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Portfolio Qinyue Liu

CONTENTS

LA BREA TAR PITS MUSEUM

Arch 4410

Instructor: Galo Canizares The Ohio State University, Columbus

01-05

WE WORK TOWER

Instructor: Justin Diles The Ohio State University, Columbus

06-10

Arch 3420

ENERGY RESEARCH LABORATORY Arch 3420

Instructor: Justin Diles The Ohio State University, Columbus

11-15

LIVE & WORK HOUSE

16-18

Arch 3410

Instructor: Andrew Cruse The Ohio State University, Columbus Instructor: Perry Kulper University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

19-21

Academic Work 2019

Academic Work 2018

HIDDEN LIBRARY Academic Work 2021

Arch 552

LA BREA TAR PITS MUSEUM Ohio State University, Columbus Autumn 2019 Instructor: Galo Canizares Collaboration with Jingxiao Zhou

This project required students to imagine a new museum proposal for the existing site in Los Angeles, California. The students need to redesign the site as well as the building. Our approach began with a simple square grid and the design is oriented around the diagonal axis in order to show a transition from the urban side to native. We created three modules to represent service space, main circulation for the gallery, and public space for the auditoriums. Our main goal is to emphasize the transition from building to landscape. First, we try to use the shape corner on the northeast side and soft corner on the southwest side in order to show the transition. Second, two main entrances were designed for people to experience a complex circulation to a simple one. Also, the facade of the building was designed to provide people inside the building a clear idea of when they are in a different space. The size of the module is different based on the different space. The cladding system allows people inside the building to experience the changing module and the idea of transition becomes more evident. At the same time, the special roof is designed differently based on each module and opened in various sizes based on the use of the space.

The "HILL" is restricted by the grid. People feel the "HILL" in the box from section.

Diagrams

The "HILL" is designed within the grid and is entered through the layer in section.

The circulation is designed for people to enjoy a process of simple to complex visiting perception. Everything including the walls and the skylights are all designed for emphasizing the idea. The "HILL" becomes larger and restricted the grid instead. The "HILL" can be a closed space or an entertainment open space.

The "HILL" keeps expending the box and shapes the box in section.

Site Model Analyze the circulation based on the intersection of the soft and rigid forms.

The "HILL" is added for additional private space.

Attitude

The "HILL" is no longer restricted by the grid and becomes the landscape.

The project is designed for people to enjoy the landscape and the architecture at the same time. Both The rectangle module is created and spreaded everywhere in design.

the landscape and the building are

The columns are set in the order of the module.

set on the grid module. The diagonal Model Photo

axis leads a transiton from urban side to the country side. The site model uses the colored landscape and the arrangement of the landscape shows

Typology Analysis

the ideas.

The relationship between "HILL" and "BOX" is The walls are added to create various funtional space and bring more complex circulation.

The skylights are designed into three types to differentiate the corresponding space down there.

changing surrounded by the grid along the diagonal axis in the site.

Close View

The "HILL" is engraved or cut into the box. The intersections become the exhibition area, the private visiting space, and the sitting area. The "HILL" shape transforms into landsape in plan.

The relationship between the building and the landscape shows a clear idea of the "rigid" plus "soft" form.

WE WORK TOWER Ohio State University, Columbus Spring 2019 Instructor: Justin Diles Collaboration with Michaela Urteaga

This project needed students to design an office building on an existing site in Columbus, Ohio. We began this project with the question of which circulation would suit people best. This line of thought leads us to a shocking discovery of spaces adjacent to one another; a grocery store leads to a gym, a daycare/garden leads to an office, the finale is the rooftop restaurant beyond the offices. The office space is distinguishable by a large void that snakes through the entire height of the tower. This core allows for variations of furniture layouts in the open floor plans. Also, the void allows for an interactive space between floors so lines of vision are provided to the occupants. Furthermore, the meeting rooms interact with the core on occasion as the meeting rooms are being pushed into the void. On the exterior, a textured appearance is influenced by a precedent, Dear Ginza by Amano. We wanted this cladding system to create a porous characteristic, so that externally the metallic material gives an idea of continuous evolution as one walks by it for multiple unique experiences. At the same time, natural light can easily come into the building from this facade, while still providing some shade. Big openings are created by the exterior facade, creating pockets of interest for people and it also breaks the module in plan.

The initial building shape

The public space and the private office space are seperated

Cladding system is added

Atrium is designed in the office space

Flat surfaced-cladding system starts to be manipulated

Atrium is narrowed in the center

Overhanging space is created, landscape area is improved

Cladding system is completed

Atrium is rotated to face the main entrance

Openings are added

Outdoor space is created

Atrium is transformed into curvy shapes in order

Cafe

Rotating the inner boxes to create the private conference rooms next to the atrium.

