Portfolio of Xilin Wang

CONTENTS Selected Works

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Rinsing Salinity Productive landscape on Saline Soil 2020 Summer Personal Project, Individual Work

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02 Collaboration in Urban Voids Public Landscape for Pais Abandoned Railtracks

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2020 Spring Competition Project, Team Leader

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Fading Memories, New Homes

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03 Design of Nanning Zhongshan Park 2019 Fall Personal Project, Individual Work

04 NWAFU Expo Park Waterscape Renovation 2019 Fall Academic Project, Individual Work

05 Our Path Renovating Design of Nanning Urban Villages 2020 Fall Personal Project, Individual Work

06 Construction Practice and Other Works Academic Project Sel ect e d Wo rk o f Land s c a pe Archi t e c t ur e

01 Rinsing Salinity Productive landscape on Saline Soil

Individual Work Location: Weinan, China Area: About 424 Hectares Time: 05/2020-06/2020 Tutor: Xuyi Wu (wuxuyi@acgidd.com) (86-13600542971)

SITE

LOESS PLATEAU WEINAN CITY

QINLING MOUNTAINS

Flood De-salinize Soil

Infrastructures

Productive Landscape

Introduction Weinan City is struggling with soil salinization.

It is a difficult situation for crops cultivation for only few of the crops survived.

The proposed strategy is to introduce the flood of Yo River to the site by controll ing dams and modifying the topology. Floods would take away Salinity, and the runoff goes through wetlands so the water can be reused to irrigate new farms and pastures.

1. TIMELINE Salinization Increasing 2008

1980

Ecology

2015

2020

Population

Salinization

432,521,195 t 5382900

Ecology

6.32%

Salinization Food Demand Population

2. SITE SCALE MAP

River / Pond

Flood Area

Salinization Area

Difficulty of Reform

Barren Land

Problems in Site

Hills Land Vegetation Barren Land Salinization Small Ponds

Soil Salinization

Seasonal Flood

Tea residue

3. TREATMENT FOR SALINE SOIL IN WEINAN NEW INDUSTRIAL CHAIN FLOOD

SUBMERGED LAND CLEAN WATER

CROPS FOOD FERTILIZER

CROPS

LACK OF ARABLE LAND

INFFICIENT

SALINIZATION

DE-SALINIZATION

AQUACULTURE

PASTURE TE RESIDUE ORGANIC FERTILIZER

FOOD

LIVESTOCKS PASTURE

TEA TEA RESIDUE

BEVERAGE

LIVESTOCKS

LOW SUPPLY TEA MARKET

TE RESIDUE

TEA

OLD INDUSTRIAL CHAIN

PROBLEM IN SOLVING

ESTABLISHING NEW PROFITABLE INDUSTRIAL CHAIN

DE-SALINIZATION PROCESS PHASE 1

SOIL RINSING

Introduce Flood

OVERALL TREATMENT

Dissovle Soil

PHASE 2

Purify Water

INFRASTRUCTURE & PLANTATION

Reuse for Irrigation

PHASE 3

DEVELOP PRODUCTIVE LANDSCAPE

Tea Residue Fertilizers

Crops on Weak Saline Soil

PHASE 1 SOIL RINSING

Nonflood Period

2030

2025

2020 Flood Period

Non-Flood Period

Flood Period

Non-Flood Period

Flood Period

Introduce Flood From Yo River To Site Yo River Mingle in Wei River

Trace of Yo River Flood

Abandoned Tillage

Flood

Tea Production

Pond

Pond

WATER TREATMENT STRATEGY

PHASE 1

grooves topology

PHASE 2

dredge

PHASE 3

wetland

1. Flood

2. Disssolve Soil wetland

3. Absorb Soil

4. Plant Purification

SPECIFIC TREATMENT TIMELINE

soil submerged by flood

water runoff

Introducing Flood

Wetlands Purification

Irrigation

productive landscpae

MASTER PLAN ( PHASE 3 FLOOD PERIOD )

1 Restorative Pond 2 Tea Production

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4 500m

3 Buildings

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4 Plantation

6 7 3

5 Economical Crops 7

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6 Dredge & Filled Grooves 7 Wetland Purification 8 Exisiting Dam

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9 Pasture Land

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YO RIVER

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FIELDS & FISH POND

PASTURE

TEA

livestock

tea production

agriculture aquaculture

walkway

pstureland creek

SOIL DE-SALINATION TOPOLOGY PHASE 1 Stage1: The flood takes away the salt and the soil particles on the ground surface.

