2017 ILASLA Student Honor Award
2017 Fall, Independent Study
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PARAMETRIC SURFACE DESIGN STRATEGY
2016 Spring, Studio Collaboration Project
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JUST ADD WATER
2017 Fall, Individual Studio Project
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RESILIENT MESH
2017 Fall, Individual Studio Project
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SIMULATING RIVER DYNAMICS WITH ALGORITHMS
2017 Spring, Studio Collaboration Project
MIGRATION FARM
Studio Project Independent Study
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Modeling, Drawing
EPA CAMPUS RAINWORKS CHALLENGE
ULI HINES COMPETITION
2014 EPA Campus RainWorks Challenge 2nd prize 2015 ASLA STUDENT COLLABORATION Honor Award
VILLE VERT
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REVERSE ENGINEERING
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Animation
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MICS GALLERY
Competition Teamwork
Resilient Mesh
https://youtu.be/0qAl1-1uZ_A
CNC Model Projection https://youtu.be/2oJAar72Bp4
QIRAN ZHANG Phone : 217-9793169 E-mail: humerkzqr@gmail.com
EDUCATION Landscape Architecture, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Master Industrial Design, Beihang University, Bachelor
08/2014 - 05/2017 08/2009 - 07/2013
EXPERIENCE Research Assistantship
Research about permeable soil and impervious surface of Chicago area with Mary Pat McGuire
Turenscape Beijing Intern Junior Designer
Robotics Institute of Beihang University Beijing China Intern Product Design Team Member Designing underwater robot for nuclear station
China Red Cross Sichuan China
Volunteer for teaching in a rebuilt middle school which is destroyed in Wenchuan Earthquake.
06/2016 - 05/2017
06/2015 - 08/2015
05/2012 - 07/2012
06/2008 - 09/2008
HONORS AND AWARDS: 2017 ILASLA Student Honor Award, “Migration Farm”
2017
2015 ASLA Student Collaboration Honor Award, “Reverse Engineering”
2016
2014 EPA Campus Rainworks Design Challenge Second Place
2015
Basketball League Championship of School of Mechanical and Automation.
2014
Second Prize of the fifth Car Design Competition of auto.china.com
2014
SKILLS 3D Modeling and Rendering: Auto CAD, Sketchup, Rhinoceros (with plug-ins T-splines and Grasshopper) 3dsmax, Vray, Maxwell Rendering, Lumion, Photoshop, ProE Graphic Design: Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign Video : Adobe Aftereffect, Premiere Others: ArcGIS, Adobe Dreamweaver, Windows Office
MIGRATION FARM
Collaboration Project: Meng Shui, Linzhu
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Migration Farm System
2016 Natural Disaster in Midwest Flooding Tornado Start Tornado End
Crops Growing Zone Through Months
In 2011, there was 20 percent of agriculture production lost due to the natural disasters. Capricious climate with fickle weather and catastrophic natural events lying in our future is challenging human’s arrogance of taming nature’s uncertainty. Not if we uproot the farm, let it adapt the changing climate, design it with the ability to relocate for desirable growing conditions and avoiding disaster, by giving it the ability to migrate. At the same time, with the upgrading of the existing logistics system in future, it is very suitable to utilize the railway as to propose this “farm on rail” infrastructure system, which maximize the production by moving farms to best temperature zone and avoid extreme weather condition at the same time.
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Rail Transformation Typology
Food Hub/ Primary Farm
Refuge/ Secondary Farm
Transports crops in rail yard, storages crops in warehouse, provides open-air market for the community, connecting to retail center
Transports cargo in rail yard, and provides cargo for retail offices.
Food Hub/ Primary Farm
Refuge/ Secondary Farm
Rail Residence
Functions as temporary rental function area
Rail Residence
Rail Stock Farm
Transports stock and provides temporary resting location, Also collect the animal waster as fertilizer
Rail Stock Farm
Disaster Condition
Disaster-free Condition
In order to establish a strict and functional system mechanism, it is always good to start with one species as a case study. We look at the suitable condition for onions. They will be transported to the primary farm where are in the suitable temperature zone to grow, which is a large north-south movement. At the same time, if t a disaster happens nearby, the migration farm will be moved to the nearby secondary farm yard, which functions as the refuge location.
