Landscape Architecture Portfolio Produced by: Peishen Wu Flood Management, Third Landscape, Memorial Landscape... School of Architecture and Urban Design, RMIT University
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Personal Information FIRST NAME/SURNAME
Peishen Wu
TEL
0421760008
EMAIL NATIONALITY LANGUAGE
peishenwu1995@gmail.com Chinese
Project 1 The Pulse of a Paused Community
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English, Chinese
Education Experience DATES
2018-2019
PROGRAM
Master of Landscape Architecture
INSTITUTE
RMIT University
DATES
2013-2017
PROGRAM
Bachelor of Environmental Design
INSTITUTE
Guangxi Normal University
Project 2 20 Over Your Car Park, Grass Will Grow
Work Experience DATES POSITION EMPLOYER KEY PROJECTS
RESPONSIBILITIES
2017-2018 Assistant Architect Nanning Institute of Urban Planning and Design, China
Project 3 28 In-between Surface and Perturbation
Landscape Design of The Third Middle School of Nanning, Wuxu Airport Design Competition. -Liaise with clients and other consultants -Perspective and detail drawing -Document layout -Working on physical model
Project 4 34 The Pygmalion Stall
Skills and Competence ADVANCED INTERMEDIATE BASIC
Adobe Suites, Rhino, GIS Grasshopper, Physical model making, AutoCAD, SketchUp, Lumion Revit
I am a passionate landscape graduate, educated in landscape architecture with great understanding about space. With experience on public realm, park, town planning to mixed use projects in Melbourne, USA, Japan and China, I strive to develop high quality and joyful design. I love stories and I am interested in making great place where stories can happen.
Other Works 42 Physical Models
Project 1
The Pulse of a Paused Community (Houston, USA)
The Pulse of a Paused Community is a landscape architecture project that responds to climate change, regional economic recessions and social injustice. Positioning Hurricane Harvey in 2017 as an opportunity to unpack the relation between urbanization, climate change and social inequality. The Pulse of a Paused Community aims to build the resilience and adaptive capability to future flood events and optimize the current unsustainable development in a marginalized community, Kashmere Gardens, in Houston, USA. By reconsidering the natural components and social resources of Kashmere Gardens Community, this project will boost a new pulse into the long paused community and transform it into a self-sufficient community. “When a city’s social structure and market-economic has been paused by natural disasters, it also expose long-neglected injustice, underlying power structures, and social inequality.� --Crisis Cities: Disaster and Redevelopment in New York and New Orleans
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Master Plan
Wetland Walk 2
Productive Garden
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Sunflower Plantation Space 5
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Creek 5
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Sunflower Plantation Space
Wetland Park 6
Wetland Productive Garden Rainwater Harvest Pond
Scale : 1:10,000 100 m
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200 m
500 m
Community Centre
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Project 1 The Pulse of a Paused Community
A Paused Community
(Extreme Rainfall Events, Once in 10 Years, June & July)
Project 1 The Pulse of a Paused Community
Pulsate the Community
A Living Community
(After Extreme Rainfall Events, March & August)
(Dry Season)
Public Retail Events Sunflower Plantation Zone
Temporary Water Detention Zone
Productive Garden Harvesting
Community Wetland Park
Productive Garden Plantation
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During extreme rainfall events, these temporary water detention zones will collect and temporary accommodate rain water, prevent the community from being flooded.
After extreme rainfall events, rain water will be collected in rain harvest ponds and filtered for productive plantation activities.
