TONG LI INTERIOR DESIGN PORTFOLIO SELECTED WORK FROM 2012-2015
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Fall 2013
store, classroom and some rental studios for public
building and have the ramp carved in to create a circulation for gallary and for people to get through be another gallary for large art works with sky
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RENTAL STUDIO
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GALLERY
STORAGE
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EQUIPMENT RENTAL
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BACK YARD
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PRIVATE STUDIO
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Circulation The circulation of this floating box is an carved out ramp, which wrap around the box. This ramp will be painted white to contrast with the black exterior of the box. The color contract would help visitors find their way into the floating space. At night time, LED panel light will evenly light up the ramp, which could also become a way finding tool for people to use without reading any directions or signs. While walking on the ramp, visitors could also enjoy the gallery space along the ramp. ENTRANCE
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Material Inspirations The interior of this flowing space is studio space for public rental and privately use . Clean white space could be easily used for photographers to shoot basically any thing. Space could be divide to many small studio space because the track lighting system is all over the space. There are also natural lighting comes in during certain time of the day. Glass was also use at the side of the studio, where people can not accupy because of the passageway is below or above. These space became storage or display space for more photographers to use.
White painted floor, wall and ceiling
White track lights
Clear Glass
Material Inspirations The material choice for this project was simply based on the flowing cube concept. The concrete wall is for the gallery space to display large work. The black painted wall is the shell of the flowing photographic studio. The color and material of this flowing space made itself heavy and yet it’s flowing. The long continuous passageway, which goes up to the top floor of this flowing space used a contract color of black. The contracted color would easily direct people to find their way to the top floors. The paneled light would goes along with the passageway and light it up evenly during night time.
Concrete wall
Black painted wall
Frosted Glass
LED Panel lighting Spot lighting
PROJECTS
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Spring 2014
My design is to create private spaces in public spaces, which helps passengers to focus on their personal activities such as reading and working. Dividing spaces into smaller parts without isolating them creates a sense of privacy in public transportation. Large spaces like the ferry have individual work and relaxing views to the whole interior of the ferry and exterior of the ferry.
The purpose of this design is to help people, who travels from their home to work , to save their time on the ferry. The space that I designed could provide them with a better working environment, so that they could have more confertable space to work and not wasting time while they commute.
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Ferry Section
Large Group Seatings: 8-12 People
Conference Room
Out Door Resting Area
Large Group Resting Area Small Group Seatings: 2-4 People
Small Working Area
Small Resting Area
Circulation
Bar
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Third Floor Plan
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Material Inspirations
The materials of this project are mostly environment-friendly. The interior concept of this project is to make a habitable working environment for people who lives in the city and lack of in this space would pull people close to nature. Indoor garden would provide fresh air. Glass cylinder wall keeps people connected with the whole environment and the outside of the ferry daylight into the ferry, so that small LED spot light would be enough for ferry. Do to the high usage of the furniture in SF ferry, the material of these furniture should be easy to clean and furniture should be nature color that could integrate with the interior concept.
Environment-friendly Fabric
Indoor garden wall
f nature experience. The use of material y. Glass wall could also provide maximin recyclable materials. The color of these
Ceiling LED spot light
Cylinder glass wall
PROJECTS
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Hillscape
Group Project Fall 2014
To enhance the working environment, modern design of workspace is breaking away from the traditional cubicles and uorescent lighting to a more open, exible and natural lighting environment. Modern design of workspaces usually would incorporate many plants to mimic nature. However, the experiences with those plants are still not as pleasant as the exterior parks and gardens. This makes people still want to escape the space and go outside to enjoy the sunlight and nature.Taking in this problem, our team focused on not just bring the natural light and plants inside the workspace, but to bring the experiences that people have in the nature into this space for them to enjoy working in this environment. We brought an exterior garden into the center of the space as a resting area for everyone share and enjoy. The open ceiling of this garden will truly makes people experience the nature. Working area is surrounding the garden, so that people who are tired of working could have the quick access into the nature.
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1. Reception 2. Lunch room 3. Coat Storage 4. Restroom 5. Printing room 6. Guest meeting room 7. Collaboration Spaces 8. Human Resources 9. Marketing/Creative 10. IT 11. Finance 12. Customer Service/Sales/Membership 13. Administrative 14. Conference Room
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Ceiling plan LED panels
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Implant lights LED wall light
Private Meeting spaces
Concept Development We introduced a new way of dividing the space of an open office and at the same time mimicking the experiences of an exterior environment. This idea came from the topography of the hill, which use different level of the floor to divide the purpose of the space. This also resolved the problem of privacy. Higher level have more privacy because it is hard for lower level to see the action on a higher level, therefore, we put conference room on high levels. Lower level is easy to see by everyone, therefore, it is a perfect space for workspace, lunch room, collaboration and resting area. Like the mountain road, there is a middle level connects and give easy access every level in the workspace. These levels could also provide a good vision of the space and an easy way to communicate with people across the room.
Material Inspirations The material concept of this project should mimic the nature. Stone textured floor with wood ceiling are good samples of this idea. LED panel brings out event light to the interior .Concrete walls are used on two side of the space to give a sense of enclosure, while the front and back are glass walls.
