POR T F O L I O
Tongtong Zhang (Sherly) Selected works 2014 -17
Work Sample Table of Contents ACADEMIC WORKS 01/ ENGINEERED LAND RIGHTS: Compensation, Displacement, and Alternative Impact Scope 02/ TRASHSCAPE: Consuming the Great Pacific Garbage Patch 03/ THE HABITAT RECONSTRUCTED: Animals, Plants, Humans and the City all as Beneficiaries 04/ PRISMATIC COMMUNITY 05/ CUBOID: 05/ A Space Awaiting Defination
PRACTICAL WORKS 01/ Turenscape Work Samples 02/ Construction: Fairy Water Village 03/ Fabricating the Site: Model Series
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ENGINEERED LAND RIGHTS: Compensation, Displacement and Alternative Impact Scopes Studio Work (Individual) 2017 Spring / ARCH 4704 The University ofHong Kong Instructor: Ashley Scott Kelly / Ivan Valin Site location: Dawei, Myanmar The Dawei Road Link is a set of highway system proposed to be connecting Thailand and the Dawei Special Economic Zone (DSEZ) in southern Myanmar. Due to the lack of investment, what initially was a 8-lane highway, a rail road, pipes and electronic wires has shrinked into only a 4-lane road. However, the developer has already requested a 200m right-of-way from the government, which the new design can only use up 10%. The developer is now considering selling extra vacant lands to rubber plantations to cover their loss. However, unregulated large-scale private rubber plantation has already caused severe ecological and social problems in the region. My design would be focusing on these vancant lands within the right-of-way. I believe that these lands have great potentials. If planned appropriately, not only damage to the environemnt in the region could be reduced, but also conflicts between different stake holders could be mitigated significantly.
Design rendering
Intensifying Conflicts The Dawei Road Link cuts across a region with severe social conflicts (land grab, forced relocation, ethnic conflict, labot exploitation, etc.) and environmental crisis (deforestation, erosion, mining pollution, habitat loss, etc.). The design of the DSEZ and the road link has made little effort to adress these conflicts and crses.
General section of the road link Old
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Cambodia: A Precedent
Selected Case Studies and Proposed Solutions Cases reflecting different conflicts are selected to study. The proposed solution is a new set of land use strategy within the right-of-way. It proposes that the developer would open up vacant lands that does not have high ecological value (i.e. lands that are deforested or with degraded forests) to local villagers for cultivation. By keeping to adequate land use strategies as taught, villagers' cultivation activites would not only benefit themselves, but also help with the ecological remediation process and reduce the developer's maintainance work.
TRASHSCAPE Consuming the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
Studio Work (Group) 2017 Fall / STU 1211 Harvard Graduate School of Design Instructor: Rosalea Monacella Group Member: Mark Heller, Siyu Liu Site location: South Boston Countless garbage flows into the sea every year and forms growing patches in the center of an ocean. However, seldom has anyone noticed how giant these out-of-sight patches are growing to be. Our design, which based in a site at the reserved channel in south boston, aims at looking into these problematic aggregations. The goal of the design is to creat a denamic landscape that could "eat in" these trash and transform them into useful materials in defense of sea level rise. The "consumption and transformation" would be a gradual process, in which more and more grabage from the sea would be collected as time goes. Finally, they will be used in multiple ways to support living, visiting, researching and other types of activities happening on site. Note: Unless otherwise stated, all drawings and models in this section are done by me.
Process model
Ocean Currents, Garbage Flows, and Sea Level Rise
Current flows and garbage patches around the globe Floating trash has long been a problem to coasts around the globe, as they travel around wih ocean currents. The greater Boston region has also been bothered a lot by the ocean grabage (both from the region and from other places). One another problem that is threating Bostion is sea level rise. It is predictied that that with a 3-meter rise, a large portion of the city center would be flooded. This project, then, aims to use what we produced (trash) to tackle the crisis that we are facing (sea level rise). The site, south Boston reserve channel, is an experiment field.
