Ying Liu-Portfolio

YING LIU MASTER OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE SCHOOL OF DESIGN, UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

MLA PORTFOLIO 2012-2015

FOREWORDS As a MLA student who will graduate in May, I am ready to tackle different challenges in thinking about various scales of landscape. Whether through imagining infrastructural functionality into landscape architecture, considering larger scale design as amplifying the culture and developing resilient urban environment, I consistently push myself to investigate various new ideas and concepts as well as explore new ways of expression through different programs......

CONTENTS RESUME LANDSCAPE DESIGN 01 Landscape Memory (Individual Work) 02 The Observation (Internship Work) 03 Power-Defense (Individual Work)

ANAYLSIS AND PLANNING 04 Weaving Konkan Railway(Individual Work) URBAN DESIGN 05 Nesting Music (ULI Competition) 06 Four Quarters (ULI Competition) 07 EDU-Town (Individual Work) ECOLOGY INSTALLATION 08 Shore to Line (Group Work) 09 Safety Bars (Individual Work) 10 Material Boxes(Individual Work) OTHER WORKS 11 GIS Analysis (Individual Work) 12 Construction Drawing (Individual Work) 13 Representation (Individual Work)

YING LIU Email: liuying6@design.upenn.edu Phone: 267-254-6088

EDUCATION Expected 05.2015

Master of Landscape Architecture School of design, University of Pennsylvania

09.2008~09.2012

Bachelor of Artistic Design (Environmental Design) School of Architecture and Urban Planning Tianjin Univeristy, Tianjin, China ▪ GPA: 3.8/4.0 Ranking: 2/26

01.2011~06.2011

Landscape Architecture Bilateral Exchange Program School of Architecture+Design, Virginia Tech ▪ GPA: 4.0/4.0

WORK EXPERIENCE 09.2014~12.2014

Teaching Assistant of LARP 543-001-Media III School of design, University of Pennsylvania ▪Asisted Keith VanDerSys in office hours ▪Graded for 18 students every weeks

05.2014~08.2014

Landscape Designer Intern CMG Landscape Architecture, San Francisco, CA Project01: Presidio Parklands Competition: The Observation Post, San Francisco ▪Participated in the site survey; effectively coordinated with landscape design ▪Responsible for modeling, diagrams and renderings Landscape Designer Intern Turenscape, Beijing China Project01: Ecological Town Planning, Guiyang, China ▪Responsible for Hydrology and Topography research ▪Hand-drawing master plan and renderings Project02: Peking Univeristy New Campus Planning, Beijing, China ▪Communicating with clients through team meatings and reports ▪Performed traffic analysis, created circulation design and 5 detail designs.

Landscape Designer Intern Institute of Architectural Design and Urban Planning, Tianjin Univ, China Project01: Wenchang Urban Plan and Landscape Design, Hainan Province, China ▪Collaborated with case study analysis, as well as concept developing and detail deisgn ▪Responsible for the final boards layout Project02: Changbaishan Green Space System Planning ▪Participated in the field trip with the design team ▪Site ecological research by using GIS

05.2013~08.2013

08.2011~09.2011

AWARDS & SCHOLARSHIPS 05.2015

ASLA Awards, Certificates of Merit

02.2014

Gerald D. Hines Urban Design Student Competition Honorable Mention

09.2011

AECOM World Student Competition “Urban SOS 2011” TOP40 Student Design Competition for Freedom Park, Monday Properties, Arlington Finalist

03.2011 09.2009~09.2010

National Scholarship, China

COMPUTER SKILLS 2D Graphic: Auto CAD, Photoshop, Indesign, Illustrator 3D Modelling: SketchUp, Rhino, Grasshopper, Panelling Tools Rendering: V-ray for Rhino&SketchUp Analysis: ArcGIS, Ecotect, “R”

LANGUAGES English, Mandarin

01 TRANSLATING SITE MEMORY site: shanghai, beijing Time: 09/2014-11/2014 Instructor: Valerio Morabito individual work

[DESIGN LANGUAGE concept model]

The project is about how to use the landscape to translate the site memory instead of simply reproduce the past. What the project did is to keep the main source of landscape features, which can be industry relic, building materials, local vegetations and so on. Design language like “overlay”, “insertion” and “compression” can be used to arrange those features and represent the landscape with memory.

