Revitalize San Francisco Pier 48 & 50
Urban Landscape Architecture Design under the Background of Sea Level Rising
Academic 2021.3 2021.5 LA 204 Advanced Design Studio, College of Environmental Design, UC Berkeley
Instructed by David Meyer
Individual Work by Yifan Feng
Site location: San Francisco Studio Description
This studio has two primary goals. The first goal is that you approach your work conceptually. Instead of being asked to solve problems or address excessive program requirements, you’ll be asked to conceive of landscapes that embody ideas. You'll be encouraged to think about composition more in terms of being experiential, rather than pictorial. You'll be encouraged to make landscapes that distinguish place, to make them memorable and to go beyond just making them “green”.
The second goal is to pursue the thoughtful execution of your ideas, flushing out how to manifest the physicality to support your concepts. You'll be encouraged to realize your ideas through minimal moves. Avoid the impulse to adorn or decorate. Taking concepts beyond collage, sketch models, and the illusions of Photoshop, you’ll identify a portion of your final studio problem and craft its physicality. Drawings, models and mock-ups will be used to explore materials, form, scale, proportion and tectonics.
MANIFESTO
With the sea level rising in the future decades, the water will probably rise to around 6 feet mean low tide and 12 feet mean high tide, and the landfilled San Francisco coastline area will be super vulnerable. As a result, a new coastline infrastructure is urged to be implemented to protect the city waterfront.
The fictious background of the project is that Port of San Francisco Commission is calling for proposal responding to sea level rise and reimagine the possibility of 140-acre Pier 48 and 50 area, which is currently used as parking lot.
My revitalizing proposal is combined of a series of landscape typologies, including berm garden, waterfront theatre and plaza, to raise the elevation of waterfront edge and protect the inner area. The proposal will introduce sustainable, aesthetic and functional thinking, translating the traditional process of building up seawalls into an ecological, attractive pubic open space and future development. The new public space will correspond to existing city grids, historical context, and show the great possibility of landscape being both resilient and beautiful in transforming the city's future.
The site chose is currently only used as parking lot, while with the historical pier buildings, and the surrounded by many office and residential buildings, and the Oracle Ballpark, introduing visitors and residents to the site, the waterfront has the possibility to be a far more attractive desitnation.
However, around 8-9 feet above sea level, this area is vulnerable in the future decades, and the coast edge needs to be raised.
Basing on the nearby vehicle and pedestrian transportation, the circles and arrows are showing where and how people will enter the site and get to enjoy the waterfront view.
As a result, edge of the site will be designed into public open space, while the inner area left for future development.
Design Formation
The new plan proposal will be defined by the existing city grids, transportation system, and waterfront view. The waterfront edge will become elevated open space, while a larger inland area will be left for future development.
A quick access and meandering parkway will both work together as the main circulation south to north in the open space. The circle berm garden will be located at the axis connecting to 3rd St. which is the most important street around the site.
Water Emergence City
Urban Design and Landscape Design Future of Marin City
Academic 2019.9 - 2019.12, Fall Urban ecological design studio at, College of Environmental Design, UC Berkeley
Instructed by Professor Kristina Hill and Kristen Hall
Selected individual drawing of group work Collabrators: Clare Al-Witri, Josie Morgan ( collabrators' work is not included Site location, Marin City, Marin County, California, United States Site size: 0.537 sq mi (1.390 km2)
Position Statement
Besides, the developed area along coastline where used to be marshland and served for decreasing the high tide also has negatively affected on its original capability to protect the city, which could be especially serious to individuals live along coastline or on houseboat and beachside habitats.
Basing on the aforehead statement, what Marin city requires is a sustainable, functional and affordable “Adapt in place” strategy to keep the livability and spirit of the city. Tracing back to the pristine Marin land, the natural marshland had been playing an important role on protecting the inland area .
Since the sea level rise would also push the groundwater to rise, salt water is not the only threat for Marin City, but also the clean water emerge from underground especially because of the old desrepaired piepes and building foundation.
According to NOAA global sea level rise assesment and the relationship between distance from coastline and groundwater level rise (within one kilometer of coastline, groundwater rise is around proportional to sea level rise) I mapped the inundation area of both sea level and groundwater.
PHASING DESIGN
IN BETWEEN THE DISTANCE
Adaptive Social Distancing Guiding Landscape Design
Under the Background of Pandemic COVID-19 Period
The traditional landscape design aims to narrow the distance between people and create attractive gathering activities, however, this unprecedented COVID-19 situation will encourage us to put more emphasis on the normalization of social distance, and interest us to explore what can landscape create “in between the
As an important role of the city, landscape design should be able to provide flexibility in emergency management and instruct people to pay attention to social distance as well as the new mechanism to organize the space in and between the distance. Therefore, we need to transform the traditional way, which is gathering, centralized into a scattered, safer, and more flexible landscape design that enables people to socialize and watch others interacting with the
MASTER PLAN
Public Space Landscape Design City Gardens
Academic 2017.2 - 2017.4, Spring Landscape Architecture Design studio at BJFU, College of Landscape Architecture
Instructed by Professor, Zhicheng Liu
Individual work
Site location, Wudaokou, Beijing, China Site size, 167,400 ㎡
Position Statement
The studio aimed to provide comfortable public space for the bustling Wudaokou district is surrounded by high-tech companies, 8 distinguished universities and Except for the nearby charateristic institutions, the site is also featured by the south north direction Jingzhang railway, bars and commercial center knwon as "Universe Center"
Basing on the consideration for various types of people around the site, including students, young tourists, white collars, local residents, my design proposal is to offer series of gardens with different atmosphere and function As a result, I imagine walking along the site from north to south could provide people with f eelings from private, quiet, comfortable to active, lively, communitive.
