Boyu Li Architecture Portfolio

Architecture and Design Work Boyu Li

M. Arch | University of Maryland 2014-2017 Bachelor of Art in Design and Urban Studies | University of Minnesota 2009-2013

Table of Content: M. Arch Thesis: Handmade | Chinese village and crafts in Dakou Material/Assemble/Construction 1. Cluster Solar House 2. Glulam modular exercise 3. Art of Daylighting Resilient Urban Design 1. Frederick Growing Campus 2. The GrassRoot Thinking hands 1. Renaissance Music Hall Freehand drawings

Urbanism in China attracts many villagers pursing a better life in cities, leaving their village home with farmland and seniors. Tourism has become one of the popular methods to salvage these villages.

Nevertheless, the selling and purchasing artifacts from villages are a purely commercial activity that ignores the value of craft making as a process and skill. Treating craft as simple object that is created for commerce also loses the traditional Chinese living culture embedded. With rising attention to preserving traditional villages together with a focus on folkloric art, architecture can help to set up a space where different craft making can be demonstrated, learned and celebrated. A craft-focused cultural center can be a first step towards rejuvenating the villages. It can also elevate the significant of crafts as a type of intellectual property. This thesis will focus on how architecture itself treated as a craft can interpret the spirit of craftsmanship, encourage learning through hands and practice and eventually celebrate the authentic Yellow River basin village life and northern Chinese traditional architecture.

HANDMADE | CHINESE VILLAGE CULTURE AND CRAFTS

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HILL TOP: VERTICAL COURTYARD AGGREGATION RELATIVE ELEVATION: 48’-0” PROGRAM: VILLAGE CENTER, PUBLIC GATHERING SPACE

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Textile Studio

MIDDLE GROUND: SINGLE COURTYARD RELATIVE ELEVATION: 23’-0” ~ 32’-0” PROGRAM: STUDIOS

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BOTTOM OF HILL HORIZONTAL COURTYARD AGGREGATION Event Room

RELATIVE ELEVATION: 12’-0” PROGRAM: VISTOR CENTER, GALLERY AND EVENT SPACE

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Loom Room 1023 SF

Textile studio and village center

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Cuisine Gallery

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Agriculture Gallery 628 SF

Cooking Studio

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Vinegar Making Studio Bathroom Bathroom 181 SF

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Mudroom 231 SF

Market/Teahouse 1113 SF DN

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Vinegar, Food and Visitor Center

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Cluster house is a building construction system that uses prefabricated structures to build as an ensemble home A community cluster houses can start their home with a simple kit of parts made out of light gauge steel structure frame or panels. An essential cluster home has a highly compact core, that provides means of flows, services and organizations. Modular spaces can be later added as needed, such as living/ dining room, studio/bedroom/guest room on the chassis of the house using the same parts.

Family from a cluster home can enjoy the dynamism and flexibility of the house.

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Work at home Work /Live life style

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Potential for growing family In-law suite

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Resilient home

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Spring 2016, Arch 601 Prof. Garth Rockcastle and Mike Binder 9 Boyu Li and Pedro Camargo

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Main module level 2' - 6" Ground Level 0' - 0"

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PHOTOVOLTAIC PANELS

TOPSCAPE NYC DECK SYSTEM

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RADIANT FLOOR SYSTEM

WATER STORAGE

INTEGRATING TANK WITH DESIGN

Spring 2016, Arch 601 Prof. Garth Rockcastle and Mike Binder 11 Boyu Li and Pedro Camargo

GLULAM STRUCTURE EXERCISE

Fall 2016, Arch 600 Prof. James Tilghman 13

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This is a daylighting case study exercise. The chapel of St. Lawrence was designed by Finnish firm Avanto Architects, located in Vantaa, Finland. The 60 degree latitude and Eurasia N continent’s coastal zone give the building a unique site context and material restriction. The nature of illumination of the earth creates divergent summer and winter daylighting experiences, from sunrise to sunset.

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Section analysis Fall 2012, UMN, Prof. Mary Guzowski 15 Boyu Li, Jianing Song

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FREDERICK GROWING CAMPUS - AGRARIAN URBANISM ground, thresholds, and

urban facade Location: Frederick, MD

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This group project created a design for a vacant lot, currently under zone code “Public Business”, next to Frederick Municipal Airport in the East Frederick neighborhood. Through a series of GIS analyses, we concluded that the riverfront-airport area used to be for agriculture land use, but lacked urban fabric to connect to the existing Frederick downtown area. The design proposed fully utilizes the agricultural tradition and benefits of close proximity to major transit infrastructure. We created a new kind of urban space by working with greenhouse modules, water channels, rain gardens and community gardens. The anchor industry and food-related sites ultimately will be transformed to be a gourmet food market: an innovative new attraction of East Frederick.

