Harvard GSD Portfolio 2022

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Contact

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Education

ericlee@gsd.harvard.edu 617.894.9940 295 Harvard St Cambridge, MA 02139

Exhibitions

Harvard University

BFA Thesis Show

Graduate School of Design Master in Architecture I Class of 2025

Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Ithaca, NY | November 2020 Title: The Extended Self Contribution of mixed media works, including video, sculpture, and digital prints, that reflect on the concept of the “extended self” in the digital world

Cornell University College of Architecture, Art, and Planning Bachelor of Fine Arts with Minor in Design + Environmental Analysis Class of 2020

Coalesce Olive Tjaden Gallery, Ithaca, NY | April - May 2019 Title: The White Bar

Work Experience

Contribution of four oil paintings that capture the epehemeral moments from a vivid dream

Architecture Intern GNM Architecture Studio | June - August 2020

Cornell in Rome

Precedent research and site analysis Preliminary design sketches Model making and 3D rendering Interior design concept

Palazzo Santacroce, Rome, Italy | December 2018 Title: The Triptych of Christ

Assistant to Architect Aleksandr Mergold

Contribution of three digital prints that illustrate peculiarity in the art viewing experience of both physical and digital images

Cornell University | Spring 2018

Photography Exhibition

Assistance in projectOculi Prototype model making Preparation of construction material

Olive Tjaden Gallery, Ithaca, NY | February 2018 Title: Research on Smiling Contribution of sixteen silver gelatin and RC prints that analyze the elements of an objectively beautiful smile and explore the steps in achieving it

Assistant to Pietro Ruffo Cornell in Rome | Fall 2018 Assistance in various drawing projects Ink and charcoal drawing

Honors + Awards

Assistant to Eun Ju Jeong

David R. Bean Prize in Fine Arts | 2018

Daegu, South Korea | Summer 2017

Honorary Mention for James A. Perkins Prize for Interracial & Intercultural Peace and Harmony | 2018

Assistance in preparation and application of material Paint mixing and application of base coat layers

Dean’s List | 2016 - 2019

Extracurricular Activities Head Illustrator Guac Magazine | 2017 - 2018 Creative direction in visual components, character design, and page layout Illustration for articles, social media, and merchandise

Co-Director of Design ASSOCIATION | 2018 - 2019 Feature of art, architecture and planning projects of students, faculty, and alumni at Cornell University Management of Box Design Team responsible for the design of magazine cover, form, and packaging Member of G-Body

Skills Rhinoceros Photshop Illustrator InDesign AutoCAD SketchUp Premiere Pro Model Making: Handmade Laser Cutter 3D Printing Woodshop

PERSPECTIVE

ERIC LEE

Living Single, Living Together Instructor: Elle Gerdeman Core I | Fall 2021

In this duplex, two residents live in constant presence of one another while never fully coming in contact. The house reshapes the notion of sharing space through subtle shifts in walls. Walls that defy the boundaries of floor plates function not only as separators of distinct spaces, but also as generators of social opportunities through selective visual and physical access. Here, the residents must live over, under, around, and across the partitions in order to find new, awkward, and refreshing methods of interaction.

Box

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Ground Floor Plan

Second Floor Plan

FLOOR 1

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City Shed Instructor: Jeffry Burchard Core II | Spring 2022

The DeFilippo Park nestles between a large parking garage and a residential neighborhood of the North End, characteristic of its historic heritage and bustling tourism of Little Italy. The triangular site is a collection of programmatic zones that are distinctly separated: the basketball courts, the dog park, and the playground.

My proposal first considers the typology of the shed, its meaning, form, and construction, and begins to fragment them into parts that appear to be whole.

The building rests upon the existing geometries of the given site, using the unoccupied areas of the park as a basis for structural footprint. A pair of cantilevering roofs provide shelter and venue for large happenings. As a way to connect the building, the site, and the city, a series of ramps were introduced to provide a unique experience of meander and spectatorship.

Site Plan

Section

Interior Perspective

Exterior Perspective

The fragmentation and the subsequent stitching of the shed structure allows for the coexistence of segmented and continuous spaces. In some aspects, the ramps function as a separator of programs and sectors of the site, clearly delineating the territories for sports, dining, and spectating, while in other ways, they also connect the differences as an elongated seam. Large open areas in the center of the site can be utilized for larger gatherings and events.

