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CHENYI (EASSON) SHEN
by Easson Shen
As a landscape architecture graduate. I have a passion on creating healthy, sustainable environment not only for human being, but our mother earth. Growing up in Changzhou, China, a city with rich history of classic Chinese gardens, I have a deep interest in the history of eastern and western traditional garden. I am really interested in engaging the natural environment with the fast growing urbanism. I really enjoy camping, reading and travelling.
Vision
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Linwood Park – Eastgate Mall will become a diverse and eclectic community hub with a strong community identity, enhanced transport connections, and regenerated natural landscape to make it a place called home.
GOALS & OBJECTIVES
BUILT FORM : To allow more people to live in this area and create a safer and more active streetscape.
• To enhance the quality of frontage of commercial zone with setting more entrance, display windows and outdoor seats to create more passive surveillance and social interaction.
• To introduce mixed-use structures, high-density residential building types to increase urban density and provide more housing options for residents.
• To improve the safety of the street by encouraging residents increasing the permeability of visual barrier to improve passive surveillance on the street.
CONNECTION-COMMUNITY : Better connection would be built within the local community and with the surrounding areas.
• To enhance the quality of public open space with activities and improved spatial definition.
• To improve the walkability of the street through green infrastructure, attractive activities, active interface, reducing car speed to prioritise pedestrians and cyclists.
• To improve the accessibility of public facilities on site such as the community garden, board room, bus stops by creating a welcoming entrance and walking and cycling friendly environment.
• To create sense of place to unite people from different cultural background, age groups together by seeking common interests and respecting difference at the same time.
NATURAL ENVIRONMENT : To restore the natural environment through improving and managing green and blue infrastructure and sustainable design approach.
• To enhance biodiversity of Christchurch city with creating green corridors and ‘stepping stone’ patch for wildlife movement.
• To naturalise the existing waterway with plants to create a green corridor and engage it with other activities on the site.
• To improve the quality of runoff water with riparian plants before it running into the waterway.
• To introduce sustainable material reduce the waste of resource.