In dry season, the community can start harvest from the plantation zones and create income and social events. 13
Project 1 The Pulse of a Paused Community
Project 1 The Pulse of a Paused Community
Planting Strategy of Wetland
Wetland
Tree - 3.000
Chionanthus virginicus
Acer rubrum
- 4.500 ± 0.000
Shrub A
A1
Cornus sericea
- 1.800
Bayou Salix nigra
Pinus palustris
Rosa palustris
Vaccinium ovatum
Marsh Swamp
Nyssa sylvatica
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Pennisetum alopecuroides
N 10m 20m
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10m 20m
Scale: 1:1,500
More Community Public Space for Nearby Communities
Over 66 % Rain Water Temporary Accommodated
Scale: 1:1,500
Over 4.1 km2 Vegetation Cover Area
± 0.000
- 1.800 - 3.000
- 4.500
Section A-A1
Scale: 1:1000
Pilot Water Zone
Water Detention Zone
± 0.000
- 1.800
In 2021, a greenway will flows into Kashemre Gardens, a shared vision will brings Kashmere Gardens and Houston closer and creates equitable access to all. 14
- 4.500
Section A-A1
- 3.000
Scale: 1:1000 15
Project 1 The Pulse of a Paused Community
Project 1 The Pulse of a Paused Community
Planting strategy of Sunflower Plantation Zones
Sunflower Plantation Zones
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Tree - 2.000
± 0.000
- 4.000
Chionanthus virginicus
Shrub
Acer rubrum
Cornus sericea
Salix nigra
-0.400
Pinus palustris
Nyssa sylvatica
Scale: 1:1,000
Bayou Marsh Swamp
Rosa palustris
Vaccinium ovatum
Herb (Productive Species)
Pennisetum alopecuroides
Helianthus annuus
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N 10m 20m
Over 110 Restaurant and Chief Cooperation Opportunity
10m 20m
Over 150 Jobs Provided
Over 1 million USD Annual Income Created from Plantation and Land Renting
Scale: 1:1,000
± 0.000
Section B-B1
Water Retention Zone
± 0.000
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Section B-B1
Scale: 1:1000
-0.400
- 2.000
Scale: 1:1000
Transition Zone
In 2022, the sunflower will turn Kashmere Gardens’ brown and grey into gold and green. By doing simple plantation activities, people can render their community with luxurious gold, and the whole city can get sunflowered with Kashmere Gardens.
B1
- 4.000 Pilot Water Zone
Water Harvest Zone
Transition Zone
-0.400
- 2.000 - 4.000
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Project 1 The Pulse of a Paused Community
Project 1 The Pulse of a Paused Community
Productive Gardens
Planting Strategy of Productive Gardens C1 Celery
Lemon
Garlic
Pumpkin Broccoli Pea Cucumber
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D1
Lettuce Broccoli Eggplant Carrot
Tomato
Scale: 1:2,000
Onion
Scale: 1:2,000
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N 10m 20m
10m 20m
C
Over 300 Farm-Share Subscribed Clients
Over 80,000 kg Fresh Products Annual Output
Over 0.7 million USD Annual Income Created
Section C-C1
Scale: 1:2000
Irrigation Tank UV Filter
In 2023, with the help of an APP, Planted Forward which has over 300 subscribed families to purchase vegetables, Kashmere Gardens can plant their garden and sell the products to Houston weekly. 18
Section D-D1
Water Storage Tank
Sedimentation Chamber
Bio-filtration Garden Bed
Scale: 1:500
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Project 2 Over Your Car Park, Grass Will Grow
Project 2
Car Park Ownership in 2018
Over Your Car park, Grass Will Grow Brunswick, Melbourne
Brunswick
The Role of Car Parks in Melbourne
The Position of Landscape Architects
According to Dr Elizabeth Taylor, there are over 13,000 excess off-street car parking areas in the city of Melbourne while there is 41 per cent of car park space empty (Jacks T, 2018). If one car park unit can fit in more than 20 people, there is a huge amount of space for other opportunity has been trade for vacancy in Melbourne (Taylor E, 2019).
But what is the essence of public space? The way we create public space, breaking open a way through brambles and thorns, was thriving from the aspect of human, we reshape the landscape for our own needs. It is also withering, from the aspect of other species.
Under such context, Melbourne councilors are struggling to deal with these unused car parks. This is because the result is a complex and contentious system, with tensions between strategic policies (which encourage housing diversity and alternatives to cars) and statutory policies (which default to minimum parking rates). The roundabout of realizing the benefit of transforming but not able to make the change because of political restrain should be break by us as landscape architects, since we understand that the transformation of landscape is an ongoing process. Hence, the car-parking function of this car park in front of Woolworths, Brunswick is clear in the rehearsal of future public space, be trade for the essence of public space.