ARBOR

groove

dredge

Stage2: The particles are settled, grooves are gradually filled up.

Arbor

Melia azedarach Populus tomentosa Salix matsudana Ailanthus altissima Robinia pseudoacacia Salix babylonica

Shurb

PHASE 3

Develop Productive Landscape

Emergent Floating Submerged TRF

PH: 7.0-7.5

Tea Production

SHURB Iris lactea Hibiscus syriacus Lonicera japonica Tamarix chinensis Salix integra

Stage3: After years of rinsing,Grooves are filled up; soil rinsing phase finished.

PH>7.5

pasture land

EMERGENT

Acorus calamus Arundo donax Phragmites communis Panicum virgatum Nelumbo nucifera Typha angustifolia

FLOATING salt water

Construct Purification System

PHASE 2

Soil Rinsing

WEI RIVER water

Lemna minor salt Nymphaea tetragona Potamogeton distinctus

Produtive Landscpae

water

arable land

clean water

salt water

SUBMERGED

dredge salt water

Myriophyllum verticillatum Ceratophyllum demersum Vallisneria natans Hydrilla verticillata

Absorb Salt

sedimentation

dredge

Dredge (Irrigation)

clean water

CONNECTING INDUSTRIES THROUGH DIVERSE CIRCULATIONS Vegetation Line Husbandry Line Agriculture & Aquaculture Line Activity Line Tea Line

( PHASE 3 FLOOD PERIOD )

ROADS

1. CONTEXT

DEMOGRAPHIC DENSITY

02 COLLABO RATI O N I N UR BAN VOI D S

LEISURE ACTIVITIES

Public Landscape for Pais Abandoned Railtracks Introduction

Hornorable Mention Award

Petite Ceinture is an abandoned circular railway built as a means to supply the city's fortification wallslocated in Paris. The characteristic of PC at present is a half-open underground linear urban voids. But its potential can be drawn out by collaboration in the community.

Location: Paris, France Area: 2 Hectare Time: 02/ 2020 - 03/ 2020 Team Work: Wang Xilin, Song Kexin Role: Team Leader, Main Designer

Link For Outer Paris

The proposed system is duplicable to form a platform which involves urban agriculture, encouraging the communities along the abandoned railroads to get involved.

Spaical Connection

Marketplace

COMMUTING ACTIVITIES

Serenity

100m N Accessible to outer Paris resources, market and communities.

Running through the arrondissement, connecting neibourhood.

A chance of developing economy of outer Paris.

Oppotunities for establishing a peaceful platform.

PLANT CATEGORY

3. PROGRAMMES

According to site condition, 3 kinds of space are designed to cope with narrow site. Each kind of three is meant to serve different populations .

Scaffoldings were used as elements.

The structure can be built and modified within a relatively short time.

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2.1 SITE CONDITION B B 4

2.2 CROWD STUDY 5

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C C 7

8 1 Pedestrian Bridge 2 Market Place 3 Workshop 4 The Pavilion 5 Animal House 6 Community Center 7 Sharing Rooms 8 New Entrance 9 Passage Way 10 Old Station

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5. CATEGORY FOR PRODUCTION

4. ACTIVITIES

Info collected by Song

9AM-2PM, North

2PM-6PM, North

North

DIY Chess Crafting

Communication Tea Reading Urban-Agriculture

Community-Collaboration South

Shop Service Showcase

6. LINKS BUILDINGS

Aquarium Pet Beehive The Pavilion Side Rooms Shared Rooms

9AM-2PM, South CIRCULATION

Link: Support Link: Attraction Sharing Area Link: Supply Collaboration Area

ROADS

2PM-6PM, South

Sub Direction Main Derection Contact Area

OPEN AREA

Gathering Area Linear Walking Area

View From The Bridege

Section A-A

Section B-B

Section C-C

gravel ballast sub-ballast rammed earth

soil base ballast sub-ballast rammed earth

wood paving concrete gravel-soil cushion ballast sub-ballast rammed earth

wood paving cement mortar concrete gravel-soil cushion rammed earth

1930

2008

2020

Commercial Activities

Urban Development

Fading Culture

Jijiang Pavilion (Trading)

WE WILL HELP danjia people TO LIVE in the city.

