Issuu

2019 - current

RUN

selected work

LIN

email: daniel.lin0726@gmail.com / tel: +1 515 715 3608 / website: https://iminrun.com

Climate Action Center

Survivance Through X

An Evaluation of Inverness

Acoustic House

Soap + Paper Towel

Life After Collapse

The Vanish-ing Point

Merchandise Design

Other Projects

Short Films

CLIMATE ACTION CENTER Starting off, below are two points that inspired the following work: 1. As designers, we must acknowledge that design has a political role in society. Buildings are not neutral. Architecture without context is nonexistent, and frankly, very ignorant. 2. Climate change is happening. It is our responsibility to have the knowledge and be intent on addressing climate change and the impact it has on the world. project created with Mae Murphy / project duration: 2.5 months / project type: academic, grouped / studio class: ARCH 301 / professor: Liza Walling / recognition: finalist in the Richard F. Hansen’s Prize Competition 2020

exterior perspective / medium: rhino 3D, adobe photoshop

perspective section / hand drawing, adobe photoshop

Our project, The Climate Crisis Center, is built using prefabricated panels and locally sourced materials. These temporary structures are curated towards each site’s individual experience with climate change. The buildings are easily constructed and deconstructed, using a modular process to provide meeting spaces, equipment & storage. These spaces offer the square footage to foster a new government structure focused on placing themselves strictly within the suburban areas of the Midwest. The current community action groups advocating to implement change within sites are provided with on-site spaces to gain feedback and listen to local voices.

interior perspective / medium: hand drawing, rhino 3D, adobe photoshop

The wall panels are arranged one way to allow for more private alcove spaces, but can be pushed out to accommodate for larger group meetings. This versatility is adaptable depending on the event/program to be held within the building. This allows for the collaboration of working items and knowledge passed on from one site to 10

the next. The Climate Crisis Centers utilize transportable panels containing nontoxic materials such as cellulose fiber insulation and FSC approved formaldehyde-free plywood. This temporary government building structure advocates for specific on-site spaces to implement policies from the Green New Deal (or similar policies) to better engage the local community and obtain important feedback.

detail connections / medium: hand drawing, rhino 3D, adobe photoshop

construction process / medium: hand drawing, rhino 3D, adobe photoshop

S U R V I V A N C E

T H R O U G H

In this studio, my group and I explored the theme of survivance through various ways of making, including food, graphic art, films, theatrical performances, and fashion as encouraged by our professor. project created with Cole Benton & Katie Drewlow / project duration: 3.5 month / project type: academic, individual & grouped / studio class: ARCH 403 / professor: Mitchell Squire

In the making of this sculpture, I explore how inauthentic takes on cultural cuisine is 13

harmful

authentic

food

culture,

and

the

relationship between social hierarchies in food vs. “sustainability” project type: individual

FACTORIES OF FUTURE FEELINGS, ARCHIVES OF TOMORROW’S PASTS THAT NEVER WERE This is an unknown world, a past that disobeys logical reasoning. It is a place full of survivance.

Survivance is disobeying logical reasoning and doing things simply for the sake of doing them. In the film, we create, dance, wonder, express and act for the sake of doing so. By embracing the unknown, we can begin to create feelings of survivance in place. click here to view the film

not

merely

“survive”

architecture

school, we explored survivanace by challenging conventional 17

architecture

education.

our

final review, we attempted to break the format of the traditional architecture project review by serving homemade soup and encouraging human click here to view the final review recording

interactions during our stage performance.

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I N V E R N E S S

Critiquing a cancer treatment center inspired by cell division designed with carcinogenic building materials as a precedent study project created with Mae Murphy / project duration: 1 month / project type: academic, grouped / studio class: ARCH 301 / professor: Liza Walling

Who will be impacted in this “gamble”?

Who will get lucky and win all the chips?

Who will lose?

We spend so much money researching CURES for cancer.

We spend so much money developing products and materials that CAUSE cancer. 19

Why don’t we spend time PREVENTING cancer?

The materials we are creating are turning around and harming us in many ways.

Studies show we eat up to one credit card per day of harmful micro-plastics from teabags, and our food.

We do not know the repercussions of consumption.

medium: hand drawing, adobe photoshop

The main topic of our research is the Inverness Maggie’s Center, a part of a network of worldwide drop-in centers aiming to help anyone who has been affected by cancer. In a twist of cruel irony, the Inverness Maggie’s Center and many other Maggie’s Centers all around the world are NEGATIVELY impacting the rate of individuals who suffer from cancer. A center designed to CARE for individuals suffering from cancer is built from the very materials that often cause it.

Maggie’s Center Construction Materials The wall panels, a basic sandwich construction of timber stud with OSB boarding containing resin

with formaldehyde, have both faces fully filled with insulation or Polybrominated diphenylethers (PBDEs). These were mainly pre-fabricated prior to delivery to site and are connected at floor and roof level with continuous spliced laminated plywood chords, also containing resin with formaldehyde. Internally, the spiraling monocoque wall and roof shell form is clad with solid birch plywood fully bonded to the OSB’s internal skin and is finished with clear fire retardant lacquer containing PBDEs, which is highly carcinogenic, especially in the dust. Externally the plywood cladding is finished with a translucent wood stain to match the timber.

