Ruike Liu Selected Work 2019-2021
Ruike Liu A Selection of Work Fall 2019 - Spring 2021 Ruike.liu12@gmail.com https://www.recrec.club/
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Advanced design studio: Architecture of Thought A think-tank complex for the Brookings Instution
Home Sweet Home
Advanced design studio: Family Justice Center A center fot victims of domestic violence in New Haven
Art & Air-right Tower
Elective: Technology and Design of Tall Building Tall building design at 53W53 in New York
Humanity in Machine Age
Advanced design studio: Not Forever - A new British National Library Archive that has the capacity of 800km of books and can last 300 years.
Learning from Skateboarding
Advanced design studio: De-colonizing Indigenous Housing Indigenous housing design
Another Day in Rudolf Hall Elective: AI Aethetics
Philosophy Ruins Elective: Ruins and Ruination
Carbon Fiber Structure Elective: Computation Composite Form
Formal Analysis of Barcelona Pavilion Elective: Formal Analysis
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Landschaft Beautiful or sublime?
Advanced Design Studio: Architecture of thought A think-tank complex for the Brookings Institution Instructors: Mark Foster Gage, Graham Harman Collaborate with Nathan Garcia and James Bradley Fall 2019
Landschaft [ feminine ] /ˈlantʃaft/ (German) Noun Part of the earth‘s surface with a certain appearance and culture Think /ˈthiŋk / Verb, noun 1. to have or to form an opinion or idea about something 2. to use your mind to understand matters, make judgments, and solve problems 3. to remember or imagine The studio developed a new think-tank complex for the Brookings Institution where the most prestige scholars gather, think and debate and the result might influence government policy. Lhasa Tibet, the remoteness makes it a great location for retreat while the ongoing political conflicts makes it a place where people have to embrace different opinions and debate with respect. //////////// 4
Seminar Entrance Reception
Meeting hall Library Hotel rooms Hotel rooms
Thought is not only a thing that occurs in a place, but in parallel with intentional action. The project invites engagement in simple activities around the site that promote thought such as gardening, farming, strolling, while also creating conditions for group and individual conversation, debate, and meditation. This project explores the limitations of object-object relations in order to better understand what essential qualities make something what we perceive it to be. To accomplish this the project strains the boundary of where architectural interventions start and stop.
Latitude: 29°10’49.41”N, Longitude: 90°37’21.66”E, Tibet, China
Yamdrok Lake S307
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1. Debate courtyard 2. Tea garden 3. Seminar 4. Meditation room 5. Elevator 6. Cafe 7. Kitchen 8. Bathroom 9. Individual study 10. Library 11. Archive 12. Courtyard Level 2 Plan 9 ////////////
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Home Sweet Home Advanced Design Studio: Family Justice Center A Center for Victims of Domestic Violence in New Haven Instructors: Turner Brooks and Janathan Toews Spring 2020
Family Justice Center is a new type of urban facilities, first being established roughly 30 years ago in Europe, providing help for victims of domestic violence. It is a miniature of multiple city facilities: family court, policy office, clinic, psychological office, children’s care, etc. The Studio started with the exploration of “liminal zoon”, which serves as a threshold where people can escape from the outer world and feel safe. As Paola from Family Justice Center in New Haven said, “‘Welcome home’ is always the first thing I say when people come to Family Justice Center.” I try to make each space like the space in a typical house, not big but cozy. This is a temporary home where people can share their stories, instead of an urban facility where people seek help.
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City Hall
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City Hall
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The site is a linear narrow slot linking Chapel Street and the Federal Plaza. City Hall is the first destination for most of the victims. Victims will then be informed to visit Family Justice Center to process the case. It is necessary to have two entrance to allow victims to enter the building from the Plaza, a relatively private space, and from Chapel Street, a more open and busier street.
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Federal Plaza Ramps connecting Chapel St. and Federal Plaza
Legal team Family court Police office Psychotherapy center Children’s center
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1. Entrance 2. Reception 3. Lounge 4. Elevator 5. Bathroom 6. Lecture hall 7. Storage
1. Entrance 2. Reception 3. Lounge 4. Elevator 5. Bathroom 6. Waiting area 7. Intake rooms
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Intake room waiting area
Safe spot
Intake room waiting area
Interview room
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People feel safe when they stay unseen and are able to supervise others. “Safe spots” are being created everywhere in the project. These spaces are semi-open. The equivocality provides liminal zone for people to temporarily escape to.
