xueping li_architecture portfolio

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SpongeCity | proposal for a sustainable biloxi casinoland art as infrastructure to absorb impact of flooding

Wetlands for city reconditioning | pruitt igoe now idea challengeconstructed wetlands to construct a zero-waste water community to revitalize old Pruitt Igoe site

hyperbolic structure | haiti ideas challengereapplication of Shukhove Tower to construct pre-fabricatable seismic-resistant structure

ambuiguity between the layers | gerhard richter galleryenhance spatial dialectics between the city, the landscape/nature, and art

viewers as producers | media center for emory oxford creating a multiplicity of frames to turn spectator into performers

energy | courtyard housinga machine of different energy zones that releases or compresses to create dynamic flow

hybrid pavilion | protozoa inspired designinvestigation of spatial dynamism through the movement of single cell organisms

content, an “in-between” reality | visual practice workshopusing visual techniques to juxtapose the physical and virtual realities

layers | morphology of glassinvestigating shadows and light effected by density and curvative of glass

others | photography + travel documents

executive summary

motivated, efficient, and versatile architecture student with proven ability to direct multifaceted projects in both academic and business environment.

project coordination: experienced in working with teams and clients of diverse professional backgroud through internship and research.time management: demonstrated ability to balance professional and academic responsibilities with an aptitude for multitasking.communication: fluent in written and spoken mandarin chinese.detail oriented, anaytical, and creative: skilled in applying acreativity to designs, and proven ability to demonstrate ideas through graphical and precise analytical skills. Skill highlights include:graphicsmodeling

rendering

photoshop | illustrator | indesignrhino | revit | autocad | grasshopper | google sketchuplaser cutter | manual cutting | shop tools3d studio max | vray render

work experience and activities

georgia building authority | cad intern aug 2011-jan 2013worked as part of an operations team assisting with drafting and maintaining cad files for project continuity, and also assisting with research, compilation of data and development of written materials relevant to the facilities operations for the authority.

digital fabrication laboratory | research assistant jan 2013-present

head research assistant on a joint experimental project for Perkins + Will to study phase change materials as a strategy for ameliorating heating and cooling loads in buildings.

georgia institute of technology | atlanta, ga aug 2009-may 2013bs. science in architecture, minor in architectural historyinvolvement: national organization of minority students, atlanta habitat for humanity, the mad housers inc, gt trailblazer, earthquake engineering research institutehistory of art and architecture | greece + italy may 2012-aug 2012

xueping liarchitectural designer

[http://issuu.com/xuepingrachelli/docs/

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706.247.6590235 meredith ridge rd.

athens, ga 30605

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1/ sponge-like networkSpongeCity

>>> ecological casino in biloxi, ms>>>instructor: stuart romm

>>>**collaboration with university of gerogia landscape architecture students

>>>aug 2012-oct 2012>>>4th year studio

>>>Central to the condition and planning of the city of Biloxi today are 2 issues: the lack of any sort of infrastructural connectivity and the often occurrence of flooding. The SpongeCity proposes a porous and changing landscape that generates new public spaces and wet-lands at waterfront to absorb impact of flood-ing while also introduces new ways of public interaction with the wetlands; and establish-ment of new kinds of complex connectivity between the immediate site and its surround-ing regions to completely alter the lack of infra-structure within the city of Biloxi.

salt desalination facility housed within casino

tidal power generator

cistern for water storage

geometry of selected network derived from sponge

efficient means of transporting water and electricity from the ocean to constructed wetland on site are facilitated by a system of modules derived from the pattern of sponge interior canals.

population by density and elevation below

flood plain

intensity of social networking through

community public space

vehicular traffic on existing streets

existing marshes

proposed restored wetlands

waste-water filtration

tidal power generated electricity flow

desalinated water distribution

population b y density and elevation below

intensity of s ocial networking t hrough community public space

streets

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2/infrastructure to absorb impact of flood-a self-sufficient network that houses a saltwater desalination facility and

tidal power generator.

mapping of the city

3/module to create programa expandable and collapsable modular system that provide opportunities for rotating events, planned exhibi-tions, concerts and spontaneous gathering.

infrastructure ( p i p e s transporting water)

f l e x i b l e s c a f f o l d s ( g e n e r a t e s events)

w e t l a n d ( a b s o r b i n g tide and floord water)

4/modules

mesh framework | auxiliary structure

upper screen | dynamic shade | projection screen

wetland

pipe | hydraulic structure

pipe support

housing density income distribution education distribution future wetland distribution

1/a sustainable cityHypothetically the constructed wetlands would grow and expand onto other poor regions of the city, to trigger a series of devel-opmenet around where it is needed, and all in all, these streategies would act together to establish a sustainable city and a healthy ur-ban fabric for the city of St. Louis.

mapping method of site selection

wetland for st.louis city reconditioning

>>> pruitt igoe now competition>>>instructor: gernot riether

>>>**finalist>>>jan 2012-mar 2012

>>>3rd year studio

educational

business

residential

commercial

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construction of infrastructural wetland system connects building on-site and off-site to establish a small scale sustainable living community.

