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1.Working 1:1 testing

Graduation Project by Roy Yin

Project Tutor: Eline Strikers(Doepelstrijkers)

From the industrial age to the 1980s the rigid corporate structure limited employees' working spots, routine, social activities, leisure and schedules. The kind of office environment that can be seen in the movie Play Time (1967), which looked and looks awkward in our vivid urban life, without any freedom. !!Since the 1980s the demand for office space has been decreasing. We are stuck with an enormous qualitative and quantitative mismatch in supply and demand of offices. This has many causes like the excessive supply of offices built in the 80s and 90s, the stagnant economic growth, demographic changes and flexible working. !!I focused my project on the changes that arose as a result of the developments in the information technology, like flexible management and individual demands. Many people began to choose to work outside the office in their own domain. This current!

situation can provide us opportunities to improve our working environment. I dedicated the last months to create a comfortable office format for the workers and took advantage of every inch of the space. !!In my design, the office consists of units in different heights based on human’s need, allowing people to work and meet everywhere, in any posture, in the office. For example: The one in the corner can talk with the one who is upstairs. With this format, it is able to create a free working environment for people in any office to fulfill their individual working needs. !!In the future offices in different shapes could appear. For example, in offices the floor itself could be designed in different heights, which fits our bodies. By that the space does not need desks or chairs anymore.! !

1.1 Sorry, We're Working – the Metamorphosis of the Busy Office

2014.08

Research Map

Translate the Process Map to Graphic

Drawing for the whole story !Size:13m*1.05m Still Exhibiting in INSIDE,KABK!

Design Results for the Graduation

From Research Map to the Process Map(My design process)

Drawing for the whole story Size:13m*1.05m Still Exhibiting in INSIDE,KABK!

Graduation Project by Roy Yin 1.1 Sorry, We're Working – the Metamorphosis of the Busy Office

Results for the Graduation(Made by Roy Yin)

In general, the workspace utilization is shrinking today. This phenomenon reflects how companies reduce office space they use, thus cutting costs. If companies will continue to maximize the saving, the utilization of office space will shrink to its final limit. No more new vacant office will appear, because the vacancy has reached a maximum. In the meantime the residue spaces of the buildings, which were once designed for offices, could be used for lively programs. This would mean that the distance between a diversified life space and the workplace would be just one step away. Hence, office buildings would come back to life. Therefore, my question for this design project is: is it possible to design an office landscape that is unshrinkable, offering a better suited space for working and informal meetings than the conventional office, while creating extra spaces for various lively programs? !

The answer is possible.

For instance we can see that the route area of the Bürolandschaft occupies so much space. If we move the furniture and put them next to each other, the image would look like this. What would happen?

In the future, the floor may have no chairs or desks. !The space itself would create different levels for working.

2.World1

Models of Utopia Loop!

2.1 Utopian Loop

Thesis by Roy Yin

Thesis Tutor: Louise Schouwenberg

2013.05

Do utopians dream of an ideal society? I realized utopians cannot have such dreams, as that would indicate that the utopians are currently not living in an authentic utopian society, and that there must still be the idea of another ideal living place. Or we could say that utopians have the same dream – to continue their existing society. “Thomas More’s Utopia is a vision, not of how people would like to be, but of how they ought to be.” But, if people would have to obey the rules of being utopian and not have appetency in utopian society, they would be not alive but robotic. Personally, I think utopia is an unknown world, which people look forward to visiting or staying in. The term utopia also adheres to the principle of relativity; people from one society could consider another society as utopia. If people from A consider B as utopia, people from B consider C as utopia, people from C consider !A as utopia, it would create a utopian loop, which !I would like to call Utopian Loop ABC. The loop could be bigger or smaller, depending on how many utopias there are in-between. !

