Zirong Portfolio 2019

PORTFOLIO ZIRONG LIU

John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design University of Toronto

SKILLS SOFTWARE Rhino 6 Grasshopper Processing Design Builder DIVA AutoCAD Adobe Photoshop Adobe Illustrator Adobe Indesign Adobe After Effects Cinema4D Microsoft Office HAND Pencil Drawing Painting Laser Cutting Model Making ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT Dean’s List Scholar, 2019 GAMES League of Legends Super Mario Odyssey Battle Block Theater Minecraft

EDUCATION University of Toronto, B.A Honors with Distinction Specialist in Architectural Studies, Design

2016-2020

EXPERIENCE Ja Architecture Studio Inc. Toronto, Canada Intern Architect Participated in a landscape design competition, worked on researching plants species in Peru and produced architectural drawings.

Feb - Apr 2019

Haoju Decoration Interior Design Studio Inc. Luoyang, China Intern Interior Designer Assistant Helped senior designer with technical and construction drawings, investigated sites and designed plans of furniture arrangements and use of space for clients.

May - July 2019

Machinery TDI International Engineering CO., Ltd.

Intern Architect Assistant

Luoyang, China

July 2017

COMPETITION Pachacamac Park Landscape Architecture Competition

Feb - Apr 2019

Marvin Window Competition

Apr - May 2019

INVOLVEMENT Mentorship Program, John H. Daniels Faculty Peer Mentor

ZIRONG LIU Toronto, Ontario, Canada Email: zirong.liu@mail.utoronto.ca Phone: (+1)647-916-1696

Toronto, Canada

Sep 2018 - Present

House Design in Rural Area Luoyang, China Designer Assistant The client required a one-storey house built at his hometown, the rural area of Luoyang China. Duties include providing concepts and construction drawings.

March - Sep 2019

COTENTS “THE PARK AS PALIMPSEST”

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PAST, NOW, FUTURE

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THE BEAUTY OF EROSION

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CUSTOMIZATION

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MAGNETIC BUILDING MAGNETIC FIELD IN ARCHITECTURE

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THE CONCENTRIC FLOWS

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KENSINGTON GARDENS

POLLUTION IN YELLOWKNIFE

TORONTO RAVINE

AFFORDABLE HOUSING IN CITY

PACHACAMAC PARK

“PARK AS PALIMPSEST”

Kensington Gardens Designing Another Layer of History Landscape Architecture Studio III Instructor: Behnaz Assadi Completion: December 2018 Kensington Gardens is located at one of the busiest areas of London, where is near the Big Ben, London Eye, and the River Thames. Kensington Gardens is one of the earliest public landscape in the Western world. Before 18th century, the park was a hunting ground for Henry the IV. In 1728, Charles Bridgeman designed this park for the Queen and this park for was being built up for a long time. Especially in the Victorian Era, many sulptures and statues are made during this period. But the site is destoried badly by the bomb of WWII. After the war, people restored the trees as the layout of Charles firstly and continued building up this park again.

After studying the current and historical condition of this park, I found that Kensington Gardens experienced a lot through time. It is, as a result, described as “the park as palimpsest” by George Hargreaves, which means that layers upon layers of history constructs this whole park. Therefore, I will redesign this park with my homage to its history with a modern understanding about biodiversity and vegetation.

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Site Plan of Kensington Gardens

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Victorian Period - The first refreshment room opened in 1855 and the original bandstand in 1869. The number of drinking fountains and public lavatories increased and there was a proliferation of statues and monuments throughout the Victorian period.

1536 - Western section of Hyde Park, created by Henry VIII as a hunting ground.

2014 - Kensington Gardens remains a public open space managed by the Royal Parks Agency. The Royal Parks starts a Tree Stategy, which follows on from the 2010 Tree Strategy and focuses on specific proposals for tree planting in defined areas and avenues within the Gardens, in order to reinforce the outlines of the celebrated Charles Bridgeman layout (1733) and will ensure the integrity of the historic landscape. (The Royal Parks)

1728 - The biggest changes were in 1728, the wife of George II, Queen Caroline, took another 300 acres from Hyde Park and she employed Charles Bridgeman to produce a new design.style Garden.

