Yimeng wang 2017 bachelor of landscape architecture louisiana state university
2014. 09 Florida
Every landscape architect has their special view to observe the world. We have more chances to appreciate what nature gives us.
2015. 04 Rio de janeiro 2015. 09 Portland
Studio 01 LSU Restorative Garden --Audubon Hall Courtyard 02 Mid-City Government Neighborhood Planning
--Revitalizate the Neighborhood and Commercial Street
03 Site Design- Gulf introcoastal Waterway Western Closure Complex 04 Shaping Pattern Process Along Mississippi River
Media & Construction 05
Recycle material Furniture Design-Lighting Bollard
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Swine Palace Amphitheater Design
Art 07
Visual Lighting Design
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Drawings
01 LSU Restorative Garden--Audubon Hall Courtyard
The restorative garden on LSU campus is located between Audubon Hall and Woodin Hall. The proposed elements selected to meet the requirements for restorative gardens and to reduce stress based on research by Roger Ulrich and the Kaplans. To receive this goal, the pathways and garden spaces are designed to encourage people stop and explore the garden. There is a variety of seating choices that people can make in either open or private settings. The extensive and interesting of plant materials can not only screen the seating area from the main path but also provide a positive distraction and potential contact with nature. People are also given the option to enjoy sunshine in the open spaces or choose to enjoy the shaded private quiet spaces.
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Individual Project 2015 Fall Professor Kathleen Bogaski
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Precedent Images
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LSU RESTORATIVE GARDEN AUDUBON HALL COURTYARD
SITE ANALYSIS 2 NOT TO SCALE
Approved: Reviewed:
Designer: Yimeng Wang Date: 11/30/2015
SHEET NAME
SITE INVENTORY
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EXISTING IMAGES
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BUBBLE DIAGRAM NOT TO SCALE
AND ANALYSIS
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Lagerstroemia indica
Sassafras albidum
Green wall Handrails
Osmanthus fragrans
Viburnum odoratissimum
AUDUBON HALL
Quercus virginiana
Taxodium ascendens
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2 E Bench
Lawn HP 3’-4’’
Entry
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Pervious Concrete
Arbor
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G Pinwheel Installation
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Annual Flower Bed
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LSU RESTORATIVE GARDEN AUDUBON HALL COURTYARD
PARKING LOT
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QUAD
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Decking Seating Platform
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WOODIN HALL N
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SCHEMATIC DESIGN
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32ft
SCALE: 1/16'' = 1'0''
SYMBOL KEY EXISTING
Scientific Name
TREE
SHRUB
PERENNIAL ANNUAL
GRASS
Common Name
Comments
Quercus virginiana
Southern Live Oak
Long lived tree; native; Broad spreading form
Lagerstroemia indica
Crape Myrtle
Long blooming; flower; beautiful branches
Osmanthus fragrans
Sweet Olive
Lone-lived shrub; fragrant; evergreen
Taxodium asendens
Pond Cypress
Fine foliage; native; wet soil
Sassafras albidum
Sassafras
Autumn color; Spring flower; wildlife food
Indigofera kirilowii
Indigo
Summer flowers, Spreading form, fine texture
Callistemon rigidus ‘Little John’
Little John Bottlebush
Attract hummingbirds; flowers; dense evergreen
Nandina domestica
Nandina
Fine texture; White flowers; Red berries
Viburnum odoratissimum
Sweet Viburnum
Hedge, coarse leathery foliage; long lived shrub
Juniperus conferta
Shore Juniper
Fine texture; blue green color; soft foliage
Ardisia crenata
Coral Ardisia
Shade plant; red fruit; glossy foliage
Malvaviscus arboreus
Giant Turk’s Cap
Summer flower; coarse texture; attract hummingbirds
Ophiopogon japonicus
Monkey Grass Butterfly Lily
Ground cover; fine texture; ease of maintenance
Hedychium coronarium Antirrhinum majus
Snapdragon
Multicolor
Petunia*hybrid
Petunia
Spring color
Viola*wittrockiana
Pansy
Winter and spring color
Muhlenbergia capillaris
Pink Muhly Grass
Pink color; fine texture; full color
Fragrant flowers; coarse texture; beautiful form
PROPOSED
Osmanthus fragrans
Quercus virginiana
Lagerstroemia indica
Water Bowl
Catch basin
Lawn
Approved: Shrubs
Composite Decking
Viburnum odoratissimum
Crushed limestone
Taxodium ascendens
Brick Paver
Sassafras albidum
Perennial
The primary goal of the design is to create a restorative space for students to have a rest and release from pressure during classes break and lunch time. The design intent is to give the main users-students different kinds of spaces that they can explore, escape and enjoy. The proposed main path consists of an organic, curvilinear shape connecting three interesting spaces, which include water feature area, statement art area and private seating area. At the entry, there is an arbor and wild grass setting to navigate people into the garden upon entering the garden. People can see the delicate water bowls on the limestone paving area and enjoy the natural sound while seating on the surrounding benches. The statement art area is relatively open. The big pinwheels installation on the annual bedding has warm color and can rotate with the wind, providing a distraction which has been found to be restorative to stressed people. Moving to the east of the site, higher density plant materials for screening decking seating with a platform partially hidden within the plant area to create a private place for escaping from the crowds. A 3’ green wall will be built along the handrails of Audubon Hall that can be a striking element and can also partially screen people’s view in the building.