2.2 Utopian Loop

Thesis by Roy Yin


2013.05

Four Traditional Needs Metabolism in Architecture tells us to respect tradition and develop it. Therefore I deliberated how to combine the utopian loop with the 4 traditional basic needs in China, which are housing, transportation, food and clothes. As a result, 4 different extreme worlds appeared and created a utopian loop ABCD

A A world only with housing (without roads). If we need to go somewhere, we need to cross others’ homes. So privacy becomes public. !

B A world only with roads and bridges. Roads and bridges cross each other. This would create spaces under bridges and !in-betweens. But the city would have a lack of farming land.!

C A world which has a huge amount of food and people are consequently fat. Because they cannot eat all the fresh food, they would dry the food by hanging it.!

D A world cares foremost about clothing. People are slim and tall. They would hang their clothes on the bamboo that separates the space. There would be no solid walls at all.

2.3 Utopian Loop

Thesis by Roy Yin


2013.05

I imagine, the citizens in the Housing City would want to have roads to reach different places; citizens in Road and Bridge City need food; citizens in Food and Dry Food City would prefer to be attractive; citizens in the Textile City would feel the desire to have solid walls against the wind. Hence, these four cities become a desire loop. People are not aware they are within other people’s utopia. Then utopia itself becomes the unknown.!

Project for Architecture Biennale Rotterdam(2013), 24Hofpoort!Location: Shell Tower 8th Floor, Hofpoort, Hofplein 20, Rotterdam!

From Theory to Reality Work as Project Leader

3.World2

3.1 Super Lucky Mall

Team: Roy Yin, Klinphaka Keawcharoen, Yuting Guan

Tutors: Kristian Koreman(ZUS) & Jan Konings

2013.06

A playful market hidden in the empty shell building, in which you pay for your chance instead of choice.! A lot of office building in Rotterdam became vacancy; Shell building is one of them. These vacancy buildings have the characteristic of emptiness that opposite to fullness but produced by greediness.! The greediness of society produces too much choice or could be the other way around. All kinds of choices bring a diversity life, but lead to decision complexity. When we deal with food, facing thousands of choices, we hesitate to make a decision. It leads to a boring urban life that we could always easily get whatever we want, life continuing without passion and adventure.! Fortune Forest is not a readymade food market interacted by people. It changes with time. It is a mobile system that built on a utopian city pattern structure occupying the ceiling and the wall. The other parts of space remain empty. It is a space shaping constantly between fullness and emptiness, by choices.! The whole system instead of providing plenty of choice that always complicated a single decision, it providing a chance but not planning the choice. What you get always differ from what you want, but you could still pursue by finding other ways.

At the beginning of the festival, the floor remained empty. !Time: 16:00, 21st of June, 2013.



2013.06

During the festival, the space was changing constantly by the people. !Time: 16:00, 21st of June, 2013.



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All the food were sold out in the other day.!The space was totally changed by the people. !Time: 16:00, 22nd of June, 2013.



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2013.06 The best part is not to sell out all the food and succeed !in the event but to see all the joy, surprise and happiness.



2013.06 Ceiling Plan!



2013.06 Floor Plan!



2013.06 Section!

4.Wonder 1:5 paper model in Ridder Gallery, Maastricht

Project by Roy Yin

Project Tutor: Sophie Krier(Atelier Sophie Krier)

4.1 More Than Books – Paper Scale

2013.10

History of Data Storage Analysis

Why book can survive until now? Maybe the answer is the size of the terminal. For example, one DVD can hold a lot of data, but we need to use at least a screen to read the data. The screen as the terminal is so big. From the graphic below we could clearly see the small volume of the paper terminal but carry a lot of knowledge. So paper is the key element of a normal public library.

Paper, one of the most important inventions in the world, became the media for carrying the knowledge and information 2100 years ago. When we read messages from this media, we call it “book” as the terminal to read the messages. If we look though the history of how human store the knowledge and information, we could find the media of carrier become smaller and smaller, but the data, it can store, become bigger and bigger. !

paper

Project by Roy Yin

Project Tutor: Sophie Krier

4.2 More Than Books – Paper Scale

2013.10

Therefore I use paper as the material to create something extreme to attract people and remind people one of the most important elements in the library. By making a 4-floor high self-standing paper sculpture in middle of the void of the library, it would attract people and show the confliction between the softness of paper and the power of the paper. !

