Work Sample 2015-2023 by Kai-Min Lee

Wo r k S a m p l e

Sel ect ed Pro f es s i o n a l a n d Ac a d e m i c Wor k s d ur ing 2015- 2023 K ai M i n , L e e e-mail: kaimin.lee80730@gmail.com mobile phone: +1 332 220 9989

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Emphemeral Shores

i. form

ii. substract

iii. view from above

iv. view from below

Design Studio I in Cooper Union MScArch (2022) Independent Work Instructor: Benjamin Aranda

Redefining Park Space on the Water Ephemeral Shores seek to elaborate the concept of park design and occupation by venturing into the realm of floating structures. The project delves into the complexities of embracing instability and the dynamic nature of rivers to interpret and represent these invisible elements architecturally. Nestled along the banks of the East River near Astoria Park, the project aims to showcase the anticipated rise in flooding over the coming decades or centuries. It interrogates how we can harness this natural engagement of water with land, adapt to the diminishing land area, and develop a productive approach to preserve our leisure by creating a park.

Geometry & Material Studies The park's construction material predominantly consists of air inflatables, which serve as both subtractions and templates, enabling the creation of negative forms. Two interconnected inflatable beams form the core structure, with one eventually removed. With the aid of flexible inflatable tubes, the park floats and fluctuates on the water's surface, mirroring the river's ebb and flow.

Perspective of the Fourth Stage (Floating Park)

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Time-Based Construction Method The material can be a constructive way with the rising water level. The grid system is determined first. The rigid grid, the middle one, is for facilities and can be stacked based on the module. After the foundation has been casted, the tubes can then be removed. When not flooded, this infrastructure can perform as a normal park for citizens. But when there is flooding, the park can also serve as usual. The soft surface will float along with the water level and the staking module is the anchor point to stabilize the structure.The whole system will shift and perform different gestures with the river current, wind, and weight.

Five Programs Based on the Rule of Module on the Rising Water Level.

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Floating Park/Apparatus/Ruins A new way is introduced to construct an infrastructure that is adaptive and responsive in a very far away future. As the water level rises, the tower, the anchor point can be built vertically to keep up with it, and the previous structure will submerge and become ruins for species underwater.The soft surface will float along with the water level and the staking module is the anchor point to stabilize the structure.The whole system will shift and perform different gestures with the river current, wind, and weight.

The landscape has also been reshaped by the park machine. The infrastructure serves as the template for landscape and both grow with the rising water level. One day if the water subsides, the ruin can be torn down and give nature back to the earth.

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Accidental Certainty Design Studio II in Cooper Union MScArch (2023) Independent Work Instructor: Diana Agrest

The Inscribed Body Movements in Everyday Life & Music Performing The project interrogates the intricate interplay between unconscious body movements and their indelible imprints in our daily lives. From the rhythm of our routines to the orchestrated performances we engage in, this project explores how these automatic gestures become our second nature: an intrinsic part of our being. The name "Accidental Certainty" is a proposed performance in which seemingly random automatic body movements possess the potential to evolve into a distinctive form of performance when harmoniously aligned with the correct pitches and rhythms. Alternatively, some of these movements may emerge as intriguing contradictions, capable of being manipulated by the power of music. With the time signatures and pitches perfectly matching or offsetting, the boundary between the distorted sound of our routines, like locking doors or pouring water, and the real music has been blurred.

Fig.4-7 Studies of Somnambulism: from an anatomical and neural science perspective

Somnambulism/Sleepwalking From the perspective of neuroscience, Somnambulism is caused by the dissociation between different brain areas: the frontal cortex and limbic system. The frontal cortex is responsible for our higher-level functions and voluntary movement, which is not awake during sleepwalking. On the other hand, the limbic system is for our unconscious proprioception (e.g., maintaining balance), memories, and emotions deep inside. In short, while sleepwalking, you can somehow recognize the space and perform things inscribed into your body, like opening the door or fridge, through the limbic system to the spinal, but you cannot recall anything after that. This drawing tries to map the relationship between the electronic signals transmitted from the brain and the body movement while the patient was about to get out of bed and sleepwalk. Fig.1-3 Analysis Diagram of Somnambulism (Sleepwalking): while murdering, dealing with the doorknob, and walking around the kitchen.

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Live Music Performing Sleepwalking also makes me think about the formulated body performance, like music playing and the emotions inside or overflowing the framework. Music takes lots of practice to inscribe into our bodies, but what I am interested in is that with the hand gestures inscribed, the emotion for the music can somehow “flow out” through our other body postures. Here is the clip of two music performances from one of the most legendary Japanese math-rock bands, “Toe.”