3/synergizing program usemixing the program uses of the two spatial dimensions to create a new kind of program, one that would generate unexpected events in these synergizing zones.

dance/martial arts studios

markets

community facility

solar panel

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Eden Village will be a model community, lo-cated right outside the urban centers of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The design has been based on advice and feedback from researches regarding disaster relief, sustainable agri-culture, and micro-financing. The village will provide:1. Food assistance centers for local food ex-change2. Grain storage centre for Common kitchen3. Community gardens for establishing a local food source4. Common kitchen for underserved Haitians living in the area5. Small trade training facility and business incubator to educate and help Haitians un-derstand trading business better in order to achieve a more organized trading commu-nity.

1/seismic-resistant structurere-application of schukove tower as seismic-resistant structure.hyperbolic structure

>>> haiti idea competition>>>instructor: carrie hunsaker

>>>feb 2011-mar 2011>>>2nd year studio

module dimension: 8’ x 8’ x 50’

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force distribution in plan force distribution in plan ventilation: stack effect

2/prefabricated unitsconstruction of infrastructural wetland system connects building on-site and off-site to estab-

lish a small scale sustainable living community.

bamboo| easy to grow

plexiglass| shatter-resistant

corrugated iron roof| low cost, high strength

steel tubes| light-weight

cotton insulation| easy, easy to transport

ventilation: stack effect

3/site strategy

regulating lines future change and expansionstructure enclosure circulation

program shadow and daylightingcross ventilation greywater recycling and reuse greenery distribution

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school

dining

parking

road

ramp

stairs

administration mature trees mostly in shadow

in shadow 30%

community center

housing

spiral

common kitchen

grain storage

grass and bushes

vegetation to be cut

water closets

4/site program

administration classrooms water closets resources circulation

1/ambiguity between city and natureambiguity between the layers

>>> gerhard richter gallery>>>instructor: charles rudolph

>>>oct 2011-dec 2011>>>3rd year studio

inspired by both the sense of ambiguity existant in richter’s art and that of which in the unique circulation of rem koolhaas’s mai-son a bordeaux, a series of explorations of spaces rendered as in-between spaces were initiated with the intention of bringing to-gether the artifice dialectics between three thicknesses: city, landscape/nature, and art, diminishing the physical and conceptual sep-arations of these elements from one another.

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peachtree place

10th street

crescent ave

peachtree street

10th street crescent ave.high-rise

margaret mitchell house low-rise apartments

richter gallery site

AT&T

10th st

2/ambiguity between nature and art

10th st

utilizing the reflective and refractive qualites of richter’s glass installation pieces to blurr the boundary be-tween the outdoor and indoor, thus the city, the nature, and the artworks

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1/participant to spectatoraccessibility and visibility from any point, as there is no priviledged starting point.

viewers as producers>>> emory oxford media center

>>>instructor: charles rudolph>>>oct 2011-dec 2011

>>>3rd year studio

“spectatorship is not the passivity that has to be turned into activity. It is our normal situation. We learn and reach, we act and know as spectators who link what they see with what they have seen and told, done and dreamt. There is no privileged medium as there is no privileged starting point.”‘the emancipated spectator’, jacques rancière

storage/preparation

NATURE

deciduous truckpick-upload/unload

outdoor social

touch smell sight hearing taste mechanical room

drive-way

preserved forest

service area

workshop cuttingg sawingg drillingg

forestsidewalk

gardenREE

contemplationgvertical longitudinaloutdoor social

conifers auditorium wwoorking g courtyyardaudience interaction

on-site lecturesculpture assembly

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lift

confeff rence room

sculpturepainting

restrooms

restroom

screening room

musicplaytheatrical act

digital arts studiooanalog arts studioo

discussionstudentprofessor

guest lecturerdff

guest auditlecturefestive events

classrooms

artmusicstudent work display

bookresearchforum

art record

library

group studypresentation

rotating gallery

screening room documentaryy

2/a nature-culture buffer zonesituated on the edge of campus, the media center is porous on the ground level to create buffer zone that

would invite in campus activities as well as bring in natural elements

street view. aproaching campus from north

street view. upon entry into campus

interior view. from main gallery looking southward into the courtyard, studios, and beyond.

