Yi-Szu Liao Lighting and Architecture Portfolio 2019 by yiszuliao

YI SZU LIAO Lighting & Architecture Design Portfolio 2019

Yi-Szu Liao

MFA Lighting Design Parsons School of Design expected 2019

Phone: +1 917 520 4227 Email: liaoiris20@gmail.com

CONTENTS Chapter I

Lighting Design

01 Community Backyard Brooklyn Public Library - Borough Park Branch

02 Light and Spirituality Dry Dock Community Spiritual Center

03 Scribe A Co-working Space for Literary Folk

04 Permeating Lighting Installation in University Center

05 Micro Project Small Library Daylight and Electric Lighting Design

Chapter II

Architecture Design

06 Urban Oasis

The Long-Pu Junior High School Design

07 City Food Drama

appendix

Professional Work

Christian Mountain Children's Home

Other

01 LIGHTING DESIGN

COMMUNITY BACKYARD Brooklyn Public Library - Borough Park Branch Academic/ Group School Project 2018 Site: Brooklyn, NY Type: Library Day Lighting/Electric Lighting Design Instructor: Davidson Norris, Matt Franks, Nelson Jenkins, Derek Porter, Team: Xingying Peng

Daylighting design involves a layered approach that brings with the building skin as an envelope that contains interior human activity. Thus, daylighting design can be effectively summarized as the manipulation of the building shell by use of apertures and filters to direct and distribute natural light to the interior. This project focuses on developing a building facade strategy in response to the given building mass, its location within New York City (Borough Park, Brooklyn), and the surrounding site context. The main goal of this project is to provide a library for the community where lives with and blend into the neighborhood. It is not simply designed for esthetic pleasure but really focuses on making this library as part of community where doesn't have vainglorious, over exaggerated glass facade, but use warm and friendly brick as main facade material to create an approachable building. By cutting off the busy street side, opening the tranquil backyard, and with the intentional treatments of daylight quality for each space and activity, we hope this library can be seen as a welcoming second home of the neighborhood.

Community Backyard The surrounding environment of this library is more communal for the local neighborhood. Our idea is to make it blend into the street, as part of the everyday life, but also open the community backyard for the neighborhood where all generations of people can gather and interact with each other.

Daylight Strategy The building to be divided into three parts, from the most enclosed one facing the street side to the most open one at the back of the building. By playing with the detachment of the building skins to create different daylight environments and spaces for the library.

divide enclosure hierarchy

detach light cracks

Sun Path and Light Volumes The program distribution is according to the sun access study and the analysis of occupants' using time slots, to give each user group a daylight environment which suitable for the activities. glass garden childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s field lobby senior reading area

43rd st

detach occupiable space

highlight contained light

Programs and Predicted Daylight Zones - Light Interaction

Second Floor

First Floor

Basement

Material and Facade Using bricks as main facade material to merge with the look of the neighborhood. Different treatments to building facade are applied to perform the hierarchy of enclosure. From the one has regular windows facing to the street side to the one at the back totally detach and create an occupiable outdoor space.

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From Street to Backyard The wall facing the street side protects the library from the noise and busy activities, provides a relax feeling of coming home. The visual connection to the outside gets wider, and the light qualities change gradually as moving through spaces.

Solar Penetration and Scenes Base on daylight access and solar penetration studies, providing daylighting scenes with various daylighting characteristics.

6/21 10:45AM

3/21 10:03AM

12/21 9AM

6/21 1:15PM

3/21 2:30PM

12/21 3:35PM

Electric Light Strategy Keep the light volume concept, from large to small scale. Instead of bringing light in, the library bleeds out lights as an attraction to the community. Without physical division, light volumes define spaces for highlighted programs. Fixtures integrated with furniture create micro light environment for specific activities or visual highlights.

light mass bleed light out

Section

light zone define spaces

highlight create micro light environment

Second Floor

First Floor

Lighting Layouts Linear ceiling and floor lighting systems are used to define spaces, which serves as general lighting. Fixtures integrated with furniture and small architectural components create micro lighting elements.

