Landscape ArchitectureJingyuan Hu

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Jingyuan Hu

subtle interactionUrban and landscapes, Kolbotn, Norway

boundary & bondUrban and landscapes, Shanghai, China

rural squareLandscapes, Haapsalu, Estonia

light up the siteInteractive and landscapes, Shanghai, China

village reappearsUrban and landscapes, Guangzhou, China

others

PROJECTS1

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This is a project firmly grounded in research. The

design is to find a good but not disturbing way to

activate the area. The project was done individually

and mainly focus on the pathway created both in

the forest and along the water.

SUBTLE INTERACTION

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Norway

Akershus

Oppegård

Kolbotn

Myrvoll

Oppegård is the smallest municipality in Akershus and it is a green municipality. Since it is also in the suburb of Oslo and involved in the rapid urbanization, the transportation in Oppegård mainly depends on vehi-cles. However, the future plan and orientation is to use the cars to commute with the outside but travel without vehicles inside the area.

Another problem is that the municipality is facing the urbanization of the new center, Kolbotn, which has been built up in the last two years. With the development and densification, this place will be a really important node of Oppegård. The construction of infrastructure around should keep pace with other developments.

This project started from mapping of the target area, Oppegård municipality, with findings of both problems and opportunities, comes the proposal of a path system connecting Kolbotn and the closest station, Myrvoll.

waterbuilding

waterhighway

main roadlocal road0 400

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1600m

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the site

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waterforest

Kolbotn

Myrvoll

Separate the vehicles and people.

concept

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coniferous mixed leaf

forest type and location

high low poormiddle

forest quality and location

In order to make the pathway both attractive to people and protective for nature, ecological patterns were fully taken into consideration. Forest type and quality were mapped according to GIS. Different species were also mapped and their seasonal changes were well studied: different views and spatial experience gener-ated are guiding the design of the pathway.

It is also interesting to combine the GIS analysis with actual space, one is from 头top to the ground while the other is from the bottom up.

mapping

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spruce pine mixed forest mixed coniferous

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tree composed space and landscape

coniferous

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house yard dock

house yard dockpath

stop node

attraction

connection

circulation

sight

In addition to the path along the water, an attraction and a circulation with the road on the peninsular are also essential. In the project, the position of the bridge was chosen according to the width of the water and the sight area.

The west side of the bridge is 5 meters above the water, so that it will not interfere with people skating in winter.

Now

design potential

design

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main road 2.5-3 m

waterfront path 1.2-1.8mwooden path & wooden step

1.5%

for snow

winter

supporting track along the water

Tracks in the forest

bicycle trackwalk

light

lighting infrastructure for winter

lighting infrastructure for winter

path

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Keep the original dock and connect them with a linear and continuous wooden path. Also, add a parallel wooden bench to make them as a compact structure.

Can be accessed by the properties close to the path. Residents can use the linear path as dock for their own boats.

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B

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Selected plants are based on the original local species. They are also chosen to improve the water quality and the organics in the water.

zoom in

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Section A

Front view B

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Suggested Plants

sections

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The project is aiming to find a way to turn the

boundaries brought by the unprecedented urban-

ization into a bond, to make the isolated streets

back to life. It was finished by a team with two oth-

ers, Zhewen Dai & Ziyi Zhang.

BOUNDARY & BOND

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The metro Connect Jiading Town to the central Shanghai, consisting an essential part of the transportation system of the metropolis.

The moat Built in Song Dynasty and was well connected to the river which passes through the central town.

The East Gate StreetIn the same status with the West Gate Street, is now revitalized by the transformation into a commercial pedestrian.

West Gate Street,now is in the opposite condition to the East Gate Street, meeting with the decay and erosion.

Shanghai is undergoing unprecedented urbanization. Along with the over-sprawl-ing development came the decay and erosion of historical neighborhoods, which leaves depressing spaces between social classes.

JiadingLocated in the suburb of Shanghai. Now it is one of the districts of this metropolis.

the site

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Ancient Current

Jiading town was thriving during the Ming and Qing Dynasty, with its two central markets, one in central city and one in west water gate. These old pictures show the prosperity in the middle 1990s. West Gate Street, with the rapid urbanization of Shanghai in recent decades, turned to dilapidated due

to its distance from city center, and is now mostly occupied by housing tenants of migrant workers with low income. River has become a boundary and the community has been gradually isolated from the context.

BoundaryBond

With the different fabrics and social classes, gener-ated the seam in the town. At the same time the seam has become the boundary between different communi-ties. In this case, seam and the river together composed the boundary between the old town and the newly built neighborhoods.

In order to turn the boundary into a bond and alter the situation, it is proposed to take full use of the open space, making the negative solid line into positive flow-ing linkage by discovering and offering space and possi-bility for activity and communication.

background

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Activity point Demolished building Unoccupied space

Old buildings are squeezed and separated from the context of the city. More importantly, the identity of the site fade out along with the degradation of these old buildings.

