Gary Yun Lee Portfolio 2021

YUN LEE PORTFOLIO Selected Works 2017 - 2020

Contents

Architecture | Planning | Design

The Loggia

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Interior Plaza

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The Flow

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Vertical Convent

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The Curve

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Vortex Urbana

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Tropical Living

A Plaza Within

Body Interaction

Spaces of Shadows, Silence and Song

Image Accumulation

Redirecting the Wind

Subterranean City

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Porous City

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A City Below

Reconnecting the city

YUN LEE

08. 2019 -

WORK EXPERIENCE

Graduate Teaching Assistant Washington University in St. Louis

Saint Louis, Missouri

- Supported teaching, research of graduate seminar taught by Robert Mccarter - Assisted teaching undergraduate option studio led by Igor Marjonovic - Assisted teaching graduate Core Studios I, II, III instructed by Constance Vale, Kelley Murphy, and Melisa Betts - Taught software tutorial workshops on Rhino and Vray - Provided feedback and technical support for students

CONTACTS yunl@wustl.edu +1 702 827 8193 308 Clara Ave. 26S Saint Louis City, MO Linkedin : Yun Lee

07. 2020 08. 2020

Illustrator 10. 2016 06. 2017

Rhinoceros AutoCAD

Twinmotion Vray Enscape

Tainan, Taiwan

- Performed the site investigation and analysis for the Comprehensive Review of the Land Used for Public Facilities in Tainan City

Revit

Lumion

Part-time Assistant Urban Planner Chief-Soon Development Consultants Co.

- Conducted the landuse zoning plan and spatial analysis for the Comprehensive Review of the Tainan East Dst. Detail Plan

ArcScene

Sketchup Pro

Taipei, Taiwan

- Performed site analysis, programming and design analysis, the interior 3d modeling and rendering

Photoshop

ArcMap

Architectural Intern Bio-architecture Formosana - Worked on the preliminary design of the NCKU Geriatric Hospital design competition

SKILLS

Premiere Pro

Taipei, Taiwan

- Designed the interior renovation of the Taipei 101 35F service floor - Worked through the SD, DD, to CD phases of the design - Finished the construction drawings, 3D visualizations - Prepared presentation and documents for the client

05. 2019 07. 2019

Indesign

Designer Bio-architecture Formosana

08. 2016 09. 2016

Intern, Urban Design AECOM

Hong Kong

- Made the rendering and spatial analysis for Guangzhou Cisco Smart City Master Planning - Performed the 3D model building and rendering for Sanya West Island Resort Master Planning

2018 - 2021

2013 - 2018

2020

EDUCATION

Master of Architecture Washington University in St. Louis

Bachelor of Science, Urban Planning National Cheng Kung University(NCKU)

GPA3.96 Saint Louis, Missouri

GPA3.85 Tainan, Taiwan

HONORS/ AWARDS

The Gyo Obata Scholarship Washington University in St. Louis

2019

Macht Scholarship in Architecture Washington University in St. Louis

2018 - 2022

Chair's Scholarship, Graduate School of Architecture Washington University in St. Louis

2017

Outstanding Student of The Urban Planning and Design Studio Courses Department of Urban Planning, NCKU

2014, 2016

Outstanding Student for The Academic Achievement Department of Urban Planning, NCKU

2019, 2020

PUBLICATION/ EXHIBITION

Approach 18-19, Approach 19-20 Sam Fox School, Washington University in St. Louis

2019

Decoys & Depictions: Images of the Digital Exhibition

2016

The 11th Exhibition of the Planning Departments-Taiwan Representative of NCKU

2015 - 2016

OTHER EXPERIENCE

Director of Academics Students’ Association of Urban Planning Department National Cheng Kung University

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View From Street

The Loggia Program : Collective Housing Location : San Juan, Puerto Rico Instructor : Monica Rivera Duration : 2019.09-12 The Loggia is a collective housing that celebrates the outdoor tropical living and embraces the rich history of the old San Juan City.

Located next to the fortified wall of the historic San Juan, the project will deliver a new cultural space and new apartments to the neighborhood, offering a new oppurtunity for a walkable living experience in San Juan.

The building consists of 28 apartments with a cultural center and several shops on the first floor. On top of the cultural center is a cutout platform that oversees the promenade and the historic city, which provides a new venue for cultural activites and outdoor concerts. Each apartment unit features a centered loggia that connects to different rooms giving the possibilities for residents to eat, exercise and chill in the tropic.

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View of the Loggia

Concept Sketch Conceptual Sketch

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First Floor Plan

Site Plan

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Corner Unit 0

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Variations

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View from living room in the corner unit

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First Level

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View of loggia in duplex unit

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Section AA

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View from Duplex Unit to the Public Loggia

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View From Street

Ultimate Openness - Interior Plaza Type : Cultural Center Location : Berlin, Germany Instructor : Jose Zabala Duration : 2020.01-05 Being once an avant-garde school at the time when it was built, it no longer meets the needs and standards of the new era. The school is now to be transformed into a new cultural center for the neighborhood and the city. The new building is divided into four progams, the library, the learning center, and the music school with theaters and an art gallery underground serving as a place where people meet, work, play, and chill.

