JESSIE KEH
About me
Con t ac t me phone / +852 9077 6332 (Hong Ko n g ) + 1 647 823 2508 (Canada) e mail/ je ssie ke hly @gmail.com
n a me/ KE H, J e ssie Lok Yi d a te o f b i rth/ 21 / 11 /1998
locat ion/ Hong Kong Toronto, ON, Canada
na ti o na l i t y/ Ca n a d ian
About A recent graduate with a BAs degree in Architectural Studies in Universit y of Toronto., I am currently pursuing architecture in pra ctice. With my passion and curiousit y in architecture and urban design, I am willing to work in various t ypes of projects.
Ed ucat ion 2 017 - 2 021 ( ex p e c t ed ) 2 012 - 2 017
U nive rsit y of Toronto (UofT) Bachelor of Arts in Architec tural Studies CGPA 3. 74/4.00
S t. Paul’s Conve nt School Hong Kong Diploma of Secondar y Education
E xp er ie nce s 202 0 - 2 021
U ofT Footprint Publication Des ign Direc t or Create graphics and illustration
U ofT Arc hite cture Me nt or Mentor mentees on school work and give advice
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American I nstiture of Arc hit ec t u re St u den t s (UofT) Sec ret ar y Organize documents for communication
U ofT Footprint Publication Graphic Des ign er Create graphics and illustration
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U ofT Hong Kong Studen t As soc iat ion’s Design er Design graphics for promotion on social media
School Clubs’ Art Dire ct or
Direct production of clubs’ activities, inlcuding poster design, video production and souvenir packaging.
S chool Clubs’ Photographe r Record activities’ essence for further promotion.
La nguage s
S o f t wa re
Cantonese
Adobe
Mother language English Advanced
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Mandarin Fluent
Sp ec ia litie s Modelling
Photoshop Illustrator Premiere Pro InDesign
Rhino Sketch Up Grasshopper
Lightroom
Vray
AutoCad
Microsoft Office Word Powerpoint Excel Mapping ArcMap/ArcGis Pro
Representation drawings Photomontage Model making Graphic design Illustration Video Editing
CONTENT Student Residence - IsoNation
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Student Learning Centre
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Project Facade
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Revolving Capsule
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Meridian Hill Park: History, Present and Future
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Neighborhood and Transportation
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Parametric Tower and Fabraication
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Student Residence Site: University of Toronto Year: 2020
The aim of this project is to design a student residential complex. It is required to consider mulitple programs, such as housing, social, dining and urba program. The complex is designed for 350 students. IsoNation is the linkage of each individual with the collaboration of the historic building, which was originally a bookstore. Each element seems to have no connection, and like islands on their own, but they can be united to create the harmony within them. Isolation and unition is happening at the same time. It is also a metaphor of uniting individual student in the residence. The residence aims to focus on personal space within the collective living environment.
The 4 elements comes together that create unition within isolation in the courtyard residence.
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The site is at the northwest corner of Spadina Avenue and Sussex Avenue. Approximately 2400m2 in size.
It is adjacent to Spadina Avenue to the east and bounded by an apartment building
Plan program The complex consists of 11 floors with a roof garden. The historical building is broken down into 2 floors, the dining hall on the ground floor and a reading room on the upper floor, corresponding to the context of a bookstore. A 2 storey café faces the main avenue to allow public to interact with the complex. The fitness room faces the courtyard of the building
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Program
Elevation (Spadia Avenue). Entrance of the complex and the cafe.
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Sectional Perspective. The mezzanine of the dining hall allows more skylight to enter the dining hall itself and the courtyard.
Elevation (Sussex Avenue). Feature staircase on the NW of the complex and the dining hall.
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Residential space
The residence consist of There are 358 beds in the residence with 3 unit types. The most common type of room is the double unit with a shared bathroom connecting the two private spaces of students. It maximized the personal space of students.
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Section of the units on the east wing of the building. The interaction of private and shared space can be visualized by cutting through the shared bathroom.
Zoomed-in plan of a typical floor.
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Public space
Ground plan. The ground level includes all the public program, including dining hall, cafe, fitness room, bike room and the lobby. The Zen Garden in the courtyard connects all the programs.
Dining hall with skylight immersing through the mezzanine to the glass roof.
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Perspective from the entrance of the complex.
Roof plan and Zen garden. The courtyard is paved in different tones of concrete, which mimics the gravel paving in Japanese zen garden. The pattern is the symbol of water elements, which is a metaphor of connection of the islands of the complex.
