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Xiuping Liu B.Arch, Dalian University of Technology, China M.Arch candidate, UC Berkeley, USA Tel: +1-510-260-5444 E-mail: xiuping_liu@berkeley.edu
Architecture selected work samples
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Contents [SRO Residetial Complex] Intergrated Design 9/2019- 12/2019
[The Sweet Dream] Youth Activity Center Design 9/2014- 11/2014
[Beyond Sedentary] Home Competition 6/2018- 8/2018
[Simulacrum of Chinatown] Berkeley Thesis Design 3/2020- 5/2020
[LUDIC(UM)] Inflatable Architecture Design 6/2018- 8/2018
[Other Works] Models, Drawings & Photographies & Internship works
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[01][SRO Residential Complex]
Intergrated Design Studio individual work academic work 9/2019 --12/2019, UC Berkeley, USA instructor: Jasmit Rangr
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This project primarily investigates on different interior atmosphere in public and private space. By dividing the building into 2 parts, private residential rooms in northwest and public space in southeast, people in residential rooms can enjoy the quiet and private courtyard, while people in public space can have a better view of Berkeley downtown. The entrance is at the southwest corner of the building. First floor is a multi-use room which can be used as an art gallery and café. People can go upstairs through these 2 cores. Because of the height difference, one of the core leads to private rooms and the other is to public space. The second floor is mechanical rooms, kitchen, dining room with an outdoor garden and an office. Third and fourth floor have 2-story media room and a lounge. Those public space have various dynamics views and lighting atmosphere because of the manipulation of openings. Multi-use room has a curtain wall on the street side which allow passengers see the activities inside and the transparent façade makes the colorful mass floating in the air. Kitchen’s view is framed by a square window. The dining room’s view is framed through a rectangular window, making people feel view of the garden a landscape painting. The media room on the below floor is a pure black movie room. These black reflective stones are screens. The whole space looks clean and simply. A red staircase connects the reading room on the upper floor. Half of the reading room is an outdoor yard, with curved walls that soften the light. These bookshelves are central pivoting doors. When they are opened, the reading room becomes a half outdoor space. On the other side, curtain wall on the facade let people enjoy the quiet inner courtyard. The plane of each floor is scattered to each other, making each house have an outdoor balcony.
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The whole building adopts steel frame structure, and the largespan multi-functional room on the first floor is supported by truss. Mechanical ventilation is adopted in the kitchen on the first and second floors, and natural ventilation is adopted for the rest of the space.
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6’’ RIGID INS. 6’’ CONCRETE METAL DECK 8’’ CASTELLATED BEAM
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WOOD FLOOR WOOD RAISED FLOOR 6’’ CONCTERE SLAB AL SILL PLATE & FLASHIING CAVITY INSULATION STEEL SHELF ANGLE SEALANT STUCCO BUILDING PAPER SELF-FURRING METAL LATH CONTINUOUS INSULATION CEILING GRANITE
HORIZONTAL ALUMINUM PROFILE AERATED CONCRETE FLOORING GRANITE PVC RAISED FLOOR PEDESTAL WATERPROOF MEMBRANE REINFORCED CONCRETE FOR GRADING, 2%SLOPE STUCCO BUILDING PAPER SELF-FURRING METAL LATH CONTINUOUS INSULATION L PROFILE WATERPROOFING PROFILE 6’’ CASTELLATED BEAM WOOD CEILING
WOOD FLOOR WOOD RAISED FLOOR 6’’ CONCTERE SLAB AL SILL PLATE & FLASHIING CAVITY INSULATION STEEL SHELF ANGLE SEALANT STUCCO BUILDING PAPER SELF-FURRING METAL LATH CONTINUOUS INSULATION CEILING GRANITE
ALUMINUM PROFILE TRIPLE TEMPERED GLASS COPING VAPOR RETARDOR CASING BEAD STEEL STUD WALLBLOWN OUT INS.
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BUILDING PAPER SELF-FURRING METAL LATH 2’’ CONTINUOUS INSULATION WITH DRAINAGE CHANNELS CAVITY INSULATION AIR/WATER BARRIER SHEATHING GYPSUM BOARD STUCCO
BRICK BASE FINELILNE SILL SEXTENDED AND DRESSED INTO BRICK SLOT DRAIN BRICK SLOPES AWAY FROM WALL AT 5% SUB BASE
FLOORIN CONCRETE WATERPROOF MEMBRANE REINFORCED CONCRETE SLAB RIGID INS.