Basement

Children's Play Room

Senior Reading Area

Backyard

02 LIGHTING DESIGN

LIGHT AND SPRITUALITY Dry Dock Community Spiritual Center

Academic/ Group School Project 2018 Site: NewYork, NY Type: Community Center Day Lighting/Electric Lighting Design Instructor: Derek Porter(Lighting), Kim Ackert(Architecture), Bill Watson(Interior) Team: Polina Sandstorm(Architecture),Tan Ping(Interior)

The project brings three disciplinaries together- Architecture, Interior Design, and Lighting design. The site locates in the Alphabet City neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. Currently, the “Dry Dock” site is comprised of a community playground, basketball court, public pool and changing rooms. The propose of this project is to offer a unique characteristic driven by the presence and power of natural light and its symbolic relationship to spirituality. Our team believes that spirituality exists in our everyday life. Finding spirituality is a mentally transitional process. Starting from daily experience, filtering out the chaotic to find calmness, and finally focusing on our inner voices. Our design seeks to offer a place as part of the community where brings the community together but also provide spirituality to groups or individuals. In this community center, spirituality is divided into three different experiences: Community experience is “live with diversity”; communal spiritual experience is “diffuse with nature”, that provides inner calmness; private spiritual experience is “vacuumed space”, where helps find spiritual focus.

Architectural Approach Open four corners for the neighborhood to access easily and separate the building into two (public and spiritual) to enhance the intensity of transiting from daily experience to spiritual experience. The gap between public and spiritual space serves as an entry point also a critical threshold of the experiential transition point. Different aperture treatments for two volumes respond to daylight access to distinguish the lighting characteristics of the programs.

Public School

Grocery store

Szold Pl

Avenue D

11th Street

10th Street

Bus stop

Bridge to East River park

1/64”=1´-0”

Lighting Intent The design strives to apply the concept to both daylighting and electric lighting design and gives different light qualities for each experience. Community experience: - Dynamic light quality with ever-changing direct daylight condition and various light distribution also provides visual connections to the exterior. Communal spiritual experience: - Uniform and diffuse light quality within an enclosed space with a visual connection to the sky. Private spiritual experience: - Dark space with limited light that enforces visual concentration.

Activated

Calm

Focus

Sun-eye view Study - Daylight Access The photos are taken under the Heliodon device to study the actual daylight access of the building. The red part on each photo represents the areas where the direct sunlight can get to in that specific moment of time. From the photos, we see how dynamic of the daylight changing in the public space throughout a year and how sunlight never get into the spiritual space (except for contemplative rooms).

EQUINOX

9am

12pm

3pm

12pm

3pm

12pm

3pm

SUMMER SOLSTICE

9am

WINTER SOLSTICE

9am

Illuminance Mapping - Dynamic & Uniform The illuminance mapping study shows a huge difference of daylight character between public space and meeting hall. Because of the sun coming from various directions throughout a day and a year, it presents a dynamic daylight distribution at the public space. In contrast, the daylight quality stays consistently, around 100 to 400 lux, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dimmer and diffuser but adequate.

Equinox

Summer Solstice

Winter Solstice

9am

500 consistant

meeting hall

public space

12pm

dynamic 3000

lux 0

3pm

Radiation Study - Visual Attraction In between the public space and spiritual space is a gap to separate the two in order to serve as a transition point from community experience to spiritual experience. The lowered volume of the public space allows direct sunlight hitting on the massive solid and highly reflective wall and bouncing back to the public space as an attraction for people to move into the spiritual space. The light patch moves up and down throughout different seasons, it is the end point of the dynamic community experience also the start point of the diffuse communal spiritual experience.

Equinox

Summer Solstice

Winter Solstice

Solar Penestration - Direct, Diffuse, and Limited Light Different treatments of apertures are applied to create unique lighting characteristics for each spiritual space. The sectional solar penetration study gives a clearer vision of the different daylight qualities. 1. Community experience: Public Space – direct sunlight, dynamic 2. Communal spiritual experience: Meeting Hall – diffuse daylight, consistent 3. Private spiritual experience: Contemplative Rooms – limited light, intense

1. 11th Street

Avenue D Entrance

Cafe

Meeting Hall

10th Street

Contemplative Room

Sectional Fixture Vignette & Fixture Mounting Detail (Allied Focus) The main light fixtures in the meeting hall are hidden in architectural pockets, which evenly wash through walls and seating area, to achieve ambient and diffuse light quality for peace and calm feelings. Decorative pendants create a second layer of the ceiling, also respond to the language in contemplative rooms.