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Student Learning Centre Site: University of Toronto Year: 2018
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The objective of the project is to design a study space next to the Goldring Centre in Univeristy of Toronto. The project explores the folding qualitites in order to receive natural sunlight and create open spaces. This project carries the features to extent out of limitation, including the origami roof and the utilization of space by folding. The folding quality is shown exteriorly and interiorly. It aims to create a new, pleasant and unique study space for study and relaxation.
Grided landscape to create more leisure space around the building.
Section - Tilted roof to allow more natural light going through the building.
Sectional Perspective
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Development of Fold
Exploring the spatial possibilities of creating vertical walls with Yoshimura Fold.
Plan - Create spaces using folds along the grid
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Folded coponents forming spaces
Sketch model - Roof development
Final model - Use of transparent materisl to allow sunlight
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Project Facade
Experimental Research (Guided Distraction 2.0) Year: 2020 Group members: Daniel Lam, Jessie Keh, Jessica Tam, Michelle Choi Toronto, Hong Kong, Macau are three successful global cities, yet they failed to accommodate citizens’ basic needs. In Toronto, there is a clear need to address affordable housing, however, it is not considered as an integral part of the community to the same level of need as a library, or a community centre. In Hong Kong, the prolonged housing problems has led to ongoing income inequality. The government’s poor management towards the problem has added fuel to the foe, intensifying social movements. Similarly, in Macau, the government prioritizes the tourism industry, most of the land resources are used to develop casinos and hotels, while neglecting the root of the housing problem and attempting to silence the citizens through bribes. Therefore, the project looks into the contradictory relationship between the demand and implementation of housing. The facade of a building gives the fost impression to the public, which affects people’s perspective of viewing a specific type of housing. Based on our observation, there are usually a lot of objects seen on the facade of public housing, which gives a messy, unorganized impression to the general public. These objects are distracting the overall order of the facade, so we define them as distractions.
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An image that best represents public housing in the three respective cities is chosen. A grid is used to portray the layout of the building. Similar characteristics seen on a housing facade were chosen which includes windows, public spaces, and distractions.
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1: “Listen to the sound of the sheltered home, safe yet assuring “ The blocks are stacked up and the middle block is rotated to contrast the messy affordable housing facade and the minimalistic condo facade. 2: “Glamourous yet antique, Exciting yet dull. “ All the blocks are rotated to show different angles. The coloured lenses are added to symbolize the positive and negative perceptions of housing. Distractions are interpreted differently, some see it as a distraction and some don’t. 3: “That day people wanted a reform. “ We showed a wasteland that blocks collapsed and the lens fell. The goal is to change people’s perception on housing. The lenses should be taken away, so that distractions can be reevaluated. Distractions are always real, but lenses can be distorted.
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Final Experiment In the final experiment, the aim is to break through the stereotypical impression of distractions and reinterpret the distractions. A recipe is created to allow the audiences to feel the distractions solely by sound, which gives them the space to imagine their own definition of the distractions. The levels of distraction of the visual and audio can be very different. The reinterpretation of the distractions by the process of listening, categorizing, and creating provides an opportunity for the participants to be able to look closely at each distraction. Distractions are always real, but lenses can be distorted. Recipe
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The 25 variations of the facade shows the creativity and imagination of the participants. It also reflects the cultural influences on the definition of an idealistic image of home. A sound track is produced for each result to convey the contrast of visual and auditory distraction. At the first glance there is a sense of uncomfortability, but these facade designs are mostly generated based on the user’s ideal comfort.
YouTube playlist of the final outcome
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Revolving Capsule
Experimental Design (Competition Entry of Home 2020) Year: 2020 Group members: Jonathan Keh, Jessie Keh
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It is a privilege to choose what we are looking at from the window of our home in an overcrowding city. Apartment buildings are built closely to each other, which often make homes lose their view. In Hong Kong, it is not shocking to see the living room, kitchen or even washroom of the opposite building. What if we can turn away from the disturbance? Moreover, the traditional housing plan tends to design the living room with a better view. What if we can rotate the rooms for the same view? Base on the daily struggle and imagination, it is realized that a pleasing view may improve one’s psychological health. The project suggests an innovative housing typology to rethink the possibility of having a better view at home. in different cities, so everyone can choose their views.
In the Revolving Capsule, it allows rotation through the pole at the centre of the circular plan, so all the rooms can have the same panoramic view.
