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Portfolio Yu-Lun ‘Nico’ Hsu / Graduate School Year 1
September 2017 Architecture / Travel
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Graduate school is a transitional stage for me to do more than just paper architecture. This piece illustrates my ambition to break away from previous phase–to explore more about materiality and architectonics.
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Content RĂŠsumĂŠ
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01 Architecture Simplified Complexity
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Lakota Heritage Center
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Parkland College Aviation School
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Mecha Farming
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Acropolis (Re) imagined
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House in Forest
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Convergence
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Education
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Yu-Lun ‘Nico’ Hsu Master of Architecture Candidate University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | 2016-Present Volterra International Architecture Workshop Volterra, Italy | Summer 2017 Barcelona Study Abroad Program Polytechnic University of Catalonia | Barcelona, Spain | 2015 Bachelor of Science in Architectural Studies University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | 2012-2016 J.R Architects – Internship Tainan, Taiwan | Fall 2017 – Drafting and revising floor plans, sections, elevations and details – Residential housing project construction site visiting – Conceptual designing on retail space and residential housing Graduate Student Research Assistant University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | Summer - Fall 2017 – Working on the ‘University Hall’ digital restoration project ARCH 271 & 272 Design Studio Graduate Teaching Assistant University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | Fall 2016 - Spring 2017 – Introducing sophomore level design studio to 11-13 students per semester – Teaching graphic representation methods and demonstrating model crafting techniques – Tutoring Adobe softwares, including: Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign – Tutoring 3D modeling softwares, including: Rhinoceros, SketchUp, Revit C.J Studio – Internship Taipei, Taiwan | Summer 2016 – Integrating and modeling 3D models for various projects and details – Drafting and revising floor plans and details – Office space construction site visiting and measuring – Project brainstorming & conceptual designing on hair salon and hotel room
Recognition
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– University of Illinois Sesquicentennial Design Competition | First Place | May, 2017 – Sculpture Objects Functional Art and design (SOFA) Expo Participant | November, 2016 – Expanded Environment Awards Competition | Honorable Mention | 2015 – Louise Woodroofe Prize | April, 2015 – Wesley Porter Martin Scholarship | April, 2015 – ISoA: Make Series 1 Design & Build Competition | First Place | 2015 – Edward C. Earl Prize | First Place | November, 2014 – Critical Mass: Student Choice Award | First Place | September, 2014 – Critical Mass: Student Choice Award | First Place | April, 2013 – Proficient: Rhinoceros, Revit, SketchUp, AutoCAD, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, crafting – Intermediate: Lumion, Grasshopper, Sony Vegas Pro, photography, cinematography NOMAS | Gargoyle Honor Society | Taiwanese Student Association | Jazz | Breakdance | Painting | Traveling English - proficient | Mandarin Chinese - native | Spanish - conversational
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Simplified Complexity Design & Build Urban Installation in Urbana, Illinois 8-week studio Spring 2017 with Austin Zehr Bradley Berg The project is a part of Root to Roof Initiative: to reuse Urbana’s wood for the community. Phase two of the Roof to Roof is to design and build screens to separate the new park and the parking lot.
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“We developed the idea of nonstandard module. We collected the leftover pieces after other teams trimmed the wood down into 2’ by 4’ planks. We wanted to preserve the material as much as we can including all the barks and imperfections. People don’t get to see wood at this stage, they either see a tree or a perfectly processed plank.”
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“We opened up the frame in specific angles to create a more dynamic experience. The layout also helps increasing structure stability. We then designed the angles of the tabs so the visibility changes as you proceed through the installation. Each surface essentially can be seen as two layers with clean jointed one at the back and live edges at the front. The porosity of the screen changes with the angles and the materiality.�
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01. Practicing welding 02. Cutting steel tube 03. Cutting wood 04. Connection prototypes 05. Examining frames 06. Fastening wood to connection
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“The tree does not have a message; The tree does not want to sell me something. The tree won’t say to me – ‘look at me, I am so beautiful, I am more beautiful than the other trees.’ It’s just a tree – and it’s beautiful.” –Peter Zumthor
U of I Nonstandard Studio 2017: Simplified Complexity
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Lakota Heritage Center Educational Institute for the Lakota Sioux Tribe 8-week studio Summer 2017 Allen, SD Most heritage centers only display the past and showcase the culture, but rarely address the contemporary issues of the community. This heritage center will have a more active role in helping the reservation and Lakota Sioux population.
