2018 Landscape Design Portfolio Si Chen

SI CHEN 陈 思 Landscape Architecture Portfolio 2017-2018 Negotiating Boundaries 作 品 集

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Si and the Boundaries The cover of this portfolio is a roll shaped in my name, Si. On the roll are the three fundamental element of landscape architecture: sky(blue), land(green) and people. This portfolio is an exploration, evolution and explaination of myself as an agent to negotiate the boundaries between the sky, the land and the people.

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PROJECTS 04

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COMPLEMENTARY DUALITIES

innovative learning environment

2018.08.03-2018.09.30 JC Harmon High School,KS

interior & exterior relationships

GROSVENOR SQUARE A GO-GO

public square

2018.10.18-2018.10.28 Mayfair, London

urban experience

NEGOTIATING BOUNDARIES

industrial heritage

2018.06.01-2018.07.10 Coralville, IA

hybrid urbanization

EAT SLOW !

green infrastructure

2017.08.30-2017.11.30 Riley County, KS

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OTHERS

3d modeling, animation

illustration

master planning

slow food planting design construction documentation

Hand Drawing

2018.01.01-2018.10.10 Multiple Locations

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Project 1 | Complementary Dualities

EXISTING CONDITIONS:

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PROPOSED CONDITIONS:

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COMPLEMENTARY DUALITIES

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The existing site condition is student dispatching to activities off-site. The design intents to relate and connect landscape and architecture, link and privatize various programs in architecture

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and adjacent landscape.

Working with an arch student, we: 1. Creating different levels of privacy.

2. Increasing the linkage.

3. Regenerating the living network on the land.

JC Harmon High School

XISTING CONDITIONS:

ROPOSED CONDITIONS:

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Project 1 | Complementary Dualities

Complementary Plan 0’

500’

1000’

The concept of complementary dualities is to complete the landscape and architecture as one life. The landscape generates a series of “green belts” that “link” the two building blocks. These green belts functions as lookout

point, edge plaza, board walks, outdoor classrooms and circulation corridors. A sequence of spatial rhythm is designed around feature programs to slow down the travelling speed and amplifyies the outdoor to indoor experience.

Legend: 1. Skywalk 2. Service 3. Seasonal Wetland 4. Board Walk 5. Rain Garden

6. Terraced Garden 7. Community Garden 8. Community Farmland 9. Water Playground 10. Rock Garden

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Complement Scenarios:

I. Interior Program Extension

II. Fast Circulation

V. Open Space for Multi-Groups Activities

IV. A Walk to Nature

I. Interior Program Extension

III. Slow Circulation

V. Open Space for Multi-Groups Activities

II. Fast Circulation

IV. A Walk to Nature

VI. Outdoor Class/Biological Program

III. Slow Circulation

VI. Outdoor Class/Biological Program

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Project 1 | Complementary Dualities

Plan

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Project 1 | Complementary Dualities

Both interior perspectives were developed and modified by author, initially rendered by Yingyi Zhong.

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SCAN FOR ANIMATION

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Project 2 | Grosvenor Square A Go-Go

GROSVENOR SQUARE A GO-GO This project re-draws the old Grosvenor Square in the middle of Mayfair, London. The square serves as the city’s centerpiece, with a vendor area, lush lawn, tree groves, and fountains which converts into an ice skating ring in winter.

The design of programs was adapted from “Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs”.

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The diagram on the left explains the different layers of programs on the square.

By enhancing the people’s needs, the new Grosvenor Square showcases Mayfair’s artful, cultural and civic landscape. More importantly, it sustains diverse social and economic activities.

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Project 2 | Grosvenor Square A Go-Go

Play

Commute

Seating

Vendor Street Parking

Admin

Vitural Reality Speech

Chance

Charging

Bike Parking

Eating

Resting

Meeting

Grosvenor Sqaure Green Grid The original grid layout of Grosvenor Square is rigid and flat. The design proposes to introduce new fluidity into the original grid by adding and mixing layers of hierarchy, layers of horizons, and layers of canopy. By analyzing the existing human flows, the design invents new

geometry to define the circulation hierarchy, and to re-direct commuters’ mundane routines with multi-modal mobility options. The new geometry is amplified with canopys and various elevations to create rich users experience.

