Hsuan-Lin Lu Portfolio 2023

Memo Betreft Letter of Reference / Recommendation

Onderwerp Hsuan-Lin Lu

Van Steven van der Heijden

Datum 21 februari 2023

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Dear Admission Committee,

Hsuan-Lin was a trainee at Koen van Velsen architects for six months, from September 2022 to February 2023. During that period and working on a variety of projects, Hsuan-Lin has shown great adaptability to our way of working, in terms of our design programs and our drawing standards as well as our way of working together.

During her time at Koen van Velsen architects, Hsuan-Lin displayed a pro-active, hard-working and meticulous attitude whilst working on the various assignments she was given. In addition she has proven to be an enthusiastic, friendly and social addition to our office.

Before joining Koen van Velsen architects, Hsuan-Lin worked with several software packages that are not commonly used at our office. However, she managed to get herself familiar with Revit and AutoCAD by drawing presentation drawings for our Huis op Zuid project, a hybrid new-built building containing a sports centre, residential apartments and commercial spaces. Hsuan-Lin learned fast by solving every problem she encountered in the process. As the project was developed and constructed as two related, but separate projects, the work not only included working to our drawing standards but also comprised the integration of two projects of the same scale and comparable level of information. In addition to Huis op Zuid, Hsuan-Lin worked on our Groningen Station project and several other projects. She has proven herself to be fast in getting acquainted with long-running projects. I should also mention that most of our files are named in Dutch. Hsuan-Lin completed her assignments within time and of the required quality.

We wish Hsuan-Lin the best of success in her future endeavours. Due to her attitude and talent, we have every confidence she will fulfill her potential and will successfully continue her career in becoming and working as an architect.

I am therefore pleased to recommend Hsuan-Lin to your program and working as a junior architect or an architectural designer.

Yours faithfully,

Steven van der Heijden

Hsuan-Lin Lu

+31 619722907

hsuanlin.lu.work@gmail.com

3512 AP Utrecht

Education

2019 - 2021 Eindhoven University of Technology Eindhoven, NL

MSc, Master Architecture, Building and Planning

- Architect Register Track

- Master thesis on hypermodern architecture(8.0/10.0)

- Seminar Emerging Technologies in Timber Architecture

2012 - 2017 National Cheng Kung University Tainan, TW

BSc, Bachelor Industrial Design

- Minor in architecture

- GPA3.7, Rank 1st among 45 graduates

- Graduation project on elderly care equipment (Dean's Best Design Award, Lexus Special Award)

Experience

Sep - Feb 2023

Koen van Velsen Architecten Hilversum, NL

Architecture Trainee

- Tiling proposals for the sports center of Huis op Zuid

- Presentation drawings for Huis op Zuid

- Wayfinding elements and lighting fixtures booklet for Hoofstation Groningen Station

Language

Mandarin : Native

English : Proficient(TOEFL iBT 99)

Dutch : Beginner(CEF A1-A2)

Currently attending the A2 Dutch course

Publication

2021 Master thesis BEHIND THE SCREEN (Individual)

2021 Studio Booklet CREEPING INTO A NEW ERA

2016 Graduation Book DEEP SENSE (Collective)

Technical Skill

3D Softwares

Rhinoceros

Grasshopper

Revit

Vray

Enscape

Solidworks

Keyshot

Jul - Aug 2022

Bio Architecture Formosana Taipei, TW

Architecture Intern

- Concept diagram for Kinmen County Central Library and Art Museum competition

- Model making for Taipei Music Library competition

- Facade design proposals for Asia Silicon Valley

2D Softwares

Indesign Photoshop Illustrator

Autocad

Feb - Jun 2017

Coding Art Tainan, Taiwan

Assistant Product Designer

- Worked on design proposals for industrial air purifiers

Laser Cutting

LaserCut

3D Printing

Aug - Sep 2015

Hers Design Osaka, Japan

Product Design Intern

- Worked on a social design proposal

- Assisted with package design for stationery

Cura

Video Editting

Affect Effects

Table of Contents

Selected works 2017 - 2023

03_ Behind the Screen Video Game Museum

04_ The Wall Collective Housing Complex

02_ Hoofdstation Groningen Train Station Expansion

01_ Huis op Zuid Residential Building + Sports Center

05_ The Dutch Mountain Indoor Ski Resort 06_ Into the River of History Observatory Pavilion

Asia Scilicon Valley Data Center

Huashan Creative Park Office Renovation

01_ Huis op Zuid

Residential Building + Sports Center Execution Phase. Rotterdam, 2022-2023

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Dakaanzicht / Roof View

Overzicht laag 0 (P0)

02_ Hoofdstation Groningen

Train Station Renovation

1896 & 1928 Kappen West Schaal 1:400

Execution Phase, Groningen, 2022-2023

In charged of_Booklet Wayfinding Elements and Lighting Fixtures, Fragment Drawings for the Commercial Signages

Wayfinding Elements P0 Overview

Wayfinding Element Fragment

Wayfinding Element Fragment

Monumental Station Building Fragment

Commercial Signages Renderings

03_ Behind the Screen

Video Game Museum. Architecture of Liquid Surveillance

Graduation Studio Intermediate Space, Amsterdam, 2021

The graduation studio Intermediate Space aspires to investigate the role of architecture and urbanism in the hypermodern age. With the framework of hypermodernity underpinned, a wide scope of topics are encouraged to explore, including transparency, technology, and surveillance. During group research phase, a focus onto the phenomenon of data surveillance was gradually generated.

