Longtai Liao
LONGTAI LIAO Selected Works 2012-2019 ww.liaolongtai.com
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Longtai Liao 734-623 3202, longtai@umich.edu www.liaolongtai.com
EDUCATION Sep 2017 – May 2019
University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning Master of Architecture
Ann Arbor Michigan, USA
Sep 2012 – Jun 2016
Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Bachelor of Engineering in Architecture (First Class Honors) RIBA Part 1
Suzhou Jiangsu, China
March 2019
Externship, Mark Cavagnero Associates
San Francisco
May 2018 – Aug 2018
Intern Architect, Stanley Saitowitz | Natoma Architects Inc
EXPERIENCE
Jul 2016 – Jun 2017
RECOGNITION Jun 2015 Oct 2014 COMPETITION Sep 2017 Sep 2015 Sep 2014 SKILLS
LANGUAGES
Residential project in Treasure Island, utilize grasshopper as a design tool for facade design.
Worked on rendering, digital modeling and drafted design drawings. Project types are focused on residential and institutional designs: Kol EI Congregation, CCA’s Freshmen Residences, 185 Summit Housing. Making the of�ice portfolio. Assistant Architect, TM Studio
Cultural and Institution projects. Drafted various design drawing, helped to create a standaredized library of construction detail drawings for city renovation of Shanghai. Site supervision.
San Francisco
Shanghai
University Academic Excellence Award Sponsor: Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University In Recognition of Academic Performance top 5% National Encouragement Scholarship Sponsor: National Ministry of Education In Recognition of Academic Performance Shanghai Urban Design Competition Honorable mention
UIA-HYP CUP International Student Competition in Architecture Design Honorable mention IDEERS Earthquake Safe Design Competition First Prize for Architectural Design Revit Auto CAD Rhino
English
Photoshop Illustration Indesign
Highly pro�icient
Digital Fabrication Python Rendering
Mandarin
Grasshopper Maya Sketch Up
Native speaker
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INDEX 01 “New Domesticities” Affordable Housing
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02 An Anonymous Composition What is "better"
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03 “SO SCOPIC” Hotel design
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04 “Infor Informal” Fire Station
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05 The Church of Tea Tea Factory
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06 Re-thinking Shanghai's Enclaves Community Center
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07 Re-thinking working space Factory Renovation
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08 Polychromatic Moss Generative Design Computing
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09 Furniture Design Advanced Fabrication
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10 Professional Work
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New Domesticities
Fall 2018
New Domesticities
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01 “New Domesticities� Affordable Housing
Group Work Cooperate with: Lingmei Kong, Qiaoer Ma Instructor: Kathy Velikov, Jonathan Rule Fall 2018 Historically, the arrangement and configuration of plans, within the context of domestic space most often reveals tight allotments of square footage and compartmentalization of spaces with inherent naming conventions that imply single use, inflexible scenarios of inhabitation: Living Room, Kitchen, Bedroom, etc. But, how we live, work and play is continually changing. The nuclear family, which dominated housing design of the 20th century, is disappearing. Replaced by diverse typologies of post-familial living arrangements, various forms of collectives, and new ways of combining dwelling and working, these new groups require a rethinking of what housing can be. This paradigmatic shift questions the status quo of what constitutes a home, how the private and the shared are partitioned, and what new kinds of spatial uses are necessary. In response to these new domesticities, the projet will explore the development of alternative forms of housing for emergent forms of living and working in Detroit’s Eastern Market area. We are not interested inthe standard kit of parts, but instead we are interested in how these traditional spatial labels can be reframed and recombined at both the familial and communal scales to develop innovative scenarios, spaces, and buildings for contemporary domestic and collective models of living that are emerging in Detroit, and in cities worldwide.
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New Domesticities
Fall 2018
The site is located at the north east corner of the eastern market region in Detroit, crossing the Dequindre Cut Greenway of Detroit and has the potential to connect the Eastern Market Area to a potential residential region in the east. Similar to the Highline in New York City, Dequindre Cut used to be an abandoned railroad line connecting Mack Avenue and the riverfront. It has been through the process transforming to become an urban recreational path and enhanced the quality life of the adjacent neighborhood.
