Design Portfolio
Minjie Liang (Martin) Email: lmjroark.arch@gmail.com Tel: +61 423 536 220
Minjie Liang (Martin) lmjroark.arch@gmail.com +61 423 536 220
| EDUCATION |
Bachelor of Architecture
09/2013~06/2018
Master of Archietcture
03/2019~06/2021
Jilin Jianzhu University
University of Melbourne
Architecture is the outcome of a constant negotiation between site and building, form and function, public and private. I am interested in a building that evolves out of this process. I believe a building should operate beyond its own functional settings. that challenges the clichés of planning policy; that provides some certain spatial ambiguity; that sits friendly, not abrupt to context; that looks sexy. This portfolio is a curated compilation of my student work selected from undergraduate and postgraduate.
| INTERNSHIP EXPERIENCE | ClarkeHopkinsClarke Architects
Internship. Multi-Storey Residential Sector
07/2020~08/2020
Participated in 45 Gordon Ave mixed-use construction project and the 27 William St residential project. The daily work duties involved organising report texts, sorting out meeting minutes, Revit modeling, and drawing diagrams.
Fujian Provincial Architectural Design and Research Institute Architect Assistant. The First Studio
08/2017~02/2018
Participated in the renovation project of the subsidiary building of Bank of China Fuzhou Antai Sub-branch and the neighborhood center project of Ronghui Hot Spring Resort. The daily work responsibility was to assist in project design and modeling.
| PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE |
National Undergraduate Training Programs for Innovation and Entrepreneurship
05/2016~05/2017
Parsons School of Design
01/2017
Research on renovation of shanty areas in Changchun
06/2016
Historic building mapping and surveying
05/2016
Published Essay of Homestay-oriented Preservation and Development of Traditional Village in Jilin Province
2-week workshop on ’How to improve the experience of NYC Subway’ in Parsons School and took courses
Visit and interview residents living in shanty areas and conducted questionnaire survey
Wang Families’ House mapping in Jilin Province
| SOFTWARE | Advanced
Rhinoceros 3D / Adobe Suite / Vray / Enscape
Intermediate
Sketch Up / Grasshopper / Twinmotion / ArchiCAD / AutoCAD
Basic
Blender / C4D / Revit architecture
| Content |
(Student work selected from 2015-2020)
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PRACTICE
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SPORTS AND CULTURE COMPLEX
“These construction drawings were accomplished during the internship when I was doing my bachelor’s. This low-rise apartment consists of six-story, which includes two units per floor.”
"The project broke through the fixed boundary of the traditional civic activity center settings, with varying roof wrapped in different volumes of buildings, resulting in a unique sense of space penetration and different space experience."
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RESIDENTIAL FOR NEURODIVERSITY
"This apar tment project focuses on how the created environment can enhance the building users’ experience by introducing the sensory sensitivity strategies for neurodiverse children and young teenagers."
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THE ARK
"This project focuses on how architecture can provide humans an alternative way of thinking and living that reshapes our idea of urban environments and their relationship with surrounding landscapes to deal with environmental tragedies beyond our control."
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INNOVATION PRECINCT
"This project envisions a mixed-use building that welcomes bicycle activity as its vital part and brings a different and special riding journey to citizens with industrial feature."
STUDENT ACTIVITY CENTER
"The project explores how to bring in a new intervention that activates the street front while introducing new uses, re-activating the under-performed site frontage while maintaining the connections to its immediate surroundings."
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COMPETITION
“Located in New Zealand, at the Earth Energies Sanctuary run by the married couple Marie and Duncan, the meditation cabin has been designed with the main motive to allow visitors to dissociate from their regular rhythm of life and reconnect with themselves and nature.”
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Project Partners
The Builder shall check all dimensions and levels on site prior to construction. Notify any errors, discrepancies or omissions to the architect. Refer to written dimensions only. Do not scale drawings. Drawings shall not be used for construction purposes until issued for construction. This drawing reflects a design by #Contact Company and is to be used only for work when authorised in writing by #Contact Company.
