LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO KRYSTAL CHEN 2012-2015
CONTENTS 01
WATER & MIRROR
[ACADEMIC/ INDIVIDUAL]
Location: Linghai, China Time:2013 | Project Duration: 6 weeks | Professor: Quan Hong 02 Chen Hanxue (Krystal Chen) ZHEJIANG A & F UNIVERSITY Major in landscape architecture From Hangzhou, China Email:krystalchx@foxmail.com Tel:+8618868193691
TASTING & INHERITING
[ACADEMIC/ GROUP]
Location: Yixing, China Time:2015 | Project Duration: 6 weeks | Professor: Qinxing Bao 03
SPRING:BOUNDDARYLESS LIFE
[ACADEMIC/ INDIVIDUAL]
Location: Hangzhou, China Time:2015 | Project Duration: 4 weeks | Professor: Qinxing Bao 04
BLUISH WAVES CLASSICAL GARDEN
[ACADEMIC/ INDIVIDUAL]
Location: Beijing, China Time:2014 | Project Duration: 12 weeks | Professor: Qinxing Bao 05
BACK TO THE COMPOSITION [ACADEMIC/ INDIVIDUAL] Time:2012 | Project Duration: 2 weeks | Professor: Yilei Lou
TWO FOUR ONE
THREE
Design Sketch of Arboretum Tea-house(Cafe)
The Design of Seaside Arboretum Tea-house|Water&Mirror Type:Academic/ Individual work| Location: Linghai, China Time:2013 | Project Duration: 6 weeks | Professor: Quan Hong
LOCATION
USER&FOUNDATION
STRUCTURE EVOLUTION
ELEVATION AND PLAN
The tea house has two floors.Intertwined with with interior and exterior gardens, it enables guests to better communicate with nature. Decorated by scattered water landscapes, gurgling water and good privacy make customer immersed in peace of mind.
SECOND FLOOR
GROUND FLOOR
Elevation Diagram
The exterior shutters ensures a sense of the building wholeness and sufficient sunshine.The facade is framed by silver metallic materials and hollowed out with tea shape, endowing building with an unique art style while playing a role in shading it from the extra-sunshine. In addition, the sun shines through the metal hollow-out framework, forming fantastic lighting effects inside the team house indoors, which give customers a unique visual experience. The constructions materials are mainly metal, wood and concrete with its art beauty enhanced by the surrounding nature. Meanwhile, the waterside balcony resembles the Japanese style and the edgeless pool makes customers feel surrounded by endless water.On the benefit of height dif ferences, customers can have abundant impressions and experiences when drinking tea.
Conceptual Design of Landscape in Yixing City
Design of Water Landscape in Dingshu Town, Yixing City based on Cultural Revival | Tasting & Inheriting Type:Academic/ Group work | Location: Yixing, China Time:2015 | Project Duration: 6 weeks | Professor: Qinxing Bao
LOCATION
HISTORIC ANALYSIS
I n a n c i e n t t i m e s, Y i x i n g w a s n at i o n a l l y acknowledged for producing top-grade red stoneware. Yixing red stoneware businessmen sell their products via river course passing through the city to every corner of China. Time flies and everything has changed. Nowadays, the red stoneware industry is undertaking its increasing declination, worsened by decreasing numbers of handicraftsmen, increasingly d ege n e rat e d e nv i ro n m e n t a n d gra d u a l l y desolated commercial street. I hope that through my design, I can provide a beautiful environment, bring people closer together as well as revive Yixing’s red stoneware industry as a city label.
WORK FLOW ANALYSIS
PROBLEMS
MASTER PLAN
LAYER-CAKE MODEL
PLANT FURNISHING
The cultural brand of red stoneware constitutes unique local features l i ke s o c i a l n e t wo rks, t ra d i t i o n continuation, history accumulation and so on. In the so-called SpaceTime Compressed post-modern social network proposed by David Harvey, it is these local features that can reshape the brand meaning of Yixing red stoneware. Th ro u g h c o m p l ex p ro d u c t i o n , m a r ke t i n g , p a cka g e a n d m e d i a e n g a g e m e n t , t h o s e p ro d u c t i o n practitioner of red stoneware endues Yixing brand with unique local features. Meanwhile, they build a set of landscape where the producing procedure is replayed for people to participate within.
