Judy Shao-Yu Chen Portfolio, 2023

Judy Shao-Yu Chen | Portfolio

sc7hn@virginia.edu

(434)-282-9279

JUDY SHAO-YU CHEN

EDUCATION

Charlottesville, VA

JULY 2020 - MAY 2023

Tainan, Taiwan

SEPT 2015 - JUNE 2019

EXPERIENCE

Charlottesville, VA

JAN 2023

Charlottesville, VA

JUNE 2021 - AUG 2021

DEC 2021 - JAN 2022

Charlottesville, UVA

AUG 2021 - AUG 2022

Taipei, Taiwan

SEPT. 2019 - June 2020

Taipei, Taiwan

JULY 2019 - SEPT. 2020

references:

Beth Meyer | Professor 434-242-9565

ekm7a@virginia.edu

Brad Cantrell | Chair / Professor

617-775-6442

bec9n@virginia.edu

UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA | MASTER OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE

with Urban Design Certificate

NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY | BACHELOR OF ARTS

Major College of Liberal Arts | Dept. of Foreign Language & Literature Minor College of Planning and Design | Dept. of Urban Planning

NELSON BYRD WOLTZ |EXTERN

planting design options, desing plan drafting

WATERSTREET STUDIO|INTERN

assist AutoCAD plans drafting, conceptual diagramming, drafting planting plans and building plant schedules.

LUNCH JOURNAL|LUNCH 17 EDITORIAL BOARD

draft LUNCH 17 Journal theme and call, graphic and layout design, curate/edit submitted pieces

BIO-ARCHITECTURE FORMOSANA (BaF)|PART-TIME

assist 2D plans drafting and 3D modeling, conceptual diagramming, architeture FAR calculation, and support administrative work

CULTURAL BUREAU OF NEW TAIPEI CITY GOVERNMENT |INTERN

assigned to the National Heritage-Lin Family Mansion and Garden and assist the operation of cultural activities held in the garden.

RESEARCH & TEACHING

Charlottesville, UVA

JAN 2023 - MAY 2023

Charlottesville, UVA

SEP 2022 - DEC 2022

Charlottesville, UVA

JUNE 2022 - AUG 2022

Charlottesville, UVA

AUG 2021 - MAY 2022

RECOGNITION

Charlottesville, VA

FEB 2023

Charlottesville, VA

SEP 2022 ~ DEC 2022

Charlottesville, VA

JULY 2020 ~ 2023

SKILLS

DESIGN RESEARCH METHODS | STUDENT INSTRUCTOR ASSISTANT

Literature and case study collection and curation. Bibliography arrangement

URBAN SUTURES | BENJAMIN C. HOWLAND FELLOWSHIP

Research project in Barcelona. Exhibition will take place in Spring semester, 2023

UPPER MATTAPONI INDIAN TRIBE LAND USE STUDY | RESEARCH ASSISTANT

Assist desk crits, make software tutorials, communication between students and teaching team.

FOUNDATION STUDIO I & II | STUDENT INSTRUCTOR ASSISTANT

Assist desk crits, make software tutorials, communicate between students and instructors

LAF OLMSTED SCHOLAR

UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA | SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE

BENJAMIN C. HOWLAND TRAVELING FELLOWSHIP

UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA | SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE

MERIT SCHOLARSHIP

UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA | SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE

AutoCAD Illustrator

software language Mandarin (native speaker)

Photoshop

InDesign

English (fluent)

Tofle score 110/120

ArcGIS PRO

Rhino

MS Office After Effects

Grasshopper

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DESIGN

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LANDSCAPES OF LINGERING & CONVIVIALITY

PEELING THE VEILED: THE COUNTERBALANCE OF A STIFLED COMMUNITY

Peeling the Veiled is informed by the history of enslaved laborers and Eugenic science at the University of Virginia and inspired by the painting “Behind the Myth of Benevolence” by Titus Kaphar. The design views the Black Bus Stop as an inversion of racial power and visibility on the racialized grounds of UVA. The design aims to “peel and unveil” the surrounding figures that represent white supremacy through appropriation. By reshaping the landform to improve accessibility; placing designed seats to encourage “sitting outside as an empowering appropriation (Rishbeth & Rogaly, 2018)”; and designated walkways to strengthen the connection between the BBS and the existing spatial figures, the design hopes to transform the current transitional in-between space into an inclusive and appropriable space that celebrates diversity and conviviality.

