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New journey Luyi Kong

Selected architectural work from: GSD March I semester 1 USYD B.arch degree Professional internships

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Luyi Kong

Selected Works

CONTENTS Academic

Professional

02 "Refuge for the strays"

01 "Empowering design"

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01 Nio house Wukesong

02 Niuling Mansion Series

Woman rights/Affordable housing/Spring 2022

Charity program/Animal refuge/Spring 2022

Commercial/Facade and interior design/Fall 2022

Residential/Concept and lanscape design/Fall 2022

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03 Living single, Living together

03 Hengtang Kindergarten

04 Zhangjiagang Linggang intelligent industrial Park

Plan exercise/Student boarding house /Fall 2023 GSD

Education/Master plan and rendering/Spring 2023

Industrial/Facade options/Spring 2023

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Housing for woman "at risk" |Woman rights|Affordable houses|Creating a sense of belonging|Spring 2023

In 2019, the movie “Nomad land” depicted a special group of people who lead a lifestyle travelling on RVs, which not only expressed the anxiety of low-income groups in the 21st century and reflected a spontaneous protest in real estate. The project is committed to building an infrastructure that supports this way of life and encourages people to build their own logical families. The project explores a low-cost, high-flexibility new lifestyle that maximizes mobility. Users only need

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to pay a small amount of rent to rent the corresponding unit.

The first collage shows the fragments of the life of an elderly RVer, Swankie. Her ambition is to Kayak in the lakes of every state in the United States.

After one and another seasonal jobs, Swankie had enough money to pay for his trip to Quartzite, Arizona, where our project is located.

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[b] San Bernardino National Forest [a] Quartzsite Rubber Tramp Rendezvous gathering

Badlands National Park Yosemite National Park Texas Pine Ridge RV Park Oregon Ochoco Divide Campground Arizona Tempe Diablo Stadium

[c] Scottsbluff Western Sugar [d] Amazon Fulfillment Center RNO4

The nomads job locations The nomads’ activities are concentrated in the central and western United States, and with no stable place to live, they can only choose short-term seasonal work. Their employment experiences create a pattern that resembles seasonal migration. After enjoying the warm spring at Quartzsite, they head to the cooler forests and campgrounds to work as camp keepers before the heat sets in. Autumn and winter are the best time to make money. They can work in sugar factories in the West after the beet-picking season in September and pack and sort at amazon factories in various states before Christmas. Finally, they return to Quartzsite again and begin the cycle for another year.

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JAN Quartzsite Rubber Tramp Rendezvous relating jobs

MAR-AUG Camping sites staff

SEP Beetroot harvest

OCT-DEC Amazon Fulfillment Center Christmas Recrument

6-8$/hour, 6 hour/day

7.25$/hour, 8 hour/day

12$/hour, 12 hour/day

11.5$/hour, 8 hour/day

Seasonal jobs that RVers do and wage

American Average salary

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Undergraduate service entrance

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residence entrance

visitor entrance Existing site circulation

Proposed vehicular circulation

Proposed pedestrain circulation

Landscape

Site analysis

Detail scenes

The project is located in Quartzsite, Arizona. For most of the year, he sits quietly here as a remote desert between Los Angeles and Phoenix. But when winter comes and the weather becomes mild and comfortable, hundreds of homeless people from all over the United States and Canada arrive, turning the town into a temporary metropolis. The Rubber Tramp Rendezvous (RTR) is held here every year as a national RV festival.

The project is a gathering place for the RV community, a social circle for the elderly, a cradle for those who haven’t had enough resources. The central garden area has been divided into four sections, a flea market, open theatre, outdoor planting and hobbies gathering to accommodate RVer’s lifestyle.

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1.Entrance 2. Car parking 3. Market 4. Camping and club gathering 5. Running track 6. Open theatre 7. Planting

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Ground floor plan

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Parking

Catering

Market

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Club gathering

Programs

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Cafeteria render Varies activities can be carried out on second floor 2

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1. Catering 2. Workshop 3. Meeting 4. Hobby workshop 5. Study room 6. Library 7. Ramp 8. Flexible gathering 9. Restroom 10. Car parking

Market render In afternoon flea market will open

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Individual units plan

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1. Public staircase 2. Parking 3. Ramp 4. Market 5. Club gathering 6. Open theatre 7. Lake 8. Farming 9. Flexible workshops 10. Elevator 11. Living units 12. Meeting rooms 13. Study rooms 14. Living units 15. Roof garden 16. Living units 17. Roof gathering

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Family Seasonal jobs

Social status

Job Meritocrazy which maximize stability

Hobby tribes Nomads which maximize mobility

Housing unit concept

The project explores a new lifestyle with low cost, high flexibility and cars as the center of life. The living space takes the residential unit as the center for functional expansion. The living space, cooking space and working space are condensed into core units. Users only need to pay a small amount of rent to rent the corresponding units.

