Da ”Thomas” HuoPORTFOLIO OF DESIGN WORKS Iowa State University Bachelor of LA Expected May 2016 Application for Georgia Institute of Technology Major: Master of Architecture

What did I learn?I have been learning landscape architec-ture knowledge for a few years, not only for computer programing(Photoshop, Illustra-tor, Indesign, Autocad, Arc GIS, Sketchup and Rhino),but also the concept of treating

-tion, Stormwater Management and Grade Map,etc.) In groupworks, I learned how to communicate, cooperate with partners, tolerance and understand are also courses I took. In presetation, I learned that I need to

side of myself.

What do I value about travelling and experiencing new places?I am a international student from China and I am studying in the United States, I used to study “abroad“ in Italy. I can speak three languages and I like travel around. On my second year in college, we had a six-week

the states, which provided me a lot inspira-tion until today. I like visiting around, not only

the native environment, but also I can ex-perience the cultures, spirits, local customs and practices.

CHENGDU, CHINA

NEW ORLEANS, USA

ROME, ITALY

ROME, ITALY

ROME, ITALY

PHILADELPHIA, USA

2014: URBAN DESIGN+ARCHITECTURE

2015: LANDSCAPE+ARCHITECTURE

2015: LANDSCAPE+ARCHITECTURE

2015: PHOTOGRAPHY&SKETCHES

2015:COMMUNITY DESIGN+ARCHITECTURE

2015:CONSTRUCTION+ARCHITECTURE

FUTURE GROUND INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION

IN AND OUT: THE INVISIBLE CITY

THE AQUEDUCT AND CITY WALL

SILHOUETTE OF ROME IN FILM &RECORDING THE CITY THROUGH DRAWINGS AND DIAGRAMS

MARKING THE CITY

COMMUNITY DESIGN MOUNT AIRY SCHOOLYARD

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Bamboo Structure: This is a process model that I made up based on the two rules, providing a space for entertament and retaining the stormwater. It is

Children who are fond of climbing can reach the top and play with a hanging

can be directed to this pond according to the structure of the whole installation.

Reference:Project: Landscape Structure Storm & Water Harvest Location: Playground, Philadelphia Time: Fall 2015 Mentor: Bambi Yost Individual Work

Design Intent: The purpose to make the landscape structure is both for managing the stormwater and serving as a play equipment for younger kids. Based on the bamboo structure playscape

also attract children to climb up and down. The funnel rectangular shelves can be installed

foot high structure, poeple can also hide underneath it to interact with the space. It is a space sheltered from the sun and rain.

Purpose:

1. To retain and utilize the stormwater as much as possible

2. To provide a space for School kids to have fun

Elevation Change

Climbing and Jumping

Shading the sun and rain

Managing Stormwater

Color Variety

Funnel Shape

Rubber Materials

Plants Underneath

Large Shading Area

Entertainment Facilities

Stormwater Management

Rubber Materials

Elevation Change

Shading the sun and rain

Managing Stormwater

Climbing and JumpingColor Variety

Large Shading Area

Funnel ShapePlants

Underneath

Activities Diagram & Analysis

--Play Design Ideas

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Details of the PlayscapeDetail Statement: In order to give more meanings for the vertical layers of the structure, I repeat and resize these rectangular structures to create more platforms and space. By classifying the size, you can see four

PVC pipe can direct the water down to the planters which are underneath the whole gigantic structure. People can also wander in the stormwater-maintained “forest” if they are not big fans of climbing.

See the rest of information to learn more if you are interested.

Dimension and Usage of the Installation PartPlan View of the Playscape Structure

Playscape Structure: Rainy Day

Views Under the Playscape Structure

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Reimagining and Greening Lingelbach Public School Basic Analysis

Reference:Group Project: Community Design, Lingelbach Playscape Location: Philadelphia, PA, USA Time: Fall 2015 Mentor: Bambi Yost , Lois A. Brink, Peter Fernandez Group Members: Da Huo, Erika Birnbaum, Katherine Gould, Amanda Holtman

Mt. Airy Schoolyards Community Design--Anna L. Lingelbach Playscape

Program Elements

Program ElementsNeighborhood Amenities

2 Emphasize the ecological learning identity for Lingelbach- Sensory garden- Habitat garden- Icon path- Tree-themed signage

4 Improve connectivity in and around the site- Entrance gateway- Crosswalks- Expanded woodland trails

3 Enhance as a community hub- Vegetable garden- Game tables- Outdoor eating area- Shade structure- Mansion courtyard classroom

5 Promote learning in an imaginative environment- Early childhood education (ECE) play structure- Hard surface games- Updated outdoor classroom

6 Capture, clean,

water- Rain gardens- Swale- Curb cuts into vegetated areas- Green roof

1 Provide educational, physical, and social opportunities for all- Playground equipment- Climbing rocks- Track

- Half basketball courts

Project Statement:To improve the condition of the schoolyards in six elementary schools at the northwest of Philadelphia. We visit the school called Lingelbach Elementary

are even dangerous for students.Our vision is to enhance education at Lingelbach

physically, cognitively and ecologically.

