Portfolio2015 by Yimeng Wang

Table of Contents Studio Shaping Pattern Process Along Mississippi River Site Design- Gulf introcoastal Waterway Western Closure Complex Mid-City Government Neighborhood Planning --Revitalizate the Neighborhood and Commercial Street

Media&Construction Swine Palacce Amphitheater Design Recycle material Furniture Design-Lighting Bollard

Art Visual Lighting Design Drawings

Shaping Pattern+Process Along the Mississippi Flyway Worked completed by Yimeng Wang and Yinan Liu, Spring 2014 Professor Forbes Lipschitz Our project this semester is try to Use a telescopic approach, reshape regional landscape patterns and patches along the Mississippi flyway. The aim is to develop generative spatial patterns that optimize ecological, cultural, and economic processes. This project employs a synthetic, multi-scale approach to the design and representation of regional landscapes.

Topographic Maps and Section Our first step is to do seven analysis of our site which is from Baton Rouge to Natchez along Mississippi River. The geography part gives the basic topographic map of this

site and displays the transportation, elevation and land cover clearly. The soil and rock profile are effected by topography and hydrology, and the quality of soil and water also affect the distribution of land use.

Site Measures Geography

Landcover

Soil Profile and Quality

Regional Design

Pollution Research Worse and worse habit along the mississippi river effect the healthy conditions of animals especially the immigrate birds due to the heavy pollution in water and wetlandsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; lost.

Natural & Constructed Wetland Research

In order to solve the pullution problem, we began our basic research about how constructed and natural wetlands work. From the morphology, we find out that no matter how patterns change from each other, that have the same character, which is they slow down and meander the water.

Wetland Typology Unit

After we knows how the wetlands work, we design 5 types of wetland typologies to fit different areas. The scale is from large to small.

Site Selection and Analaysis (Agricultral)

Site Selection and Analaysis (Industrial & urban)

Agricultral Site

This wetland machine composed by free water surface system and subsurface flow system is supposed to clean irritation waste water.

Industrial Site

The subsurface flow system wetland located between the river and industrial area is designed to clean industrial waste water and ground flow polluted water.

Cultural Site

In the urban area, there are bioswales on the parking lot, terrace wetland between the river and levee and floatinf wetland. They are designed no only for preventing the flooding river and water storm, but also for people to be close to the Mississippi river for recreational and cultural use.

Site Design-Gulf Intracoastal Waterway Western Closure Complex Worked completed by Yimeng Wang , Fall 2014 Professor Andrea Galinski The project in my site (GIWW) is a part of the New Orleans Drainage System; it consists of a navigable floodgate, a pumping station, floodwalls, sluice gates, foreshore protection, and an earthen levee. The complex was designed to reduce risk for residences and businesses in the project area from a storm surge. We are supposed to design several highlight spaces for people to experience the surrounding environment, get the knowledge about West Closure Complex and feel the dynamic change of this site. This is a site that give surrounding residents more public places to have fun, enjoy the nature and be aware of the precious land.

Vegetation Zones

Plant Succession Progress

—— the Structure completed

Well maintained

High water level Low water level Alocasia macrorrhiza (Elephant’s Ear)

Floating Plant Right after the structure completed, The water edge is actually a whole new because this area was woody wetland , so it is more like a secondary succession when the time goes. At this time, this land is predominated by lawn, and is a little steep slope towards the levee.

Emergent Plant Scub/Shrub

Baccharis halimifolia (Groudsel Bush)

Wet Meadow

Zone 5

——1 year later

Emergent Plant

Zone 4 Zone 1

Zone 3 Zone 2

Zone 1

Solidago altissima Ampelopsis arborea (Goldenrod) (Peppervine)

Wet Meadow

Hydric Soil High level groundwater

Well maintained

Earthern Levee High water level Low water level

Relatively high river stage

Riprap

One year after the structure completed, the river bank area is no only lawn predominated. Some other kind of wild grass grow faster and create a better environment for vegetaion. emgergent plants begin to come up .

Baccharis halimifolia (Groudsel Bush)

Ulmus species Elm

——3 year later

Scrub/Shrub

Zone 1 Zone 2

Zone 3

Open water for structure

Water edge High plant succession Hydric Soil area potential plant succesion

Zone 4 Zone 5

Well maintained slope lawn area

Acer rubrum var. drummondii Triadica sebifera

Drummond Red Maple

Levee Relative dry soil

Chinese Tallow Tree

Well maintained

High water level Low water level

Three year after the structure completed, the plant near water grow wilder. Tall grass and shrub begin to appear. Emergent plants already have variaty of types. And the soil condition for plant is better. But the lawn area still need to be maintained.

