PORTFOLIO CHENGHAO ZHONG LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE SELECTED WORKS
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CURRICULUM VITAE Chenghao Zhong
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EDUCATION Xiamen University of Technology Xiamen, China Bachelor of Environmental Design
2014/09 -2018/06
AWARDS The finalist of the 7th international landscape planning& design competition
2017
the third-class university scholarship
2017
the third prize of Xiamen University of Technology Art Design Competition
2014
PROFESSIONAL SKILLS Cad (Auto Cad, Rhino) Visualization (3Dmax Rhino Grasshopper Sketchup Maya) Computer Graphic （Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign, Aftereffect) Geographic Information System (Arcsence, Arcmap)
EXPERIENCE Shenzhen Zhujing Landscape Design Co., Ltd. Landscape Design Assistant
2017/07 -2017/09
2016 Xiamen Design Week Volunteer
2016/11
Field trip of School of Design Arts Group Leader
2016/04
•Took charge of the reception work of foreign guests at the venue •Enabled me to understand the current design direction of other design profess
•Led the team members to set up and complete the goal in the field trip •Organized team members to sketch at a certain location and maintain order in the process of sketching •Developed my abilities to communicate and organize as well as the sense of responsibility
SELECTED WORKS
01
BORDER OF MANGROVE URBAN MANGROVE FOREST REHABILITATION
02
BORDER OF POVERTY COMMUNITY RENAISSANCE
03
BOADER OF HEALING SANDY HOOK PERMANENT MEMORIAL
04
BORDER OF OVERFLOW REGIONAL FLOOD CONTRAL
Sa lin ity
Shenzhen
China
Sediment
Tra n
spa
ren
cy
BOD
1980s
1990s
2000s
2010s Mangroves area changed during last 30 years
PROBLEMS MANGR 32 Km²
12.4 Km²
7.6 Km²
Mangrove forest are damaged on resent decades by , population booming and urbanization. The situation make a great problem that population of migrant birds are threatened because mangrove forests.
1.original forest
2.urbanize erodi
01
BORDER OF MANGROVE URBAN MANGROVE FOREST REHABILITATION
When the mangroves forest in Shenzhen were exposed to severe urbanization and population booming, the ecological restoration strategy was proposed to restore the ecological carrying capacity of mangrove habitat. Through the investigation of mangrove ecology, it is found that the growth of mangrove plants requires a specific growing environment, including sufficient sediment thickness, water salinity, oxygen content and other environmental indicators. In order to reshape the mangrove habitat inside the Shenzhen city, the strategy chooses to introduce spartina as a pioneer species to accelerate the sedimentation rate of sediments in the tidal flats, and then select the mangrove species with strong erosion resistance to strengthen the bio-capacity of the habitat. In the process of restoration, local mangrove species are gradually planted, and the original ecosystem is restored, and the new mangroves are more resilient to various risks. At the same time, a variety of landscape viewing structures are provided to improve the visitors' experience in the park.
City border in 1980s
The rapid urbanization and population growth of 30 years led to the replacement of the original mangroves in Shenzhen by urban construction. The overall area of mangroves forest has dropped from 32 km² before the 1990s to 7.5 km² now. At the same time, the number of migratory birds with mangroves as migration transit stations has dropped to near the endangered red line.
City border in 1990s
A large amount of mangrove habitat was transformed into different types of urban land-use during the rapid development of Shenzhen, and several pollution brought by urbanization made the environmental and ecological problems more apparent.
City border in 2000s
IUCN RED LIST
Endangered 2016
Black-faced spoonbill
ROVE FOREST ARE FACING
ing
Near Threatened 2012
Black-tailed godwit
Pacific reef-egret
Yellow-breasted bunting
3.sea-level rise risk
4. Limited by conservation
Least Concern 2017
Critically Endangered 2017
DETAIL OF PLANT DISTRIBUTION
SUCCESSION PROCESS
Some bare rocks on the shore
Local mangrove species growing, to establish a new ecosystem.
Step 1
Step 8
Spartina plant along the shore line.
Local mangrove species are planted on the site.
Step 2
Step 7
Spartina increase biodiversity in this area.
Sonneratia apetala growing and make it possible to eliminate sparinia.
Step 3
Step 6
Spartina arise the height of the beach.
Sonneratia apetala is planted on this habitat.
Step 4
Step 5
The mangrove swamp area is immersed in seawater throughout the day, and the mangrove planted here has a robust root system to captures sediment.
The dense mangroves create a shelter for fish and other benthic animals living in the area. The canopy also provides the necessary sites for birds to rest and nest.
The ecological system composed of mangroves and Spartina alterniflora reduces the speed of surface runoff flows, while the leaf and fruits that the plants dropped are important nutrient foundations for constructing ecosystems.
SUCCESSION PROCESS
Coastal
Jan.
Jan.
Jan.
Dec.
Jan.
Jan.
Lumnitzera racemosa
Dec.
