Yifan Liu's portfolio 2021-2024

Selected works from 2021 to 2024 E-mail: archilyf@qq.com

The architectural design skills assists me in implementing my thoughts as an urban designer, and methods of urban design assist me in making architecture more urban.

CONTENT

Warsaw Student Residence Community 01 12/2021 - 06/2022, 3rd Year

To Create an environmentsuitable for young people’s life, career-growth and social networking.

Earth on Earth 02

Research on modern rammed earth construction.

04/2022 - 07/2022, 3rd Year

Bird Living - Bird Watching 03

Architecture serving birds and nature.

02/2022 - 06/2022, 3rd Year

To Be Continued 04

Technology driven urban design of Beijiing First Thermal Power Plant.

01/2024 - 07/2023, 5th Year

The College 05 09/2021 - 12/2021, 3rd Year

Architecture's most unpretentious and traditional design process and presentation.

Stereotomic 06 04/2022 - 09/2023, 4th Year

Architectural design tools based on the ancient stonemason's method of cutting stones.

Learn from Informal 07

A construction model that pays tribute to informal creation.

05/2021 - 10/2021, 2nd Year

Design Practice Project 08 10/2022 - 12/2023,4th-5th Year

Extracurricular design practice in How Programme? from 2022 to 2023.

Warsaw Student Residence Community

Warsaw's buildings were severely damaged after the Second World War, and in order to revive the post-war economy, a large number of factory buildings were built, which nowadays have become the main target for renovation and transformation. A new block of flats, offices and an exhibition centre is proposed for a block of old factory buildings in the Warsaw Dzielnica Praga Północna.The design pays the highest respect to the old factory by designing the new building as a low-profile curtain, presenting the old factory as a sculpture to the city and representing the old factory as the spiritual centre of the neighbourhood.

Honorable Mention

ARCHITECTURE STUDENT CONTEST 2022

First Prize of China Stage

Site: Dzielnica Praga Północna, Warsaw, Poland

Contest, Spring 2022

Instructor: Ren Zhongqi

Team Work | Liuyifan, Liu Shiyu, Yu Zhaoqing

"Hi, I'm Fabio, fresh graduate from University of Warsaw , majored in graphic design."

"I need an apartment to live in."

"I am currently an independent designer and I just need a cheap work place to work."

"Of course, as an ENTP, I really need to socialize frequently!"

"One day I found myself very skilled in the application of bionics in design works."

"I won many small projects and placed my works in the exhibition space, many people began to hear of me."

"Many of them came to visit me in the pub, including my later clients and talented young people who were interested in it."

"We have established a tiny design company to complete more projects on a larger scale, we need a larger space to work together!"

"More young people came upon hearing the news, even taking trains from Warsaw downtown. I hold regular forums for them."

Warsaw, as a region with relatively developed higher education, provides fixed financial support for the work of fresh graduates, ensuring their basic living and work needs. But students still need a relatively concentrated area to handle work, life, and entertainment.

To create an environment suitable for young people’s career growth, life and social networking.

To create a spiritual center to drive the sustainable development of the district.

To create a source to continuously output power to the society.

Analysis of Green Buildings

Prefabricated Assembly System

As a newly constructed building, a minimum environmental pollution strategy is necessary. Secondly, selecting appropriate building materials can help complete the scenario envisioned earlier. This plan adopts the building material selection provided by Saint Gobain®

Prefabricated structural units and on-site assembly greatly reduce construction costs and time. Secondly, we refer to the interior decoration prefabricated module scheme provided by Saint Gobain® to solve problems such as water seepage and sealing from the architectural design level.

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EARTH ON EARTH

ReseaRch on modeRn Rammed eaRth constRuction

Spring 2022, Design Studio

Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture

Instructor: Jiang Wei, Mu Jun

Site: Xuehu Park, Qianshan City, Anhui Province, China

The research results of the structural and spatial prototypes in the previous stage are used to continue to develop and deepen the final architectural design. The way forward is to respond to the requirements of large and small, open and closed, simple and complex spatial organisation by optimising, mutating and replicating the structural and spatial prototypes according to the needs of the site and function. The design and construction of the building specifies that two natural materials, earth and wood, must be used as the primary materials. Students are required to make judgements and define the roles of these two materials in space based on their prior knowledge. At the same time, they need to address and balance the interrelationships of space, function, flow, structure, construction, and ecology.

