Urban Design Portfolio-Jiakun Wen

Portfolio 2017-2020

JIAKUN WEN

Key Qualities Diverse backgrounds: sociology, physics and urban planning form a open and multipleperspective of thinking.

Good at making the connections between different information and figuring out a solution in a complex environment.

Personal details

Skills

Name: Jiakun Wen

Urban Design Sketchup Rhino Lumion Autocad Photoshop Illustration ArcGIS Hand sketch

Nationality: Chinese Address: Hoevestein 239-16A 6708 AK, Wageningen Mobile phone: +31 611857609 Email: lawrence.wen@outlook.com Date of birth: 23 September 1989

Language

Education Present

Master of landscape Architecture and Spatial planning Wageningen University, The Netherlands

2017

Pre-Master of landscape Architecture and spatial planning Wageningen University, The Netherlands

2012

2008

Bachelor of Physics Nankai University, China

Research of urban design 2020

Simulate the users movement in a public space by agent based model approach

2019

Proposed a new model to assess the publicness level of the public space

Activity 2015

2013

English: Fluent Dutch(attending a regular course): Basic

English and culture study British Study Center, Oxford, UK Silk Road Culture Study Holding a cultural anthropological perspective to travel along the silk road between China and Europe and gain knowledge of the diverse cultures.

Intership

Chinese: Native speaker 2012

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Bachelor of Sociology Nankai University, China

Manager Assistant: Data Analysis, Communication Clariant AG(Swiss), Shanghai, China

| PROJECTS |

New Valley

Urban Renewl | Academic Small-Middle Scale - Page 5-

Bend the Bench

Public Space | Academic Small Scale - Page 19-

Close the loop

Regional Designl | Academic Middle-Large Scale - Page 11-

Let's Green Zuid

Metropolitan Plan | Academic Large Scale - Page 25-

New Valley, Nieuwegein Project Type: Urban Renewal(Academic/Groupwork) Period: March 2018 - May 2018 Site: Nieuwegein, The Netherlands Scale: Small-Middle Supervisor: dr.ir. J.T.C. Grotenhuis Personal Contribution: Concept Design & Visualisation

Nieuwegein is a city of province Utrecht. The vision for Nieuwegein city is to become the most sustainable city in the Netherlands by 2030. It plans to improve in 5 aspects: sustainability, pleasant living environment, mobility, housing, and urban function.

As the city is facing a housing shortage, one of the plans is to make a complete structural change in the Nieuwegein West old parking area. The goal is to transform it into a residential area which concerning the terms above. The car parking area is adjacent to the shopping mall and one main street.

To make the city center has its own sustainable identity and integrate different functional areas as a whole; the concept 'Valley' is applied in designing the residential field.

"Move the car out and make a pleasant living place."

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Site analysis and design question:

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Green Space

Residential Building

Public space 1: 5000

N Nieuwegein plans to transfer its old parking place into a sustainable residential area which includes urban green and public space.

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There are existing street and shopping mall between the green square in the east and the old parking area in the west. The idea is to extend the street into the residential planning area(parking area), thus making them as a whole rather than sperate the residential area and shopping street.

Edge Effect

Residential Building

“Push”

Planting Green Make S pa c

Add edges for Public Space

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Edge Effect in Public space illustrates that when people are in the area such as square, they are more willing to stay at the edge of the area. In public space design, adding edges may provide people a ‘condensation Nucleus’ to stay in the area.

Public Space surrended

By Green Valley

Design Concpet 7

1: 2000

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Masterplan of the residential area

1: 10000 N

The 'valley' tends to extend and activate the street and enhance the walkability in the city center.

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Climate Adaptation Urban green not only help cool down the building itself but also generate fresh air for the public space between the residential buildings.

18 m

5m 25 m

7.5 m

5m 20 m

7.5 m

5m 15 m

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Multifunctional Residential Building

The residential buildings also include multi-functional parts: a supermarket, a gym, and a cinema. A primary school is set on the other side of the building.

In the middle, shops and cafe are on the ground floor. Combined with brook and path, they provide a space for people's optional and social activity.

