Geometry Studies and Transformation

GEOMETRY STUDIES and TRANSFORMATION

Fixed axis

Deflect in one axis

Deflect in two axes

Deflect in connection

Deflect in three axes

New Composition

Sculptural anatomy works in combination with artistic facade give the artifact architectural connotation, renovating with Bennington's art community culture and the landscape.

The architecture works as the medium of inward and outward division; one reform the limited space, the other changes the perception of infinite space.

Look! The facade reassembles how we perceive the outward spatial system, which integrates and reform the site, and becomes one new piece of artwork.

My artistic experience begins at first glance, gradually to the steps on the site, and finally to the museum itself and the artworks inside.

The interior walls give me an immersive feeling of art. The geometric angles are working naturally for some reason and adding excitement when perceiving the art pieces inside!

Walking inside a sculpture and reevaluate the original work inside give me multiple levels of art appreciation.

Physical model materials and the production process full-color powder-based 3D print; MDF stacking; painting; plastering with the image; gluing.

Architecture is embedded in the site by forming a new kind of artwork that reshapes each other......

Viewing architecture and landscape as indispensable artwork, and learning from the pieces exhibited inside, Deflection + Bennington Museum presents to the art community a conceptual new experience of museum, which supports their enthusiasm and projects a new landscape to the city.

"The First Sieve is the Truth"

A short film that discusses the world composition, and the role of the architect between the characters of a politician and a thief.

Director: Molin Liu

Screenwriter: Mengyao Dina Lin, Molin Liu

Production Designer: Mengyao Dina Lin

2019-2021

As I transfered to the major of archtiiecture in freshman year, I try to find the role of being an architect in this world. Screenwriting is another way that I express myself. I co-wrote a short film “The First Sieve is the Truth” and was its production designer. The film tells a story between the head of the Bureau of Press and Publication and a thief to illustrate the truth that ordinary people perceive are the truth politicians want people to perceive, instead of the real truth. Finding the meaning of being an architect has led me to think about the linkage between the cause and effect in this world, and what really determines the truth to people’s lives. Now, as a fifth year architecture student, I think architect has the opportunity to make decompositions of the world and generate recompositions, taking real actions and fighting for the over-administrative from politicians. Architecture is restricted in many ways by politics, but architects also stand for the social responsibilities in-between the overarching and the grounding.

Link to the film:

Amazed by the views inside the closet, the thief deeply felt the class differences between him and the owner of the apartment. In his heart, he not only wants to own these possessions, but to be the owner of the apartment.

He starts to quickly grab the jewelry, feels scared even no one is watching him. He feels multiple eyes are on him, monitoring his every act when stealing.

Finding a phone that is the same as his let him feel that ultimately he and the owner use something similar.

Wearing the owner's suite and his watch, the thief never felt this confidence. Looking into the mirror, he enjoys the new outfit that makes him "equal" to someone like the owner of the apartment.

Sitting on the leather couch, he gradually forgot he is the thief, rather, he felt he is equal to the owner. He takes a selfie to record this fabulous moment of his life.

Being attracted by the wines on the shelf, the thief continues to do his work. In the laptop he just found on the couch, he knows the owner is the secretary of the Bureau of Press and Publication.

Accidentally knocked down a pile of files, some secret pictures appeared. The thief is shocked by this, and uses his phone to take pictures of the truth.

At the same time, the real owner returned home with lunch. They looked into each others' eyes.

Without any fear or astonishment, the secretary offers the thief the meal he just bought, treating the thief like no one else. Checking if he has got the valuable piece in this house.

Noticing the thief is wearing his suit, the secretary remains silent with thoughtful smiles while looking him gobbling the lunch.

After trading the phone containing the photo proof with cash, the secretary found out the phone that the thief gives him is the one that originally belongs to him, instead of the one with the pictures.

Obtaining a satisfying amount of cash, the thief comes to a store to buy some cigarettes with complacency. However, the cash are all counterfeit money. They have lied to each other.

The secretary and the thief lie to each other, one gives out counterfeit money to conceive a secrete, the other one substitutes an alternative phone to tell the truth, while the thief runs first on the street when they meet again in the small town.

The thief runs endlessly, while the secretary easily calls out for more people on the street to catch him together. Regardless of the reason behind catching the "thief", the crowd believes the one who seems to be an upright figure.

Cash in the air, cash in the air...

The thief splashes around all the counterfeit money to the crowd, watching them catch this money. At this moment, he felt happy again for being equal to an imaginary authoritative person, easily manipulating people's behaviors with disguised benefits.

The crowd abandoned the secretary for the counterfeit money, leaving him running alone again.

It seems the secretary is more practiced on being a thief than the thief. Checking with the surroundings and the conditions vigilantly. In the small town, the secretary finds the thief after all. It's a dead-end street in the residential area.

Taking his suit back from the thief's body, literally leaving nothing for the thief at the end, he beats the thief to the ground. Failed to take back the secret in the thief's phone, because the thief did not give out the password even though he was dying.

