Landscape portfolio

SELECTIVE WORKS 2012-2016

YUQIAN ZHANG

Bachelor of Landscape Architecture Guangxi Arts University

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CONTENTS

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JIANGNAN INDUSTRY PARK DESIGN Community Park Design

QINGXIU LAKE AREA PLANNING Waterfront Urban Space Planning

NAN TIE COMMUNITY STEETSCAPE RENOVATION Urban Space & Landscape Architecture Design

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CHAOYANG CREEK GREENWAY RENOVATION

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OTHER WORKS

Urban Green Space & Ecological Design

Pen Sketching & Furniture Design

JIANGNAN INDUSTRY PARK DESIGN

Individual Work Duration: four months

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PROJECT BACKGROUND This project is located in Nanning City, Guangxi Province, China. The original electric factory primarily provides regional electric service during the last 50 years.

However, as the society developing, the factory is less effective and utilized in providing electric power. The design area is where the electric factory was located and it is becoming an abandoned area with aged industrial building and facilities. The place has no people to visit and work anymore except the homeless.

To reuse this abandoned land and revive the local environment, there is a great need to transform the industrial area to a new-developed community park.

The effort to remove the existing structure and facilities is expensive, so I would like to inherit the industrial spirit by maintaining them as the landmark and create innovative landscape environment to remind people the local history with distinct features.

Existing road system

Existing districts The electric industry inspires me to borrow the distinct elements like spark and electric wave, and conbine with the local “Tong� culture to create a memorial and unique symbol for the site.

Project site

Primary traffic lane Pathway Property line Single family residential area Unit apt. residential area Multi-Unit residential area Commercial area

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Main entrance

Recreational Cultural Industrial Social USERS Before

Current

Future

Residents 50%

Residents Workers

Workers Residents

Workers

Visitors

Visitors

30% Intimate Space

Shade Privacy Comfort Facility Release

Public Space Abandoned Space

Private Space Semi-open Space

Semi-open Space

Public Space

Private Space

Office Workers

Private Space

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DESIGN GOALS By analyzing the major user groups and their expected qualities for this community park, I develop four major topics to design this recreational, cultural, and environmental park further.

To meet this criterion, I would start with the design concept and define more details as follows.

Shade Privacy Comfort Facility Release

Shade Privacy Comfort Facility Release

Industrial Transform Increase attractions Encourage outdoor events Provide infrastructure

Maintain partial structure Keep industrial memory Renovate local/site culture

Cultural

Recreational Provide gathering space Allow outdoor activities Provide multi-scale spaces

Social

Eco-friendly

keep local planting species Enrich planting varieties Improve surface infiltration

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SITE MAP The site design respects the existing structure and develops multiple spaces along the main pathway which guides visitors to walk through major attractions. There are many scales of spaces I provide for diverse user groups. Open spaces like the creek, terrace plaza and outdoor theater for large group gathering and activities.

Semi-open spaces like garden, shrub maze are designed for people to have the family fun time. The intimate spaces with semi-closure and high canopy provide quite an environment for meditation

Major entrance

Retail plaza

Skywalk Creek

Outdoor theatre Fountain plaza

Shrub maze

Garden

Outdoor theatre Terrace plaza

Reading area

DESIGN CONCEPTS

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Concept 1

Concept 2

DESIGN ANALYSIS

Areas

Primary pathway

Vegetation coverage

Waterbody

Skywalk Primary pathway Secondary pathway Skywalk Main entrance Secondary entrance Minor entrance

Road hierarchy

Secondary pathway

To enrich the space experience, the trees are planted in various arrangements from where people can walk through and have the open view

Retail Plaza

Local history is engraved on the pathway for memorial

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SPACE EXPERIENCE STUDY

+ Tedious path

Divide space

Provide optional path

Seating bed

Creek TERRACE PLAZA

The skywalk structure materials are recycled from the original industrial facilities, and it provides links among multiple attractions. Visitor is able to go on stairs to have an overview of the park or have a seat and shade under the skywalk.

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DESIGN ELEMENTS

PARK ENTRANCE

The industrial elements inprire me to create landscape features with industrial symbols. The electric pole and parts are borrowed to create the unique spaces

The polar groups combine with shrub form a maze that creates diverse semi-closure space for minor group activities. Benches asre provided with the industrial symbol design.

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OUTDOOOR PLAYGROUND

SEATING ON THE SKYWALK

Maintaining the existing structure and turining them into new outdoor facilities are the major tasks of this design. The reuse would bring people back to the site and they could have fun with the newly designed park facilities.

