Esther Jung Portfolio

LinkedIn : www.linkedin.com/in/esther-iny-jung

University of Pennsylvania, Weitzman School of Design

Master of Landscape Architecture

Urban Resilience Certificate Candidate

Mobile: 1.469.328.0168

Email: estherjung08@gmail.com

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PROFESSIONAL WORKS :

Southern Gateway Deck Park

35IH, Dallas, Texas

Energy Plaza

Downtown Dallas, Texas

222 East Quarter Residential Tower

Dallas, Texas

Belmont Hotel

Oak Cliff, Dallas

Connectiy: ULI Hines Urban Design Competition

East Village Development, Kansas City

Urban Forest Pods: Urban Regeneration of Jamsil Sports Complex in Seoul

Gansam Architects & Partners, Seoul, Korea

Texas Harris Methodist Fort Worth Surgery Tower HKS Inc. Projects, Dallas, Texas

Other Works 2015-2019

Grasshopper Project + Design Build Projects

ACADEMIC STUDIO PROJECTS :

The Great Climate Migration: Growing with the Jamaica Bay

Matthijs Bouw

Eel’s Journey: LA+ Creature Competition

2020 Winning Design

Re-Discovering Forest

Nate Wooten/ Ellen Neises

Green Loops: Reimagining Park & Boulevard System in Chicago

Yadiel Rivera

ACADEMIC SHORT PROJECTS :

Oxford Wetland Mitigation Project

Bill Young

SOUTHERN GATEWAY DECK PARK

RE-IMAGINING THE FUTURE COASTLINE OF JAMAICAY BAY, NY

PROJECT TEAM

SWA GROUP: Chuck McDaniels, Todd Strawn

PROJECT RESPONSIBILITY

Designed and managed project from CD phase of the project. Worked as a main designer to create presentations, renderings and construction documents.

Worked as a co- BIM Manager for the Revit Model.

PROJECT OBJECTIVE

It’s our park — by the community, in the community, for the community. It will be a central gathering place where everyone is welcome. Spanning I-35E between Ewing and Marsalis Avenues, the future five-acre bridge park will reconnect historic Oak Cliff and ignite environmental, economic, and community revitalization.

Southern Gateway Deck Park

DESIGN ASPIRATIONS

Reconnect the divided communities of Oak Cliff

Deliver a safe “Common Ground” for the neighborhoods

Reflect the ethnic diversities of the neighborhoods

Deliver an attractive and easily accessible park for all ages

Be sustainable for generations

Improve the lives of all of those who call Oakcliff home

Southern Gateway Deck Park Amphitheater

ENERGY PLAZA RENOVATION

PROJECT TEAM

SWA GROUP: Chuck McDaniels, Hank Thomas

PROJECT RESPONSIBILITY

Designed and managed project from SD phase of the project. Worked as a main designer to create presentations, renderings and construction documents.

Worked as a co- BIM Manager for the Revit Model.

Energy Plaza Restaurant seatings and cabanas view

Left: Main Gate Entry view: Showing Drive way and pedestrian sidewalk with custom metal gated design.

Bottom Left: Interior Plaza showing pedertrian path to the building and infinity fountain

Right: Energy Site Plan showing the ground floor plaza plan and 14th floor private deck plan with pools and cabanas design.

Energy Plaza infinity pool fountain

222 EAST QUARTER RESIDENTIAL TOWER

PROJECT TEAM

SWA GROUP: Chuck McDaniels, Hank Thomas

PROJECT RESPONSIBILITY

Designed and organized meetings with consultants/clients from concept phase to finalized construction details of the plaza level and amenity deck level of the building. Coordinated design meetings with architects, consultants and etc.

PROJECT OBJECTIVE

It’s our park — by the community, in the community, for the community. It will be a central gathering place where everyone is welcome. Spanning I-35E between Ewing and Marsalis Avenues, the future five-acre bridge park will reconnect historic Oak Cliff and ignite environmental, economic, and community revitalization.

222 East Quarter Plaza entrance

222 East Quarter Amenity Plan

Left: Main Entrance to the residence

Bottom Left: Amenity deck outdoor seatings and kitchen area

BELMONT HOTEL

PROJECT TEAM

SWA GROUP: Chuck McDaniels, Ron Lim

PROJECT RESPONSIBILITY

Worked on concept phase of the projects to SD submission. Produced rendering and technical drawings for the submission.

PROJECT OBJECTIVE

It’s our park — by the community, in the community, for the community. It will be a central gathering place where everyone is welcome. Spanning I-35E between Ewing and Marsalis Avenues, the future five-acre bridge park will reconnect historic Oak Cliff and ignite environmental, economic, and community revitalization.

