Portfolio (2015-2021)

PORTFOLIO YANLI LI | Selected Works 2015-2021 | Apply for UCL | MArch Architectural Design

CONTENTS -

01 Urban

Village : Shapowei`s Memory

Urban Design In XiaMen | Architrcture + Landscape |2015 * Excellent graduation project of Xiamen University

70'

OLD PEOPLE

SPACE

TRADITION

90'

VOLUME

COMPLEXITY

NEED FUTURE INDIVIDUALS 00'

CULTURE

50'

LIGHT

LOGIC

RECORD MEMORY MACHINE

02 Community : Public Community Center

Community Open Space In Suzhou | Architrcture |2020 * London Design Awards 2020 - Silver Award | WAF CHINA Ecellence Award

03 Building : Dis-continuity

Seniors Activity Center | Architrcture Mereology Research | 2020 * Design Studio

04 Hut : Smart Morphism

Public Infrastructure| Machine Learning| 2021 * Design Studio

05 Other

Works

Painting | Photograph * National MeiYu Exhibition - the Second Award

Urban Village - The life and death of Shapowei's memory Xiamen University Tan Kah Kee College | University Graduation Project 2015.09-2015.12 Instructor: Prof. Bo Ling Individual Work Award: Excellent Graduation Project of Xiamen University

The site of this project was used as a public leisure and trading venue for local fishermen in about 300 years ago. In order to increase the handling capacity, local government built the Yanwu Bridge on the west side of the site. However, the bridge blocked the original entrance of the dock. As a result, the vibrant activities on the dock at Shapowei gradually diminished.

Although the original look was retained in surrounding streets and lanes of the site, the dock is not prosperous as before. Also timeworn facilities and poor living situation became the essential issues for the site regeneration.

EXISTING SITUATION Urban Division

STRATEGIES OF RE-STITCH

Lack of Activities

Urban Connection

Full of Activities

N

Urban connection Old building as a division

Building 406m

Negative Public Spaces

Popularity 1 Star

People Flow Urban Fabric

Confusing Urban Fabric

Site Area 0.18km2

Urban connection Old building as a division

Positive Public Spaces

Popularity 5 Star

People Flow Urban Fabric

Clear Urban Fabric

Public Plaza Open Space

Public Space 11%

Public bulding

Public Space 11%

Public Plaza Open Space Public Building

Separated Road

Demolished Fabric Original Fabric

Public Space 38%

Negative Green Spaces

Public Plaza Open Space Public Building

Integrated Road

Demolished Fabric Original Fabric

Positive Green Spaces

Si tu at ion T he bu ildin gs a re dilapidated;The electrical wires a r e a g i n g ; Many buildings h a ve h i d d e n d a n g e r ; Roa d s a re blocked by garbage.

Accessibility 1 Star

Station Fishing-boat Parking Lot

Vehicle Pedestrian

Public Space 10%

Open space Natural Man-made

Accessibility 5 Star

Station Fishing-boat Parking Lot

Vehicle Pedestrian

Public Space 67%

Open space Natural Man-made

So l ut i on

1.Reorganize the urban fabric; 2.Enhance the sanitary condition of river and port; 3.Improve the quality of life through public residential buildings that preserve local history and culture 4.Inject new unction to attract more young people and artist.

1646

1925

1980

2015

?

6

Cluster4：Seaside

Cluster1：Vertical Greening

5

Cluster5：Artist's studio

1

Cluster2：Gallery

3 4 2 N

Cluster3：Landscape

Ea s t-wes t c ross-sec ti on The renovated traditional buildings retained the local culture elements and original structure. They naturally separate the relative private inner bay of Shapowei from the sea on the west side. However, high permeable morphology of these renovated public buildings could increase space integration of each side.