Reviewed:
Designer: Yimeng Wang Date: 12/18/2015
SHEET NAME
SCHEMATIC DESIGN
SHEET NO.
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PLANTING SCHEDULE
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Mid-City Government Neighborhood Planning --Revitalizate the Neighborhood and Commercial Street The final project is about to plan the Mid-City Government Street to revitalize the neighborhood and commercial Street. The design concept is to balance the commercial and residential area and provide various attractive and comfortable public spaces. The site is designated to build a train station as a population gathering areas. Thus, it is important to design an adjacent commercial area to serve people getting off from the train. As 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.
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Individual Project 2015 Spring Professor Bruce Sharky
Unclear functional part
Dead ends make the space looks dilapidated
Existing Road
Commercial
Green Space
Institution
Industrial
Residential (single family) Residential (multifamily)
Office
Proposed Land Use
Existing Plan
Mix-Use (commercial&Office)
Remained Buildings
Proposed Road System
Proposed Plan
Road Analysis
Plan Analysis
Green Belt
Site Photos
Commercial Area
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1 Train Station 2 Front Park 3 Urban Planning 4 Street Park 5 Farmer Market 6 Apartment Area 7 Water Tower 8 Entergy Property 9 Plaza 10 Playground 11 Outdoor Fitness 12 Detention Pond 13 Outdoor Greenspace
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Master Plan
Business Street
Train Station
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Planting Plan ( Playground and Outdoor Fitness Area) 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.
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Section 2-2
Flagstone Paving Exposed Aggregated Concrete
Lawn
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SCALE: 1/4’’=1’
SITE PLAN Quarter Scale Plan ( Outdoor Greenspace Area) 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. MOSS PLANTING PLANTING SOIL WRAPPED W/ FILTER FABRIC GRAVEL GLAG STONE 1/4’’ x4’’ STEEL EDGE W/ STAKES NATIVE GRASS PLANTING
CONTROL JOINT - HAND TOOLED JOINT WITH1/8’’ ROUND EDGE CONCRETE SIDEWALK WITH EXPOSED AGGREGATE FINISH PER
PLANTING SOIL COMPACTED GRAVEL BASE COMPACTED SUBGRADE
Exposed Aggregated Concrete Detail Section
Flagstone Paving Detail Section
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03 Site Design- Gulf introcoastal Waterway Western Closure Complex
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.
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Individual Project 2014 Fall Professor Andrea Galinski
Plant Succession Progress The Structure Completed
Floating Plant Emergent 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.
Shrub Wet Meadow
Well maintained
High water level Low water level
Earthen Levee 1 Year Later
Hydric Soil 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 . Well maintained
Perspective View
Alocasia macrorrhiza (Elephant’s Ear)
Baccharis halimifolia (Groudsel Bush) Left
3 Years Later Ulmus species Elm Right Baccharis halimifolia (Groudsel Bush)
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. Well maintained
Acer rubrum var. drummondii (Drummond Red Maple) Left
Ampelopsis arborea (Peppervine) Left
Solidago altissima (Goldenrod) Right
Water Edge Plants
Triadica sebifera (Chinese Tallow Tree) Right
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Flood
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Broadwalks & Frontwater Garden
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Planting Terraces
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Interpretive Center
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Terraces
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Piers
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Observation Decking in Swamp Area
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Parking Lot
G Bicycle Path F
Site Boundry Wood Decking Walkway
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Asphalt or Concrete
Planting Terraces
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Terraces
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Piers
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04 Shaping Pattern+Process
Along the Mississippi Flyway Group Project: Yimeng Wang and Yinan Liu 2014 Spring 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.
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Acres of Cattle, Calves and Chicken
Dead Zone
Total Nitrogen and Phosphorus Fields 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 wetlands’ lost. Acres of Soybeans Cropland
Pollution Accumulation
Acres of Corn Cropland
Pollution Source
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Site Measures: Geograhy
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.
Sections are cutting the developed areas including cities, towns and important airport and national conservation areas such as national forest and national wildlife refuge.
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Elevation Change
Group A
Very Severe limitations
GroupB/D
Severe limitations
Group C
Other limitations
Group D
Moderate limitations
Urban Area
Slight limitations
River Water
Commercial Place
River Water Body
Water affects soil formation, structure, stability and erosion. Different soil has different rates of infiltration, which means if it is well drained and has a rate of water transmission. The blue area is Group A, which has a high infiltration rate. The dark area means their infiltration rates are low and cannot drain away water well. Group D consists chiefly clay that has a high shrink-swell potential. Urban area also has very low infiltration rate because of its construction.
Dominant Soil Hydrologic Group
Soil provides minerals and water to plants. The type of soil and available moisture determine the species of plants that can be cultivated. The map shows different soil and places have various limitations for cultivating plants. The two orange patches mean they have relatively good ability for cultivating. The dark patches have not good, and even worse capacity for cultivating.
