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ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO / 2019 - 2020

ROMI JIN SELECTED WORKS 2019 - 2020

CONTENTS

00 CONTENTS & BIOGRAPHY

00 CURRICULUM VITAE

0 1 T R A N S F O R M AT I O N O F WA S T E

02 HUMANIZING BRUTALISM

03 ECO-MORPHOLOGY

BIOGRAPHY ROMI JIN , 22

Born

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Yo r k

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studying

Pittsburgh.

Fifth-year student pursuing a major in Architecture and a minor i n H u m a n - C o m p u t e r I n t e r a c t i o n a t C a r n e g i e M e l l o n U n i v e r s i t y. Interest in the potential of architecture to improve and discover solutions to worldwide issues, the integration of architecture with every other field, the simple yet contradictory nature of architecture. Curiosities include drawing, painting, designing, traveling, readi n g , p h o t o g r a p h y, m u s i c , a n i m a l s , f o o d , c o ff e e , a r c h i t e c t u r e .

R O M I J I N

CONTAC T

personal: romij223@gmail.com academic: rsjin@andrew.cmu.edu cell: 1.646.825.0761 l o c at i o n : n e w y o r k , n e w y o r k

SKILLS

[ d igita l] Adobe Creative Cloud - Illustrator - Photoshop - InDesign AutoDesk - AutoCAD - Revit - BIM 360 - 3ds Max - Fusion 360 Rhinoceros - Grasshopper - V-Ray - Enscape - D I VA Ve c t o r w o r k s Javascript (p5) M i c r o s o f t O ff i c e S u i t e

[ c o n s tru c tio n ] Laser-cutting 3D-printing Heat-shrinking Wo o d - w o r k i n g Model-making

[ la n gu a ge ] English • fluent Mandarin • proficient Japanese • learning Spanish • learning

EDUCATION

C a r n e g i e M e l l o n U n i v e r s i t y, y P i t t s b u r g h , PA 2 0 1 6 - M a y 2 0 2 1 [ a n t i c i p at e d ] Bachelorâ€™s of Architecture Minor in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) T h e H e w i t t S c h o o l , N e w Yo r k , N Y 2011 - 2016

EXPERIENCE

Stantec Inc., Honolulu, Hawaii 2019, Architecture Intern C o n c e n t r a t e d o n h e a l t h c a r e a r c h i t e c t u r e a n d a s s i s t e d w i t h p r o d u c i n g d r aw ings and diagrams for a hospital master plan. A p o l l o A r c h i t e c t s , To k y o , J a p a n 2018, Architecture Intern Concentrated on several residential projects and assisted with producing m o d e l s , d r aw i n g s a n d r e n d e r i n g s . A l - H a m a d D e s i g n S t u d i o , B r o o k l y n , N e w Yo r k 2017, Design Intern A s s i s t e d w i t h d e s i g n w o r k f o r p r o d u c t p r o p o s a l s , c o n t r i b u t i n g d r aw i n g s a n d 3 D r e p r e s e n t a t i o n s ; i n a dd i t i o n , p r e p a r e d 3 D p r i n t f i l e s f o r p r o t o t y p e s .

HONORS

Scholastic Gold Key, photography 2 0 1 4 , d i s p l a y e d i n t h e M e t r o p o l i t a n M u s e u m o f A r t , N e w Yo r k , N Y S c h o l a s t i c S i l v e r K e y, y poetry 2014 Scholastic Honorable Mention, photography 2014 D r e x e l U n i v e r s i t y, y photography 2 0 1 4 , ex h i b i t i o n a c c e p t a n c e

