Kuo-Jui Lai Portfolio 2019

Time-Sensitive Architecture Architecture Portfolio 2019 - Kuo-Jui Lai

Syracuse University / Tamkang University

Time-Sensitive Architecture “Indeed, from our point of view, only the personal and collective generation of form, including not only houses, cities, and surroundings, but also political choice and collective aims, in a perennial dynamic equilibrium with the ecological and ecosocial situation, represents true and complete self-consciousness; it is the indispensable premise for self-realization. . . We are fully aware that without the aid of cybernetic, logical and mathematical tools it is inconceivable that man might overcome presentday ecological and ecosocial complexities. Nevertheless, our first preoccupation concerns the ethical and political use of such tools." —Leonardo and Laura Mosso, “Self Generation of Form and the New Ecology,” Architectural Association Quarterly, v.3, n.1, Winter 1970.

TABLE OF CONTENTS — ACADEMIC — Soft Tectonic

Project-01 - M.Arch Thesis Design 2018

Amazon Handmade

Project-02 - Comprehensive Design Studio 2017

Walking Ship

Project-03 - International Competition 2014

An Incubator for Glaciers

Project-04 - Research and Design Project 2016

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Coastal Micro Spot

Project-05 - B.Arch Thesis Design 2012

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— PROFESSIONAL — Light Box

Project-06 - Pigeon Loft Residential 2018

Vernacular Voidscape

Project-07 - Revitalization of the Dar Al-Uloum Library 2018

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— MISCELLANEOUS — Don-Don House

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The Plan is the Generator

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Rhizolith Island

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Acts of Appropriation

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Resume

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Soft Tectonic M.Arch Thesis Design 2018 Role: Graduate Student Responsibilities: Research, Concept Design, Schematic Design, Detail Development, Renderings Type: M.Arch Thesis Location: Taipei, Taiwan Critics: Elizabeth A Krietemeyer

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Introduction In Taipei, more than 70% of buildings are older than 30 years. The rate of illegal additions to existing buildings (wei zhang jian zhu) in Taipei is over ten percent. Excluding legal issues, illegal construction can potentially lead to significant safety issues. As a response, the Taiwan government is undergoing demolitions on illegal additions throughout the city.

In recent years, the number of demolished building additions has surpassed the number of that being constructed. Despite this radical effort, Taipei city is finding that illegal additions continue to be a mainstream practice.

Illegal additions and the issue of renovating old buildings highlight the vitality and dynamism of the Taipei, but also shows its risks. Illegal additions reduce the resiliency of the city, as a whole, to natural disasters such as typhoons, earthquakes, and building hazards. While the building code requires structural reinforcement, fire escapes, and resistant materials, illegal additions will typically not comply; Instead, the intentions of the additions are focused on increasing space through the use of inexpensive and temporary materials.

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Total Building

Over 30 year

Old building %

Da’an/ 大安 Zhongshan/ 中山 Shilin/ 士林 Wenshan/ 文山 Neihu/內湖 Beitou/ 北投 Xinyi/ 信義 Wanhua/ 萬華 Songshan/ 松山 Zhongzheng/ 中正 Datong/ 大同 Nangang/ 南港

97235 93754 90956 87303 87282 78618 75035 65852 65680 50559 42119 36857

49476 41545 49705 34134 17365 40668 35943 40589 34086 28144 24841 16282

51% 44% 55% 39% 20% 52% 48% 62% 52% 56% 59% 44% Year: 2005

90,000

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200

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85,000

80,000

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12

6

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This thesis seeks to revisit the role of illegal additions in order to satisfy gover nment regulations while providing new freedoms and opportunities for building inhabitants and the city’s aesthetic identity. Specifically, it investigates how an “adaptive joint framework” can leverage current code regulations in order to provide resilient structural reinforcement and safety, allow new spaces to emerge within the seams of the urban fabric, and create new freedoms that were previously challenging under current policies.

Making use of the government's intention to promote urban renewal opportunities, improve the beauty of urbanscape and enhance disaster resilience could be implemented simultaneously, which presents a design opportunity. However, from my perspective, typical urban renewal goes the result of “Creative Cities” or “Design Cities” that radically reduce the creativity of the city because of the design consistency through the entire city.

