Designer: LI CHEN

Mr. Li Chen is the founder/Chief architect of Sensor Architecture Studio (SAS), Shanghai, a member of the American Institute of Architects (AIA), a member of the Shanghai Architectural Society and China-Europe International Design Association, a certified expert in LEED green building, and a design supervisor in the Department of Architecture at Xi'an Jiaotong Liverpool University (XJTLU). He graduated from the Department of Architecture at the China Academy of Art with a bachelor's degree, and pursued a master's degree in Urban Design at the City University of New York (CUNY), under the guidance of Professor Wang Shu and Professor Michael Sorkin. After returning to China, He worked as a chief architect in a well-known large-scale design company for many years, accumulating rich experience throughout the project process. He founded SAS in 2019 and proposed a design concept of "Contemporary Forest"; Like a forest, it accommodates sufficient complexity and diversity, being both sensitive to the environment and possessing its overall purity; "Contemporary" not only refers to the architecture itself, but also needs to face current social issues and face the future. The thinking and research on "Contemporary Forest" also run through every project he designed, from urban design, architectural design, spatial design, to daily furniture installation design, and so on. At the same time, his design works have obtained national design patents and his design papers have been published in national professional journals.