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LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO 2016
YUQING DAI
PERSONAL Name
Yuqing Dai
(Crystal) Birthday
September 8th 1993
Nationality China Languages
English
Chinese German
C O N TA C T Mobile US
+1 (814) 777-8508
Mobile China +8615806600999 Email yid5065@psu.edu crystal199398@gmail.com Address
2250 triphammer R, N3d,
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Lu Neng Ling Xiu Cheng
D-12-1#-302, Jinan 250002
Shandong, China
SOFTWARE SKILLS ADOBE INDESIGN
AUTOCAD
ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR
RHINO
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP
SKETCH UP
GIS
VUE
REVIT
LUMION
Idealism
Pragmatism Space Design
EMPLOYMENT
B ILKE Y LLINAS DESI GN
PALM BEACH GARDEN, FL, USA July - August, 2013. Intership in Architecture Department Assisting various designers to produce qualified CAD drawing and perspectives
AE CO M
BEIJING OFFICE, CHINA June - August, 2014. Intership in Landscape Architecture Department Assisting lead designers and working on projects in various scales: Tianjin Yujiapu CBD, Beijing and Shoukai Residential Area
IN DE P E N DE NT PROJECT CHANGSHA, HUNAN, CHINA
July, 2014. Landscape Architecture Designer Green Wall Design for private clients in Changsha Wetland Park
YI LON G R E AL ESTATE I NVESTMENT COMPANY JINAN, SHANDONG, CHINA
July, 2015. Internship in Design Apartment Assisting project manager to review designs from design firms and negotiating with construction firms.
E D U C AT I O N
P E N N SY LVA NI A STATE UNI VERSI TY
BACHELOR OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE (5 years program) MINOR OF ARCHITECTURE HISTORY DEAN’S LIST STUDENT GPA 3.5 (Full Grade 4) 2011, August - 2016, January
ST UDY ABOARD PROGRAMS
BARCELONA, SPAIN, Summer 2015 May - June, AIB Barcelona + Penn State University
BONN, GERMANY, Fall 2015
September – December, AIB Bonn + Penn State University
ACTIVITIES
E CO -R E P
Penn State Sustainalbe & Leadership Program: member
N P PH OTO S TUDI O
Penn State Non-profit photography community: orgranizer
HONORS
F ir st Pr ize in BI M DESI GN COMPETI TI ON SPRING 2015 Group projects Competition in BIM Colab Studio in Penn State
DESIGN PROJECTS
URBAN MOSAI C Industrial Revitalization 2015 | Barcelona, Spain
DI STANT NATURE Urban Vacant land Revitalization 2015 | Bonn, Germany
URBAN RECONNEC TI ON Urban Planning Project 2014 | Philadelphia, PA
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Historical Community Urban Planning 2014 | Bellefonte, PA
SKILL SETS
GR ADIN G PL AN
Stormwater Management
CON ST R UCT ION DOCUM E N TAT IO N Material Plan
GIS AN ALYSIS Spring Creek Watershed Analysis
MO DE LS
Physical Models for Design Projects
OTHERS
P E R SON AL PAIN TI NGS Chinese Traditional Painting
U R BAN MOSAI C Re-introducing Industrial Fragment into Urban Fabric 2015 | Barcelona, Spain
Professor: Miguel Roldรกn and Neil Korostoff Studio Type: 2015 Summer Study Aboard Program Project Type: Individual Project The La Escocesa design is to reintroducing historical industry wasteland into new urban fabric by representing the idea of urban mosaic. The idea of urban mosaic comes from two aspects: the land mosaic theory and the ceramic mosaic pattern in Barcelona. The main design strategy is to identify three types of urban fabrics (Landscape, public space, architecture) to represent the process of urban mosaic (Nature, Edge, Human Construction) in a historical site. In the large-scale analysis, the design focuses on analysis the three types of urban fabric, and emphasizes the idea of land mosaic in urban context. In the neighborhood scale, the design is borrowed the idea of making mosaic pattern: breaking down the existing fabrics and recomposing them together into large images. The design breaking down the existing industrial wasteland to different types of landscape, public spaces and buildings, and reform them together to create a collective space in urban context. Zooming into the small scale, the design creates the three different types of space to create strange moments in the site to represent the idea of urban mosaic.
