2025 Work application

DESIGN PORTFOLIO Selected Work 2021-2025

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Shengran Chang

Shengran Chang Base in Milan, Italy shengran.chang@mail.polimi.it +39 3455098170

Portfolio link :

https://issuu.com/csr97/docs/2025_application_csr

Contents

Language: Fluent in English/ Native in Mandarin/ Beginner in Italian

Education 2022-2025

Politecnico di Milano (POLIMI), Milan, Italy

Academic works

Master of Landscape Architecture-Land landscape heritage, Grade 110 / 110

2023.8-2024.1

The Oslo School of Architecture and Design (AHO), Oslo, Norway Erasmus program, Ecoperformance in Architecture Studio, Grade A

2016-2020

Harbin Normal University (HNU), Harbin, North China Bachelor of Landscape Architecture, GPA 89.4 / 100 (Rank1/47)

Work experience & Workshop 2025.5-2025.8

Internship and Trainee, LAND, Milan, Italy

01 The Way to Revoke Multi-level path system to awaken historical castles Architectural heritage protection,0.45ha

Participated in EXPO 2030 Riyadh concept master plan design phase,gaining valuable experience in large scale landscape planning and interdisciplinary teamwork.

2022.2-2022.7

Junior landscape architect, T+M studio, Shanghai, China Participated in 2022 China Resources Land Residential Standardization Manual, Assisted several high-end residential landscape design projects.

2021.4-2022.1

Junior landscape architect, FLO Landscape, Shanghai, China Participated in Jinmao Commercial, SUSAS 2021 Shanghai Art Festival, and CIFI Apartment projects, using Rhino, QGIS, Photoshop, and BIM in complex residential and commercial landscape design.

2020.6-2020.7

2017.7-2017.9

A New Paradigm of The Peri-urban landscape Agricultural landscape planning, 1200ha

Digital Future Workshop 2020, held by Tongji University,Shanghai, China Exploring the integration of computational design, data visualization, and urban morphology through collaborative digital modeling and parametric simulation.

2018.7-2018.9

02 Broaden Nature

Intern, East China Architectural Design & Research Institute,Chongqing

03 Living with Coral Reefs

Participated in the design of rural reconstruction project , Chongqing, China Use GIS and other adobe softwares to express concept design.

Solve the contradiction between tradition and ecology

Internship, Yungang Grottoes Academe(World Heritage),Datong, China

Ecological planning, 90 ha

Collaborated to develop a comprehensive 3D geographic information system for the Yungang Grottoes, integrating detailed spatial and heritage data for site analysis and management.

Honors and Awards 2025

2025 XIII Barcelona International Landscape Biennial-Nomination Exhibition, Environmental regeneration by exploiting agricultural traces and fragments

2023

2023 WLA Awards, Built – Small Design – Honour Award, Bamboo Forest Garden Installation Playscape, participation in FLO landscape

2019

Silver award,2019 International Horticultural Exposition Design Competition

2019 2018

Bronze Award,Busan International Environment Art Festival (BIEAF) (Top1%) First Prize,Water Resources Protection Planning, Ministry of Environmental Protection(Top1%)

Professional works

Other works

04 Bamboo Forest Garden Playscape, Shanghai

06 Stable Diffusion Generation

Material Innovation & Modular Construction

AI Generation & Stable Diffusion Application

Landscape installation design, 500m

Architecture facade rendering

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05 Jinmao Changshu Commercial, Suzhou

07 Sunlight and Wind Stimulation

Commercial Complex

Stimulation & Sustainability

Commercial landscape design, 4 ha

Use of butterfIy and blue CFD tools in Rhino

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The Way to Revoke Re-use & Heritage protection Individual Work Site Location: Pisa, Italy Size: 0.45ha Castello di Ripafratta is a medieval castle in Pisa, Tuscany, Italy. Dominating a great extension of Pisan mountians, the castle has witnessed a series of historical events in the past one thousand years. The wars benveen Pisa and Lucca, the change of ownership and the passing of time transformed the firm fortress into an abandonment.

Since 2011, several demonstrations have been held by the locals askingfor preservation and restoration of the casle. It is possible to bring life back inside this medieval walls?

