2023 Portfolio

JIAYU HUANG PORTFOLIO

EDUCATION

Master of Architecture Professional Degree | Philadelphia, US

University of Pennsylvania

Aug 2021- May 2024

Bachelors of Arts in Architectural Studies | Toronto, Canada

University of Toronto

Aug 2017- May 2021

Medieval of Art and Architecture (Summer Abroad) | Oxford, England

University of Oxford

Aug 2019- Sep 2019

PROFESSIONAL

Architecture Intern | New York, US

Gensler New York

Jun 2022- Jul 2022

Chief Designer | Toronto, Canada

Cosmo Camping Inc

Jun 2020- Jan 2022

Architectural Assitant | Foshan, China

Shunde Architectural Design Institude Co Ltd

Aug 2019- Sep 2019

Design Ideal Beam Competion - First Place

University of Pennsylvania

Apr 2022

Publication

Re:Action - A Field guide to Agency by Design - University of Toronto

Published May 2021

Mentoship program, John H. Daniels Faculty | Toronto, Canada

Student Mentor

Sep 2020- Jun 2021

Hand

3D Printing

Laser Cutting

Model Making

Wood Work

CNC Printing Photography

Software Rhino Revit

Adobe Illustrator

Adobe Photoshop

BIM360

Blender 3D

Grasshopper

Luminon

AutoCad

Sketch Up

TOKYO VOID

POSSIBILITIES IN URBAN VACANCY

INSTRUCTOR: JEANNIE KIM

COMPLETION: APRIL 2021

TYPE: ACADEMIC- UNDERGRADUATE THESIS

The aging population continues to be a pressing issue in Japan, where the elderly population makes up a third of the Japanese population. Despite this, they are merely the focus of the design. Many elderly populations were either sent to the nursing home or instead living alone. They are often neglected by the city and even result in Kodokushi, which is a haunting phenomenon in Japan in which the elderly are dying at home and remain undiscovered for a long period due to physical immobility and social isolation with friends, family, and society.

Taking a different approach from many precedents, which create an apparatus and separate the elderly population in “utopia”, an urban solution is proposed to reconnect this enormous but forgotten elderly population back to society.

With the special concern of the oddness and temporariness of Tokyo urban fabric, a series of community infrastructure is designed to increase the bond of the community, linking the old and young in the neighborhood and providing some playful and short moments of escape for everyone in daily settings.

SITE SELECTION

The seismic geographic feature has formed a distinct low and dense urban profile of Tokyo. Many of these buildings are relatively small in size, temporary in structure in order to respond to the frequent unstable urban structure. These qualities make Tokyo a dynamic city of change and result in many small and odd urban vacant spaces. After a sophisticated site analysis, the project finally grounded in the residential neighborhood of Kita city where it has voids in design and possibilities in absence, but most importantly it has the highest proportion of senior citizens among 23 wards of Tokyo, which are the main target of my design thesis.

Adachi Arakawa Itabashi Katsushika Edogawa

Koto Taito Kita

Nakano Minato Meguro Nerima Toshima Ota

Setagaya Shinagawa Shibuya Shinjuku Sumida Suginami

Bunkyo Chu-ku Chiyoda

0-14 years 15-64 years 65+ years

23 SPECIAL WARDS OF TOKYO Population by age group(%)

Model: Miyu Kojima’s miniature replicas of the room of Japan’s “Lonely deaths“

Urban void spaces are hidden in the unnoticed corner of the city and often operated outside of our normative urban planning system which is often neglected and unsuitable for development. In fact, it provides room for new definitions and informal approaches by the people. Despite these unfavored conditions and difficulties, I see these odd spaces as opportunities and designed a set of tools that turn the space into productive land used by the community.

Abandoned Space

Insufficient Park

Left-Over Space

Public Parking

COMMUNITY SUPPORT SYSTEM

This mobile container is the main structure of the series. It is an exhibition pavilion, a slide for children, and also a health station for the seniors. It serves as a pop-up center gathering spot that can be easily placed in parks that lack infrastructure and bring a new meaning to vacant lots.More than a physical architecture, the infrastructure is designed with a community support system to achieve a connected community. All the elders in th neighborhood are given a safety bracelet that tracks their health status. When they are in an emergency, the bracelet will send an alert to the central database and activate the center lightbox and LED screen. Once activated, it will flash and send community workers to help.