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New illegal addition Demolition of illegal addition

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Fire Lane Fire lane space provides an opportunity for the “adaptive joint framework”, which not only addresses space needs of building inhabitants, but has potential for urban renewal and structural improvement. Here is a regulatory loophole. Current ground condition arcades are built by private entities but inhabit public domain -- As long as the physical built structure does not inhibit the pedestrian right of way and provides a “fire exit” per city code, it is legally allowed to be constructed; Private expenditure in this case is afforded permission under the guise of ‘supporting’ the public domain. As such, the construction of a so-called “illegal addition” can in fact be made legal through a re-framing of its regulatory public and private status. This provides the opportunity for this project to intervene.

This discourse leads this project to trace back to the old building code regulations No.110-1, if the fire lane smaller than three meters, the wall and opening should make fireproof limitation over one hour. If the fire lane bigger than three meters but smaller than six meters, the wall and opening should make fireproof limitation over half hour. However, new fire regulations canceled fire lane code and replaced by purely fireproof limitation time because the technology of fireproof material. That means if we reveal the exist fire lane to be the public use as a pedestrian will turn to the building code to Road Traffic Management Regulations No.3 which like continuous arcade as a part of the pedestrian. That makes owner only be required to keep the fire lane (pedestrian) not be blocked and extend the fire protection time through the material. The illegal addition will become easier to be remained, if the illegal addition not blocks the passage on the path. As a reference of open up fire lane, the most common scenario in continuous arcade is that the space of arcade sometime is a public motorbike parking space, sometime is a owner’s retail space.

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Fire Lane

Urban Acupuncture

Structure Supplementary + Fire Proof Area

Flexible Enclosure

Opening

Structure Supplementary

Channel

Fire Lane

Connection

Urban Regeneration Site (Taipei)

The age of Building

Building Energy Use Intensity

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Low

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(Kernel Density <60kWh)

Flexible Enclosure

Soil liquefaction Hight

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Adaptive Joints Adaptive Joints investigates a flexible enclosure consisting of a series of structural supplementary.

The structure supplementary provides the foundation to construct the new path to connect the continuous arcade in pedestrian level and allow people pass the fire lane at different elevation. The structural supplementary will be constructed by vernacular tectonic which is the same as an illegal addition. Steel C-Channels will form the structural grid to fill in the fire lane. That will support the main structure of the old building through the connection of the other old buildings in the same block. The new structure also plays the role to support the illegal addition on the back side of the facade. The steel c-channels Kuo-Jui Lai Portfolio 2019

provides the track for the flexible enclosure to move and adapt the shape of the façade of old buildings and illegal additions. That reveals the space of the fire lane for the public use. It is a soft boundary for private and public and could be adjusted and adapted for both side’s use through the channel. The flexible enclosure also provides the fire protection through the material.

On the other hand, the flexible fabric plays the critical role when illegal addition be demolished (if that still against the Road Traffic Management Regulations), which still can maintain the space for resident use.

Overlap mapping of overall urban renewal sites, vacancy buildings, soil liquefaction and old Syracuse / Tamkang

buildings could get a solid choice of the site to experiment the Adaptive Joint. The site is located on Monga, west Taipei, which is the oldest area of the city. The site is one of urban renewal spot plan by the city government which with chaotic urban condition but full of different level activities and issues such as market, residential, homeless concentration, religious ceremony…etc. This site could be perfectly revealed by the fire lane to public use to deal with illegal additions and old buildings issues. Choose a small block right next to the temporary market on the main street to bring the public pass through the fire lane to the other main street become the main focus to activate this project.

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Flexible Enclosure

Movable Deck

Structural Supplementary

Existing Block

New Street Life Venders occupied the main street and part of the arcade for their small business. Adaptive Joint open up the fire lane to connect to the arcade, which also provides space allows people to stop or pass through. The scaffold like structure brings the people up and down to pass by the different unit of illegal additions. The illegal addition might

transfer to the small vender as the main street to run the business when people pass through the fire lane. The scaffold-like structure might divide the fire lane at three parts vertically. The rooftop could provide the space to deal with the lower income residential issue in this site through the new egress system which integrates

with vacancy building. The middle level space could provide the vertical space for the public or private, which depends on the soft boundaryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s position, when people be bringing into the fire lane.

The pedestrian level will connect to the continuous arcade on the main street side. The inner pedestrian could open up the façade in to the building.

