Portfolio | M.Arch 2017

Po Jen Huang | M.Arch 2017

Laboratory | Exhibition + Experiment + Exploration

Po-Jen Huang

pojhuang@umich.edu (734) 881-0072 2222 Fuller Ct. 1008A Ann Arbor, Michigan 48105 https://issuu.com/05031/docs/portfolio_0622

Education University of Michigan, Taubman College, Master of Architecture

graduated, 2017

National Dong Hwa University, Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering

graduated, 2012

Experience Marble Fairbanks Architects

New York city, 03/2017-03/2017

Extern

It was a week long spring-break externship program held by Taubman college. During the period, I went through some documentation of details and photos for the construction site, and illustrated diagrams to present the concept of the Cooperman Library.

Architecture Student Research Grant (ASRG)

Ann Arbor, 05/2016-11/2016

Project designer

Taubman college selects 2 groups of graduating master degree students every year for ASRG. Olivia Lu-Hill, Anthony Gonzalez and I won it with the project, ”Synesthesia in architecture: Towards multi-sensory representation.” For the project, I developed the system using processing and grasshopper to translate music to configurations of selected architectural elements.

T+E+A+M (Venice Biennale 2016)

Ann Arbor, 01/2016-05/2016

Research assistant

As a research assistant, I joined the production team for the project, “Detroit Reassembly Plant.” This project was made for the Architectural Imagination, the 2016 U.S. Pavilion exhibition at the Venice Biennale. During the process of building the 1/2” model, we did a lot of experiments on materials, fabrication techniques and construction details.

New-Territories/ M4

Thailand, 05/2015-06/2015

Project assistant

Taubman college provided this precious opportunity to work on a Design and Fabrication project “Concrete[I]Land”, which includes a full-scale small library built in a slum in Makkasan, Bangkok, and a 8 minute short fiction movie, with Professor Francois Roche. I participated in the scenario, storyboard development, interior design and building construction for the project.

Holabird & Root, Chicago office

Chicago, 03/2015-03/2015

Extern

It was a week long spring-break externship program held by Taubman college. Holabird & Root assigned me a small part of an ongoing competition. I did some schematic design, constructed detail model in Rhino, and went through several meetings.

Republic of China Army, Taiwan

Taiwan, 06/2012-06/2013

Private soldier

Served in the Air defense artillery troops for most of the time in the army. In charge of daily vehicle coordination, educational guidance, dispatch sheets and also managing the petroleum product use for vehicles in the unit.

Skills Modeling

Rhino, Grasshopper, Digital Project(CATIA), Revit, 3ds Max, SketchUp, Blender, Hand modeling

Drafting

AutoCAD, Photoshop, Illustrator, Hand sketching

Fabricating

CNC milling, water jet, Lazer cutting, Zune cutting, metal welding, casting, Robotic arm

Editing

Final cut Pro, InDesign

Coding

Python, Matlab, Eclipse, C++ Builder, p5.js (processing)

Language

Mandarin Chinese( proficient), English( Fluent)

CONTENTS

Exhibition | Parametric

Synethesia in Architecture 03 Experiment | Drawing

City Vertical 11 JFK Presidential Library 21 Raum House 25 Tomorrow Library 27 Experiment | Fabrication

Architecture Discourse 29

Space Frame Robotics 37 Concrete[I]Land 39 Yoga Playground 41 Detroit Reassembly Plant 42 Exploration | Possible Future

Building KM3D 43

Synethesia in Architecture Graduate Researcher | Taubman College Architecture Student Research Grant 2016 Collaboration with Olivia Lu-Hill + Tony Gonzalez | Apirl 2016 - November 2016 Synethesia in Architecture is based around developing a language and method of translation between music and architecture. The connection between music and architecture has had a long history within the discipline of architecture. Often the translation and connection between architecture and music has been opaque and varied. Our project has developed around creating a more transparent and systematic approach toward the analysis and translation of music into architecture.

In the creation of the language we borrowed elements and abstracted plan diagrams from Durand’s “Comparisons of Buildings from every Genre, Ancient and Modern”. The architectur-

03 Exhibition | Parametric

04 Exhibition | Parametric

Translation diagram : al elements were tied to specific sound frequencies, and the abstracted plans to musical tempos. In the process of translation from Architecture to Music, we took the overall tempo/beats per minute (BPM) for each song, we associated each tempo with an abstracted plan diagram, this beca me the overarching structure of the composition. The sound frequencies for each beat were analyzed. The audible sound frequencies for human hearing are 20-20,000 Hz, we broke down this range into six families of architectural elements with eighteen elements each. These elements include basic architectural typologies such as dome, arch, column, stairs, toilet etc. The elements are then scaled depending on the amplitude of the individual sound frequency. The elements” from one family are placed into a square grid at designated x, y, z coordinates. Each of the six “families” are put together in a pyramidal arrangement. The method of translation and arranging elements are consistently deployed across all songs. The six families of elements together form a sample.

