rebecca han — architecture & design

REBECCA HAN

Architecture & Design
rebeccahanw (at) gmail.com

ARCHITECTURE

01. Commoning the Seed —
Harvard University Thesis

02. Inter Cubiculum —
Harvard University Independent Study

03. Tokyo Studio Abroad —
Option Studio Semester

04. The Immeasurable Enclosure —
Option Studio Semester

05. Core IV with Angeliki Giannisi —
Core Studio Semester

DESIGN / PHOTOGRAPHY

01. Projects

Spaces of Sound

02. Photography

Basel, Paris, Copenhagen, Seoul

United Kingdom, Egypt, Jordan

Cambridge, California, NY

ABOUT

01. Contact
Previous Experience / CV

Commoning the Seed — Harvard GSD University Thesis, 2020.
Ritual and Preservation as Practice for the Modern Monastery

Seed Corridor (above); Initial descent / entry corridor to monastery (right).

Characterized by strict organizations of time, rules, and divisions of space, the monastery has provided the ideal set of conditions for early religious practice. While monastic practice has been categorized as increasingly anachronistic, it is precisely these rules that have allowed possibilities for freedom of thought throughout the centuries. Situated upon the site of a former monastery complex now left as a public open ground, this thesis proposes a contemporary renewal in the form of a commons within the city.

Living Collection / In Situ Conservation (above left); Shared Workshops, Art / Cultural Production (above right).

Community supported agriculture exchange (left); Small seed sanctuary (above).

Inter Cubiculum — Harvard University Independent Study.
Monastery typology research book

Perspective Views 1-4

Sou Fujimoto, Tokyo Studio Abroad. The studio brief called for an idea that ‘small is big.’ Accordingly, the proposal adapts itself to three sites of varying sizes to prove the flexibility of the proposed urban strategy for generating a community center in the heart of Japan at multiple scales.

In museums across New York, ledgers of accessions extensively catalogues each item, but a similar process occurs in its erasure through deaccession. The project inverts this practice by allowing for previously discarded objects to become resacralized. Similar to the Put-away Gallery proposed by Alison & Peter Smithson, a ‘Home for the Deacessioned’ presents a completely empty gallery space that may provide for a large space of calm within a world of glut.

Cross Sectional Perspective drawings; Plywood, Museum Board & Basswood sectional models.

Models and study models: Plywood, Museum Board, 3D Prints, Basswood (above & below).

Basswood model and CNC milled base

In collaboration with Angeliki Giannisi. Our housing project for the Arts District seeks to redefine notions of scale and typology in relation to mixed-demographics, public space both open and closed, and thresholds of collectivity. In this endeavor, the project strives to propose an alternative to housing projects that are often built to cater to a specific demographic rather than attempting to achieve a building that may receive all.

Spaces of Sound —

The code produced below outputs an abstraction of waveform data from any song into my own interpretation of a musical score sheet. Using these sheets as basic terrains, I later used these maps to extract depth information from them to create three-dimensional forms.

Data below the main staff lines translate overall auditory input levels, while snare beats are represented above!

Email — rebeccahanw (at) gmail.com
IG — @rebeccahan

CV

2020 — Harvard University, Master of Architecture
2018-2019 — Herzog & de Meuron (Basel, Switzerland)
2017 — Christ & Gantenbein (Basel, Switzerland)
2017 — O+C (Paris, France)
2016 — Studio Haegue Yang (Berlin, Germany)
2014 — UCSD, BSc. Cognitive Science & Literature
2013 — The New York Times internship

REBECCA W. HAN