Zhongliang Liang Portfolio Architecture I Planning I Urban Design Selected Works 2012-2016
The University of Texas at Austin | Master of Science in Urban Design Southwest Jiaotong University, China | Bachelor of Engineering in Urban Planning
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VISION By exploring socio-economic, ecological, and cultural sustainability in architecture, planning, and urban design projects, this portfolio establishes a sustainable framework to create vibrant, livable, economically successful, eco-friendly, and socially responsible urban environments in various contexts.
TABLE OF CONTENTS "Panjiagu" - Pan Community Valley Panjiayuan Antiques Market Redevelopment, Beijing
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Doumen Old Street Exhibition Hall & Club, Zhuhai
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Anchuan Urban Core, E'meishan City Legend
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Mixed-Use Residential, 5 stories Mixed-Use Residential, 3 stories
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Survey on the living condition of urban scavengers, Neighborhood Mixed Use, 2 stories 26 Chengdu
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Multifamily, 6-story Multifamily, 3-story
Midtown Agora Multifamily, 2-story 2016 ULI Hines Competition, Atlanta
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Hotel, 3-story
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Townhome, High Density
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Small Lot Single Family Johnson City, TX Revitalization Hero
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Mixed Use Office, 5 stories Skinny Lot Single Family Medical Office Leander, TX Transit District Future Scenarios
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Mid Rise Office
Farm
Business Park Flex
GIS Mapping & Analytique
Civic and Education Park and Playground
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01 "Panjiagu ( 潘家谷 )" - Pan Community Valley, Beijing Studio Reintegrate The Community and Antiques Market Using Green Infrastructure Design Excellence Award, University of Texas at Austin, Fall 2015 Panjiayuan Antiques Market Redevelopment, Beijing Studio Beijing, China
Being respectful to the Chinese sensational attachment to Shan Shui (meaning mountain and water), our schematic concept of the market is related to the idea of a valley, aiming at reintegrating the currently isolated antiques market and community by adding green infrastructure and additional programs such as workshops, teahouses, restaurants, educational facilities, and various public spaces to bolster the visitor’s experience. With these new programs, our project cultivates and increases the appreciation of cultural knowledge whilst becoming a gem for the surrounding community.
Tutors: Wilfried Wang, Gabriel Diaz Montemayor, Junfeng Jiao Design Partners: Brooks Cavender, Nathalie Kip Duration: Fall 2015
Higher Density Mixed-Use attracts more private & public high performance investment
Green Infrastructure More water re-use Less stormwater discharge
Canopy Market maximize sunlight, collects stormwater, and implys movement of activities
Enhanced Subway Connection links the market to the city
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Exhibition Hall & Workshops promote authenticity through education
Complete Street & Raised Crosswalk slow traffic to improve pedestrian & bike access Ground Floor Retail & Street Market activate the street on both sides
Various Building Forms provide rich uses and experiences
New Community Facilities reintegrate the market with community
Upper Floor Restaurants & Teahouses offer great views and attract people to shops above ground
Drivers & Concepts Seperation to Integration
Isolation to Reconnection
Private to Public
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Wall Subway Entrance
Bus Stop
Existing
Existing
Restrict feeder road access Extend bike lanes to east of Panjiayuan Market
Existing
Expand market boundaries Localize Panjiayuan Road Raised Crosswalk
Increase community space within the market
New Entrances
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Bike Lane
Underground Parking Proposed
Impervious to Pervious
Proposed
Disproportion to Harmony
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Add vegetation and water management on site
Monotonous to Authentic
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Existing
Market buildings relate more to surrounding buildings Extra density provides more profitable space
Add programs and activities to bolster authenticity
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REPURPOSED MATERIALS
CRAFTSMANSHIP
KNOWLEDGE
CULTURE