Site Photos

Mid-City Government Neighborhood Planning --Revitalizate the Neighborhood and Commercial Street Worked completed by Yimeng Wang , Spring 2015 Professor Bruce Sharky The final project is about to plan the Mid-City Government Street to revitalize the neighborhood and commercial Street. The site is located at the north of the Government Street, south of the North Boulevard, and right between the Interstate 110 and S 18th Street. The design concept is to balance the commercial and residential area and provide various attractive and comfortable public spaces. At the beginning, the site is designated to build a train station as a population gathering areas. So, it is important to design an adjacent commercial area to serve people getting off from the train. As we know, residents tend to live at quieter place away from noise. To balance the different demands, I concentrate the commercial area to one street and the Entergy property. To decrease the risk of coming train, I move the main gathering linear park to the residential side. The park has multiple functions as gathering plaza area, residential activity area and detention pond. Zooming into the quarter scale site plan, the small garden between two mixed-use buildings of Entergy Property also has open space as outdoor seating and lawn for picnic. And people can go across the street from the garden to the linear park. 18

Unclear functional part

Existing Road

Proposed Land Use

Dead ends make the space looks dilapidated

Proposed Road System

Proposed Plan

Road Analysis

Remained Buildings

Plan Analysis

Green Belt Commercial Area

Government St.

Birdeye View

Commercial Street & Urban Farming

Train Station

Citrus reticulata

Eriobotrya japonica

Cinnamomum camphora indigofera kirilowii

Platycladus orientalis Rosa

Raphiolepis indica

Celtis laevigata

Ophiopogon japonicus

Aspidistra elatior

Section A-A

Osmanthus fragrans

Quercus virginiana

Eriobotrya japonica Acer palmatum indigofera kirilowii

Platycladus orientalis

Prunus caroliniana

OUTDOOR FITNESS

PLAY GROUND

Magnolia liliflora Lagerstroemia indica

Pistacia chinensis Camellia sasanqua

Rhododendron indicum ‘Formosa’

Section B-B Citrus reticulata Prunus caroliniana

Celtis laevigata Cinnamomum camphora

Pistacia chinensis Platycladus orientalis

Plant Plan

No. Plants by Size 1 1 2 2 4 4 4 2 1 1 1 2 2 23

Common Name Japanese Plum Japanese Plum Crape Myrtle Pistachio Satsuma Cherry Laurel Oriental arbovitae Sweet Olive Lily Magnolia Southern Live Oak Japanese Maple Camphora Tree Hackberry Sasanqua Camellia indigo Formosa Indian Azalea Raphiolepis Knock-out Rose Aspidistra Monkey Grass

Plant Schedule

Scientific Name Eriobotrya japonica Eriobotrya japonica Lagerstroemia indica Pistacia chinensis Citrus reticulata Prunus caroliniana Platycladus orientalis Osmanthus fragrans Magnolia liliflora Quercus virginiana Acer palmatum Cinnamomum camphora Celtis laevigata Camellia sasanqua indigofera kirilowii Rhododendron indicum ‘Formosa’ Raphiolepis indica Rosa Aspidistra elatior Ophiopogon japonicus

SizeCondition 30’*30’ 25’*28’ 20’*15’ 25’*20’ 10’*12’ 20’*15’ 15’*10’ 15’*12’ 20’*15’ 50’*40’ 17’*15’ 20’*18’ 23’*20’ 5’ height 3’ height 4’height 2’height 2’height 3’height 1’height

Spacing

20’ 10’ 20’

5’

Notes Evergreen Tree Evergreen Tree Deciduous Tree Deciduous Tree Evergreen Tree Evergreen Tree Evergreen Tree Evergreen Tree Evergreen Tree Evergreen Tree Deciduous Tree Evergreen Tree

This park is located between the very busy commercial area and high density residential area. The design purpose is to keep the activity park area away from the noisy and busy street to make the playground and fitness place safe and quiet. So, I use a lot of evergreen big trees as hedge to block people’s vision from plaza and street to this area. To make the playground area more fun, I put some striking flower shrubs and trees such as Azalea, Lily Magnolia and Crape Myrtle. The east side is much more open than the west side, because east part of the park is a retention pond for drainage. The relatively open planting can transit well to the more wild and quiet detention pond area.