These samples are placed depending on the overall bpm on a Durand abstracted plan diagram. The images attached are visual translations of David Bowie’s Changes (yellow and green) and Vivaldi’s Winter (peach and teal).

The project has shown various patterns in the sound analysis through visualization such as large repetition of common specific sound frequencies which resulted in common repeated architectural elements. The end result of the translation were a multitude of collaged elements in a manner which does not follow traditional methods of form or function, and instead embody many of the similar aesthetics to “Capri”. Additionally, through viewing the translation of the element clusters individually on video, the pulsating of form brings new dynamism and temporality to architectural forms.

05 Exhibition | Parametric

Music notes will be played and turn into frequencies.

Every sample we extracted from the music piece will include this frequency chart, which divide 20-20k Hz into 108 segments and each segments are corresponded to one element.

The 108 segments correspond to 6 families of elements. Each family includes 18 kinds of element, which is refered from J.N.L. Durand’s diagram and Rem koolhaas’s concept.

Each kind of elements will be deployed on a specific location on a grid map, which we considered resonable. The diagram on the left is an exploded illustraion of where will the elements be deployed.

This is an axonometric diagram of the combination of the 6 families of elements.

We assigned several D.K. Ching’s organization diagrams to specific B.P.M.s, according to how we visually feel about to the diagram. The organization diagram to the left is for B.P.M between 175-195 bpm, which is the range that Vivaldi is located.

exhibition site

3D printed model

06 Exhibition | Parametric

Antonio Vivaldi- Winter

07 Exhibition | Parametric

08 Exhibition | Parametric

David Bowie - Changes

09 Exhibition | Parametric

10 Exhibition | Parametric

City Vertical ARCH 672_Systems Studio | Room in the city | 2016/09-12 Collaboration with Lindsey Von Seggern and Tyler McCrary Instructor: Craig Borum and Claudia Wigger Our project, “City Veritcal“ is located in the historic commercial district, Eastern Market. Approximately one-mile the northeast of downtown Detroit and west by the interstate 75. We are planning for the future, for large potential population growth in the region. We need a tower and a neigjborhood planning as a mini-city.Our main concept for “City Vertical“ is to be soft. To have enough flexibility to accommodate chaning lives and lifestyle. To avoid building become redundant and absolescence over time. The main tower act as a intersection of the 3 axis, which connects the Dequindre cut, eastern market and the residents.

11 Experiment | Drawing

12 Experiment | Drawing

Connect

Activate

Peel

Multiple-ground

Connect the three axises, dequindre cut, bike path and the tower.

Activate the service lanes, which are usually abandoned.

Not only peeling the residential units, but also the public spaces.

Utilize spaces efficiently. Occupy spaces like rooftops.

13 Experiment | Drawing

14 Experiment | Drawing

15 Experiment | Drawing

16 Experiment | Drawing

17 Experiment | Drawing

18 Experiment | Drawing

19 Experiment | Drawing

20 Experiment | Drawing

site plan

hand sketch diagram

JFK Presidential Library ARCH 552_Institution Studio | consecrating camelot | 2015/09-12 Instructor: Jonathan Rule A successful politician, John F. Kennedy contributed tremendous of effort in order to maintain a very subtle balance among opposite forces.

After the second World War, the erection of the Berlin Wall, the begining of space race, the Cuba missile crisis, the Nuclear test ban treaty

21 Experiment | Drawing

are events and activities that Kennedy strived to keep the balance among the international nations, especially against Communists, Russia.

People are fighting for the equivalence of civil rights inside the country.

12 exhibition rooms Design: There are twelve rooms correspond with twelve selected events, which are highly related to John F. Kennedy. Every student in the studio is responsible for one exhibition room design.

Nuclear test Ban treaty room :

JFK image room

Religion matters room

Victura room

JackieKennedy room

Family Commemorative cup room

campaign trail room

Berlin wall room

Space race room

Cuban Missile crisis room

Assassination room

Civil rights movement room

1/8� casted rockite model

22 Experiment | Drawing

23 Experiment | Drawing

24 Experiment | Drawing

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1/4” hand drawing section

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1/4” hand drawing plan

Paste exercise:

Raum House ARCH 412_Form studio | 2014/09-12 Instructor: Anca Trandafirescu Moller house by Adolf Loos is a precedent study for this project. Contrary to the simple, heavy exterior, the interior is rich and complex. Raumplan is the design strategy that separates floors with sequence of steps and alters the ceiling height corresponding to different functions.

