Urban Planning

PortfolioYilin Li

Urban Planning PortfolioPresented by Yilin LiFrom 2010 Fall to 2011 FallSchool of PlanningCollege of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning

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Resume

Pleasant Ridge Triangle Master Plan

Phase 1 Development

Phase 2 Development

Main Features

Site Analysis of Devou Park

Site Analysis

Street Layout

Conceptual Housing Layout

Ludlow Neighborhood Study

GIS Information

3D Existiing Buildings

3D Proposed Buildings

Sketches

Hand Drawings

Digital Drawings

Urban Planning PortfolioPresented by Yilin LiFrom 2010 Fall to 2011 FallSchool of PlanningCollege of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning

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Skills

2001-2010: Guangdong Experimental High SchoolGPA: 4.0/4.02010-2015: College of Design, Architecture, Art and Plan-ning.University of CincinnatiGPA: 3.7/4.0Relevant Coursework: Perspective, Section and Site Plan drawing, Neighborhood Analysis, Site Planning, GIS Map-ping and Land Use Controls

Foreign Language: Native Chinese speaker, Native Canton-ese speaker, Excellent English speaker

Software Skills: ArcGIS, Google Sketchup, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Acrobat, Micro-soft Office, CorelDraw, Prezi

Drawing Skills: Seven years of professional fine arts drawing training, Two years of professional digital drawing training

Recieve: University Global Scholarship, $12,000 per year Dean’s list from Fall 2010 till present, Thomas and Susan Wagner Scholarship 2011 School of Planning Scholarship 2011

Involved Organizations & Programs: Member of Univer-sity Honors Program; Member of Alpha Lambda Delta Honor Sociaety; Member of American Planning Asso-ciation; Instructor of Asian Volunteer Organization of University of Cincinnati

Hobbies: Drawing, Reading, Travelling to ancient ruins, Tasting different types of food around the world, De-signing builidngs.

Intern in: Guangzhou Echom Sciences &Technology CO.LTD

Involved Projects: Company Identification of Wei Chom Technology Firm, Bathroom Interior Pieces Design, LED Lamp Design

Startding Date: June.18.2011Ending Date: July.20.2011

Activities & Honors

Experience

li2yl@mail.uc.edu (513) 612-0144

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Pleasant Ridge Triangle

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1.Demolished building with green roof2.Mixed-use building3.Mixed-use building with green roof4.water feature5.Sitting area 6.Wooden ground cover for people to sit during winter time7.Big shopping mall8.Rise-uped building9.New right-turn lane10.Parking garage with green roof11.Vegetation12.Green Space

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Master Plan

Site Area: 5 acresGreen Space: 2.75 acres

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Phase 1

- Create pedestrian-walking pathways within the triangle.

- Create greenery pavement in the triangle.

- Recreate a more convenient drive-through for PNC Bank.

- Reduce parking space and insert pedes-trian pathway in the triangle.

- Increase the amount of trees.

- Create more wooden pavement for pe-destrian to use in winter.

Design Principles

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Phase 2

Design Principles

- Create more greenery pavement in the triangle to be more inviting.

- Increase sitting areas and main attraction within the triangle.

- Improve the building shape to be more envi-ronmental-friendly.v

- Create driveway entrance into the triangle from Ridge to Parkview.

- Create more wooden pavement to tmprove the winter image.

- Create mixed-use buildings to increase the density of the triangle.

- Energy saving.

- Right-turn lane.

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Design Principles

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Main Feature

- Provide the entrance to the triangle from Ridge Avenue.

- Improve accessibility from Ridge to Mont-gomery.

-Cover the driveway with roof to create a more cohesive image of the triangle.

- Create a new gateway of the triangle.

-Mixed-use parking garage structure with first floor commercial uses and upper three floors garage use.

- Replace the existing parking lot.

- Provide more visible parking spaces for vistors.

- Create a new landmark building structure in Pleasant Ridge.

