ARCHITECURE PORTFOLIO | LILLIAN HOU 1
Contents Selected Works Sleep Institute Church and Tower Lundsford Center Site with A Billboard
Others Sketches Potteries
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Sleep Institute : Two Volumes a study of how building mediate environmental factor to provide better sleep quality for its habitant while providing connections to the outer world
Located in a dense urban environment, the site is adjacent to two buildings to the east and west, limiting the amount of daylight that can get into the building. On the north of the site is a courtyard shared by an adjacent library.
site plan : E.49 St. in New York City
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The project is an exploration of relationships among the building, its urban context, and people’s mental and physical states.
limited volume
seperated private from public
elevated private from ground
setback entrance
The program is an institute for researching sleep. These researchers study the impact of physical environment on human chronobiology and quality of sleep.
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Seperation and Light The two volumes are slightly detached, allowing a glimpse of light from the gap to the terrace. The materials used in the two volumes provide different qualities. Wood provides a warmness and softness to the isolated sleep rooms, in contrast to the concrete delimiting the public realm.
section a-a | light penetrates from the gap of two volumes to terrace
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exterior bridge connecting two volumes
As the most private, most vulnarable state common to all, sleep is crucially dependent on society in order to be sustained. - Jonathan Crary in 24/7
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east side of the building
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Church and Tower : Blurring Boundaries creating moments that establish emotional connections between people and place by blurring boundaries between opposing elements
* third place, fourth-year achitecture competition | group project of two for chicago studio
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Inconsistency in connection of old and new, people and place
The significant challenge we found is that the church image is so strong that a feeling of not willing to go inside without religious purpose arises. Therefore, even with new adaptivereuse programs inside, people would still find it difficult to build an emotional connection to this place.
church of epiphany
The church being a historic landmark can never change its appearance. However, with new programs inside, the question of how to connect people to this church architecturally arises. Therefore, our architectural direction is to create a dialogue of all of these elements by blurring the boundaries between them. existing new
02 BLURRING BOUNDARIES overall site plan of central Chicago | work by Lillian Hou
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program diagram | lillian hou
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1.bookstore 2. front desk 3.event space 4. cafe 5. storage 6. pavillion 7. green 8. bar 9. main lobby 10. convinience store 11. laundary 12. leasing office 13. mechanical 14. loading
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rendering | sketchup + vray + photoshop | lillian hou
Blurring the boundary of street and buiilding A pavillion that serves as an inviting integration of soft enclosure
When people approach the site from the street, the first thing they encounter is the pavilion. It sits in between the old church and new residential building, serving as an inviting integration from the street to the inner part.
The wood slats that are touching the ground are 5 feet apart, allowing people to pass through. Other slats are hung from the ceiling structures, swinging when the wind passes by. The system of the slats allows people to wonder, stay or communicate with others.
assembly detail of swing wood slats
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interact diagrams | lillian hou
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rendering | sketchup + vray + photoshop | lillian hou
Blurring the boundary of old and new An entrance that juxtaposes heaviness and lightness
Walking through the pavilion, you can go either to the entrance of the residential building or to the side entrance we propose to substitute the old main entrance of church/ bookstore.
We juxtapose the heavy brick wall of the old facade with a light wood structure, an entrance that is elevated one step above the ground marks the notion of entering into something totally different and new.
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entrance detail | autocad + photoshop
sectional diagram of both entrances | public vs private
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Bookstore Program Normal This non-traditional bookstore offers its guests with collections of books that changes periodically. Guests can wander around seeking for books they like and start to read at the space created behind the wood slats. Special Event Writers that write on similar genre or subject such as cooking can come to the space to interact with people. Their works are going to be displayed on the shelves that are supported by wood slats, welcoming guests who are interested in their works.
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Blurring boundary of perception and reality a non-traditional bookstore in a church
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Serendipity and Strollability Searchablility is a spatial configuration for an efficient access of books. Strollability on the other hand, indicates no articulated route nor rules to obey. “This duality need not to be two antithesis coexisting side by side, it signifies encompassing the vast gradation in between those extremities.� - Fujimoto
Blurring the physicality of a wall a wall that not only separates but also connects
The whole space is partitioned by the woodslat walls in a nonhiearchical way. Usually, walls separate, but when we penetrate the walls and make them into the slat walls, they are not only making separation, but also connection.
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Blurring boundary of interior and exterior A vertical garden balcony in each apartment Two apartment unit types: vertical and horizontal, are combined to form housing for the hybrid tower. Bringing the idea of blurring into the residential tower, vertical green spaces are provided in horizontal units. To make each garden
connect to the exterior, every unit needs to be interlocked. Two horizontal units and one vertical unit are combined as one group - two floors, each group interlocks 6 times, forming 12 levels of residential units.
horizontal unit vertical unit
diagram | illustrator + photoshop | lillian hou
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unit4 floor 9,13,17
unit3 floor 8,12,16
unit1 floor 6,10,14
unit2 floor 7,11,15
typical unit plan | revit + photoshop
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A vertical garden balcony in each apartment | lillian hou
Each horizontal unit will have direct access to its own vertical garden, while the vertical unit will have visual access. A tree will be provided in each vertical garden; irrigation is
managed by the tower’s system. When the folding glass door slides aside, the living room and the garden become one space, connecting inside and outside.