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12ยบ

160ยบ

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1.ceiling suspended luminaire

2. surface mounted LED tape integrated with seat

3. surface mounted LED cove uplight

Custom Luminaire The only light sources in contemplative rooms, which only can be perceived by human eyes as sparkle light source but doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t distribute illuminance to the floor in order to keep the darkness of the space. The prototype of the luminaire is composed of two parts: the recessed housing part made by aluminum with special reflector inside of it and the revealed lens part of glass cabochon. The luminaire to be prewired and screwed to the punched stone sheet then mudded to cover the ring to only show the glass part when installing the wall finishes. To avoid glare, all of the luminaires are install above average human eye level.

1 :1 Study Mock-up

Contemplative Room

Landscape Lighting Dry Dock Community is quiet and tranquil at night. The landscape lightings are more closed to the ground level to keep activated horizontally but also tuned down vertically in order not to disturb the communityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nightscape.

03 LIGHTING DESIGN

SCRIBE

A Co-working Space for Literary Folk Academic/ Group School Project 2017 Site: None Type: Co-working Office Lighting Design Instructor: Glenn Shrum, Alex Pappas, Francesca Bastianini Team: Aldo Jacques Espina, Xingying Peng

Manhattan is a highly populated city area; the spaces are valued and very expensive. It is hard for one or few people company to find a suitable place to work. This is the reason of why New York City needs more and more co-working space. Scribe is a co-working space for all people who work relatedly to literary. We hope people can find everything they need to support their creative process in here. With living and working with people from different scopes but all related to literary, people can share ideas and have collective resources. However, writing is a public act but often a private and solitary practice. In this project, we focus on how to use lighting controls and its interaction with architectural language to create a dynamic level of privacy that people can individually determines according to their needs and activities.

Mission Statement Scribe is a co-working space for all literary folk. We raise voices and tell stories. From desks and chairs to research stations and libraries, you can find everything you need to support your creative process. We strive for an inclusive, uplifting space for all involved in writing, a place where you feel most at ease as you scribe away.

scribe

Design Concept Writing is a public act but often a private and solitary practice. Our design seeks to foster interactions between the different parties involved in writing, and at the same time propagate individual growth. Through play of different lighting environments and material, the proposal provides different levels of privacy and different spacial experiences.

Solution - Edges and User Control

fully enclosed full user control

semi - enclosed full user control

open semi-user control

open no user control

Fifth Floor_Promotion Floor: for all people exhibit event publishing

16'

Fourth Floor_Communal Floor: for members only share resources communication writing

16'

Thrid Floor_Office Floor: for members only co-working writing

16'

Bookshelf Types

Bookshelf Locations

Bookshelf serves both as architectural language and lighting system, which is the main lighting resource on the hallway. It has differnt compositions based on the type of spaces behind it.

box LED tape 38% translucent panel

Lighting Layout

AA2-W Z-5035

AA1(12) Z5001

Z-5002

Z-5007

AA3

Z-5008

Z-5015

Z-5003

AE(4)UP Z-5019

Z-5016

AJ (3)

AE(4)DN

Z5005

Z-5017

Z-5014

Z-5007

Z-5004

Z-5020

Z-5009

Z-5014

Z-5018

Z-5002

AF(2) Z-5000

AA1(65)

Z-5022

Z-5001

AA3

Z-5010

Z-5012

AD(2)

AI(2)

Z-5021

AI(2)

Z-5011

Z-5023

Z-5013

No User Control

Z-5003

Z-5006

Z-5025

Z-5024

Z-5027

Z-5007

Z-5003

AD(2)

AA1(13)

Z-5026

Z-5001

AJ(2)

AM(4)

Z-5033

Z-5032

Z-5031

Fifth Floor

AH (2)

Z-5029

Z-5028

Z-5030

Z-5034

AA2-W Z-5035

16'

AJ(2) Z4001

Z4002

AA2 (6) Z-4059

AQ(4)

AA2

Z-4060

Z-4038

AJ(2)

Z-4036

Z4003

AA3

Z-4042

Z-4037

AA3

Z-4040

Z-4044

Z003

Z-4005

Z-4045

Z-4006

AH(2) Z-4035

Z-4038

Z-4043

AA2 (4)

Z4007

AA2

AI(3)