Inudation:Existing site condition
Inudation: 1-meter rise
Inudation: 2-meter rise
Inudation: 3-meter rise
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THE HABITAT RECONSTRUCTED ANIMALS, PLANTS, HUMANS AND THE CITY ALL AS BENEFICIARIES
Studio Work (Individual) 2016 Fall / LARC 501 The University of British Columbia Instructor: Kees Lokman, Shelley Long Site location: False Creek, Vancouver Vancouver is known as a city of renowned waterfronts. And my site makes up one part of the seaside greenway that runs along the city's edge. Looking back to its history, the site was originally a marshy beachland hosting countless plants and animals before the invasion of industries. Inspired by its history, My design aims to integrate a naturalistic surface with everyday programs for the surrounding community. It would welcome back habitants of the past and form a resilient system which animals, plants, humans and even the city would all be benefited.Here, the ecological process becomes the thread that connected and activated different parts.
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The Design concept With a nice sea view, the park is an ideal place of leisure for nearby commnnities. Yet humans are not the only user that the park seek to attract. By recreating a naturalistic surface, the park also attracts sea birds, crabs, salmons and many other creatures.Animals, humans and plants would share the space. Althought sometimes they would be place on different layers, there are plenty of interactions between human and non-human. Moreover, living organisms would form a resilient system that helps to fliter pollution and sustain the buit environment.
Programs for people: Changing experiences
The Plan
Waterside terrace
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High tide
The View
Amphitheater / Viewing Platform +Terraced Lawn
The roof itself is also an accessible viewing platform, where one could overlook the nice scenery in front of him.
Sportground / Children's playground
As sportground (low tide)
As playground (low tide)
As dabble place (high tide)
The experience
The Surface: A constructed habitat 1. Restoring Biodiversity Bring back species that used to live here by creating a favorable environment for them.
A food chain could be created after some time, which will in turn draw back more and more species.
Animals coming back: Salmon Sole, Perch Sturgeon Seal Crustacean Seagull Herring Waterfowl Raptors Other Seabirds Phytoplankton ... ...
Low tide Soft, holey surface under shallow water: A safe place for small juvenile fishes to inhabit
2. Water Filtration 3. Stormwater Management Achieve water clearance and management through natural Processes.
Rain water
Sewage
Shallow ponds filled with water in intertidal lands: Ideal habitat for crustaceans
Surface runoff
High tide
The sea
Intertidal lands: Restoring biodiversity
Constructed wetland: Filtering water & Managing storms
Permeable Pavement
PRISMATIC COMMUNITY Studio Work (Individual) 2016 Spring / ARCH3104 / The University of Hong Kong Instructor: Natalia Echeverri, Vincci Mak, Bin Jiang Site location: Yau Ma Tei, Kowloon, Hong Kong This project consists of two parts: an in-depth investigation of the targeted community and a design that improves the community's living conditions. Yau Ma Tei is one of the poorest districts in the HK. The community used to be made up of almost 100% chinese. But in recent years a lot of ethnic minorities who cannot afford the rising rent elsewhere kept moving in. Up till now, they have taken up 12% of the population. However, there is seldom any facility catering for their interests. Yau Ma Tei today still seems to be a traditional chinese community, yet it is much more diversified than seemed. Most people in this district live in small subdivided apartments. With limited indoor space, street activities become an important part of their life. The street life is very vibrant here no matter day or night, yet there are many hidden problems on the streets due to improper planning and maintainance. The design works at two different sizes: the first is at the scale of the master plan, seeking to improve street conditions and revitalize outdoor spaces as a whole by improving some of its key nodes. The second half goes more specific: one block of space was chosen and redesigned in details. In the detailed design I worked with the problem of ethnicity. As mentioned, local Hong Kong culture is in a dominant position here, and often times the rights of ethnic minorities are ignored or infringed. Here, a stage would be created for them to reveal their culture to the majority.
Model photo
Parallel Streets, Parallel Lives
Days and Nights: Picture of street lives shot in Yau Ma Tei
General condition: Distinct lives next to each other
Vibrant street lives for chinese people
Ethnic minorities: the hidden residents
Physical form
Temple street night market: The local's night club
"Hong Kong for Hong Kong People is very good, but for us life is a little bit difficult."
