SI CHEN 陈 思 Landscape Architecture Portfolio 2017-2018 Negotiating Boundaries 作 品 集
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Si and the Boundaries The cover of this portfolio is a roll shaped in my name, Si. On the roll are the three fundamental element of landscape architecture: sky(blue), land(green) and people. This portfolio is an exploration, evolution and explaination of myself as an agent to negotiate the boundaries between the sky, the land and the people.
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PROJECTS 04
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COMPLEMENTARY DUALITIES
innovative learning environment
2018.08.03-2018.09.30 JC Harmon High School,KS
interior & exterior relationships
GROSVENOR SQUARE A GO-GO
public square
2018.10.18-2018.10.28 Mayfair, London
urban experience
NEGOTIATING BOUNDARIES
industrial heritage
2018.06.01-2018.07.10 Coralville, IA
hybrid urbanization
EAT SLOW !
green infrastructure
2017.08.30-2017.11.30 Riley County, KS
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OTHERS
3d modeling, animation
illustration
master planning
slow food planting design construction documentation
Hand Drawing
2018.01.01-2018.10.10 Multiple Locations
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Project 1 | Complementary Dualities
EXISTING CONDITIONS:
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PROPOSED CONDITIONS:
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COMPLEMENTARY DUALITIES
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The existing site condition is student dispatching to activities off-site. The design intents to relate and connect landscape and architecture, link and privatize various programs in architecture
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and adjacent landscape. Working with an arch student, we: 1. Creating different levels of privacy. 2. Increasing the linkage. 3. Regenerating the living network on the land.
JC Harmon High School
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ROPOSED CONDITIONS:
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Project 1 | Complementary Dualities
Complementary Plan 0’
500’
1000’
The concept of complementary dualities is to complete the landscape and architecture as one life. The landscape generates a series of “green belts” that “link” the two building blocks. These green belts functions as lookout
point, edge plaza, board walks, outdoor classrooms and circulation corridors. A sequence of spatial rhythm is designed around feature programs to slow down the travelling speed and amplifyies the outdoor to indoor experience.
Legend: 1. Skywalk 2. Service 3. Seasonal Wetland 4. Board Walk 5. Rain Garden
6. Terraced Garden 7. Community Garden 8. Community Farmland 9. Water Playground 10. Rock Garden
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Complement Scenarios:
I. Interior Program Extension
II. Fast Circulation
V. Open Space for Multi-Groups Activities
IV. A Walk to Nature
I. Interior Program Extension
III. Slow Circulation
V. Open Space for Multi-Groups Activities
II. Fast Circulation
IV. A Walk to Nature
VI. Outdoor Class/Biological Program
III. Slow Circulation
VI. Outdoor Class/Biological Program
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Project 1 | Complementary Dualities
Plan
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Project 1 | Complementary Dualities
Both interior perspectives were developed and modified by author, initially rendered by Yingyi Zhong. 10
SCAN FOR ANIMATION
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Project 2 | Grosvenor Square A Go-Go
GROSVENOR SQUARE A GO-GO This project re-draws the old Grosvenor Square in the middle of Mayfair, London. The square serves as the city’s centerpiece, with a vendor area, lush lawn, tree groves, and fountains which converts into an ice skating ring in winter. The design of programs was adapted from “Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs”.
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The diagram on the left explains the different layers of programs on the square. By enhancing the people’s needs, the new Grosvenor Square showcases Mayfair’s artful, cultural and civic landscape. More importantly, it sustains diverse social and economic activities.
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Project 2 | Grosvenor Square A Go-Go
Play
Commute
Seating
Vendor Street Parking
Admin
Vitural Reality Speech
Chance
Charging
Bike Parking
Eating
Resting
Meeting
Grosvenor Sqaure Green Grid The original grid layout of Grosvenor Square is rigid and flat. The design proposes to introduce new fluidity into the original grid by adding and mixing layers of hierarchy, layers of horizons, and layers of canopy. By analyzing the existing human flows, the design invents new
geometry to define the circulation hierarchy, and to re-direct commuters’ mundane routines with multi-modal mobility options. The new geometry is amplified with canopys and various elevations to create rich users experience. Section A-A
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Site Plan
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Project 2 | Grosvenor Square A Go-Go
Play
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Commute
Seating
Vendor Street Parking
Admin
Vitural Reality Speech
Chance
Charging
Bike Parking
Eating
Resting
Meeting
The Go-Goers Grosvenor square is proposed as a default location for public concerts, balls, events and “happenings.” It becames whatever anyone wanted it to be—a personal canvas for self-expression. It revivals Londoners’ love for beautiful public art and architecture.