Mangrove Swamp
Avicennia marina
Dec.
Jan.
Kandelia obovata
Dec.
Jan.
Thespesia populnea
Dec.
Intertidal Zone
Bruguiera gymnorrhiza
Dec.
Jan.
Pongamia pinnata
Rhizophora stylosa
Heritiera littoralis
Pluchea indica
Dec.
Jan.
Dec.
Dec.
CURRENT ECOSYSTEM
2016
'I cannot feel the wild.'
'There is no place for nesting and feeding.'
Plastic
Construction waste
Eutrophication Bare rock
Algae
Uca Rhizophorae
The environmental status of the site only includes a large number of exposed rocks, some algae, and aquatic plants. Most of the animals that live here are crabs called uca rhizophorae.
WELL-DEVELOPED ECOSYSTEM
20XX
The ability to capture sediment is provided through the root system of the mangroves, which is adequately supplied by the basic nutrients required for the local flora and fauna of the captured sediment. On this basis a completed ecosystem has been built. 09:00 am
17:00 pm
SUCCESSION PROCESS
02:00 am
MASTER PLAN N
0 15
30
60
1:1500 120m
B Watch by the sea
C Travel in the forest
A Birds watching ring
SECTIONAL PLAN
A Birds watching ring
B Watch by the sea
PERSPECTIVES
PERSPECTIVES COMPARE WITH SUNNING AND RAINNING The passage in the mangrove swamp was flooded in the rain. Visitors cannot reach the depths of the mangroves at this time. Birds and benthic animals inhabiting mangroves will be infested at this time. At this time, the restored mangroves play a huge ecological role as ecological habitats.
Pedestrians can enter the deep forests through the passages of the mangroves on sunny days, and enjoy the multi-faceted flora and fauna in the mangroves. The mangroves play the role of the urban landscape at this time.
C Travel in the forest
OF POVERTY 02 BORDER COMMUNITY RENAISSANCE The design aims to improve the living quality in low-income communities through the landscape practice. The vertical modular landscape is designed for the Belmont community with minimum changes to the existing local lifestyle (and the land ownership), to solve the problems caused by the low economic mobility in the current community, including the lower personal income, lack of care for children, a high crime rate and the neighborhood with a poor communication. The design concept will finally be expanded to other communities with similar problems. Based on the urban farm and playing space for children, the complex vertical landscape is arranged at the unoccupied space in the existing community, in which the multifunctional landscape has improved both the income and health of residents here and provided playing space with more fun for local children. As the private property of the community and relax and chillout space for children, the landscape also provides a reason for residents to constantly overlook at the street, that is, the so-called 'eyes on the street' created by Jane Jacobs in the landscape area. At the same time, different types of landscape spread out in the site with the same function gathered the residents around the space, as a result, it formed a community space.
GRADUATION RATE
Avarage
Local
K12
College
K12
College
86%
36%
81%
18%
INDIVIDIUAL INCOME
18k
33k
COMMUNITY CONDITIONS
Charlotte . CN 1.2k
77%
Number of children
Divorce rate
Average annual household income
44k
Average annual house hold income for children who stayed in the same city
20k
OVERVIEW COMMUNITIES church school
Poverty
medical institution other communities have similar situation like cherry other communities have higher ecnomic mobility
Deficient Education
Poor Income
Increased Crime
Decreased Chance
More Poverty
'Poverty is like disease, passed down from generation to generation.'
LANDUSE CLASSIFICATION
EXISTING CONDITIONS existing block
privated border
Site analysis categorizes several types of land uses in the community. Take the Belmont community as an example. Narrow streets and small pieces of broken unused land are characteristic of poor communities in Charlotte.
PHENOMENON
N COMMUNITY LAND-USE PLAN
Green space Surrounding Area
Waste land
Surrounding Area
LANDUSE CLASSIFICATION( OVER VIEW)
Surrounding area (soft pavement) Street
Waste land
Green space
Surrounding area (rigid pavement)
DEMAND
POSSIBLE STRATEGY
Increase Income
‘As a result, designing landscape programs as a vertical structure is a reasonable idea to make balance between existed boader and community development.’
Children Care Unite Redisents Decrease Crimie Rate
COMMUNITY UNION
URBAN FARMING
CHILDRENACTIVITY EYES ON THE STREET
Unpractical Solution
Unpractical Solution
A. Urban farming layer Heliophile Shade plantings Fungus
The private land boundary makes it difficult for the urban landscape to be built within the enclosed area.
B. Kids playground Slide Micro-Topography Climbing Net
Adjacent enclosed areas and narrow streets make it difficult for the city landscape to expand horizontally.
