Portfolio| Chunchun Wu

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Chunchun Wu

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Master of Landscape Architecture University of Virginia

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CHUNCHUN WU cw3ht@virginia.edu, 434 227 2911 EDUCATION University of Virginia

Master of Landscape Architecture Candidate 2020 Charlottesville, VA July ’18- Present

Xi’an University of Architecture and Technology Bachelor of Engineering in Landscape Architecture Xi’an, China Sep ’13- Jun ’18

EXPERIENCE Klopfer Martin Design Group Extern Researched on the history and culture of the site.

Participated in a site visit and meeting with locals.

Created sketched proposal for a temporary design of the site.

Boston, MA Jan ’20

China Northwest Architecture Design and Research Institute Co. Ltd

Intern

Participated in the planning and design of Weibin middle school in Baoji, assisted in the sketching of conceptual design and completed the site analysis Participated in the design of Qinling Mountains Natural Museum, completed the master plans in conceptual design, built the 3D models by Sketch-up and Rhino and completed presentation in conferences. In charge of the design of parking lot in resort village, completed the modeling and drawings of master plan, sectional views and effect charts

Xi’an, China

Dec ’17 - Feb ’18

RESEARCH Protection and Renewal of Historical Urban Landscape —— Research on the Transformation and Public Spaces in the Textile City Team Member, Advisor: Chang Haiqing

Participated in the case studies, collected information from official websites, books and journal articles, assisted in presentations.Surveyed 200+ local residents by questionnaire, interviewed the officer of government department, summarized and analyzed data. Put forward the concepts of the protection and renewal strategies of public spaces in the street crossing the textile industry area and urban villages, participated in the final design.

Xi’an, China Jun ’17- Aug ’17

SKILLS Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, After Effects), Rhino, AutoCAD&Civil3D, ArcGIS, Grasshopper, V-ray, Autodesk Recap, Unity, Lumion Laser cutting, Wood working, Routing and Casting, 3D Printing

CONTENTS

to wash

WANDER Fall ’18 l Leena Cho + Matthew Seibert

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to cleanse

PRECIPITATING Fall ’19 l Elizabeth Meyer + Sara Jacobs

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to meditate

HEALING Fall ’19 l Elizabeth Meyer + Sara Jacobs

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to move on

FLOATING TIME CAPSULE Spr ’19 l Zaneta Hong

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OTHER WORK 2016 - 2019

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A path creates a world.

My experience leaves a path.

When we pay a visit to somewhere, it’s actually the path we walking along. It is the series of spaces changing along the path that help us finish our imagination of the place. It’s like the path creating a world.

When we look back and think about our entire life time, we can clearly see the long way that we’ve come. That is the path of our life. What we experience is every single moment, yet with these moments accumulating, a path is formed.

Generally in my work, a path is something that we leave behind after wandering in the time.

It can be the path of our life, coming from darkness and finally going back to darkness again.

Meanwhile having an ordinary school day leaves a path of that day as well. Even when there’s a moment of sparkle or depression, they all leave their path.

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WANDER FALL 2018, FOUNDATION STUDIO I: Paths: Systems of sequence Charlottesville, VA LEENA CHO, MATTHEW SEIBERT, BRAD GOETZ

CHANGE OF LIGHT AND SHADE DURING A DAY Medium: Light and Shade Lexicon: Openness and Enclosure

LEGEND

WETLAND WETLAND

canopy CANOPY

shrub SHRUB

trunk TRUNK

shadow shadow SHADOW SHADOW of TRUNK the of the OF THE OF THE TRUNK trunk trunk at IN AT NOON inTHE thr noon MORNING morning

morning evening MORNING noon NOON EVENING

shrub SHRUB layer LAYER

The site is a transect locating in the Observatory Hill, the west side of the Uva campus.

With a strong sense of the changes in space happened while I was walking through the transect, my work towards the site simply begins with the medium of the light and shade as well as the lexicon of the openness and enclosure.

