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CHONGQING CULTURAL PARK landscape architecture
This portfolio projects are selected from both of my professional work and school work from 2013 to 2020. In this portfolio contends landscape architecture projects as well as urban design projects.
MOBILE RESILIENT WATERFRONT landscape architecture
TTC GREENWOOD COURT urban design
GENERATIVE DESIGN: AI FOR URBAN HEIGHTS urban design
LANDSCAPE DESIGN AND PLANNING : CHONGQING LIANGJIAN LONGXING CULTURAL PARK
Three different elevation terraces to build different spaces in the park. These trrraces as a huge urban amphitheater to watch the rest of the city and beautiful Yulin River.
TERRACE 1 ELV. +11.0 TERRACE 2 ELV. +7.0 TERRACE 3 ELV. +4.0
ELV. 0.0
This render represents the view in the highest terrace, visitors can use the existing grades to see the River. At the same time, this terrace is an open space for them to have any leisure activity.
RECREATIONAL The main function for site 3 is defined as a recreational park. Having a huge space for surrounding residents spending their leisure time with families and friends.
SITE 3
MOBILE CITY
RESILIENT During the study of resilience, I found that people had no confidence and always involved negative feeling when they talk about engineering strategies, especially on providing resilient riverfront. One of the reasons is because engineering structures seem to make the city more attacked, for example, the New Orleans’s Levee System that was broken during Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Another reason, people always think of traditional hard engineering, generally defined as controlled disruption of natural processes by using man-made structures, such as made by concrete which has potential risk to break down and causes no wildlife habitat in support of the structure. They lose to realize the function and impact from soft engineering strategies. Soft engineering uses ecological principles and practices to reduce erosion and achieve the stabilization and safety of shorelines and the area surrounding rivers. It enhances habitat, improves aesthetics, and saves money. Actually, hard engineering strategies also have lots of opportunities to be resilient. To be resilience or not, it is really depends on what standards we use to evaluate it. When we talk a resilient city on response to the sea level rise, hard engineering strategies are resilient as well, like levees.
This research study looks at the sea level rise and flooding in Mobile, Alabama in the 100 years time range. Based on the worried about the Mobile City will be submerged by water, I started to try to find a way to solve this water issue. According to the NOAA's prediction of sea level rise in the 100 years and 50 years, 100 years flooding in Mobile, Alabama, I present data of 100 years sea level rise and flooding derictly into graphics. These analysis straightly shows how the sea level rise will influence our city in the future 100 years and which part of the city will be vulnerable of the sea level rise as well as flooding.
As a birth place of Mardi Gras, downtown area is a very interesting and attractive place in Mobile, Alabama. Here residential, business, multi-used buildings, amazing parks, green spaces and special streets together build a crowded but lovely place. Lots of events happen here every year. Because of the revitalizing development in the waterfront, a new Maritime Museum is constructed and opened in 2015. However the wide 6 lines Water Street separates the downtown area from the waterfront.
Highlight places in the map is the most attractive places in downtown Mobile. Red = Business Use. Yellow = Residential Use. Some residential buildings are multi-use. First floor is for business, upstairs are residential. Purple = Industrial Area. Blue = Government Owned. Besides Convention Center is Cooper Riverside Park, the place I choose to put strategies to solve the sea level rise as well as flooding issue. It is a park right now but a train line along the park secluded the park from downtown. People who wants to come to the park have to go to the Convention Center first, so that few people will come to the riverside. Water Street and train line highly separate the riverside from downtown Mobile. So the design suppose to adjust to the sea level rise and flooding in the future, and the same time rebuild the access and connection from downtown to riverside.
The landform is also a plaza for people to have fun here even if there will be in the 4' sea level rise in 60 years. Three diagrams in the left show how the constructed landform can be adaptive to the future sea level rise. The current design is for educational and playful area. In this plaza, several columns stand there and curved height. These columns try to give people feeling about how high it will be if the water rise in the future. So the column tries to tell people and educate people about future sea level rise. Also, it is a place try to collect people to come here and have lunch or dinner together.
In the 60 years, if the sea level rise is like the predict 4', These constructed landform still can provide places for people to get together and have some activities related to the water. At the same tmie, these constructed landforms can be the protection for the levee erosion by reducing the everyday tide in and tide out wave energy.
In 100 years, the water may submerge a lot of this plaza, however the constructed landform can also protect the levee in the same way.
