Louise Liu Portfolio

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OctaFlora

OctaFlora is a community and housing design for YAC competition, Home After Crisis, in 2023 summer. The goal of this project is to provide a solution for emergent housing demand for refugee in Nigeria. Each unit of OctaFlora can adapt local extreme weather, at the same time, develop and change based on population and demand of customers.

Passive Compound

Passive Compound is done in the first semester of sophomore year. It is a film school in Nigeria. The main goal of this project is to make the architecture adaptive to local climate and provide a comfortable environment for users. Passive Compound creates a natural fence through the height difference without constructing a solid wall.

2021

Ascending and Descending Tequila Fatcory

Ascending and Descending Tequila Factory is the final project for second semester of sophomore year. This project takes advantage of the topography to let the production of tequila can naturally fall down, while visitors tour reversely.

Analysis: Karst Tower Analysis: Thermal Vals

These two analysis projects are done in the second semester of sophomore year. The analysis of Karst Tower focused on how the erosion process changes the limestone overtime; current natural and social environment of Karst Tower in Guilin, China. Analysis of Thermal Vals focus more on the architectural language and composition of the architecture.

Syracuse Art Gallery

Syracuse Art Gallery was finished in the second semester of freshman year. The goal of this project is to provide a continuous and expanded space for visitors within a limited field. The change of the spatial relationship between workers and visitors at each floor is another focal point.

Facade Design Project

This is a quick practice done in the freshman year. I tried to create a rhythm through timber material on the facade, which also functions like a sun breaker.

Shift; Similarity; and 22.5°Pavilion

This is the first architecture project done in the freshman year. The whole pavilion was derived through a transformation of a triangle in grid. The varied height difference of each room creates different degrees of privacy, which serve for different types of activities.

Hand Drawing Exercise

Photography

Catalog
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2022
2 4 10m STORAGE (7m2 PLOT BOUNDARY A A’ B’ NOTE: THE WATER TANK IS 648 LITERS, WHICH ENOUGH FOR FAMILY OF TO USE FOR APPROXIMATELY 10 DAYS. ACCORDING TO NIGERIA’S FEDERAL MINISTRY OF WATER RESOURCES AND UNICEF, AN AVERAGE NIGERIAN CONSUME LITERS OF WATER PER DAY. FLOOR PLAN OF FAMILY TYPE A 7 PEOPLE CENTRAL COMMUNAL SPACE BEDROOMS (16m2 12m2 WATER TANK TOILET & BATH ZAURE LIVESTOCK SPACE
N inch 50 Ascending and Descending Tequila Fatcory 2023 Spring Unearth the plant Cut off leaves Chop into smaller pieces Heated for 48 hrs Squash Squeeze Distill 6’ 4’ 2’ 0’ 0 Year Year 10 Year Just planted Young stage Mature enough to be harvested Ascending and Descending: Tequila Factory : Collages of tequila industry research 2023 Spring
and Descending:
Long section cut of architecture in site 2023 Spring
Ascending
Tequila Factory

During Production

Gathering Space and Store

Start of production

Storage of Blue Agave Stove for Baking Grinding Section Falling Path for Juice

Ascending and Descending: Tequila Factory

Section perspectives of architecture in site

2023 Spring

Start of Visiting

After Production

Roof for growing plants Place for visitors to gather

Buried under earth Extended Platform for workers

Paths for Visitors Consistent ascending experience

Activate different paths base on demand Visitors can see and taste the fresh juice

Plan of upper part

Bottling Room Distilling Room Aging Room Platform for visitors

Ascending and Descending: Tequila Factory

0 degree axons of architecture

2023 Spring

Pools for Fermintation

Room for Gathering Place for habitats to hang out

Plan of lower part scale: 1: 40 scale: 1: 40

Quercus phillyreoidescommunis Oryza sativa 1300 Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sept Oct Nov Dec 100mm 200mm 300mm 400mm Size: tendency to cause erosion Old age Middle age Young age Surface generally flat with shallow ditch Loose limestone eroded faster; height difference increase Vast flat valley with random extreme extrusion Rainfall Karst Tower Urban Deeper color represents longer history Karst Tower: height difference Brown soil Material Spots of exposed limestone Topography Limestone Spread of Vegetation Selected site Quercus phill yreoides Brown soil Limestone Sporobolus Celtis sinensis Yangshuo Landscape Exposion rock Geographical texture Distripution of Vegetation (24°45’, 110°28’) 2’’ 4000’ 46°43’ 46°42’ 46°41’ 46°40’ 46°39’ 46°38’ 46°37’ 46°36’ 46°35’ 46°34’ 46°33’ 46°32’ 9°4’ 9°12’ 46°33’ 46°32’ Vegetation Brown Soil Limestone Underground water Directionality within Rooms Directionality within Rooms Directionality within Rooms Z X Y Walls in X-Z direction Walls in Y-Z direction Roof X-Y direction Location of Therme Vals 46.6217° N, 9.1816° Therme Vals Poststrasse 560, 7132 Vals, Switzerland 110° 100° 90° 80° 70° 60° 50° 40° 30° 43.3° 37.7° 32.2° 26.6° 21.1° 15.5° 10.1° 4.44° -1.11° Celsius degree Fahrenheit degree Tempreature of Pools Size: Amount of water Karst Tower in Guilin Site Analysis 2023 Spring Vals Thermal Bath--Zumthor Architecture Analysis 2023 Spring Analysis: Karst Tower and Thermal Vals 2023 Spring X Y Z Z X Y X Y Z Walls in X-Z direction Walls in Y-Z direction Roof in X-Y direction Worm’s eye view of roof and wall combination Vals Thermal Bath--Zumthor Circulation Analysis 2023 Spring Vals Thermal Bath--Zumthor Impression Analysis 2023 Spring Vals Thermal Bath--Zumthor Composition Analysis 2023 Spring
Passive Compound Film School 2022 Fall
Pahysical Model 2022 Fall Passive Compound 2022 Fall
Passive
Compound
Section AA' 2022 Fall
Passive Compound:
Passive Compound: Section BB' 2022 Fall

Syracuse Art Gallery 2022 Spring

Syracuse Art Gallery Plans 2022 Spring

N A A’ B’ S. Salina St.
jefferson St.
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Second Floor Gallery Day View Facade Third Floor Gallery Seventh Floor Office
2022 Spring
Facade Design Exercise Physical Model
Shift; Similarity; and 22.5°Pavilion Shift; Similarity; and 22.5°Pavilion Plan 2021 Fall Shift; Similarity; and 22.5°Pavilion Physical Model 2021 Fall
Drawing of Slocum Hall Size: A0 2021 Fall Drawing of Hall of Language Size: A2 2021 Fall Exercise of Two Point Perspective Size: A2 2021 Fall

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