Sample of work applying for MLA Landscape Architecture , UCL

2016 - 2020 Selected Works

Sen Du sendudeborah@gmail.com

PROLOGUE

CONTENTS

SCALE SCALE OF SPACE

INTERSECTION

SCALE OF HUMAN SCALE OF CULTURE SCALE OF DIFFERENT SPECIES

LANDSCAPE

MEDIA

EFFECT

TRAFFIC

RECONCILE

CIRCUIT BOARD

CONNECT

MUSIC

UNDERSTAND

ANIMALS NEEDS

CO-EXIST

Intersection often refers to the junction of space. But today's rapid technological development and tremendous changes in social structure make the intersection more than just a space but all aspects of classes, history, culture even relationships with other creatures.

Landscape, as a discipline at the intersection, needs to assume the responsibility of resolving conflicts. Combining my multidisciplinary background, I try to use the interdisciplinary approaches to resolve the conflicts at the intersection. I will explain from four aspects how the landscape resolves the conflict in the intersection: reconciling, understanding, connecting, co-existing.

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BUTTERFLY UTOPIA

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SING FOR FAVELA

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FLOWING CIRCUIT BOARD

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19 TOURIST TRANSIT-ORIENTED DEVELOPMENT Traffic-based Landscape Planning to Reconcile Complex Traffic Around A Busy Tourist Center

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OTHER WORKS

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Future City Design Where Humans And Animals Coexist

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Favela Renovation to Promote Understanding Between The Government And The Poor

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Technology Park Design Which Different People Are Connected in Their Daily Life

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Butterfly

New Near City

CO-EXISTING

Human

01 in LA + CREATURE Design Ideas Competition Held by Weitzman School of Design Ecological Restoration And Urban Design From August, 2020 to October, 2020 Individual Location: San Jose, United States

BUTTERFLY UTOPIA Future City Design Where Humans And Animals Coexist Bay Checkerspot Butterfly is an endangered species in the San Jose area. It is an umbrella species that indirectly protect many other species. Understanding the weakness of urban sprawl in San Jose, the designers aim to create a COEXISTING living environment for both human and Checkerspot butterfly. To break up the traditional grid layout, the designers include more native species and integrate a continuous habitat into the new city plan.

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SING FOR FAVELA Favela renovation design in Brazil

Government

UNDERSTAND

Favela

in Architecture 21 Mare-Cidade International Student Competition Landscape Design And Urban Design From March, 2020 to May, 2020 Location: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Originally Designed with Minshi Zhang, Jiaxin Chen, Haichao Zhang.

Concept Design(80%), Landscape Design(100%), Installation Design(50%) Futher Redesign and Reproduce All Drawings Independently.

Instructor: Yiqiang Xiao

Brazil's complex social structure has caused disorderly expansion of slums, and Male is one of the representatives of many slums. But this chaos has contributed to the flourishing of slum music. The design attempts to us local music as the starting point to create a transformation space guided by the rhythm of music, in order to promote people to UNDERSTAND each other.

This kind of intervention can alleviate the conflict between the government and the residents, and at the same time guide the residents to make an orderly transformation in a familiar way.

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Rhythm of The Song——Terrain Generation

The terrain is generated according to the common rhythm of each kind of music.

The public space and the scope of activities of residents have become rhythmic.

Active Activities

Quiet Activities

Activity Ratio（Quiet to Active）

Hinder in The Space

Square 1: Funk Music——Open And Lively

The terrain is in the middle and the squares are scattered on both sides of the street. It is open and lively.

Chapter2 <---> Section2

Chapter1 <---> Section1

African oil palm

Brazilian Cedar

Clustering fishtail palm

Foxtail Agave

Stage

Small Square

Grandstand

Square 2: Capoeira——United And National The terrain encloses the square, united and national.

Chapter2 <---> Section2

Chapter1 <---> Section1

Imperial Palm Tree

Red palm

Foxtail Agave

Tree Stonecrope

Track

Big Step

Big Stage

Square 3: Bossa Nova——Relaxing

Most of the site is occupied by green space, forming a large open green space for relaxation and leisure.

Chapter1 <---> Section1

Clove

Pata-de-vaca

Achiote

Tree Stonecrope

Chapter2 <---> Section2

Playground

Trail

Track

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Funk Music Directed Site——Open And Lively

Capoeira Directed Site——United And National

Bossa Nova Directed Site——Relaxing

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Production

Workers

Residents CONNECTION

y olog Ec

Educ atio n

Students

03 in Landscape Planning and Design course (2019) Landscape and Planning Design From October, 2019 to December, 2019 Location: Guangdong, Guangzhou Originally Designed with Yaqin Pan, Xiatong Song. In Charge of Planning(90%), Landscape(100%), Concept Design(50%) Futher Pollish and Reproduce All Drawings Independently.

