CHENGE GAO 2012-2016 Working Samples
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ACCESSIBILITY & ADAPTIVITY
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LA PETITE CEINTURE—URBAN ZIPPER
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BOSTON WATERFRONT PARK
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BOLDPOINT WATERFRONT PARK
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TILLINGHAST FARM RENOVATION
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LIANJIANG RIVER WATERFRONT PARK
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BRING A NEW LIFE TO XIZHUANG VILLAGE
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WUDAOKOU PUBLIC PARK
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PROFESSIONAL WORKS
LDAR Graduate Thesis, RISD, Individual Work | 2016 Spring
LDAR Advanced Studio, RISD, Individual Work | 2015 Fall
LDAR Urban System Studio, RISD, Individual Work | 2015 Spring
LDAR Constructed Ground Studio, RISD, Individual Work | 2014 Fall
LDAR Design Principle, RISD, Individual Work | 2014 Fall
Core Studio in Undergraduate, BFU, Individual Work | 2012 Fall
Personal Work, Group Work | 2013
Acdemic Work, Landscape Architecture Design Studio, BJU | 2013
2012-2016
10. OTHER WORKS
Drawings, Paintings, Hybrid Drawings
EDUCATION Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), Providence, RI, USA Master of Art in Art + Design Education | 2016-2017 Turenscape Academy Workshop, Anhui, China Focusing on the Sponge City stormwater management technology and strategies | Aug-Sep, 2016 Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), Providence, RI, USA Master of Landscape Architecture | 2014-2016 Beijing Forestry University (BFU), Beijing, China Bachelor of Engineering | Major in Landscape Architecture | Ranking: 2/157 | 2010-2014
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
CHENGE GAO +1 (401)-340-7039 cgao01@risd.edu www. mgaochenge.com
Searle Design Group Landscape Architects, Providence, RI, USA Part-time Internship | Oct-Dec, 2016 Engaged in pre-design site survey for an institutional project, including measurement, observation, site and topography plan drawing; participated in the planting design for an residential project; produced marketing brochure and new office interior layout plan; collaborated in Blackstone Blvd tree survey; completed the site measurement and plan drawing for a private residential project. Taiyuan Architecture & Landscape Architecture Design Institute, Taiyuan, Shanxi, China Full-time Internship | Jul-Aug, 2016 Took charge of the conceptual and schematic design for a municipal park project in Lvliang, Shanxi, China; participated in the schematic design of the landscape around a mix-use official building; engaged in the construction observation of a underconstruction municipal park project and a under-construction municipal library project; participated in the report presentation and communication with client; assisted the planting construction supervision of Jingyang Lake Park Planting design, a governmental residential project, Heping Civic Park and Yingze Park Renovation project; main speaker of a lecture about the sponge city stormwater management technology and design strategies. PWL Partnership Landscape Architects Inc., Shanghai, China Full-time Internship | Jul-Aug, 2015 Participated in the schematic design Songjing Old Town Renovation project; produced the masterplan, digital model, perspective renderings, and collaborated in preparing schematic design document of a mixed-use cluster in Shanghai, China; assisted the project manager with the conceptual design, and produced the masterplan of an entertainment project in Hainan, China; translated and communications between Shanghai branch and Canada branch; managed the company digital library. AECOM, Beijing, China Full-time Internship | Apr-Jun, 2014 Worked on street furniture design, masterplan and perspective renderings, construction drawings, and presentation documents; participated in meetings. Beijing Jianzhenghanlong Architecture Design Co., Ltd, Beijing, China Part-time Internship | Jul-Aug, 2013
RESEARCH EXPERIENCES Graduate Thesis Teaching Assistant, RISD, Providence, RI, USA | 2016 Investigational Analysis and Simulation on Visitor Flow of Yuyuantan Park, Beijing, China | 2013 Research on the Outdoors Activity Characteristics & Demands in Aging Communities in Beijing, China | 2013
Investigation on the Landscape Restoration and Reconstruction Post-earthquake, Yingxiu, Beichuan and Dujiangyan in Sichuan, China | Jan-Feb, 2012 Research and Analysis on the Present Situation of Afforest System in Beichen District, Beijing, China | Nov, 2012
HONORS & AWARDS
