LIANG-YI WANG
PORTFOLIO
Contents 01
Shall we dance
02
Grand nature
03
Artworks
Shall we dance
This project was developed as a part of a design studio at NCTU. Inspired by Wild Cursive from Cloud Gate Dance Theatre, the main idea is to emphasize the roles of lights and shadows.
All the world's a stage
Lights and shadows are the essential parts in a brilliant performance
I created a 1/80 model that is related to the stage in which the performers could dance in it.
As a physics student, I would like to develop this project further in a quantitative way. With some knowledge of optics, I want to compare the energy consumption of illumination of my model to existing theatres in Taiwan. First of all, I directly photograph the "roof" of my model with fixed aperture, exposure, and ISO both with a LED flashlight and without. I set the former as 100 percent luminosity and the other as 0 percent. The second step is to measure how bright the inner side of the roof is. Placing the flashlight from below the tracing paper at the bottom part, I photograph under the same conditions. Then I compare its luminosity with the references via software -- the result is around 65 percent. Afterward, I set my goal to achieve 80 percent of the stage area with a 65-percent luminosity.
What comes next is mathematics. luminosity
0%
65%
100%
Gaussian beam & its intensity distribution with FWHM
LED light source is a kind of Gaussian beam, which has a 50-percent luminosity at a radius called full width at half maximum (FWHM). After some precise calculations, I found out the radius would be 1 centimeter, which I think would still be acceptable. Last but not least, I decide to compare its energy consumption with the National Taichung Theatre, designed by Ito Toyo. I magnify the scale of my model and find out that the Taichung Theatre had 4.32 times the electricity consumption rate of it! Nonetheless, there are still many to be concerned, such as the energy consumption rate by a large LED flashlight could not possibly be the same as my small one. After all, I learned that a blueprint requires collaborative work from various fields to make a building.
Grand nature
This project was inspired by natural objects and landscapes. I focused on the geometric patterns hidden in the forms and constructed a wooden configuration.
Originated from a cliff on the coast of a Scandinavian island, I draw triangles and quadrilaterals representing the shades and the sunlights, dots of various spacing as the woods, and tilted lines for the slopes. My model is based on the polygons I delineated. I put a slight inclination on every joint so that it presents a natural curvature, rendering the geometrical contour appear spirited.
The wooden configure is designed to be a public art. I would like to see it standing at places where crowds gather and flow. Regarding its origination, I hope to bring a sense of serenity to the hectic city. Notably, I found that triangle has the most stable structure among polygons. Some joints have broken up in the process of building the model, and surprisingly the cracks were all parts of quadrilaterals or pentagons. Every triangle stays in their position once and for all.
Artworks
Including several of my hand drawn pictures, these works demonstrate my interests and attention besides architecture.
This thurible is located in the cathedral of Santiago de Compostela, which is on the former page. I drew these pictures as a practice of things that does not come in an ideal geometrical form.
I am addicted to mechanical keyboards. These are the exploded views of the blue and capacitive switches. I have even dismantled some of my keyboards to understand the structures inside.
I presented my portrait with a special pen, which was similar to a small ink brush, and finished the figure in simply one stroke. The Chinese characters are my title, meaning "offshore." The name comes from the winding lines that constitute the drawing.