XIAOMENG MA MASTER OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN PORTFOLIO 2017
PART I ACADEMIC PROJECTS
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A LANDSCAPE FOR DEATH
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AN EROSION STORY OF BADLANDS
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Reform the Varanasi Waterfront
To Measure & Demonstrate Erosion
GROWTH & BALANCE
Revitalize Pregreso Canal
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COMMON GROUND
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MIDTOWN INTERWAVE
Envisioning Waller Creek as a Learning Landscape
Regenerate Midtown Atlanta
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A Landscape For Death
Reform Varanasi Waterfront 09.2016 - 12.2016 Advanced Studio | Landscape + Architecture Instructor | Hope Hasbrouck, David Heymann Location | Varanasi, India Team Members | Xiaomeng Ma, Zhun Jiao (Architecture)
Project Narrative A Ghat is a waterfront area where the pilgrims perform daily rituals. It consists of a series of steps leading down to a holy body of water. In Varanasi, India, Hinduisms perform a traditional cremation ceremony after a death at Manikarnika Ghat, one of the most sacred Ghats with the longest history along Ganges River, for centries. Nowadays, the rapidly increased pilgrims and tourists’ population have brought great pressure to Manikarnika Ghat, as well as to the city of Varanasi. This project created a combined landscape-architectural strategy from the city scale to the site scale, to create a new pilgrimage system along Varanasi waterfront, at the same time, providing solutions to multiple challenges like overcrowded, chaotic circulation, flooding and water pollution.
PREPARING FOR CREMATION
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MANIKARNIKA GHAT
PROPOSED CREMATION ISLAND
URBAN SCALE
STRATEGIC PLA
ISSUE - - - - - - - - - - - - - - SOLUTION 1 - - - - - - SOLUTION 2 city
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OVERCROWDED BANKS
DECENTRALIZE INWARDS
EXPAND OUTWARDS
HYDROLOGY CONTEXT The three maps on the right show Ganges River watershed and sub-watersheds where the city of Varanasi locates in.
VARANASI
URBAN CONTEXT VARANASI
Hinduism Mandala The Core Circle The Second Circle The Third Circle The Fourth Circle
HINDUISM MANDALA & CITY DISTRICTS
Varanasi Boundary Manikarnika Ghat Pilgrim Routes Cultural Place
CULTURAL PLACES DISTRIBUTION
Ganges River Deposition Ancient Water Body
Manikarnika Ghat
Manikarnika Ghat City Boundary
Main Roads
ANCIENT WATER BODY & CITY TRACTS
Railways
TRANSIT SYSTEM
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SITE SCALE CHALLENGES
Waterfront Overwhelmed By Pilgrims
View of Ganges Unobstructed
Site Location
STRATEGIES
WIDDEN THE WATERFRONT
EMBED THE BUILDING
BANK SITUTIONS
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Water Heavily Polluted
SEPERATE & TREAT THE WATER
PREVENT FLOODS
Flooding Submerge the Bank
LIVING MACHINE SECTION
CREMATION ISLAND
This Section Perspective Combined with the Water Cycle Diagrams Show ges River Over a Series of Wetland Ponds, and to Provide Touchable Wa
Manikarnika Ghat
The Pool
Native Kan Grass
Living Mach
body washing, burning, praying and cremation carried on all together is at old Manikarnika Ghat.
provids touchable water with three level of depths to support different retuals.
Kans Grass used to grow in this area in large amount.
consists of four cells treat pollu and separate p untreated wat
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w How the Cremation Island Works as a Living Machine to Treat the Polluted Water Intake From Ganater for the Pilgrims to Perform Various Rituals in the Pools and Through the Walkway.
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Cremation Rooms using electronical technology to burn bodies instead of traditional wood materails.
Intake Piple & Gravity Filter Pond store raw water from Ganges River and pretreatment.
