Timlok Li
Architectural Design & Structure
P O R T F O L I O 2018
Undergaduate Human.Machine Over-Folding Resident House XL Garden Pyramid The Mall House Observation Tower Professional Han.Resident
HUMAN . MACHINE : MICRO LIVING
USC Architecture Spring 2017 12’x12’ Boundary Box Ins tructor: Hunter Knight
ACTOR & SUPPORT
EXHIBITED + PUBLISHED. ARCHREPORT EXHIBITED + PUBLISHED. ARCHREPORT “BETWEEN FURNITURE AND 9.2017 “BETWEEN FURNITURE ANDBUILDING” BUILDING”
HUMAN . MACHINE
The modern sensibility regarding building systems and
technologies is one of deliberate and often labored concealment. A machine is only noticed through the effects of its malfunction (a room too hot or a pool of water on the floor). This project seeks to bring the apparatuses and interfaces that support domestic functions, comfort and rituals out of the walls and into the home.
While avoiding fascination and fetishism with technology
as such Lloyds of London, this project will work through the latent aesthetics of these characters. The Human Machine rests somewhere between furniture and architecture. it is substantial enough to define space and generate atmospheres, yet it is not a building itself.
In this project, I focus are program relationship and pro-
gram adjacency, and how different program combination could possibility create new style of living, even in such small machine. I chose basic form of geometry (rectangle frame ) as module for this project, and apply different/opposite program on opposite side of frame. (such as, toilet vs kitchen, dinning chair vs cloth hanger). By doing this, it will automatic create certain distance between critical program. Furthermore, according to the visitor needs, each module could move based on his/her need. And create even more program adjacency/combination by pushing or pulling the frame along with track.
AXONMETRIC DRAWING I HUMAN . MACHINE I DIAGRAM IN PLAN I FIGURE DRAWING I RENDER INTERIOR DETAIL
On the other hand, some of the frame doesn’t have specific
program, so it always can be adjust based on the owner/visitor’s need. For example, the flat platform in circle module, it can be three different use based on the position. When the frame push next to the sink, the platform act as siting area for showering. When the frame in the center, it acts as rest area for visitor reading. When the frame moves next to cooking area, it act as table for owner’s
HUMAN . MACHINE
dinning table.
AXONMETRIC DRAWING I HUMAN . MACHINE I DIAGRAM IN PLAN I FIGURE DRAWING I RENDER INTERIOR DETAIL
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Program Frame adjused based on occupant’s daily need, total four different transfomration.
1/8’’ = 1’’ - 0’ Frame diagram / Construction Model / Movement diagram
OVER FOLDING
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TRANSFORMATION STUDY USC Architecture Fall 2016 4501 W Exposition Blvd Los Angeles, CA Instructor: Lauren Lynn
OVER-FOLDING
An offshoot of the traditional catalog culture that started
with Bernard Rudolfsky’s Architecture without Architects (1964) reexamined specimens of building considered to be “non-pedigreed” or non-canonical. More forthrightly for our purposes, Reyner Banham’s Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies or Venturi, Scott Brown, and Izenour’s Learning from Las Vegas opened the conversation to the value of previously maligned contemporary buildings and strategies, and the vernacular aspects of the city and validated their potential for 50 years of contemporary architecture. Importantly, these observational histories engaged with the fabric of the city itself and the cultural particularities inherent in the places that were needed to produce the architecture of Los Angeles.
Compared to cohesive cities like Paris or New York, Los An-
geles’ morphology is messy. Apart from the geological aspect recognized by Banham, as a whole the city remains primarily illegible. Los Angeles’ rich mythology tells us we are at the end of the settled world. The narrative suggests that over the last 130 years generations of traditionally taught architects from the East Coast and Europe came here to bring civility but then often ended up acting out, testing out, or playing out new typologies of architecture and the living that might go on inside them. Today on the ground, the experience of Los Angeles is punctuated by moments of exuberant form, architect or civilian designed. There is a macro formlessness paired with a micro distinction. The micro distinction in form of a concert hall here, a strip mall, a museum there, a mid-rise skyscraper, a school, an elaborate mansion in a well-kept area–each is surrounded by the formlessness.
