Design Portfolio Mengli Pi 743074 Bachelor of Environments Year of completion - 2017
00 EDUCATION
FEB 2015 - DEC 2017
Bachelor of Environment
University of Melbourne
AUG 2013 - DEC 2014
Foundation Studies
Trinity College
SEP 2011 - JUN 2013
High School
Mengli Pi
Contacts Tel: 0431261127 Email: pi_bobby@yahoo.com Web: https://issuu.com/bobbypi/docs/_portfolio_743074_ mengli_pi
Chengdu N0.7 High School
I am Mengli Pi, 21 years old, a graduate student from Melbourne University, major in architecture. Over the three years of my undergraduate study, I’ve obtain considerable knowledge in the fields of architecture, design, construction, music and fine art. I believe that multidisciplinary knowledge are beneficial to each field of interest, which is why I tried to learn broadly and work with people with different backgrounds. I am profoundly passionate about human-centered design and sustainable design. I would like to continue my study as a post-graduate student to acquire more knowledge especially in the field of architecture as well as other disciplines and learn more extensively from people around me.
EXPERIENCE
DEC 2016
Humanitarian Design Internship
Engineer Without Borders Gujarat, India
JUL 2016
AA Summer School
SKILLS
Rhino Grasshopper Revit Auto CAD Photoshop InDesign Illustrator
UNIT 5: 2S Second London, UK
CONTENT 01
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MULTI-INTELLIGENCE
LEARNING CENTRE
FAVIA PAVILION
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TUNNEL
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SLEEPING
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CONSTRUCTION
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2 SECOND
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SOUND FOREST
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01 - 04
MAZE
ARMOUR
DESIGN
CITY
HUMANITARIAN DESIGN INTERNSHIP
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MULTI-INTELLIGENCE LEARNING COMPLEX
2017
Tutor: Individual
Huiseung Sarah Song
PROJECT Multi-Intelligence Learning Complex
LOCATION 77 Story St, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
FUNCTIONS Learning Centre, Renaissance Centre, Sports Department, Administration.
CLIENT University High School, Melbourne University
GOAL The purpose of this project is to introduce a learning complex that provides various learning environments for the students to develop their distinctive intelligences. Based on Howard Gardener’s theory of nine intelligences, every individual is gifted with nine intelligences naturally, however, each individual incline to develop some intelligences further than others. A typical school program such as what the client has proposed doesn’t necessarily accommodate the need of certain environments that students can develop their intelligences in. The Multi-intelligence Learning Complex is proposed to provide a more considerate solution in that sense without compromising then function or losing the efficiency of the learning environment,
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SITE
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-Adjacent to main traffic vein -Isolated from busy surroundings
Site Plan
Accessibility
Foot Traffic
Interaction
Noise
PROGRAM 8 featured spaces are laid out throughout three storeys, in addition to the proposed program by the clients, therefore more learning options are provided.
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Balcony
2F
Cafe
Balcony
1F
Fire
Fire
Fire Kitchenette
Kitchenette
Escape Stadium
GF
GF
Escape
Meeting Room
Manager’s Office Coach
Laboratory
Meeting Room
PE Classroom
Storage Room
GF
Escape
Meeting Room
Craft Workshop
GF
Public Theatre
Digital Archive
DAT
DAT
Bleachers
Closed Reserve
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Meditation Room
GF
Senior Common Room
Fire
Project Room 9m2
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Project Room 9m2
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Terrace & Green House Dance Studio
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Female Change
Open Stacks
Male Change Open Stacks
Environmental Studies Fire
Rehearsal Room
Fire
PE Classroom
Open Stacks
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Escape
Environmental Studies
Project Room 20m2
Fire PublishRoom
Escape Escape
Health & Human Development
Fire
Aerobics Studio
Escape
Escape
Escape
Open Stacks Health & Human Development Fire
Fire
Escape
Escape
Atrium
Featured Spaces Diagram
Fire
DAT
Escape
G-2F
Art Workshop
Fire
Ground Floor
1stFloor
2nd Floor
Project Room 12m2 Project Room 9m2 Project Room 9m2 Project Room 12m2
VISUALISATION
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Internal spaces are visualised to illustrate the spatial quality and indicate how the spaces might be used