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1 3rd Ring Road Highway 2 Bridge 3 Mid-Rise Residential + Bottom Floor Retail 4 Subway Entrance 5 Bus Stop 6 Appraisal Centre 7 High-Rise Residential
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8 Hospital Staff Dormitory 9 Hospital 10 Park 11 Bike & Tricycle Parking 12 Bio-Swale Buffer Zone 13 Underground Parking Entrance 14 Underground Parking Exit 15 Raised Crosswalk + Special
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Pavement 16 Street Market + Seatings 17 Bridge Market 18 Entrance w/ Seatings 19 Bookstore 20 Outdoor Book Selling Zone 21 Open Market + Shop + Restaurant / Cafe / Teahouse
22 Market Canopy 23 Cafe 24 Central Retention Plaza 25 Underground Cistern 26 Outdoor Exhibition Zone + Seatings 27 Exhibition Hall 28 Shop 29 Workshop
30 Sculpture Garden 31 Bio-Swale 32 Administration + Community Facility + Education Facility 33 Education Facility + Shop 34 South Entrance
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Programs
Administration / Community Facilities Education Facilities
Sculpture Garden
Restaurants / Cafe / Tea Houses Street Market
Metro Station Underground Parking
Bridge Market
Shops Workshops
Exhibition Hall Central Retention Plaza
Market Canopy Open Market
Building Typologies
Workshop
Canopy
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Canopy Market
Living walls connect with canopy top to feed stormwater to green infrastructure on the ground
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Terraced Shops Upper Floor Restaurants & Teahouses offer great views and attract people to shops above ground
Vines feed stormwater to green infrastructure on the ground Wrapped in translucent material, the undulation covers hung in glulam bamboo timber structures on a twelve-meter grid provides a generous light for the transactions going on beneath
The shops feature a six-meter unit constructed from bamboo glulam timber. Bamboo is not only characteristic of the country’s history and culture, but also a heavily renewable resource.
Sculpture Garden & Workshops Operable bamboo screens and generous fenestration allow visible connection and exchange of ideas Sculptures display while selling
Arranged recycled roof tiles (approx. 4,500 m2) and grey brick (approx. 7,000 m2) highlight the authenticity in construction Green infrastructure combines with seatings
Traditional hutong wall pattern reiteration with concrete bars emphasizing modernism 9
North-South Section Perspective To respond to the severe water scarcity issue in Beijing, the green infrastructure system captures, infiltrates, and reuses water. The water flows from the roofs and canopies along vegetated walls, bioswales, and rain gardens, eventually to the retention ponds in the
central space, getting stored in an underground cistern for future reuse on the site. Going back to the idea of a valley, the terraced buildings at the periphery act as the static mountains mitigating the scales, and the movement of water and activities from across the street
INFILTRATION
through the raised crosswalk and from the top-floor to the flow of canopy market, connecting everything together.
OVERFLOW PIPE ENGINEERED SOIL OPEN-GRADED STONE BASE INFILTRATION
SHOPS
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BIOSWALE 2M
CANOPY MARKET
GREEN WALL OVERFLOW CHANNEL
FLEXIBLE MARKET SPACE
SHOPS 6M
BIKELANE 2M
SIDEWALK 2M BIOSWA 2M
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Native Plant Palette Selected By Ecological Functions & Colors
Buchloe dactyloides
Liriope spicata
Arundinella hirta
Miscanthus sinensis
Sedum sarmentosum
Amorpha fruticosa
Pennisetum alopecuroides
Iris lacteal
Iris pseudoacorus
Sedum spectabile
Viola chinensis
Ligustrum X vicaryi
Sabina vulgaris
Platanus X acerifolia
Prunus serrulata
Fraxinus chinensis
Plat ycladus orientali
Salix babylonica
Green Infrastructure System
4 VEHICULAR LANES OVERFLOW 15M PIPE
BIKELANE 2M PEDESTRIAN WALKWAY INFORMAL MARKET PUBIC SEATING SPACE GARDEN 10-17.5M
6-STORY HOUSING
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02 Old Street Exhibition Hall & Club Internalize Formal and Informal Urban Fabrics to Excel Traditional Culture Redevelopment of a corner building, Individual Work Dou’men Town, Zhuhai, China Duration: Two months, 2013
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Much like how China’s urbanization is facing the issue of losing identity, the site locates at the crossroad of a historic main street, the Dou’men Old Street, and a hutong leading to an old residential area of the town. The iconic Old Street Exhibition Hall and Club reinterprets the formal and informal urban fabrics and creates a new design vocabulary combining historic typologies of spaces, walls, stairs, windows, skylights, routes, views and functions, celebrating the traditional culture of Dou'men.