Cutting through the site
Break up the mass
Carving the mass
Open space for the public
Outdoor space intrdouced in Gap
Sharing area in the center
Vehicles entrance
Shops, restaurants and Modularized units in the workshops on the ground middle
Creating a community encouraging sharing outdoor space, sharing working space and facility, sharing living room not only to lower down the living cost and start their own small business , but also engage into the community to lead a new method of collective living.
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1. Grocery 2. Kniting Shop 3. Ceramic Shop 4. Metal Shop 5. Wood Shop 6. Kitchen 7. Cafe 8. Restaurant 9. Training room 10. Community Center Ground Floor Plan
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Inner street view from western entrance
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Fall 2018
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Standard Individual 1b1b unit(1b1b)
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1b1b 31% of total units
Studio 31%
The 2nd and 5th floor are set as a typical multi-function community floor. individual units are mainly set in those level. The common area area used for different activities such as exercises and small lectures.
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Loft 1. Individual unit(1b1b) 2. Cluster living unit (4b2b)2b1b 3. Terrace 3% 4. Cluster living unit (4b1b) 5. Gym 6. Multi-function Staircase
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Second Floor Plan
4b2b E
4b2b W
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Common area in front of the staircase
Terrace with triple-floor height
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Standard Sharing 2b1b unit
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31% of total units
2b1b
1b1b 31% of total units
The 3rd, 4th and 6th floor are set as co-living level. Most of the units here are sharing units which means they don't own their own kitchen and sharing the cooking and dining space with the community.
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Sloping ceiling in top floor with natural sunlight
Sharing Kitchen in 4th floor
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Fall 2018
Living Unit Common Space
Living Unit Bathroom
Sharing Shelf Common Space
Bathroom Sharing Shelf
2b1b
1b1b
The sharing unit with kitchen is well engaged in the common space. The standard sharing unit has multical layers of usage, gradually varied from private to public: bedroom is the most private space, and the bathroom is shared with roommate. The wall facing the sharing space is embedded with a fix shelf. The room entrace is set back to provied a transition space from public to private.
Studio
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Loft 3b1b
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Living Unit Common Space
The unit aggregation is the response of the the building shape and the lay out of the collective living space. Common space is wrapped by living units. Kitchens and other facilities are not included inside the units, residents are encouraged to participate in the public living room.
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Fall 2018 corrugated aluminum panel steel bracing flashing, wrapped into gutter 3-1/2” mineral wool insulation 3/4” plywood sheathing steel structure drywall suspension system 3/8” gypsum board panel
corrugated aluminum panel steel bracing varies
waterproof membrane 3-1/2” mineral wool insulation steel stud wall 3/8” gypsum board panel
4" 7"
2'-8"
aluminum profile
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Low-E glass
5'-6"
LIVING UNIT
7'
rust steel panel steel bracing 1'-6"
waterproof membrane 1” mineral wool insulation
1'-6"
7" 4"
steelcantiliver
1'-6" varies 9'
corrugated aluminum panel steel bracing
LIVING UNIT 8'-6"
waterproof membrane 3-1/2” mineral wool insulation steel stud wall 3/8” gypsum board panel 1" 3'-1"
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LIVING UNIT
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steel panel Bi-fold garage door
5'-6"
aluminum panel drop ceiling steel channel sliding door 11'
11'-6"
LIVING UNIT
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aluminum panel drop ceiling
2'-6"
1-1 SECTION 1/2”=1’-0”
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aluminium corrugated panel
rust panel
dark grey aluminium panel
brick
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Winter 2019
An Anonymous Composition
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02 An Anonymous Composition What is “better”
Thesis, Group Work Cooperate with: Akshay Srisvastava, Henan Liu Instructor: Matias Del Campo, Sandra Manninger Winter 2019 As architects in new age of design we were interested in challenging the idea of what digital design is in the world of AI. With that said we wanted to delve in the realm of complex design process which isn’t absolute or definitive when it comes to decision making while substantiating the relationship of part to the whole. While doing so, we explored digital consolidation of architecture through the process of AI and supervised learning, using a folly as a vehicle. Questions like what is good and what can be perceived to be better was something we were interested in exploring further. As computational designers working with various parameters, the idea to manipulate all of them to create an “ideal” one is challenging task. A defined script helps us generate unbiased model configurations and along with saves the parametric data for each, creating a huge library. This library gives us an array of possibilities to choose from, but this might be cumbersome task. By introducing a supervised learning system, the library of data can be labelled as a set of target and non-target objects based on users’ own design sensibility. The machine learns the data parameters from the target data and return a set of preferred ones, learning the humans’ discernment. This new output set is what the “ideal” configuration should look like, saving our time and helping us approach the “better”. This outputted is what is then post processed by the user to create a folly. The methodology helps creates outcomes that can never be done or mimicked while providing full control to the design process to take the configuration achieved to another level of detailing.
