SELECTED ARCHITECTURAL WORKSUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst

JAMAY LI

EducationUniversity of MassachusettsAmherst, Massachusetts 2011 - 2015 (Expected)Pursuing a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Architecture with a concentration in Building Construction Technology and minors in Philosophy and Art History.Member of Commonwealth College, to graduate with Departmental Honors in Architecture. Dean’s List, maintaining a 3.712 GPA.

Lorenzo de’ Medici: The Italian International InstituteFlorence, Italy January 2014 - May 2014Studied in Florence to gain further appreciation for the art, architecture and philosophy of the past.

Skills

JAMAY LI132 Stow Street

Acton, Massachusetts

jamayli33@comcast.net978-844-2076

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ActivitiesAmerican Institute of Architecture Students 2012 - present

UMass Green Building Council2013 - present

Habitat For Humanity2013 - present

UMass Club Softball team2013 - present

ExperienceAmherst College Design and Construction: InternAmherst, Massachusetts June 2014 - presentCurrently assisting the project managers of the College with the facilitation of the planning, organizing and construction of various types of developments. Responsibilities include updating, editing and modifying existing footprints using AutoCAD, managing the department’s website, documenting phases of construction, collecting data, composing design iterations, and various forms of office work.

TIA Architects: Intern, Adminstrative Assistant and LandscaperAmherst, Massachusetts June 2013 - August 2013Worked as an intern drafting plans and elevation for various projects, including Habitat for Humanity designs. Assisted in managing bills, formatted materials and a book written by the principal architect, and maintained correspondences with clients. Aided in the maintenance of the office and the surrounding landscape. Responsiblities included cleaning, painting, mowing, weeding, planting and constructing.

libbyandcarter.com: Website designer and managerFreelance June 2013 - September 2013Designed and managed a website to provide event information for the guests of a wedding. Consulted with the couple on their needs and wishes including layout, colors and content to create a website that conveyed their individual style.

Vray

Rhinoceros 5.0

Sketch Up

Illustrator

Photoshop

InDesign

English French

AutoCAD

Experienced in Windows and Mac platforms. Skilled in drafting, sketching, freehand drawing, photography and model building.

Honors & AwardsTau Sigma Delta: Honors Society of Architecture

and the Allied Arts (2013 to present)

The National Society of Leadership and Success

(2014 to present)

Commonwealth Honors College Research Grant

(Fall 2014)

table of contents

micro unit

chicken center

digital fabricat ion

co-housing research centerhummingbird nest

memorial hal l paper f lowers

photography

NITOBE MEMORIAL HALL IN SAPPORO, JAPANDesign a hall of learning to preserve the

spirit and memory of Inazo Nitobe.Naomi Darling Fall 2014 Arch 402: Design V01

EXHIBIT

LIBRARY/ ARCHIVES

LECTURE HALL

LOBBY

RECEPTIONCOATS

COMMUNITY SPACE

SHOES

MEN

WOMEN

NURSING

KITCHENETTE

MEN

WOMEN

CLASSROOMCLASSROOM

In memory of Inazo Nitobe, a hall dedicated to the public and to education was erected on the site of Nitobe’s original school. With snowfall reaching over 200 inches per year, a critical pre-design analysis of the site helped to inform the direction of the building’s design. An analysis of the site’s light exposure, lack of topography and circulation informed my design for the memorial hall. A system of ramps links the programmatic spaces on the exterior of the footprint and allow for the experiential passage through the building. This circulation is depicted with glazing on the exterior and the landscape utilizes ramps to accommodate for its grade change, mirroring the circulation of the interior of the building in its landscape.

The diagram below depicts the transformation of the building’s shape from a simple loop of circulation into its eventual footprint, with the circulation always expressed on the edges. The twist in the loop creates a point of convergence and overlap for planes of circulation, both within the building and on its exterior.

