Architecture Portfolio | Mohong Li by Mohong Li

PORTFOLIO

Mohong Li

MOHONG LI

EDUCATION

Aug. 2023 - Present

Aug. 2019 - June 2023

EXPERIENCE

Aug. 2023 - Present

May 2024 - Aug. 2024

June 2022 - Jan. 2023

SOFTWARE

SKILLS

Adobe CC

CAD/Render

Programming

MS Office

LANGUAGES

English

Chinese (Mandarin)

French

Cornell University

Bachelor’s of Architecture (B.Arch)

Civil Infrastructure Engineering Minor

Overall Grade: 3.72/4

Lynbrook High School

Sustainable Education Project Team

Architecture Team Member

KSN Customs Inc.

Full-Time Construction Laborer

Habitat for Humanity

Construction and Retail Volunteer

Photoshop | Indesign | Lightroom | Illustrator

Rhinoceros 3D | V-Ray | Grasshopper

Python

Word | Powerpoint | Excel

Native

Conversational

Intermediate

MONASTERY

Sited in Ruidosa, Texas

Term: Spring 2024 | 2nd Semester

Instructor: Andrew Lucia

This desert monastery is situated in the Chinati Mountains at approximately 4,000 feet above sea level. The architecture seeks to understand its programmatic elements by integrating itself with the landscape, viewing the topography as a series of circular nodes and tangential paths across a steep swale. Ground paths of the functional southeast spaces are linked across similar contours, while previously arduous travel routes are connected by arch bridges.

These bridges frame views towards the church complex, amplifying it as a beacon across the monastery. Furthermore, the efficiently linked functional spaces juxtapose the meandering path approaching north through a differentiation between physical and spiritual nourishment at opposite ends of the main axis. The church roof distinguishes itself through its curvilinear geometry and its ability to float above the main structure, creating a high clerestory using structural principles rooted in tensegrity.

Overall Floor Plan

1” = 80’

(3)

Sections

Serial

1” = 100’

(1)

(2)

(3)

Church Complex Floor Plan

1” = 40’

Church Complex Sections

1” = 40’

Developments of Church Roof

These were earlier explorations leading up to the church’s roof design.

BAIRD PRIZE PLAN

Using the Tensegrity System

Tensegrity visually conveys “floating” by isolating compression and tension.

BAIRD PRIZE ELEVATION AND SECTION

BELL PEPPER COOKHOUSE

Sited in Basque Country, Spain

Term: Spring 2024 | 2nd Semester

Instructor: Catherine Wilmes

This rammed earth cookhouse is based upon the programmatic and subtractive qualities of the Necropolis Complex in Italy, informing the architecture’s circulation and privacy. It is integrated into the side of a deep terrace, with the central space earth-bermed inside the site.

The cookhouse’s outer pathways allow for the configuration of four separate areas along the outside. These four spaces are connected on the interior to the central communal eating space, which is unified through a rotated grid, whose logics extend to the roof and interior.

The model resembles a carving project through thick walls, integration of furniture, and filleted and chamfered edge conditions. A container-versus-contained aspect becomes visible, with the walls and pilasters opening the building to a public eating booth. The inner portion of the structure remains centralized and contained, similar to a bell pepper.

Precedent Analysis and York Prize Conceptual Model

Precedent Analysis 2 in Collaboration with Eric Xie

The model reflects properties in the Necropolis Complex’s circulation and privacy. When closed, there is high internal privacy in the central void, but limited privacy from the outside. When the model is open, the individual cubes offers lower internal privacy but enhanced privacy from the exterior.

NEUES MUSEUM MODEL

In Collaboration with: Chad Jacobs and Franklyn Yadaicela Term: Fall 2024 | 3rd Semester

Instructor: Mark Cruvellier

1:50 recreation of the northeast portion of Berlin’s Neues Museum, emphasizing its structural systems with the design’s interplay between neoclassical and David Chipperfield’s modern intervention.

FLAKING FOLLY

Conceptual Design

Term: Fall 2023 | 1st Semester

Instructor: Imani Day

This folly explores the properties of sedimentary stones and the processes involved in its extraction, especially relating to flaking. The contrast between organic and regimented guides the configuration of the positions, angle, and spacing of layers, understood through the stone’s cleavage angles and pore distribution.

Final Folly Drawings

Hand-Drafted with Hatches in Photoshop

SUSTAINABLE EDUCATION NEPAL

Project Team under Cornell University Sustainable Design Terms: 2023-2024 | 1st-3rd Semester

Supervisor: Sirietta Simoncini

Projects: Modular K-8 School and National Teachers Training Institute

CUSD is a student run, interdisciplinary project team aiming to foster sustainable communities across the world. Cornell has partnered with United World Schools (UWS) in delivering a cohesive proposal for educational facilities across Nepal.

Teachers Training Institute in Bandipur

Site Massing and Site Analysis

Sensory Room in Collaboration with Julian Cardoso (Rendering/Site Plan Credits: SEN)

Drainage Details in Collaboration with Andrew Wheat

K-8 School in Sunsari District

CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS

Fieldwork and Self-Guided Freehand Drawings

Terms: Summer 2022 (Part-Time) and Summer 2024 (Full-Time)

Organizations: Habitat for Humanity (2022) | KSN Customs Inc. (2024)

Fieldwork experience includes site preparation and foundation building for the Thoppay residence with KSN Customs Inc., and deck reconstruction with Habitat for Humanity. Documentation is included in the form of photographs and freehand pen drawings.