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classrooms

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auditorium lobby

reception

cafe

exhibition

working courtyard

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The location of the house makes it an ideal place for spectacular views of both the old and the new city. The roughly 30,000 square feet, 4 bedroom and 3.5 bath unit is specifi-cally designed to be a machine of different energy zones that releases or compresses (due to height, openness, brightness change, etc. ) to bring a sense of liveliness into the house. On the street level, a diagonal was set up to frame the north-south axis, allowing the house to act as a giant solar clock. On the second level, the diagonal continued on as a staircase onto the roof terrace.

a machine of energy zonesgenerate dynamic spaces through spaces of compression and release

energy

>>> courtyard housing on marietta street

>>>instructor: fred pearsall>>>nov 2010-dec 2010

>>>2nd year studio

1 entry | 2 studio | 3 atrium | 4 kitchen | 5 laundry | 6 dining room | 7 master closet | 8 master bath | 9 half bath | 10 master bedroom | 11 living room | 12 courtyard | 13 bedroom2 | 14 bedroom3 | 15 study | 16 bedroom

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>>> protozoa inspired design>>>instructor: carrie hunsaker

>>>jan 2011-feb 2011>>>2nd year studio

the project begins with an interest to find out how architecture and spatial dynamics can be generated through the study of single cell organisms in this case, protozoa.the final design celebrates the nature of each creature in terms of their function, form, as well as motion. the manifestation of the beauty of these creatures was done by ex-tracting out and combining the advantages of creatures to form a hybrid. the hybrid adopts the idea of “birth” of a space. it takes on a literal role of taking something inside of a space and then pushing it out into another space.the resulting hybrid is a combination of the twisting form of paramecium and the fish-fin shape of amoeba. the fish fin may propell the hybrid to move faster, as well as generating current sideways to cause the hybrid body to twise, the oral groove seizes this chance to suck the food and prey into the body.

1/hybridgenerating architectonic volume through studies of the movement of paramecium and amoebe

the hybrid adopts the idea of “birth” of a space. it takes on a literal role of taking something inside of a space and then pushing it out into another space.

2/re-”birth”

3/pavilionby the use of opacity and reflectivity to blur the boundary between interior and exterior to create a dynamic visitor experience.

shadows

reflectivity + refractivity

“junkspace“>>>an investigation of participatory

art>>>instructor: fred pearsall

>>>Fall 2012>>>visual practice

The project sets out to make present issues in social space that, for some reason, is not pres-ent. In the process of constructing conditions of presentation, the first step is to set up the re-lation of those conditions (physical and visual) to our own spatiotemporality by offsetting the two types of condition to create an in-between space, in which we insert in our spatiotemporal existence. With an iconic imagery present in the background, a constructed event set up in the foreground, and a spectator appear present in between those two conditions (through the re-flection in a mirror) swaying back and forth, not sure which happening he or she should linger into in that particular moment in time… Such an “in-between” reveals an ultimate reality that is stripped away from its conventional form and context of the illusory world, achieving a sense of “really real” that could not be defined, perceived, or conceived clearly or uniformly.

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generating contentset up relation of physical and virtual conditions; using one-point perspective to juxtapose the two conditions and reveal content in between them.

global capitalism>>>an investigation of participatory

art>>>instructor: fred pearsall

>>>Fall 2012>>>visual practice

>>>continued...Today’s machine automation and social sur-veillance has spoiled us and stripped us away from a habit of thinking; in and through that, the content of the society is lost. The purpose of this project is to bring one back to such a way of thinking, through means of visual as well as bodily engagement. Mirrors and one-point perspective tool were used to create full-embodiment of the audience; through process as such, an audience turns into a participant. Therefore, if the conventional question to ask here is “what does content do for you”, we would ask our participants a new question, “what can you do for content?”

through an “in-between” realitybring one back to an active way of thinking through means of vi-sual as well as bodily engagement by using one-point perspec-tive embodiment and transform spectators into participants.

Layers>>>study of wine glass

>>>instructor: daniel nemec>>>Aug 2009

>>>common first year studio

investigating the shadows and light shined through the glass and get distorted by the density and curvature of the wine glass itself. A sense of movement is thus suggested by the still object. The drawings’ intent is to help one see an every-day object in a different light.

other drawings>>>instructor: Daniel Nemec + Timo-thy Frank>>>fall + spring 2009>>>common first year studio

juxtaposition of virtual time and real time

>>>instructor: ruth dusseault>>>apr 2012

>>>photoraphy

the project deals with ready-made artworks. Using photoshop as well as manual cut-and-paste to blend two irrelevant conditions together to form a new kind of reality.

overlapping of realities>>> instructor: ruth dusseault

>>>apr 2012>>>photoraphy

an re-interpretation of the dadaist collage work. by overlaying differ-ent artworks in the process of photographing to generate unexpected results; and through these unexpected results, it creates a “still movie”.

travel doc | sketches

>>> location: florence, venice, italy>>> summer 2012 | europe

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