MARK LIANG 2012~2016 Work
MARK LIANG [Tel] +1 979 587 2693 [eMail] markliang19890105@gmail.
Portfolio URL:
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+EDUCATION
+WORK EXPERIENCE Aug 2012-May 2014
Texas A&M University
Oct 2014-present(2 years)
[Master of Architecture] Aug 2007-Jun 2012
Dalian University of Technology [Bachelor of Architecture]
+COMPETITION EXPERIENCE Jan 2014-Mar 2014 May 2011-Aug 2011
HINES Competition I Nashville UA Architectural Competition
Jay Corder Architect [Architectural Intern]
Responsbility Designing, taking measurements, preparing constructions drawings, processing bidding and meeting with clients. Project Krause Residence, Sunflower Beach Condos, Beer Garden Competition May 2013-Aug 2013(3 months)
OPEN Architect Studio [Architectural Intern]
+SKILLS Modeling Graphics others
Revit, SketchUp, Rhino, ArchiCAD Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, AutoCAD, Vectorworks Model-making, Hand Rendering
+AWARDS
Responsbility Site analysis, concept design, building both 3D and physical models, preparing final booklet of the project. Project Beijing School Competition, West Bund Oil Tank Art Park,Sky City Skyscrapers May 2012-Aug 2012(3 months)
Oct 2009
Honourable Prize-Autodesk Revit Students Design Competition
[Architectural Intern] Responsbility
+VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE Oct 2015
Austin Home Tour Volunteer
Jun 2012
Sea-Sky Scholar Studio Book
+PUBLICATION
China Architecture Design & Research Group Assisting with construction drawings, building 3D models and working in AutoCAD.
Project Digital Beijing Building, Beijing Regal Court
“I believe that architecture exceeds the domain of physical matter, of the built environment, but is really about how we want to live our lives, how we script our own stories and those of others.�
CONTENTS 01. Porcelain Museum 02. Hengshui Cultural Center 03. Krause Residence [Individual Work_Cultural]
[Individual Work_Cultural]
[Office Work_Residential]
p. 06 p. 20 p. 30
04. Beijing School 05. Sea-Sky Event 06. Two Objects
[Office Work_Educational]
[Team Work_Installation]
[Individual Work_Residential]
p. 40 p. 50 p. 60
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[Individual Work_Cultural]
PORCELAIN MUSEUM Feb 2012-May 2012 Beijing, China Software: SketchUp, AutoCAD, Photoshop
The rapid economic development in China has brought great satisfaction to Chinese people on their physical life. However, they are losing something important. Some aged buildings are replaced by new ones and some traditional Chinese techniques are substituted by modern industrialized technology. In this process, people are gradually losing their attention on traditonal Chinese culture and becoming of no interests in Chinese history. This museum aims to offer people a place to appreciate the beauty of porcelain art and the essence of Chinese architecture. Porcelain is a hard, blue and white ceramic, which is frequently used as a synonym for China. So, in my museum design, I adopt white color and glass as the main color and material of the external wall, in order to create a visual sense of purity. Also, this museum follows the concept of the quadrangle courtyard, which is the basic pattern used for residences in China. The four main exhibition halls each with an outdoor space are distributed separately around the center of the building. The visitors can follow the set routine to enjoy the exhibition. The second floor has an access to the outdoor space. After the visit, people can go to the outdoor signt-seeing platform to have a view of the musuem and even the entire vista. Different spaces bring about different atmosphere. I believe in this museum, people can get what they want and people will feel a special atmosphere.
Contrast
The unique architecture form of the quadrangle in the inner city is a sharp contrast to the one in the outer city. I hope that my “modern quadrangle” on the glade of the skyscraper jungle can not only calm people’s heart down to enjoy the precious quietness, but also make them understand the rich history of China better.
INNER CITY
Beijing is divided into two parts. The quadrangle is a representative form of building of the inner city - every single brick and tile without any exceptions is giving out a breath of condensed history.
Usually four or five families share a quadrangle. in a summer evening, people gather in the yard eating, chating, laughing, as if they belong to a big family.
The building density of the inner city is high and the layout of the quadrangle is compact. Roaming in the maze-like Hutongs, it is easy to lose one’s way.
In the inner city, the streets are usually narrow, only 4 to 5 meters wide, an appropriate and comfortable scale for pedestrians.
Life in the inner city is cozy and comfortable-the elderly sitting around playing chess, children playing games.
For people living in high-rise, they are engaged in making a living for their families. Indifferent and nonchalant, they even do not know the names of their neighbors for years.
In the outer city, because of the large scale of the buildings, they are distributed sparsely in order to meet the need of the natural lighting.
The scale of the streets of the outer city is obviously aggrandized, in order to meet the needs of the immense quantity of mobile vehicles.
While people in the outer city are always busy shutting the urban concrete jungle.
