Portfolio_Yongdi Li

PORTFOLIO OF YONGDI LI

SELECTED WORKS 2015-2023

Bachelor of Architecture, Southeast University

Master of Architecture, Washington University in St. Louis

Email: yongdi.li@wustl.edu

Telephone: +1 314-349-4007

YONGDI LI

yongdi.li@wustl.edu

314-349-4007

474 Warren Steet #2905

Jersey City, NJ 07302

EDUCATION

WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST. LOUIS - ST. LOUIS, MO MASTER OF ARCHITECTURE (2.5-YEAR NAAB-ACCREDITED PROGRAM)

SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY - NANJING, CHINA BACHERLOR OF ARCHITECTURE (5-YEAR PROGRAM)

UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA - VANCOUVER, CANADA MODERN TIMBER STRUCTURE PAVILION DESIGN (SUMMER SCHOOL)

WORK EXPERIENCE

MEIER PARTNERS ARCHITECTS - NEW YORK, NY

DESIGNER

JUNIOR DESIGNER

Jesolo Lido Design District in Jesolo, Itlay

-Worked on SD, DD and CD phases.

Developed 3D model, 2D drawings and details

Corrdinated with MEP and structure egineers

Kiwoom Finance Square Headquater in Seoul, South Korea

-Worked on CO and SD phases. Produced Site analysis, design research diagrams,3D model, renderings and 2D drawings.

WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS - ST LOUIS, MO

TEACHING ASSITANT

-ARCH 526U_ Frank Lloyd Wright and Contemporary Architecture

(Supervisor: Ruth and Norman Moore Professor Robert McCarter)

RESEARCH ASSITANT

-Leading the LEED-certified Living Housing Project analysis (Supervisor: Associate Professor Hongxi Yin)

GOA (GROUP OF ARCHITECTS) - SHANGHAI,CHINA

ARCHITECTURAL INTERN

- CD facade drawing of a community center in Ningbo, China

- CD facade drawing of a office building in Hangzhou, China

DUSHE BUILDING ARCHITECTURE DESIGN - SHANGHAI,CHINA

ARCHITECTURAL INTERN

- Responsible for the SD and renderings of visitor center lobby

- Facade drawings and renderings of an office building.

AWARDS

DEGREE PROJECT AWARD l WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS

WIDMAN PRIZE NOMINEEl WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS

THE CISSY PAO AND SHINICHIRO WATARI SCHOLARSHIP FOR ARCHITECTURE

l WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS

TEAM SECOND PRIZE IN THE 6TH NATIONAL COLLEGE DIGITAL ART&DESIGN

EXCELLENT GRADUATION DESIGN PROJECT IN JIANGSU PROVINCE

MERIT STUDENT l SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY

EXELLENT AWARD OF SOCIAL WORK l SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY

ECELLENT AWARD OF DESIGN l SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY

MERIT STUDENT l SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY

EXTRACURRICULAR

TERRITORIES-WATERSHEDS-INFRASTRUCTURES - ST. LOUIS, MO

AS INTERNATIONAL ARCHITECTURAL FORUM - NANJING, CHINA

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE & EXHIBITION ON ARCHITECTURAL

ALGORITHMS&APPLICATIONS - NANJING, CHINA

RESEARCH OF HOPSCA'S VITALITY MEASUREMENT - NANJING, CHINA

SKILLS

TECHNICAL

AUTOCAD, REVIT, RHINOCEROS,SKETCHUP, LUMION, VRAY, ENSCAPE, GRASSHOPPER, ADOBE CREATIVE SUITES (PHOTOSHOP, INDESIGN,ILLUSTRATOR, ACROBAT)

MICROSOFT OFFICE SUITES(POWERPOINT, EXCEL, WORD), PHYSICAL MODEL, HAND SKETCHING

LANGUAGES

MANDARIN(NATIVE), ENGLISH(PROFICIENT)

Yongdi Li

yongdi.li@wustl.edu

314-349-4007

474 Warren St, #2905

Jersey City, NJ 07302

As an architecture designer and Midwest-educated student, I believe that architecture should connected to the urban context, and the broader landscape of the region. More importantly, architecture creation is supposed to elaborate the relationship between nature and human inhabitation, to convey characteristics of the land we reside.

