PORTFOLIO
ANHONG LI
2015-2020
TABLE OF CONTENT
ACEDEMIC
The Last Aquarium
De(re)struction in Spatialization
# Cinematic
02
In Praise of Shadow
Interaction in Japanese Dwelling
# Spatial
10
Wall as Heterotopia
Urban Form of Power Resistance 22
# Capital
PRACTICE
Parque O2
Environmental-Response Intervention
# Park
30
Dimensions
# Journel
Underworld
# Installation
Depth in the Paper 38
Art Collaboration 42
De(re)struction in Spatialization
THE LAST AQUARIUM 2020 TAU Kampner Memorial Award Finalist* Location Fiction Category Story writing,Film making, Architecture Design, Thesis project, University of Michigan Instructor Keith Mitnick Time Fall-Spring 2020
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[ Camera Lucida ] Photography World Formation
[ Cinematic Architecture ] Perceptual World Formation
[ Concept Model ] Projections as flipping layers
The Last Aquarium is examining the new reading method of “architecture reality� through fiction writing and film making, to reannounce the spatialization as a continually de(re)structive process in the human mind.
THE LAST AUQARIUM
[ Subjectivity ] Characters Setting
Set Designer “X” Creation vs Destruction
Thief “A” Origin Body vs Parts
[ Objectivity ] Story Scenes
Curator “J’ Hidden Truth vs Perfect Lies
Biologist “O” Perservation vs Self-Destruction
[Story Book ] Main Story + Personal Poetry + Architect Citation
Please see the full project at http://an-nd.com/.
[ Perceptual Architecture ] Memorial Garden 3' 30"
0'
Chapter 1 Monument Lies
Chapter 2 Black Room Suspect
Chapter 3 Net Hunt
1' 13"
Chapter 4 Light Encounter
Chapter 5 Another Dilemma
2' 17"
Chapter 6 Side of Water Escape
Chapter 7 No Place Creation
THE LAST AUQARIUM
[ Imaginary Sequence ] Plot Scenography
[ Reading Process ] Spatialization Map
Master Plan
1% | 99%
Disoriented Floor
3%
Monitor Map
9%
Circulation
17%
The Void
35%
Water World
67%
The End
99% | 1%
THE LAST AUQARIUM
Intimacy in Japanese Dwelling
IN PRAISE OF SHADOWS 2020 Taubman College Student Show 1st Place* Location Kita Senri New Town, Osaka, Japan Category Team Project, System Studio, University of Michigan Neighborhood Center and Apartment Mix-use building Team Anhong Li, Baekgi Min, Lucas Rigney Instructor Claudia Wigger, Craig Borum Time Summer 2019
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[ Design Process ]
1. Architecture / Landscape Division 3. Sunlight Analysis 5. 12 Wells of Shadow and Assosicate Structure
2. Massing and Plaza 4. Public Program Zoning 6. Spatial Continulity
IN PRAISE OF SHADOWS
[ Model Testing ]
This project aims to evoke the traditional intimacy and sensitivity of Japanese culture within a contemporary dwelling concept . The new mixed-use architecture combines a neighborhood center with residences to introduce a new type of urban fabric, horizontally and vertically interweaving different relationships between public and private space
[ Gallery Section ]
[ Bath Section ]
1. Water Fall
2. Lobby
3. Alley
4. Stair
5. Air
6. Mist
IN PRAISE OF SHADOWS
[ Courtyard Section ]
7. Courtyard
[ Library Section ]
8. Light
9. Shop
10. Library
11. Relax
Twelve wells of shadow are generated under the logic of the structural grid and the scale of the dwelling. As spatial voids these wells establish various scales of intimacy and character among the mixing neighborhood.