Temporary Program: Informal appropriation of an unused lot with the proposed design tool.

SKIN SCOPE

SUSTAINABLE DATA CENTER

GROUP: BOHAN LANG, SHENGNAN GAO, YITING

ZHANG

COMPLETION: JANUARY 2022

TYPE: EVOLO SKYSCRAPER COMPETITION

In this digital-driven era, data and informationare pervaded and intertwined in almost every aspect of our life. Our personal and work information, shopping habits, are all stored in the nebulous space that people are often not aware of or even know where it is. The data center of the modern-day is always hidden in the unnoticeable corner, and intentionally “undersigned”.SKIN SCOPE was designed to reimagine a new data center of the modernday, rather than a product of to be storage,the architecture becomes the part of the data machinery, vice versa. and the public is invited to the visualizing the flow and deployment of the information. Additionally, the project was also aimed to tackle the potential issue within the data center, data security, energy insufficiency, and most importantly raise people’s awareness of the origin of daily consumption.

The two types of data center architecture that currently exists fails to address a solution of the architectural dead space and invisibility from the rest of the world. The retrofit and warehouse design of the data-political atmosphere acts as plainly a storage facility that focuses on data and does not have concerns with the function of the space in conjunction with people and the practicality of sustainability, security and maintenance. In our proposal instead of treating the data as storage, we create a dynamic environment where data is no longer the sole focus, but instead,drawn out acting as a facade element enveloping and dictating the architecture of living space inside, wrapping around and forming a skeletal membrane that pulls the architecture together.

Intial Massing Horizontal Growth Chamfered Angle

Trimed Edge Smooth Edge Data Center Access Ring Formation Interior Negative Void Program Formation

CIRCULATION

Program Growth People Circulation

The data center is used as a facade element, defining the synthetic lighting condition, while acting as a security measure. the damage done by the heat generate from the data storage, cooled by the ocean as it is embedded into the ocean’s continental ally, tidal energy is generated at the foot of the skyscraper of the site condition located on the coast of the business district addressing sustainability concerns.

TIDAL ENERGY SYSTEM

When the water level on one side of the barrage than the other, water to flow through the turbines to generate electricity.

Data Center Tidal Machine Office Space

Space Information Center

//Sky Lounge

//Data Storage

//Office

//Data Center

Ring Formation

outer ring’s form and measure. Second, to mitigate storage, the environment is continental shelf. Additionto further take advantage district in Hong Kong, level is high barrage is allowed turbines electricity.

The facade’s changing light and spatial condition are dictated by two systems that are critical in ventilation and circulation using the hot aisle and cold aisle arrangement. However, instead of the typical need for a 7-tile pitch square footage, the design of data storage racks as drawers saves room and further influences the light condition from the exterior facade. As a drawer is pulled out, the light on the exterior skin facade slightly, creating a new aperture that engaged with the city.

//Information Center

Tidal turbines are used as a power generator to support the skyscrapers’ use of energy and waste consumption. These turbines are very effective as with the same size blades as wind turbines,they can capture exponentially larger amounts of energy.

//Water Observatory

//Mechanical Storage

//Tidal Energy Turbine

AQUALAVA

PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART

INSTRUCTOR: DANIELLE WILLEMS

COMPLETION: DECEMBER 2021

TYPE: ACADEMIC

Like the fusion of water and fire, this explores the intermediate zone and of fusion, which provides a place shuffle. Neither black nor white, it is project intertwined the moment door meet indoor, the history and collapse, and the void interacts with and forming a third topology. These grammable spaces can allow the of light,and freeform of circulation, gives the audience an immersive perience.It is a place for fun, study, sion. Within the space, there are no physical or psychological constraints its occupants.

Study Model: The study model is designed a puzzle which can disassemble into based on its program.

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designed as four part

Cross Section A: The slope from the PMA to the museum will create a visual continuity from Aqualava’s viewing platform.