Section A-A

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Site Plan

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Project 2 | Grosvenor Square A Go-Go

Play

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Commute

Seating

Vendor Street Parking

Admin

Vitural Reality Speech

Chance

Charging

Bike Parking

Eating

Resting

Meeting

The Go-Goers Grosvenor square is proposed as a default location for public concerts, balls, events and “happenings.” It becames whatever anyone wanted it to be—a personal canvas for self-expression. It revivals Londoners’ love for beautiful public art and architecture.

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Project 3 | Negotiating Boundaries

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1. Platform 2. Crossover 3. Permeable Edge

NEGOTIATING BOUNDARIES The existing boundaries are often barriers that separate the site into an internal and external parts; they reduce physical connectivity between parts and they disconnect functions. Working with ‘found objects’, the proposal grounds the design in its place, strengthening identity and connectivity.

Working with ‘found objects’, the proposal grounds the design in its place, strengthening identity and connectivity. Re-imaging the areas next to these boundaries with very specific programmatic typologies that resolve the ecological and social concerns.

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Project 3 | Negotiating Boundaries

NEGOTIATION

Figure 1.1

Figure 1.2

Concrete and asphalt occupy most of the SE Commercial District.

Figure 2.1 Transmission Pole

Figure 2.2

e Croten-steel is found in the rail line and the transmission poles, bricks are common architectural material

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Figure 3.1 Limestone is a local material yet not extensively used.

Figure 4.1 attractive

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Natural fabric is ranked after concrete and asphalt; valuable but not widely used.

Material Making Recycle and selectively reuse possible material to shape city identity

Culture Making

Represent Coralville’s industrial past through metallic plaza, re-using scrap steel to preserve valuable local history

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ture Making Project 3 | Negotiating Boundaries

Typology

Strategy

Applied Strategy Workplace Retails Restaurants Public Amenity Staying

Platform

Pressing

Areas along the waterfront

Reduce building height for waterfront

with both visual and physical

retails and restaurants to allow

accessibility.

resident’s visual access.

Densifying

Permeable Edge Street-front along the 2nd street.

Increase diversity and intensity along

Platform

Permeable Edge

the street-front with smaller mixed-use “blocks”.

Crossover Crossover Intersection between 1st Avenue

Increase building heights and add

and 2nd Street with highest

various active program layers.

circulation. The city’s target area for commercial development.

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Topping

Soft Boundary:

Mixed-use Building Morphology Residential Hotel Light Industry Civic/Cultural Facility Service Retail Restaurant Parking Work Place Food Retail

GROUND-LEVEL RETAIL 42% of the office building includes ground-level retail along 65% of their street facades

MIXED-USE DISTRICT

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8+ Diverse uses with

350 feet walking distance from dwelling units 24/7

Hard Boundary:

Overlaping Mobility Loops and Green Space

GREEN CORRIDOR

<20 FEET

Trees at intervals of 45 feet along more than both sides of street to secure health growth and provide climate control

Traffic Calming

< 25 MPH

Plaza/Civic Space Urban Green Space Parks Iconic Landmark Iconic Landmark

25 MPH for residential areas, 30 MPH to 40MPH for major industry and non-residential areas within the neighborhood; newly added cross-walk for pedestrian convenience.

Public Transit Signaled Crosswalk Green Streetscape

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Project 3 1 | Negotiating Boundaries

Warping-Up We interpret the study area as a single geographic entity warped and wefted by natural elements and the artificial (history, culture, mobility).

The design integrates a new fluidity into the urban loop by stretching and negotiating both the hard and soft â&#x20AC;&#x153;boundariesâ&#x20AC;? of the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s public realm and natural

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landscape; easing the transition between spaces that are previously segregated and even inaccessible.

With time, it will attract programs that are now disadvantaged by the disturbed conditions created by existing highway, industrial areas and warehouses (noise, pollution, disconnection, and etc).

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Project 4 | EAT SLOW !

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Project 4 | EAT SLOW !

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Project 4 3 | EAT SLOW !

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Project 4 | EAT SLOW !

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Others | Hand Drawing

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