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1. Balcony 2. Flexible space 3. Wardrobe 4. Rest room 5. Laundary 6. Storage 7. Dining room 8. Living room 9. Rest room 10. Kitchen

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1. Balcony 2. Study 3. Bedroom 4. Rest room 5. Living 6. Activity room 7. Wardrobe 8. Rest room 9. Laundary 10. Staircase to bedroom 2 11. Dining 12. Bathroom 13. Kitchen

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Unit render-bedroom core Individual units plan

Very open floor plan allowing people to costomize their home

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Undergraduate

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"Refuge for the strays" |Charity program|Awareness and engagement programs for stray cats|

Australia has a long history as a destination for tourism, travel and exploration, colonization and migration, providing a new home or a place beyond for numerous visitors, travellers and migrants. As a country, Australia has long been known as a haven for people with diverse stories and backgrounds, as well as unique populations of plants and animals. But Sydney’s status as a sanctuary is being challenged by the rampant problem of stray cats.

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sanctuary that provides peace and tranquillity or ideal conditions for any human or animal.

With this situation in mind, Studio2A will use the expression of design to explore the concepts and strategies of this situation and develop a series of mixed-function buildings to meet the challenges. The project is a pet cafe and pet hospital complex aimed at central Sydney’s stray cat community and people seeking healing through cats.

Here, stray cats will get scientific treatment, and people can also get spiritual healing through the process of unknown to familiar, which will greatly encourage people to adopt stray cats.

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Surprised

Guarded

Energetic Scared Lonely

Relaxed

am Mi, i am a stray cat born on the street. When i was little, my mom used to hide me and my 01 Isiblings away from human. During daytime, she would went out looking for food and at night we

Stray cats scenarios

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slept in the bushes together. The city is noisy and full of danger. In the city, you will unconsciously feel very small.

Despite the fact that I am constantly starving, I am content with the freedom of my life. My favorite time is lying in a garden in a residential neighborhood and bathing in the sun. My skills are very good, in the city, I eat mice and birds, and if I’m lucky, I can get alms from passers-by.

Expecting

Hurt Fear Worried

Hungery

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Another day, I was severely injured after a fight and unable to hunt, so I begged humans for food, but I was evicted.

I am getting weaker and weaker. One day, I dreamed of a warm place with plenty of food, caring hands, and lots of places to play. . . I’ve been waiting, when will I have a home like that?

Depressed

Stressed Tired

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Joyful Frustrated

01 I am an international student who came to Australia alone, and I thought I could have a good and

Human scenarios

happy life abroad, but everything was not as easy as I thought. I needed a part-time job to sustain my life. After I got home late at night, I still needed to deal with my heavy schoolwork.

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Because of my lack of time to socialise, i was laughed at by my peers,this has gotten me into depression. I happened to walk into a cat café one day where there were very few people but a lot of cats. Although we didn’t get any closer right away, these furry little guys made my heart melt.

Cats don’t have words so they don’t accidentally hurt people as humans do.

Fullfillment Decisive Peaceful

Spaces generated by narratives

03 Eventually, I decided to stay here as a volunteer, and then I adopted a kitten, and I gradually came out of my depression.

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Project storyboard

Bubble diagram

The project generates multiple programs through the analysis of the narratives of two groups of users: the stray cats and the human

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Proportion study between cats and human body

[b] Resting, walking

Resting, walking

Resting

Inforamtion forum

Resting, walking

Observation

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[a] Sydney Street Cats Society [b] Cat Protection Society of NSW [c] RSPCA Cat Resue [b] Project site-142 Clarence Street

Lack of rescue coverage in Sydney inner city

Danger from urban traffic

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Lack of food

Lack of care

Disadvantage of Lethal control

Danger for stray animals in inner city

Cat climbing typologies

A Place for Refuge

Designing for Cats

At present, the number of cats living on the streets of Sydney is numerous. They are often at risk of being hit by cars, and often suffer from disease or hunger. However, due to the rarity and remoteness of rescue agencies, it is difficult for stray cats in the city center to get timely rescue. Therefore, the project chose a site that is in close contact with the public, rather than an unobserved suburb, as a location to communicate with the wider public and raise awareness of the need to protect stray cats.

