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OBJECTIVE
I am seeking a full-time position that would contribute to my growth as a designer and as an individual. I want to pursue the curiosities in landscape while creating a space that people can relate to. I hope to continue learning and growing through the experiences to come.
PORTFOLIO 2013
L A N D S C A P E
U R B A N
E LEE
E VA N C H R I S T O P H E R L E E E VA N C L E E @ V E R I Z O N . N E T 909.618.5722
D E S I G N
E VA N C H R I S T O P H E R L E E
E D U C AT I O N California State Polytechnic University, Pomona Pursuing Bachelor of Science in Landscape Architecture - 2013
EXPERIENCE SWA Group Intern Summer 2011 Summer 2012
Laguna Beach
Assisted in developing design: renderings, presentation assembly, detail drawings, and video animation. Types of work: Public works, Urban design, Planning, Competition
AWA R D S + AC C O M P L I S H M E N TS Metis Garden Festival Competition in collaboration with Atypical Architecture + Penelope Stewart Front City Competition - Landscape Animation Orange County Great Park Solar Decathlon - Site Design Lantern Bay Park, Dana Point Site Installation - Renderer + Animation 4 Year High School Architecture Award, Ayala High School Landscape Architecture Outstanding Sophomore Award/ Top of Class 2011 ASLA Student Chapter Member SkillsUSA Chapter President SkillsUSA Architecture Regional Gold Medal Winner 2008 Eagle Scout
TOOLS AutoCAD 3ds Max Design Rhino Grasshopper Google Sketchup Microsoft Office Lumion
Adobe Photoshop Adobe Illustrator Adobe InDesign Adobe After Effects Adobe Premiere Adobe Lightroom
CREATIVE WORKS
PHOTOGRAPHY
SITE DESIGN
COMPETITION
URBAN DESIGN
Void + Space Species Occupation CMhU Forged Boundaries Mind the Path An Image of an Other
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Curiosities
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Cultivation of the Homies East River Vultarium Epidermis + Ostealis
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Metis Garden Competition - Apian Etude
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Hopes + Dreams of Dodger Stadium
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C R E AT I V E WORKS
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Creative Works
VOID + SPACE A series of plaster castings seeking to create pockets and voids within a container. These castings are a study of occupable space for wildlife. To use the container as a tool and not as a form, the castings were formed from the notions of a fresh water mussel and the plaster was dripped on the expanded surface of rubber and plastic. These were the results.
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SPECIES OCCUPATION A model of a fresh water mussel in sectional layers. These models were used to establish the parameters of the volume needed to house a host animal. The models were in to be assembled in laser cut layers without the bind of glue. The assembly of the models was an example of positive and negative space that animals or people occupy.
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CMhU DECONSTRUCTION + RECONSTRUCTION A multi-functionary use for the concrete masonary unit. These CMhU will provide habitat for the fresh water mussel in underwater structures such as boat docks, piers, or water retainment walls. These units are built with the notion that they will degrade over time, however the occupational space will not be lost because of the collection of soil and sediments that these units collect from the tide. The collected soil will retain the structural support and still continue to provide for areas of attachment and embedment for the mussels. The CMhU acts similarily to the mussel in the sense that it is also a filter of water.
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Creative Works
Limiting surface structure in current context.
Opprotunity through unformed structure. Void and mass of Los Angeles based on current myth.
Limiting barriers.
Social ties to governing form.
Building typologies without privacy and shelter from the urban context. Removal of voids and masses in spatial environments.
Subsurface opprotunity.
Forged Bound Destructure
Eva An Stru
8 The destructure of the voids and masses of spatial habitat can lead to the implementation of a primative space that contains no restrictions and thus no limitations of opprotunity that can occur. Culturally, humans seclude in built structures that act as barriers (physically and mentally) that isolate themselves from said values of wilderness (usefullness, harmful, and mystery). The human need for privacy and shelter has created a dogma that predicates the general meaning of wilderness. An absence of this physical boundaries would seek to question peoples notions of attachment, especially to ones residency. The integration of a “wild” setting in Los Angeles without spatial confinement, suggests the that interconnection of a city because of the lack of dimensionality in habitatable space amongst is residents. Its usefullness would be quite controversial in the sense that people would have a large amount of space to occupy, but no actual place to call home.
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an Lee Applied Future ucture in Opprotunity
FORGED BOUNDARIES A construct questioning the term wilderness. Wilderness can be defined as an unknown area without the physical structures of a known area. Physical boundaries give us protection and comfort because of the awareness of surroundings and a limited space that we can occupy. The wilderness I was seeking was one were boundaries such as walls were absent creating an open structure. No boundaries lead to no sense of the immediate known area, which creates wilderness. An absense of physical boundaries would seek to question peoples notions of attachment, especially to ones residency. The idea that the entire city of Los Angeles will have no permanent residency of anyone that lives there, relates to the ideas of a primitive social structure that is open for opporunity across pre-established borders.