The process should constantly refine the quality, interest and richness of the space (expression of authenticity, presentation of construction traces). Never lose sight of the observation and perception of matter itself, the exploration of the laws of creation. And understand the different meanings of designing architecture and designing construction. Think about how construction is influencing architectural design.

Timber frame and rammed earth construction was the best match when traditional architecture came into being, and it is the same in modern architecture, but due to the iterative updating of technology, more efficient structural forms, and construction methods are used.

Experiments of Rammed Earth Brick Models

The process of forming the stability of rammed earth structures is experienced through experiments with the manipulation of rammed earth block models, where the ratios of raw earth, gravel, and water are more often than not empirical and do not have specific numerical values due to the different origins of the blocks.

BIRD LIVING - BIRD WATCHING

aRchitectuRe seRving biRds and natuRe

Spring 2022, Design Studio

Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture

Instructor: Jiang Wei, Mu Jun

Site: The River Dee, Chester, UK

Individual Work | Academic

Honorable Mention

Bird Watching in The Chester Meadows 2022 International Competition

" The real essence of all architectural works exists in structural activities. While specific materials are assembled and constructed, our architecture becomes a part of the real world " Peter Zumthor

The Plight of Birds

“We are deeply troubled by the disquieting research published today on the number of birds killed every year in Canada due to human-related activities,” said Ian Davidson, executive director of Nature Canada. “Fortunately, there are concrete and sensible ways that people and governments can prevent the needless death of birds, especially now during the migratory season.”

“There are estimates in North America that a billion birds are killed every year by human activity,” said Paul Pratt, naturalist for WIndsor Parks and Facilities. “Cats and windows are the two you hear about the most. The greatest chance birds have of dying have something to do with our activities.”

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The meadows are rich in biodiversity and offer a fantastic opportunity for designers to challenge themselves and explore their creativity within this sustainable and vernacular We now live in a world where architecture takes valuable resources and causes destruction of the naturalenvironment. We are looking for a design scheme that builds a connection between humans and nature andgives back to our natural surroundings, rather than only taking from them.

Earl’s Eye Meadow

How can humans occupy spaces that inspire harmony with the natural environment? What can we, as designers, do to accomplish this and create architecture that avoids destruction of the natural world while also benefitting our environmental impact? We now live in a world where architecture takes valuable resources and causes destruction of the natural environment. We are looking for a design scheme that builds a connection between humans and nature and gives back to our natural surroundings, rather than only taking from them.

I chose wood structure as the main building material, which is closer to nature and more traditional. Reducing nature's awareness of human activities, hide human activities in the bird watching platform, and let the bird watching platform create a shelter for birds at the same time

Artificially provide a temporary shelter for birds, and place the bird watching platform on the Bank of the River Dee which is also the boundary between the city and nature.

The whole building is overhead and ground, and the concrete foundation is the only place where the building destroys the natural environment. At the same time, since vehicles are not allowed to enter the nature reserve, it is more convenient for building materials to enter the construction site than steel structure.

The space reserved for birds on the first floor and the second floor is just a man-made support for birds and nature. The specific activities of birds, including nesting and staying, are left to birds to give full play to the creativity of nature and develop into a more natural space after completion, and make the whole building more integrated into nature.

From the highest angle, observe the activities of birds in the distance.

From the highest angle, observe the activities of birds in the distance.

Provide a habitat and rest platform for birds near the bird watching platform.

There are different expressions on both sides of the building, and the open side will face the more gentle and open water. The introverted and introverted side faces the land and rocks, which becomes a milestone of natural tenderness and hardness in the section

The three original habitat and living sites of birds, sky, land and water, intervene in the structures at the boundary to provide an additional habitat level for birds. The construction behavior and human activities shall be separated from the ground as far as possible to reduce the damage to nature and birds.

Roof supporting structure

The load-bearing capacity of the roof is small. The beam supporting the roof uses small longitudinal section raw materials and is fixed with angle steel and self tapping screws.

Main bearing structure

The vertical member with the largest load-bearing in the single body is strengthened into four wooden squares, and the connected members are connected by overlapping and locking.

Breast board structure

The timbers and planks are overlapped with each other and connected with a small number of steel members.

