Lien-Kuang Yeh Portfolio

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Pa r t A: Pro fes s i o n a l P ro j e c t

Cloudgate Dance Theater P.4

Jiaoxi Mingde Disciplinary Training Center P.12

Hotel Borgo Chianti in Toscany P.14

Lon-En Canal Park P.15

Yilan Esl ite Bookstore P.16

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Cloud Gate Dancing Theater Professional Project at Fieldoffice Architects Theater, Office, Workshop, Education, and Tourist Center New construction, Extension, and Renovation 2009 - 2015 (completion)

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Position:

Project architect, leader of a 5-people team, Construction Supervisor

Interval:

2010 May - 2015 October

Site Area:

3.62 acre

GFA:

95,239 sq ft.

Cost:

25 million US dollars

Contribution: Schematic Design Detail Development Construction Document Landscape design Interior design On-site constructon supervision Change-order document Handover process

Historical Site Public Outdoor Theater

Merging into Landscape / Open to Public

Theater / Rehearsal

This project dealt with both complex programming and intricate site contexts. We placed the theater among tree crowns and put office and workshop on lower floors, making those spaces link to the different level ground floors in this hillside land. We left a huge outdoor space for the public, this modest humble blanking also gave the view for the nearby historical site.

Office 5

Site

Outdoor Theater

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Site Plan

Upper left : 1:100 physical model, the public outdoor theater in front of the building Middle left : 1:100 physical model shows each floor's program: workshop office, public passage, theater Lower left: 1:200 and 1:100 physical study models

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Top: East elevation Middle left: West elevation Middle right and bottom: Section A - A'

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Top: Theater level Bottom: Office spaces in lower levels Right: Guest room and green room(dancer's preparing room)

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Supervision and Change Order Because of many political issues between the government and the client, this theater had 33 major change orders and 238 minor change orders, and most of them were happening during the construction period. That meant I had to know clearly every single part of the construction and its schedule, so I could inform, push, or refuse design alterations requested from the clients. That also meant I got to supervise in the day time and designed and prepared documents in the night.

This unusual experience equipped me with the ability to deal with complicated cases.

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BIM integration Due to the complication of this spatial truss structure, BIM was necessary from the detail design to shop drawings. Sketches are my revision on the shop drawing inspection.

Photos show how hard the crane work on the construction site: two cranes delivered each truss piece in the air in order to pass the existing memorial building.

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roof construction: 0.6 mm sheet copper batten-seam covering 6 mm fiber-net for ventilating 1.5 mm self-stick bituminous carpet sealing layer 1mm galvanized sheet steel 0.4 mm GS800 corrugated galvanized sheet steel 75/50/50/1.2 mm steel Z-beam 50 mm rockwool thermal insulation 0.4 mm galvanized sheet steel 150/9 mm calcium silicate board strips 50 mm glass wool thermal insulation 1.2 mm steel deck

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structural I-beam 5

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60/33 mm cypress strips with Vaton coating and

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ceiling construction: with visible screw fixing 12/2.5 mm cypress boards with Vaton coating

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40/80 mm structural cypress beams

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steel I-beam of truss 300 mm deep

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8/0.76/8 double glazing with light-reflect membrane

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3 mm sheet aluminum bent to shape screw and silicon fixing

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100 mm rockwool for fire obstruction 1.6 mm sheet aluminum 3 mm sheet aluminum bent to shape screw and silicon fixing 6

floor construction: 10 mm epoxy finishing and cement leveling 150 mm reinforce concrete on 1.52 mm steel deck structural I-beam

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stucco washing finishing

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30 mm peak parquet 35/25 wood beam

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steel I-beam 300/200/8/12 mm

10 180/25 AluCo-wood boards parquet 50/25 AluCo-wood beams two layers C-beam bent to shape 100/50/20/2.8 mm 11 dormer construction: galvanized grid with 7/4 mm I-steel and 8 mm twisted steel 8/0.76/8 double glazing with light-reflect membrane aluminum window frame structural tube 125/50/4.5 mm 12 15/12/15 double glazing with air gap 11

