QI XUAN LI PORTFOLIO Selected Works ‘14
Master of Landscape Architecture 2017
Harvard University Graduate School of Design
address: 11 Peabody Terrace, Apt 1601, MA 02138
phone: (347)558-2505
email: qli@gsd.harvard.edu
EDUCATION 2014 - 2017
HARVARD UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF DESIGN Candidate for Master in Landscape Architecture I - 2017
2012 - 2014
UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA, Canada Civil Engineering, School of Applied Science, Dean’s Honor List, 2010 - 2012 Bachelor of Environmental Design [Honors] with Distinction School of Architecture + Landscape Architecture
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE June - August 2016
Sharon Davis Design, New York, NY Design Research Intern. Collaborated with two other interns on a research on the social, cultural and climatic conditions of a city in Ethiopia. Proposed schematic landscape and architecture design based on our research findings.
January 2016
HMWhite, New York, NY Landscape Intern. This was a week-long externship. Worked on building terrace garden design for Studio Gang’s project called Solar Carve Building, situated right adjacent to the Highline. Built rhino models and constructed perspective views for multiple iterations.
June - August 2015
SWA San Francisco, San Francisco, CA Landscape Intern. Independently developed a design and construction drawings for a special paving design for Poly Zhuhai International Plaza using Grasshopper and Autocad. Developed construction drawings for staircase and seat wall.
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
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October 2016
ACADIA 2016 Conference Project Publication. Submitted and published a school project that involved the use of new representation and modeling tools such as Sensor, Arduino, Processing, and Sediment Table.
Summer 2016
2016 Penny White Project Fund Researcher Using animation as a research method to study the temp-spatial characters of the Hudson River’s real-time environmental sensing system.
Design Proposal Excavating the Hybrid Ground 2017 ULI Hines Competition Entry Surface + Edge : Indeterminacy
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Academic The Ephemeral Landscape of Cyborg Infrastructure
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Professional wORK Internship Work Sample
January 2016 - Present
Ecologies, Techniques, Technologies II /Spring 2016 Teaching Assistant. Assisted professor with course online system management, assignment brief revision. Assisted students with grading assignments.
SKILLS
Computer
Autocad . Rhino . Sketchup . Grasshopper . Photoshop . Illustrator . Indesign . ArcGIS . Arduino . Processing . Word . Excel . Power Point
Language
English [fluent] Mandarin [native] Cantonese [native] Japanese [intermediate]
AWARDS 2016
REFERENCE
Penny White Prize, BSLA Scholarship, ASLA Advocacy Scholarshi, ACADIA 2016 Scholarship Sharon Davis Principal Sharon Davis Design 31 Perry St., New York, NY 10014 (212)255-8025 ·sharon@sharondavisdesign.com
Bradley Cantrell Associate Professor Department of Landscape Architecture Graduate School of Design, Harvard University bcantrell@gsd.harvard.edu
“Scenery is more than an object or a series of objects; more than a spectacle, more than a scene of a series of scenes, more than a landscape, and other than a series of landscapes. Moreover, there may be beautiful scenery in which not a beautiful blossom or leaf or rock, bush or tree, not a gleam of water or of turf shall be visible. But there is no beautiful scenery that does not give the mind an emotional impulse different from that resulting from whatever beauty may be found in a room, courtyard, or garden, within which vision is obviously confined by walls or other surrounding artificial constructions. Given sufficient space, scenery of much simpler elements than are found in the site of Franklin Park may possess the soothing charm which lies in the qualities of breadth, distance, depth, intricacy, atmospheric perspective, and mystery. It may have picturesque passages (that is to say, more than picturesque objects or picturesque “bits”). It may have passages, indeed, of an aspect approaching grandeur and sublimity.”