Transports food in rail yard, storages cargo in warehouse, and provides cargo for retail center
Store cargo and food which escape from disaster area
All the living unit will move to disaster-free location, provide residence refuge for disasters
Not in use until disaster pass
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Hexagon Frame
Mileage Density
Classification
Primary Farm/ Food Hub
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With plenty of rails and intersection, these yard will be transformed into primary farm, function as major migration farm growing location and local food market
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Refuge of Rail Farm
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The location of the migration farm is evaluated by the rail way density. First step is to divide the area into 5-mile hexagon, Then culling out the area of high population density such as Chicago, which could avoid overdeveloped urban area. The final step is to calculate the mileage within each hexagon to create a hierarchical classification to distinguish the locations for primary farm and the refuge
Non-disaster Migration
Disaster-avoiding Migration
From primary to primary, for the best farming condition and marketing demands
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With less rails and intersections, rail yard at these location will be partially transformed. Major part of these secondary farms will still severe for logistics, only functions as refuge when disaster happens to other farms.
To nearby primary or secondary farm Primary Farm Occupied
Primary Farm Occupied
Refuge of Rial Farm Unoccupied
Refuge of Rial Farm Occupied
Rail Residence Unoccupied
Rail Residence Occupied
Rail + Farm
In hub of rail farm on non-disaster condition, cultivate crops are cultivated on train. Old facilities such as cranes are transformed into irrigation implements. Spare irrigation water goes through railway track gravel, being collected for irrigation system.
Rail + New Residence
In case of disastrous natural events such as flooding and tornado, rail residence provides mobile human settlement for those live in disastrous areas. New rail neighborhood are strategically located close to existing neighborhood, and be harmonious the natural ecological environment with over time.
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Migration Farm + Residence at Joliet
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A: Migration Farm Residence Located at a suburban area, transformed from existing rail yard as phase II proposal after the primary migration farm
B: Primary Migration Farm Located at a BNSF logistics center, with tons of logistic infrastructure, it could be easily established as a primary migration farm.
C: Rail Stock Farm Located at outskirt area of Joliet City, taking advantages of water and prairie recourses, used for stock industrial
Joliet, Illinois, is a typical site as a primary farm site, because of its idea suburban location to big city and abundant railway and logistics resources as well
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SIMULATING RIVER DYNAMICS WITH ALGORIT
Animation https://yo
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THMS
The Missouri River Between Nebraska and Missouri
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RESILIENT MESH Landscape Toolkit for the Upper Mississippi River The Mississippi river watershed is the largest drainage system on the North American continent. We are manipulating the river with various interventions for agriculture and navigation benefits. While this did create major economic value, the impacts and side effects are also becoming more and more serious, causing disturbance on environment and loss of wildlife habitat, let alone the fact we are still suffer from the flood. So this project is to envision the upper Mississippi River floodplain as a resilient network with more harmony and a balanced approach. The Specific goal of this landscape strategy is to relieve flood and ecology problems in the upper Mississippi River flood plain. To achieve this, a landscape toolkit will be implement, which contains a series of resilient components to solve different problems, meanwhile they are also connected as a resilient system. The very essential idea about this resilience is the “half man-built and half natural development� concept. In a word, after the preliminary setups, these interventions will be shaped and morphed by nature consistently..
Strategy Human Setup Stage
Natural Development Stage
Location Landscape Toolkit Component
Connecting & Morphing
Configuration
Toolkit Component Wetland
River Dynamics Simulation
Bio-Canal
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Levee Notching
Resilient Mesh
Wetland
Swamp: Away from the river
Cattail
Reed
Sedges
Bald Cypress
Location : Major tributary charging inlets or convergence points of major tributaries Size: Fluctuates to the stream volume
Marsh: Close to the river
American Elm
Goal: Provide long term wildlife habitat and conservation Improve water quality Red-osier Dogwood
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River Simulation
Levee Notching
Add flood gates, in pairs, or more than two Using parametric tools to predict the most flood vulnerable areas by simulating river dynamics. On the other hand, these area are also more efficient to absorb the flood
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Notching happens at the conflict location between simulation results and existing levees Relieve Flood at multiple locations
Notching the levee will help relieve flooding in multiple locations, instead of letting single levees breach passively Notches comes in pairs, allowing flood to flush in and release out
Resilient Buffer Mesh
Normal
Marsh
Rice farm
Soybean/corn
Flooding
The resilient buffer mesh is a floodable area subdivided into cells with smaller levees, which serve as sponges in soaking the water. With this new type of zone along the river, landowners are able to have new types of agriculture, such as rice farming in the wet cells. Other cells are able to be shaped by the natural environment, becoming marshes or swamps. When flooding comes, the mesh system can relieve the water and reduce the agricultural losses. This dynamic system has the ability to contain multiple programming and can be expanded or reduced depending on the conditions.
