Urban Plannning & Urban Design Portfolio

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 顧芩 Ku, Chin Taipei City, Taiwan Email: kuchin9402@gmail.com Phone: +886 0986896685

Info

Nationality Born Gender Language

Education

MSc. Urban Planning | National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan

2016.9 - 2018.6

BSc. Urban Planning|National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan

2012.9 - 2016.6

Academic activity

Taiwan February 17th, 1994 at Taipei Female Taiwan Mandarin (native) | English (fluent) | Japanese (basic)

Academic conference Oral presenter | The Forum on Land Use and Planning | Tainan, Taiwan “Exploring and visualizing the relationship of the composing for urban landscape”

Oral presenter | 20th International Conference on Sustainable Urban Planning | Amsterdam, Netherland

2018.3 2018.2

“3D Visualization for the Relationship of the Urban Rule and Building Form by Using CityEngine”

International workshop Participant| Japan-Taiwan students and youths study and exchange tour on disaster prevention | Tokyo, Japan

2018.1

Visited disaster-related institutions in Japan and participated a workshop with Japanese students.

Participant| Sichuan transnational workshop | China Integrated social design and environment design skill to deal with local problem.

2015.7

Work & Internship

Assistant Urban Planner | JiaCheng Planning Consultant Studied the existing situation of tourism industry in Tainan and came up with a model of accomodation choice.

Assistant Urban Planner | Visionary International Design & Planning Consultant

2017.9-2017.12 2016.7-2016.12

Work as assistant urban planner helping making infor graphs and conducting GIS analysis.

Intern | Department of Urban Development, Taipei City Government

2014.8-2014.9

Deal with individual rezoning projects.

Teacher assistant | epartment of Urban Development, Taipei City Government

Software & Skill

Spatial Analysis & 3D Modeling

Graphic Design

ArcGIS pro (ESRI)

AutoCAD

Spatial statistic, Network analysis, Land suitability analysis, Terrain analysis, Landscape ecology analysis, 3D analysis, Model builder

CityEngine (ESRI) 3d city modeling, 3d simulation, City information model (CIM)

depthmapX

Analysis of connectivity, global and local integration value

SketchUp

Adobe Illustrator Adobe Photoshop Adobe InDesign Data Analysis Data Mining (Python) Data wrangling, data analysis,data visualization

SPSS

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle

Data analysis

Pix4D, PhotoScan

Others Microsoft office

Manipulating UAV (Mavic pro/Hexacopter)

2D/3D point cloud modeling

(Word, Power point, Excel)

2016.9-2018.6

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Visualizing and Parameterizing the Urban Landscape Graguate thesis (2018) This model presents the 3d visualization for the LANDSCAPE, STREETS, and BUILDINGS by using CityEngine. In the interface of CityEngine, we can rapidly adjust the parameters of urban landscape and zoning code, such as street width, floor area ratio, building coverage ratio, setback distance and other regulations, and then the model will immediately show the different 3d scenes.

In CityEngine, it is the Computer generate architecture(CGA) rule to create a dynamic city layout and customize different parameters of city environment . Therefore, we can build up a city within hours.

CityEngine is a procedural modeling tool which can visualize a large scale landscape through the parameterizing and programming process.

It is a useful and professional tool for the field of urban planning and urban design.

Scope Taichung City, Taiwan 3.5 km2 Existing building volume

Keyword: ArcGIS, CityEngine, CGA,Parametric modeling, Procedural modeling, 3d simulation Urban land consolidation VII high-rise building and commercial building Taichung new city hall/ 新市政中心

Urban Rule

Urban land consolidation II & III & V town house, detached house, apartment

Mayuantou River/麻園頭溪

Map layers

Natural environment

Street network

Zoning regulation & urban design guildline

Building volume

Near to old Taichung downtown town house, detached house, apartment, high-rise building

Parameterizing

Programming

set(buildingArea, geometry.area()) splitArea(x){~1 : GreenSpace | (buildingArea*BCR) : SetBuildingHeight} #splitArea(z1) parcel_z1 --> setback(setbackDistance){ street.front : NIL | remainder : preFootprint_z1 } preFootprint_z1 --> set(buildingArea, geometry.area()) splitArea(z){(buildingArea*BCR) : SetBuildingHeight | ~1 : GreenSpace} #splitArea(z2) parcel_z2 --> setback(setbackDistance){ street.front : NIL | remainder : preFootprint_z2 } preFootprint_z2 --> set(buildingArea, geometry.area()) splitArea(z){~1 : GreenSpace|(buildingArea*BCR) : SetBuildingHeight } GreenSpace --> Open_Space.ParkShape SetBuildingHeight --> case buildingType == "1.0" : set(buildingHeight,rand(16,40)*UFheight + 1.5) Footprint case buildingType == "2.0" : set(buildingHeight, rand(2,7)*UFheight + 1.5) Footprint ase buildingType == "3.0" : set(buildingHeight,rand(2,4)*UFheight + 1.5) Footprint case buildingType == "4.0" : set(building eight,rand(2,7)*UFheight + 1.5) Footprint case buildingType == "5.0" : comp(f) {horizontal : NIL | all : NoHorizontalFaces.} else :set(material.opacity,Opacity)comp(f) {all : NIL} Reporting --> report("Parcel Area",parcelArea) report("Foorprint Area",footprintArea) report("Floor Area",floors*footprintArea) report("Zoning", zoning) /** report("Parcel Area (m2)",parcelArea) report("Max Footprint Area (m2)",footprintArea) report("potential GFA",geometry.volume/floorHeight) report("potential FAR",geometry.volume/-

More application...