Inserted interventions encourage the users to explore the site by themselves. Instead of fed the landscape to use’s eyes immediately, designed sequential of special events leading people to experience the site and recall the memory through not only visual but also tactile sensorial, auditory experiences.

compression

insertion

duplication

NOW

Log Pound

Wood Trails

Understory

WOOD PARK Low Density Forest

EXISTING

High Density Nursery

Reform at Traditional Domestic

NOW

Commercial Waterfront

Waterfront Trail

Pedestrain Bridge

DUXING VILLAGE

EXISTING

Crossing

Shaded Street

Water Backyard

Trails

Trellis

AGRICULTURE PARK

EXISTING

Vegetable Trellis

community garden plots

River As Duck Raising

Industry Trail

Steel Sculpture

Landscape Structure

Art Gallery

Ship Look out

Ship Museum

Deck Plaza

Abandoned Ship Garden

EXISTING SHIP PARK

Ferry Ship

EXISTING

NOW

FACTORY PARK

Abandoned Factory

Cargoship

[MEMORY INTERVENTION]

NOW

[MEMORY DEBRIS]

SHIPS

E

TILE ROOF

WATER CHANNEL

FACTORY Y MEMORY OF FACTOR

INDUSTRY RELIC

IDG

VILLAGE

E

AGRICULTURE

PATCHES

MEMORY OF AGRICULTURE

ACCESS TO WATER

WINDOWS

VILLAG MEMORY OF

M

NURSERY

ARRAY

RSERY

U Y OF N EMOR

VERTICAL

F BR

O ORY MEM

FERRY

BRIDGE

BRIDGE

Overhead Bridge

Falling Water

Log Pound

Wood Pergola

[entrance of wood park]

02 THE OBSERVATION POST

Project: Presidio Gateway CompetitioN-CMG TEAM PROPOSAL TEAM: Scott Cataffa, Haley Waterson, Imani Hamilton, Ying Liu, SAM WOODHAMS-ROBERTS

We designed a bold and inviting armature that connects the Main Post to Crissy Field: as a bridge over Mason Street to the historic Airfield, as an engaging pathway up the bluff, and as a rooftop viewing deck over a new Observation Post building. Along this armature, one discovers a variety of scaled spaces such as the Bay Overlook, Wind Garden, and Learning Landscape. Embedded in these spaces are instruments which enhance the visitor’s relationship to the past, present, and future landscape.

In the tradition of the historic military post and its unique geography on the bay, we propose a landscape of observation, discovery, and participation. Our project, The Observation Post, frames, enhances, and highlights the views and natural phenomena in a variety of experiences and destinations, from the grand to the intimate. The Observation Post piques our curiosity, reveals the rich layers of time, and invites us to notice, to reflect, to enjoy, and to play.

OBSERVATION POST

PRESIDIO GREEN

PICNIC GROVE

WIND GARDEN

1 youth education center

7 archAeology Walk

13 DISCOVERY DECK

19 tunnel top perch

25 transit lounge

31 kinetic dunae fence

2 outdoor classroom

8 sky forts

14 airfield bridge

20 listening coves

26 bicycle rental + Valet

32 alcatraz overlook

3 maker quad

9 ohlone meadow

15 underlook stair

21 observation post BUILDING

27 public restrooms

33 east beach stair

4 tinkering shed (bldg 632)

10 crissy marsh pavilion

16 cyanoscope underlook

22 amphitheater

28 community kitchen

34 nps bay ecology center

5 youth center vegetable garden

11 winogradsky column

17 bay overlook

23 presidio plaza

29 family picnic grove

35 slough brew beer garden

6 garden shed (bldg 631)

12 floating playground

18 presidio green

24 visitor’s center

30 international hostel

36 ecology center exhibits

[ circulation + Movement ]

[lanrning landscape]

[ anchors of a learning landscape ]

Acrylic columns display rich and colorful bands of microbial life, showing what lies underfoot in the slogh.

A floating playground highlights the marsh, allowing people to roam and lounge above the wetland to observe it more closely.

[ plant communities ]

[ohlone meadow+archaeology walk]

[ INSTRUMENTS ]

A series of cylindrical vitriness could systematically moves across the landscape, holding pieces of historical ecology as well as cultural remnants from the archaeology lab.

03 POWER DEFENSE SITE: STATEN ISLAND, NYC TIME: 04/2013-05/2013 Instructor: Nick Pevzner; Ellen Neises

[ Landform Typology ]

Oakwood beach area is facing serious problems, like hurricane impact, sea level high rise and power outage. However, it's also a site with opportunities.

Rich energy resources can be found there. For example, the wave energy, wind energy and biogas energy. It’s an ideal place to develop clean energy industry. So this design is trying to build energy industry buffers which can not only provide power for Staten Island, but also work as defence to protect the residential areas.

