WANG JUNYU | PORTFOLIO Academy of Art and Design, Tsinghua University Apply for Master of Landscape Architecture, University College London Application number: 22129520 junyu_wang1999@outlook.com
Selected works 2019-2021
PREFACE Landscape architecture is a tool for realising my heroism about how to make the creatures of the earth to live more equally and poetically. I like to think in terms of spatial strategies of formal beauty and subsequently move forward with integrated, multi-dimensional interventions. Spatial and ecological means are not authoritative, and a combination of deep thinking and multiple means is the key to face problems. I dream of landscapes that make life better for all those who come in contact with them, rather than filling in the gaps of the city or reconstructing the most pristine landscapes. The design I hope for is not the result of my subjective imagination, but a relatively balanced dwelling or imagination in an unbalanced world. I hope the reader will follow the distinctive formal language of each of my projects and experience my reflections on the current environmental crisis.
CONTENTS 1-4
01 GREEN WAVES
Green space renovation on university campuses 4-9
02 RHYME OF CONCAVE
Coastal wetland park landscape design for bird conservation 9-13
03 ENERGY DIAMOND
Spatial energy network between rural and urban areas 13-17
04 ODE TO THE CLIMBERS
Everest's garbage disposal system & Climbers' graves as a monumental landscape
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OTHER WORKS AND FINE ARTS
GREEN WAVES
Green space renovation on university campuses
Location: Tsinghua University, Beijing, China Date: Jun. 2019- Aug.2019 Type: Individual Work Instructor: Cui Xiaosheng [cuixiaosheng@tsinghua.edu.cn]
A campus green area, located in the middle of three colleges. It should be an important place for communication, but is often neglected because of its flat and boring terrain and congested planting. After a detailed research on the planting location and types of plants in this site, I wanted to make a wave-like lifting of the topography of this site, so that the grass forms a feeling of welcoming the light. The botanical landscape is used to create a very different feel on each of the waves that are lifted.
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RHYME OF CONCAVE
Coastal Wetland Park Landscape Design for Bird Conservation Location: Qiantang River, Hangzhou, China Date: Oct.2021-Nov.2021 Type: Cooperation Work Team Members: Yang Chenxuan Instructor: Si Zhen [19940023@zafu.edu.cn] Role in Team: Programs and Concepts 50% Modeling 100% Drawings 50% The mouth of the Qiantang River is called Hangzhou Bay, which is an important midway landing point on the migratory route of migratory birds. Due to its unique water bottle mouth geomorphology, the river is often subjected to tidal action and swings back and forth. For the sake of life safety and economic benefits, the people living here have been reclaiming the estuary since the last century. The excessive reclamation has led to the loss of bird habitat, so we are conducting research on the habits and characteristics of suitable habitats for endangered birds. The birds are very fragile, and to create habitats that are not disturbed by human activities, we set the dike back. At the same time, we found that the crater form is a common habitat form suitable for waterfront birds, and the bump at the crater connection is well suited to resist the erosive effects of tides. In the final design, we created this successional form of wetland park from riverbank to inland.
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ENERGY DIAMOND
Spatial energy network between rural and urban areas Excellence Award of UIA-HYP CUP 2021 International Student Competition in Architectural Design
Location: Crete, Greece Date: Sep.2021- Oct.2021 Type: Cooperation Work Team Members: Hu Jiayi Instructor: Qian Yun [qybjfu@126.com] Role in Team: Programs and Concepts 50% Modeling 50% Drawings 60%
Decarbonization is an environmental issue that the sooner it is done, the better. In the 1930s, R. Buckminster Fuller proposed the idea of a global power grid that would allow renewable resources in distant places to meet the energy needs of surrounding population centers. This is a macroscopic, result-oriented idea that disintegrates the spherical earth into a flat grid through triangles. Transport accounted for 30 per cent of carbon emissions in 2020. It is a stubborn part of future decarbonisation plans. The process of decarbonization of transport is not a single infrastructure construction, but an organic system integrating public awareness, institutions, ecology and infrastructure at all scales. Many European islands have developed tourism and high traffic density. Coal and natural gas imports from the mainland account for a large proportion of their energy mix, but there are many renewable energy sources to be developed. In the case of Crete, we evaluated the land properties, abstracted them into triangular plots, and classified the decarbonization measures that occurred on the land with different traffic densities, so that they could be linked together.
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ODE TO THE CLIMBERS
Everest's Garbage Disposal System & Climbers' Graves as a Monumental Landscape
Location: Mt Everest, Xizang Province, China Date: Jul.2021 Type: Individual Work Instructor: Liang Yichun [cladrastisbreeze@outlook.com] Due to the extremely cold environment of Everest, climbers are at risk of death for every extra kilogram of weight they carry above 5,000 meters. This has led to an increase in trash, feces and climbers' bodies on the mountain every year. The current method of disposal is for the local climbing guides, the Sherpas, to risk their lives to remove the garbage. After the garbage is taken to the base camp, which is 5,200 meters above sea level, it is landfilled and burned on site. Bodies are buried haphazardly if no family comes to claim them. Although the garbage is collected in a simple manner, it is disposed of in a casual manner. The paradox is that the casual way of disposal cannot draw people's attention to the environmental problems of Everest, while the bodies of climbers cannot be well respected. I proposed a post-collection garbage disposal system in which plastic garbage would be made into garbage bricks. These bricks are used to build a graveyard for climbers together with the mani piles of the local Tibetan Buddhist culture. This is not only a response to environmental issues, but also a cultural response.
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MASTER PLAN
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1 Entrance 2 Remembrance 3 Cremation 4 Platform 5 Memorial wall 6 Ceremony watching
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SUCCESSION
Simulate the Mani pile
IDEA MODEL FOR MATERIAL
Simulated recycled plastic bricks
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Beginning
First building
Use existing recycled plastic bricks to create the resomater, road and the basic location of entrance wall.
As time passed, new bricks were added, and more climbers died, making the white walls longer and the colored walls higher
Decade years The entrance forms a brick hill and the white walls form a memorial burial. Warning. Time to clean up the site.
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RITUAL ROUTE OF BURIAL The crowd memorializes at the memorial service.
Search and rescue teams found the bodies of the climbers and used yaks to carry the bodies to the entrance of the cemetery.
There are three cremation stations on the hill. The families of the deceased can choose cremation or hydrolysis according to their religious beliefs.
If it is a Sherpa then a lama is invited to chant the blessing, and if it is a foreign climber then friends and relatives are invited to memorialize.
After cremation, go down the hill and place the ashes in the memorial wall.
The crowd memorializes at the memorial service.
Family members and friends of the deceased mourn their deceased loved ones in front of the plastic brick tomb wall.
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