Work Sample Pamphlet v.1 by JJ Yeo

JIAJUN YEO SELECTED WORK 08 09 10 11

EDUCATION Yale School of Architecture / Fall 2008 - Present Master of Architecture (I) Program

University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada / Fall 2005

Student Exchange Program, Participated in Urban Design Studio and Design/Build Studio

National University of Singapore / 2003 - 2007 Bachelor of Arts in Architecture (Honours) May ‘07

JIA-JUNYEO YEO JIAJUN ADDRESS 1012 Chapel Street, Unit 202 New Haven, CT 06510 USA

PHONE +(1) 646-763-4566

EMAIL jayjyeo@gmail.com

RELEVANT EXPERIENCE Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates PC, New York City / 2007 Aug – 2008 Jul Junior Architect ∙ +(1) 212-237-3588 ∙ www.kpf.com

Büro-OS, Beijing / Summer 2010

Architectural Intern ∙ +(86) 10-5900-1989 ∙ www.buro-os.com

The Secret Little Agency, Singapore / 2009 Jul – Aug Design ∙ Construction ∙ www.thesecretlittleagency.com

Alsop Architects, Singapore / 2006 Jun – Aug Architectural Intern ∙ www.alsoparchitects.com

Ministry of Design, Singapore / 2004 Jun – Aug

Architectural Intern ∙ +(65) 6222-5780 ∙ www.modonline.com

Equal Brand Design, Singapore / 2001 Jan – Mar Graphic Design Intern ∙ +(65) 6223 3398

ACTIVITIES Yale School of Architecture / 2010 – 2011

Teaching Fellow, Intermediate Planning and Development, with Professor Alexander Garvin Teaching Assistant, Sites & Buildings, with Professor Steven Harris

5ft Creatives / 2007 – 2010 Founder ∙ Director ∙ Writer

Singapore Architect Magazine / 2010 Contributor

Department of Architecture, National University of Singapore / 2006 – 2007 Vice President, The Architectural Society Teaching Assistant, Technology in Social Habitats, with Professor Wong Yunn Chii

Singapore Youth Expedition Project / 2005

Volunteer with Tsunami relief effort in Galle, Sri Lanka

Guard of Honour, Republic of Singapore Air Force / 2002 Freelance Graphic Design / 2000 – Present AWARDS & COMPETITIONS Build a Better Burb / 2010

Finalist, with Kipp C. Edick ∙ www.buildabetterburb.org

Dean’s List / 2003 – 2004

National University of Singapore, Department of Architecture

Field Defence Squadron, Republic of Singapore Air Force / 2002 Outstanding RSAF Serviceman of the Month, Letter of Commendation

SKILLS AutoCAD, Microstation, Adobe Creative Suite, Maya, Rhinoceros, Grasshopper, Sketchup, Pepakura, Maxwell, V-Ray, Mental Ray, Ecotect, Microsoft Office / Wood & Metal working, Experimental Casting, Timber & S.I.P. Construction, CNC Milling, Hand Drafting, Self-Publishing Fluent in English and Mandarin, both written and spoken.

REFERENCES available upon request

GROUNDING CALLAN YALE SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE TOD WILLIAMS & BILLIE TSIEN FALL 2010 ADVANCED STUDIO

Practice Makes Perfect The town of Callan developed – as did many towns and cities in the 19th century – with their backs turned toward the main waterways. Instead, the ‘Main street’ was where the attention of the town folk was centered; and in Callan’s case, away from its historical medieval lanes and Kings River. Through the manipulation of the ground surface and insertion of textured ground surfaces, the KCAT Theater Center performs its bridging function while creating a new public space. The new ground surface links the main street intersection of Callan directly to the Theater Center, where a flexible performance hall, workshops and apartments surround a series of rehearsal spaces in which the daily activities of actors and artists unfold. While the horizontal configuration of program provides a counterpoint to the vertically stratified nature of the existing KCAT building, the massing of the project expresses an aggregation of built form at the river’s edge – a privilege previously only offered to streets and squares – while organizing spaces around the daily practice of rehearsal. While expressing the accessible nature of the KCAT program and its new premises, the ground surface links the main street intersection of Callan directly to the Theater Center, where it slips between a flexible performance hall, workshops and apartments which surround a series of rehearsal spaces in which the daily rituals of actors and artists unfold. This project was nominated for the Yale School of Architecture’s H.I. Feldman Prize in the Fall of 2011.