Our children need better education.

our boat-house are useless from now on.

Settlement Policy (2014)

Danjia Youth Danjia People

Selling Fish&Vegetables

New Apartments

Abandoned Boats

life in the city is very attracting.

now we have all gone ashore.

Settlement Certification

03 FADING MEMORIES, NEW HOMES

S I T E A N A LY S I S

S T R AT E G I E S 2. Structure

1. Surroundings&Cultural Site

1. Make Connections 2. Adjust Landform M

Chaoyang Plaza

Zhongshan Market

Tutor: Xuyi Wu (wuxuyi@acgidd.com) (86-13600542971)

C Crosswalk

Ancient Streets Tourism

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Location: Nanning, China Time: Aug, 2019 Area: 5.6 Hectares Individual Work

residential

By transforming adjacent block where Danjia people used to sell groceries into a park, this project explores the potential dialogue in both history & culture, proposing a refuge for the spirit of Danjia population in Nanning city.

commercial

office

Zhongshan Living Market SITE

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neighbourhood

Introduction

C C

Old dock where Danjia People used to go frequently.

vegetation & open space

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C

M 3. Cultural Space

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Porcelain Museum

4. Gathering Space R

E Existing buildings

R Residential

site dock office historical site residential ancient realm existing greenway planning greenway

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traffic

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S T R AT E G I E S

S T R AT E G I E S

-DESIGN LANGUAGE

EXPRESSION & COMMUNICATION SEPARATION VS CONNECTION

GATHERING & BELIEVING

- A BA N D O N E D B OAT S

STILL VS MOVEMENT government

Danjia people

allowence

city abandoned boats

jobs housing

The boat-houses are under being disposed.

Reuse the abandoned boats-houses as a container of cultural elements would be the continuity of Danjia's homes.

Small (<8m)

TIME AXIS

Danjia people often sing out loud to express and communicate.

Drawing close 2 boats to board on the other.

Danjia people gathered because of a functional space like the pavilion.

Floating on the river, Danjia experience vivid scenary.

Open Gallery Medium (8-12m)

Amusement

Separated spaces encourage emotions to express and limit the effect to personal scale.

The space are coherent through the connection of the inner links of each part.

Sunken plaza enables multiple activities to be performed.

Traditional instrument: bronze drum. Connections in drums\boats\people. Traditional opera to be watched.

Utilize changing of space to create a diversiform atmosphere.

A series of space illustrating the history of the site.

Habitat/Planting Pool

Biology Education

Large (>12m)

Exhibition

Relaxation

SITE PLAN Flow

Zhongshan Living Market

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10. Fragmented Parterre 11. Trace of Memories 12. Hillside Path 13. Open- Air Theater 14. Boat-House Amusement 15. Fountain Plaza 16. Drum Room/ Lookout

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1. Coconut Plaza 2. Playground 3. Open Grass Slope 4. Woodland 5. Open Grassland 6. Parterre 7. South Plaza 8. Central Plaza 9. Open- Air Museum

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80m

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Ancient Street Tourism

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Ancient City Wall

Porcelain Museum

Yong River

FUNCTIONAL STRUCTURE

NODES Drum Room/ Look out bom

Trace Of Memories bom

Net of Drumroom

Cultural Activities

SECTIONS

Gathering Theater

Vegetation&Roads Soundscape

A-A

Open-Air Museum

Ficus Caryota ochlandra microcarpa

Roystonea Taxodium Cinnamomum Bambusa Magnolia Trachycarpus Dracontomelon multiplex sumatrana fortunei regia distichum camphora duperreanum 'Fernleaf' var.glauca

B-B

C-C

Look dad! Somebody's beating the bronze drum! it's a cultural instrument.

What a rhythm!

I'm so grateful to see my old friend's boat wasn't deposed, the boat is now serving the public.

Granpa, plants and bugs are fun!

The traditional play reminds of my childhood. PEOPLE used to TAKE every festival SERIOUSLY.

I encounterED an exhibition in these renovated old houses that survived demolishment.

Although I work nearby, I never know this place have such history !

