Architecture Portfolio_Ilka Lin

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EDUCATION Harvard University | Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, MA Master of Architecture in Urban Design 2015 Participated Studios: Elements of Urban Design: Ginés Garrido (Burgos & Garrido Arquitectos) Urban Grafting: New Dwelling Landscapes for Milan: Cino Zucchi (CZA) The Forms of Transition: Camilo Restrepo Ochoa (AGENdA) Syracuse University | School of Architecture, Syracuse, NY Bachelor of Architecture 2012 Cum Laude Awards: Dean’s List, Chancellor’s Scholarship International Study: London, UK (muf architecture/art) and Florence, Italy NYC Urban Design Studio: Jon Lott (PARA-Project, Collective-LOK) Thesis: Miljonprogrammet Redux: A Revision of Functionalist Housing in Malmö, Sweden John Bapst Memorial High School, Bangor, ME College Preparatory Diploma 2007 Awards: Society of Women Engineers: Certificate of Achievement, Clarkson University: High School Achievement Award, RIT Computing Medal, and Graphic Design Award International Exchange in Umeå, Sweden

EXPERIENCE / VOLUNTEER Arrowstreet| July 2015 - Present Architectural Designer, Boston, MA Designed & modeled 1950 ft2 custom feature soffit for new addition of Congress Square Assisted with exterior facade design and detailing for Hyatt Centric boutique hotel Documented & coordinated 34 unit types, from DD to CD, for 300-unit residential project Henning Larsen Architects | February - June 2014 Architectural Intern, Copenhagen, Denmark Contributed to the International Competition Group for projects in Europe and Africa Developed a six hundred unit housing scheme for a university competition Constructed a variety of models: digital, conceptual, and a final competition model ADEPT Architects | June - December 2013 Architectural Intern, Copenhagen, Denmark Built physical and 3D models for a private villa in Aarhus, Denmark Assisted in the design of a University Science Center in Odense, Denmark Produced renderings, models, and drawings for client and municipal approval Habana Works, Urban Studio Brooklyn | Summer 2011 Design - Build Team Member, New York, NY Designed and built an outdoor classroom and rainwater collection system for local charter school, Leadership Prep, using recycled and reclaimed materials

CONTENTS

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RESUME

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STUDIO PROJECTS Thread + Void Banding the Bowery Reinstating People Space Plaza COAHSI Model Photographs

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ACADEMIC WORK Collection Thames Fishers Island House Renderings

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ART & PHOTOGRAPHY Art Work: Watercolor, Pastel Sketches from Italy Selected Photography

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VOLUNTEER WORK Habana Works Urban Studio Brooklyn

STUDIO PROJECTS

programmatic terminal park (Hao Chen)

public space valley through arts campu

Elements of Urban Design Studio Thread + Void GSD Fall 2012 Professor: Ginés Garrido Collaboration with Hao Chen The west Manhattan site acts as a void although it sits between very active regions of the city. This is due to hard infrastructural boundaries so how can we activate the site in spite of these boundaries? We can actually use the layers of infrastructure to create a multi-layered public space which houses new program such as an arts campus, to act as a hinge between two dominant art districts, and also a new bus terminal connecting to the 7 line extension, to free the ground surface from protruding infrastructure and provide needed bus parking.

Through the horizontality of this new public space and a frame of tall buildings, our site then acts as a modern piazza and reestablishes the city’s relationship to the waterfront.

GALLERY RESTAURANT

BUS AND CAR PARK

PEDESTRIAN CROSSING

RECREATION CENTER CAR PARK

OPEN AIR THEATER

BUS TERMINAL BUS PARK

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public space infrastructure’s relationship with site:

reshaping the rail valley

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connecting existing buildings

penetrating new frame

sewing the gap

us (Hao Chen)

LIBRARY

GALLERY

THEATER 7 LINE

GALLERY

VALLEY

STUDIOS

PUBLIC SPACE INFRASTRUCTURE

EMPIRE LINE

longitudinal section

new intermediary scale of public space (Hao Chen)

