Weeney Lin Design Portfolio 2023

Hello!

My name is Weeney Lin and I am a recent Master of Architecture graduate. I am passionate about designresearch, human-centred design systems and visual storytelling. Collected here are a series of selected projects and work(design, research and visualization) from the past few years at Architecture school as well as a sample of some work I completed at previous workplaces. Thank you for checking out my work!

e. linweeney@gmail.com

t. 647-527-5277

Curriculum Vitae

Teaching Assistant ARCH 173 Building Construction, University of Waterloo

M.Arch, Unverisity of Waterloo School of Architecture

B.A.S, Unverisity of Waterloo School of Architecture Influencer Society of Waterloo Architecture Graduates

Skills and Qualifications

> Revit

> Autocad

> Rhino

> Sketchup

> Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign

> Enscape, Vray

> HTML, CSS, Python

> Digital Fabrication (Laser cutting, 3D Printing)

> LEED Green Associate

> Mandarin (limited working proficiency)

> Learning-on-the-fly

> Critical problem solving

01

Passages

December 2020

4A Comprehensive Building Studio Final

The 4A Comprehensive Building Studio had students design a dialog and reconciliation center in the heart of Toronto in which the key program was a series of meeting rooms of varying sizes where conflicting groups could meet to reach agreements and harmony. In order for productive, compassionate dialog to take place between conflicting parties, it is important each participant be given space and time to process, take stances and form arguments to bring to the discussion. In this vein, Passages is a building that takes its occupants on a varying sensory journey where occupants are allowed to “pass” through different atmospheric and/ or programmatic zones as a method of providing buffer and repose, making way for healing and clarity. This idea posits that the physical journey to and between dialogues is almost as crucial to the process as the dialogue itself.

Individual Design Project

All visualizations created in Rhino, Vray and Photoshop

View of breakout balcony space

View of front entrance and courtyard

View of ground floor hallway and elevator waiting area

METAL PARAPET FLASHING

TAPERED RIGID INSULATION

FULLY SELF-ADHERED WATER AND AIR MEMBRANE

ROOF PARAPET

VERTICAL TERRACOTTA TILE SIDING

- CONNECTED TO STRUCTURE

VIA HAT CHANNEL FASTENED TO 8" CASCADIA CLIP

45 MM AIRSPACE

3x 2" EPS RIGID INSULATION

SELF-ADHERED AIR AND WATER BARRIER

5-PLY CLT WALL

FULLY ADHERED ROOFING MEMBRANE

1x 2" EPS RIGID INSULATION

WATERPROOF WOOD BOARD

SCREWS

CONCEALED METAL KNIFE PLATE

TIGHT FIT SELF DRILLING DOWELS

ALUMINUM WINDOW HEAD TRIM OAK WINDOW HEAD TRIM

LOW-E COATED ARGON FILLED DOUBLE GLAZED WINDOW

OAK INTERIOR WINDOW SILL

ALUMINUM WINDOW SILL

CANTILEVERED FLOOR

PINE FIR TONGUE AND GROOVE WOOD SIDING

- CONNECTED TO STRUCTURE VIA HAT CHANNEL FASTENED TO 8" CASCADIA CLIP

3x 2" EPS RIGID INSULATION

SELF ADHERED WATER AIR AND VAPOUR MEMBRANE

215 X 380 MM CANTILEVERED

GLULAM BEAM (CUT BEYOND)

5-PLY CLT FLOOR PANEL WARMBOARD WITH ROUTED PLYWOOD BASE, METAL CONDUCTIVE LAYER AND PVC PIPES

TONGUE AND GROVE RED OAK FLOOR FINISH

North wall roof and parapet enclosure detail

DRAIN PIPE FROM ABOVE DRAINS RAINWATER INTO PLANTERS

DRAIN PIPE FROM ABOVE DRAINS RAINWATER INTO PLANTERS

GREEN ROOF 2

MEDIUM SIZE SHRUBS (EX. LAVENDER BUSH)

