Shiyuan Liu---Portfolio

Portfolio

SELECTED WORKS 2020-2023

Shiyuan Liu

• PERSONAL INFORMATION

London, UK

+44 07464328267

shiyuan600@outlook.com

www.linkedin.com/in/ ShiyuanLiu06

• LANGUAGE

Mandarin Chinese (Native) English (Bilingual Proficiency)

• HARD SKILLS

• EDUCATION

Sep 2022 — Present London, UK

University College London

MArch Architectural Design

• Graduation expected in Sep 2023

• EXPERIENCE

May 2023 London, UK

Production Designer

Set Design in Film shooting group

• Narration: Translating scripted descriptions into realistic scenarios to create different atmospheres.

Sep 2019 —June 2022 London, UK

University of the Arts London

BA(Hons) Interior and Spatial Design

• 2:1 grade

• FIELD PROJECT

June 2022 London, UK

Fabric-Women-Museum

Renovation project | Site: Zorrotzaurre, Bilbao, Spain.

• Historical study of Basque culture and local site. Through the transformation of old factories, the space arrangement is used to influence people's behaviour

• Project featured by Dezeen Magazine

Mar 2020 China

• Commnuitation& Collaboration: Using 3D modelling software and Adobe Suite to accurately represent concepts and spatial designs to the director.

Digital Media Intern

One-All in One Application

• Organization: Reviewed and proposed development plans on content editing, product design, project management and media operation on a daily basis.

• Cooperation: work with the creative industry, analysed properties of the application, proposed and executed marketing

• Outstanding intern awarded.

3D Modeling: Enscape | Vray

Rhinoceros 3D | SketchUp | Auto CAD

Rendering:

• Nominated for the Interior Educators Awards

• Project exhibited at IED Kunsthal, Spain

Future Mobility Mar 2021 London, UK

Smart Parking Lot system

Others:

Adobe Creative Suite | Houdini | Unity Figma

• SOFT SKILLS

Collaboration | Communication | Organization |Model Making

Oct 2019 London, UK

• Self-motivated: Communicate with the technology group of 5G the driverless car team. Quickly understanding the key points and converting new knowledge into design.

• Project grade of A and awarded in an international design competition.

Map Design Site: Peckham, London, UK

• Communicate with local people, understand their needs, living experience

• Narration: Transfer their story and emotions into visual language.

• The final design was exhibited at South London Gallery.

Table Of Content

SITE ANALYSIS

Marked the places where second patients often relieve their emotions and categorized the places with colors in different shades according to the force of their emotions.

The park in the hospital was found to be place where they often go.

The space is divided into general lines of movement and functions. The traffic flow of people is gradually categorized in the order of public—semi-public—private. At the same time, the comfort areas are arranged and separate spaces for comfort are added to the private areas.

GRASS GRASS IMPORTANT BUILDINGS IMPORTANT BUILDINGS HOSPITAL HOSPITAL

Public space is designed with various functions such as a shared kitchen, exhibition room, speech area, and so on. In these spaces, large or small independent spaces are designed for second patients to relieve their emotions at any time. The independent spaces and public spaces are organically connected with corridors formed by columns or baffles.

SHARED KITCHEN

The Tube

—— Countryside life in tube

Regional planning and Architecture

10-2021

Chunyang village, Nanchong,Sichuan Province Collaboration---Function Blocks Design

Great changes have taken place in rural China since China implemented the poverty alleviation policies in the 1970s. Modern new villages are gradually taking shape, but in the process of formation, some problems in Chinese villages need to be solved. Under this background, through research and analysis, we found that there are many problems among rural areas in China such as unbalanced economic development, inability to drive the surrounding economy, and the single output between urban and rural areas.

My group believes that the core reasons for these problems are the natural geographical factors and barriers between villages and the later imbalance of infrastructure distribution caused by the government policies. To solve this problem, we started with the core element, namely the traffic, combined it with the concept of the pipeline, and planned to connect each settlement village with pipelines. At the same time, to preserve the characteristic of family settlement in Chinese rural areas, we designed large and small points to ensure efficient production under the rural characteristics of the traditional settlement nature and improve the material exchange and contact between villages. The TUBE system will gradually form a global rural network.