WAITING FOR THE CITY’S ARRIVAL

URBAN DESIGN IN BARCELONA: WETLAND CORRIDOR

This project aims to unite the city, the mountain, and the sea with wetland ecology. Barcelona is a city that lacks rain but is not in shortage of groundwater resources. The aquifers in Barcelona extend beyond Besos and Llobregat River’s boundary and forms a widespread web beneath the surface of the city, supporting all kinds of urban activities and ecologies. The most significant natural watershed divider in the urban area - both aboveground and below ground, is the terrain of Mt. Juic. While the site confronts the dramatic topographic change of the mountain and embraces intriguing moments of water movement, this project seeks to collect, transport, and infiltrate rainwater and urban runoff through wetlands that recharge/connect the two river’s aquifers. In reciprocity, the aquifers also feed the wetland and the plant communities assembled on the site. The in-betweenness of the Mountain and the sea becomes an opportunity to create a series of wetland conditions with a gradient of moisture and salinity. This project also hopes by integrating diverse wetland habitats with architectural design tactics and programming strategies, the massive flow of people on La Ramblas can be attracted to the site and enliven the once grey and barren landscape.

*This is a group project done with Valerie Speirs (B. Arch, 2023). All the drawings included in this portfolio are done by myself unless marked otherwise.

STRATEGIESTERRACING, BOARDWALKS, & WETLAND SEQUENCE

MECHANISM - RECHARGING THE AQUIFERS

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ECOLOGIES OF JUSTICE

CURRENT VENTURES: BEAVERS AS ALLIES IN CLIMATE AND CULTURE

This project is about multispecies entanglement in climate change, and a series of long-term and short-term cultural and hydrological designs. Beginning with a territorial examination of the Middle James River Watershed, this project travels throughout the watershed from Rassawek, the historic Monacan capital at the confluence of the James and the Rivanna River. Our guide into this future is the beaver The eradication of beavers at the hands of European colonists paralleled the eradication and displacement of Indigenous groups across the continent.

Through Beaver habitat restoration (long term hydrological intervention) and a series of spillway design (short term hydrological intervention), this project hopes to catalyze changes in our relationship with more-than-humans species and the land we all share.

These wet landscapes demonstrate interconnectedness of cause and effects on the scale of regional landscape, and that land stewardship is a multi-species commitment.

*This is a group project done with Phoebe Tamminen and Erica Schapiro-Sakashita. All the drawings included in this portfolio are done by me unless marked otherwise.

animation of the project

RESTORE BEAVER HABITAT

straight, incised stream

install baffles create meander

attract beavers

diverse habitat

groundwater restoration

BEAVERS AS AN ALLY LONG TERM HYDROLOGICAL INTERVENTION

*This drawing is done collaboratively with teammates

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LONG TERM HYDROLOGICAL INTERVENTION: SPILLWAY TYPOLOGY + DESIGN

BOSTON CREEK

PALMYRA

CARYSBROOK

RIVERS ACTIVATED BY LONG/SHORT TERM HYDROLOGICAL INTERVENTIONS

04 PROTOTYPING THE CHESAPEAKE

BAY PUNCTUATING DREDGE

Existing protection and containment measures for dredged materials are crude and unsightly. Facilities like Craney and Poplar Island rely on isolation and armory. These islands are both literal, surrounded by water, and metaphorical, separating themselves from the natural processes of the bay. Large imposing walls create fortress-like dumping grounds, turning dredge into expensive garbage. Is it possible to imagine the beneficial reuse of dredged material to allow for the graceful transition from dredged sediment back to land, and their temporary containment as highly visible markers of this larger process? Using existing technologies of turbidity curtains, fences, and pumping equipments, this project seeks to punctuate this process of beneficial reuse of dredged materials, calling to attention the aesthetic potential of sediment movements. Linear figures in the water articulate a rhythm of placement and maintenance of amorphous dredge as it distributes and settles in the shallow waters of island edges.

Through this project, we want to manifest that sediment can be moved in a desirable way without working against or resisting natural processes. Human intervention and natural forces can correspond to and complement with each other. We also hope that by punctuating dredge through silt curtains and fences, we are able to re-shape public perception of dredged materials and facilitate the connection between massive infrastructural procedures and the body scale / everyday life.

*This is a group project done with Andre Grospe and Ailsa Thai.

Judy Shao-Yu Chen

Masonville

Craney Island

Craney Island

Hart-Miller Island

STUDY: UNDERSTANDING EXISTING DREDGING PRACTICE

boats sailed in the Chesapeake Bay pre-global trade

EXPERIMENT: UNDERSTANDING HOW SEDIMENT PERFORM

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DESIGN PROPOSAL: ALLEVIATE AND RECHOREOGRAPH

maintenance calendar - construction becomes

SEDIMENT DREDGING/CONTAINING CYCLE AT THE CHESAPEAKE BAY

upper left: proposing silt fence and silt curtain on Barren Island as dredged material containment and rebuilding island footprint methods

upper right: silt fence/curtain respond to sediment performance, wave forces, and island building

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serial section - utilizing wave force, thin layer placement of dredged material and silt fences/curtains to build wave-mitigating landforms and restore island footprint

other disappearing islands at the Chesapeake Bay as potential sites for silt fence/ curtain installation, island building, and sediment feeding processes.

