Sihan Li Selected Work Before 2020
WORK SAMPLE PINK TEARS PERIOD: 07/2017-9/2017 INTERNSHIP: Plan, section. facade drawing EMPLOYER: Mintwow, Shanghai
HOTEL PROJECT PERIOD: 2/2020-3/2020, PROJECT ARCHITECT: Zoning set drawings including facade, utility plans, typical plans. EMPLOYER: MVMK Architecture
RESIDENTIAL PROJECT PERIOD: 3/2020,
PROJECT ARCHITECT: Zoning set drawings including facade, utility plans, typical plans. EMPLOYER: MVMK Architecture
RENDERING PROJECTS
PERIOD: 11/2019-4/2020, PROJECT ARCHITECT: Interior and exterior renderings EMPLOYER: MVMK Architecture
S U B - T H E AT R E Lincoln TYPE:
9/2018-12/2018,
Theatre
/
Fall
LOCATION:
Semester, Subway
GSAPP Line
1
/
ADVISOR:
Lincoln
Sqaure
Supplement
Marc Station
Tsurumaki /
TOTAL
/
INDIVIDUAL
AREA:
800
WORK
Square
/
The Juilliard School
Meter
Location+Function Decision The centers of those white rectangles lie in the locations of theatres. These geometries are of 1x, 2x,4x,8x times of a regular New York block size according to the scale of theatres are overlapped together. From the left diagram, it can tell that Lincoln Center area is the most popular place since many large-scale theatres and shows locate there, which is the brightest part. But the most lively place can be the most deserted place at some time. It’s like when a bottle with high capacity is empty, it occupies more empy space than regular ones. In the right picture, the popular Lincoln center turns to be a black hole.
Subway Line 1
PERIOD:
Center’s
Lincoln Center
24hours movie theatre Advertisement
100%
100% Population
Time
Rehearsal/Stage 1
100%
Rehearsal/Stage 3
100% Land Estimate Occupation Low season High season
Rehearsal/Stage 2
Over-investment Unused Resource
Size+Occaupation Decision If the resource occupation of a show/theatre is evaluated in four dimensions: advertisement, time, population and land, by 100%, then it can easily tell from the data that some resource is unused yet some investment are overpaid. The intersection set is the part being occupied in both low and high season, while the difference set is the fluctuating part can be made good use of. For example, when a famous show, King Lear, is on, many individual shows or student rehearsals related to it can also be advertised by the propaganda of king lear. As a result, this project decided to make a small theatre together with the subway as a supplement of Lincoln Center Square area.
3-6AM 6-9AM 9-12AM 12-3PM 3-6PM 6-9PM 9-12PM 0-3AM MON. TUE. WED. THU. FRI. SAT. SUN. Time Schedule Decision The popularity of the theatres and subway station in the context at various time in a day are overlapped (left pic.). Same as the former two decisions, the overlapped schedule is converted into a “complementary schedule” and reaches our several functions according to the complementary requirements of the time and the function of the context. Then both the time using schedule and the functions of this project and its context will be combined tightly.
Sub-Theater
Space/Connection Decision As for space efficiency, I would define that different parts of spaces would be combined well with each other and intersect cohesively. My project has three parts they derived from how I consider the character of three types or directions of spaces and time using.
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For this first part is designed for the existing subway station, I would call it “X”, since the requirement of it is to let people move through fast and fluently. Just like walking through X direction into a bar. Space of X should be stream like and time-saving. Subway is a kind of X space since the efficiency is to moving fast. Y is the second part, that is aimed at organizing people wondering inside the building slowly and orderly. This is also a part fluently change moving direction from horizontal to vertical. Section Height Line 3300mm
Lincoln Center’s Supplement
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By walking through Y axis, spaces are wider and also more time-consuming. The shopping arcade is a kind of Y. The efficiency of it is to move slowly and enjoy the time and space inside it. So when people are moving vertically, I will call it Z. It let visitors move fast from ground floor to roof. Z-axis is a vertical part. People move fast onto a level and stay there slowly. If the three part of different characters could combine together well, they should be designed to interlock perfectly, just like the bar prototype divided into X Y Z. Then people would use the three directions according to the time-consuming preferences. So my consideration of efficient is to think about space dimension interlocking and inference to time-consuming efficient. Then let them cooperate with each other well. In a word, this kind of efficiency is to use a customized space as much or less time as you want.
