PORTFOLIO
Name: Guangyao Li
E-mail: guangyao.li@mail.polimi.it
Selected Work:2020-2022
CONTENTS
A study of the active points of the city reveals a number of mixed building types which exist like islands in the city. There are multiple states of mixture and uncertainty in the area. This disorderly building type is used to create unexpected connections, allowing unrelated functions to be placed in buildings and related buildings and structures to be used together. Each building forms a unique set of ecological relationships.
[Urban Grafting] 3 -Student apartment design Group Work / Milano [Ship of New Theseus] 10 -Old factory renovation Group Work / Suzhou [Upon The Hill] 16 -New European Library of Information and Culture Group Work / Milano [Sport Ensemble] 23 -Collected and arranged with intention Individual Work / Suzhou [City Declaration after The Epidemic] 28 -Urban planning of the post pandemic Group Work / Hong Kong [Other Work] 35 -International design and self-constrution workshop in 1:1 scale Work Shop / Brescia
Urban Grafting
Student apartment design on the corner of the city
Site:Milano,Italy
Group Work(Part of project, Drawing, Model)
Supervisor:Zucchi Cino Paolo cino.zucchi@polimi.it
Date:2022.01/Graduate Year One
The new architecture was rationally determinable; the new architecture was historically predestined; the new architecture represented the overcoming of history;the new architecture was responsive to the spirit of the age;the new architecture was socially therapeutic; the new architecture was young and, being self-renewing it was never to be wearied by age; but-perhaps above all-the new architecture meant the end to deception, dissimulation,vanity, subterfuge and imposition.
--Collage City(Colin Rowe)
Las Vegas is to the Strip what Rome is to the Piazza.
--Learning from Las Vegas The Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Form (Robert Venturi, Steven Izenour etc.)
The project starts from the perspective of connecting the city. The first step responds to the existing urban interface, including the continuation of the street language; the connection of the building walls; and the creation of a neighbourhood atmosphere. The second step addresses the constraints of the site. Connecting the scattered building forms in a long and narrow site.
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Site Collage Site Analysis
5 Master plan
1 Reception/Hall 2 Office 3 Laundry 4 Gym 5 Cafe 6 Restaurant 7 Kitchen 8 Workshop 9 Bike Parking Facility Build Process Site Interface Function Placement Vertical Traffic Ground Floor Plan Extension Block Volume Adjustment Horizontal Connetion 6 1 2 2 1
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Room for 2 Room for 6 Room for more than 8
Type of Room
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Section 1-1
Section 2-2
Details Drawing
Ship of New Theseus
Old factory renovation
Site:Suzhou,Jiangsu Province,China
Group Work(Part of project,Drawing,Model)
Supervisor:Tang Hengliang tanghl@suda.edu.cn
Date:2020.03/Junior year
If the wood on Theseus's ship is gradually replaced until all the wood is not the origina wood, is this ship still the original one?
--Theseus Paradox
Now let us, by a Right of imagination, suppose that Rome is not ahuman habitation but a psychical entity with a simiarly ong and copious past-an entity, that is to say, in which nothing that has once come into existence will have passed away and all the earlielr phases of development continue to exist alongside the latest one.
lf we want to represent historica sequence in spatial terms we can only do it by juxtaposition in space: the same space can not have two different contents.
It shows us how far we are from mastering the characteristics of mental life by representing them in pictorial terms.
--Sigmund Freud
The history of the building is in the entity of the building, and the can connect the building with the history. This framework appeared in the abandoned shipyard. lt is both a structure anda relic, both an event and a record of time, so it records facts rather than causes. But these are not the only properties of the framework, because it is still an obiect that can be used to study its own framework. One is the clear nature of the single part,and the other is the metaphorical spiritual space brought by the structure.
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Upon The Hill
New European Library of Information and Culture
Site:Milano,Italy
Group Work(Part of project, Drawing, Model)
Supervisor: Elena Francesca Anna Maria Mola / Ingrid Maria Paoletti elenafrancesca.mola@polimi.it / ingrid.paoletti@polimi.it
Date:2022.06/Graduate Year One
It’s a world where individuality and freedom seem to be the slogan of life: Good? Or bad?
Do we need a shape of surroundings?
Or is there a space able to fit everyone’s needs; Can we fit everywhere?
Being aware that space can hold us back or liberate us
Can it shape our way of thinking?
Can we feel free in a regulated or limited space?
If life comes to an end, can we surpass our limited form;
Is freedom in the mind or in the space we inhabit?
The European Library of Information and Culture (BEIC) is a library conceived on the model of other important libraries that have sprouted up in large European cities.
The proposal aims at providing the city of Milan with a library suitable for 21st century needs, capable of satisfying, on the one hand, the information, dissemination and cultural needs of a specific metropolitan area (large public reading library), but which is at the same time a reference for research, at a European level, complementary to historical libraries and university libraries.
