Portfolio Senbo Yang by Senbo Yang

CONTENT

1. DEAD & ALIVE Ecological Park Featuring Tree Burial

2. LIGHT & SHADOW Site Investigation and Outdoor Classroom Design

3. COLOR & LIGHT Abandoned Cemetery Renovation

4. WATER & TIME Research project about Landscape Poetic

5. HARD & SOFT Art Museum Design

6. NEW & OLD Traditional Chinese Garden Research and Renovation

7. ACADEMY IN THE PARK Tianjin Academy of Fine Art Campus Design- Internship Project

8. LAKE EFFECT Reviving Cleveland Main Avenue Bridge- Intership Project

9. DONUT HUNT RI Public Art Encouraging Engagement with Public Space

10. FAR & NEAR Public Art Encouraging Interaction with Landmark Building

OTHER WORKS Construction Document Ceramic Artist Book Design

Soil Investigation Begining with understanding what is beneath the ground, we dug into ground to see the composition of soil at different locations on site. The soil horizon models represent the layers of ground as they change from the surface to a depth of 8 feet below this surface.

Sand beach

Wetland

Reed field

Grove

Lawn

STEP 1:

CONCEPT MODEL OF SOIL CONSTRUCTION Develop methods of manipulating paper; Joint the paper structures without glue

STEP 2;

STEP 3;

Observe different soil types;

How the soil is jointed together;

Describe different layers;

How they have an inhrent set

SOIL PROFILE DRAWING

SOIL structure modeling

of material properties that can be used to study the structrual and compositional qualities of materials found in real world; the Soil horizon model represents the layers of ground as they change from the surface to a depth of 8 feet below the ground.

Step 4:

Transition sectional model 1:10 A transition model is made to represent thresholds along a section through the site. The changes of soil type, topography, vegetation and hydrology are represented.

transition Tillinghast Farm, a coastal site that moves from an upland, pastoral open space, down through a woodland, marshes and finally arrives at a beach. We observed the transition thought the site, draw diagrams to help understand the phenomena.

Hydrology

Light

"Light Rooms" & Circulation

phenomenon We sketched different phenomena observed on site. Going through the whole site, different plants create different light conditions. A new sequence will be designed to enhance the experience of light.

1. Reg

the E 1. Regrade the Entrance

2. Outdoor Classroom

3. Clearing in the Grove

2. outdoor classroom

4. A Path through Phragmites

"light rooms'' imply

New sequence

circulation

decides circulation

grade

Entrance

new Spatial sequence for experience of light Small interventions in certain thresholds are proposed to enhance people's perception of light. 1. Regrade the Entrance A subtle change of topography at the entrance will lead people to the Outdoor Classroom naturally. More trees are planted to frame the view to the ocean. 3. Clearing in the Grove 2. Outdoor Classroom

phenomenon (light)

Changes of the topography are made based on the shadows of 2 trees to make people notice of changes in shadow and light, making it a register of light and shadow. 3. Clearing in the Grove Cutting down some trees in the grove made a clearing to attract people go into the woods. The threshold between grove and phragmites is a good place for observing different textures of shadow. 4. A Path through Phragmites Before going out to the opening space facing the ocean, people will go along a wood path through the dense phragmites, where people could only see the sky framed by the phragmites.

3. Clearing in the Grove

4. A Path through Phragmites

4. Path (detail)

outdoor classroom design

Classroom for 20

Classroom for 10

Classroom for 2

Classroom for 10

Classroom for 15

SPACE AND CIRCULATION

cLASSROOM TO OBSERVE LIGHT Light is an important phenomenon in landscape. Changes of the topography are made based on the shadows of 2 trees to make people notice of changes in shadow and light, making it a register of light and shadow.

