PORTFOLIO | Naili Qi
PORTFOLIO | Naili Qi
Rice School of Architecture | M.Arch.
CONTENT
Academic Works Reframe the Opening
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Retail Store Design Rice University, Totalization Studio
In the Middle
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Urban Renewal and Design Rice University, M.Arch. Design Thesis
Mega-structure for 100,000 People
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Mega-structure Design Shanghai Tongji University, Option Studio
Contextual Wall
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Hybrid Building design Rice University, Paris Option Studio
Between Striation and Unification Bilingual Library Design Rice University, Core Studio
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Urban Garden
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Residential Planning and Design Shanghai Tongji University, Core Studio
House of landscape
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Landscape Design Rice University, landscape course
Professional Works Crowley House
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Building area: 3,000 ft² Carlos Jemenez Studio, Houston,TX
Angier Elementary School Building area: 75,000 ft² DiNisco Design Partnership, Boston,MA
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Reframe the Opening
Retail Store Design, New York City Rice University, Totalization Studio Instructor: Mark Wamble Building Area: 60,000 ft² / 5,600 m²
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From Horizontal to Vertical
New National Gallery
Horizontal View
This project
Vertical View
This Project uses Mies Van der Rohe’s New National Gallery model which explores the dual nature of the “window” --- a well framed yet open to blur between exterior and interior space to generate a retail store building in the contemporary urban context of new York. In order to transform Mies’ one story pavilion project into a multi-stories retail building on a more condensed site, this project transform from the horizontal beam grid system of the national gallery into a vertical armature that inclines to frame a vertical slot of view of its urban context.
Urban context of Berlin
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Urban context of New York
Various openings are created throughout the project to bring New York’s lively city life into the building.
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Transformation of Structure System With understanding of the correlation between a structural type and the architectural form, This project takes on the beam gird structure system used in Mies’ New National Gallery and further transform it adapt to a condensed, vibrant and hectic city fabric of New York city. The main structure is composed of two parts: the Vertical beam grid armature and a secondary system of shifting beam and columns. The location of the structure components are finalized through Risa structural engineering software program.
Structural model
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Risa analysis showing forces through structure
The entire building structure
Major structural framework
Glass boxes inserted into the framework
Secondary structural framework
Building Section facing the interior
Building Section facing the exterior
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Rendering of a typical section facing New York City
In the Middle
Urban Renewal and Design, Shanghai, China Rice University, M.Arch Design Thesis Instructor: Troy Schaum Building Area: 240,000 ft² / 22,300 m²
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In the Middle | Infrastructural wall as intermediate urban model Shanghai, as one of the fast growing cities in the world, has gone through dramatic changes mostly over the past two decades. Dramatic changes has not only taken place on the cityscape in shanghai, but also happened on the interior side of the building, leaving the wall in the middle as the liminal territory in between. Aware of this intensifying flux of both exterior urban fabric and interior building programs in Shanghai, this project uses the wall in the middle as a modular device to explore an architectural model in face of an ever-changing environment. Currently, under the fast development in shanghai, the most common phenomenon is the detachment between wall and program behind it. Just as Koolhaas has observed in Delirious New York, the wall becomes a serene sculptural object that is irrelevant of all the changes happen on both of its side. As a result, the wall has lost progressively its vital and lively interaction with the city as well as interior program, reducing itself to a superficial faรงade that tries to dress a fast-growing teenager up in already unfitted old clothes. This type of wall is not what I am proposing. What I want to investigate in is the infrastructure wall that works on both urban and building scales. Examples of these walls are abundant throughout the history of China, where wall is among the most essential features of the traditional Chinese landscapes. By using this infrastructural wall that both present itself as expansive framework two dimensionally on urban scale, and at the same time, as spatial configuration vertically on building scale, This project aims to expand logics developed at the micro scale into an urban proposition.
