Hanna Lee
Portfolio: Selected Works
March 2025
Profile
I am a highly creative and capable designer with 10+ years in residential and retail design experience. Equipped with project management and cross-collaboration skills, I strive to execute innovative and thoughtful designs through meaningful and goaloriented teamwork.
SF Bay Area
hannasl@gmail.com
(M) 734 657 0840
SKILLS
Autodesk Autocad
Autodesk Revit + Enscape plug-in
Sketchup + Enscape plug-in
Adobe Illustrator
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe InDesign
Korean language proficiency
EDUCATION
School of Visual Arts / Interior Design Deparment
New York, NY
Bachelor of Fine Arts, May 2o1o
Class Honors, May 2007
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN / COLLEGE OF LITERATURE, SCIENCE, AND THE ARTS
ANN ARBOR, MI
Bachelor of Arts / History of Art, May 2005
WORK HISTORY
newground international - retail design team chicago, IL
· Senior Interior Designer / Aug 2023 - Current
Carbon Health - Real Estate Development: Architecture Team Oakland, CA
Design Project Manger / Oct 2022 - Jan 2023
FUJI INC, ZERO& + HANABI CAKES - REAL ESTATE EXPANSION TEAM NEWARK, CA
Senior Design Manager / April 2022 - Oct 2022
STARBUCKS - SEATTLE SUPPORT CENTER, CHINA DESIGN TEAM SEATTLE, WA
Senior Production Designer / Dec 2021 - March 2022
STARBUCKS - SF REGIONAL OFFICE
SAN FRANCISCO, CA
· Store Design Manager / Feb 2019 - Dec 2021
Store Designer / Aug 2017 - Feb 2019
Associate Store Designer / Aug 2015 - Aug 2017
· Designer - CW / June 2015 - Aug 2015
KWAN HENMI ARCHITECTURE & PLANNING
SAN FRANCISCO, CA
Designer / September 2014 - June 2015
MIDTOWN STUDIOS NEW YORK, NY
Interior Designer / March 2011 - June 2014 THE MUFSON PARTNERSHIP NEW YORK, NY
· Junior Designer / June 2012 - Oct 2012
SARAH JEFFERYS DESIGN NEW YORK, NY
· Interior Designer / June 2010 - June 2012
Zero&: Brand Identity
Exploring brand identity through architectural design
Project: SF Premium Outlet Kiosk
Design Phase: In Construction
Tools: SketchUp, Enscape, Photoshop
Modern, clean and innovative best describe Zero&’s brand identity. This design for a new kiosk in the Northern California market explores ways to bring the brand identity to life. The design for this store plays with volume, texture, and scale to create movement and visual interest.
Merchandising and Brand Assets by Zero& Marketing Team
EXISTING FLOOR PLAN
The existing kiosk is a guest services desk and lacks the functionality required to operate a retail store. All existing conditions from the utilities down to the finishes needed improvement to meet Zero&’s guidelines.
SITE SPECIFICATION
Located in a growing bedroom community outside of San Francisco, San Francisco Premium Outlets caters to locals and visitors alike. The new Zero& kiosk sits in a highly visible location at the primary entrance to the food court. As a freestanding structure, all sides have the ability to be an opportunity for marketing Zero&’s brand.
PROPOSED FLOOR PLAN
The layout is completely redesigned to increase workflow effciency while remaining within the confines of the given footprint. The kitchen area is enlarged to allow for tearistas to work back-to-back and the new partition hides the functional portions from customer view.
Limited palette posed a design challenge: how do we excited the viewer and move the eye around? This was an excercise for designing through balance, texture, and transparency.
Below: Detailed views of kiosk
Starbucks (China): New Store
Creating a premium experience for a growing market.
Project: New Cafe - Nanning, China
Design Phase: Completed Tools: Revit, Enscape
Located near the southern coasts of China, this city boasts a tropical climate and is frequented by vacationers. The property is also part of a larger city development and serves as a third place for the community. The existing shell is inspired by historic colonial architecture and this look and feel is reflected in the design intent for the new interior space.
