Ruiling Li，Columbia University GSAPP

LI RUILING|PORTFOLIO Master of Advanced Architecture Design Graduate School of Architecture Planning and Preservation Columbia University, NYC Tel:917-941-6115 E-mail: li.ruiling@columbia.edu

CONTENTS:

GRADUATE WORK 1.Embeded & Inlays Non-linear design of a prototype gallery

2.Circle-Scraper Office building with park and amenities inside

3.25th Precinct Station House Police station combined with community house in east Harlem

PROFESSIONAL WORK 2.Debris & Reconstrction Reconstruction of a former factory dormitory

UNDERGRADUATE WORK 1.Between the walls Revive of a dilapidated site

OTHER WORKS Kiosk,rendering,sketching & photos

EMBEDED & INLAYS Art-Gallery Studio Director:Jenny Wu & Daywne Oyler Academic Work 05.2016

Site locates in Palm Spring, a desert town near Los Angles. This design is a method-oriented design, we use two ways to create the main form: intert several cutting objects into the object and boolean the left part; put one section object to create an architectural central space, that's how we call it Embeded & Inlays.

Photos of 3D printing model

Renderings

Plan 1 0

Plan 2 45

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Plan 3 45

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Site Plan

WASSILY KANDINSKY, COMPOSIZIONE VIII

DEBRIS & RECONSTRUCTION Reconstruction of a former factory dormitory Internship Time: Winter,2014 Location: Putuo, Shanghai, China Collaborator: Wu Chongbao Participation: Concept Generation,Basic Model, Plan

Traffic Zone

Residential zone

Background Information The client bought a former factory in Putuo District , northwest in Shanghai, and want us to reconstruct the old buildings into a new art center. Since the client is a porcelain merchant, he wished the new art center to be build with a concept related to porcelian. I was fully responsible for the former dormitory of the workers, which will be rebuild as the new theme hotel of the art center. The old dormitory is in the Southwest of the site, as is marked red in the picture.

Business Zone

Site Analysis

Road Net

1:8000

Transportation

1:2000

Landscape Analysis

In&Out Circulation

Advantages: Highway exit

Advantages: Good View

Disadvantages: Noise from Highway

Disadvantages: Hidden Location

Commercial Center

1:500

Concept Generation Step One: Reconstraction Ancient times HAN Dynasty 202BC-220AD

TANG Dynasty 220-906AD

From SIMPLE to COMPLECATED

SONG Dynasty 906-1

The client: A f amous porcelain merchant in Shanghai,who owns a china factory of his own. His pottery is famous for the good design. He also off ers us a f ew cheap porcelains for inspiration.

MING Dynasty 1368-1644AD

QING Dynasty 1644-1912AD

1368AD

From COMPLECATED to SIMPLE

AI WEIWEI,1995 DROPPING A HAN DYNASTY URN

GARTH CLARK, 2012 DROPPING AN AI WEIWEI POTTERY

LI RUILING, 2014 DROPPING A CLIENT PORCELAIN

Breaking the porcelain into debris. One simple object turns into complicated pieces.

By picking out the curve pieces, I put them onto the foam board,so that they can stand up and create different kind of space.

Then,delineate the shape of the curve pieces, in ord e r t o o b s e r ve t h e i n ter-space well.

“What if we make all the pieces came from one or two cones?�This can make the structure doable in architecture space.

From COMPLICATED to SIMPLE

From SIMPLE to COMPLICATED

Finally, the pieces will be simplified into chips of circles. The next question is ,how to divide these circles.

Cut out the tiny cracking foldings and smooth the edges if the pieces.

Simplify the sphere pieces into cone pieces, so that the pieces can be structures stand by themselves.

The third pattern

The second pattern

The firs

Patterns Illustration

The two drawings of WASSILY KANDINSKY inspire me to draw these circles , according to the leading lines created b section points of the circles and columns. The circles create the curve walls which stand for the fragments of the porce selves well.

st pattern

The former plan of the dormitory

by the former column. And then I divided these circles into curves by the interelain, and the curve walls can also hide the old columns and structure in them-

Concept Generation Step Two: Graphic Design （Up）WASSILY KANDINSKY, CIRCLES IN A CIRCLE （Down）WASSILY KANDINSKY, UPWARDS

Finally Form Generation

The former structure

Cut the layers by curve walls.

Add three layers

Add the curve walls

Create the curve walls according to the patterns

Cut the curve walls by layers

Fill in the external walls

The former dormitory

The new theme hotel

5th floor

4th floor

single room

3rd floor

2.5th floor

single room

suite room

twin room

single room

2nd floor

1st floor

Vertical Circulation

Photos of Model

single room

twin room

suite room

BETWEEN THE WALLS Revive of a dilapidated site Academic work Time: Ninth semester,2014 Location: Damanong Street, Hangzhou, China Collaborator: Li Hongjie Tutor: Pro. Hua Chen

This work was based on a research about No.60 Damanong street required by the local government. The outcome of the questionnaire answered by the residents show that this site cannot be used as a residential place any longer. So we decided to make it into a tea house with Mahjong Room inside, while enjoy the pedestrian volume the markets brought,block the negative influence of the noise and smell.

Report of Researches Entertainment Places Residential Houses

34%!

Shops Storage Houses Others Community Neighbors 10%

20%

100%

1."What do you expect the No.60 to be?"