The objective of the project is to transform the ruin into a culural heritage park serving both the locals and tourists, without interfering the curent facade of the casle ruin. In order to achieve this goal, several conflicts berveen the space of ancien fortress and that of modern park need to be resolved.

THE WAY TO REVOKE ROCCA DI RIPAFRATTA

Internal space

The Fortress of San Paolino is part of the historicarchitectural heritage of San Giuliano Terme (province of Pisa). Originating in medieval times, it is located in the community of Ripafratta. It has for many years now been left abandoned and decaying.

The Serchio River Current Village

Rocca di Ripafratta

THE LEGENDARY CASTLE FADES AWAY 1109 Frequent confIicts between Lucca and Pisa push the Republic of Pisa to consolidate fortresses and villages and establish a broader defense system.

1162-1164

In the late fifteenth century, the great military architect Antonio da Sangallo worked with Leonardo da Vinci to develop a plan for the renovation and transformation of the Ripafratta fortress.

1628

1839

A century after these events, the fortress lost his military importance.In 1628 it was al-located for cultivation as orchard and vineyard.

alongside the period of decadence its charm grew: it was visited by foreign romantic intellectuals, architects and poets, Mary and Percy Bysshe Shelley writing verses of Ripafratta or setting parts of their novels here).

NOW

Due to the influence of time and nature, all these fortifications are now in severe disrepair. For safety reasons, the road to the fort has been closed.

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STRATIFICATIONS OF RIPAFRATTA

DESIGN PROCESS: MULTIPLE PATH SYSTEM Current Situation

STEP 1

The terrain is steep and the path is difficult to navigate; the mountain soil collapses

Increase external paths, build retaining walls and terraces, strengthen buildings.

STEP 2

STEP 3

Central tower

Remaining structural wreckage

Build external paths

Corner tower

Large areas of the site are covered by weeds

Angular structures

Create entrance paths

Connect internal paths

Battlements Arrowslits

Fortified enclosure Bailey Raised fortress walls

Current entrance

The fortress of San Paolino in Ripafratta represents the main structure of the ancient Pisan Republic defensive system towards Lucca. The fortress is the product of several stratifications dating back to the tenth century. It was built in the years between 1162-1164.

Create two paths from the entrance square to the inside of the castle.

Clear weeds and use the original steps to open up the space surrounding the central tower on the internal ground.

STEP 4

STEP 5

Viewing corridor inside the wall

A viewing path running through the inner circle of the wall.

Link between towers

Create bridges linking the two towers, attracting people to climb the building to view the scenery

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1 Exhibition excavations 2 Rock climbing area 3 Entrance plaza/platform 4 Entrance building 5 Tower entrance building 6 Central tower 7 Corner tower 8 Viewing platform 9 Raised fortress ramp 10 Tower bridge 11 Indoor plant terrain 12 Multifunctional spaces

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DETAIL OF CENTRAL TOWER FRONT VIEW 1:500

AXONOMETRIC

DETAIL ANALYSIS OF STAIRCASE

Glass roof Viewing platform

To the path inside the wall

Steel bridge

To 5F of the corner tower

TOP VIEW 1:500

To 2F of the corner tower To 1F, South entrance

The glass roof provides a good platform to observe the structure of the tower.

SECTION A +22.20m +18.60m +15.60m +10.60m

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Entrance Plaza

Viewing terrace

Rock climbing area

Stairs to the terrace

Museum

Central tower

Museum

Entrance&open space

Corner tower

Raised fortress ramp

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ITINERARY ANALYSIS

ENTRANCE The northern entrance goes upstairs through a building and ramps into the main entrance of the castle.

BOTTOM VIEW

APPROACHING

When walking along the Serchio river, the fost view of the hill is the ininal castle ruin.

A new trail leads though the existing forest and a path as well as one entance of the castle.

INSIDE WALL PATH The internal corridor bridge can not only overlook the surrounding cities, but also enjoy the architectural landscape of the ruins.

BRIDGE&TOWER

MUSEUM

Three storey Bridge connects the two towers with the castle, providing a comprehensive viewing angle.

The glass roof not only does not block the line of sight, but also is a good way to protect the ruins.