As human inhabitation, architecture has the power to inspire and lighten spirit, to feed both the mind and body. It has a tremendous effect not only on our aesthetic experience but on our physical health and emotional wellbeing. With the ultimate goal of creating spaces that are comfortable, healthy, and both visually and emotionally compelling.

As an architect, the role of one should be provider, not recipient. Architects need to proactively coordinate the work and responsibilities of all parties to deliver a building which fits client's requirements and expresses architect's design intention. From my 2 years professional experiece, I learned that architects should be leading, not reacting.

01 | Jesolo Lido Design District - The Beach Tower

Feb 2022 - Present

Jesolo,Italy

Surpervisor: Stefan Scheiber-Loeis

Co-worker: Minh Nguyen, Roger Li, Marylynn Antaki

With 83 residential units and a SPA on the ground floor, the The Tower is setting a unique standard for a luxurious residential building in Jesolo. One can better understand the change of scale if seen from the beach in relationship to the beach front buildings where the new tower is placed respectfully in the background yet dominant in its height but with diligently crafted details reaching out into the urban fabric.

Rendering by DBOX

Rendering by DBOX

Rendering by DBOX

Rendering by DBOX

Kiwoom Finance Square Headquater

May 2021 - Feb 2022 (CO,SD)

Soeul, South Korea

Surpervisor : Dukho Yeon, Guillermo Murcia

Co-worker : Sharon Oh,Homin Jung, Hyunggyu Choi, Andres De La Paz, Simon Campuzano

The new Kiwoom Finance Square tower will replace the current 40 year old building located in the heart of Yeoiu-do, an international financial hub in Seoul, Korea. An iconic, striking, and innovative landmark is envisioned for Kiwoom’s flagship headquarters tower, representing the ideals and corporate values of Kiwoom Securities and Daou Kiwoom Group

Providing work space with optimum views and natural light by Locating the core facing adjacent building that does not provide views

Important main corner that draws pdestrian cirulation into the site

Securing public open space by massing setback

Applying program to different floors

Locating employee-oriented public space by massing shift

Creating atrium space for employee’s well-being, building performance and company icon by introducing shield

Rendering by VIZE

Rendering by VIZE

Rendering by VIZE

Rendering by VIZE

Rendering by VIZE

Rendering by VIZE

Memory Container

Spring 2016 | Individual work

Nanjing, China

Instructor: Li Li

This project is design a perfoming center in a dense area public space is relatively scarce. The street is the main public space for people in the Site. Streets are not only the most important spatial characteristics of this area, but also the carrying body of public memory. To hold the old memery and matain the spatial characteristic, the streets were presented a modern way .

SITE STRATAGE

The site is located in the old South City of Nanjing which is a important residential area of Nanjing from ancient times to the present. The street is the main public space and almost all of the residents' public activities occur in the streets.

Then the concept of lanes to preserve the old memory of the site was proposed.

Based on the concept of lanes as an approach to preserve the memory of the old city, series of strategies are developed to shape the architectural space: sectorizing the required programs in consideration of the context; organizing the lanes and building blocks with the need of spatial sequence, circulation, and outdoor space; and finally setting a central plaza as the hub of the community.

Learning from the traditional forms of buildings, the façade is also in respect of the cultural identity.

Three main entrances of the performing center are interacted with the street public spaces in the neighborhood. Open public space in this project is connected with the exisiting city open public space. Square and center plaza provide space to gather for the public.

Every single box is a separate box structure, boxes of second floor are placed on the boxes of first floor. Such a structure form can creat a lot of setback platform for public activities.

Fall 2020(Degree Project) Individual work

St. Louis, MO

Instructor: Philip Holden

Justice buildings in the united states are normally not welcoming and the spaces are intimidating which is not the architectural way to represent a democratic society. Started from the humanistic point of view, this project is trying to make a courthouse that conveys social justice and democracy. This idea was originally inspired by the PNYX which is the courthouse of ancient Athens and is just a giant rock open to the all citizens. This design tries to combine the idea of totally public space with the complicated and strict requirements of program, circulation and security control.

