Na Wang portfolio

NA WANG | PORTFOLIO HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF DESIGN nwang@gsd.harvard.edu +1 617-899-6709

EDUCATION Harvard University, Graduate School of Design Candidate for Master in Landscape Architecture, 2018 Peking University (PKU) Bachelor of Engineering, Urban Planning, 2015 National School of Development, PKU Bachelor of Art, Economics (double major), 2015

WORK EXPERIENCE June. 2017 - Aug. 2017 SWA, Houston, TX. · Participated in illustrating and restorating the Port of Houston, the second largest gateway of international trade in the US. · Put forward interviews with different stakeholders, goverment, companies, institutions to understand the port’s material footprint on the region. · Came up a more intelligent intertwining of policy, economy, ecology design, and merge the industry into the city. Use videos, data-based animations, landscape diagrams and perspectives. · Took charge of making the 10 feet site model for the ship channel of Houston Port.

June. 2016 - Aug. 2016 RSAA Gmbh: RSAA (Beijing), LTD. Landscape architecture intern, Beijing · Participated in designing of No.4 Middle School, Tianjin, China; Liubaiben commercial complex and other detail design projects. · Finished front gate design and courtyard design of No.4 Middle School, Tianjin; also helped to create the video for Liubaiben design model with Sketch up, Premiere, Audition and Lumion. · Finished detail construction drawings of interior design and interior landscape design.

Na Wang Candidate for Master in Landscape Architecture Harvard Graduate School of Design E-mail: nwang@gsd.harvard.edu Mobile: +1 617-899-6709 Address: 3-22 Sumner Rd., Cambridge MA, US. 02138

Aug. 2014 - Dec. 2014 Beijing Turen Landscape and Planning Design and Research Institute Landscape planning intern, Beijing · Participated in designing of the estuary wetland park of the Minjiang River in Fujian Province. · Finished quantitative data analysis based on ecological resources and bird habitat through ArcGIS. Put forward plant species selection of the park.

Sep. 2013 - Feb. 2014 Mochen Architect & Engineers Architectural planning intern, Beijing · Paricipated the schematic design stage and took charge of the design drawing, including site-plan in AutoCAD, the 3D mod els, function analysis and the construction drawings. · Projects: Residential project of Changping District; Commercial complex design in Xi’an; Design of primary schools in Xi’an; Residential planning in Tianjin.

PROFESSIONAL SKILLS Computer: Proficient in Adobe Suite (PS, AI, Indesign, Premiere, AE), AutoCAD, Sketchup, Rhino, Lumion, ArcGIS, Unity, etc.

Skillful use of Ecotect, 3DMax, Microsoft offices (PowerPoint, Word, Excel), C/C++, STATA, SPSS, etc.

Language: Mandarin Chinese (Native), English (Fluent).

STUDIO PROJECT

MORPHOLOGIES

CONTENT

Concatenated Mosaic Concatentated Striation

Striated Mosaic

Channel + Dune

Striated Stretching

Stretched Concatenation

Concatenated Semi-Lattice Striated Semi-Lattice

Mosaic Stretching

Channel + Pit

Mosaic Semi-Lattice

Dune + Pit

Isolated Aggregated Repeated

Concatenate Striate

Overlaid

01 A CITY IS NOT A TREE SYSTEMS

02 TIBET CONTEMPORARY: Ephemaral Infrastructure

Mosaic

Stretch

Distribute

Hold Sea Wall Infiltrate

Scalar Similarity

Field/Plaza Wetland

Inhabitable Slope

Wetland Pilotis Vegetation Canopy Embed Pavement

Inverted Section

Dune

Pit Category

03 Guantánamo: Land Between Rivers

05 SURFACE + EDGE: INDETERMINACY

INTERACTIONS

04 FRANKLIN PARK RENOVATION

Wetland

Channel

Fabric Section Module

Mosaic Module

Bulkhead Salt/Fresh Pier

Break in Fabric Courtyard

Sloped Land

Courtyards

Architectural Armature

Public Space Storm Current Sediment

Turbulence Reservoir Excavation

Housing

Separate Sequential Flow

Mix

Isolated

Parallel

Mosaic

Detachment

Aggregated

Porosity Continuity

Publicness/Privacy

01 MOVING LANDSCAPE: Port Houston Landscape Strageties

FORCES

PROFESSIONAL PROJECT Bond Towel Watercolor Chip Wood Bubblewrap Rain

Wind

Soil

Seismic

Ships

Dredging

Habitat Migration

Vertical Oblique

Meteorological Geological Biological

Dynamic Community Fixed Public Wet Dry

North/South East/West

Pour

Manmade

02 Liubaiben MALL RENOVATION: Shopping Mall Renovation and Landscape Design

Paint Oil Soap

Spray

Ecological Scale Forces Material / Fluid Testbed Forces

Sloped Flat

Peninsular

Ecological Forces Urban Forces

Residential Total Vulnerable Secure

FAR

Coverage

Collective/Communist Individual Accumulation Pollution Capitalist Street Connection Run OffTide Public Transportation Wind Ferry & Cruise Sea Level Rise Noise Green Space Household/Family Storm Surge Industry Consumerism Political Régime