This model can be used to conduct other simulation, such as flooding, wind, shadow, viewshed and solar radiation simulations which prove the process of urban design and 3D analysis.

Moreover, the model can be redering in the game engine sofeware.

Calligraphy Greenway/草悟道

Flooding / VR/Microclimate/...

Aerial view of

Diversity of roof types (solar panel, green roof, flat roof and pitched roof)

River and stream system simulation

Street layout and pedestrian sp

Landscape modeling

Facade modeling

STEP 1 Facade Liabary: photoes taking by my self STEP 2 Facade Wizard

STEP 3 Facade texturing: “Baking � the facade images on building

f 3d city model

pace simulation

Street layout and pedestrian space simulation

View corridor analysis

Full video

Parametric Street Layout

Street Layout

Bicycle lane-Lane-Buffer tree-Bicycle lane

Parametric Building

屋頂形式 (Flat, Hip, Gable, Pyramid, Shed)

Lane-Bus lane-Median lane-Bus lane-Lane Scrolling bar

Bus lane-Lane

Building form

Street View

Building Modeling

Building Design

UV Texturing UV-set Texture Layer 0 colomap 1 bumpmap 2 dirtmap 3 specularmap 4 opacitymap 5 normalmap

Original Brick Wall

Brick Wall + Dirty map

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Brick Wall + Graffiti

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Building modeling

Analyzing and Simulating the Building Volume

(Course work,2018)

The aim of this project is to visualize the outcome of zoning code and find out difference between existing buildng volume and the predicted one. It starts with tracing back the history of Hu-Wei-Liao area and studying the zoning regulations, and then uses CityEngine and ArcGIS to visualize the 3d outcome of future urban landscape. This project reveals the key factor which significantly influence the building volume, and explores different way to simulate the outcome of zoning code.

Keyword: ArcGIS, CityEngine, CGA, Zoning simulation, 3d visualization

(Year 1898)

(Year 1944)

(Year 1996)

Existing situation Existing situation

Zoning regulation

Existing building footprint

Street network

Digital elevation model (DEM)

Floors : 11 Actural BCR : 20%

(a) Existing Building

(b) Simulate by BCR and FAR Floors : 9 Actural BCR : 20% Existing Buildings

Front view

(c) a+b Diagram

Simulation 1 simulate the building height by “Block” which is the unit of zoning regulation.

Simulate by BCR and FAR

Simulation 2 simulate the building height by “Block” which is the unit of zoning regulation.

Residential Area 1

3d zoning Residential Area 2

Residential Area 3

UAV & 3D Point Cloud Modeling

Still more 3D polint cloud modeling

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South Tainan Sub-city certer | 南台南永續副都心

(Course work,2014)

南台南永續副都心是位於台南市東區，鄰近南區交界處，現為 素地。本規畫設計案首先透過”地方把脈” ，了解周遭的商業 活動情形、大型公共設施分布、藍綠帶現況以及都市紋理特徵 ，將副都心周遭分為四個生活圈，並使南台南永續副都心扮演 地方領頭羊的角色，串聯現有資源，以及自然環境之潛力，發 展以永續為基礎之新型態社區。

Road system/道路系統

Pedestrian and bike system/行人及自行車系統

Ecological environment/永續環境

Ecological economy/永續經濟

Ecological society/永續社會

Building types/建物類型配置

High-rise building

Apartment

Town house

Detached house

Ecological community/永續社區

Tainan cultural center/台南文化中心 Ecological community/生態社區

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Existing community/ 現有社區 Tainan hospital/台南醫院

Older Train Station/ 舊火車站 South Tainan Train Station/ 南台南火車站

Elderly-friendly community/ 銀髮友善社區 Ecological community/ 生態社區

Office of Taiwan sugar corporation/ 台糖行政中心

Art museum/美術館

Research park of Taiwan sugar corporation/ 台糖研究園區

全區配置圖 三大軸線： -永續環境 -永續社會 -永續社區

Backyard Entertainment Complex Development Implementation Planning (Course work,2016)

This Project is separated into two parts: site planning and development planning, including financial feasible analysis, architecture design, marketing and urban design.