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RESIDENTIAL FOR NEURODIVERSITY
01 A home for the Children of the stars LOCATION: Melbourne/ Australia TYPE: Mixed-use apartment SCALE: M / 4500M2 Individual work / Postgraduate Year 2
Children with ASD are lovingly called “children of the stars’’ in a documentary film. ASD (Autism spectrum disorder) is often considered a “hidden” disability. It can go undiagnosed, and it is not a condition recognizable by a person’s physical appearance, most commonly found in children and young people. This apartment project focuses on how the created environment can enhance the building users’ experience by introducing the sensory sensitivity strategies for neurodiverse children and young teenagers with ASD, to free their sensory network of unnecessary traffic and sensory noise from the surrounding environment, and make those fleeting moments where they can communicate, respond, learn and interact. In addition, it will include supportive and transitional teaching programs and other programs to help neurodiverse children to live more independently, and have fewer barriers when they grow up and blend in the society.
View From the Intersection PERSPECTIVE
Children
In this project, the user group is divided into primary and secondary user groups. The primary user groups cover the age between nine to eighteen, including children with ASD, and young teenage students with ASD who need support but don’t live with their parents. The secondary user groups include the coliving parents of children with ASD and the managing team of the apartment. The project site measures 1820 square meters and is proposed to be located at Box Hill, between Nelson Rd and Spring St due to its considerable surrounding condition, such as good connection to a non-profit care organization, a medical facility, and school.
Children with autism Between 9-18.
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Parents Parents of autistic children who need help and extra care for their children.
1. Medical Facilities & Care Organization
2. Box Hill Institute School
3. Open Space (Box Hill Park)
4. Public Transportation (1min bus stop)
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Working staff managing the apartment and providing the support.
Students Young enrolled students who need support but don’t live away with parents.
SITE PLAN
FUNCTIONAL ZONING
2F FLOOR PLAN
View From Atrium sensory garden PERSPECTIVE
This garden is a small wonderland where residents enjoy a piece of nature. The semi-translucent polycarbonate panel with scattered opening windows works as an internal facade that guarantees the residents’ privacy but also keeps the visual connection between the atrium garden,moreover, the indoor hanging plants within the planter box grow out of these windows adding the atrium a sense of peace. The middle pond is a fake pool, it allows viewers to look down and see people on the first floor virtually underwater, separated by a 10cm layer of water over a transparent glass viewing pane.
Studies show that people with ASD are more drawn to water. This dedicated and sensory environment has neutral stimuli for the users by displaying constantly changing shadows and light of the water ripple, it provides the residents a special sensory experience and immersive underwater environment.
A-A SECTION
View From Sensory therapy room PERSPECTIVE
2B UNIT FLOOR PLAN
1B UNIT FLOOR PLAN
Two- bedroom living units adjacent to the care staff unit, suitable for the nuclear family who has a kid with autism and needs moderate life support.
Single living unit for young teenagers or students who needs low life support need.
VIGNETTE 1 / External transition space
VIGNETTE 2 / Internal transition space
VIGNETTE 3 / Hide-away space (door open)
VIGNETTE 4 / Hide-away space (door closed)
Apartment Partial Section
View From Nelson Rd PERSPECTIVE
THE ARK
02 Co3dependency LOCATION: Victoria
TYPE: Mixed-use
SCALE: XXXL
Coorpetatated: Yeong Yee Yeon, Hongyu Wei / Postgraduate Year 2
This project focuses on how architecture can provide humans an alternative way of thinking and living / that reshapes our idea of urban environments and its relationship with surrounding landscapes to deal with environmental tragedies beyond our control. In this ark ,everyone is working towards a goal for survival. Manifesto 1. We will now live in the ark, protected from the heat, smoke and pollution. 2. The tower shifts our current way of life, only certain programs from current cities are to be retained. 3. We will be self-sufficient, each individual responsible for producing their own food for survival. 4. Lifestyles will change. We will live with limited resources, accessing most things in moderation. 5. Lastly, We won’t bow down to tragedy, we will strive to live a comfortable life in coexistence and respect for nature The Ark traps people inside in a neverending loop in which to survive you must accept you’re living in a prison where work is forever ahead of you. The façade i s bu rn t a n d s carred by th e m ark s of the burning landscape after decades of e n v i ro n m e n t a l a b u s e . A s t h e c o l o r f u l interiors fade away, humans eventually forget about a time where they were free to roam the landscape, consume ever ything as they please and live a life of multiple choices. The Ark represents a condition in which we are the prisoners of our own a ct i o n s a n d th e pu n i s h ed s u bjec t s of our human condition.
