XIAO ZHOU'S portfolio MLA Candidate / UMass Amherst Apply for summer internship
EDUCATION
Candidate of Master of Landscape Architecture 9/2009 Department of Landscape Architecture & Regional Planning, UMass Amherst, MA, USA GPA 3.75 B.A. Agriculture, Major in Landscape Architecture 9/2004-7/2008 School of Landscape architecture, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, China Overall GPA 3.69 Major GPA 3.79
teaching
周啸 Zhou,Xiao Mr. Address: 500J Riverglade Drive Amherst, MA 01002 USA Cell: 413-992-7923 E-mail: zhouxiaogogo@gmail.com
Teaching Asistant of Planting Design & Housing Design Instructor : Joseph S. R, Volpe Teaching Asistant of Graphics Instructor : John Taylor
1/2010-5/2010 9/2009-12/2009
Skills
Computer-aided Design & Drafting: Auto CAD, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator 3D Modeling & Rendering: Sketch Up Typology: Adobe InDesign Application: MS Word, MS PowerPoint, MS Excel
Awards and Scholarships
Third Price of Student Competition - IFLA APR Silver Medal of the 1th photography contest - School of Landscape Architecture, Third Class Scholarship - Beijing Forestry University Excellent leader - Beijing Forestry University Merit Student - Beijing Forestry University Third Class Scholarship - Beijing Forestry University Excellent leader - Beijing Forestry University Second Class Scholarship - Beijing Forestry University, Beijing
2009 2007 2006-2007 2006-2007 2006-2007 2005-2006 2005-2006 2004-2005
Languages
Native Speaker in Chinese Fluent in English: TOEFL(IBT): 104 Reading: 28, Listening: 26, Speaking: 26, Writing: 24 GRE: 1290 AW: 4.0 Verbal: 500, Quantitative: 790. Analytical Writing: 4.0 Ground level in Japanese
Test Date: 28th Sep. 2008 Test Date: 7th Jun. 2008
Qualifications
Diligent, talented, creative individual with passion and ambition in profession. Proficient in managing time and arranging works. Good leader with pleasant personality, popular figure among schoolmates. Clear communicator with fluent oral English.
other
Volunteer of Youth Landscape Architects - Member of writing team. www.youthla.org Help to edit Joseph S.R. Volpe's new book. "Given by earth, shaped by human hands"
2009 9/2009-12/2009
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WORK EXPERIENCE / APR 2009
Assistant Landscape Architect Conceptual Design for Green Exhibition, Zhengzhou, China
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IFLA APR student competition -- 3rd price / JULY 2009
Team Leader Work Title: “Breathing of the Daming Palace Great Heritage Site” This competition is organized by the International Federation of Landscape Architects-Asia Pacific Region (IFLA APR), and supported by the Korean Institute of Landscape Architecture(KILA).
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COMPLETE PROJECT / DEC 2009
Chief Designer Gateway Square of Beijing Kuang Biao Racing Park
healing GARDEN Design Studio [Academic] 1st Semester 09-10 Graduate Freehand + AutoCad + Photoshop + Illustrator Instructor: Annaliese Bischoff Western Massachusetts Hospital (WMH) was established in the year 1910. Owned and operated by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Department of Public Health, WMH is a 100 bed long term medical and specialty care hospital. There is a Program Committee to implement a healing garden in commemoration of this 100 year history with a theme of “A walk through history.”
WMH healing garden
Area of the site is about 12000 sft (or 1100 square meter ) The main building protects the site from the summer and winter wind. The site faces parking lot and forest. The main users of the new garden are patients and staff. The new garden is a part of WMH’s 100 year anniversary. Perspective view of the current condition of the site
master plan
CONCEPT
BOND is the concept of this project This concept will be reflected in the following ways: 1, The bond between people and nature – Sensation: Smell, Hear, Feel and See. 2, The bond of spaces in the site – Design pattern. 3, The bond between history and future – Materials recycle.
memorial path
small path
small pergola
wooden bench
water feature central pergola
concept diagram
parking lot
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Birds' eye view of the healing garden
Plants in this healing garden are carefully chosen according to their texture, smell and colors.
perspective view i
perspective view ii
This is a memorial path, some important stories will be written on it. It is
The pergola around the main building has created a transition from the
made of recycled concrete from the original site.
building and the garden as well as a place for vines to live.
front view of the healing garden
Solenostemon scutellarioides
Wisteria floribunda
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Chamaecyparis obtusa
relationship of the garden and the parking lot
Spiraea japonica
Wisteria floribunda
Acer rubrum
Acer campestre
Lobularia maritima
GARDEN & house Design Studio [Academic] 1st Semester 09-10 Graduate Freehand + AutoCad + Physical Model Instructor: Joseph S.R. Volpe This studio is to design a garden and a house for a client living in Amherst. The site locates at the north of a busy road. And the soil is very well drained. The challenge of this design is how to create a quiet garden and retain most of the existing plants. Meanwhile, the client wants us to consider combining the wash line with the garden.