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Criteria I
Criteria II
Monumentality
Delicacy
“The monumental appearance of the glass and steel pyramid fixed in the middle of the court provides a central focal point that compliments the scale and design of the Louvre.”
“The scale of this floating compression is awe-inspiring. Suspended high in the center of an atrium, Sixty-Strut Tensegrity Sphere is nine feet in diameter and weighs 500 pounds. Despite its heft, the sculpture appears light, airy, and delicate.”
---- AD Classics: Le Grande Louvre/I.M. Pei
---- Sixty-Strut Tensegrity Sphere/R. Buckminster Fuller
Criteria III
Criteria IV
Solid
Dynamic
“Kahn’s architecture is full of inversions: masses which suddenly seem weightless, materials which dissolve into immateriality; structures which reverse load and support; rays of light which reveal the realm of shadows; solids which turn out to be voids.” ---- William JR Curtis
Having a supervised learning system that filters through a huge data pool and return the “preferable” ones, the question becomes why we chooses and labels certain options out of others, or what is the criteria? In the realm of architecture, there are tons of criterias and terms architects use to describe a certain building. On one hand, we have simple and straightforward criterias, including “Big”, “Tall”, “Thick”, “Bright”, “High-rise”, “Masonry” and etc., which all have clear definitions that could be either perfectly transferred to numbers or verbally articulated without ambiguity. On the other hand, we also have criterias that is abstract to a certain extent that could not be
“The Valencia Opera House is meant to serve as both a major performing arts facility for Valencia and as a dynamic urban landmark, helping to consolidate and animate the area in which it is built.”
---- Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía / Santiago Calatrava
perfectly articulated and transferred to a simple number, including “Open”, Fineess” ,“Intensive”, “Poise”, “Static”, “Dynamic” and etc. However, these criterias could be well judged by visual representations. One could quickly decide whether they think a certain space is “Open” or not by looking at an image based on their inclination. Therefore, a supervised learning system could fit into these scenarios where one has to make their design meet a abstract criteria that could not be quantitatively be described perfectly. Using these words as a proof of concept we started to run the machine hoping to achieve a “better” result.
“Kah inve seem diss stru supp reve soli void
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Winter 2019
An Anonymous Composition
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Monumentality
Trained by Henan
Trained by Akshay
Trained by Longtai
Delicacy
Trained by Henan
Trained by Akshay
Trained by Longtai
Solid
Trained by Henan
Trained by Akshay
Trained by Longtai
Dynamic
Trained by Henan
Trained by Akshay
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Winter 2019
An Anonymous Composition
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Spring 2018
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02 “SO SCOPIC” Hotel design
Individual Work Instructor: Jeff Halstead Spring 2018 The project is trying to exploring the possibility of creating a new language of form based on an existing language. At the beginning of the design stage, a series of form-making excises are conducted. Those objects are generated by a collection of postmodernism building elements. Elements are merged and split to assemble a new object. The new form exploration end on a stage with mechanical complexity where the original form doesn’t possess. As the postmodernism architecture is regarded as “ironic classicism”, the new form can be called as “irony of ironic-classicism”.
