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POR T FO L I O

SICHENG ZHOU 2020 - 2024

LANDSCAPE

EDUCATION 20232025

Cornell University Master of Landscape Architecture

20202023

University of Sheffield BA Landscape Architecture

SKILLS Rhino (with Grasshopper) Revit, SketchUp, ArcGIS, AutoCAD Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign Vray, Lumion, Enscape Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects

SICHENG ZHOU Date of Birth Address

Markers, Watercolor, Colored Pencils Chinese Traditional Painting Procreate Site Engineering Plan

12/24/2001 125 E State St Ithaca, New York State 14850

Email

sz673@cornell.edu zhousicheng1224@outlook.com

Phone

607-379-0506

EXPERIENCE 2024

Landscape Architect Summer Internship More Gardens! - New York

2021

Landscape Architect Internship Hua Design - Chengdu

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06-08

09-10

11-12

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Sponge Heritage Village

Warehouse in the Forest

Aquaribbon

Coney Island Rain Garden

Tyre Graveyard

Wuhan Covid-19 Memorial

Other Works

SPONGE HERITAGE VILLAGE Date: 08.2024 - 12.2024.

Location: Portland, Maine, United State Type: Individual Project Instructor: Anne Weber South Portland is challenged by flooding and sea level rise. The Gulf Oil Terminal was a shipyard during World War I and was later converted to an oil terminal. This terminal has experienced numerous oil spills throughout its history. These oil spills have contaminated local soil and water sources, threatening surrounding vegetation and life. The South Yard has also suffered from industrial pollution, rendering the area unusable for efficient use.

SITE ANALYSIS

Stage 1: Flooded Lands

Stage 2: Soil Exchange

Stage 3: Creat Sponges

Sea level rise threatens neighborhoods and could flood the Oil Terminal, making flood protection in South Portland a priority.

There’s also a housing shortage, requiring rezoning of Yard South, and no pathway to Bug Light Park. I’ll address these issues by boosting water storage with a Cut+Fill approach, exchanging soil, and creating a sponge wetland.

STRATEGY PLAN

Section A-A

CONCEPT PLAN

A B

A B

Section B-B

Sponge Wetland

Street Planning

Green Roofs

Groundwater Swale

Rain Garden Park

BIRD EYE RENDER

Platform View

Street Rain Garden

Inside the Oil Heritage Tank

WAREHOUSE IN THE FOREST Date: 06.2024 - 08.2024.

Location: Roosevelt Island, New York, United State Type: Individual Project Instructor: Jennifer Birkeland This project develops state-of-the-art warehouses on Roosevelt Island to ease New York City's logistical challenges. As demand for storage grows, these warehouses will optimize supply chains, reduce traffic, and lower environmental impacts in crowded areas.

Transforming an underused site into a logistics hub, the project supports city growth while preserving core neighborhoods for residential, commercial, and cultural use. It also aligns with sustainable urban planning, boosting resilience and efficiency.

SITE ANALYSIS

STRATEGY AND WORKFLOW

MASTERPLAN

Self Storage Area Office Area

Packaging Area

Packaging Area

Office Area

Storage Area

Self Pick Up Area

Shipping Area Facilities

Interactive Sculpture

Resting Area

Corridor

Hammock Area

Recreation Area

Transport Belt

Warehouse

Self-Storage Area

SECTION

RENDER

Morning View of Storage Buildings

Looking Out the Glass Wall at Noon

AQUARIBBON Date: 01.2024 - 05.2024.

Location: Portland, Maine, United State Type: Group Project, with Xiaohan Zhou & Nina Niu Instructor: Zac Boggs & Isabel Fernandez

The project creates an educational and ecological community park with trails, picnic areas, an outdoor classroom, a kayak launch, and fishing spots. Features like a small island, wetland levees, and a raised walkway with floodwalls enhance flood resilience and biodiversity. The design fosters recreation, nature education, and a safe creek experience.

SITE ANALYSIS Six Mile Creek and its surrounding area are characterized by a mix of natural and developed landscapes. The creek serves as a critical waterway, providing ecological, recreational, and hydrological value. However, the area faces challenges such as habitat degradation, erosion, and water quality issues due to urban runoff and encroaching development.

