2016: Master of City Planning, UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA2014: Baelor of Urban & Regional Planning, UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHAMPAIGN-URBANA

2015: Summer intern at HMA Architects & Designers, Shanghai2013: Summer intern at Llewelyn-Davies Hong Kong Ltd. Shanghai

Language: Fluent in English, Japanese and Chinese Mandarin (native)

SHI -YUAN YAO / 姚 詩 遠URBAN DESIGNPORTFOL IO 2016都市デザイン作品選

RECLAIMING SUZHOU CANALFRONTSAN URBAN DES IGN PROJECT

This project, taking canal recovery as a great opportunity for public realm reformation, offers a chance to improve local residents’ low-level awareness of public space utilization. The residential neighborhood today is saturated with housing and retail developments from mid-late 20th century. Redevelopment is considered essential for public life reformation and community connection rebuilding. The introduction of educa-tional, recreational and cultural facilities will faciliate people to embrace their new community life.

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Concept in Context

Soochow UniversityHospital Affliated to Soochow University

Ping Jiang Historical Street

Metro Station

Citywall Museum

WAICHENGRIVER

Site

Soochow University

Danwei Housing

Danwei Housing

Existing CanalFORMAL GATHERINGS

TRANSITIONS TO UNIVERSITY

COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS

3 MAIN AREAS:

The proposal envisions the site to be the ANCHOR that connects the different groups in the local com-munity. The site will be divided into 3 areas.

Reform Public Realm through Canal RecoveyEnhance Education + Recreation for Community ConnectionInherit Classical Suzhou Garden Aesthetics

HIGHLIGHTS:

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ACTIVITY SPACE FOR ALL CAFE/TEA ROOM COURTYARD

SUZHOU CANALFRONTS: A SEQUENCE OF PUBLIC REALMS

CAFETERIA社区食堂

INSTITUTIONAL教室/公共设施

RESIDENTIAL集合住宅

CAFE/TEA ROOM咖啡厅/茶室

RETAIL+INFORMATION ROOM

商店+情报交流室

GALLERY美术馆

CANAL MARKET河浜集市

MAIN ENTRANCE入口处

CENTRAL PLAZA中央广场

DECK PLAZA码头广场

RETAIL商店

RETAIL商店

DANWEI RESIDENTIAL集合住宅

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LOUNGE社交舫

INSTITUTIONAL教室/公共设施

RESIDENTIAL集合住宅

RESIDENTIAL集合住宅DORMITORY

学生宿舍

RETAIL商店

GROUND

FLOORRETAIL

底层商店

BUILDING OF ELECTRONICAL & INFORMATION SCIENCE电子信息楼

SENIOR ACTIVITY老年活动室

LIBRARY ROOM社区阅览室

GARDEN小花园

EXERCISE MACHINES健身园

DORMITORY学生宿舍

DANWEI RESIDENTIAL集合住宅

INSTITUTIONAL PLAYGROUND

RESIDENTIAL SEMI-COURTYARD

CANAL TRAIL

SENIOR HOUSE老年公寓

Five types of public realms are proposed in the redevelopment to accomodate residents and visitors’ educational, recreational and cultural activities that celebrate the new community life.

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VIEW IN CENTRAL PLAZA

Community connections will be rebuilt through educational and recreational activities.

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elderly/hobby resident/

read

teenager/observe

children/game people of skill/

teach

resident/sports

residents/relax

college students/

chat & study

PUBLIC REALMS FOR LEARNING AND RECREATION

1)Waterfront Colonnade for both passing and staying+ Stepping stones for recreation.

2)Cafe/Tea Room Courtyard provid-ing an informal gathering space for studying, business and recreation.

3)Playground Semi-courtyard adjacent to institutional buildings, providing sports and game space for both chil-dren and residents.

Waterfront can be accessed to the residents and community facilities through the three types of public realms in sequence.

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BUILDING MAIN ENTRANCE & RESIDENTIAL EDGE

Blurred Boundary 1) Applying columns to large-scale public buildings to blur the boundary between inside and outside. 2) Minimum setback: 9m; various setbacks for various spatial forms.

Residential Edge 1) Retail and green podium (as semi-ground parking structure) on ground level. 2) South-facing semi-private courtyard on podium. 3) A canal trail connecting the citywide trail.

