2021
Portfolio by Jintong Li landscape architecture
JINTONG LI
LEED® AP (bd+c)
217-693-8833 | Jintong4@illinois.edu
Education
University of Illinois at Urbana Champiagn | May 2021 Master of Landsape Architecture Qingdao Univerisity of Technology | June 2018 Bechlor of Engineering, Landscape Architecture
Work Experience
Land Bank | Feb, 2021- May, 2021 Landscape Designer Intern Plasma Studio | Mar,2018-Aug,2018 Landscape Designer Intern
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Technical Skills
Rhinoceros, Grasshopper, ArcGIS, Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign, AutoDesk Lumion, Blender
Contents
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Flowing Bluespot, Chicago, IL
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UIUC Spring 2020, Surface Studio, Advisor: Mary Pat McGuire
02
Urban Growth, Champiagn, IL
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UIUC Spring 2021, Square One Studio, Advisor: Stephen Sears
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Breathing Box, Beijing, China
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Undergraduate Fall 2016
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Revelation, Chemobyl, Ukraine
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Undergraduate Fall 2017
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Vertical Landscape, Hubei, China
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Undergraduate Fall 2018
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Other Works,
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SPRING
SUMMER
AUTUMN
WINTER
0.33 inch x 33 days
0.56 inch x 31 days
0.33 inch x 29 days
0.22 inch x 30 days
01 Flowing Bluespot Depave Chinatown Individual Project Studio Advisor: Mary Pat McGuire UIUC Spring 2020-Surface Studio Sasaki Day Finalist
“Water can help us rediscover unique and camouflaged regional elements missing in the homogenized urban landscape “--- Kate Orff Chicago Chinatown is located in the south of Chicago, developed transportation, near Ping Tom Park and Chicago river. See the whole site as a surface, there are lots of parking lots and a mess circulation. The area is chaotic, but still has a lot of opportunities. The Chinatown is separated. Huge parking lots under the CTA station block people and view. people do not know where to go and there is no connection between new Chinatown and old Chinatown. From separate to aggregation is the main goal. By depaving part of Chinatown area to redefine the site. Take water as a force to build a unique landscape on the site. “Bluespot” is a term for depression or sink in the landscape. In the project the bluespot is designed by purpose, it is a part of the surface. Use the water as a way to activate the dynamic of the site. During the design, three
types of pavers were design by observing the relationship between water and surface. By the different arrangements of those three pavers, water can behold during rainy days. On average, Chicago has 125 precipitation days while the United States is 106. Climate change increases precipitation in the future. The paver has the capacity of 1.5-inch precipitation. Even for the highest daily precipitation day, the arrangement of the paver will survive flooding. “Flowing Bluespot” tries to combine water as a part of the urban landscape. Consider landscape architecture as a surface in the city, there are a lot of things happening on this surface. The building, traffic, people, animals rely on the surface. Architecture and our life build on the surface.
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Site Context Location
Linkage
Imperviousness
Water & Surface Concept
18” x 60” x 6” x 3”
Paver 1 has the ability of water capacity
Lake Michigan
Chicago River
CTA Raillines
Canopy
18” x 60” x 6” x 3”
Paver 2
has the ability of giving space for
Land Surface Temperature
vegetation to growth
CTA Bus Routes
HIGHEST DAILY PRECIPITATION RECOREDED AT CHICAGO EACH YEAR (1950-2020) 0.1”
0.2”
0.3”
0.4”
0.5”
0.6”
0.7”
0.8”
0.9” 5”
5 inch [6]
4 inch
4”
3 inch
3”
By Arcgis Analysing, the site has limited canopy, high land surface 2 inch temperature and high imperviousness 1 inch
0 inch 1950-1999 PAVER 3
Chinatown is located at the south side of Chicago, near Ping Tom Park and Chicago river. There is very busy transportation between the north and south. Chicago is a slim city, every day a lot of people travel from south to north and back to south. Although this area is chaotic, there might be an opportunity. 2000-2020 Circulation
New Connection
Asphalt Parking Lot
AVERAGE HIGHEST DAILY PRECIPITATION (2000-2020)
AVERAGE RAINFALL Chicago-IL
18” x 60” x 6”
regular paver
RAINFALL DAYS Chicago-IL
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By 2”observaing the relationship between surface and water, three type of pavers was desgined. 1”
0
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec SPRING
SUMMER
AUTUMN
= 0.1” Winter / DAY 0.22” 0.22”/day
Brick Surface
Plant Buffer
Spring/ DAY 0.31” 0.31”/day
Summer 0.56” / DAY 0.56”/day
Autumn 0.33” / DAY 125 Precipitation Day 0.33”/day 189 Sunny Day
Concrete Chicago Average Day
Asphalt parking lots takes up to 47.2 percent of the surface, and Brick surface takes up to 19.2 percent of the surface
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AverageWINTER Rainfall in Chicago
3.12 inch
Site Conditions the surface is comprised of asphalt, bricks and concrete.