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COMMERCIAL COMMERCIAL

VENTILATION

LIBRARY

LIBRARY LOUNGE

CAFE COMMERCIAL COMMERCIAL

CLASSROOMS

THEATER

THEATER

STUDIO

STUDIO 45 SHORT HAUL GATES GALLERY RECREATION CENTER

WORKSHOP

300 BUS PARKING

GALLERY

RESTAURANT

STUDIO

LAB CAR AND BUS PARK

180 CAR PARKING

PERFORMANCE STUDIO

COMMERCIAL

STUDIO

COMMERCIAL STUDIO GALLERY

RESTAURANT RESTAURANT

BUS STATION 91 LONG HAUL GATES

COMMERCIAL TICKETING

TICKETING

ground level plan

VENTILATION

LIBRARY LOUNGE

CLASSROOMS

THEATER STUDIO 45 SHORT HAUL GATES

WORKSHOP

300 BUS PARKING

LAB 180 CAR PARKING

STUDIO

RESTAURANT

91 LONG HAUL GATES

site plan (Hao Chen)

below grade level plan

program:

PUBLIC SPACE INFRASTRUCTURE

VISUAL AND PERFORMING ART EDUCATION AND CAMPUS PUBLIC FACILITIES AND INSTITUTIONS

PUBLIC FACILITIES AND INSTITU

RESIDENTIAL

RESIDENTIAL

MIXED RESIDENTIAL AND COMMERCIAL

MIXED RESIDENTIAL AND COMM

COMMERCIAL AND OFFICE

COMMERCIAL AND OFFICE

INDUSTRIAL AND MANUFACTURING

INDUSTRIAL AND MANUFACTUR

TRANSPORTATION AND UTILITY

TRANSPORTATION AND UTILITY

PARKING FACILITIES

PARKING FACILITIES

existing program

phasing:

PUBLIC PARK / ROOF SURFACE

LANDFORM BUILDINGS

EASTERN FRAME

NORTHERN FRAME

1. carve sunken infrastructure for public space and reuse existing warehouses for art studios

2. bui build

4. construct landform buildings along public space valley to provide more campus program and arts facilities beneath public space

5. bui strate atop o

ARTS CAMPUS

BUS TERMINAL / PARKING

LINCOLN TUNNEL

7 LINE EXTENSION

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TUTIONS PUBLIC SPACE INFRASTRUCTURE

MERCIAL

VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS EDUCATION AND CAMPUS

RING

PUBLIC FACILITIES AND INSTITUTIONS

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COMMERCIAL AND OFFICE TRANSPORTATION AND UTILITY

proposed program

ild 2 sides of frame of taller buildings to density & funds for future development

ild new bus terminal and continue landform egy to continue public space infrastructure of the new park

public space infrastructure program

3. Javits Center relocates to Queens to create space for new bus terminal; densify back side of frame urban model: cardboard, folded paper

6. extend public space infrastructure to waterfront and along tunnel support roads to previous Port Authority site

Comprehensive Design Studio Banding the Bowery Syracuse Spring 2010 Professor: Ryan Brooke Thomas Collaboration with Jamie Goldstein The NYC hostel design is centered on the wooden faรงade which carves into the building with bands of planters, encouraging interaction between hostel guests and nature. The breaks in the faรงade system allow for double height shared amenities such as a business center, kitchen, and gym to be embedded along the Bowery edge. The shared hostel zones offer a flexible, expandable environment that grants freedom of interaction between hostel guests, while the private rooms provide a more conventional experience.

first floor

fourth floor

BANDING THE BOWERY PROJECT INFO 347 BOWERY COORDINATES 33,5OO SF OCCUPANCY CLASSIFICATIONS: R-1 (HOTEL/HOSTEL) A-2 (RESTAURANT) PROGRAM LIST: HOTEL/HOSTEL ROOMS, RESTAURANT, BUSINESS CENTER, COMMUNAL KITCHEN, GYM, ROOFTOP TERRACE, 8 STORIES