- Frederick Law Olmsted
Excavating the Hybrid Ground 2015 March, 8 Weeks Instructor: Anita Berrizbeitia with Jill Desimini Core Studio II : Spring 2015 Over several decades of transformation, Franklin Park has lost its original spirit envisioned by Olmsted. Encroached by modern recreation, Franklin Park has become a container for a conglomeration of sports fields that have little connection with their surroundings. In response to Franklin Park’s current condition and its original spirit envisioned by Olmsted, my design proposes to excavate a hybrid ground that restores its spiritual and practical needs and creates a meaningful connection between them.
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conditions by excavating a hybrid play space that can accommodate modern recreational uses and restore the park’s historical qualities. My major design move is the introduction of a bowl-shaped landform that directs view outward when standing inside of it and directs view inward when standing outside of it. This spatial duality builds a visual language that captures Franklin Park’s original spirit while meeting the demands of Franklin Park’s current condition.
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Modern recreation and urban development have gradually rendered Franklin Park obsolete. This is revealed in the spatial and social separation between modern recreation and Franklin Park, and poor park management that has resulted from this separation. A section through the schoolboy stadium reveals its interruptive role in users’ experience both inside and outside the stadium. Excavating the Hybrid Ground situates the problem in the Playstead and looks to resolve the park’s poor
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User experience of arriving the bowl is carefully choreographed. There are two major entries into the bowl; the north and the south entrance. Spatial continuity is maintained from the circulation that connects the two entries. The long section shows that the bowl declines from south to north. The contour plan shows that the contour lines continue to descend as one approaches the south entry, vice versa, continue to
ascend toward the north entry. Users are greeted differently at different entries (section perspectives + perspectives); arriving at the north entry, one encounters the bowl space as enclosed and framed by the landform and the white pines; on the contrary, arriving at the south entry, one is greeted by a visual corridor that opens up as the landform falls back.
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The detail axonometric drawings show the bowl’s elegant integration into its surrounding as well as the bowl’s potential as a hybrid ground that restores, maintains and explores Franklin Park’s important role in providing meaningful and quality public space.
User experience is carefully choreographed. There are two major entries into the bowl; the north and the south entrance. Spatial continuity is maintained from the circulation that connects the two entries. The long section shows that the bowl declines from south to north. The contour plan shows that the contour lines continue to descend as one approaches the south entry, vice versa, continue to ascend toward the north entry. Users are greeted differently at the two
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entries (section perspectives + perspectives); arriving at the north entry, one encounters the bowl space as enclosed and framed by the landform; on the contrary, arriving at the south entry, one is greeted by a visual corridor that opens up as the landform falls back.
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ULI Hines Competition: Chicago North Branch 2017 January, 2 Weeks Advisor: Stephen Grey ULI Hines Competition: Winter 2017 Located in the center of three booming Chicago neighborhoods with distinctive characters - Bucktown, Wickle Park and Lincoln Park - our site has been challenged by its industrial past and is at risk of losing its importance in the larger regional development due to a combination of unfavorable conditions - inconvenient transportation, economic stagnation, outdated infrastructure, and environmental hazard. As urban planners and developers, we see a pressing need and a unique opportunity to unlock its value through both spatial recognition and strategic planning. We believe that it has tremendous potential to integrate yesterday’s industrial heritage into tomorrow’s technological innovation; to connect the lake front prosperity on the east (Lincoln Park) to the arts and cultural development on the west (Bucktown), and th form a strategic alliance with its north-south neighborhoods (the former Finkl Steel site and Goose Island) with the goal of invigorating the entire North Branch Industrial Corridor.
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DESIGN STRATEGIES
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the Chicago River will give adjacent neighborhoods better access to sports facilities, echoing Mayor Emanuel’s Morgan Park Sports Center project for the south side of Chicago. Additionally, the Clybourn Station of the Metra rail will be relocated to increase its area of influence and effectiveness in the neighborhood and at the same time enhance the new North Branch district’s connection to the Downtown area and the northern suburbs.
