Design Works 2005~2015 I-Ming Lin LEED AP BD+C Master of Architecture Master of Urban Design Alfred A. Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Contents Professional Works Samples + Academic Portfolio
Hongkong Huayi Design (Shenzhen) Ltd. AECOM, Beijing POPULOUS (Formerly HOK Sport Venue Event), Kansas City Ehrlich Architects, Los Angeles Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP (SOM), Chicago Soo Lock Negotiation Center A Rethinking of the Regional Infrastructure Cancer Treatment Center A Place to Promote Hope Connectivity Organized Sprawl Thesis Project The Grid Re-Covering the Landscape Troy Urban Infill Project An Implementation of the Thesis Idea City Extension Istanbul, Turkey Architecture Related Course Study Project Chronology 2000 ~ 2015
I-Ming Lin LEED AP BD+C Master of Architecture Master of Urban Design Alfred A. Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Soo Lock Negotiation Center A Rethinking of the Infrastructure
Proposed Soo Lock Negotiation Center
Soo Lock, Bird's-eye view
Soo Lock, approaching... Changeable Water Level
Gate
Valve
An illustration of how Soo Lock works.
LEVEL 3 1 Gallery 2 Roof garden 3 Relieving (Exhibition) 4 Roof garden 5 Exhibition 6 Roof garden
Soo Lock Negotiation CenterA Rethinking of the Regional Infrastructure
LEVEL 2 1 Shop 2 indoor sports (Permanent) 3 court yard 4 Exhibition 5 Office 6 Receiving 7 Exhibition 8 Viewing 9 Archiving 10 Learning
Site: Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan Program: Exhibition Room, Gallery, Observation Platform, Observation tower, Research Office, Research Staff Dormitory Administration Building, Restaurant/Cafe/Retail...etc Concept: 1. Transform this regional infrastructure into a vibrant multiple function district. 2. Construct the site itself: Infrastructure Urbanism. 3. Make the building a viewing machine for better appreciation of the scenery.
LEVEL 1 1 Exhibition (Permanent) 2 Viewing 3 Gallery 4 Exhibition 5 Office 6 Archiving 7 Viewing 8 Revolving 9 receiving 10 conferencing 11 researching
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Site Plan
Research Staff Dormitory Restaurant/Cafe Research Office Retail Gallery Auditorium/Office Observation Tower Reflecting Pool Exhibition Room Roof Garden Administration Building
Reflecting Pool
The Sault Locks (usually called the Soo Locks) allow ships to travel between Lake Superior and the lower Great Lakes. The locks are the busiest in the world, passing an average of 12,000 ships ("boats" in Great Lakes parlance) per year. This is achieved in spite of the locks being closed during the winter, from January through March, when ice shuts down shipping on the Great Lakes. The winter is used to inspect and maintain the locks. The locks bypass the rapids of the St. Marys River where the water falls 7 meters (21 feet) from Lake Superior. Sault Ste. Marie (pronounced Soo Saint Ma_ree) gives its name to both the Canadian and American cities at the site, in Ontario and Michigan, respectively. The Sault Ste. Marie International Bridge between the United States and Canada permits vehicular traffic to pass over the locks.
Cancer Treatment Center A Place to Promote Hope
View from the waiting space
Donald Judd, Instillation Chinati Foundation, Marfa Texas
A chapel beside the hospital, St John Hospital, Detroit
Main Street
Huron Street
Cancer Treatment CenterA Place to Promote Hope Site: Ann Arbor, Michigan Program: Infusion, doctor office, exam,pharmacy, coffee shop, Misc...etc Concept: 1. Define the waiting space as a chapel beside this hospital as well as the urban environment 2. Inject light into the treatment space by the light well
Treatment Space
Waiting Space Doctor Office Exam Infusion Misc. Coffee Shop Pharmacy Rest Room Circulation
Waiting Space
It is through dexterous use of materials such as metal, wood, and glass, a complete enclosure of varying transparencies akin to the three states of matter, fluctuating in synchronicity to changes in the environmental context. At times it occupies the outside air in a way akin to posting on a bulletin board, and yet the interior embodies and praises simultaneously the life of light and darkness. -Yamashita Syouko
catholic hospital chapel
West elevation
Light Well: Inject new life to the hospital
Infusion: Inject new life to the patient
South Elevation
West Elevation
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first floor second floor third floor fourth floor: roof structure=dougong + cross
1 wood frame 2 double glazing (lower pane in laminated safety glass) 3 adjustable aluminium sunscreen louvre 4 sheet stainless steel rainwater gutter 5 laminated timber beam 6 silicone adhesive joint 7 adjustable facade suspension fitting
8 glazing cap fitted flush 9 steel rectangular hollow section 10 stiffening glass fin
Connectivity Organizing Sprawl Project Brief: People often criticize sprawl as something undesirable. Duany, Plater-Zyberk, and Speck describe sprawl as “a few homogeneous components-five in all-which can be arranged in almost any way.” Indeed, these independent components consume resources too excessively when they are spread out over the landscape without comprehensive and well organized planning.