Dual Nature of Infrastructural Wall
Urban scale Infrastructure Opaque Timeless 2D
Urban Wall 11
Architectural Wall
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Building scale Facade Porous Transient 3D
Infrastructural Wall
Typical City and Urban Configuration Manhattan, New York, USA
City fabric
Extruded block
Extruded block
Vertical striation of program
Okusawa, Tokyo, Japan
City fabric
Pixelated block
Pixelated block
Pixelated program
Nanshi, Shanghai, China
City fabric
Integral block
Integral block
Changeable Program 12
Site Plan
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4 Types of Infrastructural Wall
Occupiable Wall -- Elevator type
Occupiable Wall -- Stair type
Non-occupiable Wall -- Opaque type
Non-occupiable Wall -- Transparent type
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Study of Site Model 15
Axonometric View 16
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Ground Floor Plan 18
Non-occupiable wall | between interior and exterior
lecture
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gallery
book store
Occupiable wall | between interior programs
book store and lobby
botanic garden
retail
shopping mall retail
Non-occupiable wall | between interior programs
shopping mall retail
retail
office
office
rest space
retail
Cross Section 20
Changeable program in-between wall | Yellow-retail Blue-office 21
Changeable program in-between wall | Yellow-Shopping mall 22
Megastructure for 100,000 people Megastructure Design, Shanghai, China
Tongji University, Option Studio Instructor: Linxue Li Building Area: 64,500,000 ft² / 6,000,000 m²
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Fractal Space from building to city How to transform a BUILDING to a CITY? How to transform a 2D city into a 3D city? Fractal sequence is one of the answers. Such objects like cauliflower and crystal indicate fractal structure for they are all sharing similar features as self-similarity, recursive and self-organized complicity. By introducing fractal logic into a design of a mega-structure for 100,000 people, the project is able to evolve rationally into a self-organized complex system, and meanwhile still open to grow to adjust to future changes. This proposal is therefore a building that really resembles a city.
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Negative space
Garden
Amusement park public
Basketball court
Playground
Dooryard
semi-public
private
Form Making
Step 1
Step 2
Step 3
Step 4
private
semi-public
Ballroom
Meeting room
Museum
public
Kindergarten
Transport hub
Positive space
Apartment
The form making process of the Megastructure is following the order of subtraction. Step 1: Take out a huge mass in the center because of the lake underneath Step 2 : Cut out comparatively big blocks in order to creating main public spaces and to allow sunlight in Step 3: small blocks are removed for secondary public spaces
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type A
600m ×600m×400m
60m ×60m×60m
10m ×10m×10m
10m ×10m×3m type B
type A
type B
Residential Box Each residential community(60m×60m×60m) is composed of smaller boxes(10m×10m×10m). The arrangement of small boxes are configured according to the sunlight.
apartment public space circulation
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Continuous Spaces The aggregation of spaces following fractal logic makes it possible to provide enclosed “room-like� spaces at the same time as continuous pathway spaces and expansive spaces like public plazas. Together, the proposal is for a BUILDING that really resembles a CITY.
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Left: the entire mega-structure Top right: model without “roof” structure on the top Middle right: Model top view Bottom right: The “roof” structure 34
Contextual Wall
Hybrid Building Design, Senlis, France Rice University, Paris Option Studio Instructor: Pierre David Building Area: 23,700 ft² / 2,200 m²
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“Buildings are used as a popular stage. They are all divided into innumerable, simultaneously animated theatres. Balcony, courtyard, window, gate way, staircase, roof are at the same time STAGE and BOXES. POROSITY is the inexhaustible law of the life of this city, reappearing everywhere. A Grain of Sunday is hidden in each weekday and how much weekday in this Sunday!� Walter Benjamin Naples
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Senlis
Senlis
2011 60,970,551 passengers CDG Airport
CDG Airport
514,059 aircraft movements 2nd busiest in Europe 7th busiest in the world
Paris
Paris
relationship between Paris, CDG airport and Senlis
Contextual Wall in Senlis In senlis, the ancient walls originally built in Roman imperial times are absolute walls. They are the devices to separate and set up orders for the whole city. However, as people started to build housing and other structures along the wall, these walls started to change. They became inhabitable and porous and would adjust themselves to changing environment. They are the walls that always assumed different conditions along its length and are in permanent transformations. In this sense, these walls are CONTEXTUAL. They are always changing or being changed by its context.
Walls in Senlis
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Model study on the site
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What is an Hybrid Building? hybrid building is changeable rather than fixed hybrid building is porous rather than impermeable hybrid building is contextual. It extends itself into the surrounding context, and at the same time, sucks the environment into its body. In this proposal, the contextual wall is introduced as the perfect generator of a hybrid building. It gives the building a fundamental structure to grow from yet allows future transformations, making the hybrid building an open structure rather than a finished object. By proposing a contextual wall on the site, the project breaks the border between different spaces, programs in the building and at the same time blurs the boundary between building itself and its urban context. Not only accommodating hybrid programs in the building, but rather the project itself becomes a hybridity between building and its context.
