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Angela (Yuyang) Liu Selected Work 2020-2023

email: a-liu@hotmail.com

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Commercial

Residential

Landscape

Graphics

Retail Office Hotel Tower

Apartment

Canel Courtyard

Art center Media

Commercial

Cup of Calm A cozy tea workshop nestled in Oakleigh, offering a peaceful and soothing environment for everyone who visits.

Master Design Work (Studio 09) - Tutor: James Stewart; Kate Skillington; Eve Li Passive Aggressive: Re-crafted The built environment is responsible for extensive environmental degradation, as witnessed through its dependence on fossil fuels, consumption of raw resources, and pollution of life sustaining eco-systems. There is a critical need to subvert the ways our built, social and natural environments interact.

Software Used: Sketchup, Rhino, Lumion, AutoCAD, Photoshop, Illustrator

Cup of Calm is a cozy tea workshop nestled in Oakleigh, offering a peaceful and soothing environment for everyone who visits. Its soothing atmosphere is carefully woven into the architecture, featuring sleek lines, soothing hues, and glimpses into the intricate art of tea crafting, creating a sense of relaxation and calmness.

The essence of Cup of Calm extends beyond its physical space, as it promotes the health and well-being of individuals while taking care of the natural environment. It combines the soothing effects of tea with a commitment to sustainability.

By seamlessly intertwining the therapeutic qualities of tea with the creator’s desire to promote overall calmness, Cup of Calm becomes a sanctuary for visitors seeking respite from the hustle and bustle of daily life. The workshop’s ethos revolves around fostering a sense of inner peace while actively caring for the environment, making it a unique space for each individual.

Commercial

The Knowledge Network A Biomedical Precinct design to optimise the exchange of knowledge and lay the foundation for continuous improvement in future research and innovation.

Master Thesis (Studio 06) - Tutor: Michael Smith Knowledge Gateway This Studio investigates how architecture and urban design can encourage and facilitate knowledge exchange between the Melbourne Biomedical Precinct and the general public and how can this site act as a public interface with the wider research precinct.

Software Used: Rhino, Lumion, AutoCAD, Photoshop, Illustrator

The Knowledge Network The question to research in this project is ‘How can we optimise the exchange of knowledge and lay the foundation for continuous improvement in future research and innovation?

This thesis will explore how architecture design and programmes can support the establishment of networking between researchers and medical facilities, fostering a collaborative knowledge sharing environment. Also engaging and educating future generations, to maintain an ecosystem of research, healthcare, and education. The design will focus on delivering a healthy and vibrant working environment that inspires creativity and, a welcoming and engaging open space for the public to utilise.

Commercial

Green Office Building Design strategies for a high-performance and sustainable office building.

Bachelor Third Year Environmental Design Group Work Development of a detailed design concept for a high-performance and sustainable architecture office building according to the outline of the pertinent aspects and come up with a design strategy for a green building design of a new commercial building dedicated services like architectural design, service engineering, exhibition space.

Software Used: Revit, Rhino, Photoshop, Illustrator

Commercial

flow Hotel An luxury business hotel with a relaxing vibe located at Wynyard Quarter.

(224 guest room located across eight levels)

Bachelor Third Year Design Individual Work - Tutor: Gregor Hoheisel COMPOSING MEMORIES: The mechanics and narratives of hospitality design.

To develop a project under the considerations of the practical requirements of complex hotel programme and operations, as well as the narrative and cinematographic composition of the hotel experience.

Software Used: Rhino, AutoCAD, Photoshop, Illustrator, Vray

Hotel Branding “Business conference with a twist of vacation”

Experience - Business trips that enjoys a little resting time - Different life experience (weekend getaways) - Relaxing enviroment

Concept - Marina post like gride structure - Blocks as floor plates and how spaces are defined - Floating away of blocks to create relaxing and flowing feel

Ground Floor

First Floor

Second Floor

Third - Ninth Floor

Standard Room

Exterior - Silo Park Perspective

Deluxe Room

Commercial

AAR Tower A mixed-use commercial building, with premium office space and a five-star hotel.

Master Applied Archtectural Technology (group & individual) - Tutor: Noel Tighe Investigating the theory and technological praxis associated with the architectural design of programmatically complex projects.

Software Used: Rhino, AutoCAD, Photoshop, Illustrator

Residential

Floating Gardens This project is to explore how the higher levels of high rise buildings can have better access and connections to the outdoor spaces (landscaping).

Bachelor Second Year Design Individual Work - Tutor: Emma Morris The purpose of the studio is to engage with the social responsibility of architecture, specifically through understanding the role of Kāinga Ora and social housing design. The studio is based on a ‘real’ project, with the brief set by the Client, Kāinga Ora. Within the constraints of the client brief, we will explore design, aesthetics and discover moments of joy.

Software Used: Revit, Photoshop, Illustrator

Second Floor

Ground Floor

Fourth Floor

Third Floor

Fifth Floor

Section A

East Elevation

North Elevation

Conmmual Courtyard

Platform Garden

Landscape

Spettacolo d’ Acqua Create a journey of urban spectacles along the newly opened canal edge, providing a means to connect the three key sites through the lens of water.

Master Design Group Work (Studio 29) - Tutor: Markus Jung Architecture Competition: Milan Navigli Canal Challenge Demonstrating how future urban planning must address the Urban Heat Island (UHI) Effect through hyperlocal and city-wide responses while engaging with the international discourse as global issues.

Software Used: Sketchup, Rhino, AutoCAD, Photoshop, Illustrator

Landscape

Light & Heavy A lightweighted translucent glass house combined with a heavy masonry concrete threshold

Bachelor Third Year Design Individual Work - Tutor: Lynda Simmons INSIDE / OUT. Re-considering Courtyards Courtyard design places important architectural focus on the void, and how the absence of solid form relates to, and balances, the built form. In this design course the void is investigated, paying particular attention to spatial orientation, threshold Bachelor Third Year Environmental Design Group Work

Software Used: Illustrator, Physical Model, Photo Trace

Graphics

The Impermanent Collection An art cademy reflecting the institution’s values by connecting multiple and diverse architectural objects and functions into a cohesive campus.

Master Design Group Work (Studio 44) - Tutor: Samuel Hunter Art, Life and Other Things This Studio is interested to look at a more sustainable integration of the arts in all markets. We are interested in a self-sustaining ‘Arts Forum’ where multiple arts-related activities support and feed into a repeatable system- without binding or restricting art practice.

Software Used: Rhino, Photoshop, Illustrator

Graphics

Media Studies Bachelor Second Year Architectural Media Series of drawings, model making (physical & digital), photography, collaging Software Used: Revit, Photoshop, Illustrator, Physical Model, Photography