Yang Liao's Selected Work Samples

WORK SAMPLE Architecture and Urban Design Works YANG LIAO / 2012 - 2017 selected

YANG LIAO

Apt 812, 625 W, 57 St New York, NY, United States 10019 yang.striff@gmail.com | +1 305-298-5650 https://fair-yl-and-more.com/ https://issuu.com/91568

Academical Experience (selected) STREAM OF LIFE | Competition | New Town, CT | 2017.12 NO MAN’S LAND | Water Urbanism | Jordan & Syria Border | 2017.03 - 2017. 05 LEARNING CITY | Urban Design | Poughkeepsie Main St, NY | 2016.10 - 2016.12 SEMESTER AT SEA | Student Housing | Panama Canal Locks | 2016.03 - 2016.05 PININFARINA OFFICE | Interior Design | Miami, FL | 2015.11 - 2015.12 MANGA SUPER BLOCK | Graphic Design | Kyoto, Japan | 2015.06 - 2015.07 EMBARCADERO 10 | Coffee Complex | Miami River, FL | 2015. 03 - 2015.05 CITY FACTORY | Student Complex | Paris, France | 2014.10 - 2014.10 MAGIC CITY | Master Plan | Miami, FL | 2013.10 - 2013.12

Education Columbia University, NY, United States | 2016.06 - 2017.05 Master of Science in Architecture + Urban Design University of Miami, FL, United States | 2012. 08 - 2016.05 Bachelor of Architecture

Professional Experience Intern in Wuhan Planning and Design Institute | Wuhan, China Yangtze River main Axis | Wuhan, China | 2016.12 - 2017.02 East Lake Greenway, | “Pilot Project of Improved Urban Public Spaces in China” chosen by UN | Wuhan, China | 2014.12 - 2015.03

Skills Modeling: Revit, Sketchup, Rhinoceros, Grasshopper, Graphics: Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign Drafting: AutoCAD Analysis: ArcGIS, Ecotect Video Making: After Effects

Honors & Credential 2017 2017 2015 2014

LEED GA High Pass | Final review of “NO MAN’S LAND“ HKS Recognition | HKS participated the final review of Coffee complex “EMBARCADERO 10“ Best Combined Appraisal | Final review of “CITY FACTORY“

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Apt 812, 625 W, 57 St New York, NY, United States 10019 yang.striff@gmail.com | +1 305-298-5650 https://fair-yl-and-more.com/ https://issuu.com/91568

学术经历 (筛选) 生命之河 | 竞赛 | 新城，康涅狄克洲 | 2017.12 无人区 | 水都市主义 | 约旦叙&利亚边境 | 2017.03 - 2017. 05 学习都市 | 城市设计 | 波基普西，纽约州 | 2016.10 - 2016.12 海上的一学期 | 学生公寓 | 巴拿马运河水闸 | 2016.03 - 2016.05 宾利法尼亚办公室 | 室内设计 | 迈阿密，佛罗里达州 | 2015.11 - 2015.12 超级街区漫画 | 平面设计 | 京都，日本 | 2015.06 - 2015.07 内河码头 10号 | 咖啡厅综合体 | 迈阿密河，佛罗里达州 | 2015. 03 - 2015.05 都市制造厂 | 学生公寓综合体 | 巴黎，法国 | 2014.10 - 2014.10 魔力都市赌场 | 总体规划 | 迈阿密，佛罗里达州 | 2013.10 - 2013.12

教育背景 哥伦比亚大学, 纽约, 美国 | 2016.06 - 2017.05 高等建筑与城市规划硕士 迈阿密大学，迈阿密，美国 | 2012. 08 - 2016.05 建筑学学士

职业经历 武汉市规划研究院 | 实习 | 武汉 长江主轴 | 武汉 | 2016.12 - 2017.02 东湖绿道 | 改善中国城市公共空间示范项目 | 武汉 | 2014.12 - 2015.03

软件技能 建模: Revit（初级）, Sketchup（精通）, Rhinoceros（精通） , Grasshopper （初级） 平面: Photoshop （熟练）, Illustrator （熟练）, InDesign（熟练） 制图: AutoCAD （精通） 分析: ArcGIS（熟练）, Ecotect （初级） Video Making: After Effects

荣誉和证书 2017 LEED GA 2017 设计课年级最高分 | 无人区 2015 HKS 公认奖 | 内河码头 10号 2014 设计课年级最高分| 都市制造厂

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Manga super block is an combined illustration of my love of japanese manga and my own travel experience in Kyoto based on a specific super block performing extremely rich activities.