Site Location

Master Plan

Planning Concept

開發基地北側及東側臨公園，並向北 、向西銜接人行徒步區，因此將建築 量體切割出主要軸線。

內部人行動線 與切割量體。

利用開放空間縫 合各棟量體。

Building Design Concept

Floor Plan

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Farmland Suitability Analysis

(Shingang Township, Taiwan)

The result map shows the agricultural land classiďŹ cation after considering social and economical indicators. It separates the farmland into three classes and ďŹ nding out the opportunities and limitations in each blocks.

ArcGIS is used to analyze and process information by Model Builder.

Keyword: ArcGIS, Suitabiliy analysis, model builder

Indicators Include soil, humidity, slop, minimum area, urban development and industrial land, cropping suitability, irrigation area, land suitable for agriculture and animal husbandry purpose, etc.

Land suitable for agriculture or animal husbandry purpose

Important Agricultural Development area

Farmland Agricultural District I

Agricultural District IV

Model Builder in ArcGIS

Cropping Suitability

Irrigation area

Highway interference

Minimum area>25ha

Urban Development and Industrial land

(Course work,2017)

Agricultural District III

Agricultural District II

Functional Zones in Spatial Planning

(Course work,2017)

Background: Spatial Planning Act Since 2016, Taiwan has passed legislation to implement Spatial Planning Act which speciďŹ cally establishes guidelines concerning measures to be taken to cope with climate change, assure land use safety, conserve the natural environment and cultural assets, promote the reasonable allocation of resources and industries, strengthen land consolidation and management mechanisms, and restore sensitive areas and damaged land in pursuit sustainable development.

Keyword: ArcGIS, Functional zoning

The result map of Chiayi city in Taiwan illustrates the distribution of four zones.

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environmental conservation zones marine resource zones agricultural development zones urban-rural development zones

Network Analysis

(Taichung City, Taiwan)

This project aims to calculate the accessibility of public facilities and communities through network distance.

(Course work,2017)

Keyword: ArcGIS, Network analysis, POI

Step1: Build Netword dataset Step1: Build Netword dataset

Taichung road map

Calculate geometry: Length

Cost: network distance

Step2: Build OD cost

Minimum Spatial Units for communities

Step3: Calculate the value of accessibility

Point of interest (POI)

Analysis Settings Impedance：Cost (Meter) → Network distance Default Cutoff Value：1200m →Service area Destination To Find：146 →The amount of amenity

Primary School

The result of network analysis of POI and minimum spatial units for communities.

College

High School

Playground

Park and Plaza

Amenity

Government Agency

Health Care

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A Research of Predicting Building Types

The aim of this research is to find out the relationship between urban planning condition and building types. There are four stages in here, including exploring the indicators represented planning condition, deciding the way building classified, applying KNN algorithm to find out the relationship, and verifing it.

Graguate thesis (2018)

Global Integration Value

Local Integration Value

Street Width

Step 1

The original indicators are GIV, LIV, street widith, block shape and area, plot shape and area, building coverage ratio and floor area ratio.

However, the indicator will be test by box plot later to find the suitable one.

Block Shape Block Area Plot Shape Plot Area

Building Coverage Ratio Floor Area Ratio

Area A

Area B

Area C

The association test (Pearson correlation coefficient) of each indicators in different areas.

Red- High value Blue- Low value Red- High value Blue- Low value Black- Wide road Grey- Narrow road Square

Large Square

Irregular

Small Irregular

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Original 9 indicators which represent planning condition

Low-rise Bulding Type 6

1 story, bungalow, model house, supermarket, restaurant etc. Building footprint is probably surrounded by the remainder of plot.

Mid-rise Bulding

Type 3

2~6 stories, detached house, small-sized commercial building.

Type 2

Type 7

Type 4

2~6 stories, semi-detached with potential retail. Building footprint is next to their neighbor and the remainder of plots is probably side yard and front yard or back yard.

2~6 stories, town house with potential retail. Building footprint is next to other footprints and the remainder of plots is probably front yard or back yard.

2~6 stories, apartment, medium-sized commercial building. Building footprint is probably surrounded by the remainder of plots.

High-rise Bulding

Super High-rise Bulding

7~15 stories, office or high-rise apartment with potential groundfloor retail, department store, shopping mall, entertainment place. Building footprint is probably surrounded by the remainder of plots.

16+ stories, office or high-rise apartment with potential groundfloor retail, department store, shopping mall, entertainment place. Building footprint is probably surrounded by the remainder of plots.

Type 5

Type 1

Classifing different building types

Step 2

The way I classify different building types is according to its numbers of floor and the types of open space.

Therefore, there are 7 building types for following research.

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The box plots which illustrate the descriptive statistic of different building types.

Step 3

Make use of KNN algorithm to predict building types. The result shows that it is more successful to predict building types by 7 indicators than BCR and FAR.

Scenario 1 Predicting building types by building coverage ratio (BCR) and floor area ratio (FAR)

Scenario 2 Predicting building types by seven indicators

Step 4 Cross table analysis reveals that every prdicting successful rate of dierent building type.

Cross analysis of original building types and predicted one

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