Qianru_Li_2016-2022_Architecture Portfolio

OBJECTIVE

EDUCATION

2020.09-2022.07

SW6 7TU, Sho「「olds Road, London +44 7864769823

q1an「u.li15 l 8@gmail.com

Qianru Li

2015.09-2019.07

Architectural Assistant (Part2)

University of Edinburgh, UK

Architecture -M. Arch {RIBA Part 2)

University of Liverpool, UK

Xi'an Jiaotong- Liverpool University, China

Double Degree of BEng Architecture {RIBA Part 1)

2016/2017

2017/2018

EXPERIENCE

2020.04-2020.09

University Academic Excellent Award

University Academic Excellent Award

Double Degree in BEng

2018.01-2018.03

LLLAB, Shanghai, China Architectural Assistant

• Project: 2020 Yonghe Training Campus

3d modeling, conceptual design, physical model making, architectural drawings {plans, sections, perspectives)

Tongji Architectural Design Co., Ltd. (TJAD), Shanghai, China

Site analysis, data organization, proposal presentation

WORKSHOPS & COMPETITIONS

2018.02

2019.01

2019.06

2021.01

SKILLS

3D Modeling:

Render:

2D Graphic:

• Mecanoo International Workshop in Suzhou

Harbour area renovation in Rotterdam

•'Learning from Tradition' Cheng Tsung Feng Workshop

Materialization and methodology of bamboo structure

•'Between Architecture and Landscape' Balkrishma V. Doshi Workshop

Environmental and Sustainable Design for Future Cities

•'A chair, Another story' photography project by Helene Binet Photographic exploration within urban scale

Revit, Rhino, ArchiCAD, AutoCAD, Sketch Up, Relux, Ecotect Analysis,Grasshopper

V-RAY, Enscape, C4D, Lumion PS, Al, ID, LR, Pr, Microsoft Office

Internship China China China UK

The Palimpsest Landscape : Unpacking the collections of the Palacio de los Capitanes Generales

The Palimpsest Landscape is a collection of workshops for the study, conservation, fabrication and display of ceramic artefacts from the collections of the Palacio de los Capitanes Generales, now a museum in Old Havana, Cuba. Offered to the Plaza de Armas, a formal garden square in the foreground of the Palacio, the Palimpsest engages with the fabric and contents of the museum building through a process of architectural smuggling whereby artefacts are removed from the Palacio one by one, transported across an elevated bridge, through a wall into a landscape of concrete, steel and brick.

The artefacts in the museum are practically and conceptually caged, held at a distance, caught within a particular cultural and historical reading. Liberated from this condition by the Palimpsest they become available to new interpretations.

The buildings of Havana are in a state of collapse, often held in place by seemingly precarious scaffolding systems. In a critical reinterpretation of this the Palimpsest deploys a structural language of steel rib walls locked into concrete envelopes held above an undulating concrete landscape and brick kiln. Study and restoration take place within the discrete envelopes, artefacts are displayed on fine steel armatures in shadow spaces throughout. In the open air workshop new ceramics are formed and dried, glazed in the adjacent enclosed workshop and fired in the brick kiln.

Gates are moments of extraordinary intensity that go beyond the pragmatic concerns of function and programme. They are thresholds that allow a transition from the spatial and sensorial orders of the outside, public domain toward a new arrangement of spatial and environmental conditioning. They don’t just allow access to something new, they prepare us for something new.

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Aerial View from the museum

Collide the Wind Misregistration with the Acoustic wall upon the Plaza Armas, then a conceptual remapping of The Captian General's Palace is formed.

Plaza Danzante

CollectiveField

The buildings of Havana are in a state of collapse, often held in place by seemingly precarious scaffolding systems. In a critical reinterpretation of this the Palimpsest deploys a structural language of steel rib walls locked into concrete envelopes held above an undulating concrete landscape and brick kiln.

▶ Landscape Scriptor' walks upon the sand & mud tray which suspended by the grided columns.

▼ Cantilevered ramp for observing the tidal traces and its viration of landscape on the bay.

from collective field

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Isolated Exploded Axonometric

the Palimpsest engages with the fabric and contents of the museum building through a process of architectural smuggling

artefacts are removed from the Palacio one by one

Invention of Artefacts

The water collecting system can be regarded as environmentally considered. Espcially during the season of high precipitation, rainwater could be collected and go through simple purification process. In this way, the workshop undeneath is also be supported.

Kneading

| Isometric Perspective View

Ceramic Workshop

kneaded vases are taken from courtyard inside to cool down. paint and glaze space

glaze fire the ceramic and cooling space

▲ Landscape Scriptor' walks upon the sand & mud tray which suspended by the grided columns.

◀ Cantilevered ramp for observing the tidal traces and its viration of landscape on the bay.