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canopy CANOPY of of

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canopy CANOPY of of

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enclosure openness OPENNESS ENCLOSURE

Generally it’s about myself being the leading character to explore the site, while my notational language explaining the condition of the shade of different sizes and different times in the site. The map speaks about the relationship between the openness and enclosure and the shadow while directly showing how they contribute to the generation of my path.

CONCEPT | A PATH IS WHAT WE LEFT BEHIND

Transect of experience within a selected path.

I typically select three paths of three kind of time scale from the matrics, our whole life time, one day and one moment, to interpret this idea by means of the series of light and shade changes as well as spatial changes.

The Path of Life We all come from darkness. We experience highs and lows of life and finally return to dark again.

The Path of A Day Waking up with pinky sunrise, after all-day studying, the refreshing evening breeze finally set me free.

The Path of A Moment On New Year’s Eve, I stood in front of the window, watching the fireworks bursting into bloom then annihilating in the dark.

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LANDFORM PERFORMANCE The terrace is made of earth except the four corners.

Carved by water, the four concrete corners would record the path of water by means of their constant location.

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LANDFORM

DRAINAGE ANALYSIS

AFTER YEARS EROSION

GRADIENT OF LIGHT AND SHADE

GRADIENT OF OPENNESS AND ENCLOSURE

GRADING AND HYDROLOGY OF THE FINAL STAGE

SEASONS OVER THE TERRACE

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LANDFORM PERFORMANCES OVER DECADES | PLASTER MODELS

STAGE 1

PLAN VIEW

DETAIL

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STAGE 2

STAGE 3

STAGE 4

STAGE 5

THE REMAINING PIECE OF TERRACE

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We intend for Second Street to become a more viably public space through the urban form strategy of a public watershed - a system of urban water management that creates a backbone and catalyst to support a visually legible and socially productive edible landscape.

Precipitating contributes to creating a more robust socio-ecological urban metabolism by challenging and revealing the invisibility of water along Second Street.

Currently, the water flow is rendered as invisible as possible. While stormwater and runoff enter Pollocks Branch via pipes and culverts, the upper part second street and IX Park remain a nice, clean lawn or a neat parking lot.

By designing with existing material from the site, creating a series of wetlands, and encouraging interaction between humans, water, and other species by bringing people close to the newly exposed water, the proposal creates a new public space that also collects and cleans water from the higher parts of Second Street before entering Pollack’s Branch.

The design of a constructed wetland that focuses on bringing the flow of water and the process of water purification to the surface, reveals the historical flow of Pollocks Branch, and encourages interactions with a dynamic urban water landscape.

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THE KEY MOMENT OF SEATING

PRECIPITATING FALL 2019, CORE DESIGN STUDIO III: assignment #3 Urban landscapes of socio-ecological encounters and entanglements From open space fragments to public space sequence and moments of lingering Charlottesville, VA ELIZABETH MEYER, MICHAEL EZBAN, SARA JACOBS

URBAN FORM STRATEGY N

Water and Plantation

Civic Center

Absorptive Lot

Stream Corridor

Water to Industry (Ground)

Edible Alley

Pollocks Branch to Pipe (Underground)

Urban Wild

Where is Water 12

*executed by JJ Lai

*executed by all group members, including Chunchun Wu, JJ Lai, Junhong Fu, Reid Farnsworth, and Zheyu Liu

GATHER

Sedimentation Strategies that collect and slow stormwater while gathering people and creating interactive moments of lingering.

Creates moments of co-mingling between water and different neighbors.

Plantings filter and slow this water and benefitting from irrigation.

Oxygen Exposure

Strategies of changing ground materials.

Concrete that prioritizes cars and brick that symbolizes institutional history is changed for.

Porous and permeable ground materials that also provide room for more adundant planting.

STEPS OF CLEANSING

FLOW

Wetland

INFILTRATE Letting Charlottesville’s water flow freely reveals Charlottesville’s hydrological topography.

