao, Hui Yuan
Los Angeles has long captured the imaginations of designers and urbanites and theorists for its embodiment of everything characteristic of the twentieth-century metropolis, and for its unrivaled, enigmatic qualities—including sun, surf, lifestyle and surreal conglomerations of single-purpose transportation and utility infrastructure. The Port of Los Angeles encompasses 7,500 acres of land and water along 43 miles of waterfront. The port of LA is beginning a process of transformation, with new builds of water front the port of LA is preparing to become a new visitor attractor spot. This project is looking at potentials of contamination of abandoned industrial terminal and using phyto remediation for soil removing and establishing new research institutes for educational and new investments
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PHYTO-REMEDIATION
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Wetland Perspective
Salt Marsh Perspective
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SHIPPING FACILITIES TIDAL POOLS
SOUTH BOSTON WATERFRONT COMMUNITY GSD 1211core studio 16Fall: Site: South Boston, MA Group Work, team: Ann Serlano, Hui Yuan
South Boston Waterfront Community focus on hydrology and topography as the genesis for a littoral urbanism. It uses landscape both as medium and as mechanism for testing and prototyping ideas on city making. For unpacking topography and speculate on the behaviors of water in relation to terrain. It will be necessary to imagine terrain as a thickness, a medium capable of supporting a range of urban and marine systems through managed saturation and flow. It develops a serious iterations to explore how topography can hold, distribute, and infiltrate water. City fabrics are primarily defined through the organization of buildings and open spaces. While there are many different circumstances that can regulate the grain of an urban fabric, we use density and solar exposure as the two main variables that will regulate the mutual influence of built and open space.
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FRESH WATER MARSH
T WIND: DOMINAN WNW
CRUISE SHIP TERMINAL
Islands Shaped by Dredged Process
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Hexagonal Typology
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HOLDING WATER DISTRIBUTE WATER FRESH WATER SALT WATER
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Topographical Tree
FIN FORMATION BERM
WAVE
CUBE
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BUILDING TYPOLOGY
FAR: 1.18
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FAR: 1.07
FAR: 0.62
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SUMMER PERSPECTIVE
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INNOVATIVE CITY Boston Harbor GSD 1408 Site: Boston Harbor Individual Work
The project is about removing Boston original port and bringing Boston Harbor into a new harmonious communities for birds and human beings. With review regulation documentation through different department of Boston City the design will look to the combination of nature and people. My design integrates marsh lands with two existing islands---Thompson Island and Spectacle Island, creating new tidal park at Boston Harbor with recreational bike paths and birds breeding land.
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Hyper Birds + Gregarious + Breeding
Sea Birds + Gull + Terns
As a potential international port, Boston port has annual 120,604 import container volumes and 88,098 export container volumes. The new port will bring Boston port forward a larger international port, it will along Deer Island port cities and connect airport to Long Island. The new docklands will serve as new barrier to protect inner harbor and a small one will connect between long island and moon island. Marsh lands will be built along the new docklands and serve as birds islands for migratory birds resting, feeding and breeding of Atlantic Flyways. New marshlands will reshape main channel as a new waterways where new residential communities will develop along the new river.
Through consideration of people activities at Boston Harbor, my concept emphasizes ecological, educational and recreational experience in all-year around. Thompson Island and Spectacle Island will become new landmarks across over the harbor for events happen and Boston city line. There are four different sizes types birds house across large marsh land, protecting and offering isolated breeding lands for migratory birds of Atlantic Flyways.
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Land Birds + Gregarious + Breeding
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Shore and Wading Birds
AIR SPACE
INDUSTRIAL
E: 1”=1400’-0” CONSERVATION
PARKING FREEZE
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BROOKLYN NAVY YARD POST-INDUSTRIAL PARK KSA-Ecology & Planning Studio 2014 Fall : Site: Brooklyn Navy Yard, NYC Individual Work The Brooklyn Navy Yard site, which was formerly built ship, also contained heavy industrial areas plagued by polluted brown fields. From the larger city scale to the smaller neighborhood scale all the way to the Site scale, what I find about the potential of Brooklyn Navy Yard is solving the isolated problem with develop the dry dock and vacant field. Because the Navy Yard now act as a “boarder� industry place where the people from proximity community do not want to visit. Navy Yard should be encouraged people to involved in and serve for its own factories as well. This brought me to the idea of defining the territory of where our landscape should go, and how it should act.
