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Aoran LI
ABOUT ME
Aoran Li 2804/31 A’beckett St, Melbourne VIC 3000 Mob: (61) 431 198 606 Email: aaoran@hotmail.com
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CAREER OBJECTIVE I would like to obtain a position where I can utilise my critical thinking and specific knowledge about landscape architecture design or any relevant design to explore my practical skills in a talent and dynamic design company. EDUCATION Master of Landscape Architecture RMIT University (City Campus)
03/2013 - 12/2014
Bachelor of Design (Landscape Architecture Design) RMIT University (City Campus)
03/2010 - 12/2012
INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE: Design Assisstant 01/2015 - current LZ Landscape, Melbourne Responsibilities: • Prepare basic landscape architectural plans including profiles, sketches, color renderings, scale drawings, and specifications. • Prepare a variety of diagrams, maps, plans, and other illustrative materials for presentation. • Assist in all phases of plan development, including site analysis, project measurements, design, layouts and presentation. • Assist in the preparation of sketches, preliminary drawings, and schematic designs. Landscape Architect (Internship) 10/2013 - 01/2014 Ark Design Architects, Jakarta Indonesia Responsibilities: • Provided conceptual and schematic landscape designs for two residential apartments. • Collaborated with architects in practice complete the project design documentation • Presented design schemes to clients through verbal presentations Skills: • Residential landscape design skills • Communication skills • Drafting skills Achievements: • Completed schematic designs and design documentation approved by clients and delivered project to next stage. 3D Modeler and Visualisation Render (freelance) 06/2013 - 08/2013 Responsibilities: • Produced 3D architectural rendering images and 3D photo montage Skills: • 3D modeling skills • Graphic edit skills • Vector edit skills
Project Planner 09/2013 - current Design for Humanity, China • Translated design articles and documents • Collected project information which relating to humanity design Skills: • Translation skills • Information collection and organisation skills Poster Designer International student office, University of New South Wales • Produced posters in response to the brief • Presented brief of design ideas for client Skills: • 2D graphic edit skills • Vector edit skills
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Meso Travelling Studio (Taipei) 03/2013 - 06/2013 A research project collaborated between RMIT University, NTUT, Taipei and GSD, Harvard. • Collaborated with local students finish the project in local context • Prepared an exhibition in National Taipei University of Technology. Skills: • Site survey skills • Team work skills SKILL SUMMARY Industry specific • All facets of design from concept development and design implementation to representation • Producing innovative forms of design • Excellent model making skills both in physical and digital way • Excellent hand drawing skills and digital graph skills in any field of architectural drawings Technical Autodesk CAD (Advanced), Rhinoceros (Advanced), Vray (Advanced), Adobe Photoshop (Advanced), Adobe Indesign (Advanced), Adobe Illustrator (Advanced), Adobe Aftereffect (Basic), Grasshopper (Basic), Sketch up (Basic), Microsoft Office Suite (Good). Communication • Effectively presenting ideas through presentations to an audience • Effective verbal, written, graphic and visual communication • Ability to successfully communicate with people from various backgrounds using English or Chinese (Mandarin). Organizational skills Well developed organizational skills as a result of managing both academic studies and extra curricular activities. Reference available on request
Fresh In Urban Wenzhou, Zhejiang,China
In The Thick of It Port Melbourne, Melbourne
Opportunistic Geometries Docklands, Melbourne
Revival Alley Taipei, Taiwan
Furniture In Public Melbourne CBD
Majestic Point Apartments Jakarta, Indonesia
Fresh In Urban ‘WANGZENG VILLAGE WILL BE A CORE SPACE OF COMMUNITY ACTIVITY AND CHOICE’ The Fresh in City is a project of development urban village in China. With the booming of the economic in Wenzhou, China, Wangzeng village is a village transformed from the native village by rapid urbanisation and industrialisation in the economic advanced regions. The intention of the project is to investigate the relationship between an urban village and the new urban context, transform it allows fitting into the current and future urban city.