Z-4060

Z-4041

Z-4059

Z-4046

AA2 (5)

AH(2)

Z-4059

Z-4034

Z-4008

User Control Zones (Group)

Z4004

Z-4060

Z-4047

AT(3) Z-4036

Z-4009

Z-4050

Z-4054

Z-4010

Z-4060

AE(2)DN

AD(2)

Z-4052

Z-4048

AE(2)UP Z-4051

Z-4011

Z-4056

AE(2)UP

Z-4053

Z-4032

Z-4055

AA (3)

AE(2)DN

Z-4057

Z-4033

Z-4058

Z-4057

Z-4049

Z-4012

AA2 (11)

Z-4031

Z-4059

Z-4014

AA3

AD(2) Z-4013

Z-4017

Z-4015

AD(2) Z-4028

AD(2) AR

Z-4018

Fourth Floor

AH(2)

Z-4020

Z-4023

Z-3003

Z-4025

Z-4021

AH(2)

Z-4019

AD(2)

Z-4022

AI(3)

Z-4016

Z-4024

Z-4026

Z-4029

Z-4027

Z-4030

AA2-W

Z-3002

Z-5035

Z-3005

16'

AD(2) Z-3001

AD(2) Z-3004

AT(3)

Z-3042

Z-3006

Z-3063

AA2(6) Z-3061

Z-3008

AQ(2)

Z-3042

Z-3061

AD(2)

Z-3007

AA3

Z-3072

AA3

Z-3046

Z-3044

Z-3068

Z-3009

Z-3064

Z-3042

AA3

Z-3010

Z-3047

Z-3065

Z-3045

Z-3063

Z-3041

Z-3070

Z-3011

Z-3066

Z-3040

Z-3043

Z-3071

User Control Zones (Local)

Z-3062

Z-3069

Z-3067

Z-3050

Z-3012

Z-3049

Z-3055

Z-3054

Z-3038

Z-3013

AD(2)

AA3

Z-3048

Z-3062

Z-3059

AD(2) Z-3053

AA2(4)

AD(2)

Z-3061

Z-3058

AD(2) Z-3037

Z-3060

Z-3014

Z-3072

Z-3051

Z-3052

Z-3056

Z-3057

Z-3039

Z-3015

Z-3061

Z-3063

AA3

Z-3020

Z-3019

AD(2)

Z-3018

Z-3034

Z-3061

Z3016

Z-3061

AA2

AQ(2)

Z-3033

Z-3026

Z-3016

Third Floor

AQ(2)

AA2

Z-3017

AD(2) Z-3021

AH(2) Z-3022

AD(2)

Z-3024

AI(3)

Z-3027

Z-3030

AH(2) Z-3023

Z-3025

Z-3028

Z-3029

Z-3031

Z-3032

Z-3035

Z-3036

16'

Co-working Area Users can individually turn on/off the task light above them to have differnt levels of privacy.

General Light Task Light

Hall

Lighting in the hallway stays the sam office determines how much is the lev and

General Light

lways

Office

me, but the lighting condition inside the vel of visual connection between hallway office.

By controlling differnt lighting condition in the office, user can have both open or private space qualities in one room.

100%

general light Task Light

100% 20-100%

Mockup Study - Scene Setting

General Light: 0% Tesk Light: 0%

General Light: 0% Tesk Light: 100%

General Li Tesk Lig

ight: 50% ght: 0%

General Light: 100% Tesk Light: 0%

General Light: 100% Tesk Light: 100%

04 LIGHTING DESIGN

PERMEATING

Lighting Installation in University Center Academic/ Group School Project 2017 Site: University Center-The New School Type: Human Scale Lightin Study Instructor: Glenn Shrum, Alex Pappas, Francesca Bastianini Team: Emily Moan, SeoYeon Park, Xingying Peng

In this project, each group needed to analysis the assigned site in the university center and created a human scale lighting installation which response to the site. The site is located on a path between stairs and elevator lobby, where people seldom stay for long period. The design idea is to create a micro lighting environment to give the area a stimulus, which will catch peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s attention and make them stay. The concept of playing with gradient, transmittance and color permeations were derived from the observation of ever-changing daylight condition near to the site.

Current Site Condition The site locates on the corridor near one side of the building. The narrow and linear space serves as circulation; people always pass through without staying for a whole. We wanted to create a light space on the corridor by performing changing of colors and gradient.

