Xinyu(Joy) Liu-Portfolio2024

XINYU LIU

PORTFOLIO

University of Pennsylvania

Master of Landscape Architecture 1

EDUCATION

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2021-2024

University of Pennsylvania

2017 - 2021

Nanjing Forestry University

2024.03

Reed Hilderbrand

2023.06-2023.08

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCE

SKILLS

4258 Chestnut Street, Apt.506 Philadelphia, PA19104

+1 2672549645

liuxinyu981228@gmail.com

xinyu9@upenn.edu

Master of Landscape Architecture-1

Current GPA: 3.92/4.0

Urban Design Certificate

Bachelor of Engineering

Major: Landscape Architecture Design

ACADEMIC

Worked on institutional projects, grant application. Learned schemetic design and initial proposal, prepared documents for grant application.

GGN JSAD

2020.06-2020.08

-Nanjing, China

2023.01-2023.11

LA+ Journal

2022 summer, 2023 -2024

University of Pennsylvania

2022-2023

University of Pennsylvania

2018-2021

Nanjing Forestry University

Extern Intern Intern

Worked on commerical and public landscape projects

Arranged the work for all departments of the committee -University Of Pennsylvania -Weitzman School of design -New Haven, CT -Seattle, WA

Worked on institutional, residential and commercial projects. Engaged from SD to CD phase, CAD detailing, digital and physical modeling, graphic production

Helped with detailing, graphic production and prepare presentation documents

LA+ BOTANIC Production Team

Researching, proposing, and producing the journal’s graphic content based on every article and layout design

Teaching Assistant

Assist in teaching Rhino, Grasshopper, GIS and Adobe Suite Assist in teaching grading, construction drawings and planting

Design Justice Working Group

Student Representative for 600s students

Organized student events, participated in DJWG meetings

Youth League Working Committee

Deputy Chief

2D Visualization: Hand drawing | Auto CAD | Adobe Suite After Effects

3D and Parametric Modeling: Physical Modeling Rhino | Sketch-up | Grasshopper 3D Printing

Rendering: V-ray | Lumion | Enscape | Keyshot

Geo-spatial Analysis: GIS Aquaveo | Google Earth Pro

Other Skills: Bluebeam | Microsoft Office | Excel Mandarin

PROFESSIONAL

Regional Planning And Strategic Design 03 From Food Desert to Food District Urban Design With Detail Intervention 02 Singularity to Multiplicity Medium-small Scale Urban Renewal

OTHER WORKS

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Farming with Grid Garden Design/ Installation

Singularity to Multiplicity 01

Eakins Oval Reborn: An Urban Microforest

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

LARP701 Studio, Medium-small Scale

Instructor: Christopher Marcinkoski

Collabrator: Wei Xia

2023.09-2023.12

Skills Used: CAD, Rhino, Adobe, Lumion, 3D printing, Laser Cut, Physical Modeling

Project Brief

This future urban microforest locates on Benjamin Franklin Parkway, the so-called Champs-Élysées in Philadelphia verson. The site, known as Eakins Oval, was evolved from a traffic roundabout in front of the Philadelphia Art Museum and currently not attached to any community. Eakins Oval is highly formal and monumental, which looks great from plan and PMA stairs, but feels empty inside.

The design focus on improving the quality of the space to encourage more daily occupation, by using paving, urban furniture and adding service facilities. The project also aims to increase biodiversity as following the new trend of urban microforest establishment.

5 Major Zones

1.Inviting Plaza to Philadelphia Museum of Art

2.Inviting Plaza to Benjamin Franklin Parkway

3.Central Occupation Plaza

4.Micro Forest

5.Access Path

Section A-A

Strategies for Transforming Eakins Oval from Singularity to Multiplicity

Occupiable Space

1. Expand the central plaza for daily and big events.

2. Increase the length of occupiable edges for passive recreation.

Access

1. Create access to neighbourhoods.

2. Connect the Museum of Art and Benjamin Franklin Parkway

Vegetation

1. Preserve 75% of the 68 existing canopy trees

2. Establish 3.12 acre of urban microforest with more than 10000+ plants in 10yrs

Micro Forest (Miyawaki Method) Planters

• Planting density: 3 trees per m²

• Green surface area: 30 times more than meadow

• Survival rate (Natural Selection): 15 to 90%

• Growth stabilization: 15-20 years

• Density after stabilization: 0.5 to 2 trees per m²

• Biodiversity (fauna): 18 times more

Canopy

(Mature Height 50-100 ft):

