siqi_portfolio

Work Samples of Siqi W. ManbossiaMaster of Landscape Architecture/ University of Southern CaliforniaCertificate in Architecture and Urbanism/ University of Southern CaliforniaBachelor of Architecture/ Shenzhen University

Siqi W. Manbossia5037 Creely Ave, Richmond, CA, [email protected]

Improving the Quality of Life in Low-Income Urban Neighborhood

0.5 Custom Line, Lok Ma Chau Experiment

Food Cart, Shenzhen's Soft Urbanism Research

Montage City, Conceptual Urban Design

Sculpture Garden, L.A.'s Backyard

High-Density Residential Community Design

Professional Works

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Most of the low income neighborhood tend to neglect the open space and public health. The public space is therefore; not well defined and emphasized.The low income neighborhoods have a lot of problems such as the deteriorated air quality, social justice problems, increasing public health problems, safety problems such as violence and dangerous streets, heat island effect.How can we provide a neighborhood for the low income residents to settle down while also creating energetic and health communities and public living space? How to generate new dynamics, improving the quality of life? In the Directed Design Research, I would find the possibilities to use the open space to repair and improve the problems of the low income neighborhoods.

Improving the Quality of Life in Low-Income Urban NeighborhoodsWatts as a Case Study

Site: Watts Neighborhood in South Los AngelesAcademic work: 1 year, Aug. 2011- May. 2012Studio: Grduation Design, Directed Design ResearchCommittee Chair: Robert S. HarrisCommittee Member: Esther Margulies, Tori KjerIndividual work

Landscape architecture Architecture Urban 2008 2009 2010 2011 Design Research Academic Professional

Professional Academic Research Design 2011 2010 2009 2008 Urban Architecture Landscape architecture

Project Issues

Issue 1: Social InequalityStrategy: Provide more open space in low-income community

Issue 2: Persona l & Community Safety Strategy: Increase street activities to create a safer street

Issue 3: Poor Physical Health Strategy: Provide more outdoor sports programs with convenient access.

I s s u e 4 : D e f i c i e n t Ecological Environments

Urban Green SpineDesign Process

Urban Texture Existing Identity of the Neighborhood Hot Spots of the Neighborhood

Compton River

Rail Road Track

Rail Road Track

Historic Rail Road Track

Watts Tower

Watts Branch Library

Will Rogers Memorial Park

Colonel Lee H Washington Park

Watts Senior Center Rose Garden

Urban Farm

Basic Structure of the Green Ubran Spine(New Identity of the Neighborhood)

Pocket Parks Make the Urban Green Spine More Continuous & Benefit All Residents

Strategy Plan


Design Solution:

Strategy: Provide more open spaceIssue 1: Social Inequality

Existing Amount of Open Space Proposed Amount of Open Space

1.03 acres open space per 1,000 population 7.79 acres open space per 1,000 population,Meet

the standard for USA

65 acres open space 490 acres open space

Issue 2: Personal & Community SafetyStrategy: Increase street activities to create a safer street & Add more walking/ bicycle lanes, Narrow the vehicle lanes.

Existing Condition of the Main Streets Proposed Condition of the Main Streets

Issue 3: Poor Physical HealthStrategy: Provide more outdoor sports programs with convenient access Strategy: Plant more trees & Deal with stormwater treatment

Issue 4: Deficient Ecological Environments

Proposed Ecological System

The Existing Tree Cover of the site is only 6.14 %The City of Los Angeles currently has a tree canopy cover of 21%

The national average for tree canopy cover in city is 27% (From Million Trees LA website)

In this proposal, the tree cover exceeds the national average 25.7%


Specific Plan


Design Analysis

Hardscape & Softscape View & Vista

Program & Activities

Circulation

DESIGN STRATEGY

Ecological System


Perspective of the Entrance Plaza of the Commercial Center Through the Urban Forest/ Habitat by Metro

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Stormwater Treatment of Watts Tower Street

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Rain water: 15 x 1 x 0.623= 9.3 gallons of water/ per square feet

1,973,863 square feet x 9.3= 18,356,925 gallons of waterArea of the Water Garden: 18,356,925 / 8 feet = 2,294,615 square feetIrrigation area: 272,150 square feetWater needed for irrigation: 272,150 x 48.63 x 0.4 x1 x 0.62 / 0.7 = 272,150 x 17.2 = 4,688,849 gallons of water

