JIGSAW
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Everyone is a puzzle piece, And just like how, Every piece is unique.
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CONTENT 4 Xinran Li CV 6 Reverse & Follow: Artisian Bicycle Hub 14 Mingling Through Music: New Building for Music Department UoL 20 Engraved Memories:A City Cenotaph 26 Steampunk: New Entrance For TATE Liverpool 40 Past/Forward: Fighting Notopia at the Docks + Liverbird 48 Opuscule + Practice Work
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XINRAN LI EDUCATION
Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, CB3 0DG xinran.li14@gmail.com TEL: 07729707357
University of Cambridge, Fitzwilliam College, United Kingdom 2018-2019 Master of Philosophy in Architecture and Urban Studies Predicted Result: Merit Focusing on Study and Improvement of High-rise Residential Buildings in China Research Involves Study of Architecture and Urban Design; Contemporary History, Social Economics and Policy in China; Architectural Sustainability and Environmental Design. University of Liverpool, United Kingdom 2014-2018 BA Architecture (2+2 program with Xi‘an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China) Final Result: First Class Module Includes: Architectural Design; Environmental Sustainability; Structure and Construction; Architecture History and Urban Studies; Practice Management.
WORK EXPERIENCE
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Architectural Assistant, AECOM (Shenzhen) Ltd. (4 weeks) • Contributes: Architectural design, computer modelling and project presentation. • Related project: Quick Scheme for the entrance and visitor hall of the SZ&HK Adolescent Communication Centre, Shenzhen.
Jul 2015
Architectural Assistant, AECOM (Shenzhen) Ltd. (8 weeks) • Contributes: Architectural research & design, computer modelling, site visit, project presentation. • Related project: Design of Xinghe Rongyu Community Phase two, Tianjin.
Jun 2016
Project Assistant, HARBIN WANDA CITY INVESTMENT Co. Ltd. (8 week) • Contributes: Project management, construction site supervision, design feedback. • Related project: Construction of Harbin Wanda City Hotel & Indoor Ski Resort, Harbin.
Jun 2017
Architectural Assistant, CHINA ARCHITECTURE DESIGN & RESEARCH GROUP. (6 weeks) Jun 2018 • Contributes: Architectural research & design, construction supervision, site visit, project conference & presentation. • Related project: Design of Youyu culture and tourism center, Shanxi; Construction of National Training & Management Centre for Winter Sports (venue for 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic Game), Beijing; Research, design& site visit for Annaya Stuff Centre, Chengde.
SKILLS COMPUTING MS Office software, Auto CAD, Photoshop, Indesign, Illustrator, Adobe PR ,Sketch Up, Rhinoceros, Grasshopper, V-ray, Keyshot, Familiar with Revit, Energy Plus, Know about Ecotech. LANGUAGES Chinese, English (IELTS 7.5 L: 8.5 R: 7.5 W: 7 S: 7)
LEADERSHIP AND ACTIVITIES Leader of Volunteers in Young Volunteer Association, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University. 2014-2015 Recruited volunteers, organized and led the team of small animal protection with over 20 volunteers. Led the team to volunteer in Suzhou Small Animal Protection Volunteer Association and the Suzhou Zoo every weekend during school. Over 100 hours volunteering. Exhibition Organizer, Liverpool School of Architecture, University of Liverpool 2018 Helped to curate, prepare and organize the exhibition, ‘Playing around the Docks – TATE and the Architectural Imagination’, at TATE LIVERPOOL and ‘Space and Material – Liverpool School of Architecture Degree Show’. Own works exhibited at both occasion simultaneously. Rowing Team of Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge. Placed 4th in division two and 15th overall in the Fairbairn Cup 2018 (78 rowing teams attended).
2018-2019
Head of the Liaison Division, Chinese Student and Scholar Association, University of Cambridge. 2018-2019 Led and organized the Liaison division (12 members) of CSSA CAMBRIDGE. Negotiated and collaborated with 15 local Chinese businesses in Cambridge. Responsible for fundraising and sponsorship of Cambridge Chinese New Year Gala 2019 & Cambridge-Oxford Chinese Student and Scholar Yacht Party 2019. Liaison Director of Cambridge Chinese New Year Gala 2019, University of Cambridge. 2019 Negotiated and collaborated with 16 sponsor companies from the UK and China. Raised £20,000 funds, prize worth £5,000, supplies worth £4,500 for the gala (1,700 audience). Comedy Actor on the Cambridge Chinese New Year Gala 2019, University of Cambridge 2019 Performed the comedy, ‘Green Light Restaurant’, on stage at Cambridge Chinese New Year Gala 2019 (1,700 audience). Being invited by CSSA UK to perform at Scotland Chinese New Year Gala 2019. INTERESTS Football, Basketball, Rowing, Hiking, Skiing, Singing, Cooking, Photography, Video Editing 5
Reverse & Follow: Artisian Bicycle Hub
Cycling has become one of the most popular leisure and fitness activities in the UK, particularly with young professionals and those in senior and managerial posts. Statistics show that the proportion of cyclists increases with household income, with many suggesting that “cycling has become the new golf”. An activity not just linked with fitness and well-being but also affluence, status and disposable income. These users are not opting for mass-produced bicycles but favour individual, customised products. The proposal is for the construction of a ‘bicycle hub’ – a centre for the sale, assembly and maintenance of bicycles, together with associated accommodation.