Paver 3
U.S. Average Day
125 Precipitation Day
106 Precipitation Day
189 Sunny Day
205 Sunny Day
Based on data collection, Chicago has more precpitation day than national. 106 Precipitation Day 205 Sunny Day
6 4 2 0
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Master Plan 100’
New Chinatown
CTA Station [7]
Rail Road
Old Chinatown
See landscape as a surface, Chinatown is separated, people do not know where to go and there is no connection between now Chinatown and old Chinatown. from separation to aggregation is my main goal. By depaving part of the Chinatown area to redefine this site.
Paver Analysis Highest Daily Precipitation Recorded at Chicago Each Year 0.1”
0.2”
0.3”
0.4”
0.5”
0.6”
0.7”
0.8”
0.9” 5”
5 inch
RAINFALL DAYS Chicago-IL
AVERAGE RAINFALL Chicago-IL
10
4 inch 3 inch
3”
2 inch
2”
1 inch
1”
2
0 inch
0
0
1950-1999
2000-2020
AVERAGE HIGHEST DAILY PRECIPITATION (2000-2020)
“Landscape Architecture as a Surface“
8 6 4
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec WINTER
SPRING
0.22” / DAY
0.31” / DAY
SUMMER
AUTUMN
0.56” / DAY
0.33” / DAY
= 0.1”
3.12 inch
A’
A
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Paver Capacity Concrete Fine sand
Spring
Autumn
Summer
Highest
3”
Gravel
Section A - A’
Winter
6”
Coarse sand Soil
12
4”
water yield precipitation
1620 in³
237.6 in³
334.8 in³
356.4 in³
604.8 in³
1.5 in
0.22 in
0.31 in
0.33 in
0.56 in
3369.6 in³ 3.12 in
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The New Surface Use the surace as a way to collect water, to make water public.Use the water as a way to activate the dynamic of the site. During the design, three types of pavers were design by observing the relationship between water and surface. By the different arrangements of those three pavers, water can behold during rainy days. On average, Chicago has 125 precipitation days while the United States is 106. Climate change increases precipitation in the future. The paver has the capacity of 1.5-inch precipitation. Even for the highest daily precipitation day, the arrangement of the paver will survive flooding. Consider landscape architecture as a surface in the city, there are a lot of things happening on this surface. The building, traffic, people, and animals rely on the surface. The landscape is before architecture. Architecture and our life build on the surface.