MANGA SUPER BLOCK

Graphic Design - Individual Date: 2/2017~4/2017 Instructor: Carie Penabad, Adib Cure, Teofilo Victoria Contribution: Designe concept, Production Site location: Kyoto - Japan

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NO MAN’S LAND A WATER COMMENS TO HUMANTARIAN

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Urban Design - Team Work - 3rd Semester Graduate Date: 2/2017~4/2017 Instructor: Kate Orff (Studio coordinator), Nora Akawi, Ziad Jamaleddine, Petra Kempf (Amman Coordinator), Laura Kurgan Contribution: Urban strategy - Design concept - Graphic presentation Patner: Ahmed Jawdat, Gabriela Fiorentino, Zarith Pineda Site location: Jordan-Syria NE border - Jordan

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No Man’s Land: A Water Commons is a commentary to the humanitarian crisis in the informal camps in the North-Eastern border zone between the Syrian and Jordanian berms, where over 80,000 refugees are stranded. Rather than viewing the zone as a holding area, this project proposes to reimagine the berm as an inhabitable productive landscape.

By using fog harvesting, waste water management, permaculture and landscaping techniques, the project creates the possibility of an autonomous No Man’s Land. Through the harvesting of this scarce resource, the project is a response to the humanitarian crisis along Jordan’s northern borders, and a long term ecological approach to Jordan’s water infrastructure.

Installation - Process Begin by, puncturing the berm using tractors to allow resources to enter the site. Refugees begin to clustering around water (fog collector). Then dditional resources trucked to site to build fog towers and the backbone service infrastructure.

Tractors begin creating a Keyline from berm to plant, allowing water to channel from the cluster into the permaculture using cut & fill strategy. With help of natural wind, this whole process will create a complete “Berm Cluster“.

In four years, once the permaculture systems have matured, harvesting of food and resources such as date trees can begin to self sustain communities.

Design Strategy - Fog Harvesting The shaded fog structure can be built by refugees from onsite material. The structure is built out of palm wood while the mesh is knitted from ration sacks used to transport aid. This structure harvests enough drinking water while providing shade and congregational spaces.

Some configurations have been designed to harvest solar power for electricity. The large fog tower is built similarly but has the ability to harvest more water.

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Grey Water Toilets Shower Room

Farmers Market

Fog Well + Fresh Water Canopy

Kitchen Fog Well

Praying Area Excess Fresh Water Solar Panel + Shading

Filtration Wetland Permaculture

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6. Berm cluster formed

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8. Permaculture matrued and harvested

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3. Cluster around fog collector

What if?

The conflict subsides and refugees are able to return home.

-Will this area become a RUIN? -A MEMORIAL of a precarious moment in time?

What if?

The project seeks to respond to a humanitarian crisis created by a political conflict. While the conflict may remain keeping people in holding for the foreseeable future, a scenario that begs the question.

-Could No Man’s Land turn into a future MEGACITY?

LEARNING CITY A CITY WHERE EVERYONE CAN LEARN

Poughkeepsie suffers from a long tradition of town versus gown. The city and town are home to four institutions of higher learning which serve a wide range of students but the residents of the city have neither the skills nor the opportunities to access good jobs.

The “Learning City” program brings these two communities together, and benefit both. Inspired by existing programs of low-income residents, NPO and colleges, “Learning city” will provide 4 new programs in two different directions: “Culinary Skill Exchange” and “Start New Restaurant!” in culinary direction, “Food Film ” and ”Main Street as classroom” in media direction, creating learning and job opportunities for low-income residents and students under professional guide.

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Each facility of “Learning city” will be built by local community, NPO and colleges together, which will be dispersed into Main Street, connecting downtown community and colleges to revitalize the city.

