ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO LIU YIRAN SELECTED WORKS 2016-2023
Through the interaction of light and substance, architecture can establish a deep and permanent connection with human emotions.
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濔濶濴濷濸瀀濼濶澳瀊瀂瀅濾 濜瀁濷濼瀉濼濷瀈濴濿澳瀃瀅瀂濽濸濶瀇 濕濴濶濻濸濿瀂瀅澳瀂濹澳濴瀅濶濻濼瀇濸濶瀇瀈瀅濸 濗瀈瀅濴瀇濼瀂瀁濍澳濅濃濄濌濁澳濌激濅濃濄濌濁澳濄濃 濧瀈瀇瀂瀅濍澳濫瀈濸澳濠濼瀁濺濻瀈濼澳澻濬濼濲瀍濻瀈濓瀉濼瀃濁濄濅濉濁濶瀂瀀澼
Background
Site Plan The site is located on the seashore of Lesvos in Greece, opposite to Turkey, across the Mediterranean Sea. In the past few years, due to wars in the Middle East, a large number of refugees risked their lives to cross the Mediterranean and came here from Turkey. Many people died during this process. For these refugees and their descendants, all these experiences are unforgettable.
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Therefore, I hope to design a memorial for them to commemorate this event and the people who died in the past. Through the interaction of light and architectural entities, the design makes people, architecture and sites react with each other and awakens the emotions deep inside our hearts, which correspond to the five development stages of the event. As a result, architecture has a literary narrative function.
Refugee Evacuation Routes
Middle east wars suddenly happened, homes became ruins overnight
Scene Concept
Crossing the ruins, finding their ways to survive, feeling strong sense of oppression.
Arriving in refugee camps in Turkey, getting a short rest and expecting future
Leaving the refugee camps, heading to Europe, trying to start a new life.
Risking their lives to cross the sea. some people were buried in the sea.
Arriving at Lesvos at last, reuniting with their family members and starting new life.
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Hall of War
Hall of Refuge
Hall of Ferry
First and Second Floor Plan
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1 . Precast concrete pavers 2. 120mm Extruded polystyrene roofmate insulation 3. Waterproofing membrane 4. Leveling screed 5. Screed 6. Voided slab 7. Steel keel for ceiling layer 8. 10mm Water-resistant MDF board lintel to paint 9. Zink helmet 10. Facing concrete wall 11. Aluminum window frame 12. Terrazzo floor finish
1 . Precast concrete pavers 2. 120mm Extruded polystyrene roofmate insulation 3. Waterproofing membrane 4. Leveling screed 5. Screed 6. Voided slab 7. Roof drainage 8. Zink helmet 9. Aluminium sheet 10. Doubel glazing 11. Terrazzo floor finish 12. Sceed
13. Sceed 14. Waterproofing membrane
13. Waterproofing membrane 14. 200mm Concrete floor slab
15. 200mm Concrete floor slab 16. Drainage ditch 17. Gravel filling layer
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Through the interaction between plants and buildings, as well as future-oriented sustainable design, buildings can repair the damage to the urban environment caused by industrialization and provide citizens with a comfortable and pleasant environment.
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Background The site is located in an old industrial zone in the central area of Harbin. In the past, urbanization was often accompanied by industrial development. Industrialization has brought economic growth, but it has also caused damage to the urban environment. In the past, these industrial areas were often located on the fringes of cities. es. However, with the advancement of urbanization, they hey were incorporated into the central city, surrounded by a large number of new buildings, and thus became e a negative space in the city. I hope that through ugh sustainable design methods, green plants and d water can be used for ecological restoration of the e old industrial area. At the same time, in order to allow people of different ages to participate in this process, I positioned the function of this area as a cultural and creative eative farm, encouraging the benign interaction between een young people and surrounding residents, and att the same time made more specific designs for the vertical ertical farm.
Ecological Restoration Strategy
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Flour Mill
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Steel roof
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Clay brick wall
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Flour Mill to Vertical Farm
This flour mill was built in the 1920s, and its hybrid structure reflects the advanced structural technology of the time. Due to the limitation of craftsmanship, the original internal space is dark and negative and lacks vitality. In order to re-awaken the building, I positioned it as a vertical farm and broke the floor and part of the outer wall to bring sunlight from the outside into the building. Under the interaction of sunlight, plants and the architecture itself, the vitality of the space burst out again.
