TzuKuan Liao Portfolio

National Taipei University of Technology | Architecture

selected works 2017-2021

Tzu-Kuan Liao | Portfolio

Content

About Me

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The Place of the Placeless

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XX Exchange

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Zhong-Hsin Village Social Housing

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The Bounded Edge

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Songs of the Wanderers

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About Me Name: TZU KUAN, LIAO Date of birth: 16 / Dec / 1997 Phone: (+886) 966345938 Email: victorliao1216@gmail.com

Work Experience

Education

Jul - Sep 2020

Great First Associate Architects | Intern - Conduct field measurements - Propose design and material selection for architectural competition

Jan - Mar 2020

Great First Associate Architects | Intern - Construction cost calculation with pcces - Building and rendering 3D models

Jul - Sep 2019

ICHI Creative | Intern - Carry out facade and interior design proposals - Complete detail construction drawings - Building and rendering 3D models

Projects Jul 2019 - Jul 2020

SOS Brutalsim Exhibition | Volunteer - Measuring and conduct CAD drawings and 3D models for heritage building - Building detailed 1/50 physical model for exhibition - Research and presentation on the case

Apr - May 2019

International Construction Festival Southwest Jiaotong University | Participant - Develop main design concept and construction drawings - Participate in construction and material selection

2017 - 2022 2016 - 2017

National Taipei University of Technology | Architecture National Taipei University of Technology | Creative Design

Honors and Awards 2021 2021 2019 2017 2014 2014 2011 2011 2010 2009 2007

International Exhibition of Architecture Graduation Design | Grand Review Taiwan 20 International Construction Festival Southwest Jiaotong University | Silver Prize Trait Youth Design Competition | Product design | Excellence First Tech Challenge International Finals First Tech Challenge National Finals | 1st World Robot Olympiad National Finals | 2nd World Robot Olympiad International Finals World Robot Olympiad National Finals | 5th World Robot Olympiad National Finals | 5th World Robot Olympiad International Finals | 4th

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The Place of The Placeless Toucheng, Yilan, Taiwan Tutor: Rong-Hao, Chang

the Placeless | n.

The Placeless is a territory defined by planetary computation and networks, territory which we conceive as Virtu世界

海纜登陸站 進入國家的邊界

資料中心 儲存節點

The World Cable Landing Site Data Center

al, as opposed to it’s reference: the Actual. Although the idea of virtual, such as dreams or fairy tales, is nothing new in the course of human history, in the age of digitalization and the codify of things, it opens new horizons to the possibility of the Virtual, a vast territory that remains intangible, out of reach, out of sight, out of mind.

接收、組合、發佈、存取 賦予資料意義

網路服 務供應商

Service Provider

使用者介面

User Interface

人

People

This project aims to shed light on the hidden mechanisms behind this virtual territory and the seemingly unrelated connections between the Actual and the Virtual.

The virtual territory that we rely so heavily on with communicating, preserving, creating, surveilling, does come with consequences.

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Road network

In Between Place & Placeless Marine traffic

Seafloor depth

Obstacles

Coastal

Suitable cable landing areas Wushih Harbour

South Bank Park ocean watching Toucheng rail station

Qinyun Rd

South Bank Beach

Huanzhen E Rd

surfing

Cable Landing Site

Cable Landing Site N/A

Chuan River

bird watching

0

500m

Nearby set-

Tamsui /

0

500m

Coastal

Toucheng

City Center

Fangshan / Toucheng

Cable Landing Site

Cable Landing Site 1944 Shoreline

0

500m

0

500m

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All e

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The Dw ellings

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g si n

os Cr

tie ron eF Th

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The Road Trip

Submarine cables land on the coast of Tou-Cheng, snake across the city center, cut through the lands Tou-Cheng and enters the Hsueh-Shan tunnel, destined towards Taiwan’s internet distribution center: Taipei city.

This 4 km path connected by five distribution boxes bridges the gap between Taiwan and the Virtual, the place and the placeless.

