Urban Design PORTFOLIO C e l i n e L i
WORK EXPERIENCE Stantec
Urban Design and Landscape Summer Student
AECOM
Urban Designer (Part Time)
www.stantec.com May.2019 - Aug.2019
May.2018 - Aug.2018
BCIT Kiosk station; UBC pump station; Jimeva Riverfront feasibility study; Township of Esquimalt Gorge Park dog park design and Saxe Point Park Boardwalk design.
Xiangyang Tiansi Urban Plan Project: Master plan, diagram.
EICO design
Interior Designer
Kengo Kuma
Architecture Intern
www.eicoinc.com Jul.2017 - Apr.2018
www.kkaa.co.jp Mar.2017 - Jun.2017
MAD Architects
www.i-mad.com Mar.2016 - Aug.2016
AECOM
www.aecom.com Jan.2016 - Mar.2016
HOPE Clinic Project (completed): Interior & facade design. Fish Eye Coffee shop (completed): Interiro design & branding strategy. Education institution Project (completed): Interior design. Caochangsantiao Project: Physical model, rendering, 3D model, animation, perspective drawing, diagram.
Sep.2018 - now
Master
Sep.2014 - Jul.2018
Bachelor
Sep.2010 - Jul.2014
01 Urban housing and public realm design Urban Elements Integration Toronto Greenwood Avenue project
02 Integration of planning, landscape and architecture Three Mountains Five Gardens Beijing Historical Site Comprehensive Project
Architecture Intern
03 Livable installation for the minority Bloom Flower Homeless Shelters Embedded In City
Landscape Architecture Intern
04 Seeking for lost culture and local collective memory Born In Death The Revive of Prairie in Inner Mongolia
Xiamen Xinhe Design Center : Rendering, perspective, interior design. Baiziwan Social Housing : Landscape, construction drawing. Competitions Projects (still in confidentiality): Master plan, elevation, perspective, physical model, diagram, interior design, site analysis, layout, 3D model. Tianjin Tianfang Badali residential Project: Perspective drawing, 3D model, diagram. Yili commercial plaza Project: Presentation design, diagram, concept design.
EDUCATION Master
STUDENT WORKS
05 Hamilton Public Library Bayfront Branch City in Transition Strategic Masterplan for Hamilton Bayfront Area
Urban Design, graduated with Academic Honours Certificate University of Toronto, GPA 3.97/4
Architecture
Beijing Forestry University GPA 3.5/4, Master of Engineering
Landscape Architecture
Beijing Forestry University GPA 3.65/4, Bachelor of Engineering
06 An Urban Intervention to Light Up Sussex Heritage Courtyards ByWard Catalyst
01 Urban Elements Integration Greenwood Avenue Redesign Urban housing and public realm project
Individual Project For 2019 winter Studio Project Type: Urban Design & Typology Location: Greenwood Ave, Toronto, ON Completion Time: 2019 April Advisor: Kim Storey, James Brown
Some issues happen in the site include:
Accordingly, the mathodology will be:
1. Abandoned urban linear green space adjacent to railway; 2. Greenwood park is lack of design and ignored; 3. Blocks unevenly vary from shape and size ; 4. Poor pedestrian experience; 5. Courtyards are left to the back of houses; 6. Area is fall apart from each other.
1. Release urban ward green space by creating linear park along railway; 2. Reorganize block by subdividing; 3. Create quality courtyard by new types of built form; 4. Enrich boulevard experience by emphasizing streetscape; 5. Open park by redesigning the edge and entrance of park; 6. Connect Public Realm. 5
Site Location
Current Situation
Sidewalk Typology Street distribution:
Sidewalk Type 1: Planting two rows of trees More shadow, more space required
Sidewalk Type 2: Planting between sidewalk and property line with soft landscape.
1000m
Good for tree roots
Sidewalk Type 3: Planting between curb and property line with soft landscape.