Doumen District
Elevation Doumen Town
Elevation
Fabric Direction
Fabric Direction
Sense of Distance Sense of Distance
Speed Speed
Informal Hutong Neighborhood
Sky View
Formal Historic Main Street
Existing Formal and Informal Design Vocabularies
Sky View
The two urban fabrics of historic main street and hutong neighborhoods contain different design typoloies. 13
Integrating The Formal and Informal Design Vocabulary
sense of distance
direction
speed
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speed
sense of distance
direction
direction
direction
sky view
sky view
sense of distance
elevation structure
open space
open space
elevation structure
Alley Vocabulary Main Street Vocabulary Integrated Vocabulary 14
section indoor transformation The chatting and music from the club pass through the skylight and nurture the atmosphere of the exhibition room on the first floor. This resembles the inter-infiltration of the two orders.
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Standing exhibition room Flexible exhibition room Club Service room Storage Kitchen Restroom
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Light & Shadow
Tune of Walls & Open spaces
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Skylight Attracts People
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open space
stairs
Possible Routes for The Two Orders
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Texture
Tune
Roof
The facade along the street is unified by the same and delicate textures with bricks and coatings. Meanwhile the facade along the Hutong are composed of diverse textures, including bricks with different surfaces and erroded conditions.
The facade along the street is divided into two levels with orderly windows. Meanwhile the facade along the Hutong uses the form of casement windows and cornices to separate private spaces.
The roofs along the two streets are quite different, which represent the two different elements of the arcade and the Hutong.
Street Elevation Line of Cornices Ground Floor Height
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03 Anchuan Urban Core Interlocking Pedestrian and Landscape Networks On An Urban District Urban Design of the Urban Core of Anchuan District, Undergraduate Design Study E’meishan City, China Tutors: Xu Cui, Yijie Liu, Linglan Bi Design Partner: Yang Lu Duration: Spring 2013
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Often seen as merely a transfer stop on the way to the famous tourist destination in Sichuan Province -- E'mei Mountain, Anchuan City seizes the opportunity to turn its new urban core into a vibrant and livable place attracting local residents and tourists. The "Sustainable, Human-scale, and Public" design principles emerge into interlocking pedestrian and landscape networks to make the city more sustainable and accessible. The mixture of uses and scales promote an energetic urban lifestyle, combining live, work, and recreation within a dense and walkable district.
Context Jiajiang
Site/New Town E’meishan City
Emei Mountain
Leshan City
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Old Town
Leshan City
Leshan Grand Buddha Old Town
Location of Anchuan, E’meishan City
The site locates within the E’mei River Comprehensive Plan, which promote an enjoyable countrystyle live.
District Plan for E’meishan City The site was planned to be a new urban core district in north E’meishan City.
Transit Advantages With nearby railway station, bus stations, freight station and city avenues, the site easily accessible to public and private transportation.
Current Land Uses
Existing land use on site is mostly undeveloped farmland with unplanned villages.
Conflicts & Negotiations DEVELOPMENT VS PRESERVATION
Farmland & Built Land
AUTOMOBILE SCALE VS HUMAN SCALE
Street Network in Zoning
Existing Street Network
TRAFFIC FOR RECREATION VS REGULAR COMMUTE
Routes for Recreation
Routes for Daily Commute
Sustainable, Human-scale, and Public District 21
Strategy
Functional Zoning
Building Program
Human Scale
Public
Sustainable
Each block in the area has unique characters with mixed uses, everyone can find a place they enjoy.
Commercial Office Civic & Educational
Residential + Commercial Governmental Residential
Plan Generation Step1
The street network is largely based on zoning, but with the main road bents to allow core functions to be in one side. 22
Step2
The site needs to strengthen the connection between the north and the south.
Step3
A north-south landscape axis and an urban creek are introduced into the site.
Step4
Different functions are linked by footpaths and the creek.
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Open space nodes are located in conjunction with the pedestrian network.
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The east-west connections are strengthened to complete the network.
