PORTFOLIO SHANSHAN YU
We design landscape for people —— Joseph S.R. Volpe
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1 Sustainable Community Design, UMass Amherst Campus, MA P1
Creating a comfort zone within the dynamic movement of the open friendly context.
2 Martin Van Buren National Historic Site, Kinderhock, NY P9
To meet human needs & ecological desires, addressing a contemporary landscape place on a historical site.
3 Multifamily Housing & Green Community Space, Amherst, MA P17 Respond to environment Support of the working economy Achievement of social justice
4 Foundation of Landscape Architecture in The Age of The Environment P29 Excerpts from landscape architecture master project: LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE WORKS response to professor’s THEORY & GARDEN PLACES PROBLEM
http://issuu.com/joevolpeorshanshanyuprofessorstuden/ docs/joe___shanshan_2_sep__15
IDB Building
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Sustainable Community Design, UMass Amherst Campus, MA Creating a comfort zone within the dynamic movement of the open friendly context. Director: Mark Lindhult Cooperation with architecture studio
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Conceptual diagram Proposed Rain Garden
• Exploring people activities — arriving, moving, & leaving ; • Rainwater sheet/concreted flow management; • Existing plants preservation.
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Clark Hall
Contour gradient
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Fernaid Hall
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• Addressing accessible ramps with maximum 1/12 slope for straight path; • Engaging the element of landscape — landform as landscape media that defines landscape edges; • The spatial expression of convex, concave, & plan areas that articulated by landform.
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Studio Art Building
• Exploring the spatial experience — “a walk for a walk’s sake” that embodied with all four landscape media — landform, plants, water, & structure. 0
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To meet the human needs of resting, meeting, & contemplating, add defined by all four landscape media — landform, water, plants, & str A - A’ Section Gathering space
Landscape comfort zone are defined by shaped landform, plants communities, & articulated structure that engages people to meet, to see, to rest, & to study.
Open Space
Rain Garden A
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Open Space 5
Path
Sitting Area
dressing 3-dimentional landscape gathering areas that ructure
Open Space
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Gateway & corridor — Circulation hierarchy Plant communications, structure, & landform articulating gateway, corridors, & gathering nodes.
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Building
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Rainwater management To conserve rainwater from building’s roof & sky, addressing bio-swales connected to existing and proposed rain gardens.
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Deck
Sitting Area
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Rain Garden
Driveway
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Open Space
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Martin Van Buren National Historic Site Kinderhock, NY To meet human needs & ecological desires, addressing a contemporary landscape place on a historical site. Director: Ethan Carr Group work for planning, Individual work for focus area
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Martin Van Buren house
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Gathering node A
Master plan • The native forest patten & the agricultural pattern by man shows the partisanship of human with natural. • The landscape pattern expression involves physical response — sight, sound, scent, & the emotional response of association in the historical site.
To address a sustaining environment design, establishing design beauty, engaging social justice, responding environment, & sustaining work economy
Proposed path system engaging people to agricultural landscape pattern and forest native landscape.
Green way Agricultural pattern
Irrigation pond /river
Vegetation Woodland Grassland
Water Seasonal Wetland
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Bike lane Access point
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Gathering area A addressing historical orchard & agricultural garden renovation as a contemporary place for people to meet, to sit, to rest, to walk for a walk’s sake
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Section expression and perspective view • Exploring landform, plants, & structures that create landscape floor, wall, & ceiling to meet the human needs of arriving/leaving, sitting, & moving. • Plants as landscape media create perspective/refuge areas to meet human desires of seeing/not being see. • The association of agricultural pattern, forest pattern, & historical orchard pattern expressing both landscape & historical experience.
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Path
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Open Space
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Farmland
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Grassland
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B&C Section elevations of gathering nodes that addressing landscape windows opened to agricultural pattern
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Open Space
Woodland
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Rain garden
Open space
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Open space
Farmland
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Multifamily Housing & Green Community Space Amherst, MA Respond to the environment Support of the working economy Achievement of social justice Director: Joseph Volpe Individual work
Ecology model, & sustaining environment design strategies
Cost of Site Development as an Expression of the Length & Extent of Roads & Infrastructure — lower cost of development & maintenance
ENVIRONMENT • Beautiful living space integral to a more sustainable community. • Modification of New England four seasonal climate of sun & wind.