Pathways between the dwellings are not fully used. In contrast, they turned out to be the negative space in the community, becoming obstacles for communication with outer neighborhoods.

Two of the three bridges on the river are manually interrupted due to the different social classes on the two sides. This situation made the West Gate Street a complete segregation.

The site was under the down-turn condition. Due to the isolated region and low attraction of the community, there is merely public activities or communication.

Buildings here are declining, some of them have been even demolished since they are rarely used or without any protection and repairing.

investigation

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Revitalize accesses

Possibilities of activity & communication

walking bicycling strolling nursing gathering painting market fishing dog walking sports

After investigation and many interviews with the residents, some unused space were found. We have also discovered that people here have strong desires to communicate with the other neighborhoods. The deg-radation of the pathways is to a large extent because of a lack of public open space and facilities.

In order to repair this seam in the city, the existing space is fully used: three large vacant lots are turned into different kinds of markets and are linked by facil-itated pathways; communities on the two sides of the river are connected linear space to rise physical and emotional communication.

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Three markets of different strategies are imple-mented as an attempt to revitalize the community. One is a food market that is necessary for the local residents. One is a proposed craft and antique market in the site of a demolished elementary school. There is a tradi-tional popularity of antique exchange in Jiading town.

The third is a flower and bird market, another tradi-tional market. As the craft and antique market does, a flower and bird market will bring the poor people both incomes and a chance to communicate with people from outer blocks. It is targeted toward a larger resi-dential area to the west of the site.

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plan

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perspectives & sections

The main street

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The West Gate Street is currently the only activity space in the neighborhood. This sole public space gives the community an introversive character and precludes passengers from passing through.

To revitalize this main access, which to a large extent determines the prosperity of the community, trees and facilities are inserted in the street, making it a space where people will choose to stay but not pass by.

Section 1. West Gate Street

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Section 2. West Gate Street view from a narrow pathway

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19Flower & bird market Activity node

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Due to the space limits and the need for activity, paths in the loops are designed to be multi-functional. Some of them are facilitated with, for example, game table and ping-pong tables.

As for the vacant yards, according to the financial consideration and tradition, some higher participatory and common activities are introduced in, as badminton and basketball, to attract people from nearby neighbor-hoods to utilize.

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Section 3. vacant yard and path at the waterfront

Section 4. narrow path between the dwellings

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21View on the river

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Section 5. waterfront space and bridge

Section 6. craft and antique market

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This is a small project for a village named Purksi,

close to the west coast of Estonia. The goal is to

re-organize the central space and offer a comfort

gathering place for local community as well as the

commuting people from surrounding villages. It

was done individually.

RURAL SQUARE

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overall

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investigation

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parking

road

tree line

pedestrian

green open space Clarify the space with different functions.

Corridors can be built to connect the green area as well as an attraction。。.

Rearrange the lined up trees to small patches.

Rearrange greenery as background.Sketch and ideas

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Accessibility visual connection natural pattern duplicate & change

The waiting place is considered a space both outdoor and indoor, for all weather conditions. Cafe is proposed as a gathering place for people in the village. Store is also integrated with the cafe to increase attraction. Now the only store in the village is hiding from the other parts of the place, according to the proposal, the relocated store will give much higher convenience as well.

green corridor view pointaccessibility

analysis

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plan

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section B-B’

section A-A’

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scenes

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LIGHT UP THE SITEThis is a project deeply impacted by the fast de-

veloping technology. It is aiming to find a way to

build real connections among people by using the

virtual communication. Space, technology inte-

gration, and infrastructure are all considered and

combined. The project was conducted by two (with

Ziyi Zhang).

FacebookHome LightUpTheSite

www.lightupthesite.design

Youtube Green.yahoo Twitter IMDb

Potentials of Roof Virtualscape & Landscape New Routine Design Reconnection Balance and PeaceSite Plan

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Since people in such a metropolis do not have enough outdoor space, flat roofs should be more efficiently used rather than transforming to the pitched ones. Residents are supposed to have more access to enjoy the space above the ceiling and feel the nature.

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51.2% building coverage 12.8m2 green area per capita

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11.71 million people头头, 62% of Shanghai's popula-tion, surf the Internet very often, among which 60% use mobile devises to access the Internet.

18.7 hours per week on average is spent on Internet. It has become more and more important in citizens' daily life.

Population37%25%

InformationCommunicationEntertainments

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million

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28%69%80% 75% Shopping & businesses

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OceanPrairie

Lavender

Sunset

virtualscape to landscape

Glacier

LakeBeach

Forest

Maple

Rye Sky

Sakura

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Background

Frame

Words

Logo

Other information...