Master Plan
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1 Shimian Weir Creek Sustainable 2 E’mei River Landscape Network 3 Dam 4 Safeguarding Greenway 5 Irrigation Channel 6 Neighborhood Committee + Police Office + Fire Station + Market 7 Sports Park Service Center 8 Stadium 9 Gymnasium 10 Hospital 11 SOHO 12 Residential + Commercial 13 Footpath 14 Business Club 15 Office Human Scale 16 Overpass Urban Fabric 17 People’s Congress + People’s Political Consultative Conference 18 Party Committee + Governmental Agencies 19 Governmental Affair Service 20 Public Security + People’s Courts + Procuratorial Organs 21 Un-gated Residential 22 Primary & Middle Schools 23 Low-Carbon Office 24 Star Hotel 25 SOHO 26 Riverwalk 27 Kindergarten + Community Center Public 28 Power Station Pedestrian Network 29 Underpass 30 Civic Plaza 31 Library + Exhibition Hall + Activity Center 32 Theater + Cultural Center 33 Music Amphitheater 34 Shopping Center 35 Commercial District 36 Playground 37 Creative Park 38 Restaurants + Hostels 39 Cultural Commercial District 40 E’mei Observation Tower Overpass Main Footpath 41 Riverfront Park Riverwalk 42 Riverfront Visitor Center Connection
Residential Main Street Bike Lane
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Footpath Analysis Dynamic Entertainment Strolling Neighborhood
Dynamic Entertainment Sharing Mixed-Use
Vigor Admin Prosper Work Civil Square
Dynamic Entertainment 24
Prosper Work
Vigor Admin
Civil Square
Riverfront Park
Multi-function
Eating Path
Learning Path
Jogging Path
Bike Path
Conference Path
Living Path
Working Path
Playing Path
Shopping Path
Strolling Path
A possible combination of activities on the path in the business area.
Footpaths support various activities among citizens in each functional zone.
Structures are designed for diverse activities and behaviors
"Tailoring" eliminates negative space
The footpath links local cultural and commercial streets, and the waterfront park combines the uses of transportation and site viewing. The path also provide spaces for users under it. Some parts of the footpath extends into the river from above, other parts reconcile with the topography and form a closer relationship with the water.
Dynamic Entertainment
Strolling Neighborhood
Riverfront Park 25
04 Survey On The Living Condition of Scavengers In The City Integrating Resource Recycling Systems to Protect Disadvantaged Groups Honorable Mention for Social Survey Section, 2012 NSC-URPEC Coursework, Southwest Jiaotong University, Spring 2012 Comprehensive Social Practice and Survey of Cities and Towns, Coursework Chengdu, China Tutors: Linglan Bi, Yang Yu Research Partners: Wencong Xu, Lulu Huang, Danzeng Baima
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Duration: Spring 2012 My objective is to survery the qualities of life of the vulnerable groups who are usually ignored in urban areas. This survey is based on the urban scavengers' working and living conditions and their positions in the governmental and informal recycling systems, and it tries to integrate the two recycling systems to protect the scavengers’ and the city’s benefits at once.
Framework Literature reviews Propose survey Public topics interests and directions
Summary of discussions
Literature analysis Visit colonies of the scavengers
Pre-survey Interview and seek advices from teachers
Learn about scavengers
Recycling Government station workers staffs
Determine survey content
Living condition
Survey
Data analysis and problem analysis
Questionnaire survey
Working condition Relation between systems
Scavengers make profits by receiving, classifying, processing, and reselling the wastes in the city. Meanwhile, they help the city recycle resources.
Survey Content Survey Methodology
Field survey
Three sides of the stake
Read
Residents
Interview survey
Essential features
Target Groups
Scavengers
Conclusion
One day of a scavenger Most scavengers engage in labor-dependent works, and they tend to work in a fixed area. Most of them accept recycling scraps as their long-term careers.
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Spot 8:30 Get up 6:30
Breakfast 7:00
commute 7:30
Lunch 12:00
Back to work 13:00
Pack 16:30
Resell 17:00
Go home 18:00
Rest 20:00
Patrol 8:30
System Comparison Non-governmental existing recycling system is dominated by supply and demand. Between recycling centers and enterprises, a certain business relationship has been established. Influenced by distance and price, the process of recycling might skip some steps.
