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Rongli Chen Interior Design 2015-2019 Pratt Institute
CON TENTS
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Background Push cart Renders
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09-14
Innovation Meditation Walk
URBAN DWELLING
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THE MAGIC OFFICE
MOORE STREET MARKET
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Family st
Sliding sy
Vision tra
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Research Information level
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Gallery Drawings
SELECTED STUDIES
tudy
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PRATT GALLERY
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BEDFORD LIBRARY
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Furniture exhibition Woodworking Orange analysis Working drawing
MOORE STREET MARKET
Entrance render
—— A community center
Background
User groups
Students nearby
New Yorker
Residents in 10 blocks
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Puerto Rican
Moore Street Market is one of Brooklyn’s oldest indoor markets, serving East Williamsburg and the surrounding neighborhoods for close to 70 years. It is also a cultural market, serving the Puerto Rican neighborhood over decades. As one of the most historical public market in New York, Moore street market is a place of interest that attracts visitors all over the world.Under the mission of multipurposes of Moore street market, the renovation takes consider of Moore street market as a local food serving market, a community place, a Puerto Rican cultural sharing place and a highlight of New York.
Site analysis
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Movie theater
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NYCHA Buildings
Food court render
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Frame applications
Walk-in system
Food vender system
Theater entrance
Facade window
Facade entrance 2
POP-UP space
1. POP UP SPACE
Community gather space 2. COMMUNITY GATHER SPACE
Vender
3.VENDORS
Facilities
4.FACILITIES
Sitting area
5. SITTING AREA
BUSINESS HELP OFFICE
NYCHA OFFICE
Invited organizations
LATINO FILM FESTIVAL SCREENING
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TEENS CLUBS
WOOD SHOP
Office
6.OFFICE
Section A
Section B
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Ground plan
Mezzanine plan
Push cart
Push cart advertisement poster
Back to decades ago, Moore street market origins from the push cart culture on graham avenue. It has been forgotten during the development of the market. However, it is worth to renovate this unique tradition. Not only because it is part of Moore’s history, but also it is a good opportunity to help small business, since the cost of a push cart is affordable. By providing a push cart assembled by oneself, Moore street market encourages small entrepreneurs to start their business in the market. At the same time, the pop up push cart market will ev` entually become a highlight and attractions to New Yorkers.
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Push cart advertising poster
Standing at the entrance, here users can have an overall diverse senses of various attractions. Finding good food, shopping pop-up, going to Moore theater, experiencing wood making or even go to office, please start your journey here!
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Interior entrance render
Food vendor
Walking vendor 8
THE MAGIC OFFICE
Walking meditation booth render
—— A mindfullness practice office
core competitiveness:
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prerequisite: GOOD MENTAL CONDITION NO ANXIETY, NO WORRY
MEDITATION prerequisite:
MAGICAL UNNOTICED/ offset work EXPERIENCE /SPACE
INNOVATION
Thesis statement Future office will require a magic design strategy to help emphasize and reveal one’s irreplaceable qualification—innovation. This project supports mindfulness practice that restores one’s mind and inspires innovation through repetitive patterns and spaces to attract one’s observation to present. The magic obscure and distractive moments allow one’s mental calmness and rest, which help them to reorganize from everyday life.
LEVER HOUSE : a rethink of contemporary office
Mental health service
Subway line
Location: 390 Park Avenue, Manhattan, New York City. Trees
Zoning
MINDFULLNESS PRACTICE (MP): MEDITATION Meditation is often known as mindfulness practice, typically defined as nonjudgmental attention to experiences in the present moment. The patterned, repetitive activity help people to reconstruct and regulater the neural network.
Program sequence diagram
Meditation booth diagram
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PROGRAM: CO-WORKING WORK SPACE
PANTRY
SEAT
MEETING ROOM
OPEN OFFICE
OFFICE
WALKING MEDITATION
CLOSED MEDITATION
OPEN MEDITATION
Open office render
RECEPTION
ANIMATION
Material palette 11
Check out the experimental animation https://youtu.be/pFFrPNVkCng
Plan
Section A
Section B
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Closed meditation booth render
WALKING MEDIATATION
Formal
Casual
Repetitive pattern
Elevation A
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open meditation booth render
CLOSED MEDITATION
OPEN MEDITATION
ZIGZAG
View changes
Elevation C Elevation B
ZIGZAG
View limitation
Elevation C
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URBAN DWELLING
Axonometry
—— A transformable dwelling
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Family story Grandpa: He is retired from Government Officer. He is very strict to his son, when his son is young, which makes estrangement between them. However, he plays a role to weave the family together and make the it cozy and relax to the youth. He is obsessed with cooking after retiring. He travels around the world to collect the kitchenware and learn various cuisines. Father: A successful lawyer, a well-known person. He is very busy. He spend most of his free time to gardening, which is a way to relax himself from the high-speed and intensive work. Because of his father’s good cooking. He invites his friend to his home on every Saturday night. Friends love the view facing to the brooklyn bridge and his father’s Ukulele. Wife: She is an illustrator. She works freetime whenever needed. She is quiet most of the time. However, she will argue with her husband about the cleaning. She is a little bit lazy, on the contrast, her husband has mysophobia. Child: He is naughty. He is fond of talking and playing outdoor games.