Real Estate Forces Cultural Forces

03 INTEGRATION: Commercial Complex and Landscape Design

04 / HYPOTHESIS 03 / HOUSING 02 / PROGRAM 01 / LANDFORM

04 SECLUSION and CONNECTION: Summer Retreat in the Mountains, Designed for My Family

OTHER WORK 01 EXHIBITION MODEL MAKING 02 PUBLIC ART COMPETITION 03 GEOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTIC REPRESENTATION 04 CONSTRUCTION DETAIL 05 OTHERS

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A CITY IS NOT A TREE Landscape Architecture Core Studio III Oct. 2016 - Dec. 2016 | Location: Reserved Channel, South Boston, MA, United States Paired Project with Lane Rubin | Tutor: Pablo Pérez-Ramos, GSD | Nominated for GSD Platform 10 Can we design a city which is not a tree, using methods which are not tree-like? Our inquiry was built upon a generative schema of peninsulas and channels that conceptually [and urbanistically] transformed the entire site into an edge [in which the subject, then, always inhabits the edge]. Embedded in this act of convolution the edge are a diagram of urban organization and a performative will to resiliency and soft edges. Our method worked recursively—with the inevitable degree of path dependency—between forces, interactions, systems, and morphologies to develop our hypothesis.

Our project proposes that, by developing systems and morphologies that allow both sequential and striated occupation of and movement through the landscape of the site, we can create a city which enables variation, adaptation, and diversity of experience. The tree—as a structure of thought and a model of urbanism—is eluded in favour of a more open and yet more precise order.

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SYSTEMS

LONGITUTIONAL SERIAL SECTIONS

MORPHOLIGIES

WETLANDS + COURTYARD VEGETATION

STREET TREES

RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS

PUBLIC BUILDINGS

RETAINING WALLS

CIRCULATION

CONTOURS

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We sought to address variables such as detachment, continuity, density, and site coverage through the systematic transformation of architectural massing, program distribution, open space types, and housing types. Taxonomies of these systems registered the adaptability of such forms to those variables.

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HOUSING TAXONOMY LANDFORM AND PROGRAM TAXONOMY

COMMERCIAL A1 big box store A2 commercial A3 cinema A4 shops A5 dock

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SPORTS B1 soccer field B2 playground B3 skate park B4 swimming pool B5 plaza

EDUCATION C1 library C2 school C3 collective housing / studio C4 collective housing / couple C5 collective housing / family

SHADING STUDY

CIVIC CULTURE D1 government D2 museum D3 religious D4 food co-op D5 park

PRODUCTION E1 utility E2 manufacturing E3 orchard E4 aquaculture E5 ferry terminal

1 MULTI-FLOOR RESIDENTIAL + COMMERCIAL

2 MULTI-FLOOR RESIDENTIAL + PUBLIC BUILDING

3 MULTI-FLOOR RESIDENTIAL + SINGLE-FLOOR RESIDENTIAL

4 APARTMENTS + SINGLE-FLOOR RESIDENTIAL

5 APARTMENT RESIDENCES

COV 83.3% FAR 1.2

COV 75.0% FAR 1.33

COV 66.7% FAR 1.5

COV 55.6% FAR 1.8

COV 33.3% FAR 3.0

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Quercus acutissima Sawtooth oak

Quercus alba White oak

TREE

Castanea dentata American chestnut

Lindera benzoin Spicebush

Viburnum dentatum Arrowwood viburnum

SHRUB

COURTYARD

Andropogon virginicus Broom Sedge Bluestem

Asclepias tuberosa Butterfly Milkweed

HERBACOUS

Baccharis halimifolia Groundseltree

Iva frutescens High-Tide Bush

Ilex verticillata Winterberry

Cornus amomum Silky Dogwood

SHRUB

Aster puniceus Swamp Aster

Carex comosa Bearded Sedge

Dulichium arundinaceum Three-way Sedge

HERBACOUS

Juniperus virginiana Red cedar

Sassafras albidum Sassafras

TREE

Fagus grandifolia American beech

Quercus palustris Pin oak

Ilex glabra Inkberry

Morella pensylvanica Bayberry

SHRUB

Cornus kousa kousa dogwood

Euthamia graminifolia Grass-Leaved Goldenrod

Ammophila brevigulata American Beachgrass

Asclepias incarnata Swamp Milkweed

A modular armature of buildings that follows the length of each peninsula enables a wide range of residential and public building types

A series of transverse bridges that connect programmatic affinities across peninsulas

This adaptable built fabric is shaped concurrently with a sequence of courtyards and open spaces within the architectural armature