11 am

4 pm

0 fc

0fc - 10fc

11fc - 20fc

21fc - 30fc

31fc - 40fc

41fc - 50fc

51fc - 60fc

61fc - 70fc

71fc - 80fc

8 pm

80 fc

Design Approach

gradient study

light source study

color/transmitance study

Final Installation We aligned the vertical distance between panels with the height of each step of the stairs, which is about 6”7”. So with each step down, the viewer sees one more layer of panel, more gradient, and eventually the whole installation.

1/2” Plywood

6”

12.75”

6”

1/2” Plywood

18” x 24”

GE Flourascent 18”

24” x 18” Frosted acrylic

15” x 24” 24”

12” x 24” 24”

Frosted acrylic

18”

11 am

8 pm

05 LIGHTING DESIGN

MICRO PROJECT Small Library Lighting Design

Acadamic/ Individual School Project 2018 Site: None Type: Natural and Technological Lighting Design Instructor: Matt Franks

Nature light is the first light source ever introduced to human, it is often considered as the most ideal light source for human activities. Building apertures are the medium that brings natural light into the building. By understanding how apertures reform the sunlight and create a natural lighting environment is an important process when studying daylight. And it also inspires the thinking of electric light design. This micro project is a small library, where I focus on exploring the variety of daylight condition, also the relationship between daylight and electric light. Through intentionally arranging the positions and dimensions of apertures, in this library, during the day, people can experience different quantity and quality of daylight depends on their locations and activities, and on different time period of day or different seasons of year as well. At night, the lighting conditions shift to make contrast between day and night. It is a library where each space has its own lighting character.

Space Character VO

Starting from programs, the decision of openings is to give each program a distinctive character. VOLUME

Entry Lobby & Lounge:

The character of entry lobby is more active because people go in and out. The daylight concept is to follow the space character and make dynamic daylight effect in the space. MU TE D VIS INT UA IMA L F TE OC US

Group Study Area:

The concept for group study area is to create a bright and diffused daylight environment, like indoor plaza. Using angled sky aperture to CARACTERS avoid direct sunlightPROGRAM but also to welcome the diffused skylight.

Private Study Carols:

SIG

E DIM

The daylight environment for private study carols will be dimmer and more muted. Diffused skylight comes from the rooftop and gently washes down the wall at the end of the building. Direct sunlight creates different patterns on the wall through out seasons; the wall becomes a signature wall of the library.

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DECEMBER 21st 12:00pm

December 21st noon

Solar Penetration Each apertures response to the changes MARCH 21st 12:00pm of sun angles through a year. Depending on suitable lighting quality of the programs, some are in order to catch direct sunlight and some are to avoid sunlight but get diffused skylight. The interplay between light and apertures creates variety and dynamic lighting environment and experience for occupants. JUNE 21st 12:00pm

SOLAR PENETRATION

Reflective Ceiling Plan

47.6

March 21st noon

68.9

June 21st noon LIGHTING STUDIO 2 : NATURAL ADN TECHNOLOGICAL LIGHT Exercise 2 : Micro Project Yi-Szu Liao

Day diffused skylight washes down direct sunlight creates patterns

diffused skylight for space

dynamic direct sunlight from entry

Night cove lighting system washes up soft gradient of light on the wall

direct light for table surfaces

stable diffused light from two sides of lounge

06 ARCHITECTURE DESIGN

URBAN OASIS Long-Pu Junior High School Design Academic/ Personal Scool Project 2011 Site: Sanxia, New Taipei,Taiwan Type: Educational Architecture

National Taipei University Special District (NTUSD), a redevelopment area at Sanxia, New Taipei, which is a new residential area planned to respond to the establishment of the new campus of NTU. The district developed fast and population grew tremendously within few years. A large number of housing was built closely in this area in order to meet rapid population growth. However, as many redevelopment areas are, it resulted the area full of people but lack of green space for relaxing and having outdoor activities, people have few open space to interact with other. This district was planned to be a community for a large school area. During daytime, it is vivid due to lots of school activities, but after school time or on weekend, after schoolsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; gates are locked, the decreased activities and usage make schools become idle spaces. However, schools in this district should be the role, which can provide green and space for more use. Given the reasons above, this project focuses on demonstrating a school as Urban Oasis, an activation center in this concrete jungle. Except for the ordinary use of class, it could be open to public, bring people access to nature, let activities extend from inside to outside like ripple, increase interaction and connection among residents and reactivate the district.

