PORTFOLIO YANLI LI | Selected Works 2015-2021 | Apply for UCL | MA MArch Urban Design
CONTENTS -
01 Urban
Village : Shapowei`s Memory
Urban Design In XiaMen | Architrcture + Landscape |2015 * Excellent graduation project of Xiamen University
70'
OLD PEOPLE
SPACE
TRADITION
90'
VOLUME
COMPLEXITY
NEED FUTURE INDIVIDUALS 00'
CULTURE
50'
LIGHT
LOGIC
RECORD MEMORY MACHINE
02 Community : Public Community Center
Community Open Space In Suzhou | Architrcture |2020 * London Design Awards 2020 - Silver Award | WAF CHINA Ecellence Award
03 Building : Dis-continuity
Seniors Activity Center | Architrcture Mereology Research | 2020 * Design Studio
04 Hut : Smart Morphism
Public Infrastructure| Machine Learning| 2021 * Design Studio
05 Other
Works
Painting | Photograph * National MeiYu Exhibition - the Second Award
Urban Village - The life and death of Shapowei's memory Xiamen University Tan Kah Kee College | University Graduation Project 2015.09-2015.12 Instructor: Prof. Bo Ling Individual Work Award: Excellent Graduation Project of Xiamen University
The site of this project was used as a public leisure and trading venue for local fishermen in about 300 years ago. In order to increase the handling capacity, local government built the Yanwu Bridge on the west side of the site. However, the bridge blocked the original entrance of the dock. As a result, the vibrant activities on the dock at Shapowei gradually diminished. Although the original look was retained in surrounding streets and lanes of the site, the dock is not prosperous as before. Also timeworn facilities and poor living situation became the essential issues for the site regeneration.
EXISTING SITUATION Urban Division
STRATEGIES OF RE-STITCH
Lack of Activities
Urban Connection
Full of Activities
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Urban connection Old building as a division
Building 406m
Negative Public Spaces
Popularity 1 Star
People Flow Urban Fabric
Confusing Urban Fabric
Site Area 0.18km2
Urban connection Old building as a division
Positive Public Spaces
Popularity 5 Star
People Flow Urban Fabric
Clear Urban Fabric
Public Plaza Open Space
Public Space 11%
Public bulding
Public Space 11%
Public Plaza Open Space Public Building
Separated Road
Demolished Fabric Original Fabric
Public Space 38%
Negative Green Spaces
Public Plaza Open Space Public Building
Integrated Road
Demolished Fabric Original Fabric
Positive Green Spaces
Si tu at ion T he bu ildin gs a re dilapidated;The electrical wires a r e a g i n g ; Many buildings h a ve h i d d e n d a n g e r ; Roa d s a re blocked by garbage.
Accessibility 1 Star
Station Fishing-boat Parking Lot
Vehicle Pedestrian
Public Space 10%
Open space Natural Man-made
Accessibility 5 Star
Station Fishing-boat Parking Lot
Vehicle Pedestrian
Public Space 67%
Open space Natural Man-made
So l ut i on
1.Reorganize the urban fabric; 2.Enhance the sanitary condition of river and port; 3.Improve the quality of life through public residential buildings that preserve local history and culture 4.Inject new unction to attract more young people and artist. 1646
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1980
2015
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Cluster4：Seaside
Cluster1：Vertical Greening
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Cluster5：Artist's studio
1
Cluster2：Gallery
3 4 2 N
Cluster3：Landscape
Ea s t-wes t c ross-sec ti on The renovated traditional buildings retained the local culture elements and original structure. They naturally separate the relative private inner bay of Shapowei from the sea on the west side. However, high permeable morphology of these renovated public buildings could increase space integration of each side.
