ZHUORAN LIU Academic Works 2013-2016
- 每个人只能陪你走一段路。 -This portfolio not only contains the my academic works, but is also a record of those memorial time which I will never forget. May we all have those kind of time.
The completion of this portfolio owe to my instructors, professor Javier maroto, Nanako Umemoto, Gia Daskalakis, Luo Qingping, for useful instruction, valuable criticism and great support. And all those friends for their great help and encouragement. Both of my parents, for their selfless sacrifice, patience and understanding.
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MIX Urban Housing Complexity for Mixed Lifestyle
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VERY FAST AIRPORT St. Louis Downtown Airport Design
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DANGEROUS PLACE Visual Mapping of Criminal Report of St. Louis City
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BLUR Community Center and Public Square Design
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CONSTRUCTION IN CONSTRUCTION Unit-Living System Deisgn for Chinese Migrant Workers
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LOST RIVER Mapping and Landscape Design of River Des Peres
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01 MIX Urban Housing Complexity for Mixed Lifestyle Sam Fox School Degree Project Instructor: Adrian Luchini Spring 2016 St. Louis has been recession for decades, while a new opportunity occurred to regenerate this city as US economy transformed from manufactory industrial into technological and creative industrial. Cortex district in St. Louis is among several new emerging urban districts in US where leading-edge anchor institutions and companies cluster and connect with startups, business incubators and accelerators. These newly urban areas were usually transformed from old city blocks and given name as “innovation district”. My Degree Project is going to discuss and explore a new urban lifestyle which could coordinate with these newly emerged industrial and youth who grew up with Internet. A lifestyle which is different from traditional 9 to 5 work and suburban living life, a lifestyle which is mixed and interacted with different people and programs, a lifestyle which is messy while energetic. In these thesis architecture is not only about creating a building, beyond form, space or construction I’m more interested in the possibilities the design could bring to youth’s daily life. Through simplicity comes complexity, through repetition creates variation, through constrain liberates freedom. The site is located at east side of Cortex district adjacent to IKEA and St. Louis University, The Programs will be mixed used apartments, studios, startup businesses as well as urban activities.
Commercial
Industril / Business
Residential
Insitution
St. Louis Urban Fabric
Site Selection 6
Urban Fabric as "Assembly Line"
Urban Fabric as "MIX"
Initial Proposal 7
Site Plan 8
South View 9
Ground Level Plan
West Section 10
Lower Level Plan
North Section 11
Detail Plan Upper Level 12
Detail Plan Lower Level 13
Studio Interior
Forest Pkwy 14
Shared Space
Corridor 15
Interior Axon 16
Detail Section 17
Physical Model / Split
Physical Model / Combination 18
Physical Model / Waffle Slab
Physical Model / Bird View 19
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02 VERY FAST AIRPORT St. Louis Downtown Airport Design Sam Fox School Option Studio Instructor: Nanako Umemoto / Jessy Reisser / Hillary Simon Fall 2015 The dawn of mass travel by jet in the early 1960’s corresponded to the wholesale reorganization of airport infrastructure. In competition with the more common Central Hub model for such agglomerations, an alternate organizational model for the airport terminal has arisen within the last 30 years. Developed for the demands of Low-Cost Carrier airlines, this model makes use of an extended network of smaller secondary airports and metropolitan multi-airport systems rather than singular point destinations. Layover times are reduced dramatically by this mode of operation--these are fast airports. This studio seeks to create an architecture for these terminals. Consequently, the architectural experience must be correspondingly short and intense. Through the compound of plastic bottles and development of paper model from it, multiple layers, different surfaces as well as volumes and spaces were created. This kind of placeless form made me rethinking what the meaning of airport today and what it could be tomorrow. From the hub - where transferring people from ground to the aircraft - it seems today, it could be anything - probably a virtual house where you can experience everything that you don't have to fly to another place – tomorrow.
