MArch Interview Material. BA Portfolio Qu Liu. 22 Feb 2022

PORTFOLIO INTRODUCTION

EDUCATION.

Architecture to me wasn’t a born interest but a

2015 - 2018

International Baccalaureate

2019 - 2021

Bachelor of Architecture

SIP Foreign Language School, Suzhou

developed conviction. Throughout three years

QU LIU

of bachelor study, it briefly shapes my eclectic

ARCHITECTURE

designer identity, challenging the existing

F I R S T H O N O R G R A D U AT E

architectural & social order in which pre-

University of Melbourne, MSD

University of Melbourne, MSD

determinism flourishes while individual desires are

FACULTY EXHIBITIONS

ignored in many concurrent practices.

CONTACT. Email.

This identity can be seen through my library project

lqqu@student.unimelb.edu.au

2019 - Winter MSDx

Foundation of Design: Representation

2020 - Winter MSDx

Design Studio Beta

(The Detachment) that promotes a de-hierarchy

jeffliuspare@gmail.com

Digital Design

publicness, or capstone residential project (The Terracain) that focuses on providing optimal

Phone. +61 (0)473 145 100

housing solutions, empowering the residents to

ISSUU. https://issuu.com/jeffquliu

2020 - Summer MSDx

Construction Analysis

2021 - Winter MSDx

Construction Design Design Studio Delta

recreate regards on their own living desires.

2021 - Summer MSDx

Design Studio Capstone: Epsilon Design Visualization: Digital Techniques

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THE TERRACAIN DESIGN STUDIO EPSILON. THIRD YEAR Individual Work. Tutored by Katie Skillington.

Designed in SM2, 2021 STUDIO 08 Site: Burnswick West. Melbourne

Project Terracain aims to develop biophilic urbanism that opposes the predeterminism of urbanization while promoting a self-evolving, metabolized mode that interlinks individuals with nature.

The outcome is a medium-density affordable living community that provides an adaptive housing scheme, in which its residents are guided to create configurations based on their own living desires, through manipulating provided spatial kit of parts, inserted into the open-plan structural framework provided.

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PROJECT SITE & PRIMARY TREATMENTS Project site locates at mid ring subrub of Melbourne, preseves rich natural implementation along with varied typologies from single detached housing, duplexs to recently built apartments.

With primary circulation treatment responding to the context, two main circulations are made connecting current local nature presence & residency presence across two typogies. Meanwhile building a ground communal circulation to dilute the primary circulation routes, which 3 community centers & 1 plaza is made along the route to activate it's communal identity while promoting interactions between public & community.

SITE DEVELOPMENT LOGIC

Site entries and major public circulation route

Determined the In between space: Semi Public Greenery

Adjusting massing to respond to Solar Access & Context Height

Existing residency presence circulation Existing nature presence circulation Communal circulation (Dilution) Community Centers

Insert customized household modules based on residents desires

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Insert core as building anchor.

Crave atriums to promote vertical interaction

Basic steel framework & Reinforced Concrete Floor Plate

CURRENT SITE CONTEXT INFORMAITON MAPPING

The composed site contains two typogies: mostly apartments and few townhouses to satisfy specific preliminary client enquiry.

Households in apartments are laid with short span to North to maximize the general solar coverage and promote cross ventilation from semi-open common corridor.

To configurations of household, collective living zone is arranged as extension of common corridor from north while individual living zone placed at South. Besides, layouts are made through pre-fab kits of agenda plates & optimal internal & external spatial dividers. Thus clients are empowered to design layouts regards on their own living desires.

(Specific kits are explained furthur on next page)

One Bedroom v.1

One Bedroom v.2

Two Bedroom

Three Bedroom

Townhouse

Community Center

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HOUSING & COMMUNITY DETAILS 4 standard configurations are made to satisfy various needs across family size, special amenlities and home workspace demands.

Meanwhile clients are able to adjust detail

2 Adults Couple & Workspace

functions through replacing agenda plates,

2 Adults + 1 Kid Nuclear & Kid & Workspace

spatial dividers and multi-function joinery.

(See kit chart on next page)

In a site community perspective. it's circulation is detached from ground mass communal & public circulation, but conducted via elevated walkway looping that connects the common terrace of each building.

Semi Public Garden Northern Plaza to Public Shared Parking Pool Building Residential Entry 2 Adults + 2 Kids Nuclear & Kids & Workspace

Building Bicycle Parking Elevated Walkway Looping connecting terraces

Summer Sun Winter Sun

EXTEND TO CONTEXT APARTMENTS

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SECTION A-A: APARTMENTS & POCKET GARDEN

Walkway Looping

2 Adults + 1 Kid Nuclear & Kid

H O U S I N G A DA P TA B I L I T Y Joinery Adaptation

PARTITION BLOCK SIZE KIT

H OU S E H OL D AGE N DA K I T OF PARTS Utility. Conservatory.

Corridor. etc.

Bedroom. Kitchen.

Study. Toilet.

Greenery Module. etc.

Living Room. Large Dinning . Large Storage. Stairs. etc.

