InaChen Portfolio

InaChen

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ED UCATI ON 09/2016 - 04/2017

Bachelor Certificate: Practical Filmmaking MET Film School, Berlin, Germany 01/2016 - 06/2016

Exchange Semester: Urban Planning DIS Study Abroad in Scandinavian, Copenhagen, Denmark 08/2013 - 05/2018

Bachelor of Fine Arts: Interior Design Pratt Institute, New York, USA

InaChen CONTACT www.inachen.com +1 3474092666 +49 (0) 151 7531 9560 Jonasstr. 41Berlin, Germany 104 Washington Ave, Brooklyn, New York, USA inasuyangchen@gmail.com

S KI L L S Rhinoceros AutoCAD SketchUp 3dsMax InDesign Photoshop Illustrator Premiere FinalcutPro Aftereffect Grasshopper

EXPERI ENCE 03/2017 - 05/2017

45 Kilos Product Videographer & Set Designer Berlin, Germany 05/2017 - 08/2017

Another Architect Urban Production Designer & Filmmaker Berlin, Germany 07/2017 - now

BittenFruit Filmmaker & Social Media Promotion Berlin, Germany 03/2017 -06/2017

ArchDaily China - online translator & editor 06/2016 - 09/2016

T9 Branding Graphics Shanghai, China 08/2014 - 12/2015

SGA Interior Dep. Student Representative New York, USA

AWARD S & COMPETI TI ON 2017 Refugee Urban Plan Competition Semi-finalist, California (ongoing group project) 2016 Education Legacy Fund (ELF) sponsored by ASID New York 2015 Mitigation, Adaption, Resiliency Greenweek Award 2015 Annual Harold LEED Scholarship

EXHI B I TI ON Group: Nasty Women Film Festival "Dripping Identity" winning film, USA. 2017 Group: New York Tuesday Film Festival "Dripping Identity", USA. 2017 Group: Best Shorts Competition "Hi", USA. 2017 Group: National Association of School of Art and Design New York, USA. 2015 Solo: BodyWARE Photography Exhibition Nannuoshan Berlin, Germany. 2016 2

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contents U rban P la ni ng Copenhagen, Denmark, 2016

Østad Urban Wings

a public activator

In t e rio r D e s i g n New York, USA, 2016

The Spoken Forest New York, USA, 2015

Desire Mechanism

a teenager library a retail store

F ilmmak in g Berlin, Shanghai

Films Selection

In s t allat ion New York, USA, 2014

Aluminium Age

a smallest room (group project)

P ro du ct / Fa s hi on D es i g n Shanghai, China, 2016

设跑 Designer, Run!

a bag for designers (crowfunding project)

A rch it e ct u ra l Dra w i ng s 2014 - 2016

Selective drawings, Sketches, Collages, Renderings

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A minimalistic, sustainable and flexible temporary structure embraces Copenhagen's extreme weather conditions. Located 15 minutes from Nørreport Station, Østad station benefits from the flexibility of the new installation programmatically and structurally, extending the traditional Scandinavian market from the centre to the region of Østad.

Østad Urban Wings One walks under the stretching wing, looking out into the urban jungle, savoring a cup of warm coffee in his hands.

One walks out from the retracting wing, wondering around the gallery, music and markets on a rare sunny day.

"A Public Activator" conceptual animation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvMhyE1hYXQ

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Copenhagen has extreme weather conditions, thus it is crucial to minimize the existing "wind tunnel" under the station platform. Most users only enter the nearby shopping mall directly after they exit the station. How to attract more people to stay around the station and appreciate the nearby 8-House, VM Mountain, Bella Center, and other fascinating views?

The pond next to the station has been abandoned years ago. Instead of taking away the whole pond, a costly and environmental unfriendly endeavor, a flexible "wing" structure connects the pond and station. Acting as a public activator, the wing cleverly connects all the programs. It can be stretched and retracted according to the demands of the season or special events.

"A sunny afternoon..."

Running to the markets

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"A rainy afternoon..."

Hide and grab some food.

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Interior view Looking out to the urban jungle

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Re-invent an existing branch of the Brooklyn Public Library in New York. Targeting teenagers as the primary client and user group, the proposal responds to contemporary issues of the library typology in existing cultural settings.

The Spoken Forest The inhabitants act like neurons firing through the space/brain mass and making connections. The massive architectural manifestations endow the library with human thinking methodology structurally and spiritually: growing... expanding... and browsing.

"A Teen Library"

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The existing Brooklyn public library Bedford branch is not serving its purpose well - issues including poor lighting and reading environment, homeless people sleeping over, outdated choice of books, etc.

How to re-invent a teenager-friendly space that stimulates, motivates and speeds up learning? How to accomodate the partly conflicting interests of adult and teenager users?

The Brooklyn Waldorf School The Bedford Village School

Targeting tenagers as the primary clients, the forest conceptually and structurally emphasizes the "reach/branch out" movement. Branches (books) visualize knowledge, connecting the different programs, which integrate one Plaza, one Pavilion and one Corridor. The programs are books, a media station, study areas, an events venue, and a bold, modern technology intergrated design element: a hemispherical screening room.

Bedford library

Bedford library in neighbourhood

Atmosphere and visual experience Running around the brain forest.

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module scale & program integration

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2nd floor: reading only

1st floor 1. entrance 2. staircase (up) 3. reception 4. audio/media 5. screening room

6. gallery 7. events 8. computers 9. reading area

selective & customized furniture intergrated into the overall architectural language

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"The spoken forest" Sitting under the screening dom

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Following French philosopher Gilles Deleuze's "Desire Machine", the proposal for a new retail store for Housing Works uses parametric morphosis architectural language. It underscores the notion of social businesses increasingly dominated by explosive, commercialized eagerness and human desires.

