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TAIHUI LI | ARCHITECTURAL DESIGNER 2017
2017
TABLE OF CONTENT Academic Work Master Thesis
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Releasing the Unconscious 3rd year in Syracuse University[Grad],2015
Boutique Hotel
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2nd year in Syracuse University[Grad],2014
Guggenheim Museum - Film Archive
P32-39
2nd year in Syracuse University[Grad],2014
Vernon City Landscape Parking Lot
P40-47
1st year in Syracuse University[Grad],2013
The Museum Of Time
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3rd year in Syracuse University[Grad],2015
Penn Station - The Urban Hub
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2nd year in Syracuse University[Grad],2014
Studio Teaching Examples
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Model - Folding 1st year Design Studio teaching in Syracuse University[Grad],2015
Studio Teaching Examples
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Introducing Axonometric 1st year Design Studio teaching in Syracuse University[Grad],2016
Professional Work 349 Greenwich Wayfarer
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Lighting Design Intern in Kugler Ning Lighting Design,2015
Bingqing’s House
P58-59
Interior Design . Remodeling Sacramento,2017
Garage Remodeling
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Conceptual Proposal San Jose,2017
Photography The Architecture . the Wildness . the People Traveling and urban ,2014 - 2016
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ROME
PRECONSCIOUSNESS
THE UNDERGROUND ROME
RECEIPT
STORE
CONSCIOUSNESS
UNCONSCIOUSNESS
EXPERIENCE
“DOOR”
SCALE
HUMAN
MEMORIES OF THE PAST
OBJECT MEMORIES OF THE PAST
“DOOR”
REMAIN
EXPERIENCE
CONSTRUCT
PHYSICAL
PSYCOLOGICAL “THE FIVE ELEMENTS’ EDGE
PATH
THE CITY
CITY
LANDMARK
DISTRICT
NODE
THE IMAGE OF THE CITY
Master Thesis Releasing the Unconsciousness The thesis explores the lost identity of subway stations as strategic nodes that construct the city image of New York City. The foundation of this thesis is built on Kevin Lynch’s study of cities as images and Sigmund Freud’s consciousness theory that helps to explain how human mind constructs and storages images and memories, as the experience of a city being parts of them.
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UP VIEW 45 15 15
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View & Height Study I Through Lynch’s argument of nodes as “the strategic foci into which the observer can enter”1, the subway station is a concentration of “doors” towards decisions. To reveal the possibilities in city, my proposal is to collect the identities of the neighborhood and layer them up on Manhattan’s aboveground. Vision plays a very critical role as human mind receiving information and then collage the images and memories of the city. 1.Kevin Lynch, The Image of the City, (Cambridge: MIT Press 1960). P72
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View & Height Study II Representing the underground system, the entrance can definitely offer more than just a hole leads to the darkness, or say the city’s unconsciousness. By studying the height and views towards the city and its neighborhoods, it brings what the city offers to the table for decision making and experience.
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IN GOOD COMPANY (2004)
ISERPICO (1973)
NYU CAMPUS SINCE 1860
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1826 Washington Parade Ground 1870 Milletary Review
1797 The Potter’s Feild, Estimated 100,000 bodies beneath Washington Square
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Underground. History Washington Square is two blocks away from the Christopher st Station. It is now a significant public space of the city and the University of New York. The street Washington place provides both visual and space connections between the station and Washington Square.
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13 GOING ON 30 (2004)
JUST MY LUCK (2006)
THE ASTRONAUT’S WIFE (1999)
I AM LEGEND (2007)
AS GOOD AS IT GETS (1997)
he Potter’s Feild, stimated 100,000 bodies beneath Washington Square
BAREFOOT (1967)
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Power Cable/Telecom 1200 FEET FROM CHRISTOPHER ST SECTION
Water Steam
1889 The Potter’s Feild,
Gas Forgotten
Sewage
While today’s Washington Square carries a different atmosphere and the diversities of human interactions, the history has not entirely been eliminated from the physical world. Like the subway system is underground and it is the unconsciousness of the city, the history of Washington Square has been buried underground in this neighborhood, as it is in the people’s memory.
