Joann Zhao- Urban Design, Architecture, and Transportation Planning Portfolio

RECONNECTING COMMUNITIES: Vine Street Corridor Plan & Chinatown East Neighborhood Urban Design

RECONNECTING COMMUNITIES: VINE STREET CORRIDOR PLAN & CHINATOWN EAST NEIGHBORHOOD URBAN DESIGN

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Instructor: Nando Micale/ Danielle Lake E-mail: nandomicale@gmail.com / danielle.marie.lake@gmail.com

Vine Street New Corridor Plan: Group Work Main Role: Mapping/Urban Design Analysis /Rendering/Groupwork Managing Chinatown Eastward Haven Urban Design: Individual Work

This studio prompt takes inspiration from the Reconnecting Communities Pilot Program, which is a federal program that strives to reconnect communities previously cut off from economic opportunities due to transportation infrastructure.

Our capstone project was redesigning Philadelphia's Vine Street Expressway with a sustainable approach and a vision of The Highway to Boulevard. I picked Chinatown East for the individual urban design, which aimed to boost land value and integrate the public transit system.

INDIVIDUAL AREA PLANS

The Chianntown Eastward Haven not only considers how to increase the value, increase the density, of the land, but also emphasizes how to create a warm, active, and sustainable community of residential, office, and commercial throughout the transportation system of various scales.

COMMUNITIES: Vine Street Corridor Plan & Chinatown East Neighborhood Urban Design

RECONNECTING

VINE ST. EXPRESSWAY IN PHILLY SOURCE: MARK HENNIGER, IMAGIC DIGITAL

Vine Street Expressway

Philadelphia has a strong grid network of streets, but the Expressway interrupts many of the north-south connections.

THE HIGHWAY TO BOULEVARD PROPOSAL: AFTER

The Highway to Boulevard proposal restores the grid through a new Vine Street/Callowhill Street connector and distributes traffic through other east-west connections.

VINE STREET/CALLOWHILL STREET CORRIDOR

VINE STREET SECTION - BEFORE VINE STREET SECTION - AFTER

The current Expressway creates a large chasm in the urban fabric, and this division is further exacerbated by the wide frontage roads.

With a significantly narrowed roadway, the Corridor can gain an entire new block of publicly-owned land that can spur economic development and provide opportunities to create affordable housing.The new roadway will consist of two travel lanes and a bike lane in each direction, providing space for pedestrians, cyclists, transit riders, and drivers to create a multimodal corridor.

THE HIGHWAY TO BOULEVARD PROPOSAL: PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION BEFORE

The existing rail network concentrates along Market Street and Broad Street with limited east-west rail connections.

THE HIGHWAY TO BOULEVARD PROPOSAL: PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION AFTER

New trolley routes will fill in these some of theses gaps, continuing Philadelphia’s long and unique history of trolley lines.

RAIL NETWORK - REGIONAL

The existing regional rail network covers a lot of Philadelphia, but there are still gaps in coverage, especially in South Philadelphia, away from the BSL. The new trolley line will fill in some of those gaps while also linking back into existing routes.

Greater than a 5-minute walk to parks

Some areas along the Corridor, including Chinatown, have less access to park space.

THE HIGHWAY TO BOULEVARD PROPOSAL: GREEN NETWORK BEFORE THE HIGHWAY TO BOULEVARD PROPOSAL: GREEN NETWORK AFTER

New Parks & Major Green Streets

Resilient Green Grid Connections

The proposed green network focuses on filling in those gaps and creating a comprehensive network of green space across the Corridor. Resilient green grid connections will strengthen the network, largely along north-south streets, with smaller connections through pedestrian walkways.

16,700 TOTAL UNITS

2,830,000

6,100 AFFORDABLE UNITS

5,550,000

8,300

PARKING SPACES

GREEN NETWORK - EXISTING

4 MUSEUMS

62 ART GALLERIES / STUDIO SPACES

GREEN NETWORK - PROPOSED

10 COMMUNITY CENTERS

2 SCHOOLS

CORRIDOR BY THE NUMBERS

This site locates between 9th Street and 6th Street, bordering Philadelphia’s Chinatown on the west and Philadelphia’s eastern gateway - Benjamin Franklin Bridge. With so many resources surrounding it, This site should be a transition that connects Chinatown to the Old City and Delaware Riverfront. However, the connection is now broken because this area is where the highway lifted to connect to I95 and Benjamin Franklin Bridge. After we remove the expressway, what does a new Chinatown eastern haven need if there’s no expressway?

