CHENG-FENG LIN
PORTFOLIO
PRATT INSTITUTE MASTER OF ARCHITECTURE CANDIDATE FIRST PROFESSIONAL
Movement, the primary activator of space, can be comprehended as the ‘glitch’ in architecture: an uncontrollable event existing when organic flows of moving bodies occur contrastingly within a prescribed framework of the static constructed envirnment. Allow for this occurrence as the intermediary between body and space is architecture.
ASSEMBLY
WATCHTOWER
MANUFACTURE SURFACE
GLASS PAVILION
NJAS GALLERY
FINE ART WORKS
Sometimes it is good to be out of control
ASSEMBLY The project involves the assembly of a value using playing cards. An understanding of the constructive logic using parts and components to from lateral and vertical surface. The Mathodology that involves both top-down and bottom-up logics operaring in a feedback loop. The develpoe techniques for cataloging ’part to whole ’ relationships found within the ‘deck‘ through diagramming, graphic analysis, folding, mathematical expressions, and manual algorithms.
Folding Method
Single card
Two cards
Four cards
Four cards (Reflected)
Extend 1.1
Extend 1.2
The 45-degree cards are aggregated through a series of stacking, reflections and translations to produce continuous texture.
WATCHTOWER This project involves the design of a blind for observing birds and wildlife in the Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge in Morris County,New Jersey.The idea is to provide an elevated space for viewing the wildlife on the ground and within the tree canopy. The tower would be iconspicuous and its design will require a concise set of tectonic parts that can be easily transported and erected on site.In this case, the location of a structure in relation to specific view. The tower is conceived as a stacking of blocks, each with its own spatial structure but nevertheless linked by a continuous structural logic.
[ Nature ]
[ Density (color) ]
[ Frame ]
[ Density (line) ]
Spatial Site
Relationship - The nine shifting grids become legible not as parts to whole but as whole to parts.
Each drawing is based on a device in which spaces, and movements are representationed by, with the distance between each drawing, and the relationship from one to another.
[Process Module ]
[ Line ]
[ Form ]
[ Structure ]
[ Skin ]
Skin
Structure
Floor Plate
Stairs
Structure Model
Finish Skin Model
30’
20’
10’
Elevation Section
Stair View
interior View
North-West View
MANUFACTURE SURFACE The Hunter Douglas Light Research Studio is a material research based design studio that addresses the window treatment products of the Hunter Douglas Company. The studio explores new trajectories of the manipulation of this material as a means of extending and modulating the basic performance of the product. The studio was based on the concept of the material with its beauty, transparency, publicity, privacy, and the ability of manipulated light to guide to the specific categories ambience by creating the program to this material. While it is a group project with the combination of interior design and architecture student, I was able to develop strategies of usage that expand beyond the standard application of this material as window treatment. Everyone had the opportunity to fully experience all parts of process. I was primary involved in documenting all material studies. In the second half, I was specializing to the structure process and final fabrication. The studio research coalesces around a full scale constructed installation.
Study 1 (casted light)
Study 1 (Back light)
Study 3 (Fold Schematic)
Study 3 (Detail)
Study 1 (Detail)
Study 1 (Fold Schematic)
Study 4 (Fold Schematic)
Study 4 (Detail)
Study 5 (Fold Schematic)
Study 5 (Detail)
Study 6 (Fold Schematic)
Study 6 (Detail)
Study 2 (casted light)
Study 2 (Detail)
Study 2 (Back light)
Study 2 (Fold Schematic)
Study 7 (casted light)
Study 7 (Detail)
Study 8 (casted light)
Study 8 (Detail)
Study 7 (Back light)
Study 7 (Fold Schematic)
Study 8 (Back light)
Study 8 (Fold Schematic)
Study 9 (Fold Schematic)
Study 9 (Detail)
Study 10 (Fold Schematic)
Study 10 (Detail)
Study 11 (Fold Schematic)
Study 11 (Detail)
Study 12 (Fold Schematic)
Study 12 (Detail)
[ Process Photos ]
Projection Map
Weave
55% Reduction in Horizontal dimenision After Pinching Operation
Indirect Apertures
Direct Apertures
[ Pinch Effect ]
Pinch
Front Pinch Rear Pinch Existing Fused Vein of Material
Rad= 4’-0” Height= 12’-0” Scale= 0.9 Skip= 3 Length= 175.0 Offset= 12’-0” Area= 530.31 sf
Rad= 4’-0” Height= 12’-0” Scale= 0.6 Skip= 3 Length= 225.0 Offset= 8’-0” Area= 787.95 sf
Rad= 4’-0” Height= 12’-0” Scale= 0.7 Skip= 3 Length= 175.0 Offset= 6’-0” Area= 648.03 sf
Rad= 4’-0” Height= 12’-0” Scale= 0.5 Skip= 3 Length= 225.0 Offset= 10’-0” Area= 725.76 sf
Surface Projection
Plan
Differential and create surface effects. Behavor is primary structure along perimeter and programatic at the medium
Extended Structure Beyond
Bottom Reinforcing Ring
Elevation
Bottom Reinforcing Ring Clockwise Reinforcment Weave
Clockwise Reinforcment Weave
Elevation
GLASS PAVILION Art is at once the most private and the most public of activities: creativity is self-absorbing, but cries out for sharing and public expression.