2019, Summer “I missed the rural land we used to enjoy...”
Currently, we take arable land for granted. We overlook the importance of rural areas and the fact that a huge amount of land is required to support a single individual's life. Our rapid technological evolution and shift to a consumerist society have caused extreme pollution and destruction of our living environments. But it is not too late to act. This project aims to bring to light this condition and shift the way we think about architecture as a building in isolation. People, Buildings, cities, the environment as all part of the same system that supports our survival. Victoria has been dealt with bushfires for a long time. The Black Saturday fires and the super fires in early 2020 have proven that this situation will only worsen. Imaging bushfires will continue to occur across Australia in an uncontrolled manner turning the lands of Victoria into a burning waste.
“It reminds me of a bushfire many years ago...
“We have been taking land for granted..”
“But this time is much severer ..”
“Until one day a bushfire suddenly burst out”
“But extreme weather are more frequent than usual.”
“Build an ARK!”
Arks would spread across Victoria
To design the ark we collected research to look for solutions to provide sufficient food to the residents. With the understanding that the average diet and basic consumption of an average Australian, we looked into more details of the types of food that we wanted to produce and the land needed to produce them. We compared the average land use per capita across several countries and looked into various methods that could reduce land use such as restricting diets and lifestyles.
The proposal is divided into three main components, the village, the residential area and productive area. In the building, residents are the main consumers depending and relying heavily on both the agricultural area and the village. The village is a space for retail and entertainment, whereas the productive zone acts as the component that supports the survival of the ark. The residential area and the village are elevated and hung above at the top for safety. Referencing a scale, the agricultural zone as the most important component for food production holds the ark in place, while the village and residential areas both heavily depend on it. Here is series of diagrams explaining how each component works and relates within the Ark. Below is a series of programmatic and volumetric components developed in the first half of the semester that we have included in the ark.
At 9 in the morning residents wake up in their homes to get ready to leave for work in the production zone. Our proposed housing units come in modules of 4 bedrooms for either social housing or family units. The residential area is stacked into five separate floors, dividing the 500 residents into smaller groups of 100 on each floor to foster a stronger sense of community. The housing units are built in modules that come in fixed sizes. Residents could simply rearrange the accommodation as required, replacing and editing any elements of the module depending on their needs. This allows for flexible and adaptable living for the users. In the middle I proposed a communal space that connects the two sides together. This space acts as a smaller gathering area for residents on each floor to have casual meetings and interactions between neighbors. From the residential area the residents travel through the transition corridors that bring them to the production zone for work.
The residents start their day by working there. The food production area is divided into two sections, modern farming and traditional farming. Traditional farming is attached to an ecotourism zone exposed to the outside, whilst the modern farming labs are hidden in the interior, underneath the landscape slab to mimic a natural landscape. 90% of the food is produced through modern farming, which guarantees a safer and more efficient method of feeding the residents. Other than producing food, the traditional farming zone also serves as an ecotourism hotspot, where people can escape their routine, and experience a bucolic, return to nature experience. The ecotourism sits within an open vast landscape, with rice fields, cottages and slopes. The main circulation would be made by the train ride that transports both goods and people across the building. The ecotourism offers a series of attractions for residents to visit. According to the season, different activities and traditional farming experience are available. Various animals and food are harvested and planted according to seasons. A series of vignettes shows some proposed activities that could be carried out.