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1: 35,000
Inspired by Fiona Hillary’s speech Deep Listening, to establish the connection between “the living body” and “the forces of universe”, the audience were not allowed to talk and tour around Dockland Promenade. The ability of sensing the environment enhanced when human were decentralized in a public space. If certain human activity must be banned for the equal co-existence of “living body” and “forces of the universe”, landscape architects are obliged to introduce a new gesture of “publicness”, it is neither a completely artificial landscape or a Third Landscape, but a new type of totalitarian public space as a hybridization of urban public space and The Third Landscape.
Jacks, T, “Dead space in the city: the true scale of vacant car parking revealed”, The Age, 26 June 2018. Taylor, E, Rozek, J, Clements, R & Croeser, T, “Of all the problems our cities need to fix, lack of car parking isn’t one of them”, The Conversation, 17 May 2019. Sumartojo, S, Lacey, J and Hillary, F 2017, “contain yourself: technology, the city and atmospheric intervention”, Media International Australia, vol. 165, pp. 90-102.
1: 15,000
Scale: 1:500,000 N 2.5m 5km
According to the Melbourne Car Ownership study by Monash University, inner city and the north-west area of the CBD has a lower rate of car ownership than other areas, which can be seen as the result of the population structure of these area. Brunswick, with a younger age group of residents, has the lowest car ownership. However, car parks in Brunswick still remains a high number, the vacancy rate of these car parks can reach up to 90% in certain areas in Brunswick. 21
Project 2 Over Your Car Park, Grass Will Grow
Project 2 Over Your Car Park, Grass Will Grow
Car Park and Public Green Space in Brunswick
Design Intervention: The Dynamic of Plants
Clifton Park 24,300 m² Reduced Temperature: 3.10 °C
2020 (Stage 1) Woolworths Brunswick
Gilpin Park 11,820 m²
RMIT Brunswick
2021(Stage 2)
Temple Park 5,310 m²
Jewell Park 3,160 m² Barkly Street Park 1,300 m²
2030 Scale: 1:5,000 N 50m 100m
Public Green Space
Provided Car Parking Spaces: 235 Vacancy Rate: 88%
Car Park
Woolworths Car Park Rate: 1 hour 2 hour 3 hour 4 hour
$0 $0 $30 $60
2035 (Stage 3)
Considering that the car park of Woolworths Brunswick has a high vacancy rate, and it provides a almost 200 more car parking spaces than how many is required according to Car Park Provision of Victoria State. The car park of Woolworths it is more of a free customer service than a profitable income resource. Scale: 1:3,000 N 5m 10m
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Under such context, how to cater the car park to accommodate the wave of reducing car parks and creating more green space in Brunswick is the research question of this project.
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Project 2 Over Your Car Park, Grass Will Grow
Project 2 Over Your Car Park, Grass Will Grow
Stage 1: Fence-Off
Stage 2: Events-On
Car Park Spaces: 230
Car Park Spaces: 210
By claiming the space through new pedestrian networks and vertical green garden, this car park can remove the “invisible fence� and create cracks for human and other living forces to sneak in. 24
In the second stage, a second layer of space has been build up, to provide space for the interaction of human and natural elements. The resource of nearby schools would be used to hold vegetation planting events and create interaction between human and natural elements. 25
Project 2 Over Your Car Park, Grass Will Grow
Project 2 Over Your Car Park, Grass Will Grow
Stage 3: Structure-Down
Stage 4: Trade-Back
Car Park Spaces: 0
Car Park Spaces: 0
Because of the exuberant vitality of vegetation, the second-layer-structure would eventually collapse as the volume of the plants grow. It is a collapse of human activity when the structure fall down, but it is also a beginning of the dominance of micro-ecosystem. Since there are so many restrains for the politicians to take the action of transforming car park in Melbourne, than us as landscape architects should be the first one to break the deadlock. 26
By giving the vegetation enough space and time, the collapse in the car park would eventually become a field of flourishing vegetation, trading the car park for micro-ecosystem as a critical response to political force that created these car parks in Melbourne. 27
Fukushima Kenritsu Iwakikoyoko School
Project 3
In-between Surface and Perturbation Iwaki, Japan
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Chuodai Temporary Housing Zone
Iwaki Shiritsu Chuodaiminami Elementary School
