WORK SAMPLES
Full-time
PROFESSIONAL WORKS
SWA Group
Project Urban Designer
2021 August-2022 August
Shanghai, China
4-5
Hargreaves Jones
Senior Designer
2018 November-Present
New York City, NY, USA
6-9
Landworks Studio Inc
Landscape Designer
2017 July-2018 October
Salem, MA, USA
10-13
Internships
Halvorson Design
2017 Winter
Boston, MA, USA
14
Sasaki Associates
2016 Summer
Watertown, MA, USA
15
Junya Ishigami Associates
2015 Summer
Tokyo, Japan
16
Tierra Design
2015 Summer
Singapore 17
The Hangzhou Grand Canal Waterfront and Public Realm Plan seeks to reclaim a contaminated 14-mile segment of the canal, by transforming a blighted industrial area into a new arts and culture district. The plan addresses 400 acres along this historic transport corridor which has been in continuous operation since the fifth century.
Tencent Dachanwan is located in the Qianhai Bay area. The design vision is to provide a common ground for nurturing ideas, innovation, and performance by connecting people in non-work environments. It combines indoor and outdoor experiences into a stimulating and complementary whole to foster creativity.
Master Plan
The design of the Guangzhou Steel Park showcases sustainable practices that might transform the decommissioned factory from a place of environmental degradation into one that expresses the optimism of a brighter future. Instead of being a carbon producer the park seeks to achieve a low-impact carbon footprint and reach beyond carbon neutrality and become carbon negative.
Margaret T. Hance Park – a 32 acre urban site over US Interstate Highway 10 within Downtown Phoenix, Arizona – as a vibrant civic space and urban park that serves as a catalyst for the physical, social and economic health of the Phoenix metropolitan community.
The proposed park seeks to balance the desire for a green oasis with a regionally appropriate plant palette and storm water management practices. Program includes multi-purpose lawns, gardens, tree groves, shade canopies, play spaces, plazas, water features, cafes, event spaces and destination dining.
The new Gallery and Arts District, located on the Salter Block of the Halifax Waterfront, will be a transformative arts destination for all to experience. It will inspire and celebrate creativity and imagination, but also challenge the status quo and reshape institutional values. It will be a place created with people, art, and culture at its core.
HJ led the consultant team and worked with the Delaware River Waterfront Corporation, stakeholder agencies and neighborhood groups developed a conceptual framework for the redevelopment of Penn’s Landing with an emphasis on an integrated approach to the overall public realm opportunities, infrastructure needs and development strategy.
Betskoy Moscow Academy Urban Development, Moscow, Russia
Courtyard View
The Fourth Floor Amenity Terrace provides many types of gathering spaces as well as places for residents to get away from the crowd. The south terrace is cooled by a water wall and pool basin as well as shade from trees. Residents are invited to sit within the shallow water and at its edge. The east side is lined with small decks for small gatherings at fire tables and gaming tables. The north end is a garden for meditation and seating at
Mission Lofts is an urban housing project that has repurposed vacant office buildings into live work environments. Critical to the success of these projects are multi-functional rooms, both indoors and out, which allow for group and individual work space and meeting rooms.
Charlestown Pier 6&8, Boston, MA
Western Avenue, Cambridge, MA
Light Year Central Park, Tianjin, China
Internship Charrette
ACADEMIC WORKS
LAND SUCCESSION
RISD 2017 SP/THESIS, RED HOOK, BROOKLYN, NYC 20-25
FUTURE ROADWAYS
RISD 2016 FA/QUEENS BLVD, QUEENS, NYC 26-33
BREAK & RELINK
RISD 2016 SP/WATERTOWN, MA 34-39
PLANTS' TRAILS
RISD 2015 FA/SOUTH BOSTON, MA 40-47
INTERWOVEN FLOWS
RISD 2015 SP/DYER ST. PROVIDENCE, RI 48-51
DESIGN PRINCIPLE
RISD 2014 FA/TILLINGHAST FARM, BARRINGTON, RI
52-55
PERMEABLE BOUNDARY
RUC 2012 FA/ZIZHUYUAN PARK, HAIDIAN DIST, BEIJING 56-57
SITE CULTURAL CENTER
ARK x SITE ARCHITECTURE COMPETITION/MOURA, BEJA, PORTUGAL 58-59
LAND SUCCESSION: From dredging, remediation to restoration
As a post-industrial waterfront, the Erie Port is facing challenges from both environment and public accessibility aspects. In the 17th Century, the area was built with landfill for solving the issue of urban expansion. The rennovation aims to keep site's historical characters and integrates ecological strategies, as well as introducing public involvement through new types of design methodology. It should imply a connection of an historic industrial working port and today’s recreational active port; a connection of waterfront infrastructure and neighborhood accessibility, a connection of ecological restoration and human lifelong engagement. The design focused on a remediation of postindustrial waterfronts, while using the shipping industry and related dredging activity
Thesis / Instructor // Michael Blier (primary advisor) Theodore Hoerr (secondary advisor) Individual Work
OPERATIVE ROADWAY
Historically, roadways were thought of as arteries for vehicles, and parks for the pedestrian, each mutually exclusive. This separation implies that the vehicle is the priority in the design of boulevards, overlooking the safety and community of humans who surround it. While designers have recently begun embracing the qualities of each discipline, a strong division between vehicles and pedestrians still exists. In this project, the design challenges this separation, looking at the street, vehicles and pedestrians as equal protagonists in order to improve the future of Queens Boulevard and quality of life in the community. Meanwhile, the design addressed three critical site issues: safety, stormwater runoff, and a sense of place. The goal was to create a scalable green infrastructure framework with incorporated social program platforms and stormwater management to create a safe, active and sustainable public space.
