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Xue Gao Master’s Program of Landscape Architecture 2018- Present Rhode Island Shcool of Design
Curriculum Vitae Education
Rhode Island School of Design| 08/ 2018- Present Master's Program of Landscape Architecture (2 years) Southeast University| 09/ 2013- 06/ 2018 Bachelor’s program of Landscape Architecture University of California, Los Angeles| 06/ 2017- 08/ 2017 Summer Session: Environmentalism, Sustainable Architecture, & Digital Cinema
Research Project
A Student Research Training Program project| 11/ 201612/ 2017 Landscape Design for Medical Rehabilitation in Residence Community
Technial Skills
Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign Rhinoceros 5, SketchUp, Lumion AutoCAD ArcGIS, Ecotect, CARA Microsoft Office Sketching Physical Modelling Laser Cutter
Language Chinese (Mother Language) English (TOEFL: 102)
Ashes to Ashes , Dust to Dust
National Undergraduate Training Programs for Innovation and Entrepreneurship| 11/ 2016-12/ 2017 Research on Optimization Design Method of Space and Environment of Rehabilitation Facilities
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HongJue Temple Cemetery Design
Come Together
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Tengfeiyuan Residential Community Landscape Design
What Do We Talk about, When We Talk about Time?
Prize of Excellence, the 4th China Suzhou Cultural Innovation Industry Exposition| 2015 Issued by Suzhou Municipal Government
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Visual Interpretation and Spatial Representation of the Movie "Predestination"
Tianjin Architecture Design Institute| 09/ 2017- 11/ 2017 Internship, Landscape Architect Little Architect Program, Volunteer Society| 02/201406/2015 Educational Group Leader
Design Principle Studio Design
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Constructed Ground Studio Design
Best Design Award for the Temporary & Removable, the 14th Annual Asian Design Award| 2016 Issued by Asia Architecture and Urbanism Alliance
Experience
the Invisible Force the Last RISD RIde is at 3 a.m.
Professional Indoor Decoration & Design – Level Three| 05/ 2017 Issued by China Occupational Skills Testing Authority Certificate Honors & Prizes
Contents
Other Work Paver Design for RISD Farm's Parking Lot
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Module Study
Soil Study
Soil Profile
The Invisible Force Design Principle Studio Design
Location: RISD Farm, Providence, Rhode Island Date: 09/ 2018- 12/ 2018 Type: Individual Work Instructor: Adam Anderson In the design principle studio, we were asked to systematically study the phenomena of the site, RISD Farm, and design two outdoor labs to reveal those phnomena based on our experience. I personally considered the site has two opposite characters, so I designed two labs with relatively opposite phnomena in winter and summer. When people visit these two labs, they would feel there is an invisible force between them so that they would subconsciously learn how wind, vegetation, light, and shadow, which the invisible force actually is, work together to create a system. 1
Paper Soil Model
Linear Soil Model
At the first stage of the studio, we were asked to develop a module that could form either rigid or flexible structures. Then, we texted how the structure filter lights and observed how the forces transport through the structure. After visiting the RISD Farm, each of the students was assigned to a pit to study the soil structure. The soil profile helped me understand different layers of the soil and how much organic materials contained in each layer. The models enabled me to further analyze moisture, particle sizes, and porosity of the soil. From hand-making models, I also developed a linear module based on the original paper module. This module would help me analyze the whole site at the next stage.
Soil Pattern 2
Site Analysis
Hybird Analysis
Topography
Hydrology
The woodland at RISD Farms functions as a twosided filter. View decays at a different speed when people stand on the different side of the woodland. This phenomenon is caused by topography, distance, and density of vegetations.
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Parti Diagram To apply what I learnt to the design, I focused more on the difference between the two sides. The phenomenon I was most interested in was light and shadow. From this design, I would like people to notice that light and shadow are not fixed. There are rooms of light in rooms of shadow and rooms of shadow in rooms of light. Even if we zoom in to the minimal, light and shadow are also changing with time. Thus I built two labs, one on the ridge and one in the woodland. Using the linear module developed before, I made an armature model of the site. Wood chips stand for surface water on the ground, water table, and canopies of the woodland. The form of the wood chips also indicates the shape of the landform. Piano wires are root systems and trunks of the woods. Thus, the denser the wood chips are, the wetter the site is. The denser the piano wires are, the denser the vegetations are. The wood chips also show the concept of the two-sided filter. 5
Winter
In the woodland lab, the evergreens are planted in the north while the deciduous are planted in the south. Therefore, the lab will be cool and shady in summer because of the canopy, and warm in the winter because the evergreen trees block the north wind, and sunshine could cast down because there is no canopy in the south. In the ridge lab, the small evergreens are planted in the south while the deciduous are planted in the north. Thus, the lab will be hot in the summer while cold in the winter because the site embraces the wind.