Conceptual Sketch - the poetic space
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existing condition of the site
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1 House 2 Garage 3 Pond 4 Trellis 5 Stone Bench 6 Wooden Deck 7 Gravel Path 8 Wash Line 9 Screen 10 Vagetable Garden 7 5
Carolina Hemlock Tsuga caroliniana
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Norway Spruce Picea abies 3
Swiss Stone Pine Pinus cembra
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White Ash Fraxinus americana
balcony
dining
living
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White Oak Quercus alba
kitchen
studio
bedroom
utility
stairs
stairs foyer bedroom
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bedroom
2nd floor
Hedge Maple Acer campestre Smooth Hydrangea Hydrangea arborescens
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Bumald Spirea Spiraea x bumalda
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Design the house
The physical model - studio assignment
This is a quarter scale physical model which represents the idea of my design. Physical model is the best way to observe and modify space during design process.
The field and ground study - studio assignment
Central Green space Design [Academic] 2th Semester 07-08 / Undergraduate Freehand+Photoshop+Cad+Illustrator+Sketch up Instructor: Kaili Zhang
The 2.2 hectare central green space locates in RIPED (Research Institute of Petroleum
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Exploration & Development). It is the largest green space in this area. The task is to change the original place into an active one to meet the need of the residents nearby.
The original green space was built in 1958. Several obvious problems have occurred to this site which has been used for almost 50 years. Unhealthy trees and abandoned buildings bring a scene of desolation. The flat plaza and the conservative layout of the surroundings have resulted in a
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boring space feeling. All of these factors have made the site a vigorless place. Thus, the aim of my design is to add vigor into the site.
Pattern The current layout of the buildings, roads and trees strictly follows a conservative pattern which is made of several vertical lines. People live in such a pattern every day. Their visions, actions and imaginations follow the pattern subconsciously. The key of my design is to add vigor into this place by breaking the old pattern.
Breaking
The new pattern can break the old conservative one and provides interersting vision and spatial sensations.
entrance
Partially retain the original plaza and the base of the
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bird's eye view of the current condition
trees and retain the strong ones. original trees layer2 Plant new trees in regular way near the plazas and roads.
layer3 Plant new trees in natural way in the green fields.
Spaces & Plants
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a. Platycladus orientalis b. Populus tomentosa c. Cedrus deodara d. Euonymus japonicus
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a. Fraxinus chinensis b. Ginkgo Biloba c. Koelreuteria paniculata d. Acer truncatum
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a. Sorbaria kirilowii b. Weigela coraeensis c. Parthenocissus quinquefolia
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2.Sparse tree zone
1.Dense Tree Zone: Along with the retained original trees, the evergreen trees and deciduous trees in this zone provide a completely isolated spatial feeling. 2. Sparse Tree Zone: The relatively fewer trees that have higher under branch height and the slightly bulged terrain in this zone provide a half-isolated spatial feeling. 3. Lawn Zone: The large lawn with a few bushes provides an open spatial feeling.
1.Dense tree zone
3.Lawn zone
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tree square
buildings
stage
entrance square
corridor
flower border
central pool
sunken plaza
pavilion
main street
MASTER PLAN
sub-street
buildings
sub-street
buildings
Adding Vigor
The new pattern of my design brings visitors interesting vision and spatial feelings that are different from the old one. The abandoned buildings are put down and its construction materials are used for making two sunken plazas. The new green space has several squares and plazas that vary in size and elevation. Unhealthy trees are removed and various new trees are planted.
Section View
promenade street
green space
green space
sunken plaza1
sunken plaza2
spacial construction [Personal] 2nd Semester 07-08 Undergraduate Physical Model Arranging the terrain is like playing a flat paper, mountain is raising parts of the paper, basin is lowering other parts of the paper. This task is to make a special construction model which is abstracted from mountain and basin and discuss the different spatial sensations they can provide.
I. One piece of paper with lattice on it.
II. Rise and lower parts of the paper.
III. Final work
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photos [Personal] 09-10 travelling in weekends and winter break
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amherst
la jolla cove
daytona beach
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Daytona Beach
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