ZHOU WANG LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO 2015-2021 SELECTED WORKS
ZHOU WANG Mobile：+(484)714 8574
Email: zhouw95@design.upenn.edu
LinkedIn Profile: linkedin.com/in/zhou-wang-a9068a179/
EDUCATION School of Design, University of Pennsylvania, PA, USA
May. 2021 (Expected)
Master of Landscape Architecture Candidate 2021 Related course: Site engineering and water management, Advanced landscape (Construction drawing), Implementation of Urban design School of Media and Design, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
Jun. 2018
Bachelor of Visual Communication Design (Environmental Art Design) GPA: 3.76/4.0 Sapienza University of Rome, Italy (Summer school)
Jul.-Aug. 2016
Project 1: Urban planning and Plaza design, Rome, Italy | Group Leader, Speech, Concept Design and Presentation
RELATED EXPERIENCE Future Green Studio, New York | Landscape Winter Externship
Jan. 2020
Project 1: Riverlife installation Competition, Pittsburgh, PA, USA（3.3 acres） Joined the concept design team, physical modeling, plan drawing, texture making with Photoshop Lab D+H, Shanghai office | Landscape Summer Intern
Jun. 2019-Jul. 2019
Project 1: The landscape design of the second phrase of Wanlv Park, Hainan, China（197 acres） Participated in the detailed park facility design, modeling with Rhino/Lumion Site hydrology analysis and night lighting design with Illustrator/InDesign Responsible for Axon drawing and rendering with SketchUp/Lumion/Photoshop Project 2: Revitalization of Lequn Road community, Yantai Mountain, China（10.5 acres） Worked with construction team by testing the the paving materials and finished the construction drawing by AutoCAD ARTS Group Co., Ltd, Suzhou, China | Landscape Summer Intern
Aug. 2016-Sep. 2016
Project 1: Culture expo center, Suzhou, China Responsible for modeling and traffic analysis Project 2: Bamboo District urban planning and landscape design, Chongqing, China Collaborated with case study and concept developing
LEADERSHIP & HONOR LA+ Creature Competition Awards, Honorable Mention 602 Studio work selected in LANDSCAPE PROCESS 24 (19-20 Penndesign Yearbook) University Scholarship, SJTU
Oct. 2020 2020 Oct. 2016
Associate Director, Department of Propaganda, International Student Communication Association, SJTU
2014 - 2015
Director, Department of Arts, Student Union, SJTU
2014 - 2015
SKILLS Software
2D graphics: Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Lightroom, After Effects, AutoCAD 3D Modeling: Rhino(grasshopper), SketchUp, Lumion, V-ray | Data analysis: ArcGIS, Google Earth Pro
Language
English (Proficient), Mandarin (Native)
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LARP602 Studio, Urban design New Civic Zone for Low Emission Zone
03 Monsters& Ghosts
Individual work, LARP701 Studio LA+ CREATURE Competition
Individual work Regional planning, Model making
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Individual work, LARP701 Studio Memorial design
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Individual work Garden design, Handrawing, Model making
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Construction rawing, Grasshopper, Physical model
01 | RECONSTRUCT REFLECTION To the 6th Extinction
Tutor: Richard Weller & Rebecca Popowsky Individual work 2020, 701 studio Location: Pacific ocean & Washington DC When I think about the meaning of reflecting pool under the story of the 6th extinction, the great heights of Washington monument represents the power of human civilazation. So I want to do something that is the opposite of the Washington Monument. Reflecting pool is a perfect site for me. Because it is an active landscape, like a mirror of the two monuments. The reflection in the water may change depends on the weather and the stand point of audience. But it reflects the beauty of Washington monument all the time. So I was thinking to replace the reflection with the memorial of the 6th extinction, which is dark and tells the story of thousands of extinct species. The reflection of washington monument in the pool will be replaced by metal panels that inscribe the long list of extinct species. we will build a concrete platform around it for people to stand on. They can get closed to the names of wildlifes. And we will have a notice In the entrance of this walkway to tell the visitors what that is.
Underwater memorial about the truth The ongoing sixth mass species extinction Gravestone of human civilization
The Washington Monument and the memorial of the Sixth Extinction will appear in the same picture as interpretation for each other.They are like two sides of a mirror, one is greatness and the other is death.
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02 | CATALYST Tutor: Nick Pevzner Team Member: Yani Liu, Zhou Wang 2019, 602 studio Location: Chicago, IL, USA This project is located at the Chicago Park and Boulevard System, the interface of Humbolt Park and Garfield Park. In order to solve the problem of environmental inequality faced by the Kinzie industrial corridor, the concept of Low Emission Zone has also been introduced. Public transport facilities and pedestrian-friendly loops will serve as opportunities to attract investment. Transform the existing railway station into a new transportation hub, form a new public realm node, reconnect different communities, reshape the interface between the public realms and the neighborhoods and make it a shared space between the people who live here and all who may come here. In the future investment plan, the core public realm will be extended to different communities. Commercial corridors, art corridors and educational nodes will be connected by walking-friendly loops to drive existingbusinesses and trigger reinvestment in local communities.