室内外

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EXPRESSION & COMMUNICATION

湿地 改造船 学习

SEPARATION VS CONNECTION

剧院

GATHERING & BELIEVING

废墟博物馆

STILL VS MOVEMENT

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HOW DO WE PLANT? 1.MORPHOLOGY Methods: ① Connect 2 sides with 4 bridges/ steppingstone roads. ② Add open spaces along the waterscape. ③ Consider the texture, color and shape of existing plants when designing.

butterfly garden (open-air)

plaza

peony garden (open-air)

DESIGN OPPOTUNITIES Diversity

pt.3 ending

Acer palmatum

Accessibility

Continuity

month

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2

3

4

5

6

8

Lythum salicaria

Nymphoides indica

Nymphaea tetragona

Canna indica var. falava

Nelumbo nucifera

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Phalaris arundinacea

pencils, needle pens, pens, colored pencils, markers, white-out, A2 paper *2, rulers, computer.

Aesculus chinensis

Acer platumoides

pt.2 core

-TOOLS-

Nymphoides peltatum

2019 Fall Completed 2020 Fall Revise About 8 hours (designing + drawing)

Pterocarga stenoptera

-TIME-

Pyracantha fortuneana

pt.1 entrance

Amygdalus davidiana

2.SEASONAL LANDSCAPE Prunus Cerasifera

NWAFU

#3204140 Planting Design (English-only) Location: Yangling, China Tutor: Qiu Ling (86-13572071753) (qiu.ling@nwafu.edu.cn)

Liquidambar formosana

-COURSE-

plaza

(study dominant existing plants in different areas)

Forsythia suspensa

NWAFU

Osmanthus fragrans

WEIHUI ROAD

XINONG ROAD

NWAFU Expo Park Waterscape Renovation

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PLANTING PLAN

(A2, originally at 1:300)

ARBOR

E1

1-1 EXISTING FLOWERS

D1 E1

C8

EMERGENT: HIGH (>70cm) C1 Thalia dealbata C2 Cortaderia selloana C3 Arundo donax var.versicolor C4 Canna indica var. falava C5 Phragmites australis C6 Juncus effusus FLOATING&SUBMERGE C7 Typha orientalis E1 Nymphoides peltatum C8 Zizania latifolia E2 Ottelia alismoides C9 Pontederia lanceolata E3 Eleocharis tuberasa E4 Nelumbo nucifera EMERGENT: LOW E5 Sedum lineare D1 Carex nemostachys E6 Nymphoides indica D2 Scirpus validus E7 Marsilea quadrifolia D3 Lythum salicaria E8 Ceratophyllum demersum D4 Iris pseudacorus E9 Sparganium stoloniferum D5 Phalaris arundinacea E10 Nymphaea tetragona

C1

B10 A6 A6 A6 B6

A2 A2

BUTTERFLY GARDEN

E9 C1

E7

2-2

P E A R GARDEN 0 HAWTHORN G A R D E N

1

A6

ARGRICULTURAL MUSEUM EXISTING C2 WILLOWS B2 E5 D5 C1 C5 C3 E3

A11

WATERFALL

C5 C4 A10

E2 C5 E7 D2 E9

C2

A8

A4 D3 C1

A10

1

PEONY GARDEN

AGRICULTURE P L A Z A

5m

ENTOMOLOGICAL MUSEUM

10m

2

A1

2.DETAILED PLAN

AQUATIC PLANT

A13 Metasequoia glyptostroboides A14 Cercis chinensis A1 Ficus carica A2 Osmanthus fragrans SHRUBS A3 Trachycarpus fortunei B1 Indocalamus tessellatus A4 Acer platumoides B2 Forsythia suspensa A5 Salix babylonica B3 Pittosporum tobira A6 Acer palmatum A7 Liquidambar formosana B4 Prunus Cerasifera var.atropurpure A8 Pterocarga stenoptera B5 Amygdalus davidiana B6 Pyracantha fortuneana A9 Aesculus chinensis B7 Sophora japonica 'golden stem' A10 Picea asperata A11 Xanthoceras sorbifolia B8 Aster tataricus B9 Hosta plantaginea A12 Magnolia grandiflora B10 Viburrum odoratissinum WATERFALL B11 Photinia x fraseri Dress

