University College London,Bartlett School of Architecture ucbq156@ucl.ac.uk
STATUS OVERVIEW
STRATEGY:RE-ORGANISING LAND USE Land type garbage
From 1956 to the end of 2016, the number of elephants has been constantly decreasing. Nearly 100 wild elephants are killed every year. In order to protect crops and houses, the elephant was murdered. Other threats include poaching, deforestation, drought and hunger. During the dry season, many elephants destroy farmland for food.
01 BATTLE BETWEEN ELEPHANTS AND MAN IN SRI LANKA The story took place in Sri Lanka. Surrounded by Indian Ocean, Sri Lanka has beautiful natural environment. However, the contradiction between man and elephants in Sri Lanka has intensified in recent years, which is a long-standing problem. Since 1986, the number of elephants has decreased by at least 50%. Therefore, it is listed as an endangered species by the World Conservation Union. This huge herbivorous mammal needs a large area of habitat since they need numerous food and water to maintain their huge body. Yet, unfortunately, they currently threatened by the loss, degradation and fragmentation of their habitats. Trees are cut down due to man settlements and planting, which has led to the loss of habitats for elephants in Sri Lanka. At present, the large-scale loss of elephants still continues. Even some irrigation and development projects give rise to the conversion from elephant habitats to irrigated agriculture and settlements.
Forest
First year Land contaminated by garbage
Coconut Elephant range
Ordinary wasteland
Normal land
SECTION OF THE BELT Landscape reconstruction by means of landfill
Somawathiya National Park Trikonamadu Nature Reserve
Move garbage away
Project Location
Due to the residents did not plan and use the land in a reasonable manner, many waste lands emerged. When it comes to the third or the fourth term, the lands lost its fertility and turn into a waste land. Encountering such a situation, local residents prefer to develop another land, thereby, leading to the ineffective utilization of numerous lands.
Mixed rice and coconut
garbage
Rubber
Second year
Restore damaged land
Planting crops
Tea Rice As the planting of crops leads to the decline in soil fertility, in the second, the fertility will be promoted by planting nitrogen plants.
Clean up garbage
Third year Waste land after clean up
Soil remediation of problem soil
ANALYSIS OF THE LAND USE STATUS
Forest
Village resident
Land change
Conflict exaggeration
The area of forests is decreasing year by year.
In 1986, the population of village reached the peak and then decreased year by year.
Increased area of arable lands, decreased area of forests
While the contradictions have been intensified.
Number of elephants The sharp drop of the number of elephants
Repaired soil
Planting small trees and turning the lands into woodlands
Planting crops
As the planting of crops leads to the decline in soil fertility, in the second, the fertility will be promoted by planting nitrogen plants.
Fourth year Repaired soil
Nitrogen fertilization The new soil
Contaminated land
1956
Nitrogen fertilization
Fifth year
Planting small trees and turning the lands into woodlands
Planting small trees and turning the lands into woodlands
Garbage lands
Isolated layer Wasteland
Repaired soil
Contaminated land
Normal land
ISOLATION BELT PROFILE
Contaminated land
2016
Crops
Wasteland Garbage/contaminant
1986
Nitrogen fertilization
Woodland
MASTERPLAN
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PERSPECTIVE OF RE-ORGANISED LAND SURFACE
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The isolation belt separates the elephant activity area from the human activity area. It blocks the destruction of crops by elephants while also makes reasonable use of local garbage and pollutants and makes landscape reconstruction. Now the land becomes a wonderful land art.
WATERFRONT PARK
Waste land returned to forest land
Year 1: 10% of farmland return to forest
Isolation zone
Year 5: 50% of farmland return to forest Garbage land returned to forest land
Garbage land, waste land returned to cultivated landW
Residential area Garbage lands and waste lands returned to arable lands Return farmland to forest
Isolation belt Elephant Orphanage
RENDERING OF ELEPHANT ORPHANAGE
AERIAL VIEW VIEW AERIAL
Year 7:75% of farmlanvd return to forest
elephants
Waterfront Park
A re-planning method is proposed. By means of landfill landscape construction, the separation zone between man and elephants is constructed, so that garbage lands can be turned into new lands, the waste lands become ploughs, and part of the lands is returned to forest. It realizes the self-sufficiency in local areas while also addresses the conflict between man and elephants.
