Portfolio MA Jingwen for MLA Landscape Architecture UCL

PORTFOLIO LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE

JINGWEN MA Student number: 20129598 For the Application to MLA Landscape Architecture The Bartlett, UCL

CONTENT 1 THE HUNT nothing is determined Rethinking zoos

2 UNDERWATER

An intertwined public aquarium and park

3 OASIS

Innovation design of York Street Park

4 REVERSED CHURCH Creative thinking of the community church

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HUNT Animals and Humans Mutual hunting relationship, it is a common sense that humans invade the animal world on a large scale.

The development of human society makes animals in the difficult situation.

My idea was constructed on the topic: reduce the impact (from humans and the environment) on animals. Collecting data on five senses of animals and studying how to arrage animals’ area in order to have the least inlfuence on animals.

NOTHING IS DETERMINED Rething Zoos 2018 Location: Barcelona, Spanish Area: 16 hectare

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“Overfishing� resulting in those species either becoming depleted or very underpopularted in that given area.

Some forms of overfishing, such as overfishing of sharks, has led to the upset of entire marine ecosystems.

One million seabirds and 100,000 marine mammals die each year from plastic pullution.

Some Zoos have chosen to stop showing their larger animals beacuse they are simply unable to provide an adequate enclosure for them The rhinoceros who were killed and snatched awat the horns were abandoned in the wildness.

The preferences of rich people killing animals to take away some parts of the corpse.

Animals that are injured in the wild and are unable to survive on their own, but in the zoos they can live out the rest of their lives

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TIMELINE

The Olympic Village of Problenou The Zoological Society of London was founded in 1826 by Stamford Raffles and established the London Zoo in Regent’s Park in 1828.

The oldest known zoological collection was revealed during excavations at hierakonpolis, Egypt in 2009, of a ca. 3500BCE menagerie.

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Ciutadella Park

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1860

3500BC

The Detroit Zoo, stopped its elephant show in 1969, and its chimpanzee show in 1983.

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In 1907. the German entrepreneur founded Tiepark Hagenbeck in Stellingen. It was the first zoo to use open enclosures surrounded by moats, rather than barred cages, tobetter approxmite animal’s natural environments.

BARCELONA

The first zoological garden in Australia was Melbourne Zoo in 1860.

The oldest zoo in the world still in existence is the Vienna Zoo. The menagerie was made accessible to the public in 1765.

Animal Theme Park

Balearic Sea

Safari Park

Public Aquarium Night Safari

SITE ANALYSIS The project is located in the current Zoo of Barcelona which is located in the Barcelona City Park, and it is also one of the best in Spain.

There are many tourist attractions next to the zoo, such as Arch de Triomphe, Castle Park and Cascade Mounment. Southeast side of it is close to the Balearic sea. Around the zoo is a thriving scenic area.

In the zoo, 157 species from all around the world 82% not originally from Spain

main road subway

Transportation

Coastline

Greenland

Attractions

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RADAR CHARTS OF ANIMALS’ FIVE SENSES

ANIMAL SENSES COORDINATE Using the data collected from online, I draw a coordinate system by hearing, vision and smell, and determined the location of the typical animals.

The smell as diameter circled animals’ different area.

Most data coming from the website: http://seaworld.org

sight hearing

taste

smell

tactile

HEARING

DOLPHIN

TIGER

BROWN BEAR

TURTLE

PYTHON

SPIDER

PENGUIN

LEOPARD

LYNX

PEACOCK

RHINOCEROS

CHIMPANZEE

FLAMINGOS

DOLPHIN

WOLF

CROCODILE

EAGLE

CHIMPANZEE PENGUIN ANTElOPE

LION

TIGER LEOPARD

CROCODILE RHINOCEROS

CAMEL

ELEPHANT

OTTO

LYNX

WOLF

GIRAFFE EAGLE OWL

LION

LESSER PANDA

FLAMINGOS

BROWN BEAR

LESSER PANDA PYTHON

GIRAFFE

ELEPHANT

TURTLE

PEACOCK CAMEL

ANTElOPE

SPIDER

Smell (animals area) center points connection

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SIGHT OTTO

OWL

ELEVATION COORDINATE Animal’s area divided by elevation color.

From this figure, I can clearly see the geographical distribution of typical animals, which helped me to reclassify the animal’s living areas in the zoo and created an environment suitable for them.

HEARING Attach the figure to the site

District

Connect the center point of each districts

Circulation

Tour order

Nodes

SIGHT

elevation ribbon

Connect the nodes

Train flow

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VEGETATION

STATION

OBSERVATION METHOD

LEFT: human RIGHT: animal

domesticated animals

WATER

birds & aquatic

primates

CIRCULATION carnivora

aquatic

steppe animals accessible inaccessible indirect contact

Sound Wave

STRUCTURES

deer

dolphin

bear

tiger

PUBLIC AREA

monkey

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antelope

lizard

crane

panda

THE CIRCLE The circles are distrubuted on both side of the water area and are connected to the animals distrubution, those structures were designed with seperate appearances to adapt to the animals.