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Site relief exercises help students to understand the idea of layers and patterns. We sought patterns from the site and the context and then further interpreted them into lines and planes.
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he heritage center is composed of two major programs: a museum wing and a pre-collegiate educational institute. The project is designed under the guidance of the Lakotan architecture design principles. The form of the museum is a juxtaposition of rectangular boxes and spheres. The spheres are expanding outward and exploding out of the restriction of the frames. It is a metaphor for the power and tenacity of the Sioux nation and it also symbolizes the constant struggle they’ve been encountering.
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The institute will house younger generation and help them combat alcohol & drug addiction, sexual abuse, and suicide, and give them educational opportunity and health care. In addition, they will be able to receive career training and have the opportunity to work at the museum in order to gain income and experience. Part of the heritage center’s missions is to help the reservation to move forward by considering the future of the tribe.
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With both the museum and the educational institute, the architecture aims to reconstruct the community and re-channel the power of the nation by giving younger generation in the reservation a sense of purpose.
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Lakotan Architecture Principles from Dr. Cr
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how the concept of center is understood by the community
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positioning the center in relation to the landscape and skyscape
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the order of entering, moving through, then exiting space
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the proper internal placement of spaces in relation to the center
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the concept most people use for design guidelines, including forms, colors, numbers, shapes, plants, animals, and time. It is the reflection of forms and materials in the environment
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“Everything the Power of the World does is done in a circle. The sky is round, and I have heard that the earth is round like a ball, and so are all the stars. The wind, in its greatest power whirls. Birds make their nest in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours. The sun comes forth and goes down again in a circle. The moon does the same and both are round. Even the seasons form a great circle in their changing, and always come back again to where they were. The life of a man is a circle from childhood to childhood, and so it is in everything where power moves. Our tepees were round like the nests of birds, and these were always set in a circle, the nation’s hoop.” –Black Elk
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Parkland College Aviation School Sustainable Addition to Parkland College 16-week studio Fall 2016 with Theradej Nasueb
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The idea is to re-brand Parkland College into a world-class institute. Learning through awareness is emphasized with the transparency of structure and programs. To address the need for sustainability, passive design strategy and bio-mimetic technologies are incorporated. Because the Aviation Maintenance School is separated from Parkland College campus, a central boulevard is created to provide a sense of campus.
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“Our approach is client-based and linear in terms of the programs and layout. We aimed to design an efficient and sustainable aviation school and focus primarily on performance and technology.�
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Electric Operated Laminated Insulated Glazing Unit
Standing Seam Aluminum Metal Roof
Kingspan Insulated Metal Roof Panel (Air and Vapor Barrier) 3 1/2'', R 28 Metal Decking
Secondary Structure, Grider W6-Section
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Sprinkler Head Girder Truss, 10' Deep Slotted Girder Truss Connection, Bolted
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Air Gap 1 1/2'' Metal Support Frame, 1 1/4'' Panel Return Beyond Compressive Truss, 5' Wide
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Accessible Grill Panel Bearing Plate, Bolted Sealed Concrete Slab, 1' - 6" Deep
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Landscaping Concrete, 2% Sloped for Drainage
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01. Hangar wall detail physical model 02. roof detail 03. Section models
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Classrooms
Conference room Green wall
Computer lab/ Library
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Mecha Farming Speculative Design for Grain Silos’ Future 5-week studio Spring 2017
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Mecha farming is a speculative design project exploring grain silos’ renovation in the distant future and rethinking the users of architecture. The project is located at Pierson Station, IL, where the extinct town is sustained by agriculture. The idea is to turn it into a remote station resided with machines, robots, and drones. The project challenges the design methodology of architecture in terms of program, circulation, architectonics, and functions.
