Third Class Scholarship of Zhejiang University (01/2022)
Received 'Outstanding Final Project'Award (2021)
Top-ten University Team Co-leader in the summer social practice in Changxing County, Huzhou. (07/2020) The team was recognized as a Zhejiang Province top 100 team and an exceptional reporting team.
Caring Heart Club of Zhejiang University (2018-2020)
Zhejiang University Construction Engineering Student Union (2018)
University of Porto, Online 10/2020 – 01/2021 Exchange Program
Urban Morphology
Investigated the Evolving Urban Morphology of Shenyang, China.
EXPERIENCE
HangzhouArchitectural Design & Research Institute Co., Ltd, China (http://hz-jy.cn/) 09/2023 – 01/2024
Architectural Intern – Full-time
Circulation Design for outpatient and clinic areas.
Schematic Design for Ningbo Beilun Maternity Hospital and Dongyang TCM Hospital, participating in parametric modeling using Rhino and Grasshopper.
Created Healthcare Zoning Diagrams and Renderings for design presentations.
TheArchitectural Design & Research Institute of Zhejiang University Co., Ltd, China 07/2022 – 08/2022
Construction Management Intern – Part-time
Conducted field observations at four active construction sites, analyzing critical building details, including staircase systems and structural connections
Developed building models in Revit and CAD for construction simulation
Hangzhou QilinArchitectural Design Firm Co., Ltd, China 03/2022 – 06/2022
Architectural Intern – Part-time
Developed a Site Program for the project based on local building codes and standards.
Sketch concept designs and building forms with rendering revisions and various presentation boards.
PUBLICATION
Journal of Hunan University (Natural Sciences) 04/2022
"Thermal Comfort Characteristics of Residential Residents in Hangzhou in Winter under the Action of Personal Comfort System" Co-Author
Explored thermal comfort characteristics under personal comfort systems in residential buildings.
Adobe Creative Suite (PS,AI, ID),Adobe Premiere Pro, Python
Language
English (Proficient), Chinese (Native)
Shuyi
sk5477@columbia.edu 6464889340
Growing awareness of the environmental and cultural impact of architecture has led to a deeper appreciation for the value of existing structures. Reusing on-site materials and breathing new life into old buildings has become not just a practical solution, but a meaningful way to preserve memory and reduce waste. These values now extend into new construction as well, where thoughtful design can re昀氀ect the same care for context, sustainability, and long-term responsibility.
Transformation of A Hillside Village Rehabilitation
We hope to use the orange and pomelo technology of Guanbu Village and Anran Farm as the specialties and the base for industrial development.
Facing multiple challenges - how to utilize the stock base effectively, how to attract traf昀椀c to Guanbu Village and generate economic benefits for its sustainable development. We propose a two-pronged parallel design strategy, one is to do an acupuncture type of renovation, while keeping the boundaries of the house base unchanged, using the spatial activation of the stock of buildings and the ecological restoration of the original environment as the entry point, so as to realize the new life of the old village, and the other is to stimulate the media effect that can draw traf昀椀c through the establishment of a public space.
Individual Work
53,819 SQ.FT 2023 Fall
Condition of Village Houses
Site Analysis
Renovate the existing residential base into a resort hotel, use a small amount of collective construction land index to create a group of public buildings with media attraction effect, taking into account the public support of the hotel.
Considering the sharing of orange pomelo cultivation techniques and the preservation of village memories.
Renovating the village with adaptive shading, modular seating, and terraced gathering spaces, fostering social interaction while integrating sustainable materials and human habitation.
Creating an engaging pedestrian walkway with dynamic timber structures, providing shade, visual rhythm, and spatial layering while integrating traditional materials to enhance community interaction and environmental harmony.
The most notable change is the addition of a connecting corridor linking the old and new buildings, which, while becoming a public space, can be used as a space for sharing orange pomelo technology, and can also make it easier to walk around the village and get around between different functional areas.
The second distinctive feature is the unification of the old and new buildings in terms of construction method and form, which contributes to the unity of the village.
