PORTFOLIO 2013
2016
Po-Jung Chen M.Arch
Po-Jung Chen
391 Central Ave, Jersey City, NJ 07307 po-jung@wustl.edu +1 917-720-3257 po-jung.com
Assoc. AIA, LEED Green Assoc.
BACKGROUND Master of Architecture, Professional | 2016 – Samfox School of Design, Washington University in St. Louis, US – International program, Barcelona, Spain (in collaboration with Fundació Enric Miralles)
Master of Science in Computer Science and Engineering | 2011 – National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan
EXPERIENCE West Chin Architect, New York | Nov 2016 - Mar 2017 – Architectural intern – Worked with senior architects in design development and documentations
of four residential projects. Assisted on Bid Sets, DOB
documents, and CDs. Produced rendering for marketing purpose and in-house design discussion. Built 3d models for rendering and 3D printing.
CEL, St. Louis | Jun 2016 - Oct 2016 – Architectural and urban design intern – Involved in “Our Town,” an NEA granted
architectural and urban design project for East St. Louis. Worked with design director on research, conceptual and schematic design. Participated in routine community meetings. Designed and developed project’s interactive website for information sharing/ gathering as a design tool.
WUSTL, St. Louis | Jan 2016 – May 2016 – Landscape design apprenticeship – Worked with a landscape architect/ professor
on research, conceptual design and construction documents for a landscape project.
cizoo&co., Taipei | Jan 2013 – Sep 2013 – Full-Stack Developer – Architect of three commercial projects, performing
analysis, UX design, technology sourcing, front-end cross-site scripting in JavaScript with HTML5 LocalStorage, cookies, HTTP/HTTPS coordination, shopping cart and session migration, and back-end development in database design, membership system and 3rd-party API integrations with local payment service provider. Worked with graphic designers and marketing team.
ACHIEVEMENTS – – – – –
Publication; Studio work selected for Approach 2014-2015, Sam fox school’s annual publication 1st Prize, WUSTL Graduate Student Senate Logo Contest | 2015 Washington University Merit Scholarships Recipient | 2013-2015 National Chung Hsiang University Merit Scholarship Recipient | 2011 Publication; Master Thesis, “A Study of a Predictable Reversible Data Hiding Algorithm”, National Central Library| 2011
CERTIFICATION – –
LEED Green Associate Novel Certified Linux Professional
SKILL – – – –
Software; Proficient: Rhino3d, AutoCAD, Vray, Illustrator, Photoshop; Working Knowledge: Revit, Unreal Engine 4, Maxwell, ArcGis Programming; C++, C#, Python, PHP, Javascript, Grasshopper, Rhino Script Languages; English (Full Professional Proficiency), Mandarin (Native) Others; Highly crafted in physical models making, hand drawing, and metal casting.
Pipe No.1, 2016 Cast Bronze
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Architecture of Encounters- A Kunsthalle
Master Thesis |Spring 2016
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Building as Contour - a Library for Childrens Books
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Moll de la Fusta Proposal
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Rhizome Urbanism
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Greenscraper
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Form as Space;Space as Form
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vertical bibliotheca
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material organization
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miscelanea
Advanced Abroad Studio | Summer 2015
Advanced Research Studio | Spring 2015
Core Housing Studio | Fall 2014 Advanced Grasshopper | Fall 2014
Core Studio II | Spring 2014 Core Studio I | Fall 201
Comprehensive Studio | Fall 2015
Architecture OF Encounters- A Kunsthalle (Master thesis project)
Site : St. Louis, Missouri, US Year : 2016 Spring Professor : Angela Pang The program of the project is a “Kunsthalle,” a collection of spaces for exhibition, forum, and workshop purposes, which are defined by different compositional qualities of light, sound, material, scale, and interfaces between interior and exterior conditions.
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Based on the idea of creating an architecture of encounters, rather than treating architecture as a vehicle of concepts or stories, the project aspires to emphasize the fact that the eventual product of architectural design is an accumulation of encounters, situations, and experiences that can hardly be fully controlled. It is the space itself rather than the concept that creates those encounters for people. To catalyze such encounters, the architect assumes the role of the first person to simultaneously experience and compose the encounter in the process of creation. Even one wall, in itself, is an element of composition that delimits space while opening up a particular set of possibilities of encounters in doing so. In other words, this project is not driven by a singular conceptual premise (or driven by “non-concept” for that matter) but by a collection of moments that compose particular experiences but are left undefined programmatically - that are concerned 0 53 with asking questions and provoking responses, but not answering them.
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building as contour a library for childrens books Site : Riverside Park, New York, US Year : 2015 Fall Professor : Robert McCarter This project is a library for children’s books proposed as an addition to the architect Louis Kahn and the sculptor Isamu Noguchi’s Adele Levy Memorial Playground proposal(unbuilt) in Riverside Park, on the Hudson River in New York. The project aspires to treat Architecture, landscape architecture, interior design as a single integrated discipline. Concepts were developed and refined during the three phases of the design process. Firstly, I tried to establish a way to create 10 different quality of “room” in a cube, which came directly from the fundamental concept that by creating various quality reading rooms, children are more interested and feel joyful to explore the library. Secondly, the design approach which is overlapping the spaces is further explored by flattening the cube into a site-simulated condition, which is a slope in a flat rectangular box. More concepts are developed during this phase by considering the site condition, for example, the opening, the orientation, the programs, the relationship between the library and the city, the relationship between library and the Adele Levy Memorial Playground. The initial idea of overlapping spaces has also been transformed into a concept to arrange the circulation, By overlapping two directional implicated spaces, children are guided three-dimensionally to explore the whole building without notice and therefore experience different qualities of reading rooms as we intended. Finally, structure and materials are decided naturally base on the concepts as well as the particular desire of each space. Surrounding Landscape are also designed carefully to connect the library with the Louis Kahn and Isamu Noguchi’s playground.
