TOMMY LEE
Tommy Lee
Residential
Home and Retreat
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Yale School of Architecture / Building Project Group work (Team of 6) / Spring 2022
Lake View Painter’s House
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Competition / Collaborative work (2 people) / Fall 2022
Loop House
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UC Berkeley CED / Introduction to Architecture Studio 1 Individual and Collaborative
Public Buildings
Isolated Openess
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Yale School of Architecture / Core I Studio / Individual work / Fall 2022
Boolean Auditorium
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UC Berkeley CED / Introduction to Architecture Studio 2 / Individual work / Spring 2022
Other works
Gunta Stölzl Representation
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Reciplate
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Home and Retreat Yale School of Architecture / Building Project Group work (Team of 6) / Spring 2022 Critic: Adam Hopfner, Ming Thompson
Home and Retreat is in collaboration with Friends Center for Children at New Haven to provide housing for teachers (single mothers) and their children. Our house is to facilitate and celebrate the everyday lives of the mothers and children who will call it home. Entry circulation is oriented along a linear “cubby wall” that contains a variety of functions, becoming not only a device to ease the lives of mothers, but also a place of exploration and discovery for children. Additionally, the cubby wall divides the common kitchen from the families’ private living spaces, allowing for privacy and engagement with both one another and the site’s forest landscape.
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Home and Retreat
Home and Retreat
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Site: A Retreat for the Mothers The site is situated at 73 Howard Street in New Haven, CT, nestled alongside a tranquil forested expanse that characterizes an enclave of understated development within the urban landscape. Home and Retreat envisions itself as a pivotal threshold bridging the domains of daycare work with the comforting embrace of home for mothers, all while seamlessly integrating with the neighboring communal green space that fosters a sense of shared community and natural serenity.
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Ownership To provide both families with a sense of complete ownership of the house, while also promoting harmonious coexistence, the family spaces are strategically organized across two floors. This arrangement visually and acoustically divides the more private areas. Placing the dens one above the other guarantees that noisy activities are confined neither above nor below a bedroom.
2F Plan - The Living Space for 2nd Family.
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1F Plan - The Shared Space and The Living Space for 1st Family
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The Cubby Wall The linear cubby wall serves as the architectural foundation that organizes and divides the distinction between common and private spaces, catering to both mothers and their children. It contains functions including a staircase, storage, low-seating bench, desk, utilities, and eating nook. As it expands from one end of the house to the other side and eventually extends to the outdoors, it serves as the link that unites two families into a single co-living entity.
Study models of the cubby wall.
Home and Retreat
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The Cubby Wall Situated within the greater context of the site, Home and Retreat operates as a threshold between work and home, between the outside world and the forthcoming community. As the first visible house of the community, it is critical that the house creates an arrival sequence that leads towards the interior green space. Through the interplay between architecture, community, and interior spatial layout, Home and Retreat cultivates a sense of respite, safety, and support for the mothers and children who will live here. The interweaving of exterior and interior, shared and private, resonates deeply within Home and Retreat, imbuing it with the potential to not only shape individual lives but also foster a sense of unity and belonging within the community at large.
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The roof steps down from two stories to one story, giving the sense that it is dissolving into the landscape.
The interior of 1st Floor.
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Lake View Painter’s House Competition Collaborative work (2 people) / Fall 2022 Role: Co-leader
Located in Latvia, the project is a temporary home and workshop for two painters’ families, providing a versatile space that accommodates the collective working space and the privacy of both families. The house focuses on the flexiblity in terms of the strategy of sptial organization, while simultaneously aims to capture the lake view.
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Residential
Lake View Painter’s House
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Conceptual development The boundary between private and public does not need to be a solid wall, it can be a deliberate architectural experience that enhances spatial quality. Having a shared workshop as a buffer between the private spaces for two painter’s families creates a gradient. With the interior level differences, spaces can be read differently while remaining in the same space. Both families can enjoy the framed lake view, bringing the two families together into one instead of two individual families.
The site sits in between the lake, a forest, and a country road, creating intersections of conditions consisting of sights, access, and the environment.
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The Workshop and The Lake Private spaces are located at two ends of the form with the shared workshop in between. With the sliding doors and additional lofted space, the painters can work individually or collaboratively according to their needs. The apertures frame the lake view while keeping the equity between the two families in mind, creating an equal yet slightly different experience for both families.
