IF CITY IS GENERIC
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Roy Lin (Yu-Ta Lin) MAUD GSD, Harvard 2012 - Mega-Storage - Elementary School - Un-walled City - Nature Recalled - Professional & Others - Resume
If city is generic...
It’s because of the richness within it’s every tiny piece
, and it changes so fast
that even within one single tiny piece, one can hardly tell its color...
MEGASTORAGE Acdamic 2010 Fall GSD, Team-work with: Wu Zhou
Wherever there is civilization, there is waste. Hell and Heaven should be considered as one, and we shall no longer try to disguise the bad but to reveal it as part of the system. For too long we’ve been approaching only the bright side of the city without realizing that a great heaven comes along with a great hell.
Sunnyside Yards, built in the early 1900’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.
Geographies / Strategies
Sunnyside Yards
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 didin’t support visitors or residents.
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Manhattan’s nearby boroughs, Bronx, Brooklyn,and Queens had served as larger residential region and daily functional programs for commuters in New York City. Among these regions, Queens has the lowest residential rate comparing to other two. And there is over one-third land occupied by indutrial programs, and even over 85% of these industrial programs are for product / material storages rather than factories. What if we can reorganize the program and release more land for residential use?
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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.
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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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Top-bottom: Ground floor First level - truck level Mid level - storage levels Top level- self-storages
Put away all the dirty things! Let’s design a great cabinet for them. Leave alone those beautiful and fragrant tasks to others, for that’s what they are desperate to... and only capable to do. Let’s design the Hell, leave them the Heaven...
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ELEMENTARY SCHOOL Acdamic 2007 NCKU Taiwan
What if architecture is made for desegregation, made for mixture, made for bringing artificial and natural worlds together? What will architecture be when it shelters but remains open?
In architecture and many other fields, people had always been looking for better ways achieving the harmony life between mankind and the nature. The graph shows the idea of mine by simply putting man and trees together and interlaced. In the 2D diagram, each man is surrounding by four trees, and each tree is surrounding by four men. We can simply put it this way - man and tree are equal, they own the same space, and they are tightly joined.
Concept diagram Interface prototype Interface development Equal spaces of artificial & natural space
Perspective Section
Perspective of classroom 1F Plan 1.5F Plan 2F Plan 2.5 Plan 3F Pan 3.5F Plan
Perspective of Learning Station Section of classroom and faculty office
There are several important spaces within this project - the classrooms, faculty office, learning station, libraries, open green spaces, and eco-labs. 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 it’s own open green space, which is also their library. Some part of the open green space is divided into eco-labatories.
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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.
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.
Inbetween space Upper floor library
Learning Station space
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.
UNWALLED CITY Acdamic Thesis 2008 NCKU Taiwan
To survive, they torn down the wall...
KowLoon Walled City
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.
Life cycle of a high-rised city Inner circulation by residents in Kowloon Walled City Connected space in Kowloon Walled City
Tainan (Walled) City
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A residential house being reconstruction.
Tainan (Walled) City As the origin of history , Tainan City is the oldest city in Taiwan. In 1661 when Jheng Chenggong (a.k.a. Koxinga) recovered Taiwan from the hands of the Dutch, he began his reign in Taiwan from Tainan City . His troops and followers cultivated wasteland s and made great efforts to transform Taiwan into a strong state. Immigrants from the mainland came in swarms, merchant ships gathered here, and all sorts of shops in the city mushroomed . Tainan finally became the urban center of Taiwan . It was a pity that Jheng Chenggong died at an early age. After his son Jheng Jing came into power , Jing built the Confucius Temple and founded schools to continue his father’s efforts in building Taiwan into a strong state. When the Cing Government defeated the Jhengs in 1684, they established the Taiwan Prefecture in Tainan. It was the capital city of Taiwan then. When the Cing Government promoted Taiwan from a prefecture into a province in 1885, they also changed the name from Taiwan Prefecture into the Tainan Prefecture , and the name of Tainan has been used to represent the place since then. Up until the end of the 19th century, Tainan was still the political, economic and cultural center of Taiwan . Therefore, with such rich background, we can see many historical monuments in Tainan City . It also explains why the city is known as the ancient cultural capital of Taiwan . During the Japanese Colonization, the Japanese planted Royal Poinciana (commonly known as flame trees) on both sides of Jhong s han Road (former Da j heng Ding) and Fu c ian Road. These green boulevard s would turn in to a sea of flames in July when the flowers of the flame trees are in full bloom, thus creating a southern exoticism. The flame tree , also know as the phoenix tree in Taiwan, is the most common among street tree species in the city; therefore, Tainan is also known as the Phoenix City .