Surrounding land use includes residential neighborhoods, fragmented green spaces, and some underutilized parcels. Despite these challenges, the creek holds significant potential for restoration and enhancement to support biodiversity, improve community access, and mitigate flooding risks. This project seeks to address these issues while creating a harmonious balance between urban and natural systems.

a. Ithaca Children Garden

b. Ithaca Skate Park

c. Baker Park

Site Residential Area Green Space/Park 100 Year Flooding Area 500 Year Flooding Area

Existing Condition

Canopy Species

SECTION PERSPECTIVE Parking

Trail Path Swale

Viewing Platform Creek

MASTERPLAN

RENDER DURING SUMMER...

RENDER DURING WINTER...

CONEY ISLAND RAIN GARDEN Date: 09.2023 - 12.2023.

Location: Coney Island, New York, United State Type: Individual Project Instructor: Jamie Vanucchi

Coney Island is a historic seaside neighborhood in Brooklyn, is known for its amusement parks, and diverse community. However, its location makes it highly vulnerable to flooding from rising sea levels, as seen during Hurricane Sandy. Aging infrastructure and limited water absorption worsen the issue, emphasizing the need for resilient flood mitigation strategies to protect the area’s community.

SITE ANALYSIS

Thornless honeylocust Flowering dogwood Pin oak

Water Flooding Area for Now

Amur maackia American hornbeam European birdcherry

Water Flooding Area in 15 Years

Water Flooding Area in 30 Years

UVA UrA UVDI UsA UmA 0-Au 20-BCu

0-A 8-Bw 42-BC

66-Cu

60-2C1 153-2C2

0-Au 15-Bwu 36-Cu1 66-Cu2

PLANTING STRATEGY

Street Trees

Salinity

Wind Resistance

Interactive Locations

Intercepting Rainfall

Species That Need to be Changed

Community Health

Thornless honeylocust Flowering dogwood European birdcherry Amur maackia Pin oak

Biodiversity

Aesthetics

Poor tolerance.

Resistant to wide range of soils.

Attractive to birds. Not water resistant.

Requires acidic soils and has poor salt tolerance.

Thorned nuisance species. Extremely adaptable but unsightly.

Root Soakability In Coney Island will need to 'coexist' with water in the future. Therefore, plants need to be extremely salt and water tolerant. This is needed to ensure that their root systems are not affected by sea water.

DETAIL DESIGN

Syringa pekinensis

Juniperus virginiana

Maackia amurensis

Acer tataricum ssp. ginnala

Acer buergerianum

Chionanthus virginicus

Sarcococca hookeriana

Cotoneaster apiculatus

Hippophae rhamnoides

Cephalanthus occidentails

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T YRE GRAVEYARD Date: 09.2022 - 11.2022.

Location: Sulaibiya Tyre Graveyard, Central Kuwait Type: Individual Project Instructor: Hongfei Ji

Kuwait's deserts have housed a massive "tire graveyard" since the 1980s, with over 50 million waste tires in Sulaybia. In August 2021, a catastrophic fire, likely caused by extreme heat, engulfed the dump, releasing toxic smoke and carcinogenic dioxins that severely harmed the environment and local ecosystem.

SITE ANALYSIS

Site Location

Particulate PM2.5

STRUCTURE DESIGN

WASTE TYRES The main body of the skin is constructed from discarded tyres.

These tyres will be arranged in groups of nine. Each tyre will be screwed and secured to each other.

a. Rectangular

b. Rectangle After Shallow Steal Hook

c. Rectangle After Deep Steal Hook

TRIANGULAR SPACER The two steel plates are held together by screws. The purpose is to support in the tyre to prevent it from deforming. A solid tyre arrangement is what ensures the stability of the entire landscape.

d. Cylinder

e. Steep Rounded Platform

f. Flat circular platform

PILLARS Consists of a post and a fixing screw. It has slots on the top to ensure that it stays stable on the rubber box. The screw at the top is to hold the triangular spacer in place.

g. With a Single Hole

h. With Two Holes

i. Two holes at the bottom

RUBBER BOX Made from rubber crumbs formed by churning waste tyres. The aim is to be able to provide a stable base for the tyres. At the same time this material has a good shaping capacity to meet the needs of the landscape form.

SUPPORT FRAME The intersecting pillars provide good stability to the other structures. This is because it allows for more even forces to be applied to the structure. At the same time they can give a better shape to the landscape.

