Selected works

SHU-YU LIN shuyulin@dal.ca

Dalhousie University School of Architecture

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AWARD 2021 - Winner of Architects of Tomorrow Special Contest - Technology, Material and Sustainability EMPLOYMENT 2020-present / Inter Architect, Taylor Architecture Group / Whitehorse, Canada

- Design report and presentation

- Detailing and CD

- Construction Administration, Building code review 2019-2019 / Student Intern, Taylor Architecture Group / Yellowknife, Canada

- Construction Documentation 2017-2017 / Student Intern, ZGF Architects / Vancouver, Canada

- Diagrams for design phase

- 3D modeling and rendering - Assist with construction documents

2012-2016 / Management Specialist, Ecocel Inc. / Taiwan and China 2011-2012 / Web Developer, TheMorph Ltd., Co. / Taiwan

- Front-end programming

- Visual design 2009-2010 / General Assistant | Psychological Assessment Co. / Taiwan EDUCATION 2018-2020 / Master of Architecture, Dalhousie University / Canada 2018.09-2018.12 / Exchange at University of Strathclyde / UK 2016-2018 / Bachelor of Environmental Design Studies, Dalhousie University / Canada 2005-2009 / Bachelor of Science in Psychology, Chung Yuan Christian University / Taiwan SKILLS Grasshopper Revit Rhino SketchUp Lumion JavaScript Python (In Progress)

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Master Thesis

Biomimicry as A Design Tool for Sustainability in Burning Man Biomimicry has gained attention in the field of architecture due to its long-term relationship with architecture and its potential sustainability.

The project investigates how to employ Biomimicry as a design to achieve greater sustainability.The Burning Man in the Black Rock Desert is selected as the testing site to employ biomimicry due to its long-lasting environmental impacts. The project aims to tackle the CO2 emission and excessive garbage caused by the event. The climate of the desert is analyzed to select biological models.

The design methodology is developed from the study of cacti to harvest, transport, store water, and reduce heat gain; prairie dogs, termite mounds, and mammal skin are also investigated to develop the passive HVAC system.

A circular economy model is developed by recycling the event’s waste and extracting or growing cellulose and chitin for building material.

The building is biodegradable without harming the local ecosystem, and the cycle creates a regenerative built environment.

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Studio: James Forren Summer 2018 Group of 3

Concrete Forest

A series of “tree pavilions” is grouped together to create an artificial landscape. The tree like structure will allow you to capture the feeling of being surrounded in the forest. Each tree pavilion is generated from the same mold, calculating the correct curvature and rotation to achieve the desired style. Grasshopper is used for finding the three-dimensional relation of the concrete pieces, for a construction process and apparatus that are easy to locate the position and orientation of each piece.

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Bending and twisting are two mechanism translated to jig making, but only bending is translated into computation for this project.

The jig has two pivot points on the caps, which grab the ends of the mold; when the end points start moving, the caps rotate to always be tangent to the end faces. The control of deformation is by the jig. The behavior is also translated into grasshopper for design development.

The Dynamic Mould

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Grasshopper logic: • Each piece is rotated 240 degree relative to the previous piece to build a continuous wavy column.

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Free Lab: James Forren Summer 2018 Group of 2

Dynamic Mould & Digital Fabrication This freelab I and the group member continued our M1 project, to explore the potential of digital fabrication responds to the envrionmental factors such as sunlight.

Three iterations were proposed using two geometries, the design also used grasshopper for form finding and environmental analysis.

Each pair of Ys offsets from the center of the hexagonal cell relative to the distance of an attractor point, and the attractor point can be responded to any program we setup.

The closer to the attractor, the closer of each pair of Ys. Simulation of sunpath and heat radiation

Simulation of mould behaviour by grasshopper.

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The twisted concrete is to create screen with wavy pattern. The twisted piece has ellipse end faces. The void space between different pieces will vary by twisting the end faces, responds to sunlight. As the I pieces receive more heat, they will rotate less, and have less void space between the columns.

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Ceramic Studio Fall 2019

Water Filtration Wall

First trial of these water filtration system with vessel and hollow brick, but this didn’t thought of catching water yet.

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Second mock up model added tiles to catch water with brick, vessels. This mock up becomes the basis for the following up iterations.

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Dirty water

Vessel (Glazed)

Tile (Glazed) Charcoal Filter

Clean water

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Water Filtration Vegetation Wall Microclimate

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