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June You尤娟
[education]Master of Architecture _05 2014_GPA 3.75university of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, uSa
Business Administration _Undergraduateuniversity of Windsor, Windsor, ontario, canada
International Business _Bachelor of EconomicsWuhan university of technology, Wuhan, Hubei, china
05 2011_current
09 2007_12 2008
09 2004_06 2008
[experience]Woodshop Technicianinstructing and assisting students in using woodworking equipment; demonstrating safety pro-
cedures in using power tools; offering recommendations and help to precision in architectural
model making; cleaning and maintaining tools and the woodshop work environment.
School of architecture, university of Kansas phone: 785_383_8265
Studio 804 Warehouse Management Helperbeing familiar with building materials, especially inventive, sustainable and affordable mate-
rials that Studio 804 focuses on, creating new floor flans for electric outlets and shelves layout,
moving materials and cleaning the warehouse.
School of architecture, university of Kansas phone: 785_383_8265
Baristain charge of daily business and customer service, providing excellent service, using interper-
sonal skills and networking
House of cha, 21 West 9th Street Lawrence, Kansas phone: 785_856_6688
Assistant to the Fashion Designer taking online orders, sewing clothes
taking photography, doing graphic design, sketching basic fashion design drawing
http://wikstenmade.com phone: 785_580_8318
08 2012_current
06 2012_08 2012
05 2010_12 2010
01 2009_06 2009
June YouResume
issuu.com/juneyou
1016 ohio St. Lawrence, KS, uSa 66044 phone: 785_580_8767
[SKiLLS]Computerrevit
autocad
3d Max
Sketchup
photoShop, indesign, illustrator
Microsoft Office
HandWoodworking
Blacksmithing
Welding
Laser cutting
LanguageMandarin _Fluent
english _Fluent
[HoBBieS]Furniture making
upholstery
Sewing
Knitting
photography
Scrap booking
chinese brush painting
chinese calligraphy
chinese poetry
Fashion
cooking
[reFerenceS]Academicchad Kraus assistant professor [email protected] 785_864_4129
denton nichols Lecturer [email protected] 785_864_3087
ProfessionalJenny Gordy Fashion designer [email protected] 785_580_8318
[puBLication]Frozen Moment of DramaKiosk magazine issue 47
[invoLveMent]Volunteer and MentorBig Brothers and Big Sisters of douglas county
[ about Me ]
even as a five-year-old, i learned that a house could mean a lot more than mere shelter to a
family. in a small village in southeastern china in 1991, an unusually long rainy season created the biggest
flood in village history. Like all the other poor villagers, my family was living in a house built of adobe with
a wood and rice-straw roof. one afternoon, the rain was pouring down like a waterfall, and a “boom”
sound, much greater than the thunder, broke through the heavy rain. We hurried outside to see hundreds
of adobe bricks fall into the deepening pond in our yard. our kitchen, which was a separate hut, had
collapsed. After the flood subsided, my father used his knowledge of furniture-making to rebuild. This time
he constructed the house with strong wood and fired bricks.
Growing up in an undeveloped area in china, i had never even heard of the word “archi-
tecture” until the age of ten when I first saw the modern skyline of Shanghai. Dreaming of becoming
someone who was able to build something great, i learned furniture making from my father and clothes
making from my mother when i was a kid. Because my father believed international business to be china’s
future, he thought it should be mine too and hoped i would help expand his successful paper recycling
business. though i could not study architecture as i wanted, i was able to develop strong communication,
mathematics, planning and management skills through business school in china and canada, which are
valuable assets in today’s competitive architecture design world.
Having lived in three different countries, i valued the opportunities to experience cultural differ-
ences in architectural design, which is often derived from considering responses to climate, technology,
culture and site. charles eames said: “design is the appropriate combination of materials in order to solve
a problem.” along with the aesthetic side to design, i have also understood the more logical side. this was
due to an internship with Jenny Gordy, an independent fashion designer who has gained a lot of attention
and business on the internet (http://wikstenmade.com). through the fashion design profession, although
not exactly the same as the world of architecture, I found confidence in my creativity and design skills.
although i have witnessed the many challenges of being a creative designer, such as demanding clients,
late hours and the need for efficient business management, I have also found it extremely rewarding.
