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Chia Wei Liao EDUCATION WORK EXPERIENCE LANGUAGES TECHNICAL EXPERIENCE Master of Architecture, 2011 University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Merit Scholar Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, 2007 National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan University of Pennsylvania PennDesign IT August 2008 – May 2011 Student IT Assistant - Assisted faculty and students with computer software needs and plotting question MVS Architects Shanghai Office Designer - Met with potential clients. - Communicated with clients and consultants. - Produced digital models, diagrams , renderings and architecture drawings. - Produced digital models, diagrams , renderings and architecture drawings. - Provided computer software (Scripting, Rhinocer, Grasshopper) trainings. Axis Mundi Design Studio June 2010 – August 2010 Aug 2011 – Oct 2011 Summer Intern - Aided in the computer rendering as an in-house renderer. - Aided in conceptual stages to production of a competition. Mandarin (Tranditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese) Native English Fluent Japanese SOFTWARE Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Access, FrontPage Adobe Suite Rhinoceros Grasshopper Autodesk CAD, Revit, Maya, 3D MAX Maxwell Rendering Software Vray Rendering Software 4528 Walnut Street Apt.D31 • Philadelphia, PA19139 267-266-2863 [email protected] FELLOWSHIP & SCHOLARSHIP AWARDS E. Lewis Dales Portfolio Competition 2010 Award Winner E. Lewis Dales Traveling Fellowship 2010 AIA West Jersey Design Fellowship 2011 AIA West Jersey Design Competition 2011 Second Place eVolo Skyscraper Competition 2011 Finalist PUBLISHED PROJECTS Dezeen September 20th, 2010 Conceptual extension to Whitney Museum of American Art by Axis Mundi Architizer January 3rd, 2011 Top Projects 2010: Whitney Museum of American Art by Axis Mundi PennDesign Student Work Book 2010 - 2011 August, 2011 ARCH 701 Rahim Studio: Urban Swirl eVolo June 20th, 2011 Strasbourg Cathedral / Axis Mundi eVolo Limited Edition Book August, 2011 Urban Swirl ArchDaily September 22nd, 2010 Alternative to Piano’s Whitney Museum / Axis Mundi EXHIBITION Green, Urban, Global: Architecture and Design by Philadelphia's Design Schools Philadelphia Center of Architecture, February 7 - March 3, 2011 Tokyo Design Week: Architecture : University of Pennsylvania Design School Ali Rahim Studio Meiji Jingu Gaien, Tokyo, November 1st - 6th, 2011 SketchUp

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Chia Wei Liao

EDUCATION

WORK EXPERIENCE

LANGUAGES

TECHNICAL EXPERIENCE

Master of Architecture, 2011University of Pennsylvania, PhiladelphiaMerit ScholarBachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, 2007National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan

University of Pennsylvania PennDesign IT August 2008 – May 2011Student IT Assistant - Assisted faculty and students with computer software needs and plotting question

MVS Architects Shanghai OfficeDesigner- Met with potential clients.- Communicated with clients and consultants.- Produced digital models, diagrams , renderings and architecture drawings.

- Produced digital models, diagrams , renderings and architecture drawings.

- Provided computer software (Scripting, Rhinocer, Grasshopper) trainings.

Axis Mundi Design Studio June 2010 – August 2010

Aug 2011 – Oct 2011

Summer Intern- Aided in the computer rendering as an in-house renderer.- Aided in conceptual stages to production of a competition.

Mandarin (Tranditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese) Native

English FluentJapanese

SOFTWARE Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Access, FrontPage

Adobe Suite Rhinoceros

GrasshopperAutodesk CAD, Revit, Maya, 3D MAXMaxwell Rendering SoftwareVray Rendering Software

4528 Walnut Street Apt.D31 • Philadelphia, [email protected]

FELLOWSHIP & SCHOLARSHIP

AWARDS

E. Lewis Dales Portfolio Competition 2010 Award Winner

E. Lewis Dales Traveling Fellowship 2010 AIA West Jersey Design Fellowship 2011

AIA West Jersey Design Competition 2011 Second Place

eVolo Skyscraper Competition 2011 Finalist

PUBLISHED PROJECTS

Dezeen

September 20th, 2010

Conceptual extension to Whitney Museum of American Art by Axis Mundi

Architizer January 3rd, 2011Top Projects 2010: Whitney Museum of American Art by Axis Mundi

PennDesign Student Work Book 2010 - 2011 August, 2011ARCH 701 Rahim Studio: Urban SwirleVolo June 20th, 2011Strasbourg Cathedral / Axis Mundi

eVolo Limited Edition Book August, 2011Urban Swirl

ArchDaily September 22nd, 2010Alternative to Piano’s Whitney Museum / Axis Mundi

EXHIBITION

Green, Urban, Global: Architecture and Design by Philadelphia's Design SchoolsPhiladelphia Center of Architecture, February 7 - March 3, 2011

Tokyo Design Week: Architecture : University of Pennsylvania Design School Ali Rahim StudioMeiji Jingu Gaien, Tokyo, November 1st - 6th, 2011

SketchUp

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Instead of traditional categorized program organization, we propose a new concept of “Program Intensity”. The “Program Intensity” that we defi ne in this project refer the intensity of the program activities. The new concept creates swirling programs and tie up the program with the overall site organization.Starting from the edge of the site, the program intensity gets stronger as the program swirls into the buildings. The program intensity change in accordance to the rotation speed as it speeds up or slows down.