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Moll de la Fusta proposal Site : Moll de la Fusta, Barcelona Year : 2015 Summer Professor : Adrian Luchini, Anna Puigjaner This summer studio focus on the urban issues of Ciutat Vella (old city). Since the 1980s, the old city has been in a process of urban renovation. Intervention caused by new constructions or renovations triggered the continuous transformation of the city by mixing up, blending and interacting the new and old urban fabrics. The site is the region between The Moll de la Fusta (‘Dock of wood’ in English) and the old city, which is the long stripe surrounded by the highway and the 30 meter’s long eight-lanes driveway. After vigor While gion,
visiting and observations of the site, I wondering why the strong of people from the old town don’t come across the site to the dock. performing, artistic events happening on the other side of the rethere are seldom activities on the dockside.
It is the 30 meter’s long traffic block the people’s desire to cross the road. When people walking in the Citys like Barcelona, especially the old city region, they are fascinated by the unexpected activities and store hidden in each corner of the city. Rather than walking a path from point A to point B, people love to wandering without particular goals. My proposal is to break down the straight traffic into several curvy small roads, therefore creates spaces in between, which potentially become containers of activities. And create a new layer of infrastructure forming a platform to extend the old city to the dockside. By doing so, people start to exploring from West to East, from city to the sea, and willing to be guided by the city and accidentally cross the traffic to the other side of the region.
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rhizome urbanism Site : North St.Louis, MO, US Year : 2015 Spring Professor : Patty Heyda Modern urban planning irons a fixed pattern on the earth, which is inflexible and obstructing to the need of equal-liberally growing/ naturally declining modern society. Hierarchy modules in many disciplines are replaced by the concept of Rhizome, which embraces the quality of efficiency, flexibility, robustness, sustainability, and localization. Rhizome urbanism emphasizes not only on the diversity created by the interaction between individuals but the efficiency of the adopted and self-regulated way of urban design. In the project, relation between residents, roads and public spaces are studied through the shifting from traditional hierarchy structure to the non-hierarchy structure with renewable energy (a future urban structure with new infrastructures supporting self-sufficient neighborhoods, which individuals produce renewable energy while also be supported by the neighborhood’s micro grid system via flexible connection/ relationship). Moreover, these new relations are not predefined but flexible and mainly customizable by the people needs. In the meantime, addictiveness and certain public interests such as traffic flow and open space acreage to the population etc. are maintained by policies, which should be made locally and continually evolved during time.
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greenscraper Site : Buenos Aires, Argentina Year : 2014 Fall Professor : Pablo Moyano This experimental housing project located in “Palermo Soho�, one of the densest neighborhood in Buenos Aires, intent to articulate the adversarial relationship between the need of private space and public space, intimacy and independence, as well as the desire of Urban life and the bond with nature for people live in the city. As one of the projects in a series of adjoining projects developed at the same time, the primary issue is to deal with the party wall with adjoining buildings. Normally, we construct the walls to define the boundary and keep the privacy but in the mean times, disregard space on the other side of the wall. A wall between two yards, for example, create one side with the sunshine and one side with shadow. The usage of the pot plant, as the closest and the most familiar relationship with the plant for the human being, is introduced in the project as the soft wall to dynamically construct the private space to serve everyday situation.
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Form as Space;Space as Form Year : 2014 Fall Professor : Jazon Butz Tool: Rhino + Gasshopper + C# As the way the expression of a city is often defined by the cumulation of physical objects like buildings, trees, and street with space remain , the perception of space is created by its relation with form surround it. Or we should say form is another representation of space. Following the idea of treating space and form as different sides but same matter, the project explores a way both the form and space created while manipulating the “structure� in between.
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vertical bibliotheca Site : St. Louis, Missouri, US Year : 2014 Spring Professor : Catalina Freixas This project starts with the idea to deconstruct the library into small rooms, therefore allow air and light to go through space in between. Three congregations of the rooms divide the library into different programs by the quality of space and circulation needs. Three structures also define the private gathering space and its relation with exterior.
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material organization Site : St.Louis, MO, US Year : 2013 Fall Professor : Christine Abbott A generative approach through modulation of an element is in the focus of this spatial exploration. Nesting connections define the strategy for growth. Idea of contrasting light and shadow while achieving a continunous surface drives the projects. The module creates a passageway, a flexible structure system, and a defined relationship between the combination of each iteration.Investigated system is later tested as a fourmal strategy for a “room in the city,� a public event space.
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miscelanea Schematic plan Program: Private Residence Site: Bearville, NY Year: 2016
miscelanea Renderings for marketing Program: Private Residence Site: Montauk, NY Year: 2016
miscelanea Topography & driveway design Program: Private Residence Site: Amagansett, NY Year: 2017
miscelanea Renderings for in-house discussion Program: Private Residence Site: Westerly, RI Year: 2017
Study of panel configuraiton for facade