Wanqi GAO's Portfolio

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01 Rebuilding 'Vein' / 02 Reimagine Tradition / 03 Vanishes in a Flash

01: Rebuilding 'Vein'

Type: Landscape design Instructor: Lingyan Kong Location: Shenzhen, China Date: May, 2020 Individual work

Wool-thread model based urban river front renovation

Shenzhen Development Timeline

1840 Shenzhen was just a small fishing village without any urban construction.

1900 Most aborigines in Shenzhen live on fishing and live in poverty.

1979 Shenzhen became the first group of Special Economic Zone.

2000 The Shenzhen government has formulated many policies to attract young people.

2020 Shenzhen has become one of the most famous international metropolises in China.

Site Type Recognition

Radar Analysis Diagram Site is located in the most popular tourist area in Shenzhen.

Through the analysis of the radar chart, it is found that the natural ecological type of land is in a state of neglect and waste.

Site Space Situation

Type 1: Nature/Ecology

Type 2: Community/Residence

Type 3: Shopping/Entertainment

Type 4: Tourism/Leisure

River and Urban's Relationship

1.Lack of spatial experience

4.lowering of river water level Ecological destruction

2.Urban roads occupy river space

6.Residential areas occupy river space

3.River water pollution

5.Viaduct divides river space

P2

Tourist Season Event Lava Map

Residents: Commuting Traffic

Residents: Daily Diet Visitors: Tourism Residents: Work Residents: Entertainment Residents: Leisure & Exercise

Site Issue

Site Livelihood

Ecological Cycle System / Design Strategy

1.Conflict And Pressure

Residents Student Office worker Villa residents Tourist Precipitation Temperature

Population Change Tourist season Population 305,000

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Tourists

2.Waste And Deterioration The river in the site is left unused and wasted. Blindly hardening of the revetment leads to the deterioration of river ecology and the reduction of use value, which gradually forms a vicious circle.

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The standard construction of urbanization makes the site landscape experience and lifestyle singular, and the site lacks cultural characteristics and spatial identity.

Use

Eco Plaza

Cultural Diversity

Original Path

Buffer/Shunt

Attractions

Landscape View

Special Events

Space Experience

Social Gathering

Elevation Change

StudentsS

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Community Culture

Urban Vein Ecological Corridor

Corridor Bridge

3.Invasion And Segmentation The river is covered and cut by multiple urban roads and viaducts, making the river landscape space experience a fracture, damaging the site function, and dividing the site space.

Residents

Community

Urban River

Fruit Picking

Algae

Community Activity

Plankton

School

Urban agriculture

Outdoor Classroom

Life Diversity

Shopping

Fish

Bird Watching

4.Monotony And Absence

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Site is overcrowded in the peak season, but in the off-season the space is wasted and the utilization rate is low. Site has conflicts and pressures between low and peak seasons.

Daily Social Community Activities Festival Celebrations

Plant Scenery Multi-level Revetment Communication Space

Landscape Diversity

Community Activity

Artificial wetland

Mall

Natural Science

Various Space Options

Ecological Diversity

1.Off-Season Gathering Point

5.Comprehensive Site Main Nodes Due to rapid urbanization, There is a lack of connection between different parts of the site.

It is in a state of division in space, and a state of division in culture.

I hope to build a lifestyle based on river ecology and organically combine different parts of the site.

2.Peak Season Gathering Point

3.Main Traffic Node

6.Wool-Thread Model+Site Path Planning Connection + Interaction The Wool-Thread Model is used to integrate and connect the site, find the shortest connection between each node. And through path planning to increase the overall relationship within the site.

4.Rainwater Runoff Point

Based on the path planning, the landscape ecological transformation and functional enhancement of the site river were carried out, hoping to build a community ecosystem based on the river and landscape corridors.

P3

Master Plan

Bridge Flow Line

Bridge Generatrix Bridge Visual Line Bridge Main Entrance Spiral Stairs

First Floor Flow Line Riverside Walk Slow Pass Line Fast Pass Line Main Entrance

Functional Partition Design

Ecological Green Space Town Square Under Bridge Ecological Green Space Bridge space Eco Campus Urban Green Corridor

Site Type Section

Site Activity Planning Jan. Feb. Mar. Apr. May. Jun. Jul. Aug. Sept. Oct. Nov. Dec.