300 MM PLANTING MEDIUM

FILTER FABRIC

DRAINAGE LAYER

0.5 MM ROOT BARRIER

FULLY-ADHERED ROOFING MEMBRANE

3x 2" EPS RIGID INSULATION

SELF-ADHERED AIR AND WATER BARRIER

5-PLY CLT FLOOR

PRESSURE TREATED LUMBER PLANK BEYOND FOR SEATING

METAL PLATE WELDED TO STEEL ANGLE

GRAVEL FILLED MAINTENANCE STRIP

DRAIN EXTENDS THROUGH ENVELOPE TOWARDS THE NORTH INTO MAIN GARDEN

HAT CHANNEL FASTENED TO C CHANNEL TO HOLD LOUVER AXIS IN PLACE

HAT CHANNEL IS SCREWED TO METAL PLATE WHICH IS CONNECTED TO STRUCTURE VIA CASCADIA CLIP

TYPICAL WALL

VERTICAL TERRACOTTA TILE SIDING

- CONNECTED TO STRUCTURE VIA HAT CHANNEL FASTENED TO 8" CASCADIA CLIP AIRSPACE

3 x 2" EPS RIGID INSULATION

SELF-ADHERED AIR AND WATER BARRIER

5-PLY CLT WALL

TYPICAL FLOOR TONGUE AND GROOVE RED OAK FLOOR FINISH

WARMBOARD WITH ROUTED PLYWOOD BASE, METAL CONDUCTIVE LAYER AND PVC PIPES

5-PLY CLT FLOOR

215 X 380 MM GLULAM BEAM (BEYOND)

CLT FLOOR AND WALLS ARE CONNECTED WITH CONCEALED KNIFE PLATES SCREWED INTO FLOOR AND THEN INSERTED INTO WALLS, TIGHTFIT DOWELS ARE THEN DRILLED THROUGH WALLS

Night view from Southeast

Social Theatre

April 2019

3A Studio Final

This project envisions a new kind of student housing built around formal and informal theatre spaces as a means of generating social collectivity at York University in Ontario. York University is home to the oldest film school in Canada, including studies in cinema and media, production and screen-writing. To further the engagement between York’s film and theatre department with the rest of the campus and general public, production and performance spaces are readily accessible at different and nested scales. The main theatre is a formal collective space to project films and watch performances by students and travelling productions alike. The inner courtyard serves as an informal companion space to the theatre where the theatricality of life is most visible and experienced.

Individual Design Work

All drawings created in Rhino and Illustrator

Exterior Facade

Interior Facade

All drawings created in Rhino and Illustrator

Section Perspective A-A

Fluvial Flood Park

August 2018

2B Studio Final

Located on the site of a former quarry in Brantford, Ontario, this sports and recreation park embraces the annual seasonal flooding of the Grand RIver and uses it vitalize the wetland ecosystem. Existing ponds in the land (which are too shallow to stay all year long) are made into permanent ponds by digging deeper into the watershed. This, along with new depressions dug into the land surrounding it will help inundate and thus, nurture the otherwise barren lanscape in the area into a lush, healthy oasis. The site strategy can be imagined as bands of programmatic/ecological activity ranging from a band of forest near the edge of the subdivision to a band of sports programming (tennis, beach volleyball) to a band characterized by riverside recreational activities (kayaking, fishing).

Individual Design Project

All visualizations created in Rhino, Illustrator and Photoshop

Access Points

Forest

Sports Fields

Proposed Flood Ponds/Creek

Wetland

Forest

Fishing/Canoe

seating area

A. Entrance Pavilion

B. Non-motorized Boat Launch

canoe/kayak storage

C.

E.

D.

F.

Playgrounds Swimming Pool

Fishing Platform

Tree Canopy Walk

View of entrance pavilion

View of boat launch area

Chinatown as Heterotopia

Thesis Work

Sept 2021- Dec 2022

Supervised by Val Rynnimeri

Commitee member: Adrian Blackwell

Internal: Fiona Lim Tung

External: Mark Sterling

This thesis studies the historical and present roles that culture plays in the formation of cities by analyzing the evolution of North American Chinatowns as heterotopias within the city throughout the cultural and social milieu of the 20th century. The thesis will draw on stories from various North American Chinatowns to establish an evolutionary theory before applying the theory to a focused case study of Toronto’s Chinatown(s). It uses deep archival research to uncover visual and demographic information from various stages of Chinatown’s growth, and is supported with mapping, drawing and photography. The thesis aims to contribute to a greater, historically-rooted understanding of the underlying forces of gentrification in Chinatown, as well as demonstrate the inherent value of Chinatown as a home, community and cultural space.