Building typology Apartment size: 70 - 180 Ft Rental Prize: 42HKD / Ft Building age: 55 - 90 years
Apartment size: 100 - 400 Ft Rental Prize: 47HKD / Ft Building age: 15 - 50 years Apartment size: 400 - 600 Ft Rental Prize: 50HKD / Ft Building age: 1 - 20 years
Income division
Reclamation Street market Lower income Higher income
Temple Street might market
Samuelson putting up tents for street markets
Samuelson, a pakistani who came to HK seven years ago, lives and works in the community. He sets up tents for street venders on temple street. He works before and after the night market, everyday from 12pm to 3pm, and from 12am to 3am. Nevertheless, he would disappear from the street when the market starts. "It is for Hong Kong people, not for us."
The Master Plan
Currently, Temple Street and Reclamation Street are the most populated as they are where street markets locatea. Nevertheless, most other streets are dark, dirty, and depressed. The master plan aims to bring people off those two streets and vitalize the community as a whole.
1. Rearrange Reduce the density of street venders on Temple Street and reclamation street; Rearrange their locations to make the shopping experience more pleasant.
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3. Transform Take some underused open spaces that scatter around the district and transform them into market places. Those extra street venders form step 1 could be located here.
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2. Illuminate Take some underused open spaces that scatter around the district and transform them into market places. Those extra street venders form step 1 could be located here.
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3. Transform 4. Revitalize Reclamation Street Temple Street
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As market activites disperse into different locations, it leads people around the community. Many nice hidden local / minority-run shops would be benefited from this change of population flow.
The Park and its Programs
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Ethnic minority groups
Specifically, a block is chosen to be redesigned in details. It would become an active core of the community. it would reveal the culture of ethnic minorities to the majority, becoming a stage for various kinds of activities.
Daily activities Create a public open space to normalize minorities' daily activities
Nepalese
Filipino
Performances
Competitions
Facilitate the communication between minorities and local residents
Marketing
Display minorities' own culture Indonesian
Indian
Cultural Performances
Religious activities
Festivals
Night market
Classes and workshops (for example: cooking class)
Gatherings and restings
Exhibitions
Performances (small scale)
Performances (Large scale)
Festivals
Sports and fitness activities
CUBOID A SPACE AWAITING DEFINATION
Studio Work (Individual) 2015 Fall / ARCH 3101 The University of Hong Kong Instructor: Matthew Pryor, Scott Jennings Melbourne Site location: Tim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong
Tim Sha Tsui, HK's busiest and most diversified district, is a cluster of manifold habitants. This studio asks us to redefine a piece of land right in the center of Tim Sha Tsui, which is currently a small hill covered by lush vegetations. The primary concept of the design is ambiguity: Instead of defining one specific form that tries to cater for the interests of all those different habitants, it might be a better idea to invite the users to define the park by themselves. The ambiguity is achieved by using a very basic geometry: the cube. It is one of the most basic shapes, but is also open to various interpretations. It could be used by different users in the ways they enjoy.
Concept model
From Cube to Space An explorable space
A collective space
A playful space
“An open exploration for all living creatures� Original Plants
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Mosses Cubes (as walls) and originals plants help shade the sun, creating cool corners that mosses like. ( brick joints are also places they like).
1. In one year: Mosses
Cuboid as planting base: HK has a hot and humid climate, suitable for a variety of tropical and subtropical plants to grow. Apart from being used by humans, Original Plants these cubes could also be bases for plants to thrive.
2. In three years: Climbers
Climbers Cubes serve as stands for climbers to lean on.
3. In ten years: Big trees
New big trees In ten years' time a new generation of trees could mature. Showing below is a banyan tree (Ficus microcapa), a tree commonly seen in HK.
