Professional Projects ranging from public infrastructure to intimate interior.
Marafy Middle East Mixed-use Development Commercial Interior Spatial Planing & Custom Millwork Sky Food Cosmetic Retail Design
Gallery Meets Valley: The Convergence of Art and Residence
Collabrator: Anson Lee
Project Type: Mixed-use Residential Complex
Softwares: Rhino, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Indesign Columbia GSAPP Core III Studio Project
“Canyon-ria” is an architectural project that reimagines traditional arcade designs with a canyon-like structure. It mixes various housing types with shared living spaces, creating a seamless blend of private, public, and open areas. This design fosters community interaction.
Canyon-ria combines traditional red brick with modern materials, respecting Harlem’s architectural heritage while introducing a new communal aesthetic, described as a “gentle handshake” with neighboring buildings. More than just housing, it reshapes urban interactions, blending residential, educational, and artistic spaces. This layout encourages a natural flow of urban life from West 128 Street to Convent Avenue.
ARTFUL LIVING: WEAVING HOMES INTO GALLERY SPACES
Inspired by the blend of traditional corridor galleries and arcade streets that merge exterior environments with interior programs, this design weaves housing into the mix to form a novel space for art and living.
Art & Galleria, Indoor & Outdoor
Galleria & Housing, Art & Living, Indoor & Outdoor
Existing Site & Surrounding Buildings
Urban Landscape
Ground level as semi-public space that connects the existing neighborhood with the new urban landscape, Offering multiple avenues for community engagement.
Coexistence of residential living and art events, new architectural space and its existing surroundings.
Turning the previous 12-foot level difference into a fresh urban relaxation area, providing a new entrance to the building and the neighborhood.
Living Exhibition: An Architecture School as a Living
The current condition of Avery Hall limits opportunities for students to engage in communal discussions and exchange ideas, as the existing layout isolates studios and classrooms across different floors. To address this, the project proposes an extension that creates dedicated communal spaces to foster interaction and collaboration.
By adding an extension to the top of the building and relocating public event programs such as lectures and exhibitions there, the journey to these events becomes an experiential path. This circulation route intentionally passes through all studios and classrooms, transforming it into a dynamic exhibition of students’ work and processes. This approach not only enhances connectivity within the school but also celebrates the collective creativity and intellectual exchange of the architecture community.
The original spatial capacity of Avery Hall has reached its limit, forcing many related programs to relocate elsewhere. While preserving the Avery Hall Library as a core feature, this project introduces a new addition to expand functionality and address the space limitations.
New Program Spatial Distribution: Exposed Exhibition of Moments In Avery Hall
New Extension & Surrounding Buildings
Front & Back Facade
Existing Building VS. New extension
Rockaway Beach, New York, 2100s
Raising Water: Reimagining Rockaway Beach Resiliency Community
Rockaway Beach has always been a juxtaposition of nature and urban life, a community where tourists and the endangered piping plovers share a vibrant beachfront. Post-Hurricane Sandy, the area witnessed considerable commercial development, yet it still faces the looming threat of rising sea levels—a challenge for both its human and avian residents. This project represents an exploration into urban design, considering the delicate balance needed between development and environmental sustainability.
With ample underutilized land, including expansive parking areas, the project proposes transforming these spaces into recreational and leisure facilities, lacking outside the beach area. For the piping plovers, ensuring sufficient undisturbed habitats is crucial for their survival and breeding. This plan will assess infrastructure longevity and community flexibility in phases, integrating green spaces and habitats within urban planning to serve both humans and wildlife.
Individual Project
Project Type: Urban Research & Design
Softwares: Rhino, Grasshopper, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Indesign Columbia GSAPP Advance V Studio Project
RAISING WATER: ZONING, HOUSING, FLOOD ELEVATION
Rockaway Beachas part of the barrier isalnd, suffering from constantly high tides and flooding. In order to preserve this piece of land, the project will define the permanent structure and flexibities in 3 different phrases.
URBAN STUDY
Beyond Shelter: Envisioning a Cohesive Future For Chinatown
Collabrator: Rui Chen
Project Type: Visual Reseach & Concept Proposal
Softwares: Rhino, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Indesign Columbia GSAPP Visual Study Power Tool
This research focuses on the community conflict surrounding the conversion of Hotel 91 at 91 East Broadway in New York into a homeless shelter, and its impact on the native Chinatown area. We examine the social repercussions of introducing a shelter into this historic and culturally rich neighborhood, known for its close-knit community.
Utilizing interviews, media analysis, and policy review, our project aims to unravel the complex relationship between the new shelter’s integration and Chinatown’s efforts to maintain its cultural integrity. We scrutinize city planning and community engagement processes, assess the balance between social welfare and cultural preservation, and propose solutions to align urban development with the community’s values. This study contributes to the discourse on urban policy, social equity, and the safeguarding of cultural communities.
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HOTEL 91 AT THE HEART OF COMMUNITY CONTROVERSY:
HOTEL 91 AT THE HEART OF COMMUNITY CONTROVERSY: STAKEHOLDERS CLASH OVER FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS
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The research focuses on two strategies: Singapore’s housing policy and Japan’s media narrative, to develop solutions for demographic challenges. It aims to create living spaces that promote relationships and support higher birth rates, addressing the housing needs of societies with similar demographic trends.