Floodable Marsh/Swamp Location : Big conflict area of flow simulation and existing levee Size: Degree of the conflict Programming needs Goal: Relieve Flood Multi programming, determined by nature Temporary habitat
Rice Farm
Corn/Soybean
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Resilient Buffer Mesh
Cell Pattern: voronoi polygons The distances from edge of each cell to its center are the same, thus providing better exchanges between cells and better edge condition for wildlife
The Resilient Buffer Mesh will soak and relieve the flooding, functioning as sponge
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Bio-Canal
Proximity & Locating Location : Connecting habitats which are too far (8500m)away’ the intersection of barrier and corridor Size: Response to the connecting patch size Goal: Provide wildlife migration corridor Help discharge & recharge Improve organic matter exchange
Interconnections between existing easement area and proposed mesh area
Barrier: Disturb animal migration,organic mass exchange Block discharging and Recharging
Bio-Canal will be installed to bridge nearby patch groups defined by proximity
Wildlife Migration: Daily moving distance (meters)
Major Road Proximity Connection Bio-Canal Bio-Canal Tunnel
Tunnel configuration will be installed at the intersection of major roads and connection paths
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Seasonality With constructed dunes and ditches, the Bio-Canal could have more micro environment diversity for different wildlife to migrate. Furthermore, the natural force will consistently reshape and stabilize the Bio-Canal
Dry
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Dry
After Flooding
Wet
Normal
Normal
Vegetation Stabilized
Vegetation
Bio- Canal
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Chicago Flooding
Chicago Surface Imperviousness
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Mana Contemporary Chicago
Site Inventory: Lines and Puddles
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Life of the New Surface
Infiltration of the Surface
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Weather Scenario
Scenario : Spring, Morning, After Rain Following a morning spring rain, the sun is coming out. The wavering lines are transforming into water dots,and gradually, leaves an embossment on the ground
Scenario : Summer, Heavy Rain
Following a heavy summer downpour, the role of water is the thread, sewing function and activity together
Scenario : Deep Fall, Snow When the site is observed from above in the MANA building, one can see, at this scale, the topographic surface expressed by a blanket of snow, emphasizing the pattern , altered by varying degrees of wind and sun -driven evaporation
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Configuration
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Vertical Flow
Water Infiltration During the rain, water is infiltrated into soil through paver joint as wall as slot drainage, which allows soil to absorb air and water
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Model & Mock-up
Thermal Convection When the temperature falls down, holes on the paver and paver joints allow heat to transfer to the deep ground, improving thermal exchanges
Shine
Rain
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PARAMETRIC SURFACE DESIGN STRATEGY Modern metropolis has been constructed into a multi-function complexity with various of engineering and construction. With all those new material such as asphalt and concrete, the city its self is becoming a huge impermeable surface. In order to depave this massive imperviousness, this research is exploring the under This is the independent study associated with the Depaving Chicago Research. After the mapping stage, which helps to locate multiple locations for depaving, this independent study shows a experimental design strategy using parametric approach to control the design result via multiple influential factors.
Test Site: Martin Luther King Drive & Garfield
There are multiple ways to do a new surface design. For the following design process, I would use this slab paver as module, controlling the degree of perviousness of the site by changing the permeable portion of the slab.
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Soil The soil information reference from three ISGS map Stacks-Unit Map : Surveyed by Illinois USGS. It is a mapping of geologic materials to a depth of 15 meters. It shows the distribution of earth materials vertically from the surface to a specified depth and horizontally over a specified area. They also show succession of geologic units in order of occurrence. Bretz Map : Geological quadrangle map, surveyed by J. Harlen Bretz. It records very detailed information about the Michigan Lake glacier retreat area and the deposit soils conditions. It is more reliable than Stack-Unit Map TWI map(“Topographic Wetness Index” credit from ISGS), a gradient map which derived from topographic data, indicating the possibility of flooding occurrence.
