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XINHUI CHEN Master Of Landscape Architecture, 2019 University of Virginia

XINHUI CHEN

xc5tc@virginia.edu 1118 Ivy Drive, apt 9, Charlottesville, VA 22903 434276923

Education 2017-2019 University of Virginia Master Of Landscape Architecture (Expected) 2018.09-2018.12 Escola Tècnica Superior d'Arquitectura de Barcelona (ETSAB), UPC, Barcelona, Spain study abroad program, University of Virginia 2012-2017 South China University Of Technology, China Bachelor Of Engineering, Landscape Architecture

Honor & Awards Fall 2018- Spring 2019 2019 Merit Student Scholarship | University Of Virginia Fall 2017- Spring 2018 2018 Merit Student Scholarship | University Of Virginia 2017.11 2017 China constructed environment design competition 3rd prize 'Vitopia' in 2047: Future urban design of Shaci District, Chongqing 2017.06 Best Student Research | South China University Of Technology Campus storm management design 2016.07 2016 “Chinese society of landscape architecture” design competition for college students finalist award Daji Island ecological regeneration and urban design

Research & Articles 2019.12 Application of Digital Modeling Technologies in Teaching Chinese Gardens and Architectures second author, collaborated with first author Qiyan Xing (phD., SCUT) 2019 IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment, and Learning for Engineering (TALE), indexed in Engineering Village, presented in Dec. 2019.

-Creating grasshopper scripts and 3D models for experimental teaching methods -Collecting feedback and test data from the class -Drawing diagrams and figures to explain teaching process and results -Writing, translating and proofreading the paper

Experience 2019.06-2019.12 Research Team Member South China University of Technology, China -Participation in two research projects: The Inclusive Cities in China (directed by Prof. Guangsi Lin) and Digital Heritage (directed by Prof. Qi Lu) -A paper is published and presented at The 2019 IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment, and Learning for Engineering (TALE) - Literature review, writing, site visiting, data collection 2019.05-2018.06 Research Assitant University of Virginia Winneba Muni-Lagoon Project. This project is presented in 2019 ESRI User conference -Designing a new road system connecting the cultrual heritages in Winneba -Brochure layout and binding for presentation in Ghana -Field work in Ghana, including water test, drone flying, GIS data collecting and creating site map -Participation in the presentations and community meetings with local residents, governments, stakeholders and chiefs -Further developing an urban design project for Winneba 2018.05-2018.08 Design Intern Aecom, Guangzhou, China -Participation in two projects: Dengyun Mountain Resort Project, Shui Xie Shan Zhuang Estate Project -Autocad drawing: CDs and DDs, material plan, pavement detail, planting plan, plant list, lighting plan, grading plan -Rendering with Lumion and Photoshop: perspectives, nocturnal lighting views, master plans -3D modelling + design: a statue “Cloudy Mountain” with grasshopper and rhino, project models and site models with Sketchup -Design: participation in designing the entrance plaza of the Resort -Brochure layout with Indesign 2017.03-2017.05 Project Team Member Architecture Design Institute of South China University of Technology, China -Investigation on site condition in Wenzhou -Constructing 3D models of existing streetscape with Sketchup -Plan view rendering, perspective rendering and analysis diagams with Adobe Suite, Vray and Sketchup

Software Skills AutoCAD Photoshop Illustrator Indesign After Effects

Rhino Sketchup Grasshopper VRAY ArcGIS

Python HTML+CSS+js Unity + AR Lumion Realflow

STUDIO WORK

01 02 03 04 05

SOCIAL CATALYST Community participation urban design in an African city

PATIOSCAPE An algorithmic park design in central Barcelona

A DELTA ATLAS A hybrid of policy-making, indurial transformation and landscape infrastructure of future California

FROM WASTELAND TO FARMLAND Urban design and brownfield regeneration in urban China

A DUET Experimental site-specific design of the poetic tension between human and non-human

COURSE WORK

06 07 08

URBAN CARPET Plaza design in the Gothic district in Barcelona

GLACIAL LANDFORM Digital simulation of an arctic site

ANTHROPOCENE: AÑANA SALT VALLEY Gaming and augmented reality, drawing on theory of Donna Haraway, Danny Hillis and Henri Lefebvre

OTHER WORK

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SCRIPTING & SENSING A song composed by movement of water & A webmap of the ongoing history in an African fishing village

CONSTRUCT-ING DETAIL Construction detail drawing & modeling

RENDERING Exploration of architectural atmosphere

01 SOCIAL CATALYST Winneba is a fishing village located on the Gulf of Guinea, Africa. Today, Winneba is seeking to transform from a tribal society to a modern one.