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Wide setbacks allow the main entrance to have an open view of the winding new canal and the redevelopment. The blurred boundaries of the cafeteria, information room and gallery enables

interior activities to extend into outerior space, creating a busy scene of community life.

Apply traditional roofline, waterfront rocks and columns into the design to inherit the classical Suzhou aesthetics

INHERITING SUZHOU GARDEN ELEMENTS

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AVALON WATERFRONT DEVELOPMENTA PLANNING & DES IGN PROJECT

The proposed waterfront development in the community of Wilmington will transform a currently abandoned railyard and heavy-industrial waterfront site into a vibrant destination and improve the community’s only access to water.

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Three planning and urban design strategies are proposed to make Wilmington more economically vibrant and physically accessible so as to build a stronger Wilmington:

HIGHLIGHTS:

Create a series of green space and waterfeaturesBuild a economically diverse and vibrant WilmingtonImprove Community Identity

1. Red Car Light Rail & TODs

To Downtown LA

Wilmington’sonly waterfront

Avalon TODTo San Pedro

2. Rails to Swales3. Neo-Industrial Zones

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SITE: DIVISION, ACCESS & FEATURE

Waterfront access to local community is improved through Rails-to-Swales, Wilmington Park, enhanced Commercial Corridor and Red-car Light Rail.

4 into 1: from abandoned rai-lyard & industrial site to TOD & recreational waterfront park

Sea Pond:Normal Condition

Sea Pond:Flooding Condition

Use Sea Pond as an effective flood-protection strategy.

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RAILS-TO-SWALES FOR MORE WATER AND GREEN

Rails-to-Swales will transform abandoned rail tracks into bioswales and connect Wilmington waterfront (Ava-lon Waterfront Park) to the local community through neo-industrial zones. Rain management system will allow rainwater to be recylcled for community water use.

Wet Condition

Dry Condition

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2.Open Space for Art & Community Activities

BLOCK VITALIZATION ON SPRING GARDEN ST

A S ITE PLANNING PROJECT

Currently the site is an industrial superblock and is surrounded by traditional town-houses, civic buildings and large-box industrial structures. The task of the project is to catch the trend of housing booms and commercial development in this area and to vitalize the block on Spring Garden St.

1.Mixed-use Complex +Pedestrian Plaza, Celebrating the New Commercial Corridor

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Ground Level UsesIllustrated Plan

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2F Plan 4F & 5F Plan3F Plan 6F & 7F Plan

Vitalize the Block with Rich ProgrammingTransition from Chaos to Tranquity

HIGHLIGHTS:

Open Space for Art & CommunityActivities

ResidentialCommerce

Corner Store

Pedestrian Plazaenhancing Spring Garden St’s new brand as a vibrant urban corridor

Mixed-use Complex +

Building Use by Floor

+111 housing units/+222 residents (2 people/household)+108 parking spaces+103,650 sq ft for commercial use multi-family rowhouse

apartmentmixed-use apartment

commercialparking

officegreen space

Programming Concept: Fitting into the Context

Programs

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RE-IMAGINE A SUPERBLOCK

AN URBAN DES IGN PROJECT

A large-scale urban design project, dividing a superblock in north of Old City, Phila-delphia into human-scale blocks featured by distinct urban forms that support various types of living and working activities. The proposal is highly honored for that the city approved a redevelopment plan with similar land use and building form proposals at this localtion in 2015.

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Mixed-Use Compact Neighborhood

Mixed-Use High-Density Neighborhood

Neighborhood for Artists & Young People

High-Rise Mixed-Use Office Building Complex

Residential

Office Use

Indoor Parking

Commercial Activities with Limited Office Use

Neighborhood Activities/ Art, Environment, Institution

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Weave the New Development into Surrounding Urban Fabric

Create a Mix of Functions, Scales & Heights for Dynamic Urban Experience

Program the Urban Life

Details in Mixed-Use Compact Neighborhood

Details in Neighborhood for Artists & Young People Details in High-Rise Mixed-Use Office Building Complex

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1. Conduct geospatial and socioeconomical analysis with shapefile data from NYC govern-ment to choose suitable sites for urban roof farms in Brooklyn, NYC./ ArcMap & ArcScene

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healthy: access to farmer’s markets

social: school & community facility density

economic: proximity to subway stations

The denser the facilities, the more likely the community is to support the urban roof farm.Score: 0~5, according to Kernel Density

The closer to subway station, the more likely the community is to gain economic success.Score: 0~3, according to buffers.

