portfolio by Xin Liu

EDUCATION

EXPERIENCE

X i n

Name:

Xin Liu

phone:

+45 50283501

E-mail: Address:

L i u

liuxinlucy1002@gmail.com Grækenlandsvej 35, 1TV 2300 København S, Denmark

SKILLS

LANGUAGE

P o r t f o l i o

P a r t 1 : T h e s i s

P a r t 2 : p r a c t i c e

P a r t 3 : S c e n o g r a p h y

T h e s i s

The mechanical and the sensuality Brewery and bath design, Granada, Spain, 2012-2013

My site is located in a historical area of Granada,called AlbayzĂn, which is facing Moorish Palac Alhambra, and have access to a local river Darro. AlbayzĂn retains the narrow winding streets of its Medieval Morrish past. My project is built on top of an empty ruin. I challenge to design a project in a historical site with combining fuction of brewery and Hammam (turkish bath). Setting back from the crowded neighbourhood and having a higher view towards the gorgeous Alhambra are my two main strategies.

The mechanical: Water

By researching on Islamic culture, I've found that water is an essential element, especially in architecture, garden, in people's ritual life and religious life. The water stored in a technical space, heated by a boiler, conveyed through niches and basins, and comes into experienced space: Hammam. Together with decoration, skylight and naked bodies, Hammam colors with sensuality. Most hammams in Granada were fed directly from the public aqueducts or cisterns using a system of water distribution. The floor is heated by hot smoke from the furnace. Hot smoke passed under the hot room and the winter undressing room before rising up through a chimney in the wall.

Sensuality: Hammam

It is described as a place where the Sultan rested after the bath. He would lay on the cushions and carpets in the bedrooms that surrounded the central space, while he admired his wives that danced naked, with the rhythm of musicians seated in the upper gallery, who would not able to look at what happened below. When the Sultan chose one of his wives to have a night of passion, he threw an apple at her, and it was received proudly by the lady. Hammams, as the sensors of nature, deliver to the body. My project reagards as a medium between physical experience and mechanical design.

Mechanical study: heating and balancing

Inspired by the a balance siphon coffee maker, I study the transition area of a brewery working space. A balance siphon has the two chambers arranged side by side on a balancelike device, with a counterweight attached to the heated chamber. Once the vapor has forced the hot water out, the counterweight activates a springloaded snuffer which smothers the flame and allows the initial chamber to cool down thus lowering pressure (creating a vacuum) and causing the brewed coffee to seep in. Likewise, the darwings(on the right)show the process when liquid transfer s from a boiling kettle to a lauterning tank with the same principle.

Context study: Sweet nuns There are two convents next to my site. And the nuns earn their living by selling sweets and confections. After ringing a bell, you talk through a window/door contraption with a wheel in the middle that had dividers to prevent any possibility of seeing the other side. They put the sweets on the wheel and we put the money, and the wheel was spun to exchange.

Transition space study - nuns and public

Context study: Public and Private The teahouse and apartment building are occupied by three groups of people: customers, owners and tenants Through a small private door to a courtyard, the owner family lives above the tearoom. In sunny days, they spend morning time on the terrace facing the garden below and then take charge the tearoom in the afternoon. The melodic sound from the fountain by the entrance is an invitation to customers enjoying a cup of tea . Students has an individual entrance to the other courtyard with typical Arabic layout. The staircase c o n n e c t s g a l l e r y a n d t e r r a c e s w i t h t h e i r o wn apartments.

Time-shifting use: In the morning

Time-shifting use: In the afternoon

Hybrid function diagram: brewing space,

Hammam, reservoir and tasting area

section digram: machine living 1

section digram: machine living 2

section digram: machine living 3

Project Through function collage, the temperature connection between brewing and bathing has been transformed into a section with a centre pool. The bodies are surrouned by brewing tanks. The copper boiler soaks inside the pool along with the bodies, maintaining a certain temperature. A steam room lying on top of the kettle, captures hot air and aroma from below.

Boiling kettle convey hot air to the steam room

convert

beer tanks to sauna space

A centre pool surrounded by tanks is heated by a boiling kettle

ferment

storage

cleaning room

yeast room

storage tasting area

storage

conditioning

Basement plan 1:200 (fermentation, storage and tasting area)

Lab

office

void

Ground floor plan 1:200 (reservoir, lab and office)

mash tun

malt tun

mash tun lautern tun

malt tun

beer pool boiler void

lautern tun

warm pool

Entrance plan

Bath and beer spa plan

beer pool

mash tun

malt tun

mash tun lautern tun

beer pool boiler void

lautern tun

warm massage pool room

Brewing and Sauna plan

beer pool

steam room and massage plan

p r a c t i c e

Highrise Building Competition Nanjing, China, 2008

The site is located in the old city centre of Nanjing, with a high density and low story buildings. My proposal is to slim the high-rise building volume into a thin layer going around the site, leaving a centre square to public. I spread out public functions through out the "mountain", and connect them into a continuous green pedestrian in the air, where people can enjoy a dynamic panorama view toward to the whole city.

