Portfolio xu lin 2018

XU LIN / SIMON selcted works | 2010-2018

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CONTENTS LANDSCAPE AND URBAN DESIGN 01 East End Transformation

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02 Museum of the Bible

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03 Baidu Techonolgy Park

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04 City. Water. Landscape

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RESEARCH 05 Wetland + Curtain

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06 Changing “Backyard”

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07 Sea Level Rise Influences on Household and Communty-level

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EAST END TRANSFORMATION a master plan for a vibrant and inviting gateway mvla 2014- present project manager, lead designer

“ The East End Transaformation of the Danforth Campus is more than a construction project: It furthers the universi­ ty’s mission and values, setting the course for the next era of academic excellence and service to society.”

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The East End Transformation replaces roads and surface parking lots with green space and new buildings.

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PROJECT TIMELINE

APRIL, 2014 MVLA WON COMPETITION

AUG, 2015

FEB, 2016

EAST END MASTER PLAN

SCHEMADIC DESIGN

team: BNIM

team: Kieren Timberlake, BNIM, Moore Ruble Yudell

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AUG, 2016

JAN, 2017

DESIGN DEVELOPMENT

CONSTRUCTION DOCUMENT

team: Kieren Timberlake, BNIM, Moore Ruble Yudell

team: Kieren Timberlake, BNIM, Moore Ruble Yudell

MAY, 2017 MCKELVEY HALL DESIGN DEVELOPMENT team: Kieren Timberlake, Perkins Eastman (image continous on the next page)

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Designed by Cope and Stewardson in 1900, the Danforth Campus at Washington University in St. Louis is defined by Collegiate Gothic buildings, landscaped quadrangles, and pathways that encourage academic connections in a beautiful park-like setting. Over time, Danforth’s East End of campus had become plagued by roads and parking lots, interrupting this original planning vision. In 2014, Washington University embarked on a major campaign to transform the East End into a vibrant and inviting gateway to the university.

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Work with BNIM, MVLA delivered the East End master plan in 2014.

Kieran Timberlake, Moore Ruble Yudell, and Perkins Eastman joined in this capital campaign, which are currently under constraction and scheduled for completion in 2020.

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SITE PLAN 1 Ann and Andrew Tisch Park 2 Anabeth and John Weil Hall 3 Henry A. and Elvira H. Jubel Hall 4 James M. McKelvey, Sr. Hall 5 Gary M. Sumers Welcome Center 6 Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum Expansion 7 Craig and Nancy Schnuck Pavilion 8 Underground Garage

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SITE SECTIONS

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RENDERINGS

Central Plaza, The Sumers Welcome Center, Anabeth and John Weil Hall

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©WUSTL/ KieranTimberlake/studioAMD

Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum Expansion

Underground Garage 11

DESIGN PROCESS ARTS WALK

EXISTING

BEFORE REGRADING: CONNECT DISCONNECTED SPACES

CREATE DIFFERENCT FUNCTIONAL SPACE

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PROPOSAL

KEMPER EXPANSION

KEMPER ART MUSEUM

WALKER HALL

WEIL HALL

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5 FEET RISE

WORK YARD

6 STEPS UP 24 STEPS DOWN TO COURTYARD

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507 PLAIN

Sternberg Terrace Perspective View

Sternberg Terrace Stie Plan

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CONSTRUCTION DOCUMENT

SITE UNDER CONSTRUCTION

PAVING MOCKUPS | MAY 2017

AUG, 2017

MAY, 2018

MUSEUM OF THE BIBLE

a new cultural landmark in the national capital mvla 2014- 2015 design development, contruction document

above : below: right :

roof top lounge exterior view front entrance

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BAIDU TECHNOLOGY PARK

“Open up to the World and Head into the Future” HASSELL Studio Shanghai June 2013 designer

AERIAL VIEW

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©HASSELL Studio

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SUSTAINABLE STRATEGY

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Entry Plaza #1

©HASSELL Studio

Entry Plaza #2

©HASSELL Studio

Courtyard

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CITY. WATER. LANDSCAPE.

strategies for retrofitting infrastructure to manage storm water louisiana state univeristy fall 2012 . 14 weeks studio professor elizabeth mossop

the study is an undertaking in identifying the latent potential in the urban surface of new orleans. new orleans’ existing strategy hinges upon traditional techniques that aim to channelize and move water out of the city as quickly as possible. the success of the project relies on its ability to reduce water runoff and supplement stormwater holding capacity to alleviate pressure on the pumping station.

