PORTFOLIO ARCHITECTURE & PLANNING
SONGKAI LIU
F l y To M e
M O VA B L E M I C R O C O M M U N A L C E N T E R
Rethinking Rockefeller MEGABLOCK URBANISM
Follow The Light P R I VAT E G A L L E R Y
Renewal Of The Canal
I N T E R N AT I O N A L C O N F E R E N C E C E N T E R
“ FAT ” S t u d i o - C o n v e n t i o n C e n t e r RETHINKING OF PEOPLE’S LIFESTYLE
Hybrid Residential Infrastructures U R B A N O C C U PAT I O N S & T Y P O L O G I C A L C O R R E C T I O N S
D o o r To H e l l
N AT U R E I N T E R P R E TAT I O N C E N T E R
Meditation In The Mountain
VISITOR CENTER IN THE TERRACE | LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE
Regeneration Of The Old Painting P U B L I C C U LT U R E C E N T E R
Homeland
THIS IS A PROPOSAL WITH BEST WISHES | EVOLO 2016
Commercial District Design
P L A N N I N G & D E S I G N O F U R A B A N C O M P L E X I N YA N G Z H O U
Ultrareal Studio RENDERING STUDIO
Graphic Design Studio L O W P O LY A R C H I T E C T U R E
SANAA Grace Farms PHOTOGRAPHY WORK
Selected Works In NYC PHOTOGRAPHY WORK
F l y To M e
M O VA B L E M I C R O C O M M U N A L C E N T E R
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IN PROGRESS... Helium Balloons
In the early stage, Select some communities with urgent demands to run our micro-cube system, which can be evenly distributed in the city. At the same time, mass production takes place and enlarge the whole system.
Strengthen Steel Ring
Connect Steel Cable
Turbofan Engine Supporting System Turbofan Engine Protecting System Turbofan Rotor ( The Second Layer ) Turbofan Rotor ( The First Layer )
To the year 2020, the urban fringe continue growing. The region of the testing site gradually invade into the suburban districts. The network with flexible functions is primarily formed to solve community problems within a large range.
Hydraulic System for Stablization Top Roof Slab Roof Slab Supporting System Chandelier Connections Inner Book Shelves Composit Automatic Revolving Door
Hydraulic System Captain E.O. -- “We are here to change the world” . The buildings are changing our life in different ways. However, there are still many problems coming out in our daily life, especially in our communities all through the city. People find difficulty in coming back from the Internet social network. Can we make a different thing in our city to make life better? Yes we can. Through the “Flying Cube” we are providing a new chance for communication.
After 2030, the micro-cube network system can adapt to the rapid development of the cities and shows the tree structure of their distribution. A complete network of different functions gradually forms, which can largely help activate the whole city and lead to a better life.
Telescopic Joints
Polymer Buffer Base
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// MULTIPLE PROGRAMS HAPPENING IN THE BOX
Senior Center
Mini Library
Kiosk
Photography Studio
Community Clinic
Grid Shop
Flying Stage
Community Museum
Game Center
Flower Shade
Kids Park
Talk Center
Climbing Center
Astronomical Station
Capsule Inn
Tree Holes
The board system in different faces can be opened in different angles. With a relatively small angle, the box becomes a more enclosure space which makes it a perfect space for quiet activities like reading. As the angle opens up, the facility becomes more social-friendly, people are welcome to get into the box and get participate in the activities. To make the social life more connected, hundreds of boxes will be put into use and create a new network in the city.
A N G L E | H E I G H T | P R O G R A M
surrounding communities; and some others might be relatively as an enclosure space because they are requiring a silent space or dark space within their own room.
of the area. People might need to enter the box in different ways, which provides a chance for citizens to explore the program in an interesting way. Some programs might be very open, which is more willing to share their space with the
space quality. Multiple factors can change people’s experience here in the cubes. By changing the angle of the opening boards, we can control the different height of the entrance for the cubes, which actually is controlling the accessibility
Experience in the flying cubes becomes an effective element in the process of getting into people’s life. Different people might have various feeling while they are experiencing the same space, what really makes the difference is the
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Rethinking Rockefeller MEGABLOCK URBANISM
Education marketization brings vitality and opportunity to economic development, Introducing education industry in midtown will enhance the market of the whole area. Including the market, the office, the restaurant etc., people are engaged into the system and are encoraged to use the system as part of their life.