Sun Shade By inputting date and time, the sun ray direction and solar energy could be projected and calculated by every grid on the site, and the permeable portion will be remap from 0 % to 100 % ( All the data is specific for Chicago area)
The strategy is area with lower temperature, will have more portion of permeable on single unit, for people to lingering and staying
Surrounding Runoff Even though Urban drainage construction is often built along the buildings or impervious surface, it could not always deal with all the runoffs produced by these impermeable surface. So the distribution and density of the surrounding impervious surface would be another crucial factor to effect the site performance. To estimate the influence of the surrounding runoffs, I defined the number of “Area/Distance to site” as every building’s “runoff index” ,which could determine the permeability of the site
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Permeable Soil
The essential Idea is to create a gradient of permeability through the site: The high TWI area would be tree planting, which makes the soil exposed; The Bertz area will be considered as secondary permeable area; The stack units area will be the least permeable area
TWI Strength
Capacity
Spring
Summer
The high TWI value area will be totally depaved for tree plating
The area the site could drain com precipitation (Transition Strength = 2, TWI Str
Sunshade The temperature is the 2nd major aspect of the influence, specifically, the shelter, canopy, and the season. By using environment analysis software to evaluate the site under the sunshine exposure.
Surrounding Runoff Considering the general Chicago area is a relatively flat area. So without sloping, the site is assumed to deal with a radius range of building runoffs. It is a synthetic result of the distribution of surrounding buildings. They key parameter is the sum-up value of “run off index� in each direction, which will be reflected on the permeable paving pattern.
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Range : 0.5 mile
Range : 1.0 mile
mpared to the size of itself given certain amount of
rength = 2, Precipitation = 2.2 ,04/30/2017)
Transition Strength
Precipitation
Fall
Winter
The transition area from medium-permeable soil (Stack Unit Area) to the high-permeable soil (Bretz Area)
Range : 1.5 mile
How much water the proposal could drain within 24 hours (Transition Strength = 2, TWI Strength = 2, Capacity = 1500% )
Range : 2.0 mile
Integration By assigning different weights to different aspects of parameters. The integrated result will be a weighted synthesis of different result, reflecting different design concerns and emphasis.
Soil weight : 1
TWI Strength: 1 Transition Strength: 2 Capacity: 1500% Precipitation: 1.7
Sun Shade weight : 3 Season: Winter
Runoff weight : 4 Range: 1.5 mile
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Section
Trees are planted at the high flooding frequency locations
Different openness of the slab paving, filled with aggregates for plants growing and water infiltration
The permeable portion and the joint will help water infiltrated into soil
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REVERSE ENGINEERING
Reconfiguring the Creek-Campus Interface
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Civil Engineering: Elizabeth Barr, Landscape Architecture: Samantha Shui, Pongsakorn Suppakittpaisarn, John Whalen, Shurui Zhang, Qiran Zh Agriculture: Sarah GraJdura ; Environmental Hydrology :Tianyu He, Fernanda Maciel , Architecture: Meri Mensa . Instructor: Tawab Hlimi
hang ; Xinnan Jiang, Min Kang,
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VILLE VERT
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Landscape Architecture: Qiran Zhang, Meng Shui Architecture: Jezabel Cardenas, Moze Wang Economics: Zoey Zou Instructor: Kevin Hinders
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MISCS GALLERY Living Bridge
Public Sculpture/ 3D Printing Model
2015 Fall Studio Work The living bridge, a series hexagon plants container, works as the local micro climate indicator. The hexagon planter compose the facade of the footbridge, opening at different degree by the growth of plants, which indicates the micro environment differentiation
Undergraduate Industrial Design Work A public plaza sculpture design, modeled by 3Ds max, rhino. 3D, printed by resin 3D printer.
Box Unit Lasso Plants
Soil
Parametric model
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Sports Car Design
Minimum Surface Structure Taichung Metropolitan Opera House Toyo Ito
Undergraduate Industrial Design Work
Architecture Model
Dortoir Familial NADAAA
CNC Milling
MAX IV Landscape Snøhetta
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