bruno yeh
Education
Syracuse University, School of Architecture
Bachelor of Architecture, 3.91 GPA, 2022-27
Dean’s Scholarship, Invest in Success Scholarship, Dean’s List
Wilmington Friends School (WFS)
High School Diploma, 4.30 Weighted GPA, 2018-22
Wyeth Brothers Visual Arts Award, Charles W. Bush Stewardship Award
Work Experience
Architectural Intern
KGD Architecture (Kishimoto.Gordon.Dalaya PC) | May 2024 - August 2024
Led efforts to investigate Artificial Intelligence integration into current firm workflow for RFPs and current projects. Conducted community research to inform design approaches and representation, culminating in the creation of a mural for the Dominion Square Community Center. Assisted with 3D modeling and rendering based on construction and civil drawings as well as direct client feedback. Created additional drawing sheets, schedules and revisions in Revit while updating release forms. Engaged in project programming and tabulation updates based on meetings with clients.
Construction and Estimation Intern
BPGS Construction | June 2023 - August 2023
Assisted superintendent with formulating project plans. Corresponded with subcontractors to formulate and lead designbuild plans. Assisted with drawing takeoff, project estimation. Attended design and pre-construction meetings.
Maintenance Team Lead
Wilmington Friends School | Fall 2020 - Spring 2022
Collaborated with peers and senior partners to maintain building standards (interior and landscaping).
Skills
Software
Adobe Photoshop. Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Bluebeam Revu, Enscape, Grasshopper, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, Microsoft PowerPoint, Midjourney, Rhino 3D, Revit, Sketch-up, V-ray Renderer
Fabrication
Casting, Ceramics, CNC Milling, Hand-drafting, 3D-printing, Laser-cutting, Model-making, Photography, Plasma-cutting, Sketching, Woodworking
01
Urban Enfilade: Syracuse I-81 Redevelopment Housing Proposal
03
Submerged Serenity: Icelandic Micro-Thermal Bath
02
Human-Landscape Dialogue: Landform Analysis And System-ground Construct
04 Architecture as the Veil: Naqshe Jahan Square Runway
05
Sunken Forest: Peebles Island State Park Activity Center
Urban Enfilade: Syracuse I-81 Redevelopment Housing Proposal
What is it that defines the experience of communal housing? It’s running into an old friend in the stairwell. It’s hearing your neighbor sing in the shower slightly off key. While often thought of as daily friction, or even minor annoyances, it is the chance encounters and intimate adjacencies that bring communities together.
To encourage these moments of intimacy, each residential unit is framed by an exterior access corridor and a proportionate back garden. Interior rooms, separated by folding-door walls can be opened up; blurring public and private space. Unit types with unique garden sizes aggregate to join into larger shared sun-rooms. These spaces of contact encourage direct interactions between residents as the quality of space outside of units’ interiors are equally as important.
Open floors house communal amenities which are arranged to create pockets of shared space on the “lawn”. These different conditions allow residents to live and occupy the building as they choose while still maintaining privacy if desired. On a site-wide scale, the buildings act as narrow walls, framing playful outdoor space to be wandered through by residents and members of the city alike, forming an urban enfilade between sites.
The intimate spaces and moments created through the aggregation of units allows residents from the various diverse communities to develop a closer connection to one another at their own discretion. Proximity to others allows us to become more conscious of one another, as we are both different and the same.
Semester: Fall 2024 | Location: Syracuse, NY | Professor: Lafina Eptaminitaki
The construction of the I-81 highway through Syracuse carved deep rooted scars across diverse communities, dividing the city and creating long-lasting inequalities. Situated at the crossroads of this very highway, the development of this site strives to stitch these estranged communities together to foster growth and remembrance that is not exclusive to the confines of the block; creating a city pivot towards a new future.
Materials: Ink, Charcoal, Pen
Bleeding City: Initial Conceptual Esquisse
The combination of unit types within each floor allows for adaptability in relation to where they’re located on site. Units in more tight spaces are given the luxury of branching out, creating equity in experience quality.
As life spills out from each unit, pockets of intimacy are created across dwellings. The overbearing density of housing is broken down as individual connection and vulnerability are prioritized while maintaining privacy.
Shared Unit Sun-room Perspective
Programs: Rhino, Vray, Photoshop, Illustrator
Buidling Exterior Perspective
Programs: Rhino, Vray, Photoshop, Illustrator
Nestled within the developing downtown, the buildings act as ethereal screens, concealing the activity within and allowing for varying user groups to occupy space at different times and different levels.
Plant Model Making Assistants: Theo Chalker + Hannah Kang
Physical Model Close-up
Materials: Paper, Wood, Foam Board
Physical Model with Scale Reference
Materials: Paper, Wood, Foam Board
Model Photography Assistant: Hannah Kang
03
Human-Landscape Dialogue: Landform Analysis And System-ground Construct
Using the atoll formation process as a precedent, the following exercises explore the interactions catalyzed by human and landscape evolution. Due to the jarring nature of an atolls transformation, human interaction generally arrives after the island formation has concluded. However, by inserting interaction into this process earlier, a push and pull dialogue is created altering how the built environment works in tandem with the natural landscape.