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02 Urban Growth Rethinking America Subdivision Individual Project Studio Advisor: Stephen Sears UIUC Spring 2021-Square One Studio
There are more than 70,000 farms in the United States and most of them are industrial farmland. Especially in Midwest, industrial farmland which grown soybean and corn results in severe environmental damage. Pesticide toxicity and water pollution cost human health and safety. Second, result in damage to farmland and the rural environment such as soil erosion, depletion, and biodiversity loss. Third, social and economic impacts, such as the loss of mid-sized farms and harm to neighboring and downstream economies. Humans obtain more than 99.7% of food from land 10 million ha of cropland are lost due to soil erosion, thus reducing the cropland available for world food production. Illinois is a typical state located in Midwest which has fertile soil. There are 75% of land in this state is used for growing crops. The main product is soybean and corn. Due to the industrial farming model, soil erosion in the Illinois area has increased to 19.6%. In Illinois, the state exports 90 percent of what they grow, meanwhile, they also import 90 percent of fresh food from other states. On average, food in Illinois travels for 1,500 miles. The cost of shipping produces from California or
China accounts for 10-20 percent of the price consumers pay. Also, more and more people prefer local fresh food, according to evagination, 73% of the people prefer local food in the restaurant. The champagne county is a typical example in this area. A sustainable food-growing model needs to be proposed in the future for a more resilient community. The target site is located in the Northwest of the champagne city. At the edge of the urban area, the size is 2 miles plus 2 miles, which is 4 township sizes. As a very typical subdivision area, their area industrial farmland, single-family house, ranch, ditch, typical road, and lawn. The new proposal is that the community can be oriented by food agriculture. I propose to change some land use in the future, but still, preserve residential areas and part of cropland. Also, there is a ditch and flood zone area, by taking advantage of the ditch area, new open space will be created and provide people with a nature experience. In that area, there is a new type of open space, farmland, mixed-use area, single-family house area.
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Site Context U.S. Agriculture
Illinois Agriculture Situation wind & water erosion on cropland for one year 12 ton / acre
water erosion wind erosion = 100,000 tons
7 ton / acre
4.6 ton / acre
90%
90%
75%
90%
73%
x 12,000 = dust bowl total soil erosion 1930s dust bowl
1982 3.8 + 3.2
19.6%
2015 2.7 + 1.9
vegetable acres harvested for sale Illinois imports more than 90% percent of its food
= 1000 �cres 7,400 farms 4.4 million acres 0.4% of all agriculture acreage
1981-2015 total erosion area =
Illinois export more than 90% percent of its grown
Illinois had 75% of land as cropland, 18,438,500 acres
Illinois facing most severe erosion in two decades
Illinois people spend $48 billion a year on fresh food
ohio state 28.5 million acres
90% of chefs believe demand for locally sourced items will grow
70% of adults are more likely to visit restaurants with locally produced food
14.2% 14.6% 15.8% 17.1% 19.6% hardiness zone: 5b
soybean for beans, harvested acres
top 5 crops
hardiness zone: 6a
1,100,000
= 10,000 �cres
590,000
400,000
390,000
2006
310,000
sweet corn
lecttuce
tomatoes
20% for oil
Champaign, IL had a population of 86.8k people with a median age of 27.4 and a median household income of $47,502. 97%
3%
68%
25% 7%
field corn
animal feed food production
27%
ethanol & fuel
39%
feed, beef, dairy, swine, poultry, other
16% 9% 9%
exports food & industrial residual
= 200 Farms 444 acres average farm size
Champiagn County
prudction in illinois as US total 15% rank 1 38.1% of land used as soybeans grow in IL
food biodiesel & bioheat industrial uses
sweet corn
2.02 millions farms in U.S.
champiagn county
snap beans
80% for meal
= 10,000 �cres
number of farms
2015
wheat, hay, sweet corn, pumpkin, apple, etc potatoes
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2011 2013
percent of illinois farmland losing more soil that it makes
75 millions acres per year
corn for grain, harvested acres
2009
253,000 8k + farmer market
prudction in illinois as US total 13% rank 1
2,200 1940
42.1% of land used as corn grow
1950
1960
1970
1980
the number of farms in illinois
Proposal
1990
2000
71,400 2007
2009
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
the number of farmer markets in the united state
Linkage
Rantoul
Rantoul
Mahomet
Mahomet Champiagn Urbana Champiagn
Agriculture Oriented
New Landuse
Transform Ditch
Cropland
Commercial
Single-Family Houses
Residential
Main Road
Local Agriculture
Agriculture Floodzone Ditch Single-Family Houses
Open Space Cropland Local Agriculture Residential
Second Road Commercial
Open Space Floodzone
Floodzone
Agriculture
Open Space
Ditch
Local Agriculture
Floodzone
Main Road
Local Agriculture
Second Road
Open Space
Urbana Subdivision Railroad Site Boundary Subdivision Cropland Railroad Urban Boundary Site Boundary New Urban Frontier Cropland Site Center Urban Boundary Potential Site Frontier New Urban Site Center Potential Site
The new proposal is that the community can be oriented by food agriculture. I propose to change some land use in the future, but still, preserve residential areas and part of cropland. Also, there is a ditch and flood zone area, by taking advantage of the ditch area, new open space will be created and provide people with a nature experience.