Gulf Of Guinea

Water Treatment

Adopting a bottom-up landscape strategy, the design draws on the existing vacant land and urban fabric to create a series of public space as mediator of social and environmental relationships. The project includes three stages, taking two pilot projects as examples. First, the community will discuss together about the plant species and distribution of work, and the cooperated construction process will start to build a sense of community. Second, the established water and waste infrastructure become a meeting space for people in the community.

Third, the fruit trees start to bear fruit after several years. Spontaneous fruit harvest become part of the celebration of festivals, and can promote a better social relationship. As the project covers more and more communities, a multi-species green corridor with a connected sanitation system will take shape. People of different communities can share with each other the fruit from their home.

University Of Education

Royal Cemetary

Individual project Location: Winneba, Ghana Instructor: Guoping Huang, Nancy Takahashi Time: 2019 Fall

Muni Lagoon

Pilot Project Site

Food, Waste, Public

During my field trip, I recorded a video about life of these individuals, where they live and where they go. For example, Efua is a woman living in the rural coastal village in Winneba, she buy fish from her husband, smoke them, walk about 20 minutes to the fish market in downtown Winneba and make money by selling smoked fish. Although they might not know each other, these existing public spaces are potential for the character above to come across. The most popular ones are water kiosk, the local shrine, the open defecation site.

No matter whether they know each other, their life is tightly connected by the invisible material cycle. Kofi and Ato catch fish in the fish landing beach, the fish is sold to Ama to be smoked. The smoked fish from Ama is sold to the canteen of University of Education Winneba, eaten by Selina. Or, the fish is sold to the restaurant, tasted by the tourist Robert.

However, all the waste water from Selina, Ama and Kofi will end up in the lagoon, where Akwasi and Efua fish. In the end, the current will bring all the waste and pollutant back to the fish landing beach.

Urban Context

Prototype

The design prototype intervention recycles household wastewater and solid organic waste to produce food

1 person needs 3L drinking water in 1day boiling 1L water = 30-40 L biogas 1 biogas light = 120-150 L biogas / h generation of 1 kWh of electricity =700 L/h

1 person produces 47 L household wastewater in 1day

300 female need 1 toilet 400 male need 1 toilet 1 person 1 day= 29g dry matter manure 1 flushing = 14L water

1 biogas plant = $1800 - 3200 = 8-15 m3 biogas/d (when filled) 8-15 m3 biogas/d= 125 kg/d food waste = 225 kg/d pig manure = 300 kg/d cow manure = 130 kg/d chicken manure = 160 kg/d human waste + 21 day to digest biogas=60% CH4 + 40% CO2

water kiosk

grey water

black water

road

walkway

rain garden

water storage

biogas outlet biogas residue

recycled grey water

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any oragnic waste

biogas digester

shaded open area

biogas toilet

biogas system

odor blocking

Cultivation of Social Relationship Community Participation

Recommended Tree Species

50(m)

1. the community vote for the preferred plant species and distribute the work

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Kapok Tree

Eucalyptus

African Strangler Fig

Teak Tree

Senegal Prickly-Ash

Ceiba pentandra

Eucalyptus camaldulensis

Ficus craterostoma

Tectona grandis

Zanthoxylum zanthoxyloides

rainforest

banks of streams

lowland tropical and swamp forests

tropical deciduous forests

forest, dry ground, coastal areas

common name Latin name native distribution soil preference

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Neem Tree Azadirachta indica mixed forests, lowland forests

Acacia Tree Acacia albida

Jackfruit Tree Artocarpus heterophyllus

Mango Tree Mangifera indica

Coconut Tree Cocos nucifera

rainforest

open, secondary formations

inland on alluvial plains with a high water table

banks of rivers, alluvial soils

African Oil Palm Elaeis guineensis

Cassia Tree Senna siamea

open forest in moist, sandy soils

Secondary forest formations on the plains

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attracting wildlife aggresive roots

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Eucalyptus leaves are a traditional Aboriginal herbal remedy

fruit

aggresive roots rock splitter

leaves

commercial wood

seeds

leaves

commonly used in traditional medicine. dioecious, both male and female forms need to be grown if seed is required.

flower

fruit

leaves

every part of the plant is used medicinally suitable for dune-fixation organic manure and soil amendment

seeds

soil improver and stabilizer; fix atmospheric nitrogen; self-fertile

fruit

Jackfruit can be used to control soil erosion due to its extensive root system. Also, it is a fast growing tree.

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fruit

Large shade tree.

Street tree. Large flowering tree, Public open space.

The fibre around the seeds is widely used in making peat-free composts where it replaces the peat. The burnt husks form a useful sort of potash .

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Palm oil is obtained from the fruit whilst palm kernel oil is obtained from the seed

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The tree is grown to provide shade. It is also planted as a dense windbreak . It fixes nitrogen.