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850 Feet from Christopher st Station As walking towards the station, the proposal of the entrance keep stronger visual connection with the pedestrian. Options are provided, to enjoy the greens and slow pace life in Washington Square or go up to the entrance and have a observation of the city and go down to the entrance for the subway when it is time to leave?
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Water Steam Gas 850 FEET FROM CHRISTOPHER ST SECTION
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This section also reveals the proposed entrance will also be very encouraging on the whole community’s interactions, even the people stay inside the buildings. Therefore, the proposed station entrance becomes a node of the city that collects the identities of the neighborhood and the interaction of people involved in the neighborhood as input in order to out a collective experience of the neighborhood’s past, present and, possibly, its future.
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210 Feet from Christopher st Station Representing for Christopher st station, the proposed entrance offer more than the cognition of the underground subway system. It also introduce a possible different layer of the urban space in Manhattan. This layer will also spread the cognition of the neighborhood in the city.
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This section presents a proposed underground connection to the subway station. Enrich the urban space in the city’s different layers to engage of the people’s interactions will enrich the experience of the city that goes to the human mind and become memories.
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0 Feet from Christopher st Station On top of the subway entrance, the different level of the proposal provide visual connections to historical objects, the neighborhood, the city and the proposed stations in other neighborhoods. It provides a chance for human mind to relocate itself in the city as well as reviewing the possibilities of the city.
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FIFTH AVE. AXIS TO THE CITY
GREENWICH . MANHATTAN
This section presents the proposed entrance is integrated into the both city’s aboveground and underground space to enrich the urban space by providing possibilities of actions that can be taken by the people.
1.Kevin Lynch, The Image of the City, (Cambridge: MIT Press 1960). P72
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Boutique Hotel The Local interventions make the hotel part of the downtown Syracuse community, embracing it is character as both a commercial and publics pace. Collaboration with Kamila Buraczynski
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Boutique Hotel Along the creek walk, the site located in a mix of residential and the flourishing commercial area. There are possibilities for the hotel to contribute to the neighborhood by integrating public interactions with the semi-public hotel space.
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A collage of proposal to bring the possible public interaction to the site.
An analysis of human interaction in the area.
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Plans . Art Wall Stepping away from the neighbor building, and propose to have the neighbor’s west elevation wall decorated by local artiest, so that will be part of the public space that can also enrich the hotel experience.
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The plans presents the visibility of the art wall in relation to the level of the hotel. Additionally, with the structure wall playing a role of distributions of the building’s mechanical supplies, the plans also revels the idea behind the arrangement of programs in relation to the art wall.
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Site Analysis Generate public space by moving up the functions of the hotel.
Conceptual structure proposal to corporate the idea of generating public space on the ground level.
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Steel Flat
Green Roof Parapet
Roof 57’0’’
Steel Clip 2” Rigid Insulation Insulation Cant Strip
Steel w-16 Beam
Concrete Slab with Metal Decking
Cor-ten Panel
Steel W-16 Beam
Double Glazing Ceiling Aluminum Window Frame System Awning Window
Detail in Section
1 Insulation .7” Cor-ten Panel Pulley Fixed Hinge Point Rolling Hinge Point
Fan Coil
Level 5 47’0’’ Fan Coil
Double Glazing Window Insulation
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Panel Operation in Plan
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Level 4 37’0’’
8” Soil with Plantings Filter Fabric Reservoir Layer Drainage Moisture-Retention Layer Aeration Layer Thermal Insulation Roof Barrier
2” Floor Finish
Ceiling
Waterproofing Membrane Structural Deck
Green Roof Detail
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Aluminum Window Frame System
Level 3 25’0’’
Double Glazing System
Concrete Fire Proofing
Operation
Cissus Antarctica [Green Wall]
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Level 2 14’0’’
Window Detail in Section
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1” Metal Rod
Steel Flat
Precast Concrete Slab Reinforcing Bar Insulation
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Suspended Ramp Structure Detail in Section
Ground Level 0’0’’
5 Concrete Fire Proofing Steel W-16 Beam
1”Thick Grout Gravel
Steel W-16 Beam 4”x4”Anchor Plate
Reinforce Concrete Reinforced Concrete
Concrete Slab 3’’ Insulation 3” Sand Gravel Drainage Pipe Concrete Footing Concrete Footing
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Wall Section & Details
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West Elevation The west elevation presents the boundary between pubic and private in this project: covered by the co-ten panel, there are the lobby, the guest rooms; the proposed exhibition space is finishing with glass panel and the green wall, while the ground level is mostly open for public interactions.
