YIUHYMN-Portfolio23

hy328@cornell.edu

(607)-327-7044

Hong Kong | New York

ABOUT

My work follows themes of adaptive reuse, human-centric design, and flexibility. I explore how the seemingly permanent site can be intervened through careful considerations with an iterative process. I think through my sketches and it helps me to see beyond what I could not see.

SKILL

Language

English (Native)

Cantonese (Native)

Mandarin (Fluent)

Python | HTML | CSS

Digital Modeling

Rhinoceros | Revit | AutoCAD |

Grasshopper

Digital Image | Rendering

Adobe Photoshop | Indesign | Illustrator

Vray | Lumion

Physical Modeling

3D Printing | Laser cutting | CNC

Robotic Studio

EDUCATION

2018 - 2023

Cornell University | Ithaca, NY Bachelor of Architecture

GPA: 3.95 – Dean’s List on all semesters Minor in Business

2016 - 2018

Mineola High School | Mineola, NY High School Diploma

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

KEY PROJECTS:

Jun 22 - Apr 22

Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) | Chicago. IL

Architectural Intern

Confidential Competition | Pre-design

Collaborated with studio heads for presentation documents and strengthened the narrative by developing programmatic diagrams Huafa, Shanghai | DD

Participated in weekly client meetings and prepared studies and VR

Enscape presentation for multiple design items and 33DD submittal Jinqiao, Shanghai | CD

Reviewed last set of interior shop drawings with SOM ShangHai team to preserve original design intent

May 19 - Aug 21

20 Months (Total)

BKSK Architects | New York, NY

Architectural Intern

21 Greenwich Ave, New York | SD & CD

Prepared presentations and renderings for Landmarks (LPC) approval and documented detail drawings for lobby and bathrooms

428 West 19 St, New York | SD & DD

Collaborated with project manager remotely in a team of two and coordinated superstructure and interior for 100DD submittal. Channelside Design Competition, Boston | Pre-design

Developed facade color study, diagrams and landscape design

800 Monroe St, New Jersey | Site Submission

Exterior renderings for submissions were published in local news

OTHER EXPERIENCES

2018 - 2020

Chinese Student Association, Cornell University

Freshman Representative, Publicity Chair

Designed posters, quarter cards, and social media publicity materials and attracted more than 1500 students in activities

2018

Long Island Scholar Artist Winner

Organized by Long Island Art Alliance, one of the 20 winners after competing with artists that are attending high school in the Nassau and Suffolk county featured by Newsday

2017

ACE Mentorship Program

Mentored by Ted Moudis Associates, designed a pavillion on the High Line with other students that are pursuing the AEC industry

PHI CONTEMPORARY

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CONTEMPLATION PAVILION

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DRAWING MACHINE

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DONG

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THE NEW ORLEANS CULTURAL CENTER

1200 HOLLINS ROW

Honorable Mention for REALWORK Competition Collaboration with Aishah Alhady

Driven by collected feedback from residents and the local community from Baltimore after visiting, 1200 Hollins Row is a response to the needs and vision of the people who will be living there.

Today, the area surrounding the site is riddled with vacancy, leaving key public spaces, such as the Hollins Market, South West Partnership and Union Square Park empty. 1200 aims to be an anchor to these locations by bringing people back into the neighbourhood with warm community oriented and commercial spaces that keep the streets lively and bright through to the night.

With a goal to create a project that belongs in the neighbourhood, 1200 Hollins Row builds upon the tradition of rowhouses which characterizes the area, maintaining its rhythm. By simply folding the neighbourhood facade, 1200 almost doubles the amount of light and fresh air that each unit has access to in comparison to the traditional rowhouse, improving the quailty of life for each resident.

The facades material blends into the neighbourhood’s brick palette with flutted terracotta panels in the residential protions of the project. A The commercial plinth is expressed with the same material, but extends the historic gas stations colours of white and blue.