Jiaoxi Mingde Disciplinary Training Center Professional Project at Fieldoffice Architects Memorial Park, Cultural Center New construction and Renovation (Phase 1) 2017 - Present

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Position:

Project architect, leader of a 4-people team

Interval:

2017 February - May

Site Area:

14.15 acre

Cost:

401 thousand US dollars

Contribution:

Schematic Design, Detail Development, Construction Document

Genius Loci Drafting The project aimed to transform a once closed military camp into a public space. The core of designing this governmental-programing-undetermined project is to suggest a backbone that can support various future possibilities.

Here we proposed a strong relinking bringing daily city life to the area's gradually losing genius loci of Jiaoxi Mountain.

Site plan

Jiaoxi mountain

From Design to Execution The main challenge for me is to finish the Phase 1 drawing set in a short time because the government had to spend their annual budget before luna new year.

I led a team to research, propose concepts, and determine the design strategy.

Later on, I finished all the DD and CD work by myself. The process showed my precision of design decision making and the ability of highly efficient execution.

Detail drawings

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Hotel Borgo Chianti in Toscany Professional Project at Andrea Borri Architetti Hotel and Winery Renovation 2018 - Present

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Realistic Rendering Position:

Intern

Interval:

2018 June - July

GFA:

26,748 sq ft.

Site:

1.55 acre

Contribution:

Modeling, 3D rendering

The Toscany area has strict coding that maintains its vernacular buildings' original appearance. We needed to keep the dark green window frame, brick architrave, and tile roof, as well as carefully placed new doors. These renderings had to be realistic and meant to show to the administration for the inspection.

Lon-En Canal Park Professional Project at Fieldoffice Architects Unban Renewal 2017 - 2018 (Completion)

Urban Mending Position:

Project Architect

Interval:

2017 January - February

Site:

5.9 acre

Contribution:

Competition, DD, CD

The north-south direction of Lon-En Canal area used to be disrupted by the dense forest and canal, therefore we started from restoring connectivity with the surrounding alleys and bring people back to the area, and deliberately preserving a large, empty field that is rare in the city. Layering a soft and flat walkway to consolidate circulation from the surrounding alleyways, this brings out a heightened experience from the renewed aqueduct.

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Yilan Eslite Bookstore Professional Project at Fieldoffice Architects Interior Design, Bookstore 2008 Summer (completion)

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Fairy Tale of a City Position:

Project architect, leader of a 3-people team

Interval:

2008 May - September

Contribution: Schematic Design, Detail Development, Construction Document Floor area:

8417 sq ft.

Cost:

70,000 US dollars

An interior design cound have a strong connection with the city.

Yilan Eslite Bookstore is a place to witness the urban transformation, and it is a miniature of the city, as the Eudoxia, one of the cities in "Invisible Cities"

by Italo Calvino: "...But if you pause and examine it carefully, you become convinced that each place in the carpet corresponds to a place in the city and all the things contained in the city are included in the design..."

Upper left : 1:100 physical model Lower left : Children's reading area Right : Plan with furniture, fixed and movable bookshelves

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Pa r t B : Ac a d e m i c P ro j e c t

Primit ive Pedagogy P.20

Urban Magic Real ism P.22

Uncanny Ord inary P.26

Mart ial Art Body in Mot ion P.30

Infrastructure Int imacy P.32

Wood Joinery P.34

A Chair Leg P.36

A Table Leg P.28

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Primitive Pedagogy Academic Project, Undergraduate Thesis Individual Work 2007 September - 2008 May

Children's Games Alternative education cultivates children's own characteristics. It focuses on how they learn rather than what. It emphasizes freedom, experiment, creation, and criticism. It provides flexible space to fit the necessities of various courses, as the painting Children's Games(Pieter Bruegel, 1560) presented.