Creating the new system of Campus inside the city, making the complex a new society which has a complete workflow inside. Imagine that if you can learn inside the campus, and while you are studying, you can also get chance to practice, and to get response in the same builidng. Your get knowledge form the system, and the knowledge, as a product, are applied into the work you are doing inside the system. What you have invested are creating new vitality.
CON N ECT & CON TRAST The new campus creates its own system in the blocks, which shows its intention to lead the site into a reform of “social structure”, and realizing its own way to organize the relationship between the school, workshops and startups etc. The idea is to get people into a kind of close proximity, so you can get these catalytic connections between different disciplines. It’s about making connections between some students who might be working in the building itself and some specialists who have experience in the real work, and that rarely happens on an academic campus, which is saying, we are bringing the knowledge into practice. Still, using architecture as a way to optimize the system is only part of the equation. There’s the curriculum, the teachers, and the industry tenants and social workers to come who will play a role in the Campus, which makes the campus an incubator. Regardless of how the campus’s plans play out, the campus will also becomes a spectacular place to experience the city life in the fantastic NYC.
Knowledge as product, school as factory, the transformation of knowledge can be build up as an industry chain. The chain can serve itself together with the strong support of economy world around it. Interaction brings more possibilities to urban city, multiple fuctions create a new network here in the central city, the Rockefeller center area now becomes a ‘practical campus’ that cannot wait to rock the market. Making the complex a general area for communication, we want to put the “Campus” here where is an ecomonic center in the city, to absorb the outside community and form into our own inner system, providing a new relationship with the surrounding area.
Follow The Light P R I VAT E G A L L E R Y
G E N E R AT I O N
“The perception of space is directly connected to the way light integrates with it. What we see, what we experience and how we interpret the elements is affected by how light interacts with us and with the environment. Regarding architecture, in whatever dimension it can be analyzed, either as space, as material or as color, it is essentially dependant on the lighting situation that involves both the object and the observer. ” - Arkitekturskolan, December 2008
Different programs are the basic needs of the whole building. The art gallery, photography center, public venue, and the public space, requirements of people's space experience bring all the four together.
Keep integrity, which can bring different space together, the flowing space inside provide fluent experience, which can be enjoyable and the gallery becomes a union of exhibition, entertainment and communication.
Standing out of the city, the art gallery is required to stay harmony with the nature. Set location in a low elevation and relatively flat, which is ready for a construction.
Five angles point to a different high point. By pulling up the points, the gallery can be suitable into the environment, and get continuity with the mountains.
Lift up one side of the gallery to have an entrance intro space. This can be a buffer zone for communication, playground, or free stage etc. which can be compatible with the menthod of creating different public space.
A building in the nature should work with nature, interact with nature. So I "dig" a walkway through the whole building, to bring the nature into the gallery.
Taken the environment into consideration, we find that there are actually five high points around the site and they are important as they control the landscape view from the outside and inside of the gallery.
And God proceeded to say: “Let light come to be.” Then there came to be light. Bringing light into the gallry provide natural lighting environment for the exhibition.
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1. S/W timber deck 2. untreated steel structure frame 3. lighting truss 4. cassettes, external wall screw fixed to steel frame 5. kee klamp balustrading 6. spruce cladding planks fixed to battens, which are then fixed onto timber cassettes 7. balcony level (Enter from 3F) 8. lighting bar 9. recycled seating 10. acoustically treated natural ventilation plenum.air enters through perforated mesh panels on the surface of the building
While you are exploring an gallery, there always some point which attracts you and leads you toward the next “destination”. The moment which guides you can be different things, it might be some artworks, might be a sculpture out of scale, can be a long corridor “without” ending, can be a patio which lots of people gathering. And, it also can be the LIGHT. The light leads you toward the next moment, the light leads you toward the new space, the light leads you “into” the gallery itself.