Building the levee connected to the existing building can shape the space in front of the levee an inner harbor. Because the inner harbor is more peaceful than the other coastline, this inner harbor will be the first step to reduce the erosion and make a peace area in the yellow area. And the second step to reduce the erosion of levee is the constructed landform. It can reduce the wave energy like the last diagram shows.
A levee combined with the existing building provided to build a levee system to help Mobile city to response to the future see level rise disturbance. This levee will be built above the existing railroad infrastructure to rebuild the connection between the downtown area to the waterfront area. In the front of the levee system, try to build constructed landform to release the wave energy to protect the levee. The landform is also a plaza for people to have fun here even if there will be in the 4' sea level rise in 60 years.
SOCIAL COHESION TO RESILIENT In this No DisturbancesResponding thinking, to build a resilient city is to build the capability prepare for every shocks in the future. We need to figure out how to build the capability inside the ball in the Figure 1. Social cohesion is a key element to increase the inside capability of the city. And social cohesion can make people react more capability to encounter the shocks.
Using social cohesion to build a resilient city is not to response one specific disturbance, which is unpredictable in the future, but to build the entire city's inside abilities for the citizens to prepare for the every disturbances in the future. Building a resilient city to respond to the disturbances is necessary, but it is not enough, especially when we talk a city like Mobile, which does not have that much frequently physical disturbances in history. However, this does not mean it will have no disturbances in the future. Because our limited knowledge to predict the future, we can not make sure what will happen to Mobile City. Besides building the physical response, landscape architecture should use social cohesion as a tool to build a resilient city as well.
Playful is one of a good ways to build the social cohesion. Through playing, people may have the different relationships from before, and playful landscapes can contribute to social cohesion in different ways, such as play can help us to build our sportsmanlike spirit and to increase our belonging. A design of so many options of playful landscape applied in Mobile
TORONTO GREENWOOD
TTC YARD
Greenwood Avenue between Danforth and Gerrard was the boundary of Toronto City back to 1913. Therefore, two sides of Greenwood Avenue have two different grids layout. TTC Greenwood Yard, built in 1966, with 31 acres and 6 meters sunken from street elevation, to park subway line 2 service vehicles today. However, because of its huge size in the community and noisy sounds, it is become a huge issue for the local community today. In this design invention, I assume to relocate this TTC Yard to somewhere with less residential. The goal of my design: to rebuild the living quality in the Greenwood neighborhood, to connect existing nature and surrounding single family, to active Greenwood Avenue, to break the yellow belt in Toronto, and to increase density to fit booming population in the future.
Existing Situation Inventory
Strip Retails Extent into Courtyard
Educational & Mobility
Retails Educational Buildings Mobility Circle
To active the courtyard and Greenwood Avenue, Use strip shaped building first floor as retail used. Extend retails from Greenwood into courtyard. Walkable circulation to connect existing education buildings and new designed buildings.
STRIP DETAIL DESIGN
Strip Detail Design With these strip shaped buildings, these buildings frame a wall feeling in the East-West section. Shifted tall buildings make sure buildings will not affect on each other. Every units are private and having enough solar into units. To strength the courtyard and street, buildings have more distance between each other on the North-South section. Open the courtyard landscape to the street more.
East-West Section
EAST - WEST SECTION
North-South Section NORTH - SOUTH SECTION
GATEWAY SECTION PERSPECTIVE Mixed-use gateway buildings: first floor is retail to active the street more, and on the top is office use. These 3 buildings connected with bridge. Green roof bridge let people who work here have a nice view to the courtyard.
EMERGENT BUILDING HEIGHTS
GENERATIVE DESIGN To understand emergence, an open-ended and on-going process, this thesis examines the tall-building neighbourhoods that are emerging today in downtown Toronto. Generative design, a new methodology that utilizes Artificial Intelligence, is used in order to simulate a large number of urban design responses to intensification pressures at the scale of the urban block in order to identify solutions that optimize access to light and open space while meeting established intensification targets. The thesis attempts to unpack the logic of generative design processes in order to understand the potential for their use as a support to decision making in complex urban situations, like downtown Toronto, where growth is occurring rapidly and development proposals are often seen as arising spontaneously.
TORONTO DEMOGRAPHIC BUILING HEIGHTS EMERGENT Existing Situation
Existing Design Proposal
GENERATIVE DESIGN PROCESS
GENERATIVE DESIGN GOALS
Generate Different Outcomes at One Time
AI Optimize Outcome Selection Shadow Analysis in the Open Space
Solar Access into Every Buildings