DESIGN PORTFOLIO Xuan Yu Liu
Fall 2014 Instructor: Sofia Krimizi
Course Description: The Semester focuses design ideas and concepts of a visitor center and/or a exhibition center. The course is divided up to 4 parts: 3 projects dealing with 3 different site conditions and 1 final project pursuing and enchancing 1 of the 3 previous projects.
The Crepe
The Needle
The Slope
Making the Visitor’s Center as flat as possible with the largest footprints. The building must test the boundries of “ground” and must not have more than 1 level.
The opposite of The Crepe. The building must be design to situate within the smallest footprint and skretch vertically to incorperate all of the required visitor’s center programs.
The building must adapt of a “sloped” site. It must also function as a transitional space, directing people from a higher level to a lower level.
Project I
The Repeated Module
Site Storm King Art Center NY Floor 1 Programs Auditorium, Cafe, Exhibition Space, Offices, Lobby, Storage Space Construction Material Concrete Walls & Columns, Wooden Roof
Plan
Axo Roof
Sections Roof
Walls&Columns
Walls and Columns
Floor
Floor
Study Models
Final Model
Detailed Single Module
Site
Project II
The Voids and the Planes
Site Manhattan NY Floor 7 Programs Auditorium, Cafe, Exhibition Space, Offices, Lobby, Storage Space Construction Material Concrete Boxes, Light Material Floor Plates, Glass Facade
Plans
Sections
Study Models
Final Model
Project III
Fragmented Boxes and Planes
Site Coney Island, NY Floor 4 Programs Auditorium, Cafe, Exhibition Space, Offices, Lobby, Storage Space Construction Material Concrete Boxes, Light Material Floor Plates, Glass Facade
Plans
4th Floor
3rd Floor
2nd Floor
1st Floor
Sections
Axonometrics Structural Boxes (heavy)
Floor Plates (light)
Exploded Axon with Structural Elements Highlighted
Study Models
Final Model
Final Project
The Stack
Site Coney Island, NY Floor 4 Programs Auditorium, Cafe, Exhibition Space, Offices, Lobby, Storage Space Construction Material Concrete Boxes, Light Material Floor Plates, Glass Facade
The idea of the final project continues to pursue that of the second iteration: boxes and voids. Large concrete boxes acts as the structural elements for the entire building and are stacked one on top of the other in a way that they are structurally realistic and at the same time creating varying voids and spaces sandwiched between the thin floor plates. The boxes’ configuration allows circulation and programs to be specified, and it also allows natural sun light to penetrate through the entire building.
Plan
Section
Diagrams + Site Plan
Study Models
Final Model
Exterior Render
Interior Render
Thank You.