Masterplan
Cluster6：The facade renovation 0
25
50m
Exhibition
Ver tical Greening
The large space of the original factory building is transformed into a cultural exhibition area, and the frame embedded with the basic elements of the sloping roof serves as a gray space that links the building before it can hold various indoor and outdoor art exhibition
In order to preserve the original building, the frame of the building structure was left and re-reinforced, and small boxes were randomly embedded to form different physical spaces, which became the best viewing platform in Shapowei
Landscape In order to enrich the large area of construction vacant land, use the reproducibility and different modulus plank road to increase the space playability
Penetrability There are only pedestrians in the park, which is isolated from the roads outside, but you can see the sea to the west through the gaps
Community - Public Community Center Australia PTA Architectural Design Company | Completed Project 2019.09-2020.04 Collaborators: Yanli Li, Mr. Yuan , Zhibo Zhang Contribution: Conceptual desing,developing,technical drawings and on-site supervisor Awards: LONDON DESIGN 2020-Silver Award | WAF CHINA - Ecellence Award
This project designed a multifunctional public community center containing modern public rooms, book bar and other public space. It serves as a living room for the community. It was built on the west of the community entrance. In day time, the building could harmoniously merge in surrounding environment; and in night time it could guide people home with gentle radiance.
Site Background The site is located at Taihu lakeside, Suzhou, a welloff historical and cultural Chinese city. The project aimed to design a public community centre for local residents. The site is chosen beside the intersection of urban roads and the community main lane across the middle of the community. It could serve as a lobby of the community.
River
Su Shi Building
2
History / Culture
5 1
4
6
Greening
3
Space
Building
Material N
Masterplan
Road
1 Modern Book Bar
4 Courtyard
2 Young Activity Space
5 City Park
3 Public Room
6 Corridors
0
5
10m
So lu tio n
1.Courtyard
2.Corridor
3.Massing
4.Inner Citadel
Young Activity Space Public Room Modern Book Bar Courtyard
City Garden Corridors
To p View s h o w s th e t h e terra ce of m o d e rn bo ok ba r a n d the c e n t r a l c o u r t ya rd
The public community centre was designed as a small buildings complex. It shaped a courtyard overall through buildings and corridors arrangement. Moreover, corridors and courtyard could not only linked different functional space but also partition off the positive and negative space. Also, corridors and courtyard could improve the visibility and intelligibility of the layout.
Bo o k Bar
D i ver s e L i v i ng Ro o m
Research -traditional construction of bricks
C our tyard
M a ter i a l s Book Bar uses U-glass at the top and builds a platform with grey terrocotta panel . A mixed usage of new and traditional local materials retains traditional cultural features of Suzhou. D ive r se L iving Room
Vertical Section
Transverse Section
C i t y Park
Fac ad e
Building - Dis-continuity Design Studio | 2020.10-2020.12 Individual Work
The amount of older adualts increases rapidly in Germany , however there are less specializing public facilities for older people. This project investigated the physical and psychological needs of older adults in Germany. Also it provided the functional space to fulfill the need of older adults.
P rog ram
1
Society - Unemployment Rate
Senior Citizens Activity Center
Disabled Seniors Increase
re l ati ng to
2
Classroom
Government - Financial Pressure
T i m e and S pace
MUC B ike
Open restaurant
- Workshop 5
Society -Vicious Circle
Un iver sity
Studio
Play
Cr u i s e Sh i p
4
3
- Communication Room
- Open Restaurant
Dance
2
Brain - Decreased Intelligence
- Interactive space
Space
- Multifunctional Room
1
2
- Outdoor theater
Indoor 2
Feeling - Medical Burden
3
- Plant area
1
Walk Path
Bus Line
Space
- Gallery
Young People 4 Seniors 3 - Pension Burden - Medical Burden
Moto Tax i & C ar Tax i
Outdoor
1
Accelerated Aging 4
3
Lecture - Socal
Seniors - Over-reliance
5 - Learning
- Communication
Nursing Staff 1 - Overcare
reet
5
Senior
Englis
Schw abin ger Bach
n
Seniors - Bedridden
Senior Need
2
Billiards
Seniors - Long-term Inactivity
GYM Seniors - Alone 3
4
Seniors - Lack of Excercise
- Isolation from outside
Cinema - Under fire
- Accessibility hardly
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1
8
Gallery Workshop
7
Senior Center Status
2
- Dim
3
Si te Plan
university district of Munich that clustered plenty of galleries and major cultural sights in the city.