1F Plan
Lake View Painter’s House
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Spatial Unfolding The organization of the partition walls with a tilted angle resembles a spatial layering of an otherwise straight line, rendering the movement an experience of unfolding spatial layers.
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Residential
Lake View Painter’s House
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Loop House UC Berkeley CED, Introduction to Architecture Studio 1 Individual and Collaborative work (2 People) / Fall 2021 Critic: Raveevarn Choksombatchai
The project conceives architecture from the inside out through two phases of the thought process. Case Study: Extract and develop architectural ideas based on the analysis of the precedent, Casa Poli by Pezo von Ellrichshausen.Represent the ideas as generators for subsequent architectures through, formal operations. Loop House: Based on the formal logic and spatial configuration of the previous project - the duplex, the duplex is to be reduced to a single dwelling in size and scope. Additionally, a more public and community-based program is added to the site. 15
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Loop House
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Case Study - Casa Poli The assigned precedent for this project is Casa Poli by Pezo von Ellrichshausen. The project focused on the operative terms derived from its system of movement. The system stems from the pushed-back apertures as the resultant space serves as the base of the system.
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1F Service Space
2F Service Space
1F Aperture
2F Aperture
The model is developed from the operative terms, Connecting and Receding. Connecting the joints to create a continous movement; receding ap ertures complement the interior spatial transition.
Loop House
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Loop House The Loop House combines a public bar and a private dwelling for the night owl, who is very sensitive to sunlight. The house features looping movements for public, private and shared use, simultaneously addresses the strategies to the needs of the dweller and the bar.
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All the movement starts from the center courtyard, then split into public and private movement. Both are mostly separated to ensure the flow of the space and the dweller’s privacy.
Loop House
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The recessed public easement serves as the
The courtyard as a shared public open space
The form follows the movement intended for the
entrance to the Loop House
is also the separation between the bar and the
design to achieve a more dynamic look.
private dwelling space
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The rooftop has two separated access points,
From the entrance to the rooftop, together they
which are for both the bar visitors and the dweller
from a looping movement.
respectively.
Loop House
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Isolated Openess Yale School of Architecture / Core I Studio Individual work / Fall 2022 Critic: Nicholas McDermott
Isolated Openness is a daycare and a community center that locates in Gaibandha, Bangladesh. The site is surrounded by farmlands and isolated by the river streams. The project created isolated openness from the outside in, starting from the river stream, to farmlands, to the ground mounts around the building, and finally, to the central elevated spiritual space emphasized by the lightwell above. The formal strategy of following a grid full of circles helps create isolated spatial islands while the sectional conditions connect spaces, hence achieving openness inside the seemingly enclosed building.
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Isolated Openness
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Viewfinder: Projected Collage Designing an architectural space that originates in a form of representation: image. Using the systems of projection from the original image, the materiality and volume found in virtual space will be translated to physical space through the geometric precision of projection and drawing. Each of the projections is selected because of the spatial qualities and strategies the collages implemented and expressed. Original image: Conservatoire d’Aubervilliers by Agence Chochon-Pierre.
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Public Buildings
Isolated Openness
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Spacefinder: Perspectival Section Using perspectival drawings as a tool and medium to extract spatial qualities and relationships in the previous Viewfinder projects and to explore how architecture inherently positions people in relation to each other and frames views.
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Plan, unplanned The spatial strategy following a grid of circles and tangent lines between the circle opens up the potential of having spatial ‘islands.’ Thinking Vertically, the strategy also hints at the vertical relationships in spaces as well as programmatic development.
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Public Buildings
Isolated Openness
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Isolated Openess The site is in Gaibandha, Bangladesh, a relatively flat landscape surrounded by more open space - farmlands and river streams. Zooming in, the site lack of gathering space for the community and educational facilities for children. The project hence is a multi-purpose building that houses a community center and a daycare. Following the spatial strategies cultivated through the previous studies of sections and plans, the project aims to reflect the unique site condition by having an interior isolated openness. From the ground dike for reducing flood damage, a series of columns at the perimeter, to the centered skylight, the layering of ‘enclosures’ corresponds to the site through a spatial ideology and formal language.
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The site is isolated by the river streams and farmlands.