The first one shows not only the delicate notes of their music by their fingers but also their wild emotions throughout their entire bodies.

Notations about Toe's Live Music Performing The left side is referenced from their live performance in Manila on March 20, 2012. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7G8Ag9JmFE The right side is referenced from the video uploaded to YouTube called “Distance Live Sessions 2020” on May 29, 2020. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDHmg8Mb9wo

The second one is their live session during the pandemic. Although it is said to be a “live session,” in fact, they recorded each track in the same studio at different times and mixed them afterward. I think the exciting part of this is that this video is that they were separated by the pandemic but can still be together with the technology, which transcends time, and beyond our normal understanding of live performance.

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Transformative Proposal: Music Performance Made of Daily Life For the final proposal of this project, I created a form of musical performance that is made of automatic body movements in daily life and how they interact or even collide with the music we hear every day. The imaginary theater is based on my place in Long Island City. The original walls are unfolded, and another layer of mesh wire is added between the gestures of daily postures. The script is the sequence of my daily experience of getting up and leaving for school in mourning. A music video made of movements and daily sounds is created to elaborate on the whole performance: https://youtu.be/3DSZDqXElL0. The project name “Accidental Certainty” means that these automatic body movements that seem so random could somehow be a specific type of performance if they fit perfectly in the correct pitches and rhythms. Or even some of them could be contradictions and be manipulated or distorted by the music.

Fig.8-9 Proposed Performance: Accidental Certainty, above: unfolded perspective plan, below: unfolded elevation and notation system

Fig.10-11 Above: clips from the music video "Accidental Certainty" Below: visual script of the performance

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Project Under-garden Thesis Design in THU MArch I (2015-2016) Independent Work Advisor: Wei, Tseng

Site Introduction: The Invalid Reclamation

Terminal Metabolic Factory in Changhua Industrial Zone

Arguement & Statement : Womb/Carcass/Amniotic My thesis design began with an examination of the similarities and differences between the vast land and human bodies. Their relationship is like a womb and carcass; however, the carcass (humanity) ignores the life-supplies from the womb (land) due to the differences in scale, even if they originate from the same circulation of flesh. Therefore, I stated that architecture can be the mediation between these two: as amniotic to womb and carcass. It will be the protective umbrella of humanity, and the sifting screen of land’s gracious provision: a MicroInfrastructure as an actualization of my thesis design, to bridge the gap of scale in-between by approaches of landdetoxing, thereby repairing human health and sensitivity. Containing Wall

Mega-Landscape

4 Fig.1-4 Concept Collages & Model

Micro-Infrastructure Fig.5 Concept Collage: The Temporary Wonderland

An isolated wasteland of the Changhua Industrial Zone in Changhua, Taiwan, was chosen as the research region for the initial perspective. An invalid economic policy of the Taiwan government in the 1970s created the largest artificial reclaimed land in Taiwan with only a 32% land-use capacity. Therefore, this gigantic surface, like a boundary, intruded on the original coastline, bringing a uniquely solitary atmosphere to this place and begetting ecologic transformation, including the use of waste water discarded by nearby factories and the change of migrant pattern of birds in wetland.

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Site Analysis: Categorizing an Uncharted Exclave In this gigantic reclamation area, I found several spots where some particular traits and special activities were happening and categorized the relevance and irrelevance among them. Four prototypes of the site were narrowed down to show the main characteristics of this uncharted exclave.

i. Pumping Station A hub in drainage system to rise the water level from rivers of inner land

ii. Main Avenue

The main gathering place of the industrial zone at noon, consisting of low-class labors and vendors

2 iii. Seawall Area Differentiating human activities by level of height

iv. Windbreak Belt The boundaries of the industrial zone

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Site Plan: The Terminal Metabolic Factory on Changhua Coastline An unfinished road framework in an estuary of Changhua Industrial Zone was chosen to be my demonstrative area of my thesis design—it was a repairing machine aiming to reduce environmental pollution and bolster human health. It served as a temporary Garden of Eden over a cyclical 15-year period. At the outlet of all pollutants, soil will be detoxed by selfcleaning streams of water and a brand-new social relationship will be established in this artificial landscape: humans will witness how will their self-caused pollution can be purified by strolling past the edge of the water, the earth, the wall, and thereby forming sensitivity, from a distanced viewing to a direct physical experience.

