SCI-Arc Portfolio_Wei-Tse Yuan_2011-2019

Portfolio Wei-Tse Yuan M.Arch II Southern California Institute of Architecture

Statement Wei-Tse Yuan was born and raised in Taiwan. He is a recent graduate at SCI-Arc’s advanced M.Arch II program. He holds a Master of Architecture degree from SCI-Arc and a Bachelor of Science degree from National Taiwan University in Civil Engineering. He is also a licensed architect in Taiwan.

He has worked at Liren Hsiao Architect and Associates in Taiwan, Jay Chiu Architects & Associates in Taiwan and Gensler in Los Angeles.

Wei-Tse Yuan M.Arch II Southern California Institute of Architecture weitseyuan1989@gmail.com https://issuu.com/1142780921/docs/sci_arc_portfolio_wei-tse_yuan_2019 https://vimeo.com/337446384 © 2019 All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without written permission of copyright owner.

What he can contribute is his design abilities and his background in engineering. While working at Gensler in the aviation department, he collaborated with Gensler’s design team and developed experience on how building systems are put together. He has also worked with many senior consultants during the construction documentation phase. His responsibilities at Gensler include drawing details, annotating design sets, and preparing construction documents to negotiate with contractors. From his previous experience with Jay Chiu Architect & Associates in Taiwan where he has worked on a project from schematic design to construction, he has developed my attentiveness to details and knowledge about construction which will prove to be a key asset for the firm. He is proficient in many modeling platforms including Rhino3D, Revit, Cinema4D, and Maya. He can also make high-quality models to explore new iterations for various design projects.

Portfolio Wei-Tse Yuan M.Arch II Southern California Institute of Architecture

Table of Contents Academic Work Citizenfour

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- Media Of Citizen Participation In Transport Facility

The Silo

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- Time And Space Dynamic Changes Between Dream And Reality

Details, Details...

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Animal House

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- Creature And Robotic Prototyping Of An Organic Synthetic Artificial Habitat For a Species

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- Utilize Structure To Create The Postural Effect As A Rebellion Of The Political Correctness

A Crime in Six Dimensions

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- Abstract Details That Have Not Completely Disappeared When Recognized By The World

- Life Region With Blur, Gradually Change And Adjust Through The Time And Space

Structural Character

Visual Studies II

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- Dynamic Historical Memory Of The Code World

- Topiaries Against Types

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Visual Studies I - The Relationship of Visual Reality and Human Body

- Complexity And Contradiction Between The Inside And Outside Of The Module

Man Made Nature

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- Soap Box

- The Advanced Material And Tectonics

Unity In Fragmentation

Semblances

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Professional Work LAX Terminal Renovation

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Kwong Fong Plaza Addition

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China Medical University Teaching Administration Building

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Wei-Tse Yuan M.Arch II Southern California Institute of Architecture 235 S San Pedro st, 258 apt, Los Angeles, CA 90012 1+626-267-5056 weitseyuan1989@gmail.com

Education 2017.09 - 2019.09 Master of Architecture II, Southern California Institute of Architecture, Los Angeles, CA 2012.09 - 2015.06 Master of Architecture, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan 2008.09 - 2012.06 B.S Degree, Department of Civil Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taiwan License 2019.05

Work Experience 2018.6 - 2018.8 Professional Internship, Gensler LA, California, USA //Aviation Department

//LAX Terminal renovation (In Progressing) Diagram Drawing Presentation Package

Annotation Design Sets Detail Drawing

Prepare Construction Documents

Negotiate With Contractor //Summer Intern Research Project (Completed)

//One Wilshire Data Center Facade renovation Design Proposal 2017.3 - 2017.6

Designer, Jay Chiu Architects & Associates, Taiwan //Commercial Department

//Kwong Fong Plaza Addition (In Progressing) Schematic Design Diagram Drawing 3D Modeling

Physical Model Making Rendering Presentation Package

Negotiate With Consultants (Structure, MEP)

Meet With Clients //Education Department

//China Medical University

Teaching Administration Building (In Progressing) Diagram Drawing 3D Modeling

Physical Model Making Rendering //Civic Department

//Keelung Expresso (In Progressing) Research

Physical Model Making

//Taipei Datong District Renovation (In Progressing) Research Diagram Drawing

2011.7 - 2011.8

Internship, Liren Hsiao Architect & Associates, Taiwan //Civic Department

//Revenue Service Office (Completed) Diagram Drawing Rendering Presentation Package

