SELECTED WORKS Leah Hong Architecture Portfolio 2019
CONTENTS 1 | Academic 3 - 48 2 | Personal 49 - 52 3 | Other 53 - 56
THE VISIBLE AND THE VEILED An Archive
Fall 2018 / UG1 / Instructor: Anca Trandafirescu
This project is a proposal for an archive of Chinese shadow puppets, an art form that engages a duality of frontstage - backstage, displayed - hidden, imagined - tangible. Reflecting the spirit of the art, the archive is intended as a theatrical manifestation of the spatial relationship between the real and illusionary, the artisan and the collector, the performer and the audience.
ACADEMIC 4
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Site Downtown Establishments University Buildings Residential
An infill site on the ambiguous edge between downtown Ann Arbor and the university campus provides an opportunity to serve a mixed demographic comprising the general public and more specialized visiting scholars.
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ACADEMIC 6
Through the theatre language of a scrim that serves as a blurring division between the viewer and the performer, the archive creates space for both the curious visitor and the focused scholar to interact with the puppets which are displayed on translucent curtain walls that simultaneously split and bridge the two sides.
ACADEMIC 8
Archive Model: museum board, vinyl, basswood Site Model*: MDF Drawings: Rhino, Adobe Illustrator, charcoal *In collaboration with Alex Geiger, Ricky Iglesias, Amelia Deller, Luke Ryu, Osaid Omar, Rayan Taraban, Kassem Chammout, Ethan Hop, Ankit Patel, Katie Bailey, Joshua Powell
ACADEMIC 10
SPLIT-BRIDGE Two/One Ambiguity
Winter 2018 / UG1 / Instructor: Anca Trandafirescu
Positive Space and Suspension Through a stacked model, this project explores the tension created by the contrast between thin negative space and heavy positive space. The contrast creates ambiguity between cohesion and discreteness within a form, making it unclear whether it is composed of one or multiple masses.
ACADEMIC 12
Negative Space and Fragility Based on an inversion of the museum board model, I developed a negative space cast that emphasized the dissonance between a heavy rectangular mass and a thin, geometrically complex interior. This creates a variation of ambiguity that plays on the perceived heft of a mass.
ACADEMIC 14
Models: museum board; plaster-Rockite mix cast in foam core formwork Drawing: Rhino, Adobe Illustrator
ACADEMIC 16
FALSE SOLIDS
Manipulation of View Through Illusion and Boundary
Winter 2018 / ARCH218 / Instructor: Michael Jefferson
ACADEMIC 18
Provided with the prompt to create a 6”x6”x6” cube that embodied the verb “drag,” I designed a form that creates the impression of an object being dragged through it, engaging all sides of the cube to evoke the textural and formal consequences.
ACADEMIC 20
Using the elevation drawings of the “drag� cube, I then derived a plan for a form embedded in a topographical landscape. Using the language of arches, I emphasized the aspect of framing through forms that create the illusion of solidness or hollowness depending on the direction of view.
Models: basswood, museum board, chipboard Drawings: graphite, acetone transfer
ACADEMIC 22
Through a critical study of Villa Tugendhat by Mies van der Rohe, my project partner Kay Wright and I developed drawings and a model to examine the formal and experiential role of the grid in the house, especially in terms of how it unifies the floor plans and how it creates dynamics of transparency and public-private relationships.
CENTRALITY OF A GRID A Study of Villa Tugendhat
Winter 2018 / ARCH218 / Instructor: Michael Jefferson
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Model*: museum board, basswood Drawings*: graphite *In collaboration with Kay Wright
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EXCERPT OF A HOUSE Adaptation of Construction Methods
Fall 2018 / ARCH317 / Instructors: Craig Borum, Kasey Vliet
Provided with a base plan, I worked in collaboration with Kay Wright, Phillip Allore, and Connor Cain to design a house inspired by Casa Levene by NO MAD Studio, with a focus on construction methods. The study in construction involved drafting documents that describe the construction materials and composition of the structures as well as a physical model that represents a selected section of the house design.
