Graduate Portfolio

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CHIN-RONG JENNY LEE

CHIN-RONG J. LEE chinlee@umich.edu (901)834-6650

EXPERIENCE Summer Intern

RNL Design, Denver, CO 2015-2017

UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN

Ann Arbor, MI Taubman College of Architecture M. Architecture II GPA: 3.7/4 2011-2015

UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND

College Park, MD School of Architecture Bachelor of Science in Architecture Minor in Sustainability Studies GPA: 3.7/4 U.S. GREEN BUILDING COUNCIL LEED Green Associate LANGUAGES Fluent in English and Mandarin Chinese This Kit of Parts, a manual to construct a narrative for my journey in architecture discipline, showcases a scope of projects to exhibit my skills in research, analysis, synthesis, and spatial design. As an aspiring architect, I am constantly developing creative solutions that could optimize both cultural and social operations. Architecture presents itself as a medium to deliver structural, aesthetic, and environmental means that also contextualize the social and cultural values. I adamantly seeks ways to design architectures that promote in social and cultural values, ecological services, and economic feasibility.

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Assisted Sustainable Architecture Team Assisted Interior and Lighting Design LEED Certification Process

Bio-Architecture Formosana Taipei, Taiwan Assisted competition design team Schematic design development

Student Technician University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Provide technical solution to campus

Green Office Intern Office of Sustainability University of Maryland Conducted office audits for different Green Office Certification

Research Intern Disaster Prevention Research Center National Chen Kung University Tainan, Taiwan Assisted with geologist and hydrologist in field investigation Organized information and contribute to Research Annual Report

VOLUNTEER AND LEADERSHIP Orchestra Europe Tour Germantown Performing Art Center, Memphis, TN Performed in Italy, Germany, and Switzerland

Smart and Sustainable Campuses Conference Bethesda, Maryland Assisted the organization of events

AWARDS AND HONORS Matterbetter International Competition Submarine Open Idea Competition top 50 Tau Sigma Delta Honor Society

CHIN-RONG J. LEE PUBLICATIONS UMD Terp’s Post-Food Summer 2016

University of Maryland Sustainability Fund Project A proposal for organizing a food waste recycling network on UMD campus

Sphagnum Moss Treatment System in the UMD Pool Facility Summer 2015 Summer 2014

Sustainable Architecture Course, University of Maryland Sustainable method to filter and clean swimming pool facilities Concept of biomimicry to realistic application of sustainable engineering

Debris Flow Investigation in Japan, United States, Italy, Switzerland, and Australia Fall 2016

Disaster Prevention Research Center National Chen Kung University Tainan, Taiwan Contributed to Debris Flow Prevention and Management Annual Report

Spring 2014

SOFTWARES Administration Softwares Administration Softwares

Summer 2012

Modeling Softwares Softwares Modeling Softwares Modeling

Energy Modeling Modeling Softwares Energy ModelingSoftwares Softwares Energy

May 2014

Graphic Softwares Softwares Graphic Graphic Softwares

April 2013

ORGANIZATIONS AIAS Tau Sigma Delta Honor Society Summer 2015

APX USGBC Student Organization A KIT OF PARTS TO WHOLE 03

University of Michigan, Winter 2017 Type: Architecture Representation Course Instructor: Jonathan Rule A KIT OF PARTS TO WHOLE 04

THE ESSENTIAL AND EXCESSIVE

ALBERTO CAMPO BAEZA, A POET’S HOUSE|TO LIVE TO DREAM TO SLEEP The Essence

The architect designed a house for dreaming, living, and dying. The minimalist sketches extract the quintessential concepts of the house for a poet. The house itself acts as a platonic volume inserting in a platform. The three different levels reveal the programs, bedroom at the floor buried underground; living space connecting to the garden, and a library constructed with high walls diffused through translucent glass.

The essential models farther extract the concepts into abstract form and volumes. The bedroom underground is shown with heavier material to signify its symbolism for space of dying. The excess drawing focuses on representing the house itself in context of the neighborhood in Zaragoza, Spain. The different typology for the surround residential accentuate the presence of the Moliner House.

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University of Maryland, Fall 2015 Type: Undergraduate Studio (UG3) Instructor: Elijah Northern A KIT OF PARTS TO WHOLE 06

BALTIMORE OFFICE OF PERFORMING ART

AN EDUCATION PLAYGROUND|OVERLAP EXPERIENCE IN SPATIAL DEFINITION Program Distribution

Envelope Manipulation

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The specificity of site challenges the students to incorporate contextual movement into and around the building design. The students are given the opportunities to overlap diverse programs into the volumetric pattern.

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FACADE

As one walks down the street from either direction, they can get a glimpse of artistic activities through the windows. The sole intention of the angled facade is to introduce both visual and physical interaction with the process of creating arts.

