Design Project
6. Eskisehir Memorial Park 12. Musical Festival Site Design 18. Dawang Temple Design 24. Mountain Club Design 30. Campus Complex Design
Self Work 36. Self Work
EskisehiR Memorial park Eskisehir, Turkey, Sep-Dec, 2014 Project Description Facing the project of designing and restoring a 61-acre unban land in Eskisehir, a city with long history and profound culture, our team put forward the idea “Memorial Park� as the theme of this design. Our proposal takes the historic timeline of Eskisehir and a number of Turkish cultural elements to brand the park. We proposed a series of public spaces in an order as Introduction, Historic Corridor, Inner Museum, Peace Plaza, and Activity Center. By telling a story of the city within such design, our proposed Eskisehir Memorial Park is aimed to provide a special experience for the visitors, create educational opportunities and spaces for the adjacent high school, and also provide public green spaces to meet the communities' needs.
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Key Word: integrated design
Slope Conditions
We were tasked with mitigating a number of problems, including sculptur ing the steep slope and promoting erosion control, collec ting stor mwater on site, improving pedestr ian and bic ycle circulation both inside and sur round the par k , connec ting the par k to adjacent neighbor hoods, increasing par k use and adding public green space, and developing ideas for communit y programs within the par k . Af ter a site visit, per iod of analysis, and individual and group designs we have come up with a proposal to fulfill our tasks. Taken as a unit, our proposal will increase the use of the par k ; delight the underused ur ban land to a tour ism cit y ’s ter minal.
Surrounding Community
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Military Housing
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Team Statement
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IDEAS GENERATION
Local Material: Sepiolite Sepiolite is a clay mineral, a complex magnesium silicate, a typical formula for which is Mg4Si6O15(OH)2•6H2O. It can be present in fibrous, fine-particulate, and solid forms. Sepiolite is the specialty of Eskisehir. It has a characteristic: when it encounters water, it will absorb a lot of water, then it will become soft and change the shape. When it is dry, it will become hard again. Considering the characteristic, we use the sepiolite as a tool in stormwater management. Every time when it rains, the sepiolite will absorb the stormwater runoff in the site. Also it will be a good landscape because of its changing shape.
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Museum Plaza Perspective
Bike Trail Perspective
Musical Festival Site Design Elijah Clark State Park, Lincolnton, GA May-Jun, 2014 Project Description This project is an idea generating exploration to assist Elijah Clark State Park to design a festival grounds, in order to support the existing Elijah Annual Bluegrass Festival in the site currently used as the “boneyard� for the park. The purpose is to encourage more community music events throughout the year to appeal to multi-age groups. The space is also planned to accommodate a wide range of the other types of community events such as tournaments, vintage car club gatherings, and other possibilities to gather people together in a park environment.
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Key Word: Emotion
Master Plan
Concept – Festival The design concept is generated by the study of people’s emotion. Bluegrass music is a form of American roots music, and a sub-genre of country music. Thus the whole atmosphere is delightful and full of enthusiasm. Balloons are key elements in this design. Firstly, they are carrying strong hint of festival. Secondly, they could be seen from a far distance, which attracts people to come and join. Moreover, balloons could be removed after monthly music festival, and then this site can be used as party and recreation area. 14
Perspective
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Phases Phase 1: Parking lots, Amphitheater, Central lawn, Food trucks, Restrooms Phase 2: Playground, Food market Phase 3: Small stage and others
Recycling The materials of food market come from local woods. Wastes from food market and people could also fertilize forest after treatment. Forest, wild nature area and grass land could consist into a permaculture, which is a kind of selfmaintained agriculture system.
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Dawang Temple Design Anhui, China, Feb-May, 2012 Project Description As to a Chinese classical temple complex, order is a vital element because it is related to traditional folkways, social ranks, and people’s respect to nature. People living in remote mountain areas believe in geomantic omen, which is all about the integration of orders. They think it is the deity that controls their fate, so they pay more attention to the pattern of temple complex. Every detail must be in its site, even the plants. This kind of preciseness is far from inflexibility. It can also create various spaces to lead people to sacred palace step by step.
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Key Word: Order
Backing on Mountains and Facing Waters The Way bears sensation. Sensation bears memory. Sensation and memory bear abstraction, And abstraction bears all the world; Each thing in the world bears Yin and Yang, And, imbued with mind, harmony with the Way.
Tao Teh Jing, Laozi
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Function Introduction
Rest -- Garden Worshipping -- Worshipping Area Accomodation & Consecration -- Buddhist Monastery
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Building Density
Space Analysis
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Main Temple Design
West Elevation
South Elevation
Master Plan
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Dawang Temple was first built in 1480, Ming Dynasty. It was used for commemorate loyalty, and today is for praying. Unsophisticated villagershold temple fair here every year. They pray for harvest, health, and happyness. This design is a site project. There were three participants: my major advisor Dr. Yue, partner Yang Shen, and I. We two students were mainly responsible for the subsidiary garden design and Buddhist monastery planning with the direction of our teacher. From February to May in 2012, it took us nearly 4 months to finish the design. 23
Mountain Club Design Wuxi, China [Spring 2012] Project Description In architecture, if the structure is like people’s skeleton, the culture is spirit. Moreover, if the exterior is like people’s appearance, the concept is like soul. When an individual loses an arm or a leg, he is still a person. Yet when he loses his soul, he is just the walking dead. This is the same as architecture. Every building has its reason to exist, like the aim, the function, or the aesthetic need, which is also the idea. The deeper the idea is, the more thought-provoking the architecture is. Behind the idea, there are background culture and design concept. It is the watershed between excellent design and inferior one.
