Portfolio 2014-2017 Interior&space Design by Yuntong Liu

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Yuntong Liu Email

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2010 NO.11 High SchooL 2013 Changchun, China

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Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma Roma, Italy

2014 Istituto Europeo di Design 2017 Roma, Italy

01 ORDER/CHAOS 07 Exhibition Design

08 MICROCOSM 15 Gallery Design

16 SHANSHUI 20 Architecture

21 WEAVING 24 Structure Practice

25 OTHER WORKS 28

.EXHIBITION DESIGN .Project 02 / Microcosmic

."Order/Chaos" The concept originates from the comparison between rules and changes, and thus is named as “Order/Chaos” The exhibition was sponsored by Maxxi Museum and ZahaHadid Studio cooperatively, and the “Zahahadid in Italy” in memory of famous female designer Zaha was opened in the summer of 2017.

The place of exhibition was set in Maxxi, a contemporary art museum designed by Zaha in person.

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Zahahadid’s buildings are famous for modulization and changeable shapes. I wanted to set off by contrast the characteristics of the works of Zaha with concise and regular elements in a space.

Finally, grids and simple geometries were mainly used in the design to fill the whole space.

At the beginning, the most basic geometries were mainly used as the display stand, and to adapt to the sizes of different works, squares, circles and triangles were added or subtracted to obtain new shapes, resulting in a new space in the whole room.

To match with the integral atmosphere of Maxxi Museum, we similarly used grey and white.

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Located in a central area of Rome, Maxxi is one of the modern art museums most popular among the locals.

The exhibition was set in most highly symbolic Gallery5 on the highest storey, which has two obvious characteristics: First, the french window extending out of the building body, from which the whole plaza can be overlooked; second, tilt floors and cambered surfaces of wall bodies.

Interestingly, the exhibition mainly consisted of Zaha’s architectural works, and Maxxi itself was one of the important works of zahahdid. Thus, it is like exhibition in exhibition, and it is required to emphatically consider how to adapt to the atmosphere of the whole gallery.

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“Zahahadid in Italy� emphasized on the Italian building design and was arranged in the first six zones, followed by other design, interactive videos. The photos of the design works of Zaha taken by Helene Binet was displayed in the last zone. They were sequenced chronologically in general.

The words displayed on the facade were displayed as concisely as possible, without any decoration, though with such details as height of sighting line, etc. considered.

The words relevant to the models on the platform also emphasized on the geometrical morphology, while transmitting information through the edge of the board.

Italian Projects: _ MAXXI _ Salerno Maritime Terminal _ New High Speed Train Station Napoli-Afragola _ Generali Tower _ Nuragic Contemporary Art Museum _ Jesolo Magica Retail Centre _ MMM Kronplatz Other Projects: _ The Peak _ Phaeno Science Center _ London Aquatics Centre _ Glasgow Riverside Museum _ Mobile Art - Chanel Contemporary Art Container _ Heydar Aliyev Centre

_ University of Oxford Middle East Centre _ Serpentine Sackler Gallery Video: _ Regium Waterfront _ Aura _ Jesolo Magica Hotel and Business Centre _ Stuart Weitzman Flagship Store _ Verona masterplan _ Bolzano Masterplan Photographs: _ Pierrevives _ Heydar Alivyev Center _ Vitra Fire Station _ Lois and Richard Rosenthal Center of Contemporary Art _ Terminus Multimodal Hoenheim Nord, Strasbourg _ Bergisel Ski Jump _ BMW Central Building _ Nordpark Cable Railway _ Zaragoza Bridge Pavilion _ Dongdaemun Design Park _ CMA CGM Tower _ Phaeno Science Center _ Terminus Multimodal Hoenheim Nord

.Circulation The main walking route was S-shaped. There was no completely sealed room in the space, and the distance between every two roles could guarantee that people could freely select routes. The display boards were purposefully placed at the diagonal lines of all areas, constituting an open guiding corridor for the tourists along with literal guidance.

Other details about infographic: https://issuu.com/liu0/docs/zahalink Order/Chaos / P. 03

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. Area 13-15 Area13: The area beside the elevator shaft couldn’t be as big as other rooms all the time, and thus the space was set as the display area of videos and a series of small models. A box simulating the true environment was created by use of perspective changes, mirror planes and light. People could stay for photo taking and watching in this relatively wider space.

Area14-16: The photos of the buildings of Zaha taken by Helene Binet were quite uniform in dimension, and considering that the three areas were close to the iconic french window, the small exhibition stands of the same area were arranged in a staggered way to reserve the senses of brightness and transparency as well as the function of vision viewing.