I. BLOCK BASE AGENDA KITTS

2 Adults + 1 Kid + 2 Elderly Nuclear & Elderly & Workspace

Mass joinery in kit of parts are designed with multiple use options to enable flexible adaptabilitty. An example as shown is the folded bedroom that converts the space into other uses such as study or workspace.

2 Adults + 1 Infant Nuclear & Workspace

Standard Living

Enlarged Dinning

Utility & Conservatory

Study & Workspace

Extra Acoustic Insulation

"Worrying and apologizing for the huge noise that possibly made during his furniture design and fabrication."

Rollable Partition

Folded Bedroom (other use)

Folded Study for other use

Kitchen & Dinning

Storage & Half Utility

Toilet & Bath

Folding Door (Solid)

Rollable Partition

Vertical Louvre

Entry Door

Sliding Screen

Medium Size Plants

Vegitable Farm

Corridor

II. INTERNAL SPATIAL DIVIDER KITS

Additional ceiling bulk insulatiion reduces noise level adjusting the workspace requirement.

Plasterboard levels the ceiling height with the beam structure, thus making inserting rollable partition module appliable.

Unfolded Bedroom

Stairs & Atrium (Storage under stair)

Curtain between Agendas

Curtain divides corridor

Half Partition

III. EXTERNAL SPATIAL DIVIDER KITS

Structural Modification Adaptability Vertical Rollable Screen

2 Adults Workspace Concentraded

IV. OPTIMAL GREENERY MODULE KITS

Gravel with pot plants

Succulents Green Roof

External Facade Cladding

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SECTION B-B: TOWNHOUSES

COMMUNITY TERRACE & WALKWAY LOOPING Common terraces are also made with varied options, which is entrusted as the unique identity of the building commnity. Elevated walkway looping cross site connects these micro building communites in

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forming a macro neighhood co-living nature.

STRUCTURAL ASPECT The building utilzes Glulam & LVL mass timber for primary post & beam loading system in acheving a environmental friendly performance.

While household modules are framed with WPC SHS for it's light weight portability & durbility, which promotes designed optimal replacement & modification.

Additional eco-greenery plant bed is placed at south, outside of individual living zone to create a visual buffer, but also alleviates mass structure heat island effect in creating a more habitable space.

Building Northern Facade

MATERIALITY PLATE

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T H E D E TAC H M E N T D ES IGN STUDIO DELTA. T H I R D Y EA R Individual Work. Tutored by Luca Lana.

Designed in SM1, 2021 STUDIO 20 Tutor Contact: luca@lucalana.com Site: 126 - 140 Lt Bourke St. Melbourne

This library sits in Chinatown, Melbourne downtown reshapes the spatial publicness to a more primitive form by manipulating existing vocal presence and natural lighting.

The sequential journey eventually unfolds the detachment from both the over determined urban publicness and the long gone cost on occupying the knowledge with digital grid of informaiton access.

Bearing the direction of human sound through atrium and inleted lighting through skylights and courtyards, the sequence will eventually reveals the concealed and protected books at top.

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- THE DETACHMENT -

SITE & BUILDING LANGUAGE If to conclude project context with three words, it would be "Resilient, Compatible & Uncertain". It naturally preserves a undefined undertainty which emerages naturally humanized moves rather than other predetermined zones in CBD that has a more specific given role, such as massive residential apartments at Elizabeth St, or commercial precinct at Collins. The de-hierachy value of Chinatown is the primary driving force to this library project, "A social detachment".

In terms of building facade, a deconstructivism language is used to convey the similar designing intent, which facade skin is simply folding the resulted linked volumne of internal atrium & courtyard spaces.

MASSING DEVELOPMENT

Remain the existing property on site. Tribute to context.

Refine the proportion of spaces.

Laying courtyards & atrium

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Determining primary entries along streetfare & warping language

Vertically seperate public & individual exchange zone

Refined Iteration of details.

Determined internal & external massing stage

Final refinement based on internal joinery & furnishing.

(LEFT) B uil di ng Iso me tr i c - U r ba n P ubli c G e sture

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STRUCTURAL SITE. A SOCIALASPECT DETACHMENT Chinatown site in Melbourne fabrictimber servesfor as The building utilzes Glulam &urban LVL mass aprimary buffer in between two heavily determined "Public post & beam loading system in acheving collective" centers, while performance. itself remainsWhile the rights a environmental friendly of self-development without over-interference from household modules are framed with WPC SHS for it's preliminary planning. light weight urban portability & durbility, which promotes designed optimal replacement & modification.

Responding to the site, the library aims to activate the roles ofeco-greenery individuals inplant participating in collective Additional bed is placed at south, agenda Concurrently sanctuaries outside spontaneously. of individual living zone to create a visual mass from compromising the productivity, buffer,public but also alleviates mass structure heat island objective & efficiency based urban society, effect in creating a more habitable space. but empowered with recreations.

The existing building on site.

Pre-determined social agenda Undetermined social agenda

The existing bluestone

laneway around site.

(LEFT ) Explo de d B ui ldi ng Iso me tr i c

The main entry circulation from Lt Bourke St.

