Portfolio Siyuan Liu
post-professional/ University of Texas at Austin
Pattern Language Galveston Island VS Sea Level Rising 2011 advanced studio/ Coleman Coker
Galveston Bay
Water Speed(Knots) < 0.4 0.4 ~ 0.8 0.8 ~ 1.2 1.2 ~ 1.6 1.6 ~ 2.0 2.0 ~ 2.4 > 2.4
Galveston/site
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WATER CURRENT Hurricane Category Tropical or Subtropical Storm Max Sustained Winds 64 ~ 82 kts Max Sustained Winds 83 ~ 95 kts Max Sustained Winds 96 ~ 113 kts Max Sustained Winds 114 ~ 135 kts
3FT INUNDATION
6FT INUNDATION
9FT INUNDATION
12FT INUNDATION
SEA LEVEL RISING
HURRICANE HISTORY
US HURRICANES
BY SAFFIR-SIMPSON CATEGORY 1851-1860 1861-1870 1871-1880 1881-1890 1891-1900 1901-1910 1911-1920 1921-1930 1931-1940 1941-1950 1951-1960 1961-1970 1971-1980 1981-1990 1991-2000 2001-2010
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Adaptation Rang of Capacity Resistance Self-restoration Absorbency Function Retainability Perturbation
Ocean water Ecosystem Dynamic change Opportunity Challenge
Life Properties Development Culture
Survive Promotion Reflection
Reasearch Definition:
A human occupied territory that was designed with a relatively wide range of stable states, according to the local surrounding conditions. The place has suf ficient ability to transit within the range and adjusts to absorb or withstand the dynamic coastal normal and abnormal changes, while still retains its essential function as a safe and active place for human and human properties. “...natural ability to return to equilibrium.” C.S. Holling, 1973
“...a sense of emergent behaviour that is improvised and adaptive.” Dynes, 2003
“The capacity of a system to absorb disturbance and reorganize while under going change so as to still retain essentially the same function, structure, identity, and feedbacks” ecological resilience
“...the ability to recover from accidents and catastrophes overtime...” On the Water, 2009
“...a return to one stable state following a perturbation” Horne and Orr, 1998
RESILIENT
COASTAL
HUMAN
HABITAT
Adaptation Rang of Capacity Resistance Self-restoration Absorbency Function Retainability Perturbation
Ocean water Ecosystem Dynamic change Opportunity Challenge
Life Properties Development Culture
Survive Promotion Reflection
WEST BAY <5’ <10’ <15’ <20’ <25’ from sea level 10k 32k 12.6k
90k 25.4k
0.3b 1.9b 7.3b
163.4k 43.8k 7.7b 19.2b
244.5k 60k
81.4k
population jobs land value
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ADAPTATION
MULTI-FUNCTION
RENEWAL
INTERRELATIONSHIP
REDUNDANCY
actively or passively changing the form according to different situation, including changing the capacity, resistance, tension, density, etc.
shifting among functions in different period. These functions in the city should be not primary; they are not used during and after disaster comes; they have possibility to be reused in other functions.
making things easy to be recovered, including making things to be economical, recyclable and easily produced.
individual system cooperate with each other when disaster comes, if each individual part has some advantage which others donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have so that when they work together, the entire whole can perform flawlessly.
having more than one strategy in the region, so that when one fails, the others still can work.
Concept When sea level will rise 15ft above Galveston Island, how human defend our land from catastrophe. A 15ft high sea wall could be the best option. But, what if tide can make another 5ft unpredictable sea level changing, or if hurricane can lift water up to an extra 18ft? I propose to rebuild a more flexible city structure. Contrast to recent way of defending sea level rising, a new type of 3D city pattern and waterfront landscape structure allow water flow though to exhaust wave energy.