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Living with Coral Reefs Coral protection & Ecotourism Cooperation work with Jiang Ruomin Site location:Unawatuna, Sri Lanka Size: 90 ha

The global coral has been severely damaged, and the unawatuna gold coast in southern Sri Lanka has experienced tsunamis and other disasters in the past 30 years, but the continuous impact of human factors (diving, coral picking, cruises, shore pollution, etc.), unawatuna coral from 1997 in 2005 to 2013, only 8% is left, and the tourism industry continues to heat up, making this area not able to recover on its own like other nature reserves.

To do this, we have built breakwaters to relieve waves at sea (Biorock technology will help stabilize corals),fIoating trails that carry ecotourism (large amounts of coral frames are put in), and mangrove islands that purify pollution on the shore, among which Mangroves-corals-seagrass forms a more robust ecosystem to promote coral recovery.

Among them, the eco-tourism part is realized by diving tourists planting coral seedlings to the coral frame on the bottom of the trail.

LIVE CORAL COVER IN SRI LANKA

Coral Reef Habitats in the World

In recent years, coral reef in Sri Lanka has been mainly damaged by the El Nino phenomenon in 1998 and the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004.

Coral reef in Unawatuna was severely damaged in both disasters.

Nature Resource Seagrass Mangrove Coral Reef Protected area

There are many kinds of coral reefs with high ecological and tourism value in Unawatuna. However, compared with other areas, the recovery of coral reefs in unawatuna is poor.

With a developed tourism, Unawatuna is a famous coral reefs tourism destination in Sri Lanka. But no marine protected areas have been established in Unawatuna. According to records, anthropogenic activities are the main cause of coral degradation.

TIMELINE OF CORAL REEFS IN UNAWATUNA

In 1998, El Nino caused a rise in sea temperature of the Indian Ocean, and coral in unawatuna was seriously albino

Live Coral Cover (%) Bar Reef Sanctuary

Influence of 1998 El Niño Low damage

Unawatuna

Medium damage High damage Influence of 2004 Tsunami Low damage Medium damage High damage

Hikkaduwa Marine Sanctuary

The 2004 tsunami caused great damage to the seabed environment, and many corals were broken into coral fragments

After 2009, with the end of Sri Lanka's civil war , tourism increased significantly, destruction of coral became more serious

Total Tourism Arrival in Sri Lanka(in thousand)

NEGATIVE IMPACT OF TOURISM IN UNAWATUNA

Buddhist temple Major tourist beach

The main sources of local economy in unawatuna are fishery and tourism. Tourism has a greater impact on corals, including the direct damage to corals by divers, anglers and coral pickers, and the indirect damage to corals by the pollution of sea water from shore activities

Shri Amarasinharamaya

Kshethrarama Viharaya

Photo point Hotel

Peellagoda Old Temple

Resturant Cafe

Welle Devalaya Temple Mihiripanna Ariyakara Viharaya

Diving center Diving spot

Galapita Gala

Goda Gala

Anthropogenic Activities in Unawatuna

Goda Kupatha

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Divers often touch and pick corals, and t he garbage and pollution they bring will a lso damage the living environment of corals

Many businessmen pick corals for ornaments and tourist souvenirs, resulting in the decrease of corals

Coral Mining Divers often touch and pick corals, and t he garbage and pollution they bring will a lso damage the living environment of corals

Sewage discharge from the shore, garbage from tourists, sunscreen and other chemicals can cause seawater pollution

FRAMEWORKS

OPERATIONS

PROBLEMS

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Step 2

Step 3

Step 4

Step 5

Step 6

diving

coral mining

cruise ship

pollution

STRATEGIES

MUTUALISM OF THREE ECO-SYSREMS

CONCEPT

MASTER PLAN Masterplan

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4 Diving platform 5 Landscape deck 6 Mangrove island 7 Mangrove forest

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Functional zoning

Routes analysis

Material flow Breakwater floating path tourist wharf Landscape deck

Mangrove island floating path Breakwater

Triditional tourism

Buffer zone Coral reef restoration

Cruise route

Monitoring route

Coral growth direction Mangrove growth direction Wave direction

STRUCTURE ANALYSIS Structure Analysis 2 Coral Coral Shelf shelf

1 Breakwater Breakwater

Pot 3 Mangrove Mangrove pot concrete

Biorock

3m

1m

Wave energy&direction analysis

limestone wire

coconut fiber&mud

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3m

concrete

Biorock is a manmade cementlike engineering material formed when a small electric current is passed between underwater metal electrodes placed i n s e a w a t e r t h a t cause minerals dissolved in seawater to accrete onto the cathode forming a thick layer of limestone over time.

coconut fiber net 2.5m

low Swirl Ⅱ

Principle

high Swirl I Swirl Ⅱ

Swirl I

The breakwater, coral reef, mangrove and seaweed can weaken the wave and slow down the coastal erosion

The swirl drives coral fish to move in the seaweed, mangrove and coral systems, forming material flow.

