Jenny Lee | 2023 Architecture Portfolio

Creativity happens when you make space for it in your life. As a selfmotivated and ambitious individual, I’m passionate about learning cutting-edge design techniques while reflecting on the fundamentals of human behaviour. I enjoy being immersed in all the possibilities of design especially in utilizing the spatial and physical construct of built form to react to social, communal issues - something that my series of selected works touch upon on various scales and contexts. With the works in this portfolio, I aim to give an impression of my skills and knowledge in different fields of design, diverging from research to building design to technology and environmental design.

Jenny Lee, 2023

Superpowers: user experience design, information architecture, visual design, prototyping and storytelling

U n n o t i c e d S p a c e

ENDS 402 | Environmental Design Studio IV

Year: Spring 2020

Collaborators: Lukas Ewing

Missing Middle Housing is a transformative concept that highlights the need for diverse and affordable housing choices in sustainable, walkable neighborhoods

Located at the junction of Jepson-Young Lane and Bidwell Street next to a private Japanese garden and an elementary school, six laneway parking spots are transformed to a mixed-use building incorporating a daycare and shared living units.

We depict importance not necessarily based on proximity and closeness, but instead on what has the most impact on the experience within the space.

Emphasis with darker colours portrays what is most influential, while muted tones fade out what is less significant.

The informal platform encourages social interactions and activities while the upper floors serve the communal-living residents, with shared community amenities, working spaces, and residential units. Outdoor playspaces of the daycare are elevated above ground to facilitate a safer environment. The floors feature sliding partition walls alter the interior configuration depending on the need and function of the space. Residents will be able to find a more affordable space to live corresponding to their individual and collective modes of existence.

Initial site analysis located in the West End of Vancouver

Section highlighting openings to garden view

Section through the street facing NE

Exterior perspective showing the relationship of the structure to the neighbourhood

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ARCH 413 | Building Design with Landscape Studio

Year: Fall 2022

Collaborators: Ryotaro Okada

This earth exists as a silent protester under agony. As the environment changes it serves as a reminder of the reality of the environmental situation in LA and a voice for the earth.

Our demonstrative landscape explores a series of installations throughout the site that represents the most used resources in Los Angeles: water, electricity, and greenhouse gas. Represented by 3 different geometries: circles as water, squares as electricity and triangles as greenhouse gas. Within each geometry is an installation that speaks to these resources. Water is demonstrated with succulent gardens and gravel formed in ripples, electricity is demonstrated through solar panels and machines and greenhouse gas is demonstrated through terrariums and representation of toxic gas contained in balloons.

It is designed to react to both natural forces and its occupants’ actions. It’s time for the earth to make it’s pain known to mankind and give people a chance to rethink their own actions.

1. Amphitheatre

2. Rippled Gravel Garden

3. Solar Farm

4. Terrarium & Gas Ball Garden

5. LADWP & Visitor Center

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Wander through series of infographics

The beginning of the journey.

A m o r p h o u s

ARCH 289 | Special Topics: The Phygital Laboratory

Year: Fall 2022

Collaborators: Sean Meng, Shrinethraa Kumar, Shuocheng Li

Data-driven art relies on the usage of a dataset to convey emotions to the audience and has a more objective truth behind its construction that deson’t solely come from the artist’s imagination. The research question for our project is how can we transfer obscured data from numeric form to a visual interpretation?

Using TouchDesigner’s built-in particle system, we based on an initial geometry, in this case a sphere and form a particle system where multiple parameters can be adjusted and animated with our data input. First variable is the movement and tension of the particle. The second is the individual particle size and the third is the coloration of the model. The final output of the three data sets is a synthetic representation of these abstract numbers.

By linking the datasets to the visual aspects of the model and overlaying multiple layers of visual information, the visualization communicates the historical climate change tendency through the change of its movement, formal variation, and coloration.

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Multiple regions’ climate data visualized simultaneously to acquire info of the nuanced pattern across these countries

LATTICE GRID Static

GRAVITATIONAL ACCELERATION Gravity x, y, z

SIMULATION Fluid

Exploring Vflexsolver: particle system that simulates the behavior of fluid within a bounding box. Its movement is shaped by gravitational forces in x,y,z directions. The lattice cube changes its form reacting directly to the 3 sets of climate data we collected.