12. Bar
[ Perspectives ] Unit Balcony - Family Living Room - Library Plaza
IN PRAISE OF SHADOWS
[ Bath Section ] 4th Residential Floor - 2nd Public Floor
[ From Light to Shadow ]
[ Four Units Type in Three Floors ]
IN PRAISE OF SHADOWS
[ Vertically Interweaving ]
[ Family Units Type in Three Floors ]
[ Facade Detail ] 1/
EPDM Waterproof membrane plywood substrate t = .5 in. XPS thermal insulation t = 3 in. concrete slab set in 3N22 guage steel decking t = 4 in. / 3 in. 22a steel u channel beam steel c channel t = 2 in. gyp. board t = .5 in.
2/
prelude xl 15/16” exposed tee suspension system xps thermal insulation t = 1 in. gyp. board t = .5 in.
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2 in. x 2 in. ceramic facade tiles with shiny blue glazed finish tile cement t = .5 in. .5 in. tile backing board t = .5 in. xps thermal insulation t = 3 in. 6 in. x 6 in. steel extrusion column w/ mineral-wool thermal insulation t = 3 in. gypsum board t = .5 in.
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4 in. bamboo plank t = .75 in. plywood subfloor t = .5 in.
5/
roof light .25 in. polycarbonate sheeting + 4x .5 in. polycarbonate web panels xps thermal insulation t = 1 in. steel angled gutter led strip lighting
6/
vegetation layer polyamide stabilising net drainage fill
7/
glazed cedar boards t - 4 in. .5 in. battens .25 in plasterboard concrete wall t = 6 in.
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4 in. / 4 in. ceramic tile. 5 in. tile cement concrete slab t = 8”
9/
2 in. x 2 in. grass block paver
10 /
seismic damper concrete foundation t = 1’ - 0” double glazing .5 in. toughened safety glass + .5 in. cavity + .25 in. toughened safety glass aluminum frame
11 /
12 /
handrail steel channel t = 2 in. 3 in. flate steel railing uprights frosted glazing inset single pane handrail 2.5 in. steel channel 3 in. x 3 in. steel angle fasten to grate
13 /
four-part sliding-folding shutter steel perforated panels riveted to stainless steel frame fixing clamp for shutters .5 in. laminated safety glass balustrade system
14 /
3/8 in. galvanized steel sheet maintenance walkway 2 in. cavity 1 in. aluminum grating
15 /
low-e triple glazing w/ wood frame
Cherry blossom tree
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1. EPDM Waterproof membrane plywood substrate t = .5 in. XPS thermal insulation t = 3 in. concrete slab set in 3N22 guage steel decking t = 4 in. / 3 in. 22a steel u channel beam steel c channel t = 2 in. gyp. board t = .5 in. prelude xl 15/16” exposed tee suspension system 2. ps thermal insulation t = 1 in. gyp. board t = .5 in. 3. 2 in. x 2 in. ceramic facade tiles with shiny blue glazed finish tile cement t = .5 in. .5 in. tile backing board t = .5 in. xps thermal insulation t = 3 in. 6 in. x 6 in. steel extrusion column w/ mineral-wool thermal insulation t = 3 in. gypsum board t = .5 in. 4. in. bamboo plank t = .75 in. plywood subfloor t = .5 in. 5 roof light .25 in. polycarbonate sheeting + 4x .5 in. polycarbonate web panels xps thermal insulation t = 1 in. steel angled gutter led strip lighting 6 vegetation layer polyamide stabilising net drainage fill 7 glazed cedar boards t - 4 in. .5 in. battens .25 in plasterboard concrete wall t = 6 in. 8 4 in. / 4 in. ceramic tile. 5 in. tile cement concrete slab t = 8” 9 2 in. x 2 in. grass block paver
IN PRAISE OF SHADOWS
[ Section Detail ] Public Bath - Residential
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2 12 ‘ - 0”
12 ‘ - 0”
12 ‘ - 0” 13
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6 ‘ - 0” 15 9 ‘ - 0”
BATHROOM
3 4
KITCHEN Hinoki Cypress
5
8 ‘ - 0”
ROOF GARDEN
Japanese Siver Grass
22 ‘ - 0”
12
6
CAFE
Bamboo
LOBBY SPA ROOM
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MECHANICAL
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Urban Form of Power Resistance
WALL AS HETEROTOPIA
2020 TAU Student Show Honorable Mentions Project* Location Ahmedabad, India Category Urban design in exhibition format, Proposition Studio, University of Michigan Instructor María Arquero de Alarcón Time Spring 2019
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[ Urban Wall Mapping ]
This project takes the pervasive city type of the “urban wall” as a potential form of power resistance. Through the registration of contextual observations, walls are containers of a multiplicity of identities, markers of difference in the urban continuum. By intervening in these areas, the project offers a series of systematic adaptations that accommodate existing urban incidents, conflicts, protections, and divisions. The heterogeneity of the “wall” articulates other worlds possible in the city. Four areas that hold critical scenarios that shape the city’s identities are selected to illustrate different aspects of urban observations as well as “wall” imaginary approaches.
