Hongfei li portfolio 2018

HONGFEI LI LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE

MLA + BLA SELECTED WORKS 2011—2017

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HONGFEI LI LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE

MLA & BLA SELECTED WORKS 2011—2018

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Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), Providence | Master of Landscape Architecture | 2016-2018 South China University of Technology (SCUT), Guangzhou, China | Bachelors of Landscape Architecture | 2011-2016

VANT EXPERIENCE INTERNSHIP | FCHA Design Firm | Landscape design group, Shenzhen, China | summer 2017 Project: Vanke City campus plaza for education & commercial complex, Guangdong, China | Client:Vanke Project: City waterfront park, Hunan, China | Client: Vanke & Changsha city government INSTRUCTOR | Landscape Design Seminar & Studio : A Garden as Meditation | RISD winter session course 2018 TEACHING ASSISTANT | Various courses | 2017-2018 Courses: Landscape Theory; Landscape Advanced Studio: Cemetery Design; Landscape Professional Practice; Library Material Collection.

EXHIBITION CURATOR | RISD Grad show | 2017-2018

ARCH & WORKSHOP EXPERIENCE RESEARCH | Independent graduate thesis : Expanded application of Colin Rowe’s “phenomenal transparency” in Landscape architecture, analyzed landscape cases, studied architectural phenomenology, deeply researched and reflected on sense of place.

Cultural ecology corridors in Pearl River Delta: Obtained proficiency in mapping and data analysis, collected and analyzed urban issues in regional scale.

Campus waterfront space evaluation: Employed various methods (Post-Occupancy Evaluation, Space annotation, Factor analysis) to evaluate built-environment and built principle for improvement.

WORKSHOP | Delft Technology University, Netherlands | summer 2015 Landscape resilient design for flooding area in Hague, Netherlands. Investigated in stakeholders’ view through communication with related institution.

WORKSHOP | Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University | October 2015 Industrial restoration, Joint workshop with SCUT, Guangzhou, China Collaborated with international students to solve problems due to urban decay and sea level rise.

INSTALLATION | Tokyo Institute of Technology | October 2016 Constructional installation of light phenomenon, Joint workshop at Tillinghast Farm at RISD Generated concept from mapping landscape phenomenon, gained wood shop experience and learned prototyping process, installed structure collaboratively.

LS Computer: Rhino, Sketch up, AutoCAD, V-ray, Lumion, Adobe(PS,AI,ID), Office, Ecotect, GIS, Grasshooper, Premiere Design related: Hybrid digital & hand drawing, Modeling, Master plan design, Diagram, Concept design, Rendering

“Change and recurrence are the sense of being alive--things gone by, death to come, and present awareness. The world around us, so much of it our own creation, shifts continually and often bewilders us. We reach out to that world to preserve or to change it and so to make visible our desire."

What time is this place, Kevin Lynch

Hongfei enjoys perceiving beauty in nature and believe that landscape architecture is a way of achieving Martin Heidegger’s “poetic dwelling in the world”. She is always driven by this calling and regards herself as a healer. On one hand, she believes in the indescribable innocence and beneficence of Nature and from which we can form the sympathy and healing atmosphere. On the other hand, with a particular enthusiasm in site-revealing for narrative landscape, Hongfei argues that landscape architecture has the power to heal the estranged state between identities and built-environment as a way of constructing and understanding the world. The East Asian culture fosters a sense of spatial ambiguity in Hongfei ’s design, which generates multiple readings through experience in time. She is passionate for interdisciplinary explorations of art and philosophy in landscape architecture.

CONTENT 1. THICKEN PRESENT Ecology design: Reframed water ecology and reinterpreted history.

Through the transparent layer of time, how can we keep the trace of past and construct a better future through ecology design?

2. RITUALIZED SPACE OF WATER BURIAL Cemetery design: A reinforce experience of burial and rites through the presence of sun.

How do we consider the cosmic order of sun in terms of death and life? How can we generated form from meanings?

3. IDYLLIC PROGRAM Urban design: Green infrastructure as a power that generates new program of a lost village.

How can we learn from traditional farming mode in terms of constructing green infrastructure?

4. LEVEE CITY Urban design: Restoration of decommissioned sugarcane refinery area.

How can the topology of levee in site history influence transformation of site and create resilience to level rise?

5. BETWEEN TRIPLE WALLS Art museum design: The playful intervention between artificiality and nature.

How can the artifice work with natural elements to create narrative sequence through interpenetrated space?

