Yulei Zhang Portfolio 2021

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Yulei Zhang Master of Landscape Architecture

University of Virginia | School of Architecture 2021


ACADEMIC WORK

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‘WUDDER‘ Reimagining A Urban Waterfront Plaza | M Spring 2020 | Baltimore

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FLEETING LIGHT A Urban Public Park Edge Rewriting Site History | S Fall 2020 | Charlottesville

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‘ART KEIZ‘ Streetscape As An Incubator For Art Connecting Virtual and Physical | L Fall 2021 | Berlin

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FOREST TRANSITION An Imaginative Investigation on Landscape Elements | M Fall 2019 | Charlottesville

PROFESSIONAL WORK

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XI’AN Urban Public Commercial Plaza Draft Design + Detail Design Summer 2021 | Xi’an, CHINA

“It becomes critical to understand the landscape systems in which we live, and given their inherent uncertainty, we ought to do so through a combination of ways of knowing: experiential, observational, and empirical. “

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KIRKWOOD Plan Rendering + Tree Survey Summer 2021 | Dallas

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-Lister, Nina-Marie & Zeunert, Joshua. (2017). Landscape and Ecology: Interview with Nina-Marie Lister.

DESIGN REPRESENTATION Axon Diagrams + Perspective Renderings Summer 2021 | Hangzhou, CHINA

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TAPESTRY Planting Plan Rendering Summer 2021 | Dallas

CRAFT WORK

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LANDSCAPE SPATIAL STUDY Topography, Hydrology and Climate Analysis Spring 2020 | Miami

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HAND SKETCH Synthesis Diagram for Case Study Spring 2020 | Turkey

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MODELING EXPLORATION Experimental Model and Pseudoscience Experiment Spring 2020 | Baltimore

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SPECULATIVE ANIMATION Video editing, animated diagram and virtual reality Spring 2020, Fall 2020, Spring 2021 | Charlottesville

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GRASSHOPPER SPATIAL PRACTICE Three Site Spatial Response Projects Fall 2021 | Charlottesville


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-1‘WUDDER’ An fragment of the Inner Harbor promenade can be prolonged to a journey of aqua-sphere on an old waterfront park.

There is unfortunately little to no engagement with water for a site that has a close proximity to the waterfront in Baltimore Inner Harbor Promenade. Currently water is physically separated from the flat surface of dry land above. Historically, urbanization has successively hardened the land. With adaptations of physiography, natural and constructed habitats mediated through diurnal tides, natural systems have dramatically between altered. This proposal is around breaking the hard edge between water and land, inviting new dynamic fluctuating, and recurrent waterfront experience into site and bringing back adaptive spontaneous natural system. Instructor: Zaneta Hong Baltimore, MD Spring, 2020

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500’ Central Business & Commercial District Industrial District Flood Risk Area Water Buildings

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PRECEDENT STUDY | Scale comparison + Edge Conditions comparison

GESTURE TRANSFORMATION | Transformations + Study Models

Comparing the scale and Water-land edge condition of Site and Precedent

Positioning a portion of the precedent directly on site and studying its spatial experience

Type 1 Folding the land to break edge

Type 2 Stretching out to connect water and land

Type 3 Inviting water come into land

Precedent Plan The City Deck, Stoss

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SITE PLAN | At high water level 1”=100’

DESIGN STRUCTURE | Edge Condition + Water Level + Circulation + Program

Main Route and adaptive spontaneous natural system, The existing hard water-land edge is replaced by new dynamic fluctuating, and recurrent waterfront experience Secondary Main Route Path Entrance

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DESIGN TOOLKIT | Spatial prototype of Water-scape Typologies PROPOSED SECTION | Different waterscape typologies placed along the master section

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Detail 4 Water Ramp

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DETAIL 1 | Viewing Box in Discovery Zone

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DETAIL 2 | Waterfall in Gathering Zone

DETAIL 3 | Ecological outdoor classroom in Discovery Zone

DETAIL 4 | Along the main route in Linear Passing Zone

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RAIN DAY | Waterfall in Gathering Zone Standing at the overlooking bridge or along the edge of terrace enjoying the view from the other side of Inner Harbor

SUNNY DAY | Waterfall in Gathering Zone Sitting on the terrace or standing on the overlooking bridge and viewing waterfall with cool air -14-

AFTER CONSTRUCTION | Viewing Box in Discovery Zone Viewing outward from viewing box to see fishes and crabs in the water

FUTURE SCENARIO | Viewing Box in Discovery Zone Ten years after construction, spontaneous perennial plants growing on wood pilings, while fishes, crabs and other species in the water. -15-


-2FLEETING LIGHT

An activator at a public park edge.