After we remove the expressway, Over 45% of the lands within the study area have the potential to rebuild a new Chinatown TOD community.

After integrating the three public transit lines, there will be five stations in total, and 4 of them will have the potential to build new transit hubs.

INDIVIDUAL AREA PLAN: CHINATOWN EASTWARD HAVEN EXISTING CONDITION

Transit Hubs

Preserved Buildings

A. Integrate Public Transportation: The new trolley rails above ground can also create a new streetscape.

B. THE “STITCH”

Transit

Traffic Calming Design

B. Integrate Motor Transportation: By re-planning the traffic system and appropriately increasing the traffic calming design, “sew up” the previously broken community connections.

C. CONNECT BLOCKS AND EXTEND TO SURROUNDING COMMUNITIES

C. Biking and Walking Experience:

Creating a continuous walking experience can greatly enhance the development value of the surrounding parcels.

D. COMMERCIAL CORRIDORS - CORE RESIDENTIAL AREAS - OTHER FACILITIES

D. Dense up the area:

Continuous trails bring continuous commercial potential and attract more people to live nearby. Besides, the trail can also extend to the Chinatown north plaza on the west and the independence National Historical Park.

WALK BIKE

542,420 SQFT. NEW OFFICE

444, 200 SQFT. NEW RETAIL

3 NEW TRANSIT HUBS

778 NEW UNITS/ 371 AFFORDABLE

The new developments will bring about 6 acres of continuous new open green space to the community, which is equivalent to a new Franklin Square.

CHINATOWN EASTWARD HAVEN SITE PLAN

Benjamin Franklin Bridge

Wood St.

In addition to the original BSL subway and PATCO regional railway, the block will incorporate stations for three public transport lines. These transportation stations will attract more people in the future and significantly increase the surrounding land value.

Besides, this neighborhood plan not only considers how to increase the value of the land but also emphasizes how to create a warm, active, and sustainable community of residential, office, and commercial throughout the transportation system of various scales.

CITY & REGIONAL SCALE: PUBLIC TRANSIT

Trolley/Subway/Patco Station

Transit Hubs

2 Minute Walking Range

CITY & REGIONAL SCALE: PRIVATE VEHICLE/ PARK & RIDE

Vehicular Lane

Traffic Calming Design

Street Parking

Parking Building

COMMUNITY SCALE: BIKE & WALK

Bike Lane

Pedestrian-friendly Street

Open Spaces/ Green Walks

Vine St.

Vine St.

Vine St.

Race St. Race St.

Race St.

Benjamin Franklin Bridge

Benjamin Franklin Bridge

Benjamin Franklin Bridge

Surrounding the existing residential fabric of the area and the new transit hubs, we hope to create a culturally rich and diverse community. It will attract more young people to Chinatown in the future.

Transportation Retail Office

The trolley trails can form an interesting community landscape as well as bring vitality to business and tourism.

TROLLEY RAIL PARK RETAIL STREET

TRANSIT HUB SUNKEN PLAZA

SECTION A-A: TRANSIT HUBS

TROLLEY RAIL PARK RETAIL STREET VIEW

FRANKLIN SQUARE

NEIGHBORHOOD-SCALE DEVELOPMENT PART 2: TRANSITION AREA

9thSt.

ACTIVATED RESIDENTIAL AUXILIARY SPACE

PedestrianizedWillowSt.

PARKING + PUBLIC TRANSIT

NEW PROPOSAL: PEDESTRIANIZE WILLOW STREET

8thSt.

AFTER PEDESTRIANIZED

7thSt.

NEW ROUND HOUSE: AFRICAN AMERICAN ARTS GALLERY

NEW TWIN OFFICE BUILDINGS

6thSt.

Willow street is a narrow street on the north of this site. Most of the space on either side of Willow Street now consists of vacant or parking lots. As a motor vehicle street, Willow Street does not bear the traffic it should have. Therefore, we transformed Willow Street into a continuous walking trail connecting Chinatown’s north plaza and Delaware Riverside.

SECTION B-B: NEW GREEN OPEN SPACES INTERACTING WITH THE NEW TRANSIT SYSTEM

The new developments make Franklin Square accessible in all directions. It will not be surrounded by the highway walls, but will expand to the surrounding communities.

VineSt.

NEIGHBORHOOD-SCALE DEVELOPMENT PART 3: NEW SQUARE, NEW GATEWAY

RENTAL STUDIOS

SECTION C-C: PEDESTRIANIZED WILLOW ST. & NEW TROLLEY LANE ON THE CALLOWHILL ST.

