DESIGN BOLD _ JOSHUA LIU architecture portfolio
RELEVANT COURSEWORK studios Representation _ 274
Andrea Melgarejo De Berry & Yun Kyu Yi
hobby projects
co-creator / lead designer _ podcast The Erwin Tubillara Podcast
creator _ instagram @arch.jliu
Arch Design & Urbanism _ 371
Sara Bartumeus
Designing for Human Well-being _ 372 Drew Nuding
Arch Design & Performance _ 473
Niloufar Emami
Arch Design & Making _ 474 Hugh Swiatek
structures Anatomy of Buildings _ 231 Randall Deutsch
Design of Steel & Reinf Conc _ 433
Abbas Aminmansour
Environ Control Systems _ 434
Richard Strand & Mohamed Boubekri
Struct Sys & Const Methods _ 435
Sudarshan Krishnan
Design of Steel & Reinf Conc II _ 550
Abbas Aminmansour
other Intro to Computer Science _ CS 125 digital portfolio https://issuu.com/jjliu4/docs/2022_portfolio_a4 linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/jjliu422/ website https://archjoshliu.myportfolio.com/
Geoffery Challen
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA_CHAMPAIGN graduated in May 2022
I believe that architecture is not only the practice of creating spaces, but is also the basis of how we grow, play, and teach. Using architecture, I believe we can shape the world to become a better place by influencing how future generations come to understand the relationship between yourself and your environment.
PROJECTS spring 2022 00 _ ACSA Habitat Competition
During my time at the University of Illinois, I have honed my skills in computer programs like Illustrator, Rhino, AutoCAD and Revit as well as my abilities in model making, sketching and team collaboration. In my free time, I am a passionate photographer and graphic designer. I have worked on numerous design projects extending beyond architectural design - including apparel for clubs, recruitment flyers, and logo designs. I hope to bring my positive attitude and BOLD ideas into the field of architecture.
rethinking community through fire resiliency
fall 2021 01 _ Pembroke Community Center designing for the community engaging the youth potential for play
spring 2021 02 _ Horizon Apartments
designing for the family unit creating spaces for the individual within the community
fall 2020 03 _ Vertical Green cu food gardens co-op public space design potential for growth
spring 2020 04 _ Grainger Pavilion microclimate analysis parametric design sculptural pavilion
fall 2019 05 _ Mumford House site analysis structural analysis design intervention
joshua liu _ 2018 to 2022 _ (650) 305 0464 _ jjliu4@illinois.edu
00 _ ACSA HABITAT COMPETITION Rural California
EVACUATION DIAGRAM
RETHINKING COMMUNITY THROUGH FIRE RESILIENCY
FORMAL ITERATIONS
California has suffered from an epidemic of wildfires that has grown exponentially in recent years due to climate change and a rapidly expanding population. In lieu of this epidemic, urban sprawl has also created more densely packed neighborhoods. The combination of these factors place entire communities at a higher risk of suffering from greater damages during wildfires, whether it be the loss of property or life. Drawing on concrete’s natural resistance towards fire and modern roxul technology, CMU was chosen as the primary building material for the exterior walls of the community ring. The form of the community rings also create an alternative type of fire egress by allowing residents to retreat inwards if evacuating outwards is no longer an option during a rapidly spreading wildfire. These rings also create private spaces, that are still open and observable, which allow residents to feel safer within their community. Images from left to right: Site Rendering | Wildfire Research Diagrams | Massing Concept Diagrams | Potential Community Structure | Interior Rendering of Unit
EXPLODED WALL ASSEMBLY
ASSEMBLY TRANSPORTATION
AUTOMATED ASSEMBLY
CMU WALL CUT
INTERIOR SECTION PERSPECTIVE
UNIT PLANS
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SITE AXONOMETRIC
01 _ PEMBROKE COMMUNITY CENTER Downtown Los Angeles, California
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My concept for a community center is one that promotes play & recreation by facilitating visual connections between Pico & Cameron, encouraging physical movement and utilizing central yet private spaces. The form of the building revolves around the linear axis that is created by Pembroke Lane (the perpendicular alleyway south of the site) and is molded around an exterior basketball court. The community center establishes a visual connection between Pico & Cameron through an open central space that circulates around the exterior basketball court.
