Portfolio 2021

Gene Lee

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Krakow Entubed

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Woven Together

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Sonoma Dwelling

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Precedent Study- Innovation Center

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Good Food

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Vertical Horizontal

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HEARTH

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University of California, Berkeley Arch 100D Spring 2019 Mark Anderson

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University of California, Berkeley Arch 100D Spring 2019 Mark Anderson

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University of California, Berkeley Arch 100C Fall 2018 Keith Plymale

Alejandro Aravena | ELEMENTAL

Santiago, Chile

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University of California, Berkeley Arch 100B Spring 2018 David Orkand

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University of California, Berkeley Arch 100B Spring 2018 David Orkand

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University of California, Berkeley Arch 100A Fall 2017 Lisa Iwamoto

University of California, Berkeley Solar Decathlon Competition Spring 2021 SHAC Team

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Krakow Entubed University of California, Berkeley Arch 100D Spring 2019 Instructor: Mark Anderson

“Krakow Entubed” is an urban scheme that reacts to air pollution in Krakow.

According to the air-pollution activism group Krakowski Alarm Smogowy (Krakow Smog Alarm), Krakow, a medieval city in Poland, has some of the poorest air quality in the world. “Krakow Entubed” is a proposal for the city, which involves the construction of an indoor infrastructure that keeps local residents who subscribe to it away from the polluted air. Certain voids in the city, including the void of St. Mary Basilica and interior space of Cloth Hall, are transformed so as to fulfill necessary programs and equipment that serve the occupants of the network.

Plan Oblique; Transformed Cloth Hall

Plan Oblique; Interior Space of Transformed Cloth Hall

Plan Oblique; Transformed St. Mary Basilica

Plan Oblique; Interior Space of Transformed St. Mary Basilica

Plan Oblique; Transformed Krakow Main Square and Streetscape

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Krakow Entubed Gene Lee| 1 Gene Lee

Model, 1/16”= 1’-0”; Museum Board, 3D Print, and Wool Strings

Plan Oblique; Street Chunk Model, 1/16”= 1’-0”; Museum Board, 3D Print, and Wool Strings

Model, 1/16”= 1’-0”; Museum Board, 3D Print, and Wool Strings

Model, 1/16”= 1’-0”; Museum Board, 3D Print, and Wool Strings

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Krakow Entubed Gene Lee

Interior Rendering; Entrance of “Krakow Entubed” from an Apartment Unit

Model, Rendering; 1/16”= 1’-0”; Entrance Museum of “Completely Board, 3D Interior” Print, and from Wool an Strings Apartment Unit

Interior Rendering; Inside “Krakow Entubed”

Model, 1/16”= 1’-0”; Museum Board, 3D Print, and Wool Strings

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Krakow Entubed Gene Lee

Elevation; Transformed Krakow Streetscape

Plan; Transformed Krakow Streetscape

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Krakow Entubed Gene Lee

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Woven Together University of California, Berkeley Arch 100D Spring 2019 Instructor: Mark Anderson In Collaboration with Cherri Jeong, Viet Nguyen “Woven Together” is a design proposal that challenges the preconception of peace pavilions. Most peace pavilion projects consist of large gathering areas that are well lit, allowing for communal contemplation. This project, however, recognizes privacy in the act of contemplation and reinforces that understanding with smaller vertical tubes where individuals can enter to experience the enclosure of the densely woven structure. Programs are executed in two simple concepts—24 pods that erect vertically for private contemplation and three horizontally oriented circulation tubes that weave through the vertical tubes.