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HEAVY INDUSTRY CONDITION
Exist
HEAVY INDUSTRY CONDITION Collect Collect Purify Purify Release Release
Pathway along with Molinia caerulea field that not only provides visitors an opportunity to get natural experience, but also provides a natural space and ecological environment for local plant to grow. Proposal
Water Purification System: Basins in Dry Dock Debris Collection Oxidation PH Balance Restoration Wetland
Juniperus communis var. depressa are grown near the old factory that provides a natural green mask for old architecture, and also serves function of recreation for residents. Exist
LIGHT INDUSTRY CONDITION LIGHT INDUSTRY CONDITION Greywater Greywater Use Use Treatment Treatment Brownfield Use Brown field Use New Ecological Benefit New Ecological Benefit
Test field provides visitors and local residents an opportunity to experience grow and crop plants by themselves. Also, the test field has the function of judging the quality of soil. Proposal
Ecology Introduction: Barrier as Sandbar Greywater runoff site Large scale saltwater marsh Bird Ecology
The old railroad is kept with re-design features of concrete and sand pavement in order to provides visitor an opportunity to remember the history of Navy Yard. Exist
PARK CONDITION
PARK CONDITION Reclamation of Riverfront Reclaimation of Riverfront Recreation Recreation Education Education Public Involvement Public Involvement
Proposal
Small scale treatment: Public Involvement Pedestrian walkway Public Beach Educational Riverwalk Sailboat Rental Phytoremediation Marsh
Calamagrostis acutiflora ‘Karl Foerster’ are grown at the edge of the site that blur the edge condition between Brooklyn Navy Yard and neighborhood and provides a green transition for visitors.
PIER CONDITION: Dry Dock Pier Collect Purify Release
Observation Pier Recreation Ecological Benefit Education
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SCIOTO RIVER FLOATING LOOP SPORTS PARK SPORTS PARK SCIOTO RIVERS
Floating track at the top of ramp Sunken swimming pool
High way I-670
KSA-Urbanism : & HUI LARCH 4960 COWLES & Studio THIERRY2015 Fall APRIL Site: Columbus, OH Group Work: With April Liu
Reparation wetland
The project is focus on solving the challenge of embarrassed place created by infrastructure in the city such as highway and rail tracks. Surrounded by highway I-670 and rail tracks, the site is located in the intersection of Olentangy River and Scioto River and facing the challenge of isolating from the downtown commercial area and Victoria Village. The concept of the project is to bring people into the sports fields, in which ramps influence the topo change, at the same time creates new experience under the highway and above the rail tracks. With the ramp, the most isolated place is switched into a popular gathering space combined with sporting programs. The main loop serves as a bike lane and connects sports fields and recreation programs in order to create an interaction with the infrastructures, meanwhile provides residents a dynamic space between their neighborhood and the waterfront.
RELATIONSHIP WITH NEIGHBORHOOD
RELATIONSHIP WITH RAILWOAD
RELATIONSHIP WITH HIGHWAY
CONCEPT
Site Model 1”=120’-0” Individual Work
Individual Work
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Site Plan Individual Work 12
Isolated with residential/ commercial
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Isolated by I670 and river 13 14
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Create a response with infrastructure
Site Analysis
1. soccer court 2. parking lot 3. lawn 4. football court 5. mini soccer court 6. swimming pool 7. track 8. baseball court 9. observation pier 10. entrance plaza 11. recreation grove 12. north entrance plaza 13. ice hockey 14. basketball 15. flower terrace 16. mini soccer field
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SCALE: 1”=16’
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Railroad and volley ball field condition Highway I-670 and storm water condition Soccer field and reparation pool condition Cafe and swimming pool condition
FOREST
BASKETBALL COURT
FOREST
HIGHWAY I-670
REPARIAN BUFFER
POUND
GROVE
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RAIL
GROVE
MEADOW
GLADE
FOREST
BIKE TRAIL
DITCH
CAFE
TRAIL
SWIMMING POOL
RAIL
DITCH
MEADOW
MEADOW
SOCCER FIELD
BUFFER
DITCH
CHANGING ROOM
SEATING TERRACE
RAMP
GLADE
BUFFER
FOREST
VOLLEYBALL COURT
Heartbeat Frequency
Swimming Pool Perspective
Skateboard Playground Under Highway
Heartbeat High point
Sports Field Location
Watershed
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SOLAR TERRACE COMMUNITY
RICE CROP AGRICULTURE
Yuanyang Planning Competition 2014 Site: Yuanyang, Yunnan, China Individual work
BUFFALO LABOR SOURCE
WOODEN WATER WHEEL
Buffalo serves as a major labor source of land cultivate in Yuanyang area
Agriculture is currently major income resource in Yuanyang area. And the major species is rice. The method of land cultivating is basically rely on farmer work without machine
Agriculture water wheel acts as an important motivation of power for water supplement MAJOR CROP SPECIES
The main crop in Yuanyang area is rice and it is also the main source where profit come from
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Located in southwestern China, Yunnan province is characteristic of typical landform of terrace. Yuanyang county was rich with its terrace land and organic soils, however it is isolated with surrounded area because of serial mountains. For mitigating poverty rate of this area, the concept of solar energy community is to develop new energy Ecologica Touirsm
such as solar system combined with local agricultrue in order to improve the whole community income level. At same time, encourageing more people to visit the terrace farm and solar farm in order to create more profits for local people and government. Solar energy system also plays as an important role of providing local people and hotel with electricity use. Urban
Site Photo
Axon Perspective
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Model
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professional work 50 West Bench Villiars Island Prague Bridge Competition Exhibition-Experimental Forest
50 West Bench Custom wooden benches in Plaza 33 at 50 West Street, Manhattan, line the raised planting areas which screen the adjacent parking garage and traffic beyond. There different types bench backs are designed with a continuous incline degree. The Plaza at 50 West Street, covering an area of approximately 5,500 square feet, is a uniquely quiet respite from the bustle of West St. It is both a connector from the west side to historic Lower Manhattan as well as a place to spill out from the adjoining building. A wide ramp encourages pedestrians to make the journey up the five feet additional height required for flood protection. Moveable tables and chairs spill out from the building onto the plaza space enlivening this attractive oasis
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VILLIARS ISLAND Works at W-Architecture
Villiers Island holds an important place in the transformation of Toronto’s waterfront and the naturalization of the Don River. Located in the Lower Don Lands, east of Toronto’s downtown, this Precinct Plan will build on and restore the historic Keating Channel and protect the Don Lands from flood risk while revitalizing a former industrial area into a spectacular new neighborhood. Villiers Island will become a special community showcasing a new relationship between the city, the river and the lakefront. It will be a community rich in local amenities and a destination with spectacular parks, cultural, civic and retail amenities. My responsibily was working on variety of street types and parks renderings.