[ Wetland Typology ]

A

1

freshwater wetland Steep Slope

community garden

wind farm

B

2

freshwater wetland B

amphitheatre

A recycling & education center fresh water wetland

1 Salt water wetland

terraced garden

C

biogas plant

3 4

D

C

beach recreation pier

3

coastal wetland

coastal wetland

2

marina

wave energy farm

4

Gentle Slope

Second Forest Buffer

Elevated Denergy Industry Plant

D

coastal wetland

Descended Wetland

14' Energy Industry Zones 8' Recreation Zones 2' Water Zones

First Coastal Buffer

Offshore Zone

04 WEAVING KONKAN RAILWAY site: udupi, india Time: 02/2015-05/2015 Instructor: Anuradha Mathur individual work

In most cases, the railway is seen as a line of separate which cuts the connection of either side of the tracks. Constructed embankments, bridges and tunnels try to break the disconnection but actually further isolate the railway from surrounding contexts and create conflicts. Konkan Railway are facing with the same challenge. “Weaving Konkan Railway� provides a new perspective to re-think the railway line, through three different operations. The Konkan Railway is no longer an isolated transportation line as we see on the regional map.

By weaving different interventions and flexible programs, it becomes an interactive new ground with various opportunities spreading out into the surroundings, for appeasing conflicts, stimulating economy and benefiting eco-system.

03 tunnel, byndoor MUMBAI TUNNEL TUNNEL

BRIDGE TUNNEL

veer TUNNEL khed TUNNEL chiplun TUNNEL ratnagini TUNNEL

02 EMBANKMENT,kundapura

TUNNEL BRIDGE rajapur TUNNEL TUNNEL

BRIDGE kudal TUNNEL sawantwadi

pernem

verna BRIDGE madgaon cancona karwar ankola TUNNEL honnavar

bhatkal

TUNNEL TUNNEL

03tunnel

byndoor BRIDGE

02bridge

kundapura BRIDGE

01station

udupi

konkan rail raod

BRIDGE thokur BRIDGE mangalore

DRY SEASON MONSOON SEASON SALT WATER

01TRAIN station, UDUPI

FRESH WATER

[PHOTOWORK-TRAIN JOURNEY]

PLOT-WEAVING RAILWAY

TRANSECT

PHOTOWORK-NEW TRAIN JOURNEY

01TRAIN station, UDUPI

02 EMBANKMENT,kundapura

03 tunnel, byndoor

18:37 18:40

17:38

17:38

17:30

15:56

16:18

Spice Market

14:58

Vendor

13:38 13:48

vega Market

11:10

10:30 10:37

11:54 11:45

Vendor

CLEAN WATER

09:58

06:00 07:00 08:00 09:00 10:00 11:00 12:00 13:00 14:00 15:00 16:00 17:00 18:00

Fruit Market

AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC

08:22

JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL

07:29

AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC

Flower Market

By introducing weaving threads such as market, tota garden, water collection trench and purification pound to break the disconnection, encouraging local community gather and connected.

MONSOON

JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL

MARKET

Vendor

Udupi Train Station/Social Weaving

TOTA GARDEN

WATER GATHER WATER

06:18 06:20 06:20 06:20

COMPOSITE PLAN

NOTATIONS WATER

WETLAND TOTA

FLOWER TOTA

WATER

WATER

DEC

NOV

OCT

SEP

07:29

AUG JUL

JUN

09:58

MAY

10:30 10:37

APR

11:10

MAR

11:54 11:45

FEB

JAN

14:58

13:38 13:48

08:22

06:00 07:00 08:00 09:00 10:00 11:00 12:00 13:00 14:00 15:00 16:00 17:00 18:00 06:18 06:20 06:20 06:20

FRUIT TOTA

15:56

WATER

16:18

FLOWER TOTA

17:30

SPICES TOTA

17:38

TOTA GARDEN

17:38

SECTIONS vegetable TOTA

Passengers 18:37 18:40

FRUIT TOTA

weaving threads

Local Community

Passengers

water trench

Local Community

TOTA GARDEN

weaving threads

Forest

COMPOSITE PLAN

Embankment

Fiber Inserted Into Tunnel

EMBANKMENT

Fresh Water Tank/Habitat

TRAIL/MONITOR/RESEARCH

SECTIONS

MODEL

05 NESTING MUSIC ULI Student Competition Honorable Mention SITE: Nashville, tn Time: 01/2013 Instructor: Lucinda R. Sanders Group Work: Ying liu, Yadan luo,Chieh Huang, Max Hsu,Hao Sun

Nesting Music aims to design a vibrant lifestyle that amplifies the music culture of Nashville and develop a resilient urban environment with flexible programs. By introducing a new business model for the music industry and performative landscape to the city, the project makes music visible and public space interactive, transforming Nashville into a global music center with unique local urban living style.

