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SHUWEN XUE

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UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON, SEATTLEBachelor of Landscape Architecture

2015-2019

UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA, CHARLOTTESVILLEMaster of Landscape Architecture

2019-present

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853 W Main St. Charlottesville, VA

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PERSONAL EXPERIENCEDESIGN & BUILD PROGRAM, Guiyang Yelang Valley, ChinaJune 2016--July 2016

Position: Designer & construction workerCollaborated with local Chinese students and faculties, we conducted the field survey and designed a community gathering area of Yelang Valley for one week. We spent three weeks building the amenities and completing the construction of our plan with the use of local and natural materials.

DESIGN & BUILD PROGRAM, Denny Building Courtyard, Seattle, WAApril 2019--June 2019 Position: Designer & construction workerThe streetscape project aimed to design a courtyard facing Denny Building and 2200 6th Ave, with a functioning rain garden for those who worked in Denny Building. We spent one month on schematic design and making a full set of construction documents; then we started the construction and planting in the following two months.

VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE, Refugee School in Rabat, MoroccoAugust 2016

Position: Volunteer teacherVolunteered as a teacher in a refugee camp school in Morocco, I taught mathematics, Chi-nese, and English in a class with refugee children at the age from 4-16 years old. I taught students basic knowledges, but this volunteer experience taught me how people struggle agaisnt their circumstances in different cultures, and influenced my design thinking on how do culture and people shape the place?

DIGITAL MEDIA, Filming Freeway Park, Seattle, WAJune 2018--August 2018

Position: ParticipantThis program focused on the possibilities of filmmaking as an effective tool to analysize, explore design opportunities and represent landscape, allowing me to see landscape in a very different perspective. I shot and edited a video of 10 minutes which was played to the public in the Freeway Park (Seattle, US) on September 28th, 2018.

CULTURE PRORGAM, Maynard Alley, Chinatown, SeattleSept 2018--Dec 2018

Position: DesignerIn response to the local community’s eagerness for transforming the historic Maynard Al-ley into an attratctive urban space, I worked with the tenants association to redevelop the site while maintaining cultural, artistic and unique sense of community and circulation.

CULTURAL LANDSCAPE STUDIO | Autumn 2018LOCATION: CHINATOWN-INTERNATIONAL DISTRICT, SEATTLE, WAPROFESSOR: JEFF HOU ([email protected])

FOLDING MAYNARD ALLEYMAYNARD ALLEY RE-IMAGINED

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HAVE A CENTRAL AREA FOR TRASH DUMPINGRather than having more public trash bins on the

street, it’s better to have a central place for trash dumping and do a fixed time garbage pick-up.

ADDING ELEMENTS TO THE ALLEYDesign interventions involve of three basic

design elements: Culture, Functions and Art to solve the issues in the site.

TOPOGRAPHY

LANDSCAPES

Trees

Contour

The site has little variation with topography

Potential locations where I can make design interventions

No vegetation along the Alley

WOOD WALL (less valuable)

BRICK WALL

CONCRETE WALL (least valuable)

PEDESTRIAN CIRCULATION

BUSINESS

Entertainment

Network of street

Theraphy Retails Resturants Construction

VALUES OF WALL

Maynard Alley

The canopy could be folded as storyboard panels and photo wall. Maynard alley is just like a history walking gallery, presenting people the history and culture of Maynard Alley and CID.

For recreational use, a stage could also be folded down. The stage can be an extension of dancing club Massive Monkee. The stage can hold seasonal events such as music event, movie night and so on.

POSSIBLE FUNCTIONS: SHELTER

POSSIBLE FUNCTIONS: SEATING

POSSIBLE FUNCTIONS: HANG

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FOUNDATION STUDIO | Fall 2019LOCATION: OBSERVATORY HILL, VAPROFESSORS: LEENA CHO ([email protected]), MATTHEW SEIBERT ([email protected]), ZIHAO ZHANG ([email protected])

SHAPING TREE ARCHITECTURE DESIGNING A PATH

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SPREAD EVENLY TALL + LONG DISTANCE + SHORT

SHORT + LONG DISTANCE + TALL

TALL/SHORT + LONG DISTANCE + TALL/SHORT

TALL + SHORT DISTANCE + SHORT

SHORT + SHORT DISTANCE + TALL

TALL/SHORT + SHORT DISTANCE + TALL/SHORT

INDIVIDUAL TREE CONTRAST

SPATIAL CONTRAST

EAST DOMINATE

WEST DOMINATE

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TOPOGRAPHIC CONTRAST

ELEVATION CHANGE WEST EAST

UNIT CATALOG

DENNY BUILDING COURTYARD DESIGN & BUILD

STREETSCAPE DESIGN

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BEFORE AFTER

DESIGN & BUILD PROGRAM | Spring 2019LOCATION: 2200 6TH AVE, SEATTLE, WAPROFESSOR: DANIEL WINTERBOTTOM ([email protected])DESIGN TEAM: DESIGN & BUILD STUDIO FROM UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON

CREDITS TO STUDENTS AND FACULTIES FROM UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON WHO PARTICIPATED IN THIS PROGRAM

PLAZASmall plaza area provides seating with screen and trellis behind, offering an outside lunch area for staffs who work in Denny Building to relax and encouraging people who walked by to pause for a while.