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Close The Loop Project Type: Regional Design(Academic/Groupwork) Period: June 2018 - July 2018 Site: Amsterdam, The Netherlands Scale: Middle-Large Supervisor: dr. IM (Marleen) Buizer Personal Contribution: Concept design & Visualisation

Nieuwe Meer is a lake locating in the south of Amsterdam which closes to the Amsterdam Zuid and Schipol Airport. On the south of the lake is the largest forest park 'Bos". On the north is the Road 'A4'.

The lake itself becomes a barrier and separate north and south. Although the circuit path of the lake could play a potential role to connect the whole lake area, it is still fractured. As the path are not well combined, people can only enjoy one piece of the area and have less clue about how to get to the other place.

Especially from one side of the lake and overlook the other side of the lake.

The goal is to assemble the lake area and make each part well connected; meanwhile, find an alternative way to replace the outage ferry once connected the south and the north. Thus it is called 'Close the Loop.'

"I can watch but I cannot access"

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Road Water Way Building

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site Analysis: Site Analys: Visitors Flow

Amsterdam Zuid Business District

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Forest Park 'De Bos'

The northern bank and southern bank of Nieuwe meer are not well connected: on the land, people have to make a detour to find a way to the other side of the lake; on the water, the old ferry does not work anymore. Thus it is necessary to find a new flexible alternative transport to re-connect the south and north banks.

Solutions :

Re-connect the Breaking Points by bicycle bridge, floating islands and new bicycle lanes.

Close the Loop.

Connection Lane

Floating Island The concept is to close the path loop around the lake and create jumping points on the lake to build new water path for people to go from one side to another.

1: 20000

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Bicycle Bridge 13

The floating Island By setting the floating island, the water is transferred into a recreational place rather than a barrier. These islands can become a clue and inspire people to explore the other side of the lake.

10 m

Dock

Floating Block

Synthesis Design of the platform

Concrete Anchor

Floating Tree

Diving Platform 14

Water Bicycle Rear Wheel (Generate Power to the connected air pump)

The alternative solution of ferry

Front Wheel (Direction Control)

Rudder

Air Pump

Air Buoy

Water Bicycle has two parts, the bicycle, and the hollow block. When people ride their bikes and want to cross the lake, they can equip their bike with the floating block.

The floating island can be a hop stop when they want to rest.

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1: 2000

The Peninsula Design

This loop is also a waterfront recreational space. Three diving platforms are built on the loop.

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Previous Peninsula In the purpose of creating a port to launch people into the lake, the idea is to use the peninsula as a joint place of land and water. A wooden loop platform will be built and fit the existing semilunar square.

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In the purpose of closing the loop, four parts are designed. The bicycle bridge will connect the 'Bos' Park and the artist community.

On the eastern side, the bicycle lane will be highlighted so people can be lead from north to sourth or aother way around. On the northern side, the path goes through a small forest which people can experience the forest landscape.

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A. A Bicycle Bridge

B. BoardWalk

B C. 'Connection' Lane Concerning there are not enough waterfront path on the south side, a wooden board bridge is designed.

D. Dialogue with Forest

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The view of Peninsula

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View Point

The peninsula loop is a recreational water space. Three diving platforms are designed on the loop for people to jump and play with water.

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Bend the Bench Project Type: Campus Public Space(Academic/Individual) Period: May 2019 - July 2019 Site: Wageningen University, The Netherlands Scale: Small

The triangle square is one of the biggest squares in Wageningen campus. It locates in front of the main teaching building 'Forum'. The initial goal is to prepare a recreational space for teachers and students after class; however, a daily observation shows that only a few teachers and students use the square. This phenomenon brought my interest to analyze why this space has such a low using rate.

There is no such outdoor hub in the campus for people to gather and social, based on the analysis, a new public space will be designed on the triangle square.

"The square is supposed to provide an active space.

However, it does not" N

Road Bicycle Path Bus Route

50 m

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Site Analysis The man on the left has to sit very front so that can talk with the people on the right side.

Both talkers have to twist and turn their body to each other.

The lawn attracts more Compare to the other people areas, and fewer people use this area.

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The place close to edge and has more trees attracts more people.