The target site is located in the Northwest of the champagne city. At the edge of the urban area, the size is 2 miles plus 2 miles, which is 4 township sizes. As a very typical subdivision area, their area industrial farmland, single-family house, ranch, ditch, typical road, and lawn.
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Master Plan 0.5 mile New Subdivision Concept Main Road Main Road
Cropland
Urban
Preserved Cropland Wetland + Forest Landscape Local Farm Residential
Forest Ag Wetland
Present Subdivision Landuse
Industrial
Forest Ag Cropland
67.2%
Developed Area
31.0%
Open Space
Mixed Use area
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1.8%
Ditch 2 mile x 2 mile
Farm
The New Subdivision The new community will serve a lot of people, agriculture-oriented subdivision areas provide opportunities for volunteering, jobs, education, research, restaurants, etc. The master plan shows the new agriculture center in the subdivision, agriculture activity is located in the middle. The Ditch area provides an existing open space for the people. Some farmland was crested for research or for the school. Some were controlled by the real farmers, and some will be rented for local people. In the middle of the farm, there will be a garden, the agriculture can be a part of the landscape, have a close relationship with a human. The mixed-use area, for a commercial and new apartment or another activity center. The streets encourage people to walk or bicycle. In residential areas, the traditional area has several typical roads. By transforming the road combined with landscape and agriculture to provide people with a more natural experience.
Farmer Market
Industrial
Forest Ag
Single Family House
Strategies 200’ x 400’ Tradition Subdivision Road
+ Landscape
+ Agriculture
Traditional Ditches 1 stage ditch
Cropland
Proposal Ditch 2 stage ditch
new ditch
Tool Room
Swale
Agriculture
Road
Meadow Landscape
Meadow Landscape
Swale Cropland Lawn
Tool Room
Road
Lawn-private
Agriculture
Single Family house
Meadow Landscape
Meadow Landscape
Cropland Buffer Ditch Bank Lawn
Flooded Area
Elevated Board
Channel Bottom
Road
Lawn-private
Agriculture
Single Family house
Meadow Landscape
Meadow Landscape
Lawn
Lawn-private
Agriculture
Road
Meadow Landscape
Meadow Landscape
Tool Room
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Pipes
Pipes
Pipes
Outlet Tool Room Lawn
Agriculture
Road
Food Hub
Meadow Landscape
Farmer Market
Meadow Landscape
Agriculture
Trail
Bike
25’
8’
8’
Garden
Agriculture
Residential
Mixed Use Area
More Trees
Renewable Energy
Farmer Market
Green Roof Farmer Market
Food Growth Commercial
Community Agriculture
Main Road
Bike
Public Space
Bike Trail
The new subdivision should be dominated by renewable energy. Solar energy and wind energy etc. Solar farm might have a combination with agriculture. The shade of solar panel provides micro climate for some vegetables. Each house has their own solar panel on the roof.
Trail
Restaurant
Apartment
The new subdivision should focus on infill development instead of urban sprawl. Different types of parks and commercial areas should be built in the center of this area. Try to maximize the use of land as much as possible. The landscape area and living area should look like a whole. Green corridors and river front should be possible to look like a network to work with each other.
Forest
The new subdivision should have more young people and opportunities instead of trending older. The opportunities which are provided by the new farming model will attract people for study, volunteer or research. the new community should have more vibrant than the old one.