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Amazon Handmade Comprehensive Design Studio 2017 Urban User Interface - The Logistic Space of Amazon & Whole Foods Role: Grade Student Responsibilities: Concept Design, Schematic Design, Detail Development, 3D Modeling,Physical Modeling Renderings Type: Academic/ Syracuse Location: Brooklyn, NYC Collaborator: Philip Weston Claghorn Critics: Daniele Profeta, Nicole McIntosh

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JOIN US. WORK HARD. HAVE FUN. MAKE HISTORY.

AMAZON HANDMADE

Amazon Now

Amazon Fresh

Amazon Kindle

Amazon Web

Amazon Publishing

In 2005, Amazon Handmade was launched with

Amazon Art

Our project contends that Amazon wishes to occupy the brick and mortar retail vacuum that it has created via its business practices by exploiting the nostalgic aspects of independent retailing.

Amazon Music

little fanfare. The service was introduced in the same year that Etsy.com became publically traded. Amazon Handmade is widely viewed as a direct response to Etsy’s success in the independent specialty retail market. All products sold on Etsy are made at a small scale of production and emphasize relationship to craft and craftsman. Amazon Handmade has not had much success in comparison due to its restrictive online templates for artists and lack of trust built with the craft community. (Amazon manufactures products and is willing to compete with those on its own platform). Our building is the revitalization of the Amazon Handmade platform as a brick and mortar nostalgia machine.

Amazon Studios

AMAZON BOOKSTORE NOSTALGIA : Mapped below are the locations (shown in black) and future locations (shown in grey) of Amazon book stores. The emergence of these physical shops are perplexing considering that they have put brick and mortar book shops out of business by leveraging their online presence.

Amazon Prime

The Amazon Corporation’s history of predatory pricing and acquisitions have allowed the company to grow astronomically since it began public trading in 1997. In fact, the entry point for our class investigation is centered on the 13.7 billion dollar acquisition of Whole Foods in 2017. The venture into brick and mortar food retail is particularly interesting, considering the company’s rise can be attributed to bypassing a physical presence in favor of lowering prices of their products. Similarly, Amazon has decided to open small physical bookstores nationwide (13 and counting). Why would Amazon open a bookstore after leveraging their exclusively digital retail model?

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500

Souq.com - 580 M

Clusterk k

Annapurna Labs - 370 70 M

Clo Cloud9 IDE Safaba

harvest.ai - 20 M

El Elemental Technology - 500 M Double Helix Games

STOCK PRICE [NASDAQ] $ 3500

TeachStreet

Zappos - 1.2 B

Graphiq

Biba

Game Sparks - 10 M

2lemetry Angel.ai

Twitch - 970 M

LOVEFiLM

Convergence Corp. - 23 M

EMVANTAGE

Whole Foods - 13.7 B

Avalon Books dprevew

Exchange.com

UpNext

The Book Depository

$ 3000

Shelfari

Junglee

Goodreads - 150 M

Accept.com - 102 M

BuyVIP - 85 M

Without A Box

Amiato

Yap

$ 2500

Screentech IVONA Text-to-Speech

Audible - 300 M

CustomFlix PlanetAll.com

Stanza

Back to Basics

$ 2000 Shopbop

Comixolgy Touchco

Fabric.com

$ 1500 Mobipocket.com LiveBid

Shoefitr

Quidsi - 545 M

TextPayMe

Rooftop Media

Orbeus

Evi - 26 M

Reflexive Entertainment

Joyo.com - 75 M

$ 1000

Pushbutton

Brilliance Audio

Bookpages

createspace Leep Technology

High Stock Price

Liquavista

Lexcycle

OurHouse

Telebook

Amazon Acquisition [buyout as noted]

TenMarks Education

Kiva Systems - 775 M Alexa - 250 M

Amazon Acquisition [buyout unknown]

Quorus

Woot - 110 M

Amie Street AbeBooks

CDNOW

SnapTell

$ 500 BookSurge

IMDB

Opening Stock Price

$0 Low Stock Price

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MASSING & PROGRAM DIAGRAM INNER WORLD 1

Acquisition Food Market

14,000 sf

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1,000 sf

60% Local Absorbed Business 30% Private Corporation + Whole Foods [prioritized] AMAZON GO 3

HVAC

1,000 sf

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Office Administration

2,000 sf

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3,000 sf

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Repackaging / Machine Storage

3,000 sf

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Buffer Zone (Service)

2,000 sf

INVENTORY Frozen Storage

3,000 sf

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6,000 sf

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Dry Storage

20,000 sf

TOTAL BUILDING

60,000 sf

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[66%]

