work samples | 2013-2015 | june lee
"The passing of time, the speed of the seasons, thechanging of weather, the growth of the intelligence and the ageing of the body are usually compensated for by architecture, rather than used as constituent parts of a menu for extending the value and usefulness of human life." Cedric Price
CONTENTS HIDDEN IS OMNIPRESENCE
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A hidden room
SUBURBANURBANURBAN
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Islands of domesticity
NOCC
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Conditioning the neighborhood
DISORDER
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The space inbetween
THE FILTER
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The invisible landscape of toxicity
“IT’S COMPLICATED” WITH PIXEL
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The felt-ball gets digital
A (KINDA) SPACE OPERA
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Comic relief
DOVERCOURT STATION
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The revival of a post-industrial wild
SENDAI MEDIATEQUE
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Analytique Redux
GARBAGE LIBRARY
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A rare books library
BATHYSPHERE The fifth ecology of Brooklyn
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JUNE LEE
jlee2@gsd.harvard.edu 617 368 0287
EDUCATION
WORK
Harvard University
Ten to One (Designer), Brooklyn, NY Assisting office with high end residential project in Brooklyn 10.2015 to present
Master of Architecture Candidate 2014 to 2015
The University of Toronto
Honours BA with Distinction in Architectural Design and Fine Art History 2007 to 2013
Earl Haig Secondary School
Claude Watson Arts Program (Dance Major) 2003 to 2007
ACHIEVEMENTS GSD Grant Harvard University, 09.2014 The W.J. McAndrew Family Scholarship, The University of Toronto, 09.2013 Works exhibited at The Eyeball, The University of Toronto’s annual art show, 12.2012 The Teetzel Travel Award, The University of Toronto, 07.2012 The Rilla Robertson Scholarship, The University of Toronto, 08.2011 Photography published in the UC Review Magazine, The University of Toronto, 08.2010 & 08.2012
Ten to One (Summer Intern), Brooklyn, NY Worked on competition entry for a community work space in Gowanus Responsible for research, mapping, diagrams and renderings 06.2015 to 08.2015 WORKshop Inc. Design Centre and Gallery (Project Designer), Toronto, ON Involved with various design projects for Workshop and Blanc de Chine 08.2013 to 05.2014 WORKshop Inc. Design Centre and Gallery (Intern), Toronto, ON Assisted manager in retail sector of the gallery Developed conceptual drawings for clothing design at Blanc de Chine 01. to 08. 2013 Wooridongin Architects (Intern), Seoul, South Korea Involved in a project for a community centre for the visually impaired Responsible for producing study models of the facade and roof garden 06. 2012 Unsangdong Architects (Intern), Seoul, South Korea Involved in a project for a mixed-use complex in Seoul Responsible for in depth research of precedents and design concepts 05.2012 Vapiano (Pasta Cook), London, UK Responsible for the maintenance and organization of the pasta section Responsible for the production of quick and high quality dishes 03. to 06.2009 Kiwe Kitchen (Garde Manger), Toronto, ON Responsible for the maintenance and organization of the cold side, appetizers and desserts Worked in catering for private and corporate events Demonstrated ability to work in a fast paced, high stress environment 08. 2008 to 02. 2009
HIDDEN IS OMNIPRESENCE ACADEMIC WORK AT HARVARD GSD, FALL 2014 INSTRUCTOR MEGAN PANZANO "It is our positioning within space, both as the point of perspectival access to space, but also as an object for others in space, that gives the subject any coherent identity. The subject’s relation to its own body provides it with basic spatial concepts and terms by which it can reflect on its own position. Form and size, direction, centredness, location, dimension and orientation are derived from the perceptual relation the subject has to and in space" Elizabeth Grosz This project involves designing a group of five rooms, one of which seems to be hidden from the other four. The program requires providing a means of access to the hidden room while controlling the degree to which the room becomes vulnerable to disclosure. The "hidden room" is revealed by hyper-relativity and self-consciousness; a state of extreme distraction through relative conditions of change. Constant self-analysis becomes a lure away from everything else. Nothing can exist but absolute self-awareness. The dimensions of each room are relative to the human body and to each other, where experience becomes self-perception. The changes in scale result in absolute attention to one’s body relative to the space. The revealing of the hidden room is dependent on orientation; one defines the existence of the hidden and the other defines the awareness of the hidden through apertures that reveal the existence of an exterior.
