Portfolio 2015-2021 by Brian Liu

BRIAN YEE LIU PORTFOLIO

2015-2021

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ABLE OF

ACADEMIC

CUTOUT AUSTIN BARTON SPRINGS BATHHOUSE

24 DIASPORA PROJECT-DIAGRAM

28 DIASPORA VS. CENTER BUILDING DESIGN FOO/GATHER_TOGETHER

50 COMPUND FIGURATION FORM/SPACE

54 POCHE THICKNESS/THINNESS

58 LOOSELY GENERIC PLAN/SECTION/CIRULATION

COMPETITIONS

76 URBAN FURNITURE: AUTOBOX

ELEVATES MEDIA AS A BEACON OF SOCIAL INTERATION

98 DYNAMIC PATTERNING/ FORM

UTILIZE GRASSHOPPER PARAMETRIC DESIGN TOOL

104 PHOTOSHOP FICTION CONCEPTUALIZE: COLLAGE

108 PNEUMATIC

128 PROJECT O SUPER FURNITURE COMPETITION

136 ELEVATED SALVATION WARMING 2020 COMPETITION

144 HOME TEAM ULI 2020-2021 COMPETITION

PRACTICE

PNEUMATIC MASONRY/ HOUSTON CASE STUDY

120 OUSIATOPIA GRADUATE DESIGN THESIS

124 CHUAN GRADUATE EXHIBITION

150 WABI SABI DELICATE BALANCED

154 CSC COFFEE SHOP DESIGN BUILT PROJECT

66 SANTA FE TEN MEMORIAL

MEMORIALIZATION/COLLECTIVE MEMORY

Portfolio Brian Yee Liu Site Location Austin, TX Tools Illustrator, Photoshop, AutoCAD, Rhino 3D, Lumion, Revit Category Independent project, MArch, Spring21 Instructor Matthew Johnson, Marcus Martinez

CUTOUT

AUSTIN BARTON SPRINGS BATHHOUSE

Building Height: 51’-8”Floor to Floor Height: Level 1(Lower Deck) - Level 2: 15’-2” Level 1.1(Upper Deck) - Level 2: 12’-6” Level 2 - Level 3 (Ceiling): 16’-6 Number of Stories: 2.5Number of Egress Points: 5 Gross Floor Area: 22,725 SF Level 1 (Lower Deck): 3,938 SF Level1.1(Upper Deck): 6,687 SF Level 2: 10,077 SF Ramp(Main Hall): 2023 SF Primary Construction Type: Building Material: Concrete Structural Material: Reinforced Concrete Footing, Shear wall, Retaining wall , Beam and Column. Minimun Bay Dimension: 7’-2” Maximum Bay Dimension: 43’-6” (@ Hot Pool Area) 40’-9” (@ Cool Pool Area) Structural System: Two-Way Beam Support Slab (All cast-in-place concrete ) Primary Occupancy Types: Swimming Pool, Office

“If one assumes that these assumptions are legitimate and that the making of urban space for the well-being of humankind is central to these design practices, then it is important to strengthen their interdependency in the challenging context of anthropogenic climates.” -The Necessary Paradigm Shift: Space as Atmosphere For me, Architecture is not just about its form nor the function itself. Architecture is placemaking, where it creates and captures memories and experiences. The site is the Barton Springs Pool, located at West East Austin, at the center of Zilker Park. The giant pool primarily functions in the hot month as a carnivalesque public bathing landscape. Therefore, this is a project that aims to reformulate/ envision an all-season, twentyfour-hour experience for Barton

Springs pool – bathhouse, a new kind of event space that will combine pool facilities with performance and interaction programs. Inspired by geological itself, project Cut|/Out starts with conceptually thinking of Barton Springs geographic language by exploring the solid/void space within the cut-out cube extracted from the rock bed. Through carved, eroded, evaporated, subtracted, cut, or erased (verbs.) from solids rock, stereotomic bathhouse, Cut|/Out exploits the three-dimensional ways (verbs.) to find the potential of organizational, formal, sensate, or structural logics within the project that carries out/coincide the complexity of limestone minerals via the organization of programs/circulation and space/ light and structures.

Independent Project MArch Spring21

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Concept/Massing Diagram

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South Side Facade (Barton Spring Side)

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Program Diagram

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Transversal Section

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Longitudinal Section

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Detail Section

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Chunk Diagram

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Multi-Function Exhibition Hall

Pool Area

Independent Project MArch Spring21

North-East Side Facade

Main Hall

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Elevation

Daylight Analysis

South

Independent Project MArch Spring21

Tectonic/Structural Diagram

East

North

Portfolio Brian Yee Liu Site Location Houston, TX (self-imposed) Tools Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, AutoCAD, Rhino 3D Category Independent project, MArch, Fall20 Instructor Matthew Johnson, Roya Plauche

DIASPORA

PROJECT-DIAGRAM

A diagram is not a thing in itself but a description of potential relationships between elements...a map of possible worlds. - Stan Allen Diagrams are simple drawings that describe an organization of things. They are stripped down, pure. They do not contain all of the information needed to explain a thing in full—only the essentials. Often a good diagram is composed of just a few lines. At other times, they can use color or gradients, but always simply.

