XIAOFEI SHI PORTFOLIO 2013 - 2016 217-418-9988 saffieshi@gmail.com
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Surface Design
MANA, Chicago, IL
KEY WORD: surface design, sustainability, landscape infrastructure, ecological rainwater treatment This is the final team project of an office-style studio solving urban flooding issues with ecological surface strategies. The studio starts with surface material research and case studies. Three areas of concern in Chicago, on top of good deep soil condition, are chosen to perform further studies and site visits. To ease the burden of the grey infrastructure, a prototype of 3D surface is proposed to slow down water flows and facilitate infiltration to the deep soil layer. This proposal could be seen as a test of solving urban flooding issues and digesting rainwater with landscape infrastructure on-site.
CONFLUENCE
Campus Plan
Localizing Streeterville
Neighborhood Development
Activation
Landscape Planning
Intimacy with Nature
Hotel Design (phase 1)
Living / Creek
Constrution Document (sample)
Urban-Champaign, IL
Streeterville, Chicago, IL
LiaoCheng, ShanDong, N. China
CongHua, GuangDong, S. China
Changsha, HuNan, S. China
SCENARIO RAIN or shine
Surface - Visitor Interaction: When the rainfall amount exceed local average, puddels could link togetherr as a wavy line performing the design aethetics. And it will also provide a chance for children to play with water in a safer scenario.
SCENARIO rain or SHINE
Surface - Visitor Interaction: After rain or during dry time, the plaza could function as outdoor cafe and exhibition space.
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Surface Design
CONFLUENCE
Campus Plan
MANA, Chicago, IL
Urban-Champaign, IL
KEY WORD: self-sustaining, campus-community, futuristic This is a forty-eight hour charratte for a 50 year campus plan framework, responding to the upcoming sesquicentennial anniversary of the University of Illinois, advised by PLA Michael Boucher and Josephine Bellalta. The narrative of design concept is as followed: "Building off the work of Danika Cooper’s studio, coupled with the Illinois Climate Action Plan, we began to unveil what the future holds for UIUC. We see the campus as a self-sustaining system that integrates the university into the larger community of Champaign County, harnessing the ecological educational opportunities within performing landscape systems, while having a futuristic vision that reengages natural systems. We also recognize that a campus serves as a stage for interaction within which human beings thrive as a community, which is currently under threat with rises in the popularity of convenience that technology brings, such as online courses. Looking to compromise between the efficiency of online courses and the amount of interaction that is needed for a fruitful and interdisciplinary approach to education, physical spaces are still imperative. However, as form, layout and density are negotiable, we seek a contraction as opposed to the sprawl and expansion featured in the current campus master plan. Futuristic projection of the university is not confined to the current existence of solid geometrical patterns. Ecological systems determine the form, making it possible for the community to come in, becoming a porous entity. Having myriad means to work with, we envision a new locus within the campus, capturing the essence of what breathes life into the university. In achieving the aforementioned goals, we took on a triple-pronged approach to our process organization, which included the built environment, landscape systems and circulation patterns. "
Localizing Streeterville
Neighborhood Development
Activation
Landscape Planning
Intimacy with Nature
Hotel Design (phase 1)
Living / Creek
Constrution Document (sample)
Streeterville, Chicago, IL
LiaoCheng, ShanDong, N. China
CongHua, GuangDong, S. China
Changsha, HuNan, S. China
CONFLUENCE Self-Sustaining Campus System Centennial Concept Plan, University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana, IL
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VERMILION WATERSHED
PIATT COUNTY
DOUGLAS COUNTY
KASKASKIA WATERSHEED
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Regional inventory: The locus of UIUC camups is at the intersetion of railways connecting north to Chicago, east to Indianapolis. And it also sit at the interface of watersheds, which makes the site significant as the one of the confluence in these watersheds.