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INITAL FORM

The form of the fluid is related to the movement along x and z-axis linked to the temperature anomaly of the land and sea surface. The y-axis is linked to the energy consumption change. As the fluid floats, indicate the carbon emission increases throughout the years.

The data painting varies both in macro and micro scale responding to those three data inputs. The clustering of the fluid represents the level of severity of the climate change condition of the region. The clusters at upper right all 3 increases, when it clusters in the middle they are neutral and when the cluster bottom left they are relatively lower values.

Laying out all 18 countries and compared them we could get a better sense of the average climate change

change severity, how they change over years, and how they are geographically different from one another.

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ARCH 411 | Intro to Design Studio

Year: Fall 2021

The premise of the project is based on the idea of primitive form. Through exploring the design implications of sheet logic, my technique to form was about posture where there are 2 distinct forms: a cylinder and a rectangle. Although the language is not similar between the 2 forms they communicate where they both stay true to primitive geometry.

The dressing room and washrooms are placed across the ground floor with the sandbox on the same level. Taking the stairs or elevator you can find a seating area to relax and lastly the 3rd floor you can find a viewing platform facing the ocean. This flowing layout allows occupants to explore the space in a free manner while accessing distinct functions through multiple avenues of space.

The ground condition is a planar organization where the boulders lower itself to the ground to further extend the contrast between the two geometries. The boulders are scattered across the site to act as seating around the area creating the subtle effect of being pulled un to the bathroom facility.

Process of oven-baked clay model

Oven-Baked Clay Model

I n t e r w e a v e

2020 Barbara G. Laurie Student Design Competition Finalist

Honorable Mention: ACADIA + AUTODESK + NOMA Computational Design Award

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Driven by Oakland’s indispensable cultural history the building is more than just a node in the urban fabric but a manifestation of the tangible and intangible networks that extend itself beyond physical presence. The objective of this project was to create a community cultural hub that could combat the various environmental and social challenges of the East Oakland site. The aim was also to bridge the division of the green network through vegetation as well as the redirection and restoration of the Arryo Viejo creek.

To allow for accessibility and encourage permeability of flow, we defined two distinct forms that are connected at the cultural hub level. The sloping effect that resulted in a terracing form provides opportunity for social interaction at different levels and optimizes sunlight for harvesting solar energy. The creek flows throughout the heart of our building, creating a thriving environment of vegetation and natural species, connecting to larger streams and extending the current greenways in Deep East Oakland.

Informed by “renovation and revival” strategies to preserve the existing aesthetic of East Oakland and seamlessly blending the old and new without creating any visual or psychological barriers, we wanted to recognize Oakland’s rich culture and diversity which has the power to incur real change and create more healthy and equitable futures.

Andrea De Bernardini, Angela Zhang, David Park, David Law, Lukas Ewing, Rebecca Li, Tarnjeet Lalh, & Zhenyi Zhou

Rammed Earth : soundproof and excellent thermal mass qualities + affordable and sustainable resource.

Ground Floor: outdoor terraces + mural walls serves as a space between residential and commerical wings to create cohesiveness

Ground Floor: creek + courtyard to bridge the division of the green network through restoration of the Arroyo Viejo creek

Ground Floor: courtyard + cafe strategically designed to open up spaces to central creek and greenway

L a u n d r y H a u s

1st Place Mixed-Use Multi-Family Division | The U.S Department of Energy Solar Decathlon

Collaborators: Third Quadrant Team

Changing climate, an attainable housing crisis, and an aging building stock are some of the many challenges Vancouver’s housing market faces. The Laundry Haus project, a low carbon impact retrofit of a historic building at the end of its service life, envisions what could be achieved with modernized mixed-use zoning. Laundry Haus is a high performance retrofit of a historic laundry facility located in the Mt. Pleasant neighbourhood of Vancouver currently zoned for light industrial use and bordered by light industrial, commercial, and residential districts.

A couple, with their toddler in tow, leave their two-bedroom unit onto their front porch and greet their neighbors as they stroll past their porches through the third storey roof garden. Other residents are drinking their morning coffees and admiring the mountain views to the north. They descend the stairs, check their daughter into the second floor community daycare and make their way down into the atrium of the building where fresh market stalls are set up every day. They enjoy their morning coffee while seated in the first-floor cafe, and then go their separate ways; he walks over to the adjacent coworking space, while she retrieves her bike from the locker and rides south down the Ontario bikeway to the seawall and off to work.

Lifecycle Analysis

Residential Section