2. the community construct the site together, building a sense of community

pilot project site

3. the space cultivate people’s habit of collecting waste, provide fresh drinking water to the community, and thus become a meeting space

Multispecies Public Street 5. If each community selects different plants and finishes their project, a connected multispecies public street will merge.

4. people from different communities can share the product from their trees with each other, enhancing the social relationship

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The maturation and harvest of mango overlap with the four most important festivals.

water kiosk

biogas light

drinking plaza festival market stalls

rain garden

biogas toilet

Water Kiosk Maakye to you.

Maakye to you and your son.

1. rain garden 2. water kiosk 3. public plaza 4. communal orchard 5. biogas system 6. biogas toilet 7. waste collection 8. rainwater storage

Kofi

Ama

Public Plaza

Nice to meet you.

Ato

Robert

communal orchard

2 Great. Let’s do pest control together tomorrow.

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Kofi, I’ve finished my work.

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Selina

Waste Collection

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Bring more trash to get credit for the harvest!

Ato

Festival Market

Selina

I’d like to try some local fruit.

Multispecies Public Street As the project covers more and more communities, a multi-species green corridor with a connected sanitation system will take shape. People of different communities can share with each other the fruit from their home.

If this project covers all the vacant land in Winneba, the result is a green corridor with multi-species plants. A connected gutter system, every five minutes’ walk there is a rain garden to reduce the amount of waste water. The small grove indicate the location of public space including water kiosk and public toilets.

communal trees produce food

water treatment plant tree shade reduce temperature,thus increase street life

each community choose its tree gathering of trees indicate the location of public space vehicle lane sharing between communities

gutter

sidewalk

02 PATIOSCAPE MODERN INTERPRETATION OF PATIOS AND CERDABLOCKS Cerda’s plan made Barcelona city famous for its Exiample blocks. However, unlike Cerda’s expectation, the buildings inside the block replaced the small parks that were originally planned to accommodate the increasing number of people. Barcelona is such a dense city that there are limited public spaces for leisure and entertainment. The small patio enclosed by layers of buildings become a “public space” where most residents living in the block can resort to rest.

Patios are places for buildings to breathe, in the city center, we want to create a series of patios for the city to breathe. Located in Les Glories, this site is surrounded by blocks and 4 main passages crossing through.

As a new city park and public space, this project aims to reveal this understanding and experience of the city, creating Exiample blocks and patios by vegetation - inverse the experience between building patio and natural patio, which establish a connection with urban context. At the same time, we use topography and vegetation as our major strategies to enhance patios in the park, bringing an experience of different scales of natural patios to the citizens.

Team Member: Danni Jin, Qinmeng Yu Location: Barcelona, Spain Instructor: Manuel Bailo Time: 2018 Fall

Barcelona: A City Of Patios

Existing Patios In Cerda Blocks

Design Concept

>15m

Typical Eixample Block

Big Patio in the block

Building Patio VS. Canopy Patio

Building Patio

Canopy Patio

Block & patio &buildings

Small Patios in the building for light and ventilatioin

Patios around the site

The central park is a “patio of Barcelona�

Access

Drainage

Small patios inside the park

Elevation

Massing Plan

Massing Process

population in the blocks

Organize trees in each block

Making adjustment to “canopy patio”

Decide the number of planted trees in each block based on the community population

The void space is proposed to be“canopy patio”, contrast to the “building patio”.

Massing Plan

Larger trees are planted closer to the center of a “canopy patio”, in order to create a sense of enclosure

Tree Planting Strategy shallow-root trees are planted above underground infrastructures

Root Plan underground conditions: relationship between infrastructures and the roots of plants.

deep-root trees are planted away from underground` infrastructures

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Landform Strategy Playing with the circular form to enhance the feeling of canopy patio

Master Plan

above-ground conditions: creating patios by trees and landforms, infrastructures (railways, tunnels and facilities) are reflected by planting species, the metro cut into the building, the thin pedestrian defining shapes of Cerda blocks.

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Collage - from different perspectives

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environmental health clinic

Look up the clinic's patio entrance

Overlook the Rec Comtal water tank

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sunken plaza

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Collage

crescent playground

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03 A DELTA ATLAS Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta is a dynamic site in regards of various dynamic parameters.

We embrace floods and storms. We learn that inundation and salt intrusion are not barriers but the driving force in the ideation of a new landscape, for both humans and nonhumans.

We appeal to policy that is not human-centric, but rather considers nonhuman agency. Policy changes the public’s perceptions of a Delta, and the perceptions of a Delta alter its policy.

We perceive according to what we know. We view the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta as a collection of habitats historically, as separated but homogeneous islands currently, and as heterogeneous gradient communities in the future.

We envision a gradient landscape in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta that stretches from de-urbanization to urbanization, less control to more control, islandless to islandness, and from relics of emergent landscape to the fluid city.

