Worksamples | Selected Works 2014-2017 Master of Science in Advanced Architectural Design Columbia University GSAPP
HONG LI Address: 138 W 109th Street, Apt 3e, New York, NY, 10025 | Phone: (347) 722-0993 | Email: leohong0822@gmail.com Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/hong-leo | Portfolio: issuu.com/hongli3 | Website: https://hl2992.wixsite.com/leone-hong
EDUCATION 06/2016 - 05/2017
Columbia University | New York, NY Master of Science in Advanced Architectural Design
09/2011 - 05/2016
South China University of Technology | Guangzhou, China Bachelor of Architecture | 2016 National Excellent Graduation Design
09/2012 - 07/2015
Politecnico di Torino (Dual degree program) | Turin, Italy Bachelor of Science in Architecture | EDISU Scholarship 2012-2015
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 09/2015-11/2015
Architecture and Design Institute of SCUT | Guangzhou, China | Intern Architect Competition, SUSTech Campus in Shenzhen, China; [concept development for master plan, technical drawings, physical model] Commission, Urban Planning Exhibition Center in Meizhou City, Guangdong Province, China; [premiliary research and premiliary concept development]
08/2015 - 09/2015
TANGE Associates | Shanghai, China | Intern Architect
Bidding project, Shanghai KWG Palace, Shanghai, China [Conducted on site surveys, joined coordination in material selection and review]
04/2015 - 06/2015
From ZeroUndici Design Studio | Turin, Italy | Intern Architect
Commission, OPOCRIN Headquarter, Corlo di Formigine, Italy [SD, DD for headquarter design, digital model, renderings, presentation sets and technical drawings]
07/2014 - 09/2014
Architecture and Design Institute of SCUT | Guangzhou, China | Intern Architect Competition, Jining Library, Jining, China [SD, DD for Jining Library, digital model, diagrams, presentation sets and technical drawings]
07/2013 - 09/2013
LWK&Partners Ltd. | Guangzhou, China | Intern Architect
Bidding project, Huishan Imperial Garden High-rise Residential, Wuxi, China [SD,DD for masterplan, typology of apartments, construction documentations and presentation sets]
ACADEMIC HONORS | EXPERIENCES 05/2016
National Graduation Design Exhibition | Guangzhou, China Biotech Island Urban Design, exhibited in Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts
2012 - 2015
EDISU Scholarship | Politecnico di Torino Scholarship of Academic Excellence
11/2014 - 01/2015
Publication: RE-POWERSTATION - Reuse of Augusta Power Station | Sicily, Italy Competition to reuse former power plant and design of industrial theme park
07/2014
Workshop: Urban Revival of Settimo Torinese | Tokyo University + Politecnico di Torino Urban design workshop of commercial-residential district in Settimo Torinese
05/2014
BAC Architecture Competition | Politecnico di Torino Semi-finalist: 3d printing workshop design for Politecnico di Torino
SKILLS 2D Graphic 3D Modelling Others
AutoCAD, Adobe Creative Suite, V-ray Sketch Up, Rhino, Grasshopper, Revit Ecotect, 3D Printing, CNC, Laser Cutter, Vacuum Forming, After effects, MS Office
Language
English(proficient) | Mandarin(native) | Cantonese(native) | Italian(starter)
- The Connection of the PARK Aven
HYBRID VALLEY
Rethink Midtown P.O.P.S & Coworking Space New York, NY | Columbia GSAPP | Summer 2016 Critic: Mohamad Ziad Jamaleddine | Partner: Yun Gong Type: Mix-used | GFA: 57,500 ft2
nue Boulevard & The Hybrid Valley -
The project experiments with the hybridization of working space and public spaces in Midtown Manhattan. Taking the Seagram building and Lever House on Park Avenue as the site, the project rethinks the P.O.P.S (Privately Owned Public Space) in Midtown Manhattan. The two buildings had once sacrificed their building area to create public spaces and pure tower in 1960s, which inspired the planning department in New York City to change the zoning code later to give FAR bonus to buildings that develop public spaces on the ground. However, in Manhattan, this created a generation of corporate buildings setting back from the street and declaring apartness.
The project proposed a horizontal building which finds way to merge the segregated interior scale and public scale and generate a more elastic space for the 21st century working environment. To achieved that, the designed 'bridge' has linked the P.O.P.S of two buildings and the Boulevard in the middle of Park Avenue to create a continuous public space. The well connected space featured both public spaces for informal working, social life, networking, events and flexible, lease-ontime working spaces under shared economic.The ambition is to create a hybrid and collecting space in Midtown to benefit the future development and attract young generations to the aged business area which was currently under rezoning.