The center raised platform concludes the isolated openess.
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Boolean Auditorium UC Berkeley CED, Introduction to Architecture Studio 2 Individual work / Spring 2022 Critic: Andrew Atwood
The premise of this project follows the formula of Form = Shape + Structure. Structure can be understood as the organizational ideas that bring order and hierarchy to form, space, program, and materiality. Shape is the exterior contour or outline of something. It gives a general sense of an object’s bounding condition. The project started with a Boolean operation between a cross and a cube. Together with the site boundary serve as the Shape element. The intersected parts of the shapes would be the auditorium, while the non-intersecting is the circulation. The programs are categorized into gathering spaces, working spaces, and auditorium-related spaces. The working area serves as buffer zones between gathering spaces and the auditorium, creating a smooth programmatic transition. 33
Public Buildings
Boolean Auditorium
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Warm-up: Site Shaping Site as the physical context is a shape that would contribute to teh design. Having three nested rectangles perform as the Shape element, the project aims to create connections between the vacant space, roads, and boundaries, while accommodating different events within the neighborhood.
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Shape, A Boolean Auditorium Using three 3D shapes as a means to study the form and as a prompt to respond to the site. The shapes here serve as the conceptual boundaries of programs, which would be reflected in the overall design. Within the collision of a cross prism with a cube, the programs are distributed with their relationships in mind among the 8-story tall building.
Intersection Auditorium
Difference Circulation
Remainder Other Programs
Program adjacencies based on the transitioning spatial experience. Boolean Auditorium
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Site, Context Site as the social and cultural context would make designs develop correspondingly to the site conditions, with programs and forms satisfying specific needs and design purposes.
The intersection is where the most
22nd Street in Oakland, CA
traffic would occur.
The west side is mainly residential housing.
The east side consists of low-rise buildings,
The design would serve as the buffer between
providing an urban setting view.
the houses and the intersection.
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The site is at Telegraph Ave and
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Structure, An Underlying Order Structure describes the organizational ideas that bring order and hierarchy to a building. The rotated grid references the previous Shape study, creating an order underlying the elements throughout the building.
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1F Plan. Lobby spaces have access points in relation
3F Plan. Office and commercial spaces that sit between
to the site and point directly toward the central core
the gathering space (located on the 1st and 2nd floor)
circulation.
and the auditorium (located on the 5th to 7th floor).
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5F Plan. The auditorium is the intersection of the shapes
8F Plan. Features the “residue” of the auditorium on the
and the organizational product of the Structure.
7th floor with the skylight corresponding to Shape.
Boolean Auditorium
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Site, Form, Shape, and Structure The project is the product of the process that breaks down architecture into the site, shapes, and structural elements that each correlated with another and developed concurrently - Thinking about architecture externally in forms and internally in programs.
8th floor rendered view featuring the residue of the auditorium.
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The gathering space next to the auditorium on 5th floor.
Boolean Auditorium
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Other Works
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Other Works
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Gunta Stölzl Representation The project revolves around the pre-selected Bauhaus project - Wall Hanging by Gunta Stölzl. It seeks to discover the fascinating soul of Bauhaus design by capturing the characteristics and elements through model studies. The textile is divided into three different layers and each layer is into two distinct groups, the colored Solids, and the colorless Voids. Each composition is projected onto the three sides of the cuboid. The concept is to represent the textile in a 3D perspective to display the logic of spatial relationships in different blocks of colors without losing the original work’s nature.
Solids
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Other Works
Voids
Composite
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Reciplate Architectural Institute of Japan (AIJ) / Student Summer Seminar (SSS) Group Project (Team of 6) / Summer 2018
The main topic of this seminar is to create a structural art with lightweight modular units through the characteristics of aggregation and accumulation. Reciplate consists of paper plates, straws, and skewers, in which the precise position and length were carefully analyzed. A deliberate focus on construction was also deployed to ensure the stability of the structure, as our goal was to have a private space for people to stay inside peacefully - the plates reduce noises, block direct sunlight, and let the air flow through between the units, resulting in a personal pavilion.
Best Performance Award
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Back
The positions of holes allow optimal load capacity from skewers.
The straws which the skewers passed through keep the distance between plates consistent.
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Other Works
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Tommy Lee 978 908 8970 tommy.lee@yale.edu www.leetommy.com