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Distributer

Watch Dog

Broadcaster

Mocking Bird

Anthenna

Sub Cable

Data Stream

Librarian

Satellite

for Virtual for Actual

for Virtual for Actual

Data Stream

Mocking Bird

Distributer

Data Stream

Librarian

Broadcaster

Tangible

Watch Dog

Converter

Intangible

“ In the digital realm, we can only perservere our

There is no original or copy, only manipulations and

ability to reconstruct or reproduce a document,

representations. The placeless is sustained through

not the document itself.”

constant operations that bring itself the meaning of exsistence.

- Duranti, Luciana (2010)

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The Places of The Placeless Without particular order, each of the five objects works in a particular function of the reproduction and manipulation of data.

Read from top to bottom, The Virtual enters mainland Taiwan through submarine cables, which are being sent straight into an uncanny tower. Inside the tower, data were handpicked, dispatched, organized into various patterns and sent to five receivers which passed the datas on.

Before entering the city center of Toucheng, a security gate bends downwards, staring into the asphalt at every electric signal pulsing through, their windows acting as sensors, looming over.

Next comes the broadcaster, an 80 meters tall telecom tower with a brick wall facade. on the tip of the tower, the human eye glimpses the sovereign of the tower.

From the far end of a water field seeps the humming of generators and electric currents. Librarian archives and accesses million strings of data all at once, while consuming the water field to keep itself cool. primitive geometries pile on the steep slope of Snow Mountain. Almost monumental, Mockingbird receives real time detailed imageries taken 36000 km above. The mad cartographers of the empire have killed the poetry of the map.

UP

UP

UP

When all data are recorded as 0’s and 1’s,

UP

UP

UP

DN

there is, essentially, no object that exists outside of the act of retrieval.

UP

DN UP

DN

DN

The demand for access creates the “object”.

DN

- Smith, Abby (1998)

Distributer Plan 0

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Broadcaster Plan

UP

Watch Dog Plan 0

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10

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5

2

5

10

10

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UP UP

UP

Librarian Plan 0

2

5

10

0

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Mocking Bird Plan

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0

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Bibliography

Baudrillard, Jean, Simulacra and Simulation (The University of Michigan Press, 1994)

Kelleher, John D. and Tierney, Brendan Data Science: John D. Kelleher and Brendan Tierney (The MIT Press, 2018)

Bolter, Jay David and Grusin, Richard, Remediation: Understanding New Media (The MIT Press, 1998)

Wikforss, Åsa, Alternative Facts: On Knowledge and its Enemies (Spring Hill, 2021)

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XX Exchange Xiangshan Park, Taipei, Taiwan Tutor: Shi-Ming, Huang

This project starts with the question of how a community’s image speaks with the rest of the city. Xiangshan park is on the edge of three very different landscapes, all within the Xinyi district. An exchange facility acts as a experience hub for the Xinyi community that helps locals and children of Taipei city better understand the dynamics and variety of the man- made environments.

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preface

Landscapes of Labor, Consume, and Dwell 基地分析

“Modernity is, therefore, always about “creative destruction,” be it of the gentle and democratic, or the revolutionary, traumatic, and authoritarian kind.”

- Paris, Capital of Monernity, Harvey, David

The park of Xiangshan Mountain is the creation of such creative desruction. The XinYi district to its north was established in a grid, modernistic manner, designed to

‘The Ruin Playground”

be “The Manhattan of Taipei”, according to the mayor at

Consume

Labor

Place of pilgrimage for

Landscape of leisure-

Commodity fetishism.

laboring, a field showcasing how men tamed nature.

the time. Old japanese military bases and acres of fields

Dwell

were transformed into the CBD of Taipei city, including

The rythmic pulse of living, these

the highest concentration of department stores in the

places are the most inclusive, relied

world. With XinYi district and Taipei city as a whole con-

on space for daily social events.

tinue to be engulfed by consumerism at a rapid rate, the Elephant Mountain inevitebly became the incubator of glamour hiking, with newly revamped walkways, planted

‘The Pit”

diverse plants that look good in all four seasons, and a metro line that extends to the bottom of the mountain.

People of Taipei rush up the top to look at Taipei city and it’s crown jewel, Taipei 101.