According to William Playfair, they are designed to convey “as much information in five minutes as would require whole days to imprint on memory.” Diagrams can describe objects, paths, networks, relationships, textures, flows, atmospheres. In the context of architecture and urbanism, they become powerful tools for the articulation of ideas.

Exercise: 1. Three concepts of a spatial relationship to surrounding environment. 2. Three concepts of a spatial relationship to others (Culture). 3. Three concepts of a spatial relationship to atmosphere, materiality, light (Materiality). Each concept then will be diagrammed as 1. section, 2. plan, as 3. axon. (3 x 3) x 3 = 27 total drawings.

Independent Project MArch Fall20

Poke

Intersect AUTONOMY

Texture AUTONOMY

AUTONOMY

Autonmony

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Issue

Link INITIATIVE

Track INITIATIVE

INITIATIVE

Initiative

Independent Project MArch Fall20

Facade

Pandemic PASSIVE

Stating PASSIVE

PASSIVE

Passive

Portfolio Brian Yee Liu Site Location EaDo, Houston, TX Tools Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, AutoCAD, Rhino 3D, Climate Studio Category Independent project, MArch, Fall20 Instructor Matthew Johnson, Roya Plauche

DIASPORA VS. CENTER

BUILDING DESIGN - FOO/Gather_Together

This project is focusing on how to rejuvenate the site, that’s originally lost and unsure into something new and within its site context’s reinterpretation. By analyzing EaDo’s identity, from material to demographical and to the lens of urbanism, sought to some sort of rule that could formulate through architectural aesthetic approach (Style/Form), simultaneously, this project itself will also be aiming to merge all different population in this region, binding the ethnic enclaves together(Program). Morphing our site into an experimental,

fresh, imaginative, new perspective within the whole (Language). Style/Form: Miesian, Avant-Garde, Terracotta Façade, Contemporary Program: Mixed-Use, Food Hall, Office, Exhibition Hall, Conference Room, Observatory (Site View), Lobby Language: Creating an experimental food hall/mix-use complex that interwoven the Houstonian (Miesian), site context into something contemporary yet has its own (EaDo) identity that bonds the future residents together regardless of their ethnic/ cultural background!

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SECTION - NORTH SIDE

SECTION - SOUTH SIDE

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South West Entrance

South Side Entrance

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Market Place - 1st Floor

Elevation / Fa

Independent Project MArch Fall20

Observation Deck - 2nd Floor

acade Texture

Portfolio Brian Yee Liu Site Location Houston, TX (self-imposed) Tools Illustrator, Rhino 3D, Foam mass modeling, Surface modeling Category Independent project, MArch, Fall19, Project1 Instructor Jason Logan, Dijana Handanovic

COMPOUND FIGURATION FORM/SPACE

This practice challenge both the Corbusian privileging of legibility through pure primart form, and the totalizing condition of “smoothness” found in recent generative modeling practice. Developed through a series of rule sets that expolit the Boolean operations :Not (difference), OR(union), AND(intersection), Compound Figurations expose – rather than resolve – the ambiguity of conflicting forms that emerge from the intersection of geometric primitives. The process is characterized by forms that confound the distinction

between part-to-whole relationships, where creases and clefts define the formal articulations between intersecting smooth and/or flat surfaces. Compound Figurations seek to find the threshold where a new hybrid form maintains identifiable characteristics from the original primitives, but can no longer be clearly defined as such.

Independent Project MArch Fall19

Final Foam Massing Drawing

Final Boolean Space Drawing

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Independent Project MArch Fall19

Portfolio Brian Yee Liu Site Location Houston, TX (self-imposed) Tools Illustrator, Rhino 3D, AutoCAD, CNC Mill, Laser cutter, Modeling - Foam, Wood & Sheet Materials Category Independent project, MArch, Fall19, Project2 Instructor Jason Logan, Dijana Handanovic

POCHE

THICKNESS/THINNESS

Poché is a drawing convention that is used to distinguish the space of architecture from the surfaces or materials that define it, rendering the cut “figure” of a building as an inaccessible mass. As modern construction methodologies have evolved, the blackened abstraction of poché conceals an increasingly specialized assembly of layered technologies, structures and systems. No longer representing material thickness, poché hides the complexity of interstitial spaces created in architectural construction and made inert by their inaccessibility.