Mosaic photos taken from Park Guell in Barcelona
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CONCEPTUAL DIAGRAM FOR LA ESCOCESA
CERAMIC MOSAIC PATTERN
Breaking up the existing ceramic painting, and recomposing them into new image
LAND MOSAIC THEORY
Modeling Mosaic Sequence in Urban Context From Richard Forman
URBAN FABRIC ANALYSIS in Barcelona Based on land mosaic theory
Landscape
Transition Zone
Human Construction
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CITY SCALE ANALYSIS INDUSTRIAL HERITAGE IMPACTS + GREEN LINKAGE Urban green corridors and industrial heritages linkage provide continuity with outlying natural spaces, supporting green infrastructure within the city.
MOUNTAINS AREA
Old City Area
MEDITERRANEAN SEA
HISTORY ANALYSIS ‘La Escocesa’ was initially dedicated to the production of chemical products for the textile industry, and dates back to 1852. Since 1999 it has become an art facility complex. The grounds cover a total of 9514 m2 in the present state are enclosed by a perimeter of outer buildings and of aproximately 2000m2 of open areas between the complex buildings. 8
Industrial Heritage
Beso
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Future Urban Plan
THE SITE La Escocesa
Green Space Linkage
Geographical Context
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MOSAIC FORMATION
Landscape
Breaking down the existing urban fabric based on four, and identify each piece with new programs.
Circulation
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Circulation
Urban Grid
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= Historical Grid
DISTRICT SCALE PLAN Landform section Diagrams
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BUILDINGS
New Mixed-use Building Renovated Historical Center +Museum Outdoor Cafe
Water Flow Program Density
NATURAL LANDSCAPE
Urban ‘Forest’
TRANSITION ZONE Gathering Plaza Green Roof Amphitheater
Bio-diversity Native Plants Natural Habitat
RESIDENTIAL COMMERCIAL Low Point
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The green roofs serve as demonstration of ‘transitional zone’.
GREEN ROOFS
Rainwater gathering at the urban ‘forest’ area
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STORMWATER FLOW The hardscape use different types of mosaic patterns to illustrate the concept vividly.
Mixed-use Building
HARDSCAPE
Commerical + Residential+Office
Historical Buildings Renovation Art Gallery Art Museum
BUILDING PROGRAMS
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DIVERSE SPECIES / NATURAL HABITAT
New Mixed-use Development
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Urban Mosaic Museum
BARCELONA GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE QUALITY
Industrial Renovation: Art Gallery & Educational Center 15
D IS TANT NATURE
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Urban Vacant land Revitalization
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2015 | Bonn, Germany
Professor: Bruno Röver Studio Type: Fifth Year Study Aboard Program Project Type: Individual Project The design identifies the special condition of the hidden landscape, and creates an inaccessible natural landscape to emphasize the idea of nature fragment remaining in urban area. The site elevation creates a huge contrast between upper level hardscape plaza and lower level “forest”, which will get people’s attentions on the small fragment of nature in dense urban context. The design concept is to preserve the nature fabric on our site and intensify the contracts between ‘untouched’ nature and surround urban constructions. The idea behind is to encourage people to think the relationship between human and nature, and what we have sacrifices to build our living environment. This design creates different views toward this contrasting moment of nature in urban context. The upper level is designed as a collective space with various human activities, such as playing fountain for children, seating area for general public, quite space for elders. The design becomes a collage of different urban scenarios. The materials are light concrete with strong geometric shapes and sculpture landscape; the lower level will be densified to mimic the jungle in a forest. This urban jungle will be saw the from the flip kick moment of the skateboarders, the angled direction window from the bunker, and horizontal views from people passing by the plaza.
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THE SITE
Bau
Alter Friedhof Hofgarten
Rheinaue
URBAN FOREST
The B u n ke r
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GREEN SPACE ANALYSIS x: Natural Condition y: Site Scale PUBLIC GREEN SPACE 1. Hofgarten 2. Rheinaue 3. Poppelsdorfer Friedhof 4. Botanischer Garten 5. Alter Friedhof 6. Baumschulwäldchen 7. Kottenforest 8. Holtorf PRIVATE GREEN SPACE 9. Grüne Spielstadt 10. Berthold Münzer 11. Johannes Krings 12. Karen-Maria und Jost Brökelmann 13. Ermekeilgarten 14. Uwe Moog
SITE INVENTORY HISTORICAL BUNKER Budapester Straße
RESIDENTIAL BUILDING
UPPER LEVEL
BOTTOM LEVEL Enclosure
Entrances
Levels Change
Green Volume
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URBAN NAT URE on cti Se e
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STRATEGY 3 : Turing existing bunker into Observation Museum to observe nature or urban activates.
STRATEGY 2 : Create a hardscape collective plaza using strong geometric forms.
