JJ Jin Portfolio 2021-2023

SELECTED WORKS 2021-2023

TIMBER HILLS

4TH YEAR COMPREHENSIVE STUDIO (SPRING 2022)

Professor:

Individual Work

Olivier Touraine

TIMBER HILLS

a social justice center promoting sustainable building

Situated in an industrial zone of downtown Los Angeles, Timber Hills serves as a public amenity in its services provided while also championing sustainable construction through locally sourced timber in what is a relatively undeveloped part of the field in the United States.

1 | SHORTAGE OF GREEN SPACE

Around the site, there is a severe lack of green amenities, with limited park space leading to worse air quality, and a lack of gathering space for local residents.

2 | INDUSTRIAL ENVIRONMENT

North-East of the site, the zoning and current use is predominantly industrial despite being situated very closely with residential zoning. On the South-West, a 'publicfication' has begun a sprawl towards the industrial, where Timber Hills will become the newest addition of public facilities.

3 | STORMWATER DRAINAGE

The site sits at a arterial intersection with a vast network of drainage tunnels leading to it, making it a useful rain and water collection point to filter local rainwater.

4 | TRANSPORTATION NETWORK

A myriad of public transport networks converge towards the site of Timber Hills, making it a pedestrian friendly area that encourages walking and cycling. The building features no parking to encourage reaching it through more sustainable transportation systems.

Concept Sketch

1 | ORIGINS

Also referred to as Shiribasami-Tsugi, the Shippasami-Tsugi joint is an iteration of the Kanwa Tsugi. Due to it being a modern iteration, it is rare to find in practical construction.

2 | CHARACTERISTICS

The joint has a t-shaped tenon and mortise where the members are joined from the side. The tenon and mortise is not discernible while allowing the members to resist bending stress and tension.

3 | APPLICATION

For a contemporary mid-rise tower, the Timber Hills requires extension of its vertical structural members and the structural capabilities of bigcone douglas-fir suits the tenon and mortise connection.

SUSTAINABLE MATERIAL SOURCING

The project aims to reduce its embodied carbon footprint of its building materials through the use of locally sourced heavy timber. Bigcone Douglas Fir sourced from Southern California makes up the bulk of the wood used in Timber Hills, setting its structural framework for the other material expression to rely on.

CONCEPT

The primary driver of the building's form is the interconnectivity with the urban landscape, and the stepped down, sloped nature of the roof allows for a continuity of circulation through what is public and what is building.

PASSIVE STRATEGIES

ACTIVE STRATEGIES

EXPERIENTIAL CIRCULATION

DIRECT CIRCULATION

VENTILLATION TUNNEL

SUPPLEMENTARY HVAC SOLAR ROOF

SOUTH SIDE BRISE SOLEIL

Pteris vittata (Ladder Brake)

Filters Arsenic 8331 Mg/Kg

Phytolacca americana (Pokeweed) Filters Cadmium 10700 Mg/Kg

Haumaniastrum robertii (Mint Species) Filters Cobalt 10232 Mg/Kg

Pteris Ryukyuensis (Fern Species)

Filters Arsenic 3647 Mg/Kg

Pteris quadriaurita (Silver Lace Fern)

Filters Arsenic 2900 Mg/Kg

Achillea millefolium (Yellow Yarrow) Filters Mercury 18.275 Mg/Kg

Celosia cristata (Cock's Comb) Filters Lead 5000 Mg/Kg

Eleocharis Acicularis (Needle Spikerush)

Filters Copper 20200 Mg/Kg

Sorghastrum nutans (Indian Grass) Filters Hydrocarbons

juncea (Leaf Mustard) Filters Selenium 0.6% Dry Weight

Brassica

1:200 SCALE STRUCTURAL MODEL

The building's structural system consists of a 15' O.C grid in one direction and fluctuating spans to configure the building's form.

Structural Members Central Core

Section B-B'

South Elevation

ROOF DETAIL

FLOOR PLATE DETAIL

CLT FOUNDATION CONNECTION DETAIL

FOUNDATION FOOTING DETAIL

The interior of the cafe reflects the raw material expression of the timber, with the exposed wooden structure being a key component of the project’s aesthetic motif. Feature art sits on the wall and stadium style seating is sprawled through the stairs leading to the service area..

Entering the main lobby, visitors are welcomed to a feature wall highlighitng the different plant species used in the phytoremediation process of Timber Hills. The paving bleeds into the interior seamlessly, blurring the boundaries between indoor and outdoor space.

THE EXPANDED MARKETPLACE

ADVANCED ARCHITECTURAL STUDIO (FALL 2023)

Professor: Laurie Hawkinson

Teamwork with: Jingwei Wu

Individual Responsibilities: Renders, Section Renders, Wall Section, Diagrams

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HEADHOUSE EXTENSION

The headhouse becomes support system for the community, acting as a career and business incubator. The space extends into the main drill hall of the armory, assimilating more with the interior marketplace.

BRINGING IN THE STREETSIDE

The Expanded Marketplace is a celebration of the border conditions of the armory, where streetside activity such as street vendors, activists, and community businesses are drawn into the interior of the armory and the interior paths provide shortcuts between the surrounding communities.