The original structure was built with a massive footprint to serve a large number of students inside the building. Most of the inner spaces and classrooms are dark and inaccessible to natural lighting. Based on a rectilinear structural grid system, the original layout of the school was mostly enclosed and narrow. Thus, the strategy to reconfigure the building is to break up the original partition and floor plates to create a more open spatial experience.

The intervention diminishes the rigidity of the original rectilinear layout to make it more open, and more welcoming.

Floor plates are being removed to create more apertures for natural lighting and visual connection between different floors.

Most of the interior structures are also removed and replaced by a new layout of flexible rooms and partitions.

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Existing Condition

Existing Third Floor Plan

Proposed View of site Remaking the school a cultural center for the neighbohood

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New Programs Placing three main programs on a diagonal axis that breaks the original gridded layout

Concert Hall Dance School Library

New Connections New openings for skylights and new facades connecting to the light and front plaza

New Circulation

Second Facade

New circulation scattered around the building creates different paths to different floors

A new polycarbonate facade system for better insulation and building performance

Proposed Third Floor - Learning Center Breaking heirachy. Creating openness.

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1. Concert Hall 2. Backstage 3. Black Box Theater 4. Cafe 5. Lobby 6. Office 7. Storage 8. Cloak Room 9. Library 10. Gallery

First Floor Plan

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Long Section

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View from Library

View from 3rd Floor Learning Center

Wall Assembly 1.

Bituminous Membrane Waterproof Gypsum-Based Composite Board Min-Fiber Blanket Insulation Bituminous Layer

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Steel Panel Min-Fiber Blanket Insulation Glass-Mat Gypsum Sheathing Rigid Insulation Gypsum Board 2.

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Polycarbonate Panel Galvanized Steel Beam and Support Angle Laminated Tempered Glass Panel

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View to the In

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The Flow - YMCA Type : Sports Complex Location : St. Louis, Missouri Instructor : Kelley Murphy Duration : 2019.03-05 The YMCA takes form from the flows of people happening within the architecture and around it. Sitting on the corner of Debaliviere Ave and Forest Park Parkway, the building is located on a site with various traffic crossing.

The YMCA is designed to be a space not only for sports and recreation but for people to encounter, interact and hang out.

The building is divided into three layers, with the pool on the bottom, a lobby in the middle, and the sports center on top.

The floor plates are bent and connected to build a smooth flow from the ground level to the upper level. The layout of the building allows people to walk and move freely around the space choosing their own path. It’s a building with spaces that they can exercise, hang out and relax.

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View of Oratory, First Floor Concept model

Vertical Convent Spaces of Shadows, Silence and Song Type : Convent Location : Venice, Italy Instructor : Robert Mccarter Duration : 2020.09-12 The Vertical Convent is a project that focuses on the conditions and relationship of light inside a tower for the nuns. Curved panels are designed as light-capturing devices that catch and mediate the light from the sky.

The convent can be divided into three sections based on the level of privacy. The public part is placed on the first floor hosting the oratory, the school, and a visiting room. The middle part of the tower, which is only accessible to the nuns consists of 48 cells, a chapter house, a refectory, and a library.

On top of it are the chapel and the roof garden touching the sky.

The larger programs are placed along rows of cells to create a rhythm for the cloisters. The programs are being tied up with a meandering cloister that circulates from the bottom to the top. The cloister serves not only as a space for procession but also a path for meditation. At the end of the cloister is the sister chapel on the rooftop. The chapel is lit up by the soft light coming from the sky that forms a space that connects to the above.

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Choir Level Plan

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Spatial Relationship Concept Model

The design process begins with a series of models that explores the essence of the spatial relationship in a convent. The programs are limit to one oratory, three cells, and a cloister.

The model also serves as an experiment for lighting conditions that affect the later design.

The curved panels installed on the ceiling acts as light-capturing devices that bring the light from above. Layers of walls are layout around the oratory to filter the light and create a shadowed space.

View From Cloister to Chapel Conecpt Model

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Aerial View Looking West

Located next to Le Corbusier's Venice hospital, the convent will be one of the tallest buildings touching the sky of Venice standing on the end of the Cannaregio canal.

The convent consists of three parts, the public accessible school and oratory touching the ground, the cells and other monastic programs in the center, and the chapel on top touching the sky. The vertical layout of the program is tied up with a cloister that meanders around the building. Being not only a transitional space between the cells and the rooms, but the cloister also serves as a place to meditate and rest.

The building is designed with thick cast-in-place concrete walls on the four facades that act as the primary load-bearing structure which transfers loads of the double-story spaces to the ground.

