Portfolio from Naifei Liu for Master of Architecture

[Hybridity] PORTFOLIO OF LIU NAIFEI SELECTED WORKS 2012-2015

EMAIL: liunaifei0306@163.com ADDRESS: Room 308,Student Housing 16, Xishan, Dalian University of Technology Dalian, Liaoning, P.R.China

hybridity hybridity The idea of hybridity originated in 19th century science, it was soon applied to the humanities in the frame of postmodern theory and proved very rich both in its ideological and aesthetic derivations.

Then,hybridity becomes a key concept within postmodernism as a political statement that comes to problematize boundaries.

The concept is subversive against the background of an alleged essential purity These are the traits that identify postmodern art.

Postmodern novels are hybrid in their mixture of heterogeneous elements of content and form.

Hybridity can also be a concept of architecture. It implies “flexibility, openness, adaptation, ambiguity, contradiction and irony�

CONTENTS

01.Architecture x Personality [Double House] contradiction and irony

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02.Architecture x History [Artist Community] ambiguity and contradiction

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03.Architecture x Culture [Union Square Film Archive] openness and adaptation

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04.Architecture x Urban [Extended stadium] flexibility and openness

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05.Architecture x Activities [Extended stadium] flexibility and openness

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06.Art work

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Resume & Acknowledgement

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01. Architecture x Personality [Double House] GSD Career Discovery/2015.06 Individual Work Tutor: Zach Seibold Location: Cambridge, Ma, USA Program: House, 156 ㎥

The site is very narrow for two clients, one is a monk and the other is a break dancer.

The two of them have very contradictory personality, which lead to the different requirements for space and architecture forms in one site. Thus I want my design can do something that distinguishing as well as integrating their features. The design started with a series of abstractive spatial studies thereby to trigger the design essence.

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Concept

from the personality to space [ break dancer]

the boxes imitate the movement of break dancer

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Behaviors indicate their emotional concern and spiritual world. Their house should have interaction with their personality. Architecture should be a tool to show their personality.

Use the simple boxes as typology; assemble them in different ways, to generate different space through geometry operations.

Strange body movement gives the break dancer an unique perspective of the world. It is in a crazy, twisted, unstable state. That's what the dancer longing for. Their living space should be same as their spiritual world.

Through analyzing their movement, I translate their dance language to the architecture language and try to create the disorder, skew, emotional space for the dancer.

Program Boxes' arrangement [SKEW]

Concept

from the personality to space [ reclusive monk]

the boxes imitate the spiritual world of reclusive monk

stairs room

bathroom

bedroom

Model dinning room

gate

lobby

horizontal extension

overlap

obscure light

closed

RECLUSIVE MONK

Program Boxes' arrangement [OVERLAP]

Monks concentrate on the spiritual world. They seem seldom move a lot. They spend whole day in losing themselves in the spiritual world they create. Their living space is narrow. However, in their mind, the space can extend far away.

Everything is quite, slow and expansive.

Just like the Chinese painting. It is subjectively expressing people’s inner reaction towards the whole society.

Conventionally, China’s painting is directly connecting with calligraphy. The painting is the outside expression of the poem content and the image of calligraphy, and it is also the exterior show of people’s inner world. The poem is painting and painting is poem as well. Additionally, many people’s personal ambition or lifelong aim cannot be realized by the earthly work, and then the paint their ideal world into their painting.

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Design Strategy

synthesis the two space

The design starts from some boxes with different size. The target architectural space should be built based on combination of the boxes, reply to words like SKEW, ADJOIN, WRAP, INTERLOCK, OVERLAP, and analysis of client’s personality. Overlap of the two is not only 2D coincide, it focuses on the stereo interaction. In the function part, the skew space can be the vertical connection (stairs) for the overlap space, and the skew space can be the ground of the overlap space.