BLENDING OF PROGRAM

Educational programs lean towards the north to serve the adjacent student population, and more active programs tend towards the east where the neighborhood edge is busier and noisier. Programs however, begin to share blended spaces through the interwoven 'marketplace'.

1' = 1/32" MUSEUM BOARD + BASSWOOD + PLA MODEL

FLEXIBLE GROUND FLOOR

Extending the street vendors space into the core of the armory, the marketplace traverses through the interior and the armory's existing steel columns are repurposed to become a canvas for placemaking, supporting flexible vending strategies, installations, and pop-up activites organized by community members.

VIEW FROM ROOF GARDEN

THE MINUTE CITY

4TH YEAR TOPIC STUDIO + BOOK RESEARCH (FALL 2021 - SUMMER 2022)

Professor: Wendy W Fok Individual Work (Unless stated otherwise)

Select Drawings Published in:

digitalSTRUCTURES: Data and Urban Strategies of the Civic Future

Archisource Ideas Pocketbook 2021

THE MINUTE CITY vertical building led by horizontal planning.

As a thought experiment, The Minute City challenges traditional notions of urban planning and development, proposing an urban morphology that is directly shaped by the transportation infrastructure weaving through it.

Prospective sketch of a multimodal systemic clash.

METROPOLITAN MODAL SPLITS

transportation breakdown for major urban hubs

Throughout the most populated and economically vibrant metropolises around the world, different cultures and how their urban fabrics formed determined different preferences for transportation. However, almost all cities had a large presence of personal vehicles, public transport, or a combination of the two. While certian cities were more walkable compared to others, infrastructural systems were always necessary to support populations so large.

UNI-MODAL CITY CATALOGUE published in digitalSTRUCTURES

Before conceptualizing a truly multi-modal city, iterations of mini city blocks were produced to conceptualize what cities would be like if planned around a single mode of transportation. This lateral form of experimentation plays with the architectural typology’s relationship with existing systems such as railways, roads, and ramps, resulting in eccentric examples such as cities planned for skateboards, escalators, or even spacecrafts.

DIVERSE TRANSPORT OPTIONS

1:500 FOAM + PLA MODEL

Teamwork with Yihan Wang

Responsibilities: 3D Printing + Cutting Foam Pieces

LONELY LABORATORY

ADVANCED ARCHITECTURAL TUTORIAL (SUMMER 2023)

Professors: Antonio Torres, Michael Loverich Individual Work

LONELY LABORATORY

a method of redefining sites of ecological study in marine habitats

The lonely laboratory speculates a future of harmonious environmental study, redefining human-ecology relationships through a symbiotic laboratory that transforms itself to become the ecosystem. The island, despite being a product of the Anthropocene, is a site of observation for the lone human.

ISLAND PLAN

INFLATION PROCESS

'REVERSE CEILING PLAN'

ISLAND TRANSFORMATION

Segments of rings act as the framework for new micro kelp forests. Coral polyps have attached to the aragonite crystals, forming a small reef on the underbelly of the island. Seagrass grows on the geofabric. Crabs, starfish, and other shallow water organisms crawl in the crevices of the undulating platforms. Fish, octopi, jellyfish, and other marine organisms wander throughout the shallow habitat.

DAY 1 DAY 2 DAY 3 DAY 4 DAY 5

ARAGONITE GROWTH SIMULATION

The substrate is formed with acids reacting to dolomite, a limestone that reacts to form aragonite, a crystalline form of calcium carbonate that also happens to be the corpses of coral, the main substrate new coral attach and grow on.

CELLULAR MATERIAL

The vessels for the fluids are composed of a clear polymer that absorbs water, transforming its refractive index to be identitcal to water. This allows for a perfectly clear surface that maximizes sunlight exposure to plants at lower strata.

FLEXIBLE MESH CURTAIN PROVIDES SOFT BARRIER FOR INNER ORGANISMS’ PROTECTION

OUTER LAYER OF GEOFABRIC ALLOWS SEAGRASS TO GROW

LOWER CELLS DEFORM AND FREE UP FRAME, ALLOWING SWAY TO PROMOTE WATER FLOW TO CORAL

HABITAT STRATIFICATION

BUMPS IN PLATFORMS SLOW WINDS AND WAVES, TRAPPING SAND WITHIN THEM

UPPER CELLS RECEIVE LOWER DENSITY FLUIDS (GASES)

LOWER CELLS RECEIVE HIGHER DENSITY FLUIDS (LIQUIDS)

Different layers of the lonely laboratory support different species and ecologies, taking advantage of the island's biomechanical 'breathing' which allows for the top surface to rise and fall underneath sea level.

HUMAN-DIRECTED GROWTH OF AN ECOSYSTEM

URBAN CANYON: SHOPHOUSE 48

STUDY ABROAD STUDIO 1 MONTH CHARETTE (FALL 2022)

Professors: Yo-Ichiro Hakomori, Gary Paige

Teamwork with: Thomas Wang, Ian Leung, Nguyen Thị Thuy Van, Nguyen The Bao Bei Individual Responsibilities: Courtyard Facade Design, Structural Diagram, Perspectives, Section

URBAN CANYON

a regenerative renovation of an abandoned shophouse

Located in the heart of Ho Chi Minh City, the original Shophouse 48 houses a juice shop and 5 units that has been delapidated and abandoned.

