Cheng Ju Lee
cl4035@columbia.edu +1 212 810 0582 https://chengjulee.cargo.site
EDUCATION
Columbia University, GSAPP, New York, USA Master of Science in Architecture and Urban Design Candidate
09/2020 - 08/2021(expected)
National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), Tainan, Taiwan Bachelor of Architecture
09/2012 - 01/2017
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Columbia University, GSAPP, New York, USA Assistant Editor
11/2020 - Present
Worked as an assistant editor for Columbia GSAPP's annual print publication, Abstract
J.J.Pan and Partners Architects and Planners, Taipei, Taiwan Designer
07/2018 - 02/2020
SD, DD, CD, renderings for the Cosmic Light Holistic Care Organization (Interior Design) SD, DD, CD, renderings, Permit Drawings for ALP Ally Logistics DKSH SD, DD, renderings for Alvogen Nantou
StudioLin, Taipei, Taiwan Designer
01/2018 - 07/2018
Construction Administration and Installation Mechanics Design for 2018 X Site Project OO
Holing Chang Architect Inc., Kaohsiung, Taiwan Intern Designer
07/2016 - 02/2017
SD, DD, renderings for Taipei Metro Linear Park Competition (Underground Shopping Street part) SD, renderings for HsinChu Agricultural Market Environment Improvement (First Prize)
Bio-Architecture Formosana, Taipei, Taiwan
09/2014 - 02/2015
Intern Designer
Facade Design for Exterior Renovation of AMBA Taipei Zhongshan HOTEL 3D modeling, Facade Design for Huwei arts and culture leisure park Interior Design for AMBA Kenting Hotel
SELECTED HONORS
SKILLS
Taipei Metro Linear Park Competition
3D Modeling + Drafting:
First Prize, member of the competition team, 2016
Arch Out Loud International Competition Tokyo Vertical Cemetery
R h i n o + G r a s s h o p p e r, S k e t c h u p , ArchiCAD, AutoCAD
Rendering:
Honorable Mention, In Collaboration with Chia Hua Lee, 2016
Enscape, Vray, Maxwell, Unreal
2016 TEAM 20 Architecture & Urban Planning Competition
Physical Modeling:
Honorable Mention, 2016
NCKU Architecture Thesis Design Award
Laser Cut, 3D Printing
Graphics, Mapping & others:
2016
Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign, Premiere, AfterEffect, ArcGIS, Arduino
Taipei Public Housing / Urban Renewal Competition
Languages:
Honorable Mention, In Collaboration with Suen Yi Wong, 2015
Mandarin (Native), English (Fluent)
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Residential Area Products Applying to the community
2
Manufacturing Area Local Industry with People Participating
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Algae Cultivation Hub Concenrtrated Power Generation Set Up
Algaculture Reprogramming Autoscapes Academic Project, In Collaboration with Anirudh Venkat, Dhania Yasmin, Yifei Luo Instructor: Kaja Kühl , Lee Altman, Anna Dietzsch, Shachi Pandey, Thaddeus Pawlowski Spring, 2021 Almost 500 acres of impermeable surfaces, mostly surplus car parking, lay underutilized in Kingston, a city with dire and urgent spatial needs such as housing and public space. Reprogramming Autoscapes would retrofit these underutilized spaces, which enable a fossil fuel intensive lifestyle, into people centric spaces, catering to the needs of the community. 40% of Kingston's population is non-white. 85% of the housing in the city is owned by white landlords. Poverty is high in the communities of colour which have not had equitable access to home ownership. Compared to the total housing stock in Kingston and a lack of access to quality public space, the area of underutilized land is unacceptable. Less space for cars, more space for people.
Academic Project, In Collaboration with Aruna Ananta Das, Lijing Yu, Yuehui Du Instructor: Nans Voron, Austin Sakong, Sagi Golan, Tami Banh, Ifeoma Ebo, Noah Chasin Fall, 2020 With unprecedented human population growth, an increased frequency of climate catastrophes, and a depletion of fossil fuel reserves, governments are catalyzed to shift priorities from unchecked economic growth to investment in sustainable technologies. Inwood has a history of energy production. Energy institutions, dating back to the 1913 Macomb family's dam to power a mill, are driven by the time's economics. It is far from the demand for fossil fuels to wane, but the impact of how we extract the fuels can change, and a prime example is the use of algaculture along the waterfront in the light manufacturing zone in Inwood. Algae, like other plants, use photosynthesis to convert solar energy into chemical energy. They store this energy in the form of lipid oils, which can be converted to biodiesel. The project aims to use the algae energy industry to make the community participate and learn about energy production, liberates the industrial waterfront while also provides NYC a cleaner future.
In Flux Academic, Individual Instructor: Kwang-Tyng Wu NCKU Architecture Thesis Design Award Honorable Mention, 2016 TEAM 20 Architecture & Urban Planning Competition Spring, 2016 The purpose of the design is to merge the unwanted infrastructure into a pedestrian friendly structure. Tracing back to the history, this area has always been an important spot of Taipei's transportation. By preserving the original structure and context, new programs are adding into the building to fully use its special urban context, the parking garage has 2 contexts- the ground level & the mega highway context. The strategy of the design is to respond these two contexts and create a city hub that human scale and vehicle scale meet together. With the new addition, the design offers people a chance to rise up to the higher level of the city. Upon the high level, the program turns into a hypermarket and also a logistics center. By means of the big data, it turn into a vending machine and a 24/7 non-stopping shopping center and control, measuring the flux of internet shopping data.