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University Ave
Florida Ave
Drainage Divide
Hydrology
Geographic significance: The south campus is embeded in a relatively flat watershed. And the drainage divide happens to be the division of north and south campus, which means north campus is also hydrologically isolated from the south.
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Hydrology
Soil
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Infiltration rate rapid moderate slow-moderate slow
Points of Confluece
Main campus inventory: Based on current functions and interpretation of future uses, points of confluence, in terms of cultural cluster, are identified along with the detailed hydrological conditoins to the north.
Conceptual montage Research Park "N" • High-speed train terminal • Bike rental center • Seasonal quad • Piesoelectric generators/ solar cells on facades
Campus-Community Market • Self-sustaining agriculture • Community iniviting • Seasonal event - summer • Farmers' market
Succession forest • Recreation in "nature" • Shared facilities • Seasonal scene - fall • Biking & picnic
Green infrastructure
Rain garden Succession forest Prairie Green house Waterbody Permaculture Preserved Parking Experienment farmland Auto-car route Railway
• Grey infrastrcture resilience • Shared facilities • Seasonal scene - fall • Dog-walking & picnic
Futuristic visions: Envisioning the significant impact of online curriculums withdrawing popularity, the connectivity of the physical campus would be boarden throughout the larger city commun
nities and regions. As technology moving forward, sucessions and ecological resilience would "go back to the future".
Main quad • Elevated walkways • Temporary detention • Seasonal scene - spring • Pairie resilience
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Surface Design
CONFLUENCE
Campus Plan
Localizing Streeterville
Neighborhood Development
MANA, Chicago, IL
Urban-Champaign, IL
Streeterville, Chicago, IL
KEY WORD: neighborhood development, walkable streetscape, local identity This is a simulation project of neighborhood revitaliztion in downtown Chicago, consult by senior urban designers, Kai Tarum and Devin Lavigne. The project starts with the definition of the core neighborhood socially connected to local residents. Regarding the current features of Streeterville, this proposal offers upgrade approaches in phases to satisfy the feasibility.
Activation
Landscape Planning
Intimacy with Nature
Hotel Design (phase 1)
Living / Creek
Constrution Document (sample)
LiaoCheng, ShanDong, N. China
CongHua, GuangDong, S. China
Changsha, HuNan, S. China
Localizing Streeterville Walkability, Communicability, service accesibility Neighborhood Design Interventions Streeterville, Chicago, IL
Localizing Streeterville: This projectt response to the identity and livability issues of Streeterville, in order to re-vitalize and re-claim the neighborhood from numerous tourists.
Defining Streeterville Poplulation elders mid-age young married young single green space footprint
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Local recognition tourists' hot spot elders' cluster common cluster recreation green space footprint local definition
Retail and recreation services will be adde on first floors; New streetwalls are between 6 to 10 floors; Three to five-floor podium buildings are added to make dynamic facades.
Streetwalls are diversifed and more transparent on the first and second floors of new infills. In a way, high-rise towers will be less suffocating with set-backs.
15 ft
26 ft
Streetscape interventions
retail mixed-use
Infill typology
90 ft first floor retail
55 ft
80ft first floor retail w/ poket park unit: feet
Systematic infills: Given the area of interest and activity analysis, Dewitt Pl. is defined as the main corridor sewing the blocks toghther. More neihborhood services, such as day care centers and grocery shops will be infilled to make the neighborhood more livable. Besides, streetcsape will be re-designed to make the street safer and more walkable. Infills and streetscape re-design together will create a more pedestrian-friendly environment in Streeterville neighborhood. Initailly, more communications are expected to happen with a more inviting outdoor atmosphere.
Green Space Typology
Public: Green space facing Michigan Lake will be claimed as new community parks; Existing lawns adjacent to the streets will be claimed as poket parks; Joggers' Loop is proposed to link the Lake Shore Park and the rest of neighborhood.
Semi-Public: Alleys of some block will be widen to create space for court yards.
