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Interior Design Tianyi Li
Interior Design 2010
Art works Drawings of different mediums that shows my interests outside my profession.
2011
Trendwatching.com Office design for a leading Internet site that focuses on reporting the latest trend and technology of the world.
2012
CUV A creative, but concrete design in celebrating and understanding the election of 2012.
2013
Rice House Landscape Design A Contemporary retail design for sustainable and recyclable products.
2013
Richmond Youth Center The Richmond Youth and culture center is designed to captivate and encourage students to collaborate and interact with each other while they are learning.
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Architecture begins where engineering ends. Walter Gropius
Program The project focuses on a creative, but concrete design in celebrating and understanding the election of 2012. The center for undecided voters (CUV) which is located amidst the lively neighborhoods of West Broad street provides important information about the Mitt Romney and Barrack Obama campaign. As the election campaign progresses, the CUV will develop into a voting center through the use of temporary furniture.
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Center for Undecided Voters
Richmond, VA
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Entrance Elevator Cafe Obama campaign Romney campaign ADA restroom Forum Secondary cafe Private lounge Factcheck.com ADA restroom Conference room Storage area
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The concept for the design of the CUV is to mimic the encasing effect of politicians. Politicians can be friendly and polite but often at times we are manipulated by their words. The translucent curvilinear panels divides multiple spaces and initiates an order of hierarchy between spaces. The translucent panel runs throughout the space, tying spaces together and naturally separates the private spaces from the public. In addition it also acts as a ceiling design for designated areas.
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Visible tile carpet by SCG L’Amour Blue Limestone by Akdo Desert Tan by Benjamin Moore Astrakhan fabric by Donghia Hickory natural timber by Armstrong
One of the great beauties of architecture is that each time, it is like life starting all over again. Renzo Piano
Program The design of this interior office allows you to be submerged into a traditional space, that fuses contemporary designs in order to bring out the essence of creative freedom. Trendwatching.com is an online creative business that focuses on bringing people the latest trend and design products. So by using ‘solid vs void’ as my concept for the design of this office space, I manipulated a cubic form to form a grid like structure with thin, metal pipes that contains LED light bulbs. Those drop down from the wooden grids to emphasis the importance of certain areas.
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Entrance Reception area Cafe ADA restroom Private lounge Work space Conference room Library Study room Conference room Executive office Storage room Printing room ADA restroom Gymnasium
Form follows function – that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union. Frank Loyd Wright
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Program Believing that interior spaces play a critical role in the development of students. The Richmond Youth and culture center is designed to captivate and encourage students to collaborate and interact with each other while they are learning. The facility is programmed as an education center and a thinking tank to make learning fun for students and teenagers.
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Richmond Youth Center
Richmond, VA
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After studying the light paths and circulation of the exisiting building. The final concept idea for my design was about ‘Filtration can be understood in a number of ways; for example we can see that natural light penetrates the building from various directions. Light can be filtered by different materials and also by each floor level. Filtration can also be understood from a circulation stand point. The diagrams on the left shows the filtration of people on each floor level and how they connect and interact with different groups of people. The third type of ‘filtration’ can be understood as the types of activities that people experience while they are in the Youth Center, and since my aim is to combine education with socialization among students and teenagers, I thought about introducing book shelves in the space and using the book shelves as a main focus for my concept.
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Conference room Executive office Work station Elevator Roof top garden Entrance/reception Book room Staircase ADA restroom Interactive area Waiting area Group study Reading area Activity room Theater room
All material in nature, the mountains and the streams and the air and we, are made of light which has been spent, and this crumbled mass called material casts a shadow, and the shadow belong to light. Louis Kahn
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Those who look for the laws of Nature as a support for their new works collaborate with the creator.
Antonio Gaudi
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Media study/Artworks
VCU Arts
Tianyi Li lit3@vcu.edu 571.382.0841
EDUCATION
Virginia Commonwealth University Richmond, Virginia Bachelor of Interior Design 2009-2013 Trinity Grammar high school Melbourne, Australia 2001-2006 Kerrimuir Primary school Melbourne, Australia 1996-2000
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Architect Assistant at Ian McEwan Architects, Melbourne, Australia March 2004- June 2004 Construction site analysis Hand drafting of floor plans, sections and elevations Hand rendering perspectives and final presentations Attending client meetings Construction Assistant/Receptionist Maxwell Construction. Co, Melbourne, Australia January 2006-Feburary 2007 Working as receptionist Managing materials and resources Working as painter, floor polishing, laying tiles Designer Assistant at Martin’s Interior and Extrodinair, Richmond, VA July 2012-Janurary 2013 Drafting Floor plans, sections and elevations Managing Material library Filing catalogs and documents Meeting with clients and material representatives
DESIGN PROFICIENCY AND SKILLS
Interior Design Initial concept sketching using a variety of mediums Hand drafting and rendering Operating design software: Auto-CAD, Autodesk Revit, Photoshop, Indesign, Illustrator Windows system, Microsoft office Project analysis, Scale model building Language English- Native language Chinese- Bi-lingual proficiency