LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO (2017-2020) - by Jiacheng Sebastian Jin

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

JIACHENG SEBASTIAN JIN Landscape Designer Film Production Designer Washington University in St. Louis, Master of Landscape Architecture, Master of Urban Design, 2021 Fu Jen Catholic University, Bachelor of Landscape Architecture, 2017

01 Pharmacopeia of Land

Reconnecting Land with People: Ethnobotanical Medicinal Plant Farm + Research Landscape

Green New Deal Super Studio (Fall, 2020) (Individual Work)

02 The VIZ

Landscape Design for Ivory Perry Park, St. Louis, Missouri ANOVA Competition 2017 First Prize (Fall, 2017) (Teamwork with Shuying Wu & Rory Thibault)

03 Co-Living City

Urban Design with Transit Oriented Development and Green Connection for Chicago in 2100 (Individual Work)

04 Impossible Siren

Multi-functional Emergency & Crisis Response Infrastructure Design Prototypes (Individual Work)

05 Urban Agricultural Park

Frew Park, Rosalie, Brisbane, Australia Community Park for Urban Agriculture and Flood Management (Teamwork with May Xue)

06 Thawing Alaska

Landscape Design & Management of Thawing Permafrost in Utqiagvik, Alaska (Teamwork with May Xue)

Pharmacopeia of Land Reconnecting Land with People: Ethnobotanical Medicinal Plant Farm + Research Landscape Green New Deal Superstudio (Individual Work) Since ancient times, people have lived on the land and taken gifts without asking from nature. Human beings have a strong and indivisible connection with the land. The project Pharmacopeia of Landis a poetic narration about people and nature, local culture, and history.

This project, inspired by the life, culture, and history of Native American and coal mine workers living on this land, transforms this 120-acre former strip mine into an ethnobotany based medicinal plant farm and re-search landscape. Unlike traditional agriculture, I brought techniques of agroforestry and wetland agriculture into the project. I divided the land into different areas according to the characteristics of the natural environ-ment; then, I arranged diverse medicinal plants which are suitable for growing in different areas. These plants have rich medicinal value with cultural and historical ties with different races and ethnicities, including Native Americans. European settler, African American, Latino and Asian. I have also brought into this project a particular focus on the medicinal plants used to treat respiratory diseases related to the former coal miners and the current COVID-19 pandemic.

With this design, I hope to make people have a comprehensive understanding of the stories on this land, reawaken their memories and senses belong to the land, and inherit the precious spiritual and cultural wealth of different races and ethnicities. This project will also serve as eco-friendly agriculture and research enterprise under the Green New Deal policy and provide reference for the transformation of other abandoned mines. (Fall, 2020)

DESIGN THINKING PAST - PRESENT - FUTURE IN CULTURE & HISTORY

section of coal mining

section of hunting

section of crafting

section of history & future

section of design concept with different races & ethnicities

master plan

DETAIL DESIGN with Section & Perspective

I would like to integrate the educational display of medicinal plants into the landscape design. In the greenhouse, I selected some non-native medicinal plants to provide a more suitable environment for them to grow.

I chose a lot of aquatic plants and plants that thrive in moist environments. All of these plants also have medicinal properties. The medicinal value is related to different ethnic cultures and historical backgrounds. These different plants create a rich and unique landscape.

The VIZ Landscape Design for Ivory Perry Park, St. Louis, Missouri ANOVA Competition 2017 First Prize (Teamwork with Shuying Wu & Rory Thibault) Ivory Perry Park is in a socio-politically sensitive neighborhood. Among other things, what is needed here is a landscape that stitches community, memory, and future together. By slightly massaging the topography, significant changes could arise. For example, minor manipulations of the ground plane could cause people to walk slower or faster, questioning the meaning of ‘WALK’, or ‘RUN’, and focusing more on the landscape around them. With the introduction of multi-functional furniture, with mirrors on the joints, cooperation is required. Here, Ivory Perry Park is the stage upon which human inspection and projection may occur. (Fall, 2017)

connection map

community activity and proposed relocation

vegetation

the way to memorial (by Shuying Wu)

master plan (by Shuying Wu)

model of street furniture (by Rory Thibault)

section (by Shuying Wu)

Co-Living City Urban Design with Transit Oriented Development and Green Connection for Chicago in 2100 (Individual Work) In 2100, Chicago will become a co-living city. All residents will live in a more sustainable and livable urban area with a good ecological environment. It could be considered as a co-living system of human beings, animals, and plants in the city, which also provide sufficient natural resources for people in Chicago and other cities in the Great Lake Region.

The district I choose is in the north part of Chicago City. The further north is Calcary Catholic Cemetery in Evanston. Most buildings here are residential buildings, with relatively high vegetation coverage and many public parks. I hope to make use of its advantages and follow four design principles to create an excellent co-living area as for the first pilot in Chicago.