w h a t : Sustainable Megastructures

w h e r e : P i e r 5 2 - 5 3 , N e w Yo r k , N e w Yo r k

w h e n : September - December 2020

0 1 . TRANSFORMATION OF WASTE [JUXTAPOSE, NET POSITIVE SPECULATIONS ON THE 21st CENTURY CITY] Waste products of industrial economies and growing populations increasingly stress our e n v i r o n m e n t , c a u s i n g p o l l u t i o n , w h i c h a ff e c t s o u r h e a l t h a n d d e g r a d e s t h e e n v i r o n m e n t , and climate change, resulting in rising sea levels and more extreme weather. These factors collide in the New York City waterfront where storm surges cause damaging flooding around marine transfer stations which export the cityâ€™s 20,000 tons of daily waste. Yet these areas are among the most economically desirable development sites in one of the planetâ€™s most vibrant megacities. In collaboration with Vanshika Gandotra, we are proposing an integrated waste treatment plant that will define water as a means of transport, eliminating a signficant amount of trucks that would be needed to export residential trash and, therefore, decrease harmful greenhouse gas emissions and pollutants produced by those 2,500 collection trucks. The propsal comprises three main waste-management facilities: a floating immobile wastewater treatment plant along with a sludge treatment center, a floating co-generation plant that collects municipal solid waste from a network of sites, and an adjacent supporting material recovery facility. Wa(s)terlily has responded with both a humanistic and experiential approach to waste processing. By combining separate cohorts together, including blue-collar and white-collar workers as well as local residents and tourists, the proposal juxtaposes them with essential infrastructure functions that have a negative stigma associated with physical proximity to the waste systems. The Wa(s)terlily provides a framework for self-sustaining sites to operate through a network of modular systems, extending past the island of Manhattan to be situated on any coast or waterfront, creating global marine networks of trash transport and water purification. Through fleets of variously sized CSO collectors, any body of water can be purified, and through fleets of variously sized incinerators, the transport of trash and the process of cogeneration can become s i g n i f i c a n t l y m o r e e ff i c i e n t . P l a c i n g o u r s i t e a n d t h e s c o p e o f t h e s e t w o d e t r i m e n t a l issues in a larger context, we can anticipate how these systems can create a vast global network to work towards a sustainable future through self-sustaining cities.

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Aquarium Main Level

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C O-GENERATION (IN CIN ER AT ION )

1. Main Bunker 2. Overhead Crane / Feed Hopper 3 . C r a n e Te c h n i c a l R o o m 4 . M a r t i n G r at e 5. Boiler 6 . B o t t o m A s h D i s c h a r ge r 7 . S u p e r h e at e r s 8. Economizer 9. Air Cooled Condenser 1 0 . A s h D u m p & S t o r a ge

WASTEWATER 1 . P r e t r e at m e n t a. Bar Screening b. Grit Chamber 2 . P r i m a r y T r e at m e n t a . P r i m a r y C l a r i fi e r s 3 . S e c o n d a r y T r e at m e n t a . A e r at i o n Ta n k s b . S e c o n d a r y C l a r i fi e r s 4. Disinfection 5 . D i s c h a r ge

M ATE R IAL RECOV E RY 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.

Tipping Hall S h r e d de r s T r o mm e l s B al l i st i c S e pa r at e r O p t i c al S or t i n g U n i t s E dd i e Cu r r e nt S e p a r at e r O p t i c al P l a s t i c S or t U n i t s R e c yc l i n g Ex por t

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1. Whitney Museum of American Art 2. The Standard, High Line 3. Highline 4. FDNY Marine 1 Fire Station 5. Pier 55 Little Island 6. Truck Entry (Gated) 7. Garbage Truck Unloading Area 8. Semi-Truck Unloading Area 9. DEP/DSNY/FDNY Staff Entry 10. Private Employee Garden 11. Museum (Public) Staff Entry 12. DEP/DSNY/FDNY Administrative Offices 13. Museum (Public) Administrative Offices

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Our proposed design is a mobile coastal waste collector and purifier. It is a buoyant structure designed to mitigate the effects of NYCâ€™s trash and CSO problems. In a man-made world threatened by overwhelming amounts of waste, this design draws inspiration from one of nature's finest coastal water and air purifiers, the Water Lily. Just as the waterlilyâ€™s roots are anchored to the ground while it floats and gathers nutrients, our design proposal collects waste from around Manhattan that is then processed to generate power and other byproducts. Hierarchically relating to function, the largest petals are the wastewater treatment plant and the cogeneration boat with the smallest being the connecting bridges.

