Extreme & Reverse | Portfolio of Roy Lin 2013 by Roy Lin

EXTREME& REVERSE PORTFOLIO | ROY LIN HARVARD GSD MAUD 2013 GRAD

EXTREME & Reverse portfolio | Roy Lin Roy (Yu-Ta) Lin graduated from Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) in 2013 with his professional degree - Master of Architecture in Urban Design. During the period of study, Roy had worked as an trainee in OMA Rotterdam for six months. Before entering GSD, Roy earned his BS in Architecture degree from National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) in Taiwan and had been practicing architectural design for about two years in Taiepei, Taiwan. This portfolio includes works 2007 to 2013: - Academic Projects GSD Urban Design Elements GSD Optional Studios NCKU Thesis Design - International Competitions eVolo Skyscraper 2013 (3rd Prize) Hon Kong Boundary Crossing Facilities - Professional Practices Project during OMA Projects during ARCHITERIOR Project during Frogdesign

Aca dem ic & COM PETI TION pro jects Selected Projects Academic Works & Competitions 2007 - 2012

THE TWO SIDES Harvard GSD Option Studio: Common Framework 2012 Fall Instructor: Christopher Lee Xiamen, China Individual work

MEGA-STORAGE Harvard GSD Core Studio: Elements of Urban Design 2010 Fall Instructor: Christopher Lee Queens, US Teammate: Wu Zhou

CORN CITY Harvard GSD Option Studio: Verticalscapes 2011 Spring Instructor: Inaki Abalos Xiamen, China Teammate: Monica Earl

UN-WALLED CITY NCKU Undergrad Thesis Design 2008 Instructor: Lian Yu-Chang Tainan, Taiwan Individual work

ELEMENTARY SCHOOL NCKU Undergrad 3rd Year Studio 2007 Tainan, Taiwan Individual work

ACADEMIC COMPETITION

MONUMENT of CIVILIZATIONVERTICAL LANDFILL eVolo Skyscrapers Competition 2012 Time Square, New York City, and world-wide Special thanks to: Anne Schmidt Third Prize NATURE RECALLED Hong Kong Boundary Crossing Facilities 2010 Hongkong Teammate: Hsieh Chin-Nan Shortlist

Com mon Frame work The Two Sides GSD Option Studio 2013 Fall : Common Framework by Christopher Lee Site: Xiamen City, China

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STU 1406, 1506: Option Studio Syllabus Harvard GSD Option Studio Fall 2012 Christopher C.M Lee (chris@serie.co.uk) Teaching Assistant: Simon Whittle (simon@serie. co.uk) Common Frameworks: Rethinking the Developmental City This studio works typologically. It approaches the problem of the city through the investigation and redefinition of its persistent architectures - its dominant types. Any attempt to define type is an attempt to define what is typical; and what is most typical is common to all. As such, type lends itself as an effective heuristic device to locate commonalities. This search for what is common in architecture is not to locate formal or tectonic similitude, but a search for what is the idea that can be commonly held so as to invest architecture with a social and political role. As the first of a three-year long sponsored research on China, the studio will begin with the city of Xiamen, followed by Macao and Shenyang. The premise of this investigation rests on the rethinking of the developmental city, defined as the city conceived and constructed through mega-plots, and used primarily as a developmental tool, instigated primarily by speculative capital. The urbanization of these mega-plots result in the dissolution of the city as a legible artifact, bereft of a civic dimension and public sphere. This dissolution into a sea of enclave urbanism does not constitute the idea of the city; either in the European tradition as a space of partnership or coexistence, or in the Chinese sense, where the city is a seen as an accommodative framework with a clear and legible deep structure that regulates its spaces and social structure. Therefore, the task for the studio is to conceive of and design a common framework for the city, accommodating housing, nature and another associative civic functions. Besides their present developmental nature, these cities are chosen precisely for their propensity towards an accommodative urbanism due to their position on the frontier of Chinese territory. The history of these cities demonstrates a high degree of pliability that engendered an inclusive plurality prior to the rapid urbanization of recent years. Xiamen, as an island city, grew through the infusion of colonial settlements, overseas Chinese investment and its strategic proximity to Taiwan. The conjecture of this studio is that the ability of these cities to be accommodative can be found in the very nature of the city as a common framework. Thus these cities offer the possibility to re-conceive the developmental city as a space of cooperation and partnership - the idea of the city as a common space par excellence. The studio will travel to Xiamen and Shanghai in September 2012. The historical and theoretical underpinnings of this studio will be offered by Course 09123: The Fourth Typology. The outcome of the option studio and course seminars will be subject to a publication.

[Summary] The project is situated in the CBD site of east Xiamen. Architecturally, it rethinks the space for mixing working, living, and cooperation through manipulating the urban dominant type- Qilou. From the social point of view, the project is also the manifestation of the political circumstance between Xiamen (China) and Kinmen (Taiwan). The original park proposed by HOK cuts the site into two halves. As the interpretation of shop houses in macro scale, two rolls of residential bars, which situated in between HOK buildings from each side, stretched inward and divided existing fabric into different urban pockets, leaving a large void space on ground level. The circular shape of the void area creates a superficial symbol of unification. The office units are scattered in the circular void area. Each office unit consists of an exterior space, a transitional corridor space, an interior space, and a shared space in the back. This is another interpretation of the shop house. Considering the issue of Cross-Strait cooperation, the project argues against the sameness of conventional CBD and the notion of unification. Though its architecture creates an absolute and trans-scaling common framework for the entire site, the use of different landscape and variations in accessibility creates a softness and programmatic difference between the two sides. Within the common framework, the two sides interact. Yet through acknowledging and respecting the differences, the two sides gain benefits without decreasing their own values. That is the essence of cooperation. 1. [The Dilemma of Cooperation] 2. The relationship between Mainland China and Taiwan has been a matter of contention ever since the Nationalists retreated from the Mainland during the Chinese Civil War in 1949 and settled in Taiwan region. Even till today there has never been a clear political consensus accepted by both governments and their people. Despite this political divide however, people of both sides share much in common in terms of culture, religion, geography and history. 3. While political intractability remains, financial and economic cooperation has served to create closer ties between the countries. In the region of the Taiwan Straights these closer economic ties took the form of the “Three Minor Links” agreement between Xiamen, Kinmen Island and Taiwan Island which came into effect in 2001.This agreement transformed Xiamen and Kinmen from hostile frontier outposts into closely interrelated economic entities. This had profound repercussions for the eastern part of Xiamen Island as it changed from being military no-mans-land to an area desirable for development. 4. As part of the Xiamen Master plan for 2020, a Central Business District was proposed that would be a center of economic activity in this newly connected region. 5. With the aim of attracting investors from Taiwan and stimulating regional economic growth the building of the Cross-Strait Business District seems to fit neatly into the narrative of political expediency for economic progress. 6. However, within the relationship between China and Taiwan, business is never entirely free from politics. The conditional harmony relies on policies