PROJECT STATEMENT

model: museum board, clear acrylic, basswood

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street view (Jamie Goldstein) THE GREEN FACADE BEGINS TO CARVE INTO THE HOSTEL ZONE WITH BANDS OF PLANTERS, ALLOWING FOR INTERACTION BETWEEN THE HOSTEL GUESTS AND THE GREEN LIFE. WHERE EVER THERE IS GLASS, THERE IS WOOD. WHEREVER THEIR IS WOOD, THERE CAN BE GREEN LIFE. THIS PATTERN IS CONSTANTLY BEING BROKEN WITH THE BANDAGE OF PLANTERS AND SLATS AGAINST THE PROGRAM THAT LIVES BEHIND THE GLASS. THESE BREAKS ALLOW FOR MOMENTS OF PROGRAM TO BE EMBEDED WITHIN THE BANDS, CREATING ZONES OF PROGRAM THAT CAN BE USE BY THE HOSTEL GUESTS. THE HOSTEL ROOM DESIGN ELEMENTS ALLOW FOR A FLEXIBLE ENVIRONMENT, WHICH GRANTS FREEDOM OF INTERACTION BETWEEN GUESTS OF THE HOSTEL.

fifth floor

rooftop

PLAZA DECK PAVERS

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ROOF TERRACE

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HOSTEL LOUNGE

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HOSTEL ROOM

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HOSTEL LOUNGE

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HOSTEL ROOM

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HOSTEL LOUNGE

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HOSTEL ROOM

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RESTAURANT

AGGREGATE DRAINAGE LAYER ROOFING WATERPROOFING MEMBRANE THERMAL INSULATION

12'-1"

CONCRETE ROOF DECK

BATT INSULATION RIGID FOAM INSULATION

AIR INTAKE DUCT

11'-11"

AIR INTAKE GRILL

EXTERIOR PLANTER BOX

12'-1"

STRUCTURAL STEEL I BEAM

FINISH FLOORING 15 LB. BUILDING FELT CONCRETE SLAB STEEL BEAM STEEL JOIST

DOOR TO HOSTEL LOUNGE WOOD SLAT SYSTEM

12'-1"

11'-11"

WEB STIFFENER

BENCH TERRACE RAILING EXTERIOR FLOOR PAVING THIN AGGREGATE LAYER

11'-11"

WATERPROOFINIG MEMBRANE

STEEL MULLION WOOD SCREEN STRUCTURE

TEMPERED GLASS

15'

WOOD SLAT

EXTERIOR PAVERS CONCRETE SLAB COMPCATED AGGREGATE

CROSS SECTION

CONCRETE FOUNDATION WALL

1/8” = 1’ - 0”

11'-1"

DRAINAGE MA T

INTERIOR FLOOR FINISH CONCRETE GROUND SLAB WATERPROOFING MEMBRANE EXTENDED GRAVEL FOR DRAINAGE FOOTING DRAIN CONCRETE FOOTING

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BASEMENT

detailed wall section a

exploded facade layers (Jamie Goldstein)

transverse se

ection

12'

12'

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ROOF TERRACE

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ROOFTOP BAR ROOFTOP SEATING GRASS TERRACE HVAC PACKAGED UNIT STORAGE

HOSTEL/LOUNGE

HOSTEL/LOUNGE

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HOSTEL/AMENITY

HOSTEL/AMENITY

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HOSTEL/LOUNGE

HOSTEL/LOUNGE

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HOSTEL/AMENITY

HOSTEL/AMENITY

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HOSTEL/LOUNGE

HOSTEL/LOUNGE

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HOSTEL/AMENITY

HOSTEL/AMENITY

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LOBBY

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BASEMENT

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HOSTEL ROOMS PRIVATE ROOMS COMMUNAL LOUNGE COMMUNAL TERRACE

HOSTEL ROOMS PRIVATE ROOMS COMMUNAL LOUNGE COMMUNAL TERRACE

12'

12'

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ROOF TERRACE

ROOFTOP BAR ROOFTOP SEATING GARDEN TERRACE HVAC PACKAGED UNIT STORAGE

12'-6"