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Ann Arbor, MI 48109
A317-417 Assignment 1 PREPARED BY:
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2000 Bonisteel Blvd Ann Arbor, MI 48103 p.734.764.1300 f. 734.763.2322 taubmancollege.umich.edu
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1. PORCH 2. BED 3. BATH 4. STUDY
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3 A1.6 Taubman College architecture
Plan Drawing: Kay Wright FLOOR 1 1/4 " = 1'-0"
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FLOOR PLANS
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31'-10 78 "
32'-9 21 "
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1. DOUBLE PANE GLASS 2. STONE CLADDING 3. CLIPPING SYSTEM 4. AIR CAVITY 5. WATERPROOF MEMBRANE 6. RIGID INSULATION 7. CORRUGATED STEEL SHEET 8. STEEL I-BEAM 9. STEEL TUBE 10. INSULATION 11. FIBERGLASS ACOUSTIC INSULATION 12. SHEATHING (3/4" PLYWOOD) 13. PLASTERBOARD WITH EPOXY FINISH 14. LAMINATE WITH EPOXY FINISH 15. SUBFLOOR (3/4" PLYWOOD) 16. RADIANT HEATING SYSTEM 17. CONCRETE SLAB 18. GYPSUM 19. STEEL PLATE 20. ALUMINUM FRAME 21. STEEL BOLTS 22. STEEL ANGLE BEAM 23. FURRING CHANNEL SYSTEM 24. C CHANNEL
METRIC " = 1'-0"
Model*: basswood, chipboard, cotton balls, bristol, piano wire Section/Axon/Elevation Drawings: Rhino, Adobe Illustrator *In collaboration with Kay Wright, Phillip Allore, Connor Cain
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GARDEN OF PARTIALS Fall 2017 / ARCH211 / Instructor: Zain Abuseir
By adapting forms derived from the Nolli Map of Rome, I created 3-dimensional elements to arrange in a modernist garden that offers confounding moments of ambiguous interior and exterior spaces.
Drawing: Rhino, V-Ray, Adobe Photoshop/Illustrator
ACADEMIC 36
DRAWING TECHNIQUES A Selection of Freehand Drawings
Fall 2016 / ARCH201 / Instructor: Melissa Harris
ACADEMIC 38
Through a close study of a stairwell in the architecture building of Taubman College, I documented how light creates space by giving shape and texture to forms and the dissonance between what light reveals and what is actually present.
Drawings: graphite, color pencil
ACADEMIC 40
INITIATIVE FOR AN INCLUSIVE CAMPUS
Imagining a More Accessible Educational Environment
Summer-Fall 2017 / “Campus of the Future” Design Competition Finalist ACADEMIC 42
“Initiative for an Inclusive Campus” was the student organization the Initiative for Inclusive Design’s entry for the University of Michigan’s Campus of the Future Competition. Our intent was to imagine spaces that create equitable academic environments for people of a broader range of ability. This project reached the final round of the competition. My main roles in this colloborative project involved research of existing architecture on U-M’s campus and heading the design and construction of the hexagonal classrooms and the bathrooms, as well as the furniture within them.
Model*: museum board, acrylic, basswood *In collaboration with Mitchell Lawrence, Ellis Wills-Begley, Courtney Klee
ACADEMIC 44
ARCHITECTURE AS FRAME Observations on the Shape of Architecture Around Post-Soviet Life
Spring 2018 / Travel Course: Soviet Modernism / Instructor: Ashley Bigham
ACADEMIC 46
During a 3-week course across Armenia, Georgia, and Ukraine, I traveled with 11 other students to study the effects of Soviet authority on the architecture of these different countries.
Through an immersive survey of a various monuments and historical buildings, we researched how the common and distinct reflections of Soviet influence in the architecture shaped the culture and lives of the residents of these regions.
ACADEMIC 48
Observation Through Painting Selections of Personal Artwork 2015 - 2018 PERSONAL 50
The watercolor paintings featured in this portfolio are part of a series of paintings in which I studied the relationship between light and environments both built and natural. I was interested in how light augmented shape, texture, and color while simultaneously being shaped and colored by the environment that it permeates. Paintings: watercolor
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“Passing Strange� Scenic Designer: Justin Lang
World-Making Selections of Theatrical Set Construction Fall 2016 - Fall 2018 OTHER 54
“Ah Wilderness!” Scenic Designer: Gary Decker
“A Man of No Importance” Scenic Designer: Anton Volovsek
“Insurrection: Holding History” Scenic Designer: Eleanor Howell-Shryock
“Ah Wilderness!” Scenic Designer: Gary Decker
Through work in the University of Michigan’s scenery department, I helped construct and paint several sets for a variety of perfomances. Under the instruction of the technical director and in collaboration with other student employees, I utilized various construction and woodworking techniques to craft environments that help theatre students perform for university audiences.
“Mr. Burns: A Post-Electric Play” Scenic Designer: Caleb Levengood
Technical Director: Richard Lindsay Painting Director: Beth Sandmaier Photographer: Richard Lindsay “Insurrection: Holding History” Scenic Designer: Eleanor Howell-Shryock
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Thank you.