YO-SHI HSIEHarchitecture portfolio

CONTENTSSlice chair

NTUST I Fall 2010Paper chair design

Frame & BorrowNTUST I Fall 2011

Twine studio design

My SunshineNTUST I Fall 2012民生 Community

Angel's VoiceNTUST I Fall 2012

五結 Church

Background MemoriesNTUST I Spring 2013

公館 Elemantary

Multi-exposure NTUST I Spring 2013

Taiwan Image Museum

Four East-Asian Universities Urban Architecture Studio 2013 in Harbin

NTUST I Summer 2013

Special Subjects and ActivitiesNTUST I 2012-2013

Sketches

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SLICE CHAIR

The chair must be made of paper, and the challenge is that all the adhesives are forbidden. I think that cardboard is a proper material, but cardboard has its well structure behavior.

NTUST I Fall 2010Paper chair design

a comfortable chair but unstable

because paper is weak, I use a stable shape to form the chair.

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FRAME

FRAME &BORROW

Twine focuses on producting eco-friendly design products and at the same time promotes the idea of Fair Trade.Most of our products are hand-made, and made of eco-friendly and recyclable materials.We believe in marrying contemporary designs with age-old techniques, and place great emphasis on using natural materials andsustainable methods of production. We make sure each product is trulyoriginal.A good design product should be about respecting the environment and caring for the society.We are also spatial designers, and our core value:eco-space design.

P.S:

1.The distriction of the design are that the massing must be 7.2m x 7.2m x 7.2m and it must be bearing wall.

2.All the drawings are hand-painted.

NTUST I Fall 2011Twine studio design

space

material

view borrowing + tree

wood+concrete

Concept

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circulation &

function configuration

massing concept

zones

public

stair

atrium

private

site area

site analysis

parkresident

Japanese heritage

人口動線

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Level 1 Level 2

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MY little SUNSHINE

MingSheng communities are near Taipei Songshan Airport, originally designed in a manner based on an American house. MingSheng communities along the road, the pedestrian paveway are planted with trees. And there are large and small park in this area, but most of them are scattered in several blocks, decreasing the possibility of interaction between households. In the MingSheng community residential units, vertical circulation link up with 2-4 floors of households, and people in Taiwan don't use there garden, almost used for parking or storage. So that the first floor residents are alienated among the neighbors. Vertical circulation is the intersection between usual residents space, but only in the number of one set dwelling unit. With the integration of the vertical moving line, as well as the concentration of open space, to promote the relationship between residents.

NTUST I Fall 2012MingSheng ( 民生 )Community

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vehicle circulation green belt human circulation from the community to outside

ISSUE

SITE ANALYSIS

closerelationship

alienate

STRATEGIES

put all the vertical circulation together stagger two types of units to create the chances of neighbors' interaction

B. three-generation family type

A. nuclear family type

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courtyard

A-A' sectioin

Site plan

B-B' section

unit A&B

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Standard plan

North elevation West elevation

East elevationSouth elevation8

ANGEL'S VOICE

Though Wu-Jie church is one

of the Presbyterian church in

Yilan, but there's some difference

between Wu-Jie church and the

others. Just a few steps crossing

a river beside the church, there

stands an elementary school. In

responding the environment, one

more role is play by the church.

NTUST I Fall 2012Wujie( 五結 ) Church

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plaza

Town Wujie, Yilan

There are three plaza near the church.The biggest one is a temple plaza, the other two are the plaza of the community.

The shape of the is near a triangle. And at the northern corner of the site is the node of three roads intersection.

The nor thern s ide are r iver, elemantary and green belt. West-south side are temple, residence and town center.

Due to the town center at south of the site, the road at left side of the site is the main circulation of vehicle.Most of the people come from the elemantary and the community near the church.

node view and zones circulation(vehicle & people)

vehicle

people

[site analysis]

foreign mate

children

persuade the goal

Icon Building disappear

past now

the character of the church

eldershome

[issue]

[concept]

churchlocal house church local house

wujie church

local vocabulary

light

guide

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Level 1

south elevation west elevation

Level 2

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1. entrance2. multi-purpose classroom3. wc4. kitchen5. guest room6. climbing restroom7. climbing playground

8. office9. chapel10. wc11. minister's home12. climbing bathroom

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east elevation

A-A' section B-B' section

north elevation16

BACKGROUND MEMORIES

Gongguan Elementary School is located in the rear of the Taiwan University of Technology campus, enclosured by Toad Hill, barracks and NTU, Gongguan Elementary S c h o o l i s t h e m o s t u n i q u e mountain mountain toad, however, the impression left primary school down for the background for schools impression only vaguely remember.

NTUST I Spring 2013GongGuan Elemantary

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site analysis

issue concept

directly

backgrounda. b. background

penetrate circulation

children's deeds

elemantary kindergarten

Since the original GongGuan elementary school gate facing a narrow road, so many parents and children congregate at this node when to and from school, resulting in entrances congestion . While the other one is the node at the intersection of two roads corner of the school, as college students go through this node down to the school dormitory.

school building and background are separated

original entrance

GongGuan Elemantary

children's deeds

site area

military

NTUST

NTU

chanchu mountain

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1. entrance2. library3. courtyard4. shaded playground5. office6. classroom7. kindergarten8. butterfly garden9. kitchen

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site plan

A-A' section

semi-open playground

playgroundlibraryA

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B'B

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B-B' section

semi-open playground low & medium grade classroomshigh grade classrooms

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MULTI-EXPOUREMULTI-EXPOUREMULTI-EXPOURE

1908, the Japanese colonial rulers in Taiwan during the Qing rule within the city, the establishment of Taiwan's first modern European-style urban park (the "Taipei park" or "New Park"). Nowaday, the ChenChung area is still prosperous, the park has been renamed as "228 Peace Park" to commemorate the past. Goto Memorial Museum is restructured into National Taiwan Museum, Japan DKB Bank, the first restructuring of the Land Bank, promotes the postwar land reformation in Taiwan in recent years, more renovations for the land Bank Exhibition Hall, National Taiwan Museum buildings joined to offer residents a high quality cultural open space. Hundred years later, the colonial rulers have long gone, but around the 228 park, and the scars of the history still stand there.