AGING MIDTOWN CORPORATION BUILDINGS
CONNECTION OF P.O.P.S (PRIVATELY OWNED PUBLIC SPACE)
NEW URBAN COMPLEX FOR MIDTOWN MANHATTAN
URBAN STRATEGY
1.SACRIFICED BUILDING SPACES FOR THE BIRTH OF P.O.P.S
2.REUSE THE SACRIFICED BUILDING AREA FOR COLLECTIVE WORKING AND PUBLIC SPACES
3.EXTRA SPAN STEEL BEAM AS MAIN STRUCTURE
4.THE STRUCTURE HAS LEAD TO A BASIN SPACE WHICH IS MORE FLUID THAN SLABS
FORM & STRUCTURAL SOLUTION
HYBRID VALLEY
INDIVIDUAL
SHARED
SEAGRAM BUILDING
COLLECTIVE
TRANSFORMATION OF WORKING SPACES (OVERLAPPING THE PRIVATE AND PUBLIC)
- Network of P.O.P.S a
- An Elevated Park -
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- The Floating Concourse -
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1. AMPHITHEATER 2.AUDITORIUM 3. INFORMAL MEETING PLACE 4. FORMAL MEETING ROOMS 5. SANA & BATH 6. REST 7. LOCKERS 8. WORKING AREA 9. MULTIMEDIA ROOMS 10. READING AREA 11. LIBRARY 12. ELEVATOR 13.VIEW PLATFORMS
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FIRST FLOOR PLAN
- Collective Housing with C
INBETWEEN BOULEVARDS Housing as an Open Block
Paris, France | Columbia GSAPP | Spring 2017 Critic: Umberto Napolitano | Individual Work Type: Housing Project | GFA: 16000m2
Continuous Urban Space -
When the lines of boulevards and streets drawn by Haussmann cut into the medieval urban fabric in the 19th century Paris, they formed a modern city that is defined by streets and building facade. The wide boulevards has created a grand Paris, provided a model in which the continuous and uniformed facade established and defined the strong urban identity of the city, but on the other hand, it constitutes a true threshold between public and private space. The streets were seen as the "theater" and the courtyards being the "backstage".
Located in a residential neighbourhood between two boulevards, the plot is linear one with little interface with the street. Consider the fact that the plot has similar width with the boulevard and the former use of the plot was a public living space, the project tries to find a way to realize both the urban value and the housing units at the same time. To acheive this, the threshold between the streets and courtyards was loosed, created accessibility and urban value to the space inside to achieve a open block.
SITE MODEL
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TYPICAL FLOOR PLAN
LONGITUDE SECTION B-B
- The Modern Village -
- Open Block -
- Corner / Depth -
- A Library Evoking Loca
BOOKS OF ETIQUETTE Jining Library, China
Jining, China | First Institute of Design in SCUT | Summer 2014 Supervisor: Zhenhui Zhang | Type: Cultural Professional Work | Role: Schematic Design, Digital Modelling, Presentation Sets
al History and Culture -
Jining has several distinctive associations in Chinese history and culture, as in antiquity it was the birthplace and home of Confucius, along with many of his more famous disciples, including Mencius. Temples to a number of these philosophers still exist in various parts of the prefecture. In the ancient times, the etiquette of china was written by them in bamboo slips so that they could be recorded. The project then aims to evoke the history and culture of this city by architecture.
As one of the most important cultural facilities in the city, the library should carry on the cultural aspect of the city's history and represent it in a modern way. In the project, the design of the screen and facade was an integration of ecological and sustainable design and the etiquette written in the books. Through changing the angle of the louver in purpose, it creates different effects related to the architecture behind, which performs well in shading the strong sunlight, or providing views to the nature outside and emphasizing the characters and texture inherted in the culture of the city.
FLOOR PLAN +30.000
SECTION 1-1
FACADE DESIGN STRATEGY
ECOLOGICAL SCREEN SYSTEM
AXONOMETRIC VIEW / S
SPACIAL ORGANIZATION
- A New Reinterpretation
OPOCRIN HEADQUARTER
A Headquarter Reinterpreting the Industrial Past Corlo di Formigine, Italy | Bidding Project | Spring 2015 Supervisor: Fabio Giachello | Type: Office Professional Work | Role: Schematic Design, Design Development, Digital Modelling, Presentation Sets, Renderings
of the Industrial Facade -
Located in a suburban industrial site along the highway, the project responded to the request of the client - a pharmaceutical company OPOCRIN, to deliver an iconic, profession and high-tech image by a new headquarter of its own company. As the new headquarter stretchs from the existing research hub of the factory, the proposal includes two aspects: masking the existing building and establishing a new headquarter. Begin with the existing condition of the site, the new building choose a way to reinterpret the facade
of the industrial site and using the piping as an element of the envelop of the office. These elements act not only as piping that transfer and deliver power and industrial materials as functional needs, but also as lighting, sunsliding and railing on the facade of the building. The porject aims to reach a coherent situation between the new and the old but at the same time breakig the tradiction impression of an industrial site as a place of depression and manufactory.