Goals

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After research, analysis, a community design charette, and collaboration with landscape architects, the student design team proposes this schematic designfor Lingelbach Public School. The program elements stem from

Reimagining and Greening Lingelbach Public School Organizational Strategy

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Reimagining and Greening Lingelbach Public School Schematic Design

Legend:1. Welcome Sign2. Vegetable Beds3. Living Wall4. Rain Garden

5. Icon Path6. ECE Play Structure7. Sedum Green Roof8. Outdoor Classroom

10. Half Basketball Court11. Play Equipment12. Swings

13. Climbing Rocks 14.Spinner15.Basketball Court16. Gathering Space/ Shade Structure

17. Rain Garden18. Multi Use Sports Field

20. Rain Garden21. Trail

Stormwater Management Plan Planting Plan

LGB1: Bioswale

BMP Depth: 1 ft

LGB2: Rain Garden

BMP Area: 66 sf BMP Depth: 1 ft BMP Total Volume: 66 cf

LGB5: Bioretention Cell

BMP Total Volume: 3,583 cf

LGB6: Bioretention Cell

BMP Depth: 0.75 ft

LGB7: Living Wall

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LGB3: Sensory Bioretention Cell

BMP Depth: 0.5 ft

LGB4: Green Roof

BMP Area: 4,414 sf BMP Area: 7,165 sf BMP Depth: 0.5 ft

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Reimagining and Greening Lingelbach Public School Outdoor Classroom and All Equipments at the main playground

Woodland Fitness Circuit

Shade Structure

Rain Garden

Mansion Outdoor Classroom

Historic Outdoor Classroom

extensive formal gardens. Today all that is left is a small sunken garden to the east of the schoolyard.

The walls and fountain are still present, though covered in ivy and other aggressive plants.

The plan for the new outdoor classroom and com-munity space in the sunken garden is based of the

original formal style. Four sets of wood benches allow for small and larger groups to use the space.

Parterres harken back to what the garden was when it was lived in by the Mcllhennys.

Observational Green Roof

Crosswalk and Entrance Gateway

Reimagining and Greening Lingelbach Public School Green Roof, Topography Structure and Entrance

Perspective of the Topo Structure

Elevation View of the Topo Structure

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MMaaarking tthhe City--Chennggdu----Design Builldd of Recycled ProductssReference:Project: Marking the CityLocation: Chengdu, China Time: Summer 2015 Mentor: Stewart Dodd,Kristin Cross, Group Work

Group members: 26 students from all over China

Project Statement:

The studio engaged in the environmentally sustainable opportunities of recycling, up-cy-

industries and extrapolating these to invent an occupiable space in the heart of the city.

Location Analysis

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Structure Analysis & Testing Materials+ Joints

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The reason we choose bambo is that this gaint woody grass is native to

a structure. The cost is cheap as well, we can easily mass produce a column at the same height as long as people all uniform the dimensions of each detail.

Why Bamboo?

How to choose?

long and make the timbers thicker to tie up with rope. The way to choose a

installing the construction. Also, the green surface is more smooth that no thorny

The bent ones are in fact more solid, because they are easy to conform to the force made by wind or whatever external.

Material Analysis

Double-arch JointPyramid JointGoose-foot JointTrident Joint Double-triangle Joint Vaulted Joint

Pressure On The Top

Pressure That Top poles Support Each Other

Overall Force Analysis

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Time-lapse Photographs of Design-Build Structure

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Upward ViewWind Bell

Final Fabrication Model

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Section Drawings

In section A-A', you can see a restaurant, an aquaponic urban farm and a fish processing factory in a row. This combination express the sustainability concept in the neighborhood. The fish don't need to be delivered from their living places to the final restaurants. Also, it advocates the self- sufficiency standpoint to the whole city and consumers.The agricultural products can be delivered from the urban farms to the native markets or grocery store by the developed transportation system, which provides a prerequisite to connect the original crops and food market that solve unemployment problem to some degree.