ORIGINAL TYPE

ASEMBLE WAY

SKEW

CLIENTS

INTERACTION

SPACE

BREAK DANCER

ADJOIN

Overlap 3D

WRAP

Personality

INTERLOCK

RECLUSIVE MONK RECLUSIVE MONK

OVERLAP

SYTHESIS

BREAK DANCER

Plan 5m

+2.000m

10m

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+3.600m

+4.200m

+6.000m

Roof

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A-A Section 03

Sequence

moment through the circulation

Light & Space height

The direction of the circulation

Monk's Circulation

Moment when they meet

X

Y

Relative position

X Axis Distance

The interaction between the two circulation

Relative Distance Window shape & The pace of space

Moment through the circulation

Dancer's Circulation

Y Axis Distance

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02. Architecture x History [Artist Community] Academic /2015.5 Individual Work Tutor: Zhou Bo Location:Dalian, Liaoning, China Program: urban renewal, 2340 ㎥

Old city quarter cannot run away from demolition, Dongguan Street is a place like this. With the rapid urban development, former commercial residential centre fell into crumbling slums. However, the old buildings contain rich humanistic emotions, an integral of the city culture. Simple demolition will make the precious culture disappear, thus bringing new energy to the block becomes a major problem. As the only element that full of life, trees are chosen to be the origin of the renovation project.

Background

Concept

the old block witnesses the history of city

In 1897ďźŒcolonists from Russia divided the Guandong Block to the Chinese residents. In the year of 1905, when Japanese colonists arrived, the Guandong Street had developed into a commercial block with some scale. The prosperity lasted in early 1990s, whereas the block is among the shabby areas. The more than 100 years’ history witnesses the development and evolvement of the Dalian City, and is the last living gathering place for the older generations in Dalian.

tree is the very begining of renewal

Tree's Effection [0m-8m]

Bring vitality to people's life, improve the living space

Block's Effection [100m-500m]

government high density

knock down rebuild

city central

tourism

profit

resident

memory

city history

economy estate

visitor

Reconstruct the old house

old story

vitality quality

artist

tree

lifestyle

neighbour

The old buildings contain rich humanistic emotions, an integral of the city history. Simple demolition will make the precious culture disappear, thus bringing new energy to the block becomes a major problem. As the only element that full of life, trees are chosen to be the origin of the renovation project.

District's Effection [1000m-3000m] History reburn

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First floor plan

Evolution

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free the ground

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Art Studio

New Artist Community

Living with trees!

Art Exibition!

Outdoor Theater!

Overlook the whole block ! !

Art Studio!

Central Gallery!

Shopping!

A-A Section

A-A Section

B-B Section

B-B Section

C-C Section

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The big stair is a really good place to watch the movie and show!

It is so lucky that the precious historic buildings can be saved!

Talk with friends on the platform!

The trees remind me of the old times in the old house!

As an artist, I can live here, work here and hold personal exibition!

The Dongguan street is full of vitality now!

New Lifestyle with Old Memory

The memories of daily life, and the profile of the leaves and branches, re-outline the house’s volume/void, the container of memory. The individual as well as the collective memories are aroused in the atmosphere.

The shopping street is really distinctive!

Detail

build on the old buildings

new

01.reconstruct the old roof

roof

drainpipe

overview

entrance B to the residence

02. the connection A

entrance A to the resident

outdoor theater

old brick wall

new construction

04.new accessible roof

03. the floor of new building

05.the connection B

06.the connection C

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03.Architecture x Culture [Film Archive] GSD Career Discovery/2015.06 Individual Work Tutor: Zach Seibold Location: Union Square, Somerville, Ma, USA Program: Film Archive&Theater, 3530 ㎥

The site locates in a district with busy traffic and next to the union square. As the main activity area for residents living around, the design should offer a comprehensive activity area, which combines functions of Film Archive and indoor and outdoor theaters. According to Aldo Rossi, architecture must not be understood as in the city, but rather OF the city and the complexity of the site. Thus the architecture is put in a broader background for consideration.

It is made as the symbol of the city, for attracting more people, creating positive public areas and improving surrounded environments.

Site

city requires architecture to react

Generation

city requires architecture to react

Plan

Section Original shape, each tube is one function

Union square is a key urban node, locating in the link section of Boston and Cambridge, where gathers many restaurants, post office, police office and Saturday temporary market. Due to lack of public space and green coveting, few people participate in outdoor activities, the traffic congests and the air quality is bad.Railway and viaduct are in distance and the land nearby is in waste.

