Professional Work Materiality Marina Clubhouse 1-4 Wanda Mall Facade 5
Form
Academic Work Function
Technique
Morphing Structure 6-7 Shifting Hybrids 8-9
Campus Loop 10-11 Fiat in Rome 12
Fabriaction 13 A Pageant 14-15
JIAJUN REN jiajunr@design.upenn.edu 3650 Chestnut Street PA19104 215-7151955
JIAJUN REN
jiajunr@design.upenn.edu 3650 Chestnut Street PA19104 215-7151955
Education UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
2012-2015
Master of Architecture with A.P. (M.Arch 1), GPA: 3.93 Real Estate Design & Development Certificate through Wharton School of Business Real Estate Finance, Corporate Finance, Real Estate Law, Progressive Development, Property Development, Project Management
THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY
2008-2012
Bachelor of Science in Architecture with honors, honors distinction and Summa Cum Laude, GPA: 3.90 Minor in Sociology
Work UNSTUDIO Sunsea Marina Clubhouse SD+DD: (Clubhouse, Service Building, Bridge, 48 Villas, Interior Design) Experience Zhongshan Three-D Modeling, Visualization, CAD drafting of all packages
Sept 2013-May 2014
Material Selection/Schedule/Budget, Supplier Meeting and Coordination, Spec Sheet Preparation Client Meeting, LDI Meeting, Site Visit and General Contractor Meeting
AECOM, Shanghai
China Shanghai Baoshan Senior Residential Complex Design: CAD Drafting (Plan, Section, Elevation, RCP) China Dongguan Wanda Shopping Mall Elevation Design: Individual Design Proposal, SD, DD China Xiamen University Wanda Shopping Mall Elevation Design: Individual Design Proposal, SD
Jul 2012-Sept 2012 Jul 2011-Sept 2011
ECADI, Shanghai
Jun 2010-Sept 2010
Hongqiao International Airport Planning and Design Group, Shanghai
Jul 2010-Sept 2010
China Wuhan Huashan Ecological Exhibition Center: SD (Sketchup/Rhino modeling, Rendering, 2D Drawings) Shanghai Post-Expo Planning and Feasibility Studies: Concept Design 54 storey mixed use proforma, (Collaboration with planners from Tongji University) Terminal One Renovation Feasibility Study Schematic Design of Plaza Connecting Subway Line Ten and Terminal One Renovation of Energy Center, Schematic Design+Sustainability Strategy Proposal
Scholarships American Institute of Architects Henry Adams Medal Second highest record in Professional Degree Program & Fellowshops Penn Design Scholarship University of Pennsylvania, School of Design Will M. Mehlhorn Scholarship Theory Essays Competition, First Prize, Penn Design E. Lewis Dales Traveling Fellowship Architecture Design Competition, Second Prize, Penn Design Ohio State University International Student Scholarship The Ohio State University Honors Thesis Research Fellowship The Ohio State University, Knowlton School of Architecture Italy Architecture Study Abroad Scholarship The Ohio State University, Knowlton School of Architecture Carl Mayer Scholarship Awarded to Talented Sophomore Architecture Student, Knowlton School of Architecture Honors, Awards Pressing Matters 2 & 4 Morphing Structure& Shifting Hybrids, P99-89, P140-141, CampusLoop to be published and Publications PennDesign Year End Show Morphing Structure Displayed at Meyerson Hall, PennDesign KSA 24 Hour Design Competition Second Prize KSA Guy Competition Finalist KSA Year End Show and Accreditation Four Studio projects accredited and displayed at KSA KSA Section Show Banvard Gallery “Section Show�, Rio Legacy Displayed KSA Studio Award Awarded to one student per semester Software, Tools & Languages
References
AutoCAD Rhinoceros, Vray for Rhino, Grasshopper Maya, Maxwell Render and Maxwell Studio Sketchup Revit Form Z 3d Max, Vray for 3d Max Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop, Flash Word, Excel Proforma Modeling, Power-point
Laser Cutter 3 & 5 Axis CNC 3D Printer (& makerbot) Various wood shop Tools FreeHand Drawing, Drafting Fluent in Mandarin Fluent in English Entry level in Italian & German
Lanmei Wang, AECOM China Regional Director, lanmei.wang@aecom.com Gordana Jakimovska, UNStudio, Senior Architect, g.jakimovska@unstudio.com Hina Jamelle, Director at Contemporary Architecture Practice, NYC, Studio Professor at PennDesign, hina. jamelle@c-a-p.net
