Selected Works
2014 - 2017
Shao Lun Gary Lin
PORTFOLIO
MArch I, Harvard GSD BSc, McGill University
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Perimeter Plan Occupying the poche
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Rare Books Library Nesting between private and public
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Not Short Building Forming the part-to-whole
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Urban Chain Link A live/work typology for South Boston
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Kandor Architecture Mythical school shaped by memories
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Perimeter Plan
T he project wrestles with the organization of the interior and the language of the exterior. The poche absorbs and negotiates the difference between the sectional shift and the fenestration, while maintaining the perimeter. It functions as a secondary circulation with unexpected pockets that connect the communal spaces. The triangular staircase results in a parking garage typology that mediates the landings with ramped floors. The spiraling windows indicate that the facade is closely related to the movement of floor plates.
Fall 2014
Stair & Circulation Diagram
Maintain Perimeter
Poche as Space
Perimeter Plan Harvard GSD Core I: Project Studio Critic: Kiel Moe
Secondary Circulation
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Perimeter Plan
Roof: Skylight pattern as a continuation of facade openings
Staircase & Floor Plates: Parking garage typology with single loaded corridors
Facade & Windows: Vertical Shifts due to ramped floor plates and triangular staircase
Apertures: Draw natural light into dorm rooms
Poche as Space: Secondary circulation connecting common areas and communal program
Fall 2014
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Rare Books Library
The project negotiates between
the program, a rare books library (a private institution), and the site, the Emerald Necklace (a public park). The building bridges over the river and connects the site, as well as houses the books in the nested and layered spaces. This is achieved primarily through a series of nested corridors, which allows the general public to move in parallel to the rare books library. Furthermore, the programs are organized with respect to sun orientation, views, and access around the site.
Spring 2015
Rare Books Library Harvard GSD Core II: Situate Studio Critic: Elizabeth Whittaker
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Rare Books Library
The building is organized with the rare books collection
sandwiched in between the public circulation and the circulating library. This creates a buffer that shields the rare books from sun exposure. Also, the rare books collection becomes the back drop of public activities. Furthermore, the rare books collection forms a corridor that divides and controls access and connectivity.
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Crossing the water multiple times, the building interacts with the site in a variety of ways. It ramps, bridges, cantilevers, and steps at different intersections.
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D. Cantilever
Concept Model
Rare Books Collection Circulating Collection
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A. Ramp
South Elevation
West Elevation C. Stair
North Elevation
East Elevation
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Rare Books Library
Roof
Third Floor
Second Floor
Ground Floor
Rare Books Collection
Spring 2015
Fragment Model of Knot: 1/4” - 1’
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Rare Books Library
1. Amphitheatre 2. Book Shop 3. Lobby 4. Projection Room 5. Small Auditorium 6. Small Group Reading Area A 7. Multi Purpose Rooms 8. Gallery & Event Space 9. Rare Books Collection 10. Exterior Courtyard
1. Terrace 2. Exterior Courtyard 3. Rare Books Collection 4. Lobby 5. Gallery & Event Space 6. Multi Purpose Rooms 7. Research Carrels 8. Interior Courtyard 9. Public Circulation
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Ground Floor Plan
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Rare Books Library
11. Computer Research Stations 12. Reproduction Facilities 13. Reference Desks 14. Research Carrels 15. Small Group Reading Area B 16. Rare Books Collection 17. Circulating Library Collection 18. Large Reading Room 19. Lobby & Small Group Reading Area C 20. Exterior Courtyard 21. Children’s Books Collection 22. Terrace 23. Public Circulation
1. Rare Books Collection 2. Lobby 3. Public Circulation 4. Small Group Reading Area A 5. Offices & Conservation Facilities 6. Lobby & Small Group Reading Area C
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Second Floor Plan
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Rare Books Library
18. Large Reading Room 24. Offices & Conservation Facilities 25. Cafe 26. Storage 1. Cafe 2. Reference Desk 3. Public Circulation 4. Rare Books Collection 5. Lobby 6. Small Auditorium 7. Circulating Library Collection 8. Research Carrels 9. Computer Research Stations 10. Book Shop
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Third Floor Plan
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Not Short Building
In a mixed-used, not-short building, the
challenge is rooted in its schizophrenic nature of contending with an autonomous exterior and the diverse internal programmatic organization. A collection of precedent plans are utilized as a way to understand the specificities required when designing such a building. These plans are transformed, sheared, mirrored, duplicated and piled in order to organize the building sectionally. Through the analysis of precedent plans, a single loaded corridor typology emerged. It functions as a bridge or as a divider that controls access between different programs. The obliquely extruded cylindrical drum organizes the programs around it, which is evident in the section. Furthermore, it affects the design of the structural system, facade, and the overall building form.
