Yiyang Liao_Portfolio

Portfolio 2019-2023 Yiyang Liao

Yiyang Liao

+1 6187978918 yl5427@columbia.edu https://issuu.com/yiyangliao1208/docs/yiyang_liao_portfolio

Skills

Education

Technical Skills

Columbia University, USA 2023 - 2024 Master of Science in Advanced Architecture Design

Rhino, Grasshopper, Sketchup, Revit, AutoCAD, Lumion, Vray, Enscape, Twinmotion, Adobe Creative Suite

Language Skills English, Mandarin, Cantonese

School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA 2019 - 2022 Master of Architecture with an Emphasis in Interior Architecture

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Huaxia Bank (Professional Work)

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Empowering Sex Workers In Tokyo (Academic Work)

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The City Pavilion (Academic Work)

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Guangzhou Museum (Professional Work)

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Rushan Museum (Competition Work)

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Other Works

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Fine Art Works

• New Artist Society Scholarship • SAIC Graduate Show 2 (Artist/Show Installation, 2022)

Beijing University of Technology, China 2015 - 2019 Bachelor of Fine Art in Environment Design • GPA: 3.81/4.00

Work Experience Designer Intern, gmp Architects, Beijing Jan - May 2023 • Collaborated on multiple commercial architectural projects, actively engaging in SD, DD, and CD phases.

• Completed operational planning, construction modeling, and section drawings.

• Assisted presentation delivery with partner office.

Designer Intern, Guo Ban Er (Christian Taeubert's Office), Beijing Jul - Aug 2021 • Contributed to the early-stage renovation of a concrete factory, including functional mapping, axonometric diagrams, and plan drawings in SD period.

• Maintained organization and presentation materials, ensuring effective communication within the team.

Interior Design Intern, Beijing Lvfenglin Real Estate Consulting Jan- Aug 2019 • Led the design of a multi-function exhibition cafe, which received recognition as a finalist in the company.)

• Skillfully implemented designs through material selection and a refined color palette.

Assistant Interior Designer, Libeiya Construction Engineering Apr - Jun 2018 • Supported the Interior Design Director in a villa renovation project, contributing conceptual models and interior layout designs in SD, DD phases.

• Delivered impactful presentations to an audience of four as a speaker assistant.

Extracurricular Experience Graphic Design & Social Media Administration, PEEL Digital Journalism 2023 • Publishing and designing post facing all Columbia GSAPP communities

Volunteer, Institute of Classical Architecture & Art event Nov 2021 • Serving 90+ attendants by checking in and assisting with the Venue layout

The Huaxia Bank Professional Project: Office Site: Beijing, China Area: 119,966 m² / 129,130,3 sq ft Project Manager:Jinying Sui Team: Chengcheng Zhai, Xiajun Song, Jiaxin Wang Contribution: 3D model detailing, Plan Drawing, Section, Construction Drawing, Interior Design gmp Architekten, 2023

Following on the completion of the Asia Financial Center & AIIB Headquarters in 2019, the Huaxia Bank Headquarters represents another prestigious bank headquarters in Beijing based on a design by gmp. The meandering structure with two high points contains three atriums and aligns itself with a central transverse axis. This axis connects the area to the urban space in the west and to the headquarters’ rambling, C-shaped park that borders the building on three sides. The three-story, symmetrical base interlinks all functions and enables their flexible and equitable arrangement.

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Construction Drawing

Site Plan

40x50 Wooden Handrail Thread

8x50 Metal 8x50 Metal Wire Thread 8x50 Metal

40x50 Wooden Handrail 8x50 Metal with Silver Coverage Thread

Down

Up

Guidence Detail Design to Staircase Staircasse Floorplan 1:25

Section 1-1 1:10

Rendering

Restroom A_Section 1-1 1:50

Restroom A_Section 2-2 1:50

Restroom A_Section 3-3 1:50

Restroom A_Section 4-4 1:50

Circulation Analysis Restroom A_Flooring 1:50

Restroom A_Section 5-5 1:50

Restroom A_Ceiling 1:50

Isometric: Entrances and Circulations

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Staircase and Restroom

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Restroom A_Section 6-6 1:50

Restroom A_Section 7-7 1:50

Main Section

The building is divided into upper and lower parts, with the upper part connected to the main and auxiliary towers through a horizontally extending suspension. This upper part serves as the core office area for official business, while also providing a pleasant connection to the roof terraces and the nearby riverside green belt.