40,000 sf

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Inventory

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19 MARKET EXPERIENCE The Amazon Handmade market is depicted below via diagram. Shown are two perspectives: one of the worker, and the other

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Alum. parapet cap

EPDM roof membrane Weathered steel exterior cladding

Exterior weather barrier Exterior Sheathing 3/4” exterior sheathing

4” Rigid roof insulation

Structural steel beam Bat. Insulation

3” Concrete on mtl. decking Mtl. flashing Alum. mullion cap Perforated Panel

Double pane glass

Curved interior ‘rib’ structure

Structural steel framing

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Walking Ship International Competition 2014 The Next Big One - Tsunami Role: Freelance Architect Responsibilities: Research, Concept Design, Schematic Design, 3D Modeling, Renderings Type: Competition Location: Southern Taiwan Collaborator: Li Yi-Xian

Working for Ship A great fishing community consist of 12480 local residents and 15130 foreign fishermen. This project aims to generate â&#x20AC;&#x153;an interfaceâ&#x20AC;? to reconcile the fishermen from different countries and the local people.

Secondly, the interface is located on the ocean and is built by local shipbuilding workers. The project becomes the medium for the local residents, tourists and foreign fishermen. The new type of space integrates the foreigners and local residents. Plus, the living environment is improved for both of groups; the foreign fishermen who stay on board with only permitted for drop-off the goods, and the permanent foreign fishermen who have entry permission.

Between Land & Ocean Kaohsiung

TAIWAN

Creating an interface between land and ocean for foreign fishermen who are temporary residing.

Vietnam / Indonesia / Philippines

OCEAN

Kaohsiung harbor Labor Input Produce Export

Foreign Fishermen In Taiwan

Taiwan

Most foreign fishermen have limited access to land at Kaohsiung harbor.

60%/40% Vietnam / Indonesia / Philippines Fishermen Type: A (5338 fishermens) : Only dropping off goods is permitted (stay on board).

B (7276 fishermens) : have entry permission to Taiwan.

Drop Off the Product Walking ships are built on the ocean and provide the unloading location for ship to land and unload the fish product. The slender base will avoid blocking the way of other ships. The program provides the basic need for foreign fisherman and local resident. The walking ship becomes the interface for both side.

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Tsunami and Earthquake Kaohsiung harbor functions as the primary defense for the tsunami at southern Taiwan.This project is a resilience mechanism to face the catastrophe, such as the tsunami and the typhoon. This project provides shelters for the fishermen who have limited access to land during a tsunami. At the same time, the specific structure secures the ships from endangering the local residents when a natural disaster occurs.

INTERFACE: Every programs, users and activities will be integrated by the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Interfaceâ&#x20AC;?. The interface not only enhances the relationship between the foreigners and local residents, but also generates spaces for refugees when natural disasters occur. All programs will be able to convert and adapt in the needs during a disaster.

Especially, during typhoons which occurs frequently in Taiwan.

Living Unit Each unit provides quality living space for foreign fishermen who are staying on board. The numbers of units varies depending on the needs.

Sporting Center The sporting center consists of the equipment for fishermen to have recreational activities.

Coast Guard Office The coast guard duty includes vaccinations, searching for the contraband and checking the foreign goods.

Conveyor A Conveyor A is only for overseas fishermen to embark because they are not allowed to enter the land of Taiwan.

Conveyor B Conveyor B is for public, including the legal foreign fishermen, tourists, coast guards, goods and local residents.

Activities Platform & Refuge Platform Different events from various countries can be held on the platform. Inviting the local residents experiences the cultures from aboard. The platform also consists of shelters for the people in needs during a natural disaster.

Signal Station Reinforcing the signal from the station in the city and resolving the existing issue of overbuild stations in Kaohsiung. Plus, this station will continuously send warning signals after the Tsunami.

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Seafood Restaurant A traditional Taiwanese locus of a harbor. The restaurant functions as a social space for the local residents. It serves the purpose of an intimate cultural experience between the local residents, tourists and fishermen.

