Architecture Portfolio - Lauren Li

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ACTIVATING INTERCONNECTIONS

Lauren Li // Portfolio 2024

Having been surrounded by different cultures and languages, I often find myself trying to understand and mediate between different perspectives. As a designer, I am dedicated as well to bridging gaps between people, nature, and technology, activating latent interconnections within our environments.

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3 House of Thespis FLOW - JOURNEY THROUGH THE MEDINA NANTOU COMMUNITY CENTER DAH SENG BANK HISTORY WALL DREAMSCAPE HOUSE OF THESPIS BROOKLYN RESIDENCES WORKING TOGETHER CONFERENCE CENTER ADELAIDE ALSOP ROBINEAU GALLERIES STUDIO OTHER WORKS UNBOXING IDENTITY 4 12 18 26 32 38 42 44 48

ADELAIDE ALSOP

ROBINEAU GALLERIES

2023 | Group project | Collaborator: Fiona Cao

SYRACUSE, NY

This project is a ceramics gallery and mausoleum that is connected to the Everson Museum in Syracuse. The design explores a concept of point, plane and grid, employing systems of slab, column, and wall that are each independent of the others, in contrast to I.M. Pei’s volumetric design of the Everson Museum. The museum activates the unused courtyard in the premises through extending the building grid into a garden.

The project also experiments with a new type of column that uses terracotta casing as an eco-friendly fireproofing technique.

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Rhino | Illustrator | Photoshop
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STUDIO 12 Rhino | VRay | Illustrator | Plaster Casting

HOUSE OF THESPIS

2022 | Group Project | Collaborators: Fangjian Song, Ruyue Qi

SICILY

Research during my semester in Florence, Italy, aims to understand the meshed conditions of traditional Sicilian architecture and its Arab-Norman influences, studying and collaging typologies such as churches and amphitheatres.

From studying the threshold conditions in our collages, a concept model of a theatre was built to explore how stage curtains or moveable thresholds can affect spaces. By opening and closing, these thresholds can create paths of circulation, extend interior spaces, or create barriers and form new stages. The form of the model is built to include spaces that are open air, semi-enclosed, and completely enclosed, mimicing the conditions of ancient amphitheaters found in Sicily, activating theatricality within the ruins through the disassembling and reassembling of the traditional theater typology.

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NANTOU COMMUNITY CENTER

2021 | Individual Project

NANTOU, SHENZHEN

CHINA

This project is a revitalization of the facade and roof of an abandoned factory in Nantou historic village in Shenzhen.

This community center has a living market that consists of a series of mobile stalls, and vendors can cart their stores through the village, expanding into a rhizomatic network that is symbolic of a sense of connection and community.

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Rhino | Illustrator | Photoshop | VRay
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FLOW: JOURNEY THROUGH THE MEDINA

2021 | Individual Project

MARRAKESH, MOROCCO

This project is situated in the Medina, aiming to aid in the issue of water shortage in Marrakesh by incorporating a water reuse and filtration system that flows through the building. Vascular water plants are used as part of the filtration system, and hydroponic tea gardens grown using recycled water supply leaves to the teahouse. At a larger scale, a walkway extends from the building to bring visitors on a journey that weaves and flows through the different spatial conditions of the Medina

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Rhino | Illustrator | Photoshop
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UNBOXING IDENTITY

2024 | Group project | Collaborators: Lillian Zhao, Aiden McGorry

“Unboxing Identity” is an installation displayed at the student-led AAPI (Asian American Pacific Islander) month Symposium that my collaborators and I initiated and organized. The event hosted a panel and multiple performances in the core atrium space of the architecture school, aiming to spark discourse surrounding how architectural experiences are shaped by culture, identity, and memory.

The installation starts as a pristine white box, but inhabitants of the space move the fabrics over time to reveal the inner layers of color, symbolizing the process of unraveling our identities and how space is experienced differently when our senses of identity change through the process of self-discovery.

We invited people to engage with the installation, pull the fabrics apart, go through it multiple times, and observe how the experience of the atrium space changes with the shifting of people, fabrics, and paths that one takes through the space.

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Rhino | Illustrator | Photoshop | Voile | Plywood
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DAH SENG BANK

HISTORY WALL

2020 | MUSA Ltd. | Internship

HONG KONG

I worked with MUSA Limited to design a history wall that was built at the Hong Kong Dah Seng Bank building.

The wall was based on the concept of a “dancing abacus”, adhering with the logo of Dah Seng Bank which depicts an abacus.

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Illustrator | Photoshop
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WORKING TOGETHER CONFERENCE CENTER

2022 | Lea Architecture | Internship

PENNSYLVANIA

Completed during my internship at Lea Architecture. This program diagram and axonometric were drawn for the Working Together Conference Center, which is an in-progress drug rehabilitation center set to be built in Pennsylvania. I modelled the building, structure, and furniture for both diagrams.

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Rhino | Illustrator
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BROOKLYN RESIDENCIES

2022

| Lea Architecture | Internship

GREENPOINT, BROOKLYN, NYC

During my internship at Lea Architecture, I helped with the design and post production graphic work of many residential projects in Brooklyn, which were mainly renovations of existing townhouses. While doing these drawings, I was also tasked with thinking about material and designing a graphic standard that aligned with the spirit and personality of the firm. This resulted in fun, colorful flairs that illustrate how spaces are used and who might be the occupants of the design. Completed using Autocad, Rhino, and Adobe Illustrator.

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Rhino | Illustrator | Photoshop | AutoCAD
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Residencies
Brooklyn

Perspectival section for 78 Norman Avenue

DREAMSCAPE

This illustration depicts a foggy dreamscape, a utopia where nature and technology form a symbiotic relationship. A complimentary color scheme is used to convey the idea of the man-made harmonizing with the natural.

I used a graphic field composition, where the landscapes extends beyond the canvas. The architecture in this drawing is derived from a combination of letters, primitive shapes, as well as geometries created with Rhino techniques, reimagined and “architecturalized”. Entourage and topography create the landscape that houses the structures. Completed with Rhino and Adobe Illustrator.

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2020 Rhino | Illustrator
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