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Housing Area Park

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SITE

National Taipei University Special District

Redifine the Role of School

Concept

The site is located on Long-Pu junior high school campus, which is next to the biggest park in the area but the park doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t provide much green and open space for residents. If the green could extend throughout the whole campus and open to public, it will create more possibility for people to access to green space and offer various events, then activities will reversely spread to nearby area.

Breaking down walls between campus and outside and bring people in by creating an easily accessible environment. Letting people around the area can use the campus after there is no class at evening or on weekend. So the green and campus space can be enjoyed by anyone.

The school will enrich local events and natural environment and can be used in many situations and be redefined as a new open space for long period use. 09

before

after

Design Approach

opening main green axel

connecting main activity space

extending to secondary activity space

creating three layers of paces

Program Distribution The activity intensity decreases from south to north of the site as the Formosa Freeway on the north side. In order to balance activity intensity, it is important to set a hierarchy of the space. The first layer continues the park environment, the second layer forms the main area of the campus, and the third one is more for particular uses, so people would enter the campus spontaneously if they need to use the specific space. In which case, activities and events would be extended naturally. particular class room regular class room special education class room

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Second Floor Plan 1. classroom 6

2. theme classroom 3. laboratory

4. outdoor classroom / plaza 5. school hall 6. office 7. reading room 7

8. conference room

10 3 9

Ground Floor Plan

1. classroom

6 7

2. computer classroom 3. theme classroom

4. dining room 5. swiming pool 6. special need classroom 7. office 8

8. library 9. ecological pond 10. pick-up area

Upper Level - Wide & Vivacious Instead of using typical linear space, curved arrangement can create another open space to combine and link other surrounding area and make indoor and outdoor more connective.

Ground Level - Exquisite & Peaceful Green and light drop down to the ground level like raindrop, and events and activities extend at the same time. The open space of upper layer is wider and offers dynamic outdoor events, as ground levelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s open space is more separate and provides shades and relatively static activities.

07 ARCHITECTURE DESIGN

CITY FOOD DRAMA New Social Food Space for City Daily Life Academic/ Personal Theses Project 2013 Site:Tian-Mu,Taipei,Taiwan Type: Infrastructure

Food has historically revolved around the need to feed ourselves, but at the same time, it is a social and cultural phenomenon. It shows how we live, like a drama in our life. In the past, the exchanging and sharing of food once built a very solid and stable bond among people, food was the common language that let people share their life and connect with each other. Food production and distribution played the important rules in day-to-day life. However, this profound relationship between food and people and among people disappeared gradually because the way that people live with food has changed drastically. Todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s production and distribution of food are not as accessible as past time for people living in city. As a result, the food drama becomes dim. This thesis design project is trying to redefine the role of food space in the city. It should be a sort of public learning and participation. From individual to city scale, linking elements of food and city, then search for possibilities of connecting food space to city daily space. It is not designed simply for aesthetic pleasure; it's not even an attempt to make the city more sustainable. The main idea is reversing public space by inhabiting food space in it, bringing a green landscape and urban farming into the city and creating a new prototype of lifestyle. We might once again reinstate food as an integral part of our city.

Issue Introduction The relationship between food and people changes overtime. Formerly, people lived next to food resource and used to step outside then thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s plenty of fresh food available, but population growth, advanced technology and city exploration overturned the mode and strategy of food production and distribution, people no longer practiced self-reliance. As a result, food production has been pushed away toward the edge of city and fresh distance gets further. Food space also changes. In the past, dining room was the most important area for a family, especially for Asian culture, all the family members could gather together and share their daily story with each other while having dinner. But nowadays, kitchen and dining room become very small and useless parts of a house. It hinders the chance for people to participate food process. Personally, I believe what food brings to us is precious. Thus, what I focus on this project is trying to bring fresh food to modern city life, to rebuild the connection among people by food sharing and participating, then, provide a possibility of new prototype of food spaces in the city. Hoping people could once again enjoy the social and cultural activities that food brings to us.