PROPOSED FLOOR PLAN
The floor plan is dictated by the flow of pedestrian foot traffic. The placement of the bar is located front and center to maximize visibilty through the storefront windows. Since the tower was a significant feature of the building, the alcove naturally becomes a special jewel-box seating moment towards which customers will gravitate.
Starbucks: New Store
Converting an existing Quick Service Restaurant (QSR)
Project: Drive-thru Conversion, Livermore, CA
Design Phase: Completed Tools: SketchUp, Enscape, Revit
This project is a conversion of of a vacant QSR drive-thru. This conversion provided an opportunity for a cafe in the same plaza to add an operations channel to better serve the customers in the area. The challenge was to provide an effcient layout within the constraints of a fixed drive-thru window location and also to design an inviting thirdplace for the community.
Existing Floor Plan
Due to planning restrictions the the location of the drive thru pick up window is fixed. Additionally there are existing architectural features which is all part of the list of constraints which pose an unique design challenge.
test fit plan
Initial study of the floorplan shows a preferred prototypical shape, however stations does not maximize efficiency and creates a long and snaking back of house.
Proposed Floor Plan
Since the window location must remain in its place, the bar is limited to where it can be placed. The kink in the bar not only addresses the restrictions of the fixed width but also helps to create a more dynamic space.
generous back of house to support additional opertaions channel
wall-embedded existing structural post
reduced number of order point registers
break provides secondary entrance for baristas and visual relief for monolithic front line
generous pick up area for increasing mobile order customer base
angled bar with stations running in-line
added drive thru channel in existing window location
Rendering: Proposed Design
Starbucks: Renovation
Transforming a legacy store
Project: Drive-thru Renovation, Benicia, CA
This drive-thru cafe is located at the northbound exit of Benicia Bridge and is frequented by customers traveling to wine country and Lake Tahoe. The design challenge is to address the limited layout and the tired look of the store and ultimately providing an effortless customer and barista experience.
Design Phase: Completed Tools: SketchUp, Enscape, Revit Scoping /
KEY NOTES
DEMO (E) WALLS
DEMO (E) FURNITURE, MERCH FIXTURES, AND CONDIMENT CART
DEMO (E) STAR PATTERN SCREEN
DEMO (E) CASEWORK, EQUIPMENT, AND FIXTURES
DEMO (E) WOC AND CHIP CUBBY
DEMO (E) ELIASON DOOR
DEMO (E) RESTROOM FIXTURES AND PARTITIONS
DEMO (E) ICE
AND BENICIA
STORE #05856
CPN# 08504-082
DATE: 08-10-2021
Existing Floor Plan
The existing work area is tucked into the back of the store. As a consequence, this positioning limits back of house capabilities and visibility to the rest of the cafe. The tight budgets and stores existing architectural constraints pose complex design challenges.
Left: Ideation / Test Fits Sketches
KEY NOTES
(N) WALLS
(N) FURNITURE, MERCH FIXTURE, AND CONDIMENT CART
(N) BOH DOOR WITH KEYPAD LOCK
(N) ELIASON DOOR
(N) CASEWORK, EQUIPMENT, AND FIXTURES
(N) BRADLEY SINK WITH TWO FAUCETS
RELOCATED ICE
(N) EQUIPMENT AND FIXTURES
RELOCATED (E) EQUIPMENT
(N) RR FIXTURES
(N) DOOR WITH KEYPAD LOCK & STORAGE CLOSET
vestibule can provide a place for displaced individuals to camp out. not the best idea. Reducing furniture could help immensely and using safe store initiatives (i.e. hi tops, stand here)
(N) PRIVACY FILM ON WINDOWS
(E) WATER CLOSET TO REMAIN
(N) SINGLE BRADLEY SINKREPLACE (E) SINK IN PLACE.
PATCH WALL FINISHES AS NEEDED
(N) TALL STORAGE
LEGEND NEW RELOCATED EXISTING
CPN# 08504-082
DATE: 08-10-2021 LINCOLN AND
high cost items - existing to remain in place new bar layout with improved work station efficiencies
expanded back of house
reduced cafe space and improved sightlines for baristas enlarged drink consolidation area
Proposed Floor Plan
By slightly unfolding the previous Z-shape and demising the oversized cafe seating zone - the new layout provides the baristas with a full view of the store. Additionally the
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