Rather than focusing on the graphic clarity of poché, the studio will explore the opportunities of the space that it conceals. The french word poche (no accent on the “e”), translates to pocket, which will serve for the purposes of the studio as a convenient misreading of the word. Poche shifts our curiosity to the concealed spaces of poché - signaling a missed opportunity that allows us to reconceptualize what it means to be a wall or structure (or both).

Independent Project MArch Fall19

Final CNC Mill Model

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49°

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84°

35°

162°

1'-4"

1'2'-10" CROTCH HGT.

105°

1'-1"

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2'-3" FINGERTIP HGT.

1'-3"

107°

1'-1" 1'-11"

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4'-9" SHOULDER HGT.

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5'-9"

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2'-6" BACKREST HGT.

1'-4" SEATING HGT.

1'-2" 4" 7"

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1'-4"

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42°

1'-10"

2'-7"

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10"

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11"

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6'-2" CABINET HGT. (ending line)

1'-8

3' COUNTER HGT.

1'-7"

111°

156°

1'-10"

2'-6" DINING TABLE HGT.

1'-3"

1'-4" SEATING HGT.

4" 7" 5" 1" 2" 2'

Anthropometric Studies

2'-1"

Climbing

1'-4"

57°

1'-2"

4' CABINET HGT. (starting line)

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Occupiable Poche

Portfolio Brian Yee Liu Site Location Houston, TX (self-imposed) Tools Illustrator, Rhino 3D – surface & solid modeling, 3D printer, Laser cutter Category Independent project, MArch, Fall19, Project3 Instructor Jason Logan, Dijana Handanovic

LOOSELY GENERIC

PLAN/SECTION/CIRULATION

Loosely Generic building - a building that explores the productive tension between the specificity of a sectionally inflected object or space, and the generic conditions of a typical plan.

blankness of a totally abstract program. Loosely Generic is simultaneously of a place and of no place, resisting a stable identity and easy classification.

Loosely Generic posits that in the contemporary city the The project operates as a “loose generic and the specific are not fit”, both in terms of it’s almutually exclusive conditions, most-generic character and that the former establishes and in terms of the literal gaps the essential pre-conditions of space within the project that for the latter. In other words, the are necessary to develop the blankness is not the goal, but sectional program. It is in these the facilitator for a diversity of gaps that the Loosely Generic architectural conditions that can reconciles the particularities of respond to the specifics of site, site, environment, and an active program, environment and public realm, with the radical atmosphere.

Independent Project MArch Fall19

Final Project Model

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LOBBY

AMPHITHEATER

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ROOF GARDEN

5F POCKET LEVEL

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ROOF LEVEL

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2F POCKET PLAN

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1F PLAN

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2F PLAN

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2F POCKET PLAN

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LEASING SPACE

LOBBY SPACE

PUBLIC SPACE / POCKET

ELEVATORS / CORE

PUBLIC SPACE / POCKET

EXIT STAIRS / CORE

Portfolio Brian Yee Liu Site Location Santa Fe, TX Tools Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, AutoCAD, Rhino 3D, VRay, 3D printer, Laser cutter Category Collaborative project, MArch, Spring20, Project1 Team MArch Class S19 Instructor Jason Logan, Patrick Peters

SANTA FE TEN MEMORIAL

MEMORIALIZATION/COLLECTIVE MEMORY

After the tragedy, Santa Fe community and the school needed a space for healing. This journey is established in the overall plan of the Santa Fe Ten Memorial. Throughout process, we originated our first 4 options that combines our previous concepts: Common Room, Endless Path, Fallen Feathers into the Unity Path. (Figure 1.) The geometric was inspired by Baroque Architect - Francesco Borromini, which we are fasiante the way he established logics of rule then fomulate the plan. (Figure 2.)

The design was started from understanding the site constraints. From topographic, to utility lines and future construction to budgeting. Working closely with the school committee and Santa Fe community, at June 2020, the board member and committee approved and initiation the Santa Fe Ten Memorial project. This project aims to bond the communities together within these interwoven infinite loops that symbolize the everlasting strength and spirit of the Santa Fe Ten.

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Birds Eye View of Santa Fe Ten Memorial

The design is divided into two parts: from the families, cruved out from the Meditative Path and the Sacred black grante piece. Place. The Meditative Path includes In absence of the Sacred Place, repreinlayed donor plaques, benches, lined sent the void, left in the community, with trees. The Sacred Place anbraced the school, and the many hearts of by earth berm with pocket prairie on their loved ones. The memorial conthe south side of the berm and the structs a void in the center with the north side lined with limestone rip absence of objects. By entering this rap to represent strength and support. area, one realizes the magnitude both sides which brings a roughness of the hollowness and recognizes the texture, giving the site a different inability to fill it. Despite this, each characteristics; the Sacred Place itself individual has left a reminder of their is constructed on a circlular cast in- spirit and continual presence through place retaining wall/bench, that serves the feather. This communal experience the memorial as a whole, the center allows others the share and reflect on plaque will indicate a quote choosen the memories of the Santa Fe Ten.

