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Hanbyul Oh (Han)

EDUCATION WORK

Syracuse University, School of Architecture Syracuse, NY

Undergraduate Program Associate, Syracuse University SOA

Assisting Professor Wing and McNamara by leading recitation classes, hosting office hours, and providing support for project assignments and course exams for a structures class

Aug. 2023 - Dec. 2023, Jan. 2025 - May 2025. Syracuse, NY

Architectural Intern, JLP International

Working in planning a large-scale hotel project by researching foreign case studies and creating slides for presentations and the final masterplan for a hotel in Jeju, Korea

May 2023 - Jul. 2023. Seoul, South Korea

Lead Instructor, Galileo Learning

Teaching craft curriculum to rotations of groups of up to 28 campers and supervising Team Leaders to provide leadership for a summer camp.

Jun. 2022 - Aug. 2022. Fremont, CA

SKILLS

AWARDS

Proficient: Revit, Rhino, AutoCad Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, Indesign, Acrobat, Microsoft Suite, QGIS, Figma

Beginner: Grasshopper, V-Ray, Lumion, Climate Studio, Adobe Aero, Premier Pro

Craft: Lasercut, CNC Milling, 3D Printing, Woodwork, Painting

Native or bilingual proficiency: English / Korean

Recipient Syracuse University SOA Deans List, 2021-2025

Recipient Architecture Portfolio Award, Jul. 2020

Finalist Olive Hyde Guild Scholarship, May 2020

Special Recognition, Congressional Art Competition, 17th District of CA, May. 2019

CONTACT

Phone: +1 (510) 468-8316

Email: hanbyuloh147@gmail.com Linkedin.com/in/hanbyul-oh

SELECTED WORKS

MASS HOUSING IN THE FUTURE

Fall 2023 | Ewha-Syracuse Joint Workshop, VC Studio

Instructor: Daewon Park and Da-Un Yoo

SHAPE OF SLANT AND SLOPE

Spring 2024 | Comprehensive Design Studio

Instructor: Emily C.S. Pelicano

A STUDY IN SOFTNESS AND STRUCTURE

Spring 2025 | Directed Research

Instructor: Timothy Stenson

SPIRIT OF OLD BILLINGSGATE

Spring 2023 | Syracuse Architecture London Studio

Instructor: Amber Bartosh and Vanessa Lastrucci

PENNSVILLE MEDICAL CENTER

Fall 2022 | Third-year Design Studio

Instructor: Lori Brown

YEOUIDO CAPSULE MASS HOUSING

100 YEARS IN THE FUTURE CONJUNCTION

WITH PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION

Yeouido, Seoul, South Korea. Fall, 2023. In Collaboration with Andrew Pucey

Inspired by the Garden City, we envision future collective housing in the future to be a decentralized but closely interrelated network of cities. A network of satellite communities separated with green belts that radiate out from the central city.

Alongside this future, to accommodate this lifestyle, we envision a transportation system that moves around pods of living space where you can do productive things or sleep in transit without the chore of driving as you could set a destination and not worry about it.

Our central city, the hive of pods, is an arrangement of space on an infrastructural landscape. Hive of individual pods which are slotted into a tower of artificial landscape. As it is a garden city, it allows us to counteract high-density housing by adding natural space.

“The city is a living thing, and we have to be part of it.”

-Le Corbusier

Section of the transportation rail system

Axon of a pod of the transportation rail system

Floor plan of a general residential area of the tower

Floor plan showing the entry sequence into the tower

Top: Plans of different types of circulation within the site

Bottom: Sections of the buildings

CLT POLYHEDRA RESIDENTAL APARTMENT

ON TOP OF ROOSEVELT HOTEL IN SHAPE OF SLANT AND SLOPE

Manhattan, NY, USA. Fall, 2024. In Collaboration with Terry Luo

As part of the ACSA 2024 Timber in the City competition, we were lead to create a residential timber structure on top of the Roosevelt hotel in Manhattan NY. The process started with massing and programming using variations of self-filling polyhedra structures.