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wood strips facade ceramic planter
25” growing medium drainage layer drainage path metal plate machine skrews protection layer steel angle anchor bolt
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garden balcony area
pre-function wood paver
5” spacer filter layer drainage layer protection mat waterproof membrane insulation vapor control layer 8’’ concrete slab
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detail wall section | autocad + illustrator
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c amelanchier, Japanese maple, or cornus as a selection of trees a ceramic planter sized minimum 5’x5’
growing medium with depth of 24’’ minimum protective and drainage layer
roofing and waterproof system
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wall section | autocad + photoshop | lillian hou
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Lundsford Center : Guiding Walls a project that both embodies and raises the public profile of the Catawba Community through connectivity and directionality
site plan
The project is under collaboration with 3rd-year landscape students at Virginia Tech where they proposed their designs on the site of Catawba Valley, Virginia. The landscape students proposed a concept of “green fingers” that serve as canals that transport people from the main road to the field while creating green space and dwellings for residences.
site plan : whole site of Catawba Valley on which the “green fingures” are proposed by landscape students
As a response to the axial and directing quality of the “green fingers”, the building encompasses the idea of “connecting and directing” by providing interior/exterior paths and “guiding walls” to help inhabitants move through and engage with the landscape of Catawba.
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Connectivity and Directionality
guiding walls leading people from the public into the landscape
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To respond to the “green fingers”, a series of “Guiding Walls” are used along the axes. These axes are not orthogonal nor parallel with the exterior boundaries of the building. Instead, they are shifted at an angle to create a stronger feeling of directionality. The three “Guiding Walls” are located at the three entrances, which extend beyond the building boundary into the landscape. Besides, the exterior hallway going along east-west is extended all the way through the site to connect the “green fingers”, stitching and uniting the whole site.
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rendering - the “guiding walls” within longitudinal axis | sketchup + lumion + photoshop
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section : buidling and landsacpe provide experienc
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cial connections | sektchup + hand drawing + photoshop
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Site with A Billboard : Stereotomic vs Tectonic
concrete arches echo the monumentality and tectonics of the billboard existing on site
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site plan
ground floor plan
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light wood frame seen from lower level massive plaza
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billboard and its architectural translation
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third floor plan
second floor plan | autocad + photoshop
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Sketches fall 2016 europe travel program
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Fall travel program August - November 2016 In three months, 31 students and I traveled to 10 countries, 32 cities in Europe with the faculty of Virginia Tech.
Dubrovnik, Croatia
Pantheon, Rome
Ljubljana, Slovenia
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PanthĂŠon, Paris
Igualada Cemetery, Barcelona
Dubrovnik, Croatia
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Potteries spring 2018 molded ceramics class
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cup by slip casting, mistery glaze
saucer by drape mold, floating blue and mint glaze
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cup by slip casting, creamy brown and caribbean green glaze
cup by slip casting, caribbean green glaze
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lillian7@vt.edu 540-676-9712
LILLIAN HOU Virginia Tech | Blacksburg, Virginia | 2013 - 2018 Bachelor of Architecture
EDUCATION
Europe Fall Travel | Participant | Ten countries in Europe | 2016 Chicago Study and Intern Program | Chicago | 2017
von Weise Associates Architectural Intern Chicago, IL
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EXPERIENCE
competition for Chicago Architecture Biennial Assisted with construction documents, digital and physical models
May 2017 - Aug 2017
B.L.U.E Architecture
Designed and collaborated on Between States
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Assisted with a Hutong renovation project for
Architectural Intern
Beijing Design Week 2016 in schematic design and
Beijing, China
construction phases
May 2016 - Aug 2016
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Assisted in design development for various residential and hotel projects
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Designed individually for a facade renovation project for an elementary school
Cyborg Trading Systems
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Designed and implemented an email-alert project
Programming Intern
demo for Swiss Bank customer in programming
London, Canada
language of C# and SQL
May 2012 - Aug 2012
DIGITAL SKILLS OTHER
AutoCAD, SketchUp, Revit, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Lumion, V-Ray Technical Drafting, Model Making, Pottery Woodworking, Graphic Design, Watercolor
Virginia Tech Architecture Thesis Pella Prize | Virginia Tech | 2018 Semi-Finalist
HONORS and LEADERSHIP
Fourth-Year Architecture Competition | Virginia Tech | 2017 Third Place
Dean’s List |Virginia Tech | 2013-2017 aKDPhi International Sorority Inc. | VA, USA | 2014 - 2015 Public Relations and Recruitment Chair
Student Union | Camford Royal School | Beijing, China | 2010-2011 Principal Assistant
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Lillian Hou lillian7@vt.edu Virginia Tech B.Arch