Carex lupulina Hop Sedge

HERBACOUS

STREET EDGE CONDITION

WETLAND

SITE PLAN

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Acer rubrum Red maple

Sloped land between the building and the water allows the direct inhabitation of the intertidal edge and is variously programmed based on the degree of slope

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OVERALL SITE MODEL

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TIBET CONTEMPORARY Ephemeral Infrastructure Architecture Optional Studio Sept. 2017 - Dec. 2017 | Location: Yarlung Tsangpo Grand Canyon, Tibet, China Tutor: Zhang Ke, GSD | Nominated for GSD Platform 11 When Chinese Buddhists and Bonpos pilgrimage to Tibet, they create a pattern of interaction be¬tween the pilgrim and the Tibetan landscape; When bicyclist and hikers trip to Tibet, they make up a contemporary method of cultural pilgrimage. When the two paths converge, a new engagement between landscape and mindscape appears, centering on a shared sense of greatness that is imme¬diate physically while latent mentally. From dawn to dusk, pilgrims come, stay, and leave, and they pray, prostrate, and stride. With no terminal, the journey turns into a restless trip where each step is a station. Giving up material com¬fortableness, they however find the richness in those bleakest and most destitute moments.

The project looks into the ephemeral infrastructures along pilgrimage paths for religious and tourist pilgrims. Through basic resting space establishment and fundamental structure supply, the ephem¬eral infrastructures tapestry the supreme Tibetan landscape, and serving the endless pilgrimage with temporary pause spots. Instead of building permanent infrastructures in major cities and vil¬lages, locations of sites form a subsystem weaving through national highways, offering multi-speed transportation attainable coexistence.

The building and structure typology is based on local materials and typical forms, which makes a spot not only a physical support infrastructure, but also accumulation of mindscape from normal believ¬ers. It is the ephemeral resting space that merges locals with visitors. At the same time, the endless pilgrimage makes the temporary pause spot continue accumulating.

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VIEW ANALYSIS

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UNIT PLAN

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And according to the topography, the projects have multiple locations sitting in between villages and towns, at the nowhere of the mountain. The submontane; the hillside; and the cliff.

With simple geometry slice into the landscape, the interior space is around 30 m2. Within, the interior is the epitome of efficiency; every available space is utilized as a combined program space.

Trying to compact the storage and other utility and cooking area close to the entry hallway, and release the resting and dining area with viewing windows connected to the nature.

Models in different scales fully illustrate the location, circulation and programs of these ephemeral infrastructures.

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upland sedimentation dunes and inter-tidal accretion

water diverge

2005 2000

2000

dam breached

2005

dam breached

dam breached

sediment accumulation

system stabilized

land formed from erosion

further planting phase

establish well

establish zai

2017 2010

dam maintenance stops

2020

planting to strength soil structure

proposed river path

dam breached

2025

establish reservoir vegetation buffer

2030

reservoir vegetation buffer expansion

agriculture relocation

2035

establish wind break

2040

establish upstream catchment

2045

establishe majority of catchment

2050

alluvial soil stabilization

dam decommissioned

2055

protected terraced salt plan

2060

protected terraced salt plan

2065

protected terraced salt plan

dam breached

dam breached

dam breached

2070

dam decommissioned

2075

agriculture accumulation

2080

floodplain established as reservoirs evaporate

2085

storm surge buffer

2095

storm surge buffer

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Guantánamo - Guaso Watershed

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PROJECTIVE TIMELINE

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Guantánamo - Land Between Rivers Landscape Architecture Core Studio IV Feb. 2017 - May. 2017 | Location: Guantanamo Bay, Cuba Group Work: KevinJin He | Tutor: Belinda Tato, GSD Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, colloquially known as Gitmo, is located in Cuba’s Guantanamo-Guaso watershed. This is identified as one of the priority watersheds by the Instituto Nacional de Recursos Hidráulicos (National Institute of Hydraulic Resources) as it gets the lowest annual rainfall of the island, has a strong tendency to drought and is highly susceptible to saltwater intrusion.

The presence of the military base and its historical and political complexities, as well as the highly engineered and industrialized water management and infrastructural development in the region have led to the suppression of the ecological processes and hindered both the metabolism of the watershed and potential economic activities for the local communities. These conditions along with contaminated effluents, deforestation, erosion of soils, salinization of aquifers and climatic changes have contributed to an ongoing process of desertification of the watershed. We understand this landscape as a hydrosocial territory: “socially, naturally and politically constituted spaces that are (re)created through the interactions amongst human practices, water flows, hydraulic technologies, biophysical elements, socio-economic structures and cultural-political institutions”.

Control of the freshwater supply is paramount for maintaining power. The contentious relationship between the US and Cuba has manifested through the creation and management of water infrastructures. While the base has existed since 1903, the militarization of the watershed was heightened in the 1960s when the US began constructing a series of physical boundaries.

In reaction to this, Castro cut the water supply pipe that fed the U.S. base in 1964. Within 2 months, the US had shipped and installed a desalination plant from California, declaring itself autonomous. This militarization of the watershed has prevented social, economic, and ecological growth in the region.