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Design Strategy: The Timetable of Material Exchange with 3 Phases

Phase 1: Capsule Infrastructures are constructed for detoxing vegetation farming and artificial wetlands in this initial stage. Visitors enter the greenhouse called “The Capsule” through a long ramp, watching excavators on site immersing on the edge of the concrete wall. Suddenly, in the greenhouse, human sensitivity is engulfed by immense greenery. Compared to the griminess outside, there they are surrounded by fresh air provided by trees with varied sizes and altitudes; people are in front of a tremendous screen, watching the transformation of external surroundings in a closed system.

Suspended steel trusses with different depth are containers for various types of human activities: there are vegetarian restaurants, plant nursery classes, accommodations, and skywalks to link each other.

Fig.1/2 Images of Phase 1: Capsule Fig.3-6 Physical Models of Phase 1: Capsule 1 span=6M

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Corridor & Bridge

Corridor & Plant Nursery class

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Fig.7 Perspective Section of The Capsule (Greenhouse): The Capsule as Chronicle of Vegatation, the Space Trusses as a Series of Marking Notes

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Vegetarian Restaurant

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towards outer ocean

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Phase 2: Pots After the infrastructures are completed, human activities are released from The Capsule and spread underneath to ground level. The containing walls show their dual-purpose: they are not only used for engineering purposes but also for architecture, like pots burdening soil, water, and plants (people). The water-purifying procedure plays a vital role in space-sequence experience. People stroll down to the underground world through the containing walls of a maximum height of 150 centimeter above ground level, from watching contaminated waste to physically experiencing purified water. 3

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8 Fig.3-6 Space Scenarios_Entrance, Shower Room, Outdoor Theater and Observertory Garden Fig.7 Images of the Deepest Pond_Watching the Swinging Shadow of Windmills Fig.8 -300cm Floor Plan: The Undergound World Containing walls are the scale gauge, and human bodies are the graduation. People witness water streaming from ecological ponds to solar distillation, ultimately turning into usable water for visitors’ bathing purpose.

Fig.9 The Space Sequence of Water Purifying Process

This wonderland is made up of various movie-like scenarios. Some of them are solitary one-man shows, while others are wonderful interactive drama pieces, occurring from the lightest drain to the deepest pond. In the underground world, there are no drifting fumes and sands from the industrial area: only the sky framed by walls, water, and the swinging shadow of windmills. Fig.1/2 Design Diagram_Activies and Body Gesture along with the Water Depth

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Phase 3: Appendix This is an assumed future: if one day factories nearby never discharge water waste, and there are no drifting dust and pollutants, this facility would degrade into a phony monument like an appendix. Soil and water will refill into the unfinished road framework and not be separated by the containing walls anymore. Only a path will be left for visitors passing by, wandering on the brisk of pieces of rehabilitated wetland, watching migrant birds revisiting this obliviated paradise.

The containing walls for the reservoir in the beginning transformed into a bath place with various depths, accommodating diverse activities simultaneously.

Nevertheless, eventually, every structure will be torn down and refilled with soil when there is no longer a need for the water to be purified. Therefore, the vast horizon will show again with migrant birds in the wilderness of Changhua coastline.

Fig.1 Long Section of Phase 1 to 3

Fig.3 Collage of Phase 3_the Obliviated Paradise Fig.2 Image of Phase3: Appendix_the Wilderness of Changhua Coastline

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Material-scape

Project of Design Studio III in THU MArch I (2015) Independent Work Advisor: Wei, Tseng

Landscape Park Weaved by Industrial Products in Western Suburbs of Taichung

Excavated Boundary : The Landscape Park

Gound Floor Plan Factory with Industrial Products

1. Workshop 2. Fountain 3. Old Funiture Shop 4. Outdoor Theater 5. Seats/Trucks’ Loading Deck 6. Nursery Garden 7. Bridge 8. Running Path 9. Parking Lot 10. Main Entraince

the Fragments around Interchange

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Fig.1 Concept Collage: The Material-scape

The Fragments on the Edge of the City

Taichung Interchange (a Boundary with Thickness)

The site was chosen on the western outskirt of Taichung City, a suburban area penetrated by a mega-infrastructure project, the Taichung Interchange. The infrastructure intruded into the urban context and daily lives of locals here and therefore it became a secondary industry instead. The fragmented-patterned figure-ground indicated the irrelevance between these factories here due to the difference of space and the daily routines of local inhabitants. However, the scale of these piled-up industrial objects, such as plastic pipes and wooden sticks, formed the unique atmosphere—a huge and blank boundary in urban space of Taichung.