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BIOTIC COMMUNITY Vegetative cover of plant community trees shrubs ground covers wet land vegetation
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Common space as one cohesive system hosing pattern open space system
Rain water management bioswale rain garden Landform grading Impervious surface roof, parking, & ground paving
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SOCIAL JUSTICE
S.R. Volpe
Transportation & circulation Pedestrian system
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CULTURAL MILIEU Multifamily housing housing type, unit densities
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DESIGN BEAUTY • Landscape elements and media — landform, plants, structure, and water are defining gateways, connecting corridors, and gathering nodes. • This anatomy of landscape space shapes the neighborhood experience, the perception, and the meaning of desirable place to live. SOCIAL JUSTICE • Public policy — land use regulation in zoning restrictions, the number and density of living units, the extent of the development and the establishment of open space, the width and subsequent cost of roadway and utilities, and, a hose of environmental regulations covering land, water, and construction. • Balance of private garden and public place — security of the proxemic neighborhood, and public connections throughout the larger community.
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Understanding Design Site
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• Proposed linear corridor following the direction of ridge line. • Long view exploration addressing the units arrangements & organization. • To respond New England four season climate, blocking the Northwest cod wind in winter time with plants wall.
Exploring the suntrap advantage for people to extend the comfort zone with solar radiation 21
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Proposed diagram response to design strategies Multifamily housing type and densities; • Circulation system; • Hosing pattern; • Open space system; • Rainwater management.
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Developed Area Size: 10 acre Total Units Number: 96 Row House Program x14 16*25=400*2=800 sq ft x12 18*27=486*2=972 sq ft x8 20*30=600*2=1008 sq ft x10 20*34=770*2=1360 sq ft x12 15*22=330*3=990 sq ft x24 16*25=400*3=1200 sq ft x16 18*28=504*3=1512 sq ft 23
Landform grading & plant community design • Grading explores convex, concave, & planner landform; • Articulation of edges, floor, wall, & ceiling defined by landform & plants
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Section elevation expressions exploring 3-dimentional landscape ex
Wood Edge/Open Space
Path
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2-Story Units and Private Garden
3-Story Units and Private Garden
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A-A’ Section Elevation
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Wood Edge/Open Space
2-Story Units and Private Garden
pen Space/Corridor 3-Story Units and Private Garden
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Scoop space pattern defined by units and plant communities celebr
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Parking Lot
Units
Open Space
rating the sun, the wind, and the cosmic Plant Community list White Oak (48-60’) Quercus alba
Sugar Maple (25-35’) Acer saccharum
Grass mix Red Fescue Festuca rubra Perennial Ryegrass Lolium perenne Kentucky Bluegrass Poa pratensis
Rain garden plant mix Ostrich Fern Mateuccia pennsylvanica
Golden Japanese Forest Grass Hakonechola macra
Hearts Afire Daylily Hemerocallis ‘hearts afire’
Golden-edged
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Parking Lot
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Hosta Hosta fortunei
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Foundation of Landscape Architecture in the Age of The Environment MA Excerpts from landscape architecture master project: LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE WORKS response to professor’s THEORY & GARDEN PLACES PROBLEM http://issuu.com/joevolpeorshanshanyuprofessorstuden/docs/joe___shanshan_2_sep__15
Foundation of Landscape Architecture in the Age of The Environment — Expressing the Elements of Landscape — Landform, Water, Plants, Structure as the Media That Articulates Landscape Architecture — Springing from the Physical, Biological, and Cultural Processes of Ecology • Client/ User: People activities in a “walk for a walk’s sake” in a contemplative garden
• Landscape elements — landform, water, plants, & structure are the media of landscape design • Geometry/form
Gateway
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Edge Edge
• Environmental context — supportive to unfriendly
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• Anatomy of landscape places/spaces — edges, gateway, corridor, gathering node • Choreographic sequence — arriving, moving, coming to rest, leaving
Single Space Serial
• Spatial organizations Multiple Spaces
Symmetry
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Ascending/Descending Seriality
• Clusters of people gathering to communicate with each other • Nodes are created to server human activities of gathering http://issuu.com/joevolpeorshanshanyuprofessorstuden/docs/joe___shanshan_2_sep__15
Landscape Model 1 — Garden of Landforms
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• 3-D diagrammatic design explores three terrace levels of the gathering nodes, & the circuitry of the connecting corridor ramps