Agriculture Capacity
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Natural and Constructed Wetland Research Constructed Wetland Morphology In order to solve the pollution 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.
The E.L. Huie Jr. Constructed Treatment Wetland
Everstekoog Constructed Wetland Texel, Netherland
Shepard Constructed Storwater Treatment Wetland The City of Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Clayton County, GA, USA
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Photo Credit: Yinan Liu
Wetland Typology Unit
After we knows how the wetlands work, we design 5 types of wetland typologies to fit different areas. There are some abandoned oxbow lakes that can be transformed as constructed wetlands or hybrid wetlands. We are also considering to control the nutrient runoff from three perspectives: agriculture cropland, livestock&manure and urban areas. The scale is from large to small. The small type can be used in more urban area, while big scale type can be used in large site like agricultural farmland to clean huge mount of water.
Mulch
Subsurface Flow Wetland Unit
Washed Gravel Waterproof Membrane
0.625 acres = 165ft x 165 ft
Native Plant Soil Soil Mixture
Gravel
Compact Subgrade
Matrix
Pipe Helix Anchor
Floating Wetland Unit
Bioswale Unit
2.5 acres = 330ft x 330 ft
0.005 acres = 15 ft x 15 ft
Coarse Gravel
Pipe
Deep Marsh Low Marsh
Sand
Terrace Wetland Unit 0.15 acres = 50ft x 100 ft
Free Water Surface Wetland Unit 3.025 acres = 363ft x 363 ft
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Selected Sites Test Cultural Site
Floating Wetland
Primary Goal Prevent Flooding over the levee and give people more chances to get close to the Mississippi River.
The site is located at the lower mississippi River area. It is right in the Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Percent Imperviousness 1-25%
Agricultural Site
This site is located at north mississippi river. It is at the south of St. Louis
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26-50%
51-75%
76-100%
In the urban area, there are floating wetland. They are people to be close to the M
Terraces Wetland
Bioswale
e bioswales on the parking lot, terrace wetlands between the river and levee and designed not only for preventing the flooding river and water storm, but also for Mississippi river for recreational and cultural use.
Primary Goal Clean approximately 10 tons nitrogen per month. Reduce nitrogen loads of water from 10 mg/L to 1 mg/L.
In the agriculture area, the wetland machine composed by free water surface system and subsurface flow system is supposed to clean irritation waste water.
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Recycled Material Furniture DesignLighting Bollard
Individual Project 2015 Spring Professor Cheryl Lough
esign
Total cost: $26 Recycled material content: 70% Total cost: material $26 Post-consumer content: 60% Recycled material content: 70% Recyclable: 80% Post-Consumer Material Content: 60% percent Recyclable: 80%
Plywood Cost: $0
Acrylic sheet Balsa wood strips Acrylic Light sheetkit Cost: $10 Cost: Cost:$0 $5 Cost: $6
Cost: $10
Bulb Cost: Fluorescent $5 strips Balsa wood Cost: $5
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. Geometric shape of color is simple but strong to represent the object.
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Landscape Lighting
NOTE: 1.Use Brad Nailer to install the plywood structure. 2.Install the fluorescent bulb on the transparent NOTE: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 to glue acrylic sheet. 1.Use Brad Nailerglue to install the plywood 4. Glue small multicolor acrylic sheets together structure. to form certain shapes. 2.Install5.In thelandscape fluorescent bulb theto ground. use,bolt theon base transparent acrylic sheet and use the 6. Do waterproof top coating.
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Plywood
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Plywood
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drill the hole to connect the bulb to the socket
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Anchor bolt
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Concrete
Transparent Acrylic Sheet
Plywood
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Balsa wood strip
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Laser cut the hole to put bulb base
Plywood
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socket and core set toconnect the bulb. 3.Use glue gun to glue the balsa woodstrips 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.
Plywood 7"
Fluorescent Bulb Lumens: 800 CCT: 2800K Input Power: 13w
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6 ft. Cord Set with Snap-In Pigtail Candelabra-Base Socket and Cord Switch
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Back View
Lighting Bollard Details
Lighting Bollard Details
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Swine Palace Amphitheater Design 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.
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Individual Project 2014 Spring Professor Peter Summerlin
Cut & Fill
Site Section 28
Grading Plan 29
Material Plan 30
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Drawings
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Visual Lighting Design
Using the orange compact lighing bulb, fabrics and chipboard model to form a contrast feeling between different materials.
Physical Lighting Model This class is based on light works in both real and virtual environment. We learned basic terms about light and how to build models (just for the purposes of studying how light functioning) in both environments.
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The wood blocks are used as steps that people can really step on. We use the Processing to trck people’s movement so that the light color changes as people move.
Using AfterEffect to do a animation of light outlining. Combine the projector and physical model to show a motion illusion of the object.
Lighting Interaction (Group Work)
Projection Mapping
Yimeng wang robert reich school of landscape architecture ywan159@lsu.edu