2022_Portfolio_Carson Lin

POR TFO LIO

Education

Feng Chia University B. Arch, School of Architecture Taichung, Taiwan 2015 - 2020 台灣, 逢甲大學_建築學士學位

Tampere University of Technology Exchange Student Tampere, Finland Sep. 2018 - Jan. 2019 芬蘭, 坦佩雷理工大學_交換學生

Language

Mandarin Chinese Native speaker English IELTS 7.0

Work Experience

KRIS YAO | ARTECH

Designer

1.5-year period Feb. 2021 - Jul. 2022 姚仁喜｜大元建築工場

Kengo Kuma and Association

Summer Intern Tokyo, Japan Jul. 2018 - Sep. 2018 日本, 隈研吾建築都市設計事務所_實習

Other Experience

2020TEAM20 Architecture & Urban Planning Competition Official Selection Honor Urban Planning TEAM20建築與規劃新人獎_入選

2019ROSO COOP Studio Robotic Fabrication Taichung, Taiwan 逢甲大學機器人建造實驗室_數位製造

20182018 :MUSE Architecture, The Editor

FCU School of Architecture, the First Publication Taichung, Taiwan 逢甲大學建築學院第一期院刊_總編輯

2017South China University of Technology Architecture & Urban Design Workshop Guangzhou, China 中國, 華南理工大學_建築及都市設計工作營

Professional Skills Photoshop Illustrator AutoCad Rhino Grasshopper SketchUp Indesign Lumion Artlantis Premiere Pro Enscape (VR)

Teamwork with Chun-Ying Wang

Advisor 廖嘉舜 Chia-Shun Liao

Outskirt Nangang Conservation Area

Nangang, Taipei, Taiwan

Period Graduation Design, 2020 Award 2020 Team20 Selection Honor

Suburban Fields Provide an Opportunity to Present Living Complexity

" I like complexity and contradiction in architecture. I do not like the incoherence or arbitrariness of incompetent architecture nor the precious intricacies of picturesqueness or expressionism. "

- Robert Venturi, ComplexityandContradiction inArchitecture

With time passing by, the urban territory keeps expanding. Various features of a city start to be brought to the suburban areas, which caused that boundaries between an urban and a suburban get more and more ambiguous. In other words, they become more amd more similar.

Urban Zoning Discipline vs. Suburban Complexity

Due to the discipline of urban zoning, the living condition in a city were very similar or bored. Perfect urban zoning rules start to restrict everyone’s living or social environment. Suburban, on the other hand, shows a highly complex and flexible living condition because of an incomplete planning background.

Rude Replacement Strategy for Taipei City's Expansion

The situation that suburban fields would be seen as the hinterland of a city is unstoppable. Moreover, a large number of abandoned factories and facilities in the suburban becomes a perfect filed to replace with new business district. That is, the whole replacement strategy is the easiest and the most common way to expand the territory of Taipei city.

New Business District? We don't think so...

In our opinion, we kind of agree to the fact about urban expansion and consider suburban as a part of the city. However, we propose an assumption that previous suburban living experience shouldn’t be erased instantly after the replacement. The living scenery in suburbans shouldn't be replaced with a new but bored business district.

Nangang

Outskirt Nangang Conservation Area

/ Urban & Suburban

/ Outskirt Conservation

/ Complexity

/ Free Ground

Stages of Taipei Urban Expansion & Replacements

Nangang Periphery Environment

Due to the previous history policy, as an industrial outskirt, lots of superscale institution were collected in Nangang, including factories, railway workshops, and even military campings. All of these large scale institution shapes the urbab fiber of Nangang today.

With the urban expending these years, lots of those facilities became useless, and would be replaced by new urban elements, which includes center business district, hotels, and luxury resiential according to the government's planning.

Multiple Ground Strategy

A ground platform provides residents enough space to progress their events. The reveal of multiple ground gives different public space to use, including opened park and semiprivate acticities. Moreover, raising the volume up to create a totally free circulation, allowing people explore the suburban fields and events.

Typical Ground Zoning Condition

Cities nowadays follows the discipline of urban zoning, which means that every movements are in order, lacking of any other flexibility.

Free Ground Conditon

Rather than well-planning situation, a free ground condition invents the new way to explode a vast land by free circulation and organic programing. Different functions pop up in various places, which allow residents access easily and start to bring the various everyday-ness events.