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Axo
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Form Exploration
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Spring 2018
Reception Theater
Entrance Hall
Axo Section
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Ground Floor Plan
2nd Floor Plan
4th Floor Plan
6th Floor Plan
7th Floor Plan
9th Floor Plan
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North elevation
South elevation
West elevation
North elevation
Lobby hall
Shell
Internal structure
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Entrance hall on the ground
Entrance hall on the ground
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Spring 2018
SO_SCOPIC
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Fall 2017
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03 “infor informal” the materialization of data Fire Station
Individual Work Instructor: Laida Aguirre Ann Arbor, Michigan Fall 2017 The studio needs to design a fire station through the consolidation of the informational with the material. The project extracts statistics about fires accidents and its economic influence in order to use them as generative elements in the design process. This project does not claim absolutes through the rationales of data. It sustains that most information is interpreted, biased and can be subjectively implemented and that “data itself can be a construction site for fantasmatic fictions”. (Irit Rogoff)
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Data Mining The basic form of the project is generated from a selection of data about the common causes of property damaging and fatal fires over the past ten years. Data sourece: U.S. Fire Statistics. Avaliable in https://www.usfa.fema. gov/data/statistics/#causesR
Data Materialization When compiled, these data charts create an ambiguous surface of information. This process delivers a double curved surface environment. Turning the data into a physical environment. The forestation becoming a physical abstraction of the original data.
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Section A-A'
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44 The Church of Tea
Spring 2016
The Church of Tea
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04 The Church of Tea Tea Factory
Individual Work Instructor: Glen Wash & Edward Farrell Dongshan, Suzhou, China Spring 2016 The project focus on exploring the possibility of new logics for rural architecture in relation to tea production and consumption. Tea as a significant element has existed in Chinese culture for thousands of years. On one hand, tea as an essential export product has produced countless foreign profit for China in ancient dynasties. On the other hand, tea drinking has developed into a cultural activity which has both ceremonial importance and social implications. The production of tea is an intense manual activity which has not changed much for thousands of years. Its cultivation, harvest, and drinking processes have rich regional diversity. As tea is such an original and long-standing image in China, to some extent, tea can be regarded as a container which carries the Chinese notion of living rule. The final year project will analyze the image of tea in Chinese culture and transform this image into architecture era.
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Spring 2016
Luxiang village is a historic village in the Eastbound of Tai lake. Since Song Dynasty (10th century), Luxiang village were the heart of Biluochun tea production in China, and the village has produced Biluochun for Royal tribute for centuries. At present, Biluochun tea is still the pillar of the economy in this town. The project is located in the Northwest of Luxiang, in a small hill near the island ring road. In the hill, people has a perfect view on both the Tai lake and the whole village. Building located on the hill would be a landmark along the island ring road, which also indicated the presence of Luxiang village.
Concept sketch
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Mountain rock
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上升二层通道
Pool
节奏感，后背
制茶空间 通高
上升二层通道
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light barrel
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1. Nave 2. Tea factory (Packing process) 3. Tea factory (Drying process) 4. Tea factory (Selecting process) 5. The hall 6. Pool 7. Toilet 8. Meditation room 9. Office 10. Tea culture workshop Ground Floor Plan
11. Store house 12.Kitchen / Dinging room 13. Meeting room 14. Store house 15. Theater 16. Office 17. Office 18. Office 19. Tea room
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1.Tea room
2. Tea factory
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4. Enterance
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Fall 2015
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05 Re-thinking Shanghai's Enclaves Community Center Individual Work Instructor: Claudia Westerman Shanghai, China Fall 2015
Immigrants account for nearly half of Shanghai's population at present, and their background are as tanglesome as Shanghai itself. Many of them flow in the city in a placeless life. On the one hand, immigrants now become an inalienable element when we discuss about Shanghai. On the other hand, old Shanghai city has many old structures such as lilong houses survived from previous developments. This project is trying to explore the opportunities of a new mobile lifestyle of Shanghai immigrants by exploring a new architecture responses in relation to those existing structure.