Ex p erienc ing t he lig ht in t he c ent ra l ra mp of the p riva t e g a llery
Renewal Of The Canal
I N T E R N AT I O N A L C O N F E R E N C E C E N T E R
P R O G R A M S
Theatre Part Stands for the most active part of the whole plan, the theatre appears very positive and shows its high accessible.
Display Part As an introduce to the history and development of the canal, the display center spread out all of its vitality.
Conference Part Communication center shows more elements of public space, and the connections between the different parts.
Restaurant Part Offering the most beautiful view of the canal, the restaurant gives us a great chance to deep experience the canal.
The Deck Combining the different parts in the site together, touching each other and create contact within multiple programs.
The Grand Canal ( also known as the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal ), a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is the longest canal or artificial river in the world and a famous tourist destination. Starting at Beijing, it passes through Tianjin and the provinces of Hebei, Shandong, Jiangsu and Zhejiang to the city of Hangzhou, linking the Yellow River and Yangtze River. The oldest parts of the canal date back to the 5th century BC, although the various sections were finally combined during the Sui dynasty (581–618 AD). (From Wikipedia) Han Gou is known as the second oldest section of the later Grand Canal since the Hong Gou (‘Canal of the Flying Geese’, or ‘Far-Flung Canal’) most likely preceded it. So actually Yangzhou is one of the places who have a long history, and in fact, the Grand Canal, is one of the most important part in Yangzhou City.
B U I L D U P R E L AT I O N S H I P BETWEEN THE SITE AND THE WAT E R , T O A C T I VAT E T H E WAT E R F R O N T A R E A
Pier Organization Piers around the main building providing a chance for outdoor acitivities can happen. Connected to the deck, the piers presents as an extension of the builidng and touchs the water, which giving visitors oppotunity to experience the waterfront view, and adding more space for the assembly moments to happen. And those will activate the waterfront area.
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Surrounding Tour
Pedestrain & Car Distribution
Various Entrances
Vertical Circulation
The architecture has connections in each directions with the site. The green land on the north, the main road on the east, and the grand canal on the south and west part. The Main Deck of the building plays a role as an hub, which absorbing the views from the surrounding areas, as well as providing activity space for the people who are participating.
EAST ELEVATION
//FLOOR PLAN //DECK Atrium Lighting
Aluminium Alloy Roofing Sheet Glass Curtain Wall
Multi-Functional Rooms Spindle-Shaped Column
Auditorium & Meeting Room U-Glass Curtain Wall Intro Space for Conference Center
Piers
Intro Lobby of the Theatre Cantilevered Deck Outside Parking Space
1. lobby 2. sound control room 3. light control room 4. orchestra stage 5. main stage 6. back stage 7. side stage 8. dressing room 9. equipment room 10. lounge 11. preparation room 12. toilet 13. restaurant 14. open restaurant 15. vegetation 16. control room 17. conference room 18. multi-functional room 19. deck 20. slope
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“ FAT ” S t u d i o - C o n v e n t i o n C e n t e r RETHINKING OF PEOPLE’S LIFESTYLE
Fat Is Not Big Unlike Koolhaas’s notion of Bigness, Fatness is not in an adversarial relationship with the city or context. While Bigness accepts the impotence of architecture in the face of urbanism and the infrastructural city, this studio will seek to determine how Fatness can reestablish architecture’s relevance in an urban context through new strategies of scale, efficiency, program, form and structure. We will investigate how Fat, as an architectural necessity, can help overcome architecture’s indifference to urbanism and context.
Cities with(in) Cities
Cos mopoli tani sm
Making a block into a small city is crazy and interesting. At the same time the convention center often exists in parallel to the host city, capitalizing on the urban backdrop while simultaneously maintaining indifference to it.
Over the next few years The Standard, Yo-tel, Renoir, and others will all be completed in a six block area. Groups here in San Francisco shows their intention to work with each other. Providing such a space for them is a chance.
