inhabiting poetry creative portfolio | 2018
Yunni Dan M. Arch Candidate 2018 University of Virginia
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YUNNI DAN Master of Architecture | expecting in May 2018 University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA Bachelor of Arts in Portuguese Language and Literature | 2011 Beijing Foreign Studies University, Beijing, China Dean’s Honor Graduate Fellowship in Building Technology | 2017 Proposal in developing incoming graduate students’ ability in understanding building assembly and materiality Travel Grant for Vicenza Program | 2017 Scholarship for Graduate Program | 2015 - 2017” *awarded originally 2015 - 2018, replaced with Dean’s Fellowship starting fall 2017 Architectural Practice: Wheeler Kearns Architects | Chicago, IL Jan 2nd - 12th, 2018 Presentation drawings and diagrams, schematic design charette Ensamble Studio | Madrid, ES July 2nd - August 4th, 2017 Hands-on construction on site William Rawn Associates | Boston, MA January 3rd - 16th, 2017 DD drawings and sheets coordination in Revit for a collective housing project HERA Lab Planners | Philadelphia, PA June 13th - August 12th, 2016 DD, CD drawings and sheets coordination in Revit and AutoCad focusing on interior, equipment & supply for science laboratory design projects Academic: Architecture Graduate Program Admissions Comittee | UVa, Charlottesville, VA Febuary 2017 TA: Lessons on the Lawn with Prof. Peter Waldman | UVa, Charlottesville, VA August 2017 - December 2017 2nd-year undergraduate course in contextual site reading TA: Design Thinking with Prof. Elgin Cleckley | UVa, Charlottesville, VA January 2017 - May 2017 January 2019 - May 2018 (as Lead TA) Introductory course to Design Thinking path for 3rd-year undergraduate students featuring multidisciplinary projects span across architectural design, marketing, strategy and community relationships, etc. TA: Lessons in Making with Prof. Sanda Iliescu | UVa, Charlottesville, VA August 2016 - December 2016 1st-year undergraduate all-major course focusing on analog representation techniques, projects include chiaroscuro & composition drawings and a pavilion proposal
Publishing: The Word Made Flesh: Dialogues Between Citizens and Strangers by Peter Waldman with ORO Editions | Charlottesville, VA August 2017 - present Content review, graphic quality control, graphic design, layout mockup, publishing coordination Translation: C&C Lawyers | Macao, S.A.R. | September 2011 - May 2015 Legal translation & interpretation in Portuguese, Chinese and English skills analog free-hand drawing, site construction, multimedia modeling & fabrication, field research & analysis, interviewing, translation, painting, sculpture, writing digital Modeling + Analysis: Autodesk suite (Revit, AutoCad, Flow Design); Rhinoceros + Grasshopper, SketchUp, Sefaira Visualization: Vray, Adobe suite (Ps, Ai, Id, Lr, Ae), Tableau+ Auxiliary: Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Powerpoint, Excel), Energy2D, MasterCam, Quicktime machinery Laser cutter, foam cutter, woodshop tools & machinery, CNC router exhibition + Vicenza 2017 - Collective exhibition from Vicenza Program | UVa, 2017 other Graffiti, Maze - Collective Creative Exhibition | Ox Warehouse, Macau, S.A.R., 2014 Beyond the Words - Collective Exhibition | Old Court House, Macau, S.A.R., 2013 Love Fables - Solo illustration exhibition | Café Xina, Macau, S.A.R., 2012 album art & product design + illustration languages Native: Chinese Mandarin Proficient: English, Portuguese, Cantonese Intermediate: Spanish more works https://issuu.com/yunnidan13
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University of Virginia | Spring 2017 Design Development | Prof. Michael Petrus Location: Charlottesville, VA Project Area: 1000 sf + Program: Gallery
It is in light we dwell, and in darkness we see. The project was inspired from a visit to the site. The vast farmland, in juxtaposition with the Blue Ridge mountains at a distance, sets the stage for an eternal tale about creation and decease. T The native pines and elms, rebel offsprings of this natural process, never hesitated to further contradict the slowly-sloping field or show off their sculpted skin. This is a shelter from the vast wilderness and its resonating questions. One starts the journey following a humble parapet that grows into a wall by contradicting the natural slope, and hopes to end up in the main gallery, with only a string of lightsource that takes one’s eyes from the ground to the sky. The local tree barks are embedded into the exterior concrete texture consciously in celebration of life while interior gallery walls are perfectly mute, ceding voice solely to light.