Platanus acerifolia

(existing)

Platanus occidentalis

(existing)

Acer rubrum ‘Red Sunset’

Acer saccharum

Fagus Grandifolia

Quercus prinus

Quercus rubra

Quercus phellos

Sub Canopy/Evergreens

(Mature Height 20-40 ft):

Betula populifolia

Cercis canadensis

Cornus x rutban

Malus × ‘Harvest Gold’

Sassafras albidum

Viburnum prunifolium

Crataegus flava

Prunus virginiana

Illex opaca

Juniperus virginiana

Magnolia virginiana

Pinus strobus

Tsuga canadensis

Tree

(Mature Height 5-20 ft):

Aronia arbutifolia

Aronia melanocarpa

Cornus alternifolia

Cornus amomum

Cornus racemosa

Corylus americana

Hamamelis virginiana

Shrub

(Mature Height 3-10 ft):

Lindera benzoin

Rhus glabra

Rubus occidentalis

Vaccinium angustifolium

Vaccinium corymbosum

Viburnum acerifolium

Viburnum dentatum

Viburnum trilobum

Ground cover/Perennial mix 1.visually appealing:

Andropogon gerardii

Scirpus cyperinus

Sorghastrum nutans

Asclepias syriaca

Baptisia tinctoria

Heliopsis helianthoides

Rudbeckia hirta

Solidago odora

Symphyotrichum novae-angliae

Ground cover/Perennial

mix 2. Shade-tolerant:

Thelypteris noveboracensis

Polystichum acrostichoides

Asarum canadense

Tradescantia virginiana

Parthenocissus quinquefolia

Achillea millefolium

Existing Canopy (Red)

Proposed Canopy(Black)

Sub Canopy

Trees

Shrubs

Ground cover/Perennials 1(line)

Ground cover/Perennials 2 (grid)

Xinyu (Joy) Liu Singularity to Multiplicity

Planter B Render

Micro Forest Planters A-H

Micro Forest Planter B

The effect of the formation of one micro forest, where people can sit around the planter edge and on the steps at the periphery of the forest.

Multiple Attractions of Three Various Scale

View1: Access Path People from neighboring communities coming to or leaving the Oval can rest here a little and be able to reach other entrances.

Section a-a

Section b-b

Section c-c

View2: Occupiable Edge

The edge that faces the plaza provides space for reading, communicating and refreshing.

View3: Central Plaza

The center plaza allows for great flexibility when there is an event.

From Food Desert to Food District 02

Food-oriented Urban Framework Alteration in Southeast Asian Neighourhood

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

LARP602 Studio, Urban Design/Small Scale

Instructor: Anna Darling

Collabrator: Jiewen Hu

2023.01-2023.04

Skills Used: GIS, Rhino, Sketch up, Adobe, V-ray Project Brief

Food apartheid is a systemic issue in Southwest Philadelphia, where a large proportion of SouthEast Asian immigrants is located. They have a diverse food culture but due to the current food system, they’re having a harder time accessing culturally appropriate food and celebrating their food legacy.

The alternative urban framework of this future food district takes advantage of the existing two development plans, and collaborate with community partners. An ultimate goal is to to inject cultural vitality into this soon-to-be economic engine by celebrating the culture of the surrounding community. The design will infuse the neighborhood with a long-term cultural uniqueness, even if Southeast Asian immigrants no longer occupy the neighborhood.