-Each road is connected to other roads. One could hear what another one says in everyday life.

-阡陌交通，鸡犬相闻

Through research, we chose the area in Nanchong City, Sichuan Province, with Chunyangshan Village as the core village. Chunyangshan Village is one of the villages with strong support from the government. In addition to the traditional primary industry, the villagers also have their income from the tertiary industry such as tourism. However, research and analysis show that the rich business segments and income of Chunyangshan Village have not driven the economic development of surrounding villages. The analysis revealed that the two core factors of backwardness in transportation and fragmentation of businesses were causing a vicious cycle.

PROBLEM ANALYSIS

Compared with the road development in other parts of China, the roads in the villages around Chunyangshan Village are below the average level. The backward road conditions, therefore, lead to the inefficient development of logistics and warehousing.

The big nodes are mainly used as symbolic spiritual places for villagers to socialize and communicate. Large-scale public places such as upper-level social activities and fairs are set up at large points. There are tubes and transit places for traffic inside.

The small nodes are mainly used for storing and transiting materials. At the same time, the long corridor aboveground can be used as a place for processing crops. It is a place where various activities can be carried out.

The big nodes provide people with a variety of social places such as the traditional fairs in the countryside. Villagers can sell their products among themselves while, to a certain extent, attracting tourists. It can drive the development of the tertiary industry.

The long corridor of the small nodes can be used by villagers for traditional handicraft creation such as drying crops. At the same time, they also provide a place for the elderly to rest and socialize.

The Plaza for Fete

The Local Market

Small Stores of Daily Merchandise

Transportations

Transmission of artifacts

Machines on Behalf of Transmission

FUNCTION BLOCKS

Design the connection mode of pipes. A conveyor belt for material transportation is designed between tubes. The conveyor belt is arranged in the shape of circles so that supplies can be transported to as many parts of the tubes as possible.

According to the distribution of the existing modules, they are adapted and combined to form function modules with different lengths for residence, agriculture, forestry, and fishery. They are connected by the traffic tubes throughout.

GRAPHIC GENERATION

TANGENT CONNECTION CONNECTION CONNECTION SEPARATION INTERSECTION

The modularity allows each part to be combined to adapt to the complex living and farming conditions in reality. Tubes for internal and external circulating are arranged between spaces for the transportation and conversion of materials. The residential area is designed near the big nodes, which is convenient for villagers to go there for fairs or other social activities.

A rooftop is designed on the top floor of the residential area for people to carry out public social activities. At the same time, the residents' places adopt the split-level design, which ensures the privacy and lighting of daily life.

Wandering In Memorytower

------- Lenghu Oil Base Memorial Tower

Architecture

10-2021

Lenghu Oil base, Lenghu, Qinghai rovince 15,303*81,767*67,665*mm

Independent -The past should not be forgotten.

Lenghu Oil Base is located in the north of Qaidam Basin, Qinghai Province, at the junction of Gansu, Qinghai, and Xinjiang. It is named Lenghu Oil Base because it is located near Lenghu. Generations of oil workers have dedicated their youth there, had their own homes, and created beautiful memories of that passionate era. However, after the oil is extracted, people left the area. There are only collapsing buildings corroded by saline-alkali rainwater and the cinder and slags left from oil drilling at the base.

This project aims to use and transform as best these dangerous buildings and local materials to build a landmark to commemorate the contribution of the older generation of oil workers to the industry. It is a spatialized a poem. The design creates different spatial atmospheres so that visitors can feel the stories told by time and environment in the site of Lenghu Oil Base from different viewing perspectives and path rhythms.

SITE ANALYSIS

According to the site research, found that there used to be schools, hospitals, dance halls, cinemas, hotels, and inns at the base. Later, residents left because of the lack of oil resources and the harsh natural environment. Therefore, a large number of architectural sites have been left behind. There is an eye-catching building with red walls. It used to be a local art gallery. Therefore, I chose it as the architectural center of the memorial tower. At the same time, two abandoned buildings near the art gallery were selected as the guidance space.