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By using the technique of “cut and fill”, minimize the disturb area of the site, and creates a raised platform for the sacred place which avoid from flooding issue. Also formulate a private and quite condition due to the surounded berm, while all design strategies are appropriately thought throughly that fits the site constraint like topographic and drainage basins, and “Meditative Path” (sidewalk) design which meets ADA guidelines.

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SECTION A

SECTION B

ELEVATION C

ELEVATION D

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Santa Fe Ten Memorial Sacred Place

The entrance from the parking lot is marked by the memorial identity bench. One first enters the memorial through the Meditative Grove. This first loop allows one to enter the space intended for reflection, introspection, and to prepare oneself for entrance into the Sacred Place. Your walk along this path is only as far along as your path of healing. The ten have transcended into another world, but through each of their feathers, they travel back to embrace those coming to visit. The feather

has many symbols across many their loved ones. The families cultures. It is a symbol of travel wanted visitors to know who the of mind and spirit, heavens, and individual was. (Figure 5.) strength. Based on the individual’s age and the hometown latitude and longitude, each feather is uniquely folded, making the monuments specific to each individual. (Figure 4.) The concrete monoliths holding the feathers has an engraved stone front, which is adorned with the name and birthdate of each individual. Below, it is inscribed with pictures and texts personally selected from 73

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AGE

HOMETOWN LATITUDE HOMETOWN LONGITUDE

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NAME BIRTHDATE PERSONALIZATION GRID

PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT VERSION FIRST NAME HOMETOWN LATITUDE, LONGITUDE, AGE

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KEY NOTES

6” FOUNDATION SLAB

SELECT FILL

REBAR

RECESSED LINEAR LED LIGHTING

MONOLITH + FEATHER

LIMESTONE RIP RAP

DRAINAGE MAT + WATERPROOFING

LINEAR TRENCH DRAIN

VOID BOXES

EARTH BERM WITH POCKET PRAIRIE

PERFORATED PIPE SET IN GRAVEL

Design Development Drawings

Portfolio Brian Yee Liu Site Location Univeristy of Houston Tools llustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, AutoCAD, Rhino 3D, VRay Category Collaborative project, MArch, Summer20, UH GD/BS Team MArch Class S19 Instructor Jason Logan, Patrick Peters

URBAN FURNITURE: AUTOBOX

ELEVATES MEDIA AS A BEACON OF SOCIAL INTERATION

AutoBox transforms residual environments into intentional settings for public gathering while adhering to the urgent need for social distancing. A transformative and simple form creates a viewing experience unique to each user. Inspired by Super Studio’s “Third City New York of Brains”, the pure geometric object when fully deployed dominates with its presence. Its compact design in Transport Mode meets the constraints of conventional doorways allowing movement from site to site. Sustainably sourced steel and aluminum form frames covered by

reflective cladding to define the muted geometry. The mechanics are discretely concealed within the expanding interior, enabled by the nine telescoping rails. The morphing shape reveals the cuboid rendered in reflective Dibond. Four linear actuators work in unison to elevate the screens, achieving optimal viewing and heightened visibility. A horizontal display of nearly 13’ is composed of four vertically mounted 75” digital screens, two of which unfold on continuous hinges. The transformative operations of the migrating architecture have an innate aspect of performance.

Collaborative Project MArch Summer20

Figure 1. Superstudio Third City: New York of Brains. 1971 Figure 2. The Tree Hotel, Tham Videgard. 2016

The box is a seemingly simple form, but one that can contain many things, bringing out a sense of curiosity, anticipation, and excitement. AutoBox intends to bring a flexible user viewing experience. Its compact aesthetic allows for easy storage and smooth mobility. Dematerilization

of the box was achieved by elegantly concealing mechanics that allow it to expand and levitate. A balance is struck between monumental and invisible form by shape, definition, and material selections. (Figure 1 / 2.)

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AutoBox As A Beacon

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AutoBox in Transport Mode

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Program Sequence of Different Pop-Ups and Timline

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SOCIAL DISTANCING Social Condenser / Social Distancing

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DOOR DIMENSION 7’-0” H x 3’-3” W

DOOR DIMENSION 8’-6” H x 2’-7” W

DOOR DIMENSION 7’-0” H x 3’-3” W

SIDEWALK DIMENSION 5’-10” W SLOPE 4.5

TRANSPORT MODE CONSTRAINTS

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DOOR DIMENSION 7’-0” H x 5’-6” W

HALL DIMENSION 8’-0” H x 6’-0” W

Since the device is ought to be movable, our constraints are all the openings occurred in the transportation route. This diagram shows the constraints which shaped the AutoBox’s width approximately 2 feet and 7 inches and the height cannot exceed 7 feet.

