Kunyuan Chu's Portfolio for UCL MLA Landscape Architecture

PORTFPLIO KUNYUAN CHU APPLICATION NUMBER: 22136944 FOR UCL MLA LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE PROJECTS 2019 - 2021

DRAWED IN DECEMBER, 2020

Kunyuan Chu Email:

CONTENTS

kn650910@dal.ca

Mobile: （+86）13173029655 Add.: Room 202 Building 3, Banshanyuan, No. 917 Fudi Road, Jinan city, Shandong province, China, 250000

09/2021- 04/2022

[EDUCATION]

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Dalhousie University Exchange Project

09/2018- 07/2022

University Studio Project

Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University

Individual

Degree Bachelor of Technology: Major in Landscape Architecture GPA 3.7/4 Ranking 1/64

2021

[AWARDS AND HONORS]

First-Class Agriculture Scholarships

2020

Excellent Student Cadres of International College of Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University

2020

Third-Class Scholarship to Outstanding Students of Fujian Agricultural and Forestry University

2019

Second Class Scholarship from Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University

2019

The Academy Learning Pioneer Award for the First Semester of the 2018-2019 Academic Year

06/2021- 09/2021

[INTERNSHIP]

Jinan City Planning and Design Institute: Assistant Landscape Architect -

06/2020- 08/2020

Participate in master plan making, making aerial views, renderings, analysis maps, etc.

2021.07 - 2021.10

02 MAN-NATURAL ENSEMBLE CAST A Natural Educational Park in a Former Military Airfield University Studio Project Individual

2021.09 - 2021.12

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DESTRESSING BOX PARK DESIGN

Collect and analyze relevant cases, complete design plans independently, participate in

modeling and partial drawing for the master plans

[CONTEST AND RESEARCH]

A Landscape Micro-experiment on the "Mid-Life Crisis"

The 12th YUANYE Awards International Competition -

Individual Project

Work as group leader, determining overall ideas, assign tasks, make the master plan and

aerial views, and make partial analysis maps and perspective pictures 07/2020- 09/2020

United Architects &Engineers Co, Ltd Jinan Branch: Assistant Landscape Architect -

04/2021- 07/2021

REFUGEE SETTLEMENT: THE RENEWED HAVEN

An Island Community for Rohingya Refugees

The 2020 College Student Design Competition of CSLA 

FOURTH PRIZE

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Work as one of the group leaders, determining strategies, building the model, making the

2020.12 - 2021.02

whole master plan, and partial analysis maps and perspective pictures

Language Computer Skill

[SKILLS]

Mandarin (Native), English (Proficiency)

04 OTHER WORK

Individual Works

Auto CAD, Sketch up, Rhino, V- ray, Grasshopper, ArcGIS, Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign

[HOBBIES]

Drawing, Reading, Watching movies and musicals, Fitness

2019.09 - 2021.12

Project 01

Refugee Settlement: The Renewed Haven An Island Community for Rohingya Refugees In 2017, nearly one million Rohingya refugees were forced to flee their homes to neighboring Bangladesh because of the violence incidents, forming the fastest evolving refugee crisis in the world. The surge overwhelmed the Bengali authorities, so Bhasan Char, a difficult and uninhabited island, was planned as a new refugee settlement and refugees were forced to accept it.

Based on this practical background, this project aims to build a new type of refugee living community to further improve the comfort, convenience and safety of living on the premise of ensuring the building capacity capacity. In addition, from the perspective of food and economic sources, rebuild the agricultural production system adapted to the local environmental conditions, the multi-level agricultural production system can adapt to the future erosion of the future islands and resist the harsh climate conditions.