54 Shanghai's Enclaves Yongleli district (lilong house) is near one of the busiest traffic crossroad in Shanghai, which is in the boundary of old Shanghai town. As one of the most authentic Shanghai residential district in the past, Yongleli now has to face the problem of becoming an urban village with too many low-income immigrants moving in. This districts is a perfect example of representing the transition of overlooked urban areas in Chinese urbanization movement.
Fall 2015
Yongleli district has multiple identities. For local people it is the container of their memory. For lowincome immigrant, it is their temporary homes. However, for the developers, Yongleli is the cornucopia for its golden down town location. The old Shanghai neighborhood need its new identity in modern China.
Fruit stand
Public toilet
Alleyway
Additions in corridor
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New blocks are placed upon
the original buildings. The lively 56 Shanghai's Enclaves living atmosphere in the area
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will be kept maximally.
Connections are placed between towers. Ground level and second level are open to public.
New blocks are placed upon the original buildings. The lively P r o v iatmosphere d e a b e t t einr the v i earea w and living human-scale volume by lifting will be kept maximally.
up and staggered arranging the volume.
Provide a better view and human-scale volume by lifting up and staggered arranging the volume.
Youth hostel
Provide a better view and office volume by lifting human-scale Gallery up and staggered arranging the volume.
Connections are placed between towers. Ground level and second training level are open to public.
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Connections are placed between towers. Ground level and second level are open to public.
Youth hostel office
office restaurant
Gallery
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training center
Various of fuctions are vertcally integrated.
office restaurant
Gallery Youth hostel
office training center
Connections are placed between towers. Ground level and second level are open to public.
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Various of fuctions are vertcally
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food market
food market
Various of fuctions are vertcally integrated.
office restaurant
food market
Various of fuctions are vertcally integrated.
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Gallery
Fall 2015
Art Studio
Office
Youth hostel
Shanghai's Enclaves
Library
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Restaurant Training Center
60 Factory Renovation
Spring 2015
Residential quater Residential quater Subway Station Saibo numerical code market
City canal
Existing Site
New Site
Factory Renovation
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06 Re-thinking working space factory renovation Individual Work Instructor: Pierre Alain Suzhou, China Spring 2015
The project site is located near a busy crossroad in urban context. An old factory which is built in the 1970s is included in the site. One part of the project includes the innovation of the factory. Several residence communities are around the area. Three key issues in the site to be considered are city canal, subway station, and a numerical code market. There are two types of contrast in the project. One type of contrast is the relationship between the new building and the old factory. Another contrast is the relationship between the innovative company and the dull residence communities. How to deal with those two contracts would be the key point of the project. The project aims to raise a new form of working place which can increase the company’s social participation. Architecture as a strategy is used to intervene in the social issue.
