Hyeon Jun Lee, Portfolio2019

01 City upon a city fall semester, 2018 Academic work / Individual Project Theme : Urban planning Critic : Mark Anderson

The problem of Oakland, which has a disgraceful honor of the nation’s highest rate of rental increases and crime, can be found in fragmented urban space caused by the policy of uneven development. By vertically expanding the urban area, the need for spatial density of each area will be satisfied.

The new city and the existing city will co-exist and establish a unique identity of Oakland.

Conceptual&Analytical Drawing for symbiotic spaces of two cities

A Penetration for Integration Site Analysis&Process Digram

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Current Status

City Block

Marrina

Ground/Undergound Transportation

Vacant Space

District

Food

Produce

Composition

Decomposition

Reconfiguration

Bike Tubes

City council of Oakland has spent a lot of efforts to develop its local economy: the intensive investment of Jack London Square, the development of a produce area, the steady flow of Asian races and the creation of unique culture. Despite suchDIAGRAM efforts, however, no conspicuous success has been PROCESS achieved, and rather economic conflicts and isolation among the areas have intensified. As a result, Oakland is recognized as a city composed of different villages within one boundary rather than one big city.

Diagrammatic Site Planning

In this regard, I propose to build a floated new infrastructure to solve the chronic housing shortage problem and to promote synergy effects among the isolated areas.

Setback Rules CHINA TOWN

OLD OAKLAND

PRODUCE DISTRICT

WATERFRONT

Available Area

Horizontal Connections

Streets

Existing Building Conditions

AVAILABLE AREA

HORIZONTAL CONNECTION

Rendered Perspective of New Vertical Street

The Symbiosis of the Two Cities

EXISTING BUILDING CONDITION

STREET

The shape of the new city is determined by rules for maximum protection of the existing architectural environment. These cut-out rules are designed in terms of sunshine, soundproofing, accessibility, as well as existing public spaces and shaft / duct cores. This new city will create new vertical streets filled with diverse experiences by sharing the existing core spaces and roofs.

Isometric View

Clearance Rules for New City Clearance for Light Exposure

Clearance for Condition of Existed building

Flow of Clearance

Existing Public Spaces

Existing Cores EXISTING CORE

EXISTING PUBLIC SPACE

Public available height of new structure

30’

Commercial 20’ 30’

10’ 15’

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height of exitsted buildings

Access + Air

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1 Buildings

Residential 20’

Warehouse 20’ 30’

Street

Air + Light + Sound

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Access

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Existing Skylights

Green Roof GREEN ROOF

EXISTING SKYLIGHT

Axonometric Diagram of Typical Block

GREEN ROOF

80-100 ft.

COMMERCIAL/SHARE SPACE 80 ft.

NEW BOULEVARD

HOUSING

~87 ft.

MEP SHAFT/DUCT

STAIR/LIFT

EXISTING BUILDINGS

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NEW STREETS

PEDESTRIAN ROAD STREET SMALL PLAZA

FLOATED CONTOUR

Plan Drawings of Typical Block

Ground Level

Roof Level

Housing Level

Green Roof Level

Section Perspective of New Oakland

02 Flexible Squares 8th semester, 2013 Academic work / Individual Project Theme : Residential Complex Critic : Youngtae, Ohn

Streams of People

Flow of Artists

Flow of Patients

Floated Square

Triangle with two open tips

Pentagon with two open sides

can be passed through different directions. + a firm territoriality

can be passed through only two entrances + has a center of gravity at a 90 degree angle

pierced with a major axis

= Heterogeneity

= Courtyard

= Circulation

+ has a center of gravity at a 90 degree angle

Flow of Students

The program of this project is clustered house. The site is Hyehwa-dong, the reconstruction district located in Yeongun, Seoul. Even if a number of small-sized theatres and a campus, including hospital, of Seoul National University are placed, the site is not so much as well-recognized from the road and isolated like an island of the city.

Considering the conditions of this circumstances, I have set three different user groups and created 3+1=4 each of flexible squares—which makes a suggestion of connecting ground with such circumstances more actively.

The programs nearby the site can be divided into three types: small-sized theatres, hospitals, and a university, made up of all different sizes of buildings.

There have been three secondary entrances on the site.