Principle

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Ca + CO 2

The coral shelf is made by local people, and tourists can tie coral fragments on it and take them to the bottom of the sea. After being electrified, it can deposit calcium ions in the sea water to form limestone. Coral debris can grow on clean limestone to form reefs.

limestone

Coral debris

Pocket habitat

Mangrove seedlings are planted in the soil in the container. The fiber net can prevent the soil from leaking

Sediments accumulate in the container through the holes on the container, forming the growth matrix of mangrove

The accumulation of sediment makes the container firmly grasp the ground; the root of mangrove can stretch out holes and grow freely

3 Year

10 Year

Development

Development

Tidal dynamo

0 Year

1 Year

3 Year

A tidal energy engine convert the wave energy into electricity provided for coral shelfs.

coral shelf with coral debris

Limestone is formed. The corals are growing

The limestone on the coral shelf grow and form a coral reef

1 Year

Structure Axonometric mangrove pot

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Breakwater breakwater

3 Mangrove Pot 2

Coral Shelf coral shelf

ECO-TOURISM

INTO JUMP

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Tourists’ diving activities are combined with eco-tourism, and coral seedlings are planted in designated areas, and then the corals are monitored by professional monitors and transplanted to large-scale restoration areas. It has realized the recovery of corals in stages and gradually integrated with human tourism activities.

BREAKWATER

After the protection zone is divided, cruise ships will be moored at the pier through designated routes. The far sea is a breakwater piled up with prefabricated blocks, which is used as a tourist trail.Coral shelves are placed under the sea for tourists to dive and plant corals. A variety of marine life is restored here together.

Bamboo Forest Garden Playscape

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——SUSAS 2021 Shanghai Art Festival Material Innovation & Modular Construction Cooperation work (Already built) Site Location: Shanghai，China Size:500m2 The design theme of Kid’s Garden in Bamboo Forest focuses on kids. FLO Landscape invited kid designers to participate deeply in the form of a “co-creation workshop”. The kid’s paintings in the first phase of the workshop are an important source of inspiration for garden design. While respecting the site’s dialogue with the surroundings, the design attempts to integrate fantasy elements such as the moon river, small bushes, and exotic flowers into the space, aiming to restore the play space imagined by the children. In response to construction period, season and budget constraints, designers introduced safe, cheap and recyclable foam stick materials.

FOAM STICK CONSTRUCTION PROCESS

Transport

FRIST CO-CREATION WORKSHOP:LET CHILDREN DO THE DESIGN

Upload

20cm

Spacing 40cm Children can walk straight 40cm

Integration of children's wishes

Finished product

DIFFERENT BEHAVIORAL STATES OF CHILDREN Spacing 20cm to reach the shoulder width of children aged 6-9 Children can slowly drill and squeeze sideways

Children's creation

Combine

Spacing 30cm to reach the shoulder length of children aged 6-9 Children can go straight through slowly 30cm

spacing 50cm Children can run straight 50cm

MODULE ELEMENT COMBINATION FORM

Interspersed-grass

Strapping-seat

Spherical-Dandelion Interspersed on both sides-wall interaction

SIGHT AND HEIGHT ANALYSIS OF MODULE Block sight

CONSTRUCTION PROCESS

Bend-Arch

Leveling the site

Open sight Embedded device

DENSITY AND SCALE ANALYSIS OF MODULE Terrain construction Sparse

Foam stick installation Dense

COLOR AND DISTRIBUTION ANALYSIS OF MODULE

Construction of epdm base

Node installation

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Jinmao Commerical,Changshu,China Commercial Complex Cooperation work (Plan deepening stage) Site Location: Changshu,Suzhou,China Size: 4ha

The retail mixed-use project is located in Changshu. There are three site features around the site: high-tech industrial park, Kuncheng Lake with good ecology, and residential areas. This project takes the historical intangible cultural heritage lace of Changshu as an opportunity, using people as needles and activities as threads, weaving into three axes of the city: life axis, health axis and ecological axis. Then the concept is translated into the site and specific functions are built to create a livable, pleasant, leisure and comprehensive composite commercial center.

