Portfolio for UCL MA Landscape Architecture

YAWEN DENG

PORTFOLIO

Selected works 2018-2020 Application for the MA Landscape Architecture ---UCL Application Number: 21118316

CURRICULUM VITAE YAWEN DENG

CONTENTS 01

email: deng_yawen@yahoo.com

REVITALIZING URBAN LIFE

EDUCATION University of Georgia | College of Environment and Design

2020

Bachelor of Landscape Architecture

Academic & Personal Urban city planning 12/2019

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WORK EXPERIENCE Z Studio

08/2020 - Present

Landscape Architecture Assistant

TongJi Architectural Design Group, Chengdu Branch

05/2019 - 08/2019

CSWADI

05/2018 - 07/2018

Landscape Architecture Intern Landscape Architecture Intern

EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITY Gallery Exhibition Volunteer

Gerogia Student of Landscape Architecture Member

Experience UGA

SKILLS AutoCAD Adobe Illustrator Adobe Photoshop Adobe Indesign Hand Graphics

INTERESTS Photography

ArcGIS SketchUp Lumion Rhino MS Office Sketching

ECO-REVIVAL

Collaboration with Yuancai Zhu & Mengyue Gao Landfill restoration 08/2020

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2018 2017 - 2018 2017

Volunteer

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RESILIENT SEMARANG

Collaboration with Hanlin Jin Green infrastructure-wetland for flood control 11/2020

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OTHER WORKS

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Revitalizing Urban Life [Academic and Individual Work] Project Topic: Urban City Development Project Location: Georgia, USA Date:10/2019 Institution: The University of Georgia Instructor: Donnie Longenecker Obesity is pravalent in Dooly county due to insecured food sources and inadequate city development. Dooly county has about 23% of population in poverty, where fast food and frozen food are the main nutrition intake. Cities have very limited pedestrian walkway and bicycle lane, as well as exercise field. Therefore, citizens are less likely to walk outside for exercise.

The site in Vienna was chosen for its moderate wide road and open spaces that can be redesigned. Which would transform Vienna by connecting people and places using alternative transportations.

More than just free, accessible trails where people can exercise and commute. The project’s goal is to create dynamic, inspiring spaces and serve as gathering space that encourage collaboration and city identity.

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OBESITY & LOW-INCOME ISSUE IN DOOLY, USA

EXISTING ROAD CONDITION IN OVERALL CITY

Population 14,053 Poverty Rate 23.2%

32°6′N

Unadilla

83°48′W

Dooling

US $61,937 Dooly County $33,389

Byromville

Pinehurst

2017 Median Household Income Comparison

36.1%

Lilly

10%

Highway

1990

2017

30 yrs Obesity Population Increased Rate in Dooly

36 person in obesity out every 100

Railway Road City Boundary 30 min Cycling Distance 20 min Walking Distance Covenience Store

Obesity Related Health Issue

Small Food Retailer Diabetes

12.6% 4

Hypertension

Heart Disease

33.1% 10.3%

Arthritis

7.9%

Cancer

16.4%

Parks Exercise Field

Vienna

3 Points

2 Points

1 Points

0 Points

Road Condition/Maintenance Pedestrian Sidewalk/Crosswalk SOFTSCAPE Afforestation Pedestrian Usage CONNECTIVITY Vehicular Traffic

Very Good

Good

Low

Very Low

Very Good

Good

Low

Very Low

Very Good Very High Low

Good High Medium

Low Low High

Very Low Very Low Very High

Volume of Bycicle Lane Interruption from the Roadside CONNECTIVITY Sign of Bycicle Lane Sign of Speed Limit SAFETY Stop Sign

>2 Bikes None Yes Yes Yes

2 Bikes Low -

1 Bike High -

No Bike Always No No No

HARDSCAPE

HARDSCAPE

Dooling In-house Preparation

City Main Road City Branch Road

Byromville

City Main Road City Branch Road

Site Obeservation and Record Main Street in Each City

Lilly

City Main Road City Branch Road

Vienna

City Main Road City Branch Road

On Site Discussion local Incharge Group

Pinehurst

City Main Road City Branch Road

Unadilla

Final Conclusion of Each City

The survey shows every city has roads that lack of pedestrian and cycling paths.