OUTER CITY
The equivalents of the outer city are in a sharp contrast with those of the inner city. Concrete and steel girders, modern materilas and techniques are adopted in the construction.
The Process of Making Porcelain
Site Analysis
Being located on the island, the museum becomes the centre of the visitors’ sight. From the woods on the bank, vaguely can people see the museum, however, they cannot approach, which is an amazing experience.
The museum is surrounded by water on three sides, so I adopt the glass as the material of the wall. The glass wall can improve the accessibility of the visitors’ eye-sights, it can make them feel like fused with external environment.
The museum is surrounded by water on three sides, with the south facade facing the city main avenue. Most people enter the museum from the road on the south, the main entrance should face the south.
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While most of the surrounding buildings are modern skyscrapers, I adopt the concept of Beijing quadrangle the two-storey museum and hope that it will leave a sense of intimacy to the visitors.
Close to a main city street, the museum enjoys an easy access of both public and private transportation.
A large green space separates the museum from the busy and noisy city highway. The green space can calm the visitors’ heart down, it can also block the noise from the highway.
Contrast Between Traditional Museum and My Museum
Traditional Museum
My Museum
Appearance
Streamline
Space
Sight
The Capital Museum, located along Chang’an Avenue, introduces the culture and history of Beijing.
The stream line is always visting each exhibition hall one by one and then backing to the starting point to another story.
A typical museum usually has a large-scale body and tends to give the visitors a shock.
Traditional museums usually have solid external walls, thus, the visitors are completely separated from the exterior space-the people inside cannot sense the changes of the outside.
Green plants are usually indoor-grown, demanding care from people, and can never meet natural sunlight and wind.
The Porcelain Museum, located in Chaoyang Park, exhibits handicrafts of porcelain as well as information related.
There are mainly five exhibiton sections, and the visiting routine follows a designed order without any intersentions or repeats.
The porcelain museum follows the concept of the quadrangle, with a smaller scale, a better fusion with the nature and a sense of intimacy to the visitors.
I adopt glass as the material of the external walls in my design, through which visitors can view the beautiful scenery outside and have interactions with the exterior space.
Four outdoor yards can provide the plants with abundant sunlight and wind under purely natural conditions.
The museum is located in Chaoyang Park, the largest city park within the Fourth Ring, one of the most popular parks in Beijing. It lies on an island, surrounded by water on three sides. Being on a precious glade of the urban skyscraper forest, Porcelain Museum will definitely become a perfect spot for people resting and learning, etc.
Environment
Elevation
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1. Main Entrance 2. Hall 3. Preface Hall 4. Exhibition Hall 5. Exhibition Hall 6. Exhibition Hall 7. Exhibition Hall 8. Lecture 9. Cafe 10. Conference Room 11. Storage 12. Office 13. Storage 14. Office 15. Book Store
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1st Floor Plan
Elevation
1. Exhibition Hall 2. Exhibition Hall
3. Office
4. Exhibition Hall 3
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2nd & 3rd Floor Plan
Model
Section
A-A Section
B-B Section
C-C Section
D-D Section
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[Individual Work_Cultural]
CULTURAL CENTER Jun 2012-Sep 2012 Hengshui, Hebei Province, China Software: Rhino, Grasshopper, AutoCAD, Photoshop
The site is located in the junction of three important rivers in Hebei Province. With the rapid development of surrounding area during the last few years, the government decides to turn this area into a cultural center, aiming to attract more people to here. Design story begins from site analysis. A natural river runs through this area, so I place the main commercial space along the river. Most buildings have two stories and they are connected by the bridges either on the ground level and upper level. The three-story cultural center is the most important part in this project, so I place it at the end of the river. The building is lifted from the ground level, this would provide a public space for people to gather and communicate. The main exhibition space is on the second floor and third floor. But, how to make it look like it belongs here not anywhere else? I tried to achieve this by giving the facade a unique look. I collect several images of this area through the analysis of the site and then transfer them into abstract graphic. After further adjustments, the facade of the building is completed.
Based on the original structure, we meshed the site and uniformly distributed the control points on the grid. Then, through Voronoi calculation, we got the uniform interior space shaped by the control points. Thus, the first stage grid completed.
On this basis, through analysis of the space and consideration of the people and light, we adjusted the control points, altered the density. The second stage grid completed.
Finally, by further adjustments, non-uniform and irregular grid took shape. At this point, the plan of the building is generally completed.
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[Office Work_Residential]
KRAUSE RESIDENCE Nov 2014-Present Austin, Texas, USA Software: ArchiCAD, Photoshop
As the largest office project, Krause residence covers more than 12,000 square feet. How to build a “monster� is a challenge, but it also means a lot of fun. Site slope was a major factor in the overall design and site plan of the house, so we separate the program into three parts: living room and master bedroom, bedroom, basketball court. Living room and master bedroom are all located on the upper level and face the west. Daylight and view are controlled and enhanced by expansive windows and architectural shading devices. The rooms which do not necessarily need natural light are placed on the east. The same logic is used on the lower level layout. Since the basketball gym has a height of 28 feet, so we put it on the lowest level and buried this concrete box in the soil, the only proof of its existence is the skylight on the ground. This project is currently under construction. The basketball gym is just finished and the construction of second floor is going on right now. The whole house will be done next year!