1536 - Western section of Hyde Park, created by Henry VIII as a hunting ground.

1702 - William III died and was succeeded

by Anne. Queen Mary’s sister, Anne became Queen. She took 30 acres from Hyde Park and asked her landscape designer, Henry Wise and George London, to create an English style Garden.

1728 - The biggest changes were in 1728, the wife of George II, Queen Caroline, took another 300 acres from Hyde Park and she employed Charles Bridgeman to produce a new design.style Garden.

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1940 Bomb Locations

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WWII Site Plan, 1940

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Section of the Trench in Front of The Palace, 1940

Severe Damage by WWII

Overlap of Bomb Effect and Water Logging Area

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Changes from Charles Bridgeman’s period to WWII are significant. WWII bombs brought catastrophe to the site and destroied trees and buildings. After 75 years, the contamination of bomb have not been entirely remolved from the soil. This results that majority of current water logging areas overlapps with the effect of bombs. Next step is to cure the soil and add another layer of history to Kensington Gardens.

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Section of the Most Severe Damage in Kensington Gardens, 1940

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Round Pond - Wetland, Section of Proposal

The destroied Round Pond will be transformed into a wetland.

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Proposed Site Plan

New proposed gardens will become another layer of history that not only phytoremediates the soil but also bring biodiversity to the site and save decreasing polinators.

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Kensington Gardens, Section of Proposal

The bomb-contaminated area will be reconstructed as gardens where the plants will obsorb the contaminates and make the soil more porous.

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1728 Charles Bridgeman Circulation

1940 WWII Circulation

Present Circulation

Future Circulation

1728 Charles Bridgeman Circulation

1940 WWII Tree Canopy

Present Tree Canopy

Future Tree Canopy

Two of the most important transformations of Kensington Gardens are in 1728 and 1940. Present situation of the tree and circulation has many similarities. Therefore, the proposed plan of this park will be a continuation of history.

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PAST, NOW, FUTURE

Yellowknife Investigate Pollution in Yellowknife and Provide Solutions Landscape Ecology Instructor: Fadi Masoud Completion: December 2018 The past of Yellowknife is very different from now, it used to be a beautiful place with high potential of commercial mining. It is originated as a gold mining camp since the 1930s.

Nowadays, mining was still served as a pillar industry while the city is continuing to develop as a cosmopolitan modern city. The environment is polluted by the mining and manufacturing process. With the impact of climate change, the current condition of Yellowknife is not sanguine. In the predicted future, the icing will continuously decrease but the environment will become better than now, if the mining activities could be regulated.

Left: Map of Yellow Knife Include: Giant Mine and Con Mine

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Yellowknife - Land Cover, Soil and Geology PAST 1500 A.D.

The city expanded up the hill that leads to Latham Island. This new part of town became known as New Town.

The gold ores is usually occurred in large discordant zones.

Icings are “sheet-like masses of layered ice that form during the winter by freezing of successive flows of water on the ground surface or on top of river or lake ice. ”

Yellowknife Volcanic Belt is the most important geological feature of Yellowknife that formed 2.7 – 2.65 billion years ago.

“The appearance of icings indicates that ground water springs are important in unglaciated basins.

CON MINE GIANT MINE

GREENSTONE STRUCTURE

GREENSTONE STRUCTURE

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Yellowknife - Land Cover, Soil and Geology PRESENT 1930 - 2018 A.D.

The Giant ores contains high concentrations of Sb and As (arsenic).

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The highest As and MeHg concentrations in lake water is “at [the] sites closest to the Giant Mine roaster stack”

The primary source of As pollution to landscapes is atmospheric deposition due to mining combustion processes being released from the roaster stacks”.

Most of the existed plants in Yellowknife have low tolerance for metals in the soil, so the density of trees is decreased in present days.