Taiwan Architect License

Skill 2D 3D Script Render

Adobe CC, AutoCAD Revit, Rhinoceros, Cinema4D, Sketchup, Maya, Zbrush Dynamo, Grasshopper, Processing, Python Vary, Twinmotion, Enscape, Octane Render, Keyshot, Artlantis, Redshift

Language Mandarin, Taiwanese and English Award, Exhibition 2019.05 2019.05 2019.05

Man Made Nature, 2019 AIA 2x8 Exhibition, Los Angeles A Crime in Six Dimension, SCI-Arc Spring Show Bat House, SCI-Arc Spring Show

2018.05 2018.05

Man Made Nature, 2018 AIA 2x8 Exhibition, Los Angeles Man Made Nature, SCI-Arc Spring Show

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Honorable Mention, “Citizenfour”, 104th NTUST Graduation Architecture Design, Taiwan Participant, “NTUST Graduation Architecture Exhibition” Designer, “NTUST Graduation Architecture Exhibition”

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Citizenfour Media Of Citizen Participation In Transport Facility Project : Transportation Instructor : Jai-Hui Day Year : 2014.7 - 2015.6

Issue Through transport facilities, media and people, the combination generates the flow of information and media context. At present, the development of new media bases on the Internet. People establish a multidimensional view. For the fourth right, the media’s supervision of government transforms into people, and this situation could call “the fifth right.”

Concept

Transport facility and media space generate the flow of information. As an active architecture, it participates in the life of people. The field of the space creates the instant gradient citizen forum. The facade shows the status of the internal program and affects the external environment.

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The Silo The Advanced Materials And Tectonics Project : Existing Building Facade Study Instructor : Maxi Spina Group Member : Wei-Tse Yuan, Gun Srisawat Yun Chu, LingChen Liao Year : 2017.9 - 2017.12

Concept After selecting a precedent for study (list provided separately) we will begin with a two weeks-long research period into building materials, envelope systems, and assemblies. You are asked to employ quality photographs, annotated diagrams and 2D details, sections, matrixes, charts and short written observations to elucidate the basic principles involved in the appropriate selection and application of building materials and envelope systems so as to visualize aspects related to fundamental performance; aesthetics; moisture transfer; durability; energy and material resources employed in their mode of production; the environmental impact of their application and reuse.

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Unity In Fragmentation Complexity And Contradiction Between The Inside And Outside Of The Module Project : Co-Working Office Instructor : Eric Owen Moss Group Member : Wei-Tse Yuan, ChengXi Hou, Swetha Arunkumar Year : 2018.9 - 2018.1

Concept Our project uses the grid, as a standard for changing the definition of the rule and explores variability in order, by way of investigating introverted and extroverted cubical prototypes. Using the elevation of the hill as our primary unit, we constructed program-specific prototypes that were then placed within a modular grid on the site and then bent to follow the curvature of the hill, aiming to create fluid and flexible spaces.

We then studied combinations of these prototypes and the quality of spatial environments that result from the orientation of the combinations. Each combination is designed to work as a self-sustained unit, though connected to the overall scheme. The prototypes open up at the side facing the highway, bringing people in, to the public and retail zone. The more introverted office spaces line the edge of the hill, with carefully curated paths of visual and physical access.

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Man Made Nature Topiaries Against Types Project : Mix-Used Flower Market Instructor : Elena Manferdini Group Member : Wei-Tse Yuan, Andres Gandara Year : 2018.2 - 2018.5

Concept In the past, nature has been understood as a resource for energy and food production, a place of labor and commerce, a source of visual delight or insurmountable obstacles, a place for divine fear or artistic inspiration.

The combination of fields of organized agriculture, extreme engineered ecologies, heroic irrigation systems, labyrinthine hedges, choreographed vistas and infinite horizons, are only a few of the classical images that come to mind when one thinks of the manifestation of the relationship between nature and humans.

These images, like postcards, announce the importance of nature as a source of life or death, a place of danger or wealth and always imply in contrast the human heroic or simultaneously coward attempt to domesticate it. Nature cannot escape its intrinsic relationship with humans. Nature’s manifestations have been through a series of drastic cultural, political and technical changes in every historical movement.