Rhythm Square
Green Plaza and Art & Design Workshops
Located on the banks of the Grand Canal in Hangzhou, the predecessor of LOFT49 can be traced back to the Hangzhou Chemical Fibre Factory, which was founded in 1958, and developed into the Blue Peacock Nylon Branch Factory in the 1980s. 2003, with the transformation of the city's urban construction and industrial structure from industry to tertiary industry, the idle industrial factory buildings attracted a large number of artists to gather here on their own initiative.
I proposed to transform the abandoned factory building into a community activity centre that integrates historical storytelling, art and design workshops and exhibitions, senior and children's activity space, and community green space, transforming the abandoned building that cuts off the community's texture into the heart of the community that unites vitality
Individual Work
525,395 SQ.FT 2022 Fall
The windows in the roof and the paintwork on the walls show signs of remodeling.
Now it is faced with the dual challenges of how to protect and reuse the industrial heritage in the core of the city, and how to ef昀椀ciently increase the spatial capacity to adapt to the iterative nature of industry.
Interior industrial 昀椀xtures will be preserved.
Extraordinarily little green space.
The overall planning concept of the "Greenery Cultural Centre" is based on urban memory, stimulating the new life of public places, realising the empowering renewal of low utility land in the city centre.
Actual view of the site in its current state.
The Formation of Industrial Enclave
Changes in surrounding building types
In 1984, basically mainly factory buildings, housing scattered around the neighborhood
type
Most of the factory buildings were demolished and taller residential buildings were built.
In 2003, a few factory buildings were demolished.
Relatively unimportant factory buildings were demolished.
Retained factory-type buildings
Original factory buildingSlight remodelingLarger remodeling, additional separation
There is an increasingly noticeable height difference with the neighboring residential buildings.
1 Activity Space for the Elderly
2 Art Workshop
3 Activity space for young children
4 Industrial Memory Exhibition Area
5 Live house
6 Shopping mall
2 5 3 1 1030M N
Harvest Beyond
Food reverse logistics
For food, its life starts from growing, and then harvest, then being sent to restaurants and markets, then most of wasted food or unused food will be directly sent into land昀椀ll.As we have to consider two categories, we choose food and home improvement, our project focuses on the changing logic of recycling in the TIME dimension, aiming to extend the life cycle of food and home improvement to achieve sustainable resource recycling.
I introduced an on-site waste collection machine, which remolds crushed waste into bricks by using active organisms (mainly mushroom mycelium) as a binder.I want to create a system of reverse logistics majorly in the food industry and provide new possibilities of abandoned materials.
Group Work
Anzhi
Li | Shuyi Kong
25,833 SQ.FT 2024 Fall
The Food Return Process
Planning of the urban farm
Category 1: .Supporting laboratory research types: cabbage, onion, orange.
Characteristics: Longer maturation period, mainly used for laboratory ‘food concrete’ research, exploring the feasibility of combining food waste with construction materials.
Characteristics: Short ripening cycle (about two months), suitable for children and teenagers to provide planting experience education, so that they can understand the whole process of crops from sowing to harvesting.
Echo Hill
Where Memory Meets Modernity
As a product of the conflict and integration of rapid urban development and the dualistic system of urban and rural areas in the era of planned economy, the high-density living environment and low rents carry the ideals of many young people who come to Hangzhou to build their dxreams, and are an important part of the ecological balance of urban development. Exploring the model of urban village transformation, while taking into account the original texture of the urban village and the environmental status of the surrounding city.
Individual Work
150,695 SQ.FT 2021 Spring
Site Analysis
Substrate Generation Logic
Bluring the boundaries between indoor and outdoor spaces, connecting above and below ground traf昀椀c 昀氀ows to create a multifunctional environment for exhibitions, performances, and markets.
01 | Red line of the original site
| Slope analysis05 Add details 02 | Generate hillside03 | Lift the four sides
The gathering space created by the connecting corridor becomes very interesting.
Diverse activities that residents can have here.