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交易 大廳

FLO OR

P2P 交易

A

交易 所

A Proactive Park

價值 觀

平日 : 中小 學一 周上 課中，挑 選一 天至 教育 園區 進行 授課。 +0

The Xiangshan park is a place of social destratification shared by the whole Taipei city. Everyone can come

去階 級化 的活 動場

當日 課程 結束 後錢 包將 會歸 零。

here to seek what they desire, and when they do, dif-

+500

所，所 有的 誘惑、勞

ferent desires start to collide and old values morph into

假日 : 成人 可自 由參 與。 教室 開放 成w orks hop 或其 他活 動彈 性使 用。 2 1

APP LIE D ARE A 1

5

5 B

2

-６００

3

開放空 間

入場管 制

旁觀者 通道

C

4

勞動

消費

7

生活

黑市

8 9

the respective events and values they represent start to

合。

react, exchanges start to happen, and residents became

1

空間 特質

of this environment.

黑市

B

7

滿

not only the audience, participant, but also the manager

明市

C

交易大 廳

6

6 +0

苦、成 就在 這裡 會

extracted, reinterpreted, and inserted into the park. Here,

+300

SPA CIA L REL ATI ON SHI P 3 4

-500

new ones. Three distinctive landscapes were extended,

勞

+300

+300

2

3

4

10

-250

1

室內公 共空間

－５００

戶外劇場

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里民 活動中心

+300

攀岩場 展覽場

+0

B1F Plan

0

A

10(m)

1F Plan

工地

0

10(m)

4 exhibition

2 rock climbing

5 shop

classroom

3 exchange hall

6 plaza

2 open theater

5 rock climbing

9 recpetion

3 community

6 cafe’

10 library

7 exhibition

11 garden

center

4 construction field

cafe’ 教室

2F Plan

圖書館 櫃台

1 entrance

1 community

工地教室

社區教室

8 school classroom

1 community classroom 2 office

花園

花園教室

0

10(m)

3 exhibition

Nuetral

4 library

Labor Consume Dwell

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幣

黑市

合。空 間特 消質 費地景

PRO G RA MS

勞動 地景

Exchange Mechanism

WORKS H ANG E

易所黑市 轉換價值:

動場

P R O G RAM MS E 空 間特質CONSU

L ABOR

參與時間... 領取虛擬代幣 O OR

勞動地景

勞力換取報 酬，為

黑市 滿足生活的 必要。

裡會 化的活動 場 予

勞動 生活 的誘惑、勞 P2P交易 在這裡 會

未必等值 勞 力換取報酬，為

獲 得奢 侈 品 的 滿 足

工的 地建 教 立，穩 室 歸屬感

展覽

望 獲得奢侈品的滿足 Labor

工地教 室 間。 歸屬感的建 立，穩

展覽

F LOOR

勞動地景 - meet living needs

F LO OR

交易所 大廳 P2P交易 質 orkshop或其他活動彈性使用。 價 值觀

未必等值

勞動 地EXC 景H AN GE

價值觀

無規則限制

去 階 級 化的活動場

所，所 有的誘惑、勞

EXCHA NG E

苦、成 就在這裡會

合。 課中，挑選一天至教育園區進行授課 。 - Centralized exchange - Black market, direct

後錢包將會歸零。 system

FLOOR

空間特質 person to person

勞力換取報酬，為 F LO O R

滿足生活的必要。 交易所

L價值觀 ABOR

去階級化的活動場 勞動地景

所，所有的誘惑、勞 展 覽酬，為 工地教 室 交易所 去階級化 的活 動場 勞 力換 取 報 市 value 黑市 與。 教室開放成workshop或其他活動彈性使用 苦、成就在這裡會 -明 fixed exchange 。 合。 - self determined value 所，所有的 誘 惑、勞 滿 足生 活 的 必 要。 展覽 工地教室 價 值觀