While a panopticon was an iconic design to execuate panoptic surveillance and was later appropriated as a metaphor to control society, what can be a new design and a metaphor about surveillance in a hypermodern society?

This thesis seeks to propose an architectural design as an answer to the above question. Given with the name Behind the Screen, this thesis project is designed as an analogy to arouse people's awareness to data surveillance in the hypermodern society.

Approaching the museum from the inland side

A statue-like building composite resides on the new piece of land. The strip and circular openings raise people's curiosity to look inside the building by revealing partial exhibition contents.

Approaching the museum from the costal side

The uplifted volumes make the building composite seems like a watching machine. Ramps in between the volumns create a swirl entrance and welcome visitors to enter the entangled world.

View from IJ river

The adoption of glass makes the ramps visually lighter. The transparency also results in visible data surveillance and a perceivable sense of liminality, rendering the circular space a heterotopic digital panopticon.

Liminality

In Don Delillo's novel Cosmopolis, liminal spaces are introduced in the contemporary urban context. Because of the contrast and entanglement of the the physical environment and the virtual space, constant oscillations between the real and the virtual have become part of the citizens' daily lives. A sense of threshold is empirically perceived through bodily movements between these two urban dimensions, that is, entering one by leaving another. Given that the drastic transformations on spaces that an individual interacts with, this sense of threshold, or liminality, is a consequent status where an individual is sensitive to sensations and has a clear awareness of self and otherness.

A Liminal Space in the Netherlands

From the text, it is infered that a liminal space appears on a boundary of two domains. After comparing several topographical boundaries, a harbor waterfront is considered as a suitable choice for its strong liminality. Therefore, the filters of both a cosmopolis and a harbor are applied to find out a site in the Netherlands. As a result, port of Amsterdam and port of Rotterdam are selected and analyzed:

IJ river is like a separation in Amsterdam's context because the adjacent central station locates with its back towards the IJ river. There is not much land for people who exit the central station at the IJ river side to move forward. The clarity of the topographical boundary results in a strong liminality.

Nieuwe Maas river is more like a connection in Rotterdam's context because the bridges across the river serve as the continuous routes to transport people between north and south. The smooth moving without waiting and transitioning renders less liminality to this land-and-water boundary.

Site searching area around IJ river

It is decided to focus on the periphery of IJ river and to search for a liminal space. Attention is especially paid to fragmented terrains and pennisulas because of their extreme proximity to water and consequent stronger liminality.

On the northern side of Buiksloterham, a new piece of land, the Groene Oever, is made to protect ships from colliding buildings on land. It is considered as the ideal site because of its location, emptiness, and the view.

View to the server atrium

A sunken data center allows visitors to look down into the space. The higher position provides visitors a sense of superiority and renders the watching act as surveillance. Servers inside the atrium are a manifest that the exhibition is virtual-based.

View to the demo atrium

While the first level of the demo atrium is the place for visitors to involve in a new gameplay, the walkway passing through the demo atrium on the second level allows other visitors to witness the playing event from a higher position.

Building of the permenant exhibition

On the ramps

The ramps are designed to connect the two buildings from different levels so both vertical and horizontal movement are included. The height difference and surrounding views lead to an interesting walking experience.

The walkway and the platform on the second floor integrate the permenant hall and provide visitors an overview to the exhibition space from a higher position.

View to the outward cityscape

While walking on the ramps, there are views to the city, by which a contemplation on data surveillance and an association to the field of daily lives

The data tower

can be incubated.

The data tower stands alone in the entrance plaza. It is morphologically a monument in reminiscence of the panopticon and contentwise a hub of data surveillance. Data analysis of the visitors are exhibited in the tower.

Building of the temporary exhibition

Unlike the integrated and transparent space in the permanent hall, spaces in the temporary hall are separated. As a result, there is no clear overview and the visible range is much smaller.

Arriving the entrance plaza

The data tower stands alone in the entrance plaza. It is morphologically a monument in reminiscence of the panopticon and contentwise a hub of data surveillance. Data analysis of the visitors are exhibited in the tower.

