Architecture Portfolio Ruyue Qi Rhode Island School of Design B.Arch. 2024 rqi01@risd.edu 2022
RUYUE QI rqi01@risd.edu
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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
EDUCATION Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) Providence, RI, US Bachelor of Architecture | 2019-2024 GPA 3.83/4.0 Concentration in Computation, Technology, and Culture (CTC) & Nature–Culture–Sustainability Studies (NCSS) Brown University Thermodynamics course in Engineering Department SKILLSET Software 3D Modeling | Rhino, Sketchup AutoCAD, Grasshopper Render | Vary, Enscape, Lumion Adobe Creative Suite | Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Lightroom, Premiere CS | Climate studio, Python, Processing, GIS Office | Word, PowerPoint, Excel Architectural Design 3D | Refined skills in model making technique: paper, board, foam core, plaster casting, and ceramic. 2D | Architectural drawings and visualization with various artistic styles, Watercolor, Photography
Internship | Trace Architecture Office (TAO) | Beijing, China | Jun 2021-Aug 2021 Closely worked in the model shop using concrete, plaster casting, foam, and wood for complete project exhibition and publication. Developed final architectural visualizations, model photography, and layout design for publication of Malan Wan beach service. Architecture Competition | Pandemic Memorial| Archasm | Summer 2021 Directed and developed the Breathing Memorial proposal finding rever ence of the frontline workers through the formalization of breathing. Created experience of rhythms of breathing inhabiting the undulating fabric walls, recontextualized the site into a symbolic place. Teaching Assistant | RISD Architectural Analysis RISD | Fall 2022 Assisted Professor Alexander Porter in leading TA sessions to guide students through analysis, representation, and design. Assisted to solve students’ tech nical and conceptual problems Taught model making and representation sessions to help students strengthen design craft and practice RELEVANT STUDIOS Urban Ecologies | RISD Architecture | 2021 Confronted the design of housing as a way to order social relationships and shape the public realm and attacked the problems of structure, construction, access, and code compliance in the context of a complex large-scale architec tural design. Architectural Design | RISD Architecture | 2021 Explored the physical and mental balance between interior and exterior togeth er with issues of context, methodology, program, and construction for their possible interrelated meanings and influences on the making of architectural form.
AWARDS Honors Student | 2021 Spring, Fall Designated by RISD 3rd Place, RISD Make-a-Thon: Connecting the Dots | 2020 Industrial Designers Society of America Media and Design Creative Leaders Portfolio Scholarship | 2019 | Northeastern University International Merit-Based Scholarship | 2019 | Pratt
LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCE TEDx Youth@ZZFLS | Publicity Director | 2019 Designed posters, tickets, souvenirs, and the podium, created photographs, and videography for all evens. Sponge City research project | Project Leader | Beijing | 2019 Developed, experimented with roof greening system, won Global Finalist in China Thinks Big Competition
Infrastructure and Life
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Urban Ecologies
Divide and Connect
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Library
Breathing Memorial
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Pandemic Memorial
Cultural Center
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24 Hours competition
Professional Experience Design Internship
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Project 1 Infrastructure and Life Urban Ecologies
There are lots of critical issues from infrastructure within different layers in our modern city, which the upper ground infrastructure creates boundaries and often causes terrible walking conditions, and the underground infrastructure always needs great effort to maintain if something went wrong. We propose to better utilize different layers, by pushing infrastructure underground we promise a healthy biophilia lifestyle to residential life. By examining the potential spatial conditions, we propose design strategies that challenge the existing road and infrastructure system and design the underground for pure efficiency and the upper ground for a green lifestyle. The red concrete core functions not only as an infrastructure core but also as a ritual totem to the neighborhood. Multiple phases of the flexible new dwelling serve the needs of expandable multigeneration housing and people who are experiencing homelessness. The centralized infrastructure promises a pleasant lifestyle for people far from the core and bring nature back to human.
Group work with Chae Yeon Woo(RISD 24), Haomin Wu(RISD 24) RISD 2021 Spring, Instructor: Leeland McPhail
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Infrastructure underground and upper ground Upper ground: poor walking conditions: cracked and uneven asphalt road, with trees and plants envisioned onto the road. Unfriendly to the disabled. Underground: take a long time to repair, make noises during the repairment, and difficult to make mortification once it is done.
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Site analysis model Plaster casting with cotton, plexiglass and experimental material We focus on finding potential spatial conditions in upper ground, ground, and underground layers. Analyze how the infrastructure acts as the interlock that connects different layers. We experiment with various materials to show the permeability of the ground surface and how the water goes through the whole system in a residential community.
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Design Strategies We propose to move the road system underground, creating a transportation system with traffic lanes and public transportations for pure efficiency. In this way to promise a garden lifestyle upper ground.
The regulating line to guide the road and infra structure system and the interlock intersection for the two systems.
The main road lead towards the center of the city, the Kennedy Plaza, with the secondary roads leading to the neighborhood.