交易大廳 黑市

工地教室 空間特質

SPACIAL RE LAT ION S H I P

苦、成就在這裡 會 合。

市

交換

等值

限制

苦、成就在這裡會 PRO G RA MS 空 間特質 花園 教室 合。

價值觀

去階級化的 活 動 場

勞 力 換 取 報 酬，為

花園教室 苦、成就在 這 裡 會 Exchange空 間特質 Standard 所，所有的 誘 惑、勞 合。

E XCHANGE FLOOR

Hall 交易所

空間特質

價值觀

去階級化的活動場

用。

花園教室

生活

滿 足 生 活 的 必 要。

感、表 現自我的慾

CO N S U M E 望

L A BO R

勞動地景

消費地景

Market

勞 力 換 取 報 酬，為

獲 得 奢 侈品的滿足

Black Market

DWELL

生活地景

歸屬感的建立，穩

劇場

定的社交、個人空 間。

工地教室

獲得奢侈品的滿足

歸 屬感的建立，穩

望

間。

所，所 有 的 誘 惑、勞 highschool 滿 足 生 活 的 必 要。and感、表 現 自 我 的 慾 students 定 的社交、個人空 Weekdays: Junior elementary 苦、成就 在 這 裡 會 合。

cunduct a day of its weekly scheduled classes at the

黑市

CO N S U M E

未必等值

圖書館

XC H A NG E L ABOR 無規則限制 Weekends: Adults can E participate wth children. Class工地教室

展覽

生DWE 活 L地 L 景 劇 場

CONS U M E

DW E L L

獲得奢侈品的滿足 勞動地景 感、表現自我的慾 望

F LO O R 勞動地景 room will be used for open workshops or other events. 交易所 花 園教室 劇場 餐廳 花園教室 劇場 價值觀

Consume CON SUME - luxury satisfaction 消費地景 - desire to impress 餐廳

花園教室

DW E LL

消 花費 園地 教景 室CONSUME

L AB O R

歸屬感 的 建 立，穩 消費地景

生活地景

定 的 社 交、個 人 空 間。

花園教 室

勞力換取報酬，為 消費地 獲得奢侈品的滿足 景

劇場

Construction field

歸屬感的建立，穩 生 活 地&景 定的社交、個人空 Exhibition 間。

感、表現自我的慾 獲 得 奢圖 侈書 品館 的 滿足 歸 屬 感 的 建 立，穩 望

滿足生活的必要。

感、表現圖書 自我 慾書 館 館的圖 望

展覽

獲得奢侈品 的 滿 足 感、表現自 我 的 慾 工地教室 望劇場

花園教室

餐廳 餐廳

展覽 展覽

圖書館 工地教室

空間特質

展覽 地zero 教 室after the day ends. institute. Tokens will reset工to

人-人 交換

市

劇場

生活地景

間。

Dwell 明市 黑市 去階級化的活動場 勞力換取報酬，為 旁觀者通道 E XC H A N GE L A BO R CO N SUME DW ELL - sense of belonging 交易大廳 勞動 F LO O R 動 地 景誘惑、勞 消 費地景 生活地景 所，所勞有的 滿足生活的必要。 黑市 stable social space 交易 所 PRO G RAMS

消費

消費地景

EXCHA NG E 人-人 交換 交易所望L ABO R

教育園區進行授課。

旁觀者 通 道

定 的 社 交、個 人 空

E XCH AN GE L ABOR CON SUME DWELL 無規則限制 消費 - reward through labor 定的社交、個 人 空 滿 足生活的必要。 感、表現自我的慾 黑市

給予 P R獲得 O G RAMS

TI O N S H I P

生活 地 景

感、表現 自 我 的 慾

人-人 交換

參與活動

DW E L L

消費地景

入場資格、物資、參與時間...

消費 惑、勞

生活地景

DWELL

生活地景

劇場

展覽 餐廳

劇場

定 的 社 交、個 人 空

圖書館

圖書館 餐廳

餐廳

Library & Garden

間。

歸 屬 感 的 建 立，穩 定 的 社 交、個 人 空 間。

圖書館

餐廳

圖書館 圖書館 Rock Climbing

Exhibition

&

&

Theater

Library

餐廳

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Social Housing Zhong-Hsin Village Social Housing Tou Cheng, Yilan, Taiwan project info ZhongHsin Village, Beitou, Taiwan Tutor: Gi-Fu, Wu

The population structure of Taiwan is facing a major shift in the past two decades, with elders soon occupying 30 percent of our total population. This major shift has given rise to elders living alone, nuclear families, single parents, and young individuals struggling to aquire homes.