This new landscape not only offers new ecological diversity, but social and aesthetic diversity as well, in its very essence as a gradient landscape.

Team Member: Danni Jin, Liwei Liu Location: California Instructor: Brad Cantrell, Andrea Hansen Phillips, Brad Goetz Time: 2019 Fall

18481850 YEAR CLIMATE major flood event significant drought

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ECONOMY financial crisis mining agriculture industry

Gold Rush 1848 1849 Settlers begin farming in the Delta.

1853 Hydraulic Mining begins

1864

Santa Clara County’s growers to ship fruit and vegetables to the San Francisco First transcontinental produce market.

Railroad to export crops 1869

1868 Los Angeles sinks its first artesian well.

Farmers use the water for irrigation.

federal state

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termination of hydraulic mining debris discharges 1884

corporation

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1911 shifted from large-scale ranching and grain-growing operations to smaller-scale

authorized the formation of local irrigation districts The Act launched an era of local governmenal development and control of water resources.

Wright Irrigation Act

water rights giving those owning land bordering a stream "riparian" doctrine 1805

1887

piping the water across the Delta to the Bay Area The State Reclamation Board 1913

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public other individuals

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the great depression 1930

pueblo water right the first users of water - missions and pueblos - the unrestrained right to divert it from a stream and use it for domestic needs and irrigation.

"reclaim" arid lands The Raker Act for human use Newlands Reclamation Act

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accomplish a north-to-south water transfer sponsored by state The California Water Plan

1990

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Groundwa- Skinner Fish facility ter pumping begins operation. taxes begin

1871 launching California’s citrus industry.

POLICY water right face-value allocation (Mm3)

1890

the State Water Resources Act

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Klamath Tribes close their sucker fishery

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1968

resolving some issues of legal boundaries, salinity control and water exports.

Delta Protection Act

formulate plans to address water issues throughout the state.

1995

Restoration: To restore and maintain fish populations in “good condition”

allocates 800,000 acre-feet of water annually to environment

protected numerous rivers that had been identified for dam projects to support the CVP and SWP. The National Wild and Scenic Rivers Act

1931 1933

1945

1968

1959 1949

1960 the Burn-Porter act the foundation of California water quality regulatory programs.

State Water Resources Control Board

Central Valley Project Act passed

federal

San Joaquin state River Restoration Act public other

Central Valley Improvement Act

1992 1984 California Endangered Species Act

2009

individuals corporation

protect both species and their critical habitat.

RECLAMATION: FROM PRIVATE CONTROL TO PUBLIC CONTROL THROUGHT STATE

POSTWAR INFRASTRUCTURE: PUBLIC CONTROL OVER WATER THROUGH STATES AND FEDERAL AGENCIES

INFRASCTRUCTURE

1862 farmers bring rivers for irrigation 1871 First reported construction of a dam on Lake Tahoe 1856 hydraulic mining underway Rudimentary Groundwater extraction begins.

1870 1868 creation of local reclamation districts Klamath River Reservation established 1855 1853 False Bay (Mission Bay) was built Secremento flood control system 1850 the first levee near Sutterville built 1849 Miners began to divert water from streams high in the gold country

1950 1945 Shasta Dam completed

La Mesa Dam in San Diego County is completed 1895 1892 About 100 new wells are drilled yearly in the Santa Clara Valley.

CONFLICT ON WATER RIGHT

Anderson Reservoir

2007

Narrows Dam completed 1941 Colorado River Aqueduct completed North Fork Dam completed 1939

1890 Yosemite National Park is established 1889 San Diego Flume 1888 Klamath River Reservation abandoned Sweetwater Reservoir 1887 created public irrigation districts.

1938 Parker Dam is completed, forming Lake Havasu.

1935 1934

1985 1978 New Melones Dam completed Tribal salmon fishing resumes 1976 Indian Valley Dam completed

1937 Central Valley Project (CVP) Yuba River debris control works completed Sacramento River dredging completed from Cache slough to mouth Hetch Hetchy Dam and Aqueduct completed

Moulton Weir completed 1932 Tisdale Weir completed

1972

Colusa Weir completed Central Valley project authorized

1970

1929 Mokelumne Aqueduct 1928 St. Francis Dam collapses 1924 Fremont Weir completed 1918 Sacramento Weir completed Sacramento River dredging began Los Angeles Aqueduct Open 1913 Hetch-Hetchy project authorized

Buchannan Dam completed 1975 Hidden Dam completed Lower San Joaquin River and Tributaries Project completed

New Bullards Bar Dam completed

Don Pedro Dam completed

1968 Lower San Joaquin River and Tributaries Project levees completed Oroville Dam completed The Santa Clara’s Valley’s first treatment plant 1967 New Exchequer Dam completed 1965 Keno Dam New Hogan Dam completed 1964 1963 Black Butte Dam completed Camanche Dam completed Iron Gate Dam Sacramento River Flood Control Project completed Experimental seawater conversion plant 1962 1961 Success Dam completed Terminus Dam complted 1958