Fall 2015
Not Short Building Harvard GSD Core III: Integrate Studio Critic: Jeffry Burchard
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Not Short Building Green House Botanic Garden Palm House
Spa & Pool Baths of Diocletian
Gallery Hirshhorn Museum
Black Box Theatre Wyly Theatre
Hotel Rooms Axis Viana Hotel
Lobby Apartment Building, 51 rue Raynouard Paris
Single Loaded Corridor Room
Key Floor Plans
Single Loaded Corridor Diagrams
Fall 2015
South West Isometric
North West Isometric
South East Isometric
North East Isometric
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Not Short Building
Facade & Environmental Strategy
Structural System
Circulation
Hotel Rooms
Gallery
Black Box Theatre
Hotel & Event Lobbies
Spa and Pool Programs
Green House
Programmatic Diagrams
Fall 2015
Fragment Model 1/4” - 1’
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Not Short Buildings
10. Hotel Lobby 11. Hotel Reception 12. Terrace Seating 13. Lap Pool Reception 14. Lounge & Juice Bar 15. Management Office 16. Changing Rooms 17. Laundry 18. Staff Lockers 19. Storage 20. Security Office
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1. Lap Pool 2. Bleachers 3. Trash Room 4. Loading/Back of House 5. Service Elevator 6. Changing Rooms 7. Loading Dock 8. Storage 9. Pool Mech. Room
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1. Basement Level: Lap Pool and Loading Area
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25. Black Box Theatre 26. Projection Room 27. Changing Room 28. Training Pool 29. Management Office 30. Business Center
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4. Black Box Theatre and Business Centre Level
21. Event Lobby 22. Dressing Room 23. Equipment Room 24. Green Room 25. Black Box Theatre
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Not Short Building
37. Hotel Rooms 38. Diving Pool Reception 39. Changing Rooms 40. Diving Pool 41. Pool Mech. Room 42. Gallery Space 43. Lounge
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6. Diving Pool and Hotel Level
31. Treatment Rooms 32. Spinning Room 33. Gym 34. Gallery Space 35. Changing Room 36. Thermal Bath
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5. Thermal Bath, Wellness Centre Level and First Level of Gallery
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49. Hotel Rooms 50. Outdoor Deck 51. Roof Garden
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8. Upper Hotel Level and Roof Garden
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Not Short Building
Fall 2015
Cantilever upper level hotel rooms
1. Hotel Lobby 2. Public Terrace Seating 3. Event Lobby 4. Lap Pool Reception Area 5. Lap Swimming Pool 6. Black Box Theatre 7. Gallery Space 8. Business Center 9. Hotel Room 10. Sauna Room 11. Thermal Bath Sequence 12. Training Pool Reception Area 13. Greenhouse Reception 14. Diving Pool Reception Area 15. Hotel Lounge 16. Greenhouse Garden 17. Cafe/Breakfast Room 18. Kitchen
Larger upper floor area accommodates greenhouse Cylindrical drum extruded obliquely
Larger lower floor area accommodates pools, theatre, and back of house programs
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Gap provides view towards the city
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Urban Chain Link
Urban Chain Link Harvard GSD Core IV: Relate Studio Critic: Belinda Tato In Collaboration with Marcus Mello & Long Chuan Zhang
Spring 2016
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Boston can capitalize more on its advantage as an
importer of students from across the globe. Our project proposes an urban and architectural strategy for Boston to capitalize on this advantage by unpacking the spatial interconnection between “live” and “work.” We have reinterpreted housing on our site as a duality of discrete living units and shared communal spaces in which living and working are linked activities requiring spatial reconfiguration. Furthermore, Boston faces a housing crisis. It is known that students and millennials currently occupy rental multifamily apartment units that are more suitable and affordable for working families. This has contributed to the city’s housing crisis and high prices. Our project proposes a more appropriately designed typology in which innovators can thrive together and free up housing stock for these families.