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Art & Air-right Tower Elective: Technology and design of tall building Instructor: Kyoung Sun Moon Collaborate with Zishi Li (Maya modeling: exoskeleton, mulllions, ventilation channels) Fall 2020
Air-right In New York City, if Building A is “underbuilt” according to the neigh borhood’s zoning code, the developer of nearby Building B can acquire Building A’s unused air space and add it to their own site’s allotment, which is the developer’s air rights. We take the space above Moma building and expand the “belly” of our project to acquire more floor area. Art Overwriting Jean Nouvel Architects’ 78-floor Tour de Verre, we are introducing a mixed-use tower consisting of office, hotel and a vertical gallery called MoMA Air Rights. There are two galleries inside the building. The middle portion of the tower is the main gallery and the gallery’s higher portion penetrates into the hotel, creating an atrium in the middle. //////////// 26
Urban infill: 53W53
Push the core to the adjacent building
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Office elevators Hotel express Gallery express Service elevators Freight elevators for art
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A swimming pool is designed on top of the mechanical level and below the hotel reception level. People in the swimming pool have a panoramic view of the New York city and the people at the hotel reception can overlook to the swimming pool.
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The atrium in the middle of the hotel rooms is used for gallery space. Hotel guests can appreciate the art works at the corridors. The gallery visiters have saparate entrance and are unable to enter the hotel rooms.
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North-west elevation
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North-east elevation
South-east elevation
South-west elevation
Exhaust
Fins letting in summer wind
Ventilation design
Braced-tube structure
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Concrete core
Periphery Columns
Ventilated Skeleton Spandrel
Construction axonometric
Spandrel Connecting slab and curtain wall
Lighting Strip Ceiling
Transfer Columns
Ventilated Skeleton
Beam on the periphery
Beam above vertical load
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Bookshelf
Book void
Machine landsccape
Book-scape
Reading & Storage
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Humanity in Machine Age
A new British National Library Archive that has the capacity of 800km of books and can last 300 years. Advanced Design Studio: Not Forever Instructors: Kevin Carmody, Andy Groarke, Gavin Hogben Fall 2020
Machine Landscape While the city is operating as a high-speed machine, big boxes are emerging in the suburb as supportive facilities to pump products and information into the cities and bridges between different places, such as distribution center, fulfilment center, data center, etc. Machines operate the buildings, while people have no idea where they are in the building. People are excluded from the building. The names like “Architecture without human”, “Machine Landscape”, “Post-human architecture” are given to those big boxes. The Meaning of Storage The digitization makes the knowledge spread wider and quicker. Why do we want to keep all those books physically for 300 years? Apart from the worry about the failure of machine, books also symbolize the milestone of people’s thoughts. But why does the future book storage facility have to exclude human? Could it be an archive that people can reach every corner of the building and can retrieve every one of the books by hand? //////////// 40
Agriculture
British Library
Thorpe Arh Estate
Boston Spa
River Wharfe
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British Library Additional Book Storage Builidngs British Library Office Builidings Current Book Capacity: 250km
Book Storage Other Facitlities Future Book Capacity: 800km
Height: the only dimension that can be humane.
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The mosque-cathedral in Cordoba Spain, from 787CE, with vaulting system, it experienced several expansion during the next 200 years and still stands today. This is a possible scenario of how the building live through 300 years. At the early stage, the infrastructure and some of the necessary facilityes are built first and the storage space will expand in the future. 787 CE
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People’s activities are designed around the courtyard. It shows the different desired environment for human and books. Human needs sunlight and the books will be damaged by sunlight. For human, they might find monumentality from the shape of the arcs. For books, the vaults are a safe place for their existence.
The second level has the largest storage volume. It has the workshop for rare book reservation and digitization. Most of the space has no light until there are people passing by. Reading areas are placed along the edges of level changes where there is natural light.
The highest level is for the public, it has a gallery and a reading area. The people enter this building from the highest point of the site. They have the chance of seeing the roof of the building first. By the roof’s shape and form, people can have an idea of how this building work and how to navigate thought this building.
“The building is like a book with infinity pages. One is allowed to wander without purpose or get lost from time to time or stop to pick up a random book. The light might become the bookmarks to attract people to come and stop. “ (comment from jury Billie Tsien)
“The building could be a measurement of time. How long does it take for one to walk from one side of the building to the other side? The building can show time physically. The horror of getting lost and never find the way back also makes the building become sublime to some degree. (comment from jury Sofia)
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1. Depot area 2. Sorting area 3. Staff entrance 4. Admin office 5. Courtyard 6. Canteen 7. Gym 8. Parking 9. Public entrance 10. Reception 11. Gallery 12. Reading area 13. Rare book preservation and digitization area 14. IT room 15. Chapel 49 ////////////
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Bookscape... It is too big to be a building, and one unit is too small to be called a building as well. It is a mass structure system in the landscape, and the rippled rooftop almost become an artificial landscape itself. I hope this building can bring people’s memory of lying on the rooftop and read in this machine age...
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Learning from Skateboarding Advanced Design Studio: De-colonizing Indigenous Housing Indigenous housing design Instructors: Chris Cornelius, Aaron Tobey Spring 2021
“’Native skate culture’ is something created by museums or as a way to sell product. To make it unique, cool and trendy. But it is dumb, it’s also a little bit racist. Skateboarding is its own culture. The true nature of skateboarding is inclusivity.” - This isn’t an article about Native Skate Culture https://www.skateism.com/native-american-skateboarding/ “Skaters exploit the ambiguity of the ownership and function of public and semipublic space. They bring time, space, and social being together by confronting the architecture surface with body and the board.”