Ashes Scattering Platform
Ganges River
enable ashes scattering right after burning in the cremation room.
water heavily polluted, water used for untouchable rituals only
SITE PLAN
CREMATION ISLAND
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DEAD BODY WASHING POND
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BRIDGE
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BATHING POOLS
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LIVING MACHINE TREATMENT
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LIVING MACHINE TREATMENT
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- BIO-PIRIFICATION AND FINAL POLISHING - SECOND BIO-PURIFICATION CELLS 6
LIVING MACHINE TREATMENT
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WATER INTAKE PONDS
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CREMATION PLAZA
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- FIRST BIO-PURIFICATION CELLS
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ASH SCATTERING GHATS
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CREMATION BUILDING
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NEW GHAT
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WATER CYCLE DIAGRAMS Ganges Water
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Living Machine Treatment
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Bathing Pool
Dead Body Washing Pond
Drinking Water
Touchable Water
EXPERIENCE & CIRCULATION
THE CREMATION RITUALS
WASH THE BODY
Washing Pond
CARRY DEAD BODY AND PRAY
Stairs Connection the Ground Level
Touchable Water Reflection Pond Operation Platform
Manikarnika Ghat Plaza for Mourning and Praying
PREPARE
Walkway for Carrying Dead Bodies
Living M Water T
SITE MODEL
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BURN AND PRAY
Machine Treatment
Preparing the Rituals
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Setps to the Cremation Rooms
SCATTER ASHES
Cremation Chimney
Ashes Scattering Platform
New Cremation Ghats
Floating Diyas
Rooftop Walkway
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An Erosion Story Of Badlands
To Measure & Demonstrate Erosion 09.2015 - 12.2015 | Individual Work Advanced Studio | Landscape + Historic Preservation Instructor | Michael Holleran, Benjamin Ibarra Sevilla, LBJWC Location | Badlands National Park, South Dakota, U.S.
Project Narrative Badlands National Park always leaves its tourists with great impression with its most otherworldly formations. They were formed gradually by natural force, mainly the erosion and deposition processes, over millions of years, and the processes have never stopped. Nowadays, the continuous erosion and deposition processes are threatening the built environment in the Visitor Center area, causing potential harm especially to the historical buildings. This project created a series of installations as retaining walls, as well as dashboards to demonstrate those natural processes over time visually. Combined with a small outdoor classroom outside the Visitor Center, the installations provide interesting educational programs for the visitors.
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EXISTING CONDITIONS & STRATEGY
EROSION CONDITION 2011-2013 EROSION Completely Eroded Away Informations Take Away Vegetated Ground Threaten Buildings & Structures Disturb Visitors Experience
STRATEGIES Let It Be Demonstrate Erosion Control Erosion
CONTEXT MAPS Badlands National Park
Baffalo Gap National Park
Pine Ridge Indian Reservation
VEGETATED GROUND
EROSION TRANSIT
Covers Most of the Uneroded Area.
Where Deposition Transi Driven by Wind and Rai
Cedar Pass Developed Area Visitor Center & Administration SITE Lodge Campground
Maintenance Area Park Boundary
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SITE SECTIONS
T ROUTES
NATURAL DRAINAGE
SURFACE CURVES
it and Accumulated in Fall Force.
The Drainages Accelerate the Erosion and Engraving the Formations.
Naturally Formed as a boundary Between the Deposition and the Vegetated Ground
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DESIGN
EROSION THEATER
The Form of the Erosion Theater Derived From the Surface Curves Existed Betwe a Small Erosion Panel to Receive and Demonstrate Erosion and Deposition. Betw Wall Demonstrating Erosion and Prevent it from Harming the Historical Building.
CONCEP SKETCH Erosion Theater
Formation Arm
Exibition
Formation Arm
to hold and erosion and over time
Erosion Dashboard
Erosion Trail connect every erosion exhibition panel
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een the Vegetated Ground and Deposition Area. Each Inward Turning Along the Trail Holds ween the Erosion Theater and the Visitor Center, There is a Large Dashboard as a Retaining
Main Formation Arm
rapid erosion speed threaten the Visitor Center Building
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demonstrate d deposition
Erosion Dashboard
protect the Visitor Center from being harmed by deposition acceleration, keep records of erosion processes over time
Erosion Theater
n ourdoor classrrom for educational programs
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Visitor Center
DESIGN | SECTION
EROSION DASHBOARD
Exhibition Das
Deposition Transportation driven by natural force: wind and rainfall
Deposition Overtime normal years, 8 inches wet years, 14 inches dry years, 1 inch normal years, 7 inches normal years, 7 inches
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shboard
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Visitor Center Museum
Indoor Deposition Marks predicted the deposition harms without the erosion dashboard as a retaining wall.
