Yida Li Selected Works Spring 2023

Yida Rick Li

syracuse university school of architecture // b.arch. 2026 selected works.

Education

Syracuse University | School of Architecture | Syracuse, NY

Bachelor of Architecture Dean’s List | Honorable Mention of Sliver’s Prize Design Competition

Renée Crown University Honors Program

Pingree School South Hamilton, MA

Relevant Coursework

Architectural Design I, II, III, IV Representation I, II Intro to Architecture

Expected May 2026

3.84 GPA

June 2021

Intro to History of Architecture I, II Architectural Theory Intro to Building & Structural Systems

Building Systems Design I Structures I

Essentials of Accounting Essentials of Finance

Experience

Research Assistant | School of Architecture, Syracuse University | Syracuse, NY

Intro to Jewelry and Metals

Summer 2022-Present

• Assisted Prof. Iman Fayyad in digital drawing, digital and physical modeling of research projects in geometry and material.

Architectural Intern | SV Design LLC | Beverly, MA

• Worked with the commercial/multi-family team in numerous architectural projects.

• Produced architectural drawings and renderings at all stages of the design process.

Court Instructor | Bass River Racquet Club | Beverly, MA

• Coached children and teens in tennis techniques and rules of the game.

Skills

Drawing Model Making | Manual Drafting | Painting | Hand Sketching | Spray Painting

Summer 2022

Summer 2021

Visualization Revit | Rhinoceros | Grasshopper | Lumion | VRay | KeyShot Adobe Photoshop Adobe Illustrator | Autodesk AutoCAD Autodesk Fusion GIS

Other Software Adobe InDesign | Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Adobe Premiere | Excel

Fabrication Laser Cutting | 3D Printing | Wood | Paper | Foam | Clay | Plaster Silicone

Campus Engagement

Peer Advisor | School of Architecture

• Host events to welcome the new first year class.

• Mentor advisees throughout their entire career in the school of architecture.

Architecture Ambassador | School of Architecture

• Lead tours for prospective and admitted students and families.

• Participate in information sessions and answer questions related to the student experience.

Syracuse University Club Tennis Team

• Attend regular practice sessions and compete in inter-college matches.

References

Spring 2022-Present

Fall 2021-Present

Fall 2021-Present

Iman Fayyad | Syracuse School of Architecture

Stefano Basso, AIA SV Design LLC Email: isfayyad@syr.edu Email: stefano@svdesign.com

L’ENFER // BANNED BOOKS ARCHIVE

Syracuse, NY

L’Enfer is a proposal of a banned books archive situated in downtown Syracuse, NY.

The facade of l’Enfer is a direct dialogue between the content within the architecture and the gaze of the city.

Banned books contain knowledge the world find uncomfortable to confront. The facade presents a hostile enclosure that gives passer-by’s the opportunity to convince themselves that entering the architecture is impossible. However, for those who seek the knowledge within, one can always find their way inside.

Professor Britt Eversole Spring 2022

WESTCOTT PERFORMANCE LANDSCAPE

Syracuse , NY

The proposal Westcott Performance Landscape is situated in the artistic and diverse Westcott neighborhood of Syracuse, NY.

The performance landscape investigates the essence of “Performance” and architecture as the stage of urban performance.

Through a series of staggered layers of skate park, farmer’s market, mid-air plaza, and offices, the “landscape” transforms all activity happening within and in the vicinity of the architecture into performance, while itself serves as the stage. Skaters, retailers, shoppers, office workers within the complex, and even pedestrians all become parts of the vibrant, multi-dimensional urban performance.

Professor Nathan Williams

AFRICATOWN BEND // Arts + Cultural Trail

Africatown, AL

The proposal of the Art + Cultural Trail is situated in Africatown, AL, a significant site of African-American history, art, and culture.

The trail is inspired by the traditional local art form of Gee’s Bend, where artists sew together pieces of fabric from everyday life to create collage-like pieces. On the trail, the flowing landscape is a collage of recycled metal sheets, while the promenade itself sews the community together .

The Trail embarks from the waterfront adjacent to the Mobile River and expands inland, providing public space for museum exhibitions, gallery, food trucks, performances, and other civic activities. .

As the Trail spans 3+ miles anchored by its 3 time-marker structures, it preserves the history, hosts the present, and inspires the future of the arts and culture of Africatown.

Professor Nathan Williams

THE BRIDGE AT WATKINS GLEN Micro-Home

The Bridge is a 400 sq ft micro-home proposal located in the Watkin Glen State Park in Upstate NY. The Bridge was designed and developed in collaboration

The Bridge explores various space-saving strategies and building systems including concrete, steel trusses, and glazing, while solving challenges that came with the unique site condition.

Sustainability strategies include:

• Brise-soleil and high thermal mass

• Rainfall and dew collector

• Solar hot water panels

• Micro hydro-electric turbines

• Waste water pumped far away

• Insulation boards and insulation paint

Professor Daekwon Park

in collaboration with Max Walewski

Fall 2022

RABBIT HOLE

The Rabbit Hole investigates the role of void in spatial volume, relationships, and sequence in architectural objects.

Professor Britt Eversole Spring 2022

Professor Matthew Ragazzo

Fall 2021

Revolving around the central courtyard, the pavilion is divided into levels of “orbits.” The orbits in turn create the radial grid in which each element in the pavilion sits, including corridors and functional spaces. With each orbit closer to the center ground level shifts down, thus creating a gravitation towards the central courtyard.

Spaces for individuals feature revolving screen doors, which provides flexibility between privacy and transparency.

Through various design elements, the Orbital not only reflects on the formal characteristics of its precedence, but also seeks ways to break free from its set boundaries.

Education Outpost

Badain Jaran Desert, China

Dune Outpost is a desert education complex located in Badain Jaran Desert, China. The complex consists of a series of pod modules that make up an exhibition hall/ auditorium, interior and exterior classrooms, ecology laboratories, site observation platforms, and a café connected by corridors and elevators.

The design strategy of Dune Outpost focuses on the natural forces of the unique landscape and the conversation between the built and landscape, while driven by tectonic strategies of the rhythm and the curation of pictureframes — both accessible and perceptional.

The architecture of Dune Outpost is completed by nature over time. When constructed, the complex is largely aboveground. However, as time passes, sand carried by the north-western gradually shapes the architecture and ultimately drowns it completely in sand. The central pod is designed to absorb and retain moisture, therefore allowing sand to accumulate, ultimately encasing itself in its own dune. The other pods are designed to create wind shadows, manipulating the passing sand to accumulate in front of the pods while creating “scars” behind, thus creating habitable exterior spaces.

As the central pod becomes a sand dune, sand avalanches will produce sand booms — a powerful droning sound produced by the electromagnetic field of deep layers of sand. As the central pod is buried deeper in sand, visitors will be able to experience the boom surrounding them from within the auditorium.

Essentially, Dune Outpost is an architecture designed to be un-constructed by nature. And when it is completely erased from the surface of the Earth, Dune Outpost becomes a sarcophagus of the knowledge human discovers about the desert inside it during its lifetime.

Honorable Mention of Sliver’s Prize Design Competition

PROJECT: IF

Research with Professor Iman Fayyad

Fall 2022 - Spring 2023

DRAWING SCULPTURES +

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