PORTFOLIO Architecture + Design by Chang Liu
Contents Architecture Urban
TRANSACTIONAL COURTYARD
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Formology of Wholesale Food Markets
CHINAMPA TOWN
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Water As a Placemaker
Architecture
CLIFF ELEVATOR
Architecture
SHORT PORT
Architecture
CHIMNEY
Architecture
RICHI HOUSE
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Computation
THICK | THIN
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Installation Structure
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Bracket Structure System
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A Working Waterfront
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Light | Air | View Foundation For Children With Cancer
Strategies in Light
CATENARY
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Intersection of lines
PINCHED VAULT
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Brick Field Form-Finding
Illustration
ANECDOTES
Professional
MONUMENT FOR AN OPEN SOCIETY
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Professional
OVER DE RING
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Space Created by Anecdotes 15th International Architecture Exhibition Structural Transformation
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TRANSACTIONAL COURTYARD
Formology of Wholesale Food Markets 2015 | 4.154 Architecture Option Studio Instructor: Alexander D’Hooghe Individual
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TYPOLOGY STUDY 6
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PUBLIC FOOD MARKET
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WHOLESALE MARKET | GREEN HOUSE
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CHINAMPA TOWN Water As a Placemaker
2016 | 4.163 Urban Design Studio Instructor: Rafael Segal | Brent D Ryan Team: Chang Liu | Jie Bao
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REINVISIONING ZUMPANGO: WATER AS A PLACEMAKER
[ Master Plan ]
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CHINAMPA
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Agricultural Exports
Additionally, those canals that travels in and between chinampas are constructing an effective water management that is preventing potential floods; purifying water; creating channels of warmer air and raise air temperature as much as 6.3 ℃（11℉） above that of dry fields;
Job Creation
Existing Settlements Activation
Eco-system Recover
Self-sustained Foodproduction
Figure 1-2. Berming around relic raised fields and habitation areas, as well as modern residential compounds, on the Lake Titicaca flood plain (Google earth image, 9/17/2012, Image © 2014 DigitalGlobe, accessed 3/22/2014). Netting (1993) argues that smallholder households are the most efficient productive unit in intensive traditional agricultural systems. He includes intensive chinampa agriculture in the discussion of systems where labor demands require constant, flexible decision-making (Netting 1993:56-57). Additionally, household and village level work groups can build impressive systems of raised agricultural beds, canals, dikes and 54 causeways (Arco and Abrams 2006; Denevan 1963; Denevan 1970; Erickson 2006; Erickson and Walker 2009; Parsons and Bowen 1966; Parsons and Denevan 1967; Wilken 1985).
- RETURN OF CHINAMPAS
According to our research, chinampa is a type of local agriculture which is very productive, highly profitable and ecologically sustainable at the same time.
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Willow; Pr
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Corn Production: 5.5*10^5 kg per km2 Marginal Profit: 1.25*10^5 $ per km2
SQUASH CUCUMBER BEANS
FISH
CAPILLARY ABSORPTION NUTRIENT STAY SUSPENDED
FOOD PRODUCTION
FLOWER ORCHARD HERB DAHLIA
COCAINE TREE
MAIZE
CHINAMPA
SELF-IRRIGATION TRELLIS WATER SEAKAGE
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IMPLEMENTATION
WATER TREATMENT
HIGHWAY REDIRECTION
ARTIFICIAL LAKE FORMATION
DOMESTIC CHANEL FORMATION
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INTERACTION WITH SETTLEMENTS
THIRD LAKE FORMATION
SECOND CHANEL FORMATION
DOMESTIC CHANEL INTERACTION
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CHANEL FORMATION BY SOILTYPE
NEW AQUA-SYSTEM
CENTRAL LAKE FORMATION
INTERACTION WITH URBAN FABRIC
3 TYPE OF CHINAMPA
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Based on the analysis of different locations, topography, soil types, water systems, infrastructures, and existing settlements, we designed 3 type of chinampas with different scales, textures, and industries.