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Spring 2015, Arch 407 Prof. Jana VanderGoot Boyu Li, Zara Naser and Haomin Yang

Transect Section

Market Hall

Threshold vista

The Chimney Effect Rain Collecting System

Warm air rises and escape through the roof vent

As the warm air escapes through the roof vents cooler air is drawn in through the side vents

225’ Urban Agriculture Modules

Basswood Linden

Paw Paw

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Blackwalnut

Elder Berry

Tilia americano

Asimina triloba

Sambucus canadensis

Juglans nigra

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Loading Lane

Urban Forest with edible Vegetation

Urban Agriculture Modules

Solar Thermal Tubes/ Trombe Wall for heating

Open Roof Over Open Frame 30x25x100

Glass Roof over Open Frame 30x25x100

Glass Greenhouse 30x25x100

Solid Wall 30x25x100

Longitudinal Section and urban facade Longitudinal Section with urban facade

102 ‘ Community Garden

300’ Market Hall

40’ Loading Lane

Transect Section

FREDERICK GROWING CAMPUS - AGRARIAN URBANISM Location: Frederick, MD

200’ Hydroponic Greenhouse Units

White Cedar

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Phase 3 Terrace Community Garden All the way to Monocacy River

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Renn Farm Commercial

50,000 sf Grocery Community Garden 40,000 sf bus stop

20,000 sf Retail

Market Hall 20,000 sf

Renn Farm Commercial

Urban Forest 83200 sf Renn Farm Commercial

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Urban Agriculture 180,000 sf

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Renn Farm

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Municipal Greenspace

Existing Knitting Industry

52’ campus Greenway

Southern Business

Scale: 1/64”=1’-0”

Spring 2015, Arch 407 Prof. Jana VanderGoot Boyu Li, Zara Naser and Haomin Yang

Massing and site strategies

The design focuses on linking the connection between the two communities through urban agriculture. The building acts as the beacon for the communities and is lifted by the berms that emerge from the landscape. The Grass Root means to appreciate the power of earth and land and therefore this proposal provides nourishment to the plants and a healthy lifestyle to the residences. Together, everyone grows their food and are able to harvest it to bring back into the building to be able to cook and serve the food. Therefore, the program needs were to educate residences about having a healthy lifestyle by using the urban farm to grow, harvest and cook locally. Ultimately this creates a sustainable food chain. Together the architecture and landscape are working together to stimulate a sustainable future farming environment.

THE GRASS ROOT - D.C. URBAN AGRICULTURE INITIATIVE Location: LeDroit Park, D.C.

VEGETABLES

BIOSWALE PLANTS

NATIVE TREES

The 1 acre farmland will produce: 10,642 lb/acre , It means 1457 people can be fed yearly.

COMMUNITY FARMING

COMMUNITY COMPOST

CISTERNS

GREEN WALL

RECLAIMED WOOD

SOLAR PANELS

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BIKE SHARE

NEW PROPOSED FARM

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Fall 2016, Arch 600 Prof. James Tilghman Boyu Li and Chris Reyes

1. Admins and offices 6. Cooking classroom 2. Storages 7. Staff lounge 8. Conference rooms 3. Bathrooms 9. Loading 4. Lobby 5. Community Kitchen 10. Mechanical room

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THE GRASS ROOT - D.C. URBAN AGRICULTURE INITIATIVE Location: LeDroit Park, D.C.

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Fall 2016, Arch 600 Prof. James Tilghman Boyu Li and Chris Reyes

18,080 kwh/yr can be produced through roof solar panel EUI: 42 kBut/yr

83,193 gallons harvested annually

FILTRATION

68%

storm water managed on site in a 2-year 24 hour event

17,500 gallons

rainwater harvested through cisterns beneath the berms

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Building System and constructure

of the floor area are well-lit through daylighting strategies.

THE GRASS ROOT - D.C. URBAN AGRICULTURE INITIATIVE Location: LeDroit Park, D.C.

Event Room Walls Section W30x132 Verendeel truss top cord 10" Polystyrene foam insulation 3" Corregated. roof deck GYP. ceiling panels C15x33.9 ceiling support Metal studs Rigid insulation Air/water vapor barrier 36"x 60" premade reclaim wood panels

Double glazing clear glazing

Wood louvers

36"x60" reclaim wood panels C 4x7.25 metal stud Stucco exterior coat Alucobond Alum. seal W 36 x135 tapered beam W36x135 Verendeel truss bottom cord Clerestory with clear double layer windows Drainage mat

Fall 2016, Arch 600 Prof. James Tilghman Boyu Li and Chris Reyes

RENAISSANCE SYMPHONY MUSIC HALL Location: general US city context

This individual design project is an exploration of classical architectural language and its influences on the quality of public spaces and architectural experience from outside to inside. The building is a combination of civic center and chamber music hall that fits in a trapezoidal site along a diagonal primary street with gridiron neighborhood streets. The faรงade and architectural elements are designed to echo classical Renaissance and Baroque architecture using a Corinthian column order.

The core of this design project is to craft the grand promenade sequence; that is, primary faรงade-lobby-auditorium.

Arch 406, Fall 2014 Prof. Steven Hurtt

Longitudinal section showing typ. interior bay and arrival sequence

Primary facade

RENAISSANCE SYMPHONY MUSIC HALL Location: general US city context

Typical interior bay elevation

Transect Section with Chamber music hall

Entrance Facade detail

First floor

Second(Piano noble) floor

Third and mezzanine flloor Arch 406, Fall 2014 Prof. Steven Hurtt

â&#x20AC;&#x153;As a consequence of the mental transfer from the actually of the drawing or the model to the material reality of the project, the images with which the designer advances are not mere visual renderings; they constitute a fully haptic and multi-sensory reality of imagination.â&#x20AC;?

-The Thinking Hand by Juhani Pallasmaa

THE THINKING HAND | ART&DESIGN WORK

Thank you!

Boyu Li boyu0920@gmail.com