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0 s.f. Headquarter Office s.f. 0 0s.f. Headquarter Office Headquarter Headquarter Office Office 0 s.f. Office 0 s.f. 0 s.f. Office Office - Elevate the visibility of the Innovation CorridorOffice 0 s.f. Condominium s.f. 0 0s.f. Condominum -with Elevate the visibility the Innovation Corridor with Condominium Condominium - -Elevate Elevate the visibility visibility ofIncubator ofof the the Innovation Innovation Corridor Corridor with with athe waterfront Hall and central plaza 702,826 s.f. Apartment Apartment 702,826s.f. s.f. 702,826 Apartment Apartment anew newwaterfront waterfrontIncubator IncubatorHall Hall and Central Plaza aanew and and Central Central Plaza Plaza - A waterfront 400-roomIncubator hotel at Hall the intersection of the Inno- RetailRetail 19,171 s.f. 19,171s.f. s.f. 19,171 Retail - 400-room A400-room 400-room hotel atthe the intersection of the Innova- Retail - -AA hotel hotel at at the intersection intersection of of the the InnovaInnovavation Corridor and the Industrial Re-design zone to Container 0 s.f. Retail s.f. 0 0s.f. Container Retail Container Container Retail Retail tion Corridor and the Industrial Re-design zone to tion tion Corridor Corridor and and the theasIndustrial Industrial Re-design zone zone toto 0 s.f. re-affirm the area Chicago’sRe-design newest hub Sports Center 0 s.f. 0 s.f. Sports Center Sports Sports Center Center re-affirm the area Chicago’s newest tourist attraction re-affirm re-affirm the the area area asasas Chicago’s Chicago’s newest tourist tourist attraction 58,158 s.f. Tech Exhibition Center -East bank apartments tonewest enhance theattraction ResidentialTech 58,158s.f. s.f. 58,158 Tech Exhibition Center Exhibition Center Center - East bank apartments enhance the Residential and TechExhibition - -East East bank apartments apartments tototo enhance enhance the the Residential Residential and and 27,485 s.f. Parking andbank Sporting Parkitswith its newest luxury and familyParking 27,485s.f. s.f. 27,485 Park Parking Sporting Park with newest luxury and family tenants Sporting Sporting Park Parkwith withits itsnewest newestluxury luxuryand andfamily familytenants tenants 158,575 s.f. HotelHotel tenants 158,575s.f. s.f. 158,575 Hotel Hotel Bike Trail fosters connection with all neighborhoods 0% 25% 50% 75% 100% - -Bike Bike Trail Trail fosters fosters connection connection with withall allneighborhoods neighborhoods 0% 0% 25% 25% 75% 100% - Bike trail fosters connection with neighborhoods 0% 25% 50% 50% 75% 75% 100%
Financial Summary
FINANCIAL FINANCIALSUMMARY SUMMARY Key Statistics
Key Key Statistics Statistics
Current Current Site Site Value Value (start (start of Year of Year $232,804,634 0): $232,804,634 Current Site Value (start of0):Year 0): $232,804,634 Projected Projected Site Site Value (end(end of(end Year of Year 10): $1,838,749,751 $1,838,749,751 Projected SiteValue Value of10): Year 10): $1,838,749,751 Total Development Cost: -$1,291,856,853 Total Total Development Development Cost: Cost: -$1,291,856,853 -$1,291,856,853 Project Level Unlevered IRR: 11.7% Project Project Level Level Unlevered Unlevered IRR:IRR: 11.7% 11.7% Entity Level Levered IRR:18.4% 18.4% Entity Entity Level Level Levered Levered IRR:IRR: 18.4% IndLOOP IRR: 22.4% IndLOOP IndLOOP LLPLLP LLP IRR: IRR: 22.4% 22.4% Equity Partner IRR: 17.0% Equity Equity Partner Partner IRR:IRR: 17.0% 17.0%
Aquisition Strategy
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Projected Projected Buildout Buildout byby Area Area Projected Buildout by Area (SQFT) (SQFT) 3,500,000 3,500,000 3,000,000 3,000,000 2,500,000 2,500,000
Market-rate Market-rate rentalrental housing housing Market-rate for-sale housing Market-rate for-sale housing Affordable Affordable rentalrental housing housing Affordable for sale Affordable forhousing sale housing OfficeOffice HQ HQ OfficeOffice Commercial (Class(Class A) A) Commercial RetailRetail (all) (all) HotelHotel
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ACQUISITION ACQUISITION STRATEGIES STRATEGIES
Innovation Square
Tech Grove
Riverside Terrace
Triangle Ranch Tower
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C C B B B1 B1 TheThe acquisition acquisition of B1, of B1, B2 and B2 and C1 C1 is tois strengthen to strengthen the the connectivity connectivity withwith Goose Goose Island, Island, Block Block C and C and Lincoln Lincoln Park. Park. It fits It fits intointo our our longlong termterm strategy strategy to form to form a strategic a strategic north–south alliance alliance and and build build an an B2 B2north–south integrated integrated community community of collecof collective tive growth. growth. We expect We expect this this investinvestment ment to result to result in positive in positive returns returns overover time.time.
