Landscape Architecture Portfolio

Yihui C.MLArchitecture

University of Michigan

School of Natural Resource & Environment

Contents

Project

Key Words Spartial Order Rearrangement

Magnolia Square Valentine Park Rooftop Garden

Industrial LandscapeLID application

Planting Design

Courtyard Plan & Section

Hand drawing

Perspective Rendering

Hand drawing

Project

Key Words

...and it is time for us to act like Da Yu, the King who makes friends with the flood, who selects place for city and who leads people to find a place for food production.

Kongjian YuThe Art of Survival: Recovering Landscape ArchitectureThaler Lecture,University of Virginia, 10-13, 2006

Office Park

Biomorphic Design

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1 1Magnolia Square Magnolia Square

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Located at the center of Shanghai, the Magnolia Square is surrounded by differentiated kinds of urban facilities for recreational ,educational, or transportational use,etc. What's more,Shanghai Government Building sits in the same block. With fast development of tourism and economy, the square needs to be redesigned due to lack of capacity for increasing amount of visitors.

P.S. Magnolia is the city flower of Shanghai. And the roof of Shanghai Urban Planning Exhibition Hall is constructed in of the same shape.

Underground metro station

People's Park

Shanghai Government

West Nanjign Road

SH Urban Planning ExhibitionHall

People's Square

Background

Project location

PROJECT 1 Magnolia Square

This project features on using landscape features to reorganize the space order of an open space near Shanghai Government and Shanghai Urban Planning Exhibition Pavilion. Using the city flower magnolia as a theme of the whole square can not only create a sense of unity of the space, but also show respect to the politial environment .

1 1Magnolia Square Magnolia Square

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Solutions

ConflictsVisitors: I just bought some snacks and am waiting for my friends. I really want some nice sitting place instead of edge of flowerbed.

Passersby: There are too many vehibles crossing and that's too dangerous.

Administrators of Exhibition Hall: We would like the square to be well-organized so as to show repect to the hall.

Facility amendment

Spatial rearrangement

Conflicts to solve

Phase One(Current Situation)

space for traffic

space to stay

Spatial Rearrangement

Key Element

Magnolia

Simplify

Move the green space to the edge and combine it with other green space

Used on structures, pools and pavement

Add water system and some facilities for visitors in the square

Phase Three

Facilities amendment

Seats

Awnings

Pools and water troughs

Snack Store

People's Park

Retailing

Snack Store

Metrostation

Police

the Bond

Blood DonationBus

Green Space

Metro Station

Exhibition Hall Rntrnce

Metro station

Disorder

Concept Fomation

Exhibition Hall Exit

Phase Two

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Metro stationAwning

Water trough

Awning

Pools

Planting Beds

Benches

Blood Donating Station

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Plan Perspectives

2 2Valentine Park Valentine Park

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PROJECT 2 Valentine Park

This project lies in between Hongkou District and Yangpu District hence less administrated and developed by government. However recently, new residence houses for low-and -medium wage earners and roads have been planned nearby. With illegal shacks and fields scattered everywhere, this place desperately needs a transformation.

The park was required to satisfy nearby residents’ daily needs for entertainment.

Plan

Railway Carriages

Xiaoxiang Teahouse

FANTASY Wedding Photography Studio

Gingo Plaza

Riverside Forest

Remaining Railroad

Stage

Waterfall Wetland

Children's Playground

Space for sportsTurf slope with Pergola for wedding

Underground Parking Lot Open Green Space

3 3Rooftop Garden Rooftop Garden

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PROJECT 3 Rooftop Garden

The customer who offered this project had invited a landscape design company for an alternative before. And now it needs optimization and planting design.

Effects

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July-Aug

May-Jun

Mar-Apr

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PROJECT 4 U of M Saginaw Forest Office Park

The goal of this design is to create a nice working environment to enhance the overall wellbeing of employees working in Saginaw Forest Office Park, while minimizing negative effects on local ecological system. Therefore firstly, the project addresses on both visual and nonvisual connections between human and nature. On the other hand, stormwater management plan is designed to make presence of water feature for better environmental healing functions and to create new habitats as compensation to huge amount of cut site engineering work within the parcels.

Effects

1. Entrance design maximizing visual connection with nature

2. Before entering the central rain water garden

3. Overbridge connecting elevated trail and rooftop garden

4. Sunbathing at outdoor gathering space

2. Looking down to the central rain water garden from an elevated wooden platform

3. Smelling fragrant flowers and fruits from elevated trails

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PROJECT 4 Courtyard Plan & Section

This project is to practise hand randering skills for landscape plans and section elevation. the textures neeed to be represented with just markers and ink pens.

7Resume

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6 Perspective Rendering

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PROJECT 4 Perspective Rendering

This project is to practise with prospective drawings. The key is to understand perspective structural relationship of a photograph and select proper touches and ink lines to represent the brightness of the scene.

University of Michigan School of Natural Resources and Environment (Ann Arbor, MI)

Education

ExperienceCurrently I am a graduate student in Master of Landscape Architecture program in University of Michigan. My constant passion for ecological waterscape design is the motivation which keeps me working for more ecologically and financially sustainable landscape.

Welcome to my Linkedin page for more informationhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/yihuic

SmithGroupJJR Ann Arbor, Job Shadow Student (Ann Arbor, Michigan) Mar 2015

Computer SkillsGraphic SoftwaresAutoCADPhotoshopIllustratorIndesign

Model SoftwaresSketchUp3DS MaxRhinoArcGISLumion

Video SoftwaresPremierCoral Studio

1. Golden award in a competition with teams from other top architecture schools in China2. Proposed main architectural structure and built the base for an 8 m2 cardboard house using collected recyclable materials3. Offered English/Chinese translation service to English speaking judges

2011 Cardboard Building Design & Construction Competition hosted by Tongji University in 2011(team project), Structure Designer & Constructor (Shanghai, China) [May 2011]

1. Offered English/Chinese translation service to English speaking attendees and Chinese organizers2012 IFLA Asia Pacific Region Conference, Volunteer (Shanghai, China) [Oct 2012]

1. Developed construction plans for drainage, illumination, electricity and pavement independently and a planting design with colleagues2. Communicated with clients and construction team to modify plans3. Offered to work for another week after official internship and further developed the construction plan independently

Shifangyuan Landscape Summer Intern, Assistant Landscape Architect (Shanghai, China) [July/2013 - Aug/2013]

1. Provide graphic illustration about Jens Jensen's design principles

Donn Werling's Book about Jens Jensen Landscape, Graphic Illustrator (Ann Arbor, Michigan) [Feb/2015 - July/2015]

1. Assisted with planting design and CAD layout of Delta College Parking Lot Program2. Offered English/Chinese map translation to Xinchang Hospital Competition Project in Shanghai3. Attended an inKNOWvation lecture and other studio-wide programs

1. B.E, Landscape Architecture, June 20062. Courses: architecture design, landscape design and planning, urban planning3. Academic honors: Third-prize scholarship in College of Architecture and Urban Planning in 20134 Secretary of Editorial Department of Landscape Architect Committee of College of Architecture and Urban Planning

Tongji University College of Architecture and Urban Planning (Shanghai, China)

1. Master of Landscape Architecture, April 20172. Degree specialization: Ecological waterscape design3. Courses: ecological site design, geographic information systems (GIS), and planting design

HobbiesDesginHand drawingHandicrafft artCookingSingingTraveling

ContactEmail: Yihuic@umich.educhenyihui199208@126.com

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