Because of Cuba’s Large-scale, over engineered dams cause more problems than benefits for the region and its economy, we propose to stop dam maintenance, accepting their expected 50year lifespans. We propose shifting from impermeable dams and open, standing reservoirs, to a system of smaller, softly-engineered micro-dams that allow for downstream flow, and place water management into the hands of local agricultural stakeholders.

Our project redefines the territory through this notion by empowering the watershed to enhance the region’s autonomy. Through a series of landform operations, water retention and flow soft systems and using plant agency we will slow the flow of water, increasing the holding capacity of the arid soils and fortifying the watershed against looming climate change effects. These bottom up strategies bring power back to the communities, promote self sufficiency and reinforce existing local economies.

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Mapping out both the barriers and the connectiong on site, Guantanamo Bay is linked with bridges, ports and tunnels, while blocked by various barriers at the same time.

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Songo - La Maya

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Jurisdicción

Los Reynaldos

Canasta Mountains

Cabañas

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La Yaya

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Los Cocos

A series of border fences, checkpoints, hard infrastructures, and mine fields on either side of the US boundary prevent free movement across the estuary.

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La Yaya Dam

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Clotilde Dam

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Sugar Mill Argeo Martínez

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Faustino Pérez Dam

El Vilorio

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Reparto Obrero

Guantanamo

Santa María Hill

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The diagram is trying to illstrate the controvertial condition happend side by side and call for connection to free the watershed and better serve the land around Guantanamo.

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San Justo

Caimanera

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Cayamo

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Frank País Salt Flats

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Paraguay

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Sugar Mill

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San Fernando

La Lima

Honduras

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Guantánamo - Guaso Watershed

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GUANTÁNAMO RIVER

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GUASO RIVER Guantánamo - Guaso Watershed

Carrera Larga

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Sugar Mill

Clotilde Dam

Sempre

Cuneira

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Jaibo Dam

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Jamaica

Canasta Mountains

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Sugar Mill

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Confluence of Hondo and Guantanamo River

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HONDO RIVER Guantánamo - Guaso Watershed

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GTMO is located in an estuary in Cuba’s Guantanamo-Guaso Watershed.

Guantanamo, a toponym in now extinct Taino language, translates to the land between rivers. Receiving less than 100 cm of rain per year, GuantanamoGuaso is the most arid watershed in Cuba. With seventy-five percent of rainfall between May to October, yearround access to fresh water is not guaranteed. Rising global temperatures, increased drought, and the rain shadow cast on the land increase pressure to maintain the resource.

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JAIBO RIVER Guantánamo - Guaso Watershed

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YEAR 00 DAM MAINTANANCE STOPPED

YEAR 10 ESTABLISH RESERVIOR VEGETATION BUFFER & WIND BREAK

YEAR 20 ESTABLISH UPSTREAM CATCHMENT

YEAR 30 MAJORITY CATCHMENT ESTABLISHED WATER OF RESERVIOR DECREASED AGRICULTURE ACCUMULATION

YEAR 40 DAM BREACHED THROUGH HURRICANE RESERVIOR VEGETATION BUFFER EXPAND

YEAR 50 DAM NOT FUNCTIONAL UPSTREAM CATCHMENT FULLY FUNCTIONAL HIGH WATER EFFICIENCY AND SLOW FLOW

5m 50 m

LAND USE Residential Agriculture Relocate Agricultural Wind Break Ecological

Buffer Vegetation Forest

HYDROLOGY Rivers Reservoirs (with seasonal depths) Dams Water Catchments

CONTOUR INTERVALS

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COLORED SPECIES MIDDLE DICIDUOUS SPECIES MIDDLE EVERGREEN SPECIES HIGH DICIDUOUS SPECIES HIGH EVERGREEN SPECIES

Franklin Park Renovation Landscape Architecture Core Studio II Mar. 2016 - May. 2016 | Location: Franklin Park, MA, United States Tutor: Jill Desimini, GSD The project locates in Franklin Park, Boston, MA. In Pleasure Park I (Outside-In),In Pleasure Park II (Inside-Out). Franklin Park was contextualized and analysed through its potentials relative to spatial and environmental conditions, social use, and ecological performance. Investigations into the history of the park and its climatic portraits served as prompts to find new relations and potentials of use while taking into consideration the surrounding neighbourhood contexts.

The site is the north part of the whole park and was the old zoo area, which now has shrunken to the northeast corner. Even though the park is surrounded by local community, the north part is desolate. The project tried to bring the people inside (outside-in) with visual connection-obscure and physical paths leading the rhythm of the circulation, and at the same time introduce the landscape outside into the city area (inside-out), which brought back the nature to the city.

The key element, species selection, create multi-layered visual obscure, and hide the recreational pockets at the same time, to achieve a quiet and relax atmosphere. Also, the species aligned with the plank path, leading the direction of the circulation from a thick vegetated pleasure park into the openness view of the south part of Franklin Park.