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Street View “ It’s referred to as ‘The Lane’ by locals and boasts a pretty eclectic mix of unique and independent shops, bars and restaurants.” vistliverpool.com
Elevation Design
he faรงade of the bicycle hub will REVERSE the common layouts, and enhance contract of light and massive.
The roof of the hub FOLLOWS the common profile, two pitched roofs, of the other residential buildings on the street.
Building Mass
South Elevatioin Position of Bicycle Hub
North Elevation
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Process Diagram
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Ground Floor
1st Floor
3rd Floor
Basement
2nd Floor
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Long Section
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Short Section 11
Front Birdview
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Back View
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Mingling Through Music: New Building for Music Department UoL The task is to design new performance and teaching facilities for the Music Department of The University of Liverpool. At the heart of These new facilities will be a performance space to celebrate and showcase the work of the university. As a result the building will accomplish two key functions: on the one hand it will provide teaching space and be part of the university campus and on the other hand it will be open to the public and serve the wider city. The design will need to balance these demands through an appropriate architectural response, while at the same time also acknowledging the specific urban surrounding and wider context. In addition you will need to demonstrate your understanding and successful application of structure, materiality and construction.
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Site and Acess Students Public Site
Precedents
Oslo Opera House Snohetta
Winspear Opera House Foster + Partners
The Mingling Two streams of different people, one from the campus the other from the city, are seperated equally. They meet on a bright open ‘bridge’(the linkage), and finally mingle together through music in the auditorium. The building is a place where the campus meets the city, learning meets practice, musician meets audience. A concert is not merely an event but a thinkful conversation. Public Audience Students or teachers Performers and technicians
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Long Section
Short Section
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The Linkage
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Foyer VIew
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Engraved Memories: A City Cenotaph The project begin with the history, which is definitely unmeasurable. Then the translation started- by interpreting events happened in the flow of time and the impression those events give upon us. Finally a space appeared, where people could reflect on history of the city. In this process, the effect of the space on audiences, and the spirit it conveys, are going back to unmeasurable again. We are using the tangible space to reflect an intangible flow of time, and finally build an intangile world of spirits.
"A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable." -Louis Kahn
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Team Leader Xinran Li Members Xinyue Cong Shuyi Hao
War Time
After a series of researches, We found the overpass, as a necessary part of the transportation system in a city, has occupied a large area of the urban land, but the space under it are always in a bad condition and lacking in administration.
Construction Time
Chongqing is an inland mountain city, and is famous for its overpasses, which could be seen everywhere. Therefore we chose the city center of Chongqing-Yu Zhong District, as the building site.
Revolution Time
Construction Time
Internet Era
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Eras and Geometry
War Time - Deconstruction- Chaos
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Revolution Time - Conflict - Sharpness
Construction Time - Development - Solidity
Internet Era - Globalization - Fluidity
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War Time
Revolution Time
Internet Era
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Steampunk: New Entrance For TATE Liverpool This project is connected with the acclaimed art gallery Tate. We will draw upon a collaboration between Liverpool School of Architecture, Tate and Liverpool's citizens in a playful way, using James Stirling’s unrealised entrance project for the Tate Liverpool as a starting point. In the end, a new entrance for the Tate Liverpool will be deisgned. In a famous doodle of the early 1980s, while working on the concept stage for the new Tate Liverpool [Stirling, Wilford & Associates, 1982-88], Stirling sketched an imaginative proposal for the entrance of the new gallery. It consisted of a ship crashing into the side elevation, with all the elements to generate a clear, unmistakable landmark. A surreal proposal, accompanied by an evocative handwritten caption: Albert Dock – L' pool: About 1958? the warehouses of the Dock were full of broken up ships parts – funnels, bridges, propellers… Later the project took a safer rationale and the current entrance was built.
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Newton, William Blake, 1795.
No.1 Poultry, London, James Stirling, 1997.
Original Sketch, James Stirling.
Master of the Universe, Eduardo Paolozzi, 1989
Engineering Building of University of Leicester, James Stirling, 1963.
New Interpretation.
TATE Liverpool, James Stirling, 1988.
New Entrance For TATE Liverpool
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Interpretation with Stirling's Sketch
From a Ship
Period cutaway diagram of a triple-expansion steam engine installation, circa 1918
To Steam Eingine
Steam at Sea, Denis Griffiths.