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Company: AL.GO. Aluminum square steel 40x40 mm Company: Segmoo Joint of L-shaped angle steel

Company: AL.GO. Five-legged joints for connecting square steel 36x36mm.

Company: Knauf Knauf GKB (A) 18 mm.

Technologically, the first difficulty was that we had a large number of metallic structures, but their handling got more convenient upon the addition of dismantable joints for connection.

To keep the whole structures stable, we added transverse fixing devices between the display boards to make them more steady.

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Video of the project: https://vimeo.com/246239775

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.GALLERY .Project 02 DESIGN / Microcosmic

.MICROCOSMIC Life is full of details, e.g., cracks on roads, fingerprints on glass, a leaf, a scrap of paper, etc. It seems that these tiny things, which haven’t been designed purposefully, became aesthetic and significant, because the perspective from which they are observed has changed.

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.SITE No. 22 Art Block of PINGOD is the only block themed by contemporary art between Inner Second Ring Road and Third Ring Road, Beijing City. Other major art districts, i.e., 798 Art District and Songzhuang Art District, are far away from the downtown.

Moreover, the exhibition areas in the downtown are featured by traditional art and cultural relics. Since this year, the number of exhibitions in Beijing has been on the increase. The number of visitors of Today Art Museum is large, but that of the exhibitions held in it is far fewer than Dongcheng District. For this issue, one of the reasons is scale.

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From 2010 to 2016, the number of the exhibitions held in Today Art Museum increased. Specifically, the proportion of the small solo exhibitions tended to grow as well.

Yet the utilization rate of the site before the museum has been low, and considering that the number of visitors has increased, it is planned to set an additional exhibition hall in the parking part.

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.INSPIRATION I entered a microscopic world deeper and deeper, while constantly observing tiny things.

Some meaningless things immediately turned into super jumbos, after the viewing angle was lowered for close observation, for instance, any waste could be a “metropolis� in the eyes of an ant. From these microscopic forms, I gradually found the images of buildings, and thus tried to outline their structures and concretize the architectural shapes.

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."NEGATIVE SPACE"

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When looking for “spaces”, the term “negative space” of a high sense of being appeared in my mind.

As a member of Young British Artists, Artist RACHEL WHITEREAD’s art works are visually powerfully thrilling.

Most of her works are about spaces and how to master the “spaces” that cannot be seen or touched.

Rachel chose to directly “create spaces”. She poured cement or other materials into empty parts, and showed the physical “negative spaces” of which the boundaries cannot be easily delimited to the public through formal transformation. That is to say, they were transformed into the physical objects that can be seen and touched.

. Holocaust Monument 2000

I more desired to discuss the inside of a building in a way “opposite to negative spaces”, compared with direct addition, as a result of the substitution of the concept of negative space. Thus, it was a common stone that finally attracted me. It can be said that an entity has no inner space; in other words, the “no” means completely unknown.

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Process analysis

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.Block The stone has been found in front of Today Art Museum. With an aim of reproducing the senses of thickness and heaviness of stones, buildings are mostly constructed with fair-faced concrete.

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Located in a vacant lot before Today Art Museum, This three-storey building covers 119qm, with the entrance and flights of stairs facing the street for receiving visitors and the flights of stairs wide and narrow in the fore and rear parts respectively for deepening spaces visually under the perspective principle. Besides, the flight of stairs of the first floor is the widest, since the main body of the building is narrow and wide in the lower and upper parts respectively, and therefore, some people on the plaza still can move around on the stairs, even when the museum is closed.

Naturally shielded, the external stairs has been used as a parking lot for the bikes widely distributed in Beijing.

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.Project 02 / Microcosmic 1. Introduction of the exhibition 2. Jürgen Klauker “I Go I Stand I”，2003 Triple-Projection Dimension variable

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4. Harun Farocki "WorkersLeave the Factory in Eleven Decades" , 1995 Videoinstallation for 12 monitors video b/w and col, 36' Dimension variable 5. Julian Rosefeldt "My Home is a Dark and Cloud-Hung Land" , 2011 2-channel video installation, color, 29'23'' Scale 16：9 6. Clemens von Wedemeyer "The Beginning, Living Figures Dying" , 2013 5x synchronised film,Video 18 min, Video 16:9

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7. Julius Popp "Bit.fall" , 2003-2006 Water, Pump , MagneticValves, Electronics , Software 800 x 35 x 35 cm，partly variable Each of the storeys has an independent access, two gates and an openable window, guaranteeing that the storey is ventilated. When the project was underway, the “Germany 8: German Art in China” Large-scale Exhibition was held in seven major exhibition venues in Beijing including Today Art Museum from September 16 to October 29. The items exhibited in the galleries were proposed as the same theme, which mainly focused on the German new media art. Most of the exhibits were images; to guarantee that light rays and sounds wouldn’t affect each other, three projectors were placed in the spaces separated by walls, and the screens were separated by semi-transparent textile hung.

