Reykjavik field trip portfolio

MAKINGKING PLACE THROUGH DESIGN ZIYI WANG

MATERIALS, WATER, VEGETATION

Kingran Shopping Mall Garden

Dense shrubs and scrubs soften the landscape

Roof garden - ornanmental srcub and shrubs

Plain concrete paving Structual Speciesman Trees Small Stone House

Roof Garden: ornanmental grass

Speciesman trees provide seasonal interests, while it also provides structrual interests in the winter Section A-A’: (from left to right) shopping mallv, corton steel platform, speciesman trees, wall with roof garden-scrub and shrubs

Permeable Concrete Slabs

Small stone house provide function of stairs and platform, while is also used as sculpture

Shopping Mall Building Section B-B’: (from left to right): roof garden, and washed-finish concrete underneath, small stone house, corten steel wall and platform, car park underneath

Kingran Shopping Mall Garden Naturalistic Stone: unsmooth texture provide sense of roughness, rustic style

Corton Steel Bridge: provides diffferent view height, enrich people’s experience

Corton Steel Wall: visusal and physical boundarygive strong industrial style

Roof planting grass: naturalistic planting contrasts with its surroundings

Washed-finish Concrete Wall: comtemporary hard material contrasing with soft vegeattion

Permeable Paving; prevent water run-off

Harpa Concert Hall Square

Harpa Concert Hall Building

Plain Concrete Paving Concrete Paving

Artificial stones as block to stop vehicle, also used by people as benches Aritificial Stones

Crushed stones

Changing paving tells space belong to building and creates pedestrian

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Benches

Fountain

Section A-A’: (from left to right) harpa concert building, concrete paving, artificial stones, car parking space, artificial stones, fountain

Timber bridge

Crushed stone emphase industrial history

Plain concrete paving is for industrial sense and bring out the building

Section B-B’: (from left to right): crushed stones, strip of water feature (water is hot), artificial stones

Harpa Concert Hall Square

Water as animation to give people sign: ‘touch me’

Water as threshold to catch people’s eyes

Water as mirror to reflect surrounding landscape

Hallgrimskirkja

From open lawn to dense hedge, shrubs, trees, enriching people expePlain concrete paving Trees

Lawn

Open lawn as barrier to stop cars, isolate landscape from heavy traffic

Hedge

Church Concrete slab mixed with cobbles paving paving

Shrubs Hedge

Open lawn and short shrubs emphase the magnificance of church

Section A-A’: (from left to right) open lawn, shrubs, concrete slabs mixed with cobbles paving

Hedge is divided space for parking

Hallgrimskirkja

Geometric layout of hedge responds to geometry of church

Naturalistic Rock contrasting with geometry of church, also provides opportunities for seating

Contrasting paving style

Vegetation guides people’s circulation

Hedges also provides seasonal intersts

Catelogue Affordance

Affordance

Affordance

Seating, Decorative

Paving, Decorative

Ornanmental

Seating, Block

Paving, Decorative

Ornanmental

Paving, Decorative

Decorative

Ornanmental, Guide, barrier

Paving, Decorative

Paving, Decorative

Ornanmental; Barrier