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LAYER The different layering in the space provide a chance for visitors and workers inside to feel the different scales of the convention center. It shifts a lot from the convention part which is on the first floor to the working and resting space which locates on the top floor. The multiple scale can meet visitors’ various needs in the center.
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The interior space is trying to create relationship with people who are using it, and creating connection between different groups. With multiple cuts inside the center, you can always have a chance to look at other events happening in a different space or even look through the center. However, you cannot get through the space directly from where you see it. You have to spend your time exploring the center and find more and more interesting things. The purity of the white space can get you calm down and gives you a peaceful mind to enjoy the moments. What if you are not moving? Even you don’t move, events do. The events inside are flow all through the center and you can nearly participate into them any where you want. The parade also happens, and you can try to engage into them and enjoy!
Ex p erienc ing th e p urity of the interio r sp a ce
Book S tore & Lob b y S p a c e | M od el
//MULTI-CULTURE //INTERACTION As a convention center, the exhibition part shows its vitality here not only inside the ceter, in the district, but also has ambition to create an multi-cultural center for the city of San Francisco. San Francisco has a culture-based environment with so many different “Groups” inside the city. The convention center here is trying to become a collective space, which provides chance for the different groups get together and (not just) communicate. People are expecting to have a society which can be harmony. Here the center has an intention to do this. The convention center does not just do exhibiton or meeting things. The huge box in the city provides living possibility, working possibility, as well as party possibility etc., you can find the way in your mind of creating interesting events here in the convention center. A Google new product announcement with pubs and partys? Yes! An video game one-to-one competition with a movie festival at the same time? Yes! A special exhibition of artworks with a LGBT parade happen through the center together? Yes! Do whatever you want to keep the consistency of the space inside the context, inside the big big San Francisco. You might not notice other people working inside the center, but you can always find an interesting events happening if you live inside the center. Market street also included in the space, without going out of the center, you can get whatever you need for your social life as living and working. You are asked to behave yourself as at home inside this center. “The city in the city”, as the convention center already becomes a very collective living space, we are calling it a new “village” in San Francisco, a exciting city.
Perspective Section
Hybrid Residential Infrastructures U R B A N O C C U PAT I O N S & T Y P O L O G I C A L C O R R E C T I O N S
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Architects are responsible not only for the construction of new architectures, but also for the management of existing structures and the built environment at large. This agenda demands going beyond conventional architectural strategies—normally operating on one building at the time—and developing more comprehensive, integrated, and open big scale strategies, without falling into the glib fascination with megastructural conceptions.
The squatted areas in Rio has gradually form into a new situation in the city - they tend to be a more enclosure space. They are blocking the original entrance and windows of the house, and using a new corridor or single door for entering the inner space, which can be a courtyard. And this space is shared with several families, that means, the space has been organized into a new typology of living, more enclosure, more collective, and more centralized.
EXPERIENCE SEQUENCE IN THE SITE
U R B A N S T R AT E G Y
//TYPOLOGICAL CORRECTIONS //URBAN OCCUPATIONS In contexts where it seems that architecture has nothing else to say, we propose recycling solutions seeking to operate within existing structures and to address the city’s current challenges. We will consider both the potentials of occupying existing building as well as the possibilities derived from their transformation. Dealing with the characteristics of the current structures, their relations, and their underlying potentials, each project will design a series of typological corrections activating process of re-programming, re-densifying, re-scaling, resignifying, etc. These architectural operations will seek not only to transform the physical reality of the existing buildings, but also to
operate upon the social, economic and cultural networks they host and articulate. The intervention within existing structures and areas of the city requires a critical understanding of the way in which they are occupied along time, appropriated with different programs, and mobilized with different meanings, in order to suggest alternative connections between inhabitants, programs and meanings, and to explore new processes of signification. Considering these links, we do not aim to establish deterministic relationships between existing typologies and their uses or meanings, but rather precisely to demystify them.
