HAORAN ZHANG CITY PLANNING AND URBAN DESIGN PORTFOLIO APPLICATION FOR 2019 FALL
HAORAN ZHANG PERSONAL DETAILS
CV -- CITY PLANNING & URBAN DESIGN
Urban and Rural Planning (5-year Program) Architecture School, TJU #92 Weijin Road, Nankai District Tianjin, P. R. China
EDUCATION
09/2012-07/2018 07/2017-08/2017 02/2014-07/2014
WORK EXPERIENCE 03/2016-05/2016
11/2015-01/2016 08/2018-10/2018
CERTIFICATION 05/2018-07/2018
CONTACT
Email: zhr_archup@hotmail.com Mobile: (086) 15022656990
Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/haoran-zhang-0707/ Tianjin University (TJU), Tianjin, China Bachelor of Engineering (General GPA: 3.74/4.0, Major GPA: 3.89/4.0) UC Berkeley, Berkeley, U.S.A (Summer Program) Design & Innovation for Sustainable Cities (DISC*) (GPA: 4.0/4.0)
Feng Chia University, Taichung, Taiwan(Exchange Program) Department of Urban Planning and Spatial Information (GPA: 3.80/4.0) China Academy of Urban Planning & Design, Beijing, China Tourism of Zhangjiakou Master Planning/Urban Design of Taiyuan New Town - Modeling, Preliminary Study, Thesis Editing, Schematic Design, Diagram Tianjin University Research Institute of Urban Planning& Design Urban Design of Historical Memorial Park / Campus Planning - Site Analysis, Strategy, Schematic Design, SU Model, Diagram, Layout ETHx-FC-03x: Smart Cities, ETH Zurich, edX valid certificate ID : f2a34745330c44688ad3f81d04cd193b
LEADERSHIP 12/2016-06/2017 09/2012-06/2017
Director of Publicity Department, MOOCs Association Musician & Director of Publicity (09/2013-06/2014) Chinese Orchestra, Tianjin University
SKILLS Hand Drawing
ArcGIS
Rhino
SketchUp(+Vary)
SPSS
Laser Cutting
Auto CAD
Adobe (Ps, Ai, Id, Pr)
Spatial Syntax Excel for Analysis
3D Printing
Photography
URBAN DESIGN EXPERIENCE 03/2018-05/2018 03/2017-04/2017
08/2016-08/2016 09/2015
06/2013
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE 11/2017-06/2018 05/2017-06/2017 03/2017-06/2017 05/2015-06/2015
07/2014-08/2014
VOLUNTEER WORK 10/2015 The 120th Anniversary of Tianjin University 11/2015-06/2107 NGO “Tianjin Memory” Cultural Heritage Protection Group
2018 IFLA, Student Landscape Architecture Design Competition - Chemical Plants or Residential Area? Reflections on the Tianjin Explosion Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan China-Japan-France Co-Workshop of Architecture and Urban Design: Regeneration of Closed School Site as Cultural Crossing Spot - Group Project - Research, Case Study, Site Analysis, Schematic Design, Modeling, Final Presentation
Busan International Architectural Design Co-Workshop, Busan, Korea - Schematic Design, Site Analysis, Modeling, Rendering, Layout, Presentation TEAMZERO Award Architecture Student Design Competition First Prize, Published in The Architect (2016 1st Issue ISSN: 1001-6740) - Group Project: Poetic Wish to the Sea - Schematic Design, Preliminary Study, Modeling, Graphics, Layout 1:1 Design & Construction Competition-My Home 24 Hours Cardboard Fabricate Experimentation, Shanghai, China - First Prize; Group Project - Preliminary Study, Modeling, Construction, Drawing
Final Thesis: Urban Vitality Study of Chengdu Downtown based on Spatial Data Analysis - Independent Research; Final Thesis; Mapping, ArcGIS, Data Analysis
Research on the Evolution of NGO in the Conservation Plan of Historic and Cultural Heritage: "Tianjin Memory” Case Study - Independent Research; Surveying, Case Studies, Report Writing GIS Analysis on Master Planning and Urban Growth Boundary - "Taonan Country, Jilin Province” Case Study; Site Analysis, Strategies