Year 10: The forest is fully recovered
USER ANALYSIS
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AGE 33.9 MEDIAN AGE About 90 percent of the figure in the WashingtonArlington-Alexandria,DCVA - M D - W V M e t r o Area:37.1
MOONTRIP Outer space has always been a wild dream for human being. We fancy the unknown, desperate to find out if there are other lives living in the space. With the location of the site, which is at Anacostia riverfront, near NASA Headquarters, Washington DC? In this project, I want to focus on the experience this architecture brings, the atmosphere that it creates for its audience. Along with landscape architecture that it will enhance the moon trip experience, and understand more about the moon in many different aspects. In this project particular, the site is situated by great city skyline and perfect soil condition. As a kid, we all wonder if there is space outside of earth, in this project I took my imagination to the next level and trying to implement that moon vibe to my design. By using moon like surface design on the site to create an interaction, this will allow the visitors or young adult to educate themselves with a much more enjoyable way. Once the crowed go underground, it will soon discover the manmade space area to understand the moon a little bit more.
POPULATION BY AGE RANGE 19% 21% 11% 10%
0-9
12%
10% 8%
6%
under18 18 to 64 65 and over
18to64
70%
3%
10-19 20-29 30-39 40-49 50-59 60-69 70-79 80+
About 90 percent of the figure in Virgina:38.3
INCOME
scurb
$55,328
$85,203
PER CAPITAINCOME
About 10 percent higher than the amount in the WashingtonArlington-Alexandria,DC-VAMD- WV Metro Area：$49.436
MEDIAN HOUSEHOLD INCOME About 80 percent of the amount in the washingtonarlington-Alexandria.DC-VAMD-WV Metro Area:$102.180
About 1.4times the amount in Virginia:$38900
About 20 percent higher than the amount in Virginia:$72,577
HOUSEHOLD INCOME 33% 23%
26%
18%
Under $50k $50k-$100k $100k-$200K Over$200k
transport
POVERTY commercial
16.2%
PERSONS BELOW POVERTY LINE roads
More than double the rate in the Washington-ArlingtonAlexandria,DC-VA-MD-WV Metro Area:7.6%
building water
CHILDREN(UNDER 18）
poverty 23%
poverty Non-poverty
SENIORS(65 AND OVER)
poverty 17%
poverty Non-poverty
About 1.5 times the rate in Virginia:10.7%
farm Scurb Transport
EAST
residential
Commercial Roads
industrial
Building Water Farm Residential
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT 92.1%
60.4%
HIGH SCHOOL GRAD OR HIGHER About the same as the rate in the WashingtonArlington-Alexandria,DCVA - M D - W V M e t r o Area:91.3%
BACHELOR'S DEGREE OR HIGHER About 20 percent higher than the rate in the Washington- No degree H i g h Arlington-Alexandria,DC-VAschool MD-WV Metro Area:51.6%
About the same as the rate in the rate in Virginia:89.9%
About 1.5 times the rate in Virginia:39.3%
Industrial MAX AVG MIN
EAST
WEST
MIN AVG MAX
10%
S o m e Bachelor's P o s t collage grad
MIND MAPPING
SOURCE OF INSPIRATION
The combination of indoor and outdoor activities, the upper ground area was filled by soil that is special designed for the upper space.
NORTHEAST ELEVATION
Astronaut's perception in space
Astronauts on mission in space
Astronauts performing tasks in the space station
"Walking" on the moon
People usually feel lonely in the empty space
Installation would inspires curiosity of people
People are passionate about learning the unknown
People could feel weightless when walking natural hump
Learn astronomy
To u r i s t s e x p e r i e n c e weightlessness while walking hump
STRUCTURE ANALYSIS
-To extract the moon shape from the actual moon, and according to my design strategy, there are 3 exhibitions for visitors to discover.
Given the shape of the ground and to go further underground, I reshape the design to half, with triangle shape to create the structure for it.
With special connecting tunnel, it creates a preparation space before people enter each exhibition room, to fulfill the purpose of transit.
Through empty space simulation of human loneliness in space
Put some "small caves" in the simulated craters and craters to increase the interaction between visitors and the site
NORTHWEST ELEVATION
CIRCULATION STRATEGY AND SPATIAL DESIGN
ARCHITECTURE PLAN DRAWING
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SECTION BB' A
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① Loneliness experience space ② Planetarium ③ Space-Time Tunnel Experience Space ④ Space-Time Tunnel Experience Space ⑤ Export
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B'
INTERIOR PERPECTIVE
AERIAL VIEW
MODEL MAKING ELEVATION VIEW
MODEL MAKING PERSPECTIVE VIEW
PERSPECTIVE VIEW
MODEL MAKING PERSPECTIVE VIEW
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03 “CALCULATING ”WATERSCAPE
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WATERFRONT DESIGN OF PINGSHAN RIVER SHENZHEN
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With grasshopper, I calculated the low points in the whole area that would store water. Each low point is designed as a miniature rain garden that could collect rainwater with high efficiency. When the storm came, the small “green holes” distributed in each area of the site could effectively collect water and form a ecological wetland. The site after intervention is a combination of hardscape public spaces for human to rest and ecological wetlands (calculated small holes), which can not only form an interesting waterfront landscape and provide local residents with a place to rest after meals, but also protect local residents' property and various losses caused by severe weather.