Site Analysis
17 Site Residential Offices Residential with services Services Zone of impact Site Tram stop Bike roads Train stop Bus stop Site Decorated and maintained green space Private greenery Vacant green space (not organized) Site People flow Pedestrian areas
Build
1. Connection to the greenery
Process
2. Float the block
3. Change of the terrain
6. Results
5. Structural support
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4. Placing of the functions
Structural Concept
19 Master plan Main entrance Parking N
Space truss
I-Stell shape floor slab
Tubular column Ring beam
1 1 5 10 20 2 2
Nestle structure
20 Plan 1.Free accees desks area 2.Outdoor playground 3.Outdoor exercise 4.Dog playground 1.Lobby 2.Bookshelves 3.Flexible area 4.Little lecture room 5.Media area 6.Silent reading area 7.Storage room 8.Office 9.VR room 10.Robotic room 11.Room for project 12.Creative LAB 13.Video room 14.Meeting room 15.Flexible reading area 16.Coffee 17.Children area 1. 1. 2. 2. 2. 2. 17. 8. 7. 5. 4. 3. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 9. 6. 1. 1. 2. 3. 4.
1. Ø 120 mm steel tube
2. Ø 80 mm steel tube
3. Ø 15 mm steel tube
4. 6mm toughened protection glass
5. Mounting glass clamp
6. 30 mm steel plate
7. I-shape steel profile
8. Mounting bolts
9. Ø 200 mm steel tube
10. 12 cm lightweight concrete with synthetic - rasin finishing coat
11. 500 mm steel sandwich floor construction
12. Steel plate
23.0 23.0 16.0 1 2 3 5 4 6 7 7 4.0 8 9 10 12 11 53.0 13.0 20.0 5.1 9 13
Details Drawing
Section 1-1
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Section 2-2
22 6 1 20.0 6.0 20.0 7.0 13.0 20.0 5.1 5 3 2 4
1. 500 mm steel sandwich floor construction
2. 12 cm lightweight concrete with synthetic-rasin finishing coat
3. I-shape steel profile
4. Metal fixing
5. I-shape profile
6. Ø 200 mm steel tube
Details Drawing
Sport Ensemble
Collected and arranged with intention
Site:Gusu District,Suzhou,Jiangsu Province,China
Individual&Academic Work
Supervisor:Liu Hanxin hxliu@suda.edu.cn
Date:2020.03/Senior year
The power of placing bad architecture' within the line ofarchitecture history.
--Learn from Las Vegas
This reinterpretation of the archipelago is neither a sinqular holistic composition, nor a collection of disparate contrasts, but rather an ensemble of parts.
--The Archipelago Theory of Berlin Reconstruction
Studying the mixed architecture of Suzhou proves that Suzhouhas archipelago forms, and there are many mixed and uncertain states in the area. This kind of ignoring the type of building creates unexpected associations of things, allowing unrelated functions to be placed in a building, combining related buildingsand structures, and forming a set of urban occurrences in each building The ecology of unique relationships. This is a legacy of Suzhou, and this mixed architecture is a powerful statement in the continuation of history. The design of sport ensemble buildings is a reinterpretation of the archipelago.
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City Declaration after The Epidemic Urban planning of the post pandemic
Site:Hong Kong,China
Group Work(Part of project, Drawing, Model)
Supervisor:Sun Leilei llsun@suda.edu.cn
Date:2020.09/Senior year
Philosophers and philologists should be concerned in the first placewith poetic metaphysics; that is, the science that looks for proof not in, the external world, but in the very modipcations of the mind that meditates on it. Since the world of nations is made by men, it is inside their minds that its principles should be sought.
--Giambattista Vico, Principles of a New Science, 1759
As the new crown virus is raging, the world order has been changed and challenged again, and the public behavior of society has been destroyed and suppressed to varying degrees in a short period of time. The future changes in human order make physical space encounter great challenges. Do the previous building types need to be readjusted? Will there be a new type of building? How will the public domain in the futureshow quality again? Will our spontaneous activities be controlled by rules?
As the lifestyles we know are removed from our lives more and more, we need to reimagine the possibilities of the future.
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Other Work Camposaz 32:32
International design and self-constrution workshop in 1:1 scale
Site:Brescia,Italy
Work Shop(Part of project, self-construction)
Supervisor:Alessandro Betta / Sara Belleri alessandro.bertagna@asp-poli.it / sara.bellei@polimi.it
Date:2022.09/Graduate Year One
This is a workshop held every year organized by Camposaz, which is a non-profit organization promoting on-site workshops of participatory design and self-made wooden architecture with the aim of triggering urban regeneration processes and landscape enhancement.Participants, organizers and tutors, are all volunteers.
Cooperated with Camposaz this year, there is another organization, Campo NUG, a Social Promotion Association located in Brescia born in 2021. It is also a non-profit organization aiming to create a community with young people as protagonists.
This is the 32nd Camposaz, I am very lucky to be chosen to join this group, within the 10 days, we camped in the site, started the project from design to construction step by step, and finally the result was quite amazing, seeing the shadow created by the wooden cladding, even afterwords about a month, after the site was officially opened to public, seeing children running inside our project, I started to feel what architects can create and bring to people, not only a space, a shadow, but a lifestyle and happiness.
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Frame Construction
Cladding Design Foundation
THANKS
Name: Guangyao Li
E-mail: guangyao.li@mail.polimi.it
Selected Work:2020-2022
