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Yiting Li

CONTENTS 01 Body, Site, Program, Structure Deisgn of pavilion

02 DRAFTING GEOMETRY From projection to paraline

03 CONSTRUCTING GEOMETRY From surface to space

04 ROOTED PRECEDENT

Study of American vernacular architecture

05 URBAN INTERACTION

Cabbagetown live-work houses for artists

06 Figuration and Decoration

From study of gothic tracery to building design Group project with Vivian Cannella

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Body, Site, Program, Structure Design of pavilion

The goal of the project is to design a pavilion that serves as a communal space for people. The site is the context immediately surrounding Hua Art Museum in Shenzhen, China. The structure of the pavilion is required to be developed using a specific craft operation: slicing and folding. The design process starts with slicing-and-folding studies using cardstock at a scale of 1” = 1’.

Then two-dimensional sheets of cardstock are turned into three-dimensional structure using the developed craft operation.

The final pavilion is about 10ft tall and 15ft wide. It is designed to be put in front of Hua Art Museum with the more opening side facing the road. It might serve as a place for people to wait for cars after visiting the museum. It also provide a space for people to rest in shade in summer.

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DRAFTING GEOMETRY From projection to paraline

For this project, six objects shown in three projections( top view, front elevation, and side elevation) are provided. The first task is to construct two 30/60 plan obliques with view projections as well as a paraline drawing which can be an isometric, a plan oblique at 45/45, or an elevation oblique.

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CONSTRUCTING GEOMETRY From surface to space

The project has two parts. The first part is about understanding surface and construction. Two sets of drawings of two objects from project 1 are given. Two pristine models that are made out of carefully composed, folded, and assembled cardstock are created based on the drawings.

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Model 1

Model 2

Part 2 The second part is to make a cardboard model with a bounding volume of 8” x 4” x 5”. Interior space are created by cutting and carving the cardboard, creating a series of thresholds and three distinctive spaces: one in transition, one for contemplation, and one as a place of arrival.

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Since the volume takes on a cardinal orientation, these spaces will experience different lighting qualities over the course of a day. Natural illumination will penetrate these spaces through the development of carefully designed apertures. The design of spatial composition represents the a strong narrative that guides the circulation and spatial organization.

Space 1: arrival

Space 2: transition

Space 3: contemplation

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ROOTED PRECEDENT

Study of American vernacular architecture This project explores one of the American vernacular types of house -- shotgun house.

After doing visual and textual research on shotgun house, a representative example of shotgun is created. The Kuntz Shotgun House is chosen as the prototype of the created representative example. The house is located in Louisville KY, and was built in the late 19th century. It is an typical example of camel-back shotgun house.

Kuntz Shotgun House Kuntz Shotgun House

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URBAN INTERACTION

Cabbagetown live-work houses for artists This proposal for two neighboring houses in central Cabbagetown---one for a weaver and one for a stone lithographer---grows out of the research into the urban mill town’s history. The design process yields two primary parti directions---one for a linear plan shotgun type house, and one for a central plan, duplex-cottage type.

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16:00pm Stone lithography studio light diagram

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1. Porch 2. Entry 3. Living-dining room 4. Kitchen 5. Studio 6. Bathroom 7. Wahser/dryer 8. Bathroom 9. Bedroom with closet 10. Mechanical closet 11. Balcony

Served Space

Servant Space

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Fifuration and Decoration From study of gothic tracery to building design

This project focus on deep-decoration -ornament and decoration which charge and form space. Starting with reasearch of gothic tracery, the project involves techniques of figuring and configuring of gothic tracery figures, producing sheets based on them ,and then multiplying the sheets by spacing them throughout a 60x60x120ft volume.

A building is then designed in a selected site in San Francisco bay area based on the sheets which function as ornate porous walls.

Spherical Repetition & Hexa-leaves Raidal Repetition around Center Object

Dodeca-leaves Raidal Repetition around Center Object Mirroring around Vertical Axis

Wild Jasmine

Double centers without circle outline

Three centers alined vertically nesting with half flowers

Four centers in net form

Seven and two half centers in net form

Black Dahlia

One major flower nesting with six smaller flowers

Three Vertical centers nesting with four half flowers

Four vertical centers nesting with six smaller flowers

Eight centers in net form

Asymmetric form with differently scaled figures

Asymmetric form with differently scaled figures

Adding, shifting, scaling

Shifting and scaling

Adding, shifting, scaling

Rotating, scaling and shifting

Adding, shifting, scaling

Adding, shifting, scaling

CLUSTERING

Jan 21st

Jun 21st

California representative tribes of basket weaving

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Washo twined burden basket

The most prominent styles are plaiting, coiling and twining and they often used materials like willow shoots, sedge roots, swamp canes, saguaro cactuses, rye grass, the bark of redbud and more.

00pm Pomo twined cooking basket with beads

Paiutes beaded basket

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Yokuts coiled water basket

Luiseino coiled bowl

Site 1-4 Floor Viewshed

California representative tribes of pottery making

Northwest view

Northeast view

The indigenous people in California have been gathering the special red dirt, working it into red clay, coiling and shaping the red clay into ollas and other objects with wooden paddle and pebbles, and pit firing their clay artifacts for thousands of years.

Yokuts and Mono pottery types

Mojave beaded pottery

Site 4-7 Floor Viewshed

Cahuilla style pottery Northwest view Ipal-Tipai pottery

Northeast view

California representative tribes of indian clothing

Because of the mild climate, indigenous people in California peoples wore little clothing. Women typically wore a short skirt made of animal skin and fur or plant fibers, especially those of bark. Men wore a breechcloth or nothing at all. Ceremonial dress included elaborate headdresses, skirts, and feathered costumes. Bead or shell are common ornaments

Yurok beaded shell clothing

Paiute beaded clothing Site 7-8 Floor Viewshed

Hupa shell dress Tyoical Miwok men dressing

Northwest view

Northeast view Chumash deerskin dress

Quechan and mojave men clothing Southeast view

Kumeyaay willow bark skirt

California representative tribes of basket weaving

ined burden basket

The most prominent styles are plaiting, coiling and twining and they often used materials like willow shoots, sedge roots, swamp canes, saguaro cactuses, rye grass, the bark of redbud and more.

Paiutes beaded basket

California representative tribes of pottery making

The indigenous people in California have been gathering the special red dirt, working it into red clay, coiling and shaping the red clay into ollas and other objects with wooden paddle and thousands of years.

Mojave beaded pottery

Cahuilla style pottery

California representative tribes of indian clothing

Because of the mild climate, indigenous people in California peoples wore little clothing. Women typically wore a short skirt made of animal skin and a breechcloth or nothing at all. Ceremonial dress included elaborate headdresses, skirts, and feathered costumes. Bead or shell are common ornaments Paiute beaded clothing

Tyoical Miwok men dressing

Quechan and mojave men clothing

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Floral Center to Floor Connection

Floral Center to In-Between Floor Connection

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