Plastic Bottle Model Compount plastic bottle into a new geometry shape
Paper Model Developing form of paper through Plastic model 22
Digital Model Transfer from physical model to digital model 23
Site Plan St. Louis Downtown Airport 24
Roof Plan
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Structure System “Branch� structural system cantilevering the whole architecture 26
Skin System Three layers of skin: LED light, Structural shell, Enclosure skin 27
Interior Perspective Looking from the entrance
Level -1 Plan Baggage Claim 28
Interior Perspective Looking towards Security Check
Level 1 Plan Entrance, Check-In Area 29
Structure System “Branch� structural system cantilevering the whole architecture
Level 4 Plan Boarding Gate, Waiting Area 30
Structure System “Branch� structural system cantilevering the whole architecture
Level 5 Plan VIP and Private Client Waiting Area 31
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03 DANGEROUS PLACE Visual Mapping of Criminal Report of St. Louis City Sam Fox School Instructor: Frank Hu Fall 2014 St. Louis is one of the most segregated city in America. A lot of historical reasons caused the current racial segregation between north and south. The City of St. Louis used to be racially segregated by legally enforceable racially restrictive covenants. Also throughout the past century, especially from 1950s, St. Louis has experienced "white flight" — white people progressively moving away from the city's urban center and out into the suburbs.
Criminal Type Distribution This map is basically about the annually crime distribution by neighborhood and crime types in St. Louis City. Generally it is based on the statistic provided by the St Louis Metropolitan Police Department (SLMPD) online crime report. The darkness of the gray shows the numbers of crime reported in that certain neighborhood. In another way, the darker the area is, the more crime reported in that area. This distribution to a certain extent shows the relationship between crime distribution with poverty distribution and race distribution. The color of the points shows the different types of crime.
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Homicides and Racial Inequaty a study conducted by the East West Gateway Council of Governments, found the St. Louis metropolitan area is the sixth-most segregated area in the country based on several social, economic, and health factors. For St. Louis, the study focused almost exclusively on black and white populations. As for what to do to improve the quality of life for everybody in St. Louis, the study points to recommendations made earlier this year in another study which was conducted by Wash U: Invest in quality early childhood development for all children. Help low-to-moderate income families create economic opportunities. Invest in coordinated school health programs for all students. Invest in mental health awareness, screening, treatment, and surveillance. Invest in quality neighborhoods for all in St. Louis. Coordinate and expand chronic and infectious disease prevention and management.
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04 BLUR Community Center and Public Square Design Sam Fox School Option Studio Instructor: Javier Maroto Spring 2015 St. Louis is a divided city. Delmar blvd is one of the implicit line separating the region. In responding to the segregation in St. Louis, the site and design is trying to reflect current situation, creating blured space experience while mixing different public as well as civic programs. The square, which is the most important symbolic intention in this design, is the combination of several metaphors and meanings. Besides providing a public space for different events and urban life activities, the square itself reflects a social and public desire of equality.
Site Context
Delmar Division
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Site Condition
Concepte
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Site Plan
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Axon Layer Diagram
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Program
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Diagram
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Underground Plan Scale 1''=64''
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Roof Plan Scale 1''=64''
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Interior Perspective Looking towards entrances and skylights
Sections
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Interior Perspective Looking towards glass pavillion and skylights
Construction Detail
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05 CONSTRUCTION IN CONSTRUCTION Unit-Living System for Chinese Migrant WorkersZhejiang University Instructor: Qingping Luo Summer 2013 Team Work, with Dairan Xu Focusing on the problem that today the migrant workers’ poor living condition, we designed this semi-permanent fabricated construction-site living system. This living system only exists during construction, after then it will be “disappeared”, which means it will be removed and rebuilt in another construction site. We hope through the design, this proper sized, rugged, comfortable living unit will change the current pre-fabricated house living condition. The most important difference between this living system and the current pre-fabricated house is that this system balances the mobility and the relatively permanent living experience very well. In this design every worker will be allocated the only unit which can be moved through the construction site he worked in. And if this living system can be produced and managed by government, it can greatly change the living conditions of many migrant workers.
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Unit Type Diagram
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Detail S
Drawing by
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3rdPlan
2nd Plan
1st Plan
Section
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06 LOST RIVER Mapping and Re-thinking of River Des Peres Sam Fox School Option Studio Instructor: Gia Daskalakis Fall 2014 Region along the River Des peres’s morphology is largely affected by the river itself. With the widening spatial gap caused by the river, St. Louis is separated by the river side as St. Louis city and St. Louis County. The river served several different function historically as agriculture farming, sewage system, and flood storage. However, with low water level nowadays, the river side become a negative space for urban activity. This design is aim to pull the two isolate urban space together.
Natural Condition
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TimeLine
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Urban Connection & Accessibility
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Land Use
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Existing Programs
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Proposed Programs
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Proposed River Infrustructure
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Proposed Connections
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Site Plan
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Landscape Design
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Perspective View
Section
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Perspective View
Section
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Plans & Details
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Structure System
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