BREAK AND RELINK
This final core studio stresses large-scale design and planning issues, complex sites, and urban conditions. The city is a living organism which evolves in a particular scale with a particular form due to a combination of environmental and cultural factors. The design focusing on the connection of neighborhoods and urban public space, attempts to tackle with the existing isolated edge condition of Arsenal Street, MA, by definding and breaking the existing barrieers between neigborhoods and public space to increase human accessesibility and create new form for each edge. Then, relink new transformed edges with road and park systems. Eventually, transformed whole district into a more vibrant mixed use environment for people to live, work, and play.
PLANTS' TRAILS
The studio addresses a complex and dynamic site on the western edge of South Boston, located adjacent to Boston's Broadway T stop. Street connections link the site west to the South End; north to Fort Point Channel and the Harbor Walk; east to South Boston; and south to Dorchester. According to research, currently, site's vegetations are volunteering vegetations. The design strategy is based on respecting current vegetation condition, focused on dealing with interactive relationship between people and vegetation within an urban area. Ultimately, offer an opportunity for nearby neighborhoods to experience the variated beauty of vegetations via walking through the park.
BROADWAY T STOP, SOUTH BOSTON, MA
Academic / 2015 FALL / 2nd year core studio Instructor // Michael Blier, Mary Lydecker, Sae Kim Individual Work
INTERWOVEN FLOWS
Providence is a city of great variety, with water as transit linked the city and the Narragansett Bay. Following the expansion of city, the issue of stormwater has became the city's major environmental problem during recent years. The main goal of the design is to provide flexible strategies in order to transform the disadvantage factor of water to advantageous resources. Meanwhile, provide sustainable stormwater management system and position the site as a large ecological landscape infrastructure. Ultimately, create a resilience platform for treating urban stormwater, a healthy habitat for native oysters and a recreational spot for Providence's residents, students and tourists.
DYER ST. PROVIDENCE, RI
Academic / 2015 SPRING / 1st year
core studio
Instructor // Scheri Fultineer, Emily Vogler Individual Work
DESIGN PRINCIPLE
The course begins with exploring the material properties of paper, treated it as a media to understand the composition of soil. The second part focus on creating serials of outdoor space based on the understanding of threshold, which required to build a "classroom" for this specific site. After analyzing the site, RISD’s Tillinghast Farm, students started to understand the forming mechanism of ground, phenomena and space. In the end, each students have to define their own meaning of "classroom" in both form and function.
TILLINGHAST FARM, BARRINGTON, RI
Academic / 2014 FALL / 1st year core studio
Instructor // Adam Anderson Individual Work
PERMEABLE BOUNDARY
The course was dealing with a city park in an urban context. Students need to figure out criterias at the beginning. Then, each students were required to pick up at least one criteria to do a deeper research. In the end, the design was developed on the major criteria and solved one major problem of the park which students found during the research. The aim of this course was to cultivate critical thinking and learned how to use research results to cooperate with design concept.
ZIZHUYUAN PARK, HAIDIAN DISTRICT, BEIJING
Academic / 2012 / 3rd year studio
Instructor // Prof.Keyang Tang, Prof. Yuhong Li Individual Work
SITE CULTURAL CENTER
The competition asks ideas for the design of a Site Cultural Center located near the remarkable remains of the medieval watchtower Atalaia Magra near Moura, Beja, Portugal. The design of the architecture represented a new landform growing out from the existing landscape. From this new constructed ground, the Atalaia Magra remians sprouts. While keeping the historical structure intact, this culture center nurtures new social activities tightly around the remians.
Atalaia Magra near Moura, Beja, Portugal.
Architecture Competition / 2018 Team member // Mengxuan Liu, Yuan Zhang Team Work
A dense grove of trees, an oval opening on the concrete. Subliminal light is casting on the ruins and into the interior space.
The interior floors is flared. Walk up, enter, down, then gradually up along the central axis. Take a stroll in the gallery, have a rest on the pebble seat.
Or walk up to the other end, be stroke by the sudden opening up to the panoramic view Pause, breathe...
End the visit with a walk into the landscape, as how it begins.