The village is imaged with a pleasant and colourful space for residents and animals to enjoy. The village is mainly divided into four functions, Co-existing and animal perseverance , retail, entertainment and manufacture. For example, the coexisting part, emphasising on the idea that in the ark we would coexist and respect nature, the village is not only designed for human activities. In the village animals are welcomed to coexist and focus on flora and fauna that require care and preservation. For example the programs are designed to incorporate spaces for animals such as feeding and taking care of them until they are ready to be sent back to the rural areas.
When the fire burns to the danger point, the facade of the building shuts down layer by layer and puts the ark into a state of lockdown. This protects the residents inside and allows them to continue with life as the fire burns. Through this section, it could be seen that the interior and the exterior is contrasting, where the exterior is a burning waste, separated by the facade, and the residents on the other side can continue to live a colorful and enjoyable lifestyle.
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When the facade shuts down completely, life in the tower goes on while the outside land burns. The Ark traps people inside in a neverending loop in which to survive you must accept you’re living in a prison where work is forever ahead of you. The façade is burnt and scarred by the marks of the burning landscape after decades of environmental abuse. As the colorful interiors fade away, humans eventually forget about a time where they were free to live a life of multiple choices. The Ark represents a condition in which we are the prisoners of our own actions and the punished subjects of our human condition.
The overarching design strategy is to preserve the existing chimney tower and part of the red brick facade,.
View from distance PERSPECTIVE
INNOVATION PRECINCT
03 Ride2work LOCATION: Melbourne/ Australia
TYPE: Mixed-use building
SCALE: L / 40000M2
Individual work / Postgraduate Year 1
"An innovation precinct is a group of industry, research, and education activity in a geographic area, which has a unique character that connects different programs and can generate environmental and social benefits. As urban populations boom, the pressure for buildings to “do” more with fewer increases. A mixed-use building aims to combine three or more functions into one structure such as residential, retail, transportation, cultural, and entertainment, etc." This project, therefore, envisions and transforms a brewery factory in Abbotsford into a mixed-use building, that welcomes bicycle activity as its vital part and brings a different and special riding journey to citizens with industrial features.
Preserve the chimney tower
Create new volume
Raise up to create plaza
Add the vertical circulation
Add the bicycle circulation
Cycling is on the increase in Melbourne, and more people are using their bikes for health and recreation or as a sustainable, efficient and affordable mode of transport. Bicycle Plan 2016-2020 suggests that Melbourne is transforming into the country’s leading bicycle city. More people on bikes means a more active and healthier population who are able to enjoy a cleaner and less congested city. In this sense, a successful Innovation Precinct should encourage people to integrate sports and recreation into their daily life and have a healthy lifestyle, and this makes it an interesting and attractive place. This building’s general organization takes its cues from the long-shaped linear site that has a strong oriented direction, which is suitable to introduce bicycle ramp circulation.
The spiral ramp not only function as the vertical transportation but also as a landscape sculpture that adding a lively environment to these open spaces
View From Front PERSPECTIVE
There are two main cycling journeys within the building, the one at the bottom connects various public facilities, such as the cafe and relaxing platform; moreover, this path running through a bicycle manufacturer that lies on the north which allows people have a sight of how bicycles are assembled in the plant. The other journey is at the top, people can ride to the roof of the bicycle training center where the entrance of the office and apartment lies via these two spiral ramps, in this way I encourage more people to use bicycles to commute. The long block in the middle includes an indoor bicycle velodrome for training or competition, above are the two floating blocks at the top, one is an urban research office regarding bicycle data and analysis, the other is an apartment for people working in the office and students or cycling trainers.
