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QIWEN LIU SELECTED WORKS 2015-2018
QIWEN LIU University of California, Los Angeles Website: chloeqw.com Tel: (310)903-0292 Email: chloeqw@g.ucla.edu
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“What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal.” —Albert Pine
Extention to Public
Visualization of Interaction
Architecture Industry
Show
Entertainment Effect
Installation
Experience Improvement
Film
Space Activation
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Architecture
01. Vertical Farm
Transportation Hub in Westwood, Los Angeles
02. Saloon of Citizen Cultural Park in Zhaoqing New District
03. Flow of Nature Growth Campus Planning and Landscape Design
04. Green to Room High-Rise Hotel Design
05. Film Industry O2O
Living Space Under the Background of "Internet+"
Industry
Set
06. Cloud Spa
BMW Auto Environment Design
07. Robot Dance SUPRA-SHOW: Interactive Scenic Design
Installation
08. 9x9
Festival Light Installation at Bombay Beach Biannual
09. Balloon in the Beat
Public Space Installation in Santa Monica
10. Alameda Urban Game
Community Game Event with AR/ MR in Alameda
Film
Interior
11. Musical Balloon Cloud
Film-Making for Time-Based Architecture
001. Bluemoon Nightclub
- Interior Environment Design 002. Hotel Interior Design 003. Villa Interior Design
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Vertical Farm
Transportation Hub in Westwood, Los Angeles Instructor: Gabby Shawcross Collaborator: Gan/ Gege Summer 2017 The project of transportation hub optimizes the transportation system and create a vertical farm with functions of farming, marketing and catering. It gives more job opportunities and efficient transportation to low income group. Meanwhile, it increase the public space and improve the environment of city. The vertical farm uses the form of scaffolding to occupy the aerial space above the road. The scaffolding structure combined with green plant significantly improves the open space. The special image of vertical farm become the central landmark in urban space.
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Daily busy traffic road
Utilizing straddle bus to increase traffic space
Section Above Ground Straddle Bus
Aerial Drone
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Station on crossroad to increase efficiency
Scaffolding occupying aerial space above the road
Below Ground Metro
Ground Car
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Malcolm Ave
Site Plan
Wilshire Blvd
Wilshire Blvd
Malcolm Ave
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Scaffolding View
Platform View
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Ground Plan
First Plan
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Saloon of Citizen
Cultural Park in Zhaoqing New District Instructor: Encheng Yan Spring 2017 The project of the Cultural Center, the Archive and the Children’s Palace should become the carrier of future public activities in Zhaoqing to create sufficient public vitality, as a real saloon of citizens. To build up a real citizen’s saloon, the design should fully utilize the beautiful landscape environment, make use of the cultural atmosphere of three public buildings as well as set the Cultural Park as the center in order to create a Culture Ecosphere with entertainment, leisure, cultural experience and sightseeing. The buildings are not a single and closed cultural buildings but maximize the sharing and public space to the surroundings, nearby parks and even the whole Zhaoqing New District.
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Entrance Plaza The Cultural Palace and the children's Palace are linked together, and their entrance square also has special connections. The two squares have broken the boundaries through the underground shop space and they have the platform as the landscape node extension space.