Potential Bird Species1. Allen’s Hummingbird2. American Robin3. Anna’s Hummingbird4. Black Phoebe5. Cedar Waxwing6. Cooper’s Hawk7. House Finch8. Mourning Dove9. Northern Mockingbird10. Ruby-crowned Kinglet11. Rufous Hummingbird12. Western Scrub-Jay13. Western Tanager14. White-crowned Sparrow15. Yellow-rumped Warble

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Trees CommunityPlant Palette: Pomegranate

Plant Palette: Western Sycamore

Plant Palette: Lemon-scented Gum

Plant Palette: Sugar Gum

Tree cover

The Existing Tree Cover of the site is only 6.14 %The City of Los Angeles currently has a tree canopy cover of 21%

The national average for tree canopy cover in city is 27% (From Million Trees LA website)

In this proposal, the tree cover exceeds the national average 29.6%

2195 trees...Saves $21,950 in annual energy costs each year

Removes 4,916.8 Pounds of air pollutants annually, can save $50,485 per year in air

pollution clean up costs.

Captures 4,170,500 gallons of stormwater per year, which decreases both polluted runoff

and soil and hill erosion and would save $10,975 in annual stormwater runoff costs.

Hydrology


Blur and Disappear of the Urban BoundaryDiversity elolves into an ideology which is rooted in our city and our life. Nowaday, the relationship of different cities are closer and closer, the urban boundary blurs and disappears. It is very accurate to describe Shenzhen and Hong Kong as twin cities nowadays.Big idea: 0.5 Custom Line"0.5 Custom Line": The citizens of Hong Kong and Shenzhen don't need the passport to go to the other city. Shenzhen citizens don't need to go to the downtown of Hong Kong to access the institution and laws of Hong Kong. They can go to the "0.5 Custom Line". At the same time, the institution of Hong Kong can provide the commercial and other service to the Shenzhen citizens. On the other hand, in the "0.5 Custom Line", the Hong Kong citizens can access the quality service in Shenzhen, at the same time, Shenzhen can provide various kinds of service to the Hong Kong Citizens.

0.5 Custom LineLok Ma Chau Experiment:

Urban Design for Hong Kong - Shenzhen Boundary District

Site: Shenzhen & Hong Kong, China Academic work: 3 months, April to June. 2010Studio: Grduation Design, Urban DesignInstructor: Fang ChenTeam workMy work: Design, Survey and diagram


Conceptural Model and Draft


Big Idea


General Planning of the Boundary Region of Shenzhen and Hong Kong

Master Plan

Indicators

Site Area: 2990289㎡Site C: 1670000㎡Total Construction Area: 5483800㎡Greening rate: 3.11Coverage rate: 0.43FAR: 0.30C&D Ratio: 1:2.6


Planning Structure

Diagram

Hill

Green Axis

Urban Carpet

Promenade

Plaza

Courtyard

Greenway

River

Function Layout Landscape SystemFirst Floor Viewshed Second Floor Viewshed

Urban Ecological Axis River

Overall Greening Texture

Urban Carpet Plaza and Promenade

Background Greening


Diagram

Planning and Design of Site CFloor 1 Plan

Floor 2 Plan

Main Road System

MetroFunctional Connection with -1 Floor

Floor 1 Landscape System

Parking System

Land Use Development intensity

Custom Check

Logistics Access System

Floor 1 Landscape System

Pedestrian System

Commercial Edge System

Scale Planning System Function Layout


Food Cart CultureShenzhen's Soft Urbanism

Shenzhen is a city forever changing. This condition is exacerbated by the city's need to plan at the large scale to establish a city of the future. In the short and mid term, this inevitably creates gaps at the urban small scale. Within the gaps in life culture and services this creates Shenzhen's dynamic "Food Cart Culture". It is within this condition of civic instability that this SOFT form of urbanism evolves. It is one that creates new spaces ad hoc, without planning, and without permanence, the antithesis of the broader scope of development within Shenzhen.

Our intention is to use this research as the beginning of a discussion of the importance and effects of itinerant vendor and how it can be made more official and its legality and urban impact better understood, and generally more acceptable.

One of the projects in the Shenzhen & Hong Kong Bi-city Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture in 2009

Professional work: 11. 2009- 12. 2009Team workMy work: survey and diagram director of the case studyResponsible for the diagrams shown below.


Our works are exhibited in the Shenzhen & Hong Kong B i - c i ty B i enna le o f Urbanism/ Architecture in 2009

For the biennale, we create a Biennale Idea-Cart which is based on the drawing we do and sell our research, the CASE STUDY, the CART DRAWING DOCUMENTATION to the Biennale visitors as a series of products such as PoKer, postcard, mini-books. This is a meta-cultural representation of our research as the object of our research and sold in the manner of our research.