that are carefully constructed to guarantee a winwin situation in which economical independence and political sovereignty would be unharmed. This picture was taken at the 3rd Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement earlier this year. 7. From the government’s side, this is seen as a major improvement in China-Taiwan relations, yet the agreement was based on the “One China Principle”, which was interpreted differently by both sides and aroused great controversy in Taiwan. The picture shows the protest against ECFA in Taiwan. People were opposing this “under-the-table” movement and worried about the transparency of further actions, and were also concerned about the fairness/balance of the clause details. Referendum was proposed, but not accepted. 8. It is this kind of ambiguity that both regions have lived in, suffered from, and in an attempt to find balance, built their relationships. However, some worry that economic interests are overshadowing political considerations, and independency and sovereignty might be at risk. One cannot deny such concern, especially when seeing such slogans of propaganda like the giant “One Country Two Systems, Unifying China” billboard that was erected along the coast. Architecture of course cannot solve political or economic problems, but in finding meaning from the idea of the city, Architecture should embody the political, cultural and social circumstances that the city is manifestation of. 9. [The Dominant Space of Cooperation] 10. Qilou, the eastern version of the arcade, is a common architectural feature in Xiamen, mostly seen in the shop houses. It is a reflection of local climate, colonial urban intervention, and a programmatic mix that is typical of the region. It is not only an architectural typology, but also a common memory shared by the people. 11. Qilou is a procession of shop fronts, set back from the street on the ground floor, creating a covered transitional space between the traffic of the street and the interior. The semi-exterior space shelters people from direct sunlight, rain, and wind, therefore creates a comfortable zone, especially in sub-tropical region, for circulation, expansion of interiors, and spontaneous gatherings. 12. The party walls perpendicular to the street define different units. Enclosed between the party walls are the shop spaces, each of which can vary in occupancy and dimension. 13. Regardless of the different configuration of the street and the parcels, the Qilou space remains linear and consistent, while the “pockets” that it connects provide diversity. 14. An architecture that has a similar relationship between consistency and diversity is the 21st Century Museum by SANAA. 15. Consistency is established through the use of a strongly defined circular void space which acts as a plinth. Within this void, a variety of different volume rooms allow programmatic and spatial diversity. The perfect circular shape ties the whole project together and gives clear legibility while containing the richness of the urban grain. 16. Like the plinth of 21 Century Museum, Qilou also works as a continuous void running through

the periphery of entire block, connecting a variety of urban pockets and giving the buildings within a sense of unity. In addition, by changing the geometry of Qilou, spaces can be given specific characteristics or organizations. 17. [The Framework for Cooperation] 18. The conventional idea of CBD is a symbol of the accumulation of capital, and a landmark to attract investors. However, it does not respond to urban fabric. In fact, it becomes the indifferent, homogeneous, or even non-human-scale fabric of the mega-plots. Instead of taking the idea of placing a CBD for granted, the design aimed to use Qilou and shop house as an urban framework to rethink the mix-use of living and working, the space for collaboration, and the space for the emerging creative industry. 19. The master plan for the Cross-Straits Business District, designed by HOK, proposes, financial skyscrapers to be located around the center, some mix-use of commercial and business buildings are surrounding the central area; residential towers situate on the periphery of the CBD. 20. There is a park at the center of the CBD, originally designed as the connection of inland to the waterfront space, cutting the region into two sides. 21. The project takes the HOK proposal as a given condition which inadvertently can be read as representing the political situation between China and Taiwan. 22. Dealing with the park, my project transforms this plan-o-metric symbol of connection and flow into its latent role as a creator of segregation, where it acts as a metaphor for the situation between Mainland China and Taiwan. 23. The large parcel at the center with the park cutting through was chosen as the site of the project. 24. To create an even field for cooperation, the shape of the park has been altered a little in order to make the two sides of the plot geometrically similar, and quantitatively “equal”. Relating back to the deep structure of the shop house, the park can be seen as the traffic between two rows of shop houses. And in this project, the by-passing traffic remains. 25. By superimposing the deep structure of shop house, several ‘walls’ from the opposite sides stretch inward and enclosed series of urban ‘pockets ‘ in which different programs or spatial characteristics can be housed. 26. The original HOK buildings, like many other CBDs, are objects which have little relationship to one another. Within this banal variety of objects, a certain diversity akin to the adjacent shops of the Qilou could be found. Therefore, the position of the ‘walls’ is adjusted to ‘frame’ existing buildings and to turn the lack of relationships into diverse urban pockets. 27. Like the use of the circular plinth in 21st Century Museum, changing the geometry shape of the void space into a perfect circle gives the project a visually strong identity. 28. The transitional circular space, like the Qilou space in shop houses, is where the interaction and