Atrium
Senior Common Room
Stadium
Bridge over Atrium
Terrace & Green House
West Exterior Perspective
ZONING
MATERIALITY
The logic behind how the program layout
The material palette used to create the lively,delightful atmosphere
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Private
Public
Klip Lok Roof Decking
Brushed Steel Balustrade
Acoustic Timber Batten Ceiling
Lynsaght Zenith Dominion Exterior Wall Cladding
Cement Acoustic Panels Interior Wall Lining
Terrace Timber Decking
White Marble Atrium Floor & Stairs
Polished Concrete Structure Finish
Light Scheme Timber Flooring
Exploded Isometric Elements
Blue stone Street Entrance Plaza
Sand stone Campus Pathways
Grass Lawn on Campus and Terrace
Blue Tiling Self-directed Learning
Green Tiling Class Learning
Yellow Tiling Physical Learning
Beige Tiling General Administration
Privacy Zoning Diagram
Class Learning Physical Learning Self-directed Learning General Admin
Function Zoning Diagram-Reflected on colours of wall tiling
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FAVIA PAVILION Group Work*
Tutor: Lindy Hayter
PROJECT Favia Pavilion
PARTNER Jingyi Feng
*In this project, my role is mainly on 3D Modelling. In this case, form-finding and detailing in Grasshopper,with my partner’s assistance. My partner is more interested in prototyping, which I also participated in to provide my assistance.
LOCATION CERES Community Environment Park, Stwart St & Roberts St, Brunswick East, Victoria, Australia.
FUNCTIONS Shading, Seating, Event Kiosk, DJ Booth
CLIENT CERES Community Environmental Park
GOAL The overarching idea is to create a multi-function pavilion that utilises the innovative phosphorescent. The pavilion we designed can be used as a a shading device, where people can rest in when there’s no event going on, it can also be used as a retail kiosk or DJ booth at times of events both day and night. At night the phosphorescent coated strings attached to the cones emit florescence, giving the pavilion another totally different life. The inhabitable quality of favia coral is also perfectly reflected on the pavilion
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FORM Overall form is inspired by shelters in Nature and manipulated based on site condition The Tectonic of the pavilion is mimicking the mechanism of Favia Coral.
Form Adaptation The form was extracted from the umbrella-shaped fungus in the bush, and reconfigured based on the practical use of the pavilion and the solar condition on site.
Tectonic Configuration On the foundation of the overall form, details inspired by favia coral was added onto the pavilion. Sizes of the openings and numbers of the illuminative strings on the cones are reactive to the sun direction.
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DOUBLE LIFE
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The Favia Pavilion lives two lives, one during the day, one during the night, lit up by the glowing phosphorescent.
Day Time
Night Time
The pavilion acts as a shading device, the cone closes up where the sun is most direct
The pavilion is covered with phosphorescent coated strings, glowing like corals at night.
Front
Right
Back
Left
PROTOTYPING
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Prototypes were made to test the structure, detailing and the lighting effects.
Prototype Details Cones: Polypropylene Strings: Phosphorescent Cotton Strings String Fixtures: Chicago Screws 3 mm Skeleton: Perspex 3 mm Skeleton Fixtures: Cold-formed Aluminium Sheet
Night Time Illumination Effects
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SECRET - TUNNEL MAZE
2016
Individual
Tutor: Veronika
PROJECT Secret - Tunnel Maze
LOCATION Herring Island, Richmond, Victoria, Australia
FUNCTION Secret Accommodation, Auditory Studio, Recreational Landscape
CLIENT Herring Island, Parks Victoria.
GOAL This is a landscape that houses a “Secret”. The main idea is to play with users’ curiosity and lure them to explore the unknown. There are three layers of walls at increasing heights of 2.5m, 3 m, 3.5m, outwards, rounding up three gardens in-between. Tunnels internally lined with reflective material are inserted through the walls and gardens and transport users to different locations in the maze. Routes are not easy. To reveal the secret, explore further, back and forth.
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TECTONIC STUDIES
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Point-Line-Plane, Mass, Frame and Infill are explored with three exercise
Point-Line-Plane
Mass
Frame & Infill
IDEA INITIATION The design initiated with a concepticle that represents the main element, Tunnels.