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Fig.2/3 Image & Space Sequence of the Western Outskirt of Taichung City

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The Duality of Infrastructure This design approach aims to transform the originally engineering-purposed infrastructure into multi-purposed landscape park which opens possibilities for interactions between various kinds of people, visitors, joggers, and workers. The section below shows the duality of the whole structure: There are visitors and workers surrounded by frameworks filled with used timber sticks and furniture under the bridge, demonstrating how daily life is created by small-scale architecture compared to the enormous infrastructure above. The canopies on each side of the bridge structure prevent polluted air from entering the park and provides an enjoyable semi-outdoor space. 1

Fig.1-4 Perspectives of Running Path, Nursery Garden, Fountain Square and Workshops

Design Strategy: The original landscape of the interchange is excavated and filled with detoxing vegetation into the new landscape park in order to purify the waterflow from the lead coming from highway bridge. Industrial products are then put into the precast frameworks to form space. People will access this park from the entrance and experience leisure activities underneath the tremendous structure.

The soil slopes are opened for the public and turn wasted land into squares, allowing diverse activities to happen: In daytime, there are loading docks under the bridge which become audience seats of the outdoor theater. At night, people gather here and trigger events based on the time.

Timetable of Material/Nature/Land/Human Industrial products are weaved together with nature, people, and an original infrastructure landscape. Additionally, each industrial product and detoxing plant have their own life circulation, which differentiates the space enclosure and human activities. The nurseries of detoxing vegetation are created in a circular area of the interchange for visitors and fertilized by the side products of the workshops (wooden clips). Piled-up pipes and wooden pallets form pedestrian paths to allow people to jog, with the appearance dictated by inventory, and spaces enclosed for second-hand furniture stores, refurbishing workshops, and an outdoor cinema.

6 Fig.5/6 Perspective Sections of The Workshop and The Outdoor Theater

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The Penatrated Boundary: New Chiayi Station The new train station will be elevated, making open spaces accessible for citizens, such as the central semi-outdoor square, and the linear green park of the old railway. The highway bridge structure will also frame the historical train station and make it a daily monument for citizens of Chiayi.

Chiayi Urban District Elevated Railway Station Architect: Chien Architects & Associates Position: Project Designer (2019-2021) Stage: SD-DD-CD Job Contents: Design Devolopment/Structure&MEP System Integration/Construction Document Drawing

The Chain to Connect the Forest Chiayi City, a so-called “Wood City” during the Japanese colonial period (1900s-1930s), was surrounded by natural resources like wood, especially from forest farms. However, a few decades onward, forests were replaced by buildings and infrastructures due to the urban sprawls after WWII – the nature has been separated from citizens’ lives since then. This elevated railway project started with an urban perspective to stitch the existing boundary of the previous railway system on ground by creating multiple open spaces on the ground floor in the heart of this city and re-connect the existing urban context and nature landscape with skywalks and public transportation systems.

Site Plan

Future Commearcial Zone

Futuare Collective Housing Future Bus Transporation Hub

1km

Beihuie Station (Commuting Station) Jiabei Station (Commuting Station)

Chiayi Station (Main Station of the Project)

Future Ligaaht Rail Station

100 m

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Heaviness and Lightness in-between The whole structure of the elevated station includes three systems: the station canopy, the railway bridge, and the station curtain wall. The railway bridge carrying canopy will directly deliver shear force and moment to the ground, whereas the curtain wall system would be broken if it connected the railway bridge with rigid components. Therefore, the double-hinged joints are created to stop dangerous movement of the bridge from the curtain wall pillars. The Double-hinged Joint between Bridge & Curtain Walls A series of slim and elegant but resilient architectural components visualize the structural behavior between the railway bridge and the curtain walls on the floor of entrance hall. The heaviness and lightness are not only revealed here in a subtle way, but also make a naturally spacious interior space for station facilities without any beams jutting from underneath the bridge.

Fig.1-4 Interior Perspectives of Elevated Train Station: Lobby, Lounge and Entrance Hall

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From Intricacy to Simplicity : the Trasparent, Diamond-shaped Facade The curtain walls of the railway canopy on the railway bridge consist of the diamond-shaped units made of glass and steel, which make the façade look transparent and humble in the skyline of downtown Chiayi. Additionally, the whole canopy clads the bridge and blurs the front profile of this tremendous infrastructure. Skywalk Bridge - the Layer between Ground and Railway Track: The layer between ground-floor level and highway-bridge level is connected by skywalks leading to future development areas, which will contain a bus transfer station, an LRT station, hostels, and shopping malls.