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• 3-D conceptual diagram of ridge/valley & cut/fill that define the nodes, corridors, & gateway of the Garden of the Landforms
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Landscape Model 2 — Garden of Structure
Circuit corridor
Gateway
• 1st diagrammatic study with 1st preliminary exploitative model addressing human activities of arriving, moving, & gathering in a contemplative garden
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Serialized gateways
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Gathering node
Prominent entrance
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Rectangular form, Flat site, all sides friendly Context
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Serialized gateways
• 2nd diagrammatic study with 2nd preliminary exploitative structural system addressing program of human activities in an open friendly context
Model of Garden Structure exploring opening to the sky, connection • Final garden space frame supporting the contemplative garden, a “walk to the friendly context & materiality of the floorscape for a walk’s sake” in response to the friendly context
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Landscape Model 3 — Hillside Garden with Landform, Retaining wall, & Rainwater Circular form, Hillside site, all sides unfriendly Context
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• Exploration of cut & fill of the hillside, including the terrace gathering node, the path system, baffled entrance, & defensible landform ridges at the edges of the site
• Moving beyond the preliminary technical stage by refining the contour lines to give shape to the landform design
• Landform design of the gathering node • Continuity of the hillside garden design process with retaining walls, the path system with defensible ridge line, & valley forms for rain gardens
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• Final hillside garden with landform, retaining wall, & rain gardens response to a friendly context on south side
Landscape Model 4 — Garden of Plants
Geomorphic form, Flat site, all sides unfriendly Context
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• 3-D preliminary plants garden explores in detail the size, structure, • Final Garden of Plants Revealing the sitting areas & the varied experiences of the & habit of particular trees, shrubs, & ground covers to create unique “walk for a walk’s sake” associations of plants defining the path system & gathering nodes
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Landscape Model 5 — Hillside Garden with all four media — Landform, Structure, Plants, & Water Geomorphic form, Hillside site, all sides friendly Context
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• Design process of the 2nd Hillside Garden with collage diagram of layout for a friendly context, & proposed spot elevations on existing site
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reliminary Hillside Garden with open friendly context nodes, ridges, valleys, & accessible switchback ramps , retaining walls, & patterns of serial rain gardens
• Concluding the design process & exploration of the landscape characteristics & interplay of landform, water, plants, & structures to define & articulate gathering nodes, corridors, & gateways of a garden place linked with friendly context
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SHANSHAN YU
50 Juniper Rd. North Attleborough, MA 02760 Cellphone: 413-992-7849 Email: shaneyu1005@gmail.com Portfolio Online: https://issuu.com/shanshanyu/docs/portfolio Master Project Online: https://issuu.com/shanshanyu/docs/shanshan__joe_090215
EDUCATION
ACADEMIC
University of Massachusetts, Amherst 09.15 Master of Landscape Architecture
Teaching Assistant 09.13-01.14 Landscape Fundamental Studio
Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China 05.11 Bachelor of Landscape Architecture
SKILLS Computer InDesign, AutoCAD,Photoshop, Illustrator, SketchUp, V-ray, GIS, Microsoft Office, WordPress
Research of landscape design theory; Instructing student work to respond to landscape design theory.
01.15-06.15 Roots & Branches of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Art Researching the legacy of historical and contemporary garden design on landscape expression.
Research Assistant
Physical 3-D modeling, Hand drawing
Research and document gardens designed by James Rose across the United States. Design James Rose Center website. Creating construction documents for Averett Garden, GA
Language English, Chinese
Book Editor/Contributor
Personal Organizational foresight, diagrammatic analysis, information extraction
Joseph S.R. Volpe: GIVEN BY THE EARTH SHAPED BY HUMAN HANDS Spatial Experience
Design Knowledge
Making Garden Places
EXPERIENCE Paris and Barcelona Study Tour for Landscape History Research 03.12
Photo documenting the exploration of historical and complementary landscape projects in Paris and Barcelona.
James Rose Center for Landscape Architectural Research and Design, Ridgewood, NJ Intern 06.14-12.14, 09.15-12.15 Maintaining JRC as a living center, a place to visit and study. Leading guided tours and addressing the life of James Rose as he continuously evolved the form and function of his dwelling and garden. To explore and study Rose’s garden house, experiencing the spatial choreography, the defining landscape media, and expression of materials.
LARP Department of UMass Landscape Architecture Studio Landscape Research and Assistant Director, 10.15
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