25 Experiment | Drawing

This exercise requests students to change one architectural element from the Moller House by Adolf Loos. By sliding the room above the living room area heighten the ceiling height of the living room area.

Because the sliding motion creates a atrium at the second and the third level, the circulation is able to continues the intricate logic of the staircase, which connects the first and second level. The sliding motion of the room not only the atrium can bring more lights into the interior, but also creates seams that can bring in subtle light.

The design straegy for “Raum House” is to optimize and demonstrate the effect of Raumplan.

Rooms begin to overlapped with each other and generate this intricate spatial variety with the Raum-staircase at the front. The hierarchy and the volume of the rooms in the house varies, as the steps elevate. Strongly differentiated from Moller house, both sets of staircases are explicitly exposed.

perspective rendering

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axonometric diagram

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Front entrance Front entrance terrace Front slope Small plaza Back entrance

6 Dinning room 7 Kitchen 8 Guest room 9 Rest room/ Shower 10 Living room

11 Library 12 Work station 13 Rest room/ Shower 14 kid’s room 1 15 kid’s room 2

16 Study 17 Bathroom 18 Toilet 19 Master bedroom 20 Balcony

26 Experiment | Drawing

Tomorrow Library

daily schedule, timeline diagram

ARCH 422_Situtation Studio | 2015/03-04 Instructor: Peter Halquist Tomorrow Library used to be the Toronto Public Library. The premise of the studio is to create a hotel, or a resort to regentrificate the neighborhood. However, after actually having conversations with the residents, which are mostly middle class. THEY DON’T NEED A HOTEL. THE LIBRARY IS BEING USED. They enjoy the suburban region that has less tourists and 27 Experiment | Drawing

public / private ; program diagram

section perspective drawing

strangers. It doesn’t make sense to dismantle the library and build a theme resort.

I like librarys and enjoy spending time there. However, it seems that the library lacks a space for people that are preparing exams or doing researches, to lie down and rest for a bit. So I began to have this fantasy of a library, which is considered a “public“ space, merges with several “private“ space. This became the core concept of Tomorrow Library.

1/4” physical model

28 Experiment | Drawing

Architecture Discourse ARCH 562_Propositions Studio | Eat with your eyes | 2016/01-04 Instructor: Michael Kennedy The mind and the hand, the designer and the maker. There are always two forces wrestling throughout every project’s process. The studio proposes that the design and fabrication of objects may serve as a fertile arena for the exploration and clarification of ideas pursuant to larger and more integrated architectures. While primarily concerned with its essential characteristics each object that one design should also be understood as a paradigm for thoughts on larger architecture concerns.

These objects comprehensively considered many aspects, including form, function, material, fabrication, assembly and the relationship between the object and the user. The vase, the flower, and the hand. The table, arms and legs. The lamp, the surface, and eyes.

29 Experiment | Fabrication

FORM

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FUNCTION

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MATERIAL

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FABRICATION

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ASSEMBLY

vase 30 Experiment | Fabrication

Slip cast

Glazing process

Reproductivity 31 Experiment | Fabrication

table + stool 32 Experiment | Fabrication

Detail Design :

33 Experiment | Fabrication

Communicate

wooden notch detail

steel + wooden notch detail Interact

CNC milling fabrication Cooperate

Intricate

Fun

3D-printed puzzle

34 Experiment | Fabrication

lamp

lamp shade form finding

35 Experiment | Fabrication

light filter material

lamp shade edge detail

metallic black finish

Detail Design :

36 Experiment | Fabrication

Space Frame Robotics ARCH 509_Robotics | 2016/01-04 Collaboration with Masataka YoshiKawa and Lani Barry Instructor: Wesly McGee Plastic extrusion on robotic arm presents a novel manufacturing method to rethink the space frame for contemporary architectural practice. The begining phase of our project presented particular material and fabrication challenges. The difference in material properties between elastomer, polypropylene and ABS plastics each yielded large discrepancies in prototypes calling for focused monitoring and adjustments to our program including E-Values, velocity, feed delay and temperatures. Moreover, issues of tolerance and material warping were constant challenges in order to obtain accurate plastic welds in 3-di37 Experiment | Fabrication

mensional space. Lastly, our program involved careful diligence in order to adjust motion paths for geometry of the extruder and cooling device and prevent collisions with the table and plastic space frame.

