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PORTFOLIO Shiya Zeng | 2017–2020
Master of Landscape Architecture I, 2020 Rhode Island School of Design
The imagination is a place in which it rains.
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Work In Progress Design process community engagement Material and motion 02
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The Third Magnet Community engagement Bottom-up strategy Collaborative design 12
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Reviving Pawtucket Sustainable urban planning Systematic thinking 34
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Welcome Home Urban development Mix-used community 52
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Visual Connection Ecological urban development Waterfront recreation Historic research 72
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Space Porosity Site exploration Hand drawing Model techniques 92
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Social Hotspots Campus design Technical drawings Detail construction 108 1
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WORK IN PROGRESS — Rethink the design process through making a pot.
I am working on the thesis topic about an alternative way of engaging the community in the landscape design process. One that cares about people’s humanity encourages creativity and incorporates more variables in decision making. It practices in two scales: design of the community development process and design of the place. This thesis aims to help others understand how designers use community engagement to facilitate our design process and how the community can benefit from it.
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“If we decide to make the clay into something such as a brick, a cup, or a tile, we are inspired–and this comes directly from the clay’s material behavior– to act, not with more squeezing but with tools.” —Christopher Bardt
“It is not the pots we are forming, but ourselves” —Mary Caroline Richards
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Where is the RAW MATERIAL during the community design process? Assets: The skills of local residents Cultural or natural resource Local industries Tight kinship within the local society The power of local associations Land, building, infrastructure ......
Which parts of the assets are useful?
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How do designers make the assets VISIBLE and APPLICABLE? People need someone to tell them: “Hey, you know the stone and water have great potential.”
Who provides the subgrade of the design process? and how?
What kind of community development we are looking for? There are problems that need to be solved Here is what I need
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Asset-based Build on what I have There is a potential to...... It doesn’t need to be perfect
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Is there a WHEEL that keep people consistently engaged? 5
Who are shaping the IDEA? Who are interested? Community Local associations Government Stakeholders ......
Is the system ADAPTIVE? When the strength comes, does the system collapse? When the process stuck, we need some WATER to keep the relationship.
Is VULNERABILITY an opening moment where we see opportunity? al et ce t for en rip
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How do we balance the INSIDE and OUTSIDE forces?
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To find a proper porpotion of sunlight and humidity, the location matters.
The project is usually done by multiple hands. Government Contractor Land owner Public/Volunteers Partnership associations
STEWARDSHIP plays a critical role in preventing the idea from being deformed or dropped.
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Depending on the character of the project, how many hands are needed?
Who is conducting the hands? 7
Is there a specific period when a project needs PROTECTION, before it becomes strong and stable?
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Time to remove the container
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If it is a gift to the next generation, does the PATTERN needs to be more beautiful and delicate? What we chose to leave now should consider the long-term effect.
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Could the project be a working landscape? People’s day to day interaction with the project leaves imprints on it.
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The design process, as if leading a hollow to a pot, is a resilient system that allows for ongoing reshaping and discovering. We are not sure what exactly is the shape of the pot we want, but we learn from the process of accumulation and destruction. Eventually, the pot becomes a sum of the whole that hold stories, tenderness, serendipity, and playfulness of people who make it.
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THE THIRD MAGNET Studio: POP-UP Location: Fall River, MA Area: 3.5 Acre Site Features: Parking lot, Private property Period: 09/2019—12/2019 Advisor: Emily Vogler
Description: A large amount of surface parking is a big issue that exists in most post-industrial cities. The Third Magnet is a community development project that tests the possibility of transforming the surface parking of a manufacturing factory into a friendly outdoor place for people who live and work there. We had a series of public engagement activities and workshops with the workers and people who live in the neighborhood. And it is a project guided by people’s voices that tests the methods of engaging the community in the long term. This project is a magnet that grows from the bottom-up, people empower the attraction step by step and generate a magnetism that resembles main st and waterfront in Fall River.
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Visit: http://merrowmfg.com/risd/
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REVIVING PAWTUCKET At The Ecotone Of Art & Green Technology
Studio: Urban Systems Location: Pawtucket, RI Area: Downtown Site Features: Post-industrial city Period: 02/2019—05/2019 Advisor: Elizabeth Dean Hermann
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Remember the past, and make the future.
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Welcome Home
Studio: Constructed landscape Location: Downtown Salem, MA Area: 2 Acres Site Features: Urban, Surface parking Period: 09/2018—12/2018 Advisor: Jacob Mitchell, Mike Blier
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VISUAL CONNECTION
Studio: Site, Ecology & Design Location: South Quay, East Providence, RI Area: 65 Acres Site Features: Landfill, Waterfront Period: 02/2018—05/2018 Advisor: Karli Molter, Johanna Barthmaier-Payne
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SPACE POROSITY
Studio: Design Principle Location: Tillinghast Farm, Barrington, RI Area: 66000 sq ft Site Features: Natural, scenic landscape Period: 09/2017—12/2017 Advisor: Suzanne Mathew, Colgate Searle
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SOCIAL HOTSPOTS
Studio: Constructed Ground Location: 231 South Main St, Providence, RI Area: 13600 sq ft Site features: Campus, Parkinglot Period: 01/2018—02/2018 Advisor: Johanna Barthmaier-Payne
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My work is projecting images from the inner sight.
To be continued.