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PRAGUE BRIDGE COMPETITION Works at W-Architecture
The face of Prague is made up of arched bridges made of stone, concrete and steel stranded between the banks of the Vltava River. The beauty of the intersection of bridge lines is our inspiration. The design is humiliated in the city’s panorama, low above the horizon, but high enough to offer spectacular views. The seemingly simple shape is a celebration of engineering innovation, thanks to which one continuous arc from Holešovice to Karlín is able to withstand the flood. Two supporting arches converge to the island of Štvanice. The bridge utilizes verified and available materials and construction techniques, and its slenderness is achieved by the latest building engineering options. The footbridge is a determining link that will drive the future growth of Holešovice, Karlín and Štvanice.
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The Elusina Lazenby Experimental Forest Memorial Forest
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Memorial forest brings the ceremonial setting into woodland space, trying to create a new experience for people that could feel a sense of sublime in a natural environment. A dense maple grove located at the entrance of the pathway, leading people to enter memorial space with rows of trees and trying to provide people with a feeling of formal. The geometry shape wetland cuts across this forest garden which represents the scar of ground, providing people with an opportunity of accessing water. In addition, it creates a natural space that shows a contrast with organized maple grove. The diorama describes the moment of artificial mound which rises above the ground and emphasizes hierarchy of memorial place. Large scale trees are planted on the mound in order to draw the attentions of Lazenby Forest visitors even in a distance. The dense wetland plants enclose the artificial mound to create a sacred atmosphere, and a contrast with less dense trees around. Trying to create a combination of formal and less formal element, the site allows people to experience natural element in the sacred forest. Lazenby Forest visitors can walk under the dense tree canopy or climb on the artificial mound to get the whole view of Lazenby Forest.
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OTHER WORKS TRANSLATION AND MODELING KSA-Urbanism Studio 2015 Fall : Group Work: With April Liu
Mark Bradford. 2009 Material: Honeycomb Wire Line Paper Wire-mesh
The idea is from the art piece of Mark Bredford which is a art work with multiple layers. We extract three colors from the drawing into our project model: red, black, and white. We assumed the contours based on the drawing and created new topography. We assumed the light color space has a higher elevation and the dark color has a lower elevation. The curved lines of the drawing is developed as a amphitheater into our project.
We presented the linear space of the drawing with tangling white lines on nails and then spread black and red color on them. The red trees met the edge condition of the landforms and function as a transition zone from the dry area to wet lower area.
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OTHER WORKS BENCH DESIGN
Wood Seat Panel
KSA-Deisn in Detail Studio 2015 Spring : Individual Work
Steel Seat Panel
Bench
Curved Steel Frame with Holes
The concept of the bench is about encouraging people close to the plants. Sitting space is made of 5 thin wood panels and steel panel. Another steel piece was curved and open holes on both sides, serves as a base and a fancy space for plant as well.
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Concrete Planter
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To be continue...
The Huerta of Valencia is far more than simply irrigated farmland.The Huerta of Valencia is the best, and almost the last, example in Europe of at hous and-year-old Islamic agricultural landscape, continually cultivated since the 10th century and to this day reliant upon Arab practices of irrigation. For some current challenges of lacking of accessibility, vacant lands transferring into parking lots and the contamination of on-site water channel. As it exist now, the on-site channel network includes many deadend on surface level and contaminant. The design strategies will focus on improving water management on site via drawing existing poor quality water head to serial of treatments wetlands for filtering water, so the water will get a high quality after the process and suitable for agriculture irrigation of potential programs happened on site: hybrid agriculture, farmers market, community garden.
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