The capsule can be grouped and stacked up to form a building that gives flexibility to be situated in different cities, so everyone can choose their views.
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Unit Plan. Each unit utilizes the space by a central divider with sliding doors.
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Floor Plan. The centre is the communal space with an elevator and a staircase. Each unit will be surrounded by a mini garden, creating a urban forest.
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The rotational capsule building is situated in Hong Kong in the renderings, showing the utilization of using the rotational function in capturing the best views in different rooms at different time of a day. It also ensures security by turning away from disturbance and changing the opacity of the smartglass.
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Meridian Hill Park: History, Present and Future Meridian Hill Park, Washington D.C. Year: 2019 Meridian Hill Park in Washington D.C. is built in 1936. Meridian HIll has a sloping topography provides a commanding view to the Mall. Under the McMillan Plan, the government decided to build the park on Meridian Hill for cultural events and leisure activities. It locates at the 16th Avenue, perpendicular to the Mall, having a panaromic view towards Washington Monument. The park consists of lower and upper park The lower park consists of the 13 steps cascade and the upper park has a great terrance and huge lawn. Nowadays, the park accommodates leisure events such as yoga on weekend and cultural events like drum circles.
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The Past: From a leisure park to a stage for demonstratio
The intention of constructing a leisure park has become a stage for demonstration African-American since 1800s. Due to the construction of the park, the settlers wer for civil rights. Different protests were taken place in Meridian Hill Park, as to rea House has a symbol of people are ruling over the government. The park also h influences a new image of a civic park for people to voice out their demands. No
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n and protest. The reason traces back to when Meridian Hill is the settlement of re being evicted. In the 1960s, African-American started the movement of fighting assure their power on their land. Also, the panoramic quality of facing the White has a nickname ‘Malcolm X Park’. The movement and the nickname of the park ow, apart from leisure events, there are still some protests happening in the park.
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African-American Settlement
Black Panther Party related institution
Protest route
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The Future: An all-day civic park The park will be changing in the next 30 years under the force of population growth, increasing crime rate and increasing need of accessibility. The intention of the new design is to encounter the forces and create a civic and democratic space that allow multifunctional use for both day and night.
Lawn erosion
Circulation
New pavement design diagram
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Section A - Night
Section B - Day 40
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A new square is proposed on the lawn of the upper park. The paving emphasize the symbolic axial view of the Washington Monument. The square is paved with concrete tiles and embedded light to illuminate the park. The free space allows people to spread out and allow accommocate large crowd. It is not only for protests, but also the chance of having weekend market and concerts. A northern entrance is added to make the park more welcoming, while shaping the axial view of the Monument. The reviltalization of park as a civic and democratic space kept the qualities left by its historic events, while fulfilling the government’s original intention of developing a cultural park. Hence, symbolizing Washington D.C. as an inclusive city in the coming 30 years.
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Cluster diagram of different activities
Weekend Market
Concert
Protest
Detail plan in paving
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Neighborhood and Transportation Site Analysis Year: 2019
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The project is a site analysis of a 2kmx2km site located in Etobicoke North. The intersection of the busiest Highway 401 and 409 convinces parallel development of industrial and communities in Etobicoke North, and with the scarce choice of public transit, it emphasizes the reliance on automobiles in the area, thus increasing traffic flow of cars on road.
Site: Islinton Avenue and 401, Etobicoke North, Ontario, Canada
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Highways and local roads forming a network.
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Gradient to show traffic intensity of the site.
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500x500m close up of Highway 401 ramp.
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Proximity of bus stops and the surrounding buildings.
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Close up of the life of the 5 selected 200x200m areas.
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Analysis of the relationship between building types, road types and traffic of the 5 selected area.
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Documentary of the journey of 2 commuters commute back and commute out of the site.
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Routes taken by commuters commuting to, out of and pass by the site create a network to show the flexibility of using a car.
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Evaluation of roads accessible by cars versus by public transit; Suggestion of a new BRT route on the highway to maximize the benefit of non-car users.
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The objective of the project is to develop a parametric twisiting tower by Grasshopper. The project involves the fabrication by using various materials and techniques, such as laser cutting and 3D printing.
Parametric Tower and Fabracation
The design motive of the tower is the transformation of shapes in the process of twisting.
Year: 2019
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Laser cutting of wood as floor plates and veneer as facade.
Tower definition
Facade Details
Elevation
Section
1:500 Section
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Jessie Keh +1 647-823-2508 (Canada) +852 90776332 (Hong Kong) jessiekehly@gmail.com