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Gallery | SP 2017 | Charlottesville, VA
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framing nature The display at this gallery is nothing but the field itself. The gallery serves as a series of frames towards all directions along the major circulation path, inviting the visitors to conversations about light and darkness, prosperity and decandence, wilderness and will. Site plan 1/128” = 1’ - 0”
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It is in silence that the majority of things happen.
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Both the spatial and material sequencing and layering seek to express the heaviness and lightness of architecture. The simple organizing scheme and slicing details enable the visitor to be guided by natural light while simultaneously experience the various views of the site’s natural conditions re-interpreted through the act of framing. cc’ - corridor to gallery space
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Gallery | SP 2017 | Charlottesville, VA
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LIBRARY AS AN URBAN SUPPLY STATION
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University of Virginia | Spring 2016 Foundation Studio II | Prof. Jeana Ripple Location: Washington, D.C. Project Area: 50,000 sf + Program: Branch Library
Libraries never cease to exist, despite popular doubts, as long as there are humans alive. While it is true that in 21st century libraries as a building type are being constantly questioned, they as an aggregation of knowledge have taken on new forms and media to pair up with the more fragmented, busy and individualized city life. More and more often time spent reading is not a planned holiday, but a briefT refreshing encounter with a friend or lover. Aeliotheca gained its morphology from a vegetated path designed to connect pedestrians coming from different directions and is highly customized on its skin layers to interact with different weathers, serving both as a supply station for busy commuters and a home for a host of different spaces for different reading experiences among other activities.
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peeling away a wall In redefining the function of a library within a vibrant urban context, the project aims to enable multiple speeds of accessing and the various modes of coexistence the body of knowledge. By pulling apart a typical wall, spaces are carefully curated with different temperatures, humidities, textures and degrees of connection to the neighboring
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Located at Dupont Circle, Washington, D.C., the immediate context is characterized by the busy intermodal traffic as well as the conglomeration of diplomatic headquarters. These characters demand the transformation of a private parking lot into a commuter-friendly access point for knowledge, which simultaneously nurtures the nearby “reading gardens“. In conceiving of a light structure to host the typically “heavy“ public infrastructure, the project provides a curious pathway to one of the most monumental entrances into the capital’s subway system as well as an access point to the cultural diversity represented in the neighborhood.
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sectional concept: Sectionally the building consists mainly of two masses, one heavy, held up by concrete walls and the other one by light columns. The structurally heavier side also houses most collections that would provide for the lighter side where reading and learning spaces are located, much like a mother to her child
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EMBASSY AS AN URBAN INSTALLATION
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University of Virginia | Fall 2016 Research Studio I | Prof. Phoebe Crisman Location: Stockholm, SE
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Diplomacy is tactful, appropriate, versatile. It is rooted in everyday life and cultivates from there relationships that form big decisions and state actions. The Embassy proposal is purposfully located in the heart of the city, housed within an adapted historical building with the intention of achieving low carbon footprint as well as maximize cultural exposure and exchange between the two countries involved.
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American Chamber of Commerce in Sweden Government Office Conglomerate 1. House of Parliament 2. Prime Minister’s Office 3. State Government of Sweden 4. Ministry of Foreign Affairs 5. Ministry of Defense 6. Ministry of Justice 7. Ministry of Finance 8. Ministry of Environment and Energy 9. Ministry of Culture 10. Ministry of Employment 11. Ministry of Health and Social Affairs 12. Ministry of Enterprise and Innovation 13. Ministry of Education and Research 14. International Press Office 15. City Hall
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urban strategy The chosen site is located in the heart of Stockholm city, within walking distance to major commercial and governmental services and along one of the city arteries that is bookended by hi-technology research institute and the historical city (Gamla Stan). The proximity offers day-to-day convenience to the diplomatic staff as well as facilitates state visit schedules.