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Eco-friendly Facade System

- The exterior of the striped office space is distinguished by a climate-responsive double-layer facade. This innovative design incorporates sun shading elements and concealed internal recesses to facilitate natural ventilation.

- The double curtain wall system employs an extensive glass surface area to optimize natural lighting, all while delivering exceptional performance. This design not only attains impressive insulation values but also contributes significantly to lowering the project’s overall energy consumption.

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Active Curtain Wall Summer Status

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Active Curtain Wall Winter Status

Empowering Sex Workers In Tokyo Individual Project Site: Tokyo, Japan Advisor: Andres Hernandez, Charlie Pipal, Hennie Reynders, Paul Dolick, Tristan d’Estree Sterk, Monika Thadhani School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 2022

The urban fabric of neighborhoods in Tokyo’s red districts are remnants of a male-dominant society and post-war city-building policies and formats that are distinctly hierarchical, exclusionary, and unfriendly towards the female body and diversity in general. As the majority of the Tokyo red districts, female sex workers are intentionally hidden and erased from the main urban structure. The architectural typologies and the material assemblages that created these typologies ignore and often hide the realities of marginalized groups in a society where the masculine desire exerts control over the fear of the female or the other.hkjkhk The proposed city structure creates an automatic system for sex workers who wish to abandon their former engagements and start new careers. In this system, buildings are classified into three catalogs based on their functions and sizes: - A multi-functional learning center as the size large - Spreading daycare centers as the size medium - An online supporting app as the size small

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Site Map: Taido, Tokyo

Existing Street Analysis: Dote Dori Elevation A-A

Decorative Window without Opening Colored Façade

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Existing Brothel Analysis Decorative Window without Opening

120’’

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Smoking Room

Restroom

64’’

Showering Room

Highly Decorated Door

75’’

Third Floor Smoking Room

Foyer Decorative Window without Opening Single 75’’ 40’’ Bed

Proposed New System

Education

Brothels

Commercial

Main Roads

35’’ 36’’

120’’

Shower

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Second Floor

Single Room for a sex worker

Restroom

Daily Commutes

Taitō is a special ward located in Tokyo Metropolis, Japan. Compared to the extravagance of Ginza, Taito City has become synonymous with affordability when it comes to the sex industry. When people search for Taito’s fuzokuten, many pages attract tourists with their services and prizes.

However, behind the prosperity of the regional sector, it has come at the cost of exploiting females, including single mothers.

Showering Room

35’’

75’’

Resident

Main Railways

Restroom

Decorative Window without Opening 110’’

Activity Space Single Bed 150’’

Daycare Space for Kids

Ground Floor

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Why Joined Sex Industries?

Why Joined Sex Industries?

After analyzing the reasons and results of women choosing to enter the sex industry, I believe that society should provide them with options to work in other jobs when they want to exit the industry. Then, community centers should be set up to learn skills not far from their daily activities.

At the same time, a childcare center interspersed between the fuzokuten place and the community would allow the next generation of sex workers to grow up in an open and healthy environment, and sex workers who have learned professional skills could go to work in the childcare center.

An app connects these institutions, and people can check course and employment information through the app. Women who wish to quit the industry can also apply to participate in the maintenance and management of the app.

What Can The New System Do?

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Daycare (M)

Daycare (M) Learning Center (L)

Daycare (M)

Job Searching (S)

New Urban System Axonometric (L, M and S sizes.)

Learning Center Axonometric (L size.)

