Landscape Architecture Portfolio

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River Spine LARP 602, Spring 2015 (In Progress) Critic Javier Arpa Fernรกndez Partner with: Ya You










Manufacturing Diversity and Distribution Heavy Manufacturing Advanced Manufacturing Design based Manufacturing


Mobile System




Design Strategy / Islandbound


Applying Logistic Nodes



Wall Rhythm LARP 502, Spring 2014 Critic Sanjukta Sen


The “Wall Rhythm�

Bridesburg, PA

Ningxiao Cao Spring 2014

Bridesburg the Wall Rhythm Park is designed to be a community park that will served as a community recreational and gathering public green infrastructure. It will be builtis on a historical factoBridesburg the Wall Rhythm Park designed to becoal a community park that willa served as a community and gathering ry ruins. Also it is great north connectionrecreational for Philadelphia watergreen infrastructure. It will be built on a historical coal factofrontpublic park system. ry ruins. Also it is a great north connection for Philadelphia waterfront park system. The site is facing quite a few challenges and problems. It is not covered by the combined sewer system, and will face serious The site The is facing a few challenges and problems. It is flood problem. parkquite is also isolated from Philadelphia network by the combined sewerThe system, andsoil willstatus face serious and not withcovered poor green way connection. current is flood problem. The park is old alsocoal isolated from Philadelphia network contaminated because of the factory ruins. and with poor green way connection. The current soil status is contaminated because of the old coal factory ruins.

Site Accessment Site Accessment

Old Coal Factory Site Old Coal Factory Site

Combined Sewer System & 100 Year Flood Zone Combined Sewer System & 100 Year Flood Zone


The “Wall“ Concepts



The “Wall“ as sitting bench

The “Wall“ as circulation path



Traverse Archeology LARP 501, Fall 2013 Critic Anuradha Mathur

First studio in MLA program at Penn. It is designed to build up methodologies for obersvation, drawing, making, and projecting. The site was the historic Bartram’s Garden in west Philadelphia. Students were divided into different part of sites. My site of interest is the waterfront open lawn area which has just been found as an archeology spot.


Plot: Traverse the landscape


Existing Condition

Excavation Game Plan





Shenk Woodman Competition Philadelphia Bikeshare LARP 502, Spring 2014 Team with: Tanuja manohar, Fang Cai, Grace Kim, Joseph Giampietro


DIAGRAM ANALYSIS PEDAL-POWER

BASIC CONCEPT Sustainable

COFFEE & RECREATION

SPONSORS

Community

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WATER RECYCLE

> $10 M > Primary Sponsor > Bike Technology

MULTI-FUNCTION

> $5 M > Phone App > Internet

> $5M > Reception Area

SOCIAL HUB

CITY COMPARISON

142.6 Square Miles

Size

#

Provided by Public Bike System Company (Bixi)

Equipment

Months of Operation

302.6 Square Miles

600 stations 10,000 bikes 16

16

24 hours: $7.50 7 days: $15 Annual: $75

Membership

Funding

8.3 Million

250 stations 5,000 bikes

Age to Operate

Lost Bike Fee

NYC

1.5 Million

Population

Quantity

PHL

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24 hours: $9.95 7 days: $25 Annual: $95 Provided by Public Bike System Company (Bixi)

$1,200

$750 Starbucks ($5M) Peco ($10M) Comcast ( $5M) Mayor Michael Nutter ($3M)

Privately sponsored by Citi Bank ($41M) and MasterCard ($6.5M)

Year round

Year round

LDN

BIKESHARE APP

8.1 Million

607 Square Miles

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570 stations 8,000 bikes 14 24 hours: $1.55 7 days: $7.74 Annual: $80

Philadelphia BikeShare

Cycles and stations based on Public Bike System Company (Bixi) rental system

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$465 Transport for London. Barclays Bank contributed about $38.7M. Total cost: $217.1M.

Year round

Circulation diagram BIKESHARE RACK MODULES

display

energy storage energy generation

ambient sensor rack computer

Street sidewalk diagram

PEDAL-POWER

power line

87 gal






Chasing Clouds Summer Studio, Summer 2014 Team with: Chenyi Shen, Lida Driva Athens is facing blight situation recently. We are trying to use water mist machine to create this clouds network, in order to bring an aesthetic and cool environment to Athens; create an enivronment that will serve to all citizens.




Ningxiao Cao 3411 Chestnut St. Apt 343 Philadelphia, PA, 19104 Cell: 612-229-7627 Email: ningxiao@design.upenn.edu


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