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In-between Surface and Perturbation response to climate change, post-disaster management policy and social norms in Iwaki, Japan. In 2011, a tsunami hit the east coast of Japan and caused 15,896 deaths, 6,157 injured, and 2,537 people missing across twenty prefectures. As a result, over 160,000 residents were evacuated from Fukushima Prefecture. The evacuated victims not only suffer from the disaster, but also under strict control of the government, their right of expression is strictly controlled because the government intend to show an image of the effect of the disaster is under good control and everyone is looking forward to rebuild and return to Fukushima. This action created great crisis of confidence between the government and its people, which dose not help the victims to recover from the trauma. If a harmony park metaphorically describes a society in unity, then behaviors that could potentially disturb the harmony is considered “incorrect” in Japan. Signage that forbids people’s regular behavior in public space could be seen almost everywhere in Japan in order to achieve a “smooth surface” of the space to show a image of a harmony and unity society to the public. Under the current condition which individual opinion must be constantly released in dealing with the increasing hidden social agitation, for the stable improvement of its society, the public space of the temporary housing area should offer a new gesture of openness. It is neither a collapsed nor a smooth system, but a space that allowing small perturbation to the smooth surface to trigger the creativeness and individual opinions of people.
Chuodaihigashi Elementary School
Scale: 1:5,000 10m 20m
Nowhere is the illusion of harmony and contention to dissidence more clearly expressed than in the refuge for victims of Fukushima in Chuodai, Iwaki, where the dominance of power is achieved through the space’s tidiness and quietness. However, surrounded by college, high school and elementary school, this neighborhood also has great potential in expressing creativeness and independence opinion because of the hidden agitation among younger generation.
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Chuodaiminami Junior High School
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-3.500
-3.800
-3.500
± 0.000
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Project 3 In-between Surface and Perturbation
Exploration of “Openness” in Japanese Social Norm
Project 3 In-between Surface and Perturbation
Expression Trigger: Perturbation Spaces
Structure for small scale market
School. As an educational space, schools in Japan, to some extent, would encourage students to be liberal, and express bold opinions.
Landscape furniture for picnic
Theatre. Both in war times and peace era, traditional Japanese theaters would write and play drama that reflects or sometimes critic current political issues or even feudalism.
Public stadium for speech and performance
Market. Markets provides a space that individuals could get to meet new people and build further communication.
Personal feast. Feasts are also provide a small scale opportunity for individuals to gather together and exchange opinion.
In order to explore the right “perturbation spaces”, this project searched the traditional public spaces that people can express opinions and exchange information. Unlike Europe, eastern culture dose not have a space particularly for debate or speech such as forum or square. On the other hand, the expression of opinions and exchange of information are hidden in other social activity.
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The perturbation spaces will not be effective unless the space are occupied by people. Therefore the entrance of the sunken spaces takes movements of people into consideration and placed by the sides of the routes of people on the surface. By learning the typology of traditional public spaces, this test provided a series of spaces for nearby students and residents to hold activity that could encourage the expression and communication of opinion.
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Project 3 In-between Surface and Perturbation
Axonometric Drawing
Project 3 In-between Surface and Perturbation
History Preserve: Traces of Temporary Housing
Underground “perturbation”spaces, encourage people to hold events and expression
Movable furnitures that better cater the space for more social events
Movable furnitures that better cater the space for more social events
As a respond to the overwhelming totalitarian sceneries and atmosphere around the surface, the perturbation spaces were sunken to help them “escape”. The depth of these spaces were adjusted according to the activity in them, the more radical the space, the deeper it will be. As for human scale gathering spaces, they were placed closer to the surface.
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To increase the physical contact of people in the surface and the “perturbation spaces”, the entrances were enlarged to different scale, the more radical the space is, the larger the entrance it will be. As an ironic respond to the temporary houses zones’ overcontrolling management, the evidence of the temporary houses was kept as part of the entrances.
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Vendors
Project 4
The Pygmalion Stall
Children
College Students
Nearby Residents
5:00 a.m.