Concept Drawing; Condition I- Horizontal Members Weaving through Vertical Space

Concept Drawing; Condition 1- Horizontal Members Weaving through Vertical Space

Concept Drawing; Condition 2- Vertical Members Intruding Horizontal Space

Worm’s Eye Oblique Drawing

Concept Drawing; Condition II- Vertical Members Intruding Horizontal Space

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3/8”= 1’- 0” Model; Rattan, Strings, and Sand. Model in Collaboration with Viet Nguyen

Plan A; +2’-8”

Plan B; +10’-0”

Plan C; +19’-6”

Woven Together Gene Lee

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Short Section

Construction Sequence Diagrams; In Collaboration with Cherri Jeong

Woven Together Gene Lee

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1”= 1’- 0” Model; 1” =1’-Rattan, 0” Chunk Strings, Model Aluminium Pipes and Sand. Model Collaborated with Viet Nguyen

3/8”= 1’- 0” Model; Rattan, Strings, and Sand. Model Collaborated with Viet Nguyen

1”= 1’- 0” Model; Rattan, Strings, and Sand. Model Collaborated with Viet Nguyen

Woven Together Gene Lee

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Sonoma Dwelling University of California, Berkeley Arch 100C Fall 2018 Instructor: Keith Plymale Overconsumption of consumer products corresponds to the constant need of digestion of excessive materials; Over-reliance on machineries and passive strategies leads to the invasion of machineries; Completely interior living space protects habitants from polluted air, caused by emergence of wildfire in California.

The saturation of waste, the abundance of machineries, and the abandonment of exterior living compose a new dwelling typology. Organized on a nine-squaregrid, the eight dwelling programs surround the central core to deliver waste through ports and machineries, hence, extract refined or decomposed materials from compost units. While the human-inhabited spaces align orthogonally to the nine-square-grid, the central machine core is oriented at a diamond position, rebelliously disrupt the neighboring programs.

Situation 1- Vertical Plane| Threshold | Wall | Door | Frame

Situation 2- Stair | Catwalk | 2 Planes | Reflection

Situation 3- Folded | Ramp | Wall | Column

Situation 4- Cantiliever | Oculus | Structure

Conceptual Drawing; Human Programs

Conceptual Drawing; Machine Core

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Sonoma Dwelling Gene Lee

Exterior Rendered Collage

Exterior Rendered Collage, Roof

Interior Rendered Collage, Kitchen and Dining Space

Plan Oblique; Extracted Chunk of Interior Programs

Site Plan Oblique

Interior Rendered Collage

Sonoma Dwelling Gene Lee

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Unrolled Section

Fece Collector

Urine Collector

Fertilizer

Wood Shredder

Wood Waste/ Wood Pellet

Wood Pellet Maker

Fertilizer

White Water

Biomass Cook Stove

Grey Water

Biomass Heat Stove

Black Water

Biomass Boiler

Food Composter

Maintenance

Plan Oblique; Extracted Chunk of Interior Programs

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Sonoma Dwelling Gene Lee

Roof Plan

Plan B

Concept Model, 1/16”= 1’-0”; Basswood and Chipboard

Plan A

Plan, Extracted Core Unrolled Section Model, 3/16”= 1’-0”; Basswood and Chipboard

Section A-A

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Sonoma Dwelling Gene Lee

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Precedent Study- Innovation Center Alejandro Aravena | ELEMENTAL

Santiago, Chile

University of California, Berkeley Arch 100B Spring 2018 Instructor: David Orkand While the exterior skin of Innovation Center is composed of concrete, which the monolithic image is associated with a sense of monumentality, its interior space has a drastically different identity. The transparent atrium enables opportunities for visual connections among different floors, challenging the opaque cores commonly found in high rises.

The dilemma between the exterior and interior readings of Innovation Center is expressed in both the analytical drawing and the model. The analytical drawing synthesizes the exterior monumentality and the interior transparency of Innovation Center, while the physical chunk model addresses the alignment of columns and concrete beams on a designated grid system.