Everyday-ness Complexity with Vast Fields

Multiple Programing Maximum Public Fields

Programing Arrangement

Living Cluster

Suburban Living Neighbourhood Suburban Open Space Experience

The Overall Programing Strategy

As the new planning of conservation area, the proposal should be able to connect all the periphery fabric from past industry to nowadays. In the north of site provides an abundant amount of programing overlapping on different ground level. The south side, on the other hand, creates a massive green open space to allow the people, not residents limited, access to use the field of sububan. The story in this site starts become different from the way it was planned before, which was a luxury and bored business district. Boulevard provides people a truly use right of road, and new neighbourhood model makes residents have no limitation with visitors but keep some private at the same time thanks to the elevated public ground platform.

Outskirt Nangang Conservation Area

/ Urban & Suburban

/ Outskirt Conservation

/ Complexity

/ Free Ground

Strategic Operation Plan

Strategic Operation Plan

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� Existing & Future Environment [Connected]

� Boulevard [Accessibility & Open]

� Opened Fields [Leisure & Landscape]

� Facility Ground [Autonomy & Everyday-ness]

� Neighborhood [Public Living]

+ + + + =

Industrial Mixed Residence

Main Residential Area 1 Main Residential Area 2 School Area Cultural Center

1 Car Industry 2 Factory 3 Dorm

1 Circulation Road 2 Service Road

4 School 5 Residential Area 6 Future Business Building Car Pedestrian Parking

03 Accessibility: Public Traffic System

04 Ground Condition: Natural & Green Space

01 Boulevard : maximize field experience opned to existing main residential area

02 Flexible Event Square : square before parking tower which can also be used as an outdoor parking

03 Forest & River : representation of suburban natural space experience

04 Living Fields : living cluster consisting of residential area, headquarter with food courts, markets, and squares

05 Dynamic Sport Fields : central field which is composed of various soprt and dynamic activities

06 Super Park : embracing existing building with a super open field park near by the public library

Outskirt Nangang Conservation Area

/ Urban & Suburban

/ Outskirt Conservation

/ Complexity

/ Free Ground

Scenery from Parking Tower

Public Living Space

Responsive Flexible Structure

Weaving technique makes it possible to manufacture a flexible structure.

However, due to the scale and the complexity, weaving structure is difficult to be applied in an practical architecture design without a robotic arm.

To control the flexibility of a larger-scale weaving structure system, a program of robotic weaving was seen as a solution. We try to translate the traditional weaving to a robotic weaving language in various ways, such as materials, methods, weaving tech, and machine. In our robotic weaving program, various weaving units which support different loads can be found to apply on all prototypes, like a wall, a floor,or a chair.

Period Senior, 2019

New Instrument Design Task

Eventhough the PLA printing is now a common technology in 3D printing, it is still challenging to print by a robotic arm since we need to find a suitable machine to print, design how to hold the tool with robotic arm, and, moreover, improve the original tool, etc.

For instance, in case our extrusion nozzle crashed what had printed, we decieded to design a whole new one lengthened nozzle.

Over all the processes, the first procedure after weaving is to detect possible removable structures by their angles, responding the force direction. After that, select the certain length structure to remove in order to control the deformation level.

To keep from crashing printed things when moving, it’s important to arrange the order. It seems to be a great order to print by the Z-level. In other words, the same Z-level groups will print first then from bottom to top. In the same Z-level group, more vertical structure will be priority processing to avoid crashing what had printed.

Force Analysis and Deformation

This program and the new robotic weaving technique can be applied to almost all prototypes which need to do load-carrying task. By analyzing force dirrection and needed deformation level, responsive nodes amount and strucuture would be generated automatically through parametric operation.

create a facility which can provide two types of space for human behaviors and voxelize it to analyze the force

according to data of force , analyze and the deformation through karamba software and calculate the data

according to the deformation data arrange appropriate nodes to different units

connect each nodes and filter every angle to make sure this weaving can comply with the deformation that we estimated

Implementation in Architecture Environment

The project can create sufficient flexibility to users so that a wall or other elements of architecture could be soft and flexible in the future. Meanwhile, flexibility can be controled by removing certain pipes. Which means that deformation length can be adjusted easily by giving multiple numbers of angle filter.