1953

1960 State Water Project began Levee on north bank American River completed

Klamath Forest National Wildlife Refuge is established

The South Santa Clara Valley Water Conservation District 1957 builds Uvas Dam to bolster its recharge efforts Lower San Joaquin River and Tributaries Project started 1956 Folsom Dam completed Isabella Dam completed

Carmel River Reroute and San Clemente Dam Removal commences 2012 State Water Project pumping operations shut down

The Klamath Project’s 2000 operating plan expires 2001 Diamond Valley Lake drinking water reservoir open 2000 1996 Sacramento River Bank Protection Project completed Redbank and Fancher Creeks Project completed 1993 Cache Creek Basin Project completed Central Arizona Project begins operation

Mapping Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta

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wet season: winter dormant farmland to be flooded dry season: drained and irrigated farmland

04 From Wasteland to Farmland Urban Redevelopment of Dajisha Island, Guangzhou, China Located at the center of the Pearl River, Dajisha Island is a tiny isle with population of around 430. It was former farmland, vacant coal teminal, and remains to be an isolated, vanishing, aging community.

By employing the traditional local agricultural intervention, the dike-pond system, the design proposes an intergrated future plan including regeneration of brownfield, improved water canal system, productive landscape, critical preservation of historical coal terminal buildings and new economic oppurtunities.

2016 “Chinese society of landscape architecture� design competition | finalist award Team Member: Xitong He, Xianyao Xia, Zhaowei Shi Location: Guangzhou, China Instructor: Guangsi Lin Time: 2016 Spring

Site Analysis

Huangpu Port

public ferry boat route cargo shipping route existing road water flow over cultivated farmland

the Pearl River

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1960 Starting growing rice

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1949

monthly income of Huangpu Port resident

1965 Cargo terminals were built on the other side of the river.

1979 The west corner of the site was requisitioned for coal terminal.

1985 Starting growing fruits .

Orchards were formed.

2005 Soil degradation started. Crop yields decreased.

monthly income of villagers on the site

2010 Low income led to population outflow.

2014 Coal terminals were abandoned, leaving soil containminated.

Master Plan

Phases of Transforming

Sedimentation Tank Wetland Purification Agricultural Display Area Building Pavement Pavement Farmland Dike Fish Ponds

Secondary Port

1.Agricultural Market 2.Agricultural Display Area Main Port New Planned Port 3.Artificial Wetland 4.Anti-erosion Beach Original Port 5.Agricultural Tourism Area 6.Village Villagers Route Tourist Routes 7.Agricultural Prolification Area Freight route Road

The phasing strategy maximizes the effect of each intervention over time and space. Pilot programs catalyze and support the later programs. The restoration of brownfield goes first and triggers the rest of the phases.

brownfield restoration

Brownfield Treatment Coal Gangue Degradation Constructed Wetland

Transform&Restore Farmland Dike-pond System

sustainable farming

Efficient Orchard

Organic Market

agricultrual business

Organic Port Agricultural Tourism

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Composting Treatment Process Grassland

Coal Dust Bio-degradation The coat dust left by the coal port industry is washed into farmland by rain, polluting the surrounding farmlands and water bodies. Using CGDT technology, a few years later, the organic pollutant in containminated soil will be degraded, and the soil can be relocated to the original site.

PLAN Excavation of the polluted soil, mix with soil amendment and install the composting pile

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WETLAND FOR SOIL + WATER PURIFICATION

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upper brownfield

Bacteria decompost organic pollutant into N,C,P. Phyto remediation removes heavy metals, and can be harvest to biomass.

PLAN F, Hg, Pb, Cr

N, C, P

FLIP UP AND DOWN lower clean soil

CLEAN SOIL COVERS BROWNFIELD MOUND

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Wood

Polluted Soil

Degradation Bacterial Nutrition in the mound increase, and some spontaneous plants can grow on it.

Lime

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Up and Down Replacement

PLAN F, Hg, Pb, Cr, Cu

ACCUMULATE + ISOLATE

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Filter

Wetland Purification Grass Wetland

EXISTING CONDITION

PLAN

Coal Gangue

Water Polluted Solid

Brownfield Treatment

Transport Polluted Solid

The contaimination is reduced. Plants on the mound flourish.

Undefiled Solid Transport Undefiled Solid

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Coal Pollution

Abandoned Warehouse

Abandoned Factory

Transportation Pollution

CGDT Technology

WATER MANAGEMENT

Purification Streamline Pearl River Water Flow Direction Gentle water flow

Land Surface Runoff

Strategy

Flood Water Flow Direction Main Ditch

Polluted Water & Flood

Turbulent flow

Sluice

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Wetland Purification Reservoir

Purification Ditch

Natural Wetland Fish Pond

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Free Market The organic market is converted from an abandoned factory room and can also accommodate public agricultural education activities when required.