12'-6"

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HOSTEL ROOMS PRIVATE ROOMS COMMUNAL GYM

HOSTEL ROOMS PRIVATE ROOMS BUSINESS CENTER

12'

12'

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HOSTEL ROOMS PRIVATE ROOMS COMMUNAL LOUNGE COMMUNAL TERRACE

HOSTEL ROOMS PRIVATE ROOMS COMMUNAL LOUNGE COMMUNAL TERRACE

12'

12'

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HOSTEL ROOMS PRIVATE ROOMS COMMUNAL KITCHEN

HOSTEL ROOMS PRIVATE ROOMS BUSINESS CENTER

12'

12'

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HOSTEL ROOMS PRIVATE ROOMS COMMUNAL LOUNGE COMMUNAL TERRACE

HOSTEL ROOMS PRIVATE ROOMS COMMUNAL LOUNGE COMMUNAL TERRACE

12'

12'

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HOSTEL ROOMS PRIVATE ROOMS BUSINESS CENTER

HOSTEL ROOMS PRIVATE ROOMS BUSINESS CENTER

15'

15'

2

LOBBY

RECEPTION RESTAURANT

RECEPTION RESTAURANT

11'-1"

11'-1"

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BASEMENT

HVAC SYSTEMS STORAGE

HVAC SYSTEMS STORAGE

LONGITUDINAL SECTION 1/8” = 1’ - 0”

longitudinal section

Reinstating People Space Syracuse Fall 2009 Professor: Tomà Berlanda Syracuse’s Little Italy neighborhood along North Salina St. was once rich with commercial and cultural activity but presently exists as a neighborhood lacking identity and vitality. This urban renewal plan reconfigures a pedestrian and bike friendly streetscape with multiple layers to address the decrease in vehicular traffic and reclaim road area. The streetscape expands into four large raised plazas and smaller infill plazas inserted in gap spaces within the urban fabric. Using the slope advantageously to place parking below, the plazas and buildings increase density with commercial and residential program.

BEFORE: SECTION / PL AN A

AF TER: SECTION / PL AN B

AF TER: SECTION / PL AN C

AF TER: SECTION / PL AN D

AF TER: SECTION / PL AN E

FLORA :

KEY:

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RESIDENTIAL

COMMERCIAL MINERAL:

SURFACE

LIT TLE ITALY: INTERVENTION PL AN PARKING

Plaza COAHSI

individual s p o r a d i c

NYC Summer 2010 Professor: Jon Lott Client: Council on the Arts & Humanities for Staten Island Collaboration with Christine Min The Council on the Arts & Humanities for Staten Island (COAHSI) was the client for their new headquarters at the Historical Lighthouse Museum site in St. George.

Because COAHSI supports a great amount of visual and performing artists around the island, we desired for a great hub where COAHSI, the artists, and the public can gather and interact. Slicing through an existing brick building and physically pulling the plaza through to the other side, a network is created between the existing public plaza and commercial street. The once neglected plaza is charged with a new artistic energy and splits to house the artists’ production studio within. This transparent studio space allows for creative collaboration and exposes process and production as a new type of artistic display.

community concentrated

COAHSI

PUBLIC

PERFORMANCE

PRODUCTION

DISPLAY

COAHSI

COMMUNICATION

PUBLIC PUBLIC

Staten Island lighthouse museum site

COAHSI

ground floor: production studio. theater.

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first floor: plaza. lobby.

third floor: gallery, lounge

sketch looking from the water

sketch looking from ba the COAHSI storefront to allow for a visual a connection to the he and to the waterfront.

theater

transverse section

gallery

production studio

outreach center and offices

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ay street: t is elevated and physical eadquarters

final model: cellfoam, mylar film, arcylic, museum board, foam core. photo by Vincent Appel

initial study models

Additional Model Photographs 1. Studio Arts Building: basswood, museum

board, acrylic 2. Movement: nails in foam board 3. Tower Villa: museum board, acrylic,

chipboard, basswood 4. Live / Work Housing: clear and white acrylic,

wood, museum board 5. Lake Research Center: basswood 6. Path Sequence: task board

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ACADEMIC WORK

North Woolwich Precious Shore Collection Thames Syracuse London Fall 2010 Visiting Critic: muf art/architecture Looking closely at each site to extract a unique meaning is a key principle of muf art/architecture and our exercise in the town of North Woolwich, UK. When looking closely at the Thames shore I noticed an abundance of artificial make up including ceramics, metals, and glass, which can be attributed to the various industries that were historically located along the river.

