“Experiences are created by Users, not creators.”

Mark’s 2008/2010 Environmental Design undergraduate Portfolio

Mark (Kiho) Lee

181 Finch Ave. EastToronto, ON., Canada M2N 4R8

+1 416 910 3359kleedzine@gmail.com

CONTENTS• PORTAL TO THE CITY (academic thesis project)

• DYNAMIC STUDIO (residential project)

• MOMENTO HOTEL (commercial and residential project)

• CAN HOUSES (affordable residential project)

• HABITAT (residential project - myself)

• MISCELLANEOUS (wood, metal, and 3D model craft)

The concept of the project is that the center can be a portal or gate for homeless peo-ple from harsh environment to our community where they can visit, stay, clean them-selves, have meals, working, being educated, and be-ing involved in a community.

There is a outdoor park and indoor courtyard, dinning area, general and dental medical cen-ter, general, legal, financial counsel-ing office, hair sa-lon, private shower booth, laundry room, cooking and carpen-try studio, library, computer lab, farm-ing class, urban farm, and residential unit.

PORTAL TO THE CITY

- highly populated with homeless people

- another homeless care centers around the area

- major hospitals

- focal point between “high-end area” - the south of the queen st. and “low-end area” - the north of the street

queen St. East

sherbourne st.

site - 251 Queen St. East

idea and development

- occuring from various situations

- getting along within a community

- working together

-to interact

-to communicate

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icon - play ground for users (homeless people)

concept situations and sketches

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ROOF STRUCTURE DETAIL

LONG TERM RESIDENTIAL UNIT STRUCTURE DETAIL

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long-term residential unit structure

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DYNAMIC STUDIO Client : imaginary client, which is very dark child-hood background, character designer for a comic book.

The house is con-nected to sur-rounding environ-ments. It has a lot of ironical char-acteristics at the same time they should have har-mony in terms of material usages.Working and s l e e p i n g space should be the focal point of the house and rest of needs can be minimal. Since the client is a char-acter concept de-signer, the house should reflect his character is t ics .

site - 37 Bulwer st. Toronto, ON

- brick masonry structure

- located in core downtown Toronto

- residential area

- many city feature near the house

37 bulwer st.

idea development

MATERIALS

bricks metal and glass

brick glass curtain wall

brick library and stair

sketchup model and materials

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scaled 3D model

MOMENTO HOTEL

Target Client : actors, ac-tress, photographers, writers, directors, and lo-cal people who are will-ing to spend time as his-torical moment in the city.

The main theme of the hotel is recalling the history and concept of theatre, movies, pho-tographs and plays.One choice leads to a result and the other side of the choice can lead to a dierent result.The architecture has the beginning and continu-ous ending, express-ing linear aspect of his-tory. Historical moments are the most important.

site - Global village backpacker’s hostel

- Toronto Downtown core

- heavy automobile and human traffic

- near fashion district and china town460 king St. west.

spadina Ave.

idea and floor plan development

commercial floor (restaurant and bookstore)

typical suite floor

lobby lobby restaurant

bookstore

theatre

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CAN HOUSES

The most important feature of the design is affordability and how units can be placed in the allotted space of the site. So, the design plays with numbers. The size of the actual site that can be used is 20,000sqft for 100 people. A unit, which can be placed in that 20,000sqft, has 400sqft gross space, and 240sqft actual usable space. There are 4 options of each gross space dimension, which is 20’x20’, 25’x16’, 40’x10’, or 8’x50’. Therefore, those rectangular shape options can be put together shar-ing one point to show the most common size of the space, which is 8’x20’. But then, 8’x20’ is 160sqft net space which is too small for 2 people or 1 person to live. So, the 8’x50’ option can be removed from those options. This is because that dimen-sion is too narrow and long for residential usage. The most common flexible space size is 20’x10’. It fits in every possible rectangular gross space in the site.

site - Gladstone Ave. and Queen St. West

queen st. west.

gladstone ave.

layout pattern

CAN HOUSESunit layout and cad drawings

simple plan drawing

The outside material is mainly steel. It looks like shipping container from the outside but the size can be varied. Also, it can have color op-tions for exterior, interior and floor. Exterior op-tions are tan, blue, white, green, brown, red, or gray. Interior wall op-tions are beige, Calcutta, or gray. Interior floor op-tion is sesame, nutmeg, or ebony. It can be con-structed by a compa-ny called Speedspace.

www.speedspace.org

building material and structure

HABITATClient : myself taking photographs for the period

The small temporary house, which is for myself for one year, can be constructed, destructed, and disposed by one person. The concept of the house is function with usage of the environmental aspects, lake, wind, snow, rain, soil, and etc.

site - Presquile Provincial ParkSpring-March, April, May Summer- June, July, AugustFall- September, October, NovemberWinter- December, January, February

Weather aspectsRain- So much in May and September(when season changing period more rain) Wind- the direction is regular The speed in Spring and Winter time is faster than other seasons

Human responseSeasons are evenly stayed(3 months long)Mean temperature range is fine for body min is -8.1 mean max is 26.1Extreme temperature range is too different min-21.5 max 32.9Seemed to be so much rain Humid climateStrong wind

Architectural responseShould be used water proof material-glass, plastic, stainless steel, etc…Preparation for the extreme temperature-closed shelter(less windows)Humid climate-ventilation (many windows)

actual living environment - Presquile Provincial Park

concept idea development sketches

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miscellaneous

miscellaneous

miscellaneous

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