900m
Challenge 1.Abandoned urban linear green space adjacent to railway 2.Greenwood park is lack of design and ignored
Define street edge, buffer, safe; Provides shadow for both pedestrian and cyclist
Solution 4.Poor pedestrian experience 1.Linear park along railway 5.Courtyards are left to the back of houses 6.Area is fall apart from each other
2.Reorganize block
3.Create quality courtyard
Edge, Activity, Symbol, Space,
3.Blocks unevenly vary from shape and size
Sidewalk Type 4: Planting between curb and property line with raised planter. Provide safty and seat
4.Enrich boulevard experience 5.Open park
6.Connect Public Realm
Sidewalk Type 5: Planting between curb and property line with planter cover. Close to building; Take less space.
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Public Realm Typology
Block Type 75m
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Public Realm Type 2:
Sidewalk: 7 m; Building setback: 2 m
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Public Realm Type 3: Sidewalk: 10 m; Sidewalk: 10 m; Building setback: 5 m Building setback: 5 m
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Sidewalk: 15 m; Public Realm Type 4: Building setback: 10 m15 m; Building setback: 10 m Sidewalk: 9
Master Plan
Land Use
Section 1
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Detailed Plan
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Perspective
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02 Three Mountains Five Gardens Beijing Historical Site Comprehensive Project Integration of planning, landscape and architecture
Project For Landscape Architecture Studio Project Type: Urban Design Location: Beijing, China Completion Time: 2015.6 Team Member: Li Yuan, Tong Siming, Wang Xiyue, Cui Zicheng, Li Xuan Advisor: Lin Qing, Qian Yun, Wang Peiyong, Li Liang, Zhang Yunlu
Three mountains five gardens area of Beijing has important historical significance, but during urbanization, it gradually loses attractions of historical and cultural connotation of area and ecological service function.
This design attempts to creat the greenway as carrier from the angle of historical evolution and comprehensively solve the problems that exist in this area, recover the available resources, form three aspects in ecology, life, tourism as the guidance of the greenway
selection mode, to enhance the protection of historical environment, landscape environment, to perfect the urban functions, to promote social and economic development and to improve people's livelihood.
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Current Situation for Historical Drainage System
The Formation of Water System of Three Mountains and Five Gardens Area Beijing is in the north China plain northwest edge of the western northern —— taihang mountains southeast —— yanshan mountain elevation 100 meters below the plains small plain (Beijing)
Research of Historical Drainage System
Concept
Planning Direction
ECOLOGY
According to green items have different functions, the green route choice consideration, such as subway station, park entrances and exits, the residential gateway, river, green space and other factors are superimposed, get the optimization results.
Site Structure Classification structure
LIVING
TOUR
Hierarchical structure
Structure
Superposition
FactorA
FactorB
Connection
Connect the cultural heritage
Results
Greenway
Connect the parks
Connect the infrastraures
Separation SeperateTransportation
Building
Transportation
Seperate residents, bicycles and vihicles
Seperate High density buildings
Greenway
Building Seperate residents and vihicles horizontally
Transportation
Greenway
Seperate residents and vihicles vertically
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Interface Typology Along the River
Along the Green Space
Along the Street
Type 1
Type 1
Type 1
2 Streets Join
Type 2
Type 2
Type 2
Multiple Layers
Type 3
Type 3
Underpass
Section
Greenway Type Master Plan
Birdview
Bicycle System
Slow-traffic System
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Greenway Activity Planning
Greenway Evaluation Covers parks
Connects three hills and five gardens
Covers historical site
Covers residential zone
Detailed Design: Under Bridge Space Design
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03 Bloom Flower Homeless Shelters Embedded In City Livable installation for the minority
Project For 2015 ASLA Competition Project Type: Landscape Architecture Design Location: Central parks, Beijing, China Completion Time: 2015.5 Team Member: Li Yuan, Li Peilin, Xue Hanzhi, Advisor: Li Xiong, Zhang Yunlu
This project is a module design for the park, first we propose to provide a shelter for the homeless people to avoid the wind and rain, then dig up their value and provide opportunities for them to express and improve themselves, to enrich their hearts, so that they can join the society equally.