Site Location: Bhasan Char, Bangladesh Type: University Studio Project; individual Work Date: 2021.07 - 2021.10 Author: Kunyuan Chu Academic Course Name: Landscape Planning & Design Studio Instructor: Li Fangying, Associate Professor lifangying@fafu.edu.cn Professional office: Director of Department of Landscape Architecture,

Project 02

MAN-NATURAL ENSEMBLE CAST A Natural Educational Park in a Former Military Airfield Site Location: Debert, Nova Scotia, Canada Type: University Studio Project Individual Work Date: 2021.09 - 2021.12 Author: Kunyuan Chu Academic Course Name: LARC 4001 - LANDSCAPE STUDIO 1 Studio Instructor: Richard leBrasseur, PhD r.lebrasseur@dal.ca Professional office: Department of Plant, Food, and Environmental Sciences, Dalhousie University

The project is ready to reinvent Debert Airport as a large park with a total design area of about 3.5km² with three runways. The design concept focuses on the relationship between humanity and the natural world, with the main goal of making connections between them by using multi-line narrative techniques.

The main idea is to make nature remediation as the way to teach people and their mind and attitude of man-nature relationship. Getting inspiration from the film shooting techniques, the park is turned into an ensemble cast. The story has four protagonists in the story, people, water, land and forest, the four story lines have their own independent parts with different types of endings, and where multiple story lines overlap is about the mutual influences between the protagonists of these independent story lines, positive or negative.

Debert Airport is a former military airfield located in Debert, Nova Scotia, Canada. Located in the central-western part of Colchester County, Debert Airport has a good traffic accessibility, is adjacent to larger communities within the Debert area, and the highway makes it easily accessible from the larger nearby towns.

The area where Debert Airport is located now was nothing but forest and farmland before the construction in 1940.

Most of forests were cleaned, only the south is partially forested by the Acadian forest, with wetland areas providing habitats for migrating waterfowl and other aniimals.

In the forest area, varied soil types supporting blueberry and forestry activity exist. Meanwhile, the highly compacted and disturbed soil in the airport area leads to poor drainage, and makes the water be vulnerable to contamination.

Water naturally flows southward towards MacElmon’s Pond. A river passed through this area is cut off by the construction of the airport. An excessive amount of old, wasted, impermeable surfaces creates lots of polluted water runoff.

STRATEGY

CONCEPT EVOLUTION

This project service and benefit object are both human and nature, aims to make ecological remediation as the way to teach people and their mind and attitude of man-nature relationship. The main concept of design is the connection of human use with the natural development process by multi-line narrative techniques, and make the park into an ensemble cast. The story has four protagonists in the story, people, water, land and forest, each protagonist has its own separate story line. The four story lines have their own independent parts, and where multiple story lines overlap is about the mutual influences between the protagonists of these independent story lines, positive or negative. The design and function of each important section echo its theme, giving people different psychological feelings through the design, and indicating the positive or negative ending of the story line.

Artificial Watershed

Rain Garden The Retained Runway

Wetland Habitat

River

Trail

Remnant Forest

WATER OVERLOOK PLATFORM

Green Space

LINEAR PARK

Dry Landscape Garden

Subsurface Flow Constructed Wetland

EROSION GARDEN

WATER STORYLINE

CONNECT THE RIVER

FOREST ECOSYSTEM

LAND STORYLINE

ENTRANCE

Green Space

FOREST PLANTATION

FORM EVOLUTION

Dirt and Vegetation

Shrubs

SECTION

OVERLAP

The linear airport runway is regarded as the human storyline, and connect two main entrances.

The overlaps of human storyline with natural storylines will show the interaction between man a n d th e co rre sp o n d i n g natural elements. While the overlaps of natural storylines can show the interactions between these natural elements.

Based on the site con -dition, two broken points of the river and the area with dese forest become main sections.

