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Alan SL Li, M.Arch (University of British Columbia) and B.Sc (Simon Fraser University)

Alan is an architectural designer. Capable of thinking creatively, he is bound by neither physical nor digital space. Alan’s inspiration is often derived from engaging people in interacting with his design, whether via a digital interface, a physical product or a built environment. Growing up in Vancouver and moving to Hong Kong has allowed Alan to experience the best of both worlds. Traveling and learning through architecture is the best way for him understand the past, present, and future of each culture. Alan is passionate to learn, create and collaborate in all creative fields.

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Table of Contents

Academic Projects

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Home Economic

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Retreat for Peter Zumthor

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Work Experience

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Residential & Commercial Development

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Home Economic

Course | Thesis(University of British Columbia)

Project Brief | There are various approaches that aim to alleviate Vancouver’s rapid increase in housing costs, ranging from the establishment of micro-units to mortgage-helper units. However, most approaches fail to holistically consider direct housing costs in relation to the full spectrum of household income and expenditure - they simply seek to reduce the cost of housing itself. This project proposes a new approach to housing in which residential architecture addresses affordability across a broad swath of potential income and expenditure. This is a form of housing that not only reduces a household’s direct expenditure on housing, but also reduces other types of expenditure, whilst at the same time actively generates income.

Committee members | Matthew Soules, Arno Matis, Micheal Gordon

Duration | 8 months

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Transportation takes up to 15% of Vancouver’s ecological footprint. Greenest City 2020 Action Plan pushes for a for a more affordable and less pollutant solution for Vancouver’s transportation system to grow. Designing communities that focus on moving people rather than car have more vibrant public space which encourages richer cultural experiences and opportunities. By living closer to work, school, and leisure will help reduce the needs of owning a car. When a vehicle is needed, one can access one by car sharing programs. By switching to bus pass programs or riding a bicycle it will greatly reduce transportation expenditures for a household.

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Cross Programming

Cross programming are small businesses that do no require a speci�c setting. It is a business that has a demand for certain equipment to operate rather than an address. Traditionally these establishments operate within a single dwelling where space is not an issue. However, when living became urbanized, these space are often taken out. The following series of diagrams look at how these workshops can be placed within a multi-dwelling base on the nature of its operational function.

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Income Generator

This type of establishment is similar to cross programs, expect they are businesses that require an address. They are typically more lucrative than cross programs; they also require a group of staff to operate. Coincidentally staff can also live within these establishments. The following set of diagrams shows how living and business can operate on the same site.

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Temporal Use

We do not only use one single room a day. We operate in a series of program spaces, the bedroom, bathrooms, living rooms, etc. In additional, each household operates differently as well. Family with children and stay-at-home-mom will increase the duration of time spent at home verse a student living along. By mapping these uses, we can �nd what the surplus spaces are and at what time they are available. House and household are compared with commercial and industrial type by day, week and year.

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OccupationTech Guru + Fashion Designer

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Collectivizing

By consolidating and collectivizing some of the programs in apartments will decrease the overall spaces used. These additional space can be put toward additional units. This is help decrease the overall pricing of these units.

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Synthesis

There is total of 150 living units in this project. On each floor, there are six units per block. It is set as three one-bed unit, two two-bed units, and one three-bed unit. Each unit has its individual bathroom, bedroom, storage, a small sitting area along with a kitchenette. Units are arranged along a double corridor. The open corridor acts as an extension of an individual unit. Operable shutter doors are installed in each unit to allow units to “spill out” onto the walkways; this will also increase natural ventilation in compacted configuration .

The block buildings are connected by series of share programs. These share spaces also double as income generators. Depending on the certain time of the day, when it is not being used by residents, income generator floor areas are rented out. These programs may include clubs venue, workshops, community kitchen, daycare centre, pop-up shops, etc. The building is compact and most programs have a duo purpose. Waste water is treated on site by a hydroponic technology that acts as a ginseng hydroculture farm.

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Course | Space Studio (University of British Columbia)

Project Brief | There are various approaches that aim to Project Brief | The project to create a weekend retreat for Peter Zumthor in To�no, British Columbia. The focus of the retreat is “Zumthor the architect” rather than “Zumthor the family man”. The process begins by exploring the idea of a house that relates to Zumthor’s body of work, and how they may be interpreted into an architecture that is not his, but the designer. The object is not mimetic, so much as to join in the spirit of the kind of spatial and architectural techniques that are in his arena.

Duration | 2.5 Weeks

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The given site was beachfront property overlooking the Paci�c Ocean with complete privacy. To�no is year around sur�ng destination for many professional surfers. However, as this will be a weekend retreat for Zumthor the nature of sur�ng was not taken into consideration. The site had a unique landscape with a gradual topography descending to the private beach; the layering of three different coloured and textured rocks creates a dramatic backdrop for the intervention.

Taking advantage of the landscape, a series of pavilions is placed along an axis on the site. Cutting through the layers of rocks, a staircase is projected from public space to private spaces - Living room and kitchen, a hearth, bedroom, and studio. From many of the readings, it describes Zumthor to be a very private man, this retreat will provide him with an opportunity to experience the west coast nature versus his Swiss alpine home.