Masterplan

Cluster6：The facade renovation 0

25

50m

Exhibition

Ver tical Greening

The large space of the original factory building is transformed into a cultural exhibition area, and the frame embedded with the basic elements of the sloping roof serves as a gray space that links the building before it can hold various indoor and outdoor art exhibition

In order to preserve the original building, the frame of the building structure was left and re-reinforced, and small boxes were randomly embedded to form different physical spaces, which became the best viewing platform in Shapowei

Landscape In order to enrich the large area of construction vacant land, use the reproducibility and different modulus plank road to increase the space playability

Penetrability There are only pedestrians in the park, which is isolated from the roads outside, but you can see the sea to the west through the gaps

Community - Public Community Center Australia PTA Architectural Design Company | Completed Project 2019.09-2020.04 Collaborators: Yanli Li, Mr. Yuan , Zhibo Zhang Contribution: Conceptual desing,developing,technical drawings and on-site supervisor Awards: LONDON DESIGN 2020-Silver Award | WAF CHINA - Ecellence Award

This project designed a multifunctional public community center containing modern public rooms, book bar and other public space. It serves as a living room for the community. It was built on the west of the community entrance. In day time, the building could harmoniously merge in surrounding environment; and in night time it could guide people home with gentle radiance.

Site Background The site is located at Taihu lakeside, Suzhou, a welloff historical and cultural Chinese city. The project aimed to design a public community centre for local residents. The site is chosen beside the intersection of urban roads and the community main lane across the middle of the community. It could serve as a lobby of the community.

River

Su Shi Building

2

History / Culture

5 1

4

6

Greening

3

Space

Building

Material N

Masterplan

Road

1 Modern Book Bar

4 Courtyard

2 Young Activity Space

5 City Park

3 Public Room

6 Corridors

0

5

10m

So lu tio n

1.Courtyard

2.Corridor

3.Massing

4.Inner Citadel

Young Activity Space Public Room Modern Book Bar Courtyard

City Garden Corridors

To p View s h o w s th e t h e terra ce of m o d e rn bo ok ba r a n d the c e n t r a l c o u r t ya rd

The public community centre was designed as a small buildings complex. It shaped a courtyard overall through buildings and corridors arrangement.

Moreover, corridors and courtyard could not only linked different functional space but also partition off the positive and negative space. Also, corridors and courtyard could improve the visibility and intelligibility of the layout.

Bo o k Bar

D i ver s e L i v i ng Ro o m

Research -traditional construction of bricks

C our tyard

M a ter i a l s Book Bar uses U-glass at the top and builds a platform with grey terrocotta panel .

A mixed usage of new and traditional local materials retains traditional cultural features of Suzhou.

D ive r se L iving Room

Vertical Section

Transverse Section

C i t y Park

Fac ad e

Building - Dis-continuity Design Studio | 2020.10-2020.12 Individual Work

The amount of older adualts increases rapidly in Germany , however there are less specializing public facilities for older people. This project investigated the physical and psychological needs of older adults in Germany. Also it provided the functional space to fulfill the need of older adults.

P rog ram

1

Society - Unemployment Rate

Senior Citizens Activity Center

Disabled Seniors Increase

re l ati ng to

2

Classroom

Government - Financial Pressure

T i m e and S pace

MUC B ike

Open restaurant

- Workshop 5

Society -Vicious Circle

Un iver sity

Studio

Play

Cr u i s e Sh i p

4

3

- Communication Room

- Open Restaurant

Dance

2

Brain - Decreased Intelligence

- Interactive space

Space

- Multifunctional Room

1

2

- Outdoor theater

Indoor 2

Feeling - Medical Burden

3

- Plant area

1

Walk Path

Bus Line

Space

- Gallery

Young People 4 Seniors 3 - Pension Burden - Medical Burden

Moto Tax i & C ar Tax i

Outdoor

1

Accelerated Aging 4

3

Lecture - Socal

Seniors - Over-reliance

5 - Learning

- Communication

Nursing Staff 1 - Overcare

reet

5

Senior

Englis

Schw abin ger Bach

n

Seniors - Bedridden

Senior Need

2

Billiards

Seniors - Long-term Inactivity

GYM Seniors - Alone 3

4

Seniors - Lack of Excercise

- Isolation from outside

Cinema - Under fire

- Accessibility hardly

9

1

8

Gallery Workshop

7

Senior Center Status

2

- Dim

3

Si te Plan

university district of Munich that clustered plenty of galleries and major cultural sights in the city.