collaboration are taking place. Small and low-rise boxes of office space will be scattered in the area leaving permeable pathways for people to move from one end to the other, and access the diverse urban pockets on the periphery. The shape of the circle is, in fact, almost irrelevant to its functionality, yet is a powerful icon that gives the superficial, nostalgic sense of ‘unification’ in appearance. 29. In the park separating the two sides, several civic programs are placed. On the bottom left is the Xiamen administrative office combined with large international conference hall. 30. On the top right is the Taiwanese administrative office at the end point of the pier. Next to the Taiwanese administrative is the Cross-Straits Cultural Exhibition Hall. At the center where both sides are closest to each other is a library. 31. The library houses the knowledge of history and culture of the two sides. Perhaps only through knowledge can the ambiguity and the dilemma be broken through. As you might notice the thinness of the library, it doesn’t need that much of space to hold the knowledge of such short period of modern history, but instead, it requires the wisdom gained from those knowledge to better respect each other. The library is critical of this political manifestation, yet it is left un-designed, like the solution that is unclear and requires more effort. Or perhaps the ambiguity itself would be the only answer. 32. [The Space for cooperation] 33. Like the deep structure of Qilou, each office unit has its own sequence of exterior space, transitional corridor space, interior space, and in some cases, back alleys. 34. By flipping the units along the corridor, it creates differentiation and establishes a certain rhythm. 35. Between every two clusters, shared courtyards are created. Degrees of access and privacy are created by using different types of landscape. 36. The model shot of the courtyard. 37. The residential units learn from the success of the Qilou in combining work areas and private living spaces in close proximity. 38. The open area, like in the Qilou space, is used for circulation and some shared or flexible use such as freelance working space, while more steady and private rooms are enclosed by the thicken partitions where the service facilities are located. A double-height space is also introduced in the common area for more visual interaction and transparency. 40. [The Identities] 41. While its architecture creates an absolute and multi-scalar common framework for the entire site, the landscape marks identity and creates difference between the two sides. 42. Two parking systems: The west part has one large underground parking space that is shared and centrally governed. On the East part, each residential tower has its own underground parking entrance and is responsible for its own management. Residents are free to choose either side to live. One is likely to live on one side and work on

the other. 43. The landscape in the office areas is composed of productive plant species from both Xiamen and Taiwan region. These are fruit trees and vegetable and rice beds. 44. According to the different characteristic, the vegetation is categorized into several types: the ground species, the short species for barriers, and the tall grain species for screening. 45. Through the facilities and landscape in the park, the two sides interact with each other. The boulevards, representing the official movements, are extended from the opposite sides and meet at the central facilities. From these facilities, one could be re-directed to the other side. The thinner pathways, representing more spontaneous and unofficial movements, depart from one side of the boulevards, slightly touch the other side and then turn back to where they came from. 46. Forestry species from Xiamen and Taiwan are planted on the fields adjacent to either side. 47. The regions where the different pathways overlap are the rice fields. Rice is the most common productive crop in both Xiamen and Taiwan. The rice paddies are shared and cultivated by both sides. 48. [Conclusion] To conclude, the project rethinks the space for working, living, and cooperation through manipulating the urban dominant type;Qilou. It is the manifestation of the political circumstance between Xiamen (China) and Kinmen (Taiwan). The project argues against the use of the generic CBD as a representation of unification. It proposes that the idea of the city which captures political, cultural and social realities must form the basis for a common framework. By transforming the dominant type of the region into an absolute and multi-scalar framework, true differences are respected rather than washed over with economic palliatives. This architectural and landscape common framework form a rich ground where the two sides can interact. And through acknowledging and respecting differences, the two sides can benefit without decreasing their own values. This is the essence of cooperation.

The project is situated in the CBD site of east Xiamen. Architecturally, it rethinks the space for mixing working, living, and cooperation through manipulating the urban dominant type- Qilou. From the social point of view, the project is also the manifestation of the political circumstance between Xiamen (China) and Kinmen (Taiwan). The original park proposed by HOK cuts the site into two halves. As the interpretation of shop houses in macro scale, two rolls of residential bars, which situated in between HOK buildings from each side, stretched inward and divided existing fabric into different urban pockets, leaving a large void space on ground level. The circular shape of the void area creates a superficial symbol of unification. The office units are scattered in the circular void area. Each office unit consists of an exterior space, a transitional corridor space, an interior space, and a shared space in the back. This is another interpretation of the shop house. Considering the issue of Cross-Strait cooperation, the project argues against the sameness of conventional CBD and the notion of unification. Though its architecture creates an absolute and trans-scaling common framework for the entire site, the use of different landscape and variations in accessibility creates a softness and programmatic difference between the two sides. Within the common framework, the two sides interact. Yet through acknowledging and respecting the differences, the two sides gain benefits without decreasing their own values. That is the essence of cooperation.

Qilou, the eastern version of the arcade, is a common architectural feature in Xiamen, mostly seen in the shop houses. It is a reflection of local climate, colonial urban intervention, and a programmatic mix that is typical of the region. It is not only an architectural typology, but also a common memory shared by the people. Qilou is a procession of shop fronts, set back from the street on the ground floor, creating a covered transitional space between the traffic of the street and the interior. The semi-exterior space shelters people from direct sunlight, rain, and wind, therefore creates a comfortable zone, especially in subtropical region, for circulation, expansion of interiors, and spontaneous gatherings. Regardless of the different configuration of the street and the parcels, the Qilou space remains linear and consistent, while the â&#x20AC;&#x153;pocketsâ&#x20AC;? that it connects provide diversity. Qilou also works as a continuous void running through the periphery of entire block, connecting a variety of urban pockets and giving the buildings within a sense of unity. In addition, by changing the geometry of Qilou, spaces can be given specific characteristics or organizations.