FINAL CHOICE AXONMETRIC SITE DRAWING I LOS ANGELES BUILDING ROOF TYPOLOGY STUDY I EXPLODED STUDY
Following these precedents, peoject will be looking for
form in objects, buildings, parts of buildings, or systems in the city around us that are not typically considered to be architectural relevant form. Using Reyner Banham’s original reading of Los Angeles as a confluence of four “ecosystems” and this project will documenting and collecting them to create a studio-wide Source Book for use during the semester. Through this first project, goal is to resee the landscape of Los Angeles as alive with formal potentials.
Project two focused on the different views and perspective
of my object. In my First drawing which is the one with different axonometric drawings., I examined the proportional relationship between the roof and its base. In drawing two, I combined different views of the object to generate new forms and examine these new proportions of roof and base. In drawing three, I was interested in the relationship between area and the surface area of the transformed object, so I unfolded each iteration of the transformed ob-
OVER-FOLDING
ject to compare unfolded area to the volume area.
AXONMETRIC DRAWING I HUMAN . MACHINE I TRANSFORMATION DRAWING I PROPORTION STUDY
The design of the single family house has over the last cen-
tury been a testing ground for radical ideas about living. Mies van der Rohe proposing an entirely open floor plan to a culture accustomed to living in a warren of small rooms and hallways. In order to do this he designed not only the house but the furniture and thus the method of living in those spaces. The project focus are reframe and rethink what is needed to live in 2015. The goal here is not the design of your dream house but a rigorous conceptualization of the dwelling and working space as a site for contemporary life, form as an inducer of fun tion, and the occupation of a unique urban site as it’s location.
Project 3 used a similar strategy to end the form. I used
various views from project 2, and combined them in plan view. Those overlapping plans allow for semi-exterior space between each program elements. Furthermore, the overlapping forms create a series interior-exterior- interior experiences. On the other hand, unfolded garden walls around the perimeter of the house block the car light, noise, and the visual movement from entering the space. From the exterior of the building, the walls are opaque. On the inside, most of interior walls are made of glass to promote
OVER-FOLDING
openness in an otherwise protected or closed space.
FLOOR PLAN DRAWING I HUMAN . MACHINE I
OVER-FOLDING
SECTION A
SECTION B
SECTION ELEVATION DRAWING I OVER FOLDING I SECTION A. B I
HUMAN . MACHINE
The modern sensibility regarding building systems and
technologies is one of deliberate and often labored concealment. A machine is only noticed through the effects of its malfunction (a room too hot or a pool of water on the floor). This project seeks to bring the apparatuses and interfaces that support domestic functions, comfort and rituals out of the walls and into the home.
While avoiding fascination and fetishism with technology
as such Lloyds of London, this project will work through the latent aesthetics of these characters. The Human Machine rests somewhere between furniture and architecture. it is substantial enough to define space and generate atmospheres, yet it is not a building itself.
In this project, I focus are program relationship and pro-
gram adjacency, and how different program combination could possibility create new style of living, even in such small machine. I chose basic form of geometry (rectangle frame ) as module for this project, and apply different/opposite program on opposite side of frame. (such as, toilet vs kitchen, dinning chair vs cloth hanger). By doing this, it will automatic create certain distance between critical program. Furthermore, according to the visitor needs, each module could move based on his/her need. And create even more program adjacency/combination by pushing or pulling the frame along with track.
Close up Interior view / Exterior view w. Site Info
SITE WITH EXTERIOR SHOT / INTERIOR / STREET VIEW / EXPLODED MODEL AXONMETRIC DRAWING I HUMAN . MACHINE I DIAGRAMDETAIL IN PLAN I FIGURE DRAWING I RENDER INTERIOR DETAIL
THE MALL HOUSE
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BOUNDARY ISSUES USC Architecture Spring 2017 Los Angeles typical sharing unit Instructor: Hunter Knight
In the Mall House, it develops architectural armatures to contain and establish relationship between multiple domestic spaces. Specifically, the project will investigate two architectural strategies for delineating thresholds the demising wall and the garden. The demising wall is surface that subdivides and architectural volume into multiple autonomous interior (individual dwelling units. ) Typically, it is a vertical element that operates exclusively in plan. Functionally, it creates acoustic , visual and fire separation. And this project expends the potential of the demising as a material threshold.