Model, 1/4”-1’-0”, Front; Museum Board, Balsa Wood, Plywood, Acrylic

Model, 1/4”-1’-0”, Back; Museum Board, Balsa Wood, Plywood, Acrylic

Analytical Drawing; Monolithic Envelope and Atrium

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Innovation Center Gene Lee

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Good Food University of California, Berkeley Arch 100B Spring 2018 Instructor: David Orkand The Good Food Center, functioning as a food research center and an educational, commercial and exhibition hub for the public, has two sets of programmatic interests. While the research, institutional sector dominates private programs such as urban farm, compost units, research offices and laboratories, the public sector adopts programs like market hall, open kitchen and library.

The division of the institution and the masses is expressed through the designation of two separated, individual circulations, connecting the corresponding programs of each of the sectors. Despite the independence of the two programs, the spatial arrangement and the use of glazing between programs retain visual porosity, facilitating recognition among adjacent programs.

Exterior Collage; Structure

Exterior Rendering

Section Oblique

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Good Food Gene Lee

Interior Rendering, View from Circulation to Atrium

Analytical Drawing, Plan Oblique

Conceptual Drawing; Programmatic Distribution and Alignment

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Good Food Gene Lee

4th Floor Plan

3rd Floor Plan

3rd Floor; Model, 1/4”- 1’- 0”; Bristol Paper, Chipboard and Acrylic

2nd Floor Plan

Long Section

1st Floor Plan

Model, 1/4”- 1’- 0”; Bristol Paper, Chipboard and Acrylic

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Good Food Gene Lee

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Vertical Horizontal University of California, Berkeley Arch 100A Fall 2017 Instructor: Lisa Iwamoto Individual and collective reading spaces in Potrero Hill Library are housed in two distinct volumes. The lower volume is occupied with individual reading programs, while the upper volume or void contains spaces for collective uses. The two volumes intersect to generate overlapped space for book storage, with books shared by readers from both sets of programs.

A formal scheme consisting of the transition from vertical to horizontal adjacency of two volumes facilitates the programmatic division. Through the transition from vertical to horizontal compositions, the two adjacent volumes intersect in a strategic manner.

Exterior Rendering; Horizontal Adjacency

Exterior Rendering; Vertical Adjacency

Analytical Drawing, Plan Oblique

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Vertical Horizontal Gene Lee

Elevational/ Sectional Diagrams; Transition from Vertical to Horizontal Scheme

Section Perspective

Analytical Drawing, Plan Oblique

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Vertical Horizontal Gene Lee

Roof Plan

3rd Floor Plan

Interior Rendering, 2nd Individual Reading Space

5th Floor Plan

2nd Floor Plan

4th Floor Plan

1st Floor Plan

Interior Rendering, 2nd Collective Reading Space

Interior Rendering, Book Core

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Vertical Horizontal Gene Lee

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HEARTH University of California, Berkeley Solar Decathlon Design Challenge 2021- Finalist In Collaboration with SHAC Team Members

Spring 2021

HEARTH is a transitional housing project located in the City of Santa Rosa, California, which has been engaged in a recovery effort following two deadly wildfires in recent years, the 2017 Tubbs Fire and the 2020 Glass Fire.

HEARTH’s target occupants include the low-income community, those displaced by fires, and those that make up the most vulnerable homeless populations in Santa Rosa: transition-age youth and the chronically homeless. The massing and orientation of the project are optimized for solar energy capture, daylighting, natural ventilation, and solar heat gain. A central courtyard, flanked by residential and commercial wings, mitigates the site’s noise pollution from heavily trafficked streets nearby and creates a more sheltered space for residents and community members. The stacked residential wing and its shallow floor plans ensures access to natural light and ventilation within each unit.

Exterior Rendering; Image Prepared by Bryan Huang

Unit Diagrams; Natural Ventilation, Plumbing, and HVAC

Plan; Communal and Commercial Programs

HEARTH Gene Lee

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Interior Rendering; 2-Bedroom Loft

Interior Rendering; 1-Bedroom Unit

HEARTH Gene Lee

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Section Perspective

Interior Rendering; Counseling Services

Interior Rendering; Food Court

HEARTH Gene Lee

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