The site is Hyehwa-dong, the reconstruction district located in Yeongun, Seoul.

Program

Street

Photograph

small-sized theatres hospital dormitory

The Respiratory System Three clustered houses have its small square respectively.

Each of the small squares is designed to solve the basic needs of each group. And all three groups including the artists and the public are getting together in the large square to heal each other.

The largest square is being related and influencing with three smaller squares, by consolidating and dividing by themselves. For doing so, each square is distinguished by its level, and the intersection points have several spatial devices. These devices are becoming as paths and shelters, and sometimes are serving spatial needs of each group users.

equipment central space performance stage stand green

Characteristics of spatial composition

Program Publicity

24hr kiosk All

Convenient facilities All

Waterfront All

Grocery stores All

Theatre All

Public structure All

Place for meditation Locals only

Grand staircase All

Grand staircase + Library Locals only

circulation for public circulation for locals

A A’ share house four-family house share house for family communal space for exhibition theatre grocery stores corridor

Cluster for Artists This cluster has four different types of studios. The most special feature of this space is that they also serve as a residence to the users. The communal areas among the residential studio are divided in to 2 types. One is for a common studio and the other is for exhibition. This place is also in an active relationship with the main square.

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Typical Floor Plan

3 types of share house plan

four-family plan

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Spatial connection between the cluster for artists and the main square

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Typical Floor Plan

Studio house plan

space organized by core

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Cluster for Students Since the given site is located right next to the second entrance of the Seoul national university, the cluster has to be designed considering their hectic schedule and irregular life. Thus I focused on designing circulation the most.

Share house plan

space organized by applied adjustable furniture

space organized

by Communal space

B B - B’ Section plan

Visual interaction between the small square for students and the main square

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Cluster for Patients To care for the vulnerable patients, I focused on building a calm atmosphere in this cluster. The spatial form of this cluster is relatively closed to its surroundings.

Share house plan

Third floor plan

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Second floor plan

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Typical Floor Plan

First floor plan

C - C’ Section plan

Spatial Characteristics of the cluster for patients and the main square

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top view of squares side view of the cluster for patients front view of the main square

A square, a trianle, and a pentagon are, respectively, opened vertically and horizontally. Spatiality derived from pure formativeness is exquisitely fragmented, from squares to unit plans, and supports a variety of people’s lives. In other words, the quantitative flexible squares pursue a qualitative value. main perspective view of the village

03 Stem Cell Summer, 2015 Self-initiated Project Theme : Housing + Stage

The main theme of this project is restoring the spatial flow of culture by linking the main street and the site. The site is located in the area nearby Hongik University Station. Although the site is always crowded with people, the unique culture fostered by artists 2 decades ago has diminished by gentrification.

For setting the design approach, I considered the street crowded with tons of people as a collection of various points.

Spatial Organization System

6 Axes with 8 performances To reflect the spatiality each of the 8 music genres require, the building is composed 6 different axes. The twelve stages that are placed at both end of each axis, vary in the audience’s manner according to their level.

Residency

Viewing Points

Spatial analysis based on different performances A total of eight performances principally take place at the three main roads. The characteristics of the space where performances are performed differ according to each type of performances.

K-pop Connecting Points

Rap & K-pop

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Rock

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Jazz piano

Curved Surface

Classic

Mixed Use

Club Music

Composer

Tophgraphy

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8 Musical Performances on the site K-pop Rap

Practice Studios

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Classic Rock Mixed Club Jazz piano Composer

Concert Hall

The site is located in the area nearby Hongik University Station. Around the site lies various spaces for music and roughly 8 different types of music are constantly being performed.

Syncopation

Solid

Analysis of the interrelationship between virtual planes, axes with various angles extracted from the building and the dynamic movement of musicians.

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2 different movements depending on 6 axes

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Internal Circulation

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Rap Jazz piano K-pop Rock Club Classic Composer Art store

A physical model for Interaction analysis between the building and the street

Cut off walls for effective soundproofing

A module of residential space

04 BJ HOUSE

Cultural Data Storage by Broadcasting 9th semester, 2014 Academic work / Individual Theme : Housing + Internet Critic : Chanjoong, Kim

From a small space, each individual is connecting with the world through the Internet. Amateur BJs are the people who are willing to be related most actively with others. I insist that residential space for BJs should be the basis for recovering the gentrified cultural flows in Hongik University area. Therefore, the new culture created by such BJs are accumulated as information.