City Pattern Changing
Commercial Development
City Landscape
ORIGINAL
ORIGINAL
ON SEA LEVEL
VISION
VISION
ON GROUND LEVEL
0FT INUNDATION
6FT INUNDATION
6FT INUNDATION WITH HRRICANE
The Galveston city now is not ready to face the sea level rising, not even the further catastrophe like hurricane. On the contrary, new city grids and coastline landscape system provide such a kind of possiblity that the city will be survive from catastrophe.
water landscape industry residence commerce tourism
GALVESTON NOW
PHASE I FOR 3FT INUNDATION
Remove the old industrial facility and transform these area to new meshland system. new industrial facility with strong defensive structure will also be built .
PHASE II FOR 9FT INUNDATION
Lift up ground to develop new commercial and residential area where new pattern of city grid will override on landscape. Water will flow through under it.
PHASE III FOR 15FT INUNDATION
Dig a new canal to release the burden of flooding water. Creat an inland lagoon.
Alluvial Islands Pampulha Lake 2012 advanced studio/ Barbara Hoidn
Three comparing photos took from view 1 to view 3 marked on the map below. Located in the northern region of Belo Horizonte, Pampulha emerges as the legitimate representative of modern architecture of the 40s. Over the years, Pampulha assumed his natural vocation for tourism and recreation. The richness of the architectural complex attracts thousands of tourists. Sedimentation together with water pollution problem from the river mouth color the west side of this artificial lagoon. The water is too shallow that a big piece of island will show up if the water
level is low. To solve the problem, some are planning to reclaim all western part of the lake, but I found something valuable behind the dirty water surface. It is the power of the nature, how natural landscape change from time to time and how nature collect sediment in its own way. Thus, the basic concept is to BUILD ON A DYNAMIC CHANGE.
Sediments 2009 2010 2011 2012 2020 (estimation) 2050 (estimation) 2100 (estimation)
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The natrually formed island is the part of the landscape. No more design will be applied on this piece of land, but just waiting it to grow. The designed landscape begins from a group of artificial island as seeds and grow with the phenomenon of natural island agglomeration. Islands are arranged based on the anticipation of where to grow and where to erode. Building complex carefully touch on these islands or bare water surface and open toward dynamic chang strategically.
Concept The concept is to carefully put the ephemeral landscape and eternal conference center together. The goal is to not only create a single poetic moment, but also transite the stories to future.
people vehicle boats
Years later...
Years, years later... It doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t matter whether the landscape will grow exactly in my anticipation. But nature can start to tell its own vibrant story and people can live in this story.
Building Strategy The building design began from an exploration on sections. Based on the position and surronding condition, different building part have its own response to the landscape, the nature light, light reflection from water, and rain water, to create a series of moment relatively.
Section models
Cafe
Library
Seminar room
This set of renderings is talking about how people walk though the building complex (how stories linked together) and how the building leads the experience from active to peaceful.
CONFERENCE CENTER SCALE 1:250
I Seminar Rooms II Public Living Room III Library IV Cafe and Bar V Reception Center
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6- Information Desk
3- Tea Time Area
7- Indoor Social Area
4- Courtyard with water pound
8- Outdoor Social Area 9- Garden 10- Deck 11- Aluvial Islands
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22- Front Desk and Info
18- Dinning Room
23- Administration Area
14- Courtyard with water pound and Mirror
19- Exterior Cafe
24- Loading Deck
15- Reading Room
20- Kitchen
25- Run-off Cleanage Pound
21- Decks
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Lamination Chair
2012 furniture design studio/ Mark Macek
background: Private Residence by Garcia Tamjidi
early sketches study about seating behavior
Lamination Chair A chair designed of the need for a future touch screen device user. By thinking precisly about how user sit on the chair using iPad, the chair is featured by the smooth curve back connected to the arm rest, so that user can turn around and rest on any part of the back with always his or her arm raised to a nice hight for iPad using. User can use iPad for longer time without making their neck feel sick. The low seating surface is marked as a hight to release the stress of leg. It a chair but also an architecture, a space of relax enclosed by back, armrest and seat surface. The difficulty is to find out the balance between clean form and simple fabrication methods. The idea is to creat two continuous component, front legs-armrests-back, rear legs-seat. Two pieces are joined with tenons on each side. The chair is made in six layers of eighth inch birch plywood. Grain pattern is carefully choosed according to the form.
