Aaron Yu Landscape Architecture Undergraduate Portfolio 2011-2014

Aaron Yu Landscape Architecture University of Sheffield

Undergraduate Portfolio 2011 - 2014

I was born in Hong Kong.

I love art. I love nature. I love travel. I love photography.

I observe. I think. I communicate. multi-tasker creative thinker team player hard worker visual communicator idea generator problem solver

aaron yu Tel +852 6336 4080 email aaronyukl@gmail.com address 13g monte villa, 6 monte path, shatin, n.t., hong kONG

Education

Undergraduate 2011 - 2014 Secondary School 2004 - 2011

University of Sheffield (United Kingdom) BSc in Landscape Architecture with Ecology Wah Yan College, Kowloon (Hong Kong)

WORKING Experience Summer Intership Jul 2013 - Aug 2013 Jul 2012 - Sep 2012

AD+RG Ltd. (Hong Kong) Team 73 HK Ltd. (Hong Kong)

Part-time Tutor Jun 2011 - present

Enjoy Studio (Hong Kong)

Extra-curricular Activities 2013 - 2014 President

2012 - 2013 Photographer / Graphic Designer Student Representatitve 2009 - 2010 Chairman Chairman Chairman School Prefect Programme Director Chairman

Skills

Languages Photography Freehand Drawing Softwares

Landmark, Departmental Society of Landscape Architecture, University of Sheffield Yearbook Committee, Landmark Student Staff Committee Geography and Conservancy Society Translation Society Men For Others Mentorship Programme Prefect Board Visual Art Club Academic Sub-committee of Joint School Geography Association

Cantonese, English, Mandarin Adobe InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, AutoCAD, Sketchup, V-ray Microsoft Office - Powerpoint, Word, Excel

aaron yu Landscape Architecture with Ecology BSc Department of Landscape, University of Sheffield

Year 3

Ecological Design Project

West Bar Green Corridor Advanced Ecological Design and Management

Showroom/Workstation Living Roof Site Planning for Housing

Suburban Sustainable Housing

Year 2

Introduction to Planting Design

Sheffield City Gateway Introduction to Landscape Construction

Western Bank Library Courtyard Conceptual Design Studio

The Rubix Route (Cultural Industrial Quarter)

Reports

Landscape Character Assessment (LCA) Landscape and Visual Impact Assessment (LVIA) Land Contamination Report Ecological Management Plan RBD Green Infrastructure Audit

Team 73 HK Ltd. Work ExperienceS AD+RG Ltd.

This project is contribute to Sheffield City Council’s (SCC) City Centre Masterplan. The Riverside Business District is a major urban design and gateway site of Sheffield.

There are 2 specific tasks: 1. An audit of potential opportunities and sites for retro-fitting environmentally-positive landscape features and developments, and to outline the types of potential enhancements that might take place in these sites.

(This part is included in the ‘Reports’ session of the portfolio)

2. A landscape design proposal for the development of a new linear green/blue corridor and associated spaces along the route.

West Bar Green Corridor THE RIPPLE (EFFECT) blue green landscape ECOLOGICAL DESIGN PROJECT

The focus is on innovation, ecological enhancement and biodiversity, climate-change mitigation and urban resilence.

The concept of the design proposal is ‘the ripple effect’. At the moment, the district is like calm water that has limited activities. The design aims at adding new elements to the site that can make the area more vibrant and dynamic.

The ‘ripples’ are also translated into the patttern of trees which form the framework of the design.

The Ripple Effect

Bio-swale The waves of the ‘ripples’ becomes different landscape elements in the design.

Deck

Wildflower strips

Footbridge

Seating

Water Movement

Green Corridor

Masterplan

Circulation and Movement

This is a real life project to produce a proposal for an innovative roof garden that combines accessible space for people to use, along with habitat and biodiversity-enhancing features.

The Showroom Cinema and Workstation contains offices, studios and workshops for businesses working in the ‘Cultural Industries’.

showroom / workstation living roof THE rail ADVANCED ECOLOGICAL DESIGN AND MANAGEMENT

Biodiversity and habitat space

Inaccessible space for rainwater harvesting

Communal meeting space Private roof gardens/ outdoor office

wooden shelter Insect hotel green roof layers

raised wood deck

different depths of substrates for varies plant mixes

100mm gap between upstand structure and planting, filled with pebbles for drainage

The design language comes from the nearby train station with very interesting patterns of railway tracks and sleeper woods. It also incorporated the existing triangular forms of the windows.

Water Movement

Circulation

Soil Depth

Planting Plan

Insect hotel

Meadow mix for chalk and limestone soil - Calcareous grassland (Emorsgate Seeds Mixture EM6) Species Common Name % Wild flowers 1 2

Achillea millefolium Anthyllis vulneraria

Yarrow Kidney Vetch

0. 5 0. 8

3 4 5

Centaurea nigra Centaurea scabiosa Daucus carota

Common Knapweed Greater Knapweed Wild Carrot

0. 6 2 1

Lady’s Bedstraw Field Scabious Rough Hawkbit Oxeye Daisy Birdsfoot’s Trefoil Sainfoin Wild Marjoram Hoary Plantain Salad Burnet

1 2 0. 4 1.5 1 1 0. 1 0. 4 2.2

Cowslip Selfheal Meadow Buttercup Small Scabious

1.5 1 2 1

Quaking Grass (w) Crested Dogstail Sheep’s Fescue Slender-creeping Red-fescue Crested Hair-grass (w) Smaller Cat’s-tail (w) Yellow Oat-grass (w)

2 32 22 16 1 6 1

6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14

Galium verum Knautia arvensis Leontodon hispidus Leucanthemum vulgare Lotus corniculatus Onobrychis viciifolia Origanum vulgare Plantago media Poterium sanguisorba (Sanguisorba minor) 15 Primula veris 16 Prunella vulgaris 17 Ranunculus acris 18 Scabiosa columbaria Grasses A Briza media B Cynosurus cristatus C Festuca ovina D Festuca rubra E Koeleria macrantha F Phleum bertolonii G Trisetum flavescens

Seating

Wildflowers

Rainwater collection device

Grasses

The overall planting strategy is to use plant mixes that require a minimal input of resources but with maximum visual and biodiversity impact.