Urban Design - Team work - 2nd Semester Graduate Date: 10/2016~12/2017 Instructor: David Smiley (Studio coordinator), Michael Murphy, Lee Altman, Chris Kroner, Justin Moore Contribution: Urban strategy - Design concept - Graphic presentation Patner: Jiahong Lu, Huaxia Wu, Zhengyin Lv Site location: Poughkeepsie - NY

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Poughkeepsie should have been a college town. The positive effect of university city can bring good habitable environment, the smaller the gap between rich and poor and higher average level of education. Being as a mid Hudson education center, Poughkeepsie has the most abundant resources of university, but simultaneously, it also has the lowest educated area in the county. So it deserves to be developed. Paying attention to low-income residents and

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When a group of individuals cannot accomplish their own needs, the best way is not to seek help from others, which is making this group given and vulnerable; but is to find another group of people with different needs, matching both two groups’ strengths and demands up with each other, which helps them get win-win equally.

Interaction: iHOPEiCAN event What is it about?

I hope, I can tend to let people talk about: -what they hope for the city, communities and themselves, -what they can do to contribute to the community, or what they can teach others to do.

Thus, the project not only reveals the part in their life that needs to be improved but also their abilities.

It also involves dialogues between people and us, even among neighbors.

When they wrote down something, we can ask them: Why do you hope for that? Or How do you learn that skill?

The person amy tell the story of himself/herself

The connection between I hope and I can...

There might not be a direct link between their talent and hope -The ideal situation is that we may find a way to design a way to use someone’s talents to solve another pe

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Mansion Square Park

recycling

art and product design

expansion of existing restaurant

exhibition of new restaurant proposal

Family Partnership Center

culinary exchange

start new restaurant

Trash into Art

Ebenezer Baptist Church

temparory restaurant

Data Visualization park

Art Centro

Trolley Barn

Culinary Shed

Underwear Factory

Fall Kill Creek

Mill Street Loft

Laundromat

Dormitory

program Bike Lane

anchor facility proposed facility existing facility anchor facility

Migrant Billboard Resturant

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Migrant Billboard Resturant

Mid-Hudson Civic Center

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Culinary and Media Tech

WHVW Radio Broadcaster

Student Housing

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Dutchess County Community Action

Small Food Market

Migrant Billboard Resturant

Migrant Billboard Resturant

Chance Theater

Restaurant

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Poughkeepsie Library

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Is it possible to build an inter-college campus into the community?

In campus, scattered small-scale facilities will integrate into the community fabric, so that students and low-income residents can really study + live + work together, to provide students with a wide range of social practice opportunities and to provide low-incomes work opportunities simultaneously. In addition, endowing the campus with community service function will become an important part of the community public space system. The area of the campus would be roughly around the middle Main St., between Clinton St., Worrall St. and two arteries. Within this campus area, excess parking lots and vacant lots would be utilized as the location of school facilities to transform downtown area into a pedestrian-oriented, walkable, livable community. From the city’s point of view, the campus will be the ligament between downtown, fall kill creek and cottage street, and then become a catalyst for the downtown revival program and the creek program.

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STREAM OF LIFE Reflection of the sky and clouds

Urban Design - Team Work - Competition Date: 12/2017 Contribution: Site Analysis - Design Concept - Graphic Presentation Patner: Jiahong Lu, Huaxia Wu, Zhen Quan Site location: Newtown, CT

Sandy hook memorial - Stream of life

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The journey of life is like a ceaselessly flowing stream. Intense downpours followed by gentle trickles, with occasional moments of sheer serenity, the undulating stream difficultly finds its way between trunks and rocks, winds through grass and grains. But the constantly changing beautiful sceneries will be all captured and reflected in the stream of life.

“Stream of Life”, supported by rough rocks, with the polished stainless-steel surface stretches over and mirrors different landscapes. It passes through the wildflowers, the gravel walk, the rustling woods, the marshy wetlands; it passes through sun and rain, through day and night, from spring to winter. Above the mirror, children toddle amid the sky and clouds, with the loving guidance of their teachers and families.

Life is an adventure. Stream of Life is a challenging single-plank bridge, above which children will be exploring life with curiosity, supported by families and teachers at challenging times.