NTUST I Spring 2013Taiwan Image Museum

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In the modern urban development, many historical traces gradually disappear, and at the base, formerly developed to Tataocheng from Wanhua, and further development to the city area (around the base). Now in the Wanhua and Tataocheng area, Simon is the area that Ching and Republican period traces overlapped. From Simon to ChenChung business area, is the area which was occupied by Ching, Japanese and Republican. While the administrative district in the ChenChung area, the texture was left by the Japanese colonial period and modern period still exist in here.

Ching period and Now

Ching,Japanese,Now

Japanese and Now

issue

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Ching,Japanese,Now

Ching and Now

site analysis

I hope to present different period of history traces overlapping in Taiwan Image Museum. We can simultaneously see many different historical periods traces on the streets of ChenChung area. We can see the past from the modern framework of the building, and it is similar to photography technique, Multi-exposure, recording the images of different time. And at last all the images are presented in a photo simultaneously.

MULTI-EXPOSUREconcept

now Japan Ching direction

The development of Ching period street type The development of Japanese period street type

The development of street type nowaday

organicwell-planned

inside organic

block boundary well-planned

The organic mode of Ching period is partly regular. Becuase in a small range the street exists a regular pattern, but in a large range it appears an organic mode due to the lack of the overall urban planning. The Japanese colonial period implant the idea of urban planning, because of the influence from western culture, showing the integrity in this area. So the Japanese prudent thought was transformed into the regulatings in the city. Now You can see the elevation of the street presenting a neat order, but its back is organic because of a bunch of space derived from various demand function. 24

1. entrance2. lobby3. library4. café5. exhibition A6. 2F storage7. exhibition B8. 3F storage

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A-A' section B-B' section

ground level

level 2

level 3

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south elevation north elevation

east elevation west elevation

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Four East-Asian Universities Urban Architecture Studio 2013 in Harbin(team work, my part river renovation design & render)

Majiagou is an important part of inter river system in Harbin city. It is not only uses as urban stormwater facilities, greenway and transportation, etc, but also centralizes rich landscape resources, history and culture, is the main control area in the city. Whatever eco-landscape, or city life, urban context, it is always an important factor in urban renewal.

Site locates on the old downtown area, close to Majiagou river. Within that area, there are old residential area; run-down slums; railway about to move, waste treating station, etc. around the site there are some important historical buildings such as Russian style residential area; School of Architecture, Harbin Institute of Technology; Harbin railway bureau, etc. How to maintain the traditional feature, revive river bank, adapt to urban development, complete regional functions, improve urban space, renew urban image are the missions and challenges of this project.

NTUST I Summer 2013Majiagou, Harbin

Waterfront Space and Architecture Feature Recreation in Old Downtown Cold Areas

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[strategy]

Harvest(Harbin food)

[concept]

[site analysis]

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Artists village

Park

MuseumIce-skating & Land-skating park

library

Beer plaza

Main plaza

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ART STUDIOS

MONUMENT MONUMENT

SIGHTSEEING TOWER

RAILWAY KIOSK

ART GALLERY

PLAZA

FREE-USE PUBLIC SPACE / GALLERY

ICE-SKATING / LAND-SKATING

FOUNTAINS

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Special Subjects and ActivitiesNTUST I 2012 Summer - 2013 Spring

Taoyuan Hutoushan park public toilets Creative Design Competition - Chosen AwardThe Competition is based on the reuse of the old public toilets. In this competition, the public toilets are required to be combined with sustainable green energy technology and creative space designed to provide practical, health, energy, ecology, health and comfort of the public toilets. In addition, the design concept can be integrated into building energy effective combination of location characteristics and a series of park issues. Therefore, it will reach through routine activities of daily life saving energy educational purposes.

Hutoushan is famous for large quant i ty of Miscanthus( 芒 草 ) , connecting with the locals Hutoushan memory. Miscanthus leaves are very permeable. And I think a well-designed toilet must be good at ventilation, lighting, privacy, and feeling of using toilet. So I use the imagery of Miscanthus to be the concept of the toilets , and wish it once again to relink the memories between Hutoushan and people.

Since the site is located in the 2nd toilet, there is a height difference because of the terrain. I use a structure design to respond the terrain, and put an enclosured green courtyard in the middle of the toilets equipped with rainwater recycling system. And the structure of the steel and cable, weakening building massing influence, reduce the impact of the building in nature.33

Special Subjects and ActivitiesNTUST I 2012 Summer - 2013 Spring

Fab-Taiwan( 果核義築 ) Taitung Micro Architecture Project(my part is assist them build the architecture)

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I was unfamiliar with Taitung, but this experince makes me impressed. In this project, I realized that architecture is such a wonderful thing that it can not only improve people's lifes but also make their dream come true. Although the process suffered so many problems and challenges, but once I overcome them, I wil l learn more than I had expected. I am so grateful that local residents teach me many things such as the techniques of carpenter, the history about their great ancestors, etc. And the project let me live in a simple life without the disturbance of modern.Thanks fo Fab-Taiwan providing me such a wonderful chance to rethink my life.

2012.07.26~2012.08.10

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Sketches - 2009-2013