Evan Lee An Applied Future Structure in Opprotunity
The existing typologies of Los Angeles remains an established area constructed by human behaviors to isolationism and pragmaticism that relates more to the aspects of wilderness then much of what we could create when seeking such ideals. Los Angeles is a wilderness surrounded by a fence in much of the terms that make it a city compared to an unknown environment.
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Creative Works
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MIND THE PATH Mind the Path was an inquiry about the system that govern what we do and what we are lead by. This installation was part of three for the 4th year class of 2013. It is an idea based on the observations of outside our studio space. Students are forced to walk down the path without the option of any alternative, even if their destination is right off the ledge. This installation was not meant to command the attention of its visitors: it is small and discrete to invoke a sense of inquisition, of wonder, and of contemplation. The goal of the installation was to cause people to think, be amused, be appreciative, begin to question the systems around them, and even possibly attempt to traverse a new path.
Addition straw ladders and stickers were located around the installation and the department building in which students and faculty could place where ever they felt necessary; questioning the meaning or placement of the objects they adhered to. The spread of these stickers and ladders grew across the campus and parking lots along with the message of inquiry.
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Creative Works
AN IMAGE OF AN OTHER A 4’x10’ mural constructed to show landscape within landscape even at the most minute scale. This image was meant to surround the viewer in which their periphery was enguled by the one image, by isolating and embracing.This
untitled image was depicting the influence that human emotion has within the landscape and the symbols, such as power, fear, and joy, that we associate to certain landforms.
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PHOTOGRAPHY
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Photography
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CURIOSITIES Pictures were taught to capture moments and phenomena, however what they also do is reveal ideas or feelings from the photographer. Every photograph is taken for a specific reason either showing what is, or what can be. I believe that seeing photos that show qualities that captivated the photographer, reveals more about the individual rather than a personal statement.
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Curiosities
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SITE DESIGN
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Site Design
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CULTIVATION OF THE HOMIES An expansion of the farm to table program at Homegirl Cafe, part of Homeboy Industries. This expansion occupies the adjacent police impound lot and provides seasonal production and opportunities for rehabilitation through urban farming.
EGIRL CAFE: AN FIELDS The idea of the design was to tie in the surround context and uniqueness of the Metro goldline. The crops grown would provide for the Homegirl Cafe and their mission statment, Grow, Prep, Serve. The agricultural area provides a full cycle tending and serving of various vegetables and fruits adjusted to Homegirl Cafe’s menu. The at-risk members of Homeboy Industries can use this area to learn skills that can land them a job in the food industry outside the shelter of the rehabilitation program.
NATASHA HA EVAN LEE NABYL MAC
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Site Design
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Site Design
Death as unifying factor of humanity.
Juxtaposition between United Nations [unity of countries] and the unity of cultures.
Embassy supporting more than coexistence of cultures but the interaction and exchange amongst them.
Preperation of impermanace.
United Nations supports the peaceful coexisting of Nations.
Celebration of life, contrasted by impermanance
Cultural individualism in burial traditions and beliefs.
Political realities v. Corporal reality.
Mourning of impermanance.
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EAST RIVER VULTARIUM East River Vultarium is an embassy/outpost for the human value of mortality, or the awareness of ones end. It is located adjacent to the United Nations in New York City. Mortality is the inception of the known methods cultures use to deal with the uncertainty of death. The vast methods of handling our dead are often symbolic of the believed journey we take with the intent to represent either rebirth or the preservation of the body. Based on cultural beliefs, this journey is through the deterioration of our bodies to become ash, the final resting place underground, the fluidity of water, being carried away by birds, etc. The importance of these interpretations of the passage is a shared value, because we try to understand a fate that can not be known. Varying around the world, each esoteric custom dealing with the dead is estrange to outside cultures, even seen as barbaric. Our position is to unify the diversity of customs that humans believe in to prepare for what lies beyond our
Stages
Stage 1 Mourning Experience feeling of self, corporeal reality, and fragility. Loss + mystery.
Stage 2 Body
Elements. Aspects of dealing with the body. Dismemberment, cremation, burying, wrapping, + transformation.
Stage 3 Spirit
Stages
shared misunderstanding. The unity of shared customs will provide the means for dramatically different cultures to seek understanding through the common means of existing in this realm. The collective knowledge of how we deal with death is also a symbolic representation of our answer to the unknown. Stage 1 Mourning
Experience feeling of self, corporeal reality, and fragility. Loss + mystery.
