2016 - 2020 Selected Works
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PROLOGUE
CONTENTS
SCALE SCALE OF SPACE
INTERSECTION
SCALE OF HUMAN SCALE OF CULTURE SCALE OF DIFFERENT SPECIES
LANDSCAPE
MEDIA
EFFECT
TRAFFIC
RECONCILE
CIRCUIT BOARD
CONNECT
MUSIC
UNDERSTAND
ANIMALS NEEDS
CO-EXIST
Intersection often refers to the junction of space. But today's rapid technological development and tremendous changes in social structure make the intersection more than just a space but all aspects of classes, history, culture even relationships with other creatures. Landscape, as a discipline at the intersection, needs to assume the responsibility of resolving conflicts. Combining my multidisciplinary background, I try to use the interdisciplinary approaches to resolve the conflicts at the intersection. I will explain from four aspects how the landscape resolves the conflict in the intersection: reconciling, understanding, connecting, co-existing.
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BUTTERFLY UTOPIA
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SING FOR FAVELA
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FLOWING CIRCUIT BOARD
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19 TOURIST TRANSIT-ORIENTED DEVELOPMENT Traffic-based Landscape Planning to Reconcile Complex Traffic Around A Busy Tourist Center
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OTHER WORKS
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Future City Design Where Humans And Animals Coexist
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Favela Renovation to Promote Understanding Between The Government And The Poor
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Technology Park Design Which Different People Are Connected in Their Daily Life
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Butterfly
New Near City
CO-EXISTING
Human
01 in LA + CREATURE Design Ideas Competition Held by Weitzman School of Design Ecological Restoration And Urban Design From August, 2020 to October, 2020 Individual Location: San Jose, United States
BUTTERFLY UTOPIA Future City Design Where Humans And Animals Coexist Bay Checkerspot Butterfly is an endangered species in the San Jose area. It is an umbrella species that indirectly protect many other species. Understanding the weakness of urban sprawl in San Jose, the designers aim to create a COEXISTING living environment for both human and Checkerspot butterfly. To break up the traditional grid layout, the designers include more native species and integrate a continuous habitat into the new city plan.
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SING FOR FAVELA Favela renovation design in Brazil
Government
UNDERSTAND
Favela
in Architecture 21 Mare-Cidade International Student Competition Landscape Design And Urban Design From March, 2020 to May, 2020 Location: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Originally Designed with Minshi Zhang, Jiaxin Chen, Haichao Zhang. Concept Design(80%), Landscape Design(100%), Installation Design(50%) Futher Redesign and Reproduce All Drawings Independently. Instructor: Yiqiang Xiao
Brazil's complex social structure has caused disorderly expansion of slums, and Male is one of the representatives of many slums. But this chaos has contributed to the flourishing of slum music. The design attempts to us local music as the starting point to create a transformation space guided by the rhythm of music, in order to promote people to UNDERSTAND each other. This kind of intervention can alleviate the conflict between the government and the residents, and at the same time guide the residents to make an orderly transformation in a familiar way. 07
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Rhythm of The Song——Terrain Generation
The terrain is generated according to the common rhythm of each kind of music. The public space and the scope of activities of residents have become rhythmic.
Active Activities
Quiet Activities
Activity Ratio（Quiet to Active）
Hinder in The Space
Square 1: Funk Music——Open And Lively
The terrain is in the middle and the squares are scattered on both sides of the street. It is open and lively.
Chapter2 <---> Section2
Chapter1 <---> Section1
African oil palm
Brazilian Cedar
Clustering fishtail palm
Foxtail Agave
Stage
Small Square
Grandstand
Square 2: Capoeira——United And National The terrain encloses the square, united and national.
Chapter2 <---> Section2
Chapter1 <---> Section1
Imperial Palm Tree
Red palm
Foxtail Agave
Tree Stonecrope
Track
Big Step
Big Stage
Square 3: Bossa Nova——Relaxing
Most of the site is occupied by green space, forming a large open green space for relaxation and leisure.