Fig.1 Southeast Elevation: The Penetrated Boundary

Curtain Wall Units Optimization: The intricate diamondshaped façade is composed of twenty-five types of units. By modularizing the composition, it can be constructed in an effective and systematic way during the construction phase.

Indoor & Outdoor Perspectives: The canopy shows different characteristics in the indoors and outdoors: the transparent appearance outside reflects trees and historical sites nearby, whereas the structure inside made of CLT (Cross Laminated Timber) and steel reminds tourists of the old wood industry here decades ago. The lighting design also concentrates on illustrating the tectonics of CLT structure by lighting them upwards through the bottom of the platform.

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Construction Sets:

Detail Drawings of the Traffic Control Rooms on the Platform Level (4FL)

Construction Sets:

Detail Drawings of the Lighting Post on the Platform Level (4FL), integrated with the MEP System.

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Visitor Center

Axis-Oriented Configuration Instead of bringing traditional images of Hakka culture into this project, the tourist center aims to anchor the beauty of natural landscapes and the industrial ruins through geometric configuration: the axes are captured to respond to the angle of sunrise in summer solstice, the old oil drilling tower, and the future literature gallery. The ground floor plan is based on this approach and is formed by three main volumes: the entrance hall, restaurant, and toilet, respectively. The articulation of elements is then established with axes. Therefore, the wilderness and historical trail of Miaoli can be introduced to people in the tourist center, depicting the beauty of Miaoli humbly.

in Miaoli Hakka Literature Park

Architect: GuuArchitect Position: Project Designer (2018-2019) Stage: SD-DD-CD Job Contents: Design Devolopment/Structure&MEP System Integration/Construction Document Drawing

The Collage of the Scenery on Rooftop of the Tourist Center – Images of Mountains, Highway Bridges, and Oil Drilling Towers.

Gound Floor Plan_ Axis-Oriented Configuration

The Observatory of Nature and History The Visitor Center is situated in a landscape park narrating Hakka Literature in Gongguan, Miaoli. Embraced by mountains and the Houlong River, this facility also undertakes a mission to connect a historical site across the river – the Chuhuangkeng coal field, which is the second oldest oil well in the world. A concept of “An Observatory of Nature and History” is conceived, to reflect natural landscapes and local industries through an architectural approach – to “condense” them into the tourist center, thereby making visitors perceive these invisible traits through visible space scenarios.

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Contextual Tectonics: Suspended Openwork Brick System

Roof Structure (S.C.)

The screen made of steel and bricks is suspended on the main concrete structure, and the bricks are arranged in certain intervals, to show the light in tectonics and bridge personal sensitivity to the vast natural surroundings. When the sun rises, light will be filtrated by the brick screen and scenery will also be framed in the openings made of steel. In this way, visitors can perceive unpredictable changes of nature when they walk underneath the screen, like sunshine, mist, and rain.

Suspended Brick Facade

Triangle-Grid Beam System (R.C.)

R.C. structure

In order to stabilize the light curtain structure, the bricks are customized with a four-holed format and filled with rebars inside.

Axis of Chuhuangkeng Coal Field

Isometric of the Construction System The whole construction system is composed of R.C. (reinforced concrete), steel, and bricks. Concrete forms the main volume and the triangle-grid beam system on the roof, and also indicates the direction of the old coal field. Steel and bricks create the light and semi-transparent filter screen, to filtrate the light and frame the scenery outside.

The Opening towards Scenery This configuration creates a twostoried height semi-outdoor opening in the middle of tourist center. Combined with the outdoor pedestrian path, this approach establishes a linear space sequence from outdoor, to semi-outdoor, to indoor space. Moreover, skylights on the roof penetrate the semioutdoor opening, and a direction towards the industrial ruins is also articulated implicitly with the geometric composition of the triangle-grid beams. unit: cm

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Concrete, steel, and bricks combine together cohesively, forming a geometric relationship in the wilderness, embracing the greenery and framing the scenes of nature and the old industrial history of Miaoli.