Concept Grading Plan

Site Sections

COURSE

ULI HINES URBAN DESIGN COMPETITION

TEAMMATES

PROJECT LOCATION

Kansas City, Missouri

PROJECT OBJECTIVE

Connecity is designed around four main goals: Connecting Transportation Systems, Integrating Open Spaces, Inclusiveness in Community and Place-making for Businesses.

The project being in the heart of CBD, the masterplan will implement a TOD System on each North and South end to create a connection to existing transportation system. Gradually transitioning from automobile-oriented system to a public transitoriented system, it encourages all commuters to use various transit options to navigate through the city. Also, it seeks to bridge surrounding green networks through East-West street connections, providing an easy and diverse experience of open spaces. The project intends to create inclusive community with a diverse housing options and programs for people in all ages and ethnicities. Also, by providing affordable housing for low-income residents and various housing options, it can prevent the issues of gentrification and social divides through spaces. Our goal is to create a green destination for living, working, entertainment without biased.

Yihan Zhang , Minyang Sun, Zihye Wang

2030 KANSAS CITY VISION

Connecity is about shaping an adaptive and sustainable structure for the future of the Kansas City. To create a new sequence od public places can reposition Connecity into the fabric of the city, with the impact developement which is the basis of vitality of urban area. By naturalizing the lands, the efficiency of active mobility for walk-cycleride mode will be emphasized. Most importantly, we propose to build a close neighborhood, more than its functions. This can also be expressed in mixed-use programs that provide a framework for possible future transformation.

Top Left: An inclusive community hub that provides amenities for all ages and ethnicity

Bottom Left: Event Green plaza to whole any cultural activies in East Kansas city Right: A new transit node where all transportation as well as bike highways intersect.

GREEN LOOPS:

RE-ENVISIONING CHICAGO PARK & BOULEVARD INTO A GREEN CORRIDOR

COURSE

602 Urban Design Studio

INSTRUCTOR

Yadiel Rivera

PROJECT TEAM

Levena Tan

PROJECT OBJECTIVE

Logan Square is small open space with history and a great public value. This public center is surrounded by interections of major road networks and commercial activities. Logan square neighborhood is currently experiencing a increase in population, public transportation ridership, and more demand for space for recreation and open spaces. With current developments (TIF and North Branch Industrical Corridor Development) and at this point in time, How could this area be transformed to meet the demand for the new growing community and sustain new environmental and civic goals for the future of Chicago?

Our manifesto is to transform the boulevard into car-free green corridor that links two major node developments : Logan Square and Chicago Riverfront. The boulevard will transform into a new spine for pedestrian and bike trails with green infrastructure that brings back the native plant ecology as well as provides space for community engagement and recreation. Both nodes are connected with a inner corridor as well as the outer loop. Each node will have a public center intersecting with a commercial corridor and public transit hubs on each ends of superblocks. Major plaza will have spaces for large public events and programs as well as respite areas to enjoy a bit of nature and water garden. Public facilities as well as new residential blocks will be developed around the public center activating each nodes into a new way of living and work zone.

Logan Square and Waterfront develoopment connected by outer green connections.

CITY-WIDE MOBILITY STRATEGY

PUBLIC REALMS

Milwaukee avenue becomes the

GREEN INFRASTRUCTURES

Milwaukee avenue becomes the main artery for public space connections

PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION

Milwaukee avenue becomes the main artery for public space connections

LOGAN SQUARE MOBILITY PLAN

C. LOGAN SQUARE PLAZA

B. LOGAN SQUARE MTA STATION

A. TRANSIT HUB

LOGAN SQUARE PLAZA

LOGAN SQUARE MAIN PLAZA

WATER INFRASTRUCTURE

LOGAN SQUARE MONUMENT

PLAY FOUNTAIN

THE GREAT CLIMATE MIGRATION

RE-IMAGINING THE FUTURE COASTLINE OF JAMAICAY BAY, NY

PROJECT TEAM

TIANXIAO WANG

INSTRUCTOR MATTHIJS BOUW

PROJECT OBJECTIVE

Irreversible climate change will result in areas of New York City becoming uninhabitable, in spite of earlier pronouncements –by politicians to double down on the waterfront. In this urban resilience studio, we will explore the complex issue of ‘retreat’. In an initial research phase, the studio will investigate strategies for relocation from, and conversion of, coastal areas, as well as strategies for the preparation of areas at higher elevations for resettlement. Can we re-imagine the coastline, clean up our waste, and re-direct our resources? Can we envision new, integrated and inclusive communities resilient to other climate impacts, such as urban heat and stormwater flooding, but also to other shocks such as pandemics, with strong social infrastructures and a limited carbon footprint? And how do we get from here to there in an equitable way? How does one decide where to retreat from, and when, and where to?