Wangzeng Village
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1. Bring the community qualities and economic structures out from existing space and emphasis them into another space.
2. Reactivating community spaces by their qualities.
3. New frontier spaces have the permeability to extend into the surrounding urban area and carry values forward into the urban area.
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The intention of the design is trying to enhance the residents’ activities by the inter-relationship of themselves. The design is based on their living habits, and the activity shifts due to the time shift.
The new space designed by using activities has the permeability adapt into surrounding neighbourhoods to bring the change to the city and back to the village in order to solve the issues of both sides.
Inviting business as the threats to stimulate the environment, use commercial methods to attracts people to the site and activate the space.
original ciculation property rent out for business purpose property rent out for residential use
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space requirement shelter provides shade building facade attracts people and provides a safet and comfortable feeling a good place for people to sit and chat if it achieve the two requirements above
rise up the pedestrain path in different pavements and build shelter above it
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Furnitures Manual All the furniture was designed and located due to the living patterns of the residents and the needs of the space. They are available to change and move to feed the different needs of different people in different time.
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Multi-sized benches provide single use or group activities
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In The Thick of It The studio investigate the ‘incision’, which is cutting in the thick urban skin. Through deeply understanding of land types, traffic information, costal information and living residents of the Port Melbourne. Combine with the investigations from ink drawings, got the idea about relations between landform and water, which water flows can generates different topography of land.
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The proposal is able to absorb a large amount of water due to the flood in Port Melbourne in the future.
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deposited soil Ink drawings investigate the relationship between two matters influenced by the media: water. The fluid edge, the conflicted boundaries and the deposited soil.
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1. Recreation centre 2. Community garden 3. Swimming centre 4. Reserve 5. Fish market 6. Reserve 7. Centre park 8. Public beach
9. Community hub 10. Indoor bath 11. Palm island 12. Event ground 13. Botanic garden 14. Aquarium 15.Botanic garden 16. Cleft Promenade
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Water splits the whole site into a cleft shape, generate different size of islands (indoor and outdoor), water pools, pathways and planting areas. The proposal made all these elements designed in a cleft shape which produces different areas and spaces for human and nature habitats.
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Opportunistic Geometries Problem: The site locates at the Docklands waterfront just besides Melbourne CBD. The problem of the Docklands is it lack of recreation activities and distinctive spatial features. Which less attraction made to continually make this place isolate from the CBD.
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The proposal for the central pier offers a series of opportunistic strategies, through considering the local context. The new pier could enhance its visual identity with the surrounding residential context, using spatial form choreographs human processes and invites opportunistic reactions.
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The new geometries created by the pier link the urban fabric, extended in 3 dimensional, recreating the spatial sensation to change people’s behaviour. Using the idea of ‘lines’ and ‘fragments’ consists the interlock space, ‘fragments’ to obstruct and separate the circulation, but ‘lines’ indicate people’s movement to the central of pier and to different part of the pier.
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Model generates the idea of lineary geometry, and how linear structures present the spatial qualities. Also showing a process which lines transform to plane create an interlock space sensation.
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The form of the pier inspired by the site context of Docklands which linery spatial quality make the pier becomes a focal space in Docklands 0
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The shape of the platform is the same as the fragment patterns of the stairs underneath. Two corridors create different functional spaces in order to provide a different spatial feeling for people
The platform in the centre of the pier has extended the circulation vertically, and is equally accessible from the beginning and end of the pier. It has been shaped by the concerns for accessibility, shelter and structure. It also provides a lookout point for people
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Pavement patterns generate by three focal points in the centre of the pier, express the radial lines using different materials through exterior and interior. Planting area sitting in the same shape with the radial lines.