WALL AS HETEROTOPIA
[ Urban Wall History Timeline ]
[ Four Sites Imagination ]
Narration from Exhibition Curator: “ I am an architect, who visited the city Ahmedabad in India after the Sabarmati Riverfront project is built, as the biggest waterfront project in the country. I am struggling for what I thought about this city since I noticed the tendency of separation happens, but without any sound, between religious, the rich and the poor, the right of citizens and restricted access urban commons, the vanishing city memory and whitewashing urban development. However, I doubt the ability of architecture and urbanism could take on the responsibilities of socio-political reform. So I organized an exhibition that I can present my works of observations and proposed urban interventions of Ahmedabad to the public. As the final step of my design, I want to see the reactions from those visitors who come from this city; they might find my drawings are interesting, or they maybe feel angry about what I did, or they choose to ignore what they saw. In this case, I am an architect without the desire to build in reality, but to build something in people’s consciousness.”
[ The Common Border ]
Water is the urban commons in this location, framing the disparate types that urbanize water in the contemporary city. A new urban wall registers water in its many states and brings together different programs to embrace the many water values. Water cycles crossing many artificial landscapes: the waterfall, the temple, the pool, the treatment area, the bridge and the observation deck. By marking the urban border with a civic institution, the project invites exploration and discovery of species, rituals and customs that embody otherness.
WALL AS HETEROTOPIA
[ Collapse of Time ]
“Memory becomes the urban commons,� a memory made of the many identities and conflicting narratives that have historically shaped urban life. In its unfinished state and provisional nature, this intervention aims to draw public attention on the vanishing heritage and the rich folklore at risk. The materials include light and local wood, bamboo and textiles. As the construction and reconstruction of urban memories is always in the making, the intervention keeps changing, as people could change these memorials as they want.
[ The Celebration of Nature ]
The area hosts the larger slum area in the city: a culturally diverse neighborhood that offers an entry point to the city by those migrating from other regions. The proposal calls for the cultivation of nature to give shape to a new urban commons. The wall here softens and curves, enacts itself and dematerializes, and exists as a mental condition that connects the city to its lost natures.
WALL AS HETEROTOPIA
[ Post-Fordist Institution ]
These places are secluded, isolated by the thick layers of infrastructure onsite, but hold the potential of restaging an education network shaping the notion of the Post-Fordist site. Education will be the new urban commons here, bringing together different institutions through the enactment of a large megastructure holding the educational campus of the future.