Alternative Urban Framework For Food Apartheid Issue in Southwest Philadelphia

Connect Existing Spots

Pedestrian Loop

Existing Public Transportation

Proposed Public Transportation

Vehicular Traffic

Public Loop

Food Culture

Urban Agriculture

Public Greenspace

Religious/Cultural Places

Revised Plan for PENNROSE/PIDC

Distribution

Existing Service Building (school, church, temple)

Cultivate & Celebrate Food Acitivate Existing Plan

Food Culture

Food Production

Activation Axis Existing Collabrator Proposed Plan

Detail Plan Food Street in Neighbourhood

Food Plaza Diverse Restaurants/ Grocery

Community Garden Community Garden

Tidal Lane

PENNROSE Bartram’s Village Plan (2020)

Perdestrian only: Weekends and Holidays

Perdestrian & Car: Weekdays

PENNROSE

Bartram’s Village Plan (2020)

Watt Khmer Palelai

Detail Plan Bio-tech Campus

Food Street With Diverse Food Legecy and Edible Plant Growing

Flip Down Flip

Pedestrian

Pennovation Bio-tech Campus

Farming with Grid 03

Regenerative Agricultural Model to Rethink Human-land Relation

Cheslens Preserve, Pennsylvania

LARP601 Studio, Regional Planning

Instructor: Nathaniel Wooten

2022.09-2022.12

Skills Used: GIS, Rhino, Grasshopper, Adobe

Project Brief

This project began with a rethink of the relationship between people and the land, through the redesign of the existing grid. Human survey and exploited land for agriculture from the colonial era, resulting in great carbon and environmental debt, food system vulnerability, as well as an unfair agriculture industry system now.

This project aims to strategically design a adaptive model for regenerative agriculture in Northern Piedmont, through a short-term eco-tourism profit supporting long-term sustainable farming strategy. Most programs can be done simultaneously by thoughtfully phasing, and applicable to more sites than my own. An important agency of landscape architecture is to make all these processes more legible, through a trail system and carefully programming the distance of visitors with farmland and livestock.

There's

The

Based on Cheslen's existing farmland, the new farmland plan can take shape. Surface Flow Forest Age Existing Trail

Seed Market & Orchard for Family Edible Garden

Rotational Grazing Goatshed

Educational Plot For K-12 Programs

Visitor's Center Mushroom Farm &Compost

Pollinator Garden

Perennial Meadow

Greenhouse Seedling Farm

Farmer's Market

To Star Gazer's Stone

Main Trail Starts

Goat

Management Experiment Plot

Companion Planting Alley Cropping

Pollinators Meadow Working Riparian

Farmer's Market

Livestock Zoo

Planting Strategy for a Model Farm

Alley Cropping Apple Trees

Terrace Cropping

Wheat Grape Vine

Drones Monitoring Livestock and Share to Livestream

Planting Palette-2 Year Span

Response to 4 regenerative Ag principles

1.Living pages year round

2. Keep soil covered

3. Plant diverse crops

4. Intergrate livestock

Biannuals

Ryegrass

Alfalfa

Windbreaker

Livestock

Hay Livestock Feed

Pollinators Garden

Material Study as Road Sign ViewA

Concept Section - Programming for a Model Farm

Mushroom

Farmland

manure Mushroom Substrate

Canopy and Windbreaker

Purple Pollinator Flowers

Yellow Pollinator Flowers Crop (Include Cover Crop)

Driveway

Shadow Theatre 04

A Garden of Light and Shadow in Forest

Fairmont Park, Philladelphia

LARP501 Studio, Small/Installation Scale

Instructor: Dorothy Jacobs

2021.10-2021.12

Skills Used: Hand-drawing, Mixed Media, Rhino, Physical Modeling

Project Brief

The name of the garden is "Sequential Shadow Theatre" and its purpose is to capture the shadows of the different layers of plants in the site and to create a sequential, storytelling experience of space. An important concept in the site is the "canvas", which is used to capture these shadows and to divide the space, like an abstract setting on a stage. They are both vertical and horizontal, artificial and natural material, and use real stage art sets as references.

In this garden, the plants are the main actors, while the audience - the tourists - walk through the set, making it more like an immersive theater than a traditional theatre.

and

Shadow From Canopy

Shadow on Barks From Subcanopy

Umbrella Magnolia 1m

Linden Arrowwood 1.5M

Highbush Blueberry 1m Red Maple 5m

Gooseberry 1.5m Red Oak 8m

Sequencial Sections As A Ligh and Shadow Show (Acetone Transfer)

Wooden Deck

Concrete Pavement

Deconstructed Granite

Granite Steps

Wood Fragments

Deconstructed Granite

Deconstructed Granite

Axion-Shadow Theatre

Pavement Material

Study Model-Shadow Projection

GGN Work Sample 05

Selected Professional Worksample During 2023 Summer Internship

Seattle, WA

Supervisor: Joanie Walbert, Troy Britt 2023.10-2023.12

Skills Used: CAD, Rhino, Adobe, Enscape, Grading and Detailing

Experience Brief

I joined GGN's internship program in the summer of 2023, and worked on public space (institutional), urban streets, developer and resident projects, and worked on three of them on a consistant basis.