Before
After
Systematic Green Space: Different levels of acticivty demand and privacy are offered to a neighborhood adjacent to tourists' hot spots. Especially, the north side of Lake Shore Park becomes more welcoming to neighborhood residents. And part of it will be open to dog walkers.
Phase 1
Phase 2
Phase 3
• Reclaim the existing lawns as poket parks; • Add ground floor retail; • Streetscape re-design.
• Change building setbacks; • Rebuild over-hieight buildings on both sides of Dewitt Pl; • Add podium buildings along Dewitt Pl.
• Rebuild other street-side buildings in the defined neighbohood; • Add semi-public court yards; • Facilitate Joggers' Loop.
Phasing: The proposal is feasible with three phases of application, depending on the significance and efficiency.
Initial expectation (streetscape)
Streetscape programing: Each side of streets are designed slightly different. West-side streets are given more outdoor furnitures, while east-side are facilitating more active events.
Initial expectation (from windows)
Initial goals: The redevelopment is expected to create an atmosphere of neighborhood by bringing more people outside of buildings.
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Surface Design
MANA, Chicago, IL
CONFLUENCE
Campus Design
Urban-Champaign, IL
Localizing Streeterville
Neighborhood Development
Activation
Landscape Planning
Streeterville, Chicago, IL
LiaoCheng, ShanDong, N. China
KEY WORD: river corridor, urban landscape, facility, green infrastructure Working along with local government and hydrologic engineers, the project is not only a hydrological facility resuming the nature of Tuhai River, but also a landscape infrastructure offering riverfront activities. This proposal focused on the west part of TuHai River Project. Given the geographic limit and the adjacency to the urban context of LiaoCheng City, the proposal responses to the purpose of hydrological engineering and the need of recreation.
Intimacy with Nature
Hotel Design (phase 1)
Living / Creek
Constrution Document (sample)
CongHua, GuangDong, S. China
Changsha, HuNan, S. China
Activication Green infrastructure in urban living Landscape Planning for Tuhai River (west coast) LiaoCheng, ShanDong, N. China
Urban context
Geology
Chenkou Rd
Wenhua Rd Rd in plan
Rd in plan Tuhai River
Rainbow Brdg
Channel Lv2
Banhua River
Hunan Rd
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Height / m
Legend major road secondary road Binhe Rd in plan bridge road in campus
connection to city connection to campus
37.5 - 38.8 36.1 - 37.5 34.8 - 36.1 33.4 - 34.8 32 - 33.4 30.7 - 32 29.3 - 30.7 28 - 29.3
Slope / ° <5 5.1 - 10 11 - 15 16 - 20 21 - 25 > 25
Site inventory Seeing the site: It is clear that west coast is comparatively narrow, which is hard to carry out huge landscape event. Consequently, we focus in simple and clear landscape space instead of design too much. On the other hand, east coast is wide enough to support crowds of vistors. We make full use of the area with abundant design to bring vitality to the site.
removed plaforms
buildings moved to east landscape interface
west east
Vista 2
west east
west east Vista 1
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planted landscape riverside corridor 3D space
space under bridge short-cut pass straight coastline
east min. width
avg. width
max. width
west east
themetic event uban life embankment
significant node from bridge's view accessibility issues space of concerned under Rainbow Brdg main access for city visitors
communication campus culture meandering coastline
main vista line from Hunan Rd and east coast
Design overview
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Tree pool Multi-layer lawn Viewing platform Parking lot Public facility(restroom/store) Step and square Viewing bridge Viewing platform
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Pavilion Wharf Green slope Shoal Green trail Aquatic plants Red trail
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Spatial structure Structring the landscape: Major node is recognized at the intersection of Hunan Rd and the site entrance connecting to the city. More nodes are located at the other entrance along the site. Vista axises are basically along side with three bridges across the river. Clusters of shoreline landscape are proposed near the major node to provide space for events.
