# Qiyuan Liang Develops a New Framework for Commercial Building Reuse Through Corporate Interiors Practice

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- Published: 2026-10-07T22:42:00+07:00
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_An adaptive-reuse framework coordinates spatial organization, circulation, vertical
transportation, and building systems to convert single-purpose commercial properties
for mixed uses. By emphasizing flexible shared spaces and modular infrastructure,
the research aims to reduce conversion constraints and future tenant-turnover costs
while supporting long-term building adaptability._

New York, NY, United States, October 7, 2026 — Adaptive reuse has become one of 
the defining problems of American commercial real estate. Office and retail vacancy
has pushed owners toward mixed-use conversions, but each conversion is still largely
approached as a one-off. There is no widely adopted method for reorganizing an existing
building to accommodate several business types.

Qiyuan Liang is one of the architects working on that gap. Based in San Jose, California,
he practices at Hammel, Green and Abrahamson Inc. (HGA), whose Silicon Valley office
handles corporate and research-and-development work for technology clients. He holds
a Bachelor of Architecture from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis
Obispo, with a minor in Sustainable Environments, and is a licensed architect in
the State of California. His practice spans mixed-use, commercial, adaptive-reuse,
and utility infrastructure upgrades.

His design work has drawn recognition outside his firm. “The Indulgent Center: Reimagining
San Francisco,” his mixed-use proposal for downtown San Francisco, received Silver
recognition in the mixed-use architecture categories of the 2026 London Design Awards
and 2026 TITAN Property Awards. It proposes four strategic directions: reconfiguring
spatial organization, flow systems, facility systems, and introducing advanced transportation
tools within the built environment. Alongside design practice, he has continued 
to publish research, connecting his professional work with broader study of commercial
building reuse.

That research now includes “Reconstruction of Commercial Building Space Reuse Mode
Driven by Composite Business Types,” published in 2026 in _International Journal
of Engineering Advances_. The paper sets out a method for converting single-purpose
commercial buildings to host retail, dining, office, cultural, and leisure uses 
simultaneously.

Most published guidance on adaptive reuse falls into one of two categories. It either
examines a single completed conversion that is difficult to generalize or treats
reuse as a programming and leasing exercise, with technical constraints handled 
later by consultants. Liang’s paper rejects that separation. It argues that spatial
organization, pedestrian circulation, vertical transportation, and building systems
capacity are a single problem, and that deciding any one of them in isolation is
what causes conversions to fail or to cost more than projected.

The framework proceeds across four coordinated moves. Spatial organization uses 
progressive zoning, placing high-traffic uses near primary entrances and circulation
nodes while assigning equipment-intensive or independently operated uses to peripheral
and upper levels. Circulation is organized as a three-tier pedestrian system of 
dominant paths, secondary diffusion channels, and node-stay areas, informed by pedestrian
heat mapping and arrival data. Vertical transportation, including elevators, escalators,
stair lobbies, and inter-floor entrances, keeps businesses on different floors commercially
connected. Building systems are verified by total load and zone, since composite
uses change energy, drainage, exhaust, and fire-protection demands unevenly, with
BIM-based clash detection used to coordinate pipeline and equipment routing.

Two aspects of the approach have direct commercial consequences. The first is the
treatment of shared space. Atriums, lobbies, corridors, and platforms are designed
as flexible interface systems capable of hosting display, events, rest, and temporary
activity, rather than as circulation left over between tenants. The second is designing
for the next change rather than only the current one: reserved equipment interfaces,
movable partitions, detachable ceilings, raised floors, and modular unit combinations
are proposed to reduce future tenant turnover costs, a recurring expense in mixed-
use conversions.

For practitioners, the paper is operational, specifying what to verify, in what 
order, and against which constraints. For owners and developers, it addresses a 
question that design literature usually leaves alone: how to keep a converted building
adaptable over a full ownership cycle rather than only through its first lease-up.

Liang’s work at HGA continues to focus on mixed-use, commercial, and adaptive-reuse
projects in Silicon Valley, where aging commercial stock, high land value, and pressure
to combine uses on constrained sites reflect many of the conditions addressed in
his research.

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