Comprehensive Excellent Student, BFU Awarded to 3 of the students who won Outstanding Student Scholarship | 2012-2013 Third Prize of Outstanding Student Scholarship, BFU Awarded to top 15% students each year | 2012-2013 First Prize of the 7th China International Decoration & Design Art Fair and the Second International Environmental Art Innovation Design Competition | Aug, 2012 First Prize of Outstanding Student Scholarship, BFU Awarded to top 3% students each year | 2011-2012 Comprehensive Excellent Student, BFU Awarded to 3 of the students who won Outstanding Student Scholarship | 2011-2012 Academic Scholarship, BFU Awarded to students who have extracurricular academic awards | 2010-2011 First Prize of National Scholarship,PRC Awarded to top 1% students each year | 2010-2011
PUBLICATIONS
Poetic and Pictorial Splendor - The Research on the Image of Literati Garden in Tang and Song Dynasties Published in Shanxi Architecture, Page183~185,Vol..39, No.26, Sep.2013 Get to Know Louis Isadore Kahn through His Work - Esherick House Published in Urban Construction Theory Research Vol.3, No.29, Page122, Oct. 2013
SKILLS Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator), AutoCAD, SketchUp, Rhino, Laser cutting, CNC Drawing, Model-making, Painting, Photography, Ceramic, Jewelry & Metalsmith
LANGUAGE
English | Fluent Chinese (Mandarin) | Native
ACCESSIBILITY & ADAPTIVITY
Renovation Of Historical Water Filtration Factory Mcmillian Reservior Academic Individual Work Location: Washington DC, USA 2016 Spring Semester Instructor: Colgate Searle As the city’s first municipal water treatment facility, the McMillan Sand Filtration Site contributes strongly to the Washington DC’s history. After a period of abandonment, the site would play a different role supporting the community and the city, and would connect the adjacent green space. Located on the core physical and visual axis of the city, the reprogrammed public spaces have great potential to become a new cultural nexus in the city; a new national green. The girded column and water are two elements that run throughout the design, providing a rule and spirit that attaches each design element together. The water and the tremendous volume of artificial structure that is hidden underground are exposed to the public in this design, shaping the identity of the site and providing an opportunity to relate to the history of the site, and enabling an awareness of the water.
CITY SCALE MASTER PLAN
STRATEGIES
CSO Construction The concrete structure is a continuous curved wall in the underground space. The light could wash down from the manholes and cast light on it to create a peaceful atmosphere.
Daylight the Hidden Tiber Creek
Daylighting the hidden creek and bringing moving water, coolness and sound to the site.
Reinforcing & Demolishing
Remove part of the filter bed structures based on the extent of deterioration change it into outdoor spaces.
A potential site to address current water concern in the city; A new culture nexus and tourists’ attraction; A preserved historical landmark.
Girded Planting
The depth of the soil is 3 feet, plant shallow root plants following the column grid, and use the column to hold the weight of the plants, creating some shaded spaces and seasonal changes.
HYDROLOGICAL SYSTEM
SITE PLAN Landscape Structure Circulation
Entrance
View
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1. The Grove 2. Children’s Play ground 3. Meditation Garden 4. The Grand Entrance Green 5. Pray Ground 6. Community Library & Research Center 7. Retails 8. Tiber Creek Reflection Park 9. Waterfront Wood Deck 10. Viewing Platform 11. Tiber Creek
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Vehicle Pedestrian
Entrance to Ground Level Spaces Entrance to Sunken Park Entrance To Interior Programs
Visual Corridor
Sand Filtration Cell Usage Stormwater Storage
Reconstruction
Reprogramming
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9 Visiting experiences from difference entrances: 1. North entrance provides an opening view to the vast open lawn. 2. Court entrance leads to a horizontal experience of different programs in bins. 3. South entrance breaks up the vertical barrier and connects to Olmsted’s path along the perimeter. 4. Entrance to the Tiber Creek Reflection Park provides a view to the vertical facade of the reconstructed sand filtration cell and provides an opportunity to get close to the creek. 5. Entrance to the interior programs (Community Research Center & Library) makes a connection between ground level and underground space.
CROSS-SECTIONS
Vertical Relationship
The Grove
A-A’ Section
Healing Garden
Community Playground
B-B’ Section
The Grant Entrance Green
Viewing Platform Sunken Garden
Community Library Research Center
C-C’ Section
Part 1
D-D’ Section
Children’s Playground
South Court
Community Center
Sunken Garden
Part 2
North Court
Part 3
PLANTING PATTERN & GRID
PLANTING GRID I
PLANTING GRID II
PLANTING GRID III
SPATIAL SIMILARITY
Trees are planted following the grid to the top of the column to get enough structural support. Though limited by the column grid, different planting patterns create different experiences and sceneries, and make the underground grid visible on the ground. The shape of the tree is similar to the shape of the column. The spatial similarity brings people a related but different spatial experience when walking underground or under the canopy.