Context Primary Collective Presence Context Secondary Collective Presence Circulation Impact Zone Project Site

STRUCTURAL ASPECT The building utilzes Glulam & LVL mass timber for primary post & beam loading system in acheving a environmental friendly performance. While household modules are framed with WPC SHS for it's light weight portability & durbility, which promotes

designed optimal replacement & modification.

P RE S E RVAT I ON OF T HE HE RI TAGE

plant bed placed atwhich south,both outside of TheAdditional facade of eco-greenery the existing building is is remained,

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individual zone tocenter createand a visual also alleviates entries of theliving community librarybuffer, on thebut Ground and mass structure heat island effect inthe creating a more habitable First floor respectively went through preserved facade. space.

This is intentionally done in tribute to the proposal context.

In achieving this more primitive form of publicness, introduction of natural lighting and vocal transmission quality is focused to guide visitors to designated gathering zone in a more subtle way.

And in response of spatial designing device, a hierachy set of atriums (with skylight) and courtyards are used to deliver this lighting & vocal navigation intent. (Seen exploded isometric on left)

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TYPI C AL BU I L D I N G S E C TI ON

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S PATIAL DEVICE & BUILDING LANGUAGE In achieving this more primitive form of publicness, introduction of natural lighting and vocal transmission quality is focused to guide visitors to designated gathering zone in a more subtle way.

And in response of spatial designing device, a hierachy set of atriums (with skylight) and courtyards are used to deliver this lighting & vocal navigation intent. (Seen exploded isometric on The mass circulation across stairs

left)

G ro und Flo o r Li bra r y Entr y P ubli c Exc ha nge A ge nda

is designed to constantly touching back to main atrium, which vocal

In terms of building facade, a deconstructivism language is

volume transfered from downstairs

used to convey the similar designing intent, which facade skin

becomes a spatial navigation tool.

is simply folding the resulted linked volumne of internal atrium & courtyard spaces.

UNFOLDED S ECTION In a macro scale, there is a transition from illuminated transparency to opaque compacted spaces. Skylights upon atriums imply an approach towards the end of spatial sequence, leading constant variation of volume and ambient lighting quality.

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SPATIAL U N FOLD ED SECTION

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Overview: SW 14

CRITICAL DETAILING & KNOWLEDGE ADAPTATION Structural details are produced to examine the understanding of information presented on structural, architectural, civil and shop drawings, while intentions of the specefic structural designs are represented through renderings, depicting possible failures or drawbacks if the revised

Acoustic Tiles & Cement Board

design approach was not implemented.

Interior attachment design for safety purpose. eg. Impact-resistant Pin-board

In MSD (University of Melbourne) course planning, this subject is enrolled as Construction major elective for architecture students before commercing their capstone subject, which many of the learnt details here are adopted in my capstone project, shown as the first instance of this portfolio.

Content under roofing sheet

Eave gutter & Leaking. Condensation Prevention

Overview: NE Masnory drain protection

Facade Condensation Sarking

Thermal Break on window sill

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PAV I L I O N C O NC AV E D I G I TA L D E S I G N , S E C O N D Y E A R MODELLING: Rhino & GH R E N D E R I N G : Tw i n m o t i o n & P h o t o s h o p

An digital parametric design project featuring Grasshopper / Rhino. Designed in context of Queen Victoria Garden rich greenery. This pavilion seeks to promote a deeper connection of human and Vi e w f ro m N a t u ra l G ro u n d L e v e l e n t r y

nature through a rigid concave landscape and plant mimicing form.

EXP LODED STRUCTURE

LAYER 3. METAL CLADDING - External Cladding. Reflective texture add-up upon the earthy material of primary structure.

Vi e w f ro m C o m p o s e d G ro u n d L e v e l

LAYER 2. TIMBER BEARING - Unexposed bones of pavilion, providing primary load bearing & installation basis of both internal & external cladding.

LAYER 1. TIMBER CLADDING - Internal cladding of pavilion.

Aim to mimic earthy fibre of growing greenery while embracing visitors inside.

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Pa v i l i o n c h ro m e d f a c a d e & L i g h t i n g a t n i g h t

PROGRESS ITERATION S

D E S I G N V I S UA L I Z AT I O N A R C H I S P E C I L I Z AT I O N , T H I R D Y E A R MODELLING: 3ds max & Rhino R E N D E R I N G : V ra y & P h o t o s h o p

Work from Design Visualization: Digital Technique.

A Design Specilization of MSD Architecture promotes 3ds max & vray workflow.

Digital Still Life Modelling & Rendering

Interior Scene Design & Rendering

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GRAPHIC DESIGN C O N S I D E R AT I O N S PERSONAL INTERESTS

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1.01 One of linework drafts from 202.

An random imagination of the them of "debris" 1.02 One of linework drafts from 2020 An random Imagination of a alley way .

1.03 One of linework drafts from 2018 Imagination on a skycraper dock.

Digital Illustrations have been an interest of mine for 7 years. I see it as an approach to relieve stress, but also gain illogical inspirations that went across my mind occasionally.

The drafts shown in right are the linework stages of some of the finished ones shown on the previous page.

These are hand sketches via tablets in Photoshop.

1.01

1.02

1.03

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