Waterfall/Pond

It makes the connection to the downtown and river more legible.

It also is used as a strategy to reveal histories that were buried along with the creek. *executed by Junhong Fu

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SITE PLAN N

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First, asphalt from the adjacent parking lot is deconstructed and kept on site. As these materials intertwine with the existing grassy lawn, it is transformed it into a wet meadow, with water and wetland vegetation meandering in between. A wood and concrete path cuts through the wet meadow, leading people to and through the water. The water moves through a constructed wetland before running into the creek south of Elliott Street. By constructing a wetland and temporal path, water is cleaned while people are provided different experiences of access to water. The treating process of sediments and contaminants are as visible to people as possible as well.

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ELLIOTT STREET

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Public space is where trivialness collected, while trivialness, tedious or sparkling, make up a day.

Though with the word ‘public’, a public space means inclusive in terms of private and collective, contemplation and movement, pastoral and mechanical. Yet the physical substance of public space is not as complicated as it implies, since a simple seat with things to watch could be a public space. Unpacking a public space leads us to see the most natural feelings of us, and in turn our quotidian set up scenes of public space.

The site sits at the end of the Downtown sewage outlets, where the road falls to a pond with dense vegetation covered, calling creatures sinking into like a whirlpool. The light attracts me, coming through the trees with its path. Considering driven by hustle and bustle, people are seeking for peace of mind as well as joy of engagement, ease of a pause and surprise of an adventure.

Thus together with the depth and mystery of the woods, I’d like to propose a place with the theme of healing, where a walker and a resident would both enjoy their moment of solitude and encountering.

Scenario: A walker and a resident encountered at the small pond off Elliot Avenue, where they both attracted by the light coming through trees forming its path. They went down by stones and found a round-shaped seat above the pond, as if they were no longer in the city. The harmony of trees, wind and water healed everything. Worries were washed away while peace back to minds. That was the spark of that ordinary day.

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The light path or halo is appearing on the vegetation formed by sunlight as well as street light during the day

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HEALING FALL 2019, CORE DESIGN STUDIO III: assignment #1 Linger.Spatializing the Publics Charlottesville, VA ELIZABETH MEYER, MICHAEL EZBAN, SARA JACOBS

SEATING

ENCOUNTERING SECTIO

Met when resting against a rock

Caught a glimpse while walking Experience: Entering through a gap of the guard rail, they followed a path in the light constructed by step stones. A nice pond with beautiful canopies opened up to them while they walking through bushes to low herbage. They finally rested at a hollow round-shaped small platform, where one of them leaned toward rocks at the back having his legs crossed. The other man took a seat toward the waterside dangling his feet in the air. While hearing the water trickling out, leaves rustling, great peace pervaded the space. They talked in a desultory way while dappled shadows of the trees fell between them.

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Happened to watching the water came out from the pipe

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PIPE

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Landscapes are carrying memories of the city.

Floating Time Capsule are different size of greenhouses, capturing those special moments of the city in terms of the unique local landscape, local food production as well as symbols of history and culture of Oakland.

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As carbon dioxide has been added to the atmosphere at a rate faster than at any point in our history since the beginning of industrialization, at an extremely rate of 4 degree Celsius warming per year, we could finally get to a 10 meters sea level rise condition in the year around 2250. How could the city survive in response to the extreme climate change?

Those symbols of Oakland, parks, graffiti, religious building, Golden State Warriors, and etc, would survive by means of those capsules when facing the challenge from global warming. Since sea level rise would bring about the change of transportation mode, capsules are also able to be connected together forming paths while some of them acting as mobile installations.

