CHI JUNG LU
Selected Works 2024
Professional Summary
A motivated architect focused on integrating design and artistic practice to enhance spatial experiences. With a Master's in Spatial Design from Konstfack University and a Bachelor's in Architecture from Feng Chia University, my expertise spans architecture, lighting, and exhibitions. Projects like "Hill of Yunling" (2022) and "Ripples" (2024) showcase my ability to create dynamic, sensory environments by blending natural and urban spaces.
My work emphasizes playfulness and exploratory design, enriching public spaces in educational and cultural settings. I combine aesthetics with functionality to craft spaces that provoke reflection and interaction. My artistic practice explores how light, material surfaces and movement can alter perceptions of space, encouraging viewers to engage deeply with their surroundings.
Multilingual in Mandarin, English, and with a basic knowledge of Swedish, I integrate cultural and contextual elements into my designs, contributing to the ongoing dialogue on how we inhabit and interact with the built environment. Through art, architecture, and community engagement, I strive to create inspiring, emotionally resonant spaces.
Work Experience
2022 Architectural designer, ProtoPlain Architects, Taiwan
2017-2021 Architectural designer, J.M.Lin Architect, Taiwan
2016-2017 Lighting designer, chroma33 Architectural Lighting Design, Taiwan
Education
2022-2024 Master of Spaitial Design, Konstfack, Sweden
2011-2016 Bachelor of Architecture, Feng Chia University, Taiwan
Awards
2023 Stipendier Scholarships, Konstfack University of Arts, Crafts and Design
2020 1st Prize in Social Housing Competition, Tainan City Government
2019 1st Prize in National Chengchi University Dormitories Competition, Taiwan Government
2016 American Architecture Prize, Catholic Daren Girls’ High School
2016 Honorable Mention Award of Graduation Project, Feng Chia University
Other Experience
2023- Present Freelancer, Key visual design for Exhibition of Taiwan Bamboo Architecture
2021 Volunteer in education, Bright Side Projects, Taiwan
2019 Volunteer in art, Mirror House Projects, USA
RIPPLES
The Interplay of Surfaces and Perception
Location: Telefonplan, Stockholm, Sweden
Type: Academic, Master graduation project, Indiviual work
Completion: 2024
In my work, I observed how puddles appear and disappear, altering how people move through space. These natural reflective surfaces not only mark the passage of time as they fill and dry but also reveal subtle changes in our environment and within ourselves. The project explores the interaction between reflections, material surfaces, movements, and spaces as they evolve over time. I implemented this concept in the daily passage at Telefonplan and within Konstfack's controlled spaces. This project suggests that even everyday encounters with reflections can reimagine and transform public spaces.
Daytime Encounter
Nighttime Reflection
Changes in Puddle Shape and Volume Over Time
Exhibition in Konstfack- W110 X L110 X H250 cm
SOCIAL SOAK AND STEAM
Stipendier Scholarships, Konstfack University
Location: Slakthusområdet, Stockholm, Sweden
Type: Academic, Indiviual work
Floor Area: 2,936m2 (GF-4F)
Completion: 2023
This project aims to explore collective living spaces that encourage playful interactions and redefine the boundaries between private and public areas. In collaboration with the Slakthusområdet, House 40, constructed between 1906 and 1912 as the first public slaughterhouse. Currently, Slakthusområdet is transitioning from an industrial zone to an urban district that integrates housing. This project addresses the growing number of individuals living alone by proposing scenarios for single living through the adaptive reuse of historical structures into communal apartments and a public bathhouse. Instead of traditional domestic spaces that contain all functions within one unit, this project introduces mono-functional dwellings. These dwellings will encourage residents to depend on public infrastructures—such as bathhouses and communal kitchens—prompting them to leave their private homes and engage in social interactions within the communal apartment. By reimagining living spaces with mono-functional dwellings and emphasizing public infrastructure through adaptive reuse, this project aims to create a dynamic living environment. It encourages residents to engage with one another, thus redefining the traditional concepts of private and public spaces in urban settings.