Office Area

Programs according to activities

Lobby

Gym

Changing the rectangle artrium to transform curvy shapes

Day Care

Supermarket

Rotating the directions of the boxes to create openings

Light/Facade Lights, coming into through the atrium into the interior space, becomes the natural void for the building. The porous facade also brings the natural light easily into the building and creates the porous shadow to inside. At the nighttime, the building can provide a transparent idea due to the porous facade. People can perceive a different feeling when they walk by the window in the building.

METAL STUD MODELED BY ACRYLIC AND SPRAY PAINTED DOTS METAL PANEL WITH HOLES MODELED BY LASER CUTTING BRISTOL BOARD WITH HOLES AND SPRAY PAINTED

CONCRTETE SLABS MODELED BY 1/8" CHIPBOARD

GLASS WITH MULLIONS MODELED BY ACRYLIC WITH THIN WOOD STICKS

CONCRETE COLUMN MODELED BY WOOD RODS

STAIRS MODELED BY 3D PRINTING

ENERGY RESEARCH LABORATORY Ohio State University, Columbus Spring 2019 Instructor: Justin Diles

This project asked students to design an Energy Research Laboratory on the West Campus of the Ohio State University. Brutalism became an architectural language to express the buildings made out of concrete. Creating a brutalist project while working with campus program guidelines is the goal of this design. An important step in the design was experimenting with concrete through creating small studies, which later greatly influenced aspects of the formal language. In these studies, the wooden sticks are utilized as the base structure and vacuum forming these sticks helped obtain a greater formal concept. Curves and stripes are naturally formed due to the vacuum forming process. Using this conceptual model as an initial idea for the building. Making arches and curves through sections and plans in order to mimic the form of the original concrete studies is a driver of design in this process.

Site The site is set on West Campus at the Ohio State University and is adjacent to a busy intersection. In order to respond to the surrounding architecture, the site plan of the building is rectangular in shape. Furthermore, the walkways are created for people to get into the parking garage and nearby buildings.

Section The concept of the concrete model is made as a result of vacuum forming. Arches and stripes are seen from the model view as a repeating formal idea. Bringing ideas from the studies into the building section, the resulting structure has many arched ceilings.

Concrete model (a)

Concept diagram

Concrete model (b)

The space in plan try to emphasize "arch" idea by creating curvy corner.

The plan represents the "stripes" shapes from the concrete conceptual model.

The wall and space created are organized by the grid.

LIVE WORK HOUSE Ohio State University, Columbus Autumn 2018 Instructor: Andrew Cruse

This project asked students to redesign an existing residential house in Columbus, Ohio. The project was designed for two small families to live and work on the same plot of land. Separating the public space and private space for each family is one of the important factors in the design. As a result, the arrangement of the walls becomes a significant step in the layout to aid in this separation. The gardens are created to separate the two families’ space and provide private space on the exterior as well. Splitting the space became the main approach which is seen through the final structure. The idea of separation is seen not only in the sections, but also in the plans. In section, the arrangement of the openings and the outdoor garden is designed to correspond to the skylight. In plan, the arrangements of the indoor garden and the wall respond to the openings on the roof as well.

HIDDEN LIBRARY University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Spring 2021 Instructor: Perry Kulper

Human beings were born in nature, breathe the air from nature, and we spend long times in it, forging an indissoluble bond with it. With the passage of time, the city where people live is gradually surrounded by constantly developing increasingly thickened building fabric. Over time, people adapt by living in places that are designed with various materials and spaces of different sizes, types and uses. The design intent of the Hidden Library is to enable an escape from the city, a respite from the density of the life of a city, to this library that is integrated in nature. The sometimes divisive walls of the city are evacuated, and the program of the library is integrated as a free plan, both in the design of the upper floors and the landscape in which the library is located. The landscape is not only part of free plan design, but also incorporates the raum plan design. Ideas of raum plan from the lower part of the library are extended to the landscape, in the form of five follies. These follies are organized according to the grid of the free plan and share the same textural properties of the raum plan elements. The five follies are also a hint of the raum plan, a hint to the raum plan world hidden under the plane. At the same plan, giving the entrants a feeling of picturesque and retreat from the density of urban life.

The horizontal line on the ground separates the upper and lower floors of the library, in the guise of a key threshold, acting like a dividing line. The upper part of the library is conceptualized as a free plan, where the structure is independent from the spatial requirements. And the lower part of the building retains the figurative nature of an urban architecture through design principles derived from the raum plan, or the design of discrete rooms. Using varied spatial heights, and object-like spatial qualities to offer varied degrees of privacy and independence of the varied spaces. At the same time, the use of five sorts of texture mapping allows the participants to have completely different feelings by providing different visual experiences.