RAIN GARDENA rain garden with careful designated plants replaced the former abandoned fountain. Interpretive signages tell the story of what’s happening on site and explains the role of this rain garden would play in the urban street. The rain garden not only has ecological functions but also has seatings along the edge with views toward street and landscapes.

STONE CASTLEWe applied stones and bricks to the castle in the light of local condition. The stone castle resembled the historic fortress that was pre-existing in Yelang Valley. It was designed to offer a high platform for people to overlook the beautiful scenery of Yelang Valley.

Hand Drawing by student Tyler HyungbaePark

GUIYANGDESIGN & BUILD

RENOVATION OF YELANG VALLEY

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TREE HOUSEThe tree houses had two floors that could bear the weight of seven to ten people. Tree houses were designed to provide different views of Yelang Valley as people have seen through the windows of the tree house.

CREDITS TO STUDENTS AND FACULTIES FROM UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON, ROGERS STATES UNIVERSITY, SCHOOL OF GE-

OGRAPHY AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES, GUIZHOU NORMAL UNIVERSITY WHO PARITICIPATED IN THIS PROGRAM.

DESIGN & BUILD PROGRAM | 2016.06-2016.07LOCATION: YELANG VALLEY, GUIYANG, CHINAPROFESSOR: DANIEL WINTERBOTTOM ([email protected])DESIGN TEAMS: UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON, ROGERS STATE UNIVERSITY, SCHOOL OF GEOGRAPHY AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES, GUIZHOU NORMAL UNIVERSITY

Cornus masCornelian Cherry

Pieris ‘Brouwer’s Beauty’Lily-of-the-Valley shrub

Baptisia ‘Lunar Eclipse’Prairieblues False Indigo

Allium ‘Globemaster’Ornamental Onion

Pieris japonicaWhite Cascade

Cotoneaster dammerBearberry Cotoneaster

Campanula poscharskyanaSERBIAN BELLFLOWER

Andropogon gerardiiBig Bluestem

Daphne tanguticDaphne

Epimedium ‘Lilac Cascade’Fairy Wings

Lythrum salicariapurple loosestrife

Nymphaea ‘Attraction’Red Hardy Water Lily

Osmanthus delavayiSweet Olive

Bergenia cordifolia Heart-leafed Bergenia

Tulipa clusianaLady Tulip

Calamagrostis brachytrichaReed grass

Berberis thunbergii f. atropurpurea‘Concorde’- Dwarf purple leaf Japanese barberry

Phlox paniculataGarden Phlox

Calamagrostis × acutiflora ‘Karl Foerster’


Image BoardLARCH 424, Assignment 7

Juliana HomCarol Ngan

Jake StephensKaitlynn Sweeney

Shuwen Xue

Sarcococca hookeriana var. humilis Dwarf Sweetbox

Achillea ‘Moonshine’YARROW

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U-VILLAGE PLANTING DESIGN DEVELOPING A PLANTING PLAN FOR U-VILLAGE

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1 2 3A “simple, but beautiful” cubic concrete box

A circular wooden clock A base made by carbon steel that would hold the woodenclock

Three objects with different materials combine together

4Running the water through the waterwheel

HAND DRAFT OF DIMENSION

We made 2 wheels compose of wood board connected by a metal handle. Also, we created a concrete container and a wood box outside the concrete container,

We used 3D printing to get eight buckets which would add to the inside rims. Assemble everything and put some small stones in the concrete container just for decoration.

We cut the steel pieces, weld them together and all the steel pieces were connected safely for assembling.

DESIGN SKETCHES

MATERIALS & CRAFTS APPLICATION OF MATERIALS

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Our group tried to create a traditional Asian agricultural equipment: the water wheel, which could be used manually for irrigation, or for a potential generation of electricity.

Concept plan

PLANTING DESIGN SEMINAR | Spring 2019LOCATION: UNIVERSITY VILLAGE, SEATTLE, WAPROFESSORS: SANDY FISCHER ([email protected]), RICHARD HARTLAGEGROUP TEAM: SHUWEN XUE, JULIANA HOM, CAROL NGAN, JAKE STEPHENS, KAITLYN SWEENEY

MATERIALS & CRAFTS & CONSTRUCTION WORKSHOP | Autumn 2018PROFESSOR: BEN SPENCER ([email protected])GROUP TEAM: SHUWEN XUE, YUN LIU

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