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3 TYPE OF LIVING | PRODUCTIVE SPACE
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3 SCALES | TEXTURES | AGRICULTURAL INDUSTRIES
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[ Chinampa I Plan ]
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[ Chinampa II Plan ]
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CLIFF ELEVATOR Bracket Structure System
2012 | Undergraduate Degree Project Instructor: Rongjian Jia Individual
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BRACKET UNIT
Semi-Outdoor [ Viewing Area ]
Outdoor [ Viewing Area ]
Semi-Indoor [ Parallel and Oblique Traffic Area ]
Indoor [ Vertical Traffic Area ]
Indoor [ Hub Traffic Area ]
Indoor [ Private Area ]
Semi-Indoor [ Viewing Area ]
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[ 5rd Floor Plan ]
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View Platform The building forms a great viewing platform for a combination of brackets and modern building construction technology as the support structure.
Load-Bearing Basis According to the structural brackets that evolve into load-bearing basis, inherits the advantage of brackets multi-point support, large-scale cantilever and tight combination etc. Combines brackets with wooden structure, reinforced concrete structure and steel structure, and then converses the material which can overcome the limitations of the wood material itself, so that the possibilities of building design in more shape and scale can be achieved.
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Glass Cub e The Central Channel
Four glass cubes place on top of a steel load-bearing basis; its main features include viewing, dining, and interactive display etc. Completely transparent glass curtain wall structure makes the panoramic view of beautiful scenery.
The central channel connected the whole structure together, playing the role of reinforcement of the building structure. It is like a huge viewing cableway takes visitors into the other side of the cliff area. In the entire ride, visitors can enjoy the beautiful view through the glass wall. Moreover, the inside space is interspersed with open platforms which will give tourists more fun. From psychological point of view, the huge-scale reinforced concrete structural frame could have brought some sense of oppression. But the spatial variation of transparent glass wall and grassland platforms are able to compensate it.
Lobby Unlike the brackets part, this part is not very high, but level area is enlarged, and it makes full use of the roof space. Functionally, this part of the construction focuses on dining, showing a variety of integrated functions of the service interaction. Of course, viewing, and enjoying the nature are always a spiritual part that exists everywhere. The large area of the roof garden and glass curtain wall also illustrates this concept.
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The contrast between the huge scale frame and small-scale grassplatform. The alternation of Open space and small space. The alternation of the view of natural and landscape architecture. The contrast between the people moving in the channel and sitting in the platforms. All of these will make the channel space full of fun.
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S H OR T P O RT
A Working Waterfront 2014 | 4.153 Architecture Core III Studio Instructor: Andrew Scott Individual
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IMPLEMENTATION
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INDUSTRIAL | PUBLIC Short Port, New Bedford imagines the transformation of State Pier into a working short sea shipping port and a public waterfront. Industrial ports have left a legacy of pollution and economic bubbles. Waterfronts without marine industry, become susceptible to gentrification, development and tourism. Short Port envisions the two programs coexisting. Short sea shipping offers the opportunity for low carbon import of large scale building components. The expanding agile shipping industry provides a revenue stream to subsidize public activities on the pier. The transformation will culturally invigorate the waterfront area by focusing both on the performative qualities of the act of shipping and programmatic overlaps such as markets. Furthermore, short sea shipping will be integral to the construction of the new pier through the act of transporting both the large structural framework and raw materials to the site. 86
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[ Site Model ]
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INTERSECTION
By lifting up the public space and intersecting with industrial space on the ground, the pier will be able to maintain the full founction as a industrial pier (a short sea shipping port and a fishing port) while allow visitor to fully experience the characteristic of the pier/the city.
[ Fish Market & Fish Processing ]
[ Fish Market & Shipping Warehouse ]
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At the same time, the working people actually become part of the public, which create a new urban condition giving the city a new life. The building becomes a new image of the city and continuously bring energy into this old fishing town.