South Elevation

North Elevation

West Elevation

East Elevation

Museum Event Space Public Lounge Theater

Interior Void Space: The transparent quality of the material allows entry of sunlight from the roof to the basement, creating a vague and undefine space.

Cross Section B: Indoor theather and public lounge.

TRANS-FORMAL RED HOOK

BROOKLYN URBAN HOUSING

INSTRUCTOR: BENN KRONE

COMPLETION: JAN 2023

TYPE: ACADEMIC- GRADUATE

Site: The Liberty Warehouse, Brooklyn

Red hook is a neighborhood that is vibrant on one side and shares the skyline of New York but, on the other side, is away from the bustling core and allows the growth of the vernacular culture. With the aim to reinforce the cultural identity and historical legacy, the design strengthens the unique waterfront view through the spatial technique of layering and tilting in order to facilitate the proximity experience of seeing and living between residents and the neighborhood. Moreover, the project has reactivated the artistic community and the hidden local talents, such as the glass-making brewery, by transforming the liberty warehouse into a cultural hub that reveals the making process.

The liberty warehouse becomes a mix of commercial, manufacturer, and residential use, where people can do activities of wine tasting and touring the factory. A sense of hierarchy and boundary is blurred with a more integrated and open relationship making the public more common to the audience.

Unit Aggreagation Facade Alteration Detail & Roofscape

Public Common Lounge: An integrated bar that sees through beer making process.

Plan: An assemble plan shows a combination of a public bar( ground floor), a semi-public winery(second floor), and private housing(third floor) from left to right.

Exterior Roof Garden: Exterior Roof is an open rooftop garden redefines the existing abandon roofscape.

South Facade Elevation: South Facade shows a reappropriation of existing brickwork. The open glass front captures the winery culture of the red hook by revealing the whole making process and from manufacture to final delivery to the bar below. See the whole process all at once; This is the best name card that represents identity of the neighborhood.

THE FLOATING BOX

STUDENT HOUSING

INSTRUCTOR: VICTOR PEREZ- AMADO

COMPLETION: APRIL 2020

TYPE: ACADEMIC

Few step away from the University of Toronto and the downtown financial core, The Floating box is an integrated residential complex that bridge the gap between traditional student housing and the desire of comfort which aim to fulfill different living needs of diverse constituents in the surrounding community, ranging from student and school worker to large family housing.

The floating box is a dual connected residential tower that can accommodate around 350 people. It redefines the conventional relationship between high-rise residents and the public realm by categorizing the residents into five living blocks, where people share the same living habits and can live together within one block without interrupting others. On every five floors, the residents from the different buildings are reintegrated by public sky bridges, which provide communal spaces for residents to interact from different levels and provide a smooth transition of space. The buildings have a moveable louvered system that gives flexibility in adjusting sunlight angles for constituents while ensuring residents’ privacy from the public bridge platform.

Precedent Study: Study of personal space to understand the qualities that create comfort, and the need for privacy and social space.

Site Map: It is located at the intersection of Spadina avenue and Sussex avenue.

Ground Floor Plan: Two buildings are separated and share a courtyard on ground floor.

Dining Floor Plan: Two buildings are first connected on the third floor, which is a dining hall for the residents and student life center.

Residential Floor Plan: The typical floor plan consist of various types of units, from bachelor studio to loft unit for a bigger family.

Louver Facade:The moveable louvered system provides flexibility in adjusting sunlight angle and increasing privacy from the communal bridge.

Section: The building provides various unit module, and amenities which are spread out in different stores. Residents from different stories all have access to it rather than cluster at one location.

Cloud Garden: Sky garden integrated two buildings and served as a platform garthering,sight viewing and reconnect with the urban landscape.

SPOLIA AGENCY

CALLOW HILL FOODWAY MARKET

INSTRUCTOR: BRIAN DELUNA

COMPLETION: MAY 2022

TYPE: ACADEMIC

A journey in a city begins with its food.The cuisine of Philadelphia was shaped largely by the city’s mixture of ethnicities, rich history, and culture. Treasured by locals and former residents, Philly is not only the home of the signature cheesesteak.From rich Italian and Ethiopian food, Mexican tacos to the exceptional dim sum in Chinatown, Philly is a colorful and memorable city with all sorts of eating adventures abound.