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An Incubator for Glaciers Research and Design Project 2016 The Anthropocene Era Studio Role: Grade Student Responsibilities: Research, Concept Design, Schematic Design, 3D Modeling,Physical Modeling Renderings Type: Academic/ Syracuse Location: Ladakh, Indian Collaborator: Lina Wang Critics: Lori Brown, Julie Larsen

Glacier Retreat in Himalayas Image above shows the Gangotri Glacier, situated in the Uttarkashi District of Garhwal Himalaya. Currently 30.2 km long and between 0.5 and 2.5 km wide, Gangotri glacier is one of the largest in the Himalayas. Gangotri has been receding since 1780, although studies show its retreat quickened after 1971. Over the last 25 years, Gangotri glacier has retreated more than 850 meters, with a recession of 76 meters from 1996 to 1999 alone.

Mountain Biome Research Glacier is the most important freshwater source for people. Glacial is the largest reservoir of freshwater on Earth glaciers store water as ice during the colder seasons and releases it later in the form of meltwater as warmer summer temperatures cause the glacier to melt, creating a water source that is especially important for plants, animals and human uses.

Main cities that acquire water from these mountains.

Freshwater has supply 90% population (1,510,000,000) in south Asia Freshwater has supply 40% population (296,000,000) in Europe

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Ladakh Region Ladakh ("land of high passes") is a region in the Indian Administered Jammu and Kashmir that currently extends from the Kuen Lun mountain range to the main Great Himalayas to the south, inhabited by people of Indo-Aryan and Tibetan descent.

It is one of the most sparsely populated regions in Jammu and Kashmir and its culture and history are closely related to that of Tibet. Here have three types of Artificial glaciers. About 90 percent of the farmers in Ladakh depend on snow melt and glacial waters. “Agriculture needs water on time, especially during the short sowing season. Sowing takes place from March to May; if there is enough water on time, there is no problem, if not…”Glaciers are moving back at high altitudes that start melting around mid-June. As a result, there is a shortage of water between the months of April and July that in turn disturb agriculture.

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3. There is no electricity used to pump the water to a higher level. To make the water reach the full height of the vertical stupa, a pipe is joined from a higher up-stream and adjusted manually according to the size of the stupa. As water always maintains its level, it reaches the tip of the pipe.

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Coastal Micro Spot B.Arch Thesis Design 2012 Outstanding Thesis Design Award Role: Undergraduate Student Responsibilities: Research, Concept Design, Schematic Design, Detail Development, Renderings, 1:1 Mock-up Type: B.Arch Thesis Location: Northern Taiwan Critics: Hideki Hirahara

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Coastal Mirco Spot Coastal Mirco Spot (C.M.S.) is a prototypical architectural pavilion for coastal ares designed to be flexible for various social programming.

C.M.S. achives this through three key design strategies: 1. Materiality: Using polylactic acid (PLA), a biodegradable material primarily made from corn, the pavilion can naturally decay over a 3 year lifespan. 2. Structural System: Combining PLA sheets with elastic fabric, a lightweight architecture can be created for ease of mobility.

3. Flexible Programming: Flexible construction systems allows the prototype to adapt to various coastal social programs, such as sur fing, camping, fisherman's storage, and temporary shelter.

Ruins and Multiple Programs: More and more buildings are constructed because of new programs. However, the poor weather and poor economic condition force the program to be shut down. The ruin starts to occupy the coastal line at north Taiwan.

Body Scale / Different Programs: Every program has the unique scale and the space. Jin-Shan beach allows different programs happen at the same season. Every season has different programs. Body scale in every program becomes the most important research in this project.

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Transforming with Material and Programs The tragedy of ruin will not happen again! PLA will decompose with time (3 years) because it is made by the natural material, corn. The specific material (PLA) will not cause problems because it decompose by itself. In addition, the special structure system will adapt to different programs.

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Light Box Pigeon Loft Residential 2018 Undergoing Construction Role: Architect Responsibilities: Concept Design, Schematic Design, Detail Development, Renderings, 3D Modeling, Site Supervisor Type: Residential Location: Yilan, Taiwan Architect: Kuo-Jui Lai

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Introduction Pigeon racing is unique activity and greatly integrate with illegal additions for Pigeon loft. This activity be forced turn to underground or turn to legalization of Pigeon loft add on because of the protest from neighborhood and suppress from the government. The contractor only repeated the similar module to represent the Pigeon loft adds on because of the practical property of Pigeon racing, even that doesn’t fit the feature and design energy of illegal addition and the beauty of the cityscape.

So, How to integrate the feature of Pigeon loft for racing and trying use with the Taiwanese residential become the first priority in this design.