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The Chung-Cheng Business District is still one of the main shopping areas in Tainan though it had decade from it’s peak for half of a decade. The local people blamed it into the construction of China Town Market , which stood in the middle between CHung-Cheng Rd. and the canal, were considered blocking the fortune of the district. However, the downfall of this area is undebatable. 1890s: Around the gate of city wall, usaully becomes the place where people out of and inside of town trading goods. Cargos, vendors gathered, and then formed the “West Market”. The southern side were originally fish farms. 1900: Due to the developement of the city, Japanese Colonial Government demolished the west city wall and built a north-south railway instead. Since then, the housing area stretched to the west, where were used to be fish farms. 1940: Attributed to the transportation given by the railway, the West Market became more prosperous and were built a concrete market place; the southern area became prosperous, too. In 1940’, a fire destroyed all the wooden houses in the south. 1950: After the fire in southern block, the government reconstructed the district with concrete. Suddenly, the one-to -two floors wooden houses rose into the forest of three-to-four floors concrete rooting the original layout.
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 couldn’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.
The input of the Stimulus brings the ground floor brighter, well air-circulated shopping environment. Also, it can becomes the spot sight with featured commercial activities. As the picture shown, there can be placed an outdoor cafe’ sets inside the curtain wall and attracts people to come to visit.
The replacement from vertical to horizontal is actually a floating result, though total achievement is the ultimate goal of the back-to-horizontal city, the conservations of vertical use are still under consideration, and the percentage of it should be regarded as the city’s response to the essential needs. This, is the “flexibility” of the city, and it is the “beast” under our control.
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Though the stimulus inputs lagre void space within the buildings, unlike many urban open space remains a neutral role with indefinate use, the void of the stimulus actively involves in commercial activities instead. The skylight area becomes the extension space of the neiboring shops, and the structure itself becomes a local icon attracting more people to visit.
The new public circulations become the sahred porch of every household. People would pot plants to decorate the walkway. Everyday, the residents watch the stream of people downstairs and enjoy the atmosphere while keep a distance from being annoyed.
What the stimulus structure bring to the community was the sunlight, natural air circulations and public social spaces. These seems so normal yet severely insufficient in the original area would be fixed. It would also bring good shopping atmosphere to the business flat.Though the stimulus inputs lagre void space within the buildings, unlike many urban open space remains a neutral role with indefinate use, the void of the stimulus actively involves in commercial activities instead. The skylight area becomes the extension space of the neighboring shops, and the structure itself becomes a local icon attracting more people to visit. Since the rest space is small and scattered in the block, it’s almost impossible to do piling foundation constructions, the structure actually “stands� on the rooftop and strech down to the ground. As a result, there will be neally no deconstructions on the existed houses and the new structure could be removed or modified easily.
The Stimulus seperate the living floors from commercial adctivities, and it layers the living floors. The whole block is divided into several layers and residents of each layer have their own cognition of their pathways toward home. Since the circulation grows spontaneously, every place inside would be significantly different and only be familiar to the residents lived in. This create better identification and sense of security. These identifications of parts of the community, I called it sub-communities.
NATURE RECALLED International Competetion 2010 Hongkong Team-work with: Hsieh Chin-Nan
What will happen when we no longer need such widespreading infrastructure due to the improvment of techonology and effeciency? Have we ever cosidered returning the land to our nature as part of a building’s lifecycle? Can we prearrange the taking-back by the nature?
How long does a structure lives? How long does a 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, better forever. But eternity is not the case in this project. The Hong-Knog Port is, at the moment it’s being done, gruadually releases its immence artificial land to the nature route by route, year by year... In the end, when the eighborhood regions are packed with people and artificial buildings, this becomes the only natural green land serving the whole region as the central park.
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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 mega-structure. 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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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 Hong-Kong 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.
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PRIVATE CARS
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GOODS GOODS VEHICLES VEHICLES
Inbound kiosks CHECK-IN CHECK-OUT
Outbound kiosks
PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE AND OTHER WORKS
- Private Community Hall - School Building - Government Office - Sketching - Painting & CGs
Professional Project (during Architerior Architects & Associates, Taiwan) ENTERTAINING HALL of Private Community (Kaouhsiung, Taiwan, 2008~’09, under construction) Project Designer - Concept Development, Facade Study, CAD Drawing, 3D Modeling & Rendering
community garden
The prroject was commissioned by a private construction company to design a community hall for newly constructed residential buildings surrounding the site. The program of the entertaining hall includes gym, cafe, spa, yoga classrooms, karaoke lounges and a banquet room. The initial idea of the hall was to build a giant continuous wall, which divides the volume into private and public spaces. However, after several times comitees, we did some changes and the idea of the giant wall still exsists but not as powerful as origin. functional
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Exterior ( stone ) Interior ( wood ) Curtain Wall
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Entrance Lobby
Division Units
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variation of the Externals
Features of this building are the giant wall, which ran through in and out of the building, and the spatial variation of external faces as shown above. There are three typical type of the curtain wall - glass, solid (stone), and void.
the building is still under construction
Professional Project (during Architerior Architects & Associates, Taiwan) BUILDING of COLLEGE of HUMANITY & SOCIAL SCIENCE, NCTU (Hsinchu, Taiwan, 2008, suspended) Project Designer - Concept Development, Facade Study, CAD Drawing, 3D Modeling & Rendering
1st Dep. 2nd Dep.