Performance Space

01. Ballpark as Highest

Level Performace Stage

06

17 13 13

02. Mixed-Use Loft 03. Office with Underground

04

Structured Parking

07

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Nest Plaza Nest Park Floating Amphitheater Green Way Renovated Bar & Restaurant

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Rain Garden Waterfront Parkway Music Deck Apartment Farmer's Market Hotel Affordable Apartment Upscale Apartment with15% affordable house

17. Roof Garden 18. Nashiville ballpark Perspective

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08 15 17 16

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ft

PHASE 1 Market Rate Rental Upscale Rental Affordable Rental Mixed-Use Loft Office / Studio 754,487 Retail Hotel Parking

706,139 0 208,065 155,403 534,476 0 71,406

8'

6'

11'

11'

6'

SECTION A-A

PHASE 2 0 0 121,665 0 74,984 193,089 428,200 83,442

Market Rate Rental Upscale Rental Affordable Rental Mixed-Use Loft Office / Studio Retail Hotel Parking

14'

6'

11'

11'

6'

8'

4'

SECTION B-B

12'

PHASE 3 0 596,872 504,330 0 0

159,369

0 366,073

Market Rate Rental Upscale Rental Affordable Rental Mixed-Use Loft Office / Studio Retail Hotel Parking

8'

22'

8'

11'

11'

18'

8'

SECTION C-C

06 FOUR QUARTERS ULI Student Competition SITE: NEW ORLEANS Time: 01/2015 Instructor: Lucinda R. Sanders Group Work, Group NUMBER: ying liu,yadan luo, Chieh Huang, YIJU TSENG, JESSICA JAUW

The Four Quarters aims to design a vibrant lifestyle that amplifies the variety of cultural flavors in New Orleans and develops a socially and physically resilient urban environment. By building on existing amenity in and adjacent to the neighborhood, Four Quarters introduces an infiltration park, a cultural hub, and a popup plaza full of flexible programs that can improvise according to everyday use and large-scale venues and flooding. This project creates a resilient neighborhood for the locals and a new public ground first for the locals. Visitors will be naturally drawn to this dynamic neighborhood.

[ SITE ANALYSIS ]

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5

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4

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7 3 10 15

french quarter

16

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1. QUARTER THEATER 2. QUARTER PLAZA 3. STREETCAR STATION 4. JAZZ INCUBATOR 5. CENTER LAWN 6. FOUNTAIN 7. URBAN FOREST 8. INFILTRATION POOL 9. POP UP PLAZA 10. TREME COMMUNITY CENTER 11. GROCERY 12. POP-UP GARDEN 13. HOTEL 14. PARKING STRUCTURE 15. RAIN GARDEN POP UP PLAZA POP UP PARK PERSPECTIVE ANGLE

quarter 1: design for the floods

quarte design the loc

er 2: for cals

quarter 3: design for the visitors

07 EDU-TOWN site: north philadelphia Time: 09/2013~12/2013 Instructor: Lucinda R. Sanders

Leveraging the potential of key anchor-Temple University and NE Corridor, this project creates two main corridors that foster education, innovation, create job opportunities and increase community value. The first corridor is a “RESEARCH-Corridor” along Broad St, which connects from Temple main campus to Temple Hospital. Research and innovation institutions will be promoted along this corridor. The secondary corridor is an “ECO-Corridor” along North-East Corridor. An “EDU-HUB” located on the heart of interest. Several “EDU-NODES” located in the community.

[ rendering of central hub ]

[ CONCEPT DIAGRAM ]

EXISTING

CORRIDOR

HUB

NODES

[ Broad Street-Research Corridor-Section ]

Former Ford Motors Factory -Mixed Use Research Center

New Development -Green Tech Office

Coference Center

Retail/gym/Indoor Recreation Center

Hub Campus Plaza

New Development -Green Tech Office

Commercial Plaza

Amtrak Train Station Pedestrian Bridge

Temple University

BROAD STREET

NORTH EAST CORRIDOR

[ Master Plan ] 08

H RT NO

05 05

CENTRAL HUB

05

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04

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IDO

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EA

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07

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03 10 11

Hub Plaza

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REET

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Pedestrian/bicycle trail 02

LEHIGH AV

Open Space

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Transitional Parcel Test Bed

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09

REET

06

BROAD ST

07

01 Central Hub 02 Plaza 03 NEC-Train Station 04 Reginal Train Station 05 Test Bed 06 Community Garden 07 Green Open Space 08 Test Bed Corridor 09 Stanton Middle School EDU Node 10 Clymer School EDU Node 11 Peirce School EDU Node 12 Sobbins Vocational EDU Node