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PROGRAM BEFORE

ROAD SYSTEM BEFORE

spring

summer

fall

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HIGH EVER GREEN COMBINATION Sports stadium

White Pine

White Pine

White Pine

White Pine

Dawn redwood

Dawn redwood

Dawn redwood

Dawn redwood

Black Pine

Black Pine

Black Pine

Black Pine

MIDDLE DECIDUOUS COMBINATION

Parking space

Common Hackberry

Red Oak

Red Oak

Red Oak

Red Oak

American beech

American beech

American beech

American beech

American Elm

American Elm

American Elm

American Elm

Pin Oak Kentucky coffee tree

AFTER

AFTER

Honeylocust

HIGH DECIDUOUS COMBINATION

Random distributed buildings

Pin Oak

Pin Oak

Kentucky coffee tree

Kentucky coffee tree

Pin Oak Kentucky coffee tree

MIDDLE EVER GREEN COMBINATION

Plaza and parking space Open sidewalk Sports stadium Basin playground Amphitheater

Little-Leaf Linden Zelkova

Common Hackberry Honeylocust Little-Leaf Linden Zelkova

Common Hackberry Honeylocust Little-Leaf Linden Zelkova

Common Hackberry Honeylocust Little-Leaf Linden Zelkova

COLOR SEASON COMBINATION Cherry tree

Cherry tree

Cherry tree

Cherry tree

Winter Berry Holly

Winter Berry Holly

Winter Berry Holly

Winter Berry Holly

Goldenraintree

Goldenraintree

Goldenraintree

Goldenraintree

Norway Spruce

Norway Spruce

Norway Spruce

Norway Spruce

Japanese Tree Lilac

Japanese Tree Lilac

Japanese Tree Lilac

Japanese Tree Lilac

Douglas Fir

Douglas Fir

Douglas Fir

Douglas Fir

Kousa Dogwood

Kousa Dogwood

Kousa Dogwood

Kousa Dogwood

Princess tree

Princess tree

Princess tree

Princess tree

Network structure of plank path

Japanese cedar

Regrouped zoo buildings Create pockets of enclosed space

Japanese cedar

Japanese cedar

Japanese cedar

grassland open space

Pockets area: activity terrace

2’ ELEVATED PLANK PATH

Urban Block Decicuous Combination

Plaza Decicuous Combination

High Evergreen Combination & High Deciduous Combination

Middle Deciduous Combination

WOOD PLANK & GRAVEL

Colored Combination (according to different season)

GRAVEL

Middle Evergreen Combination & Middle Deciduous Combination

PLANK PATH LANDING TO THE GRASS

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DETAIL MOMENT OF PLANK PATH AND RECREATIONAL POCKETS MODEL

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SECTION C-C’ PLANK PATH & PERGOLA RECREATIONAL SPACE

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SPECIES PHOTO

SEASONS COLOR

PURPOSE ATMOSPHERE

winterberry holly

provide canopy obscure between urban area and the site red color in winter

beach plum

change of species with color of the concrete low branch shrub to form the circulation

frigrant sumac

obscure between urban area and site red color in winter

SHRUBS

SURFACE + EDGE: INDETERMINACY

RELATIVE DENSITY & HEIGHT

HERBACEOUS GROUP: PLANTS FOR THE SALINE EMERGENT ZONE

smooth cordgrass

HERBACEOUS GROUP: GRASSES

switchgrass

combine with the artificial stones in the water extention of plant area

Landscape Architecture Core Studio I Oct. 2015 - Dec. 2015 | Location: Boston Seaport, MA, United States Tutor: Luis Callejas, GSD The project is sited in Boston’s Seaport, a neighbourhood undergoing large-scale transformation that has been in the works for the past several decades. The site is a 100 m x 90 m plot of land that includes an existing park connecting Northern Avenue and the waterfront as well as a fragment of the existing parking lot behind the Institute of Contemporary Art. In the urbanized world, the edge of land must be seen as a fluctuating, dynamic condition. Our task is to conceptualize a new urban square on this site that exploits the indefinite, moving edge between land and water.

We can describe the ecology of the coastal edge as indefinite: diurnal tides keep it constantly moving, and adaptations of physiography and habitat occur. Finally, we know that increasing turbulence in climatic conditions and the predicted rise in sea level and increased storm surge impacts will continue to alter the edge—and how we think about re-making it. Indeterminacy does not excuse inaction or suffocate design intention; it is a condition we embrace.

This project aims at creating a dynamic interaction of water and land, also provide people with scientific phenomenon based on the weather of Boston Seaport area. Also this design wants to provide people with different experience of interacting with different water levels.