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Key Word: Culture
Follow the Culture The club culture originated in Britain dated back to the 17th century. At that time, there exited clubs of gentlemen as civil social occasions. With a history of hundreds of years, these clubs usually had a delicate decoration. Gentlemen of that time would prefer to have dinner and deal with personal banking issues in their own clubs rather than refer to public services outside. Even when they needed to write a letter or a memo, it would be considered decent only if they used the paper belonging to the club. After all, in a traditional British club, the well-educated manners, the elegant taste and lifestyle would be fully reflected. In another way, among British society, the number of memberships of famous clubs that one owned would give a manifestation about his social status.
Made by PVC plastic sheets and organic glass Spray painting in later period
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Thinking Process of Exterior Design 27
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Dancing Hall Restroom Crush Room VIP Room Ping-Pong Room Dressing Room
Zones and Routes
7 Lecture Room 8 Music Room 9 Restroom 10 Crush Room 11 Snack Bar 12 Chess Roon 13 Inquiry Office 14 Administration 15 Recreation Room 16 Tea House
Passive Activity Active Activity
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South Elevation
West Elevation
North Elevation
East Elevation 1:600
Why Conveyer Belts? Firstly, from British classical clubs to today’s, the for m has been changing all the time to meet different needs in different times. I want my club to show classical atmosphere to guests and visitors, meanwhile, it would not be too rigid to make distance. Secondly, conveyer belt is a direct tool. The trails around the architecture are the same meaning as the conveyer belts which are convenient for people pass through different space. 29
Campus Complex Design Nanjing, China [Spring 2011] Project Description Form ever follows function. -- Louis Henry Sullivan It is a common sense that architecture should retain firmness, applicability and beauty. According to it, function belongs to the part of applicability, which means it is the very foundation and beginning of an architecture design. Meanwhile, surroundings give limitation, and also make every architecture unique. In the campus complex design, the functions are not only buying food, drinking tea, but also enjoy football match and appreciate beautiful scenery on campus. It is the intersection of function and surrounding, and also the starting point of the design.
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Key Word: FunctioN & surrounding
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3 warehouse 4 shop 5 restroom 6 cold drink It is successful when a design attracts people to come and stay. Thus, an appealing entrance is the nice beginning. The path of the gateway extends towards, passes through the complex, and reaches a comparatively wider space, which gives people a sense of sudden bright open. Moreover, the complex makes the limited area changeful and interesting. People will feel comfortable and relaxed.
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Evolution of the Form Every step of the transformation is reasonable. The purpose of the design is to make it humanizing. I divided the issue into site analysis, functional comparison and environment consideration. Finally, the results are gathered to create the design. This is a practical method, I call it recombination.
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Self Work Anywhere [2009-Now] Project Description In most situation, when we receive a box, we always focus on the content and ignore the box itself; when we eat up a popsicle, the stick will be no longer used; when there are some disused clothes hangers, to throw away is the first choice. However, if we can realize the feature and value of them, they will be delicate decoration in our life. In addition, it is also a environmentally friendly behavior, which can help embellish our living surroundings at both these two angles. Design is everywhere, and we need to discover it.
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Key Word: Creativity
Front Elevation
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Design & Build -- Minigarden Competition I
The Design & Build -- Minigarden Competition is held once a year in Nanjing Forestry University. Students from both undergraduate and graduate degree form teams of 4 – 6 members to compete with each other in designing and building a small garden (6 feet * 8 feet). Only 16 teams who win the design part have the chance to realize their ideas in the building part. I have attended this competition three times and built two of them up during my first and third year.
Design & Build -- Minigarden Competition II
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Sketch
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Utilization≈50%
Storage Box Utilization≈100%
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Materials: Corrugated boards
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FOLDING SHELVES Materials: Corrugated boards, ice-cream sticks, Pins
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[Education] <06/2015> University of Georgia Master of Landscape Architecture Cumulative GPA: 3.73/4.00 Graduate Thesis: Making the Past Serve the Present -- A Study of the Relationship between Traditional Fengshui and Landscape Ecology (Supervised by Prof. Eric MacDonald) <05/2013> Nanjing Forestry University Bachelor of Landscape Architecture Cumulative GPA: 3.71/4.00 Graduate Thesis: The Continuation and Connection of Traditional Landscape – A Study of Chinese Modern Gardens Designed by Zheng Li in Wuxi, China (Supervised by Dr. Zhi Yue)
[Professional Experience] <05/2014-07/2014> Design assitant in Wuxi chenggui designing institute co., LTD Wuxi, Jiangsu, China <01/2012-02/2012> Marketing promotion worker in Web International English Institute Wuxi, Jiangsu, China <03/2011-07/2011> Cartographer in Jiangsu institute of Urban planning and Design Nanjing, Jiangsu, China
[Awards and Group Memberships] <05/2011> <10/2011> <11/2011> <12/2011> <12/2012>
Student Union Activist in College of Landscape Architecture in Nanjing Forestry University Recognition Award in Competition of Garden Design & Construction among three universities in Nanjing Palm Landscape Architecture Scholarship for Top 10% students in College of Landscape Architecture Second Prize in “Trophy Challenge” entrepreneurship competition with four partners, in Nanjing Forestry University Qianjing Landscape Architecture Scholarship for Top 5% students in College of Landscape Architecture