[ NORTH EAST CORRIDOR TYPOLOGY ]

TEST BED

Pedestrain trail

GREEN OPEN SPACE

Pedestrain trail

TRANSITIONAL LANDSCAPE

Pedestrain trail

NEW EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Pedestrain trail

[ EDU-CORRIDOR PHASING ] Proposed node

Green Open Space

Lineary park along NEC

Test Bed

EDU nodes

Outdoor education Children Playground

phase01

Infilled Residential

phase02

phase03

phase04

[ EDU-CORRIDOR ] CHILDREN PLAY GROUND

EDU-LOT

EDU-LOT

nec

COLOR CROSSING

infiltration EDU-LOT

6' PEDESTRIAN PATH permeable

6' TREE TRENCH

8' BIKE LANE

22' TRAFFIC LANE

infiltration

08 SHORE TO LINE SITE: STATEN ISLAND,NYC Time: 03/2013 Instructor: Nick Pevzner; Ellen Neises One Week Group Work: YING LIU, CHIEH HUANG

Rather than an hard concrete sea wall, a multifunctional flexible infrastructure are created to extending a hybrid system of shoreline protection and being a wildlife habitat.

Deposition Geogrid Fuzzy rope Marine deposition 5 YEARS

Floating Wetlands Floating Reef Rooting Reef Glowing Reef Fix Anchor

10 YEARS

15 YEARS

20 YEARS

25 YEARS

Pollution Fish Birds Protection Sediments Programs TIME

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5

10

15

20

25

30

35

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50

55

60

years

09 GENERATING SAFETY BARS Project: 502 Studio-Generating Safety Bars Time: 03/2013 Instructor: Nick Pevzner; Ellen Neises One Week Individual Work

As an urban national park, the Gateway National Recreation Area is faced with a big conflicts between urban and nature. In this project, using clean energy from nature to develop and protect nature. There are three types of bars. Industry bars provide space for clean industry. Energy bars provide electricity for the industry. The green bars help to recover and protect ecosystem, proving habitat for wild lives and attenuating wave energy as well.

INDUSTRY BAR Clean industry Geothermal energy

ENERGY BAR Wind energy

ENERGY BAR Tidal energy

ENERGY BAR Waste water purification Biogas energy

GREEN BAR Wave attenuation Habitats

site: Bartram'S GARDEN, PHILADELPHIA Time: 09/2012-11/2012 Instructor: Anuradha Mathur

Nuanced materials gradient from woods to river front influence subtle change of landscape and species. Material Boxes proposed an movable intervention which will leading to biodiversity and abundant visitors’ experiences by simply changing the ground. Photo work, hand drawing and print collage were used as different representation ways.

[INTERVENTION MODEL]

[PHOTO WORK]

10 MATERIAL BOXES

[PLOT]

[COLLAGE HAND DRAWING+PRINT]

11 gis analysis Time: 09/2013-11/2013 Instructor: Ken Steif musa 507 individual project

GIS were used as tool to experiment the site selection and finding potential locations for different projects. From studying the data of existing transition, income and employment centers, a map is created to show the travel potential. [ travel potential map ]

train station

employment centers

income

12 CONSTRUCTION DRAWING Time: 03/2014 Instructor: Andy Schlatter workshop class individual project

Construction Process: 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17

Set out position of wall.

Set out profile board.

Set out lines for bulk excacation.

Bulk excavation followed by trim excavations.

Pour 3� mud slab.

Place spacers for concrete cover.

Place reinforcing stell for base and wall.

Pour concrete Remove scum layer from the key area.

Place rear formwork Fix steel Insert wood bench Clean off surface After 24-28 hrs, remove formwork Finish concrete surface So drainage for the wall.

Back fill with gravels and soil

Construction Process: 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17

Set out position of wall.

Set out profile board.

Set out lines for bulk excacation.

Bulk excavation followed by trim excavations.

Pour 3� mud slab.

Place spacers for concrete cover.

Place reinforcing stell for base and wall.

Pour concrete Remove scum layer from the key area.

Place rear formwork Fix steel Insert wood bench Clean off surface After 24-28 hrs, remove formwork Finish concrete surface So drainage for the wall.

Back fill with gravels and soil

13 representation Time: 12/2014 Instructor: Valerio Morabito landscape representation class-individual drawing

[landscape representation-infinity ideal city]

THANK YOU FOR REVIEWING YING LIU Email: liuying6@design.upenn.edu Phone: 267-254-6088