NEW SHOPPING CENTER/ URBAN COMPLEX

NEW COMMUITY FIELDS/ COURTS

Extra Sports Courts & Fields

7thSt.

Farmers’ Market

VineSt.

6thSt.

New Chinese Lantern Festival Event Space

The new developments make Franklin Square accessible in all directions. It will not be surrounded by the highway walls, but will expand to the surrounding communities.

NEW PROGRAMMING FOR A NEW FRANKLIN SQUARE

NEW STATUE PLAZA

NEW STATUE PLAZA

The monumental landscape design reshaped the original Bolt of Lightning sculpture, making this sculpture and the entire Chinatown TOD design a future landmark for Philadelphia.

Population along the Corridor has seen an increase in the past ten years, but demographic share has remained largely the same. Despite the high volume of movement in and out of the Corridor, most people who work near Vine Street do not live in the area. The Vine St. Corridor is home to multiple unique neighborhoods that are supported by associations and community groups that are pivotal in shaping the identity of the area.

As the City plans for new ways to reconnect neighborhoods like Chinatown that have been impacted by the Expressway, our studio has the opportunity to envision a radically different Vine Street Corridor and propose thoughtprovoking alternatives beyond what is possible through the Reconnecting Communities Pilot Program.

Our vision are the restored grid connections, the community-driven public-private partnerships, and the enhanced cultural artery under the goals of contextual and interactive experiences, comfortable multimodal streetscapes, celebration of cultural and historical diversity, and resilient and accessible community health.

19,099 commute in 4,804 commute out

Source: 2010 - 2020 US Decennial Census

Source: 2019 OnTheMap 272 work here

GROWING FACTORY: THE RENOVATION OF JINSHAN CEMENT FACTORY

Jinshan District, Shanghai, China

Instructor: Yong CHEN/ Qiang CHEN E-mail: 525514614@qq.com

Urban Design: Group Work

Main Role: Mapping/Urban Design Analysis /Rendering/Groupwork Managing Silo Art Gallery Research & Design: Individual Work

The preservation and renovation of industrial heritage have become an essential urban design topic. The project is located in the Shanghai Jinshan Cement Factory, which tries to preserve the historical factory texture, implant public cultural activities, and introduce diverse creative industries combined with the local culture, economy, and ecological transformation.

The design concentrates on the unique structural typology study of the factory buildings. Based on the research, the architectural design of the factory proposes different innovative utilization of industrial buildings and facilities.

Growing Factory: The renovation of jinshan cement factory

Growing Factory: The renovation of jinshan cement factory

Preserved Buildings Preserved Green Spaces

Preserved Roads

Preserved Facilities Preserved Waterfront Spaces New Roads Proposed

Factory Buildings Renovation New Mixed-use Buildings

New Commercial Buildings

Demographic Analysis: Peripheral areas of cities with apparent cores

Distribution of Office Facilities: Need for cultural industry parks

Distribution of Consumer Outlets: Need to increase commercial interest

Commentary analysis: Specific consumption potential in the future

DATA ANALYSIS: WHAT'S THE FUTURE DIRECTION OF THE FACTORY RENOVATION? (DATA SOURCE: DIANPING)

Jinshan Cement Factory is located north of Zhujing Town, Jinshan District, Shanghai, China. The old town of Zhujing has outdated facilities, insufficient employment support, and blurred cultural characteristics waiting to be updated. However, the town also has a lot of traditional cultural and artistic heritage.

LOCAL CULTURE AND URBAN TEXTURE RESEARCH

THE INTERVENTION OF THE CROSS AXIS integrate the surrounding natural resources and activate the future commercial potential

EXISTING CONDITION

PRESERVED BUILDINGS EVALUATION

SITE PLANNING ANALYSIS

The general urban design concept is a "Growing Factory" with a historical heritage park. Hence, we weave the east-west riverside park and cultural experience axes to intersect the north-south axis. Then we address the important nodes along these axes to value the whole system.

SEGMENTAL

RIVERSIDE TRAIL IN THE FACTORY HISTORICAL PARK

LANDSCAPE OF RIVERSIDE COMMERCIAL AREA

PROGRAMMING OF THE RIVERSIDE WALK

WATERSCAPE AND SHORELINE LANDSCAPE IN THE SITE

SHAPING OF THE EAST-WEST CULTURAL AXIS NODE

PRESERVED FACTORY BUILDING TYPOLOGY STUDY

RENOVATION OF THE PRESERVED BUILDINGS

THE BOOKSTORE ON THE 1ST FLOOR OF THE SILO ART MUSEUM

Inside the bookstore of the Silo Art Museum, you can see the funnel-shaped silo's bottom at the top, forming an exceptional indoor space experience. A reading table below each bottom silo structure creates a quiet space for visitors to do some reading.

