Leyi Han Portfolio by leyihan

PORTFOLIO

LEYI HAN SELECTED WORKS 2022 - 2023

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THE STEEL NECKLACE

MOBILE HOME

CULINARY INSTITUTE

THE RIPPLE

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01 THE STEEL NECKLACE Professor

Partner

Academic Term

Jared Abraham

Isabella Shi

2023 Fall

MANIFESTO

This project attempts to create community engagement at different scales, from neighborhood to regional to city, to empower less-privileged, marginalized groups in Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh, a city revitalized after deindustrialization

Hybrid Mashup 1 CIDCO Housing + Gramsci Monument

Hybrid Mashup 2 Urban Kitchen + Gramsci Monument

and population decline, is currently facing problems including gentrification, inequality and food insecurity in its low-income neighborhoods.

FORM EXPLORATION The exploration of architectural form and spatial organization started from analyzing

Deriving from Pittsburgh’s rich history of labor

three precedents: Urban Kitchen (Peru), CIDCO Housing (India), and Gramsci Monument

movements and solidarity across different groups,

(New York). Combining the temporariness of the Gramsci Monument, the modular units

three sites (Strip District, Hill District and Herr’s Island)

of the CIDCO Housing and the social interactions of the Urban Kitchens, two hybrid

were selected as nodes for community and social

mashups were created to inspire design.

engagement.

STRIP DISTRICT

HILL DISTRICT

HERR’S ISLAND

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STRIP DISTRICT

ACTIVISM HUB Blurring the boundaries within public spaces, the strip district project provides assembly performance and workspaces for unionizing workers and their allies, and temporary housing for labor activists and workers on strike to facilitate their activism to create a community for working class people. Situated within an industrial zone, the project is an adaptive reuse of an abandoned warehouse. Implementing mobile walls, foldable panels and accordion roofs, spaces such as the amphitheater could be turned into an enclosed theater or an indoor assembly space to suit flexible needs. An interconnected complex of workspaces crawls within the steel frame of the original warehouse, including workshops, publication center, printing shop, art studios. The upper floors are composed of modular housing units. The openness of the space enables workers and residents to observe and engage in mingled activities.

ADAPTIVE REUSE

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PHYSICAL MODEL

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SEASONAL USES

HILL DISTRICT

COMMUNITY CENTER The Hill District is a low-income neighbourhood near Downtown Pittsburgh. It is marginalized due to a history of systematic discrimination. The goal is to create a catered, multi-use space for the Hill District neighborhood that is also run by its black community. The project is built on a physical slope. We adopted wide terrace stairs as the main circulation gesture across the site. connect The scaffolding system surrounding the building provides connections between spaces and occupiable roofs that function as dining, basketball court, and a small skate park. The system of steel scaffolding, polycarbonate sheets and inflatable roof adapts to seasonal uses.

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HERR’S ISLAND

CO-OP This project is a co-op neighborhood where the housing is collectively owned and managed by its residents who face gentrification in other urban areas. It sits next to an abandoned railroad bridge on herr’s island, which would be turned into a pedestrian bridge that connects the neighborhood to the strip district on the other side of the river. In order to help residents sustain themselves and solve problems of food security, the terraced platforms are turned into community gardens and used to cultivate crops. The neighborhood becomes an experimental ground and educational center for organic farming practices. The bridge serves as a farmer’s market for local pittsburgh farmers to gather and engage with these residents.

Single + Single

Family + Single

Multi-generational family

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ADAPTIVE REUSE

MOBILE HOUSING Professor

Academic Term

Jared Abraham

2022 Spring

This project creates a system of affordable housing that could be assembled in different configurations, adapting to different family sizes and needs. Based on Detroit, the building is an adpative re-use of the abandoned factory of Fisher 21.

PRECEDENT HYBRID MASHUP Nagakin Capsule Tower + Frontier 200

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Each individual/family owns a single unit, and these units come together to form common public spaces for work and recreation. The units should be flexible in size/building type and versatile in function. The configuration of the units should evolve through time as new communities form and old ones break down. Eventually there is potential for the owners of these mobile homes could establish a self-running commune in which the production of goods and services takes place within for the public interest.

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03 CULINARY INSTITUTE Professor

Partner

Academic Term

Elijah Hughes

Mingyang Zhu

2022 Fall

MANIFESTO Situated in Frick Park, this culinary institute combines culinary education with farming practices, blending crop cultivation with cooking explorations. It is based on the chef Dan Barber’s cooking ideology of “farm to table“, cultivating and maintaining the natural flavors of organic agricultural produce. MEAT

While farmlands and kitchens are geographically separate in conventional processes of production, this project removes the barri-

LIVESTOCK

ers between classrooms and farms, and uses

MANURE

CROPS

NEW VARIANTS

NEW FLAVORS

circular forms to align educational spaces

BLUE HILL

around farming spaces.

LOCAL FARMERS

BETTER FODDER

EXPERIMENT

DAN BARBER FARM TO TABLE

SCIENTISTS

INNOVATION CHEFS

INCOME

MEAT

LIVESTOCK

MANURE

CROPS

NEW VARIANTS

NEW FLAVORS

BLUE HILL BETTER FODDER

LOCAL FARMERS EXPERIMENT

DAN BARBER FARM TO TABLE

SCIENTISTS INCOME

INNOVATION CHEFS

LABS

KITCHEN

ORGANIC FARM LOCAL FARMER

RESTAURANT

TABLE

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FORM EXPLORATION

Situated in Frick Park, this culinary institute combines culinary education with farming practices, blending crop cultivation with cooking explorations. It is based on the chef Dan Barber’s cooking ideology of “farm to table“, cultivating and maintaining the natural flavors of organic agricultural produce. While farmlands and kitchens are geographically separate in conventional processes of production, this project removes the barriers between classrooms and farms, and uses circular forms to align educational spaces around farming spaces.

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WATERCOLOR Making quick watercolor sketches on site while travelling is a huge hobby of mine. It enables me to capture my first impressions of the place with lively, minimal strokes.

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TECHNICAL DRAWINGS Internship at BIAD

Material & Assembly

WALL CONSTRUCTION SECTION DETAIL

WOODEN FRAME CONSTRTUCTION SYSTEM

STEEL FRAME SYSTEM

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04 THE RIPPLING EFFECT THE LAST NUCLEAR BOMB MEMORIAL Partners

Academic Term

Isabella Shi

2023 Fall

Mingyang Zhu

STORYBOARD

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