Evaluation Criteria

PEDESTRIAN

Design Evaluation Chart

ROADS SURVEY AND EVALUATION

CYCLING PATH

SITE VISIT PROCESS

City Main Road City Branch Road

Total Points

15 Points

15 Points

9 Points 8 Points 8 Points 6 Points

7m

6m Two-Way Roadway

10 Points 8 Points 8 Points 6 Points

2m

10m

6m Two-Way Roadway

9 Points 8 Points 8 Points 7 Points

2m

7m

6m Two-Way Roadway

9 Points 7 Points 8 Points 7 Points

1.5m 2.5m

10m

2.5m 1.5m

2m

8m

2m

9 Points 7 Points 6 Points 7 Points

7m

2m

7m Two-Way Roadway

12 Points 9 Points 8 Points 10 Points

2m

2m

10m

2m

2m

1.5m

7m

1.5m

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DESIGN STRATEGY

Connecting people and places, creating vibrant everyday experience, and enhancing social identity

Obesity

Low Income

PUBLIC SPACES

COMPLETE STREET

COMPLETE STREET

Lack of Community Sense

Problem Alternative Transportation Health Lifestyles Safe Access to Destination Rich Variety of Public Life Community Gathering/Exercising

Playground

Broad Distribution of Amenities Integrated Accessibility

Social gathering place, offering neighborhoods free access of exercise and play

2m

3.5m

3.5m 2m

6m + 3m

Change to one way road with twoway bicycle lane

Connectivity

Farmer’s Market

Creating opportunities for social participation, local business and urban growth

3.5m

10 m

Change two-way road to one way road, and add bicycle lane and bioswale on the pedestrian walk

1m

3.5m

3.5m

1m

6m + 3m

Add pedestrian sidewalk on each roadside

3.5m

3.5m

m 2m 3

12 m

Add bicycle lane and pedestrian walk

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Mobility at multiple methods Destinations Connectivity

Strategy

Opportunity

2.5m

Social Activities

Engagement

Exercise Court Encouraging activitiy, exercise to enhance physical well-being

2m

2m

7m + 3m

2.5m

3.5m

Extented 3 meters and add one bycicle lane and roadside pedestrian sidewalk

4m

18 m

3.5m 2m 2m

m 3.5m 3

Add one way bicycle lane and pedestrian walk, as well as bioswale along the road

PROPOSED VIENNA CITY NETWORK

SITE ANALYSIS

EXISTING LAND USE Commercial/Small business Education facilities

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Governace Religious church

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Industrial building Vacant building Community center

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Existing green space

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Proposed Secondary Road Proposed Branch Road

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Start/End of Segment

Pioneer Development Area

SITE SELECTION

Three different streetscapes surrounded by residencial area and incorporated with vacant lands and public spaces.

SITE

Community center

Ababdoned building

Vacant open space

Vacant open space

The selected site locates at the intersection of three proposed road, where demonstrate the planning of this city. Area includes abandoned building and vancant lands, which are available to design public space for the citizens. Proposing complete street providing citizens with alternative transportation, which enhancing the pedestrian and bycicle accessibility to institution, governance and other destinations.

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SELECTED SITE MASTERPLAN 3

COMMUNITY PARK

The public park is gathering people together, and residents can relax and exercise which would promote community involvement, community bond.

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11 10

12

6

4 1 13

14

8 7

9

RESIDENTS GREENWAY

1

4

7

Entrance Proposed Boulevard Proposed Secondary Road Propsed Branch Road Proposed Playground Proposed Exercise Field Parking Lot

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Bike Rack

9

Community Center

10

Basketball Court

11

Skate Facility

12

Outdoor Fitness Equipment

1 2 3 4 5 6

50

8

150

300

13

Kids Play Equipment

14

Sand Pit

The redesigned road includes bike lane and pedestrain walk, can improving citizens daily exercise and enhance accessibility from place to place.

EVAPOTRANSPIRATION

INFILTRATION UNDERDRAIN

POROUS PAVING

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Eco-Revival [Collaborative Work] Personal part: 45% concept and design, 40% graphics Project Topic: Brownfield Regenration Project Location: Chengdu, China Scale: 65 ha Date: 08/2020 Chengdu, where the site locates at, now has more than 16 million resident population, and produces 17,000 tons of garbage every day. With the high increasing rate of garbage production, the existing landfills in Chengdu are almost full. Which means looking for a large volume landfill is in urgent need.

The site was used for sandstone exploitation. In 2007, the mining work stopped, and left the abandoned qurry a complex topography of scarps, grooves, and platforms. Which is large enough to hold about 20 years garbage landfill.

The project aims to make use of the garbage reuse to rebuild the terrain and revitalize the site. The goal is designing a sustainable and ecological forest, a solution for mine reconstruction.

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THE NEED OF NEW LANDFILL IN CHENGDU Rapid growth of Waste Disposal

Insufficient Capacity of current landfills

POTENTIAL OF ABANDONED QUARRY

Insufficient landfill capacity due to increasing waste production

35km from Chengdu city center

waste production landfill capacity

64 hectare

Chengdu City

SITE

abandoned quarry

Demand of a large place to hold more waste

Current Landfills used capacity remaining capacity

Waste Transfer Station Site

Abandoned Quarry

Only 8% of total landfill capacity remains in Chengdu

17,000 tons garbage produced daily 6.24 million tons yearly in Chengdu area.