Sanatorium La Manche: ISLAND TERRITORIES VII: Island Temporalities|Mont-Saint-Michel, France

The Sanatorium La Manche is situated in the polder landscape southoftheBayofMont-Saint-MichelandwestoftheCouesnon Canal. Aligned to the Abbey mount the Sanatorium is a mirror island offering retreat and therapeutic treatments for a range of pulmonary conditions.

As an architectural island in an agricultural landscape, the Sanatorium seeks to engage with the greater ecology of the Bay and its fragile ecosystem by connections with water, the water of the adjacent designed wetland and the canal beyond. In this way, the architecture operates as an eddy between the Couesnon Canal and the sea, channelling water through its walls, beneath its bridges and below its stair towers, flooding its internal lake, discharging back into the Canal and the Bay beyond. The Sanatorium is a form of de-polderisation in miniature whereby land reclaimed for farming is offered back to the sea through designed rupture.

The architecture treats the human body and the ecosystem.

By introducing water from the wetland into the Sanatorium it establishes an intimate relationship between body and water through therapeutic treatments: steam rooms, resistance hydrotherapies, aerobic exercises and aromatherapies and a designed landscape of internal views across, adjacent to and above water. An enclosing wall houses residential and therapeutic programmes, a rainwater treatment system and a singular elevated view to Mont-Saint-Michel. Bridges and reading towers animate the internal landscape, connecting and activating programme whilst creating viewpoints both internal and external. A laboratory and flower garden, library and acoustic performance space complete the programme.

salt-marsh/ Mont-Saint-Michel/ salt-marsh polder/ village/ salt-marsh polder/ village/ barrage/ village/ polder

◀ The result of interventions(construction of dam,tourism development) was increased natural and manmade growth of the “polders,” the salt marshes that invade the bay and provide valuable agricultural land, together with accelerated sedimentation around the Mount itself.

▼ De-silting work at Mont-Saint- Michel remains the return to a maritime landscape. The combined forces of the sea and the Couesnon, the sediments will be driven off Mont-Saint-Michel and its surroundings will remain out of reach of the herbus.

polder/ village/ Couesnon canal/ village/ polder polder/ village/ Anse de Moidrey/ Couesnon canal/ village/ polder polder/ village/ Couesnon canal/ polder

Couesnon canal/ stationnement/ village/ polder

• Introducing the water to inside from the wetland and the canal.

• Collecting rain water

FILTRATION COLLECTING

• Water tank for filtering water

• Saparates sewage system & domestic water system

CIRCULATION

INHABITATION

• accomondation for patients

• Roof garden

RESERVOIR

• Introduced water from the wetland and the canal.

• deepen the atmosphere for resistance hydrotherapy program and aerobic exercise

As a collection of therapeutic programs that tightly relate to the water has set along the wetland, bridges are introduced to establish the intimate relations between human body and water as well as to reclaim the power of nature, environment

Long section A-A’

Long section B-B’

‘THERAPY BRIDGES’

▲ Along with the reception area, seating area under shading provides waiting and resting spaces.

▲ Waterfront platform

▲ Leisure spaces and meditation room provided for patients.

▼ standing on promenade closed to water level and breath in with innerpeace.

1. walkway: copper handrail alaska cedar oil finish floor joist adjusting bolt stainless steel

2. steel truss cantilever corten-steel cladding panel copper sheeting polythene sheet vapour barrier horizontal wood batten& multi-layer thermal insulation timber panel shelves laminated wood board

3. perforated aluminum plate RHS steel column timber panel double-glazed panels corten-steel cladding panel

▲ Detail section of Aerobic program & Archive for patients' data

Interior view of archive & staff's office

From steam room to Aerobic therapeutic programs such as swimming pool, resistance hydrotherapy bridges.

A. copper handrail alaska cedar oil finish floor joist adjusting bolt stainless steel

corten-steel cladding panel polythene sheet vapour barrier horizontal wood batten& multi-layer thermal insulation laminated wood board B. ready-madealuminum sash for steel frame double-glazed panels oil paint finish

▲ Detailed Section showing materials and structure of promenade and glazing surface.

◀ Cross section goes through herbal cultication space and promenade above for aerobic exercise.

Detail A

Detail B

Scripting the Bay in Mont-Saint-Michel : an attempt to document perpetural tidal tracings

New invention within the Scriptorium act as a mirror that re-script the tidal bay and landscape and exihibit them inside the Abbey. The drawing sand tray acts as map and inventory, guide and lens to document the commune of Mont-Saint -Michel, rescale the marshed landscape on the bay with visitors’ footprint within this isolating room -Salle des Chevaliers, for close-up observation and documentation.

Spatially,materiallyandenvironmentallythearchitecture of the Palimpsest makes visible the unseen or obscured histories of the collection. Erased messages are rewritten in here.