HUMAN STORYLINE (GREENWAY)

GRAVEL CREEK Continue Human Story

Grassland

Proposed Tress

SHAPE

Trail

FOREST STORYLINE

Herbs

The oval ring of the main road represents the natural story line. It can connect where the river breaks off, and the shape can also fit the original triangle shape of the runways

Dry Creek

Dirt Field

Water Story Direction Dry Landscape Land Story Direction

Remnant Forest Asphalt fragments from the removed runway

Trails

Broken Runway (Green runway)

LANDFORM SCULPTURE

Corten Steel Wall

Sage Field

Forest Story Direction

FOREST TRAIL Tree Array

Start from Human Story Corten Steel Wall

STORY STAGE PLAZA

WATER STORY

MASTER PLAN Bad Ending

Happy Ending

Soil Erosion

Natural Wetland System

FOREST STORY

Forest Ecosystem Happy Ending

Bad Ending Forestry and Logging

Dense Forest

LAND STORY

Happy Ending

Bad Ending Agriculture

Re-established habitat

HUMAN STORY

SITE ELEVATION (A - A')

WATER STORY - Wetland

FOREST STORY - Forest Trail

LAND STORY - Green Runway

HUMAN STORY - Linear Park

Project 03

Destressing Box Park Design for Middle-aged People A Landscape Micro-experiment on the "Mid-Life Crisis"

The midlife crisis has become an increasingly serious social problem in China, mainly among men aged 40-60, who experience various levels and crises such as career, health, family and marriage in this stage of life. Under high pressure, it is difficult for these people to find a suitable way or opportunity to relieve the pressure from their suffocating lives. The middle-age group of happiness is extremely low, and the high intensity of work and the psychological pressure that cannot be discharged also cause physical and mental health problems.

Based on this social topic, the project mainly aims to design an urban pocket park as a place isolated from real life for middle-aged groups to relieve their stress and escape from suffocating lives for a while in their fragmentation time. The core of the design is the intervention experiment of the landscape function in the user's psychological mood, that is, whether the human emotional intervention can be realized through the landscape design.

Site Location: Jinan, Shandong Provinve, China Type: Individual Work Date: 2020.12 - 2021.02

In China, the midlife crisis has become an increasingly serious social problem, especially for developed cities. Pressure from social, economic and family aspects has brought their happiness to a trough, and too many external constraints make them have nowhere to vent their emotions and express their sufferings. High intensity of work and uncontrollable psychological stress make their lives become suffocating, and can also gradually cause some physical and mental health problems.

The site is located in the newly developed CBD area of the provincial capital of Jinan, as a necessary place between the surrounding dense office buildings and one of the largest residential areas in the city, and has extremely convenient transportation accessibility. Around the site, middle-aged people, as the target group, have a large number and frequent activities.

CONTEXT

The middle life crisis, also known as "grey middle age", generally occurs in men between 35 and 60, is also known as "man forty syndrome" in China. In a broad sense, it refers to the various levels and crises such as career, health, family and marriage that people may experience in this stage of life. That is, the physiological and behavioral inadaptation and psychological imbalance of individuals in the middle age.

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NEED When being alone, middle-aged people don’t have to be superhuman, or face the pressure of work and family trifles. They can allow themselves to have a little private space and room, then they can just be themselves.

Time pressure The fear of aging.

Decreasing physical functions, diseases and other health problems.

Social pressure Young people gradually take over from the jobs.

Numerous layoffs under the COVID situation.

Less job opportunities,

STRATEGIES Solitary space

Private Time Box Exercise space Reading space

Middle-aged people just pretend to be strong to bear the heavy burden, they are not without pain, but just to endure, they need an outlet to vent the accumulated negative emotions and pressure.

Stress Venting Box

Music and video space

Catharsis space

Social Activity Box

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The collapse of middle-aged people are always quietly.

Even wailing in the midnight, in the next morning they have to clean themselves up and go to work as usual, talk and laugh as if nothing had happened.

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There are too many people they have to take care of, and too many responsibility to take on. All the difficult days, all rely on themselves, but middle-aged people also need the understanding and comfort of others.

Family pressure Mortgage Car loan Educating children Supporting the elderly Self-psychological pressure Falling social status followed with the employment problems leads to inner emptiness.

Enthusiasm is gradually worn out with the sense of gap in not achieving the goals in young ages.

With the development of the Internet, comparison the others'

Communication space

Social space

Confiding Box Natural space

All the negative emotions of middle-aged people will always become an understatement: "I am fine", but they're not as good as they look like, they need a listener to pour out their frustrations.