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SUBURBANURBANURBAN ACADEMIC WORK AT HARVARD GSD, FALL 2014 INSTRUCTOR MEGAN PANZANO
TYPOLOGIES OF ACCESS
This project introduces the site in the conceptualization of architecture. It involves the design of the space between buildings and the effects of their relationship on the urban fabric and the architectural object. Borrowing from Rem Koolhaas and Pier Vittorio Aureli, I attempted to recontetualize their discussion of the city block as an island attempting to assert its own autonomy within the urban fabric. It is this kind of multiplicity through self-assertion that I wanted to explore, and how this will affect a typical suburban environment. What will happen if the regularities of the typical suburban block are displaced by difference? What will happen to the Somerville city block when it is packed with the density of Kowloon, or Manhattan? What happens to a city when the conditions of difference flood its grid? Ultimately, Suburbanurbanurban is an attempt to reveal what would happen when the ubiquity of something as typical as a New England suburban home begins to propagate difference. It unifies extreme conditions of the urban and suburban to create a kind of organized chaos which is neither distinctly urban nor suburban. Through difference, the ubiquity of these two very typical houses and their arrangement would completely reposition the sense of calm typified in the domesticity of suburbia.
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NOCC ACADEMIC WORK AT HARVARD GSD, WINTER 2015 INSTRUCTOR JEFFRY BURCHARD
In the spirit of the Boston Olympic bid and in an effort to increase community support, this project imagines the development of a hypothetical Neighborhood Olympic Conditioning Center (NOCC). As opposed to an official (and exclusive) Olympic Training Center, the NOCC serves as an ancillary cond-tioning ground for some events, as well as a recreation / exercise facility for the community. I was interested in the history of Charlestown and the tension between permanence and transience that exists in most, if not all cities. My preliminary research began with brief mapping exercise examining the malleability of materials, the speed of traffic and the oldest buildings and streets in Boston. From this excercise, I discovered that the site (Bunker Hill in Charlestown) yielded the slowest traffic, hardest materials and the oldest tructures in all of Boston. From this relationship between the slow, hard and old, I gathered the impression that I should I reflect upon the historical and physical fabric of the neighborhood. This project attempts to respond to these observations by paying homage to the history and urban fabric of Charlestown and respond to the vernacular traditions of the neighbourhood. My first move was to submerge most of the building so that it appears smaller than the neighbouring structures. This reduction in scale would speak of the loss of something, the loss of a sense of place and of history, and suggest the life of what used to occupy the site before it was paved into a parking lot. A new path also reconnects the top and bottom of the hill, simultaneously allowing pedestrians to view the Olympic activities and ensuring the privacy of the athletes. The building also takes on the material palette of the neighbourhood and ultimately camouflages into the neighbourhood.
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DISORDER ACADEMIC WORK AT THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN II INSTRUCTOR MATTHEW SPREMULLI This project is an attempt to define the ambiguous space which exists in between two disparate environments. Inserted into the quiet setting of the staircase at 1 Spadina Cresent, Disorder creates an atmosphere of physical and acoustic disorientation. The tubes disrupt the circulation of the staircase with a maze-like obstruction. The filtering of sound from outdoors creates a discomforting acoustic experience which in effect obscures the sense of being inside the stairwell at all, and begins to dissolve the barrier between inside and outside. in collaboration with Andrew MacMillan
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THE FILTER ACADEMIC WORK AT THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO HISTORY AND THEORY OF URBAN LANDSCAPE, FALL 2012 INSTRUCTOR JULIE BOGDANOWICZ The city is contaminated; it simultaneously breeds pollution and falls victim to the decomposed matters of its own wealth. Pollution is an ubiquitous presence in the post industrial city. It is something that we fear, loathe and attempt to eradicate with new technolgies, products and ideologies. Billions of dollars are spent on greening the city, but what is it doing? Rather than trying to escape pollution, we must initiate what David Gissen argues as a contemporary project which offers a more incisive and self-reflective approach that embraces our understanding of pollution’s true territorial dimension. To solve the problem with ‘sustainability’ alone is just not enough. IT IS RIDICULOUS TO HIDE FROM THE ARTIFACTS OF OUR OWN WASTE. This is my reaction against our delirious desire to eradicate and create pollution. It is a dust collector, in the guise of a billboard. The irony of this new kind of advertisment will not present a picture perfect image of consumerism but the real and otherwise invisible byproducts of consumption. The Filter, constructed out of dust filters, will trap and reveal the nasty stuff: what we don’t want to see. It will become a form of branding which frames urban detritus as a kind of product to be consumed. THE FILTER WILL COMMUNICATE ITS MESSAGE IN THE FAMILIAR LANGUAGE OF OUR SOCIAL BEING, BUT ITS DEPLOYMENT WILL CONFRONT US WITH OUR OWN FEARS.
