PORTFOLIO SPICA LIU
01 Urban Revivo
Renewal, Settlement, Reprocity
Urban Farm/Market, Residential Design | Atlanta Individual Project Summer 2021
02 Archipelago
Space, Material, Lighting
Museum/Theather Design | Atlanta Individual Project Fall 2021
03
Outside In
Inherit, Projection, Memorial
Historic Renovation, Bathing Complex | Atlanta Individual Project Spring 2021
04
Beyond Oasis
Figuration, Decoration, Growth
Islamic Tessellation, Mix-use Building| Chicago Group Project Fall 2020
05
Aperture
Weaving, Sculpting, Shading
Lenore Tawney: Fiber Art Pavilion | Atlanta Individual Project Spring 2021
06
Other Works
Urban Revivo Renewal, Settlement, Reprocity Instructor: Ryan Roark
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“Are they farming in our backyard?” “That is weird”
“Maybe we should join!”
“Wow we can get food from our backyord!” “Also flowers for decora�ons!”
The site is located in Artist Yard, whitehall street in Atlanta. The original building used to be a factory that produced goods and supplies for florals back in 1960. The idea of this project is to renew the old factory house and providing “Renewal, Settlement and Reprocity” to the site. Creating a healthy community by bringing the industrial process(farming) back into the concrete city and let visitor and local residences have a visual connection with the farming process, invovled and finally inhabited in the adaptation process. First by creating a space for local farmers to sell their goods and show the process of making their good. Secondly, the farmers’ market can provide affordable/accessible grocery for residents who live here.Finally, the mix program will also provide spaces for residents to be involved and paticipate, such as floral design class and farming opportunity. Farmers’ Market was located on the sourth side first floor that can be acess direclty though the whitehall street level.The residential housing is mostly targeting the middle class who work in the midtown area that seek for housing that is close to their workplace.The unit type will be 1b1b for single people and 2b1b for family unit.
Historic Building
Occupa�on
Household
Gender
64% 53%
18%
Mechanics Ville
43%
10%
$22,428
$54,420
89% $21,820
40%
575
$37,692
2634
414
897
11%
8%
Castle Berry Hill
$16,714
10%
78%
60%
2962
$68,521
90%
6%
5514 $13,975
$13,975
56%
Downtown Atlanta
Poverty Line
$54,185
47%
81%
Income Range
90%
Farm/Garden Map
Job Opportuni�es
Showcase Community Facili�es
Local Business
Residen�al Area Local Business
Educa�on Center
Residen�al Area
Garden/Ac�vity Facili�es
Site Farm
Farmer’s Market
Community Facility
Popula�on
Circular Economy Agriculture classes
Residents
Mix-Use Complex
“Good Neighborhood”
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Resident
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Green Space
Playground
Classroom
Housing
Farm
Urban Garden
Urban Farm
Farmer’s Market
By spreated the old facade into two parts, creating a new opening that contain the same size/feature of the orginal opening to break the symmetry of the old facade. With the openings, creating three different entrances, one for residential only, reaching to the other site though the structure and farmers market. The program diagram illustrate how the main massing was being spreated into market area and residential unit.Other components, such as flower classes and farming activities will be place on top of the farmers market and being connected though a bridge so that residence can enter the activities without going in a vertical direction.
Floor 4 Plan
Floor 2 Plan
Floor 3 Plan
Site Plan
Archipelago Space, Material, Lighting Instructor: W.Jude LeBlanc
The Asia Society was founded in 1956 by John D. Rockefeller III. Initially established to promote greater knowledge of Asia in the US, today the Society is a global institution—with offices throughout the US and Asia—that fulfills its educational mandate through a wide range of cross-disciplinary programming. As economies and cultures have become more interconnected, the Society’s programs have expanded to address Asian American issues, the effects of globalization, and pressing concerns in Asia including human rights, the status of women, and environmental and global health issues such as HIV/AIDS.[3] The organization’s records are held at the Rockefeller Archive Center in North Tarrytown, NY T he Asia Society defines the region of Asia as the area from Japan to Iran, from central Asia to Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands. The Asia Society is a non-profit, non-partisan organization whose aim is to build awareness about Asian politics, business, education, arts, and culture through education. The organization sponsors the exhibitions of art, performance, film, lectures, and programs for students and teachers. The programs are aimed at increasing knowledge of society with a focus on human rights, environment, global health and the position of women.