Non-governmental Existing Recycling System Waste from factories
In the governmental expected recycling system, the new added community waste transfer station and renewable resource recycling market both are managed by the government. The process of recycling is relatively fixed, but without considering recycling from factories and shopping malls. For Scavengers? To accomplish the transformation from the nongovernmental system to the governmental system, urban scavengers need to subject to the management of government. And the relationships between the government, scavengers, and other residents challenge this transformation.
Waste from residents
Governmental Expected Recycling System
Waste from shopping malls
Waste from residents
Community Street Office
SCAVENGER
Community waste transfer station
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Government Recycling center
Management Path Recycling Path
Secondary market
Renewable resources recycling spot
Recycling market management office
Enterprise
Renewable resources recycling market
Secondary market
Enterprise
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Some scavengers' low quality and dishonesty
Community environment and security Most residents are unwilling to let the scavengers in the community or their home to work.
Facilitate the waste processing O TH ER R ESIDE NTS
Construction of community hubs relates with the benefit of enterprise
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Difficulty of scavenger management
Unpractical distribution plan failed to consider different functional zones separately.
Unwillingness of specific sectors
Unpractical policy
Some scavengers' low quality behavior like give short weight or pick up something in passing
The government and the public barely know scavengers, and subjectively believe that their income is considerable
Different urban functional areas produce waste with diverse numbers and kinds
Nonsupport and strict management from government
Low income and no social security
Poor conditions in some urban functional areas
Contradiction in management
Contradiction in policy
Contradiction in policy
The government is reluctant to invest in the management and expects to profit from scavengers
Survival Problems Aversion and discrimination from residents
Contradictions Contradiction in residents
Reasons why the problems remain unsolved
Recycling efficiency
Tax of recycling system
Management of streetscape
Scavengers provide convenience for the residents in waste disposal
The management department seeks for its own interests, and discriminates scavengers
No one wants to learn about the scavengers, and discriminates them
The government ignored the differences of recycling ways and living conditons of different urban functional areas
The government creates new accordances with the underlying demand
The government protects the disadvantage groups, meanwhile scavengers should fight for their own right
Different policies should be made for different urban functional areas
Solutions Community staff's lower motivation in recycling
Benefit Challenge Positive Correlation Negative Correlation
Enhance the quality of life of the scavengers or let the government undertake the task of recycling
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05 Midtown Agora, 2016 ULI Hines Competition Transit-Oriented Development Connecting Ideas, Technologies, People, and Places 2016 ULI Hines Competition Atlanta, GA Tutors: Simon Atkinson, Edna Ledesma, Rachel Tepper, Shawn Massock, Jeff Scott, Jake Kelley Design Partner: Bei Zhang, Lu Jiang, Nolan Stone, Xavier Autrey Duration: 15 days, Spring 2016
Unleveraged IRR Before Tax: 16.55% Leveraged IRR Before Tax: 19.59%
Site Value
Equity: 34.4%
Current Site Value: $282,145,807 Projected Site Value: $3,024,087,992
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The Midtown Agora is a modern twist on the ancient Greek Agora: the true heart of urban life that strives to connect ideas, technologies, people, and places closer together. The goal is to create a new urban center where people can work, trade, educate, and recreate while encapsulating Midtown Atlantaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s past, present, and future. The proposalâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s objective is to create a central park and plaza, framed by groups of sustainable, mixed-use buildings. This urban center provides recreational and social space that sustains a vibrant urban culture. A proposed hierarchy of streetscapes are juxtaposed to activate the site, and to establish a centralized, transit-oriented destination to catalyze future growth.
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MARTA Subway Entrance at Midtown Agora
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Bank of America Tower Renovated Office
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Mixed-use Buildings (Future Development Opportunity)
New Development 0’ 100’
400’
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Existing Development 33
Phasing Phase 1
Phase 2
Market Rate for Rent
878,998 SF
Market Rate for Rent
Affordable Housing Rental
219,750 SF
Affordable Housing Rental
81,644 SF
Office Commercial
1,035,950 SF
Office Commercial
145,471 SF
Market Rate Retail
185,680 SF
Market Rate Retail
137,386 SF
Museum
Museum
31,562 SF
Hotel
Hotel
Underground Parking
Retail
Office
Residential
326,575 SF
Hotel
796,284 SF
Underground Parking
Civic & Educational
371,681 SF
Recreation
West-east Section Perspective
Torch Tower Museum of Technology and Sustainability
Midtown Agora
Agora Market
Downtown
Gateway Bridge Tower of Technology
The underground parking garages have a total area of 2,242,448sf, and because of the shared parking strategy, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; is able to reduce 20% of parking 34 needed. spot
The cistern renovated from the tunnel is able to hold 458,167 gallons of water, which will be treated and reuse by the museum.