Stage 2 Body
Elements. Aspects of dealing with the body. Dismemberment, cremation, burying, wrapping, + transformation.
Stage 3 Spirit
Aspects of journey + unknown. Continued or discontinued path. Feeling of the afterlife.
An embassy of mortality would seek to unite people in the journey to discover what can not be known through the Mourning collection of our beliefs. As an outpost, mortality stands as a final pitch against our ultimate fate as living beings. Also as time progresses, space will quickly disappear for the retention of our deceased and our methods to handle their passing. The outpost for mortality/humanity will be the last memory of our existence in the greater scheme of our impermanence. Wooded area
Beginning of a journey, barrier. Visual block. Used to isolate
bring down city. Habitation area.
Wooded area
The site is broken in three parts: mourning, body, and spirit. Mist
Minor sense of feeling. Change in senses and temperature.
Removal of sight and heighten senses.
Phasing
Separation of sense, spacial destinction.
Body
Experience of air
Ascending of spirit through birds. Raising of self. Vertical
topography. Temperature changes. Air rising.
Experience of water
Submersion of body, bathing, movement of water, transport, transparency, + cloudiness.
Experience of fire
Translation, state of change, destruction of material, gather
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Experience of earth
Seasonality, calmness, slowness, association of memories.
Aspects of journey + unknown. Continued or discontinued path. Feeling of the afterlife.
Mourning Spirit
Wooded area
Beginning of a journey, barrier. Visual block. Used to isolate
bring down city. Habitation area.
Eternal
End of journey, interaction, reincarnation.
Wooded area Waterfront Mist
Transportation, reconnection of senses.
Minor sense of feeling. Change in senses and temperature.
Removal of sight and heighten senses.
Phasing
Separation of sense, spacial destinction.
Body
Experience of air
Ascending of spirit through birds. Raising of self. Vertical
topography. Temperature changes. Air rising.
Experience of water
Submersion of body, bathing, movement of water, transport,
Floating
Separation, bathing, transportation.
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Site Design
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Site Design
river and revitalize the East River of Manhattan. The embassy would be a vessel of memory that would persist over time. People act as a catalyst to initiate the memories of the lost. Using a system of developed bone and skin, the structure and surroundings act as a catalyst for collection and accumulation. This structure outlasts the memory of human occupation through the build up of New York’s disposal.
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EPIDERMIS + OSTEALIS
A structure to reflect the mortality of New York as much as to memorialize the mortality of the individual.
BUILDING BASE
>EXTENSION NORTH AND SOUTH
>CONTAINMENT OF BODY + SPIRIT >MEMORIALIZE PEOPLE
An expansion to the East River Vultarium, Epidermis + Ostealis is a self exploration of the site and possibilities that deal with the mortality of New York City as well as the body. The plan attempts to show the migration of birds as a cultural symbol of death and is the last species of animal that will occupy the space when New York is flooded. The site will contain a memorium of individuals that acts as the next cemetery without the constains of space and housing of the body. Heavily symbolized by the narrative of mortality and the duality between the body and spirit, the site is programmed for adaption versus sustainment. Residential housing units are placed above the memorium and remembrance of deceased is caused from the heat signature of a hand.
HABITATION >AVIAN
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>FEELINGS ASSOCIATED TO THE BODY
TOPOGRAPHY + BLDG LAYERS >QUALITIES OF LIGHT >IMMEDIACY OF TIME
>OVERLAP OF SYSTEMS
>BONE + SKIN INFRASTRUCTURE
The project also serves as a waterfront on the East River. This would be one of the only public spaces that could access this side of Manhattan. The waterfront edge would include features that would cause awareness of the body and phenomena that would cause a feeling rather than visual sights.
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AL DISTORTION + FUTURE CONDITION
MORTALITY OF NEW YORK
VISION OF EAST RIVER VULTARIUM
HUMAN BODY - HUMAN INFRASTRUCTURE Originating from the fragility of the body with the ellapse of time compared to the fragility of the city. Development of this fragile form is the callusing of this systems via cavities and crevasses.
NYC MORTALITY
Built structure for something to outlast the mortality of man with the occupancy of birds.
CAVITY/ INTERLOCK
SKIN LAND
CREVASSES + ACCUMULATION
With the creation of voids and space between residential structures, debris and soil will begin to accumulate. This process helps establish varying
MORTALITY
COMPETITION
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Competition
Planting Palette
Swarm Theory
Apian Ć’tude
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APIAN ETUDE
In collaboration with Atypical Architecture, Apian Etude was an attempt to understand and represent a planting scheme based on swarm theory. Swarms, flocks, and schools are groupings of animals based for survival or instinctual. The relationship of the plant types would occur in a similar way with the dispersion of planting seeds in groupings of varied densities. An exaggerated bee hive used for harvesting would be at the center in which people could occupy a space surround by hot casted bees wax tiles that smell of honey.