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Tower S

Course | Comprehensive Studio (University of British Columbia)

Project Brief | In this comprehensive studio, students were given “promenade” as a generate for the program. The site is located on Vancouver Land�ll which is on parts of the Burns Bog. Over the next 100 years, the land�ll will be returned to the city of Delta. The Western 40 Hectares is one of the �rst phases of this process, it is also where the site of the project is located. The student was asked to using natural energy as resources for their design.

The Tower S project, which acts as a ‘broadcast tower’ for seed dispersal to the site (Western 40 Hectares), is made up of two standing structures: A seed dispersal tower and administrative space/visitor’s centre. The tower uses a tensegrity structural system, comprising of members that appear to ‘oat’ in space through the use of compression and tension. The Tower S Project is located on the South-Western corner of the Western 40 Hectares site in order to allow wind directions coming from the South to maximise seed dispersal area for Yellow Bells.

Duration | 13 Weeks

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Program diagram of the visitor centreAssembly diagram of the tensegrity tower

The tower features a ramp and stair as a means of circulation around and through it. A series of planters lie along one side of the ramp and will disperse seeds of Yellow Bell plants. These Yellow Bell plants are a noninvasive, indigenous plant that grows native in British Columbia. A stair is embedded into the central core of the tower, providing the tower with a ‘faster’ option up to the top

Tower S has two lives - one that is rooted in the present and one that embraces the future. The tower is expected to be dismantled and several walls of the visitor’s centre will be removed. In 100 years’ time, the project is planned to become a strategic ruin that can then be repurposed into a park space, using the remaining components to service the patrons of the future. Additionally, the building assembly is intentionally simple and the material is expected to be repurposed.

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Residential & Commercial Development

(DLN, Hong Kong)

Project Brief | Development of ten tower blocks in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Site area of 60,500m2 includes residential, commercial, of�ce, and service apartment. Creating a live-work business hub.

Project Role | Schematic design, and design development for a residential clubhouse, penthouse units and commerce street on the ground level and podium

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Mantin Heights

(DLN, Hong Kong)

Project Brief | Development of nine luxury medium-rise residential towers. Towers are arranged in relationship to the pro�le of the hill in a park like setting. The towers embrace the natural scenery creating a comfortable and harmonic environment for future residents.

Project Role | Construction Document for Tower 6 & Tower 7.

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Submission drawings for tower 6 & tower 7

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Clubhouse Residence

(Atelier FCJZ, Beijing)

Project Brief | Three of the twenty-two luxury homes in a gated community in Ningbo, China. All residences have a panoramic view of the lake, some houses have direct lakeshore access. These three 1,300m2 homes are located at peak of the development. These homes are a contemporary approach on traditional courtyard houses. Stacked vertically providing portrait windows framing, views from near and far. An interior courtyard provides an acrostic performance space that can be viewed from different levels. From the interior to the exterior of the house, it ampli�es the serenity of the four season in the region.

Project Role | Design development and construction document for interior and landscape of the houses.

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Render of front lawn with seasonal trees blossoming [top], Render of roof garden [bottom] [SketchUp + Vray + Photoshop]

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Wushu Ballet Plaza

(Atelier FCJZ, Beijing)

Project Brief | Urban renewal project in a historical site in Shanghai. The 10,000m2 project consists of commercial and culture redevelopment that embodies new park, shops, and a theatre. The project is tied into a city redevelopment of hotels and commercial buildings adjacent to the site. This plaza complex will be the new leisure hub for residences and workers nearby.

The landscape parcel is divided into quadrants with individual themes, a historical relic pagoda is the highlight and centerpiece of the project. Bamboo, pine, cherry and lotus gardens are used as a buffer between the road and the relic. Wooden pathway cuts through the landscape creating access to the pagoda.

The theatre is located on the eastern parcel among commerces. It unitizes the pagoda and surrounding buildings as the backdrop of the play. Due to view constraint, the “backstage” is integrated with existing subterranean structure below the theatre.

Project Role | Schematic design of the theatre and commerce parcel; design development for the landscape parcel.

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using a covered promenade to unify both site together

planting vegetation along the promenade and plaza to emphasis coherence

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The design begins with the historical research of the site. Before the current structure, the site was layered with programs �lled with vibrate activities throughout the year, especially during Chinese New Year. However, much of the original layout of the market, the plaza, and the neighbourhood has been demolished. Currently what sits on the site is a large building with a paved plaza surrounding it, which doubles as a parking lot.

The current proposal begins with determining the width of pedestrian paths in accordance with the building program. By mixing three types of street widths, it forms a dynamic streetscape. The theatre is located on the east-centre portion of the site. By using lucid screens (bamboo), and solid screens (walls), it generates a theatrical promenade entering into the glass-box like playhouse.

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Render of bamboo garden [left], Night bird’s-eye view of the historical plaza [right] [SketchUp + Lumion + Photoshop]

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