6 types of residential spaces each have different types of customized room depending on the types of BJs’ broadcasting program.

Installation

Structure

Installation

Equipment

6 Types of Housing

Media Facade

for Show

for Sound

Amenities

for Sound

for Food Porn

Housing Display

Wall

for Game

for Broadcasting

Rooftops

Site

Public Circulation

Data Cell

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Each BJ can control degrees of visibility. The media facade on the exterior of the building shows each BJ’s program and activity to public.

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Structure for Sound

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Installation for Show

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Wall for Broadcasting

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Installation for Sound

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Display for Game

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Equipment for Food porn

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Nowadays the boundary between expert and amaterur is blurred. Thanks to the development of the Internet, amateur BJs are able to show their abilities as much as possible.

Minor subjects, but various types of broadcast of the fringes are suitable for bringing new excitement to the gentrified site. Broadcasting itself contains various contents, but it is also optimized for synergy effect with other artists.

05 Warping the yard Summer, 2013 Canada Wood Workshop / Group project Theme : Pavillion Role : Establishing Concept and building Critic : Kwan soo, Kim

As a part of the CANADA WOOD Workshop, this work was designed and produced as a pavilion to be built in front of Gyeonggi Cultural Hall. The concept is to warp the grid system of the yard at Gyeonggi Cultural Hall.

The proposed Site on the yard of Gyeonggi Cultural Hall

Set XYZ axes

Spatial flow analysis

Process

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Arrangement

Exploded View

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Reverse Z axis B

Variation

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Rotate

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Expansion

Perspective Views

06 Void for Solid The Wall of the City

Summer, 2014 Paris Belleville Workshop / Group project Theme : Mixed-use buildings Team : Lee Hyeon Jun, Seo Dong Hwan, Russel Role : Establishing concept, site analysis and model Critic : Jung Jae Hun, Laurent Salomon

Our proposal was to make people’s activities happen inside, by utilizing a tough wall. The Mc Donald project was already built on a similar scale next to the project site. If the project consists of various programs, our project is hollowing programs out.

07 The Conversation Summer 2017 Individual Artwork wire, fan, kent paper, newspaper 600*800*900

Historian Edward Carr’s has famously surmised, “history is an unending dialogue between the past and the present.� To it, I would like to add that history is a growth informed by the experiences. Architecture embodies the past and the present.

I believe that it is the duty of an architect to model his/her design for the future with the reverence for the architecture of the past.

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Plan for the Typical Single-resident home in Korea

08 Non-Possession Winter, 2017 Collaborative Work 1600*3000*2300 Role : Participated in Concept design and Installation

The advent of the digital era has altered the meaning of possession. In the midst of this paradigm shift, the project envisions the residential space of the future.

Our physical residential space is becoming increasingly mobile. Similar to a set of coordinates on a digital topography, the future home freely shifts from one point to another, reflecting the versatile nature of modern life.

Segmentation

Distorting XY Axes

Distorting Z Axis

As an aspiring architect, we have searched for our future role as an architect, and imagined the types of spatial solutions we can propose. This installation was constructed in accordance with the exact dimensions of

an actual single-resident home in Seoul. The simple boxlike space that supports only the minimal lifestyle for survival could be the most futuristic residential space.

09 A Day Tripper Summer, 2017 Individual Artwork 600*250*250

When I heard about the news of the redevelopment plans for my childhood apartment complex, I felt profoundly disturbed. The repository of my past experiences and memories has been completely and thoroughly undone. Redone with the gleaming finishes of a cutting-edge city, my old neighborhood no longer belonged to me or to the city. The harmony was broken. I asked myself, “Are urban residents doomed to merely accept and become used to the death of space?�

This project is about memory.

As time goes by, memory fades, and it changes into another form.

After slicing and arranging the bread in the several schematized layers which represents the space of specific time zones, fungal bacteria were cultured.

After a month, the shape was deformed.

