PORTFOLIO Zidan Chen
APPLY FOR MLA Landscape Architecture UNIVERSITY OF University College London SELECTED WORK 2023
CONTENTS Internships 2021.06-07
2023.6-2023.6
Zebra Warehouse Intelligent Home Decoration Platform
Third Prize of the 11th National College Digital Art&Design Awards
Designer Assistant
Third Prize of the Third Oriental Creative Star
Awards Honors
Z IDA N CHEN TEL: +86 15601078888 E-MAIL: czd_0618@sina.com
Education Shanghai Polytechnic University Environmental Design Program Average Score:89/100
Hobby Painting Travel Crafts Baking Photography Sports
Skills Adobe Photoshop Adobe Illustrator Adobe Indesign Adobe Premiere AutoCAD Rhino Sketch Up Enscape Maya Grasshopper
2020.9-2021.6 Third Prize Scholarship at School Level
2021.6-2022.6
Volunteer Activities
Volunteers of Shanghai Second Polytechnic University "CD-ROM Action
2022.6-2023.6
Volunteers of Shanghai Second Polytechnic University Autumn Games
2021
Women's Community Design
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08-10
Plants in Wonderland Small Botanical Garden Design
11-13
Volunteers of New Media Skills Competition Summer social practice "Protecting the green earth, painting the most beautiful community" wall painting (as team leader and designer)
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Thorn Rose
New Retail Narrative Commercial Space Design
2022
Second Prize of the Seventh Milan Design Week
05-07
Living with Water
Ecological Design for Flooded Landscapes
Campus Beautification Volunteers
National Excellence Award of the 20th Asian Design Excellent Award of Interior Group in Academy Award China Interior and Environment Design Competition
Empowerment Shelter
Performers for the New Year's Day Gala
School Vaccination Volunteers
Municipal Second Prize of the Third Oriental Star Design Competition
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2020
School Outstanding Student
Municipal Second Prize in The 8th China International College Students' 'Internet+' Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition
01-04
Second Prize Scholarship at School Level
Shanghai International Marathon Volunteers
National Bronze Award of the Third Orient Star Competition
Whale Fall
Whale Memorial Museum Design
Second Prize of the 3rd Think Youth
First Prize Scholarship at School Level
National Silver Award of the 16th China creative challenges contest
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Volunteers of summer social practice painting group Volunteers for the school COVID-19 testgroup
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Other Works
Garden Creation, Gouache, Photography, Design Sketch, Materials and Processes
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Los Angeles
S a n ta C r u z Island
Species Type 13.Armored Shrimp
2.Greenland Shark
Corona Anaheim
7.Blind shrimp
1.Haffish
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12.Sea Cucumber
4.Spider Crab 10.Firebug
16.Pom-pom Anemone H u n ti n g to n Beach
5.Rattail Fish 3.Octopus
Whale Fall
Lo n g B e a c h
8.Sea Pig
15.Mussels
11.Red-horned sandworms
17.Mussels
Whale Memorial Museum Design
S a n C l e m e n ta
18.Thiophilic bacteria
9.Choriaster granulatus
S a n ta C a ta l i n a Island
19.Nitrifying bacteria
14.Giant Isopod
6.Osedax Worms
SITE
加利 福尼 亚湾
Whale carcasses feed decomposer-dominated recycling systems for up to
100 years
The whale colony sustains at least
The
43 species and 12,490 organisms
Individual work
Location: Santa Catalina Island, USA
There is such an animal in the world, with such a huge body, born in the sea, grow in the sea, hidden in the sea, return to the sea, the tenderness of life, the death of the infinite gifts to all living things, biologists give this process of death a name "whale fall". A whale carcass can support a whole life system for up to a hundred years, but it is becoming increasingly rare. The design is based on the study of the four phases of the whale's fall, the extraction of elements, and the composition of the form, shaping the space with the connotation of the four processes of the whale, from life to death to the return to the sea. In this way, it establishes a place of mourning as well as a museum, alerts people to the protection of marine animals and the environment, and promotes the ecological restoration of the selected site.
