Cecilia Yao - Portfolio

Cecilia Yao 2021 - 2024

PERSONAL STATEMENT

I graduated with distinction in both my Master’s and Bachelor’s degrees, I am committed to academic excellence and thrive in challenging settings.

My combination of academic achievements and practical experience in landscape architecture design and research assistance has equipped me with a high-efficiency workflow and unique insights. My understanding of urban ecology and urban morphology enhances project depth, sustainability, and resilience, allowing me to consistently deliver high-quality work on schedule and contribute to company growth.

I possess expertise in 3D modeling, Adobe Suite, GIS, hand drawing, data analysis, and collaborative group work. By leveraging these skills, I efficiently bring creative visions to life while fostering innovation and teamwork.

INSIGHT

Practical Landscape Design Experience

Urban Morphology

DYNAMIC EDGE

Urban River System

Dynamic Edge redefines urban water-land relationships, utilizing flooding and erosion to reshape green spaces and foster urban wetland formation along Merri Creek, offering a resilient strategy to mitigate Urban River Syndrome.

ISSUES

Urban River Syndrome (URS), resulting from rapid urbanization and climate change, includes flooding, erosion, ecological degradation, and pollution, significantly threatening urban ecology and residential safety.

DESIGN CONCEPT

By utilizing flooding and erosion creatively through repeating pattern landform, the project guides the river’s meandering pattern as a codesigner to reduce stress on urban riverbanks, fostering wetland formation and water retention.

RESPONSES

Dynamic Edge explores integrating natural water systems and landscape design, with a focus on guidance over restriction.

PHASING

Create adaptive circular soil mounds to quicken wetland formation, boost groundwater, and cool urban areas.

PHASING DIAGRAM

5 Years

Riverbank

10 Years

Floodplain

15 Years

Water join in the design

Erosion and flooding trigger the interaction

Formation of wetland through material integration

Wetland

VEGETATION STRUCTURE

Vegetation communities effectively activate the interaction between land and water, further improving water quality and breaking the vicious cycle of urban river systems.

Wetland

Aquatic

Floodplain

MATERIAL CYCLE

Dead plants provide energy and nutrition for the soil and new plants to grow. Wetlands will form within this natural circle process.

Groundwater

Depression + Water I

II

III Wetland Formation

Grounding

Peat

GREEN NET

Canal Reactivation + Urban Forest

Enhancing the resilience and pollution-absorption capacity of urban parks through canal utilization to interact with micro climates and vegetation.

ISSUES

The Library of Trees Park, despite offering numerous outdoor activities, faces serious air pollution issues, posing potential health risks to park visitors.

DESIGN CONCEPT

The project utilizes canal features to create ultrasound mist, waterfalls, and diverse water landscapes, along with upgraded plant communities, to increase humidity for capturing and depositing dust particles, ultimately improving air quality and park resilience, forming a sustainable natural oxygen bar.

RESPONSES

The project explores new possibilities for urban ecology by coordinating water and land to form a large interconnected system that could extends and connects to urban green spaces, enhancing sustainability and the overall urban ecology.

The wind carries polluted air into the park, impacting individuals engaged in exercise, walking, and relaxation activities.

MILAN URBAN PARK PLAN

The park design is based on the original park. Implant the design idea upon it, preserving the original park advantage and improving its ecological aspect. Greener platform bridge on the crossroad, supporting the good air quality constantly to pedestrians.

WATER LANDSCAPE

Micro climate interact with plant communities

Ultrasound emit mist that adheres to pollution particles, causing them to deposit on the ground.

STRATEGY LAYER

PAST LETTERS

AIDS Memorial

The project triggers people’s emotions, imagination, and memories by showcasing victims’ items, leading to visual interaction with passersby and tactile engagement.

ISSUES

Gentrification in St Kilda is altering the historical narrative of LGBTQ+ communities, leading to a fading of collective memory and prompting victim families to conceal their grief.

DESIGN CONCEPT

The memorial achieves spontaneous participation by revealing AIDS victims’ personal items through resin bricks connected to the ground, encouraging pedestrian interaction and engagement to the memorial.