Public Event
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Public Event
Public Event
Public Event
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LOBBY
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PUBLIC AREA
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CORRIDOR
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PUBLIC AREA River
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PUBLIC AREA
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OFFICE RELAX EXHIBITION ZONE GYM READING ROOM THEATER CAFFE CANTEENRELAX New Block OFFICE ZONE EXHIBITION Solution READING ROOM THEATER CAFFE GYM CANTEEN Solution
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RELAX ZONE
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OFFICE EXISTING FACTORY
PUBLIC AREA
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OFFICE OFFICE RELAX EXHIBITION ZONE Existing structure GYM READING ROOM THEATER CAFFE CANTEEN PLAZA OFFICE OFFICE OFFICE
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PUBLIC AREA PUBLIC AREA Rethinking of the working space EXISTING FACTORY New Block
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OFFICE OFFICE
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EXISTING FACTORY Existing structure
Public Event
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EXISTING FACTORY
River
Public Event
Public Event
New Working Space
Company
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New Working Space
JOINT VOLUME
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Company
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Factory Renovation
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64 Polychromatic Moss
Winter 2018
Polychromatic Moss
IF THE POINT WAS DEAD, IT WILL SURVIVE ONLY WHEN THE NUMBER OF ITS SURVIVING SURROUNDING NEIGHBOURS IS THREE
07 Polychromatic Moss X = 40, Y = 6, Z = 150 NORMAL STAGE
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MUTATION STAGE
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GROWING WITH MUTATION ? Generative Design Computing Group Work Instructor: Glenn Wilcox Cooperate with: Henan Liu Winter 2018 IF THE POINT WAS ALIVE, ITS CURRENT STATE DEPENDS ON THE NUMBER OF ITS SURVIVING SURROUNDING NEIGHBOURS (EITHER THREE OR TWO)
Cellular automation defines a world standing in between clear rule and ambiguity. The rule is that every individual’s presence depends only on it's previous surviving state and adjacent the neighborhood which cannot be either too packed or too desolate in order to the subject alive. Such rule determines that the global behaviors depend only on its local interactions but can still create surprisingly variable and at the same time seemingly predictable ‘patterns ’.
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BESIDES THE CONDITIONS OF SURVIVING OF NORMAL STAGE, THERE’S A SLIGHT POSSIBILITY THAT A POINT CAN REBORN OUT OF NOWHERE
By manipulating the local rules and global influences, we create a self-organized surface system that follows any surface and adjust itself when its population drops down dramatically MUTATION o r i sSTAGE approaching convergence. Simple ? ? ?geometries are created to be mapped cellular into the? system and to reflect the surviving ? states of each cell. As the color indicates, ? ? ? every surviving cell has its distinct character. IF THE POINT WAS DEAD, IT WILL SURVIVE ONLY WHEN THE NUMBER OF ITS SURVIVING SURROUNDING NEIGHBOURS IS THREE
BESIDES THE CONDITIONS OF SURVIVING OF NORMAL STAGE, THERE’S A SLIGHT POSSIBILITY THAT A POINT CAN REBORN OUT OF NOWHERE
X = 40, Y = 6, Z = 150 STANDARD GROWING
NORMAL STAGE
IF THE POINT WAS ALIVE, ITS CURRENT STATE DEPENDS ON THE NUMBER OF ITS SURVIVING SURROUNDING NEIGHBOURS (EITHER THREE OR TWO)
X = 40, Y = 12, Z = 150 GROWING WITH MUTATION X = 40, Y = 6, Z = 150 STANDARD GROWING