2015 2012-2015 2013 2013 2008-2012 2012 2011 2010 2015,13 2012 2012 2012 2009,10,12 2012 2012
JIAJUN REN
WORK SAMPLE
jiajunr@design.upenn.edu 3650 Chestnut Street PA19104 215-7151955
UNStudio Zhongshan Sunsea Marina Clubhouse Complex SD, DD Project Description Sunsea Marina project involves: -Clubhouse SD, DD (21,000 sqm); -Bridge SD, DD; -Villa SD,DD (50 flats) -Clubhouse interior design SD, DD. Construction Completion: May, 2015
Responsibilities Building DD: -Facade material selection -Facade Panalization 3d -Facade Visualization Building Funel SD+DD: -Funel wood panelization -Wood material selection -Funel space visualization
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jiajunr@design.upenn.edu 3650 Chestnut Street PA19104 215-7151955
UNStudio Zhongshan Sunsea Marina Clubhouse Interior Design, Vip Lobby L1-L2 Project Description Sunsea Marina project involves: -Clubhouse SD, DD (21,000 sqm); -Bridge SD, DD; -Villa SD,DD (50 flats) -Clubhouse interior design SD, DD. Construction Completion: May, 2015
Responsibilities -Interior space material selection -3D modeling of all interior spaces -Interior isualization -Priliminary budget -Material schedule and spec sheets
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WORK SAMPLE
jiajunr@design.upenn.edu 3650 Chestnut Street PA19104 215-7151955
UNStudio Zhongshan Sunsea Marina Clubhouse Interior Design, Vip Spaces Project Description Sunsea Marina project involves: -Clubhouse SD, DD (21,000 sqm); -Bridge SD, DD; -Villa SD,DD (50 flats) -Clubhouse interior design SD, DD. Construction Completion: May, 2015
Responsibilities -Interior space material selection -3D modeling of all interior spaces -Interior isualization -Priliminary budget -Material schedule and spec sheets
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jiajunr@design.upenn.edu 3650 Chestnut Street PA19104 215-7151955
WORK SAMPLE UNStudio Zhongshan Sunsea Marina Clubhouse Interior Design- Material Box
Project Description
Artificial Quartz Perforated GRG panels Walnut Wood Veneer Hand Tufted Carpet Aluminium Cladding Gypsum Cladding Acoustic Leather Panels
Sunsea Marina project involves: -Clubhouse SD, DD (21,000 sqm); -Bridge SD, DD; -Villa SD,DD (50 flats) -Clubhouse interior design SD, DD. Construction Completion: May, 2015
Responsibilities -Site visit (project and supplier) -Material coordination with suppliers -Preliminary budgeting -Material box assmebly -Material schedule and spec sheets
Champagne Aluminium Cladding Walnut Wood Veneer Felt and Fabric Hand Tufted Carpet Composite Wood Floor Bamboo-Fiber Wall Paper
Anodized Metal Screen Onyx Wall Paper Champagne Aluminium Cladding Marble Tiles GRG Cladding
Accoya Engineered wood facade Teak Wood Decking Artificial Stone Cladding Aluminium Fixtures Aluminium Cladding GRC Panels
Wood Screen with Walnut Veneer Teak Wood Decking Hand Tufted Carpet Wall Paper Felt Wall Acoustic Leather Panels
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WORK SAMPLE
jiajunr@design.upenn.edu 3650 Chestnut Street PA19104 215-7151955
AECOM WANDA Plaza Elevation Design Project Description Wanda Plaza Elevation project involves: Facade Design SD Entrance Interior SD Shop Front Study Material Boards and Budget The facades of a shopping mall are more or less eye-catching billboards that advertise brands and new releases. Yet maintaining their unique architectural characteristics is also mandatory. How and where billboards are laid out has great impact on faรงade design. The faรงade reveals a play of figureground relationship of crystalline glass strips that undulate continuously throughout the faรงade and the aluminum surfaces. The protruding glass strips fame various scales of billboards and LED screens. Visually, the solid-void relation remains ambiguous. The highly reflective aluminum broadcasting surfaces blend into the blue sky during daytime, as opposed to the more object-like glass strips. The opposite effect occurs during night time that the glass strips become light strips wrapping around the building massing. The constant shift of focal points between billboards, aluminum facades and glass facades provides layers of interpretation.