FLOATING TIME CAPSULE surviving the global warming SPRING 2019, FOUNDATION STUDIO II Elements: Materializing Atmosphere Oakland, CA ZANETA HONG, EMMA MENDEL, MATTHEW SEIBERT

MAPPING WALKABILITY

Detecting the presence of park deserts

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LEGEND

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SIDEWALK TREES PARKS 80M 200M ASSIST HOUSING PUBLIC HOUSING PARK DESERT

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OTHER INTERSTATE HIGHWAY OTHER FREEWAY EXPRESSWAYS PRINCIPAL ARTERIAL MINOR ARTERIAL MAJOR COLLECTOR MINOR COLLECTOR LOCAL

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MOMENTS CAPTURED Plants Communities Places of Memories Historic Sites Culture Quotidians ...

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SELECTED DISTINCTIVE EXISTING PLANT COMUNITIES

TEMP PRCP

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RIPARIAN

WOODLAND

MEADOW

XERISCAPE

PLANTING PALLETE

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SURGING SEAS RISK ZONE MAP

LEGEND PARK DESERT ASSIST HOUSING PUBLIC HOUSING 2M SUBMERGED RISK ZONE 5M SUBMERGED RISK ZONE 10 M SUBMERGED RISK ZONE

The mapping is showing the probable flooded area due to the sea level rises of 2m, 5m and 10m in the coming years, giving the sign of an imergency towards the presevation of the local city life.

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PROPOSED CAPSULE HABITAT 120ft

HEIGHT OF PLANTS COMMUNITY

LAND HABITAT

HUMAN ACTIVITIES

WATER HABITAT

HUMAN ACTIVITIES

WAY OF EXPERIENCE HORIZONTAL CIRCLE

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VERTICAL 60ft

RAMP

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SUBSURFACE

0 STRUCTURE 15ft 0 AMPHITHEATER

The capsule is a kind of green house that provide space as well as habitats to capture those pretty moments of vegetation and manmade structures. It would be able to react to the climate change in temrs of sea level rises for its mobility and internal ecological stablity.

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2019 CURRENT | MASTER PLAN

450ft

Capsules are currently based at the docks locating at the crossing of a grid of 450ft in the sea. They are biologically preserving the native plants communities but also culturally memorable history and tradition of Oakland, so that after years, culture would survive by means of “floating up�.

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2m SEA LEVEL RISE

3m SEA LEVEL RISE

5m SEA LEVEL RISE

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2050 10m SEA LEVEL RISE | MASTER PLAN 450ft

Capsules would be able to travel around, connect with each other, making compensation for the submerged highways, streets and spaces in need within the submerged areas of the city.

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OTHER WORK SOME SELECTED BELOVED WORK 2016 - 2019

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Construction Detail | Ecotech,

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2019

rading Plan v1

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SLOPES&SPOT ELEVATIONS

CAP THICKNESS

WASTE DEPTHS& HOP SPOTS

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UVA LAR 7210 | EcoTech III_F19 | 10.17.2019

Modeling | Design Computation,

Nov. 2018

Disposal With wood, plexi, a piece of cloth, fish lines and feeding gravity sets contained with watercolor, we simulated how the trash in areas of different topography would affect the soil with the flowing of water.

*executed with Zheyu Liu, MLA 20’, UVA

*executed with Tian Wang, Po Yi Lin, Zheyu Liu, MLA 20’, UVA 34

Landscape Planning and Design, Fall 2016 Exhibition of Time Exploring the role of Shangluo Lotus Park as stage for folk art activities and folk festivals of crowds and background for history and memories of individual.

GRID

POINT

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ENCLOSURE There is an out-door exhibition to be held outside the museum

What a brilliant Lantern Festival!

I haven’t been watching a Huagu Opera show since I was a little boy in the countryside.

Could you see the pavilion on the Gui mountain in the distance? It has witnessed the city development for centuries.

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Handdrawing | Theory & Design of Traditional Garden, Dec. 2016

MASTER PLAN

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*executed with Yu Chen, B.E. LAR 13’, XAUAT 36

TION SECTION

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XI’AN, CHINA PHOTO BY CHUNCHUN WU

DALI,CHINA PHOTO BY CHUNCHUN WU