Agriculture 25’
Trail
Ditch
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Breathing Box Concept & Master Plan
Analysis Chlorophytum comosum (Thunb.) Baker
Jasminum sambac (L.) Ait Herba Selaginellae Tamariscinae
Thymus mongolicus
Muehlewbeckia complera Senecio rowleyanus
Clematis florida Thunb.
Selaginella uncinata
Palhinhaea cernua
Muehlewbeckia complera
Nephralepis exaltata cv. Bastaniensi
Melissa officinalis
Convallaria majalis Linn.
N 1m
2m
5m
Firmiana platanifolia
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Ginkgo biloba L.
Lawn
Previous Concrete
Photovoltaic Roof
Fern Wall
Glass
Rust Metal
Previous Concrete
Acer
Rainfall
O2 Solar Energy
N
Rainfall 1m
2m
5m
CO2
Evaporation Rainfall
Infiltr
ation
Reserv io
r Evaporation
Infiltr
ation Reserv io
r
03 Breathing Box Sustainable Installation Individual Project Undergraduate Fall 2016 International Horticultural Exposition Competition Finalist
I conducted this project in the first semester of my junior year, which was also the first time for me to contact with competition. This competition was to design a garden for Beijing World Horticultural Exposition. At that time, I only had a preliminary understanding of the landscape field. The project was intended to design a small garden with science popularization, ornamental value and feeling of involvement, which was an interesting attempt, and also the beginning for me to gradually understand landscape design. The site was located in the southwest of Yanqing County in Beijing. It was about 107 Square meters in size with the design theme, a box that can breathe. Based on the concept of ecology and technology, plant materials and new technologies were used to achieve a virtuous cycle among natural energy resources. In the design, a complete internal self-circulation system could be realized with the technologies of plant root system to purify
air, rainwater harvesting and solar energy absorption. The roof was placed with solar photovoltaic panels to collect solar energy for night illumination and plant drip irrigation; the rainwater harvesting system could gather and purify rainwater to maximize the water conservation; the plant root system of purification air played a role in purifying the overall air. The setting of horticultural landscape showed the role of plants in science education and the plant world to children, and encourage people to step into and love the nature. Many local tree species, aromatic plants and ferns would be planted to reflect the concept of green ecological development.
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04 Revelation The Regeneration of Prypyat
Individual Project Undergraduate Fall 2017 Chernobyl Ukraine
In 1986, reactor 4 of the nuclear power plant exploded causing an immense radioactive spill contaminating more than 200.000 km 2 across Europe. Three days after the accident, the inhabitants of Pripyat were evacuated due to the radiation levels in the area. 31 years have passed and today most people who were adolescent or older in the year of the Chernobyl accident have a somewhat big or small memory of the explosion that caused the biggest radioactive contamination ever seen. The word Chernobyl rings a bell in most minds and the by far most attached stories to the word are the sad stories about cancer-diagnosed children and the anecdotes of various mutated animals with three heads and other deformities. But the accident that are categorised as the biggest ever man-made disaster has also caused big consequences both
socially and environmentally. In my understanding, in PRYPYAT, the landscape architecture should consider about restoring ecology and concerns the development, appearance and functionality of the city. I want to solve the radiation problem in the soil and design a visiting park. This park in Prypyat can solve the radiation problem and promote economic development.
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Master Plan
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10
public building resident building 1 swimming pool 2 stadium
2
3 amusement park 4 elementary school nr.1
A
5 fire station nr.38
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13
9
7 friendship of the people's monument
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12
17
8 angular 9 floor apartment house
16
15
14
1
6 bus station
21
3
in the masses was called as the White house.
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18
9 fujiyama The building received its nickname due to its specific design differing from the other 16-storey buildings of Pripyat. There is a nice view of the city from the roof.