Bird habitat structure

Hide the steel member inside the wood member, which is closer to the real nature.

STEREOTOMIC

Summer 2023, Researching Studio

Instructor: Zhang Yunyu, Zhang Shaopeng Individual Work | Academic

Design and build with stone is not simple, but not even impossible. In the past, design and build with stone was very common in the largest part of Europe and Asia. Specially in Europe, stone was (and still is) abundantly available and, consequently, the theoretical and practical competences to design and built with this material were largely diffused. This condition has contributed to its knowledge spread, diffusing a proper constructive culture. Instead, nowadays it is possible to observe the absence of consolidated and communicable cultural design practices on the subject. To be widely known and diffused, the research should be easily comprehensible and widespread, a goal that the complexity of a doctoral research not always can achieve. Moreover, who wants to try to face the design of an innovative stone architecture, has to surely manage a series of themes (form finding, tessellations, etc.) which need a high time consuming to be master properly, time not always adequately available. Consequently, all this early difficulties, could discourage the designer who finishes to fall back on more reassuring and canonical solutions, because of the lack of robust skills on the subject.

Therefore, it is necessary to start from a basic knowledge which must to be as more clear and replicable as possible. In this way, more designers will be encouraged to experiment. It is possible that they could produce imperfect concepts, but however perceptively similar to the correct and optimized version of the project. It is important to point out that in architecture, formal, structural and materiality are only some of the aspects to consider. Because there are many other to investigate, it is important that the design process remains easy to manage but, at the same time, conceptually rigorous. In the early design phases, during the concept development, it is not necessary to produce a “perfect” idea, but it is important to consider all the main elements of the project, in order to be develop it further without major alterations. The aspects to unavoidable consider from the beginning of the conceptual development of stone architecture projects are:

Stereotomic

Stereotomic architecture is the architecture of subtraction or carving away of solid form. The word is derived from the two Greek roots 'stereo' meaning three-dimensional and 'tomos' meaning to cut. It relates to but is not synonymous withe stereometric forms.

Design And Technological Challenges of Stone Architecture

The production of stone architecture faces two relevant challenges: the first is related to theoretical design aspects and the other one is related to technology and fabrication. They are obviously linked, but they must to be faced in two different moments of the design process.

In the past, design and build with stone was very common in the largest part of Europe and Asia. Specially in Europe, stone was (and still is) abundantly available and, consequently, the theoretical and practical competences to design and built with this material were largely diffused.

The operability of stones is the key to ensuring that multiple masons can work together to form a complete work. So even seemingly heterogeneous blocks and surfaces must be based on standard aggregates, cut or spliced as a result.

Stereotomic in Practice

The process of generating the CCTV Headquater by OMA is equally very clear. It starts with a pyramid with a base side of 160 meters x 160 meters and a height of 800 meters. Then it was cut according to the city height limit and skyline design principles. Finally, the top and bottom blocks are cut off to form a final space.

Block Subtraction

The difference set operation between blocks can form a predetermined space within an unknown space. The newly formed surface after cutting can prepare for the next operation.

The cutting of geometric bodies by plates can evenly or unevenly cut the complete body into smaller units of blocks, reducing the unit volume for the next step of space reduction operation.

Standard Geometry

The interaction between standard geometries can enable the final building form to be manually constructed, preventing the limitations of nonlinear design on construction.

30m Floor Plan

Stepped Space

During the interlocking of the blocks, the outer surface of one inclined block enters the interior of the other, and the space enclosed by the intersection of the two inclined surfaces is suitable for a stepped space that can be used for lecturing, scrutinising, and lounging.

Transverse Section

The elevators, egress stairs, and MEP system are all truched into a thin vertical strip along the back edge of the site, so the rest of the footprint can be freed up for a pure geometric & spatial experience.

45m Floor Plan

Light Cone & Cylinder

Subtracting a single light-transmitting cone from the cylindrical assemblage introduces sky light into each level of the space, which reduces the usable area, but for an exchange space this is very

The College

Spring 2022, Design Studio

Beijing

Training in the control of block, slab, and stick from traditional architectural design strategies, and applying the ability to actual architectural design. Requires a thorough understanding of building structures and the logic of the organization of building component construction. Presentation of design solutions in conjunction with ETHz Architectural Education requirements for physical models, hand-drawn drawings, electronic drawings, and renderings.