Precedent: Slab Chair by Tom Dixon. (the new design named as lamination chair is to indicate the respect to its precedent.)
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background: A Cantina by Estudio Nomada
PROFESSIONAL
The Magistrateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s House, Bow Street Hotel London, UK Neri & Hu Design and Research Office Jun - Sep, 2012
The Competition The earily idea Bow Street Hotel in the competition was considering new addition part as several boxes connected by path and bridges. The spatial quality was highlighted by the central courtyard with screen and randomly organized balconies and bridges components. The company won this competition in 2011 which was the first architectural project designed by a Chinese firm in London. The Construction is due in 2014.
Drawings Updating the drawing immediately after any design changes happend is one of the major task when I was in this group. Since this is a renovation project, sometimes changes would affect the demolishing process, so the demolishment construction drawing should be updated simultaneously.
ground floor plan
Demolishing Plan Besides the construction drawing, set of demolishing plan is prepared to show the structures need to be removed and new walls being proposed.
Courtyard Study & Rendering One of the major works of mine in NHDRO is exploring the spatial quality of the biggest courtyard. The work is basically trying to develop different envelop strategies, balcony types, skin pattern, material, and shading conditions. The two options below are what the client choose for further development.
The Courtyard addition - Option 12
The Courtyard addition - Option 20
Reinterpretation of the traditional brick faรงades of the existing buildings. Dual tones of massing of the new additions. The luster of copper and bronze will draw light into the create depth and diversity across the faรงade composition.
Double Skin Student Activity Center senior studio/ Shanghai Jiao Tong University
DOUBLE POROUS SKIN STUDY
In winter, sun light cast through the In summer, sun light which has passed holes on both layer of skin into inner through the first layer will be shaded space. by the second layer skin
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SECTION OF MAIN BUILDING/ SOLAR GEOMETRY AND VENTILATION
Performance Baden Creek SPA Center upper level studio/ Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Concept The building design is based on a thesis study about how people perform in a building which can on one hand be the reflection of the envrionment, and, on the other hand reflect the activities from others around you. The building is a place for messages exchange re-interaction. The user and the environmental natural elements can be both the actor and the audience.
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Atmosphere A Street Lamp Design FIRST PRIZE/ Square Inches of Love Competition
Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a street lamp, but also can lights up in day time. By cutting dolphin-shape holes to make a pattern of butterflys, the purpose is to fabricate a street lamp as well as the ATMOSPHERE created by REFLECTION, to be fascinating and easily understood by children.
LASER CUT ALUMINUM PANEL 1.5”
13.33”
72”
light
ALUMINUM PANEL REFLECTION TEST
Final Submition of Competition ATMOSPHERE STREET LAMP DESIGN
It’s a street lamp, but also can lights up in day time. By cutting dolphin-shape holes to make a pattern of butterflys, the purpose is to fabricate a street lamp as well as the ATMOSPHERE created by REFLECTION, to be fascinating and easily understood by children.
LASER CUT ALUMINUM PANEL 1.5”
13.33”
CONCEPT
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reflection
This submition won the FIRST PRIZE in Square Inches of Love Design Competition http://squareinchesoflove.com/2012/2011-holiday-image-contest-results/
rendering
ALUMINUM PANEL REFLECTION TEST
Contact Information
Longhorn Texas
Chinese Painting for UT Chinese Student and Scholar Association
Siyuan Liu email: leoyoan2010@gmail.com cell: 001 512 994 7370 Address: 1600 Wickersham Lane, Ap 2067 Austin, Texas - 78741, USA