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YUBING GE
Selected Work 2018 - 2023
Master of Landscape Architecture Candidate 2023
University of Pennsylvania
SELECTED WORK
1: Follow the Drinking Gourd: A Poem to the Night
Core Studio Penn Design
2: Invention of Beaver's River
Core Studio Penn Design
3: Design + Build: Community Engagement
Core Studio Penn Design
4: Meebewegen
Cultrual Mapping | PennPraxis
5: Garden of Duration: the Time of Trees
Core Studio Penn Design
6: Other works
2018-2022
2021 2021 2023 2022 2021
01 | Follow the Drinking Gourd: A Poem to the Night, A Poem to Landscape
Underground Railroad Memorial Trail Along Brandywine Creek, PA Penn Design Fall 2021 | Individual work Instructor: Ellen Neises
They don't have compass or map, the night is their cover in the journey. However, the landscape gave them direction and protection: the North Star in the sky, the moss side of tree... They travel overland on foot for hundred of miles to reach for freedom, to brightness.
A Poem to Nature: Read the Landscape
Wading Prior to Blackness.
Southern Pine Forest.
Catching a Breath.
Black River Crossing.
Moonlight Over. Through the Forest.
Twisted Thicket.
Sunken Trace. Hiding Out Back. Hidden passage Avoiding the Coyotes.
Determining True North in the Rain. Keep Going. Keep Going.
Find the Moss Side of Tree. Poem credit. Jeanine Michna-Bales
The Underground Railroad Traces in Piedmont, PA
Wading Prior to Blackness.
Concealed in the Fog.
Twisted Thicket.
Black River Crossing.
Secret Tunnels.
Taking Cover with the Fireflies.
Model: A Night Garden for recreating the journey to North
Plan for Night: Hide in Forest, See from the Sky
Keep Going.
Wade in the Water.
Following the Trace North. Avoding the Coyotes.
A building with ordinary outlook hiding in the woods from outside, but serving as a resting place for visitors. It’s just like the confusion and solace the freedom seekers would feel during their journey, and this small building is like a crack in the universe, a place for them to hide and feel safe
A Crack in the Universe
The Transformation of Beaver Wetland Overtime | Study Models
02 | Invention of Beaver's River
Waterfront Park along Delaware River Summer 2021 Individual work
Instructor: Karen M'Closkey
"Our cultural ideal of the stream as a thin blue line is so different from the streams where beavers live: wide and sinuous, with irregular emergent zones."
--- Stacy Passmore, 2019
Beavera are Nature's Engineers
The riverbanks along Delaware River are in poor condition. The intensive river flow, which corroded riverbank, along with 6 ft everyday tidal change force the concrete use of bank.
After decades of disappearing, beavers come back to Philadelphia recently. As nature's splendid engineers, all they need are plenty of trees and water to bring life back to any dead place, and bring river back to all.
So, can we imagine tearing down walls and fences to live with other species?
Study Models
12 17 18 14 1. Penn Treaty Park 2. Existing Pier 3. Delaware Trail 4. Plaza by PECO Building 5. Groung Fountain 6. Parking Area 7. Forest and Clearing 8. Playground 9. Pedestrain Street 10. Forest 11. Lawn 12. River Terrace 13. Picnic Space 14. Nursery 15. Beavers’ Island (maple and poplar) 16. Beavers’ Island (birch and cherry) 17. Beavers’ Island (mixed willow) 18. Beavers’ Rest Stop 0100‘200’ ISLAND DRIFT ISLAND DRIFT
LOW TIDE
Tidal Change Simulation in the Riverfront
WATER LEVEL HIGH TIDE
Island Transformation Prediction Diagram
Existing
Opportunity Sites for Beaver along Delaware River
After beaver land: Iterative Early Design and Grading
Accessibility Existing Condtion Tree Canopy and Outfalls Barriers and Ground Condtion Flood Condition and Sight Vegeation and Edge Condition
Condition: Abandoned Land and Eroded Edge
Living With Beavers: A Plaza As Middle Zone
The amphitheater plaza facing the Delaware river serves as a middle zone between human activity and beavers. Between the two islands with so close elevation change, it creates a shallow pond area, which could be ideal for the beaver’s habitat in the first place, with calm water and abundant food reserve.
After Beaver Land: Islands As Beaver Habitats
Walking on the bridge, visitors are surrounded by islands as beavers' habits. With different topography and edge conditions of each island, they provide a diversified environment for beavers. Some of the islands allow being drowned with water-resistant plants.