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ENGAGING THE YOUTH
Adjacent to Cameron Lane, a skate park attracts younger audiences to explore and play. The angled west wing creates a boundary between the central exterior space and the busy intersection of Flower & Pico creating a sense of privacy for users enjoying the recreational activities that are offered within the central space of the community center. Images from left to right: Ground Floor Plan | Second Floor Plan | South Elevation | Wall Section Perspective with Material Breakdown | East West Section Perspective
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POTENTIAL FOR PLAY
At the north side of the center’s east wing (shown in the section cut), a virtual reality lab attracts an audience who want to excape from reality and phsically challenges users within the safety of an enclosed space. The central exterior space offers a full sized basketball court with rows of seating on either side of the court. Steps extending from Cameron Lane lead up to an elevated platform that wraps around the entire exterior recreational area, serving as a viewing deck or an ampitheater for communal events. Images from left to right: Exploded Axonometric Structural Model | Wall Section through East Wing | Exterior Perspective of Outdoor Pavilion (looking from Cameron Lane)
02 _ HORIZON APARTMENTS Downtown Champaign, Illinois
DESIGNING FOR THE FAMILY UNIT
As urban populations continue to grow, population density is increasing and living space is shrinking. The demand for small, efficient residential design in urban environments is at an all-time high. Considering these trends and the current housing market in Champaign, the goal for Horizon Apartments is to create a housing complex for young, working professsionals and familes that promotes healthy living. Images from left to right: Exterior Perspective looking towards Horizon Apartments from Boneyard Creek | Concept Diagram | Massing Model
CREATING SPACES FOR THE INDIVIDUAL WITHIN THE COMMUNITY
This complex promotes health and well-being by facilitating natural sunlight and privacy, and encouraging mindful practices - like meditation. Overlooking the cityscape of Downtown Champaign, the upper terrace offers a public recreational space for tenants to relax, exercise and socialize. The interior amenity spaces provides a recreational space for tenants during the winter seasons, while also offering more privacy for smaller group activites and meditation. Images from left to right: Perspective from Rooftop Terrace (looking towards 1st Street) | Perspective from 2nd Floor Amenity space (looking towards Boneyard creek)
03 _ VERTICAL GREEN Downtown Champaign, Illinois
CU FOOD GARDENS CO_OP
Urban Food Gardens are an important element of a locally sourced food economy. A network of urban farms and community gardens stretch across Champaign-Urbana, and individual food gardens are increasingly prevalent. In an effort to support the growth of this movement, the Food Gardens Co-operative is proposed for a site in downtown Champaign. The primary mission of the facility is education and public awareness/outreach. My design goal for this project was to rethink the wall as an architectural element - as an opening rather than a barrier, a connection rather than a separation. Images from top-left to right: Exterior View from Taylor Street | Exploded Axonometric Diagram | Site Plan
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PUBLIC SPACE DESIGN
This project uses sculptural walls to formulate the open space and create weaving flows. Punctured openings in the walls give porosity to these ‘barriers’, connecting users while extending the linearity that is drawn from the southern alley. In the exterior space, horizontal green surfaces stretch along the east-west axis of the site. These surfaces weave underneath the green walls and speak to the rhythm created from the punctured openings. These green areas create socially active spaces and facilitate communal functions. The translation of the language used in the exterior space into the interior space blurs the barriers between indoor and outdoor, public and private.
Images from left to right: Ground Floor Plan | East Site Section | Detailed Section + Axonometric of Sculptural Wall
POTENTIAL FOR GROWTH
The sculptural walls not only create weaving flows within the public space design, but also serve as vertical surfaces that can support the growth of plants and vegetation. These green walls provide additional communal growing spaces to the ones located on the terrace of the design intervention. The walls themselves pushes the boundaries of urban forests and emphasize the beauty and importance of green spaces within an urban context. Images from left to right: Interior Perspective of Intervention Exhibition Space | Perspective of Public Space (looking from Main Street)
04 _ GRAINGER PAVILION Urbana-Champaign, Illinois
MICROCLIMATE ANALYSIS & PARAMETRIC DESIGN
I selected the Engineering Quad of the University of Illinois for the site of this pavilion because the northern part of campus was lacking recreational spaces for students to interact with one another. The board below is a showcase of the iterative steps in my design process. My designs were facilited by a series of sun and view analyses which were conducted in Rhino using Ladybug.
Images from left to right: Contour lines overlaying final design | Contour drawing of 2nd design | Contour drawing of 5th design (lines in red are revisions) | Microclimate and View Analyses
REALISTIC & ABSTRACT RENDERINGS
The pavilion allows users to escape from campus and offers a space for self-reflection. These twisting structures are made of copper and aluminum. This combination of curvature and materiality causes the structures to reflect light in unique ways. As users walk through the space they are confronted with distorted reflections of their own image, which challenge their own identity and self-perception. The result is a deeply intimate and transformative space for both students and passerbys to enjoy. Images from left to right:
Rendered Exterior view | Abstracted Plans
05 _ MUMFORD HOUSE Urbana-Champaign, Illinois
MUMFORD SITE ANALYSIS
I conducted a site analysis of Mumford House, which is a historical building located on the South Quad campus of the University of Illinois at Urbana -Champaign. The structure of the building makes use of wood balloon framing. The physical structural model I built shows the layers of structure, insulation, and exterior sheathing/roofing within Mumford House. I lasercutted the basement walls of the model to show the brick patterning and ensure the accuracy of the foundation of my model. The digitial model was constructed in Sketchup. Images from left to right
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01 _ MUMFORD INTERVENTION Urbana-Champaign, Illinois
DESIGN INTERVENTION
My intention with this design intervention is to preserve the site of Mumford House, while framing the house as an important historic building. The open north and west facades of the intervention create various views of the house and increase the visibilty between the north and south quads. The intervention also provides additional conference and studio spaces. I used Revit to model the intervention and illustrator to create the following documents. Images from left to right: Interior view of Intervetion looking east | Intervention Elevation & Section Drawings | Site Map of South Quad with Intervention & Weather Analysis
joshua liu _ (650) 305 0464 _ university of illinois at urbana champaign _ 2018 to 2022 _ jjliu4@illinois.edu