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The conventional idea of CBD is a symbol of the accumulation of capital, and a landmark to attract investors. However, it does not respond to urban fabric. In fact, it becomes the indifferent, homogeneous, or even non-human-scale fabric of the mega-plots. Instead of taking the idea of placing a CBD for granted, the design aimed to use Qilou Theto Two Sides | Sectio and shop house as an urban framework rethink the mix-use of living and working, the space for collaboration, and the space for the emerging creative industry. Like the deep structure of Qilou, each office unit has its own sequence of exterior space, transitional corridor space, interior space, and in some cases, back alleys. By flipping the units along the corridor, it creates differentiation and establishes a certain rhythm. Between every two clusters, shared courtyards are created. Degrees of access and privacy are created by using different types of landscape. The landscape in the office areas is composed of productive plant species from both Xiamen and Taiwan region. These are fruit trees and vegetable and rice beds. According to the different characteristic, the vegetation is categorized into several types: the ground species, the short species for barriers, and the tall grain species for screening.

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The residential units learn from the success of the Qilou in combining work areas and private living spaces in close proximity. The open area, like in the Qilou space, is used for circulation and some shared or flexible use such as freelance working space, while more steady and private rooms are enclosed by the thicken partitions where the service facilities are located. A double-height space is also introduced in the common area for more visual interaction and transparency. To conclude, the project rethinks the space for working, living, and cooperation through manipulating the urban dominant type;Qilou. It is the manifestation of the political circumstance between Xiamen (China) and Kinmen (Taiwan). The project argues against the use of the generic CBD as a representation of unification. It proposes that the idea of the city which captures political, cultural and social realities must form the basis for a common framework. By transforming the dominant type of the region into an absolute and multi-scalar framework, true differences are respected rather than washed over with economic palliatives. This architectural and landscape common framework form a rich ground where the two sides can interact. And through acknowledging and respecting differences, the two sides can benefit without decreasing their own values. This is the essence of cooperation.

URBAN DESIGN CORE STUDIO MEGA STOR AGE GSD Core Studio 2011 Fall : Elements of Urban Design- Queens Site: Sunnyside Yard, Queens Team: Roy Lin, Zhou Wu

Sunnyside Yards, built in the early 1900â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s by The Pennsylvania Rail Road Company, now searves as the primary depot for Amtrak, and Lomg Island Railroad. Built on a natural topographic depression, this expansive infrastructure has a surface of approxiamately 200 acres and a linear extension of over 2.5 miles. Sunnyside yards was developed in isolation from a broader urban strategyresulting in an insular piece of heavyweight infrastructure that has limited connectivity or purpose in regards to its adjacent urban quaters. Sunnyside yards locates in the adjacent of Manhattan and Long Island region. Beside its criticle location as a transition nod between MTA and LIRR , in its early years, was also searved as an important goods delivery spot for the neighboring industrial districts. The map on the right shows the passenger flows along subway lines. Though Sunnyside yards situate in the concentration of infrastructures , its surrounding urban programs didinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t support visitors or residents.

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The widely spreaded industry, which now actually storages, are the main problem of this area. Those passive and low-rise buildings occuping the coastline and most of the valuable land, hindered the development of residential neighborhoods. Since these post-industrial programs no longer need the benefits of inhabiting the waterfront, our sollution was to consolidate these numerous storages onto the yard and build a logistic mega-structure intergrating all infrastructures. Then we can release / recycle all the neighboring lands for residents and daily needs.

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The logistic system is devided into several parts serving three targets: private cars, freight trucks, and freight trains. The truck level is the main part of the system, it has its own route directly connects to highway system and the loop runs though the whole structure. There are series of smaller loops along the route which connect to the elevator cores. Freights delivered by trucks will be elevated to their storage spaces in upper floors directly. There are four storage floors equipped with flexible partition walls which allow different type and scale of storage use. All storage spaces are attached to the elevators in the middle. Concerning the increacing portion of train delivering in the future, the storages are shared between train and truck goods. The train level uses similar method to deliver goods. There are several freight docks on the train level. The goods will be unloaded to the platforms and be sent to the upper storage floors through elevators. The cars level connects to the ground floor and allows cars to drive into the elevators and go to the self-storage floors on the top levels. The section shows the way three types of system are integrated together through the use of elevators in the core part of the structure. The floor heights vary between 4.5 and 9 meters in order to create flexibility for different use.

In order to reduce the impact of surroundings caused by its huge volume, and to create better connections stitching the urban context, five cuts are made. The cuts are given different missions and characteristics. Begining from the east to west are: Athletic Valley, Commercial Corridor, Cultural Corridor, and Transportational Cut. Along the edges of the sructures are placed several set-back parks or city plaza according to the surrounding needs and spatial context.

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Verti cals cape mega ma chine: City of corn GSD Option Studio 2011 Spring : Verticalscape by Inaki Abalos Site: Chicago downtown Team: Roy Lin, Monica Earl

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Agricultural Headquarters 1-MAIL GRID & THE LOOP Chicago is home to the original Board of Trade which places it in a prominent position as a leader of the as country in terms of political decisions made for Americaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s agricultural regions. The proposal for the site is to situate a new Agricultural Headquarters and production facility within the current financial district. We propose that the future role of the Board of Trade will deal with critical issues regarding the political gap between agrarian and urban agendas. It is the role of the Agricultural Headquarters to take responsibility for political issues surrounding not only the predominant corn industry in the Illinois Region, but also the agricultural issues arising in the United States at Large. The project seeks to bring corn into the public face of Chicago but also acknowledging the importance of Chicago as the corn capital of the United States. 0

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ing the awareness of the agricultural fields beyond the city center, we hope the project will help draw attention to the risks associated with urban sprawl on food production and distribution. New Proportion and Arrangement The Agricultural Headquarters in the center of Chicago seeks to alter the scale of the city. PLAN The idea of the vertical-scape is reinterpreted through 50 100 the introduction of horizontality and0 new circulation patterns, uniting the existing verticalscape into a larger arrangement. This type of megaform in the city rethinks the verticalscape in a new proportion, related to the continental scale of the 1 mile grid. Each component can be seen as part of the city scale but also in relation to the scale of the outlying regions. Scale and Massing Reinterpreted Intersecting the scale of the existing city fabric with agricultural fabric a new prototype for verticality is explored. We see a transformation of scale and massing of the verticalscape and seek to find an alternative to the super-tall or the super-green.