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4 8
10 greenhouse
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11 12 13 14 15 16 17
24
25
A' 26 7
technical college energetic culture centre pollissza hotel post office
18 central market 19 central square 20 consumer service 21 water access 22 cafe
6
27
restaurant household service luna city park, ferris wheel
5 28
23 hospital 24 special laundry 25 city forest 26 jupitor factory 27 main boulevard 28 control post
Section A-A’ farries wheel
LUNA city park
ENERGETIC culture center
hotel
central square
store
main boulevard
Planting Strategies Remove radiation from soil
fifth unit
forth unit
third unit
second unit
first unit
year - 01 drilling trail year - 02
cut the trees transfer soil
wetland
year - 03
drip washing
year - 04 transfer soil
year - 05
drip washing
radiated water
year - 06
transfer soil
sunflower
year -07
half radiated water
year - 08
vertiver + mushroom
year - 09 clean water
year - 10
observation station year - 11
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Soil Type
Plant selection
quercus linn
populus L.
agaricus campestris
helianthus annuus L.
vetiveria zizanioides
lactuca
20'
40'
5'
10'
10'
cedrus deodara 10'
3'
20'
40'
growth podzol
brown soil
chernozem
grey forest soil
kastanozem
year 0
- known pollutant-removing capabilities - known to thrive in Ukraine - rapid growth rate
removal
afforestation + diversification
year 6
- specific planting densities and cycling can remove the radiation in the soil effectively
[ 22 ] 白鹭 Little Egret Protected species
65m
Evergreen broadleaf & Bare rock
Evergreen broadleaf & Bare rock
Open water limnetic Low land zone decidious forest
Low land decidious forest
赤麻鸭 Tadorna ferruginea Vulnerable
豆雁 Anser fabalis Protected species
05 Vertical Landscape Daye iron Mine Planning and Design Based on Terrain Individual Project Undergraduate Fall 2018 Hubei, China
Daye Iron Mine was a project from the first semester of my senior year in college. It was my first time to engage in planning and design of large-scale region with complex terrain. However, during that time, I developed interest in terrain and its related field, and started to learn software such as Rhino and Grasshopper on my own. This subject was my initial attempt toward terrain analysis in college, which prompted my interest in parameterization. With the decline in its output since 1970, Daye Iron Mine was gradually discarded. The mine, with a vertical depth of 440 meters, is called the Heaven’s Pit in China, and the national and local governments plan to transform the area into a mine forest park with policy support.
However, the pit remains with various problems, such as air pollution and soil degradation. For Chinese people, the mine pit carries historical memories. It was extracted since 226 B.C., and has become an important economic source for local residents. I hope that the tourist area constructed upon the pit can attract tourists nationwide and from the globe. In this way, it will bring transition and improvement to local economy. The ecological restoration at the bottom of the pit will provide crowds with a meditation space to get in contact with nature.
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Pre-design Terrian Analysis
Vision Analysis Position
Initially, the terrain information received for the venue was a partial CAD-drawn map. Then, a series of terrain data was downloaded from the Internet, forming the contour lines. After that we entered Rhino to operate on the terrain. Through familiarizing with the terrain and going through analyzing process, the specific analysis of elevation, runoff and gradient could be obtained. The pond at the bottom of the pit can be constructed according to the runoff. Different gradient has different impact on participating crowd.
contour line from the website
creat mesh
optimize mesh
a contour line of 5 meters
creat surface
Z extrude
a contour line of 10 meters
runoff analysis
X extrude
Service Area
Rainwater Garden A'
B
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A 50°
contour line from mapping
elevation 0~200m
slope analysis
0°
550m
a contour line of 20 meters
runoff analysis section BB'
contour lines
runoff analysis section AA'
section AA'
Camping Site
pools zone
section BB'
Mountain Museum
0m
Picking Garden
B'
waterfall cliff hotel advanture zone
contour
elevation 200~400m
slope analysis --craggedness
openair theater rainwater garden camping site & swamp & lake slope analysis
Visible range
Master Plan
Open-air Theatre
service area Ecological Restoration Woodland
[ 25 ] Cliff Hotel Picking Garden Rainwater garden
Adventure Zone
Cuperic Flowers Zone Camping Site
Mountain Museum
The rebirth of the mine provides a variety of activity Spaces for people
digital drawing practice
hand drawing
[ 26 ] physical model
internship
06 Other Works 2018-2021, individual works
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JINTONG LI 2021