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[The Sweet Dream]
Youth Activity Center Design academic work
9/2014--12/2014, DUT, Dalian [The Dream] instructor:Sweet Bing Li
Youth Activity Center Design academic work
9/2014--12/2014, DUT, Dalian [The Dream] instructor:Sweet Bing Li
Youth Activity Center Design academic work 9/2014--12/2014, DUT, Dalian instructor: Bing Li
[The Sweet Dream]
Youth Activity Center Design academic work 9/2014--12/2014, DUT, Dalian
instructor: Bing Li [The Sweet Dream]
Youth Activity Center Design academic work
9/2014--12/2014, DUT, Dalian [The Dream] instructor:Sweet Bing Li
Youth Activity Center Design academic work
9/2014--12/2014, DUT, Dalian [The Dream] instructor:Sweet Bing Li
Youth Activity Center Design academic work
9/2014--12/2014, DUT, Dalian [The Dream] instructor:Sweet Bing Li
Youth Activity Center Design academic work
9/2014--12/2014, DUT, Dalian [The Dream] instructor:Sweet Bing Li
Youth Activity Center Design academic work
9/2014--12/2014, DUT, Dalian [The Dream] instructor:Sweet Bing Li
Youth Activity Center Design academic work
9/2014--12/2014, DUT, Dalian [The Dream] instructor:Sweet Bing Li
Youth Activity Center Design academic work 9/2014--11/2014, DUT, Dalian instructor: Bing Li
[The Sweet Dream]
Youth Activity Center Design academic work
9/2014--11/2014, DUT, Dalian [The Dream] instructor:Sweet Bing Li
Youth Activity Center Design academic work 9/2014--11/2014, DUT, Dalian instructor: Bing Li
[The Sweet Dream]
Youth Activity Center Design academic work 9/2014--11/2014, DUT, Dalian instructor: Bing Li
[02][The Sweet Dream]
Youth Activity Center Design individual work academic work 9/2014 --11/2014, DUT, Dalian instructor: Bing Li
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From 1960's to 2000's, with the economic development in second-tier cities in China, more and more schools were built in Dalian (a second-tier city in the north of China). But most of these projects emphasized on school's size, location and faculty scale rather than student's learning experience. Questionnaires and interview results show more and more students in Dalian now facing the pressure of entrance exam, which leads to less sleep hours, rest time and finally, sub-health fatigue, especially those in key schools. Besides, nowadays, refurbishment are taken place in lots of schools, while most just buying new desks and chairs or increasing the number of classrooms. Based on the investigation, this project aims to build a youth activity center with new education mode and new learning envirmonment in the city center of Dalian. Due to different kinds of surrounding environment (People Square, municipal government, kinfergarden etc.), I choose to cut the initial triangular massing with several openings facing to open spaces, like People Square. Besides, instead of using the basic funtion layout (single corridor with classrooms on two sides), I use an atrium to connect different cubes, and each cube has its own vehicular circulation, so that each cubes are seperate but also connected bt the atrium. With different different cubes intersect each other, there are plenty of open space formed at the intersections. And with trees, grass and sunlight in those intersections, great atmosphere for outdoor activity are formed. 20
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The change of learning environment in China 1960’s
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In the 1960’s, China started a revolution called”the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution”.At that time , the intellectuals were be treated as “pests”. Studying was forbidden, while planting trees and crops were promoted.
The cultural revolution was still brainwashing Chinese in the 1970’s.Government spent too much money on this battle to built schools for children.
The time that Chinese realised the importance of studying and knowledge is in the 1980’s.The Chinese government started to encourage young people to go to the colleges .However, the cruel revolution added up to stagnation and backwardness which led to an extreme lack of proper constructions of schools.
We interviewed 419 students studying in various middle schools in Dalian to know their daily routines for the sake of creating proper and interesting spaces for teenagers.To maintain accuracy, the majority of schools we chosen were adjacent to our site which are in the city centre.
In the 1990’s ,the situation of receiving education has improved a lot. But Chinese students has not realised the importance of outdoor activities.Although schools allow students doing radio calisthenics every day at the same time, that’s the only period that students could play outside.
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These are 2 pictures of Dalian teenagers and their senior high school. Nowadays the competitive pressure grows exponentially. Parents and schools put studying at the first place and forced their children to spend lots of time to sit at desks to study. As a result, many students in Dalian get unhappy ,overstressed ,unhealthy and even have severe depressive symptoms. So as an architect, how to chage this situation?
