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+academic 1 Clason Point Ferry Terminal 2 Bushwick Branch Library 3 House on Adeline 4 Visualization Sequence 5 Formal Analysis 6 Plutonian Wall
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WINSTON YUEN _curriculum vitae MArch I, BHSc, EDAC
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120 Dwight St. New Haven, CT
+1 (475) 449-0082 winston.yuen@yale.edu
EDUCATION
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Yale University New Haven, USA // 2016 - Present Master of Architecture
Yale University, Social Media Administrator New Haven, USA // Aug 2017 - Present (5 mo.) Promoted social standing of YSoA and increased growth of school’s social media accounts
University of Calgary Calgary, Canada // 2011-2016 Bachelor of Health Science (Hons) - Concentration in Biomedical Science - Honours Thesis: Novel Cancer Therapeutics for Blood Cancer Minor in Architecture Dean’s List: 2011-2016 Sir Winston Churchill High School Calgary, Canada // 2008-2011 First Class Honours
Harvard University Cambridge, USA // 2015 GRADUATE SCHOOL OF DESIGN Career Discovery Program (Architecture)
The Center for Health Design Concord, USA // 2015 Evidence-Based Design Accreditation Certification (EDAC)
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Snyder Institute For Chronic Disease, Student Researcher Calgary, Canada // 2012 - 2014 (3 yrs) Identification and elucidation of rare diseasecausing genetic disorder. Research results presented at multiple symposiums, in addition to internal medicine clinicians at the the Alberta Children’s Hospital
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SKILLS AutoCAD, Revit, Rhino, Grasshopper, Sketchup, Maya, T-Splines, Keyshot, VRay, Adobe Suite. Programming: Processing, Arduino, Python Other: Scientific Research, Research Writing
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GEC Architecture, Student Architect Calgary, Canada // Jul 2017 - Apr 2017 (2 mo.) Construction documents, 3D modeling, diagramming, rendering, and competition work Tom Baker Cancer Centre, Student Researcher Calgary, Canada // Sep 2014 - Apr 2015 (8 mo.) Investigating novel medications with implications to treating multiple myeloma patients with less invasive and more effective therapy
ADDITIONAL EDUCATION & CERTIFICATION
TH CHAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH Engineering and Architectural Solutions Airborne Infections Course
Yale University, Woodshop Monitor New Haven, USA // Sep 2016 - Present (16 mo.) Maintenance of fabrication shop machines and tools as well as supervision of students
TEACHING EXPERIENCE ARCH 1016 Teaching Fellow, Yale University New Haven, USA // Spring 2018 ARCH 1016: Visualization III Professors: Brennan Buck + Michael Szivos ARCH 1062 Teaching Fellow, Yale University New Haven, USA // Fall 2017 ARCH 1062: Computation Analysis Fabrication Professors: Amir Karimpour
COMPETITIONS/ BUILT WORKS
URB PRK Design-Build Competition - 1st Place Barn(E): The Electric Barn Edmonton, Canada // 2016 Team of four student designed, managed, and constructed temporary parklet with locally sourced barn lumber. The sustainable design featured native flower species, and an electric bike generator, which powered LEDs at night. At the end of its lifecycle, the barn lumber was donated to the Habitat for Humanity’s ReStore. Link: archisaurus.wordpress.com
PUBLICATIONS AND PROJECT FEATURES Yale Retrospecta 40 // 2017 Work in Visualization I, Visualization III, Visualization IV, Studio I, Studio II, and Design Computation courses selected for school publication Yale Jim Vlock Building Project // 2017 The Wall Street Journal The Architectural Digest Architect Magazine Dwell Magazine Dezeen Magazine Curbed Magazine ArchDaily EVDS Ultra Journal 01 // 2016 Work in Graphics II selected for publication
Arts Graduate Scholarship // 2017 Emerging Young Architects and Planners—1st Place // 2016 University of Calgary Student Activities Fund // 2014-2015 Students’ Union Conference Funding // 2015 O’Brien Centre Continuing Scholarship // 2014 O’Brien Centre Summer Studentship // 2014 Jason Lang Scholarship // 2012-2014 CIHR Training Program Summer Studentship // 2013 Markin USRP Fall/Winter Research Studentship // 2012-2013 Student Peer Assistance Bursaries // 2011-2012 PURE Summer Studentship // 2012
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT Observership, Michael Civitella, Executive Director Operations and Facility Development for New Cancer Centre, Alberta Health Services // 2015 Job Shadow, Guy Pocock, Principal, Kasian Architecture Interior Design & Planning LTD., Calgary // 2015 Job Shadow, Bill Marshall, Principal, Marshall Tittemore Architects, Calgary // 2015 Job Shadow, Dr. Harold Lau, Senior Radiation Oncologist, Richmond Road Diagnostic Centre, Calgary // 2014 Interview, Rollin Stanley, City of Calgary General Manager of Planning, Development and Assessment, Calgary // 2013 Interview, Ronald McIntyre, Healthcare Principal Architect, Cannon Design, Vancouver // 2013 Job Shadow, Dr. Christopher Waterhouse, Pediatric Gastroenterologist, Alberta Children’s Hospital, Calgary // 2013 Job Shadow, Dr. Gordon Douglas, Glaucoma Specialist, Canadian Glaucoma Society, Calgary // 2010, 2011 Job Shadow, Jeremy Sturgess, Principal Architect, Sturgess Architecture, Calgary // 2011 Job Shadow, Rick Balbi, Principal Architect, Rick Balbi Architects, Calgary // 2011
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2017 Jim Vlock Building Project - Winning Project New Haven, USA // 2017 Team of nine students, developed and engineered two unit, 1000 sqft house design for YSoA partnership with homeless relief nonprofit Columbus House. Proposal selected from 6 final entries. Recently named by Wall Street Journal as one of most important architectures built in 2017: https:// tinyurl.com/yadhwur6
