LIANG M.Arch I Portfolio I 2019-2021 Southern California Institute of Architecture
CURRICULUM VITAE
VENICE AFFORDABLE HOUSING PROJECT_2021 AUSTRIA PREFA ACADEMY PROJECT_2021
LA RESIDENTIAL PROJECT_2020 GERMANY VITRA PROJECT_2019
LA BATHHOUSE PROJECT_2019
P.05 P.07 P.31 P.53 P.97 P.121
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Southern California Institute of Architecture Masters of Architecture M.Arch 2021
+ Adobe Creative Suite: ai,ps,id,ae + Rhinoceros 3D + Revit + Grasshopper + Sketch Up + Auto CAD + Keyshot + V-Ray + Vectorworks + Lumion + Unreal Engine + Maya + English + Mandarin
Continuing Student Scholarship, 2019-2020
Involvement
Exhibited in SCI_Arc Spring Show 2019
Academic Experience
3D Print tech/Laser Tech at Fabrication Shop Sep, 2018 - Sep, 2021
+ For 3D Print Tech:
•Operated/managed all 3D Printers (Powder/ ABS/Resin/Paper).
•Assisted students with post-processing (excavation/depowdering/repair/etc) of 3D printed models.
•File processing / troubleshooting /management.
•Maintained all 3D printing equipment and 3D Printer Rooms.
+ For Laser Tech:
•Assured safe and proper use of laser cutters and fume filtration units
•Assisted students with laser file preparation/ set-up
•Maintained of all laser equipment and Laser Room
Beijing Institute of Technology
Bachelor of Arts, Environmental Design 2014
+ High Honors Scholarship, 2013-2014
+ High Honors Scholarship, 2012-2013
+ High Honors Scholarship, 2011-2012
+ Honors Scholarship, 2010-2011
ARCHITECTURAL DESIGNER - PALO ALTO
JUN 2020 - DEC 2020 , NOV 2021 - NOW
+ Produced documents from conceptual design through construction for multiple simultaneous design projects, collaborating with internal and external teams.
+ Determined and organize functional requirements, and articulate through programming, space planning, and code analysis.
+ Coordinated with other development disciplines to produce a comprehensive and coordinated construction document set, satisfying building code, ADA, zoning, and other applicable standards.
ARCHITECTURAL INTERN - LOS ANGELES
MAY 2019 - AUG 2019
+ Designed the Garage Renovation Recording Studio Project at Portland by producing and reviewing 3D models, technical drawings and physical models.
+ Developed two Residential Projects by producing and reviewing 3D models and technical drawings.
+ Designed Residential Exterior Walls & Door Design Project and Conducted field visits at Mount Washington.
ARCHITECTURAL INTERN - SHANGHAI
AUG 2017 - MAY 2018
+ ManagedtheHuazhiyiArtCenterProjectbyproducingandreviewing3Dmodels,technicaldrawings and physical models.
+ Organized the “Malevich Finders” exhibit in the 2017 SUSAS Exhibition by investigating the site, producing technical drawings and 3D models, and overseeing exhibit installation. Exhibition was attended by >3000 people per day.
+ Conducted field visits to review scheduled progress for and quality of projects.
DESIGN ASSISTANT - BEIJING
JUL 2014 - DEC 2015
+ Designed small elements for the company’s projects in a variety of planning phases.
+ Drafted floor plans for several corporate projects.
+ Communicated with website designers regarding details about developing projects.
+ Designed various graphics including posters for several projects.
render of the wetland in site
In the 3GB studio, we have discussions about “What can Architecture do?” through two projects. One is the Austria Project, the other is the Venice Project. This is the Venice Project.
Our site is located two blocks away from Venice Beach of LA, at the east end of the Venice Blvd, it’s also the north end of the remnant portion of the Venice Canal. We are proposing a project with a new topography - wetland as a public urban place and some affordable units with mix-use programs as art gallery, retail, parking on the site. We started with the landscape by converting the original parking into a wetland to expand the water from the end of the canal for more public space for walking, running and bird watching.