Brick Joints
Sun light
The weather in HK is very humid, whihch is ideal for mosses to spread. Shaded corner
Human activities
The place (the Peak) in plan
PLACE / ANTIPLACE
Studio Work (Academic) / 2015 Spring / ARCH2102 / HKU Group Work with Justin Hui and Dora Ho Instructor: Seth Denizen / Andrew Toland After getting into the field of landscape architecture, I was constantly being asked the meaning of place. I see place as a term opposite to space, with an attention to geographical, social and political contexts. A place is objective, yet how one reads it is often subjective. By adding into their own understandings people reinvent places through the process of recognition. for every place people invent, there would always be an opposite or antiplace, within the “mad-becoming� that every place offers. On this page, the place is the peak of HK. It is represented through models and its antiplace is designed.
The antiplace in plan
Reading the place
Imagining the antiplace
Making the antiplace
Place as a concentric system
Antiplace as a grid
Antiplace as a grid
Place as a destination
Antiplace as a place of passing-by
Antiplace as a place of passing-by
Place as a symbol of segregation and monuments
Antiplace as slums
Antiplace as slums
Place as cities in a forest
Antiplace as forest in a city
Antiplace as forest in a city
Place as panorama
Antiplace as obliques
Antiplace as obliques
MODELING THE MODEL
Street elevation as shown on a plan map
Expose its fictions and find its gaps
Studio Work (Academic) / 2015 Spring / ARCH2102 / HKU Group Work with Minnie Chu, Natalie Koon, and Pear So Instructor: Seth Denizen, Andrew Toland
Street elevation as shown on the Trigonometrical Network map
HK is a city with a lot of topographical changes. Apart from a city plan, it is also mapped by something called a Trigonometrical Network, which records spot heights in various places and generate a mesh from the points. However, there are lots of gaps between the reality and the Trigonometrical Network map. In this page, we seek to model a street in HK as recorded in the map, and find out its gaps with reality.
* The model was done collectively. Workload was seperated evenly within the group.
Data point The surface generated from data points
On the Trigonometrical Network map, a building is located at the height of the center of the triangular mesh contains it. Hence a building would be splited if it is located across different meshes
Model Details: Street lives
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A gap between the map and the world
TURENSCAPE INTERN WORK SAMPLES 2017 Summer Beijing
In charge of several small scale designs
During the internship, I worked on a project in Yanjin (China), a city that has three rivers flowing across it. Turenscape was in charge of redesigning all parks and green belts along the three rivers. The aim was not only to revitalize those urban parks, but also to manage river bank instability and erosion. I was involved in the design of two rivers.
In charge of model building in Sketch Up and rendering
CONSTRUCTION: FAIRY WATER VILLAGE, HUNAN, CHINA
Summer Project 2016 Summer Instructor: Yan Gao (HKU) Site location: Fairy Water Village, Hunan Province, China Last summer, a group of 11 people including me stayed in a rural village for three weeks. At there, we designed and built a pavilion for the villagers. The whole process includes site investigation, design generation, material selection, and construction.
Talking to the villagers about our design
Preparing the ground
Getting to know how to join wooden beams
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Building the wall
Me!
Building the roof
The Pavilion finished
FABRICATING THE SITE 2017 / Highdensity Polyurethane / CNC milling / 6"×6"
2016 / Powder / 3D printing / 15cm × 30cm
3D-printed model
2017 / High density Polyurethane / CNC milling / 6"×6"
Data is gathered, manipulated , and a piece of landscape is modeled digitally with the help of different softwares (GIS, Rhino, Civil3D, etc.) Afterwards, a physical model would be build with the help of CNC router, 3D printer, laster cutter, or a pair of hands.
2017 / Wood / CNC milling / 20"×32"
2018 / 3D printing
2018 / Laser cutting
2017 / Expanded Polystyrene / CNC milling / 4"×4"
2017 / Expanded Polystyrene / CNC milling / 16"×16"
2017 / Chip Board / Laser cutting
2015 / Acrylic / Laser cutting
2015 / Chip board / Laser cutting / 100cm × 60cm
Tongtong Zhang (Sherly) tzhang@gsd.harvard.edu sherlyttzhang@gmail.com +1 6172300118 +86 13693377871 The power of landscape design to a city is soft, implicit but strong.