Period Junior, 2018 Independent Project

Taichung Vertical EXPO

Central District, Taichung, Taiwan

Advisor 宋玉真 Yu-Chen Sung

Central District History Context

As the most prosperous area before, Taichung's central district involves residents' memory. Nowadays, however, it seems to disappear since there's no more young people staying here or any new building was constructed here.

Eventhough there's some hot spots are located in this district discretely and even the new Taichung station, people always come here only for those certain spots and then leave. How to connect the relationships between the new hot spots and those dead areas would be a tough and main task in this project.

The Fashionable Yongqi Department Store

As the first department store which leads the fashion industry in Taiwan, Yongqi Dept. Store is a memorable history in residents' heart. Now, the building of Yongqi still stands there in central district, but the people and the stores didn't exist anymore. I try to plan the whole new urben block to shape a fashion industry and consume area and to attract poeple stay to explore the city at the same time.

Human Heat

Open Space

Function Traffic

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Taichung Vertical EXPO

/ City Regeneration

History memory

/ Outdoor Events

/ Fashion EXPO

Vertical EXPO : Container of Cultures And History

Fashion EXPO: a hanger, a container To remember and memorize the special history of Yongqi, the concept of the new building would be a vertical fashion EXPO, providing the space to hold fashion events and daily business.

Clothing Hanger

hanger

Translation structure space function clothing occation

The shape of building is transformed by the concept of a clothes hanger. Like a hanger hangs the clothings in a free way, the new building hangs different functional spaces. These "clothings" district the differnt use of space, including the space of shopping, studios, exhibitions, and even hotel space. And like the backstage space in a fashion show, the backstage space in the department store is also seperated by the "clothings".

EXPO Experience

Flip EXPO with Carwalk Events

Development Process

Starting from the vertical volume which fits the site but stays a large space as the public space to make it more accessible for publics and everyone who comes here.

01 Vertical Volume

02 Clothing Geometry & Catwalk

03 Analyze and Space Generate

04 Gap Space Arrangement

05 Passive Breathing & Green Space

01 04

Different Circulation

The main vertical building includes lots of events. Accessibility would be surely important to different-purpose users.

Two Different Materials of Glass

The skin of building uses the BIPV (Building-integrated photovoltaics). On the otehr hand, clear windows are used in the space with certain events.

Distinguish Multifunction Space

Different functions are all collected in the building by variation of space form. Some functions overlaps in the same level to work together.

Green And Breathing Space

Lots of "gap spaces" are created because of the organic form. Using the best of these spaces to establish a breathing architecture volume.

Taichung Vertical EXPO

/ City Regeneration

/ History memory

/ Outdoor Events

/ Fashion EXPO

Overall Site Plan

Entrance Plaza

Open-aie Stage

Market Vendors

Basketball Court

Park Green Space

Climbing Ground

Child Playground

Outdoor Stage

Halfpipe Skating Ground

Node of Axis, Park

Path of Park

The Start of Axis

Taichung Vertical EXPO

/ City Regeneration

/ History memory

/ Outdoor Events

/ Fashion EXPO

Taichung Vertical EXPO

/ City Regeneration

/ History memory

/ Outdoor Events

/ Fashion EXPO

Taichung Vertical EXPO

/ City Regeneration

/ History memory

/ Outdoor Events

/ Fashion EXPO

Taichung Vertical EXPO

/ City Regeneration

/ History memory

/ Outdoor Events

/ Fashion EXPO

/ Disaster Response

/ Minimal Living Space

/ Community Rebuild

/ Shelter

Representation of the Urban

Island State, taking Taiwan as an example

Architecture After a Disaster : The Rise of Sea Level

How would the architecture have become after a disaster happened in the future?

Due to the progressive global warming, the rise of sea level is clearly predictable. Architects need to rethink the living spaces in the future. Moreover, the polluted water is difficult for people to use. Meanwhile, it seems more important

to think about the representation of human history and social relationships rather than redesigning a whole new urban.

This program provides not only sufficient living spaces floating on the water but also complete communities equiping perfect living funtions, which represent the human society.

Advisor Daniel Santos Period Junior, 2017 Independent Project

Predictable And Pre-constructible

According to Science Magazine , the speed of sea level rising is faster than predicted. The sea level has climbed approximately 0.2m during the last 100 years. Since the temperature keeps climbing, the sea level seems to jump over 1.4m before 2100s.

What is also noteworthy is that the rise of sea level is a disaster which happens slowly but keeps going, which means architects need to develop a long-run urban planning instead of a temperorary housing. Since the rise of sea level is predictable, we can construct them before the situation getting worse.