Navigating the Low Birth Rate Crisis
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The low birth rate crisis prompts a reimagining of social and housing solutions, underscoring integrated dating and co-living spaces to encourage family formation.
Reality Shows: Catalysts for Romance in Modern Asia
“Terrace House” illustrates contemporary Asian dating, highlighting reality TV’s role in evolving courtship norms. These shows spotlight co-living’s potential to spark romance, shaping our housing design strategy.
Singapore’s Pro-Marriage Housing Policy
Singapore’s “couple first” policy intertwines housing benefits with marriage, demonstrating how spatial design can drive social behaviors and support demographic goals.
Dating Commune:
Reimagining Dating Apps into a Co-Living Mixed-Use Space to Foster Partnership
This project investigates the innovative strategies that Singapore and Japan have implemented to address their declining birth rates. It explores how Singapore intertwines marriage policies with housing benefits, intending to stimulate marriage rates among the younger generation.
Given Singapore’s unique blend of Eastern and Western cultures, it concurrently grapples with the fertility crisis common in developed Western nations while retaining the Eastern cultural emphasis on family and lineage continuity. This confluence leads the government’s housing and fertility policies to favor newlywed young couples, indirectly prompting them to contemplate marriage as a strategy to alleviate housing affordability pressures.
Asian reality shows to promote new dating approaches. This cohabitation with strangers approach may offer a practical ‘pre-marriage trial,’ facilitating the discovery of a compatible partner through shared living experiences while concurrently reducing rental burdens.
The project seeks to fuse the concepts of dating apps and co-living communities with the objective of developing novel housing models that cater to the evolving lifestyle and cultural shifts.
“Experience” “Clicking”
Spining Residence: Switching Your Neighbors
Let your residence to help you to meet new people.
Spining Residence
Switching Your Neighbors
Love In The Air, It Is Either Movingforward Or Quiting.
Love In The Air, It Is Either Movingforward Or Quiting.
Special Dating Spot: Dating Pool, Dating Room
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Special Dating Spot: Dating Pool, Dating Room
Hangout Spot: Community Garden
Getting Acquaintance in Nature....
Getting Acquaintance in Nature....
This indoor garden is an area for getting accquianence. It provides nature and media room for the public.
Hangout Spot Community Garden
Isolated Zone Heartbreak Connection Tower
Isolated Zone: Heartbreak Connection Tower
In this tower whoever experienced heartbreak and unexpected separation will come here to heal themsleves and share their pain together.
A Glass Ball with garden and media room for hanging out. Sometimes, We Share Sadness together
Sometimes, We Share Sadness together
In this tower whoever experienced heartbreak and unexpected separation will come here to heal themsleves
Feel connected by connecting all the haertbreak moments...
Roshin Marafy collaborated with Woods Bagot’s global studios on the mixed-use complex project located in the western region waterfront of Dubai, Middle East. The design integrates local landscapes with avant-garde luxury to create a high-end complex. The scope of work included spatial planning, lighting design, custom interior decorations, and the implementation of luxurious finishes, with all design elements sourced and installed by local and international suppliers.
Dynamic Hejazi Skyline
Professional Work
From Interior Scales To Public Infrastructure
Showcasing a transition from detailed interior design to comprehensive architectural projects, this selection highlights an expanded scope of design expertise and execution.
Project Type: Retail Design, Construction Finished New York, NY | LADS Design Stduio, 2022
Li & Associates Design Studio was tasked with the design and implementation of the cosmetics section at Skyfood Supermarket in Long Island City, New York. The scope of work included spacial planing, lighting, millwork, and the custom interior fixtures, with all display units being sourced and shipped from manufacturers in China to New York.
Project Type: Education Institution, Submitted
Brooklyn, NY | LHP Architects, 2023
Site Survry, Modeling, Drawing Documentations, Presentation Board
Softwares: Revit, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Indesign
Interior design criteria extend beyond ADA compliance, emphasizing a design language and color palette conducive to an enhanced learning atmosphere for students with special needs. The chosen palette leans towards cool hues,
81ST STREET STATION | MTA ADA RENNOVATION
Project Type: Public Transportation, Design Development
New York, NY LHP Architects, 2023
Site Survry, Modeling, Drawing Documentations, Presentation Board
Softwares: Revit, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Indesign
Contributed to the MTA’s initiative for enhanced accessibility across a series of subway stations, focusing on the integration of elevators and the redesign of entrance details. Responsibilities encompassed modeling, drafting, and producing architectural renders.
Station Interior Render
Station Exterior Render
BROOKLYN 819 STREET TOWNHOUSE
Project Type: Residential, Construction In Progress
Brooklyn, NY | Li & Associates Design Studio, 2023
Site Survry, Modeling, Drawing Documentations, Presentation Board
Softwares: Revit, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Indesign
The four-story Brooklyn townhouse with its distinctive fluted molded concrete facade represents Li & Associates Design Studio’s debut residential project in New York, showcasing a commitment to understated elegance and premium materials throughout the interior.
