Landscape Architecture Portfolio

Yuhan Zhang

Landscape Architecture Portfolio

URBAN GREEN SPACE

URBAN PLAZA

LANDSCAPE DESIGN

HISTORICAL RENOVATION DESIGN

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PENETRATING GREEN Tianjin, China 09-10, 2014 Urban green space

4-11 I N S P I R AT I O N F RO M CLASSICAL CHINESE GARDENS Beijing, China 10-11, 2013 Urban plaza and park

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IDYLLIC LIFE Shijiazhuang, Hebei Province, China 04-05, 2013 Landscape Design

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SEEKING FOR THE MEMORY OF CHILDHOOD Harbin, Helongjiang Province, China 07, 2014 Historical renovation design

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OTHER WORKS photograph fine arts flower arrangement

36-39 resume Zhang Yuhan joanna9323@163.com BLA Northeast Forestry University

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PENETRATING GREEN

The landscape design of Tianjin Central Business District

Tianjin, China Individual project September-October, 2014 Urban green space Leisure; communication; Storm water management

what kind of green space is

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Being closer to nature

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needed here

Releasing the pressure

Making every day full of energy and optimistic

A place for meditation

Being more communicative and cooperative

Nearby Vehicle Circulation

Current Site Vehicle Circulation

Expecting Fuction

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Urban Green Space

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Being a central green space for a business area, the main purpose of this site is to provide a relaxing and enjoyable environment for the office workers nearby. Due to the fact that these people do not have enough time to do some complex activities, this design is focused on creating a place that people can sit down to communicate or take a rest in the nice environment, and help people find a place to forget the pressure in work or just think something alone.

1.Entrance 2.Tree array plaza 3.Flower border 4.Grass terracing with seating wall 5.Entrance to underground garage 6.Boardwalk 7.Parking lot 8.Reflection pool 9.Under-tree space 10.seating wall 11. Avenue plaza 12.water jets

MASTER PLAN The Central Business District (CBD)Green Amenity Plan is a part of the Jinhai Lake watershed management plan in Tianjin, as well as the landscape design for the CBD. The design is developed to enhance the ecosystem in the whole TianjinBinhai District, collect rainwater to fulfill the JinhaiLake, and provide green and recreational spaces for the office workersin the CBDto release pressure and communicate better by using green amenity and Low impact Development (LID) strategies.

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Planting Structrue

Site Structure

The design aims at provide a green space for people to relax, so the planting design is very important in this site. What the planting design tends to achieve is that no matter stand in any place of the site, people can always enjoy a view of green trees.

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WATER PLAN

Stormwater management is a vital part of this design. The plan contains much green space that is in a low position, so the rainwater can flow through the green space and being purified, than all the water can be gathered in the container underground, and the pond in the ground can also gather some rain water from the green roof

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The main water collecting pond in the site, and the planting bed can purify the rainwater efficiently.

The micro-relief design can be seen as a blocking view, it can separate the main road and the green space, which creates a quiet and relaxing area for individuals to enjoy themselves.

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Section B-B'

Entrance Plaza

Seating wall

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INSPIRATION FROM CLASSICAL CHINESE GARDENS Design of urban plaza and city park

Beijing, China October-November, 2013 Urban plaza and park Ancient gardens, urban green space system, studying activity

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green space system along the subway

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Located in the south of the commercial center and close to the subway and railway, the site has to be seen as an important part of the green space system along the subway.

CURRENT PROBLEM • There is not enough green space near the site, the place nearby is full of commercial buildings, which make the area boring and unbeautiful, and the micro environment is this place is dirty.

• The buildings take too much space and residents and students nearby cannot find a place to relax and take a walk.

• The transportation of the space near the subway station is disordered, there is not an open space outside the station for people.

• The square outside Hual ian commercial center cannot provide a nice scenery for people who pass by, and the seats are not enough.

• The street planting does not provide a comfortable view for people, the only planting are the border trees along the street.

• The site lays beside the railway, there is no noiseproof structure for people.

CULTURE There are many international students live in this district, so the culture in this area is very complicate. Besides, the pub street is just beside the site, and music is very popular in this area

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MASTER PLAN

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Main entrance Timber deck Boarding walk Tea house Parent-child activity area Trellis The lawn

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Sculpture trail Street view design Pavilion Parking lot Designed seats Tree array plaza Winding wall Entrance to Basement carpark

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The aim of this design is not only to create a place to relax and communicate for the residents nearby, but also accomplish the green system of the subway line. Due to this background, planting becomes an important part of this design. Considering the residential district and universities in neighborhood, the park also provide some place for study, such as the specified flower and tree garden for students to have more knowledge of plants, and parent-child activity area that provide a place for children to show their paintings or other works of the park, which makes residents interact with the landscape in park. Because of the complicated culture in the district, the design is inspired by the classical Chinese garden but built in a modern way, like the using of blocking view, 15 opposite scenery and enframed scenery.