First Stage: Raising

Second Stage: Infiltration

Third Stage: Occupation

Soft Infiltration Three-Stages Development

The second architectural part of this urban system is a daycare system that infringes on the original red-light district. In the initial phase, the new structure existed only between two prostitutes. As time progressed, the building was expanded to include the roofs of two prostitutions in the second phase. In the third and most erosive stage, the new system occupies the prostitution’s top floor. We assume that as time progresses and more women enter to work in this spontaneous system, there will be a corresponding decrease in the number of people working in the sex industry.

The City Pavilion Group Project with Ammar Rassai Site: Coney Island, NY Advisor: David Eugin Moon Columbia University, GSAPP, 2023 Pavilions are aspirational building typologies: a reflection of the constructional form of wandering and nomadic cultures, the opposite of settlement. Derived from the latin word ‘papilio’ meaning butterfly, it was first officially designed to be fleeting and transitional. While they often masquerade as modest or innocuous amusement, they are highly rhetorical and discursive objects of design.

The Coney Island of the 1960s and 70s would become known for its high levels of crime, arson, and racial unrest. Moreover, Coney Island lacks any truly public space for its residents apart from the boardwalk and the beach, most of which caters to its five million visitors each year.

Our designs strive to intervene at the nodes at which three or more racial groups or ethnicities co-exist alongside Mermaid Avenue.

Through these “little infrastructures”, equipped with moving parts and intersectional programs, we create space for unprecedented inter-communal interaction. We treat the street as the true leveler of urban space: one which warrants use without force. Through the operatives of distortion, extension, rotation, translation and convergence we transform the sidewalk and adjoining defunct plots to create urban spaces endowed with complimentary programs triangulated to existing ones.

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ASPIRATION & ARCHITECTURE

In the ancient Roman Empireand bevondthese acquired the name ’butterflies’papilioin Latin, from which theFrenchpavillonmodernderives.

This was possibly onaccount of their fleetingappearance in the landscapeand the way that theircanopies appeared to flap inthe breeze.

As it enters palatial gardensvilla parks and country estates, however, the pavilion is stillvery much tied to power andwealth,as well as to land andterritorialclaims.

BIG WORLDS UNDER LITTLE TENT

They served as lodges, boathouses, gazebos, seats, pergolas, stages, bandstands, conservatories, Amidst he aviaries and classical revivcabinets. al, pavilions now took on the character of more permanent fixtures in the landscape.

With modernity came the evolution of an entirely different species of pavilion. This was inseparable from a new culture of exhibition, of spectatorship and spectacle – of the kind that turned all and sundry into consumers.

In modernist circles, the pavilion became a laboratory for experimentation and for showcasing new forms, materials or techniques. It became a work of pure architecture, dressed up as a housing prototype or model factory. .

Mermaid Avenue Axonometric

Perspective: Informal Market (GIF)

Perspective: Community Center (GIF)

Perspective: Informal Exhibition (GIF)

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Guangzhou Museum Internship Project: National Museum Site: Guangzhou, China Area: 818,07 m² / 880,563 sq ft Project Manager: Jinying Sui Team: Chengcheng Zhai, Xiajun Song, Jiaxin Wang Contribution: 3D model detailing, Plan Drawing, Section gmp Architekten, 2023

The design for the Guangzhou Museum includes a reference to the historic Chigang Pagoda, which lies to the north of the building towards the Pearl River. The height of the northern end of the museum will be limited to 18 m, thus respecting the importance of the historic tower building, gradually rising towards the south to a total height of 40 m. This creates a roof terrace facing the Pagoda, which is accessible to the public via external staircases/ramps and, in addition to serving the museum, provides a view to the impressive skyline of the city to the north of the Pearl River.