Family dynamic diagram
Cooking (weekend)
Cooking (weekday)
Playing games
Circulation
Sleeping
Concept at a glance WEAVING Grandpa plays a role to weave the family together. DOUBLE HEIGHT SPACE Through double height space to generate the program weaving and make visual weaving. SLIDING SYSTEM The system provides a flexible spatial partition, allowing family numbers to open space, at the same time have intimacy.
Concept model
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Dining render
Material palette 1. WALL WITH HAY TEXTURE 2.BLACK METAL FRAME 3.GLASS 4.GRID GLASS 5.CHERRY 6.MARBLE 7.LEATHER 8.STONE 9.OAK
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Family happy hours
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Concept
Open space
Spending time and playing with families is significant for both parents and children. However, having a big living room is luxurious in city like New York. A transformable sliding partition system can solve this challenge. Maximizing usage of each square footage to meet the diverse need of each family member at different time of a day. Bedroom render 18
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Furniture palette
Living room render
Section C First floor plan Section B
Second floor plan
Vision transition Section A
With multiple double height spaces, those generate a space where allow wider and three-dimensional vision transition throughout the space. Within this design, family members will feel more connected to each other.
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BEDFORD LIBRARY RESEARCH —— Aemature&furniture
Seat position: balance
Movement diagram
Seating movement
Privacy overlap
Groupworl overlap
Initial furniture concept No matter how much the techonology influence the library’s function and new media infux in, Library is a place to read and allows reader a shor while to live in another world. However,The strangers around you and unexpected eye connection make people feel uncomfortable. An appropriate armature could ameliorate the situation, and create their own world.
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Step 1 Step 2 Step 3
The chair To find a way that is most comfortable and feel secure to you is the main goal of the design. With 3 flexible joints, The chair allows user to pick a way to seat on, depending on various needs and mood. The movement of the chair follows the body construct to make you more relax. The different statuses also functions as a define of your ownn area, which provided more privacy.
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BEDFORD LIBRARY —— Folding, tilting, interacting
Existing interior
Reading area render
Function
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Material
Neighborhood mapping
Information level & direction
Reading: information absorb
Semi-public
Communicating: information generated Public
Stair render
Private
Circulation moving: information connected
Information level application
Semi reading station
Private reading station
Open conversation table Private reading station Open conversation table
Private reading station
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GALLERY SPACE —— Doppler effect
Inspiration Inspired by an interesting phenomenon of sound: dop¬pler effect, the Pratt studio lobby is divided into four functional areas, each with a sequence. The overall spatial strategy is cohesive, each zone has its unique experience when users enter through. As circulation going on, what happens in the space will subtly change.
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Sound reflection water wave reflection information display experimental seating
Phenomenal diagram
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FURNITURE EXHIBITION —— THEN WHAT?
THEN WHAT WHAT DOES FURNITURE MEAN IN YOUR LIFE?
Elevation A
Elevation B
“A chair is only finished when someone sits in it . ” Why do we always need a new chair?
Spatial diagram
Elevation C
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What is left beyond A furniture ?
WOODWORKING PRACTICE —— CHINESE CABINET
Woodworking Through the woodworking practice, I realize it is more than making a product base on a drawing. Each wood piece has its own identity. How to represent it best is a skill that I’ve never considered. The final piece took more effort than I imagine, however, the effect is better than the initial drawing. Woodworking is about to make relationship to wood piece and meet surprise through
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In order to understand orange better, I sliced it both longitudinally and latitudinally and at the same time documented them carefully. After the documentation, I found the centripetal system of orange. The process of studying a fruit helps me understand objects better. It influences me till now and let me know the importance of observation and documentation.
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Study diagram
Orange system
Latitudinal cut
Longitudinal cut
ORANGE ANALYSIS
WORKING DRAWING PRACTICE PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT VERSION
Ceiling details RCP INT415-01 Plumbing diagram Rongli Chen Door types Partition types etc...
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274 36th St, Brooklyn, NY 11232,USA
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REFLECTED CEILING PLAN PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT VERSION
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SEAL & SIGNATURE
PROJECT No: DRAWING BY:
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