STAGE 1 DERECTION OF LIGHT

STAGE 2 REACTION TO LIGHT AND SHADOW

STAGE 3 TOPOGRAPHY CHANGE

STAGE 4 FUNCTION AND CIRCULATION

10:00

12:00

14:00

16:00 SPRING EQUINOX

SUMMER SOLSTICE

FALL EQUINOX

WINTER SOLSTICE

ORIGINAL TOPOGRAPHY

OVERLAP SHADOWS

OVERLAPPED SHADOW

AREA ALWAYS IN LIGHT AREA SHADOWS ARE CHANGING

REGRADED TOPOGRAPHY

AREA ALWAYS IN SHADOW AREA ALWAYS IN LIGHT

10:00 SEP. 21ST

12:00 JUN. 21ST

12:00 SEP. 21ST

14:00 DEC. 21ST

RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SHADOW AND TOPOGRAPHY

1:20 OUTDOOR CLASSROOM MODEL

SouthLight TYPE: Acdemic PROGRAM: Cemetery Renovation SITE: South Providence LASTING: 2 month TEAM: Nandi Lu, Jing Li and a group of architecture students

Trinity Square Area is a historical district in the Elmwood neighborhood of Providence, not far from downtown Strategy 1: Putting pedestrians first, creating colorful streetscape

area. Grace Church Cemetery is located in the south of Trinity Square. Built in the mid 1860s, Grace Church Cemetery is now an abandoned landmark in south Providence. Publilc safety issues such as sex offense, drug dealing, robbery and violence occur often in this area, making it more isolated from community life.

Strategy 2: Reviving vegetation, create seasonal landscape

Fundamental to our approach has been a deep and ongoing conversation with the Providence community about the needs of Trinity Square and the role of design in improving the neighborhood for all its residents. We provide 4 strategies to improve public safety as well as landscape atrraction, hoping to return the abandoned

Strategy 3: Providing new destination for vivid community life

landmark to community daily life. It goes without saying that cities can no longer be designed purely from the comforts of the studio, and we have come to recognize through 2 months of meetings,presentations, and discussions, that a sketch has as much power in its ability to catalyze debate as

Strategy 4: Lighting design to improve public safety and attraction

it does to set forth an aesthetic vision. It is only through the vitality of this debate that our ideas can solidify into lasting change. The images, drawings, and words contained in this project represent a snapshot in the process of a team of RISD Architecture and Landscape Architecture students in their efforts to formulate a version of this other city. To

Southlight Project

that end, the concept designs that have been produced will be developed in further detail over the Winter and begin implementation in Summer 2016.

SITE PERSPECTIVE

On Site Interview by Jing Li, William Gant, Alexander Kim

HISTORY OF GRACE CHURCH CEMETERY by Nandi Lu, Yin Fu and Sarp Arditi

How to make this area more pedestrian friendly? How to revive the abandoned landmark in the center of the community? How to bring the vivid community life into Grace Church Cemetery? How to ensure public safety in this area?

VIVID COMMUNITY LIFE ON ARCH STREET

strategy 1: Putting Pedestrians first, creating colorful streetscape

1 1

2 2

Problem:

Strategy 1:

Strategy 2:

Vehicle traffic is fast and mixed with

Add Bump outs to narrow the street,

Add rumble strips to slow down the traffic,

pedestrian, they are both interrupted

creating more pedestrian space.

ensuring pedestrian safety.

by each other; A lot of jay walk; Boring streetscape.

1-1 SECTION by Tianyu Xu

2-2 SECTION by Tianyu Xu

Strategy 3: Paint the street with vivid color, making a more pedestrian frendly streetscape.

strategy 2: rEVIVING VEGETATION, CREATING SEASONAL CEMETERY LANDSCAPE

PROBLEM: Colors of plants are not dynamic and attractive in the cemetery based on our research of vegetation; Lacking variety of species and flowering plants. by Nandi Lu, Yin Lu, Sarp Arditi JAN

FEB

MAR

APR

MAY

JUN

JUL

AUG

SEP

OCT

NOV

DEC

BUGLEWEED RUSSIAN SAGE

DAYLILY BLACK EYED SUSAN GINKGO

MUHLY RED TWIG DOGWOOD OAK

EXISTING TREE

BLUE OAT GRASS

SOLUTION: Introducing flowering and colorful plants into the cemetery. Bringing variety of colors in 4 seasons into a BLVD in the center of the cemetery. Each season will have a theme color of plants. Therefore, the BLVD will become an attraction with seasonal-changing color and experience.