In this context, social housings in the current age not only have to accomodate young adults without enough savings, but also elders and minorities that are abandoned by society, all in the meantime create a friendly environment for communities to thrive, demonstrating humanitarianism values to the society.

Once a temporary village housing military personnel and their families, ZhongHsin Village is one of many villages like it that are slowly being abandoned. With the village gradually taking on a new role as a tourist site, welcoming new businesses and artists into the village, the social housing project attempts to create an inclusive, dynamic community that will thrive with the village in the future as a whole while demonstrating new possibilities for all ages and groups living together.

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Cluster Composition

1 Elder

Nuclear Family

Young Adult

- Core of each cluster

- Exlusive cluster

- With 3-4 young adults form a struc-

- Offer support to each other

- With 2-3 families form a supportive

ture similar to a family

relationship

- inclusive and flexible lifestyle

Type A

Type B

Type C

Elders offer young adults strong

Elders look after the children, pro-

Young Adults can infiltrate into nu-

connection with the rest of the

vide safety and company, acting as

clear families as lubricant, take on

5. gym

community.

the interface between children and

the task of education and stimulate

6. open theater

Young adults offer elders physical

the outer world.

energy within families.

7. reception

assistance and company, contribute

Nuclear families can for a more sta-

Nuclear families offer young adults

to elders’ self-identification.

ble mutual assisting relationship..

material assistance, helping them

2

3

4

5 6

7

1. public plaza 8

2. nursery entrance 3. bakery 4. community classroom

1F Plan 0

3(m)

establish confidence and sense of security.

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1

1. reading stair 2. living room

2

3.resting stair

9

4. atrium

10

5. public kitchen 3

4

6. dining space 7. hot spring 8. terrace 6

5

7

8

9. storage 10. lounge 2F Plan 0

2(m)

Vertical Village DN

The three types of clusters were scattered on the plan

7

6

then stacked vertically. Public spaces were inserted

1

4F Plan DN

tionship similar to the context it is situated- an organically

3 5

between clusters, together, form a tightly gripped rela-

grown village, where the events that bring the the com-

2

munity together take place.

Public spaces are connected vertically, acting as a central hub for residential floors, with the ground floor 3F Plan

opening to the public, the site becomes a supporting role to the tourism of the ZhongHsin Village.

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The Bounded Edge— 結界 Taipei Tech Campus, Taipei, Taiwan Tutor: Shi-Kung, Hung

The garden beside A-Shuei Square is in a rectangular shape, the openings on the north and east side form a L shape passage, which is the main entrance and exit of the garden. The stone tables and chairs of the north opening form a space of leisuring. The east side of the garden neighbors with the Red Building, creating a slit inbetween.

We built a set of frames along the diagonal line of the garden, cut the garden in half, thus created three different spaces: north of the frame, inside the frame, and east of the frame. When people try to pass through the frames from one space to another, the “wings” above flaps gently, hinting people of different spaces that although separated, these three spaces are somehow connected by the involvement of human activities.

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Songs of the Wanderers — A Book House in Laomei Xiangshan Park, Taipei, Taiwan Tutor: Yin-Lin, Yeh

Space offers the place for events to happen, but what contributes to the “sense of place”? We often describe our experience with a place with how we feel at the moment of ”when walking along...” or ”when climbing over...” something or somewhere. We weren’t talking about the architecture itself, not even the space itself, but only reacting through them as an interface.

This project aims to develop the “sense of place” of Laomei beach, starting with sensing the sites atmosphere, character, structure, sequence, pattern, time...then reinterpreting this sense into tangible space as a response to the unique context of the site.

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The landscape of Laomei beach is always in the action of layering. These layers consist of four: the fierce wind, the violent waves, the sand, and the windbreaks.

These layers constantly intefere with each other, with wind being the main driving force, forming the Laomei beach as we know it.

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NE Elevation

1. audio book listening

5. book shelves

2. reading space

6. staff office

3. bathroom

7. storage

SW Elevation

A-A’ Section

4. kids reading area

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