Still dreaming of becoming someone who was able to build something great, i decided to
go to university of Kansas to study architecture. i learned, however, architecture is about enhancing the
quality of everyday life. Having been brought up in a densely populated nation like china, i have become
especially curious about environmental and sustainability issues and have developed an interest in their
application through architectural design. after my education from the School of architecture at the uni-
versity of Kansas, i hope to take part in building a sustainable, living environment for future generations to
make place and memory. Since growing up in an adobe brick house, never have i doubted that, beyond
the obvious fact of shelter, architecture makes life better.
design is everything. design is passion, discipline, and skills. as architects, we don’t design for
one single purpose. For me, design is one, it is not many different ones. the discipline of architecture design
is one and can be applied to many different subjects, regardless of style. design discipline is above and
beyond any style. all style requires discipline in order to be expressed. very often people think that design
is a particular style. nothing could be more wrong! design is a discipline, a creative process with its own
rules, controlling the consistency of its output toward its objective in the most direct and expressive way.
architecture is about experience and expression. to achieve the desired outcome, i believe a creative
process with a discipline to be the generator.
throughout my educational and professional life, i always like to find opportunities to diversify
my design interest: from architecture to interiors, from furniture to drawing, from wood to pottery to plastics,
from printing to packaging, from clothing to costumes and more. From working in the wood-shop of the
architecture school at the university of Kansas, i have developed design and build skills. during the summer
of 2012, i helped to work on the warehouse management for Studio 804, which is a not-for-profit organiza-
tion for graduate students entering the final year of the Master of Architecture program at the University of
Kansas (http://studio804.com). i became familiar with building materials, especially inventive, sustainable
and affordable materials that Studio 804 focuses on. i have also enrolled in a blacksmithing class at the
university of Kansas to expand my interest in design and build. to truly understand and master how things
work together as parts of architecture is always enticing to me.
For me, everything is a tempting challenge to test the interaction between intuition and knowl-
edge, between passion and curiosity, between desire and success.
[ design is one ]
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Indexdesigns
A SYSTEM OF NODES
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architecture is place making. Before
focusing on developing a cohere architecture
project – the Monarch institute, we explored the
site – located in the river market neighborhood of
downtown Kansas city-through diagramming as a
form of thinking. My specific filter was public space,
and through site visits, interviews and careful anal-
ysis, i crafted a diagram of public space study of
downtown Kansas city. Bounded by towering sky-
scrapers in the new central Business district to the
south, and with the Missouri river to the north, the
river Market neighborhood is a common ground
for urban social activity. My investigations of how
some public spaces work better than others were
mainly carried out around the river Market area
and the downtown freeway loop.
river MarKet
Site
diagramming of public space // kansas city, missouri, fall 2012
a System of nodes
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CITY MARKET PARK
12TH ST
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OPPENSTEIN PARK
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PUBLIC TRANSPORT
PARKINGS/GARAGES
PUBLIC SPACES
GREEN SPACES
RIVERFRONT TRAIL
When comparing different open and
public spaces such as parks, plazas and trails,
I find small urban spaces that are more inte-
grated with surrounding communities are used
more often than large spaces. For instance, the
city Market park, occupies only half of a block,
but has a higher person to area usage than the
riverfront Heritage trail. this is also true of the
oppenstein park in the business district. a vari-
ety of people can regularly be seen in this small
and intimate urban park. to account for ame-
nities that help make public spaces successful,
i compared all three places based on Kevin
Lynch’s five key elements of the urban form:
path, district, edge, node and landmark.
the path for the desired public
space should be constructed with natural ma-
terials such as brick and stone, instead of con-
crete or asphalt. Food available in the nearby
district attracts people to use the space more
often. Less well-defined edges such as planters
or sculptures, which the individual perceives
as a barrier, are more desirable than physical
boundaries like iron fences. places to sit help
create a node where people can gather.