MERITS & AWARDS
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_Clason Point Ferry Terminal Bronx, NY
Studio III, Yale University Critic: Emily Abruzzo
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Design Brief With the Bill De Blasio stepping in as the mayor of New York City, municipal transporation networks service of the ferry terminal network to all five buroughs. In the South Bronx, the location chosen at Clason Point. With its proximity to Hunts Point, the terminal market and food distribution hub of NYC, there was a secondary desire to create not only a ferry terminal, but a food market that will act as an economic stimulus to the South Bronx. In addition to the ferry terminal, the building contains food start-up incubators, a storage warehouse, and a market.
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ECONOMY
COMMUNITY
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Site Plan
Barrier and Isolation The community of Soundview at Clason Point in the Bronx was not always this isolated. This particular site enjoyed a rich history, once having a ferris wheel and boardwalk, to having a boating club. These have all been replaced with a cookie-cutter housing project that epitomizes isolation. Each built element provides a barrier for the community to access to parks, access to the water, access to stores, and access to people. As such, the project aimed to remedy through program, circulation, and architecture.
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Connectivity Through Architectural Form
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1 Loading Dock 2 Warehouse Lobby 3 Office 4 Warehouse 5 Refrigerated Storage 6 Retail 7 Oculus 8 Library 9 Classroom 10 Incubator Kitchens 11 Break Space 12 Restaurant 13 Demonstration Kitchen 14 Meeting Room 15 Grocery 16 Rooftop Patio
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West Section
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academic Site Context in Bushwick
_Bushwick Branch Library
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Brooklyn, NY
Studio I, Yale University Critic: Michael Szivos + Project Selected for Publicatoin in Retrospecta 40
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Library Looking Towards Manhattan
A Library Serviced by Robots and Drones How can drones, robots and machine learning change how we understand and use libraries? In a world where browsing books are often experienced through computers, the possibility of rapid drone delivery reconnects the library to the neighborhood and questions the notion that libraries are mere storage buildings for books. This project then rethinks the way in which libraries can be used. Robots can rapidly rearrange books, and provide suggestions based on user profiles, and even anticipate books that these users might browse before they enter the library. Thus, a more efficient library system is achieved.
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From Bushwick to NYC Branch Libraries
Reimagining the Library Contrasting with the traditional hub and spoke model of transporting goods where few main hubs can service remaining locations, cheap and numerous delivery methods brought about by the drone can now implement the point-to-point transport model. Thus, books can be transported from any one library that contains the desired book and deliver straight to the Bushwick Branch Library.
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Robot Gaskets + Drone Vestibule
Structural Space Frame
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Shelving
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Drone Book Delivery
Robotic Sorting
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RFID Tagged Books
Machine Learning
Technology and Distribution With the advent of machine learning and predictive algorithms based on a user’s previous browsing history, it may even be possible to predict the library needs of a user before they enter the library. Thus, drones can preemptively deliver books to the library. These books then get rearranged by robots in the general vicinity of a user as they walk through the library. All the while, these books are tracked through RFID tags, reliquishing the need for a hierarchical organization system. Thus, the plan of the building facilitates serendipitious interactions with the books themselves.
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Hub and Spoke Network
Point to Point Network
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Library Towers and Staircases
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Spring 2017
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+ Building Project Winning Team + Named by Wall Street Journal as one of most important buildings of 2017 Featured in:
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Studio II, Yale University Critic: Alan Organschi + Andrew Benner
A Home for the Houseless The Jim Vlock First-Year Building Project is a design-build studio at Yale University’s first year spring semester. This year was the 50thth year of the project saw the completion of a 1000-squarefoot house for the homeless. Clad in cedar with standing-seam metal roof and several window-seat-deep gables, the prefabricated structure contains one studio and a two-bedroom apartment with abundant built-in storage. Columbus House, a New Haven based nonprofit organization, will identify and provide additional support for the tenants.