RESPONSES

The project seeks to foster a sense of remembrance, empathy, and community support. It responds to the gentrification issue by preserving the memory of LGBTQ communities and providing a space for collective mourning and reflection.

DESIGN ITERATION

FITZROY STREET

Resin brick form the streetscape along the Fitzroy Street as guidance to bring the viewer into the site

1 - Presenting

2 - Dynamism

Final Design

III

PAST LETTERS PLAN

The streamlined shape is to respond to the pandemic transmission movement. This allows people to follow the patient zero-till thousand of patients after, allowing the viewer to follow the logic of time and know the story through age change.

SEAT

SIDE PATH

BRICK WALL

INTERACTIVE STREETSCAPE

Engaging both visually and physically with pedestrians, prompting contemplation, imagination, and recollection.

Brick Path

Brick Seat

DETAIL SECTION

Bricks are telling each patient’s story.

STREET STRUCTURE ANALYSIS

Asian business are intended to combine the street and store space as a whole to attract and guide customer entry. Maximize the exposure of the product in front of pedestrian

Temporary Goods Shelf

Cultural Color + Signage

STREETSCAPE

WILSON STREET

Enlarge the sidewalk, allowing more trees to provide shade for pedestrians. Also, increase the seat and decoration to shape Wilson Street into a friendly vibe.

SECTION A

SECTION B

ZONE A

ZONE B

SECTION C

ZONE C

Japanese

Slender Weaver’s Bamboo

Mat Rush Native Rosemary

Dusty Miller

Fairy Iris Lilly Pilly

HARD MATERIAL EXAMPLE

Black Steel Light Glass

Fence

Light Grey Concrete Stepping Floating Light Grey Concrete Stairs

Ground Up light

Metal Garden Edge

Dark Grey Exposed Aggregate Concrete

White Limestone Natural White Landscape Pebbles

Light Composite Decking

PRODUCED

PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT VERSION

PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT VERSION

PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT VERSION

PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT VERSION

PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT VERSION

PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT VERSION

PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK

AN AUTODESK STUDENT VERSION

Tap Bubbler

PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT VERSION

Pad

PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT VERSION

PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT VERSION

GARDEN

PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT VERSION

Tap Bubbler

Grass

Tap Bubbler

Reinfored Concrete Pad

The garden seat has a different curve line and material if compared with the seat in other places. This kind of curve can help people seat more comfortably and relax. The different function of the curve function is how comfortable it is. The seat in the curve or near the road will have a harder line for the seat. About the wood, the material is more suitable for the garden style and easier for designers to bring the unit style for people.

Tap Bubbler

Reinfored Concrete Pad

Dog

Dog Drinking Bowl

Concrete footing

Concrete footing

Steel edge

Grass

The drinking fountain in the park is very nice to consider dogs. This function can help more people who live in the nearby which have a pet to involve in this environment.

Grass

DRAWN BY: XINXI YAO

STUDENT # S3699470

TUTOR : ATA TARA

PROJECT TITLE:

Steel edge

DISCOVERY

Paving of Granitic sand

Steel edge

Paving of Granitic sand

PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK

Concrete

The steel scape fence to tainment fun. Just area.

Dog Drinking Bowl

Paving of Granitic sand

Dog Drinking Bowl

of concrete, and compare the speculation with the concrete.

DIGITAL MODELING MODEL MAKING

add the tape at the top to reinforced the shape. For this more careful than the last assignment which can pretect enough vibrating and tapping for the concrete, the the shape will be more organize. the box board, that will leave the texture which is the gap concrete wall surface. Also, when I left the model in outside to material all wet. It might cause the box board hard to peel off paper will probably stick on the

MOLD RELEASE

much succesful than last time. There is out of the shape. This prove the technique very well.

When I separate

Except there thought, the off. So I have

It happens in the smaller

The texture the top, the deposit

The shape inequality.

1:15 Prototype

PROTOTYPE - 1:25

The 1:25 prototype has a more rough surface. The concrete caking and layering are showing obviously. The quality must much lower than the other prototype. But the overall shape is completed and no separating.

PAINTING

DESIGN PROCESS