Yashi Lin Portfolio

Yashi Lin

UNSW Arts, Design & Architecture

3rd Year Landscape Architecture

Portfolio

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF COUNTRY

We acknowledge that the Bedegal people are the traditional custodians of our UNSW Kensington campus and it is the unceded territory of the elders. We pay our respect to these elders and share their lands, wends, water and culture to continue the traditions of Australia’s land and maintain the country’s ties with aboriginal people. We thanks to the generosity of these guardians of the land, their cultures and traditions help to enrich the life of the Australian nation, providing a rich cultural context for landscape design.

Especially for myself, as a landscape architect with an overseas background, my understanding of national cognition helps me to better design the country and express my respect for these elders. These contexts allow landscape design to enrich the culture of countries and communities

Aerial view of Kensington Campus 1890s-1940s. The campus is built on the top of ancient landscape with high dunes and swampy Swale that are the early aboriginal places.

Image source from: UNSW Archives CN551

PERSONAL STATEMENT

Landscape architecture was an inspiration to me at a very young age, but for me at that time, nature is a green space with lots of plants or undeveloped land that remains its original appearance.

As I grew up and traveled to more countire and places, I began to have a different view of landscapes and many of them surprised me. So I chose landscape architecture as my major in the university.

The study in university and the occurrence of the pandemic in recent years gave me a different view of landscape architecture. In my opinion, landscape architecture is not only aesthetic, but also a place that connects ecology, behavior, space and culture through the combination of simple things such as point, line and plane. As a landscape architect, we need to design some creative behaviors so that users can experience the special emotion of “humanity” in the landscape.

The problems landscape architects facing are the safety, health and sustainability of land, people, cities and all life on land. All these problems lead to the challenges we will rise to in the future. As a part of landscape design, natural landscape is warm and full of vitality. How to protect these natural landscapes and transform them into urban landscape and life, and become a part of the characteristics of urban life is a problem that landscape architects need to consider at every stage.

TEL: +61 416688020

E-MAIL: liyashi2016@gmail.com

TRANSFERABLE SKILLS

Personal Development

Team Work

Time Management

Verbal Communication

Written Communication

EDUCATION

2019 - PRESENT

Bachelor of Landscape Architecture (Honours) - BLArch(Hons) UNSW

2016-2018

Muirfield High School

LANGUAGES MEMBERSHIPS

Student Member of AILA

Fresh

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Research

Photography

Sketching

Sketch Up

Softwear: Adobe Indesign

Adobe Photoshop

Adobe Illustrator

English

Mandarin

INTERESTS

Movie

Music

Travel Photography

AutoCAD

Procreate

Mircosoft 365 Suite

Yashi Lin

PROJECT 1 SITE LOCATION & ANALYSIS

ENVIRONMENT

CIRCULATION

Rhythms of Nature

LOCATION: Cleveland St, Moore Park NSW 2021, Australia

LANDSCAPE STUDIO 7: Design With a Complex Program

YEAR FINISH: Third-year, T3 2021

PROJECT DESCRIPTION:

The design background of the project is that: with the increasing pressures of life nowadays, the rhythms of people in their daily life are begun hurried and the rhythm of them to integrate with nature are becoming less. This lack of integration with natural caused people to have less contact and become distrustful of each other. The project is a part of the centennial parklands under the greater Sydney region of Australia where will face the rapid population growth with multi-culture background in next decdade. Because of different cultural backgrounds, the lifestyles are different between theses people in the community. So it is hard to connect them with each other and a lot of immigrants event can ’t find a sense of belonging in this environment. So the aim of project is to let people find a sense of belonging with the city and close the distance between people to build social cohesion by using the rhythm of nature.

SKILLS USED: AutoCAD

-“The earth has rhythm for those who experienced”

SECTION BB

The five perspectives denmonstrate how the rhythms are created by different materials used to change the experience when they walking through the site. The coffee store and rent community bed are designed to generate the economic income for the project to to maintain founds for the parklands.