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For the detail design, vegetations would be planted in three different groups according to the structures and canopies. As the sun passes by, different kinds of shadow would be cast on the ground, so that visitors could notice the temporal dimension of light and shadows 7
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The Last RISD Ride is at 3 a.m.
Currently, the site is in-between two main streets of Providence, North Main Street and Water Street, and two teaching buildings of RISD, BEB and ID Building. Based on site analysis, I think the site could function as a guide to lead people from North Main Street to Riverside and vice versa. To achieve it, I define some attractions along the street and Riverside, analyze where on the site can people see these attractions and finally get two view corridors as the results.
Constructed Ground Studio Design
Location: the Parking lot of the BEB, Providence, Rhode Island Date: 01/ 2019- 02/ 2019 Type: Individual Work Instructor: Joseph James In the constructed ground studio, we were asked to use grading as a tool to redesign the parking lot outside our department building. Based on the site analysis, I considered the site as a connection between two streets and two teaching buildings. According to my own experience, students in these two teaching buildings sometimes stay up late, so I'd like to reform the site to a place where students could take a breath from their heavy work and refresh themselves.
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Another possibility of the site is that it could be a connection between ID Building and BEB and function as a shared space for both departments. Students from these two departments sometimes stay up late, so I want this design to be a place for them to relax at night. I observed and analyzed which windows of these two buildings are bright at night and what space these window lights define at the parking lot. The bright space at night will be the activity areas in the design. The upper area of the site will be multiple seating steps. It is a more private space on the site. Students could spend several minutes there having lunch or smoking. The middle area will be a passing by area since it is dark at night, but it's not boring because water will gather beside the roads because of the landform. The area below will be the central gathering space. Students could have BBQ there or outdoor exhibitions. The vegetation areas will become the buffers to avoid influences from the streets.
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Public Cemeteries in Nanjing
Site Analysis Site
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LongWang Mount Cemetery
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LongQuanMount Cemetery BaiLong Mount Cemetery BaiYun Temple Cemetery Xiang Mount Cemetery BaoShan Temple Cemetery
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Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust HongJue Temple Cemetery Design Location: Nanjing, Jiangsu Type: Individual Work (The original information of the site was collected by group.) Advisor: Gege Wang
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The lack of burial land has been a serious issue in Nanjing nowadays. The government only issue land permit of 30 years for burial land. On the other hand, Nanjing has prohibitted cemetery construction since 27 years ago. It will be no future supply for burial land in Nanjing. HongJue Temple Cemetery was built in 1990. During the 27-year usage, it has lost most of its green space to concrete tombs. The gaps between tombs are too narrow to provide a proper mourn environment.
Collage of Site
The design was based on the tourism regional planning project in my senior year. After examing the site again, I noticed an old cemetry in the site, which was impeamearble and of high density. And this is also the shared situation for most public cemeteries in Nanjing. Thus, I was intrigued to find a more sustainable way of burial that can serve the purpose of memorial and also be efficient in space. During my exploration, I added another layer of ecological planning with artificial construction to stress the natural cycle, of which death is part. HongJue Cemetery 19
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Cremation is the most prevalent way of burial in Nanjing nowadays, nevertheless, in rural area, some people still prefer inhumation. Both these two burial ways take a piece of land for grave. Once the land is taken, it is hard for cemetery land to convert into other land use. As a result, the government has little incentive to provide more land for cemetery use as land resource in urbanized area becomes more and more limited. Thus, these two common types of burial are no longer suitable when facing the high-density development of urban area. Other than inhumation and cremation, Cliff burial and indoor burial are two other traditional ways that have been employed in a few other Chinese regions. However, cliff burial highly depends on landform while indoors burial could only happen when families live in bungalows. The main idea of sea burial and sky burial is to turn remains into food of eagles or fish. In this way, the dead become part of the cycle of nature again, which is highly eco-friendly but not cultrally acceptable for a lot of people. Eco-burial is a recent trend that shares the idea of "returning to Nature" but includes products which are more civilized and visible. Among forms of eco-burial, wall burial makes full use of vertical space like cliff burial. Organ donation, tree burial and flower burial inherit the core value of sea burial and sky burial, but in a more romantic way. These improvements allows eco-burial to gain a better opportunity in urban development. Store
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Ecological sensitivity and construction suitability are the two dimensions I used to evaluate land value. Ecological sensitivity stands for the ability or the posibilities of an area to aviod environmental disruption and protect itself when facing external interference. Construction suitability is a measurement of how suitable artificial consturction can be appiled to an area.
