Urban Design Portfolio

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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Mixed Use Office, 5 stories Skinny Lot Single Family Medical Office Leander, TX Transit District Future Scenarios

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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

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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

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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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CRAFTSMANSHIP

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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.

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Integrating The Formal and Informal Design Vocabulary

sense of distance

direction

speed

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speed

sense of distance

direction

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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

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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.

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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.

Step5

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

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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

SCAVENGER

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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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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Mixed-use Buildings (Future Development Opportunity)

New Development 0’ 100’

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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

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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

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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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Mixed-Use Residential, 13,624 11,964 5 stories

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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