undulate roof form expresses its dynamic quality, all activities intertwined together connected by ramp and open platform·, making the square energetic and attractive
View From North Front PERSPECTIVE
SPORTS AND CULTURE COMPLEX
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Permeable interface
LOCATION: Panshi / JiLin / China
TYPE: Community Centre
SCALE: L / 20000 M2
Individual work / Undergraduate Year 4
Changchun council intend to enhance liveability by providing a number of essential facilities. The programme requires three functions: sport theatre and exhibition. This will be a new gathering space for people to exercise, relax and social, an integral part of the city culture. Traditionally community and sports centre in Changchun associates with typical settings of grand plaza and massive single block. As an alternative, the project adopts the strategy of dispersion and permeability; propose to set several programmes in three volumes and connect by an open-air platform. The dispensed spaces creates a flexible and permeable interface between the site and surrounding urban context, allow visitors to move simultaneously into different spaces. Height variation not only expresses its aesthetic value but also suggests programmes accommodated within.
Most of some sports centers are single-function and in monotonous shape without enough energy to attract citizens. Multi-functionality and proximity are important to the city. Common image of traditional sports architecture should be abandoned
Theatre (800 seats) and auditorium (200 seats) are set in the biggest volume, in which important symphony or opera can be held.
Sports parts including swimming pool gym and table tennis hall are in the volume closed to west road.
various of 'alley' between volumes allow visitors move from site into the building, open platform provides opportunities for communal and social gathering, varied roof form accommodates different activities underneath
View From Platform PERSPECTIVE
Library and exhibition are in the smallest volume.Commercial facilities such as restaurant and stores are vailable on the ground floor.
Sectional details of varied roof forms in relation to visitor activities. These places are of different heights and can host various kinds of outdoor activities. The activity streamline are omnidirectional and creates vigorous spaces. Because the project is closed to main road,Hukang road in the city, making a setback on northwest to create a motivative greenary city park.
EXPLODED AXO
▲ GROUND FLOOR
The starting point of design is to avoid the impact of non-similar buildings (theatre and sports) and creat different cultural and spacial feeling.Therefore the whole building is divided into three volumes according to functions, then connect them with a open out door platform.
▲ FIRST FLOOR
▲ WEST ELEVATION
visual permeability across main functions and circulation, the roof features rich layers of use, generating a flexible interface that encourages visitors to engage and enjoy
View From Northwestern Ramp PERSPECTIVE
full height glazing allows the space permeable, differential height of ceiling makes it spacious and vivid
the gap of roofs provides good lighting and makes space energrtic
View From Library PERSPECTIVE
View From Theatre Foyer PERSPECTIVE
building features a front plaza for public engagement light material palette express building aesthetic re-activate the street and site
View From South Entrance PERSPECTIVE
STUDENT ACTIVITY CENTRE
05 Pass through LOCATION: changchun / JiLin / China
TYPE: Activity Centre
SCALE: S / 3000M2
Individual work / Undergraduate Year 2
The scheme seeks to explore interesting and engaging architectural ideas for a university student activity centre with the needs of introducing new uses, re-activating the underperformed site frontage while maintaining the connections to its immediate surroundings. The project employs Chinese character “ 川 ” as a figuration (it is a pun for pass through in Chinese), that provides an outdoor path allows students to walk through and into the building. The permeability of the building provides students with more visual physical connections to university life in the form of social activities. This is the core of student village, a space that invites all form of events, a place of public congregation.
The building in picture 1 contains an existing market and a few vendor shops. The proposed activity centre will replace it with better shopping configuration and arrangement. The two main footsteps shows paths to dormitory area.
▲ SITE PLAN
dormitories open square
front square dining hall
EXISTING CONDITION
EXPLODED AXO
outdoor path and stores can activate this area, west facade is void in order to soften the street facade.