Studying
Preparing
Selling
Baby-sitting
Chatting
Starting at Noon
Cleaning
Napping
Original Pavement
Playing together
Shopping
Shopping
Dump rubbish here your whole family die
Don’t dump rubbish here, Don’t be mean
Surveillance Zone
Floating Vendors
12:00 a.m.
Your are under surveillance
Helping their parents
Tianjin, China
The Pygmalion Stall intends to respond social problems with radical architectural approach. The small structural project is located in a vegetable market in Tianjin, China, where the majority occupants are floating, financially challenged hawkers. Numerous surveillance cameras, strong fences and warning signs suggesting ‘correct behaviour’ flood every dominant public space in the vegetable market. What is even more ironic is that vandalism is still very obvious in Siji Market. Further research on these markets in Tianjin shows that media and management bodies tend to associate the low-income residents with typical labels such as crime, vandalism. The Pygmalion Effect is a Self-fulfilment Prophecy being widely adopted in psychological studies to describe the phenomenon whereby higher/lower expectations lead to an increase/decrease in performance. Similarly, Siji Market’s surveillance and over-controlling also contributes to the unsatisfied status of this market. Under such context, The Pygmalion Hawker intends to design a series of hawkers for the people in the vegetable market, trying to rebuild their sense of belonging and self-esteem by giving them the most of the control and right to change to landscape of the market for their own needs.
Preparing
Selling
Hawkers Start to Show up
Studying
Baby-sitting
Chatting
Stirring up Chaos
Playing together
Shopping
Shopping
6:00 p.m.
Finishing work 8:00 p.m.
Pre-school children are brought to the market by their parents Most rubbish is dumped during cleaning stage
Finishing work The atmosphere between vendors is harmonious, stimulates business cooperation Most vendors will aggressively occupy the pavement
Most children will help their parents in selling
No quiet space for children to study, most of them use worktops as desks.
During peaks hours, large number of students from nearby college will flood into the market
Nearby residents shop periodically, but they will visit the market more frequent during certain festival
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Project 4 The Pygmalion Stall
Project 4 The Pygmalion Stall
Design Concept
Hawkers are designed into relatively independent modules that provide surveiliance-free temporary private space for vendors. Each of the hawkers contains multi-functional furniture that allow vendors to arrange spaces according to their own needs. This project intends to instil the sense of belonging and responsibility to the vendors by entitling them the right to arrange the inner space of the hawkers.
The Push-pull roof make the hawker possible to turn into a outgoing unit.
The undefined multi-functional furniture make it possible for the vendors to rest, read or store goods within limited space.
Push-pull worktops in the operational part provides flexibility for users to expend the hawkers.
Bamboo Panel
PVC Crust Board
Acrylic Plexiglass
Acrylic Plexiglass
Medium Density Fibreboard
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Project 4 The Pygmalion Stall
Project 4 The Pygmalion Stall
2490
3040
750
550
1500
3750
1500
A
3000 A1 Plan
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1500
1500 A-A1 Section
1800
The push-pull roof can be manually connected together, forming different types of micro markets to receive larger number of customers in special events or certain festival.
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Project 4 The Pygmalion Stall
Project 4 The Pygmalion Stall
Reserving Entrances
Reserving Traffic Routes
Clean up the Roof Terrace
Planning Reception Area
Redesign the News-boards Installing Energy Supply Devices
Benches are constructed in the back of the news-boards
Not only can these new hawkers provide different spaces to fulfil the demands of vendors while tackling down the Pygmalion problem, they can also bring more flexibility to Siji Market, making it possible to accept more customers and hold events.
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U-Shape Micro Market
Micro Commercial Street
Public Gathering Space 41
Other Works
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Physical Model 1: Testing Water Accommodation Ability in Kashmere Gardens, Houston, USA.
Physical Model 2: Exploring the Landscape Character of a Riverfront Community in Leeds, UK
This work intends to test the water accomodation ability in Kashmere Gardens, USA, during different level of rainfall events.
This work intends to explore how river shapes the human activity in a riverside community in Leeds, UK, through working on different scales of physical model.
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