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THE ORIGINAL BUILDING RENOVATION WITH NEW BUILDING ON THE TOP THE RESIDENTIAL AREA WITH SHARED COLLECTIVE SPACE
D o o r To H e l l
N AT U R E I N T E R P R E TAT I O N C E N T E R
Door To Hell Lighting Strategy
Nothing can be more surprising than finding this huge Crater with fire flaming for nearly 40 years. The Door to Hell, located in Turkmenistan, is such a contradiction, which represents the conflict in resources between human and nature. And that is the point we want to get for this competition. We try to endow this nature interpretation center with more meaning: revitalizing the declining local trade with tourism economy, and it also attract more attention on this huge waste of natural resources. The center actually works as a very impressive complex, with living space and exhibition space for the visitors, as well as a new home to the local people. It has been defined as a space with classic religious flavor, in order to provide special visit experience for the tourists, and to help people understand the importance of nature.
Meditation In The Mountain
VISITOR CENTER IN THE TERRACE | LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE
The clouds and the mist, the mountain and the forest, the great nation came into farming civilization. They absorb from the nature, enrich the history and get prepared for the future. The natural environment shows endless landscape view, with countless lines and innumerable mirrors in the mountains. Lights filling your eyes from the top of the mountain and small waterfalls forming in the terrace from the bottom. Rains flowing through the mountain, just like gift from the god. The Core of the Terrace insert into the terraces and merges with it, which became a transparent and natural space for people to fell the beauty and shock of the Terrace, as well as a quiet place for people to learn themselves. The Hani Terrace has a vertical environmental system with a visual line as Forest-Villiage-Terraces-Rivers and they interact with each other. With a thousands-years history, the system has its own way to be harmonious with the nature. We hope to find coherence between the landscape architecture and the nature, making the space more functional and became a bridge between the people and the landscape.
The Hani regard the forests as their god and the mountains as the endless world. Expressing the awe to the original nature, we did not cover the whole architecture. The sun shines in and the rain falls in, which can give a special pure feeling for the visitors without a modern breath.The villiage has its meaning for inheritance, whatever the culture or the technique or any other spirit can always take root in the villiage. The Core of the Terrace stand inside a true terrace and the visitors can enjoy the process of reclamation and planting in the observation room. People themselves get together spontaneously and that is the beginning of the settlement. The meaning of the architecture is to interact with people, but we cannot use a single architecture to show the greatness of the terrace. So a flowing space for display is a great choice. We get the history cohered and let them flow in the space. The visitors can have excellent experience walking or stop in the space. The pond at the bottom of the tourist center also shows our respect to the rivers in the Terrace Vertical System. The rivers breed the culture as a carrier of the creatures. The pond interact with the water in the terrace, using this pond we can enjoy the life cycle in the terrace system. As the terrace became a life creature, it can be easier to understand.
Regeneration Of The Old Painting P U B L I C C U LT U R E C E N T E R
Homeland
THIS IS A PROPOSAL WITH BEST WISHES | EVOLO 2016
The war fire destroyed so many historical architecture sites. This is so unacceptable for architects and historians all around the world. However, we didn’t found a way to preserve them. Refugees are now the most serious problem in Europe. Lacking of the infrastructure and having difficulty in finding jobs have caused many problems , they want to return to their homeland. Due to some political reasons, it has created antagonistic relationships in the Europe. Through Evolo competition, we try to use an exaggerated way, to remind the world's attention to the problems. The symbol of the homeland remains in the top of the skyscraper, follows the steps of refugees. The lower part of the building provides the refugees with community centers and supply station during special times. It is a skyscraper can be placed anywhere. Like a lighthouse from their homeland, Bringing the refugees courage and confidence.
Commercial District Design
P L A N N I N G & D E S I G N O F U R A B A N C O M P L E X I N YA N G Z H O U
Ultrareal Studio RENDERING STUDIO
Graphic Design Studio L O W P O LY A R C H I T E C T U R E
SANAA Grace Farms PHOTOGRAPHY WORK
Published in Archdaily on 11th Dec, 2015 D i s p l a y i n E x h i b i t i o n i n M O M A f r o m 7 t h M a r, 2 0 1 6 < A J a p a n e s e C o n s t e l l a t i o n : To y o I t o , S A N A A , a n d B e y o n d >
Selected Works In NYC PHOTOGRAPHY WORK
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