1. Community garden bed could be rent to nearby residents 2 . Wet land with water pond with different levels to creat the rhythms of sound for people to explore

3 . Wooden gallery is using the steel with dry branches on top to build a nature house for the birds also can create the sound of nature for people to enjoy

5. The Coffee store in the entry point to provide a gathering space to acctract people’s coming.

4. The surrounded environment of ESBS area and it can be an educational place for people to explore through the nature. People can also seat surround the bunkers to enjoy the nature.

PROJECT 2 SITE LOCATION & ANALYSIS

Marsden park North is collaborate with Blacktown City Council in the north west area of Sydney as a new suburbs called Angus boundrd by South Creek and Eastern Creek to formed the western and eastern site boundaries. It is 12km from Blacktown CBD and 20 km from Parramatta CBD with Richmond Road to the south west, Excelsior Avenue to the south. Marsden park North is designed to be a thriving new community with more open spaces.

Landscape Masterplan for Angus

LOCATION: Angus is in north-west of Sydney City in the local government area of Blacktown.

LANDSCAPE STUDIO 6: Site Planning: Landscape Performance and Site Design

YAER FINISH:Third-year, T2 2021

PROJECT DESCRIPTION:

Angus now is facing the environmental problems like flood issue during the flood season, habitat lost for birds and other animals and the lost of patches for the endangered ecological community to growth. Aslo, in the futrue time, there will be more and more people living in Angus as a new suburb, so the deign will be focused on the restoration of the ecological nature of the site and the provision of a safe green space for future residents.

This is a final design proposal for Angus in 2061, the project will showing the changes of Angus through next 30 years. The project called symbiosis is aimed to build a community to live together with diversity and balance the land use for different organisms. The symbiosis in Angus is not only between human and inhuman to live together but also between environmental issue and living things in the site. These considerations will be lead to create the design principle to landscape design in Angus.

SKILLS USED: AutoCAD

Indesign

Photoshop

Procreate

Site Analysis

Sketching

Sketch Up

Site evolution over next 30 years

2021 (Current)

2031

2051

2061 (Master Plan)

Ecological evolution

Sections of site in the future

The contrust of grass swale use in different weather. The grass perform as a permeabel material help to collect the rain water into ground more faster to reduce the frequency of flood happening

1.Community house 2.Permeable surface stone 3. Long bench

4. Plantation 5. Shelter with seats

The plantings used as natuer paving materials help to reduce the level of flood during flood season.

Wooden walkways for human use to protect the planting areas. The plantings perform as buffer zones to separate the area of animals and human to protect the habitat for biodiversity.

The fragmented space between different areas should be rationally used to create low-carbon green space for people’s daily use and to provide space for plants and animals as urban patches.

The platform above the level to provide different views and enables people to get close to connect with trees.

PROJECT 3

CITY’S COLOUR

LOCATION: Across the Port of Copenhagen in Denmark, approximately 100 m in length and in close proximity to the Knipples Bridge.

LANDSCAPE STUDIO 4: Landscape Studio 4 Design Detail: Resolution + Representation

YEAR FINISH: Second-year, T2 2020

PROJECT DESCRIPTION:

The projecg is a designed bridge with multifunction uses for residents and visitors. The title of the project is called City’s Colour inspired by the colour elements in the city everywhere. As cycling and walking are the main modes of transportation for people in Copenhagen, so the project will need to consider the users that are using the bridge to cross the place. The open spaces in city are not only for moving but also the social places. In this case, the design of bridege will combine some playing spaces, gathering spaces and resting spaces as a unique multifunction use bridge in Copenhagen.

SKILLS USED: AutoCAD

Indesign

Photoshop

Sketching

Sketch

The 3D renderings by Sketch Up in 1-4 shows the different elements on the bridge and the different views of city can be provides in edges.

