Xinyue Sui Portfolio

EDUCATION 2013-present Master of Landscape Architecture, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) 2009-2013 Bachelor of Landscape Architecture, Beijing Forestry University (BJFU) SKILLS Digital 2D: Photoshop InDesign Illustrator AutoCAD Arc GIS 3D: Sketch up Lumion Office: Word Excel Access Powerpoint Hand drawing Pencil sketch Water color Marker PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 07-09/2012 Landscape Architecture Corporation of China (summer internship) Worked in Design Department Participated the design concept and analysis for Langfang International School surrounding environment Worked with clients, designers and project manager to complete the preliminary design of Langfang residential community including the master plan and several landscape nodes.

07-09/2010 Haiwei Municipal Architecture Design Institute (summer internship) Worked in the Department of Greening of the Roads and Bridges.

Worked with landscape architects and engineers to develop the design of green belt on roadway.

AWARDS & HONORS 10/2011 Top 30 in Beijing Xiandai Motor Creative Marketing Design Competition 09/2010 The Third Class Scholarship of Beijing Forestry University

Remake Gained Land

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design with sea level , urban landform design

Flowing Land design with topography, urban park design

Rhythm in Nature design with music, amphitheater design

Dynamic City design with water, waterfront environment design

Find Love In Garden design with plants, planting design

Other Work residential design and hand drawing

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Remake Gained Land Urban landform design for sea level rising

6 feet

Location: South Boston Waterfront, Boston, MA, US Date: 08/2014-12/2014 Tutor: Mary Pat Mattson Project Description:

7feet+future

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With global climate change, numerous costal cities all over the world are threated by sea level rise. Boston is one of them that urge to seek a best way to solve the problem. Borrowing from the theoretical strategies, precedents and combining Boston’s own specific landfill history as well as urban characteristic, this project provides a new, optional strategy that changes the relationship between the water and city. By changing the landform through filling, cutting and connecting the existing land, Boston will become a new urban archipelago that adapts with sea level rise in the future as well as thrive new dynamic harbor life response to need of surrounding community.a green infrastructure and brings new vitality to the whole city.

Research Question How can Boston adapt to sea level rise in a way that extends its landmaking history to redefine the relationship between water and city?

Research Context Climate is changing. Increasing temperature causes the rise of sea level and further threatens most coastal cities in the world. Boston is one of those cities that urgently needs innovative approach to deal with sea level rise

Theoretical Strategies Fortify (Keep water out)

Boston Site Strategies

Boston Character

Selective Seawalls

Landmaking History

Rise (move to (away) higher ground)

Source: NASA-GISS surface temperature analysis: http://climate.nasa.gov/key_indicators#globalTemp See more at: http://ete.cet.edu/gcc/?/globaltemp_teacherpage/#sthash.dNXkCPOk.dpuf Source: InformationIsBeautiful.net

Shoreline Condition Existing Topography

Source:Nickolay Lamm, from StorageFront.com

Raise Existing Ground Urban Infrastructure Adapt (Design with water)

Thriving Port Dynamic Urban Life

10’ 5’ 1’

0’-10’ Sea level rise Local High Tide

Natural Habitat

Cut / Fill Landform

Existing Sea Level Source: Design With Water urban design and planning options (@Sasaki Associates)

Global Climate Change & Sea Level Rising

Sea Level Rise In Boston

Research Question

History Of Landfill In Boston

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Design Concept

DESIGN CONCEPT Precipitation

HISTORY

SEA

LAND Precipitation

LANDFILL+URBANIZATION

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1830

1845

1865

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1890

City Drainage System

SEA RISING SEA LEVEL

NEW SOLUTION Connect Old Topography with New Landfill Selective Sea Walls / Cut and Fill Landform / Create Higher Ground Elevated Walkway/ corridor

SEA

Flooding Connect

TRADITIONAL SOLUTION HARD INFRASTRUCTURE

SEA

Fill

Cut

City Drainage System SEA PROBLEM

Park Bad connection Impermeable surface (transportation & view) flooding

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Architecture

Underground Parking Lot

Soil swale/rain garden

Natural Habitat/ Wetland

Flooding Problem

Shoreline Condition&Land use

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South Boston Waterfront Site Anlysis

Having synthetically analyzed the landfill history, flooding condition and shoreline condition, South Boston Waterfront has been chosen as the tested neighborhood.