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Placemaker Migration Plan

Pop-Up Events Diagram

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Information Hub

Drive-Over Movie

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Transport Mode

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Deployment Mode

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Exploded Diagram

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Exterior Cladding - Dibond Mirror Finish Outdoor Rated TV Screen Mounting Bracket TV Mount Exterior Cladding - Dibond Mirror Finish U-Channel

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Sound Bar Outer Frame Side A - Aluminum Outer Frame Side B - Aluminum Dibond Mirror Finish Interior Cladding Inner Frame Side A - Steel Exterior Cladding - Dibond Mirror Finish

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Inner Frame Side B - Steel Electric Power Shelf and Frame Interior Shelves Interior Cladding - Dibond Mirror Finish Exterior Cladding - Dibond Mirror Finish Interior Cladding - Dibond Mirror Finish

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LFBAR02

LFBAR06

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1 4" ALL CUT OUTS SHOULD HAVE 1/4" SPACING

5 CUT SHEET Scale: 1" = 1'-0"

ALUMINUM ANGLES

1'-63 4"

1" 11" 1'-716

1" 92

1" 1'-102

LFBAR03 1/2x1/2x1/8 LFBAR06 1x1x1/8

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2 L.F. SIDE B FRONT ELEVATIO Scale: 1-1/2"= 1'-0"

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Architect Patrick Peters, LEED AP, Director Registration No. 19306 Graduate Design/Build Studio Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture & Design 4200 Elgin Street, Room 122 University of Houston Houston, TX 77204-4000 Telephone: 713.320.5185

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Structural Consultant Steven Wilkerson, PhD, PE President Zia Engineering 41 Bayou Pointe Dr Houston, TX 77063 Email: stevew@ziaengineering.com Telephone:832.969.8641 TBPE Firm Number: 12779

45 DEGREE CUT MITERED CORNER @ LFBAL/R03 ANGLES BOTH SIDES, LFBAL/R05 ANGLES ONE SIDE.

(1)ARCHITECTURAL ALUMINUM ANGLES 1/2"x1/2"x1/8" (1)ARCHITECTURAL ALUMINUM ANGLES 1"x1"x1/8" *ANGLE LENGTH BASED ON EMS MANUAL LFBAR01: (4)1/2x1/2x1/8 LFBAR02: (3)1x1x1/8 LFBAR03: (1)1/2x1/2x1/8 LFBAR04: (2)1x1x1/8 LFBAR05: (2)1/2x1/2x1/8 LFBAR06: (1)1x1x1/8

LFBAL01: (4)1/2x1/2x1/8 LFBAL02: (3)1x1x1/8 LFBAL03: (1)1/2x1/2x1/8 LFBAL04: (2)1x1x1/8 LFBAL05: (2)1/2x1/2x1/8 LFBAL06: (1)1x1x1/8

4 ALUMINUM ANGLES ISOMETRIC VIEW Scale: NONE

Mobile Digital Display

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1/2" STAINLESS STEEL TORX FLAT HEAD SCREWS

113 8"

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11 16"

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Portfolio Brian Yee Liu Site Location Houston, TX (self-imposed) Tools Illustrator, Rhino 3D, Grasshopper, AutoCAD, VRay Category Independent project, MArch, Summer20 Instructor Jason Logan

DYNAMIC PATTERNING/FORM UTILIZE GRASSHOPPER PARAMETRIC DESIGN TOOL

By utilizing the parametric tool, understanding the logic setup of the rule within the digital era is critical. This projects aims to simulate patterns and form finding, through series of script/definitions. In other words, uncovering or having a closer look into the “Black Box” or “Gizmo” (in form finding per se) through the practice is the goal. The first dynamic patterning, begins with constructing different polyhedron geometric form, then deconstruct them into vector points, pulling the points to a outter sphere it then become this idea of Anamorphosis

through stereographic projection. Finally, unroll/evaluate on to surface, which will present different variations of patterning created by various forms and vectors. The second practice transition from 2 dimensional to 3 dimensional. Starting from utilize physical simulation tool, Kangaroo, to generate the bubble liked form, clean up mesh faces and then re-parametrised the domain to remap/morph it onto the bubble.

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Portfolio Brian Yee Liu Site Location Houston, TX Tools Illustrator, Photoshop, AutoCAD, Rhino 3D, VRay Category Independent project, MArch, Fall19 Instructor Jason Logan

PHOTOSHOP FICTION CONCEPTUALIZE: COLLAGE

Fiction is truthiness without deception. The architectural theorist Robert Somol argues for the use of what he calls poli-fi (political fiction), or the telling of “good lies”: “as these tendencies endeavor to put design (or choice) beyond dispute, beyond argument, and therefore mark the end of plastic or political discipline of architecture.” When we see it as political fiction within our discipline, it extends the responsibilities of an architect beyond the art of making, it then transitions into architecture cultural possibilities from material fact.