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with the issue that Pigeon and humankind live in Taiwan’s extremely damp weather. Inserting a light box to conduct the light into the room and create the air flow by stack effect. Excepting the micro climate, This light box also play the role of the main circulation to bring the owner to the platform of racing training and Pigeon care. The decline roof top is trying to reduce volumetric of building because the isolated of site condition which is located in the middle of farmland. Moreover, it prevents pigeon landing and take rest during the training.

Convection is created by unidirectional opening at the bottom of the room and roof heating to enhance the stack effect of the light box. In addition, this Syracuse / Tamkang

project used corrugated steel sheet that is different from Taiwan’s common ones and changed into corrugated plastic sheet as a skin of this building. This greatly reduces the heat absorption capacity and anti-fouling ability of the corrugated steel sheet, so that the vernacular tectonic of illegal addition has the opportunity to be used as a residential unit.

The corrugated plastic sheet is also used in the light box because The variety of plastic color properties also enable the light box to conduct the light from the top into the room and to harmonize the material of the whole building.

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Vernacular Voidscape Revitalization of the Dar Al-Uloum Library 2018 Open Competition, Final List Role: Designer Responsibilities: Schematic Design, Detail Development, Renderings Type: International Competition Location: Sakaka, Al Jouf Region Architect: Daekwon Park

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CONCEPT

The Al Rahmaniyah Mosque and Al Rahmaniyah Primary and Secondary Schools, situated immediately adjacent to the Library, are two of the most important cultural infrastructures in Sakaka. In addition to bringing the library up to date, we aim to connect the currently isolated establishments on site by physically and visually linking the various buildings through landscape interventions and built forms. The heart of the project is a continuous spatial sequence comprised of (1) a public sunken promenade, flowing under the library, linking the main entry plaza with the Park Library; (2) a vertical atrium volume connecting the sunken promenade to the sky; (3) and a rooftop viewing platform that visually connects with the entry plaza, the Mosque and the school.

The southwest sunken promenade merges with the large-scale civic plaza, and the northeast promenade forms a sunken courtyard is surrounded with a ring of programs (Teen Zone, Tech Center, gallery, and café).

The vertical atrium volume is encased by bookshelves and circulation routes. The top of the atrium is open to the sky, and the bottom is open to the reflection pool.

The viewing platforms are sheltered by the atrium enclosure unfolded into a roof form, and serves as public spaces for the rooftop addition (children’s library and periodicals). The continuous spatial sequence – “the sculpted void” - not only fosters spatial and programmatic connectivity, but also enables the implementation of environmental control strategies (e.g., buoyancy/ wind-driven ventilation, evaporative cooling, thermal mass, and shading).

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All media collections and galleries are publicly accessible and seen as a crucial part of the library experience. Workspaces are near the centralized atrium book-stacks and other media storage systems. On the second floor, lounge and group study areas are both enclosed and open, providing users with a broader choice of workspaces. Overall, the library is organized as a space for interaction, collaboration, and learning through both traditional media and increased digital platforms. However, a desire to cater more specifically to select audiences implicates an increase in the current childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s and young adult sections. The childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s section, located on the rooftop, and young adult space, located along the northeast courtyard ring building, are consolidated in their own realms. By providing these age-specific spaces, the audible and activity levels are organized to better reflect the needs of the users and reduce disturbances to others.

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ENVIRONMENTAL STRATEGIES

A rooftop viewing platform that visually connects with (1 )the entry plaza, (2) the Mosque and (3) the school.

A vertical atrium volume connecting the sunken promenade to the sky bi-layered structure. Outer layer wood book shelves accessible by the public.

Inner layer adorned in thin teak louvers for shading and thermal comfort for bouth the users and the book.

Original floor plates maintained while the gendered partition wall is removed. An open and collaborative floor plan remains.

Here, the atrium enclosure floats above. As the air passes the series of water ponds, evaporation occurs – cooling the exterior courtyard and the atrium space.

The sunken promenade is lined with a white marble floor and thick limestone walls, both high thermal mass materials.

The proposed design prioritizes the need for energy efficiency and sensitivity to cultural and human comfort, keeping with international standards and the expectations of Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030. The design utilizes a mixture of local materials, including limestone and white marble from South West Saudi Arabia and teak from the East Coast. Utilizing these local materials stimulates the local economy and helps reduce carbon emissions.

