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This portfolio includes two parts implying my design methodology: Sensory and Comprehensive.

Design discipline summarizes information through creative lens. From substantial facts to abstract ideas, I’m always fascinated by the interactions between the Nature and humans. Six years sophisticated design education trains my eyes to observe everything aesthetically. Drawing, diagram and motion define my understandings of the built environment. To depict, to analyze and to situate my feelings into graphics channel a visual representation with others. They also construct preliminary steps for advanced design productions.

Designers talk by stoke and colors. However, creative communication is never limited around drawing boards.

There are two personalities trapped in body. One is silence while the other is utterance. Comprehensive approaches stretch design proposals into life elements.

Dynamics within hands-on construction, research and teaching experience translate abstract plans into nothing but reality. Practical work help me complete a closed design loop.

This portfolio discusses the above topic in details.

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CONTENTS

Sensory I - drawing ILLUSTRATION

Sensory II - diagram REVOLUTION OF THE CITY

Sensory III - motion TAILORING WALLER CREEK

Comprehensive I - building PID

Comprehensive II - research GREEN BOOM Comprehensive III - teaching HUJIANG.COM

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SENSORY

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Sensory I - Drawing

ILLUS TRA TIONS

n my own visual gallery. Distinct from architects, being a landscape s a sharp catch on surrounding environment, including but not limited ight, movement, emotion and history.

uctions is highlighted by its medium. Watercolor and ink convey reprehat forms the core spirits in landscape drawings - emotion and moved communicate beyond any language barriers.

wn viewers, art inspires unexpected thoughts. This input leads to credrawing proceeds. To draw is to learn, for things to be worked out.

art works. They froze time and history into either two or three dimenoth drafter and viewer, memory lasts for the rest of life time like magic ssion for fine arts contribute to a designer’s productivity.

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SENSORY

II

Sensory II - Diagram REVOLUTION OF THE CITY

Among all design tools, diagrams clarify main issues from the context. It seizes causal relationships from abstract standpoints. In this case, I read the town’s growth in three modes - urban, development and rural. Relationships between urban and ecosystem are presented in elements as well as interactions.

Communication through diagrams is clear to understand since they are showed in simple but conclusive structures.

Mixtures of surface and volume, color and shape, height and distance enrich the project with analytical scopes.

With recognizable format, diagrams analyze problems then lead to solutions. Bringing both emphasis and restraints to the public, they assist in searching for appropriate plans. For example, in urban core areas the limitation of space would only allow for linear public space.

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“As one travels west along Lazaro Cardenas Boulevard, there is a clear transition from an urban center, characterized by pavement and people, to the rural outskirts where Salt cedar trees outnumber buildings.

This pattern is mirrored by the Mexican Government’s new city plan, which identifies three stages of growth in cities throughout the country, and provides development subsidies as incentives for each city to fill in the urban core first to avoid patchy sprawl.

In addressing the potential of a Green Corridor along Lazaro Cardenas Boulevard, we considered three systems: people, water, and transportation. The dual complexity of the corridor as a mode of transportation for both people and water was addressed differently, depending upon which growth phase it is located within.”

- Amy Grossman, preliminary research.

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Sitting in the midst of Sonora Desert, the city of Hermosillo drie As a result of which, land covers fail to stop overflowing runoffs panied by rapid urban growth, more and more impervious lands

In our design proposal, the establishment of public space is con in responding with three growing modes. Water catchment solu healing the city’s urban fever. Stepping from runoff collections, areas for surrounding neighborhood to engage with. At the sam active population, the city eventually builds up pedestrian friend an effort to connect with future development strategies.

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es out most of its native species. s during rain seasons. Accoms only worse this situation.

nsidered from different scales, utions rank highest priority in greenery creates recreational me time, with an increase of dly transportation networks, in

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SENSORY

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MAP. CONTEXT.

ller Creek is situated within University of Texas campus at stin. It’s important because the mpus fabric around it is growing an accelerated rate and we only need to catch up with it, design a plan that will accomdate growth. Across campus, rsection nodes are mapped linking other linear elements.

fore on-site design proposals, run several weeks of schematanalysis for preliminary reAT arch.