As a consequence, the relationship between nature and architecture itself needs to be constantly updated.

In recent times we have been witnessing the consequences of global warming and water and air pollution. These events brought a higher global awareness of the importance of ecology and the production of alternative sources of clean energy and material recycling. As a reaction to this shift, architecture, like all the rest of the design fields, has been developing protocols and certifications to achieve a predictable and controlled methodology of good practice.

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Design Development Develope The Man Made Nature Project Project : Mix-Used Flower Market Instructor : Herwig Baumgaerner, Brian Zamora Group Member : Wei-Tse Yuan, Siyao Zheng, Chengxi Hou, Liang Yu, Xiaogang Shen Year : 2018.9 - 2019.1

Concept This course investigates issues related to the implementation of design: technology, the use of materials, systems integration, and the archetypal analytical strategies of force, order, and character.

The course includes a review of basic and advanced construction methods, analysis of building codes, the design of structural and mechanical systems, Environmental systems, Buildings service systems, the development of building materials and the integration of building components and systems. The intent of this course is to develop a cohesive understanding of how architects communicate complex building systems for the built environment and to demonstrate the ability to document a comprehensive architectural project and Stewardship of the Environment.

A series of built case studies will be presented by the instructors along with visiting professionals in the field who are exploring new project delivery methods. These case studies will be shown indepth with construction photographs, 3D renderings, and technical drawings and details. The pertinent specific topic for the course will be highlighted in each presentation, with a focus on the evolution of building the design from concept to built form.

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Field Life Region With Blur, Gradually Change And Adjust Through The Time And Space Project : Social Housing Instructor : Liang-Ying Chang Year : 2014.1 - 2014.4

Issue The lifestyle of Taiwanese exists a fuzzy line between the public and private areas, and the line has great elasticity, it could adjust according to the time and space. In its fuzzy gradient situation, its rich and diverse layers also emit a great vitality.

Responding to the space of each household, we can see the illegal rooftop additions, the barred window, and the arcades.

Concept “Life region with blur, gradually change and adjust through the time and space�, this design is mainly to explore the fuzzy boundaries and the fields. Through analyzing this type of architecture in Taiwan, I try to explore its essence.

And this type of external form shaped from the internal field, meaning the internal existence affects the external representation.

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Structural Character Utilize Structure To Create The Postural Effect As A Rebellion Of The Political Correctness Project : Public Park Instructor : Ramiro Diaz Granados Group Member : Wei-Tse Yuan Year : 2019.5 - 2019.9

Concept The thesis aims to utilize the frame structure system as the prototype and personified it to create the postural effects and characteristics of human bodies.

The transformation constructs an irregular park that provides a stage where comedy and tragedy co-exist.

Most buildings in the city represent perfectness with straight angles and crisp edges. However, is that actually considering right, or should I say: perfect?

As a rebellion to the common understanding of architecture by the general public and suspicious of the political correctness of the building and what the world thinks the building should look like, I start to ask myself some questions. Can a building look old or fat?

Can an architecture look like bending over or leaning on others? Can an architecture look drunk? Therefore, I start to explore the topic by deforming perfect figures to represent a type of architecture with the resistance to perfectness.

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This perspective is on the field part. One folly at the front left and the other one is at the back left so they create a void between them. The void makes people concentrate on the tree and ocean behind the follies.

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The perspective is on the hill part. The folly on the left only shows part of it to enhance the other folly on the right. The folly on the right lift its legs to create an entrance for the public. The path is built by retaining wall with destroyed concrete and graffiti.

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A Crime In Six Dimensions Time And Space Dynamic Changes Between Dream And Reality Project : The Correlation between Code and Graphic Instructor : Natasha Sandmeier Group Member : Wei-Tse Yuan Year : 2019.1 - 2019.4

Concept This story is talking about a couple who steals business secrets by switching between different dimensions. The Film is described right after they stole it and escape.

In the story, we will see that they will use some artifacts to influence the time and space to help them switch between dimensions. They use simple geometry as avatars to make it easier to switch. The girl uses a ball as her avatar, and she is mainly responsible for theft and delivery. The boy uses a cube as his avatar, and he is an assistant to help the girl escape.

Through the story, I am trying to explore the definition of space in different dimensions. How will we redefine the relationship between time and space when dimensions collide? As the story keeps going, it produces a status in which the definition of space changes constantly.