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READING AREA

QINGXIU LAKE AREA PLANNING Individual Work Project Duration: three months

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PROJECT BACKGROUND

Illuminated plaza

Night light run

The design area is located near the Qing Xiu Lake which is the largest ecological ake area in the city. The site has about 80 acres, and the major surrounding land is for the residential use. To advocate a more healthy lifestyle, and enhance the living atmosphere for the citizen, this design aims to create outdoor, and natural urban spaces are encouraging people in different ages to engage in the outdoor exercise and group activities. Besides, to bring in more dynamic activities and events to the site, the design would introduce lighting facilities that enrich the night life of the visitors, including night light run, music fountain show, and illuminated structure, these elements would form better safe spaces and beautiful attractions at night that increase the diversity

Night group event

Recreational Energetic Ecological Livable Eco-friendly living environment Energetic night activities Diverse urban spaces Healthy life

Si Lake 13km

Mingge Lake 3km PROJECT SITE

Mingyue Lake 1 km

Bike route

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QINGXIU LAKE

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User Exercise Survey 14KM 11KM 5.5KM

Main axis

Main axis

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2.3KM

Minor axis View point

Minor axis Main node

Main entry

Minor node

11KM 5.5KM

The design is developed around the Qing Xiu Lake that diverse activities are designed associated with the current forest, waterfront area. The existing site has great green coverage which provides a pleasant natural environment for people who like biking, jogging, and camping. I developed loops with different distance for diverse user groups depend on their exercise survey. Besides, the attractions are distributed along the lakefront area to give visitors multi-scales spaces to relax and play.

Secondary entry

Bikeway

Jogging route

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After

Pond

Wall

Pathway

Pathway

I design the diverse waterfront plazas for people to enjoy the lake view. To give visitors, a closer view of the landscape here are three scales of the parkway for options. The parkway allows biker and walker to stop at the recreational area, plaza or wooden bridge, and get to know more about the wetland and the wild life. The tall trees provide shady areas for people to rest and the lake area brings in breeze which create pleasant and natural environment.

Lake

Planting

Bikeway

Wetland

Planting

Bikeway

Flooding level Wet season water level Ordinary water level Wetland

Wetland

Recreational area

Terrace 4m

Wetland

Pathway 6m

Terrace 3m

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1 Welcome planting 2 Sculpture 3 Sitting area 4 Cypress plaza 5 Palm tree plaza 6 Open lawn This waterfront plaza provides large space for outdoor group gathering and the open view of the lake.

The open lawn allows people to sit under the tree and enjoy the lake wind.

It is the place for people to walk and take exercise.

Activity Plaza

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Cypress Plaza

Sculpture

Cycling Club 14

Pathway

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Skating Plaza

The areas with dense tree coverage would be turned into vegetable gardens, forest and camping ground that give visitors opportunities to learn about plantings, growing vegetables and get closer to the nature.

This would be a colorful and joyful area that full of seasonal change and harvest. Adults and children would gain knowledge, fruit, and happiness from outdoor labour

Biking Trail

Increasing the planting species and introducing the wetland planting help to enhance the ground infiltration and drain the surface runoff to the lake. It is beneficial for the environment to reduce the soil erosion and hold the hydration by the planting roots. Children would learn from growing plants and understand the significance of protecting the nature.

Bikeway 5m

Wetland

Crossing bridge 20m

Phragmites communis

Canna indica

Zephyranthes grandiflora

S.babylonica

Metasequoia glyptostroboides

Rose Garden

Wetland

Bikeway 5m

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NAN TIE COMMUNITY STEETSCAPE RENOVATION Group Project Duration:three months

Individual responsibilities:

Site survey and analysis Site plan & perspective rendering 3d modeling

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BACKGROUND

Guangxi Province, China

Nanning City, Guangxi

This project is located in Nanning City, Guangxi Province, China. The original community has over thirty years old where the employee of civic railways bureau and their family live here. Due to the community and facilities are getting old, here is a great need to renovate the street and the surrounding environment. The design goal is to create a walkable and inviting space for the residents and bring in local history and culture for building a historical community.

User Analysis

Residents Office Workers 75% 2%

Tourists 5%

Students 18%

Based on the site inventory and analysis, I would like to inherit the local railway’s culture and create the relative symbol for the people to remember.

Railway

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Walking Relaxing Shopping Discussing Dancing

Sightseeing Sitting Shopping Discussing Walking Reading

Factory

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Recreational Cultural Commercial

Beehive

Walkable

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STREET ENTRANCE Entrance Structure Sinage Wall

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SITE PLAN The streetscape is divided into three regions with different themes. The entrance area would have aligned trees with signage wall giving the welcome atmosphere to the visitors. People would go through the entrance structure which remembers them the former railway and the local culture. As they walk on the greenway, they would experience a dynamic and inviting place that brings breeze and available seating area aside from the road.

10 Wooden Corridor 11 Stepping Stone 12 Cobble Paving

8 Grid Tiles

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9 Seating Wall 4 Planting Bed

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5 Overhead Structure 6 Raised Seating

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1 Stores 2 Entrance Structure

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3 Signage Wall 4 1

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7 Wooden Pavement

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Art Walkway

Shopping Street

Chinese redbud

Cassia surattensis

Recreational Plaza

Greenway

Delonix regia Vehicle Lane

Pedestrian Walkway

Overhead Structure Raised Seating Planting Bed

Wooden Corridor

Cobble Pavement

GREENWAY

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LEISURE PLAZA

This Leisure Plaza is designed for people to relax and enjoy the nature. The place is surrounded by tall trees which not only reduce the traffic noise but also create a shady and peaceful area. People can sit aside the creek and have a meditation area.