6. ACCENTUATED SCENARIOS Plaza design: Entrance plaza between a city and a traditional Chinese garden.

How can the new plaza adgent to a traditional garden provide new perspectives for understanding historic context?

7. OTHER WORKS

1 THICKEN PRESENT A place of reframed water ecology and reinterpreted history Ecology studio/ East providence, RI/ Academic Work / Individual work / 2017

Overlapping trace for 400 years

Things happened and gone, the traces left. My design concept is starting with the overlapping trace.

If you overlap the maps over the four hundred years history, you will be fascinated by the changes of the site. As a part of Narragnsett Bay area, it reveals how humans occupy the land, how we construct the infrastructures, lose and then develop the new based on the previous. It is a silent witness of time.The site was borrowed from water in the name of human development. And it was disturbed by human activity and the force of water over four hundred years. Shouldn’t it be the most convincing story teller for us? Shouldn’t the designers do something with it, rather than adding something to it?

I keep the things. And selectively edit them in order to evoke their original impressions.

The order of railroads. The railroad is not only a path or a form. It sits heavily on the ground. It’s an artificial and distinguishing element between the landform and water.It‘s always the higher and safer place during floods or storms.

The structure of berms. It is how we construct this land. It used to be an edge condition, a state of stability and solid. I keep part of them for protection of the restored wetland, while I break part of them at the point with high water velocity for softening the edge for ecological function. By breaking them, I give power back to water. The piles which indicate the way we claim our land from ocean are used to capture the sound of water. You listen to it, and be respectful of water. Some disposal stones are used as stepping stones for human activity, also the shelters for micro aquatic species. Piling them into a wire cube, recalls the memory of containers in the port.

The realm of water. I re-invite water on to the stage. Design with water. It’s crucial for salt marsh restoration also helps to develop a resilient scenario in the future. "Flood is the word they use, but in fact it is remembering where it used to be[1]". GIS storm tool predicts the future area affected by storms and sea level rise. The locations are surprisingly similar to where there was water before. By helping its remembering, we construct our future in a better way.

Through a thickened present, the site transforms from vacant wild into meaningful narrations. It is a place as "an emblem of past, present, and future time.[2]”

[1]:The site of memory, Toni Morrsion; [2]: What time is this place, Kevin Lynch;

INDUSTRIAL VIEW

BERM RAILROAD

WETLAND

BLUFF

INTER-TIDAL AQUATIC

CO-HABITAT

LOW-LAND

SITE NARRATIVES

At the beginning, water provided accessibility, people came there by ship and started farming and fishing, which transferred it into an agricultural village ruined because of the industrial revolution. The railroad was constructed along the edge, the piers as well. The site gradually transformed into a port. Be the structures were deserted after another shift of industry, the fragments still remained in the ground. Their stableness became the basement of next co berms by rocks and gravels for drainage, then they filled the void with silt. After the whole process of changes, the site was left vacant from 1998 till now

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STRATEGY

Reveal historic memory. Speak to the sense of existing condition. Be resilient to future changes

PHASING

A place as a container of past, now and future.

EXPERIENCE

Disturbance of water and industry-site force model

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SEC 2-2

The image of site

SEC1-1

The landform and order at first were highly geometric in order to acqurie clear spatial structure. Through several versions, the plan was simplified into a unified and subtle language, which minimized the form but highlighted the sense of place.

Through a thickened present, from your attempts to walk the line between beauty and its other, from the struggles that the visible implies invisible, the place contains the past duration as well as the future expectation. Therefore, as a hybrid of reframed water ecology and reinterpreted history, the site transforms from vacant wild into meaningful narrations.

2 RITUALIZED SPACE OF WATER BURIAL Cmetery research & design / Providec, RI / Individual work,2017

In Egyptian Mythology, Ra is the god of sun, the creator of all lives, while Osiris is the god of afterlife, of transition, resurrection and regeneration. Ra, regarded as the symbol of soul of a deceased human, travels during the day and merges with Osiris into one being at night. Due to the regenerative power of union, Ra continues on his journey through his emergence at dawn, which is seen as the rebirth.

Although along with the development of astronomy and physics, we gradually come to regard the sun as phenomenal rather than sacred, the perspective that considering time as a continuous pattern and Ra lives in a constant cycle still has profound meaning in terms of our ultimate questions on life and death.