Phase 3
Phase 4
Market Rate for Rent
Renovated into open office space without partition walls.
Market Rate for Rent
402,917 SF
Office Commercial
368,825 SF
Market Rate Retail
354,881 SF
Museum
Retail
Office
Residential
Hotel
268,842 SF
Underground Parking
526,383 SF
Hotel
Civic & Educational
143,360 SF
Affordable Housing Rental
Affordable Housing Rental
Development Opportunity
Development Opportunity
Office Commercial Market Rate Retail Museum
656,671 SF 128,178 SF
Hotel Underground Parking
56,005 SF 103,332 SF
Recreation
Midtown Agora
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06 Johnson City, TX Suburban Town Revitalization Johnson City Studio Johnson City, TX Tutors: Dean Almy Design Partner: Corey Rothermel, Kevin Howard, Tatum Lau, Sarah Simpson, Wei Xiao, Yiqun Yang, Shiva Jabarnia, Thomas Rowlinson, and Katie Craig Duration: Fall 2014 Contribution: Street Typologies, Green Infrastructure Plan, Site Plan The Urban Design of Johnson City is an urban study project conducted by UT graduate students, while working with Overland Partners, Hill Country Alliance and the Johnson Cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s residents. The project aimed at finding new development pattern for the Hill Country towns using Johnson City as a model, which is facing the issues of drought, lack of identities, urban sprawl, and cultural and historic preservation. Every student worked at a different part of the project, and I was looking at extracting and strengthening the underlaying cultural and development structure of the town by designing green infrastructure system and street typologies, using low impact development strategies to revitalize the town.
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Sept. 2, 2014
Drought Threatens The City's Future
Reservoirs Full Environmental Restrictions Reduced Agriculture Supply
Historic Lake Capacity Forecast Wet Conditions Forecast Average Conditions
Agriculture Supply Shut Off Mandatory Use Restrictions
Jan. 2013
Jan. 2012
Jan. 2011
Jan. 2010
Jan. 2009
Jan. 2008
Jan. 2007
Voluntary Use Reduction
Forecast Drought Conditions Forecast Extreme Drought Credit by Kevin Howard
The Hill Country region has experienced sever drought and has depleted their reservoirs. Managing groundwater and surface water will become increasingly important for Johnson City as the drought might shut down agriculture supply water which the wine industry is based on.
Integrated Street And Green Infrastructure System Strengthens Town Structure
Green Infrastructure Plan
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Street Typologies
Narrower lanes slow down traffic and create a commercial street.
Medians indicate town center and activities to the north.
Share street as local living street with festival activities and future commercial opportunities.
Street trees mark the periphery of the town.
Bio-swales protect cyclists from dangerous parking vehicles.
Credit by Wei Xiao and me
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07 Leander Transit District Future Scenarios Scenario Planning Using Envision Tomorrow SWOT Analysis
Sustainable Land Use Planning Coursework Leander, TX
URBAN FABRIC
IDENTITY
Strength
Excellent Regional Transit Connectivity
Supply of vacant land allows flexible development
Pride in schools and Hill Country landscape
Weakness
Poor Local Connectivity
Major thoroughfares limit access and mobility
Lack of Cohesive Leander Identity
Opportunity
A regionally accessible TOD will attract retail spending
Expand walkable Old Town
Potential for high school ACC partnership
Tutors: Bob Paterson Planning Partner: Akik Patel, Christopher Sailer, John Tiebout III, Tahnee Yoon Duration: Spring 2016
Threat
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As a bedroom community of Austin, TX, todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Leander consists of 38,000 people, and the population is projected to increase drastically in the next fifteen years. Now is the time to plan for Leanderâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tomorrow. This scenario plan sums up the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats of the transit-oriented district in relation to Leander as a whole. It uses Envision Tomorrow, an urban and regional planning extension tool for ArcGIS, to create two scenario plans for the TOD district. In the end, both introduced scenarios perform better than the current Trend scenario, with only slight differences for all of the indicators. When considering options for the future, we propose that Leander weighs the choice of lifestyle it would like to encompass and promote within its neighborhoods.