STEP 1

STEP 2

STEP 3

Make the base structure to build. Distribute the tyres evenly over the skin of the form. Attach each tyre with screws and check that they are secure.

Check the internal drip irrigation devices to ensure they are working properly and make small holes in the lower part of the rubber box to divert excess water. Then fill the inside of the tyre and the rubber box with sand and soil for planting.

Plant the plants in the sandy soil and wait for them to grow.

PROCESS

Start building

Part assembly

Part production

Grinding tyres

Collecting tyres

Construction of the structure's interior

Making boxes out of powder using moulds

Crushing tyres into powder

Air convection for cooling

Tyre surface

Vegetation

Spacer Epidermis

Tyre handling machines

Rubber box Frame & Water system

Tyre stacking warehouse Cement construction

Interior space 28

MASTERPLAN

Metal walkway

Walkway for purification of the woods

WUHAN COVID-19 MEMORIAL Date: 01.2024 - 05.2024.

Location: Leishenshan Hospital, Wuhan, China Type: Individual Project Instructor: Zaneta Hong

In Wuhan, the temporary hospitals were built in 2022 to treat COVID-19 patients. After their demolition, the site inspired the creation of an "emotional memorial landscape" to honor pandemic victims. Using varied terrain, planting, and pathways, the design evokes emotions like calm, encouraging visitors to reflect on the pandemic's impact and empathize with those who suffered.

SITE ANALYSIS

Mood Changes in Ordinary People It doesn't feel like the epidemic is anything to be afraid of, I don't think it's very different from the flu, right?

It's amazing how fast this virus can spread, even to the point of being life-threatening.

Site Location

The whole city of Wuhan was on lockdown, I didn't think it was that bad.

I need to hide at home in isolation so I don't catch the virus.

The virus is finally contained and we can go out and live freely.

Yangtze River

Happy

Worried

Panic

Relax

Happy

Hongshan District

Mood Changes in Doctors Leishenshan Hospital Today the hospital brought in many patients with unknown viruses, so it seems that things are complicated.

There is no cure for this virus at all, and there are many patients lined up outside the hospital. It is really about to collapse.

Neverous

Hopeless

We are doctors from other cities and we are here to support Wuhan!

After a long period of treatment, Wuhan is finally free of patients! the patients finally managed to We have successfully defeated the heal by their own resistance. epidemic!

SITE Jiangxia District

Towardly

Satisfying

Happy Liangzi Lake

Mood Changes in Patients I've been coughing and running a fever lately. I couldn't have caught a virus, could I?

Uncomfortable

I did catch the virus and needed immediate quarantine treatment.

Stressful

The patient's lungs were rapidly fibrotic and there was no way to breathe properly.

So resuscitation failed.

Comatose

I didn't expect the disease to be so severe that I passed away as a direct result.

Sorrowful

The lesson learned this time is that viruses are scary. But life must go on.

Reinvigorated

2019.12.08.

2019.12.29.

2020.01.13.

2019.02.02.

The first person to receive the infection was found at the South China Seafood Market.

The virus was first detected in bats, but exper ts have confirmed that it actually comes from pangolins.

The Jinyintan Hospital was the first hospital to accept patients who had been infected. The hospital's director is Dr. Zhang Dingyu, 57, who has been on the front lines of the fight against the outbreak.

The entire city of Wuhan was closed and all railroads and roads into the city were blocked. Academician Zhong Nanshan went to Wuhan to begin research on the virus and urged all people to stay at home to prevent infection.

Construction and operation of The Huoshenshan Hospital and 11 square cabin hospitals completed. The Leishenshan Hospital became operational and two months later Wuhan welcomed the victory over the epidemic.

Visualization

Position 1: Depression across the board

Position 2: Desperation to go lower

Position 3: Pain of being surrounded

SITE ENGINEERING

OTHER WORKS Date: 09.2020 - 12.2024.

Type: Individual Project

My father, an architect, inspired my love for art and design, guiding me to study traditional Chinese painting from age 5. Over a decade, I earned awards and became one of China’s youngest cultural heirs. This foundation, along with skills in watercolor and oil painting, shapes my designs, blending tradition with innovation.

MARKER SKETCH

LINEWORK & COLOUR

CHINESE PAINTING