Instructor: Jun Xing

FLOWING CIRCUIT BOARD Technology Park Design There is an underutilized land within the South China University of Technology. Residents and students are calling to make a change to turning this site into a future technology park. Inspired by the circuit board, the designer translates resources into voltage, resistance, and currents flowing in the circuit. Resources and the flow of people can penetrate each other and flow in an orderly manner through the constraints of the building. Efficient and leisure, ecology and technology are all CONNECTED together in an orderly manner by the circuit board.

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Present Situation——Blocked Circuit

Zone

There are three main types of people around, and their daily circulation is blocked by the venue. The natural and scientific resources in the site have not been used neither. Therefore, the current flow of people and resources are like blocked circuit.

Students

Currents

Students

Workers

Workers

Residents

Residents

What Are People's Needs?

Underutilized Source

Enterprise

School

School

Connection between school and enterprise

Garden

Activity place

subway

Park Apartment

market

bus

Bus

Market

Apartment

Accessibility to the bus stop and market

Activity place

existing science park

Unused Industrial Source Cafe

existing science park

Production Source

Enterprise

Construction

Enterprise

More working place

Leisure place

What Reources Can We Use? Unused Natural Source

North Lake Landscape

Science Park Open Space

Abandoned Natural Mountains

Chaotic Buildings Effictive Buildings

leisure apartment calss room leisure

leisure

Industrial Parks A round The Site

Site

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Translation: Design Components < 一 > Electrical Factors

Prototypes

Extract the elements in the circuit: VOLTAGE, CURRENT, RESISTANCE. Respectively correspond to the unused resources of the site, the flow of people, and the buildings. Simulate the efficient and orderly operation mechanism of the circuit board, organize the resources of the site.

hard ground

For Residents Current

natural mountain with light

green space

natural lawn with pathway

main plaza with geyser

natural mountain with pavilion

main plaza with big steps

For Student Current hard ground

green space

Translation: Electrical Factors < 一 > Space Division

natural mountain with pathway

For Worker Current hard ground

green space

geometric inner courtyard

geometric atrium

geometric pathway

For Surrounding current hard ground

green space

geometric flower beds

geometric corner plaza

geometric entrance plaza

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Future View——Flowing Circuit

Structure of Flowing Circuit Board

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Future View of Circuit Board Community Large-volume buildings form an efficient and smooth production design flow line, medium-volume buildings allow students to interact with the science and technology park, and small-volume buildings combine squares and green spaces to promote communication among the three types of people.

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Student Entrance

Resident Entrance

Worker Entrance 18

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TOURIST TRANSIT-ORIENTED DEVELOPMENT Traffic-based Landscape Planning to Reconcile Complex Traffic Around A Busy Tourist Center

RECONCILE

in Landscape Planning and Design course (2020) Landscape Planning And Architecture Design From March, 2020 to June, 2020 Location: Guangdong, Guangzhou Originally Designed with Yaqin Pan, Xiatong Song. In Charge of Traffic Planning(50%), Landscape(90%), Architecture (80%) Futher Pollish and Reproduce All Drawings Independently.

Instructor: Jian Chen

Baiyun Mountain Area in Guangzhou has great development potential, accompanied by a variety of complex transportation methods. In order to cope with the large number of people in the future, the design is guided by traffic and redefines the way of sightseeing. Planning and integrating multiple transportation routes on a large scale, and building a tourist TOD center on a small scale to divert and ease the flow of people, so that various transportation methods and scenic spots can be CONNECTED together to form a complete tour experience 19

W h y We N e e d To u r i s t Tr a n s i t Oriented Development Here?

There are many scenic spots around the site, attracting more and more tourists to visit, which also caused great traffic pressure. At the same time, the increase in the proportion of foreign tourists also makes it urgent to upgrade the surrounding area

Located on The Key Axis of The City

City Axis of Guangzhou Green Axis of Guangzhou Tourist Attraction Planning Subway Line Main Road

Popular scenic spots around the site

Located at the intersection of future traffic

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Large Scale—How to Coordinate the Traffic?

Input Flow —— Public Transport

Output Flow —— Walkway

Output Flow —— Characteristic Traffic

Based on the calculation of theory and data, various transportation modes are designed to ease the flow of people and give visitors different experiences.

The convenient public transportation and enough parking lots enable the scenic spot to have a greater visitor throughput.

A large number of pedestrian paths can carry a large number of people, giving tourists a good slow travel experience.