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Vague Boundary An alternative school requires the spatial ambiguity. It needs vaguely defined classrooms' edges, so children and teacher can always change their teaching places according to various courses. I placed all the required classrooms into existing forest ground. Rooms are in between of trees or bushes.

The nature light can pass through the gaps between higher and lower roofs. The grasslands courtyard are framed by corridors, so the boundary of outside and inside becomes to blur.

Programming process : place core classrooms, green yard, facilities, semi-outdoor multi-use spaces, and walls

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Urban Magic Realism Self-initiated Project Individual Work 2016 July

Structure, Air-conditioning System, and Theater Illegal constructions such as air-conditioning duct are growing as vegetations, forming surreal Taiwanese urban sceneries. Borrowing from Brian O'Nolan's literary work The Third Policeman, a story about a man riding bike and eventually becomes a half-bike-man because of collisions, I explored what is beyond reality in this country with frequent earthquakes. What if two different building systems, structural and air-conditioning, begin to merge together because of shaking? The program of theater implies the threshold between the real and the unreal. This project aims to amplify the oft-neglected phenomenon in order to cause introspections.

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Elevator Lobby of 5th Floor

5R2 Cooling tower Space Escape Stair 4D 4E Pump room 4F Machine Room of 3B, 3C

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5B, 5C

Lobby of 4th Floor Machine room of 5A Machine room of 5C 4B, 4C

Lobby of 3rd Floor 3R

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3B 2A

3C Lobby of 2nd Floor 2B

Office Escape Route 2

Food Counter

Ticket Counter 1F Lobby

Public Route / Escape Route 1

Model as Sketch Before doing Rhino models, it is usually efficient to use a quick physical model to examine the possible problems and resolve them at the same time test the spatial qualities.

Top : Programming Drawing Upper right : Study model of volumes and circulation Lower right : Structural study model 23

T1 5A

Office

3B

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3C

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3R

2R

4A

T2 5A

3A

4B

T7 4F

T8 4F

T6 4E

T5 4E

T4 4D

T3 4D

T2 4A

T1 4A

T4 5A T3 5A

4C

4D

4E

4F

4R

5A

5B

5C

5R1

5R2

T2 3A

T9 4F

T5 5B

T6 5B

Transformer room

T1 3A

T7 5C

T8 5C

T1-2A

T2-2B

T3-2B

T1-3A

T2-3A

T3-3A

T1-4A

T2-4A

T3-4D

T4-4D

T2 2B T3 3A T3 2B

T5-4E

T6-4E

T7-4F

T8-4F

T9-4F

T1-5A

T2-5A

T3-5A

T4-5A

T5-5B

T6-5B

T7-5C

T8-5C

T1 2A

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The section shows the continuous space connected with outside urban space. The continuity is registered by volumes of theater auditoriums.

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Uncanny Ordinary Academic Project at Cooper Union Thesis Project Individual Work 2019 Summer

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Dream-like Experience Advisor:

Michael Young, James Lowder

Our familiarity with the ordinary is built out of conventions that gradually condition us. This thesis interrogates this familiarity, exploring an alternative reality through the experience of the uncanny, “distancing reality from reality.� The project provokes a dreamlike experience and conceptual uncertainty, questioning invisible conventional constraints.

The Real / The Unreal By defamiliarizing architectural elements and reorienting attention, the project superimposes multiple realities through photography, construction documents, and full-scale physical objects. The distinction between the real and the unreal starts to blur, altering the perception of the ordinary.

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Left nine : Photography of friends' housing corridors with section outlines Upper right nine : Plan of Doorknobs Lower right nine : Plan of Doors

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Full-scale corridor image with the other corridor image inside in a real corridor

Construction Drawing and Photography This project also investigates how construction drawings and photography display different extents of realities. While construction drawings tend to suggest things could be manufactured, photography tends to be deceptive. I reversed these two characteristics, using a camera to documents real-existed things, such as corridors in friends' home and full-scale images, yet I drew construction drawings to imply unreal things could exist. Again, stirring up how people sense realities by exerting two basic architectural tools.