Glass Box Entrance
Glass Skylight
Convex
Flow Concave
Entrance of Underground Store
Gallery Entrance
Children Playground
Reading Square
Function
Underground Store
Rest Terrace
Sunken Square
Open Terrace
Stairs
Bookstore
CafĂŠ
Roof Terrace
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Flow Saloon of Nature of Citizen Growth
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Green to Room
High-Rise Hotel Design Instructor: Yunjiang Wu Spring 2015 The project is a high-rise hotel located in campus which serves for the university visitors, facilities, students and surrounding residents. Although the hotel is a high-rise commercial building, the site is located in the campus with excellent landscape, which requires the designer to consider the nearby environment and avoid the violation to nature landscape. The hotel takes the form of casing construction to build the Green Eco Hotel that strives for the integration with environment. With the casing construction, the hotel can gradually achieve the transition from wetland park to high-rise construction.This green eco hotel is not only improve the peripheral micro-environment but also become the unique landmark enjoyed by citizen
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Film Industry O2O
Living Space Under the Background of "Internet+" Instructor: Feng Jihong Fall 2015 When the science and technology develops to a superb level, the space can adjust according to human's demand. Designing space is both procedural and individual. This is a film industrial park which combines the online industrial chain and offline cultural experience. Collecting the requirements of people from online platform and analyzing the data, we can change the status of space in different time that become multi-functional variable space, which promotes efficiency and improves experience. The construction is in a dynamic system, which can be assembled and transformed into various statuses through a standardized inflatable module.
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Cloud Spa
BMW Auto Environment Design Instructor: Marta Nowak Collaborator: Abdullah/ Jiahe/ Mia Winter 2017 With the increasing development of technology and society, people require more about high quality of life experience in automobile space. In collaboration with BMW Design Group, we explore more possibilities of human activities in vehicle. The vehicle is called cloud, which is a mobile spa space offering comfortable and static experience for people. We highlight the focal touch points, analyze the body position, combine different activities and then create the position gird as well as develop into a dynamic system. By introducing the inflation system, it is possible to achieve instant reaction to changeable position and multiple activities. For the exterior design, the vehicle can be changed the form by pneumatic structure in order to cater the need of different environment.
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Inflatable Dynamic Volume
Pneumatic Structure Projection Glass
Manicure Pad Storage Shelf
Projector
Suspendable Frame
Pressure Exhorter
Air Supply Pipe Pneumatic Membrane
Pressurized Cell
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Pressurized Cells Atmospheric Cells Surround Camera Contact Surface
LED Track Light
Air Pump
Manicure Pad Storage Bin Touch Panel
Air Vents
Speaker Front Wheel
Projector
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Robot Dance
SUPRA-SHOW: Interactive Staging Design Instructor: Gabby Shawcross Collaborator: Gan/ Yi Sun/ Yongsan Huang Winter 2017 This project involves the KUKA robot arms in IDEAS campus to create the robotic interactive show. It combines both the pre-mapped and real-time responsive projection animation to reinforce the movement of projection content (robot arms move and dance,etc), and enhance the interaction between people, robot arms and projection. The robotic movement is combined with projection mapping so it likes a dancing show of robots.
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Interaction
Projector
KUKA Robot Robot Avatar
Kinect Sensor
PC
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System
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Output
Cinema 4D
Ceiling Projector Kinect Sensor 1
NI MATE
Isadora
Kinect Sensor 2
Grasshopper
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Robot Projector
Disco Ball
Design Process Projection Model (with Sound Interaction)
Kinect Sensor Capturing
KUKA Controlling
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Set up
Background KUKA Projector Audience
Sensor 2 Sensor 1 Interaction
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9x9
Festival Light Installation at Bombay Beach Biannual Instructor: Mark Mack/ Gabby Shawcross Winter 2017 The 9*9 is not only an illuminated object, but is also able to generate the dynamic effect of light. The light installation has two main parts, base structure and lantern. And the lantern is comprised by three light boxes that each is a 9*9 matrix of dynamic pixels with LED lights. The LED lights are connected by digital wires so they can be programmed by Arduino. According to different program scripts, the pixels could produce interesting effect from emoji faces to color pattern. With the speculated different kinds of sensors and corresponding programs, the installation can enhance the interactions between light and people so it can greatly enrich the festival experience.
