Ruixiao Li

Interior Design (MA)
A girl with the disneyland in the background
The building's facade picture, retaining the original facade and re-opening windows
The building's facade picture, retaining the original facade and re-opening windows
The windows follow the position of theatres. The result is a building with a rhythm — a legible trace of performance happening inside.
Section view of the entire immersive theatre space connected by core.
Section view of the entire immersive theatre space connected by core.
Section view of the entire immersive theatre space connected by core.
A rendering of a darker scene, a three-story room that serves as an immersive theater.
A rendering of a darker scene, a three-story room that serves as an immersive theater.
This is one of the rooms in this immersive theatre infrastructure. The ceiling, floor and walls are designed to be customizable for directors or artists to decide what the atmosphere and story of the space is.
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Core Act portfolio, which contains more diagrams and photos of model.
The building's facade picture, retaining the original facade and re-opening windows
Section view of the entire immersive theatre space connected by core.
A rendering of a darker scene, a three-story room that serves as an immersive theater.

About

I’m Ruixiao Li, a stage and spatial designer from China. I studied stage design at Shanghai Theatre Academy and am completing my MA in Interior Design at the Royal College of Art. My background in scenography shapes my interest in how space, narrative, and audience experience intersect.

My graduation project, Core Act, reimagines the central core of an office tower in Canary Wharf as a vertical immersive theatre. Designed as a flexible infrastructure, it allows different performances to unfold across multiple floors. The project transforms a leftover architectural element into a dynamic spatial system — connecting stories, movement, and public imagination within the rigid logic of a commercial high-rise.

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