For New York City,
internationally known for its artistic diversity, offers an unbelievable range of opportunities for individuals interested in the arts field. Creativity, innovation, and passion for the arts are everywhere, providing an exciting and inspiring environment for the artists. Research goal: A: to provide sustainable environment for the urban space B: To preserve a core of historic culture aspect C: to promote art education This Project explores alternate method of material analysis while aiming to search for hidden materiality factors that may be utilized in informing the design progress. The process is loosely interconnected by three stages, starting from a glass blowing analysis, and then moving on to the materiality of the characteristic of glass to assist in observation of hidden forces and phenomenon. The design culminates in the construction of a digital model and a design produced with the information gained from the model.
Light
Light Division
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Path
Path Division
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Red Hook
Vision
Space Division
>>>>>>>>> Space,Path
Division
Site Plan
Process Model
[ Glass Blowing process ]
The glass blowing process was the most inspiration of the whole project. It had done with a sequence of photo while I was taking the glass blowing lesson. The process shows each step of transformating to the designate shape by blowing, spining, and molding. A inspirational model was produced with the information gained from the process of glass blowing.
[ Structure Analysis ]
Reiforcing Rings
Clockwise Reiforcing Rings
Extend Structure
The glass roof is to lower the energy consumption which includes the heat, electric use. The Building itself could generate power in order to be assembled.
Roof
2nd Level
1st Level
Spiral Structure
Renewable Panels
Natural Shading and Daylighting
Mass Passive Solar Heat Blocking
Roof System
Exhibition space
Outdoor exhibition Bar Storage
Restaurant
Gift Shop
Restroom Stairs
Glass Blowing Shop Information Desk Reception
Entrance
Reading Room
A
Floor Plan - 1st Floor
Floor Plan - 2nd Floor B
Process Model- Top View
Process Model- Top View (Without Roof)
Process Model- Detail
Section A
Corridor - 2nd Floor
Reception - 1st Floor
C Section B
Corridor -2nd Floor
Gallery -2nd Floor
NJAS GALLERY ....In fact (since WWII) no new principles have turned up except that the ideal of the museum as a monument in its own right has been replaced by the ideal of the museum as the perfect place to show art..... Nikolaus Pevsner The project is to design a single storey Artists space that will house the work of four of New Jersey’s most celebrated artists; George Segal, Robert Smithson, Roy Lichtenstein and Ben Shahn. It would to important to assign the appropriate image for the museum that reflects its collection. In this case, galleries are highly specific spaces to each artist. One of the major concerns is to demonstrate through precedent analysis how various building types can inform the design process.
Wire concept model
A continuous Movement of the degree change in spacing
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West Elevation West Elevation
Lincoln Park
Lincoln Park
North Section
North Section
[ Circulation ]
Parking
Parking
Entry
Entry
Pedesterians
Pedesterians
Pass By
Pass By
Staff
Staff
Museum VisitorsMuseum Visitors
View Of Front Yard
Street View
Solar Panel Water Collection
Skylight
[ Sky Light Circulation ]
Skylight Heating System in Winter Time Skylight Heating System in Winter Time
To Taps To Taps Heat Solution
Service Water Tank
Heat Solution
Service Water Tank Irrigation Outside Tree
Irrigation Outside Tree
Gallery View
SELECTED FINE ART WORK
Music (1995) Medium: Water Color Pencil Size: 10”x16”
Mater Study (2004) Medium: Pencil Size: 8”x10”
Street View (2002) Location: Taiwan Medium: WaterColor Size: 24”x36”
Street View (2005) Location: New York Medium: WaterColor Size: 9”x11”
Still Live (2005) Medium: Acrylic Size: 11”x14”
Color Gradient (2005) Medium: Magazine Collage Size: 9�x6�
Mater study (2005) Medium: Magazine Collage, Color-Aid Size: 8.5�x17�
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