Ge_Yubing_2023

PORTFOLIO

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.