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Thermodynamics and a New Spatial Modality Modernity regarded architecture, landscape and environment to be different. The studio is about representing the meeting point of the three disciplines. Our project aims to combine architecture, with the landscape of agriculture in the outlying areas of the city, increasing the awareness of what lies beyond the inner regions of urbanization. The physical environment is altered to create a new level of comfort in the city centre, which is synchronized with harvest seasons in the agriculture region. The challenges that arise at this intersection of disciplines and change of scale of intervention allows us to approach are more complex than one discipline on its own can attempt.

Block winter winds: The project deals with ideas of thermodynamics in a larger context than is usually dealt with. The project changes the physical environment not of a single building but of 16 city blocks. The project aims to alter the physical environment by protecting the area with a curtain of corn in the winter months to prevent the prevailing winds to enter the area. Climatic Conditions and Harvest Times: In the Illinois region corn is generally harvested during the months of Oct, Nov, Dec, before the first snow fall. This harvest time allows for the project to be filled with corn in the winter season which fits in with the thermodynamic needs of the city. The corn curtain is filled and hence shields the city streets from the wind during the winter period when it is needed.

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Combined programming and Efficiency The factories in the building are arranged in a linear order to share and interlink their programmatic needs. By identifying similar processes in the different corn products manufacturing processes we have created a facility that experiments with new arrangements to achieve increased efficiency through shared energy consumption.

URBAN Regen era tion UNWALLED CITY Undergrad Thesis Design 2010 Un-Walled City Site: Tainan City, Taiwan

Kowloon Walled City, Hong Kong, 1940s-1992

The city itself, needs “flexibility”... Once, one of the world’s greatest slum - “Kowloon Walled City” had explicated how does a city grow from village to extremly-high-density complex city and finding it’s own way out, (which might be an answer to modern city’s predicament) in it’s about a hundred years lifetime. The amazing outcome was with NO authority involved, nor the architects ! Just like most of our architecture in the world. What attracted me the most was that, inside of the city, there were thousands of pathways runing within it. none of the pathways are the same, and they often ran accross buildings to buildings. These “pathways” weren’t being “built”, they were actually been “dug out” -the residents torn down the walls to connect buildings and made them into public pathways or bigger private spaces. If we regard the space inside of Kowloon Walled City as an epitome of nowadays verticalized city worldwide, we might also take the spatial evolution of it as a prediction and, perhaps, solution to the dilemmaour cities face today. What most significant about Kowloon Walled City was that it itself struggled out it’s dead-end and because of it’s spontaneity, one can even tell this ”horozontal connecting” as a natural result of high-density city rather than a painstakingly consequence. Thus, I simply drew the life cycle of a “high-rised city” as above.

Chung-Cheng Business District, Tainan, Taiwan 1950s~present

The Chung-Cheng Business District is still one of the main shopping areas in Tainan though it had decade from itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s peak for half of a decade. The site located on the south of the old West Market, it was chosen because the context of it was extremely complex and shattered. It contains the original street condition and layout. Since this area once been burnt out, the houses were rebuilt into concrete buildngs almost at the same time. However, there are still exceptions. Along the main inner street settled two wooden & brick house, and three temporary structures built with wood and steel. These kinds of house couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be re-use due to the structural system of which is too weak or not distructible. The upper diagram shows the present use of every houses. There are many empty houses due to the outward migration. The ground floor used to be small business and shops but now many of them had closed or turn into living use. The activeness gradually decreases from the outside to the inside.

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Division and Redistribution The execcution of “redistribution” is actually a gradual process. First, install new public entrance for the living floors and seperate them from business area. Then, horizontally connect each floor into one network by installing a vertical circulation joint - the “ Stimulus” and make the new circulation passively spread into it’s neighboring housing, The process I called “re-horizontalization”. The different phases including past and future are: 1. Original: During it’s prosperous period, each house had it’s own shop front and the upper floors were the living spaces. 2. Population Decreased: The present conddition, yong people no longer stay, and many stores were closed. 3. Division of Ownerships: Minimize the estate unit floor-by-floor, a owner actually own different “boxes” indivisually and could seperately trade them. 4. Redistribution: A third party ( government, enterprise, or local business union) buy / rent the overall ground floor and make new replan. 5. Population Refills: While the living floors developes it’s new context, new residents in-migrate; the business floor has better circulation and quality of space, new fasion stores can suitably sattle.

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The Stimulus 1. Typical type of the houses - ground floor for business and the rest for living. Each house has its own vertical circulation and connects to the public street. 2. The circulation of living floors and business area were mixed together. It cause inconvenience for residents and disturbing for the comercial activities. 3. Demolish least buildings and input new ciirculation joint. Remove individual entrances to the the living floors in ground floor. The nearby houses exchange their floors, break the walls inbetween and remove inner staircases, this make individual space more flexible and easier to use. 4. Withdraw a certain percentage of individual’s redistributed space as contribution to public area and connect to the public circulation, leaving opportunities for neighbors to link as the same way. In the commercial floor, by redistibuting the property, walls inbetween are to be demolished and thus achieve larger and more flexible use. 5. More public pathways being formed and create opportunities for more individuals to redistribute and link to. This leads to the “flexibility” as a whole.

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MEDI UM ELE MEN TARY SCH OOL Undergrad 3rd Year Studio : Elementary School Design Site: Tainan, Taiwan

Out of sense of guiltiness or regret, man-kind had been keenly seeking the way to co-exist with nature in modern days. Green became the topic. The project tried to ignore the existence of architecture first, to simply put man in between natures, and put nature in between men (top diagram). Then the architecture comes in to play, as merely the interface in between man and nature. And to equaly contain the both, the interface - the wall deformed and linked with another (middle diagram). Eventually, the form of this architecture contains equal amount and shape of spaces both for men and nature (bottom diagram). After the from had be determined, the program started to fill in and several alterations/ openings started to put in place.