C. Viewing platform
D. Community public space Chair
Atrium
Public Spcae
Rising
OVERLOOK MASTERPLAN AND DETAILS FOR EACH LANDSCAPE INTERVENTION
A+C Urban farming + Viewing platform
B Urban farming + Viewing platform
B+D Urban farming + Viewing platform
A+B+D urban farming + kids playground + public space N
4. Sectional Perspective
The picture shows a classic type of vertical landscape in the Belmont community. In the vertical structure of two to three floors, there are spaces for different functions such as urban farms, children's playgrounds and community exchange spaces. Depending on the site's existing site, other vertical landscapes of the same type that interfere with the Belmont community can be selected for the most appropriate conversion among the plural functional modules.
1. Children playground
2. Urban farming
3. Platform
OF HEALING 03BORDER SANDY HOOK PERMANENT MEMORIAL
This project is designed to commemorate the victims of the Sandy Hook school shooting and to heal the wounds of other witnesses. After analyzing the history of the site, a selection of design plans to commemorate the landscape was proposed in conjunction with the site's long-term plan for the history of the feldspar mine. The commemorative landscape aims to heal the minds of the witnesses by introducing rainwater harvesting, and healing the site through a series of measures to heal the land.
Elementary school
Shooting Mass Shooting
New immigrants effected the town
Problems brought by industry
Earily Settlement of European
A railway crossed to Newtown which brought industral revolution, hat making, fur business and botton production arised on this time.
Earlier colonier arrived and reclaimed land for agriculture, they called their colony ‘Newtown’.
SITE MAPPING
Mining was stopped but not be recovered. Feldspar quarry was closed and abandoned, there was uesd to children’s playing in next few years, then also was abandoned.
Some of workers remained after they had builded the railway, those people supported development of feldspar mining.
DESIGN PURPOSE
Water changing on summer
previous quarry affected area settlement main highway railroad
Existed tree
SITE
Storm runoff
Felspar Quarry
Compared with the traditional monuments, the healing landscape allows a person to experience the process of site restoration. During the process of gradually greening the site, the inner pain of the witness is also naturally healed by the increasingly dense nature.
Existed rocds
SPACE HIERACHY Satellite picture
Tree
Path Sediment
1. Entrance
add
sequence
sediment
2. Grass Land
add
byc ramp
waterfall
3. lake and hill
add
track
Inflow Platform
SFW
platform
People travel to the park frequently to maintain the landscape and their memory.
15 year
Communities are involved to create the constructure
0 year
Plant pioneering herbs
1 year
Retaining wall
Floding
Hrubs and trees are growing with victim
5 year
Master plan in the 1 year
A
Master plan in 5 years
Section 1
Section 1
Section 2 B
C
Section 2 E
Section 3
H I
D F
Section 3 G
J K
FINAL MASTER PLAN H. retaining wall A. entrance I. pond (reservoir) B. water inflow C. water sedimentation J. activity facility K. platform D. memorial wall E. waterfall F. subsurface flow wetland G. lawn H. retaining wall
SECTION N
Section 1
0
50
100
200m
Section 1
Section 2
Section 2
The water flow introduced into the site gradually descends as the terrain passes through the pond after passing through various structures. The various activities of the tourists are also connected in series.
Section 3
Section 3
OF OVERFLOW 04BORDER REGIONAL FLOOD CONTRAL
As winter and spring precipitation continues to grow with global climate change, existing flood control system in Vancouver are less able to withstand the pressure of rising water levels. Therefore, the project was proposed as a regional flood control design, and several different types of landscape design were set up in the Vancouver area to enhance the ability of the Vancouver area to cope with more severe floods in the future.
Floodplain Design area City Water body Steep slope（>25°） N
Site Mapping Canada-United States Boader
FLOODING ANALYSIS THROUGH GIS
SCALE OF FLOODING ANALYSIS
The worst flood in 5 years (9ft)
The worst flood in 15 years (15ft)
The worst flood in 50 years (21ft)
GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION ANALYSIS
In recent years, the highest water level in the rainy season of local rivers has been raised, and more frequent floods have caused serious losses to near residents.
The worst flood in the future (>24ft)
CLIMATE
The narrower bank in the middle of the river and the steep mountainous terrain on one side expose the urban farmland around this section to the threat of future floods.
N
Water body
Hillside
Flood contral system (Hilly area) Flood contral system (Urban area)
Flood contral system (Village area)
0
1
2
3
5km
Multiple Flood Control System
Suburb and village
City
MASTER PLAN
Existed dam
Depending on the site, landscapes with different functions are planned at different locations in the area. The northern mountainous area focuses on the retention and differentiation of rainwater in the enhanced area; the middle section of the river focuses on planning the embankment and increasing the volume of the river; the hard channel in the urban area is transformed into an ecological wetland landscape, providing various ecological functions for the surrounding residents.
Plants
Red Oak
Hemlock
Yellow Birch
Pine
Sugar Maple
Larch
landscape wall
ecological river bank
dam in rural area
The new embankment landscape can control larger floods in the future and provide more time for local residents to evacuate before the river level exceeds the warning level. The remodeled standard embankment is also used as a waterfront landscape, providing residents with space for entertaining activities.
9m
Future Flooding
6m
Current Flooding
3m
Average water level
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