Urban Canyon aims to introduce a new discrete entrance into the private residences and courtyard while maintaining an expansive doorway to the building's front bamboo array. The inner courtyard expands into a common space that invites natural light into what was a dark concrete shell.

URBAN INTERSTICE

EXISTING MASSING EXISTING VOIDS

EXISTING VOIDS

The current hallway leads to a dark, enclosed stairway shaft with minimal natural light. The stairs that lead up to the higher units are narrow and steep, making traversing the building unpleasant and dangerous.

EXISTING MASSING

CARVED VOIDS EXISTING VOIDS

PROPOSED VOIDS

PERFORMATIVE LINING

The new proposed void becomes an open courtyard that appears slim in profile at the ground floor entrance, expanding to a larger courtyard that opens up to the sky, allowing more natural light to enter the residential units. An additional void is carved from the entrance for streetside visitors to get a glimpse into the shared artist's space as well as the veil system that lines the courtyard.

URBAN

URBAN

With a layered and existing shop house visual experience the narrow dark hallway core. Our proposal an experience, providing assuming entry into drawing in natural the interior spaces. entry directs major and welcoming storefront, privacy for the residents.

With a layered and existing shop house visual experience the narrow dark core. Our proposal an experience, providing assuming entry into drawing in natural the interior spaces. entry directs major and welcoming storefront, privacy for the residents.

Photographs of Existing Building Interior

VIEW FROM ARTIST BALCONY

VIEW FROM COURTYARD INTO UNIT

THE CURTAINS

RE-THINKING BIM (FALL 2023)

Professor: Joseph Brennan

Teamwork with: Thomas Wang, Andy Lu, Tai Ning

Individual Responsibilities: Grasshopper parametric modelling for Facade, Revit Modelling and Output, Rendering

THE CURTAINS

optimizing facade design through data and parametrics

The Curtains is a tower designed with the intention of activating Broadway as a pedestrian channel, all whilst using data driven design practices to generate a facade that responds to a multivariate environment.

THE PROCESS

The project was as much of an exercise in BIM workflow as it was a design challenge. Climate studio and grasshopper tools such as ladybug and honeybee were used to analyze environmental conditions such as wind speed and direction, view analyses, solar illuminance and glare, and others.

1 | Broadway side site is set back for improved pedestrian flow and public engagement.

2 | Podium massing is tilted outwards to be parallel to street.

3 | Three extrusions come out of the podium with the two residential towers having greatest access to views.

4 | Podium cantilevers over entrance plaza for shade and increasing public space.

5 | Voids are introduced for additional outdoor space and amenities.

6 | Terraces and cantilevered decks are scattered for green space access to residents and office workers.

DAYLIGHT

| All three towers have plenty of daylighton the perimeter, and the only residential spaces that don't have enough are the cores and corridors.

VIEWS | The building's massing and orientation is optimized, with 73% of the building's floor area having quality views.

GLARE | There is overall quite a bit of glare on the south facing facade, and interior measures such will likely need to be taken in addition to the louvres.

ILLUMINANCE | There is significant illuminance throughout the living spaces as well as offices and meeting rooms, reducing interior lighting energy usage.

1 | To take advantage of east-west winds, the vertical louvres are oriented to maximize airflow into the awning windows.

2 | Using attractors and values from sample points Ladybug analyses, the louvres' curve points are proportionately moved to accomodate greater solar heat gain.

3 | Greatest view access are on the towers for residential programs, and the two cores face inwards so that the living spaces' views won't be obstructed.

DEEP LOUVRES FOR HIGH SOLAR HEAT GAIN

REAR CHANNEL MOUNT

ALUMINUM LOUVRES ORIENTED EAST-WEST

DOUBLE PANED GLAZING

SHALLOW LOUVRES FOR LOW SOLAR HEAT GAIN

AWNING WINDOW

SPANDREL GLASS FOR GROUND FLOOR MEP SPACE

FACADE EXPLODED ISOMETRIC

STEEL SLAB EDGE

NEW ALEXANDRIA

THESIS (SPRING 2023)

Professor: Eric Haas

Individual Work

NEW ALEXANDRIA

reimagining libraries to be mazes of discovery

Existing libraries resist disorder, failing to subvert banality in their spatial offering to visitors. The book’s identity serves purely as Macguffin and the libraries’ circulatory space drives discovery, and the architecture itself becomes a maze in which visitors attempt to solve. New Alexandria reinterprets history’s symbol for record and scholarship through the lens of a modern world that has little need for the physical storage of information.

ENDLESS LOST

WONDER

NOSTALGIA

Render of Interior Maze Space

Hand Sketches of Inspiration Words Translated Into Illustrations

8 | PERSONAL WORK

TRAVEL SKETCHES (FALL 2022)

Study abroad travels in South Korea, Singapore, Vietnam, and Japan.