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Photovoltaic glass 1 .Entrance Hall 4. Storeroom
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First Floor Plan
Weathering steel corridor
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Suspended glass curtain wall 1 .Multifunctional Staircases 3. Growing Area
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1 .Public Kitchen 3. Dining Hall
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50*100mm Steel keel Photovoltaic glass New built steel roof structure Sunshade
In terms of sustainable design, in order to maximize the use of water resources to achieve the purpose of saving water, two planting techniques, sprinkler irrigation and fish and vegetable symbiosis are used. Rainwater is collected through the sloping roof and water collection device. The water enters the pipeline under the action of gravity and is transported to the planting boxes on each floor. The remaining water is collected and discharged into the wetland to realize water recycling. The fish-vegetable symbiosis system uses the water circulation system to transport fish excrement as nutrients to the plants. While realizing water recycling, it also realizes the recycling of organic matter.
Suspended glass curtain wall
15 mm Lime-cement plaster 60mm Thermal insulation Existing inner concrete frame Existing brick masonry
Concrete lintel
Wooden window with insulating glazing
Window sill, aluminium sheet
Binding steel bar
Concrete lintel
Rainwater is collected and used to irrigate plants, and the remaining rainwater is stored and concentratedly discharged into constructed wetlands. The water in the wetland enters the atmosphere through transpiration and evolves into rain again, thus forming a water cycle.
This project aims to create a dynamic and organic connection between water, residents and public space, and at the same time try to reduce the contradiction between more and more residents and limited resources by designing Vernacular architecture.
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濔濶濴濷濸瀀濼濶澳瀊瀂瀅濾 濜瀁濷濼瀉濼濷瀈濴濿澳瀃瀅瀂濽濸濶瀇 濕濴濶濻濸濿瀂瀅澳瀂濹澳濴瀅濶濻濼瀇濸濶瀇瀈瀅濸 濗瀈瀅濴瀇濼瀂瀁濍澳濅濃濅濃濁澳濈激濅濃濅濃濁澳濊 濧瀈瀇瀂瀅濍澳濫瀈濸澳濠濼瀁濺濻瀈濼澳澻濬濼濲瀍濻瀈濓瀉濼瀃濁濄濅濉濁濶瀂瀀澼
Karail Community Public Space Typology 1 Open space
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3 Residential Street
Road
Public space
Public water
Water and Karail Community The project focuses on a kind of informal urban space—slums. Unlike ordinary slums, Karail,a slum in Dhaka, Bangladesh is closely related to water resource. As one of those countries mostly affected by climate change, Bangladesh has given birth to a large number of climate refugees in recent years. Some of them have flooded into Karail from the countryside. With the massive increase in population, land resources are becoming scarcer and scarcer. Therefore, the water surface near the slum has become a new space resource. At the same time, new construction has led to scarcity of
New Public Space Strategy public space. So using the space resources provided by the water to expand the public space of slum has become a viable option. Furthermore, water also shapes residents' lifestyles. Water is an important living material of residents and an important part of residents' spiritual life. The design needs to maximize the connection between residents and water to meet their spiritual and material needs. At the same time, water also brings regular floods to residents, which has a great negative impact. Measures need to be taken to reduce the impact of flooding on buildings and create a more comfortable living environment.
Use water to expand public space, increase the accessibility of slums and surrounding urban areas, and integrate the three existing types of public space into the new design to provide a multifunctional space for all ages.
Multifunctional Space Public Rest Space Commercial Space
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Basic Bamboo Framework
Strategies to Prevent Flooding Before :
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Variations of the Basic Framework Commercial Space Bamboo Folding Door
Bamboo Wall With Nylon Sheet
Bamboo Floor
Bamboo of 10cm Diameter
Bamboo of 8cm Diameter
200 L Oil Tank
Steel Slab ( fixed into the ground )
Bamboo Bridge
Rainwater Collection
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Section C-C (typology2+3)
Section B-B (typology1+2+3)
Section D-D (typology3)
The construction of the building was not completed in a relatively short period of time like a general large-scale project, but was completed in a relatively long period of time by the residents of the slums using bamboo which could be found easily. As time goes by, architecture is like organisms, with more and more complex functions and forms, and provide vitality for community development.
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The typology that we chose during P1 is cruise ship. To create infinite leisure, we need to know what is the leisure of cruise ship. We started from analyzing rituals happening in the cruise ship , the
relationship between rituals and space, and the relationship between rituals and time. With rituals, space and time, we could build a typical timeline of this typology.
Aestetics analysis
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The P1 project aims to create an abstract image to express the relationship between rituals, space and timeline, which forms an image of time space. The P2 project is more specific. It is based on the cybernetic idea of P1 project, and dreaming about future based on the development of several kinds of technologies.