The plaza design concept is inspired by the beehive which creates multiple spaces for different activity purposes. I use hexagon as the basic design element to create different and interesting landscape features to attract people, such as raised bench, pavilion and pavement.

1 Sunken Plaza 2 Artificial Creek 3 Reading Corner 4 Hexagonal Seating

Hexagonal Pavement

Hexagonal Bench

LEISURE PLAZA

Sunken Plaza

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Seated Bed

Hexagonal Pavilion

Hexagonal Pavillion

Planting Bed

Terrace Creek

READING CORNER

Hexgonal Seating

Waterfront Deck

LEISURE PLAZA

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CHAOYANG CREEK GREENWAY RENOVATION Group Project Duration: four months

Individual responsibilities: Site survey and analysis Site map & perspective rendering Section drawing 3d modeling

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PROJECT BACKGROUND Chao Yang Creek is one of the most vital tributaries in the Hu River system which goes through the historic residential area in Nanning City. It witnesses the region’s development as the nearby residential, commercial and historical areas are gaining more value.

This design aims to improve the ecological environment along the creek and create a eco-friendly outdoor area. By providing diverse planting organizations and river bank management, it increases the efficiency of regional water source recycle and surface runoff infiltration.

The emphasis of this project design is to create a resilient city which has ability to handle the flooding problem by introducing the appropriate landscape design solutions

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Chao Yang

Ren Min Rd.

Guangxi Ren Min W. Rd.

Jiang Bei Ave.

Hu River

Nanning

SITE SURVEY Area:22.2 sqkm

Overall Length:13.2km

Building environment

Water pollution

Pavement

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SITE SURVEY

SITE MAP

In line

1 Welcome plaza 2 Sightview boardwalk 3 Waterfront boardwalk PLANTING MAP AND ARRANGEMENT

4 Ecological trail 5 Willow shade plaza

In group

Nan Jing Bridge

6 Open lawn

In community

7 Shopping street 8 Waterfront plaza

Zhen Bei Bridge Yin Xing Bridge

9 Wetland

Community + Line

Xi Ping Bridge.

10 Time square Main entrance Secondary entrance

Jiang Bei Ave. Bed + Line

Activity Time Num of People

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Jiang Bei Ave.

Xi Ping Bridge.

Zhen Bei Bridge

Nan Jing Bridge

Yin Xing Bridge

Through the detailed site survey, I investigate the creek-side environment and neighborhood and reveal six major problems the site encountered. As the regional population density arise, more and more housing and traffic bring the worse situation to the surrounding environment. Too much concrete paving increases the crisis of flooding and soil erosion to the site. The main task of this design is to renovate the water bank and bring new vitality to the greening River bank renovation

Problems

Flooding

Waste

Pollution

Solutions Deforest

Impermeable paving

Healthy lifestyle

Prevent pollution

Unorganized planting

Rainwater recycle

Space division

Flooding season

Runoff management

Dry season Before

Permeable paving

Planting diversity

After

To prevent the potential soil erosion and increase the waterfront recreational area, I transfer the bank with concrete pavement to slope with diverse planting species. It not only retains the rainwater into the planting area but also offers closer view for the visitors to get to nature.

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Terrance boardwalk

WATER POLLUTION CONTROL STRATEGIES

The water pollution and wetland restoration strategies are adapted with three phases of water control with ecological methods. Through the collaboration of planting purification and micro-biological degradation, they gradually reduce the level of water pollution. The wetland acts as the critical part in the natural filtration process which reduces the pollution flowing to the creek while bringing the planting and wildlife diversity to the site.

Phase 1 Pollution control

Phase 2 Planting purification

Terrance boardwalk provides steps of waterfront boardwalk allowing visitors to stay close to nature, enjoy the pleasant environment and get inspired by the ecological scene.

Phase 3 Road construction

Pollutant Root absorption

Stone

Soil absorption

Biological degradation

Natural pollution filter

Vehicle lane

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Buffer zone

Shady pathway

Terrace

Boardwalk

Terrance

Wetland

Parking lot

Planting bed

Main road

Entry sculpture

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Main road Waterfront path

Main road

Waterfront path

Creek

Resting platform Scene corridor

Store

Shopping street

Wetland boardwalk

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OTHER WORKS Acdamic works Drawing Modeling

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PEN SKETCHING

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TRADITIONAL ARCHITECTURAL RESEARCH

LIGHT DESIGN

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PORTFOLIO OF YUQIAN ZHANG

APPLICATION FOR MASTER OF COMMUNITY PLANNING

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