XUAN YU LIU DESIGN PORTFOLIO
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Comprehensive Design
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(de)Monstrative Architecture
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Adaptive Architecture
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Structual Systems
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Interpretive Design
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Environmental Systems
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Design Studio in Rome
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Photography
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Personal Artworks
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B-Arch Year 2 Semester 2
B-Arch Year 1 Semester 1
B-Arch Year 1 Semester 2
B-Arch Year 2 Semester 1
B-Arch Year 2 Semester 1
B-Arch Year 2 Semester 2
B-Arch Year 3 Semester 1
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DRAPE
MUSEUM UNDER A LANDSCAPE FABRIC
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Study Models
1”=32’ scale model
The prompt was to design a museum for the AD White cast collection at Cornell. The site is a small green hill next to the Cornell Observatory. Preservation of both the site and sculptures were the central themes of the project. First, the excavation, then two retaining walls were inserted, and finally a complex triangular fabric-like structure drapes over the existing landscaping.
Design IV
Spring 2015
Under the “fabric” is a large open space with three separate and unique paths for visitors to view the sculptures from radically different perspectives. The museum morphs into the existing two hills, and funnels visitors from the road upward to the observatory. It has an occupiable roof which acts as a bridge between the two hills, and provides a panoramic view to the campus.
Instructor: Aleksandr Mergold
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Exterior Render: Roof View
Exterior Render
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Site Plan
Elevation Design IV
Spring 2015
Instructor: Aleksandr Mergold
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Water Collection
Lighting
Heating/Cooling/Ventilation
Exterior corrugated fiberglass panels Rigid foam insulation Secondary roof structure
Ventilation/AC Steel structure joints
Interior secondary structure Primary steel truss system Interior corrugated fiberglass panels
Sectional Perspective
Steel corner connections Large metal pin joints Metal anchoring plate Grided metal flooring Ball joint Flippable insulated panels
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Detailed Wall Section 8’
1”=2’ Scale Sectional Model
Design IV
Spring 2015
Instructor: Aleksandr Mergold
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MONSTERS WITHIN ARCHITECTURE GESTURES OF A PUFFERFISH
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Contruction drawings for the body armour (de)Monstrative architecture was a theme that connects architecture with a certain exotic animal’s special mechanism. A wearable body amour/ tool was designed to create an abstract drawing which portrayed the animal’s special abilities. My animal was the pufferfish, and I explored the expansion of its body and how a primary system affects a secondary system.
I created a machine that imitates thepufferfish’s expansion. The user wore the machine on his/her arm and pulled a handle which triggers a series of “scales” to expand, and that expansion then pushed the spikes attached onto the “scales”. The charcoals attached on the spikes then creates a drawing (left) that showed the expansion and contraction of the pufferfish.
Design I
Fall 2013
Instructors: Jim Williamson, Val Warke
Teaching Assistant: Deborah Chang
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The sequence following the body amour and the charcoal drawing was to design a dwelling for a person who was obssessed with the pufferfish. The dwelling must reflect the uniqueness of the animal and its movements. A site was designed to accomodate the dwelling. I approached the design of this dwelling by creating two separate
Model detail
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Sections
systems. The two systems were derived from the charcoal drawing on the previous page. The first system was a series of uniform and regulated strokes, and the second system was a series of chaotic and random ones. The two systems must merge into each other to create volumes and voids. The wood in the model was a
representation of the uniform system while the aluminum plates was a representation of the chaotic system. The metal cut into the wood and seemlessly created excavations and spaces which accomodated the various programs required for the dwelling.
1�=8’ scale model
Axonometric Design I
Fall 2013
Instructors: Jim Williamson, Val Warke
Teaching Assistant: Deborah Chang
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THE IGLOO KINDERGARTEN
ADAPTATION TO A VERNACULAR PRECEDENT
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1”=8’ scale model details
Long Section
Exploded Axonometric
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1”=8’ scale model Short Sections
1”=4’ scale sectional model
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Interior Render: Cafeteria
Plan Design II
Spring 2014
Instructors: Jim Williamson, Val Warke
Teaching Assistant: Caio Barboza
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Interior Render: Atrium
The objective of Adaptive Architecture was to design buildings which contain vernacular characterirstics for a specific location/climate zone. My vernacular precedent was the Igloo, and my site was in the arctic tundra. The preschool borrowed from the Igloo, and it focused on ground manipulation and layering thick insulation to
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create a comfotable study environment. The preschool was half submerged underground to prevent heat from escaping, and it was insulated by a primary layer of wall constructed by blocks of ice. The program was divided into three large sections and these large spaces were then further divided up by a series of small partitions.