Jamaica Bay as a new resilient and productive landscape

We propose a new coastal community that accommodate a new way of living in the and transform the coastline into the new urban frontier. Both architecture and landscape programs work together to transform the waterfront. Flood protection and mitigation strategy is to expand the creeks into the inland, using this as a way to absorb water through chanels and green infrastructure on main road since most of these areas are super flat.

PHASING DIAGRAM

REVENUE-SHARING MODEL

CREATING RESILIENCY

Climate migration in different areas requires different strategies. Spatially, in retreat zone we have coastal leisure house on berm, in resilient zone we have various ways for people to migrate vertically, and in upland area government funding will be invested to develop affordable housing on vacant lots.

FRESH CREEK WATERFRONT INCREMENTAL CHANGES OVERTIME

JAMAICA BAY SHORELINE ENHANCEMENT

OYSTER REEF DESIGN

Constructed Oyster Reef Process Recycled aged oyster shell Gabion module on oyster shell Gabion chain creating oyster reef Channel current and filter excessive nitrogen

Coastal Morphology Changes

Catch sediment and generate geomorphology

Develop sea grass community and increase biodiversity

URBAN FOREST PODS

URBAN REGENERATION OF JAMSIL SPORT

COMPLEX IN SEOUL

PROJECT LOCATION

SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA

PROJECT TYPE

URBAN DESIGN COMPETITION

PROJECT TEAM

GYU-TAE KIM, JOONGSANG LEE

PROJECT OBJECTIVE

Jamsil Sports Complex currently is only activated during the game seasons. Missing the conents for people to gather in the complex, the Jamsil Sports Complex has been emptied out during the nongame seasons. The main causes that create a distance between the people and the sport complex is only seasonal use of the mega-structures, vast areas of concrete grounds for parking, and roads hindering access. To create an easily approachable place for people a rest, we suggest a “Forest as an Activating Hub”. In addition to the exisiting trees, we created a forest where people can easily access all the time and place where people can hava a peace of mind from the busy city life. The complex is no longer a building that holds temporary events, but a place where people can access at all times. Like those European stadiums that blend into downtown of a city, we can imagine the Jamsil Sports Complex transforming into a forest within a the city of Seoul.

Current Site a) Transformation into a forest b) Preserving existing stadiums and trees c) Forest band connecting Gangnam a)+b)+c) = Activation of Jamsil

RIVER + FOREST: At the Bank of Han River, colorful flowers will be planted in rippling pattern to visually connect the forest and the river. Used Rhinoceros and Photoshop.

RETAIL + FOREST: A retail band that connects Gangnam and Songpa was designed to create an open green space.

planted

EEL OASIS

PROJECT TYPE

2020 LA+ CREATURE COMPETITION

PROJECT TEAM

HEEJUNG SHIN, BINGJIAN LIU

PROJECT LOCATION

NEWBURGH, NY

PROJECT OBJECTIVE

American eels(Anguilla rostrata) are known to be a mysterious nocturnal creature. American, Japanese and European eel, have become scarce, with populations dropping by more than 90% in the past four decades. Restoration of eel population is difficult unless we tackle the list of contributors to their decline: loss of habitat, dams blockage, fishing, pollutants and changes in ocean currents. These factors including our lack of understanding of their life stages make eels population management problematic.

The project takes place along the Hudson River where industrialization and human activities have caused many hindrances in eel migration as well as loss in their habitats. The project consists of two parts. One is creating habitat modules for eels on different parts of the Hudson river and tributaries where the ecosystem became non-functional. These modules are called “Eel Oasis”. “Eel Oasis” module with buoyant plastic reef and limbs are made up of recycled plastics that offer eels a place to hide and rest as habitats and stops for their migration. Secondly, constructing eel ladders on dams where glass eel(early stage eels) have trouble climbing up or using existing fish ladders. The eel oasis and ladder altogether facilitate their long migration journey towards deeper creeks and smaller streams. Not only that, these modules also serve as a walkable trail for people to have awareness of eel’s presence through the new aquatic ecosystem and their habitat underneath the modules.

Project Site: Newburgh, NY & Freshkill Creek

Eggs

Newburgh, NY

Silver Eel (Migratory Adult)

Hudson River

Yellow Eel (Non-mature Adult)

Dams

Eel Migratory Route

Disconnected Route

Environmentally Critical Zones

Elver (Juvenile)

American Eel’s Life Cycle

Leptocephalus (Larva)

Glass Eel (Post-Larva)

ON MIGRATORY ROUTE

The eel oasis, composed of connected floating modules along the shores of the Hudson River, improves the migration route with more rest stops for the eels. These modules create a shaded, hospitable underwater environment, which conforms to the favorable environment of eels. The oasis could also provide public space for humans in the adjacent urban area.

