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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.


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