+ Section Height Line
3300mm
Section Height Line
2400mm
600mm
3300mm
3300mm
2400mm 1800mm+
6000mm
6000mm+
1800mm+
5000mm
5000mm
HumanBehaviors CheckIn Distance/Length 5 meters Duration 30 seconds
Section1
Room Width Line
5000mm
Section2
5000mm
Walk 40 meters 45 seconds
X
Room Width Line
Room Width Line Exit 5 meters 30 seconds
Get in 7 meters 40 seconds
Section1
Section2
Elevate 20 meters 20 seconds
Z
Get off 7 meters 40 seconds
Wonder 20 meters 300 seconds
Section1
Plan
Plan
Plan
Phase 1
Phase 2
Phase 3
Section2
Stay 5 meters 20 seconds
Y
Wonder 20 meters 300 seconds
1
2 7m level plan
2’
10m level plan
1’
13m level plan
16m level plan
Ground level plan
Geometry Explorations
Extract main factors
Roof
Cube+Axis
Layer+Axis
Negative Dome+Layer
Positive Dome+Layer
Second floor retail units
Floor layer
Ground floor retail units
Option 1
Option 2
Option 3
Option 4
The four types prototypes discussed about inside and outside, seller and buyer’s position, and the role of the walls/cargoes to divide space. According to applicability and appearance, option 3 has been chosen.
Parallel from Down to Up There are several types of units inside the market, which of various window size and position. 1. Skylight: Some windows stretch from floor to ceiling, let skylight shine in. So this form might be suit to fresh vegetables and fruits. 2. Structural: Some windows open widely, let people stream flows naturally. So this form might adapt to notion stores. 3. Vertical: The vertical ones, with only one opening, vertically cutting the concrete shell, is more delicate and private, so might be small cafeterias or clubs. 4. Half: The last type makes lights well-distributed form circle windows. So this type might be used as restaurants and exhibitions.
Second Floor Inside Perspective
These four types of shop units can also be presented in first floor. From down to up, this picture showed how the dorms like, of both ground and second floor.
Perspective Along Huanggang Road (North to the site) People, plant materials and background are from website and site photos taken in Apr. 2016. (Taipei 101 tower is imagined as a background. ) Lanterns in the middle are for a local marine goddess in Taiwan, called “Mazu�. Skylight
Structural
Vertical
Half
RUST COHLE’S HOUSE A A
PERIOD:
Protagonist 2/2012-2/2012,
Spring
Semester,
Pivit And
GSAPP
/
The ADVISOR:
Jing
of Outside
Liu，Kevin
Lamyuktseung
INDIVIDUAL WORK/ TYPE: HOUSE / LOCATION: Forests in Coldspring, New York / TOTAL AREA: 55 Square meter Gardener
Patrik Geddes pointed out that nature is the motor force of human development. He specified seven kinds of natural conditions while human use seven kinds of tools to accommodate themselves to the surroundings.Models on the right are how I understand this precedent.
Woodman
Miner
I would assume what nature affects on human performed as humans’ beingness. People will sit under the tree’s crown if it provides shades. People will climb onto the tree if it grows fruits. Meanwhile, what reacts human give to by their own-made tools is doingness. People use the axe to chop. People light a torch for charcoal. In modern life, the doingness has completely taken over the beingness and filled up the architectural spaces we have come to make and occupy. In this project, on a site where there is a lake, a hill, woods, and rocks, a place informed by unique natural elements. Architecture becomes a laboratory of the precarious balance between beingness and doingness.
Rust Cohle from the film True Detective is the protagonist. Rust Cohle says “I think human consciousness was a tragic misstep in evolution, we became too self-aware. Nature created an aspect of nature separate from itself. We are creatures that should not exist by natural law”. What kind of (architectural) vessel that enfold him is what the project is trying to consider. He might need only one mattress in a room, one mirror to peek himself. He doesn’t mind to go out into the woods in the cold for a shower. Thus, the existential cabin or cabins (such as Heidegger’s hut in the Black Forest) purged as much the functional furniture as possible to the outside to expel doingness, while the cabins themselves are phenomenologically hiding their beingness (through suspension, vernacular, embeddedness, or footloose).
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1686
3000 320 1000
518 0
110
22.6M
637
417
12%
22.5M
1’
427
1
12%
16.5M
Cube 1-Suspension 1-1’ Section
15.9M
Cube 1-Suspension Plan
3600
2
2’ 0.2M
2411
0.7M
1409
1415
0.2M
Cube 3-Embeddedness 2-2’ Section
0.0M
Cube 3-Embeddedness Plan
Cube 2-Vernacular Section Model
Cube 3-Embeddedness Section Model
ISOLATED UNITY COMPETITION PROJECT PERIOD: 05/2020
TEAM WORK WITH ZHENG YIN
During the Covid-19 Pandemic, our daily life is highly limited within our home, which can be roughly considered as a small scale space with daily supplements and the internet. Rather than a quite empty urban space, however, living in a full-occupied home with virtual techniques for us seems to be a better satisfaction. Then the question arises to architects: what is the essential need and the variant approaches of our living and working space? So we propose a modular home working prototype with three components: a set of working surfaces as content, a full-room screen wall as a curtain, and a supply system as a structure. The working surfaces are set at different levels to meet the basic posture: sitting. We stripped the complexity of furniture design down to meet different sitting postures. On one plane, people can sit to rest. On two planes, people can sit to work. With three planes, people can sit to play. One of the other components, the wall with full screen, is supposed to provide virtual space and experience, maximizing the connection between people under the separation of the physical world. As the screens are visually blurred with other rooms in the isometric drawing, the virtual life is also merged with reality for the residents. Lastly, hidden by the screen walls, all the mechanical, high-density building supply and support systems are embedded to content the material needs. Ideally the three elements can meet all the basic requirements and make up the loss of our disconnection to the physical urban life. If this system develops to be boundaryless, the possibility comes to the reality that people don’t need physical contact anymore, let alone public space. Thus, the meaning of a “city” needs to be redefined.