STREET
DORMITORY
site located between dormitories and dining hall, which crowds a large numbers of people
STREET
DORMITORY
proposed pedestrian circulation connects building with its immediate surroundings
NEW CONDITION
▲ GROUND FLOOR PLAN
▲ SECTION
In the begining, I imagine that if people can walk through the building, so I plan to make an outdoor path in the middle. Considering the business potential, existing stores are arranged along the path to increase attraction. After all, I wish this building a landmark in the campus because it lies in the university I love and study. ▲ WEST ELEVATION
image emphasize broken facade rhythm shown street connection - ramping pedestrian directly up to upper floor, activate under utilized street interface
View From West Entrance PERSPECTIVE
grand lobby space allows various activities to come together, continuous social spaces throughout, no dead end, core of student village,
View From Main Entrance Lobby PERSPECTIVE
from corridor overlooking towards rock climbing wall and communal cinema, full height glazing allows visual connection to both internal and external, highly permeable physically and visually
View From Upper Lobby Atrium PERSPECTIVE
COMPETITION
06 Lantern LOCATION: Mangatarata / New Zealand
TYPE: Forest Cabin
SCALE: XS / 30 M2
Coorpetatated: Yeong Yee Yeon / Postgraduate Year 2
“While strolling down the trail from the residential grounds to the meditation cabin at dawn, the traveller is attracted to the faint source of light emerging at the heart of the site, illuminating in the dark under the moon, drawing living creatures closer.”
Located in New Zealand, at the Earth Energies Sanctuary run by the married couple Marie and Duncan, the meditation cabin has been designed with the main motive to allow visitors to dissociate from their regular rhythm of life and reconnect with themselves and nature. Upon performing a series of site analyses, the cabin sits in the center of the site surrounded by tall and thick trees. Being given this central strategic location, we had taken cues from the idea of a lantern, protecting the fire from the inside while lighting up the sacred heart of the site, acting as a beacon that attracts living creatures to visit.
The proposed material would be recycled timber, forming a structure for protection from the harsh elements. The form is deliberately stripped back to the minimal, forming a raw and pure visual which requires nothing more than the basics for convenient construction and material transportation. As the cabin is divided into two floors, the ground floor acts as a space that welcomes both humans and animals for shelter, retreat, and relaxation. The upper level which consists of a separate entrance from the side is designed for the main activity of meditation and flower essence production. In meditation, focusing on the aspects of spiritual isolation and reconnection, we wanted to design a space that allows users to be able to both turn inwards to reconnect with themselves and also take advantage of the site and connect to nature. Therefore our cabin implements an architectural strategy of layering that is able to offer two types of experience to the users depending on their preferences. This is done by using two different layers of facade materials, a timber grid layer on the inside that allows maximal exposure, and a retractable translucent membrane layer on the outside to provide a degree of privacy and isolation.
Exploded Axonometric Diagram 1. Timber roof 2. Curtain mount 3. Steel framing 4. Timber platform 5. Timber stud 6. Timber noggings 8. Timber floor joist 7. Timber boards 9. Timber grid structure 10. Polycarbonate membrane 11. Timber flooring 12. Steel column 13. Flower essence production container 14. Movable multipurpose plints
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The facade of the cabin is made from two layers, a timber gird layer and a translucent membrane layer. The outer membrane layer acts as a mosquito net and also a soft boundary between the interior and exterior, generating an intimate and contemplative environment for the users to meditate focusing on turning inwards and reconnecting to their inner selves. At night it allows light to slightly faint through producing a lantern effect that gives the surrounding area diffused lighting rather than a sharp light to attract local animals.
Movable plints that allows the function to be flexibily used as a chair for sitting during meditation, a small table for workspace or other usable functions.
Four plints pushed together forming a small workspace table for flower esscence workshop production
Single plint acting as sitting or standing on stool.
Plints to allow standing to be able to reach frames on the higher ends.
Users able to use plints to meditate in prefered posture.
The inner layer is timber grids that act as the main structure of the cabin. When the membrane is lifted the timber grid allows nature to be unveiled upon the user’s eyes and creates a meditation experience where the senses merge and blend into nature. Keeping the activity of flower essence production in mind, we have combined the features of the product into the frame. The structure allows the process of flower essence production to be placed on the platforms for sufficient light access. When the breeze blows, it carries the scent of the flower essence for a gentle touch on the skin of the visitors.
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