SPRING

SUMMER

FALL

WINTER SEASONAL COLOR CHANGE IN PLAN by Jing Li

SITE MODEL OF THE BLVD 1:32

SEASONAL EXPERIENTIAL CHANGE IN HUMAN SCALE

strategy 3: NEW DESTINATION FOR VIVID COMMUNITY LIFE BUMP OUTS

STREET PAINTING

PROTENTIAL COMMUNITY GARDEN

LIGHT PAVILION FARMERS' MARKET

ENTRANCE ADA RAMP

OUTDOOR THEATRE PERFORMANCE PLAZA

RUMBLE STRIPES

PICNIC AREA

SOUTH ENTRANCE

PAVILIAN DETAIL WITH HISTORY NARRATIVE by Willian Gant

FARMERS' MARKET PERSPECTIVE by Jingyan Zhang

FARMERS' MARKET CONCEPT SECTION by Saba Yazdjerdi

OUTDOOR THEATRE MODE

STAGE MODE

CANOPY MODE

OUTDOOR THEATRE PERSPECTIVE (DAY)

strategy 4: LIGHTING DESIGN TO IMPROVE PUBLIC SAFETY AND ATTRACTION

4000K STREET LIGHT

2000K PAVILIAN LIGHT

PROJECTION LIGHTING

4000K

4500K

LED LIGHT

TREE LIGHT

4000K REPOWER EXISTING LIGHT

OUTDOOR THEATRE MODE

STAGE MODE

CANOPY MODE

CEMETERY ENTRANCE

LIGHTING INSTALLATION

ADA RAMP

MOCK UP

PLANT LIGHTING MOCK UP

LIGHT PAVILIAN

AS GATHERING SPCAE

1:1 MOCK UP

LIGHT PAVILIAN 1:1 MOCK UP

WATER & TIME TYPE:Acdemic/ Research SITE: Potomac River, Washington D.C LASTING: 2 Months

Appalachian Plateau

ADVISOR: Suzzane Matthew

Instead of being concerned with its ecological and technical value, water, the primary theme of the investigation, will be treated as a tool to create spatial aesthetics. This research investigates the connection between different kinds of art and landscape architecture. It tests forms, movement, materials and experience that could represent the

Patomac River Watershed

transformation and action of water over time. The primary focus of the project is concerned with how water shaped the site in the past, how the water moves and transforms the site at present, and how water will affect the site in the future. Great Valley The Potomac River, like other Atlantic seaboard rivers, rises in the Appalachian Mountains and flows eastward to the Atlantic Ocean. The river cuts through the Blue Ridge, at a narrow gap below Harpers Ferry, and across Catoctin Mountain, the easternmost ridge of the Appalachians, through a similar gap at Point of Rocks. From there to its mouth at Point Lookout on Chesapeake Bay, the river flows across three major landscape provinces: a broad lowland between Point of Rocks and Seneca that is called the Frederick Valley in Maryland and the Leesburg Basin in Virginia; the Piedmont Plateau, between Seneca and Washington DC; and the Atlantic Coastal Plain, between Washington DC and Point Lookout.

Blue Ridge

Washington D.C

Chesapeak Bay

Piedmont Plateau

Coastal Plain

1.The Frederick Valley and Leesburg Basin are underlain principally by red sandstone and shale that were deposited during the Triassic and Jurassic Periods, about 200 million years ago. Because these rocks are rather easily eroded, the landâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s surface is nearly flat; slopes are gentle and smooth. The river is wide, sluggish, and shallow.

2. The Piedmont Plateau is a rolling, hilly upland underlain by hard rocks. Above Great Falls the valley is broad, shallow, and placid. In a few places, however, riffles and rapids break the quiet water as it passes across resistant ledges of rock. 3. At Great Falls the character of the river changes abruptly. The white water flows rapidly and loudly, etching into the hard rock and creating deep channels.

2 4. From the Great Falls to Theodore Roosevelt Island, the water flows within a series of narrow rock-girded channels twisting between cliffs and flat-topped bedrock islands.

5. The river reaches the sea level at Chain Bridge. The Coastal Plain is underlain by layered deposits of sand, clay, gravel, and shells laid down in and along the edge of the sea when it encroached onto the eastern edge of the continent at various times during the past 100 million years.

