RIBA Part 1 Architecture Portfolio - Studio Projects by Jacky Li

ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO

Studio Projects

Jacky Cheng Kai Li BA(Hons) Architecture | Manchester School of Architecture

Digital Spores

Engaging with the Waterhead Hollow Site

Waterhead Hollow was formally a spot for recreational boating activities, with the potential for rising maximum flood levels each year that will affect the A591 main road. The diverse surrounding topography would provide my strategy with the possibility of having inherent network expansion and beneficial user experience. Integrating the smart transportation and the traditional buildings that are built from natural stones in the town centre, the operation within my strategy could revolve around ‘land, water and sky’ behind my holistic flood-resilient design.

Existing structures of Waterhead Hollow.

Landscape section of the Waterhead Hollow.

Photographic collage of the Waterhead Hollow Site.

Waterhead Hollow

Tactile Experience of the Ambleside Townscape

An Ambleside house by the A591 road.

Close up of the slate drystone wall

Seeking Local Inspiration for Integrative Design

Windermere Jetty Museum digitally modeled from available plans and section drawings by Carmody Groake

The Wet Dock of Windermere Jetty Museum

Photography

Initial integration of the design elements into the proposed typology on the Waterhead Hollow site.

Blending the Facilities with the Landscape

The postal office is placed closer to the closest town of Ambleside for the public’s convenience of access to the main hall, and the power station presents itself as a separate block to convey its difference in function and yet unified in system with familiar aesthetics. The floor to roof glazing spans the length of the building at the face towards the Windermere Lake to bring the panoramic view of the lake into the interior experience while brightening the atmosphere. With the lake view being the highlight in the user experience, the interior will utilise it as an inspiration to leverage the visual cue to enhance the users’ experience.

Sorting Office

Nuclear Power Plant

Ambleside

“Asuspendedlampilluminatedopenhallspacewitha glazedwalloverlookingtherainylakeandwaffletexture internalwallsandceilingholdingmails,parcelsandbooks”.

Exploring Alternative Mean of Generating Designs

Project Location

Project

Starting with Artificial Intelligence image generation, iterations of images with slight changes made to the prompt have been made to realise and exaggerate nuances and features that expresses the appealing characteristics of the scene, which is later adapted into my collage drawings concepts to adapt and realise into my design. The postal office features a underfloor water feature with a walkable glass pane above that continues the water texture from the lake into the office which warps the boundary of the outside and the inside world while evoking the jetty composition with the columns in contact with water.

Sorting office interior concept

Midjourney

Midjourney Sketchbook (IOS)

Photoshop Tools Used

Warm Industrial Atmosphere

Heat exchanger and generator block.

Reactor core (2M thick concrete wall construction).

Micro-modular reactor form and massing proposal. Rendered structure of the on-site nuclear power plant.

Windermere Power Station Structure

With further input from a structural engineer in our tutor session, the reactor core housing is to be at least 2 metres thick to encase the core in the event of a meltdown. The roof is domed and the walled are ribbed to distribute the pressure coming in the midst of nuclear entombment to extend the time to enact a plan to safely clean the site. The wing structures are built from the core to connect energy related services and functions into one block and in harmony with the postal office site and Ambleside.

Lake water inlet filter.

Raised concrete ground.

Water chamber barrier

Control and service block.

Resident Friendly Nuclear Energy Station

circulation.

Boathouse structure.

The Boathouse and the Signal Tower

The pontoon design of the boathouse is inspired by a water craft design called a catamaran that allows passage of water though the centre, which is carried over into this boathouse design for stability over rough water and housing multiple water craft for delivery service and water activities. Extensive truss system is used to ensure the structural rigidity of the boathouse against the forces of the lake water.

Boathouse

Grasshopper

User Interaction - Secure Shelving

Axonometric locker shelving design proposal.

Shelving unit composition.

Tools Used

Scots pine cable housing (the spine)

Steel brackets and screws

Technological Fragments Development

0.3

Sorting Office Sectional Detail

View of

Panoramic

View and Water at Work

Duke-Beaufort Street Site

Reconstructed Mamucium Roman fort

spiral staircase

viaduct Arch

Site photograph from Beaufort Street.

Verdigris Alley Sketchbook

Street

Castlefield Site Massing Concept Internal alley concept

Frothy Facade

Building Typology

Project Location

Project Type

Project Duration

Food Market, School and Urban Farm Castlefield, Manchester

Year 2 Studio Project 4 Months

The sketch is inspired by Earnst Haeckel’s drawings of natural forms, from the page called Stephoidea - Ringelstrahlinge in the book ArtformsinNature,for its beautiful natural forms and its relations with food which could enhance the dining experience for everyone. The facade design captures the simple gastronomically themed patterns that resembles the sponge or a froth from a liquid.

Sketchup

Lumion

Illustrator

Stephoidea - Ringelstrahlinge in ArtformsinNature by Earnst Haeckel.

Oasis zone within the site.

Urban Oasis

Project Location

Project Type

The concept of the Out-House is the natural ecosystem between houses within the exterior of the enclosed neighbourhood that is self sustaining to provide lush environment to live in the middle of a desolate and sparse location. This strategy allows greenery to reclaim the territories of Manchester that was taken extensively throughout the industrial revolution period. On the site, it takes form of the alley footpath, the ground of the stair case, and the urban farm zones.

The Out-House enclosed natural ecosystem. VisualbyStudioNMINUSONE.

The Out-House exterior concept. VisualbyStudioNMINUSONE.

350mm

20mm

Castlefield Culinary Complex Sectional Detail

Alley way rendered view.

The Green Line Continuum

sinuous green vertical members across the structures almost evokes the presence of the large and gracious weeping willow tree.

Viaduct

Castlefield Culinary School

HopeMill

SpectatorMill Thompson House

The conceptual drawing utilises the Thompson House and the Hope Mill as the lower level façades to incorporate the immediate context as part of the design. The structural study of the suspended volume of the building allows for my understanding of the structural and load behaviour of the design by MVRDV, to aid in the realisation of the suspended individual living spaces within my design with external stairs and balcony. Social

Conceptual drawing on the site of Hope Mill.

The Voxel Complex

ThePiccadilly

The Piccadillies

Project Location

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Both Piccadilly Station and the Piccadilly Garden are the sites of interest, where tourists and commuters pass in masses between them via The Piccadilly main street. Many buses travel and stop on The Piccadilly, which will have a built-in opportunity for exposure to the site, the product and the craft.

Map of the site in Manchester with the major garden and train station.

The Site

Piccadilly Garden

Piccadilly Station Bus Route

Ink Stick Production

This is the hand drawing study of the tradition craft of making ink stick. The all-natural and lengthy production along with the millennium long history behind it adds value and prestige to the item. The form, and the characteristics of the ink stick will be the primary influence on the aesthetics of my design, as well as the environment needed to house the activities for ink stick production.

Oil burning Soot collection

mixing Drying

(1 year) Cooking (with ox hide gelatine and bovine bone gelatine)

Grinding (With gold leaf and musk) Kneading