Landscape, urbanism, and peripheries
DESIGN PROJECTS
LANDSCAPE, URBAN, AND EXPERIMENTS
01 PROMENADE OVER THE FLOODING
In the heart of Suzhou, a city of over one million people, lies one of the last natural wetlands, covering an area of over 200 hectares, connected to the new district of the city. It is surrounded by Taihu Lake and waiting to be developed.
However, the long years of the flooding crisis have led to severe limitations in the development of the land, landscape, transport and economy of the area. The project will focus on flood management while improving the economic situation of the site.
In this project, there are four phases of flood management, namely edge protection, soft barriers, dock design and elevated walkways. The project aims to reduce and control flooding hazards, provide a better living environment for the local people and increase the value of the site by functioning as a water access point and creating a crop export port.
Embracing the flooding, conceptual model, 2016, Alexis Liu
EMBRACING THE FLOODS
“Flood that is anticipated is not a disaster but natural events, part of regular disturbance regime.” (2008)
Embracing the flooding, conceptual structural model, 2016, Alexis Liu
The project aims to provide a broader knowledge of existing disaster risk reduction strategies. A key aim of the laboratory is to develop design methods within the framework of fire risk reduction in Maribyrnong of Melbourne, Australia.
A combination of vegetation, local climate, soils and topography, conceptual mapping, 2015, Alexis Liu
02 RECONSTRUCT THE DEBRIS
Dynamic fire movements, 2015, Alexis Liu
03 THE INVASION
This research seeks to understand the proximity relationship between the human body and its surrounding environment within the urban landscape of Melbourne CBD. The Affectual Artefact produced for the research extends and exaggerates from the silhouette of our body, representing a portable personal bubble. From this, we have discovered how our body will be influenced by the garment and how the audience and surrounding landscape will react to it.
The value in studying the proxemics of the body and observing the reactions of the wearer and surrounding landscape to the affectual artefact comes from its applicability to the way people interact with others in daily life. The proxemics theory developed by Edward Hall suggests that each person has their own portable personal territory (Hall, 1966), the clothing we wear everyday may cause an effect n our own body movement and also influence the movements of others who come across us.
The Invasion, Melbourne CBD, 2015, Alexis Liu, Beatrix Gao and Grace Hong.
04 THE RIGHT TO LIVE
The work was inspired by the fake vaccine scandal - hundreds of thousands of vaccines supplied to children in China were faulty and incited widespread outrage. People's trust was overdrawn, over and over again, which was so irresponsible for everyone's lives.
The pink circles signify the dirty thoughts in people's minds, such as earning money against their conscience. The red masked faces represent those who have made a good living by trading illegally and using money or power to escape the law. The capsules mean that medicine is a small hope for those trying to survive or for those who want to alleviate their suffering. But some people now value profit over life. The grey pieces covering the eyes mean that the surface can sometimes blind people.
If this incident had not been reported in the media, people would still be kept in the dark.
The right to live, collage, 2017, Alexis Liu
05 PUBLIC ART - BEAM DROP
Chris Burden, 2008
When ‘Beam Drop’ appeared at the Remembrance Shrine in Melbourne.
The right to live, collage, 2017, Alexis Liu
Re-located the beam drop, collage, 2015, Alexis Liu