In this project, I would like to follow the principles of transit-oriented development and urban design, create well-developed green corridor and natural resources network in the city, transform the existing water edges to resilient and ecological lake shore. There will also be urban ecology and urban agriculture in which humans, animals and plants co-exist. (Spring, 2020)

DESIGN PRINCIPLE

STRATEGY DIAGRAM

transportation

green public space

residential areas

MASTER PLAN

section perspective of sand dune

perspective of pedestrian-friendly street

section A-A’

section B-B’

section of the whole district

Impossible Siren Multi-functional Emergency & Crisis Response Infrastructure Design Prototypes (Individual Work) One of the most important concepts and ideas of IMPOSSIBLE FOOD is to protect the environment and save the planet. In urban areas, we must focus more on sustainable urban development and urban resilience. There are many uncertainties in the future. Human beings are facing more and more challenges and risks in different areas. We need to seriously consider disaster and crisis response plans and strategies design several ‘plug-in boxes’ for different disaster functions, and then use the existing White Castle chain store to add parcel to the building and surrounding environment to form a complete emergency response system in St. Louis City, and to other areas all around the world. (Fall, 2019)

DESIGN PROTOTYPE A

DESIGN PROTOTYPE B

# violence # homeless people # community safety # chronic disease # ecosystem

# flooding # tornado # traffic safety # ecosystem

DESIGN PROTOTYPE C

PERSPECTIVE

# traffic safety # community safety # food/seed storage

EMERGENCY BOX

Urban Agricultural Park Frew Park, Rosalie, Brisbane, Australia Community Park for Urban Agriculture and Flood Management (Teamwork with May Xue) Frew Park is in Rosalie, Brisbane, Australia. The location is in the middle catchment and low-lying area. The park often suffers from severe flooding during rainy seasons or heavy rains. We would like to turn the disadvantage of the terrain into the advantage of the terrain. The park is ideal for urban agriculture because of the accumulation of rain and groundwater. At the same time, we would like to preserve the original public space and provide a variety of activities for the residents of the surrounding neighborhood.

From a neighborhood point of view, we also want the park to be more functional. We hope to collect and reuse grey water under the ground of the park. The collected grey water could be used for irrigation of agriculture and landscape plants. (Summer, 2020)

SITE LOCATION

SYSTEM DIAGRAM

FREW PARK

MASTER PLAN (by May Xue)

DETAIL DESIGN

(by May Xue & Jiacheng Jin)

SEASONAL VEGETABLE

SECTION (by May Xue)

SEASONAL LANDSCAPE

@ RETAINNING WALL

Thawing Alaska Landscape Design & Management for Thawing Permafrost in Utqiagvik, Alaska (Teamwork with May Xue) Alaska is experiencing serious permafrost thawing. As permafrost thaws, houses, roads, airports, and other infrastructure built on top of it will crack and even collapse. Similarly, infrastructure built underground, such as utilities, is being affected by rising temperatures. Besides, the thawing of permafrost will lead to the spread of more greenhouse gases, aggravating the global greenhouse effect. (Goudarzi, 2017) Therefore, we need to take effective measures as soon as possible to slow or even suspend the thawing of permafrost.

We are going to take two different approaches. First, we will use native herbivores in Alaska to slow and consistently mitigate permafrost thawing, based on an article on Scientific Reports (Beer, C., Zimov, N., Olofsson, J. et al., 2020) In this article, the authors tell us that the density of snow will increase due to the trampling of animals. Tighter snow cover could reduce heat loss from the soil. The rate of thawing permafrost could be slowed. Therefore, we will conduct landscape design and rotation management in less populated areas. We would like to select local plants that could attract more herbivores and plant and manage them in different areas to attract herbivores to live in different areas, thus achieving the desired objectives. Second, we will use thermosyphons heat pipes to relieve the pressure of permafrost melting in areas where there are lots of houses. The pipes could absorb heat from the soil and then be used as an adjuvant to heating a house.

We use the form of a graphic novel to describe the crisis of permafrost thawing, where governments, residents and scientists sit together to discuss solutions and future directions. We hope that we could improve the problem of permafrost thawing with this relatively softer and long-term solution.

Reference: Beer, C., Zimov, N., Olofsson, J. et al. Protection of Permafrost Soils from Thawing by Increasing Herbivore Density. Sci Rep 10, 4170 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-60938-y Goudarzi, Sara. The Great Thaw of America’s North is Coming. (2017). https://www.bbc.com/future/ article/20171016-the-great-thaw-of-americas-north-is-coming (Summer, 2020)

(by May Xue)

Landscape Rotation & Animal Migration

(by Jiacheng Jin)

(by Jiacheng Jin)

(by May Xue & Jiacheng Jin)

(by Jiacheng Jin)

(by May Xue & Jiacheng Jin)