Responsibilities -Digital modeling and 2D representation -Cost estimation -Client meeting and presentation
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JIAJUN REN
WORK SAMPLE
jiajunr@design.upenn.edu 3650 Chestnut Street PA19104 215-7151955
MORPHING STRUCTURE Auncion House and Gallery in Tribeca, NYC Project Description This project examines emergence and its relation to the formulation of architecture by using digital techniques for the generation of growth and evaluation of patterns. Transformation of a butterfly is carefully studied, documented and translated into series of diagrams. These diagrams inform subsequent organization and formulation of highly integrated formal and spatial systems which operate the same as organic systems where the forms result from their adaptation to performance requirements, in this case structure, inhabitable surfaces and enclosure. This project explores the potentials of stasis versus different rates of change in the buildings formal manifestation. The ultimate proposal emerges out of an interrelated working method between program, space, structure, material and fabrication logics that combine to develop an innovative building formation.
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JIAJUN REN
WORK SAMPLE
jiajunr@design.upenn.edu 3650 Chestnut Street PA19104 215-7151955
MORPHING STRUCTURE Auncion House and Gallery in Tribeca, NYC Project Description This project examines emergence and its relation to the formulation of architecture by using digital techniques for the generation of growth and evaluation of patterns. Transformation of a butterfly is carefully studied, documented and translated into series of diagrams. These diagrams inform subsequent organization and formulation of highly integrated formal and spatial systems which operate the same as organic systems where the forms result from their adaptation to performance requirements, in this case structure, inhabitable surfaces and enclosure. This project explores the potentials of stasis versus different rates of change in the buildings formal manifestation. The ultimate proposal emerges out of an interrelated working method between program, space, structure, material and fabrication logics that combine to develop an innovative building formation.
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JIAJUN REN
WORK SAMPLE
jiajunr@design.upenn.edu 3650 Chestnut Street PA19104 215-7151955
SHIFTING HYBRIDS Hotel-Apartment in Tribeca, NYC Project Description Shifting Hybrids - Day and Night examined emergence. In particular, this project examined part-to-whole organizations and their potential in architecture by developing tools to create effects that exceed the sum of their parts. These concepts are explored through the design of a new hotel and residential building located in the Tribeca neighborhood of Manhattan. Systems of furnishing, artificial lighting as well as soft/hard surfaces are applied to the units. Systems of wet and dry zones within residential and hotel units are amplified that the same logic is applied to public program, the spa. Intertwined wet (hot bath, warm pool and swimming pool) as well as dry zones (sauna, hair salon and administration) of the spa carve into building massing and form continuous void spaces.
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JIAJUN REN
WORK SAMPLE
jiajunr@design.upenn.edu 3650 Chestnut Street PA19104 215-7151955
SHIFTING HYBRIDS Hotel-Apartment in Tribeca, NYC Project Description The hotel units form a volume that intertwines with that of the residential units. Three volumes of the public program (spa) are linked by the hotel volume and these three spaces have various degree of enclosure and scale. The insertion of three public programs lead to a series of mutations of units, resulting to a graduation of unit sizes and local elevation changes.
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jiajunr@design.upenn.edu 3650 Chestnut Street PA19104 215-7151955
CAMPUS LOOP Urban Gatalysts - A New Border for the Demilitarized City, Souel Project Description Situated at the border of former U.S. Army Garrison Yongsan as well as historic intersection and market core of Haebonchon, Campus LOOP catalyzes and incorporates urban fabric yet remains as an urban icon at the heart of the highest low density city of Seoul. As part of the transformation proposal of military base into a vibrant green urban campus, this particular complex fuses schools of K-Pop, K-Fashion and K-Film; attracting emerging professionals to practice and launch their career during their residence.