Fresh Distance Timeline In this timeline, we can understand that all kinds of developments formed the present relationship between human and food. But, we can also see that the ideas of city in the future is trying to shorten the fresh distance and bring food drama back to our life.

Food(story) + People(actor) + Space(background) = CITY FOOD DRAMA The common language to link different people and culture is food, and people are always the key to start the drama. Food drama should be able to be learned and participated. In the future, the relationship between human and food will not be just a dish on the table but a whole process of food which can involve human to participate more, relink food to our life and bring people back to main character. This project is not a particular type of space but a food+ space where remains original space utility yet offers new public spaces when food takes part in. It’s like put a food program into a city space then it’ll be changed into a whole new space about food.

+ PARK

+ MARKET

+ SCHOOL

+ MUSEUM

+ COMMUNITY

+ SPORT PARK

Break the process In the present food process, people don’t actually involve in it. Through breaking the process and inserting it into city space, it would trigger many new events in the city.

Tian-Mu is one of the most flourish regions in Taipei. Compared to others, it is relatively more for living. Public spaces combine with living-scale area results in its distinctive characteristic. Its walking and biking property of street makes the living pace of the region relatively slow and opens an opportunity to bring food in. So I consider this area is perfect for my issue and I can practice food drama at it.

SUPERMARKET

TIANMU CREATIVE MARKET OLD LIVING CORE

SITE TAIPEI JAPANESE SCHOOL

TIANFU MARKET SHIN KONG DEPARTMENT STORE TIANFU PARK

TAIPEI AMERICAN SCHOOL NEW COMMERCIAL AREA

TIANMU SPORTS GROUND LANXING PARK

SHIDONG ELEMENTARY SCHOOL DAYEH TAKASHIMAYA DEPARTMENT STORE

SHIDONG MARKET LANYA JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL

LANYA PARK

YUNONG ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

SOGO DEPARTMENT STORE

MRT ZHISHAN STATION

Site Context

The site is located on a shortcut where links old living center and new commercial area and contains many community public spaces, different people pass through this shortcut with different purposes. It offers a condition to create a new city food space between public and private. 20

Strategy Those open spaces along with the site provide many variable edges that can break the linear state of the shortcut and overturn it into a main public space in the city in which all the food-daily-related events will take place spontaneously.

SPACETYPE

original space character

ELEMENT

important space element

ALTERNATION

creat additional space new space model

From production to eating, each stage of food process has its own space character. Through finding out the main space elements then transform them, the new type of food space could be matched to other uses and link daily activities with food.

STUDY

Food Space Restruction

PLANT

STORET

SELECT

COOK

EAT

different planting level

multiple food storage for different foods

horizontal sight

linear work space

areas of different space condition

raise and lower

ceiling,wall,stair as the food container

verticality

stagger

space illusion

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1. bus station 2. infoc 3. shop 4. learning spot 5. cafe 6. audio-visual room 7. outdoor rental kitchen 8. bar

SCENE - 1 Experience Pavilion

The experience pavilion is the main entrance of the area, like a small museum or a micro food city where contains People can get information about the place and learn and participate more by doing recreational activities.

SCENE - 2 Food Library The food library is located next to a school, where replaces the present closed wall between school and park. By reopening the boundry, students can access to food area and take this place as a out-school classroom to participate and learn more about food.

1. food library 2. roof farmland 3. bicycle rack 4. playground 5. gallery 6. stair plaza

SECTIONS and SCENES By inserting these delicate food programs and spaces, the living style of the region start changing. The most important meaning of todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s architecture is to offer human multiple choices of lifestyle. In this case, food spaces merge into our daily life and food drama will take place at everywhere.

1. bus station 2. experience pavilion 3. learning sopt 4. outdoor rental kitchen 5. playground 6. gallery 7. plaza 8. vertical market

Christian Mountain Children's Home New Children Dormitory & Church for Liouguei Charity Orphanage Professional work/ Project in J+R Architects 2014 Architect:Wen-Chieh Chiu Group Position: Designer Site: Liouguei, kaohsiung,Taiwan Type: Dormitory / Church I was involved in the design and first phase of detail design stages of this project. Afterward, I was responsible for architectural design, reviewing construction and green building regulations and building functions, as well as meeting with relative technicians and presenting proposals to the clients. This project was designed to cater for the need of the new dormitory and church in Christian Mountain Children’s Home. Because the constructional damages made by Typhoon Morakot in summer 2009, the president of children's home decided to reinforce the old buildings for the future tourism purpose because it would be a huge income resource for the children’s home, and to build a more save and sound living spaces for the children. And I took part in the first phase of the project, the new building design and constructional stages. The project concept is using a sequent unit of houses around the church to symbolize the meaning of HOME. The church represents believe and hope, and is like a core of a big house’s living room. Each unit would have its own living space yet we can also see the whole building as a big family.

