Ho-Ting Liu MLA I Portfolio

HO-TING LIU

CONTENTS Curriculum Vitae Indeterminancy: Surface + Edge Transformation: Field + Permeability Fluid + Fixed Fiction + Friction

C O N TACTS hliu@gsd.harvard.edu +1 651-447-3515

E D U CATION MACALESTER COLLEGE | Saint Paul, MN Bachelor of Arts, 2009 - 2013 Biology Major, Geography Minor Dean’s List: Fall 2009, Spring 2011, Fall 2012 Honors: Kofi Annan International Scholarship HARVARD UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF DESIGN | Cambridge, MA Career Discovery Summer Program, 2013 Master of Landscape Architecture Candidate, 2014 - 2017

P U B LICATION + PRESENTATION Hornbach, D.J., M.C. Hove, H. Liu, F.R. Schenck, D. Rubin and B.J. Sansom. 2013.

The influence of two differently sized dams on mussel assemblages and growth.

Hydrobiologia 724:279-291.

Hove, M., H. Liu, D. Rubin, F. Schenck, and D. Hornbach. 2012. Changes in the Sunrise River over the Last 16 year. Ellipsaria 14(4):22-23.

H. Liu, D. Rubin, F. Schenck, D. Hornbach, and M. Hove. “The Impact of a Small Dam on Mussel Assemblages and Habitat in Sunrise River, MN” Abstracts of the St. Croix River Rendezvous (2012) | Science Museum of Minnesota + Midstates Consortium for Math and Science (2012) | University of Chicago H. Liu, D. Hornbach, and M. Hove. “Distribution of Nonpoint Pollution and Mussel Abundance in St. Croix River: A GIS Study” Abstracts of the St. Croix River Rendezvous (2011) | Science Museum of Minnesota

W ORK EXPERI ENCE SUZHOU HEZHAN DESIGN & CONSTRUCTION CO., LTD. | Suzhou, China Intern, March 2014 - May 2014 JT INTERNATIONAL LANDSCAPE DESIGN LLC. | Shanghai, China Intern, Aug. 2012 SCIENCE MUSUEM OF MINNESOTA | Saint Paul, MN Aquatic Invertebrates Program Intern, Sept. 2011 - May 2013 MACALESTER COLLEGE | Saint Paul, MN Research Assistant Biology and Environmental Studies Department, May 2011 - Nov. 2012 Office Assistant Sustainability Office, Sept. 2010 - May 2011 Studio Assistant Art Department, Sept. 2009 - May 2011

S KILLS AutoCAD, ArcGIS, InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, IDRISI Taiga, SketchUp, Microsoft Office, Model Making

L ANGUAGES English, Mandarin, French

C ERTIFICATE PADI Open Water Diver | PADI Americas, License 11060P4046

Academic Core Studio Fall 2014 Harvard Graduate School of Design Instructors: Gary Hilderbrand, Jane Hutton Studio Critic: Zaneta Hong

This project aims to conceptualize a new urban space at Boston Seaport District that exploits the indefinite moving edge between land and water. Deriving formal language from the precedent project, a series of triangular shaped landforms mimicking drumlins of the Boston Harbor Islands are designed to establish a continuous surface and connectivity both on land and in water. This set of landforms offers excitement and adventure for city dwellers on kayaks as a means to erode the exisiting line of fear in people’s mindset, encouraging more intimacy with water in an effort to challenge conventional perception regarding the line that separates between water and land.

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The Edge in Williamsburg New York City | 2011 W Architecture and Landscape Architecture, LLC.

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Passenger and Freight Seaport Water Taxi Stop Kayak Launch Existing Coastline Existing Ferry and Water Taxi Route Kayak Route SCALE 1:3000 0

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NORTHERN AVE.

Pitch Pine Pinus rigida

Black Gum Nyssa sylvatica

Smooth Cordgrass Spartina alterniflora

Switch Grass Panicum virgatum

Chewing’s Fescue Festuca rubra subsp. commutata

Site Plan Kayak Playground Seaport District, Boston, MA 0

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Water Level Diagrams Kayak Playground Seaport District, Boston, MA SCALE 1 : 1000 0

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Section Elevation Kayak Playground Seaport District, Boston, MA SCALE 1 : 150 0

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Stairs for Water Access

Flexible Terraces

Black Slate Waterfall

Black Slate Waterfall

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Longitudinal Section Elevation Kayak Playground Seaport District, Boston, MA SCALE 1 : 100 0

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Academic Core Studio Harvard Graduate School of Design Fall 2014 Instructors: Gary Hilderbrand, Jane Hutton Studio Critic: Silvia Benedito This siteless project aims to create a small-scaled ecological corridor within the urban fabric that provides new gathering place for urbanites and new habitat for urban wildlife.

The Funen Park in Amsterdam by LANDLAB is studied as the precedent to establish ground pattern. The form of sub-canopy vegetation is inspired by the natural form of salt marsh in the Parker River National Wildlife Refuge and the visual metaphor of smashing a rock onto hard surface.

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Academic Visual Representation I Harvard Graduate School of Design Fall 2014 Instructors: Zaneta Hong, Sergio Lopez-Pineiro According to the United Nations Environment Program, one quarter of the earth’s land is threatened by desertification, jeopardizing the livelihoods of over one billion people in more than a hundred countries. China is one of the countries that are most severely impacted by desertification. Over thirty percent of the total land territory has become desertified, adversely affecting 400 million people and resulting in 50 billion RMB of direct economic losses. More alarmingly, it is estimated that 78 m2 of the land in China becomes desertified in every minute.

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Academic Visual Representation I Harvard Graduate School of Design Fall 2014 Instructors: Zaneta Hong, Sergio Lopez-Pineiro Rural villages in China are under enormous threat from urbanization or have undergone significant transformation in the frame work of modernization. As a means of historical and cultural preservation, or maybe just nostalgia, the government puts them into display as a tourist attraction site to “protect� them. They mirror the dancer who is trapped and forced to perform in the glass cube.

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