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