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As the first act of architecture, the practices using Houston as a site to conceptualize/projective visions of the city, socially and politically. The topic of the fictional “Houstons” in Photoshop is land use. What will happens if “No Zoning” continues to develop into “ No restrictions”? Inspired by “Highrise of Homes” project by James Wines, and Koolhaas’s article in Delirious New York. Re-imagine a high dense verticality skyscraper stacked with differnt housing programs in East Downtown of Houston.

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Portfolio Brian Yee Liu Site Location POST HTX Tools Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, AutoCAD, Rhino 3D, VRay Category Independent project, MArch, Summer20 Instructor Jason Logan, Andrew Kudless, Gail Borden, Peter Zweig, Rafael Beneytez-Duran

PNEUMATIC

PNEUMATIC MASONRY/ HOUSTON CASE STUDY

The INFLATOCOOKBOOK was first published in January 1971 by the experimental architecture and art collaborative Ant Farm. It was their attempt to gather information and skills learned in the process of designing and making pneumatic structures that allowed their radical approach and presentation to become an easily accessible format for the public. This project is pursuing a second volume, that will expand in a contemporary way the groundbreaking work done by Ant Farm. My task is to analyse double membrane pneumatics structure- Pneumatic Masonry,

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Houston design and built by Pneuhaus. One of the iconic double membrane system structure precedent, since is a opened system, this case study focus on the geometric form finding. Initiated from Icosahedron, project the vector points to outer sphere and using the technique of weak dual/dual graph, then creates the frame work of the Geodesic Dome, which are the straps that holds the pneumatic bubble(beach ball). Here the beach ball is seen as a masonry block that formulate this project.

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DECONSTRUCT ICOSAHEDRON

PULL TO SPHERE

GEODESIC DOME DIAGRAM PULL TO SPHERE

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Portfolio Brian Yee Liu Site Location Taipei,Taiwan Tools Illustrator, Photoshop, AutoCAD, Rhino 3D, VRay Category Independent project, 4th Year, Thesis Design, Landscape Architecture, Spring15 Team Cheng Wei Huang, CYCU BLA Instructor Angela C Soong

OUSIATOPIA

GRADUATE DESIGN THESIS

The plan is mainly in the reconstruction Taipei landscape began to change from the existing urban fabric, consider natural texture, capitalist society, and the available resources, and the transformation of the city. This is a hardship plan because the plan is too big and out of nothing. The key is to balance between the retrofitting of existing landscape (spacial structure) and addition of new social structure based on david harvey “ space of hope”. So before we start the design, We have a hypothesis background story, to find an

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optimumized solution that can ran many iterations,useing grasshopper to ran prototypes. The aim was to speculated the new social architecture in taipei city appearance, while not losing rationality.

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Portfolio Brian Yee Liu Site Location Taipei,Taiwan Tools Illustrator, AutoCAD, Rhino 3D, Saw, Table Saw, Wiring Equip, Nail Gun, Woodwork Tools Category Collaborative project, 4th Year, Exhibition, Landscape Architecture, Spring15 Team BLA Class S11

CHUAN

GRADUATE EXHIBITION

As a director of this exhibition, the most fascinating part is to coordinate all the different parties. Every detail from woodwork framing to merchandise are made by Landscape Architecture students from Chung Yuan Christian University, from 0 to 100, from planing to processing organized workings, going through the process of developing an exhibit—from a concept through to a physical, three-dimensional exhibition- Chuan, word in chinese, means a large natural stream of water flowing in a channel to the sea, a lake, or another such stream.

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A river cleanes itself by sedimentation and stirring- process that makes diverse habitats. Our exhibition is “ Riverbound”, a transformative journey that visualizes and materializes a more holistic future and a better environment. In the end, we are pround to say the we are a part of this exhibition and our journey will move on as we progress.

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Portfolio Brian Yee Liu Site Location Houston, TX Tools Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, AutoCAD, Rhino 3D, VRay Category Collaborative project, Competition, Summer20 Team Po Yi Lin, UVA MLA

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SUPER FURNITURE COMPETITION

Located in Houston’s Theater District, POST Houston, designed by OMA’s New York office, aims to establish a new cultural and commercial hub in downtown Houston by transforming an industrial post office building with world class design. The winner’s creation will be part of the first functional art installation at this renovated civic landmark. These pieces of super furniture have been designed to be a steel canvas for graphic art; they are intended to imbue the formerly industrial loading docks with a welcoming playfulness. The competition ask for develop a

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design narrative in keeping with the design philosophy of the project. We hope that this practice can allow us to explore the possibility of patterns that could ultimately respond to its own site and can unify the space while respecting the XOZ atriums. In other words, Super Furniture design is not just super in terms of cool or symbolic or monumental. Super in a sense of trying to create a conversation. By manipulating the pattern, it distorts the blockiness of the context itself.