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beast area

beast areaⅡ

water bird

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steppe animals

steppe animals Ⅱ

giraffe & elephant

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bear

rhinos

Train station

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Entrance Birdcage Trail in the woods Red panda&Museum

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Reptile House Amphibian Museum Trail station Store

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Demestic animals 10 Sand pit 11 Cherry blossom track 12 Bear House 9

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Otter observtion area Grass slope Primates Lynx & Trail in woods

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desert animal

bird watching

bird watchingⅡ

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IMPORTANT NODES

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UNDERWATER An intertwined public aquarium and park for the borough of Queens and the surrounding city 2019 Location: New York, USA Area: 4 hectare

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SITE ANALYSIS

TIMELINE 1853 The first public aquarium was opened in London Zoo, the first Fish House, as it came to be known, was constructed much like a greenhouse.

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1856 P. T. Barnum built the first American aquarium as part of his Barnum’s American Museum.

1964 The Vancouver Aquarium was the first aquarium to capture and display an orca whale, Moby Doll.

2004 The Monterey Bay Aquarium was the first public aquarium to displat a great white shark.

BUILDING

GREENLAND

SIGHT ANALYSIS

TRANSPORATION

ACCESSIBILITY

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1396 The Hongwu Emperor of China estrablished a porcelain campany that produced large porcelain tubs for maintaining goldfish.

1882 The Artis aquarium at Amsterdam Zoo At the end of the 19th century the aquarium was considered state-of-the-art.

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Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms State Park

subways

Gantry Plaze State Park

LONG ISLAND CITY 12

Murrary Playground

The site for this project lies at the edge of Queens along the East River, almost directly across from the southern tip of Roosevelt Island. Waterfront real estate to the north and south of the site has been or will be redeveloped into commercial and residential buildings.

The site is easily accessible by metro with the Court Square station within a 10-minute walk. Rail lines from all over New York come into the Hunterspoint Avenue and Long Island City train stations. Both are about a fifteen minute walk away from the site. A ferry line currently runs through the East River and connects Manhattan with Hunters Points just south of the proposed site, about a 15-minute walk away.

LAYERING DIAGRAM

Tank

Tank Greenland Trail Square

Interior Circulation

Circulation

Trees

Open space

Movement

Ferry

Nodes

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This project, I would like create a place where the aquarium could merge into the city, and design an aquarium different from before. By stairs or elevators, people can go down to the sea. The first place people arrived is the interior area where people can see the sea creatures through the aquarium tanks. This place brings people to the start of the unterwater journey. Continuing down into the sea, people will go through a world which surrounder by optical fiber. Those bring light in the dark water and create fantastic atmosphere.

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elevator

stairs Interior plan

Interior plan

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Pier Entrance to interior Open grassland Jogging track Sinking seat Seating

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Wooden walkway Water platform Museum Small platform Sand pit Theatre

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NODES

Sand pit

Theatre

Museum

Platform

Entrance

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Rest area

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Tank + 0.60

Stair

SECTION

Museum

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Platform

Stairs

Tank

Stairs

Interior space Elevator

Rest area

Entrance

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OASIS Innovation design of York Street Park

2019 LocationďźšToronto, Canada Area: 0.9 hectare

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SITE ANALYSIS The park is at a historic nexus of transportation, indstry and culture. Almost 20 hectares of open space have been designed or planned for public enjoyment in the Queens Quay stretch of Toronto’s harbour, within a system of a almost 30 Hectares along the entire waterfront. The majority of these parks and plazas are public gathering spaces - to inspire togetherness and to expose the public to view of the water and towering skyscraper backdrops.

Existing Waterfront Park Network

Site Microclimate 30 25 20 15 10

Ireland Park

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Toronto Music Gaden JAN

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Union station

Centre Island

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HTO Park West

Annual Precipitation 50-100 mm

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snow day

HTO Park 30

Ann Tindal Park

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Canada Square JAN

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Annual Temperature

Habour Square Park

Existing Condition

Sunshine analysis Summer Solstice 7 Hours

Winter Solstice 5 Hours

Existing Trees

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Existing off-ramp

Due to building shadows, the site only receives sunlight for part of the dat

Site

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Greenland

Subway

Gardiner Expy

Coastline

Ferry

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1 Entance square

6 Open space under the water

2 Stairs

7 Wooden walkway

3 Accessible channel

8 Ramps & Seats

4 ramp 5 Water pool

9 Theatre 10 Gog walking activity space

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SITE ANALYSIS

movement

path

edge

topography

vegetation

space

The idea was inspired by Oasis, in geography, an oasis is a cultivated area in a desert or semi-desert environment. Oasis in the project is a greenland in the tall buildings. The design considered the view of looking down from high floors. The central structure is a water pool with immersive green around it. The holes in it brings light to the space under the structure. Those space, I turned it into a history museum. With wall painthing and the words, it tells the history of Toronto. It is a education place in midtown. Except from that, the park has its own open air theatre. Open grassland provides resident’s activitives area. The undulating terrain brings vitality to the site.