1. Exisiting Rowhouse Rhythm

2. Lifting Rowhouses for a Commercial Plinth

3. Pushing and Angling the Rowhouses to create Circulation and Courtyards

4. Staggering the Rowhouses to Increase Surface Area for more Light and Air

Diagrams

NUMBER OF UNITS:

The studio and two storey units share the same shape in plan and can, therefore, be adjusted to make different mixes to suit the housing needs of the neighbourhood.

54 studios

36 studios + 9 double storey

26 studios + 14 double storey

SQ FT/UNIT: 500sqft

SQ FT/DOUBLE STOREY UNIT: 1100 sqft

EFFICIENY: 80%

Folding Model | Unit Axon | Exploded Plan

1200 Hollins Row

RESIDENTIAL

6.Residential lobby

7.Parking

8.Residential Lounge

Drawings 1200 Hollins Row

THE NEW ORLEANS CULTURAL CENTER

Collaboration with Sophia Chen

The project aims to give the neighborhood back to the people after the destruction from the I-10 interstate. The site is located around Claiborne Avenue, which is one of the oldest Black main street in America. The construction of the I-10 torned out 200 ancient oak trees and azalea bushes, more than 500 homes and businesses were closed down. Claiborne Avenue used to be where the neighbors would gather and feed on each other. After businesses scattered and people moved out, jazz funerals (the Second Line) and street music started reclaiming the area that the people lost. The New Orleans Cultural Center attempts to inject life into the neighborhood by including festivals and the second line progressions into our center.

The procession of the Second Line runs through extensive programs including an archive library, a jazz cafe, an amphitheater, resturants and an auditorium at the heart of the building. The amphitheater reactivates the cultural heritage of Creole people dancing and playing music in a circle within Congo Square. The sunken platform invites street vendors and musicians to introduce local food, while the indoor bars and cafes provide an audience for the dance floor. Acting as an extension of the Lafitte Greenway, the cultural center peels from the ground to form a habitable green roof for leisure walking and biking.

Developmental Sketches

RUINS OF SAINT PAUL’S, MACAU

Subverting Heritage

The Church of Saint Paul’s is built in 1603 by the Portuguese Jesuits and the current facade is the only remaining ruin after the fire in 1835. The Ruins of Saint Paul was declared as a UNESCO Heritage Site in 2005 and has a fixed narrative of celebrating the site being the place where the west meets with the east due to its Chinese and Portuguese decorative motifs. The meeting began when trading and evangelization efforts traveled from the west to Japan and to Macau as a gateway to China.

The site of the facade is located right on the border of the old city wall, which separates the Portuguese colonized settlement and the north which is where the Chinese Villagers resided with mostly agricultural land. Since the Ruins of Saint Paul’s is named as 大三巴牌坊 (Paifang translates to gateway), the project takes on the remaining facade’s metaphor as a threshold of the colonial encounter and memorializes the hidden narratives of the past which includes the oppression of the Mongha Village.

In 1849, Governor Jose Maria Ferreira proposed to extend roads and urbanize northern Macau which uplifted many houses and Chinese graves which are considered sacred within Chinese culture. The memorial carves into the site and creates a new entrance that celebrates the burnt facade that was facing the Chinese community, allowing them to reclaim its connection to the city and subverting the narrative that downplayed the repression that happened within its colonial past.

Existing and Historic Images of Ruins of St. Paul’s Ruins of St. Paul’s | Cornell AAP | ARCH 5101 | 2022

Chinese Villages including the Mongha Village

Portugese’s urbanization efforts with modern streets

Church of Saint Paul’s

Old City Wall (by the Portugese)

Portugese Settlement and UNESCO Buffer Zone

UNESCO Protected Buildings

UNESCO Site Map in Relationship to the Colonized Encounter Ruins of St. Paul’s | Cornell AAP | ARCH 5101 | 2022

Site Ruins of St. Paul’s

PHI CONTEMPORARY

Phi Contemporary aims to be a comprehensive hub for the vision of Phi. The project pushes the initiatives set forth to welcome a multitude of perspectives and learn from interactions between users. By extending the lines of the urban context into the immediate site, our proposal for Phi Contemporary blends all paths for all people into the heart of the building. A natural flow from one space to another leads visitors to experience all the different art forms, educational training, and tourist attractions the project has to offer. The project comes to life as it is populated with guests and their cross-paths, both guided by the vision of Phi and the architecture of the space, which allows for moments of exchange, learning, and appreciation.