In order to be well lit in the wetland, the building is naturally built around it, with the north side being big and high and the south side being small and low. The affordable housing is lifted up from the half underground lobby to create a transparent view to the wetland from the North Venice Blvd. Art galleries and retail forms inherit the terrain and provide more seating areas and viewing spots for wetlands. The parking is located under the wetland with the entrance from the North Venice Blvd and the exit on Dell Ave.
sequence of progress steps in concept development over time
proposed residential and other programs on the site in relationship to the rest of space in between the South and North Venice Blvd
site circulation diagram
render of the site
site development sequence
units structure sequence
render of the roof top
render
render
render of the housing units on the south side
section
units type-studio
units type-one bedroom one bathroom
In the 3GB studio, we have discussions about “What can Architecture do?” through two projects. One is the Austria Project, the other is the Venice Project. This is the Austria Project.
Our site is located is located 80 km southwest of Vienna in the town of Marktl. Prefa Aluminum, a major European engineering, manufacturing, and construction company. The company intends to build the Prefa Academy above an existing on grade parking lot site situated between the main highway to and from Vienna, and the Traisen River that flows just east of the site.
The Academy program includes conference, exhibition, classroom, and office facilities.
site plan walking circulation
section shows the programs
section shows the programs
structure sequence
floor sequence
render of the project from across the road
render of the project from arcoss the river
Fall 2020 |
Instructor: Pavel Getov + Kerenza HarrisThis course focuses on advanced methods of project delivery and construction documents incorporating digital technologies and investigating new models for linking design and construction processes. It introduces Building Information Modeling as one of the tools for realignment of the traditional relationships between the project stakeholders. Using a single unit residential building located in Los Angles, I analyzed and developed the architecture by creating a detailed 3d digital model and a set of 2d construction documents specifically tailored for the design challenges of a single unit residential project.
This is a new space of production site in the Vitra Campus. It is an architecture between museum and factory, it is also a space between Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Space. Through the deep study and analyze of the amazing collection of signature architecture in the campus, we had be able to produce 99 diagrams through those buildings. Our schematic Design was build on top of those diagrams to create an architecture that is part of the existing collection but something slightly different.
We chose the parking lot as our building site. The homogeneous and heterogeneous space idea is not just existing in the plan and section, but also in the idea of the relationship of building and the ground.
fig. 2 the study of 99 diagrams of the existing campus
fig. 3 design diagrams, a ziggurat on columns with ramps and stairs
fig. 5 structural details
fig. 6 ground plan 1:500
fig. 7 plan level 1, 1:250
fig. 8 plan level 2, 1:250
fig. 9 west section and elevation, 1:200
fig. 10 north section and elevation, 1:200
fig. 13-15 physical model, scale 1:200
fig. 16-19 structural details of the physical model, scale 1:200
The 1GB studio expands on the fundamental problems of architectural geometry and representation developed in the 1GA studio, completing the foundational studio sequence of the first-year. The studio project for 1GB is an Urban Bathhouse in Los Angeles. The form and program of the project is framed through the disciplinary topics of typology and poche as understood through figure ground relationships of mass and void.
This urban bathhouse creates a dense pack of figural mineral baths in downtown Los Angeles. I chose the “Xiaozhuan” of traditional Chinese fonts as my profile. This font has more than 3,000 years of history, beautiful glyph, the interframe structure is regular, each curve is different and the whole is full of rhyme. I selected a few fonts in an article to produce profiles. Different profiles had been used profile to project along axes to create spaces.
Diagram of from profiles to rooms
Seemingly random combinations of rooms intersect each other in square boxes to form new spaces. Although it starts entirely from a different starting point, the cross section has a traditional bathroom style. The strong contrast between the sections and the plan gave me the inspiration and direction for the further design.
Rooms of different shape scales produce interesting combinations of permutations. The design starts from the two dimensions of the section and then extends to the three-dimensional building structure. Unlike the traditional façade of the past, the two-story floor of the building is not level with the building structure but is closely related to the various scales of the bathroom pool.
Second floor plan
Front view elevation renders
Back view elevation renders