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Section of the Museum

Site Plans

Axonometric of the Museum and Plaza

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Mountain Poetry

Group Competetion Project with Xueqi Zhang Site: Rushan, China Columbia University, GSAPP, 2023 Rushan, nestled in the southeastern embrace of the Shandong Peninsula, unfolds with a coastline that dances and curves, revealing numerous natural havens and the striking interplay of mountains and bays. Here, the waters gracefully cascade from the heights, b stowing upon us the gift of gentle stratification, cradling our mus um project within.

Our design ethos draws its essence from Rushan’s profound mate nal culture. The name “Rushan” itself evokes grandeur and the divine, intimately woven into the tapestry of motherhood. Much like Rushan’s proximity to the sea, myriad rivers and streams converge here, flowing onward and, in time, returning to the embrace of the ocean. This natural rhythm mirrors a mother’s boundless love, ete nally intertwined between giver and receiver.

Our museum project finds its heart in Rushan’s culture of maternal love, with the goal of conveying this enduring and interconnected concept. Through the architecture’s graceful form, the narratives within, and interactive experiences, we shall unveil the singular cha acter of the Rushan region and the profound symbolism of maternal love. Our aspiration is to craft a space that serves as an intellectual, inspirational, and community-nurturing sanctuary.

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PG 5

Main Museum 1.Foyer 2.Atrium 3.Exhibition 4.Café 5.Outdoor Rest Area 6.Multi Function Room 7.Toilets 8.Elevator 9.Technical Rooms 10.Storage

PG 5

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Office And Living Building 11.Offices 12.Kitchen 13.Bedrooms 14.Toilets

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Upper Level

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Ground Level Museum Level 1

Museum Level 2

PG 5

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Roof 3.00M Upper Level -6.00M

Museum Roof 8.00M Mezzanine Floor 5.50M Museum Level 2 4.50M

Main Museum Front Elevation 1:200

Ground Level -9.40M

Office And Living Building Front Elevation 1:200

Museum Level 1 0.00M

Main Museum Side Elevation

Museum Roof 8.00M Mezzanine Floor 5.50M

Site Plan 1:1000

Museum Level 2 4.50M Museum Level 1 0.00M

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Main Museum SECTION 1:200

Interior Space Render

Spatial Diagram

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Exterior Space Render

Perspective: Rushan Museum and Community Theater

Perspective: Exhibition Space

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Deconstructing the Bathhouse

Other Works

Individual Project Site: Chicago, IL Advisor: Carl Ray Miller School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Fall, 2020

Perspective: Mountain Aven House - Academic Project at Columbia University (Mild Aven Area)

Perspective: Mountain Aven House - Academic Project at Columbia University (Tropical Area) 46

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The Chinese Immigration Center

Retrieve the Low Efficiency

Individual Project Site: New York City Advisor: Peng Ye Studio Alpha Open Project 222, August, 2022

Individual Project Site: Chicago, IL, USA Advisor: Paul Dolick School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Spring, 2021

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#Me Too

Reflection(s)

Fine Art Project: Weaving structure Advisor: Danielle Andress School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Fall, 2021

Fine Art Project: Weaving structure Advisor: Danielle Andress School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Fall, 2021

#Me too, 2021, Weaving installation, 24 x 97 in. Photo by Yiyang Liao.

The #MeToo movement was a feminist movement that fought for the inclusivity and fair treatment of women in China, which shed light on sexual violence and rape in China. Unfortunately, China censored its media and prevented its citizens from engaging in any form of the feminist movement, especially the movement against sexual harassment towards women. The truth had been hidden, and the survivors were forced to cover their personal experiences with silence. It takes political and psychological courage to tear up their memory and tell/record the actual story.

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Reflection(s), 2021, Weaving installation, 30 x 103 in. Photo by Yiyang Liao.

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Retention Fine Art Project: Architectural installaion Advisor: Mie Kongo School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Fall, 2020

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Retention, 2020, Ceramic installation, Mixed media, 5 x 7in each.

Photo by Yiyang Liao.

School & Professional Works 2019-2023 yl5427@columbia.edu copyright 2023 by Yiyang Liao all rights reserved.

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