The woman has to sit very back so that to make space for both sides to talk.

Sitting Behavior and Personal Space Theory

Friend Zone

45cm

Social Zone

1.2 m

3.6 m

Personal space theroy

Bend

Not enough space hard to join the talk

The two spaces are not interacted

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The new square includes two parts: the hills and a round square. The hills create a small barrier to embrace the social square. The vegetation on the hills can also help cool down the square.

Site Design Create an outdoor space center

The round square, as a social hub, enables multiple social activties to happen. People can give a speech, play instrument, or dance in the central stage, which makes space an 'outdoor temporary theatre'.

Green small hills to cool the space

Set more tables for people to eat outside

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The square not only provides space for groups and social activities but also concerns about individuals who want to be alone and silent. Individuals can sit on the hills and watch the events in the distance.

Individual Space

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Social Space

30m

Individual Space

Bench with Table

The movable bench can combine with the table and also be used independently. Users can make any social space they want by assembling several portable benches.

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When there is a concert

When there is a concert or speech given in the middle of the square, people will gather to the central round space and move the bench from the table to provide more seats for people who enjoy the show.

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Let's Green Zuid Project Type: Metropolitan data analysis(Academic/Groupwork) Date: Feburary 2018 - April 2018 Location: Amsterdam Zuid, The Netherlands Scale: Large Supervisor: dr.ir. RJA (Ron) van Lammeren Personal Contribution: Design the analysis process

The goal of this project is to find out the appropriate location to build tiny parks(park om de hoek) for neighborhoods in Amsterdam. These parks will be cocreated and maintained by citizens. Our group was assigned to find the spots in Amsterdam Zuid. The place should fit several criteria: empty paved space in the residential area(100-700m2); in close collaboration with the citizens; not only an attractive spot, but it could also help to solve urban challenges, e.g., urban heat island effect, flooding, etc.

In this study, we use Arcgis and multiple databases to figure out the optimal spots. There are two phases: the first phase is to identify the potential locations; the second phase is to overlay by maps about 'heat stress, flooding risk, urban density, and existing parks' to find the optimal spot to build the tiny park.

"Create a green and social space in the corner of the street!"

1 km

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PHASE 1

PHASE 2

Identify the potential locations by size and shape(100700m2)

Overlay by different maps(heat stress, flood risk, urban density and existing parks) to filter the optimal spots.

PHASE 1

Find the potential locations as a gap among buildings, roads, and private field. The size varies from 100m2 to 700m2 1km

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The red spots are potential locations.

Mark out the residential area, and filter the spots which only locates in the residential sector.

The light blue is the residential area, and the dark blue spots are potential spots locate in the residential sector.

1km

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Flood Risk

Heat Stress 1km

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residents density

PHASE 2

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Current parks

The four maps show the distribution of heat stress, flood risk, residential density, and current parks. For heat stress, the darker yellow area has a higher heat stress problem. The flood risk map illustrates where the water will influx. For residents density, the more shaded red zone has a higher density of residents. In the park distribution map, the green area is the park per se, the yellow area is the effective buffer. In this study, we assumed the width of the buffer is 200m, which means people can reach the park in this distance, and there is less need to build new parks in the buffer.

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FINAL RESULT The study combines the values in four thematic maps in phase 2 and gives weights to them(we assume all thematics have equal importance).The calculation gives each spot a score, and a maximum of 4 points could be scored.

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1km

We divide these scores into four intervals and use four colors to represent them(the legend). The green spot is the optimal location.

The place has a relative high problem of heat stress and water influx. Meanwhile, the surrounding area has a high density of residents, which means the park has more opportunities to get maintained. And it is also far from the park(>200m). The light green spot is the desirable location, and the yellow spot is the suitable location. The red spot has a low score of less than 1 pointm, which is an undesirable location to build the small park.

3.0-4.0 optimal loction 2.0-3.0 Desirable loction 1.0-2.0 Suitable loction 0.2-1.0 Undesirable loction 29

3D Modeling Practice By Rhino

(BIG, 2019)

(Hemel&Kuit, 2005)

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(XING DESIGN, 2018)

(MAD, 2005)

Thank You

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