At last, dimensions distort, reorganize, constantly changing due to the external factors, the definition of space is in a status of dynamic changing. It becomes a space that disappears and regenerates at the same time. Moreover, when we talk about architecture, we will consider the transformation relationship of dimension in architecture. The architecture will be converted multiple times between dimensions through different mediums. In the process of transformation, the essence of architecture is also in a status of dynamic changing. In the interaction between dimensions, architecture becomes a status between dream and reality.

First Dimension: Neo Tokyo 53

Distorted And Back To The Previous Status 54

Second Dimension: Sir John Soane Museum 55

Transporting The Unwrap Map To Ball’s Dimension 56

Third Dimension: 2D World 57

Driving Through The 2D Elements 58

Fourth Dimension: Le Mepris 59

Looking Down And Observing Girl’s Dimension 60

Fifth Dimension: Narrative 61

Entrance And Windmill 62

Sixth Dimension: Warehouse 63

World Table Interface 64

Semblances Soap Box Project : Library Instructor : Herwig Baumgartner Group Member : Wei-Tse Yuan, Wei Ti Wang Year : 2017.9 - 2017.12

Concept This studio will interrogate the potential of the replica in architecture. Advancing recent debates regarding influence, affinity, and appropriation in architecture, we will adopt an approach that exploits the potential for architectural acts of appropriation to engender new forms of authenticity and to challenge context and type within an architectural project. Quotation as a postmodern form of referencing an ‘original’ and subsequent forays into sampling including kitbashing and the mash-up are various forms through which appropriation has surfaced in architectural discourse and practice. A more contemporary notion of the replica ties it to the status of the object in architecture and its inherent potential to engender multiple and coexisting forms of legibility; raising questions of scalability ranging from the colossus to the miniature.

This approach involves the selection of copies (found objects) instead of the creation of originals.

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Visual Studies I The Relationship Between Visual Reality And Human Body Project : Visual Studies Instructor : Kristy Balliet, Casey Rehm Group Member : Wei-Tse Yuan, Gun Srisawat Year : 2017.9 - 2017.12

Concept The course will cover issues of contemporary representation and the development of splines in relation to complex digital form and physical and visual space. Visualization today encompasses the development, exploration, and communication of information and ideas in multiple mediums. The course will engage in recent techniques related to splines, gesture interfaces, and virtual reality. The course will develop critical visual literacy and review methods for generating and evaluating lines, surfaces, and volume. We will review modes of drawing and modeling in three-dimensional space, including the importance of precision and abstraction. Exercises and associated tutorials provide opportunities to discover novel concepts through transformation and tactical workflows. Finally, the course will foster the development of architectural character. You will be expected to develop expertise and execute your intentions with clarity. The exercises will range from straightforward drawing tasks to tasks that will require aggressive experimentation. This course will introduce students to methods and concepts of threedimensional drawing (zero gravity), digital modeling, multiple realities, and digital/physical fabrication.

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Visual Studies II Dynamic Historical Memory Of The Code World Project : The Correlation between Code and Graphic Instructor : Ryan Tyler Martinez & Casey Reas Group Member : Wei-Tse Yuan, Andres Gandara Year : 2018.2 - 2018.5

Concept The 2GBX Visual Studies seminar is the second VS in the first year of the M.Arch II program. It introduces Processing, a flexible software sketchbook and language for learning how to code within the context of the visual arts, and advanced 3D modeling in Zbrush and Autodesk Maya for the production of architectural representation through the development of digital techniques. Beginning with the fundamentals of Processing, the course will examine the notion of “Regularity and Random”, “Growth, Form, and Simulation”, and “Emergence” in both two and three dimensions. Students will be required to constantly work between code and output, gaining familiarity with the constraints and advantages of the software. Later in the semester students will work in teams of two and will be introduced to XGen, a geometry instancer that lets you populate the surface of polygon meshes with an arbitrary number of primitives either randomly or uniformly placed. XGen lets you quickly populate large-scale environments, including grass savannas, forests, rocky landscapes, and debris trails. As a final deliverable for the class, teams will work with other teams to create large pictorial landscapes using the combination of their output from Processing, spherical envelope volumes in Zbrush and XGen surface textures in Autodesk Maya.