Perspective of classroom 1F Plan 1.5F Plan 2F Plan 2.5 Plan 3F Pan 3.5F Plan

There are several important spaces within this project - the classrooms, faculty office, learning station, libraries, open green spaces, and ecolabs. The whole school is divided into three grades and each grade consists of one classroom, two inbetween spaces connecting to faculty office and learning station. The learning station is place students can do experiments and team research; learning station is a verticle interactional place allowing students from different grades to work together. This helps students developes themselves in more active way. The faculty office is another vertical space where teachers from different grade can exchange and share their experience of teaching and provide private office space for the faculty. The offices are directly facing the classrooms because the interaction between students and teachers should keep unobstructed and constantly. Each grade had itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s own open green space, which is also their library. Some part of the open green space is divided into eco-labatories.

Section of interior space Section of exterior space

Interior Section The interior space, like the exterior, is also a continuous space. Though there are necessary floors added for spaces like classrooms, each floor is vertically connected to others through the Learning Station and Faculty Office. People can easily reach the place they want. Exterior Section The exterior space is a space of nature, growing plants and trees, some for the education purpose while some for the balance of ecological diversity. The school could be the ecology oasis in the city and provide the students with most natural knowledge.

The Library is seperated in the exterior space. The bookshelves are carved into the structural wall. There are movable furnitures sccattered around the shelf. Students from each grade own a library floor. The library floor contains several reading areas around bookselves. Students are freely lingering in the semi-exterior space reading, finding materials, playing, and discovering. The characteristic and functions of a place are determined by the students and the faculty.

Exterior Library Level 3 Exterior Library Level 2

Section of Learning Station

Ver tical Land fill: Monu ment of civ iliza tion International Competetion eVolo Skyscrapers 2012 Monument of Civilization- Vertical Landfill Site: NYC, world-wide Thrid Prize

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PERFORATED LAYER Re-used compact garbage bricks

Skyscraper is always considered more as an icon, a statue, a representation of TRANSMISSION LAYER Re-used compact bricks with vertical gas pipes wealth, a proof of advanced technology, anything but a reasonable form of space STRUCTURAL LAYER Un-recycable garbage bricks for mankind’s living. Underlying ourcompressed claim to purpose new urban typology, compact/mixed use of vertical space and so forth are our greediness and arrogance. Most of the cases, we build towers for towers’ sake. From super-tall to mega-tall, it’s all about being spectacular. But we do have something spectacular already, something all cities shared; something could be even more magnificent if we put them in display. Our waste-an outcome of our daily consumptions- is produced in amazingly great amount every second everywhere and can be seen as the representation of our civilization. New York, for instance, if we put its annual garbage on a area of a typical tower footprint, we’ll get a 1300 meters high landfill tower, which is about as three times tall as the Empire State Tower(450M). Isn’t that spectacular? Furthermore, a large portion of our garbage is non-recyclable and will last for hundreds or even thousands of years, they are to be the greatest material for the monument, if the monument is to let our descendants to memorize (or to mourn) our own civilization.

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population: 2,262,000 waste: 11,900,000 T/yr garbage height: 3302 M

population: 23,019,148 waste: 6,000,000 T/yr garbage height: 1665 M

NEW YORK population: 8,274,527 waste: 2,372,500 T/yr garbage height: 1318 M

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population: 6,800,000 waste: 1,898,000 T/yr garbage height: 600 M

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But this Monument of Civilization isn’t all that ironic. It meets certain demands TOWER CRANE of a city. Firstly, our cities, specially the big ones, had suffered from shortage of landfill for the last decades. While the cities grew bigger, we had less land and farther “outskirt” for garbage dumping. Vertical landfill should solve this problem. Landfills should go vertical like buildings do, since they are both in direct proportion to population growth. Secondly, the accumulation of waste actually creates potential energy-recycle such as gas emission during erosion. When the gas is recollected from the vertical landfill, it can generate power and be reused in the city. Putting the Monument in the center of the city allows it to benefit the city directly and also save the cost from transporting garbage outside the city. Lastly, the Monument can be seen as the city’s Earth-Friendliness measure meter. The lower the tower is, or the slower it grows, the more earth-friendly the city is. The ever-growing Monument may evoke the citizens’ introspection and somewhat leads to the entire city’s waste-decreasing and better recycling. Perhaps all metropolitan cities would inverse the worldwide competition from competing being the “tallest” to being the “shortest”.

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The architecture of the Monument is very simple. The underground parts are recycle processing, waste-water processing, gas and power stations, temporary dump, and wasted water tank. The upper part (tower) consists of garbage brick wall, recycled energy transmission layers, and vertical solidwaste tank enclosed by the garbage brick wall. The site is not specific, but is purposed to be put in the center of the city. Take New York for example, it is suggested to be put in the most popular spot: Times Square, for its purposeas being a monument- of being most viewed. Every city should has one garbage skyscraper to solve landfill shortage, to feed one’s vanity of height, and to remark mankind’s icronic civilization. Enjoy!

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GRAVEL PERFORATED LAYER Re-used compact garbage bricks SEPERATION LINER TRANSMISSION LAYER Re-used compact bricks with vertical gas pipes DIRT with MICROORGANISM STRUCTURAL LAYER Un-recycable garbage compressed bricks SOLID WASTE

adapt able infra struc ture Na ture re call International CompetetionHong Kong Boundary Crossing Facilities, 2010 Shortlist Site: Hongkong Team: Roy Lin, Hsieh Chin-Nan

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How long does a structure live? How long does an asphalt road need to be repaved? How soon will our transportational tools reach to the next generation which we had never imagined before? We built buildings and assumed they would work for a very long time, idealy forever. But eternity is not the case in this project. The Hong-Knog Port is, at the moment itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s being completed, gruadually releases its immence artificial land to the nature route by route, year after year... In the end, when the eighborhood regions are packed with people and artificial buildings, this piece of man-made island becomes the only natural green space serving the whole region, same way as the central park serves New York City.