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Revival Alley Taipei
The project ‘Revival Alley’ has been developed in Taipei city, the capital city of Taiwan, which situated in the northern part of Taiwan Island to include the northeast of the Taipei Basin and the surrounding hill areas. The current city fabric of Taipei is growing to the south-east direction, so the west part of the city is the old city district with large amount of temples, heritage buildings and markets. The proposal seeks for a revival of the area, defining the way that the site can work as a whole balanced system for ecological and cultural, letting eco-tourists exploring and experiencing both nature and culture of Taipei.
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The project redevelops the alleys of Taipei, based on the experiences of eco-tourists, considering their experiences depend on different days of travelling and their needs during the journey. Using alleys as a linkage connecting eco-tourists with the city and the mountain area, in order to enhance the spirit of local culture, expand the ecological environments in the city and boost the economic in the same time
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This series diagrams are showing the routes for eco-tourists in different days depending on the attraction points and their experiences of local culture. The various routes demonstrate the hierarchy of the visiting points and experiences they will approach.
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Detail plan of the Wanhua District of Taipei. The suggest routes are for eco-tourists who are depart from the MTR Station to each of the attrac tion point. The transportation method they use is cycling and walking.
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Different sites are associated with different main activities and the required facilities.
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The way to Longshan Temple, the redeveloped alley has the typical arcade on the ground level of each building and all the stalls are moved under the arcade.
The large space between alleys provide a recreation and rest space, an area with tables and chairs, green plants, street food, bicycle store racks and toilet.
Parallel to the main street, hide behind the buildings, the alley is long and narrow, but full of stalls beside it showing the typical local market of Taiwan. The area between the buildings has plants and street food, a good place to take a rest before leaving for the next destination
Large advertisement boards on the sides of alley showing what kind of foods they cook. This is to gather the eco-tourists and residents, so it has tables provide for food, and bike stops for store bike.
The buildings in residential area are higher. So it feels like walking in a green corridor at the alley. It feels narrow, and the balcony of each householder obstruct the sight. But gives the feeling of a mystery and a curious what will discover for next.
After a whole day exploring between the alleys, ďŹ nally eco-tourists arrive at the place they will spend the night. It have comfortable rooms provide for them, large outdoor green space, traditional Chinese pavilion for chatting and social communication, and Taiwanese barbeque grill for them cooking food.
Furniture In Public This research studio is focusing on create a great public space by using 1:1 prototyping, develop a strategy to immediately improve the site’s public life, and invite people to participate. In order to use the prototype to create a linkage between people, to prompt strangers talk to each other. Several test has been done in different locations by consider its spatial quality, accessibility and visibility. Repeat and document the test by develop the prototype in order to understand the human behaviour and how the prototype can change human behaviour in public.
The 1:22 physical model has developed an intervention for site that enables it to be occupied by people for public use, and the intervention will become a way to develop its social value and achieve a design proposition for public exchange.
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Test the intervention in different locations to see how with people it will engage in public. Also the arrangement of the intervention is developed in different ways to ďŹ t in the context.
Furniture in public space will give an impression to people by its size, location and function. The distance between people shows the relationship between them, and their observation direction shows their behaviour in public space. These are all the key issues needed to be considered when design public space.
Majestic Point Apartments Majestic Point Apartments in Serpong (MPS) is including two towers which sitting perpendicular to each other. Because it close to university campuses, so all the properties are aiming for university students and young families. Two levels of spaces were indicated for landscape designs, which are the ground floor and the podium floor. Ground floor has the entrance and retail stores, vehicles can access through the front entrance and pedestrian walkways are around buildings. Podium level includes all the functional area for residents like swimming pools, basketball court, jogging track and kids playground.
The concept design for this project is trying to create a modern tropical landscape, a dynamic and vibrant space suitable for formal and relaxed congregation. It use ‘wave’ to create flexible space and circulation, ‘water ripple’ to integrate the architecture form with the landscape design, and ‘rice terrace’ to give a perspective of multi-layer space.
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