Portfolio_Changxin Li_2022

CHANGXIN LI

SELECTED WORK 2020-2022

CHANGXIN LI

Bachelor of Architecture

Interior Design Minor Pratt Institute clix14@pratt.edu changxinli588@outlook.com +1) 407-288-5173

2022 Spring

Individual School Project

Advanced Design Studio III

Competition Entry

ACSA 2022 Human Habitat Competition

Instructor: Dagmar Richter

The car industry started collapsing gradually after the mid-20th century Detroit due to the fuel crisis. What happened after, the racial crisis and increasing housing loans forced people to leave their houses and the city. From 2010 to 2020, Detroit lost 10.5% of the population, and a finding released by The Blight Removal Task Force in 2014 showed 84641 properties were blighted or vacant. Hence, I aim to design a new community that consists of residential clusters and supporting facilities including schools, farms, and service centers for people to come back and re-settle down in Detroit.

The site is located three blocks adjacent to the Andrew Jackson Intermediate High School, where only around 10% of lands are currently in use. The school was closed in 2007 and has the potential to be re-opened and served this new community in the future.

In Detroit, same as the existing houses on the site, the housing type Detroit bungalow is still in use. Detroit bungalows share a common geometry: a triangular roof attaches to a rectangular house. Compared with the independence of the Detroit bungalows, my new houses are designed for making people re-involve in the community by introducing shared public roof gardens and semi-public terraces with neighbors. The volume inside of the house, which varies in size, not only allows people to wander in and out of houses, but also provides living space for local species.

The four-bedroom unit(1389.2 sq. ft) has four bedrooms, two full bathrooms, a kitchen and dining area, a lounge, and storage.

The two-bedroom unit( 960 sq. ft) has two bedrooms, a full bathroom, a half bathroom, a kitchen and dining area, a lounge, and storage.

The house is designed to be able to 3D print in concrete, and this technique has the potential to print a town within a short amount of time by designing the printer’s set-up sequence.

CONSTRUCTION SEQUENCE

PLA PRINTING SIMULATION

2020 Spring Individual School Project Intermediate Design Studio II

Instructor: Rychiee Espinosa

Renovation project for Japan Society in New York.

*Japanese Lantern

MASSING STUDIES : SUNLIGHT ORIENTED VERTEXT SHIFTING

The additive structure of Japan Soceity is surrounding by skyscrapers, the massing transformation is aiming to gain sunlight for the new constructed building by shifting the vertex of rectangular additive structure.

DARK AND LIGHT PROGRAM DISTRIBUTION SEQUENCE

inspired by the enclosed structure of Yokohama International Terminal and combined it with “stacking” strategy, the space for dark program of the new building, including movie theaters and filming studios are eventurally created. The rest of the space will be the light programs including receptions, galleries, and public gathering spaces.

Structures of Yokohama International Terminal

*physical site model was made by whole class, I was in the “final assembly” group.

The 6th Floor Multifunctional Public Space

The 5th Floor Multifunctional Public Space

without moveable panel Movie Watiting room with moveable panel Discussion Room

The double facade system consist of a outter fabric mesh layer and a inner glass panel layer. The fabric mesh can prevent the glass from overheat during the summer by enhancing the air flow between two layers

Double Facade System

The 6th Floor City View

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INTERTWINE GARDEN

2020 Fall

GROUP School Project: Comprehensive Design

Instructor : Thomas Hanrahan

Group Member: Shuqin Chen

3D

I

Role: Site research, Concept develop, 3D Modeling, Drew diagrams, explode circulations, elevations, sections, and detail sections.

This is a multi-generational housing project that creates a form of communal living where people of different generations live in the same unit to take care of one another.

*This drawing rendered by Shuqin Chen,

model created by Changxin Li (applicant).

PRECEDENT STUDY

UNIT DESIGN individual studies

Base on the site study, we are able to list out all the possibilities of occupents and their required room. Then, we finalized them to three most common unit type: 1B1B, 2B1B, and 3B2B.

HALEN ESTATE MORIYAMA HOUSE

SITE POLULATION ANALYSIS

Inspired by the precedent study, the Halen Estate and Moriyama House, each units have their own garden and livingroom created by shifting and re-arrange the required program.

*Unit design drawings are produced by team member Shuqin Chen

*Site Population Research Diagram, Changxin Li(applicant)

*Explode Circulation Diagram Changxin Li(applicant)

*Floor Plan, Shuqin Chen

*Site Plan, Changxin Li(applicant)

Solid wall: private programs

Metal frame public programs

This residential bulding has two layers of facade system: inner facade for the interior unit box, and the outer metal frame for the exterior gardens. Rain water can be collected from each outdoor garden, treated in the basement, and pumped back for irrigation.