Research on Public Transportation Microcirculation: take Tianjin downtown area as an example - The National Institutions of Urban Planning Committee Report Selection; - Honorable Mention(Group); - Preliminary Study, Questionnaire, Data Analysis, Report Writing Jingshan Park Shouhuang Palace Digital-Info Collection, Beijing, China - Surveying and Drawing Ancient Building, Photographing
SPECIALTY & INTEREST
Chinese Instruments
Traveling
Social Media Operation
Photography
CITY PLANNING + URBAN DESI HAORAN ZHANG PORTFOLIO 2012-2018
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STRATEGIES FOR SEA LEVEL RISE IN LARKSPUR Resilient Design & Adaptation Strategies Environmental Planning & Urban Design 4-People Group Work Larkspur, California, USA
POETIC WISH TO THE SEA Design of a Fishing Village TEAMZERO Award Architecture Student Design Competition Zhangzhou, Fujian Province, China
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REFLECTIONS ON THE TIANJIN EXPLOSION Chemical Plants or Green Area? Planning Landuse & Urban Design 2-people Group Wrok Tianjin, China
INTERNSHIP PROJECT: CAMPUS URBAN DESIGN Internship at AATU Urban Design of Tangshan Jiao Tong University Tangshan, Hebei Province, China
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ALASKA (USA)
IGN
THE YOUTH POWER Architecture Regeneration of Nagono Closed School's Site under Demographic Decline and Super-aging Architectural and Urban Design Workshop Nagoya, Japan
RESEARCH PROJECT Urban Vitality Study with Spatial Data Analysis; Final thesis of bachelor's degree The full paper is in my writing sample. Chengdu, Si Chuan Province, China
JAPAN
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA CHINA
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RURAL RECONSTRUCTION Architecture Design Transformation of Rural Architecture Built on the Local Style 2-people Group Work Daxing, Beijing, China
OTHER WORKS: URBAN SPACE EXPLORATION This part is my photography work during the investigation and traveling as a planner. I will continue my trip in this field and travel to more cities.
SAN RAFAEL
LARKSPUR
DESIGN STRATEGIES
Different strategies can be a complex system to protect the Larkspur from sea level rise.
Canal Water Traffic Street
Floating and Elevated Houses
Levees and Floodwall
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STRATEGIES FOR SEA LEVEL RISE IN LARKSPUR SAN FRANCISCO BAY
RESILIENT DESIGN & ADAPTATION STRATEGIES Project Type
Environmental Planning & Urban Design 4-People Group Work Time July-Aug. 2017, Five-week Summer Program Location Larkspur, CA, USA Instructors Dr. Gabriel Kaprielian, Dr. Ghigo DiTommaso Responsibilities Team Leader, 50% Governance Research, 30% Board-Game Design, 50% Laser Cutting & 3D Modeling, 80% Mapping, 50% Strategies, 80% Urban Design, 80% Rendering, Final Presentation
Governance of Bay Area
“Everybody is involved but nobody is in charge?”
CORTE MADERA
BOUROUGH BOUNDARY
IRWM REGIONAL BOUNDARY GOVERNMENT AGENCIES NGOs
Wetland along the Coastline
Rain Garden
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Site Analysis and Mapping of Larkspur(GIS)
MAPPING SEA LEVEL RISE-MAPPING SEA LEVEL RISE-Transportation: After the sea level rises up Population Density: Most vulnerable to 6 feet, the free way will be be under water. communities live within the flood zone.
MAPPING SEA LEVEL RISE-Land Use: Flooding water will submerge almost all marsh lands & commercial areas.
SAVING LARKSPUR -- GAME: ADAPT YOUR GOALS
Game Play
Accomplish the objectives on the goal card
Deal each player one goal card & three property cards. A player may choose to build or not to build on each turn, but must always have no more than 3 property cards in their hand.