Vessel is an interesting word in English because it can denote a ship but its emphasis is on the ship’s containment, what it holds, and is therefore a directly spatial. But Vessel doesn’t really have a singular scale. It is a receptacle, it receives; it is a container, it contains; and it is a holder, it holds. It is therefore architectural.

In this way, Vessel, which is extracted from the Chimera of Havana, could be seen like New intervene that acts as map and inventory, guide and offer lens to document the commune of Mont-Saint -Michel. It would situating itself in the abbey island as a speculative foothold.

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From Palimpsest Landscape to Mont-Saint-Michel

/ Identify and Dismantle Vessel

The drawing sand tray acts as map and inventory, guide and lens to document the commune of MontSaint -Michel, rescale the marshed landscape on the bay with visitors’ footprint within this isolating room -Salle des Chevaliers, for close-up observation and documentation.

Bridges are setting above the drawing sand tray as channels for the scripttor to plot the field and navigate the bay around the Mont-Saint-Michel.

|Aerial View

/ Tracing, Rescale the Landscape

Explaination

View from Outside | Situating the Vessel in the Landscape

House of Estrangement

By setting new layer of glazing facade to the corridor, the Scriptorium is partly insulated.

Cantilevered Platform Resting Area Showering & Cloakroom Suspended Walkways Storage Space

Cantilevered ramp for observing the tidal traces down the bay.

perspective section B-B’

view

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Long Section A-A’ Plan

House of Estrangement

New invention within the Scriptorium act as a mirror that re-script the tidal bay and landscape and exihibit them inside the Abbey.

▶ 'Landscape Scriptor' walks upon the sand & mud tray which suspended by the grided columns.

▼ Cantilevered ramp for observing the tidal traces and its viration of landscape on the bay.

With the Void, Full Power:

Cities are expanding on the base of highways and result in more interchanges. Due to infrastructural needs, interchanges occupy large plots of land of splitting, connecting, bending highways. This spatial complexity, i.e. overlapping flyovers and highways,formulates underdeveloped spaces dedicated primarily to vehicular transportation.

The proposal is not aiming to directly set structure to govern current situations within the site, nor does it tend to offer certain solutions to straight comfront the issues above. Instead, applied the theories and image study methods from the research into new practice, explore a potential form to redefine these interchanges and converge them in a invisible spatial formulation.

The imprint of urban transformation and renewal is tend to be a solidified specimen, which places the past and the present in thesametimeandwithinsamespace. Hereisatypicalexample of the universal and almost surreal collage phenomenon in Asian cities.

Infrastructure Renovation Design on HongKong HungHom Station

Based on the site analysis, several studied models demon strate differing approaches to form-finding.

For instance, some are taking the muli-level transportation and circulation into consideration while the connections to the context are emphasized.

|Conceptual Masterplan

Hybridization & Coexist Ambiguity in the public realm Informal: ignored but pervasive

Models

Intersecting Spatial Specimens

The central ring as the mian converging element along with multi-directing space bars. As the departure as well as the starting point of othetr places, the original infrastructure system should maintain the previous station programa while injecting more dynamic to revive. In this way, the juxtaposion of new programs and the the original train station will enhance its meaning within this site.

The plan on the left mainly demonstrate the spaces configuration have strong correspondances with surroundings, including main population distribution, exsiting urban programs, transportation neworks,ect.

The plan on the right shows that the original major transition node is being enanced by converge all the interchanges within the huge parallel form.

▼ Diverse programs and circulation would create more potential by its collision within the giant unified form.

Long Section

Densed Urban Linkages

|Study Models

Uniformity and Diverisity. Distributions of space bar have taken the rythmn of entirety.

Work Project

Through a hands-on process of creating and producing structures to reactivate atrium of the Design Building at XJTLU. we were encouraged to experiment with the materials manipulating them based on the researches about their distictinve properties. The artist Chen Tsung Feng from Taiwan together with us to explore the prototypes and material properties of bamboo and ratten. The temporary exhibition create an atmoshere that invites creativity, interacting with light and the surrounding spaces.

Contemporary cities are complex stratifications in which humans try to balance their life in between traditional heritage and future ways of living. It is not possible to think about sustainable growth without a correct equilibrium between the built space and its environment. The workshop will work on such aspects through a real project based on the city of Suzhou with special care to the relationship with the water as primary element, the natural and built space, the public space in Chinese cities, the heritage conservation, preservation and addictions. The aim is to establish a strong relationship between contemporary needs, traditional life and cultural identity.

International Doshi Workshop

Between Architecture and Landscape, Environmental and Sustainable Design for Future Cities

Yonghe Training Campus

Bamboo & Batten Installation

Collabs with Chen Tsung Feng

This project is set in Shanxi Province, China. Volumes are immersed in its unique topography while standing out for its educational spirit.