Semester: Fall 2024 | Location: N/A | Professor: Joel Kerner
Atoll Transformation Axonometric and Serial Section + Fragment Spread Plan + Human Decay Chunk Axonometric
Morphing Landscape: Atoll Amplified Morphosis
Over time, the severity and weight of each action and transformation is often subdued due to its gradual nature. However, by shifting portions slightly, the contrast between stages becomes significantly more apparent.
Physical Model Texture Close-up
Materials: Plywood, Scrap-wood
Despite these drastic environmental shifts, pockets of life evolve and decay as the land-form changes, ultimately highlighting the constantly shifting nature of the island and its relationship to its inhabitants.
Layers of Failure: Built Environment Integration with Landscape
By inserting the built environment into the process earlier, both the natural and built landscape combine to help fortify the land itself.
Physical Model Debris Close-up
Materials: Dirt, Sand, Rock, Epoxy, Metal, Debris
Through a process of repeated and intended failure, layers are created which help enhance and protect the island and its future inhabitants.
Breaking Point: Anthropogenic Destruction of the Natural Environment
The juxtaposition between the heavy steel egg-crate and the thin, malleable fabric highlight the fragile nature of the landscape which is often dominated and warped due to human intervention.
Physical Model Tearing Close-up
Materials: Plasma-cut Steel, Fabric, Epoxy, Sand
The echoes of human manipulation of the natural environment for personal gain is suspended state of tearing and stretching, posing the possibility of a natural breaking point.
Architecture as the Veil: Naqshe Jahan Square Runway
Situated in Isfahan, Iran, Naqshe Jahan Square is a site with significant historical charge. Over the years, many different groups have occupied the site as a means of displaying power and influence. Ranging from royalty to religion to commerce, these various aspects of the site are now present simultaneously today. This runway, designed for a speculative Jacquemus summer collection, focuses on the core aspect of the role of women in the public realm and how mandates on the Hijab have transitioned from a religious practice to a means of control.
Women’s movements throughout Iran and across the world have gained momentum through collective gathering and international solidarity. However, these steps of progress are often met with violent resistance. The design of this speculative runway seeks to activate both the square’s surrounding history while providing veiled protected space for activists and visitors alike; ultimately to allow for relaxed interior domesticity and freedom of expression.
The repeated deployed arch module acts as a screen to protect the runway models in their attire and their viewers, mediating between the outer square and performance as a means to respect religious space. The outside shell panels celebrate historic craft found on the site such as Minakari and various forms of metal work. As they progress towards the interior, they become more open, culminating in a center gathering which emulates the playful style of Jacquemus’s designs. Here, portions of the runway dip down, creating a cross-circulation that mixes both models and viewers, blurring the line between the perception of an outsider or “other”.
Semester: Spring 2024 | Location: Isfahan, Iran | Professor: Jess Myers Collaborators: Jason Prasetyono (Conceptual + Module Development)
Runway Viewpoint Perspective
Openings in the outer layer of screening use key historic monuments as backdrops, reclaiming them and breaking the monumentality of the site. The pockets of space created by the winding paths of the runway promote interactions from users. Towards the center, each layer of the runway screening gets progressively more open while the elevation increases, shifting from 3ft to 6ft, maintaining viewer anonymity.
Interior Seating Plan
Sunken Forest: Peebles Island State Park Activity Center
Located at the convergence point of a series of waterways and activity trails, Peebles Island State Park hosts a diverse set of users and events. To accommodate a wide range of demographics, the activity center utilizes a system composed of a central spine and a bounding container to structure the programs within.
The main circulation spine winds to promote interaction between individuals, programs, and views of the surrounding nature. Primary programs connect directly to the central path while secondary elements can be accessed through enfilades creating a balance of public and private spaces. The pockets created through this process of offsetting buildings house a variety of informal and programmed outdoor areas that can be enjoyed by the center’s visitors.
When entering the complex, visitors experience a gradual decline beneath the lush tree canopy above. As they progress, the activity level of programs increases, helping maintain the serenity of the pre-existing park and existing wildlife systems.
Pre-existing natural elements found on the site persist in order to bridge the past context with its future trajectory. Trees align with the existing canopy line, helping to shape and conceal the unique environment below. In addition, green roofs maintain growth at the same elevation as the original ground level, slanted in accordance with the natural topography of the site as if it was never altered.
Semester: Fall 2023 | Location: Cohoes, NY | Professor: Joel Kerner
Activity Level Zoning and Landscape Strategy Diagrams
Central Walkway Perspective
Programs: Rhino, V-ray, Photoshop, Illustrator
While the main pathway of the complex winds between the trees, the straight view of the waterfront is unobstructed throughout. This creates a consistent bridge between earth and water and connects each level of program.
Longitudinal Section
Section Close-up: Multi-purpose Hall and Sport Court
Section Close-up: Cafe, Boat-hall and Launch Point
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