The characteristic traffic evacuates the crowd while providing different sightseeing experiences.

Theory——TOD Peter Kalthorp formally proposed the concept of Transit Oriented development in 1992，which was popularized and applied in some cities in the United States.

TOD stands for "public transport-oriented development model".It is a "mixed use" of work, business, culture, education, housing and so on, with public transport stations as the center and 5-10 minutes walking distance as the radius of the city center.

Concept future center

future center

numbr of people

to wetland

bus

According to the theory of Tod, the TOURIST TOD theory is derived, so as to coordinate the tourism resources, commerce and people flow with traffic, enhance the connection between scenic spots, and improve the tour experience.

parking lots express way main road secondary road main entrance subway line

private car

17.4%

50.8%

People mainly come to the scenic spot by subway, bus and private car.

The largest passenger flow is about 106,000.

The way people come to the tod center 31.8%

to commercial town

cloud rail

to mountains

electromobile

main pathway secondary pathway small pathway transportation center

cable car transportation center axis open space

open space

green space subway

bicycle path

to public park

subway station

Data Analysis

future center

lake area

mountain

commercial area

water

mountain water

Crowd Data Estimation

bus

walkway

Input Flow

Output Flow

Output Flow characteristic traffic

walking

number of people

cloud rail

number of people

New subway station

13.6% cable car

53848

number of people

Main

31800

Bike

21200

30% The way people come to the scenic spot

bicycle

20%

15.9%

20.5% electromobile

The characteristic traffic inside the scenery brings people to various scenic spots in time, while providing people with a variety of sightseeing experiences

33708

Bus

Secondrary

24077

13450

Cloud Rail Electromobile

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1,800 parking Spaces

Parking lots

18444 9236

now before

Small

7292

14416 25km/h 10min/time 200people/time

Cable car

21730 20km/h 6min/time 22people/time

16854

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Small Scale—How Architecture Is Generated?

All traffic is organized by the tourist TOD building, and there are different ways to visit each subdivision, and the station area is arranged according to the number of visitors.

Theory——Multidemensional Narration of City Image

As an important embodiment of urban soft power, city image has gradually become the focus of competition among cities since Kevin Lynch put forward this concept in 1960.

Through media communication in various ways, the image of a city plays an important role in improving the visibility of the city and attracting foreign investment and tourists.

Concept

The site is divided into five sections to display various characteristics of Guangzhou.

Different modes of transportation provide different sightseeing experiences and give you a full view of Guangzhou.

Data Analysis

4F 5F

3F

activity space

4F

green space 11.1% 25.6% The area of TTOD's four main functions

30.6%

32.7%

transportation

commercial

visitor center

5F

cable car 12%

Area of different traffic station 64%

5F

electromobile 2 7%

traffic gathering square

TTOD combines four major functions, including commerce, transportation, public events and green open Spaces.

The complex meets a variety of needs and gives visitors a multifaceted impression of Guangzhou.

Different modes of transportation are equipped with a reasonable area so that it can accommodate enough people.

15% cloud rail

Master Plan of Tourist TOD Building

N 0

10

50 meters

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Perspective View

How Buildings Coordinate Traffic?

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Section

Landscape Sight Looking towards the sky from the ground floor, a circular patio encircles the pure s k y. U n d e r t h i s s i t e , y o u c a n e n j o y the scenery, meditate, and host largescale cultural and commercial activities.

Landscape Sight At the junction of the ground-floor building and the surrounding hillside, the arc-shaped building edge encloses a gray space, allowing the building and the landscape to merge with each other and frame the beautiful scenery

Commercial Sight There are many commercial spaces inside the building. Recessed buildings form a lot of small platform spaces and increase outdoor commerce.

Transportation ight The overhead platform on the first floor provides a transition space for complex ground transportation. On the first floor, pedestrians and vehicles are divided, and different types of transportation are divided into zones, making the traffic space efficient and safe 24

05 Other Works

Light Catching Dome 3*3 Bamboo Structure in Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Construction Competition From September,2020 to October, 2020 Location: Guangdong, Guangzhou Team Work with Wenjing Fang, Yanghua Weng, Xiatong Song, Yifeng Li, Zhiwen Cai Second Prize among 25 teams from Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Instructor: Guanqiu Zhong

Long Plan Constructed Solar House in Solar Decathlon China Sustainable Housing Competition From August, 2017 to August, 2018 Location: Dezhou, Shandong Team Work with 60 students from five majors Competition Host: U.S. Department of Energy First Prize among 20 Internetional teams Instructor: Yiqiang Xiao, Haohao Xu.

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A special thanks to My teachers,collabotators,boyfriend, and friends who provided significant help in finishing this portfolio.