Departure from studying the cuisine culture and food distribution pattern of the neighborhood, combined with the study of euclidean shapes, a series of patterns and new typologies emerges. The object form study has further translated the graphic into an architectural language and become a part of the facade system.

Like its diverse and sophisticated building envelope, the market is designed to be a welcoming urban leisure place that fuses a mix of programs. It a place for play, eating, for immersion, where different building typologies and tastes meet, forming a vibrant urban synthesis.

Physical Model: 1/8’’ physical chunk model demostrate spatial and interior/exterior realtionship of the project.

Elevation: Material studies from study models and its application on building facade.

ACTIVITIES AND PROGRAM IN FOODWAY MARKET

The market is designed to be a welcoming urban festival and leisure place that fuses a mix of the central plaza from 10th street, with pop-up vendors, food trucks, and a flea market. The oath and stairway will lead to the cuisine cultural center and connect the population to the existing is a place for play, eating, and immersion, where different building typologies and tastes meet, synthesis.

of programs. Visitors enter main massing diverging existing pedestrian atop. It meet, forming a vibrant urban

CARBON FOLIAGE

HYBRID INDUSTIRAL NATURE

INSTRUCTOR: DANIELLE WILLEMS

COMPLETION: OCTOBER 2021

TYPE: ACADEMIC

TEAM: GYO SUN, YITING ZHANG, AIMEN ARAIN

This project is an exploration of hybrid material of metal, carbon fiber. The metal countour acts as the exterior framework to create organic curved and double curve interior voids, which is defined by the carbon fiber. We started this form through constant iteration, looking at differnt curvllinear solid and void relations.

Free-planning Space: Workers can freely detach from the fixed working space and choose their preferred work environment.

OASIS ON THE CLOUD WORKSPACE FOR TOMORROW

GROUP: RUOWU WANG, RUI ZHANG & DORIS WU

COMPLETION: MARCH 2020

TYPE: COMPETITION

RESPONSIBLE: CONCEPT, DIGITAL MODEL,DRAWING,ALL DRAWINGS REVISED,

Future office is imagined to be an inclusive and comfortable environment that is able to accommodate all different needs. They have options to pick whatever workspace they prefer.

Inspired by IKEA’s circulation approach, people are continually moving to different settings; People can freely detach from a fixed working environment to a free circulated workspace.

The cloud system is an unvisualized system that allows the worker to constructs a virtual computing environment and pulled out the work from the virtual system with no boundary of distances.

Workspaces for tomorrow will be integrated with a high-tech database cloud network system. The Cloud system revolutionizes the office’s interior zones and program divisions that respond to the requirements for the workspaces.

The first-floor is in contrast to the upper-level social space, where it is fully open to public socialize and entertainment. The first-floor performs as a core area for comprehensive working using the cloud network system where reveals a high mobility working environment. It concatenates two main areas individually serve as a fixed workspace and a flexible workspace.On the fixed side of the office, we have included a variety of necessary programs such as a small meeting chamber, kitchen, relaxation space, conference meeting hall, and management office.

Floor Plan: The space planning is flexible and wide-open. There are not fixed division between spaces, which increase flexibility and controllability for different usage.

Public Employee Management

TYPE OF SPACES

Furniture: The moveable furniture can reassemble into different forms of space.

Recreation Area: Artificial intelligence and technology will be involved in office space and create an efficient working environment.

Management Office: It is distanced from employees working space to preserve the office hierarchy and ensures a healthy employer and employee relationship.

Outdoor Working: Combine greenery and natural landscape into a traditional confined workplace.

Public Hall: The upper-level is the multi-media public hall. Individuals will experience company culture through an open gallery and reception hall.

THE BREATHING MAZE

COMPUTATION ARCHITECTURAL MACHINE

INSTRUCTOR: MARIA YABLONIA

TEAM: HAIYEN CHEN, JIANGHONG DAI & JUNJIE SHEN

COMPLETION: MAY 2020

TYPE: ACADEMIC

RESPONSIBLE: CONCEPT, PRECEDENT RESEARCH, ASSEMBLY DIAGRAM, STRUCTURE DETAIL DRAWING.

