Curriculum Vitae
SOFTWARE SKILLS
Tsung-Hsun Ku April, 10, 1987 vincentaabc@gmail.com
+44 7706739797 Endymion Road 39D, N4 1EQ , London
3D SOFTWARE
2D SOFTWARE
SketchUp
Photoshop
Rhino
Illustrator
Grasshopper
InDesign
Unity 3D
AutoCAD
Autodesk MAYA
EDUCATION
VRay
Master of Advanced Studies CAAD /
09.2014 - 04.2016
PROGRAMMING
ANALYSIS
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
Python in Rhino
Ecotect
(Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich, ETH Zürich)
C# in Rhino
QGIS
Bachelor of Architecture /
JAVA in processing
Depthmap
Computer Aided Architectural Design
2010
National Taiwan University of Science and Technology
WORK EXPERIENCES
Mathematica Arduino
AWARD
Anima Interior Design Studio /
11.2013 - 06.2014
Interior Designer
Geisendorf Scholarship /
2014
for MAS students in ETH Zurich
Swiss Geisendorf Foundation
Interior Design Construction Site Supervision
Merit Award /
3D Modeling
2011
Across the Taiwan Strait Competition: Future City-Individuals Residential Form
Visual Rendering
Hosted by J.J Pan Architects & Associates
Architecture Drafts
April Yang Design Studio /
08.2011 - 08.2013
Junior Architect
Nominated Top 20 /
2011
International Student Array Competition 3 Hosted by National Taipei University of Technology
Architecture Design Desgin Competition Proposal
Graduation Thesis Quality Award /
Office VI Design
National Taiwan University of Science and Technology
2010
3D Modeling Visual Rendering
LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY
Architecture Drawings
Freelancer /
2009 - Present
Graphic Designer Poster/ Business Card/ Booklet/ Flyer Design/ Album
ENGLISH
Professional proficiency
CHINESE
Native
Warsaw Commericial and Culture Center The site of this project is located in the central area of Warsaw, a vibrant and busy intersection nearby train station. The whole building has 3 main ground-bound volumes supporting itself and creating a void below the mass. Through lifting core mass, clear accessibilities are created between this complex and the surroundings, at the mean time, this project remains the openness and intact configuration of building both. Utilizing the metal cladding facade and larger scale of curtain walls, the building itself merges into the environment and reduce the impact of large mass reasonably. Following the design trajectory, the sophisticated interior is reflected on the outer form, expressing the integrity of the architecture.
Circulation Concept
Commcercial
Exhibition
Mutual Space
Vertical Circulation
Exhibition Route
Final Volume Fusion
Shopping Route
Taipei Museum Bridge Taipei is a basin surrounded by the Tamsui River,the Keelung River, and the Jingmei River. Zhongxing Bridge is an important bridge connecting Taipei and New Taipei City.However, the existing designof Zhongxing Bridgeis for vehicle traffic andlacks pedestrian walkways. So that pedestrians are unable to pass through the bridge and are confined to both sides of the river. In view of growing populationand increasing number of vehicles, as well as limited urban space, I redefine the role of the bridgeas the city's activity space.Divided into two layers, the bridge has separate circulations for people and cars as well as art gallery spaces , so that the bridge not only has the function for transportation, but also is a space for various urban activities.
Original path Office & Service Spaces
Add the lower layer
Exhibition Spaces
Zigzag the path
Multifunction Spaces
Add the upper layer
Pedestrian Circulation Bend the paths
Vienna Central Railway Station The location of Vienna central station is the most vital transportation hub, all of Austrian Federal Railways' long-distance trains stop here. Beside the railway system, the issue of people flow from U-Bahn system needs to be concerned. Through the integration of station and commercial spaces, All the programs are organized as a complex, instead of interspersed volumes. The volume of the building shows an impression of mountains by performing the form of folded multi-surface mesh and deforming itself to the directions toward other urban attractions. At the mean time, it clearly delineates trajectories and orientation with the interconnecting the commercial programs at the northern side, and transportation at the southern side.
Circulation
Transportation
Retailing & Waiting
Office
Dalongdong Community Center The site is located at the corner of Chongqing N. Road in Taipei, embedded in a context with historical meaning. The building is served as most important community center, a confluence of neighborhoods. To the methodology of form development, the final form and spatial configuration are determined by the reasonability of result of polygon intersection experiments. The main purpose is to integrate the community events, residents, and public use simultaneously with proper balance. At the front facade of the building facing the main road, glazed wall plays an essential role as an impression of entrance welcoming citizens positively, in the meantime, it provides sufficient light to the atrium of the building, exaggerating the dramatic experience to visitors. Circulation
Service Center Conference Room
Discussion Room
Reading Room
Retailing Spaces
Cellurar Automata Tower The concept of this project is to generate a conceptual form by applying the rule of cellular automata (CA) and voxelization to a 3-dimensional array. First, the 2-dimensional array of values at the initial layer of cells is generated randomly. Second, a certain amount of layers is applied with CA rule. Then, the result of the comparison between the values stored in the 3-dimensional array and predetermined constant will determine whether the faces of voxels open or not. The expected form can be achieved by manipulating certain parameters in the set of algorithms. Apart from the original CA rule, the designated set of curves are placed into the 3-dimensional array. By calculating the minimum of distance between the cell and curve, it changes the factor related to the speed of infection. The void and solid spaces can be controlled by changing the curvatures of the curves.