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“IT’S COMPLICATED” WITH PIXEL PROFESSIONAL WORK, SUMMER 2013 This rug isn’t like any other felt-ball rug you have seen. Trust me, you won’t find this on Pinterest. My first project at WORKshop was to design a series of rugs made out of felt-balls. The constraints of the project were to stay within the gallery’s vision of bridging traditional and contemporary modes of life, and present a marketable product to be sold at the gallery. The pixel is the physical point, or the smallest discernable element within an image. It is associated with digital imaging and considered to be the most rudimentary component of a photograph. The felt-balls are made out of sheep’s wool, and hand woven in Nepal. They are common materials for traditional arts and crafts. By taking an image and equating each pixel to a single humble felt-ball, I attempted to create a peculiar hybridization of the digital and the traditional. The modest feltball was given a digital makeover, while the digital image was brought down to its most basic element.
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A (KINDA) SPACE OPERA ACADEMIC WORK AT THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO ARCHITECTURAL REPRESENTATION STUDIO II, FALL 2012 INSTRUCTOR KRISTINA LJUBANOVIC The premise of this project was to examine the kinetic and prosthetic relationship between an object and the human body. The project was divided into three parts: the analysis of the object through a series of drawings and the transformation of motion into an architectural environment, and the insertion of that environment into a comic.
These elevations and sections attempt to illustrate the force required to move against the structure of the corset and the dichotomy between tension and release: the sense of restraint upon the body caused by the corset as well as the expansion of the object caused by the body attempting to free itself.
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This sequence of movement diagrams reveals the most essential component of the exercise: where the lace is being unloosened. It also further explores the fluctuating relationship between tension and release explored in the first segment. In the most appropriate fashion, the sequence then becomes the stage for a space opera which plays off the tension versus relief dynamic exemplified throughout the entire exercise.
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DOVERCOURT STATION IN COLLABORATION WITH ANDREW MACMILLAN ACADEMIC WORK AT THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO, WINTER 2013
In Toronto’s near future, rail begins to fade as a priority method of transportation. The amorphous spread that is the urbanized condition and its continuous laying down of new roads and highways have displaced the train as the favoured method of shipping goods across the country. Rail has become obsolete; its interest was nostalgic, but we have forgotten the beauty of travelling by train in the automation of traveling by road. Yet, when we look down the old rail corridors, we see an opportunity to reconnect the city with the infrastructure of the past. The cross-walk at Dovercourt and Geary Avenues poses a number of safety problems related to both pedestrians and cycling. The underpass currently provides through access for vehicular traffic providing an informal route to the Allan Expressway. Visibility from the bottom of the underpass to the crosswalk is very poor.
NATIONAL NETWORK
REGIONAL NETWORK
Edmonton
Vancouver
Weston
Donlands
Winnipeg
Montreal Toronto
Dovercourt Etobicoke
Toronto West
Yonge Union
National TransNational Rail Network (active service lines and the
Riverdale Regional Transfer Stations Regional Rail Network (active service lines and the Greeline) Greenline Rail Network
The proposal at Dovercourt Station will green the portion of Dovercourt Street (from Geary to Dupont), and add three additional tracks to the existing rail infrastructure. A series of programmed shipping carts will be activated as a mobile community centre for urban agriculture education and research. zzzz
LOCAL NETWORK
THE BEGINNING
THE FIRST GROWTH
CUTTING BACK
ELEVATE
DUCK AND COVER
Mixed Use Rail
Small Transfer Station
Greenline Rail
Maintenance Shed
Active Service Line
Majo r Ar teries
Major Arteries
STOOP LOW TO REACH
LAYING DOWN THE TRACKS
TRANSFER STATION
Connective Green Space
Large Transfer Station Seasonal Transfer Station
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Education
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volunteer meeting
community dinner
utility room
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kitchen
bathroom
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The carts will configure themselves to form larger programs and events. Their flexibility will meet contextual changes such as seasonality and public interests, and involve a great deal of user participation. These programmatic diagrams do not suggest the limited scope of configurations but predict the possibilities: the potentials of which are limitless.