1.SECTIONS

E4

HERBAL GARDEN

A5 A9 C1

A6 C4

A5 D2 C3 E10 D2 C4 D2

2 OLEACEAE P L A Z A

SOIL MUSEUM BOTANICAL MUSEUM

E2 A6

A3

C8 D2 E9 C5

E1

D2

PLAZA

C6 D2

E10

B9 E5

C9 D4 E5

A5 E5

D2

D3

A7

A13

B7

E5

A7

A7

A8 C6

C1 D2

E7

A14

B8

A12

A13

E8

EXISTING WILLOWS

ZOOLOGICAL MUSEUM MAKER SPACE

E9

E1 E6

B4

C6

C9

D3

C5

C1

B5

E5

A5

C9 B5

B10 D5

C5 D2 C7

C1 D2

P L A Z A E2

C5 E4

C7 C5

05 Our Path Investigation & Renovating Design of Nanning Urban Village

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Urban Villages in Nanning are gradually being turned into formal residentials. In order to improve the living standard of the residents, infrastructures can be implemented to serve the communities.

Time: Aug,2018 Research Nov, 2020 Complete Group Research, Individual Work

Interviewing (Aug, 2018)

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Introduction:

Location: Nanning, China

Cluttered Public Space with Solid Waste

Unarranged Parking

Narrow Streets for Most Parts

2. Renovating Process

1. Interviewing with Residents

Renovate main public areas and connect them with renovations along a designed path.

During a summer vacation (Aug, 2018), I met residents of a urban village and officers from district office to have conversations about their concerns of current living environment.

Their main concern is the deficiency and oldness of infrastructures mainly caused by unshakable wealth gap. They did not enjoy the public zone in the village for there are too many elements â&#x20AC;&#x201C; electric motors, cars, pedestrians, mobile shops and so on.

Also, there are more bussiness coming into the village, and people have no place for interaction like old times â&#x20AC;&#x201C; playing cards, mah-jong, etc.

Ting Hong Road 1,100 ppl 2,000 per moth Age 47

470 ppl 6,000 per moth Age 30

2,600 ppl 7,000 per moth Age 34

1

Study Different Area

2

Select a Viewing Path

3

Improve Certain Points

Farmland Farmland 3,300 ppl 6,800 per moth Age 28 4,500 ppl 8,500 per moth Age 38

Demographic Dentsity (Nearby Blocks)

Average Income (No Teenagers )

Average Age (0-100)

3. Implementation -- 4 modes for major improvement

4. Node Designďź&#x2C6;Village Committee Plaza Renovation ďź&#x2030; Implementation map Residential Buildings

Truck delivering recyclables

10m

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Construction Difficulties

Village Committee

Rain Garden

Motorway

Environmental Friendliness Human Interaction

Motor Parking

Tree plaza

Motorway

Recycling center collects up to 300 cubic recyclables per week.

Dancing plaza

Motorway

Installation for fun & communication Dense buildings

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Recyclables Collection

Residential Buildings

Pokect Interaction Space Set bikes verticle to park in narrow streets

elecric motorcycles Parking

Residential

Non-Motor Vehicle Parking Rain shelter collect 20 cubic meter water int a tank

Green Spaces

Tank covered with vegetation

Permeable Paving

Sunken Spaces

Stormwater

Plaza Renovation

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OTHER

WORKS

P HYS ICAL RE S UL T

CAPTURING LANDSCAPE Sketches for Outing Class in Wei River Wetland Park

-Course#3205137 Comprehensive practice landscape architecture of North China Location: Yangling, China Tutors: Fan Junxi (564099979@qq.com)(86-13709284425)

-Time2020 Fall

CONSTRUCTION PRACTICE On-Site Installation Design and Construction Project

-Course#4205141 Joint Design Location: Yangling, Shannxi Tutors: Chen Long (mr2046@126.com )(86-18820225665) Li Dongmei (441917838@qq.com)(86-18966833050)

Storage/Planting

Seats/Displaying West

-Time2020 Fall

-ConditionSite scale: Theme: Cost: Time: Role: Members:

Entrance

10m x 6m Functional Structure About 813 GBP 2 Weeks Team Leader(CEO), Sub Designer 16

Northwest

East Wood Strip

Code Nail PVC Fabric

Angel Iron

1 Processing Materials

3 Making Foundation Wood Plank

Flower Border

2 Ramming the Soil

4 Building Frameworks

Student Artwork: Bonsai Student Artwork: Sculpture Flower Arranging