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Martial Art Body in Motion Academic Project at Cooper Union

Karate Body Studio Topic:

projections, and spatial intersections

Advanced Design Research Studio Individual Work 2019 Spring

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THE BODY: Corporeal boundaries,

Advisor:

Diana Agrest

This project deeply explores the body motions of a karateka, who performs Unsu kata, a set of relatively exaggerated karate postures. It dissects each Unsu coded postures and reconstructs the motions from points, lines, surfaces and eventually space.

Render by Grasshopper In Grasshopper, I gave each mesh of the body model a serial number, and connected two center points of the same number meshes in two different motions by a Pline. Pline's colors were determined by their length, the longer the brighter and vice versa. Therefore hundreds of thousands of gradient Pline formed seashell-like spaces when a karate body rotated and attacked.

Traces of hands movement : Left view / Top view / Front view

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Infrastructure Intimacy Academic Project at Cooper Union

Studio Topic:

Representations: Plan, Image, and Model

Advanced Design Research Studio

Advisor:

Michael Young

Individual Work 2018 Fall

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Rediscover the Space of Interchange Urban infrastructure deprives people’s intimate feeling of their own body. The project is to recall a human-scale experience in the gigantic urban scale construction.

Under the Brooklyn on the Manhattan side, countless temporary supporting structural columns were introduced due to the structural damage of the bridge. Visitors of the bridge have to pass through the forest of columns, and they inevitably experience the intimacy formed by dense columns within the optic confusion of the interchange.

Plan : various density columns control pathway

Tension between Representations

Left : Found Objects Model Right : Contradictory Perspectives

One goal of this studio is to probe how traditional three representations(plan, image, and model) can create tension between each other. A non-synthetic project could give enough clues for readers to form a synthetic project, then the tension starts to suggest a reality beyond physical reality.

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Wood Joinery Academic Project at Cranbrook Academy of Art Individual Work 2017 Fall Matt Hutchinson's workshop "Artifacts of Assembly"

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Post Digital Craftsmanship Digital tools are not only to reduce labor, they could teach us and prompt us to think in a contemporary way. In the workshop "Artifacts of Assembly", I explored a new form of a joinery by using Rhino to resolve the complicate joint surface and by operating CNC to create two identical blocks of joinery.

I simply carved on a common HomeDepot 4"x4" timber to enhance its visual effect of the wood grain. I believe art reveals something hidden in ordinary things.

A Chair Leg Academic Project at Cranbrook Academy of Art Individual Work 2018 Spring

Defamiliarization “The purpose of art is to impart the sensation of things "The strangeness of a work of art or architecture as they are perceived and not as they are known. The should only be useful and affirmative: it should technique of art is to make objects ‘unfamiliar,’ to make 'awaken us from our slumber'" forms difficult to increase the difficulty and length of perception because the process of perception is an aesthetic end in itself and must be prolonged.”

“Art as Device" in Theory of Prose, Viktor Shklovsky, 1917

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A Table Leg Academic Project at Cranbrook Academy of Art Individual Work 2017 Fall

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Learning from the Ordinary The original table was ordinary: a flat table surface and four table legs made out of oaks. The thickness of the tabletop and four legs are the same.

I reversed one of the legs.

The dining room now looks like there is a pillar in the middle. But the pillar only attaches up to the ceiling, it doesn't attach down to the floor. It makes people feel the table is unstable. It changes the way people experience this room. The parts of the object in the room are still the same. So people feel this room is familiar, with some unfamiliarity. People don't sit on the same side of the table as they did before, but they didn't notice their behaviors have changed.

Left : Using the table normally in unfamiliar circumstance Upper middle : Detail Drawings Lower middle : Joint making Bottom : Dining room plan with a leg in the middle

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