CART DOCUMENTATION

We are very interested in the food carts themselves. So we investigate all forms that Shenzhen food carts take, and do detailed CART DRAWINGS in black and white which show how the carts do their job, and how they are suited to not only their products and customers, but also the other necessities of the itinerant seller, mobility, storage, maintenance, escape...etc.


CASE STUDY Background:Food carts, apart from being design elements and social necessities, become Shenzhen's architecture of the small scale. The city is invested in developing itself architecturally, but this is a top-down dynamism. The small scale is necessarily ignored or abused or cast-off through this radical large-scale imagining of the city. In parts of many neighborhood, the carts become the architecture. When they arrive, they fundamentally change the urban environments in positive and negative ways. They change how traffic flows, how spaces are used, how neighborhoods are defined…

Food Catalog: Hot Floury, Fried Rice Noodle, Fast Food For Lunch( Rice, Dishes accompanying the staple food, Soup), Hot and Sour Rice Noodles

Time 11:00

Location: Shenzhen High-tech Development Zone Kejinan Road

Saide Science and Technology Building (in construction)

Dachong City VillageDachong City Village

China Academy of Building Research

China Science and Technology Deve lopment Institute

TCL Building

Shennan Road

Kejinanyi RoadZhonggu Road

We are here.


Food Catalog: Hot Floury, Fried Rice Noodle, Fast Food For Lunch ( Rice, Dishes accompanying the staple food, Soup),Hot and Sour Rice Noodles,

Food Catalog: Hot Floury, Fried Rice Noodle, Fast Food For Lunch( Rice, Dishes accompanying the staple food, Soup), Hot and Sour Rice Noodles

Time 12:00Time 11:30

Food Catalog: Rice Porridge, Soy Milk, Fried Duffs, Chinese Pancake, Noodle, Small Steamed Bun, Hot Floury, Steamed Vermicelli Roll

Food Catalog: Rice Porridge, Soy Milk, Fried Duffs, Eggs, Dumpling Soup, Won Ton, Fried Dumpling, Chinese Pancake, Baked Sesame Buns, Noodle, Small Steamed Bun, Steamed Vermicelli Roll

Food Catalog: Soy Milk, Chinese Pancake

Time 9:00Time 8:30

The itinerant vendors are fluid, sensitive...Unlike fixed physical architecture, the Soft Architecture defined by the Food Carts represents an opportunity to explore a type of space design that is wholly unplanned but is driven by the desire of the city( the opportunities and necessities of the flows of people) and the pressure of the city( the curators).Unlike built space, the Soft Architecture defined by the Food Carts have the ability to return to the before condition.The food carts add a sense of temporality to the city. Points in the city evolve and change with the changing time of day. The food carts redefine the physical limits of a space, or even define a space where previously there was void.

We take the photos for this interesting site every 30 minutes.At 8:30 am. There is nearly no food carts there.At 9:00 am, the curb appears a large number of food carts which sell the breakfast. Because there are many office buildings in the site, a large number of white-collar workers go to work at this time and need to have breakfast. …At 10:00 am, the food carts which sell the breakfast disappear gradually. The space of the curb is void.After 10:30 am, there appears a large number of food carts which sell fast food for lunch( rice, dished accompanying the staple food, soup), they gradually occupy the physical limits of the space. The Saide Science and Technology Building is in construction in the site, many workers need to have lunch at noon, as a result, there appears a large amount of food carts which sell fast food for lunch.At 13:00 pm, the food carts which sell the lunch disappear gradually. The space of the curb is void again.

Food Catalog: Hot Floury, Fried Rice Noodle, Fast Food For Lunch ( Rice, Dishes accompanying the staple food, Soup), Hot and Sour Rice Noodles

Food Catalog: Fast Food For Lunch ( Rice, Dishes accompanying the staple food, Soup), Hot And Sour Rice Noodles

Food Catalog: Hot And Sour Rice Noodles

Time 13:30Time 13:00Time 12:30

Food Catalog: Noodle, Hot Floury, Fried Chinese Potatoes, Fried Rice Noodle, Fast Food For Lunch( Rice, Dishes accompanying the staple food, Soup), Hot and Sour Rice Noodles

Food Catalog: Chinese Pancake,Noodle, Hot Floury, Fried Chinese PotatoesFood Catalog: Rice Porridge, Soy Milk, Fried Duffs, Chinese Pancake, Noodle, Small Steamed Bun, Hot Floury, Steamed Vermicelli Roll

Time 10:00 Time 10:30Time 9:30

After the initial survey, we choose one interesting site regarding the food carts culture in Shenzhen- Nanshan District Gaoxin Metro Station High-tech Development Zone Kejinan Road for CASE STUDY. In regards to the urban effects( SOFT ARCHITECTURE) of the food cart, we address how the carts play a role in the creation and operation of the city, exploring how food carts manipulate the spaces they occupy.

