BETTY LIU
b.liu@wustl.edu | (510) 331-1693 Term Address: 6515 Wydown Blvd #5967, St. Louis, Missouri 63105 Permanent Address: 2446 Lockwood Ave, Fremont, CA 94539
the pool project: THRESHOLDS Architectural Design I, Fall 2011 Professor Forrest Fulton
Carondelet Park
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Carondelet Park is seen by the community as “an escape from the city”. The park provides several thresholds that filter out reminders of the city environment: visual, movement, physical, and acoustic. My project takes it a step further and makes the pond as another threshold.
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My project uses water as its walls - as its skin that separates exterior from interior. It filters the city out at a smaller scale, using the properties of water, filtering visually, acoustically, and physically. It is a cluster of cyrstals on the water that is accessible as a haven to the public. Program: indoor swimming pool, children’s pool, sauna, whirlpool, changing/ service areas, fitness center
BETTY LIU
b.liu@wustl.edu | (510) 331-1693 Term Address: 6515 Wydown Blvd #5967, St. Louis, Missouri 63105 Permanent Address: 2446 Lockwood Ave, Fremont, CA 94539
Due to the long and narrow nature of the site, my project deals with spaces sectionally. It includes a main gallery exhibition space along the ground floor that is interrupted by living spaces on the second floor, which then created opportunities for skylights to let light in. It is a continuous space that is modulated by light.
the live work show project: INTERRUPTED SPACES Architectural Design I, Fall 2011 Professor Forrest Fulton
Program painting studio, sculpting studio, galleries, living room, kitchen, dining room, bedrooms, storage
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BETTY LIU
b.liu@wustl.edu | (510) 331-1693 Term Address: 6515 Wydown Blvd #5967, St. Louis, Missouri 63105 Permanent Address: 2446 Lockwood Ave, Fremont, CA 94539
the kindergarten project: VERTICAL TRANSITIONS Introduction to Design Processes IV, Spring 2011 Professor Stephen Perdue
Kindergarteners are in an active stage of their life. My project is about vertical transitions that allow the kids to move about in an open, colorful environment that facilitates more of a studio-like environment. The tectonic of the building is a congregation of little sticks that allow light through, much like fiber optics. Light wells allow light to reach all three floors in the very narrow site. Program: classrooms, bathroom, play area, outdoor recreational space
the furniture project: FLOATING CUBBIES Architecture for children is at a completely different scale than that for adults. Furniture is no exception. For this project, I studied children to observe their movements to design a piece of furniture for kindergarteners. Floating red fabric cubbies on a clear frame provide a new twist to standard cubbies.
BETTY LIU
the phenomenon project: IMMERSION
b.liu@wustl.edu | (510) 331-1693 Term Address: 6515 Wydown Blvd #5967, St. Louis, Missouri 63105 Permanent Address: 2446 Lockwood Ave, Fremont, CA 94539
Introduction to Design Processes III, Fall 2010 Professor Dennis Burke
The observation station is meant to immerse the researcher in the patterns of light and shadow cast from the forest canopy. From an initial study of light and shadow cast on the ground and the upright trees throughout the day, the project is a buffer from the environment that allows only what is studied to come through.
light and shadow study
Program: research room, living space, bedroom, bathroom 1/8� model -channelled glass
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