Formal Investigation of Space

The element type of the space definition determines the type ospace.In a design, elements of unclear or ambiquous type like slablikeblocks, stick-like slabs or block-like sticks, etc. can be used. This also depends on the scale of the element, as building material adds furtherdimensions. Also, various element types and variations might be used in a design.

A block has a mass which can also be interpretedas space and a continuous outer surface. The surfaces and their edaes zone the surrounding space. The space defining element is on the outside of the space. The space defining element is on the outside of the space. Space is perceived throughthe continuous surface surrounding or outlining it, and the zonesformed by convex edges.

A slab has two surfaces and a continuous edge. The surfaces separate two spaces and the edges zone the surroundingspace in two directions. The space defininoelement is between spaces. The space defininoelement is between spaces. Space is perceived in three ways: throughthe overlapping zones formed by the edges, as cearly separated by asurface and as partial enclosures formed by several surfaces.

A stick has only one edge. It forms a locus defining space around it. The space defining element is inside the space. The space defining element is inside thespace. Space is perceived in several different ways, as surrounding astick, as a permeable boundary, as a linear outline and in the accumulation in depth resulting in a differentiation of density.

Handmade models are the most primitive and intuitive method of presenting architectural design, even in today's world of rapid computer software development, this design process cannot be omitted. In this process, I can intuitively feel the structure, the logic of construction and the presentation of design elements.

Learn From Informal 07

Summer 2021, Fair of Making First Prize

Instructor: Wang Tao, Gan Zhenkun, Yu Hao Team Work

Liu Yifan · Kang Muhua · Cai Yikui · Luo Junjiang · Wen Qi

Xu Hantao · Yan Zhaojian · Yan Jiarong · Zhou Zheng · Zhang Yanzhao

Learn From Informal

One of the initial concepts of "Learn From Informal" was informal folk creation, which is very common in urban villages or rural areas. We cannot fully summarize it as the architectural techniques in the village, which is the literal meaning of "mountain village"; Secondly, in Chinese, the informal means of creating that we learn and pay tribute to are often referred to as' shanzhai ', which is the second meaning of' shanzhai '; Thirdly, the intricate and slender horizontal and vertical shapes of the characters "Shan" and "Zhai" resemble the structural organization of scaffolding steel pipes we use.

Section Self-circulating Water and Electricity System

We have introduced a complete set of self circulating water and electricity system for "Shanzhai". In order to save material costs, all the electricity required for the power equipment comes from a hand operated generator, and is transmitted to the electric lights and atomization irrigation equipment through specially prepared wires in the red conduit. The pre designed sloping and organized drainage system at the top of the "Mountain & Village" collects rainwater through eaves pipes into the bottom water collection tank of the building. In addition to irrigation through nozzles, the weight of the entire tank serves as the foundation of the building to maintain the stability of the "Mountain & Village".

N27 · SSS · POPUP

Facade design, Hardcover Design, Furniture Design

Aranya, Hebei, China

Due to the nature of the restaurant's flash mob, the entire restaurant's cost control was very strict, the facade was simply treated, with the addition of an air-retracting film header, the entire restaurant's tone was positioned in grass-green, to bring a touch of Dalian's physical and mental coolness to visitors to the Anaya Auditorium in 2023.

N27 · JIU · 扌禾火

Facade design, Hardcover Design, Furniture Design

Aranya, Hebei, China

CLAY COLOSSEUM COURT ECRIVAIN BOUTIQUE

Masterplanning, Landscape Design, Frontage Design, Seating Design

Aranya, Hebei, China

N27 is a family-run restaurant business, in which KV acts as the designer to control the design effect for each store, and I act as the design assistant to help KV to complete the design landing match, which will be presented in the summer of 2023.

The Anaya VII community is a vibrant and emerging neighborhood, and on the north side of the old park, we designed a sunken 700mm red clay court in a waterfront location, partnering with international red clay court brand, Tianjiao Sports, to complete the design of the entire site.

The entire DU project space is dominated by light grey tones, so in the ECRIVAIN store space a Pantone color called spring pear matte light yellow was chosen as the color of the additional panel wall, wanting to make the transition between the inner and outer space more natural and soft.