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Site Model
Design and Build Situated on a corner lot next to Columbus House, the design of the house is sensitive to both the neighborhood, as well as its inhabitants. The building shares a common entryway through the breezeway with the doors to each unit facing each other. By extending the bedrooms of the family unit across the breezeway,
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Two Buildings Under One Roof
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Second Floor Bridges the Breezeway
each unit receives a double-height space in the living and kitchen area. The gabled roof spans both units, and dips lower towards the east end. Large windows puncture the walls. In the same language, these become dormers in the bedrooms.
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15 mm Aluminium Standing Seam Roof
0.5 “ Plywood Sheathing 3x LDL Ridge Beam
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2x6 Rafters 5 “ Structural Insulated Panels 2x4 Stud Wall 2x10 Floor Paneling
2x6 Wall Paneling
Foundation Slab
Construction and Panelization
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academic Assymetrical Roof Covering the Walkway to the Breezeway
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“This year’s house is particularly sophisticated and handsome—worthy of inspiring pride of place in whoever is lucky enought to dwell there.” - Julie Iovine, Wall Street Journal
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_Visualization Sequence Yale University Fall 2016-Summer 2017
Digital media
Visualization IV Summer 2017 Critics: John Blood + John Eberhart + Selected for publication in Retrospecta 40
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Space Ship Kahn
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48” x 72”, hand drafted pencil on paper Visualization I Summer 2016 Critics: Trattie Davies + Miroslava Brooks + Selected for publication in Retrospecta 40
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Swartwout Stairs
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Digital media + in conjunction with Colin Sutherland // Visualization II, Yale University // Critics: Sunil Bald + Kent Bloomer + Selected for publication in Retrospecta 40
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Color Theory
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_Formal Analysis
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Yale University // Critics: Peter Eisenman + Elisa Iturbe
Santa Maria in Montesanto, Carlo Rinaldi and Santa Maria dei Miracoli, Gian Lorenzo Bernini
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Scenographically, the twin churches of the Piazza del Popolo appear exactly the same. However, upon examining the plans, the Santa Maria dei Miracoli is elongated, with an dome. Furthermore, the composition of these two churches is much more than a simple elongation of one to generate the forms of the other. What is striking is that Bernini’s Santa Maria in Montesanto is intended to act in a Greek-cross plan, whereas
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WINSTON YUEN the simple elongation in Rinaldi’s Santa Maria dei Miracoli creates a basilica plan. Thus, subtle details are revealed in the interiors of the churches that give rise to these observations. Double columns frame only one axis in the Santa Maria dei Miracoli, whereas double columns frame an additional cross-axis in Bernini’s church. This second axis is further reinforced by pedimenting the frieze.
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Nolli Map, Giambattista Nolli and Campo Marzio, Giovanni Battista Piranesi
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Where Nolli scientifically creates a map of figure and ground, Piranesi’s plans for the Campo Marzio excavates and invents a fanciful and provacative recreation of Rome. This is not to say that Piranesi had no method. By excavating the modern obelisks of Rome in the Campo Marzio, we can see that pre-existing axes were used as the organizational principles that have other buildings proliferate from. Though compositionally, the Nolli Map and Piranesi’s Campo Marzio are very different, their understandings of the city are the same. That is that, axes will act as organizationl factors that frame blocks of space, which can be excavated in their own right, creating an architectural poche at the scale of the city.
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Graphics II, University of Calgary Critics: Jody James, Matthew Knapik + Featured in Inverse website https://tinyurl.com/j5rcsry + Published in Ultra Journal 01
Design Brief Given an image of the surface of Pluto, the idea was to use parametric software tools of Grasshopper to digitally extract image data and fabricate a 8’ by 4’ wall panel using the logics of the image. When combined with the panels of neighboring wall panels, the image of the Pluto sunset should appear from the collective, yet disparate image extractions of all 5 teams.
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Frame Generation
Point Cloud Based on Image of Pluto
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Delaunay Triangulation
Fillet
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Method Point data was extracted from the image based on pixel differentiation and brightness. The Delaunay algorithm was used to generate triangulation from point data, which were then scaled and filleted. The final form was cut out of plywood on an industrial laser cutter. Finally sheets of PET-G plastic were melted through the frames and later mounted to the frames.
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1/4” MDF Board Steel Brackets 2x4 Wooden Rail
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Steel Angle
Screws
Painted Polyplastic Melted Against Frame 1/2” Plywood 1/4” Plywood Assembled Module Structural Strapping Full Frame
Construction Logic
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+ Winner of the inaugural URBPRK parklet competition + $2500 budget, designed with 4 people.