X = 40, Y = 6, Z = 150
GROWING WITH MUTATION
IF THE POINT WAS DEAD, IT WILL SURVIVE ONLY WHEN THE NUMBER OF ITS SURVIVING SURROUNDING NEIGHBOURS IS THREE X = 40, Y = 6, Z = 150
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BESIDES THE CONDITIONS OF SURVIVING OF NORMAL STAGE, THERE’S A SLIGHT POSSIBILITY THAT A POINT CAN REBORN OUT OF NOWHERE
1_NORMAL STAGE, 2 NEIGHBOURS, SURVIVE 2_NORMAL STAGE, 3 NEIGHBOURS, SURVIVE 3_NORMAL STAGE, 3 NEIGHBOURS, REBORN 4_MUTATION STAGE, 2 NEIGHBOURS, SURVIVE 5_MUTATION STAGE, 3 NEIGHBOURS, SURVIVE 6_MUTATION STAGE, 3 NEIGHBOURS, REBORN 7_MUTATION STAGE, 10% POSSIBILITY, CREATED
X = 40, Y = 12, Z = 150
1_NORMAL STAGE, 2 NEIGHBOURS, SURVIVE 2_NORMAL STAGE, 3 NEIGHBOURS, SURVIVE 3_NORMAL STAGE, 3 NEIGHBOURS, REBORN 4_MUTATION STAGE, 2 NEIGHBOURS, SURVIVE 5_MUTATION STAGE, 3 NEIGHBOURS, SURVIVE 6_MUTATION STAGE, 3 NEIGHBOURS, REBORN 7_MUTATION STAGE, 10% POSSIBILITY, CREATED
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1_NORMAL STAGE, 2 NEIGHBOURS, SURVIVE 2_NORMAL STAGE, 3 NEIGHBOURS, SURVIVE 3_NORMAL STAGE, 3 NEIGHBOURS, REBORN 4_MUTATION STAGE, 2 NEIGHBOURS, SURVIVE 5_MUTATION STAGE, Polychromatic Moss3 NEIGHBOURS, SURVIVE 6_MUTATION STAGE, 3 NEIGHBOURS, REBORN 7_MUTATION STAGE, 10% POSSIBILITY, CREATED
Winter 2018
WE MADE IT
Arch 591: Generative Design Computing Prof. Glenn Wilcox Fall 2018
L O N G TA I L I A O HENAN LIU
Polychromatic Moss
Longtai Liao 67 Python Script
import rhinoscriptsyntax as rs import math import random as rnd class cell(object):
for i in range(imax): for j in range(jmax): x=i y=j z=0 pointID = rs.AddPoint(x, y, z) pointPos = rs.PointCoordinates(pointID) #pointID = [i,j] pointState = rnd.random() if pointState >0.5: secondState = 1 else: secondState = 0
def __init__(self, ID, POS, STATE, ZMAX): self.list = [] self.ID = ID self.pos = POS self.state = STATE self.zmax = ZMAX self.list.append(self.state) def live(self,point01, point02, point03,point04,point05,point06,point0 7,point08,k): allState = point01.list[k]+point02.list[k]+point03.list[k]+point03. list[k]+point04.list[k]+point05.list[k]+point06.list[k]+point07. list[k]+point08.list[k]
pointState = secondState point[(i,j)] = cell(pointID, pointPos, pointState,zmax) if pointState <= 0.5: rs.DeleteObject(pointID) rs.EnableRedraw(True) for k in range(zmax): rs.EnableRedraw(False) for i in range(imax): for j in range(jmax): if i == 0: iminus1 = imax-1 if i > 0: iminus1 = i - 1
if self.list[k] ==1: if allState >= 4: newState = 0 elif allState <= 1: newState = 0 else: newState = 1 rs.AddPoint(self.pos)
if i == imax-1: iplus1 = 0 if i < imax-1: iplus1 = i + 1
else: if allState == 3: newState = 1 rs.AddPoint(self.pos) else: newState = 0
if j == 0: jminus1 = jmax-1 if j > 0: jminus1 = j - 1 if j == jmax-1: jplus1 = 0 if j < jmax -1: jplus1 = j + 1
self.state = newState self.list.append(self.state) self.pos = (self.pos[0], self.pos[1], self.pos[2]+1) def main(): imax = rs.GetInteger('Enter X Value', 40) jmax = rs.GetInteger('Enter Y Value', 6) zmax = rs.GetInteger('Enter Z Value', 150) pointPopulation = [] point = {} rs.EnableRedraw(False)
point[(i,j)].live(point[(iminus1,jminus1)],point[(iminus1,j)], point[(iminus1,jplus1)],point[(i,jplus1)], point[(iplus1,jplus1)], point[(iplus1,j)], point[(iplus1,jminus1)], point[(i,jminus1)] ,k) rs.EnableRedraw(True)
main()
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Longtai Liao 69
08 Furniture Design Chair, Stool
Individual Work Instructor: Glenn Wilcox Winter 2019
70 Professional Work
Summer 2018
08 Professional Work
Work for STANLEY SAITOWITZ | NATOMA ARCHITECTS INC. Summer 2018 188 Hooper, Freshmen Residences of CCA San Francisco, CA
Professional Work
Longtai Liao 71
STANLEY SAITOWITZ | NATOMA ARCHITECTS INC. Summer 2018 1111 Sunset, Residential Tower Los Angeles, CA