Biology to Geometry

It is interesting to note that coral reefs reveal some amazing combination ways. Furthermore, coral reefs are also an important sign of water pollution. As a result, they can be seen as a symbol of ocean to represent the insular (island) characteristics.

Analyzing the pattern of coral reefs to generate the possible geometry, and proposing the minimal unit and its relationship to other units or space.

Representation of the Urban

/ Urgent Architecture

/ Disaster Response

/ Minimal Living Space / Community Rebuild

Based on the concept of coral reefs, analyzing their features helps construct a "living pod" to intake needed people. In this case, people seems like a clownfish in a sea anemones. The sea anemone for clownfish means the living pod for people in this project.

01 Biology to Geometry 02 Analysis 03 Minimal Space 04 Circulation Arrangement

Combination & Society Development

Every 3 living units share 2 public spaces, shaping one community.

Every 9 living units form a one-level society, where includes all of living functions.

Three natural ports are available in a two-layer society. These provide enough spaces for boats to touch, which are the most important transportation tools in the city.

Society History

solar panel ventilation to living units to living units level 3 bathroom

Living Units Public Space Common Space Connection Tower

Community

Unit

Representation of the Urban

/ Urgent Architecture

/ Disaster Response

/ Minimal Living Space

/ Community Rebuild

Master Plan

Scale = 1 / 150

a. living units :basic living elements

b. public units: parks, common garden

c. common units : functional space

d. tower : connection for other levels

e. ports : provide boats space to touch

Functional Center Common Garden

Representation of the Urban

/ Urgent Architecture

/ Disaster Response

/ Minimal Living Space

/ Community

Rebuild

City Regeneration

Central District, Taichung, Taiwan

The Plug-in of New Construction

As an old district of Taichung where is on the centre, the site is very potential to revive the community around it, which could connects other newborn districts at the same time. The aim of this project is to lighten up the original old building, making people get together on this dead and silent site again. Instead of overhauling all the old building, the new design remains the old facade as a design method.

01 Space Possibility 02 New Construction Extension 03 Breathing Space 04 Exploration of Usable Space 05 Double-layered Interior Facade 06 Inviting Vision & Interactive Facade exhibition curtain interactive facade

Advisor Daniel Santos Period Junior, 2017

Functions in Different Levels

The first floor provides sufficeint spaces for business. There will be many venders and restaurants in this floor, opening for tourists.

Exhibitions and a book shop will be located on the second floor, where also a conference room located on.

The third floor is set up for studios, including other office functions. There are also two flats on this level, which provide some workers to live in.

A roof garden will be seen at the fourth floor. Moreover, one coffee shop and one outdoor restaurant is also available in this level.

Representation of the Urban / Renovation

/ Block Renew / Interactive Facade / Exhibition Space

Double Skin Double Green

Central District, Taichung, Taiwan

Basement

Period Sophomore, 2017 Independent Project

First Floor

Advisor 王子熙 Zih-Si Wang

Residential Street Housing

This middle-scale residential project provides the new definition of housing facade. Not only for outskin appearance, but for its ventilation, private, and day lighting.

Double skin creates suficient layers in architecture order, showing the new protoype of living with nature. Following the existing topography, there are several split-level floors to respond the exterior nature.

/ Small Book Hut

/ Memory under the Tree

/ Light & Shadow

/ Children Space

/ Modular Construction

FCU Book Hut

Period Sophomore, 2016 Independent Project

Advisor 林昌明 Chang-Ming Lin

Reading under the Tree Shadow

As a small book hut for students in Wo-Tso Elementary Scool, the scale of children is considered thoroughly in this design. The raising of floor slabs and the use of glass both makes children's every movments can all be captured in eyes easily. Suficient sunlight with the shadow of trees provides a perfect environment to read books, which is the concept comes from the memory that people gather under the tree. Moreover, the design of light structure and modular system make it easier to construct.

Wu-Tso Elementary School, Taichung, Taiwan

Exchange Student Program

Tampere University of Technology, Tampere, Finland

Architecture Firm Internship

Kengo Kuma and Associates, Tokyo, Japan

/ One Semester Exchange

/ Architecutre Program

/ Urban Design

/ Digital Design Course

The First Periodical

FCU School of Architecture First Publication 2018 :MUSE Architecture