The highlight of the project is the module through the design of node structure, with day and night changes and sunny and rainy days change to provide the homeless people a place to stay, and music, dance, art, gardening, and learning four modules provide them with the opportunity, realizes the self value, comfort and enrich their mind, improve the social sense of participation.
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Site Analysis
Research-The dense region of homeless people in Beijing
What can homeless people achieve
The Cositution of Homeless In the world, the tramp has been a hot social problem. We have investigated the main street gathered in Beijing and found the park is the most concentrated gathering place for the homeless. It will bring about a series of problems such as public security, health and so on.. So we chose the city park as the place where we carry the project.
Time Spending Analysis
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Design Analysis Structure of the surface
Activity
Perspective
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Design Analysis Structure of the surface
Changebility
Connectivity
A shelter for dwelling
Activity
Plan
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04 Born In Death The Revive of Prairie in Inner Mongolia Seekting for local culture and collective memory
Project For 2015 IFLA Competition Project Type: Landscape Architecture Design Location: Inner Mongolia, China Completion Time: 2015.5 Team Member: Li Yuan, Li Peilin, Yue Xiaolei, Mu Jiaying Advisor: Li Xiong, Zhang Yunlu
Mongolian culture was born in the vast praise. Due to the unique geographical environment, the Mongolian developed particular value and ways of living . Mongolian has been formed its own unique funeral ceremony, which reflects a profound connotation of its ancient society and culture. It conveys extremely reasonable ecological wisdo which maintains the harmony between humans and nature, protects the fragile ecological environment in Inner Mongolia.
However, modernizing process caused severe environmental deterioration in Inner Mongolia. Intensified desertification along with sandstorms and other extreme climate threats the lives in Hangjinqi. With prairie quality declining rapidly, less the capacity of lifestocks and harder it becomes for local people to earn a living. It is clear that a plan is badly need to restore Hangjinqi’s original vitality and balance. 37
Site Analysis
Existing Issues
Location
HangJinQi lies in the northwest of Ordos, Inner Mongolia autonomous region, and crosses the Ordos Plateau and HeTao Plain. The Yellow River flows across from the west to the east. KuBuJi Desert divides HangJinQi into two parts. Most local people are Mongolian race.
ENVIORMENT IS DYING
LIFE IS DYING
CULTURE IS DYING
Site History Timeline
Concept-Born In Death Step 1 When we die, our body can be decomposed by the bacterial. This process can also be speed up by heating and adding water. Then we add different types of plant seeds in it, and ultimately it will become the mixed fertilizer.
Nature Resources Analysis
Soil The majority is aeolian sandy soil, which is seriously desertificated, and hard for plant to survive. There is great need for improvement.v
Grassland Most of the grassland in the area is the desert grassland, which has low bearing capacity and serious desertification.
Precipitation Precipitation distributes extremely inequitable, producing floods in summer, and scanty rainfall in other seasons.
Wild life Due to blindly rewards to kill wolves, the amount of wolf sharply reduced, causing grassland ecological destruction sharply.
Step 2 We choose the most suitable ground where the wind would blow, and reform the river and ecological restoration places.
People
Step 3 According to these selected peak areas, we scatter the composting on the ground. With the effect of the wind, these mixed compost can be brought to other regions.
Population Due to declining profit earned locally, young people choose to go out to work. Hollowed out village show lack of vitality.
Industrial structure Due to ecological destruction, nomadic and farming reduce, more people work far out, forming a vicious circle.
Traditional Culture Analysis
Tradition The traditional eulogy is mostly about adore and gratitude towards nature. The traditional way of butchering goat aims to kill the goat in the fastest and most painless way. The loss of tradition shows that people no longer fully respect nature. Value mankind higher than nature may cause senseless overuse and eventually destruction to this fragile environment.
Step 4 Seeds in the mixed compost begin to germinate gradually, making the land full of vitality once again. Since we use different types of plants, these plants can perfectlly adapt to the environment as well as clean up soil and waste sites that have been contaminated by toxic levels of heavy metals.
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Strategy
Soil Utilization
Perspective
PROCESS
The structure and properties of the soil in different parts are different. They have close relationship with the growth of plants .We use different kinds of plant seeds to adapt to the different soil, thus forming different ecological areas.