PROGRAM Office Parking
Block FAR: 5.75
sf units 401,293 62,600 231
PROGRAM Office Retail Display Parking Block FAR: 5.44
sf units 559,099 38,750 32,292 36,112 133
PROGRAM Office Retail Parking Block FAR: 3.11
sf units 105,163 79,179 39,062 145
PROGRAM Residentail Retail Parking Block FAR: 4.19
sf units 387,386 781 110,438 37,404 138
PROGRAM Residentail Retail Fitness Parking
sf units 659,758 1329 19,170 19,773 56,338 208
Block FAR: 4.19
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Within our site, the goal is to integrate our industrial heritage into faster growing industries. Four distinctive zones (Industrial Re-Design, Culinary Cultural Drive, Innovation Corridor, and Residential & Sporting Park) will maintain individual identities while interacting with each other at major venues, Center Plaza, and wa-
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Our core design strategy involves turning a historically detached and inward-looking place into an open platform for knowledge sharing, cultural interactions, physical well-being, and collective growth. First of all, we identify that our geographic location is a great asset to foster connection with the rest of the city: We elevate the waterfront significance not only as a major
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Surface + Edge : Indeterminacy 2014 October, 8 Weeks Instructor: Gary Hilderbrand with Jane Hutton, Zaneta Hong, and Silvia Benedito Core Studio I: Fall 2014 This exercise asks us to conceptualize a new urban square on the Boston waterfront, which requires us to exploit the indifinite, moving edge between land and water. Initial formal investigations are derived from Snohetta’s Oslo Opera House. Final design capitalizes on the ephemeral quality of the waterfront, and creates different edge conditions that heightens users’ spatial experience in the park.
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An analysis of the project site’s urban context reveals that new residential/ commercial development along the Boston waterfront has a much larger scale than the older part of the city. One of my design intentions is to maintain the qualities of a small-scale urban fabric in large-scale urban development. My design strategy is to overlay a secondary network Overflow of circulation over a large plaza Wet space.
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Learning from my precedent project, Oslo Opera House, this urban plaza uses a wedge form to orient users. Inside the plaza, a secondary circulation stitches together open spaces. This continuous pathway also takes one through a variety of spaces, experiencing both the dynamic waterfront as well as the quiet inner plaza.
Similar to the Oslo Opera House, the wedges are tilted to generate intimate semi-private spaces long the secondary circulation. Together with the large open spaces, the variety of spaces along the continuous pathway create a choreographed experience as one walks along it.
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The Ephemeral Landscape of Cyborg Infrastructure
Qi Xuan, Li Harvard GSD
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Geomorphology Modeling Table, Responsive Environments and Artifacts Lab. (Li, 2016.05.17)
TECHNOLOGY AND TECHNIQUES OF REAL-TIME RESPONSIVE SYSTEM Introduction
This project was completed as final assignment for a seminar course (Cyborg Coasts: Responsive Hydrologies) taught by Associate Professor Bradley Cantrell at the Graduate School of Design’s Department of Landscape Architecture. The project explores responsive modes of design and technology through the development of a responsive hydrological infrastructure in two phases. Equipment and tools used in this project include: Geomorphology Modeling Table, Kinect (As Depth Sensor), Arduino Servo and Motor, Custom Built Parts, Processing. The project uses the geomorphology modeling table as the site and engages the phenomena present in this environment. Phase One: Sensing and Representation
The first phase involves exploration of a method of sensing that would recreate a real-time digital representation/visualization of phenomenon present in the geomorphology modeling table. My goal was to reveal the dynamic nature of the sediments when water was released to flow downstream through the sediments. My choice of media and technique engages Processing as a visualization tool (Figure 2) and Kinect as a depth sensing tool to retrieve and represent a field of topographic data points of the sediments inside the modeling table (Figure 4).
