Jingyi "Jessy" Qiu
Design Works
NudeScape
Old Turner Street
Revitalization
Type
Academic/
Revitalization
Time
Spring 2018
Location
Blacksburg, VA
This 4th year studio project is about deepening the understanding of the landscape thickness and focusing on material visualizing and construction detailing for a Passage Way+Social Courtyard design embracing by an active power plant and students’ classroom buildings and dorms at Virginia Tech’s campus.
The main concept NudeScape is informed by the color system and the bare texture of the power plant and is also inspired by the architectural design of the Centre Georges
Pompidou. The project is trying to visualize the beauty of bareness by represeting the invisible processes of water recycling and urban agriculture.
Concept
Beauty
of
Bareness
The idea of material color palette follows the color code used in the existing Power
Plant. The angular and abstract industrial material together with the soft and delicate vegetation create a contrast between manmade and nature.
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Unfolding Water Processes
The idea of creating an examplar site of BMP (Best Management Practices) was formed in considering of the bowl-shape topography, which makes the center of the site a natural low point for runoff collection and treatment. Rather traditionally hiding the water collecting system inside of the nearby buildings, the design boldly reveals the usually invisible water recycling processes to the students and residents with “bare” pipes, fountains, and interactive water channel gardens.
Free Passage
Creating a passage way for different user groups to commute s also a main factor to consider in the design since ADA access was not available along the original Old Turner Street. The design provides a free passage with no obstacle for disabled, elders and young infants in stroller in order to get to any nearby places without using stairs.
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