This portfolio includes some of the landscape architecture undergraduate student projects I have done in China and the U.S in the past few years. Because of the shortage of time, some parts might not be informative enough to you. An improved version would be uploaded shortly afterward.

1. Landscape Architecture Portfolio
Yihui C.
MLArchitecture
University of Michigan
School of Natural Resource & Environment

2. Contents
Project
Key Words Spartial Order
Rearrangement
Magnolia Square Valentine Park Rooftop Garden
Industrial Landscape
LID application
Planting Design
Courtyard Plan & Section
Hand drawing
Perspective Rendering
Hand drawing
Project
Key Words
...and it is time for us to act like Da Yu, the King who makes friends with the flood,
who selects place for city and who leads people to find a place for food production.
Kongjian Yu
The Art of Survival: Recovering Landscape Architecture
Thaler Lecture,University of Virginia, 10-13, 2006
Office Park
Biomorphic Design
P1 P7 P9
P11 P13 P15

3. 1 1Magnolia Square Magnolia Square
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Located at the center of Shanghai, the Magnolia
Square is surrounded by differentiated kinds of
urban facilities for recreational ,educational, or
transportational use,etc. What's more,Shanghai
Government Building sits in the same block.
With fast development of tourism and economy,
the square needs to be redesigned due to lack
of capacity for increasing amount of visitors.
P.S. Magnolia is the city flower of Shanghai. And
the roof of Shanghai Urban Planning Exhibition
Hall is constructed in of the same shape.
Underground metro station
People's Park
Shanghai Government
West Nanjign Road
SH Urban Planning ExhibitionHall
People's Square
Background
Project
location
PROJECT 1 Magnolia Square
This project features on using landscape
features to reorganize the space order of an
open space near Shanghai Government and
Shanghai Urban Planning Exhibition Pavilion.
Using the city flower magnolia as a theme of
the whole square can not only create a sense of
unity of the space, but also show respect to the
politial environment .

4. 1 1Magnolia Square Magnolia Square
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Solutions
ConflictsVisitors: I just bought some snacks
and am waiting for my friends. I
really want some nice sitting place
instead of edge of flowerbed.
Passersby: There are too many
vehibles crossing and that's too
dangerous.
Administrators of Exhibition Hall:
We would like the square to be well-
organized so as to show repect to the
hall.
Facility
amendment
Spatial
rearrangement
Conflicts to solve
Phase One
(Current Situation)
space for traffic
space to stay
Spatial
Rearrangement
Key
Element
Magnolia
Simplify
Move the green
space to the edge
and combine it with
other green space
Used on structures, pools
and pavement
Add water system and
some facilities for
visitors in the square
Phase
Three
Facilities
amendment
Seats
Awnings
Pools and
water troughs
Snack
Store
People's
Park
Retailing
Snack
Store
Metrostation
Police
the
Bond
Blood
Donation
Bus
Green
Space
Metro
Station
Exhibition
Hall Rntrnce
Metro
station
Disorder
Concept Fomation
Exhibition
Hall Exit
Phase Two

5. 1 1Magnolia Square Magnolia Square
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Metro station
Awning
Water trough
Awning
Pools
Planting
Beds
Benches
Blood Donating
Station
0 1 3 5 10(m)
N
Plan Perspectives

6. 2 2Valentine Park Valentine Park
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PROJECT 2 Valentine Park
This project lies in between Hongkou District and Yangpu District hence
less administrated and developed by government. However recently, new
residence houses for low-and -medium wage earners and roads have been
planned nearby. With illegal shacks and fields scattered everywhere, this
place desperately needs a transformation.
The park was required to satisfy nearby residents’ daily needs for
entertainment.
Plan
Railway
Carriages
Xiaoxiang
Teahouse
FANTASY
Wedding
Photography
Studio
Gingo
Plaza
Riverside
Forest
Remaining Railroad
Stage
Waterfall
Wetland
Children's Playground
Space for sports
Turf slope with Pergola for wedding
Underground Parking Lot Open Green Space

7. 3 3Rooftop Garden Rooftop Garden
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PROJECT 3
Rooftop Garden
The customer who offered this
project had invited a landscape
design company for an alternative
before. And now it needs
optimization and planting design.
Effects
Sept-oct
July-Aug
May-Jun
Mar-Apr