Void Space: A rendering shows how the column is activated, and void spaces are formed when the user approached it.

“Breathing Maze” is an interactive architectural machine that investigates the topic of “automated space” in architecture. The machine is able to respond to the individuals’ movements, serving as an automatic spatial divider for the users. Once the user approach one side of the device, the touch sensor will detect the movement of the user and activate the roller system and accordingly rise down to create a void for potential space, whereas the remaining ones serve as spatial dividers.

The hexagonal pattern’s flexibility is an ideal geometry to achieve a chain reaction, and each individual module allows a dynamic change in pattern. The project thereby provides a possibility to satisfy the diverse needs for spatial configurations, a kind of spatial configuration that breaths with the users.

In this group project, our group formulated the concept as a group. I am mainly responsible for mechanism designs and produce drawings to convey machine movement into diagrams and other 2D dimensional representations.

1. Combine Two Scissor Structures

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2.Add DC Motor On Screw Bar

Once sensor is activated, motors on fabric roller and screw bar start to rotate

Touch sensor activate scissor system and fabric roller.

Fabric roller keeps fabric in place when structure descends.

STRUCTURE SECTION

SEARCH FOR NORMALITY IN DISTORTION

GUIDED DISTRACTION

INSTRUCTOR: REZA NIK

COMPLETION: DECEMBER 2020

TYPE: ACADEMIC

TEAM: MELANIE CHU, JAYHON DAI

RESPONSIBLE: CONCEPT, SURVEY, PHYSICAL MODEL, FINAL DRAWING,POEM

This recent project explores the discourse of adaptability and distortion in response to the current pandemic and the new definition of “normal” life. The emergence of COVID changed people’s life significantly. It subconsciously leads to a change in our physical behaviors, collective behavior, public policy, architecture, and urban landscape. Subsequently, these infrastructural and political changes will have an impact back onto people’s behavior and slowly become a new norm and way of living.

In this project, I work with two group mates to formulate the concept together, and each of us finding our own response to the topic through different mediums, word, sound, video,2D, and 3D. At the final stage, we combine as a group to envision the new “normal” after the urban deconstruction.

This is an ordinary day, but it is not normal. Everything seems to continue, but everything stop. When did our smile is covered by the mask? When did the cold wall erected to separate us apart?

The radio report made me feel flustered, Are we doing too much to make the earth suffered? The city was turned into big cages, We have been trapped to reflect on what we behaved.

Will the life stop in this chaos?

And we can only find light in this darkness. How many countermarch backs fight for our safety, Staggered solo in silence with uncertainty.

When spring returns, Let's meet up to talk about your unfinished story. When the clouds dispel, Let’s ramble on street that we used to walk together. When you return, Let’s hug… a big big one.

Material: The plasticity of the balloon and rubber helps to express the idea of distortion that progressed from twisting, compressing, and squeezing. We are socially isolated and lived in our own bubble; an invisible barrier is formed and controlled by those in power. Lastly, space collapsed and deformed, and we are finding a new way of living an abnormal life.

EXPERIMENT 1: SURVEY

EXPERIMENT 2: POEM

EXPERIMENT 3: CONCEPTUAL MODEL

Distorted City: The city is growing wildly in an abnormal direction; The definition and the boundary between spaces are blurred. I used an abstract language to translate the absurdly quality through different juxtapositions of programs. The office is combined with the home. The church is placed inside a classroom, etc. This work is presented along with an audio piece; the audience is invited to have an immersive experience of the new spaces. Despite distortion is exaggerated, the internal chaos and mixed program are real.

Church + Classroom+Offcie + Bedroom

Indoor Park + Library + Office

Restaurant + Running Track + Church

Farm + Baketball Court

EXPERIMENT 4: 3D DIGITAL

City: This dystopian take on architecture illustrates a subversion of the vibrant quality of the city. We are isolated in our own bubble, but at the same time, we are finding a connection inside these bubbles.

