PORTFOLIO
YUBING GE
Selected Work 2018 - 2022
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: River Symphony
Core Studio | ECUST
4: Meebewegen
Cultrual Mapping | PennPraxis
5: Garden of Duration: the Time of Trees
Core Studio | Penn Design
6: Other works
2018-2022
2021 2021 2019 2022
2021
The Underground
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
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.
Crossing.
Tunnels.
Fireflies.
Model: A Night Garden for recreating the journey to North
Plan for Night: Hide in Forest, See from the Sky
Following the Trace North.
Avoding the Coyotes.
Keep Going.
Wade in the Water.
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
3 5 6 7 8 12 15 17 18 16 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 0 100‘ 200’ ISLAND DRIFT ISLAND DRIFT LOW TIDE Tidal Change Simulation in the Riverfront Island Transformation Prediction Diagram WATER LEVEL HIGH TIDE
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
Opportunity Sites for Beaver along Delaware River
Existing Condition: Abandoned Land and Eroded Edge
Tree Canopy and Outfalls
Flood Condition and Sight
Existing Condtion
Barriers and Ground Condtion
Vegeation and Edge Condition
After beaver land: Iterative Early Design and Grading
Accessibility
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.
Notes Spatial Concept: Visualize the Music with Material
River Symphony
Revive Industry Heritage along the Huangpu River
Winter 2018 | Individual work
Instructor: Yinan Lin, Yi Jin
Riverside Composition
Walking on the riverside of Yangtszepoo industrial area, I can feel the suffocating momentum of the Huangpu River in close proximity. The river beats high or low sounds on concrete embankments, metal water pipes and gates constantly. Now the abandoned factories chorus with the river alone, forgotten by people. To revive the riverside area, it is necessary to reconnect the the people and the river and open up the old factories area to public.
F or millions of years in the past and future, this is the same river that is flowing and singing.
Sound Mapping: When Industry Heritages Meets Water
03 |
a b b' a'
Huangpu River
No.2 Dock
No.1 Dock
Woolen Factory Symphony Walk 1
Qinghuangdao Road Ferry 3
4
5 7 8
6 9 2
Pier's Pipe Organ Shipyard Harp
a-a'
b-b'
c d d' c' 0 5000'
Sedimentation
Pump
Shanghai Yangtszepoo Water Works
Basin
Observation Tower Stage Step Stage Pier Terrace Pillar Array Step Square Wall Square Trestle Trestle and Stainlesss Wall Dock Square Sports Gound 1 3 4 5 7 8 6 10 10 11 11 12 12 13 13 9 2
Yufeng Cotton Mill
Water Plants' Drum Water Pipe Flute
c-c' d-d'
Mapping the Possibilities of “New
Transboundary Community Typologies between Netherlands
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
Netherlands and Germany
“New Randstad”
Life
Grid: Register the
of Trees with
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.
with Time goes by
Shade of Tree
“Monster Tree”
The Big Camphor
and Measurement in the Landscape
Transect
Seasonal Trail Seasonal Trail Twisted Tree
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
06 | Other Works
Structured Fields
Meida Study | Penn Design
Summer 2021 | Individual work
Instructor: Keith VanDersys
Drawings for Banana Tree
Workshop | Penn Design
Spring 2021 | Individual work
Instructor: Sarah A. Willing, Marie Hart
ORIGINAL IMAGE MONOLITH LAMINATE CONTINUOUS SURFACE ORIGINAL IMAGE MONOLITH
Structured Fields of Labyrinth
Garden Design | East China University of Science and Technology
Fall 2018 | Individual research
Instructor: Yi Jin, Lu Feng
Plug-in Events in Longtang
Community Design for Shikumen Community | East China University of Science and Technology
Fall 2019 | Individual work
Instructor: Yinan Lin
HybridCreator
Game Design | Penn Design
2021 | Individual work
Instructor: James Andrew Billingsley, Patrick W Danahy
7 a.m. 1 p.m. 7 p.m. 9 p.m.
Construction Drawings
Internship | Zhejiang Architectural Design
Summer 2021 | Collaborated with Fen Zhou
Instructor: Fen Zhou
Construction Work for Southern Entrance Pavement
Construction Work for Central Garden Landscape Wall
EDUCATION
University of Pennsylvania
Master of Landscape Architecture
Relevant Courses: Drawing and Visualization, Game Design, Design with Risk, Urban Ecology, Unruly Practices, Advanced Landscape Construction
East China University of Science and Technology
Bachelor of Science in Landscape Architecture
EXPERIENCE
Penn Praxis Design Fellow / Research Assistant
- Set spatial Database for Dutch-German border area with Excel and ArcGIS
- Researched cultural, social, and demographic specialties
- Completed several mappings of the cross-border community research
- Created and organized slide deck for cultural mapping research
Penn Praxis Design Fellow
Philadelphia, PA
Expected May 2023
GPA: 3.89
Shanghai, China
Received May 2020
Philadelphia, PA
June 2022 - August 2022
Philadelphia, PA June 2022
- Created and presented a project about the Underground Railroad at the 2022 Juneteenth celebration
- Volunteered for engagement and surveying with Kennett Square community project at Juneteenth Festival
University of Pennsylvania Teaching Assistant
- Facilitated students in learning grading and water management
Zhejiang Institute of Communications Planning, Design & Research co. LTD
Lanscape Intern
Philadelphia, PA August 2022
Hangzhou, China May 2020 - July 2020
- Completed interconnection nodes plan and renderings for Taizhou Highway Green Belt and Nodes Design
- Designed alternative plans for two nodes of Taizhou Highway Landscape Design
- Organized plant list and helped produce the presentation for Zhoushan High Design
Hangzhou Architectural Design & Research Institute co. LTD
Lanscape Intern
Hangzhou, China October 2018 - December 2018
- Cooperatively designed and built 3D models for a hot-spring hotel project in Xinyu with SketchUp
- Completed general drawings and renderings
- Built 3D models, renderings and assisted with construction documents for a residential project
AWARDS
The Fourth Think Youth-Shanghai Digital Creation, Innovation & Entrepreneurship Competition
Second Prize
Learning Scholarship of East China University of Science and Technology
Third Prize
August 2019
December 2017 & 2018 & 2019
Social Practice Scholarship of East China University of Science and Technology
Second Prize
SKILLS
Computer Proficiency
December 2017 & 2018
Adobe Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, AfterEffect), Arc-GIS Pro, Rhino, Grasshoper, SketchUp, V-ray, Lumion, Artlantis, AutoCAD, Figma, Microsoft Office
Manual Skills
Modeling, Hand Drawing
Email: geyubing321@gmail.com Tel: +1 445-208-9879
