Wei Xia

My degree is Master of Landscape Architect. I have been working as a landscape engineer for over ten years, and I am very interested in how landscape architects come up with those imaginative ideas. I hope to learn more about the relationship between these imaginative ideas and practices.

Degrees

Master of Landscape Architecture

Strategies for Transforming Eakins Oval from Singularity to Multiplicity

Squares, Ovals, Traingles, and Bars 2.0: Critically Conceptualizing and Crafting Urban Public Space Wei Xia, Xinyu (Joy) Liu

The Big O: Designing Speculative Pasts, Imagining Lacustrine Futures Jiewen Hu, Wei Xia

People walk in the middle of the Oval surrounded by Miyawaki forests, looking back at the PMA.

Squares, Ovals, Traingles, and Bars 2.0: Critically Conceptualizing and Crafting Urban Public Space Wei Xia, Xinyu (Joy) Liu

The design has introduced a micro-forest to this traffic roundabout, not only creating a central gathering space and flexible spaces along the edge, but also increasing the number of trees from 67 to 12,655.

Squares, Ovals, Traingles, and Bars 2.0: Critically Conceptualizing and Crafting Urban Public Space Wei Xia, Xinyu (Joy) Liu

The Big O: Designing Speculative Pasts, Imagining Lacustrine Futures Jiewen Hu, Wei Xia

The Big O: Designing Speculative Pasts, Imagining Lacustrine Futures Jiewen Hu, Wei Xia

The Miyawaki forest contributes to holding the edge of the Oval, creating different occupiable spaces.

Squares, Ovals, Traingles, and Bars 2.0: Critically Conceptualizing and Crafting Urban Public Space Wei Xia, Xinyu (Joy) Liu