You Chia Lai Portfolio 2014

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OU CHIA LAI

PORTFOLIO

ACivic Complex Challenging the Status Quo

24hr Club That Serves All Your Needs

Contemporary Study Center for Studying the Contem-poraries

Nine Squares Together Form an Ever-

Changing Landscape

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phone: 832-689-9279address: 1515 Bissonnet St., Unit 113, Houston, TX, 77005

e-mail: [email protected]

YOU CHIA LAI

Team Leader/ Creavity & Entrepreneurship Program Summer Camp

Led and provided guidance to teams consisted of new and prospecve students

of the program in a three-day start-up contest. Won 1st place.

Aug 2010

Team Leader/ NTU Innovaon Compeon

Led team designed a public gathering space for students in NTU base on the

observaon and analysis of students acvies in public spaces. Ranked 10th out

of 128 teams.

Mar 2011 - May 2011extra-curriculum

activity

Chief of Substitute Service Draftee/ New Taipei City Government

Reformed internal administraon rules to eliminate conict between senior and

junior draees. Relaonship between two pares improved remarkably aer im-

plementaon of new rules.

Aug 2011 - July 2012

Co-founder/ D.Cafe

Co-founded a co-working space that provided mentorship for early-stage start-

ups to grow more eciently and acted as a stage for them to acquire popularity

among potenal customers.

May 2011 - July 2011

workexperience

Design Assistant/ Carlos Jimenez Studio

Assist projects in various design phases ranging from schemac design to con-

strucon drawings. Conduct all digital drawings and discuss with studio principal

to make further modicaons.

Dec 2013 - Present

Growth Hack Intern/ ShareBloc

Strategically curate content, research market and reach potenal users to sign up

for a professional content sharing plaorm.

- Generated an overall 3K+ registered users in 4 months with founders and three

other interns.

- Generated 838 registered users, 6.5K visitors and 22K page views in a 12-day

Content of The Year contest with three other interns.

Sep 2013 - Present

Rice University

Master of Architecture

Aug 2012 - Dec 2015

National Taiwan UniversityBachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering GPA: 3.34/4.00

Sep 2007 - Jun 2011

education

Photoshop / Illustrator / Indesign 3D Modeling (Rhinoceros)

Web Design (HTML5 & CSS3 / Intermediate level) Market Reasearch

Chinese (Native), English (Native Fluency)

skills


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Content

Re-Forming & Representing a Civic Complex01

07 Striated Clubbing

13 Center for Contemperary Study

19 9-Square


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Re-Forming & Representing a

Civic Complex

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Design of a Civic Center Located Near Downtown Houston

Core Design Studio 3 / 2013 Fall

Formal Strategy

In recent decades, pub-

lic buildings represent-

ing local or regional au-

thorities have come to

either resemble dull func-

tional ofce sheds or rep-

licate the formal glories of

past public architecture

by borrowing its formal el-

ement. The belief in con-

temporary architecture as

a tool not only to organize

civic institutions, but also

represent and spatially

ground them in their con-

text, seems to have been

lost since the perceived

failures of the large-scale

public projects in the Unit-

ed States. At a time when

corporate buildings domi-

nate the publics attention

and civic services are in-

creasingly found online,

this project makes a point

for the persistence and

renewal of contemporary

architecture in the public

realm. Start with a formal

strategy dealing with the

idea of multiple that cor-

respond to program ar-

rangement this project is

exploring the possibilities

of a new type of adminis-

trative building.