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Urban Chain Link
Streets Pedestrian Traffic 2 Way Traffic
Park Space OSA: 2.5M sf OSR: 35 %
Harborwalk Distance: 5000 ft
Courtyards Block Area: 135,000 sf Dimensions: 500 sf x 275 sf OS/Block: 100,000 sf OS per Resident/Block: 500 sf
Ground Floor Avg. Area/Block: 30,000 sf Total Area: 650,000 sf
Office Level Avg. Area/Block: 150,000 sf Total Area: 3.3M sf
Residential Level Avg. Area/Block: 300,000 sf Total Area: 4.8M sf Avg. # units/Block: 135 Avg. # residents/Block: 200 Density/Block: 1person/700 sf South Boston: 1person/1,300sf
Streets: We began by extending key
north-south streets and a diagonal pedestrian grid to bring people across the fabric of our site closer to the open water. We also created three horizontal avenues to activate public activity across the site and allow people to experience it on ground level in a different way. Park Space: Open space strategy runs across site and bridges water and continues hugging the coast. It brings people up the waterfront and then back down to the existing park and Pleasure Bay. It’s about creating a loop back to the horizontal avenue. Activators: A key driver of our strategy is the existing infrastructural and industrial artifacts scattered on our site. To evoke memory and nostalgia of the neighborhood’s historical and industrial characteristics, we propose maintaining these elements in their grounded locations and reprogramming and repurposing them to fit the needs of our master plan.
Spring 2016
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Urban Chain Link
Site Rules Catalogue
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Site Elements Catalogue
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Urban Chain Link
Block Typology 1
Block Typology 2
Block Typology 3
Park
Inner Canal
Summer Street
Shorter residential buildings along the water
Building faces shaped by main corridor
Taller residential buildings along the park
Typical South Boston Block
Block Typology 4
New Canal
Taller residential buildings for waterfront views
New Master Plan Block
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Urban Strip
The master plan consists of 4 major building block typologies.
Logic of building blocks and four different neighborhoods that we have branded according to guiding conditions. Orientation and geometry of office and residential rings are determined by key site elements. Typology 1 follows the inner canal on the west side of the site. Typology 2 frames the main traffic that runs through the site. Typology 3 follows the orientation of the new park on the site. Typology 4 orients along the new canal that connects the new park to the existing one. The new building heights are maintained to the neighborhood scale along the south edge of the site and are increased as they approach the water edge. The typology establishes office space above ground floor retail and central courtyard. The residential loop then interlocks the neighboring office loops.
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Urban Chain Link
Urban Strip Roof Plan
Urban Strip Floor Plan
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Typical Building Block Plan, Residential
The typical residential unit is unpacked and redesigned.
Each private micro unit contains a bedroom, a bathroom, a workstation, and a storage space. Semi-communal programs such as living room, kitchen, and dining room are sandwiched between two private units and are now shared. Communal programs such as lounge, library, outdoor deck, and meeting space are arranged along the corridor to foster interactions between the inhabitants.
Spring 2016
Typical Building Block Plan, Office
The work space is organized by a 10ft x 10ft grid that can accommodate varying sizes of individual or collective work space, meeting rooms, lecture rooms, and cafeteria. Different offices are divided by a thick spine that houses the storage space and private phone booth. The part of the building where the residential loop and the office loop overlap becomes a more integrated live-work unit that resembles an artist studio. A semi-open working space acts as the buffer zone between the living units and the communal corridor.
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Urban Chain Link
Typology 1: Pocket Patio Privatized balconies for more luxurious waterfront units
Typology 2: Shared Patio Deep balconies provide shading from southern exposure
Typology 3: Strip Patio Large, shared balconies along the park
Typology 4: Stacked Patio Stacked extrusion mirrors surrounding triple decker fabric
Spring 2016
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Urban Chain Link
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Kandor Architecture
Kandor Architecture Harvard GSD Option Studio Studio Critic: Preston Scott Cohen
“Architecture is always the exhibition of a myth,” as
a certain critic put it in 1989, and the myth in this case is Kandor—the city that Superman kept shrunken in a jar. Preserved in ethereal suspense, Kandor was obsessively rendered by the sculptor Mike Kelley at the end of his life as colorful casts of glass, resin, plastic, and wax that represented the endless figurations of the mythical city in Kelley’s imagination. Our project relates Kelley’s “Kandors” to an earlier work, “The Educational Complex,” in which Kelley drew and modeled from memory the buildings of every school he had every attended. Just as Superman carried Kandor with him in a jar, so too did Kelley carry a city of educational buildings in his memory—his educational complex. The Kandor narrative was here applied to a specific project situated in Brooklyn: a campus for 2,250 kindergarten through high school students. The buildings were distinct, each representing a comprehensive school program with housing, playing fields, and auditorium, but combine to transform the city into the colorful exhibition of ‘Kandor Architecture.’”
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Kandor Architecture
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Shao Lun Gary Lin
11 Ware Street Apartment 17 Cambridge, MA 02138 sglin@gsd.harvard.edu 617 818 5300