“[Mining or architecture] construction has not destroyed permafrost, but rather has lowered the permafrost table”.

Yellowknife - Land Cover, Soil and Geology FUTURE 2019 - 2100 A.D.

The main worry about Giant Mine for people living in the Yellowknife area is the arsenic in their children’s playgrounds and city lakes.

The cleaning company has already collected 237,000 tones of arsenic trioxide dust that is stored underground in fourteen old mining stopes.

Although the Giant Mine in Yellowknife is abandoned, but the problem of arsenic air and water pollution remains.

The population of Yellowknife will decrease in the future because people are scared of the As contamination which threaten their lives.

Arsenic-tolerant vegetation will be planted in order to clean the soil and air.

Due to the basal meltout, the future shape of water features in Yellowknife will be different than previous periods.

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THE BEAUTY OF EROSION Toront Ravine at Bayview Village Soving the Problem of Erosion Drawing and Representation II Instructor: Victor Perez-Amado Completion: December 2017 The problem of erosion is not always negative but rather is sometimes beautiful. It creates the unique habitat for particular flora and fauna, even the solution to prevent erosion is able to add more asthetics to the natural environment. By analyzing different degrees of erosion at East Don River, the strategy of controling erosion is provided while the result will be responsible for the beauty of the site in every seasons.

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Site Plan of East Don River Ravine, Bayview Village

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Site Analysis

Railway

Pathway

Circulation

Housing

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River Erosion Affected Area

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Blooming Time in East Don Parkland 1

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Middle Part of East Don River Numbers stard for each erosion problem

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Two of the most important transformations of Kensington Gardens are in 1728 and 1940. Present situation of the tree and circulation has many similarities. Therefore, the proposed plan of this park will be a continuation of history.

Solutions

Plant Grass and Shrubs

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Mulch Mat + Prairie Plants

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Planting Prairie Plants

Two of the most important transformations of Kensington Gardens are in 1728 and 1940. Present situation of the tree and circulation has many similarities. Therefore, the proposed plan of this park will be a continuation of history.

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East Don River, Section of Proposal

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Zone 1 Dense roots system of prairie plants hold the soil in place and improve the drainage of the soil.

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Zone 2 Prairie Plants grow fast, so they could solve the problem of wind erosion in a short amount of time. They can be growed quickly which could solve the existing problem that affects the house on top of steem ramp

Zone 3 Hydrophyte cleans the water and its roots provide environment for many water microorganism.

Zone 4 Most of native trees have large roots that branch out into many smaller roots. Since tree needs long time to grow, new trees could be grow in the area that the problem of erosion is less urgent.