The function determine the length of the bars

Buildings

Get the control line from the city( the traffic, pedestrian way, buildings and the landscape.

Pedestrian

Fix the tube,keep the linear space with strong connection to the line

Landscape

Reshape the tube; make the space diversity. Add the slope as a temporary activities space

Program

Temporary and Permanent

400 OUTDOOR THEARTER

Heavy Traffic

300 100

PUBLIC THEATER PRIVATE THEATER

TD

500 TEMPORARY MARKET

1000 NATURE LANDCAPE

200 CAFE 300 TEMPORARY EXIBITION 500 OUTDOOR ACRIVITY

TEMPORARY PROGRAMS PERMANENT PROGRAMS

500 EXHIBITION

400 FILM ARCHIVE 100 ART GALLERY

Figure/Ground

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500 PLAZA

500 INDOOR THEATRE

400 STANDARD THEATRE 100 BIG STEPS

300 LIBRARY

400 PUBLIC LIBRARY 100 PRECIOUS COLLECTION

100 SERVICE

BIG STEPS

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FILM FESTIVIAL

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100 OFFICE

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Sequence

Floor Plan +5.000m

the interaction between bars perspective ❶

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1.Outdoor theater 2.Exhibition 3.Cafe 4.Libarary 5.Outdoor Cafe 6.Private theater

perspective ❷

library

Floor Plan +2.000m

perspective ❸

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7.Indoor theater 8.Office 9.Toliet 10.Big steps 11.Main entrance 12.Staff entrance 5m

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Circulation Section AA Section BB Section

POLICEOFFICE

POST OFFICE

POST OFFICE

DUNKIN DONUTS

The building can roughly divided by two part, The first part is the slope which is more outward. Most outdoor activities happen on the slope. The slope is good carrier for the outdoor theater. The higher level defines a more safety space and people won't be bothered by the traffic. The second part are several bars.

Bars have different function, are separated but connected in some part.The model show the different part of the building. The main programs are archive, library, theater and assistance room.

1.Outdoor theater 2.Exhibition 3.Main entrance 4.Libarary 5.Office

6.Indoor theater 7.Toliet 8.Big steps 9.Central knot

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AA Section

BB Section 09

Space Catalogue

linear space

Act Six

Act Seven

Linear space--story line

Act One

I got inspiration from the film. The film is combined by so many scene, the director design the scenes to tell the story and emotion. The audience follow the story line to view the world in the movie. So I want to translate this experience to the building. When people walk in the building, they feel like they were watching movie. The space, which is like the film, is long and changeable. And the montage, which is very useful skills in the movie will also, been used in the building. Each bar indicates one story, in some part of the audience can change the path to another ending of the story.

Act Three Act Two

Act Four

Act Five

Overview Axonometric

connect to the city

Temporary and Permanent Outdoor theater

Outdoor Cafe

Private theater

Market Connect to the city--sight line

According to the analysis of the site, some important points are been made. Lines are been connected between the building and these points.

In the building, people's sights are been guide to certain direction of the city, which make the building has interaction with the city. Outside the building, people can look the building in the perfect orientation. And the building is a landmark of the city.

The lines also divide the slope, which makes the public space more diversity.

Outdoor theater

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04. Architecture x Urban [Skyscraper] Academic/2014.11 Individual Work Tutor: Jingming Qu Location:Dalian, Liaoning Province, China Program: Urban Complex, 38200 ㎥

Driven by the increasing of land values, the density of central city becomes higher and higher. The complex programs are compacted in the skyscraper in vertical direction. The movement of people depends on the elevator. There is no place for people to stop, to relax and slow their pace. The skyscraper is a highly preserving environment. In urban design, it is normal method that add lowdensity block in the city to improve the quality of city. To the vertical city—skyscraper, we can transform this method---add low density unit in the building.