PLOT AND MIAN CIRCULATION
PLAZAS AS BUFFER ZONES
A SMOOTH EXTENSION
OPEN SPACES AND CANOPY
PROJECT LOCATES AT THE GATEWAY OF THE SITE
L-SHAPE MASSING FOR THE HEADQUARTER
INCLINED FACADE ON THE SOUTH FOR SUN SHADING
EXTRACTING VOLUMES TO CREATE OUTDOOR SPACES
MASSING GENERATION PROCESS
SITE CONDITION: THE INDUSTRIAL FACADE
CURTAIN WALL DESIGN
AXONOMETRIC VIEW
GROUND FLOOR PLAN
FIRST FLOOR PLAN
SECOND FLOOR PLAN
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PERSPECTIVE SECTION SHOWING WORKING SPACES
THE FLOW Surface Screen Structure New York, NY | Columbia GSAPP | Fall 2016 Critic: Joseph Vidich | Group Work Type: Curtain Wall Design / Renovation The project focuses on the design and digital fabrication of sunscrenning system for the New Inc building neighbouring the New Museum. Unlike the adjacent building, which plays with the set-backs of volumes to respond to the neighbourhood buildings on Bowery, the design facade illustrate the concept of flow by creating a smooth wave along the flat street facade of the Bowery
to indicate the creative incubator spaces inside. The flow of the facade has also created different depths of the space between the original building and the designed screen, which correspond to the function of the spaces inside. Intermediate space was proposed to creat outdoor public spaces for people to share and communicate ideas.
Concept_Flows in the section
- A New Dress -
SINGLE PANEL AND UNIT ASSEMBLING STUDY
FACADE ANALYSIS - PANEL SIZES
FACADE ANALYSIS - SUPPORTING JOINTS
ELEVATION
SECTION
PLAN
DAYLIGHT PERFORMANCE
ORTHOGRAPHIC DRAWING
FINAL MODEL OF UNIT (1:2 SCALE)
INTERIOR ILLUSTRATION
BIOTECH ISLAND URBAN DESIGN Guangzhou, CHINA | South China University of Technology | Spring 2016 Supervisor: Yimin Sun | Group Work (Masterplan) Individual (Mix-used Office Complex)
Guanzhou island locates at the southeast of the central Haizhu district of Guangzhou, China. It has a total area of 1.8 square kilometers. The habitant history of the island dated back to Ming and Qing Dynasty. The directives from the central government has arrived in 1999. Guangzhou Municipal Government announced plans to develop Guanzhou into Guangzhou International Biology Island, in order to meet the need of biological tecnology development. The main infastructure on the island have finished by 2015, though, not as many biotechnology company arrives as expected. The greedy ambition to build an exclusive biotech island fearlessly to attract international money is failed.
Our proposal argues that the island belongs to the people in the city. Given the irrevesable of the urbanised status quo, the vision purposes a liveable island, hosting 20,000 hightech employees, 400 local villages, and occational visitors at weekends. The purposed hybrid programmes with civic commons is aimed at balancing the uneven population distribution on the island in terms of time and space. My own project locates at the entrance of the island near the Metro station, the tunnel connected to the city and one of the habors on the island. The main purpose of the project is to deal with the differences in levels and connected the transportation joints with the Mix-used Complex.
MASTER PLAN
PLOT :RIVERFRONT COMMERCIAL AND OFFICE COMPLEX
GROUND FLOOR PLAN OF SHOPPING CENTER
ENTRANCE OF THE OFFICE TOWER
SECTION
ELEVATION
TECHNICAL DETAIL OF CURTAIN WALL
X INFORMATION MODELLING Massing Optimization New York, NY | Columbia GSAPP | Fall 2016 Critic: Lucien B Wilson | Partner: Haochen Yang, Ruoqi Fan
The project uses generic algorithm to produce massing variations of a high-rise residential neighborhood for performance evaluation, results filtering and massing optimization under certain decided criterias and benchmarks. We choose a site of existing social housing that occupy 6 blocks in Queens, NY and try to use the algorithm to test other design scenarios which would perform better in street daylight hours, river views of the
buildings and general cost. Through evaluating thousands of results generated, we filtered the scenarios and use the best performing scenarios to make design decisions for the architectural design. The courses was structured under KPF Urban Interface Studio, who uses urban data analytics for informed decision making in the design of buildings and cities for people.
Design Objectives and Scenario
Massing Variation Criterias
Filtering and Simplifying Algorithm
Massing Variation Iterations
Apply Evaluation Criterias
Best Performances of Iterations
Grasshopper Algorithm
Summuary of Best Performance Results
Trends Digram of Best Performance