Our primary concern is: based on the time sensitive, how the fluid nature of the space of the food carts change, how they choose to arrange themselves, how they both occupy a position in the city, and serve the city.


The Concept of Montage City:

Montage, means "putting together in a certain order".For example, the film has many scenes, but when they are putting together with a certain order, it makes a story.From the research and analysis before, I found that the site is very eclectic, it makes up of or combines elements from a variety of sources.But I find some problems.The eclectic site is like a mess, a patchwork, there are a lot of elements, but they have no order.In my concept, I use the TECHNIQUES of MONTAGE, remain the eclectic elements, and then consolidate and overlap them, and use some new elements crossing the site, like the bicycle-track system and open space system to connect all the elements in a coherent and logical way, to make it have order. All the elements grow individually but jointly to form a greater whole.

Montage CityConceptual Urban Design

Site: Los Angeles, CA, USAAcademic work: 2 months, Aug-Nov, 2010Studio: Urban Design & Landscape DesignProgram: Landscape ArchitectureInstructor: Gerdo P Aquino, Ying-Yu HungIndividual work


ANALYSIS Like the city Los Angeles, the site in downtown of Los Angeles is a melting pot of many different elements and with that much intermingling. The hodgepodge is highly democratic, and that it is precisely this hodgepodge which most beautifully reflects the richness and multiplicity of human aspirations.

Route selection

500 m

Form the Core Belt as Public Open Space5 Minutes Walking Distance as the radius Form Other Core NodesChoose the Existing Important Nodes

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Janpanese American National Museum1990's

MOCA1970's

LA City Hall1920's

LA County Law Library1900's

Stanley Mosk Courthouse1960's

Bikrarn's Yoga College of India1900's

Tark Taper Forum1960's

Central LA High School2000's

LA Plaza Historic District1780's

Avila Adobe1810's

Management Offices Public House2000's

Mission Church1770's


Principle:1. Remain the eclectic elements in the site.The hodgepodge is highly democratic, and that it is precisely this hodgepodge which most beautifully reflects the richness and multiplicity of human aspirations.2. Use the montage techniques: CONSOLIDATE, OVERLAP, CROSSING (INTERSECT) and TIME/ DEPTH to connect all the eclectic element in a coherent way, and meet all people's need.

Goal: Connect the eclectic element in a coherent way. Make them have order. And meet all people's need.

BIG IDEA

Master Plan


Residential

Factory & Parking

Open Space

Historic Area

Sport

Commercial

Education & Culture

CBD

MONTAGE TECHNIQUES

2. OVERLAP1. CONSOLIDATE

3. DEPTH/ TIME

Summer

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4. CROSSING (INTERSECT)

Bicycle track systemHuge bridge/ platform system Nodes

Cultural green system Overall green systemGreen carpet system

Existing Condition


Sculpture GardenL.A.'s Backyard

Pleasant Little Tokyo & The Arts District

Little Tokyo is a Los Angeles district that is nestled south of Union Station and the EL Pueblo and just west of the Los Angeles River and the Arts District. Little Tokyo is filled with rich culture, history and value. It demands the attention of its surrounding or off-limits districts. It longs to be the oasis of its neighboring counterparts, by offering greener, slower pedestrian friendly streets with enhanced cultural destinations and a unique connection to the river.The big idea is incorporated into creating the backyard feeling into Little Tokyo.Based on the strategy plan of the team, I translate the big idea to the street level to the site, create the sculpture garden which serve as a pleasant backyard for Little Tokyo. Permeating the energy from the Little Tokyo, and the gateway to the friendly street, attract more people and penetrate the energy to the site.The direction of movement follows and works with the topography and offers a barrier free access to the center. The activity spine will be denser through the recharged open space. And the nearby space within the central area of sculpture garden will be given new order and value.