Library
Student Union
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Ground Floor
The project was originally a competetion held by National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan. The construction will be the third college office building of College of Humanity And Social Science which contains researchers' laboratories, department administration offices, classrooms, and, due to the special needs of the Department of Music, piano rooms, audio laboratories, and an approxi approximate 150-people auditorium. The location of the building is in the core area of the school, next to the Student Union and dormintories, and is next to the main circulation lane.
Section A
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7th Floor
Service Box ( staircase & restroom )
Classrooms
Auditodium / Lecture Hall
Dep. Administrations
Piano Practicing Rooms
Research Rooms / Laboratories
Research Rooms
Professional Project (during Architerior Architects & Associates, Taiwan) BUILDING of KAOHGIUNG BRANCH, ADMINISTRATIVE ENFORCEMENT AGENCY, TAIWAN ( 2009, verified)
Project Designer - Concept Development, Facade Study, CAD Drawing, 3D Modeling & Rendering
The project was an government open competetion. We won the competetion and got the right for further design. However, the case had been modified a lot after months discussion and it’s almost a different design from it’s original one. Inside, the space diagram remained similiar, only it’ve been shift from a asymmetric to a central-symmetrical plan.
service core open office
Typical Floors
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The open office is the main space in this project, it almost dominates the whole structure. We designed it to be a compelete space containing 36 people at work at a time, and other rooms set around it
SKETCHES
PAINTINGS & CG
Resume of Yu-Ta Lin (Roy Lin)
MAUD GSD Harvard 2012
Education
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Master of Architecture in Urban Design (2012)
June 2012
Graduate School of Design (GSD), Harvard University, USA
Professional
Practical Training at Peng-Ding-Ji Architect Studio, Hsinchu, Taiwan
July 2005~
Practices
․designer
Aug. 2005
․graphic drawing
Or (temporary) No. 51, Magnus Ave, Apt. 2, Somerville, MA 02143, USA
Practical training at Yuan-Ken Architects & Associates, Tainan, Taiwan
July 2006~
․model making , 3d modeling
Aug. 2006
․graphic drawing
Phone: 1- 609-529-5692 (USA), or +886-3-5327344 (Taiwan) E-mail: roylin918@gmail.com
June 2008
College of Planning & Design, National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), Tainan, Taiwan
Birthday: September 18th, 1985 Address: (permanent) No. 10, Alley 40, Lane 72, Guanghua 2nd St. Hsinchu, Taiwan 30052
Bachelor of Science in Architecture
Working in Architerior Architects & Associates, Taipei, Taiwan
July 2008~
․Architecture Designer
May 2010
․3d modeling, rendering. ․CAD drawing
Experience
Team Leader of Design Relevance, Associated Student Union of Dep. Architecture, NCKU
May 2006~
․Arranging Student Exhibitions, Workshops, Competitions.
May 2007
․Re-creating and bettering spaces in Architecture Department.
Team Leader of Propagandas, Associated Graduate Affairs Student Union
Oct. 2007~
․Establishing the image and the directions.
June 2008
․Broadcasting and collecting information. ․Publishing websites, posters, souvenirs, logos, slogans.
Exhibitions
Personal Art Work Exhibition, Hsinchu Senior High School, Hsinchu, Taiwan.
May 2004
․Computer Graphics and Sketches
NCKU 97th Graduate Thesis Design Exhibition-“All For the Beautiful Scenery”, Tainan and
June 2008
Taipei, Taiwan
Overseas
Department Tour - Masterpieces of Frank Loyd Wright, USA
Experience
․Selected for department sponsor, 15 days, with students and professors of Arch. NCKU
Package Tour, Tokyo, Japan
August 2006
Sep. 2007
․1week package travel, with sister, architectural tour in Toyko province.
Master Degree, Harvard, USA
June 2010
Competitions
Student competition- “ Plants vs. Architecture ”, Architecture Department of Chung Yuan
Nov. 2005
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Christian University, Taiwan
Workshops Invited student competition- “ Campus Redecoration ”,National Taipei University of
March 2007
Technology, Taipei, Taiwan.
“Recombinant International Workshop”, host: Grahame Shane, Professor from GSAPP,
May 2007
Columbia University, held in NCKU, Taiwan
“ SHINKENCHIKU RESIDENTIAL DESIGN COMPETITION 2009 “, Shinkenchiku-sha Co., Ltd.
Sep 2009
and Yoshioka-Bunko foundation, Japan
“Urban SOS”, International Student Competition, EDAW / AECOM
July 2009
Prize &
Invited student competition- “ Campus Redecoration ”, NTUT, Taipei, Taiwan
March 2007
Award
Excellent Prize
Asian student award -“Young Talent Architectural Design Award (YouTal) 2008” Elected Award
July 2008