Leaving the thief on the ground with his life is uncertain, the secretary called on his phone, asking someone to "do him a favor". The thief posted the secret to the online platform Weibo and ensured it is made published before he finally closed his eyes. The thief dared his life to tell the actual truth to this world.

After a few seconds, the published post is being deleted, due to the the reason of "violation of community guidelines".

The first sieve of the information that we perceive is the so-called truth and equality. The truth to our lives will be discovered by someone who could see this world in both views, someone who sees both from eye levels on the ground, and the aerial view from the sky.

From God’s perspective, I see one person standing with pride and one person crawling on his hands and knees, either crawling forwardly or trying to escape. They compose the so-called equality and the rules, and the truth of the world.

We, architects, see the world on both god’s view and as individuals, being endorsed for the ability to decompose and recompose the world compositions, are relentlessly trying to speak up, and in the meantime, constantly struggling powerlessly

The Environmental Ground of A-Monumentality of Architecture

Work In Progress

2021 Fall; Final Project Research; Fifth Year; Professor: Chris Perry; Individual Work;

This project is the work-in-progress version of the Final Project, which summaries my entire undergraduate interdisciplinary studies among architecture, humanity, arts, and nature.

Starting with Anthony Vidler's article "Shifting Ground", discussing Peter Eisenman's idea of the ambiguity of Monumentality, this project continues this idea through a contemporary lens that relates new questions, issues, and challenges, namely, the environmental crisis of the 21st-century and architecture's relationship to it, criticizing the beautiful world we are fearlessly enjoying, in particular, the relentless reliance on the HVAC system and the harms to Nature. This project utilizes architecture as a social medium to critically talk to the architectural history, contemporary issues, and the future, not only for architecture but for the human species.

Components

Monumentality of Architecture I

Doric Order

The monumentality of architecture shows the power and spiritual quality in the essence of architecture since ancient times.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art Technological Building in disguise of Traditional Monumentality of Architecture

Reliance of Building Technology II

HVAC System

People devastatingly rely on building technology, especially the HVAC system nowdays, depending on the machines regardlessly

Central Park

Artificial Nature in veil of Real Nature

Nature III

Forest, Mountain, Lake

Real nature is being isolated from human interactions, peaceful and full of dangerousness.

Derived Environmental Issue

Contaminant and Global Warming

HVAC system produces a massive amount of greenhouse gas into the atmosphere, which put many species in danger

Site selection: Central Park, NYC

Synthesize

Concept Collage "Grid The World"

All images are reserved to the original authors. https://www.iucn.org/news/water/202003/nature-based-solutions-water-infrastructure-your-service https://abc7ny.com/nyc-homecoming-week-concerts-mega-concert-central-park/10903476/ https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/01/why-keeping-ourselves-cool-doesnt-have-to-mean-heating-the-planet/ https://www.grainger.com/know-how/industry/commercial/kh-eight-ways-to-conserve-energy-by-improving-hvac-efficiency https://www.nature.org/en-us/what-we-do/our-insights/perspectives/solving-climate-change-nature/ https://study.com/academy/lesson/greek-doric-order-of-architecture-definition-example-buildings-columns.html https://www.exploringbuildinghistory.co.uk/greek-temples-the-18th-c-grand-tour-learning-about-the-doric-order/ https://www.nycgo.com/museums-galleries/the-met-fifth-avenue/ https://www.nationalgeographic.org/encyclopedia/greenhouse-effect/ https://greenliving.lovetoknow.com/Slideshow:Current_Environmental_Issues

This "building" works as a blurred body of the artificial and natural, the built and the environment, the machine and live creature, talking to the human species in alternative viewpoints, and reversing the positions from the dominators to the visitors.

To be continued in Spring 2022...

Montage Space - Germination

SoA Archive Project; 2019 Spring; Architectural Design Studio 2; First Year; Instructor: Ryosuke Imaeda; Individual Work;

Inspired by Jiro Ono's hand movements of making sushi and the rolling rehabilitation balls. The two specific motions all reveal the different kinds of germination, one from the outside in, the other from the inside out. By inspecting the two versions of germination, I defined the space that is growing in spiral, creating a series of montage space that have different heights, where no door is being placed as parititon but the different levels. The imaginary owner of the space is a couple, they repect each other's personal spaces while living as a whole. Embraing the defects and loving as always.

Montage Collage

Active Rotation

The motion of making a sushi.

David Gelb, 2011, "Jiro Dreams of Sushi", Magnolia Pictures.

Passive Rotation

The motion of being inside a rotating rehabilitation ball.

Giuseppe Tornatore, 2013, "Best Offer", Warner Bros, Entertainment, Inc.

The montage collage turns into a 3D geometric projection drawing, different compartments represent different heights and possible functions. The montage drawing works as a emotional figure, which compose the future montage shape generation in the brain.

Montage

Montage Composition

This series of diagram shows the geometric transformation step by step.