Desire Machanism One enters the store, hunting for goods to ease his ballooning desire.

One hides himself in the shelter, sitting under the dome of desire, being marginalised, yet feeling protected and satisfied.

"A Retail Store"

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"Desire is productive" –––Gilles Deleuze

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Housing Works, a large social business, comprises a diverse series of chain stores: Buy the

The existing thrift store has been widely criticized for being overly commercial and "cheap" in

Bag, Thrift Stores, Health Centers, HIV Centers, Food Corners, etc. The exiting thrift store, selling second-hand items, is not well balanced between charity and consumption.

atmosphere. A more thrilling and hedonic thrift shopping experiences can be achieved through the visualization of the consuming desire. The design concept is derived from Gilles Deleuze's "Desire Machine", applied to both the designed modules and spatial programs breakdown.

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motional desire: spinning machine

productivity level is shown through spinning velocity

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Inspiration & precedent: study of landscape and negative space - Antelope Canyon

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"Machine in use" each program as sub-machine.

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Human bodies are the world's most accurate and complicated machines.

All "machines" fulfill different purposes, including products display, furniture

By referencing this accurate machine for programs breakdown, the proposal emphasizes each program as a submachine, working together harmoniously.

and shelter rooms. Thus they serve Housing Works' goals of reconciling commercial interests with supporting homeless people and raising awareness about HIV/Aids.

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"Desire machines" a retail store.

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Filmmakin g S e l e c ti on Berlin, Shanghai

As director, producer, cinematographer or actor

New Colossus Director: Ina Chen Producer: Paul Maidowski Director of Photography: Ina Chen Berlin, Germany & Salerno, Italy

Dripping Identity Director & Producer: Ina Chen Berlin, Germany short film was selected and screened at: New York Short Film Tuesdays, Nasty Women Film Fest, and Best Short Competition. who am I? where do I come from? who's my family? do I know them anymore? how far am I away from home? what is my identity? from a self point of view: always "on my way" to somewhere else, to study, to work, to travel, to have a life. is it possible to pursue one's roots and where is the fundamental base (family)?

"The New Colossus" was written in 1883 to raise money for building the Statue of Liberty welcoming immigrants to our country, two years before Donald Trump's grandfather emigrated from Germany to New York City in 1885.

Emma Lazarus, one of the first successful Jewish American authors, wrote it after thousands of Jewish refugees fled to New York in the wake of the 1881 Russian pogroms.

Hi Director: Ina Chen Assistant Director: Sagir Aliyu Director of Photography: Irene Della Casa Berlin, Germany

Mortals Dreaming Director: Ina Chen Producer: Paul Maidowski Director of Photography: Rebecka Ekholm Salerno, Italy & Suzhou, China

febe and steven sit next to each other, on the way to their date. they kiss, they hug, they take selfies. * they are not talking to each other, they are on some phone apps, they are searching for new excitements?

Experimental short film on creating artificial intelligence (AI), featuring Poe's "The Raven", interviews with Stephen Hawking, and Rosalie Wanka dancing.

2047 Director: Ina Chen Director of Photography: Ismail Balukea Berlin, Germany

Raining Encounter Director: Patrick Cliff Director of Photography: Melanie Lyn Berlin, Germany

the year of 2047: climate change / heavily polluted / bacteria / air pollution / lack of greens and water. it takes courage just to kiss and be intimate with someone you love. there's no way one can survive in this environment because people need to wear gas masks. water becomes rare and is more expensive than diamonds. animals only exist in tv. great love is a dangerous risk.

An experienment on sound & image. Two meets at the rooftop garage in a rainy day, what are they talking about?

Or does it matter?

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Group project: Recycling used aluminium sheets that are going to the trash can - using it one last time and bringing meanings and life for the specific material: The Age of Aluminium. To build a smallest room for one inhabitant. mimicking the wall as buildings, buildings as city, but city is just a small room, disconnecting human from nature.

Aluminium Age Grown out from the wall, with traces of commercial prints on the skin.

It is seducing us, devouring us. With dazzling colors, new structure, favored ergonomic form. Oh human... Stop being spoiled.

short film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juGQgKbal9w

Project exhibited at Pratt Institue, New York

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莞衑 Designer, Run! An individual project commissioned and supported by T9 Graphic Studio during a 4 months internship in Shanghai, 2016.

A bag for designers who likes running. Majority of designers are living in a unhealthy state - spine, back, neck, etc. Some designers do sports everyday to ease their pressure both physically and mentally.

The bag is not simply designed as a "sport bag" for designers who likes running, but expressing the attitude. Inspired by Japanese traditional kinchaku bag - simplicity, flexibility, knobs, curvature two materials with a combination of 3 colors are applied to the final design. Opacity, translucency and texture are combined for a series of artsy and hipster design with the notion of sports.

Green canvas: rigid strucutre

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Black & White PVC

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Elasticity, Tranparency

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3dsMax Rendering Sensory Interactive Installation: color & light changes according to user's motion short film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybf3L_4uzEQ&t=4s

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Architecture Drawings, Sketches and Collages

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Architecture Drawings, Sketches and Collages

Architecture Drawings, Sketches and Collages

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Architecture Drawings, Sketches and Collages

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Urban Planning documentation

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Architecture Drawings, Sketches and Collages

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Personal Sketches

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