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SCENARIOS 2 - TRANSIT-ORIENTED 25,012
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SCENARIOS 3 - HIGH SUSTAINABILITY 23,820 Legend 13,112
Mixed-Use Residential, 13,624 11,964 5 stories
• Dual centers: Leander transit station & old town Use, and 2 stories around key Mixed corridors nodes • Highest densityNeighborhood large development parcels Multifamily, 6-story • Small blocks and
density across the district • More balancedMixed-Use Residential, 3 stories networked with Green infrastructure • NeighborhoodsNeighborhood Mixed Use, 2 stories development parcels • Small blocks and Multifamily, 6-story 3 . 18
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Mixed-Use Residential, 5 stories
Mixed-Use Residential, 3 stories
Transportation
Single Family, Medium-Large OfficeLot
Water Bodies Single Family, Medium-Large Lot
Single Family, Medium-Large Lot (trend Singleonly) Family, StandardMixed Lot Use Office, 5 stories Mid Rise Office Single Family, Standard Lot (trend only) Large Format Retail Business Park Flex Low Density Commercial Commercial Public & Civic Main Street Commercial Civic and Education Large Format Retail (trend only) Park and Playground Low Density Commercial (trend only) Greenways & Riparian Buffer
Floodplain Single Family, Standard Lot
Transportation Others Low Density Commercial Medical Office Hotel, 3-story 0.25 Mile Radius From Proposed Bus Stops Proposed Bus Route Large Format Retail
Sustainable Indicators Tax Revenue per Acre
SCENARIOS 1: BUSINESS AS USUAL Single-Family (large lot) Single-Family (conventional lot)
SCENARIOS 2: TRANSIT-ORIENTED
High Sustainability
Property
Average Household Size
Sales
Transit-oriented
2.72 1.96 1.94
Business As Usual Single-Family (small lot) Townhome
Multi-Family
Carbon Emissions (tons/yr) per HH
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Jobs-Housing Balance
11.4 11.5
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Vehicle-miles Traveled (VMT) per New Housing Unit
Waste Water per Household g/day
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Internal Water Use per Household g/day
Energy Use per Household (million btu/yr)
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08 GIS Mapping of south austin neighborhood center GIS Mapping Coursework Austin, TX
Map of Austin
Location Map
Base Map
Living
Working
Infrastructure
Tutor: Junfeng Jiao Duration: Summer 2015 The study area is located on the south side of Austin Central Business District, and it covers a half mile radius from South Austin Neighborhood Center--2508 Durwood St.
Land Use Land Use
Total Area (sq. ft)
Percentage
RESIDENTIAL 10643847.39
48.62%
COMMERCIAL 2958378.83
13.51%
PARK/GREEN SPACES
521727.72
2.38%
RIGHT OF WAYS
4459727
20.37%
OTHER
3307021.34
15.11%
TOTAL
21890702.29
100.00%
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09 The Ritual Axis Modeling, Rendering, Analytique, and Animation, Visualization and Digital Representation Coursework Study Project: Museum of Islamic Art, Doha, 2008 Architect: I. M. Pei Architect (New York) Tutor: Hope Hasbrouck Duration: Spring 2015 This project portraits the experience of walking through a sequence of spaces in the Museum of Islamic Art designed by I. M. Pei. From the exterior, the sunlight works with the texture and the simplest geometrics of stones to form a sacred building; and the boulevard, museum, gulf and water work together to create this peaceful and respectful space. From the interior, there is a juxtaposition of antiquity and modern by the combination of glasses and the mosque, the grand spiral staircase and the ring light above it; and the sunlight went through the glasses and artificial lights.
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Zhongliang Liang The University of Texas at Austin M.S. Urban Design Graduate zungloeng@utexas.edu