DESIGN STRATEGIES NO.1 SINGLE FAMILY HOUSING

roof water direction ground water direction roof water collection curb rain garden

left : plan and water flow right : stormwater management strategies

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underground pipe gravel infiltration water collection tank water re-use green wall

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DESIGN STRATEGIES NO.2 ST CHARLES STREET STORM WATER MANAGEMENT STRATEGY the design strategy seeks to address pedestrain accessibilty and stormwater management issues. Rain collection ponds with hydrophilic plants are located in the interior to replace dying grasses and border a newly paved lane dedlicated to pedestrain foot traffic. this creates a barrier between joggers and passing streetcars while simultaneously addressing water by planting hardy, water-tolerant vegetation.

URBAN TREES providing canopy, holding rain water on lefts.

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UNDERGROUND PIPE collecting and leading water into collection pond

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PERSPECTIVE

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WETLAND+CURTAIN

rethinking dredge progress along houston ship channel louisiana state univeristy spring 2013 . 14 weeks studio visiting assistant professor rod holmes

the port of houston is one of the largest ports in the world: 1st in the u.s in imports and exports. In order to maintain such a huge cargo handling capacity, the Houston Ship Channel must be dredged. the us army corps of engineers and private contractors dredge at least 10 million cubic yards of sediment per year along the Houston Ship Channel. this process is extremely expensive: dredging the channel one foot deeper would cost $281 million. meanwhile, the galveston bay area coast is eroding at an average rate of about 6 feet per year with some locations, like galveston island, losing more than 30 feet per year. on West galveston island alone, land loss and structure damage from erosion totals $10.5 million per year. the project both reduces the total sediment load in the ship channel, reducing channel maintenance costs and efforts, and defines new zones for placing dredge materials aimed at reversing the loss of shoreline to erosion.

DREDGE AND SEDIMENT FACTS every year, federal government and private company should spend billions of money to maintain ship channel in a certain depth. only 48% dredging materials are used. the U.S. army corps use them to build dredge island along the ship channel and four place in Galveston island and Bolivar island to create new land for sale. the sediments fill into houston ship channel have three main sources, san jacinto river, coastal erosion and trinity river. san jacinto is the dominated element.

Trinty River

San Jacinto River

Morgan’s Point Bayport

Red Fish Reef Bolivar Road

stream flows Gravity Fed

coastal erosion bed erosion

Forced Uplift

EXISTING DREDGE FACTS

dredge island

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SEDIMENTS LOAD ALONG SHIP CHANNEL 0.02 0.018 0.016 0.014 0.012 0.01 0.008 0.006 0.004 0.002 0

TOTAL 100% SAN JACINTO 70% COASTAL EROSION 25% TRINTY 5%

Morgan’s Point

Bayport

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Red Fish Reef

Bolivar Road

EROSION FACTS threaten the coastal communities and natural habitats

LEGENDS Houston Ship Channel LAND CHANGE IN 100 YEARS Lost land Extend land WATER TABLES 5 Feet Water 15 Feet Water SETTLEMENTS Town (Pop < 10,000) City

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HABITAT Living Marshes Wetland Contours after 100 years

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CHANGING PROGRESS

RETHINKING DREDGE establishing a positive feedback loop between dredging and shoreline erosion (rather than being a waste material that requires disposal, dredged material becomes a resource with value to coastal communities, ecologies, and economies)

VOLUME

SEDIMENT DREDGE INTERVENE START

INTERVENE EFFECT

NEW SYS

NEW RELATIONSHIPS COMBATTING EROSION

Bed Erosion Gravity Fed

POSITIVE FEEDBACKS the project would build up a new network within the dredge cycle: new extraction locations and the new deposition places. Maintenance required along the Houston Ship Channel will be reduced, dredging will contribute to combatting shoreline erosion through the bay, and the san jacinto will benefit from new wetland ecologies and new recreational opportunities.

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Forched Uplift

Stream Flows Coastal Erosion

DREDGE

INPUT OUTPUT

Gravity Fed

calculating the erosion rate produces a map of shoreline, as it might look 100 years from now (accounting only for the effects of erosion; shoreline loss would be compounded by sea-level rise). examining this map in light of population, habitats, and flood zones produces a map of priority zones to receive surplus sediment.