NAVAL DEPLOYMENT IN STRAIT OF HORMUZ

SUSTAIN IN MILLITARY ORBITS

INSTRUCTOR: MILES GERTLER

COMPLETION: JUNE 2021

TYPE: ACADEMIC

TEAM: NANCY WU, HARRY GONG

This project explore a dynamic urbanism growth driven by the political powers.

The Strait of Hormuz is a geopolitical point of international tension. Close to one-fifth of the world’s crude oil is supplied by Gulf countries that rely on unimpeded travel through the Strait of Hormuz (which is only 21 miles wide at its narrowest point), making the strait “The jugular of global economy”.

The site is act like a theatre, where the global powers are the directors, mobilizing the smaller actors and setting forth a series of vigorous events.The nature of the urbanism around the Strait of Hormuz is a very geopolitical one, and the infrastructures built around the region correspond with one another and are interconnected to form a tight functioning system.

Furthermore, the urbanism bears some uncertainty. Because allied countries agree to provide military assistance to, their civilian airports and sea ports can become sites of US military preparation when asked for.Elements such as conflict of religion, arbitrary bombing, oil pollution, nuclear sanctions, etc, inform the decisions made in this area everyday and is reflected in the disciplined urbanism that takes shape. The urbanism extends beyond being a physical site-- it instead encapsulates the marine, the aerial, the intangible telecommunication networks, that collectively serve naval deployment and maritime security in the Persian Gulf.

PAST, PRESENT, FUTURE

SERPENTINE REVIVIFIED PLAN

INSTRUCTOR: SONJA VANGJELI

COMPLETION: DECEMBER 2019

TYPE: ACADEMIC

KENSINGTON GARDEN

Kensington garden is a royal park in London. As the “Green Lung” in London’s urban landscape, we can imagine a city without the aristocrat, but not without this park.

This project investigates different landscape strategies throughout history and proposes a visionary solution with sophisticated consideration of indigenous culture, history, and society.

Before Kensington garden is established, It was originally part of Hyde Park, used as the hunting ground of Henry VIII. In 1689, the Kensington garden was separated from Hyde Park and became the royal family’s private residence, while Hyde park remains public. Many landscape techniques had been used to separate the Kensington garden(private) and Hyde Park(public). The diagram below shows the two most important strategies throughout history.

FOREST

The location is undeveloped until the conquer of Roman. Wild animals were the only inhabitants of those vast wildernesses.

It was originally used as the hunting ground of the Henry VIII. It was enclosed as a private hunting ground until James permitted limited access to gentlefolk.

Queen Anne worked along with gardener Henry Wise took 30 acres from Hyde Park, to create an English-style garden and added the Orangery next to the palace.

The major change of the garden. Queen Caroline took another 300 acres form Hyde Park to produce a new centerpiece round pond.

The ha-ha was filled in 1837 and West Carriage Drive became the new boundary and connector of Kensington Garden and Hyde Park.

King separated the park from Hyde park, renamed it Kensington Palace as his main home in London.

Bridgeman created the Serpentine in 1726 by damming the eastern outflow of River Westbourne from Hyde Park. The Serpentine is now known as “The Long Water“

The ha-ha landscape dig-in boundary between Hyde Park and Kensington Garden was authorised by Queen Caroline in 1730.

Kensington Garden sits on the heart of London. It is now a multifuntional open space which provide a green oasis for the bustling urban citizens.

The Long River: In 1726, the long river is built as moat that sepereate two gardens for royal residence.

Ha-ha: A dig-in boundary separate two parks without interrupting the continious view.

KENSINGTON PALACE THE LONG WATER HA-HA

The

Kensington Garden

Pedestrian Volumn

high low

Hyde Park

Princess Memorial Garden

Nowadays, the Kensington garden is a dynamic and vibrant public park that provides relief for the bustling London citizens. My study explores how water is used as a landscape tool to shape the garden design.

There three main body of waters in Kensington garden, and each water had a distinct function:

Diana Memorial Garden: is built for ornamental and as a botanical garden, so the pedestrian pathway is deliberated design, and the movement of the visitor is limited.

Round Pond

Round pound: serves as the center of the garden. It is an attraction that gathering people from all around the garden.