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Abstract Details That Have Not Completely Disappeared When Recognized By The World Project : Window Detail Study Instructor : Dwayne Oyler Group Member : Wei-Tse Yuan, Juan Villarreal Year : 2018.9 - 2019.1

Concept Details can have a direct effect of blurring what is apparent, without completely disappearing. Per Edward Ford’s definition, this type of details can be referred to as an abstract, category that is composed of a series of unconfident components inside of a well-developed character. To place it into another perspective, if architecture is music, the abstract detail is the natural buzzing sounds made by instruments when played.

When the abstract detail focuses to hide in order to not be recognized immediately, it creates a situation of liberation, the detail can perform without being dissected directly, opening possibilities on how to stretch what it can become in a larger context while generating a condition of dissonance.

The articulation of the window detail revolves around the design of a curved surface that transforms into solid pieces and wireframe elements that travel into space in multiple directions at the same time, changing its section constantly. The solid parts act as walls and the wireframe components work as meshes for the windows behind them.

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Animal House Creature And Robotic Prototyping Of An Organic Synthetic Artificial Habitat For a Species Project : Advanced Robotic Fabrication Instructor : Herwig Baumgartner Group Member : Wei-Tse Yuan, Asmaa Abu Assaf, Swetha Arunkumar, Gun Srisawat, Sara Alsubhi, Ruquia Akter Year : 2019.1 - 2019.4

Concept Little Brown Bats are considered endangered with a population loss of approximately 90%. This is partly because they choose to live in caves that are usually filled with moisture leading them to get WhiteNose Syndrome killing over one million brown bats since 2006. The disease is named for a distinctive fungal growth around the muzzles and on the wings of hibernating bats. It is caused by the fungus Pseudogymnoascus destructans, which colonizes the bat’s skin making them unable to breathe or fly. No obvious treatment or means of preventing transmission is known, and some species have declined more than 90% within five years of the disease reaching a site.

The massing is used as a protection to keep predators from breaking into the enclosure easily; it is thickly layered, allowing little scope for brittleness or strain. Overlapping layers whose openings do not necessarily overlap would be ideal for this enclosure.

Since the White Nose Syndrome is the major cause of bat deaths in the past five years, the enclosure should ideally be as watertight as possible, leaving little scope for moisture creep.

To ensure that the bat does not get a leg or a wing stuck in the surface of the enclosure, the size of the openings should be minimal, but still allowing the required natural sunlight in. As an extra feature, the luminescence of the enclosure can help the bat attract prey since insects are attracted to bright light and color.

We chose the Day Roost on a tree branch as our case for developing the enclosure. Day Roosts require ample sunlight but protection from predators since the bat stays there from dawn to dusk.

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LAX Terminal Renovation Project : Aviation Architect : Gensler, Los Angeles Location : Los Angeles All Images courtesy of Gensler

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Kwong Fong Plaza Addition Project : Commercial Architect : Jay Chiu Architects & Associates, Taiwan Location : Taoyuan, Taiwan All Images courtesy of Jay Chiu Architects & Associates

Concept The project is the Kwong Fong Plaza Addition, which is a commercial building with 6 floors. Through the bridge, it connects the original building and the bridge also provides the shade for people. Because of the location and the feature of massing, the addition also becomes the entry impression of the site.

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1F Plan

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+2950 cm 7th Level

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+2500 cm 6th Level

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+2050 cm 5th Level

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1600 cm 4th Level

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1150 cm 3rd Level

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+100 cm Ground Level

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South Elevation

East Elevation

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1600 cm 4th Level

1600 cm 4th Level

1150 cm 3rd Level

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North Elevation

West Elevation

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China Medical University Teaching Administration Building Project : Education Architect : Jay Chiu Architects & Associates, Taiwan Location : Taichung, Taiwan All Images courtesy of Jay Chiu Architects & Associates

Concept The use of bare exposed translucent appearance, with a full range of sophisticated lightweight framework and micro-transparent glass curtain system, the facade through light construction, there is a sense of the future of the entity. Facade half-coated semi-coated pipe space was presented to create avant-grade art modern aesthetics such as the Pompidou Center, showing the image of the administrative building combined with the humanities arts and the modernities.

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Main Structure

Aluminum Addition

Affiliated Unit Elements

Light Steel Frame

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Wei-Tse Yuan M.Arch II Southern California Institute of Architecture