Stream of Life features a zigzag form, abstracting the squiggly lines of a kid’s doodle, being linked up into an infinite loop. The loop implies a sense of consummation, while life is inevitably incomplete. The sacred soil condensed in three rock-like glass container fills the gap of the ring. When the rainwater floods the gravel walk, people will cross the water using the “great rocks” as stepping stones, just as the community weathered the storm with strength and courage all together.

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Rainfall Garden Undulating terrain creates rainfall garden, which can slow down the run-off and increase biodiversity in a wetland environment.

"Great Rocks" The sacred soil condensing in three rock-like glass container fills the gap of the "stream".​ When​ ​the​ ​rainwater floods the gravel walk, people will cross the​ ​w ater​ with the support of ​the​ “great rocks”, just as the community weathered the storm with strength and courage all together.

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CITY FACTORY

PARIS STUDENT HOUSING CENTER

Architecture Design - Team Work - 3rd Year Undergrad Date: 10/2014~12/2014 Instructor: Eric Firley Patner: Haoyu Wang Contribution: Pre-design - Urban stratedy - Design concept - Graphic presentation Site location: 19th arrondisement - Paris - France Site area: 80,000 sqf Student Award: Best combined approval of 3rd year

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Future progress and historical preservation are typically seen as two routes of architectural and urban design start form a present context.

However, there can be a trace penetrating the history and promoting a future with a steady root in the city of Paris with a profound history and cutting-edge developments, street blocks with historical marks are in consistant dispute between programmatic developers and tradition defenders.

The block intersects the abondoned Little Belt Railroad and Canal del l’Qurcq in the 19th arrondissement, previoulsy occupied by a factory for long, is now being invested for student housing development in response to the growing local design institutes. The memory of local manufacturing industry may not bring contradiction against the investment. The project aims to revitalize the local industry in the future with inhabited students; facilities; design professionals participating design and fabrication in Inhabitable Manufactory.

Building fills in the block as suggested

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Retail Passage conncets the canal with the neighborhood with design stores

Courtyards and green spaces promote an inhabitable environment

Retail Passage conncets the canal with the neighborhood with design stores

Little Belt railway bridge becomes Little Belt Park to attract publics

After the demolishment of the former factory, the site is full of possibility with the canal view and abandoned railway to be developed. Together with the history of the local industry, the project can be a great public attraction. By integrating social and student housings; manufactory; retails; design offices and public green space, Inhabitable Manufactory Complex is designed to promote a revival of local industrial development with a vision of the future.

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Former factory and Little Belt railways besides Canal de l’Ourcq

SECTION/PROGRAMS

In addition to residential facilities, the complex provides various design and craft-centered programs affiliated with Design Manufactory, including design offices, retails and experience centers which produce their products directly in the adjacent manufactory. The Little Belt Park transformed from the abandoned railway overlooks the manufactory as a view platform for the public to experience the culture of design and craft.

Circulation

Retails + Design Office

Micro Units - Student Housing

Little Belt Park

Apartment - Social Housing

Design Factory

EMBARCADERO 10

INTERNATIONAL MIXED USE COFFEE COMPLEX

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Comprehensive Design - Team Work - 3rd Year Undergrad Date: 3/2014~5/2014 Instructor: Jaya Kader Patner: Yutong Jiang Contribution: Pre-design - Urban stratedy - Design concept - Structure - HVAC system Site location: Little Havana - Miami - United States Site area: 34,000 sf Student Award: HKS Recognition, HKS firm participated in final reviw

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The design is trying to find a way to respond to the linear and irregular site in a rational way, letting the main programs of the building interact with each other and become an integrated whole.

The design is based on a module of 35 ft by 35 ft. The main bar building sitting following the linear site is made of the module repeating six times; and the slightly curved building, sitting on the south celebration the transition of the site, is based on two modules. Structurally speaking, the design is to recall the traditional and vernacular roof structure and express it in a more modern way. The building has a liner footprint; with a giant shed roof structure almost taking up half of the space in elevation, forming a repetitive, simple, and strong rhythm that could be clearly seen on the other side of the river. We hope the cleanness, simplicity, and continuity of the building could somehow revoke the initial passion for the river and for life.