THE ENTRANCE OF THE HALL

The interior space of the hall is strongly centripetal. When visitors walk into the space from the main entrance in the south, they will be immediately attracted by the central pool and the skylight on the entrance axis. When resting and meditating in the hall or conducting conference lectures, people will intuitively experience how time goes by through the slowly changing skylight.

INTERIOR SPACE OF THE NEW GALLERY

The main exhibits of the new Seasonal Gallery are Jinshan farmers' paintings and some small and medium-sized installation art, so most of the indoor light is the diffused light on the top and walls. In addition, the structure of the new gallery mainly arches, which could be considered a unique expression of the silo structure horizontally.

THE WALL STRUCTURE OF THE SEASONAL GALLERY

China has entered the post-industrial era, and the urban open space once occupied by industry, transportation, and storage industries will face functional transformation and redevelopment.

In this plan, we made unexpected collisions to redevelop different urban functional spaces and industrial buildings. In addition, we evaluated the preserved factory buildings by typology study. This type of research is also essential in various urban space renewal projects.

LONG SCROLL PAINTING OF JINSHAN CEMENT FACTORY AFTER THE RENOVATION: THE WAREHOUSE+ AND THE SILO ART GALLERY

LONG SCROLL PAINTING OF JINSHAN CEMENT FACTORY AFTER THE RENOVATION: THE CONCRETE MUSEUM, THE CITY AUDITORIUM AND THE STAR HOTEL

St. Croix Resilience Plan: Emergency Management in Community Spaces

ST. CROIX RESILIENCE PLAN: EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT IN COMMUNITY SPACES

St. Croix Island, U.S. Virgin Island, USA

Instructor: Scott Page/ Jamie Granger

E-mail: scott@interface-studio.com/ jamie@interface-studio.com

Existing Condition Research: St.Croix Resilience Studio at the University of Pennsylvania Emergency Management in Community Spaces: Zihan(Joann) Zhao/ Lexi Lee-Ittah/ Olivia Marcus/ Wynter Adams Main Role: Project Manager/ Urban Designer/ Diagram Designer The diagrams and analysis in the portfolio are all individual works.

The St. Croix Resilience Studio from the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn Studio) conducted this plan. 15 master’s students from various city planning and environmental studies backgrounds worked together to investigate resilience in St. Croix. The emergency management project in community spaces is one proposal of the plan conducted by a small planning group of 4.

As noted throughout this Studio’s research and work, natural disasters and storms are a great threat to St. Croix. Citizens vulnerable to these threats may seek shelter or assistance in community safe rooms.

This project first researched, analyzed, and mapped existing safe room sites. The GIS data analysis helps us propose new sites for future safe rooms. Furthermore, the project designed the new community spaces on the sites filtered out by the precedent study.

St. Croix Resilience Plan: Emergency Management in Community Spaces

Image Source: boats litter a beach after Hurricane Irma struck. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Safe Room

Extreme Weather Hazard in St Croix

Tsunami Evacuation Zone

Riverine/ Coastal Flooding Zone

Storm Surge Zone

Extreme Weather Hazard Evacuation Map (Data Source: VITEMA)

Area A

Airport/ Seaplane Base Sirens Health Clinic Campground Area

Ferry Terminal/ Cargo Port/ Cruise

Tsunami Evacuation Zone

Building

Plans Islandwide Proposed New Safe Room Locations Site Plan of New

St. Croix Existing & Future Safe Rooms

Community Spaces & Resources

With only three existing locations and nine future expected locations, our findings indicated that there is an insufficient number of safe rooms in St. Croix. Moreover, there are not enough

safe room sites, there is not enough capacity to serve St. Croix’s population, and safe rooms are not adequately or evenly distributed throughout the island.

Emile Henderson Fire Station Safe Room

Claude O. Markoe Elementary School (Capacity: 500)

St. Dunstan Episcopal School

Herbert L. (Richmond) Canegata Fire Station Safe Room (Capacity: 9)

Before we developed our site plan, researched and mapped island-wide community resources, including youth centers, recreational spaces, churches and other religious institutions, art and cultural centers, and more.