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Ma in P u b lic Entry 1. Main Pedestrian Entry 2. Main Bikeway Entry 3. Secondary Pedestrian Entry 4. Secondary Bikeway Entry 5. Bike Storage (Racks) 6. Vestibule 7. Info Desk / Lounge Area 8. Water Lily Exhibit 9. Entry to Wastewater Plant Tour 10. Desert Habitat Exhibit 11. Entry to Cogneration Boat Tour 12. Cafe 13. Kitchen 14. Storage 15. Entry to FDNY Museum 16. Tropical Rainforest Exhibit 17. Entry to Aquarium 18. Gift Shop

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The Waterlily is a space where nature’s bounties and man’s squander are in conversation with each

ble waste management practices are not implemented. Level 1 houses the infrastructural uses: the

as well as administrative offices for the Waterlily Conservatory, Aviary, Aquarium and Museum. Leve complement the waste treatment tours they are adjacent to. For instance, there is a desert habitat

sewage treatment plant tour. This level also houses the info desk, gift shop and cafe. Level 3 is hom

conservatory, as well as bridges to the green roofs. The plant offers a passive recreational park that park. Level 4 is home to the aviary, and Level 5 is home to the bird habitat walkway.

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other. The aquarium is located underwater and features aquatic life that will be extinct if responsi-

e floating DEP Wastewater Treatment Plant, the mobile DSNY Co-generation boat, the FDNY building

el 2 is the main public entry level. Here, visitors can find the different conservatory exhibits that adjacent to the FDNY museum, as well as a waterlily pond and tropical plant exhibit adjacent to the

me to labs, bridges to the adjacent Whitney Museum and the High Line, foliage level walkways for the

t is also accessible to the public through an outdoor stair as well as a produce garden and sculpture

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From the Gansevoort Destructor in the 1950s to this century’s modernized waste infrastructure, th change. The Integrated Waste Treatment Plant, housing Material Recovery, Co-generation and Sewag facility with tours of the different waste systems, a conservatory, a freshwater aquarium, an aviary, passive recreational park. In New York City alone, the Department of Sanitation (DSNY) handles approximately 12,000 tons commercial). To deal with the overwhelming amount of trash produced, the city relies on a complex w

and a diverse network of facilities at far distances for example, landfills as far as 600 miles. In add

end up in the rivers surrounding NYC each year, causing detrimental water pollution to NYC waters

proximately 60% of the city contributing to this issue. Near the site are five Combined Sewer Overfl

Separate mobile plants will collect trash from neighborhood residences and plug into CSOs all a plant on-site and be able to treat collected blackwater from the CSOs and on-site greywater from ou around the coast, with dynamic petals that angle towards the sun to collect solar energy, powering t

Level 5 - Bird Habitat 82’ 0”

Level 4 - Aviary 62’ 0” Level 3 - Laboratories 42’ 0” Level 2 - Conservatory Incinerator Tour 20’ 0” Level 1 - Aquarium, Admin, Waste Infrastructure 0’ 0”

wastewater treatment plant interior

co-generation plant interior

loading dock & view of fdny museum

he project reimagines the eraâ€™s manufacturing and industrial past as a self-sustaining catalyst for e Treatment Facilities, serves as a mobile public landmark and amenity, providing an educational a museum to the FDNY building on-site, a mobile produce garden, an outdoor sculpture garden, and a

of garbage per day, and this number only accounts for half of the city's total trash (residential and aste-management system encompassing three modes of transport, namely, trucks, trains, and barges,

dition to the city's trash problem, more than 20 billion gallons of raw sewage and polluted runoff

s. This harms marine wildlife and creates dirty bodies of water filled with untreated sewage, with ap-

lows that produce a total of 28 million gallons of sewage overflow per year.

around the coast on a set schedule. Sewage will be treated at the stationary wastewater treatment r ancillary programs. These CSO pearls can be sized accordingly and be plugged into any of the CSOs he movement of the pearls.

