QIAN DENG
Landscape Architecture
Work Sample
Thesis Research -Design open system
Performative Residential Landscape Design
Suburbia Transformed 2.0
Sustainable Urban Plaza Landscape Design
Graduate Research Assistance
Hand Drawing
01. Thesis: Design Open System
How can an open urban landscape design be applied to Middle Branch, Baltimore Fall 2011- present Baltimore, MD Design tools: ArcGIS, Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Rhino, AutoCAD, Google SketchUp
This thesis researches the potential of an open systems approach to the design of urban harbor. Open system is a system that responds to disturbance by creating new levels of complexity and capacity . This is what is meant by adaptability and resilience. An open system becomes more resilient as it develops through time. The thesis investigates a series of complex harbor landscapes in Baltimore, MD by designing an open system of landscape structures and processes through a chain of wetlands, estuaries, brownfield sites, low-cost housing areas. These new landscape are then tested against a range of possible disturbances(flooding, economic decline and inappropriate urban development) to ascertain whether they will exhibit the degree of resilience - openness- necessary to reorganize into novel terrains that increase the potential for human and nonhuman inhabitation.
+ Context Analysis
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Conceptual Membrane Platform
Because of the economic development, the industrial and transportation corridors occupied the waterfront. The elevated railroad created a blockage for ecological migration, social circulation and community safety. It is a common challenge happens in most waterfront cities. This is an experimental design which explores the possibility of connecting the degraded waterfront open space with the existing urban fabric by creating a functional landscape infrastructure. By making this connection, the people of Westport will take advantage of the new opportunities it provides.
Elevation
Light Rail Road
Vehicle Flow
Pedestrian Flow
Surface Flow
Habitat Flow
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Stage 4
Division Social& Ecological Condition Light rail road + Drive way + Regenerated habitats on abandoned industrial site
Establish Membrane Construction Raise Public Curiosity
Implanting Medium + Seeding Initial opening and transition
Growth + Succession
Social + Ecological Adaptations Habitat and wildlife evolution New social network
Establish Potential Relationship +Encourage FUTURE succession
Plants Growing medium Filter fleece Drainage Layer Waterproof membrane Steel deck frame
The membrane platform generates the potential relationships, enhances human activity spaces and wild life habitat across this functional landscape. Structure detail of membrane
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Designing with open systems leads us to control and take advantage of flooding more effectively without shutting the city down. The design provide a soft porous urban surface to absorb, store and use the water as well as exhibit the degree of resilience openness- necessary to reorganize into novel terrains that increase the potential for human and nonhuman inhabitation.
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Landscape recovery after strom: Rain garden
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+ Intervention Designs for Disturbance of Economic Change
By reusing former phytoremediation terraces, exploring the estuary ecological potential for economy, this intervention developed an idea to re-imagine the industrial areas within the site. It establishes a mixed use district that encourages connections between the established city and the waterfront as well as introduce a sustainable way of integrating urban landscape system, economy system and social system.
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1.Carroll Park 2.Carroll Camden Mix-used district 3.Adaptive dwelling 4.M & T Bank Stadium 5.Productive Estuary 6.Existing Industry Park 7.Existing Biomass Industry 8.Westport Waterfront Park 9.Overlook Bridge 10.Membrane platform 11.Phytoremediation field 12.Westport Community 13.Gywnns Fall River Park 14.Sport Field 15.Middle Branch Community 16.Middle Branch Park 17.Middle Branch Industrial Park 18.Greenway
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+ Middle Branch Harbor --An Open System Plan
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Ball fields
xeriscape bioswale
Play ground
Timber seatings
Main community activities space
Parking area Turf mound
+Aerial View
02. Affordable Environment Design Spring 2011 Albuquerque, NM Design tools: ArcGIS, Adobe Photoshop, AutoCAD, Google SketchUp
Looking back into the rich history of New Mexico, the feature landform plays a crucial role in the distributions of Indians and agriculture productions. The intensity map was generated by combining single layers , which reveals intensities that have significant social and productive values. The mapping are the first step of design process. They exploring relationships between landform, productions and urban settlement, in order to evaluate how the landforms contribute to social, spatial and ecological performance. This information will be applied in the community environment design. By re-introducing the productive valley landform into the community, serials turf mounts and terraces help organized space and circulation, enriched the spatial experience and promoted more activities in the community.
Intensity Map
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03.Suburbia Transformed 2.0
Pleasure and Production-New Agrarian Garden in Auburn, AL
Fall 2011 Auburn, AL Design tools: ArcGIS, Adobe Photoshop, AutoCAD, Realtime Landscape Architecture
Fruit developing
Growing Fruit mature
Seeding
Fruit harvest
Process food in the kitchen
In a long term, more residential applied new productive garden prototype The front yard serves as an outdoor gathering space which is open and inviting for friends and neighbors, especially during the harvest season.
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Farmers market Yard sale
To City consumption
Active Loops
The proposal is to reveal the beauty of a productive garden as loop, serving as a prototype for transforming the suburban residential fabric. Garden as loop refers to evolving and exchange, from family, community, to city scale. The idea transforms the garden from locus to loop; changes the role of people from pure consumers to active participants.
The terrace, which is common in Auburn suburbia, in this proposal provides the opportunity to enable gardens to serve multi-functional purposes in both sustainable and aesthetic ways. 6
04.iHUB Studio- Phase1 Floating Garden Fall 2010, Gainesville, FL Design tools: Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, AutoCAD, Realtime Landscape Architecture
The primary aim of the design is to explore stormwater management on this site. By explicitly using sustainable strategies, tactics and technologies, to provoke dialogue between people and water and enrich the aesthetic spatial experience as well. Water molecule is the metaphor of design; spaces and pedestrian circulation organized in suh a way to reflect the physical form of water molecule. Bioswales, green roof, serials retention pond and collection/reuse device will be applied to manage stormwater and help clean the water on the site before the water reaches the Creek.
Entrance Falling Water Walls Aquatic Plants
Constructed Wetland Terrace 40’
Boardwalk
Pond B 20’
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Lawn Terrace
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Water Falls
15’
Waterfront Step Seating
Pond C 45’
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[Watercolor] Xiaohei River Revitalization Landscape Design
05.Hand Drawings
2010, Huhehaote,China
Design tools: Adobe Photoshop, Google SketchUp
06.Research assistance Under the Radar
Spring 2011- Spring 2012
This project designed a series of public open space interventions which would highlight the role of cultural values and provoke a dialog among the human, the history of the former Creek Indian territory, the spread of Kudzu vine and the urban coyote population.
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Parking Space size 9*18 ft. Material(s) Asphalt Subtotal/acres 0.46 acres
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Access Road Length Material Subtotal
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648 ft. Asphalt 0.4 acres
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Walks By material Subtotal
653.43 lin. ft. 0.08 acres
Stormwater Pond(s) Pond #1 Pond #2 Pond #2 Subtotal
0.14 acres 0.05 sq. ft 0.02 sq. ft 0.21 acres
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Date
12-13-10
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Scale
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56.13
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51.30
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56.45
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07.Grading Work
Grading, Parking lot design, Road design, Drainage Design Tool: AutoCAD 9
Master Plan
08. Chinese Traditional Architecture Design Design Tool: AuroCAD
Terraces Terrac Ter races es ret rretaining aining wall
Waterfront Boardwalk
09. Detial Designs
Design Tool: AuroCAD, Adobe Photoshop 10