8. 4 4Office Park Office Park
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PROJECT 4
U of M Saginaw Forest
Office Park
The goal of this design is to create
a nice working environment to
enhance the overall wellbeing
of employees working in
Saginaw Forest Office Park, while
minimizing negative effects on
local ecological system. Therefore
firstly, the project addresses
on both visual and nonvisual
connections between human
and nature. On the other hand,
stormwater management plan
is designed to make presence
of water feature for better
environmental healing functions
and to create new habitats as
compensation to huge amount of
cut site engineering work within
the parcels.
Effects
1. Entrance design maximizing visual
connection with nature
2. Before entering the central rain
water garden
3. Overbridge connecting elevated
trail and rooftop garden
4. Sunbathing at outdoor gathering
space
2. Looking down to the central
rain water garden from an
elevated wooden platform
3. Smelling fragrant flowers and
fruits from elevated trails

9. 5 5Courtyard Plan & Section Courtyard Plan & Section
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PROJECT 4 Courtyard Plan & Section
This project is to practise hand randering skills for landscape
plans and section elevation. the textures neeed to be
represented with just markers and ink pens.

10. 7Resume
16
6 Perspective Rendering
15
PROJECT 4 Perspective Rendering
This project is to practise with prospective drawings. The key is to understand
perspective structural relationship of a photograph and select proper
touches and ink lines to represent the brightness of the scene.
University of Michigan School of Natural Resources
and Environment (Ann Arbor, MI)
Education
ExperienceCurrently I am a graduate student
in Master of Landscape Architecture
program in University of Michigan.
My constant passion for ecological
waterscape design is the motivation
which keeps me working for
more ecologically and financially
sustainable landscape.
Welcome to my Linkedin page for
more information
https://www.linkedin.com/in/yihuic
SmithGroupJJR Ann Arbor, Job Shadow Student (Ann Arbor, Michigan) Mar 2015
Computer Skills
Graphic Softwares
AutoCAD
Photoshop
Illustrator
Indesign
Model Softwares
SketchUp
3DS Max
Rhino
ArcGIS
Lumion
Video Softwares
Premier
Coral Studio
1. Golden award in a competition with teams from other top architecture schools in China
2. Proposed main architectural structure and built the base for an 8 m2 cardboard house using collected recyclable materials
3. Offered English/Chinese translation service to English speaking judges
2011 Cardboard Building Design & Construction Competition hosted by Tongji University in 2011
(team project), Structure Designer & Constructor (Shanghai, China) [May 2011]
1. Offered English/Chinese translation service to English speaking attendees and Chinese organizers
2012 IFLA Asia Pacific Region Conference, Volunteer (Shanghai, China) [Oct 2012]
1. Developed construction plans for drainage, illumination, electricity and pavement independently and a planting design with colleagues
2. Communicated with clients and construction team to modify plans
3. Offered to work for another week after official internship and further developed the construction plan independently
Shifangyuan Landscape Summer Intern, Assistant Landscape Architect (Shanghai, China)
[July/2013 - Aug/2013]
1. Provide graphic illustration about Jens Jensen's design principles
Donn Werling's Book about Jens Jensen Landscape, Graphic Illustrator (Ann Arbor, Michigan)
[Feb/2015 - July/2015]
1. Assisted with planting design and CAD layout of Delta College Parking Lot Program
2. Offered English/Chinese map translation to Xinchang Hospital Competition Project in Shanghai
3. Attended an inKNOWvation lecture and other studio-wide programs
1. B.E, Landscape Architecture, June 2006
2. Courses: architecture design, landscape design and planning, urban
planning
3. Academic honors: Third-prize scholarship in College of Architecture
and Urban Planning in 2013
4 Secretary of Editorial Department of Landscape Architect Committee
of College of Architecture and Urban Planning
Tongji University College of Architecture and Urban
Planning (Shanghai, China)
1. Master of Landscape Architecture, April 2017
2. Degree specialization: Ecological waterscape design
3. Courses: ecological site design, geographic information systems
(GIS), and planting design
Hobbies
Desgin
Hand drawing
Handicrafft art
Cooking
Singing
Traveling
Contact
Email:
Yihuic@umich.edu
chenyihui199208@126.com
MS Office Softwares
Word
Excel
Powerpoint

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