Deal each player one goal card & three property cards.
The points earned by players are used to buy pieces in their turn to accomplish the goals.
Game Strategies Floating housing with residential & mixed-used buildings. Stacking of the building desifies the community.
3D-Printing Game Pieces School
Commercial
Residential
Park Wetland Earthquake resistant Bus Stop
Event Cards
GAME RULES: Objective: To complete all the objectives on your goal card
Starting the Game: 1. Deal each player one goal card and three property cards. 2. Each turn a player must roll the dice. If the dice lands on odd number the player must draw from the chance card pile. 3. A player may choose to build or not to build on each turn, but must always have no more than three property cards in their hand. 4. Keep track of your points. They can be used to buy objects on each turn. 2
Master Plan Bike Lanes
Kayaks & Ferry Lanes(After Flooding) Likes ( Locals & Visitors) Sections
Larkspure-- Site
Adaptation Strategies 1: Rain Gardens
Larkspur is a city in Marin County, California, United States, at an elevation of 43 feet (13 m).
As of the 2010 Census, the city's population was 11,926. Larkspur is located north of San Francisco near Mount Tamalpais. Planting greenery to absorb rainfall is an important tool for adapting to rising sea levels and more extreme storms. A network of rain gardens seeks to mimic a natural ecosystem and ends the scourge of sewerage overflows.
AXON: RAIN GARDENS
AXON: TIDAL MARSH
AXON: FLOATING HOUSES Adaptation Strategies 2: Tidal Marsh
Adaptation Strategies 3: Floating Houses
In addition to providing habitats for endangered species, tidal marshes provide numerous ecological services, including erosion control along the shoreline, and buffering from storm surges.
Floating houses are built to be situated in a water body and are designed to adapt to rising and falling water levels. Because floating houses adapt to rising water levels, they are very effective in dealing with floods.
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Urban Design Strategies: from Isolation to Connection 1. Linking People to the Nature
houses
people
isolation
nature
houses people
nature
connection
In the past, people and houses were isolated from the nature. Now, these three parts should be connected with each other and become a whole.
food delivery business
2. Being with Stakeholders communities NGO
architects & city planners
profressionals
NGO
developer
isolation
governments
NGOs
connection
Every stakeholder should get involved in city planning process, including NGOs, professionals, real estate developers, governments, and NGO communities.
3. Being Closing to the Water community city
sea isolation
planning
buildings
nature
entertainment
connection
With sea level rise, rising water should not be treated as a disaster. Instead, it should be the element to link each part of the city.
busy morning in the yar
rd
let's dance with music
RV park recreation
short break after lunch
watching birds near marshland
walking over the marshland
talking with neighbors
hanging out on the street
Section A-A'
Section B-B'
Section C-C'
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(8 missing) Death Toll
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(8 missing) Death Toll
304 165
Damaged Buildings (8 missing) TimelineDeath Toll
AUGUST 12th
304 165
32.97t
Chemical Substance
32.97t
798
Chemical Substance
Injuried People
9billion 32.97t
12,428 798
Financial Loss
Chemical Substance
9billion 32.97t
Damaged Buildings (8 missing) Death Toll
Chemical Substance
304
9billion
Damaged Buildings
798
Injuried People
Financial Loss
Financial Loss
Broken Cars
LandInjuried Sea SO²
12,428 798 NOx CN-
Broken Cars
Injuried People Sea
Land
12,428 SO²
NOx
CNBroken Cars
Land
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Damaged Buildings
9billion Financial Loss
People
Sea SO²
12,428 NOx CN-
Broken Cars
Before 11:00 pm, the port was quiet and everyone in the surrounding neighborhoods slept as usual. Land Sea SO²
NOx
AUGUST 13th ！！！
CN-
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85m
TUST University
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85m ！！！
At 11:32 pm, a！！！ blaze broke out in a Ruihai Logistics warehouse which contained more than 3,000 tones of hazaedous chemicals. 85m
85m ！！！ AUGUST 14th
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1.7kPa 3.5kPa 7.0kPa 14kPa 70kPa
Explosion Site
85m
85m
85m
85m
Because firefighters made mistakes about the substances in the containers, the second explosion occured.