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SCALE ANALYSIS: BOSTON

combine with the shrub groups red color in the winter

SPECIES SELECTION

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SITE PLAN: PAVEMENT WITH VEGETATION

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SECTION A-A’

1.5m tide

SECTION B-B’

1.5m tide

SECTION C-C’

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SECTION D-D’

SECTION E-E’

SERIAL SECTIONS

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DETAIL PLAN

SITE MODEL

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Greens Bayou Wetlands Mitigation Bank

Dwight D Eisenhower Park

Sheldon Lake State Park and Environmental Learning Center

Banana Bend Nature Preserve Rio Villa Nature Trail ADDICKS RESERVIOR

Meadowbrook Park

BAY TOWN LYNCHBURG RESERVIOR

Edith L Moore Nature Sanctuary

JACINTO CITY

MEMORIAL PARK

Fort Anahuac Park

Pirates Bay Waterpark Baytown Nature Center

PORT CAMPUS

GALENA PARK BARKER RESERVIOR

HOUSTON

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BARBOURS CUT TERMINAL Atkinson Island Wildlife Management Area

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SOUTH HOUSTON PASADENA

Sylvan Beach Park

BAY PORT TERMINAL

Anahuac National Wildlife Refuge Buffalo Bayou

Sims Bayou

Brays Bayou

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MOVING LANDSCAPE SWA 2017 Summer Intern Program Jun. 2017 - Jul. 2017 | Location: Port Houston & Galvaston Bay, Houston, TX, US Group Work with six teammates How can the Port better connecct with the City?

Port Houston operates at the dynamic confluence of industry, transportation networks, community, and ecological systems.

The Port is critical in serving over $617 billion in economic activity across the United States and providing over one million jobs in Texas. It has propelled Houton's growth over more than a century and continues to be vital for the City's future. However, the cultural and urban identity of this vast landscape of logistics is not always well understood.

Moving landscape is a research initiative by SWA that imagines exceptional places tests ideas for urban spaces and ecological services across the Port Houston reach that have potential to redefine its legibility and role in the region,

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SEAWOLF PARK

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Meadowbrook Park

Filterbed / 92 acres

<1 MGD Domestic Sewage Storm Water Wastewater (> or = 1 MGD domestic sewage or process water including water treatment plant discharge)

Cooling Water 2457 - 2494

Glendale / 175 acres

Segment LYNCHBURG RESERVIOR

House Tract / 313 acres

100 - 105 San_Jacinto_Flowline Water_Features

East & West Clinton / 619 acres

BAY TOWN Pirates Bay Waterpark

Rosa Allen / 190 acres

Baytown Nature Center

Greens Bayou

Peggy Lake / 231acres

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Buffalo Bayou

Alexander Island / 651 acres

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Carpenters Bayou

Lost lake / 600acres

Goast Island Restoration / 197 acres

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a standard-setting project The project team of the Port of Houston Authority and the US Army Corps of Engineers, Galveston District along with 6 local state and federal agencies developed an innovative plan to contain the material dredged from the channel by constructing 1,720 hectares (4,250 acres) of intertidal marsh and addition islands that supported vegetation and bird habitats. Existing upland placement areas are also being utilized for dredge material placement and have become part of the dredge material capacity requirement, but by beneficially using the dredge material to create marshes and islands the required capacity for the project was realized.

Atkinson Island Marsh Site / 1891.8 acres

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PASADENA PA 15 + PA 14 / 751 acres

MID BAY PA / 620 acres

BARBOURS CUT TERMINAL

BUG Plan 50 year >300 million cubic yards of dredged material The BUG Plan includes 1720 hectares (4,250 acres) of intertidal marsh to be created over the 50-year economic life of the pro ect. Additionally, a 2.4-hectare (6-acre) bird island has been built, Redfish Island restored, 69.6 hectares (172 acres) of oyster reef created, Goat Island restored and an offshore beneficial use berm created.

Bolivar Marsh / 800 acres

approved by Congress in the Water Resource Development Act of 1996 Placement Area No. 1 / 7900 acres

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VISITING CENTER

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LAUNCH POINT

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SHIPPING BOAT VIEW

OYSTER EDUCATION

BIRD BLIND

MARSH RESTORATION

PRAIRIE RESTORATION

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ECOLOGICAL RESTORAION

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ECOLOGICAL ACCESS & CONNECTION

RECREATIONAL ACCESS & CONNECTION

Port Houston constructed the Atkinson Island Demonstration Marsh in conjunction with the widening and deepening of the Houston Ship Channel. The marsh is a demonstration of the beneficial use of dredged material. The proposal of Atkinson Island Eco-Tourism indicates Port houstonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s attention to ecological concerns, building connections between communities and Port Houston.

The Logo island, the BLVD/Shipping channel gateways, and the Panorama Balloon work together as a landmark framework to identify Port Houston and its footprint within the region. The habitat restoration, the mitigation process, and the dredging operation develop a successionally changing landscape. Industrial elements associated with the Port are used as inspiration to create abstract forms that are set within the landscape to create curated moments to experience the local ecologies.

