Koko's Portfolio

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COLLABORATIVE

Hong Kong Town 2046

Central, Hong Kong

Year 5

Graduation Project 2019

- Architecture & Urbanism -

Instructor: Jeong Der Ho

Student: Koko Li, Sean Yap

In 2046, Hong Kong lost its appeal and became the same as one of the cities in China. A long time ago, a group of people went abroad to earn their living. However, culture shock made them get together because of their similar language, habits, and culture; and then, Chinatown was built. Similarly, twenty years after in Hong Kong, a group of people got together under the dramatic change of the city and rebuild their hometown - "Hong Kong Town."

Kowloon Walled City Space Study

Based on the concept of transformation, adaptation and participation from Kowloon Walled City, where people were able to adapt and transform according to their changing needs. The new tower was to contribute in making that scene and that identity. Therefore, it had to act as a generator, activating spaces as well as defining them.

Kowloon Walled City

Operation

The clsuter is mainly make up from 4 of the cluster which originate from the 4 dominant ethnics in Hong Kong; Hong Kong-ese, Chinese, Indian, and Philippines.

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INDIVIDUAL

Desert Flower Kenya, Africa

Ascend Vibrant (NGO)

Proposal

- Architecture & Interior Design -

Instructor: Chris Procter Student: Koko Li

The project will support the village in building an early childhood centre in the middle of the barren desert of Turkana, Kenya. I studied ice houses in ancient times about how to cool down the interior space. Moreover, the facade was designed combining with their tribal patterns and colours. Therefore, I named the project as‚ Desert Flower‘. While ‘flower’ means life- it will be an architecture which brings life to this barren land.

Interiors

01. Desert Flower

Classroom

Classroom

Pyramid View

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INDIVIDUAL

Beauty in Nature

Hoxton Square, London

Istituto Marangoni

Term 1 Project 2022

- MA Interior Design -

Tutor: Chris Procter

Student: Koko Li

Beauty in Nature is a project based on sustainability and has a strong relation to nature and art. Which is to meet the client’s needs without harming nature. They are an old couple of Bohemian grooves that live in a simple and unconventional way which takes art as part of their living. Hence, I designed it as a live-work penthouse that features a winter and a summer garden in order to grow plants and vegetables to make organic products.

Technical Drawings

AA' Section

AA' Section

Master Bedroom

Master Toilet

Summer Garden

Micropolis

Central District, Taichung, Taiwan

Year 3, Semester 1 Project 2016

- Architecture -

Instructor: Vianne Huang

Student: Koko Li

The proposed building responds to a contemporary desire infinite space in the dense metropolis. It is a reaction against the recurring dream of surburbia, the architecture addresses the city by existing within it. Simultaneously, within this existing normative framework and its historical constraints, I tried to provide an innovative programmatic space that one can identify with- "Micropolis."

Site Analysis

Sections

AA Section

BB Section

Micropolis

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COLLABORATIVE

SPLIT

Park Lane by CMP, Taichung, Taiwan

Year 4, Semester 1 Project 2017

- Architecture & DigitalInstructor: Ana Ilic

Student: Koko Li, Alexu Wei

The idea of buildings in harmony with nature can be traced back to ancient times. And fractal geometry could play a role in developing new forms of design of sustainable architecture with little patterns, which are what we are discovering so far. For instance, the Islamic geometric patterns and organic features.

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G1 G2 G3

Results

01. Axiom: X

02. Axiom: [X-X-X-XX-X-X-X-X-X-X-X] - *12

03. Axiom: Y[X-X-X-XX-X-X-X-X-X-X-X] - *12

04. Axiom: [X-X-X-X -X-X]- *6

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X+FY-+F+XF-YFY-FX

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Extrusion

Extrusion

Fabrication

Axiom: -CBAA

Mapping Points

Rule1: A=CFC

Rule2: B=AFFB

Rule3: C=CFFFA

Generation 3

Redefined the letters

A=1, B=2, C=3

Axiom: -CBAA

Rule1: A=CFC

Mapping Points

Rule2: B=AFFB

Rule3: C=CFFFA

Generation 3

Prototype Material

Making delaunay mesh

Making delaunay mesh

Tree Making delaunay mesh

Sort out the edges (Structure)

Sort out the edges (structure)

Metal (Solid)

Rope (Void)

Sort out the edges (Structure)

Final Geometry

Tree

Making delaunay mesh

Tree

Single Tree Plan

South-East Elevation

Single

South-East Elevation

South-East Elevation

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COLLABORATIVE

Hidden Cities

The Bartlett School of Architecture

Final Project

- Videogame Urbanism -

Tutors: Luke & Sandra

Student: Koko Li, Guo Yiming

Hidden Cities is a multiplayer game that explores the depiction of urban space between two and three dimensions. By providing different viewpoints to each designer-player, Hidden Cities exploits the geometric disjunction between the plan as an organising strategy and the lived city below. A single plan can accommodate infinite different urban variations, composed together across the network.

Oblique Projections

Oblique projection is a simple type of technical drawing of graphical projection used for producing two-dimensional images of three-dimensional objects.

Players will be asked to finish a ‘map’. The oblique diagrams with coloured surfaces on the right demonstrated what the player from the topview can only see in a two-dimensional world.

Game Scene Tower Possibilities

The game is based on a random system. Therefore, there will be multiple possibilities for the same blueprint according to how the players play and the chance of the objects are created.

Player 1. (Topview)

Player 2. (Perspective) 01. 02.

Game Results

Cities are never entirely good, nor are they entirely bad—one’s interpretation depends on where they look and on what they focus.

Top View (Player1) Perspective (Player 2)

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INDIVIDUAL

Odd Builds

Freelance

- AI Architecture -

Founder: Koko Li

Featured in KoozArch & 'Architecture After AI' exhibition at UTOA

Odd Builds is aimed to discover something fundamentally new and different from what we already know through Surrealism. The world-famous modern expressionist architecture, Sydney Opera House, inspired the idea. The architect, Jorn Utzon, claimed that he got the inspiration while peeling an orange. Hence, architects can use AI to stimulate creativity and transform architecture beyond our imagination.

Concept

Sydney Opera House. (DK, 2023)

Inspiration (Open Daily, 2021)

Balloon Castle

Veggie Arch

Red Chili Temple

Salmon Architecture

Watermelon Babel

Ice Cream House

Portrait of a Building

Croissant Tower