Mapping Study
Master Plan: Landscape Mosaic
However, it’s an ongoing and dynamic process. As Stan Allen would say “The new city is founded on mobility and is porous to the natural landscape.” Trained as an architect, I regard “things can be arranged in almost any way” as an advantage, not disadvantage. It’s the architect’s task to tie these fragmentations together. It is their social responsibility. In this project, because there are critical conservation areas on the site, it will be a good strategy to create an ecology corridor to connect these areas. Further, it can be developed as a kind of network, the notion of green infrastructure. The idea of cluster development for neighborhood is to preserve as much as possible the open space and green areas. “Cars are dangerous to pedestrians; yet activities occur just where cars and pedestrians meet." Hedgerow walks (one lane alley) will take residents across the site from east to west. It allows east-west connection. Since the traffic has been slowed down inside the site, the two networks (car and pedestrian) can be overlapped. Themes would be based on the idea “connectivity” -the encounter spaces between people, buildings, nature and cars.
existing neighborhood Golf course civic building Commercial Development residential zone 1 development residential zone 2 green area(dense tree/ hedgeraw) green area(critical conservation) green infrastructure
New Development and Existing Neighborhood
Critical Conservation, Hedgerow, New Development and Existing Neighborhood
Bicycle path and Road System
Finger Plan: Green Infrastructure as structure
New Hedgerow Network
Green Ecology Corridor
Glade: Carving space out of a mass of trees
Critical Conservation and Hedgerow
Existing Neighborhood
Hedgerow Walk
2148 Square Feet 4 Bedrooms 2 Bathrooms 1 Half Bathroom 2 Garage Attached
Housing Prototype The idea of the housing prototype is to break down the Pulte Home components and find a new spatial arrangement. For allowing more flexibility in different site circumstance, the housing prototype is divided into two components with connection by a spiral stair. The two parts of the houses can be arranged in different angles to meet different site conditions which will allow ample space between buildings.
Vertical Circulation as an articulation element
Precedent: Pulte Home Model
Concept
Home Model Prototype
Thesis Project: The Grid
The Land Ordinance of 1785, drafted by Thomas Jefferson, extended government authority over the Mississippi River and the Great Lakes regions. As a response to what he believed to be a confusing survey system already in use, Jefferson suggested a new grid system based on the rectangle. The grid divided land into plots one mile square, each consisting of 640 acres. The grid also placed a visible design upon a relatively untouched landscape. The ordinance was the first of its kind in America but would continue to affect urban, suburban and farmland planning to present day.
Thesis ProjectThe Grid Advisor: Karen M'Closkey Associate Professor Landscape Architecture University of Pennsylvania
Thesis Statement The thesis “the Grid”explores the spatiality in urban design using architecture means. The concept departures from “Jeffersonian Grid,”which is a pioneer work of the notion “infrastructure urbanism.” Infrastructure such as roads and high ways has the longest life cycle and will set up the most fundamental regulation for urban development. The thesis, therefore, takes up the question: What if the road is not the left over space, but the first “space”to build. In other words, what the scenario would be if we still use the notion figure ground, but turn figure to ground, ground to figure?
Level 3
Level 2
Level 1
Commercial/Retail/Shop Railroad Indoor/Outsoor Sport Transit Restaurant/Cafe/Club House/Office (Neutral Plan: housing and office can shift easily)
Re-Covering the Landscape Troy Urban Infill Project An Implementation of the Thesis Idea
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Existing Condition: Surface parking and the left over space
Hedgerow
Transit as green infrastructure
New Green Open Space To Birmingham (Neighborhood)
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Stepping Stone Connectivity Design Goals 1. Transform the surface Parking into Green Infrastructure 2. Develop Big Beaver Corridor as the backbone of this district. 3. Propose a transit system (street car) along Big Beaver Rd.. 4. Cluster development along Big Beaver Rd. to increase density and preserve as much as possible the green spaces.
Green Deck as stepping stone New Canal Stores water from the green deck
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Green Decks as Stepping Stone
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Green Decks as Green Roof
City Extension Istanbul, Turkey Central Business District
In this project, we are required to propose a new city along the Black Sea region. Since a three million city can not be erected over night, it needs to have a kind of scenario about how it would develop and how it would change over time. The Central Business District is the first prototype city occurs within the whole project. It is also the catalyst project to have basic infrastructures. To be a successful prototype city, this CBD must function well like a sufficient city itself and also provide the richness of city life within.This will also pave the ground for the future developments. To have the continuity of the development, these districts should have interrelationship with each other and to grow like organic bodies. Finally, to provide efficiency for the dense CBD area and, at the same time, to maintain the beautiful topography the site provides, the grid should be carefully layout. The result we design is the compromise between the nature irregularities and the right angle regularities. The mixed use blocks will provide mutual economic support as well.