Exsiting Plants Species

American Beech Yellow, Green, Brown Apr - May 72 - 100 ft

Maple Tree Red Sept - Oct 90 - 120 ft

Black Cherry Tree White March - Jun 12 - 100 ft

Crack Willow Gray-White April 32 - 82 ft

Cedar Green Perennial 40 - 70 feet

White Ash Green Mar - Nov 65 - 100 ft

Milkweed White, Purple Apr - Aug 3 - 6 ft

Climbing Poison Ivy White Apr - Jun 1 - 6 ft

Lemna minor Green Jun - Aug 0.5 - 1 ft

Lemnoideae Green Jun - Aug 0.5 - 1 ft

Lead Plant Purple, Blue Jul - Sept 2 - 3 ft

Missouri Gladenrod Yellow Jul - Oct 1 - 3 ft

Indian Grass Golden-Brown Sept - Dec 3 - 8 ft

Compass Plant Yellow Jul - Sept 3 - 12 ft

Heath Aster White Jun - Nov 0.9 - 2.5 ft

Big Blue Stem Red, Blue, Brown Aug - Nov 4 - 8 ft

Cylindric Blazing Star Purple Jul - Aug 0.5 - 1.5 ft

June Grass Yellow Apr - Jun 1 - 3 ft

Prairie Smoke Pink May - Jul 1 - 1.5 ft

Canada Wildrye Yellow, Green, Brown May - Jun 3 - 6 ft

Wild Strawberry White Apr - Jun 0 - 1 ft

New England Aster Pink, Purple Aug - Oct 3 - 6 ft

Aster Calico Yelllow, Pink, Purple Brown Jun - Nov 0.9 - 2.5 ft

Beartongue Foxglove White May - Jul 3 - 6 ft

Black Eyed Susan Yellow Jun - Oct 1 - 3 ft

Proposed Plants Species

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CUSTOMAZITION

Toront Low Income Society Affordable Housing in City Marvin Window Competition Teamwork with Shengfeng Gao Completion: May 2019 In a metropolitan city, to control the prize of the living space brings more possibilities and opportunities for people and the society. The prefabricate walls will be transported from the factory and constructed on site, so the inhabitants can install the walls they want on the pre-designed frame to build their own house in which to save labor costs. This design proposal takes advantages of the free-form construction to offer a challenge toward traditional design for inhabitants. The architects play a role of designing the fundamental structure and allow clients to design their own space based on their needs.

Exterior Rendering

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South View Rendering

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Interior of Corner Unit

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Wall Typology

Standard Washroom Unit

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MAGNETIC BUILDING

Magnetic Field in Architecture Exploring the Relationship Between Public Space and Private Space Architecture Studio IV Instructor: Victor Perez-Amado Completion: April 2019 The center of a public space acts like a magnetic field that the power of it fades away when adding distance. Public space is able to influence the location of private spaces, while private space defines where the public space should be in this project. The subject of inquiry is a dormitory for 300 beds. Magnetic Building has three types of units that provides different living environment apon people’s different requests.

Conceptual Model

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The central stair is not only a circulation stair but also a social area. In side this building, there are different “magnetic fields� (public space) provided. The location of each public space follows the sunpath of the year, which generates different atmosphere for each floor.

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THE CONCENTRIC FLOWS Pachacamac Park, Lima, Peru Soving the Problem of Erosion

Pachacamac Park Competition Team: Ja Architecture Studio Completion: April 2019 The proposal of Pachacamac Park is a team project done with Ja Architecture Studio. It is about the connection between the city and the sanctity of the site. I analysized the native flora in Lima Peru and composed a plants species panel (P27-28) where those plants will be a catalyst for new life and biodiversity in and around the site.

Bus Stop Rendering, Ja Architecture Studio

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North View Rendering, Ja Architecture Studio

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Site Plan, Team Work with Ja Architecture Studio

The Public Spaces Rendering, Ja Architecture Studio

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Wetland Section, Team Work with Ja Architecture Studio

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Haloragaceae Myriophylum Aquaticum 1.5 m

Haloragaceae Myriophylum Aquaticum 1.5 m

Haloragaceae Myriophylum Aquaticum 1.5 m

Haloragaceae Myriophylum Aquaticum 1.5 m

Haloragaceae Myriophylum Aquaticum 1.5 m

Haloragaceae Myriophylum Aquaticum 1.5 m

Haloragaceae Myriophylum Aquaticum 1.5 m

Haloragaceae Myriophylum Aquaticum 1.5 m

Haloragaceae Myriophylum Aquaticum 1.5 m

Haloragaceae Myriophylum Aquaticum 1.5 m

Vultur Gryphus

Wood Stork

Jabiru

Agami Heron

Anas Bahamensis

Telmatobius Culeus

Arecaceae Trachycarpus Fortunei 12 - 20 m

Bignoniaceae Tecoma Stans 4.5 - 6 m

Cocoi Heron

Musaceae Musa Acuminate 3.7 - 6.0 m

Sungrebe

Anacardiaceae Schinus Molle 15 m

Rupicola Peruvians

Asparagaceae Cordyline Australis 20 m

Grow in Shade Partial Shaded Full Sunlight High Drought Tolerant Moderate Drought Tolerant High Drought Tolerant Grow in Water

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