RANDOM ARRAY
GAME OF LIFE RULE
K
VOXELIZATION
Calculating the K value with Minimum Distance Operation Procedure
At the next step, the operation of this step will iterate through every cell one by one to gain every minimum distance between each cell and the closest point on one of the curves set. then the value of distance will calculate with previous k value to get a new value 0.1 2
changing the degree of infection for the cells.
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K SUM
SUM The Sum of the Neighbor Cells
For each cell, the operation will calculate the new K value with the sum of the cell and its neighbor cells to yield a new value. This new
Cell Iteration by Order
value will pass to the same coordinate on the next layer. After the operation iterates every cell at the layer, the same process will continue until all the layers have been iterated.
Layer Structure
Calculation for Minimum Distance
At the 2-dimensional array at the initial layer, each cell acquires a random value between 0 to 1.
Pass the Value to Next Layer
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Voxelization
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F Boolean examination
In the end, the threshold constant will be compared with the value of each cell in the 3-dimensional array one by one. the boolean of comparison will decide whether every face of each voxel is closed or not. After the calculation, we can get the form of a tower whose density of spacing is varied by the curvatures of curves set and the threshold value.
Layer Order
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Wireframe Pavilion Through the application of Frei Otto's experiment, a bunch of lines created randomly in a confined box are attracted to each other. The result of curves bundling reveals the possibilities of varied spatial disposition. By using these curves bundling as bone structures, create diverse forms of wireframe pavilions, the knots distributed evenly on the curves connect to each other by a range of distances to create a wireframe. This methodology of form finding also shows the capability of adapting varied environmental restrictions.
Wool Experiment This is an experiment with curves which were designed and then subjected to attraction by some points-as-attractors. Curves were affected not only by each other but also by points. Increasing and decreasing some adjustments such as maximum number of points, minimum or maximum attraction radius gave us a variety of self-organized results, structures and patterns.
min
Curves divided
max
Find the targets
connect all the targets
By dividing every curve with a certain length to get a points cloud, the rule of connection is to iterate every knot and find all other knots within the specific range of distance, then connect them to make a wireframe.
Generate random line within confined box Firs step is to choose a point randomly on one of the planes from 3-dimensional space and use the same process on another plane to pick a point, then connect them by a line. By repeating the process, a bundling of lines is created.
Apply wool experiment
Apply wireframe connection rule
the curves are attracted to each other with certain extent by applying wool experiment, then the knots are connected by applying the aforementioned rule of connection to achieve the final form.
Quadrodivision Tower Given that the environment is a square layer structure with fixed spacing between layers. Several cursors are positioned at the initial layer. By giving random initial vectors to cursors, they will start to move along the random direction on the x-y plane by the stigmergic rule, and move up along z-axis by the length equal to the spacing of layers at every iteration, creating a swarm of cursors with gradual direction shifting. The operation will iterate through every layer along with the swarm of cursors simultaneously, the layer will bisect itself according to the position of cursors on the same level until the lengths of divisions and a number of cursors fit the rule set. After the algorithm is done, we can achieve a geometrical composition with intricate void-solid relationship in the form of tower.
Initial cursor agents
Random vectors given
Form1 num 20 speed 1 att 7.1 repul 7.0
Series of cursors
Form2 num 20 speed 0.7 att 6 repul 6
Dividing by the rule of bisection
Form3 num 20 speed 1 att 9.1 repul 9.0
Layers of division results
Form4 num 20 speed 0.8 att 8.1 repul 8.0
Robotic Fabrication Analytic approach to spatial extrusion of ABS filament investigating the enclosed possibilities in a generic system In this fabrication project, we controlled the small scale robot arm and the heater at its front-end by coding in python, the robot arm can extrude the filament and cool off immediately. It's possible to form the reasonable structure meshes along the designated paths. Considering the feasibility, the efficiency, and the materiality, we experimented different types of structure and possible forms, finishing the final large-scale project.
During the process of experiment stage, we started experimenting various types of cantilever structures, tried to challenge its extreme situations, at the mean time, learned to optimize codes and the setting of fabrication, the path for robotic movements in order to reduce the chances of failures. We also made effort to deal with every accident happened during the fabrication and
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successful works.
