PORTFOLIO - STANLEY CHUANG

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CURRICULUM VITAE

CURRICULUM VITAE PROJECT PORTFOLIO EXHIBITIONS

AA PORTFOLIO

DESIGN RESEARCHCAPILLARY INFRASTRUCTURE - CHINACOMPETITION - RIJEKA, CROATIA

MSP MARTHA SCHWARTZ PARTNERSTERENCE O’ROURKE LTDLIU KUO LTD

AA DESIGN RESEARCH / CAPILLARY INFRASTRUCTURE CHINA / COMPETITION RIJEKA / MSP PARTNERS / TERENCE O’ROURKE / LIU KUO LONDON / RIJEKA / SHANGHAISTANLEY CHUANG

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WORK PORTFOLIO

CURRICULUM VITAE PROJECT PORTFOLIO EXHIBITIONSAA DESIGN RESEARCH / CAPILLARY INFRASTRUCTURE CHINA / COMPETITION RIJEKA / MSP PARTNERS / TERENCE O’ROURKE / LIU KUO LONDON / RIJEKA / SHANGHAISTANLEY CHUANG

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ENationality: TaiwaneseDate of Birth: 03/07/1986Gender: Male

STANLEY CHUANG

Education 2010 – 2011 AA Architectural Association (UK) MA Landscape Urbanism2010 EC Design School (Taiwan) Design Visualisation Diploma2008 – 2009 The University of Sheffield (UK) MLA(PGDip) Landscape Architecture2006 Revival Arts Academy (Taiwan)2004 – 2007 The University of Sheffield (UK) BA(UGDip) Landscape Architecture with Planning1998 – 2004 American International School of Budapest (Hungary) Graduation Diploma & International Baccalaureate Diploma

Work Experience2011 MSP Martha Schwartz Partners (UK) Landscape Architecture & Urbanism Project Designer2008 – 2010 Bad Recreation (UK) Merchandising & Branding Co-Founder & Partner 2007 – 2008 Terence O’Rourke Ltd. (UK) Planning Design Consultancy (RTPI Award Winner) Assistant Landscape Architect2006 Six Nations Ltd. (Taiwan) Landscape Planning and Design Landscape Designer

Language Skills English, Mandarin Chinese, Taiwanese

Computer Skills Microsoft Office Packages, Rhinoceros, Grasshopper, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, AutoCAD, Vectorworks, CoralDraw, Sketchup, 3ds Max, VRay Render.

Additional Experience/Awards2008 – 2010 President of Sheffield & Sheffield Hallam Taiwanese Society2008 – 2009 Activity Organiser of SUROCUK2006 Hong Kong Electronics Fair Stand Design2006 Invitation to WYLC (World Young Leaders Conference) in Washington DC2004 Gold Honor Roll Award in American International School of Budapest2004 Orphanage Aid (Hungary)2004 Casa Speranta AIDS Orphanage Aid (Romania)

UK Projects:South West BicesterUrban extension scheme of a mixed use development (116.5 ha) adjoining Bicester Outlet Shopping Centre

Trumpington MeadowsMixed use development of 1000 residential units and a 60ha country park on the southern fringe of Cambridge

Tremough Campus, PenrynCampus extension masterplan

Stanway, Colchester MasterplanMixed use development proposal

SITA Incinerator ParkLandscape planning and design

Upton Sustainable Urban ExtensionUrban design and landscape design for the competition entry

China Projects:Hong Xing Lu Public Realm RegenerationCompetition scheme to design the public realm around the proposed luxury shopping complex in Chengdu - streetscape, public squares, etc.

Vanke Centre (Horizontal Skyscraper)Landscape design proposal for the Horizontal Skyscrapers proposed by Steven Holl Architects, in Shenzhen.

Wangjing Soho Landscape DesignLandscape design proposal around one of Zaha Hadid's latest projects in Beijing, China.

Taiwan Projects:Yet-San Park RegenerationDesign and project management for the government bid scheme - achieved first prize out of 16 design entries.

DESIGN RESERACH MA LANDSCAPE URBANISM

Landscape as infrastructure has become the most effective means to explore the relationship between natural process and the city - a model of connective, scalar and temporal operations through which the urban is conceived and engaged with. Current infrastructure is standardised and monofunctional. Landscape Urbanism seeks to inte-grate larger ecological processes.Landscape Urbanism is transdisciplinary, using the urban and land-scape dynamics to project new material interventions, integrating knowledge and techniques from environmental engineering, urban strategy, landscape ecology, and employs the science of complexity and emergence, and the tools of digital design.