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Refuge in the City Barn(E) is the winning design in the 2016 URB PRK design competition sponsored by CafÊ Mosaics in Edmonton, Alberta. It was installed along the parking lanes of Whyte Avenue, East of 109st during the months of July and August 2016. The space was used as a parklet space that also hosted a concert series once a week throughout the summer. The cladding was made of cedar wood stripped from a 90-year-old barn, all donated to Habitat for Humanity ReStore at the end of its lifecycle, creating an entirely sustainable design. The Edmonton Native Plant Group donated and maintained plants for the structure and reclaimed them at the end of the summer. Another feature of the parklet was an electric bike generator made by Jan Przysiezniak from the Edmonton Bicycle Commuter Society. The bike was used to charge the user’s phone, as well as power LED lights that were strung throughout the structure timed to light up for one hour a night.
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90 Year Old Barn Lumber
PreOccupancy
Native Alberta Plant Species
Saturday Concert Series
Hand Built Bike Generator
Occupancy
LEDs Powered by Bike Generator
Wood Donated to Habitat for Humanity
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Design The design concept aimed to maximize community involvement in both the process and final built space. Thus, the donation of the barn lumber was the starting point to the design. Monolithically framed triangles undulate to adjust for sightlines, shade, blocking vehicle noise and to create the amphitheatre for performances.
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The wooden slats rotate to achieve a porosity gradient across the surface. Simultaneously, these allow for the LED lights to spill out of the structure and light up the area. The design opens into the operable spaces of Cafe Mosaics, and can be understood as reaching into the cafe.
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North Elevation
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Plan
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competition Exploded Axon of the Parklet Build Logic
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Build System Built off-site, the parklet required an extremely rigorous and documented build system that could be rapidly transported and erected. All wood cladding was labeled, and framing was disassembled as to separate into five pieces and able to be slotted into a transport truck.
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Firm: Calgary, AB Position: Student Architect Duration: June - August 2017
_Ti’nu Afforable Housing Banff, AB
Roles: Competition work, construction documents, design development Ti’nu is a $23.8 million 132-unit affordable housing project that tucks into the mountainside back lane, with an underground parkade, common social area, and 4 separate buildings all under one roof. A-frame cabins are employed to economically fill the remainder of the site’s steep terrain.
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Common Outdoor Space
Exterior Render
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_BHSc Honours Thesis: Novel Therapeutics for Blood Cancer 2014-2015 MDSC 508, University of Calgary Project Advisors: Dr. Don Morris, Dr. Chandini Thirukkumaran
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Multiple Myeloma Multiple myeloma (MM) is a cancer of lymphocytes, the main cells of the immune systems. With the lymphocytes growing inside of bone marrow, these cancerous cells eventually degrade the bones of MM patients. As such, patients experience a loss of bone mass, which can result in weaker bones, a weaker immune system, and anemia. With MM affecting over 70000 people in North America, the incidence has risen over the past fifty years. Treatments usually involve autologous stem cell transplants in conjunction with high-dose chemotherapy, with several new drugs developed over the past 10 years. These drugs have increased the median survival of MM from 3-5 years to 8-10 years. However, MM is incurable and all patients still succumb to their disease. As such, new treatment options are needed. The Promise of Oncolytic Reovirus With the discovery of the cancer-fighting properties of Reovirus (RV) in 1999, they have become a biological alternative to pharmaceutical therapies. RV offers the advantage of killing cancer cells while sparing non-cancerous cells. Additionally, the virus is able to self-propogate, further helping to kill cancerous cells.They have been studied and found to be non-toxic in clinical studies. However, with research with RV on MM, it has been found that cancerous cells develop resistance to RV therapy over time. Honours Thesis My honours thesis looked at combining the effects of existing pharmaceutical treatments of MM with RV in order to assess their effects on klling resistant cancer cells. This drug was Sunitinib, a immunomodulator that was found to increase survival in MM patients. The studied showed promise in using this RV and Sunitinib combination for the treatment of MM in the future.
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Investigating the Administration of Sunitinib with Oncolytic Reovirus as a Novel Treatment Strategy for Multiple Myeloma
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A THESIS SUBMITTED TO THE CUMMING SCHOOL OF MEDICINE IN PARTIAL FULFILMENT OF THE REQUREMENTS FOR THE
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Winston Gee Kong Yuen
DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF HEALTH SCIENCES HONOURS Bachelor of Health Sciences Cumming School of Medicine University of Calgary Calgary, AB © Winston Gee Kong Yuen 2015
Embeded Link: https://issuu.com/dystotech/docs/yuen_winston_honours_thesis
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