03 | Design + Build: Community Engagement
Design Community Space for New Freedom District
Spring 2023 | Group work
Instructor: Aaron Booher, Anni Pan, Farasha Zaman & David Seiter
New Freedom District - Gateway and Lex Garden
To honor the living heritage and memorize the historical meaning of this area, we collaborate with PennPraxis to facilitate the future of the New Freedom District, West Philadelphia. Studio+ proposes the plan for the current vacant lots at Lancaster Ave & Lex St, aiming to build the first public space in this community. Dignifying the area and reinforcing the identity is the goal, we listened to the community and dedicate to the community.
After 4 weeks design and iterations by the whole studio, and 2 weeks of construction by students, the garden open to all the residents and public at May 4th 2023.
+ Community Library
Bench
Communal Table (collaborate within Studio+)
Communal Table in Fabrication (collaborate within Studio+)
LANCASTER AVENUE
Before photo ( credit: Arisa Lohmeier + Sara Sterchak)
After photo: View from Lex Street
After photo: View from Garden to Lex Street
Grading Plan (collaborate within Studio+)
A Just & Resilient Transboundary Region for a Submerging Netherlands Summer 2022 Research Assistant | PennPraxis
Instructors: Matthijs Bouw, Simon Richter
Move with the Flow
The low-lying regions of the Netherlands are facing the danger of accelerating sea level rise nowadays and more. Naturally, there are a lot of plans going on on the West side of the Netherlands trying to protect the lands and keep up with the water defense system. But what if we consider the 'Retreat' plan and include the East side of the country, even beyond the borderline, taking Germany into consideration? What if we make room for the sea and look into the opportunities of the East?
In this early stage of the project, I'm looking into the region along the Dutch-German border and mapping the cultural, physical, and social attributes there. And to seek the possibilities of developing a new mage-region along the border area.
04 | Meebewegen
Comparing Mapping of Randstad
Transboundary Community Typologies between Netherlands and Germany
Mapping the Possibilities of “New Randstad”
The Assemblage: Ink Rubbings of Barks and Fallen Leaves
05 | Garden of Duration: the Time of Trees
Garden at Hangzhou Botanical Garden, China Spring 2021 | Individual work
Instructor: Misako Murata
Two Durations of Tree's Life
Located at Hangzhou Botanical Garden, I saw the forest coming through winter to spring. Walking off the trail and steping on the piles of fallen leaves, the touch of tree is fascinating.
Trees with two durations at sametime, the seasonality and whole growing cycle of trees. Trees together as a forest is a mega-organism, the migration happened slowly but firmly. Finally, we let nature work and let garden grow out of it.
Grid: Register the Life of Trees with Time goes by
Transect and Measurement in the Landscape
Seasonal Trail Seasonal Trail Twisted Tree Shade of Tree
“Monster Tree”
The Big Camphor
Plans and Sections: the Migration of Trees
YEAR 0
Section A-A’
Section B-B’
Section C-C’
YEAR 20 YEAR 100
Section D-D’
Walk through Tree’s Life
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Other Works
Structured Fields
Meida Study Penn Design
Summer 2021 | Individual work
Instructor: Keith VanDersys
Structured Fields of Labyrinth
Garden Design | East China University of Science and Technology
Plug-in Events
Community Design for Shikumen Community East China University of Science and Technology
Fall 2019 Individual work
Instructor: Yinan Lin
Drawings for Banana Tree
Workshop | Penn Design
Spring 2021 | Individual work
Instructor: Sarah A. Willing, Marie Hart
River Symphony
Revive Industry Heritage along the Huangpu River| East China University of Science and Technology
Winter 2018 | Individual work
Instructor: Yinan Lin, Yi Jin
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Pier's Pipe Organ Shipyard Harp Water Plants' Drum Water Pipe Flute
Architectural Design - Water Hotel
Garden Design | East China University of Science and Technology
Spring 2018 | Individual work
Instructor: Quan Wei
Ground Floor Plan
Construction Drawings
Internship | Zhejiang Architectural Design
Summer 2021 Collaborated with Fen Zhou
Instructor: Fen Zhou
Construction Work for Central Garden Landscape Wall
HybridCreator
Game Design | Penn Design
2021 | Individual work
Instructor: James Andrew Billingsley, Patrick W Danahy
Elevation NW
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