Ecological destruction due to inappropriate waste dumping Inappropriate and possible illegal dumping can cause ecological damage in the area and its surrounding environment.

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Soil Pollution Inappropriate landfill generate leachate to the ground, causing water pollutions and soil pollutions.

Water Pollution

SITE CONTEXT

Chang’an area locates in between the the suburbs of Chengdu city and Longquan Mountains. It was an sandstone quarry for the past 25 years. Now the site has been abandoned and no further plannings.

PROCESS OF GARBAGE REUSE

Rebuild the terrain and revitalize the site by making use of the city garbage. Classifying waste and reusing them in the process of landscape regeneration.

Landscape Regeneration

Platform

Recyclable Waste

Longquan Mountains 690

Structure Reinforcement

700 650

Construction Waste

QUARRY

Retaining Wall

Garbage Reuse 700

QUARRY

Planting Soil Restoration Domestic Waste 600

Hillside

7km

Isolation

Luodai Ancient Town

Hazardous Waste

Hermetic Landfill

300m

1982

Natural Ecological Resources

1995

2007 Sandstone Exploitation

2005

Present Abandoned Site

Artificial Quarry-scape

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STRATEGY OF TERRAIN REBUILDING SLOPE

A. 30%-40%

Retaining Wall

Planting Plants

Rebuild landform

STRATEGY B Planting Plants

Patio

B. 20%-30%

Staircase

Walk Trail

C. 10%-20%

Terrace

Turf Slope

Platform

Grassland

Swale

Pond

D. 5%-10%

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Rebuild landform

STRATEGY A

There are two proposed strategies corresponding to each slope gradient range. They have similar preparations before planting plants.

Rebuild the pit and slow down the steep slope by using the landfills to build retaining wall, grass slope. Later, using ecological method to restore the site.

E. <5%

REGENERATION PROCESS

Year 1 Current Situation

Year 10 Stage1 Landfill Operation

Year 20 Stage 2 Final Closure

Grass Slope Retaining Wall Phase I Landfill Operation Phase I Water Area Phase I

Greenland Exposed Ground

A---Under Construction

Retaining Wall Phase II Landfill Operation Phase II Water Area Phase II Paths

MASTERPLAN

Year 25 Stage3 Landscape Restoration

A---Construction Completion

1

6

7

50 8

9

150

7

Entrance Boardwalk Wetland Scenery Platform Terrace Reservior Creek

8

Woodland

1

5

2 3 4

10

8

5

4

6

A

7

B

3

1

6

300

5

9

Turf Slope

10

Retaining Wall

B---Section of Scenery Platform

2

8 1

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PLANTS SELECTIONS

WOODLAND TREE

Broussonetia papyrifera

Ginkgo biloba

Ulmus pumila

Cinnamomum camphora

VINE

Parthenocissus tricuspidata

TREE

Melia azedarach

GRASSLAND TREE

Fraxinus chinensis

SHRUB Nerium indicum

TERRACE FIELD SHRUB Ligustrum vicaryi

Camellia sinensis

HERB

Pisum sativum

Chrysanthemum indicum

WETLAND HERB

Trifolium repens

Cynodon dactylon

Festuca elata

TREE Salix

Taxodium distichum

HYDROPHYTE Eichhornia crassipes

Nymphaea

Ceratophyllum demersum

WOODLAND TERRACE FIELD GRASSLAND WETLAND

RESERVIOR

WOODLAND GRASS SLOPE

RETAINING WALL

TERRACE

WETLAND

PLATFORM

Nutrition Soil Supporting Soil Drainage Blanket Impervious Barrier Grass Terrace Water Drainage

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Grass Slope Retaining Wall

Exhaust Layer Garbage Drainage Blanket Impervious Membrane Original Subsoil

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Resilient Semarang [Collaboration Work with Hanlin Jin] Personal: 90% concept and design, 70% graphics Project Topic: City wetland, Flood control Project Location: Semarang City, Indonesia Date: 12/2020 The City of Semarang, as major port city in the Central Java province in Indonesia, has developed rapidly for the past several decades that industry and business increasing dramatically as its population striking. The urbanization induces more water resources demand, and land exploitation. The consequences is the more groundwater extraction, the more land subsidenced. Which leads to more intense and frequent flooding during the rainy season. Due to its location, Semarang are facing more serious flooding issues, and affecting local people’s regular life.