Tianjin Port Trade Zone
85m
85m
AUGUST 15th 85m
85m
Part of the area still burned. The government and all kinds of organizations tried to figure out how to handle this situation.
CBD & Financial Center
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REFLECTIONS ON THE TIANJIN EXPLOSION CHEMICAL PLANTS OR GREEN AREA? Project Type
Landuse & Urban Design 2-people Group Wrok (IFLA Student Competition with Liwen Shi) Time April-May 2018 Location Tianjin, China Instructors Dr. Xu Xiwei, Ran Yang Responsibilities Team Leader: 80% Preliminary Study, 100% Landuse Planning, 50% Urban Design, 80% Diagram Drawings, 50% Modeling
The Development of Tianjin and Binhai Area 1900
1940
1980
2000
Tianjin Port
2010
Land Reclamation 1990-2010 explosion area
Beijing Bohai Sea
Tianjin
Tianjin Port
Dalian Bohai Sea
Bohai Sea
Phases
Pressure of the Explosion Ports
1.7kPa: Unstrengthened buildings suffer only superficial damage
Yantai
Weihai
1990-1995 1995-2000 2000-2005 2005-2010
Explosion
3.5kPa: 90% broken windows 7kPa: Damage to internal partitions and joinery work
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(8 missing) Death Toll
32.97t
798
Chemical Substance
Injuried People
9billion
12,428
14kPa: Buildings uninhabitable 70kPa: Unstrengthened buildings suffer complete destruction
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Damaged Buildings
Financial Loss
Broken Cars
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The Concept of Mixed Land Use & Green Buffers Residential
Mixed land use enables a range of land uses including residential, commercial, and industrial to be co-located in an integrated way that supports sustainable forms of walking and cycling, and increases neighborhood amenity.
1. Near the port, the residential area and industrial area were close to each other without any safety barriers.
2. In land use planning, more programs are introduced to the port area, the diversity of land use is increasing.
Mixed Center
Green Space Commercial
3. Different programs should have overlaps in order to make the neighborhoods walkable and livable.
Landuse in Tianjin Port 2035
Industrial
4. Each mixed center always inclu ds variou s faciliti es, public spaces, bus stations, and grocery stores, etc.
Changing Landuse 2015 Primary
Secondary Tertiary
Open Space
Residential Commercial Industrial
Residential
Open Space
Commercial Industrial
Mixed Center
2025
19%
21%
28%
18%
23%
12%
6%
15%
3%
5%
13%
4%
6%
19%
2%
6%
2035 22%
Residential 7%
Industrial 6% Warehousing
25%
Vegetation 5%
Freshwater 4%
Unused Land 23%
Commercial 8%
Utility
In 2035, with mixed landuse and more green spaces, the Tianjin Port will be an eco-port and a sustainable community, combining high-tech industries with cruising ship traveling and livable environment.