Site: Los Angeles, CA, USA Academic work: 4 months, Aug to Dec. 2011Studio: Urban Design & Landscape ArchitectureInstructor: Mia Lehrer & Simon PastuchaTeam work for the Urban DesignMy work: Design, Survey and diagramIndividual work for the Landscape Architecture Design


Day Overall energy of downtown areaCultural event heartbeat

Demographic chart Demographics-Downtown

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Los Angeles Dodgers @ Dodger Stadium BOYLE HEIGHTSDOWNTOWNECHO PARKELYSIAN PARKLINCOLN HEIGHTSWESTLAKE

Lakers @Staple CenterLakers @ Staples CenterPershing Squaare Ice Skating

Pershing Square Ice Skating Taco & Music Festival @ Mariachi PlazaGuacomole Festival Good Food Festival

Latino Food Fair

Blessing of the Animals @Olvera St.

Fiesta Broadway/Cinco de Mayo

Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival Lotus Festival X Games @ StaplesNisei Week Japanese Festival

Mariachi Festival @Mariachi Plaza F*** Yeah FestLas Posadas

Virgin de Guadalupe Celebration

Chinese New YearLos Angeles Downtown Artwalk

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LA County Holiday CelebrationDowntown Winter Festival

Dia de los MuertosMexican Independence Day

Summer Concerts @ Pershing SquareLatin American Heritage Celebration

Annual Senior Talent ShowUndiscovered Chinatown Tours

Bastille Day LA FestivalGrand Performances @ CA Plaza

New Original Works Festival

Afternoon of Jazz @ Angelus Plaza

Ipalpiti Festival of International LaureatesCuban Music Festival

Asian & Pacific Islander Older Adults Festival

LA Times Festival of BooksMardi Gras

Oshogatsu Family Festival

San Pedro ArtwalkTree Lighting @ Mariachi Plaza

Boyles Heights Farmers Market @ Mariachi Plaza

Echo Park Rising

Sunset Junction Street Fair

Human Rights Film Festival

Nihilist Film Festival

Westlake Street Festival

Chalk Walk Festival

Mindful Living FestivalHoliday Lighting FestivalFine Arts FaireWine Lover’s Festival

Westlake Village City Celebration

World City @ Disney HallAfrican American Heritage Celebration

Lantern FestivalCherry Blossom Festival

Blue Ribbon’s Children Festival

Olvera St Anniversary

Asuza FestVery Special Arts FestivalFiesta de la Candelaria

REDCAT Children’s Film Festival

Los Tres Reyes

Con Sabor Latino @ Lincoln ParkLatina Film FestivalEcuadorean Festival


Energy before Energy After

The BackboneA corridor for attracting circulation from DowntownThe Destination TrialTriangular walking trail systemThe Arts ExpansionThe arts district doubles to expand over neglected mega-blocksThe Slow CenterTraffic slows naturally toward Little Tokyo's centerThe Green NetAn ecological network for people and wildlife

Dynamic TriangleStrategic Plan



Sculpture Garden as Little Tokyo's Backyard


Collect the stormwateron the streets

In rain season, collectthe stormwater Collect the stormwater

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Water Story

Grove

Outdoor Cafe

Community SunkenPlaza Main Entrance

Main Entrance

Propose Open Space

Little Tokyo

Main Entrance

Metro Station

Use the paving to attract people flow into the site

CirculationCirculation

Plant Strategy

Ground CoverBlueberries (Vaccinium & cvs.)Blue IrisesSand Cherry

Conifers/ EvergreenPinus strobUs (White Pine)Picea Glauca (White spruce)

DeciduousSycamore MapleAcer Rubrum (Red Maple)Black LocustElaeagnus angustifolia (Russian Olive)Betula Nigra (Gray Birch)Black Cherry (Prunus Serotina)

ShrubsChokeberryViburnum Dentatum (Arrowwood)Sorbaria SorbifoliaMyrica PensylvanicaPrunus Serotina

Topography and Art Collection Story

SANNA Pavilion

2-2 Section

1-1 SectionGrading Plan


Main Path (Experience discovery) Sculpture

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Wall Sculpture

Art Collection Strategy

Main path (Experience Discovery)Small size (Closed at night)Huge sizeEnclose space/ PrivateWallNatural

Holzer – Blue Tilt Ned Kahn – Tipping wall Irwin – Light & Space

Roxy Paine - Inversion Mary Miss – 2Jyvaskyla University, 1994

Sergio Camargo – Untitled (Gagosian, Paris- 2011)