Transit hub node plan
Issue & Framework
Problems: passenger and freight railways act as a divider, dividing communities, and restricting mobility. There is a socio-economic and physical separation in the four surrounding communities.
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This community building will attract the residents and work as a comprehensive building that serve the surro
Because of the inequality and insuffencient community services in segment 5, the bar building in the transit hub will function as both the rail station and the community center. The south part of rail station provide veteran center, day care, job center to intergrate the regional resources. Nearby LEZ transit hub will easily bring large group of residents in a clean way.
ounding residents. It has multiple layers of commercial, educational and community services.
Transit hub node axon
Civic plaza and Mix use building
Educational node in Park and Boulevard system
03 | MONSTERS & GHOSTS Tutor: Richard Weller & Rebecca Popowsky Individual work 2020, 701 studio Location: Pacific ocean LA+ CREATE competetion honorable mention The proposal is to help them migrate by providing walruses a suitable northwards migration route and building conveyers to help them find nearest sea ice annually to face the global warming challenge. The migration strategies have 3 stages to deal with remaining sea ice at different time. The conveyer with ice surface will be the only ice cover within the reach of walruses to help them travel through long distance on the harsh sea since the ice is retreating so the long journey might go beyond their capability, especially for female and young walruses. The conveyer is consisted of cooling system to keep the ice surface frozen and it have sea current turbines at the bottom to collect renewable energy. The conveyers will be organized as a team and connected by a tugboat which require people to manage the operation. The tugboat also functions as an observer to monitor and share the activity to the public. This walrus migration mission will be a great chance to share the beautiful Arctic landscape and the interesting or touching moments of marine animals to increase the empathy of human to pay attention to endangered Arctic animals.
PACIFIC WALRUS REFUGEE MISSION The migration of pacific walrus serious influenced by the rapid disappearance of sea ice in Arctic area. Female and young walrus will chase sea ice every year to get their food and fresh water supply. However, due to the lack of sea ice in 21th century, walrus cannot find sea ice on their own so they desperately gather on the small ice pack and some of them stranded on the land which cause hundreds of death.
Dying walrus Disappearing sea ice
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Requirement for habitat: shallow water, sea ice Food: bentho community Predator: polar bear, whale Other facts: social animal, hunted by human
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No more sea ice in Chukchi Sea, sea ice only happens near Greenland. Pacfic walrus will live in Greenland forever unless them adapt to the ice-free environment.
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Sea ice is gradually retreating to north in summer Direct walrus to the land on either side of Bering Strait to chase the ice, return them back in fall
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Stage 1 2020-2035 Ice floes still exist in the northern Bering Strait in summer and grow back to south of Bering Strait in winter Walrus conveyer will direct migrating walrus farther north. Purposefully disperse different groups of walrus to reduce the pressure on limited resources
Stage 2
Shallow water zone
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Ice density trend Original habitat in 20th century 2010s population distribution Stage2 planning distribution Stage3 planning distribution
Proposed gathering point Proposed walrus migration route
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Thick sea ice accomodates phytoplankton
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WALRUS RELATED ECOSYSTEM As the walrus conveyer moves on the ocean, the surrounding environment will be activated by the interaction between arctic food web. The walruses disturb the sea floor and bring nutrients into the water column. Sea ice also accommondates large amount of planktons and ice algae, which provide the food for the benthos community and walruses will search for benthos when they are migrating.
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SHARE ARCTIC LANDSCAPE The tugboat functions as an observer to monitor and share the activity to the public. This walrus migration mission will be a great chance to share the beautiful Arctic landscape and the interesting moments of marine animals as documentary on the Interernet to increase the awareness of human to pay attention to endangered Arctic animals.
04 | SELF-SUPPORTED RENEWABLE ENERGY PARK Tutor: Nate Wooten Individual work 2019, 601studio Location: Kinston,NY, USA The former Tilcon cement plant property where AVR Realty of Yonkers is proposing to build The Landing is more than the industrial moonscape that the developer makes it out to be. The topography is dramatic, with soaring limestone cliffs, caves, man-made quarry lakes, and breathtaking Hudson Valley views. Since the cement operation closed, much of the 524 acres has become a home to birds and wildlife (including teens, who have painted every slab of cement with graffiti murals). It’s a wild, modern-day Jurassic Park. The Hudson Valley can serve as a regional model for promoting accelerated renewable energy development while simultaneously preserving important natural resources.
Wetland typology
Seasonal program & section
Terrace concept model
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Using renewable energy to activate the quarry lake’s potential as a dynamic hydraulic landscape experience.
