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Portfolio 2025

JESSE CLEMENT FUNG

SELECTED WORKS | 2020 - 2024

Works

Simplex: Road to Blank Space

1 - 8

Mish Revival

9 - 14

Fractal Luminescence

15 - 20

Duality

21 - 24

Mercado de Historias Entrelazadas

25 - 30

Ramp Gallery

31 - 36

Sears Honor Bilt Speculation

37 - 44

Personal Artwork

45 - 46

Simplex: Road to Blank Space

City Market Renovation

Studio: South Korea Student Exchange Team: Jeon Gwang Hyo, Park Gihyeon, Heo Jin Seok, Jang Eun Bin, Jesse Fung, Lee Jun Taek, Lee Seong Boem

Team Leader: Jeon Gwang Hyo

Academic: BSc 07 Dongseo University 2023

Location: Busan, South Korea

Gukje Market in Busan requires a radical intervention for modernization and preservation of its historical and cultural significance. The market currently struggles with issues like poor maintenance and a stagnant identity. Our innovative strategy aims to revitalize the market by addressing traffic, program placement, and access concerns. We plan to create open spaces that foster flexibility and enhance the sense of connection with the local context. The strategically situated arts and crafts building are designed to tackle these identified issues while also providing a unique and enjoyable visitor experience, emphasizing light, space, and harmony. Our vision is to transform Gukje Market into a vibrant cultural hub that honors its past while embracing the future.

Author: Jun Taek

Li + Jesse Fung

Author:

Jin

Seok + Jesse Fung

Apertures

An outdoor bazaar to attract visitors and showcase local artists.

The main stairwell has sitting areas to provide rest in the market.

Green space on the roof to contrast the concrete materiality of the market.

Rooftop Connection

Roof Access

Provides functional circulation to roof

Helps shape the skyline of market

Nature - Crafts Connection

Skybridge linking through the void

Crafts - Tools Connection

Gives direction of access for dense market

A complete physical model featuring all seven interconnected markets.

Mish Revival

Cultural Center

Studio: Design Studio V

Supervisors: Erin Hunt

Academic: BSc 05 TTU 2022

Location: Lubbock, Texas

“Mish” is a word that describes forests in the Wampanoag language, people who are native to the Boston area. Mish Revival is a cultural center that serves as the nexus for bringing back green space to Dorchester. The primary typology influencing the design is trees. During pre-colonial times, most of Southern Dorchester was forested. Much of this area underwent rapid industrialization and eventually became the urban condition we see today. Reintroducing local flora and fauna to the region brings the local landscape back to its natural state, encouraging those living there to reexperience the essence of the place. This project employs various solutions, such as a parametric design with a dynamic facade and substantive landscape design for tree placement surrounding the building. The skin of the building helps blend with the trees around it, merging the built world with the natural world.

Dorchester

Fractal Luminescence

Solar Observatory

Studio: Personal Project

Supervisors: Victoria McReynolds

Academic: BSc 04 TTU 2022

Location: Lubbock, Texas

The site, located in Svalbard, presented a unique challenge due to its extreme terrain. Svalbard is renowned for its international grain seed vault and its striking, mountainous landscape, which strongly influenced the design. Situated within the Arctic Circle, Svalbard experiences solar patterns that differ greatly from those in the United States. For instance, the Arctic Circle undergoes phenomena such as the midnight sun during summers and polar nights during winters, which occur due to the tilt of the Earth and its positioning relative to the sun. Additionally, the heavy snowfall posed challenges for the observatory’s operation and structural integrity. As a result, the design addresses the specific environmental demands of Svalbard’s location.

The site at Svalbard features a drastic pitch that required careful consideration. To better understand the site’s steepness, clay was used to model its conditions. These conceptual models informed the strategy for the placement and form of the solar observatory. The site was abstracted into a triangular fractal form, with angles matching the mountain’s slope. These triangular fractal forms became a guiding motif for the design. Due to their fractal quality, this motif was incorporated into both the organization of the forms and the facade’s condition.

SITE

PROPERTY BOUNDARY

Duality

Museum Proposal

Author: Tyler Lehmann + Jesse Fung

Competition Project Jesse Fung, Tyler Lehmann, Kristen Mc-

Competition: 2024 Marfa, Texas

Our concept focuses on the filtration of light through the mass, creating an emotional journey through two distinct spaces: a Positive Emotion Hall and a Negative Emotion Hall. With the project’s focus on phenomenology, we have placed a strong emphasis on designing interior conditions that can evoke a range of emotional states. The ground deformation, for instance, forms the basis for the Negative Hall, where the gradual dimming of light as one descends to the lowest point mirrors the deepening of negative emotions, creating a powerful emotional impact.

