SO YO U N G L EE,
A I A , C D T, N C A R B , L E E D A P B D + C
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SO YO U N G L EE,
A I A , C D T, N C A R B , L E E D A P B D + C
Architect So Young has over 15 years of experience that ranges commercial, residential, healthcare and higher education projects as a designer at prominent firms in Chicago and San Francisco. So Young’s projects include 500 Folsom Residential Tower, a part of the Transbay redevelopment project while at Skidmore Owings & Merrill, Gensler’s NVIDIA Headquarters in Silicon Valley featuring the efficient triangular plans and parametric building enclosure modeling, the E D U C AT I O N
Illinois Institute of Technology Masters of Integrated Building Delivery, 2011 School of the Art Institute of Chicago
world’s tallest Jeddah Tower, and the first positive energy building Masdar Headquarters while working at Adrian Smith+ Gordon Gill Architecture. So Young is NCARB certified, a Licensed Architect in California & Illinois, an Autodesk Revit Certified Professional, a Construction Documents Technologist and a LEED AP BD+C.
EXPERIENCE
Twinsteps Architecture
Wight & Company
San Jose, CA
Chicago, IL
Project Architect / Project Manager
Firmwide BIM Manager
Oct 2020 - Present
Nov 2011 – May 2013
HOK
bKL Architecture / Magellan Development
San Francisco, CA
Chicago, IL
Architect
Architectural Designer
Jun 2017 - May 2020
Feb 2011 – Nov 2011
BAR Architects
Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture LLP
San Francisco, CA
Chicago, IL
Architect / Digital Design Lead
Architectural Designer
Nov 2015 – Jun 2017
Sep 2008 - May 2010
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP
Loebl Schlossman & Hackl
San Francisco, CA
Chicago, IL
Senior Digital Design Architect
Architectural Designer
Jun 2014 – Oct 2015
Mar 2007 – Sept 2008
Construction Specifications Institute 2013
Gensler
Lucien Lagrange Architects
National Association of Realtors 2016
San Francisco, CA
Chicago, IL
U.S. Green Building Council 2017
Designer / Technical
Architectural Designer
Master of Fine Arts, Interior Architecture, 2006 Ajou University Bachelor of Architecture, 2003 L I C E N S E / C E R T I F I C AT I O N S
LEED AP BD+C NCARB Certificate Licensed Architect in California & Illinois Construction Documents Technologist Revit Architecture Certified Professional Licensed Real Estate Broker in California & Illinois California Real Estate Certificate of Achievement, City College of San Francisco PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
American Institute of Architects 2012
Commercial Real Estate Women 2017-2020 San Francisco Planning and Urban Research
May 2013 – Jun 2014
Jan 2006 - Feb 2007
(SPUR) 2018-2019
VOLUNTEER E XPERIENCE
California Architects Board
SF Computational Design Institute
P U B L I C AT I O N S
Subject Matter Expert
Treasurer, Board Of Directors
Jun 2019 - Present
Aug 2015 - Present
National Council of Architectural
Habitat for Humanity Greater San Francisco
Registration Boards (NCARB)
Construction Volunteer
Subject Matter Expert
May 2016 – Present
Masdar Headquarters Project Customer Stories - Autodesk September 23, 2010 SPE A KING ENGAGEMENTS
Guest Lecturer: Introduction to Architecture School of the Art Institute of Chicago 2011 Panel Speaker: Advancing Computational Building Design Conference San Francisco 2017 AIA National Webinar: The Skill You Need: Career Resilience, 2020
Jul 2019 – Present AIA San Francisco Co-Chair, Design Technology Committee Apr 2020 – Present
City and County of San Francisco Workshop Volunteer @ Pathways to Citizenship Initiative Dec 2017 – Present
Home Tour Docent May 2014 - Present
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PROJEC TS
Stanford Center for Academic Medicine Palo Alto, CA, US This center for academic medicine represents an ambitious effort to provide disparate research disciplines with a common, collaborative environment. Team’s integrated design services included architecture, landscape architecture, sustainability consulting, interior design, strategic planning, structural engineering and MEP engineering. The location’s mild Mediterranean climate and an adjacent nature preserve inspired the team to develop a master plan for the three buildings to act as an extension of the arboretum experience by featuring connected outdoor spaces. The narrow wings envelop a courtyard providing diverse settings for collaboration near the woods and in plazas, balconies, walkways, porches and terraces. Internally, the workplace promotes interaction between medical specialists and the outdoor environment.
4 LEED Certified
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Confidential Project China The 309.65m tower consists of 56 office floors, including the ground-level lobby and the Level 41 skylobby, totaling 117,695 square meters in gross floor area (GFA). The 150.75m second tower consists of 34 residential floors totaling 50,067 square meters in GFA. The complex also includes 36,000 square meters of retail on the north and southeast parts of the site.
4 LEED Certified
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PROJEC TS
4 500 Folsom Residential Tower San Francisco Office of Community Investment and Infrastructure ( SFOCII) San Francisco, CA, US The project is comprised of a tower flanked by two lower volumes. It will house 456 market rate units, 114 affordable units, shared open spaces and amenities, and retail along Folsom street. Although it will be constructed as one building, 500 Folsom will have the appearance of two low-rise buildings bracketing a high-rise tower. The design reinforces the public realm in its architectural expression, with open balconies and a sense of porosity that is integrated into the ground level and above grade into the podium and tower.
4 LEED Certified
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NVIDIA Headquarters Santa Clara, CA, US This Silicon Valley pioneer sought a corporate headquarters that reflected its core belief in people as its greatest asset. The 250,000-square-foot floor plan of this triangular building is designed around how people move, demonstrating design from the inside out. Oversized platforms replace stairways as vertical connectors and serve to stage impromptu meetings and interactions. The building’s sculptural roof, informed by the interior planning, creates large, vaulted spaces along with more intimate areas where private, focused work occurs. Skylights bring ample diffused daylight into the building, creating an efficient and uplifting work environment, one poised to make its mark in the Silicon Valley landscape.
4 LEED Certified
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Jeddah Tower (fka Kingdom Tower) Jeddah Economic Company Jeddah, Saudi Aribia At over 1,000 meters (3,280 feet) and a total construction area of 530,000 square meters (5.7 million square feet), Kingdom Tower will be the centerpiece and first construction phase of the $20 billion Kingdom City development in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, near the Red Sea.
4 LEED Certified
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Masdar Headquarters Abu Dhabi, UAE Masdar Headquarters will be the world’s first mixed-use, positive-energy building, using sustainable design strategies and systems to produce more energy than it consumes. The project is the centerpiece of Masdar City, a zero-waste, zero-carbon-emission development outside Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates.
4 LEED Certified
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