SCOPE OF DESIGN
DESIGN STRAT
TEGY
Based on the BOX Model, my design aims to achieve the preservation, repair, conservationďźŒ i m p rove m e n t a n d rev i t a l i z at i o n o f t h e l o c a l community. First, I intend to connect two important points and then expand to the whole district by a water channel. Emphasizing the links between landscape architecture and culture, I hope that BOX Model can protect the local culture and develop the red stoneware industry, which can attract foreign and domestic tourists while evoking the collective memory of the local residents. I think it shows respect for history and most importantly a vision for the future.
Hand-designed model of the central community
Conceptual Design of Architecture and Landscape in the Central Community| SpringďźšBoundaryless Life Type:Academic/ Individual work| Location: Hangzhou, China Time:2015 | Project Duration: 4 weeks | Professor: Qinxing Bao
[Internet+ Life] Spaces feature uniqueness and independence. I would like to employ some reorganization means to rejuvenate their new vitality and endue them with more vibrant colors. Just like the Internet, spaces are tightly linked together.Meanwhile, my design plan gives full play to the internet function in the allocation of social resources for optimization and integration so as to promote the vitality of the market of traditional industries and provide broad network platform for reform, innovation and development. However, the collision between tradition and modernity is inevitable. This plan focuses on the result of the collision, namely the networked and mechanized interpersonal relationships against Internet +background; and it will provide a new living-space model to reconnect people. Like spring effect, the integral gurgling spring obtain its vitality not by individual force but by several springs, with multiple spring serving as center points and contributing their respective influential domain.
LOCATION ANALYSIS
FIELD INTERVIEWS
THE COMMUNICATION PROBLEM?
HISTORICAL CHANGES/ SPATIAL PATTERN The initial village is originally s c at t e re d a ro u n d t h e o l d Longjing district and then gradually expanded outside. It gained its further development when the tap water system was built. The Internet originated in Europe and has gradually shaped the global development of multi-polarization. The u p s - a n d - d o w n s p at t e r n o f village and development of the internet has inspired us to abandon the old concept of a single site. Instead, a centre with concentrated functions is determined and meanwhile expand several basic points to enlarge the influential domain of different function areas. In the process of referring to radiation patterns of the internet and studying on changes of village development, the designing site is changing at a dynamic level accordingly.
BOOTH
THE PAVILION IN THE MOUNTAIN
OUTDOOR GYMNASIUM
BOOK BAR GREEN PARKING LOT
GARBAGE CAN GREEN PARKING LOT RECREATION PAVILION VILLAGE COMMITTEE HEALTH-CARE CENTER
THE PAVILION IN THE MOUNTAIN
CHESS BAR PUBLIC BIKE
The Concept Origins and Structure Development of Central Building Chinese words Jing( A well) and Real Jing(A real well) evolved with the combination of tea culture.The whole block is broken up for restructuring and then gradually evolved into the final form.
Economic zone: tea market,express, seven-eleven
Economic zone: storage
Chinese character: äş•
The old dragon well which located in Wengjiashan
The dragon well tea which is native to Wengjiashan
Architectural form
Health care zone: gymnasium
Health care zone: health-center
Deformation of the words
Line up the disorganized block
Rearange to return the form of well
Deformation
Recreational zone: chess room
Economy
Culture
Entertainment
Health Care
Economy
Educational zone: library
The functions of main architectures and landscape nodes are mutually enhanced to meet the basic needs of the local residents. The whole architectural system i s c o n s i s t e d by e c o n o m i c area, health-care area, entertainment area and cultural area. Standing at the top of garden roof, one can overlook the whole village.
GROUND FLOOR
SECOND FLOOR
The purpose for establishing a functionally diverse place i s t o p ro v i d e a gat h e r i n g place for villagers. Gathering is a prerequisite for communication. Only the villagers get together and communicate face to face can the disadvantage of the internet be erased.
THIRD FLOOR
Hand-designed Model of Chinese Classical Gardens
Chinese Classical Gardens | Bi Yi Garden(Jade Ripple Garden) Type:Academic/ Individual work | Location: Beijing, China Time:2014 | Project Duration: 12 weeks | Professor: Qinxing Bao
Suzhou Museum ｜ By Krystal Chen (Iphone 5)
[Collision between Modernization and Classicism] Designed by Leoh Ming Pei, Suzhou Museum is separated from his former residence Lion Garden (the classical gardens of Suzhou) only by a wall. As an interwoven art product of modernization and classicism, Suzhou Museum has its unique charm. By exploring the essence of China's classical gardens, I hope to experience the secret within them and deepen my recognition and understanding modern parks and insights.