pedestrian bridge

performance practice living

prop shop 1000 sf.

cafe 1000 sf.

dressing room 500 sf.

rest rooms 500 sf.

load / unload 400 sf.

rehearsal / common use space 800 sf.

rehearsal / common use space 500 sf.

rest rooms 500 sf.

rehearsal / common use space 200 sf.

office / admin 100 sf.

4 bedroom apartment 1000 sf.

2 bedroom apartment 500 sf.

studio apartments 250 sf. x 4

theater hall 2600 sf.

green room 100 sf.

box office 100 sf.

transition

spill out spaces

transitional spaces cafe

office

theater hall

green room

dressing room

prop shop

loading / unloading

rehearsal rooms

access & circulation

store

houses

here to there Continued by means of a narrow bridge over the river, the ground surfaceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s consistent materiality across foreground and background collapses the space between the existing art centreâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s premises and the new theatre centre. While the car park has been redesigned to suggest its use for activities ranging from daily parking to an annual arts festival, the rehearsal spaces and performance hall allow for flexible occupancy and back of house access to encourage theatrical experimentation.

Section Through Residences, Rehearsal Room and Theatre Hall

STRIP CITY YALE SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE BIMAL MENDIS SPRING 2010 STUDIO

JJ YEO GINA DI TOLLA 

prologue what type?   

This kit has been developed as a guide to examining non-standard and hybrid buildings types which could constitute the ingredients of new urban districts, and test development parcels in locations where marketdriven types will constitute the majority of buildings.

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   

These typologies have unfortunately come to represent the anti-urban, but they are just as much a part of the urban vocabulary.

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If the Urbanism Starter Kit proposed informed building blocks that aim to balance economic, dimensional and environmental criteria, these observations look to eccentricities of typology that exist on the perimeter of urbanity in cities as we know it, to hypothesize what they can offer to specific urban contexts.

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While typical types emerge as inevitable manifestations of market forces and use, the new types here solve specific emergent problems through programmatic transformation while maintaining core flexibility. The relative value of the land will have an impact on the potential elasticity of the type. In newly planned urban districts, the need for new identity, driven by economic agenda, impacts the evolution of the pure prototype into collaged assemblages.

Clubhouse & Sport facilities 1m

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Rules of Thumb: - Storage of commercial / personal goods & items - Usually commercial / industrial storage facilities are located at the city fringe, while personal storage facilities are located more centrally

Rules of Thumb:

- Located near infrastructural highways - Large, Horizontal, Low Structures. - Required Usage of - Large Loading / Vehicle Storage & Parking Area

- Also known as Interstate Rest Areas - Located along U.S. Interstate Highways - Provide Food & Drink, Fuel and other Amenities to Drivers - Usual Tenants: Macd

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Rules of Thumb: - The average golf course runs between 6400-6800 hundred yards, that’s up to 3.86 miles. An 18-hole golf facility averages about 150-200 acres of total land, including water bodies, hard structures, and out-of-play-areas. Typical urban courses are only 110-120 acres, and courses in resort areas may go up to 170-190 acres. - Green fees can be high; in this case Pebble Beach charges USD$495 per flight - Attendant facilities include a clubhouse with food & beverage amenities and other sport facilities like a pool, tennis courts, etc. and even overnight guest rooms. - Drainage and Grading of golf courses are considered and are usually designed to be compatible with the character of their immediate environments - The golf industry has a substantial impact on the local economy. The 25 cours es in Scottsdale Arizona employ 1,025 workers with a combined payroll of $22.6 million per year. The direct economic impact of those 25 courses is conserva tively estimated at $45 million per year, with revenues of almost $676,000 in sales taxes in 1995. It is the indirect economic impact from tourists enjoying golf in Scottsdale, that provides economic benefits to the entire community. In addi tion to playing golf, tourists stay in Scottsdale hotels and resorts, eat at local restaurants, and shopping at local businesses. The indirect revenues generated from golf can be four or five times the amount of direct revenues. - Residential developments often incorporate golf courses into development plans, both as an additional amenity for future residents and as a way to add value to residential properties along the golf course.