Chapter1 <---> Section1
Clove
Pata-de-vaca
Achiote
Tree Stonecrope
Chapter2 <---> Section2
Playground
Trail
Track
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Funk Music Directed Site——Open And Lively
Capoeira Directed Site——United And National
Bossa Nova Directed Site——Relaxing
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Production
Workers
Residents CONNECTION
y olog Ec
Educ atio n
Students
03 in Landscape Planning and Design course (2019) Landscape and Planning Design From October, 2019 to December, 2019 Location: Guangdong, Guangzhou Originally Designed with Yaqin Pan, Xiatong Song. In Charge of Planning(90%), Landscape(100%), Concept Design(50%) Futher Pollish and Reproduce All Drawings Independently. Instructor: Jun Xing
FLOWING CIRCUIT BOARD Technology Park Design There is an underutilized land within the South China University of Technology. Residents and students are calling to make a change to turning this site into a future technology park. Inspired by the circuit board, the designer translates resources into voltage, resistance, and currents flowing in the circuit. Resources and the flow of people can penetrate each other and flow in an orderly manner through the constraints of the building. Efficient and leisure, ecology and technology are all CONNECTED together in an orderly manner by the circuit board. 13
Present Situation——Blocked Circuit
Zone
There are three main types of people around, and their daily circulation is blocked by the venue. The natural and scientific resources in the site have not been used neither. Therefore, the current flow of people and resources are like blocked circuit.
Students
Currents
Students
Workers
Workers
Residents
Residents
What Are People's Needs?
Underutilized Source
Enterprise
School
School
Connection between school and enterprise
Garden
Activity place
subway
Park Apartment
market
bus
Bus
Market
Apartment
Accessibility to the bus stop and market
Activity place
existing science park
Unused Industrial Source Cafe
existing science park
Production Source
Enterprise
Construction
Enterprise
More working place
Leisure place
What Reources Can We Use? Unused Natural Source
North Lake Landscape
Science Park Open Space
Abandoned Natural Mountains
Chaotic Buildings Effictive Buildings
leisure apartment calss room leisure
leisure
Industrial Parks A round The Site
Site
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Translation: Design Components < 一 > Electrical Factors
Prototypes
Extract the elements in the circuit: VOLTAGE, CURRENT, RESISTANCE. Respectively correspond to the unused resources of the site, the flow of people, and the buildings. Simulate the efficient and orderly operation mechanism of the circuit board, organize the resources of the site.
hard ground
For Residents Current
natural mountain with light
green space
natural lawn with pathway
main plaza with geyser
natural mountain with pavilion
main plaza with big steps
For Student Current hard ground
green space
Translation: Electrical Factors < 一 > Space Division
natural mountain with pathway
For Worker Current hard ground
green space
geometric inner courtyard
geometric atrium
geometric pathway
For Surrounding current hard ground
green space
geometric flower beds
geometric corner plaza
geometric entrance plaza
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Future View——Flowing Circuit
Structure of Flowing Circuit Board
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Future View of Circuit Board Community Large-volume buildings form an efficient and smooth production design flow line, medium-volume buildings allow students to interact with the science and technology park, and small-volume buildings combine squares and green spaces to promote communication among the three types of people.
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Student Entrance
Resident Entrance
Worker Entrance 18
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TOURIST TRANSIT-ORIENTED DEVELOPMENT Traffic-based Landscape Planning to Reconcile Complex Traffic Around A Busy Tourist Center
RECONCILE
in Landscape Planning and Design course (2020) Landscape Planning And Architecture Design From March, 2020 to June, 2020 Location: Guangdong, Guangzhou Originally Designed with Yaqin Pan, Xiatong Song. In Charge of Traffic Planning(50%), Landscape(90%), Architecture (80%) Futher Pollish and Reproduce All Drawings Independently. Instructor: Jian Chen
Baiyun Mountain Area in Guangzhou has great development potential, accompanied by a variety of complex transportation methods. In order to cope with the large number of people in the future, the design is guided by traffic and redefines the way of sightseeing. Planning and integrating multiple transportation routes on a large scale, and building a tourist TOD center on a small scale to divert and ease the flow of people, so that various transportation methods and scenic spots can be CONNECTED together to form a complete tour experience 19
W h y We N e e d To u r i s t Tr a n s i t Oriented Development Here?
There are many scenic spots around the site, attracting more and more tourists to visit, which also caused great traffic pressure. At the same time, the increase in the proportion of foreign tourists also makes it urgent to upgrade the surrounding area
Located on The Key Axis of The City
City Axis of Guangzhou Green Axis of Guangzhou Tourist Attraction Planning Subway Line Main Road
Popular scenic spots around the site
Located at the intersection of future traffic
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Large Scale—How to Coordinate the Traffic?
Input Flow —— Public Transport
Output Flow —— Walkway
Output Flow —— Characteristic Traffic
Based on the calculation of theory and data, various transportation modes are designed to ease the flow of people and give visitors different experiences.
The convenient public transportation and enough parking lots enable the scenic spot to have a greater visitor throughput.
A large number of pedestrian paths can carry a large number of people, giving tourists a good slow travel experience.