2."The reasons that you do not wish to stay?"

Noise Bad Smell

100% of the 12 residents :

Bad Sunlight Wet Environment

Rotten Structure

Neighbors

(12)Residents in NO.60 5

4

8

7

3

2

"Cannot bear this living condition any more!We wanna move out!"

Site is located just near a food market, which brought a huge pedestrian flowrate to the streets. Almost all the residents can meet with their neighbors here. However, pedestrian also bring the site a lot of noise every day, the meat shops around the area are also smelly.

The present houses in the site are in poor condition, the wood structure have been rotted, and roofs start to leak in water while raining days. Due to the high surroundings, there isn't too much sunlight in the site. Lacking basic living space, most residents have built up illegal temporary huts, which made the public space narrow and crowded.

Site Analysis Residential Houses

Hiking Route Restaurants

Restaurants

Historical Sites

Food Market Residential Houses Wu Mountain Tour Bus Staition Hiking Route

Historical Sites

Concept Genera

4th JIN

3rd JIN

2nd JIN

1st JIN

The Walls Concept Illustration Walls are common elements in traditional Chinese dwellings. We have walls to help block the outside and create a relative private space, we also use the walls to divide space, creating the room and courtyard. There is two interesting thing about the Chinese walls: The first one is “KUANGJING“. In Chinese dwellings, walls can also create landscapes, using different sizes of windows as frames of the courtyard scenery.

That is what we call”KUANGJING” in Chinese. It is one of the typical landscape design methods of tradition Chinese dwellings.

The second thing is “JIN“. This means he space between the parallel walls.

Different “JIN“ may have different functions. As the number of the “JIN“ increases, the privacy is becoming better and better.

So we use these two functions of the walls as our concept. We divided the site into eight “JING“ according to the surrounding urban texture, and block the noise and smell from the markets by making the first “JIN“ the inlet courtyard in the house.

ation ——"JIN"

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N

N

N

Concept Generation ——"KUANGJING"

Model of Site

11/46

Outside

Form Generation

e Flowrate Analysis Pedestrain Flowrate

Vehicle Flowrate

Residence Commerce Residence

Public Space Residence

Commerce

Public Space

Commerce Residence

Circumulation Abstract

Second Floor

By realizing the two concept of the walls, we are also able to reconstruct the typical Chinese traditional space in the design. The circulation pattern and the way courtyards appear in front of our eyes. We also analyse three tyipical patterns of traditional circulation and sight, and rebuild the traditional spaces. We decide to study and abstract the patterns first and then transform them in a more concise way.

Ground Floor

Exploded

Circumulation Abstract

Inside Circumulation Analysis

Sight Analysis

Sight Abstract

Offices

Storage

Mahiong Room

Mahiong

Mahiong Room

Mahiong

Tea Room

Sections of Seven "JIN"s

Mahiong Room

g Room

g Room

Mahiong Room

Washing Room

Mahiong Room

Reception

Kitchen

The total eight sections of "JIN" can clearly show the "KUANGJING" that these different sizes of holes that opened on the walls.

CIRCLE-SCRAPER Site locates on Roosevelt Island, just next to Four-Freedom Parl. And the office-park building is aimed to be three different companies' headquater. Park and amenities are added to improve the employees' working environment.

Office|Park Studio DirectorďźšDan Wood Academic Work 06.2015

Section model

Section (with circulation)

15m

9m

6m

Geomatric: Inspired by a Wassily Kandisky‘s drawing, I redraw another draw ing, using circles and bars. The circles conn ecting all the bars like the amenities connecti ng different companies in the offices bars.

Amenities: Connection circles Office: Indipendent bars

Wideth of the bars: 3 different ways of office layout

Use green park area to give offi ce bars great view.

Better light condition when ha ving more bars divided

Better view towards parks when having more bars divided

Plans

3D Circulation

25th Precinct Station House Station House Studio Director: Jeanne Gang Academic Work 12.2015 Research done by Tracey L. Meares, indicates that the community that members know each other better will have a lower crime rate. Due to this argument, I am trying to creat a station house that would help the community members can randomly meet with each other and become familiar. When crime rate decreases and the station house becomes a place that everyone would like to go, the relationship between community and police will also improve.

The site locates at east Harlemt in Manhattan.

Partition Walls: The most common and efficient way to devide a large area. The interior space keeps good privacy and clos ed feeling.

Domes: Dome itself can de vide space as well as being structu re.The spcae insi de is always open, but the shape also gives the feeling of enclosure.

Second Floor

Arches: A beautiful form of structure, but har dly define a certa in space.People in side will not feel that they stay in a room.That might be why it is usually used in corridor.

Police House: Corridors and seperate ro oms Efficency and safety is alw ays the first consideration in a police station design.

The Police need a clear cir culation to work.

Community House: Interacting rooms The interacting rooms are just space created for pe ople to know each other more.Even they come for different department in the building, they can sit and chat in the interacting roo ms.

OTHER WORKS Rendering

Personal work: Scene rendering

Temple within an abandoned city Group: Model building

OTHER WORKS Kiosk Design Mutable Nest on the Street Deformable Kiosk In Shenzheng Personal Work 08.2014

Sketchings & Photos of Europe

OTHER WORKS

Toledo,Spain,2013

Milano,Italy,2012 Dr

resden,Germany,2014

Dresden,Germany,2012