Swarm Theory Planting Spring Blooms
Aquilegia Canadensis Aureolaria grandiflora Lupinis perennis Silene virginica
Spring-Summer Blooms Linum grandiflorum Centaurea cyanus Gypsophila elegans Iberis umbellata Delphinium consolida
Summer Blooms
Epilobium angustifolium Eschscholzia californica Helianthus annuus Meconopsis cambrica Monarda didyma Rudbeckia hirta Liatris spicata Asclepia tuberosa Phlox paniculata Meconopsis 'Lingholm' Silene armeria
Late Summer-Fall Blooms Cosmos bipinnatus Coreopsis tripteris Echinacea purpurea Ratibida columnaris Lobelia cardinalis Solidaga graminifolia Aster Novi-belgii Physostegia virginiana
Red Columbine Yellow False Foxglove Lupine Fire Pink
Scarlet Flax Cornflower-Bachelor Button Baby's Breath Candytuft Larkspur Giant Imperial
Fireweed California Poppy Dwarf Sunflower Sunspot 'Rubra' Poppy Bee Balm Black Eyed Susan Blazing Star Butterfly Weed Garden Phlox Himalayan Blue Poppy Catchfly
Cosmos Tall Coreopsis Purple Coneflower Mexican Hat Cardinal Flower Flat Top Goldenrod ANew York Aster Obedient Plant
URBAN DESIGN
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HOPES + DREAMS
In understanding the layout of Los Angeles in approaching the Marooned No More, a map was developed to show three factors based on planning. The first was the local language of the site including: sun, ocean, people, mountains, influence of migration, and the midwest. Second was the shapers of the land and how the city grid is shifted when met with the topography lines of the surrounding hills and Dodger Stadium. Last is the layers of growth that Los Angeles is built on, with land being the bottom layer, followed by aspects of geo-urbanism, a 70 year history, consumerism, sprawl, and continued developement. This map shows the graces and grotesqueries of Los Angeles.
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Another map was generated to show the missing factor in planning. People moved to Los Angeles with the hopes and dreams of a better life. The factors that produce this better life vary through out Los Angeles’s history. The connection between the mountains and ocean create the settlement of people that would eventually create the notions that make Southern California what it is based on human value upon the land.
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Since the Dodgers relocated from Brooklyn, a unique baseball culture has developed throughout Los Angeles. The foundation of Dodger culture stemmed from a redevelopment of the Chavez Ravine, the land that the stadium was constructed on. Although the stadium was established with much controversy, the topographic conditions provide for perceptual qualities which include 360 degree views of Los Angeles with angles wide enough to view downtown LA, the ocean and mountains. These qualities associated with the site are of exceptional value to Dodger culture, as it is the only stadium of its kind, resulting in high land values. A majority of the site is contained by parking lots. The hopes and dreams of this project are derived from the experience associated with the California dream. The idea that there was a sense of aspiration and a value of equity in the people that first moved to the southern California region can be proven, as hopes and dreams continue today with people moving to Los Angeles in hopes of fame and fortune.
The five systems created by the progression of a dream are: open space (public realm), commercial-retail, institutional and education, commercial-business, and residential housing. The mixing and overlap of these systems creates varieties that will encourage social interactions on a level that is successful within an urban setting. The overlaps in the various forms of land use encourage mixed use buildings that piece the narrative of hopes and dreams together. Transportation networks were important in determining connections from Dodger Stadium to the greater LA area. This concept emphasizes equity and the integration of all modes and methods of transportation that currently exist within the downtown area. Modes of transportation include bus, car, rail, bike, foot trails, on and off site parking availability, and the proposed gondola lift. By providing a wide variety of transportation modes, a more innovative approach to the ÂŹhopes and dreams of transportation can be achieved. Transportation is significant in giving the urban form of this plan a value in hierarchy.
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CLOUD LANDSCAPE PATTERNING
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To create environment of a dream, a system of cloud landscape patterning would occur throughout the site. The cloud represents the image of a dream and much as the framework of the project represents hope. The dream is translated to an experience by Amorphous planting structure creating a diverse atmospheric condition through different types Forms public interface of massing. Creates atmospheric condition
DENSEforest FOREST CONDITION dense condition
VERTICAL BOUNDARY vertical boundary
AMORPHOUScanopy CANOPY amorphous
SURFACE LICHEN surface lichen
WOODENveil VEIL wooded
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