ARCHITECTURAL ASSOCIATION

Traditional planning for urbanisation failed to function as desired, the rapidity of growth also triggered generic cities rapidly being built. There is a clear need for an adaptive practice and urban development methodology that manoeuvres itself according to changing conditions and yet perfectly blends with the context.

The project agenda has been involved in the genesis of a development methodol-ogy that could be implied easily on different context to derive a solution, or has the capability to adapt (and re-adapt) to changing scenarios.

RAPIDITY OF URBAN GROWTHin the case of China

MULTIDICIPLINARY METHODOLOGIES

INDEXICAL MODELS / MESHINGPrecise analytical diagramming and data readings to understand field in-formation (social, material, ecological) and intricate relationships at mul-tiple scales, driven by spatial or temporal forces.The indexical information, well-structured and parametrically controlled by internal logic, has the latent capacity to initiate design organisation. It is an implicit technique to manifest and differentiate the informative processes, and helps to establish sophisticated systems at work.

SENSITIVE SYSTEMS / SCRIPTING PROTOTYPESDevelopment of a malleable system/prototype capable of continuous transformation - responsiveness to variation and differentiation based on individual specificity. The formative process engages with different log-ics of proliferation to contribute to strategically-integrated systems (net-worked systems) in the proposed territory.

The physical appearance need not always be ‘the grid’, but rather intri-cately and subtly shaped through territorial conditions respecting aspects prevailing over the spaces.

TACTICAL RESISTANCEA design methodology that is qualitatively informed and territorially spe-cific, identifies the production of dynamic spaces

METABOLIC RURBANISMA new morphological framework where urban and rural processes of land use are combined, becoming more self-sufficient in mediating agricultur-al, municipal and industrial activities within the environmental ecology regionally. It provides potentiality of a new operative system to challenge homogeneous planning and generic zoning.


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FINAL DESIGN PROJECT - JINTANG ISLAND, CHINA

Jintang Island is an island in the Zhoushan prefecture-level city in China’s northeastern Zhejiang province. It has a population of about 58,000. It is one of the closest islands to the continental shore of Zhe-jiang, being only 3.4 km from Ningbo. Total land area is 77.85 km2, and is beautifully diversified with hills and dale - the highest point being 503 metres above sea level.Jintang has 49.2 km of coastline, 15.7km of it is more than 15m deep and the island is sheltered by the archipelago at the outskirt of the ocean - thus making it an ideal location for port development (forming the ‘Golden Triangle’ of container port development with Ningbo).Due to recent completion of Jintang Bridge directly connecting the island with Mainland China, consequently the island has since experi-enced rapid rate of urbanisation. The government planning authority identifies Jintang as a core area for container port development as well as tourism.

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The significance of Jintang’s port develop-ment is not to be understated. According to the government’s plan, Jintang is ex-pected to handle 14,300,000 TEUs per year after the completion in year 2020, which suddenly puts it in the global con-text, ranking among the busiest container ports in the world. Together with Ningbo Port just across the shore, the region will become one of the top 5 sea shipping bas-es worldwide. This will bring insurmount-able pressures to the island.


GOVERNMENT PROPOSAL- Port Development for 2020

Due to the shortage of available land for future de-velopment, a considerable amount of land must be reclaimed. Reclamation works will support the is-land’s urban expansion, however the government’s proposal shows a lack of sensitivity towards patterns of inhabitation - and the conventional planning ap-proach shows a severe dominance of zoning, mono-functioning landuse and compartmentalisaion.

GOVERNMENT PROPOSAL- Port City’s Landuse Zoning and Reclamation

ECONOMIC SETTING

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The growth of Jintang Island will bring demographic change - influx of skilled workers to support new businesses and industries, etc.As an effective model for future growth, we must pay close attention to the robustness, adaptiveness and flexibility to accommodate such urbanisation and its changes over time.Port activities will inevitably become the economic driver for Jintang Island, but how long it can be sustained is in question - cases of failure and redundancy.In preparation for the legacy, the proposal should offer transformative potentials in case of future port decline.


SOCIAL ATLAS- Urbanisation and What Next?

PUNCTUATED POROSITY- Growth Diagram

POROUS PORT CONFIGURATIONThe concept is to introduce porosity into the upcoming industrial port - bands of corridors (logistic, ecological, and social) penetrate from the coastline into existing cities.Allowing more interaction increases its re-silience to future change in case the port no longer becomes the main economic driver for Jintang Island.

CONVENTIONAL PORT PLANNINGCompartmentalised zoning approach ensures maximum industrial efficiency, however at the same time, also inflexibly prone to failure in the long term.

PORT CITY PARADIGM

The island is a potential hub for a performative infrastructure. The intent is to exploit this by looking at infrastructure not as a super-ficial engineered layer but as an integrated part of the system. Like an organism - as feeders which transfer most efficiently to increase the social, economic and ecological values, and as a medium to connect thereby making it an effective model for future growth.