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jiajunr@design.upenn.edu 3650 Chestnut Street PA19104 215-7151955
CAMPUS LOOP Urban Gatalysts- A New Border for the Demilitarized City, Souel Project Description With a multilevel gallery anchoring at the hearth, a continuous forum/library unravels in space and becomes the social/knowledge platform connecting all schools. Series of secret gardens are to be explored differently by residents or visitors and the roof garden encourages physical connection between Yongsan campus and Namsan Park. Together with the minimal housing clusters with corresponding spatial and programmatic flexibility, this intensely mixed use project strives to build a 24-7 worklive-trade environment, catalyzing its vicinities and beyond.
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jiajunr@design.upenn.edu 3650 Chestnut Street PA19104 215-7151955
FIAT IN ROME Tourism Promoting Technological Revitalization of Historic Center of Rome Project Description Taking advantage of the vigorous tourism in Rome, FIAT sets up its regional headquarters along the Tiber River. By spatially interweaving car museum and headquarters, Fiat advertises itself to all the visitors of its innovative design process. Affordable housing is also provided on site that encourages small innovative businesses to come in as well. A new technology hub injects new vitality to Rome historic center.
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jiajunr@design.upenn.edu 3650 Chestnut Street PA19104 215-7151955
WORK SAMPLE FABRIACTION Tensile Installation, Knowlton School of Architecture, OSU
Project Description Composed of 546 pieces of rectangular fabric sheets systematically cut out of 273 T-shirts, knitted together by fish lines, this light and elastic web defines several niche spaces and encourages visitors to explore, occupy and interact with both the installation and other participants. More than an object with distinct materiality and form, FabriAction provides unique experiences for visitors to conceal and reveal themselves within various pods.
Using 273 T-shirts, this installation demonstrates a process of metabolism. The cellular organization provides structural possibilities and the growth of the object is selfmotivated with each piece being added at one time.
With the collaboration of fabric units, fish lines and wood chips, this installation defines the site and influences the performance of participants both inside and outside of the installation, echoing the essence of sports: field, boundary, opposition, interaction, etc.
A standardized cut of each fabric unit is adopted. The arms of each unit are stretched towards all directions, defining 3-dimensional spaces.
The installation is affected by the budget limit: the total cost should not exceed 300 dollars. Thus minimizing cost and maximizing repetition of units is one of the goals we have to reach.
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jiajunr@design.upenn.edu 3650 Chestnut Street PA19104 215-7151955
A PAGEANT Honors Thesis reserach: objective representation of war, sex, human spirit and resources Project Description Buckminster Fuller’s Dymaxion Map was an attempt to project the surfaces of the earth with the least amount of distortions possible. Fuller unfolded the Dymaxion Map in different ways to emphasize different aspects of the world, but he still applied distortions by exploiting the division between what is perceived as land surface and water surface. Our project follows in Fuller’s footsteps to this point before diverging. Unlike Fuller, we decided to embrace the distortions we applied (unwittingly or not) and used those to realize our attitude toward the aspects we projected.
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jiajunr@design.upenn.edu 3650 Chestnut Street PA19104 215-7151955
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A PAGEANT Honors Thesis reserach: objective representation of war, sex, human spirit and resources Project Description These attitudes seem to manifest themselves in the two-dimensional projections we have created, giving them a personality and character. The projected distortions are then re-wrapped into a new threedimensional form based upon the previous projections: unlike the perfect sphere that they came from, the new form becomes a physical means to understand our biases and the distortions that we consequently applied. They are snapshots that reveal our skewed perception of the global condition.
Reality
Reality Tessellated
Reality unraveled by biases
2D projection distorted perceptions
Distorted perceptions re-three dimensionalized based upon biases
Distorted perceptions anthropomorphized and animated
There are four of these skewed terrestrial forms- they represent four different aspects of the human experience: Sex, War, Resources (human life sustainability) and The Human Spirit (a triumphal collection of our obsessions and fascinations as a species). We have literally animated these forms and turned them into characters that reflect their subject matter. This project is a performative study of their ranges of motion and actions as a way to understand how different human biases might interact and how they affect each other.
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