The giant whole 28ft in the ground for the buried 1/2 court basketball court. The machines are digging a path to get out of the hole!
18.25 tons of steel and 30 concrete trucks will be needed just for the floor slab and foundation pour.
Buried basketball gym second round tier of foundation walls going up. The first 8’ is poured.
The installation of roof trusses is done.
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[OFFICE WORK_Educational]
BEIJING SCHOOL May 2013-Aug 2013 Beijing, China Software: SketchUp, AutoCAD, Photoshop
Situated in the center of a new town just outside Beijing’s southeast fifth ring road, this new public school is designed to provide a learning space for 4,840 students. As an important piece in a grand scheme to build a healthier and self-sustainable new town, this school is vital to the development of the vast newly urbanized surrounding area. The intention of creating more open spaces filled with nature, combined with the space limitations of the site, inspired a strategy on the vertical dimension to create multiple grounds. The lower part contains large public functions of the school, such as the canteen, the auditorium, the gymnasium. Their roofs in the form of landscaped gardens become the new open ‘ground’. The upper building is a thin rhizome shaped slab that contains the more repetitive and rigid programs of classrooms, labs, dormitories and administration. The roof-top of the upper building is designed to be an organic farm and provides students the chance to learn the techniques of farming. Unlike a typical campus with hierarchical spatial organization and often clear axis to organize more or less symmetrical movements, the new school is free form and meant to have multiple centers that can be accessed in any possible sequences. Hopefully the physical environment can inspire and initiate some much needed changes in the education system of China today.
Future Masterplan
Scale Study
Program Analysis
Concept Development
Idea 1
Idea 2
Idea 3
Idea 4
Idea 5
Idea 6
Masterplan
Sustainable Design
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[Team Work_Installation]
SEA-SKY EVENT Feb 2012-May 2012 Dalian, Liaoning Province, China Software: SketchUp, AutoCAD, Photoshop
We create a translucent architecture, a maze that encourages people to explore the site in new and diverse ways. The vivid greenery surrounding the site merges with the constructed geometry of the installation. A new form of environment is created, where the natural and the manmade fuse. The inspiration for the design of this installation is the concept that geometry and constructed forms could meld with the natural and the human. A simple cube, sized to the human body, is repeated to build a form that exists between the organic and the abstract, to create an ambiguous, soft-edged structure that will blur the boundaries between interior and exterior. The Sea-Sky installation is a delicate, three-dimensional, latticed structure. It’s composed of five triangular prisms, two of them are made from ABS sticks and the other three are made from bamboo. They form a semi-transparent shape, simultaneously protecting visitors from the elements while allowing them to remain part of the landscape. We also make a lighting design for the structure, which is controlled by sound. With music, lights on the structure change with rhythm, making the triangular prisms seem more fantastic. An evening in 2011, we showed this design and light show for audiences. Each person was invited to find a favourite space inside and around these triangular prisms. They chat, they laugh. I know they love this design.
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[Individual Work_Residential]
TWO OBJECTS Sep 2013-Dec 2013 Bryan, Texas, USA Software: Maya, AutoCAD, Photoshop
We are in a moment where architecture is redefining its position, moving from a subject-centered and systematic discourse to an object-oriented situation. Objects need not be natural, simple or indestructible. Instead, objects will be defined only by their autonomous reality. They must be autonomous in two separate directions: emerging as something over and above thier pieces, while also partly withholding themselves from relations with other entities. In this particular project, the use of a stone, an object of nature, was a deliberate selection. By submitting this “natural object� to a series of drawing translations, a new object related to its autonomous drawing process rather than nature was created. Use of the drawing craft presents alternatives for architecture to apply normative modes of production in a different way, through the combination of analog and digital presentations in 2- and 3-D. Object-oriented ontology opens up a unique possibility for rethinking the peculiar problems associated with the problem of nature. A return to the object would have to be understood as a turning away from a mythological or sentimental understanding of nature and toward the particularities and the essential strangeness of the objects themselves.
Original Stone
Simplified Drawing
Details
More Details
Maya Model
Details
More Details
Final Model
2nd Floor Plan
3rd Floor Plan
Case Study House
Transformation
Original Plan
Simplified Plan
2D-3D
Add Surface
1st Floor Plan
2nd Floor Plan
Section
3rd Floor Plan
4th Floor Plan
5th Floor Plan
Section
Site Plan
MARK LIANG [Tel] +1 979 587 2693 [eMail] markliang19890105@gmail.
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