Landscape | Architecture
Yat Chan
Yat Chan
About me
The beauty of the landscape has always intrigued me; how landscape architects use designs and planning to illustrate the closely connected and inseparable relationship between humans and nature. Human civilization originates from all the natural creatures on earth, while we are constructing our society along with the achievements of technology; we are one component of nature, the symbiosis between us and nature is necessary. Landscape architecture exists to emphasize the importance of environmental planning and spacious design in our civilization, in accompany with aesthetic and sciences. This realization is my catalyst pursuing my path a landscape architecture.
Yat Chan Rutgers MLA Student
Contact
Rutgers BSLA | Minors in Sustainability + Green Technology
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ycyatchan@gmail.com (267) 600 - 1105 issuu.com/yat_chan
Self-Identity, Class, and Social Stratification in the Movie Parasite
Fall 2020 Spring 2021
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The Epilogue
Fall 2019
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Linkwehëleokàn
Spring 2019
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Pixel Square
Spring 2019
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Construction Details
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Colletive Works
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Context Map
Self-Identity, Class, and Social Stratification in the Movie Parasite 04
Seoul, South Korea
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Fall 2020 - Spring 2021
Spatial Realationship Diagram of the Three Families
By viewing the movie Parasite and researching the meaning behind the characters’ travel between the three houses where they live, this thesis displays the topographical evidence of classism in South Korea. From the neighborhood, streets, entry, house, and views outside the house, to the cleanliness and smells inside the house, these character movements through the landscape creates an excellent study of social stratification. Since production design is different than architecture, the houses in Parasite consist of objects and scenery that are symbolic of class in South Korea and beyond. Moreover, these cinematic landscapes serve as focal points that make the audience reflect back on their living environment and the way it has been, and continues to be, shaped by years of social stratification that operates unconsciously in people, which, for the most part, they fail to notice until it is pointed out.
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Topography of Seoul, South Korea
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Building Footprints of Seoul, South Korea
Illustrations of the Streets
Leading to the Kims’Banjiha
Leading to the Parks’ mansion
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Collages that Illustrate the Use of Stairs and Movement to Differentiate Social Class Distinctions
The Kims Going Up to the Mansion
The Kims Going Back to their Banjiha 08
The Kims Going Down to the Bunker
Geun Se Leaving the Bunker
The Parks Leaving the Mansion
Section from Kims’s Banjiha to Parks’ Mansion 09
Plan
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Place of Remembrance Composting Facility
Composting Facility
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Boardwalk
The Epilogue
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NJASLA 2022 Student Merit Award Bordentown, NJ | Fall 2019
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Ideogram
Inspiration
A redesign of Divine World Missionaries in Bordentown, NJ. Using composting burial practices to maintain the ritual of returning the spirit to where they were from, this cemetery welcomes everyone to send away their loved ones with their religious practices. The soil produced from the composting facility underground would be used to build up the volcano-like mountains for visitors, to feel that they are being watched and surrounded with the love from the departed, in order to assist in grieving process. The place of remembrance would be engraved with their last words for each other for them to always remember the love that never faded away. 11
Demographic Core
Inventory Regional Context + Water
Topography + Water
Topography + Water + Buildings
In collaboration with Axel Gonzalez
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In collaboration with Adriana Hall
Building Diagrams Composting Facility
Place of Remembrance
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Model
Sections
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Life is a journey, and the death of us is just a completion of the journey; everything comes to an end for us to start again. Burial has been a farewell for the livings to say goodbye before the departed being embraced by nature; present your epilogue for the loved ones to leave/live with ease.
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Snapping Turtle
Water Snake
Sturgeon
Linkwehëleokàn 16
Night Hawk
A vision of a spiritual nature Trenton, NJ | Spring 2019
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Inspiration
Located in Trenton, NJ, this project is a design of an amusement park that is inspired by the wildlife history in Abbott Marshlands. Taking an approach of going back to the Lenape history on how they appreciate nature, which they visualize the earth was created on a turtle’s back and saw the animals as spiritual leaders. This park is created by using animals of the Abbott Marshlands, such as snapping turtles, the water snake, sturgeon, and the night hawk, as inspiration for the grading and shape of various educational / observatory nodes. 17
Inventory
Base Map
Demographic Information (2017)
Figure Ground Map
Site Land Use Map
In collaboration with Adriana Hall + Mouli Luo + Zoe Orlino
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Grading Plan of the Upper Snapping Turtles Landform
Sections
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Perspectives Sikòn Spring
Linkwehëleokàn honors the Lenape culture through a planting palette which highlights nature species historically uses by the Lenape tribe. From the entrance to the landfill, the plants are arranged based on their seasonal characteristics, in order to symbolize the Lenape’s circle of life; a constant pattern of nature giving and taking away life from the earth, from spring to winter, from birth to death, from the beginning to the end. 20
Tahkoku Fall
Planting Palette Nipën Summer
Luwàn Winter
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Pixel Square
In collabration with Katherine Rodriguez Piscataway, NJ | Spring 2019 22
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Seasonal Plans
A proposed design in the engineering building in Busch campus, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ. We designed a series of cube structure to provide multiple functions that will enhance the productivity of the courtyard, such as tables, seatings and of course drone playgrounds. With the new composition of the courtyard, we also develop suitable planting choices for the different directions of sunlight over the year.
Section
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Planting Schedule
Planting Plan
By utilizing elevation changes to create comfortable spaces as well as playing with cool and warm tone of lavender and feather reed grasses, we considered the planting view in all season and applying color contrast of purple and yellow, in order the turn the area to a relaxing square for multiple recreational events, practices, and educational occasions. 24
Day Perspective
Night Perspective
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Construction Details 26
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In collabration with Eric Graber + Molly Kinghorn + Brady Smith + Michael Scott Bey
In collabration with Zoe Orlino + Zhaoxuan Wang
Collective Works 28
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Contact ycyatchan@gmail.com (267) 600 - 1105 issuu.com/yat_chan