ANNUAL
The site is located beside pingshan river, shenzhen. Due to the influence of climate, the spatial and temporal distribution of rainfall in the basin is extremely unbalanced：The tropical typhoons that frequently occur in summer season would cause rainstorm and flood, which brings severe economic burden to local area. To ease the situation, a protective landscape that would activate the urban waterfront is proposed. Through the investigation, I found that the landscape types of the river basin aremainly hills, platforms and low mountains, with the terrain high in the south and low in the north. The site is one of the most severely affected area by the flood disaster. waterways railway traffic natural
rain garden
BEFORE FLOOD TOTAL CLOUD COVER 100% AVERAGE HIGHMEANAVERAGE HIGHCLEAR SKIES 0
PERSPECTIVE
MASTER PLAN
RADIATION 500 450 400 350 300 250 200 150 100 50 0 JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC TEMPERATURE:(degrees F) DRY BULB MEAN WET BULB MEAN DRY BULB (all hours) COMFORT ZONE
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RADIATION GLOBAL HORIZ DIFFUSE
WIND VELOCITY RANGE 60 55 50 45 40 35 30 25 20 15 10 5 0 JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC
CHOOSE SITE BOUNDARY
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LANDFORM GENERATION
RECORDED HIGH AVERAGE HIGH MEAN AVERAGE LOW RECORDED LOW
SECTION AA'
LAND DISTRIBUTION green space idle land
river
BEFORE FLOOD
AFTER FLOOD
hill
residential area
MAPPING LOW-POINTS
BEFORE FLOOD
WET SEASON
20m
ecological wetland
WET SEASON
HIERARCHY
STRATEGY
EXISTING PROBLEM OF THE STREET
Mixed flow of people and vehicles
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Diverge People and vehicles, broaden the sidewalk, set the roundabout, and provide parking space.
HANGING GARDEN IN THE STREET --STREET RECONSTRUCTION
FLOOR PLAN
company
The project is located in Yu z h o u c o m m e r c i a l c i t y, Jiulongpo district, Chongqing. It is a street mainly engaged in hardware wholesale and agricultural products trade. Due to the rapid urbanization, there are problems such as old infrastructure, mixed flow of people and vehicles, private cars occupying the street, small shops occupying the street, commercial space occupying green space, and insufficient occupancy of landscape space.
hospital
school
The hanging gardens provide entertainment for local residents
Insufficient green space
Imbalanced proportion of space
Insufficient landscape space
Standardize the shop construction, establish the commercial space on the second floor, and standardize the pedestrian path
Shrubs and flowers are planted on the ground floor, and hanging gardens are built on the upper floor
MASTER PLAN
park
Spaces ratio imbalance: Lacking of parking space: Insufficient occupancy of green shops are illegally built and vehicles park in the middle of space. occupy sidewalks; street the road which lead to traffic congestion, narrow space booths are randomly between vehicles, and mixed flow of people and vehicles.
THE ANALYSIS OF NEIGHBORING RESIDENTS Residen Population category
Number Green space per capita Landscape per capita
Pedestrian Businessman
Lacking of landscape resting space
SITE TRAFFIC FLOW ANALYSIS
Conclusion. The number of people on the street is generally large. The street space division is not reasonable, such as illegal construction of shops and occupation of sidewalks. Due to insufficient green space and landscape space, the function of the street cannot serve the neighboring residents well.
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EXPLOSIVE VIEW
PLANT ANALYSIS After reconstruction, the street has retained its original commercial functions, such as hardware wholesale and agricultural products trade, but improved the transportation system, including the establishment of exclusive parking space, the diversion of people and vehicles, the integration of green and landscape space, and the establishment of a three-dimensional greening system.
ELEVATION
cabbage
tomato
tulip
rose
pepper
strawberry
carrot
onion
The garden space is made up of roses and tulips that are suitable for local growth, forming a small garden full of brilliant colors in the sky.
BEFORE RECONSTRUCTION
Ve g e t a b l e s p a c e i s m a d e u p o f portable crops that are in line with local characteristics. The residents can plant vegetables according to their own preferences.
AFTER RECONSTRUCTION
AERIAL VIEW Observation of plants with VR device can enhance the fun and interaction of tourists in the hanging garden landscape. Through VR device, we can learn the name, characteristics, growth process of different plants and observe the morphological characteristics of tourists in different seasons and time periods.
STRUCTURE ANALYSIS
The growth process, irrigation degree and maturity index of vegetables were observed through VR device.
PERSPECTIVE