In section B-B', there are two double-story circulating aquaponic farms that continually recirculates water in the middle. They mainly supply grains and aquatic products in a closed-loop system to the people nearby. The green belt of trees serve as sound and pollutant isolate areas for the farms. People feed the native bivalves in the ponds: meaning “two shells”, the terms covers

Proposed Plan of Desire Area (South of Higgins Street)

Vacant Lot

Base infrastructure

Parking Lot

Existing Vacant Lot

Proposed Parking Lot

Direction of the Trucklines

Circulating Aquaponic FarmAquaponic Ur-ban Farm

Section Cut Lines

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Large Mouth Bass

Crappie

Vegetable Duo

Turmeric

Arugula

Button Bush

Rapini

Orchid Peppers

Trinidad Peppers

Shiso

Rosemary

Aquaponics recirculates water from a fish tank through a vegetable grow bed. Nutrients from the fish waste feed the plants, and the plants filter the water to keep the fish healthy. The two main components of the system are the fish tank and the grow beds with a small pump moving water between the two. The water passes through the roots of the plants before draining back into the fish tank.

need to grow, cleaning the water for the fish. There are a number of different styles of grow bed designs, the two

Agricultural Products

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for sun and moisture r e q u i r e m e n t s o f plants and it allows f o r t h e h i g h e s t possible density of plants in the least amount of space. “ T h e P y r a m i d Garden design can grow plants up to 30% faster with 80% less water”

Aquaponic systems do not discharge or exchange water. Water is only added to replace water loss from absorption by the plants or evaporation into the air. The freshwater aquatic animals produce Ammonia. A nitrifying bacteria (Nitrosomonas sp) converts the Ammonia to Ni t r i te . Another nitrifying bacteria (Nitrobacter) then converts the Nitrite to Nitrate. The plants then use the Nitrate and thus "clean" the water for the fish. There are a number of Aquaponics fish to choose from.Aquaponic systems vary in size from small indoor units to large commercial units.

Circulating Aquaponic Farm

Aquaponic Urban FarmAquaponic Systems

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Pedestrian Circulation

Vehicular Circulation

Tram CirculationDisconnection of pedestrianBridge & TunnelContext Map

OstienseThe Pyramid of Cestius

Pedestrians & undeveloped isolated island

Porta San PaoloOstiense Museum

Commerc i a l and residential buildings by the gate

Circulation Analysis of Porta San Paolo

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Reference:Project: In and Out-The Invisible CityLocation: Porta San Paolo, RomeMentor: Michael MartinTime: Spring 2015 Individual Work

Project Statement:To make a more accessiable road for the Porta San Paolo, I propose a tunnel underneath the driveway between the Pyramid and the Porta itself. There was not any crosswalk for pedestrian to walk back and forth between the two attractions, which disconnects the relation between this two historical sites. I also built a sunken garden instead of the open trangular space to let people gather in a interactive place in a very important part in the south of the city.

Disconnect With Each Other

Undeveloped Triangular Island

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Model of Porta San Paolo

Section Drawing

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Proposed Plans and Section

Triangular Plaza

Pedestrian Tunnel

Grassland in the English Cemetery

Plan View of the Sunken Garden

Plan View of the Site

Bird's Eyeview of the Site

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Intervention of the Porta Maggiore,Rome--Review history through the aqueducts

Design Intent:In order to recall the aqueducts, which connected to the Porta Maggiore before, the goal for this project is to bring the water back from history to remind people what was here. The stretegy of it is to push the tram tracks in the island all the way out, so it is possible to take advantage of the land as

the pedestrian-friendly pathway, people can not only walk inside the park, but also take a metal spiral ramp all the way up

Reference:Project: Intervention of the City WallLocation: Porta Maggiore, RomeMentor: Michael MartinTime: Spring 2015Individual Work

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Wall walk and the perforated metal surfaceSpiral ramp and the view for the whole park

Perforated Metal RampSchematic Plan of the Porta Maggiore, Rome

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Corss Section of the Aqueducts Parco Di Via Statilia

Tram Track

Tomb of the Baker

Front Side of the Gate

Section Drawings of the Gatewalk and park

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Federico Fellini's Roma Screen Capture

La Dolce Vita Federico Fellini Screen Capture

Roman Forum

Silhouette of Rome in Film

Roman HolidayScreen Capture

Photo Taken Today

La Dolce Vita (Federico Fellini) Screen Capture

Colosseum

Trevi Fountain

Photo Taken Today

Palazzo dei Congressi

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Palazzo della Civiltà Italiana

Federico Fellini's Roma Screen Capture

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Esposizione Universale Roma

Picture on the book

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Porta San Paolo

Porta San SebastianoPorta San Pancrazio

Porta Pia

Porta San Sebastiano

Porta San Paolo

Recording the City Through Drawings and Diagrams

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Porta San Pancrazio

Porta Pia