The bridge is 25m long to connect Gammelholm and Chirstinahaven. The bridge is surrounded by stained glass in both side for safety and help to create the colour reflection to increase the interest of place.

The night avtivities could also be taken in the bridge. The open spaces can provide for all age group users as a place for after-dinner recreation.

CONSTRUCTION PLANS

Through the learning of construction drawing skills in AutoCAD in my year 2 study, now I can communicate the detail of project by using these construction plans to clients and construction teams to make the work can go more smoothly to achieve some economic benefits for reducing the cost of project in further time.

The following plans are completed in my university time generated by AutoCAD:

3. Landscape Surface Finishes Plan, Term 2 Year 2, Landscape Studio 4

1. Landscape Planting Plan, Term 2 Year 2, Landscape Studio 4

2. Landscape Setout and Grading Plan, Term 2 Year 2, Landscape Studio 4

CONSTRUCTION DETAILS

PV 1 1 COBBLESTONE PAVING DETAIL SCALE 1:10

PV 3 2 SANDSTONE PAVING DETAIL SCALE 1:20

EG1 3 CONCRETE EDGE DETAIL SCALE 1:10

BE 1 6 CURVED TIMBER BENCH DETAIL SCALE 1:5

ST 4 CONCRETE STAIR DETAIL SCALE 1:20

BE 3 5 CONCRETE TIMBER BENCH DETAIL SCALE 1:10

URBEN DEVELOPMENT MAPPING

One interesting documentation skill that I have learned through the university is explore how the urban development was interacted by both history and human development.

I was used my living city Fuzhou as the research object. By collecting some historical data and sorting out the urban texture map, I was able to describe the development mode of urban landscape through these environmental changes and urban expansion. This skill helps me, as a landscape architect, to make the design more adaptable to the development of the city when designing urban projects.

HAND DRAWINGS - Sketches

Sketching is one of the basic communication skills to myself as a landscape architecture, it helps me remember the visiting and have the first feeling of the site. The sketches of plantings, topography and site environment are also a way to analysis the design site to know the site features that will reflect to the further design.

The following sketches are takend in Term 3 Year 1 in the Cockatoo Island, number 1-9 demonstrate the journey though the visit and how the enviornment is changed between two sides of tunnel. This change in perception plays a transitional role in the change of landscape.

HAND DRAWINGS - Hand Models

As one of the most important communication skills for landscape architects, I learned how to connect my ideas to the design through the study of hand model making in university. Through the model making, I can teste my ideas for the deisgn from 2D drawing to 3D real model and also can have a chance to test the height of different elements, how they effect in site to create shadows from different angles that can perform different roles for users to increase the fun for the use of design.

Term 2, Year 1, Studio 1: Design Fundamentals, Assessment1_A LANDSCAPE IMAGINED – The Little Prince

Term 2, Year 1, Studio 1: Design Fundamentals, Assessment 2_A Landscape Reconciled_Wingara Yandelora

The following three model photos are taken in:

The following three model photos are taken in:

HAND DRAWINGS - Hand Models

The following three model photos are taken in:

Term 3, Year 1, Studio 2: Design Process, Assessment 2_Final Design

The following three model photos are taken in:

Term 3, Year 2, Studio 3: Design Fundamentals, Assessment 2_ Landsculpture

The use of different materials such as wire, Sponge scouring pad, caly and cardbox in the hand model to provide the idea that how the different elements set together to connect the landscape for people to use in the site.

HAND DRAWINGS - Herbarium

The herbarium made in T3 year 1 includes both native and foreign plants that help to have a understand of growing conditions and living environment of plants. As a landscape architect, making my own planting herbarium enables me to have a basic understanding of the living needs of plants, and to use different plants to create space and create different colors.

Calodendrum capense

Westringia fruticosa

Wisteria sinensis

Philodendron xanadu Alcantarea

Carpobrotus aequilateral