CONNIE JAN
PORTFOLIO 2011-2017
(Yu-Ning)
T O W H O M I T M A Y C O N C E R N, Greetings. I am a current Architectural Graduate in M.S. Advanced Architectural Design at the Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation and am very interested in lighting design for arts, shows, exhibitions and architectures. Before I came to New York, I worked as a part-time employee for half a year at Ecoscope—a Landscape Architectural Studio—in Taiwan. I improved my ability to cooperate and communicate with others in a team and dealt with real operation architectural cases. It has helped me to achieve a better mindset and software skills. My passion and eagerness for design has urged me to become a proactive and enthusiastic person in practice. I am a creative and strategic thinker with a solid ability with physical model making, and confident with Rhino, Diva, Skertchup, Autocad, Adobe suite...etc, and am a fast learner for all kinds of software. To me, there is no challenge that is more challenging than the challenge to improve myself. YOURS TRULY,
CONNIE JAN
Catalogue:
GSAPP
TKU
-Death and the City (2017 summer) A combination of cemetery and NYC shorelines with four different phases to help the deaths and relatives to move on.
-City WanderLand (2015-2016) Utilized people’s unawareness intention of the surrounding to turn the underground street to a whole new level of street-experience.
-Circular Impression (2017 fall) A city park to mediate two neighborhoods that is very different economically in Campinas, Brazil with zero energy cost bioluminescent lighting system.
-Light Museum (2015 Fall) Studied the connection between Light and Space to create the precise multi-level of light. -Urban Wall (2015 Spring) Studied the ventilation and the daylight path of a certain kind of building’s form to create a better living condition in the city. -Floating Fishermen Housing X Market (2014 Fall) Extension of the hexagonal elements study and put them on the ocean to substitute the old fishermen Housing. -Hexagoanl Elements Re-Design (2014 Fall) Redefined and renewed the old buildling’s facade.
-Church X Community Design (2013 Fall) Used the concept of co-exist to mix the sacred church and noisy community center together.
-Body Machine (2011 Fall) Presented the beauty of human body’s connection with the mechanic manipulation.
Death
Disposition
Therapy
Coexistence
Release
Water
Water Hall
Memorial Pool
Bath House
River Bath
Shock
Depression
Acceptance
Release
CONCEPT:
FLUIDITY Living
1. Death in the City Instructor: Karla Rothstein Co-Instructor: David Zhai Teammate: Connie Jan, Jichao Sun, Xingjian Shi
Death Lab: Founded by: Karla Rothstein
Based at Columbia University GSAPP, the DeathLab is a trans-disciplinary research and design space focused on reconceiving how we live with death in the metropolis. DeathLab makes it possible for dynamic minds to come together to engage the complex challenges of our individual and collective mortality. We are changing how people think about death. At the core of DeathLab is a team of leading researchers, scholars, experts, and designers from fields that enable us to engage both intimate and infrastructural urban concerns.
shock
depression
acceptance
release
Death Vessel
Datascape: Manhattan Shorelines analysis
Fluidity is an essential characteristic of urbanity. Buildings, population, and individual lives are in flux in the city. The relative stasis of traditional cemeteries has resulted in their isolation. To bridge the gap between spaces of death and the city, we embrace death’s relationship with time. The shorelines of New York City have undergone progressive change. We are engaging the unstable threshold of the waterfront as a site to intensify engagement with the temporality of death and remembrance. Programming and mediated experience intertwine with the city and the water to include layers of disposition, therapy, coexistence and release. NYC’s historic floating baths, which once created a bond between people’s lives and the water, are re-integrated into ceremonial activities.
Datascape: Manhattan Shorelines analysis
Site: Bryant Park According to the Manhattan Shorline Analysis, Bryant Park has fluctuated the most.
Plan Layout Dataacape
Water Hall Hudson River
Memorial Pool
Bath House
River Bath
River Bath!
Summer
Snow Hill!
Winter
2. GROWN STUDIO Bio-materials, Adaptation, and Architecture 2017 Fall Instructor:
David Benjamin
My site is right in an undeveloped landscape in Campinas, Brazil. It’s between two neighborhoods that is very different economically. I think it would be great to integrate these two neighborhoods more. And so I’m proposing a new version of city public space, and here will be the connection to the both side. And actually what will be connecting them is not so much a typical thing, such as a sport facilities or a community center, But it’s light.
Campinas, Brazil Light is visual impression that is interpreted in our brains and put in context to create emotions that move us to take particular actions. But in fact, light could also become the problem.
LOW-INCOME
SITE
REGULAR
Most people think of light, they think of Time Square. A fascinating landmark in New York City with high resolution screens everywhere. However, the massive occupation billboards have caused the once vivid building become hollow and empty inside, and so not to mention the severe light pollution.
EMPTY!
Ribosome Chromosome Cell Wall Bioluminescense
Flagella
Hawaiian Bobtaiil Squid
Vibrio Fischeri
Prerequisite: 1. UV Light will damage bacterias DNA 2. 18-25 degree C is the best temparature for bacterias to grow. 3. The best glow is between 18-48 hours. 4. 3 days are the maximum for bacterias to stay in the same medium, they’ll glow less and less each day until they don’t glow at all, but once they get re-cultured, it will start to grow and glow again.
Quorum Sensing Bacteria use luminescence reaction is for quorum sensing, an ability to regulate gene expression in response to bacterial cell density.
BIOSENSOR An other kind of light that doesn't take any energy at all, is created by a bacteria called Vibrio fischeri. They live inside the Hawaiian Bobtail Squid to help them to mimic 滾滾長江東逝水 the moonlight, so that they won't have any shadows at all. That is a behavior called Quorum sensing. By gathering to certain amounts they will start to glow. A group of people from Sup’Biotech, they figured they could combine vibrio fischeri with E.coli to become a Biosensor, to detect a specific pollutant and respond to it by emitting bioluminescence, and in this case, it detects Air Pollution. And Most importantly, those bacterias need to be re-culture at the maximum of three days and they need food.
Air Pollutant
LUX BRICK Sup’Biotech
Vibrio Fischeri
BIOSENSOR
LUX BRICK
AIR POLLUTION
? A shit museum in Italy found out they could turn cows manure by anaerobic digestion to energy for electricity, by experimenting them, they also found out they could extract methane out from manure to power the bioluminescent bacteria. So, I managed a system for my bacteria, start with a cow farm to the anaerobic digestion, then to the biogas transportation system.
Biosensor
CH4
Nutrient
Light Footage
Master Plan Layout
Campinas, Brazil