Collecting items from the shore which I found particularly interesting or beautiful, I first compiled a catalog of the items which details any history or research along with their physical characteristics. I then composed the pieces in an antique cabinet and displayed them as a small museum, bringing the museum and catalog to North Woolwich as on-site interventions and thus enriching a sense of place identity. The catalog shows how the individual parts are precious themselves, while the museum shows the added meaning of the whole collection.

precious shore museum

It could be part of a marble or a decorative add-on to a piece of pottery. The underside shows that it has been broken apart from another piece. I was given this piece by a local older man who saw I was choosing things from the shore and was originally going to keep it but decided to give it to me.

on site interventions

This piece of pottery has light and medium blue blotchy designs that look as if they were hand painted.

This one is unique in that the designs are not patterns with sharp form but more blurry and fluid.

north woolwich shore catalog

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natural: animal bones, crustacean and mollusk shells, various rocks and minerals. natural: various rocks, various crustation shells, a bone.

artificial: glass, metals, clay pipes, pottery, textiles, plastics, building material artificial:

pottery fragments, sea glass, terra cotta. brick, clay pipe

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Digital Media I GSD Fall 2012 Professor: Chris Hoxie We produced a series of renderings of the Fishers Island House by Thomas Phifer representing the house’s relationship with landscape in winter rather than the more photographed summer. In collaboration with Mitch Crowder and Karina Gilbert.

Programs in Sequence: AutoCAD Rhino 3ds Max Forest Pack Photoshop

ART & PHOTOGRAPHY

Marble Medley Medium: Watercolor Venice, Italy Fall 2012

On a visit to Venice with muf art/architecture, this painting is a complementary study to the North Woolwich project exploring how individual pieces are uniquely beautiful but form a greater meaning when composed together as an entity. This south facade fragment of La Basilica di San Marco was chosen because of the patchwork of marble from around the world.

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Spatial Pulling of the Annunciation Medium: Soft Pastel Fall 2007

In The Annunciation by Fra Angelico, the biblical scene is intimately framed within a loggia, blending architecture and nature and allowing space to flow freely within the structure. I was inspired by the soft blended colors and overlapping layers in Richard Diebenkorn’s paintings and wanted to bring forth this idea of delicately overlapping spatial layers in my rendition of this painting.

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Sketches from Italy Spring 2011

Pantheon, Rome

Odeon Theatre, Pompeii

Hadrian’s Villa, Tivoli

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Piazza della Santissima Annunziata, Firenze

Palazzo delle Poste, Napoli

Palazzo Reale & Piazza del Plebiscito, Napoli

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Casa del Fascio, Como

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Sunset Gathering at Gaomei Wetlands Taichung, Taiwan

Reflection on the Black Diamond Copenhagen, Denmark

The Heaviness of Light Florence, Italy

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Unexpected Driver Florence, Italy

VOLUNTEER WORK

Habana Works | Urban Studio Brooklyn In a team of 9 architecture students, I participated in a design/build project with the non profit organization: Habana Works. We built an outdoor classroom and rain water collection system for local charter school, Leadership Prep, in Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, NYC. In the vacant asphalt lot, we built the outdoor classroom bench system using recycled and reclaimed materials from Build It Green! NYC and the rain water collection system from donated sails. The space was finished with mulch and planters by local agriculturalists Urban Acres.

Photos from: www.habanaworks.org

existing site

the team hard at work

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finished outdoor classroom bench!

unveiling the garden to the students

Thank you!