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Taking Apart......
Recombination
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Waterfront
Albert Dock Sculpture
Building Mass
Pedestrian
Main Road
Recreation & Catering
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Museum
Programme
Connection
Acess 1
Acess 2
Structure
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Ground Floor
1st Floor 32
2nd Floor
3rd Floor
Set more Steampunk sculptures in the Albert Dock area. Introduce TATE Liverpool to more visitors and a wider context.
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Elvations
East
West
North
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Front View
Long Section
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Story Board
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One. Seeing the Sculpture
Two. Inside the Sculpture
Three. Arriving
Four. In the Atrium
Five. Being Trasported
Six. Rest and View
Seven . The Exit
Eight . Back to Ground 37
Steampunk: The Model
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Past/Forward: Fighting Notopia at the Docks Notopia, the term was coined by the Architectural Review in 2016 in a dedicated issued. Notopia architecture is devoid of identity, cultrual and historical response or social purpose. Typically it refers to architecture the does not respond to its context, lack space for the public at ground level and uses material which have no connection to the location. 'Different places had distinctive purposes; it was these differences as much as geography, local building materials and architecural movements that shaped equally distinctive building- especially civic buildings- in towns and cities boasting identities as different as sandstone is from clay have come to resemble one another even more closely, in terms of what they do economically, in their social aspirations, in their ways of life and through their architecture' 'Notopia: the post-industrial hollowing out of cities is a trasgedy for civic identity.' Architecture Review 03/06/2016
Past/ Forward choose the old Salthouse dock area in Liverpool as the playground, has challenged us to respond to the historical context, socioeconomic needs and urban routes while forming vobrant, anti-notopia architectrual responses. Stage 1: Group Masterplan Stage 2: Individual Projects 40
Conceptual Mapping by the group
Group Masterplan
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Past/Forward: Liverbird The project is called Liverbird. It aims to be a landmark and a gate for the whole Salthouse Dock planning area to reclaim vibrancy to its surrounding architectural atmosphere. The form comes from the marine and industrial culture of the city of Liverpool. At the same time, it foresees to the future by harvesting wind power and providing electricity to new energy vehicles. As a symbol, It is also about people seeing it, feeling it and engaging with it. Cafes are suspended looking at beautiful dock views. Galleries with viewing platform are on the higher floor telling the dock history to the visitors... Through retrospect and prospect, impression stays and imagination is ignited. It is a symbol both for the past and the future. It is the Liverbird for Liverpool.
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Precedents and Inspiration
Static & Solid Architectural Atomosphere
Not well balanced & merged
Rich & Colourful Activities
Milwaukee Art Musem Santiago Calatrava
Strandbeest Theo Jansen
Ship skeleton /Liverpool as marine time city
Effel Tower Alexandre Gustave Eiffel 43
Wind on the Site
Wind Sail System
The site has abundant wind power resource. Ideal orientation for wind power havesting. Can be developed in to a wind powered electric car charging station replacing the exsisting car park to meet the demand of growing electric vehicle industry.
Wing sail is a variable-camber aerogynamic structure which would provide more lift. Commonly used in catamaran. Here used in the project to improve the catching of wind power.
Components & Materiality
Power Passway
The site has abundant wind power resource. Ideal orientation for wind power havesting. Can be developed in to a wind powered electric car charging station replacing the exsisting car park to meet the demand of growing electric vehicle industry.
The building is self-sustained. Power generated would be distributed through hollow supporting structure to the musem, Cafe & charging post.
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Dock history museum
2nd Floor 1. Dock history museum 2. Museum office
1st Floor 1. Cafe
Cafe
Ground Floor 1. Electric car charging piles
Looking inward
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Sections
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Liverbird: The Model
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Opuscule: Steampunk: Concept Model Following models has been made to develop the composition of parts from the steam engine. The relation should be more complex and free rather than simply connected.
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Opuscule: Typogram
Songjiang Art Campus Location: Shanghai, China Construction: 2015 Architect: Archi-Union Architects
concrete glass bricks wood titanium-zinc steel ramp reveal beam
混凝土 玻璃 砖 木材 钛锌板 钢铁 坡道 窗侧 横梁
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Practice Work:
SZ&HK Adolescents Communication Center (Not Built)
AECOM (Shenzhen) Ltd. 27th Jul - 29th Aug 2015 Architectural Design Department. Computer modelling of the SZ&HK Adolescent Communication Centre; Quick Scheme for the entrance and visitor hall.
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Practice Work:
Premises of Dunhuang Fire Protection Section CHINA ARCHITECTURE DESIGN & RESEARCH GROUP. 6th Aug - 18th Sep 2018 Architectural Design Department. Awarding presentation drawings for Premises of Dunhuang Fire Protection Section.
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Jigsaw of life is yet to be continued...
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