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Timeline of cruise ship
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From the analysis, we could see that the aesthetic of leisure in cruise ship is space filled with different colors, which could attract people’s eyes. Then the rituals are not infinite because of the restrictions of energy and resources on the ship. And rituals happen in a circle, when a journey ends and another journey begins, same rituals happen again. Based on the idea of space filled with colors and the circle of rituals, I tried to build a timeline of infinite leisure.
Timeline of infinite leisure
Timespace
I imagine that there are infinite layers (4 layers for examples here). Each layer represents a kind of ritual happening cyclically in a period of time, which is the timeline of this ritual. During this period, they happens in different times. To express the idea of cycle, I define the form of layers’ sections as the shape of wave. There are two kinds of waves representing two kind of rituals. One is the wave with different width which means rituals have transitions and highlights. The narrow part is the transition of rituals, the wide part is the highlight of rituals. Another wave is equally wide, which means rituals without transitions and highlights. Party—Bar (4 circles in 1 period) 0
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Exhibition—Gallery (4 circles in 1 period) 1/8 p
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Concert—Music Hall (3 circles in 1 period) 1/6 p
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From timeline to timespace A step
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A step: A layer section connected end to end and formed ed a ring, ring which means mean infinity. B step: Infinite layers stacked together, which forms the infinity of space and rituals.
Then we get the final image. Just imagine that you are in the atrium of a space containing infinite layers. When you look up, you could see the section of each layer and ritual happening cyclically in a particular space. The atrium without an end means the infinity of space. And the space background express that this image of the time space is beyond our daily dimension.
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My world is based on the idea of cybernetics. In the first part of the semester, we did a research which is about the typology of cruise ship, and we found that in that system of machines and a few people
Real world (plan image)
control everything, like timeline and all the rituals happening there. Technology is the dominant force of the system. Also the development of technology is always the fundamental force pushing the revolution of space. So based on this idea, I create a futuristic world where our technology has fully developed. It could be divided into two parts, One is the reality world based on artificial intelligence and agumented reality, the other is virtual world based on virtual reality technology.
AI technology—Real world
Decentralized city
Industrial centers
Farmlandized city
As artificial intelligence replaces most people’s jobs, industry and service industries no longer need population gatherings, and cities are moving towards decentralized development.
New industries with robots as labor are distributed in industrial centers in cities according to the division of labor, and are driven by renewable energy. Transportation is mainly via drones.
In order to achieve a more sustainable development model, people transfer radical urban construction to the virtual world and introduce agriculture as an urban landscape.
My world
VR technology—Virtual world
Others' worlds
Creating Learning hall Spatialize Evolution Tunnel Learning
Experiencing
The three behaviors correspond to three spaces respectively. Learning corresponds to the learning hall; creating corresponds to my world; experiencing corresponds to other people's worlds. These worlds are all connected with a tunnel, spatializing the independent and related relationship of the three worlds.
When people are released from the heavy work, there could be infinite leisure for them, and I think people could spend time doing 3 things, first is learning knowledge and skills, second is creating their own world, and third is experiencing the world other people created.
AR technology—World in between
+ Augmented reality technology allows the virtual space to interact with the real space. Through the comparison of images, we can find that the texture of farmland and metropolis is similar. The real space during the day is vast farmland. At night, based on the texture of farmland, metropolis appears in nature. People can interact with the augmented reality space through special equipment. People could watch it like watching a drama or go along the road to experience it.
In the real world that when ai replace most people’s work, there won’t be huge dense cities contains millions of people. City will be decentralized consist of vast farmland, living areas and industrial areas. All the things people need will be made by ai in the industrial center, and will be sent to people’s houses carried by drones. At night, with agumented reality, the city will be transformed into a metropolis. People could watch it through devices like watching a drama or go along the road to experience it.
Virtual world
In the virtual world, people spend time doing 3 things: learning knowledge and skills, creating their world and experiencing the world created. There are many transparent spheres for learning, and a huge tunnel looks like an infinite atrium where you could go through these windows to other people’s world. At the end of it, it’s the world I create, a traditional Chinese landscape painting which represents the ideal living space, going back to nature.
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Drones send all the resources needed to the industry center. Farmland is
In the industry center, products that people need are manufactured by
Products people needed are sent to their houses by drones. The houses
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industry robots. Different industry center makes different products.
form a community located in the vast farmland and landscape.
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There are particular devices using different technologies at people’s home. They could use them to experience the invisible world.
Coming into the virtual world, he firstly arrives at the library. Touching the sphere of knowledge, the reverse of the knowledge begins.