We will consider the reconstruction of urban villages as a whole, and then consider the development of urban villages in the whole city after trial operation.
The village in the city has improved my quality of life. It is no longer just a foothold to muddle along.
We have a lot of free play space.It's easier for us to 昀椀nd friends here.
We have many new social activity centers. We can play mahjong or chess indoors.
With a rain proof parking place, charging will be safe. Parking will be more orderly. Don't worry about not 昀椀nding your own car before going to work.
Don't have to drive on the narrow roads of the community with trepidation, which also reduces the risk of being scratched.
The Social Space on the Roof
The social space on the roof, among others, covers different functions such as food sharing, community creators, etc.
The Glass Skylight
The glass skylight allows the interior gallery to be open at all times of the day.
Interesting façades that can residential buildings less monotonous The Residential
Residential Façade
can be shaded, making monotonous and boring.
The Corridor and The Hill
This experiential design provides a perfect combination of community culture display and community living room interaction in the lobby of the 昀氀at.
A Connecting Corridor
A connecting corridor running between the interior and exterior divides the hall into two parts that can be viewed and traversed.
The Infinitely Extendable Facade
Furniture With Infinite Possibilities
Thinking 昀椀rst about furniture and implementing the concept of modularity in furniture and then to the curtain wall, different functional spaces have different needs for enclosing interfaces, for example of昀椀ces need good lighting and the interface needs to be more permeable, while residences need interfaces with better privacy without affecting the lighting, museums preferably have no direct sunlight and interfaces that provide diffuse re昀氀ections. The combination of multiple units allows for a variation in the texture of the curtain wall that is responsive to the functional properties of the internal space and the external environmental elements.
Individual Work
43 SQ.FT / 86 SQ.FT 2021 Spring
The Derivative Forms
With these two objectives in mind, we have developed different forms and their corresponding nodes.These derivative forms, while all still good, are dif昀椀cult to construct with robotic arm 3d printing.
Furniture With Infinite Possibilities
Through our research, we have found that users are now demanding more and more flexibility and adaptability in their furniture, wanting to buy just one piece of furniture that can meet a wide range of needs.
Type 1Type 2Type 3
Form 1Form 2Form 3Form 4
Construction Method
Step 1
Laminated print of the inner and outer surfaces of the component.
Step 2
The voids between the inner and outer surfaces of the component are 昀椀lled with a polyurethane foam to replace the 3D printed support. This ensures structural strength, reduces overall weight, saves printing material, is economically sound and on the other hand ensures the integrity of the outer surface.
Mechanical Analysis
-4.54e-01-0.00e+004.82e-01
Force analysis
Pre-simulationAfter Modification
The wall thickness is optimised by mechanical analysis and the cavity scale of the component is determined by its thin wall thickness.
Simulated thickness
The Derivative Forms
Components interwoven in three dimensions to form repetitive texture and hollowing variations, but differing respectively in the form of the individual components, the direction of spatial interweaving, and the scale of the components.
The Infinitely Extendable Facade
Set the context for the design of a residential curtain wall in a high-density urban environment, taking into account the need for residential privacy and the need for light, by varying the size of the curtain wall apertures to create a visual barrier or interaction between the inside and outside of the building.
Form 1Form 2Form 3Form 4
Specific Construction
Through case studies, we have found that many modular curtain walls, with direct lap joints between the elements, have more visible joints. And there are cut-outs in the coamponent units, which is dif昀椀cult to build for the robotic tilt-printing process.
The more open the internal space, the larger the aperture.
The curtain wall will block the view of the outside world.
Professional Work Hangzhou Architectural Design & Research Institute Co., Ltd
Participated in the spatial planning and scheme design of Dongyang Rehabilitation Hospital project, assisted in completing the analysis of the functional site layout, the reconstruction of the 昀氀oor plan and the expression of the landscape design.
Arranging the logic of architectural spatial organisation, making functional zoning diagrams, and assisting in analysing the 昀氀ow of use and vertical traf昀椀c system.