Link to full thesis: https://uwspace.uwaterloo.ca/handle/10012/19041

Visual reconstruction of the common split-level retail typology in Toronto’s Chinatown West. Modelled in Rhino and lineweighted in Illustrator

The thesis proposes that Chinatowns began as a heterotopia defined by its difference in rules, customs, language and population from the rest of the city (heterotopia of difference), but due to the changing role of culture in cities under post-industrialism, it is now a heterotopia defined by a theme-park like manufactured façade of cultural products, that threatens to displace communities that depend on it for survival (theme park heterotopia). Concurrently, bringing together both existing sociological and ethnocultural studies of Chinatowns as ethnic enclaves as well as critical analyses of the treatment of Chinatown in film and other artifacts, it follows two contrasting ideas: the perception of Chinatown from the outside, and the reality of Chinatown as a community. Pictured right is a series of maps showing the displacement of several Chinatowns in the U.S. which is one of several factors that encouraged the widespread commodification of Chinese cultural products in Chinatown.

Theory diagram explaining evolution of North American Chinatowns

Breakdown of Heterotopia of Difference vs Theme Park Heterotopia

Chicago

Displacement Maps of Four Chinatowns in USA

Washington D.C.

Los Angeles Philadelphia

Visual reconstruction of the Nanking Tavern, one of the ‘Big Four’ Chinese restaurants in Toronto’s First Chinatown. Modelled in Rhino and lineweighted in Illustrator.

{{qvr}}

Work for F_RMlab for DesignTO 2023 (January 2023)

In collaboration with the F_RMlab team including: Adrian Chiu, Chiun Lee, Justin Park, Deepakshi Mittal, Diana Si, Jessica Jia, Maeve Wang, Jack Havel, Dua Junaid, Dorcas Ng, William Guinane

{{qvr}} is an exploration in evoking life-like behaviours and emotions through material, movement and human interaction. Inspired by subtle cues in nature such as the rustle of leaves in a bush or the stirring of grass, the organisms become animated and quivers at the passing of people across the window. To quiver is to slightly and rapidly tremble in response to a sudden strong emotion – fear and sadness being common triggers. ‘{{qvr}}’ is a show of both surprise and fascination and also of longing. As the interaction occurs, the glass window separating viewer and installation becomes a divider, reminiscent of the layers of plexiglass screens (both physical and digital) and car windows through which the the collective population interacted across en masse over the course of the past two years.

F_RMlab is a design and research collective engaged in advanced computational design tools in support of new paradigms of public space where dynamic interaction, social responsiveness and regenerative materials are integral goals in building. F_RMlab promotes computational discourse and media through the University of Waterloo School of Architecture through the process of collaborative design and experimentation in real-world projects. As codirector, I helped produce the initial design proposal for {{qvr}} and later led weekly design meetings with the wider team where we designed and prototyped the materiality and construction of the forms, assigned tasks and managed scheduling, as well as coordinated the logistics surrounding installation and tear down.

Diagram showing interaction element of {{qvr}}, included in initial proposal package for DesignTO

Speculative visualization submitted as cover image for installation’s online listing, modelled in Rhino rendered in Enscape.

HOK Architects

4 month Co-Op

May 2019 - August 2019

Toronto

Projects: Toronto Pearson Airport T3 Redevelopment Project (Interiors)

As an architectural assistant at HOK Architects, I assisted the lead interior designer on rapidly iterating design concepts for the Toronto Pearson Airport T3 redevelopment project. This consisted of modelling and remodelling new additions and changes in the existing terminal in Rhino, producing renders in Enscape, creating diagrams in illustrator and putting together presentation decks for client presentations. I also assisted in researching, selecting and ordering interior finishes and green wall samples for design testing.

A series of quick work-in-progress renders produced from Rhino and V-ray to visualize a new design concept for a stair well in T3 departures.

HLW

4 month Co-Op

September 2018 - December 2018

Manhattan

During my time at HLW, I assisted in various design teams in the base building studio to prepare presentation packages, diagrams and renders, most notably of a university expansion project in New York City. As a side project I also produced a large ‘as-constructed’ enclosure detail of 90 Columbus, a newly finished residential tower in Jersey City, where I detailed the enclosure as close as possible to the way it was built by consulting shop drawings.

Projects: Fordham University Expansion Charter Communications Headquarters

View of northwest corner of 90 Columbus

‘As constructed’ enclosure detail of 90 Columbus

Render of Fordham University Expansion

Render of Fordham University Expansion

Render of Charter Communications Headquarters