Rafters & Purlins Colums Girders & Beams

Colums Grade beam Piles

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Building Code Compliance

CONVERTIBLE OFFICE SELF-ADAPTIVE SPACE MAKING SYSTEM

Interior Design - Team Work - 4thd Year Undergrad Date: 11/2014~12/2014 Client: Pinifarina Instructor: Carmen Guerrero Patner: Haoyu Wang Contribution: Precedent finding - Design concept - Presentaion graphic design Site location: PINIFARINA office - Miami - United States Site area: 2,500 sf

In this small office, that has quite limited area, It is impossible to place all the required programs. In order to fulfill the demand, a solution to integrate the programs needs to be worked out.

DESIGN CONCEPT

By exploring the staffs touching on PINIFARINA, the convertible roof of Ferrari 448 spider was found as an inspiration which led to final concept of space conversion.

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To accomplish the space conversion, A wall product was designed with the built-in power, wheels and receiving system, all walls in a controlled network can adapt themselves to create different layout of spaces based on different requirement. And 3 scenarios are designed.

ASSEMBLY AXON Built in Storage

Hidden Light

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INDIVIDUAL WORKING SPACE SCENARIO

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GROUP WORKING SPACE SCENARIO

CONFERENCE SPACE SCENARIO

SCENARIO CONVERTION

Individual Working Space Scenario

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YANGTZE RIVER MAIN AXIS

5 LEVELS

The design of Yangtze River main axis is to further optimize the two side shorelines and integrates Wuhan’s modernization, through urban repair, ecological restoration, enhance the function and landscape image. There are five axes set in one, namely the traffic axis, development axis, cultural axis, ecological axis and landscape axis. High-end services, including business, finance, information, consulting, cultural and creative, tourism, are being concentrated on in development.

In term of space , in accordan tidal flat - Jiangtan Park - emba Yangtze River to build the main

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TOTAL AREA RIVER LENGTH TERRENE AREA WATER AREA

18,206 ACRES 16 MILES 6,992 ACRES 11,208 ACRES

Core Area Key Area Major Urban Area

Urban Planning - Intern Work Date: 12/2016~Present Contribution: Documentation - Precedent Analysis - Drawing Production Intern Place: Wuhan Planning and Design Institute Site location: Wuhan City - China

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Protect the Yangtze River water quality;

LEVEL 3 JIANGTAN PARK

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nce with the “Yangtze River water - bridges, docks and ankment and road - coastal construction”five levels, the n planning framework;

LEVEL 1 YANGTZE RIVER

Firstly, enhance Jiangtan Park; secondly, build the city balcony system; thirdly, planning of the first domestic Yangtze River Greenway;

LEVEL 5 BRIDGES, DOCKS AND TIDAL FLAT

Optimize the skyline, beautify the riverside building facade to form the most attractive, unique new business card of Wuhan City.

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EAST LAKE GREENWAY Wuhan East Lake Greenway is located in Wuhan East Lake Scenic Area, it is the first 5A-class tourist scenic spots greenway within the city. East Lake Greenway is 28.7 kilometers, 6 meters wide, stringing the East Lake Moshan, Ting Tao, Luo Yan, Yu Guang, Yu Jiahu five scenic spots to be one and the greenways is currently in Lake Road, Lake - Mountain Road, Moshan Road and Suburb Road 4-segment theme greenway composition.

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TOTAL LENGTH AVERAGE WIDETH

28.7 Kilometers 6 Meters

Cultural Vein Urban Vein Green VEIN

Urban Planning - Intern Work Date: 12/2014~3/2015 Contribution: Documentation - Precedent Analysis - Drawing Prodcution Intern Place: Wuhan Planning and Design Institute Site location: Wuhan City - China

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HECTARE

CITY WAY: Quality life of Huali 3 Miles

With city way, vitalize the Huali 3 Miles, blend the city life into the East Lake landscape.

WATER WAY: Fun like of rustic East lake

To the water way, highlight the heritage of the city of hundred lakes, shuttle back and forth in waterland and lake houses, enjoy the fishing and singing quiet life.

MOUNTAIN WAY: Smart life of smart cloud valley

In the mountain way, swim in culture, creativity and youth dream, shuttle between the city and the valley. Here is the hiking and riding lovers’ paradise.

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