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Detail Drawings of the Suspended Openwork Brick System

Construction Sets:

Detail Drawings of the Suspended Openwork Brick System (Unfolded Elevation of the Brick Curtain Wall)

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Internship @ Skapos, New York Duration: Jun. 2023 - Aug. 2023 (three months) Position: Summer Intern Responsible for Design Development/Construction Drawings & On-site Coordination/DoB Filing Assisting

404 E 66th St_Apartment Renovation 24" x 36" Arch D -SHEET SIZE

11-12 44th Dr_Hair Salon & Tea Shop

OWNER: JAMES HUANG

ACCEPTED

DINING AREA

THESE DRAWINGS AND SPECIFICATIONS, AS INSTRUMENTS OF SERVICE, REMAIN THE PROPERTY OF SKAPOS, LLC. UNAUTHORIZED USE, CHANGES, OR PUBLICATION IS PROHIBITED UNLESS EXPRESSLY APPROVED BY SKAPOS, LLC. ANY INFRINGEMENTS WILL BE PROSECUTED. GENERAL CONTRACTOR SHALL BE RESPONISIBLE FOR FIELD FIT AND QUANTITY OF WORK. NO ALLOWANCES SHALL BE MADE ON BEHALF OF GENERAL CONTRACTOR FOR ANY ERROR OR NEGLECT ON THEIR PART.

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Date: 06/06/2023

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PROVIDE FULL HEIGHT CEMENT BOARD OR USE MOLD RESISTANT DRYWALL IN SHOWER WALL

PROVIDE LATICRETE 9235 LIQUID WATERPROOFING MEMBRANE SYSTEM FOR ALL THE WET FLOOR AREA; CONTRACTOR TO PROVIDE REINFORCEMENT FABRIC/FLEECE THROUGHOUT THE APPLICATION AREA AS PART OF LATICRETE 9235 LIQUID WATERPROOFING MEMBRANE SYSTEM. THE MEMBRANE MUST RUN WALL TO WALL. THE WATERPROOFING IN THE SHOWER AREA MUST EXTEND FULL CEILING HEIGHT AT ALL WALLS. THE WATERPROOFING MUST BE INSPECTED BY THE RESIDENT MANAGER PRIOR TO CLOSURE.

EXISTING UNDERSIDE OF SLAB

SLAB TO SLAB (VIF)

PROVIDE CONTINUOUS SEALANT, TAPE & JOINT COMPOUND AS REQUIRED, TYP.

PROPOSED NEW FLOORING FINISH ON TOP OF EXISTING FLOORING

NO DEMOLITION ON THE FLOOR; EXISTING SUBFLOOR TO REMAIN. NO DECREASE IN SOUND RESISTANCE BETWEEN FLOORS SHALL BE ALLLOWED. PROVIDE NEW SOUNDPROOFING AS REQUIRED. SOUNDPROOFING MATERIAL TO MEET NYCBC 1207.02. WITH MINIMUM, SOUND TRANSMISSION CLASS (STC) FOR AIR-BORNE NOISE OF NOT LESS THAN 50

PROVIDE SOUND ATTENTION BLANKET AS REQUIRED.

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NEW FLOOR & WALL TILE TOP MUD PAN LAYER

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PROVIDE PITCHED SUBBASE; SLOPE TO FLOOR DRAIN

FLOOR DRAIN EXISTING PARTITION FRAMING TO REMAIN

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PLOT DATE: 6/1/2023 4:51:02 PM

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Renderings: Lobby/Tea Shop/Hair Station

Isometric View

Hair Station Construction Diagram in Isometric for Workers to lay out on-site.

Design Development Diagrams & Renderings

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Event-Triggering Machine This installation is composed of a 15m*15m*3m steel framework with playsets. Every node of the structure is pin supported and connected with each playset to show various forms of the whole structure when people sit or step on it. Moreover, every force applied on this installation will affect others’ body gestures: the public interaction is then created.

Fig.2 Isometric of the Pinned Support Mechanism

The Shape of Playing Together Installation Competion called "X-SITE" at TFAM in 2020 Position: Lead Designer of a Three-membered Team Responsible for Design Development/Grapghic Drawing/Budget Controling

Cross-Reference Shaped by the Pubic To respond to the competition topic of “The Reality of Cross-Reference”, we conceived a concept of a dynamic landscape formed by the public. People perceive reality by experiencing events and interacting with others: the reality of life is shared by all, and only then the publicity can be established. In this context, we decided to turn the invisible human interaction into visible mechanisms of body gestures. Like a seesaw in three-dimensions, people can interact with each other by playing, and the pin supports are tied with colored ropes to create a variable grid-shaped rooftop. This installation is not only for playing, but also demonstrating the shape of the public weaved together. Fig.1 Concept Collage

Fig.3-4 Perspective and Section: The Play-scape

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