Research vertical city development Vertical development and densification consist of the irresistible trend of new city districts’ development. For quite a long time, some non-architectural and low-density area shows up as urban green area and platform for public activities. With stimulus of interests, the central area will continuously shrink, or even disappear in the near future. Even protection actions cannot be helpful with the current layout, which cannot suit for users’ demands for public area. Under the vertical development background, people’s vertical activities will definitely compass horizontal activities. Thus I hope to transfer the layout method in traditional urban open space, vertically integrate it into the city and undertake the functions of public areas and green land.

Now

Now--Future

Now

the pattern of city growing expand

grow density: 25%

daily transportation: *vertical: 10% *horizontal:90% In the past the expanding of city is realized by the increasing of the land on the horizontal direction. Now, Driven by the high land prize in the central city, the city expands in the vertical direction.

non-stop city occupied blocks

public space: *ground:90% *above the ground:10% average height of building: 25m

tight units

transform Now--Future The city road is getting busy. The blocks are filled up. When people walking in the city, no place for them to stop. So is the vertical direction. The high speed elevator make the people in the building have no chance to stop.

arrangement of public green space

low density blocks

open units

density: 50%

daily transportation: *vertical: 10% *horizontal:90% public space: *ground:10% *above the ground:90%

average height of building: 108m As we do in the city (add park, plaza in the city), we replace some units of the building to the green and open “stop units”.

*Take Dalian Zhongshan district as an example

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Site Plan

apply the research

The site is in the central part of the city, where is full of skyscraper

Building strategy

❶ conventional building

from the city to the buildings

❷ add open space

❸ complex program

❹ reshape the open space

❺ slow the circulation

Plan

Section

complex program

5m

10m

vertical public space

20m

11F

office garden Apartment

roof

curve garden

3F

restaurant cafe outdoor cafe theater

Hotel

Office

2F

retail restaurant cafe public space circulation

Complex

1F

retail bookshop gallery

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05. Architecture x Activities [Extended Stadium] Academic work/2015.03-04 Individual Work Tutor: Xiaodong,Lu Location:Yangzhou, Jiangsu Province, CHINA Program: Stadium, 15673 ㎥

Stadium, regarded as the landmark of a city, often means huge scale and outstanding form, but as is often the case, little attention is paid to the leer space outside. Also, many are designed only for mega events, which leads to very low frequency in every day use.

Thus, this time, I try to merge this mega structure into landscape, and by emphasizing on the diversity of activities it offers, each part of this stadium can play a more vivid role in people's daily life.

Analysis of variety sports space Doing sports has become a necessary part for many people, while different sports require different spaces. Through analysis of various spatial demands, a flexible and changeable spatial form is created to avoid former waste in space and resources.

Size Of Space

Key Point

Flexibility

Selected

Publicity

Low

Small

High

Huge Water Polo

Swimming

Fishing

Diving

Yoga

Snooker

Indoor

Ping-Pong

Gymnastics

Fitness

Dancing

Boxing

Both

Volleyball

Open Air

Shooting

Chess

Basketball

Badminton

Tennis

Roller Skating

Plaza Dancing

Jogging

Hockey

Free Running

Concept

Football

Cycling

Camping

Archery

Rock Climbing

Downhill

Caving

Bungee

Vertical

Water

merge this mega structure into landscape

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Hill in the nature, extract the outline of the hill as the shape of the building. Huge building be the landscape of the city.

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Keep the basic program, extend the structure to the ground, make the building intergrate with the site.

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Adjust the angle of each bridge to the ground; meet the requirement of different volume.

Add curve roof, make the building more dynamic , atractive and be the landmark of the city.

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Section

activities on the "bridge"

'Bridge' acts as the main structure, as well as a way to divide the stadium into different functional parts, and provide each part under the beam with correspondent scale according to the practical activities.

❶ Diving platform

5m

❷ Climbing wall

❸ Tunnel

❹ Swing

❺ Runway

10m

❻ Slope

20m

Plan

activities under the "bridge"

'Bridge' stretches gradually into the ground, cast less shadow, becomes an essential element in the site design and thus reduce unwanted negative space.