Master Plan Transportation
Urban Road Site Road
Open Spaces
Entrance Parking Lots
Green Buffer Sight Node
Land Use
Residential Commercial
Open Space Mixed Use
Industrial 6
Renewal of Chemical Industrial Area Existing factories + green space: In addition to development eco-industry, the green park could protect the city from pollution. Green roofs and yards could make the community more energysaving. Concept
Activities
1. the existing factory area
2. lefting the brown field
activities on the grassland
3. transforming to the green field
4. visual cutting and vertical routine
activities on squares
5. attracting activities and turning into a park
6. developing other eco-industry
activities on streets
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THE YOUTH POWER
ARCHITECTURE REGENERATION OF NAGONO CLOSED SCHOOL'S SITE UNDER DEMOGRAPHIC DECLINE AND SUPER-AGING
Project Type
Joint Architectural and Urban Design Workshop at Nagoya University One-week Group Project (4 People) Time April. 2017 Location Nagoya, Japan Instructors Prof. He Jie, Prof. Zheng Ying, Prof. Komatsu Responsibilities Team Leader. 80% Research, 50% Case Study, 50% Site Analysis, 80% Schematic Design, 50% Modeling, 80% Photoshop and Layout, 100% Final Presentation
Location and Three Main Metropolitans Nagoya Polyaxial Keihanshin Polycentric latticed
Tokyo Decentralized Mesh
Development of Metropolitan Regions Early 20th Century
1930s
World War Ⅱ
Population Recovered
Destroyed
Center in West Japan
Changes of Space Concect Early 20th Century
Three Single Cities
Center in Eest Japan
1930s
Uniaxial Type
Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya Small cities were Three Metropolitan Three Big Cities under attack Regions
World War Ⅱ
Tokyo and Osaka
Population Recovered
Nagoya connected these two cities
Polyaxial Spatial Structure
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Demographic Composition in Nagono E.School District Because of the demographic decline and super-aging in Japan, there is the redundancy of the facilities for children, especially elementary schools.
Male(1,806) 47.9%
Over 65 years old 26% 1st Baby Boomer 2nd Baby Boomer
New Single Residents
Under 15 years old 7%
Female(1,966) 52.1% >85 Y/O. 80~84 Y/O. 75~79 Y/O. 70~74 Y/O. 65~69 Y/O. 60~64 Y/O. 55~59 Y/O. 50~54 Y/O. 45~49 Y/O. 40~44 Y/O. 35~39 Y/O. 30~34 Y/O. 25~29 Y/O. 20~24 Y/O. 15~19 Y/O. 10~14 Y/O. 5~9 Y/O. 0~4 Y/O.
Concept Generation
Existing Closed Primary School
+ Entrance Space, + Garden, + Gray Space
Arranging Spaces in a More Randomized Way
Visual Connectivity through the Space
N Site Plan
Circulation & Dialogue Between the Spaces
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Existing Circulation of Classrooms
New Circulation: Interior Exhibition
View Corridor (street& yard)
First Floor Plan
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1. Entrance Hall 2. Exhibition Hall 3. Breakfast and Cafe 4. Rest Room 5. Group Meeting 6. Hackerspace 7. Flea Market 8. Workshop 9. Open Space
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Timeline Pre-school Kids (0-7) Kids (0-7) Pre-school
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Primary-school kids (7-12) Elementary Kids (7-13)
Teenagers (13-20) Teenagers (13-20) Adults (21-65)
Adults (20-65)
Old Citizens Old(above Citizens65) (above 65)
Dad, let’s enjoy our Friday night! L.O.L
Do you like a cupcake?
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What an amazing
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Would you like to take a break and have a piece of pizza？ exhibition!
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Sounds great！
Woof! Woof!
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This area provides natural light. Facing the courtyard, people can read, communicate and enjoy delicious food at the same time.
Hanging out with friends and families in the yard of the hackerspace is a great way to communicate with others and get inspiration.
Being with the light, trees and the air, people can feel the peace and quietness. It is an ideal space for young people to practice meditation.
The regeneration project is a gathering place, bringing energy and laugh to old citizens. Also, the community will become a vibrant area for people to live in.
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RURAL RECONSTRUCTION ARCHITECTURE DESIGN Project Type
Architecture Design Team Work (Student Competition for Rural Area with Junling Zhang) Time March, 2015 Location Daxing, Beijing, China Responsibilities 80% Site Analysis, 50% proposal, 100% Physical Model Making, 80% Plans and Sections Drawing, 50% Rendering
Beijing Downtown
Beijing Rural Area
SITE: a village in Daxing District
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Cultivating land
Harvesting
Greenhouse
Hide-and-seek
Empty square
Playing around mounds
Hanging out with friends
Conference of the village
Gathering
Walking in the forest
Handcraft
Ceremony
First Floor Plan
Craft shop
Music class
Entertainment center
Exhibition
Bookshop
Movie show 13
Roof
Wooden Beam
Sunroom
Wallboard
Floor
Summer Day
Summer Night
Winter Day
Winter Night
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I believe that the renewal and transformation of rural architecture are built on the local style. This program building space, I hope to give users more possibilities to use. It is a small community activ
should not only accommodate the original country life but also to meet the new requirements. In the limited vity center for local villagers, and an indoor activity place for parents and children tourists.