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Forced Uplift

STEM SET UP

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Dredge Island

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NEW DREDGE LOCATION

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PROECTION ZONE REBUILD WETLAND

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WORK LOOP : FEEDBACK AND ADJUSTMENT wetland + curtain structures could easily adjust, remove, and add according to the feedback during dredging progress.

PHASE 1

STAGE 1 system set up PHASE 2

STAGE 2 naturally deposit

STAGE 5 adjust structures locaton and direction

STAGE 1 new system set up

STAGE 2 naturally deposit

STAGE 3 ready for dredge

INPUT COLLECTION

STAGE 4 re-adjustment

STAGE 4 dredging and mark the points

STAGE 3 ďŹ nd the points and dredge

OUTPUT DELIVER STAGE 1 transport to target places

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STAGE 2 place sediment

PLANT LIST native texas wetland plants, choice depend on the bloom color and time, planting depend on the height.

PLANTS LIST

SCHOENOPLECTUS ACUTUS / HARD-STEM BULRUSH

SENECIO AUREUS / GOLDEN RAGWORT

JUNCUS ROEMERIANUS / NEEDLE RUSH

IRIS VIRGINICA / VIRGINIA IRIS

LOBELIA CARDINALIS / CARDINAL FLOWER

LYTHRUM SALICARIA / PURPLE LOOSESTRIFE

ASCLEPIAS INCARNATA / SWAMP MILKWEED

MIMULUS RINGENS / MONKEY FLOWER

LATHYRUS PALUSTRIS / MARSH VETCHLING

SYMPHYOTRICHUM LANCEOLATUM / WHITE PANICLE ASTER

CAREX COMOSA / BRISTLY SEDGE

SAGITTARIA LATIFOLIA \ COMMON ARROWHEAD

CAREX HYSTERICINA / PORCUPINE SEDGE

VIOLA LANCEOLATA / LANCE-LEAVED VIOLET

JUNCUS EFFUSUS / SOFT RUSH

OXYPOLIS RIGIDIOR / COWBANE

RUDBECKIA LACINIATA / WILD GOLDEN GLOW

WETLAND + CURTAIN STRUCTURES linking and using two simple technologies (the floating wetland and the turbidity curtain) in a new way. the turbidity curtain would not only help slow down water flow, but also stop the sediment going through it.

floating island water surface shackles poly rope turbidity curtain

ballast inside shackles chain

anchor

riverbed surface

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PERSPECTIVE

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CHANGING “BACKYARD”

Imfrastructural impacts on Lafourche Parish landscape and redisent’s lifestyle louisiana state univeristy spring 2013 . 14 weeks reserch professor Kristi Cheramie

This research discovers impacts of homogeneous infrastructure developments on a cultural landscape of Southern Louisiana neighborhoods. The residents have adapted to standardized housing and river control infrastructure configurations in their own unique ways throughout the time. The adaptations are measured with backyard typologies where personal characteristics reveal spatially. The findings show how identical infrastructural developments can change and eventually remove a unique culture and traditions of a landscape.

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SEA LEVEL RISE INFLUENES ON HOUSEHOLD AND COMMUNITY-LEVEL Mitigation efforts and adaptations to Costal Hazards in Louisiana louisiana state univeristy 2014 professor Kristi Cheramie

Costal Louisiana is extremely vulnerable to threats from sea level rise, land loss, and intensification of storms. As the risks associated with there hazards intensify, coastal communities will be economically and socially impacted from damage and disruption that result from storms and flooding. The need is urgent to adapt to a changing environment and to mitigate hazards at an individual and community level.

The research seeks to provide insights into conditions under which residents and local officials of south louisiana communities are more likely to implement mitigation and adaptation measures in response to coastal hazards.

This project helps to determin how to best deliver technical information to residents of coastal communities, and overall builds the capacity for ongoing, borad-based examinations of coastal resilience.

VISUALIZING TIME CYCLES INFLUENCE COASTAL COMMUNITY

50 year lifecycle of building

50 year lifecycle of 2012 coastal masterplan

50 year net loss of land

50 year lifecycle of hard infrastructure

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VISUALIZATION OF COASTAL COMMUNITIES

BUILDING ELEVATION 14ft ~ 20ft

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Holly Beach

Grand isle

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SEA LEVEL 2050 SEA LEVEL 2010

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GROUND LEVEL 2010 GROUND LEVEL 2050

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SEA LEVEL 13.72 INCH SUBSIDENCE 39.37 INCH

Venice Marina

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