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Project 3 | Negotiating Boundaries
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Green Space 27%
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1. Platform 2. Crossover 3. Permeable Edge
NEGOTIATING BOUNDARIES The existing boundaries are often barriers that separate the site into an internal and external parts; they reduce physical connectivity between parts and they disconnect functions. Working with ‘found objects’, the proposal grounds the design in its place, strengthening identity and connectivity.
Working with ‘found objects’, the proposal grounds the design in its place, strengthening identity and connectivity. Re-imaging the areas next to these boundaries with very specific programmatic typologies that resolve the ecological and social concerns. 19
Project 3 | Negotiating Boundaries
NEGOTIATION
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Figure 1.2
Concrete and asphalt occupy most of the SE Commercial District.
Figure 2.1 Transmission Pole
Figure 2.2
e Croten-steel is found in the rail line and the transmission poles, bricks are common architectural material
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Figure 3.1 Limestone is a local material yet not extensively used.
Figure 4.1 attractive
Figure 4.2
Natural fabric is ranked after concrete and asphalt; valuable but not widely used.
Material Making Recycle and selectively reuse possible material to shape city identity
Culture Making
Represent Coralville’s industrial past through metallic plaza, re-using scrap steel to preserve valuable local history
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ture Making Project 3 | Negotiating Boundaries
Typology
Strategy
Applied Strategy Workplace Retails Restaurants Public Amenity Staying
Platform
Pressing
Areas along the waterfront
Reduce building height for waterfront
with both visual and physical
retails and restaurants to allow
accessibility.
resident’s visual access.
Densifying
Permeable Edge Street-front along the 2nd street.
Increase diversity and intensity along
Platform
Permeable Edge
the street-front with smaller mixed-use “blocks”.
Crossover Crossover Intersection between 1st Avenue
Increase building heights and add
and 2nd Street with highest
various active program layers.
circulation. The city’s target area for commercial development.
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Topping
Soft Boundary:
Mixed-use Building Morphology Residential Hotel Light Industry Civic/Cultural Facility Service Retail Restaurant Parking Work Place Food Retail
GROUND-LEVEL RETAIL 42% of the office building includes ground-level retail along 65% of their street facades
MIXED-USE DISTRICT
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8+ Diverse uses with
350 feet walking distance from dwelling units 24/7
Hard Boundary:
Overlaping Mobility Loops and Green Space
GREEN CORRIDOR
<20 FEET
Trees at intervals of 45 feet along more than both sides of street to secure health growth and provide climate control
Traffic Calming
< 25 MPH
Plaza/Civic Space Urban Green Space Parks Iconic Landmark Iconic Landmark
25 MPH for residential areas, 30 MPH to 40MPH for major industry and non-residential areas within the neighborhood; newly added cross-walk for pedestrian convenience.
Public Transit Signaled Crosswalk Green Streetscape
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Project 3 1 | Negotiating Boundaries
Warping-Up We interpret the study area as a single geographic entity warped and wefted by natural elements and the artificial (history, culture, mobility). The design integrates a new fluidity into the urban loop by stretching and negotiating both the hard and soft â&#x20AC;&#x153;boundariesâ&#x20AC;? of the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s public realm and natural
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landscape; easing the transition between spaces that are previously segregated and even inaccessible. With time, it will attract programs that are now disadvantaged by the disturbed conditions created by existing highway, industrial areas and warehouses (noise, pollution, disconnection, and etc).
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Project 4 | EAT SLOW !
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Project 4 3 | EAT SLOW !
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Project 4 | EAT SLOW !
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Others | Hand Drawing
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