The funeral at sunset brings back the presence of sun and its divine light. The significant meaning of death is fulfilled and the hope for rebirth is implanted. Every morning, the rising sun will shine on the river as a beautiful symbol of life and eternal perpetual care. The sun reminds us of a larger cosmic order which may transcend death and life.

Picture Scanned from The Complete Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Egypt by Richard H. Wilkinson, p. 117

PRE-FORM

symbol of soul afterlife

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Process model 1: Interpret topography and existing vegetaion according to the order of sun path sunset

sunrise

SUN PATH Transient 10’

20’

summer

summer spring/autmn winter

spring/autmn winter

Process model 2: Spatial composition according to sun angles of different seasons

DECONSTRUCT Transient 10’ 20’ 1

sunset

sunrise

RE-COMPOSE

Tectonic adaptation according to site constraints

Process model 3: Visualize the geometry of sunset

LIGHT DIAGRAM Manipulate landform and different types of vegetations to indicate the geometry of light. The volume of landscape frames the setting sun.

Spring/ fall, sun angle=25

Summer, sun angle=35

Winter, sun angle=2

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SCALE SHIFT The concept that form generated from geometry of light is tested in a intimate scale as well. The Columbarium shapes space and light. From spring to winter, the light moves across the inscriptions on the wall, providing a space to walk through, pasue, and memorialize.

3 DYLLIC PROGRAM Urban design / Zhongshan,South China Academic work / Indicidual work /Re-design 2017

The village is faced with industrial transformation. Through the utilization of traditional farming mode: Mulberry-base-pond, the village is empowered by green infrastructure and productive landscape.

PROGRAM Green corridor

Productive land Village

SEEDS

GROW

CONTEXT trigger in current situation- There is some start farming spontaneously.

FIND the

Reached its peak in scale and production.

existing farming area in site and villagers

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1990

1970 The fishing

2015

The fishing industry declines due to environmental contamination.

port was built.

Lacking in water,crops are in bad condition.

Change FISHING to FARMING? vacant land 75%

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unemployment 350 annual rainfall

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Highly-developed port area & available vacant land near village

Laid-off villagers-redundant labor force

Aboundant water catchment &traditional pond-system for storage

2 acres

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LABOUR

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17 acres

ENLARGE FARMLAND

Organic Market

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Organic Restaurant

Harvest

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PHASE 3.

Apply the Mulberry-base-pond typolog grows organically.

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Find the possiblity of farming by site analysis.

water collectiom from surroundings

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cut-off ditch around mountain biosawles along main streets in village wells for water filteration

underground drainage

PHASE 2.

Build up the water management system for infrastructure.

pond system for irrigation

drilled wells for dry season

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STEP4.

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WATER CATHCHMENT

Find the storage point

BIOSWALE in village as

BIOSWALE in roadway

COVERED DRAINAGE

according to contour line

water channel & water purification STEP6.

FILTER WELL

Groundwater recharge

GROUNDWATER RUNOFF

WATER MANAGEMENT

Serve as both RESERVOIR for irrigation and CUT-OFF DITCH for preventing flooding

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PIPE-LINKING POND SYSTEM

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LOW-PERMEABILITY BUTTOM

Storage water for irrigation.

IRRIGATION WELL

The largest fish pond for RAIN FLOOD REGULATION

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aquatic plant

catfish eats elephant grass

elephant grass onsolidates the soil

fertilize the plant at diferent kind of fishes live in regular different layers

break down organic matter.

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manure accumulate at the bottom

RMLAND DESIGN Interplant Windbreak Litchi chinensis Sonn.

Lonicera japonica

Casuarina equisetifolia L

Musa basjoo Sieb. et Zucc.

Hydrangea macrophylla

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POND TYPOLOGY Symbiosis

Mulberry-base-pond is the earliest Chinese ecological agriculture in the Pearl River Delta region (Ming and Qing Dynasties).

Cucumis melo

silkworm

mulberry

Saccharum officinarum

dung

fish

N,P,S microorganism

fish manure

Glycine max (L.) Merr

dike

pond

biogas digesters

Agriculture-spatial Module Change the proportion of soil and wter A

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melon & sugarcane

vegetable

flower

cooler

Gynura cusimbua

Allium fistulosum

orchard

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Mosquito repellent

Dynamic operating water-dike system Keep the optimal model.

8-12m

0.5-1m

Arachis hypogaea Linn.