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TERRITORIAL SUPPORT- Port Allocation

SLOPE ANALYSIS- Port Allocation

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EROSION RISK ANALYSIS

The topography adjacent to the coastline (south-ern part of Jintang Island predominantly because of the anticipated port industry) is tested superim-position of slope conditions with water runoff to obtain approximate areas of high erosion risk.

The higher the volume of slope water runoff and with the steepest slope conditions, the higher the risk of erosion.

PRODUCTIVITY AND CONNECTIVITY

The areas are established through year-round shadow analysis, which helps to identify poten-tial areas for high agricultural productivity - for plums and fritillary.

The ideal areas for planting either plums or fritillaria are the slopes on the terrain. The optimum range of slope would be within 1:2.5 - 1:5. However, plums require more water and constant sunlight as opposed to fritillaria, whilst fritillaria require continous bands of much larger agricultural plots in comparison to that of plums.

Due to complexity of the existing slope, the con-nectivity mesh establishes all possible routes of connections (min. gradient of 1:12) through the slope - potential movement flows.

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WATER RUNOFF ANALYSIS

The island will be experiencing shortage of water because of its isolation from the Mainland. Water flow pattern of the ter-ritory informs the potential zones where runoff water could be naturally conserved following its topographical pattern.The indexical drawing shows a wa-ter runoff pattern where contours are close enough to form a niche within to converge maximum water flowing down from top of the mountain thus providing enough scope to create retention ponds.

INFRASTRUCTURE PROLIFERATION- Requirements of Orientation

In a typical urban fabric, the connections tend to be denser and of wider angles as opposed to rural areas where patterns tend to be linearised. The proto-typical branching system connects to every existing infrastructural node that falls within its angle criteria (see above), which forms the maximum possibilities of efficient urban flows guided by requirements of orientation.

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INFRASTRUCTURE PROLIFERATION- Primary Possibilities

Identification of optimised routes eliminates unperformative connections previously established. At this point the network has become more legible and hierarchical in terms of directional qualities.

COASTAL PROLIFERATION- Branching System

Based on the water volume at each concentration point, the initiating points are categorised - the higher the volume, the stronger the initiating point and thus the further the point is able to branch out into the sea as reclaimed land or piers.The branching system for coastal reclamation con-nects via the rhomboid mesh created around the coastline via a branching methodology developed.Reclamation occurs only at areas where the ground condition or resources support, which incorporates all indexical readings into consideration to form a perfor-mative expansion for future urban growth.

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COASTAL CONFIGURATIONThe branching structure represents a system of connections where the root structure supports the duplicating branches. The root structure is given a bigger volumn to function as a centralised hub for the various activities accomodated along the branching sytem, forming an efficient pattern of inhabitation.The assigned dimensions also relate to fabric sizes to allow flex-ibility to accommodate programmatic variations.

CANAL MORPHOLOGY- Networked Water System

Water plays a main role in the formation of the new urban morphology in terms of strate-gies of reclamation, etc. The water system itself, as sets of canals, will also efficiently cater for future growth. From retention ponds uphill, water is transported downhill via a se-ries of smaller canals following gradient mesh, and wherever the area has been identified as ideal plantation zones, canals are aligned parallel to the contours for contour farming and drip irrigation system.Proposed canals eventually connect to existing canals or new canals in the valley.

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TERRITORIAL STRUCTURE- The New Urban Grid

According to hierarchy of roads and water volume in the canals, points are designated at varying distances as the base for the territo-rial mesh to connect - arterial and primary roads have wider intervals thus creating structural lines (or grid) able to accommo-date more extensive programmes; similarly an area of canals with low water volume will generate a finer mesh allowing intricate programmatic activities.The formation of the territorial grid provides a guiding base for the new urban form.

CORRIDORS

The urban morphology and arrangement of programmes are determined by the corridors identified, which involves a series of strategic proposals to weave the territory into organ-ised and interlinking flows.

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FABRIC FORMULATION & ARCHITECTURAL TECTONICS

DENSITY DISTRIBUTION STRATEGY

Assuming the relationship between green open space and urban development is crucial for any urban setting, here, a set of rules for density distribution is developed to generate an urban field with varying densities that correspond to the character of those spaces. The application of density information results in a differentiated field that can be developed into different basic built typologies.

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SITE EVOLUTION- Multi-layered Morphology

THICKENED GROUND

The built fabric adaptively react to urban and contextual density parameters (heterogeneity) while while maintaining a coherent urban structure with integrated open spaces. The overall tectonic system is an inter-articulated surfaces (folded carpet and podiums), a thicked ground, that demonstrate the correlation with the environment. Additional massing can be applied on top as plug-in units to increase habitation at high density areas.