INSPIRATION

Summer Palace

Beihai Park

The design focuses on the feeling of people, and solving the problems. In the design, the site was covered by trees and flowers, which make the micro climate nearby much better and provide a nice view for people who pass by. The whole design was inspired by classical Chinese gardens, so the mountain and water structure of the design is similar to summer place, and the directions of visitor’s line of sight and the position of view point are inspired by Beihai Park. Besides, this design uses many methods of classical Chinese gardens planning, such as the using of opposite scenery, blocking view and leaking through scenery. These methods are beneficial for the building of the landscape.

DESIGN ANALYSIS

DESIGN CONCEPT

subway

Function Analysis

urban plaza

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Transportation Analysis urban park

PLANTING DESIGN Herbal

Viola philippica

Or ychophragmus violaceus

Iris tectorum Maxim

I r i s l a c t e a v a r. chinensis

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Phlox drummondii Hook

Hyacinthus orientalis

Bellis perennis

Cosmos bipinnatus Cav.

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Shrub

Jasminum nudiflorum Lindl F o r s y t h i a s u s p e n s a Prunus davidiana Franch (Thunb.) Vahl

Amygdalus triloba

Magnolia denudata Desr.

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Malus halliana Koehne

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Kerria japonica (L.) DC. Hibiscus syriacus Linn.

Weigela florida A. DC.

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Swida alba Opiz

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Tree

Salix matsudana Koidz

Pterocarya stenoptera C. Ginkgo biloba L. DC

Cotinus coggygria Scop.

Cedrus deodara (Roxb.)

G. Don

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Sculpture Trail

Section b - b'

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Section a - a'

Boarding Walk

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SECTIONS AND PERSPECTIVES OF THE PLAZA In the design of this urban plaza, the aim is very clear which is not only to create an open space of the commercial center, but also provide a relaxing area for the residents and students nearby. That is why the design contains many places for people to sit down and communicate. What is more, the beautiful planting design is very attractive to people, because they can feel more close to nature in the plaza and park.

Section of Relaxing Plaza

Section of Entrance Landscape

Section of Parent-child Actiity Area

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Relaxing Plaza

Entrance Landscape

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IDYLLIC LIFE The campus landscape design of Hebei Normal University Shijiazhuang, Hebei Province, China Individual project April-May, 2013 Landscape Design Bicycle-friendly, interaction, education and recreation

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vehicle circulation bicycle lane

main road pedestrian way small road

parking lot

open space pedestrain distribution sites

semi open space

bicycle lane

confined space

bicycle parking lot

forest land space

Hebei Normal University is one of the best universities in Hebei Province. With a long histor y of over 100 years, Hebei Normal University is always famous for its rigorous teaching and profound culture. In order to review this long history school and reveal the culture of the university, the concept of creating anidyllic life for the whole campus comes out naturally.

In the design, there are four main gardens for students and fatuities to relax and get together, the inspirations of these gardens are fishing, gathering, farming and reading, which represent the spirit of idyllic life in ancient China..

main landscape axis garden central plaza countryard

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MASTER PLAN

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1.Vehicle lane

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2.Patio of science building 3.Parking lot 4.Farming garden 5.Scenery Avenue 6.The exhibition court of art building 7.Front yard of liberal art building 8.Reading garden 9.Sunken plaza 10.The garden of woods 11.Tower 12.Fishing garden 13.Fountain plaza 14.Communication plaza 15.The lawn

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Section of the main plaza

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This garden is inspired by a story of ancient man who gave up rich life but worked hard to make a living by himself in the way he liked. The students are encouraged to feel the happiness of working there. So there is an open stage in the Sunken Plaza for all of the students to show the achievements of their work or just something they like. Besides, being the garden of the studentcenter, there is also some open space for students to get together and discussed.

This is a garden of exhibition and communication.

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SECTIONS AND PERSPECTIVES Reading garden is located behind the museum and near the library, which aims at providing a quiet place for students to read or relax in a beautiful environment. So there are many seats in the garden and a plenty of trees help a lot in keeping the garden quietly.

Fishing garden has main scenery of water, students can get very close tothe wateron the boardwalk, and there are also many fish in the water, students can experience an enjoyable time there. Moreover, storm water management is considered in the design of the sunken plaza of this garden. When the rain comes, the storm water will run through pervious concrete brick paving in the plaza and be collected to the pipe underground. Then the storm water would be reused in irrigation for the lawn and plantings.

Section of Fishing Garden

Section of Reading Garden

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Blowup of Farming Garden

Fishing Garden

Reading Garden

The farming garden is a place to encourage participating in creating the landscape and having more interaction with the campus landscape, which can help them feel better living and studying in campus.