EEL LADDER: EXTENDING EELS’ JOURNEY

Designed for All Sizes

Different types of dams have built over time along the tributaries of the Hudson River. These dams obstruct eels along with other migratory fish to travel upward towards smaller streams and creeks where they stay most of their life. Eel ladder is designed to facilitate even small glass eel to pass through different sizes of dams.

LADDER DSIGN FOR YOUNG EELS

Concrete Support

The vaccum pump provides continuous flow within the eel ladder, allowing both upstream and downstream migration. The 3D matting inside the ramp helps young eels to easily crawl upstream even when they have littel strength.

HIgh Head Dam Low Head Dam Medium Head Dam

Wetland Module

Habitat Module

Wood planks

Embeded Lighting

Wetland Plants

Soil

Waterproof protection

Wood chips

Coconut fiber mat

Recycled plastic bottles

Wood sticks

Nutrient Uptake Roots

Buoyant Plastic Reef

Anchoring Column

Eel habitable limbs

Bio-film & algae

Native + Contaminants Uptake Plants

Recycled plastic bottles

Juncus effusus

Helianthus angustifolius

Native Wetland Plants

Hibiscus laevis

Wetland plants bring herbivores to the habitat which are foods for eels

Asclepias incarnata

Anchoring to the riverbed holds the wetland and eel modules in place

Achor to riverbed

Plastic reef and limbs create dark and hospitable conditions for eels

OTHER WORKS

1. PROFESSIONAL WORK FROM HKS INC. :

2. TANDY HILL DESIGN: IMPRINT

PROJECT LOCATION FORT WORTH, TEXAS

PROJECT TYPE MASTERPLANNING, ARCHITECTURE DESIGN, PATIENT ROOM DESIGN

PROJECT TEAM BRENT SPARKS, GREG TEAL, KARLA PEREZ

PROJECT OBJECTIVE

The $300 million expansion project will add 144 patient beds, 15 surgical suites and new pre-operative and post-operative units to the Texas Health Fort Worth campus.

The expansion will help Texas Health Fort Worth, which has grown from a small community hospital when it opened in 1930 to one of the busiest medical centers in the state, meet the health care needs of Tarrant County residents and other fast-growing communities it serves, the health system said in a news release. The surgical patient tower will include space for support services and two floors of shell space to accommodate future expansions. Additional parking will be added to the

View of the new THR surgical Twer from the highway. From Masterplanning of the THR hosptial district leading to a designing of the new surgical Tower. THR becomes a significant healthcare infrastructure in the downtown of Fort Worth. Increasing the healthcare capacity for the future needs across the North Texas.

IMPRINT

The Pavilion is an iconic structure that enhances the visitor’s experience of the Tandy Hills Natural Area. Nature enthusiasts and surrounding communities converge at the Pavilion for different types of activities and events that inform and raise awareness about preserving and respecting nature. The Pavilion impresses upon its visitors the importance of this place by providing various types of areas to view and experience its natural beauty.

Media IV : Grasshopper Analysis & Modeling

Faculty: Michael Luegering

Project Location: Buffalo, New York

Landscape Architecture continues to see concepts focused on iterating between large scale form studies and analysis appearing in the eco-regional urbanization and landscape infrastructure conversations. Yet, we still need workflows and methods that reflect on such needs and are at the same time critical of such discourse. If we agree that the calibration of our tools (software, machine assisted model production, etc) directly impacts the way we perceive, interpret and develop both data and concepts, than the workflows that key these aspirations should ideally embody them, but at a minimum reflect them.

Light and Space Community Project

Studio: Light & Space: SouthLight Event

Proposal: Community Renewal Istallation Project

Faculty: Laura Briggs

Location: Grace Church Cemetery, Pawtucket, Rhode Island

The studio explored full-scale interventions into the city. Students worked closely with the Providence Office of Planning and Development to design using a full-scale lightweight structure and light to transform a underserved areaas in Pawtucket community. The goal is to activate nodes to make a “pop up” city, where events and space bring life to urban streets. The event is created by an in-depth exercise about relation between light, space and materiality and how light can transform and influence both interior and exterior space.

Cherry Blossom Design Build Project

Studio Title: Architectural Design

Proposal: Design and build Community Project

Faculty: Thomas Gardener

This six-week design and build project was conducted through an agreement and collaboration of RISD architecture design studio class and the Chinese Christian Church located in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. An adjacent YMCA and daycare plan on using this site as well. This goal of the construction was to improve and develop a communal, public space that brings awareness to the