Axonmetric Drawing with three identical element study / Module Diagram
AXONMETRIC DRAWING I THE MALL HOUSE I DIAGRAM IN MODULE I FIGURE DRAWING I RENDER DETAIL
SECTION A
SECTION B
SECTION A. B I THE MALL HOUSE I DIAGRAM IN SECTION I FIGURE DRAWING I DETAIL SECTION WITH PROGRAM
Exterior render view from East Elevation
Interior render with central public sharing space
MODEL PICTURE I THE MALL HOUSE I DIAGRAM IN DETAIL I FIGURE RENDERI DETAIL PICTURE WITH DETAIL
HOUSE XL: CO-HOUSING USC Architecture Spring 2017 4501 W Exposition Blvd Los Angeles, CA Instructor: Hunter Knight
ACTOR & SUPPORT
RON FINLEY PROJECT - 10. 2017
HOUSE XLl
“Co- Housing” extends the investigations of projects “The
Mall House” and “The Human. Machine” by introducing two critical input: First, the physical and cultural context of a particular site in Los Angeles and second, a program density that will require the deployment of more complex organizational types. In this context, Co- Housing should be understood as reduced footprint, fully private living spaces that are augmented by shared programs. In addition to Housing, the project will include facilities to support the Ron Finley Project – a nonprofit entity promoting community gardening and access to healthy, locally grown food. (more info @ http://ronfinley.com)
AXONMETRIC DRAWING I HOUSE X.L I DIAGRAM IN SECTION I PROJECT SITE PLAN
HOUSE XL
PERSPECTIVE DRAWING I HOUSE XL I DIAGRAM IN PLAN I FIGURE DRAWING I PLAN FIRST AND SECOND FLOOR
HOUSE XL
SECTION B I SECTION A I THIRD FLOOR PLAN I FORTH FLOOR PLAN
HOUSE XL
EXTERIOR BUILDING RENDER WITH STREET VIEW FROM METRO STATION
MODEL PICTURE I EXTERIOR I FACADE DETAIL I MATERIAL STUDY I SITE MODEL EXTERIOR MODEL RENDER
OBSERVATION TOWER
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PARAMETRIC DESIGN PCC Architecture Fall 2016 Los Angeles Downtown Instructor: Gergory Zamora
ACTOR & SUPPORT
EXHIBITED + PUBLISHED. ARCHREPORT “BETWEEN FURNITURE AND BUILDING”
HUMAN . MACHINE
The modern sensibility regarding building systems and
technologies is one of deliberate and often labored concealment. A machine is only noticed through the effects of its malfunction (a room too hot or a pool of water on the floor). This project seeks to bring the apparatuses and interfaces that support domestic functions, comfort and rituals out of the walls and into the home.
While avoiding fascination and fetishism with technology
as such Lloyds of London, this project will work through the latent aesthetics of these characters. The Human Machine rests somewhere between furniture and architecture. it is substantial enough to define space and generate atmospheres, yet it is not a building itself.
In this project, I focus are program relationship and pro-
gram adjacency, and how different program combination could possibility create new style of living, even in such small machine. I chose basic form of geometry (rectangle frame ) as module for this project, and apply different/opposite program on opposite side of frame. (such as, toilet vs kitchen, dinning chair vs cloth hanger). By doing this, it will automatic create certain distance between critical program. Furthermore, according to the visitor needs, each module could move based on his/her need. And create even more program adjacency/combination by pushing or pulling the frame along with track.
ELEVATION/ SECTION DRAWING I OBSERVATION TOWER I FLOOR PLAN SECTION I IDEA REPRESENTATION
FACADE DIAGRAM DRAWING I OBSERVATION TOWER I SKIN ANALYSIS I IDEA REPRESENTATION