Fruit Picking

1.Riverside Plaza

Beach Tourism 2.River Green Space

Birdwatching Natural Education

3.Wetland Floating Island

Wetland Experience Under Bridge Market 4.Eco Campus/Natural Education

Admire Flowers

5.Covered Bridge Landscape

Community Party

Site Type Axonometric Drawing

1.Riverside Plaza

2.River Green Space

3.Wetland Floating Island

4.Eco Campus

5.Covered Bridge Landscape

Delonix regia Azalea Litchi Grapefruit Mango Taxodium distichum Phragmites australis P4

City Interface River Landscape

Detailed Plan

The construction of landscape corridor bridges can provide community residents with a daily travel environment that is not disturbed by passengers. The corridor bridges connect multiple important nodes in the site to meet daily travel needs.

Urban Farm / Nature Class

Detailed Plan

The landscaped bridge near the primary school provides a safer way for students to get to school, avoiding direct access to the motorway. The open space around primary school was transformed into an urban farm and outdoor classroom.

Space Under the Bridge

Detailed Plan

Renovate the space under the bridge and use the ecological corridor to activate the space under the bridge.Letting the river become the center of community life again, and activate the vitality of the community.

Community Ecological Corridor

Detailed Plan

The ecological corridor adopts a permeable pavement, and residents can complete their daily travel needs through the corridor during the tourist season. In the off-season, the landscape bridge can be a place for community activities.

P5

02: Reimagine Tradition Recommender system based future chinese medicine market design

Site Location Analysis

Type: Urban design Location: Guangzhou, China Individual work

Supervisor: Lingyan Kong Date: June, 2020

1. Low Entry Barriers

2. Poor Sanitary Conditions

3. Lack of Competition

4. Impact from New Media

The entry barriers for the traditional Chinese medicinal materials market are too low and overall supervision is lacking.

The medicinal materials processing equipment of most merchants in the market does not meet the specifications, and there are certain hidden food safety hazards.

Most merchants have a fixed source of income, sales channels are too single, and the market lacks healthy competition.

Under the impact of new business models such as Tiktok, the position of the professional Chinese medicinal materials market has been declining year by year.

Traditional Chinese Medicine Market

1.Internet Celebrities

2.Artificial Intelligence Assistance

3.Active Competition Mechanism

4.Online Consumption Process

Tiktok has produced a large number of content creators. The origin of medicinal materials can be directly connected with consumers.

Tiktok uses artificial intelligence to understand users and uses algorithms to recommend content.

Tiktok uses an active competition mechanism to promote content updates and stimulate healthy internal competition.

Logistics system + online media platform = perfect shopping process.

New Media Marketing Platform:Tiktok, etc.

P6

Operation Pattern of Traditional Chinese Medicine Market

Spatial Pattern of Qingping Market:

01 Main Entrance For Visitors

Medicinal herb grower

Courier

Shop owner

Shop worker

02 Residential Area

03 Core Stores(Zhuji Road)

04 Truck Unloading Point

05 Medicinal Materials Market

06 Arcade Commercial Street

07 Qingping Medical Building

08 Core Stores(Tiyun Road)

09 Core Area(Urban Village)

Consumer

Pharmaceutical company researchers

Operating Pattern of New Media (Tiktok / Youtube etc.)

Question 01: User clusters Tiktok's Collaborative Filtering Recommendation Mode

Tiktok uses algorithms to understand users.

Users with similar preferences and characteristics will be divided into the same user cluster and receive similar content recommendations.

In this way, Tiktok can produce accurate user portraits to help product marketing.

Question 02: Flow Pool Recommendation Mode

P7

New Qingping Market Model

Spatial Expression of New Qingping Market Model

P8

Generation Logic of Three Levels Top Brand Chinese Medicine Shop

Multimedia facade

+ Structural Part Connector

Group of Top Brand Chinese Medicine Shops

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Stairs

Public Platform

Top-level generation logic

Open Platform Medicinal Shops

Multimedia Core Tube

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Multimedia facade

Middle-level generation logic

Multimedia Core Tube

Medicinal Shops

Original Urban Villages

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Multimedia facade + Stairs

Structural Part

Bottom-level generation logic

P9

03: Vanishes in a Flash

Type: Spatial installation Supervisor: Yiding Yang Location: Beijing, China Date: December, 2019 Team work: Wanqi Gao(leader) / Xulong Ma /Bowei Gong

Understanding construction process through bamboo installation A

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Hand-drawn Derivation Process

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B Preliminary Measurement

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1:10 Model Derivation Rope Fixed Support Rod

Bamboo Structure

Preliminary Preparation

Connection Node

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Positioning Grid

Bottom Structure

Site Situation

Construction steps?

How to locate the node?

The characteristics of bamboo?

Construction Process

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Step 1: Positioning Grid

Step 1

Step 2: Bottom bamboo frame

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Step 3: Middle bamboo frame

Step 4: Bamboo frame on both sides

Step 5: Bamboo strip epidermal texture

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Step 4

Step 5

Finish

P10