Cloister Oratary Library

Program

Circulation

Structural Systems

Solid Skin

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6th Floor Plan, Refectory

1st Floor, 1.Oratory 2.Classroom

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View of Cloister outside Refectory, 6th Floor

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View of Library, 10th Floor

10th Floor Plan, Library

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Sister Chapel, Top Floor

+136' 6"

Sister Chapel 13th Floor

+118' 6"

+109' 6"

Library 11th Floor

+100' 6"

+91' 6"

Library 9th Floor

+82' 6"

+73' 6"

Refectory 6th Floor

+64' 6"

+55' 6"

Chapter House 4th Floor

+4' 0"

Choir 4th Floor

Northeast Southwest Section

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Oratory 1st Floor

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3” Prefabricated Concrete Panels Waterproof Sheathing 4.5”Rigid Insulation 14” Cast-in-place Structural Concrete

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3“ Terrazo Finish Floor Slab with Heating 1”Rigid Insulation 8” Cast-in-place Structural Concrete Slab

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0.5” Metal Grating 0.5” Waterproof Gypsum 3/8“ Double layer Bituminous Membrane 3.5” Rigid Insulation Steel Decking Steel Tubing Precast Curved Concrete Ceiling Panel

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View of the Screening Room and the Lobby

The Curve Type : Film Studio Location : St. Louis, Missouri Instructor : Constance Vale Duration : 2018.10-12 This project is to develop a film studio that coordinates the relationship between curvatures, voids, and light. The curvature is the main element that forms the building and explores the different possibility of curved spaces.

The curve was taken from the traced space of the Berlin Altes Museum. It repeats horizontally and vertically in the building creating voids and solids. Light and voids are two other elements that are important to this project. Voids are used as public spaces in the building that connects the entrance and the screening room. Apertures are also installed in the ceilings to let sunlight perforate into the public interior space. This film studio establishes a multipurpose space where people can learn, work and experience changes of light and voids.

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1. Extracting the Curve Traced Section Drawing of The Berlin Altes Museum

2. Accumulation of Mass

Study models of exploration of massing relationships

3. Mass transformation

Refining massing and geometry

View of model in site

4.Final Massing Model The final massing after accumulation and transformation of the curve

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Vortex Urbana - Redircting the Wind Type : Tower Location : Chicago, Illinois Instructor : Sungho Kim Duration : 2020.9 -12 The tower is transformed from the 860-880 Lake Shorer Drive towers by Mies van der Rohe. The design is a reflection on Mies' design concept of architecture should be independent of the context. The evolved tower responds and embraces the site conditions of Chicago. Throughout the design process, a series of experiments of 3d printing is also exploited to investigate the possibilities of form and structural transformation.

Located in Chicago, one of the windiest cities, the design tries to respond to the wind flow condition in a populated urban area. Apertures and gaps are made to create wind tunnels and act as deflectors to mitigate the wind effects caused by the building volumes.

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1. Extenend

2.Pierce

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2.Fold

5. Slice

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Facade Model Studies

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Subterranean City Type : Passenger Terminal Location : Paris, France Instructor : Constance Vale Duration : 2019.02-05 Having exploited the Earth for decades, the climate is irrevocably changed and temperatures consistently reach above 56.7°C. Humans can no longer occupy the ground and vegetated landscapes can no longer survive.

While some of the Earth’s population has migrated to other planets, some chose to remain in their terrestrial home. The world is covered witxh a low-albedo composite material that minimizes surface radiation and, above ground, only spaceship terminals remain. A massive building project was initiated at major terminals across the globe. The remaining population has excavated for hundreds of feet below these structures to produce a subterranean city, protected from the intense temperatures above.

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View of the New Railway Linear Park

Porous City - North District Master Plan Type : Master Planning/ Urban Design Location : Tainan, Taiwan Group Work with Daniel Hung | Sally Chung | Yensheng Wu Duration : 2017.01-05 Duty : Spatial Analysis, Urban Design, Programming, Architectural Design, Site Planning,3D Modeling, Rendering

This project proposes a new master plan for the North District, Tainan City after the long existed barrier, the railway, being moved away. Having the railway running across since 1900, the city has long been separated and developments were restricted. Originally being the fringe of the city, two military bases were placed here. As the city grew, people started to move into this area. Withoaut proper planning and management, it lacks proper infrastructure and has poor circulation, the living environment was in substandard condition.

To enhance the land use efficiency and for better urban development, the city government had decided to move the railway underground. The barrier will be gone and transformed into a new linear park serving as a new recreational space for the city. Furthermore, the military bases are also being moved away which will be used for new development. With this significant transformation, we proposed a new master plan for this area.

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4. High-density Mixed-used Development 5. Mid-density Residential Development 6. First Floor Street Retail 7. New Neighborhood Park

View from Street to Parkway Plaza

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Parkway Plaza is proposed to be a catalyst to revitalize the North District creating a new hub for activities. The development comprises two parts.

At the upper levels, with 166 serviced-apartments and at the lower levels, with a wide variety of stores.

The massing of the development is targeted to foster activities in the atrium while connecting the new Railway Linear Park and the surrounding neighborhood.

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View of Inner courtyard

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YUN LEE PORTFOLIO yunl@wustl.edu +1 702 827 8193