The site is located near Georgia Tech campus which is easy to access both from campus and midtown Atlanta.In order to create a pathway can make visitor to essy access, the project create two spreate main entrance, one on the Georgia Tech side and one on the midtown Atlanta side.The major massing also get spreat into two parts which one for threater and one for the museum. The sub program like cafe and library located between, that connected though a two stories pathways that directly cut though the site.
Outside In
Inherit, Projection, Memorial Instructor: Hayri Dortivanlioglu
The site located at the New Manchester Mill Ruins in Sweetwater Creek State Park. The project focus on developing a wellness retreat in the natural such as pool complex, yoga/meditation area and spa area.By respecting the histroy from the remain ruin, the project repersent the tragic history though a hugh shell elements that projecting the violence in the past. With four levels of volume added to the historical remains, a huge mass was added to the site and created a sense of depth and heavythess to the open land scape. By crashing a big structure shell though the historical facade and tearing apart the geometry and materialistic of the walls, it created a sense of violence that indicates what are some possible events that went through in the site. Although the shell is massive, the floor plan insidede the structure is more freeform and led by several extended ramps that lead to people to experience the site/old walls. The gaps between the walls not only provide sunlight but also show respect to the remaining structure.
Site Anaysis/Form Develop Light
Texture
Temperature
Sound
Dry
Wet 40%
Wet 70%
Wet 100%
Form
Main structure
Private Sleeping/lounge
Public Services/Dinning
Semi-Public Pool/SPA Yoga
F1
F2
Circulation
Public Pool/SPA Meditation
F3
F4
In order to connected all the experiences together, the form contain several “Arms” that acted as extruded tube that extended further our from the existing structure, creating pathways for people to view and engaged.The gap between the existing structure and the new structure created a soft opening that people can engage with the site in a respectful way whereas the outside mass was creating the sense of violence. Historic Appoarch
Floor Section With Gaps-Soft Light Shell-Violence
Historic Repersentation
Program/Mateiral
Pool
Dinning
Spa
Sleeping
Meditation
Forth Floor-Private Sleep Meditation
Pool Small Warm Pool
Warm Pool
Meditatio Pathway
Meditation big
Ice Pool
Meditation small Warm Pool outside
Fire Pool
Locker
Third Floor-Public Dinning Yoga
Sanua
Divination Tarot
Circulation
Restroom
Spa
Restroom
Massage Room
Facial
Dinning Dinning in with seats
Cafe
Relaxation Deck
Front Desk
Second Floor-Relief Complex
Bar
Kitchen
Restroom
Restroom Circulation
First Floor-Relief Complex
Services Front Desk
Sleeping Locker Room
Bedroom
Office
Meditation Area
Pool Area
Yoga Area
SPA Area
When visitors are entering into the building, they first establish an awareness of the event from the exterior, reflecting their ideas through the walls by walking on the passways, finally arriving at the destination of certain program elements that they can participate in.Instead of having the pools only be the pools for wellness treatment or a place for physical movement to occur,it will be more like a pool for people to reflect themselves by looking at the historical walls or swimming under it to get better experiences. Visitors enter from the thrid floor(ground level), going down to enter the relief complex which is more a public area.Going up to the housing area which is a private area.