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Student:
Qi Xuan (Tony), Li
Class:
Cyborg Coasts: Responsive Hydrologies (ADV-09139)
Instructor: Bradley, Cantrell TA(s):
Spyridon, Ampanavos Yujie, Hong
Location:
Harvard GSD
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Processing Interface / Digital Representation of Sediments (Li, 2016.05.17)
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System Diagram. (Li, 2016.05.17)
In the next page, you can see a sequence of images showing the Processing interface, with three different color pixels displayed (Figure 5); red represents sediment erosion, meaning decrease in topographic elevation, green represents sediment accretion, meaning increase in topographic elevation, and white represents constant elevation. The brightness of the colors reflects the amount of change, with the brightest color pixel (bright red or green) showing significant change in topographic elevation, and darkest color pixel (dark red or green) showing little change. The mechanism behind the color assignment follows that Processing records data every 250 milliseconds, and compares them with data stored in the previous frame, returning a value that represents change in topographic elevation, and is then visualized using the above color gradients (Figure 3). This Processing script produces a digital view of the simulated environment in the sand table, showing in real-time how flowing water continuously reshapes topography overtime.
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Phase Two: Real-Time Responsive Infrastructure
The second phase focuses on the interaction between the sensing and the response, the digital and the analog. In other words, it builds upon the method of sensing developed in the first phase, and engages hybrid approaches that oscillate between analog and digital techniques. Through iterative prototyping, I designed an infrastructure that would respond to data sensed through Kinect and interpreted through Processing. This prototype is constituted of two parts (Figure 4). The first part, the L-shaped arm, the lower part, moves linearly across a custom-built track powered by an Arduino motor. This part is designed to screen only the sediments, accumulating sediments behind it without intervening water flow. The L-shaped arm responds to the average location of where sediment change is occurring over a period of 10 seconds, which is also where water is flowing through; it repositions itself to the updated location every 10 seconds to encourage sediment deposition by accumulating sediments behind it.
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The second part, the upside-down T-shaped arm, which sits above the L-shaped arm, rotates locally at the center of the infrastructure. It responds to the number of pixels that are assigned a color (red or green), which corresponds to the surface area of sediments that are being eroded/deposited; a large surface area of change would turn it to its 0 degree position, preventing water from flowing directly through, while a small surface area of change would turn it to its 180 degree position, allowing water to pass through without disruption (Figure 7). Together, this infrastructure attempts to recognize where water is flowing, and where sediments are flowing, and creates ephemeral landforms based on sensed information. Looking Forward
While the system still need to be further developed and refined, it shows promise for its ability to adapt to dynamic conditions based on obser ved, immediate conditions, rather than predicted conditions. Further development could potentially incorporate ideas of
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machine learning as the system evolves in the long term; the idea that the system itself evolves over time.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS This project was completed in a seminar course (Cyborg Coasts: Responsive Hydrologies) in the Department of Landscape Architecture at Harvard Graduate School of Design, and was supported by the Responsive Environments and Artifacts Lab. I would like to express
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Cyborg Infrastructure in Motion. (Li, 2016.05.17)
REFERENCES [Journal Article] Allison, M. A. & Meselhe, E. A. (2010). “The use of large water and sediment diversions in the lower Mississippi River (Louisiana)
[Book] Cantrell, B., Holzman, J. (2016) Responsive Landscapes: Strategies
Bio Qi Xuan (Tony) Li is a second year Masters of Landscape Architecture
for Responsive Technologies in Landscape Architecture. New York. NY:
student at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Prior to GSD, Tony
Routeledge.