While there are several notable organizations, resources, and spaces that serve various communities on the island, we found that additional and improved spaces may benefit local

Existing Community Resources

Existing Community Spaces

Evacuation Zone

communities, especially those that are particularly vulnerable. Additionally, many of the spaces that do exist could be improved or renovated to maximize their potential and use.

Therefore, we started to select the community spaces and finish our site plan based on the filters we set up. The filters’ data includes population, natural disaster hazard zones, accessibility, existing community asset, ect.

Department of Human Services Division of Family Services Head Start (Capacity: 35)

DC Canegata Complex (Capacity: roughly 54)

Alexander Theater (Capacity: roughly 300)

Central High School (Capacity: 938)

St. Croix Educational Complex (Capacity: 600)

Existing & Future Safe Rooms on the Island

Arthur Richards PK-8 & Safe Room (Capacity: 690)

Existing Safe Rooms

Future Safe Rooms

Tsunami Evacuation Zone

Hurricane/ Flooding Evacuation Zone

Image: Williams Delight Community Space Existing Condition (UPenn Studio)

The planned capacity for safe rooms is meant to be 10% of the population, which is roughly 5,060 for St. Croix as of 2021. However, as of 2022, the St. Croix shelters can take 792 people.

Safe Room Location Selection Filter 1: Population Density

Christiansted

Safe Room Location Selection Filter 3: High Social Vulnerability

Bethlehem

Christiansted

Population Density Map

Sunny Isle

Existing Safe Rooms

Future Safe Rooms

South Frederiksted and Williams Delight

Williams Delight

Safe Room Location Selection Filter 2: Outside of Natural Disaster Hazard Zones

Population Density High Low

Evacuation Zone

Safe Room Location Selection Filter 4: Accessibility to Existing Community Assets

Extreme Weather Hazard in St. Croix

Tsunami Evacuation Zone

Riverine/ Coastal Flooding Zone

Storm Surge Zone

Safe Rooms and Community Resources

Existing Community Spaces

Existing Safe Rooms

Future Safe Rooms

5 Minute Reachable Range by Foot

15 Minute Reachable Range by Foot

Evacuation Zone

New Safe Rooms Location

Several sites were filtered out as potential new safe room locations- the Five Corners Office Building and Shopping Center, Cruz St Baseball Field, Williams Delight Basketball Court, Renholdt Jackson Sports

Complex, and St. Joseph’s Catholic Church. We decided to develop a site plan for the Williams Delight Basketball Court based on our research, analysis, and methodology.

Community Safe Hub Design

Five Corners Office Building and Shopping Center Cruz St Baseball Field

St Joseph’s Catholic Church

Williams Delight Community Basketball Court

Renholdt Jackson Sports Complex

Rain Garden

Safe Room Candidate Overview: Williams Delight Basketball Court

Our team conducted a market study to understand the currently present and missing resources in the Williams Delight neighborhood, where the William’s Delight Basketball Court is located. Williams Delight has various grocers and restaurants, sports recreation spaces, retail presence, a historical place, and other community assets.

The demographics of the neighborhood indicate that Williams Delight is largely home to a historically marginalized and underserved population that may still bear the effects and challenges linked to cycles of

systemic poverty.

Therefore, the community uses for the site may include recreation, entrepreneurship, climate mitigation, energy and water generation, crop production, general public services, and after-disaster uses.

MelvinH.EvansHwy.

Community Basketball Court

Community Basketball Court Service Area (5min Running)

New Community Safe Hub

Community Resources in Evacuation Zone

Accessibility Analysis

Programming

In daily life, the community safe hub can also provide a variety of public spaces for the community.

Main Pathways

For programming, we create different types of interactive spaces and landscape to help enrich the function of a community center.Besides, the main pathways that serve as a quick access to the safe hub, there are also a secondary pathways which connect the vibrant community spaces.

Within a five-minute pedestrian traffic range, this community safe hub can serve 74.7% of Willams Delight’s community area. About half of the people who live in the area this community safe hub can serve to live in the extreme weather hazard evacuation area.

Community Safe Hub Site Plan

Site Plan

Daily Scene

The multifunctional spaces and the indoor basketball court can provide different community functions in different situations.

We also use biofiltration as one of our main landscape strategies to help create a beautiful landscape area for the community. Meanwhile, it can gather and purify the water from the garden and cooling center/ splash pads. During an emergency such as riverine flooding, the biofiltration marshland can help manage the stormwater and reduce the impact of extreme weather hazards.