New Pedestrian
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Growth & Balance
Revitalize Progreso Canal 02.2015 - 05.2015 Landscape Comprehensive Studio Instructor | Gabriel Diza Location | Hermosillo, Mexico Team Members | Melissa Sparks, Xiaomeng Ma, Xuefei Dong
Project Narrative Hermosillo is a city in Mexico suffers from floods every year. The city has built a canal system to deal with this issue. While it neither function well nor provide any pleasant aesthetic landscape to the locals. Progreso Canal locates at the north suburban of the city, at the intersection of high, middle and low income neighborhoods. Along the street of the canal, there is an increasing number of commercial retails. The canal corridor has an opportunity to serve as a linear park as well as green and blue infrastructure for the neighborhoods.
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CONTEXT
LANDSCAPE SYSTEMS
NATURAL SYSTEM
SOCIAL SYSTEM
TRANSIT SYSTEM
Watershed
Community
Drainages
Commercial Opportunity
Inlets
Public Spaces
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SITE CONDITIONS OPPORTUNITIES
ISSUES
Roads
Open Trench
No Pedestrian
Emerging Commercial
Seasonal Flooding
Vancant Lands
Bank Erosion
Pilot Linear Park
No Bike Lanes
Bike Lanes
Pedestrian
CORRIDOR SCALE
STRATEGIES
CORRIDOR PLAN
RAIN GARDENS LINEAR PARK
Local Vegetaion Revised Pedestrian Rain Garden
COMMUNITY GARDEN
Permeable Paver Bioswale Rain Garden
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FOOD MARKET
Bike Lanes Food Tracks Rain Gardens
PARCEL DESIGN
FLOWING GARDEN
CONCEPT SKETCH Link the communities; balance the commercial; collect & slow down rian water
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SECTION A-A’
Retail
Outdoor Sittings Wood Deck Plaza Rain Garden Bike Lane
Pedestrian
Pedestrian
SECTION B-B’ Pedestrian Bike Lane Buffer
Pedestrian Rain Garden
New Trail Canal Bed
SECTION C-C’
Gabion Terrace
Gabion Terrace Canal Bed
Rain Garden Pedestrian Food Tracks
EXPERIENCE
PROGRESO LINEAR PARK
Evapotranspiration Protected canopy interception and evapotranspiration reduces runoff and helps to lower ambient air and temporature
Linear Open Space Provide open spaces and connections in dry seasons; slow down, infiltrate and convey rain water in flood seasons
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Native Species
Native Plants as street trees, landscape plants, and raingardens materials provide a unique local landscape and work well in infiltrating rain water
Pedestrain Trail Provide for active or passive recreational uses and connect various neighborhoods and commercials along Pregreso Canal
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Common Ground
Envisioning Waller Creek as a Learning Landscape 09.2014 - 12.2014 Landscape Architecture Design Studio Instructor | Allan W. Shearer Location | Austin, TX, U.S. Team Members | Amy Grossman, Jody Broccoli, Shiqi Zhou, Tanya PovoIny, Xiaomeng Ma
Project Narrative Waller Creek flow through north Austin, UT campus, downtown Austin and ends into the Colorado River. It has inconstant flow during dry seasons versus during the flooding seasons. The UT campus provides distinct context for Waller Creek compared to other parts of watersheds. In this project, we were given three objectives: enhance the environment, engage the creek and improve the access, to envision a new Waller Creek corridor as a common ground for a UT campus, and to support educational programs.
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CONTEXT & VISION WALLER CREEK CONTEXT
Learning Fields on Campus
Wa ller Cre ek
Neighborhoods Public Parks Neighborhoods
Public Parks
Social Learning Fields
Academic Le
Neighborhoods Public Parks Neighborhoods
University of Texas at Austin Campus
Downtown Austin
Before Enter Colorado River
Waller Creek the UT campus segment is the only part with academic environment, which defines its distinctive role.
UT is all about learning. It contains varies fields of learning. Waller C real “fields� for different learning to support the university spirit.
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VISION & OBJECTIVES The Common Ground Waller Creek Interaction with water
1 Establish Fields of Learning
earning Fields
Social Learning Fields Academic Learning Fields
2 Connect Fields of Learning Bike lines with buffers Continuing Pedestrian
3 Sustain Fields of Learning Rain Gardens Bioswales
Wellness Learning Fields
Creek should create and connect
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Wellness Learning Fields
ESTABLISH FIELDS FO LEARNING
DESIGN METHOD
Design Method: In th system, we defined s achieved. To test the to the three objectiv
1 ESTABLISH FIELDS OF LEARNING
2 CONNECT FIELDS OF LE
Student Dormitory
THE BACKYARD PROPOSED SECTION
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his project, we first establish three landscape systems in terms of the three objectives. In each several indicators. By changing the quantity of the indicators, the relevant objectives will be e results, we separately evaluated the existing condition versus the proposed condition in related ve systems.