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7. Commisioners Ofce

8. Record 9. Judges Ofce 10. Constables Ofce

15. Cafe12. Library 13. Reference/Lending

11. Childcare

14. Mediatheque

16. Reprographic 17. Special Collection 18. Staff Ofce

Service Counter2. 3. Tax Ofces 4. Court Service

5. Court Room 6. Court Room Support

1. Lobby


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Axonometric View

Upper Floor Lower Floor

15.5 ft -13.5 ft

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Mechanical

Light Rack

Insulation

Double Glazed Glass

Concrete Slab

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Striated Clubbing

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Design of a 24hr Club to complement and enhance the weekly routine of city dwellers

Core Design Studio 2 / 2013 Spring

The city of Houston

is propelled by au-

tomobile. Given the no-

zoning law condition, pro-

grammatic boxes scatter

on at land. People drive

to their destination, con-

sume whatever program

they desire, then hop

back on the vehicles and

leave. Exterior urban envi-

ronment is bypassed and

ignored. This project is

aiming at challenging this

urban behavior by utiliz-

ing architectural moves

that create a continuous

lanscape (I prefer calling

it threshold) which cores-

ponds to specic pro-

grams. The landscape

slows circulation and fuse

border line between inte-

rior and exterior so that

while heading to their de-

sired programs, people

are almost being demand-

ed to wander through and

pay more attention to the

exterior environment. The

project ensures the joyful-

ness of this wandering ex-

perience. Though the pro-

ject is at building scale, it

has the abilty to be pro-

jected to urban scale and

creates a better exterior

urban environment. In this

project, we were asked to

analyze formal elements in

a case study, then trans-

formed extracted ones on

to our own project.

With ThresholdWithout Threshold

Formal Element Extracted

Landscape

Icecubes Roofscape

Programs

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1. Parking 2. Entrance 3. Leisure Pool 4. Olympic Pool 5. Whirl Pool

6. Administration 7. Changing Room 8. Classroom 9. Massage & Sauna

11. Food Prep. Area10. Resturant 12. Bar 13. Strength Forum 14. Green Room

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Discrete

Continuous

Divergent Direction

Uniform Direction Open

Enclosed

Center for Contemperary Study

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Design of a Center for Contemporary Study in Rice University Campus

Core Design Studio 1 / 2012 Fall

Inter-Program In-a-Program

Re-Direction of CirculationThis project explores

the moment when

discrete meets continu-

ous, divergent meets uni-

form and enclosure meets

openness. The character

of boulder can be de-

scribed as discrete, and

lack of directionality, on

the contrary, stripe can be

described as open and

continuous. Circulation in

a program and within pro-

grams has to be re-direct-

ed when boulders are in-

serted in a set of stripes.

The boulders become the

turning points of the archi-

tecture.

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Exhibition Area1. Classroom3.Seminar Room2. Lobby4.

Auditorium11. Library12.Administrative Area10.

Cafe5. Classroom6. Library9.Visitors Ofce8.Waiting Area7.

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No Interruption Work Area

Teaching Area

Cafe

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Visitors Ofces

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9 - Square

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Representing the Foundren Study Room Availibility in a Modulating Landscape Bench.

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9- square is designed

as a modulating land-

scape that functions as a

bench while at the same

time physically reect-

ing information pertinent

to the Rice student body.

As the availability of study

rooms change on an

hourly basis, 9-Square re-

ceives this information fro-

m the publicly available

online database showing

the reservation periods of

the 36 study rooms in Fon-

dren library. This informa-

tion is abstracted into nine

blocs of four study rooms

each and physically rep-

resented by nine 2x2

squares made of 1/2-

thick acrylic panels array-

ed in 3x3 gr-id. Through

a real-time data feed of

room availability, the nine

panels, reect this infor-

mation by varying their

heights based on the ve

possible occupancy con-

ditions for the blocs of four

rooms that each panel

represents. Information

dictates height, and facili-

tates an ever-changing

landscape of seating pos-

sibilities. Furthermore,

each panel is edge-lit with

4 LED strip to illustrative-

lydenote a higher level of

reading, namely which

particular study room in

a particular bloc is occu-

pied or available.

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Arduino BoardLED Lights Scissor LifRasperberry Pi

Material Used

Acrylic

Impact Polystyrene

Scissor Lift Stand

plywood

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