STRATEGY 1 : Increase planting density for inaccessible ‘forest’ at bottom level.
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SECTION SKATEBOARDING AREA
DISTANT NATUR
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Reflecting Mirrow for the view of distant nature
BUNKER REVITALIZATION Views from the Bunker
OBSERVATION EDGE
GATHERING PLAZA
KIDS PLAYGROUND VIEW TOWARD NATURE
VIEW TOWARD PLAZA
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RE-CO NNEC TIO N Restitching and invigorate 2014 | Philadelphia, USA
Professor: Bryan Hanes Studio Type: 4th-year Landscape Architecture Studio Project Type: group project in analysis and master planning phase, and Individual Project in detail design. The graphics collected in this section were mostly done by myself. Others have been labeled.
The Site
Existing Urban Fabric
The design concept is to restitch the urban fabric in the inner city of Philadelphia, connect different neighborhoods and invigorate urban activities. The design concept focused on fixing existing issues comprehensive urban analysis and talking to local communities. The city of Philadelphia is a dense city with large population and potential to future development. However, the city scape is separated by the development of highway transportation system; the city become a place for car instead of people. The highways not only separated different neighborhood, but also cut the waterfront area off the inner city. Our group did lots of research about transportation system and civil engineer aspects, and tried to solve the problems from the basic issue: Highway. We identified six different method of connection and focused on eight different area to restitch the highway, including taking down highways, creating new commercial centers, and reengage waterfront area.
Future Planning Area
POPULATION GROWTH IN PHILADELPHIA The population growth analysis indicates that the future of Philadelphia require more space for higher density.
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Phase 1 : URBAN ANALYSIS People & Urban Fragments
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With an influx of new residents, the energy of old neighborhood spilled north into the residential and commercial neighborhood of Northern Liberties and eventually Fishtown. Heavy-handed, and sometimes failed, planning and transportation infrastructure however, have left gaping holes in the dense urban fabric of these neighborhoods.
RESIDENTIAL HIGH DENSITY RESIDENTIAL MEDIUM DENSITY COMMERCIAL MIXED RESIDENTIAL OTHER
ways Conditions
Elevated Highway
18’
Elevated Highway
35’
Solid Base Highway
30’
Sunken Highway
18’
Highway + Bridge Complex
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Phase 2 : RESTITCHING MASTER PLAN Identify each separated area and restitch the urban fabrics to connect the different communities
CONCEPT Using six different connectors to relink the urban fabrics
MAIN DESIGN STRATEGIES
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Highway is the main reason for disconnection. The design take off parts of elevated high way to increase connections between different neighborhood.
Creating two skyscrapers over main elevated highway as new commercial center to serve as welcome area for the city and link between inner city to water front.
MASTER PLAN 1 Northern Liberties Highway Plaza 2 Under Highway Commercial Line 3 Pedestrian Waterfront Boardwalk 4 Highway Tower
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5 Revitalizing Willow Street
6 New Callowhill Blvd (Redirected Vine Street Expressway) 7 Central Plaza
8 Linear Park + Commerical Line
9 Under-bridge Community Plaza
10 Waterfront Tidal Marsh
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SUPERBLOCKS
BEN FRANKLIN BRIDGE
OLD CITY
DESIGN PERSPECTIVES
DESIGN STRATEGIES PLAN
CONNECTORS
EXISTING DISCONNECTIONS
CALLOWHILL BOULEVARD
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This rendering is made by my colleague.
This rendering is made by my colleague.
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3 EIGHT FOCUS AREAS NORTHERN LIBERTIES
This rendering is made by my colleague.
THE KNOT
Identify eight focus area using landscape and planning method to fix the disconnections. COLUMBUS BOULEVARD
This rendering is made by my colleague.
THE WATERFRONT
This rendering rendering is is made made by by my my colleague. colleague.
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Phase 3 : NEW PROMENADE DESIGN Using six strategies to create new urban promenade DESIGNS COMPARISON
DESIGN STRATEGIES Use visual and audio cues to help orient traffic intersection
4 ACTIVITY LAWN
Provide large lawn area for various activities, such as picnic and large event.
Different pavement material
2 STREET LIGHTING
Create lighting plan consistent along street Improve pedestrian safety by introducing appropriate light levels
3 SMALL RETAIL PLAZA
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PLAZA SEATING AREA Large amount of designed seating area for commercial corridor. Differet seating line create different scale gathering space
STREET SEATING AREA
Willow Street
Wood
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Street
Commercial retail located on ground floor each roadway, six moving lanes at central bothway, and linear park along the other side of commercial building line.