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In order to evaluate, I firstly picks up 11 primary indicators and divide each primary indicator into 3 classes. Then I utilize AHP to give each primary indicator a proper weight. I imported each indicator as a layer in ArcGIS then use the weight to calculate the final result.
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The site has been experiencing a dramatic change in the last 2 decades. In general, the site is constantly losing green space.Up to 2016, woods in HongJue Temple cemetery (A) has been completely replaced by tombs. Farmland in the north (B) was firstly replaced by bungalows. After the village was abandoned, it became deserted land. Land in the middle of the site (C) was also a village till 2011. After being abandoned for 3 years, it was built up as a park in 2015. Now this area is at the first stage of ecological recovery.
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Tree Burial In tree burial areas, each tree represents a dead person. Relatives are allowed to choose the representative species for the deceaseds. As time goes by, tree burial areas will be promoted from simple cemeteries to woods.
Wall Burial Area This area is composed of a series of sunken plazas which are framed by walls and decorated by grass and water fountain. The walls are made of customized metal sheets, Embedded in the wood frames, visitors can open and rotate these walls.
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Tree Burial Area
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Tree burial area provides the opportunity to memorize a beloved one with a new form of life. Relatives pick their plant species and buried the deceased in containers under the tree. The dead body will provide nutrition to the young plant as a new cycle of life starts.
Seasonal Color Change
Magnolia Grandiflora Linn
Cerasus serrulata (Lindl.) G. Don ex London.
Hosta ventricosa (Salisb.) Stearn
Albizia julibrissin Durazz.
Camellia japonica L.
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Flower Burial Area This area are for group burials, and personal memorials will be replaced by a collective sculpture.Lower shrubs,flowers and herbs are aligned together to form the peaceful landscape.
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Site Analysis Tengfeiyuan Residential Community was built in 2000. There are almost 8000 residents , most of which are retired teachers and professors. There are two activity centers, a kindergarten, a middle school, a central square and a special school for children and teenagers with intelligent impediment and psycological issues. With the decreasing usage of public spaces, the community is losing its energy.
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Tengfeiyuan Residential Community Landscape Design Location: Nanjing, Jiangsu Date: 11/ 2017- 12/ 2017 Type: Individual Work Advisors: Ying Zhou, Gege Wang The design was based on the reserch training program I participated in senior year. The original study focused on therapeutic landscape while this time I decided to observe the site from another perspective. I noticed that the community lacked energy and there was no communication among different types of people. Thus, in the new design, I focused on breaking the invisible wall and introducing new energy to the community. In addtion, I also tried to express my corcern to the disadvantaged, the elders and children with intellgent impediments in this case, by meeting their physical and mental needs in the landscape design form.
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Everyday Activities White Collars
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For me, the keys to meet their needs are to break the wall and to create new feelings with existing elements. I find out that the trainings elders and special children have are almost the same, which means they could recieve do exercise together. Besides, their physical exercises did not require professional facilities, so they can do exercise in normal activity spaces. Therefore, I divided these activites into six categories. I designed spaces that can be shared by all residents for each types of the activities. In this way, it would be more likely for residents different demographic groups to meet each other.
Special Children
Normal Students
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Time Analysis of the Activities
For further study, I categorized the residents into four (demographic) groups: elderly people, white collars, normal students and special children. Then I did a survey about their daily life to to understood their needs for improvements and to find the common activities or routines among the four. The essential needs of the elders and special children are selfesteem and social activity with other groups, while the other two groups of residents wanted a more interesting life.
Needs Analysis Based on Maslow's Theory · I want my life to be more interesting than homework and classes. ·I wanna help others to prove myslef.
Cognititive Training
Playing inside Campus
Sandplay Therapy
Come-together Strategy · Working and doing housework every day can't bring me new friends. ·Life should be more meaningful.
Physical Traning
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· I wish I could spend more time with my children and grandchildren. ·I wanna feel youth again. Physical Traning
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To bring all residents together, the first thing to do is to link existing public spaces together. Thus, my design starts with a runway which links city streets, the central square, the kindergarten, schools and activity centers together. Not only could residents travel on the runway, passers could also be introduced to the community. Then, I set a series of facilities ranging from playground to horticulture square to meet the needs of different people.
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Deciduous Arbor Height: 14m-18m Sterilize
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The focus of the central plaza design was to bring the people in the community together as well as attracting people outside to enter the community. The central plaza consisted of two major parts. One was a sporting park which was open to the main street in the south while the other was multiplelevel squares with a runway fuctioning as a tunnel which leads people into the community.
