Lihan Jin _ GSAPP Portfolio by Jin Lihan

LIHAN JIN PORTFOLIO 2015-2020

CONTENTS

TENSION INSTRUMENT

Concert Hall | Architecture Design

RECIPROCITY

Sculpture Museum | Architecture Design

CURTAIN WALL

Curtain Wall Design | GSAPP Tech Elective

PINWHEEL LIBRARY

Library Design | GSAPP Core 2 Studio Work

GREENPOINT THEATER

Theater Design | GSAPP Technology Work

FOAM, SILLICONE, WAX AND CONCTETE

Sculptural Space design | GSAPP

THE TERRACE Housing Design | GSAPP Core 3 Studio Work

01 TENSION INSTRUMENT

Concert Hall Design Group Work With Maini Ke Design Studio | GSAPP | 2020 Instructor: Steven Holl, Dimitra Tsachrelia Site: Těšnov, Prague Tension is a material property that creates both music and architecture. Inspired by Dvorak’s New World Symphony, the prototype originates from a piece of wood bent by a string in tension. The concert hall is an orchestration of walls, balconies, and acoustic panels, which are developed from the prototype by different scales and tectonics. The site find itself nested at the junction of historical and modern districts. Thus, the elements are carefully placed in the site with respect to programs, circulations, and urban landscape. The main entrance faces south west to the Těšnov, the main street inviting people from the historical district. The concert hall occupies the central area of the site, thus minimizing the noise, maximizing its floor area, and providing efficient circulation to both the entrance hall and the back of house. The dramatic contrast of old and new creates a new cultural landmark for Prague.

Tension is a material property that creates both music and architecture. For example, a violinist manipulates the tension of strings to create music; and in this project, the prototype originates from a piece of wood bent by a string in tension. Perliminary study is focused on abstract space created by this protoype: from a plannar surface to a cubic space, it has created multiple spaces of different feature: concave, convex, narraow, wide, bright and dark.

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Context Plan

Site Plan

The site find itself nested at the junction of historical and modern districts. Thus, the elements are carefully placed in the site with respect to programs, circulations, and urban landscape. The main entrance faces south west to the TÄ&#x203A;ĹĄnov, the main street inviting people from the historical district. The concert hall occupies the central area of the site, thus minimizing the noise, maximizing its floor area, and providing efficient circulation to both the entrance hall and the back of house. The dramatic contrast of old and new creates a new cultural landmark for Prague.

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Ground Floor Plan

Theatre Plan

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Section 1-1

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Top view of the â&#x20AC;&#x153;cube studyâ&#x20AC;&#x153; model provide another perspective to the space created by the prototype. Elements of different scales, which could be walls, balconies, ceilings and acoustic panels, interweave in the same space and there is no hierarchy between different scales.

Section 2-2

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02 RECIPROCITY

Sculpture Museum Design Individual work Design Studio | 2016 Instructor: Yutian Wang Site: Pier 63, New York Artworks, not simply accommodated by exhibition space, could act as a body of narrative in itself. My study is to develop architectural potential from one artwork. Inspired by a series of sculptures composed by Richard Serra, who emphasizes the ductility of metal and focuses on the interactive space created by the sculpture itself, I develop a prototype in a sculptural scale. More possibilities and functions are excavated as I deliberate it in a architectural scale. These excavations enable me to design a whole art museum with merely one simple prototype. Finally, the art museum, derived from one artwork, acts as a body of narrative and interacts with artworks and visitors again.

Proportion P=a/l Proportion of vertical part to horizontal part. This is the basic way to define “walls” and “floors”. The medium part between wall and floor could be defined as circulation.

a=1 l =6 P = a / l =1/6

a=2 l =6 P = a / l =2/6

a=3 l =6 P = a / l =3/6

a=4 l =6 P = a / l =4/6

a=5 l =6 P = a / l =5/6

b=0.5 l =6 C = b / l =1/12

b=1 l =6 C = b / l =1/6

b=2 l =6 C = a / l =2/6

b=3 l =6 C = b / l =3/6

b=4 l =6 C = b / l =4/6

e=5 d=10 A = e / d - 1/2 =0

e=6 d=10 A = e / d - 1/2 =1/10

e=7 d=10 A = e / d - 1/2 =2/10

e=8 d=10 A = e / d - 1/2 =3/10

e=9 d=10 A = e / d - 1/2 =4/10

Abreast Basic Room

Abreast Courtyard

Abreast Asymmetric

Intersect Stability

Intersect Upstairs

Side-intersect Semi-outdoors

Abreast Lobby

Curvature C=b/l Curvature is a parameter to define the degree of distortion. The shorter distortion part has higher curvature. Different curvatures define different constructions: stairs and slope.

Axis A = e / d - 1/2 Axis defines the position of rotation axis. It also determines the level height and the proportion of two floors. Axis could be decided based on the function of the room.