This project integrates information from other courses and disciplines to do with landscape, planning, architecture and social sciences. This includes issues such as integrated transport policies, ecology, sustainability, conservation and local distinctiveness. It seeks to address some of these matters, and attempts to stimulate thinking and challenge contemporary aprroaches to contemporary housing and seeks innovative resolutions to the problesm associated with a sustainable housing environment.

SUBURBAN SUSTAINABLE HOUSING BIOPHILIA, A BIOPHILIC DESIGN SITE PLANNING FOR HOUSING HORTHUMBERLAND ROAD

• the sustainable scheme provieds mixed use development that incorporates families, professionals, as well as students and considers business use • the development is responsive to the surroundings in scale and proportion • sufficient greenspace are considered for new residents

• the biophilic design approach emphasise on creating a harmonic atmosphere between nature and people

Water Movement

Topography

Views

Green Network

Ownership

Circulation

This project focus on the use of plant in landscape design. It considered the aesthetic, functional, and ecological prinicples underpinning planting design.

The site is at a gateway location of Sheffield, between the train station and the city centre.

It aims at welcoming the visitors to Sheffield with the beautiful vegetation that are originated from plant communities around Sheffield.

SHEFFIELD CITY GATEWAY THE MINI PEAK DISTRICT INTRODUCTION TO PLANTING DESIGN

Planting design as an art form, ecologically-tuned, aesthetically aware.

Pine Woodland

Heathland

Birch Woodland

A digital model illustrating the colour combination, heights and flowering period of the wildflower mixes.

The brief for this project requested a design and accompanying construction details for the library courtyard. This proposal aimed to provide a sustainable and efficient design which considered design detailing and the selection of appropriate materials in response to both functional and aesthetic requirements.

The grid-like pattern of the design is inspired by ‘papyrus’, the ancient Egyptian paper. This relates back to the adjacent libary building which has a collection of old historic literatures.

WESTERN BANK LIBRARY COURTYARD THE PAPYRUS INTRODUCTION TO LANDSCAPE CONSTRUCTION

PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK EDUCATIONAL PRODUC

PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK EDUCATIONAL PRODUCT

PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK EDUCATIONAL PRODUCT

PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK EDUCATIONAL PRODUCT

PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK EDUCATIONAL PRODUCT

PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK EDUCATIONAL PRODUCT

PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK EDUCATIONAL PRODUCT

CT

PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK EDUCATIONAL PRODUCT

PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK EDUCATIONAL PROD

PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK EDUCATIONAL PRODUCT

PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK EDUCATIONAL PRODUCT

PRODUCED BY AN AUTODE

PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK EDUCATIONAL PROD

PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK EDUCATIONAL PRODUCT

PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK EDUCATIONAL PRODUCT

PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK EDUCATIONAL PRODUCT

DUCT

PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK EDUCATIONAL PRODUCT

This project aims to encourage creative, experiential and research based approaches to landscape design in order to compliment the use of traditional Survey Analysis Design methodlogy. It focus on different means of generating design ideas with regard to the genius loci of the project area.

The overall aim is to create a vibrant artistic hub for the people of Sheffield within the Cultural Industrial Quarter, extending from the limits of the route, that is currently set going beyond the connection of the train station to the city centre and filling up the adjacent sites with landscape designs and colour.

The development articulates spatial sequence, unity and diversity, textural and sensory qualities, multi-functional use of space and makes a cultural contribution to the complex urban area.

THE RUBIX ROUTE CULTURAL INDUSTRIAL QUARTER CONCEPTUAL DESIGN STUDIO

The design is inspired by the ‘Rubik’s Cube’ which has a flexible combination of colours.

Timeline

REPORTS

Landscape Character Assessment (LCA)

Landscape and Visual Impact Assessment

Land Contamination Report

Ecological Management Plan

Riverside Business District (RBD) Green Infrastructure Audit

Work Experience Summer 2012

• produced digital rendering for various private housing projects, including visualisations, sectional elevation and masterplan • assisted in Tree Risk Assessment (TRA) • produced AutoCAD drawings for planning applications and site contruction • participated in consultation with material suppliers • participated in meeting with clients and contractors

COPYRIGHT BELONGS TO TEAM 73 HK LTD.

DAYSCAPE

NIGHTSCAPE

AD+RG

architecture design and research group ltd

N

0

Work Experience Summer 2013

• produced digital rendering for a variety of projects, including visualisations, sectional elevation and masterplan • produced AutoCAD drawings for planning applications and site contruction

COPYRIGHT BELONGS TO ad+rg Ltd.

10

20

50

aaron yu Tel +852 6336 4080 email aaronyukl@gmail.com BSc in Landscape Architecture with Ecology University of Sheffield