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POETIC WISH TO THE SEA
LANDSCAPE DESIGN OF A FISHING VILLAGE
Project Type
TEAMZERO Award Architecture Student Design Competition, 1 week Group Project (Qiaozhi Li, Peng Gui) Time Sept. 2015 Location Zhangzhou, Fujian Province, China Instructors Sinan Yuan, Xinnan Zhang Responsibilities 80% Preliminary Study, 100% Schematic Design, 50% Physical Modeling, 50% Diagram Drawings
Early Morning Lee's dad said goodbye to the family and went fishing.
Afternoon Lee and his mom prayed in the Mazu temple for family's safey.
Dusk They looked far into the sea and threw stone to express their wishes.
After Sunset The stones runs in a long way, leaving, at low tide , a long stretch of yellow sand.
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Timeline of Fishing in Southeastern China
"In addtion to supporting my family, I have plenty of fish for trade and commerical. It is incredible!"
"It was hard for fishermen to support the whole family living in the fishing villages in the past 50 years. "
"The trap construction has become a landmark and unique landscape in my village!"
Before steamboat, people who lived in the southeast of China caught fish on their boats made from wood or bamboo.
Narrative
Then in construction, people built fish traps, including fishing weir, fishing nets, fyke nets and so on.
Over the past 50 years, fishing technology has advanced greatly, increasing the capacity to locate and catch fish.
Old constructions are abandoned and are transferred to ritual space intergrating into the landscape along the seacoast.
A Typical Fishing Village in Zhangzhou
While at the seaside, playing with rocks might be an instinctive behavior.
Instead of using big rocks to build fishing traps, pebbles and stones become symbols of wishes.
With more people's help, the ordered space extends to the sea.
With time going by, the landscape still grows, as if we are closer to fishermen in the distance.
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Fisherman's Houses
COASTLINE SEA
Temple
There are many people depend on fishing for a living, and the action of praying and throwing pebbles into the sea to express families' longings for safe and sound, which forms a distinctive scenario.
Over time, local fishermen and their families lived along the seaside generation by generation, and the gravel roads grew and crisscrossed. Their praying and throwing action is the symbol of family ties. Fisherman's Houses Temple
Physical Models of the Narrative
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Regional and Site Analysis
Food Court
Tangshan Botanic Garden
Through its history, Tangshan Jiaotong University was called “Imperial Chinese Railway College” and “Tangshan Institute of Railway”, with China’s modern education in transportation, mining & metallurgy, and civil engineering. The old buildings of Tangshan Jiaotong University all adopted the garden-style design style of European and American universities.