[ Structure| Envelope ]
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CHIMNEY 2013 | 4.151 Architecture Core I Studio Instructor: Cristina ParreĂąo Alonso Individual
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[ 5th Plan ]
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[ 8th Plan ]
[ 10th Plan ]
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RICHI HOUSE
Foundation For Children With Cancer 2016 | 4.183 Architectural Design Workshop Instructor: Andrew Scott Team: Chang Liu | Joohui Son
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[ Site Plan ]
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[ B1F | Sports/Gathering + Dinning ]
[ 1F | Lobby + HQ ]
[ 2F | Learning ]
[ 3F | Theraphy ]
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[ 4F | Outdoor play ]
[ 5F | Overnight Stay ]
[ SW | Roof Garden ]
[ NW | Roof Garden ]
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Water Garden
Terrace
Reading Room
Green Wall
Classroom
Lobby / Gathring
Courtyard Computer Cells
Library
H/Q Office
Cafe
Terrace
Classroom
Meeting
Rooms
Information
Classroom
[ 1F | Lobby + HQ ]
[ 2F | Learning ]
Farming
Green Wall Lounge
Common Kitchen Playground
Overnight Stay (short) Pool
[ 4F | Outdoor play ]
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[ 3F | Theraphy ]
Counselling Green Wall
Courtyard Counselling
Counselling
Group Counselling
Small Group Counselling
Terrace
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[ Water System ]
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Roof Garden
Screen Wall
Overnight Stay
Counselling
Group Theraphy
Reading Room Court Yard (Green Wall)
Class Room Library
Lobby
Water Garden
Information Kitchen
Dinning Room
Carpark + Machine Room
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THICK | THIN Strategies in Light
2013 | 4.151 Architecture Core I Studio Instructor: Cristina ParreĂąo Alonso Individual
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[ Grid ]
[ Structure ] [ Pattern ]
[ Nets ]
[ Chapel ]
[ Unit ]
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[ Plan ]
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[ Rendering ]
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CATENARY
Intersection of lines 2013 | 4.151 Architecture Core I Studio Instructor: Cristina Parreño Alonso | William O’Brien Individual
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CATENARY Catenary is the geometry that takes on the shape of a hanging chain or cable that’s supported at two end points, and supposed to be only under its own weight. The interesing part is that when two catenaries connect to each other, the location of the connecting point in space would shift, and the catenary curves’ resulting form will also change due to their mutural forces. What we’re trying to do is to drawing precise shapes in space using the intersecting line of catenaries, by controlling pre-determined factors, namely anchor points and string lengths. Catenary is considered to be the perfect geometry that combines physics principles and aesthetic values, thus has interested many artists to experiment on it, The way that artificial elements ( lines) are embeded in the midsts of natural shapes( curves) allows for the conversation between nature and design process. When the catenary curves array, they can produce topological surfaces.
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[ Group I ]
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[ Overall ]
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PINCHED VAULT Brick Field Form-Finding
2016 | 4.s48 Special Subject Structural Design Instructor: John Ochsendorf | Mark West Team: Chang Liu | Xinyi Ma | Huang I-yang
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[ Plaster Model ]
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BRICK FIELD
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[ Pitching ]
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PITCHED VAULT
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ANECDOTES Building Stories 2014 | 4.152 Architecture Core II Studio Instructor: Joel Lamere Individual
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MONUMENT FOR AN OPEN SOCIETY 15th
International Architecture Exhibition
2016 | ORG Permanent Modernity Team: Kobi Ruthenberg | Chang Liu Work: Design and Fabricate the Plastic Model
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[ Photo Credits: Francesco Galli ]
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[ Photo Credits: Francesco Galli ]
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OVER DE RING Structural Transformation 2016 | ORG Permanent Modernity Conceptual Illustration
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