Concepticle I & II
Concepticle II Internal Effect I
Concepticle II Internal Effect II
IDEA FORMULATION
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Extracted from the TECTONIC exercises and case studies concisely transformed in to the final landscape design.
Site Plan & Analysis
Plan
Secret Secret
Projection Room Projection Room
Cleaner’s Cubicle
Media Room
Amenities
DAT
Amenities
DAT
Cleaner’s Cubicle
Media Room
Moss Garden Unisex Private Storage
Toilet Unisex
Toilet
Public-
Private Storage Storage
PublicStorage
Sand Garden
Underground
Underground
0m
Entrance Perspective I
Moss Garden
Entrance Perspective II
50mm
510m m
15m 10m
N15m
N
Gravel Garden to Secret
Gravel Garden
Sand Garden
Gravel Garden
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SECOND SKIN - SLEEPING ARMOUR
2016
Group Work*
Tutor: Joshua Batterham Russo
Sleeping Armour In Operation PROJECT
Head Rest
Sleeping Armour
PARTNER Yan Jiao
* In this project, we evenly participated in each stage of the design process, including idea initiation, 3d modelling, pattern designing, fabrication formatting and prototyping, meanwhile always at each other’s assistance and support.
Inner Layer
LOCATION University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
FUNCTION
Intermediate Layer
Public Sleeping Pod, Personal Space Defining.
GOAL The project “Sleeping Armour” was designed to define personal space, when people need to have a power nap in a relatively public space, for instance, in a library, where users easily get drowsy and tired in-between study sessions. The “Sleeping Armour” features 3 layers representing 3 layers of personal space, the forms of which soften as its proceed closer to the user, sharpen as it faces the surrounding.
Protective Layer
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CONSTRUCTION DESIGN - WESTERN BACE INFO TRANSLATION
2017
Tutor:
Individual
Benjamin Sheilds
A. Soil Profile 1.Calyey SILT, red brown/ some BASALT gravel. -0.15 m 2. Silty CLAY, red/ brown, high plasticity, 0.15-0.6 m 3. Rock, Extremely/ highly weathered BASALT, light grey, 0.6-0.9 m
FFL 137.0
B.Footing system 4.Mass Concrete 5. Strip Footing, 450 wide SF1, 600 min depth, 4-L12 TOP and BTM. 6.Pad Footing, PF1, 2000 x 2000, 600 min socket into highly weathered BASALT rock, N20 bars bottom @250 CTS. Max. Each way. N16 bars Top a@250 CTS. Max. Each way. C. Main Structural Elements 7. Precast Concrete Column, PC1, 700 x 250, with transom supporting 1CB1, directly connected to pad footing beneath. 8.Preceast Concrete beams, 1CB1,700w x 600D, Fixed to PC1 but reinforcements and couplers. 9. Hot dipped galvanised deep steel truss, TR1, fixed to PC1, on cast-in Plate C4PB, by 100 x 12, cleat plate and galvanised bolts. 10.Exposed Laminated Beams, RB2, 30 mm Precamber, 600 x 115. 11. Parallel Flange Channel, RB1, 380 x 100. D.Floor system. 12. In-situ suspended ground slab, SL 72 TOP, SL92 BTM, 30 Cover, LAP 1 GRID + 25 mm on 0.2 Polythene Membrane. Compressible cardboard to form void. 13. First Floor slab, 300 mm HOLLOWCORE + 80 mm Max Creed, SL82 for reinforcement. 14.RB 14, 200 x 75 PFC, secondary floor beam on bridge, 15. RB 15, 200 UB 25.4, secondary floor beam on bridge. 16. PU 2, C200 15 @200 CTS Max, 1 row bridging. 17. PU3, C150 50 @200 CTS Max, 1 row bridging.
PROJECT Western BACE Section Study
E.External Wall 18.Hollowcore formblock, 190 x 400 x 200, lift structural wall. 19. Solid block work, 190 x 400 x 90, external block veneer with weepholes. 20. 70 mm cavity, insulated with 50mm Polystyrene reflective foil board. 21. MC1 , metal cladding steel sheets, 294 face , 0.7 thickness. 22. 90 mm R4.5 Insulation panel underneath the metal cladding. 23. Steel perforated sun shade supported by RHS.