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INTERNSHIP PROJECT: CAMPUS URBAN DESIGN OF TANGSHAN JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY Project Type
Railway
Internship Project at AATU: Urban Design (with Minjun Tan, Linan Yan) Time Nov. 2015-Jan. 2016 Location Tangshan, Hebei Province, China Supervisor Director Cui Nan Responsibilities 50% Preliminary Studies, 30% Schematic Design, 100% Master Plan Graphic Drawing, 80% Diagrams Drawing, 100% SU Modeling
Strategies of Spatial Structure: From Old Structure to Aixs Landscape Entrances of the Site
Site of Earthquake Memorial Park Total Area
Hectare（ha）
53.761
Public Green Space
Hectare（ha）
14.257
Gross Floor Area
10,000 Square Meters 53.219
Including
Educational
10,000 Square Meters 10.676
Commercial
10,000 Square Meters 21.275
Recreational
10,000 Square Meters 21.268
Concept of Spatial Structure
and Health Care Plot Ratio
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1.0
Building Density
%
25.7
Greening Rate
%
33
Numbers of Parking Places Car
Old Urban Structure
4000
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Proposals
Transportation
Vehicle Traffic
Walking Traffic
Entrance of the Site Axis Landscape
Public Spaces
Green Space Lake Square Focus Point Axis Landscape
Viewing Corridor Memorial Park Viewing Corridor
Parking Area Underground Parking Lots Entrance
Safety Evacuation Main Evacuation Route
Minor Evacuation Route
Height of Buildings >36m 24m-36m 12m-24m <12m
Scenarios of the campus
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Reinvent the inner lake, build a continuous recreation space together with the green corridor, and create a hydrophilic enclosure around the lake
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Establish a research and development exhibition space with the theme of railways, promote corporate culture, and promote technical cooperation
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Rebuild the old urban railwayas a pedestrian and biking loop in the memorial park to restore the memory of the development of the Chinese railway
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*SU modeling by myself *Rendering by Tianjin Architectural Visualisation Cooperation
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URBAN VITALITY STUDY ON CHENGDU DOWNTOWN WITH SPATIAL DATA ANALYSIS [EXCERPT] Project Type Location Instructors Responsibilities
Step1: Methodology (with ArcGIS)
Research Project, Final thesis of bachelor's degree, March - May 2018 Chengdu Downtown Dr. Xu Xiwei Individual research; The full paper is available in my writing sample.
1. To Select the scope of the research and obtain basic information; 2. To Collect related Baidu POI data and Baidu Heatmap; 3. Data cleansing to detect and correct corrupt or inaccurate records; 4. Degree of aggregation of different POI: to process results of POI density analysis separately in ArcGIS; 5. Overlay analysis of all activities: to calculate all selected POI density (with a weighted average) in ArcGIS; 6. The relationship between commercial and business sites (POI density) and urban vitality: to compare the results of POI analysis with the Baidu Heatmap which displays the vitality of people in the city Step 2: POI Density Analysis
*Basemap from OSM
â&#x2013;˛ In this study, from the 13 categories of POI data obtained, the data of 8 types of commercial service facilities closely related to the behavioral vitality in the city were selected. Kernel density analysis was performed on each type of POI to obtain corresponding raster data and distribution density maps of commercial and business sites.
â&#x2013;˛ In order to simplify the information and to group various categories of POI for the next step, I reclassified the values of the set of rasters to a common scale and grouped the values into ten specified intervals.
â&#x2013;˛ This study explains the degree of importance of different types of facilities through research on relevant reference papers and review checklist in city planning field. By comparing and simulating the degree of importance with Yaahp (a software that provides model construction, calculation, and analysis for decision-making processes), I determine weights of POIs by fuzzy quantization with the overlay analysis. Then, I assign values to different POI facilities in the overlay analysis according to different weights. Step 3: Areas with Higher Distribution
â&#x2013;˛ (1) CBD -- Chunxi Road Pedestrian Street;
(2) Dayuan International Center; (3) CBD -- Hongpailou;
(4) Around Sichuan Gymnasium Station
(5) Residential Area -- Chadianzi Yumiao Road Community
Step 4: The Relationship Between Commercial and Business Sites and Urban Vitality
Comparing the results of Baidu Heatmap analysis with the results of POI density calculation, it is not difficult to find that the two are closely related. That is to say the more diverse the types of commercial and business facilities, the higher the density in space and the more intensive and dynamic the people are. 20
With Nature
Spending time in the balcony, I felt like meditating in the nature.
Living Room in the City
Chatting with neighbors and playing with pets is the memory of my childhood.
Empty Street
The streets of CBD are not as busy as employees in the companies.
O8 URBAN SPACE EXPLORATION OTHER WORKS
Shared Bikes and Urban Cycling
At weekends, I' like to do outdoor exercises such as riding bike with friends.
Arts and Cities
It was a temporary urban sculpture during Beijing Design Week.
Musical Inspiration
The performance was the reason for me to slow down and enjoy my moment in the park.
Midnight Snacks
During finals week, my roommate always buys some warm porridge or pancakes to get enough energy.
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