Jinghan Zhou_2021

Pocket Pond(2020)

Landscape architecture portfolio selected works 2019-2020 Rhode Island School of Design jzhou02@risd.edu

Place, ecology, locomotion, and humanities. What do these words mean?

How do they relate to each other? I am an enthusiastic and hardworking young designer on the path of seeking answers and expressing my understanding through my designs. Those words, packed with complex and evolving meanings, are ubiquitous in the contemporary quest to construct a more resilient future. My goal would be to continually search for the purpose of landscape architecture and reform my understandings through the practice.

Strong fundamental knowledge of botany, horticulture science, and soil science Ability to learn new digital programs quickly and apply them to projects Bilingual Mandarin Chinese and English. Native in Chinese. Fluently speaking and writing in English Hardworking, focused, and self-disciplined. Logical, well-organized, and thorough researcher.

Innovative and resourceful problem solver. Socially outgoing and collaborative.

CONTENT

I POCKET POND Understanding of systems–biotic and abiotic, cultural and political–as well as our aspirations to conserve,restore, or reshape those systems.

Individual Instructor: Professor Johanna Barthmaier-Payne Phillipsdale, Providence, RI Feb.—May. 2020

Site Plan

Elevated Marsh Land

Parcel B Native Species

Urban Food Chain

Site Plan

Farmer’s Market Perspective

Farmer’s Market Perspective

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Material Logic Logic Material

RISD Garden Club project (will be installed during the mid-spring of 2021). These seating areas aim to divide the garden into a social zoom and private zoom for RISD students.

Rotten wood seating zone designed based on the existing sharp slop condition. Rotten wood seat cold acts as a retaining wall for the sharp slop, as well as a growing seat. This rotten wood seat could also act as a container for small shade-tolerant plants; thus, it could also be called a growing seat. This part of the seating zone aims to provide private seats.

Moss seating zone is designed base on the boulder rock as a seat placed at the shallower slope. People could sit and walk around the seating zone. In the meantime, the moss community will come a part of the decoration for the seats. This part of the seating zone aims to provide social seats.

Sri Lanka Summer 2020 Ritual and Healing Landscape: The sights, sounds, and smells that surround us have a tremendous impact on people’s emotions. Based on the existing environmental condition of the Parai Nialm, we are creating medical settings and longterm residential care facilities that lead the way in the therapeutic landscape’s resurgence.

Starting with the restorative natural environment that further assists stress reduction, supports local people’s emotion, cognitive equilibriumin nature, and focuses on widow issues after the civil war. Related terms of “Self-awareness”, Spiritual-attainment” and “Sensory-awakening.”

China Vanke Co. LTD Community and Commercial District

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CAD plan for the drainage system for the same district. This drainage system serves directly to the new flower bed and new plants. Help the senior engineer directs the system design.