The location of design is in the southeast entrance to the Market Street Park, near to a bus stop, public library and one main entrance to downtown mall. The history of white supremacy in Charlottesville has deep roots in the park not only owing to the will-be-removed Robert Lee Confederate Statue but also the elevated “plinth“ land form. Confederate monument and upward topography in Market Street Park pillaged passerby’s sight line. In this monumental exclusive atmosphere, the presence of the statue is magnified, the beauty of triviality is ignored. This proposition transform the park’s entrance from a plinth for a monumental statue to a public space for everyday encounters and self-care. Considered this place to sit as an addition to Market Street Park and an activator of the park’s edges and adjacent streets. The proposal light up the entrance with colorful glasses to deconstruct the central axis that leads to the Lee Statue by highlighting the current imperceptible beauty of light and shadow. Colorful Glasses pose like wall but act like connector to bring people together. In old days, the narrative of this park is all about commemorate confederate general; however, the design vitalized the edge to encourage people to cherish the time, the light, the life, other easy to be ignored beings. Instructor: Ghazal Jafari, Beth Meyer Charlottesville, VA Fall, 2020

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CONCEPT COLLAGE |

CONCEPT SCENARIO | Light and shadow changes over time

Even after the removal of Lee Statues, passerby’s attention are still driven by the topography towards the remaining statues plinth. What can we do to rewrite history of this land?

SITE PLAN | By installing glasses wall at entrance of this park, light and shadow changes become more playful and visible. Looking up to statues is replaced by looking horizontally or looking down to the ground.

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SECTION | Dimension and Visibility Changes

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CONSTRUCTION DETAIL | Materials of glass walls, benches and stairs

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Physical+Virtual | Gallery+Street Berlin has long been known as a cultural capital with a unique urban life that has produced many artists that are creating with a broad range of media. In the past decade the cities culture has attracted new residents, driving up the cost of living and threatening the once vibrant art and music scenes. As rents rise, artists are vulnerable, losing their ability to live in gentrifying neighborhoods and unable to afford spaces to produce or exhibit their work. In this project, the goal is to transform the street into art-driven streetscape that is an incubator for the art production and exhibition to promote a diverse social, cultural, and economic condition. Through the hybridization of street art (graffiti, murals) and fine art (painting and sculpture) as well as a merger between the physical and virtual, the design creates a spatial program that articulates the role of art in the city. Instructor: Bradley Cantrell + Michael Lee Yulei Zhang + Youfang Duan Berlin, Germany Fall 2021

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RESEARCH DIAGRAM | Artwork Type, Artists’ Maketing ways, Attractions to come to Berlin, Concerns for living in Berlin, Reasons to leave from Berlin

RESEARCH DIAGRAM | Rent Price and Artist Density changes

12.94 EUR Kreuzberg

In the past decade Berlin’s culture has attracted new residents, driving up the cost of living and threatening the once vibrant art and music scenes. As rents rise, artists are vulnerable, losing their ability to live in gentrifying neighborhoods and unable to afford spaces to produce or exhibit their work.

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SITE MAPPING | Art Vibe along Public Traffic System

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Sunken Media Theater

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PILOT STREET | Program Planning and Design

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-4Forest Transition

Experimental site-specific analytical and Conceptual design project Reveal | Assemble | Entangle In Foundation Studio 1, first, we are asked to interpret spatial conditions that give shapes to a movement by using our own body to measure and reflect unique ways of reading site. Since I traverse the Observatory Hill by pursuing the openness of sight line, the project focuses around visibility in relation to vegetation and topography. Then we are asked to abstract a specific set of physical and material configurations that we have observed into general typologies, and to develop a site-less system of movement sequence. By exploring density, texture, layers of vegetation as well as slope gradient, I abstracted those modules based on different levels of occlusion. In the end, I applied multi species to general units and developed a siting strategy for design at the Observatory Hill (site). Instructor: Zihao Zhang Charlottesville, VA Fall, 2019

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IN BETWEEN

Different levels and qualities of visibility build up anticipation and construct curiosity that leads you to explore and to discover unexpected phenomenon.