The Grand Stage Competition, In Collaboration with Wei Chen Summer, 2019 How do we prove the existence of reality? Our team believed that what we perceived is the projection from the real world. The relationship between the real world and us is just like the relationship between the audience and the stage. The reality exist when people exchange their perceptions with each other. Our propose is an installation /pavilion that helps people to observe the real world. Discussing how people document their image of real world. We traced back the history to pinhole camera, Brunelleschi's installation, and the early method of creating movie scene. Inside the pavilion the gap between the volumes is just like a stage, and the facade of the museum is just like a backstage. But with the reflective material of the pavilion, the role of being an audience or being a performer is constantly changing when wandering around the pavilion. It breaks up the original one direction viewing mode and offers us a bi-direction viewing mode when you looking out from the inside of the museum.
Long Live the Green Competition, In Collaboration with Chia Hua Lee Honorable Mention Autumn, 2016 Normally, cemetery located in the edge of the city, but for Tokyo such a high density city, we want to propose a new typology of cemetery. An immemorial, greenery park that people will not only visit on certain days, which also redefines the relationship between live and death within the city. As for the dead, they will become part of the scenario as living plants by means of green burial. For the relatives, visiting the graves changes from a memorial ceremony to a recreational activity. People can not only wander in the park after the ceremony but also have a meal with the whole family together. It is not only a day for the death but also a day for family to gather together. For ordinary people like you and me, the park offers cherry blossoms viewing, picnicking, wandering city viewing and other recreational activities, offering a new type of public space in the middle of Shinjuku. For the city, the ceremony will change from a space occupied by the dead to a public space that the and live can interact with each other.
Re-Promenade Academic Project, Individual Instructor: Ho-Ling Chang Winter, 2015 Re-promenade is a project about turning the oversize post-industrialized boulevard into human-scale public space. As the first developed district in Kaohsiung, this area was originally a high-dense crowded traditional harbor. During the Japanese colonial period, allies were broaden into industrialized roads in order to meet the demand of modernized harbor. The project represents my own perspective of contemporary urban space: the postmodern kind of planning of planning is out of time, only by gaining the usage of the urban space back from the vehicles, we people can revival the post industrialized urban scene. The strategy is of the design to cut down the width of the "out of scale" road and turn into linear parks for pedestrians. Five linear park are connected to the existing local facilities, for example, schools, temples, museums, MRT stations and also open spaces and tourism areas. Instead of the huge scale facilities proposed by the government, the human scale prototype of urban spaces are inserted into the linear park which is responding to the programs and activities along the park.
ALP Ally Logistics DKSH
Khuntor Tainan
Professional Project, Team Work with Min Chiu My Work: Schematic Design, Design Development, Construction Drawing, Permit Drawing, Renderings J.J.Pan and Partners Architects and Planners 2017 - 2018
Professional Project, Team Work with Eric Gao My Work: Schematic Design, Design Development, Construction Drawing, Permit Drawing, Renderings, Cost Estimate, Construction Administration Freelance 2019 - 2020
With the rapid growth of IOT industry, the logistical warehouse become an important building type. Unlike the usual horizontal type of logistics center. The limited small site give us a chance to develop the accumulated vertical volume. Compared to the horizontal volume, the accumulated vertical volume is much more efficient than the horizontal type. The ASRS system help the architecture itself to have the maximum capacity and minimum surface area in order to minimum the construction cost. The distinctive oblique volume is to respond the site's special shape and angle. With this oblique form, the ground level is free to logistics circulation, and above the ground floor are the distribute area for the goods inside. With the vertical conveyor, the goods inside can be rapidly transported from first floor to the fourth floor.
Tainan is the oldest city in Taiwan. It’s always a challenge to introduce modern while preserving the old atmosphere of the city. Khuntor Tainan is my design investigation on translating the old tale of the city- that the city was built upon the relics of the giant whale to modern design elements. We would like to introduce an elegant style with a clear visual of the signage and simple geometry as a metaphor for the back of the giant whale. Wooden mid-century furniture and Showa era style pendants that represent the city’s Japanese colonial history subtly are used to balance the hard texture of the concrete wall. We replaced the existing facade of the arcade with frameless glasses to create the visual contact with the public and extend the indoor activities to the semi-outdoor space.
Sites & Sights Academic Research Project, In Collabaration with Jonathan Chester Instructor: Luc Wilson, Snoweria Zhang Spring, 2021 Cities with the best views and most memorable attractions were studied and collaged over the unsuccessful existing FiDi street scape. This project aims to increase ease of navigation in cities through providing pleasant outdoor space (as a result of reduced FAR) that offers safe places to congregate in pandemics and opens up view corridors. Can urban responses to pandemics simultaneously assist with ease of pedestrian navigation? What if buildings scattered across lower Manhattan could share visual connections that bring clarity to the urban experience?