Yilin Li Portfolio Urban Planning
Yilin Li li2yl@mail.uc.edu
513-835-2371
Education: University of Cincinnati | 2010-2015 College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning • Bachelor of Urban Planning • GPA: 3.7/4.0 Guangdong Experimental High School | 2007-2010 • GPA: 4.0/4.0
Achievements: • • • • •
University Global Scholarship Dean’s List | Fall 2010 to Present Thomas and Susan Wagner Scholarship | 2011 School of Planning Scholarship | 2011 University Honors Program
Skills: Drawing Skills: Software Skills: • 7 years of fine arts drawing • ArcGIS experience • Google Sketchup Pro • 3 years of digital drawing • AutoCAD experience • 3ds Max • Autodesk Revit • Adobe Creative Suite 5 • Microsoft Office • Corel Draw
Foreign Language: • Native Chinese speaker • Native Cantonese speaker • Fluent English speaker
Experience: Liberty Township | Fall 2012 • Downtown Bethany Form Based Plan • Liberty Township 2011 Comprehensive Plan Guangzhou Urban Plan & Design Survey Institute | Spring 2012 • Architectural design of West City Beach in Guangzhou • Cantonese Opera Museum
Guangzhou Echom Sciences & Technology Co. LTD | Summer 2011 • Company Identificaiton of Wei Chom Firm • Interior Design of bathrooms • LED Lamp Product Design
Contents
West City Beach
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Opera Museum
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Pleasant Ridge
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Devou Park
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Gallery
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2012 Urban Planning Portfolio
WEST CITY BEACH
Site Plan
HIstoric Pool ---> West City Beach
TTotal area：5.4 hectare Existing Buildings： 36.8Km2 Reserve Buildings： 26.2Km2 Demolish Buildings：10.6Km2 New Buildings：10.6Km2 Total building area：36.8Km2 Building Percentage：0.68
Route Analysis
Section Plan
City Beach Entrance
Equipment Facilities
Clinic service
Guangzhou West Pool, one of the three main pools in the city was founded in 1930. After 80 years, it is still a very popular pool in the city. However, its aging facilities and low capacity limit the the amount of visitors and the quality of pool services. Therefore, in year 2012, Guangzhou Urban Plan & Design Survery Reasearch Inst decided to promote the west city pool to a highlyqualified city beach including one beach pool, one standard pool, one floating Pool and a Cruise bay of the Pearl River Cruise.
Wharf Entrance
Dress Room
Reserve Housing
Feature Corridor Beach Volleyball Cruise Service Center
Standard Pool
City Beach
Wooden Paths Front Bank
Cruise Bay
Floating Pool
Function Analysis
Assort Services
Pool Services
Rendering Image
Bay Services
1 WEST CITY BEACH
WEST CITY BEACH Corridor Plan
Feature Architectual Corridor One of the Feature design of the West City Beach Plan is the feature corridor connecting the assort facilities and the pools. The whole corridor is consist of modules imitating the shape of a flower. This corridor feature the famous local industry in the guangzhou area, which is weaving canes and grasses and the special subtropical plant called Banana Leaf grown only in the south China area. The design appreciates the localization of Guangzhou area. Furthermore, the structure is using steel flat rack as its support system.
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Rendering Image
2 WEST CITY BEACH
OPERA MUSEUM
Site Plan
Canton Opera’s Holly Land Guangzhou is the birth place of the Cantonese opera. This kind of opera has developed oven several centuries and now has become one of the main kink in China. Cantonese Opera has very rich characteristics that it represents the cantonese culture in the area. It is necessary to build a freatured and high class opera museum to strengthen the knowledge of cantonese culture and the communitcation with other cultures in the world. Therefore, Guangzhou Urban Plan & Design Survey Research Inst. is deciding to build an Cnatonese Oprea Museum on Enning Road in year 2012.
Basement
Basement
First Floor
Second and Third Floor
First Floor
Second and Floor
Final Proposed Image
3 OPERA MUSEUM
Pleasant Ridge A Stronger Business Trianle
First Phase
Site Plan
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1.Demolished building with green roof 2.Mixed-use building 3.Mixed-use building with green roof 4.water feature 5.Sitting area 6.Wooden ground cover for people to sit during winter time 7.Big shopping mall 8.Rise-uped building 9.New right-turn lane 10.Parking garage with green roof 11.Vegetation 12.Green Space
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Section Plan
- Create more greenery pavement in the triangle to be more inviting. - Increase sitting areas and main attraction within the triangle. - Improve the building shape to be more environmental-friendly - Create driveway entrance into the triangle from Ridge to Parkview. - Create more wooden pavement to tmprove the winter image. - Create mixed-use buildings to increase the density of the triangle. - Right-turn lane.
Second Phase
Rendering Images
-Mixed-use parking garage structure with first floor commercial uses and upper three floors garage use. - Replace the existing parking lot. - Provide more visible parking spaces for vistors. - Create a new landmark building structure in Pleasant Ridge.
Section Plan
4 Pleasant Ridge
Devou Park
Final Master Plan
Park---> Mixed Income Community Devou Park is heavily vegetated and has a lot of greenery, especially on the west side. It also has a lot of steep slopes that can be hardly built on. Most of the potential sites for development will be on the east side. In order to develope mixed-income housing for the park, the Devou Park project team decided to: 1 Streets of Mixed Apartments as connection through the park 2 Spread Out different types of housing development patterns around the main attraction: Prisoner’s Lake 3 View Oriented Development Patterns and floow the topography
Devou Park Topography
Large Fmaily Housing
Riverfront
Small Family Housing
Render Image
5 Devou Park
Gallery A growing Process
Original
Perspective Drawing
Improvement Site Plan
Hand Rendered
6 Gallery
Roles in the presented projects: West City Beach: Memeber of Lizhiwan Project team Opera Museum: Member of Lizhiwan Project team Pleasant Ridge: Grouped with Haoyu Li and Yuchen Ma Devou Park: Grouped with Yue Yan