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F.Window and door. 24. Aluminium window frame, glazing 800 x 1700, 50 frame. G. Roof structure. 25. RA1 45x 90 MGP @1200 CTS Max. 26. Verisclad insulated roof decking, incling to the south 1.5 degrees.
ARCHITECT Six Degree Architects
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LOCATION 222 Ferris Rd, Melton South, Victoria, Australia 13
EXERCISE Axonometric Construction Section Drawing, Construction Section 1:20 Model
GOAL
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The main focus of this case study project if to learn about construction in details and reason about construction logic in a realistic case as well as construction materials, manufacturers and different trades.
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FFL 127.9
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1st step, is to gather information from drawings and the building itself and translate those information into a 3-dimensional manner, a Axonometric drawing. 18
2nd step is to physically model out the part of the building to learn how everything goes together in a building with hands.
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PI-MENGLI-ABPL30041-T13-AXO M
RECONSTRUCTION
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Sectional Model is made based on the axonometric drawing to understand the construction further
Sectional Model
Roof Structure
First Floor Hollow-core Slab Detail
Parapet Detail
Structural Connection
First Floor Sheer Plane Connection
Bridge Connection Detail
Footing Detail
Floor Slab Detail
Internal Lining
06 2 SECOND CITY
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The Manifesto in Collage and Text Portals Through Us
2 Seconds City Portal, Transformation, Individuality
2016
Group Work*
Tutor: Sabrina Morreale Valerio Massaro
A fundamental property of portals is transforming. Portals are the senses we use to perceive. Through these portals, things we perceived are transformed as parts of our unique selves. Things we do as who we are, also make effects on others through those portals of theirs, senses. GIF creates movements , that could potentially show continuous processes of going through the portals, where transformations happen.
PROJECT 2 Second City
GROUP AA Summer School 2016, Unit 5. Led by Sabrina Morreale & Valerio Massaro.
Information taken in by us is transformed, and transforms us as well, making each one of us unique. Unique in the way we do things, which transform the environment. Our senses, are our transforming portals. Ourselves, are the portals of the world, transforming it as time lapses.
* The whole unit did a final presentation as a group with every member’s work. The works shown on this page are individual work.
LOCATION Architecture Association, 36 Bedford Square, London, UK.
FUNCTION Showcase perceptions of the city of London in seconds via the medium of GIF
GOAL GIFs capture the very essence of London, also the very essence of our perceptions of London. The project proposed by Unit 5 is about showcasing a collective perception of London delivered through numbers of GIFs made by our unit, each one of which has a unique perspective, meanwhile, exploring the relationships between fragment and whole, what you see and what you think.
SCAN
07 SOUND FOREST 2015
Tutor:
Individual
Hella
08 HUMANITARIAN DESIGN SUMMIT
Franziska Wigge
2017
Field Study
Engineer without Borders
Photography: James Rafferty
PROJECT Productive Procrastination Installation- Sound Forest
LOCATION Cussonia Court, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia.
LOCATION Som Pompilia, Jasdan & Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India.
FACILITATOR ABPL Faculty, Engineer without Borders.
FUNCTION
GOAL
Auditory Interactive installation to accomplish productive procrastination
The objective of this field study is to spread design ideas that could potentially aid people’s daily life as seeds to the rural areas of India for the people to develop further after studying and researching on field about people’s livelihood, lifestyle, living conditions and issues they might be struggling with at length, as well as practising human-centred design in a hands-on manner and learn about sympathising and communicating with all the stakeholders and be mindful of all the information in the design process.
GOAL The installation was designed to encourage productive procrastination by providing users with such percussion instrument to play with, which refresh users mind and allow them to get back to work more productively.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Thank Hella Franziska Wigge Josh Batterham Russo Veronika Hamid Khalili Sabrina Morreale Valerio Massaro Jyoti Chaudhary Annie Howard Mittul Shah-Vahanvati James Rafferty Scott Daniel Lindy Hayter Benjamin Shields Huiseung Sarah Song Yan Jiao Jingyi Feng And many more Sincerely For your guidance, help and encouragement along my path :)
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