EXTRUDE COMPRESS CARVECIRCULATION

CIRCULATION TWIST PINCH STRETCH PULL

Shared amenities

Separation of public and private spaces

Provide services for the public

Integration of sustainable features

Client: music, dance and theater students

Repetion of units

Solar orientation

02 CO-HOUSING COMPLEX IN FLORENCE, ITALYDesign a sustainably conscious co-housing

complex incorporating the mirco unit.Andrea Paragi Spring 2014 Sustainable Arch.

Incorporating the Micro Unit designed in the first half of “Sustainable Architecture”, the next step was to create a Co-Housing Complex. This Complex would house clients, in this case performing arts students, in a close knit community that emphasizes the sharing of amenities between tenants while also providing services to the public.

This design for Piazza della Cure in Florence emphasizes creating places for spontaneous performance. By analyzing paths of circulation across the site while using large overhangs, intentionally placed steps and walls, and the traditional stage, there are carefully determined spaces for performance, providing ample opportunities for students to showcase their talents.

The Complex focuses largely on sustainability and community, providing shared kitchen and lounge spaces to encourage interaction between students, while also incorporating water collection systems, photovoltaic panels and thermal panels. There is also bike storage and limited car parking to encourage alternative transportation. The bike storage doubles as a bike shop that can be utilized by non-residents, in addition to the cafe and bar that occupy the first and second floors closest to the piazza. Raising the private residences above the publicly accessible spaces and pushing them away from the street provides ample privacy for the students.

18’-0”

20’-0”

22’-0”

10’-0”

7’-1”

4’-10”

6’-10”

2’-10”

Bed on wheels Sliding

tableStools for table stored in stairs

Shelving

Bathroom with drain for built-in shower

STUDENT MICRO UNIT IN FLORENCE, ITALYDesign a micro unit to be repeated for two people with the minimum amount of space.Andrea Paragi Spring 2014 Sustainable Arch.03

The efficient use of space is increasingly important to future development, especially in Europe where the cities are already dense. In “Sustainable Architecture,” I was challenged with minimizing square footage while finding creative ways to maintain the every day life style of the occupants. With the intention of being duplicated in a co-housing complex, the Mirco Unit offers an innovative and flexible solution to the density crisis of our urban development Orientation, sun shading and the placement of mulitiple units drove the overall shape of the building. The roof and second floor both project over the subfloors to provide shade from the high summer sun and let the low winter sun in, while the narrow form maximizes the use of insulation between units when placed adjacently.

The first floor offers a kitchen and various forms of storage in the stairs. In order to provide flexibility, the stairs contain a retractable dining table and guest bed and storage for seating. On the second floor, the shower drain is built into the floor of the bathroom to condense the bathroom footprint. The bedroom can accommodate two people while the guest bed on the first floor can provide for an additional person. Sustainable features are integrated in the form of super insulation, rain water collection, radiant floor heating, sun shading, photo-voltaic and thermal panels, heat recovery and cross ventilation.

Winter Summer

CHICKEN CENTER IN AMHERST, MADesign a community building that integrates

productive animals into waste spaces.Carey Clouse Fall 2013 Arch 400: Design III04

GALLERY

EXHIBITION SPACE

THEATER/LECTURE HALL

OPEN TO BELOW

CHICKEN SPACECARETAKER SPACE PUBLIC SPACE

STORAGE

EGG SHOP LOBBY

CHICKEN SPACE

CARETAKER SPACE

Introducing an animal that can positively affect a “waste space” while preserving the initial characteristics of that place is the most effective way to repurpose underutilized spaces. The implementation of a Center for the town of Amherst to learn about chickens, buy fresh eggs and meat, and gather as a community provides a new purpose for this otherwise forgotten patch of land. The parti diagram above depicts the process of folding a single plane based on a series of scores to form into an enclosed structure that has a strong urban presence at its front and creates boundaries in the rear.

The wooden plane that encompasses the structure defines the programmatic spaces while providing shelter for the chickens and their caretaker, a local source of food for the town, and a place for the community to gather and share ideas. Preserving the idea of a front lawn and the existing paths by creating as little disruption as possible to existing circumstances is another essential part to the important aspects of the design.