05 | MEADOW GARDEN Individual work 2018, 501 studio Location: Philadelphia, PA, USA Upper Roxborough Reservior is a greenbelt in the suburbs of Philadelphia, which was once used as A reservoir in history. However, because the flood would surmerge the surrounding residents, people only kept half of it as A reservoir, and the rest was filled with earth and made into artificial meadow. It had undergone fire to preserve a meadow, because people did not want it to be covered with tall plants.Today, as a green space serving the surrounding area, we explore the possibility of designing a public park. In the process of exploring the site, I was inspired by the manmade slopes and paths around the site. I tried to let people stay on the slope, and they could overlook meadow, or follow the path to the grass to experience the natural scenery.
Abstract site mapping
Handrawing sketch
Meadow garden axon
06 | THE BOBA BUBBLE Tutor: Nick Jabs, Anna Darling 2021, 702 studio Team work: Zhou Wang, Rosa Wang Philadelphia Under a GND super studio. Inspired from a conversation with two groups of high school students in South phily. One Asian american girl said Bubble tea shop has become a gathering space in their community. So we are thinking is there an opportunity to start from the food industry to let people know the Green New Deal. Boba tea is popular and well accepted by young people, they are not only the food icon, boba shop also function as a symbol for them to build their identity. So we decided to design a community hub for them with these bubblely shape swings and interior space. Also let them celebrate their own culture and gain the opportunity to share the imformation of small business and jobs in a clean future.
Cultural Hub
As our Cultural hub for the south Philly asain-american community, we have 3 main proposals for our program. The first one is an
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Bubble Tea DIY Workshop
Rising Cultural Icon Katie's space
Starting from the bubble tea, a rising cultural identity, we are trying to combine that food concept with social resources, events, an
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07 | FLOATING ISLAND CYANOBACTERIA ECOLOGICAL RESTORATION Tutor: Le Xu Individual work 2017 Location: Suzhou, China After the 21st century, the rapid economic development in the Taihu Lake area has brought a lot of pollution to Taihu Lake waters, including industrial wastewater, agricultural pollution and aquaculture pollution. These contaminants make the lake eutrophic and bloom cyanobacteria from May to October. Cyanobacteria are toxic to humans and endanger aquatic ecosystems, causing ecological catastrophe, inhibiting other algae, shading effects and reducing the transparency of the lake. Lake water pollution has also brought about a downturn in aquaculture and tourism, affecting local residents,
Healthy Ecology
Plum tree
Acorus calamus Reed Eichhornia crassipes
Tea tree
River clam Egret
Mandarin duck
Ecological barrier
Forestry
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Water-weed
Eichhornia crassipes
Underwater
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Wetland
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Crabs
Ecological barrier
White fish
Upper Taihu Lake water system
WUXI CITY
CHANGZHOU CITY
Paddy Field Area: 122km2 Cultivated Land Area: 151km2 Fertilizer Supply: 91300t
Paddy Field Area: 149km2 Cultivated Land Area: 192km2 Fertilizer Supply: 89900t
MEILIANG BAY
GONGHU BAY
ZHUSHAN BAY
WESTEN HILL
Aquatic-breeding region Cyanobacteria area Water intake point
71% WATER REACH EUTROPHIC LEVEL 104km2 CYANOBACTERIA AREA 19% THE TAI LAKE REGION FISHERY OUTPUT RATIO
SUZHOU CITY Paddy Field Area: 214km2 Cultivated Land Area: 247km2 Fertilizer Supply: 116300t
Fishery Output Value Ratio:20% Area of lake reclamation: 1.94km2 Feed convertion Ratio:30%
Aquatic Breeding Region Farming Output Value Ratio:60% Area of Farm land:45678hm2 Feed convertion Ratio: 35%
Industry Output Value Ratio:20% Area of Industry land:3542hm2
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WASTE AND POLLUTION
Nitrogen and phosphorus and other nutrients promote the growth of cyanobacteria. There are three major categories of major pollutants discharged into Taihu Lake, including industrial pollution, agricultural pollution and living pollution.
Fertilize farmland in spring Unit dosage of fertilizer:520kg/hm2
Total nitrogen and phosphorus index increase
Agricultural Pollution Sources
Cyanobacteria produce toxins and block the sunlight
Fishery Pollution Sources
Death of fish and shrimp Fishing Crab farming Shrimp Oyster
Chemical industry Textile factory Metallurgical industry Paper mill Electroplating factory
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After the ecological restoration, the site will have several function of scientific research, purification and tourism. At the same time, the local economy will be improved.
Rest measures Wetlands Cyanobacteria reserved area
Purification measures——Floating island
Research institutes Tour route Floating island Pedestrian Avenue
LAKESIDE FILTER BELT
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N/P absorption process
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OTHER WORK
Construction drawing / sketch
OTHER WORK
GRASSHOPPER | MEDIA CLASS ASSIGNMENT
Circulation
Population
Building typology
Shadow analysis
Vacancy
OTHER WORK PHYSICAL MODEL STUDY
Machine plant - Concept model for 601 studio