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
14 13
02
17
09
03
18
08
11
07
17 16
03 05
01 03
17
02
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16
04. 05. 06. 07. 08.
Nest Plaza Nest Park Floating Amphitheater Green Way Renovated Bar & Restaurant
09. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14 15. 16.
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
12 12
08 15 17 16
17
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 ]
7 7
6 7
7
5
2 1
4
3
7 3 10 15
french quarter
16
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
01
04
R
IDO
RR
O TC
S
EA
06
07
07 05
03 10 11
Hub Plaza
12
05
N22ND ST
07
REET
07
TH OR
ST
EA
R
DO
RI
R CO
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Pedestrian/bicycle trail 02
LEHIGH AV
Open Space
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Transitional Parcel Test Bed
N
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
0
5
10
15
20
25
30
35
40
45
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