The sunken promenade is lined with a white marble floor and thick limestone walls, both high thermal mass materials. This design decision helps moderate the extremes in daytime temperature swings, decreases unwanted heat gain, and minimizes energy demands of active cooling systems. Additionally, the major void space – sunken promenade and atrium - acts as a wind tunnel to further create a comfortable microclimate to encourage outdoor occupation.

At the center of the promenade is a pool of water. Here, the atrium enclosure floats above, adorned in thin teak louvers for shading. The atrium continues up through the building, open at the top for natural ventilation through stack effect. The hot roof – enabled by capturing heat between the outer glazing and thermal insulation - induce buoyancy force that drives in air from the outside through the sunken promenade. As the air passes the series of water ponds, evaporation occurs – cooling the exterior courtyard and the atrium space.

Furthermore, a secondary ventilation system using wind catchers are integrated with the atrium enclosure. The roof profile itself is designed to maximize the area facing the dominant wind orientation (West). The wind captured at the windward side of the roof passes through the evaporative cooling mechanism (water sprayed on a honeycomb filler) and forced into the interior space.

After cooling the interior spaces, the air is pushed back out of through the channel connected to the leeward opening of the roof.

The extension courtyard and the surrounding ring building are sunken below the ground level, taking advantage of the Earth’s thermal mass. The proportion of the courtyard and the porous limestone screens provide optimum shading, contributing to reducing high temperatures and tunneling breezes. The trapezoidal shaped high ceilings enable wind and indirect sunlight to pass through the interior spaces, and the reflection pools on the ground additionally cool and regulate humidity levels, further increasing outdoor comfort for the users.

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Don Don Home Traditionally, semi-outdoor space is an iconic feature in south-east asia architecture because of weather condition (highly humidity, burning hot sunshine and raining season). The continuous arcade in front of shophouses and the family platform of stilt house all represent the quality and functional semi-outdoor space for a family as a home. Or say, the semi-outdoor space provides the community a space and a chance have interaction on the ground level. Semi-outdoor space is a center of home and community. So, this project trying to insert semi-outdoor space to different programs and reassembling in the typical shophouse structure frame. The chart demonstrated 15 possibilities to present semi-outdoor space as prototypes. Moreover, the shareable structure (bearing walls) of shophouse will be switched to the column and beam system. This gesture could open more possibility of interaction between neighborhood and urban space.

ARCH OUT LOUD Home Competition 2018 Role: Architect Responsibilities: Concept Design, Schematic Design, Renderings, 3D Modeling Type: Residential Location: Taiwan Collaborator: Ching-Hui Wang

The Plan is the Generator The project begins with an analysis of the formal qualities exhibited in the plans of three projects: Robert Venturi’s Vanna Venturi House (My Mother’s House), 1964[1]; Louis Kahn’s Fisher House, 1967[2]; and Stanley Tigerman’s Daisy House, 1977[3]. Each plan’s compositional strategies, formal organization, embedded spatial relationships, inventory of elements, and variety of composite figures, among other characteristics, are carefully examined to not only understand the characteristics of these well-known built works, but to also speculate on the three-dimensional translation of their associated two-dimensional orthographic projections.

This translation is the critical moment and the most pedagogically oriented aspect of The Plan is the Generator as a conceptual act that seeks to reimagine select artifacts of historical works as projective devices for the production of contemporary architecture.

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Inscriptions: Architecture Exhibition Final List, The Secret Life of Buildings Role: Research Assistant Responsibilities: Schematic Design, Renderings, 3D Modeling, Photography Type: Academic/ Syracuse Location: Syracuse, NY Architect: Kyle Miller

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Rhizolith Island Isla Rhizolith | Rhizolith Island - Floating Concrete Breakwater is a concept and prototyping project that investigates the potential for high performance floating concrete structures to revitalize Colombian shorelines along vulnerable sites with on-going flooding in urbanized areas. Due to the devastating depletion of mangrove forests that naturally control sediment and shorelines from erosion, the installation and speculative urban proposals aim to achieve a new urban infrastructure through emphasis on newly developed concrete materials, formal expression, and performance.

Floating Concrete Islands Role: Research Assistant Responsibilities: Research, Schematic Design, Renderings, 3D Modeling(Grasshopper), Publication Layout Type: Landscape Location: Isla Grande, Colombia Architect: Julie Larsen and Roger Hubeli g

Acts of Appropriation The goal is to analyze experimental forms of historic preservation and adaptive reuse, and to engage these burgeoning disciplines througl the design of provocative physical interventions that preserve, reuse, and add to sites of cultural significance using techniques of erasure, mirroring, ghosting, agitation, doubling, and addition, to name a few. The goal of this course is to develop strategies for preservation of culturally significant buildings that do not render these cor1structions static, but rather take a proactive approach to preservation through reactivation.