The visual access into the building welcomes both local artists and community to participate in the artistic experience.

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University of Michigan, Fall 2016 Type: Institution Studio Instructor: Neal Robinson

PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AMPLITUDE AND EXACTITUDE|PRESERVE PRESIDENTIAL MEMORY

This presidential library seeks to preserve the presidential voices. It was since 1922 when the first American President broadcast his speech to the nation, delivering the speech directly to the people. Till today, the presidential address has senses of commonality and accessibility to the way presidents project their voices to the nation and the world. The acoustic memory of each American president amplifies the progression of history and politics in the United States.

The acoustic memory of each American president amplifies the progression of history and politics in the United States. The acoustic gallery beneath the mounds broadcast the presidential voices as a “stagged conversation� involving specific political issues: civil rights, global terrorism, international relations, national defense, education, and environment. The scale and expansion of the mounds indicate the impacts of the political issues and collection of archived voices. The presidential library also invites the community the project their voices toward the other end of the Cumberland River.

The interactive broadcast centers surrounding the exhibition acts as the agency to help community participating in the making of acoustic memory.

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The adaptive reuse intervention for existing coal power plant in Detroit, MI inspire students to speculate creative activities for the Detroit Community. To transform existing identity of the power plant in the industrial site, the project focus on empowering Detroit Community with sustainable and regenerative agriculture. The main purpose is to educate local community about both biodiversity and regenerative agriculture.

The goal of the project seeks to develop regenerative cycle to further create a network for the Detroit community to participate, interact, and engage.

The site revitalization proposal seeks to restore biodiversity by leveraging the unique site characteristics and advantages. The site will showcase both city infrastructures and research facility to preserve biodiversity and ecological resources while engaging local residents to participate in the process.

University of Michigan, Winter 2016 Type: Proposition Studio Instructor: Dan Kinkead A KIT OF PARTS TO WHOLE 010

POWER PROLOGUE

MICHIGAN SEED ARCHIVE|ENGAGE COMMUNITY IN PRESERVING BIODIVERSITY

Program Distribution

Seed Packaging

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Street Elevation

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Courtyard Elevation

University of Michigan, Fall 2016 Type: System Studio Instructor: Kevin Adkins, Jonathan Rule, Mick Kennedy

MISTY INDIGO ANCHOR A COMMUNITY IN MEXICAN TOWN, DETROIT While designing for the trend of scaler living, the firm aJ² reserves the public domain as social thresholds for the residents by focusing on the surface of gathering at different scales.

Within dwelling units, the table surface becomes the aggregation of family story and collective memory. As the design team zooms out to the scale of site, the courtyard design becomes a continuous surface with different nodes of gathering, from a more communal use of food truck deck, a residential misty courtyard, to children playground.

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Exploded Cluster

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SITE AND ORGANIZATION STRATEGY The firm aJ² proposed design enables such a dynamic surface to distinguish itself in both an internal and external manner. The prefabricated component, comprised of a brick veneer frame, wide glazed aperture, and warm interior wooden lining, illustrates the weight and dynamic nature of the table. The components anchor themselves to a strategic corner of each dwelling located along the internal, courtyard oriented facade. Such positioning serves as both a window into the life of a particular family or individual, as well as an aperture out and across towards other inhabitant’s displayed relations. The anchors articulate a range of activities and relationships of familial and solitary qualities which flicker across the facade and animate the site.

The site organization address the site primarily through the unresolved corner and prominent street conditions. By creating a prominent focal point along the intersection of Palm Street and Vernor Highway - the team wishes to fuse the public way with that of the inner, more residential focused courtyard. The food truck service area becomes the buffer at the corner for both neighborhood and residents to come together. With a large oak tree marking the edge between the food truck service area and residential courtyard, the social thresholds suddenly becomes more private and intimate for the residents.

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Section AA

Site Elevation

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Building Plan|Courtyard Level A

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Site Section

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Construction Process

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Bio-Architecture Formosana, Taipei, Taiwan Type: Summer Internship Project Manager: Po-Wei Lai A KIT OF PARTS TO WHOLE 022

ENTREPRENEUR CENTER

INNOVATION DISTRICT IN A RAPIDLY GROWING CITY The Entrepreneur Center in Dan Hai District gives opportunity for the firm to integrate transportation hub and activities to catalyze the energy on site. The Entrepreneur Center focuses on promoting both green transportion by light rail, bus, and metro system while utilizing the real estate potential at the site to provide local job opportunities. The activities entail grass sliding, water sliding, exterior rock climbing, and bungee jumping.

Program Distribution

Formal Manipulation and Activities

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A KIT OF PARTS TO WHOLE A SELECTION OF WORKS

CHIN-RONG JENNY LEE 901.834.6650 chinlee@umich.edu