Composite Drawing/Section Design II
Spring 2014
Instructors: Jim Williamson, Val Warke
Teaching Assistant: Caio Barboza
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SALT CANOPY
HIGHWAY SUPPORT CENTER
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The Model Project was a partner project in which the students pick a building that has a certain unique structural quality, and reconstruct a scaled model showing the overal structural systems as well as details of its many structural elements. The salt storage unit of a highway support center in Norway by 24H Architects was the
structure of choice for me and my partner. The structure has three main systems: concrete walls, diagonal wood columns, and a diagrided roof canopy. Each system has a very different structural quality in itself, but every one of these systems is essential to make this structure stand.
Structural Systems
Fall 2014
Instructors: Mark Cruvellier
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Structural Systems
Fall 2014
Instructors: Mark Cruvellier
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CONEY ISLAND VISITOR CENTER A GAME OF BOXES AND PLANES 25
Floor Plan Transformation
Gravity Load Distribution
Sections Design III
Fall 2014
Instructors: Sofia Krimizi
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Exterior Render
Interior Render The central idea for this visitor center design originated from a study model which showed the relationship between open boxes and planes. By experimenting with various ways of the stacking and placement of these boxes and planes, I developed a structural system which housed different programs in two main realms. The first
Interpretive Study Model
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were the spaces within the boxes which are mainly private spaces such as office, conference and auditorium. The second were the free, open spaces on the planes which houses public programs such as exhibitions and cafe areas. Each of the four floors contained a different arrangement of boxes and punctured through the
planes to allow a continuation of vertical voids through the entire building. The visitor center also acted as a bridge which directed people from a higher altitude (The Coney Island Train Station) to a lower altitutde (The amusement park across the road).
Design III
Fall 2014
Instructors: Sofia Krimizi
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1”=8’ scale model details
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1”=8’ scale model Design III
Fall 2014
Instructors: Sofia Krimizi
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CREVICE
A WELL-TEMPERED ENVIRONMENT
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The objective of this project was to design a low cost temporary shelter which would provide at least a fifteen degree temperature differential out in the freezing cold. My team and I chose a location which already had an existing heat source, a vent. The goal was to create a waiting area for a food truck. Due to the narrow space,
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second objective was to evenly distrubute the heat along the space and prevent the heat from escaping the crevice. Multiple design iterations were created to find the most efficient, intuitive, and low cost solution. The final design consisted of a large airbag that encloses the crack from the above, and heat being distributed from the ground.
Design IV
Spring 2015
Instructor: Aleksandr Mergold
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LINEAR JUXTAPOSITION
A REVOLUTIONARY VISON FOR A MARKETPLACE 35
Design V Roma
Fall 2015
Instructors: Davide Marchetti, George Hascup
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The focus of the project was to design new spaces based on exisiting elements. This new marketplace was an extension of the site itself. These linear blocks evolved from a series of lines drawn from the edges of the existing buildings. An irregular geometric roof was a reflection of the linear rectangular blocks, and provoked a subtle juxtaposition between the above and below.
The marketplace contained two different but closely connected environments. The ground level was a continuously enclosed space which houses permenant programs. The second level was an open space which houses temporary outdoor programs. The two spaces were both supported by a forest of thin columns.
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Circulation Massing transformation
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scale: 1m=200m 0m
Design V Roma
Fall 2015
10m 5m
Instructors: Davide Marchetti, George Hascup
20m
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Market Render
Plaza Render
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1m=500m model+site
1m=200m model+site
Design V Roma
Fall 2015
Instructors: Davide Marchetti, George Hascup
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PHOTOGRAPHY
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Shooting photos in Rome and cities around Europe has made me search for more bizarre and rather unrecognizable elements and characteristics of the cities. These “secondary� characteristics of the cities and places I have been to are truly what attracts me. The photo on the right is a shot of the Luzern Post Offiece.
The geometric facade of the building was seemingly blending into the gloomy sky in the background. The photo above was taken in Siena, Italy. The photo captures the emptiness and mysterious atmosphere of a motorcycle parking lot. The next page contains a shot of a wild fox in the Swiss Alps and a shot of the Antonori Winery in Tuscany.
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PERSONAL ARTWORKS
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Self Portrait
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Acrylic Painting
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Live model drawing
I have always been passionate about painting and drawing since I was young. I attended an art studio during my high school years. At there I explored art in many different kinds of media. The first painting on the previous spread is an abstract portrayal of antique chinese furnitures. The second painting is a self-portrait.
The painting depicts the idea that I am an “bland� individual in a colorful world waiting for me to explore. The painting on the left is an acrylic painting of two Guatemala children I met. Finally, I also enjoy figure drawings and sketches with charcoal, ink, and other media.
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THANK YOU Xuan Yu Liu 112 Valentine Plc #845 Ithaca NY (607)379-8701 xl438@cornell.edu