The characteristic traffic evacuates the crowd while providing different sightseeing experiences.
Theory——TOD Peter Kalthorp formally proposed the concept of Transit Oriented development in 1992，which was popularized and applied in some cities in the United States. TOD stands for "public transport-oriented development model".It is a "mixed use" of work, business, culture, education, housing and so on, with public transport stations as the center and 5-10 minutes walking distance as the radius of the city center. Concept future center
future center
numbr of people
to wetland
bus
According to the theory of Tod, the TOURIST TOD theory is derived, so as to coordinate the tourism resources, commerce and people flow with traffic, enhance the connection between scenic spots, and improve the tour experience.
parking lots express way main road secondary road main entrance subway line
private car
17.4%
50.8%
People mainly come to the scenic spot by subway, bus and private car. The largest passenger flow is about 106,000.
The way people come to the tod center 31.8%
to commercial town
cloud rail
to mountains
electromobile
main pathway secondary pathway small pathway transportation center
cable car transportation center axis open space
open space
green space subway
bicycle path
to public park
subway station
Data Analysis
future center
lake area
mountain
commercial area
water
mountain water
Crowd Data Estimation
bus
walkway
Input Flow
Output Flow
Output Flow characteristic traffic
walking
number of people
cloud rail
number of people
New subway station
13.6% cable car
53848
number of people
Main
31800
Bike
21200
30% The way people come to the scenic spot
bicycle
20%
15.9%
20.5% electromobile
The characteristic traffic inside the scenery brings people to various scenic spots in time, while providing people with a variety of sightseeing experiences
33708
Bus
Secondrary
24077
13450
Cloud Rail Electromobile
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1,800 parking Spaces
Parking lots
18444 9236
now before
Small
7292
14416 25km/h 10min/time 200people/time
Cable car
21730 20km/h 6min/time 22people/time
16854
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Small Scale—How Architecture Is Generated? All traffic is organized by the tourist TOD building, and there are different ways to visit each subdivision, and the station area is arranged according to the number of visitors.
Theory——Multidemensional Narration of City Image
As an important embodiment of urban soft power, city image has gradually become the focus of competition among cities since Kevin Lynch put forward this concept in 1960. Through media communication in various ways, the image of a city plays an important role in improving the visibility of the city and attracting foreign investment and tourists.
Concept
The site is divided into five sections to display various characteristics of Guangzhou. Different modes of transportation provide different sightseeing experiences and give you a full view of Guangzhou.
Data Analysis
4F 5F
3F
activity space
4F
green space 11.1% 25.6% The area of TTOD's four main functions
30.6%
32.7%
transportation
commercial
visitor center
5F
cable car 12%
Area of different traffic station 64%
5F
electromobile 2 7%
traffic gathering square
TTOD combines four major functions, including commerce, transportation, public events and green open Spaces. The complex meets a variety of needs and gives visitors a multifaceted impression of Guangzhou.
Different modes of transportation are equipped with a reasonable area so that it can accommodate enough people.
15% cloud rail
Master Plan of Tourist TOD Building
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10
50 meters
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Perspective View
How Buildings Coordinate Traffic?
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Section
Landscape Sight Looking towards the sky from the ground floor, a circular patio encircles the pure s k y. U n d e r t h i s s i t e , y o u c a n e n j o y the scenery, meditate, and host largescale cultural and commercial activities.
Landscape Sight At the junction of the ground-floor building and the surrounding hillside, the arc-shaped building edge encloses a gray space, allowing the building and the landscape to merge with each other and frame the beautiful scenery
Commercial Sight There are many commercial spaces inside the building. Recessed buildings form a lot of small platform spaces and increase outdoor commerce.
Transportation ight The overhead platform on the first floor provides a transition space for complex ground transportation. On the first floor, pedestrians and vehicles are divided, and different types of transportation are divided into zones, making the traffic space efficient and safe 24
05 Other Works
Light Catching Dome 3*3 Bamboo Structure in Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Construction Competition From September,2020 to October, 2020 Location: Guangdong, Guangzhou Team Work with Wenjing Fang, Yanghua Weng, Xiatong Song, Yifeng Li, Zhiwen Cai Second Prize among 25 teams from Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Instructor: Guanqiu Zhong
Long Plan Constructed Solar House in Solar Decathlon China Sustainable Housing Competition From August, 2017 to August, 2018 Location: Dezhou, Shandong Team Work with 60 students from five majors Competition Host: U.S. Department of Energy First Prize among 20 Internetional teams Instructor: Yiqiang Xiao, Haohao Xu.
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