Over Ground Tunnel

Mix-used Garage

Toyota Designed

Garage in Miami

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Devou Park

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Devou Park

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Site Analysis

Devou Park is heavily vegetated and has a lot of greenery, especially on the west side. It also has a lot of steep slopes that can be hardly built on. Most of the potential sites for development will be on the east side. The park has a circulation system can be di-vided into 4 catagories, which is High Way, Main Road, Collective Road and Residential Road.

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Devou Park Vegetation

Devou Park Topography

Residential Road Main Road High Way Collective Road

Existing Roads

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Design Priciples:

Street Layout

1 Follow the topography

2 Reduce Curbcuts on main roads

3 Coorperate with the existing road

Major Road

Collector Street

Residential Road

Sub-collector Street

Circulation System Design

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Conceptual Housing PlanLarge Family Housing Small Family Housing Town House

Public Open Space Mixe-Used Apartment Medium Family Housing

1 Streets of Mixed Apartments as connection through the park

2 Spread Out different types of housing development patterns around the main attraction: Prison-er’s Lake

3 View Oriented Development Pat-terns and floow the topography

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Location

Design Principles

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Neighborhood Detail Layout Open Space Community Center

1 Contains 5 small family houses and a semi private open space

2 Connected to main commercial area by walking paths 3 Protect neighborhoo’s privacy from the main commercial district

1 Lake front commercial open area by Prisoner’s lake

2 Connect to the main commer-cial street by walking paths and biking trails

3 Provide entertainment use

1 Semi-public open space surrounded by large family housing

2 Will be also shared small single fam-ily housing

3 Can be accessed by vistors by walk-ing paths connected to Montague Road

4 Stairs will be built to interact with the topography

Conceptual Housing Plan

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Conceptual Housing PlanTown House Medium Family Housing

Small Family HousingLarge Family Housing Mix-Used Apartment

3-Stories Apartments

Large Family Housing

Street of Mix-Used Apartments

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Open Space

3D Site Plan

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Ludlow Neighborhood

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GIS Information Ludlow avenue is located in Hamilton County, Ohio in the Cin-cinnati Area. It ‘s by I-71 and Clifton Avenue. 3,000sqft prime, high traffic, retail location situated on the street adjacent to corner w/ light (Clifton skyline chili). Very busy intersection of Clif-ton Ave. and Ludlow. Less then a block from The Esquire Movie Theater and many other Clifton hot spots. The neighborhood has a very good population density.

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Context Map

Base Map

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Hamilton County

City of Cincinnati

Ludlow

Landuse Map

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3D Existing Buildings

Ludlow is a healthy and stable neighborhood with mostly mixed used buildings. Most of them are single family rental units. It also have servaral commercial buildings and public recreation buildings, but they are rare. The neighborhood is a very popular place for the young popula-tion to hang-out. People are deeply involved in this community. It is a very vibrant and active community

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Setreet Section View

3D model of the StreetResidential Apartment

Problem: Vacant Parking Lot

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Problem: Vacant Parking Lot

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3D Proposed Buildings

Problem: Too Small Library

Parking Garage 3D

Parking Garage Plan

A multi-story public recre-ational building will be built at the site of the vacant parking lot and two stories of garage space will be provided for parking.

Another Story will be added to the existing library structure to provide more computer devices for vistors to use. It can also be arranged as small classrooms.

Existion Condition

Advanced Condition

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Section View

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Sketches

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Sketches

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SketchesDrawing From Photograph

Residential Houses

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SketchesTwo Point Perspective

Site Plan

Free-Hand Building Drawing

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Hand Drawings

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Digital Drawings

Drawings of Cell Phone

Drawings of a Dove in SIn City Theme

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Acknowlegement

Ludlow Neighborhood: Grouped with Yuchen MaDevou Park: Grouped with Yue YanCover Page Image: Grouped with Zi KongGIS Sources: CAGIS

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