AGRI-CEMETERY
*
Brooklyn
Green
Cemetery
Design
PERIOD: 6/2018-7/2018, Summer Semester, GSAPP / ADVISOR: Karla Rothstein / GROUP WORK, with Yingjun Mou / TYPE: Cemetery&City-farm / LOCATION: 500 25th Street, Brooklyn, New York / TOTAL AREA: 1.8 Square kilometer
*This project creates a new agricultural ecosystem in dialogue with Green-Wood Cemetery. With swelling populations, many cities are running out of space for conventional cemeteries. Simultaneously, the growing middle class increasingly desires fresh and local agricultural products. To address these two problems, we propose to renovate Green-Wood cemetery in Brooklyn, to become an “agri-metery,” integrating the memorial functions of the cemetery with the capabilities of producing various agricultural products, including flowers, fruits, and dairy. Promession will be used to achieve the conversion from corpse to fertilizers. An inverted wall/clearing + shed system is employed as the basic tectonic strategy to transfer materials and people between the “cemetery” and the “farm,” facilitating energy exchange and nutrient circulation. The fluctuating geometry of the system accommodates phasing the re-appropriation of land for production, displacement of monuments, soil remediation and soil replenishment, while increasingly linking the agri-metery to adjacent communities.
Design Target Map
soil toxicity （before and after)
Corpse (toxin) distribution map
We approached the site by starting with mapping the soil toxicity and the real estate value of the lands. With geographical data, we figured out what areas have lower toxicity to become our outdoor agricultural productions zones. And then, we quantified the amount of inverted wall space needed for converting 60 thousand deaths every year in New York City into fertilizers and used our wall/clearing + shed systems as an “equalizer” of the land value, by modifying their elevations and by increasing their accessibility.
real estate value of lands （before and after)
Site Axon
2
1
1’
Renders of Chambers from outside(up) and inside(down)
2’
First and Second Floor Plan
In order to preserve the idyllic atmosphere of the sight, architectures have been designed to be stealthy, with roof and entrances being blurred into the natural landscape. The space in each production hub has a linear sequence corresponding to the process of converting a corpse into fertilizers, including the space for promession and funeral, the space for converting promession remains to usable fertilizers, the lavatory for growing the plants, and the space for storage and distribution.
Collage of the hubs
2-2’ Section
Perspective From west to East
Perspective From south to north
MORE COURT YARDs! Student Centre
PERIOD: 9/2015-11/2015, 3rd Year Market Design Studio, DUT
Design
ADVISORS: Zhang Yu, Lang Liang GROUP WORK WITH Zhao Wenyan, INDIVIDUALLY REWORKED CONTRIBUTION: Designing, Graphic Drawing TYPE: Youth Centre (Lecture Halls, Multi-function Halls, and Leisure Rooms) LOCATION: Dalian University of Technology TOTAL AREA: 4000m^2
FAR: 2.0
Different kinds of yard s have been preserved by several
Tree Yard Cargo Yard Leisure Yard Service Yard Cargo Yard Shop Alley
Name Attractive Percent
Outwards Yards
Outwards Yards
Inwards Yards
Inwards Yards
Original Building Blocks Analysis
Tree Yard Meeting Yard Leisure Yard
Play Yard Dinner Yard Shop Alley
Original Building Blocks Analysis
Name
Master Plan
Attractive Percent
New Building Blocks Analysis
Outwards Yards
Outwards Yards
Inwards Yards
Inwards Yards
New Building Blocks Analysis
3 3 3 1 1
5
1
4
18
15
1 16
2
6 6
13 6 13
12
7 13
7
13 7
10
13
10
7
17
7
7
7
7 1. Dancing room 2. Cafeteria
14
10
3. View tower
14
4. Gym 5. Bar
8 13
6. Lobby
8
8
7. Club room 8. Garage
9 1’
7
9. Small restaurant 11
9
10. Bookstore
18
11. Canteen
9
19
12. Sunken plaza
9
8
13. Outside garden 14. Drawing studio 15. Changing room 13
16. Conference hall
13
( for 200 people) 17. Music studio 18. Meeting room Ground Floor Plan 1:300
Second Floor Plan 1:300
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10
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40
50
Detail Plan A Detail of south entrance of restaurant, second floor south entrance, original building brick boundaries.
East Facade 1:300
1-1’ Section
Detail Plan B Detail of inside entrance of the lobby, inside yards, original building brick boundary walls, bookstore glass curtain wall.
Detail Plan C Detail of south entrance of music room and art room, inside yard structures, original building brick walls.
East Facade 1:300
2-2’ Section
Detail Plan D Detail of the circle brick pool, newly-built building blocks, yard trees.