05 A DUET This is a path for two travelers. When they walk their way, they sometimes walk together, sometimes are forced to walk separated.

No matter how they walk, they always can have visual connection with each other.

Along the path, many factors will separate the two travelers. In some cases, they are separated by ground elevation.

In some cases, they may be separated by the vegetation between them.

In other cases, even though they are close to each other and nothing is blocked between them, they fail to enter each other’s path because the path condition is comfortable only for a certain person.

The path is full of obstacles, like a real life. Obstacles contain fallen logs and suspending branches in various height.

Each path is easier for different body size. Taller people walk over fallen logs more easily, while shorter people walk under suspending branches more easily. Travelers are free to choose their own path.

In the end, I hope this project can convey an idea that although we choose a different path, we can reunion somewhere not far away; although the journey may be long, we will meet each other at the place where we first met.

Individual project Location: Charlottesville, VA Instructor: Leena Cho Time: 2017 Fall

Site Impression Sketch

HUMAN BODY MOVEMENT NOTATIONAL MAP

UNITS The two character respond differently to the environment due to their different body figure.

observation of my classmate Hangxing Liu’s movement during our field trtip

CATALOG OF UNIT COMBINATION

Use fallen trunks and branches to allow different person walk in different ways

A+B | A+B: path units where A and B intend to walk together

A | B: path units where A and B intend to walk seperately

NON-HUMAN AGENCY Summer Resident: Warbling vireo

OPERATIONAL DIAGRAM

Relation between birds' habitat and human’s path

Permanent Resident: Northern Mockingbird

Human paths become layered habitat for birds

Relation Between Birds' Habitat And Succession The runoff and sediment will change the landform

CASTING MODEL

Proposed Landform

Weathered Landform + Intervention

GRADING PLAN LEGEND

sound transmission warbling viero

northern mocking bird

SEQUENTIAL SECTION

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06 URBAN CARPET In this project, we first studied the design process of one precedent in Barcelona, then applied the concept to our own chosen site.

Placa catedral, surrounded by buildings from different hisotric period including the Barcelona Cathedral, was designed to be a "blank" space serving as a stage for those historic architectures.

It was analogous to a carpet, which is put in the living room at the center of televisions and sofa and so on. The designer MĂ rius Quintana decided he would design "nothing" to reconcile this situation of mixture of hisotry.

By studying the precedent placa catedral in Barcelona, we borrow the idea of "an urban carpet" to another historic site in Barcelona, which is San Pau del Camp. This time the carpet should solve the different elevation between the neighbourhood and the chapel, as well as the different hisotric background.

Location: Barcelona, Spain Team Member: Haoyu Cui Instructor: Manuel Bailo Time: 2018 Fall

your speculative landscape (what it looks like) with empirical data essential to its formation (what it acts like) as a means to express a set of discrete structural relationships that you have modeled. The Hybrid Analytical Visualization is also a composite of representational techniques and work flows used to convey landscape operation with its conceptual features. Models may summarize outcomes, synthesize data from different sources, articulate a proposition that is being tested or explored, and provide the base data for scholarly design interventions. They are a tool to investigate complex spatial and temporal relationships in landscape where the nature of the relationship cannot be easily or clearly seen by firsthand observation.

07 GLACIAL LANDFORM

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Photo Collage

LAR LAR 6141 6141 DIGITAL DIGITAL PRACTICES PRACTICES II II

grasshopper loop function simulation of runoff; physical model + 3d scanner

Spring Spring 2018 2018 •• Model Model Documentation Documentation

firn field

abrasion

I use grasshopper and a terrain mesh to analyse the water flow in a glacial mountain.

rock step

The model consists of a setional laser cut base of original site, a grid layer to show the surface, a 3D printed layer to show the shape of erosion and sediment, and a translucent layer with my notation of the erosion process.

Instructor: Brad Goetz Time: 2018 Spring

plucking

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GLACIAL LANDFORM

Xinhui Chen// Plot 3C

grasshopper simulation of runoff

*some solvers turn red because I lost the linked rhino model

GLACIAL LANDFORM

08 ANTHROPOCENE: AÑANA SALT VALLEY GAMING & AUGUMENTED REALITY Unity real-time development game engine; Autodesk Recap + physical model; Vuforia Augumented Reality engine video links: - project 2, a game of brine shrimps: https://vimeo.com/372158116 -project 3, energy salt valley: https://vimeo.com/386301603 (conceived space) https://vimeo.com/386301574 (perceived space)

GEOMORPHOLOGY - Modeling + Manipulating Landform Processes The existence of salt at Añana can be explained by a geological phenomenon known as diapir.