Jeff Koons – Tulips Jesus Rafael de Soto - Sphere

De Wain Valentine – Three disks

Acconci – Shell Dan Graham – Penultimate

Ernesto Neto – While nothing happen

Anish Kapoor- Vertigo

Anish Kapoor-Spire

Tara Donovan – Transplanted

Kenny Scharf – Car from the MOCA exhibit

Jaume Plensa – Spiegel I & II

Lygia Clark – Bichos Bruce Nauman – fifteen pairs of hand

Os Gemeos – Untitled (Vertigem exhibit)

Rachel Whiteread – Stair to heaven

Nancy Rubins - Monochrome

Tony Smith – Cigarette Ann Hamilton – Tower

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Sunken PlazaWood Platform

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China is a country that has a vast population, with limited land available. To make room for more open space, constructing tall buildings is a favorite choice for many. As Le Corbusier had said in “Bright City”, and I am paraphrasing here, that since tall buildings meet the need for sun, air, and water, it is very rational to build them. The question I pose is: To what extent can this “rationality”be a value judgment of our living conditions? Simply because it is rational does not mean it is better. For example, the building coverage in the neighborhood of Paris is very high. Most residential were built as an enclosure structure. Sunlight, air, water and other conditions are not as satisfying as those for tall buildings. However, in this kind of high coverage residential, people cherish their surrounding courtyard spaces and their squares highly. The open space in the city becomes a melting pot for social communication and different activities, creating a vibrant and interesting atmosphere for the society.

In my opinion, mere rationality can sometimes result in monotony. Therefore in my design, I try for the harmonious coexistence of the high-density residential and the open space. At the same time, for open space, I attempt to manage the relationship between the neighborhood and the city, in order that the neighborhood becomes an integrated part of the city.

Community DesignHigh-Density Residential Community

Site: Shenzhen, ChinaAcademic work: 6 weeks, Nov. 2008Studio: Urban DesignProgram: Residential Community+ Open SpaceInstructor: Hao ShanIndividual work


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Technical and Economic Target

Total Land Area: 166000m2

Gross Floor Area: 189600m2

Floor Area Ratio: 1.14Building Density: 22.9%Building Storey: 3-11storeysParking Configuration: 1:1.2 Greening Rate: 47.68


Technical and Economic Target

Total Land Area: 166000m2

Gross Floor Area: 189600m2

Floor Area Ratio: 1.14Building Density: 22.9%Building Storey: 3-11storeysParking Configuration: 1:1.2 Greening Rate: 47.68

Facilities

Commercial Retail: 6129m2

Apartment: 177000Community Center: 1527m2

Kindergarten: 2562m2

Nursery: 1524m2

Senior’s Activity Center: 768m2

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Sunlight Analysis

Figure- Ground

Reserved Landscape Element

Communal Courtyard(semi-private public space)

Public Open Space

Open Space System

Building Density

Road

Underground Parking

Surface Parking

Transportation System


Site: Xishuangbanna, ChinaScope: Land Planning, Master Planning, Grading StudiesSize: 854 hectareThis project is located 4km South-West of Jinghong City, Yunnan Province. The overall size is about 854 ha. Project is to be developed into a vacation, tourist, conference, culture and commercial mixed use property.

Projects that completed while at Terrain Studio Inc. Image copyright Terrain Studio Inc.

Professional WorkXishuangbanna Masterplan

Site: Conghua, ChinaScope: Landscape Architecture Concept Design, Schemative Design, Design Development, and Construction ObservationSize: about 7 hectareThis project includes resort hotel, hillside villa community and villa model home private yard landscape design. This is a land- based design. Our design minimized grading activity, maintained natural processes and open space system, supported forest restoration to prevent erosion, and en- couraged natural resources preservation & habitat protection. At the same time, this is an environmental friendly design. For place making, this project created unique entry & arrival experiences, elegant water bodies, intimate scale space, artful detailing and native landscape.

Professional WorkConghua Resort Hotel & Hillside Villa


Site: San Francisco, CAScope: Landscape Architecture Concept design , schematic design & design development Size: 42,625 Square footThis project is a market-rate residential tower consisting of 402 market-rate apartments, and adjacent midrise tower consisting of 70 affordable units, 7 adjacent market-rate townhomes ancillary retail along Folsom Street, underground parking and site/street improvements.The landscape design includes a ground level courtyard, two roof level gardens on both level 7 and level 33 and the streetscape around the site. This project created a terraced garden in the courtyard to meet the grading changes through the site. The landscape areas offer a variety of outdoor spaces.

Professional WorkSan Francisco Transbay Block 6


Siqi W. Manbossia5037 Creely Ave, Richmond, CA, [email protected]

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