TIMELINE & PROBLEMS

Oil drilling can cause a lot of pollution such as land salinization and a large amount of cinder. Also, because the buildings here are brick structures, I hope that the cinder can be reused to build a memorial tower

MATERIAL RESEARCH

After investigation, the cinder can be mixed with the bricks of collapsed buildings, limestone, plaster and water to make cinder bricks. In this way, it can not only echo the brick structure of the local buildings but also make the best use of these wastes.

Qinghai Rovince Lenghu

A spatialised reduction of the poem. The position and window of the tower are set based on the relationship between the position of the line-of-sight position and the site. A window constitutes a threshold, which can arouse memories and thoughts. Then, taking the description of poetry as a thread, the scene and space rhythm are connected to form a complete narrative.

The final version of the memorial tower is a building composed of steel frames and cinder bricks. Different ways of setting windows can create different light effects and ways of viewing, which enriches visitors' experience.

The section drawing shows the building from windows in partial, blurred images, then continuous sectional windows, and, finally, open environmental perspectives.

As can be seen from the floor plan and the axonometric drawing, the guidance space mainly restricts people's movements through steel frame structures and bricks. At the same time, a darker passage was built in the later period of the guidance space to contrast with the first light space of the memorial tower and enhance the visitors' feelings.

The different forms of the steel frame structure combined with brick are also analysed. Finally, echoes are made with the previous poem: A visit to the memorial tower from the first perspective of an oil worker's ghost.

Matsuko —— Transform memoriesofMatsuko into an architecture

Architecture

9-2020

Huangchuan River, Tokyo, Japan

27785*30596*127921*mm

Independent

The movie Memories of Matsuko tells the story of Matsuko. As a child, she has been neglected by her father and gradually formed a habit of pleasing others. She constantly gives and gets hurt in romantic relationships, losing hope for life. Finally, with the encouragement of her best friend and sister, she rekindles her hope but is beaten to death by a group of teenagers in a park.

I used Matsuko's life as an entry point for the design, analysing the positive and negative influences of the characters on Matsuko, and using the relationships of others on Matsuko to derive the final architectural form. The site of the project was chosen beside the Arakawa River, where Matsuko finally lived and died, to recreate the life of Matsuko in an architectural form. Visitors can walk through Matsuko's life via a circular ramp and an internal staircase. I was deeply touched by Matsuko's inability to love herself and her excessive devotion to others in the film, so I hope that through this project I can express that everyone should know how to love themselves and that only when they learn to love themselves can they be able to love others.

Even if I'm beaten, it's better than being alone...

CHARACTER

ELEMENTS

GRAPHIC GENERATION

SOLID

In the chronological order in which the characters play an important role in the life of Matsuko. Analyzed which characters output the most negative energy to Matsuko and which characters output the most positive energy to Matsuko in a one-to-one correspondence. Matsuko represented by the circle are operated first. The final architectural form is generated according to the changes of the graphics.

Through the influence of each of the characters in Matsuko's life, they are superimposed and extrapolated to create the architectural form with Matsuko as its essence. The spaces are connected by a circular ramp and an interior staircase. One side of the circular staircase leads up to the Arakawa River, where visitors may be able to empathise with the comfort that the Arakawa River brings to Matsuko at a time of despair in her life.

Circular Ramp

Screening Room

Interactive Space

Exhibition

Cafe

SPACE ANALYSIS

Circular Ramp

A corridor surrounds the whole building and connects the various spaces. The height of the wall of the corridor gradually decreases, so that people can gradually see the whole building and the external environment when walking.

Aurora (2023)

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Flexible Tailored Homes For Young Generation

Product Architectural 2022-Till now (Work in Progress)

Software: Rhino,Enscape, Unity, Figma

Collaboration--Furniture & Phygital design, Application design, Visualisation

Aurora provides affordable, flexible housing solutions tailored to urban millennials facing financial barriers to homeownership. Aurora utilises 3D printing technology to provide adaptable, modular living spaces that meet individual needs and preferences. Its dynamic design facilitates easy expansion or downsizing in response to the changing lifestyles of its occupants. This novel housing concept seeks to rethink the way we design, build and assemble homes, ultimately improving the quality of urban living.

Due to today's growing global housing crisis, young people living in metropolitan areas are unable to be assured of their living conditions and mental well-being due to factors such as rents and houses that are too small.