Generally speaking, it consists of the emergence on the Earth’s surface of older materials due to their lower density, in the same way that a bubble of air immersed in a liquid will move to the surface.This particular process began about 220 million years ago, when Triassic evaporitic rocks in the Keuper facies - located about 5 kilometres underground - began to ascend to the surface, dragging other materials that characterize the landscape.

ENTANGLEMENT - Gaming + Crowdsourcing the Anthropocene In drawing on theory of Donna Haraway, Danny Hillis, and Alan Watts, this project employs the recently accessible and profoundly versatile representational tool of the game engine to probe cultural-ecological relationships between human and non-human species, biotic and abiotic worlds.The video game we develop will allow users to live through brine shrimp’s perspective.

PROSPECTION - Synthesizing + Projecting Alternative Realities Employing the lenses of Henri Lefebvre’s conceived/ perceived/ lived triad of space, this project includes a physical field guide and a augmented reality application.

Confronted with the threat of the decline of agriculture and stockbreeding in the area as well as the depopulation and aging of the local community, we want to find an alternative industry to replace the traditional salt production industry to provide more job opportunities.

Users can use their phones to scan the physical field guide to explore the conceived, perceived and lived space of the future site.

physical model making + creating 3D mesh from photos by Autodesk Recap

Geomorphology Analysis

Team Member: Qinmeng Yu Instructor: Matthew Seibert Time: 2019 Fall

1. GEOMORPHOLOGY - Modeling + Manipulating Landform Processes

game trailer: https://vimeo.com/372158116

AR video: https://vimeo.com/386301603

AR video: https://vimeo.com/386301574

This entanglement application explores the natural way that Brine shrimp perceives the world through different stages of the life cycle. It doesn’t have auditory sense and has two types of eyes during the nauplii stage and the adult stage. When it is young, the median eye is situated in the center of the head and is the only functional optical sense organ in the nauplii, so the vision is quite limited and what it mainly sees is the surrounding cysts (the dormant eggs). When it gradually grows up, it will have two widely separated compound eyes mounted on flexible stalks which are the main optical sense organ in adult brine shrimps.

Therefore, the vision becomes much wider when the brine shrimp grows from nauplii to an adult.

However, human intervention has made a big difference in the ecosystem of brine shrimps. The increase in PH, toxicity will endanger the population of brine shrimps since they died at different developmental stages.

On a big scale, the conceived space represents the overall system of the energy exchange process from the production end to the consumption end. Zoom into the human scale, the perceived space shows the experience when people walk inside the new enormous energy installations and see a different view of the original salt ponds.

2. ENTANGLEMENT - Gaming + Crowdsourcing the Anthropocene

3. PROSPECTION - Synthesizing + Projecting Alternative Realities

SCRIPTING & SENSING SONG OF WATER javascript + arduino toolkit

68597 STORIES html 5 +css+javascript

Inspired by David Bowen’s work Tele-present Water, this project explored the poetic interaction between the biophysical world and the digital one.

By monitoring water level, we translated the movement of water into a unique song with an Arduino tookit. The code was modified from Maker Saga’s version, which measured the distance between sensors and an object.

Winneba is a fishing village located on the Gulf of Guinea. Today, Winneba is seeking to transform from a tribal society to a modern one. As Many other African cultures, Winneba has a tradition of oral historian, which document history by story-telling.

Here's a collective history map of people's everyday life in Winneba.

The map documented stories, interviews and audio record files from local people. Users can click hearts on the map to hear their stories, and hover over the map to learn more about the communities in Winneba.

Team Member: Danni Jin, Liwei Liu Instructor: Brad Cantrell Time: 2019 Spring

Instructor: Andrea Hansen Phillips Time: 2019 Fall

listen to the song https://vimeo.com/352225276

// the code was modified from Maker Saga’s version.

delayMicroseconds(5);

toneToPlay = 523; }

digitalWrite(3, LOW);

if(cm <= 15 && cm > 12.2) {

// The same pin is used to read the signal from the PING))): a HIGH

toneToPlay = 494; }

long microsecondsToInches(long microseconds) {

// pulse whose duration is the time (in microseconds) from the sending

if(cm <= 13 && cm > 11.2) {

pinMode (5,OUTPUT);//attach pin 5 to GND

toneToPlay = 440; }

// According to Parallax’s datasheet for the PING))), there are

// initialize serial communication:

// of the ping to the reception of its echo off of an object.