COURTHOUSE RESEARCH

Old Courthouse (St. Louis)

District of Connecticut

Southern District of New York

District of Massachusetts

Eastern District of Missouri

1774

District of North Dakota

Eastern District of Pennsylvania

PNYX(COURTHOUSE OF ATHENS)

Central District of California Courthouse (Los Angeles)

Western District of Washington Western District of Texas

Eastern District of New York District of Utah

1.Distinctive Volumes

Five equal and distinctive volumes to convey equality of different groups

2.Bend to Connect

Bend the volumes to touch, respond, lean on and hold each other

3.Destruction for Public Space

Destroy the volumes on the ground floor as a compromise to public space

4.Carved out Space

Space interacted with outside carved out from the volumes

5.Circulation Connections

More connections for circulation and structure

6.Humanistic Skins

Humanistic skins to reveal the activities in this building

Concept Model

1. Cores

Cores combined with vertical circulation as the primary support for vertical load

2. Y-shape Double Columns

Y-shape double columns as a self balanced element introduced to the system as another support for vertical load

3. Beams and Tie Beams

Beams and time beams connect the cores and the columns together to resisit horizontal move

4. Secondary Beams

Secondary beams finish the system and support the decking.

A Montessori School

Fall 2019 | Individual work

St. Louis, MO

Instructor: Robert McCarter

The Montessori Method of Education, developed by Maria Montessori, is a child-centered educational approach based on scientific observations of children. Montessori's method has been used for over 100 years in many parts of the world. This project is design a montessori school in St. Louis.

PLANNING

The beginning assumption of your design should be that all asphalt paving will be removed from the site boundaries, and we are able to re-grade the earth as needed and give the entire site an urban garden character appropriate to the Montessori School.

Urban Neuron

Fall 2016 | Individual work

Rome, Italy

Instructor: Tang Peng, Zhu yuan

This project is offerring a suggestion to regenerate one decadent ared of Rome city, in where ubran bones, fabrics, pedestrian traffic, enviroment system and urban life are cut off by the huge railways. Through the analysis of the urban structure of Rome, I proposed integrate the elements to build a New Neuron for Rome city and repair it.

SITE PLAN

At the scale of the city, this area cut out the urban life and turism loop. At the neighborhood scale, the Northern and Southern neighborhoods are isolated from the railyard and service areas with only a few traffic thruways linking them.

Furthermore, there are complicated and chaotic traffic networks, nonfunctional buildings and poorly connected blocks in the boundary between rail-system and city.

Spring 2018 (Graduation Design) | Group Work

Concept, System Design, Trail, Drawing

Instructor: Li Li, Gang Yu

Collaborator: Mian Jia, Linxi Wang

ORTHODOX DESIGN PROCESS

Exclusive Inefficient

PROPOSED DESIGN PROCESS

Engaging Intuitive Efficient

PHYSICAL POLL FOR SUGGESTIONS

SPECULATION OF POTENTIAL DESIGN WITH PHYSICAL MODEL

VIRTUAL FLAGGING OF POTENTIAL OTHER SITES FOR DESIGN APPLICATION

DATA VISUALIZATION OF USER BEHAVIOR

URBAN DESIGN EVALUATION SYSTEM

This system is mainly composed of two parts of the system. The first part of the system mainly allows the public to walk freely in the VR environment of the design solution, and builds an operating system for transitional movement and UI control. The second part of the system is data collection and visualization that collects walking data and tagged data to process it in a database and visualizes it for the designer.

DATABASE AND VISUALIZATION

TRANSFER AND MOVE

USER INTERACTION FLAGGING

3D MINI MAP

USER MOBILITY IN VR

MENU INTERACTION IN VR

USER FLAGGING IN VR

3D MINI MAP AND LOCATION IN VR

DATA VISUALIZATION IN VR

DATA VISUALIZATION

The data visualization system interacts with the participants in the VR environment. Participants can perform roaming operations, and their potential unconscious behaviors.

DEVELOPER'S POINT OF VIEW

This system has great significance for public participation design. It shows the urban design scheme more intuitively and multi-dimensionally, which is convenient for the public to understand and enhance the enthusiasm of participation. It can stimulate the public's interest and provide designers with the public's feedback on the program. The visualization of big data statistics makes the feedback of the problem clearer and more intuitive, and it is easy to adjust the solution. The capture and statistical presentation of subliminal information provides a pragmatic basis for the improvement of the design. The virtual environment makes the modification and adjustment of the scheme more convenient, by conserving, financial resources and time.