The closer to farmer’s markets, the better access to healthy farm food. Score: 0~5, according to spatial join (closest)

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Tools: Georeferencing, Create New Shapefile, Spatial Join (Closest), Calcuate Field, Dissolve, etc.

Tools: Kernel Density, INT, Raster to Polyngon, Calculate Field, Merge, Erase, Union, etc.

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The result scores vary from -2.5 to 3.3. Sort them into 5 categories. Blocks of a score of 1 or more are selected as sites that area suitable for urban roof farm develop-ment.Scores that qualifies: 1+

3. finding the roofImport building footprint layers, select the buildings in the blocks that are rated over score 1, and choose the buildings that are: 1) constructed no earlier than 1985, 2) of a footprint larger than 40,000 sq ft, and 3) no taller than 8 floors. The buildings in GREEN shows potential sites for urban roof farm in Brooklyn.

Tools: Select by Attribute, Select by Location, Extrude, etc.

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Urban Roof Farmapplying gis to select sites for

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2.suitability test1. indicators

healthy: access to farmer’s markets

social: school & community facility density

economic: proximity to subway stations

The denser the facilities, the more likely the community is to support the urban roof farm.Score: 0~5, according to Kernel Density

The closer to subway station, the more likely the community is to gain economic success.Score: 0~3, according to buffers.

The closer to farmer’s markets, the better access to healthy farm food. Score: 0~5, according to spatial join (closest)

on blocks

Tools: Georeferencing, Create New Shapefile, Spatial Join (Closest), Calcuate Field, Dissolve, etc.

Tools: Kernel Density, INT, Raster to Polyngon, Calculate Field, Merge, Erase, Union, etc.

Tools: Buffer Wizard, Select by Location, Select by Attribute, Calculate Field, Dissolve, Union, etc.

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Tools: Calculate Field, Select by Attribute, Select by Location, etc.

The result scores vary from -2.5 to 3.3. Sort them into 5 categories. Blocks of a score of 1 or more are selected as sites that area suitable for urban roof farm develop-ment.Scores that qualifies: 1+

3. finding the roofImport building footprint layers, select the buildings in the blocks that are rated over score 1, and choose the buildings that are: 1) constructed no earlier than 1985, 2) of a footprint larger than 40,000 sq ft, and 3) no taller than 8 floors. The buildings in GREEN shows potential sites for urban roof farm in Brooklyn.

Tools: Select by Attribute, Select by Location, Extrude, etc.

2&3. Route operation fixation and street redesign for Boston Silver Line BRT Washington Street Portion Improvement Plan./ ArcMap & AdobeIllustrator

TRANSPORTATION PROPOSAL

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ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN

A kindergarten in a wood. The elevated structure provides a ground-level playground that blends into the surrounding wood. Views from rooms are directly towards tree canopies./ AutoRevit

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TECTONICS ANALYSIS

Analysis drawing and model (east elevation, east section and interior section), representing the tectonics of Kiyonori Kikutake’s Great Izumo Shrine, Shimane, Japan/ AutoCAD

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INFOGRAPHICS

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1. Suzhou’s Historical Growth, showing key moments in Suzhou’s 2500-year-long history/ Illustrator

2. Creating Spatial Connections for Potential Users in ULI 2015 site in New Orleans, LA, presenting how designated programs can provide convenient services to various types of potential site users and create smooth spatial connections among their destinations/ Illustrator

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1. San Pedro Affordable Housing Development/ SketchUp & AdobePhotoshop 2. Bike boulevard and mixed-use affordable housing on Queens Blvd, Queens, NYC. Woodside 20-year Neighborhood Plan/ SketchUp & AdebePhotoshop

OTHER DESIGN PRODUCTS

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3&4. Pedestrian and bike greenways flying over MFL station and I-95 highway & connecting Center City to Delaware River waterfront. The roof of the station will be blended into an elevated landscape plaza./ AdobeIllustrator

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