//Floor piano for HC-SR04 (4 pin) Ultrasonic Sensor void setup() { pinMode (2,OUTPUT);//attach pin 2 to vcc

Serial.begin(9600); } void loop() { digitalWrite(2, HIGH); // establish variables for duration of the ping, // and the distance result in inches and centimeters: long duration, inches, cm;

pinMode (4, INPUT);//attach pin 4 to Echo duration = pulseIn(4, HIGH); // convert the time into a distance inches = microsecondsToInches(duration); cm = microsecondsToCentimeters(duration); Serial.print(inches);

// The PING))) is triggered by a HIGH pulse of 2 or more microseconds.

Serial.print(“in, “);

// Give a short LOW pulse beforehand to ensure a clean HIGH pulse:

Serial.print(“cm”);

Serial.print(cm);

pinMode(3, OUTPUT);// attach pin 3 to Trig

Serial.println();

digitalWrite(3, LOW);

delay(50);

delayMicroseconds(2);

int toneToPlay = 0;

digitalWrite(3, HIGH);

if(cm <= 17 && cm > 15.2) {

translating water levels to audio tone

delay(50); }

if(cm <= 11 && cm > 9.2) {

// 73.746 microseconds per inch (i.e. sound travels at 1130 feet per

toneToPlay = 392; }

// second). This gives the distance travelled by the ping, outbound

if(cm <= 9 && cm > 7.2) { toneToPlay = 349; }

// and return, so we divide by 2 to get the distance of the obstacle.

if(cm <= 7 && cm > 5.2) {

// See: http://www.parallax.com/dl/docs/prod/ acc/28015-PING-v1.3.pdf

toneToPlay = 329; } if(cm <= 5 && cm > 3.2) {

return microseconds / 74 / 2; }

toneToPlay = 294; }

long microsecondsToCentimeters(long microseconds) {

if(cm <= 3){

// The speed of sound is 340 m/s or 29 microseconds per centimeter.

toneToPlay = 261; } if (toneToPlay == 0) {

// The ping travels out and back, so to find the distance of the

noTone(11); }

// object we take half of the distance travelled. return microseconds / 29 / 2;

else { tone(11, toneToPlay, 200); }

web map: click the hearts to hear their voice https://xxinhuixx.github.io/LAR7415/

}

coding on sublime text

CONSTRUCT-ING DETAIL Construction Detail Model

Detail Drawing

PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT VERSION

PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT VERSION

PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT VERSION

XINHUI CHEN 2.7b Cut+Fill Calculation / Plan

PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT VERSION

PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT VERSION

Grading Landform

SECTION 1:100 AXON UVA LAR 7210 | EcoTech III_F19 | 10.25.2019

DETAIL SITE INFORMATION

brick size: 4’’*8’’ *2’’ unit size: 4.5’’*8.5’’ gap width: 0.5’’ max

8.00 4.00

44.50 2.00 0.50 8.25 typ.

4.00 0.50 12.50

SITE LOCATION SITE PLAN

DETAIL SECTION

8.00

LAR 6212: ECO-TECH II E 3.0 | SOURCEBOOK

LOCATION:

CAMPBELL HALL

DESIGNER:

SMBW

STUDENT NAME: XINHUI CHEN

LAR 6212: ECO-TECH II

DATE: LOCATION:

4.00 0.50 E 3.0 | SOURCEBOOK

DESIGNER:

typ.

[W] 04.18

CAMPBELL HALL

STUDENT NAME: XINHUI CHEN

SMBW

DATE:

*I would do this if I were the designer.

STEPS PAVEMENT DETAIL PLAN

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UVA LAR 7210 | EcoTech III_F19 | 10.25.2019

PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT VERSION

8.00 typ.

PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT VERSION

PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT VERSION

44.50 0.50

2.00

1'' max gap, seal joint

4.25 typ.

0.50

brick paver 1.5'' sand bedding (2'' max)

8.25 typ.

1.50 8.00

expansion joint

55.50

7.00 12.00

2.00 1.50 XINHUI CHEN 2.8b Cut+Fill Calculation / Section

PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT VERSION

XINHUI CHEN 2.7b Cut+Fill Calculation / Plan

[W] 04.18

44.50

concrete compacted aggregate base

4.15

UVA LAR 7210 | EcoTech III_F19 | 10.25.2019

compacted soil subgrade

expansion joint 2.04 47.30 12.00

civil 3d cut + fill calculation

TERRACE PAVEMENT DETAIL PLAN

CONSTRUCTION SECTION

*This is the existing construction section. I would not do this if I were the designer because water would go into gaps under the steps, and more bricks needed to be cut.

LAR 6212: ECO-TECH II

LOCATION:

DOWNTOWN MALL

STUDENT NAME: XINHUI CHEN

E 3.0 | SOURCEBOOK

DESIGNER:

LAWRENCE HALPRIN

DATE:

[W] 01.31

RENDERING

“Keyuan” entrance plaza design Studio work in South China University of Technology Time: Mar. 2016 Location: Guangzhou, China Tool: Vray + Photoshop + Sketchup