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Construction Sequence
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Ground Wire
Digital Wire
5V 6A Power Supply 5V DI GUD
GND
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WS2812B LED Light
Arduino IDE (Software)
Arduino Board (Hardware)
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Lighting Technology
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9x9 Matrix (81)
Interaction With PIR Sensor (Motion Detector)
PIR Sensor
With Sound Sensor (Sound Detector)
Sound Sensor
With Ultrasonic Sensor (Distance Detector)
Ultrasonic Sensor
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Balloon in the Beat
Public Space Installation in Santa Monica Instructor: Mark Mack/ Gabby Shawcross Fall 2017 In Los Angeles a lot of underrated gap space near the lively neighborhoods. The small size of those roadways and not attractive street facade lead to the scarce crowd and low vitality of those area. The project forms a linear spatial form, trying to generate guiding space, introducing the main street crowd and activating the vitality of the space. The project intend to build up a pop-up installation by using portable and fast setting component; using the projection to create some events and atmosphere thereby attracting people. Interventions aim to improve awareness of social and/or environmental issues, enhance the public sensory experiences with new technology, projection and sound and activate independent and improvised activities that temporarily transform existing urban conditions.
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Movable Instrument
Balloon Screen
Projectors Water Wave Effect
Drum Pad
Mobile Container
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Assembly Storyboard
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Container
Wheel and paddle
Folded Rod
Projector NO.2
Balloon Net
Helium Balloon
Mirror Projector No.1 Water Balloon
Projector holder
Experimental Construction Components
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Alameda Urban Game
Community Game Event with AR/ MR in Alameda Instructor: Mark Mack/ Gabby Shawcross Spring 2018
The Alameda Urban Game involves the whole neighborhood and virtual installation as a large-scale orienteering game with different points of games and treasure hunting, which create an didactic and recreative urban game for children and parents to enhance the conciousness of community. It bridges the reality and virtuality, applying the technology of Augment Reality or Mixed Reality with online App on different platforms, such as smartphone, hololens, or cars, to build a virtual game world that requires low investment. This greatest urban game in Alameda increases the interaction among neighborhood and activate the community space, and becomes the new culture of Alameda.
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Musical Balloon Cloud
Film-Making for Time-Based Architecture Instructor: Gabby Shawcross Fall 2017 Context: The film talks about a story of a man and a woman who meet and communicate the music with the installation. The intervention using the lighting sculpture explores opportunities to develop the gap space being more attractive and public that encourages performance events and social activities. Concept: The musical lighting cloud can sense the music and change the light that encourage the improvised ensemble or jam session. So the gap becomes a public space with street music atmosphere and a culture space for music fostering. Film structure: The film takes the form of spatial sequence on time-based experiential drawing. The camera shows different perspectives of two characters according to the story develop and the climax happens on the time they meet together.
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Time-Based Experiential Drawing: Spatial Sequence 1-2 First-person perspective: woman’s perspective of walking 2-3 Objective perspective: The woman plays music. 3 Close-up shot: The light shines 4-5 First-person perspective: man’s perspective of walking 5-6 Objective perspective: The man ensembles music. 6-7: Moving long shot: the camera moves through light flow 7-8 Close-up shot: The reaction of the woman hearing music 8-9 First-person perspective: woman walks to the man 9-10 Steady view: woman and man play music together 10-11 Shot from near and far: showing extended environment
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Crowded Street
A woman walks alone and comes across the light installation in the gap.
Suddenly, a man comes across and hears the music.
The man begins to play the guitar ensembling the woman’s music.
The woman walks following the light flow.
The man and the woman meet.
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The woman plays the guitar.
Light installation shines according to the melody of the music.
Light flow travels between two sides of the long gap.
The woman sees the unique light flow and hears the music. She appreciates the music and feels happy.
They play the instrument together and communicate the music. They become soul-mate on music.
More and more audiences are attracted by the music and they come to the gap.
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Bluemoon Nightclub Professional work / Aug-Nov. 2018 Position// Designer & Drawing Program// Nightclub Interior Environment Design and Video System & Lighting Programming Location// Vung Tau, Vietnam
1. Main Hall 2. Rotunda 3. West Wing
1. DJ Booth A 2. DJ Booth B 3. DJ Booth C
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