This screen was inspired by the parti model for the previous project, Chicken Center, and is actually a part of the design. At a larger scale, it served as the railing for the ramp and a dividing wall between the Egg Shop and the ramp.

The entire project took place in Rhino using the plug RhinoCAM that allows users to create toolpaths for the CNC routers to cut objects out of wood or, in this case, foam.

The process started with the simplified parti model from Chicken Center as a line drawing (A). Then the lines were offset inward and outward to create borders outside and in the middle (B). The original lines were moved to a different plane to be the top of the screen, and surfaces were created between the two sets of lines. These tapered surfaces would create the solid to be carved out by the CNC router (C).

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BC

DIGITAL FABRICATION: SCREENExperiment with digital fabrication and create a screen for the Chicken Center.Carey Clouse Fall 2013 Arch 400: Design III05 06

The two iterations to the right both started from the same form and were composed in Rhino. This assignment was to create birdhouses from the solids to eventually be modeled out of foam using the CNC router and toolpaths determined in RhinoCAM.

The first attempt (A) was created using the Boolean Difference tool to create a void from the solid for the birds to occupy. The only restriction was to keep the outside of the birdhouse untouched.

The second attempt (B) allowed for manipulation of the front facade. Here the Wirecut tool chamfered the facade and interior to subtract to allow for run off and to create interior space. The shaded line drawings below show how the two pieces fit together and create a void in the center.

A

DIGITAL FABRICATION: BIRDHOUSESCNC router and RhinoCAM exploration to

create two birdhouses.Carey Clouse Fall 2013 Arch 400: Design III

B

WIRE METAL

HUMMINGBIRD SHELTERWOOD CLADDING

FRAMING

WIRE METAL FRAMING

HUMMINGBIRD NESTResearch a specific species of bird and

respond with a design unique to the bird.Carey Clouse Fall 2013 Arch 400: Design III07

Hummingbirds are unique birds with particular tastes in sites for building their nests. They take several elements into consideration, mainly exposure to wind and sun. Because of their small size, protection from wind is essential to a baby hummingbird’s survival. Equally as important is the temperature in which the eggs and babies need to be kept at; too much sun and heat exposure can result in the death of the chicks.

Creating a sheltered place for hummingbirds to nest was the priority and because they find regular birdhouses too confining, the shelter has to be open often to be inviting, while still providing adequate shelter.

Drawing inspiration from the packaging material pictured to the left, the nest took shape as the semi-permeable, alternating structure that is pictured below. Modified to be able to hang on tree branchs, the final design, pictured on the opposite page, provides protection while also creating a desirable place for hummingbirds to nest. The “C” shape allows for flexibility in choosing a site for the hummingbirds.

Using the type of research performed inside a building to influence its form creates a new sequence of design. Physical therapy is reflected not only in the spaces needed in this building, but also in the architectural details.

Starting in section with a central core of circulation, the spaces branch out into “half-levels” on either side to maximize square footage. The spaces reflect contraction and release, much like the processes used in physical therapy. The paths of circulation between spaces are often narrow then are released into larger voids, seen in the multi-story exhibition hall.

The research center features an exhibition hall for showing research, libraries and private studies for conducting the research, fitness centers for involving the public in research and a lecture hall for teaching about research. There are also offices for the administration. The more public spaces are located closer to the ground to be easily accessible to everyone, while the private spaces are elevated to ensure an adequate dissociation.

PHYSICAL THERAPY RESEARCH CENTERDevelop a design for a center that speaks to

the research done inside itCaryn Brause Spring 2013 Arch 301: Design II08

ARCH OF PAPER FLOWERSAn arch of paper flowers for a backdrop for

a wedding ceremony.Summer/Fall 201309 10PHOTOGRAPHY: ITALIAN PERSPECTIVE

Pictures of my travels and time spent abroad in Florence, Italy.Spring 2014

During the summer and fall of 2013, I collaborated with Mary Valliere and the bride of the wedding to create an array of paper flowers to be attached to a terralis as the backdrop for the wedding ceremony. Using different colors, textures, folding techniques and paper, we generated a variety of flower types that were repeated across the entire arch.

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