*Section and Detail Section, Changxin Li(applicant)

2021 Spring

GROUP School Project: Comprehensive Design II

Instructor : Thomas Hanrahan

Group Member: Shuqin Chen

Role: Site research, Concept develop, Collage, 3D Modeling, Drew Diagrams, elevations, sections, and detail sections.

FLOATING WONDERLAND

This is a community center design project that is intended to adpat to the flooding issue in Rockaway, Queens, Newyork.

DEVELOP

Current site situation : frequently flood in rainy season

PROGRAM MAPPING DEVELOPMENT

The magnets are seen as programs and strings are path. The movement of magnent and string form a dynamic floorplans that can be changed and adapt to the environmental issue occuring on site, including flood issue, acoustic issue, and sunlight harvestment.

*Floor Plans, Shuqin Chen

*Program Mapping and Concep Develop Digrams and Model Documentation, Changxin Li (applicant)

*Current Condition Analysis Diagram Changxin Li (applicant)

DRY CONDITION FLOOD CONDITION

*Axon Two Conditions Drawing, by Changxin Li (applicant)

The construction detail of roof and facade

MARKET , COOKING STUDIO, CLASSROOM

MARKET POOL AND BRIDGE

CLASSROOM

*Section Drawing I, by Changxin Li (applicant)

*Renders created by Shuqin Chen

Gravity Fall

2021 Summer Individual School Project

Advanced Design Studio I

Instructor: Enjeong Seong

This is a multi-funtional building design for the Jackson Pollock - Karsner House and study center.

JACKSON POLLOCK

PAINTING ANALYSIS

Learned the relationship between gravities, speed, and performance of paints through reproducing Jackson Pollock’s panting

Isolated paint from the original painting to find out the correlation between strokes and gravaties.

MATERIAL TRANSLATION PLASTIC WAX + GRAVITY

Translated 2D painting to 3D spacial condition by melting plastic wrap with melting wax.

3D MODEL SIMULATION SECTION STUDY

A NEW home

This is a interior design project located inside a transfer hisgh school, Forsyth Satellite Academy, in NYC. The design for the Forsyth library, “New Home”, is dedicated to providing the Forsyth students a comfortable feeling of being at home, something they expressed interest in having in their school environment.

2022 Fall Individual School Project: Interior Design Studio V Instructor: Keena Suh

PROGRAM DESIGN

The new library programs fulfill students’ needs for a gathering space, a personal space for themselves, and a space to eat, something that the library currently provides that the student appreciate. *Survey feedback from Forsyth Student *Student’s activities in the library *Activities to Programms diagram

ACTIVE CORNER

MODULE DESIGN : APPLICATIONS

Three different scales of the design create different experiences and scenarios for the library: the smaller modular tiles can be used as tiles for privacy screens, the mediumsized modules can be assembled to be bookshelf partitions, and the large-scale elements module create built-in niches that are inspired by the sheltered, “cavelike”conditions that the students desire.

SMALL AS TILES 3D PRINTABLE BY STUDENTS MEDIUM AS PARTITION

LARGE AS CAVE

MODULE DEVELOPMENT PROCESS

POTENTIALS IN EDUCATION

The process of tiles making is where students can learn, feel engaged, and express their creativity. They are able to learn how to print a tile prototype by using a 3D printer, then they can use bio-material, customized by students, to cast many of the recyclable tiles. The ingredient of bio-material is easily accessible and environmentally friendly.

UN-ROLL PAPER MODEL FOR WORK SHOP

UNROLL PAPER MODEL TEST

PREVIOUS APPLICATION OF HEXAGONAL PATTERN

WORKSHOP WITH STUDENTS

TUBE VAULT

2022 Spring

GROUP School Project: Automatic Ornament

Instructor

Group Member: Shihua Chang, Shuqin Chen

Role: Design develop, Physical model making, Clay printing, Clay extruder control, Photograph

In this project, me and my team partner design a tubevault that aim to be assembled without using motar. The tubes can be 3D-printed by using clay extruder.

: Johnathan Scelsa

TUBES ASSEMBLY

OTHER WORKS II: Hiiiigh Rise!

BOARD GAME DESIGN

The game is called “Hiiiigh Rise!”. I am interested in the idea of letting people build something unexpectedly with their hands while playing a game. I hope players will be able to amaze by the outcome, which is the little skyscraper model they made. Nowadays, a lot of forms of buildings are developed from block stacking, since I want to make this process a part of the game and let potential players, of all ages, know it is not hard to be a designer of a building.

2022 Fall Individual School Project: Game/ Simulation/ Performance

Instructor: Holly Adams