Major node
Major axis
Minor node
Minor axis
Shoreline cluster
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Recreational programs Activating the landscape: Based on landscape structures, recreaional functions are programmed targeting local demography of students and young professionals. Physical activities such as biking and dog walking are facilitated along the recreation trail.
Walking
Dog walking
Biking
Bird viewing
Shades
River engaging
Recreation trail
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Embankment prototype Intervening the shore: Different treatments of the shore are implemented base on various slope conditions and landscape structure. Rocks are filled when any sidewalks is adajent to the shore. Soft landscaping is the easiest treatment when the slope is gentle. Hardscapes such as platforms and steps are installed at river front dwelling nodes.
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South division
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Tree pool Layered lawn Parking lot Viewing platform Public facility(restroom) Step and plaza Shoal Viewing bridge
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Viewing bridge Pavilion Red trail Rest spot
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South division
Wharf
Pavilion
minor green trail channel sidewalk roadway
shoal
red platform Trail
green slope
Mid-division
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Red trail Shoal Layered lawn Tree pool Culvert to channel Green slope
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Mid-division
tree pool planting bed
roadway red trail layered lawn Huhai River
green slope
green green slope trail
minor channel
North division 1 2 3 4 5 6
Rest spot Entrance plaza Red trail Aquatic plants Public facility(restroom) Stepping plaza
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Facility structure Layered lawn Stairs to bridge Green slope Wharf Green trail
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pavilion
red trail
wharf step
green island roadway pavilion platform green slope Huhai River
minor minor channel roadway
North division
Luminated night
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Surface Design
MANA, Chicago, IL
CONFLUENCE
Campus Design
Urban-Champaign, IL
Localizing Streeterville
Neighborhood Development
Activation
Landscape Planning
Intimacy with Nature
Hotel Design (phase 1)
Streeterville, Chicago, IL
LiaoCheng, ShanDong, N. China
CongHua, GuangDong, S. China
KEY WORD: design-built, terrace landscape Given the nature of local landscape and request of cilents, the hot spring hotel is designed with respect of the unique terrace landscape, to create a relaxing/semi-private atmosphere with hard materials, plants and buildings in South Asian style . Design concepts and architecture details are collaborative products with architects.
Living / Creek
Constrution Document (sample)
Changsha, HuNan, S. China
Intimacy with Nature Unique landscape & relaxation Conghua Hot Spring Resort Hotel (Phase 1) CongHua, GuangDong, S. China
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Main entry w/ guard Service entry (4m wide) SPA & hot spring drop-off Hotel drop-off Bus parking Arrival court Flower terrace w/ boardwalk Lily pond Floating deck Lap pool (25m long) Heated swimming pool Children's pool Hot spring entry Hot spring and SPA Service center Creek Lake Conference center Hotel swimming pool Villa road (4m wide) Golf buggy path (2m wide) Retaining wall
Terrace & interface
Main entrance Hotel drop-off
Villa complex Hot spring & SPA Mockup villa
outer project
P.A. inner road 5m
property line public road
P.A. sidewalk 9.5m 4.5m
creek
hot spring area
3m min. Section B set back line
sreecing tree
P.A.
Buffer Area (mounding with pine trees)
drive way 5m Section A
P.A. 9.5m
Hotel & SPA imagery
Main entrance
Welcoming pool
Outdoor SPA
SPA entrance
Mockup villa
1 Buggy drop-off w/ featurepaving 2 Villa entry 3 Retaining wall 4 Tropical herb and flora garden 5 Step garden 6 Feature Tree
Vertical intervention
turf box
P. A.
buggy path
P. A.
townhouse villa
P. A.
retaining wall w/ planting
1m P. A. buggy path walk way
courtyard
min. 3m FEA. Section C
Material pallete
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Surface Design
MANA, Chicago, IL
CONFLUENCE
Campus Design
Urban-Champaign, IL
Localizing Streeterville
Neighborhood Development
Activation
Landscape Planning
Intimacy with Nature
Hotel Design (phase 1)
Living / Creek
Constrution Document (sample)
Streeterville, Chicago, IL
LiaoCheng, ShanDong, N. China
CongHua, GuangDong, S. China
Changsha, HuNan, S. China
KEY WORD: suburban, design-built, semi-public, community park Within the developement property line, a section of local creek is proposed to resume as part of the villa landscape. Concerning the safety and privacy issues, it is designed as semi-public comunity park, opened to neighborhood only.