I mainly produced 3d models, design detailing in CAD, various types of renderings, and research studies. Also, in teamwork I learned about the whole process from proposal to construction admin, and knowledge about materials and plants.

The following materials were produced by me, but the overall design was a collaborative effort by the entire team.

Museum Garden-Intergrated Seatwall Design

From concept to construction

Team: Patrick Keegan, David Malda, Azzura Cox, Christine Chung

Detailing and Constructability: Option1:

Option3 (final choice):

Construction Documentation

TOP OF WALL 1'-9"

3/8" ISOLATION JOINT WITH BACKER ROD AND SEALANT ADJACENT CONDITION VARIES, SEE MATERIAL PLAN

MULCH

2" MORTAR JOINTS

4" LAYER OF GRAVEL

PIP CONCRETE

TOPSOIL, SEE SOILS

PLANS REC CONC SLAB

#5@12" O.C. #4@12" O.C.

WALL DRAIN DETAIL, SEE CIVIL

DAMP PROOFING

COMPACTED AGGREGATE,

W VILET ST

Urban Street Extension

Site study, 3d modeling, Plan render

Team: Hannah Vondrak, Jennifer Guthrie, Kim Jacobs

Baywatch 04

A Garden of Light and Shadow in Forest

Maurice River, New Jersey

Physical/Parametric Hydrological Model

Instructor: Keith VanDerSys

2023.10-2023.12

Skills Used: Grasshopper, GIS, Aquaveo, Rhino, 3D Printing, Sediment Table

Project Brief

The goal of this project, guided by digital modeling, was to challenge the tradition of waterfront landscapes being dominated by "educated guess". Numerical models based on GIS and Aquaveo are able to simulate relatively accurately the effect of our proposed atoll on the velocity of water flow, and thus make predictions by parametric means (e.g., grasshopper) of where sedimentation or erosion may occur.

Our ultimate goal is to establish an environment that is suitable for the horseshoe crab and encourages appropriate human interaction without disturbing its survival. This project also includes the use of physical models to simulate sediment deposition. Comparison of the physical and digital models will allow for more accurate results.

Novel Plant 06

Flowering Dogwood works as fire-fighter responding to wild fire

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Botanical Drawing with Midjourney

Instructor: Misako Mutara

2022.09-2022.11

Skills Used: Hand-drawing, Midjourney, DALLE

Project Brief

The focus of this elective course is to train a variety of drawing skills through observation and imagination of plants. On the left is a botanical illustration that focuses on the different parts of flowering dogwood. The following page is a combination of ai drawing (midjourney) and hand drawing to train richer expressive skills by imagining how the future plants will develop in a novel way.

The ability of this Dogwood plant is to fight fires, through the fire-retardant gas emitted by its branches when heated, and the fire-resistant gel that can fall to the ground, to protect other plants and ensure rapid recovery after fire.

Vaporization Liquefaction

Quell Sprouting Resurgence

Phase A: The dogwood tree starts buring, the leaf and bast fibre burns and releases retardant gas.

Phase B: Branches begin to bend with heat and melt to produce liquid

Phase C: The leaves are completely burned out, the branches are bent to the ground and you can see the fire is controlled by the glowing liquid that flows out.

After a fire, dogwood does not die and the existing prostrate branches on the ground will still sprout and grow leaves.

Although the substances released by dogwood will condense again after the fire is controlled while the temperature drops, they are harmless to the plant and are not hard. Other plants can easily destroy it and regrow.

*The 5 pictures are generated by Midjourney

Vascular tissue is rich in fire-resistant gel, which melts when exposed to high temperatures to soften the branches and flow out to cover the ground and prevent fire.

Bark Bast Fibre produces flame retardant gas Xylem

Vascular Tissue rich in fire-resistant gel

Branch Section Cut