   Golf Course Water Management Schematic 

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 

325’

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Green Space Plaza / Hardscape Surface Parking

The removal of the I-195 highway in Providence, RI presented the opportunity for the insertion of a physically connective strip condition within the center of downtown providence, which will enable previously unprecedented programs and building types to catalyze the integration of local economy and human capital. What would happen if the edge became the center?

5 miles

$800M 2008 City Budget

RISD

BROWN

JOHNSON & WALES

$800M $800M 2008 2008 City City Budget Budget

RISD RISD

$99M

$515M

$16M

$175M

International Student Tuition

Domestic Student Tuition: Country

Domestic Student Tuition: State

Contributions

BROWN BROWN

JOHNSON JOHNSON & WALES WALES &

chelsea piers manhattan

payne whitney gymnasium new haven

$99M $99M

$515M $515M

$16M $16M

$175M $175M

International International Student Student Tuition Tuition

Domestic Domestic Student Student Tuition: Tuition: Country Country

Domestic Domestic Student Student Tuition: Tuition: State State

Contributions Contributions

pier 40 manhattan

site providence, ri

water cube beijing, china

Various scales of architecture, building types and infrastructure occupying the zone of the periphery were examined in order to posit the repositioning of edge and peripheral types within the very center of Providence as catalytic agents; leveraging on the cooperative potentials between key industries and existing academic research institutions.

Providence River

Tidal Flooding

Unfolded plan and section of the constructed flood plain

Proposal for an Amgen-Brown University Bio-Medical Research & Recreation Center

Control Point / Chestnut St.

Catchment / Storm Zone 4

Control Point / Richmond St.

Catchment / Storm Zone 3

Control Point / Dyer St.

Catchment / Storm Zone 2

Control Point

Catchment / Storm Zone 1

Interstate-95

Cooperative programs give birth to architectures which materialize as infrastructure-scaled buildings catering, in this case, to research and development programs linking up Bio-Med MNCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s such as AMGEN and local institutions like Brown University. These buildings inhabit a flexible green thoroughfare which doubles as connective park tissue and stormwater repository and contingency flood plain for the city of Providence.

RE-LIEF FINALIST BUILD A BETTER BURB COMPETITION WITH KIPP C. EDICK

LIRR Port Jefferson Branch

In examining the existing implements that constitute the urban zero-point, we saw the opportunity to rebuild Long Island literally from the ground up. While architecture has changed over time, the built environment’s hardscape – that which constitutes any given stretch of sidewalk, asphalt, tree planters, newsstands, hard paving and even street lighting – has essentially remained constant regardless of location, be it city center, suburban strip mall or rural countryside. The needs of the Long Island ‘burb requires more than just purely unctional implements but something which can sustain an aging population, while catering to and attracting an active younger demographic with new implements that improves the surroundings while offering a different living environment from the metropolis. Seemingly convenient, the current suburban landscape in Long Island is geared towards the default use of the automobile by its inhabitants. An analysis of land use within the Hicksville downtown vicinity reveals that residential areas are distinctly separate from amenities and conveniences. A typical Hicksville inhabitant has to endure minutes of downtown traffic junctions in order to get a bottle of milk, a magazine, visit the laundromat or even to get some groceries. Contrast this with downtown Manhattan, where all the needs of an apartment dweller are met within just a twoblock radius. Performance thus has to be aimed at mechanisms that can accommodate physical accessibility and economic and social atmosphere. Instead of a top-down imposition of asphalt and concrete, the new hard-scape springs from bottom-up, taking into account existing conditions and inhabitants and enabling improved pedestrian and bike connections between related programs, and ultimately greater access to regional networks such as the LIRR and LIE. At the more immediate scale of the Long Island home, a five to ten minute walk to the office, or a light jog to the deli, are visions which the new hardscape will enable, in favor of neighborhoods which encourage human interaction and not traffic-light distraction. One startling obvious fact about most hamlets in the Long Island region is its unrelenting flatness. The lack of topographical variety has undoubtedly contributed to the unsavory nature of Hicksville’s downtown, which lacks an appealing environment for living, working, and play; much like any other Long Island neighborhood. Trading the largely single or double-storied city for one that has urban relief would offer greater variety in downtown skylines. Higher density development are efficient enough for rental, enabling a more liberated, pedestrian-friendly ground floor to meet the city’s inhabitants’ everyday needs; be it parking, retail or recreation and leisure.