04_ The Wall

Collective Housing Complex / Walls' spatial interpretation

Masterproject Studio The Wall. Eindhoven, 2020

Positioned as a research and design studio, THE WALL starts with studying on wall-related projects: Barcelona Pavilion, Kilometro Rosso, and Village Project are analyzed in terms of their relation to walls and how walls in different scales can be applied in an architectural design. Literature review on WHITE WALLS, DESINGER DRESSES is carried out to further understanding the potential of walls' expressive asthetics.

After exploring the possibilities, the following design practice on walls includes both an urban design and an architectural design. Students are asked to re-design the triangular site of Evoluon in Eindhoven. A collective housing has to be designed on the site. Most important of all, walls must be readable in the overall scheme, whether as urban configuration or as architectural elements.

05_ The Ducth Mountain

Indoor Ski Resort / Integration of multiple programs in an extra large complex Masterproject The Dutch Mountain, Nijmegen, 2020

This project is commisioned by a bunch of ski enthusiasts. The aim is to build an indoor ski resort in the area of or close to Noord Brabant. In this sense, the precise location needs to be studied and decided. Like the given name, The Dutch Mountain, it is intended to create an artificial substitute for Alpine skiing in the Netherlands. The requirement of the ski slope is restrict: both a professional and a recreational piste should be accommodated in the project. Both pistes' length should be at least 100 meters long, which renders the slope itself an extra large volume and creates enormous space underneath. Preferably, different orientations and gradients are included among the slopes. In the ski resort, with the ski slopes as its core, other programs need to be included to amuse the visitors and expedite a longer stay.

Beginner Area

Slope Gradient less than 25%

Slope Gradient from 25% to 40% First Aid

Approaching the ski complex from the parking lot

The ski park complex is consist of several scattered facility volumns. Still, all the volumes are connected by a continuous routing, which results in a closed triangle loop in the complex.

Skiing down the recreational piste

On the landing, there is an entrance to the ski club in between the two slopes. In the ski club there are the first aid, toilets, and rest areas for the skiers. Also, there is an entrance from the concert hall building, allowing people to enter and witness the skiing.

Entering the ski hall with ordinary/atheletes' routings

On the righthand side of the lobby there is the ramp for atheletes, which leads to the atheletes' training club and preparation area. Ordinary visitors need to go to the ticket counter first and then enter their preparaion area through the passage beneath the ramp.

Shopping, eating and watching the skiing practices at the ski hall lobby

On the lefthand side of the lobby there are a sport shop on the ground floor, a cafe on the first floor, a passage on the second floor connecting the hotel and the ski hall, and a restaurant plus a roof garden on the third floor. It is full of different routings and dynamics.

06_ Into the River of History

Observatory Pavilion / Spirit of Space

Architecture Studio II, Hsinchu, 2018

This project is consist of two parts: Signal Box and Signal Station. The first part is about designing a 1:1 installation with a specific construction method and with real materials. The second part is about designing a pavilion using the techniques acquired in the first part.

Above_ A space of brightness and freshness, a section in the city walls about to overlook the East gate.

Below_ A space of darkness, humidity, and full of the sound of waterfall, a sunken area diving into the city moat.

Context Analysis

Old Town Area and Its Boundary

The old town area of Hsinchu City is roughly surrounded by Zhongzheng, Beida, Xida, Linsen, and Shengli roads. The original city walls had been torn down and do not exist now, while part of the ancient city moat and the well-preserved East gate are still on Shengli road. The remaining ditch was expanded and renovated into an artificial river, and its surrounding area was planned and transformed into several riverbank parks.

Site Selection

－In the section of the remaining city moat

－Close to the end of the remaining city moat

Spirit of Space

－The existance of original city walls and city moat

－Linear relation to the East gate

－Waterflow and greenary of the city

Old Town Area

City Walls (not existing)

City Moat (existing)

East Gate (existing)

Spot on the City Moat

Direction towards the East Gate

Riverbank Park

Central Train Station

A cube is used to represent the no-longer existing walls and create spaces which were unreachable. Its dimension refers to the height of the walls and the depth of the moat.

Concept Diagram

The internal space is divided by two straight staircases into long and narrow aisles. Following the orthogonal routing, directionality repeatedly. They can not only walk into the bottom of the moat to feel the water flow but can also stand at look at the East gate and ponder the evolution of Hsinchu's history.

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routing, visitors are able to sense the at the height of the city walls to

Drainage Design Detail

Material & Structure

This signal station is primarily constructed by aluminum boxes, which represent bricks used in the city walls. The aboveground structure is a column-beam system, while the underground part is designed as a hanging system.

Seeable & Unseeable

The piled-up alluminum boxes allow visitors to look at riverbank scenery at both sides. Nevertheless, the boxes block the view in the direction of the city walls. The single-directional transparency is expected to arouse people's awareness of being in the walls, which was totally solid and unreachable in its original status.

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Ramp House

Corridor Housing Flip House

Forest Club

Urban Form Oosterhout