Students can have their own space to grow flowers and plants even vegetables in the way they like in these gardens. It is a good way for students to learn knowledge of plants as well as the sense of responsibility. What is more, there is a little plaza in the west of the garden where students can put the seeds they harvest on the wall and exchange the seeds, or just sit down and talk to each other

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SEEKING FOR THE MEMORY OF CHILDHOOD Renovation and renewal design of historic Chinese-Baroque neighborhood in Daowai Harbin, Helongjiang Province, China Team project Responsibility: site analysis and survey; concept design; sectional design; master planning July, 2014 Historical renovation design Low Impact Development; Historical renovation; Entertainment

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POSITION

CLIMATE

TRANSPORTATION

BUILDINGS

DAMAGE INTENSITY

single storey building two storey building three storey building

DRAINAGE SYSTEM

MARKET

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CONCEPT

Located in the east of Harbin, Daowai District has been always famous for its history and flourishing culture, and the site of the design is the earliest district with the buildings of Chinese-Baroque style .

However, after nearly 100 years, the buildings are too damaged to be lived in. Not only is it dangerous for the residents, but also weaken the historical sense of Harbin.

A f t e r a c a re f u l s u r vey t o the people who lives in this neighborhood, we found that many of them have a deep impression of the prosperity of culture of Daowai district in their childhood. The aim of design is to fulfill the necessity of people, so we start from rebuilding cinema and theater of this neighborhoodas to recall the past prosperity. This design includes rebuilding the cinema and theater, creating the public green space and improving courtyard environment.

SOLUTIONS

Green Space

Transportation Solution

Drainage System

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SURVEY

MASTER PLAN

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BLOWUPS

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Green Space of the Pingju Theatre

Concept of Design

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Perspective of Green Space in the Pingju Theatre

Section A-A'

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Green Space of Songguang Cinema

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Section C-C'

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Concept of Design

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BLOWUPS Public Green space 1

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Section of the No.2 and No.3 Street

Public Green space 2 B

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OTHER WORKS photograph fine arts sketch paintings flower arrangement

A future world made up of food 2013

candy canes and donuts are buildings; san milk boxes are pavilions; coke as water and

sketch of city park， 2014.1

The corner of a Japen garden, 2014,1

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ndwiches are commercial complex; d a steak as ground

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Constitution Design——space constitution 2012 The design aims at provide an optical illusion to the views, the space created in the work is not exist; The spheres and the ceiling tend to compose a space that is more real.

A garden of a community, Shijiazhuang, 2014

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freedom

2013.12 Winning the golden medal in Heilongjiang Flower Arrangement Contest Architecture modle for a design of exhibition hallďźŒ 2013

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Chatsworth house 2013.8

Sunny day 2012.7

The bird, 2014

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RESUME Name: Zhang Yuhan Gender: Female D.O.B: 3 February, 1993 E-mail: joanna9323@163.com Tel: +86 18304623953

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Education Background 09/2011-07/2015: Northeast Forestry University (NEFU) Major: Landscape Architecture Degree Expected: Bachelor of Landscape Architecture to be conferred in July 2015 GPA: 3.68\4.5 Ranking: 4\117

School Activities 2011-2013 Being NEFU Radio Member; ever making Video Software and participating the preparation work of the host competition in NEFU. 2012 and 2013 Being a member of The campus radio station reporter group; attending the interview of university sports competition.

2012 Performing well in the the 60th anniversary Art Show of NEFU. 2013 Making two micro-film “23:00� which won the second prize in micro film contest.

2013-2014 Working in Yuanyi Landscape Media Studio --a National entrepreneurship training Program.

2013.8 Spending the whole month travelling in the United Kingdom and visit much famous gardens there.

2013-2014 Being the Minister of Ministry of Culture in the Student Union of school of Landscape Architecture, NEFU. 2013 Attending Intermediate Floral Division training and gaining the attestation of Intermediate Floral Division 2014 Attending the competition organized by NEFU and Louisiana State University, showing the final presentation and winning the Second Prize 2014.9 Participating in the school practice in landscape architecture and went to several cities in where have the best design of landscape in China.

Internship 2014.7-2014.8 to be an intern in Hebei Institute of Forestry Survey and Design.

Awards & Certificate 2012-2013 Merit student of Heilongjiang Province 2012-2013 National Scholarship 2013 The second prize in Micro Film Contest 2014 Winning the golden medal in Heilongjiang Flower Arrangement Contest 2014 The Second Prize in the competition organized by NEFU and Louisiana State University

Publications The consistent of air pollen in Shijiazhuang central city and its impact on the environment, The Journal of Hebei Forestry Science and Technology, 2013, 02

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