ENTRANCE TO THE COMMUNITY LIBRARY
People can access to the underground programs by ramp. Manholes on sand filtration beds used for underground interior programs would be covered by glass. Install artificial ground lights at the location of manholes. During the night, use the underground light to light up the space under canopy.
COMMUNITY ACTIVITY CENTER
During the daytime, the underground space could be lighted up by the sunlight.
LIANJIANG WATERFRONT PARK Academic Individual Work Location: Lianjiang River, Henan, China Instructor: Jinshi Zhang Time: 05/2013 LianJiang River has been heavily polluted by the waste water from local factory. Even the underground water has been affected. It is hard to guarantee that the water for residents are clean and safe. The flood is a potential threat to the local residents. I focused on water management, flood control and natural habitat, and used the idea of “From Managing to Regenerating”, intend to transfer “the stain” into “an attraction”, improve the living environment for the residents, and change the land to an eco-habitat for the native species.
SITE ANALYSIS
EXPERIENCES IN DIFFERENT ELEVATIONS
WATERFRONT PARK MASTERPLAN
WATERFRONT STRATEGY
WATER FILTRATION PROCESS
LA PETITE CEINTURE—URBAN ZIPPER
The site picked for testing the network strategy is 1200m (0.74miles) long, which is a 20 minute walk. Based on the adjacent neighborhood, different programs are proposed for different areas. They provide opportunities for the public to engage in the site and explore out into the city.
RISD Advanced Studio Location: Paris, France 2015 Spring Semester Instructor: Emily Volger, Andrew Hartness EXPANDING
DISCONNECTION
CONNECTION CUTTING
PERCEPTION OF THE SPACE
La petite ceinture was a Parisian railway that, from 1852, was a circular connection between Paris’s main railway stations within the fortified walls of the city. After the site was abandoned, the original railway physically separate the city into two parts, inside the circle and outside the circle. The goal of the network strategy is to regenerate a connection between two parts of the city by the actions of “expanding” and “cutting”- integrating the site into the neighborhood, engaging people into both the programed spaces and the design process. In the end, the site would function like a zipper, to build up a tight connection between the separated neighborhoods.
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DECODING THE ABANDONED RAIL TRACK
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REGIONAL CONTEXT
Typology
Strategies
Access & Circulation
Tactic I
Tactic II
The design strategies used are expanding and cutting, which are inspired by the concave-convex shape of the zipper. The site could be activated by expanding the site horizontally beyond the 10m wide track, and vertically taking advantage of the empty spaces adjacent to it and potential spaces under it; cutting away part of the site and provide access to it by adding ADA ramps, elevators and stairs.
Tactic III
PLAN & SECTION STUDY
Addressing the accessibility, topography, planting and furnishing.
Programming and addressing the cross-relationships
MASTER PLAN
Elevated
Typology
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Embankment
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Trench
TRENCH & EMBANKMENT
BOSTON WATERFRONT PARK Individual Work RISD Urban System Studio, 2015 Spring Location: Boston, USA Instructor: Robyn Reed In this studio project, we explore the language of the city and its manifestation by examining its various systems and pieces, and develop a new narrative/framework for the study area. Finally, we test and express the framework through a site design project.
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BOSTON
Buildings
LOCATION
Green Spaces
Potential Area Activities In Downtown And Waterfront Area Green Spaces
Open Spaces
DOWNTOWN & WATERFRONT AREA URBAN SPACE
SEA LEVEL CHANGE STUDY
The framework focus on building up connections between Downtown Boston and waterfront area, between Downtown Boston and South Boston; softening the waterfront edge; and opening up a new gate to city. In order to bring people to the water edge; strengthen the communication between two parts of the city; create a dynamic landscape along water facing the tidal change, storm surge and sea level rise; and bring a new identity to the city.