In three systems: enhancProposed condition the environment, engaging the ek, expand access, we coner environment as first priority. hen layering environmental ments vertically, we brainstorm uilting� to be a conceptual vision move forward in tailoring Waller eek.

s diagram shows a stack of ated elements in Waller Creek osystem. Water functions like a ead stitching layers into a quilt.

OUNDCOVER LAYERS r landscape layers, water goes Proposed condition ough then circulate. Some oth, like roof and impervious land, ter flows by. To reflect a more ural process in ecosystem, we e them volumes. For one hand, eractions and energy flow in the ture are beyond a flat surface. the other, a spatial relationship rifies all information for design nking later on.

Cloud

Trees

Roof

Quilting the Environment Relationship and interactions

TAILORED FOR WALLER CREEK QUILTING THE CREEK ENHANCE THE ENVIRONMENT

Shrubs

Ground Cover

Impervious Area

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Sub-watershed

DIAGRAM

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Sections 1-1 & 2-2 Proposed and Existing The RUG sits next to student dormitory, to the south of 24th.

Bearing an obvious elevation change, now gathering space is distributed into three main steps instead of one centric area. Visitors eyesight gradually reaches out to the creek.

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RUG

PARCEL DESIGN.

THE BEST WAY TO LOOK AT THE HARDENING OF THE GROUND, OR FLATNESS, IS TO TAKE AN UNDEFINED FLOOR AND PUT ON IT. THIS DEFINES THE SPACE ABOVE AND AROUND IN THE MOST MINIMAL WAY.

A PERSIAN CARPET

THE ARABS DO THIS WHEN THEY PUT A CARPET WITH A GARDEN PATTERN ON IT OUT ON THE DESERT.THEY

CARRY THEIR GARDEN WITH THEM.

THE CONTROL IS

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INTERNAL RATHER THAN EXTERNAL.

_ Peter Walker with Cathy Deino Blake [Minimalist Gardens without Walls]

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Sensory III - Motion Campus ground moves quickly. Throughout this studio, motion observation is always part of each coursework.

Waller Creek is one of the corridors for case study, however a bigger picture of educational atmosphere is strengthened again and again in design production.

_TAILORING WALLER CREEK

Perspective - Rainy Day the Social Circle, at the East Mall

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BIOLOGY

water amount

water amount water speed water

GEOLOGY

speed HYDROLOGY

GEOLOGY

HYDROLOGY

BIOLO

BIOLOGY

BIOLOGY BIOLOGY

water amount

bank erosion

water speed

soil quality

GEOLOGY

HYDROLOGY

bank erosion soil quality

HYDROLOGY

HYDROLOGY

GEOLOGY

HYDROLOGY

GEOLOGY

TIM HYDR

BIOLOGY BIOLOGY

BIOLOGY BIOLOGY

bank erosion soil quality

HYDROLOGY

HYDROLOGY

HYDROLOGYGEOLOGY food supply

shelter

TIME

food supply

shelter

GEOLOGY

GEOLOGY HYDROLOGY

GEOLOG

BIOLOGY

HYDROLOGY

food supply

BIOLOGY GEOLOGY shelter

TIME HYDROLOGY

GEOLOGY

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Interviewing w/ Wan

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PID

COMPREHENSIVE

The Public Interest Design (PID) program bridges disciplines to provide the public with architecture that is created by, instead of just for the public. The program challenges students to consider the social and environmental responsibility of all design decisions. PID engages evidence-based design processes, where the needs and aspirations of community partners are translated into responsible design solutions. Students are encouraged to engage directly with the end-users using methods that emphasize community and individual agency.