This project mainly focus on the East Canal and its surrounding areas. The selected site are designed as wetland and natural restoration area. Porous grass terrace along the canal abosorb the overflowed water. Grass hills can resist the water rising and submerge the residence area. Water retention basin can store water while the grass hill obstructed the water from upwards.

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BACKGROUND: FLOODING ISSUES IN SEMARANG, 1INDONESIA 0 tline

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SITE

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INCREASING GLOBAL TEMPERATURE INDUCE MORE INENSE RAINY SEASON---MORE FREQUENT FLOODING

1920 tline Coas 1800 tline Coas 1741 tline s a o C

Rainfall Intensity Duration Frequency Curve Semarang 2 5 25 50 100

yr yr yr yr yr

Design Design Design Design Design

Storm Storm Storm Storm Storm

23 million

Indonesians Affected by Global Warming

424,648 Households

in Semarang is Vulnerable to Flooding

Average 36 days/year Semarang is In Flooding Condition, 1989-2007

More Intense and Frequent Flooding with Increasing Temperature FLOODING FREQUENCY

40

1-2 Flood Events 30

3-4 Flood Events

Increasing Surface Temperature

20

>5 Flood Events

Flood Inundation Area Under 25-year Storm Flood Inundation Area Under 150-year Storm

0.8 ° C

Increasing Days of Flooding

0.4 ° C

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City Boundary 1950

1960

1970

1980

1990

2000

2010

2020

Semarang is increasingly vulnerable towards urbanization and climate change

2020---1,866,000 population More fequent and severe flooding due to climate change

1950---371,000 population

City development based on Agriculture

1970---627,000 population

Increasing industry and commerce lead to urban development and population growth

H N GROWT POPULATIO EMAND WATER D

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1980---1,009,000 population Increasing demand of water resources and land resources

2000---1,427,000 population Excessive water extraction lead to more serious land subsidence

SITE CONTEXT

SITE ANALYSIS EAST FLOODWAY

Existing Open Space Existing Green Space RIVERBANK

WATERFLOW

SITE

OPEN SPACE

RESIDENCE

Drainage River/Canal

HARDSCAPE

Street Surface River Embankment

Site Area Contour Line Moderate Flooding Area Severe Flooding Area Potential Improvement Area The most vulnerable area due to water extraction and land subsidence

LANDUSE

SITE

Commercial Industrial Residential FLOODING ELEVATION 0.5-1.5m WATER EXTRACTION >70 m³/yr LAND SUBSIDENCE >8 cm/yr

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DESIGN STRATEGY

RUN-OFF CATCHMENT BIOSWALE INTENSE RAINFALL

PROBLEM

GLOBAL WARMING

A. GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE

FLOODING

URBANIZATION LANDSUBSIDENCE

DETENTION BASIN RIPARIAN CORRIDOR

STRATEGY

WETLAND

WATER WASTE SOIL EROSION WATER POLLUTION ECOLOGICAL LOSSES

NATURAL TREATMENT

B. WATER SYSTEM

SEWAGE PERVIOUS PAVEMENT

STRATEGY A - GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE

Run-off Catchment

+ 34,329 m³ Water Retention Capacity FORM 1

CURVE

Riparian Corridor

FORM 2

STAIR

+24,000 m² Water Detention Area

STRATEGY B - OPERATION OF WATER SYSTEM Innovative water system

Detention Basin

Bioswale

+ 10,000 m³ Water Retention Capacity

Wetland

+ 12,000 m³ Water Detention Capacity

Natural Treatment

+ 36,345 m² Water Detention Area

+ 56,900 m² Natural Treatment Zone

Water System Water Reuse

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Soft riverbanks can absorb water and relieve flood pressure

Filtered Water

Water Storage

Water is stored underground and can be reused in the dry season

Green Space

Pervious Surface

Wetlands can store and purify water

MASTERPLAN

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6

4

3

12

11 12

2 20

60

120

7 8

Pedestrain Bridges

9

Existing Railroad

10

Existing Highway

11

Canal Terrace

12

Public Parks

13

Section A - RETENTION BASIN

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Section B - GRASS HILL

2 3 4 5 6

SECTION A - RETENTION BASIN Water basin keeps water send back from grass hills

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1

Entrance Grass Hill Retention Basin Terrace View Platform Grassland Grass Stairs

1

A

B 14

8 3 6

11

5

9 1

Basin can hold more water during rainy season Terrace acts as levee

SECTION B - GRASS HILL

Grass hills can resist water flow into ground, then send to retaintion basin Terrace

Grass Hill

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OTHER ART WORKS SCULPTURE MAKING Site Obeservations

HAND GRAPHICS Construction

Group Discussion

Inspiration

Preparation

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Final Placement