Landmarks like the sign for the entrance of the
river Market or even a tree in oppenstein park
can attract locals.
a SYSteM oF nodeS
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planters todefine edges
trees toprovide shading
path woven into other
components
city market front entranceas a local landmark
planters edgefor sitting
a street-cornerhangout node
brick & stone as paving materialsincreased attractiveness & distinctiveness
of the pedestrian paths
concrete & asphalt as paving materialslack of distinctiveness
from the surrounding vehicle paths
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CITY MARKET PARK
12TH ST
11TH ST
TS NI
AM GRA
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BLV
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LOCU
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WA
LNU
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OPPENSTEIN PARK
E 5TH ST
E 3RD ST
500ft 0 1000ft
PUBLIC TRANSPORT
PARKINGS/GARAGES
PUBLIC SPACES
GREEN SPACES
RIVERFRONT TRAIL
in consideration of these
amenities, i think that a sys-
tem of small public spaces
distributed throughout the
urban fabric works better
than a few large parks or
plazas isolated from neigh-
borhoods.50FT0 100FT
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food location
citY MarKet area
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architecture in service of life. after the
previous exercise of site analysis, i started to en-
gage in the formation of design strategies and un-
derlying concepts for the Monarch institute Build-
ing. the Monarch institute (20,000 naSF) will serve
the river Market neighborhood, downtown Kansas
city, and the larger metropolitan community. the
building will contain a butterfly vivarium, a black
box theater, a reading room, a butterfly garden, a
cafe and research areas.
architecture is about experience. archi-
tecture has the capacity to act upon our imagi-
native faculties beyond what may be captured
through strictly analytical methods. architecture is
experienced through the senses, memories, beliefs
and desires. In this project, the butterfly vivarium
is an open space to accommodate thousands of
butterflies accompanied by elements of their nat-
ural habitat. Well designed natural and artificial
lighting is essential. What is more important, this
space should provide a full sensory experience to
visitors and a living laboratory for researchers.
river MarKet
KanSaS MiSSouri river
doWntoWn KanSaS citY
crackingThe Monarch Institute// kansas city, missouri, fall 2012
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Solstice
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adjacent buildings
site mass
cracking space
butterfly vivarium SunLiGHt StudY
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1. theater2. mechanical3. administration4. reading5. butterfly vivarium6. lobby / cafe7. research dry lab8. roof garden9. research wet lab
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architecture is about making. to strengthen the
overall design through a careful consideration of
tectonics, materiality, and building systems, details
for the Monarch institute needs to be developed.
i created an axonometric wall section that cuts
through the reading room and the research labs
with roof top garden. the axonometric drawing of
the building illustrates the proper address of struc-
tural, life safety, and environmental response sys-
tems.
paving stonesand for levelingcompacted gravelfilter fabricrigid insulationwaterproof membranestructural concrete slab
concrete formwood chipsplanting soilinsulation & filter fabricweeping tile
8’’ concrete wall3’’ wood wool acoustic board3/4’’ plywood panel3’’ insulation membrane4’’ concrete floor slab2’’ protection boardmembrane
fluid-applied waterproofing gravel drain pipe
2’’ concrete floor finishing4’’ concrete floor slab2’’ protection boardmembrane3’’ mud slab6’’ gravel bed
rooF SLaB
pLanter
BaSeMent WaLL
BaSeMent Foundation
perForated MeSH MountinG
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metal mesh screen cladding to reduce heat gain from west sunlight
LEED certi�ed polygal sheets for better thermal insulation
green roof garden
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environMentaL SYSteM
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the client is a Field research Station who
requires three houses for their researchers and a
grounds keeper/maintenance person. the site has
a slight southern slope, and is populated by wild
grasses and a small forest of early-successional de-
ciduous trees. the ecosystem here is an ecotone, a
transition space between forest and prairie. there
are three existing buildings on the facility, but the
houses will be located about 500-100 feet away,
and shall be connected by a path.
aging in placehome for field station researchers// lawrence, kansas, summer 2012
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Straw bale is a local and
ecological material found abun-
dantly in Kansas farmlands. prefab-
ricated panels improve the aesthetic
of completed straw bale construc-
tion, as well as decrease the on site
construction footprint. native Kan-
sas architecture have been import-
ant precedents, as it is ideal to retain
the culture of rural Kansas. Many res-
idents of the country tend to live in
the same house until the end stages
of life. Because of this, designing for
aging in place needs to be a priority.
the residences are comfortable for
able bodied individuals, as well as
the elderly and disabled. designing
for adaptability is required to provide
for all stages of life.