Swirling Programs

In a metropolitan context like Tokyo ,Urban Swirl seek to provide various experience through space in dif-ferent architectural form, and yet different forms are synchronize in a larger scale to complete the ‘whole’. Urban Swirl examine the opportunity to connect the vertical with the horizontal space by building connec-tions in between towers, as well as building connection between the towers and the site plane. In such way, it allows the building complex to be more connected with the rest of the city. In this project, we offer a design of a ‘cluster’ of buildings which compose of three major towers and the con-nections between them. On a site size of 360,000 square feet, it serves multiple programs including cultural, recreational, business and residential. The complex itself is in fact a ‘mini city’.

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Street View

Metro Station

Building Connection

Grand Entrance

Public Plaza

Outdoor Theather

Metro Station

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The bottom of the building is more ‘loosen’ and space is opened up to accommodate public pro-grams.

More vigorous rotation, partitions are built along with the space. Individual rooms are created.

At the top, the smallest diameter of the building becomes an observatory to view out the city.

Space starts to tighten up, public space shrinks, level of fl oors become more distinguished

Urban Swirl

Nested Urban Formations

The connections between the buildings and the site serve as a buffer between the towers and the cities. It provides a smooth transition from vertical space in the tower to the horizontal space on the site. It creates a new multi-layered experience of city life. In such a vast building complex, monolithic experience should be avoided. In particular part of the building complex, different formal language is applied to accommodate program needs. Urban Swirl seek to provide various experience through space through different architectural form, and yet different forms are synchronize in a larger scale to complete the ‘whole’. The part to whole relationship is a major emphasize in this project.

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The existing museum is a 1960s concrete building by Marcel Breuer and Axis Mundi claim the extension’s exposed concrete frame would be a continuation of Breuer’s bru-talist aesthetic. The extension would have an irregular fl oor plan confi gured around sight lines that look towards landmarks such as the Empire State Building. The design concept inherits this idea but extends it further. It becomes offspring of the original design concept, just like it will serve as the extention of the Whiteny Museum.

Design director: John Beckmann / Design team: Andy Van, Dennis Pereira / Rendering: Chia Wei LiaoJohn Beckmann / Design team: Andy Van, Dennis Pereira / Rendering: Chia Wei Liao

Whitney Museum DowntownConceptual Extension Project with Axis Mundi

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A desire for column-free galleries led the architects to create a perimeter su-perstructure to contain the staircases, escalators, elevators, and mechancal rooms. this structural lattice allows the galleries to fl oat freely, suspended like bridges, unimpeded by a typical grid structure. the lattice allows light to fl ood the building in unexpected and dramatic ways, heightening the visitor’s per-ception of the artwork and the city.

Design director: John Beckmann/Design team: Andy Van, Dennis Pereira/Rendering: Chia Wei Liao

Whitney Museum DowntownWConceptual Extension Project with Axis MundiC

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The folded church is an conceptual proposal for an Christrinality church located at a historical public square. Inspired by folded paper, seven folds stand on a tradi-tional imprinted mideavel cathedral footprint. A ramp slowly sinks down into the ground and guides people into the sublime space. Inspired by natural geography of basalt columns, the altar creates a city of god and also a solemn space for people to worship and pray.

Conceptual Project with Axis Mundi

Design director: John Beckmann / Design team: Chia Wei Liao, Masaru Ogasawara / Rendering: Chia Wei Liao

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QINHUANGDAO SUPER YACHT CITY

Location: Beijing, China Area: 9,850,000 sqmWith a site of a size of a small city, MvS Architects collaborates with Terror to design a mix-used project Qinhuangdao Super Yacht Island in Beijing. Surrounded by residential neighborhood, the artifi cial island - Green Island - consists of two commercial icon towers, high-rise condos, high-end retail stores, yacht clubs and hotels.

Mvs Architect + TerrorDesign Director: Jan van Schaik / Design Team: Michael Golden, ChiaWei Liao / Render: Michael Golden

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An architecture provides experience to its audiences. Various aesthetic qualities of a space such as its geometry of parts, material qualities, and lighting solutions, contribute to experiential effect. Series of articulated experiential effect can be curated in order to produce emergent atmo-spheres in the space, and the atmosphere evoke unique experience of the space.

“Interiorities”

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The project has been driven by developing of techniques which can contribute to the aesthetic qualities of the space. Each geometry of part used in space has been designed to produce specifi c effect, and material and lighting solution have been utilized in order to reinforce the effect. Five unique spatial experiencehave been developed, and the experiences are transforming to each other through morphological continuation of geometries, and material and lighting trans-formation. Rate of transformation has been carefully orchestrated based on intended experiential transformation.

“ I N T E R I O R I T I E S ”

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Kinetic Lamp is a lamp designed with dynamic surface to create fl uid lighting effect. Powered by electric motor, the lamp can create fl uid lighting effect like water by undulat-ing the countour of the surface. We designed the machanic system and also the circuit specifi clly for this project. We also explored the surface expression which can be aplied to the surface.

Kinetic Lamp Engineer: Sam Pan