Environmental-Response Intervention
PARQUE O2
2020 San Francisco Design Week Honorable Mentions* Location San José, Costa Rica Category Installation, Landscape, FUNdaMENTAL Design Build Initiative Organizer Taller Ken Team Anhong Li,Benjamin Hakimian, Carmen Chee, Florence Méthot, Hrabrina Nikolova, Laurence Von Lignau, Riccardo Zocche, Serkan Ates, Sheryl Wadehra, Waddah Dridi Design to Construction / 3 months Time Open in August 2019
PRACTICE
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[ Design Pe Located in San JoseĚ â€™s public Polideportivo Park, the installation ​connects the highly complex topological, social, and environmental components of the site, which sits at the intersection of a contaminated urban waterway, an informal settlement, and a railway on one side, and an organic market and public green space on the other. Previously, the areas were nearly inaccessible to each other, dividing communities along both geographical and socioeconomic lines.
erspective ]
PARQUE O2
[ Railway Mural ]
[ Ramp to Park ]
PARQUE O2
[ Master Plan ]
In addition to being colorful and playful, the installation also serves a sophisticated environmental purpose. In order to raise community awareness around air pollution in the area, the color palette of the bamboo poles works as an indicator of pollution levels, varying from yellow (very low) to purple (very high). By mixing the paint coating the bamboo with Titanium Dioxide (TiO2), a highly photo-catalytic and reactive chemical, the installation actually mitigates the polluted air itself.
[ River Side ]
[Reflective Light at Night ]
PARQUE O2
[ Construction Detail ]
PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT VERSION
PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT VERSION
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Covering a total surface area of approximately 2,000 square meters, the installation is comprised of 600 reclaimed tires filled with gravel and crushed stone (used as a base for the mounds and for soil retention and manage flooding) and approximately 1,200 linear meters of bamboo. PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT VERSION
Depth in the Paper
DIMENSIONS 33 Location Category Team
Instructor Time
Taubmen College, Umich Student Journel Mytreyi Chandrasekhar, Liyah George, Anhong Li , Abirami Manivannan, Jenny Scarborough, Rachel Skof, Ben Vassar Christian Unverzagt 2019 - 2020
PRACTICE
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[ Open Index as Table of Contents ]
[ Letter From As a way of reframing relationships between people, objects and architecture, this year we are approaching Dimensions not as an objective artifact but as a subjective volume bringing together a diverse set of work and discourse—both before and after the journal is published. The journal follows various trajectories of correlations and a series of overlaps that blend seamlessly to provide multiple readings and hierarchies, yet forming a cohesive whole—Dimensions 33. This creates a platform for a spectrum of topics ranging from speculating what architecture can be to working with digital realities. It involves working with tangible projects of making and fabrication while also questioning the relevance of temporalities of space in the built environment. It works on how architecture can play a role in preservation while also rethinking its role in real estate and land-rights movements. As the Dimensions team puts the finishing touches on the book with this letter, we are acclimatizing ourselves to a new normal, one created by a global pandemic. We are at the beginning of the end, waiting for a new beginning. While our collective actions as well as the action of leaders will likely shape the world for years to come, we are
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[ Central Disruptive Blue ]
the Editors ] …at a global pause. Through all this, Taubman College has been ever-responsive, its faculty ever-involved and its projects ever-present. As we swim in the uncomfortable waters of climate change, surveillance, land rights, urban restructuring—and now a global pandemic—the projects featured in this journal tackle such issues with the rigor and grace they deserve. Before any of this, though, Dimensions had already made the choice to favor these environmental, societal, and cultural indices over any one program or focus within the school—evident in the index. If you didn’t notice, we hope it was a smooth read. If you did, you can ruminate on how this organized chaos of the journal reflects the changing times. It was challenging to publish a book with our minds racing back and forth, hoping for a return of normalcy while adapting to this altered reality. But this reality exists and we hope this book offers you a chance to rethink the world we are living in and use this pause as an opportunity to extend your participation towards constructing our new future(s) together.
De(re)struction Art Collaboration in Spatialization
THE LAST AQUARIUM UNDERWORLD Location Category Team Instructor Time
Wuhan, China UK-China Arts Education Exchange Program, Installation Anhong Li, Zhihui Li, Yun-yun Lee, Frances Grazier Lingjiang Huang, Florian Roithmayr Summer 2016
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