Site Deformation Diagram

Circulation Diagram

Occupancy Diagram

Lighting Diagram

Mercado de Historias

Entrelazadas

Market

Studio: Spain Study Abroad

Supervisors: Angel Martinez Garcia-Posada

Academic: BSc 06 TTU 2023

Location: Sevilla. Spain

Located near the historical Valle Gardens with the former defensive wall that dates to Islamic times, this site is situated in between the Gypsy Church and the Flamenco School. This site provides a plethora of challenges that must be addressed when inserting the market typology into a culturally rich area. The foremost priority was to respect the former defensive wall, so giving space for the wall to breathe was the natural choice. By drawing regulating lines to inform the formal language of the building, a type of circulation had to be precisely chosen to break the monolithic geometry. The goal was to make the market as light and rational as possible. As a result, cross access along with a central plaza was determined to be the right choice to promote an order to the activities within the market. Shading devices were used to protect and promote thermal comfort within the building.

Traditional

The city center is organized in a radial and fractured pattern, with chaotic streets juxtaposed by open plazas that provide breathing moments within the urban fabric. This organization was used to regulate the bustling nature of a traditional market and to inform the design of the facade.

1: Plaza

2: Meats

3: Fish

4: Artisan Shops

5: Vegetable

6: Chacuterie

7: Old Defensive Wall

8: Valle Gardens 9: Flamenco School

Gypsy Church

Ramp Gallery

Lubbock Cultural Center

Studio: Personal Project

Supervisors: Lior Galili

Academic: BSc 03 TTU 2021

Location: Lubbock, Texas

Drawing inspiration from two precedents, the Kimbell Art Museum and the Vault House, the tectonics of both buildings were synthesized to inform the spatial, formal, sequential, and aesthetic language of the hybrid models. After multiple iterations, the design incorporated the vault motif at various scales and orientations, creating opportunities for inhabitable and accessible spaces. The site, located adjacent to the First Friday Art Trail cultural district in Lubbock, highlighted the issue of inaccessibility in many surrounding buildings. Leveraging insights from the experiences of a blind student and studies of the two precedents, the design culminated in an accessible ramp gallery that enhances inclusivity.

Identity A

Identity A Form 1

Identity A Form 2

Identity B

Identity B Form 1

Identity A Form 3

Identity A Fragmented

Identity B Form 2

Identity B Form 3

Identity B Fragmented

Hybrid Form 1

Hybrid Form 2

Hybrid Form 3

Hybrid Form Fragmented

Hybrid

Sears Honor Bilt Speculation

Family Housing

Studio: Group Project Team: Jesse Fung, Oliver Bactad, Hayden Smith, Pinky Naranun

Supervisor: Nero He

Academic: BSc 08 TTU 2024

Location: Lubbock, Texas

The Sears Honor Bilt Speculation project strives to challenge existing architecture standards, implements a different work process, and carefully balances sustainability and materiality. The design’s deconstructivism nature results from utilizing upcycling techniques inspired by fashion. By manually labeling every component of the original Sears House, we can then understand space and form through data points instead. Using this information, we intentionally cut the house into different chunks based on camera views. This same information helps with developing the secondary system that binds the multiple chunks together. As a group of four, we tackled time management, learning modern technologies, and thinking critically with this project.

Using five camera viewing frustums from C4D based on popular sitcom perspectives, all information outside the pyramids was removed to form 5 chunks. Within each chunk, materials were rearranged to form new systems. The radical shear cuts in each chunk helped inform the form of the secondary layer structure that bonded all these chunks together.

The transparency reveals components of the new house, reinforcing a data-driven design approach.

Author: Jesse Fung + Oliver Bactad

The five chunks were reorganized into a pinwheel pattern to explore the spatial dynamics of the Sears home. Inspired by how its typical inhabitants entertained themselves by watching sitcoms and comparing their lives to idealized on-screen versions, our design aimed to reverse this perspective. Using sitcom camera views, we examined the home’s spatial qualities and speculated on the living conditions of its past dwellers. The pinwheel arrangement reinforces the search for reality, akin to Plato’s Allegory of the Cave, where the house reflects and questions its perceived reality.