Yan yu portfolio

Yan Yu Portfolio Welcome to my design journal

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Content of my portfolio

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Works in digital design studio In the digital design studio, I have gradually mastered the basic skills of CS6, sketch up and other software.

This is homework that helps me better understand each elements in landscape architecture, and how can they convert from a ideal picture into a digital model.

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Works in digital design studio I presented this work in the meeting of landscape architecture department as an outstanding student work. It is a perspective view of a green street design. The original picture is only a messy “gray street” with only two people in the back and a truck there. In order to redesign it into a green, harmonious scene, I have added abundant elements including all the vegetation, other people models, and cleaned up the street and road. I have inserted my design capacity and enrich the green sites as much and beautiful as possible, such as building a “V” shape scene and using flowers to beautify the handrails of the stairs.

The purpose of it is to repair a gray site with a mess pathway into a environmental-friendly “green” as well as “completed” pathway. In details, I learned how to create shadow and repair messy road.

Additionally, I learned to uniform shadow direction and people property.

I changed some adjustments of a same picture, including light, saturation, and level, in order to sense different atmospheres of a landscape and present various aesthetic visual feelings to audience.

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Works in digital design studio This is a project that I utilized different elements from internet and combined a initial street section view. It gave me the first sight of how to design a community landscape architecture and especially a street section view.

The left work shows a plaza which is designed by sketch up software. Everything in the picture was built by me, based on a real plaza’s pictures in UMD campus. But I have put my own ideas so as to modify the original model into a better scene balanced in between vegetation, architecture, facilities and people’s daily activity, by adding additional environmental-friendly items.

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Works in digital design studio This is a really comprehensive as well as detailed project I did which implements architecture building, vegetation environment creating, community unifying, geographic landscape applying as well as my personal design ideas. Everything showed in this work implies my thoroughly thinking about designing aesthetically, ecologically, practically.

For instance, I have added various plants, beautiful fountains, convenient facilities like chairs and tables with roof, bicycle racks, street light and so on, by considering an aesthetic but practical quality of design.

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Works in digital design studio

There are other comprehensive practices I did which implement the skill of architecture building, vegetation environment creating, community unifying, geographic landscape applying as well as my personal design ideas.

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Works in digital design vision I analyzed an off-campus site in an urban planning course and created detailed street section vision, street facilities vision and street life vision. I provided improvement suggestion by considering the criteria of completed pathway, pedestrian-friendly sidewalk as well as convenient community design.

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Works in digital design vision I am really interested in green and practical landscape design. I believe a good design is to consider common benefits of human, environment and nearby social unit.

I present my ideas here about a idea street vision by overall thinking about its environmental value, cultural value and day to day practical value.

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Works in digital design studio Circulation observation by conducting a behavior map Healthy community design

Facilities design Topographic design I also did project analyzing circulation factors as well as designing creative site and even a single facility like the flower bed, benches, road blocks and street light.

Moreover, I practiced sandbox tools to enrich a landscape scene by modifying its landform. Those works help me in detail that how to integrate different elements in a landscape architecture and create a harmony of community design.

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Works in graphic design studio This is a midterm project I did in 2013 Spring. It introduced three primary views in landscape architecture and basically practiced my pencil drawing and scaling skills, as well as the ability to demonstrate a real site into plan view, section view and perspective view.

Moreover, I put my concentration on demonstrating the feeling of distance by changing the black and white scale when using the pencil, and also on drawing different plants forms.

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Works in graphic design studio This is also a poster I did in spring, 2013. I utilized marker, pen, pencil graphic skills to illustrate one famous site of the University of Maryland, College Park campus. During this project, I practiced my field observation skills, site sketching skills and basic design abilities.

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Works in graphic design studio

In this workshop, I mastered the skill of quick sketch and practiced site analysis regarding of human activity, architecture history and value, vegetation scales and inconvenient designs. In addition, I developed my design skills as well as the ability of reading drawings and contour diagrams.

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Works in graphic design studio

In this board, I sketched real sites into marker paintings and especially applying different marker skills to describe the relationship between plants and architectures. Especially, I focused on the visual effect of marker painting.

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Works of Fine Arts

I like to observe nature and sketch creatures in daily life. I believe this is a great way to collect ideas and store information. Those are some of my 10 minutes sketch works for LARC140 in spring, 2013. I believe the best way to record my life to draw it down with my observation. And it will help me in better demonstrate landscape views in the future.

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Works of Fine Arts I have a strong interest in landscape architectures that presents strong culture sense, especially be familiar to Chinese styles. When traveling around China and other countries, I formed a strong habit to sketch typical sites I visited. With this habit, I usually have a deeper memory about different sites stories than my peers and I am willing to introduce my culture’s landscape architecture background as well as get to exchange ideas about other culture’s.

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Works of Fine Arts

Printmaking

Chinese Painting

Pencil Sketch

I consider myself born to draw and I have a keen interest in arts since I was four. Here are my seven to twelve years old works including a variety of painting types and I believe they can present my drawing and designing talent to some extent. (More professional works are at home in China, not accessible at this point.)

I think the ability to grasp various senses of color and shadow can be cultivated from very young ages and I think those immature artworks additionally have a hint to show my potential in arts.

And overall those qualities will help me build the basis of my concerned landscape architecture design journal.

Abstract Copy

Gouache

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Works of Creative design I always come up with inspirations of landscape architecture-related design and I would like to sketch a draft presenting my opinion of ideal or creative landscape items.

The word “Love� in my calligraphy works

And all of those are driving by my intense passion and love towards landscape architecture.

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Works of Photography I am a shutterbug and I carry my cameras with me all the time. My pictures present my strong awareness of independent creatures, such as plants, buildings, landscape environments and related culture items.

And they also show my design and art sense.

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Works of Photography I think the personalities of mine including meticulous mind, carefulness, love of nature, talent and enthusiasm of arts and so on, with my rich cultural experiences, build a good foundation to be an excellent landscape architect.

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Yan Yu “Use what talents you possess: The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.”

–Henry Van Dyke, Clergyman

Plant Science and Agronomy Degree • University of Maryland, College Park • China Agricultural University 22