Confiding space

STRESS-RELIEVING BOX Put different types of stress-relieving activities into independent square spaces, which called " SR Box".

PRIVATE TIME BOX

MASTER PLAN LEGEND

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① The Southern Main Entrance ② Quiet Corners ③ Children Playground ④ Reflecting Ponds ⑤ Mingling Square ⑥ Confidant Field ⑦ The Secondary Entrance ⑧ The Northern Main Entrance ⑨ Reading Space ⑩ Venting Area

MEDITATION BOX

READING BOX

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11 Herb Garden 12 Meditative Plaza 13 Sunshine Lawn

STRESS VENTING BOX

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14 Amphitheatre

GYM BOX

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15 The Parking Lot

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PRIVATE TIME BOX

STRESS VENTING BOX

Reading Box Display (E-book)

Two-way mirror

Bookshelf (physical book)

Sound insulation material

Meditation Box

Reading Box The reading box is equipped with both physical books and ebooks. When choosing to read physical books, users can adjust the window to one-way glass mode, and the glass can be converted to an LCD screen when reading e-books.

Meditation Box Using one-way glass with good sound insulation facilities provides a private space for those who want to be alone, opposite the glass is usually for the natural landscape to help them calm down.

Fitness equipment Karaoke room

Stress relief tools Yoga & dance room Video player

Display screen

Mood Drain Box Arrange devices for venting people's stress, such as sponge walls and rubber fake person can be hit .It is also equipped with decompression toys, such as pressure balls and bubble paper.

Gym Box It's a mini gym that meets people's need to use fragmented time exercise to decompress.

Video and Music Box Projection equipment and singing equipment make people fully immersed in the audio world, enjoy the movie story or singing loudly.

CONFIDING BOX

SOCIAL ACTIVITY BOX - Flexible Box The assembled "furniture" box, with modular tables and chairs inside. The modular "furniture" is height-adjusted and spliced to meet different use needs. The box itself is light and casually propelled with a pulley with a buckle at the bottom.

The baffle around it can also be opened and closed from multiple angles, and the top is equipped with a push and pull visor.

Boxes can be spliced by buckles. Users can use them freely to DIY their own enclosed activity space.

Sponge soft wall

Open to form enclosed space

Wheel

Single module, used as a chair or connected to form a table

Connected buckle (between modules) Connection buckle (between boxes)

Chat Box People with a strong desire to talk out can enter the box, and it will randomly match the user in other chat box. So they can communicate through this virtual anonymous interaction space. At the same time, they can also choose to connect with professional psychological counselors to accept professional psychological counseling.

Green Box A mini greenhouse, grown with aromatic and ornamental plants.The companionship of aromatic plants with healing effects can relieve the user's stress.

Chat Box The chat boxes in use can be randomly matched.

Display screen displayed in real or virtual image

Green Box Transparent glass greenhouse Aromatic plants and ornamental plants

SOCIAL ACTIVITY BOX FLEXIBLE BOX

HAND DRAWINGS SKETCH (2020)

04 OTHER WORK

PRACTICES AND COMPETITION WORKS DIFFERENT STYLES OF LANDSCAPE RENDERINGS (2020)

I selected some of my software works for competitions and exercises from 2019 to 2021. I enjoy making different types of renderings and often try various styles of drawings out of personal interest.

In my spare time hand painting is one of my interests, and the process of painting makes me feel relaxed and calm. I love sketches and watercolours, and I like to go outdoors to randomly sketch something that can attract my attention.

LINE DRAWING 2019 - 2020

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN EXERCISES (2020)

WATERCOLOR PAINTING 2020 - 2021

ARIEL VIEW (2020)

IN SITU PAINTING 2020 - 2021

KUNYUAN CHU LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE FUJIAN AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY UNIVERSITY (2018-2021) DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY (2021-2022) Tel: +8613173029655 E-mai: kn650910@dal.ca DRAWED IN JULY, 2021