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in 50 years_humans will not be the only_users <tr>row content</tr> in 50 years_architecture will be_ <br/> nature + humans + machines <tr>row content</tr> in 50 years_agriculture <tr>row content</tr> in 50 years_grain silos_
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Human population: 500 Human population: 500 Farming machine population: 100 Farming machine 100 1. verticalpopulation: farm 1. vertical 2. farm beehive 2. beehive
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Human population: 200 Human population: 200 Farming machine population: 200 Farming machine population: 200 1. living museum 1. living museum 2. sphere museum 2. sphere3.museum site modification for traffic 3. site modification for traffic
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Human population: 100 Human population: 100 Farming machine population: 250 Farming machine population: 250 1. living museum 1. living museum 2. interior vertical farm 2. interior3.vertical farm site modification for traffic 3. site modification 4. helipadsfor on traffic beehive 4. helipads on beehive
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Control center 1330 sf
Crop samples lab 1330 sf Drone maintenance lab 1330 sf Drone stations
Supercomputer storage 1330 sf
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The beehive is a new landmark on the site to serve as the control tower for drones and the facilities.
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Interrelationship between the infrastructure
Spatial hierarchy & user experience Considering the space for both human and machine
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Acropolis (Re) imagined Landscape & Architecture Design for Acropolis at Volterra, Italy Volterra International Workshop Summer 2017 with Brittany Bogema Karolina Regula Nathan Khalsa Theradej Nasub
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The sensitivity of the acropolis is re-imagined through various design objectives such as accessibility, visibility, public & private and sustainability.
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“I like ruins because what remains is not the total design, but the clarity of thought, the naked structure, the spirit of the thing.” –Tadao Ando
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The idea is to establish boundary and thresholds in different scales to enhance usersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; experience with the site.
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Materials and structures are chosen to be cohesive with the site, to provide elements of visual interest that do not distract from the ruins. Architecture / Travel 67
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House in Forest Housing Project in Human Subconscious House in Forest Design Competition Spring 2017 with Casey Revelle Robert Konzelmann
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The project explores the symbiotic relationship between psychology and architecture. By interchanging the vocabulary in each field, defining characteristics are synchronized, giving rise to a new discourse altogether. This new discourse then creates a dialogue between the users and the used.
House of Memory
She watched as that very thought flow past her into the sphere. Trying not to lose it, she chased it to a door and stepped inside. The transition between inside and out -- built and nature was seamless, perfect. She explored the house -- feeling an overwhelming peace as she moved through each space, seeing herself in its design. The house was in perfect harmony with its surroundings, just as she was. Suddenly, she understood.
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Bedroom Meditation platform
“I created this.” Jane realized she could control more than her attitude. By focusing inward, she could control the forest, just as the house of memories did. Her happiness sustained the forest, like seeds sewn into the landscape.
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“This is where I belong,” she said as she watched her last thought float down the stream she stood over.
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Convergence Uniting U of I Campus with Architectural Interventions
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U of I Sesquicentennial Design competition Spring 2017 with Marco Nieto Melanie Iverson Yazmine Carbajal The idea is to tie the entire campus together with a similar design language. We used Kevin Lynchâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s urbanism theory to study the campus, and instead of focusing on a certain location, we wanted to include the whole campus across three quadrangles. We wanted to create a focal point at the south quad with the oldest structure on campus, the Mumford House. We avoided adding more focal points on the main quad by scattering them around in the buffer zones. Lastly, for Bardeen quad, we overlapping the installation with the focal point since we wanted to further improve it.
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Tokyo Singapore Taip Shanghai Melbourne Raval Seville Granada Valencia Paris Lyon V Berlin Budapest Vie Lisbon Sintra Volte Florence Rome Vatic Athens Santorini Hav City Tegucigalpa Chic York City New Orleans Francisco Salt Lake
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Venice Arte Biennale 2017, Venice
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–George A. Moore
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“A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.”
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Convent de la Tourette, Ã&#x2030;veux
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- Le Corbusier
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“Light creates ambience and feel of a place, as well as the expression of a structure.”
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01. Chihkan Tower, Tainan 02. Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris
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01. Jerรณnimos Monastery, Lisbon 02. Japan Pavilion, Milan World Expo 2015
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New Acropolis Museum, Athens On-site sketch
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Town Hall, Brussels On-site sketch
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