WATER EDGE STRATEGIES Current Waterfront Bank Connect the Banks Engage people to water Elevate streets
SECTION E-W
FRAMEWORK PLAN
STRATEGIES Existing Harborwalk
Proposed Harborwalk
Connect the Discontinous Harborwalk
Low Tide
Connect With the Green Network
Existing Mixed-transportation Bridges Bridges Proposed Pedestrian Bridges
Connect Seaport District with Downtown Connect Long-distance Piers
South Station
Summer Street
Permeat Into the Sorrounding Neighborhood Connect With the Core Transportation Network
Tall Buildings
South Station
Bring New Identity to City
Logan Airport
Eco-water edge
High Tide
BOLD POINT WATERFRONT PARK Individual Work Constructed Ground Studio Location: Providence, RI, USA 2015 Wintersession This studio project focused on developing a waterfront park that uses landform and architectural materials and devices to construct an experiential engagement with the river. The program provide a diverse circulation system for users to understand the extent and breadth of the topography (highs and lows); A earthen boat launch for man-powered watercraft; a kayak storage pavilion; intimate spaces for contemplation and a single large gathering space to view events upon the water. The whole process trained one’s understanding of translation between 2D and 3D; how a site’s given features can help establish, enrich and offer resistance to a design concept and its implementation; grading as an iterative process shaping and organizing space; integrating structure within a landform as a mean for constructing ground; exploring building relationship and programmatic aspects of siting structures in the landscape.
Circulation
Concept
Hydrology
SHAPING THE LAND
Material
Vegetation
Viewing Platform
Kayak Point
Clay Testing Model
Kayak Point
Topography Model
Public Lawn & Fishing Point
CREATE SPACES
READ THE SITE
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Threshold Analysis View Analysis Hydrological Transition Topographic Transition Vegetation Transition Phenomena
SITE ANALYSIS
CONCEPT PARTI DIAGRAM
HYDROLOGY
PHENOMENA
SECTION
MASTERPLAN STRATEGIES Create a path to an outdoor classroom near the wetland; clean up the space under the canopy; create visual corridor through woods; build up visual and physical accessibility from the top of the hill to the wetland and ocean.
Framming views and filtrating the light by plants.
Providing an access to getting closer to the water and the marsh; Make the changing of the water level visible.
SECTION Outdoor Classroom
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Create and divide private space and open space by plants and furnitures
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REVITALIZATION OF XIZHUANG VILLAGE Group Work Location: Xizhuang village, Jiaokou, Shanxi, China Instructor: Wei Guo Area: 13.23ha Time: 2013 Ancient village always been a signal of Chinese culture in the history. Their prosperity, unique location, lifestyle and special traditions once make their peak era. However, they are disappearing today because they no longer could adapt to the current social and natural condition. Xizhuang Village can be used as a prime sample of preserving and protecting other village in China. It goes beyond protecting a village, but also preserving the culture and spirit that comes with it.
REVITALIZATION OF XIZHUANG VILLAGE 2013 Fall Group Work
SITE ANALYSIS
COURTYARD TYPOLOGY
MASTER PLAN
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 2014 — 2016
Searle Design Group Landscape Architects, Providence, RI, USA Part-time Internship | Oct-Dec, 2016 Taiyuan Architecture & Landscape Architecture Design Institute, Taiyuan, Shanxi, China Full-time Internship | Jul-Aug, 2016 PWL Partnership Landscape Architects Inc., Shanghai, China Full-time Internship | Jul-Aug, 2015 AECOM, Beijing, China Full-time Internship | Jul-Aug, 2014
PERSPECTIVE DRAWINGS Professional Work Internship in AECOM 07/2014 Worked on street furniture design, masterplan and perspective renderings, construction drawings, and presentation documents; participated in meetings.
CONSTRUCTUION DRAWINGS Academic Work, Technology and Material 2015 Fall Semester
OTHER WORKS Drawings, Paintings, Hybrid Drawings
Vernacular Dwelling Mar, 2012 297 x 210 mm
Hybrid Drawing Mar, 2016
Hybrid Drawing Apr, 2016
Charcoal Observation Drawing 2016 Winterssession 5’ x 7’
Charcoal Observation Drawing 2016 Winterssession 5’ x 7’
Chinese Ink Painting 2016 Winterssession 100 x 140cm
Tone Study of Turner 2016 Winterssession 14’’ x 17’’
BLA Beijing Foresty University MLA Rhode Island School of Design Email: cgao01@risd.edu mgaochenge@163.com Tel: +1(401)3407039 +86 13994271977