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University of Virginia | Spring 2017 Foundation Studio III | Prof. Manuel Bailo Esteve (Bailo Rull Arquitectura)
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As one of the latest, most ambitious development projects of the city of New York, Hudson Yards have drawn tremendous investment and interest. The high-end development brings inspirations as well as reflections: as density becomes a pre-condition as well as a pre-requisite of building, one is required to reflect constantly upon the question of community to preserve nonmonetary values to urban lands. Communities do not count simply on the imposition of an increased density. Healthy communities are those that find themselves place to celebrate, to debate, to exhibit and affect. The buildings are only a shell - the lesson lies in the way elements are connected.
Overall Section Oblique (original scale 1:200) Zoom-in vignettes see follwoing pages
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Condominium | SP 2017 | New York City
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The project recognizes the two different levels for pedestrian connections: the ground and the plinth level of the neighboring Hudson Yards development at which the High Line also lands. Emulating this logic on top of the high-density program requirement, various types of connections between towers are developed as a critique on the isolated building logic on the HY and to foster a healthy, well-communicated new community.
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The project promotes a two-fold overarching guideline for natural restoration as well as urbanization. On the one hand, dedicating portions of riverside lots strategically to greywater overflow, thus allowing plant nursing and recreational activities to take place in the less risky zones; on the other hand, integrating all railway stations into a nodal systems along RP4 to develop focused civic activities to boost local economy and life quality, pushing the urban boundaries further towards the River and eventually achieving a programmatically integrated re-connection between city and the nature.
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The scheme identifies Ruta Provincial 4 (RP4) as the immediate ring to the road defining the Metropolitan area of Buenos Aires city, with the potential of being developed into a civic passage, thus extending the urban boundaries towards inland. In order to have the passage organically “surge“, a series of intersections between RP4 and various railway tracks are identified as nodes where civic activities intensify and start to establish new metropolises.
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Train Station | F 2017 | Gran Buenos Aires, AR
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GRASSHOPPER SPATIAL PRACTICES | FALL 2017 CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA | full portfolio
Exploring patterns and spatial arrangements through data reading and manipulations
Wetland Cemetery | A landscape imagined from GIS data
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DATA VISUALIZATION
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Negotiated public space between church, residences and commerce Venice, IT
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Vicenza is, among all sophisticatedly designed projects offered by the School of Architecture,
the most open ended one. This is partially because its goal is not a design proposal, thus shushing the ever-unsettled creator’s willful expressions. Rather, through humbly pacing, observing, taking notes, reminiscing...one is allowed to build up an amazing repertoire of cases, tools and techniques, without setting boundaries to where they should end or start. On the other hand, the displayable output from the project, though bluntly straightforward to the viewer’s eyes, is yet the most condensed report from the most extensive learning, both in lessons offered by Charlie and Luis and the physical and emotional experience known to each individual student only. Every project started much before the trip itself, and would end up recurring everywhere in one’s life as an architect and a person.
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Vicenza 2017 | Veneto, IT
Villa Rotunda studies: Proportions, serendipity, composition Vicenza, IT
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ANALYTICAL DRAWINGS
Waterfront and markets, study on spatial sequence Venice, Italy
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Vicenza 2017 | Veneto, IT
Giardino Valsanzibio: Spatial composition & sequence, constructed nature, vegetation, flow Padova, IT
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ENSAMBLE PLACE | SUMMER 2017 ENSAMBLE STUDIO | MADRID, ES
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Dionysus and Artemis | 2014 pencil on paper
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Imaginary landscapes | 2014 ink and pastel on paper
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...and the work continues