Step 1 Filtrating data. Step 3 Displaying lightStep 2 Converting data

Sources ColorProgram

technology

Class Image+type: int

+img: image+location: ArrayList-getcolor(): String

-getarea(): int

Class CSS+type: int

+color: string+location: ArrayList

-getarea(): int

Class People+serials: String

+location: ArrayList-mobility(): int

Class Environment+date : string+time : string

+weather : ArrayList+private class People

-rain() : int -festive() : boolean

-numberofpeople : int-density : int

-turbulence : int

Class Web+url : String+clicks : int

+duration : int+flow : int

+location : ArrayList+private class CSS

+private class Image-arrayfrecuency() : Arraylist

-arraycolor() : Arraylist

Class Led+serials : int+lumin : int+ color : int

-onoroff() : boolean-autoormanual() : boolean

-calculatelumin() : ArrayList-calculateallocation() : ArrayList

-calculatecolor() : int

PLC

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3New Routine: A common day of a working young people in Shanghai. Most of them have the same schedule for their weekday. However, there can be some good changes for

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Daily Routine: The project can bring young people an alternative for their once monotone weekdays, aiming to provide outdoor space for them and better the city's night landscape at the same time.

Light Experiment: 1:1 lamppost model is made to illustrate the influence of website's color on human activities and nature.

Light experiment

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LED

space

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Urban

Grass

Wooden

Glass

Sky

Flow of Platform: The timber platform provides space for various activities of people, and the concave of it can lower the eye level of users, guide their attention to the lawn and the upper space, offering them a feeling of being surrounded by nature.

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Festival 2.0: The color of light can be changed for the special need of the traditional Chinese Lantern Festival — different colors of the lampposts stand for differ-ent states of riddles — making the traditional festival interactive and bring in a brand new ingredient to the Festival.

perspectives

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Reveal connection: The virtual online connections among people are revealed by the media of light in this project, moreover, a brand new bond is generated to stimulate communication.

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VILLAGE REAPPEARSThis is a part of the Master’s thesis. The project

consists of a comprehensive research on the histo-

ry and generation of VICs (Villages In the City) and

a design proposal for a specific site to illustrate an

alternative way of development other than the way

driven only by economy. The whole thesis was fin-

ished by two, with Xin Su as a partner.

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INDIA

RUSSIA

RUSSIA

MONGOLIA

CHINA

Beijing

Shanghai

Guangzhou

VIETNAM

BURMA

LAOS

Also known as Canton or Kwangchow, Guangzhou is the capital city and largest city of Guangdong province. It is also the third largest city in China, after Beijing and Shanghai. It is located very close to Hong Kong, with a 130 km distance. That has brought a lot of convenience and opportunities to Guangzhou.

VIC (Village In the city) is becoming one of the major problems caused by the rapid development.

research

VICs before QingWater

Old city

Urban area in 1984Urban area in 1998

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fieldsorchadsvacant land

city

1933village

fields

city 2005

orchadspublic greenhills

city 1860villages 2005

2005villages 1933

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VillageWater

Orchards

Urban areaCity axis

A lot of villages were formed during the last 3 decades. Guangzhou has moved its city axis to the east and extend it to the end of Haizhu island. Haizhu island is now an important district and is facing massive changes brought by the coming development. There are also many different kinds of villages in the area. According to different characters and locations, these villages are facing both opportunities and challenges.

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Village of Lijiao is the biggest one in Haizhu dis-trict, located at the southern end of the new axis. It has a history about 900 years. There are 13 ancestor temples respectively from Song Dynasty, Ming Dynasty, Qing Dynasty, and Republic of China. It is reported that the whole village (about 1.5 million square meters) will be transformed in the next decade.

the site

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After interviews with the old in the village, it is claimed that almost all the asphalt roads in the vil-lage now were once waterways. The main canal was much wider before and was reduced to make room for the roads.

Many old people were not willing to talk about the past. Some said that it made them so sad to remem-ber the environment in the past while looking at the surroundings today. It is a shame that the life quality is lower than thirty years ago. Some also complained that it would be inconvenient and isolated to move to high-raised buildings.

waterways

Old canals (by Sidney Gamble)

Original waterways

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plan

Delonix regia

Chorisia speciosa

Trachycarpus fortunei

Pterocarya stenoptera

Ficus septica

Cinnamomum camphora

Ormosia pinnata

Terminalia mantaly

Lagertstroemia speciosa

Metasequoia glyptostroboides

Senna surattensis

Bauhinia purpurea

Michelia × alba

Albizia julibrissin

Plumeria obtusa

Saccharum officinarum

Musa sapientum

Camellia chekiangoleosa Hu

Prunus ceraifera

Averrhoa carambola

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Long sections are illustrating the continuity of and flow of people in the designed space. A series of deeper sections were drawn as well to show the full consider-ation of small details in between water, roads, and res-idential areas..

Section A-A’ (1)

Section A-A’ (2)

Section B-B’

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detail & model

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perspective

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photographs

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drawings & illustrations

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