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Liubaiben MALL Renovation Shopping Mall renovation and Landscape Design Jun. 2016 - Aug. 2016 | Location: Liubaiben Mall, Beijing, China; Area: 1 ha Intern at RSAA Gmbh: RSAA (Beijing), LTD. The project is located at the vital linkage area of the northeast Beijing, which attracts lots of customers everyday. However, the commercial format here is outdated and full of small traders with temporary lease for their stores. Moreover, the landscape outside the building is lifeless with old decoration and little vegetation, while the interior design is going to decay with dim light.

The project aims at bringing the vigorous and energy back to this shopping mall and integrating vegetation with the architecture. The structure of the building will remaining the same but adding different shapes of glass windows and cover boxes in bright orange colour. This method not only gives a bright theme colour for the whole site but also harmonizes the circulation rhythm of the whole area and create visual connections. Whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s more the interior design is integrated with the same colour with more openness of the glass space.

The landscape of the project creates a totally new linear park right besides the building. The rectangle shape of grass and concrete mounts hold trees in the middle and frame the direction of ramps and stairs. The diverse form of small landscape design make the sidewalk not only for main circulation but also possible for recreations.

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ENGINEER DRAWING OF INTERIOR DESIGN: ELEVATOR ROOM

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The integration of the business complex requires a multi-function and twenty-four hours usage. Meanwhile, the complex should also introduce enough natural landscape into the modern building, which means to integrate the nature with the man-made comfortable.

Site generation view

the site

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INTEGRATION Commercial Complex and Landscape Design August. 2013 - October. 2013 | Location: Xi Feng Rd., Xi An, China; Area: 1.5 ha Collaborators: Jingjing Wang, Yao Xu, Wei Zhao, Chi Zhou | Tutor: Tianyi Yang Responsibility: Intern in Mochen Architects & Design, in charge of the site and requirements analysis, the structure building, including the diagram and the perspective expression.

Located in Xi Feng Rd., Xi An, China, the commercial complex need to cover the multi-function and different groups of people in this area. The surrounding space includes the schools, residential space, and other business. However, there is little space for landscape, thus the complex needs to solve this problem and integrate the functions in a vertical way.

extrude the ground floor

extrude the office and apartment

add the club space

focus on the natural landscape

Both the complex and the monomer concern about the integration. The enclosing apartment perfect integrates with the underlying business and the natural landscapes on the top of the ground floors.

The commercial place always integrate different businesses well, however this site integrate the community space and public activity space while maintain a intact shopping and working environment.

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THE WORST Tower+ Separate Tower

THE GENERAL Tower+ Approach Tower

THE BETTER Tower+Tile underlying business

THE BEST Tower+ Lower Tower

High land utilization Unfavorable residential sunshine

Meet needs of sunshine spacing Apartments, office interfere with each other, poor relations with the city.

Meet needs of sunshine spacing Inefficient use

Meet needs of sunshine spacing and Relatively independent apartment and office

SCHEME COMPAIRATION

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The landscape plats locate in the middle and the enclosed space while the apartment joints the business.

People from each angle of the complex can get a tight visual and physical contact with the natural scenes.

landscape flat LOFT 2F

The landscape design indicates to compose a complex environment to have people enjoy the public activities in the open area. The angle space, middle courtyard of the roof can effectively be used and change into the vertical landscape in this commercial complex.

main courtyard landscape

sub-courtyard landscape

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THE LANDSCAPE INTEGRATION

PERSPECTIVES OF LANDSCAPE WITH ROOF AND COURTYARD

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TRIPLE SMALL CASCADE AND STONES LAYING

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SECLUSION and CONNECTION Summer Retreat in the Mountains, Designed for My Family Jan. 2012 - Jul. 2012 | Location: Ping Gu District, Beijing, China; Area: 20ha Tutor: Jingsheng Wang Born in Beijing, our life is always filled with steady stream of vehicles and high modern buildings. Once a valuable experience give us an opportunity away from the hustle and bustle of the big city.

When I was twelve, my father rent a small mountainous area in the countryside, and built a series serious of houses, which support my grandfather in his old age with a natural and beautiful environment. We try to form a seclusion spirit and a thorough connection of the landscape and architectures. And hide the private residence behind screens of landscape and buildings.

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This site locates in the north of Beijing, and have various terrains. With the information and statistics of the climate and surroundings, I make the master plan and design. This project started to be constructed in 2009, and ever since then, it experienced several versions improvements. Thus I decide to illustrate this project through design drawings with photos of the construction site and as-built photos.

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TERRAIN & BUILDINGS

PERSPECTIVE AND AS-CONSTRUCTED PHOTO

UNDER CONSTRUCTION

BE COMPLETED

According a the terrain and the environment, we try to hide the private residence deep into the mountain. This part of buildings act as the first screen to form the privacy and let people visiting us have the place to rest and have parties. Three main buildings and the courtyard of this reception and conference center has the downward slope from north to south. And we have a perfect natural view of the mountains between the buildings.