RESEARCH / STUDIES

URBAN SUTURES

URBAN PUBLIC SPACE AS CONNECTING, MENDING, NEGOTIATING MEDIUMS

2022 BENJAMIN C. HOWLAND FELLOWSHIP

FULL BOOK UNDERWAY / EXHIBITING IN APRIL 2023

How can public space design re-connect the urban fragments divided by gigantic infrastructures? How can public space negotiate edges and thresholds that blur the line between private and public domain? How can landscape designers apply design strategies that actively engage and mediate between figure and ground, enclosure and openness, and continous and fragmented?

This project targets and analyzes a series of public space in Barcelona to understand how they function as urban sutures in three aspects: enmeshing the built forms to the existing terrain, connecting disjoined urban spaces, and weaving the private and public lived experiences in the city.

By traveling to Barcelona in person, this project aims to utilize immersive on-site experiences to develop documentation, spatial analysis, and representation methods that manifest how landscape design is more than “the other” and “the after”, but a proactive participant in constructing urban living experiences.

*all drawings and photos are done and taken by myself unless marked otherwise

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ST. CROIX ISLAND

GEOLOGY AND WAVE STUDY

INSTRUCTOR: BRIAN DAVIS

topography and flow study island geology+wave direction

INSTRUCTOR: ERIN PUTALIK 03

WOOD/LANDS SEMINARENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY OF WOOD

design discussion with the Upper Mattaponi Indian Tribe members

PROFESSIONAL

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01 INTERNSHIP WATERSTREET STUDIO

Judy Shao-Yu Chen

Farm Gonya site analysis Waterstreet Studio, 2021 summer

UVA Dawson Row existing plan Waterstreet Studio, 2021 winter

Farm Gonya entrance options Waterstreet Studio, 2021 summer

02 UPPER MATTAPONI INDIAN TRIBE LANDSCAPE RESEARCH ASSISTANTSHIP, 2022 SUMMER

Working with faculty members in the Landscape Architecture department (Brian Davis, Erin Putalik, and Michael Luegering), this project aimed to develop a series of design proposals, drawings, and models for the 200-acre land that the Upper Mattaponi Indian Tribe acquired. The design is developed collaboratively with the Upper Mattaponi tribe and includes community ceneter, tribal government office space, recreational/sports space, performance/gathering space, and agricultural land. The final drawings and models are delivered to the tribal community for further federal fund application and community discussion purposes.

*This is a group project done with Eden McCafferty and Nita Wareechatchai. All the drawings included in this portfolio are done by me unless marked otherwise.

render on drone photo - proposed amphitheater

LANDSCAPE DESIGN

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Upper Mattaponi Indian Tribe Landscape Design Plan

physical model of proposed design

*model making and photography are done collaboratively with teammates.

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MAKING +

DOCUMENTATION

LUNCH Journal, 17th edition

LUNCH 17 editorial board: Judy Shao-Yu Chen, Sawyer Davies, Andre Grospe, Eden McCafferty, and Erica Schapiro-Sakashita instructors: Sneha Patel and Brad Cantrell

LUNCH 17 WEBSITE

poster for LUNCH 17 theme _____CRAFT

post cards for LUNCH 17 theme _____CRAFT

layout of LUNCH 17 _____CRAFT

*LUNCH is the graduate student-led journal of the School of Architecture at the University of Virginia.

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FIELD WORK: La Rambla de Raval, Barcelona

09.20 - 09.27, 2022 | Urban Materiality: Construction of Public Space

documenting canopy conditions

documenting temporality and movement

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FIELD WORK: PARSONS ISLAND, CHESAPEAKE BAY

03.18 - 03.19, 2022 | FOUNDATION STUDIO IV

D2

D1

B2

B1

aerial photo - Parsons Island, 2022

*This is field work is done with Andre Grospe and Ailsa Thai.

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SKETCH MODEL STUDIES

08, 2021- 08, 2022

*This sketch model is done with Eden McCafferty and Nita Wareechatchai. The photography and diagram presented are done

picnic area and playable landforms

gabion walls/seats/steps

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done by myself.

walls/seats/steps

access road + achitecture massing

PAINTING AND PUBLIC ART | INSTRUCTOR: SANDA ILIESCU 02, 2023~

*These paintings are done with Nita Wareechatchai.

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striking sinuosity acrylic and wool strings on watercolor paper