Mesh
Glass
Steel
Concrete
Glass
Brick
Section&Material
First Floor Plan
Plan&Sections
Beyond Oasis Figuration, Decoration, Growth Instructor: Stuart Romm
Private Garden
Semi-Public Garden Public Garden
Representative of Islamic culture, tessellations display the connection between beauty and geometry and are considered as an expression of the fundamental truths of Tawhid and Miza. The tiled nature of tessellation allows for three dimensionalities on a flat mosaic where the tiles overlap. Because of this depth, patterns formed from outlining ribbons are easy to follow and demand viewers to decide where the shapes they surround are the positive space or the voids in the pattern. This project first tested different ways to repersent islmaic tessliations, twisting the main elements and thickening the subject matter from 2D to 3D.Then apply the custom pattern as a deep decoration(Screens) though out the building. The building tries to break the boundary between interior and exterior which individuals can be present in a zone that not necessarily can be considered physically inside the building or ourside the buidling. By creating different types of green spaces in the building to provide an experience that people can engage with geenery and function servies at the same time. The Islamic tessellation, though our study, applied though twisting and extruding, provided dimension and depth for the lights to come through.
Configuration Geometric Grid
Folding
Basic Tessellations Girih Shapes 3.4.6.4
3 Fold 4.8.4.8
Triangles grid
3.6.3.6
Rectangles+Hexagons grid
4 Fold
Geomertic Construction 5 Fold
6 Fold
45° 60°
75°
56°
56° 90°
45° 60°
90°
100°
90°
75°
90° 90°
30°
30°
90°
60°
30°
90° 56°
Islamic Tessellation was constructed though basic geometric grid and foldings. The intersection of the geometric grids being connected by lines that created either ribbens or stirippes to form the tessllation. Mixing different types of geometric grids through the practices also provided new opportunities to create different foldings of islamic tessellation. By testing ancient tessellations under different lenses such as tessellation: grid puzzle, strapworks: layers of ribbens and spline figures : rotation/folding angles, creating a system for new pattern creation. Tessellation
Strapwork
Tessellation
Spline Figures
Strapwork
Spline Figures
115 degree
115 degree 115 degree
30
115 degree
Pentagon
120
90 degree
Decagon
Dimand
0 degree
6-Fold
6-Fold
Decagon 1/4 A
1/5
0 degree
36 degree
30
rhombus
120
Pentagon
36 degree
Trans Bow tie
triangle
115 degree
115 degree 115 degree
115 degree
115 degree
115 degree 115 degree
115 degree
115 degree
115 degree 115 degree
115 degree
Trans Triangle
62 degree
62 degree
Isosceles triangle
Quadrilateral
Polygon
4-Fold
115 degree
115 degree 115 degree
1/10 A
Bow tie
4-Fold Decagon
Bow tie
Triangle Pentagon
Dimand
Quadrilateral
115 degree
115 degree
115 degree
Variation: Duplicating & Scaling
Dulicate in Parallel Line
Scale Change in Parallel Line
A^4
2A
A^3
2A Dulicate in Density
3A
4A
A^2 to A^3
3A A^2
A^3
Creating new tessellation tiles that duplicate through direction (parallel or perpendicular) and numbers, combining different variations with scaling and rotating.Using the new tesselation tiles to create void cuts models.
Dulicate in Parallel Line
Dulicate in Density
Scale Change in Parallel Line
OTATING
SCALING
280° *3
Dulicate in Parallel Line
3D Thickening:Intersection Extension
A^4
Scale in Parallel Line
2A
A^3 A&C
A&B
A&D
2A
TH GAPS Tessliations
A Geometry
B
C
Ribbon 01
Ribbon 02
Dulicate in Parallel Line
3A
3A 4A D TessellationDulicate in Density
2A
3A
Unit A
4A
A^2 to A^3
3A
Dulicate in Density
Scale in Parallel Line
A^2 A^4
A^3
A^2 to A^3 A^2
A^2 A^4
BDCA
A
nsity
A^2 to A^3 Scale Change in Parallel Line
A^3
The screens were made by a main tessellation, two sets of ribbons that were taken from the tessellation itself and a geometry analysed diagram from the tessellation. Experiencing 3D variation throughout switching the order of the layers and testing different intersections(Points on the screen) between them which later will be extruded in a 3D perspective so that the connection can be seen not only in 2 dimentional stripes but also created a volume that connected different layers.