River Course Transformation
Most river sections are u-shaped while a few are deep narrow v-shaped. Channel slopes are usually steep with sparse vegetation and serious water loss and soil erosion. The exorheic river has running water in the channel. The interior river is easier to bring disaster when flooding because of the low rainfall. After the flood, the river course will be dry up.
Channel slope is incised into multiple sink latforms. On the one hand, increase the water capacity of the channel, reduce flooding disaster on flood season; On the other hand, contact area between the flow and riverbed are increased multiply, extended the time of water retention in the river and increase water content of soil. Make a foundation for the growth of plants.
Groundwater Utilization
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05 Hamilton Public Library Bayfront Branch Part of Thesis project: Strategic Masterplan for Hamilton Bayfront Area
Project For 2020 winter Graduate thesis Project Type: Urban Design + Architecture Location: Hamilton, ON, Canada Completion Time: 2020 Individual Porject Advisor: Mark Sterling
Hamilton is one of Canada’s leading industrial centres and Canada’s largest steel producer. Yet the city’s decline is obvious as industry fades, leaving workers without employment. Where should Hamilton go next?
This thesis examines the potential for specific urban interventions at different scales to act as catalysts for the development of a sustainable built environment. It proposes both the accommodation of new institutions and improvements and the expansion of an attractive public realm for the future of the Hamilton Bayfront Area.
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Location
Background
Hamilton is a port city in the Canadian province of Ontario. The metropolitan area has been listed as the ninth largest in Canada and the third-largest in Ontario, Residents of the city are known as Hamiltonians. An industrialized city in the Golden Horseshoe at the west end of Lake Ontario, Hamilton has a population of 536,917, and its census metropolitan area, which includes Burlington and Grimsby, has a population of 747,545. The city is 58
kilometers southwest of Toronto, with which the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area (GTHA) is formed. Hamilton is home to the Royal Botanical Gardens, the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum, the Bruce Trail, McMaster University, which is ranked 4th in Canada.
Industrial Employment Stakeholder
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SWOT Analysis
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STRENGTH Strong industrial background. Great location:Located within the Greater Golden Horseshoe, close to Toronto and the U.S.A – Canada border, as well as three international airports. Great natural and landscape resources. Availability of serviced industrial and commercial lands in employment areas. Slow growth has preserved the unique character of Hamilton. Unique culture and hipster and artists.
OPPORTUNITIES International immigrant boom. Action plan for the engagement and retention of youth and millennials. A lot of vacant lands and underutilized land have great commercial and business employment opportunities. New high order transit plan will increase accessibility The attraction of nature, industrial site, and tourism.
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WEAKNESSES Outdated infrastructure and building condition. Lack of coverage by high quality public transit. Poverty and lack of affordable housing Lack of economic development strategy, especially along massive Bayfront employment area.
TREATHS Climate change and existing enviornmental related issues. Global economy is shifting to a knowledge-based economy. Aging population. Competition from surrounding cities such as Missisaga. Brampton and Burlington.
Land Use Designation
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Design Strategy
1.Block Reconstruction
5. Uplift the building
2.Building Reset
6.A better connection between park and waterfront
3.Merge Waterfront trail into the new building
7. Creating landscape hills
4.Maximize the route
8. Creating roofgarden for multi routes
Site Plan
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06 ByWard Catalyst An Urban Intervention to Light Up Sussex Heritage Courtyards
Project For 2020 NCC Urban Design Competiton (Winner) Project Type: Urban Design Location: Ottawa, Canada Completion Time: 2020 Team Member: Li Yuan, Ti Yuxin, Hu Siqin Advisor: Mark Sterling
Located within the historic ByWard Market area in downtown Ottawa, the Sussex Heritage Courtyards have a great potential to become an iconic destination to enrich the character and diversity of the city. By the re-planning of tour routes and the design of structures, our plan aims at on the basis of solving existing problems, improving walkability and usability to reactivate this set of unique, linked urban spaces. For the issue of lack of connectivity and visibility, we plan to have a main walking path to increase the directivity of the ground level, meanwhile
adding a signage system to enhance the sight connection. Those signs are also applied to new public service furniture, such as trash cans, seats, etc. to enhance the convenience and unity of courtyards. In addition, the barrier-free design is considered in courtyards with a height difference such as Beaux-Arts Court. Moreover, to respect those surrounding heritage buildings, different materials are used to undertake different courtyard identities. Through providing various activities, we hope to attract potential customers and bring economic returns to surrounding businesses.