Master Plan

Since sea level rising is a continues process, it is unpredicted and shift through time, a series of diagrams are developed to illustrate the process of filling and cutting in each sea level rise moment. Each movement is based on the prediction of flooding situation from 1 foot to 7 feet. First submerged region will be protected firstly.

South Boston Waterfront Site Analysis

Fill Area Flood Area Building Cut Area Historic landform Sea Wall Connect Area Existing Concdition

Fill Area Flood Area Building Cut Area Historic landform Sea Wall Connect Area 1 Foot

Fill Area Flood Area Building Cut Area Historic landform Sea Wall Connect Area

Fill Area Flood Area Building Cut Area Historic landform Sea Wall Connect Area 3 Feet

2 Feet

Fill Area Flood Area Building Cut Area Historic landform Sea Wall Connect Area

Selective Sea Wall

Fill Area Flood Area Building Cut Area Historic landform Sea Wall Connect Area

Create Higher Ground

4 Feet

5 Feet

Cut landform to adapt with water- soil swale

Cut landform to adapt with water-soil swale

Cut landform to adapt with water-urban forest

Create Higher Ground

Cut landform to adapt with water-wetland/rain garden

Cut landform to adapt with water-urban forest

Fill Area Flood Area Building Cut Area Historic landform Sea Wall Connect Area

Cut landform to adapt with water-wetland/rain garden

6 Feet

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Fill Area Flood Area Building Cut Area Historic landform Sea Wall Connect Area 7 Feet + Future

Detail Design-A-Fort Port Neighborhood

A5X-Summer St Water Garden

A10X-Summer St Canal

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Detail Design-B-Seaport District to Convention Center

B5X-Sea Port Pavilion + Stair

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B10X-Sea Port Under Sea Tourist

Detail Design-C-SBW Industrial+ Convention Center

C 5 X - P a p p a s Te r r a c e + U r b a n

C10X-Pappas Terrace+Wetland/

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Flowing Land

Urban park design in new city zone Location: Haerbin, Heilongjiang Province, China Date: 04/2012-06/2012 Tutor: Jinshi Zhang& Guo Wei Project Description:

" Landscape architecture is the design on the land" Topography is the key element of a design, in this project, topo is designed like sculpture. By combing with the function of stormwater collection and various space experience, the garden plays a role as a green infrastructure and brings new vitality to the whole city.

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Site Analysis Challenge

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Concept- Dune

Master Plan

The concept of Nantuo Park comes from dune, which has beautiful shape that can bring both visual enjoyment and different experiences of space. People can walk through those curves of the hills. Sometimes they go up to the hills, sometimes they go down to the ground, thus everyone who visit the park will enjoy the changing scenery and the flowing land. What's more, in the south of the park, I use a earth covered construction in order to ensure functions without destroying the terrain at the same time.

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Dynamic Topography

waterfront road

lake

High altitude corridor

children playing space

waterfront road

lake

High altitude corridor

sports area

Comprehensive service building

Spray square

High Altitude Corridor

lake

Garden Road

High altitude corridor

TRAFFIC SYSTEM

garden road

In this project, terrain is the key of design element. Different terrain form different traffic system, including garden road, high altitude corridor, waterfront road and footbridge. Besides, different terrain can forme different seasonal changing landscape. In sunny days, the fields without water can be used by most people, while in the rainy days, most fields are covered by rainwater and people can only walk on the footbridges and high altitude corridors to enjoy the view of the rain.

CHANGING LANDSCAPE Waterfront Road

Footbridge sunny

rainy

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Water Feature

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Urban Green Infrustructure

Chracteristics of Water Flow SURFACE RUNOFF This part of water mainly come from the rainfall. Since the sur face of city's ground is mostly rigid pavement, little rain will infiltrates and a large amount of water during rainy days will lead to many problems.