Flood Plain sand and gravel

Triassic sandstone and shale

1. ATLANTIC COASTAL PLAIN ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA

Sea Level

Metamorphic and igneous rocks

2. FALL LINE ARLINGTON MEMORIAL BRIDGE

Sea Level

Metamorphic an

3. PIEDMON CARDE

nd igneous rocks

NT PLATEAU EROCK

Sea Level

Flood Plain sand and gravel

Sea Level

Flood Plain sand and gravel

Metamorphic and igneous rocks Soft coastal plain rocks

4. PIEDMONT PLATEAU VIOLETS ROCK

5. LEESBURG BASIN SENECA

THE GREAT FALLS IN THE FUTURE SENECA

THE GREAT FALLS IN PRESENT GREAT FALLS PARK

THE GREAT FALLS IN THE PAST ROOSEVELT ISLAND

THE GREAT FALLS IN THE FUTURE SENECA

THE GREAT FALLS IN PRESENT GREAT FALLS PARK

THE GREAT FALLS IN THE PAST ROOSEVELT ISLAND

MIGRATION OF THE GREAT FALLS

A WALK ALONG POTOMAC RIVER

Great Falls is about 14 miles upstream the fall line. The Potomac River

Water will take the form of the surface it passes by as

has etched its way upstream and carved out Mather Gorge in the

well as the force that immediately acts on it. Photos of

crystalline bedrock over the last 2 million years, so the waterfall is up-

the patterns of water movement capture (freeze) the

stream of the geologic contact. The Fall Line â&#x20AC;&#x153;zoneâ&#x20AC;? for the Potomac

form as it exists presently.

River is 14 miles wide. Photos of the flood-fell trees and flood-bended trees Over time, the erosive power of the Potomac River will move the

reveal a longer duration of time - it may take only

waterfall further upstream, past Riverbend Regional Park in Fairfax

one flood otherwise several years of time for water to

County. Great Falls will move far enough upstream to get past the

shape the vegetation.

Piedmont bedrock, and to etch away at the softer Triassic Basin sediments near Seneca Creek.

Photos of potholes and the erosion of stones represent an even longer amount of time - from decades to hun-

Because the resistance of the bedrock will be less in the Triassic Basin,

dreds of years.

Great Falls will change into a series of gentler rapids over the sandstone of the Triassic Basin. It took 2 million years to etch a channel 14

Categorizing all of the photos into these three times-

miles, an average of one mile each 150,000 years. There are about

cales provided a clearer understanding of how water

eight more miles of Piedmont bedrock before reaching the Triassic

could impact on the landscape in various time scale,

Basin. Basic calculations estimate that the remaining lifespan of Great

acknowledging and harnessing the subjective human

Falls is about 1-1.5 million years.

experience of landscape.

A set of ceramic tiles was made based on the photos of water movement. At first the tiles were simply tools to mimic the patterns of water movement. However, this initiative turned out to be more productive as the tiles cracked during the high firing stage. This unexpected result was not an accident - they all cracked into three pieces along the direction of water movement instead of cracking along the thinnest section. Also the cracks exposed the profile of the sections.

Time is dynamic, consistent and unbreakable. These facts are em capturing the water movement a lows for those forms to be create broken down.

If the scale of the tiles is viewed of space for people to occupy, as ing time and space

irreversible. Flowing water is dynamic, flexible and mbedded in culture. But the tiles freeze time through and breaking the flow through the cracks. Clay aled that, with time and movement, are stopped and

as a landscape, they could provide different types s well as offer a provocative setting for contemplat-

The Academy in the Park was a finalist for an international competition led by Ennead Architects. The strategy for the Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts (TAFA) hybridizes two

ACADEMY IN THE PARK

fundamental landscape typologies, the campus and the park, cultivating a new landscape where the academy is also viewed as a civic expression of the city. This creates a host of new programmatic possibilities. For Tianjin residents the park

TYPE: Internship in Balmori Associates/ Competetion

is both a civic gathering space for the city, but also a tool to

PROGRAM: Campers/ Urban Design

educate the public about the production and display of art.

SITE: Tianjin, China

For the students of TAFA the strategy provides a broad canvas

LASTING: 3 weeks

of possibilities that extends beyond institutional walls. On a

TEAM: Theodore Hoerr, Leeju Kang

district level the Tianjin Loop is proposed to unify the Fine Arts

PARTICIPATION: Research, Concept Sketching,

Academy with several cultural landmarks and create a new

Programming, Master Plan Rendering

pedestrian bridge across the Hai River.