- Dependent

- Respectful

2

Problem

The site for the pilot field was chosen within the Englischer Garten lying next to Maxvorstadt at German. Maxvorstadt is the

4

3

Overprotect

cher G ar te

achst

1

Chess

S i te

Kaulb

value

Body function - Severely Damaged

Site coordinates: 48° 08 ′ 57.8“N 11° 35′ 11.2“E 0

500

1000m

Anal y s i s

6 - Noise

- Narrow

Proj e ct

4

- Cold furniture materials

Space

Need

- Under fire

5

- Single function

Ag gre gat io n Put 16 kinds of space functions into 4 kinds of different sizes of space and arrange different clusters by computer calculation, and finally choose a mix-used functional cluster.

PLAN:27Mx27M

PLAN:21Mx21M

PLAN:9Mx9M

HIGHT:6M/12M

KITCHEN

GALLERY

HIGHT:6M

CHESS AND CARD ROOM

COMMUNICATION ROOM

HIGHT:12M

WASHROOM

TEXAS POKER

STUDIO

WORKSHOP

STAIR BOX

M i x -use d Fu n c tio n

PLAN:15Mx15M

HIGHT:6M

MIX-USED Mix different function &connection by bridges

MULTIFUNCTION ROOM

The groups are connected by a bridge to form a whole space.

TEXAS POKER

COURT YARD Enhance the inner cour tyard

GYM

LINE AR Enhance the inner streets

GROUP Enhance function par tition

M a s ter Pla n

Two F l o o r

Ea s t Fa c a de

Gallery

Dancing Room

Conversation Room

Interactive Space

Couryard

Garden

N

0

15

30m

Phy s ic a l Mo de l

El e va t io n - Ele T h e va S otion utheast

Model

- The Southeast Model

Aer ial View

Hut - Smart Morphism Design Studio | 2021.01-2021.03 Individual Work

The machine learning development has rapidly changed our way to understand the word and brought new potentials to our design workflow. This project aimed to come up with and evaluate a new design solution by the means of machine learning.

In this process, I extracted, decoded and encoded the design parameters from the surrounding environments. Then the optimal solutions were selected from all results for further structural and morphological optimization.

Population Density

Accessibility Network

Bustling Lonesome

Bustling Lonesome

Building Height

Building Height Limit Value

Hight Low

Hight Low

Population & Building Combined result Low

Population & Building Selected Location

Median

Low

High

1.Planar Space

Background Two design drivers, people flow and building height, were chosen for initially environment coding. The shape of bund in Shanghai is used as the physical constraint in the design process to generate the ideal design space through Backparopagation Algorithm. Machine learning quantitative parameters was applied to evaluate the results as the criterion of the best spatial qualities leading the ideal aesthetic effect.

N

0

200

400m

2.Space Height

Median

High

3.Curvature

4.Solid

5.Cornice

A Population :

15~20 Building Height: 4M

B Population :

30~35 Building Height: 5.8M

C Population :

40~45 Building Height: 13M

D Population :

40~45 Building Height: 12M

E Population :

35~40 Building Height: 6M

F

Population : 25~30 Building Height: 5.2M

Selected Result

Deconstruction

Rationalization

Morphological Optimization

Materialization

A

B A - Landscape

B - Gallery

C - Park

D - Lookout Tower

E - Concert

F - Theater

C

D

E

F

RECORD MEMORY MACHINE

LIGHT 50'

MACHINE 90'

COMPLEXITY

CULTURE

50'

LIGHT

VOLUME

NEED FUTURE INDIVIDUALS 00'

SKETCH

TOOLS:

PENCIL / WATERCOLOR

IPAD

CONCEPT LIGHT 90' DESIGN &VOLUME FORM 50'

COMPLEXITY PHOTOGRAPH NEED FUTURE TRAVEL

INDIVIDUALS 00' MOOD

CULTURE

DIGITAL PAINTING

RECORD MEMORY MODEL MACHINE

90'

VOLUME

COMPLEXITY