2.5m

Melia azedarach L.

optimal water level (for root)

900 villagers' acqurement

2.1 acres farmland

optimal dike width (for ventilation)

optimal pond deepth (for fish)

3.2 acres catchment area

Far more than self-sufficiency & Surplus for output Farmland spatial module brings resilience to the site according to the different water proportion and various groups of agricultural crops. It reveals how people utilized the land productively in the past and distinguishes this area by creating a unique landscape with a sense of place.

Community

Levee landform

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Levee plaza

LEVEE CITY Urban design / Guangzhou,South China / 2015 Workshop / Goup work / Members: Hongfei Li, Xinxin Shen,Yantong Guo,Ling Sha,Ao Zhang,Matthew Kneal,Michale Ouzs.

Group role:concept,master plan,levee system,model

Confronted with the rise of sea level, dike city transforms a decommissioned sugarcane refinery into a tidal wetland. Organized by a network of levee banks,the city provides various waterfront life styles.

Pear river delta

Remai

Remaining structure Wetland-levee

Ocean Immersive area

Levee transport system

ining colums

Levee exhibition Remaining structure

HIGH TIDE: 1.47M

100 YEARS LATER

factory

ocean water

flooded

SITE ELEVATION: 0.00M

LEVEE TYPOLOGY

LEVEE WETLAND different hight of d

FUCTION systematic levees meet various function TRANSPORTATION SAFETY RESIDENTIAL&COMMERCIAL EXIHBITION RECREATION HERITAGE

LEVEE GATE openable structure for boats going through

LEVEE LANDFORM bury transportation complex in landform to minimize its

LEVEE ANCHOR levee as a structure to develop waterfront commercial area

LEVEE BUILDING build green house and reuse the old pipe structure for vetical vegetation

LEVEE PROJECT

SECTION1-1

SECTION2-2

flood the site

LEVEE CROSSROA various elevations

LEVEE PLAZA build up pathway o

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MASTER PLAN

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dune make several ponds for mangrove 2

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on the remained column basement break down old levee at strategic point

flood the site intentionally

Phase 1

Phase 2

Phase 3

Phase 4

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5 BETWEEN TRIPLE WALLS Landscape design / Guangzhou,South China / Acadmic work / 2013 /Re-design in 2017 / Individual work

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Two walls

Create space & Cut the landform

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Triple walls

Guide the circulation & Define the courtyard

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The art museum is created by three walls, defined by manipulated topography and water.

When the geometric forms meet with natural elements, a poetic contradiction is formed.

Between the triple walls, it's flowing exhibition space; it's continuous yard; it's a metaphor that makes us rethink the relation between artificiality and nature.

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LANDFORM

WATER

VEGETATION

MASTER PLAN

ROTOTYPE

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Pavement 3.000 5.800

Represent

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STRUCTURE

1.500 2.200

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Colum & Bean Grass

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RHYTHM&SIGHT

the context. This project accentuates the circulation, and emerge gradually,

SPCIAL CONTRAST

1.Main Entrance 2.Terrace 3.Museum 4.Nanshan Road 5.Reserved old tree 6.Garden entrance 7.Entrance for community 8.Parking Entrance 9.Canal 10.Community 11.Old plaza 12.YUYIN GARDEN 13.Village Road

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OTHER WORKS

generative model

SET DESIGN individual work in2016, elective course,stage for TEMPESTWilliam Shakespear

LIGHT INSTALLATION

group work in 2016, my role-concept design,prototyping, woodcutting, installing

FURNITURE DESIGN

individual work in2016, personal interest

GRADING STUDIO

individual work in2017, constructed ground studio

CONTENT 1. THICKEN PRESENT Ecology design: Reframed water ecology and reinterpreted history.

Through the transparent layer of time, how can we keep the trace of past and construct a better future through ecology design?

2. RITUALIZED SPACE OF WATER BURIAL Cemetery design: A reinforce experience of burial and rites through the presence of sun.

How do we consider the cosmic order of sun in terms of death and life? How can we generated form from meanings?

3. IDYLLIC PROGRAM Urban design: Green infrastructure as a power that generates new program of a lost village.

How can we learn from traditional farming mode in terms of constructing green infrastructure?

4. LEVEE CITY Urban design: Restoration of decommissioned sugarcane refinery area.

How can the topology of levee in site history influence transformation of site and create resilience to level rise?

5. BETWEEN TRIPLE WALLS Art museum design: The playful intervention between artificiality and nature.

How can the artifice work with natural elements to create narrative sequence through interpenetrated space?

OTHER WORKS