Image courtesy of Ennead Architects

Cowork with Hao Liang and Leeju Kang, Taking charge of Master Plan rendering

LAKE EFFECT TYPE:Internship in Balmori Associates/ Competetion PROGRAM: Underpass Renovation SITE: Cleveland, OHIO LASTING: 5 weeks TEAM: Theodore Hoerr, Matt Choot PARTICIPATION: Concept developing, Model Making, Programming, Perspective rendering

Lake Effect was a finalist in an international design competition to reconceive the area underneath the Main Avenue Bridge in Cleveland, Ohio. The approach, taken jointly by Balmori Associates, Tillet Associates, and artist Stacy Levy, was to take on specific conditions of the site and work with them to increase the site’s human use and enjoyment. One of these conditions is that of the wind always blowing under the bridge, an effect of the proximity to Lake Erie and the bridge’s channeling effect. Another is that of the darkness under the bridge particularly at the intersection of Ninth and Main Streets. The third condition is that of the great fields of paving, which impart to the site its character of being a place only for cars, not people.

3D Modeling: Matt Choot Rendering: Senbo Yang

Donut-Hunt RI TYPE: Acdemic PROGRAM: Pubilc Art SITE: Providence LASTING: 1 month TEAM:Yiran Zheng, Ling Chun

Donut-Hunt RI is a public art project that invites Providence residents and visitors to participate. From May 15th to May 25th, 200 hand-made ceramic donuts were placed in selected locations around Providence for people to search for or simply discover by accident. Each of the 200 donuts was labeled on the bottom with a serial number and the hashtag of the project, while the tops featured a wide range of glazed, frostings and sprinkles. The team took a photograph of each area where we left the donut in and post it to the project's Instagram. The thought is that some people will go looking for the donuts, while others will stumble upon them by accident. Anyone who finds a donut is encouraged to post a picture of themselves with it and add it to Instagram with the tag #dounuthuntri. Donut-Hunt RI was inspired by the popularity of donuts in Providence and Rhode Island, including the more than 200 donut shops in the state. The project is a way to give people an unexpected gift in places where they wouldn't expect one. Hopefully this work will encourage people to explore parts of Providence thet don't usually go to, and to engage more with public spaces in the city.

Promotion Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIkXNAHYnu8 Installation Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Awsmy8FRqqs Public Engagement Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUZkASw4f_s

Rhode Island School of D

Market Square Providence Downtown Memorial Park

Many of the Xerox poster posted all over the city of Providence with straight -forward, simple slogan/ hashtage of the project. Press release to LOCAL publication.

SITE INSTALLATION

- AS PROMOTION OF THE EVENT

On May 14th 2016, a site installation of 196 ceramic donuts was put out in an op

Market Square near Providence Downtown. As an important part of the Donuth

installation was a successful promotion of Donut-hunt RI as well as an interesting project.

People were stopped by the donuts on the ground. They were amazed when th

were made of ceremics. They took photos with them, picked them up and walk space was activated by these werid and funny objects laid out in grid.

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We took a photograph of each area where we left the donut in and post it to the project's Instagram. Some people will go looking for the donuts, while others will stumble upon them by accident. Anyone who finds a donut is encouraged to post a picture of themselves with it and add it to Instagram with the tag #dounuthuntri. Them we will repost them on the project's Instagram

INSTAGRAM POSTS OF LOCATION OF THE DONUTS

INSTAGRAM POSTS FROM PEOPLE WHO FOUND DONUTS

landscape construction document Law School Library Landscape Design Plant Design; Paving Design; Rain Garden Design Providence, 2015 Fall

Ceramic Ceramic Sculpture; Hand Thrown Pottery; Tile making Fine Art practice in RISD Selected works 2015-2016

BODYSCAPE, Ceramic Sculpture High-fire clay; wood-kiln fire

HAND THROWN POTTERY High-fire clay; High-fire glaze

Water Tiles High-fire clay; High-fire glaze

artist book design

Moon Phase This 2 inch little cubic book is made with accodion binding and hot stamping. It can be flipped fluently so that we can see how the moon change little by little in a month.

Dream Windows A set of books for Chinese Romance Wind, Flower, Snow and the Moon are four romantic elements in Chinese literature. Four cubic books are physical players of four sets of my drawings. They flip on their own when placed to a certain height because of the gravity, creating four little animations.

Wind

Flower

Snow

Moon