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Dalian No.80 Middle School time
What we can spot from the pictures is that China was keep improving the school buildings with the development of China’s economy. However, most schools just increased the number of rooms which could be designed and built quickly in order to cater for the great increase demand of schools. Those quick-built schools overlooked the student's psychological taste.
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The living environment around the site Dalian Municipal Government
Dalian Court A residential building
1.Dalian Municipal Government is in the north of the site. The style of this building is old-fashioned and inflexible. The most people working here are civil servants and government officials who always dress formally and look busy.
2.This is a typical residential building on the south of the site. This gated community looks like a big wall standing against the street. Obviously, such community is just a normal building which cannot provide interesting space for the teenagers.
Departments for the Aged
3.The Dalian Court standing on the side of the big lawn may look like a serious judge in children’s eyes, while the lawn where children can fly their kites seems much more interesting.So again, this building creates a dark and depressing atmosphere. However, such atmosphere is not suitable when some kindergartens and schools are also located here.
The space that children need The space that interests children The routes that children walk
The space that children have now The routes that children walk now
4.Although the site is in the city centre, some old -fanshioned buildings still remain. Most residents living in such buildings are senior citizens.
A library nearby
The First Affiliated Hospital of Dalian Medical University
5.This kindergarten is just situated nearby the site. Parents pick up their children as soon as the school is over. Most of the children go straight home to do their homework because there is no suitable places for them to do after school activities.
6.A key middle school built in 1996 is also adjacent to the site.Due to the growing competitive pressure, a great amount of middle school students study almost 8 hours every day without enough outdoor activities.
From the above analysis, we can arrive at the conclusion that outdoor activity space is strongly needed in this youth activity center which should be the most important part. Nowadays, parents and schools push teenagers to study or learn to play various instruments. But will they be happy when they are pushed to do something they even don’t like? What they really need is different attractive indoor playing and learning spaces as well as outdoor activity spaces.
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1.Main Entrance 2.Library Entrance 3.Exhibition Hall Entrance 4. Duty Room 5.Meeting Room 6.Cllimbing Room 7.Reading Room 8. Music Room 9.Dancing Room 10.Exhibition Hall 11.Auditorium 12.Men's Dressing Room 13.Women's Dressing Room 14.Lobby 15.Cafe 16.Children's Playroom 17.Dancing Hall 18.Exhibition Hall 19.Cafe 20. Student Activity Room 21.Reading Room
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[03][Beyond Sedentary]
House Competition
Group work in 2(with Vincent Lai) House Competition hold by arch out loud 6/2018 -- 8/2018 UC Berkeley, USA
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Beyond Sedentary
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A home is a construct of our most intimate relationship with objects housed within. Of all furniture, chair proves to be one of the most functionally nimble edifice. A chair can serve as table or chair or an object of play such as hide and seek to a child; a ladder to climb on or just a piece of furniture to sit on. Our relationship with what was commonly known as a sedentary tool morphed with user’s physical variation. This house reconstructs our relationship with a singular object (chair) with a spectrum of scales. When the chair is enlarged architecturally, it’s function grows into a habitable room. Despite its scalar manipulation, the chair design maintains its visual familiarity. The upscaling parameters are studied and expanded based upon Le Corbusier’s modulor ratio. This upscaling process can potentially be manifested through the advent usage of Cement Polymer additive manufacturing. That sense of curiosity and eagerness to pursue and demystify the unknown as a child within a house, now continues to grow as we mature physically. Beyond Sedentary is an invitation to challenge our maturity with home objects within and beyond the scale of our conceived functional familiarity.