Linear seating area for commercial corridor integrate with stormwater infiltrition design.
N 7th St.
Small stores in central median plaza, such as small cafe and retails Provide outdoor seating area
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Commercial retail located on ground floor each roadway, three moving lanes each side, and central walk-way in median of street with benches, small shops, and designed public space.
N 6th St.
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+ Office
Office
Side-walk with outdoor cafe & interesting window display
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Vegetation Barrior Gathering Plaza
MIXED-USE BUILDING
Commerical
MIXED-USE BUILDING
Commercial Parking
Parking
N 3rd St.
SITE SECTION: N 5th St.
N 4th St.
N 5th St.
Residential
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“Street is a life connector in the city.�
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LIN E AR L ANDS CA P E 21 Century Urban Community with Historical Heritage 2013 | Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, USA Professor: Christ Counts, Maria Counts, Berry Kew Studio Type: 3rd Year Design Studio Project Type: Community Planning Analysis phase is group project but all the graphics in this section are made by myself. Design phase is individual Project.
RIVER FLOOD PLAN
Flood area on top of existing site plan
Bellefonte is a borough in Centre County, and it is the county seat of Centre County and is home to about 6,400 people. Bellefonte has transformed through the years from a hotbed of industry and politics into a beautiful town boasting a unique melding of history, tradition, and culture. The concept of this project is to emphasize historical heritages and Spring Creek River in Bellefonte Community, and turning underused spaces into new urban center. The masterplan for this project is design based on three important elements: flood line, historical trail line and circulation system. RIVER FLOOD SECTION
Existing Landform and Flood Elevation 100 year flood line 50 year flood line 25 year flood line 10 year flood line THE SITE BOUNDARY
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Phase 1 : INVENTORY & ANALYSIS Storm water analysis and circulation analysis Sub-basin
Bellefonte Stream Order
Environmental Issue Zones Flood Issue due to the urbanization
CIRCULATION INVENTORY
Pedestrian
Vehicle
Grid System
THE SITE CIRCULATION ANALYSIS Trail Rail
Walking Distance
Bike Trails
Bus Route
Space Hierarchy
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Phase 2 : MASTER PLANNING FOR HISTORICAL TOWN REVIVAL Creating Linear transportation pattern, linear landscapes and building complex to emphasize the footmark of the river and historical rail road.
River
Rail
Grid
CONCEPT
The Flood Zones Flood Buffer Tunnel
Existing River
10 Year Flood
Filling Up
10-25 Year Flood
Historical Heritages
CONCEPT
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DESIGN
25-50 Year Fl
Floating Island
lood
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Phase 3 : FOCUS AREA DETAIL DESIGN New experiences for local community in Bellefonte A
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Linear River Path
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Wetland linear Park + Elevated Rail Line Below + Above
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STO RMWATER M A N AG EMENT Grading + Bio-retention
2014 | State College, Pennsylvania, USA Professor: Stuart Echols and Gary Kesler Project Type: Professional practice skill The project is to redesign parking lot in PSU Ease Campus and design a stormwater management system for the parking lot.
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M ATER IAL D E S IGN
Construction Documentation 2013 | State College, Pennsylvania, USA Professor: Timothy Baird and Barry Kew Project Type: Professional practice skill
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G IS A NALYSIS
History of Economic Transition 2014 | Spring Creek, Pennsylvania, USA Professor: Timothy Baird and Tim Murtha Project Type: GIS Analysis Studio
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P HYSICAL M O D ELS
State College, Pennsylvania, USA Academic Projects I have learned to use model as a design tool for my projects and has help me to develop design ideas and explore more dimensions of the site. The selected models are simple examples from studio projects, and leaser cutter model for existing site. Models are great tools to gain perspectives in terms of movement and spatial qualities.
Above and Below Landscape Design with Experiences (Self-project) The design concept is to create a landscape with different dramatic experiences and views.
Model fo
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The desig between n represent (historical trapped an and a gath
Enclosed Garden (Academic Self-project) The design concept is to create a peaceful space for the site.
Leaser Cutting Model City Garden in St. Louis, MO Group Project in 2nd year modeling class
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gn concept is to create a contrast nature and human. The enclosed nature the reminding piece of hortwoods l woods in the site). The design creates a nd distant nature for visual experience hering lawn for multi-activities.
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PAINTING S
Personal Interests: Chinese Traditional Painting
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THANK YOU.
YUQING DAI yid5065@psu.edu JAN. 2016