STONE LAYING

STONE LAYING

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OTHER WORK: EXHIBITION MODEL MAKING

For Exhibition at Gund Hall - Location: Druker Design Gallery Landscape: Fabric of Details This exhibition of a selection of projects by Toru Mitani and his practice, Studio on Site, is about how small things have a significant, perceptual impact on diffuse landscapes.

Fabric, when coupled with the word landscape, elicits notions of system, of underlying structure, grain, orientation, or texture of the continuous ground. Details, on the other hand, are things in themselves, discreet and contingent, requiring a shift in focus to dissect and scrutinize technique, dimension, and materials. However, a second definition of fabric from the Latin fabrica is, precisely, to make, to fabricate, and faber the craftsmen. In other words, fabric is both system and craft.

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People come and stay, the movement and encounter of people within the Mindscape introspection interplays with each other and with the mist as well. The reshaping of the mist with movement is an ephemeral influence. With only one year the fellowship will welcome new members, and the journey of Mindscape echoes the short time scale. The ephemerality is achieved, when all of sudden the mist dissipates and betrays the street and the yard. It is the ephemerality that causes us to think deeply of how did we interact within the limited time and how much did we achieve, give and communicate.

MINDSCAPE: RADCLIFFE PUBLIC ART DESIGN Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Garden | Teammate: Jiawen Chen Inspired by the long history of Radcliffe Institute and the interdisciplinary academia environment, the project, Mindscape, proposes the introspection and interplay space for the sense of ephemerality. The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study offers one-year fellowships for international community across various fields of study. It is a short time individual pursuing of advanced learning, while it is also a multi-background and interdisciplinary communication at the outermost limits and encourages intellectual innovations. Mindscape uses public art to remind and reconnect the site with both intellectual and spiritual experience.

In recognition of the missions and characteristics of the Institute, the Mindscape installation proposes a dynamic public space, which is also an ephemeral journey from curiosity to reflection.

The landform with a diagonal cut to achieve the elevation change is subtle but manage the obscure various from shoulder level, eye level, and waist level. From outside looking at this public space, curiosity will drive us into the installation. The misting system is located close to the street side, and continuously spraying mist during the daytime, which forms an increasingly denser spectrum of mist as a cloud cluster floating above the ground. Walking into the Mindscape, multiple directions can lead us into the mist, and gradually into an obscured space. (See section below) It is the obscurity that provokes the introspection. The Institute brings interdisciplinary people to Mindscape, while it is the Mindscape that brings people into deep thinking about our spiritual life.

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OTHER WORK: GEOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTIC REPRESENTATION

OTHER WORK: GEOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTIC REPRESENTATION

1/8” SECTION CONTOUR PLEXI FOR THE ARCTIC CHARACTERISTIC ALPINE REGIONS CONTRIBUTE TO LOWER-ELECATION WATERSHEDS EXTENSIVE MOUNTAINS AND PLATEAUS SEPARATED BY WIDE VALLEYS AND LOWLANDS

1/16” SECTION CONTOUR

YEARLY PRECIPITATION IS GREAT ENOUGH TO SUPPORT GRASSES AND TRESS DISTRIBUTION OF RAIN IS ERRATIC ENOUGH ROCKY MOUNTAINS IS THE SOURCE OF MOST RIVERS TO LOWER ELECATION WATERSHEDS

1/16” PANCAKE CONTOUR

WATER FREEZES IN THE WINTER AND MELTS DURING BRIEF SUMMER DRAINED INTO THE GRADUAL SLOPE BAY

AMPLE AMOUNTS OF RAINFALL DISTRIBUTED THROUGHOUT THE YEAR TRANSFORM FROM THE SUB-ARCTIC AREA TO THE RICH SOIL MANY STREAM NETWORKS

1/16” PANCAKE CONTOUR

1/8” PANCAKE CONTOUR

AXOMETRIC EXPLOSION DIAGRAM

The process of spliting landform is based on the four topic of the given quads, and make the landform out of characterized material. The study focused on the geological and hydrological infulence of four tipical zoning in the world. The detailed information is illustrated in the two illustration drawings.

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18“*18” model: use different material and different pancake direction to illustrate the characteristic of geological characteristics. The LED light shows the direction of hydrological system. From the iceland in the upper right corner, water begin to melting and form rivers which flow through other forest. grassland area.

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OTHER WORK: CONSTRUCTION DETAIL

Chinese Calligraphy: I have learned since four years old.

Individual project Tutor: Alistair McIntosh (GSD, Harvard) Oct. 2015 Instead of arriving at detail proposals at the end of a design process as the culmination of aesthetic, material, and construction issues,The exercise asks us to begin by resolving the detail as a prototypical element from which a designed whole can be generated. Building from the last studio exercise, I constructed a detail model built with only required materials. This model is a detail model for the last permeability model, and trying to use the basswood to illustrate the different scales of groundcover and shrub.

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The paintings were took during the trip to Europe.

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