The progress of the reverse could be experienced. Like learning the origin of the space and have discussions with Albert Einstein.
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Then being in the tunnel. Leaded by the angels, he passes through the tunnel and arrives at the world he created.
I t ’s a w o r l d o f C h i n e s e t r a d i t i o n a l landscape painting. He becomes a poet and travel through villages and landscape with his friends.
When he wants to experience something different, he switches the world to a cyberpunk world other people created.
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In this world, he joins a concert and
When the sunset comes, he comes
At night, he rides a car on the road and
experience it with millions of people. He feels so great and makes new friends.
back to the real world. Laying on the small hill, he watches the sunset with his family and neighbors.
uses devices to take part in the rituals happening in the agumented reality. A huge metropolis.
Today, we are facing economic recession, climate change and many other challenges. To address these challenges, it is increasingly important to build sustainable communities and strengthen the connection between the local people. The project aims to reinvigorate a community that has been in decline due to industry change.
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Kopparberg's Rise and Fall
Site Plan 1: 1000 1. Community Plaza 2. Bus Stop 3. Sports Area 4.Toilets 5. Office 6. Storage Rom 7. Bar 8. Outdoor seats 9. Library 10. Auditorium
The founders of the Kopparberg Town originally came for its copper reserves. The name kopparberg directly translates as “Copper Mountain” in English. The towns many traditional red houses are painted with Falu Rödfärg, a color made from copper pigment. Nowadays, after mining industry declined, more and more young people from kopparberg leave to other big cities for life. With tourism and kopparberg brewery, the town is trying to regain its vitality.
Site Analysis
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The formation of the kopparberg community is closely linked to the mining industry. A lot of unprocessed ores are scattered around the town. To echo the collective memory and history of the local community, the textures of different minerals were printed on the glass skin of the building using screen printing technology.
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Conversion of Functions
How to meet more functional requirements while saving indoor space as much as possible is one of the key points of this design consideration. In order to achieve the above purpose, the design realizes a functional transformation mode: after the bookshelves arranged in a ring are separated and moved into the storage room, the original borrowing area becomes a stage, which is the center of the interior space of the building. The building function is changed from a bar and library to a clubhouse for the residents to entertain.
OTHER WORKS----DODA SAKE BREWERY
OTHER WORKS----HYGGE LOUNGE
DODA ART SCHOOL RENOVATION PROJECT
RENOVATION OF ERSKIN'S HERITAGE "SHOPPING"
Architecture Heritage Studio at NUS Location: Kyoto, Japan Tutor: Ho Puay Peng, Tan Kay Ngee Individual Work Duration: 2022/08-2022/12
Northern Grounds Studio at KTH Location: Luleå, Sweden Tutor: Ulrika Karlsson, Cecilia Lundbäck Individual Work Duration: 2023/10-2023/12
The concept of this project is deeply inspired by Kyoto's craft culture. The project gives a new birth to the Doda Art School by combining the rich sake culture and production with the life of local communities while at the same time embrace the beautiful landscape of Kamo River
Based on renowned architect Ralph Erskine's idea of creating a city within a shelter from the harsh climate in Arctic region, the project play with the divisions and materials of the ground floor, turning it into a hygge lounge where people could meet together, enjoy cooking and share food, which lead to a revival of the local cummunity.
OTHER WORKS----THE ROOF OF THE CITY
OTHER WORKS----URBAN MARINA
MÖNCKEBERGSTRASSE KARSTADT RENOVATION PROJECT
HARBIN SHIPYARD AREA URBAN RENEWAL PROJECT
aac Workshop "High Street Alive" Location: Hamburg, Germany Tutor: Philip Kamps %QNNCDQTCVQT ,CPC .QJT -CT[PC #N KCſ 5CXGTKQ 5KOQPEKPK Duration: 2023/09/06-2023/09/29
2022 WACA Urban Planning Competition Location: Harbin, China Tutor: Minghui Xue Collaborator: Yu Chang, Libei Liu, Yao Shi Duration: 2022/12-2023/01
In this project we tried to embrace the historical rich roof landscape along Mönckebergstraße and create a new roof landscape on the existing structure to create a humble landmark at the downtown Hamburg. At the same time by creating a inner plaza connected with the public space, we extend the street life inside our site.
The design creates a vibrant urban museum, a leisure waterfront, a transit hub, and an ecological park within the city. The concept of the urban marina is deeply integrated, transforming this area into not only a space for vessel berthing, but also imbuing it with functions that foster encounters, human gatherings, and cultural enrichment.