▪ This process can last from 4 to 24 months.
S a n C l e m e n te Island ▪ At this stage, particularly attractive are invertebrates especially polychaetes and crustaceans.
▪ During this time 90% of the carcass will be decomposed.
STAGE1: Mobile-scavenger stage
▪ Use remnant whale carcasses as habitat.
▪ Large numbers of anaerobic bacteria enter the whale bones and other tissues and break down the lipids therein.
▪ Constantly changing the environment in which they themselves are located.
▪ Hydrogen sulfide is produced using sulfate dissolved in seawater as an oxidizer.
STAGE2: Enrichment-opportunist stage
▪ Chemoautotrophic bacteria, which use hydrogen sulfide as a source of energy, use water to oxidize it and obtain energy. ▪ When the organic material in the remnants of the whale fall is depleted, the mineral remains of the whale bones serve as a reef for the creatures to settle on.
STAGE3: Sulfophilic stage 2
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STAGE4: Reef stage
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1st human sighting of a whale fall
First discovered in
20k
m
1987 by a team led by Craig Smith
Less than 3
Carlsbad
10km
▪ Just after the whale carcass falls to the bottom, it attracts blind eels, sharks, some crustaceans, etc. to feed on it.
TIME: 10/2022-02/2023
Irvine
50 modern natural whale colonies have been found worldwide
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Bacterial blanket A large number of anaerobic bacteria that decompose residual whalebone tissue using sulfate dissolved in seawater as an oxidizer to produce hydrogen sulfid
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Port
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City Nautical Routes Nature Reserves
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02 Empowerment Shelter Women's Community Design
TIME: 03/2023-06/2023 Individual work
Location: New Deli, India
All Indian women, irrespective of their background, have come to terms with the reality that when they are in the public space, they can be harassed, abducted, and even raped in extreme cases; and for middle and lower class women, they are not only subjected to security issues, but they are also economically impoverished and chronologically impoverished, which results in them not being able to live freely and securely in the world. This design utilizes traditional occupations suitable for women such as sustainable agriculture, textiles, and education combined with the Internet to promote the advancement of women's empowerment. The design also uses landscape architecture to create female-friendly neighborhoods to enhance community safety. All of these will enable women to acquire skills, improve their economic level, have a voice in this highly urbanized space, and gradually build a freer, safer, and more equal society!
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03 Living with Water Ecological Design for Flooded Landscapes
TIME: 06/2023-11/2023 Individual work
Location: Huaihe River Basin, China
In recent years, because of the continuous heavy rainfall, the Huaihe River Basin in China is often flooded, which makes some problems are reflected. Because of the social transition segmentation, people always have a onesided view of the problem, so the starting point of this enlargement of the vision from a macro point of view to identify the problem, and then subdivided into individual paragraphs to solve the problem. Because the Huaihe River Basin is at the climatic boundary and may encounter droughts and floods, it is designed with the function of saving water, so that the water source can be adjusted when the dry season comes. The upstream, midstream, and downstream areas are each designed according to local problems, such as a fish science park in the upstream, a redistribution of functional areas in the midstream, and a bird conservation park in the Red Forest in the downstream. It is hoped that this will alleviate the problems encountered in the event of flooding.
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TIME: 07/2022-09/2022 Individual work
Location: Jiaxing, China
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Structural Analysis
Storyboard
05 Thorn Rose new retail narrative commercial space design
TIME: 10/2022-11/2023 Individual work
Location: Shenzhen,China Coursework
The positioning of this design is HUI brand new retail narrative commercial space design. Women and intangible cultural heritage are extracted from HUI. Because this design focuses on narrative expression, we designed 5 nodes to create.In the space, because of the brand character of HUI, we integrated elements of intangible cultural heritage, such as: Nüshu, butterfly mother, and set up a display area of intangible cultural heritage. With modern methods, we interpret the non-heritage culture, and let the national brand enter the trend of the times.
Rendering
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