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IntroducingTheAxonometric public space are provided to the community as well as part of the hotel. Therefore, it encourages Teaching Design Studio the interaction between the hotel guests and the community.
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The Art Wall The present of art is outside the building and it is inside the building. Arts become an important element to define the property boundary of the hotel and to integrate the exterior and interior space.
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The Guest Room In order to provide to the guests the experience and understanding of the community, local artiest’ involve in the finishing and decoration of the guest rooms is a key.
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The Exhibition Space A exhibition space is designed to showcase the art work, it also plays a role of a stage for the art students from Syracuse University to start to introduce themselves to the world.
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Guggenheim Museum - Film Archive Study the city of Venice and renovate the Guggenheim Museum into a film archive that serve the purpose of archiving, exhibiting, and holding film events.
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water access. isolation
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Site Analysis The site is along the Grand Canal, water is a unique way to access the site. The connection of land and water indicates the possible opening to the film Archive, and the circulation of the building becomes very interesting.
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bridge staircase & elevator 2. staircase & elevator 1. screen 4. exist screen 3. screen 2.
screen 1.
office theater & exhibition & service theater & exhibition
ramp. water access archive & exhibition & office . underground
grand canal
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St. Polo
St. Marco Campo S. Stefano & Campo S. Angelo
Campo Salute
Campo Salute
Campo S.Stefano& Campo S.Angle
St.Polo
A Study Of The City Of Venice
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The film archive will stand out from the canal and present film events to the side of land as well as the side of water. It will be integrated into the city’s space and pattern, while introducing new architecture form and materials into the historical Venice.
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Module: algae tank and topography Functions: glow algae and energy transform/light well
Vernon City Motto: exclusively industrial Population:112
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Vernon City - Landscape Parking Lot The surging pollution forms the city’s identities and result in the small population of the city. The project propose a future of the city with a environmental friendly car and provide a better working environment for the people who come to the city for their jobs. Collaboration with Sean Morgan
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Weather data & designed modules
Designed modules & activities
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Algae As New Energy The technology provides the possibilities create biofuel from algae for vehicles. The design intent is to integrate the process of growing algae, refinement and the vehicle parking as a whole and a landscape that serves the city and the people who work in the city.
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The parkings are underground as the aboveground are occupied by the algae pools and the algae fuel will be delivered down for the vehicles. The recreation activities will also follow the modules down to the city’s underground.
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The Museum Of Time Destruction is a way of recreating.
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With global warming becoming the major environmental issue of the earth, the rising of sea level will destroy what our built environments. It will lead to a new way of living and memorizing the past.
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| Regular Days
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Diagrams of the form of the museum changed by flooding
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Diagrams of the form of the museum changed by flooding
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Penn Station - The Urban Hub Re-image of Penn Station as the hub in Manhattan that connects to the its buildings. To collect the city’s flow in a more efficient way by providing direct path to the transportation hub.
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Data study of different flow, walkability and time of transit in Manhattan. As the study shows that direct paths to Penn Station will improve the city’s transit and potentially stimulate the commercial activities on a different level.
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Teaching Example Model-Folding
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Teaching Example Introducing Axonometric
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349 Greenwich Wayfairer Lighting Renderings
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349 Greenwich Wayfairer Lighting Plan
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Bingqing’s House Living Room
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Bingqing’s House . Light & Shadow
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Jolene’s Garage East Elevation
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the Architecture
Berlin, Germany
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Jewish Museum, Berlin
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the Wildness
Tempelhofer Feld, Berlin
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El Morro, Puerto Rico
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Bankside, London
the People The people is the essences of a city. They light up the night in city with dulcet music on the street. So inviting, it was Christmas Eve.
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Charing Cross RD, London
It was Christmas Eve. On one side, the city was celebrating with lights and laughters. On the other side, it is filled with silence and misery.
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