Parades, flea markets, and concerts held on the indoor and outdoor courts encourage communal activities as they seamlessly engage the surrounding urban population.

Axonometric

Model Image

Two ends

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Jump Cut Instructor: Elle Gerdeman Core I | Fall 2021

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The project began with two seemingly incompatible sections of one building. In Jump Cut - staying quite true to its reference to the technique in film editing - a series of spaces are linked at the two ends of interest, leaving the middle to form a loop.

In plan, the building seems to be rather uniform.

But in section, an unexpected series of shifts and undulations in the structure presents a completely different spatial experience where one can journey across the soft waves of ramps and staircases. The building is wrapped in a translucent envelope that attempts to unify the contrasting spaces as a single structure and, at the same time, reveals moments of peculiarities in intentional framing of the building that respond to the manner of the loop.

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Third Floor Plan

Section C | Given Plan

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Ordinary, Except Instructor: Elle Gerdeman Partner: Dylan Herrmann-Holt Core I | Fall 2021

Ordinary, Except is an artist residency situated between two triple decker houses, a vernacular building type of the Boston and Cambridge area. The project aims to characterize the relationship between the normal and the exception, the domestic and the institutional, and the existing and the new.

The designed intervention connects the pair of existing structures in a zigzag motion, creating moments of overlap and pinch that present new spatial readings. Mirroring and splicing of architectural norms resulting in such a process transform the ordinary into something extraordinary.

Elevation with Details

Model Image

Ground Floor Plan

Drawing Studio Section

Second Floor Plan

Third Floor Plan

Printmaking Studio Section

Sculpture Studio Section

Core Prep Instructor: Elle Gerdeman Core Prep | Summer 2021

This summer preparation course for students with non-architectural backgrounds serves as an introduction to the design thought process through a series of exercises encouraging spatial readings from two-dimensional drawings. Patternized abstractions of everyday objects are reimagined as inhabitable spaces that are then translated to three-dimensional space. The final product of the course is the design of a small duplex, characterized by its unique sense of geometry and symmetry as a result of the various abstraction processes.

Traces Charcoal powder on acetate

The Extended Self Thesis II | Fall 2020

Phones are extensions of our minds, bodies, and identities. We are restricted to their dimensions and, at the same time, we are liberated by their possibilities. The actions required are as simple as dots and lines, but what entails is a rendering of who we are and what we do; a digital landscape: just another place in which we reside. We leave traces.

Though unsure where they go to, we are imprinted somewhere in the virtual databases, emulated as zeros and ones, even after we, ourselves are gone.

YouTube (17:25)

Gmail (01:30)

Instagram (02:04)

Messages (09:12)

Safari (05:48)

My Activity (04:15)

Topography_01: Messages, Kakaotalk, Snapchat

Topography_02: Instagram, Safari, Messages

Topography_03: YouTube, Instagram, Safari

Digital Landscapes 3D print with rubber coating

Installation View of the BFA Thesis Show Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Ithaca NY

Madonna and Child

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The Triptyc

Rome Studio

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Chess Set Drawing: Pictorial Languages | Spring 2018 A game of strategy with more consequences for each move.

Dysfunctional Furniture Introduction to Sculpture | Fall 2017 A set of household items with subtle imperfections that make interaction with them rather unexpected.

A display table assembled from dependent pieces of furniture dependent on a corner to stand.

Giraffe Table Found furniture

A teapot with a spout that is also a handle.

A teacup with a slant to capture the flow of the liquid.

Tea Set Earthenware

Image created by GNM Architecture Studio

Hannam University Campus Innovation Park GNM Architecture Studio | Summer 2020

During my two-month internship at GNM Architecture Studio, located in Seoul, South Korea, the studio entered and was nominated at a national architecture competition to design a high-tech industrial park in a university.

My responsibilities included site analysis, precedent research, preliminary design, model making, and interior design.

The main concept of GNM Architecture Studio’s design for the Campus Innovation Park was the creation of a “hub.”

Separated into two towers, the building provides facilities and business opportunities for starting companies and research teams while also fostering an environment for social interaction and creative collaboration with the students. The concept of “separate but together” was the central idea that drove the design process.

Constructon for Hannam University Campus Innovation Park will be completed in 2022.

Preliminary Design Sketches

Interior Design Sketches

Study Model | 1:200 scale

Main Atrium Interior Drawing

ericlee@gsd.harvard.edu 617.894.9940