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Functions
bench coffee table bedframe
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Corbusier’s Modular Man
mezzanine spatial division
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small bedroom toilet kitchen
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Corbusier’s Modulor Ratio * all measurements in millimeters
equal dimensions on seating width, length & height
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a recalibrated catalogue for domestic space making
manipulate room function through chair rotation & reduction
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1st Storey Living Room
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[04][Simulacrum of Chinatown] Berkeley Thesis Design
individual work academic work 3/2020 --5/2020, Berkeley, USA instructor: David Orkand
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|Hyper-real Scenes in Chinatown|
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[05][LUIDIC(UM)]
Inflatable Architecture Design Group work in 10 academic work 1/2018 -- 5/2018, UC Berkeley, USA instructor: Mark Anderson
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Horrified by the absurdity of the human condition? Come! Come to the LUDIC(UM)! Blistering in the bilge of terminal ennui and narcotic inanity, we the Ludicrous leap into the slurry of radical disenchantment. We blather bloated bellyaches of banality. We suck up the ticker tape of experience and blow out the shreds of lud(if)ication. We caterwaul bonbons of being. We blast bombast. We ventilate vainglory. We slurp up the swirling slack lassitude of dancing dunces. We the Ludicrous vacuum up vapid vestigial shivers and disgorge in dizzying dalliance the LUDIC(UM). This psychedelic neon kaleidoscope deflates the deceptive dichotomy between interior(ity) and exterior(ity); it inhales inversion; it crawls with Chimera; it surges shenanigans; it inflates rigid billows; it bulges heebie-jeebies; it blazes with bubbling boils; it coils and recoils; it loops in ludic(ral) luminescence; it bellows up bedlam; it bursts ludic(hum) drum; it hurtles humorous humors; it vaporizes viscous viscera; it reverses and subverses capable negativity; it transmits transient transgressive transcendence; it unfurls in carnivalesque delight a cavern of ecstatic communal connection buoyed by bouncing quilts, confetti flurries, and bubble wrap bikinis for all (yes gentlemen, you too!). We the Ludicrous entreat you to enter this eruption of entrails, to float in the profundity of levity, to tarry in its tortuous (torturous), tantalizing tentacles, to pause and ponder the wheeze and groan of pulsating pressure, in rupture or rapture. Come ruminate in cosmic circumbendibus. Come reflect on the ricochet and percussive repercussions of rapacity. The LUDIC(UM), ludic(dom) of the Ludicrous, levitates, alleviates allusion and illustrates illusion, lauding all lore, for fairytales contain truths both wonderous and terrible.
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[09][Other Works] models, drawings, photographies &internship works in AECOM, Coop Himmelb(l)au and Kengo Kuma office 2012-2019
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[Gable and Hip Roof with Single Eave Model] individual work academic work to have a better understanding of Chinese tenon and mortise structure 9/2014, DUT, Dalian
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[Schoen House] Group work in 2 Field Architecture Internship In charge of making the right side of this model (living room, kitchen, garage and swimming pool) 6/2018, Palo Alto, USA
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[Changchun Water World Project] Professional work in Coop Himmelb(l)au Supervisor: Alexander Ott 12/2018, Vienna, Austria
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[Confidential Cultural District Kaliningrad] Professional work in Coop Himmelb(l)au Supervisor: Benjamin Schmidt 9/2018, Vienna, Austria
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[Dachatang ] Professional work in Kengo Kuma Supervisor: Onomichi 5/2019, Tokyo, Japan
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[CMP Group Taichung Mixed-use Development] Professional work in Kengo Kuma Office Sofetware: Rhino, AutoCAD Supervisor: Onomichi 5/2019, Tokyo, Japan 68
[1125 Merrill Street] Professional work in Field Architecture Sofetware: Revit Supervisor: Juliet Hsu 5/2018, Palo Alto, USA 69
[Plaster Model Sketching] individual work preparation for the major transfer exam 6/2013, DUT, Dalian
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[Trapped Balloon] individual work Concept model of inflatable architecture design Material: balloon, wire 2/2018, Berkeley, USA
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[Transgression] individual work Study model of landscape changes in Potrero Hill in San Francisco. The site condition or context provides various dynamics and interpretations. In the past 2 decades, due to the gentrification which had taken place in the Dogpatch neighborhood, the landscape of the site experienced a big transition from an undulating landscape in Potrero Hill to a flat open space. Conceptually, a sense of transgression has taken place on the site itself. 9/2017, Berkeley, USA
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[Acknowledgement] First and foremost, I would like to avail myself of the opportunity to express my gratitude to Prof. Jasmit Rangr, Prof. Raveevarn Choksombatchai, Prof. Shiyuan Wang, A/Prof. Hui Yu and A/Prof. Bing Li, my instructors, who have taken their precious time off from their tight schedules, helping me genuinely and offering me constant encouragement, valuable suggestions and enlightening instructions, which contribute to the completion of my portfolio. I would also like to acknowledge my indebtedness to Jiahua Xu, and many others who have contributed their time, thoughts, skills and encouragement to this porfolio. I am also grateful to all the classmates and friends who have given me generous support and helpful advice in the past few years. Finally, I wish to devote this portfolio to my beloved family, who have given me life and love, and have been supporting me since 25 years ago.
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