SECTION A-A

Deciduous Tree Evergreen Shrub Deciduous Shrub Evergreen Shrub Evergreen Shrub Deciduous Shrub Perennial Evergreen Tufted Perennial

SECTION B-B DECIDUOUS EVERGREEN

Massing Diagram

POPULATION GAHERING

Context Map

Flagstone Paving Exposed Aggregated Concrete

Lawn

The small garden between two mixed-use buildings of Entergy Property is designed for outdoor seating and relaxing area. The exposed aggragated concrete is used at sidewalk, and granite flagstone paving is used at outdoor seating place. The middle part which is lawn with landform is designed for people to enjoy the sun and surrounding plants seating on the grass. 2

SCALE: 1/4’’=1’

Quarter Scale Plan

Exposed Aggregated Concrete

Granite Flagstone

Section 2-2

Paving Detail

Swine Palace Amphitheater Design Landscape Technology Worked completed by Yimeng Wang , Spring 2014 Professor Peter Summerlin Our program is to execute a conceptual design and construction documents for the outdoor extention of the Reilly Theater. The program includes a covered pavilion, an amphitheater with seating for 45-60 people approximately, and sufficient pedestrian access from the existing Reilly Theater to the pavilion and ultimately the amphitheater. The construction documents are supposed to clearly define the proposed topographic changes, as well as the structural details for the terracing, pavilion, and stage.

Recycled material Furniture-Lighting Bollard Design Landscape Technology Worked completed by Yimeng Wang , Spring 2015 Professor Cheryl Lough The lighting bollard is made of used plywood, balsa wood strips, and acrylic sheet. They are all 100% recyclable. For the Lighting bulb, it is a compact fluorescent bulb that can save much more energy than incandescent bulb. The multicolor acrylic sheets glue together to form the screen and make the lighting environment more attractive. The strips create shadows of the bollard. This lighting bollard can be used both indoors and outdoors. It can be removable indoors like an interior furniture. For landscape lighting, it is better to put the bollard in small scale site like a back yard.

Total cost: $26 Recycled material content: 70% Post-Consumer Material Content: 60% percent Recyclable: 80% Plywood Cost: $0

Acrylic sheet Cost: $10

Fluorescent Bulb Balsa wood strips Light kit Acrylic sheet Cost: $5 Cost: $5 Cost: strips $5 Cost: $6 Balsa wood Cost: $0

Cost: $10

Recycled materials make the majority part of the bollard. The muti-color acylic sheet makes it more delicate and interesting.

1:1 Scale Bollard

Exploded Axonometric Shadow of the light makes it more attractive.

Inspiration Sources

Geometric shape of color is simple but strong to represent the object.

Landscape Lighting

NOTE: 1.Use Brad Nailer to install the plywood structure. 2.Install the fluorescent bulb on the transparent acrylic sheet and use the socket and core set to connect the bulb. 3.Use glue gun to glue the balsa wood strips and super glue to glue acrylic sheet. 4. Glue small multicolor acrylic sheets together to form certain shapes. 5.In landscape use,bolt the base to ground. 6. Do waterproof top coating.

Transparent Acrylic Sheet

Plywood

3 8

6" " 3 8

3 8

Balsa wood strip

Transparent Acrylic Sheet

1 2

Transparent Acrylic Sheet

Plywood

1'-6"

Plywood

1 1

Left View

2 1

" 1 2

1 2

1'-021"

1'-6"

Plywood

1'-6"

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1 2

Transparent Acrylic Sheet

Front View

3 1

Right View

Back View

4 1 Anchor bolt

drill the hole to connect the bulb to the socket

3 8

Balsa wood strip

6 1

Bulb install sheet

7 Bolt Base to ground 1

Anchor bolt

Top View

Ø1

5 1

Concrete

Transparent Acrylic Sheet

1'-6"

5''

Ø" 7 8

Laser cut the hole to put bulb base

Plywood

Plywood 7"

Fluorescent Bulb Lumens: 800 CCT: 2800K Input Power: 13w

7 Bottom View 1

6 ft. Cord Set with Snap-In Pigtail Candelabra-Base Socket and Cord Switch

8 1

Back View

Lighting Bollard Details 33

Plywood

PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK EDUCATIONAL PRODUCT

Visual Lighting Design Elective Art Class

Using the orange compact lighing bulb, fabrics and c hipboard model to form a contrast feeling between different materials.

Physical Lighting Model The wood blocks are used as steps that people can really step on. We use the Processing to trck peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s movement so that the light color changes as people move.

Lighting Interaction (Group Work)

Using Aftereffect to do a animation of light outlining. Combine the projector and physical model to show a motion illusion of the object.

Projection Mapping

Art Drawings