layout of water
Basis for Selection of Garden Location Na-lan Hsing-te(A famous poet in China Ch'ing dynasty) was acknowledged in history for his nobility of manner and his ardent love for natural landscape, which determined his choice of building garden on the western outskirts of Beijing. The garden is near Fragrance Hill and Kunming Lake, forming a natural pattern of terraced hills and sprinkling water, which endows the garden with booming vitality.
stone arrangement
Artistic Conception of Garden Building Na-lan Hsing-te had deep fondness for pure water and elegant lotus. In traditional Chinese culture, water is considered to be a vital form with lofty character. Many Chinese literary works often compare water's lofty character as gentleman's noble manner. Water moistens everything with its softness; also it comes and goes in an endless flow.The ancient Chinese empowered a philosophical connotation in water from both rational and emotional views. The loft character of water is particularly thought highly of by Na-lan Hsing-te. Therefore, Jade Bi Yi Garden(Jade Ripple Garden) comprehensively reflects Na-lan Hsing-te's noble virtues, fondness of poems and nature-loving character. Concerning its Chinese meaning, Bi Yi means pure water, simple and quiet life as well as self-constraint. With water surrounded as company, recuperating and relaxing in this garden, Na-lan Hsing-te wrote his poems and lyrics, read classics and history, compiled his books. Meanwhile, he often invited literary guests to the garden for poetry appreciation.
Build houses
tree planting
First Encounter Pavilion PLAN
Garden Gate
Coral Chamber
Quite Dream Pavilion
Charming Lotus Hall
Myriad Flowers Garden
Green Water Pavilion
Rimless Moonlight and Wind Loggia
Autumn-Wind-Pity-Deserted-Pan Loggia
Cold-Flower-in-Romantic-Dream Loggia
Individual Building
Complex Arrangement and Layout
Overall Layout
[Cold Flower in Romantic Dream]
[Admire the lotus and Listen to the Rain ]
[Raindrops Drum Rhythmically Against the Banana Leaves]
[Rimless Moonlight and Wind]
[ Gurgling and Rippling Green Water]
[ Quiet and Romantic Dream Leaning Against Green Mountains]
[ If only life were as beautiful as at first sight]
[Autumn Wind Pity Deserted Pan]
Color&Composition | By Krystal Chen (Iphone 5 or Fujifilm X100T)
C o l o r s a n d structures usher to me deep cogitation on its emotional influence and cultural connotation, sometimes, I would be deeply moved by their breathtaking beauty.
Music garden | Back to the composition Type:Academic/ Individual work | Time:2012 Project Duration: 2 weeks | Professor: Yilei Lou
Blues
Jazz
The spirits of blues music stands for a free and unconstrained mental state. With its core lying in originality and impromptus, blues music emphasizes the catharsis of personal emotion, which determines its blue-mood keynote. However, its confession of personal innermost feelings represents a rebelling spirit to the mainstream music. The free crisscross lines is the logo of freedom symbolizing its essence as free music in the constrained world while the random circles scattered around the lines indicates the variety of blues music.
Jazz music features complexity and diversity. The crisscross lines in the picture seem as if the layout of a tidy square, brimming with towering skyscrapers, energetic dancing halls, jazz music bands and flowing crowds in street ambilights. The lines and diamond have an interlinked emotional correlation, enhanced by some kind of unprecedented new spirit. The inspired is from Mondrian's classic works Broadway Boogie-Woogie.
Electronic Music
Rock and Roll
Any electronic sound of music composed by instruments like electronic synthesizer and effector, computer music software or drum machine can reasonably be called electronic music. The crisscross turning lines seems electronic music waves as well as an integral part of a circuit board, brimming with a sense of modernization. With spiritually shocking sound waves, electronic music can directly reach your inner world.
Rock music is flexible and audacious, with p a s s i o n at e m u s i c r h y t h m s e x p re s s i n g emotion. As a music form full of passion and enthusiasm, rock music has obtained great popularity among young people in the world. As a symbol of rebelling youthfulness, rock music helps release passion of summer. A Music Festival is always dominated by crazy bands and shouting crowds, with blooded youth casting their enthusiasm toward the main stage and boogieing and singing crazily.
Thankyou for your time and consideration... Please do not hesitate to contact me for further information
Chen Hanxue (Krystal Chen) ZHEJIANG A & F UNIVERSITY Major in landscape architecture From Hangzhou, China Email:krystalchx@foxmail.com Tel:+8618868193691