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By positioning what is at first a detached string of park spaces in a variety of conditions, a connective tissue can be sewn across the city. Along the length of the corridor, the layering of a variety of new programmatic conditions, impregnates the corridor with a self-sufficient flow of goods and services between nodal connections, the adjacent neighbourhoods, and the city at large turning the park into a truly regional mechanism.
local flow of goods and services regional flow of goods and services Dovercourt Station existing programs new programs
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The Transfer Station will contain programs which are necessary for the maintenance of a busy train station. The programs are arranged with special consideration to boundary conditions, which will affect a synergetic relationship between the interior and exterior; the activities occuring indoors will spill out onto the open space surrounding the Transfer Station. For example, the grand staircase will function as both an indoor and outdoor event space when weather permits. The building’s structure is informed by the existing trussing system of the underpass to create an impression that it has always been part of the landscape, Ultimately, the purpose of the building is to highlight existing conditions, and to emphasize the most crucial elements of the project: the proliferation, flexibility and dispersal of programs.
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ANALYTIQUE AND REDUX ACADEMIC WORK AT HARVARD GSD, WINTER 2015 INSTRUCTOR JEFFRY BURCHARD This series of diagrams suggest a re-examination of Toyo Ito’s Sendai Mediateque as a network of enclosures. Often known for resisting the homogenous space of modernism, the Mediateque is a building which attempts to blur boundaries between the interior and exterior, and space and program. While this pursuit is not new to the discourse of architecture, it has rarely been realized with success. This analytique first reveals the existence of walls in the Mediateque, elements which are hardly ever shown in graphic representations of the project. Then it argues that the Mediateque is about a different way of organizing space which, while appearing to be random and fluid, still creates distinct divisions between programs through enlosures.
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lobby, cafe, info
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gallery studios stacks reading rooms maintenance
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The redux resituates the Sendai Mediateque in the Back Bay Fens and amplifies the conditions observed in the analytique to eradicate the need for walls. The landscape is treated as one unified floorplate with dispersed tubes that contain a single program within each floor. Like the Sendai Mediateque, zones are formed according to programmatic needs.
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GARBAGE LIBRARY ACADEMIC WORK AT HARVARD GSD, WINTER 2015 INSTRUCTOR JEFFRY BURCHARD This project involves the creation of a rare books library in Back Bay Fens. It prompts essential questions about the architect’s responsibilities of building within natural conditions and how to foster a productive tension that mediates between the bucolic landscape as civic surface, and the building as object. Garbage library is a reconsideration of Back Bay’s past and present as a landfill, and a critique of the elitist institution of the library. Through excavation, insertion and re-fill, this project attempts to assert the significance of land and its history in the conception of architecture. Ultimately, the synthesis of landscape and architecture in the context of Back Bay is presented as an ironic relationship between the breadth of human knowledge and the decomposed matter of human consumption.
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BATHYSPHERE PROFESSIONAL WORK, TEN TO ONE, SUMMER 2015
The Bathysphere and the Fifth Ecology of Brooklyn is a phased, multi-planar, multi-field development strategy that consists of; buildable development rights above the ground and below the elevated train and roadway infrastructures of the Gowanus Canal Sewershed + Green and blue infrastructure which mitigates storm runoff from the tracks above and adjacent streets + Semi-pervious streets and sidewalks + Open ground level event and play spaces for activities such as playgrounds, cafes and fairs + Solar energy canopies above the elevated train and roadways + Sewage geothermal energy banks tapping the sewer mains below grade + CSO retention pools + CSO and storm water runoff mitigation. The Bathysphere, Phase 1, floats above the intersection of Smith and Huntington Streets, housing a Field Station, Event Space, Bath House as well as an Energy Bank for the sewage geothermal and solar micro-scale energy network. The Bathysphere is a pilot project meant to inspire similar community net zero projects across the Canal and beyond. The vast outside powers which have influenced the Gowanus Canal Sewershed will now be tapped and redistributed to be used to energize the Canal’s local constituents as well as public city life for everyone.
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