The road directly leads to the underground ga rage of each house together with the infrastructure lines going into each house.
The red concrete infrastructure cores located corre sponding to the void areas upper ground, and bring infrastructure into eachhouse.
The property line of each house can become more freeform and exible, to create more access to nature and green areas.
Rearrange the green spaces and create pockets of green spaces between houses, to create wan dering walkable green spaces for the community.
The red infrastructure core together with the public infrastructure core, like the streetlights, trash bins, and sewer system, located at the intersection of the regulating line.
The dwelling structures are then built around the infrastructure core, with different facing and sizes in relation to the surrounding houses through differ ent phases.
Different phases of the dwelling
Public Infrastructure
Infrastructure Core
Dwelling Structure Construction
Site Model Plater casting with acrylic color, plexiglass and woodblocks, cardboard and dry baby’s-breath Scale 1:768
Continue development
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Masterplan
Greenspace: There are large green spaces for people to gather, with playgrounds for kids, basketball courts and soccer fields for sports, open outdoor theaters, and various kinds of social gathering spaces.
Infrastructure core: The infrastructure cores all have the same facing and size, located at the void space on the grid system.
Dwelling structure: Develop through time around the infrastructure cores. The size and shape of the structure depend on the surrounding site, which also forms small communities inside.
Upperground
Infrastructure regulating system: In order to create a highly efficient transportation and infrastructure system, the grid system helps to guide the solution where the interlock of the two systems might be.
Underground road system: The main traffic lanes lead directly towards the center of the city and together with the secondary roads lead to each neighborhood and finally into each garage.
Underground infrastructure system: The electricity wires, gas, sewer pipelines, network connections are located along the traffic lanes inside the infrastructure pipe racks, following the road into each house.
Underground
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Phase 1&2 of infrastructure and dwellings Phase 1
When the infrastructure core is public, it serves as a facility plug-in for the community, especially towards venerable groups like people who currently experiencing homelessness, with toilets, a heating area, a drinking area and a charging area.
the infrastructure core for the neighborhood before any private dwelling construction
Phase 2
Before any private dwelling structures are constructed around the house, the infrastructure core also serves as a ritual totem of the community, the sunken square around the core, and how people view and approach the core to add ritual aspects to the core. Private dwelling constructs around the core
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Neighborhood Axonometric The owner of the house can decide to construct the house step by step depending on the current financial situation. They can expand their house using the already embedded infrastructure inside the core. The construction will have less impact on the normal living for current residents.
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New Dwelling Plan
First Floor Plan
Efficient modern tools Pleasant biophilia life Nature surrounds the house
With a concentrated infrastructure in the house, residences will form a different lifestyle. An effective modern life with efficient technology and tools to support our life, but more importantly a quiet and pleasant experience away from the core closer with nature.
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Third Floor Plan
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The design strategies of the core
Vertical, Holder for infrastructure plugin, Ventilation, Light Wells
Multiple dwellings construction approaches to fit various needs
The red concrete core functions as infrastructure: electricity, gas, heater, internet, water, greywater, also as circulation for people moving vertically, also as ventilation, natural ventilation for the whole house, and light well for natural sunshine into the house.
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The light frame structure of the dwelling
The infrastructure core is made of red concrete and light-frame structures for the construction of the surrounding. The wood frame construction allows offset for each floor, allowing sunlight to come into the house through the gap.
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Infrastructure Core
Dwelling Model Plaster casting with acrylic paint, wood stick, plexiglass, and frosted drafting film Scale 1:24
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Interior Views
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Project 2 Divide and Connect Pavilion + Stacks + Library
This library is for people who come without a specific aim of books, and they are here to explore, find, search for books they might be interested in. The library explores the balance between division and connection of walls, spaces, and programs to create an immersive exploring books experience. Fragmented programs connect by stacks provide each fragment with various specific program purposes. Unenclosed walls, ceilings connect people with adjoin programs and outside through seeing, smelling, hearing, and feeling the space.
Individual Work, RISD 2021 Spring, Instructor: Evan Farely
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Divide and connect Divide and connect through walls and volumes
Divide: space so people can sense shelter and enclosure that separate us from adjoining interior spaces and the outside. Connect: with people, nature, and the city around them through seeing, smelling, feeling, and hearing.
How do we feel we are in an enclosed space
Seeing Hearing Smelling Feeling of Space
Seeing
Hearing
Smelling
Feeling
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Project 1 Pavilion: explore how walls enclose spaces
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Project 2 Stacks: divide and connect between different volumes with multiple cores and explore the flow of circulation
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The site The site is located at downtown Providence, next to Johnson & Wales University and a business street connected with several small parks.
The park with leading walls guiding people coming from the downtown area and there are pavilions and book stacks to allow people to relax and read there. The walls guide people to move around the space and explore places outside before going into the building.
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Fragmented programs To encourage people to explore different areas of the library, the library has multiple cores, and each is made of book stacks. People need to go around this floor before going up or down.