Emergent Scene

1. Indoor Basketball Court

2. Safe Room Auxiliary Space

3. Multifunctional Space

4. Volleyball Courts

5. Badminton Courts

6. Biofiltration Marshland

7. Community Farm Garden

8. Cooling Center/ Splash Pads

9. Kids Playground

10. Interactive Spaces

11. Parking

Disaster Relief Resource Distribution

Our analysis began by researching information about FEMA Safe Rooms, including requirements, codes, regulations, and funding. This led us to question what best practices exist around emergency management and creating safe rooms- regarding general location and site-specific characteristics, population capacity, target demographic, and potential funding sources.

With this, we concluded that an effective, modern-day safe room should be located close to a densely populated area and serve as a multifunctional facility that benefits the local community in both times of disaster and blue-sky days. Additionally, a safe room located in a high poverty area would best serve the needs of vulnerable populations.

In the future, the community safe hub can also serve as a natural disaster knowledge issemination center.

Reimagining the Past: A Study and a Modern Revival of Traditional Shanghai Laneways and Row Houses

REIMAGINING THE PAST: A STUDY AND A MODERN REVIVAL OF TRADITIONAL SHANGHAI LANEWAYS AND ROW HOUSES

Hongkou District, Shanghai, China

Instructor: Adam Sun E-mail: adamsun32@gmail.com

The diagrams and analysis in the portfolio are all individual works.

Through the comparative analysis of Shikumen laneway neighborhoods' reconstruction in downtown Shanghai since the 1990s, A study from Tongji University College of Architecture and Urban Planning (Xiang Zhou, Yanbo Li, and Yuning Cheng, 2020) indicates that the existing transformation modes of Shanghai Shikumen laneway neighborhoods can be mainly classified as five types: mediation, transposition, preservation, reposition, and juxtaposition.

The area along the Hongkou Port River that this project focuses on starts from the 1933 Laochangfang and ends at the Hongkou North Bund riverwalk. There are many Shikumen residential buildings along the Hongkougang River and many preserved buildings. This project will study the five renewal modes of the laneway community and the typology of existing traditional row houses within the area. Besides, the project will also renew the laneway community to be a vibrant and dynamic neighborhood.

Laneway spaces should have the nature of "commercial-community" symbiosis. This symbiotic relationship should evolve from a simple dual symbiosis to a composite one.

Reimagining the Past: A Study and a Modern Revival of Traditional Shanghai Laneways and Row Houses

SITE1

SITE2

SITE3

ADAPTIVE COMMUNITY

ADAPTIVE COMMUNITY

The Chunyang residential area is renewed to form a self-contained community. The second floor of the original Shikumen residential building will be transformed into a common working area to make it a new home for the new residents.

The corridor connects the artistic creation space units of each residential building, which all lead to the surrounding cultural and creative shops and display buildings. Cultural and creative workers can complete this area's artistic life, work, and social activities.

CENTRIPETAL COMMUNITY

CENTRIPETAL COMMUNITY

This residential area has a certain concentricity. The former market in the space provided a natural center for the new residential layout. This project transformed the vegetable market into a two-story building for exhibition activities and a onestory commercial building. Therefore, the residential building frontages are all towards this center.

SYMBIOTIC COMMUNITY

SYMBIOTIC COMMUNITY

The residential area of Ping'anli has a complex urban texture. There are many historic buildings around it. Therefore, the project retained specific historical building components and re-planned the relationship between the residential and commercial areas and public spaces to form a symbiotic community.

GIS WORKS GALLERY

ENGLAND: WINDERMERE

This is a beautiful topographical map of the Windermere area in Britain inspired by the "iceberg." I learned this style of map practice on the following website for the first time: https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/333651692

From the OS Open Data website, we download contours and street connections (including road junctions) in Windermere, UK. Then download the DEM scalar map of the UK region from a website containing DEM data for the entire European terrain.

Then I used the Hillshade tool to process the DEM drawings in the GIS. Then, I used a mint color layer to increase the brightness of the entire mountain. Then add contours, place names, streets, and other data to the map. Note that when searching for the map of this area, we need to find the geographic grid system of the United Kingdom to find the data of the corresponding region in the database.

Bownesson Windermere

Windermere

Ambleside

Rydal Hall

Grasmere

ONE NIGHT IN BEIJING 1910

中国·北京1910

This map attempts to restore the winter scenery of the Yuanjing Hutong in the northwest of the Forbidden City in 1910 through the historical map tif file provided by Beijing Open Data Lab, combined with OpenStreetMap data such as buildings and streets.

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