Montage Material Selections

The contrast of the soft motion of making sushi and being rotated inside a metal rehabilitation ball drives the materialization of the model. In light of the montage materials, transparency and translucency are achieved by ink injected melted soap and light color staking model of the large bubbles, which could turn into apertures and curved walls. The dark color and rocky textures cuddle the bubbles in an upward swirl motion, distinctive but inclusive.

Model Production model: site: foam core milling, white paint, sand, spray glue.

Tech-Urban Rewrite

Tsinghua University Architecture Parametric Workshop; 2019 Summer; Second Year; Professor: Casey Rhem; Technical Team: Yuxuan Liu, Haoyu Liu; All works presented are individual works; f3(x) = Urban h3*l3*(Transpor�ation + Infrast��ct�res) f2(x) = Architect�re h2*l2*(Circulations + Mechanical + Elect�ical + Plumbing) f1(x)= 4/3πr^3 (Massing)-l1*l1*h1*(Individual Space) r Massing = μ*r Individual Living Space g(x) = f1(f2(f3(x))) Pixel(set)

I was exploring the design possibility of technology and tried to see how it could be related to humanities and urbanization. Thus I participated in the parametric workshop that explored artificial intelligence use in the architectural field, learning the technical knowledge. Using the language of the machine to try to tell a story of people and the world, defining the intrinsic rules of the urbanization process, this project investigates the capability of artificial intelligence utilization in architectural areas, with the use of pix2pix GAN and Python.

The exploration of real urban features drives the intrinsic logic of 3-D urban generation, where the major usable space, f(1), works as the cohesion of circulation, transportation, machines, and infrastructures. Different combinations of RGB datasets are the variables applied to each urban function.

Converting Color Code into 3D Generation Determinators.

Urban Emotions

From the basic structure, urban emotions are givien by applying urban textures.The entire process treats the results as a cyber punk city that could camouflage with different textures in different times. The new city is a dynamic, portable self serving city, and the new portable city shifts its appearance without changing the sturcture.

Universal Map

The universal map gives out the horizontal and vertical plans of the basic structure in all urban moods.

Shinsaibashi-no-Kanji 心斎橋 の 感じ (The Feeling of Shisaibashi)

The city night mode is using the views of Shinsaibashi, Osaka, Japan to generate the cyberpunk environment, endowing a mood of excitement and digital prosperity during normal nights, providing leisure in the after work times, especially for the people in Japan who has high work pressures. The city in day time is totally different from the city in nights.

Military Base

The military base mode is using the regenerated picture of the desert, camouflage tents, and countryside housing to generate the urban emotions of military camps and the storage of military equipment when the new portable city is in need.

Recombinant Configuration

Honor Award; SoA Archive Project; 2020 Spring; Architectural Design Studio 4; Second Year; Professor: Zbigniew Oksiuta; Teamed with Emmy Chen;

Concept: Lin; Renders: Lin; Drawings: 30% Chen; All works presented are individual works;

This is a 2 person group project: a housing + library project for 50~60 units of residents located in Troy. This project discusses the utilization and the social meaning of public space in a residential houses. In this project, architectural movements are considered as the action of the city, which could alter the living habbit of the people livinng nearby positively. The shape is only given by the existing environment rather than a noval shape. Through this recombinant configuration, the city would be held up more tightly, and functioning better. The Recombinant Configuration acts as a verb for the city, and for the people.

The Video:

Urban Expansion of Troy

In the recent 35 years, Troy has been through rapid economic revitalization and urban expasion, Building density and landuse are at the apex.

Urban Fabric Studies

The urban structure of this area shows a distinct grid planning pattern, which is unbalanced in the contemporary use of extra traffic and housing. At the mean time, the opaqueness of building set up a "wall" for Troy, hindering people's eyesights.

Urban Integration Studies

In light of "Space Syntax", this map visualizes the integration level of downtown Troy. The site is at a special moment that connects several essential elements of Troy: main road Broadway, Monument Square, unused City Park, Farmer’s Market, and the Hudson River. This project aims to use the architectural morphogenetic form as an urban rheostat that links this these moments as urban resistances and make the circuit of Troy more unobstructed, in other words, to be the recombinant configuration of the city

Input the basic bars shape that follows the original arrangement of the city

From the bottom to the top, gradually rotating the basic massing toward the angle that parallel to Hudson River.

Enlarge the base of the building to meet the program volume requirements.

Boolean the massing along the angle of the main road, Broadway. Relinking the Monument Square and the Hudson River.

This void prolongs the Farmer's Market next to the building, and punches the path from river street to the city park along the riverside, adding more economic value for the market and promoting the use of the city park.

Adding the other footing for the building that balance the weight, and touching the River with the program of community library.

River Street Views

From the both sides of the River Street, the smooth "twist" of the project transmit the signal of the River to the people walking in the city, attracting them to the turning point of city, having the special feeling in an urban context.

Monument Square View

The building creates a gap of the city that links the city to the hudson river, and a frame for visitors on the monument square as well as people on the hudson river, nevertheless, it presents as a door, or an opening for Troy, to accept new era while preserving its history treasures.