Public Bath
Communal Apartment
plan
1F
Steam Soak Zone
FLUID FEAST
Eating and gathering pavillion
Location: Hägerstensåsen Community Centre, Stockholm, Sweden
Type: Academic, Indiviual work
Size: W 1.2mX H 0.8M X D 1.2m
Completion: 2022
This project explores the intersection of public and private spaces through a portable dining installation at Hägerstensåsens Community Centre, drawing inspiration from Taiwanese 'Bando' street banquets, where temporary tents transform streets into shared dining spaces. The installation features vibrant, flowing fabrics that subtly veil a modular wooden structure, creating a whimsical and intimate dining experience. By inviting strangers to connect over food, it fosters cross-cultural dialogue and challenges traditional boundaries between interior and exterior spaces.
Situated in one of Stockholm's largest and most versatile public venues, the installation is designed to accommodate the dynamic use of the community centre, which welcomes hundreds of visitors weekly. The design reflects a fusion of Swedish and Taiwanese cultural elements, with key components including colour-painted fabrics, modular construction holders, and wooden panels. These elements, in varying heights of 40 cm, 80 cm, and 100 cm, can be easily reconfigured to serve as seating, dining tables, or bar tables, ensuring both flexibility and accessibility for a wide range of events and interactions.
Exhibition in Hägerstensåsen Community Centre
Iterations
Pattern of colour painted transition
HILL OF YUNLING
Sustainable Entrance Design with Natural Materials
Location: Yunling, Taiwan
Type: Professional, Indiviual project in Protoplain Architects
Materials: Corten steel and basalt
Budget: 328,994 SEK
Completion: 2022
The project redesigns the entrance of Yunling Hill, a vantage point known for its expansive views and natural beauty. The redesign involves removing existing stone planters and introducing new stone walls, basalt paving, and corten steel plates. These elements will interact with the environment over time, harmonizing with the mountain mist and creating an evolving visual experience. The pathway expands into the boundless natural surroundings, inviting visitors to immerse themselves in nature.
Existing stone wall
Peak skyline pattern by CNC
Intaglio printing
Relief printing with colour
New stone wall
Existing stone wall
The bottom layer is lined with 2 inch stones, including filling in the
Artificially constructed sandstone Φ≤ 40cm
The bottom layer is lined with 2 inch stones, including filling in the gaps.
Basalt pavement, D:4cm
A36 corten steel, T:1cm
New stone wall
gaps.
Basalt pavement, D:4cm
A36 corten steel, T:1cm Relief printing
TAPPING INTO THE LUSH
Rebuilt Catholic DaRen Girls’ High School
American Architecture Prize
Location: Neihu District, Taipei city, Taiwan
Type: Professional, group project with J.M.Lin Architect
Contribution: Construction drawings, oversight of the physical construction process
Budget: 125,132,096 SEK
Floor Area: 10,599 m2 (BF-5F)
Completion: First phase 2009-2013, Second phrase 2017-2019
School Embraced by lively green
Located in Neihu, which is on the northern side Taipei Basin with an array of mid-level hills and lakes sitting in between, Daren Girl's High School features a scenic greenery environment shaped by a surrounding skirt of hills and a pond at front. The project aims to remodel the master plan to increase educational spaces that realize its Catholic core value— learning through experiences — in its inherent ecological context.
In the new plan, all spaces are arranged in line with the hill backing the campus to take advantage of its indigenous natural beauty as part of the local eco-system. Everything from a newly built classroom building, a library, to a reconstructed two-story round building as chapel and dormitory enables a closer bond between students and the environment.
Existing Problems
Examining the existing spaces on campus, we noted the following problems:
1. The administration building is obsolete, posing a safety threat and lacking sufficient space.
2. The Jin Te building is old and unable to accommodate students adequately or ensure high teaching quality.
3. The library space is insufficient.
4. The majority of the campus population is concentrated on the north side, underutilizing the surrounding natural environment.
Empirical learning at every turn of the landscape
Outdoor areas are important venues for empirical learning as it encourages students to walk out, explore and feel what is around them — learning by immersing.
plan
Section
Staircases