Aurora presents an innovative housing solution, tailored to user preferences and data. User lifestyles are captured and an optimized space is provided through a configurator system.It employs a modular system, facilitating easy rearrangement. The digital solution, coupled with the physical space, enhances the living experience within limited quarters. These individual Auroras can stand alone or unite into a dynamic, flexible community evolving over time. Moreover, the option for users to exchange their modular segments and furniture further enriches the offering.

In order to provide young generation with an affordable and flexible housing that can be adapted to different needs, we use 3D printing technology to allow users to personalise and print quickly.

The basic house type is with living segments on both sides to provide basic amenities and phygital segments in the middle for recreation and maintaining the previous hobbies and lifestyle.

MODULARITY-ASSEMBLE

Since we are using 3D printing technology, we design the segment in sections. At the same time, the joint design locks each part in place by gravity.

As a whole

Plug-in-Pocket

MODULARITY--FURNITURE

Implementing a custom website platform using Unity.

The user describes their needs the platform converts natural Language into different levels of needs and thus generation Aurora. After that we provide different kinds of furniture and items for the user to choose from.

Users can choose various virtual scenarios to build the digital community. The housing model is the digital twin of their actual physical house.

Due to Aurora's own flexibility, it can not only be placed alone in waste land, but can also be placed in gaps between buildings.

Horizontal Growth

Vertical Growth, Urban Gaps

FABRIC WOMEN MUSEUM

Interior Renovation 06-2022

Zorrotzaurre, Bilbao, Spain Independent

F A B R I C - W O M E N - M U S E U M aims to spatialise the inequalities suffered by women in the workplace during the industrial revolution. The site is a former biscuit factory, Artiach in Zorrotzaurre, Bilbao, Spain.

Based on the research into the history of Artiach during the industrial revolution, approximately 80% of the workers were women. Although Artiach offered work opportunities for women, their working conditions and treatment were poor.

The design translates the inequality of women in the workplace into four thematic rooms: Control, Inconvenience, Isolation and Vulnerability . The interactive exhibition helps visitors understand the conditions suffered by women workers in workspaces during the industrial revolution, encouraging them to reflect on how far gender equality has come, and what can still be done for gender equality today.

— Jenny Nordberg

-Women who are kept indoors, cannot make money and will not hold any power.

Women used to be seen as cheap labor

Based on research into the history of Artiach, it can be seen that during the industrialisation period, Artiach was a factory where approximately 80% of the workers were women.

SPATIALIZE

60%-80% of labors were women

WORKING CONDITIONS

DESCRIPTION

THEMES

Mobility Control

Women's Needs Were Ignored

ROOM 1: CONTROL

The fabric hung up to form a fabric wall that blocks the visitor's way. One needs to control the position of the fabric to find the exit.

ROOM 2: INCONVENIENCE

Fabric wraps around the small-scale artworks and the positions are various. Visitors need to adjust their viewpoint to appreciate the objects.

ROOM 3: ISOLATION

To recreate a dimly lit environment from that time, separate the sunlight from the darkness by using a fabric to provide different places for people to move around.

ROOM 4: VULNERABILITY

Audio-visual room. With the fluttering of the fabric, the image is always broken, as if the women were in a constant position of vulnerability during industrialization.

ROOM 1

ROOM 2 ROOM 3 ROOM 4

Room 1. Control-Interaction Room

Room 2. Inconvenience-Display Room---Small Scale Artwork

Room 3. Isolation-Social Events Room/ Large Scale Artwork

Room 4. Vulnerability-Audio-Visual Room

First Floor-4 Thematic Rooms

Tensile Structure-Detail Scale 1:10

First Floor-Plan Scale 1:200

A pattern corresponds to a verb in the article. I used xuan paper to make the Zodeide that I understand, and then use the projection to gradually spread the pattern on the model, just as what the artcle said the man’s desire is constantly eroding the Zobeide.

Desired city —— Visualize the Invisible Cities--- Zodeide

Installation 10-2019

Software: Processing

Independent

Click here to see whole projecting video: https://youtu.be/P-reJlcjv_s

Flow-vase

Vase

02-2023

Software: Houdini, Rhino, Vray Independent

Details

Front View

Isometric View