The summer 2015 studio highlights the PID program as an educational tool, practice, and community resource. As an open-source documentation of the design/build process, this project aims to illustrate how PID practices can empower members of undeserved communities in Austin, Texas to increase agency through design.

In first session, we work closely with the Multicultural Refugee Coalition (MRC) in Austin area, which provides work and life support for foreign individuals from developing countries. The studio went on several field trips as a whole group with interview assignments. Through direct communication, we’re educated by their hope for a more connect Austin life as in their own community.

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In second session, we’re divided into three groups - Frame, Flip and Fill. I was then in charge of designing and building the bench for Team Fill. From interview transcripts, we conclude that refugees would like a multi-functional resting area to spend the day and night. This bench aims to relief some field stress, meanwhile organize their workload.

PROGRAM seat

SEQUENCE Hand down

SEQUENCE Push up

EXPERIENCE lift up

EXPERIENCE pull down

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PROGRAM Storage

SEQUENCE Pull out

EXPERIENCE finish

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PROGRAM Transfer

PROGRAM Bed

SEQUENCE Structure

EXPERIENCE Lean back

PROGRAM Support

SEQUENCE line up

PID EXPERIENCE Hold on

Construction Process

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PID Comprehensive I - Building Last session in PID studio engages with hand-on construction job in the Green Gate Farm for three weeks.

We order timber with government budget. Then we move them to the field to start with. For the first time, we work under the burning heat from a Texan summer.

Designers are now back to their profession, building a project then solving practical issues. Graphics no longer works as we thought it is. Tools are not as handy as they look like. PID extends “design� onto the ground from creative ideas.

Construction knowledge require accurate measurements including nuanced errors, material preparation, hardware implements, structure maintenance, etc.

We modify numerous details to situate this bench in a right position to cooperate with other teammates, Team Frame and Team Flip.

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Work new l us. A are a and s satisf tures friend sonal nary to tra value

king in a farm means a brand life experience for most of After work, animal and plant always a delight to our body soul. It has also been really fying to just review site pics then pick up old memories, dship and education. I perlly think PID is an extraordiand unique design approach ain students of hands, mind, es and attitude.

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As of January 1, 2012, the U.S. Census Bureau estimated the population of the Rio Grande Valley at 1,305,782.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau in 2008, 97 percent of Starr County (Roma, TX) are Hispanic.

- 2012 Census Estimates

- Texas Lower Rio Grande Valley Fact Sheet

LRGV is where four climates (temperate, desert, coastal and sub-tropical) converge. The 365 day growing season has helped create a documented 1,200 plant species. This plant diversity supports a diversity of wildlife that depends on the vegetation that can only be found here in North America.

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oma (Texas, US)

COMPREHENSIVE Comprehensive II - Study Looking forward to a rapid urban development in the upcoming years, the city of Miguel Aleman is waiting for a sustainable proposal to deal with 85% oil industry investments in the Tamaulipas region. This proposal sees water as one of the environmental elements of Lower Rio Grande Valley (LRGV) to start a series of Green Booms and balance the interaction between urban and nature systems.

LRGV represents a unique ecosystem across North America. During chilling seasons, native birds fly through this corridor from upper north to Gulf Coast of Mexico. The river provides thick riparian habitats to endangered species. While the U.S. government has planned out National Wildlife Refugee, the void area in Mexico raises urgent attention.

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II

Riparian Ecosystem shows a

resourceful mode generating frequent stops for native birds when traveling along the boundary.

Bosque Trail is lined by seasonal vege-

tation species from a sensible climate context. It also works as birdwatching trail to attract tourism.

Community Garden bridges eco-

system and urban activities. Local neighborhood engages with natural pleasure, as in citrus orchards.

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In design proposals, we create LRGV habitats along the creek within the city.

However, natural habitat restoration is not our only goal. As of 2010, the population of the city was 19,997. The total population of the surrounding municipality was 27,015. With oil development coming in, tons of new job opportunities would certainly attract new residents.