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In this design, the runway connects and serves all the residents. To play this role, it consists of jogging trails and walking trails. Besides, I design four different parts: one for progressive training, one for stairs training, slope climbing and resting to satisify all the residents.
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Cat's Whiskers
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Heart Leaf
Hernandia sonora
Black Face General
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Sabah Snake Grass
Clinacanthus nutans
Perspective of Horticulture Garden
There are also two parts of runway with slopes. Users could receive higher level of physical training.
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Besieds vegetation mentioned before, residents could plant other herbs on the horticulture square on their own. The planting beds are on different levels: on the ground, 0.5m and 1.0m.In this way, people on wheelchair could also participate in horticulture.
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Storyline Analysis
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1. Baby Jane was brought to orphanage by the barkeeper. 2. The Barkeeper brought John back to the time when John met Jane and they fell in love. After that, John was brought to future by the barkeeper and Jane was abandoned. 3. Jane gave birth to the baby Jane. After two weeks, the barkeeper stole the baby.
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What Do We Talk about, When We Talk about Time?
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-"And now that you've found her, you know who she is,and you understand who you are, and now maybe you are ready to understand who I am."
-"You know what they say about good things happening to those who wait" -"But only the things left behind by those who hustle."
-"Time catches up with us all. I guess you could say, we were born into this job." -"The snake that eats its own tail forever and ever. I know where I come from. But where do all you zombies comee from?"
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4. Jane became John after transsexual operations. 5.John and the barkeeper met each other and had a conversation. 6. Agent John successfully defused bomb but his face was ruined during explosion. The barkeeper saved John by handing him the time machines. 7. The barkeeper found the Fizzle Bomber to be himself and killed him.
Visual Interpretation and Spatial Representation of the Movie " "Predestination" Type: Individual Work Advisors: Gege Wang, Zhuoni Yang This study came from my interest of sci-fi movies. The idea of translate time travels into a spatial experience came to me after watching the move " Predestination ".My translating process started from analyzing the multiple storyline of the movie to abstract these storyline as simple geographical form. Then I used these geographical abstract to generate various spatial forms according to the storyline. My final step was to choose the most important storyline in the movie as representative then visually combined all events of this storyline as a spatial representation.
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Characters' Timeline Analysis
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To start with, I choose eleven important events in the film and give them values from one to eleven. Then I study the timeline of the charactors individually to see how the numbers jumps as the film goes by. After studying the film carefully, I found that there are actually two storylies in the film. The first one is about Single Mother, including Jane and John; the other one Final mission consists the stories of the barkeeper and the Fizzle Bomber.
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Top View of Space Generation
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Front View of Space Generation
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Side View of Space Generation
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Combined Spatial Representation
Plan of the Combinatorial Space
After generating the nine individual forms, focused on how to combine these spatial component as a whole to provide a more complex spatial experience under the framework of the movie. Thus, based on my own understatnding, I choose the most important event in the whole story, the explosion event, as the subject and select the four individual space form which directly connected to this event.
A B C D R ∈ [8,6] R ∈ [6,9] R ∈ [9,10] R ∈ [3,4] r ∈ [7,11] r ∈ [11,6] r ∈ [6，7] r ∈ [5,6] A. John successfully prevented the explosion, but he was injured by the Fizzle Bomber. B. John saved himself by jumping into future. After the cosmetic surgery he became the barkeeper. Meanwhile, the Fizzle Bomber intended to injure John so he could get the attention of the barkeeper. C. The new barkeeper received his final mission while the Fizzle Bomber was found by the old barkeeper. D. The barkeeper realized that it was him who saved himself, so he made the desicion to keep the loop running. Single Mother B
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06/ 2014 Still Life Sketch Practice
Other Work 47
04/ 2015 Non-figurative Painting Practice In this practice, I was asked to present my feelings of something by non-figurative painting technique. My choice was a piece of the OST in the film "Hero".
11/ 2016 Traditional Chinese Garden Design In this studio work, My team member,Junjie Shi, and I tried to convert the lifestory of Guofan Zeng, a famous politician and a poet, into a private garden. In the procees, we learnt a lot about structure of Chinese traditional architecture and utlized it into our own design.
07/ 2017
08/ 2017 A Photography Experiment
In this assignment, I was aksed to express some terms in the form of photography.
My model, Duolan Dihua, and I tried to create completely different effects without any after-effect softwares. We took these pictures by only manipulating light and camera settings. All the photos were taken in the same place.
"Point of View" , "Flat Space" & "Isolated"
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