Master Plan: Concept Forest Preservation Waterfront Preservation New Rail New Highway New Canal
New City Crescent Park Main Station Airport Seaport
Master Plan: Concept
Central Park Manhattan Existing Forest Airport Seaport
Central Business District: Massing Study
New Rail Station New Rail New Highway New Canal Existing Rail Existing Highway Existing Road Airport
Transportation: All
Seaport
New Canal New Highway Existing Highway Airport
Transportation: Highway
Seaport
Central Business District: View from Transit Station
Central Business District: Perspective
Architecture Related Course Study
Historic Preservation Architecture Measured Drawing Delta Kappa Epsilon, Ann Arbor, Michigan Delta Kappa Epsilon was founded at Yale College in ١٨٤٤ by ١٥ men of the sophomore class who, upon hearing that some but not all of them had been invited to join the two existing societies (Alpha Delta Phi and Psi Upsilon), instead elected to form their own fraternity. These men sought to establish a fellowship "where the candidate most favored was he who combined in the most equal proportions the gentleman, the scholar, and the jolly good fellow." -Wikipedia
ARCH 516 Architectural Representation
Wood Structure Case Study Summer House, Thomas Herzog
Architecture Related Course Study Computer Applications in Environmental Technology-Acoustics and Lighting Study: Room acoustics modeling and auralization Software: EASE
Explanation: The existing RT=١٫٤٧s (at ٥٠٠Hz) The material applied are: Concret ٤٧٫٢٪ (),Plywood١/٢(٢٧٫٢٣٪), Perfranel٥ (٦٫٧٦٪), Plymid dif (٥٫٧١٪), Clay Brick(٤٫٨٦٪), Absorber(٤٫١٥٪), Carpet Conc(٣٫٤٥٪), Door Solid(٠٫٦٣٪)
Music School, University of Michigan
The existing RT(reverberation time)=1.47s (at 500Hz)
The desired RT=١٫٨s (at ٥٠٠Hz) The material applied are: Concret ٤٧٫٢٪ (),Plywood١/٢(٢٧٫٢٣٪), Plymid dif (٥٫٧١٪), Clay Brick(٤٫٨٦٪), Carpet Conc(٣٫٤٥٪), Door Solid(٠٫٦٣٪) Plas/Tile(٦٫٧٦٪), Mirror(٥٫٧١٪), Pilowbafl(٣٫٤٥٪)
Add lamps and material textures in the model showing the interior.
Interior lighting modeling Software: AGI 32 Office area is ٢٠'x٣٠'. The height of the structural ceiling is ١٦'. The average age of occupants is ٤٥. The work speed is important and is performed at ٢٫٥' high tables with background reflectance of ٠٫٥. The work includes reading poorly printed materials. The lighting reflectance for the ceiling is ٠٫٨, the walls is ٠٫٤ and the floor is ٠٫٢. The followings are required: Determine the recommended illumination level: Because the visual task is of medium contrast, and the work includes reading poorly printed materials, it is E catalogue. The occupants average age is ٤٥(between ٤٠~٥٥), work speed is important, reflectance of task background is ٥٠٪(between٣٠~٧٠٪), the algebraic sum of the weighting factors is ٠.(between _١ to +١) Therefore use the middle value٧٥.
VA Hospital Phasing Study SmithGroup, Chicago Based on the site model made by my colleague, Doohwan Yeo, I continue to study the phasing possibility and its design. Since the idea is for the future possible expansion, the canopy is used in phase ١, phase ٢, and phase ٣. The volume is rotated toward the campus to provide better view.
The roof is green roof design which could reduced storm water process and provide garden for the patients and the hospital faculty.
New Extentsion
Phase 1
Phase 2
Phase 3
Phase 4
Project Chronology: 2000 ~ 2015
North Bund SOM, Chicago 2008
Commercial Complex Jen Ai Circle, Taipei 2000
Kingold SOM, Chicago 2008 Distribution Center Taichung, Taiwan 2000~2001 Al Oula Tower SOM, Chicago 2008 Soo Lock Visitor Center Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan 2005/2006
Cancer Treatment Center
UCI Contemporary Arts Center Ehrlich Architects, Los Angeles 2009
Ann Arbor, Michigan 2006
Arenavation POPULOUS, Kansas City 2009
Suburban Design Macomb, Michigan 2006/2007
Tampa Arena POPULOUS, Kansas City 2010
Thesis Project- The Grid 2007 Chen Jia Bao Tourism Zone, Shaolin Concept Proposal AECOM, Beijing 2012 Urban Infill Housing 2007/2008 Mianyang Urban+Rural Planning Exhibition Hall Huayi Design (Shenzhen) Ltd. 2014 City Extensions Istanbul, Turkey 2007/2008
Vanke YunCheng Liuxiandong Headquarters Huayi Design (Shenzhen) Ltd. 2015