A environment-friendly neighborhood brings peace and joy to local people, thus human habitat is restored too. Birdwatching, pedestrian walk, soccer playing, etc. give them quality after-work life.

The concept of Transect is applied here to summarize a gradual change between waterfront and the city. Since the 1930s, 95 percent of the native habitat found within the Valley has been cleared for agricultural or urban development.

This development has relegated native plants and animals to remnant tracts, possibly compromising the genetic integrity of many species.

Hoping to connect and protect these isolated tracts of habitat, we implements environmental layers to renew biodiversity. Materials are from local nurseries to construct three section cuts: Riparian ecosystem, Bosque trail and Community garden.

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re’Sacas

_rio seco LOCATION I

Middle-east to urban core

LAND USE I

Park Space

AREA I

2.5 HA

SUPPORTING POPULATION I 4910 residents 2

(5 m green space per person)

Learning from the concept “resacas”, this master plan shows my design strategy as for creek inundation mediations. Two retention ponds are created from natural depressions locating in the middle of oxbow. Open space is divided by winding trails across the neighborhood to connect urban activities with native landscape.

In addition, to reduce overflow risks, residential buildings in flood plains are moved out from this park area. Vacant lands would mainly be covered by riparian species to grow urban habitats.

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Google map view Resacas Resacas refers to the natural consequences due to water’s physical movement along the meandering Lower Rio Grande Valley. Those horse shoe lakes sustain overflowing water from major water channel and recover the riparian ecosystem.

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Dec, 10th. 2016 / 5:33 p.m.

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Q&A / teaching@Hujiang.com

Hi Katrina, my apology for the delay of this week’s assignment.

K

No worries! Any questions for me to help with?

K

Easy girl, take a deep breath. We discussed about your love for cooking in class. Can you tell me some background info?

Thanks for asking. Honestly, I was too stubborn to ask for help. Made many changes to my writing which is still far from satisfaction.

It’s either too narrative or too general. Also not sure about a correct tense. I have no solution at all!

C

ASSIGNMENT

Well I love cooking but I don’t have any qualification. I just served in a restaurant shortly. Also, I don’t know how to describe my personal character.

K

K C

C

Am I supposed to highlight the experience in a coffee shop or other points as required?

K

OK I see. It’s awesome that you once had a waitress job. So what did you learn from that experience?

Meanwhile, could you think of any improvements of that place if you were the owner?

Compared with cooking qualification, your experience is more convincing in this case.

All right now I have some new ideas.

Can’t wait to write them down!

K

Fabulous! Do not try to handle everything in one go. Nothing is perfect in the world.

K

Sweet girl I’ll remember you too. Please keep me updated. Good luck!

Dec, 17th. 2016 / 9:04 p.m.

C

Dear Katrina, I will always remember and love you. :) you are the best teacher for me.

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“The teacher and classmates are brilliant!”

III

- Yeva

- JerryWom

“The class is very INTENSE.”

“Katrina teaches English in a different way. I learn new knowledge, also start new thoughts.

Pretty good, thanks!”

- Raine

- AutumnInBERLIN

“Our teacher is gentle. Her lecture is clear and simple to follow.”

“Nice and patient teacher.”

- Markin 2016

“Another push to make some improvement!”

Students feedback is a critical portion for both evaluating my performance, also adjusting teaching methods. Through continuous communication with fellow students, I’m inspired of strong interpersonal skills to better serve my lovely clients.

Comments

- ammy 2099

- F1601073

“Katrina is a very patient and responsible teacher.”

“Good class, great teacher.

Thank you!”

- Jessie

“I think Katrina is good at encouraging students. She has beautiful accents and can quickly catch the points of my words.

Thanks!”

- Eric

“Her English is so good!”

- Cindy980312

“OPEN YOUR MOUTH!!!!”

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+1 512 940 6198 nellasq@gmail.com

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