Living / Creek NingXiang GuanShan Resort Villa Constrution Document Phase 2(sample) Changsha, HuNan, S. China
Main entrance Secondary entrance Lily pond Pavilion Fishing platform Sandy playground Boardwalk Willow forest Farming lot Seats in shade Prunus creek BBQ lot Walkway Seasonal vege Economic fruit Waterwheel Gallery frame Wild garden Restroom
(300~400)*(200~300) STONE, YELLOW CURVED (300~400)*(200~300) STONE, YELLOW CURVED
(300~400)*(200~300) STONE, YELLOW CURVED
(300~400)*(200~300) STONE, YELLOW CURVED
INDEX/HARDSCAPE
BRIDGE DETAIL STEP DETIAL
300*200 GRANITE, YELLOW RUSTED
400*200 QUARTIZE, CURVED
300*200 GRANITE YELLOW BORDER WALKWAY 1 SECTION
WATERWHEEL DETAILS
300*200 GRANITE, YELLOW RUSTED WATERWHEEL
(300~400)*(200~300) STONE, YELLOW
DETAILS 300*200 GRANITE YELLOW BORDER
300*200 GRANITE, YELLOW BORDER 300*200 GRANITE, YELLOW RUSTED 300*200 GRANITE, YELLOW RUSTED 400*200 QUARTIZE, CURVED 300*200 GRANITE, YELLOW RUSTED, NATURAL CUT
STEP SECTION
300*200 SLATE, WOODEN CURVED
300*200 GRANITE, YELLOW RUSTED 300*200 SLATE, WOODEN CURVED
ROADWAY BORDER DETIAL
300*200 GRANITE, YELLOW RUSTED
400*200 QUARTIZE, CURVED 300*200 GRANITE, YELLOW POLISHED
ENTRY 3 INDEX/PAVER
ENTRY 3 DEMENSION/COORDINATE
(300~400)*(200~300) STONE, YELLOW WOODEN CURVED
HANDRIAL A SECTION
(300~400)*(200~300) STONE,
HANDRIAL C SECTION
YELLOW WOODEN CURVED
600*300 QUARTIZE, CURVED
DETAINING WALL SECTION
HANDRIAL B SECTION
STEP DETAILS
STEP ELEVETION
HANDRIAL C
HANDRIAL B
HANDRIAL C
(300~400)*(200~300) STONE, YELLOW CURVED 120*250*500 BORDER
120*250*500 BORDER 400*200 QUARTIZE
400*200 QUARTIZE
250*500 BORDER 30 THICK CONTRETE JOINT 100 THICK C15 CONCRETE COMPACT SOIL
MATERIAL SEE PLAN 30 CONTRETE JOINT 100 C15 CONCRETE 100 6% SAND & CONCRETE COMPACT SOIL
DETAIL SEE DETAIL SEE
WALKWAY WALKWAY 1
WALKWAY 2
600*300*50 STONE, YELLOW RUSTED
MATERIAL SEE PLAN 30 CONTRETE JOINT Mu10 GREY SAND BRICK 100 C15 CONCRETE 100 6% SAND & CONCRETE COMPACT SOIL
1:2.5 CONCRETE CEMENT LEVELING 150 C20 CONCRETE W/STEEL 150 C20 STEEL CONCRETE 6% SAND & CONCRETE COMPACT SOIL
STEP SECTION 1 *APPLY TO HEIGHT MORE THAN 6 STEPS
STEP SECTION 2
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