URBAN PIPELINE SYSTEM City residents' living water will be t ra n s p o r te d by p i p e l i n e s. Af te r t re at m e nt of sewage treatment plant, the water will finally emissions into the rivers.

COLLECTION

By setting green open ditch with treatment plants on the waysides, the rainwater and living water will be collected and preliminary filtered.

RECYCLE The water that be collec ted in the open ditch will be recycled in the garden. Some of it will be discharged into the lake, others will be reused as landscape water like fountain.

Grow and Spread

Use Nantuo park as the center, set green open ditches in communities, on the streets, The new city will finally covered by green lands and the park will work as a green infrastructure.

Section Green Infrustructure

Zizania aquatica Wild Rice Cladlum jamalcense Sawgrass Hemerocallis sp.

Daylily

filter precipitate

recycle

discharge

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Rhythm In Nature

Amphitheater Design in Allerton Park Location: Monticello, Illinois, US Date: 10/2014-12/2014 Tutor: M. Elen Deming Project Description:

It is hard to determine which has a greater effect on the soul-music or nature.

In this project, two amphitheaters are designed for two music styles: blue grass and jazz. By thinking about the materials and their change in diverse seasons and weathers, the amphitheaters can create the atmosphere of music during the music festival and merge in surrounding environment after that.

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Performing Art Centers in Surrounding Cities

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Site Analysis

Performing Art in Allerton Park

Mission Art Can Change The World!

Create a space combines landscape with art where everyone can enjoy art and shape their morality through art. Using art to make people’s mind peaceful and let them Appreciate and cherish the nature Goals 1 showing people performing arts on the stage, focus on the blue grass and jazz 2 improving people’s creativity and stimulating people’s interest of art 3 letting people enjoy the nature and get inspiration of art from nature 4 offering a place where people can share their thoughts about art and get emotional resonance 5 creating a beautiful scenery where people can relax and get mind peaceful 6 Enlightenment children with art 17

Detail Design-A-Jazz Stage (Stone)

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Section-Stage in Different time peroids

Music Festival

audience

main stage

prepare and rehearsal space

rain garden

Ordinary Time

rest area 19

playground and water fountain

viewing platform

rain garden

Perspective-Stage in Different Weather and seasons

Stone Fountain

sunny

snow

moss

rainy water

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Detail Design-B-Blue Grass Stage (Wood)

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Perspective Improvisational stage

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Dynamic City

Urban Waterfront Landscape Design in Zhumadian (team work)

collaborators: Liu Pai& Yan Lu Individual part: site analysis, data collection, general plan, ecology and flood management analysis

Location: Zhumadian, Hebei Province, China Date: 06/2012 Tutor: Li Xiong Project Description

Waterfront, a charming while complex area, always brings as well as damage to a city. In this project, the site faces the threat of flood disaster. How to combine waterfront landscape with ecological recovery, sewage treatment and flood control perfectly as well as bring vivid to the new waterfront environment is the main purpose of this project.

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Site Analysis

Master Plan

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Function As an Urban Waterfront Park

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Function As Green Infrustructure Case study

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Flooding Problem

New opportunities

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Changing Landscape

Find Love In Garden Planting Design Location: Beijing, China Tutor: Hao Peiyao, Li Guanheng

Project Description: Beijing, a city with high density, faces plenty of problems. Lacking of exercise space, air pollution, alienation from family, all these factors cause mental and physical problems among residents. In this project, plant is used as a treatment to relieve people's stress. The theme of the Garden is family.

By using plants to create an atmosphere of family, everyone can find love and enjoy a good time with their families.

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Function Of Plants

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How to solve problems by planting?

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Culture and Theme

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Master Plan

Detail Design-A-Study Theme Garden

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Detail Design-B-Play With Me Theme Garden

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Detail Design-C-Love of Parents Theme Garden

Other Work

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Other Work

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Other Work

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