Then, I asked myself, “Of the two elements, memory and form, which one is really deformed?�

3 dimensional memory

Memory as a space

If we can read and save the coordinates of time and space, it would enable us to go back to that moment as if we’re playing a CD. Cliches in movies are rather shown fresh in an architectural perspective. My hometown, Dunchon-dong, is now gone, but it still remains as an unconstrained space in my USB of memory.

10 Intangible Boundaries The Fall of Babel

Fall, 2017 Group Project 6000*4000*3000 hologram paper, wire mesh, styrofoam, plastic mask, rail Role : Idea development, Installation and drilling

Typically, when people sense unfamiliar feelings or matters they sense a boundary. This creative space shows complexity of boundaries. People experience boundaries in different ways. Some try to avoid while others are curious about these boundaries.

We hope to let the viewers recognize, regulate, and to reevaluate the definition of boundaries through experiencing our interactive exhibition.

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Collective behavior

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Mechanism of defense

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Daze

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Communism

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Delusion

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Neutrality

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Camouflage

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Spurt

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Impulsiveness

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View A

The scene in this area constantly changes, as the layers can easily be relocated by the viewers, which portrays an important nature of boundary, that they change. The main message of this project was the boundaries can differ, according to human perception. According how we interpret them, noises can be voices. Discordance can be harmony.

It is our minds that build the barriers, not the Tower of Babel.

Noises to Voices

View B

View C

11 The Explorer Summer, 2017 Individual Artwork 1500*1000*1800 Iron, Wood, Wire mesh, Laser, Mini fan, Saw-toothed wheel, Iron shavings with glue

Marcel Duchamp abstracted posture of a human with <Nude descending a stairway>.

As such, I built three number of axis--human, time, and space--, delineated a set of points drawed as axis of time moves.

By connecting various sorts of dots in single shape, I indicated the flexible architecture that reflects the rapidly changing circumstances momently and continuously.

Spatial flow drawn by rotating XYZ Axes Human, Time and Space Phase 1

Phase 2

Phase 3

Phase 4

Phase 5

Phase 6

On top of the three axes, everything in this space, including wind and wall, can be a part of the work. This artifect is being sensitively influenced by every factors and drawing different set of dots in every seconds.

This expresses the spatial value of flexibility that the architecture has to possess.

Curriculum Vitae

Education

Award & Scolarships

08/2018 -NOW

University of California, Berkeley Master of Architecture, Opt.2

07/2014

Kyung Hee University Exemplary Scholarship

03/2007 02/2016

Kyung Hee University Bachelor of Architecture

02/2011

K-16 Air Base AAM (Army Achievement Medal)

Experience 01/2016 05/2016

02/2015 RM468B, 2299 Piedmont ave Berkeley CA 94720 United States of America +13105292318 hyeonjun_lee@berkeley.edu

Hyeon Jun, Lee

10/2009 09/2011

Travel

Designer, Design Team - ADOS Architectural firm Seoul, Korea Yong-in Town house participated in project issues drew and revised floor plan and section plan made presentation materials

07/2016

BC, Canada

06/2014 07/2014

Europe France, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Belgium, Netherland

08/2012

Cambodia Angkor Wat, Siem Reap

Staff - Architectural Contents Design Group Seoul, Korea Foyer Interior Design for Tschang-Yeul Kim Museum participated in Schematic design : Sketch up, AutoCAD

06/2012

Spain

Military Service, D Company, 2nd BN, 2nd SBDE, 8th US Army Camp K-16 Air Base, Bundang, Korea Sergeant, Senior KATUSA(Korean Augmentation To the United States Army)

Publications & Exhibitions 10/2017 11/2017

2016 Artphil Institute Collaborative Project Project Broom Gallery, Seoul, Korea Installation Art <Intangible Boundaries>

Skills Computer program AutoCAD, Autodesk Revit 2017, SketchUp Pro/V-ray, Rhinoceros, V-ray for Rhino, Adobe Suite CS6

Extracurricular Activities

Language

02/2000 09/2006

Amateur Cellist, Songpa Philharmonic Orchestra Subscription Concert in Busan, Korea

Native in Korean Proficient in English Intermediate Japanese

03/2007 05/2016

Lead Guitarlist, Band Settler Benefit Performance for African Welfare in Seoul, Korea