Aiming at different scales of human and animal bodies, the project designed a series of furniture prototypes that can be used by both cats and humans, which can provide people with the function of rest and viewing, while satisfying the habit of cats like to climb and stay in high places. The distance between cats and humans also reflects how close they are.

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1 Cat observe chamber 2 Rotatble cabinet entrance 3 Side entrance 4 Cafe 5 Exhibition 6 Window-side seating 7 Storage 8 Toilet 9 X-ray room 10 Office 11 Staff lounge 12 Reading/resting area 13 Reading 14 Entrance to treatmenet area 15 Reception 16 Isolation room 17 Information area 18 Treatment room 19 Lab 20 Surgery room 21 Preparation room 22 Sterilizing room 23 Treatment 24 Ward 25 Isolation ward 26 Meeting room 27 Lounge 28 Pets grooming 29 Indoor garden 30 Roof garden

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1 to 100 Sectional perspective You can see it more clearly in the perspective section. In terms of function distribution, the places where cats and human have a closer relationship are placed on the lower floor. They are more open to the public and can increase the frequency of interaction between the two. On the upper floor of the pet treatment area and other areas where cats are physically uncomfortable and guarded, a climbing frame suspended on the ceiling is placed, so that cats can look down from above and observe human without being touched by them, this can increase the sense of security for cats.

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1 Cat observe chamber 2 Cafe 3 Exhibition 4 Resting area 5 Reading area 6 Restroom 7 Staff lounge

8 Isolation ward 9 Information center 10 Cats accompany 11 Consultant room 12 Lab 13 Treatment room 14 Meeting room

15 Waiting 16 Cats grooming 17 Roof garden 18 Balcony 19 Rear garden

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Undergraduate

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Climbing typology

Roof garden

Pets grooming

Waiting Group meeting

Meeting room

Treatment

Consultant room Cats accompany

Information Reception

Rear garden

Isolation ward

Reading

View of pets grooming room and climbing platform Landscape staircase

Exhibition

Cafe

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Exploded axonometric

Pets grooming

Wards

Reading area

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Master degree

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“Living single, Living together“ Student boarding house|Plan exercise|Fall 2023GSD

The project looked at the living conditions for students as the social paradigm. Nowadays most students are living in a shared environment to seek lower rent, however premise on the scarification of a certain amount of personal space and the very possible hassle of moving with all the furniture constantly.

gether.” The project is a duplex shared by 7 college-level students. The concept of this drawing is to show the design of personal alcoves for students sharing the bedrooms. It can be living spaces, cabinets for built-in furniture, personal leisure or reading spaces, or a space for production.

The project challenged the vision of the student boarding house which is usually generic and But does living together always have to be a com- compact, to a space that is generous and goes bepensation? The project “Living Single, Living To- yond the distinction between life and schoolwork.

Main design concept Shared alclove spaces which can be living spaces, cabinets for built-in furniture, personal leisure or reading spaces, or a space for production

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Finding the grid

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1 Entrance 2 Kitchen 3 Office and reading 4 Lounge 5 Unit 1 Bedroom 1 6 Unit 1 Bathroom1 7 Comic bookshelf 8 Unit 1 Bathroom 2 9 Double height reading space

10 Unit1 Bedroom 2 11 Cattree cabinet 12 Unit1 Bedroom 3 13 Personal reading 14 Unit 2 Office 15 Unit 2 Bedroom 1 16 Unit 2 Bathroom 1 17 Personal reading 18 Unit 2 Office 19 Lounge

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20 Personal reading 21 Unit 2 Bedroom 2 22 Lounge 23 Unit 2 Bathroom 2 24 Living and Kitchen 25 Gardening balcony 26 Sight-seeing balcony

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Cutting from the bays

1 Comic bookshelf 2 Reading corner 3 Cat tree cabinet 4 Double-height reading space 5 Gardening 6 Sight-seeing balcony 7 Reading cabinet

Rotating the anomolies

Seven monopolies for 4 undergrad student and 3 graduate students

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Exercise and iteration from given plan

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The project was given a existing plan to work with. At the beginning of the project, a series of floor plan operations were carried out. First of all, A grid is being developed dividing the plan into 4 bays and one narrow corridor in the south. Two Turns of the grid were created at 2nd and 3rd bays. Finally, The project looked at the particular anomaly extracted from the original plan and repeated it throughout each floor plane.