Horizontal Abreast / Intersect Two single prototypes could be combined horizontally. Various kinds of specific spaces are created when they combines in different directions and sequences.

Vertical Abreast / Intersect Two single prototypes could be combined vertically. Various kinds of specific spaces are created when they combines in different directions and sequences.

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Floors

Floor

Wall - Floor

Wall

Interlock

Walls

Floor - Wall

A twisted gesture creates a new, dynamic relationship between floor and wall. Program-generated clusters

Wall 01 Office

Wall 02 Painting Exhibition

Wall 05 & 06 Main Exhibition Hall

Wall 07 & 08 Performance Art

Wall 10 & 11 Main Exhibition Hall

Wall 12 Recess & Outdoor Exhibition

Wall 03 & 04 Entrance & Outdoor Exhibition

Wall 09 Cafe & Outdoor Exhibition

Wall 13 Main Gallery for Huge Painting

Wall 14 & 15 Sculpture Hall

Wall 16 Sculpture Hall

Wall 17 & 18 Exhibition & Sculpture Hall

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50 M

Site Plan

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1.0 Visitor’s Service 1.1 Visitor’s Entrance and Foyer 1.2 Ticketing 1.3 Cafe 1.4 Restroom

2.5 2.6 2.3

2.0 Exhibition 2.1 Public Exhibition 2.2 Courtyard Exhibition 2.3 Main Exhibition 2.4 Exhibition Corridor 2.5 Small Exhibition

2.3

2.5

3.0 Office 3.1 Office Hall 3.2 Conference Room 3.3 Storage 3.4 Restroom

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2.1 2.2 2.3

2.5

2.4

2.3 2.4

1.1 1.2 1.3

1.2

2.5

1.4

2.3

1.5 1.6

1: 2: 3: 4: 5: 6: 7:

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Entrance Hall Outdoor Exhibition Courtyard Exhibition Office Corridor Exhibition

1.1 Foundation 1.2 Rammed Earth 1.3 Water Barrier 1.4 Concrete Slab 1.5 Rigid Isolation 1.6 Concrete Finish 2.1 Reinforced concrete 2.2 Weather Strip 2.3 Glass 2.4 Glass Frame 2.5 Metal Beam 2.6 Perforated Plate

2.3 2.2

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1.4 1.3

3.4

3.4 3.1

Ground Floor Plan N 0

10 M

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Concept Model Detail

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Inside Out Richard Serra, The Gagosian galleries, Chelsea, Jan. 2014

Inside Out is a large-scale volume of steel that dwarfs the gallery space to a point where there is no single, immediately perceivable image. If installed in this museum, the space of the sculpture could echo and interweave with the exhibition space.

Inside Out

Equal Richard Serra, Van de Weghe, Chelsea, May, 2002

Equal is a four-foot-square steel plate, one and a half inches thick, leaning on a wall of the room and is prevented from falling by a short cylindrical prop wedged into the walls. The curvy wall in its behind is actually exaggerating the sense of instability.

Equal

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03 CURTAIN WALL

Curtain Wall Design Individual work Tech Elective | GSAPP | 2020 Instructor: Robert Heintges Site: New York The project is a nine-floor residential building with 12 feet typical floor to floor height. Located in downtown Manhattan, the project is an infill building with only one façade elevation, which will be with designed as a curtain wall system. Inspired by Brice Marden’s painting, the curtain wall design is a collage of shadows: lines and surfaces are created by layering of different elements on the façade: louvres, protruding bay windows, catwalks, transparent and opaque panels. As a residential building facade, the curtain wall creates different light conditions and privacies for different spaces.

BRICE MARDEN Untitled Postcard Drawing 1980, Graphite, ink, and gouache on card, 6 × 5“ Inspired by Brice Marden’s painting, the curtain wall design is a collage of shadows: lines and surfaces are created by layering of different elements on the façade: louvres, protruding bay windows, catwalks, transparent and opaque panels. As a residential building facade, the curtain wall creates different light conditions and privacies for different spaces. The curtain wall mainly consists of two layers: louvres as the outer layer and unitized curtain wall system as the inner layer. There is a 2.5-feet gap with catwalks between two layers for maintenance. A typical curtain wall floor to floor unit is 3 feet by 12 feet. For those area with bay windows, the special unit would be 9 feet by 12 feet with special joint, where a separate part of the bay window will be installed on site. Curtain wall panels are attached to the top of slab edge. Bay windows, louvres and catwalks are attached to the curtain wall mullions.