THICKENING MODEL
el Line
C&D
A^3
2A
Tessliations
B&D
B&C
Scale in Parallel Line
2A
280° *3
Unit A
Scale Change in Parallel Line
A^3
Scale Change in Parallel Line
A^3
DBCA
DABC
DACB
3D Thickening:Scaling
A
B
C
A&B
A&C
A&D
B&C
B&D
C&D
D
By scaling the tessellations with repeated patterns to create four different screens. Overlapping and changing the order of the screen so that the connections between grid tiles on each screen were scaled three dimensionally.Testing the connection points, creating a twisting effect though the screens. Testing the 3D twisting as a space that visitors can engage in from a different perspective.
Site & Program Natural Resources
South State Street
South Wabash Avenue
Transportation
Parking Lots
Site
Retail
East Balbo Drive
Site Sunlight Diagram
North
South
West
NorthEast
NorthWest
WestSouth
L8
L7
Outdoor Garden Dinning: Bar
South Michigan Avenue
South Holden Court
Restaurants Hotels Universities
Our cite was took place in Chicago, surrounded by several education facilities that can be accessed. The function of the building was be designed as a relaxing space for the student community.We established a green indoor/outdoor system to make sure people from all floors have access to the green area. Three different types of garden been curved out from the buidling: Public Garden that can be accessed from the street level, Semi Public Garden that can be engaged from both inside and outside the building and a Private Garden for the residence. Then we lay out our program based on the fact that the garden space was a zone between private and public. So what belows the extrusion garden will be Public Space, what intersects it will be Semi Public Space and what above it will be Private Space.
Private Garden
Residential: Guest Suite/Single Expresso+Lounge
Semi-Public Garden Public Garden
L6
Service: SPA Expresso+Lounge Staff Service
L5
Reading+Media Expresso+Lounge Service: Auditorium Expresso+Lounge
L4
Service: Gallery Expresso+Lounge Reading+Media
L3
L2
L1
Service Dinning: Cafe Service: Gym/Yoga Expresso+Lounge
Staff Service Expresso+Lounge Outdoor Garden Parking
Open Stair Elevator
Main Circulation with Elevator
Fire Stair
Entrance Circulation
Main Entrance
Automobile Circulation
L8
L7
L6
Outdoor Garden Dinning: Bar Residential: Guest Suite/Single Expresso+Lounge
Service: SPA Expresso+Lounge Staff Service
L5
Reading+Media Expresso+Lounge Service: Auditorium Expresso+Lounge
L4
Service: Gallery Expresso+Lounge Reading+Media
L3
L2
L1
Service Dinning: Cafe Service: Gym/Yoga Expresso+Lounge
Staff Service Expresso+Lounge Outdoor Garden Parking
Aperture
Weaving, Sculpting, Shading Instructor: Daniel Baerlecken
Lenore Tawney, A major figure in the fiber movement of the 1950s and 1960s, Lenore Tawney redefined the possibilities of weaving and led the way toward the explosive growth of fiber art in subsequent decades. She created a new vocabulary for textile works by subverting the typical woven grid and inventing new ways of weaving beyond the traditional boundaries of the loom. In order to emphasize the sculptural qualities of her works, Tawney maintained that they hang in space rather than against the wall. This project started by anaysis her weaving from both 2D weaving and 3D volume weaving, understand how bounding and layer bounding works, creating new facade structure with grasshopper out of it. Finally, creating the facade structure in real life with wood with scale 4 feet**feet .The Prototype was being constructed and documented though the process of making.