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Even though it’s a visualization design project, it’s our responsibility to inspire occupants. Looking at a bigger scale, from Houston City to Post HTX, try to seek the connection in between and the cultural contents of this project. Therefore, we started by revealing the layer of the city structure. The orthogonal planning system and the relations with buildings systematic grid/bay planning, shared the same language in terms of its design layout, whereas it’s echo towards cultural background is hard to analyse in a way. In other words, we think is equitable to interpret that both city and the building represent canvas, and when “time” become the artists, occupants become the pigment, culturally, it formulates Houston own cityscape, the module of the system is radical which creates order and served its function. Although it might be arbitrary and random. Yet, it’s based on a layer of the system. The uncertain part is our values that generate the outcome. Hence, the ideology of Super Furniture will base on the same concept. Experimenting the modular, utilizing a new mechanism, and create a systematic grid canvas that ultimately becomes our “playground” could create its own language simultaneously responding to a larger scope. 130

2. POST HTX / ATRIUMS / LOADING DOCK – Loose Grid

The movement of modernism makes the cartesian space into a symbol of modernity in the 1960s and 70s. The universal rationalization has become a dominant language. Even today, we can’t get rid of the “grid”. If we analyse the spatial volume of each program, we notice how OMA separates the module in three sections (XOZ atrium placement), somehow are equally spaced base on the needs of use and occupant. And transforming the loading dock into “Banquet” Hall. Connecting outside and inside not just an ambulatory or physical way but also emerge the outer light and sun via the crystal cube into the building

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meanwhile humbly approach to the original grid itself. Both rational and sensibility of their design strategies creates this notion of “transforming” Transform in terms of time and culture. We saw the time has changed. And the XOZ atrium as for us, seems like monumental and symbolic signage, a huge piece of sculpture idealizes the future. Post HTX is not representing the past, she is now projecting the future of tomorrow. Calling out loud for the Houstonians. This is when we have this idea of the “Loose” grid, breaking out the existing system.

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Furthermore, we hope that this project is not just only conceptually responding to the cartesian space, but to provide functionality through the pattern we generate. In order to create a space for occupants, we randomly dropped down control points.

Howev er, each point must have a minimum 30” diameter buffer zone for each individual and by manipulating the vector fields, it will create distortion to the grid, simultaneously, the deformed grid will then become a hub as if it’s the surface was sunken down. To create an above and beyond effect. We wanted to destabilize and distorting the form as much as possible, we thought of emphasizing the ring of the vector field by utilizing stereographic projection of the pattern align them on the coroners which will work against the boxy form of the whole and choosing long-lasting glow in dark strontium illuminate powder mixed with clear casting and coating epoxy resin insert into the CNC concave ring which adds characteristic on the perimeter, to formulate a focal point of the “sunken” area. This project is not exploring the originality of its own. This project embodies the idea of distortion and deformation within the whole, yet we sought the connection and continuity in between. These motifs and patterns intertwine, without orders. In the end, despite the ambiguity between the autonomous systems, we think super furniture is super 131

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when they contain a message, a manifesto that creates a conversation. Super furniture is communicating on a super scale through the pattern we generated. Which will, we think, resonate radically in the field.

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Portfolio Brian Yee Liu Site Location Taipei, Taiwan Tools Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, AutoCAD, Rhino 3D, VRay Category Collaborative project, Competition, Summer20 Team Tzu Yi Yo, TKU BArch Class S14

ELEVATED SALVATION

WARMING 2020 COMPETITION

As the time become devastating, the global environmental and climate issues raised up to a point that human race become vulnerable to the outside world, the sea leave, the air pollution, the high UV ray and the heat wave destructed the landscape of where we lived. The surface is unstable, is not safe now. In order to react to this scenario, we introduce a new system that re-imagine the landscape. Tubenism - a system is created for human race, seeking ways to retrieving resources without having physical connection to the outside world. Tube could be seen as an closed system, function on its own individually, regardless the region or field condition. Whether if’s in a urban or suburban area;

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it’s at a high or low altitude, or even underground. The way we see tube is the quantum of architecture disciplinary in a way that became the provider (servant) to the organs- architecture. However, the purpose of tube involves into a new dynamic form, due to the need of resources is now highly demand, the circumstances are now critical, makes the “tube” can no longer be pure functional(servant); when the conflict of living space which it’s been squeezed from the environment and functional space are overloaded spatially, “Tube”, then became something beyond its original identity. Hence, the phenomena and realization of Tube become the body itself.

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This project sought to find variables of the “Tube” and usage within tubular building type. Utilized 3-dimensional way of continues tube, woven it into a multi-perspective and complex properties - architectural body. By analyzing different configurations, in terms of its functionality and form. Eventually, it formulates unique body with complexity and interesting spatial possibilities in vary sequence. Helps navigates us in this devastating era.

