LIANG-YI WANG
PORTFOLIO
Contents 01
Shall we dance
02
Grand nature
03
Recurrence
04
Compilation
05
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 presented two models of what I have observed.
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 models are based on the polygons I delineated. On the first one, I put a slight inclination on every joint so that it presents a natural curvature, rendering the geometrical contour appear spirited. For the second, I create a cliffside with similar patterns.
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.
This model is designed to be embedding in a surface of a cliffside. The weaving pattern covering above symbolizes the woods. My idea was to create a massing that is both private and cozy, like a secret base one shares with his or her families and best friends. Althoughg inspired by the same idea, the two models are unlike -- with one being placed at a populated location, the other far from the crowds.
Recurrence
This project was a summary of my observation in a review exhibition of the Institute of Architecture of NCTU. The main idea was to blend dimensions to create amusement and confusion of spaces.
I have selected three of the pictures I took as my objectives to implement the transformation.
selection
Target 1 - the cubic I select only the protruding parts in the picture, and combine them into another image. Then I trace the dark parts as marked in the image below with bold lines, and the lighter parts with light, thin lines to blend the sections that are walls and masses.
intergration
combination
plication
reproduction
Target 2 - the planar I make a copy of the lines in the picture with pens and carve them onto a piece of paper. Then I fold the paper according to the lines to demonstrate a 2-D and 3-D combination.
Target 3 - the linear I delineate the edges of the model in the picture with grayscale, then remove the planes. Starting from the left side, I stack the sections by their color blocks, resulting in a distinct 3-D model.
Compilation
This is a project inspired by my most beloved collection -keyborads. I demonstrate various methods to complie and stack them.
On the pictures to the right are the keycaps of row 1 to row 4, which are the rows beginning with "1", "Q", "A", "Z" . Each of them has disparate height and inclination, but they all have the same rectangular tops and square bottoms. Therefore I try to combine them with various pairs to form the basic units of combination. R4
R4
R3
R2
R1
R3
R2
R1
R4
R3
R2
R1
Another method to compile is to stack them putting the same units back to back, and the different units bottom to bottom.
R1 + R1
R2 + R1 + R1
R2 + R2 + R1 + R1
R3 + R2 + R2 + R1 + R1
Other stacking methods could include putting different units back to back, while still remaining the whole structure nice and straight if the angles are deliberately calculated. Just like the Legos, they could be piled one after one.
The other arrangement is not vertical but horizontal. Since all of the four units have diverse inclination, if they are arranged in a square, there are multiple ways to do so.
Artworks
Including several of my hand drawn pictures and photography, 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.
These are the exploded views of the blue and capacitive switches of my keyboard collections. I have even dismantled some of them to discover the structures inside.
The Chinese characters are my title, meaning "offshore." The name comes from the winding lines that constitute the drawing. I completed my portrait within simply one stroke of pen.
Amateur photography These are taken in my daily life -- roads that I often pass by. They represent my passion to record daylight and sceneries.
Fin.