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

juanyou@ku.edu

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 ckraus@ku.edu 785_864_4129

denton nichols Lecturer dnichls1@ku.edu 785_864_3087

ProfessionalJenny Gordy Fashion designer jennygordy@gmail.com 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

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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

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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-

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food location

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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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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

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pLanter

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BaSeMent Foundation

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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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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

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existing modular home

KU field stationmain entrance

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publicparking

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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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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

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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

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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

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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.