In the final project, we choose to design a large-scale bridge combined with other cantilevers mesh structure to demonstrate the limitation of materiality and best performance.
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Extensile Robotic Fabrication Workshop MAS CAAD ETH Zurich 2015
Extensile is an installation during a robotic fabrication workshop at ETH Zurich in summer 2015. The installation consists of 24 sheets of thermoplastic polymer. The sheets wew heated locally with a stationary heatgun and deformed with a variety of selfmade tools using a KUKA six axes industrial robot. By changing the thickness of the plastic sheet through deformation, the way light is scattered through the material is considerably altered, allowing for different grades of translucency and varying optical sensations. In collaboration with Despoina Pippa, Christoph Zechmeister, Jose Algeciras, Alina Kvirkveliya, Apostolos Apostolinas, Annna Maragkoudaki
Taichung Airport International Terminal Expansion Lead Architect
April Yang
Location
Taichung, Taiwan
Team
BYH Architect, Dishan Su, Elvie Huang
Project Contribution
Detail Drawings, Signage Design, Visualization
Due to the growing airport passenger throughput and the development of international flight in central Taiwan, the authority decides to build the international terminal nearby the existing domestic terminal. The large metal roof symbolizes wings and is corresponding with the image of airport. The facade of terminal uses zigzag windows to show the Taichung city image of nearing mountains and the ocean. In this project, I took part in the design of the direct sign and tiles arrangement ,the detail drawings ,and the system integration of electronic devices. Install huge direct sign on the wall to guide visitors, distinguish between departure space and arrival space by color. Visitors can know their position in the airport easily without reading the information on the sign. This project was completed In April 2013.
Taichung Airport Domestic Terminal Integral Renovation Lead Architect
April Yang
Location
Taichung, Taiwan
Team
Dishan Su, Elvie Huang
Project Contribution
Schemetic Design, Proposal, Visualization, 3D Modeling, Architecture Drawing, Concept Development
With the construction of new Taichung Airport International Terminal ,the adjacent existing terminal need overall redesign to make the appearance of the building having the same style withthat of the new terminal and improvethe interior space allocation to meet the growing passenger throughput.In this project, I took part in the spatial planning of the existing terminal, developed the design of building appearance and wrote proposals. The passages will be built to connect the International Terminal and the existing terminal. The International Terminal and half of the existing terminal are for international flight while the other half of the existing terminal is for domestic flight.The hall of the existing terminal is for arrival and is connected with the departure hall of the International Terminal in order to hold more visitors. The international departure space in the third floor of The International Terminal extends to the existing terminal to meet the growing international passenger throughput. In addition, vertical circulation will be changed, and the floor of second floor will be dismantled to make the hall of theexisting terminal more spacious.
國際入境路線 國際入境路線
出租商業空間 移除
國際出境路線
Redesign the facade of terminal to remain the window style of international terminal, and change the roof into aluminum-covered surface. To integrate the appearance of theexisting terminal with that of the International Terminal.
國際入境路線
Taoyuan International Airport Terminal 2 Facade Renovation Lead Architect
April Yang
Location
Taoyuan, Taiwan
Team
Dishan Su, Elvie Huang
Project Contribution
Schemetic Design, Proposal, Visualization, 3D Modeling, Concept Development
this project aims for renovating the facades of terminal 2 in Taoyuan international airport due to the upcoming construction of terminal 3. Through the metal cladding panel, the terminal and the bridges to concourse are covered by diamond-shape base surfaces with the form suiting terminal 3. Besides the renovation on the facades, the interior programs are adjusted along with the change on the outside. Huge and randomly-opened windows allow light penetrate directly into the waiting lounges and retailing spaces, improving the experiences. The windows are extended to the roof, providing sufficient lights into duty-free shops area and restaurants. The spaces are more attractive to the passengers by ameliorating the integrity between inside and outside. By renovating the obsolete facades of terminal 2, it reduces the differences between new and existing terminals.
Taoyuan International Airport Concourse Facade Renovation Lead Architect
April Yang
Location
Taoyuan, Taiwan
Team
Dishan Su, Elvie Huang, Marco Lu Architect, BYH Architect
Project Contribution
Schemetic Design, Proposal, Visualization, 3D Modeling, Concept Development, Architecture Drawing
In Taoyuan International Airport, because that the concourse of the first and the second terminals are already old and that the third terminal will built in the near future, the related authority decided to renovate the wall of the concourse.In this project, I took part in the initial design,3D modeling, proposal writing and architectural draft drawing. Because there are many parts in need of repair, the existingwall of concourse can only be modified but not demolished. We use the same truss member which have different indulged angle in each set covering the concourse to create the image of the Central Mountain Range. Therefore,we are able to make improvements and do repairs in accordance with different parts and different situations of the existing concourse to reduce building costs and increase the variation of facade. In addition, the flexible change of facade unit can match the indeterminate style of the third terminal in the future.