The concept of thickened ground is applied to describe the spatial strategy for Jintang Island. The implementation seeks to contribute to a more interactive figure ground relationship between the ‘built system’ and the ‘soft system’.Through thickness and complexity, different programmes and land uses are able to combine - thus creating a mixture of programmes rather than typical compartmentalised land use zoning approach.The open-ended spatial result has the capacity to combine public green space, built form and infrastructural elements. The application of the thickened ground strategy helps to merge the requirement of larger fabrics with smaller fabrics, thus increasing the overall value, open space usage, and life at street levels. In addition, the movement of logistics can be treated separately through thickness, thus eliminating strong traffic barriers within civic streetscapes.

Plug-in Buit Forms

Folded Landscape Carpet

Ground Podiums

Ground System (Hardscape & Softscape

The proposed masterplan reacts adaptively to accommodate different contex-tual requirements as well as to the existing ground and social conditions. It’s a legible organisation within an intricate system of order where the infrastructural proposals produce an efficient pattern to control navigation and generate di-versification within the urban fabric - deliberately increasing the complexity to reinterpret the government’s masterplan (mono-functioning organisation).

The landscape from the topography bleeds into the industrial piers. The inter-mingling of infrastructures provide the scope to respond to potential changes during the course of the city’s lifespan.

MASTERPLAN (PODIUM LEVELS)

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Contemporary social and environmental condi-tions pose significant challenges to normative design practices. Landscape Urbanism sets out to develop new modes of practice which directly engage with the ways economic, political and material processes continuously reconfigure the city.On the competition, we operated by synthesising the dynamic and temporal forces that shape Rijeka’s urban landscape with the generative and organisa-tional potentials of materials developed through ab-stract organisational systems.

ARCHITECTURAL ASSOCIATION PATCHINGTHE CITY

COMPETITION - RIJEKA, CROATIA

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WORK PORTFOLIO

VANKE CENTRE LANDSCAPE DESIGN- Steven Holl’s Horizontal Skyscraper (Shenzhen, China)

WANGJING SOHO LANDSCAPE DESIGN- Zaha Hadid’s Building Complex (Beijing, China)

Primary involvement has been in the formula-tion of design concepts and project designs, working in teams to produce proposals.

MARTHA SCHWARTZ PARTNERS

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HONG XING LU LANDSCAPE COMPETITION- Wharf China’s Shopping Complex and Interchange (Chengdu, China)

WORK PORTFOLIOTERENCE

O’ROURKE LTD.


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STANWAY MASTERPLANThe masterplanning proposal that includes hous-ing, public open space and an ecological country park on the southern fringe of Stanway, Colchester. The design embraces the natural landscape of the site to generate a new image for Stanway.

UPTON SUSTAINABLE URBAN EXTENSIONA collaborative bid scheme - sustainable mixed use development that incorporates housing, commercial uses, schools, community hall, transport links, and a host of environmental technologies.

BOURNEMOUTH TRAVEL INTERCHANGEA landscape design proposal for the travel inter-change at Bournemouth Station - dealing with con-flicting users and traffic flows.

SOUTH WEST BICESTERDevelopment of a sustainable new quarter for Bi-cester covering 1,500 homes, new schools, com-mercial and healthcare uses, public open space and a mised use local centre. In addition to the strategic masterplan, there are also detailed preliminary pro-posals for key public realms to create better sense of place.

TRUMPINGTON MEADOWSThe proposed scheme occupies 150 hectares of land at the southern fringe of Cambridge in close proximity to Trumpington’s centre and travel in-terchange. The preliminary masterplan seeks to respond to the site’s surrounding context, and to develop 1,000 new homes, community facilities and an extensive country park.

KEY PROJECTS- Landscape Design / Planning & Masterplanning


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YET-SAN PARK REGENERATIONThe competition scheme achieved the highest score out of sixteen applications from other design firms during the committee appraisal. The construction project has been completed in 2008.

WORK PORTFOLIOLIU KUO

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EXHIBITION PRESENTATION

PROJECT REVIEW EXHIBITION (LONDON)- June 2011 (Architectural Association, Bedford Square)


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FINAL JURY PRESENTATION (LONDON)- Sep 2011 (Architectural Association, Bedford Square)

PUBLIC L COMPETITION PRESENTATION (CROATIA)- Mar 2011 (City Hall, Rijeka)

LANDSCAPE URBANSIM WORKSHOP EXHIBITION (CHINA)- Dec 2010 (Hong Kong University Campus, Shanghai)

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