Paper Sculpture in the Library

Working in Process – !the simplest way to fold the paper is to double back the paper.

Project by Roy Yin 4.3 More Than Books – Paper Scale

2013.10 Project Tutor: Sophie Krier

Succeed in Making the Paper Sculpture in the Ridder Gallery.!I wonder if I has a chance to make the four-floor high paper sculpture, how should I develop the structure.!

Project by Roy Yin 4.4 More Than Books – Paper Scale

2013.10 Project Tutor: Sophie Krier

The Winter Lifeguard Stools Competition(fast project)

5.Warmth

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HUBBARD BLVD

MARTIN GOODMAN TRAIL

LEUTY LIFEGUARD STATION

KEW GARDENS

PARK

BALMY BEACH CLUB

ALFRESCO LAWN

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LAKE ONTARIO

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Lifeguard Stand Locations

BOARDWALK

Team : Roy Yin and Ni Nan

2014.12

5.1 Spring, Summer, Autumn – A Greenhouse Chapel

The mission is to design sculptures or a pavilion attached and related to the lifeguard stand !to present the theme warmth for an event.

A lot of industrial chimneys appear in the west of the Lake Ontario beach where the water meets the sky. This image left me in a state of shock. What if the serious greenhouse effect caused by ever-increasing industrialization, leading the winter in Toronto slowly disappeared? Perhaps this anxiety already buried in people’s minds. We could feel the warmth temperatures of spring, summer and autumn instead of hot only if we protect the cold temperature in the winter.!

The Greenhouse Chapel is a place built with reused materials for plants in winter. Its second floor is !a pool filled with sea water. Because of the higher temperature in the green house, it creates water drops for the plants. I think people would understand the principle of condensation and I hope people would think over the chimney landscape through the experience.


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*Auger Anchor would be used for each legs to get enough tension to against the wind.

6.Wish

The next project -!working with YOU in various fields!

2015.01-present

Project by Roy Yin

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English Name: Roy Yin, Chinese Name: 尹健江, Gentle: Male, Birth: 1988.02.22 !Language: Cantonese Chinese, Mandarin Chinese, English Bachelor Degree(2007-2011): Industrial Design, South China Agriculture University(SCAU) Master Degree(2012-2014): Interior Architecture (INSIDE), Royal Academy of Art, !the Hague, the Netherlands(KABK) Final Result of Graduation Review: Merit !

3-year experience in Chinese Painting before 2007 Vice-president of Design in Industrial Design Studio(SCAU) 2008-2009!

Excellent Award for “My Innovation Manifesto” ASUS Digital Life Product Design Competition 2009 Electrolux Design Lab Competition Semi-finalist 2010!

Internship: Zhonggong Architectural Design Institute Co. Ltd, Guangzhou, China 2010 Poster Design for Graduation Exhibition of Industrial Design Department(SCAU) 2011!

Architecture Biennale Rotterdam - Project: Super Lucky Mall 2013 Architecture Biennale Rotterdam Poster Design For INSIDE Department & Moving Wall Project 2013!

Todays Art Festival Entrance and Lighting Design 2013 The Great Indoor Awards Education Program – Project: Paper Scale 2013!

Graduation Exhibition of KABK – Project: Sorry, we’re working. 2014!Nominee for Toptalent Scholarship,Den Haag 2014!

Skills: !Concept Development, Modeling, Presentation, Handcraft with Various Materials, Photography !Adobe Creative Suite(Photoshop, Indesign, Illustrator), Rhino, 3DMAX, !AutoCAD, V-ray, Keyshot, CorelDraw, Microsoft Office, etc. !

7.The Whole of Roy Yin

Thank you.!No.1 – No.4 are selected projects !

from the past two years of my master study.!

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