04 PINWHEEL LIBRARY

Library Design Individual work Core Design Studio | GSAPP | 2018 Instructor: Erica Goetz Site: Dumbo, New York With its nested interiors and floating floor plates, this Library is and inward building that provides refuge from the city. The structure consists of eight vertical piers, or trunks, that house circulation and shafts. Reciprocal deep beams radiate from each pier and interlock with the next creating a three-dimensional interlocking, efficient in both span and shear. The pinwheeling beams result is offset floor plates and gaps, or windows of light, that create a sense of expanse in a dense field of walls. As the library patrons ascend the various stairways, program elements array and provide a variety of surprising directional views within the building and out to the city.

Pin-wheel is a central symmetrical pattern that has a beauty of balance. Meanwhile, it could also be very complex when multiplied and interlocked in different scales. This project is trying to explore the structural potential of the pin-wheel pattern. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Structure is spaceâ&#x20AC;&#x153; is the motto of this project: experience of light and shadows are created by this porous space; stairs, ramps and book shelves are embedded inside the structure.

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Structure Explosion 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

Bookshelves | Elevator Entrance | Stairs Corridors | Stairs Stairs Audience Space Corridors | Ramps Scenery Frame Bookshelves

The library consists of eight structure units. Each two structure units, with thick beams stretching from the core trunk, are interlocked and combined as a stable structure. The continuous spaces in-between the structures are endowed with various elevations and intricate lighting effect.

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5 6 1

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Level 1 Plan 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

Main Lobby Community Lobby Circulation Desk Temporary Storage Cafe Cafe Kitchen Public Reading

8 9 10 11 12 13

Computer Lab Classroom Washroom Loading & Delivery Sorting Office Office

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5 1

Level 2 Plan

1 2 3 4 5 6

Public Reading Meeting Room Children's Reading Washroom Storage Office

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4 4

Level 4 Plan 1 2 3 4 5

Public Reading Meeting Room Fabrication Lab Washroom Balcony

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05 GREENPOINT THEATER

Theater Design | Technology Work Group work | GSAPP 2017 Team Member: Munise Aksoy, Yanni Wang, Chenyan Instrcutor: Nicole M. Dosso, Enrica Oliva Site: 18 Greenpoint Ave. Brooklyn

GROUND FLOOR PLAN

SECOND FLOOR PLAN

THIRD FLOOR PLAN

ROOF PLAN

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SECTION

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FOUNDATION STRUCTURE PLAN

FIRST FLOOR STRUCTURE PLAN

SECOND FLOOR STRUCTURE PLAN

ROOF STRUCTURE PLAN

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WALL DETAIL

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06 FOAM, SILLICONE, WAX, AND CONCRETE

Space Design Individual work GSAPP | 2019 The design experimented a complex model-making technic, taking the lost-wax as an inspiration. The first step is designing while carving an oranic shape from a blue foam, which will be the original copy of the place holder for the final cave -like space. The second steo is to cast sillicone to get an inverted copy of the foam model. The third step is to cast wax inside the sillicone to get a wax copy of the blue foam. The fourth step is to cast concrete around the wax, and finally melt the wax to get a complex, cave-like space.

Sillicone

Foam

Wax

Concrete

07 THE TERRACE

Housing Design Group Work With Ran Ma Core Design Studio | GSAPP | 2018 Instructor: Galia Solomonoff Site: Bronx, New York This design is trying to create a public open space on a large slopping roof top that are directly accessible for resident in each level. The vertically interlocked and shifted units not only create balconies and corridors connected to the large slope, but also narrates a new definition about vertical neighborhood: each unit shears a balcony with its upper level and has its entrance next to its lowerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s entrance.

ENTRACE LEVEL

UNIT 1 LEVEL

DN UP

CORRIDOR

ENTRACE LEVEL PLAN 1/8” = 1’-0”

UNIT 1 LEVEL PLAN 1/8” = 1’-0”

ENTRACE LEVEL PLAN 1/8” = 1’-0”

UNIT 1 LEVEL PLAN 1/8” = 1’-0”

BALCONY

CORRIDOR

BALCONY

UP BALCONY

BALCONY

DN DN

DN UP

The vertically interlocked and shifted units define a new kind of neighborhood in three dimensions: each unit shares a balcony with its upper level and has its entrance next to its lower level.

All the sheared open space, including start from courtyard, sloping roof top and balconies and corridors, are organized in a gradient of publicity: the courtyard is available for everyone, the sloping roof top starts from the second floor and is only accessible for residents and each balcony is sheared by two units.

CORRIDOR

UNIT 2 LEVEL

CORRIDOR

BALCONY LEVEL

BALCONY LEVEL PLAN 1/8” = 1’-0”

UNIT 2 LEVEL PLAN 1/8” = 1’-0”

BALCONY LEVEL PLAN 1/8” = 1’-0”

UNIT 2 LEVEL PLAN 1/8” = 1’-0”

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LEVEL 2 PLAN

LEVEL 4 PLAN

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SECTION PERSPECTIVE

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