EARNING
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3 SUSTAIN FIELDS OF LEARNING
DESIGN
MASTER PLAN
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The Field + Learning Model Creates a Series of Outdoor Classroo Provided Move Enclosed Spaces, at the same time, more acce corridor and along the corridor.
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THE BASIN
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THE BACKYARD
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oms Along Waller Creek, ess to and from the
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1 The Dorm Field 2 The Art Wall_North 3 The Art Wall_South
4 The Civic Step 5 The Backyard 6 Athletic Field
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The Limestone Trail The Basin_North The Basin_South
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THE CIVIC STEP
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THE ART WALK
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Midtown Interwave
Regenerate Midtown Atlanta 01.2016 | ULI Competition Instructor | Simon Atkinson Location | Atlanta, GA, U.S. Team Members | Chiafen Ho, Jamie DeAngelo, Sijin Sun, Xiaomeng Ma, Yingyi Lei
Project Narrative Atlanta is identified as a national and global transportation hub as well as a cultural and economic center of the Atlanta Metropolitan Area. Midtown Atlanta is business districts consist of a mixture of cultural amenities, institutions of higher education, architectural heritages, accessible urban open spaces, and walkable streets. In this project, Midtown Atlanta is given the vision of building mixed-use sustainable and vibrant neighborhoods to better serve as a pilot intelligent city center.
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Melissa works at BOA. She brings her daughter to the Children’s Center at All Saints’ every day. She like taking her to the outdoor shows at the Dynamic Square in the evening.
Nick just moved from Austin to Atlanta living on the 12th floor of the mixed-use building at Midtown Dynamic Square, while working at his new branch office in the same building on the 3rd floor. He enjoys this convenience very much.
Mr. and Ms. Hasbrouck are a young couple living north of Atlanta. They love to visit the Midtown Fox Theater for the shows at the weekends and head to the Varsity for a drink.
Allan is a recent engineering graduate student from Georgia Tech. He just moved into the student housing in Tech Square, working as an intern at an engineering company.
Amy is a medical school student at Georgia Tech. She usually study till midnight at the cafes down the Flame Tunnel, and walk along the Shining Promenade with friends during the weekends.
OBJECTIVES
TRANSIT ROLE
MASTER PLAN
Provide Multiple Convenient and Fast Transit Tools; Maximum Walkability
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CULTURE ROLE An Emerging Cultural Hub of South Midtown
Provide Energetic Communities & Incubators for Students and Young Entrepreneurs
DOWN CONNEC TOR
EDUCATION ROLE
1. FLAME TUNNEL 2. TECH SQUARE 3. INCUBATOR PLAZA 4. TECH COMMUNITY GARDEN 5. RE-IGNITED TORCH PLAZA 6. SHINING PROMENADE 7. TECH ENTRANCE PLAZA 8. DYNAMIC CENTER NORTH PLAA 9. THE BURROWS GARDEN 10. DYNAMIC SQUARE 11. ALL SAINTS’ PLAZA 12. AT&T TERRACE 13. FILED DAY HOTEL 14. THE VARSITY AMPHITHEATER 15. THE VARSITY MARKET 16. MIDTOWN TRANSIT CENTER 17. TRACK 29 HOTEL 18. GREEN BRIDGE 19. NORTH AVENUE RETAILS 20. BOA PLAZA
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PONCE DE LEON AVE
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PEACHTREE STREET
WEST PEACHTREE STREET
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NORTH AVENUE
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EXPERIENCE
DYNAMIC SQUARE
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MIXED-USE NEIGHBORHOOD
Green roofs capture rainwater and for irrigation of landscape
Incubators & Co-work
Energy Efficient Facade
Flexible collaboration spaces inspiring innovative ideas
Helps reduce solar heat gain, and cools the promenade and city ground by evapotranspiration
Flexible Co-work Provide much needed work space for new graduates and young entrepreneurs in a collaborative environment
Outdoor Cafe & Restaurants Promote spontaneous encounters and conversations
MIXED-USE COMMUNITY
Tech Exchange Box Lectures, workshops, exhibitions, forums, banquets, black box theater, show shops.