Stack + Circulation Multiple vertical cores allow people to explore each horizontal level fully before moving onto the next level. When people move vertically on the stack they can explore the books around them.
Reading area Multiple different types of reading rooms and reading platforms allow people to choose where they want to read according to their preferences. Some reading areas are small and enclosed, and some are open and large.
Stacks Book stacks become the circulation of the library. following the flow of books and various generals of books, people explore books as they move around the building and might also have unexpected findings along the way.
Offices, Coffee, Auditorium Service programs are also divided into multiple sections and each one serves relates to the programs around them to create more specific programs.
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The library is for people who come without a specific aim of books, are they are here to explore, find and search for books they might be interested. The consistent intersection of different stacks of books leads people to find things they are unfamiliar with before.
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Fragmented programs connect by stacks provide each fragment with various specific program purposes. Different kinds of spatial enclosures create various spatial atmospheres and how people engage with various spaces. Unenclosed walls, ceilings connect people with adjoin programs and outside through seeing, smelling, hearing, and feeling the space.
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The library is structured by Cross-Laminated Timber (CLT.) The CLT panels work as the bookshelves and the structure of the library. CLT panels are prefabricated easy to construct and reduced environmental impact. The glazing and the CLT panels together with the books create an intriguing view for the neighborhood.
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Project 3 Breathing Memorial Architecture Competition Pandemic Memorial
Breathing in its involuntariness emblems the necessity of survival. However, it has become a tribulation of our well-being in a time of an ongoing pandemic. For frontline workers and volunteers under constant exposure to Covid-19, breathing turns into a challenge: The risk of infection and layers of protection equipment impedes the once spontaneous action. The memorial finds reverence of the frontline workers through the formalization of breathing. Using the site as an existing pedestrian entrance into the community, the memorial reconstructs this urban fabric into three spatial sequences. As visitors are drawn into the memorial, they will find rhythms of breathing inhabiting the undulating fabric walls. Open spaces with elevated and sunken grounds scatter alone the memorial. Upon entering, visitors are offered with stopping moments for contemplation and rare opportunities for safe gathering during the pandemic. The weightless materiality transcends its scale, allowing the memorial to exist in peace with the built environment. When blown by the wind, it comes to life and breathes as the pinned fabric strips start to slightly rotate.
RISD 2021 Summer, Group work with Pai Liu(RISD 24’) Yingkai Xiong(RISD 24’)
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Starting with a negative volume of a typical monument, expanding and contracting spaces are carved out and regulated by undulating fabric walls and ground. The fabric walls are lifted from the bottom to allow passages and visibilities between different sequences.
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Each fabric stripe is pinned onto two running beams with a free rotation of 15 degrees on each side. It can roWtate along the Z-axis at 15 degrees angle on either side when blown by the wind.
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Situated in the unassuming urban corner, the community includes people from all walks of life. The hasty and burdensome city lives lead to the lack of interpersonal connections in the neighborhood. During the lockdown, the community yet united into a whole.
The site, located at the main entrance into the neighborhood, was turned into the hub of the combat. Volunteers measured the temperatures of incoming visitors, and the site was constructed into delivery drop-offs and a temporary isolation zone. The memorial recontextualizes the site into a symbolic place. Meanwhile, it also preserves its functionality by providing open areas and separating bicyclists and pedestrians for temperature monitoring.
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Project 4 Cultural Center 24 Hours Architectural Competition
“In a landscape where nothing of value officially exists (otherwise it would not be called a desert), absolutely anything becomes thinkable and may consequently happen.” – Reyner Banham Boundless, fluid, and unpredictable. The everchanging desert can perhaps be seen as a pristine form of thoughts, identities, and locales. To see the world in a grain of sand, like desert humanity’s cultures change incessantly. At the northern route of the ancient Silk Road, we introspect, we reflect upon the very essence of each one of our cultures. The low-lying, organic shape resembles a rise in the landscape, and will use local materials and regional construction techniques. A careful balance between accessibility and privacy is achieved through intimate proximity between the three volumes.
2022 Fall, Group Work with Yuchen Liu(RISD 22’) and Yijun Yan(RISD 23’)
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Project 5 Architectural Intern Trace Architecture Office (TAO)
Closely worked in the model shop using concrete, plaster casting, foam, and wood for complete project exhibition and publication. Developed final architectural visualizations, model photography, and layout design for publication of Malan Wan beach service facilities.
Beijing, China | Jun 2021-Aug 2021
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Malanwan Facility Service Rongcheng, Shandong 1:125 physical model Concrete and plaster casting
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Model Shop Making models for exhibitions and publications
Seashore Ruin Park Visitor Center 1:100 concrete model Concrete casting with wood and steel
Café building Rongcheng, Shandong 1:40 physical model Concrete and plaster casting with steel
Ruyue Qi Rhode Island School of Design rqi01@risd.edu 2022