Mingzhu Liu Portfolio Landscape Architect
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The productive landscape of the campus will provide students with a place for learning, leisure, and entertainment. At the same time, planting education can have educational and cultural significance. At the same time, it can become the unique culture of the campus. This new function means that the landscape is a passively used space and eventually becomes a machine that can be produced.
THE PRODUCTIVE CAMPUS LANDSCAPE
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The site is located next to the university and is close to the business college. There are private apartments and student accommodation nearby, as well as convenience stores. The decision was made to build a lunch garden there to provide a place for students and pedestrians to relax. Due to the topography causing high winds, the site was inconvenient for traffic.
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The Hui People’s Block is a sensitive zone. This project is aimed at making the local region more nationalized and allowing people to understand the religion and culture of minorities. In this project, three pocket parks are created; the Civil Square is re-created; and a Muslim-style square is built. This project vitalizes the old block and brings local communities and tourists a leisure space. It reflects cultural traditions and aesthetic orientations that conform to globalization and respect minorities.
A SENSIBLE STRATEGY FOR HUIMIN STREET
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The streamlined up and down is good for people to pass, the strip-shaped space also makes the venue rhythmical, and the private garden provides a quiet rest area. The open plaza mainly provides people with a platform for communication and rest, soothing the mind and body, the surrounding students can relax here, and it can also provide venues for exhibitions and performances. The hydrophilic area can gather people and increase the vigor of the field. A large area of primordial plants creates a natural and intimate atmosphere for the people here.
STUDENT WORK ARRIVAL PLAZA
The function of campus planning is not only to provide a physical environment for the formal teaching activities of the university. Most people's educational opportunities are happened outdoors, which has little to do with the courses he chooses. Only when the campus planning has the nature to stimulate curiosity and promote informal communication. The campus atmosphere is indeed educational. The production landscape is connected with the campus planning, which solves the shortage of food and the significance of planting teaching.
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I searched for local supermarket chains and restaurants on the Google map. Mark their location. Commercial shops are unevenly distributed. People can only go shopping and enjoy food in the city core . An important part of my project to create a productive landscape is highlighting the educational resources of Birmingham. Birmingham has a large population, a high proportion of college students and is a young city. This informed my decision to connect the productive landscape project with the campus landscape.People can come to Digbeth to taste the food and see how it is made. Reduce the food transport process and time, food factory to increase the interest of the site.To reduce the time of the food transportation process, a food factory could be built to increase the interest of Digbeth. It 's close to the Birmingham City University and Aston University.At present, the site contains many industrial buildings and is littered with offstreet car parks. There are several bars and restaurants in andaround the site, as well as a club situated under theviaduct.
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The garden is designed to educate and inspire, with an emphasis on sustainability, looking after the natural environment, and understanding where our food comes from. There is even a fully-equipped kitchen for groups to cook and enjoy delicious meals, with ingredients sourced straight from the garden.
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The new design would allow people ti quickly access the site.People who use wheelchairs would be well accomodated by the ramp.The lunch garden proides an excellent place for students to relax,have coffee or lunch and enjoy conversation outdoors.
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Proposed place identity in Hui Min Block Eating bar Shared Street
Cutural facade
Religious life
Chinese element
This project serves as a tourist destination and a living area where ethnic minorities gather. The realization of this project can strengthen the sense of place of the site and improve the living environment of residents. After the remodeling, the venue brings a better experience to tourists. The special historical background of Muslim Street has become the city’s Branding increasing the tourism income of this community and city, and improving people’s quality of life and habitability.
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Chinese Calligraphy
Design Process
Local Antique
Soldier's armor
Paving
As an ancient historical capital, Xi'an has a profound historical heritage, a large number of cultural relics are unearthed here. Cultural elements are used in the landscape sketch and pavement to link to the local sense of history and to arouse the common memory of people here. At the bottom of the Waterscape, it is the calligraphy pavement, water elements increase the quietness of religious sites. One of the eight wonders, the Qin Shihuang Mausoleum Terracotta Warriors were unearthed in surrounding Xi'an, the ground pavement extracts terracotta soldiers armor on the pattern.
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Strategy 1.Activate Mosque Temple 1. Mosque
5.Paving of traditional elements
2. Bick Paving
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3. Water feature
7.Pomegranate flowers
4.Stone feature
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TEMPLE
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Central plaza
Mosque
Muslims in Muslim Street still form energetic ethnic gatherings because of their religious beliefs, traditional street days, weddings, funerals, and weddings. Islam stipulates five times a day and a series of festivals. People in Muslim Street will celebrate Islamic festivals and abide by the regulations, as well as the leading traditional Chinese festivals.
Traditional festivals are here On the Gurdon festival, Muslims clean and prepare various pastries and cook according to the regulations before the festival. From bathing in the early morning to pray at the mosque.
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Site Analysis
The site is a historical district where Chinese ethnic minorities gather, and at the same time, as an attractive place, there lives outsiders like shoppers, tourists, small vendors, and students as well. In the Huimin Street questionnaire survey, students accounted for 47.44%; public officials accounted for 19.23%; business people totaled 10.26%; retirees 2.5%; others 20.51%. The majority of the population in Huimin Street is young people. At present, Huimin Street is one of the public spaces that young people like. 12 16
The Culture Wall Modern technique and traditional craftsmanship: combining the non-material cultural heritage “paper cutting” with modern technique, and the ingenious landscape wall design integrates local cultural memories into modern life.
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The strip-shaped pavement on the square gives the open square a sense of rhythm.
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The west side of the site maintains the original natural environment, transitioning from east to west and from city to nature.
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The design site has a gathering function, and the multi-purpose square can serve the surrounding people.
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1.Entrance Plaza 2.Fountain 3.Flower Garden 4.Pergola 5.Sunshine Lawn 6.Platform 7.Social Garden 8.Street corner
The streamlined up and down is good for people to pass, the strip-shaped space also makes the venue rhythmical, and the private garden provides a quiet rest area. The open plaza mainly provides people with a platform for communication and rest, soothing the mind and body, the surrounding students can relax here, and it can also provide venues for exhibitions and performances. The hydrophilic area can gather people and increase the vigor of the field. A large area of primordial plants creates a natural and intimate atmosphere for the people here.
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Located near Much Wenlock in Shropshire, The Cavalier Centre is a charitable, volunteer led organization which provides riding activities for users with physical and mental disabilities, learning difficulties and other emotional needs.
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The initial idea about the city of the future: by 2050, 75% of people will live in the city. The activity space of people continues to expand, and the living area will continue to extend to a higher level. As shown in the picture, the land is suspended in the air. Because the range of reinforced concrete continues to expand, people are eager to reach out to nature in large areas of the city, and the green area in the city is increasing. All in all, the range of people's activities is increasing, and the city is no longer expanding on the ground but expanding into the ai.
People's perception of nature ranges from initial fear and obedience, to control and conquest, to protection and utilization to achieve harmonious coexistence. In the future, people will let nature develop more freely, respect nature more, and nature will eventually integrate into the city.
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