studied at the University of British Columbia where he received Bachelor
[Book] Galloway, A. (2004). Protocol how control exists after decentraliza-
who gave me the opportunity to work on this exciting project and who
tion. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.
responsive technology in Landscape Architecture. I am also grateful to my TAs, Spyridon Ampanavos and Yujie Hong, for assistance with my Processing script and Arduino setup, which were critical to the operation of this project. Many people, especially my classmates, Leif Estrada, Yuanjie Li, Samantha Solano, Sonny Meng Qi Xu, have made valuable comment suggestions on this project. I thank all the people for their help directly or indirectly.
The Ephemeral Landscape of Cyborg Infrastructure. Li
scenarios.” Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, (138): 57-68.
for coastal restoration.” Journal of Hydrology, (387): 346-360.
my special thanks to my course instructor, Professor Bradley Cantrell, provided expertise that greatly broadened my knowledge on the topic of
landscape effects of Mississippi River diversions on elevation and accretion in Louisiana deltaic wetlands under future environmental uncertainty
of Environmental Design with distinction. His academic interest lies at the intersection of technology and design. He is particularly interested in investigating new forms of landscape representation in relation to tech-
[Book] Morton, T. (2007). Ecology without nature: Rethinking environmental
nology and research methods. He was recently awarded the Penny White
aesthetics. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
Fund Prize for an independent research project for which he is using
[Book] Shiffman, D., & Fry, S. (n.d.). The Nature of Code. [Book] Reas, C., & Fry, B. (2007). Processing: A programming handbook for
animation as a research method to understand the invisible dimension and the tempo-spatial dynamic of the Hudson River’s real-time environmental sensing system.
visual designers and artists. Cambridge, MASS.: MIT Press. [Journal Article] Wang, H., Steyer, G. D., Couvillion, B. R., Rybczyk, J. M., Beck, H. J., Sleavin, W. J., . . . Rivera-Monroy, V. H. (2014). “Forecasting
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SUMMER INTERNSHIP WORK SAMPLE Poly Zhuhai International Plaza SWA Group
Poly Zhuhai Int. Plaza Paving Design, SWA San Francisco
My main responsibility during the internship was Poly Zhuhai International Plaza’s paving design. The highlight of the above paving plan I was working on was the four plaza with special gradient paving. My workflow for the special pavement involved parametric operation using grasshopper and modularization. The process of designing paving pattern not only required technical knowledge, but also raised design
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issues such as paving unit size in relation to plaza scale, negotiation of paving edge, and expectation of craftsmanship. One of the biggest challenge was to resolve limitations posed by paving module’s constraints. Paving module number 11 as you will find in the image below was one response to modular pavement constraints.
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POLY ZHUHAI INT. PLAZA 珠海保利国际 广场 Poly Real Estate Group Co., Ltd.
Consultants 顾问
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Paving Modules The special paving retains the basic pattern and color of the bigger plaza. Modular pavement is used to rationalize the special paving pattern. There are 12 paving modules, ordered in a gradient. A number of scale issues were considered in designing the modules. The size of each pavement unit and
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the thickness of their joints were printed at 1 to 1 scale to test how they would affect the plaza’s scale. The left and right side of the paving modules are toothed to dissolve their edges.
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Paving Module Arrangement Plan, SWA San Francisco
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Staircase Detail, SWA San Francisco
Seat Wall Detail, SWA San Francisco
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Other than paving design, I also worked on detailing staircases, benches, and seat wall, etc. The biggest challenge was of course material assembly and three dimensionality. I found detailing very interesting, because it also prompted design thinking
that involved hiding, revealing, fitting, matching of material detail. For example, incorporating groove was a way to dissolve inconsistency caused by stone veneer joints.
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THANK YOU QI XUAN LI qixuan92@hotmail.com (347)-558-2505