The skills we gained, including learning how to use SMT, programming different E3 values, working with the cooling system, adjusting reference angles and reference paths and learning how to pinpoint problems provide a strong foundation for future projects.

38 Experiment | Fabrication

Concrete [I]Land Summer travel studio | Bangkok, Thailand | 2015 Summer Collaboration with Te-Shiou Chen, Jakkrit Jannakhon, Linnea Cook, Salam Rida, Min Zhang, Weiqi Zhang, Stefan Klecheski, Beth Carliner, Peter Sepassi, Tracey Weisman, John Yoon Instructor: Francois Roche, Camille Lacadee, Vongsawat Wongkijjalerd Concrete [I]Land is a project lead by New-Territories and a group of student from University of Michigan.

The structure was built in Makkasan, which is a slum at Bangkok. Applying robotic digital fabrication to produce clay panels for the skin, which is supported by bended steal rods. Steal rings are hanged from the top of four columns. Each sub-structure ring is connected by vertical stablizers and also fixed with horizontal stablizers.

39 Experiment | Fabrication

40 Experiment | Fabrication

SpringForm simulation

Pulling space

Climbing space

Tube space

Intention_to encourage kids to hold in certain postures, which are similar to yoga postures, and to enhence their musle strength.

Climbing space _a concept from climbing a monkey bar or a rope ladder, try to achieve the motion of “Downward facing dog pose” in yoga _dim light to indicate kids to clib on certain position on the net-shape textile, and the light will gradually increase and maybe music will occur.

Tube space _ a concept from the “cobra pose” in yoga _dim light to indicate kids have to lean their lower body on the mat, and at the same time to push some surface above, to increase the light and to have the music.

Pulling space _a concept from the “tree pose” in yoga _dim light to indicate kids to stand on one foot and to pull the textile above at the same time, and to hold on the pose, the light will increase and the music will occur.

YOGA Playground Collaboration with Kurt Hong(MS), Mitchell Tyson(EECS), Keleigh Zolnierek(EECS) Instructor: Sean Ahlquist | cliednt: Ara, an autism child with low muscle tone.

In this project, we design an installation with textile technology for autisitic childern. Autistic child ren usually have social impairment issue, for example, some kids are not verbal, some have social avoidance behavior and some have repetition issue in expression. Physically, some autistic children have hypotonia issue(low muscle tone), some have restricted pattern of behaviors and some have motor issues. Our purposal is to create an environment for exploration and interaction, a YOGA playground.

41 Experiment | Fabrication

Detroit Reassembly Plant Research assistant | Venice Biennale 2016 | 2016/01-05 Project Credits: This project was made for The Architectural Imagination, the 2016 U.S. Pavilion exhibition at the Venice Biennale, curated by Monica Ponce de Leon and Cynthia Davidson.

Project Leads: Ellie Abrons, Adam Fure, Meredith Miller, Thom Moran Design Team: Yu-Yang Huang, Alexandra Chen, Dawn Jeong, Michal Ojrzanowski, Darryl Weimer Production Team: Lani Barry, Camille Chabrol, Yoo Seok Chung, Kristen Gandy, Po-Jen Huang, Stefan Klecheski, Binghao Li, Reid Mauti, Megan Mohney, Samantha Okolita, Ian Ting

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Experiment | Fabrication

Building KM3D ARCH 662_Thesis Studio | Possible Future | 2017/01-04 Instructor: John Mcmorrough Building KM3D is a three-dimensional city and a proposal that alters the relationship between residents and the city, the private and the public. In the future, 2129, building KM3D is a massive city size building that hosts millions of people. Technology is so advanced that the building is able to provide energy, food, knowledge to everyone, directly to their “room”. People are obligated to do research on something that they’re interested in and then exhibit the results and processes.

The “room” that people live in embodies three kinds of program residential space, work space, and exhibition space. Besides working on individual researches, people move around in the building, exchange ideas with other residents.

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44 Exploration | Possible Future

2129

BUILDING KM3D

Po-Jen Huang

Building KM3D is a three-dimensional city and a proposal that alters the relationship between human residents and the city(building).

In the future, 2129, building KM3D is a massive city size building that hosts millions of people. Technology is so advanced that the building is able to provide energy, food, knowledge to everyone, directly to their “room”. People are obligated to do research on something that they’re interested in and then exhibit the results and processes. The “room” that people live in embodies three kinds of program residential space, work space, and exhibition space. Besides working on individual researcheds, people move around in the building, exchange ideas with other residents.

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