Concept

church as the center of home

units rise along the steady slope

Section - the relationship between units and church

create public spaces belo units

form a church-based living area

Unit Detail

Other Works

Nov. 2017 -Complex Form + Matrices

Mar. 2018 -in.Light_Invisible Light

Sep. 2017 -Surface Modulations

Oct. 2008 -Object Magnification Study

Jan. 2009 -Material & Structure Study

Sept. 2009 -Experimental Installation

Nov. 2009 -Backyard Coffee House

Feb. 2010 -Shuangxi Community Center

April 2010 -International Student Dorm

Aug. 2010 -Social Housing Workshop

Oct. 2010 -Community Art Center

Jan. 2011 -Office Building

Aug. 2011 -New Housing Workshop

Oct. 2012 -An-Kan Social Housing

June 2013 -Thesis Exhibition

Yi-Szu Liao

Phone: +1 917 520 4227 Email: liaoiris20@gmail.com

Education Background Sept. 2008 - June 2013

Department of Architecture, Tamkang University, Taipei, Taiwan - Bachelor Architecture degree

Aug. 2017 - expected 2019 SCE, Parsons School of Design, The New School, New York, USA - MFA Lighting Design (Scholarship)

Professional Experience July 2011 - Aug. 2011

AMBI Studio, Taichung, Taiwan - Summer Internship

July 2012

6x2=18, Paper Exhibition of Architecture Graduation Design, Yilan, Taiwan - Exhibition executive assistant

Aug. 2013 - Aug. 2015

Wen-Chieh Chiu Architects and Associates, Taipei, Taiwan - Designer

Fab. 2017 - May 2017

M. C. TSAI Architect and Associate, Taipei, Taiwan - Designer

Jun. 2018 - Present

Domingo Gonzalez Associates, New York, New York - Lighting Intern

Aug. 2018 - Dec. 2018

Parsons School of Design, New York, New York - Teaching Assistant

Nov. 2018 - Present

Derek Porter Studio, New York, New York - Graduate Research Assistant

Competition May 2014

Far Eastern Group Chiaohsi Spa Resort Design Competition, Yilan, Taiwan, Second Prize

Jan. 2015

New Taipei Museum of Art Design Competition, New Taipei, Taiwan, Honorable Mention

Mar. 2018

IESNYC Student Lighting Competition, New York, New York

Workshop Sept. 2009

Tamsui Recycle Art Festival Workshop, New Taipei, Taiwan - Installation Design Team

Feb. 2010

Bamboo Installation Workshop for Urban Regeneration Station NO. 21, Taipei, Taiwan - Design Team Leader

Aug. 2010

Itabashi Housing Workshop, Tamkang University and Japanese Women University, Tokyo Japan | Instructor: Prof. Satoko Shinohara - Selected Participant

Aug. 2011

Songshan Social Housing Workshop, Tamkang University and Japanese Women University, Taipei Taiwan | Instructor: Hideki Hirahara - Team Leader

Exhibition Oct. 2012

Wave Hose, Social Housing Design Exhibition, Taipei, Taiwan - Participative Designer

June 2013

Tri-Arch, Graduation Design Exhibition, Tamkang University, Chung Yuan University and Chengkung University, Taipei, Taiwan - Participant

July 2013

Taipei Urban Design Center Opening Exhibition - Exhibition Assistant

July 2014

Cloud of Unknowing: A City with Seven Streets Exhibition, Taipei Taiwan - Installation Design Assistant

Skills Software

Language

English | Chinese | Taiwanese

References Derek Porter

Principle, Derek Porter Studio | derek@derekporterstudio.com

Wen-Chieh Chiu

Principle, Wen-Chieh Chiu Architects and Associates | wenchieh.chiu@gmail.com

YI SZU LIAO liaoiris20@gmail.com +1 917 520 4227