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Location
Current Situation
Building Material
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DOWNTOWN
OTTAWA
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SITE
OTTAWA
Wall
DOWNTOWN OTTAWA
OTTAWA RIVER
Ground
Glass Curtain
Beaux Arts Court
OTTAWA RIVER OTTAWA
OTTAWA
Tin House Court
Notre-Dame Cathedral Basilica Church
N 0
5
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50(m)
100 M
Beaux Arts Court
Jeanne d’Arc Court National Gallery of Canada
York Court
RUAL AREA OTTAWA
Clarendon Court
ONTARIO
100M
OTTAWA
Tin House Court
Site Analysis
Retail in Different Square
Embassy of America
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Open Space
Bookstore Fashion Design
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100
Pub
School
200(m)
Toggery
Art Gallery
Italian Rstaurant
Hat Shop
Jeanne d’Arc Court
Ottawa Sign
Parking Lot
Beauty Salon
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Public Open Space Private Open Space POPS Parking
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ByWard Market
York Court Barbershop Pub
Restaurant
Boutique
SPA
Paperstore
The Connaught Building
Clarendon Court Garage
Art Gallery
Toggery Franch Restaurant
Restaurant
Kitchen Utensil Shop
Boutique
Restaurant Heritage Gate
Fashion Design School
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Restaurant
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Pub, Tea Room
Heritage
Art Gallery
Franch Restaurant
Franch Restaurant
Barbershop
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Office
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STRATEGY STRATEGY Strategy
Lack of Connectivity Lack of Connectivity
STRATEGY
RESULTResult RESULT
Parking
Seasonal Strategy
RESULT
Lack of Connectivity
Lack of Visibility Lack of Visibility
Transit N
Commerical Residence Mix Use
200(m)
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50
100
Garbage
200(m)
Bus Lane Bus Stop Subway
Instituitional Religious Health Care Facility Site
ISSUE
100
ISSUE
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Garbage
Garbage
Safety Problem Safety Problem
Maintenance Problem
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Signage Design
Illuminating System Illuminating System
Improve UserImprove Comfort User Comfort Improve User Comfort
Illuminating System
Safety Problem
Maintenance Problem Maintenance Problem
Accessibility Facilities Issue Universal Accessibility Accessibility of Facilities Issueof Accessibility of Facilities Issue
Furniture SerialSerial Furniture Serial Furniture
StimulateStimulate District Animation from Inside out from Inside out District Animation Stimulate District Animation from Inside out
Maintenance Operation Maintenance Operation Maintenance Operation
Low Animaition Low Animaition Low Animaition
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Handicapped Accessibility
Heritage Character
OPPORTUNITY
20
ISSUE ISSUE
0
OPPORTUNITY OPPORTUNITY
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Signage Design Signage Design
Lack of Visibility
Heritage Character Heritage Character
OPPORTUNITY
Land Use
Pedestrain Aggregation
Pedestrain Aggregation Pedestrain Aggregation
Ample Commerce
Ample Commerce Ample Commerce
Handicapped Accessibility Handicapped Accessibility
Innovate Business Opportunities
Innovate Business Opportunities Innovate Business Opportunities
Seasonal Events
Seasonal Events Seasonal Events Attract Customers & Generate Economic Returns Space Flexibility
Attract Attract CustomersCustomers & Generate Economic ReturnsEconomic Returns & Generate
Space Flexibility Space Flexibility
Abundant Activity
Abundant ActivityAbundant Activity
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Terrace Plaza Concert
Farmer's Market
Furniture Design
Birdview 0.45
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Detachable Module
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Sunday Yoga
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Arts Exhibition
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