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Site in Senlis
Step2: take out the temporary fabrics
Step4: stream of people around the site 41
Step1: temporary fabrics
Step3: preserve the historical building on site
Step5: propose the “contextual� wall on the site
Convention center
Residential
Library
Day-care Medical Social Comercial Restuarant Cafe
Step1: Proposed program
Existing Resident New Resident
Step2: Program distribution according to user groups
Business People
Node
Node
Node
Existing Resident New Resident Business People
Step3: Program and Spatial relationship
Study Models of the Contextual Wall 42
Study models of the “node” - a spatial mobius loop In these “node”, continuous flow of space on created on spatial dimensions rather than just on horizontal dimensions- like a Mobius Loop. By doing this, although on a horizontal level spaces are separated by walls, they are combined again on a certain vertical level, thus resulting in constant changing relationship between spaces and program as well. In this sense, not only the boundaries between respective interior spaces are blurred, the border between interior and exterior is also blurred. It is this dialectic nature of the spaces that differs a hybrid building from a mixed used building.
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Contextual Structure Developing from the study of “node” where hybridity are generated, the “walls” in the “node” start to take on structural role at the next stage. From bottom to top, the “walls” are made out of different thickness of material to indicate the structural as well as spatial hierarchy, creating a fundamental Open Structure for the building and at the same time boost the continuous flow of space by allowing big openings on secondary structure system.
Between Striation and Unification Bilingual Library Design, Houston, Texas Rice University, Core Studio Instructor: Neeraj Bhatia Building Area: 90,000 ft² / 8,361 m²
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Between striation and unification Located on the border between two ethnic communities-African American and Spanish, this library design is mainly focusing on the striation and unification of these two groups of people. Basically, this library design uses two ramps which intertwine with each other to address these two languages. Around the external part of the library, the program organization and the structure together suggest the striation between two ramps. However, around the internal courtyard, the two language sections are going to be connected in the form of several double height boxes. The structure around the courtyard also changes to indicate the combination of two language sections.
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Program Taxonomy
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Rendering of inner courtyard
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Ground Floor Plan 54
Wall Section
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Rendering of library corridor facing the inner courtyard
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Spatial Promenade 58
Urban Garden
Residential Planning, Shanghai, China Tongji University, Core Studio Instructor: LInxue Li Building Area: 830,000 ft² / 77,150 m²
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texture of fields
abstract pattern
Situated in the suburban district of Shanghai, the site is surrounded by large stretches of open fields. Due to this specific feature, my strategy is to integrate the texture of fields into the site and infuse an atmosphere of patrol like into this residential area. Rather than dealing with landscapes left after the building was built, continuous landscapes are planned before the buildings, suggesting a new modality of landscape void and architectural volume
farmland reserved building lot
private
occupied lot
public
vacant lot
Land use
farmland
Green space
FAR 2.1-3.5 FAR 1.3-2.1 FAR < 1.3 FAR < 0.4
Population density
Comparative analysis
low density population green space ownership medium density population green space ownership high density population green space ownership
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Building blocks
Main road
Landscape layer
Secondary road system
Site
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Break the Cluster...
distribute evenly
circulation
distribute in cluster
circulation 66
Ground Floor Plan 67
Landscape and buildings are connected with each other by road system like a mat
Next step, I intend to break the connection between blocks to envisage an open outcome
MAT
From
Connected
To
Disconnected ...
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No longer a finished design object, but rather an open process adaptable to future changes
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OPEN process rather than FIXED object
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House of landscape
Landscape Design, Houston, Texas Rice University, landscape course Instructor: Andrew Albers, Ernesto Alfaro Building Area: 180,000 ft² / 16,700 m²
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House of Landscape This project aims to expand upon the dialogue between architecture and landscape. To this aim, a curved structure made on a modular system is set up to serve as the medium between architecture and landscape. By working on a landscape scale as well as being a solid structure, this open structure serve to accommodate both the landscape and building program underneath it, blurring the boundary between architecture and soft landscape. As a result, unique spatial environment is created to allow people to move freely between outdoor and indoor spaces, evoking various activities happen on the site
Plan Diagram 73
Site Plan 74
Building block
Roof structure
Landscape layer
Columns
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Structure model
Longitudinal section
Site Plan Cross section 76
Professional Work Crowley House, Houston, Texas Building Area: 3,000 ft² Architectural Firm: Carlos Jemenez Studio, Houston, TX
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Professional Work Angier Elementary School, Newton, Massachusetts Building Area: 75,000 ft² Architectural Firm: DiNisco Design Partnership, Boston, MA
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