Urban Vein is a dynamic web platform that documents and speculates on NYC's building materials, revealing patterns of urban transformation that shape preservation, demolition, and future construction. Bridging computation, design, and storytelling, it provides spatial decision-makers with tools to analyze material archetypes, uncover trends, and explore temporal narratives.

Manav is a Grasshopper plug-in designed to generate ergonomic furniture based on human postures. This tool accommodates a wide spectrum of poses. By analyzing diverse postures, Manav creates customized furniture tailored to the specific body configurations, offering a blend of functionality and creativity in furniture design.

Team members:
Manas Bhatia, John Masataka Jiang, Hao Lee, Sebastian Schloesser

Guerrilla Urbanism is a tactical approach to adaptive reuse, challenging the rigid frameworks of urban development through experimental, data-driven interventions. This project reimagines the built environment as a living system—one that is constantly evolving, hackable, and open to reinvention.

Balloonify explores inflatable interventions as a radical tool for reconfiguring urban landscapes. Set in a speculative future where land scarcity renders new construction impossible, this project envisions architects repurposing existing structures through inflatable devices—offering a surreal yet pragmatic approach to adaptive reuse.

Hue Knew is an online quiz that challenges players to identify films based on blurred stills or posters. Participants are prompted to determine the correct genre, release year, and title. The game dynamically integrates The Movie Database (TMDB) API, retrieving images and metadata in real-time; additionally, a data visualization component tracks and analyzes player performance.

Team members:
Hao Lee, Vaibhav Jain, Julia Kwon

Kaohsiung airport (KHH) is the most ambitious and revolutionary airport transformation in taiwan. Post-2010s, the overcrowded space and lowered level of service due to the steady and rapid increase of passenger traffic call for a complete overhaul of the old buildings. Given the airport’s compact size, the redesign optimizes its site & locality as one centralized passenger terminal, aiming to house 16.5 Million passengers in 2045 and beyond.

Professional work conducted at April Yang Design Studio
Project Manager: YinTuan Hsueh

Songshan Airport (TSA) is undergoing upgrades to support a next-gen air traffic management system. The new Air Traffic Control Tower and Integrated Campus will consolidate key functions, including tower operations, aviation meteorology, flight services, and training facilities, along with essential infrastructure for air traffic management.

Professional work conducted at April Yang Design Studio
Project Manager: YinTuan Hsueh

Mystopia is a graphic exploration of Taiwan's vernacular architecture, blending traditional Taiwanese design with surreal compositions. This project invites viewers into a world of solitude, introspection, and tranquility, offering a unique entry point to explore the deeper spatial narratives embedded in Taiwan's architectural heritage.

Team members:
Hao Lee, YenTing Yeh, MengSyun Sung, Ray Wang

Pilgrims emulates the vertical layout of traditional Eastern "shan-shui" paintings, using minimal visuals to enhance the surreal effect of a long wall cutting through the terrain. Subtle hints of a pilgrimage are revealed through the shadows cast on the mountains, inviting viewers to contemplate the interplay between nature and human intervention.

Team members:
Hao Lee, YenTing Yeh, EnSheng Lin, KaiChi Chen

Life Goes On offers a hyper-realistic portrayal of the contrast between everyday life in peaceful regions and the devastation of nearby war zones. The work blurs the lines between these realities, highlighting the resilience of communities in the face of conflict. It emphasizes how love and human connection persist even in the darkest times, using the built environment as a reflection of societal strength.

Team members:
Hao Lee & YenTing Yeh

In a flooded Taipei Basin, abandoned buildings are overtaken by algae, slowly consuming the city. The Algal Rig adapts by transforming urban dead zones into renewable farmlands, extracting green goods from the flooded areas and transporting them to the highlands, while controlling the toxic overgrowth.

Peripheral Flux is a design proposal for social housing aimed at young adults just out of school. In a competition where the challenge is to work within a 3m x 3m x 3m cubic space, we propose using a horizontal netting element in the center. Its flexible design divides the space while maintaining a sense of openness, offering both privacy and connectivity.

Team members:
HungYu Chu, PoYi Hung, ZihYun Jin, Hao Lee, MengSyun Sung, YenTing Yeh

Odyssey envisions a vast spherical space habitat that integrates traditional Taiwanese architectural elements within a futuristic context. This project is a fusion of futurism and vernacular design, blending cultural heritage with technological advancements in spatial planning.

Team members:
Hao Lee, YenTing Yeh, EnSheng Lin, KaiChi Chen

Remembrance is a poignant slice-of-life that juxtaposes a traditional train cabin from the 1960s with the rituals of ancestor remembrance. It symbolizes the intersection of culture, technology, and time, blending past and present in a reflection on heritage and memory.

The Fall explores themes of loss and acceptance, with a narrative that captures the raw emotions tied to letting go. The comic’s style draws inspiration from Mignola’s signature approach, blending shadowed forms with stark contrasts.

My Front Door is an experimental project that applies a cinematic lens to Taiwanese vernacular architecture. Using the entrance of my dilapidated apartment in Banqiao as a backdrop, it juxtaposes this setting with enigmatic high-tech artifacts, evoking the concept of an archaeological dig.