1) VISIBILITY, APPROACH AND ANTICIPATION 2) VEGETATION STRUCTURE & TOPOGRAPHY Photo Joiner |Forest Atmosphere

Site Mapping | The path shaped by the visibility of Big Trunks in vision

Plants are occluded by other plants. YULEI ZHANG

By quantifying site experience, this mapping shows the shaped path and nearby related site conditions.

PHOTO JOINER Plants was occluded by other plants in different levels

EXPERIENCE TRANSFORMATION OF ANTICIPATION AND APPROACH Showing different occlusion coused by topography and vegetation

PLAN & SECTION Different site condtion

Anticiplitation and curiosity drive movements and experiences in landscapes. Different levels and qualities of visibility build up anticipation and construct curiosity that leads you to explore and to discover unexpected phenomenon.

NOTATION MAP DRAFT [UP] Movement and Site Conditon [DOWN] Viewing area

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Showing different occlusion caused by topography and vegetation.

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Proposed Path Concept | A Siteless path shaped by the visibility

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LANDFORM PROTOTYPE| Construction Detail and Performance

Construction Plan | The removal and new planted plants

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SECTION | 1 Year after Construction and Seasonal Changes

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Professional Work Internship with Delineator

In the summer with Delineator, I participated site inspections and checked survey drawings are aligned with existing site conditions. Conducted planning, historical, and existing site conditions research and came up initial concepts with hand sketches. Produced illustrative graphics in PS / Lumion for external presentations, built Rhino models for detail studies / axon diagrams. Supervisor: Lauren Fasic, Michael Averitt Dallas, TX Summer, 2021

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XI’AN PROJECT | City Context and Site Historic Context

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XI’AN PROJECT | Hand Concept Plan, Shade Study and Bench Study

City Context from Zhou Dynasty to Ming Dynasty

Concept Plan

Site Shade Study from GH

Site Historic Traces within the Last 20 Years

Hand Bench Study

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HANGZHOU PROJECT | Perspective Renderings and Axon Diagrams

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KIRKWOOD PROJECT | Final Plan Rendering and Tree Survey Plan

TAPESTRY PROJECT | Planting Plan Rendering

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LANDSCAPE SPATIAL STUDY Analytical and Research project “Instead of aiming to provide clear answers to clearly defined questions, it shifts the question until the answer becomes a process of how to answer a question of that nature. This operation transforms it into an action on an action, a design of the process of designing, rather than the design of mere products.“ (Torsten + Scott, 95) In the project, I have conducted a series of analyses investigating climatic phenomena, topography and hydrology, using digital elevation models (DEMs) that I download from the National Map Viewer. These analyses make use of two ArcGIS extensions (Spatial Analyst and 3D Analyst) as well as one plugin for Grasshopper (Ladybug). Instructor: Andrea Hansen Philips Miami, FL Spring, 2020

Landmark accessibility in Miami

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3D CLIMATE DATA CHART | Analyzed from Ladybug plugin for GH

SYNTHESIZING ANALYSIS | ArcGIS Suitability Analysis Modeling

TOPOGRAPHY AND HYDROLOGY ANALYSIS | Exported from Spatial Analyst and 3D Analyst for ArcGIS

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Wind Field Analysis

Watersheds with pour points and streams

A stream network derived from DEM

This suitability analysis is for identifying an ideal parcel to locate site design proposal. By using ArcGIS suitability analysis modeling, I combined different layers and site maps to perform this analysis. -53-


HAND SKETECH | Synthesis Diagram for Case Study

MODELING EXPLORATION | Wax model and ground material experiment

Visual and Physical Connectivity

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Circulation and Topography

Wax Model for Representing Volcano Eruption

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SPECULATIVE ANIMATION | Video editing, animated diagram and virtual reality

https://vimeo.com/534450106

Anatomy of a Detail | Viewing Box

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Speculative Fiction | What Next?

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GRASSHOPPER SPATIAL PRACTICE | Models Generated from GH

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GRASSHOPPER SPATIAL PRACTICE | 3D Printed Model Generated from GH

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