LIRR Ronkonkoma Branch

In what is a return to what surburb were supposed to represent - an escape from the metropolis - the reconceived hardscape reinvents the suburban landscape by a re-optimization of hardscape implements so that the Hicksville downtown is injected with greater pedestrian connectivity, while acknowledging the presence of important regional networks.

Hicksville: Re-surfaced

Based on an analysis of specific programs which inhabit Hicksvilleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s downtown, a distribution of programmatic averages showed that many homes lack an office in close proximity, accessto cultural venues or medical and community services. A close study of the program types and their manifest typologies uncovered ideas which could successfully retrofit Hicksvilleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s under-utilized land by learning from Hicksville itself. Programs were then redistributed into identified underused parking cluster in order to nourish homes with conveniences that are always within a 5 minute walking radius, in the form of distinct typologies which we propose could help revise what Hicksville means to a pedestrian in the city. 16

YVMA YALE SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE MARTIN FINIO FALL 2009 STUDIO

This project for an archive, which will serve as extension to the Beinecke Rare Books Library, is primarily about the archive user, its artifacts, and their relationship with daylight. Within the archive, the eye gradually adjusts to a new dim; light is employed sparingly; and an ongoing dialogue ensues at the interface between inside and outside, at the edges where the world outside ends and the life of the archive within begins.

roof

third floor reading room digital browsing reference desk

second floor galleries & offices

main circulation stair

info / display bar

ground floor reception reference desk theatre entry shoppe cafe

basement one theatre loading bay processing basement two archival vault

BEINECKE REDUX YALE SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE DIGITALMEDIA & FABRICATION SUMMER 2009

Animation stills from Flash site interface

As part of a digital media and fabrication studio, beinecke redux sought to explore how the existing facade of the beinecke could be transformed through subtle alterations to its base geometry, while maintaining the experiential transition from a subtle exterior to a dramatic interior.

Animation sequences were used as visual transitions between pages on the site, which further illustrated the redesign of Gordon Bunshaftâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 1963 facade panel for the Beinecke Library at Yale University.

A gradient of visual and liminal porosity was created using Grasshopper in Rhino. A prototype was then produced by means of a medium-sized MDX 540 Mill.

THE SECRET LITTLE AGENCY FREELANCE, SINGAPORE SUMMER 2009

plan N

Located in Tanjong Pagar, Singapore, this project for a small seven-person advertising agency involved the interior renovation of a conservation shop house to accomodate new office premises that included a meeting room, work stations and a pantry.

main door

cc skylit space

Electrical / Wiring

Air-Conditioning Ductwork

Ambient lighting

plan

RCP

Whiteboard interior walls transform the workplace into a blank canvas that facilitates the creative process.

HUDSON RAIL YARDS NEW YORK CITY FALL 2007 Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates, New York With Related LP, Goldman Sachs, Arquitectonica, Robert A.M. Stern Archtiects, Elkus Manfredi Architects and West 8 Landscape Architecture. Participated as Junior Architect

The landscaped ground plane was designed, drawn in cad then fabricated in acrylic for the final competition model. 31

CHONG QING FINANCIAL STREET CHONG QING, CHINA SPRING 2008 Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates, New York Participated as Junior Architect As designer of much of the landscape features along the Financial Street, attention was paid not only to floor patterning and planting, but on a range of urban furniture pieces, street lighting fixtures, green walls and water walls which would help punctuate the dense business district with moments of pause.

pocket park

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