Plan (1-3): shopping centre (4-33):office, gallery, cafe, park (41-50):observatory

Damesalen, overbygning KĂ¸benhavns Universitet, NĂ¸rre Campus Denmark, 2014

The Rong's Family Factory Renovation Wuxi,China, 2009

The project locates in the river bank of Wuxi. It used to be a heavy-industry factory. Along with others, the abandoned building has turned into the landmark and memory in local. We propose to renovate the decayed envolope and bring a culture centre to the factory.

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12.media room 13.music room 14.coffee/tea 15.void 16.office 3rd floor plan

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7.bookstore 8.gallery 9.video room 10.pool 11.auditorium 2nd floor plan

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1.installation 2.fashion show 3.DIY 4.performance 5.hall/reception 6.shop ground floor plan

Structure The exsisting columns with corbels used to enlarge the burden. They are the traces from industry. We propose to keep them as the main "trunk" and to build a new floor and boxes upon them. Thus, there is a dialogue between old brick envelope and new concrete content.

S c e n o g r a p h y

Opera Parsifal Stage Design Poznan, Poland, 2013

PARSIFAL by Richard Wagner Concept and staging by Hotel Pro Forma Teatr Wielki w. Poznan Parsifal is the last opera by Richard Wagner, premiered at Bayreuth Festspielhaus 1882. Parsifal was originally conceived as a â&#x20AC;?festival play for the consecration of the Stage.â&#x20AC;? With Parsifal, Wagner tried to raise and share his beliefs in a foundation of humanity: the idea of compassion among human beings counter pointing egoistic values. Wagner positioned himself very much against the secularised and materialistic orientation of his era, strictly based on progress, science and capital; principles that he considered inhuman. Parsifal can be conceived as a Wagner manifesto, a proclamation for compassion, and should be treated as such.

CONCEPT The opera Parsifal has a long tradition of many interpretations. Using a postdramatic theatre dramaturgy the artistic team of Hotel Pro Forma elaborates on the heavily- loaded symbollic contents to create a new visual and conceptual version of the opera. The post-dramatic theatre is based on a non-hierarchy between theatrical resources, namely text, music, light and space. This non-hierarchy makes the development of a visual dramaturgy possible, which can function independently of the one already proposed in the written text/libretto. This kind of dramaturgy derives from an associative logic and allows heterogeneous spaces and temporalities to meet and interact.

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Wor Name:

Xin Liu

phone:

+45 50283501

E-mail: Address:

liuxinlucy1002@gmail.com Grækenlandsvej 35, 1TV 2300 København S, Denmark

Name:

Xin Liu

phone:

+45 50283501

E-mail: Address:

liuxinlucy1002@gmail.com Grækenlandsvej 35, 1TV 2300 København S, Denmark

SKILLS

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Mod

LANGUAGE

SKILLS

Chi Eng Dan

LANGUAGE

BORN

Shenyang, China

1985

EDUCATION

Master of Arts in Architecture (MAA), Det Kongelige Danske Kunstakademis Arkitektskolen, Copenhagen, Denmark

2010-2012

Bachelor of Architecture in Urban Planning, Southeast University, School of Architecture, Nanjing, China

EXPERIENCE

Architect in Mikkelsen Arkitekter, Bispebjerg´s Laboratory and Logistic Building, 14.000 m2, Copenhagen, Denmark.

2004-2009

2014.1-

Work on atrium design, facade design, 3D modeling and diagrams

Scenography assistant in Hotel Pro Forma, Opera “Parsifal” stage design, Poznan, Poland.

2013.2-6

Work on 1:20 model, lightning and production property design, visulization and technique drawings

Consultant in Volvo Company, design apartment, Copenhagen, Denmark

2013.5

Work on Chinese market research

2009.6-10

Architect in Standardarchitecture, Factory renovation, Wuxi, China Work on master plan, concept develope.

SKILLS

AutoCAD, Photoshop, Illustrator, noceros, sketch up, v-ray

Indesign, Rhi-

Model-making

LANGUAGE

Chinese Mandarin - Mother tongue English - Fluent (Speaking, Writing, reading) Danish - Basic (reading)