- Dependent
- Respectful
2
Problem
The site for the pilot field was chosen within the Englischer Garten lying next to Maxvorstadt at German. Maxvorstadt is the
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3
Overprotect
cher G ar te
achst
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Chess
S i te
Kaulb
value
Body function - Severely Damaged
Site coordinates: 48° 08 ′ 57.8“N 11° 35′ 11.2“E 0
500
1000m
Anal y s i s
6 - Noise
- Narrow
Proj e ct
4
- Cold furniture materials
Space
Need
- Under fire
5
- Single function
Ag gre gat io n Put 16 kinds of space functions into 4 kinds of different sizes of space and arrange different clusters by computer calculation, and finally choose a mix-used functional cluster.
PLAN:27Mx27M
PLAN:21Mx21M
PLAN:9Mx9M
HIGHT:6M/12M
KITCHEN
GALLERY
HIGHT:6M
CHESS AND CARD ROOM
COMMUNICATION ROOM
HIGHT:12M
WASHROOM
TEXAS POKER
STUDIO
WORKSHOP
STAIR BOX
M i x -use d Fu n c tio n
PLAN:15Mx15M
HIGHT:6M
MIX-USED Mix different function &connection by bridges
MULTIFUNCTION ROOM
The groups are connected by a bridge to form a whole space. TEXAS POKER
COURT YARD Enhance the inner cour tyard
GYM
LINE AR Enhance the inner streets
GROUP Enhance function par tition
M a s ter Pla n
Two F l o o r
Ea s t Fa c a de
Gallery
Dancing Room
Conversation Room
Interactive Space
Couryard
Garden
N
0
15
30m
Phy s ic a l Mo de l
El e va t io n - Ele T h e va S otion utheast
Model
- The Southeast Model
Aer ial View
Hut - Smart Morphism Design Studio | 2021.01-2021.03 Individual Work
The machine learning development has rapidly changed our way to understand the word and brought new potentials to our design workflow. This project aimed to come up with and evaluate a new design solution by the means of machine learning. In this process, I extracted, decoded and encoded the design parameters from the surrounding environments. Then the optimal solutions were selected from all results for further structural and morphological optimization.
Population Density
Accessibility Network
Bustling Lonesome
Bustling Lonesome
Building Height
Building Height Limit Value
Hight Low
Hight Low
Population & Building Combined result Low
Population & Building Selected Location
Median
Low
High
1.Planar Space
Background Two design drivers, people flow and building height, were chosen for initially environment coding. The shape of bund in Shanghai is used as the physical constraint in the design process to generate the ideal design space through Backparopagation Algorithm. Machine learning quantitative parameters was applied to evaluate the results as the criterion of the best spatial qualities leading the ideal aesthetic effect.
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0
200
400m
2.Space Height
Median
High
3.Curvature
4.Solid
5.Cornice
A Population :
15~20 Building Height: 4M
B Population :
30~35 Building Height: 5.8M
C Population :
40~45 Building Height: 13M
D Population :
40~45 Building Height: 12M
E Population :
35~40 Building Height: 6M
F
Population : 25~30 Building Height: 5.2M
Selected Result
Deconstruction
Rationalization
Morphological Optimization
Materialization
A
B A - Landscape
B - Gallery
C - Park
D - Lookout Tower
E - Concert
F - Theater
C
D
E
F
RECORD MEMORY MACHINE
LIGHT 50'
MACHINE 90'
COMPLEXITY
CULTURE
50'
LIGHT
VOLUME
NEED FUTURE INDIVIDUALS 00'
SKETCH
TOOLS:
PENCIL / WATERCOLOR
IPAD
CONCEPT LIGHT 90' DESIGN &VOLUME FORM 50'
COMPLEXITY PHOTOGRAPH NEED FUTURE TRAVEL
INDIVIDUALS 00' MOOD
CULTURE
DIGITAL PAINTING
RECORD MEMORY MODEL MACHINE
90'
VOLUME
COMPLEXITY