While exploring various shapes and structures, we settled on using a trapezo rhombic dodecahedron structure framed with Glulam beams and CLT panels.

Design wise, the architecture consists of three apartments connected in the ground floor surrounded by a veil. The apartments themselves are stacked structures of the polyhedra arranged in a sloped position. These elements combine to allow the users to experience the uniques spaces created by the nature of the structure.

TIMBER IN THE CITY 5: Urban Habitats Competition

SHAPE OF SLANT AND SLOPE

Top: Exterior Perspective from neigboring building

Bottom: Exterior Perspectives from the street

Top: Cross Section

Bottom: Long Section

Building envelope/Environmental control Diagram

SHAPE OF SLANT AND SLOPE

detail

Facade

Detail of the connection to the existing building

Daylight and Energy Analysis Diagrams

SHAPE OF SLANT AND SLOPE

BOUNDED PRESSURE AN INVESTIGATION INTO

SOFTNESS, STRUCUTRE AND THE SPATIAL DYNAMICS OF MATERIAL TENSION

Syracuse, New York. Spring, 2025. Thesis

This thesis explores the spatial relationship between softness and structure, using pressure as a generative force. At its core is a contrast between an inflatable, amorphous body and the rigid frame that contains it. I’m interested in how material tension—where soft meets hard—can produce expressive form and challenge static notions of control and boundary.

Furniture, specifically a chair, serves as the medium for this investigation. A custommade neoprene rubber balloon is inflated within a wooden frame, producing visible bulges and points of resistance. Through this setup, I observe how form is shaped by pressure and material behavior, documented through photography and performative studies of human interaction.

This project asks how architectural form can emerge through negotiation rather than prescription. By framing softness as an active force, I aim to rethink the role of structure, suggesting that pressure, deformation, and resistance are not failures, but fundamental components of spatial expression and embodied experience.

A STUDY IN SOFTNESS AND STRUCTURE

Photo of the front of the chiar

Photo of the back of the chair

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STUDY IN SOFTNESS AND STRUCTURE

Photos of the edge conditions

Deflation study diagram

A STUDY IN SOFTNESS AND STRUCTURE

Diagram of behavior under corporeal pressure

EPHEMERAL PATHWAY OF OLD BILLINGSGATE

CONSERVING THE MEMORY THROUGH RELICS AND ARCHES

Old Billingsgate, London, UK. Spring, 2023. In Collaboration with Gray Warren, Allison Schwartz

We wish to conserve Billingsgate as a place where memory is captured in both objects and experiences. In this proposal, Billingsgate is reintroduced in the 21st century as a market plaza that depends on the memory of Billingsgate.

What we propose interrogates what we know today to be ‘Old Billingsgate’. In our proposal The building has been destroyed and the ground has been returned to the stone surface that facilitated commerce and cultural exchange in the past. We tasked ourselves with making a memory

We memorialize the arches that appeared throughout history in order to reinforce the public place we have proposed along the Thames.

from the River Thames walkway

Left: Axon of the arches

Right: Section of the arches

Detail Section of the arches

PENNSVILLE MEDICAL CENTER

STRATEGICALLY LOCATED BY SYSTEMICAL MAPPING OF DEMAND AND INFRASTRUCTURE

Pennsville, NJ, USA. Fall, 2022. In Collaboration with Botond Horvath

The Pennsville Center is a medical center research project that considers incoming traffic into New Jersey in Post-Roe America. The center is strategically located by the bridge on the lowest part of the river near public transportation options. The site is placed hidden within the woods for natural barrier and views. The building itself is layed out to protect the surgical core and the recovery rooms from outside invaders.

In order to provide maximum comfort the building has been designed for daylighting while the recovery rooms are placed at the most ideal spot. Outside of the building, there are pavilions and walk paths to interact with the surrounding environment. Pennsville Center is a single location among a system of clinics strategically placed locations along the NJ border.