SITE ADVANTAGES: ECOLOGY, LIFE , TECHNOLOGY Weaving "Life"

Weaving "Technology"

Weaving "Ecology"

Introduce the residential area from the south

Introduce the technology zone from the north

Introduce health corridor from east to west Ecological area

Technology Areas

DESIGN CONCEPT：URBAN WEAVING Residential Areas

Extract Changshu intangible cultural heritage lace weaving methods to learn traditional craft

Urban people

Needle

Activity mode

Embroider

Lakeside natural ecological protection area

HE AL TH AX IS Build a new city in the future, weaving a city in multi-dimensional function, operation and ecology.

High-quality lakeside residential plot

URBAN WEAVING Taking human activity and behavior as the topic, landscape influences people's moving line and staying and gathering space, and refining the design method with the characteristics of lace.

"Using people as needles, embroidering and weaving space"

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Commercial and office plot integrating technology and office

The three main plate axes converge here, laying a solid foundation for the future human flow convergence, ecological convergence, science and technology convergence.

THREE "AXIES" WEAVING THE CITY

WEAVING : COMBINE POINT, LINE AND SURFACE Commercial Entrance Square

"Stacked Needles"

POINT

Entrance to Music Park

Street Entrance Square

Four kinds of activity square Ceremonial Square

Display Square

Multiple composite functions are superposed to create multi-point and multi-time commercial vitality space.

The entrance to the basement is cramped, and the integration of the pavement makes it visually larger.

city people

"Flowing needle"

LINE

Office people

Six converging people lines

Residential people

community poople

Residential people

Multi-directional people connection Attract multiple people through the commercial space in series.

"Blooming needle"

Sakura Neighborhood Road The residential road full of cherry blossoms creates a comfortable and pleasant atmosphere.

SURFACE Hyun Dance Theater

A core spot Weaving dream theme IP square

The core site extends outwards to build the core explosion point and drive the vitality of the surrounding site.

The immersive light and shadow attracts popular focus, carries commercial operation activities, and creates a cool light and shadow stage.

Stable Diffusion Generation

INPUT THREE TYPE OF PICTURES IN SATBLE DIFFUSION

Architecture facade rendering

segnet picture

AI Generation & Stable Diffusion Application Cooperation work (with Li Xinwei) Site Location: Eindhoven, Netherlands We used Rhino for architectural modeling and exported Segnet Picture, Lineart Picture, and Depth Picture as inputs. In Stable Diffusion, I applied ControlNet to retain structure and a custom LoRA to generate facade styles. I further refined details like windows and materials using Inpainting Mode, fine-tuning parameters for realism. Finally, I enhanced the output with Photoshop. This workfIow streamlines facade design testing and explores AI’s potential in architectural visualization.

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Controlnet Weight (lineart+seg+depth)

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Overlay different style images to test a single ControlNet at varying weights.

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Lora Weight

lineart + seg

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lineart + seg0.6+depth0.6 lineart + depth

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Controlnet Weight

Controlnet

In this experiment, We explored the integration of Rhino modeling with Stable Diffusion to generate architectural facade renderings. We first created a base model in Rhino and exported various formats, including Segnet Picture, Lineart Picture, and Depth Picture as inputs. Then, We used ControlNet to retain the building’s structure while applying a custom LoRA model trained on a dataset of architectural images with specific materials, textures, and styles to ensure coherence in the generated facades.

Additionally, We refined the details using Inpainting mode, adjusting windows, materials, and decorative elements to align with our design intent. Throughout the process, We experimented with CFG Scale, ControlNet weights, and other parameters to enhance the depth and realism of the generated results.

Lora Weight

STABLE DIFFUSION GENERATION PROCESS

depth+lineart picture

lineart picture

Use three style images to evaluate LoRA performance at different weights.

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Thank you

Shengran Chang shengran.chang@mail.polimi.it +393455098170