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1. Maximum southern solar exposure for heating and natural light2. Body of water for evaporative cool-ing and excess storm water drainage3. Coniferous trees for winter wind protection
ecoLoGicaL deSiGn oF Site
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The Prairie: Smooth Brome, Fescue, Bluegrass
Main access road to KU Field Station
Existing trees: American Elm, Osage orange, Hackberry, Redbud
Planted trees: Red Cedar for winter wind protection
Shared or private social deck space for residents
Residence Housing
Expanded use of existing pond
Native species: Willow, Indian grass, Switchgrass, Big Bluestem
Short walking trail for residents and foot entrance to KU Field Station
Reserved forest for least disturbance of the habitat for wildlife
Existing shrubs: Dogwood, Coralberry, Grape, Poison Ivy
1080
1070
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existing modular home
KU field stationmain entrance
kitchen compost
walking path
original pond size
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enlarged pond
publicparking
residenceparking
Level 1Total Square Footage: 1540
1. Full Bathroom2. Safe Room / Store Room3. Kitchen4. Laundry Room5. Wet Room6. Full Bathroom7. Master Bedroom8. Living & Dinning Room11. Move-able Green Wall
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condition 1
condition 2
condition 3
Single / Graduate Student9. Guest Bedroom10. Office
Married / Children7. Master Bedroom with Office Space9. Bedroom10. Bedroom
Retired / Caretaker7. Master Bedroom with two beds9. Caretaker’s bedroom10. Library
1 2 3 4 5 6
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adJuStaBLe + adaptive
Vertical garden, louvers and appropriate interior walls are attached to a track system for movability to create different spaces or to maximize or limit sun exposure
passive & active systems
passive & active systems
metal
wood
glass
strawbale
wood
plastic
concrete
WeSt eLevation SoutH eLevation
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this design problem is a weekend retreat
on Lake perry for a professional food critic. She re-
quires an inspirational space, utilizing natural light
expressively, as well as a spatial and visual release
from traditional housing. as the home of a food crit-
ic and wine connoisseur, the architecture should
express the centrality of cooking and dining rituals.
The 1st floor is designed to be more open and com-
munal, while the 2nd floor is to be more private and
peaceful. the site was chosen with relic walls be-
cause it was her favorite fishing spot with her father
growing up in Kansas.
retreatvacation home fora food & wine critic// lawrence, kansas, fall 2011
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Site pLan LeveL 2
FLoor pLanLeveL 1
Section
WeSt eLevationSoutH eLevation
Woodworking
70 degree bench/coffee table2011solid pine wood
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70 degree bench/coffee table2011
solid pine wood
1 2 3 4
5 6
1. 2 by 4 by 12 pine wood
2. cutting and gluing
3. clamping
4. dowel joints
5. sanding, sanding & sanding
6. applying finishing
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drawings
antoine predock’s design of the nelson Fine arts center at arizona
State university in tempe is one that has an experiential, metaphysical, and
poetic link with the desert. instead of denying or hiding the harsh and relentless
desert presence in arizona, the architect created spaces that are more than
mere additional ingredients to the urban university surroundings. in order to
represent my interpretation of predock’s design, i decided to use pastel on a
birch plywood panel because i wanted to create a powerful image in which
sunlight is captured and experienced with a strong attitude of celebration. My
work was also influenced by Giorgio de chirico’s paintings from his metaphysi-
cal period, which are memorable for the haunted, brooding moods evoked by
their images.
in the foreground, a curving arcade, covered with louvers that form
a trellis, provides a conventional path for visitors and acts as a frame in my
work. When the powerful desert sunlight comes through the open arches, archi-
tecture and nature are joined in the metaphysics of place. Beyond the classical
shape of arches, there are more dramatic buildings in square and triangle
forms. Structures and forms interlocking with the perceiver’s senses provide the
detail that moves us beyond acute sight to tactility. the dramatic experience is
enhanced by the terraces toward towers that extend one’s journey to the sky.
A human figure running in middle ground with a long shadow creates a strong
contrast and indicates the time of the day. a desire to unite the self and the
world, the realm of man and the universe is expressed at this sunset moment.
through representation of desert lights, architecture forms, human action &
sight imagination, a moment of drama is captured and frozen in time.
*published on Kiosk magazine issue 47
frozen moment of drama20’’ by 20’’, 2012
soft pastel on birch plywood
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sketchbook2012
vellum drawings2012
charcoal, pastel, watercolor pencil51
Fashion
blue tank2012
hand printed cotton fabric
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photography
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thank you.谢谢.