medium: hand drawing, adobe photoshop

produced by Run Lin & Mae Murphy

wall sections / medium: hand drawing, adobe photoshop

conceptual axon / medium: hand drawing, adobe photoshop

ACOUSTIC HOUSE We designed an ADA compliant extension of the Dia Beacon Musuem in New York that served as a performance & residential space for acoustic artists. project created with Adi Mixdorf / project duration: 2.5 month / project type: academic, grouped / studio class: ARCH 302 / professor: Pete Goché

medium: hand drawing, adobe photoshop

medium: autocad, adobe photoshop

material laboratory - felt / medium: autocad, adobe photoshop

material laboratory - metal / medium: autocad, adobe photoshop

wall sections / medium: autocad, adobe photoshop

solar analysis

SOAP + PAPER TOWEL In a bathroom/restroom, I explore the simplest patterns in nature utilizing publicly available soap + paper towels in order to observe surroundings in a flexible scale and to build new perspectives on daily life in action. project duration: 1 month / project type: academic, individual / studio class: ARCH 301 / professor: Liza Walling

medium: soap, water, paper towel

medium: soap, ink, paper towel

medium: soap, ink, paper towel, cutting board

medium: sewing, hand drawing, fabric, glue

medium: thread, pen, fabric, glue

medium: hand drawing

LIFE AFTER COLLAPSE We propose a new energy infrastructure, which lifts the existing homes, commercial zones, and civic spaces off the ground and creates an interconnected circular energy economy which capitalizes on the immense amount of agricultural land and city waste to power these previously coal dominant cities. project created with Brenna Fransen & Jihoon Kim / project duration: 2.5 month / project type: academic, grouped / studio class: ARCH 402 / professor: Andrew Gleeson & Kimberly Zarecor / recognition: honorable mention in the Warming Competition 2021, Project Published in KOOZA/RCH 2022

From the 1900s to the year 2100, we can see the sequence of how these cities previously engaged in coal mining had energy-dominant economies until they were closed off in the late 1900s. Eventually, urban

development

and

urban

sprawl took over. When these mines 41

collapse,

their

forgotten

anthropogenic past resurfaces and an elevated platform is proposed to lift existing communities from the ruins, and establish an energy infrastructure

combat

future

climate disasters. Into the year 2100, this retreat from the ground allows the land to partially regenerate, and provide habitat cover for species that cannot live in urbanized or agricultural environments.

site research / medium: adobe illustrator

medium: adobe illustrator, rhino 3D

Before the mine collapse, a significant critique of Waukee was the non-integrated zoning, which created feelings of isolation within the city. To change this, we created mixed zoning typologies. These typologies can be rearranged according to the city’s needs over time and create transitions from zone to zone by combining uses in a single zone.

energy center

mixed residential and green

green & civic

mixed commercial, residential & civic

The transportation strategy is to reduce the intersection between walkways and electric vehicle roads in order to provide a safer experience for pedestrians. The residents are also encouraged to utilize public transportation, such as elevated cable cars, and buses to reduce energy consumption.

medium: adobe illustrator, adobe photoshop, rhino 3D

The energy center addresses the coal mining past while honoring its roots in an energy economy. This new infrastructure envisions an energy economic cycle that localizes

energy

generation,

capitalizes on waste, and greatly alleviates carbon emissions. This carbon

negative

infrastructure

allows the city to give back to the land and become a precedent for other ex-mining towns to convert their energy economies to cleaner solutions. 46

street perspective

THE THE VANISH-ING VANISH-ING POINT POINT In where we seek to encourage the depolarization of ideas by offering a space for visitors to exchange differing perspectives project created with Sara Smiley / project duration: 3 months / project type: academic, grouped / studio class: ARCH 401 / professor: Andrew Gleeson

medium: rhino 3D, adobe photoshop In 2020, the social and political polarization in the US had become more transparent. Opposing sides find they do not share ideological similarities. Studies have shown that polarization stresses the fabric of society and negatively affects families, workplaces, schools, neighborhoods, religious institutions, and more. Polarization is more than disagreeing. It results in the refusal to have conversations and develop relationships with individuals who have differing views. Instead, we often create group identities. We surround ourselves with those who have similar values and segregate our communities by political party and ideology.

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medium: autocad, adobe photoshop

site collage / medium: photography, adobe photoshop

The sculpture park serves as the heart of the city of Des Moines. It is a place that

attracts

people

visit its artwork and engage with the community through various

activism

events.

The

Vanishing

Point

causes

and

alleviates

tension through the use of fragmented objects, heavy and contrasting materials, lighting, and organization of space. The long descent into the subterranean

architecture

encourages

visitors

to think deeply about what they are about to endure. The Katastwof Karavan plays irritating music that causes tension. As visitors circulate their way back to the surface, the increase of natural lighting is perceived as an element to ease tension.

Lastly,

they revisit

with the new information

they’ve

are

encouraged

with

the plaza

learned the

and

world.

buidling section / medium: revit, adobe photoshop

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medium: autocad, adobe photoshop

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medium: rhino 3D, adobe photoshop

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project commissioned by Tré Moore (ART DIRECTOR) & The Supply Hive (EVENT HOLDER)

merchandise design with 3-D modeled illustrations for a fashion show fundraisor donating to domestic abuse victims

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I as an adult attempt how kids see the world and produce art

project commissioned by The Supply Hive

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project created with Luke McDonell and commissioned by The Supply Hive

Luke & I designed and assembled a handmade wooden stand to be used in activism events hosted by The Supply Hive

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project commissioned by The Supply Hive

These stickers are used for The Supply Hive’s marketing events.

focusing on the care BY domestic laborers and the care FOR domestic laborers

project submitted to DATUM ISU

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project commissioned by Ujamaa Place & Kenna Marple

redesigning the U.S’s half dollar coin by including the Sankofa Bird and the term, E una de pluries, that means “In one, you can be many.”

A man wakes up in a bathtub not remembering what happened last night. | The Door Knob click here to view the film

A man grapples with his trauma while trying to fall asleep. | The Door Knob: Life Goes On click here to view the film

The Vanish-ing Point click here to view the film

me-asurement click here to view the film

human’s attempt of wildness click here to view the film

COVID AI click here to view the film

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