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ISSUES - 2050 Scenario 1. Flooding Lower Space been occupied by water As the weather dramatically changes, Taipei encounter one of the issue is flooding. Situated at sub-tropical climate zone, annual rainfall precipitation surge new high records. Cities begin to adapt as the problem cannot be resolved in simple matter. Places like unusable buildings transition into temporary dam, and canyons are created in between to flooding zone/roads. 2. Temperature Objects over occupied on urban fabric In 2050, Taipei annual temperature anomaly raised to 1.2 degree Celsius, yet, Taipei haven’t develop an urban barrier or a new form of field condition to adapt to heat gain during the typical day. Solar radiation where places have no shading are astronomical high; greenhouse effect under Taipei’s urban fabric is getting worse... in the end, people can only temporary address this heat problem with installing portable air conditioner, because the over-compensated that creates another issue - overloaded spacing.

3. Air Pollution Non-occupied space on lower elevation Air pollution tackling over the cities, air quality trends raises because the weather front brings the dust from all over the place, particle pollution creates nonbreathable air condition. Damaging lungs, people will need to wear masks to prevent breathing in fatal particles. As a result, our living space on the lower elevation are pollute by the dusty and fatal air.

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Portfolio Brian Yee Liu Site Location Kanasas City Tools Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, AutoCAD, Rhino 3D, VRay, Lumion Category Collaborative project, Competition, Spring21 Team Brian Liu, Hannah Hemmer, Jackson Meyer, Pear Siriko, Shahin Momin

HOME TEAM KANASAS CITY ULI 2020-2021 COMPETITION

Home Team is a 1.5 million SF mixed-use, mixed-income development project with a focus on bringing sustainability and resilience to the East Village neighborhood in the heart of Kansas City, Missouri. It consists of 25 parcels of land currently owned by the City of Kansas City totaling over 16 acres with plans to purchase an additional 8 acres. The project will be developed over two phases with the initial construction beginning in 2023 and will include a 20-year plan for future development to bridge Downtown Kansas City to the Paseo West Neighborhood via a 5-acre park located above Interstate 70. The first phase of the Home Team development will consist of 1.2 million SF of multifamily

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office and retail with a focus on walkability to help alleviate the dependence of vehicles in the downtown area. The capital stack for this phase will mainly consist of $36.3 million in developer Equity and $7.3 million in Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) as well as $22.7 million raised through the Opportunity Zone Fund. Once the construction for this phase is complete, our goal is to refinance it to free up cashflow to be reinvested in phase two. The second phase of this development will truly be the heartbeat to this project. Not only will this phase bridge Paseo West to Downtown by a beautiful multi-purpose 5-acre park, but plans are to partner with the Kansas City Royals by providing them a ground lease

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lease for their new stadium on the roughly 11 acres of land. By providing the Royals with a ground lease, the city can be confident in a long term cashflow through ground lease payments and percentages of sales from the ballpark. This will benefit the city for many decades. Phase two will also include a hotel and additional retail space which will cater to the ballpark and downtown visitors. A quaint 3 story senior living facility will be developed on the other side of I-70, adjacent to the park. The capital stack for Phase Two will be similar to Phase One and include $490,962 in LIHTC equity, $7.6 million in Opportunity Zone funding and $27.7 million in developer Equity.

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Portfolio Brian Yee Liu Site Location Taichung, Taiwan Tools Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, AutoCAD, Rhino 3D, SketchUp Category Collaborative project, Pratice, Fall16 Firm Z-Work Design Associates

WABI SABI

DELICATE BALANCED

This project is called WabiSabi, a way of living that focuses on finding beauty within the imperfections of life and accepting peacefully the natural cycle of growth and decay. A residential pubic area design from Yuan-Chun construction company in Taiwan, my job in Z-Work Design Associates is interior/ landscape design and drafting sections, details so on and so forth.

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Portfolio Brian Yee Liu Site Location Taichung, Taiwan Tools Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, AutoCAD, Rhino 3D, SketchUp Category Independent project, Practice, Spring17 Firm Brian Yee Liu Design Studio

CSC COFFEE SHOP DESIGN BUILT PROJECT

This project is adding a renovation programme in a existion residential space, it was a challanging project in terms of how to build it together with my friend from zero to hundred percent, and the details, commuications with the party A: (principal) are also challanging too. When we are on the construction site, we have to slove problems like property line, bugets on our project, and find the right material we want. This is my own first design built project. Although it was not a big broject, the total construction fee is around USD$24,000, we

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manage to install custom made aluminium framed awnings with UV-resistance glaze for gaining more daylight from the south side, 3-layer window for ventilation purposes and extend concrete pad with a clean and seal polished finish. To keep the same language of the original facade of the building, I choose the same color finish mortar with brick framed to lower the cost. The most value part is that despite it’s limitations and with high density of vegetation, we still managed to kept all of the existing plantation, and overcome the issues we encounter.

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