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SECTION1 Greenland

Trail Accessible Channel Wall painting about the history of Toronto Water

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LAYERING DIAGRAM The structure meets the desire for a fun device and a history museum by imagining the structure as a series of layers. These can be expressed both horizontally and vertically.

This approach creates a park that is infinitely dynamic, providing visitors with new paths and journeys to experience.

The open space with wall painting, conceived as a dynamic system and a maze.

Visitors can walk through the six circles to experience the history museum. Enjoying the journey beneath the water.

The Trail, which needs people choose ramps or stairs to arrive. It is two meters above the ground. I think the Trail can bring views different from which on the ground.

Open space Walls with paintings and wods

Water

Trail

Ramp & Stairs

Ground

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John 1.1 “In the begining was word and word was with God and Word was God”

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REVERSED CHURCH

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Creative thinking of the community church 2019 Location: Toronto Canada Area: 1 hectare

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MASTER PLAN

1 Parking lot

5 The holy spirit

2 Underground Church

6 Sand pit & Slides

3 The son

7 Seats

4 The father

8 Tree pool

9 Rest place

SITE ANALYSIS

Community diagram

This site is located in Mount Pleasant West, Toronto, ON, Canda.

Church in the residence, as a irreplacable place, should be given special design. The project starts from the relation of the Church and central axis, in order to find the connection in terms of geometry. Apply the concept of trinity to the important nodes, bringing the religious meaning to the site. Also , the design considered the place for children, adding the entertainment space for them and resting place for residents.

Landscape

Community buildings

Road network

Pedestrian system

Users analysis

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In this community, by establish the diagram, what we can clearly observed was that the rest area is far from enough.

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current prosposed community needs

church staff

strenuous exercise

waiting

school bus station

stroll

worship

thinking

elderly activities

children activities

cultural education

rest area

entertainment

privacy

exercise

public communication

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Occupancy time Diffrent activities and people in seperate time periods during a day.

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6 elderly

12 students

staff&community

18 students

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aerial view

Mount Pleasant West analysis area

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section 2

section 3

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SITE ANALYSIS The Father

The Son

Water

Water

God The Holy Spirit

Trinity Circulation

Vehicle route

Existing trees

Structure

Nodes

NODE 1

Water Platform

3000

Tree pool

The pools symbolizes the trinity, each of them has its own meaning. There is a tree pool in the middle of each water pool, it is a place for resting and thinking

NODE 2

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SLID

The slides made of wood, with the ups and downs like waves, children can climbe up and slide into the middle of the sand pit.

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SECTION 1

PERSPECTIVE

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This node located in the central of the site. The underground structure has a cross hanging in the middle. Entering by staris of only 0.6m wide, people can get close touch with the ground. Church is not only a place welcoming new lives, but also a place accepting death. The underground symbolizes darkness and underground is also a place where new life can grow, which has the same meaning of church. Therefore, adding the structure in the site can enrich people's experience. The structure can be a icon in the community.

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EDUCATION BACKGROUND 2016-2020

Nanjing Forestry University, Landscape Architecture

INTERSHIP EXPERIENCE 2018.7-2018.8

JINGWEN MA 12.5.1998 CHINA Nanjing Jiangsu jingwenma1998@163.com +86 18751882578

Shuyang County Landscape Governmental Management Department

Check and evaluate the community project.

Request drainage access to main pipe: Fill in the application form and follow the manager to take fieldwork.

Broken road construction procedures: Fill in the application form and follow the manager to take fieldwork.

Understand the park green 10-minute service circle, water shoreline and street garden.

2018.7-2018.8

Nanjing Xuzhuang Industrial Park

Assist project team members to finish drawing.

Check the completeness of drawing.

Assist project team members to complete construction drawing.

Understand and view construction materials.

HONORS AND AWARDS 05/2018

Third Place of 2018 National English Contest for College Students Issue Unit: College Foreign Language Teaching Steering Committee

2018-2019

Excellent Student Scholarship

SKILLS Photoshop, Illustrator, V-ray, Arcgis, Sketch up, RHINOCEROS, Lumino, Hand Drawing, premiere

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JINGWEN MA 12.5.1998 CHINA Nanjing Jiangsu JINGWENMA1998@163.COM +86 18751882578