Activity, architecture and landscape are elaborated in a whole.

grid from the structure

rotate 50º

design based on grid

5m

❶ Swimming Pool

❷ Basketball Court

❸ Main Playground

❹ Outdoor Theatre

❺ Courtyard

10m

20m

❻ Skateboarding Field

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Structure

Building, Bridges, Activities,People

“Stadium, regarded as the landmark of a city, often means huge scale and outstanding form, but as is often the case, little attention is paid to the leer space outside. Also, many are designed only for mega events, which leads to very low frequency in every day use. Thus, this time, I try to merge this mega structure into landscape, and by emphasizing on the diversity of activities it offers, each part of this stadium can play a more vivid role in people's daily life. �

Overview Axonometric Building Skin

Architectural acoustics

reverberation time ：1.57s volume per seat：12.21m3/seat

Transverse Connection

Main bridges cafe restaurant flexible space

3F

Public Space &Stands 1808㎡

Auditorium Construction

evacuation gate

2F

Evacuation platform &Stands 2807㎡

1F

main entrance stairs

Compitition arena Public Space 7716㎡

-1F

Service 3342㎡ Concrete construction

1:300 Structure model

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06. Art Work [Drawing&Photograph]

Hand drawing, photography are the means by which I allow things external to architecture to inform my design process. In travel, they have allowed me to discover fascinations.

The photography is perceived in a radically different way than the measured line drawing. A charcoal drawing is perceived in a radically different way than the measured line drawing.

A charcoal drawing is perceived differently than either of these.

“Architecture tends to consume everything else�

-----Arne Jacobsen

Size:540 Dalian, Liaoning P

[The Geometry in Architecture] 2014.8 Taken by iPhone Tour in Europe

[Fantasy]

2010.8 Size:210mm x 285mm Wuhai, Inner mongolia, China

[Horse]

2013.8-2014.8 0mm x 380mm Province, China

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LIU NAIFEI +86-15140658615 liunaifei0306@163.com

EDUCATION

Dalian University of Technology (DUT) Bachelor of Architecture| Sep/2011 – Jun/2016(Expected) TOFEL: 100 | Oct/10/2015 GRE: 316 | Oct/30/2015 GPA: 3.73/4.00

SOFTWARE

RHINOCEROS, GRASSHOPPER, SKETCHUP, AUTOCAD, REVIT , V-RAY , PHOTOSHOP, ILLUSTRATOR, INDESIGN

EXPERIENCES

Urbanism History Regeneration Workshop Team leader | May/2015-Jun/2016 Completed 1 projects GSD Career Discovery Summer Student | Jun/2015-Jul/2015 Completed 3 studio projects Canada Dennue Architecture Design Co., Ltd Internship | Oct 2014-Jan 2015 http://www.dennue.com

HONOR & AWARDS

Second Prize Study Scholarship top 10% | Sep 2014 First Prize Innovation Scholarship top 15% | Sep 2013 Second Prize Study Scholarship top 10% | Sep 2012 National Architectural College Student Work Exhibition Excellent Design Prize | Sep 2014

PUBLICATIONS

1.Lang Yu, Yilin He, Mingshu Zhao, Junhong Zhu, Naifei Liu, Yuzhang, Study of B2B to Industrial Products, Times Finance, 2015(6);51-59 2.Mingshu Zhao, Junhong Zhu, Naifei Liu, Lang Yu, Yu Zhang, Study of Commercial Complex Building’s Design Patterns, Urbanism and Architecture, 2015(14);34-35

EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES Global Volunteer in Africa Member | Jan 2014-Feb 2014 AIESEC oGIP Team Leader |Sep 2012- Dec 2014

[Acknowledgement] I would like to thank all that help me with my work in this portfolio.

Including my studio advisors in Dalian University of Technology and the director Zach Seibold in GSD Career Discovery. Your valuable comments and critiques helped me understand myself better and urged me to move forward. Thanks to all those companions and friends who share profound knowledge and penetrating insight with me in different stages of my life, especially Xie Hua,Xu Jiazhen, Bi Xuejiao, Zhang mimi, Mao Yue, Zhu Junhong, Zhao Nan, Liu Zhanyue. Lastly, I would like to express my deepest thanks to my parents and Dashabi, for their selfless sacrifice, patience and understanding.

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