Portfolio_Xuanru Liu

ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO | XUANRU LIU

am a recent Master of Architecture graduate with a passion for designing architecture with innovative ideas to enhance the intimate relationship between citizens and the urban environment. I believe that architecture should resonate with human beings and make agitate to the context which uses our space more freely, as something that fosters “people’s spirits to do things and Live Together Better.

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Rhino 3D Modeling

Vray Rendering

Adobe Photoshop

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depthmapX Visualization

Grasshopper - GIS Data Collection

Rhino 3D Modeling

Vray Rendering

Adobe Photoshop

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Revit Drafting

Enscape Rendering

AutoCAD

Adobe Photoshop

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Grasshopper

Maya Sculpting

Unreal Engine 4 - Animation

Rhino 3D Modeling

Vray Rendering

Adobe Photoshop

COEXIST ISLAND

EXIST SIDE BY SIDE

178 BOYDS ROAD

01. EXIST SIDE BY SIDE

‘Exist Side by Side’ seeks to reveal and address societal perceptions of death in cross-cultural and political contexts by defining participation mechanisms for the cemetery and memorial. The proposal reconsiders the potentialities that the death architecture affords to the discipline by way of redefining the role of the cemetery and memorialisation in the collective consciousness as a public space embedded within the ‘locale’, establishing an immediate and communal relationship to death. There are three testing grounds in the site of Kensington. The courtyard; repurposed as an recreational facility that stresses the importance of death education from an early age. The silo; a death memorial that confronts the users’ own mortality through the manipulation of the large, towering industrial architecture. The private lot; private becomes public in a cemetery that provides for numerous modes of occupation and generates civic engagement with death throughout. This is not about assuming but rather providing a framework for death architecture. Capturing the vernacular through combinatorics of contextual precedents. In providing a localised relationship to death a new future suburban infrastructure is defined. This infrastructure merges functions of remembrance, support, education, recreation and reception. An infrastructure to assist with the Reconciliation of Death.

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DEATH EXCHANGE

• A public space that brings the deceased exposure to life

This is a formal political intervention through architecture by defining participation mechanisms for the cemetery. The Cemeter y here is a public space to work with the land to make site exchange rather than dominate it. It is a space that defines itself through light and shadow. A space that can provide for several modes of occupation, brings deceased exposure to life and avoids the fears that push them to the edge of the city.

DEATH EDUCATION

• The way in which something is regarded, understood, or interpreted.

Death Memorial is here as an educational place, but also as a public place with architecture as a means of support as an opportunity to invite disadvantaged groups to attend and be accepted and recognized by society. Beside and along the trajectory of the living. The termination of the wall constructs the experiential exchange, arrangement of this form provides a framework for engagement with death education. It’s not only an education about death, it’s an education about life.

ACKNOWLEDGE DEATH

70% of doctors have encountered situations in which family members conceal their illnesses from patients in their daily work. Avoidance of death leads to an inability to face the passing of a loved one. We must acknowledge death and accept it as an inevitable journey. Deploy silos as a way of restoring the sense of insignificance of people in front of nature. Re- identify this process with an experience and atmosphere within

URBAN ANTIDOTE

Cities as the medical instrument of assistance incubate new attitudes toward form and spatial organization. Fetishizing the sanitized aesthetic. it’s about how the city and architecture start to reflect broader changes in society. Composed together in unconventional ways to generate space usage and behavioural activities. Their role is potentially inferred by their changing size and markings and shapes and their location in the city. This is a reorganization mechanism using the medical facility as the quality of spatial architecture. As cities take on new capabilities to shelter their occupants. All of these conditions are creeping in and building the city, from which the machine aesthetic is born.

We’re not talking about those who are very physically fit, we’re talking about those who are the weakest. It looks like the city itself is in therapy. To return to intimate urban Spaces and shelter the occupants. To empty the city of authenticity.

BLUESTONE ROAD

COEXIST ISLAND

Coexist island is a station used for migratory birds’ stopovers as well as a bridge for humans to observe birds in their natural habitat. It also responded to the East Asian-Australian Flyway Partnership (EAAFP), which aims to preserve migratory waterbirds and their habitats, considering both people and biodiversity of the East Asian-Australasian Flyway, connecting, and bonding people with migratory birds and qualities of nature. The concept provides a new temporary migration stop and transfers to a newly designated nature preserve for migratory birds during their long-distance flights, embracing nature as the centre of education and recreation as the existing grounds are eventually eroded by the time of 2030. Reimagines the island as an experience and designs a series of structures blended with complex and organic attitudes that would together foster vibrantly educational, community and natural spaces.

The scale of the organic structure’s interiors brings the exterior tendencies of landscapes inside, blurring the boundary between “inside and outside” spatially and formally. In this “vast interior”, nature is identified not with simply the occasional active presence of greenery or biomorphic form but with boundless, expansive space. The qualities associated with public, urban spaces, freedom of collective assembling and individual journeys are brought inside. The programmatic openness of the landscape is conveyed in an architectural framework.

Define education as a mode of a process of discovery and learning from nature. This is an open, informal study area, providing better spaces supporting new pedagogies and environmental conditions for learning.

PROFESSIONAL & PERSONAL PROJECTS

THE EXAPTIVE

THE EXAPTIVE engaged with the biological concept of ‘exaptation’ that implies a shift in the function of a trait during evolution, through the domain of procedural urbanism, focusing on the themes of emergence and emulation. The project invoked historical, canonical and contemporary precedent, to form a architectural and urban analysis that was tested on an urban precinct in Nansha, China, with a mixed-use urban and architectural proposition. The project harnessed deep learning and Artificial Intelligence – image and text based sampling as a strategic technique.

The project was part of the international CityX project exhibited at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2021.

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