Between Preservation and Reuse Role: Research Assistant Responsibilities: Schematic Design, Renderings, 3D Modeling, Publication Layout Type: Academic/ Syracuse Location: Syracuse, NY Architect: Kyle Miller

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KUO-JUI LAI Master of Architecture, Syracuse University

Skills 3D Modeling 。 Rhinoceros 6, Revit, Grasshopper, Sketchup, 3ds Max Graphics 。 V-Ray 3.0, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Lightroom, Acrobat DC, AutoCAD, Lumion Physical Modeling 。 Laser Cut, 3D Print, CNC Mill, Woodshop, Vacuum Forming Video Editing 。 Adobe AfterEffects, Premiere Pro Languages 。 Mandarin, English, Taiwanese Hokkien (Minnan)

Education 2015- Master of Architecture, Syracuse University, U.S.A. 2018 。 Design studio teaching assistant (Top 5% awarded) 。 Selected Project in Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism / Architecture 2007- Bachelor of Architecture (B.Arch.), Tamkang University, Taiwan 2012 。 School representative team for Taiwan Tower Competition

Personal Info 。E-mail Klai100@syr.edu

。Phone +1 (315) 560-1373

。Portfolio https://issuu.com/kuojuilai/docs/ray_portfolio

Honors & Awards 2018 2018 2018 2017 2017 2016 2016 2014 2012

。 Saudi Design Week Exhibition, King Abdulaziz Center / Vernacular Voidscape 。 The Dar Al Uloum Library Competition 10 Finallist / Vernacular Voidscape 。 Inscriptions: Architecture Exhibition, Harvard University Graduate School of Design / The Plan is the Generator 。 Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism / Architecture (Hong Kong - Shenzhen) 。 Alfred L. Kaskel Scholarship 。 Finalist, The Secret Life of Buildings / The Plan is the Generator 。 A One-Night Stand for Art & Architecture 。 2nd Place, China Medical University Campus Planning Competition 。 Outstanding Thesis Design Award, Tamkang University / Coastal Micro Spot

Professional Experience Architect, RayLaiStudio, 2018 - Present 。 Developed SD, DD, CD, CA of “Light Box”; Yilan, Taiwan ($170,000; 5,500 sq ft; program: residential + sport clinic) Designer, Material Archi-Tectonic Research Lab (MATR LAB), 2018 。 Developed schematic design of Vernacular Voidscape; Sakakh, Saudi Arabia (65,000 sq ft; program: library) 。 Produced final competition drawings and 3D model Researcher, CEMEX Research Group + Aptum Architecture, 2016-2018 。 Developed SD, DD, landscape design of award winning Rhizolith Island “Mangrove Conservation”; Cartagena, Colombia (program: infrastructure) 。 Developed and tested mock-up of CMU Grand Syracuse Habitat Humanity; Syracuse, New York (program: residential) Designer, Hsuyuan Kuo Architecture & Associates, 2014 。 Developed schematic design of China Medical University Campus Planning; Taichung, Taiwan (1,725,000 sq ft) Designer, Jr.Gang (ar-ch) architectural research lab, 2012 。 Developed schematic design for “Butterfly Apartment” (urban regeneration project); “dynamic facade”; Taipei, Taiwan Intern, Artonics + Bau Architects, 2010 。 Developed study models of Liugui Charity Preschool, Taiwan

Academic Experience Design Studio Teaching Assistant, School of Architecture at Syracuse University / Teaching 。 Design Studio, under the mentorship of Professor Terrance Goode Graduate Teaching Assistant, School of Architecture at Syracuse University / Teaching 。 Architectural Theory, under the mentorship of Professor Britt Eversole 。 Architectural Theory & Methods, under the mentorship of Professor Mark Linder Researcher, School of Architecture at Syracuse University, with Professor Kyle Miller / SD 。 Developed drawings and models for exhibition, "The Plan is the Generator" 。 Developed drawings and models for exhibition, "A One-Night Stand for Art & Architecture."

Assistant, National Digital Archives of Historical Preservation / CD 。 Measured and digitally modeled traditional Taiwanese Temples 。 Collected, scanned and drafted traditional hand drawing documents