Collaboration with Juan Lopez

BREVE | ROME

Breve is a project that aims to explore how to create flexible public spaces by reconfiguring simple vertical poles for the daily rituals within the public realm. Similar to how a beautiful music piece is created by various notes on musical bars and the five horizontal lines; vertical poles are being reconfigured with simple operations in various scales, sizes, materials, and lighting conditions within a grid to create a variety of activities and spatial experiences

The intervention Breve injects life to piazza by combining the elements of structure, light, and mist into a column that sits on the stone stumps or the ground, the various arrangements of the columns will activate the site with flexible programs such as market, fashion show venue, dance floor, an outdoor bar and musical performances. The charcoal animated drawings and collages become the music that the users perform and allows us to imagine how one can begin to be in dialogue with the different configurations of the intervention throughout the day in Rome.

Urban Typology in a 4x4 Grid

Charcoal Drawings

STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS MODEL

Contemplation Pavillion by Simon Velez (Arles, France, 2018)

Collaboration with Eastwood Liu and Samuel Castaneda

Sectional Model | 3/4” : 1’-0” | 4.5’ x 2’ x 2’

Pre-fab compressed bamboo members form inclined column and beam members in sectional profile, and are then fastened to tranverse steel beams using nuts and threaded rods. Additional tension cables span between the steel beams to create overall stiffnes while the entire structure elevates above the ground on steel stumps.

SLATE DISASSEMBLABLE BOOK SHELF

Collaboration with Samuel Castaneda

Slate is a temporary magazine shelf that can latch onto the existing stacks within the Fine Arts Library in Cornell University. The shelf can be fully disassembled and is operable with dimple hinges which allows for optimal viewing angles.

DRAWING MACHINE

Photo Montage of Drawing Machine

Portfolio Hymn Yiu

Detail Pencil Drawing of Drawing Machine Drawing Machine |

COOKIE CUTTER

Irregular Log Offcut Computation and Robotic Fabrication

Collaboration with Sophia Chen, Jack Otto, Thomas Hart

This project explores the design, computation, and digital fabrication of anatural log shell structure. A found log was digitally scanned and sliced, the resulting geometry of each wood cookie was packed onto a target geometry with Kangaroo topological solver. The milling of joints and slicing of pieces was done in a dual functioning robot cell, with two 6-axisrobotic arms, the ABB-IRB 6700 equipped with the bandsaw and the ABB-IRB 4600 equipped with the spindle. This project attempts to leverage the robot arm’s ability to follow and mill joint geometry along a complex curve. The project explores crosscut wood cookies as an application of otherwise discarded, irregular wood pieces.

Diagrams of Anatural Log Shell Packing Process

SKIDMORE, OWINGS & MERRILL CHICAGO | 2022

Participated in the ending phase of the competition and helped strengthened the narrative with annotations for the presentations. Created stacking diagrams and building sections to explain programmatic sequence and activities across the tower with Illustrator, Revit and Enscape.

The diagrams emphasizes the tower’s offset core and how it creates more active area facing the water.

Deliverable Sets

South Facade Plaza and LED Wall Study

Skidmore, Owings & Merrill | Huafa, ShangHai | 2022

Renderings Skidmore, Owings & Merrill

Illustrator Diagrams of Public Green Spaces and Entrances

Illustrator Diagrams of View, Amenity and Green Spaces

Original Sin | Painting | 2016

Original Sin | Acrylic on Canvas (30” x 24”)

of My Two Cities

Tale of My Two Cities | Painting | 2017

Tale

| Acrylic on Canvas (11.5” x 17”)