The Serpentine: separate the pedestrian flow of Hyde Park and Kensington garden. It plays the role of a soft boundary for the division.

Princess Memorial Garden

Order

Vegetation Adjustment

Lower the bushes and plant to ensure transparent view on two sides of the river bank

Round Pond

The Serpentine

Cluster Seperation

Lack of Safety Rail

Lack of guardrail on the boardwalk. Hard or soft boundary is needed to prevent from accident.

Artificial Wetland Separate Circulation

Create wetland to enhance the biological diversity of the park and create a habitat for local fauna and flora

West carriage drive is the only crossing within the center of the Hyde Park and Kensington Park. Both cars and pedestrian share one passage.

CURRENT CONDITION

FORCES OF CHANGE

Major URBANISATION

There was 8% increase in proportion of UK population living in urban areas between 1970 and 2018.

POLLUTION

Diffuse air and water pollution continues to have a severe impact on the UK’s sensitive habitats and freshwaters. New pollutant threats continue to emerge.

LOSS OF LOCAL SPECIES

LANDSCAPE INFRASTRUCTURE

Build exterior seating and installation art for gathering and increase vitality to open space

The UK’s biodiversity is declining 15% of species are threatened with extinction from Great Britain 133 of 8431assessed have already become extinct from Great Britain

SINCE 1970 ..

More species have seen their population decrease than increase :

41% 33% 26%

have decreased little change have increased

Minor LACK OF GURDRAIL

OPEN PARK

Blur the hard edge and boundary and disperse the pedestrian flow from oxford street into the park.

PEDESTRIAN BRIDGE

Separate the traffic and pedestrian circulation and provide an unique perspective to enjoy the wetland.

ARTIFICAL ECOLOGICAL FIELD

Soften the edge of the river bank, and create an suitable habitat for local species.

LONG WALKING DISTANCE

Lack of safety infrastructure on the boardwalk. There have been accidents in the area before. Most of the routes in the park are car prohibited. It takes approximately 25 mins to walk through the Serpentine and 1h20mins to take a round of the park.

With the aim to alleviate three ongoing issues facing by London, urbanization, pollution, and loss of local species and tackle some of the potential hazards happened in the serpentine, the design proposal is to build a wetland along the serpentine and build a wooden pedestrian bridge across Kensington garden and Hyde Park.

The proposal aims to naturalize the edge with local plants and recreate a suitable habitat for the indigenous animals, at the same time forming a soft boundary for safety. The pedestrian bridge is designed to shorten the walking distance and separate the traffic circulation from pedestrians, but more importantly, it provides accessibility for the public to experience the bio-dynamic of the wetland from different viewpoints.

Bridge

Pull by two attraction

Divide for boardwalk

Support and stair

Boardwalk

Bridge

Ground

Diana Memorial Fountain

Serpentine Lido Cafe

The London Mastaba

Connection Attraction

Habitat Entertainment

Plan A: The proposed edges of the garden. The wetland become a soft boundary while create an ecology area for the local species.

Planting Strategy : Planting local species at the appropriate zone in order to create a suitable habitat for the local animal.

A-Auquatic Bed Habitat : The place close to the water is used for aquatic bed habitant, where the plant is mostly underwater and won’t block the view.

B-Wetland Habitat: The project takes advantage of the descending slope to create a wetland. Each area will plant the appropriate species that list above.

TORONTO IN 2046

FUTURE CITY

INSTRUCTOR: JESSE LECAVALIER

COMPLETION: MARCH 2019

TYPE: ACADEMIC

This photomontage serves as a speculative tool to communicate the future appearance of King street, Toronto. From my imagination, the continuous urbanization and technology development will transform the king street into a bustling fusion of commercial and entertainment district.

THE REFRESH MARKET

CALLOWHILL NIGHT MARKET

COMPLETION: JANUARY 2022

TYPE: SCHENK-WOODMAN COMPETITION

The Refresh Market is designed to revivify the vitality and regional identity of the site. The vibrant lighting ensures its safety at night and makes the area an exciting place for night out. In addtion, the neon light wrap around the region as a ribbon, highlighting the area as a recreational center, and most importantly bring the pedestrian flow to the nearby business.