Flowing Song
Landscape Architecture Design and Groundwater Management Proposal for Omaha, Nebraska
Academic 2021.1 - 2021.2, Landscape Architecture Capstone
Studio,Topography Exercise.
University of California, College of Environmental
Design
Instructed by Professor, David Meyer
Individual work
Site location, Omaha, Nebraska, the United States
Site size, 200 ㎡
Returning of Beijign Swift
Landscape Design for Co-living of Human-beings and Beijing Swift
Competition
2020.9 - 2020.10, LA+CREATURE Design Ideas
Competition
Group work
Collabrators: Xu Lian, Yanhao Chai
Site location, Beijing, China
Proposal Statement
Our client, Beijing Swift(Apus apus pekinensis), is a kind of medium-size summer migratory bird, flies between Western Cape, South Africa and Beijing, China.
However, most of the cities it will pass by are rapidly expanding cities, which causes the rapid decline of its number. Sky crappers are replacing vernacular houses in those cities, steels and glasses are replacing those nest- friendly building materials, and historic buildings are all protected by the anti-bird net. Unlike other wild birds, the swift tends to stay within the human area and gets protections from attacking by other animals. Are there still places for the swift inside those fast urbanizing cities?
Together with the road, the light pole is the fundamental element of growing city’s landscape infrastructure and might change the conflict to a new chance. We take Beijing, a highly urbanized city and one of the Beijing Swift’s migration destinations, as an example to reimagine the co-living places in the modern city. We start from the form of the traditional Chinese eave and design a multiuse subassembly for the new light pole, which could provide the space for swift nesting, foraging, and “social.” In the meantime, it also provides the city with new public space, community activities, and, most importantly, the possibility of the micro-ecology inside the community.
Section 1:50 Plan 1:50
LuMia, Utopia or Dystopia?
Landscape Planning and Design
Future for Salt River Valley in Post-mining Era
Academic
2020.2 - 2020.5 Spring Landscape design studio at, College of Environmental Design, UC Berkeley
Instructed by Mara Smaby
Group work
Collabrators: Jenny Wu, Philippe Li
Site location, Globe-Miami, Arizona, United States
Project Statemen t
Miami is a small town in the upstream watershed of the Salt River Valley, Arizona. Located 70 miles from Phoenix, Miami’s core industry has been copper mining for more than 100 years. While Phoenix appears poised to grow substantially in the coming decades, exhausting local mineral resources will pose important questions for the socioeconomic future of the Miami area.
More than one hundred years of open pit mining history left post-industrial Miami with massive and iconic landscape features in the form of these remnant pits, which pose water and soil pollution issues. Based on climate projections in the American Southwest, and complications arising from the difficulty in managing water, we imagine that life in major metropolitan areas will become significantly more difficult in the 21st century.
We explore a hopeful vision of this future, albeit one in which social and economic complexities and struggles persist. Through the construction of a resort town based on the landscape created by mining of a previous era, we have imagined a future role for this place, defined by a contained and self-sufficient settlement: Lumia.
Miami is a small town in the upstream watershed of the Salt River Valley, Arizona. Located 70 miles from Phoenix, Miami’s core industry has been copper mining for more than 100 years. While Phoenix appears poised to grow substantially in the coming decades, exhausting local mineral resources will pose important questions for the socioeconomic future of the Miami area.
DESIGN STATEMENT ATLAS SECTION
More than one hundred years of open pit mining history left post-industrial Miami with massive and iconic landscape features in the form of these remnant pits, which pose water and soil pollution issues. Based on climate projections in the American Southwest, and complications arising from the difficulty in managing water, we imagine that life in major metropolitan areas will become significantly more difficult in the 21st century.
We explore a hopeful vision of this future, albeit one in which social and economic complexities and struggles persist. Through the construction of a resort town based on the landscape created by mining of a previous era, we have imagined a future role for this place, defined by a contained and self-sufficient settlement: Lumia.
Multi-functional Ecological Trap System
Environmental Planning and Landscape Design
Academic
2018.8 - 2018.12
Individual work
Site location, Kimberley, Australia
Site size: 1800 km2
Position Statement
The Kimberley region of Western Australia has long been known as Australia's last original land and aboriginal art community, but as the government becomes reductant to continue funding these communities and trying to shut them down, the community faces the issue that how to develop economic self-sufficiency. At the same time, Kimberley region is also the front line of invasion of the invasive species, cane toads in Australia. The toxicity and tenacity of cane toads not only threaten the local species, but also the herds of aboriginal people due to the pollution of artifitial water points (AWPs).
By consulting the data, found that there is a bio-trap technology that is trying to solve this proble, while accelerating weeds decay and fertilling the soil. As a result, I hope to considerate the requisition of these parts and take AWPs as a connecting point to solve the comprehensive problem.