THE SHINING PROMENADE
The Flame Tunnel Multifunctional study rooms & bookshops, student activity rooms, cafes & coops
ENERGY EFFICIENT FACADE
PART II INTERNSHIP PROJECTS
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WILLIAMSON COUNTY REGIONAL ANIMAL S
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TSTC CONSTRUCTION DOCUMENTS
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LAMAR UNIVERSITY QUAD
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XUHUI WATERFRONT REVITALIZATION
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GREEN WALL COMPETITION
AutoCAD Landscape Plan
AutoCAD Layout Plan, Landscape Plan, Irrigation Plan, Site Furnishing & Lighting Plan
SD + DD Documents
Basketball Court Design, 3D Modelling In Lumion & Rende
Green Wall Design & Installation
PART III OTHER WORKS HAND DRAWINGS & ART WORK Watercolor, Pencil & Pen Sketch, etc.
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Internship Project 1 Williamson County Regional Animal Shelter 03.2017 - 04.2017 Landscape Architecture Intern at Garcia Design. Inc
My Contribution: • • •
Created “The Gap” concept plan in hand drawing and AutoCAD; Created “The Gap” planting design; Prepared AutoCAD documents.
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Internship Project 2 TSTC Construction Documents 02.2016 - 07.2016 Landscape Architecture Intern at Asakura Robinson, Houston Office Texas State Technical College Fort Bend - The Brazos Center
My Contribution:
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2 Layout Plan • Designed pavement patterns; • Prepare Layout Plan in AutoCAD. 3 Irrigation Plan • Prepared Irrigation Plan in AutoCAD. 4 Site Furnishing & Lighting Plan • Selected site furniture & lightings; • Prepared CD ducument in AutoCAD.
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Internship Project 4 Lamar University Quad SD + DD 02.2016 - 07.2016 Landscape Architecture Intern at Asakura Robinson Lamar University Quad, Project Manager: Peng Xu
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Illustrative Plan Enlargement Plan - West Entry Enlargement Plan - East Entry Enlargement Plan - Quad
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Site visit & field measurement Produced tree protection map; Created Setzer Student Center north entrance concept plan; Prepare DD document in AutoCAD; Rendered the master plan in photoshop; Researched and selected furniture & lightings research;
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Existing Wharf Tower as Landmark.
Internship Project 3 Basketball Court Design 07.2015 Landscape Architecture Intern at EDSA Orient, Beijing Office Xuhui Waterfront Revitalization Basketball Court Design
Project Narrative
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Created Graphics from Wharf Towers in Hand Drawings.
Xuhui Waterfront were an abandoned industrial district in Shanghai, China. This project aims to transform the waterfront into a public park, providing a common space for the nearby neighborhoods, as well as acting as a new landmark memorizing the local history. As a landscape design intern, I was responsible for creating a concept plan for the basketball court in the park, building 3D model and produced rendering for the clients.
My Contribution:
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Created basketball court concept plan; Built 3D model in SketchUp; Created renderings in Lumion.
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Built 3D Model & Created Renderings: Designed basketball stands & c
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Digitalized Graphics in Photoshop.
court fencing using the Wharf Towers form.
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SITE PLAN
AutoCAD + Photoshop
Family Gardens
Mast Plaza
SketchUp Model + Lumion Rendering
Sunset Boulevard
Family Gardens
Lighthouse Trail
Basketball Court
Lighthouse Trail
Sunset Boulevard
Mast Plaza
Internship Project 5 Greenwall Design & Installation
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05.2016 Landscape Architecture Intern at Asakura Robinson, Houston Office Green Wall Competition
My Contribution:
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Research and selected plant materials; Designed planting pattern; Installed the irrigation system and planting pots; Designed team logo; Presented the design concept;
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Designed Planting Pattern.
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Calculated the Cost.
system, planting pots and plant materials.
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Other Works
Hand Drawings & Art Work
09.2009 - 012.2013 Assignments at Beijing Forestry University
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Water Color Pencil Sketch Pumpkin Art Work Pen Sketch
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XIAOMENG MA (512) 963-4581
xiaomma@utexas.edu
3106 Duval St. #210, Austin, TX
THANK YOU !