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The main facilities are Passenger Clearnace Building (PCB), Inboud/Outbound Kiosks, Administration Building and other service buildings. The ground floor is largely covered by car lanse. Three main parts of the lanes are arranged for suttle buses, private cars, and freight trucks. The proposal is to make the PCB and other buildings ino a giant structure with series of legs standing on the ground of lanes. Each lane connects to one leg- the kiosk which allow passengers enter/leave the megastructure. As time goes on, more lanes become prats of the park, and the structures above them also turn into open gardens or walkways.

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Hing-Kong International Airport

The Hong-Knog Port is a critical transportational node connecting larger Hong-Kong region, provides on-land interegional or international checking. Built on an artificial island on the east of HongKong International Airport. Connecting Sen-Zhen in the north and Hong-Kong Island in the east. When the port is being done, hundreds of thousand cars and buses will run through this artificial island port everyday. But as transportation technology progresses, checking speed accelerates, and public transportation gets more popularized, the needs of immence land for road is no longer necessary and graudually being turned into nature. As more and more roads being replaced by nature, the island becomes a giant park serving the larger region of Hong-Kong District.

The Garden on the island

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PRO FES SION AL PRAC TICE Selected Projects Professional Practice 2008 - 2012

FONDAZIONE PRADA Milano, Italy. Under-construction Private Art Galleries Park OMA, Rotterdam 2011 Summer Position: Trainee Phase participated: DD, CD HUA-SHAN MOVIE THEATER Taipei, Taiwan. Completed in 2012 Movie theater, Re-use of a historical site Architerior Architects & Associates,Taiwan 2008-2010 Position: Architectural Designer Phase participated: SD, DD, CD Folded Box Kaohsiung, Taiwan. Completed in 2011 Private Community Center Architerior Architects & Associates,Taiwan 2008-2010 Position: Architectural Designer Phase participated: SD, DD, CD

ARCHITECTURE NON-ARCHITECTURE

HONDALINK Mobile App Mobile App Design Available in Thailand, 2013 frogdesign, Shanghai office 2012 Summer Position: Creative Intern world.honda.com/hondalink/index.html

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fondazione prada Largo Isarco, Milano, Italy. Under-construction Private Art Galleries Park OMA , Rotterdam Sep 2011 - Feb 2012 Position: Trainee Phase participated: DD, CD Lead architects: Chris van Duijn (PM), Jonah Gambling, Federico Pompignoli The Fondazione Prada’s new art center and permanent exhibition space in Milan will be based in a former distillery dating from the early 20th century built by one of the first spirits manufacturing companies in the city, the Società Distillerie Italiane. The existing buildings include warehouses, laboratories, brewing silos and workers’ residences surrounding a large courtyard. OMA’s project adds two new buildings to the compound: a temporary exhibition building and a tower.

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Over the last 20 years, manufacturing and other industries have disappeared from the area, leaving a large stock of vacant light industrial buildings. These buildings are now starting to be repurposed. Housing is expanding. Offices, hotels and convention centers will be built. The area will become one of a chain of new centers of Milan – from a monocentric to a poly-centric city. Just north of Largo Isarco, an abandoned rail yard that is currently a barrier between the Largo Isarco area and the center of Milan to the north. But when they yard is redeveloped into a public park and mixed use development. New connections to rail and metro stations will open the Largo Isarco area to the larger network of the city.

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The site was built incrementally starting in the early 20th century. The first mention of the complex in the historical archives is a request to the Municipality of Milan for permission to construct a “surrounding wall made of concrete to fully enclose the area that is part of the alcohol distillery”. By 1926 the majority of the buildings extant today were complete. Following World War II, two additional warehouses were built on the western edge of the site. Largo Isarco remained in use as a distillery until the mid-1970s. The urban surroundings of Largo Isarco, near Porta Romana, are also in transition. Currently postindustrial and on the periphery of the city, the area is being regenerated and integrated more fully into the city.

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Overlaid on the circulation are two linear view axes running the length of the site. These create a visual association between the individual exhibition areas and give spatial continuity to the entire complex

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The existing buildings at Largo Isarco are oriented inward to the center of the compound. The perimeter walls form a barrier to the city with only limited openings giving an indication of the functions inside. The new buildings disrupt this introversion. The Tower is a monolith with large glazed facades which act as windows into the Fondazione from the city. The Ideal Museum is a low volume, with a porous aluminum facade that emerges above the existing buildings.

The Largo Isarco masterplan provides the Fondazione Prada with great flexibility in structuring the circulation among the various exhibition spaces in the complex. It will be possible to organize the museum sequentially so that the visitor follows a designated route through all the principle galleries. It will also be possible for all the galleries to operate autonomously, accessed individually from the exterior courtyard like stand-alone pavilions. Overlaid on the circulation are two linear view axes running the length of the site. These create a visual association between the individual exhibition areas and give spatial continuity to the entire complex The existing buildings at Largo Isarco are oriented inward to the center of the compound. The perimeter walls form a barrier to the city with only limited openings giving an indication of the functions inside. The new buildings disrupt this introversion. The Tower is a monolith with large glazed facades which act as windows into the Fondazione from the city. The Ideal Museum is a low volume, with a porous aluminum facade that emerges above the existing buildings.

Professional Practice:

Hua-shan movie theater Taipei, Taiwan Completed Re-use of historical site Architerior Architects & Associates, Taiwan Lead Architects: Lian Yu-Chang, Wu Ming-Jie, Cai Da-Ren July 2008 - April 2010 Position: Architectural Designer Phase participated: DD, CD

The project situated in an Art Park in Taipei City. The Park itself is a re-use of abandoned industrial site where facotry spaces were closed for years and graffities were seen everywhere in the old buildings. The site was desinated as a new Art Park in downtown Taipei area and re-opened to public at around 2000. The program of this specific factory building was proposed as a small size movie theater mainly for artistic films. International film festivals will also be held in this particular place. The project of the theater consists of a theater, which is placed inside if the old building, and an semi-exterior space which was also another building yet the roof structure was totally destroyed.