Iain Borden et al, Another Pavement, Another Beach: Skateboarding and the Performative Critique of Architecture, the Unknown City, 2000 “Where societies built upon the principle of movement, of following the natural environment, are restricted to plots of land, skateboarding is now recapturing that connection with the world around them.” This isn’t an article about Native Skate Culture, https://www.skateism. com/native-american-skateboarding/ //////////// 54
Indigenous culture - constellation, regalia, rituals
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Paper Mill
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the Opaskwyak Cree Nation, Manitoba, Canada
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Constellation As an elder stated, “we are blessed to live under a blanket of stars.” Each culture on earth more or less has developed their own story of stars and have analogy between stars and living beings on earth. People make stories to try to make sense of the world, try to connect life and death with the eternity, and consider people in relation with animals and the universe.
Regalia Regalia is a type of clothing worn by dancers during traditional dances. Regalia is different depending on the type of dance, like Jingle dance, butterfly dance, moon dance, shawl dance, etc. Each regalia is different from the other, they represent what type of dance one’s going to present, the dancers’ personality, family history and culture. Dancing itself is like a conversation with nature. Like the jingle on the regalia speaks to the grass, the fringes mimic the butterfly and speaks to the wind.
Rituals Rituals, like the Vision Quest, sun dance, pipe ceremony, sweat lounge. They are embedded in everyday life. It is a way of celebration, communication and get everyone connected spiritually.
Nonce is used to define a thing, while verb opens up more possibilities. Verbs describe the relation between two things, which is important in indigenous culture. Adding the bold edges makes the figure stay still, adding the shadows and blurry effect speed up the figures. Everything is related. It breaks the rules we usually classify the world. It is not a linear stream of thoughts but a map of correlation. And things are constantly moving and changing.
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Proposed housing clusters
Existing skate park
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Wandering, walking, sitting
Skating, sitting on rooftop
Gardening, private backyard
Drying fish, private courtyard
Sitting on rooftop
Gatheing, sitting, playing, shading
Gathering, sitting, skating, dancing
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“We are here in Rudolf Hall 4th floor pit.” “Are you sure? Could be 6th floor, you know.”
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“Seriously, this is not Rudolf Hall. It is a box, at most.” “em…You are probably right. There is no such place in Rudolf Hall.”
“How about now? Familiar?” “It is a bit confusing, to be honest. Did you put a row of desk and chairs at sub-basement?”
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“I bet you don’t know this one.” “You are kidding. This is definitely Stirling Library with a red carpet.”
“Okay, fine. I will bring you back.” “This is not funny, man. This is nowhere close to Rudolf Hall.”
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“Oh, maybe it is a bit too crazy for you.” “Do what you like. I don’t really care”
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“It is hard to tell where we are in this building” “4th floor or 6th floor. I can tell from the carpet, the white board and the chairs”
“Okay, I promise, this is the last one.” “Actually, it is not bad. I can see the shadow.”
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Another Day in Rudolf Hall Elective: AI Aesthetics Instructors: Brennan Buck Spring 2021
Pix2Pix - Conditional GANS Image-to-Image Translation with Conditional Adversarial Nets Paper: https://phillipi.github.io/pix2pix/ Interactive website demo: https://affinelayer.com/pixsrv/ Pix2Pix Tensorflow: https://www.tensorflow.org/tutorials/generative/ pix2pix Code: https://github.com/junyanz/pytorch-CycleGAN-and-pix2pix
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People’s preference towards tragedy and sublime makes ruin a powerful representation of eternity. The richness of the ruin’s texture provides people with messages about history and emotional connection. What will Yale Center for British Art look like when it turns into ruins and what makes it that way. It is not the future, but the epic ruins in our imagination.
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Function failure may lead to the recognition of something or the true nature of something. Thus, ruining a building can be a method to find truth. Time or weather may not be the only thing that can ruin a building. Taking out a specific quality of a building can end up with a joke or sarcasm, which will eventually ruin the building. By using this method, we may figure out what exactly may this building great or what make this scene epic.
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Philosophy Ruins Elective: Ruins and Ruination Instructor: Mark Foster Gage Spring 2020
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Carbon Fibre Structure
Elective: Computational Composite Form Instructor: Ezio Blasetti Collaborate with Gabriel Gutieerez Huerta, Hongyu Wang Fall 2019
MDF framework
KUKA robot toolpath
Carbon fiber structure after curation
KUKA robot
being cured under 100 degree celsius
Removing the framework
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Formal Analysis of Barcelona Pavilion Elective: Formal Analysis Instructor: Peter Eisenman Collaborate with Jerome Tryon Fall 2019
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Ruike Liu Yale School of Architecture M.Arch II 2021 ruike.liu12@gmail.com +1 475 209 0465