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Under-grad student residency Graduate student residency Shared space

Color-coded diagrams showing the distribution of 7 students and the study of the overall volume of the duplex. With top two level owned by 3 graduate students, and the other unit on the bottom owned by 4 under-grad students. The common shared space is intertwined between as a continuous circulation populated by bookshelves and reading areas.

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Master degree

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Perspective 1 and Section A-A’ Furniture alcoves for student dormitory

Perspective 2 and Section B-B’ Shared bookshelf spacesp

The occupancy is shown not through human figures, but through daily objects engaged in their activities also to preserve that kind of comical fictional identity. Scaled and adjusted the hue of the plywood texture map to make sure the difference is shown in horizontal and vertical planes

Shared alclove spaces which can be living spaces, cabinets for built-in furniture, personal leisure or reading spaces, or a space for production. It not only minimizes the work for domestic installations but also create an environment no longer made of rooms but a continuous space with individual alcoves.

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Physical model You can see in the model here if I can take out the rear facade. You can see how the floor plate are split to introduce more interactions between the two groups. And you can see how the shifting of the original grid starts to impact the building envelope by having the anomalies protruding out.

As the definition of anomolies goes: an anomaly is

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an abnormality, a blip on the screen that doesn’t fit with the rest of the pattern. These anomalies are scattered across the shared spaces to discuss the relationship between Common space and individual space and the possibility of practicing personal lifestyles even in a heavily shared environment.

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Professional

Selected Professional Works

Selected Works

Selected Professional Works

Selected works at David Chipperfield Architects

Selected works at David Chipperfield Architects

Nio house Wukesong

Niuling mansion series

Beijing, China Role: material study for the facade options and interior design Supervisor: Dino

Niuling, Hainan, China Role: physical model making Supervisor: Haishan Li

Concept diagrams

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Interior design and render

Interior design and render

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Professional

Selected Professional Works

Selected Works

Selected Professional Works

Selected works at Tus-Design Group Co. Ltd

Selected works at Tus-Design Group Co. Ltd

Hengtang Kindergarten

Zhangjiagang Free trade Zone Linggang intelligent industrial Park

Suzhou, China Role: Participated in concept design, master plan drawings and renderings Supervisor: Jia Tao

Suzhou, China Role: Design of facade rennovation and rendering Supervisor: Jia Tao

Form generation

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Interior design and render

Interior design and render

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Resume

Luyi Kong

Cambridge, MA, 02138 +1 857 468 9627

EDUCATION Cambridge, MA Sep 2023 - May 2027

Harvard University, Graduate School of Design

Sydney, NSW Feb 2019 - Nov 2021

University of Sydney, Sydney School of Architecture, Design and Planning

Shanghai, China Dec 2020 - Feb 2021

Master of design in Architecture I

Bachelor of Design in Architecture

Cambodia v-tropical hotel Floor plan drafting and Photoshop rendering

Tus-Design Group Co. Ltd, Architectural Intern

SKILLS

Ritual Hall in Yileshan Mountain Participated in Scematic design and digital model making, Design scheme of elevation improvement Zhangjiagang Free trade Zone Linggang intelligent industrial Park Design of facade rennovation and rendering Hengtang Kindergarten Participated in concept design, master plan drawings and renderings Shanghai, China Mar 2022 - Aug 2022

David Chipperfield, Architectural Intern Beijing Wukesong District, NIO House Participated in the facade design and research of interior material research Liangzhu Cultural Museum, second stage competition, Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province Initial concept design and digital model making Hainan Province Niuling City leisure resort Physical model production and degital renderings

Commercial complex in Zhulaozhuang Town, Liaocheng City, Shandong Province Participated in developing site analysis and concept diagrams Shanghai Huabao Fragrance Group Industrial Park Concept design, Form and façade designs, 3D modeling, Natural daylight environmental studies Shenzhen Lanyuan Plaza Conceptual design and precedents study, Presentation of initial ideas to client

WORK EXPERIENCE Suzhou, Jiangsu Mar 2023 - May 2023

a, a&d Shanghai, Architectural Intern

[Rhino 7] [Sketch Up] [Lumion 11] [Chaos V-Ray] [Enscape] [Autodesk Revit] [Autodesk Cad] [Adobe Photoshop][Adobe Illustrator] [Mid Journey][Stable Diffusion]

AWARDS 2020 University of Sydney 2022 University of Sydney Professor Adam Bridgeman

Vice Chancellor’s Global Mobility Scholarship Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Education) Award

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Thank you!

Contact me lu_kong@gsd.harvard.edu +1 857 468 9627

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