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WATERLOO BRIDGE

w h a t : Humanizing Brutalism

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w h e r e : Southbank Centre, London, UK

w h e n : January - May 2020

HUMANIZING BRUTALISM

[COALESCE, LONDON’S SOUTHBANK CENTRE IN THE 21st CENTURY] Two of London’s defining characteristics are its physical legacy of post-war brutalist architecture and its cultural tradition of English drama. This studio explores the seminal integration of these two art forms at London’s landmark Southbank Centre and study how they may be adapted, reinterpreted, and further developed to serve the needs and capitalize on the technological opportunities of the 21st Century. This semester-long individual project addresses the design of a flexible 500-seat performance chamber, with the goal of symbiotically integrating the existing venues and transforming the Centre’s identity. Focuses are master planning the Centre’s expansion, building design, and morphology of form and surface holistically. The view of the studio is that critical practice is defined as ‘how to make a real building’. The design focus of the studio is also; conceptual, sustainable, urban, and comprehensive, accompanied by interdisciplinary collaboration with drama, arts management, and lighting departments. My project directly addresses and attempts to place emphasis on the beauty of London’s Waterloo Bridge. The bridge has played a seminal role in the country’s history, industry, and culture. Through the commemoration and victories of wars, the advancement during the Industrial Revolution, and its austere and simple architecture alongside the Southbank Centre, the name Waterloo holds a lot of significance for the city of London. The bridge also houses some hidden history; though largely undocumented, Waterloo is also referred to as “The Ladies’ Bridge”, as much of the workforce was female during WWII. The presence of females in a centre largely built by males (Royal Festival Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall, and Hayward Gallery) should not be unaccounted for; it should be represented and glorified, just as the bridge has been. Representing both hidden and apparent beauty, the Waterloo Bridge can easily become the new center of the center of arts and culture in London, ameliorating the lack of communication between the existing buildings and, quite literally, bridging the gap between these cultural hubs. Gilbert Scott’s intention to bring “lightness and sweetness” to the underside of the bridge should be paralleled in its dynamic site context as well, extending the structure and its femininity into Southbank Centre.

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THEATRE

By opening up the Southbank Centre from the east, where the National Theatre is located, a new entry is

stair that leads down to the Southbank Centre from the bridge, and an isolated entry connected by long, win the chambers of the Purcell Room and Queen Elizabeth Hall. In addition, by removing the walkways in bet was formed. After rearranging and organizing the House and Front of House programmatic elements, I placed Back

House programming. And finally, to create a significant and beautiful facade, I placed an undulating roof above th

s created directly from the Waterloo Bridge. The existing access from the bridge is one small, disconnected

nding walkways of different heights. Following this new entry, I placed the House next, directly adjacent to ween the Hayward Gallery and Queen Elizabeth Hall, a central public axis perpendicular to the House of House underneath the House on Level 0, which provides convenient access to the Queen Elizabeth Hallâ€™s Back of

he entire program organization, with skylights where the Front of House would benefit from continuous daylighting.

HOUSE SECTION (DAY) By creating a large, open lobby and foyer / public axis that aims to accommodate not just one,

that reads as a new facade, an inviting and intriguing communal space is formed. This space

Level 0 consists solely back of house, including a loading dock near that of Purcell Hallâ€™s, access to Qu

Level 1 addresses novel connections to (1) Queen Elizabeth Hallâ€™s lobby to the new ly added walkway in the center of the site, with landscaping to ameliorate its unused, undesira lery by largely opening up the existing lobby and expanding the restauant into the new lobby. T 32

but multiple, buildings, underneath a largely double height space and one undulating roof above serves the public, providing a pleasant environment to walk through, relax in, or buy a ticket at.

ueen Elizabeth Hallâ€™s Back of House, and an abundant amount of storage as necessary for Back of House.

foyer with its main entrance right around the corner, (2) Royal Festival Hall by a newble space, (3) Purcell Hall by two altered entries into the house, and finally, (4) Hayward GalThese connections will be maintained by a singular box office to serve all adjacent programming. 33

SECTION (EVENING) SE ATIN G CON F IGURATION S (Flexi ble T he at re A rra ng e m e nt s - 5 )

ARENA CHAMBER (500 seats)

ENDSTAGE CHAMBER (396 seats)

PROSCENIU (180

UM CHAMBER seats)

THRUST CHAMBER (404 seats)

REHEARSAL CHAMBER (0 seats)

LOBBY (7:00AM)

FOYER (3:00PM)

FOYER (5:00PM)

PRIMARY ENTRY (8:00AM)

ENTRY (4:00PM)

PRIMARY ENTRY (8:00AM)