Glass wall
Wood ceiling, Concrete wall, Textured stone floor
LED Panel Light
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Spring 2015 The purose of this education building is to integrate the public inton the google campus, and allow the google campu oďŹƒces. My project uses the educational building as a threshold to engage the green loop, the main circulation loop in c ees. Library and computer labs are also provided for people to use. There will also be two large technology lab, wh gallery that is free access for the public
us to give back to the community. The site of my project is in the charleston south, which mostly used for google ampus, with the google oďŹƒces. This shared building provides classes and workshops for the public and google employhich is for google employees to use and create their own technology inventions. Their inventions will display in the
By crossing the smaller building that located right next to the green loop, into a more private building that is next to the google office, which creates a threshold between the public and the google. The crossing point will become a main circulation in the building. Other smaller circulation will spread out from this crossing point and help people to find their destination.
EDUCATION CENTER
GOOGLE TECH CENTER
GOOGLE EDUCATION CENTER
Circulation Diagram BACK CIRCULATION FRONT CIRCULATION MAIN ENTRANCE
PUBLIC EDUCATION
LOBBY
TEMPORARY BUNGEE CORD SEATINGS/TABLES
The structure and design of the building came from my research of a flower pod called, Banksia. This pod has a very unique and strong structure which shaped much like a sea shell and only opens by exposure of fire. The pod stacked itself with many other pods within a limited space. The motion of opening and closing of this pod creates a secondary space in between each other. This flexible space will appear and connect two space together to create a bigger space during busy hours. The space expands offering this flexibility, when the ceiling is coming down. It will pull down the bungee cords that is connecting to the floor above.
These temporary furniture comes from my research of earthquake signal, P waves, S waves, and Surface waves. During the normal time earth is a grid and when the earthquake happens, this grid will respond to the external force and shaped itself along the shake. I used bungee cords to create grid in between the oor and the ceiling. A secondary support will act like the earthquake to shape those bungee cords. Track system, which inbuilted in the structure, will slide metal bars to operate the bungee cords to become a bench and table for temporary use. The tensions and elastic force of the bungee cords will provide a soft seating and hard surface to satisfy the needs of comfort.
White Bungee Cords
BUNGEE CORD SEATING
BUNGEE CORD STANDING TABLE
Stainless Steel Bar
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GALLERY
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LIBRARY
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RESTING/MEETING AREA
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INTERACTION CENTER
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LED Panel Light
Glass Wall
Wood Panel Ceiling and Floor
White Sunblind
Material Inspirations The ceiling material and floor in my project, which is inspired by the pod, Banksia. Therefore, same material is used in the floor and ceiling. Glass wall with no door gives the space a fresh air and open view, since the building is inside of another shell structure. LED light panel will become part of the ceiling panel a cross the room.
FURNITURE
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Crystal
Spring 2014
This clear acrylic table is inspired by three way notching system, where one modul could aggregate infinitely by itself and create space. The purpose of this design is to create a table that could easily be install and aggregate into a large table or a table that have multi-table tops with different hight. This could make a table more useful and can expend not only horizontally but also vertically. I modified the notch to four ways, so it could create a flat surface for table top and extrude the last layer of the notch to create elegant table legs.
Three way notching
Four way notching
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Pencil drawings of human figure (2007) Pencil drawings of human hand (2007)
Charcoal drawings of human figure (2009) Oil painting of still life (2010)
Atmosphere Study (2012) Material Study - Wire (2012)
Visual Media - Wood and grasshopper (2013)
Material Study - Concrete (2013)
Visual Media - Grasshopper (2014) Visual Media - Egg Holder (2014)
Material Study - Ceramic (2015)
Tong Li
tli3@cca.edu 510.364.3251
INTERIOR/DESIGN/GRAPHIC
33520 5th Union City 94587
Education California College Of The Arts [CCA]
September 2012 - May 2015 Bachelor of Fine Arts [BFA] San Francisco, CA
De Anza College
September 2008 - September 2012 Cupertino, CA General Education
Work Experiences/exhibition Michael Friedes Design Associate
September 2015 - December 2015 Interior Design Intern Organization and maintenance of the material library. Assembly and organization of project binders. Graphic layouts in InDesign of firm booklet. Mail and Returning material samples. Researching products. Site Measurement. Cad drafting.
Manna Sun Events
Augest 2015 - Present Graphic Designer Wedding Stationary Design Wedding Design Hayward, CA
Best of Show Spring 2014 May 2014 CCA Interior Design Program
The Young Designer’s Show 2013 October 2013 CCA Interior Design Program Features Museum Craft and Design
Sanrio
December 2009 - August 2012 Sales Associate Cashier, Storage Organization,Schedules, Inventory And Catalog Orders. Newark, CA
Creativity Responsibility Punctuality Communication Cooperation Productivity AutoCAD Illustrator Photoshop Indesign SketchUp Revit Rhino 3Ds Max Microsoft Office Mac Interfaces Windows Interfaces English Chinese
Fabrication Experiences Model Making Metal Working Wood Working Concrete Making
Laser Cutting CNC Milling 3D Printing
Interests/Other Skills
Music
Nature
Driving
Movie
Food
Oil Painting
America Cancer Society Discovery Shop June 2007 - June 2008 Volunteer Organizing cloth to display and ironing cloth Fremont, CA
Tong Li Cicili628@gmail.com Cell: 510-364-3251