2D bounding
Vertical Anaylsis
Horizontal Anaylsis
Bounding Anaysis 3 sets of 11 threads
Weaving: Mirror of the Universe
2 sets of 11 threads Spreate 11 threads Bundling 1
Bundling 11 threads
2 sets of 11 threads
22 threads Bundling 1 3 threads 6 threads Bundling 1 Breaking 8 14 threads
Weaving: Vespers
Vertical Anaylsis
Horizontal Anaylsis
Bounding Anaysis
6 threads
Bundling 1 3 threads Breaking 2
10 threads Bundling 1 5 sets of threads 2 sets of 6 threads Bundling 1 Breaking 3 Breaking 2
Model
3D Bounding
Form
Screen
Plan&Section
Model Perspective
3D Bounding
Fabrication Bounding 1
Sections
b1
b2
b3
Bounding 2 10 threads
Sections
Bundling 1 5 sets of threads 2 sets of 6 threads Bundling 1 Breaking 3 Breaking 2
Base Structure
Constructing 3D structure with grasshopper to create several layers of boundings strips that based on the analysis from the weaving pattern. Repeat and overlapping them to create a semi-circlular facade that tansfer light and shadow.Dupplicating with the same scale with the base structure to create facade that create a sequence of wire effect parametic structure.
Structure I Structure II
Form
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A’A“
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A’A“
Applications
By duplicating the bundling from the pattern to create new form of structure that project light and shadow. The main structure was made in 1/5 inch polywood to bring the Vitality to the structure though bounding AA’
A’A“
Assembly Instructions 1
2
You need......
X4
X21
X2
X16 X2
Building Landscape Natrual & Artificial A. In exploring spacial conditions created by subtraction and removal of the land, we created an overlapping triangular geometry consisting of a visible downward sloping pathway, an open triangular void space with trees, an underground passage way, and a sloping pathway emerging into a roof condition. This condition allows for us to explore one connecting pathway that goes through various heights and depths while naturally providing circulation and interesting perspective views for the space in between. B: The habitable wall that occupies this largely sloping space mirrors the angular geometry of the first landscape condition. Here, people can view the textured wall as the light hits it at different angles during the day as they move upward on the sloping path. When they reach the end of the wall condition, there’s an accessible ramp leading higher up to an opening in the wall that overlooks the rest of the landscape. After passing this wall, we are able to continue on a shallow sloped path curving behind the wall that blends into the rest of the landscape.
Part A
Part B
Building Landscape Cropping & Curving
This model creates a pavilion space from the intersection of two waving paths. While one of the waves is more winding with a higher amplitude, the other is fairly straight with a lower amplitude. As these paths cross, they create a longer, scenic route through the crops as well as a shorter, direct path to the pavilion. The pavilion was intentionally placed in a smaller area to provide more accessibility to the path from the tectonic addition and vice versa. The waving pattern in the crops is also reflected in the height of the crops. These heights were manipulated through a series of warped 2D surfaces slicing through the crops at intersecting heights. Crops closer to the paths are shortened to evoke a feeling of spaciousness and visibility, while crops located in the center continuous crop space are left longer, so the changing heights can be seen through the pathways or from standing on the pavilion.
Perspective
The project first analysis the drawing though perspectives and layers.After examing the basic geometric of the drawings, breaking the lines into several series of layers that capture light and shadow.The paintings are mainly contain circles, triangles and persepective lines that conneting in dimensions.In terms of the positions of the layers, three main levels was been constructed:front(which contains the fire as motion),figures(contained main geometric) and background(perspective structure).I used micropen to draw out all the layers and use line works to construct light and shadow.For the texture, I use different types of constructed paper and create volume to the layer for the popping off effect. The choice of color yellow was base on the light condition.
Precendent Analysis
The project first analysis Deering Residence(1956) though three diagrams: Material, lighting condition & Public vs Private Space. The two-bedroom beach house contained several levels that sepreated the space according to the space use. The gallery with a exposed hallway provided visitors from upstair to look down. In order to fit the painting “Philosopher In Meditation” to the building, the painting been spreated in to three parts that not only highlighted the position of three figure in the paining, but also been treaded as a projection of the columns that the deering residences contained.
Blender/3dx Max