Outside of the theater is an pavilian space. The steel structure covered with steel mesh represented the space of the previous factory. The transparency of the pavilian allow visitors to observ the old structure of the historical building and the random art graffities on walls. Inside of the old building, the theater box locates. The stainless steel of the facade reflects the entire interior of the old building and reduces the exsistence of the new theater massing. Audience and visitors enter the theater like entering a mirror reflecting the past, while a second later find themselves situate inside the box of fanticy.

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FOLDED box Kaohsiung, Taiwan Completed Private Community Service Hall Architerior Architects & Associates, Taiwan Lead Architects: Lian Yu-Chang, Wu Ming-Jie, Cai Da-Ren July 2008 - April 2010 Position: Architectural Designer Phase participated: SD, DD, CD The Service Hall situates at the center of a private residential community. Surrounded by several residential towers which are averagely 30 floors high, the 5-storie-high community hall becomes relatively homble and merged into its surrounding landscapes. Though the volume is modest, several high-quality service programes are packed inside of the building. There are gym, cafe, and a outdoor swiming pool on the ground leve; VIP spa, lounge bar, yoga rooms on the second level; and a 300 people banquet room integrated with kithen space, karaoke lounge rooms on the third level. A grand staircase space with giant curtain wall in the back of the building allows sunlight penetrates into the large interior spaces. The concept of the architecture evolved from the idea of the folded wall. The structural dark stone wall of the building is a continuous element that curves, folds, and defines every spaces. At some moments the wall exposed to the outside and becomes the exterior facade while other times it folds inside of the building and beomes the partition between different functions.

The folded dark stone wall is the main element runs through the entire building defining its different spaces. The material of the wall also cahnges into wooden when it is used as interior partition. Series of openings on the wall allow flows going through the partition therefore connects different spaces.

Professional Practice:

Astroboy [ CODENAME ] Global Release in 2013, Thailand Mobile Application Frogdesign, Shanghai office Project team: Paul Pugh (frogdesign VP), Peter Kim (Leader), Azure Yang (IxD), Lydia Juo (IxD), Jucssi Edlund (VD), Helen (PM), Emanuele di Saverio (Tech) Period: June 2012 - August 2012 Position: Creative Intern Work participated: User Research Sythesis, Comparative & Competetive Analysis, Concept Development, UI / UX Design, Graphic Design During my year-off from GSD, I tried to put myself into other realm of design. Luckily enough, I got a summer internship position at Frogdesign in Shanghai. It absolutely opened up my mind and the ways to think about design in practice. I learned that even the professional knowledge and design tools may differ from one field to another, the design process - the continuous thinking and crafting - are actually the same. And even they were also practicing designers, they doesn’t neccessarily work overtime as we usually do in architecture. Perhaps that has a lot to do with the nature of the different profession, yet I do believe that in the future where everything became intergrated and nolonger possible to design seperately, the way we practice architecture, or tdesign the space, need to be rethought of. There seems to be more new opportunities for architects, if we can step out of architecture a bit at some point. As for the project, Astroboy is a mobile app that allows automobile drivers to have better & mobile connection with their cars. The key concept in this project was to see cars as lifetime companions rather than just machines. Therefore, the “emoticon“ of owner’s car was designed and added with emotional features. Other extensions such as “carlog“, “remote-control“, “cup game“, “time capsule“, etc. were also constructing this ever-lasting relationship between drivers and their cars.

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education Master of Architecture in Urban Design | may 2013 Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, USA Bachelor of Science in Architecture | jun 2008 National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan

architectural practice Architerior Architects & Associates, Taipei, Taiwan | JULY 2008 - MAY 2010 Architecture Designer Office & Education Building of College of Humanity & Social Science National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan | CD Private Community Hall, project of Longda Construction Co.,Ltd. Kaohsung, Taiwan. | SD, DD, CD | Completed Office building of Kaohsiung Branch, Administrative Enforcement Agency Taiwan | SD, DD, CD Huashan 1949 Movie Theater, Cultural Park Taipei, Taiwan | DD, CD | Completed OMA, Rotterdam, Netherlands | sep 2011 - feb 2012 Trainee Fondazione Prada Largo Isarco, Milano, Italy | DD, CD | Construction

Interdiciplinary design experience , Shanghai Office | Jun 2012 - Aug 2012 Creative Intern Astroboy (codename) Mobile Phone Application | UX, UI, VD Web Design Freelance, Taiwan | 2008 - 2009

All for the Beautiful Scenery | (website off-line) Exhibition Website for Dep. Architecture, NCKU 2009 Taipei Public Art International Forum | 2009tpaf.culture.gov.tw Website for Taipei City Government

Awards & honors Young Talent Architectural Design Award (YouTal) , Taiwan | JULY 2008 Shortlist

eVolo Skyscraper 2012, International | mar 2012 3rd Prize - < Monument of Civilization- Vertical Landfill >

Hong Kong Boundary Crossing Facilities International Design Ideas Competition | may 2010 Shortlist - < Nature Re-Call > with Hsieh Chin-Nan

GSD Platform 4, publication of Harvard GSD | 2011 Selected work - < Verticalscapes: Corn City > with Wu Zhou

Mobile Hero 2011, Taiwan | 2011 Best concept - < Mobile Companion > with Hsu Chia-Yu

Leadership experience

Co-founder XD Cross Design | Apr 2012 | www.xd-crossdesign.com

CUrator XD 2012 Forum - < Ways to Engage > | Aug 2012

Team leader Propaganda Group Associated Graduate Affairs Student Union, NCKU | 2008

professional skills Langueage: Mandarin Chinese English Taiwanese Software: Auto CAD, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, After Effect, Flash, 3Ds Max, Rhino + Grasshopper, Arch GIS

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