ENTRY (4:00PM)

SECONDARY ENTRY (3:00PM)

ENTRY (7:00PM)

SECONDARY ENTRY (3:00PM)

ENTRY (7:00PM)

FROM GRAND STAIR (6:00AM)

UPPER MEZZANINE (12:00PM)

FROM GRAND STAIR (6:00AM)

FROM HAYWARD LOBBY (6:00PM)

PATRON’S LOUNGE (6:00PM)

FROM HAYWARD LOBBY (6:00PM)

PATRON’S LOUNGE (6:00PM)

The site proved to be an extremely tight, constricted area to build around. My approach to this was (1) to preserve as much as possible and (2) to expand the spaces nearby instead of eli

By merging the existing spaces together, one continuous space is created, instead of a foreign object that is r By choosing to create an elevation change, the surrounding buildings and entries are unified. The new proposal in and the secondary entry from the slightly lower elevated walkway.

The new platform intends to connect Purcell Hall, Hayward Gallery, Queen Elizabeth Hall, and Royal Festival Hall,

iminating them.

randomly fixed into the site. ntroduces two new entries; the primary entry from the Waterloo Bridge,

, all on one level.

Site Plan

w h a t : Environment, Form, and Feedback

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w h e r e : Sixmile Island, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

w h e n : September - December 2018

ECO-MORPHOLOGY

[ FLOW, ENVIRONMENT, FORM, AND FEEDBACK: WATER COMMUNITIES ] This project attempts a discussion of converging social and environmental practices to fabricate ecological housing, rejecting the argument that these issues are separate and instead supporting the claim of a symbiotic relationship. It garners attention t o w a r d s t h e e ff e c t o f n a t u r a l a n d i n f r a s t r u c t u r a l w a t e r p a t t e r n s o n a r c h i t e c t u r a l o b j e c t s , and my project focuses on the agenda to foster a community while simultaneously adapting an ecological component in an urban setting. My design is formulated upon a potential solution for the improvement of water quality, both around the given site (Sixmile Island and the neighborhood of Sharpsburg) and any other applicable body of water. The issue of Combined Sewer Overflows (CSOs) and pollution of chemicals in water bodies is an increasing problem in the world as the population is dramatically increasing and available resources for freshwater is thereforce quickly becoming scarce. In my design, by the filtration through distribution applied by a system of tubing, I have combined private and public, housing and recreation, that congregate in terms of collection and use of clean water for various and readily available use. In addition, the visibility of the pipes from all over the site allows for the public to acknowledge and understand a significant ecological process.

initial mesh created from site analysis placement of housing units determine the high and low points one large membrane to include both public and private spaces high points: water heating and collection areas low points: clean water reservoirs, public space and entry

piping system created from initial enveloping double-tiered piping hierarchy: s m a l l e r p i p e s f o r fi l t e r i n g w a t e r larger pipes for cleaned water

plastic tubes created from contour lines of mesh water tanks are inserted and connected to the rest of the tubing process is as follows: water intake from allegheny river to the solar-heated water tanks, which is then distributed through the larger piping system and eventually enters housing units

fl o a t i n g w o o d e n r a f t t h a t s u p p o r t s t h e h o u s i n g u n i t s a n d fi l t r a t i o n s y s t e m t w o c o n s t r u c t e d w e t l a n d s t o s l o w d o w n w a t e r fl o w eighteen housing units in total

public axis along the center two clean water reservoirs stairs on each pair of housing units to lead up to the shared courtyards (green roofs) p l a s t i c b a r r e l fl o a t e r s t o s u p p o r t t h e b u o y e n c y o f t h e r a f t

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06. Large Housing Unit

to Sixmile island, creating a central public axis in

03. Central Reservoir

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between two clusters of small and large housing units,

04. Shared Courtyard Entry

08. Boat Dock / Storage

which are connected by a series of shared green roofs.

p u b l i c c i rc u l a t i o n t h ro u g h p a r k s , m a r k e t , a n d c a f e s e m i - p r i v at e c i rc u l a t i o n o n s h a re d c o u r t ya rd s p a c e

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Section & Flow

water intake from allegheny river

Sectional Axonometric

thank you.