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.ARCHITECTURE .Project 02 / Microcosmic

. "Shanshui" Chinese’s advocation of landscapes(shanshui) is reflected in buildings as gardens. In a garden, some direct imageries like wooden structures, winding paths, artificial hills, pool water and even swimming fish in pools are frequently used to reproduce landscapes. So, I tried to reflect the artistic conception of landscapes with a more modernized architectural means.

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.Painting In the Riding a Dull Donkey in a Snow Mountain of Wen Zhengming, a painter in the Ming Dynasty, the edge and corner landscape drawing method of the Southern Song Dynasty was followed for the composition, namely, the mountain massifs concentrated in the periphery of the picture to reserve a space in the center.

The perspective from which each mountain massif is drawn perspectively from point to point in Chinese ancient paintings can vary, for the purpose of displaying the whole scene and time to the viewers.

The Chinese ancient drawings are formally similar to the cubism. It is as if the whole mountain is displayed horizontally on the scroll, yet the senses of farness and deepness of the landscapes are well shown by use of blocking and scatteredness and blurring of distant views.

The picture mainly consists of eight physical blocks of a mountain massif. Based on their perspectivity and scatteredness as well as the original positions of the mountain massif in Xi’an and the blocked routes, the physical blocks of a building were formed.

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..Project STRUCTURE PRACTICE 02 / Microcosmic

. Weaving Weaving craftsmanship has been passed on for generations since ancient times.

Single threads could be woven together to make a surface with dramatically-strengthened bearing capacity and toughness. Today, we are still using plants as materials to weave articles for daily use.

I am trying to use flexible bamboos as part of the construction of the project.

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.Project 04 02 / Weaving Microcosmic

. Reference Weaving could not only optimize material properties through various combinations but also produce unique textures, making the weavings the part of the architectural coatings.

Japanese architect Kengokuma attaches great importance to the use of materials, which could be seen in most of his works such as metals, straws and woods to create building skins of different textures.

In the Milan Design Week in 2015, Kengokuma designed an exhibition hall for the kitchen space of irori, a kitchen brand in Japan. He stimulated the hi-tech materials into ribbons and weaved them into an arch with non-skin facing, which breaks down the traditional restriction of enclosed walls, dividing the space but also reserves interspaces for vision with strong sense of space penetration.

Arch Making

. Arched form In the early stage of the experiment, I weaved with paper boards similar to bamboos and found however many plies of threads I weaved, an arch would be made.

Sheet-shaped materials could be interwoven with certain degree of distortion, which would produce an outward strength, contributing to the better flexibility and stability of the arch.

The curved shapes would vary to the different numbers, width and length of papers.

The picture in the right shows the different shapes

Various Weaving

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.Project 04 02 / Weaving Microcosmic

. Model Making Main materials: Bamboo sheets (200cm x 2cm x 0,2cm) Screw and nut (diameter 0.3cm, length 0.8cm) STEP 1： Fix all bamboo sheets on a piece of bamboo clapper.

STEP 2： Weave (the bamboo sheets would bend naturally).

STEP 3： Fix the two ends of the woven bamboo arch with strews.

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.Project 05 02 / Other Works Microcosmic

. Model Temple of Saturn, Roman Forum.

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. Home Design

Location: Roma, Italy; Xinjiang, China

I designed a project for special home reconstruction when I was a junior in college. The apartment was originally known as Villa sultetto (means rooftop villa)designed by Italian architect Giulio Minoletti for his family. The apartment is located on the second floor. Through the slant French windows, we could see the downtown of Milan, the Duomo Church and top of the Velasca tower. The living room indoor is isolated with leather folding door. Green plants and drainage facilities are located in balcony and on the rooftop, making the apartment cool, natural and transparent. Another feature of the design is the use of red and green colors, such as red walls, green marble floor and red or green wooden doors.

The owner of the house is a single director with two daughters. He hopes that the original feelings and the dark green marble floor could be well reserved and the two daughters have their complete space of privacy.

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